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FX's Latest 'The Bridge' Trailer Is Downright Informative
We've given FX's upcoming remake of border drama 'The Bridge' a bit of flack for its increasingly unrevealing teaser trailers. Approaching the July 10 release date, however, the latest look into the dark new drama, starring 'Inglorious Basterds'' Diane Kruger, still doesn't offer very much in the way of story or character, but who couldn't use a lesson in US/Mexico border statistics?
If nothing else, the academic lesson does offer up a bit of context for the drama, which follows a series of murders that bring together US and Mexican authorities despite the disparate investigation styles. The show is executive produced by Meredith Stiehm and novelist/television writer/producer Elwood Reid, while FX's official description of 'The Bridge' reads:
'The Bridge' is a present-day crime thriller exploring the tensions on the US-Mexico border. When an American judge known for her anti-immigration views is found dead on the bridge connecting El Paso and Juarez, Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) from El Paso PD must work with her Mexican counterpart from Chihuahua State Police, Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), to catch a serial killer operating on both sides of the border.
Marco understands the slippery politics of Mexican law enforcement, and while his police force slowly succumbs to the pressures and demands of the cartel, he's one of the last good men in the department. He's charming, but also cunning as he will do whatever it takes to get what he needs. This does not sit well with Sonya, who has Asperger's and strictly follows rules as well as protocol. Her candid and off-putting personality fuels an unforgiving drive for truth.
The case quickly pulls them into a string of murders on the border, a scene already consumed by illegal immigration, drug trafficking, violence and prostitution.
We're still intrigued to check out the series itself, but an actual new trailer would do wonders for promotion of 'The Bridge." Take a look at the latest teaser above, and tell us if you'll cross 'The Bridge' on July 10!

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|Indianapolis, Ind.
In 2009 (Junior): Melanie was one of three Golden Eagles to appear in all 112 sets and one of three to have started in all 28 matches…she served as the primary setter leading the team with 1,107 assists (9.88 aps) which ranked fourth in the OVC...she compiled 245 digs, 19 block total blocks, 15 kills and nine aces as well...posted four games with 50 assists or more including a career-high 62 against Southeast Missouri (10/10)…set a career-high in kills and attempts with four and five, respectively vs. North Florida (9/4)…named the OVC setter of the week (9/14)…record 11 double-doubles in assists and digs including a 49 assist, 15 dig performance vs. North Florida (9/4).
In 2008 (Sophomore): Melanie appeared in 25 sets for the Golden Eagles, finishing the season with 29 assists, 20 digs, two kills and one ace...she set a single-game career high for assists with 11 against Miami of Ohio on Sept. 12 and helped Tech to a five-set victory over Jacksonville State on Sept. 23 with a career-high eight digs...also had six assists in a victory over Ball State on Sept. 6.
In 2007 (Freshman): Melanie saw action in 60
games in a supporting role and finished the season with 70 assists
and 32 digs...she had a season high with seven assists and five
digs on Nov. 2 against Tennessee State...she recorded two kills on
the season, one against Bulter and one against Utah Valley, both on
Aug. 31.
Prep Highlights: Culp led her Heritage Christian team to a 2006 sectional championship and received both the team's best server (2003-04) and best defensive player awards (2004)... Culp was coached by Michelle York, who played for Tech helmer John Blair at Mississippi and was an assistant coach for Blair at Ole Miss for eight seasons... Culp also has club experience competing for Team Indiana, playing for the 18 Gators coached by Rich Coleman. The team competed over the summer in the USA national 18 open Championships in Minnesota... Also lettered three years in softball as a center fielder / second baseman for coach Brenda Jones.
Personal: The daughter of Timothy and Kathie Culp of Indianapolis... full name is Melanie Lee Culp... born October 2, 1988... majoring in nursing.


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* Global recovery remains fragile
* Markit U.S. PMI at one-year low, disrupted by government
* Chinese manufacturing at 7-month high
* Euro zone growth pace eases
By Steven C. Johnson and Jonathan Cable
NEW YORK/LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Factories in China
boosted production this month, but U.S. manufacturing output
fell for the first time in four years while the euro zone
economy lost momentum, surveys on Thursday showed.
The data suggested the world economy is still facing speed
bumps as China tries to rebound from a slowdown and as growth in
advanced economies remains fragile.
One such hurdle was a partial U.S. government shutdown that
lasted for the first 16 days of October. This likely disrupted
factory output in the world's largest economy and will probably
end up slowing overall U.S. growth in the fourth quarter.
According to financial data firm Markit, U.S. factory output
contracted in October for the first time since late 2009 and the
overall pace of growth was the slowest in a year.
Markit chief economist Chris Williamson said the survey
"suggests that the disruptions and uncertainty caused by the
crisis hit companies hard," even if determining the precise
impact of the shutdown remains difficult.
The shutdown, the first in 17 years, forced hundreds of
thousands of federal employees to take unpaid leave.
Economists expect that put a brake on U.S. growth in the
fourth quarter, which was expected to mark the transition to a
stronger pace of expansion.
A Reuters poll of more than 70 economists last week forecast
gross domestic product growth of 2.3 percent between October and
December. The economy grew 2.5 percent in the third
There was some positive news from the world's second largest
economy. The Markit/HSBC Purchasing Managers Index for China
rose to 50.9 this month from 50.2 in September, the fastest
expansion in seven months.
"China's growth recovery is becoming consolidated into the
fourth quarter following the bottoming out in the third," said
Qu Hongbin, an HSBC economist.
In the first nine months of the year China's $8.5 trillion
economy grew 7.7 percent from a year earlier, putting it on
track to achieve Beijing's 2013 target of 7.5 percent. But that
would still be the weakest growth in 14 years.
The slowdown in Asian economies may last for the rest of
this year as weak global growth and reforms in many countries
hinder activity, Reuters polls showed on Thursday. Growth in
China and India, the two regional powerhouses, will likely
languish at multi-year lows.
Growth momentum also slowed in Europe this month. Markit's
"flash" Composite Purchasing Managers Index for the euro zone,
based on surveys of thousands of companies across the region,
showed the economy lost a bit of steam this month.
While the index was still above the 50 mark that separates
growth from contraction, it retreated to 51.5 after hitting a
two-year high of 52.2 in September.
"We've seen over the last several months a significant
improvement in a lot of the business indicators for the advanced
economies, but they are still not at particularly high levels by
historical standards," said Andrew Kennigham, senior global
economist at Capital Economics. "These numbers are suggesting
the improvement may be beginning to tail off."
Germany factory activity grew, the PMI survey showed,
although the country's service industry saw a surprising fall in
the pace of growth. But things were bleaker across the border in
France, where manufacturing activity declined at a faster pace
and services expansion all but ground to a halt.
"We expect the euro zone economy to remain on a recovery
path, but today's weaker-than-expected PMI reading reinforces
the view that it will likely be a sluggish and bumpy recovery,"
said Martin van Vliet at ING.
Markit said the survey points to a 0.1-0.2 percent expansion
this quarter, similar to a recent Reuters poll.


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In this blog I talk about some of the personal programming I do as a hobby. By trade I'm a Java and database developer but I've dabbled in Haskell, front-end development, etc. I'm currently working as an architect but still enjoy getting my fingers dirty in code!
Friday, October 07, 2011
New backend for EclipseFP
The main thing is the removal of Scion. EclipseFP now uses another backend component called "buildwrapper". There is no server, buildwrapper is only an executable that can be launched with flags, and writes a JSON result on the standard output. This means no more huge memory usage, and less synchronization headaches.
Buildwrapper uses a copy of the project inside a hidden folder. This means that when we want to get say build errors on a dirty editor content, we can write the dirty content to the file inside the hidden folder, and launch a build process on these files, thus avoiding the limitations that the GHC API has on building from a StringBuffer (doesn't work for files requiring preprocessing, etc).
We only use the GHC API to get the types of things in a source file, but we use Cabal to build the project. Buildwrapper actually launches the cabal executable and parses the results. I know, sounds crude compare to an API only approach, but I have the feeling it just works better. Basically the IDE will now behave a lot close to what you get if you were building your project from the command line. And then you get additional goodies, like multi component support (so you can have the executable of your project reference the library in the same project, and it works!).
Buildwrapper uses haskell-src-exts for outline. I've actually seen cases where it needed language pragmas to parse correctly that GHC didn't need, but such is life.
Performance seems to be quite good, except for things that use the GHC API, where there's a little lag. Hopefully the fact that we don't use gigs of memory any more will make up for it.
I'm also thinking about distribution. EclipseFP came with Scion and Scion-browser bundled, if only because we used a different version of scion than the one on Hackage. I think that moving forward we'll rely on cabal install and Haskage. I'm going to add a simple interface to run cabal install inside EclipseFP, so you shouldn't have to go outside to install a package. So the EclipseFP preferences will just ask the user for the path to the buildwrapper and scion-browser executables, with an option to install them from hackage.
If people want to start testing, just go on github, and grab the BuildWrapper repository (main branch) and the EclipseFP project (buildwrapper branch). For the moment, BuildWrapper probably only builds on GHC 7.0. Once I have the feeling it's robust enough and there's no big flaw in the new architecture, I can work on enhancing portability.
2 comments:
- David said...
EcliseFP with scion doesn't work on a fresh Ubuntu, so I thought I'd try this backend. I build and installed buildwrapper, but sadly, I don't know what to do once I cloned eclisefp. I can't seem to see a README or INSTALL file, and I'm really not familiar with eclipse, so I'm lost
- JP Moresmau said...
See http://eclipsefp.github.com/dev.html for some instructions on getting EclipseFP to run from sources. Replace anything that mentions Scion by Buildwrapper. Once you have EclipseFP started with buildwrapper, just hack away at a Haskell project!


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REACH Veterinary Specialists is a growing state-of-the-art 24-hour Emergency and Specialty Practice located in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. With our amazing growth this year, we are excited to be able to add a Criticalist (boarded or residency trained) to our team who can further elevate our patient and client care!
We pride ourselves on a culture that is based around family, decreasing compassion fatigue, support, and high quality experience for our patients and clients that is also low-stress. The ideal candidate should be a positive minded team player who possesses excellent communication skills and has a commitment to practicing current and innovative medicine.
We offer competitive compensation along with a generous benefits package that includes healthcare, continuing education, PTO and more! Signing and relocation bonuses offered.
About our Hospital:
This is an opportunity to practice excellent medicine while having time to experience all that the area has to offer. Asheville is a thriving mountain city that features a funky and eclectic downtown, 30-plus art galleries, a burgeoning culinary scene, a thriving live music scene and of course, the awe-inspiring scenery of the Appalachian Mountains. Asheville is the ultimate playground, with a wide diversity of outdoor adventures for all ages, and the ideal location for an active and healthy lifestyle.


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WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - A group of 37 federal lawmakers urged U.S. securities regulators to prohibit Wall Street brokers from forcing customers to sign away their legal right to sue.
"If arbitration offers investors an efficient forum to resolve disputes, as some argue, investors may choose that option - but they should be given the choice," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White on Tuesday.
Brokerages typically require customers to sign pre-dispute arbitration agreements when opening their accounts. Under such agreements, disputes between a brokerage and a customer go to arbitration; customers are prohibited from suing in court.
The agreements have also been widely used by other types of firms, including credit card companies, who say they help reduce legal costs and prevent frivolous litigation.
Critics say the agreements erode customers' legal rights and often result in arbitration rulings against customers.
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law gives the SEC the authority to scale back or prohibit the use of arbitration agreements, but the agency has not exercised that power.
State securities regulators went to Capitol Hill earlier this month to lobby on the issue and help gather signatures for the letter to White.
The issue came into the spotlight recently after Charles Schwab Corp expanded the mandatory arbitration clauses in its customer contracts to include class action waivers.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority tried to fight the Schwab move by filing a disciplinary action, saying the class action waiver violated its rules.
But a hearing panel upheld Schwab's measure in February.
FINRA is appealing the ruling to the National Adjudicatory Council, a FINRA appellate body that reviews disciplinary decisions.
In the letter to White, the lawmakers said they were alarmed by the Schwab case and said it should be a catalyst for the SEC to act.
"We are deeply concerned that the commission's failure to respond to the dangers posed by widespread forced arbitration will weaken existing investor protections," they wrote.
"Given the uncertainty created by the recent FINRA decision, we urge the commission to act quickly to exercise its authority ... to prevent this practice and protect investor rights."
The lawmakers signing the letter, all of them Democrats or Independents, were led by Democratic Senator Al Franken of Minnesota. Whether the letter will carry weight with the SEC remains to be seen. White was sworn in as SEC chair earlier this month and has not yet publicly discussed many of her policy views.
Earlier this month, one SEC commissioner, Luis Aguilar, called for the SEC to take steps to scale back or limit the use of mandatory arbitration agreements.
"We need to support investor choice," Aguilar, a Democrat, said in a speech before the North America Securities Administrators Association, a group of state regulators.
Among the senators signing the letter to White were Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren and Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown.
Among the U.S. House members signing it were Democrat Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Democrats John Conyers, Jr. and Chris Van Hollen, both of Maryland.


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Marine Charts & Lake MapsGarmin BlueChart g2 Vision Advanced Marine Cartography CardsGarmin BlueChart g2 Vision Aleutian Islands microSD/SD Card
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Garmin BlueChart g2 Vision has set the industry standard in premier electronic chartplotter-based marine charting. BlueChart g2 Vision offers the high detail charting of BlueChart g2 plus high-resolution satellite imagery, above and below water 3-D perspective, auto guidance technology, aerial photographs for real world reference, and coastal roads with points of interest.
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- Vector object orientated data
- Shaded depth contours and inter?tidal zones with spot soundings
- Port plans
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General News
: Local News
UPDATE: Missing Person Case Led to Adams Co. Shooting
Submitted: 02/20/2013
Big Falts
- A missing person case from a Milwaukee suburb led to the shooting that injured an Adams County Deputy last night.What started as a missing person case in Milwaukee, ended with a suicide, and an Adams County deputy shot.It happened last night, when West Allis police say a 52-year-old woman went missing.Earlier in the day, police investigated a domestic violence incident between the woman and her husband, 55-year-old Thomas Costigan.Police tracked the couple to property they own in Adams County.Costigan fired at police when they went into the house.43-year-old Deputy Todd Johnson was shot. "At which time the subject presented a handgun, fired several rounds in the direction of the officers. The Adams County Deputy was struck by the gunfire and sustained injury," says an Adams County Sheriff's Office Spokesperson.Police say the officers did not fire back, but Costigan shot himself.Both Costigan and the deputy were taken by helicopter to a trauma center.Costigan was pronounced dead earlier this evening. Johnson is still being treated.
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My friends and I have been really enjoying your game but I've been trying to make some minor modifications to the .xml files in Zero Ballistics using Notepad++ and I've been having touble finding the variables I'm after.
So far all I've really done is change the bot names in config_server.xml...
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<variable name="names" value="[Hitler;Stalin;Churchill;Roosevelt;Mussolini;Menzies;Tojo;Blackadder]" type="vector<string>" />
Bring down the upgrade costs in upgrade_system.xml for a faster game...
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<variable name="weapon1" value="7" type="unsigned" />
<variable name="weapon2" value="7" type="unsigned" />
<variable name="weapon3" value="7" type="unsigned" />
And try to nerf some weapons like the armor_piercing_cannon in weapon_systems.xml...
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<variable name="recoil" value="0.05" type="float" />
It seems as though the number of upgrades you can get is limited or something, is this the case and is it changeable without altering the source?
Is the max players per server stored in an xml file somewhere that I can't find?
It seems like there's no documentation for altering the game beyond the in game menus so I though I'd post this here.


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What forms of payment do you accept?
Cash, all major Credit/Debit Cards (Visa, Master Card, Discover, and American Express) and Care Credit.
What are you hours of operation?
Do you board pets?
Yes. We do boarding for cats, dogs, and ferrets.
I have a new puppy/ kitten what is the vaccination schedule?
As with children puppies and kittens require several shots and booster shots to build antibodies for the infections they are vaccinated for.
outdoor cats need 1st and 2nd FeLV
|6 Weeks:
|1st DHP (Distemper), 1st Parvo, 1st Corona
|9 Weeks:
|2nd DHP (Distemper), 2nd Parvo, 2nd Corona, 1st Lyme
|12 Weeks:
|3rd DHP (Distemper), 3rd Parvo, 3rd Corona, 2nd Lyme
|16 Weeks:
|4th Parvo, Rabies
|6 Weeks:
|1st FVRCP (Distemper)
|9 Weeks:
|2nd FVRCP (Distemper), 1st FeLV (outdoor cats)
|12 Weeks:
|3rd FVRCP (Distemper), Rabies, 2nd FeLV (outdoor cats)
At what age can I groom my puppy?
The best time is usually around 16 weeks after they have had their puppy shots.
How do I know if my pet needs to see a vet?
If your pet is sick or has a problem lasting about 2 or 3 days it is important that your pet see's a vet.
Examples of emergency issues: breathing problems, poisoning, wounds, bleeding, automobile accidents, birth issues, drowning, vomiting, diarrhea.
Examples of emergency issues: breathing problems, poisoning, wounds, bleeding, automobile accidents, birth issues, drowning, vomiting, diarrhea.
What is a spay and a neuter?
A spay is an ovariohysterectomy. In a spay, the ovaries and the uterus are removed. Spaying is recommended between 4-6 months of age, usually before they have had their first heat cycle. A neuter (castration) is an orchiectomy In a neuter, the testicles are removed. Neutering is also recommended between 4-6 months of age. Both procedures are performed using strict sterile technique while the pet is under general anesthesia.
Is it necessary to get my dog/cat spayed or neutered?
Every year over 10 million animals are euthanized in shelters due to over-population. The main defense we have against pet over-population is spaying and neutering. Medical reasons also make spay/neuter an important decision. Please call the doctor to discuss these.
When will my dog go into heat and how long will it last?
Depending on the breed of the dow, she can enter a heat cycle as early as 6 months and as late as 12 months. On average dogs generally go into heat around 9 months. A normal heat cycle should last around 3 weeks.
When will my cat go into heat and how long will it last?
Female cats normally have their first heat cycle between 5-10 months of age, with the average age of 6 months. Cats usually have 2-4 heat cycles a year lasting around 15-22 days. If the cat is unmated it is possible to have their heat cycle every 2-4 weeks.
What do I need to know about fleas/ticks?
Fleas are tiny insects that jump onto your pets. They feed on their blood and lay up to 50 eggs a day which can multiply to half a million offspring in a year. Fleas usually come out of hiding in warmer weather. Fleas are tiny and difficult to spot.You can determine if your pet has fleas by pulling your pets fur back with a comb and examine the skin for tiny black spots. Those tiny black spots are flea feces. Fleas also love to hide on carpets and on your pets bedding. If you find your pet has traces of fleas please give us a call to advise on how to solve the problem.
Ticks are also a common pest. Ticks feed on your pet's blood; in addition they may carry diseases that affect humans, such as Lyme disease. Please feel free to contact us for assistance with any questions you may have.
Ticks are also a common pest. Ticks feed on your pet's blood; in addition they may carry diseases that affect humans, such as Lyme disease. Please feel free to contact us for assistance with any questions you may have.
What do i need to know about micro-chipping? Why should my pet get micro-chipped?
Pets who are micro-chipped have a better chance of being recovered after being lost. Protection and health are the basic reasons for micro-chipping your pet. Micro-chips also have the ability to have emergency medical information linked to their chip. This allows for taking care of medical issues while the pet is waiting to be reunited with their family. The micro-chip is a safe product and is as simple as an injection. It will show up on your pet's immunization record.
For more information visit: www.homeagain.com
For more information visit: www.homeagain.com
Why does my pet need dental care?
Your pet's teeth are exactly like your own teeth. They need daily care just like your teeth do or they will develop disease. An annual dental cleaning is required. If not brushed routinely, teeth can develop tartar and plaque. Adult dogs have 42 teeth and an adult cat has 30 teeth. If their teeth are uncared for, more severe dental diseases can occur. It can also lead to inflammation of the gums which can cause pain and discomfort while chewing. Increasing tartar and plaque can travel through the blood stream to other organs which can cause infection. To prevent infections and treatment dental diets and daily at-home brushing is very important. Annual professional dental cleaning are a must.


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Go, The Donald, go!
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I am not going to do any more arguing about Ryan, but I want to say something, and it goes to maryrose saying Ryan is "more virtuous" than Trump.
This goes to the heart of why I get upset at Ryan. Ryan may be sexually virtuous (although perhaps he's never been tempted, but I digress), but there are various forms of virtue.
One is self-sacrifice. Trump has that virtue if nothing else. He has given up billions of dollars, his business, the plane that he loves (come January 20) and his privacy. He has been vilified by almost all of the press. He has had people who he thought were his friends turn their backs on him. He has risked his reputation and ultimately his life.
He did not have to do this. He could have lived the way he was doing and no one would have thought anything of it.
He stepped forward and spoke for the average man. He spoke for the inner cities. He spoke for workers, and people being overrun with illegal aliens. He spoke for Christians and Jews.
So to me, Paul Ryan, in his gated community with his wife who made her money from Goldman Sachs, has not risked much of anything. Sure, maybe his privacy. I don't see him being vilified by the press; they treat him with semi-respect. It's Trump who gets called a racist, even though he received awards from the NAACP. It's Trump who is called homophobic, even though he employs hundreds of gay people and has never said a word about it.
I am sick of it. In a just universe Trump would be considered a damn hero.
So do NOT tell me that Paul Ryan is more virtuous.
And now I will say no more on this topic.
If it makes you feel any better, lyle, I had to turn on the a/c in the house today. Shorts and flip-flops for the win. :)
Pelosi says Bush is to blame for $9 trillion in debt added under Obama
She needs to be carted off to the same padded cell as McRINO in a bipartisan way.
Buckeye, let's talk at the beginning of March about the Malabar Inn.
Shorts and flip-flops! I won't see that until late May!
This is the time of year when the Gulf looks mighty tempting. However, unless I hit the lottery I doubt that will happen. Daughter says she would like to have a goal of moving to Florida, so maybe I can tag along.
At any rate, enjoy the weather, Beasts. I am glad to know somewhere it is not gray and getting ready for FREEZING RAIN, my most hated form of weather.
McClintock...holy moly. George Preston where are ya..lol.
That sounds great, KK! Enjoy.
Yeah, you will find lots of uber lefties in the Mac alum list (as with my alma mater Carleton). Blech.
This is way outside the norm, Miss Marple, and may continue for a few more days. We varied in the opposite direction last week and it was brutal. I was never a fan of the cold...
The "one-time" stimulus that was renewed 7 (or 8?) times by continuing resolution is on Zipador's and Congress' heads.
Imagine how explosive the report would be if the expenditures from that cash-cow of a piece of (!) legislation were tracked?
Solyndra--- a California-based company received how much of that? "Jihadi" re-settlement received how much? How much of that pallet-loaded cash to Iran come from the "one-time stimulus?"
How long will it take the GAO and CBO to catch up to the chicanery and treachery of the "one-time" stimulus?
BTW--- Nancy Pelosi is a lying whore. Her and her buddy Feinstein...The "Post Office" Lady.... harlot! Harlots I tell you!
MM: "One is self-sacrifice. Trump has that virtue if nothing else. He has given up ... (lots)."
Another item is that his kids are hassled. Like that cowardly, pompous, self important jerk on the airplane. I don't follow Trump minutia but what little I know of the guy makes me think that would be a biggie to him.
What's maddening to me about Ryan's comment today is that it shows he doesn't get it - the MSM is his adversary, and every question they ask is an attempt to trip him up or drive a wedge between him and President Trump or is a la d mine In some other way.
As a leader of the GOP and someone who will be on camera a lot, his inability or unwillingness to grasp that and respond accordingly (which does not mean emulating President Trump - Porch provided a good example of another way to challenge the frame of the question and go on the offensive) is unacceptable, or should be.
I am not sure he would have run if he had known his kids would be hassled.
The left is full of nasty people.
Steve Harvey statement about his meeting with trump:
Ha ha ha
Average Joe News
CNN has seen its ratings fall 19% from 946,000 to 765,000! MSNBC dropped 32% – from 825,000 to 559,000! @NolteNC #happyday @CNN @jaketapper
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Tucker Carlson had an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on The_Donald Reddit site today. I have sorted the comments by question and answer, but it's still sort of hard to follow. Lots of interesting comments from Tucker, though:
Would you class this as artwork? No, neither would I
The reason Zippy is doing what he is doing the last days is to distract Trump from enacting his promised 100 day agenda. He wants Trump to pounce on all his newly EO's instead of doing it tactically like he has proposed.
Guess what Zippy, you could carry his lunch pail. He is a builder and they are not distracted from schedule unless it affects the build. Go back to organizing or whatever your ilk do.
Granite construction pulled 100x what Solyndra acquired from the stmulus. The decrepit California highways are much less disgraceful as a consequence of what the ' a more perfect union' represents to its citizens.
...couldn't carry...geez, I hate my fat fast fingers.
Holeeeee.. did I say George Preston?(who's that?)
GEORGE PUTNAM...the man with a plan. Lol.
– @JoeConchaTV
American Bromance: Obama and Biden Through the Years - (Why... why open yourself to such easy ridicule, NBC News? http://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/american-bromance-obama-biden-through-years-n706661 …
Why open yourself? Why worry when you have sexual security and lack the homophobe gene?
Their hero is out of office soon boohoo
Joe Concha
First Matt Lauer, now Andrea Mitchell. I cried at the end of Rudy, by the way. In 1993. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/01/13/andrea_mitchell_i_was_in_tears_watching_joe_biden_receive_medal_of_freedom.html …
Does your sexual security allow you to engage in homosexual activity?
Yer not helping, Beasts. 😎
The security does not imply homosexuality.
You seem to be a one issue constituent with some focus on pan-sexual matters to the exclusion of all else. No?
If Ryan thinks he has an opportunity to follow Trump as President, in my mind he has a lot of growing to do.
I have not seen any potential to grasp the key issues and express them in a compelling, believable manner.
I have seldom seen Ryan on the battlements expressing solid principled arguments like McClintock or exercising the levers of his office to resist the excesses of government.
Right now, Ryan either has to learn to partner, or express good reason for his differing views.
Where do you draw the line, Willy?
That was BoE? Same message.
Seriously. Wouldn't you like to hear me question Trump at a Townhall or Presser...just for the entertainment value.
Are you Kevin Jennings?
Obama's Safe Schools Czar Tied to Lewd Readings for 7th Graders
Here's the complete Inaugural program. I can't remember if I posted it here. If it's a repeat, I apologize.
Lots of interesting historical facts, theme, etc. Plus some photos and drawings.
Scroll down to see the entire thing.
Crossed swords BoE. Have you gone down the shaft? Tell the truth.
Sorry boe..lyle was 'helping'
MSNBC dropped 32% – from 825,000 to 559,000!
Maybe Ralph should lose the smirk.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | January 13, 2017 at 05:59 PM
I hear you, MM. But since my internet bugabooz have just recently been resolved, I'm loaded for bear re Speaker Ryan.
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It's not that I disrespect Speaker Ryan, like I completely disrespect Pelosi Galore or DiFi or Hildo Balloon Clintoona, John McStain, Lindsay Cracker, Chuck "the seltzer man" Schuma, or Fauxcahontas....
I do not hold Speaker Ryan in high regard the way that I hold Donald J. Trump in high regard.
Specifically, that's because AFAICT Speaker Ryan *hasn't been anywhere* of consequence. He's a domestic talent.
Speaker Ryan is a creation of the GOPe and congressional establishment.
A fine young man becoming a congressman who's now in the cat-bird seat, Speaker of the House.
He was Snakebite Romney's VP candidate. Heh?
That makes for a dangerous man in a position of high influence.
Several reasons for this, all because of his myopia complex.
My Dad refers to men like Speaker Ryan as somebody "who's not been anywhere in any rooms of significance with other men and women who are *self-made more powerful* than himself."
It was one reason Dad gave me two options on my 17th birthday. Be the first man in our family on both sides to graduate from college or become a Navy or Marines officer.
Why was that choice? Because Dad knew that if I went to the local schools for college or didn't join the military, I'd more than likely not be around anybody of "consequence."
So I went to a first-rate university and joined ROTC (vietnam era) and washed out (vision) before my first "cruise". I was first to earn the baccalaureate in my family.
While doing so, I managed to meet quite a few "captains of industry" (the family who invented the electric lights on coal mining helmets and head gear; the inventor of polymers for Prell Shampoo and teflon, the list goes on.)
Ya, I still had to make my own way. But meeting and associating with top-caliber powerful men *and their offspring* (my classmates) helped me develop a healthy sense of "You ain't shit, boy. Now get to work."
Does this make me better than Speaker Ryan? No. But I am probably trusted more because of my road than careerist politicos like the Speaker.
Ryan strikes me as another wonk who believes in his own press clippings and the adulation of his constituency. That makes him dangerous.
And...risk averse.
Example: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013--- co-sponsored with the bizarre Patty Murray from *redact*ING Mars. What vision, Pablo.
Any man who's not been "around the block", had to meet a payroll, had to raise capital for a business venture, deliver on that capital, and been responsible for making decisions which determined whether people were paid or starved, is not really somebody I trust to be in charge of the nation's wallet/pocketbook, bank accounts, and investments.
That's my bias. That's the road I took after leaving the teat of "hire education" 100 per cent back in 95.
For 25 years I thought I needed a steady check. I'd always dabbled in entrepreneurial ventures and did quite well. But I felt like I needed security more.
That risk averse part of my profile was challenged when a political firefight saw me tossed out on my ear for going to war with Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean in Vermont, while working at "their" university.
The safe road turned out to be an ambush when it was time to step up the "ladder" and start doing some real things in my niche back then. Neither Sanders nor Dean are risk takers. Nor was their network who'd invited me in "to help them do the right thing" re local Indian affairs.
So what I don't trust about Paul Ryan is *based* 100 per cent on my own bias.
But my bias isn't myopic. I *know* bureaucratic mediocrity when I see it. Bureaucracy *does that* to a man.
But what makes Speaker Ryan most dangerous is that he is risk averse in this era when we need BOLD leadership....not more wonk.
And now that there is promise of BOLD leadership under Mr. Trump, while the media and the GOP insiders are trying to delegitimize him, there is Golden Boy Speaker Ryan waiting for his come to Papa moment.
If there is to be 8 years of President Trump, and 8 years of continued thrashing of EmoCrats, with 8 years of "Speaker Ryan", we could be looking at having a Wonkamaniac for president in 2024.
And having "all that" ahead of us with Speaker Ryan, after not getting as much out of a Trump presidency as we could because Mr. Trump was busy fighting with him over where to place the deck chairs on the USS Titanic, will only prolong this death knell that's shadowing our Republic today.
One man's windy o-peen-yohn.
Their hero is out of office soon boohoo
[Tran] It won't move any more! [/drea]
Do you think the art hanging in Tony Podestas home indicates that he is a pedophile?
Were you born a pustule or did you have to work at it, swilly?
Lyle: how many times do you think Trump has beeN asked that question?
How much did he care?
Any man who's not been "around the block", had to meet a payroll, had to raise capital for a business venture, deliver on that capital, and been responsible for making decisions which determined whether people were paid or starved, is not really somebody I trust to be in charge of the nation's wallet/pocketbook, bank accounts, and investments.
That's a Rog.
These times require a Speaker more like a big thinker teacher like Newt than a GOPe uniparty technician like Ryan.
Just my opinion.
Not commented upon much is the fact that every American presidential election has become a world election of sorts. Multiple foreign governments have *always* tried to influence our elections and that number may have been growing recently.
So, this is quite likely a severely oversimplified shorthand of the "sides" blatantly taken but the more I read about that bogus dossier, the more I think it applicable. Think of it in the terms of a World War II context, where alliances of convenience had to be endured.
On the left, the (relatively-speaking) bad guys. On the right, the (relatively-speaking) good guys:
Ukraine << >> Russia
European Union << >> Brexit
Globalism << >> Nationalism
UniParty << >> Trump
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office << >> Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office
This historic election cycle keeps getting more and more intriguing, doesn't it? And we may have another year or two (7 or 8?) of sorting this all out.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 13, 2017 at 07:12 PM
Are you gender fluid?
Rudy ginning up his Centurion fantasy once again.
Does Trumpf HAVE to provide employment after his stay in drydock?
Are you advocating that people can be U.S. citizen fluid?
Seriously. Wouldn't you like to hear me question Trump at a Townhall or Presser...just for the entertainment value.
Yes. It would be remarkably entertaining. Put your money where your mouth is and do it.
Dead thread, but I'll hit two:
Passing individual spending bills versus a continuing resolution prevents shutting down the entire government.
In order to pass a bill (including a spending bill) you need a majority in House and Senate, and the Presidency to sign it . . . or, a two-thirds majority in both houses. Reps never had either. Failing to pass those bills, the choices are: shutdown or no shutdown.
But what makes Speaker Ryan most dangerous is that he is risk averse in this era when we need BOLD leadership....not more wonk.
Leadership in the sense you mean is the bailiwick of the President. The Speaker pushes legislation. And I hope we can agree the most pressing legislative issue we have before us is the out of control budget.
The way that's supposed to work is: President submits a budget proposal, House writes a bill, Senate marks it up/writes their own bill, it goes to conference, passes both houses, and goes to the President for signature and execution. The piece we're waiting on right now is . . . the first one.
Ryan is the right guy in the right place (in my opinion, of course), and I could give the first bloody carp whether he ever made a payroll.
I wonder if Brady has forgotten about Bob McNair running his mouth about destroying his phone? Nah...no I don't! Go Pats!
RIP Roy Innis
Conservative Civil Rights Leader Roy Innis Dead at 82
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Mazatzal Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Mazatzal Wilderness (map) in 1964 and it now has a total of 250,761 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Arizona and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionIn the language of the Aztecs mazatzal means "an area inhabited by deer," but just how the word reached Arizona, or what significance it holds, remains somewhat of a mystery. Yes, deer inhabit the area. Yes, evidence shows that humans, among them the Yavapai and Tonto Apache, have exerted their influence here for at least 5,000 years. But there is no indication that the Aztecs themselves ever journeyed to this rough mountainous region. Established as a Primitive Area in 1938, Mazatzal became pre-Wilderness Act "wilderness" in 1940 and one of the original Wilderness Areas in 1964. Narrow, vertical, difficult-to-access canyons fill the central and eastern portions, while the Verde River rolls through the western portion. The rolling riparian terrain along both sides of the Verde constitutes Arizona's only Wild River Area. Given how close Mazatzal is to Mesa, a major population center, this is a remarkably remote and beautiful area. Elevations range from 2,100 feet at Sheep Bridge in the southwest to 7,903 feet on Mazatzal Peak. Sonoran Desert shrubland in the west rises to semidesert grasslands, then mountain shrubs such as manzanita and turbinella oak. The higher elevations support scattered pinion-juniper woodlands and a few ponderosa pines and Douglas fir. With about 240 miles of excellent to poor trails and other hikeable tracks, backpackers should find plenty of routes to trek. The Verde River Trail follows the river for about 28 miles and invites horsepackers. The Mazatzal Divide Trail, the prime north-south route, runs about 29 miles and stays in excellent condition. The scenic Barnhardt Trail, 6.2 miles long, attracts many hikers but is not recommended for horses. Off the trails, you may find hiking impossible. Summer temperatures often reach 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and there is precious little shade to provide relief. Lightning storms are common in July and August. Group size is limited to 15 people and 15 head of livestock. Length of stay is limited to 14 days.
Planning to Visit the Mazatzal Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Mazatzal Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Warner Home Video has just officially announced the Blu-ray 3D Combo, Blu-ray Combo and DVD release of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on 3/19 (SRP $44.95, $35.99 and $22.97). Extras on all three versions will include the New Zealand: Home of Middle Earth documentary, 10 behind-the-scenes video blogs (Start of Production, Location Scouting, Shooting Block One, Filming in 3D, Locations: Part 1, Locations: Part 2, Stone St. Studios Tour, Wrap of Principal Photography, Post-production Overview and Wellington World Premiere), 5 theatrical trailers (Dwarves, Letter Opener, Bilbo Contract, Gandalf Wagers and Gollum Paths) and 3 videogame trailers (for The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-Earth, Guardians of Middle-Earth and Lego The Lord of the Rings). All three versions will also include UltraViolet. Here's a look at the official final cover artwork. Amazon.com pre-orders are expected to start at any moment (we'll update the cover links as soon as they go live)…
In addition, the film be available via digital streaming as early as 3/12. Other important details: Warner Home Video has now officially confirmed that an Extended Edition will be available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD "in time for the holidays." Also, director Peter Jackson will offer fans the first sneak peek at the second film in the trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, in a live streaming event on Sunday, March 24th (at 3:00 PM Eastern/Noon Pacific) on the official website. The film is due in theatres around the world on 12/13/2013.
Stay tuned!
- Bill Hunt


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Client news
Tekelec Ranked #1 Leading Independent Policy Vendor
MORRISVILLE, N.C. — January 24, 2013 —Tekelec leads all independent policy management (PCRF) vendors through the first three quarters of 2012, according to vendor market share calculated by Exact Ventures. The analyst firm's product revenue data through September estimate that Tekelec exceeded the nearest independent vendor's revenues by nearly 60 percent.
For all of 2012, Tekelec won 12 new policy customers. Tekelec policy solutions now serve more than 60 service providers, including more than 50 Tier 1 providers, in 35 countries. The company also has five Tier 1 LTE policy customers in five countries.
In April, the company continued delivering innovations for its Policy Server with a new software release that supports monetization of over-the-top (OTT) applications, advanced shared data plans and location-based LTE services. In September, Tekelec announced a trio of new products that take policy "everywhere" – to mobile devices, analytics data and OTT applications.
Tekelec's Policy Server is a key element of the New Diameter Network, a framework for managing signaling growth and profiting from mobile data. Diameter is the protocol for communications among policy servers, charging systems, mobility and session management and subscriber databases. Other critical components include Tekelec's Diameter Signaling Router (DSR) and Subscriber Data Management products.
Last year, Exact Ventures also named Tekelec the dominant leader of the Diameter Signaling Controller (DSC) market, with 75% – 85% share.
"Tekelec increased its policy server market share and is executing well in this fast growing market. Flexible and scalable policy servers are key for operators as they look to accelerate their time-to-market for new mobile data services," said Greg Collins, founder and principal analyst of Exact Ventures. "In addition, the synergies with Tekelec's Diameter Signaling Router give operators new abilities to manage signaling traffic growth and improve the efficiency of their core network architecture."
"The Diameter Signaling Router and Policy Server are a powerful and unique one-two punch for LTE and 3G mobile data networks," said Houck Reed, vice president of product management and marketing at Tekelec. "The strategic importance of policy and partnerships with over-the-top application providers and mobile advertisers guarantee an increase in Diameter signaling as operators seek new mobile data revenues."
Supporting Resources
Intelligent Policy: The Key To Solving LTE's Unique Challenges white paper
Why Tekelec for Policy: Key Considerations in Selecting a Next-Generation Policy Server
Policy Everywhere: A Strategic Imperative for Digital Lifestyle Providers white paper
Mobile Policy Gateway product brief
Application Manager product brief
Policy Analytics product brief
About Tekelec
Tekelec's intelligent mobile broadband solutions enable service providers to manage and monetize mobile data traffic and evolve to LTE/IMS. We are the architects of the new Diameter network, comprised of session, policy and subscriber data management. More than 300 service providers use our market-leading solutions to deliver cloud, machine-to-machine and personalized services to consumers and enterprises. For more information visit www.tekelec.com.


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This Friday night I spent the evening at home relaxing, watching makeover shows like "10 Years Younger" and "What Not To Wear." I suddenly got the inspiration to clean my makeup brushes. All 20 of them. As I stood in front of the sink for about an hour, gently cleaning each and every brush, I couldn't help but think, "Wow all that was hiding in there? Gross!" I also became well aware of how long I've actually held on to many of these tools and how essential they have become in my routine. I thought I would share my top 5 favorites:
1) MAC Cosmetics #187 Duo Fibre Brush (a.k.a. "skunk brush") – I'm sure you've heard about this beloved face brush and its odd dual texture of dense black goat hair and lighter, fluffier white synthetic hair. This tool is a must with airbrush foundation. I usually spray foundation onto a jar lid or the back of my hand, stipple the white part into the foundation, then "buff" onto my face with light, circular motions. The structure is really unique, as it allows color to be picked up by the softer hairs but supported at the denser base.
2) Bare Escentuals Flawless Face Brush – Having acquired a few of these from various BE "Get Started Kits," I tend to use them a lot. I really love the soft, light, fluffy texture. I have used this brush for mineral makeup but find myself using it for regular applications of face powder more frequently. I use it daily with my Napoleon Pardis Camera Finish Powder Foundation, lightly sweeping across the T zone to eliminate shine. I also use this as a back up blush brush. I find that the shape is perfect for dabbing color onto the apples of the cheeks.
3) Sephora Rounded Smudge Brush – I got this one years ago, when I was much younger and none the wiser. I thought it would be a good crease brush, given the round shape. Every time used it, the bristles were too dense and it almost drew color on, making for a streaky application. Well, duh that's because its made for smudging liner! I'm not sure of when I actually came to my senses, but I started using it to blend creamy liners. I love that I don't have to worry about the application because it will smudge out evenly. Sometimes I simply dip it in a brown shadow, then black and use as a liner. It has helped me create various looks from a natural looking almost-not-there liner to smoldering smoky dark eyes.
4) Stila Double Ended Shadow Brush #30 – After my realization that I still needed a crease brush, I found this this double-ended wonder. It really saves time and space in my makeup bag. After using a flat shadow brush to apply color to the lids, I follow up with a darker one in the crease using the fluffier tapered end of this tool. I then dip the denser, shorter end into a pearly white and use as a highlighter on top of brow bones and in the inner corners of the eyes.
5) Eyelash and Brow Wand by Eyes Lips Face – I am a true believer in the philosophy of "you get what you pay for" especially when it comes to skincare and makeup. Several items from e.l.f. have proven to be the exception. This brush is perfect for brushing brows into place or separating lashes after you apply mascara. I actually lost this, and on a whim ended up replacing it with MAC's #204 Lash Brush for 10 times the price, figuring it would be worth the extra expense because it would be a better brush. Not so. I have found that it performs just the same as M.A.C.'s and holds up to frequent cleaning and "defuzzing."
What are your favorite brushes?


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Another Spanish festival to file alongside our coverage of Primavera and Summercase. But this is something of the daddy…
"Fuck it! I'm gonna have a party!"
So they didn't open this year's* Benicassim, but *Nada Surf's frontman Matthew Caws captures the mood perfectly. And why not? A four-day festival on the hillside. By the beach. Flocks of sun-kissed senoritas, you say? Ole! It's a festival set up like no other - from the sprawling campsite favelas, the daily pilgrimages to the beach and supermarket, and the AM joyrides on the local Go-Kart track. You'd almost be forgiven for forgetting that there happens to be some bands putting on a show.
But then you'd also be a fool. As the sun slides behind the hillside, Nada Surf cast a blanket of melodious pop rock over the Escenario Verde (or main stage) to the delight of the crowd. Their upbeat, sing-along brand of rock sits well and kick-starts the dizzying sense of festival feel good that doesn't abate, even in the face of the grind of scorching midday heat and sun burn.
A quick shimmy over to the Vodafone Fib Club tent... Lightspeed Champion is doing his serious thang. Continuing his musical reincarnation, it's a world away from his Test Icicles days but there remains enough Shoreditch kitsch to merit a fashionista love in, and the tent is subsequently rammed. Happily, there's still enough lackadaisical mischief and cheeky abandon to make for an enthralling show, not that it's too straight-laced, as the elaborate_ Star Wars _cover will testify. And lean back, lean back to...
…The Escenario Verde for the all consuming beauty and ghostly grandeur of* Sigur Rós*. It's a heartbreaking, anguished set - piano and strings cascade over Jón Birgisson's snowy, piercing vocal, melting everything into insignificance. Giant balloons glow white and burn red while Sigur Rós inhabit the moments of introspection, vulnerability, and solitude. Amidst the cavalcade of air raid siren, crashing cymbals and marching band, we collectively gaze wide-eyed and open-mouthed, possibly shedding a tear.
And another part of Spain falls foul of the great British summer inundation.
While you can easily pick out the pasty white Brits on the beach, it seems you can do the same with the bands - Metronomy's Joe Mount a vocal supporter of the shade. Still, that's about the only convention he lives up to. Syncopated and skewed, Metronomy throw together offbeat intensity, multi-instrumental skills and flaunting, awkward dance moves. Falsettos, harmonies and a strong, if random, pop sensibility earmark them as the Backstreet Boys for the indie crowd, and, tonight, as always, they're really quite brilliant. An unnervingly young crowd soon parades a garish glare of glow-sticks and neon face-paint, throwing themselves to warped dance rhythms that almost make this grown man want to don a headband and throw shapes that'd make a mime blush. From the eerie echo of recent single ´Holiday´ _to the abrasive lurch of the rollicking _´You Could Easily Have Me', Metronomy's flamboyance in both moves and music is pretty unrivalled.
Cue the swarm of Beni revellers to cram themselves into the Fiber tent to catch* Hot Chip*'s monstrous 'Girls and Boys'-style free-for-all. The unassuming Alexis Taylor might look like a pint-sized accountant, but he's a mini dynamo; a whirling, wheeling Steve Mason with energy to burn. As big on bass as it is on improvisation, Hot Chip produce a rampant, tub-thumping set that reiterates their position as the most unlikely of electro heroes.
And so we go to welcome tinnitus and embrace a world of potential silence with My Bloody Valentine (pictured), a band of few words and even fewer pleasantries. They do little in the way of spoken introductions but when you can root people to the spot with a set of absolutely apocalyptic sonance, words seem rather wasted. You daren't move, part gazing fascination, part fear that if you look down, you'll see the ground splitting in two. Some look to the heavens but their makers are the motionless spectres on stage. The air hangs heavy and doom laden, the sky blackens and the sonic destruction refuses to relent. How do you move a mountain? You have MBV shake it to its pitiful foundation.
Bathed in white light and drowning in swarming static, Benicassim quivers, shifting nervously in the face of its assailants... and then they're gone, scuttling into the smoky mire while the aftershocks and distant thunder rumbles on... into Erol Alkan. Seeking a slither of respite, we stumble back to the Fiber tent only to be met with two hours of dark, relentless electric pestilence.
Sidestepping both his crossover and Beyond the Wizard's Sleeves personas, Erol has one thing on his mind: to keep the kids dancing. A bassline at Benicassim is the minimum requirement for dizzying hysteria, the smallest excuse for crazed movement. It's little surprise then that Erol orchestrates a fully blown maelstrom of rolling electro and heavy house, taking every opportunity to vacate the decks, milk the adulation and ride the laser rig like a bucking bronco, to the delight of the crowd and the clear distress of a technician.
Easing us into the third day, My Morning Jacket's languid, psychedelic rock 'n' roll spends some time taking root. Constantly churning and shifting, it crashes between head-banging solos and indulgent prog improvisations. Frontman Jim James puts on an enigmatic show, stamping and thrusting when he lets loose, straining every sinew to sing. It's a set that never really settles, as much symptomatic of MMJ's fragmented sound on CD as the free-flowing nature of their live shows, and adds to the contented lethargy of a day spent lazing in the sun.
The Kills don't do contentment; they do dark recesses, confined spaces, suffocation. You'd think they might be a little disconcerted playing in the open air, but their minimal dynamic doesn't suffer for it, packing all the primitive, visceral power you'd expect. They're the two black angels on your shoulder, whispering, encouraging depravity and deviancy. Sinister urges crackle over Jamie Hince's venomous guitar barbs and the dull throb of the bass backing beats. Alison Mosshart storms and stamps, the femme fatale to Hince's wired, wincing presence. The duo's gazing intensity is tangible and makes for a scathing, almost bitter show. Hince's rapier guitar flicks attempt to puncture the heavy clouds of malevolence but it's a losing battle, and one The Kills are happy to lose. So simple in its make up, it's a seedy, seductive display of black eroticism that spits with a desire no one else dares to try and capture.
The sparse nature of The Kills set only serves to emphasize the epic grandiosity of The Raconteurs. Harking back to an age of simplicity, where blues, roots and straight rock 'n' roll where the music staple, they're well-oiled and spectacularly pitch-perfect. It's a performance main stages were built for. Jack White's alive and amplified, the agitated, bug-eyed foil to Brendan Benson's reserved cool. Blazes of rock 'n' roll and searing solos are thrashed out loud and proud and it's invigorating to see and hear. It's a band in the truest sense: Benson and White seamlessly pass lead vocals, the ex-Greenhornes (Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence) throw themselves into their roles and it's all so, well, effortless. ´Consolers of the Lonely´ holds itself as one of their finest songs to date, ´Steady As She Goes´ _sends a shockwave through the crowd as litres of beer rain down on unsuspecting heads, and ´Salute Your Solution´_ is ripped through with a frenzy of energy. To the rousing delirium of Benicassim, The Raconteurs stride to centre stage to take a worthy bow after a superlative, complete performance.
And so, with the end but a few glorious hours away, The National see us through an hour of majesty. Intricate and downbeat, they inspire a private devotion. Matt Berninger's meandering poetic journey through his psyche is glorious abetted by musicians with classic, complex ears. The National don't just create music, they craft layered arrangements, mini-operas wrought with emotion, every song a painstaking investment. Berninger serves as the outlet for the frustration, the anger, the bursts of passion, the focal point for striding out of the delicate boundaries and offering a panoramic view of personal disconsolation and discovery. ´Abel´ rasps with intensity, ´Squalor Victoria´ casts off its shackles, and The National close the last show of their own tour with an urgent, vitalising ´Mr November´ to complete a purposeful, graceful performance from a band at their peak.
Justice. Two twin Marshall stacks the size of a small bungalow. One tent.
Disaster? Destruction. With the all the grand pomposity of Spinal Tap meets Daft Punk, Justice's stage set up might look decorative but it's like antagonising the school bully and then looking to remedy the situation with constructive discourse. Justice are hellbent on causing carnage, their intention is to decimate. And that they do, meting out meaty fists of merciless, rough electro punishment. It's abrasive, obnoxious, penetration of the most ferocious kind, designed to remorselessly violate. ´Waters of Nazareth´ is unrelentingly bullish, ´DANCE´ is as close to a sing-along as we get before we're reduced to mere shells after another electronic laceration, and ´DVNO´ merits a near-total collapse. As Justice stand centre stage in the midst of another breakdown, the Marshall stacks casting an imposing backlit shadow, in a neon coup de grace, glow-sticks rain down as roses might at an opera. Even after they've taken their leave, the masses continue to howl and bay, wandering dazed and sweating ´We Are Your Friends´ resonating in the open air.
Find the official Benicassim website here.


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On Wednesday morning, February 10, Derek and I had a quick phone interview with Katherine Schulten, editor of the Times Learning Network. Katherine has ten years experience teaching English in Brooklyn and even more experience as a writer. She had great insight to share about the prospect of educating kids in NYC schools.
A Community of Teachers
The Learning Network at the New York Times strives to facilitate a community of passionate teachers and students. Katherine pointed to it many times as an example of a level-agnostic forum for kids, parents, teachers and others to find educational information and to share their experiences. When the site was redesigned a few years ago, it transitioned from a static website to a blog format to allow two-way, active communication between the Times and its readers.
In discussing our project's goals, we have extensively debated whether to focus on middle school students, who are typically pursuing more general studies, and high school students, who will be more focused on career choices. When we asked Katherine about the differences between the two groups, she implored us to consider a level-less program, keeping in mind that a good lesson will provide something of value to students of any age.
Classroom Experience
Katherine recommended that we sit in on a few classes to get a good idea of what classrooms are like today. It's been quite awhile since any of us have been in a K–12 class, so doing a small ethnographic study is a great idea. We were told to observe teachers, who are trained not only to deliver an educational experience, but also to manage a classroom. The latter in particular was something Katherine identified as an important skill to learn before we enter the classroom.
Katherine had great advice to be transparent with kids. It's okay to tell them we're new at teaching and to solicit feedback after our lessons.
One of the easiest secrets to engaging kids in the content we are presenting is to make it hands-on. (This shouldn't be too hard with interaction design and prototyping!) Katherine mentioned an education method, "activating schema," that exploits the idea that no child comes to the classroom without any prior experience. Everyone has an existing framework in his or her head, and it's okay to acknowledge that and even use it to frame the lesson we will teach. She suggested breaking the ice by having kids talk about their past experiences with the content we will present; a definite nod to the impact and power of storytelling.
She also mentioned that kids are pretty familiar with the idea of "mapping." It's something they're taught to do in some of their other classes already. Derek and I are thinking this could be a natural jumping point for some of the more complex or abstract material.
The Big Challenge
One of the best pieces of experience Katherine shared with us is the idea that to be truly engaged, kids have to want to learn what you are teaching. If you ask adults to identify their most memorable learning experiences, you may find that they had some sort of emotional connection with the class material that was taught. If we can find a way to make interaction design relevant on this level, we're positive we'll be able to make an impact.
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On the polyhedral inapproximability of the SDP cone
I was at HPOPT in Delft last week which was absolutely great and I would like to thank Mirijam Dür and Frank Vallentin for the organization and providing us with such an inspirational atmosphere. I talked On the complexity of polytopes and extended formulations which was based on two recent papers (see [1] and [2] below) which are joint work with Gábor Braun, Samuel Fiorini, Serge Massar, David Steurer, Hans Raj Tiwary and Ronald de Wolf. One of the question that came up repeatedly was the statement for the inapproximability of the SDP cone via Linear Programming and its consequences. This is what this brief post will be about; I simplify and purposefully imprecise a few things for the sake of exposition.
For a closed convex body containing there is a natural notion of appoximating within a factor of with . We can simplify define . This notion is compatible with the notion of approximating the maximum value of a (say, nonnegative) linear objective from the outside over within a factor of . For this observe that
What one can show now is that there exists a pair polyhedra where is the correlation polytope (also called boolean quadric polytope) and is given by the valid inequalities for all . This pair of polyhedra has the property that for any other polyhedron so that it follows that one needs a super-polynomial number of inequalities in any extended formulation of and can be here as large as with . This follows from a modification of Razborov's well-known rectangle corruption lemma.
On the other hand, there exists a spectrahedron sandwiched between and , i.e., where is the projection of an affine space intersected with the cone of psd matrices. In particular . Now, if is a polyhedron so that it follows that needs a super polynomial number of inequalities in any extended formulation for any with . In consequence, there exists a spectrahedron with small SDP extension complexity that cannot be well approximated by any polyhedron. If now the SDP cone could be approximated well (in sense similar to the one for the SOCP cone, see [3]), so could this particular spectrahedron. This is inapproximability is in contrast to the case of SOCP cone which can be approximated arbitrarily well with a polynomial number of inequalities (see [3] for a precise statement). (Note that we can add the nonnegativity constraints to obtain the same statements for polytopes in order to resolve unboundedness issues.)
Concerning the consequences of this statement. First of all it suggests that the expressive power of SDPs can exponentially stronger than the power of linear programs, in the sense that while you need an exponential number of inequalities, a polynomial size SDP formulation can exist. Moreover, it might suggest that for some optimization problems, the optimal approximation ratio might not be attainable via linear programming but with semidefinite programming. What should be also mentioned is that in practice many SDPs can be typically solved rather well with first-order methods (there were several amazing talks at HPOPT discussing recent developments).
- Linear vs. Semidefinite Extended Formulations: Exponential Separation and Strong Lower Bounds
Samuel Fiorini, Serge Massar, Sebastian Pokutta, Hans Raj Tiwary, Ronald de Wolf
Proceedings of STOC (2012)
- Approximation Limits of Linear Programs (Beyond Hierarchies)
Gábor Braun, Samuel Fiorini, Sebastian Pokutta, David Steurer
To appear in Proceedings of FOCS (2012)
- On polyhedral approximations of the second-order cone
Aharon Ben-Tal, Arkadi Nemirovski
Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 26 no. 2, 193-205 (2001)


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I like the current ownership. At least they listen to the fans and make changes.
(1) Renovating the Upper Deck
(2) Always trying for players to help in a pennant push
(3) Building Bacardi at the Park
A few things the Sox could change...
(1) Limiting Upper Deck ticket holders to the Upper Deck. I've been to many ballparks and the Sox are the only team I know that does this. Of course..if you buy a ticket for the Upper Deck..you should not be able to sit in the lower deck. However..there is no reason you should not be able to access the concourse of the Lower Deck. To me..this would be like shutting off the streets of the Gold Coast to anyone who does not live there. If you don't live in the Gold Coast..you have no right to enter one of the homes there..but you certainly have the right to see the neighborhood. That is how a lot of fans feel about the Upper Deck policy. The haves and have nots. Same thing goes for the private parties on the fan deck. I bought a friend to his first Sox game..we were not allowed to enter Fundamentals or the Fan Deck (private party). He asks me "maybe they should put signs for areas we can go to?". It left a potential newcomer to Sox future Sox games with a bad taste in his mouth. How much money did the Sox make with closing off the fan deck for a private party..but how many fans may not go back because they were restricted to yet another area of the ballpark?
One of the nice advantages the Cell always had over Wrigley was the spaciousness and the fact you could wander around the park and see different areas. That's what I always loved most about going to Sox games. Even Cubs fans used to tell me this. However..each year..it seems another area that was open to all fans has now been closed off for a small group. I can say it has decreased the amount of games I attend each year. Why are the Sox removing an advantage they once had over Wrigley?
I totally agree with your last point. You can still have ushers at the top of walkways for the lower level seats, that check for ticket stubs religiously, to make sure that only people with LL seats are sitting there. But to not even allow people to walk around on the LL is just over the top.
For me, the bottom line is this. Certain owners are known as people who actually like their fans and want to get more of them to come and buy their product. I don't view JR as one of those guys.
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An elderly Old Town woman leading a horse across a road and the girl on the horse were killed in Dixie County Tuesday night when they were hit by a driver who told authorities he did not see them.
Dixie County on Wednesday was dealing with a double tragedy — the deaths of a longtime school custodian and a 10-year-old girl who were hit by a motorist while the woman was leading the girl on a horse across a road Tuesday night.
Killed were Minnie Melba Delaney, 86, of the Old Town area, and her neighbor, Emma Maria Mercado, 10, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
"It's just a tragedy," said Dixie County School Superintendent Mark Rains. "Miss Melba had kind of taken the girl under her wing. From what I hear, the girl would come over from time to time and Miss Melba would lead her around on a horse."
Delaney was a longtime custodian in Dixie County schools while Emma and her parents had only recently moved to the county, said law enforcement and school officials.
The accident happened about 6:08 p.m. on Dixie County Road 55A just south of Old Town. Delaney was leading the horse across the road with Emma on it. They were hit by John Henry Mash, 39, driving a 2002 Ford Windstar minivan eastbound, FHP reported.
Delaney died at the scene while Emma was airlifted to Shands at the University of Florida in critical condition. She died at 12:07 a.m. Wednesday, FHP reported.
FHP Sgt. Tracy Pace said Delaney and Emma were neighbors. She added that the horse also was killed.
Mash told FHP he did not see the horse when he was driving.
"It was dark. They were crossing into his path and he saw a flash," Pace said. "There was no speeding involved. He submitted to a voluntary blood test but they do not suspect impairment."
Charges are pending the outcome of the investigation.
Delaney had been a custodian at Dixie County High School before retiring more than a decade ago, Rains said.
Emma enrolled in Old Town Elementary School shortly after Thanksgiving. Rains and Dixie County sheriff's Maj. Scott Harden said they believe her parents had moved to the county from North Carolina.
Harden said a 17-year-old sister of Emma was still in North Carolina and having difficulty making it to Florida on a train because her photo identification is with her mother in Dixie County.
Harden added he remembered Delaney from her work at the school.
"She was always doing something. She had cows and horses, and was always working with livestock, even when she was at the school," Harden said.


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Newburgh, N.Y. – The Farmingdale State women's basketball team lost their first game of the season as they fell, 68-43, on the road at Mount Saint Mary. The Rams finished the regular season 23-1 overall, 17-1 in the Skyline Conference. The Blue Knights improved to 21-4, 17-1 in the Skyline.
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Farmingdale senior Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker) brought the Rams back to within 14 in the opening minutes of the second half, but they would get no closer. The Knights pushed their lead to as many as 32 went on to a 68-43 victory.
Senior Shannon Sangster (Syracuse, N.Y.) led Mount Saint Mary with 16 points on 8-of-18 shooting. Biordi had 12 points and 8 rebounds, while Hartnett grabbed a game-high 12 boards to go along with her 7 points.
Blakney, the country's leading scorer, tallied 19 points and 11 rebounds.
Mount Saint Mary set the tone early with their defense. The Knights limited Farmingdale to just three field goals in the first half (3-of-29, 10.3-percent), and continued the pressure in the second. The Rams finished the game shooting just 21.0-percent from the field and 10.5-percent from three.
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The incident involved three men and a woman.
Several agencies responded to the lake around 11:30 p.m. The initial report was that boats were ramming each other and there was a possible stabbing victim.
State Parks Ranger Evan Walter said in a phone call Monday that the stabbing report proved unfounded.
Authorities had to wade through several different stories about what took place, he said.
Walter said investigators eventually determined two vessels, each with two people aboard, had rammed into each other, leading to a fight and two people overboard.
Butte County sheriff"s deputies and Paradise police assisted and were on scene by the time the State Parks investigators arrived.
Walter said deputies located one of the boats involved, got it docked and detained a 37-year-old man and 33-year-old woman aboard. The man was later arrested on suspicion of boating under the influence.
The two men in the water, both in their 30s, were located shortly before the patrol boat arrived. They were rescued, but the second boat had drifted away.
Walter said authorities weren"t able to determine who was operating the second boat.
The boat that was docked was a small aluminum fishing boat. The other vessel was a fiberglass speedboat.
Based on reports, the operator of the fishing boat was the aggressor and rammed into the speedboat, Walter said. The operator of the second boat responded and rammed the fishing boat. Lack of damage to the boats indicated both vessels appeared to be going at a slower speed, Walter said.
It"s unclear how the physical fight started, or how two of the men ended up in the water.
"When the boats were hitting each other, one may have jumped into the water, or into the boat and then the water," he said. "We can"t get clear statements. Alcohol was a contributing factor."
Some injuries were sustained in the fight. One person was taken to Feather River Hospital in Paradise with injuries from the fight.
All four people declined to press charges for the fight, the ranger said.
Walter said it will be left up to the District Attorney"s Office how the man arrested will be charged.
Laws regarding boating under the influence are in the harbor navigation code. A BUI charge doesn"t affect a person"s driver"s license, but can lead to possible jail time and fines, Walter said.
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Eden Hazard was facing an extended ban for kicking out at a ball boy after the Football Association charged him over his sending-off in Chelsea's Capital One Cup exit at Swansea.
Belgian playmaker Hazard was already set to serve an automatic three-match suspension for his red card in Wednesday night's semi-final second leg at the Liberty Stadium, but the FA deemed that "insufficient" punishment for the offence, prompting an additional charge on Friday afternoon.
An FA statement read: "The FA has charged Chelsea's Eden Hazard following his side's League Cup semi-final at Swansea on January 23, 2013."
The statement continued: "It is alleged that Hazard's behaviour in relation to a Swansea ball boy, for which the player was dismissed in the 78th minute, constituted violent conduct whereby the standard punishment that would otherwise apply was clearly insufficient.
"The player has until 6pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 to respond to the charge. The FA will remind all clubs of their responsibilities in ensuring ball boys and other personnel around the pitch act in an appropriate manner at all times and will liaise with competitions accordingly."
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The Belgian lost patience when Swansea ball boy Charlie Morgan refused to hand over the ball after it had gone out for a goal kick. Morgan fell to the ground as Hazard attempted to get the ball from him, with the 22-year-old then kicking it from under him.
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Of all the things in the world to argue about ... Imagine a knock-down, drag-out fight between divorced parents over what age to baptize the children. I mean, really, who wants to read about that?
Me, me, me!
There, I admitted it. Please feel free to think less of me now.
Seriously, I was intrigued by a recent Associated Press story concerning a Tennessee Court of Appeals ruling in just such a case:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Shelby County mother faces contempt-of-court charges and possible jail time for baptizing her two children without the knowledge or consent of her ex-husband.
This week the Tennessee Court of Appeals said Lauren Jarrell must face a criminal contempt hearing for violating a court order that said major decisions regarding the religious upbringing of her two children should be made jointly with the children's father.
I kept reading, curious to learn more about the specific religious beliefs of each parent:
Both parents are Christian. Emmett Blake Jarrell, the father, is a member of the United Methodist Church, and she's a Presbyterian.
The father, according to court records, thought the children should be baptized when they are older and better able to understand the significance of the baptismal ceremony. The couple, according to court records, had even consulted a minister when they were married because they couldn't agree what age was best for the kids to be baptized. Records show the children will be 5 and 7 next month.
As the story proceeds, it quotes legal experts who disagree on whether the case involves (a) judges "treading into the forbidden territory of deciding spiritual doctrine" or (b) a court simply "upholding the law when a parent is accused of flagrantly violating a court order."
AP quotes the judge who wrote the ruling as well as attorneys who weigh in on the decision. (Interestingly, I recognized the name of the judge, Alan Highers, who is a leader among Churches of Christ, which believe in baptism at the age of accountability.)
While the story highlights legal sources, AP fails to include the voices of any ministers or religious leaders who might help readers understand the theological differences involved.
Curious about the case, I decided to read the full court ruling online.
The ruling notes that both the father and mother attended Christ United Methodist Church in Memphis before their divorce. The beliefs section of that church's website voices concern about the general direction of the United Methodist denomination and stresses the local congregation's "orthodox" beliefs.
After the divorce, the mother (and presumably the children) began attending Independent Presbyterian Church in Memphis, which is "an evangelical congregation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America," according to its website.
So you've got two Memphis megachurches that — on the surface — each appear to adhere to certain traditional Christian beliefs. But where do they stand on baptizing children?
Two words not mentioned in the AP story figure prominently in the court decision: "infant baptism." According to the court, infant baptism is required at Independent Presbyterian Church. So ... who baptized the children? Did church leaders press the issue? Did they know about the father's concerns? Would those concerns have mattered? Inquiring readers want to know.
Wait, there's more in the legal papers:
Mother asserts that harm could not be shown because Father acknowledged that the Methodist Church "may" also believe in infant baptism, that the children did not fully comprehend the baptisms, that he had not contacted anyone in the Methodist Church to confirm his belief that the children could not be re-baptized, and that he believed infant baptism merely symbolized a parent's commitment to raise a child in the church.
So what does Christ United Methodist Church teach concerning baptism? Again, the story makes no attempt to answer that question.
There appears to be a juicy religion story here. Unfortunately, AP tells only a small portion of it.
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