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Game #8: Royals at Blue Jays
Kansas City (3-5) at Toronto (4-3)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
David DeJesus, CF
Esteban German, 2B
Mark Teahen, RF
Reggie Sanders, DH
Emil Brown, LF
Alex Gordon, 3B
Ryan Shealy, 1B
Jason LaRue, C
Tony Pena Jr., SS
PITCHING: LHP Jorge De La Rosa
Reed Johnson, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Troy Glaus, 3B
Alex Rios, RF
Aaron Hill, 2B
Gregg Zaun, C
Royce Clayton, SS
PITCHING: LHP Gustavo Chacin
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One growing concern for me is the top of the order right now. I know its early but something just doesnt seem right.
To me Hill and Rios would look so much better at the top than Johnson and Overbay.
Johnson is a pretty good leadoff man, but I just think both Hill and Rios are much better hitters. And Overbay could slide very nicely into the #6 spot. I dont care about the back to back lefties or whatever..if you want bat Johnson 7th, Zaun 8th, then Clayton (very impressed with so far) 9th
I can see your point, and Rios might make a better leadoff hitter with the way he's going right now (not flashing the same type of power stroke as the start of last year), but it's hard to argue with how the lineup has been doing. Through 8 games, the Jays are averaging 6.5 runs. And it's only 8 games. You can't put a lot of stock into Overbay's .222 average in the same way you can't put too much stock into Hill's .387 average just yet. Sure, it's a slow start versus a hot start, but by the end of the year, both of those guys should be around .300. Give the lineup some time before passing too much judgement. With the way the back of the order guys have been producing, I don't know that Toronto should break it up just yet.
With the back of the order the way it is, I would leave it for now. Tons of time in the season to make adjustments and changes. Personally, I don't think Hill should be put in the top of the order just yet, might damage the confidence he has right now. And Johnson is a great leadoff guy.
Reed Johnson just happens to be one of the best leadoff hitters in baseball, and the best Jay since Shannon Stewart. How many other Jays can bunt their way on? Plus, there was only one Jay that led the AL in OBP last year, and there is no reason that he won't be up there this September too. Rios would be a fine #2, but once Johnson gets on track a bit, and Overbay learns to pull the ball into the gap, the combination is going to be deadly (a la Tony Fernandez/Darren Fletcher). And Rios/Hill are doing a fine job protecting Glaus.


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2013 NAIA Men?s Cross Country Runner of the Week - No. 5
By: Sam Knehans, Communications & Sports Information Intern
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Adam Godwin of Oklahoma Baptist has been named the NAIA Men's Cross Country National Runner of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Godwin was chosen for his performance during the week of Oct. 7 – 13 and was selected out of a pool of conference, independent, and unaffiliated grouping award winners.
Godwin, a senior from Edmond, Okla., won the NAIA Preview Meet on Oct. 12 at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kan. Godwin bested the 272-runner field with an 8-kilometer time of 24:34.21. Led by Godwin, the No. 13-ranked Bison finished fourth behind No. 3 Aquinas (Mich.), No. 8 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) and No. 4 Shawnee State (Ohio) with a team 8k time of 2:09:35.
In a 30-team preview meet field that included eight ranked teams and six teams who received votes in last week's coaches' poll, Godwin's Bison placed ahead of several notable programs including: No. 12 Concordia (Neb.), No. 21 Southwestern (Kan.), No. 22 Indiana Tech, No. 24 Dordt (Iowa) and receiving votes teams Saint Xavier (Ill.), Saint Mary (Kan.), Indiana Wesleyan, Missouri Valley, Park (Mo.) and Central Methodist (Mo.).
On the women's side, Godwin's counterpart, Hannah Helker topped the 268-runner field with a 5-kilometer time of 17:02.46, leading the No. 15-ranked Bison to a third place finish behind No. 9 Dordt and No. 14 Taylor (Ind.). Helker earned NAIA Women's Cross Country National Runner of the Week honors for her performance. Oklahoma Baptist's Godwin and Helker achieve the first Cross Country National Runner of the Week sweep since College of Idaho's Greg Montgomery and Hillary Holt did so on Oct. 26, 2012.
For the complete player of the week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Michael McCulloch, Columbia (Mo.); Kaleb Wilson, William Woods (Mo.); Thomas Chelulei, Park (Mo.); Taylor Whitmore, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Paul Adams, Oregon Tech; Brian Corcoran, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Ethan Gallagher, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Kyle Anderson, Spring Arbor (Mich.); Ethan Evans, Taylor (Ind.); John Wilson, Indiana Wesleyan; Ryan Smith, Goshen (Ind.); Sam Atkin, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Oliver Lange, Westminster (Utah); Rico Gutierrez, Great Falls (Mont.); Noah Kiprono, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Ben Sievert, Concordia (Neb.); Cris Renteria, Central Methodist (Mo.); Vincent Tadokoro, Baker (Kan.); Phillip Cheriyout, Missouri Valley; Brooks Ballou, Saint Mary (Kan.); Jeremiah Gerardy, Bethany (Kan.); Hunter Stayton, Kansas Wesleyan; Cole Carlson, Ottawa (Kan.); Joel Allen, Tabor (Kan.); Connor Mulvaney, Point Park (Pa.); Brad Liston, Shawnee State (Ohio); John-Paul Williamson, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Chad Upshaw, Haskell (Kan.); Tj Mosbach, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Aubrey Barnes, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Michael Hoffman, Dakota State (S.D.); Richard Wright, Valley City State (N.D.); David Guillen, Texas at Brownsville; Victor Rotich, Wiley (Texas); Jonathan Yanez, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas); Peter Koskey, Oklahoma City; Elias Poolaw, Science & Arts (Okla.); Channing Stringer, William Carey (Miss.); Zach Sollie, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); John Russell, Spring Hill (Ala.); Josh Thatcher, Southern Wesleyan (S.C.); Jacob Alplund, Northwood (Fla.); Vincent Bett, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Jon Riley, SCAD Savannah (Ga.); Christopher Orbe, St. Thomas (Fla.); Trevor Coules, Ave Maria (Fla.); Anthony Vecchio, USC Beaufort (S.C.); Jonathan Nusbaum, Warner (Fla.); Deion Cossio, Southeastern (Fla.); Louis Falland, Cornerstone (Mich.); Zach Stepanovich, Aquinas (Mich.); Samuel Parlette, Siena Heights (Mich.); Cam Magro, Davenport (Mich.); Aaron Belcher, Indiana Tech.
2013 Men's Cross Country Composite Award Winners
Week 1 (September 18): Mike Blaszczyk, St. Francis (Ill.)
Week 2 (September 25): Sam Atkin, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
Week 3 (October 2): Eric Avila, Southern Oregon
Week 4 (October 9): Paul Adams, Oregon Tech
Week 5 (October 16): Adam Godwin, Oklahoma Baptist

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the cultivation of genetics and DNA of Kazakh people
First, i want to give Hello to all of you, i am Kazakh guy from ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture of xinjiang Uighur autonomous region of china.
but now in European, came here to study of my master.
and i want to discuss something with all of you or who some knows.
the whole Kazakh people has a kind of national tradition that the Kazakhs boy and girls never have marriage within 7 generation, in order to marry the Kazakh guy and Kazakh girl should not have blood relatives within 7 generation(the most hot love also ignored, just burn it ), in both mother and father side, too, its mean the blood of their ancestors must not "meet" below 7 generations, so every Kazakh(girl and boy) knows the names of seven ancestors and their blood relationships, among Kazakhs there is saying:"he/she is alone, if he/she do not know the names of her/his seven ancestors.", and it is so shame things for Kazakhs if he/she do not know the names of her/his ancestors, and it is obligatory rules for all Kazakh parents to teach their children to know the names of her/his ancestors, by that way all Kazakhs know their not only seven ancestors even knows 20--30, even more 70 maybe, can spoke out till their root ancestors such as naiman, jalaiyr, argyn, kerey, tore, adai, dulat, kongirat, kyan-kuyan, koypchak, khoja, gingskhan tribes etc many many tribe, almost big 45 tribes in kazakhs.
so among Kazakhs it is forbidden to have marriage within seven generations, if someone do the Kazakhs law will force them to break up their marriage, not allowed, even they do not obey will kill them by the constitution of Kazakhs khan-kings, and this rule written in the constitution Kazakh khans-kings since 1400(till now 600 years old rule, it may be exist before that years, but become rule after 1400), but such breaking of law almost never happens, if someone want do such marriage Kazakhs consider them as "degraded type of person" and consider it as so shame thing, and they will ask how you marriage your relative(if under 7 generations)? The Kazakhs tribes regarded as most close blood relative people if they are under 7 generations, but Kazakhs usually marriage above 10 generations, all tribes of Kazakh perform this rule till now and will continue to bring that to the future.
why Kazakh do not allow the marriage within 7 generations?
answer: it is shame thing for Kazakhs in the aspect of morality and humanity, but other than this that all the tribes of Kazakh considered that produced child will be ill, unhealthy and non-wisdom person if they have marriage under 7 generations.
and when i was young i also asked this from my parents and from other old mans of our kazakh village, and they said that he/she is your close blood relative if they are under 7 generations, how can you marry with your relatives, it is sin thing, and the child from such marriage will not be good men and will be unhealthy, non-wisdom person. the same every where among kazakhs around the world, in kazakhstan, kazakhs in china, kazakhs in russian, kazakhs in uzbekstan, kazakhs in mongolia, kazakhs in turkey, kazakhs in afganistan, in tajikstan, turkmenstan, kazakhs in iran, in European etc.
it is generally said among Kazakhs that if you marry above 7 generation saying that your child be wise, strong and heroic person, and said your child will be bestowed with good warm hearts, harmony as the steppe of Kazakh, generous, and good speech-er who can spoke out poet etc.
and i can tell my same experience i have among Kazakhs in person, for example, in our kazakh village young a kazakh guy and a kazakh girl loved each other so much, then they want to have marriage, but their ancestors meet at 5, so they within 5 generations, not 7, they also know that, the old-Kazakhs in our village said you two can not marriage because their point not reaching to "7", so they forced them broke their relationship, not to have marriage.
and such tradition exist only in Kazakhs among the Turkic people, i did not know any nation has such cultivating custom except Kazakh, may be others know, inform me if you know.
and now i felt that this custom of Kazakhs has big scientific base and most favored thing from the corner of science. may be have more unrevealed facts hidden on the behind of such traditions of Kazakh people.
so by that tradition Kazakhs cultivated themselves more than 600 years by not having marriage within 7 generations, there is already prepared samples of human beings from a interesting point...
and such tradition will affect the genetics and DNA of an nation (Kazakh people)? or may be there are some difference or hidden facts around that tradition? may be this tradition is interesting for DNA or genetic researchers from some point.
what kind of benefits such tradition gives us from the point of the science of the DNA, genetics? thanks.
anyone can ask me the related questions if you want.
plz, post any comment if you know any beneficial parts of this tradition from the point of DNA-genetics.
plz, post any comment if you know any beneficial parts of this tradition from the point of DNA-genetics.
and i want add one more the similar mean among Kazakhs.
as all you know in past most Kazakhs are nomadic people, also has cities.
so here, i want to take example of the sheep, all other animal are treated same.
just before the male lamb of sheep to rich the age of sexuality with other sheep, we separate these male lambs from all the female sheep or broke the small tube in its sex organ when it is young, we can broke it by using our only two fingers that one tube where the sperm flows out. it is good if we do when lambs was young. and will not hurt, and such lamb grow fast, and become fat and big.
and in my family we also have many many sheep, i saw my father did such operations on lamb, also i also broke many sex tube of lambs, sorry for lambs.
and next year we never put male sheep among the female sheep which has blood relation with these sheep, otherwise the quality of sheep will not be good,
and when spring we choose big male sheep we go to another region to buy best male sheep and ask its origin if it has some blood relation with our regions sheep, if does not have blood relation now we will buy, then put it among these female sheep.
my father illiteracy person can not read but know this big biological things, haha. i love him.
this means also same for other animal too....
may be interesting, more importantly give me the hidden DNA matter on it.
Submit your paper to J Biol Methods today!
the cultivation of genetics and DNA of Kazakh people
Started by kazakh7, May 07 2013 06:02 PMdna kazakh
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Posted 07 May 2013 - 06:02 PM
Posted 07 May 2013 - 06:03 PM
plz, post any comment if you know any beneficial parts of this tradition from the point of DNA-genetics.
Posted 08 May 2013 - 02:09 PM
Well, there is in-breeding (production of children from closely related people), but the effects are not (as faras I know) not well understood -for example a brother and sister can produce healthy children together, but there is a higher incidence of mental retardation and physical deformity. Having said that, laboratory strains of mice and rats are typically very very inbred (brother/sister matings for 20 generations), so as to make them genetically homogenous and the animals appear fine and don't tend to have higher rates of disease than their wild-type counterparts.
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James and myself are happy to announce Fatdog64-600 beta 1. If you didn't look at alpha2, since 521 James completely rewrote the initrd and the init scripts, and many of the setup scripts. The alpha2 release announcement is here:
Here's the changes since alpha2:
* SFS works with multisession
* add libdbus_glib
* uses busybox blkid (faster) instead of util-linux blkid
* volume label display on drive icons can be turned off
* /usr/lib and /usr/X11R7/lib are now bind mounts (and cannot be overwritten)
* udevd-helper daemon to handle tricky usb devices
* bugfix with first-time session save
* hardinfo patched - does not crash, show Fatdog64 version
* Windows-K key is shortcut for xkill (to kill windows apps). Right-click to cancel.
* New control panel - all system/settings apps are now here
* QuickApps - create application shortcuts
* urxvt 9.15 (without perl extension)
* command line tool to split fatdog humongous initrd to standard puppy initrd for faster usb boot
* small-initrd support in fatdog-installer if you have at least 1.6 GB RAM
* base2ram parameter - force external basesfs (e.g. split-initrd) to be loaded into RAM
* experimental multi-user (some applications are still broken; some pet packages does not support non-root)
* updated Rox to git master 2012-05-30
* updated JWM to build 579
* updated peasypdf to 2.1 (thanks rcrsn51)
* updated peasyscan to 2.3 (thanks rcrsn51)
* updated wallpaper setter to 0.6.2 (thanks 01micko)
* kernel updated to 3.4.2 (will be updated to 3.4.x for final)
* Seamonkey updated to 2.10
* pburn updated to 3.6.0
* Flash player updated to 22.214.171.124
* Add Broadcom wl driver hacked to only load for pcids not claimed by the open source driver.
* Update to Mesa-8.0.3.
Plus numerous bug fixes. Setup type applications have been removed from the main menu and are now in the Control Panel. James has gotten multi-user working pretty well. You'll find the user manager under the System tab in the Control Panel. If you are not familiar with the changes since 521,
take a look at the FAQs
. Especially for booting and boot options.
Get it here:
Thanks to all the alpha2 testers!
Also, we're planning to have Seamonkey and Firefox ISOs for final, there's a Firefox-13 pet package in the repo. Please test if you like Firefox. The pet will replace Seamonkey as the default browser.
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Posted: Wed 13 Jun 2012, 23:12
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Mirrors may take a while to sync.
Know bugs (all these known bugs are fixed for the next release)
1. Q: I cannot print? usb printer not recognised?
A: Please open terminal (as root) and to this: "chmod 0500 /usr/lib64/cups/backend/*". And then restart.
2. Q: I run multiple desktop and CUPS-PDF doesn't seem to work?
A: CUPS-PDF always display its prompt on the first desktop. If you want to print to PDF, use "Print to file..." instead.
In the next release CUPS-PDF will work as expected.
3. Q: Package doesn't seem to be installed even though I installed multiple times!
A: This is a bug, please do the following:
1. Edit the file /usr/sbin/silent_petget
2. Goto line 86
3. Near the end of the line, when you see "cpio -p $INSTALL_ROOT", change that to "cpio -
p $INSTALL_ROOT"
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 00:02
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Booting from live dvd with a 40gb save file on the hard drive.
It takes approx 3-4 minutes for the loading initrd to complete, same
thing as alpha2 but on another pc it would load probably twice as fast.
Both computers have blue ray drives.
Processor 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 16395MB (171MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Fatdog64 [bb155f4388]
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Wed Jun 13 23:44:15 2012
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Input Devices
Power Button
Power Button
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse
PC Speaker
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Version 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.59
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
141887 frames in 5.0 seconds = 28377.303 FPS
142156 frames in 5.0 seconds = 28431.002 FPS
142322 frames in 5.0 seconds = 28464.275 FPS
The control panel is working well although I had to reload the devx
with sfs load, (I had loaded it previously after creating my savefile
and rebooting), oops, I just realized that I hadn't checked the load
permanenty box.
Working well so far.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 00:05
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On downloading
Nluug is up
Still waiting on Aarnet and UOC
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 01:04
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Jamesbond is one of our Puppy heroes.
He worked on PuppyPhone and now adds multiboot for those chanting
'Do not run as root' in their sleep.
Please test this as he and Kirk deserve feedback and support.
Maybe you could leave a message via Puppyphone - I should imagine the latest and best Puppyphone is in Fatdog . . .
Any documentation/tips on going multiroot for other developers welcome
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 01:27
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Painless to set up a user from the control panel. I feel safe now
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 01:40
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Fatdog 64-600b1 multi-session dvd.Just started testing but zero problems so far.
Processor 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory 3787MB (250MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Fatdog64 [bb155f4388]
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu Jun 14 00:38:09 2012
Resolution 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on NV4C
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Resolution 1366x768 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.11.4
Monitor 0 1366x768 pixels
Vendor nouveau
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on NV4C
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3
Direct Rendering Yes
looking pretty solid so far.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 06:33
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Hello Kirk & jamesbond
Thank you for adding cpuid and msr kernel modules. I have checked that TurionPowerControl can read back the voltages on my Athlon II x2, so they are working. I'll report back what power savings I get after some testing with VLC.
A few minor things about the initial setup, while I remember:
The ISO 9660 filenames are garbled in fd600a2 and fd600b1. They were OK in the fd520 and fd521 ISOs.
It's usually because the mastering software is set to enforce ISO 9660 level 1. It is better to set level 3 or turn the checking off completely. Then any software can read the filenames correctly without any extensions.
Setting up the country specific settings, the first time, is more complicated because you have to use three separate tools to do it.
The first two ask you to restart X and you have to say no, and the third one doesn't ask you and you have to remember to do it!
I can't find the power management setup tool anywhere in the menus. Its for setting up the powernow-k8 governor. I think it was in utilities previously.
Thanks for fd64 600b1. 600a2 was working really well on my system.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 09:19
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Subject description: sound problem
Sound quit working, I think it was caused when I opened the terminal
and ran alsa mixer and set the levels, then used the alsactl store
The volume control icon disappeared from the panel at some point, using the multiple
sound card wizard etc. didn't help, got a device busy (something like
that) when trying to get sound working in vlc.
That's the only thing that I can think of that I did that may have
broken sound.
I guess you have to use the control panel alsa mixer only.I deleted the
save file and started over, added pets etc., and sound is working fine.
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Pmusic version in FatDog is about a thousand years old! (Internet years. Latest pmusic was working ok in 600A2, test later in 600B1).
BTW, no problems with my USB sound card in B1.
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 10:58
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Hello Kirk & jamesbond
I found cpufreq-info which confirmed that power management was working by default.
I set up my cpu pstate voltages using TurionPowerControl.
Playing my test video which is 1920x1080x25i plus YADIF double framerate deinterlace using VLC:
at default 1.4v it was 79 Watts peak wallplug power with my Athlon II x2
at 1.1v it was 59 Watts peak.
That makes a lot of difference to the PSU fan noise. Thank you, and blackshard!
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2012, 13:22
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It takes approx 3-4 minutes for the loading initrd to complete, same
thing as alpha2 but on another pc it would load probably twice as fast.
Both computers have blue ray drives.
The iso is about 200MB, so booting from slow media like a DVD could take a few minutes. Optical media read speed depends on a lot of different hardware factors. That may be completely normal. If you have a copy of 521 on DVD around, you could see how it compares.
Pmusic version in FatDog is about a thousand years old!
Yes, I guess it is. I just downloaded 2.6.2. It will be in the next release.
I found cpufreq-info which confirmed that power management was working by default.
Glad you got it sorted out. But be careful tweaking your CPU. Might start getting random crashes or even kill it.
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Another awesome FATDOG. Running very well on my hardware. Is it on Distrowatch yet? If not, it ought to be.
ATI Radeon HD 6450 video driver ran out of the box. Neither the latest Ubuntu 12,04 nor Linux Mint 13 does this. Maybe the 3.4 series kernel is the reason. System using only 300MB memory with Seamonkey 2.10 loaded - great.
This distro does a lot for its 200MB size, very mature now with its multi-user capability. Users who are not used to having their own home folder should remember to place certain configuration files there and not in the root home folder. As an example, my .fonts.conf file for anti-aliased fonts did not work at all when saved to the normal Puppy root home folder. Only after creating a new user using the FATDOG Control Panel did this function OK.
Is there an sfs file available yet for FATDOG 600b1 for 32-bit libs? Or can I use the 32-bit sfs libs file from the 500 series?
Thanks for all the hard work on this.
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Grub4DosConfig 1.8 now supports Fatdog64.
Note: Failed format floppy, tested on Fatdog64 alpha2 and beta1.
fdformat: can't stat '/dev/fd0u1440': No such file or directory
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Republicans denied their move to block Chuck Hagel's defense secretary nomination was a true filibuster because they expected Hagel to be confirmed.
They said they stalled the nomination because they wanted more information about their fellow Republican's post-Senate career, including certain foreign policy speeches and his private investment work.
"When the Senate returns on Feb. 26, there should have been sufficient time to consider Senator Hagel's record, so I will vote to end debate because I believe a president's Cabinet members deserve an up-or-down vote," Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said on the Senate floor Thursday.
Alexander said his own nomination to be education secretary during the George H.W. Bush administration was put on hold by Democrats, although not by filibuster.
Democrats delayed Alexander's nearly two months because they wanted more information about his alleged involvement in corrupt financial practices while he was Tennessee governor in the 1980s. Alexander was later unanimously confirmed.
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Delaying the vote while acknowledging Hagel will eventually win Senate confirmation "runs against both the majority will of the Senate and our nation's interest," Carney said.
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Call it the Wonk Bubble. If you're in the market for serious, empirical, quantitative analysis of national policy—or of just about anything else in the news these days—the East Coast Media Elite has you covered like never before.
The Washington Post has Wonkblog, and its Facebook-optimized cousin Know More, and will shortly unveil a "storytelling and policy" project to be run by economics policy correspondent Jim Tankersley. Meanwhile, a large number of Wonkblog and Know More alumni, led by former Wonkblogger-in-chief Ezra Klein, just launched Vox.com, a much more ambitious (if not yet fully formed) website seeking to explain the world in a truly web-native manner.
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Something similar happened at the New York Times after data wunderkind Nate Silver left for the greener pastures of ABC and ESPN. His shiny new FiveThirtyEight.com launched in March; The Upshot, David Leonhardt's project at the Times, arrives hot on its heels and features top-shelf academics like Michael Beschloss, Sendhil Mullainathan and Justin Wolfers—along with many of the paper's best editors, statisticians and data-visualization pros.
And that's just the big, headline-grabbing sites. Lots of other media organizations are moving in a similar direction: The New Republic, for instance, is building a new site-within-a-site to be run by health policy writer Jonathan Cohn; New York will launch a social science vertical under Jesse Singal; and "creative class" theorist Richard Florida's urban-policy site, the Atlantic Cities, has been operating now for well over two years. The space they're entering is hardly terra incognita, either: Focused, wonkish publications like Foreign Policy and National Journal have quietly been doing sterling work along similar lines for years.
All of these properties, to a greater or lesser extent, claim to be in it for the money: They're for-profit entities that see real financial value in providing accessible wonkery to the online masses. But is that really credible? Is there any realistic hope that the tens of millions of dollars being poured into these sites will ever pay real dividends for the media companies hiring all these eggheads? Or is the Wonk Bubble just the latest bandwagon, an act of desperation from fearful executives who don't want to seem behind the curve and who have no real idea what they're doing?
One thing is certain: Not all of these projects will make money. (This is the media business, after all.) Media critic Michael Wolff argues that most of these ventures will fail because "you can lose amounts of money in digital journalism that might make even the most devoted backer choke—and close you." But there's actually more here than the skeptics might think.
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Radio news and TV news and newspaper news and magazine news differ not only in the obvious respects. They're good at different things. Want to watch a politician squirm and try to avoid answering a pointed question? Only television can do that. A compelling individual narrative? Radio is peerless. A highly complex, months-long international investigation? Get thee to a newspaper. Fast, accurate explanation and analysis of current policy debates? The web is for you. It has speed, of course, and the ability to embed easily any kind of chart you like, but most importantly the web has the hyperlink, the lifeblood of the kind of free-flowing intellectual conversation all the wonks are after.
Once a publication has decided it wants to live and thrive on the web, it has to produce the kind of journalism that works best there. Which means funny GIFs of Toronto's crack-addled mayor Rob Ford trying to throw a football, obviously. But it also means journalists using the art of the link to tie together the best thinking on any given subject—nearly all of which, these days, is available online.
Take Dylan Matthews's tour de force "The Sequester: Absolutely everything you could possibly need to know, in one FAQ," a Wonkblog post that could never work in any other medium. It's too long, it's larded up with charts and photos, it's serious and irreverent and opinionated and service-y and insightful; crucially, it is the product of continuous updating, rather than something that needs to exist in its final form before it is first published. In short, it's deeply web-native, and it's the future of journalism. Being able to produce such material might not be sufficient for online success, but it sure is necessary: If you can't succeed online doing the kind of stuff the web does best, then there's not much hope for the rest of your operation.
The web also has the invaluable property that it has no particular need to target the lowest common denominator. If you're running a TV or radio show, you need to ensure that your audience can understand everything you broadcast. Newspapers are similar: They don't like to publish material that might be inaccessible to a substantial part of their readership. But online, your audience is shifting: The people reading one part of a website will often have very little overlap with those reading another part of the same website. The result is that people who are interested in the minutiae of policy can talk to each other without having to worry about, say, making up a reason why the "average reader" should care about such things. On the Internet, there's no such thing as the "average reader."


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basically I need to implement a constructor for class Person, which is fine. The following is taken from the assignment specification:
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In the mid-1980s Acker and his band were playing at a civic reception in the splendid surroundings of the Glasgow City Chambers. I was there as guest of of a director of my company who had some of the unwordly traits of a High Court judge when it came to popular culture. As we danced with our partners past the bandstand where Acker, resplendent in bowler and waistcoat, was playing "Stranger on the Shore", my colleague looked up, then said to me in a loud voice "Which one is Acker Bilk?"
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Acker was a genuine original, as a player and as a human being. The closest parallel to him for me was the American clarinettist Peewee Russell, who played in the same jazz tradition with a unique tone, and had the same ability to cross musical boundaries and elicit respect from musicians of different generations and musical styles. I close with Acker's response to a query on what he thought of Andrew Lloyd Webber - "Superstar? Jesus Christ ..."


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I am trying to delete one of my own questions but this messages pops up, "To allow for possible reopening, you may delete in 18 hours". If I asked the question why can't I delete it at my discretion? Why should I lose that right once it's posted. The question was meant to benefit me and people I know. If it no longer benefits us and even causes risk to us why should it be allowed that time frame?
The best thing I was able to do was edit it to prevent consequences and repercussions to everyone the question would affect and flag it. Any help answering this is greatly appreciated.


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Vrancke van der Stockt (Netherlandish , before 1420 - 1495)
Kneeling Donor with Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1470
Oil on panel
18 x 8 3/16 in. (45.7 x 20.8 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1942
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This panel, originally the left wing of a triptych, was probably painted by Vrancke van der Stockt, the most immediate successor to Rogier van der Weyden, in Brussels during the late fifteenth century. A kneeling donor is accompanied by Saint John the Baptist; in the background are scenes of Christ's baptism and temptation.
Works ascribed to Vrancke van der Stockt are distinguished by their slim, elegant figures with rather angular, mannered silhouettes; they are further characterized by a consistent use of Rogerian motifs, repeated virtually unchanged from the original. The Oberlin painting represents Saint John the Baptist recommending a donor who kneels before him at a prie-dieu; the two figures are flanked by columns that frame a deep landscape view. Based on the costume of the donor, the work was probably painted about 1470 or slightly earlier.1 The figure of Saint John is derived (with minor alterations to the position of the head and arms) from the portrayal of this same saint in Rogier van der Weyden's Medici Madonna, of about 1450 (Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, inv. no. 850).2 The uneven, appealingly awkward placement of the saint's feet in van der Stockt's painting reflects the fact that in its original context, this figure was represented with his left foot elevated on a step.
Harbison has noted the "interplay of condensation and narration" in van der Stockt's compositions, combining the extraordinary selectivity of his mentor Rogier van der Weyden with a predilection for narrative detail.3 This is clearly manifest in the background scenes within the Oberlin panel, which depict a sequence of events progressing from John's baptism of Christ through the temptations which (according to Matthew 4:1-11) immediately followed. Christ is baptized, then led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil: tempted to turn stone into bread, to leap from the temple tower, and to possess the great kingdoms seen from atop a high mountain.
The inclusion of Christ's temptations in representations of the Baptist is relatively rare; the central panel of Rogier's Saint John Altarpiece in Berlin, representing the Baptism of Christ, incorporates the three temptations of Christ in the painted archivolt surrounding the scene and probably served as a prototype for van der Stockt's composition.4 Nonetheless, van der Stockt's spatial and temporal activation of the background landscape is representative of a significant general development from devotional to narrative imagery in Netherlandish painting.
The Oberlin panel originally formed the left wing of a triptych. The right wing of the triptych, representing <H Saint Margaret > recommending a female donor in an interior space, is now in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester.5 The central panel of the triptych is lost, but several suggestions have been forwarded concerning its original format and subject matter. Stechow proposed that the central panel may have been identical with a Deposition from the Cross, formerly in a private collection in Brussels.6 More recently, Harbison has connected the Oberlin and Rochester paintings with a Madonna and Child with Angels attributed to Dirck Bouts in the Capilla Real, Granada.7 Stylistically, the Granada painting seems to reflect an original composition from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden; furthermore, its proportions are closely compatible with those of the Oberlin and Rochester wings.Perhaps most significantly, the unusual--if not unique--setting of the Madonna and Child, which progresses smoothly from a distant landscape view on the left to an interior gallery on the right, addresses the necessity of bridging the gap from the exterior setting of the Kneeling Donor with Saint John the Baptist to the domestic space represented in the Kneeling Donor with Saint Margaret. The Madonna and Child in Granada thus presents a plausible approximation of the original central panel of van der Stockt's triptych.
M. E. Wieseman
Vrancke van der Stockt became a master in the Brussels guild of St. Luke in 1445, and in the same year inherited the studio of his father, the painter Jan van der Stockt (died ca. 1444-45). Vrancke probably trained with his father, but the most pervasive influence on his art was from Rogier van der Weyden (ca. 1399/1400-1464). Van der Stockt was a friend and possibly a collaborator of van der Weyden, and succeeded him as official painter to the town of Brussels in 1464. Van der Stockt held significant administrative positions in Brussels, and served several times as town councillor between 1465 and 1475. He and his wife, Catherine de Moeyen, had five children, of whom two were painters: Bernaert (before 1469-ca. 1538) and Michiel (b. before 1469).
There are no documented paintings known by van der Stockt, but he is recognized as the most direct follower and popularizer of the art of Rogier van der Weyden. A fairly large, homogeneous group of works--both paintings and drawings--have been attributed to him based on their relationship to the Redemption triptych in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (inv. 1881-1892), first isolated and identified as a work by this follower of van der Weyden in the 1920s.8
General References
Brunard, Andrée. "Vrancke Van der Stockt (Successeur de Roger van der Weyden en qualité de peintre officiel de la Ville de Bruxelles)." In Bruxelles au XVme siècle, Brussels, 1953, pp. 73-84.
Périer-D'Ieteren, C. In The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 29. Edited by Jane Turner. London and New York, 1996, pp. 691-93.
Collection H. Oppenheimer, London
His sale, London, 24 July 1936, lot 6 (as by Aelbert Bouts)
Art market, Vienna (1937)
With E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, from whom purchased in 1942
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1954. Paintings and Drawings from Five Centuries: Collection Allen Memorial Art Museum. 3 - 21 February. Cat. no. 21. Lawrence, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1969. The Waning Middle Ages. 1 November - 1 December. Cat. no. 27.
Friedländer, Max J. Die Altniederlandische Malerei. Vol. 14. Leiden, 1937, p. 87.
Duverger, J. In Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, eds., Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antieke bis zur Gegenwart. Vol. 32. Leipzig, 1938, p. 69.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1967, pp. 143-44, fig. 14.
Friedländer, Max J. Early Netherlandish Painting. Vol. 2, Rogier van der Weyden and the Master of Flémalle. Leiden and Brussels, 1967, pp. 57, 99 n. 15.
Schrader, J. L. The Waning Middle Ages. Exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1969, pp. 30-32, no. 27.
Harbison, Craig. "A Late 15th Century Flemish Panel Attributed to Vrancke van der Stockt." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 30, no. 2 (Winter 1973), pp. 52-62.
Sander, Jochen. Niederländische Gemälde im Städel 1400-1550. Mainz, 1993, p. 324, n. 43.
Technical Data
This panel has been removed from its original context as the left wing of a triptych (see Main Text). The radially cut panel (probably oak), vertically grained, has been thinned to about 0.5 cm (7/32 in.), probably prior to acquisition by the museum. A layer of glass cloth and a balsa reinforcement were applied to the back of the panel in 1969 to stabilize it. Along the left side of the panel is an unpainted margin about 0.6 cm (1/4 in.) wide; the edge of the painted area is raised in a "barb" indicating the original presence of an engaged frame. The panel and painted surface have been cut along the right, bottom, and top sides, the latter somewhat unevenly. The paint layer is thin and opaque, over a chalky white ground. There is extensive underdrawing visible with infrared, showing minor changes to the face of the donor and the left side of his book, and to the feet and toes of John the Baptist. There are moderate losses to the paint and ground, especially along the right side and in the baptism group to the right of the saint's head. The painting was cleaned and treated at the ICA (Intermuseum Laboratory) in 1969, at which time the overpaint that had masked the baptism scene was removed and the damaged areas inpainted.
1. Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of European and American Painting and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin, 1967), p. 144.
2. Most recently on Rogier's painting, see Jochen Sander, Niederländische Gemälde im Städel 1400-1550 (Mainz, 1993), pp. 316-34.
3. Craig Harbison, "A Late 15th Century Flemish Panel Attributed to Vrancke van der Stockt," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 30, no. 2 (Winter 1973), p. 53.
4. Rogier van der Weyden, Baptism of Christ (central panel of the Saint John Altarpiece), oil on panel, 77 x 48 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, inv. 534B. On the connection with van der Stockt's painting, see J. L. Schrader, in The Waning Middle Ages (exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Museum, Lawrence, 1969), p. 31; and Craig Harbison, "A Late 15th Century Flemish Panel Attributed to Vrancke van der Stockt," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 30, no. 2 (Winter 1973), pp. 55-58.
5. Oil on panel, 46 x 20 cm, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, inv. 44.15.
6. Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin, 1967), p. 144; the Deposition (oil on panel, 38.5 x 38 cm) is reproduced in the Mémorial of the exhibition, "Cinq Siècles d'Art," Brussels (1935), pl. XI.
7. Craig Harbison, "A Late 15th Century Flemish Panel Attributed to Vrancke van der Stockt," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 30, no. 2 (Winter 1973), pp. 58-62. J. L. Schrader (The Waning Middle Ages [exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1969], p. 32) suggested that the central panel of the triptych may have depicted a Virgin and Child Enthroned, a Sacra conversazione, or a Throne of Mercy, but was unable to cite a specific image.
8. By [Georges] Hulin de Loo, "Stockt (Vrancke van der)," in Biographie nationale...de Belgique 24 (Brussels, 1926-29), cols. 66-76. On drawings attributed to van der Stockt, see Micheline Comblen-Sonkes, "Les Dessins du Maître de la Rédemption du Prado, le présumé Vrancke van der Stockt," Revue archéologues et historiens d'art de Louvain 4 (1973), pp. 98-125.


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The CMS Stag and Athena swimming and diving teams traveled to Caltech on Friday, December 2 and tallied victories in both the men's and women's competitions. The Stags won 154-60, while the Athenas won 154-63.
For the Stags, freshmen Patrick Shultz and Cameron Whiting led the way, with victories in the 200 free and 100 butterfly for Shultz and in the 50 free and 100 free for Whiting. For the Athenas, Michele Kee and LillyBelle Deer were double winners. Kee won the 200 IM and 100 backstroke, while Deer took the 50 and 100 freestyle races. Athena Diver Lizzy Ginelli also won two events, taking first in the 1-meter and 3-meter competitions.
Other individual winners for the Athenas were: Emma Jones 200 freestyle, Nicole Lotte 500 freestyle, Mackenzie Marrs 100 breaststroke. In the relays, the 200 medley quartet of Elsa Cheng, Marrs, Maddie Crawford and Sierra Gibson took first, as did the 200 free relay of Jones, Ellie Smith, Crawford and Olivia Graham.
Stag victories went to: Austin Hallett 200 IM, Chris Pei 100 backstroke, Alex Mendoza 500 freestyle, and Marc Blumberg 100 breaststroke. Tim Storer, Hallett, Jeff McNerney and Anthony Corso won the 200 medley relay. Pei, Joe Neuman, Devin Bowers and Jordan Lieberman won the 200 free relay.


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Chess Match: Game 106
Breaking down a key moment in Monday's 8-6 win over the Yankees…
The situation: The Blue Jays are leading 8-5 and the Yankees have a runner on first base with one out in the sixth inning. Curtis Granderson is in the on-deck circle and Toronto starter Brandon Morrow has reached 99 pitches, showing signs of inconsistent velocity all evening.
The decision: Manager Cito Gaston turned to lefty reliever Scott Downs.
The outcome: Yankees manager Joe Girardi counters by calling upon Marcus Thames as a pinch hitter. Thames gets an odd single, sending a pitch off Downs' foot and into no-man's land. Downs stays in, buckles down and gets the two outs he needs to escape unscathed.
The analysis: It seemed like an odd move at first — considering the inning — but this was a case of Gaston realizing this point was critical to secure the win. Downs is his late-inning specialist and protecting a three-run lead was extremely important at this juncture.
Downs had not worked this early in a game since Sept. 12, 2007 and had not pitched in the sixth inning at all since Aug. 2, 2008. That doesn't matter. This was akin to a save situation and Downs made the most sense.
The comments:
"You want to win this first game. You have to do everything you can to keep it that way. It just matched up pretty good that way at the time. [Downs] is somebody normally I try to save until the eighth or ninth inning, but tonight it was one of those situations where I just thought it was the right time for him. It worked out pretty good for us." — Gaston
"Sometimes the game will dictate how things are going to go. They had started putting something together. For some reason, sometimes you have a hunch the way things are going to go. There was a feeling there that I thought maybe [I might come in the game]. So mentally I was ready and I got out of the inning and was able to kind of stop the bleeding." — Downs
My verdict: Gaston made the right move, especially given the recent performance of lefty David Purcey out of the bullpen. The Jays now have a pair of formidable left-handers who can handle pressure situations late in the game. Gaston went with the more experienced Downs in the sixth and the lefty logged 1 2/3 innings. The manager later turned to Purcey with two men on and two outs in the eighth (Downs' usual spot) and the first-year reliever delivered a crucial strikeout against pinch-hitter Austin Kearns.
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We kind of expect those things from Downs by now, but Purcey sure didn't look out of place in the 8th did he? Cool as a cuke.


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SMI-S: Customers want it, so what's the problem?
SMI-S is gaining acceptance among users, but until vendors offer products with complete capabilities, full-scale adoption could be a way off.
Just one year ago, the Distributed Management Task Force Inc. (DMTF) announced that the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) had certified the first products under the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). SMI-S is based on the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards. SMI-S promised to allow end users to implement standardized management interfaces that would simplify storage management.
In the meantime, SMI-S has gained momentum. A SNIA program has tested more than 200 vendor hardware products from 17 companies in the last year. Perhaps more importantly, SMI-S has set higher expectations among the user community.
"I think that customers who understand the goals of SMI-S are really in favor of it and want it to succeed and will buy products that are headed in that direction," says Randy Kerns, senior partner at The Evaluator Group, in Greenwood, Colo. However, he says, the real issue is the fact that all the goals of SMI-S are not yet realized, and that many functions won't be for a while. "Customers want tools to get their jobs done and that integrate to make life easier," he notes. The risks, he says, are impatience -- customers need solutions and will go with what works. They won't wait, especially if is only to get a product in which the SMI-S capabilities are still incomplete. "So, if a customer deploys a solution that is not SMI-S compliant for what is needed, it will be some time before they make a change -- thus postponing the overall success," he adds.
A recent article written by Geoff Hough, director of product marketing at 3PAR, paints a similar picture of SMI-S falling short of expectations. Like Kerns, Hough says that most customers and vendors support the concept of SMI-S. However, early adopters are being forced to make big investments, even though they will only be able to get partial SMI-S benefits. Admittedly, he adds, "for them, the benefits outweigh any issues they must actively work on to resolve interoperability and functionality." By contrast, a group he terms "midstream adopters" are putting off adoption until SMI-S demonstrates more commercial and technical maturity. Finally, of course, late adopters are staying on the fence -– waiting for the day when SMI-S finally lives up to its ideal.
Perhaps the harshest words regarding SMI-S compliance come from Steve Duplessie of the Enterprise Strategy Group. He cites a recent ESG survey which shows that users are determined to purchase only standards-based products, primarily because they are concerned about runaway complexity. Duplessie says users shouldn't "settle" and instead should only give business to companies that have put their full support behind SMI-S. However, Duplessie questions how deep and how strong that vendor commitment really is.
"In fact, vendors like EMC, with so many different products, would benefit [from SMI-S] as much as users," he adds.
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Los Angeles, CA -- Esquire Network has secured exclusive cable television rights to NBC's award-winning late-night talk show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Starting Wednesday, April 24, episodes will air on Esquire Network Monday through Friday at 7PM ET/PT, one week after they first premiere on NBC. Late Night marks the first talk show addition to the network's programming slate.
"Jimmy's sharp wit, relaxed style and natural charm make him exactly the kind of guy Esquire Network viewers want to spend time with, and his show the perfect choice to lead in to our primetime," said Adam Stotsky, general manager, Esquire Network. "With its unique blend of conversation, music, innovative use of digital media and risk-taking comedy, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has become a top destination for A-list celebrities and now, for our viewers as well."
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon joins previously announced series including originals Knife Fight and The Getaway, along with Parks and Recreation and Party Down, as part of Esquire Network's new programming lineup beginning April 22.
Named "the most enjoyable late-night show" by The New York Times in 2011, the Emmy(R) nominated Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is one of television's most influential trendsetters. Comedian Jimmy Fallon brings a fun energy to the NBC comedy-talk franchise, with his personalized interview style, love of audience participation, spot-on impersonations and innovative sketches. The show consistently garners attention for viral videos and prominent guests such as Tom Cruise, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Justin Timberlake. Fallon's choice of house band, The Roots, has been universally praised.
From Universal Television and Broadway Video, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and produced by Michael Shoemaker. Gavin Purcell produces.
About Esquire Network
The modern man will be televised. Championing intelligence, wit and style, Esquire Network brings the iconic men's brand to television as the definitive network for the modern, multi-faceted man. A strategic partnership between NBCUniversal and Hearst Magazines, the network's programming explores and celebrates the interests, passions and aspirations of today's man: gaming, gear, entertainment, food, fashion, women, humor, travel, competition, danger and more. Formerly known as G4, Esquire Network will launch in April 2013 in 62 million households nationwide, as well as online, mobile, On Demand and other platforms. Esquire Network is a unit of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal.
About NBC Entertainment
NBC Entertainment develops and schedules programming for the network's primetime, late-night, and daytime schedules. NBC's quality programs and balanced lineup have earned the network critical acclaim, numerous awards, and ratings success. NBC has earned more Emmy Awards than any network in television history. NBC's roster of popular scripted series includes the Emmy Award-winning comedies "The Office" and "30 Rock," as well as the critically acclaimed "Parks and Recreation" and "Community," and new popular comedies "The New Normal," "Go On," "Animal Practice" and "Guys With Kids." NBC's drama slate is highlighted by the buzz-worthy new series "Revolution" and "Chicago Fire," veteran award-winning shows "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Parenthood," and the acclaimed recent additions "Smash" and "Grimm." Unscripted series for NBC include the vocal competition hit "The Voice" as well as "The Biggest Loser," "The Celebrity Apprentice" and the perennial #1 most-watched summer series, "America's Got Talent."
In late-night, NBC regularly delivers #1 broadcast results with "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," "Last Call with Carson Daly" and "Saturday Night Live." NBC Daytime's "Days of our Lives" consistently ranks among daytime's top programs in the valuable women 18-34 category. The five-time, Emmy Award-winning NBC.com streams full episodes and provides original content for NBC entertainment shows online and through apps for mobile and tablet devices. NBC recently launched NBC Kids, a new Saturday morning programming block designed specifically to address the developmental needs of preschool-aged children. Programmed by the kids' experts at Sprout, the nation's first 24-hour preschool television channel, this new three-hour block will feature educational series that promote active, healthy lifestyles for younger children.


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A paper published online today in Nature reveals that glia play a key role in preventing the progression of the most prominent Rett Syndrome symptoms displayed by mouse models of the disease: lethality, irregular breathing and apneas, hypoactivity and decreased dendritic complexity. The discovery, funded in part by the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT) was led by Gail Mandel, Ph.D., an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Oregon Health and Science University.
Rett Syndrome, the most physically disabling of the autism spectrum disorders, is caused by mutations in the methyl CpG-binding protein (MeCP2). Rett Syndrome strikes little girls almost exclusively, with first symptoms usually appearing before the age of 18 months. These children lose speech, motor control and functional hand use, and many suffer from seizures, orthopedic and severe digestive problems, breathing and other autonomic impairments. Most live into adulthood, and require total, round- the- clock care. There are several mouse models for RTT in which MeCP2 has been deleted: these mice accurately recapitulate many of the human symptoms.
In a seminal 2007 Science paper, Adrian Bird and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh showed that global re-expression of MeCP2 in mouse models dramatically reversed Rett symptoms, even in very late-stage disease. This led to the idea that the damage to neurons in RTT was reversible.
In 2009, Mandel and collaborator Nurit Ballas (Stony Brook University) showed that the MeCP2 protein was present in all types of glia. Glial cells are comprised of astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and microglia. Glia support and interact with neurons in innumerable ways, from providing the structural underpinnings and guidance of axons and dendrites (the neuronal processes that carry information), to creating protective insulation for axons, to providing energy substrates necessary for neuronal function. Until the reports of MeCP2's presence in glia, Rett Syndrome was thought to be caused exclusively by MeCP2 deficiencies in neurons.
Mandel and Ballas and colleagues now show that in a mouse model of Rett Syndrome, re-expression of MeCP2 solely in astrocytes, in male mice at 4 weeks of age and in female mice between the ages of 5 to 7 months, rescues the lifespan, breathing, anxiety, and locomotor activities associated with the global knockout mice.
Mandel states: "The RTT plot now thickens...we need to think about contributions from multiple cell types to this disease. The idea that neurons and glia might serve different roles in Rett Syndrome, in initiation and progression of symptoms, is reminiscent of the situation in another neurological disorder, an inherited form of ALS. Thus, a role for glia may turn out to be a more common theme in many neurological diseases. It will be important to determine if other glial types play roles in RTT, and to further investigate how normal neurons and astrocytes interact, a currently active but controversial area".
First author Daniel Lioy (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, OHSU) comments, "Future studies will focus on trying to identify the key molecules in astrocytes that might mediate the rescue. These molecules may provide new avenues for targeted pharmacological intervention for Rett."
"This new and unexpected result by the Mandel lab reveals important clues regarding the function of MeCP2 and how its absence causes devastation. The Rett Syndrome Research Trust will continue to support high-level exploration with the conviction that understanding how this protein works will open new doors to treatment approaches," said Monica Coenraads, Executive Director of RSRT and mother to a daughter with Rett Syndrome.
To read a blog interview with Gail Mandel and Dan Lioy please visit http://rettsyndrome.
About the Rett Syndrome Research Trust
The Rett Syndrome Research Trust is the premier organization devoted exclusively to promoting international research on Rett Syndrome and related MECP2 disorders. Our goal is clear: to heal children and adults who will otherwise suffer from this disorder for the rest of their lives. With our experience and tight focus, RSRT has an unparalleled knowledge base and extensive networking abilities in the world of high-level research. This puts RSRT in a unique position to stimulate, evaluate, support and monitor ambitious and novel scientific projects. To learn more about the Trust, please visit www.ReverseRett.org


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Early morning sun projects rays through the clouds near Triumph, Idaho.
Hyndman Creek Trail Landscape
Aspen, wildflowers, and grasses form a peaceful landscape along the Hyndman Creek Trail.
TrailPano I
Sun and shadow create a morning pattern along the Hyndman Creek Trail.
Hyndman Creek
Near some beaver ponds, some rich colors appear along the Hyndman Creek Trail.
TrailPano II
The Hyndman Creek Trail enters a dark forest on a late July morning.
TrailPano III
After seeing what I think is a snarling wolverine, the trail heads up through the forest to Big Basin.
TrailPano IV
It is a bit gloomy as I make my way up into Big Basin through the lupine and paintbrush.
A beautiful little wayside as a spring tumbles across the trail to Big Basin.
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Kneeling along the spring, I have some fun with being in and out of focus with some lush plants.
Big Basin Waterfall I
I shinny down to the creek to explore a waterfall, very common in Big Basin.
Jacqueline Peak in Big Basin
I'm struck by this view of Jacqueline Peak as I come over the lip of Big Basin
The Paymaster
I climb up out of the deep creek and an interesting rock greets me at the trail, with Elaine's Lookout and The Paymaster beyond.
Spring and Flowers
I small spring is surrounded by an array of wildflowers and stones.
Bee Well
I was bitten all day long, but I didn't mind seeing this variety.
Big Basin Waterfall II
One of the many waterfalls in Big Basin.
Big Basin Waterfall III
A peaceful cascade comes down one of the many streams in Big Basin.
West out of Big Basin
From higher alpine reaches of Big Basin I watch some rain approach Johnstone Peak with The Paymaster to the left.
Snag in Big Basin
I look up and catch this stark skyline as the rain approaches.
Jacqueline Peak in Big Basin with Lupine
I notice a field of lupine at the base of Jacqueline Peak along with a fascinating tree.
McIntire Peak in Big Basin with Lupine
Blue lupine in Big Basin, with McIntire Peak beyond
Old Hyndman from Big Basin
Old Hyndman peeks out above the alpine ridgeline.
Cobb and Old Hyndman from Big Basin
A broader view looking north out of Big Basin to see the south flank of Cobb Peak and Old Hyndman.
TrailPano V
Coming down out of Big Basin on the old mining road.
The butterflies were out and about, but this is the only good shot I got.
Big Basin Wildflowers
As I exit the basin, there is rain in the distance. Walnut is framed by the slopes of The Paymaster to the left and Cobb Peak to the right.
Another Squirrel
This little guy would freeze every time he heard the camera focus beep.


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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: J. Pitts, Printer, Wholesale Toy and Marble Warehouse 6, Great St. Andrew stre[et] 7 Dials
Title: [John] Anderson my Joe
First Line: [John] Anderson my Joe, I wondor [sic] wha ye mean
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Subjects: Scotland
Themes: Marriage
Title: Oh, come to me and pay your rent, a parody on \"Come to me when day lignt [sic] sets\"
First Line: Oh come to me and pay your rent
Themes: Rent collecting
Title: Dashing sergeant
First Line: If I had a beau for a soldier would go
Title: Home! sweet home!
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Title: The parting kiss
First Line: On Baltic billows rode my ship
Title: Our country is our ship
First Line: Our country is our ship d'ye see
Authors: Cobb, James, 1756-1818
Themes: Patriotism , Politics and government - 19th century
Title: The humble roof
First Line: When first this humble roof
Themes: Wealth , Social status
Title: Oh! tis love
First Line: Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love tha[t] makes the world go round
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CIOs say innovation is a top business priority this year, but acting on their plans will be crucial as they face increasing pressure to innovate while keeping day-to-day IT operations running smoothly, according to researcher, IDC.
IDC analyst Raj Mudaliar said due to such a competitive market, CIOs and enterprises cannot afford to put innovation on hold and it now needs to be part of their IT strategies.
"Enterprises don't have the time and luxury to have a three-year plan or a five-year plan because competition is going to be extremely aggressive. The ones who are able to leverage this whole new emerging [digital] environment successfully are the ones who are going to be leading the market place," he said.
"If the CIO is not able to demonstrate that thought leadership, then sooner or later he or she is not going to be there."
Consequently, the CIO is compelled to become more innovative as it is a way for enterprises to stay competitive in the market, said Mudaliar.
Mudaliar said outsourcing is going to continue to grow as CIOs look to not only improve operational efficiencies but to free up more of their time so they can focus more on innovation.
"More and more outsourcing is bound to happen and that's a way the CIO can continue to focus on what is more of strategic importance for the organisation from an innovation perspective," he said.
"The outsourcing sector, especially in the Australian market, has grown in leaps and bounds and it continues to be the highest growing market in Australia. So whether it is applications, networks or infrastructure services, a large component of those are being outsourced to IT services companies."
Research firm Gartner also found that most CIOs wanted to focus on innovation. However, according to Gartner's global CIO survey of 2053 CIOs, 303 which are in the Asia-Pacific region, about half do not see IT's enterprise role changing over the next three years because most CIOs are still only focusing on "keeping the lights on."
IT investments
More than one-third (39 per cent) of respondents to IDC's 2012 Continuum Study, said their IT investments would increase over the next 12 months, with the top three areas being:
- Mobility to drive business outcomes
- Virtualization and automation to build better scale and agility
- Unified communications to enhance productivity.
IDC expects investment in IT services in Australia to grow from $15.2 billion in 2012 to $17.7 billion by 2016.
"Yes, there is a slow-down which has been triggered by the mining sector and that will begin to have an impact on the economy in the next two years. But having said that, 2.9 per cent growth for 2013 and 2014 is pretty healthy in comparison to the economy from a global perspective," Mudaliar said.
"From an Australian economy perspective, we are increasingly moving towards becoming a services dominated economy. Innovation is going to go hand in hand with customer-centricity so the outcome is to be able to deliver better services for their customers to retain them and continually grow them.
"From that perspective, I think we are seeing that trend where there are no cuts on IT."
However, Gartner recently projected in its global CIO survey that IT budgets are to be slightly down this year, with a weighted global average decline of 0.5 per cent.
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The moment the new Impala SS models hit the ground in 1994-after eager enthusiasts begged, pleaded and threatened Chevy brass to build a production version of the wildly popular SEMA show car on which they were based-they became cult sensations. The enthusiast base for the rear-wheel drive B-body star continues to thrive, even though production lasted a scant three years.
Over the years, countless modified Impalas have hit the street and strip, but there's never been an Impala quite like the one GM Performance Parts (GMPP) recently built. The folks there started with a '96 engineering mule that had been collecting dust, and under the direction of Mike Copeland of GM Performance Division, they transformed it into an Outlaw 10.5-style door-slammer.
Tube chassis. Funny car-style cage. Narrowed rear end. Lenco transmission. The whole megillah.
And while all that sounds impressive enough, the real point to it all was building a suitable validation vehicle for a twin-turbocharged LSX engine designed to explore the upper range of GMPP's LSX cylinder block capability. Built in conjunction with Thomson Automotive (thomsonengines.com), with assistance from Turbonetics and ACCEL-DFI, the one-off, twice-turbo'd power plant dynoed at an astonishing 2,048 hp-and the engine displaces only 400ci! (See Super Chevy's September 2009 issue for a complete look at the engine.)
That's what a pair of 88mm turbochargers, 27 pounds of boost, and some great cylinder head clamping will do for you.
"Like everything in GMPP's portfolio, the LSX block was subjected to 50 hours of full-load durability testing prior to its public release, but this was something special," says Dr. Jamie Meyer of GM Performance Parts. "There have been more than 200 dyno pulls on the engine without a problem and we don't know what the maximum power capability of the engine is. We had to pull it off the dyno in order to finish the car."
When viewed on an engine stand or on the dyno, it looks as if there's no way the turbo LSX will fit in, say, a monster truck, let alone a B-body. But Copeland and his crew designed it to do just that. Surprisingly, only the top part of the tunnel ram-style intake system protrudes from the hood. The turbochargers, their 3-inch-diameter intake and outlet pipes, as well as the custom headers all fit beneath the lightweight, aftermarket hood.
"With so much power to contend with, we needed an appropriate chassis to handle it," says Copeland. "Regardless of whether we head to the LSX Shootout and aim for a 6-second time slip, the foundation-and most importantly, the safety equipment-is there to support it."
Vanishing Point Race Cars (www.vpracecars.com) contributed expertise and one of its "three-quarters" chassis kits to help frame the Impala. The car uses the original front frame clip, with the Vanishing Point chassis behind it built to NHRA 25.5 specifications. The Telford, Pennsylvania-based chassis shop also designed the car's roll cage on a computer, while Copeland's staff GM's Milford Proving Ground assembled the chassis and built the cage from Vanishing Point's schematics.
To the chassis, a four-link rear suspension was hung, along with an X-link, stabilizer bar, QA1 double-adjustable coilover shocks and Wilwood brakes. The front suspension features Speed Tech tubular control arms, QA1 adjustable coilovers and a steering rack from Vanishing Point. The GM crew machined a set of wheel spindles from a billet of 7075 aluminum. They're designed to hold a C6 Corvette hub and bearing assembly. Brembo brake components are used up front, too.
The car rides on Weld Alumastar wheels and Mickey Thompson ET Drag tires all around.
Two turbos and 2,000 hp While the stock front framerails were retained during construction, there's nothing recognizable from a production Impala SS when the hood is lifted. Tubing from the turbochargers and intake system dominate the view, their precise routing a testament to the craftsmanship involved with the car's construction.
Beneath the tubing is the aforementioned 2,048hp LSX-based engine. It uses a pair of 88mm Turbonetics (www.turboneticsinc.com) compressors that blow more than 25 pounds of boost into a custom intake plenum; through a pair of 2,100cfm ACCEL-DFI throttle bodies mounted on CNC-carved tunnel ram-style intake manifold; and into a set of prototype LSX racing cylinder heads. There's a bunch of forged rotating parts in there, too, including GRP aluminum rods, Diamond aluminum pistons (each with a 50cc dish!) and a Callies 3.750-inch-stroke crankshaft.
A production-style coil-on-plug ignition system was out of the question for an engine with this much cylinder pressure, so ACCEL-DFI's Joe Alameddine wired up a Mallory Hyfire ignition and ACCEL dual-sync distributor.
If you're saying to yourself, "Hey, LS engines don't have a provision for distributors," you're right. Fortunately, GM Performance Parts sells a front-mount distributor kit for circle track racers whose class requires it. The kit includes the mounting bracket, as well as a drive gear and fuel lobe that are added to the camshaft.
Alameddine, who commutes during the warm months in his own 1,000hp, twin-turbo Impala SS, also handled the tuning of the engine. He used ACCEL-DFI's recently introduced Thruster EFI engine management system, which allowed him to batch-fire the cylinders.
A Spearco custom air-to-water intercooler is used with the engine. Copeland's team built a four-gallon ice water tank for it. The engine block and heads are cooled via the circulation through a custom Griffin radiator.
Channeling the engine's more than 1,500 lb-ft of torque is the work of a Lenco three-speed "Lencodrive" automatic transmission, a manually shifted racing piece with an air-activated trans brakes. It also has a magnesium case and weighs only about 135 pounds. It's matched with a Bruno converter drive and a Neal Chance converter. From there, power is sent to a Strange Engineering 9-inch carrier mounted in a Vanishing Point Race Cars' housing. Inside the carrier is a Strange spool and a 3.90 gear set, while a set of Strange 40-spline, gun-drilled axles deliver the torque to the wheels.
The control center of this warp-speed Impala takes some contortion in order to squeeze into the Kirker aluminum racing seat, but once there the pilot will recognize the production dashboard-only it's been filled with more Auto Meter gauges than we have room to print. There's also a racing-spec removable steering wheel from Flaming River.
Surprisingly, the firewall area and front floorboards are stock; and the car even retains the production door panels, although they're modified to clear the NHRA 25.5-spec roll cage. Heck, even the front power windows still work.
Beyond the safety considerations built into the Impala's cabin, there's some truly gorgeous fabrication in the form of aluminum panels and luscious carbon-fiber wheeltubs.
The carbon-fiber motif extends to the bodywork, too, as Copeland commissioned nearby Specter Werkes/Sports (www.spectergtr.com)-a company better known for its aftermarket C5 and C6 Corvette components-to form a set of custom door panels, fenders and trunk lid (all removable) of the lightweight composite material. Additionally, the front and rear fasciae, and the hood, were sourced from Street Trends. The paint is GM's Atomic Orange color used for the Corvette.
Tack on the wheelie bars, parachute and rear wing and they round out the car's assembly. It took GM Performance Division about 16 weeks to build the car, a time span that also included working on a variety of other projects-including another Impala SS development car.
"While we were at it, we needed to test other GMPP systems on the new LSX454 crate engine, including the LS controller and recently announced Supermatic transmission, and our lead engineer, Randy Leininger happened to have another Impala SS in the engineering fleet," says Dr. Meyer. "So, we were able to build two Impalas, one for the street and one for the strip."
Historians take note of this next tidbit: The turbo Impala was originally the No. 7 pilot-build car for the '96 model year and still has a 0007 VIN tag. It was originally used for validation testing at GM's Desert Proving Ground in Arizona, before winding up at the Michigan test site.
Power-to-featherweight ratio With five gallons of fuel, the turbocharged Impala weighs 3,232 pounds. That's essentially the weight of a new Corvette ZR1, which has a stellar power-to-weight ratio of one horsepower for every 5 pounds of mass. The Impala's output, however, equals one horse for every 1.58 pounds of car.
As we went to press, GMPP's Impala hadn't yet left its mark on the dragstrip. It was finished as last year's season was wrapping up and, well, you've probably heard about GM's financial problems of late. That makes approval to fund a racing excursion a little more difficult.
Nevertheless, it's ready to rock-if the time, money, and a suitably brave driver can be found.
"I've got an NHRA Comp license," says Dr. Meyer. "But I don't know that I'm ready for that joy ride yet!"