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Pipeline Perspective: Future bright for Cubs, Astros
The Cubs never have lost more games -- 194 and counting -- in consecutive seasons than they have 2012-13. The Astros have set a franchise record for defeats for the third straight year and have lost more games than any team in the past 50 years except for the 2003 Tigers.
Yet there's reason for optimism in both Chicago and Houston. Really.
The Cubs never have lost more games -- 194 and counting -- in consecutive seasons than they have 2012-13. The Astros have set a franchise record for defeats for the third straight year and have lost more games than any team in the past 50 years except for the 2003 Tigers.
Yet there's reason for optimism in both Chicago and Houston. Really.
In our latest Pipeline Perspective, Jonathan Mayo and I have been tasked with identifying which of this year's last-place teams is in the best position to reverse their fortune. Jonathan chose the Marlins. I have two answers, not because I'm indecisive but rather because I believe the question can be interpreted in two ways.
The Cubs are the last-place team poised to contend the soonest. The Astros are the one with the brightest future.
No team in baseball has four hitting prospects as good as Chicago's quartet of shortstop Javier Baez, third baseman Kris Bryant and outfielders Albert Almora and Jorge Soler. Not only are they talented, but they're developing quickly and should arrive at Wrigley Field by the end of 2014 or the early part of 2015. Add them to a lineup that already contains building blocks Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo (both of whom have had rough years but are each 23) and a promising young catcher in Welington Castillo, and the Cubs shouldn't have any problems scoring runs.
Chicago's pitching is a greater concern, but there are some pieces in place. Jeff Samardzija is the only National League starter to average more than a strikeout per inning in both 2012 and 2013. Travis Wood is the first Cubs left-hander to qualify for the ERA title with a mark under 3.00 since Dick Ellsworth in 1963.
The Cubs have made it a priority to acquire pitching by any means possible since president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and Co. took over following the 2011 season. Both Jake Arrieta and Pedro Strop took big steps forward after coming over from the Orioles in a July 2012 deal for Scott Feldman, and C.J. Edwards (formerly of the Rangers) and Arodys Vizcaino (formerly of the Braves) were two more trade acquisitions, and they have even more upside. The Epstein regime has used 16 picks in the top 10 rounds of the past two Drafts on pitchers, most notably Pierce Johnson, the No. 43 pick in 2012.
Furthermore, Chicago is the most desirable free-agent destination among the six last-place cities. The Cubs have more spending power than the other five, and they'll ratchet up their payroll once they're ready to start winning again.
The Astros have farther to climb than any of the other teams in the basement. But they also have a major asset in hand as they rebuild from the ground up: baseball's best farm system.
It begins with the past two No. 1 overall Draft picks, shortstop Carlos Correa (2012) and right-hander Mark Appel (2013). Correa has the Alex Rodriguez starter set of tools, while Appel has the stuff and polish to headline a rotation.
That's just the start. In terms of position players on the way, Houston also has outfielder George Springer, who nearly became the first 40-40 man in the modern era of the Minor Leagues; Jonathan Singleton, the game's top first-base prospect; and second baseman-turned-outfielder Delino DeShields Jr., who might be the best all-around player among the Minors' top speedsters.
On the mound, the Astros have a pair of power arms in right-handers Mike Foltynewicz and Lance McCullers Jr. Foltynewicz repeatedly hit 100 mph during the final two months of the season, and few pitchers can match McCullers' overpowering fastball/slider combination. Houston also owns the top choice in the 2014 Draft, which right now looks like a ticket to getting North Carolina State left-hander Carlos Rodon, who has an even higher ceiling than Appel.
The Astros' big league club struggled mightily, but it isn't bereft of talent. Catcher Jason Castro had a breakthrough season, and Houston may have three more keepers for its lineup in Jose Altuve, Chris Carter and Matt Dominguez. Its best starting pitchers have been rookies Jarred Cosart and Brett Oberholtzer.
The Pirates had to suffer through 20 straight losing seasons between playoff berths, but they're finally headed back to the postseason. It shouldn't take the Cubs or Astros nearly as long to get back on track.
Jim Callis is a reporter for MLB.com and writes a blog, Callis' Corner. Follow @jimcallisMLB on Twitter.


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The Debt Ceiling Explained: Why You Should Care
The Federal Debt Ceiling is a looming catastrophe one day and a crisis averted the next. It seems a never-ending cycle. WSJ's David Wessel explains the basics of the debt limit and why you should care.
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I ... the federal debt SEO it's a looming catastrophe it's a bargaining Libor ... it's a crisis averted it seems like a never ending cycle ... so what is the federal debt ceiling anyway and why should you care about ... let's start with how it works ... the government spends more money than it takes it gets done this often on since the country was founded ... but now it's doing it more than ever ... in each of the past four years ... it has spent over one trillion dollars more than it appears ... that they're wary of this year ... is projected to collect about two hundred and fifteen billion dollars in revenues ... and pay out four hundred and sixty day ... the government borrows to make up the difference ... by selling bonds to investors around the world ... nearly half of that debt is now held by foreign ... much of it by Japan and China ... it's not that the government spends more than it brings it ... that is each month that the government runs a deficit they passed the bar ... the sum of all this borrowing is the federal debt ... has been growing Paulson dollars in measured against the size of the economy ... until World War one and ... convert to devote to this time the Treasury needed to borrow money ... to get the Treasury more flexibility to Congress which defending the ceiling on the day ... in nineteen seventy ... when that their bumps up against that women in congress coffin with a lot of shouting in bargaining ... molds to lift the ceiling ... and that is where we are now ... the government hit the sixteen point four trillion dollar federal debt ceiling on December thirty first ... so Congress suspended the ceiling allowing the Treasury to borrow what it needs ... but only through May nineteen ... what you have to understand the debt ceiling is a strange thing ... first Congress votes ... to spend money the government doesn't happen ... that involves a second time ... to allow Treasury can borrow that money so we can span ... refusing to raise the debt ceiling does not cut spending ... it's like refusing to pay a credit card bill respective parties ... but because they are to raise the debt limit could be so devastating Congress often does use it ... to force the president to do things he's reluctant to do ... nobody really knows the Treasury has been precisely this position before ... but here's the rough gases ... when it released a similar circumstance back in two thousand eleven ... contemplated paying as many bills include each day with a passion that I'm here ... to link a number of ... deals will be paid basically order which they are on ... the longer the delay in raising the debt ceiling ... the more bills with our physicians or a lion Medicare payments to make payroll seniors to pay rent with some security benefits for soldiers waiting for patients ... would be forced to make do without their money for some time ... another option would be for the Treasury to prioritize and ... to some bills to pay on time and others to July ... it's unclear whether this is legal ... or logistically possible ... given the volume of deals that it ... receives each day nor is it clear whether the tape recorder would pay interest on the national debt before paying everyone out ... any delays in paying interest was indeed the government scrambling ... to customers around the world in the ability of the U S government to manage and finance ... that could lead investors to demand higher interest rates the U S Treasury bonds which would cost American taxpayers billions of dollars over time ... the statistics ... and as the debt continues to rise Washington faces a decision ... will come to an agreement on taxes and spending ... well actually do something to slow the buildup of debt ... or will the debt ceiling come back into the headlines and with it the accompanying fear that the U S government won't be able to pay its debts ...

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This TAR cast is really like an all-stars: this season I can find many of my fave teams!! I'm also loving them, and just hope they can do even better than Gary & Matt. F5?
These two seem like they will be fun to watch! Can't wait to see Steve make friends with all the younger racers.
Smiths eliminated from 'The Amazing Race'Father-daughter team enjoyed experience despite ending By Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com04/05/10 2:01 PM ETCHICAGO -- The race is over for Indians' third-base coach Steve Smith and his daughter Allie. The Smiths were eliminated from the CBS reality hit "The Amazing Race" in Sunday night's episode. They had finished in first place the previous week. But they had some trouble in the eighth leg of the race in Malaysia, where they put their faith in a taxi driver who had trouble finding their destination and then ditched them completely, causing them to fall behind their competition. The show was shot in November and December, shortly after Smith accepted the job with the Tribe. The pomp and circumstance of Opening Day at least took some of the sting out of reliving the elimination experience. "One bad cab driver and you're out," Smith said. "That day, you didn't really know the stakes. In other shows, you could make mistakes and make up for it. But the cab driver just got us so far behind that we just couldn't catch up." Smith, 57, was forbidden all spring from telling teammates and family and friends -- even his wife -- his fate on the show. So when the Smiths finished in first last week, there was false hope that they might be closing in on the million-dollar prize. "That was the hard thing," Smith said. "All of our friends knew we were doing so well last week and finished in first, and they thought there was no way we could be eliminated so fast. There's no advantage to being first because you start in the same spot." In the end, though, Steve and Allie accomplished their goal of spending quality time together. They also pocketed $7,000 each and all the 7-Up they can drink for finishing first last week. "We had fun," Smith said. "We said going into the show it's going to be about having a good time and traveling, and that's what we did. We never got caught up in the million dollars." Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
I wish they had gotten a lot MORE airtime before they were eliminated. They're the most invisible team on TAR that I know of!!
Quote from: everbloom on April 06, 2010, 01:19:43 AMI wish they had gotten a lot MORE airtime before they were eliminated. They're the most invisible team on TAR that I know of!! Nope. That award goes to Anthony & Stephanie. You probably don't remember them.
Quote from: Hooky on April 06, 2010, 02:41:25 AMQuote from: everbloom on April 06, 2010, 01:19:43 AMI wish they had gotten a lot MORE airtime before they were eliminated. They're the most invisible team on TAR that I know of!! Nope. That award goes to Anthony & Stephanie. You probably don't remember them. Yes, who were they?
We saw Mike and Louie in their cab go by. They actually went to the same [incorrect] temple we went to.
Exclusive Interview: Steve and Allie from 'The Amazing Race' It's disappointing to see a team that's done so well on The Amazing Race to be eliminated, more so when you come from first place to last in one leg. Steve and Allie went through just that last week: in the front of the pack for most of the race, they finished first two weeks ago in Seychelles, only to drop to last in Malaysia and get eliminated. You can blame the taxis for that.It's sad, since they were a really fun team to watch. I got a taste of that when I talked to them--it was good hearing them really have fun with each other. We chatted about those missing backpacks, their relationship with Joe and Heidi, and Allie's plans to dance to the Amazing Race theme song at her wedding.First off, a question I'm sure everybody's going to ask: did you get your backpacks back?Steve: We got our backpacks right after we were eliminated in Malaysia.Who among you were the first to go, "why don't we join The Amazing Race?" Who had to be convinced to join?Allie: I was the one who said 'Let's apply, I haven't seen a father/daughter team in a while!' My dad said yes, never thinking we would get a call back. He was a little worried doing the show if he was to return to baseball but it winded up being the most incredible experience.Allie, you previously said you were a huge Phil Keoghan fan. How was it meeting him for the first time in Los Angeles, and in the eight following legs?Allie: I always thought he had the coolest job in the world and I loved the show. He was such a nice and funny guy who seems like a true family man.Steve, was there ever a time when you approached the race the same way you approached your baseball career? After all, there are some similarities between the show and the World Series.Steve: Yes. It was a grind and we took it one step at a time. We ran the race with honor. You are responsible for your own actions, just like in baseball.You went from first place in the Seychelles to last place in Malaysia, eventually getting the boot. Did you ever blame yourselves for it?Steve: It was just a case of bad luck and no one else making any mistakes. The order from first to last was literally reversed from the week before which just shows anyone can be out at any time.Was there anything you wish you've done differently on the race?Steve: We wish we had a different taxi driver in Malaysia.Tell me about your relationship with Joe and Heidi. You seem to have found common interests throughout the race, as they told me a few weeks ago. Did you share the same opinion that the other teams, like Louie and Michael, had about them?Allie: We had a great connection with Joe and Heidi. The fact that Heidi, my dad and I all went to Pepperdine gave us an instant bond. We didn't realize during the race that they had targets on their backs. They are great family people and we truly helped each other out along the race.Did you also get along well with the other teams?Steve: We got along great with all the other teams and still talk to everybody. We connected with so many people since we were a male and female team of two different generations.Of all the places you've been to on the race, which one are you most likely to return to?Allie: We would love to go back to Seychelles. It was perfect paradise. Some of the top beaches in the world are there and the people were so kind!Finally, Allie, you said that you wanted to use the Amazing Race theme song as the music to the father-daughter dance at your wedding. Have you both prepared steps for it?Allie: I'm not getting married any time soon but I'm sure we can act out the funny stuff we did on the race, like painting the wrong house and duct-taping a car. I was originally joking about doing that but I think I will have a touching serious song then turn it into the Amazing Race theme song for fun!
Steve and Allie ('The Amazing Race')Tuesday, April 6 2010, 2:47pm EDTBy Lara Martin, News Editor After racing to a first-place finish in the Seychelles last week, baseball coach Steve and his daughter Allie Smith realized they had left their all-important backpacks at one of the challenge locations. With no time to turn back, this week saw the duo traveling to Malaysia with just the clothes they were wearing. Unfortunately, their winning streak came to an end when they finished in last place after switching their detour challenge. We caught up with them to chat about the experience. You finished first last week and ended up being eliminated this week. Can you pinpoint any specific reason or decision for that?Allie: "I think the biggest thing was just bad luck with taxis and nobody else making a mistake. The week in Malaysia it went the exact opposite in terms of how everybody finished. So the first to sixth was the exact reverse order from the week before. It just shows anybody can be out at any time, it's very luck-based. The cowboys had trouble in the Seychelles and rocked it in Malaysia. We did well in the Seychelles and then had bad luck in Malaysia. It was just our time to go."Did you know you were falling behind before you reached the pitstop?Allie: "We definitely knew. It was a short leg and we didn't have much luck. We knew Dan and Jordan weren't that far ahead of us. A lot of people in other legs of the race were making big mistakes and had to go back and fix things. You never know, their car could have broken down but at that point we knew we were at the end of the pack."Steve: "It was such a quick leg, going to the temple, doing the flags and doing the coconuts. It was so fast, probably the quickest one of all the shows. It was the wrong time to get a bad cab driver!"Did losing your backpacks affect your morale?Steve: "No, it actually helped us. We could have gone back and got them but we had our passports, money and clothes for warm weather. If we had had our backpacks it might even have hindered us because the bananas weighed 30lbs and it might have been tougher for Allie to take it a mile and a half. We thought it was a little blessing that we didn't have them, and then we were in Malaysia where it was hot, we had the clothes we needed, and we didn't have to lug around a backpack and were maybe faster and quicker."Allie, you said you dreamed of traveling the world, and Steve said he had never been overseas before. What was the highlight of the race?Steve: "Let's say it on three... ready... one, two, three... Seychelles!"Allie: "We keep talking about how much we love it there. It was the most perfect, beautiful, deserted island. We won the reward there and got to go to our own villa on the beach and explore."Steve: "We had a little time there to walk around the beach, there was a beautiful golf course. One of the beaches is where they shoot the Sports Illustrated bathing suit thing, the water was green and gorgeous, the people were so nice and kicked back. That's kind of how Allie and I are in life. I couldn't tell my wife where we were, but I told her we were going back somewhere and when the time comes I'd let her know. She's pretty happy to go there and the other places like Germany and France. I'd been down in South America before but I'd never seen the things that were built over 1,000 years earlier. It was really neat to see that and I'll probably end up going back there, too."So you guys will continue to travel the world together, maybe bring the rest of your family?Allie: "Yeah. He's always traveling with baseball all over the US and every summer I'd go to wherever he was coaching or playing. I think with our winnings from the first leg finish we should do a family trip. No matter what, we will always have travel!"Steve: That's one of our things no matter. Even if we couldn't afford it, we took vacations in the winter time and we will continue, and when I have grandkids we'll do the same thing."You had a close relationship before the race. How has the experience affected that?Allie: "Like you said, we were best friends and extremely close before the race but now we have all these new memories, experiences and inside jokes that no-one else could ever understand. It's crazy we got to experience this together. We were not more than 20ft apart for a month and that's so rare. I'll always remember seeing the world with my dad."Steve: "Our bond stayed the same and got stronger when I realized how strong Allie is. Going away to college at Pepperdine and spending four years there, she really grew spiritually and mentally. She never complained. I think that's the coolest thing from the show. When you see other people complaining or crying or upset, I don't think they could find a clip of Allie ever doing that. She was cool, calm and enjoyed the whole process of it. I was really proud of her doing that."Steve, you said your wife packed the duct tape which you used to fix your car in France. What did she think when she saw that?!Steve: "With baseball I'm gone a lot so she kind of runs the house. Her brother has his own transmission place so when all the neighborhood guys are round the cars, she's with them and I'm out watching a ball game or something like that. Our roles kind of switch from the stereotypical man and woman! When she put the tape in, she said you never know, this could fix anything. There were three or four different times I was trying to lighten my bag and nearly threw it out. Who would have known it would keep us in the show?! There was no way we would catch up if we couldn't fix the car. She was absolutely shocked when she saw I could actually fix something!"Will you keep in touch with any of the other teams?Allie: "We are a male-female team and two different generations, so we really connected with so many people, and even people I wasn't necessarily super close to on the show, I find myself talking to almost every day. I know dad talks to the cops all the time, Cord came up on the field and got to suit up and go in the dug-out with my dad. I visited the brothers and saw Caite. Heidi going to Pepperdine, and Joe, we had a connection to them right away." Steve: "Being in baseball, I travel everywhere, and where everyone is. I won't be able to go to the last show and see everyone, but I've talked to them. I talked to Adrian who was out in the first show, I'll see him in Texas and he'll go to a game."Allie: "You can give tickets to everyone when you're near them!"Steve: "I think that's why they didn't U-Turn us! They knew it would be, 'People, if you like baseball, go ahead and U-Turn us and you'll never see tickets!' That was a running joke between everyone. I'm going to see Michael and Louie in Boston, Shawne and Monique too. I'm in Chicago right now and have a day off so I'm going to see Jeff for dinner tonight. We knew it was a game and people made comments in the heat of the moment. We're not watching the videos saying, 'Oh they said this or that'. We just enjoyed everyone's company. The bond will be strong the rest of our lives."The Amazing Race continues next Sunday at 8/7c on CBS
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The rapid acceleration of Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) continued Tuesday when shares of the electric car maker reached another all-time high, following the news that it will soon be added to the Nasdaq 100 index.
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Shares have quickly risen since the end of March, when Tesla indicated that sales of its flagship Model S sedan were beating targets and a first-quarter profit was in order. In May, Tesla launched a share offering and used some of the proceeds to repay a $452 million federal loan it received in 2010.
On Tuesday, Tesla was up 2.6% at $124.76 in early afternoon trading. The stock hit an all-time high of $125.00 early Tuesday morning.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla will replace Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) in the Nasdaq 100, an index of the 100 biggest nonfinancial stocks, when the business software giant moves to the New York Stock Exchange. Tesla has a market value of about $14.2 billion.
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Teaching young people how to appreciate and engage in religious diversity is critical to achieving peace and security in the world, says the winner of the prestigious 2010 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, presented jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (LPTS) and the University of Louisville.
Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core, won the prize for his 2007 autobiography, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. He was selected from among 67 nominations worldwide.
Eboo Patel's dream is to build a world where interfaith cooperation is the norm.
Patel's organization, based in Chicago, encourages young people of different religions to perform community service, explore common values, and build bridges among diverse faiths, which he says is vital to the world's future. The organization is now active on about 75 college campuses.
Patel was born in India to a Muslim family and immigrated to Chicago as a child. As a teenager, he struggled with what he saw as a lack of religious pluralism in America. In Acts of Faith, Patel, now 34, tells his own life story of how he first felt his different identities as Indian, Muslim, and American clashed with one another, but later realized that appreciating the common value of pluralism among all three was the key to finding peace.
In his book, Patel notes that some of the most devastating acts of terrorism over the past two decades were perpetrated by people between the ages of 15 and 30 who had been nurtured by the teaching of violent religious radicals: The Atlanta Olympic bombings in 1993; the attacks on September 11, 2001; the London bombings in 2005; the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin; the Midwest shooting rampage targeting Jews, Asians, and African Americans in 1997; the religious violence in India, Sri Lanka, West Africa, and other places.
"Every time we see a teenager kill someone in the name of God," Patel writes, "we should picture a pair of shadowy hands behind him, showing him how to make the bomb or point the gun…and then we should ask: 'Why weren't the hands of people who care about pluralism shaping that kid instead of the hands of religious totalitarians?'"
"Religious extremists all over the world are harnessing adolescent angst for their own ends," said Susan Garrett, LPTS professor of New Testament, who directs the religion award. "Patel urges us to take advantage of the short window of time in a young person's life to teach the universal values of cooperation, compassion, and mercy."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) announced its 2008 All-America teams on Friday and MIT was honored with three recipients, including Mike Smith-Bronstein to the Second Team. Teammates Devin Lewis and John Preis were named Honorable Mention. The three selections are the most for the Cardinal and Grey since 2003.
Smith-Bronstein was MIT's leading scorer all season, tallying 58 goals in 26 games to become the Institute's all-time leading scorer. Smith-Bronstein's career total of 184 scores surpasses John Rogers' previous record of 174. In addition to the All-America nod, Smith-Bronstein was named to the CWPA All-North Division First Team as well as the Eastern Championship All-Tournament Team after scoring eight goals at the Championship.
Lewis, a Second-Team pick in 2007, garnered Honorable Mention honors this season. He is MIT's first back-to-back recipient since David Lohrey in 2003-04. The junior was second on the team with 47 markers this season and now stands third all-time in scoring at MIT with 147 career goals. Lewis was selected to the All-North Second Team as well as the Division III Eastern All-Tournament Squad earlier in the season.
Preis followed up his breakout rookie season with a solid sophomore campaign in which he was third on the team with 41 goals. The reigning CWPA Northern Division Rookie of the Year was named to the Division III Eastern All-Tournament First Team while helping the Engineers to a runner-up finish.
Josh Kratz of Johns Hopkins was named the ACWPC Division III Player of the Year while his coach Ted Bresnehan earned Coach of the Year honors.


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need advice on urinary tract infections
I have a 7 month old lab beagle mix that has had two urinary tract infections already. In fact she is not quite finished her second round of antibiotics. My problem is she has started peeing in the house again and is asking to go out about every 15 minutes and then coming in and peeing. I really don't know what to do and this is costing me a fortune! I don't know why she is getting them and the peeing in the house is frustrating. I don't want to have to keep her in her crate when I'm home because she is usually in it for 4-6 hour during the day when I'm at work and then again at night when she sleeps. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I should add that she was spayed about 2 1/2 weeks ago and that I've been using either an emzyne cleaner or white vinegar to clean up the accidents.
Frustrated and confused!
Last edited by mygirlchloe; June 21st, 2010 at 11:11 PM. Reason: more information added
When they have a UTI they cannot help going pee frequently. How long between the two infections? If it was not long, she probably did not get it cleared up completely and as soon as you finished the antibiotics, it reasserted itself. If you have not already, your vet needs to send off a urine sample for a culture and sensitivity so you are sure the antibiotic is effective for the bacteria. If your dog was older, I would say to check for stones, but that would be quite unusual in such a young dog.
She has gone from one antibiotic to another. No period of time between the two infections. Her medication is finished tomorrow. She has had 3 urine ananlysis done at this point. She has been on medication for 5 weeks now! Two different types. The vet went ahead with spaying her when she had an infection could this be part of the problem? I'm sending off another urine sample today as she started peeing in the house again on Sunday. I've never dealt with this with any of my other pets. Just not sure if I should be doing something else. She's a great dog and we just love her but we have spent over 1500.00 on vet bills since we rescued her and I would really like to get things cleared up. She cannot be feeling great. Are there things I can be doing at home to help her. We feed her a natural dog food and watch what treat we give her.
Thanks for any suggestions
when you say urinalysis, do you mean your vet looks at the urine under a microscope or that the sample is sent off to a lab to grow a culture and see what specific antibiotic should be used?
The vet looks under the micorscope, she has not said anything about sending it out for a culture.
Do you know what causes urinary tract infections? Vet just says it happens sometimes. But is there anything I can do to help prevent further infections?
Is it possible that she is going to long in her kennel. On an average day she spends 4-6 hours in her kennel while I'm away. She also spends the night in her kennel. I should mention she has never peed in her kennel. I just worry that I may be doing something that I shouldn't be. With my other dogs they were out of their kennels by about 6 months of age. She just seems to need the quiet time and I am not willing to have her out when I'm not home as she still chews on things when not supervised. She has been a bit harder to train because she was very badly treated before we rescued her at 13 weeks of age. She was initially very timid and very easily threatened. If our voices were loud at all she would hide in a corner, even if the tv was too loud. She is now pretty easy going and seems to want to play and make friends with everyone. She really is a great dog, I'm just really worried about her. The start to her life was terrible and it took her the first 2 1/2 months that we had her just to heal up (she had been badly bitten by other dogs and bites had not been treated, she was also malnourished and had worms). It jsut seems that she has been through a lot already and I would like to prevent her from further pain and discomfort. I now I'm rambling but I'm feeling frustrated and the vet just keeps putting her on antibiotics and doesn't really give any suggestions for preventing this sort of thing.
Does she have a anatomical defect? Did the vet notice if she has a lot of extra skin/creasing/folding of the skin around the vulva? I met someone who's female dog had a very tucked in vulva and the hairs and extra skin were leading to infection. Some people say that letting the dog go through one heat cycle and help possibly as the swelling in the vulva from the hormone cycle can help put the anatomy into a more correct position, but since your girl is spay she could need a corrective surgery if there is something physical leading to the infections.
Cell vet didn't say anything about a anatomical defect. She said everything went great with the spaying but I will ask her today. The vet had recommended spaying prior to her first heat cycle and I've only ever had male dogs up until now. I've also asked for a urine culture to be done, thanks pugsrule for the advice on that.
Do you think the time in her kennel could be contributing to the infections? What is the normal time length that a dog at this age should be left in a kennel?
in the fall our dog had an ecoli uti. he was on 1 antibiotic for 2 weeks after
retesting they cultured it again to find out that it had not cleared.while culturing they can check to see what antibiotics it will respond to. our dog was on meds the 2nd time 1 type for a month and 2 others 1 for 10 days the other for 20 days. it was expensive to treat but we have a pharmacy near us that does pet scrips that was cheaper than the vet.
I'm sorry your girl isn't feeling well. You will want the urine culture. This may require a clean draw sterile sample direct from the bladder. The culture basically determines which antibiotic kills the bacteria, therefore, getting the appropriate medication. My dog was much older, but we had one UTI that took 3 months of antibiotics to clear (note, my dog was a senior and had a compromised immune system at the time).
One thing to check is your grass. My dog was a short-legged breed and the vet felt that she could be picking up bacteria from tall, damp grass. Keeping the grass mowed short did seem to decrease the frequency of her infections until the immune system issues. You might want to try keeping your dog out of the tall grasses if she has access to them.
You ask about her time in her kennel. At 7 months I would think 4-6 hours would be OK, especially on the lower end. But until the infection gets cleared up, she may have issues. I've heard that pups typically can hold their urine the number of hours equal to their age in months. But typical doesn't cover every dog. With the infection you do need to make sure she has ample opportunities to empty her bladder so she can rid herself of the bacteria. Your vet could tell you if her kennel time is too much, based on her current health.
I know it is frustrating. Good luck.
Thank you everyone for your responses. My vet is running a culture on her urine and said she would get back to me tomorrow. I never thought about long grass, we are out in the country and she loves to run in the fields, in fact she prefers to do her business in the tall grass. I will try to keep her away from it in the future. I've been feeling so guilty about leaving her in her kennel that I have my sons girlfriend coming over after two hours and letting Chloe out for a little, hopefully this will help.
This is an amazing site, thank you all again for your advice. I will keep you posted.
FYIL running a culture on a urine sample has to be done at a lab, and results generally take 3-4 days. first they actually have to grow the bacteria that they find in the urine, and then they will test numerous antibiotics to determine which one is most effective on killing the bacteria they have grown. the culture and sensitivity cannot be done by your vet overnight.
Okay so yesterday when Chloe saw the vet she said everything looked good. This morning when her assistant called she said that Chloe still had a bladder infection according to the tests. She prescribed the following antibiotics Orbax 22.7 mg, two tabs once daily for 14 days. Pugsrule I didn't read your post prior to talking to the vets assistant so I assumed she had done a urine culture as that is what I had asked for yesterday and I had to pay 75.00for the visit and another 43 for the test??? I've left a message with her receptionist to inquire about this as she did prescribe more anitibiotics???? Chloe was on her first antibiotic for 2 weeks, I don't remember the name as I don't have the bottle anymore. The second anitbiotic was Bioclav 250 mg, 1 tab every 12 hours twice daily for 3 weeks. I am really frustrated here, maybe I should try another vet???
when you talk to the vet asked if they sent out the specimen to an independant lab to culture to see what type of infection and what meds it is resistant to. as i said before beau was on 3 different types for 1 month straight
Itis quite customary for a vet to put a dog on a broad spectrum antibiotic such as bioclav when they find a UTI...however when that does not clear it up in less than 10 days, it is time to take a culture and find the exact med to use.
If you indeed asked your vet for a CULTURE, then she/he should have taken the sample and sent it off. Therefore, you should not have to pay another visit ($75) and should be refunded the $45 towards the culture itself (usually $60-70) If your current vet does not agree to this, I would change. I have not run into a vet that woudl not send off a culture when asked to do so. Also when at least 2 antibiotics have been prescribed, and the condition still exists, this is pretty standard practice.
FYI: When they do an "urinalysis" in house, what is generally done, is they use a chemstrip in the urine to find ph, protein, blood etc (they cost about 25 cents), takes about 60 seconds. I use them every wk for my pugs. then if they find a positive reading, they will look under a microscope generally, and try to determine what type of orgnism they are dealing with. Thats it.
so the visit, and rest of the fee is pretty darn good money. Not arguing with that as a business person, but when their attempts fail, it is time to move on and get a culture done by the lab before the condition becoms chronic. JMO
I am taking Chloe to another vet tomorrow to have her looked at. I am not happy with the way things have been done at the vet that she has been seeing. The assistant said that the current medication should do the trick and they would not refund the money I paid or put it towards a culture. So I figure if I'm going to have to pay again I might as well pay for a second opinion. At least this time I'm going in with a little more knowledge (thanks to this site)!!
Thanks again
I think you have made the correct decision. Hope this new vet works out well for you, do let us know how you make out tomorrow.
Hugs Joan
Good idea on the second opinion, a UTI should have been resolved by now, if general antibacterials didn't work a culture should have been done after asap to determine what your dealing with, anyone who has had a UTI can agree they're not fun to deal with any longer then necessary.
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I was having a lot of trouble getting myself to put up my tie dyed felts on the trees of Berkeley. I kept wondering what would get me to start. Time was passing and it was getting closer to our rainy season when it would no longer be reasonable to hang felt outside.
So I tried scolding myself " Don't be a weenie ! " I would say every morning. That never works.
So I thought about how I could support myself and make smaller goals. I decided to load all my sewing gear, cameras , step ladder and duffel of felt into the back of my ancient Isuzu Trooper so that I would have it all if I got the urge to vandalize. Than I told myself that I could just go and try out the felt on a tree, no sewing. Then I finally started putting them up.
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The BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour visited the beautiful city of Jakarta, Indonesia on July 10th. Over 300 developers attended the event at the JW Marriott hotel in Mega Kuningan Area of Jakarta. The attendees were a combination of independent developers, students, startup developers, and enterprise developers – all coming together to learn about BlackBerry 10 development.
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After that, I introduced our partners: Ibnu Maksum AKA Ibnux; a freelancer calling himself Petani Digital (Digital Farmer) due to his living location on countryside; and NuxRadio, which is already available in for BlackBerry® smartphones and will be available on BlackBerry 10 using BlackBerry® WebWorks™. Ibnux then demoed the advantage of BlackBerry WebWorks on BlackBerry 10, including Adobe® Flash® Support.
After Ibnux, we had our partner, Faizal Adiputra from Ristomobile, showcasing Picstory. The picture-sharing app (which is already available for BlackBerry® OS 5, BlackBerry® 6 and BlackBerry® 7 OS) and the winner of BlackBerry Hackathon Jakarta had been remade from the ground-up for BlackBerry 10 using Cascades, our brand new UI framework. He demoed how Cascades handles animation within application UI very smoothly.
Oscar Kurniawan from Tanoshii Studio then went on stage with his game Room of Disaster, which was easily ported to BlackBerry 10 from Symbian S60. He explained that due to Qt and C++ support, porting to BlackBerry 10 only needs minimal time investment.
Johan Kremer, the Head of Alliance APAC, took the stage dressed in batik and shared tips and tricks on monetizing on the BlackBerry platform.
We had eleven apps showcased during lunch, with Record-It – an application to record voice while talking on your phone, created by Igo – won the lightning pitch!
During the event, QuizHore used their @quizhore Twitter® account to hold a BlackBerry 10 Jam Jakarta quiz by using the hashtag #BB10JamHore. The winner was @dausgonia, a developer from Bandung, who was eligible for a BlackBerry® 9230 smartphone.
All in all, we had a very exciting and successful BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour event in "BlackBerry Nation" Jakarta, with many developers in many cities around Indonesia willing and excited to come onboard with the BlackBerry 10 open platform.


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Faculty Contributions to PhD Program
Ph.D. in School Psychology
Dr. Gina Coffee:
Dr. Coffee teaches CIEP 477 (Academic Assessments and Interventions) and CIEP 482 (Prevention, Assessment and Intervention: Behavior). She also teaches a seminar course in single-subject design. Dr. Coffee mentors a number of doctoral as well as specialist level students through her research teams related to academic interventions and risk-taking behaviors in adolescents. Dr. Coffee devotes 100% of her time to the doctoral school psychology program.
Dr. Pamela Fenning:
Dr. Fenning regularly teaches CIEP 466 (Data-based Decision Making), CIEP 479 (School Based Consultation), CIEP 545 (Advanced Systems Consultation and School Psychology Supervision) and CIEP 546 (Advanced Practicum). Dr. Fenning also has served as the School Psychology Program Co-Director for the past seven years, and has administrative duties for the Doctoral Program. She mentors doctoral students through serving as dissertation chairperson, and has had an active research team which studies discipline policies and practices, and alternatives to suspension. Her research team has members from the Specialist and Doctoral programs in School Psychology. She devotes 100% of her to the doctoral program.
Dr. Lynne Golomb:
Dr. Lynne Golomb serves as the School Psychology Program Co-Director with administrative responsibilities for the Specialist Program. She teaches the Doctoral internship course (CIEP 586) and the non-credit bearing Proseminar (CIEP 533), as well as the Specialist level internship course (CIEP 486). She also has an active research team that is focused on supervision and professional activities of school psychologists. Her research teams are comprised of both Specialist and Doctoral students. She devotes 50% of her time to the doctoral program.
Dr. Martie Wynne:
Dr. Wynne regularly teaches CIEP 410 (Legal Issues: Educating Students with Disabilities), CIEP 550 (Doctoral Seminar in Educational and School Psychology), and RMTD 403 (Survey Methodology). She has chaired significant numbers of dissertations during her tenure at Loyola and continues to mentor doctoral students in their research. She has an active research team focused on homeless youth and ensuring their rights in the educational arena. Dr. Wynne devotes 100% of her time to the doctoral school psychology program.
Allied Faculty: School Psychology Doctoral Program
Finally, we are also fortunate to have several excellent Associated Program faculty who teach courses in the Doctoral School Psychology program. For example, Dr. Anita Thomas, a colleague in the Counseling Psychology area, regularly teaches CPSY 433 (Multicultural Counseling). She is a noted scholar in the field of multicultural issues and has published a widely utilized textbook on the topic of multicultural counseling. In addition, our basic Doctoral research courses (RMTD 420 and RMTD 421), as well as the more advanced research courses on topics such as hierarchical linear modeling, and advanced qualitative research, are taught by our Associated Program faculty Drs. Kallemeyn, Pigott, and Wu, who are noted scholars in their respective fields (Please see attached faculty vitae in original submission) The Research Methods faculty also serve as members of our Program Area-Research and Psychology in the Schools, comprised of the Research Methodology and School Psychology programs of study. In addition, Associated Program Faculty, Drs. Michael Boyle and Diane Morrison, have administrative responsibility in centers which have funded a number of our doctoral students. Dr. Boyle is Assistant Director of the Center for Catholic School Effectiveness, while Dr. Morrison is the Director for the Center for School Evaluation and Intervention Training. Both individuals are professional school psychologists by training.


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We must be cohesive, actively supporting a single mission. This is the case regardless of the size or type of organization to which we belong. It applies equally to every military branch and rank, and it means that we all do our parts in the larger mission, whether that is a firefight or fighting a fire, recovering aircraft or recovering comrades. Team spirit also means keeping everyone engaged and valuing their contributions. We contribute to the development of junior officers today so that they can become the leaders we need tomorrow. Cohesiveness involves working with and following our leaders, picking them up when they stumble, and putting them back on the right path.
We need to be involved in the missions, tasks, and priorities of our units. If we are charged with training, this necessitates getting on the podium and taking personal responsibility for preparing our relief. A technical mission requires staying up to date on developing targets and technology. When the priority is physical training, this means getting out front and leading. Being involved also entails getting to know the troops so we can prevent problems before they start or identify them quickly when they do. We should be proactive, not reactive. And we must make sure our colleagues are engaged and get them back on board when they stray.
Humility is essential. No matter how good we are or what we have accomplished, there will always be someone better or who has done more. This point is illustrated by recalling a few historical enlisted heroes, such as John Finn, Clyde Thomason, and Douglas Munro, Medal of Honor recipients in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, respectively.
Finally, we must be loyal and honest. These attributes should be discussed together because we are often forced to choose one over the other, or we may experience a need to move between them. When forced to make a choice, which is more important? The conclusion we reach can impact other facets of leadership. Telling the truth is not always popular. It can reveal deficiencies in others and may be viewed as disloyalty. The options are not always obvious, and each person must make her or his own decision.
An old shipmate recently brought this theme to my attention, and his point was clear. There are many types of loyalty: to one's division, department, command, or specialty; to one's warfare community, race, religion, or gender. However, in any situation there is only one truth. We decide for ourselves, but unwavering honesty demonstrates the utmost loyalty to the one thing we all have in common: our oath.
Only through the application of and dedication to core principles will the senior enlisted community remain the most influential leadership group in our services. Fulfillment of our obligations requires us to work together toward that goal. Collectively we must "turn to." We owe it to our subordinates, our services, and our country.


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|Problem Summary
|When trying to run the Cisco Unified CCX Historical Reports Client Scheduler the reports fail to generate.
|Error Message
| Description=EIX000: (-27001) Read error occurred during connection attempt.
Note: This error is thrown in CiscoSchPrintExport.log
|Possible Cause
|This scenario is generally seen when the DNS settings are enabled for UCCX. However, the appropriate reverse look up zone entries in the DNS server are not configured.
|Recommended Action
|It is required to configure the appropriate reverse look up zone entries in the DNS server.
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Law School Admissions / Re: Choices, Choices - A college freshman's question« on: March 24, 2009, 07:16:53 AM »
I mean, you really don't have to decide now. The kind of stuff I wanted to do when I was a freshman is so different from what I want to do now, and that was only three years ago. Think about that.
Someone I respect a lot once told me that his life philosophy has been to take all opportunities that open more doors than they close. There's no point of trying to figure out your life on 3 or 5 or 10 year tracks. Too many circumstances change - you change! Just take opportunities as they come.
Open doors for yourself by doing what you want to do - it's great that you're getting involved with these organizations and professors, but don't do it for a leg up in the admissions process, do it because it's what you think is fun and what you think could contribute to your growth.
I've seen so many people burn out who put themselves on these 5 year plans to success. It's not worth it. The people I know who are the most mature, who are the happiest, and interestingly enough, most successful, are those who pursued what they wanted to pursue, and didn't miss the trees for the forest.
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by Bro, Jan 23, 2013.
It is freakin' sweet.
Inused to have one of those. Surgical steel.
is that the new leatherman?
Stare at it.
Do not use to pry or use as a screwdriver.
Bro will steal your doubloons.
You should play the public tables nAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAz.
I was trained in how to use the balisong. I got pretty good at it.
It all stopped the day the person who was training me went psycho when I innocently picked his up without asking first. He tackled me, threw me to the ground, pinned me down, then with his psycho, angry, vacant eyes said, "Don't you EVER touch Julie again!". Yep, he had named his knife Julie. PSYCHOOOO!!!!!
"ballsong" is how I read it. Maybe Dawg was right.
Bro is dying to show his knife video again
I was shown some basic opening moves. Practiced with a trainer bali-song for a while. I've since abandoned those original opening moves and can spin and flip it around now.
Yeah, switching it from one hand to the other while doing moves was pretty fun.
In case the first one wasn't enough...
I don't get fancy like that.
nor do I dance with it.
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#CMI8788 driver
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#CMI8788 driver
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#use hrtimers in the MIDI sequencer
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#use hrtimers in the MIDI sequencer
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Revision as of 12:40, 21 January 2008
CMI8788 driver status
New beta driver available: http://www.alsa-project.org/~clemens/alsa-driver-20080120.tar.bz2
- fixed pausing
- support all sample rates with cards that have a WM8785 ADC
- support 192 kHz SPDIF input
- front panel playback (but no mixer controls for that yet; untested)
- Fixed jack routing: Front and Surround were exchanged. (Hey, why did nobody notice this? :-)
- Internal changes.
- Yet more internal configuration hooks; no user-visible changes.
- Add more configuration hooks for card model drivers. (There should be no user-visible changes.)
- Bugfix: When sound is played to the analog front output, use the correct sample rate when copying it to the SPDIF output.
- Added a (read-only) control for the channel status bits of the SPDIF input.
- Added ALT switch for Xonar cards.
- Changed jack routing (exchanged "surround" and "back" jacks, except when in 7.1 mode).
- Made line-in exclusive.
- Renamed the "PCM" volume control to "Master".
To enable dmix and AC-3 passthrough, replace the files CMI8788.conf and aliases.conf in /usr/share/alsa/cards/.
To get an updated alsamixer that supports the 8-channel master volume control, use alsa-utils-20080114.tar.bz2.
- Controls for SPDIF output.
- Mixer controls for all analog inputs (but Line Input bypasses the analog mixer).
- SPDIF should now work.
- Playback on all other cards with AK4396 DACs should now work, too.
- The driver now initializes the AC'97 codec whose analog mixer is used to route the analog inputs to the ADC. Analog recording should work from all inputs.
- No input controls yet, all inputs (and their noise) are mixed together.
Rewritten from scratch. The driver name is now snd-oxygen (all cards except Xonar) or snd-virtuoso (Xonar).
The second most important feature, the MIDI port, now works.
(The most important feature, the colorful jack illumination on my Xonar card, is not controlled by software and has always worked.)
seems to be working on all models:
- analog playback:
- at 32, 44.1, 48, 64, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz
- 16 or 24 bits
- 2, 4, 6, 8 channels
- volume controls for all eight channels
- upmixing of stereo to rear and side channels
- analog recording
my TODO list
- CMI8788 driver
ca. 99.8% (see above)
- use hrtimers in the MIDI sequencer
ca. 25%
- usb-audio: allow shorter-than-1ms periods for high-speed devices (just remove the code that rounds periods to USB frames)
- usb-audio: handle MIDI write errors better
- move non-public headers out of linux/include/sound/
- PCI: annotate in-memory data structures read by bus master chips with __le/be
- implement (some?) OSS 4 API ioctls
- test (i.e., use) alsa-python
- use dev_printk?
- various subsystem send different and too many MIDI reset commands when a port is closed
- usb-audio: restructure
- OSS emulation by redirecting to user space (like FUSE, but we need ioctls and mmap)
- MIDI synth: support more sysex commands
- MIDI synth: MIDI tuning
- ymfpci: MIDI synth
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At the end of this post there will be a brief tutorial on how to improve performance on computers that are strapped for cache for the cost that ranges from "pulled it out of a box of junk" to $5 at your favorite retailer (even the grocery store). It's no more or less than a step-by-step guide to taking your swap off of your ancient spinning platter drive and onto a USB flash drive. After another sentence or two of introducing the idea, I'll go into a spiel on why using Linux is "green." If you're not into that sort of thing, skip to the last section.
Most of the time, my aging laptop gets along just fine without having to swap anything off to the disk. Even if I'm making a panoramic image or editing or transcoding video, I can often keep my swap usage to under 20 MB. If I get much past that 20 MB mark, though, the thrashing becomes unpleasant.
The other day, I was rendering an HD video and I noticed my swap usage approaching 200MB when I remembered reading about ReadyBoost, which allows Windows to use USB mass storage devices for swapping. It's a great idea because USB flash drives have better read/write speeds than platter-based storage (alleviating or delaying thrashing) and because USB flash is a lot more economical than most solid state media. When your $5 drive wears out quickly, you won't be too bothered.
Of course, using USB flash as a swap partition (or to store a swap file) has been possible on Linux for as long as there has been support for USB mass storage on Linux. It's just that I've been reading about Linux every day for many years and I've never seen it discussed. Maybe I'm the only one who's been missing out. Somehow I doubt it.
Green computing, or using a computer until it dies
As several of you are already aware, I was a longtime Red Hat / Fedora user before I switched to Slackware earlier this year. I wasn't unhappy with anything about Fedora other than its performance -- even using 4 KB of swap meant I was in for a bad day.
I'd had previous good experiences with Slackware having relatively new versions of my favorite packages, great stability, and sane, readable configuration options. To top it off, I'd used it in the past to squeeze good performance from truly ancient hardware. Slackware used to be my go-to distro for older computers. Now that my only computer is older, I've gone to it.
When I finally get a newer machine, I'll stick with it. I'm impressed by how straightforward it is. Best of all, the work I put into untying the knot (getting it run initially) has allowed me to experience a new state of mind where things just make sense and good things come to those who do little-to-nothing.
I've been duly rewarded for the switch. As I mentioned, the threshold for thrashing has been raised from 4 KB to 20 MB, and Slackware has changed my video editing metric from "abject despair" to "frustrating." I don't expect I can do much better than "mildly frustrating" at video editing, since I have an integrated graphics chip.
So far, I've focused on how Slackware has kept me using different binary packaging of the same programs with better performance. That is, I'm talking about a Linux-to-Linux switch that's kept me happily using the same old gear for longer. What make it "green" is that my trusty old laptop isn't in the landfill yet. Now, I've never run Windows on this laptop, but I have a story that should put the inherent greenness of switching to any Linux distro in perspective.
My graphics chip is so bad that when it was still brand new, it was the subject of a class action lawsuit. Careful readers and pedantic fanbois will no doubt point out that it was an unsuccessful suit, but I argue that even in a litigation-happy country like the United States things have to get bad before people will sue over computer chippery. Anyhow, the chip as allegedly less than "Vista capable." Where Aero would have crippled me, Compiz was working alright and now with Gnome Shell things are going so smoothly that I forget that it demands hardware acceleration.
Wikipedia reports that the chip will, in fact, run Aero. I suspect that it only does so begrudgingly, and you can forget about its running Crysis. You can split hairs if you like, or you can accept my simple point that this laptop would barely get going with Windows, yet I use it for photo editing, audio/video editing, and all the daily browsing, music-playing, and video-watching you'd expect.
Of course, I might just upgrade the RAM if things are getting a little sluggish. As it is, I've already maxed out at 2.8GB, slightly more than the manufacturer-reported maximum of 2GB. Still, that's not enough for editing videos and other heavy tasks.
Now that I've begun using USB flash for my virtual memory needs, I've managed to squeeze out a bit more performance. That doesn't change the fact that I don't have a dedicated GPU, and my CPU has to carry the full weight of rendering the videos, but it does make it so that the I/O is no longer the bottleneck.
That is, the problem used to be swapping information onto my PATA hard drive (which isn't as impressive as it once was). Now that swapping isn't a problem, my overworked CPU becomes the weakest link, and modern multitasking allows me to keep browsing the web or listening to music while my video renders. In fact, if I wanted to (and I did, for testing purposes), I can open an instance of every GUI program I have without experiencing any slowdown like I did before.
You shouldn't expect a miracle. If you couldn't play HD videos before, you probably won't be able to now. But if financial worries will keep you using the same PC for a few more years, you should at least get a responsive desktop out of the deal.
The Tutorial
There are two possibilities for swapping on a USB flash drive. You can allocate an entire partition to the task (the whole drive, or a part of it with the rest used for storage), or you can make a swap file. Since I make frequent use of an external hard drive for storage and backup needs, I've chosen the latter option. To clarify, my external drive isn't a flash drive, but I want to be careful not to use it for swapping by accident.
If you're using the swap file option, first you make the file itself. Mount the drive you want to use, then issue the following command as root:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/yourusbdisk/swapfile bs=1024 count=512000
dd is a utility for copying and converting files
The if argument specifies the input file or device. In this case, we're just reading zeros.
The of argument specifies the output file or device. In this case, we're writing those zeros to a file called "swapfile" on the disk called "yourusbdisk."
The bs argument specifies how many bytes we want to read and write at a time. A bs of 1024 means we're working with 1KB of information per count.
The count argument specifies how many times to copy information from /dev/zero to your swapfile. In other words, this is how big the file will be. You can figure out what your count argument should be by multiplying the desired file size in MB by 1024. So, a count of 512000 yields a file that's 510 MB or 512MiB.
Whether you're using a swap file or a swap partition, you'll need to use the next steps:
For files: mkswap /media/yourusbdisk/swapfile
(Where that argument should be the location of the file we made in the previous step)
For partitions: mkswap /dev/sda1
(Where /dev/sda1 is the partition you want to make your swap partition. Hint: it probably won't be sda1.)
Now, all we have to do is turn off our slow platter-based swap partition:
swapoff /dev/cryptvg/swap(Where the argument is your swap partition.)
And turn on our flash-based swap partition:
swapon /media/yourusbdisk/swapfile
If you've got enough new swap space and very little RAM, you might want to increase your swappiness. For instance, if you only have 512 MB of RAM, but you've got 1GB or more of flash-based swap, you'll want to turn it up to 100:
echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
After you reboot, your swap file/partition will still exist, but it shouldn't be automatically kept on to the next
session unless you specifically make it so. See your distribution-specific tools for doing this. Likewise, you'll
need to take further steps to permanently alter your swappiness parameter.
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