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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
"After school stranger" by: Yakiyama Line
I did this one because I really love the pencil artwork in it, it's different.
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Maybe you should follow a certain standard... i.e. the file naming. Try going with names like 009.jpg or 09.png instead of 9.bmp.
If you're using (some) sequential image viewer, they'd be messed up in order.
- February 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- Phantom: said...
The files for this are not .bmp they are .jpg. As far as standards go I number the files from one to whatever the end may be fourteen, twenty whatever. And if my Windows Picture and Fax Viewer reads it in order I'm happy. If you're using InfraView or something like that, then just put a zero before files 1-9, like, 01.jpg, 02.jpg etc. And it should play fine for you. If I can remember to do it I will but I make no promises. ^_^
- February 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Thanks mate. I was wondering when the ¿second? chapter would be scanlated. :)
- February 4, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Nope, I was just using the file extensions as an example because I did not bother seeing them. >_< (See the .jpg .png .bmp)
The thing about Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is that it does not open an archive file (.rar or .zip, etc), which is usual for things passed around the net. Viewers that can view inside those archive files are the most used things for scanlations as these arrive packaged in zip, just like yours.
So for many people, we don't even bother unzipping the files, much less seeing if the file name is in "proper naming".
Make it a habit and you won't even be thinking about not getting it.
Also, you shouldn't be saying something like "edit them yourselves". That kinda implies that they may remove your credits or something.
- February 5, 2009 at 4:14 AM
- Phantom: said...
wtf... first of all nowhere in my previous post did I say you should EDIT my material! Renaming a file is NOT editing a file! What I am saying is that if,by chance, you download a title that doesn't play in the proper order on your viewer, rename it. It's that simple! You get it for free and I do it for free. That's not a bad deal as far as I'm concerned. And with that, I'll lay this topic to rest.
- February 6, 2009 at 7:02 AM
- Everson said...
Great manga. Thank you a lot. Any suggest of other work by the same artist?
Ah: It was a great job with Beach Boy - Black Dog. Really awesome.
- February 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- welcome_thrillho said...
anonymous, the best work by this artist is undoubtedly "Raisin Bread 2" a manga he created in 2006 that displays the most passionate and intense sex I've ever seen in a manga, with drawings just as beautiful as these. Best of all, it's not about some old guy raping a school girl. Amazing that it remains untranslated. You wouldn't possibly be interested in the project, would you Phantom? here's a link to the raw:
Even untranslated, it's still on of my favorite h-mangas of all time. Raisin bread 01 is excellent too, but I've never found a version with a decent resoloution. Damn, damn damn, I wish he'd do Raisin Bread 03.
- February 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM
- Phantom: said...
thanks everson, I appreciate the comments. I love Black Dog's stuff too!
Thanks for the link welcome_thrillho, yeah I loved raisin bread #1! I'll download this one and take a look at it.
maybe it'd be something I'd do down the road.
- February 8, 2009 at 12:58 PM
hi, can anyone post this on mediafire cos i cannt access the file on deposit or mega so pleaseeee
i love yakiyama line's work...its awesome
and of course the translation makes it 3x better
- February 9, 2009 at 9:11 AM
So, the school teacher has been raping this girl and she tried to tell her friends about it under the pretext of a fake story?
That's pretty fucked.
- May 19, 2009 at 10:25 PM
The link is dead.
Can it also included in the Download archive (deposit files)?
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Complementary Versus Alternative
Many Americans, nearly 40 percent, use health care approaches developed outside of mainstream Western, or conventional, medicine for specific conditions or overall well-being. When describing health approaches with non-mainstream roots, people often use the words "alternative" and "complementary" interchangeably, but the two terms refer to different concepts:
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Stopping PCP Prophylaxis after Suppressing HIV
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The old recommendations on the use of drugs to prevent new or recurrent AIDS-related opportunistic infections were based on a person's CD4 count. Patients began drugs to prevent pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) when their CD4 counts fell below 200 cells/mm3. Before the advent of combination antiviral therapy and advances in treatments for other OIs, PCP prophylaxis was the major means for prolonging life.
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Primary prophylaxis prevents a patient from ever getting a particular disease. Secondary prophylaxis is for preventing a return bout. The Guidelines judged it premature to make recommendations about secondary PCP prophylaxis. (The draft Guidelines also propose tentative criteria for discontinuing prophylaxis for certain other OIs: MAC -- ending primary prophylaxis when a patient's CD4 count is above 100 for three to six months; CMV -- secondary prophylaxis could be discontinued after someone's CD4 count is above 100 to 150 for three to six months and if only one eye is involved).
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In another study published in the April 29, 1999 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Hansjakob Furrer and colleagues presented findings from the Swiss Cohort Study. Their article also dealt with the topic of the discontinuation of primary prophylaxis against PCP. Patients were eligible for this study if their CD4 cell counts had increased to at least 200 while receiving combination antiretroviral therapy, with these levels sustained for at least 3 months. Table 2 lists some of the study characteristics.
Yet another report, published in the January 16, 1999 issue of The Lancet by Margaret Schneider and colleagues from the Utrecht University Hospital in the Netherlands, showed similar results (see table 3). No cases of PCP were diagnosed during the follow-up time. Two patients resumed prophylaxis due to low CD4 cell counts.
Many questions remain to be answered when considering PCP prophylaxis. The foremost limitation of these observational studies is their brief follow-up time periods, the longest being 14 months. Also, definitive conclusions in this risky area are difficult to make because the data available do not come from controlled clinical trials. In a controlled clinical trial, the investigators would randomly assign volunteers to either stop prophylaxis or remain on it. After an appropriate period of time, the two groups would be compared for PCP incidence.
Certainly, the numbers of patients who discontinued their secondary prophylaxis is too few to be able to decide whether and at what CD4 cell count it might be safe to discontinue secondary prophylaxis. Finally, these studies give no guidance as to when someone who ceases prophylaxis for PCP might have to restart again. Will it be when CD4 cell counts dip below 200 again? Or should it be at a higher CD4 cell count if viral load rebounds?
Overall CD4 cell count is not the most precise way to evaluate the risks of stopping PCP prophylaxis. Assays that indicate specific aspects of restored immune response are now under investigation. These include lymphoproliferative assays that would directly measure cellular activation in response to PCP and other microbes. Still, the present reports are a further indication that the immune system can dramatically improve following suppression of HIV. For people with AIDS, they hold out the promise that antiviral therapy will render unnecessary the added burden of drugs to prevent opportunistic infections.
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text: Hello Jakob, A couple of things... 1. ClusterFS has an easy to understand calculation on why raid 6 is necessary for the amount of disks you're considering. You do need to plan for multi-disk failure, especially with the rebuild time of 1TB disks. http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/DynamicHTML-10-1.html#wp1037512 2. Avoid tape if you can. At this scale, the administrative time and costs far outweigh the benefits. Of course if you need to move your data to a secure vault that's another thing. If you really want to do tape, some people choose to do disk > disk > tape. This eliminates the read interrupts on the primary storage and provides some added redundancy. 3. We do use Nexsan's satabeasts for storage similar to this. Without commenting on costs, the jackrabbit is technologically superior. Thanks, jeff On 8/23/07, Jakob Oestergaard <jakob at unthought.net> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:56:15AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > > Greetings Jakob: > > > > Hi Joe, > > Thanks for answering! > > ... > > up front disclaimer: we design/build/market/support such things. > > That does not disqualify you :) > > > > I'm looking at getting some big storage. Of all the parameters, getting as low > > > dollars/(month*GB) is by far the most important. The price of acquiring and > > > maintaining the storage solution is the number one concern. > > > > Should I presume density, reliability, and performance also factor in > > somewhere as 2,3,4 (somehow) on the concern list? > > I expect that the major components of the total cost of running this beast will > be something like > > acquisition > + power > + cooling > + payroll (disk-replacing admins :) > > Real-estate is a concern as well, of course. The rent isn't free. It would be > nice to pack this in as few racks as possible. Reliability, well... I expect > frequent drive failures, and I would expect that we'd run some form of RAID to > mitigate this. If the rest of the hardware is just reasonably well designed, > the most frequently failing components should be redundant and hot-swap > replacable (fans and PSUs). > > It's acceptable that a head-node fails for a short period of time. The entire > system will not depend on all head nodes functioning simultaneously. > > > > The setup will probably have a number of "head nodes" which receive a large > > > amount of data over standard gigabit from a large amount of remote sources. > > > Data is read infrequently from the head nodes by remote systems. The primary > > > load on the system will be data writes. > > > > Ok, so you are write dominated. Could you describe (guesses are fine) > > what the writes will look like? Large sequential data, small random > > data (seek, write, close)? > > I would expect something like 100-1000 simultaneous streaming writes to just as > many files (one file per writer). The files will be everything from a few > hundred MiB to many GiB. > > I guess that on most filesystems these streaming sequential writes will result > in something close to "random writes" to the block layer. However, we can be > very generous with write buffering. > > > > The head nodes need not see the same unified storage; so I am not required to > > > have one big shared filesystem. If beneficial, each of the head nodes could > > > have their own local storage. > > > > There are some interesting designs with a variety of systems, including > > GFS/Lustre/... on those head nodes, and a big pool of drives behind > > them. These designs will add to the overall cost, and increase complexity. > > Simple is nice :) > > > > The storage pool will start out at around 100TiB and will grow to ~1PiB within > > > a year or two (too early to tell). It would be nice to use as few racks as > > > possible, and as little power as possible :) > > > > Ok, so density and power are important. This is good. Coupled with the > > low management cost and low acquisition cost, we have about 3/4 of what > > we need. Just need a little more description of the writes. > > I hope the above helped. > > > Also, do you intend to back this up? > > That is a *very* good question. > > > How important is resiliency of the > > system? Can you tolerate a failed unit (assume the units have hot > > spares, RAID6, etc). > > Yes. Single head nodes may fail. They must be fairly quick to get back on line > (having a replacement box I would expect no more than an hour of downtime). > > > When you look at storage of this size, you have to > > start planning for the eventual (and likely) failure of a chassis (or > > some number of them), and think about with a RAIN configuration. > > Yep. I don't know how likely a "many-disk" failure would be... If I have a full > replacement chassis, I would guess that I could simply pull out all the disks > from a failed system, move them to the replacement chassis and be up and > running again in "short" time. > > If a PSU decides to fry everything connected to it including the disks, then > yes, I can see the point in RAIN or a full backup. > > It's a business decision if a full node loss would be acceptable. I honestly > don't know that, but it is definitely interesting to consider both "yes" and > "no". > > > Either > > that, or invest into massive low level redundancy (which should be scope > > limited to the box it is on anyway). > > Yes; I had something like RAID-5 or so in mind on the nodes. > > > > It *might* be possible to offload older files to tape; does anyone have > > > experience with HSM on Linux? Does it work? Could it be worthwhile to > > > investigate? > > > > Hmmm... First I would suggest avoiding tape, you should likely be > > looking at disk to disk for backup, and use slower nearline mechanisms. > > Why would you avoid tape? > > Let's say there was software which allowed me to offload data to tape in a > reasonable manner. Considering the running costs of disk versus tape, tape > would win hands down on power, cooling and replacements. > > Sure, the random seek time of a tape library sucks golf balls through a garden > hose, but assuming that one could live with that, are there more important > reasons to avoid tape? > > > > One setup I was looking at, is simply using SunFire X4500 systems (you can put > > > 48 standard 3.5" SATA drives in each 4U system). Assuming I can buy them with > > > 1T SATA drives shortly, I could start out with 3 systems (12U) and grow the > > > entire setup to 1P with 22 systems in little over two full racks. > > > > > > Any better ideas? Is there a way to get this more dense without paying an arm > > > and a leg? Has anyone tried something like this with HSM? > > > > Yes, but I don't want to turn this into a commercial, so I will be > > succinct. Scalable Informatics (my company) has a similar product, > > which does have a good price and price per gigabyte, while providing > > excellent performance. Details (white paper, benchmarks, presentations) > > at the http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com web site. > > Yep, I was just looking at that actually. > > The hardware looks similar in concept to the SunFire, but as I see it you guys > have thought about a number of services atop of that (RAIN etc.) > > > Very interesting! > > -- > > / jakob > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Jeff Blasius / jeff.blasius at yale.edu Phone: (203)432-9940 51 Prospect Rm. 011 High Performance Computing (HPC) UNIX Systems Administrator, WorkStation Support (WSS) Yale University Information Technology Services (ITS)


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The quickly filling UFC 158 fight card has a new welterweight addition: Sean Pierson (13-6 MMA, 3-2 UFC) vs. Rick Story (14-6 MMA, 7-4 UFC).
Officials today announced the bout.
UFC 158 takes place March 16 at Montreal's Bell Centre. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.
It's not clear where Pierson vs. Story will be placed on the lineup.
Pierson, who fights in his home country for the fourth time under the UFC banner, recently ended a two-fight skid with back-to-back decision victories over Jake Hecht and Lance Benoist. The former Toronto cop had posted stoppages in 10 of his first 11 pro victories, which came primarily on the Canadian circuit.
He now faces Story, who desperately needs a win. Since a six-fight UFC win streak that had him in the title picture, the Brave Legion fighter has dropped three of four, including an October submission defeat to Demian Maia. Prior to the setbacks, which included decision defeats to Charlie Brenneman and Martin Kampmann, Story had defeated notables such as top contender Johny Hendricks and former title challenger Thiago Alves.
The latest UFC 158 card includes:
- Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz – for welterweight title
- Jake Ellenberger vs. Johny Hendricks
- Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald
- Chris Camozzi vs. Nick Ring
- Sean Pierson vs. Rick Story
- Jordan Mein vs. Dan Miller
- Daron Cruickshank vs. John Makdessi
- Patrick Cote vs. Bobby Voelker
- Johnny Eduardo vs. Yves Jabouin
For more on UFC 158, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Sean Monahan scores his first NHL shootout goal to lift Flames over Jets 5-4NHL.com @NHLdotcom
WINNIPEG - Rookie Sean Monahan admitted he wasn't very good in the shootout while playing junior last season.
But now that he's in the NHL, the Calgary Flames centre showed big improvement in that department by scoring the winner in the eighth round of a 5-4 shootout victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday.
It was a goal that halted Calgary's (7-11-3) six-game winless streak, and it marked the first shootout goal of Monahan's young NHL career.
"My first year in junior, I was alright (in the shootout)," said Monahan, who had played with the Ottawa 67s.
"Last year, I wasn't too good so I was kind of nervous there, but I felt good once I got off the ice."
Monahan, who also had an assist, scored low on goalie Al Montoya's blocker side.
"I went down the wide side and it's a move I usually try to do in practice and fortunately enough it worked," he said.
Juri Hudler had given Calgary a 4-3 lead with less than four minutes left in the game, but the Jets didn't let up as centre Bryan Little tied it 4-4 with six seconds left.
With Montoya on the bench for the extra attacker in the final 30 seconds of regulation, the Jets (10-10-3) swarmed goalie Reto Berra and Little put a rebound in an open side of the net.
Montoya, who was playing so starter Ondrej Pavelec could have a break, stopped 24 shots in regulation and five in overtime. Berra was barraged by 47 shots, including three in overtime, for his second win of the season.
Michael Cammalleri scored his team-leading ninth goal of the season on the power play for Calgary and added an assist. T.J. Brodie also had a goal and assist and Lance Bouma scored shorthanded.
Michael Frolik, Olli Jokinen and Dustin Byfuglien also scored for Winnipeg. Byfuglien added an assist and Grant Clitsome and Blake Wheeler each had a pair of assists.
Winnipeg saw a four-game home winning streak halted, but are 4-2-1 in their last seven games.
"That was a pretty strange game in my books," Jets coach Claude Noel said.
"I thought either team could have won it any time. We chased the game, not only from a goals standpoint, but I thought it was pretty wild in a lot of ways.
"I was wondering how it would go. I wasn't settled all night. There was no point that I was comfortable."
Calgary coach Bob Hartley echoed his bench counterpart.
"If that one was not exciting for them, it sure was for me," Hartley said of the capacity crowd of 15,004 at the MTS Centre.
"We made it interesting, we made it tough on us, but at the end we found a way to win so big two points."
After Bouma's short-handed goal at 11:17 of the third period made it 3-2, Byfuglien tied the game with 7:50 left, scoring his fifth goal in as many games on the power play off a rebound.
But Calgary regained the lead when Hudler blasted a shot from the top of the face-off circle that cut by Montoya with 3:26 left in regulation.
"I think we gave up some point-blank opportunities, way too many quality chances," Jets captain Andrew Ladd said.
Hartley was impressed with the way Berra reacted to Little's late tying goal.
"He's a very proud young man," Hartley said. "And despite the fact that he gave the equalizing goal late in the game, he never lost his focus.
"What to say about his performance? I rarely saw a goalie give four goals and play that well."
Calgary hosts Columbus on Wednesday and the Jets take on the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday.


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Eight new members of the Stanford University Athletic Hall of Fame will be inducted October 4, adding to a long and distinguished list of individuals honored at the school known as the Home of Champions.
The inductees will be Lauren Fleshman '03 (women's track & field), Jeffrey Hammonds '92 (baseball), Keith Jones '84 (men's basketball), Glyn Milburn '92 (football), Anthony Mosse '88 (men's swimming), Olympia Scott '98 (women's basketball), Logan Tom '03 (women's volleyball) and Brenda Villa '03 (women's water polo).
All of the inductees will be honored at a private reception and dinner at the Bing Concert Hall on Friday, Oct. 4 beginning at 6 p.m. The class will also be introduced at halftime of Stanford's football game against Washington on Oct. 5.
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Lauren Fleshman '03, track & field: A 15-time All-American and five-time NCAA champion, Fleshman won NCAA outdoor national titles in the 5,000 meters from 2001-03, and captured NCAA indoor titles in the 3,000 (2002) and the distance medley relay (2000). In cross country, Fleshman won the 2001 Pac-10 individual title and three times finished among the top five at the NCAA Championships.
Fleshman was the U.S. 5000 meter champion in 2006 and 2010, and competed at the IAAF World Championships in 2003, 2005, and 2011. Her seventh place in the 2011 world 5,000 final equaled the highest finish by an American woman in that event.
Jeffrey Hammonds '92, baseball: The Baseball America National Freshman of the Year in 1990, Hammonds made his mark on The Farm when he set four single-season school records (hits, runs, stolen bases, 37-game hit streak), with the latter three still standing today. Hammonds also led the Cardinal with a .355 batting average. A two-time All-American and All-Pac-10 selection (1990, 1992), Hammonds was also an All-College World Series choice in 1990.
The fourth overall selection in the 1992 Major League baseball draft (Baltimore), Hammonds went on to become a member of the fourth-place USA Baseball team at the 1992 Olympics; he retired after a 13-year career in big-league career highlighted by an All-Star Game appearance while a member of the Colorado Rockies in 2000.
Keith Jones '84, men's basketball: A two-time AP honorable mention All-American (1983-84), Jones averaged 16.3 points per game while shooting 51.9 percent from his guard position over four seasons from 1981-84. A two-time All-Pac-10 first team selection (1983, 1984), Jones led the conference in scoring with 20.0 ppg as a senior after pouring in a team-high 19.8 ppg the previous season.
Jones is well represented in the school record book, ranking 11th in points (1,516), eighth in scoring average (16.3), seventh in field goals (559), eighth in free throws (398) and seventh in steals (128). Jones, who scored a career-high 36 points against Arizona during his junior season, was selected in the sixth round of the 1984 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers.
Glyn Milburn '92, football: A 1992 Associated Press first team All-America selection, Milburn finished his career as the Pac-10's third-leading all-purpose yard gainer at 5,857 yards. He had a school record 2,222 all-purpose yards as a sophomore in 1990 as he garnered the first of two All-Pac-10 honors. His high water mark that year was a single game record 379 all-purpose yards against Cal. Despite playing three seasons after transferring into Stanford, Milburn led the Cardinal as the third-leading rusher and sixth-leading pass catcher of his day.
Anthony Mosse '88, men's swimming: A 10-time All- American and the 1988 NCAA champion in the 200 yard butterfly, Mosse led the Cardinal to national titles in 1985, 1986 and 1987. Mosse was a two-time Pac-10 200 fly champion while also capturing gold in the 1988 edition of the 400 medley relay at the conference meet.
Mosse competed at two Summer Olympic Games, gaining a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He was one of four Olympians on Stanford's 1988 squad. Mosse also won a silver medal at the 1986 World Championships and rounded out his career by winning the 200 fly at the 1990 Commonwealth Games defending the title he won in 1986.
Olympia Scott '98, women's basketball: Scott, one of the key figures during Stanford's three Final Four runs in the mid-90s, finished her Cardinal career ranked among the top 10 of numerous statistical categories. Upon graduation Scott ranked second in field-goal percentage (53.4), fifth in rebounds (753) and seventh in points scored (1,524). Those numbers remain high on the Cardinal all-time lists today, with her field-goal percentage seventh, rebounding total 11th and scoring total 13th. A two-time All-Pac-10 selection, Scott was named to the 1997 NCAA West Regional All-Tournament Team en route to being named All-America honorable mention from the Associated Press.
Scott went on to participate in the 1997 World University Games, winning a gold medal with Team USA in Sicily, and in 1998 was selected to represent Stanford at the inaugural WBCA All-Star Game.
Logan Tom 03, women's volleyball: One of the best volleyball players to don a Stanford uniform, Tom was a four-time first team All-America selection and a two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association National Player of the Year. She also was a two-time Honda Award winner in volleyball and two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year.
Now third all-time with 1,939 career kills in program history, Tom led Stanford to the 2001 NCAA championship with Most Outstanding Player honors after defeating top-ranked and previously undefeated Long Beach State behind 25 kills, 12 digs and five blocks after recording 22 kills and five blocks against Nebraska in the semifinals.
A four-time Olympian, Tom became the youngest woman ever to be selected to the U.S. Olympic team when she made the 2000 Games in Sydney as a 19 year old. She earned silver medals in 2008 in Beijing and in 2012 in London while being named the tournament's Best Hitter at the Beijing Games.
Brenda Villa '03, women's water polo: A member of the Cardinal from 2001-03, Villa scored 172 goals and was three-time first-team All-America selection and the 2001 National Player of the Year. An integral part of Stanford's 2002 national champion team, Villa was named the Peter J. Cutino Award winner as the nation's top collegiate women's water polo player.
A four-time Olympian, Villa earned gold at the 2012 London Olympics, silver at the 2008 Beijing and 2000 Syndey Games while winning bronze in the 2004 Athens Games. A member of the U.S. Senior National Team from 1996-2012, Villa also boasts gold medals in 2005 and 2007 at the FINA World Championships and in 2003 and 2007 at the Pan-Am Games.
With the addition of these eight individuals, the Stanford Hall of Fame will number 397. The Hall of Fame was the brainchild of the late Walt Gamage, the longtime sports editor of the Palo Alto Times, and the first class was inducted in 1954.


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You are all wrong, Wendy's is the best. Unless I happen upon a Wendy's that is having a really crappy day, they have the best and freshest tasting food around.
The mention of value that was discussed, Wendy's has kept the same value on their value menu over the years. It is still 99 cents for a five chicken nuggets, while at McDonald's(at least the ones around me, don't know about anywhere else) they've taken one nugget away and it is a dollar of only four nuggets.
I am a little bias in the area that I really only eat chicken, but I think it gives me a nice side prospective. The big thing in the last five years or so was that almost every fast food chain came up with their own version of a chicken wrap. Wendy's has the wraps that hands down. If I get the choice on where to go for fast food, it is going to be Wendy's to get chicken wraps. The value is definitely better there too compared to McDonald's.
A chicken wrap at Wendy's in my area is a $1.79, while one at McDonald's is $1.69. "Well that McD one is 10 cents less," you say. Yes it is, but when you compare the size of the two, you'll see that the McD wrap is only 2/3 the size of the Wendy's wrap. I normally get two Wendy's wraps, so that is $3.58 before tax. Now, if I go to McD, I would have to get three wraps to equal the amount of food I would get at Wendy's, three comes to $5.07 before tax, that is a $1.49. So if I go to Wendy's, my money goes further. But, lastly in this matter, I hadn't mentioned that the chicken in the Wendy's wrap is a half of one of the whole chicken breasts that they used for their sandwiches and it is 99% of the time(from my experience) cooked just right. On the other end, we have the McD wrap that the chicken in it is always over cooked and it looks like they took one of those chicken select strip things they used to have and put it in the wrap instead of a proper good section of chicken.
On Burger King, I really can't say of late, since I have been to one in three years at least, but I remember that the food was overcooked most of the time.
Oh, and Wendy's also has the best combinations I can make, it also falls into the me being strange category, but whatever:
You get a chocolate frosty, an order of fries and chicken nuggets, and then when you eat the fries and nuggets you must dip them in the frosty. I'm guessing it is the combination of sweet and salty, but it is amazing.
I like KFC too, but they downright expensive compared to going to Wendy's.
Oh and to add a little fast food history:
Dave Thomas was a good friend of Colonel Sanders, and before Dave went on to found Wendy's, he helped turn around four failing KFC franchise restaurants and sold them back to KFC. When Dave founded Wendy's the Colonel gave him a side chicken recipe that was slightly different form the Colonel's main recipe.
I think that's why, besides KFC chicken, Wendy's chicken is better then all the rest of the fast food places, because it has a good bit of the Colonel's recipe in it.
Best national food chain - Wendy's.
Best midwest foodchain that will as an added bonus send food to you anywhere in the US including Alaska and Hawaii - Portillos
That study would have when differently if they had used the Taco Bell that my family use to frequent back in the day.
It would regularly take at least 10 minutes of waiting at the window, and if they forgot something, at least another 5 or so minutes waiting while parked to the side. There were a few times when my family had to wait 25 minutes. It must have been the laziest and worst run fast food places I have seen.
I am with Dan on this one Hamburger yarmulkes FTW!!!
How does one be "honost"??
Church's Chicken. Those crispy chickenwings, that dirty rice, that corn on the cob, and THOSE BISCUITS!
dual post for me and the man-thing
Chicken: panda express
Taco: chipotle
Hot Subs: i pretty much never eat hot subs, every place burns them.
Cold Subs: jimmy john's
Ice Cream: red mango. the best ice cream is frozen yogurt.
Best Overall: portillo's
Chicken: church's
Taco: del taco
Hot Subs: subway (toasted meatball sub)
Cold Subs: also subway, but then I'm not a big sub eater
Ice Cream: cold stone
Best Overall: portillo's
I had never heard of Five Guy's until one opened up in my city(in the Midwest US).
As far as I know it was really only an east coast restaurant until now. So, I guess they are moving west. Hmm, maybe they will take the long route and move far enough west until they make it all the way around the world to Europe.
I'm not a beef person, so really the only thing I like that they make is their fries. Oh, though they do make a mean grilled cheese sandwich, lol.
I'd say it just depends on the area the McDonald's is at, cause the one in the town I use to live near, it is packed with near round the clock customers. They got so many customers, they renovated and made it bigger, then they added a second drive-tru order line(though that was just stupid, because both lines funnel into one cluster-fuck of a line going to the two windows on one side).
But I agree, if I go to McDonald's, it is going to be for breakfast. If Wendy's experiment with serving breakfast had succeeded, I would have never have went to a McD's again.
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Honosty is the trait of literate peasants!
Yeah, I disagreeded with it as well. Every Hardee's/Carls Jr that I've ever been too takes no less than 10 minutes per order, while I can't say I've ever had to wait too long at Burger King....though the 83% order correctness does seem to be accurate in my experience.
A taco is never late nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
So yeah, imagine my surprise when the taco I use for my avatars appeared in the thumbnail! Color me surprised! :D
OT: I have to say Taco Bell of course, but I also enjoy Wendy's (Burgers are pretty good), McDonald's (Fries and the Chocolate Chip Frappe) and Subway (More healthier than other fast food)
Special mentions to Chick-Fil-A, Bojangles and Cookout!
Del Taco is my "anytime" spot when I want a quick bite, hit or miss on quality but the one near me is good every time.
I live in Southern California and a local place which is God Tier in my opinion is Legends Burgers. I've never had something from there that wasn't excellent.
I never order dessert from fast food joints but when I do end up going there (A little expensive and a very large portions.) I always end up getting a banana split because they're so damn good.
Other than that, Western Burgers from Carl's Jr. Fries from McD's. Avoid Subway like the plague. Allergic to Wendy's. And El Pollo Loco when I want chicken.
Sweet sweet El Pollo Loco
Five Guys. Seriously, if you have never had a Five Guys' burger and fries (They put fries in a large Styrofoam cup, and then dump another cup load into the bottom of the bag, they are that good) then you have never lived.
Not from Cali, I found the glory of In-n-Out when I was living in Arizona. Utah doesn't have any In-n-Outs close by, but they're starting to move up.
Two words wendy's baconator. Thats my whole argument.
Popeyes. Your argument is invalid.
I was sad that you guys chose Taco Bell, throw the other big contender into the ring Wendy's Dave Thomas could sucker punch the king and Ronald.
The truly correct answer is Chick-Fil-A. Best fast food this side of anywhere. Best service, best quality, the stores are ALWAYS clean, funny mascot, and best tasting food. If there isn't one of these near you, you should move. You're missing out.
YOU CAN DIGEST McDONALDS!?
I am in awe.
Personally I vote A&W, but I DO like KFC.
My favorite is Subway. Debating about McDonalds/Burger King's small healthy burgers is like trying to push a semi. With it's parking break on. Up a hill. In an ice storm.
I have been to a Subway with a drive-thru. Granted, I've only been to one, and I was traveling.
And Chick Fil A is disgusting. No one else's food sweats that much grease. And I worked somewhere where they bulk ordered the stuff for lunch sometimes; by the time it got to the office, the chicken was already sinking in its own grease lake.
As a Mexican, I'm kind of obligated to automatically hate Taco Bell, then again, I've never tried it because I don't have it in my area for obvious reasons.
If I had to pick a favorite, I will always go with Carl's Jr. Frankly, I love the Six Dollar Western.
I've never hated Burger King, but I just never saw anything on the menu that couldn't get anywhere else. There was never anything that just clicked for me. Speaking of which, over the last few years, I've seen the BKs in my area being replaced with Wendy's and I have to admit I prefer that.
As for McDonalds, it's definitely the cheapest chain in my area and it's the only one with a 24 hour drive-thru so its always good for when it's late at night and nothing else is open or when I just feel like not spending too much on a weekend or something. Not too long ago, I ordered a Big Mac combo via drive-thru and they messed up my order. Instead, I got a double Big Mac and a McNifica (that's what they call it here) with large fries and a coke. I had just had a rough night, so I kinda took out my frustration by just eating the whole thing. I didn't regret it, but I'll probably never do it again. I definitely got my money's worth, but I would feel bad if I found out that someone got fired over that.
If there's one fast food chain I wish was in my area, it's Popeye's. I had it for a short while but then it just left. However, a similar thing happened with KFC and now it's back and it's evrywhere. I also like KFC, but I do miss Popeye's.
I shouldn't care but you've actually made me feel jealous.
OT:They're all about the same to me but if forced to choose I'd say it'd be a tie between KFC for the spicy chicken burger and New York Fries for their poutine.
I don't think the title "No Right Answer" has ever applied so well. Pretty much all fast food is garbage, taste and/or health wise. Five Guys is pretty good, but when it costs only a dollar or so more to get a burger and fries from a good sit down joint, why would I get Five Guys?
As someone who lives in southern california where small burger and taco places that make the mentioned chains taste like shit in comparison are common and In & Out reigns supreme, this whole debate is just wrong. Even Farmer Boys or Gus Jr's looks down on those three.
Aside from that, McDonald's and Burger King aren't even in the ballpark of "best" fast food, or even particularly good fast food.
Subway has drive-through now. Therefore, it obviously wins by default. Because it's Subway,
Of the three choices....McDonalds. Burger King tastes funny and taco bell looks funny.
My personal choice, Wendy's owns all the national fast food chains. All of them.
I'm Canadian, so id go with Wendy's, but on the lines of the debate, let me say this:
I'm convinced people who tout how great In N Out is have never had Culvers. Plus In N Outs fries are pretty crappy. Every time I've gone, they've been hardly crispy and taste bleh. Burger King and Wendy's have better fries. I even like McDonald's fries better, and I HATE McDonalds. I have yet to have a Fatburger though, and I hear good things about them.
I kind of miss Steak N Shake out here in Cali. So many of my midwest food chains I wish were here.
THIS. Dear god this. Love In-n-Out
I also like Mcdonald's. Mainly for the french fries. Also I don't know what they put in their Diet Coke, but there's just something about it that tastes good to me. Maybe it's just my imagination.
IDK about over in america but over here in Australia we don't have Taco Bell, but we do have McDonalds and Burger King (Trading as Hungry Jack's)...
EVERY burger I have gotten from Hungry Jack's has been stone cold and disgusting! However McDonalds at least know how to keep their meats and buns warm which makes for a much nicer burger overall. Also: Big Mac special sauce... need I say more!
aw man, we're talkin' subs now too? JIMMY JOHNS FTW
Allow me to put my hat in the ring
Carl's Jr./Hardee's
Now Carl's is the fast food chain for people who actually like fast food which is basically everyone here, (no shut up you are not a gourmet, if you watched the episode you like fast food). Why is Carl's the best for people who like fast food?
They give you more of it.
Have you ever looked at the size of a McDonald's burger patty? It's pathetic. And burger King isn't exactly large and in charge either.
Enter the $6 burger, even with it's size being smaller than it used to be (I think), it still towers over mcdonalds and burger king burgers. Carl's understands that people want meat in their burgers, actual meat. It's like they took Wendy's old slogan "where's the beef" and they're like "fuck you, the beef's over here because we just took all your damn cows".
You say that Mcdonalds had all these innovations but where do you think they got the idea for their Angus burgers from? Carl's Jr. And they still don't do it as well as Carl's does.
Burger King meanwhile from what I've seen still hasn't caught up to the "let's give people big burgers", craze and as for Taco Bell... Well if your food is mediocre to start with, giving you more of it just means more mediocrity. In fact it's just enough mediocrity to transform itself into "Kinda Bland"(TM).
Oh and I'm pretty sure that the Doritos Taco is a result of Taco Bell getting completely hammered one night and ordering the creation of the first thing that came to mind. Now stuck with their creation, their only idea is to market it as much as humanly possible instead of apologizing to the world.
To answer the question: After all those burger pictures, I won't have a craving for fast food for another month. Thanks for that! :D (no sarcasm)
Grill'd. As far as I can tell it's Australia-only at the moment, but damn, it's the best fast-food chain in the world. And not only are they delicious, they're all really healthy. Honourable mention to Oporto.
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'They said 214 and I said, 'My gosh, it really is fast.'''
Fellow veteran driver Mark Martin experienced something similar, taking to Twitter:
Such high speeds won't be expected during an actual race, which will take place in Indianapolis this coming July. They are, however, a testament to the performance of the new Gen-6 cars, which by most accounts are encouraging.
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Pacific 14, UC Irvine 13
STOCKTON — Sophomore third baseman Taylor Sparks went five for five to lead eight Anteaters with multiple hits in the Big West Conference game on Saturday.
But a nine-run fourth inning for the host Tigers (10-23, 3-8 in conference) helped doom UCI (24-11, 6-5), which nearly rallied in the ninth.
Trailing, 14-13, UCI had the bases loaded with one out and one run in when Jerry McClanahan hit into a game-ending double play.
Sparks drove in three runs, while Dominique Taylor was three for five with four RBIs for the visitors.
Ronnie Shaeffer had three hits and two RBIs, while Connor Spencer had three hits for UCI.
McClanahan and Grant Palmer had two hits and two RBIs each for UCI, for which Chris Rabago and Justin Castro had two hits apiece.
UCI had 22 hits and left 11 runners on base, while Pacific had 12 hits and stranded four.
Starting pitcher Matt Whitehouse allowed five runs on four hits in 3 1/3 innings, while reliever Mitch Merten allowed four runs on three hits without recording an out for UCI.
The two teams play the rubber game of the three-game series Sunday at 1 p.m.
COSTA MESA — Vanguard swept Biola, winning the first game, 4-3, in 12 innings and the nightcap, 4-2, Saturday.
Ellis Whitman scored the game-winning run in the opener. He singled to reach and Taylor McKnight followed with a bunt that caused a fielding error, allowing Whitman to score.
McKnight had two runs batted in. Whitman went two for four and Thomas Mobley went two for five for Vanguard (20-25, 13-19).
Bryce Arroyo led the Lions in the nightcap. He was two for three with one RBI.
Scott Simmons (7-6) pitched a complete game (seven innings), with three strikeouts and one walk to earn the win. He gave up seven hits and two earned runs.
Biola is 25-22, 13-19.
UC Irvine 4, Pacific 2
IRVINE — The host Anteaters moved a step closer to earning at least a share of the Big West Conference title as Ryan Cheung, Tyler Pham and Jacob Jung won in singles and doubles on Saturday.
UCI (8-16, 4-1 in conference) can tie Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for the top spot in the standings with a victory over UC Davis on Sunday. Since UCI defeated Cal Poly, which finished its conference season with a win at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday and is 5-1, the Anteaters would earn the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, should they finished tied for first.
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Pacific is now 13-8, 3-2.
COSTA MESA — Breanne Gomez went three for four with three runs batted in in a 5-0 Game 1 win over Hope International and Kari Bergerson was two for four with two RBIs in the 4-3 second game victory for the Lions in Golden State Athletic Conference play Saturday.
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HIV-positive people had a higher rate of new anal cancer than HIV-negative people in a comparison involving thousands of people in the United States and Canada.1 HIV-positive gay and bisexual men had more than an 80 times higher anal cancer rate than HIV-negative people in this study.
Because strong antiretroviral combinations that HIV-positive people started taking in the 1990s greatly lowered the AIDS death rate, a growing proportion of people with HIV now die of cancer, especially cancers caused by infections. Anal cancer can be caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in men and women. Like HIV, HPV can pass from one person to another during sex, so many people with HIV also have HPV. In the United States, 2700 women and 1500 men get HPV-related anal cancer every year.2
Previous large studies found that HIV-positive people have a 30 times higher anal cancer rate than the general population.3,4 But anal cancer incidence -- the rate of newly diagnosed cancers in a given period -- has varied widely from study to study. Gay and bisexual men have the highest anal cancer rates in these studies, but it's unclear how anal cancer rates differ in gay men, straight men, and women with HIV when compared with HIV-negative people.
To learn more about anal cancer rates in different groups of HIV-positive people, U.S. and Canadian researchers planned this new study.
The study involved HIV-positive men and women who were members of 10 U.S. and 3 Canadian HIV study groups from 1996 through 2007. A comparison group of HIV-negative men and women came from 3 of the 10 U.S. study groups. The analysis did not include anyone who already had anal cancer when they entered their study group.
Researchers counted the number of new anal cancers detected (anal cancer incidence) during the study period. The main goal of the study was to estimate anal cancer incidence in three HIV-positive groups: gay and bisexual men, "other men" who became infected with HIV during sex with women or when injecting drugs, and women.
The researchers used standard statistical methods to compare anal cancer incidence in these groups with incidence in HIV-negative men and women according to year (1996-1999, 2000-2003, and 2004-2007), age (in 5-year groups), and race or ethnicity. They also figured how cancer incidence changed in these groups through the three study periods (1996-1999, 2000-2003, and 2004-2007).
In addition, the research team analyzed anal cancer incidence in the HIV-positive groups by calculating standardized incidence ratios. This statistic compared anal cancer rates in the HIV-positive groups with rates in a nationwide U.S. database called SEER (for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results). This analysis accounted for the potential impact of age and race or ethnicity on cancer rates. The researchers conducted this analysis because the HIVnegative group in the main comparison included people from only 3 of the 10 study groups -- and the research team wanted to make sure that comparison was accurate.
The study involved 18,855 HIV-positive gay or bisexual men (55% of the HIV group), 6492 other HIV-positive men (19% of the HIV group), and 8842 HIV-positive women (26% of the HIV group). The comparison group had 102,607 HIVnegative men and 11,653 HIV-negative women.
Median age was similar across all of these groups at about 38 years. Whites made up 63% of the gay/bisexual HIV group, while blacks made up 52% of the other HIV-positive men and 54% of HIV-positive women. Among HIV-positive women and other men with HIV, about 60% picked up HIV during sex.
Anal cancer incidence (the new diagnosis rate) per 100,000 person-years was 131 for HIV-positive gay/bisexual men, 46 for HIV-positive other men, 30 for HIV-positive women, and 2 for HIV-negative men. Anal cancer developed in no HIV-negative women during the study period. Compared with HIV-negative men, HIV-positive gay/bisexual men had an 80.3 times higher rate of new anal cancer and HIV-positive other men had a 26.7 times higher rate.
For HIV-positive gay/bisexual men, other men, and women, anal cancer incidence was lowest in 1996-1999, the first years of the combination antiretroviral therapy era (Figure 1). The new anal cancer rate rose sharply in 2000-2003 and remained at about that level in 2004-2007.
Figure 1. Rates at which anal cancer developed in HIV-positive people rose substantially from the first study period (1996-1999) to the second study period (2000-2003), then remained at about that level in the third study period (2004-2007). The new anal cancer rate was higher in HIV-positive gay or bisexual men than in other HIV-positive men or HIV-positive women.
Another analysis compared the new anal cancer rate in the three HIV-positive groups with the rate in a large U.S. national database (Table 1). This analysis showed much higher anal cancer rates in the HIV-positive groups than in the general population. The anal cancer rate difference between the HIVpositive groups and the general U.S. population was highest for gay or bisexual men.
|Table 1. New Anal Cancer Rates in Three HIV-Positive Groups Compared With the U.S. General Population*
|Rate Compared With General Population*
|Gay/Bisexual HIV+ Men
|Other HIV+ Men
|HIV+ Women
* Rates are reported as standardized incidence ratios. A standardized incidence ratio of 73.9 in 1996-1999, for example, means that gay/bisexual had a 73.9 times higher rate of new anal cancer than the general population in those years.
† Rate was 0 in 1996-1999 because anal cancer developed in only 1 HIV-positive woman in those years and data on her were incomplete.
Finally, statistical analysis that figured in the impact of several cancer risk factors found a significant difference in risk of new anal cancer in the following groups:
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Don't make the mistake of simply going in to talk to your lender without a business plan in hand. To make it easy to read, you need to have it divided up into sections. Together, the sections of your marketing plan are going to discuss what your product or service is, who your target market is, how you plan to reach them, and the estimated profits and expenses for the next five years. Simply place it all in a binder or clear cover to make it look more professional.
The first part of the business plan needs to be your introduction. It needs to be short, but also very powerful. If the lender isn't impressed with the introduction, they may decide not to finish reading what you have to offer. This is the perfect place to include information about your skills, desires, and motivations for operating your own business.
The next part of your business plan needs to discuss your target market. This section needs to be very detailed. Make sure it covers why you think there is a need for your product or service, how you will reach your target market, and discuss each of your marketing strategies in detail. It is very important that you have at least two distinct marketing strategies in your business plan.
In this section you will also discuss the elements of your product or service. It needs to include the cost of making it, how much you plan to sell it for, and how you will distribute it. All of your prices need to be as accurate as possible. This shows the lender that you have been doing your homework and that you have a realistic idea of the profits and expenses involved in the business.
Your lender is going to want to find out how your business is going to be operated, and this information goes next. Include all the information about the internal structure of your business. You also need to include information on the equipment necessary to operate your business in this section.
Think about any consultants, marketing agencies, employees, managers, etc. that you will be incorporating into your business. Try to get as accurate of a dollar amount associated with these operating expenses as you can.
Your financial plan for the business is the next section of your business plan. This needs to include projected income and expenses over a five year period. You will need to provide information on how you came up with the figures used. It is a good idea to use conservative figures in your business plan when it comes to income. If you make more that is wonderful, but don't overshoot your profits.
I suggest that you include risks that can increase your expenses and lower your profits in this section as well. It is not required, but your lender will already be thinking of the risk factor involved with your business venture. By outlining some of them as well as how you will handle them, you show the lender you are willing to take that risk and that you understand some of the challenges you may face on the road to having a successful business.
The last section is to be a brief summary of everything including in your business plan. Focus on the positive aspects of it in this area of the business plan. This is the last information the lender will read so you need it to be convincing.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The violence that continues to rage in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and elsewhere is not nearing its end, and does not represent the birth pangs of true democratic freedom in the Middle East.
Israel Today spoke to two former Israeli ambassadors and diplomats involved in forging Israel's peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians, and they said the so-called Arab Spring is just the latest round of intra-Muslim violence that has characterized this region for the past 1,400 years.
As one of the ambassadors put it, arrangement and treaties in the Middle East are signed in ice, not carved in stone, and therefore are vulnerable to sudden upheaval.
The experts told us that this cycle makes it painfully obvious why Israel cannot make the kind of far-reaching concessions being demanded of it for peace deals that could easily collapse the next time the region becomes inflamed.
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