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Kids learning new words at warp speed
Kids and schools compete with each other across USA in online tournament to see who can learn the most new words each month
A website that teaches kids new words has touched off spirited digital competition among schools from coast to coast.
Vocabulary.comboasts a Web-based dashboard bristling with points, levels, progress bars and achievement bonuses, among other attractions. Students have long competed with one another.
In October, the stakes got much higher.
The New York-based company that runs the site quietly began pitting school against school, offering a shiny, bold-faced "Vocabulary.com Champions" banner to the school whose students learned the most words by the end of each month. To make sure all comers knew just what was at stake, they built the biggest bit of competitive catnip possible: a digital leaderboard.
That first month, students at Blackman High School in Murfreesboro, Tenn., studied and learned more than 11,000 words, racking up more than 25 million points on the site. In November, students at Corkscrew Middle School in Naples, Fla., snatched the crown from Blackman, earning 27 million points. And in December, despite the winter break (or perhaps because of it), students at Brooklyn Technical High School in the city's Fort Greene neighborhood blew away the competition, earning more than 25 million points. By Dec. 31, the nearest competitor, a high school in Georgia, trailed by nearly 3 million points.
Could academics be the new athletic event?
"Competition can kind of 'up the stakes' a bit, even if it's the idea of pride of place or getting a banner," says Ben Zimmer, the site's executive producer. "It really does seem to add something."
Much of the traffic for the competition has come through word-of-mouth among teachers and students, he says. "Everybody can contribute, everybody can compete." He's also looking at ways to allow several schools in a single district to compete with one another.
Taking part in the competition is free to schools, but teachers can sign up for a paid service that allows them to track individual student progress.
Educators long have relied on competitive interscholastic sports to get students excited about being in school, but schools have rarely relied on academic competition to reach more than just top students.
That could change soon, as technology enables efforts like this one. Already, students at hundreds of high schools are competing in live, head-to-head online math competitions run by in-ter-stel-lar (in-ter-stel-lar.com).
Bring it on, says Brooklyn Tech Assistant Principal Marc Williams, who coordinated the vocabulary effort last month. "As days went by, more and more kids were getting into it," he says. "They really ate it up."
Perhaps more significant, Williams notes, the competition encouraged many boys to get interested in the topic. They tend not to shine in humanities classes, but the competition "might be a hook" to pique their curiosity, he says.
Zimmer, a linguist, also doubles as a language columnist. In 2010, he was The New York Times Magazine's replacement for longtime "On Language" columnist William Safire, and he now writes a language column for
The Wall Street Journal. It was a short subway ride for him on Monday to present the banner to WIlliams' students at Brooklyn Tech, but he or a colleague may need a plane ticket next time: So far this month, Palm Desert, Calif., High School holds the leaderboard's top spot.


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Pope Francis rocked a lot of folks with his frank admission that there is a 'gay lobby' in the Vatican.
The information we have about what he said does not come from an official Vatican statement, or recorded remarks. He made the comment in an audience with the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious. Our source for the Holy Father's specific words comes from notes made by those in attendance.
According to those notes, he said,
"Truthfully, there are saintly people in the curia, but there is also a current of corruption, it's true. There's talk of the 'gay lobby' and it's true it's there. We have to see what we can do about it."
The reaction from the public has been somewhat muted, although I've seen the usual nonsense accusing the Holy Father of being "homophobic" and "anti-gay."
In truth, I don't know what all this means, and I would guess that no one except the Pope and perhaps a few insiders do. What, for instance, does "gay lobby" mean? And what does "corruption" mean?I'm not being naive. I don't know. "Gay lobby" seems to imply more than just homosexual priests who are friends with one another, especially when it's linked to concerns about "corruption."
I am glad that Pope Francis is being open about these things. Corruption of any sort thrives on secrecy. The more open he is, the better the chance that the problems will be solved.
Rumors have swirled for quite some time about some sort of dark goings on in the Vatican. Pope Emeritus Benedict dealt with a problem concerning leaks of private documents, which I've never really understood, either. It might make more sense if I knew what the leaked documents contained.
These hints of stories that are not properly reported set us all up to imagine what we want.
Personally, I choose not to imagine anything, but to wait and see what shakes out over time.http://youtu.be/wMdvbJAGllw

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A 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing another man in the eye on a Queens subway platform Sunday, police said.
The man was stabbed on the E Train platform at the Union Turnpike station in Kew Gardens.
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Happier moments: Roger Penske, Brad Keselowski and crew chief Paul Wolfe celebrating the NASCAR championship last November at Homestead (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
Guilty as charged, and the penalties stand.
That's the verdict NASCAR's appeals panel delivered Wednesday afternoon in the case of NASCAR vs Roger Penske, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano.
Just minutes before the start of the Texas NRA 500 April 13th NASCAR inspectors confiscated the rear end assemblies of Keselowski and Logano.
Four days later NASCAR hit Penske, Keselowski and Logano with major penalties, essentially suspending both team's key trackside engineers for six races, including crew chiefs Paul Wolfe and Todd Gordon.
The appeal was made to a NASCAR panel – Pocono track president Brandon Igdalsky, NASCAR official Paul Brooks, and Bowman Gray Stadium promoter Dale Pinilis.
The verdict:
"Upon hearing the testimony and carefully reviewing the facts, it was a unanimous decision by the National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel to uphold the original penalties assessed by NASCAR."
Penske says he will take the final appeals step, to NASCAR-appointed National Stock Car Racing Chief Appellate Officer, who currently is John Middlebrook, the former General Motors executive. That appeal is set for Tuesday morning May 7th. The penalties will continue on hold until that appeal is heard.
Then Wednesday another NASCAR appeals panel will hear the case of NASCAR vs Joe Gibbs and Matt Kenseth, over an engine violation at Kansas Speedway April 21st.
The parts in question have still apparently not been revealed to rival teams.
The specific rulebook issue "concern Sections 12-1: Actions detrimental to stock car racing; 12-4J: Any determination by NASCAR Officials that race equipment used in the event does not conform to the NASCAR rules detailed in Section 20 of the NASCAR rule book, or has not been approved by NASCAR prior to the event; and 20-12: All suspension systems and components must be approved by NASCAR.
"Prior to being used in competition, all suspension systems and components must be submitted in a completed form/assembly to the office of the NASCAR competition administrator for consideration of approval and approved by NASCAR. Each such part may thereafter be used until NASCAR determines that such part is no longer eligible.
"All suspension fasteners and mounting hardware must be made of solid magnetic steel. All front end and rear end suspension mounts with mounting hardware assembled must have single round mounting holes that are the correct size for the fastener being used. All front end and rear end suspension mounts and mounting hardware must not allow movement or realignment of any suspension component beyond component normal rotation or suspension travel."
The penalties, all upheld:
-- Crew chief Paul Wolfe: $100,000 fine; suspended from NASCAR until the completion of the next six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship points events; placed on NASCAR probation until Dec. 31;
-- Car chief Jerry Kelley, team engineer Brian Wilson and team manager Travis Geisler (serves as team manager for both the No. 2 and No. 22 cars): Suspended from NASCAR until the completion of the next six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship points events; placed on NASCAR probation until Dec. 31;
-- Car owner Roger Penske: Loss of 25 championship owner points;
-- Driver Brad Keselowski: Loss of 25 championship driver points.
-- Crew chief Todd Gordon: $100,000 fine; suspended from NASCAR until the completion of the next six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship points events; placed on NASCAR probation until Dec. 31;
-- Car chief Raymond Fox and team engineer Samuel Stanley: Suspended from NASCAR until the completion of the next six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship points events; placed on NASCAR probation until Dec. 31;
-- Car owner Walt Czarnecki: Loss of 25 championship owner points;
-- Driver Joey Logano: Loss of 25 championship driver points.
Joey Logano and Penske teammate Brad Keselowski (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Of course this is the outcome...Roger's last name isn't Hendrick. There is "innovation" for certain teams, then "cheating" for others, and Nascr a p doesn't even know they have a credibility problem..LOL..
One other question..what are these guys' expertise in aero and the like? Come one...this is bad. If a part was legal or not etc. would these guys know the diff and make a decision based on knowledge? I don't think so.
Certainly an unbiased panel. One NA$CAR employee and two folks who
depend on NA$CAR for their livelihood. Nothing like "home cooking" when
seating a jury!
Why do they waste the time of everybody with this first hearing as the Dip-Sticks of Daytona are the one's who always win here. They hide the so called rule book and then hand out penalties from it.
You want a fair ruling. Take (7) Fans out of the stands picked at random. Then have your hearing and present all your (evidence) with the flaky rule book. You have to have 4 votes to win. The looser pay's the tab for everything. There should be limits put on all fines.
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What are the rules of attraction? Stephen Bayley's Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything, prompts Jay Merrick to consider what makes us see beauty in the beast
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life,' said the painter John Constable, 'for let the form of the object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.' Constable, an avid reader of poetry, may have read these lines by his contemporary, William Wordsworth:
'Oh, blank confusion! true epitome
Of what the mighty city is herself,
To thousands upon thousands of her sons,
Living amid the same perpetual whirl
Of trivial objects, melted and reduced
To one identity…'
The lives of the painter and the poet straddled the Georgian and Victorian periods: Constable, more optimistically Georgian, Wordsworth reacting in Romantic horror to the march of Victorian mass-production. Their remarks illustrate intensely engaged relationships with their surroundings. Look hard enough, says Constable, and you'll always find beauty. Look hard enough, according to Wordsworth, and you may also encounter inhuman ugliness.
Are we losing our ability to feel strongly about ideas concerning beauty and ugliness?
Are we losing our ability to feel strongly about ideas concerning beauty and ugliness? If so, how might that affect the way we think, behave, and create? When was the last time you saw a building, paused to study it, and hated it for its conceptual and physical ugliness – really loathed it, with a primal fury that, in William Blake's case, was only assuaged when the proto-Modernist Albion Mills, at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, burned down in 1791?
Brutalism was architecture's most obvious attempt at polemical ugliness
Brutalism was architecture's most obvious attempt at polemical ugliness; PoMo became a celebration of grotesquely fatuous historicism; and today's ubiquitous, smooth-skinned, colour-blocked mixed-use facades are enslaved to the unspoken diktat that architectural value can onlybe skin-deep in the 21st century's infantilised, I'm-entitled-to-spend townscapes. Relatively few architects seem to think this profitable commodification of mass and surface is, in every sense, ugly.
It's certainly the kind of dross that the design historian, Stephen Bayley, labels the Zen of Crap in his new and intriguing cabinet of curiosities, Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything. He doesn't attempt to define beauty or ugliness, but offers useful provocations, such as Jonathan Swift's aperçu: 'Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style'. Thus, Bayley says, an ugly sentence (or building) is one that's full of irrelevant allusions and vulgarising adaptations. But what if proper windows and proper walls, for example, are in their proper places?
McConnel's Mill and Chipperfield's City of Justice: Is one of these designs proper, and the other conceptually ugly?
They certainly were in the case of McConnel's Mill in the Ancoats manufacturing quarter of Manchester in 1820. So, too, are they in David Chipperfield's buildings at Barcelona's City of Justice, which covers almost the same ground area as Ancoats. These two architectures, separated by nearly two centuries, share some fundamental similarities. Is one of these designs proper, and the other conceptually ugly?
In Florence, the upper facade of Alberti's Santa Maria Novella represents a kind of perfection: proportion and shape expressed in a tightly ordered graphic in which nothing is left to the imagination. There is something overwhelming about this hyper-distinct tableau that suggests both beauty and ugly bombast.
The facade's four large circular features are central to this effect. We find the same radiused visual dictatorship in the exposed, perfectly circular breast of the Madonna in Jean Fouquet's Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, in the Melun Diptych, painted about 30 years after Alberti completed Santa Maria Novella. The arid control of Fouquet's vision is repellent: the nominally exquisite circumscription of the breast is profoundly, and disturbingly, ugly.
Kitsch… is undisturbing – a welcome, counter-factual antidote to the formal accuracies of Fordist Modernism
Whereas kitsch, according to Bayley's chapter, Tasteless Mass Rubbish, is undisturbing – a welcome, counter-factual antidote to the formal accuracies of Fordist Modernism. He mentions Walter Benjamin's term, Traumkitsch, which conflates dreaming and consumerism, and emphasises it with a chapter headed 'The Freedom To Make Everything Look Like Shit'. That line ought to hover on the edge of architects' consciences like Edgar Allan Poe's ominous raven.
Is there is a particular kind of architectural 'ugliness' that can jolt us out of the Traumkitsch that shadows our lives? A proper ugliness, perhaps, producing a compellingly stark physical statement that is an absolute questioning of form, materials and space: St Bride's Church, East Kilbride, perhaps, designed by Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein?
Bayley is right to say that definitions of ugly design 'depend not on the surface of things, but on their philosophical substance'. But what if fatuous surfaces are regarded as profound philosophy?
He quotes Brian Eno, who says that 'the big challenge for artists today is to produce work sufficiently ugly that it cannot be appropriated for advertising'. Another of Walter Benjamin's remarks might not have gone amiss: 'The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely ever become the basis of convictions.'
Bayley, raven-like, speaks of a potential cacotopia, a world where everything is bad
Bayley, raven-like, speaks of a potential cacotopia, a world where everything is bad. But how would people recognise badness if the seduction of place had already, very gradually, succumbed to the reduction of place?
This situation begins with marketing strategies and proceeds to designers' screens, where 'uncanny valleys' of virtual form take shape. To CGI techies that intriguing phrase denotes unearthly, super-precise aesthetic effects, the same kind that produced Fouquet's bone-white virgin surrounded by blood-red angels and which throngs our struggling town centres with 'exciting' and 'transformative' barcode and Liquorice Allsorts facades.
If it takes so-called ugly architecture to remind us of the more humane ethical and psychological possibilities of design and place – rather than Wordsworth's 'trivial objects, melted and reduced to one identity' – let's have more of it.
Jay Merrick is the architecture critic of The Independent
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(UPI) -- Magic "necropants" on display at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft were made in the 17th century from a dead man's skin and are supposed to bring good luck.
According to legend, sorcerers would strike a deal where one of them would agree to be made into a pair of trousers after they die, and the necropants would then be used for magic.
The pants, currently on display at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft in Holmavik, were made by skinning a dead man who had given his permission to be made into pants after his death.
In order to make the magical trousers, the living man would have to strip the skin off of the corpse in one piece. The wearer of the pants then had to steal a coin from a widow and store it in the scrotum of the trousers next to a magical sign called a nábrókarstafur.
The coin was a "tool to gather wealth by supernatural means."
The skin of the pants would then stick to the wearer's own flesh. "They would immediately be stuck with your own flesh and be part of your body," said a museum spokesman.
"People would be able to use them as long as they lived, but they would have to get rid of them before they die. If they would find someone to take them over they could last forever," the spokesman said.


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Meet Robonaut 2, the most dexterous humanoid robot in existence, soon to be the first humanoid robot in space, and you'll be able to hear all about it through his Twitter account.
Created through a joint project between NASA and General Motors that began in 2007, Robonaut 2 or R2 for short, was originally planned as an Earth-bound prototype. Engineers being engineers, they decided they wanted to see how R2 fared in microgravity, so NASA is shooting the robot up into space on the next Discovery shuttle flight.
NASA mission STS-133, planned to launch on November 1 at 4.40pm Eastern, will carry R2 to the International House of Pancakes Space Station, where it will communicate with the people of Earth via Twitter, where the robot is already an active and popular participant.
R2's Twitter page is already filled with messages, from July 29's, "11 days til I leave for Kennedy Space centre. 96 days til I leave for space! I can't wait!" to humorous answers to fans' questions, like, " I also understand C++, C#, C and VHDL. But English is the only language I tweet in."
R2 and his team will be answering questions live via Twitter tomorrow morning at 10am Central time, so if you've got questions, it might have answers, as long as you remember to include the #4R2 hashtag.
And don't worry about R2 contracting space madness and slaughtering the crew. He's only a torso, head and arms, and he's not a big fan of HAL 9000.
"No, no relation to Hal. Don't know if I'd want to admit to having him on my family tree if I was. Def. don't condone his actions."
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In his book Ante pacem: archaeological evidence of church life before Constantine (via: amazon.co.uk) the author, Graydon F. Snyder, presents what others (here and elsewhere) have termed an exhaustive collection of the archaeological footprint of Christianity prior to the 4th century.
As many of you are aware, I have attempted to refute this evidence over the last few years in norder to explore the hypothesis that the Roman Emperor Constantine in fact was responsible for the sponsorship of the fabrication of the New Testament and the "Church History" which wa assembled by Eusebius of Caesarea between the years of 312 and 324 CE.
Having obtained a copy of this work a few weeks ago, I have gone through this book in a meticulous manner to examine and review the detailed elements of the evidence assembled by Graydon Snyder with the view in mind to either find that I have been mistaken in exploring this hypothesis or to vindicate (at least to myself) the integrity of this hypothesis.
The result of my critical review of the evidence presented by Graydon Snyder is that, as far as I am able to determine, it is quite reasonable to dismiss each and every citation therein presented, on a common sense basis. I have presented my findings, and the reasons by which I am unable to accept the view of Snyder and the mainstream "Early Christian History" tradition, that this evidence actually supports the tradition. The review I have conducted is quite exhaustive and runs to many pages and is thus not conducive to posing en masse in this forum.
However I have collated all the references and citations presented by Snyder's monumental work in a web article entitled A Critical Review of Ante pacem: Archaeological evidence of church life before Constantine which I invite any interested parties to peruse at their leisure. I further invite anyone who may be interested in this issue to re-present any arguments that I have brought to bear in the assessment of this evidence, which I consider insufficient for the purpose of proving the historical existence of the Pre-Nicaean Christian church, alluded to in the writings of Eusebius and his subsequent continuators in the 4th and 5th century State Catholic Christian church.
I will conclude this notice with one and one only example, and that is the claim by Graydon Snyder that in the archaeology of this "Early Epoch" there indeed are relics which depict the figure of Jesus. This example and image is as follows:
Plate 13 -- "The sarcophagus located in Sta. Maria Antiqua, Rome
It is summarily described by the author as being "Likely the oldest example of Early Christian plastic art", and a full description is given is as follows:
"The Teaching of the Law stands in the center, with a Good Shepherd immediately to the right and an Orante immediately to the left. Continuing left is a Jonah cycle, first Jonah resting, then Jonah cast out of the ketos, and finally Jonah in the boat. To the extreme left side stands a river god. To the right of the Good Shepherd there is a baptism of Jesus with a dove descending. Jesus is young, nude, and quite small next to the older, bearded John the Baptist. A pastoral scene concludes the right end"
"In fresco and plastic art Jesus is depicted as a youth, often nearly nude, who performed remarkable acts -- events described artistically in a New Testament context. This had appeared by 200 CE ........(Thanks Clive!)
"It is remarkable that the Constantinian era kept that picture of Jesus"
"It was only after Constantine, about the time of Damasius, that the picture of Jesus was changed to from the youthful wonder-worker to the royal or majestic Lord. At that time, Jesus shifted more to a bearded, elderly, dominant figure"
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The Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Ed. 1, Friday, October 17, 2003
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Rodgers found Brandon Jackson on a 9-yard scoring pass and Greg Jennings on an 8-yard strike, and Nick Collins ran in a fumble on a Dallas kickoff return to help the Packers jump out out to a 28-7 halftime lead.
Rodgers finished 27-of-34 for 289 yards and no interceptions and Jackson scored both rushing and receiving touchdowns for Green Bay (6-3), which posted its third straight win.
James Jones hauled down eight passes for 123 yards and a score and Jennings finished with seven grabs for 80 yards for the victors, who forced four turnovers and held the Cowboys to 205 yards of total offense.
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are required or recommended.
Specifies that the associated
backup or
backup-to-image operation is
Also requires either the
--incremental-base option, or
the combination of the
--start-lsn and
The incremental aspect applies only to InnoDB tables. By
default, all non-InnoDB and
.frm files
are also included in incremental backup. To exclude
non-InnoDB data in an incremental backup, use the
--only-innodb or
--only-innodb-with-frm option.
Specifies an alternative form of
backup for a
backup or
backup-to-image operation. Also
requires either the
--incremental-base option, or
the combination of the
--start-lsn and
The incremental backup performed by this option has
different performance characteristics and operational
limitations than with the
--incremental option:
The changes to InnoDB tables are determined based on the
contents of the
redo log. Since the
redo log files have a fixed size that you know in
advance, it can require less I/O to read the changes
from them than to scan the InnoDB tablespace files to
locate the changed pages, depending on the size of your
database, amount of DML activity, and size of the redo
log files.
Since the redo log files act as a circular buffer, with
records of older changes being overwritten as new
DML operations take
place, you must take new incremental backups on a
predictable schedule that depends on the size of the log
files and the amount of redo data generated for your
workload. Otherwise, the redo log might not reach back
far enough to record all the changes since the previous
incremental backup. In this case, the
mysqlbackup command quickly
determines it cannot proceed and returns an error. Your
backup script can catch the error and do an incremental
backup with the
--incremental option
instead. options.
For example:
To calculate the size of the redo log, issue the
VARIABLES LIKE 'innodb_log_file%', and
based on the output, multiply the
setting by
To compute redo log size at the physical level, look
in the
datadir directory of the
MySQL instance and sum the sizes of the files
matching the pattern
The InnoDB LSN value
corresponds to the number of bytes written to the
redo log. To check the LSN at some point in time,
issue the command
ENGINE INNODB STATUS and look under the
LOG heading. While planning your
backup strategy, record the LSN values periodically
and subtract the earlier value from the current one
to calculate how much redo data is generated each
hour, day, and so on.
Prior to MySQL 5.5, it was common practice to keep the redo logs fairly small to avoid long startup times when the MySQL server was killed rather than shut down normally. In MySQL 5.5 and higher, the performance of crash recovery is significantly improved, as described in Optimizing InnoDB Configuration Variables. With those releases, you can make your redo log files bigger if that helps your backup strategy and your database workload.
This type of incremental backup is not so forgiving of
--start-lsn values
as the standard
--incremental option.
For example, you cannot make a full backup and then make
a series of
backups all using the same
value. Make sure to specify the precise end LSN of the
previous backup as the start LSN of the next incremental
backup; do not use arbitrary values.
To ensure the LSN values match up exactly between
successive incremental backups using this option,
Oracle recommends always using the
--incremental-base option
when you use the
To judge whether this type of incremental backup is practical and efficient for a particular MySQL instance:
Measure how fast the data changes within the InnoDB redo log files. Check the LSN periodically to see how much redo data accumulates over the course of some number of hours or days.
Compare the rate of redo log accumulation with the size of the redo log files. Use this ratio to see how often to take an incremental backup, to avoid the likelihood of the backup failing due to historical data not available in the redo log. For example, if you are producing 1GB of redo log data per day, and the combined size of your redo log files is 7GB, you would schedule incremental backups more frequently than once a week. You might perform incremental backups every day or two, to avoid a potential issue if a sudden flurry of updates produced more redo than usual.
Benchmark incremental backup times using both the
--incremental and
options, to confirm if the redo log backup technique
performs faster and with less overhead than the
traditional incremental backup method. The result
could depend on the size of your data, amount of DML
activity, and size of your redo log files; do your
testing on a server with a realistic data volume and
running a realistic workload. For example, if you
have huge redo log files, reading them in the course
of an incremental backup could take as long as
reading the InnoDB data files using the traditional
incremental technique. Conversely, if your data
volume is large, reading all the data files to find
the few changed pages could be less efficient than
processing the much smaller redo log files.
As with the
option, the incremental aspect applies only to InnoDB
tables. By default, all non-InnoDB and
.frm files are also included in
incremental backup. To exclude non-InnoDB data in an
incremental backup, use the
--only-innodb or
--only-innodb-with-frm option.
With this option, the mysqlbackup
retrieves the information needed to perform incremental
backups from the metadata inside the backup directory rather
than from the
option. It saves you from having to specify an
ever-changing, unpredictable
LSN value when doing a
succession of incremental backups. Instead, you specify a
way to locate the previous backup directory through the
combination of
mode and
argument in the option syntax.
The alternatives are:
You specify the prefix
dir: followed
by a directory path. The path argument points to the
root directory where the data from the previous backup
is stored. With the first incremental backup, you
specify the directory holding the full backup; with the
second incremental backup, you specify the directory
holding the first incremental backup, and so on.
You specify the prefix
followed by
last_backup, the only
valid argument for this mode. This makes
mysqlbackup query the
end_lsn value from the last
successful backup as recorded in the
backup_history table of the
applicable instance.
Do not use the
history: mode if the
previous backup was a full backup taken with the
--no-connection option,
which always turns off the recording of backup history
and might cause errors in a subsequent incremental
backup using this mode of the
--incremental-base option.
In an incremental
backup, specifies the highest
LSN value included in a
previous backup. You can get this value from the output of
the previous backup operation, or from the
end_lsn column for the previous
backup operation. Always used in combination with the
--incremental option; not needed
when you use the
--incremental-base option;
not recommended when you use the
mechanism for incremental backups.
Specifies the location under which to store data from an
incremental backup. This is the same location you specify
--incremental-base if you
use that option for a subsequent incremental backup.
Example 4.4 Incremental Backup
These examples show typical combinations of options used for incremental backups.
mysqlbackup --incremental \ --incremental-backup-dir=/var/mysql/backup/latest \ --incremental-base=dir:/var/mysql/backup/previous \ ... backup mysqlbackup --incremental-with-redo-log-only \ --incremental-backup-dir=/var/mysql/backup/latest \ --incremental-base=dir:/var/mysql/backup/previous \ ... backup mysqlbackup --incremental --start-lsn=12345 \ --incremental-backup-dir=/var/mysql/backup/inc \ ... backup mysqlbackup --incremental-with-redo-log-only --start-lsn=12345 \ --incremental-backup-dir=/var/mysql/backup/inc \ ... backup


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User Reviews
Repeatitive but amusingMiki is a lot like the "3 Stooges". The first 4 times Moe hits Curly with a board, it's funny. The next 6 times not so much. Miki has an adventure during delivery, kicks the dog snot out of somebody, roll credits. There's a bit more to it than that, but not much. The "cast" is okay. Miki is the "star", Mom is the "Boss". Co-stars Megumi, and Ohta provide a lot of the comedy. Little Girl and dog, ...Read more
7 out of 7 people found this review helpful:A refreshing change of pace!This anime is great, everyone should watch it. It follows Miki as she goes about her daily life working at her family's ramen shop. Boring? NO, not at all, this show is hilarious! It seems like she's always getting into a fight with someone. The character's personalities, while admittedly generic, are remarkably funny (It's definitely part of this shows charm). My favorite thing about this anime ...Read more
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful:An Under-Appreciated Comic GemRamen Fighter Miki is a relatively unknown comic series. And what a series it is. Miki, the protagonist, is a stupid, violent, ramen delivery girl who constantly puts herself in unique and zany situations. The music and animation, while not top grade, sufficiently help tell the story There is no fan service, angst, or drama.The show strictly revolves around making its audience laugh. And it ...Read more
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful:I like muteki kanban musumeThis is an anime full of action and comedy.
A series that won't get you bored at all.
Innocent but still aggressive with the classic values among a community reinforced every chapter.
I enjoyed so much this series, and I bet you can enjoy it too.
About the title, it may be translated in a better way I think, but still, the series is great!
Have fun!
1 out of 3 people found this review helpful:Gagging on Gags and RamenThis anime is supposed to be of the gag variety, so I didn't expect much in terms of story. But it just wasn't funny in the end. Essentially, every episode is the same, even the jokes are the same. You chuckle at them the first time around, but it gets old fast. The characters don't help either. I found myself despising the main character, and I don't think I'm supposed to.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful:Good ole fashion crazy LMAO!!!I truly enjoyed this one for is simple joy of making me laughing!!! The Miki is the epitome of a classic kick A chick. She's tough, considering how she is with her mom. She wins against everyone with the one exception of her mother. I have not had a good laugh in a long time. I advise everyone to see this and just laugh!!!! They say that Laughter is the best solution to all your problems.
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:One of the funniest Anime out thereIf you are a fan of School Rumble and Hare+Guu, you will love this Anime. It was funny and unpredictable. I should say silly in a way. The few last eps bored me a little but I bet everyone will enjoy it. The relationship of each character is so unique and Miki, the ramen girl is unbeatable.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful:Muteki Kanban Musume ReviewSometimes you don't have to leave your street in seek of adventures; or at least when you're a girl who works at a ramen shop with her mother and has a funny "quality" to explode (I mean emotionally) pretty quickly! Miki (obviously) got it from her mother, who beats her in front of their customers when she messes up and then blames her for scaring them away! Poor Miki gained a lot, and I mean a ...Read more


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I am so excited to annouce that Studio B Designs was featured on Houzz. Check out the article...http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/10544953/list/12-Home-Stages-That-Put-on-a-Great-Show
Houzz is a great place to get ideas on your home remodel, decor and building a new home. It's also a great place to share your ideas with your builder, interior designer or architect.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Fresh Squeezed - Twine is coming...
I haven't blogged in ages due to the fact that I work 24/7 running two businesses... Yes, I said 2! Jessica and I are starting a web-based Interior Design business called Twine! It will have DIY room designs and unique furnishings for sale. We are hard at work, nose to the grind, preparing for the launch which will happen in the next month or two (fingers crossed and lots of prayers). We decided to start another blog on a temporary site until the website goes live. We thought it would be fun for our cheerleaders to follow our progress and get a sneak peek on what we are up to!
So here is all the social links to the the 411 on Twine!
Our website is www.twineinteriors.com (be sure and check it periodically!)
Meanwhile, for insight on the new business and more of the same great topics as Creative Juice check our our temporary blog www.twineinteriors.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TwineInteriors
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/twineinteriors/
We are launching soon so this is a little teaser video we posted to our new youtube channel...stay tuned! ~Brandy
So here is all the social links to the the 411 on Twine!
Our website is www.twineinteriors.com (be sure and check it periodically!)
Meanwhile, for insight on the new business and more of the same great topics as Creative Juice check our our temporary blog www.twineinteriors.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TwineInteriors
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/twineinteriors/
We are launching soon so this is a little teaser video we posted to our new youtube channel...stay tuned! ~Brandy
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The Pulp - The Tortured Artist
I googled (of course) and this is such a common way to describe an Artists that it is in wikipedia...The tortured artist is a stock character and real-life stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art and other people. They are often mocked in popular culture for "thinking too much," being quixotic, or coming across as pretentiously adverse to happiness and fun.
"The Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh.
He committed suicide and struggled with depression and illness throughout his life.
Artist is an all encompassing term not just for painters or sculptors but also writers, singers, architects, actors and interior designers. I believe it is anyone who is creative and who puts their work out into the world and opens themselves to criticism. This is the website designer, graphic designer, crafter, photographer, wedding planner, director, poet, etc.
Some think that artists long for and even cause themselves pain in order to produce their work, thinking that the pain produces their work. I disagree. I have a need to create ever since I was a little girl. I made clothes for my dolls, rearranged my room a million times, built things, demolished things, made beautiful mud pies and tried every craft I could. I took painting lessons when I was 12 and have been in art ever since. If I am not creating then I am frustrated and frustration leads to anxiety and depression (in my case). And if I am creating, then I am open to criticism. It's a double edge sword. Not everyone will be happy with everything you create. I logically know this and I try to be confident and just say to myself that they don't know any better but in reality it's a kick in the stomach. My head knows you can't please everyone and not everyone agrees with what is beautiful but my heart says "I put this out in the world and the world doesn't appreciate it". It's hard to balance this. Not only the criticism is hard to deal with but to having your creativity be given parameters by the commissioner or client. Parameters are good and necessary but it's a struggle for the creative person to have this beautiful design be hacked away at by budget, poor workmanship, the client selecting something on their own, etc. What was beautiful in your mind is a far cry from what actually is produced and not by your own doing. Frustrating to no end!
I believe the pain that artists feel (at least for me) is based on the frustration of not being able to create, the criticism that comes with creativity that is almost impossible to divorce yourself from, and the frustration of not being able to make what is in your head a reality. It's not the pain that produces the art it's the art that produces the pain, the not being able to create it or the backlash from the world. If you know an artist, which I imagine most of you do, try to tell them how you love their creativity (even if you don't like their work), pat them on the back for putting themselves out there. Creative people need time to daydream, brainstorm or imagine. I know I need to explore new things and new places to renew my creativity so vacations are a big deal for me. Support that or whatever renews your spouse, friend or relative.
Let me know if you agree or disagree~ Brandy
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Vitamin B Boost: Fresh start to 2012
Wow! It's hard to believe it's 2012! I always feel the need for a new beginning, clear out the old and freshen up at this time of year. Of course, I watched a marathon of the show "Hoarders" over the holidays which always makes me want to throw out stuff even more. I feel the need to focus on going through each room in my house and organizing this January and February. I will blog about products I find, ideas I have, how-tos and inspiration!
This looks like something I would do!!
Let's start the new year by getting rid of old linens- sheets, towels, stained napkins.
It feels great to sleep in fresh linens so it's great motivation to keep going! I always gravitate toward white or cream linens just because face creams can bleach out colored linens. I like Egyptian cotton sheets but bamboo has intrigue me. I have bamboo towels and would love to try the sheets. Something to consider is the higher the thread count the softer the sheets as well as the type of cotton. The softer the sheets the more wrinkled they are. So it's a preference on what type you prefer.
There are many types of linens, just to name a few...
Linen- is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is labor-intensive to manufacture, but when it is made into garments, it is valued for its exceptional coolness and freshness in hot weather. It Wrinkles.
Cotton- The higher the thread count the more expensive and softer the sheets.
Bamboo- Types
- Bamboo / Cotton Blend: Usually somewhere around 60% bamboo and 40% cotton, these sheets attempt to provide the comfort of bamboo with the familiarity of cotton. The cotton helps these sheets retain their color while the bamboo provides the softness, comfort, and anti-microbial properties you're looking for.
- Rayon Derived From Bamboo: There are so many chemicals in these that they aren't considered organic.
- 100% Bamboo: Usually available in more limited colors, 100% bamboo sheets can be hard to come by.
Organic Cotton -Organic cotton is generally understood as cotton and is grown in subtropical countries such as America and India, from non genetically modified plants, that is to be grown without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilizers or pesticides.
Egyptian Cotton- is usually applied to the extra long staple cotton produced in Egypt and used by luxury and upmarket brands worldwide.
Flannel-Flannel is a soft woven fabric, of various fineness. Flannel was originally made from cardedwool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fibre. Flannel may be brushed to create extra softness or remain unbrushed.
Some good brands are Anichini, SDH, Sferra, Ann Gish, John Robshaw and Peacock Alley.
So much to choose from ~Brandy
Athena by Yves Derlorme -100% Egyptian Combed Cotton Percale
500 Thread Count - Queen set $650.00
500 Thread Count - Queen set $650.00
John Robshaw- 300 count, Queen Set $490.00
Catherine by Anichini -500 count, Queen Set $795.00
Bamboo Dreams by Yala - 100% Viscose from Bamboo, Queen set $238
So much to choose from ~Brandy
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Hand Squeezed - Mirror Christmas Tree
WOW!! How time flies! I feel like Christmas is tomorrow and I'm super behind. I have been very busy decorating for Christmas at a client's office (I will have photos soon). Finally, I had time this past weekend to decorate my own house for Christmas. I decided to do something completely different and I only had a limited budget and limited time so I had to get creative. I thought it would be cool to use mirrors that would reflect candlelight. But I didn't want to do your standard large mirror on my mantle, so I came up with using mirrors in the shape of a tree. I feel like it's a work in progress and by the time I get it right in two years, I'll change again!! Here's how I did it....
Sorry about the pictures. I had to use my iPhone and there was very little light. Oh well, now I need to find new stocking holders and buy some antique mercury glass for next year's decoration. I want it too look more abundant than it does now. A good tip is .... to take pictures of your decorations, so that you can remember what you have if you want to buy something for next year or plan something new. Also take pictures of the new decorations you buy on sale after the holidays so you don't forget 10 months later.
Happy Holiday Decorating! ~ Brandy
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
What were they thinking Thursday? Plants gone wild
I have noticed in many pictures from interiors magazines that they have gone a bit crazy with the styling of the rooms. Especially Elle Decor, their stylist loves to put a over sized limb or leaf in every room. While this is great for a beautiful photograph, it is not that practical for everyday life. Use caution when trying to implement this idea of over-scaled foliage in your home.....
The stove might set the leafy branch on fire!
Love the room but I am afraid this branch might put an eye out.
I certainly love this large leaf plant in the corner compared to your typical plant. The arrangement on the mantle protrudes into the room a bit too much.
The arrangement on the coffee table won't stand a chance with a kid in the house!
This is beautiful, dramatic and out of the way so bravo on this design!
The arrangement on the table is a nice size for drama without being too large.
This oversize foliage really brings the outdoors in, it seems to blur the division of the wall. Very well designed.
The foyer table needs a dramatic arrangement like this. This room is just a bit off symmetry, which I find disturbing. The picture on the left should be hung at the same center as the one one the right. The small vase on the table is pointless and you might as well center the large vase on the table to complete the symmetry.
Any other ideas about what magazine stylist put in a room that is not practical? Send in your comments!! ~ Brandy
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Friday, November 4, 2011
Vitamin B Boost: Sleeping in
This week has been SO hard to get up in the morning. The weather has turned crisp, it's just before the time change, so it's dark outside and I am nice and cozy in a warm bed.... all the makings for sleeping in. Beep, beep, beep... alarm goes off a zillion times and I dragged myself out of bed, but tomorrow is a different story, it's Saturday and I plan on sleeping in!!! I am going to dream about being cozied up in these beautiful beds.....
The ultimate bedroom from the movie "The Holiday" with Cameron Diaz
Beds that are high that you have to climb up into make it hard to climb out of.....
What about Beds that envelop you...ahhhhhh
The books are in reach so you don't have to even get out of bed.
There is something about a mix of prints and textures that make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.....
A casual room makes me want to run and take a flying leap into bed....
These bedrooms are crisp and minimal. There is something comforting about not having clutter....
These bedrooms are about what is beyond them...
I love these bedrooms....
Perfect for not sharing!!
Nice rooms but.....
Seems cozy enough except for Napoleon staring at you.
Avoid phallic symbols it you have sleep on your mind.
Zzzzz ~ Brandy
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The Future of Work-Life Innovation: The Role of Networked Technologies
A number of forces are changing how we work, live, and innovate: pervasive technologies, distributed ways of working, "space rather than place" as a work ethos, new methods and modes of work, access to shared services, open versus closed innovation, a new generation of workers, environmental concerns, and macro socioeconomic shifts.
Given a choice, people will demand freedom to work, live, and innovate in ways that meet their individual lifestyles, unfettered by place. Meanwhile, pressures to reduce costs and seek new approaches to innovation are causing many private and public organizations to rethink how work gets done.
The application of networked technologies, as highlighted in a recent Cisco® blog post on "new ways of working," is creating a new paradigm we call Smart Work: a results-oriented act of production performed independent of time and place. Networked technologies are creating choice, and enabling open and peer-driven approaches to innovation. Smart Work is results- oriented: it is often social and collaborative, and the result of a networked way of operating, with exchange, collaboration, and co-creation processes optimizing work and its output. Emerging technologies are also changing the nature of work, shifting society's attitudes and the way we manage our personal lives.
Technology is constantly changing the balance between work and life. A more mobile, virtual community affects human movement patterns, impacting requirements for transportation, urban planning, building design, and spatial land management. For example, the changing nature of "place" in terms of where work is conducted, as highlighted in a Cisco blog post on co-working spaces, influences overall requirements for office space, creating opportunities to make better use of different spaces over time. Technology-enabled third-place working is also fueling innovation: from individual co-working spaces, to local networks of Smart Work Centers, to collaborative production "FabLabs," and the resulting emergence of clusters of economic and social activity is accelerating discovery, experimentation, and scaling processes.
The Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) just launched a new report that looks at these trends, the technologies currently in use and how they are impacting our work and personal lives, and the processes of innovation. The report further discusses the most influential technologies currently enabling smarter ways of working and living, and those that will become pervasive in the next few years—cloud computing, connected devices, smart applications, collaboration platforms, flexible security-policy applications, and high-bandwidth networks. Such technologies are also driving innovation processes—empowering organizations and communities, and contributing to new premises and ethics that result in social, economic, and environmental outcomes otherwise unachievable.
An extended Cisco IBSG perspective on this topic is available for download: Work-Life Innovation: The Role of Networked Technologies
Further perspectives from Cisco IBSG on public sector and work-life innovation are provided at: www.cisco.com/web/about/ac79/ps and www.cisco.com/go/worklifeinnovation
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Keystone millions: Who benefits?
Keystone XL isn't pumping oil yet — and may never be — but in the Washington, D.C., political industry it's already a gusher.
The TransCanada pipeline has been stuck in limbo for over half a decade now; last month, President Barack Obama again postponed a decision on the project, likely until after the 2014 elections.
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Yet in just a few years, the political debate over Keystone has exploded into an entire sector of the Washington influence economy. Funded by multibillion-dollar oil companies, labor unions and ultrarich environmentalists, the fight has filtered into every crack and crevice of the nation's capital — all for a project some advocates on both sides privately concede wouldn't be an environmental or economic game-changer.
( Also on POLITICO: Harry Reid: Kochs 'main causes' of climate change)
From advertisements blanketing Metro stops near Capitol Hill and the State Department to TV commercials saturating the Sunday morning talk shows, to print and digital promos in this publication and others, Keystone has been virtually omnipresent. Well over 100 lobbyists have registered to lobby the issue. Top consultants from Obama's campaigns have signed up on both sides. The pro-pipeline American Petroleum Institute holds regular war councils to plot strategy and has shelled out millions promoting the project; just this week, API spent more than $50,000 on radio ads promoting Keystone in states with competitive 2014 Senate races.
Longtime Beltway operators say the scope of the Keystone battle has grown to an astonishing scale — perhaps the largest ever for a standoff over energy and the environment, and at the very least one that rivals the years-long and decades-old fights over acid rain and Arctic drilling.
The largely symbolic nature of the Keystone issue makes the titanic spending involved all the more striking. Political observers and even some industry officials and activists question all the activity surrounding a project that — according to many estimates — wouldn't create more than a few dozen permanent jobs or exacerbate climate change in a significant way.
That means this whole advocacy campaign is probably just a small down payment on what the country will see when the harder-edged energy issues — strict new power plant regulations expected from the administration this summer, or a renewed legislative debate on climate change — come into focus in the months and years ahead.
( Also on POLITICO: Little hope for Keystone vote)
"All of this stuff has been through an arms race," said Carl Pope, the former Sierra Club chief who has had a front-row seat for decades of environmental fights. "The biggest battles we fought used a fraction of the resources."
For all the money flowing into the Keystone issue, said David Tamasi, a senior vice president at Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, there is "little space for new information or arguments" in the debate at this point.
"It's become almost easier for the president and project proponents to fall into a comfortable partisan crouch, because the issue has been so defined along political fault lines," said Tamasi, whose firm worked for a time on Keystone for the government of Alberta.
It's difficult to pin down the exact cost of the Keystone saga, since nonprofit and private-sector advocacy groups don't have to disclose their revenue and spending like conventional political campaigns. But the sum is clearly well into the tens of millions of dollars — and because the pipeline project remains frozen in place, that makes almost everyone involved in the political debate a winner.
( PHOTOS: 'Cowboys and Indians' Keystone XL protest)
Meet the 'grass roots'
Besides bankrolling TV ads and hiring an army of lobbyists, advocates on both sides of the Keystone fight have spent millions mobilizing the public — or at least creating the illusion of mass mobilization.
On the pro-pipeline side, that has meant setting up an array of self-described "grass-roots" groups with generic-sounding names — the API-funded entities Energy Nation and Energy Citizens, for example — to build public support through social media, advertising and petitions.
Nebraskans for Jobs & Energy Independence is another such entity. It was set up ostensibly as a vehicle for native Nebraskans to channel their support for building the pipeline. But the group's ties to national organizations lobbying for the pipeline's approval are extensive.
It was founded by a local labor official with LIUNA, the national builders union that supports Keystone; Michael Whatley, a lobbyist and executive for the Texas-based Consumer Energy Alliance, sits on the organizing group's board. NJEI once listed a TransCanada official as an officer in its tax documents (that official is no longer affiliated with the group).
( Also on POLITICO: The green case against Keystone)
Barry Rubin, a former head of the Nebraska Democratic Party and the pro-pipeline group's vice chairman, was candid about its role.
"Are we a front group for building the pipeline? Sure, proud to be," he said in an interview.
Not all the front groups, shell entities and opulently funded "grass-roots" organizations are quite so blunt about their advocacy. API, the industry group with virtually unlimited resources, has established a slew of organizations aimed at drumming up Keystone support; API's president, Jack Gerard, was inspired by the Obama campaign's savvy Web and voter-mobilization operations, according to an aide.
API boasts a more than 23 million-person "grass-roots network" made up of individuals who have spoken or written on behalf of the industry, though it's unclear how API arrived at that number. Groups such as Energy Citizens promote API talking points on their websites and tout testimonials that support the industry's views on oil and gas. (Obama "needs to get off his hands on this issue," wrote Joe B. from Colorado.)
Among the groups funded by API is Vets4Energy, which API says has 1,400 members (citing privacy concerns, the group declined to provide a member list) and has recruited veterans to press for the pipeline on Capitol Hill. Another is Oil Sands Fact Check, a group that aggressively rebuts assertions that the pipeline would cause environmental devastation. The latter group, run through the firm FTI Consulting, often sends representatives to anti-Keystone protests and emails reporters to highlight low attendance numbers.
Vets4Energy organized a recent pro-Keystone news conference with Nebraska Rep. Lee Terry and North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven. Both Republicans demanded action on the pipeline in front of a small handful of reporters — and a throng of Keystone-backing veterans associated with the group.
"The greatest generation conquered Nazi Germany in a little over four years," Terry said. "But here we are, five years after the permits have been filed to build the Keystone XL pipeline, and we're still waiting."
Keystone foes with smaller budgets have nevertheless established national operations of comparable sophistication, often hiring brand-name Democratic firms to help. They have coordinated activities between national groups like the League of Conservation Voters and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and activist organizations like environmentalist Bill McKibben's 350.org — often with the help of nationally known political consultants. McKibben's group has paid thousands of dollars to the liberal PR firm FitzGibbon Media to amplify its message.
On its website, powerhouse Democratic firm Global Strategy Group touts its role in creating an umbrella coalition of anti-Keystone interests, dubbed All Risk, No Reward, which has held events and run television ads opposing the pipeline.
Acknowledging that "public opinion on [Keystone] is very mixed," GSG's online case study states: "GSG organized opportunities for experts to speak directly with top reporters and media outlets, planned and executed several high profile events, and earned top flight coverage in the nation's most prominent print and broadcast media."
Lower-profile groups have played an influential role in the pipeline fight: The progressive Bold Nebraska worked with state landowners to challenge Keystone's intended route, while an eclectic collection of environmental and tribal groups calling itself the Cowboy and Indian Alliance gathered for an April protest on the National Mall — complete with teepees and horses.


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I think most readers of this blog will agree when I say - when you have a running injury, don't go to the doctor. At least in my case, the diagnosis and treatment of my injuries have always come with some combintation of massage, yoga, chiropractic, physical therapy and osteopathic medicine.
The thing that the latter practitioners have in common is they 1. take time to hear your story and 2. examine your entire body, looking for asymmetry, tightness, abnormality, etc.
Physicians used to do both of those things really well, but they don't have time now: too many fancy tests to order. But with athletic injuries, there is no need for these tests since the answers can be found with just your eyes, ears and hands.
I've had pain in my right leg since September. I kept running and it got a lot worse in October, so I took a long break. When I returned to running, it hadn't gotten any better. The pattern of my winter was such that I could run short runs, but nothing longer than 15-20 km. Had I gone to a doctor, he would have sent me home with the following advice "stop running" and maybe some ibuprofen. That would have left me fat, depressed, slower and dealing with a stomach ulcer.
The first thing that helped my right hip was taking the shock absorbtion out of my back and hips .I did this through pose running. Trust me when I say that if I can learn a new running style, so can you. We could all benefit from leaning forward more, increasing our cadence and lifting our feet actively.
If you can learn to jump like this, pose running will come very naturally.
Then I went to a physical therapist who had me do this:
|This is not me, but had I been demonstrating a back extension in the 80's, I would have worn this outfit.
And I'll be darned if it didn't take the radiating pain down my right leg away. The only drawback is the pain moves to your back. But it is better tolerated here. How and why this happens, I have no clue. I've read some theories about opening up the disc space, but the maneuver also seems to work for non disc injuries with radiating pain.
This treatment was discovered by Robin McKenzie when a patient of his accidently lay himself down for a long time on a table like this, waiting for Dr. McKenzie.
"How's you leg pain", Dr. McKenzie asked (in 1956)?
"I haven't felt this great in weeks!!" responded the man.
But part of the secret is, you have to keep doing these extensions - and in that way, you can keep the pain away for hours or days at a time.
When I ran the Griseløbet 10k, though, I can clearly see now that the pain in my stomach was radiating around from my back after I had just begun using these extensions. The tightness has to go somewhere, but trust me when I say, it is better in the back.
A demonstration of the back extension
and how to determine if the problem is indeed in your disc
Now- what a fun weekend to observe the ultra running world from afar!
1. Meghan Hicks (from Minnesota!) wins Marathon de Sables. Everyone who has met Meghan loves her- even if you've just read her writing (or even her comments here). She is an incredible and thoughtful person who deserved after many years of focused training to win this race. And she did it in style when the first place woman went out too hard on the second to last day (47 miler) and had to drop. Meghan played it calm and smart the whole way and won handily. It even sounded like she ensured medical help for the former first place woman before continuing.
2. What a stacked field at the Lake Sonoma 50 miler. Cassandra Scallon, my bud (from Wisconsin!) had an incredible performance, good enough for the win in 7:47, followed by Joelle Vaught. Amy Sposton showed how consistently she can perform at her peak when she passed Rory Bosio near the end of the race to take 3rd. Good job, Amy!!
|That is the way to run on water, Cassie!
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If you had no idea who Mike Woodson was, you would only need to watch this video to think, "This is a man who has coached J.R. Smith."
Who knows how long we'll have Woody and his unique sense of defeated incredulity on the sidelines, but this is a nice compendium from Oakley and Allen of the faces to remember him by. It's a followup to this reel, both having basically perfect soundtracks for their respective seasons.


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A local employee recognition company has acquired a Seattle-based startup.
Grand Rapids-based Terryberry said today that is has acquired MeritShare, which developed a social employee-recognition platform that allows users to publish and distribute awards online and via mobile devices.
Terryberry described the acquisition as a strategic move designed to help the company continue its efforts to advance its human resources-based initiatives and product lines, which address employee satisfaction and engagement.
MeritShare was founded in July 2012 by entrepreneurs Travis Pearl and Kevin Nakao and gained media publicity.
MeritShare was also one of the first companies to come out of the 9Mile Labs enterprise accelerator program started by former Microsoft, HP, Adobe and Gartner executives.
"We started MeritShare, because recognition is one of the most underutilized, but powerful tools anyone can use to motivate people," Nakao said.
The platform creates a record of all accomplishments by entity or individual.
The awards are aggregated into a single profile page, showing awards from various companies, organizations and peers and creating a professional brand online.
The profiles are searchable and help validate someone's professional reputation.
Additionally, MeritShare can be integrated with social media such as Facebook and LinkedIn.
"In a short amount of time since their launch, MeritShare has succeeded in making strides to advance the concept of social media-style recognition," explained Mike Byam, managing partner at Terryberry. "MeritShare's mission of providing recognition in an innovative and fun way really complements Terryberry's business."
MeritShare's customers will now have access to upgrade to Terryberry's Give a WOW platform, which provides many additional features and benefits like a branded interface, single sign on, integrated service awards and more award options.
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(Portland, Ore.) December 8, 2010 - President Wim Wiewel is announcing the establishment of the office of
University Advancement, which will be responsible for building a culture of philanthropy both inside and
outside of the University and increasing private funding.
PSU currently receives only about 15 percent of its budget from the state, with most of the rest coming from
tuition. That percentage is expected to dwindle as the governor and the Legislature wrestle with a state budget
shortfall amid competing demands of public education, social services, and public safety.
"It's unlikely that the state will allocate more money to higher education given Oregon's struggling economy,"
says Wiewel. "And it's not sustainable for Portland State to keep raising tuition. We need to be accessible to all
qualified Oregonians regardless of need. To do that, we must move toward financial independence."
Wiewel emphasized the need to raise more money to increase scholarships, expand research, develop
academic programs, upgrade facilities, and recruit and retain outstanding faculty.
In addition to raising private money, Wiewel hopes to forge stronger bonds with PSU's growing alumni, now
more than 65,000 in the Portland metro area and 125,000 strong worldwide, while building closer relationships
with leaders across our region in business, public life, and philanthropy.
Francoise Aylmer, the new Vice President for University Advancement, was hired by Wiewel this fall to lead
this initiative and secure new sources of private funding. "Every dollar contributed to PSU creates an
opportunity and changes a life," said Aylmer. "Now, more than ever, we need to find people who understand
that and are willing to invest in education."
"This effort signals a fundamental shift in philosophy at Portland State," says Ken Thrasher, Chairman of the
Board of Compli and former CEO of Fred Meyer. "The work of University Advancement will improve the
quality of life not just for PSU students and their families but for all Oregonians who will benefit from a more
educated workforce."
For more information, please call University Advancement at 503-725-5032.
About Portland State University
Portland State University (PSU) serves as a center of opportunity for more than 29,000 undergraduate and
graduate students. Located in Portland, Oregon, one of the nation's most livable cities, the University's
innovative approach to education combines academic rigor in the classroom with field-based experiences
through internships and classroom projects with community partners. The University's 49-acre downtown
campus exhibits Portland State's commitment to sustainability with green buildings, while many of the 125
bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees incorporate sustainability into the curriculum. PSU's motto, "Let
Knowledge Serve the City," inspires the teaching and research of an accomplished faculty whose work and
students span the globe.


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Not today...rather this is tomorrow's Chevy truck...err...SUV. Either way, the newest edition to Chevy's line-up of mid-size SUV's is built on the Theta platform — like it's brother/sister cars, the Pontiac Torrent and the Suzuki XL-7. The Equinox SS (you can tell by the double pipes in back) seems to have the same basic front fascia, but the real changes'll be under the hood — specifically in the form of a 3.9L V6 with a 6-speed tranny. Our friendly neighbors over at How Bourgeois snagged this shot and you should feel free to peruse the rest of the pics over on their site.
HB Ride Spotting: Chevrolet Equinox SS [How Bourgeois]
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A Parkville man has been charged with stabbing a victim and fleeing with drugs Saturday, Baltimore County police said.
Police said Joshua Ritter, 28, had met his victim for a drug transaction when Ritter pulled out a knife and demanded the drugs. The victim, who was not identified, was stabbed several times.
Officers and medics were called to a home in the 2500 block of Creighton Avenue at about 9:25 p.m. The victim's injuries are not considered life-threatening
Ritter, of the 2500 block of Wycliffe Road, is charged with attempted first degree murder, armed robbery and first degree assault.
Online court records show Ritter has faced multiple drug and theft-related charges since 2005. He has open drug-related charges from September, records show. In 2011, he received a 90-day sentence for drug possession, and in 2006, he received a year-long sentence for drug-related charges.
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Nancy Grace's wardrobe malfunction will be the most infamous moment of this episode of DWTS.
To cover a few seconds of time while host Tom Bergeron tipped Nancy off to adjust her cleavage ("On the European version, that would be perfectly fine," he assures her.), the cameras panned to a backup shot of a bored-looking audience.
But enough about the nip-slip already. On to the dancing...
Fast-paced dances often befuddle novice dancers. And that was true for a few of the contestants who took on the jive and quickstep on tonight's show.
The top scorer was Ricki Lake with 23 points (out of 30) and the low score was doled out to Chaz Bono with 17 points.
Hope Solo "kicked" off the show by shaking her booty and baring her midsection in a jive to Avril Lavigne's spunky "Boyfriend" tune. It was an upbeat number, but you could tell Hope struggled to differentiate her jive flick from her soccer kick.
Kristin Cavallari looked old Hollywood glamorous in her Marilyn Monroe getup. Maybe channeling Marilyn gave her a confidence boost because she did a whole lot better with her quickstep this week than with her first-week cha-cha. Downright impressive!
Elisabetta Canalis achieved some hard-earned redemption from her uber-awkward first week performance.
Rob Kardashian got a standing ovation for his "Surfin' Safari" jive despite his complaint during rehearsal: "My boobs are bouncing." Carrie Ann declared him officially a better dancer than his sister Kim.
Ricki Lake -- in hot pink fringe -- pulled off one of the more memorable jives of the night despite what I'll call "fish lips" and gratuitous gyrating and grinding with partner Derek Hough.
J.R. Martinez was once again a crowd-pleaser with his "Jump Jive An' Wail" number (with newsie costuming to boot!). He just knows how to move. The judges weren't as thrilled as the audience however. Carrie Ann penalized J.R. and partner Karina Smirnoff by a point for a lift, while Len characterized their jive as more of a lindy hop.
- Brooke Burke sported the same hairstyle I wore to my junior prom in 1997.
- David Arquette and Carson Kressley both need to work on their facial expressions, since each pretty much left his mouth hanging open during his entire dance.
- Chaz Bono's knees are crunchy like granola.
- Chynna Phillips apologizes to Jesus when she curses. (Her curses include exclamations like, "Fudgesicles!")
- Brooke Burke awkwardly cut off J.R.'s reflections on hard work and motivation.


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Marika is a first year high school student living in a far away galaxy known as Uminoakeboshi. One day she finds out that her recently deceased father was once the captain of the space pirate ship called the Bentenmaru. More importantly, the only one to inherit the captain's title has to be a direct descendant - meaning that Marika is next in line to become the captain of the ship!


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Adbusters attacks the figure of the Hipster:
Momus responds:
K-punk confesses and counter-attacks:
Are hipsters in fact the scourge of contemporary civilization, who must be combated with "good" resentment in order to advance the egalitarian cause of communism, or is this issue a waste-of-time internal status-play being conducted within the confines of a self-obsessed creative class?
Personally, I lean towards the latter hypothesis, and suspect that the only people who actually give a shit about hipsters are embittered intellectuals lamely trying to pony-up their own points of distinction, and using it as a yard-car like target for taking-out their own various complexes and imaginary revenges. But I open it out to the floor.


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Regional gas prices on rise again
TAHOE/TRUCKEE – The conversion to summer-blend gasoline, nationwide refinery issues and a rise in crude oil prices have sent Nevada gas prices to new highs, according to the latest AAA monthly gas survey.
As of Tuesday, the average price in Nevada for regular unleaded gasoline was $3.54 a gallon, an increase of 38 cents from the last AAA gas price release of Jan. 8, 2013, when the average price was $3.16 a gallon.
The highest gas price of the Nevada metro areas tracked by AAA is in Sparks, at $3.74 a gallon, with Reno second at $3.72. Conversely, drivers in North Las Vegas paid an average price of $3.43 as of Tuesday. The highest average price of gasoline in the nation's metro areas is in Hilo, Hawaii, at $4.26 per gallon.
In Incline Village, the average per-gallon regular price on Thursday was $4.19 at the 76 and Chevron gas stations and $3.99 at 7-Eleven.
On the California side, the average price for gas was higher, hovering between $4.19 and $4.39 per gallon at stations in Kings Beach, Tahoe City and Truckee.
Prices have increased in every state over the last week, according to AAA, with California and the mountain states leading the way with the most significant price jumps: Nevada, 18 cents; Colorado, 15 cents; Arizona, 14 cents, California, 13 cents; and Utah, 12 cents.
The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $3.60 as of Tuesday.


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LOS ANGELES, July 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. supernatural series "Under the Dome" will return for a second season in the summer of 2014, CBS said Monday.
The announcement of a 13-episode sophomore season was made by Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment.
Stephen King, whose bestselling novel is the basis for the series, will write the premiere episode of the second season, the network said.
"We're excited to tell more stories about the mystery of the dome and the secrets in Chester's Mill, and are thrilled to have the master storyteller himself, Stephen King, tell the first one of next season," Tassler said in a statement.
The show is about what happens when a small town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome.


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Plane's parachute credited with saving 3 lives
Airplane went down in Connecticut
A parachute built into an airplane that went down in Connecticut is being credited with saving the lives of the three men on board.
Danbury Municipal Airport operations manager Mike Safranek says there is no question the parachute allowed the men to survive without major injuries. He says the plane "touched down majestically right in the middle of a parking lot."
The single-engine Cirrus was flying from Groton on Tuesday night when the plane encountered an unspecified mechanical problem. The pilot, a licensed instructor giving a lesson, was about 2 miles from the Danbury airport when he alerted authorities he planned to deploy the parachute.
The Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association says the parachute system has been used successfully more than 30 times with more than 60 survivors.


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Summer is over and many of us are wondering where the time went. With the new school year starting, we thought it'd be fun to hear about some of your favorite school memories. Whether it's having lunch with your friends, an inspiring teacher, an enjoyable class, your first day, or even the memory of your child starting school, we want to hear your stories in our "Back to School Story Contest."
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