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HP wants to help you mount a Moonshot
Whitman & Co. offer rides on their hyperscale server iron
ARM TechCon HP is aggressively playing matchmaker for hardware vendors, software developers, and a broad range of customers as it seeks to establish its "make of it what you will" Moonshot hyperscale server architecture.
"We're turning the development model upside-down, and we're starting with the solution," John Gromala, the director of modular systems product marketing for HP's Industry Standard Server global business unit told The Reg at this week's ARM TechCon in Santa Clara, California.
"We'll say, 'what does that solution want in terms of how it's optimized?' And then we'll engineer our way backwards from that solution to say, 'does it want more compute? more fabric? more memory?'"
Project Moonshot, as HP watchers will remember, was announced in November 2011 in its "Redstone" incarnation, with the follow-on "Gemini" systems launched this April.
The idea is to fill Moonshot with the type of compute power that best suits the workload you plan to run – x86 or ARM compute, network processors, DSPs, storage, or a combination of whatever you need, all on pop-in cartridges. Seeing as how Moonshot fits 45 server cartridges in its 4.3U rack-mountable self, stuffing it with quad-system-on-chip (SoC) cartridges would provide 180 servers per box.
At ARM TechCon, Calxeda announced that its new 32-bit ARMv7 "Midway" SoC will be available in a Moonshot cartridge, and Applied Micro said that its 64-bit ARMv8 X-Gene will be shot to the Moon as well.
Both will be available for devs to twiddle with in the HP Discovery Lab – and that collaborative effort, part of what HP in fine marketingese calls its Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem, was key to what Gomala wanted to talk about.
"Within the Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem we have IHVs – the hardware vendors, the chip vendors – and we have the software vendors, and we can actually get the pairing up of the right ones that make sense," he said. "They all come and they work together in our HP Discovery Lab."
Working with HP, those hardware and software folks can collaborate to optimize their offering for different workloads. "The fact that we can bring together those folks in a closer way to innovate is what we see really increasing the pace of innovation," said Gromala, managing to get both the verb and noun forms of one of 2013's favorite buzzwords into the same statement.
"We're trying to get out of the 'one size fits all' world"
Moonshot's goal is to provide a home for a wide variety of workloads in a single server architecture by allowing it to change its character depending upon which cartridges are installed in it. "We're trying to get out of the 'one size fits all' world," Gromala said.
Customers have a role in this process as well. "The cool part of it is we'll lay the base groundwork with the hardware and software vendors, and then we'll actually pull in a customer. We bring then into the Discovery Lab," he said.
"Customers can now say, 'Hey, I want to start looking at my applications, how they run on these things,' and we'll set up time when they can come into the HP Discovery Lab and do that development, as well. The old world of getting all the way through the hardware development cycle, finishing that, working all of those pieces, and then turning it over to the customer and then seeing what's going on. The customers can be involved a lot earlier in the process," he said.
Not all customers, of course, are allowed access to holy of holies, the Discovery Lab, but it isn't be limited strictly to the top tier. Groala told us that HP will "pretty much" work with any customer in the Fortune 2000.
At least as important as size, however, is what the customer wants to do. "There are select ones that are good fits for working closely in something like a Discovery Lab," he said, "but we'll pick specific customers that can really take advantage of a given application and find someone who's really doing breakthrough work for a given application and bring them in."
And what types of workloads will those customers be testing on various and sundry Moonshot systems? "It breaks down into two major areas," he said. "There's more of the horizontal ones like web serving, but we're at the point where we're starting to hit some more of what I'd call vertical solutions."
Among those vertical solutions, he said, was a geophysical data analysis system that's being developed for Moonshot. "That's a very vertical energy industry–focused kind of solution," he said, "but man, when we go ahead and deliver a solution for that, it's going to completely change the TCO benefit that people are seeing in that area."
Moonshot isn't designed to replace traditional servers, but rather to augment them. "A lot of the traditional applications that a lot of enterprises use that have been optimized for two-socket Xeons for years and years and years, those aren't going to change," he said. On the other hand, "A lot of these newer applications, a lot of these more scale-out type applications that are emerging now, are the ones that are going to fit Moonshot."
Exactly how many of those emerging apps will make their way into Moonshot boxes, and exactly how many of those Moonshot and follow-on boxes will be stuffed with ARM, Intel Atom, and other power-sipping chippery won't be known for years. But the possible implications for the server marketplace may very well be sweeping.
And if you want to examine the viability of the Moonshot concept, Gromala and his troops appear more than happy to help. ®
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Had 16 goals, eight assists and 16 steals for the year ... Earned ACWPC and CWPA "Excellent" Scholar Athlete honors ... Posted two goals, one assist and one steal versus Cal Baptist, then grabbed two steals at Princeton in the Princeton Invitational Sept. 11 ... Tallied two scores against Washington & Jefferson in the ECAC Championship Sept. 19 ... Found the back of the net twice versus MIT Oct. 2 ... Collected three takeaways and scored once versus Caltech in the Claremont Convergence Tournament Oct. 9 ... Put in one goal and handed out an assist at UC Santa Barbara Oct. 10 ... Scored a season-high three goals versus Queens (N.Y.) Oct. 16 ... Grabbed two steals and had one helper versus Brown in the Ivy Championship Oct. 31 ... Notched one score and had two takeaways versus Fordham in the CWPA Northern Division Championship Nov. 6.
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Netted a goal against Claremont at MIT Invitational (Sept. 5) ... Scored in win over George Washington at Princeton Invitational (Sept. 12) ... Tallied a goal in victory against MIT (Sept. 16) ... Had a goal in win over Connecticut College at ECAC Championships (Sept. 20) ... Scored a goal in victory at Queens (Sept. 26) ... Netted a goal and had an assist against Pomona-Pitzer at Claremont Convergence (Oct. 2) ... Drew three kickouts in win over Connecticut College (Oct. 8) ... Scored a goal against Iona (Oct. 11) ... Notched a goal against St. Francis (N.Y.) (Oct. 18) ... Tallied a goal in win over Connecticut College at Northern Division Championships (Nov. 7).
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Scored first career goal in win at MIT (Sept. 18).
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Earned two varsity letters in water polo and three in swimming at Corona del Mar High ... Water polo team captain in 2007 ... Selected All-Pacific Coast League first team ... All-California Interscholastic Federation Division I honorable mention ... Orange County Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2008 ... Named USA Water Polo Academic All-American, Outstanding Achiever in 2007 and 2008 ... Team won four Pacific Coast League titles ... Participated in Pan Pacific Water Polo Tournament ... California Sscholarship Federation, Gold Seal Bearer ... Valedictorian ... National Merit Finalist ... National AP Scholar with distinction ... City of Newport Beach seasonal lifefguard and Southern California Aquatics Federation Water Polo Association certifed water polo referee.
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Release Date: January 4th, 2013
DVD Release Date: May 14th, 2013
R |1 hr 32 minPlot Summary
Decades ago, residents of Newt, Texas, long suspected that the Sawyer family was responsible for the disappearances of many people. When their suspicions finally were confirmed, vigilantes torched the Sawyer compound and killed every member of the family -- or so they thought. Much later, a young woman named Heather (Alexandra Daddario) learns that she has inherited Texas property from an unknown relative, and she is unaware of horrors that await in the mansion's dank cellar.
Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Bill Moseley, Marilyn Burns, John Dugan, Tania Raymonde, Trey Songz, Shaun Sipos
Director: John Luessenhop
Genres: Horror
Production Co: Millennium Films
Distributors: Lionsgate Films
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carsharemeister necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 69 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Wheelz, Inc. / wheelz.com
Wheelz is a peer-to-peer car sharing service (think HomeAway/airbnb meets ZipCar.), launched through existing communities and networks (think Universities, Corporate Campuses, etc.) Cars are the second largest personal asset class after homes, and unlike homes, which appreciate in value over time, cars begin loosing value the minute they drive off the car lot. Further, cars are an asset class characterized by low utilization rates; indeed, most vehicles are parked 22 of 24 hours daily. This is a horribly inefficient solution for our planet and our individual pocket books. Wheelz will provide a compelling economic opportunity for car owners - a platform that will allow them to securely lease their car out on an hourly or daily basis when its not in use - and a convenient and affordable personal transportation solution for those who don't own cars.
We will create a more economical (earn or save money), more ecological (reduce number of cars on the road and total miles driven), and more communal transportation service for our members.
By focusing on existing communities such as colleges and universities, wheelz will look to leverage the sense of community that already exists within its local memberships to foster trust between car lenders/borrowers.
Car owners and potential car borrowers which is obviously broad.
Early adopters and the young, tech savvy and smart phone crowd will be especially important.
Early focus will likely be college and university market, however don't want to limit ourselves to this market place with too college-centric design
A sense of community, trust and sharing are critical attributes to convey, along with the transportation/car story.
Using a car wheel in the design may make sense given our name, Wheelz.
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I am bored, so just want to start an off topic thread.
I am new to the RC world (only 2 months .
Compared to my photography hobby, this RC hobby is less and more expensive at the same time
I got a mini e-revo + mini summit + bunch of upgrade and third parties parts (CVD, 2 new servos, 4 tires, and more) for below 1k, which is less than an L lens.
However, with L lenses, i can always resale and got most, if not all of my $ back when i need it or want to try different lenses, unlike the RC word, which is very much water under bridge
Don't get me wrong, i really enjoy the little rc cars i have now, just want to know what other bobbies other rc owners have.
The only suck part is that i can't hold the transmitter and the shutter at the same time
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full size cars and trucks, mostly, the 4x4 trucks
this should be on traxxas alley forum.
computer semi-geek , website design, coding, and sometimes photography (beginner)
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Full size cars, piano and computer graphics - animation, 2D/3D, photo etc...
This car has taken my attention 99% though since I got it a month ago, I'm broke all the time and staring at it all the time! Hahah
Awesome lenses and incredible rig you have!! With cars and computers, you don't get your money back at all haha.
im a computer technician, love games, exotic animals have "tarantulas/scorpians/chameleon/bearded dragons/gecko/piranaha/cichlids", love working on my firebird formula lt-1, love every aspect of rc planes\choppers\cars\trucks
anyhting to do with electonics, mechanics or animals....
although a cool thread last one of these i wrote in got shut down cause it doesnt have to do with traxxas rc's, have fun while it lasts guys
for the op keep your eyes out for niburu, hahahaha, werent we all supposed to be dead by now, got to love y2k type scares....
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Traxxas is good, but so are other Manus
I used to be into muscle cars. I had a 1998 SVT Cobra with 10k miles on it a few years ago, it was mint! I'm a beast on guitar hero and rock band guitar. I also listen to a lot of prog/death meath/metal like Between the Buried and Me and Protest the Hero. I'm a senior math major about to graduate in May, so I have a lot of homework usually.
im amazed nobody has said xbox yet but other than the merv its full size track cars for my wife (as in she asks me to build them for her to drive...crazy i know but she still calls me a child for loving my rc
A few subjects from my other hobby:
This is a family friendly forum so please use discretion when posting pictures. No offensive pictures allowed.
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great pics congrats, do you have more from RIO
Dude, that Blue Angels Wheels Down shot is just awesome...excellent catching the exhaust blur as well.
i'm into model railroading along with racing and sports. racing is my favorite out of everything though. Xcel Dirt track modifieds its just the feel of throwing a car sideways at 75 mph
do them girls know you are taking pictures of them ?? LOL
this is my other hobby
i build alot of 1/24-1/25th scale 4x4 trucks/semi trucks/gasser style 70s era cars.
this is one of my hobbies besides R/C, it is a 1977 toyota celica.
Sig Sauer M400
Remington 1911 R1
A little more:
Sig Sauer M400
Remington 1911 R1
other then RC i do:
i love shooting. i love the smell of gun powder. just got back from shooting my 16 inch flat top AR with an eotech 512.
i also love bicycling.
i also ride motorcycle and bicycle observed trials
i play airsoft as well. i run a JG G36c and a fully automatic gas HFC beretta 93. not my g36c in the photo. my g36c is a high ROF build with a suppressor. i am thinking of putting my fake eotech back on it. im waiting for a high speed motor which should put me near 2000 rounds per minute.
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My truck
Oh yeah and my bike
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7107 Merv Brushless, Soon to be Big Block
Very nice truck, looks really clean
Matthew 7:7
im into old school muscle cars especially MOPAR
my car 75 dodge dart sport just finishing building wkith a 99 dodge ram 5.9L fuel injected 360 dropped into it
my dad cars me and him built 79 plymouth volare/roadrunner with a 413 and 4 speed (car for sale)
Apart from my quad and some other minor things shooting is certainly one of my favorite hobbies.
From top to bottom:
1942 Mosin Nagant
Mossberg 144LS
Weatherby PA-08 12 gauge
Bottom left Sig Sauer Mosquito
Bottom right FN FNP-9
And the Mosin before I decided to refinish the stock.
2CH3NO2 + CH3OH + 3O2 → 3CO2 + 5H2O + N2 =Jato Fun
my newest hobby has been a 2002 500 4x4 automatic tranny TBX body Arctic Cat, nothing better than trail riding on a quad.
I do a little offroading
a little biking (though I've been slacking lately).
I also play frisbee golf, some real golf, shooting (handguns), and some World of Tanks as well.
I'm involved in RC of coarse, i dabble in model railroading on a 4'x8' sheet. My main hobbies right now is restoring garden tractors. In pa it's been to cold to be out running rc my fingers cant take it. Me and my father are restoring a 1971 john deere 70 lawn tractor. plus we just bought a JD 214 planning to get into some run what you brung garden tractor pulling this summer.
Thats what it looked like when we bought it. it is not in what i call a kit form. the's completely disassembled and the frame is just about ready to be painted meaning we can start reassembling it. leaving the fenders hood and grill needing painted.
MERV VXL + Rally VXL + Stampede Xl5
For me its mainly RC - but i also write iOS apps for my job, i consider it to be a hobby as i try to spend as much time doing my own work on it, as opposed to the jobs i get assigned by work. Also into classic cars, though not how those above me would know it, being UK i prefer our style classics to the american versions, when i get home ill post a pic of one of my cars, but we have a Morgan and E-Type in the family, the etype specifically being mine, nothing better than the roof down on a rare sunny day going for a drive. Ised to have quite a few more bit mom made us sell them on lol, typical right? Those included an Austin Mini, Messhershmit (no idea if its spelt right, and not the plane!), frog eye sprite, also a porsche in the arage but thats not classic yet.
Water sports are my other main area of interest when i get the chance to go somewhere they are available, speed boats, water skiing, scuba diving.
Oh and Snow skiing, dunno how i nearly forgot that one!! Love fresh powder under my skiis!!
VXL P2de, rusty MMP Orion vortex, mid '90's P2de
I enjoy camping, nothing like some R/C cars and a campfire!
Slash VXL
Rustler Hobbywing
Summit 1/16 VXL
My kids keep me busy playing every sport imaginable and I coach them in football and softball/baseball. When we get time, they love fishing more than anything but I am the only RC freak in the family at the moment, but my 7 yr old is quickly becoming addicted!
I got a couple hobbies besides Rc. Since I'm just about retired, and I made plenty of money from my job, now I spend my weekends airsofting at cqb city in California. I have a Gas powered m249 saw, and a shotgun as well. During the week, you can find me at gigs playing my trombone
Finally when I'm not at my job, you can find me having some fun with these bad boys
My Riva, main restore in 2004:
Here is the boat my father had. I wish he could see what she looks like today. I decided to restore it as an honor to him, he died in the middle of the restore. Just about the saddest thing that ever happened to me. Ever. This 1950's beauty sat in an old dusty barn for just about 50 years. She was sad, I could tell you that. I know my dad would be proud of her now
A bit of a different state of my mind..... This is my Donzi 43 zr comp, it's powered by Triple 580 Horsepower Mercury engines. It'll do about 129mph. To be honest I really dont like going that fast. Its REALLY scary :/
I also love my cars. I currently own a Porsche 914 that has a small block chevy motor in it. I love the porsche because it is such a sleeper car. The original 914 has a straight 4 engine, so It's funny when I get looser ricer rocket guys revving their engines at me at stop lights, like they want to race. Little do they know that my 914 can beat a Bugatti Veyron in a race to 60 mph.
I also love dogs and fish. Right now I have 5,000 Gallon Saltwater setup and an 950 Gallon Freshwater setup. I currently have 4 dogs. I hunt with them and train them myself.
I have a boxer Puppy
My Two Rottweiler's
And my Doberman
And then this afterwards...
My main interests are racing XC (on my 2012 Honda 400X) and making racing and riding videos afterwards! I love it!
I enjoy fishing (bass mainly, but a nice quiet riverbank @ night for cats is good too) as well as biking. Don't really have time for anything else. Or money.
so this one time I ate a lipo.......
Wow, this thread is still going strong.
Here are a few sport shots:
And a Moon shot:
Hunting, fishing, trapping and boating the Mississippi River. Waterfowling is my first love as far as hobbies go, more a way of life really.
540ci BBC 680hp
pede 4x4 vxl / axial ax10 / USA 1 nitro / mini8
pede 4x4 vxl / axial ax10 / USA 1 nitro / mini8
Fishing, kayaking, camping, shooting, rock climbing, hiking, gong to national parks, mountain biking, watching the birds around my house, and 10 gallon fish tank with zebra danos, mini catfish and tetra's, pretty much anything outside I like to do.
I blame it all on speedpede09
Besides RC. Golf, off shore fishing, online gaming (fps), my 55 gallon planted fish tank, smoking cigars, baseball - Go Phils!!!
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Herman Cain: Racism is "Dead"
Black Republican candidate Herman Cain on Fox News Channel's Hannity
Last weekend Black Republican candidate Herman Cain on Fox News Channel's Hannity said, "I don't believe racism in this country today holds back anybody in a big way.†He followed it with, "People sometimes use racism to hold themselves back and to blame racism for whatever it is that they fail to achieve.†Being that Harlem is the center of Black life, I once again hit 125th Street—it's busiest business strip—to get a response from those Cain may be implicitly speaking to; the brother man.
When asked if he believed racism still existed Ernesto Johnson, a DJ activist, said he found the question to be insulting. "The education system alone speaks for itself. Look at the white kids versus the black ones. It's an adventure for them [black children]. They have to pass security detections just to enter the building,†said Johnson. Johnson also suggested that people revisit 1983's film Trading Places with Eddie Murphy. Here Murphy is depicted as a homeless street hustler (Billie Ray Valentine) who unknowingly gets entangled in a bet between two white and wealthy brokers. In the experimentation, Valentine is given a large lump sum of money and observed over the next couple of months to examine how he utilizes it. Valentine not only becomes an estimable businessman but proves to be a well-mannered individual who applies his new insight to life both at work and in the 'hood. "Everyone has a will and a desire to succeed. However, it's about people having access and an opportunity…†continues Johnson.
Although he agrees with Cain's statements to an extent, Johnson believes that this is not a time to divide as a 'folk'. "We don't have to agree on everything but we do need to stand together on important matters,†says Johnson with a sense of urgency in his voice. "Congress tends to promote a certain kind of black candidate. The kind that is consistent with the system that keeps us [Blacks] suppressed… We're always being told to stop complaining. I've never heard Obama or Herman Cain tell the tea party to stop complaining.†Johnson sternly expresses.
Longtime friends, Ms. Smith and Mr. Collin believe that racism is not only real but that it still exists today. "As individuals we make our own decision. Yes. What black person doesn't want to live good,†asked Ms. Smith. "We're all trying to have something to get somewhere. It's hard out here,†added Mr. Collin. "The white man still chooses what to feed you like you're a slave again†he continues. Having lost over 75% of 16 million acres that was once black-owned land, and receiving only minimal stipulations in all aspects concerning human civilization—education, health insurance, housing, monetary compensation—could Mr. Collin be right?
Aternity, who is known in the neighborhood as the black 'street fighter', is a passionate street activist. "Black spirit detonation wasn't there in the 1950s…From long ago, they [the upper class] have been systematic in the breeding of black mentality and what it is today,†says Aternity. "Things we were never exposed to where brought into our
neighborhoods. Guns, booze, drugs. These were their weapons of destruction†she continues. In similarity to Johnson's earlier comment, Aternity believes that blacks are always told to wait it out. She also brought awareness to the fact that our patience has for decades been leading to our removal and dismissal. We at Black Star News agree! Just take a good look at Harlem today. What is your conclusion?
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WTO probes China export subsidy claims
The World Trade Organisation on Friday launched a formal investigation into allegations by the US and Mexico that China is unfairly subsidising exports through tax breaks and other incentives.
An independent dispute panel will rule on the allegations, originally filed by the US in February. Mexico, which has been overtaken by China as the second largest exporter to the US after Canada, joined the complaint shortly afterwards.
Mexico faces a year-end deadline to eliminate special quotas on Chinese goods, aimed at protecting domestic industry from a surge of cheap imports, which remained in place after China joined the WTO in December 2001.
Although Beijing earlier this year eliminated one subsidy programme challenged by the two countries, it also passed a revised income tax law that Washington says appears to provide new prohibited subsidies.
The measures targeted by the US and Mexico include tax refunds, reductions and exemptions that allegedly subsidise exports and discriminate against imports in a wide range of industries.
China's trade gap with the US surged to a record $230bn last year and is on course for a new peak in 2007, prompting calls by US lawmakers for tough action againstBeijing's alleged unfair practices, including an undervalued currency.
However, the WTO panel will take at best a minimum of six months to issue its ruling, and appeals and other delays mean a definitive verdict is unlikely before late 2008.
The panel is the second to be set up to deal with alleged breaches of international trade rules by China. Another panel established last year at the request of the US, EU and Canada is examining whether China's local content requirements discriminate against foreign car parts.
In a third case, China on Friday temporarily blocked a US request for a panel to rule on its complaint concerning piracy and market access for US films, DVDs, books and music.
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DEHOGA (the acronym stands for Deutscher Hotel- und Gaststättenverband) is an organization that since its foundation in 1949 has represented the economical, social and professional interests of the entire HORECA industry – ranging from luxury hotels to snackbars and canteens – in Germany.
With almost 65,000 – voluntary – members DEHOGA can avail itself of the intensive support in terms of finance, knowledge and contacts of a large share of this major industry that comprises 222,000 companies with an annual overall turn-over of 85,4 billion euros and a workforce of 2,2 million. On the regional level the member associations of the DEHOGA are responsible for the representation of the interests of the hotels and restaurants in Germany. Specialized units of the DEHOGA are in charge of public relations, taxes, legal matters, European affairs, copyright questions, ecological management, vocational training, labour market, market research and statistics.
From a more global point of view DEHOGA is subdivided into 17 regional associations which again have their own organizational infrastructure reaching down to the local level. There are two professional associations within the DEHOGA – the International Hotel Association (IHA) and the UNIPAS (union of the tenants of restaurants alongside motorways) – as well as the five specialized divisions of the DEHOGA – system catering trade, community catering trade, catering trade inside railway stations, catering and the German association of discotheques.


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Hello friends, summer is fast approaching and this is the time of year when the appreciation for light, bold and beaming colors take over and for me I never mind because it's the best time of the year at least that's how it is for my family. So why am I talking about summertime when this is a kitchen post? Well because I have the sudden tendency to look at kitchen in the bold since lately. In my last kitchen post I talked about the bold color orange and I wanted to know if you would use such a color in your kitchen so why not stay on row, how about yellow kitchenswould you ever paint your kitchen cabinets yellow or perhaps buy kitchen cabinets that are yellow? What about yellow walls?
Well I must admit I have a kitchen with yellow walls but that is as far as I went with the yellow in my kitchen in fact when people come over to my house they never say ooh I love your yellow walls but yet I always get a nice compliment like I love your kitchen and most don't recognize the yellow walls because of the other things we have going on in the kitchen.
Friends I put together some pretty fantastic yellow kitchen for you to admire and you will notice that some are very yellow and others are subtle and just have hints of the color yellow as accessories and I must warn you there are over 60 yellow photos of beautiful yellow kitchens so without further ado check out these out of this world yellow kitchens.


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This version includes 5 different animals.
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captkrackerjack necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 265 diseños de 59 diseñadores freelance.
Military Europe
I am currently in Active Duty military and am looking to create a website for those currently stationed in Europe to include Military, DoD civilians, Family Members, Retirees as well as those going to be stationed or have been stationed in Europe. I would like to improve communications amongst the community in Europe.
I am trying to create a great environment were people can meet others, as it can be hard at times since everything in Europe is quite foreign. This is for all our patriots who volunteered to do the less desirable jobs of our country and I would like to give back more than just serving.
I like to get out and travel and explorer but many people don't and also people can't get information they need or ask the right people questions so I am trying to improve these things around the community I am in, and I believe I can do it through the new mediums we have today.
This contest is for a logo specifically for a web banner that says Military Europe and even more specific something warm and inviting, Involving people and community but it also must keep some kind of military flavor.
The target audience are all the Americans that are stationed throughout Europe working with for the US government in all capacities as well as there families. The age group would best be represented by 17-38 year old male and females.
Other markets are those who will be stationed in Europe and those who have been already and would like to keep up with whats currently happening in the American Military community throughout Europe.
This is completely open for creativity I have no specific requirements but to help get ideas flowing think patriotic military such things as stencil fonts, flags and also of values such as honor, integrity, self-less service, respect and discipline. These all are throughout the community. To add also think of people, community, caring and stuff of the nature.
Commons colors are subdued mattes of greens, browns and tans but of course I want to see lots of creativity blues, reds and other soft pleasant colors are welcome to. I would like to see something that would easily grab the target audiences attention without being to far out but not so professional either. Feel free to make motto's or taglines. Please no stock images or clip art.
Have fun.
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After the first few submissions I realized I need to say that I am not looking for things representative of violence such as guns, cross-hairs and such.
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I reread most of arc 5 tonight, and I felt the need to again declare, that this is my favourite webcomic. Quite possibly my favourite comic period. Smart, funny, epic, thick, dense, deep, convoluted, conspirirific, informed, even touching and moving (Hooks backstory and redemption remain powerfully done, even after multiple readings).
Thanks again Matt. You are doing an amazing job, and have been getting better all the time. I don't know how you do it, I really wish I COULD do it, and I'm damn glad you do do it.
I continue, as always, to eagerly await whatever comes next. Should you require any assistance, please do not hesitate to ask.
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24-Year-Old Wins $8.53M at Poker in 12 Hours
(LAS VEGAS) -- After nearly 12 hours and 400 hands, a poker player from Maryland has received the biggest treat possible this Halloween: $8.53 million.
Greg Merson, 24, won the World Series of Poker tournament before dawn Wednesday in Las Vegas at the Penn and Teller Theater. The tournament was an all-night, no-limit Texas hold 'em marathon playing session that nearly broke the all-time record for duration, according to the World Series of Poker website.
Merson beat Las Vegas native Jesse Sylvia, 26, when he went all-in with a king-high. Three sixes, a three, a nine and a seven, plus his king-high, led to Merson's victory over Sylvia's queen-high.
Merson was also presented with the game's ultimate symbol of achievement – the Jason of Beverly Hills designed gold and platinum bracelet encrusted with diamonds.
In addition to the $8.53 million, Merson also received the 2012 World Series of Poker Player of the Year honor, which in a points-based system rewards the player who posts the greatest accumulated results over the course of all 68 gold bracelet events played in a calendar year.
Merson attended the University of Maryland and has been playing poker full-time for about five years.
According to the World Series of Poker website, young players have done exceptionally well in the main event. The past five world champions were between 21 and 24 years old.
Sylvia, who placed second, won $5.3 million, while 21-year-old Jake Ballinger won $3.8 million for third place.
The World Series of Poker tournament began last summer at the Rio Las Vegas with 6,598 entrants, making it the fifth-largest live poker tournament in history.
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Nearly halfway through their two-week training stint with Team for the World partners Atlético de Madrid, it was quite a sight to see the mugs of Fire midfielders Dilly Duka and Victor Pineda via Skype on Wednesday morning.
Their visit to Madrid is the third time the Fire have sent players to Atlético, with Austin Berry, Jalil Anibaba and Corben Bone all having gone over in the last 12 months.
"We're doing well over here," Duka said. "It's been a great experience to come in and be a part of Atlético so far."
While most of their time is being spent training with the Reserve side, the duo was able to take in Atlético's 7-0 shellacking of Getafe last Saturday and while most of their time has been spent training with the reserves, with Atlético already through in the group stage of the Champions League, the duo got a chance to train with a rather strong contingent of the first team that didn't travel to Tuesday's match at Zenit St. Petersburg.
"We trained with David Villa and Arda Turan," said Duka. "We played small-sided and the games were pretty intense. We were part of the younger team with all the younger guys and actually did work and won a couple small-sided matches. It was a lot of fun to be near David Villa and so many of their good players."
Aside from training though, both players are also using the opportunity to understand a different club culture and style of play that has developed over Atlético's 110 year history.
"They have all these different exercises they do just for possession," Duka said. "Watching the U19s today, when they're playing to goal in small sided games, they're not so direct – every drill has restrictions on how many passes you need to have before you go to goal.
"They want their players to be involved with the ball as much as possible and not necessarily be so direct," added Pineda. "I think that's a cool thing – you notice the players are so technical at all levels, even down to the U14s it's very impressive the way they carry themselves on the field."
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Because the pair won't return Stateside until December 6, they'll have to celebrate Thanksgiving away from family. Perhaps tiring of some of the same food at Atletico's training facility about 30 miles outside the city, the pair has sights on heading into Madrid for Thursday's American holiday but doesn't expect to have any turkey.
"Any chance we get to go downtown, we try to feast and enjoy the traditional Spanish food," said Duka. "We'll probably have paella or a nice steak or something."


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Welcome Paul Mankiewich to Cisco Service Provider Mobility CTO
Mobility is, and continues to remain a top business priority for service providers around the globe and one of Cisco's five company priorities. There is an insatiable desire in the market for connectivity anytime, anywhere and on all the latest devices.
At Cisco, we are uniquely positioned with an architecture that spans from the client – to the network – to the cloud to meet these demands. We are constantly innovating to further define mobility technology and solutions across all of these areas to address service provider challenges of network reach and network intelligence. This unique position makes us attractive to both customers and prospective employees.
Today, I'm excited to share news that confirms our expanding leadership position in the mobility market. Paul Mankiewich will be joining Cisco as CTO for SP Mobility in Cisco's Mobile Internet Technology Group (MITG).
Paul joins us from Juniper where he was responsible for end-to-end network vision and architecture across all of Juniper's products and their insertion into service provider networks. Paul also spent over 10 years in various CTO roles for mobility and service provider at Alcatel-Lucent. Paul has made significant contributions to the mobile industry and has authored well over 100 technical papers related to wireless, networking and devices.
Paul will be dividing his time between his home base in New Jersey, where he lives with his family, Cisco Headquarters in San Jose, and Cisco MITG in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Research Triangle Park and in India.
Clearly we are thrilled to have such an industry thought-leader join our team! We look forward to his partnership and work to further drive next-generation mobility architectures for our customers and broadly in the industry.
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According to a press release, the webinar will run Wednesday (Feb. 19) from 2-3 p.m. EDT, providing RV dealership and campground owners with a "secret formula" successful RV businesses use to market their business. Attendees will also learn more about the four fundamentals of growth:
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While Americans have gradually come to realize that the Internal Revenue Service was used as a partisan tool to attack the Tea Party movement over two election cycles, it is increasingly clear this scandal may become the biggest of the three scandals that rocked the Obama administration last week.
The IRS scandal involved the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division of the IRS openly targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups applying for tax-exempt 501(c)4 "social welfare" organization status between 2010 and 2012 for extra audits and agency scrutiny. The result was a focus of IRS audits — which can cost tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of employee hours to targeted organizations — upon the political Right, as well as delays of two years or longer in approving the tax-exempt status. Liberal groups were not selected for nearly as many audits, nor were they singled out by ideological code words, as conservatives had been.
And the Obama administration both promoted and granted more than $100,000 in bonuses to Sarah Hall Ingram, the administrator of the IRS division that implemented the politically-discriminatory policies. Ingram is now in charge of IRS enforcement of ObamaCare.
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George told the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee May 17 that his audit concluded:
• "The IRS used inappropriate criteria that identified for review Tea Party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention. Because of ineffective management by IRS officials: 1) inappropriate criteria were developed and stayed in place for a total of more than 18 months, 2) there were substantial delays in processing certain applications, and 3) unnecessary information requests were issued to the organizations."
• "The IRS developed and began using criteria to identify tax-exempt applications for review by a team of specialists that inappropriately identified specific groups applying for tax-exempt status based on their names or policy positions, instead of developing criteria based on tax-exempt laws and Treasury Regulations. The criteria evolved during 2010."
• "In early Calendar Year 2010, according to an IRS Determinations Unit specialist, the IRS began searching for applications with "Tea Party," "Patriots," or "9/12" in the organization's name as well as other "political-sounding" names."
• "As of December 17, 2012, many organizations had not received an approval or denial letter for more than two years after they submitted their applications. Some cases have been open during two election cycles (2010 and 2012)."
Inspector-General George told Congress that the IRS had asked illegal questions of the target Tea Party organizations in the process of the audits, "including requests for donor information, position on issues, and whether officers have run for public office." According to one published news report, the IRS even asked for the organization to report the content of their prayers.
Inspector-General George also told Congress his audit had not found any information that IRS employees had received direct instructions from senior Obama administration officials to single out the Tea Party movement for audits. "We asked the Acting Commissioner, Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division; the Director, EO; and Determinations Unit personnel if the criteria were influenced by any individual or organization outside the IRS. All of these officials stated that the criteria were not influenced by any individual or organization outside the IRS. Instead, the Determinations Unit developed and implemented inappropriate criteria due to insufficient oversight provided by management and other human capital challenges." And the inspector-general's comment coincides with statements by Obama officials, who have essentially claimed to be Mr. Magoo on the issue.
White House Press spokesman Jay Carney told the press May 15 that "there was no knowledge here." President Obama reiterated the same position in a press statement the following day: "I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through the press."
But it's not clear that using the IRS as a political cudgel against the Tea Party movement was entirely the idea of the IRS itself. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) noted in remarks before the May 17 committee hearings that there had been a pattern of IRS ideological abuses against political conservatives:
It would be a mistake to treat this as just one scandal. This may be the one generating headlines, but in total I count at least five serious violations of the taxpayers' right to be treated fairly, honestly and impartially by their government.
First, back in August of 2010, a "White House official" discussed the tax status of a private company — a clear intimidation tactic.
Second, in June 2010, the targeting of conservative groups began.
Third, in May 2011, the IRS started to threaten donors to conservative leaning non-profits that they were liable for certain taxes.
Fourth, in March of 2012, the Huffington Post published the confidential 2008 donor list of the National Organization for Marriage, a conservative tax-exempt organization.
And fifth — but unlikely the final transgression — ProPublica announced that the IRS had leaked confidential applications for tax-exempt status from conservative groups.
Perhaps not surprisingly, various news sources have reported that top Treasury Department officials were informed of the investigation at least as early as June 4, 2012. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew acknowledged that he was informed of the Treasury Department inspector-general's investigation back in March 2013 on Bloomberg television, and that his predecessor Timothy Geithner was likely informed the previous year: "In mid-March, I had had a conversation, just a getting-to-know-you conversation, with the inspector general right after I started, and he went through a number of items that were matters they were working on. And the topic of a project on the 501(c)3 issue was one of the things he briefed me was ongoing," Lew said in an interview on Bloomberg. Of course, Lew is still denying he was briefed on any specifics, or that he knew the investigation involved politically motivated corruption. "I was not aware of any details," Lew told Bloomberg. "I was aware of the fact of the matter being subject to a review. That's very different from the substance of the findings."
Meanwhile, administration officials continue with denials of reality. Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller astonishingly contradicted Inspector-General George before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee "I do not believe that partisanship motivated the people who engaged in the practices described in the Treasury Inspector-General's Report. I've reviewed the Treasury Inspector-General's report, and I believe it's conclusions are consistent with that. I think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people who were trying to be more efficient in their workload selection."
Interestingly, Miller has fallen on his political sword for the Obama administration, and will resign next month as a result of the scandal. But what can be said of Stevens' statement that targeting the political right was a "more efficient" workload selection? Essentially, he argued that conservatives are a native criminal class in America, a view that is ironically shared by Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the NAACP. Bond told MSNBC May 14 that the government should engage in political discrimination: "No, I don't think it's a double-standard at all. I think it's entirely legitimate to look at the Tea Party. I mean, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, who are overtly political, who have tried as best they can to harm President Obama in every way they can.... They are the Taliban wing of American politics and we all ought to be a little worried about them."
Top Obama administration officials are circling the wagons for what is likely a hopeless defense of Sarah Hall Ingram, who supervised the non-profit section of the IRS during the entire length of the scandal and was promoted last year to the IRS' enforcement division related to ObamaCare. "No one has suggested that she did anything wrong yet," White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told Fox News Sunday May 19. Pfeiffer said pretty much the same to each of the other Sunday morning talk shows.
Even Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has leaped to Sarah Hall Ingram's defense, telling Bloomberg May 17 of Ingram's management of the IRS non-profit division: "I have heard that ... she was not in a position of responsibility over these actions." But Lew's statement was patently false. Ingram was appointed as commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division on April 24, 2009, at the beginning of the Tea Party wave, and held the position until 2012, when the extra Tea Party scrutiny allegedly ended. Moreover, Ingram received some $103,390 in bonuses for her work on the IRS non-profit division during the time period of the discriminatory practices. Sarah Hall Ingram's new job within the IRS is to enforce ObamaCare — aka the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010, the legislative centerpiece of the Obama administration — and as of this writing there are no plans to dismiss her from her current position.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul noted in a May 16 op-ed for CNN that the IRS scandal strikes at the foundation of the U.S. government's fairness and due process rules. "Protecting citizens' right to speak out against their government has always been an integral part of what separates us from tyrannical regimes. What the IRS did is how the KGB used to target dissidents. It is how they deal with troublemakers in China.... Imagine if the IRS had targeted liberal or progressive groups under the Bush administration. The First Amendment cannot be renegotiated depending on which party holds power." Senator Paul has called for a U.S. Senate investigation into the IRS scandal, which has thus far been blocked by the Senate's Democratic majority.
The IRS scandal is a clear misuse of the executive branch of the president, and if it can be determined that the president knew that the IRS was engaged in a pattern of discrimination against conservative and Tea Party organizations and did nothing to stop it, it ultimately won't matter whether he issued a direct order for the discrimination to commence. In that sense, the IRS scandal may be a political crime that is impeachable in a way the Benghazi and AP wiretapping scandals could never be. It also puts to lie President Obama's preachy commencement address to Ohio State University May 5, where he urged graduates to cast aside any skepticism of big government:
Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems; some of these same voices also doing their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave and creative and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted.
In reality, the Obama administration has (at the very least) allowed the kind of federal government that beats up on conservative organizations for no other reason than the fact that they want limited government envisioned by America's founders. At worst, Obama was talking about his own administration, its liberal friends, and its forced implementation of ObamaCare when he mentioned in the same speech "the well-connected who ... whisper in government's ear for special treatment that you don't get. That's how a small minority of lawmakers get cover to defeat something the vast majority of their constituents want."
Constitutionalists will have to resort to fighting the Obama administration's dirty tricks and attacks on the Tea Party by working harder, in essence by following Obama's advice to engage in "dedicated, and informed, and engaged citizenship. And that citizenship is a harder, higher road to take, but it leads to a better place. It's how we built this country." It's also the only way the U.S. government can recover from an IRS scandal that has rocked the nation to its foundation.
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City of Lincoln
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Mayor cuts budget requests, but flat revenues call for restoring
one cent of previous rate cut to maintain services
After months of review, cutting more than $2.4 million from department requests and cutting or delaying $3.3 million in capital construction projects, Mayor Seng today presented to the City Council a balanced budget for fiscal year (FY) 2004-05 that asks to restore one cent of the 2.4 cents cut from the City property tax rate adopted last summer.
In balancing the budget, Mayor Seng cut department requests for new spending. But with some revenue sources not increasing next year, the City will need to rely more on property taxes to maintain current services. Also, Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) has indicated that it will not restore the $381,000 for its share of the funding for the 15 police officers assigned exclusively to the schools. Until this current year, LPS paid $381,000 of the $781,000 cost of the School Resource Police Officers. Without a contribution from the schools, the City absorbs the $381,000 cost. The assignment of the School Resource Officers remains undetermined.
City tax-supported spending is projected to increase 4 percent, limiting the FY 2004-05 budget to a $125.8 million tax-funded budget. As a cost containment measure, Mayor Seng said the City will review each City job vacancy to determine if the job can be eliminated or filled at a later date.
"The scrutiny is necessary because personnel costs account for 71 percent of the budget," Seng said. "If there is some way to streamline duties, it should be considered. In addition, travel and discretionary spending would be frozen at current year levels." She said discretionary spending will be closely monitored.
The City is facing some costs that it cannot control. The higher cost of gasoline is estimated to increase city spending $100,000 to operate the Police, Public Works, StarTran, Fire and Parks vehicles. The costs of the watershed management program to comply with the unfunded federal mandate for new storm water requirements will be about $260,000. The cost must be absorbed by property taxes because the Legislature has not granted cities authority to charge a fee to those who have significant storm water run-off. The tax subsidy to operate the Pershing Center is increasing $100,000. It is anticipated that costs to operate the County Emergency Management Agency will be increasing following the devastating tornados and storms last month.
The City plans to spend $3.5 million of the cash reserve to help balance the budget. This complies with the official policy the City adopted last year. "Spending any more of the reserve would put the City's Triple-A bond rating at risk at a time when the City hopes to do more bonding to benefit from the lower interest rates." The Triple-A bond rating helps the City obtain lower interest rates and save money.
Mayor Seng said this proposed budget is built on a consensus reached with the City Council earlier this year to preserve current city services. The City plans to save $600,000 by restructuring the way it pays for street lights. Also, the City plans to use $500,000 of unused bond funds from previous Library and Parks projects to reduce the tax levy for debt payments. In order to balance the budget, the City Council will be asked to restore one cent of the 2.4-cent property tax rate reduction from last August.
To generate additional funds, the 911 telephone surcharge would be increased 25 cents from its current 75-cent-per-month charge. The increase will reduce the City property tax subsidy to the 911 Center by $240,000.
Last summer, the Mayor proposed and the City Council approved cutting the property tax rate from 31.4 cents to 29 cents per $100 of assessed value. The budget proposal would restore one penny to the rate.
Separately being added to the tax rate is one-half cent to pay for two bond issues voters passed in 2002 and 2003. The City property tax rate would be adjusted to 30.6 cents per $100 of assessed value for FY 2004-05, still less than the 31.4-cent City property tax rate of FY 2002-03.
The City has relied more and more on sales tax revenue as a way to reduce the property tax rate. Sales tax now provides about 42 percent of the funding to operate City government, while property tax provides about 28 percent of the operating budget. The City property tax rate has been cut 44 percent, dropping from 51 cents per $100 of assessed value in 1994 to its current 29 cents, thanks to growing sales tax revenue and not taking advantage of higher property revaluations.
"I don't like the idea of restoring any of last August's property tax cut," Seng said. "But only after cutting projected spending and realizing that revenues would still not cover costs, I present the option to the Council that either we restore some of the tax rate or we cut current services. I look forward to working with the City Council to complete the budget in a way that does not rely on one-time deferrals or budget gimmicks that could cause problems for many years into the future."
The budget does include a $300,000 increase for the City's contribution to the Police and Fire Pension Fund. The City should increase its contributions to the fund because the annual contribution has been less than recommended. The total City contribution to the fund next year would be $2.4 million.
Also proposed to be added to the City's tax-funded budget are a Traffic Engineer, Watershed Engineer, Parks Coordinator, Personnel Clerk, Community Learning Center Employee, Teen Center Manager, a Parks Laborer and payroll hours equal to 3 FTEs (full-time equivalents) for a variety of seasonal assignments at the Parks and Recreation Department. In addition, the proposed budget includes two new Firefighters to help relieve staffing shortages. The current number of firefighters is the same as it was in 1994.
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The All-Party Parliamentary Taxation Group's (APPTG) report raises questions about whether the new system will be fit for purpose and ready in time for its scheduled roll out next year, claiming that the speed at which it is being implemented could 'threaten every businesses and benefit claimant in the UK'.
Under RTI, employers and pension providers will notify HMRC about any PAYE payments, such as tax and NICs, each month as opposed to at the end of each tax year. The system will also support the operation of the Government's flagship Universal Credit welfare programme, which will calculate welfare claims and tax credits automatically based on real time earnings.
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I'm writing this post from bed. This is more remarkable than you'd think:
A) after toying with this for over a week, I'm admitting defeat and officially saying that I have the stomach apocalypse.
B) I am actually in my bed, not on a mattress on the floor.
Last weekend while the kids went to their dads, I put my bed up -- my very pretty, very king sized, very Ikea bed.
I've put together my share of Ikea furniture in my day, but in hindsight I realize that I've put together my share of Ikea furniture in my day with soon-to-be-ex. Have I ever put Ikea furniture together, alone?
No, I don't think I have. You know why? BECAUSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. I live in a part of the country that is densely populated with the religion that doesn't totally always frown on polygamy, and now I get why every city densely populated with this religious group has an Ikea in close proximity -- you need at least seven sister wives to put the [expletive expletive] furniture together.
For a company so big on space-conservation, you think they'd be a little more sympathetic to the single and/or child-labour-less, but alas, Ikea hates single people and punishes us with bed frames that require a degree in Tetris and the superpower of being able to hault physics for at least two hours at a time in order to assemble. Oh, and the $7.99 Ikea toolkit. Which, for the record, is the best $7.99 I've ever spent.
So I'm up off the floor, in my platform bed, which is just high enough for a puke bucket, which I think I might need because I Can Haz the Tummy Crab. Hooked on Fonics Worked for Me aside: When you tell your daughter you're sorry she has a tummy cramp, she's going to hear tummy *crab* and be convinced for years to come that she has an actual crab in her tummy and must puke and/or poop it out. Everyone in your family will adopt the term tummy crab, and it will eventually stop grossing you the fuck out.
Everyone in your family will adopt the word tummy crab because everyone in your family will GET a tummy crab. Even the dog was hurling last week. We got the King Tummy Crab, it seems. Last week we all had [something something poop @suebob just stopped reading this post poop something] and then yesterday, I kept almost passing out from the near constant nauseous-dizzies. Last time that happened, I ended up with a tummy crab and a half.
This time I have neither the means nor the uterus for that deliciousness, so while I'm waving my >>llama eyes<< at Jesus and yelling at him to get off mah barren wasteland, I'm pretty sure I just still have the flu.
Which leads me to my grandmother.
No, I haven't taken any medicine today, why do you ask?
My grandmother wasn't allowed in our house, or us in hers, for the better part of my life. This was partly due to the fact that my mother had a tortured relationship with her, but also because my grandmother enjoyed the finer points of Satanism for a while, before diving into the channeling of shockingly uninspired historic figures. Really, if you're going to summon one's spirit to speak through you, do your homework. Pick someone better than George Washington. LIVE A LITTLE.
But everybody needs somebody sometimes, even my mother, and when we were particularly ill, she'd like Grandmom come over to take care of us. And I miss that, I cannot lie. There is nothing better than someone taking care of you when you're sick. My daughter this morning offered to walk her own self to the bus stop so I could stay home and get my tummy crab out, and while there's no way I'm ready for that nonsense yet, it made me smile to know she cares.
And my grandmother, for all her craziness, did 'sick kid' like a G6, yo.
She would read to us and brush our hair and play us songs from Oklahoma on the piano and make us eat weak tea and dry toast all day long. Weak tea and dry toast aren't actually items, they are the world for sick-food, kind of like my little brother referred to my aunt & uncle, Jean and Wayne, as JeanaWayne. Both of them. It was a title, and so is Weak Tea and Dry Toast. The tea was never weak, and it was full of sugar and milk, and the toast had the most perfectly halfway-melted pads of butter swirled around grape jelly on top of it. Still, Weak Tea and Dry Toast.
Which is what I'm nomming on right now, trying to keep everything in that should just come out already, because I'm an idiot. But I'm an idiot who can't stand the idea of hurling out a Tummy Crab, no matter how much better I know I'll feel after.
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IT services market down by 40 per cent, says Ovum
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Disappearing mega-deals saw the global IT services market slump to an eight-year low in the second quarter, according to Ovum.
Stats from the beancounter show that total contract values (TCV) dived 40 per cent year-on-year to $19bn as the number of agreements penned fell by a fifth to 384.
The market went from "bad to worse" in Q2 following a lacklustre opening quarter in 2011, said Ovum analyst Ed Thomas.
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James A. Wells, professor and chairman of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of UCSF's small molecule discovery center, has been named the winner of the 2010 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-Merck Award for his pioneering studies in the field of protein engineering.
Wells, who also serves on the ASBMB Council, will present an award lecture, titled "Probing and Controlling Cellular Remodeling Enzymes," at 2:15 p.m. Monday, April 26, at the 2010 annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
Wells integrates multiple disciplines, including biophysics, cell biology, chemical biology, molecular biology, enzymology and proteomics, to design small molecules and proteins that can selectively activate or inhibit cellular processes, such as differentiation and apoptosis. Through those efforts, Wells hopes to better understand how signaling events drive responses, such as cell growth and death, and perhaps discover new drugs to treat diseases like cancer.
Along the way, Wells has developed numerous innovative methodologies to improve protein engineering, molecular screening and pharmaceutical chemistry, including a disulfide-based protein-trapping technology, substrate-assisted catalysis and N-terminomics.
"[Wells] is an exciting and highly creative scientist," noted Ian A. Wilson, professor of structural biology at The Scripps Research Institute, "and these methods that he has pioneered have been invaluable to countless researchers in a multitude of fields."
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Wells' impressive expertise in protein engineering stems from a long and renowned career in the pharmaceutical industry. Before joining UCSF, Wells spent nearly two decades at Genentech Inc., where he was a founding scientist of its protein engineering department. During his time there, Wells produced several key scientific breakthroughs. For example, his group's work with the protease subtilisin was one of the first instances of scientifically improving upon evolution and nature, as they designed a subtilisin enzyme that was more stable to oxidation, heat and alkali (paving the way for its industrial use in laundry detergents and other household products).
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Later, in 1998, Wells founded and served as president and chief scientific officer of Sunesis Pharmaceuticals and helped invent a novel drug-discovery platform called Tethering, which efficiently screens molecules to identify the most potent compounds that block specific protein action.
Prior to that, Wells received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973 and his doctorate in biochemistry from Washington State University in 1979 (working with Ralph Yount). He also took on postdoctoral fellowships at both Washington State University and the Stanford University School of Medicine before joining Genentech in 1982.
"Over his career, Wells has made enormous contributions to our understanding of enzyme mechanisms, allostery, protein plasticity, protein-protein interfaces, small molecule discovery, hormone receptor signaling, molecular recognition, protease signaling and apoptosis," said Molecular and Cellular Proteomics co-editor Alma Burlingame, who is also a professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF. "Not only has his science led to fundamental discoveries, it also produced new products in both the industrial enzyme and pharmaceutical sectors."
The ASBMB-Merck Award, presented annually, recognizes outstanding research contributions in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.
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