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"Mama grizzly" Karen Handel conceded a vitriolic Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary fight Wednesday to former US Rep. Nathan Deal, notching a razor-thin victory for a long-time establishment politician against a self-proclaimed outsider who vowed to take on entrenched party politics in this solidly red Southern state.
On the national stage, Ms. Handel's loss, after she was catapulted into the frontrunner spot by an endorsement from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, will likely be read as a sign of the limitations of Ms. Palin's "tea party" message – even in some of the most conservative corners of the country. But perhaps the big story in the Handel-Deal runoff was Tuesday's turnout. More than half a million Republicans – nearly quadruple the average turnout for an off-year election – came to polls to vote in temperatures hitting the high 90s.
That number is likely to put Democrats across America on notice that they'll face an invigorated GOP base in the general election on Nov. 2.
"What this election will really tell us is how passionately people care about things locally and nationally, and that's a pretty good snapshot of how those people are going to behave in the general election," says Mary Stuckey, a political scientist at Georgia State University.
Mr. Deal led Handel by a mere 2,500 votes after Tuesday's vote. Their contest had been seen by some analysts as a proxy war for potential presidential candidates who waded into the Georgia battle. Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, rode endorsements by Ms. Palin and Mitt Romney into first place in the July primary. But Deal, backed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, closed the distance in the days before Tuesday's runoff.
To many observers, the Deal-Handel contest pitted an insurgent "tea party"-flavored wing of the party, epitomized by Handel's more centrist views on abortion and her push to slash state spending, against Deal's reputation as a traditional conservative Republican. According to election maps, Handel on Tuesday ruled among Republicans in Atlanta and along the Georgia coast. Deal, endorsed by the National Rifle Association and supported by some "tea party groups," won the majority of rural Georgia.
Handel had to fight off perceptions that her attacks on Deal as a "corrupt relic of Washington" had gone too far; likewise with her characterization of the GOP-dominated state legislature as a nest of "sex, lies and lobbyists." Deal had to endure Handel's attacks focused on a House ethics probe that led the 18-year House veteran to step down. He, in turn, pinpointed Handel's lack of a college education and ties to unpopular Gov. Sonny Perdue (R), for whom she once served as chief of staff.
A recent Mason-Dixon poll found 75 percent of Georgians concerned about job security and their household economy, with a majority expressing frustration with politicians in Atlanta and Washington.
But other issues may have played a role, too, in driving so many Republicans to the polls on Tuesday. Count illegal immigration, ethics reform, and government spending among them.
"All of these people in Georgia feel like they've been working hard and playing by the rules, and things don't seem to be getting better. So when people are worried, the first thing you do is blame government," says Ms. Stuckey at GSU. Thus, issues such as illegal immigration have resonated even in a nonborder state like Georgia, she says. "There's a sense that somebody must be cheating, because if there weren't cheaters, the rules would be working, and I would be OK."
The election margin was narrow enough for Handel to have demanded a recount. But she conceded in the interest of GOP unity, opined Jim Galloway of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after a campaign that had devolved into name-calling in its last days.
The Democrats' gubernatorial nominee, former Gov. Roy Barnes, is already running campaign ads, and some national Democrats predict that Georgia could be a "pick-up" state for them amid a divided Republican electorate.
Democrats quickly put their own spin on Deal's victory.
"A vicious runoff and the narrowest of margins produced the worst possible nominee in Georgia: a corrupt Washington insider," Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, said in a statement.


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text: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, David Mathog wrote: > The uber-pile is a bit of a straw man. I'm pretty sure that a 40U stack > of (typical) 1U or 2U servers would squish the one(s) on the bottom, > plus it would be very unsafe to work around, especially here in > earthquake country. At least on our campus empty racks are often (at > least 1x per year) seen in the junk piles, so it wouldn't be hard to > scrounge one. Any rack is going to be better than a 40U pile! Well, yeah, I was mostly pointing out that it was a bad idea for lots of reasons. Straw or not. So if you're going to rack for reasons of beauty, space, or whatever, don't plan on stacking, plan on racking (with or without rails, but rails are arguably easier if more expensive). rgb > > Regards, > > David Mathog > mathog at caltech.edu > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech > _______________________________________________ > 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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text: Robert, You bias the calculation a bit with the selection of your hardware...if you use inexpensive COTS..we are talking something like 50 per case not 350...also a decent mother board with NIC can be had for 150 and you need to look at the difference between XP and MP proc costs currently a difference of 90 bucks per cpu on pricewatch. I think if you re-evaluate your calcs based on that you get something like: Single DUAL MB (w/NIC) 150 220 CPU (1900) 180 239 X 2 case 50 75 (50+ 25 some super PS and cooling) memory(512DDR) 125 125 *2 _________ __________ 505 1023 X2 1010 vs 1023 As far as I see it is awash price wise. Most dual CPU AMD setups I have seen in rack mounts exceed $2000 easy as they require exotic cooling measures. On the other hand, there will be some cost penalty associated with switch costs having more single CPU's. I agree with your response to the application and effective throughput and I think you have to run your program before you actually know how it will perform on these things...looking at benchmarks can be very misleading. I have not seen any benchmarks on the dual AMD setups comparing them to singles, have you? That was quite response you posted! Thanks Jim -----Original Message----- From: Robert G. Brown [mailto:rgb at phy.duke.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:40 AM To: Jim Fraser Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: Re: DUAL CPU board vs 2 Single CPU boards: bang for buck? On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Jim Fraser wrote: > I don't desire to start a flame but it seems to me that for computational > intensive and memory intensive work that 2 singles are better and in most > cases cheaper then a dual setup. The dual SMP systems out there now have to > fight for bandwidth along the same bus. The AMD chips while fast appear to > be starved for data when *big* memory jobs are running. Further I don't see > the cost benefits, if you actually dig into the "bang-for-buck" duals never > seem to win. That's fine with me;-) Don't consider the following a flame, then, but a respectful disagreement and openhearted list discussion...:-) Let's do the arithmetic and compare. A dual typically shares a case, a hard disk and a NIC (and possibly a video card depending on whether your operation chooses to use serial consoles). Yes, there are configurations that might leave out a hard disk, but let's just assume that we need/want one (in our case we do, and in any event it makes a node a teeny bit easier to engineer and install IMHO, and makes the nodes a teeny bit faster at less cost to the network and a centralized server). A case costs between $60 (mid-tower) and $350 (rackmount). Let's for the sake of argument assume rackmount 2U cases (we currently require rackmount cases to be able to pack LOTS of nodes into a limited and expensive space) and arbitrarily assign a cost of $250. A "reasonable" node hard disk is $100. A NIC might be included in the motherboard or purchased separately. We'll try to accomodate it either way assigning a cost of $50 (typical for an OTC 3c905, for example, although we might find cheaper ones). Using GbE instead of (or in addition to) 100BT would add about $125 for a high-end controller, or as little as $30-50 for a low end controller; Myrinet would add a LOT, but we'll ignore both of these possibilities as well as the possible need for a video controller. Adding up what we pretty much MUST have gives us an "overhead" cost of $400 for a 2U rackmount system regardless of what we put in it. Just to avoid argument over the best possible price vs a reasonable OTC price, I'll arbitrarily deduct $50 from this and make the unit overhead $350 for case, disk, and marginal cost of a single NIC. Any additional hardware requirements per box (as opposed to per processor) obviously get added to this. We can choose to put a UP motherboard, processor and memory in it. A "typical" configuration might be a $100 motherboard without onboard NIC or a $150 motherboard with onboard NIC -- but why quibble within $20 or so relative to our $50 estimate for NIC cost above. Let's choose $120, since the cheaper UP motherboards can be a bit cheesy. A high end Athlon is in the $250-300 range, let's say $280. Memory prices have been rapidly varying recently (in the good direction). It won't really matter what we use since we'll spend the same amount in either packaging for a given amount per CPU -- let's choose one 512 MB DDR ECC DIMM at around $200. Our UP system thus costs $350 $120 $280 $200 ====== $950 and two of them cost $1900. Alternatively, we could use a dual motherboard, e.g. Tiger 2466, which costs about $220 (and definitely has a built in NIC). Our system then might cost $350 $220 $560 $400 ====== $1530 We see that we save well over $150 per processor by getting duals instead of singles. In reality, the savings are even greater -- the extra case, power supply, motherboard and disk consume an extra 50 Watts or so (including the cost of AC), and (at $0.06 kW/hr over a year) this will add an extra $20+/year to your operational costs per pair. The additional maintenance costs associated with the extra case, power supply and fan will add ANOTHER $20 per pair. A fairer estimate of marginal operational cost over a three year lifetime would be perhaps $250, remembering that we were excessively generous with the cost per case in the first place. Still, let's stick with $150 out of $950 or roughly 15% cost differential in favor of dual packaging. Now, is this worth it? No use begging the question (as you attempt to do above, no offense or flame intended;-) by starting with "computationally intensive and memory intensive" since these are QUANTITATIVE concepts, not qualitative, and will be distributed differently, in detail, for each distinct application. Your mileage here may vary with a vengeance -- the only way to proceed is to analyze the specific HPC tasks to be run on the hardware in question. Remember, somebody might TAKE your advice and engineer a cluster based on singles when it really isn't the best thing for them to do. For CPU bound tasks that tend to remain fairly local in cache (so they go to memory relatively infrequently and in a bursty way) two threads on a dual will often complete in just about exactly the same about of time as two threads on two singles. They certainly do for my Monte Carlo computations, and have on every CPU/memory packaging back to plain old EDO RAM on Pentium Pros six or seven years ago. A dual packaging produces NO time of completion penalty and saves you $150/cpu. Every six processors you buy in a dual packaging gets you roughly one processor for FREE relative to a single packaging, and you finish all your work in roughly 85% of the single packaging time for a given fixed budget. In this case, buying singles is obviously not the optimal choice. This is not a rare occurence by any stretch of the imagination. It may even be the most common situation for "most" cluster users (I personally think that it is, but my evidence is local and anecdotal). OTOH, if one is running a significantly MEMORY bound task, one has to be very careful. If it really is a stream-like task (multiplying lots of big matrices and vectors, lots of memory intensive linear algebra) then two processors may well collide on the memory bus and reduce the effective throughput of the dual relative to two singles. This is a >>difficult<< thing to categorically pronounce upon, however, as the degree of degradation (if any at all) depends in detail FOR EACH APPLICATION (and possibly even on different parameters within ONE application) on things like the stride, just how much computation occurs after a given cache-filling memory access, and how well the scheduler effectively antibunches these memory accesses in the running code so that they don't or minimally collide. Some jobs that you think might be memory bound organize themselves in operation so that cpu 0 is accessing memory while cpu 1 is computing and vice versa so even though they COULD collide and degrade, they tend not to. Or they appear to collide when run in small prototyping runs but in larger runs they don't, or vice versa. Others are sufficiently random or evilly-patterned that even though in principle there is enough total bandwidth, in practice one CPU often has to wait on the other. The only safe thing to do is to MEASURE your particular job's performance on the two alternatives (preferrably at all interesting operational scales!) and see how single-thread/single CPU completion times compare to double thread/double CPU completion times. Still, it is entirely possible that performance will degrade more than the 15% cost differential. In that case one should very likely select single CPU packaging. In the above we've neglected the other most important component of parallel system design -- IPC costs. A dual packaging generally requires two processors to share a network IPC channel, although it may be that duals and busses are now fast enough that a dual can run two 100BT channels as fast as two singles with a 100BT NIC apiece, I haven't measured recently. Last time I >>did<< measure, there was maybe a 10% degradation of peak speed on good quality hardware, more on cheapie stuff. A possible degradation in peak IPC rates per processor between nodes has to be balanced a bit with memory-based IPCs between CPUs on a single node, which may be a significant advantage for certain tasks. It is thus VERY hard to guestimate whether a dual packaging is good or bad for your real, parallel HPC application with nontrivial internode IPCs and again the safest thing to do is prototype both ways and measure, if at all possible. The second safest thing to do is ask the list to see if somebody is running your particular favorite application or one very much like it. Sometimes you'll get the measurements you need from somebody who did the prototyping for you. Sometimes you'll get offers from nice people to let you run a benchmark of your application on their hardware. Either one can save you from an expensive mistake even if you can't find a friendly vendor to loan or the money to build a system each way and test before buying 64 CPUs (possibly the "wrong way"). To conclude, the cost-benefit analysis outlined above is an ESSENTIAL part of successful cluster engineering. To do the best possible job, one has to reject the notion that "duals are good" or "duals are bad" and instead analyze the actual price/performance of duals for your particular task mix in comparison to two singles. Dual packaging is without question cheaper, per CPU, than two singles -- the total cost of CPU, memory and motherboard generally works out to be comparable, but it saves you the cost of everything (else) that can be shared. Whether the cost savings translates into a reduced time of completion of your task for a given fixed dollar budget is a question that can be answered systematically by means of measurements or (very:-) well-informed estimates. The exact same questions need to be raised repeatedly even within single or dual CPU designs -- does your application NEED DDR or RDRAM to perform well? Many applications are CPU bound and run just fine on SDRAM or even EDO. Do you NEED a 64/66 PCI bus or will a boring old 32/33 PCI bus suffice? Do you NEED a local disk or can you run diskless? Do you NEED switched GbE or would 10BT thickwire with good old vampire taps (or even sneakernet:-) let you finish in the same amount of time? A well engineered beowulf or cluster is one that accomplishes the task(s) for which it was designed in the least amount of time, for the least possible cost (looking at TOTAL cost, including operational costs and administrative costs, which are yet ANOTHER thing often ignored:-). This may be a "standard recipe" general purpose cluster -- a pile of cheap 256 MB nodes with switched 100BT -- or it may be fancy-schmancy nodes with big-cache Xeons, superfast disks, the fastest possible PCI bus and Myrinet controllers, the largest and fastest memory configuration possible. It may be as many nodes as one can afford or it may even be NO MORE than 32 nodes (because more than that simply won't scale for your problem) with the rest of your budget spent on upgrading your network to the fastest possible, since this is what limits the number of nodes you can use. For what it is worth, our tasks here at Duke are arguably "HPC" tasks, although some might disagree. However one feels about the epistomology of the word, I personally burn GFLOP-years of computing routinely as do several others in the department using beowulfish compute clusters -- but since they tend to be CPU bound dual packaging makes the best sense FOR US. Not necessarily for you or anybody else. We do get a handful of single CPU nodes to mix in with our duals in case somebody needs to run some specific NEW task that might turn out to be memory bound, but if such as task moves beyond prototyping and into production we expect the owner of the task to pony up some bucks for new nodes engineered to the task. 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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There are typically 5 phases to any project. Some phases may only have a couple of things that happen within them, but there are about 5 phases nonetheless. The phases are Initiation, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing. We will take them one at a time, and remember, it is more about the methodology than anything else. Effective project management always seeks to break down the enormity of the project into manageable parts. These manageable parts are called phases. One more thing before we begin...sometimes it is easier to apply a scenario or hypothetical situation to help us understand a concept. We will use Planning a Wedding as our scenario to help us understand various points or concepts.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Drawing basics.. Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Digital Art Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Drawing basics.." Dark Entityjunior memberMember #Joined: 04 Jan 2001Posts: 12Location: Superior, WI, USA Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 2:06 pm I've been doing design for the past 5 years, starting out with ansi/ascii and eventually working myself up to doing layouts for web sites. The reason I call this design is because when it comes to illustration, I have no experience at all drawing anything. I can throw some letters together on a page and usually get whatever end result I want along with some other shapes, but thats about it. I'm wondering where people would recommend I should start. I think the best place is just basic pencil and paper drawing, but what types of things should I practice drawing, are there any rules of thumb for proportion? I'd take an art class but they're all full where I goto school until next September and 9 months is just too far away. Thanks for any help in advance -de Back to top DaveTmemberMember #Joined: 02 Mar 2000Posts: 124Location: Livingston,West Lothian, Scotland Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 2:15 pm Do what I did and just copy stuff like photos or adverts, and just keep copying stuff until you learn. Trust me it works, in three years I went from a foo who cant draw anything recognisable to someone who has recieved arts honours at school. It works! Back to top aquamirememberMember #Joined: 25 Oct 1999Posts: 466Location: duluth, mn, usa Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 2:56 pm Well what a small, small world. Once upon a time, in a world of ascii and ansi, bbs's and art groups, you made a little local group called AWS <artists with style>. Remember me at all? I probably went by the nick, Fury back then. Co-opped Demonic Portal and Rama. Nice seeing ya around. If I were you, I'd go out and get the book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards. Just go to the library or something, it's pretty widely available. You will become enlightened. Once you read that, and have done what the book tells you to do, draw like a mad foo.. draw everything and anything around you. The book can probably explain it better than I can. ------------------ -Aquamire Soylent Green. It's what's for dinner. Back to top ceendamemberMember #Joined: 27 Jun 2000Posts: 2030 Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 3:22 pm "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" is IMHO, a very good book. It was either aquamire or Rinaldo who recommended it to me. The ISBN is 0-00-638114-6 Back to top shardikmemberMember #Joined: 09 Apr 2000Posts: 494Location: Buffalo, NY Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 4:57 pm Haha, i just got that book from my dad for christmas.. its really an excellent read. Back to top FlinthawkmemberMember #Joined: 14 Oct 2000Posts: 415Location: Los Angeles Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 5:25 pm You know, I keep seeing that book, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", and I always passed it up. I keep hearing great things about it though. Is it really that good of a book? What does it teach in general, I mean, what's the gist of the book or what are some examples of stuff that it goes over? -Flinthawk Back to top ZenDrag0nmemberMember #Joined: 31 Dec 2000Posts: 119Location: Olympia, WA, USA Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 6:17 pm The book deals more with perception, and teaching you how to see what is there, and not what you think is there. It does quite a few excercizes to to get you to draw what you see, rather than looking at something and drawing what your mind knows it is. It's pretty good, although I never read all of it. Pick it up, its great. Back to top aquamirememberMember #Joined: 25 Oct 1999Posts: 466Location: duluth, mn, usa Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 6:21 pm Flinthawk: The book is based on the theory that the left and right side of the brain function independantly, almost as if they are two separate brains. The left side of the brain, the side of the brain that categorizes, and describes things as words, and reads things as symbols is dominant. The right side of the brain, or the visual side, is the creative side, and submissive. This theory is actually sort of dated, but for all purposes, it still applies. The book primarily teaches you to utilize that side of the brain, making the left side subside into letting the right side do some work. I could go on and on explaining this, but to sum it up, pretty much this book teaches you how to see in a different way. Instead of drawing a mouse, as a symbol that we see it as, the book teaches you to see what curves/lines/shapes make the mouse. ------------------ -Aquamire Soylent Green. It's what's for dinner. Back to top FlinthawkmemberMember #Joined: 14 Oct 2000Posts: 415Location: Los Angeles Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 6:23 pm Thanks, I'll have to check it out and pick it up next time I hit up the book store. Back to top ZaphodmemberMember #Joined: 26 Jan 2000Posts: 81Location: Sweden, Göteborg, Partille, Sävedalen :p Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 7:26 pm Actually, there seems to be a new version of drawing on the right side of you bran. Called, yup, you guessed it! "NEW Drawing on the right side of your brain". ISBN: 0285635816 It was published 00/10, so it should be fairly new. I have yet to find time to buy it tho. If you're from Sweden you should check out you local "akademibokhandeln"-book shop. (or [url=http://www.akademibokhandeln.se)]www.akademibokhandeln.se)[/url] /Magnus Back to top u2artmemberMember #Joined: 17 Nov 2000Posts: 133Location: FL, USA Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 1:19 pm Hi ya, Drawing on the Right side of the brain is good. If you really want to know what drawing is all about, you'll do yourself a favor and pick up...The Natural Way To Draw by Kimon Nicolaides.... This book kicks every other books ass on how to draw...if you are willing to put in the time and effort. It is a great book by a great man, unfortunately he died young...If you like books that tell you put a line here, or put a line there, you'll hate this, but you'll also never be as good as you could have. The Natural Way to draw is for beginners to masters, I suggest you read it, do it, and just draw...BTW drawing from pictures is ok, but dont make a habit of it. Your work will always appear somewhat flat. Take Care art Back to top BugscratchmemberMember #Joined: 23 Sep 2000Posts: 313Location: Germany Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 1:47 pm Yeah I got both THE NEW Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and Nicolaides' "Natural Way to Draw". I am currently finishing Drawing on the Right Side and plan to jump full into the Natural Way to Draw after that, though I already started on it as well. I like both. Drawing on the Right Side teaches you the basics, and The Natural Way to Draw perfects you. I always love the sentence "Now draw for three hours according to schedule X B". Which comes about every 2nd page of The Natural Way . -bugscratch Back to top shardikmemberMember #Joined: 09 Apr 2000Posts: 494Location: Buffalo, NY Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 9:19 pm Hey U2Art, are you at Ringling? 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I'm really excited about this one not just because I, like almost everyone out there, love Chinese food, but because I've always been smitten from afar with this land so rich in culture and tradition and billion-plus life stories. In fact, if there was just one country I could visit before I died, it would have to be China.
But exotic as China is to those of us who live elsewhere, its food is anything but foreign almost anywhere around the world. Here, in the United States, it is rivaled only by pizza as the most popular takeout food and in my home it beats pizza hands-down any day because it's not just delicious but also usually loaded with delicious veggies like broccoli and eggplant. It helps of course that there are at least three Chinese takeouts within a quarter mile radius around my house 🙂
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THE BRIGHT SIDE by Whispering Jack
I don't often agree with Dermott Brereton but he came close to the mark last week when he labelled Melbourne a "team of downhill skiers" that works much harder offensively than it does defensively. And he was looking at the bright side of the team's game plan. That proposition has been clear since before the season started. It was obvious from the first JLT game against Richmond when the team leaked multiple goals in a short space of time as players gave metres away to opposition forwards.
CASEY VS THE AUSSIES by KC from Casey
The Casey Demons played an exhibition match against an Australian Under 19 team at the MCG on Easter Saturday but the game was played with more than half an eye on the fact that whilst their senior counterpart was taking part in their AFL Round 5 game against St Kilda later that afternoon, they also had an assignment just four days later against Richmond. The team, with 10 AFL Demons, opened strongly and dominated the first half to lead by four goals at the main break before taking most of
EASTER BUNNIES by George on the Outer
Easter is supposed to be an occasion of hope, revival and ultimately celebration. But for the Demon supporters it was none of these as yet again their team was made Easter Bunnies by the Saints. With the exception of Christian Salem, there was not a single winner on the ground. The danger for the Demons was giving the Saints their own hope and enthusiasm by conceding early goals. That is exactly what happened in the first quarter, although with some ridiculous frees from the umpires clos
MARCHING IN by The Oracle
The most embarrassing loss of the 2018 season (perhaps aside from the Preliminary Final) for Melbourne was the one it suffered in Round 15 against lowly St Kilda. The Demons came into the game as a red hot favourite but were embarrassed by the Saints' speed and willingness to take the contest right up to them for virtually the full four quarters. It was a defeat that they were to bemoan for the remainder of the season. Their arrogance in going into the game and taking an opponent lightly was a c
RELENTLESS by KC from Casey
The Casey Demons returned to the winning list with an emphatic 54 point victory over a limp North Melbourne VFL combination at Casey Fields on Saturday. Smarting from last week's thrashing at Box Hill, the Demons came out of the blocks intent on redeeming themselves for their embarrassing start to the 2019 campaign. After a brief early bout of inaccuracy, the goals flowed as a result of relentless pressure applied to the visitors who were constantly forced into error. The pleasing thi
TO A "T" by George on the Outer
Thursday night football - not something Melbourne FC are accustomed to doing, especially after barely garnering a Friday night game for years. Yet with this opportunity, the Demons soundly beat the Swans at the SCG and put their season back on Track. This was not only a game of mental toughness, since the Demons had so far failed to win a game in 2019 and faced possibly a season ending prospect of 0-4, should they have failed in Sydney. History was against them, and Buddy Frankli
SWANSONG by Whispering Jack
They said that in 2019, the Melbourne Football Club was going to take its game to another level but we were never prepared for the level the club is reaching as it approaches the fourth round of the season holding up the entire AFL ladder in a match that could be its swansong for the year. We were meant to be premiership contenders, not playing off for a wooden spoon which is what will be the case unless there is a sudden and dramatic turn around in our fortunes! And whilst there
A DAY TO FORGET by KC from Casey
The Casey Demons started the 2019 in unimpressive fashion with a 62 point loss to the Box Hill Hawks at Box Hill City Oval. It was a total contrast to their 2018 opening when they monstered the Coburg Lions but the circumstances were entirely different. Twelve months ago, the Demons were able to go into the match with a large contingent of AFL listed players while yesterday, they went into the game with 12 Melbourne players, mostly inexperienced. They were also hampered by the AFL sc
2019 IS NOT 2018 by George on the Outer
Seems like an obvious statement doesn't it? Yet the MFC coaching staff/team seem to have forgotten to change their calendars on January 1st. A 3 goal loss against the equal bottom side in the competition and now with a 0-3 record for the current season, it should be obvious that things have changed from 2018. Not so on the field, as Melbourne continue to play the style which got them to a Preliminary final. Once again the Demons saw 20 goals scored against them for the game.
THE NIGHT OF THE TORTOISES by The Oracle
Friday night sees two clubs of which a great deal was expected in 2019, facing off in the battle of the slow starting tortoises. Both have had calamitous starts to the season and are sitting at 0-2. One of them will, by the end of the evening, be seeing their season slipping away from their grasp. Both clubs are playing without confidence and without purpose. The Demons, who had the best-performed attack of all clubs last year, managed to convert 73 entries inside their forward 50 metre a
THE CAT RUN by George on the Outer
It truly became a "Cat Run" with an 80 point win to the home side, an outcome that had us wondering what happened to the Demons of 2018 when they got to a Preliminary final on the basis of their "brand" of contested football? Well that part hasn't changed any, since the likes of Clayton Oliver can win the ball 44 times in a game including 15 clearances, Angus Brayshaw racks up 33 touches with Jack Viney chipping in for 27 of this own. In the ruck Max Gawn had 53 hitouts on the night, and
REDEMPTION? by the Oracle
How much should we be making out of Melbourne's opening round loss on its home ground against an unfancied team from interstate in Port Adelaide? The game was barely over before the excuses were coming out that about the lack of preparation of the team, the fact that some players were playing injured or unfit and unable to handle the humidity and the heat, the team's lack of run and spread, the lack of experience and having too many key players injured or (in the case of Steven May) suspen


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Last night at Carnegie Hall, it was hard to imagine anything could top Sting covering the Fine Young Cannibals, Elton John leading eight dancers in minuscule bathing suits through an uproarious "Like a Virgin" and surprise guest Bruce Springsteen rocking an impassioned, nearly 10-minute Bryan Adams cover. That was until Lady Gaga emerged and Bruce began playing the opening notes of "Don't Stop Believing." The next five minutes were like a psychotic fever dream. If the sight of Bruce Springsteen and Lady Gaga embracing each other as they traded lines on a Journey song wasn't enough, Elton's nearly nude dancer squad returned as Sting, Debbie Harry, Shirley Bassey and John joined in. Springsteen said he'd never heard of the song until rehearsals, but blasted out the track's famous guitar solo before briefly joining the dance line, giving Lady Gaga a giant hug and walking offstage looking as stunned as the audience at what had just transpired.
A finale this mind-bloggling is only possible at Sting and Elton John's annual Rainforest benefit in New York. Since 1989, the two musicians have been raising money for the cause by putting on the most bizarre show imaginable. Most year's concerts begin with a rotating cast of artists singing duets on their hits, followed by a second act in which every song shares a theme. If you couldn't guess, this year's organizing principle was the 1980s. Band leader Nile Rodgers kicked off that part of the evening with his classic disco hit "Le Freak." The song is from 1978, but nobody -- especially the upper-crust crowd dancing in the aisles -- seemed to care about the slight transgression. Elton John briefly deviated from the theme to sing the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City" as a tribute to John Sebastian, who was sitting in with the band on guitar. Debbie Harry, looking ravishing in a red dress, got the 1980s dance party started for real with the Blondie hit "Call Me."
"This is one of those moments where 10 years from now you'll be saying, 'Remember when Elton did that?' " John announced before launching into a spirited cover of Madonna's "Material Girl" featuring some nice dance moves by the Rocket Man. The dance troupe arrived for an absolutely bonkers "Like a Virgin" as Sting stood on the side of the stage cracking up. "As they say in show business," Sting said, " 'Follow that!' " He came pretty close by busting out the Fine Young Cannibals' 1989 hit "She Drives Me Crazy" with incredible commitment and gusto.
The only person capable of boosting the energy in the room suddenly took the stage next. "This show needs a cardiac event," Sting said as Bruce began singing "Dancing in the Dark" from offstage. "I'm the hired gun for the evening," Springsteen announced. "Sting told me we're doing a show of '80s nostalgia. I said, 'That's easy! We're both '80s nostalgia!' "
Then it got even weirder. "This is a favorite single of mine from the 1980s," Springsteen said as he grabbed a new guitar. "I always knew there was a soul sing hidden inside of it." It took about 30 seconds before it became clear he was playing "Cuts Like a Knife" by Bryan Adams. Halfway through a very long version he stopped the song, fell down to his knees James Brown-style, and told an incredibly lengthy story about an old girlfriend who supposedly left him for a slightly more famous singer. It was hard to tell who was enjoying the bizarre performance more: the crowd, Springsteen, or Elton and Sting as they stood on the side of the stage in slack-jawed disbelief.
The evening began with Sting performing "An Englishman in New York" followed by Elton, the house band and a huge orchestra playing "Philadelphia Freedom." Elton then introduced the most anticipated performer of the evening: Lady Gaga. "This girl is everything," he said. "She can sing. She can play. She's the real deal." Looking quite dressed down and demure (at least by her standards) in a bell-shaped white dress, Gaga settled in at the piano and led the band in a note-perfect cover of "Stand By Me." "I wrote this next song for my dad," she told the crowd before launching into "Speechless." "He's here tonight." Midway through the track, Elton John strolled back onstage and sat down at sat down at another piano. "It's my other daddy!" Gaga squealed as the two reprised their Grammy performance, splicing in parts of John's "Your Song."
Sting and Mary J. Blige - who got shockingly little stage time - revived their 2003 duet "Whenever I Say Your Name" shortly before Sting's wife Trudie Styler gave a speech about the vital work of the Rainforest Foundation. After a film clip of Sting and Trudie's trip to the Amazon, Shirley Bassey belted out "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Goldfinger." The two James Bond themes have absolutely nothing to do with the rainforest, but they were fun and helped earn a ton of money for the cause, which was ultimately the real point of all the mind-blowing musical magic. "No one wants their money back! But I'm not surprised, it was one of the best shows I'd ever been in, or seen, it was incredible," Sting told Rolling Stone after the concert. "Bruce brought the house down because I told him he had to bring the house down. Gaga was incredible. I mean, forget it, it was just a brilliant show."
© Rolling Stone by Andy Greene (Additional reporting by Jennifer Vineyard)
Full setlist:
Sting - Englishman In New York
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
Sting/Lady Gaga - Stand By Me
Elton/Lady Gaga - Speechless/Your Song
Sting/Mary J Blige - Whenever I Say Your Name
Debbie Harry - Tide Is High
Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
Chris Noth - Intro Trudie
Trudie Speech
Dame Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Dame Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever
Dame Shirley Bassey/Elton/Sting - Hey Big Spender
Nile And Chic (Principals) - Le Freak
Sting/Elton - Summer In The City
Debbie Harry - Call Me
Elton John - Material Girl/Like A Virgin
Sting - She Drives Me Crazy
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
Bruce Springsteen - Cuts Like A Knife
Bruce Springsteen And All/ Finale - Don't Stop Believing


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Fed Official Sends Stocks South
Stocks fell from all-time highs amid concerns the Federal Reserve might tap the brakes on its efforts to stimulate growth. Photo: Getty Images.
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Set a smoker to 225 degrees F.
Combine the paprika, black peppercorns, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, garlic powder, onion powder, nutmeg and cayenne in a spice grinder. Process until a fine powder is formed, approximately 30 seconds.
Pat the ribs dry and turn bone-side up. Trim excess fat and, if one end of the ribs is especially narrow, trim meat and bone to ensure even cooking. Remove the membrane on the underside of the ribs by inserting a rounded utensil, an upside-down spoon works well, between the membrane and the meat at one end of the slab. Carefully work the spoon under the membrane to loosen but not tear. Once enough has been loosened, use a paper towel to hold onto the membrane as you slowly pull it down the slab to remove.
Sprinkle the ribs on both sides with the salt and brush both sides with the mustard. Sprinkle two-thirds of the spice mixture on the meat side of the ribs and the remaining third on the bone side.
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Fast food can be good...
4 comments:
- Moonbeam McQueen said...
Nice, Ion. I love the colors, and the expressions.
- October 13, 2007 at 4:30 p.m.
- Ion Vincent Danu said...
I could've swear you'll kind of like this more humourous, more caricatural stuff... It's, a bit, the same kind of humour you favour in your writing... thanks. We may be some kindred spirits...
- October 13, 2007 at 5:08 p.m.
The current fashion that lets a girl's back hang out doesn't favor most of them, does it? Goethe liked to count the vertebrae on his girlfriend's back but when I see some of those flat flesh maps I don't mind letting someone else do the counting.
That's a real burger place all right--but prettier.
- October 15, 2007 at 12:39 p.m.
- Ion Vincent Danu said...
Yeap! I suppose is a plumber induce fashion! (I fact I think the source for free pot-belly and muscle fessiers is Britney Spears - an intellectual, no doubt!) My daughter is, of course, following the trend (it's very hard, when a teen or a young woman, not to do it...) and I fear for her kidneys when she'll be my age... Fortunatelly, I won't be around to see...
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I attended most of the winter grower meetings that Riceland held around Arkansas and they reminded me all over how much I like working with farmers — especially when they are in a good mood.
The meetings also made it very apparent to me that weed control is a "walk in the park" compared to the economic decisions farmers have to make right now. The price situation of all commodities is blowing my mind, and I do not even have to deal with them directly.
If I were a farmer, I would not have a clue what to plant, when to book, when to sell, etc.
One of my university counterparts related to me a conversation he recently had with a farmer who called wanting a recommendation for a residual herbicide to be added to glyphosate for a preplant burn-down in cotton.
He recommended one of the residual herbicides labeled for cotton and at the end of the conversation the farmer said, "By the way, I assume it will be ok if I decide to plant soybeans instead?" Of course it would not, so he changed the recommendation to one that could be used for cotton or soybeans.
The farmer said, "That's good and I assume it will be ok if I decide later to plant even rice."
My man had to change the recommendation again, thankful that he had not caused the farmer to mess up.
There are farmers who still do not know what they are going to plant. If you are one of them, do not box yourself in with a wrong choice of preplant burn-down herbicides.
Farmers and everyone else in agriculture are shaking their heads over record commodity prices that continue to rise. Farmers are also shaking their heads over record input costs.
Everyone seems to be guardedly optimistic that they have a chance to have a really good year and hopefully have a chance to dig out from under some bad ones. However, with the input costs at record levels, the risks involved with planting this year's crop are at record highs as well.
I have said on many occasions, I could not manage the stresses of the unknown involved in farming. I can only imagine what is going on in the minds of a lot of farmers thinking about putting this crop in the ground.
There is no question that record oil prices and other factors involved in the run-up of commodity prices have caused legitimate increases in crop inputs. However, there is obviously some price gouging going on as well. Everybody smells money when the farmer has a chance to make money.
I am sure I do not understand all of the reasons why, but it bothers me greatly that we seem to be totally dependent on foreign suppliers for fertilizer. It should be obvious to our nation's leaders that the one thing we have going for us is agriculture — although it is seldom mentioned. I have yet to hear it mentioned in a campaign speech.
Now we are not only dependent upon foreign oil but foreign fertilizer as well. While we still live in the greatest nation on earth, you sure have to wonder what our folks are thinking at times.
One thing that has every farmer's hackles up right now is the price of glyphosate price. I have been quite amused at some of the industry reasons given. The bottom line on that one is it will take competition to fix the problem. Farmers have long memories and what goes around comes around.
Roundup Ready is the greatest weed control technology ever. However, it currently has no competition. Between the herbicide resistance problems developing because of overusing the technology and an apparent ramp-up of the LibertyLink soybean technology, the current monopoly will not always exist.
It is an exciting time to be in agriculture. The stakes going into this crop are the higher than they have ever been. Here is hoping the rewards will be the highest they have ever been. As I said earlier, weed control is simple compared to economics.
I am here to help any way I can.
My Riceland cell phone number is (870) 674-7297 and my personal cell phone is (501) 681-3413.