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November 6, 2008
"Let's see now, it's in the low 80s and sunny every day this week out here and the forecast calls for showers and a cold front moving in back home, so you can probably understand while we came straight out here," Busch chuckled on Monday night from his Scottsdale hotel room. "I brought my clubs, so we'll get in a little golf and get rested up for this weekend's big race at PIR.
"We're really looking forward to Sunday's race, the final flat track race of the season," said Busch, who has won at least one Cup race for seven consecutive seasons. "We're bringing the same car that we raced at New Hampshire (New Hampshire Motor Speedway) back in September and we're hoping we can be that strong out here this weekend."
Busch and his Pat Tryson-led Penske Racing No. 2 Team raced their "PRS-574" Miller Lite Dodge to a win in the rain-shortened June 29 Lenox Tools 300 at the flat 1.058-mile New Hampshire track. They came back for the Sept. 14 Sylvania 300 at NHMS armed with a "clone" of that car, their "PRS-576" Dodge Charger. After starting 20th, Busch quickly moved toward the front to be a top-10 fixture for the remainder of the race.
"The car was probably strong enough to finish a solid top-five for the majority of the race there at Loudon in September," Busch recalled of the only outing to date for this car. "The track got really 'rubbered in' late in the race and we just got too tight. We made adjustments trying to free the car up a bit, but just not quite enough to run with the leaders and we had to settle for a sixth-place finish.
"We have all the data from the Loudon races, April's Phoenix race and last November's Phoenix race that we've already been studying very hard to come up with our baseline qualifying and race setups," said Busch, whose career Cup record on the "Desert Mile" boasts one win, two top-five finishes and five top-10s in 11 career starts. "We're hoping we can have similar flat-track success like we had in the two Loudon races this weekend at PIR."
While the picturesque one-mile oval holds the impressive Cup success for 2004 series champ Busch, it's his many personal memories that make PIR so special.
"The Phoenix track will always be special to me as long as I live," said Busch, a badge-carrying honorary deputy for noted colorful Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. "Back when I was only 13, it was the first track that I ever saw the Cup guys run on in person. Growing up in Las Vegas and around racing like I did, it was one of the fondest memories of my life when my dad carried me down to Phoenix back in 1991. Seeing all the races for years on TV and finally getting to attend one in person made a huge impression on a 13-year-old kid, I can tell you that.
"It was at PIR where we wrapped up the 1999 NASCAR Southwest Tour Championship, too, and that will always be so memorable," Busch said. "After winning the title, we got our first big dose of media attention. I'll never forget that day and doing the first national TV interview of my career. Dick Berggren was the interviewer and I was pretty darned nervous, to tell you the truth. He did a lot to keep me calm before we went on the air and the interview went very well. I'll always remember that and be thankful to him for that.
"There are so many special memories associated with the Phoenix area and PIR that it's almost like a second hometown for me," concluded Busch. "We're hoping to add to the list of great memories out here this week."
Friday's practice from 12:00 Noon till 1:30 p.m. kicks off this weekend's action at Phoenix International Raceway. Qualifying to establish the starting grid for Sunday's battle is set for Friday at 3:45 p.m. local. Saturday's morning practice is scheduled from 11:30 a.m. till 12:15 p.m. and the final "happy hour" practice session is scheduled from 12:50 p.m. till 1:50 p.m. Sunday's Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 (500 kilometers/312 miles/312 laps) has a scheduled 1:45 p.m. local starting time (Mountain Standard Time) here on this 1.0-mile speed plant known as the Desert Mile. ABC-TV and MRN Radio will provide live coverage of all the action.
--Behind the scenes as the 2008 season winds down, Kurt and David Stremme, who'll drive the No. 12 Penske Dodge fulltime next season, are already becoming rock-solid teammates. "Stremme's a really cool guy and I enjoy being around him a lot, whether it's at the track testing or out at a restaurant having dinner and enjoying a few Miller Lites," Kurt said on Monday night. "He brings a lot to the table and our backgrounds are so similar. He grew up racing the late models on the short tracks and so did I. He's got a great seat-of-the-pants feel for the car, but he's also very analytical when it comes to spending time going over data with the engineers, the shock guys and his teammates. We've had a lot of fun already out on the road testing. It's amazing how we're able to get in each other's cars and then compare what we're feeling and what we think needs to be done to improve the cars. We're on the same page and communicate very well." Stremme, who finished 10th in a Rusty Wallace-owned car in last Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Texas, could be found only a matter of a few hours prior to that race over in Busch's No. 2 Cup team hauler. "Stremme's going to be a great teammate for Kurt, Sam (Hornish) and all of us," Pat said on Tuesday morning. "He had his race there on Saturday at Texas to be concerned with, but he chose to spend an hour or so over in the Cup garage with our team discussing the Texas chassis setup information and how our testing went at Nashville earlier in the week. We're really looking forward to having David as our fulltime teammate on the circuit next season."
--Kurt, Pat and crew will be racing their "PRS-576" Miller Lite Dodge this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. "We're bringing the same car that we raced at New Hampshire (New Hampshire Motor Speedway) back in September and we're hoping we can be that strong out here this weekend," Kurt said of the car he used to finished a strong sixth in the Sept. 14 Sylvania 300. "The car was probably strong enough to finish a solid top-five for the majority of the race there at Loudon in September. The track got really 'rubbered in' late in the race and we just got too tight. We made adjustments trying to free the car up a bit, but just not quite enough to run with the leaders and we had to settle for a sixth-place finish."
--If you took a poll among the drivers in the Cup garage, chances are you'd find several who plan on post-season vacations to wind down - say like to some Caribbean destination. That's not the case with Kurt. Instead, the very next day after the Homestead finale, the 2004 champ heads to Texas to begin a 10-day, four-state hunting expedition. "I'm sure that folks might say I'm a little warped to be doing this," Kurt laughed as he explained the details of his trip. "Four or five guys loaded up in a camper and crossing the country hunting may not sound like fun to a lot of folks out there, but we've been planning this trip for months now and can't wait to get out there on the road. Getting out in the woods and back to nature is a great way to wind down; at least it really works for me." Kurt and his hunting posse have locations in Texas, Missouri, South Dakota and Minnesota on their schedule.
--While on the subject of David Stremme as the newest teammate and his quick acceptance internally at Penske Racing, members of the "2 crew" were still giving the Indiana native plenty of accolades on Saturday for his recent victory in the prestigious Winchester 400. "That's a hug


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Building a successful hardware business is hard enough, and making inroads in the music-hardware industry is even harder. One entrepreneur is taking on the combined challenge by creating a new kind of musical instrument, and venture investors have staked him with $12.8 million to score a hit.
London-based startup ROLI has developed a digital instrument called the Seaboard Grand that looks like a piano keyboard but is covered by a layer of soft silicone. Its keys are pliable and can produce vibrations and other sound effects at the touch of the player's fingertips that are impossible with hard keys.
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ROLI began shipping its instruments in March and has shipped a few dozen so far, Mr. Lamb said. The first edition retails for $8,888, and two smaller versions go for less.
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Even as ROLI enters this fairly stagnant market, it also must face the challenge of selling a new musical instrument, for which no music has been written yet and which requires musicians to learn how to play it.
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Dec 19 (Reuters) - There is lots of urban lore about coach passengers on airlines being magically upgraded to first-class seats, but less is said when it happens the other way around. But this does happen - a lot.
While airlines do not typically charge more for passengers bumped up, those who paid extra for a special seat have a case for getting something in return when it is taken away. Yet when it comes to involuntary downgrades, consumers are often left on their own to make the case that they should get something back.
As the height of the holiday travel season approaches, understanding how that works can help you avoid feeling cheated if this happens to you.
"Nothing's automatic. You can't just expect an airline to do it right," says frequent flyer guru Brian Kelly, who runs ThePointsGuy.com and travels more than 125,000 miles a year.
It's not that anything shady is going on, but rather that the changes tend to happen in a chaotic environment. "When you're at the airport, it's highly stressful for the gate agent. Their job is to get the plane out. Most of the time, the airline isn't going to proactively reach out to compensate you."
This is what happened to Aaron Reese and his wife, Kate, this summer, when she was downgraded from a first-class seat. It was not until they wrote a complaint letter that the airline offered any compensation, but it took a long time for them to deliver.
Reese says he appreciates that the airline got him and his wife where they were going, but is frustrated that months later they still had to keep asking United Continental Holdings Inc for the miles to be credited. "It definitely would have been nice to have been told upfront, 'Hey, we see you're being downgraded, we'll refund you half or all the miles you used for the upgrade.' "
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In the United States, there are no specific rules about what should happen if a passenger is downgraded.
"Airlines handle those issues individually, according to their own practices," said Jean Medina, vice president of the industry association Airlines for America. "They do, however, try to accommodate customers as best they can, and often will extend an offer to make amends."
In Europe, however, there are strict rules. If you are flying on a carrier subject to European Union rules, you are entitled to a refund of 30 to 75 percent of the ticket price, depending on the length of the trip. And the airlines have got seven days to do it.
Kelly said if the downgrade happens on a flight to or from Europe, it is particularly important to make sure the consumer recovers not only the amount of airfare in question but also the related taxes - which can be considerable.
In the United States, the most common scenario happens when the type of aircraft is changed, potentially costing rows of premium seating. "This happens all the time," Kelly said.
The contract of carriage that establishes the relationship between passenger and airline is written by the airline, consumer advocates note. The contract makes the primary commitment of getting the passenger to his or her destination.
"One of the contract of carriage fine-print issues is that they can move you for any reason," said Kate Hanni, founder of the advocacy group FlyersRights.org. "Everything with the airlines is a one-way street."
Most frequent travelers will have more leverage to obtain what they want from the airline and they most likely will obtain the best results by dealing with a supervisor, said Northeastern University economist Harlan Platt, an airline finance expert.
"The amount of compensation is subject to negotiation," he says.
His idea of a better solution would be to use a price from a particular point in time, but he knows that this would create an "extreme technical problem" because airline prices can change several times in a day.
The key to obtaining the highest amount in return, Kelly said, is to assert your claim quickly and calmly. Ideally, that should take place at the gate or, if the seat change happened on the plane, upon landing.
"Never, ever get angry at the airport staff," Kelly said. "If you don't find someone who is helping you, ask someone else. Come up with a rational compensation request - like you want a confirmed upgrade to use in the next year to make up for the fact you lost one."
When it comes to cash difference, it can be particularly sticky, said Christopher Elliott, a consumer advocate and ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler. The airline is most likely not going to figure out what you could have paid if you had booked coach in the first place, he said.
"It's funny airline math," he said. "When they calculate the fare difference, they apply the most expensive economy class fare. Sometimes, the difference is only a few dollars. Airline wins. It's just another backhanded way airlines make money."


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Resized pictures, yeah?...I couldn't pick between the two.Also, I just realized your Teahouse Comic mark, Saerra. Love that webcomic. Ever seen the Starfighter webcomic? It's not like Teahouse but I like it a lot.
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The Neighbourhood is a Band to Watch in 2013 [NEW MUSIC/SOCIAL MEDIA]
The power of social media is growing in the music industry. Does it sell records? In rare cases, yes, but I believe that since it's already become a significant factor in how music is discovered, sales aren't too far behind. For example, my friends know my basic overall taste in music. If they don't, a quick look at my social media channels could easily give them a few ideas. Charlie sends me a message saying, "What up man!? How have you been? I was listening to a band the other day and I thought you would enjoy them too. They are fairly new and are gaining traction quick. http://www.last.fm/music/The+Neighbourhood I think it's pretty good stuff." That personal recommendation (not a flashing message on the side of my screen or ad on Pandora) got me to open a new tab and listen to their music. It's not rocket science people, it's simply quality music that does the job. When bands take the time to make good music, it will eventually find their audience.


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K9 comes to the UK this weekend when the new Park Entertainment series launches on the Disney XD channel at 6pm this Saturday.
The series was made in Australia and features the return of John Leeson as the voice of a new CGI version of the robot dog. The series was developed by one of K9's original creators, Bob Baker, along with the show's associate producer Paul Tams.
The Saturday showing is described as a sneak preview of the series, which will start properly in the new year.
Disney XD can be seen in the UK on Sky Channel 607 and Virgin 707.


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2. Jennings
3. Big Dog
4.The knicks
5.Baseball & football, Brew Crew and the pack
2. Jennings
3. Big Dog
4.The knicks
5.Baseball & football, Brew Crew and the pack
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1. Location - London
2. Favorite Current Bucks Player - Bogut
3. Favorite Former Bucks Player - Ray Allen
4. Other teams in the NBA you root for? - Nets
5. Other sports you enjoy? Rugby(Waratahs, Australia), Football(Liverpool)
6. Anything else you care to share? Nup
1. Location - WI
2. Favorite Current Bucks Player - Sessions or Jennings, gotta love the pgs
3. Favorite Former Bucks Player - Ray Allen
4. Other teams in the NBA you root for? - NUGGETS!!!! hawks, 76ers, magic
5. Other sports you enjoy? NFL, huge Michael Vick fan but currently an Eagles fan.
6. Anything else you care to share? - Yes Im a Nuggets fan but hey, its always fun talking about the team that actually is in your state!
Where Becoming a Legend Happens.@ChrisWagner87
1. Virginia Beach
2. Michael Redd ( hate his contract though)
3. Ray Allen ( I was a big Cassell fan while he was here, too)
4. The Clippers ( Decided to pick an LA team when I lived out there so I chose the one that DIDN'T have any fans)
5. Packers, Brewers
6. I was born in Milwaukee but The Navy has moved me around quite a bit.
2. Favorite Current Bucks Player - Charlie "Taco" Bell
3. Favorite Former Bucks Player - Oscar Robertson
4. Other teams in the NBA you root for? - None
5. Other sports you enjoy? What other sporting teams do you root for? - Baseball, I've been a Brewers fan since forever. I basically love all sports but boxing, mma, and (watching) tennis.
6. Anything else you care to share? Please support my Bucks site! http://www.examiner.com/x-6519-Milwaukee-Bucks-Examiner
1.Location - Ersan
2.Favorite Current Bucks Player - Ersan
3.Favorite former Bucks Player - Ersan
4.Other teams in the NBA you root for - Ersan
5.Other sports you enjoy? What other sporting teams do you root for - Ersan
6.Anything else you care to share - Ersan
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1. SE Wisconsin
2. Bogut is the man, but Jennings is soon to be.
3. Sydney Moncrieff, did it all, went to games just to watch him!
4. No other team, but only player in the league that I've actually followed was Kevin Garnett, went to every game that he'd play in Milwaukee. San Antonio Spurs because they are small market, and Duncan is as classy as they come. Only saw him live once though!
5. Football, hockey, rugby. Die-hard Packerbacker and do like my Red Wings.
6. Hate the current arrogant NBA players and can't stand the guaranteed contracts, has ruined the NBA game with keeping has beens or guys not even wanting to play anymore. That being said I will always root for my Bucks, Kevin Garnett and Duncan, in that order. Wouldn't watch an NBA game at all if one of those wasn't involved, including championship! Old-school!
2. Favorite Current Bucks Player
3. Favorite Former Bucks Player
4. Other teams in the NBA you root for?
5. Other sports you enjoy? What other sporting teams do you root for?
6. Anything else you care to share?
1.) Northeastern Wisconsin
2.) Andrew Bogut is my favorite, with BJ3 shortly following. Then Patrick Patterson lol, i wish.
3.) Easy Lou Alcindor
4.) Los Angeles Lakers. I don't really like the Lakers, as much as I am an avid Kobe Bryant fan. Yah I'm sure I'll hear it for that. I would love it if he were on the Bucks though lol...
5.) Err sport you could think of. Baseball, basketball, football, tennis(gotta love me some Raffy Nadal), futbol, not so much hockey but I've gotten into it a little more lately.- I like to watch the Orlando Magic, because of Dwight, and I'll root for the Red Sox over the Yankees anyday, but all in all I am a Wisconsin sports fanatic.
6.) Like the poster above me, I HATE HATE HATE arrogant players in the NBA. If I see Lebron James jumping up and down screaming and yelling or showing off, I swear to god I'm gonna throw up. For you younguns, Pretty stats don't mean more then Championships. I'm still pretty sure the main goal in basketball is to win! Lebron James has won nothing to justify his ******* antics.
Hey new to the forums.
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Favorite Current: Jennings
Favorite Past: Ray Allen
No other nba teams
Cheer for the pack, the crew, and the badgers.
Anything else: was born in manitowoc but moved away at young age.
Now that the Pack is off to a rocky start and hampered by an insane amount of injuries, I'm looking forward to the season even more
I wouldn't count out the Bucks yet. Look at me playing xbox 360. Maggette got hurt first game on nba2k11. Salmons got hurt but could still play but his rating was 6 points less. Then Redd got hurt 3 games later. I still didn't miss a beat. I let the cpu do my subbing. We either went with CDR at sg or with two pg's when Jennings went to bench so then it was Boykins and Dooling. All I have to say is were stocked full to the brim. I'm happy as a mofo. Looks at todays jsonline paper. Brown loved our team.
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NAME | Synopsis | Description | Options | Extended Description | Examples | Exit Status | Attributes
install-path/dsrk6/bin/ldifxform [-h] [-i input.ldif] [-o output.ldif] -c command...
The ldifxform command reformats LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) text, converting between all of the most common character sets, extracting attribute values, modifying attribute names, ordering entries based on attribute values, or giving detailed statistics. In all cases, input LDIF is not changed.
The ldifxform command supports the following options:
Apply the specified reformatting operation.
The ldifxform command supports the following reformatting operations:
The ldifxform command can replace attribute values and remove attribute. To modify attributes, use the following options:
Remove all options other than binary from attribute types.
Remove the specified attribute from output.
Use this option once for each attribute to remove.
Remove all attributes except the specified attribute from output.
Use this option once for each attribute to retain.
Replace the old attributes with the new attribute type in output.
Use this option once for each attribute to rename.
The ldifxform command can convert LDIF from one character set to another. To convert character sets, use the following options:
Convert to the specified character set to UTF-8.
Convert from the specified character set to UTF-8.
The following replacements for charSet are supported on all platforms:
ISO-8859-1 character set
Conversions to this format strip characters not available in the character set.
ASCII character set
Non ASCII characters are replaced with ? when converting to this format.
Windows Unicode Text character set
T.61 character set used by X.500 and LDAP v2 servers
Conversions to this format strip characters not available in the character set.
Additional character sets may be supported for your platform. Use the -h option to display further character sets supported for your platform.
The ldifxform command can generate statistical information to help you analyze directory content. To generate statistical information, use the following options:
Generate statistical information and append it to the output.
Generate statistical information instead of other output.
Many directory servers return search results in the order that entries were loaded into the database. The ldifxform command can sort and order the entries before they are imported into the directory. To sort LDIF, use the following options:
Sort entries into hierarchical order.
Sort entries in increasing order according to their values for the specified attribute. This is equivalent to alphabetical order for string-valued attributes.
Sort entries in decreasing order according to their values for the specified attribute. This is equivalent to reverse alphabetical order for string-valued attributes.
Generate the specified number of LDIF files, which can be loaded into the server by multiple clients in parallel. Each output file has a name of the form output_ldifxform_c_n, where
Reflects the file name passed to the -o option
Corresponds to the number of components in the root DN of the LDIF file
The number of the part from 1 to number, inclusive.
The ldifxform command can perform a number of text transformations affecting the presentation and encoding of the LDIF text. To perform text transformations, use the following options:
Remove trailing zero bytes from attribute values.
Use this option when processing LDIF from a buggy encoder.
Do not wrap long lines at the 79th column.
The output can be parsed again, but common tools such as sed and grep on some platforms may not handle lines longer than 1024 characters.
Undo base64 encoding.
The output cannot be parsed again if any attributes have values that are binary or that begin with special characters.
Remove comments from the output.
Remove DNs from the output.
The output is no longer LDIF.
Remove attribute types from the output.
The output is no longer LDIF.
Base64 encode any attribute values containing bytes not present in ASCII.
Display a usage message briefly describing all options.
Read input from the file specified.
When this option is omitted, the ldifxform command reads from standard input.
Write output to the file specified.
When this option is omitted, the ldifxform command writes to standard output.
The ldifxform command acts as a stream filter, reading input from one file, performing transformations and writing the output to another file. Each transformation is specified by a command parameter to the -c option. Multiple compatible transformations may be performed simultaneously.
Some transformations produce LDIF output destined to be reloaded into a directory. For example, renaming an attribute can be more easily processed on an LDIF file than online through requests to a directory server.
Other transformations do not produce LDIF; they are intended to provide an analysis of directory contents. For example, you may extract all different values of a specific attribute and list them under the DN in which they occur. The statistical operations provide counts of entries and attributes.
The examples in this section use the following conventions:
The ldifxform command is found in a directory present in the PATH used for the examples.
The directory server is located on a system named host.
The directory has been configured to support anonymous access for search and read. Therefore, you do not have to specify bind information.
The directory server listens on port 389, the default for non-SSL connections.
The following command reformats search results into a simple list of employees placed in order by their room number:
$ ldapsearch -h host -b dc=example,dc=com "(uid=*jensen)" | ldifxform \ -c "tpreserve=roomNumber" -c "tpreserve=cn" -c "sort=roomNumber" -c nodn -c notypes version: 1 #:ordered: TRUE Barbara Jensen Babs Jensen 0209 Allison Jensen 0784 Kurt Jensen 1944 Richard Jensen 2631 Gern Jensen 4609 Ted Jensen 4717 Jody Jensen 4882
The following command generates statistical output from search results:
$ ldapsearch -h host -b dc=example,dc=com "(uid=*jensen)" | ldifxform -c statsonly # Basic statistics #:linecount: 121 #:entrycount: 7 # Number of nonleaf entries (at least one subordinate) #:nonleafcount: 1 # Number of leaf entries (no subordinates) #:leafcount: 7 # Largest number of entries immediately below a single nonleaf entry #:maximmsubr: 7 # Number of levels in the DIT hierarchy #:maxdepth: 4 # Largest number of AVAs in an RDN forming an entry's DN, normally 1. #:maxrdns: 1 # Attribute types used in the LDIF file # e is number entries containing this attr, v is total number of values, # l is total length, m is max length of any one value, s is general syntax # and x is extra encoding information. #:attrstatsinfo: t=description e=1 v=1 l=49 m=49 i=1 s=cis x=ascii #:attrstatsinfo: t=roomnumber e=7 v=7 l=28 m=4 i=1 s=int #:attrstatsinfo: t=facsimiletelephonenumber e=7 v=7 l=105 m=15 i=1 s=tel #:attrstatsinfo: t=telephonenumber e=7 v=7 l=105 m=15 i=1 s=tel #:attrstatsinfo: t=mail e=7 v=7 l=130 m=19 i=1 s=cis x=mail #:attrstatsinfo: t=uid e=7 v=7 l=49 m=7 i=1 s=cis x=alphanumeric #:attrstatsinfo: t=l e=7 v=7 l=71 m=11 i=1 s=cis x=ascii #:attrstatsinfo: t=ou e=7 v=14 l=144 m=19 i=2 s=cis x=ascii #:attrstatsinfo: t=objectclass e=7 v=28 l=294 m=20 i=4 s=cis x=alphanumeric #:attrstatsinfo: t=givenname e=7 v=7 l=36 m=7 i=1 s=cis x=alphanumeric #:attrstatsinfo: t=sn e=7 v=7 l=42 m=6 i=1 s=cis x=alphanumeric #:attrstatsinfo: t=cn e=7 v=8 l=96 m=14 i=2 s=cis x=ascii # Counts of values of specific attribute types #:attrdomaininfo: t=objectclass v=7 inetOrgPerson #:attrdomaininfo: t=objectclass v=7 person #:attrdomaininfo: t=objectclass v=7 top #:attrdomaininfo: t=objectclass v=7 organizationalPerson
The ldifxform command exits with status 0 if it completes successfully. Otherwise, it exits with non-zero status.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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appbigcountry wrote:It was especially interesting for me to see the review for this album so close to the Pitchforks', because I got the Forks' album a couple of weeks after I'd been listening to Spyplane and I didn't like it at first because it didn't match the enjoyable (I can't really think of a better word) nature of the Logs' album. Eventually I took a break from both and when I listened to Disconcert again I really liked it as a different kind of album. That's not meant to put down the Pitchforks at all, but more as a testament to how good I thought the Spyplane was.
Anyways, definitely check this out. It's great. I downloaded mine off cdbaby (yay for instant gratification!).
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Learning to use the Internet may never be more amusing than it is in this video from 1997.
In 'The Kids Guide to the Internet,' a family straight out of central casting circa the mid-'90s helps viewers understand this newfangled invention. The jokes are terrible. The acting is lame. The music is ridiculous. And the boy, Peter, has a voice that quivers more than anyone's has since another Peter's — Peter Brady — did on 'The Brady Bunch.'
The video is long, but is so adorably lame and nostalgic at the same time that it flies by quicker than the time it took for your AOL to go offline after your mom picked up the phone to make a call.
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Letang Is The Truth wrote:Spoiler:why did that dude get shot in the noggin at the end? little confused by that
llipgh2 wrote:Letang Is The Truth wrote:Spoiler:why did that dude get shot in the noggin at the end? little confused by thatSpoiler:To show the new guard is taking over in Chicago.
cheesesteakwithegg wrote:Spoiler:I am terribly bad at picking up on certain things in shows, so bare with me...
What it the show led you to believe that Chicago was behind the killing of that guy in his restaurant at the end?
shmenguin wrote:very solid
is this just a miniseries-type thing or is it a full-blown, several season thing?
Hockeynut! wrote:Man, I feel stupid. I don't really know who anyone is, who's on which side, etc. I usually do photo editing while I watch TV, this show seems like one I need to concentrate on. I'll have to watch the premiere again before episode 2 airs.
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The scary new skinny
Leigh-Allyn Baker sits in a West Hollywood café, slowly stirring whipped cream into her Americano. A working actress with credits like Will & Grace and My Name Is Earl under her belt, the Kelly Ripa look-alike is six and a half months pregnant and highly conscious of the calories she's about to consume. "Dieting is still always in the back of my mind," Baker admits. "Really I wanted a latte, but it had too many empty calories."
During the 14 years she has worked in Hollywood, the 35-year-old has endured constant pressure to be movie-star slim. At one audition that called for a woman who felt comfortable being onscreen in a bathing suit, a casting director scoffed at the sight of the 5-foot-2-inch, 110-pound actress in her bikini, rolled her eyes and said, "You think you're thin?"
"If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another—it's a way of life," Baker says, sighing. She has suffered through juice-only fasts such as the master cleanse, attempted a raw-food diet and other food-restriction plans, popped phentermine and Prozac and tried drastically slashing calories. When she got pregnant, Baker was elated that she could buy previously off-limit foods. "The first two things I was going to indulge in were a sweet potato and a banana, and I remember thinking, That's really messed up—it's a big extravagant hurrah to have a banana now?"
Welcome to Los Angeles, perhaps the only place on earth where a piece of fruit is, well, forbidden. Talk to your average Angeleno, and odds are you'll hear a history like Baker's, one riddled with a variety of extreme weight loss attempts: fasts and detoxes, pills and painfully restrictive menus. L.A. women live in the entertainment capital of the world, where beauty standards are unrealistically high and the ultimate compliment is "Omigod, you're so tiny!"
"Most women here are at all times either on a diet, thinking about one, reading about one or hearing about one their friends are on," says Kathy Kaehler, a fitness and food coach in L.A. who works with Julia Roberts and other celebrities. But there's a hitch. Even in this city, if you go on too many diets, your friends will start to think that you are vain, have an eating disorder or are just plain annoying. As a result, women here are—superficially, anyway—forswearing dieting and embracing a new euphemism for it: cleansing. Sure, you're still expected to fit into those size 00 jeans, but instead of merely being super skinny, now you're supposed to be skinny and healthy.
The problem for the rest of us is that what happens in Los Angeles never stays in Los Angeles for long. For better or worse, any weight loss craze there will spread, inevitably, to the rest of the country, thanks to the blogs, TV shows, tabloids and tweets that obsessively monitor the bodies of Hollywood celebs. During one week this past January, for example, OK! and two other celebrity weeklies dedicated a total of 15 pages to the hottest Hollywood diet fads, including vegan, Izo Cleanze and master cleanse. When Anne Hathaway went on a 48-hour lemonade detox before the Golden Globes, the news was splashed across the pages of People. "That's how the ripple effect across the country begins," Kaehler says. "If someone out here is drinking lemon juice and dropping pounds, Lisa in Nebraska will hear about it and start drinking lemon juice."
In reality, however, lemon juice is not a meal, and taken to extremes, cleansing is anything but healthy. Nor is it an effective way to drop pounds for good. To reach this contradictory healthy-skinny ideal, L.A. ladies have developed some disordered techniques that cross old-school self-starvation with New Age mind-body rhetoric. And these techniques will probably land in your town soon—if they haven't by now.
After all, healthy eating and green living are already fashionable across America, and Los Angeles can lay claim to launching that trend. The city has long had a love affair with its yoga centers, vegetarians, organic-food markets and health food stores, holistic healers and New Age religions. So perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that the latest wave in weight loss in L.A. borrows heavily from the religious tradition of fasting. An ancient ritual, fasting requires devotees to abstain from solid food temporarily in order to purify the body or attain enlightenment. These days, it's considered the absolute quickest means to shed a few pounds with the added benefit of spiritual self-justification.
That's one way of looking of it. Another is that it's simply the latest twist on your garden-variety starvation diet. "The attitude is, I'm going to call it spiritual, like a vision quest," says 31-year-old Mishna Wolff, a 5-foot-11-inch, 140-pound comedienne and the author of the memoir I'm Down (St. Martin's Press), who has watched some of her friends suffer through the master cleanse and who has herself tried Atkins, among other more mainstream diets. "There's a subterfuge of health. But it's just vanity."
Fasts come in several varieties:
Some L.A. women chug raw fruit and vegetable juices that are delivered regularly to their door by companies such as Izo Cleanze and BluePrintCleanse; others sip tinctures from kits ordered online, like the Blessed Herb's Colon and Internal Cleansing Kits; many whip up their own beverages using "superfood powders" (21 Day Detox) or recipes that call for lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper (the ever-popular master cleanse). Although the ingredients vary, the marketing promise is largely the same: Consuming these brews—and often nothing else—for anywhere from a few days to a few weeks can help flush out toxins such as food additives, heavy metals, medications, cigarette smoke and other pollutants that disrupt your immune function, liver function, metabolism and digestion; as these toxins leave your body (through increased bowel movements), you'll feel better and perhaps even drop some pounds in the process. Fashion producer Dawn, for example, did a three-week fast last summer, during which her only sustenance was soups and red and green juices made from superfood powders, vegetables and sometimes berries, complemented by a regimen of detoxifying supplements, digestive enzymes and colonics. The 34-year-old spent hours cooking up broths and blending beverages from daikon radish, kale, cauliflower and other produce. "I made one of mustard greens and garlic that I could not get down," Dawn says. "Do not put garlic in a juice—I almost vomited." She contends the goal was to rid her body of toxins built up from excess consumption of junk food and alcohol. "I'd been partying for a month, and stuff needed to get sorted, stuff I wouldn't have lost through working out alone," she says. "It was more about cleansing and being healthy." That said, she's not complaining that she lost 10 pounds. And she repeated the fast this past spring.
In a way, this new health rhetoric is a backlash against the more obviously unhealthy weight loss routes that were popular in the past two decades, including misuse of prescription drugs such as fen-phen (now banned), Clenbuterol (not approved by the FDA for use in humans) and Adderall (a medication typically used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) as well as surgical procedures such as liposuction and gastric-bypass surgery, the potential dangers of which have been well documented. The movement is also a reprieve from wading through the media minefield of ever-changing "good" and "bad" foods because, natch, you're not eating anything at all. As Beth Reardon, R.D., the integrative nutritionist at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, puts it, "It simplifies the confusing diet world down to one thing: Just drink this. If it's only juice, it has to be good for you!"
But cleanses, detoxes and fasts can lead to some very real physical hazards, especially because they're often done without the supervision of a doctor or qualified nutritionist. "They can really dehydrate you or rob your body of potassium and other electrolytes," says Julie Eltman, R.D., of Los Angeles. Over time, or even within minutes, electrolyte imbalance can cause heart problems, organ damage and more. Another potential danger: colonics—enemas intended to "wash out" the intestines—which frequently go hand in hand with fasting. Performed regularly, colonics can kill the good bacteria in your intestinal tract that are supposed to protect against infection, compromising your immune system; they also can disrupt nerve and muscle function in the bowel. "I see some people who get their colon cleansed every week and can't go to the bathroom without it," Eltman says.
Potential enema dependence, a weakened immune system, organ failure—these are high prices to pay for what amounts to only fleeting weight loss, says Reardon, who stresses that however many pounds you lose during a fast or cleanse, they're almost guaranteed to return rapidly. "You initially lose only water weight, then you start breaking down muscle protein," Reardon explains. "It's minimal fat loss." And frequent fasting can slow your metabolism, making it easier to put on pounds later. Ultimately, those who repeatedly fast and cleanse set themselves up for a life of yo-yo dieting, weight regain and the health problems that can come with it, such as heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.
No one can fast forever.
At some point, even the most abstemious will need to swap her juices for solid food, a shift that will signal her body to cling to the sudden influx of calories, setting the stage for weight regain. Reinstating solids doesn't mean she'll eat much, though. In fact, many of the most popular Hollywood diets entail food-restriction guidelines that can seem almost as severe as eating nothing at all. "I call my diet the 'no' diet because there are so many things you can't have," says Mary Louise, a 48-year-old Hollywood screenwriter. When she's not fasting (which she does at every season change for two to three days), Mary Louise adheres to a version of the candida diet, which consists mostly of brown rice, green vegetables and organic beans and forbids all dairy, breads and sugar. "Before, I was really sick and I didn't know why. I was lethargic; I couldn't get out of bed," she says. On this plan, she says she feels energetic and clearheaded. She also has shed nearly 30 pounds. "But in the beginning, I was down to only five foods I could eat."
That sounds almost lavish in comparison with the recommendations of popular plans by Beverly Hills bariatrics physician Howard Flaks, M.D., who advises eating only 800 to 1,000 calories a day under weekly medical monitoring. According to a patient we spoke with, her plan consisted of 7 ounces each of protein and vegetables, two pieces of fruit and a handful of crackers, to be washed down with at least 10 glasses of water. By contrast, Reardon and other registered dietitians say women on diets should consume at least 1,200 to 1,500 calories daily. "It's a shock, the first week, a real shock," says the Dr. Flaks true believer, who lost more than 30 pounds with his guidance. "But you realize how addicted you are to the idea of having plentiful food."
Without a doctor's surveillance (and possibly even with it), extreme plans that radically restrict calories or ban vital foods such as carbohydrates altogether could have life-threatening consequences. Take the case of Aimee Popovich, a 39-year-old Los Angeles homemaker and mother who went on a raw-food diet, eating only uncooked fruit, vegetables and nuts and started drinking a lot of water. At first, she says she believed it delivered all sorts of health benefits, including a stronger immune system and less difficult childbirth. "I felt fantastic for a year and a half, and it was easy—I didn't have to spend time standing over the stove; I could just grab something raw and go," Popovich says. "But then I realized something was wrong: I had too much anxiety and a nagging problem with urgent urination." Yet she stuck with the diet for five months more, until one day, while laid up in bed feeling sick and dizzy, she had a seizure and passed out. Her husband called 911. Popovich seized again, vomited and stopped breathing. Fortunately, her husband knew CPR and was able to get her breathing again by the time the paramedics arrived. Still in and out of consciousness, Popovich had a third seizure on the ride to the hospital.
When she fully came to two days later, doctors told Popovich she was undernourished, devoid of vital minerals and suffering from kidney failure and brain swelling due to a severe electrolyte imbalance and hyponatremia, a condition caused by excess water in the blood, which can result in dangerously low blood levels of sodium. She spent a week in the hospital receiving saline and antidiuretic hormones and following a diet high in protein and salt and low in water. She has been consulting with a nutritionist ever since and, after nearly a year, finally feels healthy. "I'm not eating exclusively raw anymore, but it still makes up 40 to 60 percent of my diet," Popovich says. "I think there are a lot of benefits to it. Some people have been very successful on the raw diet for years and years, so it can work."
What cleanse dieters lack in food they often try to make up for with supplements, herbs, teas and other products in the hopes of maximizing their slim-down. According to Hollywood trainers and nutritionists, the most popular natural weight loss supplements include L-carnitine, an amino acid that allegedly speeds fat metabolism, and CM3 Alginate, a seaweed formulation manufactured in Europe that supposedly expands in the stomach to make you feel full and thus eat less. And women throughout Los Angeles are stocking up on detox teas (mild herbal laxatives) and plant extracts like Hoodia (believed to be an appetite suppressant), whose benefits remain unproven—but they're attracted to the word natural that's slapped on the package. "In the past, people were looking for something that made them not eat at all, like fen-phen; now they're looking for something that naturally assists them in making dietary changes without the jitters of ephedra," says Valerie Waters, a personal trainer in L.A., who has worked with Jennifer Garner and Jessica Biel and endorses the CUUR Weight Loss System, a diet and exercise program that includes taking an herbal supplement that purportedly revs up metabolism.
Before you hightail it to your local supplement store for any slimming products, consider this fact: Many trainers and nutritionists who recommend supplements lack the R.D. after their name that qualifies them to do so, warns Arthur Frank, M.D., medical director of the George Washington University Weight Management Program in Washington, D.C. "These supplements probably have no value—the best you can hope for is that they won't harm you," he says. Alarmingly, the FDA recently discovered that dozens of common weight loss supplements are full of hidden prescription drugs that can have serious side effects. For instance, Pro-Slim Plus, Perfect Slim and 66 others were found to contain sibutramine, the appetite-suppressing ingredient in the Rx diet drug Meridia, which in high doses can raise blood pressure and cause heart palpitations and seizures. "Even if a supplement has some potentially useful botanical product in it, it has probably not been formally evaluated or undergone clinical trials, and no one knows about proper dosage or side effects," Dr. Frank explains. "The fact that it's natural doesn't mean it's useful or safe."
Safe or not, the healthy-skinny movement is fueled by women no longer feeling they have to tell their friends they're on a diet; instead, they're simply following a "health plan." This idea goes down particularly well in Hollywood, a town where celebrities profess their love for french fries while secretly purging to stay wafer-thin, where everyone pretends to be inherently slim—and where half the women interviewed for this article begged to remain anonymous because they didn't want anyone to think they had weight issues. Admitting you're on a diet these days somehow means you're weak.
"It's totally uncool in L.A. to talk about your diet—that makes you a bitchy, bratty, vain woman," says Julie, a 33-year-old television writer. "It's an impossible standard: We're not supposed to think, talk or worry about it, but we're still supposed to look perfect all the time." After trying low-carb diets, South Beach and "anything Oprah told me to do," Julie (who is 5 feet 7 inches and weighs 138 pounds) finally settled on veganism after reading the diet bible Skinny Bitch, which advocates veganism as an eco-friendly way to shed pounds. "In television writing, which is such a male-dominated industry, women have to be liked and respected by men in order to get and keep jobs," she says. "So you can't seem like a frivolous, stupid, typical girl, the kind who's obsessed with her weight."
Packaging a new restrictive diet as a health regime also keeps concerned friends from meddling. As Carly Milne, a 33-year-old journalist in L.A. and former master cleanser, puts it, "If I were to tell my girlfriends I was going on a diet to lose weight, they'd all say, 'Love yourself for who you are; you look fabulous!' But if I say I'm on a quest to get healthy, everyone is really supportive. It's like you're taking care of yourself, instead of beating up on yourself for not being perfect."
The disconnect between this New Age rhetoric and the truth of what many women are actually doing—often, using socially acceptable quasi-anorexia to starve themselves skinny—can wreak psychological havoc. "My outside message was 'I'm cleansing; I'm detoxing; I'm getting healthy,'" Milne says. "Inside it was, 'I'm fat; I need to be prettier and fit into a smaller size.' At the time, I was totally able to self-justify. I was working in PR and dealing with a lot of media, and I felt I had to have a particular look in order to be accepted or listened to. So I made it all about work, that I wouldn't be successful unless I was skinnier, and that I had to do the cleanse. Looking back, I realize how destructive I was being."
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Note to all those daughters donning chastity rings: according to a new study done by a non-partisan group, abstinence education doesn't work. "At present there does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex, hastens the return to abstinence or reduces the number of sexual partners," says the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. What does work? Educational programs that include discussion of contraception and condom use. These programs even manage to delay the initiation of sex and the number of sexual partners more than abstinence-only programs do. In 2002, abstinence-only programs received $144 million dollars in federal funding.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees was postponed by rain Tuesday night, delaying the renewal of their old October rivalry.
The game was called about 30 minutes before the scheduled first pitch. It will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader Wednesday, with start times of 1:05 p.m. and 7:05 p.m.
A star player and fan favorite when he was captain of the Yankees, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was back in the Bronx to face the team that passed him over when it hired Joe Girardi as skipper in 2007. The two-game series marks the Dodgers' first trip to Yankee Stadium since clinching the 1981 World Series.
Hyun-Jin Ryu had been set to pitch for Los Angeles against Phil Hughes.
Ryu will now start the opener Wednesday against ex-Dodger Hiroki Kuroda. Hughes gets the nightcap, when Chris Capuano (strained left shoulder) is expected to come off the disabled list and start for Los Angeles.
Two of baseball's most storied franchises, the Yankees and Dodgers have squared off in 11 World Series, with New York winning eight times.
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It seems we've been talking about diesels a lot this week, and there's none more controversial than the Porsche Panamera. A large, oil-fired sedan wearing the seal of the stud farm of "stuotgarten"? The mind absolutely boggles.
This week on Chris Harris on Cars, Chris addresses why the Panamera diesel makes people froth with anger. It's ugly, and it isn't fast enough, those people say. And so, he runs the numbers on 0-60, quarter-mile and top speed to see if mathematics might make the case.
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It was hyped and ripped before it even had a name, and after it was announced, it was both praised and panned. Apple's iPad has been the subject of debates about the future of technology and media, and massive speculation about whether people will really want to buy and use it.
Without a doubt, it's remarkably easy to dump a heap of existential baggage on the iPad. It's likely that its existence is a direct repudiation of the last 25 years of computer interfaces, an era kicked off by Apple itself. It's a product in a category—tablet computers—that has been a flop despite nearly a decade of hype.
But before we get into the big, existential questions about the iPad and what it means for life on Earth, it's probably a good idea to look at what the product actually is: a solid glass-and-metal slab of high technology.
Holding the slab
The iPad may be the most impressive piece of Apple hardware I have ever handled. It weighs a pound-and-a-half—much heavier than an iPhone, but much lighter than a laptop. The front is almost entirely glass, save a thin aluminum frame at the edge. The back is a gently curved plate of anodized aluminum with a black Apple logo smack in the middle.
The iPad is designed to be held and carried, and it couldn't have felt more solid in my hands. What my senses told me is that this is not a delicate piece of technology to be coddled, but a rugged device that I should feel free to tote wherever I want to go. (Yes, I know some of that feeling is an illusion—it would probably be a bad idea to hurl the iPad like you're tossing a ball of pizza dough, especially while standing on concrete. But that doesn't change the fact that, with the solid glass front and tapered aluminum back, the product feels nigh invulnerable.)
The iPad's touchscreen is 9.7 inches measured diagonally, with a resolution of 1024-by-768 pixels. That's the traditional 4:3 aspect ratio found on older TV sets, as opposed to the 16:9 ratio favored by modern HDTVs. The screen resolution is 132 pixels per inch, less than the 163 pixels per inch found on the iPhone. The iPad's glass front continues past the screen, creating a bezel three-quarters of an inch wide all the way around. (The bezel is a good place to put your thumbs when you're holding the iPad, so you can keep a solid grip without interfering with the touchscreen.)
I found the iPad's screen to be extremely bright, with vibrant color and a broad viewing angle. I absentmindedly set my iPad down on my coffee table while it was displaying an article within Instapaper Pro, and was surprised to notice that I could clearly read the text despite the extreme angle, thanks to the same in-plane switching (IPS) technology used in iMac displays. (At a certain angle I could also see an array of fingerprints—and boy, does this screen collect them. Fortunately, it's got the same oil-repellant coating as the screen on the iPhone 3GS, meaning one quick wipe with a sleeve and they're history.)
Now about the size of that screen. When the iPad was announced, one of the common criticisms of the product was that it's just a bigger version of the iPod touch. That's true so far as it goes, but I suspect a lot of the people who said it didn't understand just how vital that increased screen real-estate—the iPad has five times as many pixels as the iPhone or iPod touch—really is.
Sure, if the interfaces of iPad apps were just scaled-up versions of iPhone apps (like what you get if you run iPhone-only apps on the iPad), the iPad would be the technological equivalent of one of those oversized novelty checks presented to lottery winners. But what the additional pixels really allow is entirely new, richer, and more complex interactions. On the iPhone, an app like Mail is a series of single screens, with the user constantly burrowing down and then backing up like a confused gopher. (Tap on an account, then the Inbox, then a message, then tap the back button, tap another message, tap the back button three times, tap another account, tap Inbox…) The iPad changes that experience by displaying the body of messages in their own, capacious pane, while your mailboxes and lists of messages fight over a smaller pane or, in portait orientation, a pop-over element.
Beyond the more sophisticated user-interface possibilities, the iPad's large screen opens the door for new gestures that simply wouldn't work on a pocketable device. You can put lots of fingers (and, indeed, both hands) on the iPad, to type or to interact with on-screen objects. This is one of those areas where the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and people who disparage the iPad as merely a hyper-thyroidal iPhone are failing to see the bigger picture.
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Apple looks set to shake up casual computing with a tablet that offers clever design and ease of use. But that streamlined approach may also be the iPad's weakness.
- Best-in-class touch interface
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- No way to manage files, no camera, no multitasking
- Lack of Flash support cripples many Web sites
- Poor scaling of iPhone apps
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I found myself wanting more! I'd love to see the team that created this apply their talents to lots more stuff. It strikes me this medium can work incredibly well as a storytelling and educational vehicle. Very nice song at the end.
Now for my critique. On the whole, the narrative was cogent, but the intense relaying of scientific information seemed to cater more for a science-literate audience. I felt the scripting and narration left quite a lot to be desired. The narrator skipped quickly between concepts, leaving non-scientists like myself befuddled and breathless, and needing to rewind the animation to work out what was being discussed and to catch up. It seriously denigrated my experience of what could be a stunning project. I dearly wanted a simpler script and much, much clearer transitions between each science-spiel segment. And less jargon. (Interestingly, the animation's creator conceived the animation as an old-fashioned piece of unilateral communication.)
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Branding needed for our miniature donkey farm. We cannot decide on the final name...two possibilities..."Don't know Jack" or "Brayberry". Hoping that seeing each name branded would lead us to a decision. Choose either or both and help us decide! Chosen logo will decide the name of the farm. IF we choose one of each the payout will be doubled.
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We raise pedigreed miniature mediterranean donkeys for show and need an awesome logo for print material, trailer (vector required) and future website. These animals are extremely affectionate, small (less than 36"), and are wonderful companions/pets for kids and handicapped people due to their nature.This logo should be easy and fun...
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- For "Don't know Jack"...any style...any color...just something fun (not corny, but fun/whimsical is fine)
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Actor Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters perform April 9th and 10th at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
The legendary British band The Damned is celebrating their 40th anniversary with a tour. They will stop in Las Vegas on April 9 for a performance in the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay.
Legendary comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short perform April 9th inside The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
"An American in Paris" is the story of an American soldier and mysterious French girl wanting a new beginning after World War II. Performance on April 11th in Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
The Arabian Breeders World Cup - April 12 at the South Point. The event features a showcase competition for pure breed Arabian breeding classes. The classes are conducted in the European style, which emphasizes a more natural way of preparing, presenting and showing.
Steely Dan's 9-show residency begins April 12 at The Venetian. The show is titled "Reelin' in the Chips" and will features some of their greatest hits "Reelin' in the Years," "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," "F.M.," "Peg," "Hey Nineteen," "Deacon Blues," and "Babylon Sisters."
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Air that leaks through your home's envelope − the outer walls, windows, doors, and other openings − wastes a lot of energy and increases your utility costs. A well-sealed envelope, coupled with the right amount of insulation, can make a real difference on your utility bills.
Sealing leaks and adding insulation can improve the overall comfort of your home and help to fix many of these common problems:
Most homes in the United States don't have enough insulation and have significant air leaks. In fact, if you added up all the leaks, holes and gaps in a typical home's envelope, it would be the equivalent of having a window open every day of the year!


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In First TV Spot For Jockey, Tim Tebow Touts Tees So Cool They'd Appeal To James Dean
By Barry Janoff, Executive Editor
March 30, 2011: Tim Tebow may not be the Peyton Manning of NFL quarterbacks, but he is the Michael Jordan and James Dean of underwear commercials.
Jockey International has unveiled its first TV spot featuring Tebow, who signed with the brand last year when he was entering his rookie season as a quarterback with the Denver Broncos.
Tebow will be vying for air time with Jordan, who is the lead spokesman for rival Hanes, as the face of Staycool, Jockey's new collection of "innovative underwear, designed to help regulate skin temperature and keep you cool and comfortable." according to the brand.
Jockey said it is the first U.S. company to offer underwear treated with Outlast, a moisture-wicking process, which was developed for NASA more than 20 years ago to provide temperature regulation. Hanes and Under Armour are among the other companies that also produce goods with moisture-wicking fabric, but they do not use the Outlast process.
The spot is scheduled to break on April 4, and will run through August on national cable including, ESPN, E!, CNN, Spike and Discovery. (See Tim Tebow's Jockey commercial here.)
Support includes print, online such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, POP, event sponsorships and "marketing promotions throughout the year," according to Jockey. Lead agency is Arcade Creative Group, New York.
To coincide with the launch of the product, Jockey is running a "Staycool Challenge" sweepstakes offering a VIP trip for two to meet Tebow. (Full details here.)
"The commercial is part of a larger integrated campaign to support Jockey Staycool and reinforce our commitment to offering cutting-edge products to our customers," Dustin Cohn, CMO for Jockey, said in a statement. "Tim Tebow's passion for innovation both on and off the field aligns completely with the Jockey Staycool brand."
"Tim Tebow's passion for innovation both on and off the field aligns completely with the Jockey Staycool brand."
Jockey is also responsible for the the man who made it okay for male athletes to endorse men's underwear, pitcher Jim Palmer, who was a Jockey spokesman about 30 years ago.
The commercial opens with Tebow, channeling movie icon James Dean, who made T-shirts fashionable in 1955's Rebel Without A Cause. Tebow is walking down a what looks like a Hollywood back lot version of a city sidewalk on a sweltering day, with everyone around him trying to find relief from the heat.
As a smiling Tebow goes from scene to scene, a voiceover says, "Quarterback Tim Tebow's T-shirt is cooler than yours." Images such as surfers and ocean waves move across his T-shirt "to illustrate how the technologically-advanced Jockey Staycool collection keeps Tim cool on even the hottest days," per Jockey.
"Introducing Jockey Staycool, with proven technology designed to help you stay cool all day," continues the voiceover. To which Tebow adds, "Man, you gotta feel this shirt . . . From Jockey, the true original."
Jockey said its new product line "blends fashion and innovation [with] Outlast technology that absorbs, stores and releases excess heat to maintain your optimal skin temperature." The products are available for both men and women.
Tebow, who appeared in nine games for the Broncos this past season, also has deals with companies including Nike, EA Sports and FRS energy drinks. He is represented by XV Enterprises, Gainesville, Fla., which is overseen by Tebow and his brother, Robby.
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Swimming Pool Blog
Poolscaping - Planting a Poolside Garden
by Guest Blogger Brent Pittman July 12, 2013
Poolside Gardening for Your Poolscape
Depending where you live, a backyard pool can be a nice luxury or a near necessity. It's a pleasant way for you and your family to beat the heat on warm days, a place for kids to play and boost their swimming skills, and an easy way to stay fit if you're so inclined.
Pool owners know that having one does require some degree of extra effort, such as regular cleaning and maintenance.
But pools can also create an ideal opportunities for those who enjoy great landscaping. Instead of just wood or concrete around the pool area, you can make the pool a centerpiece of a lush garden. Various plants and flowers along the edges, matching certain colors palettes will make the setting even more tranquil and oasis-like.
You can also plant a garden patch nearby so you can enjoy the view while enjoying your pool or sunroom. Guests who arrive for pool parties will be amazed not just by your pool, but also by the beautiful pool landscaping.
The final look is up to you, but there are plenty of examples of designs that work incorporating your pool into your entire backyard design – there's even a term for it: poolscaping. A poolscape includes everything from tile, items to sit or lounge on like chair or benches, lighting options, even the design and placement of pool fountains. waterfalls or grottos.
Getting Started with Gardening for your Poolscape
Like any landscaping project, creating a plan for your pool and spa garden is critical.
- Do you want beautiful flowers all through the year or just plants that bloom once in a while?
- Do you desire landscaping that requires only a small amount of maintenance?
- Would you prefer a peaceful Zen garden or a more rustic landscaping?
- Do you have a large pool that can benefit from landscaping or a hot tub, in a small space?
- Are you less interested in specific types of plants vs. ways to add privacy and shade?
- Are water features or fish ponds in your plans?
- Will your poolscape have an edible garden component?
Once these basic types of questions are answered, you have to determine which kinds of plants can work for your particular climate zone. If you already have an existing garden you may already be familiar with foliage choices for where you live.
Adding plants near a standard pool shouldn't drastically change the balance or your yard's moisture and soil all that much. There are some types of plants that may work fine in a garden, but not as well around high walking traffic areas (sticky, thorny rose bushes, for instance).
Knowing your available space and gardening goals will help in the plant selection process.
Planters or Ground-level
Catriona Tudor Erler, author of 'Poolscaping' said that some owners prefer planter boxes or hanging baskets, while others enjoy working in a designated patch of ground.
Erler suggests that plants that grow close to the water may lead to an increase in debris washing into the pool during watering or rain, and creating many more maintenance challenges.
If you use planters, raised beds or hanging baskets, your plants will be nicely contained, easy to reach and have very little possibility of soil spilling into the pool, bringing phosphates and nitrates into the pool. Planters or baskets will also be easy to arrange or re-arrange to take advantage of sunlight or aesthetics.
Poolscape Gardening Suggestions and Warnings
In the Times-Union's Life@Home blog, author Wendy Page offers some suggestions and warnings when planting a poolside garden. These include:
- Avoid plants that can attract bees and wasps. You may already have visits from a small number of these unwelcome yellow and black critters because of the presence of your pool or maybe a nearby barbecue area. Certain aromatic plants will bring even more of them, even an entire hive if you put in shrubs. Since bees and wasps are known to be territorial, they may also regard people walking near the pool as threats and attack.
- Avoid plants and trees that can send out deep roots. These can eventually grow through the concrete and patio area and cause it to buckle, or worse, get into the pool's plumbing. Both are unpleasant, expensive problems to fix.
- Don't plant plants with prickles, thorns or something that sheds. You or a guest may accidently slip or stumble into the prickly area when walking along wet tile. Heavy shedding plants may also fall into your pool and cause greater maintenance needs.
If you're going to incorporate an edible garden component, ensure the plants are protected from chemicals and salt water. An edible garden will also attract pests, so proper planning for an edible component is crucial. Consider talking to an expert or a friend who has a poolside edible garden.
Start Your Poolscape Engines
After reading all the considerations and warnings, don't be intimidated. Do the research, talk to experts, form a plan, and take action.
A poolside garden will give your family hours of enjoyment both in creating the new environment and reaping the fruits of your poolscape garden.
Start your poolscape engines and get started today!
Do you have a poolside garden? What tips do you have? Share them below!