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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Arts entrepreneurship journal
A call for papers has been issued by Artivate: Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts is accepting submissions of articles for publication in its inaugural issue to be published July 2012. The first journal to focus on the … Continue reading
No Need to Panic About Anti-Regulatory Propaganda
Not that you didn't know that Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal carries its fair share of anti-regulatory propaganda, but here's a refresher in the form of an op-ed co-authored by 16 "concerned" scientists: "No Need to Panic About Global Warming." The … Continue reading
What Would Aristotle Think – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com
What Would Aristotle Think – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com.
As Scholarship Goes Digital, Academics Seek New Ways to Measure Their Impact – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
"It's like we have a fresh snowfall across this docu-plain, and we have fresh footprints everywhere," he says. "That has the potential to really revolutionize how we measure impact." I agree with this. But combine it with Open Access policies, … Continue reading
The Existential Logic of Scapegoating
My longtime companion & I are reading David Hume together right now. I have so enjoyed dipping back into his viewpoint and seeing how much his work influenced my entire professional vocation as a philosopher. I think the influence has … Continue reading
Boston Review — Carlos Fraenkel: Citizen Philosophers
Boston Review — Carlos Fraenkel: Citizen Philosophers. Talk about field philosophy!
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An Experiment in Interdisciplinarity
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Philosophy in the Ivory Tower
A new op-ed on the NY Times philosophy blog The Stone purports to explore whether "philosophy has anything relevant to say to non-philosophers." However, the amount of jargon in the piece puts up quite an obstacle to such a conversation, … Continue reading
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Impact of Social Sciences — what counts for impact?
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The unethical iPhone
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Assessing the Value of Team Science: A Study Comparing Center-and Investigator Initiated Grants – Team Science Toolkit
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Research so Nice…
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The Natural Gas Bridge to Nowhere
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Ignorance
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In Defense of Academic "Job Creators"
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Here are links to several very informative websites, especially useful for folks with newly diagnosed pets who are are looking for information about the diagnosis and treatment of Canine Cushing's Disease.
Cushing's Syndrome
Edward C. Feldman, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM (Small Animal Internal Medicine)
And another terrific website put together by Kate Connick, whose Cushing's dog was named Dempsey. There is lots of good info about diagnosis and treatment and some before and after Lysodren therapy photos of Dempsey, too.

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The Philadelphia Open (April 4-8) is underway at the Loews Hotel in downtown Philly and features 14 Grandmasters in the Open section along with an $80,000 project prize fund, with $60,000 guaranteed.
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When Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva came to office just over a year ago, few expected him to stay long. His two predecessors had been toppled by royalist protests and controversial court rulings. Concerns were rising that Thailand, a longtime US ally, was becoming dangerously divided and ungovernable.
Since then, Mr. Abhisit has consolidated his political base. He has faced down sharp challenges from his opponents, including antigovernment unrest last April that saw armed troops retake the streets of Bangkok. In recent months, the battered economy has revived, buoyed by stimulus programs and a tentative sense of normalcy.
But street protesters aligned to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by a coup in 2006 and lives in exile, are gearing up for more disruption. A protest was held Monday outside Bangkok. The ruling coalition has also been rocked by a Health Ministry corruption scandal.
Bridging political divide?
Still, Mr. Abhisit, leader of the Democrat Party, seems determined to stay the course. He says that his administration has governed effectively for Thais across the political divide.
The political divisions "are still there," he says, in an interview. "But we've shown that we're a government that can maintain order, can get other policies done, even long-term policies on welfare issues, and do this while respecting the rights of the political opposition," he says.
Critics say that Abhisit remains in power because of his powerful backers, principally military commanders who were at loggerheads with the previous administration and refused to put down a royalist airport siege in 2008. By clinging to power, Abhisit reinforces the perception that a partisan establishment has undermined the democratic process, these critics say.
Were parliamentary elections to be held today, pro-Thaksin forces are favored to win, though not by an absolute majority, according to political analysts and Western diplomats. Such a result, a virtual rerun of the 2007 elections, could spark further turmoil along ideological and class lines.
"I think Abhisit and his party are afraid of elections. If we have elections, Thaksin's party will win, without any doubts. Thais feel that Thaksin is the underdog and hasn't been treated fairly," says Sulak Sivaraksa, a prominent social activist.
Abhisit says that he won't dissolve parliament until he is sure that fair and orderly elections can be held. A parliamentary committee has tabled proposals to amend six constitutional clauses that would be put to a popular referendum. He accuses the opposition Puea Thai party, which is loyal to Thaksin and favors a return to Thailand's 1997 constitution, of scuttling the reforms.
"I thought we'd agreed on a set of rules until Thaksin called it off. That suggests the problem is not with us, it's with Thaksin," says Abhisit, speaking after a weekly live broadcast on state TV.
Born and educated in the UK, Abhisit rose rapidly through his party's ranks and took over in 2005 after an election defeat. He is among Thailand's youngest-ever political leaders and is popular among Bangkok's moneyed classes and star-struck women.
But his boyish good looks and educated patina aren't necessarily a calling card in Thailand's political culture, says Kavi Chongkittavorn, a columnist for the pro-Abhisit Nation daily. Other Thai media have criticized him as too reserved and ineffectual, in contrast to politicians schooled in roughhouse tactics.
Mr. Sulak says Abhisit is a clean, respectable leader who lacks conviction. "He's a nice boy.… But he has no guts, no moral courage. He just plays along with the game to survive," he says.
Nonetheless, Mr. Kavi argues that his hold on power appears secure. "I didn't expect him to last this long. Now I think he will last until the end," he says.
That could mean Abhisit staying until the end of 2011, when parliament's four-year tenure ends. His opponents say that would be undemocratic, as he lacks a popular mandate and was installed in dubious circumstances. Abhisit says he was chosen by a majority of MPs and is a legitimate prime minister.
He also pushes back against critics who call him beholden to the military, pointing to the lifting of martial law last month in four districts in the Muslim-dominated south, where a shadowy insurgency has raged since 2004. Military commanders have tried to resist curbs on their powers to round up suspects and to control lucrative development budgets in southern hot spots.
"These are clear policies made by politicians," says Abhisit, referring to his southern strategy. Asked if elected civilians had full control over Thai security forces, he replied, "close" to it.
A wildcard in Thailand's fractured politics is the health of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest reigning monarch. He has been in hospital since last September to treat a lung infection. As a constitutional monarch, Bhumibol wields limited formal power but in practice has been highly influential and a unifying figure in Thai politics, making his departure a pivotal event.
Many Thais fear that a royal succession could be destabilizing for the country as the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, is unpopular, though such concerns are rarely aired in public due to strict laws. Pro-Thaksin factions have publicly challenged the politicking of palace factions, including their endorsement of the 2006 coup.
Abhisit says he understands public concerns over the monarch's eventual passing. "I think it's inevitably going to be a very anxious and difficult time ... but Thai society must rise up to the challenge," he says.


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1 Corinthians 1 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
1 Paul, called as an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, and Sosthenes our brother:
2 To God's church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord—both their Lord and ours.
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I always thank my God for you because of God's grace given to you in Christ Jesus, 5 that by Him you were enriched in everything—in all speech and all knowledge. 6 In this way, the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you, 7 so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8 He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful; you were called by Him into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Divisions at Corinth
10 Now I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction. 11 For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by members of Chloe's household, that there is rivalry among you. 12 What I am saying is this: Each of you says, "I'm with Paul," or "I'm with Apollos," or "I'm with Cephas," or "I'm with Christ." 13 Is Christ divided? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in Paul's name? 14 I thank God[a][b] that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one can say you were baptized in my name. 16 I did, in fact, baptize the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don't know if I baptized anyone else. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize—not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.
Christ the Power and Wisdom of God
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God's power to us who are being saved. 19 For it is written:
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
20 Where is the philosopher?[d] Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn't God made the world's wisdom foolish? 21 For since, in God's wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached. 22 For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.[e] 24 Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's power and God's wisdom, 25 because God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
Boasting Only in the Lord
26 Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective,[f] not many powerful, not many of noble birth. 27 Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. 28 God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, 29 so that no one[g] can boast in His presence. 30 But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, 31 in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.[h]
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The World Bank on Tuesday said that it was ready to support the new development bank being established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), in a statement just hours after the groups of emerging nations reached a deal to challenge nearly seven decades of World Bank dominance.
"We welcome the announcement of the establishment of a BRICS development bank and stand ready to work closely with the new bank to end poverty and build shared prosperity throughout the developing world," the World Bank said in a statement, adding that the BRICS Bank could become an "invaluable partner" in the future.
Although details for the new BRICS Bank establishment and operating scale had yet to be announced, South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan told reporters earlier in the day that a deal was already in place.
"It's done," South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said after meeting with his counterparts. "We made very good progress [and] the leaders will announce the details," he added.
"The finance ministers of the five countries have agreed that the set-up of the development bank is feasible and reasonable," Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei further confirmed to Xinhua, stressing that the new development bank would be complementary to existing development institutions such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
Related: BRICS Close To Creating Common Development Bank: Reports
Related: Brics Nations To Explore Possibility Of A Common Development Bank
Meanwhile, the World Bank insisted that it would do everything in can to assist the BRICS.
"Establishing a development bank is a significant undertaking," the World Bank said, as cited by AFP. "We await the details related to the new bank's financing, governance, and location and stand ready to assist this newest player in global development any way we can."
"For over 60 years, the World Bank has worked around the world building its staff, knowledge, capacity, and expertise in development. We look forward to sharing the expertise we have gained," it added.
Several analysts around the world heralded the new BRICS Bank as part of a growing shift in the global geopolitical landscape – from Western-dominance to the emerging world.
Related: The World Bank Needs To Reform And Adapt To A Changing World Order: José Antonio Ocampo
Related: A New Economic Disorder – When Old Western Powers & Emerging Markets Clash: Mohamed El-Erian
"Up until now, it (the BRICS) has been a loose arrangement of five countries meeting once a year," said Abdullah Verachia, director of the Frontier Advisory Group, to the New York Times. "It (The BRICS Bank) is going to be the first real institution we have seen."
"If they announce a BRICS bank it will be quite something," added Jim O'Neill, the Goldman Sachs executive who coined the term BRIC, to the Washington Post on March 15.
"At a minimum it symbolizes they can achieve something as political group and means lots of other things could follow in the future. It also means that they will have their own kind of special World Bank, which may aid infrastructure and trade projects."
The BRICS nations have combined foreign-currency reserves of $4.4 trillion and account for 43 percent of the world's population. Separately, Brazil and China agreed on Tuesday on a currency swap deal that will see up to $30 billion in Reai-Yuan exchanges over the next three years.


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Chris Brown & Justin Bieber Perform "Look At Me Now" In Australia! (Bieber Spits His Remix "Swag Swag Swag")
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I created this account in 2008 back when Katharos Ombre was an OC. Things happened and I prefer to be called Ombreh, but since my forum name starts with Katharos, people who do not know me personally call me that and it irks me since it's the name of a character that I do not see as a personal identity, if that makes any sense.
I just want to know if there's any way to modify my Username for these forums, I don't think I would need to change it again since I kept the same name for 7 years.
If usernames are locked as a measure to prevent change-spam or any other reason, I will simply start fresh on the 31st of march and make a whole new forum account. I just want to know if I have less drastic options first.
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Roller bearing units
SKF roller bearing units (mounted bearing units) are robust, ready-to-mount bearing units that are assembled, lubricated and sealed at the factory for maximum service life. SKF roller bearing units provide a number of advantages, including:
- long service life
- high operational reliability
- quick mounting
- minimal maintenance
- simplified replacement
These benefits, in addition to the wide assortment available, make SKF roller bearing units suitable for a wide variety of applications.
The assortment includes bearing units with a plummer (pillow) block housing - including a relubrication-free variant - and units with a flanged housing, each optimized to accommodate different operating conditions. All bearing units are available as locating (held) or non-locating (free) units.
Typical applications for SKF roller bearing units include:
- belt, bucket and chain conveyors
- mining and metallurgical equipment
- industrial air handling units
- fans and blowers
- commercial laundry equipment
- textile machines
- refining equipment
- large washing installations
- agricultural and forestry machinery
- food and beverage processing equipment
- mixers, crushers and vibrating screens
- light rail vehicles
- wastewater treatment equipment
Features and benefits
- Ready to mount: correct clearance, greased and sealed
- Can be used on commercial drawn shafts
- Easy mounting and locking on the shaft
- Protected against contamination during installation and operation
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Stem Cells, Cloning and Human Embryos: Understanding the Ethics and Opportunity of Scientific ResearchBy David Prentice Senior Fellow for Life Sciences
Stem cells remain a mystery to most people, even though the debate over stem cell research, treatments, ethics, and funding has led to legal, legislative, scientific, religious, and policy debates.
This publication offers a general overview of stem cells-their sources, practical uses and potential, and ethical problems. Stem cell research is a subject with which everyone should be familiar, because the path we choose for stem cells has profound implications for medical research, health care innovations, and public policy.


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Chocolate Dunk-Shot Biscotti
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 30 min. + cooling
Makes4-1/2 dozen
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar blend
- 1/3 cup baking cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 large eggs
- 3 large egg whites, divided
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
- 1 tablespoon grated orange zest
- 1/2 cup chopped almonds, toasted
- 1/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon water
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar blend, cocoa, salt and baking soda. In a small bowl, whisk the eggs, 2 egg whites, vanilla and coffee granules; let stand for 3-4 minutes or until granules are dissolved. Stir in orange zest. Stir into flour mixture and mix well. Stir in almonds and chocolate chips.
- Divide dough in half. On a baking sheet coated with cooking spray, shape each half into a 14x1-3/4-in. rectangle. Combine water and remaining egg white; brush over rectangles. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until cracked and firm to the touch. Carefully remove to wire racks; cool for 5 minutes.
- Transfer to a cutting board; cut diagonally with a serrated knife into 1/2-in. slices. Place cut side down on ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 5-7 minutes on each side or until firm. Remove to wire racks to cool. Store in an airtight container.
Editor's NoteThis recipe was tested with Splenda sugar blend.
Nutrition Facts1 cookie: 40 calories, 1g fat (0 saturated fat), 8mg cholesterol, 39mg sodium, 6g carbohydrate (2g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1/2 starch.
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Dec 4, 2010
I tried this biscotti and it was terrible it tasted like tree bark bye
May 18, 2010
This recipe is terrible in "healthy" form but with real sugar plus 1/2c. brown sugar and 4 whole eggs plus 1/2 c. cocoa and a stick of butter and evap milk it was more like brownie biscotti and was much, much tastier-- some things you have to eat fewer & not mess up a recipe trying to make it healthy & tasteless even dipped in dark chocolate the original recipe is not yummy.
Dec 15, 2009
Il followed this recipe exactly, and before I could put it in the oven, I had to try to fix the batter, it was so stiff. I added 2 eggs and was able to bake it as noted. It is tasty enough to use as a "dunker" or nibbler, but instead of making 54 servings, there were only 24. I would only make it again if I used the recipe changes noted.
Jul 20, 2009
I just made this biscotti, following the recipe exactly, and they taste terrible! They may be low fat, but they are low taste, too. I will be throwing the whole batch in the trash. I suggest finding another recipe!


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groovyplayer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 132 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
We need an eCommerce design and logo for site that sells modern designer furniture. The design has to have a high-end designer feel to it.
Desired Color Scheme:
current or similar
Desired Style:
designer, high-end, subtle colors, contemporary
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
We need an eCommerce design and logo for site that sells modern designer furniture. The design has to have a high-end designer feel to it. Please review our existing site - http://www.eroomservice.com. We would like to use the same or a similar color scheme. We are looking for the following: home page mockup, category page mockup, product detail mockup & logo design.
Winner must supply vector file and inform contest holder of fonts and all other details. The winner will transfer all rights to the design to the contest holder upon payment of the prize.
As far as the logo is concerned, I would prefer something that's straight lines and contemporary. I also, like the font used in this logo http://www.buddakan.com text part of logo at the bottom of the page). Here's an example of the type of products that I would like to use as part of the logo (if any) - http://www.nolenniu.com/niu_produce…ducts.html.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
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I loved Villa Micika the staff were very helpful and the resturant next door has great food and very inexpensive in comparison to the old town. I will recommend this place to my world travelers and surely will go back. – Simon , Sweeden
Excellenct location, very beautiful, excellent services, tropical yard, beautiful landscape - the perfect place in Dubrovnik! - Horia, Romania
The property was clean, large and had excellent facilities. We were warmly welcome and the owner was accommodating and helpful. – Sarah , United Kingdom
I highly recommend Vila Micika for a cozy comfortable stay in a traditional style stone house.- Jillian , Australia
Très bien situé. très bon rapport qualité/ prix. des extras pour une auberge (pièce commune). propre. bon choix! – Melanie , France
Good location and quiet, in a lovely area of Dubrovnik near the beach. Toni, the gentleman who runs the hotel is a complete legend and really helped us out a lot. – Ross, United States
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What is the difference between all-static-methods and applying a singleton pattern?
In C# Static methods has long served a purpose allowing us to call them without instantiating classes. Only in later year have we became more aware of the problems of using static methods and classes.
- They can't use interfaces
- They can't use inheritance
- They are hard to test because you can't make mocks and stubs
Is there a better way ? Obviously we need to be able to access library methods without instantiated classes all the time otherwise our code would become pretty cluttered
One possibly solution is to use a new keyword for an old concept: the singleton. Singleton's are global instances of a class, since they are instances we can use them as we would normal classes. In order to make their use nice and practical we'd need some syntactic sugar however
Say that the Math class would be of type singleton instead of an actual class. The actual class containing all the default methods for the Math singleton is DefaultMath, which implements the interface IMath. The singleton would be declared as
singleton Math : IMath
public Math
this = new DefaultMath();
If we wanted to substitute our own class for all math operations we could make a new class
MyMath that inherits DefaultMath, or we could just inherit from the interface IMath and create a whole new Class. To make our class the active Math class, you'd do a simple assignment
Math = new MyMath();
and voilá! the next time we call Math.Floor it will call your method. Note that for a normal singleton we'd have to write something like Math.Instance.Floor but the compiler eliminates the need for the Instance property
Another idea would be to be able to define a singletons as Lazy so they get instantiated only when they're first called, like
lazy singleton Math : IMath
What do you think, would it have been a better solution that static methods and classes? Is there any problems with this approach?
Some points have been raised, that one of the main benefits of static methods is having methods that are "stateless" and thus side-effect free to some extent from a concurrency point of view. I wholeheartedly agree that that's a valid point. However we're mixing two different issues and problems here: One is making some methods invokable and globally accessible without having to explicitly create an instance. The other is having methods that are stateless.
The second problem could be solved by method having something like a stateless keyword that similarily to static prevented them from calling this or perhaps do even more to enforce no side-effecs. With singletons rather than static classes and something like stateless classes and methods I think you'd have the following pro's and con's
- "Static" methods in other classes and framework classes could easily be designed to be overridable
- Classes would be easier to test
- Using instances instead of static classes means design patterns work better (things like factories)
- No limitation on inheritance and polymorphism in contrast to static
- Perhaps slightly worse performance?
- Bad programmers will but everything in singletons to have them globally accessible instead of using dependency injection, perhaps you should only be able to access singleton methods and not properties/fields to avoid global variables :)
- ?
Perhaps Math was a bad example, but imagine if the .Net string methods were inefficient, you could easily replace them with your own using this method. Or some third-party class has has a singleton method that you wanted to alter slightly, you could inherit and alter that method


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Want to know what kind of weather year 2012 was for the Charlotte region?
Two of the biggest stories of the year were things that did not happen.
Sure, there were a couple major events in the area, including a tornado inside the Charlotte city limits and a record-setting heat wave.
But for the most part, 2012 lacked major stories -- at least in the immediate region. Nationally, it was the year of a devastating drought in the central United States and a devastating hurricane/superstorm on the East Coast.
Among the biggest stories for Charlotte-area weather in the recently-ended year, though, were the Winter That Wasn't, and the Thunderstorm That Never Arrived.
Here's a look at the big regional stories -- including two national stories that had a local impact:
MARCH TORNADO ... This was a freak, of sorts. A major outbreak of tornadoes occurred March 2 and 3, but a stationary front had been draped across the Carolinas border for much of March 2. Areas to the north of that front were in cooler, more stable air. The National Weather Service had issued a tornado watch for areas south of the front.
But in the early-morning hours of March 3, a Saturday, a strong thunderstorm along or just north of the stationary front caused a tornado to form east of the city. The twister touched down near Reedy Creek Elementary School and carved a path into Cabarrus County. Although some meteorologists think the twister might have reached EF3 strength, the National Weather Service classified it as an EF2, with top sustained winds of 130 mph.
JANUARY TORNADO ... This one was really a freak storm. Tornadoes in mid-winter are a rarity, even in the South, although with last winter's mild temperatures, maybe it shouldn't have been surprising. Three tornadoes struck in Rutherford, Burke and Catawba counties, causing about 20 injuries and damaging or destroying about 100 residences.
THE WINTER THAT WASN'T ... It was one of the mildest winters in history, and if not for a brief period of sleet on the evening of Feb. 19, Charlotte might have gone without even a trace of frozen precipitation for the first time since records starting being kept in 1878.
Various atmospheric patterns collaborated to keep temperatures mild in the east. In January, Charlotte's highs reached 60 degrees or warmer on 12 days. There were four 70-degree-plus days in February. Spring started the same way, as March (the first month of meteorological spring) had 10 days in the 70s and 10 more in the 80s. In fact, it was the second-warmest March in Charlotte history.
STORMY AND STEAMY ... May, July and August were hot, humid, and stormy. Charlotte recorded nearly 6 inches of rain in May, and there were much-higher totals in some parts of the area -- thanks to numerous thunderstorms. At Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, there were storms on nine days in May; 16 in July; and nine in August. June was a dry month.
Some parts of the Charlotte region recorded nearly 20 inches of rain from early May to early September. It was welcome, especially considering how dry the last few months of the year turned out.
JULY 4 HEAT WAVE ... For three straight days -- June 29, June 30 and July 1 -- the official high in Charlotte was 104 degrees. That equaled the city's record high temperature, and there were readings of 106 and 107 degrees in the region. The high also reached 100 degrees on July 5 and 8. Air conditioning technicians were working around the clock to keep up with the demand for repairs.
The heat finally broke on July 9. It turned out to be the fifth-hottest July in Charlotte history.
WESTERN WILDFIRES ... While this did not directly affect Charlotte, there was an indirect connection. A C-130 plane from a Charlotte-based Air National Guard unit crashed July 1 while fighting a wildfire in South Dakota's Black Hills. Four of the six crew members were killed. An investigation later determined that the plane encountered severe turbulence and was caught in a downdraft.
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT NEVER ARRIVED ... Never has a busted local forecast had such a big impact nationally. The stormy pattern that had been persistent in Charlotte during the summer continued into late August, for the start of the Democratic National Convention in the city.
Strong storms hit on the Saturday, Monday and Tuesday of the DNC (Sept. 1, 3 and 4), with more than 2 inches of rain falling. Some flooding was reported in the Saturday storm.
President Obama was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech outdoors on Sept. 6 at Bank of America Stadium, and many of those who had volunteered their time to help with the convention were promised a ticket at the event. Unfortunately, meteorologists predicted another day of stormy weather on the 6th, with a cold front forecast to move through the region.
On the 5th, Democratic Party officials scrubbed plans for an outdoor speech and moved the event indoors to Time-Warner Cable Arena. Naturally, most of Sept. 6 was dry and sunny.
SANDY ... The Charlotte area escaped any direct impact from the hurricane-turned-superstorm. But North Carolina took a shot from Sandy in two different ways. As the hurricane chugged up the coast, closer to shore than originally expected, strong winds and high waves tore up roadways and houses along the Outer Banks. And once the storm moved inland, its back-side precipitation brought heavy snow to the North Carolina mountains. Ski resorts were able to open at the beginning of November.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
2012 -- a year of no-shows
Want to know what kind of weather year 2012 was for the Charlotte region?
6 comments:
- Anonymous said...
We know all this already. It's already last year. We don't need a recap or instant replay.
We want to know what's in store for this year...like these next three months of winter.
How 'bout it?
- January 3, 2013 at 11:39 AM
- Anonymous said...
This was pretty cool! Thanks Steve.
- January 3, 2013 at 12:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
Anonymous 11:39 = jdshaw
As usual you're not fooling anyone on here with your constant trolling when it comes to the weather stories.
- January 3, 2013 at 12:44 PM
- Anonymous said...
What about the huge hail storm that hit South Iredell. We had 2 feet of hail in the Spring and 90% of the homes in our neighborhood had to get new roofs.
- January 3, 2013 at 12:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
Anonymous 12:44 -
Huh? You need to remove that tinfoil hat and take your meds pal.
- January 3, 2013 at 2:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
There has to be a template for this discussion where Steve just plugs in specifics of a given year and publishes. When was the last time that the severity of weather was underestimated by the "professionals?" The weather is sold the same way all other news stories are sold, with a bunch of hyperbole and treating the worst-case-scenario as the likely scenario.
The day that weather forecasts downplay what's likely to occur will be the same day ESPN tells me an upcoming Super Bowl will be a disappointment.
- January 3, 2013 at 11:30 PM


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I have decided to put my twitter account in private mode since there are people out there that simply cannot mind their own business. I am not sure what direction I am going to take since my quest to get at the truth has hit a brick wall. My stalkers cannot see the truth that is clearly obvious for the simple fact that they do not want to see it. Sooner or later I will be vindicated. Until that time, I will wait.
It seems that there are a number of fairly well known individuals who have befriended someone who boasts the ability to obtain social security numbers as well as credit card information. This is something that Anonymous is known for and why they are on the federal watch list. Now in the denials that are certain to come from this individual there has to be this question. If one does not have the ability to obtain Social Security numbers or Credit Card information, why boast at the ability to do so?
This individual has already demonstrated his ability to find phone numbers and other personal information on his victims. Also, considering just who it is that associates with this person, one might question their motives behind that association and thus wonder if it is one or more of these persons who is supplying him with this information.
Be reminded that Lawyers have access to Lexis and it is possible to get credit and SSN information through these kinds of databases. Also to consider, who among this individual's following/follwer list on twitter is employed in the credit reporting industry or own or employed in a business who could run a credit check under a merchant account?
Stay tuned for as long as I am able to be here.
An interesting comment was made today on Twitter. Someone accused me of using this photo as intimidation. Oh really? The photo was put up with no comment about where it was or who it may be connected with. It was simply a fuzzy satellite image of several houses as seen on Google earth. The same person then posted a photo of a house saying it was mine. Well, there are a number of problems here. First of all, if this is intimidation then this accusation also falls on a number of people.
This tactic was used as far back as 2008 by several people. In one instance, a South Florida woman came to my house and took several pictures of my house in Sorrento. The same woman had also taken photos of my former Ocala Florida dealership branch location.
Next, a blogger who has been stalking me since at least 2008 pulled up satellite images of my property in Sorrento and wrote extensively about it. The intimidation did not stop there. As the years went by, this woman would post more photos of my house. These photos were made by a woman who came all the way from Phoenix Arizona to take photos of my home. This person also altered these photos in a blog targeting me exclusively.
Now, another incident of this nature occurred this summer on a blog out of Atlanta, Ga. The owner of the blog posted detailed photos of a house said to be the residence of someone it felt was behind the ownership of another blog. It turns out that the author is wrong and knows it. Despite this error, the photo remains on the blog, along with photos of several people that have been stolen off their personal social media accounts without their permission. Efforts to get these photos removed from the blog have failed because the owner of the blog has taken measures to make efforts to do so extremely difficult if not impossible.
The point here is this person and others are accusing me of doing things that they themselves have been doing long before I had even heard of them. They also do things that I do NOT do, such as revenge porn and porn that involves altering images. These people delve into their target's personal lives. They target their spouses and their children. These people call employers to have them fired. They call customers and tell them not to do business with them. One of the most recent targets of these people is a woman who has been an employee of a local law enforcement agency for a couple of decades.
And then these people have the audacity to accuse me of doing what they have done and more?
I would suggest that those reading what the others post, that they take a close look at what they post and then compare it with what I post. I think you will find it is they who are the guilty parties and that I am only using SOME tactics against them that they have used against me and others for YEARS.
In other words, I started playing by THEIR rules.
Stay tuned for as long as I am able to be here
A short while back in the midst of his stalking of me, @Popsbackup denied that he was an informant to the feds regarding Kyanonymous and other former and current anonymous members. This has turned out to be a lie. Under his Knightsec account on Pastebin he clearly states that he wrote to the FBI about Kyanonymous in December. A few short months later Kyanonymous was raided and now faces federal charges relating to unlawful computer hacking. He could face at least a decade in federal prison. It has been rumored that Ky himself is informing to the feds in a bid to mitigate the seriousness of the charges against him.
Another thing to note in the pastebin account is that Popsbackup retains the Anonymous handle on the account although he claims no longer to be part of Anonymous. This is a bit of a lie since he remains closely associated with Anonymous and thus is still part of the cyber abuse group.
It is also to be noted that for the third time Popsbackup has VIOLATED the terms of service of Pastebin. It seems this individual will break any rule or any law in order to stalk and make false statements about his targets. He is well known for this practice and has earned the ire of many current and former members of Anonymous.
Stay tuned for as long as I am able
In his effort to place my safety and security at risk, a former member of the Anonymous cyber terrorist group known as https://twitter.com/PopsBackup has posted a dox of me on pastebin. He is doing so in clear violation of their terms of service. Pastebin rules clearly prohibit posting the kind of information that Popsbackup has made about me. Breaking the rules does not seem to bother this cyber abuser. He and his Anonymous friends have done this for years.
This individual is typical of Anonymous. He is a loner who lives with his parents and seems to spend the bulk of his time on the internet harassing whomever he decides to target. In this case it is me. He is making false statements about me using manufactured files that Law enforcement determined to be fake way back in 2008. This is not the first time he has targeted someone and it will not be the last.
It seems that the only way that people like this individual will learn his lesson is when someone is killed or injured due to his actions.
Stay tuned for as long as I am able to be here
I am not a media darling from Central Tenn who has appeared on CNN, I am not a person who claims to be a spokesperson for rape survivors from ohio. I am but a retired truck driver with less than a dozen readers on this blog that has been fighting what has to be one of the most intense and organized internet smear campaigns that anyone has ever seen. There are dozens of twitter accounts, blogs, file sharing accounts and now several pastebin dox's by a small group of people intent on not only driving me completely off of the internet, but perhaps see physical harm to be done to me as well.
This is an excerpt of a threat I received on Facebook:
"they'll research & pull up stuff on you and people will be so mortified about your life & your family & your associates. I will desecrate you online. Also, beware of the press that know me, they're the best and they will hunt down and research every nook and cranny of your life."
These efforts are being made in spite of my decision to quit the losing war of trying to repair my reputation that has been damaged by complete strangers. The mistake I have made is to care for the missing children out there. I am paying the price for free speech. I am paying the price for taking advantage of the rights afforded to me by the laws of this country.
I am now at a point where my safety and security is seriously at risk. I already receive scores of death threats and calls for me to commit suicide. These calls are so frequent that my voice mail is full. I get these calls 24/7. These calls have intensified since the most recent dox was created just a short time ago. The CNN darling as well as other cyber abusers soon retweeted this same personal information and then demanded I not mention THEIR names after doing so.
Although the CNN guest host has retweeted this information, he has demanded that HIS name not appear in this blog. He has stated that if I were to mention his name in regards to his retweet, that he would go back my entire 63 years and find whatever he can to ruin whatever is left of my life.
This is the mentality that exists on the internet today. The frequency and intensity of these kind of attacks threatens to disrupt and end the intense debates that was on the internet was first made accessible to the public.
The spoilers have arrived and the decay of the internet continues.
If this blog should suddenly vanish off of the internet or I become another victim of vigilantes intent on ending not only my internet presence but my life as well, I bid you a fond farewell in advance.
Stay tuned for as long as I can survive
There are a lot of people out there who do not understand the truth behind Anonymous. This is due to a small minority who attached themselves to this concept in order to accomplish some common good. The problem is that the majority who are a part of Anonymous or who support anonymous are not out for truth and justice but are, in fact out to stifle diversity and the freedoms of others. The proof of this lies in how Anonymous came to be.
In 2005 a British film, V is for Vendetta was released. It was a story about a masked man who started a revolution to fight an oppressive regime, much like that of Russia or North Korea. The Anonymous movement was soon born and the mask worn by the lead character was adopted as the symbol of their movement.
While the movie was about fighting oppression, Anonymous went about engaging in oppression. Their initial target was the Church of Scientology. No matter what one may think of this church, the various laws throughout the world give them the rights to assemble and engage in their beliefs. Rather than accept their rights Anonymous decided to fight them and break various laws in the process. From that day forward the Anonymous movement has grown as various individuals embrace the concept and have utilized it for their own purposes.
Some of their activities include bomb threats, the hacking of the websites of institutions and individuals. The reasons for doing so vary widely. A majority of the time it is to steal. Many recent arrests that have been made are for identity theft. Members of Anonymous, in large numbers, have been linked to stealing credit card information to use in the purchase of computer equipment and secure websites in order to engage in more criminal activities.
Anonymous is not a uniform group or organization. Anonymous is a free for all. There is no code of ethics. There are no rules nor is there anything in place to fight abuses. The closest thing to any kind of enforcement is a sort of clan warfare. Disputes between Anonymous groups and individuals are common. Anonymous members who once were allies become enemies. There is no loyalty within Anonymous. There is no code of secrecy. If arrested, most Anonymous will inform on other Anonymous members. It is common in many disputes, for Anonymous members to become confidential informants and work with law enforcement to gather evidence on other Anonymous members resulting in their arrest and prosecution.
The latest trend to come about is for these Anonymous informants to work with law enforcement for financial gain. As the financial damage done by the actions of Anonymous rises and the damage to institutions websites escalate, law enforcement is engaging in the same tactic used in the war against drugs. Law enforcement is now using paid informants in their investigation of Anonymous members.
According to sources within the FBI, in the US alone, there are now roughly 3600 individual Anonymous members under investigation with a large number of them cited for arrest before the beginning of 2014. Most of those subject for arrest are those Anonymous who are often referred to as Newfags. Unlike those Anonymous members who have been around since the origin of the movement, known as Oldfags, these rookies do not have the experience or sophistication to avoid being detected and ultimately expose themselves to law enforcement and wind up being arrested.
Often times the rookie Anonymous will attempt to team up with a Senior Anonymous as a mentor for whatever cause that motivated them to embrace the concept. The rookie anonymous hear about the loyalty to the hive and the mantra of No Anonymous will out another Anonymous or No Anonymous will dox another Anonymous.
That is a foolish mistake on the part of the rookie (newfag) that almost always results in him taking the fall for his mentor. The average senior Anonymous is loyal only to him or herself, and look at those around them as tools to be used and then thrown away when they outgrow their usefulness.
For law enforcement officers looking to meet their arrest quotas or agencies looking to justify government funding, this misconception on the part of the rookies is a gold mine. Allocations of funds by the Federal government to fight what is increasingly felt to be "A clear and present danger to the security of the United States" is increasing many fold. The support of Anonymous of those who leak classified documents by Edward Snowden and Private Manning has increased the paranoia of the intelligence community and painted a bullseye on the mask of Anonymous.
The federal government no longer considers Anonymous a group of hackers and pranksters that go around pulling the occasional pranks on their peers or protesters who march around wearing plastic masks protesting things like the plight of the homeless or supporting rape victims. The department of Homeland Security has labeled Anonymous a terrorist organization and has been conducting extensive investigations with other law enforcement agencies. The National Cyber Investigative Joint Task force was formed by a mandate by then President George Bush in 2008.
The NCIJTF is but one of several of these Joint task forces that are operating throughout the United States and Canada to Identify, indict and prosecute members of Anonymous and those who assist them in their illegal actions.
Those who embrace the wrong Anonymous group may well find their own freedoms denied and sit in a jail cell wondering how they got there.
Stay Tuned
Five years ago today, a small group started a smear campaign against this writer. Lies were told about me and acts of oppression were directed at me with the specific purpose of denying me the rights that are afforded to me and all others under the laws of this country. I decided to fight this group. The harder I fought them, the harder they fought back. Finally, after all these years, I have decided to give up. I am but one individual who does not have the resources to fight the kind of people who are willing to use any means necessary to deny the rights of me and others simply because they are able to do so.
Today, there are those celebrating the fact that I have given up the fight and that the lies against me will stand unopposed. These people should enjoy their victory for it will be short lived. Some day, someone will do to them as was done to me. There is always someone in the wings who want to deceive and to deny the rights of others do do what this country was founded to let them do. They may blog in protest, but there will be nobody around to listen to them.
That is because they drove all who would listen away.
There is a poem written by a pastor that gets passed around that addresses what happens when there is apathy when it comes to someone's loss of freedom:
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Save Date: September 28, 2009
It was September 28, 2009 when I had a Sudden Cardiac Arrest - my breath and heart stopping without warning. I was attending a meeting of Boy Scout Troop 26 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began answering an adult's question about my recent vacation, when suddenly - and without warning - I collapsed onto the gymnasium floor.
Troop leaders were true to the Boy Scout motto of "Be Prepared," and I am grateful I was there when this happened. Luckily the group had an Automatic External Defibrillator which shocked my heart and brought me back to life.
In addition to the lifesaving technology, a scout's father also in attendance was a retired emergency room doctor who immediately recognized that I was going into cardiac arrest. He instructed someone to call 911, another person to start chest compressions, and another to fetch the troop's AED. The doctor began rescue breathing as he saw both my breathing and heart had stopped, my face turning purple-blue.
As soon as they had the pads in place on my bare chest, the AED monitored my heart then signaled a shock was necessary. After two "therapy shocks," my heart started back up! And by the time the ambulance arrived I was already sitting up, asking "where am I and what happened?"
The EMTs later told me it was the first time in memory that an SCA victim talked to them all the way to the hospital. Coincidentally, the cardiology doctor assigned to me was the one who donated the AED to Troop 26, when his son was an Eagle Scout.
I had no symptoms beforehand, but the cardiac specialists discovered a blocked artery which they opened with a stent, and later tests showed an electrical problem within my heart, so they implanted a small defibrillator/pacemaker.
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Well, these have shown up at retail. The ones I found all had squished clamshells. You'd think for premium packaging and price Hasbro could have packed them more carefully. The cards inside survived fine, but I'm thinking my carded ones have to stay inside the clamshell because of the OTC silver banner thats incorporated into the front of the shell. How very frustrating...
Yeah, I saw Jared's post and a few others around the net, which all seemed to say the clamshells were squished (those are the "initial reports" I was referring).
I was going to start a new topic for this, but since this is the VOTC thread, I'll put it here. I was just curious what many of you are doing for this line. Are you buying one set, to open....are you buying two sets (one open, one carded), are you not even buying all of them? What is your plan of action.
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The youngest musical saw player was 15-year-old Peter Harrison, who came with his grandfather from North Carolina. Musical saw players came from all over the country and globe to participate, including two from Japan, three from Germany, four from Canada, one from Belgium, and one from France.
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Toast, Inc., a restaurant management platform, has announced plans for large-scale expansion of its workforce in Ireland, as it launches its new Dublin office on Westmoreland St in the heart of the city centre. The company established its first international technology and product centre back in 2017, and since then, the headcount has grown to 40 employees locally.
The company has experienced great success since its establishment in 2013. Its product has enabled restaurants to streamline operations, allowing their customers to delight their diners with the ultimate customer experience. As Toast's customer portfolio has grown, their need for top talent has risen steadily. Those currently working at Toast's Dublin office include software engineers, software developers, and customer support professionals. The 120 additional roles planned for the new office include positions in software development, software engineering, data analytics, and product design. See all open positions here.
Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, welcomed the announcement, noting the power Ireland's highly skilled, talented workforce has to attract top companies to our shores. The announcement by Toast, which is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland, received a similar welcome from Mary Buckley, Executive Director of IDA Ireland. Buckley attributed the investment made by Toast, and other high growth international companies, to the "ease of access to a talented workforce" in the country.
Hugh Scandrett, Toast's Senior Vice President of Engineering, cited Dublin's status as "a recognised technology hub in Europe" as one of the primary reasons for the investment in the new office at Ballast House. He echoed the statements of Humphreys and Buckley, adding to the praise of Ireland's tech talent, which he said will be instrumental in Toast's growth over the next few years.
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Hydrolyzed wheat protein may also be called Hyrolyzed Wheat Starch and may be seen as an amber liquid when it is in room temperature. It is naturally derived from wheat and has properties that can hydrate and improve moisture content. Hydrolyzed wheat protein is also classified as wheat oligosaccharides which is a perfect source of a non animal source of protein for many personal care products such as shampoos and cosmetics.
Hydrolyzed wheat protein is also called phyto peptides which are often obtained from soybeans, wheat and corn.
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Hydrolyzed wheat protein is used today throughout many different cultures and industries. Skin care products contain this type of protein in order to retain water or moisture on the skin. Various skin care products such as moisturizers, lotions, skin care serums and anti aging creams contain hydrolyzed wheat protein to effectively preserve or improve skin moisture. Anti aging creams also have this ingredient to minimize fine lines and wrinkles typical of skin exposed to ultra violet light and as a result of natural aging.
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'People have said to me, "On one level it's quite clever, and on another level it's not clever at all,"' says Milton Jones, analysing his own comedy. 'I think that's a compliment,' he laughs. 'I'm not sure. You could take it either way.'
Over the last 20 years Jones has established himself as the master of one-liners. The professor of puns. The king of the zingers. And nonsense has always played a crucial role in his streams of non-sequiturs.
Even Jones's on stage appearance screams 'absurd': the wild hair, wide eyes and garish Hawaiian shirts. Put those alongside his beautifully constructed pieces of wordplay, and it's helped the 52-year-old stand-up stand out among the t-shirt and suit-wearing comics on 'Mock the Week', which Jones has been regularly appearing on since 2009.
But, in his new touring show – 'Milton Jones is Out There' – we see Jones questioning the importance of his own nonsense in our increasingly divided times. Could we see an end to the silliness and pun-foolery? Answer: absolutely not, as he explains to Go readers here.
The blurb for the new show talks about you 'running for prime minister' and having a 'manifesto of nonsense'. What can you tell us about the show?
'As well as me doing loads of trademark jokes and little sketchy pieces, the show sees me thinking: with all that's going on in the world, maybe I should be doing something more serious rather than talking nonsense. I seem to have a crisis of confidence in terms of: is nonsense of any value? And of course that results in more nonsense rather than less.'
Is it difficult to mould a show in that way – to include a message and a narrative – via lots of one-liners?
'Yes, it is. I end up with a massive bag of jokes which probably don't fit, which is really annoying.'
What are the key differences between the persona and the real Milton Jones?
'I think most comics are accentuated versions of themselves, to some degree. I am, apparently, quite clumsy and I don't approach things particularly rationally. I quite often see the other side of things. The differences are, hopefully, I'm not socially obtuse! I'm quite conventional – I'm married, I have three kids, a house… – so it's almost an escapism from normality. I don't have to be responsible. I don't have to pay car tax.'
How easy is it to find the right kind of shirt?
'It's quite hard. It can't be "whacky" in a stag night way. It needs to be more, just "…no". There has to just be too much brown in it or something.'
The shirts certainly make an impression on 'Mock the Week'. You've been on the show for a long time now.
'I was on recently and I was the third oldest person there in terms of appearances. It felt quite odd. I think the BBC now uses "Mock the Week" to try people out, and it means there's a whole new batch of people coming through, which is great. I feel like a senior statesman.'
And a joke you performed on 'Mock the Week' was the inspiration for the new show…
'Yes, about Boris Johnson. "An idiot with stupid hair running the country?" Bing! That's where it started. I feel like I'm destined to play Boris Johnson at some point.'
Do you actually have a file of your jokes?
'I have an "all my material" file on my computer, yes. You've got to wade through it, but it's worth it because there's loads of stuff in there I've forgotten off the top of my head.'
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Intel Readies 64-Bit Pentiums
Battling back against AMD's increasingly popular Athlon 64 processor, Intel is poised to bring 64-bit computing to its desktop CPU lineup when it unveils its P4 6XX series. The processor family could be announced as early as later this month.
Battling back against AMD's increasingly popular Athlon 64 processor, Intel is poised to bring 64-bit computing to its desktop CPU lineup when it unveils its P4 6XX series. The processor family could be announced as early as later this month.
"The 6XX is a follow-on product to the Pentium 4 Prescott family," says Willy Agatstein, general manager of Intel's reseller products group. "It has an 800-MHz front-side bus, 2 MB of on-die Level 2 cache and EM64T technology. In addition, it has a number of enhanced power-management features, which allows you to get the latest performance, but be able to do it at reduced power."
Interestingly, the 6XX parts won't be Intel's first 64-bit Pentiums, though they will be the first to be broadly available to resellers and consumers. Last summer, Intel quietly began shipping to IBM an OEM version of a Pentium 4 Prescott processor equipped with 64-bit instruction-set extensions. The device was used in an IBM BladeCenter blade server.
Though the new 6XXs will have a beefier cache to boost performance, folding in the 64-bit capability wasn't much of a technical challenge. More than a year ago, at an analyst's meeting for the business community, Intel president Paul Otellini revealed that Intel was building its 64-bit instruction-set extensions into all its Prescott-class processors, but that it wasn't turning the feature on. Otellini said it was holding off on enabling the extensions until Microsoft was ready to release a 64-bit version of its Windows XP operating system.
The 64-bit release of Windows XP still isn't officially available, but it appears to be wending its way toward shipment. A second beta version was recently made available to developers by Microsoft. Though Microsoft and Intel aren't commenting, talk has been circulating that this will be the final beta before an imminent official release.
Compared with some previous processor rollouts, Intel appears to be soft-pedaling the 6XX. That could be because it doesn't want to overemphasize 64-bit instruction-set extensions, since competitor AMD kicked off that category nearly two a years ago when it debuted its AMD64 architecture and companion extensions. These are implemented in AMD's Opteron server and Athlon 64 desktop processors. Intel's extensions, which were first used in a Xeon server processor and are called EM64T, are compatible with AMD's extensions.
According to Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research in Cave Creek, Ariz., the extensions won't be a big differentiator.
"It's going to be a moot point, because most likely by midyear both companies will be offering complete coverage in the [desktop] performance segment," he says. "It is a significant advance, however. It's not going to get used a lot initially. It's much more important for establishing an infrastructure for when the applications will be using it a year or two down the road."
The Intel 6XX processors are single-core devices. Intel's first multicore CPUs are expected to be announced later this year.
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