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You might have been led to believe that if you're standing in Lehi, Utah, USA, that you are in America. You're not. You're in the United States—not America.
America, after all, is a vast, wild frontier, where any man—only the right kind of any man, of course—can make his fortune! It's a place filled with adventure and danger (to other people) and, most of all, freedom. A place where brave settlers defend themselves against savages, on the every edge of civilization! Where we fight tremendous wars, and they're good, and they're right. It's a rough, beautiful land where men are men and women are women.
Look around. You don't live there. Nobody lives there. We all live here, on bloody land stolen from people who don't have the decency to either attack like wild animals or lie down and die. In a place where black and brown people freely walk the streets as though they belong, as though their lives are anything but an uncomfortable reminder that the triumphant throne of whiteness is stacked on a pile of bodies that could overflow a thousand mass graves. Where people with cardboard signs saying veteran. disabled. please help line the streets because they didn't get the memo that you're supposed to come back perfect and whole and blonde or in a box or a bag or not at all. It's hard to live here—hard because the government takes everything to give to those lucky brown immigrants, hard because your Social Security check isn't near big enough, hard because they keep showing bleeding, broken children on the news like it's our fault they were in the way of our bombs, hard because you can't just shoot a man on the street or slap some sense into your woman.
It was better, back then. Better in the past. The past, after all, is the only place where America lives. Maybe it was your parents' time, or their parents' time, or maybe if you're lucky and old enough it was your own childhood, but whenever it was, that—that place, seen through the perfectly smudged glasses of memory—that was America.
Of course Liberty Land is a hoax—Extruded Liberty Product With Real Freedom Filling. Everyone knows that. But maybe it's enough for now. It's just a taste to keep us going. To remind us of what it will be like when we bring it back. When we kick out the fakes, the immigrants, the interlopers. When we bring back real America, where men are men and women are women and our wars are just and our lives are simple, clean, and good.


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Who built the internet?JulianoAndrade Spyer31 January 2013
A debate sparkled recently after president Barack Obama said the internet was the result of a government project. Analysts from mainstream media shared their perspectives suggesting that corporations, some intelligent people, everyone or indeed the government should claim responsibility for starting this communication revolution and the topic became a series of posts at the anthropological blog Savage Minds. But amid these conflicting views there is room left for at least one more position: that no one invented the internet.
Yes, the US government paid for Arpanet, the "Eve" of computer networks, but it was not meant to be a communication device for people. As Kevin Kelly has argued earlier, nobody predicted the arrival of the internet and actually, he adds, until quite recently many people doubted that a form of entertainment based on typing would convince more than a handful of enthusiasts to give up TV.
One of the ways of conceiving the internet is as a tool for group communication. Shirky* explains that networked computer communication combines the interactivity of telephones and the reach of television or radio to provide a solution for many people to interact with each other. And this particular element – the possibility of group conversations – was brought to Arpanet by chance as one of the computer engineers installed extra officially a program for email.
The point is that, until then, this email-like program allowed people sharing the same computer to leave messages to one another (computers were quite expensive in the 1960s). As Arpanet connected various computers, this service opened unforeseen possibilities. Suddenly people living apart in different cities could communicate in an interesting fashion: not just it was possible to have more than two participants, they did not have to be simultaneously connected.
As the story about the internet is reviewed, one particular bit seems to always be present: after the installation of this first email program, email quickly became the primary reason for people using the network. It is said that in less than two years, ¾ of the data circulating through connected computers consisted of this kind of text messages meant for humans to use. I feel that what makes this minimal bit of historic data relevant is that it portrays our own surprise with this new communication tool. In other words, what is surprising here is that Arpanet ostensibly belonged to the military, but was quietly re-purposed to serve a different function without anybody even knowing about it.
This argument is similar but significantly different from Steven Johnson's, who defended the internet as a product of a collective effort. The difference is that for him there is an intention attracting the multiple collaborators working together – as in projects like Linux – whereas through this new perspective, there wasn't one or not the same kind of intention.
So maybe the argument here is that the internet, in similarity to cities, languages and cultures, resulted not from our abity to gaze at the future and forge new scientific miracles, but rather from something everyone has and is very parochial and simple: our drive for social interaction.


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Kylie Minogue, Nick Rhodes, Bobby Gillespie and Julie Verhoeven were just some of the leading fashion, music and art creatives who came together for the 2004 film project 'Lyric'. Each contributor recorded a series of short films that visually interpret the song lyrics of their choice - one clip for each lyric line, recorded via a Motorola phone in a pioneering use of mobile technology.
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Nick Knight collaborates with pop icon Kylie Minogue and artist Liz Neal to visualise the lyrics of Barry Manilow's 'Copacabana'


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I find myself wondering why kids do what they do much of the day. Even during work. I tell my coworkers about Little Boy G's latest antics and they laugh and laugh. I guess it's good that they can find humor in the things LBG does. I certainly do. Even the ones without kids get a kick out of the sometimes bizarre things he gets himself into.
For instance, the other night, he was taking a bath. I use the time to wander about upstairs, picking up his socks and underwear, which he routinely tosses as high as he can into the air just before climbing into the tub. I check on him every once in a while to make sure he's not up to anything unsavory. Trust me, it happens. Just ask the bars of soap. But I digress…
During one of my checks, I stepped into the bathroom. G is sitting in the tub, holding tightly to..let's just call it his 'pennies.' And he's grimacing.
"What happened, G? Did you hurt yourself?"
He nods yes, indeedy.
"Did you hurt your 'pennies'?
Nod, nod, yes, yes.
"What happened?"
"A shark was swimming by and it….bit me." Grimace, grimace.
I see a shark floating next to him and I pick it up. It's a plastic shark with very hard, very sharp, and very unforgiving teeth and a mouth that is open just wide enough to fit, well, pennies.
"Oh, dear. G, did you put your pennies in the shark's mouth?"
Nod, nod.
"Oh, G. Did you think that would feel good?"
Nod, nod.
"But it didn't, did it?"
He shakes his head, oh no, not in the least.
"Well, let's not do that again, okay?"
"Okay, mama. He's a bad shark. I don't like him anymore."
Honestly. What was he thinking? I mean, I know what he was thinking, but sheesh, what else looks enticing to him? And should I put it out of reach so he doesn't hurt himself? Are there any worse stories than this out there? Please share with us if there are. Misery loves company after all.


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Stories about my ancestors and my journey searching for them. I want my grandchildren to know my grandparents!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
I wrote about my brother Mike on Dec 16th for the Christmas postings, and since Mike was born today in 1951 and died today in 2005, I thought that I would repost it in his memory.
My brother Mike was born on December 30th. He was 2 years younger than I. He died on his birthday at age 54. He was my second and last brother to die. My brother Bill had died 15 years before. Mike had knee surgery in June of 2005 and had developed a staph infection in his knee. He had 3 surgeries to try to clear up the infection. He died following the 3rd surgery. He came out of surgery alright, but sometime that night, his heart stopped and he died.
Mike was a small kid, always small for his age. However, as an adult, he put on lots of weight and was nicknamed "Bear", because he was so big and always had a beard and just kind of looked like a bear.
Mike was the kind of kid who was never in trouble. He always did what he was told to do, never talked back, never got in trouble. It used to make me crazy, because I was just the opposite and was always in trouble. But, boy, you couldn't make him do anything that he wasn't supposed to do. Perfect child at home and at school. He even started out that way...he was about 10# when he was born, and would have to be woken up to eat. The perfect baby...never cried, just slept.
I guess as he got a little older he began to make up for it. By the time I left for college, he had started drinking and had some "incidents" that were alcohol related. He finally wasn't the perfect child, which was fine with me!
Mike finished high school and tried the junior college, but just wasn't interested in school. He loved cars and became a mechanic. He got involved in tractor pulls and had an old tractor that he competed with in the tractor pulls.
Everyone knew "Bear" and he was well-known for being someone who would do anything for anyone. He was a truly generous person, never talked badly about anyone and had a great sense of humor.
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STOCKTON - Mee "Aileen" Xiong uses tongs to flip her one-of-a-kind, sweet and tangy sausages. She barks in Hmong to her daily helper. And, like any smart small businesswoman, she greets her customers by name.
STOCKTON - Mee "Aileen" Xiong uses tongs to flip her one-of-a-kind, sweet and tangy sausages. She barks in Hmong to her daily helper. And, like any smart small businesswoman, she greets her customers by name.
Angel Cruz Park isn't Xieng Khouang, the mountainous northeast province of Laos that is Xiong's homeland.
But with its towering evergreens and maple trees, the city park on North El Dorado Street will have to do. Stockton is home now.
And Angel Cruz, also known as Papaya Park and Asian Food Park, is where Xiong spends her afternoons.
If such social review websites as Yelp are to be believed, Xiong and the dozen or so vendors who have set up informally at the southwest corner are five-star legends for the food they create.
It's a tossup over what's most popular: the sausage or the made-to-order papaya salad.
When asked about ingredients, the 50-year-old Xiong says, "We put love in. We put heart in them."
With a twinkle and a smile, she sort-of reveals the secret sausage fixings: Onions, sugar, lemongrass, lemon and lime, pork and "lots of other stuff."
She's been grilling that sausage and preparing som tam (Thai papaya salad) for five years in one of the park's shady spots. The prices are low ($1 for a sausage; $2 to $3 for the individually made papaya salad; $1 for three egg rolls; $1 for sticky rice), and the waiting lines can be long.
Ingredients in the salad vary widely, based on cultural and regional differences.
Xiong has a few basics: red and green tomatoes, hot peppers (volume to taste), translucent noodles, mono-sodium glutamate, sugar, lime, fish sauce and leafy greens that vary.
The overall, cash-only marketplace has become an Internet sensation and a quintessential Stockton scene. Complimentary comments have come from as far away as Seattle.
"It's almost addicting. I'd rather go here than any fast food," said Vie Rosa Vong, a 19-year-old San Joaquin Delta College student. "I like it here. I enjoy nature, and I go around and chat with people. It's like family."
Some people have a picnic with their just-purchased food; others grab it and go.
The entrepreneur vendors include Hmong, Laotians, Thais and Cambodians. Most just roll out a mat on the ground, sit down and start selling vegetables such as Asian watergrass, ginger root, Thai eggplant, red basil and Chinese winter squash.
Others, like Xiong, have a more elaborate approach - cooking and preparing dishes on the spot.
"It is just traditional food from back home," Vong said. "I come here almost every day."
Vong is Thai-Chinese-Cambodian and was born in Stockton.
A bragging point is the freshness of the ingredients. Xiong makes new sausages every day. She begins at 7 a.m. at home and doesn't stop moving until 9 p.m., an hour after park operations cease.
Sometimes, on the weekend, when the hourlong line stretches to Lincoln Road, she runs out of sausage. Regulars advise people to come early. Xiong also gets help from her husband, son and friends. "This is our spot," she proudly points out. "I am here every day seven days a week from 2:30 until 8. It is better than staying home."
Pulliam Elementary School, one of Stockton Unified's northernmost campuses, is just to the east of Angel Cruz and a large, well-kept Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to the south. Hammer Lane is two blocks north.
Relationships with the neighbors have been good, said 59-year-old Kay Pai, one of the original vendors from 20 years ago. "We do this for a little money," Pai said. "We enjoy. We don't have jobs."
A Stockton Police Department spokesman said he was unaware of any neighborhood complaints.
Stockton resident Andre Brown, 26, used to live nearby. He has been coming to Angel Cruz since he was a small boy. He returns "whenever I have the craving." He was back this week with his nephew Ezekiel Bush. They were headed for Xiong's booth, mouths watering for her sausage, eggroll and beef on a stick.
"They know our names here," Brown said.
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Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Threats to the Site (2005)
The main issue is the extremely fragile nature of the buildings. As with most mining buildings, they were constructed using local materials and lightweight construction that functioned with regular maintenance and could be altered in response to changed circumstances. At Humberstone and Santa Laura the materials used were timber for frames, corrugated sheet for roofs and some walls, and stucco. There has been no maintenance for 40 years, and there has been damage and vandalism as well as some dismantling. The metal cladding has corroded and some of the structural elements dismantled. A few buildings, such as the Leaching house, are liable to structural collapse if no support is given.
The greatest threat is from looters searching for re-usable materials. During the time when the works were closed and still in private hands much was lost. Looters look for all sorts of memorabilia on the sites such as timber, bottles, coins and tokens. Although looting has dwindled, the Douglas Fir is much prized and, as it is now nationally protected in the USA, prices for it have risen. Timber was stolen from the Santa Laura Leaching plant in 1999.
Although the site is a virtually rain-free desert, windborne salt from the coast has an impact on the metal sheeting causing corrosion. Wind has also affected the wooden structures: those painted have been given a protective mineral coating by the salty wind whereas those unpainted have been eroded by the wind.
In summary:
a) Extremely fragile nature of the buildings;
b) Lack of maintenance for 40 years;
c) Vandalism due to looting of re-usable materials;
d) Damage caused by the wind.
List in Danger
- 2005 -Present
Reporting Trend*
* Based on the frequency at which the World Heritage Committee has deliberated over this property over the past 15 years. 0 = minimum reports, 100 = maximum reports.
For more information consult the The State of Conservation of the World Heritage Forest Network


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It's creepy to friend request someone a generation younger than you. I mean, really really creepy. Don't do it. Then you are a creep.
I learned this early in my social media life. Years ago, when Facebook became an athletic department nemesis, our Director of Athletics gathered the entire department in a large classroom and explained that each coach needed to get on Facebook and see the pictures their student athletes posted and tagged. 14 of our 16 sports had pictures tagged which, if not an NCAA violation, were a violation of our code of behavior.
They were given one week to clean things up and staff was asked to set up an account and poke around, as well. I set my account up then forgot about it. About a month before my son was graduating from high school I got my first friend request. It was from his best friend. I only knew because I got an e-mail about his request and that he wrote on my wall. My wall?
I accepted and took a peek at my account but still had no idea how it really worked. Within a week at least 20 of his friends requested me and I accepted them all. My son thought it was the strangest thing and did not want to have any part of me being on Facebook. I totally respected his feelings and never EVER asked him to include me. This was his world and I did not want to interfere.
The kids included me in conversation and when they went away to school they kept in touch with a quick post or tag. Sometime first semester my son requested me and I enjoy being a part of this world.
Here are my rules:
I never request anyone a generation younger than me. That includes my cousin's kids, my son's friends and kids in the neighborhood. If they want me in their timeline they request me. I am pleased to say I have developed wonderful relationships with many of the "cousins" and respect their invitations by not stalking their wall.
Unless they are close personal friends, I do not request any co-workers. I think it is important to recognize that relationships at work are not the same as relationships outside of work.
If I do not recognize a name (especially a female who chooses not to use her maiden name) and we have no friends in common, I ignore. Linkedin and Twitter are the professional me. Facebook is a peek inside my living room. I don't open my door to strangers.
That little icon pops up and gives me a burst of excitement every time. Who will it be? Is it someone I haven't heard from in years? High school? College? I can hardly wait to click the little red icon and see who it is…
Life is good!
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Parents Beware Of Molly [VIDEO]
Parents may want to listen more closely if they hear their kids talking about Molly. She may not be a good friend.
Darcy Jensen of Prairie View Prevention Services says your kids could be talking about a drug. "Molly is really a form of Ecstasy and Meth mixed together. The Molly form is the crystal or powder form of that drug."
Jensen says the side effects of Molly are varied. "What we see in the beginning of taking Molly---that person experiences euphoria and has a lot of energy. They may feel more loving or emotionally attached to people...As the high wears off, the person is confused and sometimes depressed. We often see an anxious person who is very negative when they come down."
For more information on Molly, check out the video with Darcy Jensen of Prairie View Prevention Services.


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Holland named Royals Pitcher of the Year
KANSAS CITY -- This was quite a year for Greg Holland: He made the All-Star team, led American League relievers in strikeouts and set a club record for most saves in a season.
Small wonder then that on Monday he was named winner of the 2013 Bruce Rice Award as the Royals Pitcher of the Year in a vote by the Kansas City chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
KANSAS CITY -- This was quite a year for Greg Holland: He made the All-Star team, led American League relievers in strikeouts and set a club record for most saves in a season.
Small wonder then that on Monday he was named winner of the 2013 Bruce Rice Award as the Royals Pitcher of the Year in a vote by the Kansas City chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
This season was just the second year that Holland has been the Royals' closer but the second straight year that he's won the award, named for a popular Kansas City sportscaster who passed away in 1978.
Holland posted 47 saves, two more than the previous club record shared by Dan Quisenberry (1983) and Jeff Montgomery (1993).
"The main thing for me is it means we won a lot of games," Holland said from his Asheville, N.C., home. "But it also affects expectations. As a competitor, I think everyone in that clubhouse sets the bar as high for themselves as they can so they can go out there and try to repeat those same things each year. If you're at your highest level, you're going to help your team win ballgames and that's where we all are at this point in our careers. We've got experience now and now it's just about winning games."
Holland is the first back-to-back winner of the Rice Award since starter Jeff Suppan in 2000-01 and only the second closer to win in successive years. Quisenberry won three straight from 1982-84, as well as in 1980. Other closers to win were Joakim Soria (2008-10), Mike MacDougal (2005), Montgomery (1998) and Mark Littell (1976). Steve Farr, the 1990 winner, pitched primarily in relief but not as a closer.
This year only two Major League closers had more saves than Holland -- Baltimore's Jim Johnson and Atlanta's Craig Kimbrel, each with 50.
Royals manager Ned Yost was asked during the season what makes a great closer.
"The bottom line is, are you going to save a game for us? And are you going to do it on a real consistent basis? The answer to that is yes, every time, with him," Yost said.
"When you've got a 98-mph fastball and you've got that slider that he's got, it can be overmatching."
Holland's 103 strikeouts not only led AL relievers and tied Jim York's 1971 club record but gave him an average of 13.84 strikeouts per nine innings, best all-time among AL pitchers with at least 60 innings. Holland worked 67 innings in 68 games.
Want more? His 1.21 ERA was the lowest ever by a Royals reliever, besting Montgomery's 1.37 in 1989. In his first three outings of the season, Holland gave up four earned runs (all in two games at Philadelphia), but his ERA the rest of the way was 0.69 (five earned runs in 65 innings).
Holland recalled talking to pitching coach Dave Eiland after the Philadelphia flameout.
"I'm trying to go out there and be someone I'm not. I need to go out there like it's a one-run game every time out and be unpredictable, don't be afraid to fall behind," Holland said.
"It got to the point where I was trying to throw strike one so much that I was kind of aiming the ball a lot. I'm not very successful when I'm doing that, so I had to realize what my strengths were the year before and I had to replicate those things as much as I could. I kind of got back to being myself. There was nothing mechanically wrong, it was more of a mindset thing."
Holland credited the Royals' designated hitter, Billy Butler, with a lot of guidance in facing opposing hitters this year.
"He does his homework to the point where he knows what pitchers' tendencies are, and your best hitter, the guy that can really hurt you in the middle of an order, knows what you like to do so you can't really get into patterns," Holland said. "You've got to mix it up. To be able to do that, you've got to get better with locating not just one pitch but two and three pitches, depending on your role with the team."
Holland, drafted out of Western Carolina University in the 10th round of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, advanced rapidly in the Kansas City system but seemed to stall at the big league level in 2010 because of his control lapses. However, that winter he pitched in Venezuela and made a tremendous improvement.
"I liked his makeup, loved his stuff, his command was all over the place," Yost recalled of Holland's earlier years. "He went to winter ball, closed out there, came back a totally different guy. His stuff was great, his competitiveness on the mound was great, the command was there."
Holland remembered the turnaround well.
"I'm glad because the season before that didn't go so well," he said.
But in 2011, Holland had a 1.80 ERA, a 5-1 record and four saves in a setup role. When Soria had to have elbow surgery in the spring of 2012, Jonathan Broxton took over the closer's job, but when Broxton was traded to the Reds at midseason, Holland got his shot. He hasn't slowed down since.


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The IU East Master of Science in Management is a 15-month weekend program designed for employed professionals seeking a graduate-level business degree. The IU East Master of Science in Management is designed for individuals who performed well academically in a wide range of degrees at the undergraduate level. A degree in business is not required.
The IU East M.S. in Management provides a highly interactive learning environment that includes analysis, communication, leadership, and innovative thinking. The learning outcomes are designed to help individuals sharpen their entrepreneurial and leadership skills to take their careers to the next level. This will be accomplished through focused self-assessment, project-based learning and peer interaction.
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- An engaged faculty that stays on the cutting edge by combining business experience with ongoing academic and applied research.
- A balance of the analytical skills necessary to understand business issues and the leadership skills necessary to make things happen.


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What Did You Learn?
Summarize what you have learned about writing conferences from the experts' statements, classroom examples, and the readings and activities in this workshop. Use the questions below to guide your thinking. When you have finished, save your written summary to submit as an assignment.
- Which classroom practices from the videos reflect what you currently do?
- Which practices or ideas are new to you?
- What changes do you plan to make?
- What support and/or resources will you need to implement these ideas?
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"These images remain,…though we are caught by time, by time estranged."
—May Sarton
The first Monday in September signals the end of summer here in the United States. It has ever since 1894, when it was selected by Congress as a special day to celebrate the dignity of labor.
As families and friends plan outings, picnics and barbecues, a shift seems to take place. The end of summer means a flurry of last-minute vacations, and back-to-school shopping becomes the new focus.
Almost like the New Year, Labor Day now marks a time to look forward and back. It is a time to note what was accomplished and what was left not done. For me, as with the New Year, I find myself filled with resolutions for what is to come.
As festival season wraps up, there is a thirst in me that cannot seem to be slaked. I find myself enjoying an abundance of good summer memories and yet contemplating all that was missed. As May Sarton says, there are the images, but they are somehow estranged by time.
The first "missed" item is the wonder of nature as it exists here in Laguna.
Of course, I have been sitting in nature all summer in the form of the beautiful grounds of the Sawdust Art Festival, but it is just not the same. It is, first of all, not the glorious experience of alone time in nature.
After all, the festival experienced increased attendance this year, and I was constantly surrounded by a bustle of humans.
The festival season is good for our town and yet we all look forward to this time when it ends. What I now resolve to enjoy before the season changes and the days shorten is time for the long vista, the solo contemplation.
I am called to sit beneath a tree and look out across the canyon as the early evening light moves and casts an orange glow on the green. I look forward to the cool evening breezes across my skin and the loud call of crows to their brethren as the days end.
There is a longing to walk along the beach with scurrying shorebirds just past dawn, gentle waves lapping at my feet, the occasional castoff sea glass beckoning. The joy of isolation on the sand, often shrouded by morning fog, is one of the blessings that I seek in the slower time of fall that is coming.
Oh sure, for a while, I will miss the clang of the trolleys, the buzz of the crowds and the bustle of focused intention as each day begins. I doubt, though, it will take long to revert to the enjoyment of silence or of leisurely time spent with friends and family.
Soon, the clang of the trolley will be replaced by the horn of a school bus rounding a bend in the road. The buzz of the crowd will be exchanged for the gleeful sound of children at a bus stop. Focused intention will simply shift to other things.
There is also that persistent tapping on my shoulder of my personal muse. I have for too long forced myself to reluctantly shove these tappings off to the side in order to focus on the business at hand. Shrugging off the call to create is one of the most difficult of my summer tasks, but one I will no longer drive myself to do.
Luckily, I have made notes and sketches that time will soon allow to come to fruition. Chasing down my muse can begin in earnest again.
Thus, Labor Day is welcome in my life so that I can once again enjoy the blessings of living here in Laguna Beach, as I have for so many years. The lure of long afternoon light, the soft sounds of a less-populated shoreline, time for focused creative energy and enjoyment of friendships — the day is a celebration of labor, but also a time for shifting to a bit slower, less hectic pace.
No longer estranged by time, the muse and I are ready. You probably are, too.
CHERRIL DOTY is an artist, writer, counselor … always fascinated, inspired, and titillated by the beauty and the myriad mysteries of life. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at (714) 745-9973.


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Rajneeshpuram Previous Broadcasts
KQED World: Sat, Jul 6, 2013 -- 5:00 PM
In 1981, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a spiritual leader from India, and thousands of his disciples moved to Wasco and Jefferson Counties. On what had been the Big Muddy Ranch, the "sannyasins" set out to build a new city, a utopian community in the desert - - Rajneeshpuram. Thousands of people from around the world gathered here to celebrate life. They worked hard and transformed the landscape. And more than a few hoped to spend the rest of their days at this place. But by 1986, they were gone.


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Innovation launches 'Shaping the Future Summit'
Innovation launches 'Shaping the Future Summit'
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Tuesday's keynote address on "The Impact of Innovation" by XPRIZE Foundation CEO Dr. Peter H. Diamandis brought to a close the Schreyer Honors College's inaugural Shaping the Future Summit and introduced the theme for the 2015 Summit.
Diamandis spoke for nearly an hour, giving a fast-paced review of the exponential rise of technology and the advancements on the horizon related to energy, space exploration, health care and more. In addition to the audience April 1 in Eisenhower Auditorium, Diamandis' address was available through live streaming to students at Penn State campuses and those with World Campus.
"Our goal was to bring someone to campus who could talk to students about the challenges they will be facing in their future roles as leaders in business, industry, academia and society," said Christian M. M. Brady, dean of the Schreyer Honors College. "Dr. Diamandis' remarks were thought provoking and offered students a vision of bright possibilities for the future."
Earlier in the day, Diamandis met with the Penn State Lunar Lion Team, the only university-sponsored team among the 18 competing for the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE. A $20 million prize will be awarded to the first team to land a rover on the moon, have it travel a specified distance and beam data back to earth. During Diamandis' keynote address, he exhorted the audience to financially support the Lunar Lion Team in its quest.
"Technology is not their issue," he said. "They are building a vehicle that can land on the surface of the moon. There is nothing technically standing in their way. It's whether this community wants to plant a Penn State flag on the surface of the moon."
During his visit, Diamandis also attended a lunch with Schreyer Scholars and members of the Presidential Leadership Academy, Penn State faculty and administrators, and community members. He also attended a reception coinciding with the semifinal round of the College of Information Sciences and Technology's IdeaMaker Challenge with students pitching projects designed to leverage technology to solve a problem.
At the conclusion of Diamandis' keynote address, Brady unveiled the theme of the 2015 summit: "The Power of Money." The date of the 2015 summit and the keynote speaker will be announced later this year.
A video of Diamandis' keynote address can be found online. For a year-in-review recap of the 2014 summit, which was sponsored by Life Technologies Inc., and for information about the 2015 summit visit futuresummit.psu.edu.
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Pies & Tarts: A SLICE OF COMPETITION
10 of the nation's best amateur home bakers come to Atlanta, GA to compete for the title of America's Best Amateur Baker, a quarter of a million dollars and their very own cookbook. The bakers are out of their comfort zone, baking competitively for the first time, but some, like Star Baker Francine, rise to the challenge while others, like Carlo who is the first to go, crumble.
The 10 best amateur bakers in the nation arrive in the baking tent for the first time. Aprons on, they are ready to get baking – but Jeff Foxworthy has a few surprises in store first. He announces that the winner not only will be named the America's Best Amateur Baker but they will also receive a quarter of a million dollars and their very own cookbook contract. Each week, someone will be named Star Baker and one person will be sent home.
Then, Jeff reveals that for their first Signature Bake Challenge, they must each make their own version of the All American Pie. They are given two hours to complete the task – On your marks, Get set, Bake!
The bakers are fish out of water – having only ever baked in their homes for family and friends, the bakers have to adapt to a new kitchen and a more intense environment.
The judges – master baker Paul Hollywood and chef Marcela Valladolid – explain that the Signature Bake recipes should be tried and true family recipes and they are looking for pies that have a good base, fantastic filling and a great bake.
Firefighter Jeremy, 35, says that he is used to stressful environments, so he feels confident about baking his Grandmother's sweet potato pie. The judges, however, are concerned about the amount of nutmeg he is using to flavor his pie.
Paul explains when working with dough, you need to incorporate the butter in the flour until you can't feel it anymore. Then, you add your liquid and once all is combined, you pop it in the fridge to solidify the fats, making it easier to roll out.
While their pie dough chills, the bakers work on their pie fillings. Carlo measures ricotta, Kollette melts her chocolate and James chops apples.
26 year old James, explains his classic date move is making his Mile High Apple pie – and hopes it will help him score with the judges as well.
College student Whitney, 22, admits that she does not like pie – it is not on her diet plan. She is making her Grandma's lemon pie and adding meringue to the top to make it a bit prettier.
Brian, 43, is known at home as "the male Martha." He explains that he loves to clean and he loves to bake. When he tells the judges that he is making a chocolate pecan pie with a generous splash of bourbon, Paul comments that he needs to be careful not to add too much alcohol to the pie. On crutches from an injury before coming to the competition, Brian insists that he will not use his injury as an excuse.
The bakers begin rolling out their pie dough and begin prepping their crusts for their fillings. Paul explains the risk of soggy bottom – a big no no in pie making. The fillings can soak into the pie crust creating a soggy pie crust when baked. So, to prevent this, the bakers can blind bake their pie crusts before adding the fillings which is pre-baking the crust for 10 – 20 minutes before the filling is added, All the bakers choose to do this, except for Whitney.
Elaine, 63, explains that she is making an old family recipe – a peach cobbler style pie with an intricate lattice top. But she has difficulty working with the dough – so the lattice top – is putting her behind.
Francine, 44, is a self-proclaimed redneck. She enters little hometown baking competitions and loves working with southern flavors. She is adding bacon to her chocolate peanut butter pie – much to the dismay of Paul Hollywood.
With their pies in the ovens, the bakers watch their bakes like hawks. Having put her pie in late, Elaine is worried that her pie will not bake in time.
Carlo, 35, is Italian and is planning to decorate the top of his Ricotta Easter pie with bird cutouts.
Jeff, Paul and Marcela discuss that there will be a lot of stress in the final rush because these bakers are not used to baking in a competitive environment like this.
The bakers race to finish their bakes. Jeremy has to nix adding whipped cream to the top of his pie because his pie is too hot and the whipped cream would melt and Elaine knows her pie is not baked through.
The bakers express worry about having their baked good judged for the first time.
Carlo is first to be judged. Paul says the decoration on the pie is busy. Carlo insists, like the Sistine Chapel, his pie can be busy. Unfortunately, Carlo has the dreaded soggy bottom and Marcela does not like the texture of the ricotta.
James' Mile High Apple pie is the biggest apple pie Paul has ever seen. And the judges love the flavor.
Darlene's Sweet Potato Pie is a hit with the judges and with Jeff.
Whitney's Lemon Pie with Meringue has a soggy bottom and Marcela wishes there was more lemon flavor.Effie's Apple, Quince, Rose pie looks professional and is original.
Kollette's Chocolate Hazelnut Pie is very rich but delicious.
Brian's Maple Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie has too much alcohol flavor.
Elaine's Peach Cobbler Style Pie is obviously under-baked – she needs to work on time management.
Jeremy's Sweet Potato Pie is too simple looking and has an overwhelming nutmeg flavor.
Francine's Peanut Butter Bacon Pie is a surprise hit with the judges – even Paul loves it!
Francine is thrilled after the first round but Jeremy and Elaine hope to prove themselves in the later rounds.
Jeff tells the bakers that the next bake is the Technical Bake. They each will be given the same recipe with missing instructions. The bakers will have to rely on their instincts to fill in the blanks. This challenge is judged blind by Paul and Marcela, so to ensure they have no idea which baker baked what, Jeff asks Paul and Marcela to retire to the Judges' Tent for the duration of the bake.
With Paul and Marcela out of the main tent, Jeff tells the bakers that, for their first Technical Bake, they will be making a freestanding savory pie. It will be a hot water crust pastry and to add more pressure, it is Paul Hollywood's recipe. They have 2 hours. On your marks, Get set, Bake!
As the bakers begin deciphering the vague recipe, over in the Judges' Tent Paul explains to Marcela that to make the hot water crust, the bakers must mix milk, shortening and salt together and then add hot water to melt the shortening.Effie, 40, explains that she is measuring her dough on a scale to be precise. Being a full time attorney, mom and wife Effie explains to Jeff that she is very type A.
The bakers have to roll out the dough quickly before it cools down; otherwise it becomes difficult to work with. As the bakers put the pie dough in the pie tins, they have to be careful not to add too much dough or it won't bake through, but too little dough and the pies will collapse when removed from the tins.
As the bakers begin the filling for their pies, Jeff talks to Kollette. A diabetic, she can't taste her sweets but Jeff also finds out that she is vegetarian so she can't eat this savory pie either!
The bakers put their pies in the oven, but with no baking time listed on the instructions, it is a guessing game as to how long the pies need to bake.
With 15 minutes to go, Carlo has a smoking oven because he forgot to put a pan down to catch the oil leaking out of the pie tins.With their pies out of the ovens, the bakers have to start the tricky task of popping the pies out of their tins – if they aren't very careful their pies can fall apart.
James takes it down to the wire, hoping to get his pies more brown and Darlene worries that her pies are not cooked through.
With their pies laid out for judging, Paul and Marcela return to the main tent.
Darlene's dough is good but not cooked through.
Jeremy's pie is satisfactory.
Effie's pie has a soggy bottom.
Kollette's pie has a soggy bottom and her filling is not cooked through.
Carlo's pie dough is totally raw.
Francine's pie is liked by the judges.
Brian's pie is a hit with the judges.
Whitney's pie is bland.
James' pie has a soggy bottom and filling is overcooked.
Elaine's pie is well baked and well seasoned.
In last place is Carlo. Followed by Darlene in 9th place and James in 8th place. Whitney, Effie, Kollette and Jeremy's bakes pass the test. Francine comes in 3rd and Brian steals first place from Elaine because his pie was a bit more brown on the top.
Brian is proud to have conquered Paul's recipe. Whitney and Carlo are worried about possibly being eliminated this week.
Going into the showstopper bake, Jeremy is hoping to redeem himself from his poor signature bake and Brian is hoping to be Star Baker.
Jeff announces that their challenge is to make 36 sweet tartlets. The bakers get going on their last bake of the week.
Paul notes that Carlo, Whitney and Jeremy are all in trouble of going home this week, so they must step up their game.
Francine says she would love to be Star Baker this week – pie is her thing. She is making Chocolate Cherry tartlets and learns that her great grandmother's ganache recipe is very similar to Paul's.
Carlo says that his tartlets will be delicious and original – and is hoping his tartlets inspired by flavors from Italy will make up for his last place technical bake. However, Marcela worries that he is trying to add too many flavors to his tartlets.
Paul explains that when working with their dough, the bakers need to make sure they do not overwork their dough – or else it will become like rubber.
Brian is making Raspberry and Dark Chocolate Tartlets and insists that he doesn't just think he s a Star Baker, he knows he is. Francine and Elaine roll their eyes.
Elaine is hand forming her dough instead of rolling it, and is making Lemon Ginger Tartlets.
As the bakers race to add flavorings to their tartlet fillings, Marcela explains that because these are just small bites, the tartlets must pack a lot of flavor. Unfortunately with little time remaining, Jeremy burns the custard filling for his tartlets and has to restart the filling.
The bakers race to finish their tartlets while keeping them uniform and beautiful. Jeremy is unable to finish his tartlets in time.
Carlo is excited to have the judges try his tartlets while Jeremy is upset that he did not complete the challenge.
The judges love Francine's Chocolate Cherry Tartlets.
Paul thinks Carlo's tartlet filling looks like tar and Marcela does not like the flavor.
Darlene's Blooming Apple Tartlets are not uniform in appearance but taste nice.
Kollette's Goat Cheese Cherry Tartlets presentation does not impress the judges and neither does the taste.
Whitney's Rum Coconut Rum tartlets have tough pasty dough but good flavor.
James gets pegged for not using an apricot jam to glaze his Ricotta & Greek Yogurt Honey tartlets.
Marcela loves Effie's filling for her Orange Almond Vanilla Ricotta tartlets.
Paul nearly breaks his tooth on Brian's Raspberry & Dark Chocolate tartlets.
Elaine's Lemon Ginger tartlets are a slam-dunk with Paul and Marcela.
Jeremy's unfinished Kiwi, Mango & Blueberry tartlets do not impress the judges. Paul says time management is crucial in this competition.
Jeff tells the bakers it is now time for Marcela and Paul to decide who will be this week's Star Baker and who will be going home.
During deliberation, Paul and Marcela think Francine's original and flavorful bakes could get her Star Baker but Elaine's comeback from the Signature Bake and Brian's first place Technical Bake could also put them in contention for Star Baker. In danger of going home are Carlo, Whitney and Jeremy.Francine is awarded Star Baker.
Carlo is sent home because, across the board, his bakes were too lacking in flavor. Jeremy is given another week in the competition because he has potential, he just has to work on his time management.
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he pressure is on in Week Six as the bakers head into the home stretch of the competition. More...
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This week we hit the halfway point in the competition and with only 7 bakers left they have to tackle Paul Hollywood's specialty, bread. More...
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AUDIO FORUMS >> Analog Tape >> Welcome to the Analog Tape forum!
Message started by Steve Deckert on 05/05/14 at 19:54:38
Title: Welcome to the Analog Tape forum!
Post by Steve Deckert on 05/05/14 at 19:54:38
Buy popular request, the Analog Tape Forum awaits your discussions!
Here you can learn about Reel to Reel (and other) tape formats, where to find reel to reel decks and reel to reel tapes to listen to. Knowledge is the key to success with this format which my explain why it has been all but forgotten.
When I see people spend tens of thousands of dollars on digital sources and all the things that go with it, I have to wonder if it's because they want to hear how good recorded music can sound in their system... you know, have more of those WOW moments.
It's not shortly thereafter I wonder why not spend $500 ~ $2500 on a 60 ~ 160 pound professional reel to reel and get some master tapes. That's as good as a source gets, period. That's the reference. For many it will blow away your digital and vinyl so bad you realize that even spending 50 grand on a DAC isn't going to fix it.
Not everyone has these results because it's a very hands on, mechanical experience that requires proper alignment and some general knowledge about how to set things. Between NAB and IEC and the three basic bias settings combined with two different playback heads each with it's own azimuth adjustment, there are probably 16 or so possible settings for each recorded tape you listen to. Get them right and it's a holy shit moment... get one wrong and the very resolution that makes analog so right suddenly makes it more apparent than normal that something is wrong. Of course at that moment it's easy to loose sight of the superiority of tape.
This forum is going to help you know what to do, what to get, how to use it.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Analog Tape forum!
Post by Lon on 05/05/14 at 20:37:40
Steve Deckert wrote on 05/05/14 at 19:54:38:
I'm glad you created this forum, it's going to be nice to have this tape talk all in one place so those that are interested can find it and join in and those that aren't that interested can step past it.
As someone who hasn't spent tens of thousands on digital equipment but has spent a lot I can tell you I've done it because I am willing to sacrifice "WOW" moments a-plenty to have the music I want to listen to sound really good, and it has and will in the digital format. I have ooodles of digital items to listen to and what I see available on "master tape" is mostly not what I want to listen to and so very little of what I do want to listen to, so I don't want to become the type of "audiophile" that just chases the best sound, I want to pursue my musical interests more freely, I want to enjoy the collection I have, in great sound. With excellent digital sources and Decware amplification and pre-amplfication and speakers I can and have done so, with great joy. And with a nice turntable and the ZP3 (one of the greatest of the Decware products) I can have plenty of WOW moments on vinyl, and far more easily and less expensively find music on lps that I really want to listen to. For me it's about the music, which is why I continue to improve my digital playback and won't go down what (for me) would be a deadend pursuing tape decks.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Analog Tape forum!
Post by marky on 05/05/14 at 22:18:28
Thanks for the wiggle room steve ( "Reel to Reel and other ) tape formats" My Nakamichi still gives great service. Great vintage sound and handy for my vintage Leak tuner and albums if I want to make a tape for the Saab which is old enough to have cd and tape players.
Talking of WoW moments I`ve just had a v/nice one while playing Zappas " Overnight Sensation " his co singer appeared above and just behind my head.....and I`m sitting with the wall right behind me. I just felt immersed in it. The Decware amp line-up is superb.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Analog Tape forum!
Post by Brian on 05/15/14 at 02:33:01
Thank you Steve, for this forum.
I have been quite fascinated by your descriptions of the superior sound of the open reel masters. I always like reading what you have to say about the sound of various equipment or media.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Analog Tape forum!
Post by JOMAN on 02/10/18 at 03:43:12
Glad to see this forum. Ive been intrigued by the various comments about analog tape that Ive read but today intrigue has turned to serious interest - I was given, yes given an Otari MX5050 B-2HD.
The unit looks to be in very good shape and its next stop will be to have it checked, calibrated, demagnetized etc. At first I didnt know what to make of this machine until I talked to Steve and discovered that he has one among other tape machines.
Cant wait to add this to my all Decware System and very likely a ZBIT. Here I thought that I was getting close to the end of the journey 8-).
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Beatles Fan Day was created in 2008 so that Beatles fans
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The Day The Beatles Met George Martin
On June 6, 1962, The Beatles met record producer George Martin for the first
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P.S. I Love You and Ask Me Why were recorded in early versions on that day.
The tape of the recording session was destroyed some time
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Beatles Fan Day in the Classroom
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Tonight's Concert Picks: Divine Fits at Union Transfer, Franz Nicolay and Erik Petersen of Mischief Brew at First Unitarian, King Tuff and Poor Moon at Johnny Brenda's
Divine Fits are playing tonight at Union Transfer in support of their debut album, A Thing Called Divine Fits, which was released in August. An indie supergroup of sorts, Divine FIts is spearheaded by Spoon's Britt Daniel, New Bomb Turks' Sam Brow, and Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs. Tickets for the all-ages show are available here. Below, check out the video for "Would That Not Be Nice."


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A York-based software development student has been sentenced to eight months in jail for hacking into social networking site Facebook, including three of its servers, from his bedroom.
According to the BBC, Glenn Mangham, 26, had admitted to hacking into Facebook between April and May 2011.
Mangham used an ethical hacking defence, saying that after he showed search engine Yahoo how it could improve its security, he wanted to do the same for Facebook.
Yahoo had "rewarded" Mangham (with £7,000) for revealing its vulnerabilities previously, his lawyer Tom Ventham said.
However, prosecutor Sandip Patel said that Mangham had acted "with determination, undoubted ingenuity and it was sophisticated, it was calculating".
Patel told London's Southwark Crown Court that Mangham had "unlawfully accessed and hacked" into Facebook's website and its computers from his bedroom in Yorkshire, and then downloaded "invaluable" intellectual property onto an external hard drive.
Judge Alistair McCreath said that Mangham's actions were not "just a bit of harmless experimentation" – despite acknowledging that Mangham had never intended to pass on the hacked information nor make any money from it.
"You accessed the very heart of the system of an international business of massive size, so this was not just fiddling about in the business records of some tiny business of no great importance.
"You and others who are tempted to act as you did really must understand how serious this is.
"The creation of that risk, the extent of that risk and the cost of putting it right mean at the end of it all, I'm afraid a prison sentence is inevitable," McCreath said.
Prosecutor Patel said that Facebook spent $200,000 (£126,108) on investigating Mangham's hacking.
A spokesperson for the social network said that personal user data was not compromised by the breach, and added: "We take any attempt to gain unauthorised access to our network very seriously, and we work closely with law enforcement authorities to ensure that offenders are brought to justice."


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Thanking Our Caregivers and Clients and Caring Home Care
Thanksgiving is here and it's time to think about the important people in our lives. If a family member provides the bulk of the caretaking for a senior loved one, be sure to give them a break during the Thanksgiving holiday so that they can rest and rejuvenate. As a family caregiver, they provide a lot of support, love, and sometimes medical care to one in need. This role can be rewarding while also very draining, so it is very important to take that time to recharge. It's the perfect time of year to make an effort to show those who do so much for our loved ones that we appreciate them. The caregivers who go the extra mile for an elderly loved one to make sure their lives are easier deserve acknowledgement for all that they do.
When it comes to showing a family caregiver that they are appreciated, sometimes all it takes is a phone call to check in on them. Be sure they are taking time to take care of themselves. Make sure that they know you are there to offer a listening ear whenever they need to share concerns or just to vent. Every once in a while, give them a call and let them know that they have one less task to worry about that day, then deliver dinner. After is dinner is delivered, offer to give them a hug too, while you're at it.
Whenever there's a free block of time, be sure to stop in to say hi, even for a quick visit. Offer to drop off a movie or library book rental. See if there are any groceries that can be picked up on the way. If distance makes stopping by for a visit difficult, perhaps a card with a note of appreciation can be dropped in the mail. A message of thanks delivered alongside magazones and bills can go a long way to boost a family caregiver's overall mood and wellbeing.
At Senior Helpers of Clearwater, we want our clients to know how much we appreciate them. We are grateful to be able to provide our clients with the peace of mind that their loved ones are cared for by our highly trained caregivers. It is a continued pleasure to provide the compassionate and reliable care that has become expected from our caregivers. This Thanksgiving, we give thanks to our clients for the pleasure of continuing to work together. We wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with all good things.
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The Mary Ann is a replica of the first steam engine built in Queensland in 1873 at John Walker and Co's Union Foundry. It steams through the park along the rail tracks which were laid to service the wharves and Walker's Foundry. The Mary Ann operates on Thursdays in conjunction with the Maryborough Heritage City Markets and the last Sunday of the month with the Sunday in the Park festivities.
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The NRA Is Still A Political "Paper Tiger"
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Last week's House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt over documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal has brought back the media myth that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is a hugely-powerful organization that swings elections with its money and endorsements. But there's no evidence -- aside from the organization's media-abetted campaign to inflate its own influence -- that the NRA is an electoral force.
All 17 Democrats who voted to hold Holder in contempt received donations from the NRA. Additionally, the NRA, in an attempt to scare up more support for the contempt vote, announced that it would be scoring the vote for its candidate rating system. And based on the vote, the tactics seem to have worked, to some extent. As a result, some media coverage has predictably inflated the NRA's supposed electoral influence. But the vote is merely evidence that the NRA's campaign to portray itself as the most important lobbying group in the country has been successful.
In a post pondering "Why Is the NRA So Powerful?," Slate's Brian Palmer reinforces many of the media's favorite myths about the NRA, writing that the group "is considered by many the most powerful lobbying group in the country, despite relatively modest financial resources and just 4 million members." According to Palmer, the NRA "can reliably deliver votes."
But in truth, the NRA can't "reliably deliver votes" -- far from it.
Writing at Think Progress, Paul Waldman, a contributing editor for The American Prospect (and former Media Matters staffer), looked into the NRA's expenditures and endorsements in the last four federal elections (2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010) and concluded that "the NRA is a paper tiger" that "has virtually no impact on congressional elections." From Waldman's analysis:
- NRA contributions to candidates have virtually no impact on the outcome of Congressional races.
- An NRA independent expenditure (IE) campaign does not improve a candidate's chance of winning.
- The NRA's endorsement, so eagerly sought by so many candidates, has almost no impact on the outcome of elections; the bulk of NRA endorsements go to incumbent Republicans with almost no chance of losing.
Similarly, public opinion on gun issues has remained quite static for nearly 40 years, even with increasingly shrill conspiracy-mongering from the NRA's leadership and its advocates.
While the Holder contempt vote may be evidence that the NRA can still effectively scare politicians, it doesn't change the group's apparent lack of impact in actual elections. The answer to Palmer's question, "Why Is the NRA So Powerful?" is, at least in part, because the media helps it pretend it is.
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Installing a solid-state drive is one of the best upgrades you can make to your computer, but migrating your Windows installation to a small drive can be tricky, because your data won't necessarily all fit on the drive. Here's how to install an SSD without reinstalling Windows from scratch.
Look familiar? We've posted this before, but the method we used is now out of date. So, we've updated the guide with a newer, easier, and up to date method for migrating all your data. Enjoy!
We've shown you how to migrate from an old drive to a spacious new drive, but when migrating to an SSD, things get a little more complicated. Instead of upgrading to a bigger drive, you're usually migrating to a smaller drive, which means a lot of files—like music, movies, and games—might not all fit on the SSD. You could always do a clean install (without losing any of your data), but why start fresh when you can migrate everything over, just as it is now? Luckily, the migration is pretty easy to pull off, and you should be able to go through the whole process in an afternoon.
Here's the jist of the process: You'll back up your current drive, then delete all of your personal files, like your documents, movies and music. This will make your Windows installation small enough to fit on the SSD. Then, you'll clone your current drive onto the SSD, and completely erase your current drive. From there, you'll move all your user folders—like My Documents, My Music, and so on—back to the original hard drive, and restore all your personal files from the backup. You'll then be able to reap the benefits of an SSDs speed while keeping all your documents and files readily accessible on a second drive.
Note: If you have a laptop, this becomes a bit more difficult, since you only have room for one hard drive in your computer. You'll either have to get an SSD big enough to fit all your data, or remove your optical drive and replace it with a second hard drive. We've shown you how to do this on a MacBook, but you might be able to find optical bay adapters for your computer too; you'll just have to search around.
What You'll Need
There are a number of different ways to go about this, but we've found this to be the easiest and most reliable method. Here's what you'll need:
- Your current hard drive, with Windows installed. For simplicity's sake we'll call this drive—that is, the drive you're migrating from—your "current hard drive" throughout the tutorial.
- A solid-state drive. This is the drive you'll be migrating to. To get a rough idea of how big it should be, head to your current drive, navigate to
C:\Users\and right-click on your user folder. Hit Properties, and mark down how much space that folder takes up. Head to My Computer and note how much space Drive
C:has filled up, and subtract your user folder's size from C:'s total. That's how big your SSD needs to be, though I'd give yourself a good deal of wiggle room for future updates and new programs. We'll assume, for the purposes of this guide, that you've already installed your new hard drive and are ready to migrate your data.
- A backup of all your data. Since you can't clone only part of a drive, you'll need to remove your music, movies, and other personal files from your current drive before migrating Windows to the SSD. That means you'll want to back up your data somewhere else—whether that be an external drive, a spare internal drive, or the cloud. Just make sure that data is safe and recoverable, since we'll be restoring it later on.
- EaseUS Todo Backup Free. This is the program we'll be using to migrate your installation. It's easy to use, free, and it can clone partitions from a big drive to a smaller drive, which is crucial for this process (since your SSD is probably smaller than your current hard drive).
A Note for Dual Booters
This guide assumes your main hard drive only has one partition on it, holding Windows and your documents. If you dual boot with Linux, OS X, or another version of Windows and it resides on the same drive, this whole process becomes a bit more complicated. Make extra sure you have a backup before continuing, and tweak the following two steps to the process:
- In step three, you'll want to click on your Windows partition and clone only that to the SSD instead of cloning the entire disk. Cloning the entire disk would bring all your partitions over, which you won't likely have room for.
- After step three, you probably won't be able to boot into Windows on your SSD. This is because the Windows bootloader resides on the MBR, not the partition itself. After you've migrated to the SSD, you'll need to insert your Windows installation CD (or your Windows 8 recovery disk) and choose "Repair Your Computer" from the main screen. Choose Startup Repair from the menu, and your computer should reboot a few times and repair the bootloader.
Step One: Defrag and Back Up Your Data
Before you start, you probably want to defragment your disk. Click the Start menu and type in "defrag", hitting Disk Defragmenter when it comes up. Run one last defrag before you continue.
Next, you'll want to make sure everything is backed up in case something goes wrong. You should already be backing up your data regularly, whether to an external drive or withsomething like CrashPlan, but if you aren't, now's the time to start. Run one last backup before you start the migration process to make sure it's as up to date as possible.
Step Two: Slim Down Your Current Drive
The next thing you need to do is delete files from your main drive until it becomes small enough to fit on your SSD. That means if your SSD is 120GB and your current drive has 260GB of data on it, you'll need to delete 140GB (260GB - 120GB) worth of files before you can migrate. Usually, this can be accomplished by deleting all the music, movies, documents, and other files out of your "My Music", "My Videos", "My Documents", and other user folders. Don't delete the folders themselves, just delete everything inside them. We want to keep the folders intact for later. And remember, we'll be restoring your files later on, so don't worry about deleting stuff you still need. Don't uninstall any programs, unless you want them gone for good. We want to keep these on the SSD so they can benefit from the drive's speed.
Step Three: Migrate to the SSD
Open up EaseUS Todo backup and choose "Clone" from the left-hand sidebar. Click "Disk Clone." Choose your curent hard drive as the source disk, and choose your SSD as the target disk. Check the "Optimize for SSD" box. This ensures that your partition is correctly "aligned" for SSDs, and is important for getting the best performance out of your SSD. Click Next.
EaseUS will begin copying your disk. Check the "Shut down the computer when the operation completed" box, and your computer will turn off when it's done.
If it tells you the source drive is too big, then you haven't deleted enough data. Remember that the size of the SSD—say, 120GB—is not the same as how much space will be available on the SSD after formatting. Once you've hooked up your SSD, check how much space is actually available and make sure your current drive is using less than that amount of space. Even if your source drive is bigger, EaseUS should automatically resize the partitions so they fit on the SSD, as long as your source drive isn't filled with too much data.
Remember, if you have more than one partition on your original drive, you wan to clone the partition, not the drive. That means instead of choosing "Disk Clone," you should choose "Partition Clone," clone your Windows partition to the SSD, and stick in the repair disc when you're done to repair the bootloader.
Step Four: Wipe Your Original DriveP
Once the cloning process is complete, turn your computer back on and boot from the SSD (you should have an option to press F12 for a boot menu, or you can change your drives' boot order in your BIOS). Open up Windows Explorer and find your original Windows drive. Right-click on it and choose "Format". A Quick Format is fine here; we just need to clear off all that old data. Make sure you're wiping your original Windows drive and not your backup; if you're unsure, unplug your backup drive first. You don't want to lose any of your data.
Step Five: Move Your User Folders
Now that you've got Windows on your SSD, you need to get all your other files back on your system. You probably don't have enough room to fit it on your SSD, so we're going to store them on your old drive. And, since we can remap the locations of your My Documents, My Music, and other user folders, we can put them on a second drive without Windows even batting an eyelash.
First, head into your old drive (which should now be empty) and create a new folder to house all your user folders. I just called mine "Whitson." Head into
C:\Users\[Your User Name] and you should see all your user folders there. Right-click on each one, hit Properties, and go to the Location tab. Click on the Move button, and choose your newly created user folder as the destination. When you're done, you might have a few miscellaneous settings folders left over (like
.gtkrc-2.0 or
.VirtualBox), which you can leave there. Your Contacts, Desktop, Downloads, Favorites, Links, Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, Saved Games, and Searches folders should all be on your old drive.
Step Six: Restore Your Personal Files
Lastly, we just need to restore all your personal files. Open up your backup—wherever it may be—and drag your documents, music, pictures, videos, and other files back into your "My Documents", "My Music", "My Pictures", and other user folders that you just moved.
Now, your files will be accessible just as they always were. Even though they're on a new drive, Windows still sees them as your main "My Documents" or "My Music" folders, so you shouldn't have to change much else. You may have a few programs—the text-based todo.txt is a great example—that still use absolute paths (like C:\Users\Documents instead of just searching your "My Documents" folder), so you may have to tweak a few settings to get everything working properly. For the most part, though, everything should work as it did before, and you should have a much faster computer thanks to the SSD.
Proper SSD Maintenance
We've covered proper SSD maintenance before, so I won't go too deeply into it here. In order to have Windows optimize itself for your new SSD, you may need to re-run the Windows Experience Index. Hit the Start menu and type in "Windows Experience", and hit the "Check the Windows Experience Index" option. Click "Re-Run the Assessment" and it should turn off defragmentation and turn on TRIM.
To double check that it all went as expected, head to your Start menu and type "defrag" in the search box. Click on "Disk Defragmenter". Click on "Configure Schedule" and hit "Select Disks". If all went well, Windows will realize it's on an SSD and your SSD won't even be an option in this menu (if you're on Windows 8, it will show up in the list as an SSD instead, and defragmentation will be disabled).
Lastly, we'll want to make sure TRIM is turned on, which keeps your drive from slowing down over time. Open up a Command Prompt and type in:
It will either give you a
0 or a
1 as a result. If you get a zero, that means TRIM is enabled. If you get a 1, make sure you have a TRIM-compatible SSD—you may have to Google your SSD's model number to find out.
The process seems very complicated, but if you follow the steps exactly, the whole migration should go off without a hitch. You'll have a super fast-booting machine, programs will launch almost instantaneously, and you'll still have all your personal files easily accessible on another drive.


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Welcome to The X Universe.
Feel free to join in the community here at TXU and ask as many questions as you need about any topics found within the scope of this site.
Joining the community will mean far more opportunities to participate with the features of the site, and is free for all to join.
Hello all The-X-universe fans,
A good friend dropped me this link, https://blogs.unity3d.com/2017/12/01...-announcement/ looks interesting with a chance to win $20K. There might not be much time left. But this reminds me of the good old days when the community here would do this kind of stuff for fun. Well hopefully we can pool some new people and old people to see what we can accomplish.
Well I think some new people are coming to the site again, and we are talking
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Wow !!! Where did all the TXU gurus go , it has been over a year and looking back to the dev members which made some outstanding mods. It feels like last month we had bounced posts back and forth. Aragon Speed, Galdar, Stemardu, Phlt, Eliah, Sartorie, 2blackhawk, Elffin, Mishra, Apollo, Alex Vanderbuilt to name a few. There are so many missed from more than a year ago. even Roguey I think was one of the Demi gods in modeling the games.
Now don't you wish you asked them for advice
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You can do a search and there is an flood of opinions. Many think they are the same, actually very different. Sites like FB allow anyone to self promote, self glorify, a thought, feeling or opinion. but after posted when the likes or dislikes are done, that moments flair quickly rolls off the pages in history out of sight.
Those arguments, opinions or what badge you got on a mobile app is not what is found in the search engines. Engines never bringing that to surface in any results.
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Seems there are more and more games being released and changed which forces people to purchase stuff up front which mis lead buyers to dump money into stuff they want, but get something that is far from advertised.
Seems we should give out "Gruber Game Awards" to developers which say and promise but yield less or opposite of the advertisement.
What has been your experiences, keep them short, share your quick opinion for others to be aware.
But it
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Wow 12 years I had my nose stuck in the corporate world with security updates, patches, MS office, spread sheets, updates, and you get the picture. Most people look at a typical laptop to do gaming can run $1200-2200 but looking close the actual hardware cost about $500-900.
I am going to back up a few years, I have spent $200 - 400 dollars upgrading my pc hardware for each person in the house, then compile the OS upgrades $199-299, and the Html web developer Software $299, $+100 of
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