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Created in 1948 by the late Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis, a psychiatrist from Scottsdale, Ariz., Rex Morgan M.D. continues to be the quintessential family practice physician.
Dr. Dallis created Rex Morgan M.D. not only as an exciting and entertaining comic strip, but also as an educational tool: a comic strip that would heighten the awareness of readers about the importance of modern medicine.
Over the years, we have seen Rex deal with the compelling medical and social issues of our times: drug abuse, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, diabetes, organ transplants, adoption and sexual harassment, just to name a few. There have been more than a few documented cases in which readers were actually able to identify illnesses in themselves from information presented in Rex Morgan M.D.
The strip's realism has made it a valuable resource for health care professionals around the country. The Leahy Foundation used a Rex Morgan series on epilepsy as a teaching tool for professionals and students at Harvard University. The Cuyahoga County Witness/Victim Service Center Family Violence Program in New York used a Rex Morgan segment in its handbook for battered women.
Rex Morgan M.D. appears in over 300 newspapers nationwide and with an estimated 30 million readers every day in the United States and 14 foreign countries, Rex continues to be one of the most well-known and best-loved physicians in the world.
June is Rex's wife, constant companion and long-time dutiful nurse.
America's most well known and best-loved physician. Since 1948 he's graced the comics page with his medical prowess. As a leading man, Rex embodies all the characteristics of a comic strip hero; he's handsome, decisive, compassionate, intelligent, honest - and he can cook. He's also recently married to his long time nurse and constant companion, the beautiful June Gale.
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Illuminated Rome
(Year Round, every evening) (Approx. 2 hours and is a tape recorded earphone w/ no inside visit included) Piazza dell'Esquilino - Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica - Piazza Venezia - Colosseum - Palatino - Theatre of Marcellus - the Capitol - Castel Sant'Angelo - The Vatican City with St. Peter's Basilica - Piazza Navona (stop) - Via del Corso - Trevi Fountain (stop) - Piazza dell'Esquilino. At the end of the tour, clients will be taken back to the their hotels or in the immediate vicinity.

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Bill Powers <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> I have read recently that, on a national level, there is grave concern for
> the possible loss of significant fractions of the snow melt from the
> Sierras, a source that supplies most of Southern CA and much of the San
> Leandro Valley. Do you have an opinion on these prospects?
> Before I address the main question I'll address this one first. The current
consensus is at least in the Southern Sierra the snowpack is holding up.
(John Cristy was not published on this not because people wanted to deny the
results but rather we now have 4 years of studies that say what he
concluded.) The Rockies are a different story. Lakes Mead and Powell are
half full and there is a 50% chance of being empty in the 2020 time frame.
The last time it was this warm in the U.S. we had ghost forests because the
pine bark beetle was not killed off in the Winter. A pine bark beetle
infestation was predicted in 2001 because of global warming and we have it
now with a vengeance. It looks like we're headed for a complete loss in the
pine forests here. This exasperates the water supply problem because of run
off from the forests that are more susceptible to wild fires will pollute
the water supply to the Western U.S. Also in the Rockies we are losing
species due to the elevator effect such as the pika that used to be numerous
in Rocky Mountain National Park. Species are now migrating poleward at a
average rate of 4 miles per decade but that's not fast enough because the
isotherms are moving poleward at 10 miles per decade.
AGW makes some very specific predictions coming from the simulations of the
CO2 forcing. Let's see if the current data fits it:
1. Polar amplification. The warming is faster at the poles than the equator.
The NH warms faster than the SH because the SH has more oceans to store
heat. The NH warming will be more variable than the SH again because of the
ocean composition. The South Pole will experience little to no warming due
to the circumpolar current around Antarctica.
2. The surface and the troposphere warm at a rate of around 0.15-0.18
degrees C per decade in a multi-decadal trend. (We need a multi-decadal
trends to average out decadal length oscillations).
3. The stratosphere will cool.
Glenn distrusts anything but October so I will limit myself to that month.
So what does October look like. (Note: I'm using 2008 because NCDC is
updating their web pages and graphs for their yearly report where they will
announce "*The 2000-2009 decade will be the warmest on record, with its
average global surface temperature about 0.54 °C (0.96 °F) above the
20thCentury average. This will easily surpass the 1990s value of 0.36
Polar amplification: check.
Warming trend: check.
Looks like significant warming but maybe you just distrust surface records
altogether does the troposphere show the predicted 0.12-0.15 degree warming?
UAH Low Troposphere trend for October: 0.14 degrees C per decade warming
RSS Low Troposphere trend for October: 0.16 degrees C per decade warming
UAH Mid Troposphere trend for October: 0.14 degrees C per decade warming
RSS Mid Troposphere trend for October: 0.18 degrees C per decade warming
RATPAC Mid Troposphere trend for January-October: 0.15 degress C per decade
To see how RATPAC and the surface trends line up see this annual comparison
from last year. Note: I'll update this post when all the 2009 data comes out
in the next few days. It's only the graphics that aren't available the
trends above are from 2009.
Finally what about the stratosphere? It's on a 0.2 degree C per decade
cooling trend! Everything lines up for AGW and is why the AGU survey of
climatologists have 97% believe AGW.
This is what Randy and I mean when we say Glenn doesn't engage the totality
of the data. Everything lines up to the same answer whether from computer
models, surface data, satellite data, radiosonde data, or species migration.
Complaining about specific stations is just complete nonsense.
Rich Blinne
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North Carolina Installs Nine Wind for Schools Projects in 2011: A Wind Powering America Success Story
Feb. 14, 2012
North Carolina's Wind for Schools project team installed nine projects in the Tar Heel State in 2011 and hopes to facilitate more installations in 2012.
According to Dave French, associate director of the Appalachian State University Wind Application Center, the achievement can be attributed to the group's preliminary work preparing for the multiple installations which was rewarded when funding was received late in the year. While waiting for the funding, the team members concentrated on siting, identifying host schools, and talking to teachers.
"It was really nice to finally be able to call those teachers and tell them that we were able to deliver once we got our funding. Then things kind of turned into a sprint," French said.With a deadline of six months in which to spend the money, the group had limited time for the planning, zoning, and construction process for the nine schools. To complete all installations prior to the end of the year, the group contracted them to Sundance Energy Systems, a local company with renewable energy project experience.
Seven of the nine schools installed the 2.4-kilowatt Skystream 3.7 turbine. Installations were divided into two categories: coastal and mountain. The coastal schools are First Flight Middle School, JP Knapp High School, and Cape Hatteras Secondary School of Coastal Studies. The mountain schools are Avery County High School, Alleghany County High School, Watauga County High School, and North Wilkes Middle School. The team also installed turbines at the College of Albemarle's Dare and Edenton campuses.
Two sources provided funding for the projects. A rural development grant that was part of a state program focused on workforce development provided funding for the coastal installations. The Wind for Schools project team partnered with Albemarle Resource Conservation & Development to apply for this funding. The North Carolina Green Business Fund provided funding for the mountain installations.
Jessica Hocz, program manager at the Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development, Inc. and North Carolina Wind for Schools project state facilitator, believes that these projects are important examples of wind energy in a state with few installations.
"Utility-scale wind really hasn't taken hold in North Carolina," Hocz said. "It's a state that has a great wind resource on the coast and in the mountains, but we have a lot of challenges right now, so it's more important than ever to promote wind energy, even if it's on a small scale."
"We were very encouraged by the progress of the North Carolina Wind for Schools team over the past year," said Ian Baring-Gould, Wind Powering America technical director. "The five new states that joined the Wind for Schools project last year hit the road sprinting, and we are very encouraged by their progress. By the end of 2012, we expect to have more than 100 wind turbines installed at schools across the nation that directly relate to the Wind for Schools project. Although this may not be many in general terms, the tens of thousands of students who walk by these turbines every morning will help determine the future of our great nation."
Funding for additional school projects in 2012 is still undetermined, but the team members continue to identify likely host school sites in the interim.
"We have some really good candidate schools picked out," French said. "We're at kind of the same place we were last year, where we picked out some sites with a combination of a good resource and a teacher who's really interested in the project. They've been spreading the word around their schools, and we've been trying to come through on our end. Once Jess Hocz secures funding, we'll be able to move forward with this next round."
The U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Powering America initiative also provides funding for the Wind for Schools project, which works to raise awareness in rural America about the benefits of wind energy while increasing the wind knowledge base of future leaders of our communities, states, and nation. The project is currently supported in 11 states (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia).
More information about the Wind for Schools project is available.
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Hi Guys,
I think the iPin Pro will be attractive to anyone that completes building surveys. I don't complete as many as I used to which involved two persons a lot of the time. This device eliminates the need for a second person as the user simply takes photos and extrapolates the height, width and length dimensions back at base.
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The iPin Pro attaches to a smartphone magnetically and the better the smartphone's camera resolution the better the results. It can be used as a standalone device also.
The specs are quite impressive,
The iPin Pro is a current Kickstarter campaign and pitched at around €68. Anyone interested can check it out here.
iPin Pro - Ideal for one-man building surveys!
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Re: iPin Pro - Ideal for one-man building surveys!
might be good. I've tried a few iPAD apps that don't have an add-on and found them lacking. It's got to be dependable or it's a waste of time. One such app required zeroing in on all the corners of the room. First you had to find an empty room!
MacOSX Mojave ShetchUp Pro v19 Twilight Pro v2 M2 Kerkythea PowerCADD
Re: iPin Pro - Ideal for one-man building surveys!
Hi pbacot,
I've also tried out a few iPad apps where one has to zero in on the corners. It was a bit clunky and the results were not that great.
I take you point about taking pics with furniture in place. I have asked the campaigner about this and will report back with anything I learn.
Re: iPin Pro - Ideal for one-man building surveys!
looks interessting.
Does it also creat an SU file in output?
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Welcome in the city of Joseph Haydn!
City Hall
Haydn House Eisenstadt
The capital of Burgenland, one of nine Austrian states, is situated at the foot of the Leitha Mountains. The town of 14,000 inhabitants is one of the smaller capitals in the Austrian federation.
Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt is one of the most beautiful baroque palaces in Austria and presents a fascinating view of the resplendent life once lived at the court of the Princes Esterházy.
When he got promoted to conductor in 1766, Haydn bought this house and lived there with his wife Aloisia Keller until 1778. Haydn and Eisenstadt are inseparable. From 1761 on, Haydn worked as conductor for the Esterházy court
The pilgrim church "Visitation" was built between 1715 and 1803 according to plans drawn up by Prince Paul I. Esterházy. Unfortunately, the prince did not live to see the groundbreaking ceremony as he died from the plague in 1713.


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The latest Essential Politics news feed has gotten started over here.
You can bookmark latimes.com/essentialpolitics to track the latest in Sacramento and around the state.
Vice President Joe Biden will rally the party faithful next weekend, as California Democrats gather for their annual convention.
The state Democratic Party has announced Biden will speak to attendees on Saturday, Feb. 27, at the convention in San Jose.
It's worth noting that in the last open race for the White House, Biden took a pass on wooing California's Democrats. He was the only candidate in the 2008 Democratic presidential race who skipped the California party's convention in 2007.
A documentary that takes sharp aim at the use of extracting oil through hydraulic fracturing premieres tonight at showings in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the title makes it clear where the filmmakers are pointing their critique.
The documentary is called, quite simply, "Dear Governor Brown."
The 20-minute film focuses on California's oil industry, with the filmmakers making it clear that Brown and state officials haven't done enough when it comes to fracking.
The long, wonky negotiations over Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to revamp a tax on healthcare plans are now getting more overtly political.
The Assembly GOP caucus has staked out its bargaining stance, looking to dictate more than $800 million in spending that would be made possible by the new tax package.
Senate Republicans have taken a more hardline position against the proposal. Other GOP allies, including health insurers and the California Chamber of Commerce, publicly support the plan.
Immigrants in the country illegally who study to become physicians and nurses would be able to get the same financial help from the state provided to citizens under legislation announced Thursday by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens).
Lara, who has pioneered other immigrant laws, said his bill is necessary to help address a shortage of medical workers in California, especially in under-served immigrant communities.
"Despite the ability for undocumented students to apply for a professional license, these future physicians, nurses and clinical social workers and medical assistants are unable to apply for scholarships or loan repayment," Lara said in a statement. "This bill will strengthen California's workforce by ensuring our skilled medical professionals can complete their education and contribute to the well-being of our state."
A former state senator who points to air pollution in his native Central Valley as a priority has been appointed to the California Air Resources Board, one of two spots on the powerful panel created through a law signed last year.
Dean Florez, a native of Kern County, was tapped on Wednesday afternoon by the Senate Rules Committee to become the newest member of the air board.
Senate leader Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) said in a written statement that the former Democratic legislator has "the experience to fight for kids struggling to breathe in our communities and the resolve to stand up to the oil lobby who want to keep the status quo."
A trio of state Assembly members wants to prohibit school districts from collecting students' Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.
The measure was inspired by news that 10 million public school students' records -- that include Social Security numbers and medical information -- must be turned over to a parents advocacy organization that is suing the state Department of Education.
The parents' suit contends that special needs students are not getting enough school resources.
A new wage-equality law aimed at helping women in California should be extended to also reduce disparities in pay by race, a state lawmaker said Wednesday.
Sen. Isadore Hall III (D-Compton) introduced a bill that would prohibit employers from paying workers a wage rate less than the rate paid to employees of a different race or ethnicity for "substantially similar" work.
"No employee should be denied an equal wage for an equal day of work," said Hall, who is chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, during a Capitol news conference. "It is an economic injustice. It is discriminatory. It is just wrong."


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Strong business practices are integral to daily life on the largest U.S. farms. These operations—roughly 40,000 in all according to USDA—manage more than a third of the country's cropland by closely analyzing field work and inputs along with commodity prices and the cost of production.
There's just one problem: Much of that information is stored separately in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, accounting software and in paper form. That makes it difficult to get a full picture of a complex operation, share information across a team or to compare historical data to improve efficiencies year-to-year.
To that end, a new company called Granular Inc. has developed a cloud-based software platform that producers can use to manage work assignments while storing and analyzing an array of farm data for planning, operations, marketing and accounting.
"Farmers have the same need to build a really detailed plan and schedule, and then execute that plan efficiently in the growing cycle," says Sid Gorham, CEO, Granular. "Coming out the back, they need to use all of that information to make the right decisions around grain marketing, business expansion and future crop cycles."
The system will enable Tom Farms LLC of Leesburg, Ind., to dispatch, send work orders and allocate resources to operators in the field, while tracking associated cost, says managing member Kip Tom. His operation is one of seven in the Midwest that will beta test the software during spring planting.
"This is going to give us the ability to understand our cost of operations real time, as well as benchmarking, and forecasting to make better financial decisions," Tom explains. The equipment operator with a few clicks on his smart phone or tablet will share with his team his or her progress and as well the back office the cost associated with a field process.
The subscription service will be made available for purchase starting this summer at an annual per-acre cost. Additional business tools and functionality for smaller operations are planned in the future.
From soil to software. Work on the software began at Solum Inc., a soil testing and fertility analysis company founded in 2009. This month, Solum was acquired by The Climate Corporation and will maintain operations in Ames, Iowa, where its soil lab operates.
Meanwhile, the software portion of the business operating under a new name—Granular—is headquartered in San Francisco with a growing employee base in the central Corn Belt. Gorham, whose previous projects include the restaurant reservation platform OpenTable, says Granular appealed to him because of agriculture's global importance and the challenge of learning a new industry
"I am really excited to serve this customer base and develop technology that farming businesses, which are vitally important to the world, can use to be as successful as possible," he says.
Development of the farm business software is being funded in part with proceeds from the sale of Solum along with $4.2 million from the venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures.
An Industry Advisory Board will guide the company's strategy and is chaired by Tom. Other members include David Hughes, president, TraulenCo S.A.; Danny Klinefelter, professor and Extension economist with Texas AgriLife Extension and Texas A&M University; and Lance Woodbury, an adviser to family-owned and closely-held businesses.
"We wanted a representation of folks who are producers themselves but also people like Danny and Lance who are business advisers and business teachers to the industry," Gorham explains.
Spring testing. In Indiana, Tom is working with between 15 and 20 farm employees to train on the new business platform. He and his son, Chris, had been seeking an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, which most manufacturers use to understand the inner workings of their business.
He says Granular is an exciting development because it will limit duplication of work and allow for earlier analysis of business practices. Previously, the farm used Excel files with hundreds of tabs and CenterPoint accounting software to manage its information. Eventually, he expects, Granular will handle all of it.
"Looking into the future, we'll be considering weather data and how prior data in similar years affected our ability to plant our crop by a certain date," Tom says.
The farm management team will access the Granular platform through a web application. "For everyone else on the team, there is a Granular mobile application that will be installed on their smartphone, either Android or Apple, and that is focused on work orders and collaboration tools," Gorham explains.This year, Tom will use the software to keep track of the operational cost of equipment, daily activities, and the number of acres that can be planted per planter per day.
The system will also benefit farmer peer-to-peer networks, Gorham adds.
"One of the challenges they have is getting their data organized in an apples-to-apples way so you can start drawing real conclusions around which farms are doing something potentially better than what others are doing," he says.
Although Granular has been focused on corn and soybean growers in the Midwest, Gorham says the software isn't specific to any cropping system. That means farmers throughout the U.S. will be able to use the service.
The company intends to deliver accounting functionality either through a partnership or by building its own tools. Additionally, Granular plans to partner or integrate with manufacturers of various precision ag and machine-control software.
"There are lots of different precision ag packages on the market that, to varying degrees, people are happy with," Gorham says. "That is one we probably won't need to tackle."
Further, Granular's functionality means the company could take the software to places such as Latin America and the former Soviet Union in the future.
"Those are very attractive markets," he says.
The company has taken steps to encrypt data and secure it against hacking and other misuse. While there might be opportunities to market anonymized and aggregated data in the distant future, Granular pledges to only do so with the full buy-in of its customer base, Gorham says.
"If and when we pursue it, we will do it in such a way that our customers share in the profit of that data-sharing," he notes
For now, the company is concentrating on its initial testing and rollout of the business software to charter customers, but prospecting for customers is underway ahead of the post-planting official launch.
"I think this is going to be something that clearly will help farmers differentiate themselves from, quote end quote, their competition because they're going to have access to more information to give themselves the ability to make better decisions," Tom says. "Granular should be broadly accepted."
For more information, visit http://www.granular.ag/.
Solving three limitations
The cloud-based software platform Granular aims to help farm operators by providing:
- Better information collection: Measurement is the key to process improvement. Until producers know how long it took them to do something, they can't do it faster. By planning and monitoring their operations via the Granular system, growers will collect the statistics they need to drive efficiency both within and across crop cycles.
- Information integration: Because Excel, paper and accounting records are disconnected, it is hard for growers to get an end-to-end understanding of their process or their profitability. This, in turn, makes it hard to make the best business decisions or improve efficiency quickly.
- Information sharing: Farm businesses can have 20 or more team members dispersed over a wide geographic area performing complex work. By using the Granular app on their mobile devices, these teams can share information, stay coordinated and get their work done faster and easier.


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Get to Know Oakland
Oakland—TO KNOW IT IS TO LOVE IT
Oaktown. O-Town. The place that Gertrude Stein famously said had "no there there." No matter what you call it, Oakland defies labels and categorizations. With more than 400,000 people residing in this culturally diverse metropolis, the city buzzes with different points of view, eclectic approaches, and creative ideas.
A major urban center on the east side of the San Francisco Bay, about 12 miles from San Francisco across the Oakland Bay Bridge, Oakland is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the country, with different populations at home in distinct and vibrant neighborhoods, from the flatlands and the Port of Oakland to the Oakland-Berkeley hills. Often called the "bright side of the Bay" because of its sunny skies and moderate year-round climate.
Oakland is the only city in the United States with a natural saltwater lake. The 115-acre Lake Merritt, located right beside OMCA, boasts a popular 3.1 mile walking and jogging path around its perimeter, but it is also historically significant as the United States' first official wildlife refuge, designated in 1870.
Oakland is a forward-thinking city with an independent attitude, a revived downtown with destination restaurants, robust arts and cultural communities, historic and contemporary architecture, and an abundance of recreational opportunities. Nature and sports enthusiasts also enjoy the East Bay Regional Park District and nature preserves in and around Oakland.
Many locals claim that Oakland has more artists per capita than any other American city. Over the years, Oakland has spawned a thriving, alternative arts scene: rhythm and blues, funk, punk, hip hop, jazz, and experimental music; community visual artists and artist-run galleries; and neighborhood-based open-mic sessions, workshops, and theater performances. In addition, many annual festivals celebrate the city's diverse cultures and communities.
Environmental consciousness plays an important role in Oakland culture, as evidenced by dynamic local campaigns for car pooling and bicycling to work, among other programs and initiatives. In 2007, the city adopted a Bicycle Master Plan to fully integrate bicycling into daily life.
Oakland has a number of college campuses, including Mills, Laney, and the California College of the Arts. It is home to three professional sports teams—baseball, basketball, and football—and has two major sports arenas. It has one of the busiest seaports in the world, making it an important business and manufacturing center.
Located in an area once inhabited by the Ohlone people before Spanish settlers colonized the land, Oakland was incorporated in 1852 during the land frenzy spurred by the California Gold Rush. The city grew initially from logging the oak and redwood timber needed for the construction of San Francisco; Oakland's fertile flatlands helped it become a prolific agricultural region.


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Review by Nonjatta contributor - Dramtastic:
Nikka From the Barrel. 51.4 per cent alcohol.
Nose: Lots of chunky malt, mixed peel, dried apricots. A bowl of mixed nuts, wood stain and some subtle florals.
Palate: Just excellent! Tons of big beautifully integrated spices, creamy nuttiness, nougat and malty goodness. No need for water with this one as it's perfectly drinkable neat.
Finish: Long, warming, malty, nutty, spicy and mouth coating.
General comment: This is my No.1 "bang for your buck" whisky, bar none. Fortunately, it is not only good value in Japan, but also in Europe and the UK as well. A firm favourite with most of the people I know who've tried it. Sneak this one into your next blind tasting and I defy anyone to pick this as a blend. A two time award winner at the World Whisky awards, I find it very hard to stop at just one glass of this stuff.


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Jeffrey Walton, Security Consultant.
This is an older toolkit, Jeff fell in love with it when he was in college in the 90s. He's been working in computer security ever since.
Crypto++ is a C++ class library, written by Wei Dai in June 1995. It's a general purpose crypto library, handed over to the community in 2015. https://www.cyrptopp.com/
When the library was hit with CVE in 2015, he handed it over to the community to develop. Since Jeffrey has been using it since 1990s, he was chosen to become one of the maintainers. Wei Dei still advises.
C++03 through C++17 have heavy use of templates and static polymorphism (yay C++). Makes things faster, but makes it hard to adopt, especially as there is not excellent documentation. He tries to use questions on stackoverflow to demonstrate where to spend time on the documentation.
Right now, crypto++ is on the historical validation list, which makes it pretty much useless... (them and everyone else ended up on the list last year, due to DRBG changes).
Crypto++ validations are on Windows only. Includes NIST approved algorithms; RNG, AES, SHA, MAC, RSA, DH. There are non-FIPS routines in other DLLs.
Going forward, he'd like to add C bindings. Would like to add an engine-like interface. Will they do another validation? Probably not - too expensive. But, could wrap around other validated crypto to take advantage.
Crypto++ now uses OpenSSL's FIPS Object Module, to effectively provide a FIPS validated module - so you can stay on your C++ bindings and not make changes to your application.
Going forward, he
Take Your Poet To Work Day - I was browsing a list of holidays this month and read that today is "Take Your Poet To Work Day." Now, it's *conceivable* that "poet" is a typo for "pet"...


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Here I write about various events I was involved in and ideas that inspired me. Recently, it is more of a linux blog because I have been doing a lot of work on it. However, off and on I write on various other things that my mind just can't let go easily.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
E17 review
10 comments:
- Wido said...
"4. with streaming videos temp rises very fast
While watching online streaming videos, I have noticed the temperature suddenly shooting up very fast. With temperatures around 40-50, its fine; but when it rises till 60 it becomes alarming..."
and.....why is this an E's problem??? I'm an E17 daily user, but video streaming has anything to do with E or EFL
- 3 June 2010 at 04:17
This is not a "review" and shouldn't pretend to be. This is almost NO information here for someone wanting to learn about E17. This is just a gripe about a few bugs (or PEBKAC's as the case may be). Call it "E17 bugs that annoy me", or something else honest: "E17 Review" gets picked up by Google etc. and then people wanting to learn about E17 are directed to this instead.
- 3 June 2010 at 04:23
- Phoenix said...
@Wido: Well this does not happen on KDE 4 on the same system. Initially, I also thought E should not have anything to do with streaming videos; however since it became E17 specific, though I do not have the missing link, I can not help but doubt.
- 3 June 2010 at 15:12
- Phoenix said...
@Anonymous; I did not a tutorial that you start looking forward to learning something. I do not understand why people try to learn from reviews. If you want to learn about E17, go to their wiki page.
- 3 June 2010 at 15:19
- swiftnet said...
I use E17 on my main workstation and on my netbook. I have not encountered the keystroke problem. I do not watch streaming video very often so I cannot comment on the high temp problem. I do not use EMAC's, so again I cannot comment. I am very happy with E17.
- 3 June 2010 at 20:54
- scottiger said...
Regarding #3: could be that you are switching desktops. This happens to me a lot. When I switch desktops, the window in the new desktop that is under the mouse does not obtain focus, even though it appears to. Alt+tab fixes the problem. Of course, this is a bug.
Alex, e17 user
- 3 June 2010 at 22:47
- Phoenix said...
@swiftnet: When as long as I haven't traced the root of the problem, I can't comment. That is why I said I am clueless. For now, it appears to be related to E17.
@Alex: Well is there a bug report filed about it?
- 4 June 2010 at 02:16
Really this isn't a review, this is way too short for it.
Just mentioned a few things you don't like.
You did not mention ONE THING about what they do differently. Or what Enlightment 17 is build with.
Seriously, change the name.
- 4 June 2010 at 23:42
- Phoenix said...
@Anonymous: Well the reason this blog is short is that I didn't want to repeat things I have already blogged about. So, I have just included a link to my previous blogs that talk about Enlightenment. I think that suffices to make it a review and thus the name.
- 22 June 2010 at 01:16
- Inversiones en oro said...
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So many great old coats of paints seen here on this building in central Havana, Cuba.
Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
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Make do and mend with tiles in central Havana, Cuba.
Turquoise ripples
Beauty in decay
There's a bewildering mix of dilapidated and restored (sometimes both) buildings in Havana. If you look closely enough you'll see fragments of what used to be.
Into the blue
Lovely old building in Gastown, Vancouver.
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Leaves and lines
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Generally speaking, law firms tend to be early adopters of innovative, niche technologies. Not surprising then, law firms were quick to implement video conferencing solutions to cut travel. By doing so, they can see two immediate benefits:
- Increased billable hours through reduced commuting and business travel
- Improved work / life balance
Although some law firms are using video conferencing for everything from recruiting top talent to depositions, many firms are not getting the most out of their video communications investment. As early adopters of this technology, law firms may not be benefiting from recent advances in picture quality, and operational ease. Therefore, it is important for them to ask the following questions to re-evaluate their existing video conferencing solution:
- Is easy to use, even for non-technical people?
- Can it easily manage multiple endpoints regardless of manufacturer – therefore, protecting your investment in legacy equipment?
- Does it allow you to talk with other systems by utilizing firewall transversal?
- Does it have cutting-edge features that clients and employees now expect such as mobility and presence?
- Does it deliver a "high-touch" experience with the highest-quality resolution?
If you answered no to any of these questions, its probably time for you to investigate upgrades as you are probably not getting the most out of your visual communications investment.
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I know that when most of us think of fudge, we don't think of it as necessarily being the most healthy treat, but in this case I assure you that it is. Just the goodness of coconut oil, coconut milk, raw honey, unsweetened cocoa and some vanilla with a dash of almond extract.
I've been looking for a way to incorporate more coconut oil into my diet other than just cooking with it and this recipe is key here. Just a few nibbles throughout the day and I'm getting a decent dose of this wonderful oil that has a multitude of health benefits. For a while, I tried putting some on my toast with some jam, but that just didn't do it for me. This is much tastier.
I stumbled across the recipe at The Sweet Plantain and didn't wait long before trying it. I was going to incorporate some peanut butter for a protein boost, but decided against it because I wanted to taste it with just a few heaps of cocoa and some flavoring. I'm glad I did and I suspect that I will be exploring the possibilities in the near future. Visions of mint dance in my head and maybe even dried fruit for a chunkier version.
My only complaint was my ingredients were a bit too hard because my kitchen is cold, but that has nothing to do with the recipe — the coconut oil was a bit of a pain to scoop out and my honey was rather hard too. It was worth the effort though. If you are working with colder ingredients, you just have to work with them more to get a smooth consistency.
|No-Bake Coconut Oil Fudge
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from The Sweet Plantain
Published on November 22, 2013
Simple and healthy no-bake cocoa fudge with coconut oil and raw honey, like fudgey bites of chocolate ice cream
More healthy indulgences you are sure to enjoy from Lisa's Kitchen:
Cherry Nut Bars
Chia Seed Pudding
Chocolate Cocoa Brownies with Dried Cranberries and Chickpea Flour
Cocoa Fruit Treats
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HIV Drug Could Prevent "Cervical Cancer by Killing Off Virus That Causes Disease"
The HIV drug lopinavir is selectively toxic to human papillomavirus-positive cervical cells, a new study suggests. About 3,000 UK women are diagnosed with cervical cancer annually, mostly due to HPV infection by high-risk strains, which have also been linked to oral cancers.
Previous laboratory cell cultures found the protease inhibitor killed HPV-infected cells but left healthy cells relatively unharmed. In the new study, Dr. Ian Hampson, of the University of Manchester, and Canadian colleagues concluded that lopinavir's toxicity is related to its ability to block viral proteasome activation and induce an up-regulation of the antiviral protein Ribonuclease L.
"Lopinavir kills these HPV-infected cells by reactivating a well-known antiviral system that is suppressed by HPV," Hampson said. "This is a very significant finding as these cells are not cancer cells but are the closest thing to being like the cells found in a precancerous HPV infection of the cervix," Hampson said.
However, an effective treatment would need to be administered at a dosage 10-15 times that taken by HIV patients. That could require a cream or vaginal insert rather than oral formulation, said Hampson.
"These results are very exciting since they show that the drug not only preferentially kills HPV-infected non-cancerous cells by reactivating known antiviral defense systems, it is also much less toxic to normal non-HPV-infected cells," said study co-author Dr. Lynne Hampson. "Our latest findings provide very strong evidence to support a clinical trial using topical application of this drug to treat HPV infections of the cervix."
The study, "Lopinavir Up-Regulates Expression of the Antiviral Protein Ribonuclease L in Human Papillomavirus-Positive Cervical Carcinoma Cells," was published online ahead of the print edition of Antiviral Therapy (2011; doi:10.3851/IMP1786).


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JAKARTA, Indonesia A strong earthquake jolted eastern Indonesia on Friday, sending panicked people running out of their houses and buildings, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency said there was no danger of a tsunami, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was a "very small possibility" for a tsunami near the epicenter.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake measured magnitude 6.7 and was centered 108 kilometers (67 miles) north of Dobo village, at a depth of 24 kilometers (15 miles).
Victor Siahaya, a resident in Dobo, a closest village to the epicenter said that strong earthquake shook everything at his house, forcing him and his family run.
"It was so strong... many people screaming while running in panic," Siahaya said, "But I don't see any damage in my neighborhood."
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Office Depot and OfficeMax have announced a merger, teaming up to fight industry big boy Staples and competition from general merchandise juggernauts Walmart and Amazon.
The move will buy time, but it won't save the office supply chains.
Not Office Depot, not OfficeMax, not even Staples, which analysts are touting as the post-merger winner.
These office retailers will all be destroyed unless they fundamentally change how they do business.
The biggest threat is the fact that workplaces are going digital, making the decline of the office supply industry a reality.
"All three companies [OfficeMax, Office Depot, and Staples] could soon face an even larger existential threat than Amazon," wrote Ryu Spaeth at The Week. "The rapid digitalization of a workforce that has grown less reliant on notepads, pens, and printers. And that may be a trend no merger can solve."
For instance, p aper shipments have continued to plummet as offices go digital and become more efficient.
Just look at this chart from the Federal Register:
The shift to the paper-free cloud is not only affecting paper and printers.
It also means that people don't need mega-packs of highlighters, because they're going through data on their iPad. They don't have to buy pens to jot down notes, because they're typing them out on Evernote. They don't need staplers, because a file on a computer monitor doesn't need to be stapled.
"This is a cloud- and tablet-based and paper-free world," wrote Cody Willard at MarketWatch. "We're already there, and all those trends are only going to get bigger."
Derek Thompson at The Atlantic points out that there are only few retail segments more doomed than office supplies.
Here's a chart of percentage change in jobs in various retail segments that Thompson got from EMSI. All of the segments worse off than office stores have been infamously decimated in recent years and office stores are poised to follow:
And the bad news doesn't stop there. The three biggest office supply chains are all big box specialty stores — a broken concept.
Best Buy, the most visible living victim of the Amazon steamroller, has started making moves to streamline itself with its smaller Best Buy 2.0 prototypes. Even almighty Walmart isn't immune. It's aggressively expanding its grocery business with smaller, standalone shops instead of supercenters.
We've already seen consolidation among big boxes with the death of once-mighty CompUSA, Circuit City, Borders, Linens N' Things, and others. K-Mart continues to close stores like crazy. Department stores are getting slammed too — jobs in that sector are down more than 40 percent since 2001, according to the data from EMSI.
Now, both Office Depot and Staples have been working on developing and expanding smaller-sized physical concepts.
An Office Depot exec acknowledged the need for change back in 2011, saying, "Our customers have spoken loud and clear: The big box era is over for them, they value convenience and speed, and they are voting with their wallet."
But it won't be enough to reduce store square-footage. Small stores with all the same products aren't going to suddenly make workplaces revert to the old ways.
And it won't be enough to change the product assortment away from stacks of paper notepads and manila folders if margins are being tightened due to money wasted on unneeded store space.
The current model will implode, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. It's the end of the office supply retail world as we know it and these retailers will have to make radical transformations in both areas if they want to survive.


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Sculptor and painter Ellen Steinfeld, whose work is on exhibition at St. Bonaventure University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, will give a talk at the center at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17.
Steinfeld will talk about the exhibit, "Explorations," which features various pieces from her advanced repertoire of imagery and techniques, including abstracted, painted "plates," sculpture and handmade paper pieces. She will also show slides of other work.
The talk is free and open to the all. Refreshments will be served.
Steinfeld has had a long presence in Western New York, and through exhibitions, public installations and commissions, has become known throughout North America. She has received numerous large-scale public and private commissions including a monumental 18-foot steel sculpture for the atrium of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo and a commission to design 16 large stained glass windows for Christ Church in Detroit.
Sculpture installations in public spaces, such as the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, have greeted thousands of residents and travelers. Selected by Absolut Vodka to represent New York state, she produced a design that reached a global market through prominent publications in a campaign that raised money for AIDS research. Works in various media have been selected and incorporated into public spaces including schools, hotels, hospitals, museums, airports, stadiums and corporate collections.
Steinfeld's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in more than 26 solo exhibitions and included in more than 90 group exhibitions in the United States and Canada. Her works are in many permanent collections including those of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Museum, the Burchfield-Penney Museum, the Washington State Art in Public Places Collection, the State of Florida Art in Public Buildings Collection and the New York State Art Museum in Albany.
She has won many national awards as well as fellowships from New York state's Community Arts Partnership and the New York State Council on the Arts. She has been a visiting artist, lecturer and teacher at several universities, and is the subject of two documentary films.
The exhibition will is open until Dec 1.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A number of major donors to cyclist Lance Armstrong's Livestrong cancer charity in Texas say they won't be donating anymore because of his alleged drug use.
The charity he founded in 1997 to help cancer survivors and their families after his own battle with testicular cancer is being re-examined by donors after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency alleged last week the cyclist engaged in a "sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program."
Armstrong stepped down as the charity's chairman, but appealed to donors to separate the accusations from the organization's work, CNN reported.
Connie and Daniel Roddy of Santa Monica, Calif., told the broadcaster they had donated $50,000 to Livestrong and helped others raise $150,000.
Connie Roddy said they'd like that money back, as Armstrong wasn't what he claimed to be.
"I feel we were really fooled," she said. "We were really hoodwinked."
The International Cycling Union is scheduled to make a statement Monday on its review of the USADA allegations.
Armstrong has denied the charges of using performance- and endurance-enhancing drugs.
He won seven Tour de France titles and a bronze medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, all of which could be rescinded.


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DragonCon is a convention dedicated to popular culture held in Atlanta, GA every year over Labor Day weekend. While steamy Atlanta in early September isn't always that pleasant as a destination, no other convention can beat DragonCon's content. Not ComicCon. Not WorldCon. Not nobody. If you like science fiction/fantasy books, movies, television, and games, you owe yourself at least one trip to DragonCon. We've been many times before, and this year was the best time we ever had.
We arrived early this year because last year's registration process was an absolute nightmare. This year was a dream by comparison. We were excited by Susan's fortune cookie on our first night in town.
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We stayed in the Westin, which hosted the Alt. History track, but wasn't in the Hyatt/Marriott/Hilton interconnected hive of activity. It was nice to be out of the beaten path, but also bummed to be cut off from the heart of the con.
|Susan on Plotting panel
There were two central themes to this DragonCon for us. One was hanging out at the Pyr Books booth, participating in autographings, meeting fans, selling books (both ours and others), and working with the Pyr editorial/marketing folks: Lou Anders. Rene Sears. Jill Maxick. Lynn Pasquale. Gabrielle Harbowy, and other Pyr authors: Jon Sprunk. Andrew Mayer. Ari Marmell. Erin Hoffman. Sam Sykes. James Enge (we didn't get a photo of James!). We've said it several times, but being a part of Pyr is like being a part of a family. We truly love all those guys, and respect their work. Creatively, it's like being in the legendary Marvel Comics bullpen in the 1960s. All these fiercely creative and smart people working hard to build their own titles, as well as the Pyr brand. It's really amazing, and amazingly fun.
|Jill Maxick, Lou Anders, Lynn Pasquale
Pyr braintrust
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Mirror Mirror takeover?
|Ari Marmell, Andrew Mayer
|Erin Hoffman, Jon Sprunk
|Sam Sykes, Lou Anders (stylin')
The other significant theme was our event with James Marsters. Regular readers of our blog will know that James Marsters (best known as Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will be voicing the audio version of The Greyfriar, and the entire Vampire Empire trilogy. On Sunday night, we appeared with James at a ticketed event where he read the first chapter of The Greyfriar. Then we all participated in a Q & A. The questions were excellent, focused on the writing process and the world of Vampire Empire. James was a genuinely nice man, and also completely invested in the project. He was totally conversant on characters and plot. Sitting there hearing him read those words we have lived with for so long was a surreal experience. He was fantastic.
|Clay (too serious), James Marsters (so good), Susan (in coma of joy)
Oh, okay, there was a third theme. Enjoying the party. Our editor, Lou Anders, loves to hang out and drink beer and talk books. He also loves to surround himself with his writers, and other writers. He likes writers, and that's a great thing for an editor. We spent every night dining and drinking and watching the incredible show that is DragonCon After Dark. The cavernous lobby of the Marriott Marquis is like another world.
We'll write and show more of that world in another post soon.
When it's over, you're exhausted and ready for a little reality. But after a day or two, you start thinking about DragonCon next year.


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- Author documented a season with the winningest high school football program in America
- He learned the game was a chance to shine for guys who'd already run out of chances
- One player called the field a "secure, supportive place"
What I learned is what we all forget: It's more than a game.
It's easy to lose that understanding with a sport as popular, profitable and money-grubbing as football. This Saturday, TV screens will be filled with college conference title games -- even as universities race each other to new conferences in search of a higher bidder. On Sundays, the NFL's cool efficiency can look more bloodless than its own video games, as if the real thing was now just a parlor game to bet on.
But high school football remains the sport's origin story. Despite its own set of perversions, especially during recruiting season, it's still mostly a hyper-local, myth-making phenomenon that defines small towns, suburban communities and urban pockets across the country.
Two seasons ago, I spent a year in Valdosta, a quaint outpost of about 54,000 in deepest South Georgia, to write a book about that phenomenon. I embedded for a season with players, coaches, boosters and families to chronicle the rise, fall and hoped-for resurrection of the winningest high school football program in America.
Under two era-spanning coaches, Valdosta High won 23 state championships and six national titles. It won so often, for so long, that it could lose every game for the next 65 seasons and still have a record above .500. But Valdosta hadn't won the state title since 1998, the longest drought in its 100-year history, and was on its fourth coach in nine years. Like much of the rest of the country, it seemed, Valdosta was at a crossroad.
This was a place that once held the funeral for one of its most revered coaches inside the football stadium, where nearly 8,000 mourners gazed out at an open casket set on the 50-yard line. The current coach holds his weekly radio show inside a barbecue palace called The Smokin' Pig, run by one of the 21 former Wildcats descended from the same O'Neal. Season tickets are passed down in wills, if they're passed down at all. During a wake a couple years ago for one longtime fan, six tickets for the next home game were spotted in the open casket.
But stuff like that can be written off as garden variety, Southern Gothic eccentricity. The players wanted to talk to me about why they went out there on Friday nights and what football meant to them. That's when the game's mysterious inner world really opened up.
This wasn't the sport of luxury suites, beer commercials and wardrobe malfunctions at halftime. This was football as muse, lifeline, God's will and cultural imperative. This was the chance for some kids who'd already run out of chances to let out one loud, lasting yelp into the wilderness -- a way to show everybody in town who they were, what they were capable of, why they mattered.
"A poet uses a pencil to express himself," senior running back Phillip Moore tapped onto his Facebook page from his phone before one game, "but ima football player so i use 9.5 pair of nikes on turf."
For Reggie McQueen, a defensive back and aspiring rapper, taking the field on Friday nights allowed him to watch his parents smile, talk with a dead aunt, and play a little ball beside his murdered cousin.
As he and his swaggering teammates entered 11,000-seat Bazemore-Hyder Stadium (named for the school's two late, iconic coaches), the stage-lit carpet inside morphed into a fantastical world unlike anything he lived in the rest of the week.
The first person he usually spotted in the stands was his mother, who had Reggie when she was 14, standing and clapping and smiling. Then somewhere nearby he'd find his father, divorced and remarried, and who Reggie mostly remembers as being in jail. Now a landscaper and a preacher, he stood and cheered for his son, too.
Then came the game. Crouching in the defensive backfield before each play -- dreads spilling from his helmet, tats stamped up and down both arms -- Reggie often talked aloud to his dead cousin, gunned down a year earlier in a shootout at a public housing complex across town from the one where Reggie and his mother then lived.
"What would you do, Junior?" he'd say, as if his cousin was a teammate crouched beside him. Or: "This is a big one, Junior. Let's fly!"Or he'd talk to a long-dead aunt who lived with Reggie and his mother, the light of young Reggie's life before she was murdered. The crime went unsolved until after the funeral, when police returned to her grave, dug up her coffin and found the gun used to kill her hidden beneath her corpse.
Their deaths still weighed heavily on Reggie, and the football field felt like a secure, supportive place to work some of that out. Life was hard. Football was easy.
"I got a lot of people who aren't here on my back," Reggie told me one night. "On Friday night, they're living through me.
"On the field, it's my own world," he went on. "It's a place where I can be myself. I don't have to worry about anyone fussin'. My parents come to games and I see them smile and clap their hands and stand up -- stuff like that doesn't happen at home. At home, there's always bills to pay. A tragedy.
"That's why I'm not just playing ball," Reggie continued. "It's more than a game. It's what I live for. When people see ballplayers, they think it's just something they do. I'm there because I love to be there. On the field on Friday night, I'm doing something that loves me back -- I love it and it loves me back."
The game also gave Reggie another thing he couldn't find anywhere else: a taste of immortality, no small thing on the disposable streets where he grew up.
Reggie gave me a tour one night of the Ora Lee West projects he'd lived in until his mother saved enough money to move them out. He still has relatives there and visits all the time. We left an aunt's apartment around midnight, and as we walked back to my car Reggie spotted a group of guys loitering on a corner a block away.
That used to be Reggie. It wasn't anymore. Football made him want something beyond that corner.
"I seen people standing on that same corner all my life," Reggie said. "You can Google me. You can't take anyone on this street and Google them. But you can Google me."
Like Reggie, teammate Malcolm Mitchell also learned to love the game in high school, and it loved him back, too. But while Reggie's last football game as a player was his last game as a Wildcat -- he raps full time now under the stage name Jim Rock -- Malcolm has gone on to star at wide receiver for the University of Georgia. His future looks limitless.
Yet he's already tasted immortality, too. Malcolm blossomed into a head-turning athlete his final season at Valdosta -- he wanted to quit his sophomore year until his mother talked him out of it -- and was wooed by schools across the Southeast, including Alabama and Florida.
That last high school season, he told me about a voice in his head when he took the field, how it told him to anticipate something before it happened, and what to do when it came about. He said the voice had never been louder or more distinct than it was that year. He'd given up trying to figure out what it was. He was just going with it.
"I want to say it's God telling me that something's going to happen," he tried to explain, "but it's something telling me."
Whatever it was, it worked. Malcolm broke Valdosta's three-decade-old record for most catches in a season. The previous record holder was Stan Rome, widely considered the greatest athlete in Valdosta's history. Stan went on to become an NFL wide receiver, as well as the father of Jay Rome, another highly recruited Wildcat and now Malcolm's teammate and roommate at Georgia.
"I got my way into the museum -- into the history books," Malcolm said one afternoon after that season. "I got to the point where I'll always be remembered. Maybe if I make it to the NFL it'll be bigger than this. Maybe if I make it to the Hall of Fame. But right now, people will remember me for this no matter what."
We talked a little more that afternoon about the Voice; Malcolm detailed the dialogues that ran through his head during a half dozen critical plays that season. I then mentioned Reggie's on-field conversations with relatives from the beyond.
Malcolm just smiled. He didn't find any of it weird or unconventional.
"For an athlete who loves to play the game, it happens more than you know," he said. "We're not just running around."
I knew that. Just forgot.


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Incorporated as a town in 1904, Toomsboro rechartered as a city in 1979.
In 1978 the residents passed a law that prohibited people from drinking any alcohol on Toomsboro's public streets. In 2002, David Bumgardner, who wanted to develop Toomsboro as a tourist destination, purchased most of the town's properties. However, he changed his plans and put those properties up for sale in the spring of 2012.


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But I still think that the question that you're not asking yourself because it's hard, it's really hard, is that who is more deserving of the resources? You seem to firmly believe that tracking (which is exactly what Meem1029 went thru - he didn't teach himself entirely, he was in a class) is very detrimental to lower ability students. So if it's detrimental to remedial students to have tracking and detrimental to advanced students to not have tracking, what are we going to do?
Here's a couple ideas to toss around
We could have simply two levels - average and advanced.
-I'm not sure if this would solve the seeming problem of tracking for the lower students of if this is still just straight tracking.
We could do away with all advanced things and simply put people in the grades they're ready for in various subjects.
-This wouldn't cost anything, but there are some problems with it. To your thought about the very socially minded person - they can still see all their current friends in other classes and make new ones in their math class - it's not isolation for everything, just one subject. Also, advanced students are often capable of learning things at a much faster rate, so even if they were placed in the class that initially was the right level, they'd soon be looking to skip again.
We could teach teachers about advancement - both full grade and subject-wise
-This is currently a scary thing for most teachers. There's a reason it took 6 months of fighting in order for my brothers to get the approval to skip a grade. Teachers and administrators are scared
We could completely reform lower education
-Perhaps something like having the exact same curriculum as the typical class, but with more teachers or for a longer time (this cut into electives which could be an issue, especially for students who typically under perform academically)
We could keep tracking, but be very diligent about it from an early age and have it not really relate to age at all.
-Some students will come to kindergarten being able to read, some will come not knowing what an A looks like. Obviously that shouldn't be taken into account when suggesting the next class for a student. What would be wonderful is some sort of test like an IQ test but that actually measures something worthwhile and that isn't biased, but I know that's just not feasible.
Quickness of mind should really be what tracking is about. So that people can move in between the tracks, perhaps have classes every once in a while, especially right before or after typical breaks (elementary to middle, etc.) where lost material is attempted to be made up if people want to switch. This may mean going over two years of material in one year, but it would be feasible if the students really wanted. If there were not enough students for the cram class, perhaps we could attempt to have those who want to move into the higher track learn some on their own. I don't like that idea, but it's possible.
Don't make tracks about age - make it about ability! No one has to stay with their grade. If they're quick, but were late reading, then put them in the advanced class that is traditionally a year younger than they are. If they're slow, but have learned some material before, put them in the slower class a grade higher. Yes, the slower track will not cover as much material overall, but that's what has to happen in order to have the remedial students actually learn the subject matter.
I also just found a study (sorry, behind a subscription wall) that indicates that lower ability students actually do better in


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Sir Bobby Charlton has called on John Terry to ensure England's European Championship campaign is not derailed by him losing the captaincy for a second time.
World Cup-winning Manchester United legend Charlton backed the Football Association's decision to strip Terry of the armband while the defender awaits trial over allegations he racially abused QPR's Anton Ferdinand, something he denies.
Charlton, speaking in his role as a Laureus World Sports Awards academy member, said: "At the end of the day, if John Terry has been found to have potentially made some mistakes and has been pilloried all through the media then they (the Football Association) have to act. The one person who can solve this is John Terry himself."
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Metal Mind Productions is active on the Polish market since 1988. Our company can be found among the leaders of the independent music industry in Poland, we are also the oldest concert agency in our country. Metal Mind Productions was founded by the late Tomasz Dziubinski who turned a one-man endeavor into the successful enterprise that we are today. Metal Mind Productions team are all music enthusiasts who love their work. Our passion combined with experience and huge commitment is what makes us an extraordinary group of people who work hard to contribute to Metal Mind's achievements.
During the 25 years of our activity, Metal Mind Productions organized over 1000 shows, sold over 10 million records, 1000 licenses and worked with the biggest record labels in the world. We paved the way for metal music in Poland organizing the legendary Monsters of Rock show and all Metalmania festivals. We are the publishers of the Polish edition of Metal Hammer, the oldest music magazine in Poland. For us, the last 25 years were full of wonderful memories and unforgettable experiences...
This year marks our 25th Anniversary and we are proud to present to you our company's profile along with our most prominent achievements and successes.
Over the years Metal Mind Productions organized over 1,000 shows. We were involved in local production of many stadium shows, including Tina Turner, U2, Jose Carreras & Monserat Cabballe, Aerosmith and UB40. Solely as MMP we brought the following artists to Poland: : Jean Michel Jarre, Deep Purple, Placido Domingo, Black Sabbath, Slash, Chris Rea, Judas Priest, Faith No More, Serj Tankian, Chris De Burgh, YES, Korn, Tool, Type O Negative, Shakin Stevens, Whitesnake, Marillion, Soulfly, Gordon Haskell, Jon Anderson, Thin Lizzy, Papa Roach, Accept, Opeth, The Australian Pink Floyd Show, Disturbed, Black Label Society, Heaven and Hell and more!
Metal Mind is known for organizing one of the biggest metal festivals in Eastern Europe Metalmania which had its 20th anniversary in 2006. Over the years the festival featured top names in the metal genre, including Megadeth, Testament, Paradise Lost, Sepultura, Cradle of Filth, Soulfly, Morbid Angel, Overkill, Dillinger Escape Plan and more.
MONSTERS of ROCK
We were proud to organize the memorable Monsters of Rock show in 1991 which featured AC/DC, Metallica and Queensryche, and gathered over 35 000 fans!
All editions of Metal Hammer Festival in Poland were also organized by MMP. The headliners since 2005 included Korn, Opeth, Tool and Judas Priest.
Metal Mind Productions' catalog features albums by top Polish and worldwide rock and metal artists. As an independent record label we sold over 10 million CDs and over 1000 licenses! Over the years we contributed to several successful releases.
Acid Drinkers, Collage, Nalepa Tadeusz & Dzem, Perfect, SBB, Haskell Gordon, Flapjack, Perfect, Budgie, Turbo
Tank, Pendragon, Sepultura, Deep Purple, Obituary, Michael Schenker Group, Vader, Paul D'anno, SBB, Behemoth
Metal Mind Productions collaborated with the biggest metal record labels around the world, distributing and promoting their releases in Poland. These labels included, among others, Roadrunner Records, Century Media and Metal Blade. During the years of our partnership, several albums that were promoted by our company went gold, i.e. Nickelback, Soulfly, Slash, Machine Head, Sepultura, Korn, Megadeth, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree.
When it comes to distribution outside Poland, MMP works with the finest - MVD (USA), Soulfood Sony (Germany), Season Of Mist (France) and Plastic Head (UK).
In the recent years our company invested a lot in new talents and their debut albums. These include Noko (finalists of the Polish edition of Must Be The Music), Anti Tank Nun (a new project involving Titus of Acid Drinkers fame) or Minerals. Our label was also responsible for the tremendous success of the new Polish supergroup Luxtorpeda.
Metal Mind Productions released nearly 200 DVDs! We are currently one of the leading companies in the DVD production sector.
Our catalog includes live shows by Deep Purple, Gordon Haskell, SBB, Tiamat Michael Schenker, Pendragon, Arena, Believe, Luxtorpeda, Tank, Obituary, Moonspell, Blaze Bailey, Decapitated, Flotsam and Jetsam, Sinister, Pallas, Par Lindh Project, Caamora, Artillery, Solitude Aeturnus, Onslaught, Gorgoroth, Oliver Wakeman and many others.
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Thanks to them I discovered a host of death metal acts !
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Thank to them I discovered SBB, Józef Skrzek, Krzak, Collage, Lizard, Ankh and many other bands..
I've got so many albums released by MMP...
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Thanks to them, we can watched some prog acts coming from Europe.
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Thanks to them, some lost gems of Thinking Man's Metal music that were lost have been reissued : Believer's Dimensions, Pestilence's Spheres, Artillery's By Inheritance, and a host of others... So, while you guys are at it, any plans for Coroner reissues (No More Color, Mental Vortex and Grin) ? Been waiting for years for those reissues, especially since my original Noise Records copies were stolen. Sacrifice reissues (Torment in Fire, Soldiers of Misfortune, Apocalypse Inside) ?
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oh man, that would the greatest news in at least ten years. 'No more color' would need some serious remastering. And earlier stuff is good as well.
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Please refer to baab hamzatayn min kalimatayn (Warsh). Warsh has two ways of reading the hamza's if they have..
Two Questions : Please refer to baab hamzatayn min kalimatayn (Warsh).
Warsh has two ways of reading the hamza's if they have agreeable vowels:
1) Tas-heel of the first hamzah and tahqeeq of the second hamza
QUESTION 01 Why do some say tas-heel of the second and tahqeeq of the first?
2) Ibdal of the second hamza to the corresponding madd letter (making a complete madd). If a sukoon follows then Warsh read madd (tool).
If no sukoon follows then Warsh reads madd (qasr).
I have read that Warsh can also make ibdal of teh second hamza; example (ie ien kuntum) to (ie yien kuntum) without making a complete madd.
QUESTION 02 Is this correct and is this also part of tariq Shatibiyya?
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
When there are two hamzahs with the same kind of vowels juxtaposed in writing, one being the last letter of a word and the second being the first letter of the next following word hamzah, Warsh changes the second hamzah, not the first. Those who say Warsh has of the second hamzah and of the first hamzah are correct, as one of the two allowed ways for Warsh. Other ways of reading, such as the reading of Qaloon and Abu 'Amr Al-Basree, and Al-Bazee, change the first hamzah of the two juxtaposed vowels when the two hamzah have the same exact vowels.
Warsh has then two ways of reading two hamzahs with the same exact vowels meeting between two words:
1. of the second hamzah.
2. Changing the second hamzah into a medd letter the same as the vowel on the hamzah. As stated in the question, if a sukoon follows the medd letter, the medd is then read with , or six vowel counts. If there is no sukoon on the letter that follows the hamzah changed into a medd letter, it is read with two vowel counts.
Imam Ash-Shatibiyy said the following about the recitation of Warsh when there are two hamzahs between two words and they agree in vowel type:
And the second [hamzah] as a medd [meaning tasheel] for Warsh and Qunbul
And it is said a pure medd from it is exchanged
There are only certain word combinations in which the reading of Warsh has the third option of substituting a with a kasrah for the second hamzah. The special words are outlined in Ash-Shatibiyyah:
The word combinations then when the third option is possible ( with a kasrah in place of second hamzah) are as found in the aayah: (Al-Baqarah 31) , and the
combination of which only occurs in the aayah: (An-Nur 33) .
Yes, these are parts of tareeq Ash-Shatibiyyah for the recitation of Warsh.
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I'm here today as a matter of national security. See, if we don't keep the gross domestic product humming (or whatever gross domestic products do) we're doomed as a country and next thing you know we'll wake up as a province of China.
For real. This is red alert time. Pay attention.
To be concise, then: We have a hangover problem. A serious, democracy-crippling hangover problem.
The Centers for Disease Control – and remember, this is the same outfit that issued a Zombie Preparedness guide – did a study about us ' Mericans and our drinking habits and found booze costs this country $220 billion a year. To give you an idea of just how much money that is, if what we lost in an alcoholic haze was its own country, it would be sandwiched in between Ireland and the Philippines as the 43rd biggest country (by GDP) in the world.
I told you this was serious.
It gets worse, as $160 billion of the cost of it comes from loss of productivity.
Do you understand? Drinking too much last night is having a negative effect the next day at work, to the tune of $160 billion.
This. Has. To. Stop.
Clearly, we need to stop drinking. Our democracy is at stake.
(You know, on second thought, why don't we just kill hangovers? Let's do that instead. Much better. It's not the drinking that's the problem, it's the having to go to work the next day that's the problem. So let's try this again.)
Clearly, we need to stop having hangovers. Our democracy is at stake. (Let's all take a moment to reflect on the issue at hand. I'll wait while you pour a cocktail.)
Everyone back? OK. So the task at hand: Wipe the hangover off the map. First things first: Catchy name for this endeavor. How about "Let Us Stop Hangovers?' Are we good on that? Everyone nodding along? Yeah? OK. Settled then. L.U.S.H. it is.
In an effort to help L.U.S.H. along, I went to the mushy center of human knowledge the other day – Facebook – and asked for help from my loyal, and quite possibly drunk, readers.
I got good stuff. Some combination of Alka Seltzer, water, Gatorade, Advil, Tylenol, hair of the dog and greasy food were popular choices.
But there were also some out-of-the-(wine)-box thinkers, and I want to highlight the 10 best ideas here. Again, remember our goal. It's right there in our title: Let Us Stop Hangovers! L.U.S.H. is here to save America! (BTW, I can't personally vouch for any of the advice below. Use at your own peril.)
1) "Vindaloo, as hot as can be. You'll sweat the hangover out,' said Richard Soucey Jr.
2) "Large Sprite and fig newtons,' said Janet Malkin.
3) "Pickle juice when you get home before bed,' claims Cyndi Hibbs.
4) "Ice cold Yoo-hoo! Cheap and easy cure,' according to Christopher P Simpson.
5) "V8 juice to replenish electrolytes, water with electrolyte tablets, prickly pear juice to settle nerves, ginger to settle upset stomach,' writes Nicky Flynn.
6) "When I worked at a diner and had a customer with an exciting story about the night before I always suggested banana nut hot cakes and pork roll. Worked every time. Walnuts because they have antioxidants and are a natural anti-inflammatory. Bananas for the B6 and potassium. Bananas also help calm the nausea. And of course, the pork roll because grease does not absorb alcohol but the fat turns to sugar thus giving you energy,' said Dawn Brook.
7) "One cup almond milk, one banana, and 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink. The banana replenishes magnesium and potassium, the honey provides a sugar boost,' said Christine Pagnotta DiPilla.
8) "Jumping in the ocean. The salt water/salt air is the best medicine for lots of stuff,' claims John Boyd.
9) "A couple of hits of oxygen. You can buy the portable bottle … got them at Wal-Mart at one time. Great for just a headache to,' said Tim Johnson.
10) "All the professional rockers swear by Pedialyte. Best thing ever invented!' said Jim Ianni, who apparently never heard of sliced bread.
Anyway, there you have it. Ten different hangover cures, one country to save, L.U.S.H to the rescue. We got this, America!
Who's up for a toast?
Jeff Edelstein can be reached at facebook.com/jeffreyedelstein and @jeffedelstein on Twitter.


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Va. redistricting try draws fire
A Republican-led redistricting plan in Virginia — pushed through the state Senate by a one-vote margin while a Democratic senator was in Washington attending the Inauguration — is drawing outrage from Democrats and criticism from GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell.
The plan to redraw state Senate districts passed Monday after limited debate on a 20-19 party-line vote. It would create a new majority-minority district in the state but would change almost all existing district lines and force two senators — Democrat Creigh Deeds and Republican Emmett W. Hanger Jr. — into a single district.
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The state Senate is split evenly, 20 Democrats and 20 Republicans, but Democratic Sen. Henry Marsh had taken Monday off to attend President Barack Obama's Inauguration and was not in Richmond to vote. Democrats have vowed to sue if the legislation, which would most likely shift a handful of currently Democratic districts to heavily favor Republicans, is signed into law.
Typically, the Virginia Legislature revises district lines each decade but has the ability to make small changes in the interim. But the new lines would be a much more drastic shift than usual — and have the potential to disrupt any bipartisan cooperation in the state Senate.
State Sen. John Watkins, who sponsored the legislation, defended it as an effort to help Virginia be more compliant with federal civil rights laws governing majority-minority districts.
Virginia players on both sides of the aisle have blasted the plan — which was passed without the support of McDonnell or Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling — as overly partisan.
"This is not an issue that I advocated, and I was surprised about the vote yesterday," McDonnell told reporters Tuesday, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "I certainly don't think that's a good way to do business."
McDonnell has not said whether he would veto the new plan if it is approved by the Virginia House of Delegates.


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The purpose is to provide policy and guidelines on the acquisition and use of security cameras and associated video monitoring and recording systems on University property. This policy applies to all cameras except those used for academic purposes and any body cameras used by the University Police Department. Further, cameras being used for research are governed by other policies involving human subjects and are therefore excluded from this policy. II. STATEMENT OF POLICY Once authorized under the requirements of this policy, security cameras may be installed in situations and places where the security of either property or persons would be enhanced or where visual coverage is required to provide reception or other services. Cameras will be limited to uses that do not violate a person's reasonable expectation of privacy. When appropriate, cameras may be placed campus-wide, inside and outside buildings. Examples of when cameras may be utilized are as follows: Property Protection: Where the main intent is to capture video and store it on a remote device so that if property is reported stolen or damaged, the video may show the perpetrator. Examples: an unstaffed lab or a parking lot. Personal Safety: Where the main intent is to capture video and store it on a remote device so that if a person is assaulted, the video may show the perpetrator. Examples: a public walkway or a parking lot. 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Requests for purchase and installation of security cameras, including security cameras proposed by lessees or licensees of space on campus, will be made to and approved by the Information Technology Services Security Department, the University Police Department and the Chair of the Technical Security Committee who will be responsible for assuring fitness of purpose for the requested cameras. To the extent that allocated resources allow, the installation and maintenance of any cameras, DVRs, or systems to manage same covered under this policy is the responsibility of Information Technology Services. III. GUIDELINES All recording or monitoring of activities of individuals or groups by University authorized security cameras will be conducted in a manner consistent with University policies, state and federal laws, and will never be based on the subjects' personal characteristics, including gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics. 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Information that directly affects an investigation will be kept for a period of time determined by the investigating agency. Property protection cameras requested in locations that may not be utilized for extended periods (such as a storage room) may have images retained longer as determined appropriate by the authorized person(s). The Information Technology Services Security Department has been designated as the records custodian for recorded video on UNF's campus. If an individual seeks recorded video, requests can be responded to more efficiently by identifying the camera(s) location(s) and time period the video covered by the request. ITS Security staff will consult with the Chief of Police and/or others, as necessary, before releasing requested video.Signage informing of cameras and recording shall not typically be placed in the areas where cameras are installed but the placement of a monitor or monitors in the area displaying the activity being recorded is acceptable.


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Trick for solving no-drain problems on Frigidaire / Kenmore top-load washers
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You'll find these Frikkidaire top loaders either as stand-alone units or as part of a stack. If it's disguised as a Kenmore, it'll have a 417 prefix in the model number.
Okay, so you're working one of these cheesy washers and it's not draining. You check the obvious thing: the drain pump is clear, getting 120vac and running during the drain cycle but still no drain. What else could it be? Academy Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Laundry Appliantology nickfixit shares with us his hard-won pearls of wisdom for solving no-drain problems on this machine. Let us attend:
remove the hose attached to the bottom of the tub, look for something blocking the hose, or something blocking the tub outlet. if it's something big, you might need to pull the spin basket out.
some of these had a "duckbill" check valve inside the drain hose, usually just downstream of the molded elbow where the hose attaches to the pump. I have used a coathanger with the end bent into a little hook to push into the hose, hook the duckbill, pull it inside out, then rip that piece of crap out with needlenose pliers.
Source: KM (Frigidaire) laundry center 417.94802301 not pumping out
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