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Boulder B-cycle officials announced Wednesday that will begin using a $440,000 federal grant to expand operations with 16 new bike-share stations, 130 additional bikes and 24-hour accessibility.
The expansion, a 70 percent increase over current offerings, is expected to be complete by July.
James Waddell, executive director of Boulder B-cycle, said the nonprofit bike-sharing organization's growth is heavily focused on helping transit riders "make the final mile" of their trip.
"With more bikes and the addition of a 24-hour system, when that last bus is gone, you can take a B-cycle to your final destination any time of day," Waddell said.
Boulder B-cycle was founded in 2011 and has more than 1,400 annual members. In 2013, 6,483 riders accounted for 30,314 rides over 90,000 miles, according to Boulder B-cycle.
When the expansion is complete, the city will have a total of 38 bike-share stations and 280 new B-cycle bikes available. Seven new stations will be built in neighborhoods surrounding the University of Colorado and Naropa University in order to meet the demand for college student transportation as well.
The organization also announced that Kaiser Permanente, Colorado's largest nonprofit health plan, is becoming Boulder B-cycle's first presenting sponsor. Waddell said Boulder B-cycle generates only a third of its revenue from the bike-share stations, so additional assistance from the public and private sectors is necessary to sustain and support the program.
Dr. Erik Harker, medical director for prevention services at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, said he thinks the sponsorship is a great match.
"Allowing people to be active, that's one of our best investments in a long time," Harker said.
Suzanne Jones, a City Council member and director of Eco-Cycle, spoke about the benefits of the growing program.
"We are particularly thrilled as the expansion allows us to meet important city goals," Jones said.
She mentioned the positive impact bike-sharing has on the environment. In 2013, it is estimated that B-cycle riders saved $4,717 in fuel costs.
She also talked about the program's importance to tourism.
"What better way to see the creek than on a B-cycle?" Jones said.
Harker added physical inactivity is probably the second leading cause of death, behind smoking. He said the amount of time spent commuting in a car has a direct link to risk of premature death due to cardiovascular disease.
Biking to work, Harker said, reduces risk of cardiovascular disease by 30 percent.
"People who are active during the day have decreased stress, better quality of life, sleep better and perform better at their jobs," Harker said. "Biking makes you feel good. It makes you happy."


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Now you will remember that the quality and capacity of her button jars were legend along with her useful bits of twine collection, however I am wishing that I had kept a hold of her zapped out zip collection because that is just what you are going to need to today to create these edgy, flower corsages or hair barrettes.
Glue gun
Buttons (optional)
Matches or a lighter
Shot glass
Take your zip and cut the bottom of it off, this may be quite difficult if you use a heavy duty zip but I really like to use these as the flower looks really edgy. Then using your matches, flame the end of your zips to ensure that they will not unravel, a gentle burning will seal them shut.
Take one side of your zip and fold it to make petals as is shown in the picture.
Now there are two ways to sew this together with a double thread, you can make all five petals together and hold it in place with a couple of pins... but remember you will be sewing through 10 layers, which is possible although you should know that I managed to stab myself with the needle, so be careful. (I wonder if this counts as an industrial injury?)
However with the next layer, as the petals will be shorter and therefore there will be more layers so catch each pattern individually. There are a number of ways that you can finish your flower...
With my larger heavy duty zip, I left a couple of inches over at the end and rolled it up like a rose, and oversewed the edges and then sewed it through to the base.
For the lighter zip, I went through my buttons and beads and sewed them into the centre of the flower.
Cut out two circle of felt using the top of the glass and then one circle from the cardboard using the base of the glass which will be smaller. Sew the larger flower into the centre of one of the felt circles.
Heat up your glue gun and dob your glue on the centre of your big set of petals, then place the smaller set of petals into the middle... then hold it in place of if you are doing several use a clothes peg to hold it together.
Glue one of the felt circles to the base of the flower, then smear a little glue onto the cardboard and place it on the middle of the felt disc which has the flower attached to it.
Sew the brooch pin onto the remaining felt circle. Place this disc on top of the other disc attached to the flower, now you could just glue it but we are going to do a superb finish by using a small blanket stitch to sew around the edge... just like the one we learnt back in January.
Now find a garment that is lovely enough to attach your fabulous flower corsage and then whilst you are thinking about that, off you go an look at the crafting loveliness that is Handmade Monday.
And while I think about it, let's all send get well soon wishes to Little Harriet who usually contributes to Handmade Monday and is in hospital utilising some heavy duty antibiotics to tame her CF... mind you, I think she may have taken her fabulous crochet in with her, so I am expecting great things from her in the weeks to come. :)

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2000 Ford Mustang GT - Two-Tone Terror
Shane Druck's 2000 GT draws you in with pristine two-tone paint and serious street power
If you are familiar with the show circuit in the tri-state area in the Northeast, you may have seen this red and black two-tone '00 Mustang GT owned by Shane Druck.
Growing up, Shane's father was into anything sporty, so it only made sense that Shane grew up with that same appreciation for muscle cars. "I had Mustangs as a kid," Shane explains, "but I wasn't allowed to own a Mustang until after I moved out," says the Hellam, Pennsylvania resident.
Soon after leaving the nest, he bought his very first Mustang, a '85 GT he modified every chance he could. After selling the '85, there was a void that could only be satisfied by purchasing his next pony. Shane decided it was time for something newer, and soon he had a stock '00 GT in his hands that has since been heavily modified.
Now a socialite in the car show scene, Shane's showstopper spends most of the car show season with its hood propped up on proud display. Sitting over a clean engine bay is a framed dyno sheet proving that this GT has both "show" and "go" as the testy Two-Valve makes a potent 402 rwhp and 391 lb-ft of torque. "I don't race the car. It has done well at many car shows and will stay a show/street car," Shane tells us. It took Third place at the massive show at Carlisle.
The power upgrade comes from an aftercooled Vortech V-3 supercharger, BBK headers and X-style exhast connected to Flowmaster mufflers. The tune came from Dave Guy of DGR Performance out of Dillsburg, Pennsylvania. "I love the sound of the Vortech—it's very loud," Shane says, "but the paint and sound pull in most people."
The attention-grabbing two-tone paint work was sprayed by Endurance Automotive of Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. To help with the menacing appearance is a Stalker front bumper, Cobra R hood, and a killer stance provided by Eibach suspension components, a Steeda sway bar, and Keith Pitstops custom-fit subframe connectors.
Even the interior is black and red to match, and includes embroidered LED ponies that light up red. The colors are even incorporated into his racing seats. To keep the kids entertained during long car show days, a Playstation 3 with a 19-inch LED television graces the Mustang's trunk.
The GT is also fitted with 17-inch, staggered SC-style wheels, wrapped with Goodyear rubber in the front and Sumitomo street tires on the rear. Shane already has a brand new set of wheels currently at the shop getting paint-matched to the black metallic flake exterior paint.
By the time this story hits shelves, this Mustang may look completely different. According to Shane, modifying is never done. When winter comes around and the Mustang is in hibernation mode, thoughts flood Shane's head of what he can do next.
Plans for the future include replacing all of the hoses with painted metal pipes, cutting the roof to make room for a Targa top, and maybe a bigger engine from MMR. "I want a lot more boost," Shane says, "I am far from finished."
Thanks goes out to Shane's girlfriend and kids for putting up with the Mustang obsession. The same also goes out to his friends for all of the help along the way.


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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel led Ferrari's Fernando Alonso at the top of the timesheets in final practice for the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
Red Bull's triple champion lapped the 7.004 km circuit, the longest and second fastest on the calendar, with a best time of one minute 48.327 seconds set in the last two minutes of the dry session on the medium tire.
Alonso had been quickest until then with a time 0.105 slower.
The Spaniard and Vettel, the championship leader, were quickest in Friday's first and second practice sessions respectively.
They were also at the center of a flurry of concern about the Pirelli tires when both suffered right rear punctures within seconds of each other in Friday's final practice.
After a full investigation, Pirelli ruled out any tire-related issues and placed the blame on a metal plate shed from another car and found on the track during a later inspection.
There were no visible tire problems in Saturday's session.
Australian Mark Webber, Vettel's team mate, was third fastest as he limbered up for what will be his last Belgian Grand Prix before moving to sportscar racing with Porsche at the end of the year.
Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne was fourth with Ferrari's Felipe Massa fifth.
McLaren's Jenson Button, last year's winner from pole, was an encouraging sixth on the timesheets.
Mercedes appeared to be struggling, however, with Lewis Hamilton, who will be chasing his fourth successive pole later, only 12th fastest with team mate Nico Rosberg ninth.
The timings meant Hamilton, the 2008 world champion and winner of the previous race in Hungary last month, had failed to appear in the top 10 in any of the three practice sessions.
Vettel leads Kimi Raikkonen by 38 points with nine of the 19 races remaining. Alonso is a point behind Raikkonen and Hamilton a further nine adrift.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Pritha Sarkar)


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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
These days, Coach Mike Forgione believes in karma. If he didn't believe before Thursday's game, he certainly does now.
What else could explain it? The head coach is also an assistant coach for the football team, but he had to make a decision between teams when his winter sports contest was scheduled at the same time as the fall championship game.
Forgione chose his girls, and they rewarded him with their own brand of excitement. He missed the comeback win on the gridiron, but Forgione's girls treated the coach to a double-overtime comeback on the road.
Now that's karma.
"It was a really exciting win," said Forgione. "I told them that we weren't going to quit. I knew that we were going to keep at it, and we really persevered in that second overtime. It was a good, team win."
It didn't start out that well as Rocky Hill rallied for eight consecutive points to start the game. At the same time, the Lady Knights seemed to falter on the offensive end as they limped into the break with just 13 points in the opening half. Still, the Knights were within striking distance at the break.
"Rocky Hill came right out at us," said the coach. "Their big inside threat, Kirstyn Arcata had 12 points in the first quarter and it was mostly on fast breaks. She was just running the floor as a post and was just finishing. We struggled. We were making some bad decisions, and we were missing shots, but we were only down by eight."
So, Forgione gave a pep talk about defense and he challenged his team to show the will to get back in the game. Little did he know that his gridiron coaches were giving the same talk to their team on the other side of the state. Both talks paid off.
"We had to do two things," said Forgione. "We had to really tighten up our defense, and we had to be more aggressive to match their aggressiveness. We really picked it up in the third quarter, and we had balanced scoring. That was the difference."
Nicole Fischer scored six of her 15 points in the third quarter surge. Natalie Wadolowski and Maggie Meehan scored four points apiece, and Kaitlin Paterson added three. Sarah Mongillo scored a bucket in the paint. The defense put a stranglehold on Rocky Hill's big men, and Southington tied the score, 42-42, at the start of the fourth quarter.
"We just got more aggressive on both ends, offensively and defensively," said Forgione. "We started attacking the rim better, and our defense really tightened up."
Arcata scored a dozen points in the opening quarter, but Southington held her to 20 points in the game. Meanwhile, Meehan rallied for 23 points. Wadolowski collected 15 points with 14 rebounds, and Fischer rallied for 15 points.
It took a last second rebound by Rocky Hill to push the game into overtime. It took an NBA-range three pointer at the overtime buzzer to seal a Southington win, but the Lady Knights went 10-for-12 at the foul line in the second overtime to pull away for the win.
"We got a little bit of a lead in that second overtime, and they had to foul," said Forgione. "When good teams get a lead, they have to play good defense and make foul shots. We did that."
With the victory, the Lady Knights improved to 3-0 in the early season. They will try to continue that momentum with games against Conard, Suffield, and Maloney in the holiday week. No matter what happens, Southington's already clinched a .500 record at the new year.
"The kids understand that our schedule will get harder every week as we get into our conference schedule, but we're really excited about our start," said the coach. "I think our kids realize that they have to be ready to play every day. Today, we learned that we can't give a team an edge at the beginning of the game. We have to play four quarters, but the kids never ever quit when the going got hard in the first half or when Rocky Hill made two great plays to send it into overtime and double overtime. We stayed the course and got it done."
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at jgoralski@ southingtonobserver.com.
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I don't Need That! Unlocked 9/12/13
10 Points Beat a level without using all of the required folds.
10 Points Beat a level without using all of the required folds.
Halfway There 25 Points Get a total score of 1700.
Ultimate Perfection 100 Points Get a total score of 3400(100% on every level)
Medals Earned: 1/3 (10/135 points)
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Gun Slinger Unlocked 8/27/13
25 Points Weaken a hood grappling zombie with 1 weapon, then quickly switch to another weapon to finish it off with one shot
25 Points Weaken a hood grappling zombie with 1 weapon, then quickly switch to another weapon to finish it off with one shot
F@#K Wheels! 5 Points Drive 3 km with no wheels
Free Ride 5 Points Complete story mode with atleast 1 rescued civilian still in your vehicle
Hydroficially Evolved 5 Points Destroy a fire hydrant and use its water to extinguish your engine fire.
Been there, Killed that 10 Points Kill one of each enemy type
Come with me if you want to live 10 Points Rescue and secure a civilian
Death Race 10 Points Maintain max speed for 0.5 km
Gibs n Gravy 10 Points Splatter 50 zombies with your vehicle or guns
Ground Beef 10 Points Remove a mutant side grapple by grinding it off on a rail/wall
Slip and Slide 10 Points Don't hit anything after sliding through an oil slick
Blunt Force Trauma 25 Points Kill 100 zombies with your vehicle
I'm the Alpha 25 Points Kill an alpha mutant with a pistol
Knowledge is Survival 25 Points Unlock the entire survival guide
Metal Dragon 25 Points In rescue mode, don't let a single civilian die for 3 rounds in a row
Mutant Sandwich 25 Points Survive 2 mutant side grappling both characters
Perfect Defense 25 Points While stopped during a task, don't let a single zombie reach your vehicle's hood
Dead on Time 50 Points Gain 1 minute bonus time in out of time mode
Heaven Sent 50 Points Save 50 civilians in Rescue Op before failing
I've seen things... 50 Points Reach max levels on at least one character
First Blood 100 Points Reach 20 km in f.u.b.a.r.
Hardcore Survival 100 Points Complete Hardcore Story mode
Into the Wild Blue Yonder 100 Points Complete story mode
Mutant Stomp 100 Points Reach 20 km in mutant meltdown
Perfect Soldiers 100 Points Upgrade every perk, gun, and max level both characters
Zombie Slayer 100 Points Reach 20 km in dead state
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It is recommended for those that have experience playing the Native flute or have played other wind instruments. Made from walnut, a hardwood, the flute has a clear, bright voice especially on the high notes. It is inlaid with turquoise which adds to the natural beauty of the flute. It is slightly deeper in tone than the Red Tail Hawk "G". The flute is tuned in the key of "F#" minor and it can also be played in the relative major diatonic scale in the key of "A". It can be played as both a 5-hole or 6-hole flute. It has 6 holes and comes with a leather tie that easily converts it into a 5-hole flute. When comfortable just remove the leather tie and experience the use of the 6-hole. Length 25". Each flute includes a free "How To Play The Native American Flute" Book and DVD (Item 26 - DVD & Booklet - How To Play The Native American Flute)
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On Wednesday, I'm attending Remixology 2, an event put together by Fresh Media, on the topic of crowdsourcing. In particular, I'll somehow be the representative of the entire open web perspective on crowdsourcing (!), Alfred Hermida will be talking about the journalist's perspective, and Leigh Christie will be there representing artists. I'm hoping that the audience doesn't expect any one of us to speak authoritatively on any topic, and that we can instead have a conversation. Since talking to Hanna Cho about the event, I've had a couple of thoughts on the topic that I'm hoping I'll be able to fit into that conversation.
Crowdsourcing, like most buzzwords, is loaded with too many meanings, and I rarely use it. I'm more interested in figuring out how to leverage the internet to enable collaboration on a grand scale. Everyone has experience with 1-1 collaboration, whether through email, shared writings spaces, voice calls, etc. The internet has provided the technologies to make such collaboration radically cheaper and faster than before, and the biggest challenge it has brought have been widely discussed: we're always connected, for better or worse; we're always interrupted; the world is smaller; nobody knows you're a dog. All of which is old hat to anyone who'se spent any time online in the last couple of decades.
The advent of mass instant collaboration and mass participation is made possible by the same technologies, but I think we're still in the earliest stages of figuring out both how to do it well, and what the societal impact will be. I'm hoping we can talk about that a bit.
It's easier than ever to spread a meme, and to recruit a population the size of a small army who are all interested or even passionate about your meme. With ubiquitous communication systems (phones, laptops, cheap broadband, internet cafes, etc), social "viral" media (twitter, facebook, chain letters, etc.), rich media production models (video on phones and youtube), it seems that viral messages spread like wildfire (of course there's a massive selection bias: deliberately starting a wildfire is incredibly hard in practice). Let's grant that getting the word out is easy. Depending on the topic, one can get the attention of a cohort of like-minded folks fairly easy (that's 500 soldiers, if the roman army is a guide). If any one of them has an hour or two to contribute, pretty soon we're talking a person-year or more of effort, which can be a potent resource if focused!
The cost of building and running web sites has also plumetted, and the number of people capable of doing so is skyrocketing, which makes it easy (in theory) for anyone to create a place for these people to gather, discuss, coordinate, work, agitate, whatever. Some will build dedicated websites, others will use shared tools like Facebook groups, mailing lists, etc. In most countries, such gatherings are undetected, let alone regulated. We now have mechanisms for coordination of group action. The potential is seemingly unbounded.
Many online activities are virtually free. Interestingly, even when there are real (or forecasted) costs to a project, the last few years have seen the maturation of many interesting micropayment systems. The trendiest is Kickstarter, which somehow gathered the mindshare in the "let's get together and fund X" world, and its most famous success is Diaspora, who raised $200k, which was 20 times what they asked for, just because they said they'd take on Facebook. So even in the treacherous arena of cash, there are now funding models which seem to work (at least for small-scale efforts). Thus, to the sheer hours of invested time, we can now add a few thousand dollars.
So now we have a few hundred people, excited about some idea. There's a website, and even a modest bank balance. To use the techy jargon, we've got scalable models for meme propagation, recruitment, coordination & communication, advocacy, marketing & PR, and funraising. Awesome.
Now it's time to actually do stuff. In particular, it's time to plan, schedule, prioritize, make decisions, commit some code, commit to something. In my experience, that's the part that we still don't know how to scale. Everyone in the army of volunteers has ideas about what should be done (but only a small percentage will actually have relevant skills or experience). Everyone will have opinions about what words should be used, but only a small number will actually really listen to the other's opinions. If we're not careful, we now have a large group of people who think share a goal, but who are not organized. And that can be really hard to deal with, especially given that we've made it really easy for them to shout at each other.
Which leads to my main point, which is that the next challenge for mass collaboration and coordination over the internet isn't going to be technological, but human. Specifically, what will differentiate important projects from the rest are the people who can help groups of people achieve common goals. That's not a new task, but the cybernetic setting will require to adapt old skills and create new cultural norms. Three skills at least are needed to facilitate that kind of coordination:
The first is some form of leadership. Quite often, the initiator of the meme didn't really intend to start a micro-movement. She just tweeted something, or uploaded a ranty video, or wrote a scathing blog post. And all of a sudden she is the center of attention from a bunch of strangers who "agree" and want to "do something about it". In that kind of situation, converting emotional energy into effective action will (I claim) depend on the emergence of a leader of some kind. Which doesn't mean a spokesperson, or a dictator (benevolent or not). It just means someone who, using whatever means are appropriate for that group, can get the group focused, moving in a roughly consistent direction towards some vague approximation of a common goal. Different groups of people will respond to different types of leadership, but I'm pretty sure all large groups need at least one individual they can anchor to.
The second is organizing. The style of organization needed will vary wildly depending on the group, from simply taking notes to gardening a wiki to tweeting a lot, nagging, proofreading, testing. But there is a yin to the leadership yang, and the people who are good at getting people excited are rarely the same who can remind them to uphold their commitments.
The third is what my friend David Eaves refers to as negotiation, or the process of seeking common interests among a set of potential collaborators, and building commitments and mutual trust along the way. This skill is rarely explicitly discussed in many organizations, because most organizations have built-in power structures which have well understood tie-breakers ("the senior person decides", "the client decides") as well as clear consequences to disagreement ("you're fired/demoted/etc.", "this contract isn't renewed", "you're not invited next time", etc.). Neither of these are as clear in a setting where peering and fraternity are assumed over hierarchy and management. If I show up at your virtual event expecting to be treated like a peer, but it so happens that I misunderstood what your goal was, the odds are pretty good that one of us will frustrate or disappoint the other. If we both care about our own visions, the odds of a flame war are high. To avoid that, we need to clarify the goals up front and review them often. We need to really explore everyone's interests and both detect overlap and explore differences. And we need to keep in mind everyone's BATNA. It's work, but it's the only way to actually draw from everyone's strengths. I think the open source / open web world is still a beginner in this arena, but I'm glad that we're working on those muscles.
Of course, the technologist and UX thinker in me is keen to figure out whether we can design systems that help with these all-to-human (and all-too-fragile) tasks, build digital prostheses of a sort. You can see baby steps emerging among the more "social" web apps of the day: the indicators of mood on support forums like getsatisfaction.com for example, let people emote quietly, and provide non-verbal cues to emotional state, which are all to often lost in textual communications. Building interfaces that surface the people behind the comments leads, I think, to more humane conversations (one of Facebook's brilliant early moves was to encourage/require "real names, real photos"). There are also simple tricks: at Mozilla, we've also found that if one detects conflict, it's usually a good idea to try and resolve it using private voice calls rather than prolonged, public, painful email discussions.
I'm sure that by Wednesday I'll have other thoughts in my head which will push these out of the way, but I'm curious to see whether these thoughts resonate with people in other disciplines, or whether different cultures lead to radically different world views.


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My original plan was to use Sonic Pics, but you could not add more photos once you started recording voice, so I quickly went in search of a new app! Doodlecast Pro did the trick. Now we certainly could have been MORE elaborate in our video, however, we were quickly rushing 30+ kids through the station with only 20 minutes available. We sorted the kids by grade and then quickly snapped a photo of each of them... once they had been at the puppy ear station they looked adorable! Next we opened up Doodlecast, inserted the picture and had them record their voice (I could eat 101 Smarties etc). Once they were done speaking they went off to color a dalmation while the next person had a turn. We inserted, recorded and moved on ALL AFTERNOON!
Speaking is an essential part of the curriculum and it is difficult for so many kids to do. This project certainly highlighted that, but also reinforced the need for technology and how kids can simply make their own creations.
Here's the grade one finished video...............
And here's the practice one I had done in my own classroom the day before. We talked about our 100 Day posters.


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This...this is pretty much the most blatant betrayal in the history of sports. We've all watched, rapt, as Ochocinco's pregnant pigeon escaped, returned, and finally gave birth. But we were all hoodwinked by Chad's dastardly deception. J'accuse!
Let me compose myself. Perhaps I am to blame for being so naive. But who would ever expect a man who legally changed his name to a pseudo-Spanish number to lie?
There were warning signs, sure. Chad referred to his pregnant pigeon's swollen nipples, which is certainly a clear sign of pregnancy. But I just got off the phone with the Audubon Society, and they informed me that pigeons, not being mammals, don't even have nipples.
Strike one.
A few days later, Chad Tweeted a photo of the expectant mother. It turned out that the photo was the first result of a Google image search for "pregnant pigeon."
Strike two.
Then today, when Chad Tweeted the first photo of Paco and Fifi, his pigeon's babies. Reader Pete writes in to tell us that, once again, the image comes from the first page of a Google image search.
Strike three Chad. You're caught out.
I can't believe I trusted you. I invested so much emotionally in the well-being of your avian wards that, now that it's all revealed as a ruse, I just don't know what to do with myself. I feel like a kid learning there is no Santa, or a believer losing faith in God.
Today, God is dead. And Chad Ochocinco killed him.


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San Francisco offensive lineman Al Netter, who spent last year on the practice squad, was cited by the California Highway Patrol for DUI this week.
According to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Netter was arrested Wednesday, and cited for having a blood alcohol content above .08.
"The 49ers are aware of the recent matter involving Al Netter," the 49ers said in a statement. "We take these issues very seriously, but will reserve comment at this time as this is an ongoing legal matter. The organization will continue to gather the facts and monitor the developments closely."
Netter better hope he doesn't end up in front of Judge Judy, or Jim Harbaugh.


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When linebacker Rolando McClain's brief tenure with the Raiders officially came to an end last week, it served as the latest reminder of the messy situation that Reggie McKenzie inherited when he took over as the team's general manager.
With McClain gone, the Raiders have just one of their first-round picks from the last nine years on the roster and they have a mountain of dead money on the cap that's limiting their ability to build a better roster around it. McKenzie is clearly choosing to go through the hard times now in hopes of a brighter tomorrow, when the Raiders will have copious cap space and all their draft picks rather than watching other teams use premium picks that Oakland sent out of town.
McKenzie told Peter King of SI.com that he expects the team to compete this year — "This is not a throw-in-the-towel deal" — but he also knows that there's a good possibility that the team will struggle as they move past the mistakes of the past administration. He told King that he doesn't fear that such an outcome will reflect poorly on him with owner Mark Davis.
"You know what? I don't think along those lines," McKenzie said. "I just think of doing what's needed to make this team the best it can be long-term. That's my job. But fearful? No. Not at all. Mark knew the cap part of this was going to be a two-year deal. Mark is not his father. He is allowing me to do this, and we talk about the process all the time. He's allowing me to do the job that needs to be done."
Davis would be silly to do anything else. You don't fire an architect after he oversees the demolition of the old house on your property because the demolition got ugly and you don't fire a general manager because of the leftover problems from the previous regime. McKenzie deserves a chance to be judged on his own players and he's only just starting to get them in place.


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Another Politician Boards The Bandwagon: Sen. Rockefeller Blames Violent Games And Television For Newtown Tragedy
from the that's-my-drum-and-i'm-going-to-beat-the-hell-out-of-it deptAs Mike covered earlier, politicians are particularly opportunistic beasts, willing to turn any tragedy into a soapbox and a chance to push through pet legislation. Even if the politicians aren't particularly wed to gun control or censorship, they're more than willing to get on the bandwagon if it will net them a little facetime with the press or the appearance of "doing something."
The latest addition to the list of opportunists is Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who states that something needs to be done about violent video games and movies, whether or not they had anything to do with last week's tragedy.
"We also need to look at the violence our kids see every day starting at a young age. By the time children reach 18 years old, they have seen tens of thousands of violent images – on television, the internet, or video games. As parents, research confirms what we already know – these violent images have a negative impact on our children's wellbeing. While we don't know if such images impacted the killer in Newtown, the issue of violent content is serious and must be addressed.Rockefeller doesn't specify any particular research, but then, this is a press release, not an editorial. And despite admitting that everything he's worried about may not have affected the Newtown killer, something must still be done because... well, because this is Rockefeller's pet issue.
Back in 2007, Rockefeller led a push to grant the FCC "explicit authority" over violent and indecent programming, including the assessment of heftier fines for violators. Back then, he used his "tens of thousands of violent images" scare quote as well, and mentioned a wealth of research that backed up his assertions... but failed to name a single study in his press release.
Having failed with this initial push, Rockefeller saddled up the hobby horse again in 2009, revisiting the Children's Television Act. He claimed this was just a fact-finding mission and not another attempt to push the FCC to clean up television to his exacting specifications. One is almost tempted to believe him, right up until he details his frustration with the reactions of his fellow senators to his FCC-related effort.
He said he had not been deterred by the reactions of his fellow Senators to a hearing last year at which he featured a clip reel of violent programming. He said he was shot down, mostly by members of his own party, because of concerns over the First Amendment. "There was an automatic mindset that because the First Amendment exists, you cannot even be talking about this so don't waste my time. I was furious, and I was undeterred."As everyone knows, the First Amendment only protects speech you 100% approve of.* How dare these so-called Senators express concerns about turning the FCC into a tool of censorship! It's refreshing that Rockefeller remains "undeterred" in his efforts to sacrifice the First Amendment on the altar of "protecting the children."
*100% not a fact.
He's a few years behind his biannual schedule, but Rockefeller is riding high in the hobby horse saddle yet again, thanks to America's rather more frequent delivery of exploitable tragedies. He may have made a few points on gun control and mental health in this release, but he undoes any forward momentum by opportunistically exhuming his "violent media" platform.
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Acting on the nomination of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the UN General Assembly in 2006 unanimously elected Achim Steiner as the Executive Director of UNEP for a four-year term. He became the fifth Executive Director in UNEP's history. At its 83rd plenary meeting in 2010, the UN General Assembly, on the proposal of the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, re-elected Mr. Achim Steiner as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme for another four-year term.
Before joining UNEP, Mr. Steiner served as Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) from 2001 to 2006, and prior to that as Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams. His professional career has included assignments with governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in different parts of the world including India, Pakistan, Germany, Zimbabwe, USA, Vietnam, South Africa, Switzerland and Kenya. He worked both at grassroots level as well as at the highest levels of international policy-making to address the interface between environmental sustainability, social equity and economic development.
Mr. Steiner, a German and Brazilian national, was born in Brazil in 1961. His educational background includes a BA from the University of Oxford as well as an MA from the University of London with specialization in development economics, regional planning, and international development and environment policy. He also studied at the German Development Institute in Berlin as well as the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Steiner also chairs two UN system wide entities:
- HLCP - High-level Committee on Programmes of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB); and
- EMG - United Nations Environment Management Group.
He serves on a number of international advisory boards, including the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).
Mr. Steiner is the recipient of a number of international awards and prizes including:
- 2010 Leadership Award for Principled Pragmatism - Tällberg Foundation;
- Shark Guardian of the Year 2008 - Shark Project;
- Schubert Preis - 2008 Bruno H. Schubert Stiftung
- Steiger Award - Umwelt 2007
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In his address, Faulconer emphasized the importance of fiscal responsibility and unity among city leaders to achieve neighborhood goals such as infrastructure repair, environmental protection and public safety.
"I vividly remember when I was first sworn in seven years ago, the depths of the problems at City Hall were becoming more and more apparent — the debts, the lawsuits, the pension scandals, the delayed audit reports, the mismanagement of tax dollars, and the lack of accountability and transparency," he said. "In a bipartisan manner, we have eliminated the culture of 'spend today, save tomorrow,' which has now given way to budgetary realism and fiscal reform."
He said collaborative efforts by city leadership has gotten the city through tough financial chaos and civic embarrassment, creating a model for fiscal responsibility, transparency and government accountability.
"Our city is in a much stronger financial position that it has ever been before," he said. "I'm committed to spending within our means. It's the only way that we can ensure that our tax dollars can be invested in our neighborhoods to deliver the real results that all of us are pushing for."
A few of those neighborhood accomplishments in the Mission Bay and Pacific Beach communities over the last year included opening the Mike Gotch Memorial Bridge to connect West Mission Bay and Rose Creek and completing the funding for the restoration of the oldest part of Mission Beach's crumbling, 88-year-old seawall.
Two visions on the horizon for the Mission Bay community include bringing the community-driven Pacific Beach Boardwalk & Parks Neighborhood District project to fruition and designing a master plan to increase public access and restore marshlands and natural habitats at De Anza Cove based on the community's input.
On a citywide level, Faulconer and his City Council colleagues helped San Diego lead the charge on comprehensive immigration reform and will continue efforts toward the councilman's proposed oversize-vehicle ordinance in the coming months.
As he moves forward in his tenure, Faulconer outlined principles he pledges to follow as he continues his efforts toward a brighter future.
"First, we must fulfill the will of the voters by implementing comprehensive pension reform at City Hall," he said. "We must make full pension payments to ensure we don't unduly pass on the debt to our children and grandchildren. We must protect public safety, particularly by improving police retention and recruitment, and we must not and cannot support cuts to our core neighborhood services that all of us rely on."
The councilman said no budget is justifiable unless the city considers all reasonable and innovative ways to deliver services efficiently and effectively.
"Unfortunately, the administration is ignoring opportunities to cut government waste by stalling managed competition, which is costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year that would be saved through streamlining," he said. "Using estimates about what the city could gain through accountability and competitive bidding, we could save $20 million additionally every single year. That would reduce our budget deficit by half right now just if we were moving forward on managed competition."
He said in the next 30 days, he will ask his fellow councilmembers to reaffirm their commitment to voter-approved managed competition.
"I believe it is central that we have a healthy and dynamic city and these principles will help ensure that," he said. "If we follow the will of the voters, particularly on managed competition, San Diego can and will continue to lead on fiscal reform."
He said although the city has united to resolve the front-page financial scandals of the past, the day-to-day neighborhood challenges remain. Those challenges, he said, must be met head-on through collaboration.
"Delivering the results we've covered tonight did not require divisive rhetoric. Partisan politics doesn't pave streets. It doesn't protect our ocean or dispatch our police officers or firefighters to our homes any faster," he said. "Collaboration and respect get things done, and it's the path I intend to follow as long as I am your elected leader."


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Language implementationNovember 27, 2013
The implementation of Lua 5.0 is an excellent read for anyone curious about language implementation. It explains much of how Lua is implemented.
Particularly interesting to me is the design of their register-based virtual machine, the internal representation of Lua values, and how they enable closures.
About me
My name is Steven Degutis, and I've been writing software professionally for a decade. During that time, I've written many apps and websites, quite a few technical articles, and kept up-to-date with the rapidly evolving software industry.
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- Self-employed – present
- Clean Coders – 5 years
- 8th Light – 2 years
- Big Nerd Ranch – 1 year
- Self-employed - 1 year
- Web: full-stack
- iOS (UIKit)
- macOS (Cocoa)
- REST APIs
- JavaScript
- Swift
- Objective-C
- Clojure
- Node.js
- Express.js
- React
- Vue.js
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Over the past decade, I've written a total of 172 technical articles on various programming languages, frameworks, best practices, and my own projects, as I kept up-to-date and active in the software industry.
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- 2017 — "Clean code" isn't actually clean
- 2017 — Passion in your field is overrated
- 2017 — What I learned in 5 days of writing an experimental website
- 2014 — Age of the Polyglot
- 2013 — How to Program
- 2013 — Ignore the Naysayers
- 2013 — Writing Clearly
- 2012 — Reinvent the wheel
- 2010 — Good usability
- 2009 — Twitter is the wrong tool
- 2009 — We're all pretty bad at driving
- 2008 — Why I Code
|NDD: Narrative Driven Development
|The truth about TDD
|Macroframeworks vs Microframeworks
|Notes on Haskell Extensions
|Second thoughts on front-end tools
|First thoughts on front-end tools
|Some thoughts on GUIs
|First thoughts on OCaml
|Ways to compile Haskell to JavaScript
|First thoughts on Haskell
|Age of the Polyglot
|The history of Mjolnir
|Quitting the GUI wars
|Lua: my new favorite extension language
|My programming life-goals
|Lingua Latina, Pars I
|The futility of JavaScript frameworks
|Allocating an AST on the stack
|Testing boundaries
|Ruby Accessors Considered Pernicious
|Reinvent the wheel
|Go interfaces and DIP
|The future of Lisp
|Cocoa Development is like Bureaucracy
|Why I Code
|Open at Login, for menu-bar apps
Here are some of the projects I'm most proud of. They were created using a variety of technologies, running on several different platforms and OSes. They're all finished products, and many of them are open source.
CleanCoders.comWebsite - Online Video Store
I wrote this web store for Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, using Clojure for the back-end, and JavaScript for the front-end. Over the course of 5 years, I took the site from a simple three-page website to a full enterprise-ready business solution, with nearly 100% test coverage.
DocksmacOS app - Dock Utility
I made Docks in 2009 for users who wanted to swap out icons in their Dock with a single click. Its unique functionality and design aesthetic attracted the attention of Apple, Engadget, MacWorld, and led to an acquisition of my start-up by Big Nerd Ranch.
LeviathanmacOS app - Clojure IDE
While working on CleanCoders.com, a website written completely in Clojure, I increased my productivity by building a custom IDE for macOS designed specifically for Clojure projects.
ZephyrosmacOS app - Hackable Automation
This began as an experiment to see how many languages I could use to script a custom macOS window manager using our custom TCP protocol. Eventually it had bindings for Clojure, Ruby, Python, Go, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Node.js, Chicken Sceme, and Racket, as well as other community additions.
Bubble MakeriOS app - Bubble simulator
This toy was made in a weekend to entertain my 1 year old daughter. It lets you create bubbles with your fingers, which then simulate physics by bumping into each other and falling.
Quick ListiOS app - Todo list app
When I couldn't find an app in the App Store that let me make very simple lists extremely quickly, I made one myself. I use it almost every day to organize and track my activities.
sdegutis.comWebsite - Personal Portfolio
This very site itself was written from scratch in about a day. It uses best practices for modern responsive web design, and a custom build phase to compile the sources into a single HTML file.
2048Java app - Game
The game 2048 (created by Gabriele Cirulli) is so fun that my kids wanted their own copy. So I wrote this version in Java 8, using JavaFx for attractive graphics and silky smooth animations.
MjolnirmacOS app - Window Manager
I created this app to increase my productivity by letting me move windows around in macOS using keyboard shortcuts. It grew into a community-driven highly extensible app, using Lua for its plugin system.
AffluentConfidante.comWebsite - Social Network
Implementing this elite social network gave me experience integrating both Apple Pay and credit card payments (via Stripe.com) seamlessly into web apps, for a frictionless and pain-free payment experience.
HyperChatWebsite - Live Chatroom
This isn't just any chatroom. In this web app, you can see what everyone is typing while they type it. I made this in order to scratch my itch for making real-time apps and games, and learned how to use WebSockets in the process.
BahamutmacOS app - Music Player
As iTunes went through many user interface changes, I wanted an app that was consistent, intuitive, and easy to use. So I created Bahamut, a minimal music player for macOS with a custom user interface.
ChattermacOS app - Chat (IRC) Client
This was written in 2009, before the time of Slack, when IRC was the main way for programmers to get short-term assistance from each other. Its purpose was to be a beautiful app with an emphasis on simplicity and usability over technical power.
AppGridmacOS app - Window Manager
This is an app I actually use every single day. It lets you move windows with global keyboard shortcuts. Since it uses Vim-like key bindings, it should feel pretty natural to any programmer. There's no configuration needed; it Just Works™.
HydramacOS app - Lua window manager
As an evolution of Phoenix, Hydra was my first attempt at embedding a full Lua virtual machine into an Objective-C app, to make a lightweight and efficient window manager that focused on speed, low memory usage, low CPU usage, and overall being gentle on laptop batteries.
PhoenixmacOS app - JavaScript window manager
As an evolution of Zephyros, Phoenix was my attempt to use Cocoa's native JavaScript bindings to make a more lightweight and efficient window manager, that focused on speed, low memory usage, low CPU usage, and overall being gentle on laptop batteries.
Smaller projects
These may be tiny, but they're interesting technical feats.
|Swift framework for embedding Lua with a native Swift API.
|Command line fuzzy-matching tool for macOS that uses a GUI
|Command line music daemon for macOS that only speaks JSON
|Command line text editor with an embedded Lua plugin system
|Window manager for Windows using Clojure for scripting
|Minimalist EC2 configuration & deployment tool in Ruby.
|Assertion helper package for writing tests in Go.
|Go library for printing shell-attributed strings to stdout.
|Objective-C based testing framework with Xcode integration.


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The number of people unemployed in the euro zone fell for the first time in more than two years in June, the latest sign that the bloc's economy may be pulling out of recession, while inflation held steady in July, fuelled by spending on food.
Compared with May, 24,000 fewer Europeans in the single currency area were jobless in June, the EU's statistics agency Eurostat said on Wednesday, the first decrease since April 2011.
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While too small a number to make an impact on the overall level of euro zone unemployment, which was stable at a record 12.1 percent for the fourth consecutive month, the data reverses the seemingly inexorable rise in joblessness numbers.
Alarming fiscal deficits, budget cuts, falling business confidence and the threat of a euro zone break-up drove the bloc into recession in 2011 and predictions of a rebound have so far proved illusory.
But the European Central Bank's pledge to stand behind the euro zone, a recovering U.S. economy and a lessening of harsh austerity policies have helped economic morale improve, taking it to its highest level in 15 months in July.
Low inflation has also helped households struggling with the impact of the 3-1/2-year euro zone debt crisis. Annual inflation was stable at 1.6 percent in July, according to Eurostat's first estimate for the month, the same level as June.
Spending on food, alcohol and tobacco during Europe's summer heat wave in July were the main factor behind the rise in prices, Eurostat said.


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text: >Racks better than piles: > >1. Space efficiency. >2. Aesthetics (racks look cool) > >Piles better than racks (these are not orthogonal): > >1. Internal space constraints Internal space can be adjusted by getting a bigger case, go from a 1U to a 2U or even a 4U. >2. CPU/motherboard Cooling. This follows from [1]. Not true. A well designed rack can cool better than a standard PC because it is actually forcing better air flow. Most inexpensive PC cases rely more on ambient circulation than forcing air to be evacuated from the CPU and drive area. The better designed PC cases are going to be more comparable in price to the rack mount case and have a similar fan arrangement (or at least support for fans, I have an Antec PC server case that has clip-on mount points for fans for every 3 drives but no fans were provided.) >3. Motherboard/CPU options. This follows from [1]. > With a few exceptions most motherboard/CPU combinations > will fit into a standard ATX case - good luck getting > a 2.4 Ghz P4 into a 1U. Check supermicro.com, they have a couple of 1U dual Xeon cases available. >4. Initial purchase price for equivalent performance. Rack mount cases can be more expensive, depends on which rack mount you get and which PC case . I recently bought several from buy.com (Antec 2U26 cases, which I don't really recommend BTW) that were about $270 each. I've seen them since for less. The SuperMicro PC server case was $700 (mind you, it had hot-swap power supplies and a hot-swap SCSI drive cage.) >5. Maintenance costs (rack parts tend to be nonstandard > and expensive to replace, for instance, 1U power supplies). How often do you have to change them? Any good power supply should have a MTBF of 50k hours or so. That's about 5.7 years. Even a a 20k is still 2.2 years. >Other factors? The best part about the rack mount's is being able to put the whole cluster on something with wheels and then push it wherever you need to go with it. Especially nice if you need to get behind the pile to change a cable or you have to move them for maintenance of the room or whatever. >I estimate that for a small cluster (<1 rack's worth of equipment) with >node guts (mobo,CPU,disk,ram) costing <= $1200 the racked version >will cost at least 20-30% more than the piled version. So if a piled >20 node cluster costs $24000, the equivalent racked version will >be at least $30000. $6000 seems a lot to pay for no extra performance. >If the "guts" were much more expensive the additional rack costs would, >in theory be a lower percentage. In practice, it is my impression that >the ratio is no lower because the vendors charge even more for the >racked versions of high performance nodes. prices are from buy.com which is purely retail. $265 - supermicro SC8221-300LP 2U case $468 - supermicro P4DPE $470 - 2x dual xeon 1.8Ghz @ $235 $81 - 40GB IDE HD $299 - 1GB ECC DDR RAM -------- $1583 $135 - antec SX1040B PC case (400W PS) $468 - supermicro P4DPE $470 - 2x dual xeon 1.8Ghz @ $235 $81 - 40GB IDE HD $299 - 1GB ECC DDR RAM -------- $1453 8.9% difference in price you could also get the Antec 4U case for $173 which would bring the difference even closer. hope it helps. marshall fryman futura international, inc.


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Revenue Exceeds Budget
While cities and states across the country are struggling financially or on the verge of default, East Hampton Village — through careful budgeting and a few unexpected windfalls — ended up with around $700,000 more than expected when the fiscal books closed at the end of July.
"Revenue exceeded the budget," Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. said at a village board meeting on Friday. Larry Cantwell, the village administrator, chalked up the good fortune to the fact that many of the village department heads kept a close eye on their budgets. "All the departments came in slightly under budget for the year," he said.
"The village collected about $300,000 more in actual revenue that we originally estimated in the budget and we spent about $400,000 less than originally budgeted, and as a result we estimated the year endingd July 31, 2011, surplus was $700,000," Mr. Cantwell said yesterday. "The $700,000 will be added to the fund balance and result in a fund balance going forward of $2.7 million."
The village had carried a fund balance, for emergencies and unanticipated needs, of approximately 12 percent of the total budget of $18 million, or $2 million, but now will be able to reserve between 15 and 16 percent of the total budget, a change that ups the village's credit rating and allows for any financing the village may seek to come with lower interest rates.
Increased revenue came from $100,000 in parking tickets and $100,000 in additional building fee permits, along with an increase in the number of beach permits offered for sale and in mortgage taxes paid to the village.
The exact figure will not be known until the end of the year, but for now, the village board is pleased.
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Because you Live
Bella means beautiful in Italian, but to Edward Cullen that is just one small word to describe her.
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Because you live
Light swarms around me
And I have never felt so happy
Because of you all my days are great
I never thought I would choose to see with such a different sight
I am no longer the 'odd one out'As Esme always puts it
You not only accepted me for who I am but for what I was
And I never thought I could find someone like you who could
Every time I see you smile
It makes me feel like I could walk on water
You gave me so many new emotions; Anticipation, anxiousness, jealousy, but mostly love
I will let nothing hurt you
I will always love you
So much that words can not describe it
You are my life, Bella
I live and breathe for you
You are my sunshine and blue sky
You have changed my life forever
Everything looks so different
You have showed me that my life isn't meaningless
And that I am not a monster
I must love you
For without you the world and my life
Is like a bottomless pit of darkness and despair
But with you I suddenly feel whole
Like something was missing for my whole life
Everything feels and looks perfect
There is a reason to smile
And a reason to laugh
A reason to love
And a reason to breathe
All those things you have done
Just because you love me
And because you live.
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Over recent days, plaudits have been pouring out for the protesters in Kiev's Maidan Square. No wonder. Those scenes of bloodied bodies have shocked the world, while the pictures of Viktor Yanukovich's lavish excesses have infuriated Ukrainians. "Ukraine's citizens are heroes," Victor Pinchuk, the philanthropist, wrote in the Financial Times this week, echoing the sentiments of many Europeans and Americans. "Thanks to the bravery of its people and the support of international partners, Ukraine was able to step back from disaster."
But it is worth remembering that there is another group of "heroes" in this story: smartphones and tablets. It was utterly remarkable that we could see these intimate images in real time; so was the fact that those Ukrainian protesters could react so quickly to this visual "news" (such as the shots of dead bodies) and then create more "news" too – often, more protests.
I say this with some emotion – and bitterness – since 22 years ago, I was caught up in my own, first post-Soviet revolution. The date was 1992 and I was conducting research for a doctorate at the main Tajik university in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. One day I discovered that some students I knew were assembling in the city's central square, to protest against the corrupt former Soviet regime (sound familiar?).
So I went along too and, initially, it all seemed peaceful if not jolly. The students pitched camp, joined by local political activists, and we all licked ice-cream in the warm sunshine. Some of my Tajik friends from mountain villages carried hunting rifles but nobody thought these would be used. And when helicopters flew over, dropping pro-regime pamphlets, we giggled. It all seemed an exhilarating sign of democracy spreading in a former communist state.
A month later, the laughter stopped. As days turned into weeks, everyone became very tired – and tense. Pro-government demonstrators gathered in another nearby square. Troops suddenly appeared on the streets. The ice-cream sellers disappeared. Eventually – inevitably – somebody fired a shot. And, suddenly, the streets I knew so well turned into a terrifying kaleidoscope of dark, muddled images: dead bodies on the floor of a nearby mosque; a crowd of students, crushed next to me, desperately hiding behind the grandiose pillars at the entrance of the Tajik parliament; armed personnel carriers sweeping into the square, shooting wildly; helicopters hovering overhead, their blades creating such a disorientating echo that it almost drowned out the gunshots. Even now, whenever I hear a traffic helicopter overhead in New York, I experience a spasm of instinctive terror.
But then came the most startling moment of all: at some point the Tajik government troops realised that the protesters enjoyed strong public support and – quite unexpectedly – they fled. Stunned, we all rushed into the parliamentary building, past the pillars where we had sheltered, and I encountered another surreal scene. In a government office, on a desk next to a photograph of a family, was a still-warm bowl of tea. The men shooting at us, it seemed, had only just fled.
On one level, this might be Kiev in 2014. On another, it is wildly different. Twenty-four years ago, that kaleidoscope of dark images simply remained in my own sleep-deprived brain. None of us had smartphones to video the bloodshed or send the pictures elsewhere. It was difficult to even make international landline calls without bribing the local operators with grubby dollar bills or Marlboro cigarettes.
So nobody outside Dushanbe ever knew much about that uprising. We had little way of getting information about the outside world: the television channels were controlled by the government – at least until they fell into opposition hands. And while radio stations such as the BBC World Service offered a lifeline, those radio journalists did not really know what was happening in Tajikistan either. (Indeed, I started my career in journalism by filing amateur dispatches from Dushanbe, precisely because nobody knew what was going on.)
In Kiev today nobody needs to capture a television mast to control the news, or bribe people with cigarettes to dispatch "news" to a radio station. Visual images can be made and watched by anybody, at any time: they spread almost as fast as demonstrators and troops.
This is not always an unalloyed good. A 24-hour news cycle driven by real-time images can create reactive policy making, or dangerous populism. It also produces short and uneven attention spans. Everyone knows about the deaths in Kiev; fewer are watching the current carnage in the Congo.
But in one respect, that smartphone revolution is utterly extraordinary. The little revolt I witnessed in Dushanbe all those years ago had a grim postscript. When a bloody civil war later erupted, the old regime retook control amid brutal reprisals, partly because there were so few witnesses. Today, there are witnesses in Ukraine. If anything is going to deliver a good outcome to the current "revolution", it might possibly be that fact. Here, at least, is hoping.
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text: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:03:16PM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > Optimizing any particular MPI (or PVM) command for either extreme is > > then like robbing Peter to pay Paul, when Peter and Paul are a single > > bicephalic individual that has to pay protection money to the mob for > > every theft transaction (oh how I just LOVE to fold, spindle and > > mutilate metaphors). > > Um, most MPI implementations have at least 3 algorithms, for short, > long, and very long messages. So are they all breaking your rule? No, as I noted later in the (yes, long:-) message. That's what there should be. Although that they do isn't clear to the user, and the user has no control over it (that I can see in the standard). They have to trust the implementation to do the right thing. > It's *unoptimizing* some of the cases that's at question. Most MPIs > unoptimize compute/communication overlap with long messages, because > it's hard work to get that right without hurting all short messages. Again, I think that we in agreement. All I was ultimately suggesting is that message passing libraries that contain complex higher level commands that make optimization decisions (including the decision not to optimize) that result in a complex command that may not be optimal for a significant number of complex cases might benefit from having access to lower level primitives from which the actual complex commands are built so users can roll their own within the library without having to resort to raw networking. You might not agree with this suggestion, but it is as you say the point in question. As I also said, I'm not an MPI expert by any means and therefore have to go look up commands beyond the MPI 1 standard (which look not horribly unlike the PVM command set as far as communication is concerned) and am probably shaky there, but looking them up on the mpi-forum.org site, it looks like MPI 2 adds MPI_PUT, MPI_GET, MPI_ACCUMULATE which are just exactly what I was suggesting and what I would have hoped for, especially if they are indeed the primitives from which at least some of the higher order commands are built. If so, users can either choose to use the optimized/unoptimized higher level commands provided or (if they understand their problem and hardware) roll their own. This is the distinction I was talking about. MPI originally passed messages at a high level of abstraction to wrap a variety of mechanisms in use on big supercomputers (not forgetting that it was a consortium of the vendors of such supercomputers that wrote the standard in response to pressure from the government and other major consumers who were tired of rewriting code every time a new supercomputer was released with its own internals and API for moving data between processors/processes). It (I think deliberately) avoided providing any sort of interface that might be interpreted as a "thin" wrapper to those internals that were responsible for minimal latency, maximum bandwidth movement of data. Whether this was to make the government happy (hiding the detail) or to make themselves happy (leaving a purchaser of a supercomputer with an incentive to write optimizations in their native API and hence become "hooked" on the hardware) is a moot point. PVM has a different, but related, history. It was built on top of networking from the beginning, more or less, and was deliberately designed to hide the networking primitives (specifically) from the programmer where MPI might have been hiding shared memory primitives and create a "virtual machine" where MPI was running on REAL machines. It if anything went out of its way to avoid RMA-like message passing commands that "look" like a wrapper to shared memory following instead a fairly simple reliable message transmission model and in the end (3.x) had almost exactly the same range and general form of commands as MPI 1.x for the bulk of what a user was likely to do, with maybe a bit nicer control interface over the virtual machine and a bit less control over collective operations. Looking over (for the first time) the MPI 2 additions, I have to say that they look very nice, possibly nice enough to finally consider switching to MPI from PVM. Alternatively, it is something that should be cloned in PVM -- PVM would really benefit from PVM_GET, PVM_PUT, and some synchronization primitives. Provision of what amount to wrappers on raw RMA primitive commands (that can be/should be tuned for the hardware) and the separation of the RMA part and any synchronization components mean that a serious programmer has a lot of ability to control and optimize (assuming only that these commands truly are implemented as primitives as used to develop the higher level commands) without leaving the library, while people are able to use the higher level collectives when they are either a good match for their task or if they are a beginner and not ready to tackle lower level programming. The only thing I still don't find (on a fairly rapid lookover) is a discussion on just what e.g. broadcast does or how to make it vary what it does. Part of this of course doesn't belong in a standards document which isn't intended to describe algorithms or implementations at that level of detail. However, one part does. I think it matters a great deal to the programmer to know whether or not broadcast (and other commands) are indeed hardware primitive or if they are implemented on top of point-to-point communications primitives that may or may not involve diverting intermediary processors from their running tasks (and ditto for scatter/gather type operations). This seems like it might be a programming decision point for people who really want to hand-optimize their code. Again, this is based on my experiences in PVM, where I've tried using broadcast several times in master/slave contexts expecting to reduce latency and communications times only to find that the command was de facto serialized and in fact took as long or longer than just running a loop over point to point communications calls. Perhaps MPI does it better, or differently, but it doesn't LOOK like it is anything but a black box which can swing from being good on one network to terrible on another without warning. How to implement such a thing in a standard is an open question, but from a programmer interface point of view having a set of commands that can query and set variables to control the back end behavior of collectives or determine properties of the hardware in the cluster would be very useful. Just one creative idea might be for MPI to provide an optional initialization command to run on a cluster that builds a table of quiescent-state and cpu-loaded-state latencies for short, medium, and long messages both point to point and in collective mode. The same table might hold some describing the selected hardware device such as hw_bcast=TRUE along with the broadcast latency. >From this one might be able to build portable MPI programs that run optimally on Myrinet while they still run optimally on gig Ethernet, with or without e.g. a hardware RDMA command that significantly affects and redistributes the CPU loading per message. But maybe this is all too complicated, or doesn't belong in the standard per se. It is indeed like the ATLAS thing, but then, I think that ATLAS is sheer genius although it is also cumbersome and clunky to build...;-) I just dream of the day that ATLAS-like runtime optimization isn't so clunky and is based on tools that create tables of microbenchmark numbers that ARE sufficiently accurate and rich to achieve near-optimization without running a build loop that sweeps and searches a high-dimensional space...:-) rgb -- Robert G. 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Question submitted on May 11, 2011.
QuestionI have 2 acct. with a DFA financial planner/advisor(IRA and Indiv.accts.) that are doing well now, good gains. I pay him .80% quarterly to manage them but all the funds he has me in I also pay an expense ratio from .30% up to .96%. This I do not like but there''s no way around it unless I change fin. planners/advisors. I realize that these "gains" (around $100,000) are only on paper right now but he makes his money off these "paper" gains as well as the fund managers. I would like to turn this $ into actual financial gains for me. I would like to know if it would be a good idea to cash out about 1/3 to 1/2 of the gains (& pay the taxes at the time of withdrawal) and get it in my possession (to be reinvested or just put into a savings) to realize the gains he has made me. Thank you, lnwhetten
I believe you mean you are paying 0.80% annually, as opposed to quarterly which would be 3.2% as an advisory fee. Going with my assumption you are paying 0.20% quarterly. In my opinion, 0.80% is actually very reasonable for a DFA approach, assuming your advisor is servicing you well. Depending on the size of your account and asset allocation, your total expenses are more than reasonable to many other investment alternatives, inclusive of various alternatives of managing your own funds. Keep in mind a management fee in theory aligns the your goals with that of the advisor. If the advisor is successful and your accounts perform well, then the advisor earns more because the investment advice and management has benefitted you. If your account does not do well, the advisor earns less. You should also discuss your tax concern with your advisor to determine if there is a tax efficient way to rebalance your portfolio to minimize the capital gains while still keeping you risk profile in tact. This advice and service should be part of the advisory fees you are paying and add value to you.
If your personality is such that you simply dislike paying fees, then you will have to make a determination as to whether it is worth it to you to pay taxes on $100k in gains in order to avoid what you perceive to be "he makes money of these 'paper gains'." I would guess growing your account is one of your objectives and if so, it sounds like you are pleased with the gains. However, if you do not want to pay fees, you would have to revisit your objectives for the account in order to make a determination if reinvesting or putting proceeds into a cash savings account makes sense for you. Not knowing your tax situation or account size I cannot quantify that for you, however, your advisor should be able to. I would also caution you regarding cash "not having any fees", because we are in an extremely low interest rate environment at this time with a bit of official inflation per the CPI. Any interest earned would be taxable at your ordinary income tax rate, so your return in the current environment on cash, net of taxes and inflation would most likely be negative. Obviously a negative real return could be considered a fee in itself.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
From the Magazine Rack: The Sassy 90's
Recently, my best friend brought up the idea of being style icons to our future, as-yet-unconceived kids. Will we be style icons to them? If they're looking for early 90's evidence, the answer is no. I dug up an old Sassy magazine circa '94. At the time I was 15 and this now iconic rag was my style bible. Here are a few relics from the days of eyebrow pierces and Blossom hats (yes, I had both).
This article polled "what's sexy now": while guys were hot for belly rings, the ladies loved the eyebrow pierce WITH bead. Meanwhile the owner of the tribal armband admitted to "probably regretting that someday". If you're out there anonymous armband owner, the day has come, right?
Here we have a sampling of hairstyles from the 90's: flat middle parts, metal fros, pixie hair and I don't know what the hell that poof is called all the way on the right. (ps I went to hebrew school with that girl. she was very cool)
The blond pixie cut was definitely something I coveted back then. It was the apex of edgy style. And wait, on closer inspection, it's no wonder it was. Check out the model.
It's sassy intern and style icon of today Chloe Sevigny. I guess some people were always cool looking, even in the 90's. Meanwhile, some stars of today, made regrettable fashion flubs...
...Hilary Swank, I'm looking at you in your skater overalls and floppy hat. Oy.
Here is an interview with the star of a little show called "My So Called Life". I have to say I like Claire's leggings but I could do without the ribbed collared blouse. At the time of the interview she went to a private school in NYC and was really upset about having to give it up and move to LA to be in Little Women. "I'm really jaded now," she says. I could have just about killed her.
The next page is significantly harder in texture almost like cardboard. That's because it's an ad for BMG music club. Remember that? 99 cents for 10 albums (Yanni, Counting Crows, Candlebox, you name it) and a lifetime of dodging collection agencies. But the real standout from this ad is the fashion. Long dresses with slits down the middle that rode up to your belly-button were very big. They were like housecoats of the Golden Girls Variety, only you'd wear them with short shorts. I know the 90's are coming back but can we please agree to be selective. Blond pixie hair, yes. Adult-sized overalls, no. Awesome teen magazines, yes. The "Stuff You Wrote" section, aw hells no.
"I sat at my desk/ pieces of you/ laid out before me /there's your hand /there's your mind /here's your heart/ I ripped it up and threw it /away/ "oh" I said picking up the pieces again/ "I guess this is recyclable."
I'm sorry, but Emily from San Antonio, regrets this more than her tribal tattoo.
7 comments:
- Morgan, Hi! said...
I'm trying to think of another dead magazine that is referenced as reverently and often as Sassy, but I'm coming up blank. More Sassy retrospectives, please!
- April 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- MMTSI said...
hah. totally. well there was ym. sassy's red-headed stepchild. and who can forget bop-the keeper of the fred savage pin-up poster
- April 17, 2010 at 3:48 PM
- Brieanne said...
OH my gosh. Claire Danes looks so so young here...At first I thought it was "Parent Trap"-era Lindsay Lohan. But obviously, she was just a red-headed embryo back then.
And you just gave me a total flashback to the ribbed-top era of fashion. Mine always came from Express, which (I thought) was the ne plus ultra of style. The collars always ended up either floppy or slightly stained from my way-too-much Cover Girl foundation that I did not need.
- April 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM
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- April 19, 2010 at 6:22 PM
- The Lipstick Feminist said...
Gotta miss the beauty tips of yesteryear! I've sworn to my friends that after reading a diet tip to bring a cute male friend to dinner if you're trying to lose weight, I'm keeping my old beauty mags for their entertainment value to my future children or nieces. There's some funny stuff in there! And the 90s, goodness...SeaBreeze anyone? That stuff could clean an oil spill off the pavement.
- April 19, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- Eyeliah said...
OMG! Thanks for the look back, I sadly didn't keep any of my sassys – but oh my I was all about (fake) tattoos, got a belly ring (with bead) and always wore the flat hair parted in the middle look. Sassy would be so great to have around today!
- April 19, 2010 at 7:15 PM
I had a giant stack of them saved in my closet till I wad a senior in high school. Oh man I wish I kept some. Why do I doubt women will be saying the same thing about Cosmo Girl one day.
- April 21, 2010 at 7:10 AM


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Lions defensive end Ronnell Lewis has pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors stemming from an April bar fight in Norman, Oklahoma.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Lewis pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace and public intoxication and was given a six-month deferred sentence.
Lewis, who played his college football at Oklahoma, paid $400 in fines and court costs. If Lewis doesn't get in trouble again in Norman in the next six months, the no-contest pleas will be removed from his record and the charges will be dismissed.
In the April incident, Lewis and the man he fought with had to be dragged out of a bar, and a police officer twice used a Taser on Lewis to subdue him.
A fourth-round draft pick of the Lions last year, Lewis was a special teams player as a rookie but is expected to get more playing time on defense this year.