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6/9 Sticking with Rudy
Everyone's heard the names. Juan Gonzalez. Pudge Rodriguez. Rafael Palmeiro. Alex Rodriguez. Michael Young. Then you turn the page to Gary Matthews Jr., Mark DeRosa, Marlon Byrd, Nelson Cruz. One thing all those guys has in common is they've worked with Rudy and they have positive things to say.
With Gary Matthews and Nelson Cruz, we're all big league players but we struggled in the big leagues. Opening Day, we were sitting at home. Gary Matthews went through that with me. Nelson Cruz went through that same thing, getting designated. Sticking with Rudy's program, him believing in us, us believing in him, working hard every single day, getting in a routine, we got better. Hands down, he's the best hitting coach in baseball and everybody knows that.
I also had to talk to Rudy and remind him that in 2007 when I came to Texas, the Rangers were a team nobody talked about. The energy wasn't there. It was a team that just hit. It took a couple years to change the culture. You saw how they won in 2009 and you see how they are now in 2010 — full of energy. Everybody over there is doing their jobs.
I told Rudy coming over here, implementing your system, it doesn't happen right away. That's what the fans and everybody watching the Cubs has to understand. It doesn't happen right away. Me working with him, it's my fourth year. I know how to work with him and he knows how to work with me. He's still learning everybody's swing and he's still trying to figure out how to work with different players and personalities. It doesn't sound good to say it but 2011 is going to be a better year as far as this whole Cubs organization knowing his system. We are going to get better as we go through this year.
— Marlon
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Marlon became a fan favorite quickly because he busts his *** every single game and the fans can see it!
Marlon, you are one of my favorites. You and Marshall, Marmol, Silva, Soto, Hill, Fontenot, Theriot, Lee, Soriano, Fukudome, Colvin, Zambrano, Lilly, Wells, and Dempters. That's just for this season. I have all of your jersey's plus many, many more from years past.
I just read your blog after seeing the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup. I'm happy for them and their fans. But I'm not much of a hockey fan.
I can say that I have been a life long Cubs fan, that will never stop. However, I hate the 'always a bridesmaid and never a bride" feeling.
I have lived to see 6 Bulls championships — happy for them and their fans, but I'm not a fan of basketball.
I have lived to see a Soccer championship — happy for them, but to be honest I didn't even realize we had a pro soccer team in Chicago.
I have lived to see the White Sox win the World Series — happy for them and their fans, but I'm a Cubs fan. Hence, I can not be a White Sox fan–even if my Dad is.
I have lived to see the Blackhawks win a Stanley Cup — happy for them and their fans, but I'm not a fan of hockey.
And then I read your blog and see that you say that the Cubs will be much better in 2011. I love the Cubs, and you are one of my favorites, but that was like a kick in the teeth. That can be translated to mean 'There is Always Next Year' in this city. I hear people say it all the time, but never a player.
I know we are down 6.5 games, but the season isn't over. We are not mathmatically out of it. Yes we have struggled, but who is to say that the other teams won't struggle later in the season when you guys are hot? Please don't give up on this year. We aren't even half way done.
I hope your inner attitude matches the way you play, and not the way this blog entry reads. Maybe because you haven't grown up hearing, 'There's always next year' you didn't really mean that when you stress that the cubs will be much better in 2011. Yes, I would like it if you were better in 2011, but I would also like it if the team plays like they did tonight more often in 2010.
Marlon: I'm an old guy and your energy reminds me of a young Pete Rose. You hustle and have quickly become the one player we can point to who never quits. I can't say that about all of your teammates but if we had 25 Byrds on this team, we'd be 10 games up.
Spread some of that stuff you got around and we'll be just fine.
go1demp1go, Marlon never said they were going to be bad this season, he didn't even say the cubs were going to be a better team next year, he said they Cubs will better understand Rudy's hitting program next season, which is 100% true. I appreciate how much you care, but theres no need to be jumping to conclusions about a man's character here, just read a little more carefully next time.
(I got your back Marlon, just keep up the good work.)
How could anyone not be a fan of Marlon. He runs like his hair is on fire on every play including home runs. He is a big time player and big time players do not do that. What a great signing. I did not know much about Marlon as he was in the AL but I sure know him now. He looks like a Bears linebacker yet can roam center field like a 180 lb center fielder. Hopefully other Cub players will take note of his hustle. With that may come improved hitting for the rest of the guys. His hustle sort of reminds me of Pete Rose. Fans really appreciate that. In fact his hustle should embarras some of our guys. There is never any excuse not to husltle no matter what you salary is.
cubsfan12, Marlon is still on of my favorites, but that doesn't mean I have to like everything he says or does. That's crazy. I think in this town, it is dangerous to always count on 'next year.' Hopefully they will have a better understanding of Rudy's hitting program, but that is assuming a lot, such as the team will have the same set of people. Unless his hidden meaning is that Lee and Ramirez won't be on the team next year, so they can be their own hitting coaches somewhere else. The set up of the team could be similiar or very different next year. As a player Marlon has no control over that. I think it is very important to think of the here and now. It might be different if the team was being built to win later, but this team is set up with guys that can win now. I think it is important for them to be thinking about now, not later. They can't control later, they can control now.
I love the cubs, always have and always will. Win or lose. But if they lose I love to see them play with Marlon's on-field spirit. Don't give it away, make them earn it.
Hi Marlon! I'm glad you are opening our eyes to what a good instructor can do! I say all the time that it's amazing the results that St. Louis gets out of their pitchers and you can credit most of that to Dave Duncan. That guy's amazing. People forget that when they played in high school they were being coached on their swing all the time. Tiger Woods plays his best when he has a good swing coach. There's nothing wrong with being a professional and taking instruction…it makes you BETTER! Yay! My brother-in-law, Andy is really ready to take church league softball to the next level. He just got P90X and he's ready to start changing his body into a meat-packed home run hitting machine. He asked me to ask you if you could come and play a game on our team some time. Could you? We're out in the Portland, Oregon area and I know that's not on your scheduled list of stops but we could really use your help against Trinity! Anyway, my brother-in-law, Andy has committed himself to the program so hardcore that he passed up a hamburger a couple nights ago for a Boca Burger. Imagine that! Well, Marlon, keep hitting two home runs a night and I'll keep telling my friends about how great you are…deal? DEAL!
Mr. Byrd,
You are absolutely amazing!!! You bust your butt on both offense and defense. It is nice to see a veteran with those types of ethics. I voted you to the all-star game – hope you make it!!!
Off topic, I was just wondering if you and Mr Dempster received the poster I sent?
Jim Matheson
US Army (retired)
If only we had 8 other players on the line-up with Marlon's heart…
I'm flying in from London on Thursday to see 4 big wins next weekend. And cannot wait.
Thanks for all you effort.
You almost Hustlelikereed.
If only we had 8 other players on the line-up with MArlon's heart…
I'm flying in from London on Thursday to see 4 big wins next weekend. And cannot wait.
Thanks for all you effort.
You almost Hustlelikereed.
Hi Marlon! How ironic that you.. the biggest hustler on the team took over the blog from Reed Johnson who was last years biggest hustler. You have a lot of the same qualities! Reed hustled on offense and defense just as you do.. I have to admit, I miss Reed but I admire you! Your love for the game is so apparent. You RUN (in less than 17 seconds) when you hit homeruns. You hustle on every play in the outfield! You show respect to your team mates and to other teams. My hat is off to you Mr. Byrd and I hope that by the second half the CUBS pull it together and start kickin some tail! Best of luck to you sir and I am thrilled that your a CUBBIE!! Thank you for your blogs, it is great seeing inside the game.
Susie Given
Cubs fan in Charleston WV
whats good man. 1 thing about the hitting is it seems like you guys are all trying to get it done w the longball which isnt a bad way to get the job done, but i think right now you guys should just focus on putting good wood on the ball. the power will come from there but if your trying to crush it thats where the slumps start. it seems (on tv) like you all take the weight of the teams stuggles and try to end them w your personal at bat, which isnt needed. look at oyur guys lineup. your stacked you dont have to end w 1 swing when theres sooooooo many great hitters on this team, the cardinals have 3 or 4 great hitters…after that theres a steady drop off. so they need the long ball. you guys are deep, trusting eachother to drive you in is where the wins will come from. baseball is too much of a team sport for you guys to be trying to win it yourself.
also since you have the power to talk the cubs you should do me a favor and talk to aramis. just remind him he won the 08 roberto clemente award (best clutch hitter in baseball) he's hit over 30 homeruns 4 times, had atleast 90 rbis 7 seasons…6 of them he had over 100. not to mention hes hit over .300 in 5 seasons. And if you ask me his problem this year is that he has no confdence at the plate. he looks a little scared to be honest which shouldnt be the case. i mean if teams are stupid enough to intentionally walk batter to face him w the bases loaded he should be angry not scared. if you ask me Aramis just needs a reminder of how great he really is. i remember in 08 when dlee and aramis went back to back against the white sox to tie the game…then aramis went on to hit a walk off in his next at bat. its not like hes too old or just got bad, he just lost his confidence. instead goin to the plate thinkin is this the one that ends the slump he should think "Im Aramis Ramirez and their dumb enough to walk someone to face me? time to make them pay!" I think if you remind how great he is the slump will end. keep it easy birdman
Hey Marlon thanks for hitting 2 home runs on last sunday it helped my fantasy Go Cubbies!!!!
Hey big Byrd,you got my votes for the allstar team,I hope you make it.Goodluck for the season.


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Ultimately and hopefully, advocates of GM crops may prove correct and biotechnology will be the world's savior. But before that can happen some sticky issues – which have been around from biotech's inception, begging for solutions – must be dealt with. Is a farmer's right to plant whatever he likes on his land trumped by his neighbor's fear of pollen drift and desire to keep supplying organic/non-GM markets? How far should GM and conventional crops be kept apart? Will trade agreements be tweaked to allow GM crops into more countries?
Left for too long, those issues and others have now coalesced around Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa.
First hearing
The USDA's coming rules regarding the GM alfalfa, expected on Jan. 24, was the subject of the first 2011 House Agriculture Committee hearing.
Repeated findings by USDA that Roundup Ready alfalfa is safe "should be the end of the debate" regarding the crop's deregulation, said Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas, new chairman of the committee, during a Jan. 20 hearing. The product "should be deregulated. Unfortunately, we now have a new problem. Since the USDA has determined there is no 'plant/pest risk' the only option under the statute is full deregulation. But the USDA is considering two additional options. One would have USDA retain full regulatory authority – (Agriculture) Secretary (Tom Vilsack) has acknowledged this is not preferred. The third option would be to only partially deregulate" Roundup Ready alfalfa.
The third option, which calls for "coexistence" between those wanting to grow GM alfalfa and those wanting to stick with conventional, was repeatedly criticized by Republicans during the hearing. Lucas said the proposed option would "have a negative impact on all U.S. agriculture. Concerns have been raised that this option was developed to prevent future lawsuits by addressing coexistence between conventional and organic production. That's a political objective and is outside the scope of the legal authority."
Following his opening statement, Vilsack was further chided by Lucas, who accused the USDA of injuring U.S. business interests with too-loose tongues. "I'd like to comment on the suggestion in your statement that some are questioning the value of having a conversation (on) coexistence. … USDA is currently engaged in a decision-making process on a petition to deregulate a specific crop. What is of concern here is the report that this conversation started with a comment to the effect of – and I think it's a pretty accurate quote – 'our preference is to have you all help us do the best we can. But if that isn't possible then we'll do the best we can.'
"I'd hope that you'd recognize that at a time when you have a company waiting for a decision that could cost the industry millions of dollars and thousands of jobs, comments like that create more of an atmosphere of, well, less than cooperation. … I hope you've instructed your staff this is not acceptable."
Long process
Vilsack, who said some 75 biotech products (with roughly 10 percent containing glyphosate tolerance genes) have been deregulated by the USDA, admitted "this has been a long and torturous process that alfalfa has gone through. This started in 2005. Courts have come in and essentially directed us to perform a more extensive evaluation under an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)."
Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), when considering deregulation for a GM crop USDA is to consider two approaches. "One is the Environmental Assessment (EA) and the other is the EIS," said Vilsack. "We had, prior to the last several years, used the EA fairly successfully. … Recently, there have been questions about the comprehensive nature of those assessments (leading) courts to direct us to do more extensive reviews in the form of EIS. We have done that.
"Our belief is the reason for the courts directing us to do that is they believe the EIS ought to 'inform' the process going forward. We produced an extensive EIS in connection with alfalfa: 2,300 pages. In it, we identified a number of areas, put a draft EIS out for comment, received a number of comments back. In an effort to be responsive to those comments we took a look at various alternatives."
And once a decision on Roundup Ready alfalfa is released, more comments will come, said Vilsack.
"When we proposed the various alternatives, it created and generated a dialogue between differing interests. I think it's been a positive experience for those who have participated. Why? Because it's allowed us to better understand the unique nature of alfalfa, to better understand the greater awareness of stewardship contracting taking place in the market. It's allowed us to have questions raised about the process of verifying those stewardship contracts. And it's underscored the importance of trying to build more of a trusting relationship between various interests of agriculture.
"Perhaps most positive of all, it has helped USDA begin to look at tools outside this process to help further this sense of cooperation. For example, issues have been raised about the purity of seed and whether there will be an assurance of its purity. (That way) anyone who wants to do organic or identity-preserved non-GE will always have that option. We can play a role in that."
As for international negotiations, trading partners and exports, Vilsack said he's always taken the long view. "When I first came into office, we developed an overall strategy for how we might be better positioning biotechnology in the international community. That involves better public diplomacy, better articulation of the benefits of biotechnology. It involves identifying countries … more receptive of biotechnology and encouraging them to speak with their counterparts, whether in Africa or Asia, about the important role that biotechnology can play in food security."
Ranking member, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, asked if "folks that oppose biotech picked on sugar beets (another GM crop long in regulatory review) and alfalfa because they're small crops?"
Vilsack was unsure of motivations "but I'll say this: EIS are very expensive and time-consuming. We've got to figure out a way (to deal with this): either beefing up the capacity of APHIS … to handle these petitions on a more timely basis or develop a better way of dealing with the industry so the industry can … assist in putting these EIS together and have us critically review them. There has got to be a way to reduce the time."
Peterson: "Do you have the authority to implement option three?"
"The statute indicates we have three decisions that can be made with reference to any petition," answered Vilsack. "One is to say 'we'll continue to regulate it.' Another is 'we won't regulate it, at all.' The third is 'we'll deregulate it, in part.' I think we have those three authorities."
Peterson: "You need no additional authority, or this committee doesn't need to look at, any changes to the act to accommodate what you're trying to do?"
Vilsack: "I wouldn't say you don't need to look at the act. (The Plant Variety Act) was enacted, I believe, in the early 1980s and (since) we've seen a tremendous expansion of biotechnology and conflicting interests being raised. That certainly merits a review."
Private party
The legality of USDA's proposed third option was also a topic for the hearing's second panel, which included Chuck Conner, former USDA under- and acting-secretary and current president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.
Iowa Rep. Leonard Boswell asked Conner, who pushed for the GM alfalfa's deregulation, if USDA has "the authority to implement partial deregulation?"
"I'm not a lawyer," responded Conner. "Having served as one who oversaw the regulatory process, it's my view that once they've completed (the full assessment) of the safety of these products – which they have on Roundup Ready alfalfa – I don't think they have the regulatory authority to do anything other than simply deregulate the product. That's the so-called 'option two' the USDA has presented."
Conner said he is unsure how to "feed this hungry world" without GM crops. "At the same time … the interest in organic food has exploded. It's a great opportunity for jobs and giving people what they want. I kind of maintain the idea, with this grand need we have, that there's room for both."
Boswell, keen to strike a conciliatory tone, asked, "Do you share my hope and belief that they can work this out and co-exist?"
"I do," said Conner. "I share it wholeheartedly. Many of the farmer-owned co-ops I represent are engaged in conventional as well as organic production. They've seen tremendous growth in both."
Boswell worried about "developing sides" on deregulation. "I don't think there needs to be sides. Maybe we need to figure out how to facilitate communications. It seems everyone on the committee feels we (need) the science. At the same time, in this exchange I've had with Mr. Conner, there's a desire, need and use for the organic (crops)."
If USDA's "third option" is adopted, Texas Rep. Mike Conaway sees a "monster bureaucracy coming together to try and set standards and buffer zones … for every single product. Aren't those decisions better left to the states and local municipalities and entities rather than an effort by USDA across the country?"
Conner was in the corner of those advocating private party interests. "There is precedent with private party interests looking after these issues of co-existing – quite successfully. In the case of alfalfa, in particular, some of the members I represent are quite anxious to fill a market for organic alfalfa seed – a market that exists in a big way and they believe through private contractual arrangements they can fulfill."
Conner dissected Vilsack's early testimony. "The rub here is – and I go back to Vilsack's statement: 'I look forward to our discussion here and hope you share my belief that farmers/ranchers/growers are in the best position to decide what is best for their operations.' I concur with that statement. There is not a role for the federal government to be stepping in the middle of private contractual arrangements relative to co-existence. I believe they'll take care of themselves."
Conaway: "(Vilsack) said all the right things, was political about everything and hugged all sides. But, at the end of the day, if he pulls the trigger on 'option three' that last statement (you read) is inaccurate."
Conner didn't hesitate: "It's inaccurate. That's correct."

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I have found that with my own middle schooler, the biggest challenge is finding a way to entertain him that doesn't include him getting sucked into an iPod, portable DVD player or handheld video game. By doing a little homework ahead of time, I can almost always ensure that getting to our travel destination is one of his favorite parts. I have learned over time that by turning our travel time into part of the vacation experience, he not only doesn't complain, but he learns something new (I do too!) and he is kept entertained the entire trip. Plus, as an added bonus, these simple tips always double as great bonding activities! Read on to learn my tried and true 6 simple, eco-friendly ways to travel with a middle schooler and find that getting there is part of the fun.
Tip #1: Get Schooled
Right before any trip, I stop by our local library to check out an assortment of books that all focus on the place we will be traveling to and the activities that we will be doing while we are there. I pack these books in my handbag and as we travel (either by car or airplane) I will pull a book out one-by-one throughout the day. Most recently we took a trip to Montana where I knew that we would be visiting Yellowstone National Park, be doing a lot of hiking and checking out the antique shops. I checked out books on popular hiking trails in the area we were going to visit – so we could choose a handful of hikes that we added to our list. We also picked up an interesting book that focused on the dangerous side of Yellowstone National Park, which he really enjoyed. And a book on how to get the best price while antique shopping, since this is a hobby that he is interested in. These books kept him entertained for almost all of our travel time and we both learned something new!
Tip #2: Map It
Before we leave on a family vacation, I always pick up a map of our travel destination. Not only is it a great way to teach your child how to use and read a map, it is very entertaining too. My son enjoys following the map as we travel, pointing out landmarks, and mile markers and has even helped us find impromptu hiking trails and historical sites as we are driving to our destination. He also enjoys marking the different areas that we visit during our trip, it serves as a type of memory book of our adventures and keeps him engaged in the trip.
Tip #3: Make It A Surprise
When you finally arrive at your travel destination it can be too easy to simply say – we're beat, let's veg out! Instead, surprise your middle schooler with a surprise activity as soon as you arrive. On our last trip, we spent the majority of our day traveling and when we arrived at our destination we could have easily called it a day, we were beat! However, instead, we headed to the mountains for a surprise zip-lining tour, which immediately perked us back up and was a great start to a wonderful vacation.
Tip #4: Keep It Simple
You don't have to pack a ton of clothing, accessories and supplies for your children when you travel. Instead pack only the essentials and plan to do a load or two of laundry while away. It is much easier if everyone in your family only packs one bag that they can carry-on if you are flying or simply add to the car trunk for that long road trip. You will save the environment when you pack lighter and it is just easier if everyone can carry their own bag. Not to mention, you will have more leg room in the car and you won't have to wait at baggage claim either!
Trip #5: Have a Backup!
I always assume that even with all of my planning, my son will get bored at some point during our vacation. Whether it is waiting for a table when we head out to dinner or the long-dreaded trip home after the vacation ends. Either way, I always make sure that I am prepared, I pack a couple of books that my son has been dying to read in my handbag. I never mention that I have the latest copy of his favorite comic book or graphic novel within my reach during our trip, until we hit a period of pure boredom! Not only does it give him a little surprise, it keeps him entertained doing something that he loves – reading, and mom and dad are always happier if the kids aren't complaining! Right?
Tip #6: Make It Healthy!
One thing that is always tough on kids while traveling is changes in their eating and sleeping habits. When we travel, it can be difficult for kids to get to bed on time or get enough sleep in general. Also, our eating habits tend to change when we are traveling, we may eat out more than usual or be staying with family who have completely different eating habits than our own. This can make for grumpy kids with belly aches. I find that when it comes to my son, I try to keep his diet and sleeping habits as close to normal as possible. If we are staying with family, we will ask them to pick up his favorite healthy foods ahead of time or we will stop at the grocery store on our way to their home. If we are going to be eating out a lot while we travel, we try to pick restaurants with healthier fare, and make sure that he is eating enough fruits, vegetables and fiber and that he is consuming his regular amount of water – if not more, if we are being really active.
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A collection of Decadent poems, with an extended Life of the Poet, which was published originally in 1885, only for it to become apparent in short order that it was in fact a literary hoax and the confection of the two minor poets Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire. The book soon garnered a reputation for the quality of its parody, for successfully hoodwinking some critics and for entertaining those in on the joke, and is today recognised both as one of the earliest exemplars of the genre of hoax writings, and as a key contemporary work for all those interested in the French literature of the 1890s.
Poems and Life have been put into a fine translation by Stanley Chapman, while an Afterword by Paul Edwards discusses the work's context, significance, and pun-hidden references.
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The Neff Beach Bash just rolled up onto the shores of Bear Mountain this past weekend and it was one hell of a party! Beers, babes, boarders, burgers, pretty much any awesome word that begins with the letter B was there. The photos don't lie, so feast your eyes on the mayhem that was the Neff Beach Bash.


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MLS Preview: Tough tests for Conference leaders, Revolution still struggling
The Revolution have lost every game in July in all competitions - six defeats in a row - and were knocked off 2-0 by FC Dallas in their most recent fixture.
The main issue for the Revolution has been their lack of goals with just three scored in their six consecutive defeats.
New England coach Jay Heaps described the streak as "gut wrenching" following the loss in Dallas, but the 37-year-old argued his team had showed enough for end their poor run in Texas.
"The last seven games have been absolutely gut wrenching, with highs and lows in this big low," Heaps told the Revolution's website.
"Tonight's effort, you just felt from the beginning we were going to be good enough to get something from this game but we didn't and that's the way it goes."
New England will look to end their losing streak versus Columbus Crew on Saturday, while Sporting Kansas City and Seattle Sounders - the leading clubs in the Eastern and Western conferences respectively - face rivals high in their respective standings.
Reigning MLS champions Sporting will travel to the East's third team Toronto FC on Saturday, while Seattle host Los Angeles Galaxy, who sit fourth in the West, on Monday.
Sporting won their first home MLS match in five last week, overcoming Galaxy 2-1, but their away form has been keeping them at the top in the Eastern Conference with four straight wins on the road.
Kansas City coach Peter Vermes will hope that continues against Toronto, who drew 2-2 at Houston Dynamo in their last match.
With three games in hand on Sporting, Toronto could take a big step towards their conference leaders with a win.
Toronto could move within six points of Sporting if they win at BMO Field.
In the West, the Sounders could notch a fifth win in six matches after overcoming arch-rivals Portland Timbers in their most recent game.
Captain Clint Dempsey struck on his return to Seattle's line-up, netting his ninth goal of the season, and LA will have to be wary of the United States international at CenturyLink Field.
If Galaxy (27 points, + 10 goal difference) win they could rise as high as second in the Western Conference if Dallas and Real Salt Lake (both 29, +3) fail to beat Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact respectively.
In other fixtures, Chicago Fire will travel to San Jose Earthquakes and Colorado Rapids host Chivas USA.
Montreal will back up from their trip to Real on Thursday by hosting Portland on Sunday.


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Throughout the history of agriculture and food consumption, many foods have come and gone. In recent years, we have "rediscovered" certain grains that were once a primary part of our ancestors' diets. The term Ancient Grains has been used to describe those seeds that are "new" in the sense that they are not recognizable to the current generation and yet have been around for centuries and remain untouched and unmodified over time. Camelina is one such seed. They are the same seeds that grew wild centuries before us and were harvested by our foraging ancestors. It is an ancient grain that has retained its natural flavour and nutritional properties. The nutty oil that is extracted from the seed is rich in omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and has an abundance of Vitamin E. It is a shelf stable and heat tolerant oil which adds to its versatility for use in the kitchen. I was lucky enough to receive some camelina oil to try and here is what I have discovered.
Camelina sativa, with the popular names leindotter, false flax or "gold of pleasure", is a cruciferous oilseed plant commonly known as just camelina. This ancient grain originated in parts of Northern Europe and Central Asia and is just now making its comeback right here in Canada, on the sprawling prairies of Southeast Saskatchewan thanks to a group of hardworking farmers. Anyone with an appreciation for naturally nutritious foods will be captivated with the simple nature, yet complex taste of this unique oil.
When cold-pressed, Camelina seeds produce a light and delicate oil that is chalk full of Omega-3 and 6 and Vitamin E. However the real beauty of this Canadian oil lies in its fresh flavour, vibrant colour and stable nature. It carries a light, earthy fragrance and tastes slightly nutty on the palate. It has also been described as green, asparagus-like, carries a hint of cauliflower, or incredibly unique. Whether you are a gourmet chef or simply appreciate naturally nutritious foods, Camelina oil offers a bold and unique flavour that compliments a variety of culinary creations. From dips and spreads to marinades and dressings, the complexity of this oil adds distinction and flare to our every day cooking.
Not only is this oil beautiful as a dipping oil or salad oil, it has a high smoke point of 475F which allows for all types of high temperature cooking without fear of burning or smoking the oil. Though Camelina oil is highly polyunstaurated and rich in Omega-3, it remains a stable oil due to its high levels of Vitamin E. Vitamin E acts as an antioxidant in vegetable oil and allows for a longer shelf life of 12 - 15 months without refrigeration. If you choose to refrigerate it it will not congeal in these cooler temperatures. All of these characteristics make it the perfect choice for our modern society.
Introducing a new food crop to the North American market can be a long process, but a small group of farmers have the patience and determination to make it happen for camelina. Canpressco is a company that sprang from the desire for farmers to know their customers just as their customers would like to know them. The opportunity to introduce this unique oil to the Canadian culinary market was the basis for the formation of their Three Farmers branded product line. Situated on the vast Saskatchewan prairies, Three Farmers is exactly what it sounds like. They are a handful of farmers, passionate about growing natural, healthy food where each bottle can be traced right back to the specific farmers field
Since Sunday I have been here in Vancouver exploring new nooks and crannies. I have wandered all over Chinatown and explored the sights and sounds and had lunch at Melinas. Today I will be hitting Commercial Drive, the home of Italian and Portuguese immigrants with a little Greek thrown in for good measure. Tomorrow we will hit Granville Island as well as some of food truck culture, off to Legendary Noodle for some noodle pulling demonstrations and the rest is yet to be discovered.
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Over four years of blogging I have found many wonderful recipes to share on these pages. Some from my own kitchen, some from your creative blogs and web sites, and some from well known celebrities and chefs. I have been feeling a little nostalgic and was browsing these very pages just the other day, creeping back to the very beginning in 2006 when More Than Burnt Toast was in it's infancy and no more than "knee high to a grasshopper". We all have those stellar recipes from when we first started when we were lucky enough to find one comment and have maybe one reader; in my case even before I was taking photos of the dishes I prepared. My other motivation for reconnecting with the past is to create uniform formatting on this blog and this is a fun way for me to revisit past posts.
So here are a couple of flashback recipes from the very first baby steps here at MTBT with...
This bread dip was light and refreshing. My only regret was that I didn't have more!
**Infused Bread Dip**
- 500ml Three Farmers Camelina Oil
- 3 green onions
- 1 bunch of fresh basil and stems
- 2-3 cloves garlic
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RACINE, Wis.—A southeast Wisconsin man who recorded himself sexually assaulting six young children gave a slight smirk as a judge admonished him for his crimes, leaving the judge taken aback for a moment before he sentenced the Racine man to the maximum 145 years in prison.
Alexander R. Richter, 30, had just apologized for molesting a 2-year-old girl and five other young children. He also acknowledged that his words could do nothing to undo the damage he'd caused. But the corner of his mouth turned upward slightly as Judge Timothy Boyle recounted Richter's comments to a pre-sentencing investigator.
"You said you feel sorry for (the children), that you ruined their whole lives. But you smiled as you said it," Boyle noted. He paused for a moment and then noted with incredulity, "You're smiling now!"
Richter pleaded no contest in September to four charges related to child sexual assault. In exchange prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence of 80 years. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for the purposes of sentencing.
Boyle, who was not bound by the terms of the agreement, noted that Richter would be 110 by the time his sentence ended, adding that crimes as depraved as his deserved an even harsher penalty to ensure he died behind bars.
The strongest evidence against Richter were his own videos, which he recorded while molesting at least six children ages 2 1/2 to 6. Prosecutors say Richter's pedophilic crimes began when he was a teenager and that there might be other victims who haven't been identified.
Richter even titled one of the DVDs the videos were found on "Monster Unleashed." It showed multiple scenes of Richter abusing three related girls and separate scenes with a young boy, the complaint said.
One video showed a naked girl crying and fighting off Richter, the criminal complaint said.
Boyle hesitated to even mention the DVD's title, noting that three anguished relatives of the victims were huddled together in the courtroom. The relatives declined to speak before or after the sentencing. One family provided a written statement to the judge, but he did not divulge its contents.
Before he was sentenced Richter, clad in an orange prison jumpsuit, offered a quiet apology.
"I'd just like to say I'm sorry," he said. "It doesn't even feel like that should be good enough for the court."
Investigators say Richter, who was studying accounting at a technical college in hopes of joining his father's business, befriended vulnerable families and persuaded them to let him babysit their children. He then groomed the children for sex by buying them gifts and doing favors for them, the complaint said.
"What kind of person does that other that someone who's deeply disturbed or, as I said, evil," the judge said. "Even though you didn't kill anybody, you killed something inside those children."
Boyle noted that Richter's youngest victim, a 2 1/2-year-old girl, was still in diapers when he molested her. The comment drew sobs from one woman in the court.
Neither Richter nor his public defender, Margaret Johnson, objected to the allegations listed by the judge or prosecutor Robert Repischak.
Investigators said Richter was caught after a 6-year-old boy told his mother that Richter had abused the boy and his 4-year-old sister.
When detectives served Richter with a search warrant, he told them, "I'll save you time, the things you are looking for are under the coffee table," according to the complaint.
Officers found DVDs and camera equipment.
Richter originally was charged with 49 felonies, including first-degree child sexual assault, sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography. The charges carried a maximum penalty of 1,185 years in prison.
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A proposal by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, to require California utilities to obtain a greater share of their electricity from renewable sources is now one signature away from becoming the law of the land.
Simitian's proposal, known as Senate Bill 2X, passed the Assembly today 55-19 and is now heading to Gov. Jerry Brown for final approval. The bill cleared the state Senate in February.
Simitian's bill would require utilities to obtain 33 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind or geothermal technology by 2020. Currently, the utilities are required to meet a 20 percent target for renewable energy by 2020.
"This bill establishes California as the national leader in clean energy, improving the environment and stimulating the economy, while protecting ratepayers from excessive costs," Simitian said in a prepared statement after the Assembly vote.
Simitian has tried to raise the renewable-energy standards in the past only to see his bill vetoed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new bill would also allow utilities to get exemptions from the California Public Utility Commission if the costs of acquiring renewable energy or plugging into the state's power grid prove too steep.
The new law would apply to both investor-owned utilities such as PG&E and to municipal utilities like Palo Alto's. The city already has a goal of getting 33 percent of its electric load from renewable sources by 2015.
In his statement, Simitian expressed optimism that the rising costs of fossil fuels and the growing demand for energy would continue to make renewable sources more viable. He also said the new mandate will encourage green energy providers to come to California.
"Senate Bill 2X sends a signal to renewable energy providers that California wants them here," Simitian said. "They will respond, as they have in the past, with billions of dollars in investments that will provide jobs and tax revenues."


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You can't teach speed: sprinters break 10-year rule
New research shows world-class sprinters are born, not created. Grand Valley State University researchers found that exceptional speed prior to formal training is a prerequisite for becoming a world-class sprinter. The findings are published in the online journal PeerJ.
The research, conducted by Michael Lombardo, professor of biology, and Robert Deaner, associate professor of psychology, shows that the developmental histories of elite sprinters contradict the popular deliberate practice model of expertise. According to this model, there is no such thing as innate talent. Instead, 10 years of deliberate practice (roughly 10,000 hours) are necessary and sufficient for anyone to become an expert in any field, including sports.
The researchers studied biographies of 26 world-class sprinters, including 15 Olympic gold medalists and the eight fastest men in U.S. history. The first major finding was that every expert sprinter, male or female, was recognized as exceptionally fast prior to beginning formal training. This contradicts the deliberate practice model, which assumes that initial performance and final performance in a domain will be unrelated. A second key finding was that, contrary to the 10-year rule, most sprinters achieved world class performances in less than five years, and more than half of the Olympic champions reached this level in three years or fewer.
In addition, Lombardo and Deaner surveyed 64 sprinters and throwers (i.e., shot put, javelin, discus) who qualified for the 2012 NCAA collegiate track and field outdoor championships. Sprinters recalled being faster as children, while throwers recalled greater strength and overhand throwing ability. Another key finding was that the collegiate sprinters' best performances in their first season of high school competition, generally the beginning of formal training or deliberate practice, were consistently faster than 95-99 percent of their peers.
"Rob and I both ran track in college, and we follow the sport pretty closely," said Lombardo. "So we expected that most sprint champions' biographies would indicate that they were always the fastest kid in their neighborhood, even before they did any formal training or received any coaching. But the consistency of the pattern was surprising – from Helen Stephens, a 1936 Olympian, to Usain Bolt, there were no exceptions. Gathering the data systematically allowed us to see how strong the patterns were. It also allowed us to test and rule out alternative explanations."
The authors noted that because speed is crucial for many sports, the new results imply that talent is important for many sports besides track and field. The authors also pointed out that their behavioral data complement many genetic and physiological studies indicating individual variation in athletic talent.
"Our results won't come as a surprise to most biologists, sports scientists, or coaches—all of the previous data pointed to this conclusion," said Deaner. "But our results are important because the deliberate practice model and its '10-year rule' remains enormously popular among many social scientists and intellectuals. Our results are clear-cut and should require no scientific training to understand. So we hope they will finally put an end to the debate."
The researchers stressed that their results support an interactive model of expertise development. "Our point is not that talent trumps everything," said Lombardo. "Training is crucial, especially the kinds of training highlighted by the deliberate practice model. But in sports, innate talent is required too."
More information: You can't teach speed: sprinters falsify the deliberate practice model of expertise, PeerJ, peerj.com/articles/445/
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Hi, does anyone have this font that they could mail me? saulbass.net is now gone.
Typographica has made arrangements with Matt to host the font soon. In the meantime, consider yourself emailed (as soon as you provide some sort of contact information).
Hi, I was also looking for this font, as I need it for a project. If you could email it to me asap as well you would be a life saver. Thank you tons in advance!
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I'd like that font too if you could email it?
The whiny author of Uncredited – Graphic Design and Opening Titles mentioned that typeface as an example of cinematic cluelessness as the letters are actually based on an Otto Preminger film. Oh, shut up I thought as I read.
I have also been looking for this font. If anyone would be so kind as to e-mail it to me also.
Thank you.
I need that font too. I've lost in the last drive format.
Could anybody send it to me?
At the risk of being considered whiny (by someone other than hhp), be it noted that Saul Bass didn't do the lettering for his movie titles/posters -- he was the designer. Without seeing the roughs he gave to his lettering artists, it's hard to know how much credit to give him. Was it a scribble on a napkin, or a slick comp? At any rate, it could be misleading to call a derived font "Hitchcock" -- as recently emerged when a senior executive at Adobe thought that John Warnock had designed the font named after him.
Movie: This is Goggle
Client: Otto Preminger
Designer (poster); Saul Bass
Lettering: Art Goodman
Movie: Vertigo
Designer (poster); Saul Bass
Lettering: Dave Nagata
Movie: Love in the Afternoon
Designer (poster); Saul Bass
Lettering: Art Goodman
Your boldness will not go unnoticed.
The reference to the typeface just didn't have anything to do with anything in the book. Very useless You see. The book could be a masterpiece in every other aspect. Haven't finished it yet.
And don't forget Spartacus. Art Goodman did excellent work there. That is what I have learnt from the book so far.
thought that John Warnock had designed the font
Pardon me, that should have been "was quoted as having thought that John Warnock had designed the font..."
I have desperately been searching for this font as well- someone could email, I would appreciate it very much!
I worked with Saul Bass for 2 1/2 and also with Art Goodman and his assistant Dave Nagata. Dave Nagata was a master lettering artist and most of the comps were done by him while Art Goodman cracked the whip. When the comps were presented to Saul Bass and the actual font that matched the layout was chosen for the credits. I did the type on Mad, Mad, Mad, World. Main title were usually hand lettered. In the movie Man With the Golden Arm, Art Goodman's crippled arm was the model. Well, that's enough history for now.
Thanks for the backgound, Robert. It's great to get the facts from a man who was there. Can you tell us more about what influence Saul Bass had on the actual style of the lettering? Did he ask for a general feeling and leave the actual forms to Goodman and Nagata, or were his directions more specific and detailed?
The Hitchcock font and some background info are now live at Typographica.
Here is what the PC .ttf link tries to link to: http://typographica.org/art/articles/2007/hitchcock/Hitchcock-MacPS.zip%22
Whoops. Fixed. Thank you, Dennis.
Could someone send me the font too?
Thanks a lot!
Ancient link fixed yet again! Sorry.


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Turn 24 – Safe word: Gamma Ray
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Featuring John "MusiM" Beauchamp, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Michael "Boston" Hannon.
Music: Untitled by MusiM; Middle and Outro: Serene (Lost in the Eyes of God)
This week welcome our special guests from That Video Game Podcast (http://tvgp.tv) as we discuss video game expectations such as game length, cut scenes, preorders, and reusing proven design/mechanics. Games included in discussion are The Viking, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, God of War, Bayonetta, Mirror's Edge, Halo 3, Halo: Reach, Vanquish, Gungrave, Godhand, Rez, Too Human, Gears of War 2, Stellar 7, Kane and Lynch 2, Zone of Enders, Gears of War, Final Fantasy 7, Catacombs, Blake Stone, Ultima, Doom, Doom 2, Stonekeep, Heimdall, Fallout, Grim Fandango, Wolfenstein, Police Quest, Scorched Earth, Xenogears, Quake, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Rise of the Triad, Quake, Duke Nuke 'em, Commander Keen, Command and Conquer, Dune, Warcraft, Herzog Zwei, Sewer Shark, Night Trap, Hell, Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario Brothers 2, Super Mario Galaxy, Dot Hack, Tales of Destiny, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Xenosaga, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Alpha Protocol, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Jak 2, Dead Space 2, Ratchet and Clank, Infamous, Tony Hawk, Dragonquest, Marathon, Crackdown, Terminal Velocity, and many more.
Visit Boston and Knobs at http://tvgp.tv
NOTE: Okay so I didn't setup the scheduled post right and it didn't post to libsyn but turn 24 is now posted and available to listen to. Apologies for the delay!


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Editing photos on your iPad is extremely enjoyable thanks to its large glossy touchscreen.
Armed with a great photo editing app you can be manipulating and fine tuning your photos wherever you are – you're certainly free from the shackles of the PC when it comes to making the most of your images.
It's totally feasible to edit a batch of photos and share them via social media during your morning commute.
But the selection of image editing apps on the market is vast and knowing which one will suit you best can be confusing, so we've tested all the iPad photo apps below. Find your perfect partner and get creating.
1. Photoshop Express - Free
If you use photoshop.com already, Photoshop Express is the natural extension of this service on the iPad. Adobe lets you share images between your online account and your iPad, use most of the features on the site using your tablet and it also ties in with any Adobe Apps on your desktop.You'll find editing your images a simple and enjoyable experience – we highly recommend the effects pack (£1.99) which allows you to apply professional looking effects that would take hours to create from scratch in Photoshop in just a few seconds. And then there's the paid-for Photoshop Touch.
2. Photogene for iPad - £1.99
The ultimate editing solution for the iPad, Photogene handles all the important editing tasks with ease, from removing redeye to making collages. The editing tools it offers are both impressive and powerful. The interface is intuitive and makes the most of the iPad's touch screen. Equally as good for adding quick effects and undertaking detailed edits. If you own a DSLR, you'll be pleased to know it can open up for editing very large files and supports an export resolution of up to 21 MP.
3. Luminance - £0.69
Luminance manages to combine a fuss free elegant interface with professional editing features. It's a steal at 69p. As well as a full set of advanced editing features and effects, this app gives you the ability to copy edits you've made and apply the same effects to more photos – great if you're creating an album and want a coherent look. Better still, each effect you add to a photo in Luminance is applied as a layer, so you can see how applying in a different order effects your final look and delete individual elements without having to start over. Awesome.
4. Filterstorm - £2.49
If you're really into photography you'll love Filterstorm. Designed from the ground up to meet your iPad (and iPhone) photo editing needs, the suite has a toolset suited to serious photographers, rather than gimmicky effects. It has everything you could need in an editing suite including layers, curves manipulation, color correction abilities, noise reduction, sharpening, vignetting, and black and white conversion fine-tuning. You may never need your desktop editing suite again…It costs £2.49 from the iTunes App Store.
5. iPhoto - £2.99
Intuitive and fun to use, iPhoto is a great all-round editing suite that seamlessly combines power with ease of use. Professional looking edits can be achieved in just a few minutes and adjustments really are easy – make the grass greener with a simple finger swipe! We can't get enough of the app's swatch book – lots of beautifully photo effects ranging from dramatic to subtle, applied within seconds. Choose iPhoto if you want to change how you edit your images in your iPad and make your workflow quicker.
6. Snapseed - Free
Snapseed has been developed from scratch as a touch app and this really shows when you use it – it's a powerful piece of software that even allows you to exploit the extra bit depth from your DSLR's RAW files to make wonderfully creative edits, without the need for a computer. Snapseed's customisable effect presets are nothing short of brilliant either – a few minutes spent in Snapseed could pass for hours work on the computer… Undoubtedly the best free editing app on the market.
7. Photo Toaster Jr. - Free
PhotoToaster Jr. features a plethora of one click effects and settings allowing you to instantly improve your images or alter them significantly. From effects like Lomo and HDR through to vignette and boarders, PhotoToaster offers way more than you'd expect from a free app – you even get lighting level adjustment tools to lighten shadows and recover highlights! The simple interface is easy to use and extremely quick and you'll find the multiple undo handy if you're new to editing. If you get on well with this free app consider paying £1.49 for the full version of PhotoToaster, which offers full control, more effects and social media integration.
8. PicShop HD - £2.99
We love PicShop HD's clear, crisp interface and the fact that it's just so easy to use. Our favourite feature however has got be that you can load pictures directly from your Facebook account and the integrated social media sharing means you can send your edits directly to your Facebook, Twitter or Email accounts with a single click. Impressively, the editing suite handle HD images up to 8MP, but its feature set is more suited to those who want to make simple edits like cropping, red eye removal etc. rather than colour correction, layers and so on. The range of effects and filters on offer are great and you also have frames and the ability to easily add text, sketches and even stickers to your images.


text: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Rajesh Bhairampally wrote: > Hi, > > I am newbee to cluster computing; so if my question sounds stupid, please > excuse me. > > i am wondering when we have something like mosix (distributed OS available > at www.mosix.org ), why we should still develop parallel programs and > strugle with PVM/MPI etc. Tough i never used either mosix or PVM/MPI, I am > genunely puzzled about it. Can someone kindly educate me? The best education is in the list archives, as this has be discussed and described many times before. In a nutshell -- MOSIX takes jobs submitted on any host in a LAN and distributes them on other LAN hosts to keep global load balanced across the LAN (which might or might not be a classical "cluster"). For relatively simple jobs that have open files and sockets, it creates a virtual network layer for forwarding their I/O back to the originating host so if you open a file on your primary host and then the job migrates, it doesn't crash. It is one of several tools that is suitable for running lots of embarrassingly parallel jobs at once on a pool of systems (others being batch managers like e.g. SGE and/or policy tools like condor, or any of a variety of fairly new gridware). PVM or MPI are parallel communications (message passing) libraries. They facilitate writing truly parallel jobs that are intended a priori to run on a cluster, managing the passing of messages between what amount to task threads running on different nodes. The jobs thus created may well NOT be embarrassingly parallel -- in fact generally they won't be, as PVM is overkill for EP tasks although I've used it for such in the past. That is, MOSIX doesn't parallelize a serial job, it just runs lots of serial jobs (independently) in parallel. PVM or MPI run truly parallel jobs with lots of NON-independent subtasks advancing a computation, with nontrivial communications between the subtasks. Clear? rgb > > thanks, > rajesh > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Saratoga, CA (PRWEB) January 15, 2014
The ISO/IEC HEVC/H.265/MPEG-H compression standard developed by JCT-VC, Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding, is poised to be the next generation video compression technology to dominate the mobile, connected home, video capture, streaming, and distribution markets. ViC-1 enables SoC developers to realize fast time-to-market with an optimized HEVC solution specifically configured for their system requirements.
oViCs' ViC-1 is a full featured, highly optimized, real-time HEVC/H.265 decoder supporting Main, Main-10, and Main Still Picture Profiles up to 4Kp120 resolution on a single instance, with or without multiple slices, tiles, or wavefront parallel processing. ViC-1 requires only 180 to 840 Kgates and 8 to 179 Kbytes of internal memory, depending on the configuration. The tiny silicon area and low clock frequency design lead to a very power-efficient solution; for instance, only a clock frequency of 72 MHz is needed for 1080p60 bitstreams.
The 4Kp120 performance envelope can be allocated to multiple streams. The entropy encoded data is processed by a hardware CABAC engine with up to 5 bins/cycle throughput, assisted by a thin software layer responsible for header processing, control, and high level error recovery. ViC-1 is specifically designed for easy integration into advanced mobile, smart TV, connected home, and automotive SOCs, where low power and low latency are important.
"We are delighted to introduce our state of the art IP to enable our customers for a quick and smooth transition to the new compression technology without impact on power consumption and overall system cost," said Sorin Cismas, CEO of oViCs. "This will accelerate the industry adoption of the new HEVC/H.265 compression standard that reduces the bitrate by approx. 2X for both professional and user-generated content."
About oViCs
oViCs is a startup based in Saratoga, CA, focused on developing advanced semiconductor platforms and intellectual property solutions for HEVC/H.265/MPEG-H, video processing and analysis for the mobile, automotive, connected home, video capture, streaming, and distribution markets. For more information about oViCs, please visit http://www.ovics.com.
All brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. oViCs reserves the right to alter product and service offerings, specification and pricing, at any time without notice. ©2014 oViCs. All rights reserved.
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In reply to Hannah Hayes' column "Wealthiest 5% must come to the rescue," I agree with the comments on election influence. This external funding essentially kept the real national and state issues off-point.
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There's box art and there's box art, and just as CD insert is no comparison to an album cover, so is a DVD case no match for the artistry of a board-game box. Last week's 'Shop Contest asked everyone to reconcile the latter two.
Leading off, Laodicea-Dude (14) captures what a perfectly boring obligation it would be to play Tetris in real life. RandMan612 (18) gets a nod not so much for the 'Shop skills here but for the thought (and incumbency. Dude's been a multi-finalist before).
Lando Calrissian (13) supplied a quick but winning theme. Green. (10) and DrZaius had similar ideas that showcased great use of text. a.seivewright (1) proves Parker Brothers can milk a franchise, too. Ryan (19) asks some uncomfortable questions in L.A. Noire: Domestic Edition.
The best and most creative board games show the most use, and with that in mind, Blue Hinter (3) gives Minecraft the perfect treatment.
Duck45 (7) was very close to my No. 1. So was Jeremy Stephens (11). In the end I went with Milamputechture (15). Bill's expression just makes the whole picture. Also, "ages 7-Death."
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From Colorado Ski Country USA — DENVER (Oct. 13, 2011) — More Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) resorts launched into the 2011/12 ski season this week, pushing Colorado to the front of the pack for October ski destinations, and further solidifying Colorado as the top choice for winter recreation. Arapahoe Basin opened their lifts for the season this morning at 9 a.m., Loveland Ski Area will open their lifts for the season on Friday, Oct. 14, and Wolf Creek will open for its second weekend of skiing and riding on Saturday, Oct. 15.
Arapahoe Basin's snowmaking team worked relentlessly during the past week to produce quality conditions for today's opening. The snowmakers' efforts were complemented by early snowfalls in the area, including several fresh inches in the last few days. Skiers and riders enjoyed an 18 inch base, and Black Mountain Express escorted guests to the intermediate High Noon run, and several features in the High Divide Terrain Park.
Colorado is known for having one of the longest ski seasons. Perched on the Continental Divide, Arapahoe Basin and Loveland enjoy an elevation conducive to making snow and keeping conditions fresh for long periods of time. With a late season July 4 closing after one of the longest seasons in 14 years, Arapahoe Basin opened today having only been closed 100 days.
For CSCUSA, having three ski areas open signifies ski season is here and that resorts are ready to welcome skiers and riders. "After an impressive season that extended for 10 months last year, it's exciting that resorts are starting lifts and offering skiing in October," said Melanie Mills, president and CEO of CSCUSA. "Having three resorts open at this point in the year gives people even more options and hopefully encourages people to take advantage of the natural playgrounds Colorado offers."
Ski season in Colorado is an ideal opportunity to be with family and friends outside, partake in the state's signature sports or learn a new outdoor activity. For more information about this year's ski season, resort openings, or Colorado Ski Country USA, please visit www.ColoradoSki.com.


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text: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:52:59PM +0100, Ryan Sweet wrote: > > > While I can understand debating over the merits of nfsroot vs RAM-disk > > root, I fail to see many useful arguments for maintaining a local OS > > install. > > An example of something that goes very wrong with NFS is upgrading a > file to a new file with the same name. If that file is a binary or > library that's in use anywhere in the cluster, you are likely to have > a problem. Local disks and Scyld, on the other hand, do the right > thing: existing processes using the binary or library continue to use > the old version, while new ones use the new version. > > This disagreement is as old as the hills, by the way: in the good old > days, when Sun was young, lots of people ran their pizza-box > workstations diskless, but that went out of style when Ethernet's > performance was stuck in place for a bunch of years. > > It's important to understand arguments you disagree with; your > dismissal is not a good sign. To add to Greg's remarks, yes diskless is a perfectly valid way to structure a LAN (and I'm, alas, as old as the hills and actually ran whole networks with sparc 1's, SLC's and ELC's diskless. They typically only had 4 MB or so of RAM (in later days as much as 16 or 32) and actually did remote swap as well as NFS home directories and binaries and so forth. They worked amazingly well given the times. The notion of "thin clients" goes back even before Sparcs -- I once ran a wierd IBM PC clone in the mid-80s that had a proprietary "network" interface, a hook into the bios of a host PC, and ran "diskless" by leeching on the floppies and hard drive or the host. It was marginally cheaper than getting a regular PC with its own hard drive because back then disk cost a mint -- all peripherals cost a mint. PC's cost thousands of 1980's dollars. I've run diskless linux clusters off and on as well, mostly from necessity. If you have enough memory it's good. Still, I actually think that there are excellent reasons to consider and perform installs to local disk. Robustness, speed, ease of installation and maintenance with tools like PXE, kickstart and yum have taken just about all the sting out of it. Having local swap is good. Having local scratch is good. Decreasing memory occupancy may be good -- having local disk means local paging is possible with a small performance edge (depending on your network and so forth). Thin clients have been proposed periodically over the years, but they never quite take off -- it is just too damn convenient to have some measure of local robustness, and hard disks are cheap. > > > It can be _very_ useful in a situation where you have to support multiple > > user communities with wierd apps or strange requirements. > > Yep. But your conclusion: > > > That sort of config requires > > a lot of glue, but it would be way too much headache to even attempt > > without "diskless" systems. > > Doesn't make any sense; I have seen people describe such systems where > they download a disk image when a batch job wants a different software > load. It's certainly doable that way: it does have different tradeoffs > from the diskless case, but if it gives you a headache, it's probably > because you don't like it, not because it's hard to do. Ya. Right now I think it is kinda cool just how MUCH one can do, all of it pretty easy. In the old days it was God's Own PITA to set up diskless anything -- I wrote all kinds of stuff myself to get systems to boot diskless and at least I COULD do it because I'd run Suns from the old days, and then there was management of "packages" (binary architectures and shared this and that) with no particular organization on top of that. You young'uns have it all easy -- several different toolsets to choose from to set up diskless operation, several different toolsets to choose from to set up disk and manage packages, and far more homogeneous hardware. I certainly don't think that diskless is a knee-jerk obvious choice for either LANs or clusters, although sure, there are some advantages to it (just as there are some advantages to having local disks). rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Lexxi has an amazing body. Wow!
Driving Miss Lexxi
Driving Miss Lexxi
Driving Lexxi Tyler around is more dangerous that driving and texting. Just look at what she's doing in the back seat! Every cab driver's dream. Our driver had to fight to keep his eyes on the road and things went from distracting to downright dangerous when Lexxi pulled down her top and took off her panties, spreading her holes and sticking a blue rocket in her pink love socket. Lexxi says she gets off better just by rubbing her clit and her cunt lips than by penetrating her cunt with a toy. While she's fingering herself, she fantasies about her tits being drenched in loads of sticky cum from a squirting cock. Getting backseat teased by Lexxi Tyler is hotter than being fucked by an average girl. The backseat was soaked by the time the ride was over. Not that we're complaining.
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Have you ever wished you could just quit your job and follow your dream? While reality gets in the way for many, there are some who have taken the chance and ditched their steady paychecks in order to turn their business ideas into reality.
Success is by no means guaranteed, but for the lucky ones the decision to say "I quit" has been handsomely rewarded. With hard work and determination, they've been able to turn their ideas into booming businesses.
Click ahead to see 10 people who quit their jobs and went on to make millions, whether it was creating personal wealth or revenue for their company.
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Dad Picks Up Kids From School And Finds Humor On Ice
A dad goes to school to pick up his daughter and finds himself at a corner that is covered with ice. What does one do? Grab your camera and start predicting the outcome of everyone who hits the corner.


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Saturday, July 4, 2009Labels: Cemeteries, Civil War, Family Stories, Military Service, Weekly Genealogy Prompt
2 comments:
- Heather H said...
Hi Delia,
Just stumbled across your site and am having a chuckle. Dusted off my genealogy info this morning on a whim, and discovered that Daniel, Jr is my 3rd great uncle. I had NO idea that a branch of the Hutchisons had come to Oregon, let alone Washington County. My line drifted to Montana from Ohio (descendants of Andrew Jackson Hutchison). Ironically I've lived in Portland (WashCo no less) for years. Would love info on the annual reunions in the future and can't wait to keep digging through your site to discover more about this line of the family. My email is h.hutchison at comcast dot net.
- October 31, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Tabitha said...
How amazing. I love the military stories. Did you find out what hIs disability was? I just added mine to my record so people in the future have that without looking.
- January 16, 2011 at 2:04 AM