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Dell's tablet roadmap has been leaked by a very reliable tipster along with Dell Android Smartphones and Dell Windows Phones, and it appears that there are four new Android tablets in the works. According to the roadmap, we should expect the Dell Gallo, a Honeycomb tablet, sometime around April of this year. That will be followed by the Dell Sterling, running Honeycomb in Q4. We also have the Dell Opus One and Dell Silver Oak (best name ever!) for sometime in Q1 of 2012. The roadmap makes mention that these 2012 tablets will be running Honeycomb as well, but we wouldn't be surprised if that ends up changing. True hardcore tablet lovers will note that the Gallo is set to receive a "Handwriting" update in Q4, while the Streak 7 may get an update in Q3.
Heck, it's out our bag, but Dell also has Windows 7 tablets planned under the codenames Rosemount and Peju.
We'll be very interested to see what Dell brings to the table with these four Android tablets, and as soon as we know more you can read it here.
Be sure to check out the Dell 2011 Android Smartphones and the Dell 2011 Windows Phone roadmap!
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Greg McElroy is fourth on a Jets quarterback depth chart that will only have three names on it when the season starts, but he's not looking at the next four months as an insurmountable challenge.
Instead, McElroy told Conor Orr of the Star-Ledger that he thinks competing with Mark Sanchez, David Garrard, Geno Smith and Matt Simms will be a lot of fun.
"It's great obviously, I know competition brings out the best in everybody," McElroy said. "I know everyone is looking forward to the competition."
McElroy said he has no complaints about Jets G.M. John Idzik drafting Smith, and he'll welcome Smith to the Jets' quarterback room.
"I don't pay much attention to the draft I know Mr. Idzik and everyone involved has a tremendous plan and has the best interest of the organization in their mind," he said. "We're all looking forward to having the competition."
Realistically, McElroy has an uphill battle to make the team: Smith will definitely make the roster, Sanchez's contract makes it unlikely he'll be released, and Garrard seems to be the guy Idzik wants to bring some veteran stability at the quarterback position. That means McElroy is going to have a tough time getting enough practice reps to prove himself, but he says he's not sweating it.
"You don't worry about everything, you go out there with the reps you're given and that's all you an control," McElroy said.
To prove he deserves a roster spot with the limited reps McElroy will get, he's going to have to be great.


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Paying member here having some issues with listings.
Schedules direct is working beautifully for my FiOS lineups here in Massachusetts, EXCEPT for one channel.
My fiance is Brazilian, so we added the Rede Globo TV Internacional channel to our TV package (xmltvid 21065) at the ridiculous price of $20/month for one SD channel :p
The listings data is accurate content-wise, but start and stop times are terribly inaccurate, usually varying +/- 10 minutes, but sometimes as much as +/- 30 minutes making DVR recordings pretty much a joke. Whenever I schedule anything for recording on this channel I have to manually override and tell it to start 30min early and end 30min late, and then do a lot of fast forwarding when watching it.
I'm figuring this is probably more of a channel issue than a Schedules Direct issue (the Brazilians are culturally notoriously bad at adhering to schedules), but I figured I'd report it none the less, and see what you guys say.
If there IS a fix for this it would be a beautiful thing, as right now my MythTV setup (an IT work of art with a networked six channel tuner, dedicated virtualized backend, and a couple of frontends running in both Linux and Windows) is making me look badly, as it isn't working as expected :p


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Power play comes alive in Sharks' 2-1 winby Eric Gilmore
SAN JOSE -- San Jose Sharks coach Todd McLellan has been preaching the importance to his slumping team of taking more shots and putting more pressure on opposing goaltenders.
Message received.
The Sharks unleashed 39 shots -- 16 in the first period alone -- in a 2-1 victory Saturday night against the Nashville Predators at HP Pavilion.
Dan Boyle and Joe Pavelski scored power-play goals for the Sharks, and goaltender Antti Niemi made 18 saves as San Jose beat Nashville for the first time in three tries this season.
"It was received," McLellan said. "We played hard. That message had been there for five years. It was just a matter of reminding them. The shooting part is great. But it's the re-attacking of the net, it's getting to the blue paint, it's doing it over and over again. I think our players are prepared to shoot the puck. But you have to shoot, get it back and do it again."
The Sharks took a 2-0 lead into the final period, but Nashville's Gabriel Bourque scored a shorthanded goal at 14:30 in the third, cutting San Jose's lead in half.
The puck got past Sharks rookie defenseman Matt Irwin in the neutral zone along the left boards, and Bourque jumped on it. He streaked toward Niemi on a breakaway, faked right then beat Niemi the other way.
The Sharks withstood a furious push in the final minutes to secure the win and jump from eighth to fifth place in the Western Conference with 24 points, one more than Nashville, which dropped from sixth to eighth.
"So it was a huge win, against a team that was in front of us," said Sharks captain Joe Thornton, who had two assists, giving him 1,100 points for his career, 56th on the National Hockey League's all-time list. "We played good hockey at home. Now we just got to take it on the road."
Before facing Nashville, the Sharks had just three power-play goals in their previous 59 chances over 14 games. They came up empty on their first power play Saturday before Boyle put the puck in the net for his third goal of the season -- all on power plays. The Sharks scored multiple power-play goals for the first time since scoring two on Jan. 27 in a 4-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks.
"If you get that many shots, you're bound to score more goals," said Sharks forward Logan Couture, who had two assists. "We had a lot of good looks, a lot of wraps and jams, which we wanted to going into tonight, and we need to build off that. They're a good defensive team, Nashville. They got a great goalie. So if we get 40 shots every night, I think we're going to score more than two."
The Predators had defeated the Sharks twice this season before Saturday night's game -- 2-1 in a shootout on Feb. 2 at HP Pavilion and 1-0 on Feb. 12 in overtime at Nashville. Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne stopped 51 of 52 shots in those two wins -- as well as all three shots he faced in the shootout.
This time, the Sharks put two shots past Rinne and sent Nashville to its fourth loss in its past five games.
The Sharks outshot the Predators 16-6 in the first period and built a 1-0 lead on Boyle's power-play goal with 2:32 left in the first with Kevin Klein in the box for slashing Couture.
Boyle took a pass near the blue line from Thornton and ripped a shot that got through traffic and past Rinne. The fact that Predators penalty killer Paul Gaustad had lost his stick improved Boyle's odds of scoring -- so did that fact that Pavelski had planted himself in front of Rinne.
"The two penalties we took were unnecessary and we didn't kill them," Nashville coach Barry Trotz said. "They scored within about 25 seconds (on) each (of) the penalties. Especially on the second goal. We knew they were a fast start team. We knew they were going to throw a lot of pucks at the net. That was stated by their team management and coaches. We had to get through that first period. They jumped on us early and got zone time.
"On the first power play, it was Gaustad. His stick broke off the draw and they just shot the puck with a screen. And the second one was down low. It was a 2-on-2 battle. We lost position and we were a little soft. The guy just came around because we had lost the low battle and the guy just came around the net and chipped it over his pads. It was a battle and broken stick that cost us the game."
Nashville nearly scored a shorthanded goal on San Jose's first power play. Martin Erat had the puck on a breakaway, but Niemi made a pad save of his shot that stayed low.
In the second period, the Sharks kept the pressure on, outshooting Nashville 14-6. Pavelski gave San Jose a 2-0 lead with a power-play goal at 9:12 of the second with Ryan Ellis in the penalty box for tripping Andrew Desjardins.
From behind the net, Couture reached out and poked the puck toward Pavelski, who got position inside of Klein near the crease. Pavelski ripped a shot past Rinne, inside the left post, for his seventh goal of the season.
"We haven't had a good penalty kill on the road," Rinne said. "Tonight they got two on their power play and that's a credit to them. I thought for the most part we did a pretty good job on PK but we just have to find a way to win these games. Everything is so crucial now. I don't any of us were very happy tonight by how we played. We didn't play the way we wanted to play."
Both teams entered the game mired in offensive slumps. The Predators ranked last in the League at 2.05 goals per game, while the Sharks were 26th at 2.21. San Jose had scored 15 goals in its previous 12 games, going 2-6-4 during that span. The Predators were coming off a 5-1 loss Wednesday to the Anaheim Ducks and had been shut out in two of their three games before that, although they did score five goals in an overtime win against the Dallas Stars.
"I thought maybe the offense dominated the game," McLellan said. "Our offensive play was much better. We played in their zone a lot more. We had a lot of offensive zone faceoffs, a lot of second chances in and around the net and as a result you don't have to play in our end as much. When we were there we played pretty well. Some of their best chances came on some miscues on our power play, a couple of young players, but we'll throw them right back out there and make sure they're better."


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Feeling tired? How about a nice rest on some blobby furniture that looks and feels like real human flesh, such as "a chair meant to mimic a squishy roll of fat and footstools that resemble deformed testes"? UK artist Gigi Barker of studio 9191 has created a furniture collection called "A Body of Skin" that not only feels and looks like realistic skin, but also smells like a human body – Barker impregnated the silicon skin with the pheromones and after shave of models she used during the construction of the pieces. To design her work, she first studies the body, drawing abstracted shapes inspired by its form. Barker then sculpts a clay model before casting a life-size version in silicon. After the silicon is infused with human smell, Barker lays moulding leather on the form, completing the imitation. She tells Wired, "I have my own personal relationship with it which is based on my own personal history. Just as someone else will…I think this project is more about the people and the bodies rather than the skin itself. That being said as a project it's interesting how reactionary it is given it's essentially silicone and leather shapes, which shouldn't inherently be. This speaks a lot therefore to the emotional associations attached to the work."
Barker also notes that children have been especially taken with her work: "Without any of the hang ups we later develop, they are free to truly explore and interact with the work. Work regarding the human body is very personal and we all have a very immediate reaction to it so the reactions have reflected this."
Barker's fleshy furniture challenges our perceptions of the bodies of ourselves and others – her interactive sculptures are both discomfiting and comfortably familiar. (via wired and new york magazine)


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Chemical Engineering Stars Win National Research Awards
SOCORRO, N.M. December 7, 2009 – Two seniors in chemical engineering won awards for their research presentations at the American Institute of Chemical Engineering conference in Nashville in November.
|Kaoutar Abbou Oucherif (left) and Caitlin Allen won awards for their research presentations at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers conference in Nashville in November.
Kaoutar "Coco" Abbou Oucherif won first place in computing and process control. Caitlin Allen won a second place award in environmental engineering.
Their academic advisor at New Mexico Tech, Dr. Michaelann Tartis, said she was not surprised that Abbou Oucherif and Allen won awards.
"They both spent a lot of time and effort on their summer internships," she said. "And they both put a lot of effort into creating their posters."
Tartis said both students are among the best at Tech and they were deserving of their prestigious opportunities they had last summer.
Abbou Oucherif presented research she completed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich during the summer of 2009. Her work involved using several image processing and process monitoring technologies to provide systematic, sensitive, robust and low-complexity solutions for nucleation detection using bulk video imaging, a novel technique designed to detect when nucleation begins in solution.
She worked with internship advisor, Dr. Levente Simon of ETH in Switzerland, and professor Zoltan K. Nagy from Loughborough University in England. Abbou Oucherif used external video cameras and endoscopes to produce videos of the crystallization process of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Abbou Oucherif then used a simulation software —Matlab — to apply multivariate image analysis, histogram matching, and process control charts to detect nucleation.
"This process works and it is robust. Some pharmaceutical companies in the U.K. and Germany already showed interest in applying our technology" she said.
Her poster received accolades for the novel concept, the video processing and the analysis. She has co-authored a paper on this work, which will be published soon.
A native of Morocco, Abbou Oucherif was a Macey Scholar in 2008-2009. She will graduate this month and begin a doctoral program at Purdue University in January.
Allen, also a Macey Scholar in 2009-2010, presented research she conducted during summer internships through Sandia National Laboratories at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project, or WIPP, a low-level radioactive waste facility, near Carlsbad, her hometown.
Her research investigated the magnesium oxide engineered barrier, designed to limit actinide solubility by sequestering carbon dioxide produced from degradation of the waste. Allen's task was to determine the kinetics and rate law of CO2 ¬¬sequestration by MgO in brine, similar to conditions expected at WIPP.
Allen expects to graduate in May 2010 and hopes to enroll in graduate school to pursue a doctorate in chemical engineering.
Both students said the conference represents an excellent opportunity for students to interact with professionals and graduate schools. The weeklong event included thousands of professionals and more than 220 student presenters.
While presenting research at the 2008 conference, Abbou Oucherif was offered the internship in Switzerland.
"If I hadn't gone to the AIChE conference, I wouldn't have been able to go to Zurich," she said. "More students should go to these conferences."
Students who attend the AIChE conference receive special perks, including application fee waivers to many graduate schools.
"These conferences have given me some of my favorite, most memorable experiences," Allen said. "I've met and networked with a lot of graduate schools and colleagues in the field, which has, and will continue, to help me in my future career."
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|Stockton Mine (photo from Solid Energy)
It does seem as though my lack of first hand experience is an impediment, and that in this area at least, my imagination alone is inadequate for the task I set it. I have visited one open cast bauxite mine, at Weipa in Queensland Australia, but that was before I knew to look for what I would now. That visit was certainly seminal in making mining such a priority for me, but the tour bus had filthy, heavily scratched windows, and my memory (and few photographs) are similarly hazy.
|My best photo of Weipa's bauxite mine, taken through scratched and dirty bus windows. Bauxite sits on top of the earth at Weipa, they just scrape off 10m or so and then 'landscape' the much lower ground behind them.
Last night I went along to a talk about plans to mine Denniston Plateau in the South Island of New Zealand. Over recent months I have read all I can, focused in on Google Earth from every angle, sought out every image of Denniston and its sister Stockton Plateau where open cast mining has been underway for many years. My poor brain has felt as dull and dim as the Weipa bus windows in trying to visualise Denniston and Stockton. But listening to Kevin Hackwell of Forest and Bird speak, while seeing his beautiful slides projected large and clear, was like knocking that opaque window out of the frame and seeing through clear air at last.
Finally, I can make sense of the geology of the Plateaus- tipped and cracked into different angles as they are, they still share the relatively shallow but very hard sandstone cap on top of high grade coal. I could see with my own eyes the 80m tip of Mt Augustus being bulldozed into rubble and tipped down into the fertile, wild valley below. I could see the boundaries of the conservation land that includes the Plateaus.
I was completely engaged through the early part of the presentation, utterly entranced by the unusual ecosystem that clings to the exposed rocky top of the plateaus; the snails, the birds, the crayfish all intriguing. Then the first slide showing Stockton's open cast operation flashed up and I felt a thrill through my body that seemed at odds with the groans of dismay uttered by the grey-haired greenies that filled the audience around me. For me though, seeing the mining so clearly, and so well contextualised, was utterly compelling, fascinating and exciting as well as horrifying. Finally I could make sense of the light and shadow, the shades of rock, the textures of each layer as the overburden is scraped away to reveal the thick rich black seam below.
Kevin had extraordinary stories to flesh out the images before us. The tenuous consent to mine nearby Happy Valley was granted at the last minute based on Solid Energy's spontaneous offer to roll up the wetlands and store them for a few years, then reinstate once all the coal had been removed(!). A case has been taken by investors in the Australian Stock Exchange against Bathurst for misinformation in their prospectus for mining Denniston. Bizarre and possibly futile efforts to relocate the unique carnivorous snail from Mt Augustus before it was decapitated. The mysterious jewel-like flatworm, unknown to science, found by contractors during the snail removal, whose photograph has been suppressed by Solid Energy. Our new government reversing its promise to publicly notify the access agreement that allows Bathurst to mine on Conservation land, just two days after last years election.
Biking home after the talk, under the moon rising golden and swollen in a halo of little clouds, my mind was full of the stories and images of Denniston and Stockton. What had been a nagging ache of desire to visit there was simultaneously sated and inflamed. I am full of ideas and eager to begin making confident at last that I know what to do, but it also seems even more urgent to find a way to fund a field trip to see for myself. The urgency is not just to feed my creative hunger, but also because this year is the turning point for Denniston. Consent has been granted, but will be appealed to the Environment Court (and possibly beyond) this winter. If the appeals lose all the way, mining could begin on Denniston next summer. It is a crucial time for public activism and thus raising public awareness. If my planned textile works can help raise public awareness to positive effect, then I want them not to be too late.


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Microsoft Corp's forthcoming update to its personal computer operating system will be called Windows 8.1 and will be available later this year free to existing Windows 8 customers, the marketing chief for the Windows unit said on Tuesday.
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Skip to comments.HISPANICKED GOP ELITE: They'll respect us in the morning
Posted on 02/24/2013 7:36:00 AM PST by dennisw
Don't anyone tell Marco Rubio, John McCain or Jeff Flake that nearly 80 percent of Hindus voted for Obama, or who knows what they'll come up with.
I understand the interest of business lobbies in getting cheap, unskilled labor through amnesty, but why do Republican officeholders want to create up to 20 million more Democratic voters, especially if it involves flouting the law? Are the campaign donations from the soulless rich more important than actual voters?
Without citing any evidence, the Rubio Republicans simply assert that granting 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens amnesty will make Hispanics warm to the GOP. Yes, that's worked like a charm since Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986!
True, Romney lost the Hispanic vote, but so did John McCain, the original Rubio. (McCain lost Hispanics by 67 percent compared to 71 percent who voted against Romney.)
President George H.W. Bush created "diversity visas," massively increased legal immigration and eliminated the English requirement on the naturalization test. In the 1992 election, he won 25 percent of the Hispanic vote -- less than what Romney got.
Although Hispanic politicians, spokesmen and TV networks benefit from Rubio's mass legalization scheme, there's no evidence that Hispanic voters care very much about it.
Amnesty never shows up in polls as a top concern of Hispanics. It's a top concern of employers, not workers -- which isn't going to do much to help Republicans shed that "Party of the Rich" image. After Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986, unemployment among Hispanics skyrocketed when, suddenly, there was increased competition for low-skill jobs. That's precisely why businesses want amnesty, not because of their deep concern for the plight of the underclass.
How's this for an idea: Why don't Republicans remind Hispanic voters that the more low-skilled immigrants who are admitted, the lower their wages will be? That at least has the virtue of being untried.
MORE at the source...Ann Coulter website http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-02-20.html
Ann seems to have zigged back to the right now that Romney and Christie both face-planted last fall. Curious to see where she goes from here.
Same as Anne Coulter, I voted for and supported Romney-Ryan. No way was I going to sit it out due to Romney being too liberal. Not when Obama is a communist-socialist-Muslim agenda supporter
pass that immigration bill and in 2014 get ready for a huge democrat victory in the house....and it won't be because of hispanic voters
Young Hispanics are far less christian right than we think. 2012 showed this.
I think that is a symptom of most 2nd generation kids who become more interested in assimilating into a new culture than their parents, who were more concerned about maintaining the old ways. But I also thing this can equalize once this generation has kids of their own and realize there's a lot to be said for the "old ways". Time will tell.
I understand the interest of business lobbies in getting cheap, unskilled labor through amnesty.
It appears to be me that the reason the ruling elites insist on "comprehensive" immigration reform (i.e. strong border enforcement, mandatory employment status checks, blanket amnesty, etc.) is precisely to cause political gridlock and thereby maintain relatively open borders, employer deniability, limited legalization, etc. There are now whole business sectors that require an unlimited pool of illegal (and therefore easily exploitable) workers. Thus neither political party is interested in putting a stop to the current situation regardless of what the ordinary taxpayers want.
I think Eisenhower almost hit the mark with "beware of the military-industrial complex". It's closer to beware of the marriage of big government and big business. Eisenhower knew the threat mexico presented to the US, which is why he was the last President to really crack down on illegal immigration from mexico. He saw them for what they really are, a socialist-fascist country looking to exploit their neighbors to the north.
"Young Hispanics are far less christian right than we think."
Christian right? They are all socialists. If there was a free market in Mexico they would have found work there. But no, they keep electing socialists and when the sh1t hits the fan they just move across the border. The libs in California do the same thing.
Otherwise, there's really no pressing need to make illegals into citizens. We could continue exploiting their labor - they're pretty willing to work without citizenship.
Granting amnestying for about almost 10 % of the US. population? Think about that for a second...
Yes. We've lost our minds and common sense. This is called desperation. Obama will take create for it and addthat many more to the Democratic voting base when he gets them to change the 22nd amendment and remove the qualification to have to be a U.S. citizen born on U.S. soil and make it retroactive then pull out his real Kenyan birth certificate and wave it in our faces...
Granting amnestying for about almost 10 % of the US. population? Think about that for a second...
Yes. We've lost our minds and common sense. This is called desperation. Obama will take credit for it and ad dthat many more to the Democratic voting base when he gets them to change the 22nd amendment and remove the qualification to have to be a U.S. citizen born on U.S. soil and then make it retroactive THEN pull out his real Kenyan birth certificate and wave it in our faces...
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That makes little to no sense when you consider that, politically, Obama and Romney are similar enough to be clones.
Both are for abortions.
Both are for gun-control.
Both are statists.
Both have records of appointing truly terrible activist judges.
Both support a state-run socialist-dream medical/health-care scheme.
Both are socialists, and here is the only real difference, Obama is more a hard-line revolutionary-style in rhetoric* while Romney is a Fabian-style socialist wanting to ease into it.
* his actions show a more progressive mindset than rhetoric alone would indicate: constantly pushing against the boundaries but not jumping really far outside them.
They are to the consultants who run the Party.
Proving that the constitutionalists who were so ruthlessly dismissed as crazies and "Birthers" were right all along would destroy the Republican party. A win-win for Obama.
When is the treatment of American citizens in Mexico and their rights vs US treatment of Mexicans going to be an issue when we discuss amnesty ? That question; Should Mexican citizens when in the US be given the same rights American citizens are given while in Mexico has yet to appear on any US legislator's questionaire from either chamber. What makes it necessary for US to subjugate our sovereignty because of available cheap labor ?
Ever hear of reciprocal aggrements ? These are arranged to protect the rights of American citizens working or living in other countries.
Why is it when it comes to citizens of other countries we are required to offer them the same privledges as we do to US citizens? But when it comes to US citizens who get in trouble or attempt to do business in other countries they do not get the same treatment their citizens get.
Americans cant own coast land in Mexico. And get no title to it elsewhere. If they run out of cash theyll get unceremoniously sent back or put in jail untill some relative comes up with the fresh. Thats just for starters as for granting them voting privledges yea lets give Mexican citizens that right when American citizens vote in their elections .
Once all these illegal workers become legal, will they be fired and a whole new crop of illegals have to come in to replace them?
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On March 28 and 29 2015, street artist Hanksy threw one of the most fun pop-up exhibits in recent memory. Located at 104 Delancey Street in Manhattan, the exhibit was called "Best of the Worst," and it was housed in a vacant building on the Lower East Side.
Whereas a lot of street artists (and I'm not going to name names otherwise we'll be here until next week) have tasted a tiny bit of success becoming Instagram-famous, their art started to suck (even more than it already did in some cases) while their egos exploded, I think Hanksy really kicked it up a notch and took it to the next level for "Best of the Worst."
For those who need a primer on Hanksy, I first happened upon his art on the streets of New York in 2011, where he superimposed actor Tom Hanks' face over a rat, an image made famous by the street artist collective Banksy. It was extremely clever and I remember being delighted each time I ran into a new piece as he mixed street art, celebrity culture and puns in a way that I'd never seen before.
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Because Hanksy's identity is not disclosed to the public, he was able to wander about the gallery anonymously to enjoy seeing the fruits of his labor without being mobbed for selfies. He told me that it took about a week to set up and once the show is over, he has just a few days to take it all down. On the final day of the show, I was filming an Instagram video of the exhibit ("for 10 likes," I joked, and as of press time, I was not wrong) and Hanksy reminded me that his suggestion to me via Twitter inspired me to sign up for an account. So for all of my great and not so great Instagram pix, blame Hanksy! Follow us both, just click on the links and hit follow!
To all the street artists out there that are just taking the most recognized images of famous icons and doing little to alter the image and then claiming the work as their own, "Best of the Worst" should serve as a nice little reminder of what bringing your A-Game looks like, or in this case – your H game. Well done, Hanksy!


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"The Technology of Luge Sleds" will be discussed by Clarkson University Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Professors Doug Bohl and Brian Helenbrook at the next Science Café on Wednesday, September 11, at 7:15 p.m. in the Potsdam Civic Center Community Room in Potsdam, N.Y., and on Tuesday, September 17, at 7:15 p.m. in the Park View Common Room, above the Blackbird Cafe, 107 Main St. in Canton.
Olympic luge sleds careen down the tracks at more than 90 miles/hour. Optimizing their design to shave even hundredths of a second is critical to a team's chances to win.
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text: Neutral Panel Finds General Salary Increases for Faculty 'Unwarranted' in Current Budget Situation 5/15/2010 Page Image Image Caption Page Content Negotiations End After Parties Unable to Come to an Agreement Neutral Panel Finds Faculty Salary Increases \'Unwarranted\' in Current Budget (April 16, 2010) – The California State University announced today that negotiations have concluded pertaining to 2008-09 salary issues within the California Faculty Association collective bargaining agreement after the two sides were unable to reach an agreement. Following the release of a neutral fact-finding report, each side was legally mandated to try and reach agreement during a 10 day "quiet period." The CSU agreed with the fact-finder's recommendation that no General Salary Increases (GSIs) or across-the-board Service Salary Increases (SSIs) are warranted in light of the current budget situation. In addition, the CSU concurred with the second recommendation to fund the 2008/09 equity program to the extent that the CSU was not required to provide "new money" to fund the increases. CSU had proposed to distribute approximately $1.7 million in unspent roll over funds available within the collective bargaining agreement, but that offer was rejected by the faculty union. "We would like to see the available funds used to provide targeted relief to the small number of faculty members who have been particularly impacted by equity or salary inversion issues," said Gail Brooks, CSU vice chancellor for human resources. "This approach would help alleviate some of the most serious equity situations while not negatively impacting the CSU's fiscal position." Over the past two years, CSU's general fund support has been cut by $625 million or 21 percent, and the system has been forced to drastically reduce enrollment, implement two day per month employee furloughs, increase student fees and make other budget reductions. Because the 2008/09 state budget did not include annual funding increases as called for in the CSU's Higher Education Compact with the Governor, it triggered the re-opening of salary increases outlined in the faculty collective bargaining agreement. The administration and the faculty union were unable to come to an agreement through mediation, and agreed to a neutral fact finding process. Recommendations by a fact-finding panel are non-binding and may be accepted or rejected by either party. According to the fact finder's report, "CFA, for the first time, agreed that a 2008-09 GSI increase was its lowest priority in light of the CSU's budget constraints and CFA's other goals. Its members already had a two percent increase that, while nominally awarded in 2007-08, was paid out for the first time in 2008-2009." The CFA represents approximately 23,000 faculty personnel at the CSU's 23 campuses. ### About the California State University The California State University is the largest system of senior higher education in the country, with 23 campuses, approximately 433,000 students and 44,000 faculty and staff. Since the system was created in 1961, it has awarded nearly 2.5 million degrees, about 90,000 annually. Its mission is to provide high-quality, affordable education to meet the ever-changing needs of the people of California. With its commitment to excellence, diversity and innovation, the CSU is the university system that is working for California. Connect with and learn more about CSU at CSU Social Media. Want to Learn More? Please contact: Public Affairs Department (562) 951-4800 Yes


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Friday, July 16, 2010
A new definition
You probably don't remember but I didn't manage to get there last year so was doubly eager in the run up this week:
We came
We saw
We purchased
veni vidi visa
and then, less than half an hour after I got home, #1 son rang and suggested that new grandson Noah could do with a sheepskin
A new definition of poor timing ?
13 comments:
- Rose Red said...
I think you were very restrained!
The beret that DrK was wearing is the RoseRed pattern by Ysolda. Fitting, yes?!
- 5:53 pm
- Erica Spinks said...
Excuse my ignorance - what's that green thingie with the handles and the wheel?
- 7:39 pm
- catsmum said...
I was wondering if anyone would ask, Erica :) - it's a very lightweight but sturdy garden trolley with lift-out plastic tub. Not super cheap @ $80 but reasonable I thought and I would imagine it will get lots of use around here as a wheelbarrow substitute - garden, wood, goat feed ??
- 7:46 pm
- gayle said...
I was going to ask about the wheelie-bucket, too...
Such pretties you found - love the purple, and that spindle just begs to be twirled.
- 9:37 pm
- Lindi said...
Yummy purchases. Love those purples. :)
- 10:38 pm
- Kate/Massachusetts said...
veni, vidi, visa...lol!! I will have to remember that one!
- 12:08 am
- Alwen said...
Ohhh, that yarn is very shiny!
- 11:11 am
- ozjane said...
Very well done......
I like the possibilities of "dat green fing"
You lead my mind back to when my lamb skin was an essential car seat cover.
I am not quite sure if it resides in the bottom of the linen press...we did the top three shelves recently...or it has gone.....
I still have a wonderful sheep skin hat with bobbles ...balls of sheep skin to tie it with.
And Moggie has a small piece of sheep skin somewhere.
Moggie says..is Sister Sophie OK?
- 11:29 am
- crazyhaberdasher said...
Pretty Knitting Nancy - does that mean you are actually going to do some spool knitting? If so, I have lots of ideas.
- 11:30 am
- Joy said...
what projects do you have in mind for the beautiful purple wool
- 9:15 pm
- catsmum said...
Joy, I've already cast on a Forest Canopy shawl [ last night in fact - LOL ] possibly for DD's wedding in October
- 10:03 pm
- Erica Spinks said...
I'm disappointed... I imagined it was equipment to do some obscure thing with wool! Haha.
- 7:50 am
- Joy said...
look forward to seeing the shawl
- 9:15 am


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For those of you who have been following me for a while, you may have noticed that I hadn't updated my blog in about two and a half years. During this time, while there were months when I was very active in my business, there were also many more months when I simply was not mentally conditioned to be in a social environment, much less make any public appearances at live events.
I won't bore you with the specifics of my life since my last post 30 months ago, as it is a conversation better had over a couple drinks, anyway. To make a long story short, 2010 was extremely hectic and had its share of complications, 2011 was probably the worst year of my life with multiple consecutive catastrophic personal challenges, and most of 2012 was spent recovering from everything I had gone through and lost during that time.
Yes, I understand that these may not be the traditional motivational and inspirational messages you may expect from me or would normally hear me deliver on stage, but this is a very true and personal story of my life, one that I've never really considered sharing. This is real talk.
All I have to say is that I am extremely thankful for the few close people in my life who supported me during that difficult time, and encouraged me to stand back up and fight back a good fight when all I wanted to do was give up and disappear forever. And for well over a year, that was exactly what I did.
Even though I most certainly did have the means to hide away in a foreign country and live comfortably without working another day or talking to anyone ever again, which, believe me, was very, very tempting to do, these friends went above and beyond the call of duty, brought value to me in ways that were completely off the friend menu, and made me realize that life is worth living again. Make no mistake, it took a lot of time, and it sure as hell was not easy, but we did it.
My close family and friends all played important roles in giving me sources of support, strength, encouragement, care and even opportunities to triumph, persevere and move forward, and I finally made my big comeback to the Internet entrepreneurship game in the latter part of 2012.
Today, after several months of hard work building, testing and delivering brand new projects from the ground up, I know once again how it feels to run a successful business while motivating and inspiring others to do the same. Most importantly, I appreciate my life again and everyone who is in it, especially those who were there for me when I needed them the most.
And now, I am dedicated to making 2013 my best year yet. And for anyone crazy enough to take this exhilarating ride with me, I encourage you to meet me at one of my scheduled live events in the next few months, and we will sit down and have a serious conversation about changing your life and taking over the world, because that's the direction my partners and I are heading.
We have HUGE plans! From company start-ups to new Internet Marketing training programs, not to mention product launches, live events and our private projects outside of the Internet Marketing niche, we are all geared up for one heck of a year.
I am very excited to start a brand new year full blazin' ahead again to rock all 12 months of the calendar year, which is something that has not happened for a long time, and I want to share my excitement with you. Better yet, we want you to come along for the ride of a lifetime, because we are going to need all the help we can get!
Don't worry if you feel like you don't have the skills. It's never too late to start. The truth of the matter is that we all start at zero. None of us were born with the talent and skills we would eventually develop. Through continued learning and experience, we can build miracles out of nothing.
We may continue to do great things, be lucky enough to build that success limitlessly, or, perhaps, everything can even be suddenly taken from you. That's life, and it's not always something that we can control. However, the knowledge you have is something that nobody can ever take away from you. You can build it all over again, maybe even better than you did before, but only if you want it. At the end of the day, it does not matter how much talent you have, it means absolutely nothing if you don't strive for it.
I've gone through hell and back in a period of over two years. Heck, we even survived the end of the world (I celebrated it with an Armageddon Party)! There is nothing that life can throw at us that we can't conquer. Remember, whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right. Always think positive, and always believe in yourself and know that you, indeed… CAN.
I'm a big believer in everything happening for a reason, and the hardships that we all go through bring us one step closer to the person we are destined to become. I am fortunate enough to know now which road to take. We must follow this path and believe we are doing the right thing.
Personally, I can't say that my mental state is 100% back to where it was before when it was at its peak, and I would be lying if I told you I have completely put together all the pieces of my complicated puzzle. Even though I have faith that whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, it does take time before that strength is built up. Hey, we need to learn to walk before we can learn to run, right? That's why I'm not worried. We have all the time in the world!
Plus, with the positive energy and support from my family, friends, partners, teams and even students whom I am so blessed to have in my life, I have all the tools I need, which gives me the passion to move ahead and the confidence to tackle my goals for this year, and beyond. My resolution is to make 2013 my best year ever, to represent the new me, and to mark this new beginning. Will you do the same?
BTW, I'll do my best to update my blog more frequently moving forward, but just in case you don't hear from me for another 30 months (fingers crossed!), we can still keep in touch and interact through social media, so be sure to subscribe to my Facebook posts or follow me on Twitter!
P.S. I've completely moved servers and content management systems for this website, so the new makeover is a continued work in progress. I'm still trying to work out some bugs and finalize the operation of the website, with about 300 web pages and 600mb worth of content in an SQL database that I need to figure out how to import! So please check back soon or enter your name and email address in the form on the right, and I will contact you as soon as we are all updated and ready to go. In the meantime, please feel free to poke around the new website and check out some of the information and videos from the navigational menu above. Thanks and chat soon!
P.P.S. Today is the first blank page of your new 365 page book. Write a good success story for us to read, will you? As they say, the best is yet to come. HAPPY NEW YEAR! :)


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American National Election Series: 1972, 1974, 1976 (ICPSR 7607)
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This study is part of a time-series collection of national surveys fielded continuously since 1952. The election studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life. This collection consists of a distinct panel across the three election waves, the cross-section samples associated with each election study, and a vote validation study. The panel component consists of a maximum of five interview points for each respondent (pre- and post-1972 election, post-1974 election, and pre- and post-1976 election) taken from the American National Election Studies of 1972 (ICPSR 7010), 1974 (ICPSR 7355), and 1976 (ICPSR 7381). The vote validation data were gathered in the spring and summer of 1977, through interviews with election registration officials and from examination of voting records of the respondents participating in these election studies. The collection also includes filter variables that allow for the retrieval of each of the distinct panel and cross-section samples.
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A total of 11 respondents who were "panel only" in the original 1976 cross-section study (AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION SERIES: 1972, 1974, 1976 [ICPSR 7381]) were corrected to "panel and cross section" in this data collection. Consequently, the frequency distribution for certain variables will differ slightly between the 1976 cross-section study and this version of the data.
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The variable breakdown by year is as follows: 720001-721112 are 1972 variables, 742001-742603 are 1974 variables, 763001-763969 are 1976 variables, 764001-764011 are cross-year variables, 765001-765073 are individual voter record variables from the 1976 vote validation study, 765101-765342 are election administration variables from the 1976 Vote Validation Study, and 765401-765417 are election items checklist variables from the 1976 Vote Validation Study.
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The data collection is a cross-section representative of persons 18 years of age or older as of November 7, 1972, who were living in private households in the coterminous United States.
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- University of Michigan. Center for Political Studies. American National Election Series: 1972, 1974, 1976. ICPSR07607-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07607.v3
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VIDEO: Suns GM Ryan McDonough fields fans' questions
HANG TIME WEST – The Suns, obviously encouraged by a promising start and with several attractive assets at their disposal, are making it known around the league they are open to trading one or more picks in the loaded 2014 draft if they can get an established star capable of making an impact now, NBA.com has learned.
The move to capitalize on the enviable flexibility of probably having two choices in June and as many as four, along with the potential of about $20 million in cap space in the summer, comes with Phoenix at 12-9 and far exceeding most preseason projections. Adding a proven player in exchange for the uncertainty of the draft, even one as stacked as 2014, could greatly accelerate the rebuilding and firmly establish the Suns as a playoff regular again.
The aggressive front office of owner Robert Sarver, president of basketball operations Lon Babby and general manager Ryan McDonough, has not even put the Suns' own pick, the only one with a chance to deliver a selection at the top of the lottery, off limits. They will obviously ask for protections in negotiations if that choice is in play and may even insist on it, but whether Phoenix can get them in the end will undoubtedly depend on the names involved from the other side.
"I think one of the things that's important for people to realize is that we may not draft four players even if we have four picks," McDonough told NBA.com. "Our preference would probably be to maybe package a few of them. We're obviously all looking for stars and we feel like we can put together a package as good, if not better, than any other team in the league if and when a star becomes available. That's kind of generally what we've wanted to do, not only with our draft-pick situation but also with the cap space that we've acquired."
The Suns are in an especially good position to trade picks because they have two rookie first-round selections on the current roster, Alex Len and Archie Goodwin, the possibility of four in 2014 and two more in 2015. Taking all those goes well beyond a youth movement. Even if all four choices cannot be spent in the upcoming draft, they could delay only one year, at which point Phoenix would still have the unwanted riches of four in 2015.
In addition to their own 2014 choice, tracking to the late-teens or early-20s with the season about a quarter old, the Suns have Minnesota's first-rounder, which is top-13 protected and Washington's selection protected through 12. Phoenix also has the Indiana pick that is top-14 protected, meaning it will be conveyed this season barring unimaginable developments. Whatever selections are not delivered for June will roll over to 2015 – when the Suns already have their own No. 1 and could get another from the Lakers with the L.A. spot protected through the top five.


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