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Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. (WPI) recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (:FDA) granted final approval to the company’s abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for its generic version of Endo Health Solutions Inc.’s (ENDP) drug, Lidoderm. Lidoderm (lidocaine patch 5%) is currently approved for the relief of pain associated with post herpetic neuralgia (:PHN).
Watson Pharma intends to begin shipments of its generic version of Lidoderm in September 2013 per the terms of its settlement agreement with Endo. Watson believes it is entitled to a 180-day period of marketing exclusivity under the provisions of the Hatch-Waxman Act.
According to IMS Health, US sales of Lidoderm amounted to $1.2 billion for the twelve months ended June 30, 2012.
We note that earlier in May 2012, Watson reported that it entered into an agreement with Endo to settle two patent infringement lawsuits related to Lidoderm. Under the terms of the agreement, Watson is allowed to launch the generic version of Lidoderm on September 15, 2013.
Meanwhile, Endo will provide $12 million (wholesale acquisition cost) worth of branded Lidoderm product to Watson Pharma every month from January through August 2013..
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Vice?
But wait, there’s more. Biden then launches into a list of Democratic accomplishments—tobacco regulation, hate crime laws, insuring kids (SCHIP, I presume—you will excuse me if I don’t transcribe every word, Joe does go on a bit, you know)—none of them, as best I recall, ones that were first enacted during the Obama Administration [on this point, I stand corrected, but that raises other questions], and tries to contrast this out-of-date list with, well, for lack of any specific point, let’s call it the Republican alternative:
If they take over the House and the Senate, don’t kid yourself. They’ve made it really clear. Pete Sessions said [if the GOP takes over Congress], “We’d have the exact same agenda.” And look, there is a lot at stake here, and our progressive base, you have–you should not stay home. You better get energized because the consequences are serious for the outcome of the things we care most about. And I didn’t mention half the stuff we’ve gotten done.!
Joe Biden is not saying Democrats need an excited progressive base to win in November, and here is what the administration is going to do to excite them; Biden is saying Dems need an excited base—so the progressive base damn well better get excited. Period.
Don’t believe that the same folks that swept into the White House on a wave of popular enthusiasm could now be pitching this piss-poor woo? Biden was given a chance to clarify. He said that Obama is a gifted politician, but he didn’t “fall out of the sky.” Instead:
What he [Obama] brought out of the sky, down to earth, were really significant progressive goals that have been met.
Wait, what? He brought us goals? Obama gave us the goals? Progressives haven’t been articulating goals since. . . when now? 2006? 2002? 1932? 1916? . . . 1899? OK, maybe Biden just phrased that badly–but still, Joe, what goals have been met, exactly?
Sorry, I interrupted. Mr. Vice President, please continue. . . .
What he [Obama] brought out of the sky, down to earth, were really significant progressive goals that have been met. More to do, more to do. And so I think it’s time for our base to say, “Hey man, take a look, this opposition is for real.”
OK, again, the progressive base hasn’t been warning about the opposition? It has been the progressive blogosphere, far out in front of any Democratic Party organ, that has been telling the establishment that they had created space for the Tea Parties by aligning the White House too closely with the banksters. It was progressives that begged for a bigger stimulus, a jobs agenda, and health care reform that actually helped people and did so before the midterm elections. Jane, early on, warned folks not to take the Tea Party movement (movements?) too lightly. She, Jon, Scarecrow, David, and a host of others on FDL have all pleaded for Democrats to move more aggressively or else incur the wrath of a nervous electorate.
Why, just last night, I tweeted:
O’Donnell & Paladino’s GOP victories should remind prematurely giddy Dems that GOTV will be everything in November.
Does that sound like the twitterings of a guy that does not think “this opposition is for real?”
But that is not the narrative that Biden, his administration, or the Democratic leadership wants to tell here. Joe didn’t come out saying that progressives had the right idea, and though Dems had stumbled out of the gate, from here on it would be full speed ahead; “More to do, more to do,” doesn’t come close. Make no mistake, what Joe Biden was doing last night was blaming progressives now for Democratic losses later.
Maddow, maybe out of deference, maybe out of amnesia, took Biden’s frame as a given and asked, Why hasn’t the needed progressive awakening happened organically?
Joe invokes his grandpa, then reminds us that a lot of people are hurting, and that folks are angry and don’t want to make a choice. He recalls the words of Kevin White (Mayor of Boston, 1968-1984): “Don’t compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. . . .”
Joe liked that quote, so he repeated it:
“Don’t compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. . . .” People haven’t wanted to make that choice, they don’t want to focus yet. . . . . It’s like, “I don’t want to be bothered–I’m angry.” . . . but they’re gonna now, watch them. . . starting the beginning of October, they’re gonna focus. And the alternatives are stark between a Democratic-led House and Democratic-led Senate and a Republican-led House and Senate. . . . We are going to retain control of the House, we are going to retain control of the Senate because, when the American people focus on the alternative, it’s gonna be absolutely clear to them that there is no alternative.
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, I was a consultant—of the branding and marketing variety–and Biden’s performance reminds me of some of my worst clients from those days. These guys (and gals) would sit behind the two-way mirror watching focus groups, and they would deride the respondents and curse about how their stupid target consumers were wrong—wrong!–about their product. It was the consumer who was doing a bad job of understanding the product. It was the consumer that was not paying attention to the right things. It was the consumer that had failed to understand the benefits of these clients’ brands.
Those were not successful brands. And without a change in their point of view, they didn’t become successful brands.
Let me put it this way: Joe Biden is your cable provider screaming that they are better than the phone company, and you know they are better than the phone company, and if you don’t know that, no matter what your experience, then it is your problem, you fucking idiot.
Compelling messaging, huh?
It didn’t work for my clients, and it won’t work for the Democrats.
It is not enough to say, “C’mon, you know how bad the other guys are.” It is not enough to say, ”Buy my product, or else.” It is not enough to say (as Jon Stewart pointed out to DNC Chair Tim Kaine), “They suck worse.”
If you want to bridge the enthusiasm gap, it is you, Joe Biden, President Obama, national Democrats, that have to provide the enthusiasm. And the reasons for all of us to be enthused.
Another lesson from my consulting days: it is never good to be the “not” brand. That is, it is never good to define yourself as “not the other guys.” By doing that, you are dependent on them. By doing that, they define the space. All that is left for you to do is react to your competition.
In a competitive marketplace—especially in one where you don’t have to buy, where you could just opt to stay home—you have to give people a reason to commit. You need to articulate a distinct benefit.
You need to give folks a reason to vote for you; not just against them.
Without demonstrable benefits—or at least the promise of them—there is no enthusiasm. The winners of the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries should understand that.
But benefits were not what Vice President Biden was selling to Rachel Maddow and her presumably progressive audience on Wednesday. Biden went with fear and loathing, blame and bluster. That strategy didn’t work for my clients in boom times, and it won’t work for Democrats now.
So, Joe, uh–how did you put it?—get in gear!
You don’t sound very enthusiastic.
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It is said that 1914 saw the end of romantic war, that the nations of the world finally woke up to the horrors of combat. The century before that was the age of imperialism, where nationalism ran rampant after it was awoken by revolutionary France. Nations could do no wrong, they brought "civilization" to Africa, India, East Asia. Europe was the center of the world and nations vied amongst each other for supremacy.
The British, French, Germans, Austrians, Italians and Russians had little doubt of their own moral, social and international superiority. It was manifest destiny on a grand scale, and this pride - both among the leaders and the populace - is what led to the deadly arms races which in turn exploded into the Great War. Each side was confident of victory, wars would be short and the blood would be shed on the other side.
European experience, after all, was based mostly on the recent conflicts in Europe itself, like the Seven Weeks' War between Austria and Prussia, or the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. The lessons of the Crimean War - poor leadership, underestimation of firepower and fortified positions were ignored as being outdated and part of a limited conflict. Similarly, the lessons of the American Civil War were ignored as being a "colonial" matter, a primitive war in an alien environment.
Thus, both sides entered World War I with the highest expectations of glory. Civilian populations cheered the soldiers on, the young men promising to come back to their girls in time for Christmas. Germany's Schlieffen plan commited most of its forces into a wheeling attack through Belgium down into France, forcing an early capitulation of France on the western front and then quickly transfering its forces back to the eastern front, where a minority of Germany's armies were to fight a delaying action along with the Austrians.
Of course, we all know how that turned out. Soldiers dug in to trenches, pounded by artillery and kept down by snipers and machine guns. Old guard generals, learning nothing from successive failures, relying on lessons from wars 40 years old, sent their cavalry to die futilely in between trenches, forced men at gunpoint "over the top" to get slaughtered by withering machine gun fire from enemy trenches - and then blamed their failures on morale. The romance of war was slow to fade on the home front, but no government could disguise the horrific casualties for long.
Thus, the Allies, the winners of World War I, were hesitant to fight another war. People were tired, disillusioned and terrified of another such conflict. American isolationism - difficult enough to overcome during World War I - would dominate the political scene until Pearl Harbor.
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From NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro
Obama is debating on McCain's turf with taxes and spending....Obama needs to pivot... It's long enough... This doesn't have anything to do with the economy. Or foreign policy for that matter. He tried with the first mention of Iraq.
McCain's the first to mention jobs and he does it by proposing 700,000 new jobs through nuclear power plants.
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I just removed myself from klout.com. For those of you who don’t know, Klout claims to be “The Standard for Influence” for individuals in social media. Klout claims to measure your social influence by applying a proprietary algorithm to your public activity on various social networks, such as twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and google+.
Unfortunately, both the idea and the execution are deeply flawed.
1. Klout doesn’t take into account offline influence
Klout only measures what it measures, but those parameters are telling only a very small part of the story. Warren Buffet, for example, is a hugely influential man. He doesn’t give a monkey’s backside who he follows or doesn’t follow on twitter, or how often he tweets. As a result, his Klout score is low, a huge distortion of the Buffet’s position in real life.
2. Klout begs to be manipulated
Tony Hsieh, Zappo’s CEO, tweeted it perfectly:
Too many marketers concentrate on building buzz. I can tell you that my mom has zero buzz, but when she says something, I listen.
One of the problems with Klout is that it rewards conformism. Tweet about what everybody else is tweeting, retweet trending topics, run with the pack and your score will most likely go up.
This point was recently very effectively illustrated by Neil Kodner, who created tens of twitter bots (based on Seinfeld, The Big Lebowski, and more recently Sarah Palin), some of which have attained Klout scores as high as 74.
When bots get higher influence scores than one of the richest men on the planet, you’ve got a problem.
3. Klout makes people lazy
People have been failing college exams because of low Klout scores. Others have been passed over for jobs.
Here’s what I think: If you’re an employer who uses a candidate’s Klout score as a metric to decide on a candidate’s employability, then you don’t deserve to be a hiring manager.
People, and the skills they bring to the table, are far more multi-faceted than what a Klout score can possibly reflect. Using a Klout score to make a hiring decision is like using research as a lamp post to lean against, rather than for illumination.
4. Influence needs to be relevant
Klout assigns one catch all number to an individual’s influence, but that’s not how things work. If you want to connect with Mennonites, a twitter account won’t do anything for you. Sponsoring barn dances just might, despite the fact that they come without a Klout score.
5. Klout is opt-out, rather than opt-in
Klout claims to only publish publicly available information, but there’s been recent concern about publishing information that was never meant to be public. Here’s an excerpt from an article in the New York Times:.”
Klout has since deactivated that functionality, but still automatically creates profiles for anybody with a twitter account, whether it has your permission or not. To check your own score just type in klout.com/yourtwitterusername.
Klout has, finally and grudgingly, given in to public pressure and now allows people to opt out of their service.
6. How to opt out of Klout
This might sound counter-intuitive, but to opt out of Klout, and to remove your details, you will first need to open a Klout account. Sign in with your twitter credentials, then navigate to the bottom of the privacy page where you’ll find an opt-out link. Follow the instructions and your information should be removed within a couple of hours.
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I don't claim the bragging rights for this ray. It's my mate, Ben, in the picture who landed it. 58cm wingspan 2.5kg weight.
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Nice little eagle ray.
Do you keep them or let them go?
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Looks like fun
Where did you catch it from
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good to eat
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got it at blackwall reach. we kept it and gonna cook it with sambal chilli tmr night for supper! =D
a big brown flappin......oh crap not again
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any1 know how to release them (with out killing urself) Off rocks? and wat u gotta do to land them?
DieHard – The Official “Ray & Shark” Chaser!
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why do you wanna land a stingray, so you bring it up and look at it, to much risk, trouble and for something thats fights that hard, it should be released.
plus that isnt a "big" eagle ray.
die hard the only safe way to land these is to gaff them, but then its probably gonna die, make a decision cut the line when its beat and youve won the fight, let it go. or only keep it if youre gonna eat it, theres better things out there
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what we do, is gaff em, flip em on ther backs, get a towel, stand on the tail with the towel under your shoe, use pliers to get the hooks out, then still attached to the gaff, get down onto lower rocks, ungaff him (inverting the gaff, so it slides out-- pretty easily) into the water and hey presto. never had a stingy die on me once ive released it. they are bloody hardy creatures and 9 out of 10 times, if there correctly gaffed, they will live. i always would like my rig back, so i try as hard as i can to get it. only ever once cut the line-- it was as close to the second snell as possible, and it was in a biggg wobbygong that iw asnt sticking my hands in. theres a picutre of it kicking around somewere on here.
bludgin' since 94'
Oh ok so you gaff him in the wing nearest to the end?
how long outta water can they live (incase of pics)
no way. gaff em in the mouth! try not to keep em out for too long, 2 minutes is more than enough for pictures
gee whispers !
in the mouth wouldnt that like go through the head or sumfin?
or just grab the leader and lift em up lay em on there back and pull hooks out n throw em in - i spike em and eat the flaps they taste like chicken - rolled in flour mmmmm
gaff em in the wing if you wanna either eat it, or leave it with potential diseases. your choice.
the wound would heal in a few days
ive always gaffed my stingies in the mouth. never had one die on me. the mouth makes it easier to manage when its on the rocks. gaffing it in the wing can have the possibility of the gaff ripping through the stingray. have seen it happen. im sticking to mouth gaffing as its easier and safer. wich would you prefer- mouth gaff it, flip it onto its back and be done within 5 minutes rather than wing gaffing it, having a stingray flapping around flailing its tail and barb around to the risk of it barbing someone? what are you saying that could happen by gaffing them in the mouth?
hmm ur right there. So as they are next to the rocks u somehow? gaff them in the mouth then u somehow? lift them up flip them over ASAP put/wrap a towl around their barb stand on it while removing hook. then stand off towel pull tell away and somehow lif it up and place in water? then angle the gaff till it slides of its mouth X)
once youve surfaced it, grab the gaff and slide it under its head, and the gaff barb will slot into the mouthand you yank it, to secure it. then you use uyour upper body strength to slide them up onto the rock on their back. you keep the gaff in its mouth as long as you can, makes for an easier release. what i do, is invert the gaff while the ray is still on thew rock, in wich it will flap, rekleasing the gaff and sliding back into the water. if it dosnt slide back, push it in with the gaff.
hmm... 1 question though. will it cause the ray any harm if we remove the barb and then release? trophy u noe.. especially the big rays
it shouldnt caus eit any harm, in fact it makes it safer for us anyway. just my opinion though
Yes you are right Leemo i heard fisheries (personal chats) saying that u should remove barbs as it will make the next catch easier! it was also in a magz.
taking the barb out can also be safer for the stingray itself. we had a medium size black ray at pinaroo point o0ne night and it barbed and killed itself. i havnt caught a stingray in a very long time and im itching to land one again. not much spare time being at school though, unfortunately.
Yes damn school :/
need to get something big anything.... need to stretch my arms a bit :O
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i would have thought gaffing the wing would cause much less harm than gaffing the mouth? Also just cuz it swims away doesnt mean it wont die. Little ones like that should be easy enough to handle anyway, especially with a couple of ppl.
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i usually wing gaff or mouth gaff all rays i have caught,does no harm at all,exept a scar or wound ,that will heal in no time due to salt water,that is a natural antiseptic any way
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Don't remove their barb if your releasing them...
It's their primary defence mechanism its just bloody cruel,
All you need to do is be wary of it when you do catch one...just totally unnecessary to debarb them
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Gym Class: Jillian Michaels BodyShred at Crunch
Jillian Michaels has already entered living rooms around the country via The Biggest Loser and her popular DVDs, now she’s coming to a gym near you. Recently we got a chance to check out her new class, BodyShred, which was taught by the fitness queen herself. The class launches at Crunch gyms September 10.
What it is: The 30-minute workout uses Jillian’s 3-2-1 approach. Participants complete three minutes of strength, followed by two minutes of cardio, and one minute of abs which is repeated over the course of four circuits, with each circuit being performed once on each side of the body. The workout incorporated a variety moves, including some floor work, some yoga-inspired exercises, and plyometrics.
My experience: I genuinely had fun working up a sweat in this class. The routine moved at a quick pace, which kept me engaged, and kept my mind off of how much I was sweating or struggling.
What it worked: This was truly a total body workout. Most moves toned multiple muscle groups at once. Designated ab work targeted the core, exercises like squats and lunges worked the lower body, and we also did some arm work with free weights, as well as several push-up variations.
Who it’s best for: Busy people. It was nice to be able to work up a sweat feel the burn in a mere 30 minutes.
What to watch out for: The workout is vigorous from beginning to end, so it probably isn’t for complete rookies.
Final word: BodyShred will give you a quality—and challenging—workout in minimal time.
--Mary Squillace is an associate editor
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From the coolest soccer looks to going on a vacation that promises to spark your creativity, these are the FitLinks we’re loving this week! The latest in fun fusion workouts. Boredom begone! —Self magazine Here’s to us getting this percentage down. Like way down. —Glamour magazine If you’ve ever struggled with emotional or binge eating, you [...]
Getting a Rockin’ Body with Martial Fusion (with Giveaway!)
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Back in the day, I taught a fitness class called Cardio Combat. A little Tae Bo, a little choreography and a lot of group-grunting, we punched, kicked, shuffled and kneed it out, harnassing our inner girl-power and getting a hell of a workout along with it. Why do I bring up a circa 2002 workout, you [...]
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I have reached the conclusion today that I thrive on shipping angst.
I almost always ship things that:
- Don’t happen.
- Don’t happen but are accompanied but large amounts of angst anyway.
- Happen but end horribly.
- Happen but are accompanied but large amounts of angst.
I don’t get it, but I’m just going to go with it.
Your not alone.
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Honestly, it takes a great deal of “suspension of disbelief” to think she is “an ugly sister”.
Alias-themed commission. I loved drawing Victor Garber, what a treat that man is to draw.
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So over dinner tonight I asked the question, "What is your favourite film?" and to keep it completely fair, I thought it only right and proper that each person should have their own entry.
So I give you, Five Go Blogging's Top 5 Kids Movies.
At number 1, from the smallest member of the family, the Wee One, I give you Dumbo.
He has watched ooh about 10 minutes of this classic Disney film before something else (like a car or a pencil or a duplo block) distracted him. But according to the Big One (who helpfully translated for him) it is his all time (18 months of life) favourite film and he especially likes the first bit where the stork keeps dropping him through the clouds!
At number 2, from the Princess, I give you Monsters Inc.
Reason? Well she has a little girl crush on Boo who is her absolute heroine, right after Jessie from Toy Story (but that would be pinching the Big One's favourite film, in at number 3, Toy Story 3.
Well what's not to love? Actually I'm not entirely sure because I haven't actually seen it yet. (I know, where have I been?) But I am reassured that despite a slight shedding of a very small and hardly noticable tear at the end of the film, the Big One LOVED it.
At number 4 we have a tie from Misty Moo, the hound of the family. She asked me to toss a coin for her (on account of her lack of thumbs) to decide between 101 Dalmatians and The Fox and the Hound. And... drum roll please.... The Fox and the Hound won!
Another classic with humour, tears and friendship. She is a big softy for a happy ending too.
And finally, at number 5, I get to have my choice. Darn, it was hard to choose. But in the fashion of an X Factor judge, I was pushed to make a really tough call. Well based on todays performance in our living room, and the fact that I was bloomin' knackered and still managed to stay awake, I give you Jungle Book. "Well I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle VIP, ..."
I defy anyone not to tap their foot, swing their hips and get down and sing along.
Thank you Kate over at Kate Takes 5 for her Listography prompt this week. Go on over and check out the other lists.
Great list! I love them all.
My only school musical performance was tinging a triangle to the bear necessities, great choice!
My 3 year old loves all the Toy Stories! Last week we visited family in Plymouth. There was a big screen in the city centre showing Jungle Book for free. All the grown ups sat on deck chairs & watched the film: the kids just ran about in the sunshine!
The Jungle Book is on our list too!
Brilliant list! Don't worry about not seeing Toy Story, I've never watched Monsters Inc - though we just bought it, so I shall be rectifying this heinous mistake shortly. xxx
Love 'em all. Too many to choose from this week.
Great list - such a fab idea as it gives you ideas for films to watch and jogs a few memories too!
Excellent :) I keep seeing films that I'd totally forgotten about, but now I need to watch again lol.
See there are just too many good kids films- how did I miss out dumbo? Having said that I really did think storks delivered babies ....... clearly NOT the case! Xx
I love love love the Jungle Book, but it didn't quite make my list, I'm so glad to see it here
Ha love it! Great list - especially the first choice - must have been a tough one to decide on that!
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Non-narrative jump to today: I read Afar Magazine. Their July/August 2011 issue has a story on bicerin (bee-chay-reen), an Italian beverage with secret-recipe roots stretching back to 17th century Turin along the foothills of the Italian Alps. Its main ingredients are milk, melted chocolate, espresso and whipped cream. Cafe Al Bicerin, a Turin institution that takes its name from the drink, is where locals head after Sunday Mass to break the fast. God bless the Italians, with their Roman Catholic guilt and their natural disregard for calorie counts!
Of course, I took one look at the Afar story and said, “Dude, I should totally incorporate that into a cocktail.” And what I did was, I sent it over the Alps. What the fuck does “send it over the Alps” mean? It means (says me) to douse peaks of whipped cream (“the Alps”) with a shot of yellow Chartreuse, that suave, milder-than-green-Chartreuse liqueur made by monks in the village of Voiron, along the foothills of the French Alps (“send it over”).
My recipe was kismet: The thought of adding yellow Chartreuse to the bicerin stuck in my head for a few days, then I discussed it with Sean and found out he’d had the very same notion, then I Googled a map and saw that, indeed, the mother lands of Chartreuse and bicerin are a mere three hours apart, the Alps stuck in between. Something about bicerin made me less wary than usual about doing a dessert cocktail, and while my end result technically isn’t a cocktail but a spiked coffee beverage, it reads on the palate like a cocktail to me: You can detect all the parts that are in there but the impression on your senses is that of a fully integrated taste, more than the sum of its parts. (Spiked coffee beverages, on the other hand, often taste to me as just that: Coffee with a high-spirited intruder who somehow found his way in.)
We contemplated a second liquor, but it just doesn’t need it.
P.S. I like this one so much, I’m contributing the recipe to the first-ever gojee Virtual Potluck, an online smorgasbord of eats and drinks put together by yours truly and many of gojee’s other fine blogging contributors. Starting on Thursday, January 26, check out other potluck dishes fellow gojee contributors shared. Go to gojee.com and enter “gojeepotluck” into I Crave. You can also follow #gojeepotluck on Twitter.
The Bicerin (send it over the Alps)
(Adapted from Afar Magazine; its recipe for the original bicerin is an educated approximation, as Cafe Al Bicerin’s recipe is “closely guarded”)
2 ounces yellow Chartreuse
1/2 cup 2% milk
1 1/2 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 shots very strong coffee
1/4 cup freshly whipped cream, sweetened to taste
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, warm the milk and chocolate until boiling, whisking vigorously all the while. Remove from heat, then pour mixture into a clear cappuccino mug, goblet, etc. Slowly pour in coffee. Top with whipped cream. Slowly pour Chartreuse over whipped cream. Serve with a sundae spoon (optional).
Tasting Notes
Afar‘s printed recipe calls for whole milk, dark chocolate and espresso. I went with what I went with (2%, semi-sweet, “strong coffee”) because I already had them in the house. Having said that, this drink was diabetic coma-inducing enough the way I made it. Proceed with whole/dark/espresso at your own risk. (Seriously, garnish with insulin injectable or something if you must go all the way.)
If you don’t have yellow Chartreuse, try making this with a shot of Benedictine instead. Their smell and taste profiles are quite similar, although of course you won’t get the same, sunny brightness shining down on your Alps. Don’t use green Chartreuse; it’s too herbal in taste, and everyone will assume it’s creme de menthe and that you made some sort of caffeinated Grasshopper.
I was afraid of melting chocolate in a saucepan rather than a double boiler, but with the milk this was actually not an issue at all. (I did use a nonstick saucepan, for what that’s worth.)
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Craked has a.... mixed record when it comes to gun rights. But even they seem to get the whole "Gun Death" thing. In their article on The 6 Most Brutal Murders Committed by Batman, they say this in the opening paragraph:.Batman is a pretty good example of the whole "Gun Death" nonsense. For example:.
Isn't it better that instead of using the rifle to kill people he... used the rifle to... kill people.
The above list includes: forced starvation, impalement, lynching, crushing with industrial machinery, and incineration. But Weerd is wont to say: Hey, but not a “Gun Death”, so it doesn’t count!
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The most significant change to our presidential forecast model this year is that it contains an economic index, which is used to guide forecasts along with the polls.
In fact, as you may have seen since we began our short daily summaries of the model’s output, new economic data often has just as much influence over the forecast as the latest poll from Ohio or Florida.
I have some fairly strong views about the right way to use economic data in a forecasting model like this one. This is fundamentally a very challenging problem because there have been only 16 presidential elections since World War II, and yet there are dozens and dozens of plausible economic variables to pick from. (The Federal Reserve’s Web site, in fact, now publishes about 45,000 economic statistics.)
The historical evidence is robust enough to say that economic performance almost certainly matters at least somewhat, and that poorer economic performance tends to hurt the incumbent party’s presidential candidate. Likewise, it seems clear that the trend in performance matters more than the absolute level — otherwise, Franklin D. Roosevelt would not have been re-elected easily with an unemployment rate well into the double digits (although rapidly declining) in 1936.
But we just do not have anywhere near enough to data to make confident claims about exactly which economic variables are important. For that matter, most of the more obvious choices for economic variables have performed about as well as one another on the historical data anyway. Each one gets some elections right and some wrong.
Let me explain some of the choices I made about the model in light of this problem.
First, I wanted a composite economic index rather than picking just one or two variables.
If it is hard to tell exactly which economic variables are most important to elections, it seems far better to take some kind of aggregate or average of them rather than arbitrarily picking one. As you will see later, different economic variables this year would give you a radically different outlook on how likely President Obama is to be re-elected.
One of the reasons that some of the presidential forecasting models published by academics have not performed all that well is because they have not adopted this consensus approach. Instead, they will use just one or two variables. Yet rarely do they use exactly the same variable, and sometimes the choice is something fairly exotic rather than commonly-used measures like jobs growth, inflation, or gross domestic product.
In some of these models, it seems evident that the modeler has searched through hundreds of different model specifications to get the best ‘fit’ on past data. When dealing with noisy data and a limited number of observations, however, that can be a problem, because it will introduce significant selection bias or overfitting. Over a small sample size, it is inevitable that some variables will have performed much better than others because of luck alone. If you calibrate the model based on the lucky variables, their luck will eventually run out and your model will not be as accurate as claimed when used to make real predictions.
In addition, the American public experiences many different facets of the economy in many different ways.
It’s a basic rule of sound forecasting that data subject to measurement or modeling error becomes more robust if you average or aggregate it together. Typically, this averaging or aggregation process reduces forecast error by about 20 percent.
Second, I wanted to use relatively broad-based measures of economic performance rather than narrowly tailored ones..
I wanted to look at the sorts of measures that investors and economists might weigh most heavily in gauging the performance of the economy, and I wanted an index that makes good economic sense, rather than being cherry-picked to fit elections data in particular.
I also wanted to pick variables that reflected different aspects of economic activity without double counting them, although there is certainly some overlap in the ground the variables that I chose cover.
Third, I wanted data that is updated regularly — monthly or more often.
If you did want to use just one variable, then gross domestic product might be a reasonable choice, being the broadest-based measure of economic activity in the United States. (Although G.D.P. still contains plenty of noise, like the inventories adjustment.) The problem is that G.D.P. is updated only once per quarter, and then with a significant lag. If it becomes clear in July that the nation is experiencing an economic collapse, it doesn’t make much sense to have to wait until late October (when third-quarter G.D.P. is finally reported) to have that reflected in an economic model.
Fourth, and related to this goal of building a model that could make realistic forecasts in real time, I wanted to use data as it was initially reported during election years to calibrate the model, and the data as it was revised after the fact.
Most economic data series are subject to revisions; the process can persist for months or even years after the fact. Sometimes, these can be very severe — turning a quarter that was originally thought to provide average growth in to a recession, or vice versa.
But the magnitude of the revisions — and therefore, the reliability of a data point based on its initial print — can vary a lot from indicator to indicator. Some series are revised much more than others, and a few even have a history of biased revisions (meaning that the revisions usually tend to go in one direction).
This problem gets too little attention, in my view. I will sometimes visit macroeconomic forecasting Web sites where economists and investors get into detailed debates about which variables are more lagging and leading. But usually they are arguing about revised data, all of which is lagging in the sense that it is not available to forecasters seeking to make predictions about the economy in real time. The lack of sensitivity to these data-quality issues may hinder economic planning and is one reason that economic forecasts are often much less accurate than advertised.
The initially reported data, meanwhile, is also what is available to candidates and voters at the time of the election. Some econometric models score the 1992 election as a “miss,” because revised economic data shows roughly average growth during that year, when the incumbent, the elder President Bush, was defeated. However, the data was still quite poor as it was reported during 1992 itself. The initially reported data represents a closer approximation of what voters would have been weighing at the time.
Fortunately, the Federal Reserve is doing a better and better job of making archived economic data available through its Alfred Web site. Not all 45,000 variables are archived, but most of the major variables have reasonably good coverage, especially from the mid-1960s onward.
What I settled upon is a series of seven variables. The variables are weighed equally in the model, with one slight exception. All are relatively broad based, and are available in archived form going back to at least the election of 1968.
The first four variables are among the monthly indicators that economists most commonly use to help date recessions.
Nonfarm payrolls. This is the jobs figure that is commonly reported in news accounts, as in “100,000 jobs were added last month.” I prefer this figure to a calculation based on the unemployment rate, which comes from a separate survey but which is subject to larger measurement error.
Personal income. Many academic election models use this variable or close cousins of it, like disposable personal income. I use the personal-income version because the archived record for it is more complete.
In theory, this variable has a lot of merit, since it reflects the different income streams coming to voters. A pay increase at work will be reflected. So would things like stock dividends or rental income.
In practice, however, measuring all these different income streams is challenging for the government. So this variable can fluctuate wildly from month to month and is subject to severe revisions. (These revisions, moreover, have been upwardly biased in the past, meaning that the government initially tended to underestimate income as measured in this way.) This variable can also be sensitive to changes in government policy, like stimulus payments, which voters may not react to in the same way as other types of income.
Still, this variable is certainly useful as long as it is not treated as some sort of magic bullet, and it is included in our index.
Industrial production. This is the granddaddy of economic variables — the government has kept track of it since 1919. Industrial production is the government’s broadest measure of activity in manufacturing and related fields like mining. It is generally timed well to the business cycle, or can sometimes slightly lead it as it can reflect businesses’ estimates of consumer demand for durable goods in the near future. It is also subject to fewer revisions than many other data series.
Personal consumption expenditures This measures household consumption of all kinds and goods services, which represents about 70 percent of gross domestic product. This variable is often strongly correlated to consumer confidence. But it arguably provides for a more tangible measure of the consumer, as it reflects how they are actually behaving with their dollars.
Inflation. Inflation, as measured through the Consumer Price Index, is the fifth economic variable in the model. Some of the academic models include measures of inflation and some do not. I think the case for doing so is reasonably clear. Inflation is among the most visible economic measures, and is among the most central in setting policy. It has also had a strong correlation with presidential approval ratings in the United States and has had a strong correlation with election outcomes in other countries.
The relationship between the inflation rate during the election year and election outcomes in the United States has been somewhat weaker, although when inflation is high — like in 1980 or in many elections before World War II — it usually has meant trouble for the incumbent president. Having one measure of inflation, as compared to six variables that measure growth, seems like a reasonable compromise.
Unlike for the other variables, higher inflation is worse for the incumbent, while lower inflation is better; the model, of course, considers this. However, our version of the variable gives a president no additional credit if the inflation rate is below 2 percent, since having a small amount of inflation is considered ideal by the Federal Reserve. A president gets no “extra credit” for deflation or near-deflation, in other words.
I get a lot of e-mail and Twitter questions about whether gas prices are included in the model. This is where they fit in, since gas prices will be reflected in the Consumer Price Index. Gas prices, of course, can also have indirect effects on variables like consumption.
The last two variables are forward looking.
Forecasted G.D.P. The model uses the forecast of gross domestic product growth over the leading two economic quarters (that is, not counting the current quarter) as taken from the median of The Wall Street Journal’s monthly forecasting panel. Right now, these forecasts continue to point toward fairly sluggish growth.
As I mentioned, I do not think it is wise to tweak your model endlessly based on fitting the past data in cases like this where the sample size is limited and the past data is very noisy. But I did look to see the relative value of current economic measures against forward looking ones.
We found that the current economic measures seem to have more value — perhaps, in part, because economic forecasting is a very rough science. But the forecasts do seem to provide some value if used in moderation.
Stock Market. Likewise, I found that the stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, probably provides some value if used carefully.
The stock market has some unique virtues as a forecasting variable. It is available almost literally instantly, so something like relatively favorable resolution to the European debt summit — which might reduce the economic downside case for the United States in the second half of the year — can be reflected in the forecast almost literally overnight. And the stock market is not subject to revisions of any kind.
The downside is that sometimes the stock market shifts for reasons that have less to do with macroeconomic performance. Shifts in sentiment about Federal Reserve policy, for instance, can influence the market. And sometimes the movement in stock market prices may simply be irrational.
Still, all economic variables have their problems, and our finding is that a small dose of stock market data probably provides some useful information to elections forecasters. Moreover, although the market certainly gets things wrong some of the time, changes in the stock market tend to anticipate changes in several of the other six variables..
As I mentioned, the seven variables are weighted equally, with the exception of the stock market which is weighted slightly less. Specifically, the stock market represents 10 percent of the total index, whereas the other six variables each represent 15 percent of it. Still, since the stock market is updated daily and can change quickly, it may have a relatively noticeable effect on the forecast.
Why use these largely equal weights? There is support for doing so in the empirical literature on forecasting in cases where the sample size is small and the data is very noisy.
The alternative would be to set the weights by regression analysis, but the data is just not robust enough to do this. You wind up with a big mess when you try to test the relative importance of seven economic variables on 10 or 15 past elections.
Arbitrarily dropping variables may produce a cleaner-looking result, but they do not really prevent overfitting and are the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig. We think accounting for a larger number of variables, but weighing them about equally, is the better choice.
There are a few other details that need to be resolved. The most important one is what time frame to use in evaluating the data series.
One of the points that the historical record is fairly clear on is that voters have a fairly near-term focus when it comes to the economy. Almost no matter what variable you use or how you specify your model, there just is not much evidence that the economic performance of a president in his first two years in office matters much by the time you get to Election Day. (Some statistical models, in fact — although I do not personally find them all that plausible — even claim that poor economic performance during a president’s first two years in office may help him. )
With that said, one cannot get too cute about this. Economic data, as we have mentioned, is quite noisy — certainly from month to month and even from quarter to quarter. And if voters are forward looking in their outlook, they can still take some time to parse the changes in the data (as can the news media and economists).
I decided to focus on economic data that looks at the performance of the economy over roughly the past half-year — although the implementation of this gets a bit more complicated to work around another thorny complication in economic modeling.
Below is a chart showing the progression of real personal income over 2004 and 2005. Note that there is a big spike in one month, December 2004, which coincided with a large one-time dividend payment made by Microsoft.
In addition to speaking to how personal income can be a problematic data series to begin with, this spike would also create problems for you if you were trying to measure the change in personal income at some later date. For instance, if your model was based at looking at the change in personal income over six months, it would look like something very bad had happened in June 2005, since this would be exactly six-months after the one-time spike. Then in July 2005, the index would suddenly appear to be rising at a healthy clip again.
The solution is to make these comparisons on a rolling basis. Our model calculates the change in each variable at intervals ranging from one month to one year. In other words, it calculates the one-month change in the variable, the two-month change, the three-month change, and so forth, then averages these results together after normalizing them to have the same standard deviation. The result is generally similar to the six-month change, but more robust to short-term blips in the data.
A slight variation is used in the procedure for the stock market. Because the stock market is not subject to measurement error, the model just uses the close of the S&P 500 from the most recent trading day. It then calculates the growth rate in the stock market by comparing this value to that on each of the past 252 trading days on a rolling basis as described above. (Why 252 trading days? That’s the average number of days that the stock market is open during a calendar year, excluding holidays, weekends, and so forth.)
In addition, since all the economic measures are on different scales, they are normalized such that they have the same mean and standard deviation. For purposes of legibility, the index is then scaled such that it has the same mean and standard deviation as quarterly changes in gross domestic product. So a value in the low-to-mid 3’s represents an economy that is growing at an average rate, while readings at 0 or below are recessionary.
Right now, the different components of the index read as follows.
(Keep in mind that these are normalized rather than raw values. Moreover, as I mentioned, the value for inflation is inverted before being normalized, since lower inflation tends to help incumbents.)
Right now, the index reads at 2.5 percent, which means that the economy looked at as a whole is clearly below-average, but not recessionary. There are some bright spots in the data, like the relatively strong rate of industrial activity, very low inflation (in part because of declining gas prices), and a stock market that signals the possibility for a more favorable flow of data in the second half of the year.
On the other hand, growth in income has been very poor — consistent with recessionary conditions, in fact — and consumption has been sluggish. And if the stock market has been bullish lately, the G.D.P. forecasts put out by economists are not so much. The Wall Street Journal panel expects G.D.P. growth of 2.3 or 2.4 percent in the second half of the year, which our model translates to a figure of 1.7 percent after normalizing it.
The normalized value for jobs growth (2.6 percent), interestingly, is right in the middle of these bearish and bullish indicators and almost exactly matches our economic index as a whole. This is another reason this Friday’s jobs report is especially interesting; the jobs figures have often seemed to be the “swing vote” in determining whether the economy is getting back to about average growth or slowing down yet again.
With that said, part of the value of building an economic index is that it allows you to avoid getting overly fixated on any one data series, or any one data point. We think we have developed a reasonably well-balanced measure of the economy, which is fairly resistant to noisy data, and which reflects the different types of economic activity that voters will encounter.
In addition, our focus on using real time rather than revised data provides for a more apples-to-apples comparison to previous years. Here is how the economic index would have looked in past elections since 1968, at a range of intervals up to 250 days before the election.
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When I ran for the Town Board last year, I was focused on becoming the only Democrat on the board. Halfway through the election when a newspaper reporter asked me what I thought about becoming the only woman on the Board, I was momentarily stumped. Here in the Ithaca area, we're a tad further along the road to enlightenment than some others places. Women's issues were not uppermost in my mind.
Recently Irene Stein, from the Tompkins County Democratic Committee, invited me to participate in Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Campaign School. I felt like I'd been invited by Eleanor Roosevelt herself and I jumped at the chance. We met tonight for introductions.
The training, designed by people at Emily's List, is designed to encourage pro-choice, Democratic women to run for office and win. Emily's list was started in the 1980s at which time no Democratic woman had ever been elected to the US Senate in her own right. EVER! In fact, of 1,889 people who have served in the US Senate since its inception in 1789, only 33 are women. Of 10,546 members of the House of Representatives, 203 are women.
Why so few? According to a Brown University study (pdf) "women are significantly less likely than men to view themselves as qualified to run for office. In addition, women are less likely than men to receive encouragement to run for office from party leaders, elected officials, and political activists."
Does it matter? Well, more than half of eligible voters in the US are women. 15% of the 109th Congress are women. Let's find out if women can make a difference. People at Emily's List and the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee are working hard to recruit qualified women and support their campaigns. If you're a woman, think about running for office. If not, donate to Emily's list and ask a woman you know to run.
Seriously, find out who your local, state and national representatives are and when their terms expire. If you need help with this, email me. Find your local Democratic Committee. Go to a town board, city council, county or state legislature meeting and see what they do. It's hard work but its not rocket science. So, run! Or help someone run. Really. We need you. Get going!
(Cross posted at Dryden Democrats )
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Nice post. I hope it is inspirational to others! (Your link to dryden dems is for blogspog not blogspot - Oop!).
Oops! Thanks heaven for watchful readers. I've fixed the link.
I hate to say it but (there have been two occasions when I have been invited to get involved running for a local office...) I am not prepared to take the garbage that comes along with the job...
I admire women who run for office and serve and I send you and each of them lots of cheers but I do not want the libel and slander or the pain for my family.
I don't mean to be negative but I do know this issue has been a factor for a number of very talented women.
By the way congratulations on the participation in the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Campaign School!
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Medicaid Flexibility Still Missing from Wyden-Brown
On Monday Politico ran a column by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) taking issue with my critique of his proposal to accelerate the granting of waivers under Obamacare. Unfortunately, he missed a central point I was making about limitations on the waivers that could be granted.
Apparently the senator was offended by this paragraph, from my New England Journal of Medicine piece on his bill:
Even more problematic to proponents of state flexibility on both the left and the right is that states would not be able to fold other health programs into their waiver request. Liberal skeptics at the Physicians for a National Health Program, for instance, point out that provisions of Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Taft–Hartley plans, and other programs could not be waived, leaving large obstacles in the path of a potential single-payer system. And on the other hand, by leaving Medicaid intact, including the required expansion of the program under the ACA, Wyden–Brown does little to comfort conservatives who envision a privatized voucher approach. (Read the rest at The Foundry…)
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Yesterday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the President’s fiscal year 2012 budget and implementation of Obamacare. The Secretary’s remarks highlighted the need for fiscal responsibility and health care reform that gives greater power to individuals and more flexibility to the states. Unfortunately, none of these goals can be achieved under Obamacare.
Sebelius told the committee, “We can’t build lasting prosperity on a mountain of debt. And we can’t win the future if we pass on massive debts to our children and grandchildren. We have a responsibility to the American people to live within our means so we can invest in the future.” (Read the rest at The Foundry…)
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The Heat Report: 19.03.13
CALGARY -- The road to the 2013 Calder Cup Playoffs just got a little more difficult for the Abbotsford Heat.
Though the Heat hold down the eighth and final playoff spot in the American Hockey League's Western Conference, Abbotsford has just a one-point edge on teams situated nine through 11. That's the good news for the top affiliate of the Calgary Flames.
The bad news? Each of those three teams holds a significant games played advantage over Abbotsford. The Oklahoma City Barons, currently ninth, have played six fewer games than the Heat. The Milwaukee Admirals have played five less games to this point in the schedule while Abbotsford has played three more games than the 11th place Rockford IceHogs.
The Heat didn't help their cause over the last week, either, dropping two of three contests to close out a seven-game road trip that yielded just three points after going 2-4-1.
There is an opportunity to salvage some points back in Abbotsford, though. The Heat play a back-to-back set against the IceHogs on the weekend in a series that could go a long way to putting some space between themselves and the trio chasing them.
BAERTSCHI FINDS SCORESHEET
The Flames hoped a demotion to the Heat would help ignite Sven Baertschi's offense.
After three scoreless games, the first-year pro exploded for a goal and an assist in Abbotsford's 5-4 shootout win over the San Antonio Rampage on Sunday, pushing his season totals to seven goals and 20 points in 25 games. Baertschi initially had an assist on Brett Carson's sixth goal of the season that was later given to Roman Horak.
Though he's played just over a third of Abbotsford's games this season, Baertschi is sixth in team scoring.
TAYLOR RECALLED
With Flames goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff expecting his second child, Daniel Taylor was recalled to join Calgary on their three-game road trip against the Dallas Stars, Nashville Predators and Columbus Blue Jackets.
Kiprusoff is expected to rejoin the team in Nashville, however.
Taylor earned his first career National Hockey League victory in his last stint with the Flames, stopping 29 of 31 shots against the Vancouver Canucks on March 3rd.
In 31 games with the Heat this season, Taylor is 14-10-2 with a 2.96 goals against average and .924 save percentage.
ROLLHEISER INKS PTO
With Taylor's recall and Leland Irving undergoing minor elective surgery, the Heat signed Grant Rollheiser to a professional try-out on Sunday.
Rollheiser has played 19 games this season with the Utah Grizzlies of the ECHL and another six with the Wichita Thunder of the Central Hockey League. He was originally drafted in the sixth round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Why.
There’s a big gap between having one of the best teams in the AHL and having one of the best teams in the NHL, a real and spectacular gap.
The former does not guarantee the latter. To cite just one example, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers had three brilliant years in the AHL in the early 2000’s (finishing first in the league in the regular season in 2001-02), and we all know how that turned out for their parent club, the New York Islanders.
Tyler Dellow went on about this at some length late in January, when a few of Edmonton’s more prominent media people wrote articles on the successes of the Barons. I’ll quote his conclusion:
It seems to me that the onus in proving that something matters is on those who assert that it does. There’s lots and lots of reason to think that your AHL team’s record has little to do with whether you’ll be a good team down the road or whether you’ll develop players effectively – I’ve only scratched the surface above. If people like Spector and Jones want to make the case that Tambellini should be praised for turning into the Barons into a powerhouse, it seems to me that they should explain why I should give the slightest damn as an Oilers’ fan. As far as I can tell, it’s irrelevant, or close to it. Unless, of course, you’re a hockey team desperate to draw the eye away from the flaming wreckage of another season and distract minds from questions about why you’re still employed. In that case, a good AHL team is probably incredibly relevant to you. It’s a justification for further employment that people who don’t dig into things might accept.
When I read Tyler’s piece, I was generally in agreement with it. I was aware of good AHL teams with terrible NHL parent franchises, and vice versa. On the other hand, it also seemed to me that a strong AHL organization was probably something of a positive; after all, as with the NHL there’s a need to assess, recruit and then coach talent, and some of the players contributing in the AHL are bound to contribute in the NHL down the road. It would seem to make a logical sense that a team winning in the AHL employs better people in coaching and development, and that some of the players helping their team win would make the leap.
So I went out to try and see, one way or the other, if I could find evidence that success at the AHL level led to success at the NHL level. To answer the question, I looked at three seasons worth of AHL data: 2005-06, 2006-07, and 2007-08. I didn’t use earlier seasons because of the lost lockout year, and I didn’t use later seasons because there hasn’t been enough time since.
Goal Differential Correlations
The following table shows the correlation between the success of an AHL team (measured by goal differential) and its parent NHL club (also measured by goal differential). “Same season” denotes the correlation between the AHL team and the NHL team in the same season, while “Season+1” represents the correlation between AHL success one year and NHL success the next year (e.g. 2005-06 AHL team, 2006-07 NHL team), and so on. A perfect correlation is 1.0.
The most significant outlier to this pattern is the Atlanta Thrashers/Chicago Wolves affiliation; Chicago was highly successful for many years, while Atlanta no longer has an NHL team. Interestingly, the Wolves were not owned by the Thrashers but rather by a pair of Chicago-area businessmen and retained significant control over hockey operations under the Thrashers.
It’s interesting to note that there appears to be a link between a good AHL organization and eventual NHL success. I say “appears” for a number of reasons; firstly, I can’t think of a definitive reason for such a strong link, and secondly I’m dealing with just three years of AHL data here.
Why would such a link exist?. That’s certainly a positive sign for the Oilers organization.
I agree that a good AHL team certainly doesn't hurt, and that the oilers needed their own affiliate in the AHL.
I wouldn't overstate the significance of a good AHL team, however. Although I don't follow the barons closely, my sense this season has been that their success was largely driven by veteran AHL players who are relative long shots to make it in the NHL (e.g. both goaltenders and Cornet).
Of course it's good to put guys like Pitlick, Pajaarvi, Lander, Teubert, and Plante in that environment for development purposes - but if your big minutes guys aren't going to be NHLers, and your AHL success is driven by AHL lifers, then I can see where Dellow is coming from.
It matters
JDD is the perfect reason why you need a farm team Development is the reason you instill winning. Stability also keeps players focused on development.
Obviously there is a big difference if the AHL success it due to a goup of super prospects or a team of grizzled AHL vets. Is it possible to do some sort of historical correlation based on the age of 'the players driving the bus'* and then see where the barons fit?
* Stolen from Lowetide without expressed written consent.
Is it possible that being with a winning AHL team instills good attitudes and a desire to win whereas bad teams get used to losing? In the words of George Steinbrenner, "It only takes one thing to be a good loser, plenty of practice".
Agreed. The fact that the Barons are winning is a nice bonus, but the real story is that the development system has been completely overhauled in the last few years.
I think the most hopeful sign is that the joke that was the Oilers farm team through most of the 2000s seems to have been a key predictor of the past 3 yrs results.
The hiring of up and coming coaches, creating a winning atmosphere and the appearance that young defenseman are improving down there, seems to indicate the organization at least has a clue.
I'm assuming it does not help a young goalie get confidence if he is facing 50 shots a night so that alone makes a better AHL team important. My biggest hope is that a playoff run in the AHL will help Paarjarvi, Lander and Pitlick develop into solid NHLers in the next couple of years.
In trying to see if an AHL success leads to NHL success you need to factor in a development delay. I would expect AHL success and help to the NHL team would peak about 3-5 years after the AHL peak.
@Sheldon "Oilers Fan for Life!!!"
It seems to be three years; with the years I looked at there was pretty minimal correlation after that time.
That would be a great argument if there was any way to confirm that he would've turned out any better had he been in a system that had its own farm team. There are hundreds (well, lots anyway) of highly toughted goalies and high draft picks who played for organizations who had their own affiliates and still never panned out.
In his first pro season, the Oilers did have their own their affiliate. JDD played well in the ECHL but was 6-13-2 with a .888 SV% for the Roadrunners.
You could maybe say he was shafted the following year with the Bulldogs where he only got into 13 games, but Halak and Danis severely outplayed him.
In Wilkes/Barre he was clearly the team's #1 despite being another team's affiliate.
The following year was when the Oilers got their own affiliate (Springfield) and he was handed the #1 job.
So out of 4 years, 2 of them were in another team's affiliate, and only one of them was he not the starting goalie.
EVERYDAY I'M DITHERIN'
A strong minor league team can't hurt, but it doesn't necessarily mean that your parent club will be a smashing success either.
I'm a happier Oiler fan knowing that the team has been successful in March (despite a sub .500 season overall) than knowing that their minor league affiliate is the second best team in the AHL.
If next year, Paajarvi, Lander and at least one defenceman returns to the big club and makes an impact on the roster, than I'm willing to give more credit to the development of the minor league squad directly leading to the Oilers' successes, but until then, it's almost like comparing apples to oranges.
When you looked at the correlation did you examine if the AHL and NHL teams used the same play systems so the players could easily transition to the NHL with minimal new stuff to learn. Is this much of an issue even?
This is an interesting article...so because the Barons are good this year, it will keep me hopeful for the Oilers for the next 3+ years!
Apparently I can run on hope for a while longer...I guess Tambi WILL keep his job!
@Sheldon "Oilers Fan for Life!!!"
There's really no way to find that sort of information.
Has anyone else heard the rumour from Elliotte Freidman that Matt Duschene is unhappy is Colorado. Just curious if one could do a swap of Sam Gagner for Matt Duschene, would you do it. Size wise there the same, Duschene is a better skater. This season Sam`s been way better, but in the past Matt eaten his lunch. Upside could be debatable. Any thoughts........
@Jonathan Willis
This is awesome analysis (I've often wondered about this myself), and supports the common sense idea that winning begets winning within an organization, but it should be said that 0.35 is pretty weak.
My inner geek is decidedly pleased that you have distinctly and intelligently separated two different concepts: correlation and causality. You can observe a correlation, but that does not determine cause and effect. So many people don't know the difference.
I am glad there is a correlation, since I am tired of watching the Oilers suck.
Many of the present Baron players credit the success they are having with the quality of the present coaching staff. Are they using the same systems as the Oilers? If so the success should translate up at least some. If he is such a great coach Would it be worth paying a higher salary to avoid some NHL team poaching him?
I'm not so sure the bond between winning at the AHL level and winning at the NHL level is so great. I think a better way to see would be to find out how many legit NHLers AHL teams graduated and then look back to see how those teams fared in those seasons when the graduates played.
We are so much more concerned with individual successes from AHL players than from team success that I cant tell if winning isnt connected or if I just dont care about it.
Is it better for Hamilton and Pitlick to play fewer minutes in lesser roles on a winning AHL team or to get lots of ice-time and lose more often?
I think it is important to note that correlation does not imply causation. Meaning that despite a weak correlation, the causation that is implied is even weaker. This value is found by squaring the correlation value and is not very pretty for any of the three rows.
As a sidenote I wonder if there is any relationship between the way a non-playoff team plays in their last 15 or so meaningless games and their next season. To see if there is any basis behind this "carry the momentum forward" talk I see. Either way, I'm loving the baron's success and I'm loving the wins down the stretch. Dubnyk is finally playing his size
Is there a correlation in the baseball world? You would think that a strong minor league system would be beneficial to the parent club. You want your young prospects earning TOI against AHL vets. If they don't, they become a AHL vets. Drafting is key and more important than AHL success.
The 2 sports use their minor leagues differently. You don't often get freshly drafted 18 year olds on MLB rosters. They tend to make their way through the various minor league affiliates before getting their first chance as September callups in a lost season.
In the NHL, your best young players generally don't play many games in the AHL before coming to the NHL fulltime. Often times it's your bottom 6ers that spend a lot of time in the AHL.
Prime examples of AHL are Alzner,Carlson,Neuvirth and Johansson. Despite the year the caps are having they have been looked at to fill in key roles 1-2 years after graduating from the AHL.
Did he do too bad. Starter on one NHL team, back-up on another. Seems like hes done ok. I would argue that even if he developed in a more stable envirnment, I can`t see him doing any better then what he has done if he was playing for a better organization.
Every situation is kind of unique but given the lack of important games that the parent club has played over the past few years, a deep playoff run has to be a looked at as a positive for key youngsters like Lander, Paajarvi and Teubert.
@Smokey
I don't think Gagner gets you MD. How about Taylor Hall; damaged goods, as is with no returns? A big gamble for both sides, but I worry that Hall will have a short career unless he makes fundamental changes to his game.
Matt Duchene has 27 points this year. Has played on the third line, and has been outta sorts with management. You gotta wonder if they would take Gagner back straight up. I would take a flyer on the kid, but I honestly don`t watch the Av`s more then 6 games a year.
Say you could get him for a couple prospects such as MPS/Musil or Klefbaum/ Pitlick would you take a chance...I would...
@Smokey
I like Duchene, a real good fit here. For Gagner? absolutely. For prospects? Sure but I would hesitate to include derKlefbaum. I want to see just what we have first. Do you have the guts to send Hall away?
@ Willis; there's a strong and steady movement in the direction that supports the theory. Definitely worth revisiting in years +4 and +5.
My assumption is that a good AHL team provides good depth players for the big club. Maybe it's those depth guys that are the real difference between bad and good NHL teams?
Not willing to do Hall for MD. Maybe for MD and Elliott on defence, but thats a pipe dream.
It's not just the record that translates into winning in the show. There has to be an aura of success that demands nothing less than the very best attitudes and effort.
That doesn't guarantee success (e.g. Montreal) but the alternative, a laizzez faire, selfish what's in it for me, who cares attitude is a contagious disease that is difficult to eliminate.
It takes years to cure a team of complacency.
Gee...that sounds familiar...
I think that the correlation between a strong AHL club and the parent NHL franchise exists, it just isn't a sole determiner of NHL franchise success.
I think back to the Manitoba Moose and their dominance of the AHL for years. That team also carried on it's roster some of those cuddly, loveable Canuckleheads we are all so fond of.
The AHL farm team is a place where draft picks and prospects can develop a professional game against grown men and spend time seasoning.
I love the fact that the Barons are outperforming the Heat this year and both are clubs that are laden with veteran presence. The difference is that the Barons have interspersed their roster with some of the Oiler's own prospects in Pitlick, Hamilton, Plante, Teubert, etc. The Heat, by contrast, are making due with only a small handful of Flames hopefuls (Irving) and draft projects (Nemisz) and have had to go so far as to sign Krys Kolanos and Hugh Jessiman to try and stock up on talent.
I actually do give some credit to Tambellini for the performance of the Barons. I've been scanning around the league to see where other AHL teams are affiliated and to measure that against their NHL team's performance and for the most part the teams that are struggling to get by every year are also the ones that have poorly run AHL squads.
Detroit is often held up as the model upon which this franchise is being rebuilt. Detroit has used their AHL franchise in Grand Rapids extremely well. The team may not be a perennial Calder Cup candidate, but they do well and they incubate the Red Wings prospects allowing them to mature under the NHL clubs tutelage.
I have heard encouraging reports from sources like Lisa McRitchie on the Oiler's development team and think that, while I'll never point to the Barons as proof positive of this club's eventual success, it is one piece in a much larger picture that will, with luck, lead this team to another championship.
Thanks for the article, Willis.
As for Duchene, if Greg Sherman decides to let go of Matt Duchene for Sam Gagner and someone like Curtis Hamilton, then he is really starting to spin his wheels. Were he to do that I think he would be moving very close to the example that Dean Lombardi is setting in L.A. (patience lost and frantic, almost spastic moves to improve immediately). I'd take that deal.
Perhaps it is a case of not all strong AHL clubs translate automatically into winning NHL clubs - but all strong NHL clubs require depth and development from strong and well run AHL clubs.
Just another piece of the puzzle in other words, without losing sight of the fact that building a winning NHL team depends on far more than just building a championship AHL team.
Your AHL team need not be a winner and i think Dellow is right that it is irrelevant how they do in the playoffs, but as an NHL team you should certainly want to see a high compete level and development from your farm...
@Lexi
What farm team are you talking about? Oh... you mean the one JDD was on? Follow the oilers much?
Standard errors please. Statistical significance would strengthen your case.
I mostly agree. The benefits of a stable farm team should be obvious, but a winning one? However, if all you look at is how many players graduate than you have to allow for the crappiness of the team they're graduating to. Things start to get really complicated and subjective at this point.
The simplest way to see if AHL success matter is to do what Willis did- does a winning team at one level help a team win at another level? The answer: sorta, but it's hard to say how much or why. Farm teams are more art than science.
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The W. D. Holley Plant Environmental Research Center (PERC), located at 630 W. Lake Street on the Colorado State University campus, has been in operation since 1971. In 1992, Dr. James E. Klett began his role as Director of PERC and became the Faculty Coordinator for the trial program. David Staats also joined the department around this time as a Horticulture Research Associate. Together Dr. Klett and David Staats orchestrate all of the activities required to produce a beautiful garden and successful trial program each year.
The Pansy Trial program was initiated in 2003 to evaluate the capability of various Pansy and Viola varieties to overwinter in the Northern Colorado climate. The trial is also considered to be a Cool-season Crop Overwintering Trial, as we have trialed other genera, such as Delphinium and Dianthus, in the past. The relatively new Perennial Trial was initiated in the fall of 2006 at the request of our advisory committee. The intention of this trial is to test only newer perennial cultivars introduced in the past three years or less.
Year after year, the number of participants in the trial and the number of entries in the trial grew, leading to the demand for more and more space. In 2000, the Annual Flower Trial Garden was moved from its site at PERC to the park on Remington Street that is just across from the newly remodeled CSU Center for Arts, which was the old Fort Collins High School building. The relocation of the garden to this more spacious and visible site furthered its mission by more effectively extending education, research and outreach to students, home gardeners, Master Gardeners, community members and Green Industry personnel. The 2.9 acre park features an additional 5,000 square feet of bedding plant space, resulting in 20,000 total square feet of bed space available for planting. The relocation project was completed in five phases.
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This question came up on a thread in the Lounge yesterday, as an aside to the topic of Reclining/Not reclining seats.
I'm not a smoker and it seems to me that it must be something like 20 years since the last of the international carriers banned it. I know it has been banned on all planes in Australia for ages, but I haven't done enough internal flying in other countries to know what the rule is in some of the less regulated areas.
Google throws up some info from 2011 that seems to suggest few if any international carriers allow it.
So I thought I'd ask the experts over here.
Thanks all.
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There are no USA carriers allowing it.As someone who works as a flight attendant, I think that due to codeshares,etc. most airlines would not allow it.
Ironically, there are flight attendants who never smoked who are being diagnosed with lung cancer-those flights from decades ago were absolutely horrible to work so no surprise on whats happening!
Thanks duty free. It must have been appalling to have to work in that smelly, smoky atmosphere. It was bad enough being a passenger - everything I wore or took as a carry on was saturated with the odor & it took a very thorough scrub to get it out of my hair & skin.
Apart from the health benefits - I'm delighted not to travel in or arrive smelling like, a portable ashtray.
Do you happen to know when the US banned it, and did they ban international & domestic at the same time?
Bokara2,
All it really takes is one click on google for the answer.
I love the point where big tobacco says it's an intrusion on individual rights.
Thanks Rastaguy, but I was really looking for info in a wider scale than just the US.
I don't think any airlines allow it now but I remember in the past a lot of airlines would ban smoking except on flights to Japan.
The last smoking flight I recall, was when I flew on KLM around 1996 from Hong Kong to Amsterdam. I did hear a story of a passenger in China who had a non-smoking seat and immediately after take-off the 2 passengers either side of him started to smoke, when he inquired to the hostie she said that's correct, they are in smoking seats and you're in a non-smoking seat
>big tobacco says it's an intrusion on individual rights.<
That's funny, I always thought smokers infringed on my individual rights to breathe clean air..........
I was one of those who was doing the happy dance when airlines (and all of the restaurants in my home state) prohibited smoking!
In 2007 I took a domestic Egyptian flight from Aswan to Abu Simbel and the smoky smell was awful. I don't remember the name of the airline but I don't think it was Egypt Air. It brought back memories of the no-so-good old days when all flights were so bad.
Thank God it was only a 30 minute flight.
I remember as an eleven year old not being able to see down the aisle of an Avianca flight due to the smoke. It really was that bad.
No wonder I have such bad asthma. And I never smoked.
In Florida, you can still smoke in a bar as long as they don't serve food. Florida is years behind Europe.
BAck in the day, PSA Airlines had one side of the aisle for smoking and the other for not. Really great when a guy lit up a cigar.
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I will be going to Hong Kong in August with Macau being my final destination. However, I will be arriving very early in the morning...5am is when my flight arrives. I went on the turbojet website and see conflicting information on what time their first ferry is from HKIA...one section shows 08:15 and another one shows 10:00. I don't mind waiting for the 08:15 ferry, if that's even accurate. Can someone advise what would be the quickest way to get to the Macau ferry terminal other than waiting at the airport for several hours for the ferry service to start...I will be travelling with one suitcase. Thanks!
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Fastest - Airport Express train to HK station, then walk or taxi over. The walk is about half a mile. First train 5:54a. HK$100 for the train. 24 minutes. Add 10 minutes walk or a few minutes on the taxi.
Or just take taxi. About HK$300. ~35 minutes.
Cheaper alternative is Cityflyer bus A11. HK$40. About 40 minutes. First bus at 6:10a. No point getting to Ferry Terminal too early, as the 15-min frequencies only start at 7a. The sailing before 7a is at 6a.
BTW, first Turbojet service from HKIA to Macau is at 10:00a (which goes to Taipa over the bridge). Regular service to Macau starts at 11:00a.
What you should be doing (and what I believe rkkwan is alluding to above) is taking a ferry directly from HKIA to Macau Airport. You don’t need to go into Hong Kong proper to then get a ferry to Macau. (That would be backtracking in the first place, as you will pass HKIA again on your way out to Macau). The other advantage is that you don’t have to go through Hong Kong Immigration; you will go right from the plane to the ferry. Your checked bags go automatically too, you collect them in Macau. All in all, this is usually faster and easier than trekking through HK Immigration, going into Hong Kong with your bags, and then getting a ferry from there. See
But with a 5 am arrival time, it is a bit of a toos-up as to whether watiting at HKIA for 5 hours for the first ferry at 10 am is better than going into Hong Kong to get the 8:15 am ferry (which you could make, assuming no long lines at Immigration and no significant wait for your bags.) Take a look at
You probably are seeing two times because the 8:15 departure is from Hong Kong Island ferry terminal, and the 10 am departure is from HKIA itself. (Actually, on the Turbojet site, I see that ferries start running at 7 am and depart every 15 minutes.)
If you wait at HKIA, there are plenty of restaurants there, and day lounges where you can pay to take a shower, etc.
thanks rkkwan and cicerone for your replies. After flying for about 15 hours, I think I would be quite eager to get to my destination rather than waiting around at the airport for 5 hours. I've read somewhere that there are different coloured taxis and one has to be sure to get the right one since they are desginated to stop only at certain points...is this true? Also, does the cityflyer bus go directly to the macau ferry terminal or does it make stops along the way? thanks!
For taxi to the city, you need to take the red one.
The Cityflyer A11 has two immediate stops before the Macau Ferry Terminal, at the transit stops before the Tsing Ma Bridge and before the Western Cross Harbor Tunnel. The very first stop after it gets to the city IS the Macau Ferry Terminal. Cannot get more convenient than that.
You want a red cab, either to Hong Kong Island if you want the Macau Ferry Termnial, or to Kowloon/Tsim Sha Tsui for the China Ferry Terminal (see below). The different coloured taxis go to different areas of Hong Kong, but don’t worry; there is zero chance you will get in the wrong one. In the first place, at the airport they are assigned to different waiting areas. There are dispatchers at each area as well, and this is a further backstop against getting in the wrong cab. Finally, if by some very odd chance you got in a blue Lantau cab and told him your address on Hong Kong Island, he would just tell you to get out of the cab. He can’t take you there. This is something that the guidebooks seem to want to make into a big deal, but really it is just not possible to take the wrong cab. The drivers won’t let you. (The only place this is theoretically possible is with red cabs once you are ON Hong Kong Island or in TST, but I won’t go into that as it won’t happen to you coming from the airport.)
One more way to consider going is to take the Airport Express train to the Kowloon Station (25 minutes), then hop a taxi to the China Ferry Terminal in Kowloon/Tsim Sha Tsui (3 minutes or so, just under HK$20) and take the New World First Ferry to Macau. There are ferries about every half hour starting at 7 am. I think you would be able to make a 7:30 am ferry, and with some hustle, even the 7 am. See for info.
This would be marginally faster than going to the Macau Ferry Terminal on Hong Kong Island proper by taxi, and IMO better than walking with luggage from the Hong Kong Airport Express station to the Macau Ferry Pier (it’s bloody hot in August, even if the walkway is covered, and not something I would want to do with a suitcase. It could also be poring with rain and bloody hot.) Personally, as a first-timer to Hong Kong, I think it will take you quite a while to figure out the walk, as you have to up and through a mall and then out along a very long pedestrian walkway, and signage is not good. And not a whole lot of people around at 6:30 am or so.
I know very little about the bus options. I am not a fan of buses when I have luggage. Otherwise the bus system here is great, although this will probably be your slowest option from the airport.
If the OP can get the first Cityflyer A11 bus at 6:10a, he can get to the Macau Ferry Terminal on HK Island not later than 6:55a. Enough time to catch the 7:15a Turbojet. With its higher speed than NWFF's ferries, he'll get to Macau no more than 10 minutes later than the 7:00a NWFF.
Single ride from airport, basically door-to-door. No need to transfer to taxi. And cheaper, for just HK$40.
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The city has been super hot lately and that has gotten me in the mood for some songs that both reflect and (hopefully) deflect the heat. Two of these songs have already made an appearance on this blog (Songs for Summer No. 1, June 5, 2011 and Songs for Summer No. 3, June 9, 2011) for heat-related reasons but both deserve a second listen. Chill Out reminds me so vividly of the Lower East Side in the heat and also all of the people slogging their way through the park searching for a little shade. Second and Dryades reminds me of Harlem more than anywhere else, especially all of the people in the shade in the community gardens playing dominoes.
Galactic (feat. Big Chief Monk Boudreaux) – Second and Dryades
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just quick, the helvetica extras, are they the same of available on the dvd? cause i have the dvd…
I wouldn’t know – I haven’t got the DVD myself. I suppose so.
wow, i´m check all the links and watch all the videos wonderfull, coming soon to Mexico with the Festival
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Almost Real — Ben & Jerry’s Boba Fett’s Carbonite Crunch
Boston, MA artist Jonny etc is at it again with his Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fan fiction, this time with Star Wars’ Boba Fett at the helm of his artistic expression. The fictional new flavor is complete with vanilla ice cream, salted caramel swirl and chocolate Han Solos frozen in carbonite (the crunch has to come from somewhere!).
Last time we covered Jonny etc’s work we were exploring his Ron Swanson-flavored Ice Cream, but now we get a look at his inter-galactic new flavor: Boba Fett’s Carbonite Crunch. Anyone think it’s time for Ben & Jerry’s to actually commission Jonny etc for some R&D? [Via BreakfastSafari]
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The berries give these bran muffins a real fruity taste and are lovely warmed with lashings of butter.
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- Combine the bran flakes, flour and mixed spice in a bowl, making a well in the centre. Pour the beaten wet ingredients into the well and stir to combine, then gently stir in the blueberries.
- Spoon mixture into prepared muffin pans and bake for 25 minutes, or until muffins test cooked when a skewer inserted into the centre of one muffin comes out clean.
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My favorite line: "It’s your choice whether you want to let the rest of the world know we exist - it's a great opportunity for a lot of people to really start to learn about what real dining is about." Take that, chefs that use your real names!
I'll resist the immediate temptation to "critique" this video, and its not-so-mysterious, sky-diving, cocktail-drinking, secret-password-giving chef/prophet mastermind - and will instead let you tell me, in your typically fair and balanced way, what you think of this.
By the way, since I'm assuming this video is really some sort of desperate cry to be outed, if you know the identity of Dissident Chef and his band of merry faux-foodie hipsters, please do tell.
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It would be a lot easier to keep a secret by not shooting a TV show about it.
yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's like hey, tell everyone you know not to tell anyone.
asides from being really arrogant, what exactly is your problem with this guy? i mean it sounds like a cool enough idea.
The stuff he bragged about didn't look all that good to me.
He's too cute ...(but not as cute as you, Chef John!)
I especially liked the part where he tasted the sauce then shook the spoon off back in the pan. Great technique, got to keep that under wraps, don't want anyone else copying that!
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no problem with him at all, I hope he makes millions. I like my Arch-Nemeses easy to mock, and this guy's a dream come true. I hope he starts mocking my stuff (secretly, of course)
Good news - your arch nemisis may also be a neighbor:
You could infiltrate his secret lair if you wanted to. . .
LOL, that didn't take long! Well, looks like I need a new arch-nemesis already.
Who cleans up after this guy after he cooks? His work area was a mess.
To me, it's a sort of Ueber-cliche thing, for those bored of scoring seats in the latest, hottest resto. In and of itself, it's as dull as chasing that latest, hottest resto.
The marketed exclusivity of it is more obnoxious than the exclusiveness of the concept.
And of course, that the concept is marketed means that some mohawked genius will have to think of the next great thing, which might be:
*Unpasteurized Milk Maids Gone Wild!
*Foie Gras Follies! or, La Cage au Foie!
*Blowfish Bordello!
*Super-Secret Siam Satay: The Monkey Session!
*Secret Super-Egos on Parade: Those Passive-Aggressive Bay Area Chefs
*Chilaquiles, Pork Belly and Viagra: What Serious Eats Won't Show You on TV!
*Cheap, Replaceable Pans: The Seamy Side of Anthony Bourdet
The possibilities of viral-marketing a supposedly secret concept are really endless. Think up your own! Me, I'm thinking the CIA (the spooky people, not the cooking people) could recruit spies through a technique like our mohawked maestro used.
Jeez, take it easy... I'm going to have to start defending him now.
What is faux graw? and why would it be outlawed?
That was a bit too much reality tv for me. I like the learning experience i get out of cooking shows. There wasn't enough information. Just little tidbits.
I really think that truly and really good dining should also be the most simply and easily enjoyed. A few twists here and there to keep things interesting are welcome, but it's an entirely different story if I have to make ten phone calls to get the password to a location where I'll eat secretly...no thanks.
And this makes for a better dining experience how?
I'm over it.
And this makes for a better dining experience how?
Wow how pretentious, I would pay not to eat at this guys oh so special restaurant. Sorry if that comes across too harsh but sheesh! He needs to get over himself.
Maybe I'm a niave foodie, but Why are some of these dishes "illegal" in some states--do they come from china? I also find it lame filming yourself doing 'illegal' activities, it must be some kind of nutritional defect that makes people think they are 'cool' instead of a fool. If he really wanted to introduce people to what he calls 'fine dining' or good food, then he open a bistro of his own. But the fact that he doesn't seem to have a job or credentials as a chef somewhere except in his own mind and ego makes him just another poser in my book. The real chef to admire at this website is Chef John.
Whats up with 72 hrs @ 130? Sous Vide sounds interesting, very moist and tender, but isn't that holding it at the upper end of the danger zone for like 3 days? Why would the health department have a problem with that?
There was one of these underground restaurants in the Seattle area, and it was so 'secret' that it was featured on Bourdain's "no reservations" a year or so ago.
The legit part of the their business was an adult ed, hands on cooking school that I liked very much. They served several glasses of wine with the classes for years without a problem. Then one day the powers that be decided that could no longer happen without a permit. There is some thought that the regulators re-thought out policy on wine may be some degree of retribution for flaunting the mobile, uninspectable, unpermitted, non tax paying dining establishment.
The power struggle between the regulators and the business began. And it's ended how you would expect. I never made it to the secret restaurant.(I'm just not that into molecular gastronomy, or trout flavor marshmallows.) However I learned that bacon ice-cream works for me, and I will miss the now defunct cooking school.
FYI: my underground dining sources tell me he does have skills and has held "real" jobs before. I think we shall give him the benefit of the doubt regarding his cooking since we can't taste it. There is plenty of other stuff to kid him about!
No permits, licensing, regulations, full time staff, overhead or fixed venue. Who knew that most asian street food hawkers were at the cutting edge of cuisine? Next time I end up cooking dinner for a bunch of friends at another friend's apartment, I'll make everyone pay a share of the groceries and call it undergound dining. Without having personally handed me a cold beer (or at least offered to do so), you'll never get to taste my terribl-uhm-unique renditions of Chef John's recipes. Thats just how we roll here in the asian underground.
one of these days SWAT team will come to nail this perp - with the explosive entry through the kitchen wall. Chef, you mentioned that you know bunch of people in the law enforcement...
the whole pretense about buying a super-fresh sea bass three days before the secret dinner party is most likely a baloney. I bet he likes to serve sweetbreads, dark opulent ragout, liver with fava beans and big Amarone
I checked out BigAl's link above. Funny. The Chef mentions that he has an "amazing business plan." Now, I've been working for a non-profit company for the last 18 years... How the hell did his Groveling For Money file end up in the Amazing Business Plan folder? I hate when that happens... Oh sorry, I mean: It's "amazing" when that happens.
Scott - Boston
Somewhere between a b-list pro wrestler and some kind of annoying salesperson.
Wish he would just shut up.
Yeah, I hate people that grovel for money using videos... that reminds me, can you guys donate some money?
Nothing new here. The Ghetto Gourmet () began doing this in the Bay Area in 2004 - even appeared on the front page of the Chron at one point. Multi-city events at its high point. Gave lesser known chefs and line cooks an opportunity to shine.?
Also, I wonder if he puts a warning on the menu about the sous vide? Supposedly if it's not done in a precise manner there is a high risk of botulism, is that true?
there can be, but most of those risks (like raw eggs, etc) are over-blown. After seeing the things I've seen in kitchens, it can't be that common since there would be corpses laying all over the city.
What. A pretentious. Douche.
pretentious?? You're the one using French!.
These comments and the haters are hilarious.
It looks like a lot of fun, I bet he is full of tips and tricks someone in the business would appreciate.
Obviously the "hush hush" is THE advertising.
I wouldn't mind following him around for a month or so.
If your lucky he may let you pack his chute.
Dear Anonymous
I agree! I SCREAMED when he plopped the tasing spoon's leftovers back into the pan.
Anonymous 2
"faux graw" is fois gras, and is produced through seriously abusing geese or ducks via force feeding. It's also amazingly delicious. I'm conflicted.
Anonymous 4
Regulations require specific methods of cooking designed to prevent health risks (like "under cooking" by holding something at too low a temp so bacteria actually grow instead of being killed. This is why I can't get sous vide without bringing a lawyer along.)
OK - I'm going on too long. Sorry, Chef. I'm with you. I wish the guy had done all this in a Mexican wrestler's mask.
"Mexican wrestler's mask." Yes!! that would have been perfect!
hmmm.....
I think its genius. I mean, he seems to have found a way to have his own restaurant with out a lease/ mortgage/ health inspection.....
I guess its kinda cool that its all about the food.
Did they just go through a dave brubeck album for the soundtrack of this video?
This video is a bit dated, since the foie gras ban was repealed in Chicago last year. A lot of restaurants ignored it anyway. Storm in a teacup stuff. Yawn.
He's not doing anything amazing, just exclusive. It's a rave party for foodies. But beyond the narcissism there's an interesting question: what is "real dining?"
Is "real dining" at the heart of a technique like sous vide? Is it an exclusive subculture? An attitude?
I think Frank Black said it best:
"every thing was fine down here
what you call it here
call it what you will here
way down down down in this subbacultcha"
I'm allowed! I'm from Quebec. Please don't think I'm gauche.
are u guys still putting gravy on your fries?
A 10-second Google search (+"sub culture dining" +"san francisco") nets you quick results:
Looks like the Diss came out of the closet. His name is Russell Jackson:
This guy may cook, but I think he spends a lot of time in front of mirrors, preening. I work in Hollywood and I see actors , usually not very good ones, full of their own fabulousness like this guy. What's next... eye liner?
I think it's all a tad pretentious. If only we could all be so cultured. Maybe one day I can be a snob too.
Hey Chef John, will you cook something in a bag and make a video about it please? You did the sourdough vids and they took several days too...
Haha! I'm laughing out loud...
CJ, this is the most fun I've had on your site! (Except for that one time I learned how to made cheese.) Keep it up! :)
looks like he had a regular place in 2005.
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Just curious... This is a different app than fMMS, right? There's another app already in use by several people (myself included) that's been doing MMS (send and receive) for multiple file attachment types for some time now.
I'm always of the opinion that having more than one way to do something is nice. But wanted to make sure you (and others) knew there's another app out there to do this as well.
Yes it's a completely different application and we exchange tips all the time :-)
fMMS is written in python using Hildon.
My stuff is written in C++ and using Qt.
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Michael Floyd Is In Football For The Long Haul
Michael Floyd is living the football dream – especially after being a first-round draft pick by the Arizona Cardinals, Mike Max reports (1:52).
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HBO Real Sports: Holley Mangold
Holley Mangold won a spot on the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team after hoisting 320 pounds in the clean-and-jerk event. Cheering her on is brother Nick Mangold, center for the New York Jets.
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Rams' rookie class, cheerleaders head to Joplin to help rebuilding efforts
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One Last Time, Again - Excerpt, Content Labels, Reviews & Discussion
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“We haven’t seen each other in three years. I figured the occasion warrants a day off. And now that you’re done with your panel, we have a few hours to kill. I was thinking we could go back to your room, for old time’s sake.”
I start to say no, but then I change my mind, flash my key card, and beckon for him to follow me. By sheer luck, we’re alone in the elevator. I don’t waste any time pinning him to the wall and driving my tongue between his lips, my fingers clinging to his short blond hair. His cock rises with the elevator, and I grind him all the way up to my floor. My clit throbs, desperate for his touch, and it’s all I can do to walk down the hall to my room, rather than fucking him right there in the elevator.
“I still miss your pussy,” he whispers as I unlock the door. “And the way those green eyes of yours light up when I’m pleasuring you. There isn’t a day I don’t remember how amazing it was to eat you out, how beautiful you are when you come.”
I want to ask why, if he enjoyed me so much, he left in the first place, but I don’t want the answer, and I don’t want to kill the moment.
“Then what are you doing letting me stand here with my clothes on?”
Evan unbuttons my shirt carefully, and I can’t tell if he’s teasing me or he wants to savor the moment, but I have to admit that I like waiting. The longer he takes, the longer he’s with me. When my blouse is off, I unhook my bra and he catches my breasts in his waiting palms. Nobody else has these hands, nobody else plays with my nipples the way he does. He has all the finesse of someone hand-rolling a cigarette, and it sends shivers all the way down my body, into my cunt. I’ve explained his technique to my subsequent lovers, but none of them have ever been able to match it. With his thumb and finger pinching my nipple, I’m suddenly weak-kneed, my body contracting in an orgasmic prelude to what’s to come.
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Keep Medicare Eligibility At Age 65By Jess Spar
Target: House Speaker John Boehner
Goal: Stop the House of Representatives from supporting the proposal to move Medicare eligibility from age 65 to 67.
As anxiety over the approaching “fiscal cliff” rises, House Speaker John Boehner has proposed raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 as a potential solution. Estimated by the Congressional Budget Office, this would save over $110 billion over the next ten years, but at what cost? With the cost of healthcare at a high increase for those over the age of fifty, adding two years onto this could be a death sentence for many elderly people. Individuals in the 65-66 age range are at the cheaper end of the beneficiary range for Medicare, yet under the new policy would most likely have to seek out private insurance, which would prove a much more costly alternative. Businesses would be able to provide coverage as well, but this would also affect their profit margins, which many small businesses cannot afford. This will almost certainly lead to an increase in uninsured individuals, and potentially layoffs if the smaller businesses affected as well.
John Boehner’s “quick fix” to the government’s financial issues will simply shift costs from the federal government to employers, other sectors that pay for healthcare, and individuals aged 65 and 66. Those approaching the age of retirement will now be expected to stay in the work force for two more years with two less years of benefits despite the fact they have been assured throughout their lives that they will have these benefits at 65.
By signing this petition you are urging House Speaker John Boehner to consider the effects of altering the Medicare beneficiary age, and to help look for another solution to our country’s financial dilemma.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Boehner,
I am writing to you to urge you to consider another solution to our country’s financial problems. I understand that you have proposed changing the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67, and I am asking that you consider the negative effects this decision would have on our country’s elderly, as well as small businesses. By changing the Medicare age, you are simply shifting the financial burden from the government to employers and the elderly individuals themselves, and for many, this will not be an affordable solution. The change in Medicare eligibility will force individuals to look into more costly privatized healthcare solutions, and will increase out of pocket expenses for many small businesses that cannot afford to have this affecting their profit margin.
I ask that you aid in the effort to look for other solutions to the approaching “fiscal cliff,” and leave the burden from weighing on the shoulders of the elderly. They have worked hard for many years with the assumption that they could count on our country to support their healthcare needs at the age of 65, and now you are asking that the government take away that promise for an extra two years. Affordability of health care above the age of fifty is already an issue for many individuals with lower income, and this change could potentially leave a large portion of the elderly population uninsured. Please protect our elderly citizens and reconsider your proposal for the change in Medicare eligibility.
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I’m not an energy drink kind of girl – never was. I work out on an empty stomach first thing in the morning (working out with food in my belly makes me want to hurl) and always feel energized. This is what works for me and it may very well work for you too – or maybe you need some breakfast before your workout. That’s fine! As my girl Kasey says, #beTRUEtoYOU!
Now, I’m going to totally contradict myself. And I’m totally okay with it. I blame the NRG Matrix team for making such a rockin’ product.
For those of you that are not familiar with NRG Matrix, it is actually a raw, organic energy drink made from mushrooms. Yep, mushrooms. Don’t be deceived by the modernized packaging. This stuff is the real deal, my friends. I will totally admit that I pre-judged this product. Kasey told me to check it out and, at first glance, I thought, “Ya, ya, ya, I have energy for dayyys. I don’t need this supplement stuff.” Forgive me, NRG Matrix. I was wrong and judgmental. Tisk tisk! And, for the record, this is not a supplement. It is a whole foods-derived energy drink!
What I love the most about NRG Matrix is the fact that it provides an affordable alternative to Red Bull, Monster, and all those other energy drinks that have been proven to have long-term negative effects on our bodies. NRG Matrix was created by a team of healthcare professionals and scientists seeking to create an honest, compassionate #plantPOWERed product that gives us long-lasting energy. Um, yes please.
The primary ingredient in NRG Matrix is medicinal mushrooms, which contain a key ingredient called cordyceps that has been scientifically proven to enhance exercise performance. Cordyceps does this by increasing the amount of oxygen delivered to our bodies and enhancing the production of ATP, a co-enzyme in our bodies that is responsible for energy transfer.
Here’s what the ingredient list looks like:
- Organic Medicinal Mushrooms grown in San Marcos, California (for lasting energy)
- Organic Extracts – Yerba Mate, Guarana, American Ginseng, Tumeric Root (for improved immune function)
- Vitamin Blend – Vitamin C, Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6 and B12, Vitamin D (derived from the Medicinal mushrooms!)
- Organic Stevia, Monkfruit
Impressive, huh? I love how every ingredient has a purpose. The monkfruit and stevia give NRG Matrix a delicious, mild citrus flavor.
I can really attest to the product. I’ve been using it every other day for the past two weeks and have been recording my energy levels. On the days that I drink NRG Matrix during my toning routines, I definitely notice a difference in my energy levels. I literally feel like I could go for hours! When I don’t drink NRG Matrix and just drink water, after about an hour, I’m ready to call it quits. Like I said, it’s the real deal and I would absolutely recommend it to everyone!
NRG Matrix is a powder that comes in a convenient pouch. I simply pour the packet into my Camelbak before filling it up with water. After a generous shake, you’re good to go!
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Thanks to the kind team at NRG Matrix, they’ve agreed to gift TWO readers with a 10-pack of NRG Matrix! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling me how you would incorporate NRG Matrix into your daily life. Entries will close on Saturday at 12:00 a.m. and the winners will be announced on Sunday. GOOD LUCK!
*Edited to add (thanks to reader, Kirsten!): You can purchase NRG Matrix online at their website here! Per packet (i.e. per serving), they’re almost $1.00 cheaper than the price of leading energy drinks in most stores.
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THERE ARE TWO distinct ways of seeing a person’s faults: conviction and condemnation…
God convicts of sin, whereas Satan condemns. The divine purpose in addressing sin is to call us to repent so that we will become the people He created us to be. God’s motive in correcting us is pure love. But Satan’s motive in addressing our flaws is pure hate. The demonic intent is to produce despair, self-condemnation, and self-hatred because Satan’s goal is to decimate, destroy, and kill.
When we’re trying to persuade a person who is sinning to do what is right, our purpose must be like God’s. We must never correct in a way that reflects judgmental harshness, leading to despair and discouragement of condemnation. The motive of the heart must be: “I love you too much to see you do this. I want God’s best for you. Please repent before it’s too late.” Rebecca Manley Pippert, “Meekness: The Remedy for Anger,” A Heart for God, 185
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Welstead is an accredited airport executive, and is a member of the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), the AAAE Finance and Administration Committee, the AAAE Airport Operations/ Safety/ Planning Committee, the ACI-NA Finance Committee and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Airport Terminals and Ground Access (AVO50).
Prior to joining the city, Welstead has served as an airman in the United States Coast Guard; public information officer for the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics; and operations supervisor at Omaha’s medium hub commercial airport, Eppley Airfield. He also is a graduate of the Academy of Real Estate.
In December 2008, Welstead took the position of airport manager at Meacham International Airport, where he was responsible for operating, regulating and maintaining the airport.
Welstead holds a bachelor’s degree in aviation management from the University of Nebraska – Omaha, where he graduated with honors as Aviation Student of The Year. He earned his pilot license in 2001 and continues to enjoy flying today.
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Melnichenko accuses Ukrainian authority of falsification of “Gongadze’s case”
The ex-major of State Security Service Nickolay Melnichenko delivered his statement to "Ukraynska Pravda", in which he appealed to the president of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko with a request to pay special attention to the question of security of the former president Leonid Kuchma and his subordinates, who survived after the death of the ex-minister of Internal Affairs Yurij Kravchenko. the USA.
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Hello! I'm selling music on my website, and I would like to offer the option of downloading the music in MP3 or FLAC format. I don't want to create different products for each format. Instead, I'd like to use one product and let the user choose either MP3 or FLAC. Is this possible?
Also, I am selling physical media too: vinyl records, to be exact. I would like for physical product to allow for the option of MP3 or FLAC download. My thought was to bundle the physical product with the digital product. In the end, I would like only two listings per album: digital edition (which you choose as MP3 or FLAC), and physical product bundled with a digital edition (which you choose as MP3 of FLAC).
Can I do this with Jigoshop?
Thanks for your help. :)
Keith
2 Posted by Keith on 09 Feb, 2012 08:15 PM
Looking at this again... and it would be ideal if I could create a downloadable product with MP3 and FLAC attributes, then assign a different downloadable file to each attribute. Any chance that can happen in a future release?
For now I'm just going to give them one ZIP file with both MP3 and FLAC. It will suck for bandwidth, and take longer to download, but it's the only way I can do it.
3 Posted by Keith on 17 Feb, 2012 02:03 PM
I'm still hoping there's an answer for this... I've been messing around with Jigoshop and looking through the knowledge base, but I can't seem to find a solution on my own.
4 Posted by Matt on 17 Feb, 2012 02:04 PM
One variable product, two variations. One for FLAC, one for MP3.
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Hey everyone!
We're currently working on an architectural research and design project based on the emerging megacity of Karachi in Pakistan. We're spending the first part of 2013 researching on site working with local people and we're planning to bring the findings and design proposals to london in the form of an exhibition which will be linked to a parallel exhibition in Karachi.
The project is concerned with the revival of a redundant railway, the KCR [Karachi Circular Railway] - the project is multi-faceted but primarily deals with research, design proposals and a small publication of our work.
We're looking to find a space in london, as central as possible. At the moment we are unsure of the size needed, but as architects I'm sure we can appropriate the space! [anything railway related would be really amazing...]
We're ideally looking at securing a venue for 2/3 weeks next summer, maybe as early as june. Would love to hear any suggestions, or advice, we're a bit new to this!
Thanks in advance guys, hopefully we'll be a worthwhile contribution to Meanwhile Space!
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From what I remember when the picture originally came out I don't think anyone was ever able to get the exif data off of it maybe because we never had the original photo only the copy on photobucket or something but I by no means the expert on any of this. Also there is a lady who posts on the BB board I post on and she had a good friend who was in Puerto Vallarta for a week at that same time, they never saw Jeff and Jordan but they did say that although there was little celebrations through out the week the only big parade/celebration occurred on the 12th, it was on that street (we found screen shots on google maps of the exact corner they were standing on using the restaurant sign and another store sign in the background) and they blocked traffic for the parade...the 12th was also the only day traffic was blocked and people were allowed to just stand on the side of the road. I guess it was for some celebration for Our Lady of Guadelupe or something similar in name.
In episode 3, Mike and Louie received a one hour penalty for following a taxi cab driver to the Horse sense or Money sense Detour. They arrived at the mat in 7th place just ahead of Brent and Caite, but had to wait there for their penalty to run its course.This is particularly nice confirmation of what many of us have been hoping for...it is now against the rules to hire a taxi to follow, apparently.
In episode 3, Mike and Louie received a one hour penalty for following a taxi cab driver to the Horse sense or Money sense Detour.
QuoteIn episode 3, Mike and Louie received a one hour penalty for following a taxi cab driver to the Horse sense or Money sense Detour.How did we learn this?
Leg 3 DeparturesJoe & Heidi11:55 amCarol & Brandy11:55 am
Quote from: Dawne on March 05, 2010, 11:10:01 AMLeg 3 DeparturesJoe & Heidi11:55 amCarol & Brandy11:55 amDoes anyone know why the 1-minute departure rule wasn't followed this time?
Quote from: J-Squeeze on March 05, 2010, 03:13:41 PMQuote from: Dawne on March 05, 2010, 11:10:01 AMLeg 3 DeparturesJoe & Heidi11:55 amCarol & Brandy11:55 amDoes anyone know why the 1-minute departure rule wasn't followed this time?Maybe the TPTB knew that 1 minute made no difference in getting to a bus that left hours later.
Either credit for production difficulties, or unaired penalties or a combination. (As a for instance a 15-minute penalty and a 15-minute credit for production difficulties could offset.
That leg where we were in France, we had no sleep in twenty-four hours. Actually, that baguette in France was the first thing that we had to eat and I actually didn't drink anything for twelve hours. So you're sleep deprived, you're hungry, you're water deprived, and you're just exhausted.THE DEADBOLT: Was there anything from your time on the race you wish was aired, something that we didn't see?JOE: The Hamburg leg was a crucial leg where the cops [Louie and Michael] were actually at the end of the pack and their flight, low and behold, got them there earlier even though we were supposed to arrive an hour ahead. That was a turning point. Those are the chances that happen on the race.
so when we were in the long mandatory rest period after the Argentinean leg at that sheep ranch, we all spent a good 30 hours together And that was the only time we were not in a sequester mode where we could actually have meals together and have some conversations with the other teams. And yeah, we were all in very good spirits and we were trying to make the best of the situation, camping in Argentina and not having showers and things like that. It was a good time.
Reality TV World: So what happened during that ticket line incident, where you were holding spots in line? Joe Wang: Oh yeah, no, no. That was not "holding a spot," if you want to call it that. We were at the bus station and Brandy and Carol went with us. And then they ended up going to another station to make sure we had the best bus route. So for us we had to stick together as a team, and so I was in the front of the line and then Brandy and Carol ended up coming back and said "This is the best bus route." So because they were researching information for us, and we'd agreed prior to getting into line, that's what ended up happening. So the cops were not understanding the situation. We weren't holding any spots, they were already in line with us but they had to go and research for us too.
Joe Wang: We were trying our very best. I mean we were there for close to six hours and then it got dark and the weather changed dramatically, it started to rain. So I was giving Heidi a lot of shelter, her whole body was shivering. And if you remember, when we left we didn't have anything to eat or drink since 8:30AM. That was close to almost 12 hours.
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Has anyone successfully implemented Declarative Caching with Spring Modules? I've checked out a few of the threads here regarding DC, but they seem incomplete (or not clearly explained). I also reviewed the documentation on the Spring Modules site and they seem to conflict (or are not up to date) with someone of the posts here. I'd like to see some example code of using DC with annotations. It'd be nice if Spring Modules provided actual code examples like the main Spring project. The issue with the schema definitions still seems to plague the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Hi.
I am using the Jdbc template as my database interface and now I want to read from my database using prepared statements.
In my program I iterate over lots of lines in a csv file and on every line I execute between 3 to 5 sql select queries with it the line's values. These select queries are the same for every line. So that would make 5 prepared statements as a whole.
Currently I sometimes use queryForObject or queryForMap. I'd like to have the same functionality, just with prepared statements to speed up the whole progress.
Now the problem: I just can't get the Jdbc template to work with prepared statements. Actually I even don't know how to do it.
There is the PreparedStatementCreator and the PreparedStatementSetter. As in this example both of them are created with an anonymous inner classes. But inside the PreparedStatementSetter class I don't have access to the values I want to set in the prepared statement.
Since I'm iterating through a csv file I can't hard code the values as a String. I also can't pass them to the PreparedStatementSetter because there are no arguments for the constructor. And setting the variables to final would in my opinion be dumb too.
I was used to the creation of prepared statements being fairly simple like this
as in the Java tutorial. But instead the jdbc template really is a pain so far.as in the Java tutorial. But instead the jdbc template really is a pain so far.Code:PreparedStatement updateSales = con.prepareStatement( "UPDATE COFFEES SET SALES = ? WHERE COF_NAME LIKE ? "); updateSales.setInt(1, 75); updateSales.setString(2, "Colombian"); updateSales.executeUpdate();
I'd want my code to behave something like this.
I hope this pseudo code is helpful for you. Maybe you have some advice for me.I hope this pseudo code is helpful for you. Maybe you have some advice for me.Code:PreparedStatement ps = "select NAME, ADDRESS, AGE from TEST where NAME = ?"; LineIterator i = new LineIterator("pathToFile.txt"); while(i.hasNext(){ ps.setString(1, i.getValue()); Object myObject = jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(ps); }
Thank you so far
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Hi,
I would like to know and understand how reader and writer work.
I use the following configuration:
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In this case i will have 4 threads to execute this step. Are myReader and myWriter executed in the same thread ?
In my myReader class i read data from a simple table.
Is it necessary to split the table or to partition it so each thread will get its own data range ?
Or it is done automatically with this configuration ?
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Restrict each server group to their own channel and no other?
How can you set up permissions so that each server group can only join certain channels and not others? What I mean is so you could have friends only going in the friend channels, family only able to go into the family channel etc..
From my understanding, because the join power (or any other power for that matter) go up incrementally and thus allowing more blanket access the higher the number someone has, how can you prevent people with higher powers (if that is even how you do this) from just going into ANY channel within the scope they would have?
I am looking for the concept of isolation for different server groups basically so they cannot interact if so desired.
Thanks
Had you used the Search Function you'd have known it has been asked many times before and is not possible. That's what Channelgroups are for.
Thanks. I did google with zero success so I came right here to make a post.
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Hi all!
First, sorry for my bad english!
I bought a NAS a few days ago 'cause I want my pictures in safety place. I have a pc and a NAS at home and a notebook in my work. I have created a new catalog, called "master", and I imported the pictures to my NAS/Lightroom folder. I worked on some pictures then I copied my catalog file and the master Previews.lrdata folder to my NAS, 'cause I would like to working on the photos at my notebook in work. So today, I have copied my catalog file and the master Previews.lrdata folder to my notebook from the NAS, but when I open the catalog file lightroom say: "The folder could not be found." I have got the pictures (NEF) on my notebook, too, but I don't know where can I put them to LR see them.
So how can I working on the same photos on two different pc (at home's pc and my notebook in work)?
Thanks a lot for your helps and sorry again for my bad english!
Have a nice day to all!
I put my photos and Library/Previews on an external USB drive so I don’t need to copy anything, anywhere, to work on the photos on two different computers. I backup the catalog and photos to another drive overnight so if I drop the external drive I have everything. To make this painless, I assigned the same drive letter to the USB drive on both the laptop and desktop.
Thanks for your quickly answer!
That is an option too, what you do, but if you drop your external drive, your photos will be lost or not?!? I haven't got a lot of storage so this is why I keep my photos on my NAS (4 terrabytes in raid5). I don't want to buy a big capacity external drive too for my photos...
I found a root-pixels.db and a previews.db files in the master Previews.lrdata folder. Can I overwrite the localization folder in this files??? Maybe if I make another way for the LR to fiend my photos on my notebook, it will works....or not?
Hi zsenillio,
Ssprengel has his photos not only on the external USB-drive, but as well copied over somewhere else for safety..
If you want to do all sorts of work on either PC/Notebook without planning ahead, i.e. Including Develop, then both machines need access to the same photos and catalog file, hence the advice to have everything on an external USB drive. Which needs to be large, obviously.
I have never read about editing interference in single files of the previews folder. But you would have to do this back and forth with every switch of working machine?
I would advise a different workflow, which needs more planning, if you do not want another terabyte-USB-drive as transportation vehicle between the two machines:
On your master-PC think of "checking out" a portion of images to work on on the laptop: export them as catalog, name this portion accordingly. You can include the photos themselves and the previews.
If your laptop should be capable to connect to your NAS, export them there, and import this check-out-catalog into your separate 2nd catalog on your laptop (which should be named differently feom the master, auxiliary-catalog or second-view).
Do your work on the laptop.
While you do, this bundle should be taboo on your PC. Unfortunately, as LR does not know such a checkout-concept by itself, dedicate some otherwide unused labeling feature, e.g. a colour, to mark the photos which have been included in the checkout catalog.
When you are ready on your laptop, export the photos again as catalog from there, which is now a "to-get-checked-in catalog", again just an intermediate transportation vehicle. Maybe you assign another check-in colour in case you would want virtual copies.
Import this into your master catalog on the PC, remove the check-out/in label colours.
Delete both intermediate transportation catalogs from everywhere.
So you see how easy this is to trap yourself, in case you deviate from strict discipline?
Is a terabyte-usb-drive really too expensive instead? It should be usb3.0, as it may be too slow in writing speed for a catalog otherwise.
Cornelia
Hi Cornelia!
Thanks for your help, too!
At now I try another way and it looks working, but I'll know only if I arrive to home...so I downloaded the visual subst program to my notebook and I made a same named virtual drive like my NAS at my home...LR has found all my photos, so I make some differents on some of these photos and when I arrive to home, I'll copy my catalog file and Previews.Irdata folder to my desktop and I'll see that works or not!
Thanks again for your answers, you are greats!
p.s.: I'll post my result afternoon!
My suggestion would be to use your NAS as the backup location, and use a 1TB USB3 WD Passport or similar to host your catalog and photos. I use PTReplicator overnight to copy my photos to my backup location every night. Other people use things like RoboCopy.
The issue you’ll have with what you’re doing is what happens when you run out of space for photos and catalogs. My 1TB drive holds about 1 years worth of photos, and I export a copy of my older photos, a month or a quarter at a time, to another catalog file my archive storage (not the same location as my backup copy of current work) and move the photos, themselves over there, and then remove the LR catalog reference to the photos. My archive storage is a collection of 2TB drives I put into a drive dock, so I can swap between the various hard-drives when I need to look for something.
Thanks a lot! I didn't found how can I set the location for the backup to my NAS...but what I did yesterday, it works...The copy's time will be very long when my catalog file will be bigger, so I have to do that what you wrote...I'll buy that 1TB WD Passport.
Thanks again for all, you helped me a lot! See you later, have a nice day for everybody!
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Many users of the CS6 softwares complain about issues since their upgrade to CS6 with MAc OsX Lion 10.7.4 . For my part, I lost the use of my internal speaker and all videos in YouTube are soundless and freeze at 12 seconds. iTunes doesn't playback my mp3 but in Premiere, I 've got sound. I can't even adjust the volume of my speakers.
I have been running Lion (currently 10.7.4) for many months on an iMac and a MacBook Pro. In fact, Lion is about to be upgraded to Mountain Lion.
I have had no attributable problems when heavily running InDesign CS6, Illustrator CS6, Photoshop CS6 and other CS6 applications occasionallly.
Loss of internal speakers and ability to play YouTube videos may be Lion issues for you but it has nothing to do with Adobe. You might ask about those issues on the Apple Community Forums, or by visiting the Genius Bar at an Apple store.
I say so because it's when I installed my CS6 softwares that the problems occured.
I confirm that my problems where because of the CS6 softwares. I restored my system with time machine and voilà! Internal speakers are ok, iTunes is ok, streaming videos are ok!
OK, Adobe helped me and all you need to do is correctly uninstall older softwares prior to installing new ones. Here's the step by step: -problems.html
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I have adobe Photoshop elments 9 on my computer & did the update to the Inspirtion browser & now I don't know how to launch it. any help?
From the Help menu in either editor or organizer, or are you saying that doesn't work?
Thanks for replying. I got it fixed now, thanks again. dw
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Hi,
I have a video player that I'm creating in Flash -- my video clips are on different scenes and I wanted a "menu" bar to allow the viewer to pick which scene they wanted. I found tutorials for various scrolling thumbnail menu bars and I eventually found a code which allowed me to click from scene to scene.
However, now that the menu bar works, the video clips do not automatically play anymore and I'm not sure why.
This is the link to my file:
I only have one action script on the scene, which is the top layer that has [AS]stop();[/AS]
I have two buttons on either side of the video clip:
[AS]on (press) {
nextScene(); play();
}[/AS]
[AS]
on (press) {
gotoAndPlay("SI", 1);
}
[/AS]
This is the coding for the scrolling menu bar:
Frame 1:
[AS]// Photoscroller 2.0
// Original Author: Barry Driessen
// Upgraded by: Rob Gungor
// I don't care if u use this thingy, you don't have to
// give me credit for it. Just knock yourself out with it!!
//
// If you like it or have suggestions, just drop me an e-mail!
//
// **stupid people tip**
// to use this scroller as is --
//copy all the frames in the timeline (by right/(control //for mac) click, copy frames)
//then right click on your timeline and paste frames
//
//sorry if that is insulting, but when I first started this stuff, I was dumb too :-)
//
// Okay... First let's set some variables......
//
// Xphoto = startposition of the scoll image
xphoto = 258;
//
// Widthmovie = This variable hase to be set to the
// same amount of the moviewidth
widthmovie = 325;
//
// Scrollspeed = The scollspeed of the image (high numbers result in slow scrolls 10=average)
scrollspeed = 25;
//
// widthphoto = the width of your scrollable image in pixels
widthphoto = 2116;[/AS]
Frame 2:
[AS]// Setting the xmouse to 0 in the centre of the movie:
xmouse = _xmouse - (widthmovie / 2);
// Setting the speed:
speed = (xmouse) / scrollspeed;
// If the speed is negative, the speed will be made positive here:
if (speed < 0) {
speed = -(speed);
}
//new function courtesy of Rob
//basically says that if the mouse isn't betwen these two y points it won't work
//**stupid people tip**
//make sure that you figure out the top and bottom y points of your "photo" and insert them accordingly!
mouseposition = getProperty("/myself", _y);
if (_ymouse < 330) {
speed=0;
}
if (_ymouse > 390) {
speed=0;
}
// If the mouse moves to left, the photo will scroll to the right:
// (That makes sense.... Doesn't it!! ;-)
if (xmouse < 258) {
xphoto = xphoto + speed;
}
// If the mouse moves to the right, the photo will scroll to the left:
if (xmouse > 258) {
xphoto = xphoto - speed;
}
// Checking for the left end of the image:
if (xphoto > 258) {
xphoto = 258;
}
// Checking for the right end of the image:
if (xphoto < -(widthphoto - widthmovie)) {
xphoto = -(widthphoto - widthmovie);
}
// Placing the moviclip (photo) on it's new postition:
setProperty("photo", _x, xphoto);
[/AS]
[AS]gotoAndPlay (2)
// make sure this clip this in your movie when you copy it.
//
//**last stupid people tip**
// if you copy these frames into any other frames other than 1, make sure you change the frame that it repeats (ie. if you copy these 3 action frames into 5,6,7 "gotoAndPlay (6)")--
///ok duh-i know. :-)
//
//
// The mouseovers are quite simple. Just open the Movieclip "MouseOver"
// to see how it works...
//
//
// Have fun!!!!!
//**i realized that it's more fun when drinking beer.
//-rg
[/AS]
Then inside the thumbnail, to make it serve as a button:
[AS]on (rollOver) {
button2.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (rollOut) {
button2.gotoAndPlay(16);
}
on (release) {
// You can assign an actionscript to each Button in here:
_level0.gotoAndPlay("my_target1");
}[/AS]
Thanks!
you have a lot of coding problems.
do any of your goto's work correctly?
All of my go-to's work perfectly! They all go the scene that they're suppose to. It's just that the movie clips no longer play when I go to the scene.
what are you calling video clips? flv's that are played in flvplayback components?
You are correct.
have your enabled the autoPlay property of your components?
Where do I check to make sure it is enabled?
go to the keyframe where you have one of your non-playing flvplayback instances, click to select the component and in the components parameter panel there is a checkbox for autoPlay. check it and retest.
When I try to look at it with the component selector, it's not selecting the file and gives me the generic "Select a component instance..." message
It might be because I'm not using a "flash player" component-- I just have the video clip/.flv on the stage.
then don't use nextScene() or prevScene. use gotoAndPlay().
That's not the problem-- even if I push "testmovie" or "testscene" without using the controls, the movie doesn't play. However, if I delete my thumbnails menu, it plays perfectly fine.
you need to remove:
gotoAndPlay (2)
so your video can play. you've embedded your flv into your timeline so it only plays when the timeline plays and that goto is preventing the timeline from playing.
of course, if you remove that the thumbnail code won't work.
bottomline: your project code is a mess and using an flv in a timeline is not what you should be doing.
you should have no code attached to objects, no frame loops and no flvs embedded in a timeline. you should attach your code to a timeline, user an enterframe loop and use an flvplayback component to play your flv(s).
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p.s Stop whispering me over battle.net, asking me to cyber with you. It's not cool bro. How'd you get my id anyways??
Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot I put it in that thread Xel started.
Look bud, just because you like Men, it doesn't mean I do. Please stop whispering me with pick up lines, or I'll have to report you for harassment.
[:Awwww. Tupseh's got a man crush on me. How cute!
Sorry Tupseh, I've got a Wife and two kids. Definitely not into your alternative lifestyle fantasies.
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Type: Posts; User: bowmaster101
i used to have a parker buckshot
Well no bird for me this year, had one coming in but hung up at 40 yrds in some brush...
Yep, wouldnt stop for the end of the world:moose:
Our opener is April 17 but i am only able to hunt the 19-21
Hunting in south eastern minnesota, i will be hunting on april 19-21, i HOPE to kill a biggin:D
Not looking good, it was 15 below zero yesterday and not much warmer today and we still have three feet of snow on the ground:mad::mad::mad: hope it warms up soon or i will be hunting in the snow
Hey guys, just got my new turkey call in the mail today. Its the haint gobble call from down and dirty outdoors, after thirty minutes
Of practice it sounds like a mature tom gobbleing. Defintley...
Primos diaprham and my new Haint gobble call from down and dirty outdoors
rage two blade
i have a Parker buckshot, comes with extra set of limbs, cobra release, and a quiver. PM me if intrested
This will be my first year turkey hunting with a bow, i was wondering what broad head to use? WOULD A MUZZY fix blade work ok????:confused::confused::confused::confused: thanks
Counting down, heard a gobble yesterday.:)
PM me if wanting pics
is the score card online??
oh and the draw length is 18-28....
Ok thanks for all the advice guys......
Yes i will be doing it during the day, i am hunting out of a Blind...
Hey guys, just wondering if any of you have ever archery hunted predators, i have a piece of land that has coyotes and coon running wild. is there a certain call i need to get,or decoy???? Thanks
40. bowmaster101
Selling my Youth parker buckshot, comes with extra set of limbs, cobra release, and a quiver. just replaced the strings and limbs last fall. Great starter bow, draw weight is 23-29 pounds. Asking...
I am in for sure!!!!:o
Prayers sent
how much you wanting for it????
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07-05-2006, 07:28 AM
This is my new project...i pretend to make a walk cycle with her. Im going to pose and dress her.
I need feed back of mistakes on her anatomy and muscular distribution...im thinking to close the body modeling.
What do you think about that...??
Thank you everybody and hope you like it!!
;)
tastyUdon
07-06-2006, 01:58 PM
hey, nice model. who's the reference that we can compare to for the crit.
FabioMSilva
07-06-2006, 02:06 PM
Hi. Good work.
About the anatomy, in the 3rd image counting from the left, I find that there's a weird lump in the belly, looks weird from the sides. I think it should be flattened up. The arm pits-breast is too much hard-edged imho. The ears seem a tad small to me as well. The belly"hole" i think it is too rectangular, and lastly, the breasts seem a bithard edges as well.
Of course it could be of your reference tough, but without knowing her we can't say much.
These shouldnt be too hard to fix:thumbsup: . Looks great!
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I agree with those that disliked the characters ... but I dislike the characters in every FF game. Actually, as far as FFVIII goes, the characters rank pretty highly on my list. At least Rinoa had the balls to chew out (the Mary Sue) Squall when he was being a douchebag. Well, once. She didn't do it the other fifty times.
--*--Bring Back MI:13
We need more Black Knight and Faiza Hussain!
The rest of the time she acted like a capricious little child. And everyone had to go after her
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I tried to play the game three times, but the three times I couldn't continue because of a bug. I tried other CD (starting a new game), and I did not have that bug ... but another one later.
How come no one is coming in here to Defend Lair? LAIR, people!!!
I only know that it's pretty much the worst game that's been made for the PS3, so I expected to come in here and everyone defending it :)
As for me, I really love Web of Shadows. I do not know how much people hated it, but I think it's the best HD version of Spider-Man 2 that is available. There was a lot of innovation in the game. I haven't played a lot of the other Spidey games, but I'm pretty sure the aerial web attacks was new, the chaining of hits was new and fun, the wall attacks, the parkour-like elements, wall slide and running, etc.
The problems I had with the game is the voice acting and it's kind of glitch-y.
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Behaviour-wise, Rinoa was hardly the worst of the bunch either. Every single hero is a complete douchebag for one thing. I don't want this thread to be hijacked by Final Fantasy talk though, so I'll leave it at that.
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We need more Black Knight and Faiza Hussain!
Yuna was whinny and clingy but got redemption through X-2 where she was a diva with kick ass short shorts and guns
Celes was overall very whinny but we had Terra to fix things when she was being emo
we always have a 2nd girl that picks up where the other falls short, but for Rinoa... its kinda pointless she's alone, Quistis I don't know why she gets so much love when she barely has any lines throughout the whole story, I guess its the whole hot for teacher complex? And Selphie 0___o she's more of a dude than a chick she was a "female" version of Michelangelo from TMNT!!
Depending on who you talk to, Legend of Dragoon was horrible. But I loved it. Thought the cutscenes were great, enjoyed the timed attacks in battles, thought the dragoon magic was cool, and thought the game looked great. It's up on PSN now, so I'm not sure how well it holds up. Will have to go back and see.
There may be a little difference between them, but they all rubbed me the same way.
One thing that the developers recognized after 8 was that a gigantic realistic character running around an overhead map was very disturbing to the human eye/mind. In 7 it worked because Cloud was cartoony looking but in 8 it would slap you in the face everytime you moved around the world map, thus why from then on your characters were either cartoony on the world map or the realistic character did not move around on a world map.
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- Bento,
We purchased the first iPad version and the Bento 4 iPad version and it appears that neither display shared libraries. We use Bento 4 professionally in our studio with 5 users and it is fantastic but we really need this and a couple other features that would make the iPad App and the desktop version a more complete solution.
FEATURE REQUEST:
1. Need the ability to work with a shared database running on a computer in our studio, on the iPad version when connected via wifi.
2. Would like to have the ability to have single relational fields.
3. Way to switch off all the UI with related data fields and simple list when we print so all we get is the header, contents and summery.
Please advise,
Dave
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TeamSDA:
Thank you for your post.
Currently, Bento for iPad/iPhone can only sync to Bento for Mac; not share. I have forwarded this suggestion to our Development and Product Management departments so they can consider this in a future release.
Your request for a single relational field was previously submitted on January 7, 2010 via your post at, and the request is still marked as active.
Could you expand a bit on request #3? Specifically, what did you want to see in the header? The field names? Did you want a table grid? Maybe if you provide an example or picture, it will make the request clearer. I just want to make sure I forward the correct information to the appropriate people.
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Redbox Sued Over Multi-Day Rental Fees
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Wonder why the plantiff ignored this:
implied contract
Definition
Legally enforceable agreement that arises from the conduct, assumed intentions, some relationship among the immediate parties, or due to the application of the legal principle of equity. For example, a contract is implied when a party knowingly accepts a benefit from another party in circumstances where the benefit cannot be considered a gift. Therefore, the party accepting the benefit is under a legal obligation to give fair value for the benefit received. Opposite of express contract. See also implied in fact contract and implied in law contract.
Another one of those lawsuits that without interpreting the legal wordings of a contract is just common sense.
What is so hard to understand in "$1 a night" and you must return the DVD before 9:00 pm?
$1/per night X 25 nights after 9 pm = $25
I think that the plaintiff is the scammer. She intentionally did not return the DVDs numerous times, which is her own fault, so she can exploit the wordings in the Redbox contract.
once again, the "sue happy" citizens of the world unite! having used redbox a total of...ummmmmm, twice, i had no problem understanding the deal. it's funny that the $25 "super fee" is referenced when that cutoff is just as helpful to the consumer. think about it. if they didn't cut off at $25, you could be charged a buck a day for god knows how long! i remember when i worked at the video store...remember those?...and a lost tape, that's right, would cost you $40!
plus, the redbox email receipts/reminders/etc are constants in my inbox. forgetting is not an option...no matter how much you want to.
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people are idiots. Just return the movie on time! These are the same assholes that talk in movie theaters and text. People wanting something for nothing.Epson 1080UB, PS3 and 161" Draper Screen...pure theater bliss!
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But, Redbox is stupid to use the phrase "Never a late fee" - they already got one rental chain for that; I forget if it was Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. They weren't charging a late fee, but of course if you never bothered to return the disc they charged you a fee for it, and courts interpreted that as a "late fee" - and I notice this plaintiff conveniently got charged the Redbox $25 fee a couple of times for not returning a disc. The plaintiff and her attorney(s) will get something out of this one. Charging for another rental period if you don't return the disc by 9:00 PM is still a penalty for returning late, i.e. a late fee - no matter how easily understood "$1 a night" is.
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Wouldn't you love to know who is actually behind the initiation of this lawsuit?
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Agreement between two parties that is automatically renewed (rolled over) after each completion- or maturity period, until canceled by the either party.
I think Redbox will be fine on this one. They have published literature exaplaining how Redbox works and what no late fees mean. The basically describe that you pay $1 per day, with no fees above that $1. So it is 1+1=2 for two days, not 1+1+$.50= $2.50 for two days.
The plantiff was never charged a late fee. They were charged for a rental extension. Two different things...
When we start talking 'legalese', I could see RedBox taking a big hit for this. You're right: rather imbecilic to use "Never a late fee" as a slogan. I mean, was "$1 a day" not clear-cut enough? The "Never a late fee" slogan is almost a deliberate attempt to mislead, or make people subconsciously overlook the fact that if they don't return it in 1 day, they are going to be paying $2 (and so on). --Regardless of how many 'email reminders', etc. they are sent. Sure, you'd have to be a monkey to really be that naive to think that it's "$1 for a day", and if you happen to return it 40 days later, you owe nothing else because you already paid your $1. But, nothing says that it couldn't be interpreted in that fashion (albeit by the mind of a complete imbecile.)
Hotels charge a rate "per night". And, if you extend your stay one night, you can be pretty certain that they are going to bill you for 2 nights when you check out. But, they don't go through a silly scheme to say, "Never a late fee at our hotel!"
The plaintiff is obviously a big-time scammer. But, RedBox has foolishly left themselves wide-open to it. And, at the end of the day, if a cut-rate business that puts human beings out of work (albeit at relatively low-paying jobs), and removes the ability of others to enjoy perusing a wide physical selection of videos in a store .....if that type of business becomes unsolvent and has to go belly-up due to this lawsuit (and their own stupidity) .... I won't lose sleep over it.A)
An extra $1 is fair if you keep it past 24 hours. They simply need to make that clearer on the kiosk.
As for the $25 failure to return fee. It is not excessive. Those machines are frequently stocked with current hot movie titles. Titles not present in the machine for renting cost them money. Rental stores have charged far more for the replacement cost than that for years. Anyone that thinks they can keep the movie indefinitely without some kind of penalty are just plain nuts.
I hope Red Box prevails in both cases. They are offering a better service for less and often in under served areas that are too small for a full rental store.
If you go into the way back machine. Video stores used to charge (and some still do) a different rate for a late fee, or slap on a fixed charge. For example, a locally run video store in my town charged $3 for two days to rent VHS, but you could only keep it for two days, or you were late. If you returned it on day 3 or day 4, you paid another $3 plus a $2 fixed late fee. Day 5 or 6, $6 + $2 late fee.
Another example is Blockbuster. At one point they charged $5 for 2 days. After two days, you had a 7 day grace period of no late fees. After 7 days, a late fee of $1.31 for each two days was applied.
Or another example, my local library is free for 7 days. After 7 days, you pay a late fee of $1 per day.
Why are people so down on Kiosks? Sure, they may put a few minimum wage clerks and a mid-wage manager out of work. But making and maintaining the Kiosks employees skilled workers at better than minimum wage jobs.
Further, a Kiosk that only uses 13 sq ft can supply 1700 discs (this model is used in Europe)! The same company has a design for a 5426 disc version that only takes up 30 sq ft. A typical Blockbuster is 4800 sq ft and houses around 5000-6000 movies and games. Even a small video store is 1800 sq ft. But you can replace a 4800 sq ft building (with a 12,000 sq ft parking lot) with only 30 sq ft of efficiently used space!
Plant some trees and make a play park for the kids with the space you save. Hey, thats more jobs making and maintaining the park!
Then on top of that, a Kiosk doesn't require extra heating and cooling. It doesn't run 200 15W lights for 16 hours a day. It doesn't need water and sewer. Doesn't need as much energy in the initial construction. It is incredibly green compared to traditional stores. It's obvious that movie stores are a tremendous waste of space and energy. Kiosks are as efficient as you can.
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The three young DL seem like good bets to different degrees.
DeMario Davis should do just fine at LB.
Holmes could have a quality season if there's a QB, but that wouldn't be a breakout. The two main CBs are capable of monster INT seasons.
Vlad Ducasse? Joe McKnight? Clyde Gates? Stephen Hill? Blah Blanchez? Kyle Wilson? Blah Blahbow? Blah Blahelroy?
The safest bets are all on defense with the DL guys leading the way.
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Combining the best in new technology with the greatest compatibility
23 July 2012, Taipei, Taiwan – Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has announced a new series of motherboards - B75 Series. These three new PC motherboards based around Intel's B75 Express chipset support for the latest CPU technology: Intel Small Business advantage, as well as compatibility with older products and a future upgrade path. They offer an impressive range of features for home and business use, including SATA 3.0 hard drive connection at up to 6Gb/s, USB 3.0 for high speed external data transfer, plus PCI Express 3.0 and DirectX 11 for advanced graphics.
There are three motherboards in the ECS B75 series: the B75H2-D, the B75H2-M2, and the B75H2-M3. The B75H2-M2 and the B75H2-M3 are compact 244mm x 200mm Micro ATX format boards, while the B75H2-D is a DTX format board.
Small business advantage
All three boards come with the Intel Small Business Advantage (SBA) security and productivity software, a set of tools designed to help small businesses manage their PC infrastructure to enhance productivity, protect valuable data, and cut operating costs.
SBA includes security features like Software Monitor, to monitor critical security software and alert users if it is compromised; Data Backup and Restore, which can start up the PC automatically outside working hours to save power costs and avoid interrupting users; and USB Blocker to protect the PC and network from viruses, malware and spyware infections carried by USB devices. SBA Productivity features include PC Health Center, which can wake up the PC to carry out maintenance and system checks; Energy Saver, to shut down PCs after working hours, and start them up automatically each morning rather than leaving them switched on all the time; the DTX-format B75H2-D motherboard features Intel vPro technology to enable the best solutions for businesses in a managed PC environment.
Unprecedented compatibility and solid power
The ECS B75 series motherboards provide full support for Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge CPUs for cutting edge performance, but they still maintain compatibility with Sandy Bridge and older socket 1155 CPUs to offer an easy upgrade path. The boards' LGA1155 socket accepts new 2nd and 3rd Generation Intel Core i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Processors. CPUs up to 95 Watts are supported on the B75H2-M3.
The new Intel B75 Express chipset at the heart of these motherboards offers integrated USB 3.0 support without external chips, bringing greater performance, expandability, and reliability. And these boards have official support for PCI Express Generation 3.0 add on card technology, to get the most out of future generations of graphics cards as well as today's most powerful models.
Expandable and connectable
All of the B75 series boards provide a wide range of expansion and upgrade options. As well as the PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot for graphics cards, each board includes at least 1 PCI Express 2.0 slot, and the B75H2-M3 even adds 2 standard PCI slots to support older add on cards.
There's huge capacity for ultra high speed storage with the latest Serial ATA (SATA 3) 6.0Gb/s devices. Connectivity includes 4 USB 3.0 ports, 6 USB 2.0 Ports and Gigabit LAN.
Integrated video output is handled by a VGA and HDMI or DVI sockets, and there's also 6 channel surround sound HD audio.
For users who need to bring older applications and processes up-to-date, these also boards offer great legacy hardware and software support with features like a COM/Serial port header and line printer port (LPT) header (not available in B75H2-M2).
Advanced user features
For hardware performance enthusiasts, these new boards provide plenty of control to get the maximum performance out of the PC, as well as the ECS M.I.B. III software for easy and convenient overclocking. The software provides an advanced range of frequency tuning features for system performance and superior gaming capability.
Lifetime reliability
To ensure lifetime reliability and customer satisfaction ECS applies stringent quality control procedures to all its products. Solid long-life capacitors in the critical CPU area guard against failure, even in the most challenging conditions. ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) protection protects against component damage from static electricity in dry climates, to enhance durability and lifespan. All three ECS B75 motherboards are available now
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One works as recovery, I think - the other one I have no idea about; some random software (bloatware) and a Showroom folder, whatever that is. I'm going to install Windows 7, so I don't want anything that has an XP preload like the one that shipped with my laptop, but I still want to retain Lenovo's recovery features without limiting my options. I don't want any bloatware partitions, though. I'm not exactly clear on exactly what they do. Are any of them worth keeping?
05-15-2009 06:52 AM
Hi,
I recommend to create recovery media. So you have a CD/DVD set available once you want to go back to your initial preload.
you'll find it in START - Programs - ThinkVantage.
The first medium is the Boot CD (you should use a CD as a DVD is wasted free space) the next media (number depending on imagesize - normally one) should be DVDs (not sure whether Blueray would work - I have none)
If you have installed Rescue and Recovery, you can use that tool to make a snapshot of your system as is (instead of the preload as it was shipped)
You will not be able to create the recovery media once you killed the partitions.
Maybe it's also a good Idea to copy the contents of the C:\SWTools folder as it holds all drivers (maybe outdated but still better than nothing) and the OS Fixes AND APPLICATIONS like WinDVD and the Sonic burning tools.
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I set an IP, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS servers on one of my profiles.
But after each reboot OS (and a hibernate), only default gateway does not applies (I can see it by "ipconfog").
So I must each time (after reboot/hibernate) disconnect this profile and connect again.
And it's OK - gateway applies.
Why is this happening? Some time ago (three months ago may be) it works correctly... This in trouble after changing an IP on that profile.
P.S. I have an updated Vista SP2 and Thinkvantage Access Connections v.5.50 Build 6ICV16WW.
03-19-2010 02:49 AM
No any assumption or may be question?
I have good news and bad news:
1. After some times rebooting Access Connections can store 'default gateway' after hibernate.
2. But it still missed after each reboot.
Can anybody help me?
04-22-2010 03:01 PM
Hi,
did you tried to update to the lates t5.6x version of Access Connection?
If yes, then pleas ealso update following:
Power Manager
Power Management driver
System interface driver
Hotkey utility
Wifi driver
Let me know, if this worked for you, as I'm interrested if you still see the same with the latest build.
Cheers
05-17-2010 06:07 AM
I have the latest version of all of these products (all updates with System update are installed) and my problem didn't solved.
It stays for a profile with static IP, when I reboot my OS. (For dynamic IP it works correctly)
Filled fields :
- IP address
- Subnet mask
- Default gateway
2 DNS servers (may be they are not accessible)
- "Use following advanced DNS settings"
- "Append these DNS suffixies" (1 record)
- Connection specific DNS suffix
- Register this connection's addresses in DNS
- Use this connection's DNS suffix in DNS registration
and
- Do not use proxy
05-18-2010 01:31 AM
After reboot i can see correct
IP
Subnetmask
DNS-suffix
by the function IPCONFIG.
But if I'll open network connection properties, there will be filled not correct static IP 0.0.0.0 and 255.0.0.0 subnet mask.
If I'll open "advanced" properties, there will be 2 IP: 0.0.0.0 and the correct.
And no one Gateway.
06-08-2010 02:38 AM
I have last version AC now (5.62).
Problem stays.
I want to add some information:
Network connection properties contains wrong IP adress even it works perfectly after applying profile. There wrong IP 0.0.0.0 and real IP 172.17.1.91 in the properties.
I can delete wrong IP from there, but it stays after reboot (and the gateway too).
No any ideas?
It's really problem with a static profiles.
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sudo passwd -dl root
To the main question how to I enable direct access to the account. I will probable keep it locked for now be i just need to know how to enable just In case i ever have to have use it any ideas
But why in the world is it enabled in the first place. Most people use there computer for simple tasks(such as internet browsers, listening to music, playing games) Which requires the root account in no way at all(Just use Sudo right?)leaving it unlocked just for the sake of it is a very good way to get the system totally distorted! You got root you got the system! Okay so important data you can just encrypt sure but what about the rest of the system files the boot and other important things with root as long as its not in use you can just delete it! What user would do that more like what application would do that! Running a cleanup in root not a good idea but what if the user forgets! Make users go through the process of enabling it rather than disabling it! I heard about a guy that unsecured his Wifi (Idk why maybe for a test?) and of coarse all his " Neighbors" connected to it like mad. So he changed the name to something like "please do not connect" and of course those people just had to see that Facebook sh#t. So he changed it again to something like "Seriously do not connect to my wifi" and yeah that twitter just had to be read so it was like Christmas time in Kmart on that poor router...... The man decide to change it one more time "DO NOT CONNNECT!!!!!!" (Okay i do not think that was the name but you get it
I am not saying get rid of the user account root (please do not) I am just saying to have it locked and make the user put in a terminal command to lock it and unlock as needed but keep it locked as default seems like a better idea to me. It can always be enabled by a simple little command! Some users might just run root account because of all the freedom it brings but a least making them look up the code will make them see the risks.
This is a nice topic discussing it
Also in the terminal when the font turns red its root right. Mine turned red from running su - root. It sure was intimidating that red font! I quickly closed it because I thought I was root and did not want to break my system!
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To make a lon story short my LO is almost five weeks old. She has been a great eater since day one. Last week I got what I thought was a clogged duct, called ot be sure and the nurse agreed so I left it over the weekend. By Monday morning I knew it was mastitis because I was in so much pain and called again, they gave me a prescription over the phone took that until Yesterday morning when I went back in because the pain was sooooo bad! They gave me a stronger antibiotic and some percocet, thank heavens
I'm going back in tomorrow for a follow up because things are not getting better, I can't feel it any more but its still there!I'm going back in tomorrow for a follow up because things are not getting better, I can't feel it any more but its still there!
Here's my new problem though. My nipple is literally disappearing now! its just becoming smaller and smaller sinking into my areola. This morning when I was feeding the LO and took her off (I am currently using a shield to nurse) I noticed that all of a sudden a blister had appeared right up next to my nipple, but not the normal kind. It was big like a second nipple and after about 30 minutes went away.
Has anyone had either of these things happen to them? I really would rather not have one very protruding nipple and one inverted for the rest of my life lol
Oh and I am pumping and feeding trying to keep the breast as soft as possible besides the obvious mastitis lump so its not like my nipple is getting stretched out I don't think. Please help me!
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Exactly where on a 22 inch iMac does fresh air flow in to the computer and where does hot air blow out of the computer? The only slot I find is behind the upper left corner of the screen. Which is the most critical area to keep fro from dust?
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Posted 05 February 2008 - 12:23 PM
Now... when will it get here? I ordered Jan 18, ship date is still Feb 26. Am I waiting for the card or OSX 10.5.2?
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Posted 05 February 2008 - 01:40 PM
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Posted 05 February 2008 - 02:29 PM
My 2.8 Octa arrived today along with 8GB of RAM to bump it to 10GB. 3 Raptors, 1 to boot from and 2 for a RAID, a server grade Seagate 1TB for backup.
Chances are I'll see better results than the test above. I just don't get this bit of testing a Mac like this with paltry RAM.
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Posted 06 February 2008 - 09:25 AM
catstudioth said:
It's never going to happen. There is no market.
An iMac IS mid-range.
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Posted 06 February 2008 - 12:02 PM
In Denmark, there is a 2-3 weeks delivery time with the 8800 GT option, otherwise just 2-3 days.
Could I buy it later on the net? Maybe even cheaper...
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Posted 06 February 2008 - 12:37 PM
The iMac is a consumer-level system designed to meet the needs of non-professional users. Only the top-of-the line iMac even comes close to matching the bottom rung Mac Pros in terms of processing power and the iMac is not expandable. Aside from adding memory and external peripherals, the iMac purchased today will be limited to the technologies it came with. That makes the iMac the bane of power users because it is in no way a mid-level professional system, but a mid- to high-end consumer system.
The exception are office professionals that could use an iMac because the nature of their work does not warrant the processing power of a professional system; the classification of a system as “professional” by an OEM typically means that the system is geared toward power users and not simply professionals in the business sense of the word. As such persons can continue to use a computer as is well into its obsolescence, and often have no choice but to do so until their employer decides to upgrade the systems in their office, the price of a “professional” system, is not justifiable. In fact, the business systems offered by Wintel PC OEMs typically differ little from their consumer-level offerings.
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Posted 06 February 2008 - 02:55 PM
mdawson said:
Here's the problem with your point of view. It's not a big enough market.
Yup, I just said it again.
Despite your opinion, and the opinions of the many posters you refer to, that's not what Apple is going to bring.
Maybe you noticed that Apple's Cinema Display's are horribly out of date and over priced relative to the market as well. That's been the case for how long now ? Is Apple doing anything about it ? No, because it's not a big enough market. Major manufacturers are all beating each other up competing in that segment so why should Apple bother.
Maybe you noticed that updates to computers don't happen in line with Macworld or the developers conference as they used to. Why ? Because that let the market dictate Apple sales, as it did for so many years. A slump in sales preceded the annual events as buyers held out for the latest update. Not a good business model. So now the Mac Pro and Xserve updates were unceremoniously announced a week prior to MW. MBPs will be updated in a couple of weeks, when they're ready.
Maybe you also noticed that Apple is no longer Apple computer. They're much more than that and they will continue to broaden their market, not chase the one you suggest is in need of a mid-level Mac.
You could say they, " Think different."
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Hi,
I'm trying to read data from a transmitter via RS232 and DasyLab V9.00.01. The transmitter sends only HEX-values. I have got a conversion formula
to achieve the final result from this HEX-value. Therefore I'd like to work with the pure HEX-Values in DasyLab.
The HEX-String looks like this:
2C 01 81 16 F7
With the help of a format string I get the interesting HEX-values:
81 61 F7
Now I could calculate my final result, but DasyLab converts it to ASCII. So I only get:
□-÷
Which is equal to "0" as output value.
Is there any way to work with the HEX-Value alone and ignore the useless ASCII code?
Hopefully someone can help me with that.
Thanks!
06-29-2011 12:25 PM
what format string are you using?
ah?
or b, to just read the binary value of the character?
06-29-2011 03:17 PM
06-29-2011 03:24 PM
No matter which format you use, DASYLab will convert the incoming string to a floating point number.
If you use the a, then it will interpret the number literally.
If you use the ah, then it should take each character, and convert it.
so,
2C 01 81 16 F7
should be interpreted by ah as
2
12
0
1
8
1
1
6
15
7
2ah
should interpret it as
44
1
129
22
247
Once inside DASYLab, you can then operate on these numbers using the bit logic module or the formula module to do the Hex math that you need.
if you need the values all at once, then set up additional channels to read each character, so that the module will have 5 or 10 outputs. The formula works better that way.
You can visualize the interpreted data in the Digital Meter, by changing the display to Hex.
06-30-2011 04:15 AM
Thanks for your fast response!
Am I supposed to enter the format of the data at any other point than at the format string?
As I sad, my format string is:
2X 3AH.
Therefore I should already use the right format, at least I hope so. I tried also ah and 2ah as you suggested, but the interpretation (RS232 Monitor) is always:
2C 00 04 27 30 , - - ' 0
When I control the connection between the RS232 modul and my digital meter the value transferred is always "0".
Also little HEX values can't be used because they always yield a value of "-".
I'm really helpless at the moment.
06-30-2011 08:03 AM
Do you want to read the entire string as a single number?
To change the digital meter to display Hex, do this
06-30-2011 09:45 AM
Does this work?
5 channels are set to read "b" or byte
Display the value (0-255) on the list, and display the Hex value on the Digital Meter.
You should then be able to use the bit logic modules and the formula module to process your decoding.
07-04-2011 06:04 AM
That's exactly the solution I was looking for. Thanks very much for your help!
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Hello everybody My first post! I haven't got round to doing an intro yet - been so busy lurking here and researching and getting tested and getting ready for tx. Anyway have some a/v and abx tx coming up (Vatrex and Doxy) - starting in couple of weeks. Got mercury out now and done two rounds of chelation. Am happy with what i'm doing with the DMSA, have read andy cutler a bit. Its the EDTA amounts i could do with help with. I am combining the two supps. I want to get as much done as possible before tx and so will only have time for 3 or 4 chelation rounds. (So 1 or 2 more). I want to get the very best out of my tx cos i am in the uk and so a/v and abx are very hard to get - so i doubt if there will be many more/if any. I am doing the DMSA (and adding in ALA later) for all the usual reasons, detox but also bio film break up if poss. The ETDA i am doing for more urgent and worrying reasons in that i have the second to worse degree of rouleau red bld cells - aggregated or protein linkage. I have high homocysteine at 23. Tortuous veins behind eyes (only place visable) and a pain in my left temple which scares me. With the rouleau and fibrin i am worried about a stroke. So i want to take as much as possible but be safe. 1st round - I took 10mg DMSA + one sixth of a cap ETDA (83mg). 2nd round was 20mg DMSA + 125mg (quarter cap) EDTA. I understand one can go up to 100mg eventually with the DMSA. BUT my question is what is the highest amount of EDTA one can take in a dose (doses every 4 hours) for the eventual amount? (amt to aim for) and how much should i take for my next dose? Although i realise i should stay on the same dose for 3 rounds i am prepared to risk a little because i will not have completed much chelation before tx starts and i dont think i will be well enough to do chelation during tx. My 3rd round will be a cautious inc to 25mg DMSA but i understand the ETDA is better tollerated so......? Sorry such a long post and hi again to all, love the forum and all the people trying to get better. wwxx (wishing well, kiss kiss)
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Introducing the softer side of BMD
All puppies and Rainbows with no malice intended
lets hope the line protects him.....
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Its been a while since we did a new check in thread so lets give it a go.
Pirates fans, join PSD if you would like to talk Pirates baseball! It should be an exciting season. Guests Sign Up Here. When you get here, tell us about yourself. If you are already a member here, let's learn a little about you as well.
1. Location
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3. Favorite Former Pirate
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Let's Go Bucs!
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Thanks mate...
EDIT: For those wondering, the above replay is a 4 player Axis Stonewall match, which played out normally until right at the very end, where, just when we were about to finish off the last ranger squad at the end of wave 16, I heard the sound of a V1 incoming, with my game (and that of two of my allies) crashing just before it landed. The replay for it did not show up on my temp.rec (rather, the temp file I had was still that of the game I had played prior to playing the Stonewall match in question), but it did show up on EdgeInc's who was the only player who's game didn't crash.
Naturally, I was curious as to what happened, so I directed Edge here on how to upload a replay using this forum's system. When sending me a link to the uploaded replay via PM didn't work, I told him to just make a thread about it in this section of the forum.
For those wondering, the replay shows all players bar EdgeInc suddenly crashing out and the V1 landing in what was the middle of the base, crippling EdgeInc's StuG but otherwise causing no significant damage. Edge was then able to finish off the last ranger squad and the game counted as a win despite its odd conclusion.
I don't suppose any of you know what might have happened? Note that this was not your traditional lag-out type affair. The crash of my game was sudden and unexpected...
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GeoffS, the version was (as you might expect) 2.601. I say that because I'm not convinced EdgeInc's going to come back to this forum any time soon, he having only signed up to deliver this replay to me...
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Hey,
I have noticed in the UK there some really stupid squad names. So as a joke I have made a video with the most cheesy music I could find and created the stupidest squad I could think of the "Hunts SC national vago squad". Me and my good friend Tim went to the vago nationals in our clubs new vagos and came 4th overall and got these clips from the second day of sailing.
Hope you enjoy, the video gets a bit more interesting towards the end, if any one wants to see a better video which isn't just a **************** take leave a comment bellow :P
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Sijun Forums :: View topic - Paradise Lost Artist Spotlight - NOW LIVE Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Digital Art Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Paradise Lost Artist Spotlight - NOW LIVE" netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:23 am Howdy All! We are pretty damn excited to say that work on our Artist Spotlight Site is finally done and we can now proudly show off some of the Concept Work, as well as the artists that have done it, to the world! As some of you may or may not know I've been heading up the Project Titled 'Paradise Lost' for a bit now and while it's been a struggle at times I think we've really hit our stride. So as a little way of thanking the Artists on board who make this project as visually amazing as it is we've put together a Spotlight Site where we showcase a new piece of Art every week that, due to NDA constraints, would normally be hidden away from the world. Through this site you can check out all members of our Creative Team as well as read Bio's and see last week's work. We will also be putting a new concept track from the Game soundtrack up which plays in the background. We are extremely proud of the work that is going into this Project and hope to bring as much recognition and attention to the artists who we are so grateful to be working with through this site! So without Further Ado: "Re-Education" is the piece for this week, there is of course a larger version on the main site. Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:37 pm Proud to present a new piece this week comically entitled 'Sleeping on the Job'. A bit graphic, although this fella's other deaths are a bit worse. The music is a little cello/violin riff we are fiddling around with that I personally like a lot. Again the link is: Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:10 am Micha, one of our amazing artists out of Belgium is in the Spotlight this week with his work on the Photospore.. We wanted a clean looking mounted energy weapon that could be setup quickly yet still provide some defense and pack a punch.. Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:56 pm I always get excited to present environmental pieces as they help portray not only the look of what we are working on but also bring across the emotions we hope to evoke during the experience. We are blessed with Paul Scott Canavan as one of our environmental artists and he did a fantastic job with this piece at narrowing in on the underlying feeling of isolation felt in one of our main areas Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:58 pm This week brings us another awesome character sketch by Joanna, her talent for getting the exact emotional response from her characters always impresses me. The Re-Educator is a sinister fellow of sorts who's job is to implant memories specific of what the government wants it's people to believe. The sarcophagus being one of our test designs for these memory implant pods Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:01 am Something perhaps a little less glamorous this week but essential non-the-less.. In order to maintain visual unity throughout our game and make it look like the entire project was conceptualized by one artist as apposed to a team of 25 located from LA all the way to Belgium we've started making a lot of items that are to be used throughout to keep things consistent. Items such as doors, cameras, lights, card readers, etc etc. So this week we have a group of lighting fixtures that we wanted to have a slightly futuristic feel to them but nothing so much over the top that it fee's star trekish and outlandishly sci-fi Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:29 am It's always fun to create stuff that can blow up the stuff that other artists are creating Or at least fill them full of holes. And that is exactly what our Concept Artist / Weapons Specialist did this week with his Energy Rifle. Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:07 pm Terry Maranda has blessed us with some great costume designs this week.. We are still tweaking them however we are all in love with the direction Terry is taking the children's clothing design. They will be used in one of the very sheltered colonies in our world that has been kept in the most pristine image of humanity while the rest of the race on the earth is struggling every day with life and death. A people who have maintained the luxuries of life while completely sacrificing their freedoms and individuality. Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:17 pm Another great piece from Timo Karhula this week, he just keeps on blowing us away with not only his amazing creativity but the quality of his presentation! The goal for this piece was to create an organic feeling building that lies in the heart of an overly high-tech society as it is meant to contrast sharply just how far they've gone to the technological side of things and how much they've sacrificed because of it Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:22 pm This week it is an absolute treat to bring you one of our nearly completed presentation pieces titled 'The Unexpected Hero'. Alex Gonzales, an absolutely marvelous artist has spent quite a bit of time now on this piece and after more discussions than I can count I think we are pretty much finished with it, although I know he will have a fair bit more work in his mind, in mine I just love where it is. Definitely a piece you don't want to miss so head over, check it out and let us know what you think!! Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:55 am We COMPLETELY revamped the site design, so as it is now 'finally finished' I wanted to show it off to you guys. The game itself is taking a much different path and we decided to hold off on the real nitty gritty earthy post-apoc part of it until the next title. So to reflect that this project will take place mainly in a cleaner, although soon to be turned into a nightmare, environment we had the new website design take on a much similar feel. There is also some slight changes to the actual spotlight image done by Alex so showing that all off too. We would all love to hear what you think Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:46 am Yet another unbelievable concept by our Polish Character Queen Joanna! The objective of this piece was to create a group of people living in an incredibly technological society which has become incredibly disconnected from nature. The main purpose of these people was to create them as organically, yet technologically as possible in order to contrast the harsh disconnect that the rest of their society suffers from Nature. As always Joanna nailed it! And I just wanted to share some of Joanna's attention to detail that just blew me away when I started to zoom in on the final concept here: Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:53 pm Roland Brown has been busy concocting some great environments for Paradise Lost and I figured it was about time that we show one, especially considering it's been months since he's been in the spotlight. For this piece we needed an apartment that was in the middle of the social pecking order.. These people aren't on the top, but not at the bottom and it was Roland's challenging job to create a mood and feel that portrayed this. Something which, as usual, he excelled at! Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:24 am Tyler Edlin is one of our new artists that we feel incredibly blessed to have on board our project. This week to contrast the apartment from last week we bring you one that is located in the 4th ring of the residential area, which represents a fairly significant drop in social status. Tyler is excellent at portraying this with coloring and lighting and we will probably grunge down this apartment even further when it gets taken to the level design stage. Check back in the next few months for some more amazing art work by Tyler and the rest of our Team!! Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:03 am We have a piece of 3D work this week, the first of many which we are extremely proud of. We have low-poly in-game model(shot on the left) and I've also included the high poly model(on the right) that we use to create our normal maps from.. Such an exciting time with normal mapping technology to be makign games.. It just makes these models look so stunningly beautiful. Raheel, one of our ever so talented Character Modellers has pumped out an awesome new NPC model this week! This dude is an interior security gaurd. We will end up giving him a semi-light weapon but wanted to keep his overall look somewhat fragile as he is going to be thrust in a scenario that he was definitely never meant to be thrust into. One of the interesting things in our first game is that it is almost completely void of A-typical hero's. None of these big bulky super-soldiers, but filled with ordinary people that are forced into extraordinary situations and becomes hero's in their own way. We are still fleshing the final bits out in our 3D conceptual stage so any crits would be much appreciated!! Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:51 am My humblest apologies for the lack of update last week, a daunting house move severed my connection to the online world for a week which was hell.. This week we have a piece called 'The keeper of Life' which represents the evolution of the water technicians in our culture. In a society where water is the most precious and rare commodity those charged with keeping it safe it's recycling have been placed in a revered light the same as bhuddist monks of our day. Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:43 am It is always a treat for our concept artists to see their creations turning into something more tangible that eventually comes to life before their eyes on the screen. Johannes Boem is giving us that pleasure this week by turning one of the lower class female children into a finished model. Well 90% finished at least, we are just putting the final touches on the skin tone, shoes and hair but everything else is ready to go and our animators are chomping at the bit to get her walking around and playing. This character is one of our background extras to fill the space and give a more human feel to our environment. Her emotional goal in the game is to make a connection with the player and make him/her more sympathetic to the plight of the underpriviledged in our game. I do want to re-iterate that besides giving props to our artists this thread is to gather critiques from you guys, so as always if you have something to say about it, something that could be changed please don't be shy, we are dying to hear from you. Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:33 pm My apologies about the lack of updates last week, my schedule was insane and at one point I had to put in 25 hours of straight work just to clear off my todo list that had piled up so that I could start on new jobs that needed to be done.. unfortunately the spotlight site fell on the back burner! But this we I hope to make up by giving an special treat which is one of the first studies of our mechanical enemies in the game.. These beasts were once pieces of automated mining equipment that have been retrofitted by a Rogue AI to serve a more sinister purpose. Micha did an amazing job on this guy and the version of him completely wrecked was so good I just had to make a before and after image. Enjoy Back to top umbusmemberMember #Joined: 12 Oct 2008Posts: 193Location: above? Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:34 am allowed to post in here? cool leaf costume, kind of original in a way. Back to top netflowmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2008Posts: 53 Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:35 pm Of course you are allowed to post here, infact I wish more people would The leaf costume is one of my favorites.. Those characters treat nature with religious ferver and every aspect of their lives is embued with it. Another exciting day when one of our top modellers, Vicko H, turns a great character into a living breathing entity.. This fellow is an engineer mechanic that works only near the heavily radiated areas as well as other intense and hazardous environments. 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I'm using Chrome on WinVista and whenever I type in tcrf.net in to the address bar. I can access the website through other connections but not mine.
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I've used WAD Manager 1.4, 1.5 & 1.7 and I always encounter the same problem with trying to install WAD's like the Sonic 4 proto.
Everytime I try to install a WAD I always get the same error message. I thought it could've been for one game so I tried Sonic 1 as well but got the same message.
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CODE[+] Available WAD files on the device:
>>Sonic_The_Hedgehog.wad (11.81MB)
[+] Press A button to (un)install a WAD file.
Press B to select a storage device
I press the A button which gives me the option to install or uninstall. Everytime attempt to install I get this page come up
CODE[+] Opening "Sonic_The_Hedgehog.wad", please wait... OK!
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>>>Installing ticket... ERROR! (ret = -2011)
Press any button to continue.
Sadly my feeble little mind could only think of so many failed options and now I'm in a dead end.
I'm using a 4.3E console using the Jabba the Haxx exploit which in turn is in a similar way to the Return of the Jodi exploit.
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ElfShotTheFood
06-29-2010, 10:11 AM
I just might get it for that price.
jim_uk
06-29-2010, 10:37 AM
I've decided to give it a try, I was curious about it but not willing to risk too much money on it.
noodlesoup
06-29-2010, 01:51 PM
Cant even find a review for it, even tho its so cheap and im curious, ill pass :<
Kerrby
06-29-2010, 04:10 PM
Yeah.... not getting it.
hfm
06-29-2010, 07:11 PM
Yeah.... not getting it.
That is pure victory what are you on? :)
Sold.
wingers17
06-29-2010, 07:35 PM
Great Game! I was waiting for this to go on sale, and I was surprised to see it!
Thank You!
Redboy
06-29-2010, 08:16 PM
Noooooooo I got last week ouch :(
Spathy
06-29-2010, 09:33 PM
Yeah, I'm not touching this. No demo and no reviews, no buy. And that video above looks horrible, even more reason not to buy.
Edit: Sorry to the developer reading this forum. Release a demo and convince me otherwise, I'm not going to blind purchase games.
Velvet Raven
06-29-2010, 11:06 PM
Is there any on-line play with Numen?
Lamento
06-29-2010, 11:21 PM
The animations of the protagonists do look kind of weird.
macura42
06-29-2010, 11:39 PM
Numen - first impressions -
PeterWheeler
06-30-2010, 12:39 AM
Might grab it for the 5 Euro.
Rumtruffle
06-30-2010, 01:20 AM
cant go far wrong for 4quid. bought it last night.
Intrinsic
06-30-2010, 02:04 AM
Some of the models look great, but i already have the excellent Titan Quest and this just looks too similar.
kovi_cz
06-30-2010, 02:38 AM
Yeah, I'm not touching this. No demo and no reviews, no buy. And that video above looks horrible, even more reason not to buy.
Well, this is an interesting subject:
about demo: There will be an English demo for Numen in a matter of a few weeks and it will be the same demo that was released for the Czech version. You will play as a mage in the desert (that is in the later stage of the game) and there will be lots of enemies to kill and a few quests to complete for you. If you want to give it a try, you can download the Czech demo here:
about no reviews: We naturally offered this game for a review to many gaming web sites, but with the exception of a handful of replies our offer was totally ignored. And those who replied wrote that they are not interested. It's a pity, of course, but on the other hand we can't blame them, because there are lots of games out there today and it's not possible to review them all. Nevertheless, Numen gets reviews between 6 - 7/10 on average (in Czech Republic/Slovakia/Russia and in user's reviews).
about that trailer: This is an unauthorized trailer made by our Russian publisher without us knowing about that. All we could do was to sigh and try to forget about it. Those camera angles are just horrible, not to mention music that absolutely doesn't fit to the game setting, and some parts of the trailer are from builds that were two years old back then. Of course, Numen lacks that polish you expect from AAA titles, but something like that wasn't in our power.
noodlesoup
06-30-2010, 05:22 AM
Yeah, that trailer sabotages the game more than helping it mate.
It looks like its running on about 15 fps, lacking combat animations and makes the game look pretty dull.
Need a review / demo or something, I no longer buy games on blind faith :(
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I may be blind but I cant seem to find the thing the woman wants for this quest. I have looked all over the dragons records room. Quest says library but I assume they are one and the same. The only thing click able is the original tome from another quest. Anyone able to solve this one?
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Fatten or strip - the great Java debate, …
yay, more bloat
That's exaclty what Java needs. MORE bs apis. Eventually we won't have to code anything because Java will already have an api for it and any idiot will be able to code it and have no idea how to make it nice and efficient.
Hell, I once had a college professor tell me "its okay, if Java runs slow, throw more hardware behind it". How's that for the coders we have coming out of colleges these days?
Reminds me of vb. runs slow but damn is it pretty!
Please god, someone tell these ppl about c++
Sure, another language, why not?
Whenever I see someone say "we need another language" I read as "we need to squeeze more IT money in training, certification and 800-page in-a-nutshell, for-dummies or in-24-hours books and people won't fall for this with languages which already have more books about it than there are self-help books".
I am a Java fanboi. Is it really bloated? Won't the new, marvelous, light, enhanced language suffer the same destiny later? I wouldn't mind having the AWT removed (at least most of it) but it seems a case of fixing what ain't broken.
Before the flame war starts, I was a Pascal fanboi, and a (shudder) Prolog fanboi way back, before Borland stabbed our collective backs.
M'soft calling for backward compatibility???
Ha Ha Ha!!!! ROFL
But seriously, yes, RE: Rafael, I would like to see the AWT removed too but reincarnated as a plug-in library as we still have a lot of stuff out there relying on it.
No syntactic bloat, please!.
bloat shmoat.
Already bloated....
There's always some one)
Performance
The first poster's comment says more about the professor than Java. I'm a java developer in the real-world and we do care about performance here.
I like the dynamic languages like Python and Ruby too, but I don't see them being able to replace Java in the enterprise area. For one, many companies have a huge investment in Java already.
Are we talking language or library here?
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"unchallenged voice of Unionism"
Yeah, you never hear ANYTHING in support of Scottish independence, do you? They should set up some kind of 'Scottish National Party', and have the leader of it always be on telly, or something..
Soar Ablal!!!!
Pointless waste of time and effort if anyone really tried to "silence" newsnet. Calling it a "news" site is a bit of a stretch. All it is is a gang hut for discontented Scottish nationalists who are fed up spamming proper newspaper comments threads, and in that sense it does a good service to the nation. It was set up because the nats felt no serious paper gave them any positive coverage. However, Murdoch's Sun is now backing them, which probably makes them happy.
The top story there is a year-long whine about how somebody once said something disobliging about Scots on Radio 4's Any Questions - check it out once it's up again if you don't believe me.
Actually once it's back up again, expect the top story to be how MI5 and the BBC plotted to silence them and it's all a plot from them in London.
Anyway. let's hope it's fixed soon so the paranoid spammers have somewhere to hang out together again.
Conspiracy theorists
That site shows the twisted logic of some nationalists - I'm just waiting for the story that gravity is a LONDON PLOT to keep Scots stuck to the ground.
Are you trying to say...
"Saor Alba"?
If you must spout Gaidhlig in these pairts, do try to get it right, tapadh leibh awfully. That percussive sound you just heard was a million^H^H^H^Hhundred^H^H^H^Hdozen^H^H^H^Hcouple of teuchters facepalming.
(I agree with your post though. Apologies if the mangling was deliberate)
Slightly off topic, but...
Like many people I've just received the No2AV campaign's latest missive through my front door.
Now read this and see all the lies, half-truths and misinformation it contains:
I've seen that;
and I find it amusing that the image implies that No2AV are wrong because their leaflet uses an Ad Hominem argument, which is an Ad-Hom argument in itself...
My 2p: The campaigns for 'Yes' and 'No' are both full of crap, on the whole. Crap in politics; who'd have think it.
@fridaynightsmoke
I think you mean "Ad Hominem Tu Quoque" rather than just "Ad-Hom", however the point is that the attack on Nick Clegg at the end is just the No campaign going beyond the bottom of the barrel because they've already scraped a hole in it...
Surely another mistake
Shouldn't it be "shoo-in"? Does one "sic" cover everything? Do I hear an "ibid"?
Re: Surely another mistake
Yes it should. Frankly I couldn't be arsed/took pity on them. They were probably quite angry when they wrote it and not thinking straight.
Anyway, strictly speaking it should be 'shue-in', in reference to Elizabeth Shue's last-minute casting in Leaving Las Vegas.
Minor technical correction
> ...on Monday days before Scotland is due to vote in fiercely contested local elections.
In fact Scots are due to vote in a fiercely contested NATIONAL election on May 5th - the local elections in Scotland have been postponed to 2012. The Welsh General Election also takes place on the same day and that's pretty fiercely contested too.
Newsnet Scotland
I'd rather it was there than not.
Certainly, it's (slightly) more pro-SNP than neutral, but it's /still/ more objective than the venting of the disgruntled Yorkshiremen Eddie Barnes and David Maddox in The Scotsman -- a paper now vying with the Daily Record for Labour Rag of Year; a feat that takes some doing.
In the absence of any truly objective reporting, all you can do is read them all - NewsNet included - and make up your own mind.
AV isn't PR
"country adopts proportional representation (specifically alternative vote) "
hmm. I can't seem to select the FAIL icon.
Soar Ablal!!!! Anonymous Coward are you Iain Gray/Ed Millibrother/Fifi/Grahamski/Gardham
One by one your support will be no more and the real news will get out.
Psephology Fail
AV is NOT proportional representation. In fact it can be even less proportional than first past the post.
Fail
The correct name for the GB electroal system is plurality not FPTP, since there is no post in plurality (but there is in AV). If you want a shorthand form, why not 'MVW'; most votes wins.
AV is the wrong answer to the wrong question. Modernising electoral systems is about more than changing how you elect your Isle of Wight sized area's representative. Weirdly, since Scotland spent a couple of years agreeing what it would use in 1999, there has been not a peep out of anyone that the system should be changed. We've had 2 coalitions and a minority, and its all gone pretty well.
Denmark
While any kind of DDoS attack, or any other malicious interference with the Internet is a serious crime, I am puzzled that Scottish nationals, commenting on Scottish politics, are doing so on a server hosted in Denmark.
This raises suspicions that they are attempting to violate Scottish laws, such as limits on spending during elections - particularly as the article noted that they did this on legal advice, not because the Danish hosting company was cheaper.
Rubbish
No DDOS involved according to the hosting company - yet the hosting companies comment was quickly deleted and the story still stands - most likely because it was their own fault? :D
Piffling trouble up North...
Loving your first two posters comments. It's easy to post that Newsnet Scotland is just a gang hut for paranoid Independistas railing against the Union. Sums it all up into a neat little ball to dismiss as unimportant. It is also woefully ignorant of the what passes for the Media in Scotland.
We have no independent media in Scotland other than the couthy union busting Sunday Post and the Press and Journal. Our print media is owned and operated by Trinity Mirror, Johnstone Press, Newsquest and News International. Our state broadcaster by very dint of its being is dedicated to preserving the Union.
Since the SNP won the 2007 election they have been subjected to an hour-by-hour blast of relentless negativity from the media and the what passes for an opposition.
Rather than take my word for it, simply do a google search on the words 'SNP' 'accused' and then try to form your own opinion, rather than opt for the clichéd response of the first two posters.
The truth will out
At least you don't think that "The Sun" is a newspaper then, or is their support for the SNP supposed to be unionist irony?
You can do a google search on "anything and accused" or "anything and conspiracy" and get the same sort of results. Only a complete idiot thinks that googling is the same as researching.
The Shetland Times is not owned by any of the above media organisations either!
@Saor Abla [sic] and others
Press coverage in Scotland
Daily Record - Labour supporting
Herald - Labour Supporting/Unionist
Scotsman - Unionist
BBC in Scotland. Politics reporter who is an exLabour Councillor
Political Editors whose living used to be coaching Labour Politicians for media
Newspapers are all very well, they are private entities.
The BBC is another matter.
we pay for it, but it is guilty of very biased coverage, with very few exceptions. Sally Magnusson, when the SNP got elected, her first question to Alex Salmond was "What do you say now to the frightened people of Scotland"
Labour apparatchiks tend to get soft questions and no interruptions, the other three parties tend to get hammering and not allowed to finish their questions.
News stories showing the Labour group leader in Holyrood (he is not the Scottish Labour Leader, that position does not exist, Labour is purely a London party) in a bad light often do not make the news (Insulting the Monenegrins, accusing them of genocide and war crimes) or are slanted (running away from 9 protestors that the Annabel Goldie, when she encountered them, talked to and left on a handshake) to make him look better than he is
A common tactic is to show Iain Gray asking a question in FMQs, but not to show the answer, which often blew away the ridiculous "point"
When the Labour leader of Glasgow City Council left in very odd circumstances, the BBC had a journalist (once a spin doctor for Labour) on to assure us nothing was wrong and that was the line they carried.
When Iain Gray accused the SNP of wasting money on a rebranding on a Scottish inward investment body, the BBC political editor said he had seen the papers. It turned out not to be true, and we have yet to hear the BBC's man explain himself.
Given this, and given the indifference of the UK national newspapers to what is going on up here, this is why Newsnet exists. In has carried articles from Greens, Communists and others and would even, I'm pretty sure, carry articles from the Labour POV on the election as it has today with Colin Fox of the SSP, as long as any assertions were backed up with real numbers, something Labour have been a bit bad on this election
Danger, Will Robinson!
Troll alert! Looks like someones escaped from their padded cell on the Scotsman's comment section!
Freedom of Speech
Also I don't understand why, in an article citing Freedom of Speech so much, why they're deleting all the comments that say it was NOT a DDoS attack and that it was their own mistake.
Way to go, they've basically lost any form of credibility they may (or may not) have had.
Are you being ironic?
DDoS attacks are all about the signal-to-noise ratio (so to speak) of incoming requests... Much like the useless, trolling comments of people posting "you imagined it all" (etc) in the comments section. Delete them all, I say! Well, okay, keep maybe the first one but the rest are not adding to the discussion.
The newsnetscotland team have been careful to say they are not 100% certain that it was a DDoS attack - so, yes, maybe snafu. But it is interesting the that Caledonian Mercury online newspaper () is now also sufferring an outage of some sort. What a run of bad luck those websites in Scotland are having tooday
Just keep prosecuting these criminals
The more hackers they send to prison the better.
Hackers?
Hackers? Where?
Media bias
Regarding "SNP accused" - try Googling the Scotsman (scotsman.com) for each main political party. You should find the following:
- "SNP accused" : 11800 results
- "Labour accused" : 1660 results
- "Conservatives accused" : 217 results
- "Lib dems accused" : 300 results
And of course, let's not forget that the Herald editor was allegedly snorting cocaine with Stephen Purcell. To give it an IT angle, reading either of these papers alone is akin to reading Microsoft-sponsored surveys on Linux - pretty worthless on its own.
What's great about this bias, though, is it allows cretins such as Iain Gray to rise to the fore, over-promoted and underqualified, and rather perversely undermine the media tactics that seek to promote him. Even with all the king's army and all the king's journalists behind him, his feckless demeanor is apparent to anyone with an IQ in double digits.
This media strategy also means the SNP have to be twice as good as anyone else to survive - one false step and they're mince - which means we get better government. A win-win situation!
@other Anon Coward
I don't see signs of post suggesting it wasn't a DDOS being removed.
I do see some ABUSIVE posts being removed, but I suspect that that is common practice for many MODS
There are posts there saying that it's a bit early to call as a DDOS, or if it is, it might not be targetted at Newsnetscotland, so your argument kind of falls down there
Corrections
Most of them have been re-added. Had an email from their site saying their moderators are entirely separate from their editorial team, so they would appear to be lacking a little in communication. The posts were from their hosts then anyone else who was interacting with the host. Those comments have since been readded a couple of hours later on.
An edit to one of the host's posts from the moderators says they will be updating the main story soon. That was over an hour ago, though.
It wasn't a DDoS.
Newsnet Scotland
What Hanimex says.
The fact that Newsnets host server reported that the site had collapsed under the weight of 'unprecedented activity' is surely cause enough for a wee bit of alarm?
Yesterdays 'top story' was a fairly succinct analysis of BBC Scotland's preceived bias. Given that we have a daily dose of Reporting Labour it's no wonder Independence supporters, myself included and thought the worse.
It's fairly obvious from some of the comments above that since Devolution, not too many of our Southern brethren are aware of what politics is like in Scotland. Give Newsnet a chance, it's an honest attempt to redress open bias.
Call them what you want
Call them hackers or crackers or DDoS attackers. As long as they go to prison for violating law, it's all good.
correction
Looks like it wasn't a DDOS, but a coding issue. Thank flip for that
Loony dribbling CyberNat that I am, I've been on El Reg to long to not know that seeming DDOS attacks can happen for innocent reasons
And before the Reg staff get too cocky, they published Ted Dziuba.
No one's perfect, just sayin'
Dead again
Down again with a DB connection error.
No DDoS occurred
From their website:
The Newsnet Scotland website has resumed almost normal function and the cause of the service disruption yesterday has been located. We have been able to decipher that it was not a D DOS attack as previously thought. The matter is that an adjustment to a module created in essence a shortcut which caused a high volume of cyclic activity in the server. The hosting service provider had no alternative but to shut down the site.
In an attempt to resolve the problem quickly and respond to a high volume of enquiries regarding service disruption we sought advice from external advisors and understood the feedback information as confirming an attack. You will be pleased to know that we have put procedures in place to ensure that such a problem does not occur again.
We regret the inconvenience caused to our readers by not being able to access our site and we would also like to thank our readers for the ongoing support seen through the numerous comments and constructive criticism on our outage article. We stand by our hosting provider's decision to remove the site from view till the problem was resolved.
We regret alarming our readers and would like to reassure you the team remains committed to bringing you new fresh news content every day. Newsnet Scotland will continue to report and publish our perspective on Scottish politics and current affairs.
Good News
So presumably now an apology to all those organisations which were smeared by staff and commentators in saying that this was a deliberate attack by their political opponents?
Thought
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Re: Not what I was waiting for
I'll 2nd that. The N8 is my first ever symbian phone and it just works - fantastic battery life, solid design, and has enough decent apps it can be used on the car console (sweet driving mode+maps).
My N9 is lovely too (from Malayasia apparently), but battery life is not even close to the N8. Screen is wonderful, and the linux is reassuring. You can hit an icon and broadcast the phone to your desktop, social media etc..
We'll all just have to see what the Jolla/Sailfish folks can bring out...
Re: Suse Studio
The whole openbuild environment is extremely impressive. Especially when you want to hack/build a package without installing everything on your home machine.
I too moved to Suse some time back, originally as a Redhat refugee , but mostly because we have it everywhere at work, and I have 6 desktops around the world, that all look that same...!
If there becomes a way to run android apps on a normal opensuse desktop (not Vbox), I would say we had reached a nice state of being...
P.
Re: Whatever they do, I'm grateful
Hi,
My $0.02.
First - for the indexing stuff ,I couldn't agree more. Just rpm -e the lot of them, and occasionally run updatedb and use GNU locate. Either that, or OpenSuse need to make some more reasonable defaults for what it searches...
There are also some external factors (NVIDIA being one), where these drivers are *critical* to maintain the KDE desktop (or in my case 3D+CUDA) , but are not controlled by OpenSuse. The ftp website, for example, is always lagging behind the latest NVidia drivers, which leaves one with a "compromised" system by using the Nvidia installer rather than rpm.
I have many machines with OpenSuse, because although a linuxhead, I do not want to spend unnecessary time configuring basic stuff, so perhaps this rethink will improve things?
P.
and the winner is....
It would seem that the NHS is big enough to have its own bespoke system - a move to a provably open source framework, would be a first step. Not paying enormous consultants for the "wintel solution of the day" is probably a first step....
but then again...
I was just at SC11, and we really need faster (lower latency) networks for a whole host of tightly coupled scientific problems. This doesn't sound all bad, if it addresses
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well anyway does anyone remember a movie in PT a cgi ingame movie after completing the submarine level u had 2 spies that had taken out a few mercs and than they were defusing an ND133 well anyway i want to take a picture of one of the spys sticking his thumb op that its ok and hes watching really cool with a really unknown goggle on his head i wanted to take a pic of that and use it as a sig does anyone know if that is possible if so how?? thnx guys
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Good news, just dropped by a local Software ETC store at the mall and Lock On was on the front display with the p.c. best sellers in the no. 6 slot with several boxes lined up ready to buy, looks like it starting to mainstream a bit.
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I am wondering if your surgeon is willing to refer you to a pain management specialist.
My neuro-surgeon referred me to pain management as he believed that I needed more pain med than he felt comfortable prescribing.
This was years ago.
You can also click on my name or little pic to read a very brief narrative of my history.
Pain management prescribed a long-acting opiate to be taken twice a day PLUS a short acting for breakthrough pain. That is to be taken only now-and-then when I really need it.
I also have an implanted spinal cord stimulator. For me, it has been a miracle in pain management.
What does ALIF mean? When you say, "injections through my tailbone", are you referring to epidural steroid injections? Did these help at all?
Is the surgery that's being considered an L5-S1 fusion?
So, in brief, I would ask and hope that the surgeon, with whom it sounds as if you have a good relationship, to refer you to pain management.
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I'm an economics grad student working on my dissertation,
which involves multi-agent simulations of an artificial economy which
will hopefully exhibit some endogenous fluctuations (ie. a business]
cycle---think of my thesis as "SimRecession"). I don't know anyone
in the econ dept. who knows anything about mathematica, and I've
run into a small but extremely aggravating anomaly in the way
mathematica interprets symbols on the rhs of functions definitions.
I'll gladly send an example of the problem to the mailing list if you
think that's appropriate, or if you have any idea how I could get
help with this problem.
To give you a brief idea of what the problem is:
I have a function defined
alg[{p2_,p3_}] := {p2,p3} - r market[{p2,p3}]
I want to be able to name {p2,p3} on the right hand side,
but if I just enter
p = {p2,3}
mathematica treats p2,p3 as independent symbols, not as arguments of
the function. I have similiar but more complicated problems in
making sure that the auxiliary function market[{p2,p3}] spits out
something that will be interpreted as an argument of the function
and not just "p2" or "p3". My ultimate goal is to right the
function alg as alg[{x___}] so I can call up a variable number
of arguments defined elsewhere.
Le me know if this is a suitable topic for the mailing list,
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A Polish governmental institute closed an investigation into the 1941 murder of 20 Jewish women in northeastern Poland, unable to name the victims or perpetrators.
Prosecutors for the Institute of National Remembrance in Bialystok could not determine the names of the victims, nor did they discover the identities of six of the seven perpetrators who went on trial in the 1950s for the crime.
They had opened the investigation last June into the deaths in Bzury in an effort to discover the names of the victims and other perpetrators while there potentially were still witnesses alive to identify them.
One of the killers, Stanislaw Zalewski, was given a prison term after originally being sentenced to death.
Prosecutor Radoslaw Ignatiew confirmed that the murderers were Poles, according to the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.
The murdered women from the ghetto in Szczuczyn were employed for field work in Bzury. They were taken to the woods and killed after being robbed and, in some cases, raped.
The Institute of National Remembrance was established in 1998 by the Polish Parliament to preserve the memory of the losses suffered by the country from World War.
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FYM ABIDES: OUR HERO JEFF “THE DUDE” DOWD
Way out West there is this fella I wanna tell ya about. Goes by the name of Jeff Dowd. It pains me to say how jealous this Art Director is of our Publicist Nick ‘Way to go Donnie!’ Codling currently. Flying on Virgin America today, Nick was able to meet one of FYM’s heroes (what’s a hero anyway) Jeff “THE DUDE” Dowd, (that’s right THE ACTUAL DUDE Jeff Bridges character in The Big Lebowski was based off of, and inspiring member of the Seattle Seven).
Unlike past sightings, Nick actually landed the photo this time (pictured above, with the White Russian Nick got him). The Dudes legacy still abides, giving hope and inspiration to all the young dudes across America to keep on, keeping on.
Dowd today continues to be a major player/writer/producer in Hollywood. It’s cool to see a guy famous and sooo relatable for just being, well a Dude. So this Jam of the Day goes out to the El Duderino himself, Jeff ‘THE DUDE’ Dowd. Sometimes there’s a man.. Sometimes… there’s a man. It’s a jam written by David Bowie, that Ian Hunter and Mott The Hoople rock out.
‘All The Young Dudes’
Check out The Dudes website for current info on all of this projects HERE. Dude if you’re out there, this Art Director would love to buy you a drink in Seattle tonight.
Cheers,
FYM
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Ella Gourlay and the Nute volleyball team are focused on the Division III championship tonight against Winnisquam in Plymouth.
PLYMOUTH — The Nute High School volleyball team figured it was probably a year away from challenging for a state title.Well, next year is this year.The No. 5 Rams (16-3) will play in tonight’s Division III championship at Plymouth State University against No. 6 Winnisquam (15-4) at 7 p.m. Nute, with one senior on the roster, advanced with playoff wins over No. 12 Trinity, No. 5 Hillsboro-Deering and, most recently, No. 1 Campbell in Wednesday’s semifinal. It beat Winnisquam twice during the regular season, both times 3-1.“I’m hoping we can keep the momentum up and carry it through,” said Nute coach Kristin Wilson, who led the Rams to a state title in 2006 as a player. “They deserve it. They work hard.”Winnisquam works hard, too. The Bears impressed with wins over No. 3 Moultonborough in the quarters in five tight games and No. 2 Farmington in the semis in four games. Senior-laden Farmington was likely the pre-tournament favorite in mid-October when the Tigers were 14-0. But they went 2-3 down the stretch, losing twice to Winnisquam.Both Nute and Winnisquam enter tonight’s final on a six-match win streak and with largely underclassmen lineups. Nute was the last team to beat the Bears on Oct. 8. Winnisquam eliminated the Rams from the 2011 tournament in the quarterfinal round.“They looked good,” Wilson said of the Bears. “It’s going to be willpower. Who can play the hardest and stay mentally up. My team can get down when they lose three or four points. They’ve got to come back strong and swinging. That’s what we’ve got to do against Winnisquam.”The Rams struggled early in their semifinal match with No. 1 and then unbeaten Campbell. They had six service errors in dropping the first game and were down 21-17 in Game 2, facing a potential 2-0 deficit.“I think in the second game a light bulb came on,” Wilson said. “They said, ‘We remember how to play volleyball.’ They started to hit. They started to swing. They started serving better.”The Rams came back to win that game 25-23 and then won the next two to take the match.Sophomore outside hitter Alisha Flanagan had a monster match with 13 kills and 14 digs. Junior setter Michelle Guindon added 30 assists and nine digs, while junior middle hitter Heidi Cloutier had nine kills, sophomore Kristina Cerniauskas added 14 digs, and junior Ella Gourlay contributed seven kills, seven digs and four of the team’s 13 aces.But the Rams can’t afford to come out slow against Winnisquam.“We need to start strong and continue to stay strong,” Guindon said. “(Wednesday) we started way down. We need to start at the top of our game and continue. Winnisquam’s a good team. We just watched them beat Farmington. That’s the best I’ve seen Winnisquam play. We just need to know it’s not going to be an easy game at all.”The Bears were led by versatile senior setter Elyssa Clairmont, who had eight kills and 35 assists. Earlier this month she crested the 1,000 assist mark for her career.Winnisquam’s primary hitters were also effective. Hannah Chapin, a 5-9 junior, had 18 kills and 10 digs, while 6-1 junior Bailey Long added 10 kills and four aces. Mo Raymond chipped in with seven kills and 12 digs.“They have a few good hitters we need to watch out for,” Gourlay added. “We just need to play our game.”This is Nute’s first trip to the final since 2009, when the Rams were making the last of five straight trips to the final. That run included three consecutive titles and a 54-match winning streak.“They are a very strong team. They have no purpose being the No. 5 seed,” Winnisquam coach Mike Livernois said. “I’ve been saying all along to anyone who would listen to me that even though Farmington had the better record, Nute was the strongest team we’ve faced all year.“They attack very well. They cover the floor very well,” added Livernois. “We are going to have to work very hard to get ahead of them. We’ll need an exceptional serving and serve receive night.”Winnisquam won the title in 2010 and lost in the semis last year to Moultonborough as the No. 1 seed.“Last year they knocked us out of the tournament,” Wilson added. “That was a big thing for us also. That’s going to be big in the final. Can Nute step up and knock Winnisquam out of the tournament? Or are they going to beat us again.”
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Holt McCallany, left, as Karl Lockwood, and Sean Penn, as Mickey Cohen, in the film, “Gangster Squad.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Gangster Squad" director Ruben Fleischer was stepping out of the shower on the night of July 20 last year when he received a chilling phone call from a studio executive at Warner Bros. There had been a deadly shooting at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo. The studio was pulling the trailer for its "Gang theater this week's replaying of the July theater horror in a Colorado courtroom just as the film prepares to finally open on Friday.
Fleischer couldn't initially process what was happening in that moment when he was on the phone last summer but eventually, everyone involved with "Gang theater sequence featuring Josh Brolin's hard-boiled cop John O'Mara being ambushed inside famed Hollywood movie palace Grauman's Chinese Theater was excised from "Gangster Squad." For many of the film's cast and crew members, it was their favorite scene in the highly stylized theater."
Several members of the cast and crew reassembled nearly a year after filming completed on "Gang this week coincidentally comes at the same time that 25-year-old James Holmes, who is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the July theater shooting, is appearing at a weeklong preliminary hearing to determine whether the case will, Dennis."
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