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Resolution Test Patterns Sony TRV900 (3-chip MiniDV) and TR7000 (1-chip Digital 8) I took some pictures of the EIA 1956 test pattern to measure resolution (for high-resolution cameras, you should probably use these better test patterns.) The images below are details from the full frame, which you can see by clicking on it. Sony TRV900 Sony TR7000 These test patterns were shot indoors with a 1 kW halogen flood for light. Both cameras were tripod-mounted, 5 feet from the target. Autofocus and autoexposure was used in both cases (I tried manual focus but auto worked just as well on both cameras). TRV900: f/5.6, 1/60 sec. TR7000: f/2.4, 1/100 sec, steadyshot on (steadyshot off: looks same but at f/3.4, 1/60). No filters on either camera. The TRV900 was manually white-balanced (the TR7000 is auto-white balance only). Both are shot as normal, interlaced scan video to tape, then played back into a firewire capture card on my PC and captured as a full frame. Because the TR7000 doesn't do progressive scan, you wou

Postmodernism and Postmodernity (2011) site area:  The reason is the top. You have to walk a block or so away to get a sense of it. The building, originally known after its first corporate owner, AT&T, is crowned by a broken pediment; a circular space has been carved out of the apex of the triangle which tops the façade.  It’s a simple, rather beautiful gesture. It is also a huge act of betrayal by the architect and the most visible trace on the New York skyline of Postmodernism, a cultural current that is the subject of Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, a major new exhibition at the V&A. Why betrayal? The architect was Philip Johnson, who in 1932 had curated an extraordinary architectural show at the Museum of Modern Art. Images and models of buildings by Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra and others led a generation of architects to make an absolute break with the styles of the past and embrace the tenets of Modernism, chief among which was the idea that form should follow funct

Monday, June 26, 2006 Green and Gold Malaria Green and Gold Malaria by Rupert McColl The day would soon arrive when I could could not ignore the rash. I was obviously ill and so I called on Dr Nash. This standard consultation would adjudicate my fate. I walked into his surgery and gave it to him straight: "Doc, I wonder if you might explain this allergy of mine, I get these pins and needles running up and down my spine. From there, across my body, it will suddenly extend - My neck will feel a shiver and the hairs will stand on end. And then there is this symptom that only man can fear - A choking in the throat, and the crying of a tear." Well, the doctor scratched his melon with a rather worried look. His furrowed brow suggested that the news to come was crook. "What is it Doc?" I motioned. Have I got a rare disease? I'm man enough to cop it sweet, so give it to me please." "I'm not to sure," he answered, in a puzzled kinbd of way. "You've got some sort of fever, but it's hard for me to say

Category: Exhibitionist & Voyeur Stories My Ex-girlfriend Ch. 01 by covertopsten© A few months after having been dumped by my girlfriend of four years, I bumped into the guy who was now seeing her. John wasn't aware that I was the ex-boyfriend and so proceeded to tell me over beers one Saturday night what he and his 'new requisition' as he called her, had been up to. "Jeesus, I'm so glad she dumped the stupid twat she'd been seeing. She's a real goer." When we were going out, my girlfriend and I had come to an impasse in regards to sex, the whole sexual drive thing having died a year before the break up, so, just a little intrigued, I asked; "What do you mean?" John proceeded to fill me in with what my ex-girlfriend had been up to since we'd parted, and I was literally stunned. On their first date, John had arrived a little early. Monica was still doing her hair so he went into the living room and sat down. She came in a few minutes later, dressed in a figure hugging skirt, her legs encased in black n

Tolkien Gateway Pelennor Fields Revision as of 19:00, 27 June 2011 by Morgan (Talk | contribs) The Pelennor Fields (S, pron. [peˈlenːor]) were the townlands and fields of Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor. They lay just outside the city, on the west bank of the river Anduin. The land ran down toward the river in slopes and terraces. The City of Minas Tirith was located on the southwestern corner of the fields, at the foot of Mount Mindolluin. After Minas Ithil had fallen and been renamed Minas Morgul, the Pelennor Fields were walled by the great wall of Rammas Echor, to prevent an invasion. A road ran northeast across the Pelennor Fields to the Causeway Forts on the river bank; a distance of 12 miles. The North-way led from the City through the fields to the Forannest, or north-gate, before turning westward to become the Great West Road to Rohan. The South Road came from the southern provinces of Gondor and passed through the Pelennor Fields on the way to Minas Tirith. A number of other paths also criss-cro

College Week celebrated at Northlake Christian Counselors Jenni Vega and Casey Terrell. Jamie Owens By Jamie Owens The Times- Picayune on November 16, 2013 at 10:00 AM, updated November 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM Northlake Christian counselors Jenni Vega and Casey Terrell recently began a new tradition, “College Awareness Week”, for students in grades 7-12. The purpose of the celebration was to provide the students with opportunities and activities to learn more about college. 24wt1ncs2Christine Lirette and Maddy Pye. Each day, students were given fight song challenges where they could guess the fight song played after morning announcements, as well as daily college trivia questions which ranged in various topics. The first person from each grade to answer questions correctly received prizes such as gift cards, candy bags, and T-shirts. In addition, students played “Guess That Teacher,” in which information about NCS teachers' college experiences were provided and students had to choose which teacher they though

Take the 2-minute tour × I know that I have to use: rdtsc. The measured function is deterministic but the result is far from being repeatable (I get 5% oscillations from run to run). Possible causes are: • context switching • cache misses Do you know any other causes? How to eliminate them? share|improve this question add comment 6 Answers up vote 3 down vote accepted TSCs (what rdtsc uses) are often not synchronized on multi-processor systems. It may help to set the CPU affinity in order to bind the process to a single CPU. You could also get timestamps from HPET timers if available, which aren't prone to the same problem. As for repeatability, those variances are true. You could disable caching, give a realtime priority to the process and/or (if on Linux or something similar) recompile your kernel with a lower, fixed timer interrupt frequency (the one that does time-slicing). You can't eliminate the variance completely, at least not easily and not on regular CPU + OS combos. In general, for ea

My Oh My In some countries, it’s still a taboo. Opinions may vary between acceptable, merely tolerable, unnatural, or perverse. In some countries and cultures though, it seems to me that being gay is almost seen as cool or fashionable! As with everything else, everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, nobody is entitled to hurt or discriminate others based on their own personal opinion. Genetics and Evolution Why has homosexuality been such a taboo throughout human history? My non-expert opinion is that there is a natural general aversion to homosexuality in non-gay people, which you would expect from an evolutionary point of view. Natural selection would tend to favour heterosexuality, but homosexuals can still reproduce and pass this sexual preference on. As long as there would be some advantage to it, even historically, the potential for it would exist. Also, Richard Dawkins’ preferred explanation of homosexuality is that the genes in humans for it have a “homosexual” manifestation under certain

by Geraldine Gatehouse | May 21, 2012 One of the many interesting opportunities that came out of the Green Meeting Industry Council's annual conference in Montreal last month was the Idea Auction. The brainchild of Meeting Change's president, Mariela McIlwraith, CMP, CMM, MBA, the auction is a way to raise funds by selling ideas created by the conference attendees onsite. This crowd pleaser proved to be fun, creative and competitive. Nineteen individual ideas were chosen as top picks by the amount of support shown from the attendees during the idea presentation. In addition to these nineteen, all the ideas that were submitted are available in the Idea Book which is also available for purchase for a limited time. The goal of the auction was two-fold, to raise funds for the foundation, and also to spread awareness about the innovative ideas on sustainability that could be used for standalone events or as part of a sustainability strategy.  My contribution was the “Triple Bottom Line CSR Employee Engagement Pro

Member Login not a member? sign-up now! Customize to your family and get personalized newsletters. "My Teacher Hates Me!" How to react when when your child comes home complaining that the teacher doesn't like him By Lynn Petrak © iStockphoto How should you react when when your child comes home complaining that the teacher doesn't like him? First, don't overlook the possibility of a misunderstanding, a rough day, or even bad behavior on your child's part. But sometimes, certain kids and teachers just don't click. What you can do: Talk to your child. "Explain that over the years, he's going to have teachers with different styles -- and he still has to try his best," says Ron Clark, author of The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child. "Don't be negative about the teacher in your home, either." Try to get involved. "Visit the class to see what's going on. Offer to chaperone trips. The teacher may end up being more supportive because you're ta

Protecting Your Website from a Hostage Situation website held hostage In the past few weeks we have worked with several new clients who have been held hostage to their web developer or hosting services provider. It's such an uneasy feeling to need information and not be able to get it.  That is exactly what happened to these clients. The situation, in each case, was somewhat different but the outcome was the same.  Their website service provider had not provided them access to their domain or hosting accounts and would NOT willingly provide it. Most small … [Read more...]

As SWAT members surrounded a San Jose house, a man emerged late Friday morning, ending a nine-hour standoff in the Rose Garden neighborhood that began shortly after another man was found outside bleeding to death from stab wounds. During the standoff, which followed the city's 10th homicide of the year, schools in the West San Jose neighborhood were locked down. Eventually, several potential suspects inside the house were detained by police, though detectives were still questioning them at the police station late Friday before determining whether to arrest any of them. Police spokesman Officer Jose Garcia said a 51-year-old man initially came out of the house when officers arrived at 1:45 a.m. and spoke to investigators before he went back and shut the house door. He re-emerged shortly before 11 a.m. Police wouldn't say how many people were inside the house or how many were detained for questioning, and would not name any of them unless they are ultimately arrested. The stabbing victim, who was not identif

Take the 2-minute tour × This is code for a linked list in the C programming language. #include <stdio.h> /* For printf */ #include <stdlib.h> /* For malloc */ typedef struct node { int data; struct node *next; /* Pointer to next element in list */ LLIST *list_add(LLIST **p, int i); void list_remove(LLIST **p); LLIST **list_search(LLIST **n, int i); void list_print(LLIST *n); The code is not completed, but I think it's enough for my question. Here at the end of struct node "LLIST" is used, and it's also used as a return type in the prototyping of the function list_add. What is going on? share|improve this question add comment 5 Answers up vote 5 down vote accepted typedef creates a new "type" in your program, so the return value and types of parameters of those functions are just your struct. It is just shorthand for using struct node for the type. If you were to create a new node, you could do it like this (using the type): LLIST *node = malloc(sizeof(LLIST)); node->data = 4; node->ne

Personal tools 99 questions/Solutions/57 From HaskellWiki Jump to: navigation, search (**) Binary search trees (dictionaries) Use the predicate add/3, developed in chapter 4 of the course, to write a predicate to construct a binary search tree from a list of integer numbers. add :: Ord a => a -> Tree a -> Tree a add x Empty = Branch x Empty Empty add x t@(Branch y l r) = case compare x y of LT -> Branch y (add x l) r GT -> Branch y l (add x r) EQ -> t construct xs = foldl (flip add) Empty xs Here, the definition of construct is trivial, because the pattern of accumulating from the left is captured by the standard function foldl.

Tag Archives: experiences As Social Media Marketing Increases, Will TV Ads Decline? “What is originality?  To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face.  The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible to them.” … Continue reading Why Babe Ruth and Michelangelo would love the iPad In this digital age, what is a filmmaker? Isn’t it curious in this age where more moving images get created and distributed digitally that there is this group of people who still call themselves “filmmakers”?  It seems a term that is so archaic, so analogue, so yesterday’s news. … Continue reading What should companies create, features or experiences? When a technology company launches a new product, be it a device, a piece of software or a web based service they always talk about the features enabled by this new product.  They generate a list where all kinds of … Continue reading

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Log in   •   Sign up   •   Subscribe  feed icon How To Make A ChapStick LED Flashlight Creativity and imagination can make a person’s lifestyle a lot more interesting. In this case, the traits just happened to make an inventors idea-light bulb flicker. Source: Instructables   By combining two common items, the Instructables user BCat was able to create a ChapStick tube that could be used as a flashlight. Now since ChapStick tubes are pretty small, turning it into a flashlight does take some patience. However, with a little bit of soldering, wiring and assembly, you will have a new gadget that you can show off to your friends! In order to make the flashlight, the inventor used the following items: - ChapStick tube - Tactile switch - A23 Battery (12V) - 470-Ohm resistor - 10mm white LED - Solder - Heat shrink tubing - Wire - “N” battery holder - J-B Weld Find out more on how to make the ChapStick LED Flashlight here.

Zack Hemsey Zack Hemsey (born 1983) is an American recording artist and composer, whose work has been largely popularized through its use in film trailers. A notable example was "Trailer 3" of the 2010 movie Inception which included his composed piece "Mind Heist"; it is a common misconception that the piece for this trailer was composed by Hans Zimmer because Zimmer composed the official score for the movie itself. "Mind Heist" is the music I used in the video that probably brought you here about the Russian meteorite. It was also used for the introduction video for the video game Madden NFL 12, the trailer for the 2012 film Airborne, and is sometimes used by the show "America's Got Talent". His track "See What I've Become" has appeared in trailers as well as on the website for TNT's Falling Skies. "Vengeance" was featured in a trailer for the second season of the HBO program Game of Thrones. Hemsey's music has also been used in trailers for The Town, Trust, and Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. Hemsey began his

Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register] Viewing Single Post From: Tuesday, July 23rd Daily Discussion Member Avatar Tom, I agree with your point about Rafe being inconsistent and I think things like that hurt the story as a whole. Nearly everyone on Sami's side was written out of character to advance the plot. This story works partially because people are being themselves. Hope and Abe might not enjoy putting Sami behind bars, but they did it. They're not telling her about legal loopholes she can use to escape prison time. Offline Profile

Take the tour × Let $R$ be a Noetherian domain, and let $\mathfrak{p}$ be a prime ideal; consider the completion $\hat R_{\mathfrak{p}}$ of $R$ at $\mathfrak{p}$ (the inverse limit of the system of quotients $R/\mathfrak{p}^n$). If $R$ is a PID, it is easy to see that $\hat R_{\mathfrak{p}}$ is a domain. Someone asked in sci.math if $\hat R_{\mathfrak{p}}$ would always be a domain. I thought it would, but looking at Eisenbud's "Commutative Algebra", I found a reference to a theorem of Larfeldt and Lech that says that if $A$ is any finite-dimensional algebra over a field $k$, then there is a Noetherian local integral domain $R$ with maximal ideal $\mathfrak{m}$ such that $\hat{R_{\mathfrak{M}}}\cong A[[x_1,\ldots,x_n]]$ for some $n$; and so this completion will not be a domain if $A$ is not a domain. I would like to know an example directly, if possible. Does someone know an easy example of a noetherian domain $R$ and a prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}$ such that $\hat R_{\mathfrak{p}}$ is not a domain? Thanks in

dslreports logo     All Forums Hot Topics Gallery how-to block ads Search Topic: share rss forum feed Ottawa, ON 1 recommendation reply to dillyhammer Re: [DSL] VDSL - 25/7 Congestion True, but... Grammas and Uncles also get unhappy when their VoIP is choppy (and more and more of them are using VoIP). They just don't understand why it is choppy. Also don't forget that lots of them are only with TSI because the techies amoung us as telling them to sign up with TSI. Given no external input who do you think the Grammas and Uncles will go with? That's right, Bell or Rogers (at least around here). Most of them will have never heard of TSI otherwise. I don't demand perfection from TSI. I demand a reasonable effort to to their best for their customers. I work with technology and I understand that things happen. But if the lines are saturated to the point that it is causing problems (albeit minor ones for now) for all of their DSL customers (who until recently where the meat and potatoes), and probably sti

Kate McLean Design Play Type Many people relocate and as they do they build small islands around their new bases of Home and Work. Between these are uncertainties of commuting decisions, comfort zones and routes onward and express connections with family and friends. eternal itinerant commute eternal itinerant work eternal itinerant title

"There is an epidemic crisis in America where animals are being treated as 'Disposable Citizens'. The breed or disposition of a dog or cat doesn't determine the likelihood of them having a permanent home and a great life. It is the personality and dedication level of the owner/guardian that matters in determining the outcome of a pet's life. They are at our mercy!" - Diane E. Bandy

After sifting through pages upon pages of collected data, restaurant records, undercover reporters, and celebrity gossip websites such as TMZ, zimbio, and, we have compiled a list of the best and worst celebrity tippers…SAYS US! Top 7 GENEROUS celebrity tippers 1. Taylor Swift dropped $500 tip on an $800 tap! Hey I’d be more than happy to serve her drinks. There may be teardrops on her guitar, but more dollars in my pocket. 2. President Obama makes it rain...He once gave a 900 percent tip on a beer reported TMZ. 3. Beyoncé once left a $500 tip at an eatery in NYC. Girl, Ring the alarm we’ve got one big tipper. 4. Charlie Sheen tipped $200 to each staff member at his daughter’s Sweet 16 birthday party. Looks like his daughter wasn’t the only one who received a present at the party. 5. Most people just double the tax, but David Beckam adds a zero to the total. He was out for drinks with some teammates and gave the waiter a $900 tip on a $100 tab. Waiter must have been a chick! 6. Drew Barrymore has anot

Fireboy and Watergirl - Fire Boy and Water Girl at Fireboy and Watergirl , Fireboy and Watergirl 2,3,4,5,6,7 game on en-US Daily 0.8 Fireboy and Watergirl 6: Unlock Fireboy and Watergirl 6 you are in control of the boy and the girl at the same time. Make sure you use the mechanics of each level to create a safe way to the exit door of each level and collect all diamonds. Fireboy And Watergirl 5 You need to make use of teamwork to collect the diamonds and reach the exit point of each level. Fireboy and Watergirl are on a dangerous trip underground. They must collect all the stones on the perilious way. There lies a threat after every step. Fireboy and Watergirl 4 FireBoy and WaterGirl 4 in this new adventure!  How well do your hands work together? Help Fireboy and Watergirl in their adventure!  Control both creatures at the same time and activate buttons to move platforms, push boxes and collect diamonds to get to the exit door, collecting and solving puzzles along the way! Fireboy And Watergirl 2 in The Light

Lobby fodder no longer Tony Blair's defeat over the 90-day detention plans has killed two long-lasting Westminster myths: that Labour MPs are supine and that, however much they were prepared to rebel when the government had a large majority, they would behave themselves once the going was tougher. As if to prove that ignorance deplores a vacuum, along comes another wannabe myth to take their place: that the Prime Minister has got into trouble with his backbenchers because he has already pre-announced his resignation. The opposite is true. Even if it has weakened his authority elsewhere, his impending retirement helped him in this particular vote. Nor is it the source of his difficulties with any impending legislation. If you doubt this, imagine that there had been no announcement and that the entire Parliamentary Labour Party thought he intended to fight the next election. In such an alternative universe, the MPs who want to see him removed - especially those who would like to replace him with Gordon Brown

Forgotten in its old age by Aditya submit your photo Hall of Fame View past winners from this year Please participate in Meta and help us grow. Take the 2-minute tour × I am looking to purchase a secondary camera that meets the following criteria: 1) Compact enough to be inconspicuous for street photography. 2) Simple enough that I can hand it to a friend/family member (of a variety of ages) and they can participate on a shoot with little explanation from me and/or frustration from them. 3) Inexpensive without sacrificing image quality. share|improve this question While this is certainly an important question for a lot of people, there are two things that make it difficult to answer well. 1) Subjectivity --there are many cameras that meet most if not all of your criteria; answers will likely be anecdotal in nature and not objective. 2) Up-to-dateness --Camera technology is a fast-changing arena. A camera review site like or would probably provide more objective and current information. –  Sean Sep 12 '

TVNewser Jobs PRNewser Jobs AgencySpy Jobs SocialTimes Jobs Unemployment Rate Falls To 7.8 Percent, A 44-Month Low Analysts and Wall Street types rejoiced today as the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the unemployment rate has dropped below 8 percent for the first time in almost four years and that the economy added 114,000 jobs. The increase is the smallest in three months but it was enough to lower the unemployment rate from the 8.1-8.3 percent rate it was hovering at for the first eight months of the year. Now, it’s not all good news. The number of people “working part-time for economic reasons” (a fancy way for the BLS to describe underemployed people who would rather have a full-time job) rose from 8 million in August to 8.6 million in September. And the number of people not working but not counted as unemployed remained steady at 2.5 million–that includes people who dropped out of the workforce for school or family responsibilities, but also includes 802,000 people who just gave up looking

Martin A. Klein Prize Recipients First awarded at the 2011 annual meeting, the Martin A. Klein Prize recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous year. Focusing primarily on continental Africa (including those islands usually treated as countries of Africa), books on any period of African history and from any disciplinary field that incorporates a historical perspective are eligible. The prize committee pays particular attention to methodological innovation, conceptual originality, literary excellence, and reinterpretation of old themes or development of new theoretical perspectives.

Anybody used it before? Just want to verify the installing procedure, I already have Fedora Core 2 on my second HD, so I would install coLinux, and then go through the steps of converting distribution, and I'm lost on one of the steps here. B. Create /dev/cobdN devices in the linux partition for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 mknod /dev/cobd$i b 117 $i PS. I think that currently only 8 cobd devices are supported (at least as of 0.6.0) It's been awhile since I do scripting in linux, so what do I do with the above code?

What is meta? × Is all of this k3wl AJAX really needed? What really gets me is comments. Surely, surely, surely, the comment text is small and the show comments could just unhide the HTML, or insert the text from an embedded string. At the moment, there is a pointless, irritating wait whilst a server round-trip is performed. It takes more than 50-100 ms and is therefore evil. (Just don't get me on the subject of Slashdot, Twitter, etc., retarded and unreliable AJAX.) share|improve this question 4 Answers 4 I would suggest that their bandwidth suppression measures would disagree... I would say that, if their stats show the first comment unhide corresponds to high probability of many unhides on the same page (or subsequent pages) that they should send all comments in one go on the first request. That said this will mean that, on fast moving new questions the comments would stand a good chance of not being up to date and thus have considerable duplication which is better represented by up/down vots on a s

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Answer a question Ask a question libbynmikeyntommy's Mom Answers Activity Recent Activity | Asked | Answered  Should my 17 month old still be waking during the night for a bottle? Most recent answer (07/18/2011): my is the same age and he does the same thing. i was starting to think he was just being greedy but i guess not. he is not alone. Your Pregnancy, Week by Week Your Pregnancy, Week by Week Have an account? Log in

Sunday, September 30, 2007 The Aroma of Relativity and Nostalgia It is funny how memory associations work. Doing thing A makes you think of something else (thing B) that is at a superficial level unconnected. The un-connected'ness varies with the time of the day the thought crosses your mind. 2:00 AM on a saturday night is a bad time to be doing anything, least of all think of Paneer Soda (sweet carbonated water). A month before, when in Sholingar, I drank Paneer Soda (goli soda) after a really long time. There is something unique about the soda and it's bottle. It had been years since I had drank goli soda directly from that bottle. Although most shops have this bottle, you don't get to drink it raw. They usually mangle the contents with lime and give you some goop that's significantly inferior in taste. Paneer soda has that exquisite taste and simplicity that is rarely found in any other bottled drink. I had never mastered the art of drinking from that bottle. For newbies, goli soda is a bottle that has a

Truth in China Wonderful Falun Dafa ! The Violent Persecution Carried Out at Xuchang Third Forced Labor Camp August 20, 2013 | By a Minghui correspondent from Henan Province, China ( Xuchang Third Forced Labor Camp, also known as Henan Third Forced Labor Camp, often “purchases” inmates from different cities and counties in Henan Province. About 800 inmates are usually held there. Prior to 2006, the camp paid 150 yuan for each inmate. The camp is located in Henan Province, and is one of the places set up by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. As part of their forced labor, practitioners produce wigs for export to countries around the world. Although the wigs are made of artificial materials, camp officials claim they are 100% real hair and label them as such. Because everything produced there is counterfeit, people say that, “Xuchang Third Forced Labor Camp is the largest company in the world that produces lies.” There are over one thousand factories in Xuchang City an

Leo Panich on Leftist Strategy program date:  Mon, 10/29/2012 Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panich about strategies for the left . He argues that the economic institutions at the heart  of American state are under-appreciated tools of imperialism, more so than international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank. The latter are still dependent on "national capital" and Leo says that means leftists should start targeting the US treasury and other national financial administrators. Leo Panich is a marxist scholar and writer. "The Making of Global Capitalism: the political economy of American empire" and "Strategy". He edits the Socialist Register. • Length: 12:14 minutes (5.6 MB) • Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)

Top 10 Crossword Tips Crossword Tip #1: Quick crosswords Crossword puzzles tend to be basically ‘quick’ or ‘cryptic’. A quick crossword usually relies on a one- or two-word clue which is a simple definition of the answer required. Many words have different meaning, so that the clue ‘ball’ could lead to the answer ‘sphere’, ‘orb’, or ‘dance’. The skill to solving quick crosswords is working out which of these possible answers is correct. The best approach is to fill the puzzle in tentatively until your answers begin to interlink and you can be confident you’re on the right track. If you do find yourself stuck, and you’ve tried thinking about the clue this way and that, then it may be the solution is simply a word you don’t know yet. Referring to a dictionary, thesaurus or other reference work is not cheating! Get hunting around in one and you’ll soon ferret the answer out. Crossword Tip #2 - Cryptic crosswords If you don’t think puns are funny and have no time for riddles then you’re going to hate crypti

Try something new this season and go for these underfished species Most winter anglers are creatures of habit. Each winter, they show up on the same lakes at the same times and target the same species. And, they usually catch the same sorry sum of fish. If you identify all too well with this scenario, it's time for a change. Heck, even if you walk tall in the winter and regularly bag big, it's still fun trying something new. So, forget about those visions of lunker lake trout, giant walleye and massive pike. Instead, for a fun-filled change of pace this winter—not to mention out-of-this-world gourmet dining—think yellow perch and whitefish. You can find perch and whitefish in countless waterways, from one end of the country to the other. They're usually the most abundant fish, and they bite heartily throughout the winter months. And daily creel limits, if they even exist, are often generous to a fault. Perch and whitefish are so overlooked, in fact, that non-stop, big-fish action is rarely difficult to fi

Penname: darkchocolatemntn [Contact] Real name: Member Since: 07/18/09 Beta-reader: Yes Status: Member [Report This] Reviews by darkchocolatemntn WARNING: Extremely OOC behaviour from almost all. Categories: Humor Fics Genre: Warnings: None Word count: 12002 Chapters: 6 Completed: Yes 09/23/06 Updated: 12/04/06 Reviewer: darkchocolatemntn Signed Date: 09/14/09 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Don't Try This At Home how could this story ever be forgotten? its amazing, and ive read a few fan fics that referr back to this. i absolutley loved it, especially the reviews. they were hilarious. Author's Response: Ahaha, oh thank you so much. And there are other fanfics that reference this one? I would kill to read one of those? Can you possibly give me a link? ^_^ Summary: A companion piece to the Potter's Pentagon trilogy... it's better if you've read the Potter's Pentagon trilogy, but you don't necessarily have to. It's five years after Emma Weasley and her chums graduated from Hogwarts. Ted and Ivy are marr

“I Became a Runner and Lost 150 Pounds!” Vice president at a community bank Columbia, Mississippi When I found out my wife was pregnant in 2009, I wasn't exercising and I weighed 400 pounds. I wanted to be around for my son and I knew that I wouldn't be able to if I didn't change something. I had tried exercise programs before, but I never got to a point where it was part of my daily routine. I knew that I had to start exercising, and I had to do it in a way that I could stick with it. Starting small and adding a little bit at a time. When you're 400 pounds, you can't just get out there and run the mile. So I'd go out to a track and run the straight and walk the rest of the lap. Each time I'd go out and add a straight and eventually got to a point where I could run one time around the track. That was a huge milestone. Now I'm not even getting my heart rate up when I'm running that far. START NOW: The Easiest Walk-to-Run Program, Ever! HOW RUNNING CHANGED MY LIFE: It's hard to put into words how much bett

Esther Levy Jewish Cooking, 19th-Century Style First-ever Jewish cookbook auctioned Editorial Intern  So you think your Passover cleaning is tough. “Before using the kitchen tables, they must undergo a thorough scrubbing, and be rinsed with scalding water. It was customary in England to lay them in fuller’s earth, which is not so well known here; so it would be advisable to have coarse cloths tacked on instead. The cisterns must be cleaned, and a piece of flannel put on the nozzle of the hydrant.” Esther Levy’s 1871 cookbook, the first Jewish cookbook in America, fetched $11,000 at auction last week. Syndicate content

12 August 2013 The Ten Commandments of Good Craft Beer Citizenship A few weeks ago, the Brewers Association reported that during the first half of 2013, sales of craft beer increased by 15% in terms of sales and 13% in terms of volume. Further, there are now 2,538 operating craft breweries nationwide, which is an increase of 446 breweries over last year. And in Indiana alone, there are 56 breweries and counting. In short, lots of people like craft beer, and that number is only going to grow in the near future. With more people on the craft beer train, however, has come the increased likelihood that some of those people will engage in less-than-desirable behavior--behavior that shows that some craft beer drinkers are not good citizens. In other words, we're talking about craft beer assholes. We at Hoosier Beer Geek have discussed this sort of craft beer drinker and have looked at their behavior with dismay. So we thought it would be a good idea to put together a list of precepts that we think help make a

In The Rabbit Hole Urban Survival Podcast Album ArtHosts Aaron and Jonathan discuss Survival CHI and its origins. The foundation of the entire show and blog, Survival CHI is what guides it all. It’s what keeps In The Rabbit Hole all about rational practical preparedness. Eight months have passed since Survival CHI was first unveiled and explained. By popular demand it’s back with the story of how it was made and tips on how you can use it to improve your life today and survive the possible disasters of tomorrow. • How Survival CHI was formed. • What Survival CHI is. • How it impacts your life. • How the principles are intertwined. • How practicing the principles has changed Aaron and Jonathan’s lives. • Implementing the principles in your life today. • Homework assignment!

India v England, 2nd Test, Mohali, 2nd day Gloom has the final say The Bulletin by Anand Vasu in Mohali March 10, 2006 Text size: A | A England 200 for 5 (Flintoff 26*, Jones 7*) v India Scorecard and ball-by-ball details How they were out 498th scalp - Anil Kumble removes Paul Collingwood with a lovely legbreak © Getty Images The curtain came down on a dull, dreary unsatisfactory day a little before 3.30pm when play was called off. A steady drizzle had begun to fall, and the covers which lay on the square were getting a thorough drenching when Simon Taufel and Darrell Hair decided that enough was enough, after four inspections. After a first day pregnant with possibilities yet falling short on delivery the second day was almost a total write-off. Just over an hour of play was possible, and the forecast is not great for tomorrow either. In what little play was possible Anil Kumble inched closer to 500 Test wickets, picking up Paul Collingwood, but the game barely moved forward, with 37 runs being adde

ObamaCare Is a Game Changer, but Maybe Not as Envisioned Published January 31, 2013 | FOXBusiness, Paul Christiansen ObamaCare is the law of the land and U.S. employers are scrambling to deal with the fallout. One of the more onerous aspects of the ACA is the requirement for companies with 50 or more full-time employees to provide health insurance for all workers. This may or may not be an issue of concern for large corporations, but for many smaller businesses this can be a huge problem. The standard set of solutions that have been put forth involve: laying off workers to get under the 50 employee limit, moving full time employees to part time status (under 30 hours per week), or in some extreme cases, even closing down operations altogether. In addition, some business owners have floated the idea of breaking their company into smaller chunks, each incorporated as a separate entity of under 50 workers each. Alas, the crafters of the ACA anticipated this “work around” and created language that treats gr

Tales from the Evil Empire Bertrand Le Roy's blog Bertrand Le Roy BoudinFatal's Gamercard Tales from the Evil Empire - Blogged Blogs I read My other stuff Is Bioshock perfect game design? This being out of the way, let me explain why (just in case you haven't read one of the million reviews that already say so). Some time ago, I wrote a blog post with my good friend Fabien Royer about what we consider to be the seven deadly sins of modern game design. We pointed out that even great games such as Gears of War or Oblivion always had at least one of these flaws. So how does Bioshock measure up against those (arbitrary) criteria? 1. Checkpoints: Bioshock has checkpoints, but they're not your (big) daddy's old checkpoints. They are non- destructive checkpoints. They don't affect your progression, they just respawn you at some specific point. This is absolutely brilliant as it never punishes the player for trying something new. In this game, you'll never have to redo the same boss fight a thousand time

0 votes Bailout Price Tag: $3.5T So Far, But 'Real' Cost May Be Much Higher Posted Nov 12, 2008 10:16am EST by Aaron Task in Newsmakers, Recession, Banking Related: AIG, FNM, FRE, XLF, ^DJI, ^GSPC, C While the government is clearly spending a lot of taxpayers' money to bail out financial firms, the tally is even bigger than most Americans (economists and pundits included) are probably aware or willing to admit. The bailout bonanza has gotten so big and happened so fast it's the true cost often gets lost in the discussion. Maybe Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke prefer it that way because the tally so far is nearly $3.5 trillion, and that's before a likely handout for the auto industry. Yes, $3.45 trillion has already been spent, as Bailoutsleuth.com details: $2T Emergency Fed Loans (the ones the Fed won't discuss, as detailed here) $700B TARP (designed to buy bad debt, the fund is rapidly transforming as we'll discuss in an upcoming segment) $300B Hope Now (the government's year- old attempt at mortgage work

Forums Archive "Manycam Spyware or what? Virus?" Started 4/7/2009 by Dave Jackson in Tech Support Forum      (3 posts) 4/7/2009 (9:32 pm) by Dave Jackson     Dave Jackson (24 Posts) I've been using manycam ( for a couple of years. It seems ok and is quite widely used, however occasionally it seems to hog CPU resources for no reason. Then tonight the following error appeared on my PC When I killed manycam the error went away. Any ideas what it's up to? 4/8/2009 (7:52 am) by onlinesupport     (71 Posts) Adjust the network setting. follow some step's:- =>Press the "Menu" button, the small button next to the large round button. Select ‘'Settings," and then select "Network." Another menu will appear =>Choose ‘'DHCP" to change your network from automatic or manual. If you are not sure which to choose, leave it on default. Choose from ‘'Current Lease," ‘'Password," '‘IP Address," '‘Net Mask" or ‘'Default Gateway." Different sub-menus will appear for each choice. Select ‘'Done'’ or ‘'Cancel'’ after you

Pinellas and Hillsborough want to further study transit merger listen 12/11/12 Janelle Irwin WMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday | Listen to this entire show: PSTA board chair Jeff Danner and CEO, Brad Miller celebrated the opening of a new bus route last year. photo by Janelle Irwin Officials for transit authorities in Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties are considering merging the two systems to save money. Both PSTA and HART boards plan to ask the Florida legislature to fund a detailed study of the savings that would result from combining staff resources. PSTA and HART already split the cost of a preliminary state-mandated coordination study. The boards will vote on a final list of recommendations and funding requests based on the results at their meeting next month. But for now officials think consolidating high salary positions might be worth a closer look. Steve Polzin is the vice chair of the HART board of directors. “It’s really kind of the most senior person in various functions across the agency t

Mud - Rocket Lyrics Artist: Mud Lyrics Popularity : 0 users have visited this page. Album: Track 1 on Mud Rock Rate: Rocket gets avg. rating 8 out of 10 based on 3 ratings. Rate the song now!!! Well-a well-a you changed your name To Abigail Rocket Blast And then they lined you up For a HolIywood movie cast. With ail them big cigars and motor cars You thought you was a movie star But Abigail Blast you sure are changing fast. When you-a you-a you were knocking At the agent's door Because because because the silver screen Is what a movie queen lives for. They gave you minks.and dreams In pinks and greens You threw away your old blue jeans But Abigail Blast they're using you. Come on come on come on now Rocket I'm gonna launch you soon Come on now Rocket You're gonna reach the moon You're gonna take off soon You know your time will come I'll give you three two one. Now Rocket I'm gonna make you soon. I saw you sitting in the soda store Where all the cast off stardust falls Where they write their names on the fl

Take the 2-minute tour × so I am happily slamming data into my system using JSON and setValuesForKeysWithDictionary until I run into an object that has an NSDate property. The JSON contains dates with the following format: BackOrderDate: "2011-03-15T00:00:00" This gives me an error: 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'Unacceptable type of value for attribute: property = "BackOrderDate"; desired type = NSDate; given type = __NSCFString; value = 2011-03-15T00:00:00 I am using JSON.NET with MVC and the following settings with it: JsonSerializerSettings serializerSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings(); serializerSettings.Converters.Add(new Newtonsoft.Json.Converters.IsoDateTimeConverter()); string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(objects, Formatting.None, serializerSettings); return Content(json); Any ideas on how to deal with this issue? I do not want to lose the use of setValuesForKeysWithDictionary since it so fricking fast. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 2 down vote accepted

 DFI: Big Traps Lurking in Tiny Type IN.gov - Skip Navigation Amber Alert Amber Alert - TEST • widget1 • widget2 Indiana Department of Financial Institutions DFI > Education > Credit Information > Miscellaneous Credit Information > Big Traps Lurking in Tiny Type Big Traps Lurking in Tiny Type "Your credit has been approved." "Not so fast," whispers the fine print. By now, you may have grown so accustomed to the fine print in contracts and mail offers that you've stopped reading it, or worrying about it. That's a mistake. When you sign up for a credit card, buy or lease a car. or enter into almost any financial agreement, you're accepting a host of terms. Many of them are buried in a dense thicket of legalese that can be difficult to read and even harder to understand. But if you don't take the trouble to make sense of them, the conditions, exclusions, and exceptions can end up costing you serious money. If you think you're seeing more fine print than ever these days, you're probably right. Much o

Social Media Facebook's New Advertising Strategy Is Brilliant and Unexpected Facebook and Google get compared a lot these days, but with its new advertising strategy, Facebook is adapting Google’s ad strategy to its social media. Improving advertising on the popular social network is not a new or particularly innovative idea. Still the transition from advertising as a message-delivering medium to a platform for social sharing is a radical departure for Facebook. It could be the Facebook advertising solution that turns advertising partners (brands) into better social media communicators and gets Facebook members to start recommending and sharing advertisers as much as they do they latest cat video. As for the Google comparison. Recall that in the early days, Google had a choice: Take money from advertisers for higher search rankings or ignore such offers and focus on making its search engine the best it could be. Google at first didn't know how it would make money. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin fi

Deep in the Sauce It's about sauce, food, & everything else. Road to our First KCBS Competition: Day 3 PDF Print E-mail Written by Tom    Little late getting this post in for the 3rd day. Ended up going to a wine tasting at a local winery and then enjoying a night out with my wife and some relatives. For the third day though, there have been two things that have been playing heavily on my mind. The first being the weather. It was raining on and off all morning today and it got me to thinking about rain during the competition. I know this is always a possibility but, we only have one EZup right now and that usually is used over the sauce selling area. This leaves me with thoughts of either having to put it on the cooking area or to purchase another one. They aren't cheap but, now is the time of year to buy one so, it will end up depending on if I can find one on sale or not. If I can't then I might end up having to make a tough decision. The second thought that was on my mind was the cooking of pork. I've fo

Over the coming months pundits will slice and dice polling data, census information and the unemployment numbers of soccer moms to see whether President Obama has a clear path to victory. While I agree it's important to understand the electoral math, and it appears that the 2012 map will be smaller for the Obama camp than 2008, the data is irrelevant without the story.   The path is the narrative. Just how does a campaign create a narrative? Well one way to do it, if you like to lose, is through data. Facts and figures are great; unless that's all you give people. How often have you seen people inspired to tell their neighbors to vote for someone after a riveting speech about the inner workings of the GDP? Other than my former Finance professor I think the answer is never. Political Scientist Michael Jones, who studies narrative in politics said it well: "[Some politicians] are stuck in this Enlightenment reasoning kind of thing, thinking that if you take the facts to people about a particular policy it w

You are here:  Home  >  Opinion  >  Current Article One-hit wonders   /   1 Comment   /   1104 Views Dr Mohamed Fouad Dr Mohamed Fouad In a country that has become infatuated with political talk, the lack of sustainable political actions never ceases to amaze me. Despite their instantaneous impact, several movements that have surfaced on the Egyptian political scene in the past 10 years never took off or accomplished the form of continuity which brings about significant structural change. Here is a look at some of these change agents and how they fared. “Kefaya” was the name denoting the Egyptian Movement for Change. The movement was launched as a platform for protest against the president then, Hosny Mubarak. It came to prominence during the 2005 constitutional referendum and presidential election campaigns. The movement was later plagued with leadership changes and internal debates until it seemingly ran out of steam. The sternest critique of Kefaya is that it was fundamentally a protest movement, ta

Jon Brockman Jason Thompson Dante Greene Andres Nocioni Beno Udrih Troy Murphy Jeff Foster Whatever prospect __________________________________________________ ___ You can think of it this way. We get 3 young guys, one of them with star potential (Maybe). We basically put Foster and Murphy's contracts on hold for one more year with Andres and Beno. Only Beno is good at offense, and Andres is okay at both. They get their beloved salary dump along with a prospect and we get two prospects with Jason. Obviously we'd have a roster overhaul, and we'd have to do some moves to get some people out of here. Or you can think of it this way; we get two bad contracts. Oh god, I hate bad contracts. Or; we get two bad contracts with some good prospects, and we get two more expiring contracts next year. I'm kind of meh with the deal myself with taking on additional salary but it would be extremely hard to say no. So i'd say yes.

View Single Post Old July 4 2012, 07:19 AM   #65 Fleet Captain JRS's Avatar Location: Brno, Czech Republic Send a message via Yahoo to JRS Re: Why is Nemesis hated so much? W: Worf...again, found his way back, and pitched down to make him seem more alien. Yeah, thanks. Lets make the guy who has been on screen the most in all of Trek, and change him to make him more different. Like the ass on his head wasn't enough. Changing the voice of Bairds idea I believe( Baird also had Picards Mintakan tapestry removed from his ready room, just because he could..) Worf was indeed alien enough for us already. Plus they totally ignored the events of DS9..and his character development. I know that some of the producers were trying to explain this by saying that "Maybe Worf got bored of being ambassador" or the most likely but unspoken "Nobody watched DS9 anyway" JRS is offline Reply With Quote

What is Nanaca†Crash? Nanaca†Crash is a Flash game which uses characters from an adult PC game called Cross†Channel (warning, link is not work safe). Nanaca†Crash is not itself an adult game though; it's similar to the "penguin launching" game which was popular on the Internet a while back. Where can I play Nanaca†Crash? It seems that the original site has exceeded its bandwidth limits, but you can play it online at a mirror site here. Update: The original author has moved to a new location. How do I play Nanaca†Crash? The original instructions are in Japanese, but it's not too hard to figure out how to play. Upon starting a new game, press and hold the mouse button to select a launch angle, and then release it to select launch power. During the game, if "AERIAL" lights up blue or red in the top left hand corner, you can perform an "AERIAL CRASH" by clicking the mouse. Both types of aerial crash give your character a boost - the red type angles it upwards, and the blue type angles it downwards. Note that

Monk's Hood Style: Average Attitude: Edifying Author: Ellis Peters Series: Brother Cadfael Age Range: Young Teens+ Period: 12th C Genres:  DetectiveHistorical Gervase Bonel dies of poisoning before an agreement to hand his manor over to Shrewsbury Abbey can be ratified. Suspicion falls on his 15-year-old stepson, Edwin, who stands to gain the manor. Brother Cadfael learns that Edwin is not the murderer, helps him to hide, strives to establish his innocence, and inadvertently unearths the real murderer. As a detective story, fair to middling; knowing Ellis Peters' style, it's not too difficult to work out whodunnit. As ever with Brother Cadfael stories, the enjoyment lies in the characters and the virtues and vices they evince. The discovery that Gervase's widow is an old flame of Cadfael from before his crusading days is handled sensibly. A nice point is made towards the end when the murderer wants to “confess” to Brother Cadfael, and while the monk hears him out, and offers a “penance”, he stresse

get the epicurious iPhone app ‹ Cooking Primers Stir-Fry at Home Take a wok on the wild side with Diana Kuan's recipes and tips for stir-fry success—plus, a guide to ingredients and equipment Stir Fry Ingredients Image Basic Stir-Fry Ingredients Fast, flavorful, and oftentimes healthy, stir-fries can star a wide range of ingredients and are one of the best ways to make the most of leftover odds and ends from your fridge or pantry. The options truly are endless when it comes to mixing and matching the main components of a stir-fry, which include a combination of proteins, vegetables, aromatics, oils, and sauces. Chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, and tofu are all popular protein options. Kuan recommends tender cuts of meat that will cook quickly without becoming tough. Chicken breasts, or even slightly fattier chicken thighs, are ideal for stir-frying, as are hanger steak, flank steak, and pork tenderloin. When it comes to seafood, shrimp is the common favorite due to its extra-quick cooking time; however, K

Stock Quotes in this Article: SPY, QQQ BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) -- The hysteria surrounding the possibility that the Fed would turn off the spigot became palpable in yesterday's trading session. On Thursday, the S&P 500 index closed 2.5% lower than it opened, posting the single-worst trading session for the big index in 2013 -- and the worst since November 2011, in fact. >>5 Big Trades After the Fed Meeting Perhaps more significant, yesterday's S&P 500 decline pushed the big index to close below its 50-day moving average, a line that's acted as crucial support over the course of this orderly rally. If there's a single word to describe how investors feel right now, it's "panicked." But the Fed's taper tantrum doesn't matter. If you think that Chairman Bernanke's checkbook is slamming shut in 2013, you're wrong. And the implications remain the same for stocks: higher ground. Most people have the cause and effects of quantitative easing flip-flopped. Ask 10 investors what Bernanke is trying to achieve by buy

Take the tour × The game seems to let you swim as deep as you want. Are there ever any items to be collected? Or any danger under the surface of the water (like sharks) ? share|improve this question add comment 2 Answers up vote 12 down vote accepted Yes, there are collectibles underwater - mainly black boxes that you need to gather for the Reapers. Look for the blue "blips" on your map and you will see that some of them appear in the ocean. I've yet to encounter any dangers underwater, though, so I don't think there are any sharks or the sort. share|improve this answer add comment As Ragnar said - black boxes. I don't think I've found anything else under water. Most of the boxes are in the shallow areas, and none of them are very deep. The only danger underwater is running out of oxygen - but this takes a surprisingly long time to do. As a result, diving turns out to be a good way to shake off excessive heat. You don't have to get down too deep before even the helis either can't see you, or their bu

The world's first DJ booth was majestically ridiculous Decades before hip-hop deejays began mixing records in the South Bronx, French engineer Leon Gaumont was crossfading records using his fantastically flamboyant Chronophone. If you ever needed to rock a party Fantômas-style while pouring a flagon of champagne out for poor dead Jules Verne, this was your rig. But in all seriousness, this set-up was suited for the cinema. As Auxetophone explains of this device's history: The world's first DJ booth was majestically ridiculousIn 1910 Gaumont demonstrated his Chronophone system, which synchronised sound and film, at the Gaumont Palace in Paris. The compressed-air amplifier, which he called the Eglephone, was just a part of the whole system. The volume was enough for an audience of 4000. The world's first DJ booth was majestically ridiculousInitially the longest moving picture that could be made with synchronised sound was only 200ft, due to the limited playing time of the Gramophone record. (Projection was a

Danish Realm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Rigsfællesskabet) Jump to: navigation, search Commonwealth of the Realma Clockwise from bottom right:Maps of Denmark (Northern Europe), Greenland (North Atlantic and Arctic) and the Faroe Islands (North Atlantic). Clockwise from bottom right: Official languages  -  Monarch Queen Margrethe II  -  Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt  -  Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands Kaj Leo Johannesen  -  Prime Minister of Greenland Aleqa Hammond a. Also translated as "Community of the Realm". The Danish Realm (Danish: det danske rige) or the Commonwealth of the Realm (Danish: rigsfællesskabet; Faroese: ríkisfelagsskapurin; Greenlandic: naalagaaffeqatigiit) is a semi-official[citation needed] term for the relations between metropolitan Denmark and its two overseas regions, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which collectively make up the Kingdom of Denmark. The relationship between the three territories of the Danish Realm is one of a unita

Tuesday, Sep. 30, 2003. President Has Not Decided On Kyoto By Greg Walters Special to The Moscow Times President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia has not made a decision on whether to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and that the government will not do so until it finishes studying the implications that ratification would have for the country. Putin, speaking at the opening ceremony of the five-day UN World Climate Change Conference, left the future of the Kyoto Protocol in limbo with his remarks and disappointed some attendees, who had hoped he might use the event to announce a ratification date. "The government is thoroughly considering and studying this issue, studying the entire complex of difficult problems linked with it," Putin said. "The decision will be made after this work has been completed. And, of course, it will take into account the national interests of the Russian Federation." The Kyoto Protocol calls for signatory countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2012. Before

Take the tour × Is it possible to start a multiplayer game of Civ 5 on a LAN connection, save the game in progress, and then at a later point, continue the game over the internet? If so, how can I do this? share|improve this question Are you saying you want to have some players connect via LAN and some players connect over the Internet? –  Matthew Read May 12 '11 at 20:55 I do not know the answer to the first part so I will post here instead. Private rooms work by putting a password that your friend will need to know to get in to the room. Once he is in you can add as many AI as you want to fill out the rest of the players. –  Scott Chamberlain May 12 '11 at 20:55 add comment 1 Answer After every turn, the game is saved automatically. After you stop playing on a LAN game, you can normally restart by loading the saved game (which takes you to the lobby, so all the players can join again (or be replaced by AI if they don't want to join again)). I imagine the process would be similar online. share|improve

If you're planning to drive your hot rod or custom (and why wouldn't you?) you need to make sure the engine, transmission, third member, and driveshaft are all working together in harmony. The piece of this puzzle that would seem to be the simplest, as it has the least amount of moving parts, is the driveshaft. We had a pretty good idea how to set up a one-piece driveshaft, but the question of the proper method for a two- piece unit came up, which also brought up the question of just when a two-piece is necessary. We decided to go to the experts and ask. Greg Frick at Inland Empire Driveline told us the following: "A driveshaft explodes at an rpm called critical speed. In theory, critical speed depends on shaft length, weight, diameter, and rpm. In the real world, critical speed is lowered by U-joint angles, shaft mounts, and even the engine's firing. Keeping safely away from critical speed affects decisions about driveshaft tube diameter and the decision to use a two-piece shaft set with the added support wh

Views. Comment. Opinion. Jonathan Creek is back and here’s why we love him so much No need to go to the pub tonight... Jonathan Creek is back Alan Davies as Jonathan Creek with wife Polly (Sarah Alexander)(Picture: BBC) After waiting nearly a year Jonathan Creek is set to return to our screens tonight with a brand new series. And I couldn’t be happier. Jonathan Creek first came to our attention as a professional magic trick planner for his friend and employer the American Adam Klaus. Klaus just wanted to wow women with his act but Jonathan put his powers to good use by solving crime in his spare time. What more could you want than a bit of magic to fill the gaps left by un-popular family entertainment shows and pander to the Harry Potter audience watching Creek for the first time? Magic is the main draw of the show, along with Jonathan’s helpful assistants of course. Caroline Quentin, as Maddie Magellan, was the original (and let’s be honest best) assistant that cultivated a will they/won’t they? subte

All songs - change Chordie needs editors! Improve this page Ugly Casanova Ugly Casanova is an American Indie rock band carried on Sub Pop Records. At present, the band has only released one album: Sharpen Your Teeth. According to band mythos, in 1998 a man named Edgar Graham, a.k.a. "Ugly Casanova", impressed himself upon the band Modest Mouse while backstage at a concert in Denver, Colorado. After some prodding, he shared his work with the band, and began performing it early before shows while some people were milling around. Whenever he completed these performances, he retreated quickly with a look of anger and shame. After a time, a few small recordings were created, after which Edgar vanished completely. Isaac Brock has since revealed that Edgar Graham was a "a fiction thing that Brock started a while back to eliminate himself from the band," to escape having to do interviews. One bit of evidence that had previously suggested that story was false: Modest Mouse's 1996 EP The Fruit That Ate Itself was cr

- Advertisement - • Most Commentedmost commented up • Most Emailedmost emailed up • Popularmost popular up - Advertisement - « News Home Dozens help beautify the Idora neighborhood area today Published: Sat, November 13, 2010 @ 10:17 p.m. At first glance, the small rectangular lot at Parkview Avenue and Volney Road on the city’s South Side looks sparse and desolate. Tufts of yellowing grass look like small islands surrounded by dirt spots, with intermittent skeletal remains of weeds. A few small bushes with bright berries are scattered about, and fallen leaves nearly obscure sections of tall grass. None of that, however, tells the story of neighborhood transformation; the cluster of 6-inch holes in the ground does that. “This neighborhood has had it rough,” observed Victoria Rusu, an officer with the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. “[Residents] want their neighborhood to be beautiful and want their homes and lots cleaned up.” Rusu and five others were filling the holes with columbine,

You can run but you can't hide from the MPAA You can read more here. (PDF) Comments     Threshold RE: MPAA/RIAA need to take a math class. By DrMrLordX on 2/24/2006 3:02:06 AM , Rating: 2 They also fail to take into account that file-sharing piracy, either via the Internet, a local network, or portable media has a "free advertising" effect similar to "word-of-mouth" advertising. The single best way to hook someone on your product is to give them(or inadvertantly let them) get ahold of it at no cost. One guy juarezes a game, loves it, and hooks his buddies on it. Soon, copies of the game are sold that might never have been purchased. I see it happen all the time, especially when you have games with activation keys that can only be played offline when pirated, but can be played online by way of a peering service only if a legit key is used during installation. NWN was a good example of this for me. I bought the base game ages ago, pirated the expansions, then went back and bought the Platinum Edition(ba

Forgot your password? Comment: Re:60 or bust (Score 1) 599 by Soul-Burn666 (#42297479) Attached to: Why <em>The Hobbit's</em> 48fps Is a Good Thing It's not 240hz input. I have recently bought a plasma TV with advertised "600hz". However, the TV accepts up to 60hz input. Where do these x10 frames come into play? In dejuddering. The panel interpolates frames so the motion is smoother. It also helps with 3d content, faster switching between eyes. Comment: Re:I was going to try something similar... (Score 1, Interesting) 378 by Soul-Burn666 (#39691511) Attached to: The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws A good friend of mine was pulled over by a cop who claimed he was speeding, driving over 100kph in a 50kph zone. This was a *really* old and ran down car so the friend proposed that if the cop can reach 100kph in his car, he'll agree with the ticket. After about 2 minutes of struggling to go over 30kph, with the cop swearing heavily at the car, he gave up on the ticket. Comment: Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 394

how do you celebrate birthdays on your unit? 1. 0 what do you use to post co workers birthdays on your unit? and what do you do to celebrate? i am looking for motivation ideas for my unit. any ideas would be great , for any ideas !! my unit has nothing for birthdays, no pot lucks no nuthin !! thank you very much !! does anyone know if there is dry erase , like birthday balloons or cupcakes to write birthday names and dates on that can be erased off? thank you !! Get the hottest topics every week! Subscribe to our free Nursing Insights newsletter. 2. 6 Comments... 3. 0 A monthly newsletter is generated by HR that lists everyone's birthday during that particular month. Also, HR leaves a bakery cake in the breakroom one day every month to celebrate the birthdays of all employees who were born in that month. 4. 2 Nothing, and I am fine with that JDZ344 and elkpark like this. 5. 0 My old manager used to bring appetizers and a cake and announce birthdays for the month duri

TV Shows Sort By The All-New Popeye Hour(1978 - 1983) Popeye returns in this new saturday morning series on September 9, 1978, The All-New Popeye Hour debuted on the CBS Saturday morning lineup. It was an hour-long animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which tried its best to retain the style of the original comic strip (Popeye returne... All- American Girl(1994 - 1995) Aliens in the Family(1996 - 1996) Cookie is a recombinant DNA scientist on a far planet. Divorced from her husband and looking for suitable material she abducts a suburban single father from earth. Love blossoms, they marry, and she with her three children join Doug with his two on Earth, an interstellar Brody/Brady bunch. This... Alien Nation(1989 - 1990) A flying saucer crashed in the Mojave Desert and its inhabitants turned out to be alien slaves, bred to be super intelligent and strong, and controllable by their Overseers. These Tenctonese, or The Alien ship that crashed is the same one in the V series. The Aliens aged at

Surf's Up! <B>Lesley Stahl</B> Talks To Big-Wave Surfer Laird Hamilton Meet a man who is to his sport what Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, and Lance Armstrong are to theirs. You can't buy a ticket to his next game, or watch his latest victory on your local sportscast. In fact, unless you happened to catch the documentary, "Riding Giants," you may not have even heard of him. He's Laird Hamilton, and as Correspondent Lesley Stahl first reported last February, he is a giant in the sport of big wave surfing. Like any serious athlete in any sport, surfer Laird Hamilton spends hours each day building up the strength he needs to take on the competition. In his case, the competition stands 35 feet tall, and comes at him at speeds of up to 30 miles an hour -- and that's on an easy day. 60 Minutes first met Hamilton off the coast of Maui in Hawaii. Hamilton considers "a big wave" a wall of water up to 70 feet high, the equivalent of a seven-story building. And these are the waves he lives for. "It would be, like,

From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search I was thinking about adding something about the brain's companions and ambitions, and then turning it towards the Pinky and the Brain idea, as in "The brain has been known to follow a number of patterns. The most prevalent of these is the nightly ambition to gain world domination, often with the aid of another famous body part, the pinky." I want the admins' opinions on this, because I am new to Uncyclopedia. And yes, I have read the beginners guides. --KrazyHades Is there a reason why this article has only three pictures, two of them being exactly the same with the same captions? --I luv legolas3 00:28, 13 August 2008 (UTC) Personal tools

you are viewing a single comment's thread. view the rest of the comments → [–]jonathanbernard 0 points1 point ago In addition to all the other reasons people have given: a lot of them do not read regularly. Or if they do the material is unedited or poorly edited (magazines, Facebook and blog posts written by other people who do not read).

"some music was meant to stay underground..." Lita Ford - "Wicked Wonderland" (CD) Lita Ford - "Wicked Wonderland" CD cover image "Wicked Wonderland" track listing: 1. Crave (3:46) 2. Piece (Hell Yeah) (3:42) 3. Patriotic SOB (4:33) 4. Scream 4 Me (3:58) 5. Inside (4:13) 6. Wicked Wonderland (3:50) 7. Indulge (4:43) 8. Love (5:31) 9. Betrayal (3:58) 10. Sacred (4:34) 11. Truth (3:56) 12. Everything (3:36) 13. Bed (6:51) 14. Garden (4:06) 15. Push (4:17) Reviewed by on October 20, 2009 "…with her first release in fifteen years, 'Wicked Wonderland,' Lita has created an album that drips with lust, sadomasochism, and overt sexuality." When I was a kid growing up, most female vocalists were singing about romance, passion, and unrequited love, but not Lita Ford. The bold blonde in leather opened the doors for women to talk candidly about sex, with her famous lyrics, "I went to a party last Saturday night, I didn’t get laid, I got in a fight." Well, that may have been bold by 1980’s standards, but with her fi

image Influential People Pope Felix V Key Facts Other names Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy Born 1383 Location Savoy Bloodline House of Savoy Married Yes Children Yes- 9 children Position Count of Savoy (1391-1416), Duke of Savoy (1416-1451) Pope (1439-1449) Died January 1451 Source of Facts and Important Announcement Born into one of the oldest and most powerful noble families of Europe at the time, Amadeus assumed the title of Count of Savoy at a young age after the death of his father. In 1418 he became the most senior male heir to this ancient family making his position as Duke of Savoy without contest. The election of Pope Eugene (1431-1447) and the end of the Hundred Year War between the supporters of the Royal House of Plantagenet and the Royal House of Valois for the French throne put Savoy in a more difficult position with increased pressure to strengthen political ties. The House of Savoy appear to have been financial and logistical supporters of the House of Colonna and the Council of B

VIdeo- Fox's Doocy: Was Petraeus "Being Blackmailed By The White House To Toe The Company Line" On Benghazi? • Harbor Guy Mr. Dopey, needs to address questions to Petraeus's CROTCH, 'cause his brains seem to be there. • David G Where do they produce nutcases like Doocey?  There's more than a few recalls necessary and Fox needs one now.  Really.   He proffers that  The White House blackmails Patraeus into humiliating himself (and family) and then expects him to defend them as a reward for total embarrassment?  What kind of sense does that make?

Take the 2-minute tour × I'd like to learn how to sing songs. I have sheet music with 4 part harmony, but I don't really know how to read notes that well. Are there any tools that can sort of read sheet music for me? Like if I could tell it to play the bass or tenor part. share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 I know choirs whose members use Finale Reader which is a free program that can display and play music from Finale or MusicXML files. Obviously it requires the piece you are learning to be in Finale or MusicXML. share|improve this answer Neuratron PhotoScore is the best tool for doing what you want. Put the sheet music on a scanner, feed the scans into PhotoScore, and it uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert it to digital music notation which it can then play back using software MIDI instrument sounds. It's not perfect, and to use it effectively, you need to know how to manually correct the reading mistakes that it makes. It has a rather steep learning curve. While it will work s

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=/nojavascript/"> Transcendental Functions | CK-12 Foundation Skip Navigation 5.6: Transcendental Functions Created by: CK-12 Inverse Functions A problem that is worth thinking about as a useful tool, as well as a foreshadowing of future ideas, is how to work around the one-to-one restriction. There are times when an inverse is needed, even though the function is not one-to-one, and there may be some restrictions that can be applied to make it happen. For instance: what is the inverse function f(x)=x^2? The lesson in the text illustrates clearly that it is not a one- to-one function. The instructions for finding an inverse function state to solve for the dependent variable, which states that the inverse function is \pm \sqrt{x}, which is really not a function at all, with two outputs for every input. If we take only the positive part, then we can call it a function. Now it's important to understand that this isn't a complete inverse, but is more of a functional inv

Downey Jr. Has Nerd-Gasms About Iron Man chatted with Robert Downey Jr. about his new role in David Fincher’s Zodiac but also a bit about Iron Man. Here’s a clip: With his gray hairs and squint lines, Downey comes off as a battle-hardened veteran alongside Gyllenhaal’s dewy ingenue. Which makes it all the more remarkable that now, at this stage in his career, he’s about to don a superhero suit. To say he’s excited is an understatement. “I have f—ing nerd-gasms about this type of stuff,” he enthuses. Iron Man is a billionaire named Tony Stark who, after a terrible injury, makes himself a mechanical bodysuit and goes out to save the world. Downey considers the role a sort of gift from the universe now that he has reached a point in his life where he can handle it. Still, he is grateful that the $100 million production will be shot entirely in California, allowing him to stay close to his wife and the rest of a support network that includes a shrink, a sensei and assorted healing therapists. “Once you have that

Listen to Shawty Lo on iHeartRadio Shawty Lo won't apologize for his upcoming reality show, All My Babies' Mamas. He tells MTV, "You can hate all you want to... I'm supposed to turn my back against it? If I wasn't taking care of my kids, then you would really dog me out, but I'm taking care of my kids, providing for my family... Outta all the 10 baby mamas, I just have problems outta one... She has two kids by me, and she feel like I'm supposed to do more for her kids, and she don't wanna work. She just want me to straight take care of them, but it's all love.” Shawty Lo says that as "one of the largest drug dealers to come from Atlanta, Bankhead," he couldn't help but attract a lot of women. And he has a rather relaxed attitude towards birth control. "Once you feel like a girl was your girlfriend or whatever, the rubber probably came off. They wouldn't have an abortion. They used to take the money and run with it, and they'd have a baby by the most popular guy in the street, and that's how I had all them

Disclaimer: I don't own them. If I did we would already have new episodes. :) The last bell had rung dismissing the students from school. Seventeen-year-old Alex Eames had planned to meet her boyfriend Justin at his car and go out to eat with him before a movie. She came out of her classroom and made her way through the sea of people in the halls to her locker. She put away the books from her last class and took the ones she needed for homework. She started to head to Justin's last class to surprise him knowing that he took a long time getting out of there. She rounded the last corner, headed straight into the classroom, and stopped dead in her tracks. There was Justin standing in the front of the classroom making out with Stacy Hann. "You asshole!" Alex screamed. Justin and Stacy immediately broke apart, shocked. "Baby, it's not what you think." He pleaded. "Not what I…? What is there to think about?! You're making out with Stacy Hann! I think I understand pretty well what's going on! We're through!"

Some people with a disability may go to a local school, others a special school. To read more on the difference between the two please click here. In this video we went to visit The Langside School in Dorset which is a specialist school for disabled children. We also met 21-year-old Catriona who has a disability called Downs Syndrome and 17-year-old Beth who has a disability called Cerebral Palsy. Watch the video above to see what they like about school. There are all different kinds of disabilities, and it can be hard to know how to act around someone who is disabled. Ruby went to visit a Junior school in Surrey to get their opinion on what being disabled means and how you should act around someone who’s got a disability. More than half a million children under the age of 16 have a disability in the UK. Many schools have children with disabilities and there’s a lot of debate about the best ways to help disabled children learn. At their local school Children with a disability may have a helper with th

MIDDLETOWN, Pa.—Emergency sirens have been scheduled for testing again at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The latest test will see the sirens sounding for several minutes about 12:15 p.m. Thursday. The new sirens will eventually replace an older system still in place, but that won't happen until the new sirens pass several more tests. The 96 sirens are located within 10 miles of the plant, and are in place to warn residents of a nuclear accident. The plant in Middletown, near Harrisburg, is owned by Exelon.

We support the following browsers: D'Wok N' Grill 313 Wellington Street, Launceston, Tasmania 7249, Australia 03 6344 8880 Update restaurant details Got a photo? Add it. Ranked #134 of 207 restaurants in Launceston Cuisines: Chinese Most recent review - Oct 10, 2012 Restaurant details Write a Review 2 reviews from our community % Recommend Rating summary Date Rating Tamar Valley Top Contributor 77 reviews 77 reviews 48 restaurant reviews 32 helpful votes 32 helpful votes 4 of 5 stars Reviewed October 10, 2012 Take your fussy family who don't like chinese food and they can have steak and chips while you get mussels, prawns, and bow buck farn! Was this review helpful? Yes Launceston, Australia 18 reviews 18 reviews 5 restaurant reviews 14 helpful votes 14 helpful votes 1 of 5 stars Reviewed September 9, 2012 This the second time we have tried this place(calling it a restaurant is an exaggeration)and it hasn't improved since 15 years ago.The staff were friendly but not very efficient seeing as there were

Ten Miles Square July 01, 2013 11:04 AM Why Debates About Public Debt Are Dumb By Keith Humphreys In the past few years, there have been countless op-ed pieces and spirited debates about the level of government debt in the U.S. and in the Eurozone, whether it is a problem, and what to do about it. But rarely does it seem that anyone changes their mind as a result of all this arguing. Indeed, many people walk away from debates about government debt frustrated or even hopping mad. My experience as a marriage counselor taught me that for a discussion of a disagreement to be productive, the parties have to have a shared understanding of what is being debated. If a husband thinks a marital debate is about leaving the toliet seat up or not, and the wife thinks it is about why her husband never listens to, appreciates or loves her the way he should, expect fireworks and frustration. If you are in an argument that you think is about government debt and it’s going nowhere, it may be because the person you are deb

Foundations of America QU201 Prof. Scott Leone • Increase font size • Default font size • Decrease font size 113 cherry bomb Cherry Bomb The cherry bomb, also known as a Globe salute, is a small explosive or firework used for entertainment purposes. A typical cherry bomb was of spherical shape, and contained a small explosive composed of several different materials ranging from flash powder to black powder. The explosive was enclosed in a small paper cup surrounded by sawdust fused with a mild adhesive. A small hole was drilled allowing for the insertion of a fuse. When ignited, the fuse would travel down into the explosive powder, initiating the explosion. Due to its ability to inflict bodily harm, the cherry bomb was deemed illegal by the United States government in 1996. In Ragtime, a large profit of Father’s company came from the production and distribution of fireworks. In Father’s absence, mother’s younger brother engulfed himself in work, and agonized over the creation of a more powerful

- Advertisement - • Most Commentedmost commented up • Most Emailedmost emailed up • Popularmost popular up Sorry, no featured jobs currently. - Advertisement - « News Home Armed men rob Warren woman and four kids Staff report A 29-year- old Clearwater Street Northwest woman reported that three armed, masked men broke into her house at 12:35 a.m. Thursday, picked up two of her four children and carried them upstairs where they demanded money. The woman said she was upstairs with one of her children when she heard a loud crash, then heard her two boys, age 7 months and 5 years, scream. The men carried the boys to her and began yelling to show them where the money was. She told them there was nothing to steal and went downstairs and showed them there was nothing to take. The men put the boys down. One of the men took the cellphone from her hand, and they all fled out of the back of the house. The woman panicked when she couldn’t find the two other children but later realized they had run down th

Take the 2-minute tour × Trying to create plist file. but Gets error in [NSFileManager copyItemAtPath:toPath:error:]: source path is nil do someone know why it's happening? Thank you very much.. AppDelegate.h : NSArray*pathes=NSSearchPathForDirectori esInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString*documentDirectory=[pathes objectAtIndex:0];//first dir in app dir. NSString*path=[documentDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"data.plist"]; NSFileManager*filemanager=[NSFileManager defaultManager]; if(![filemanager fileExistsAtPath:path]) NSString*bundle=[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:@"data" ofType:@"plist"];//check if plist file exist; [filemanager copyItemAtPath:bundle toPath:path error:&error]; NSMutableDictionary*data=[[NSMutableDictionary alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:path]; NSArray*arr=[[NSArray alloc]init]; [data setObject:arr forKey:@"arr"]; [data writeToFile:path atomically:YES]; share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer - [NSBundle pathF

Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC Date/Time 20 Dec 2013 2:21:15am Zac Smith said: "Why are there still Christians in the world? After all these fantastic arguments to the contrary, surely the only ones left are either ignorant of the good news that you don't have to believe anymore (it's all been refuted!), or have some corrupt interest in the perpetuation of Christian belief. I'd like to posit the idea that most Christians today have actually heard all or most of the so-called knockdown arguments, and still believe the claims of the bible to be credible without having a corrupt interest in their perpetuation. We're not dumb people, we not bad people. It's not that we are somehow convinced by cosmological or teleological arguments whereas you are not." Zac Smith, each argument you make against atheism here could also be made against every other religion. The question is not "Why are you Christian and not an atheist?"; it's "Why are you a Christian and not the member of any of the world's oth

• Publisher: Konami • Release Date: Oct 31, 2006 User Score Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings User score distribution: 1. Positive: 7 out of 9 2. Mixed: 0 out of 9 3. Negative: 2 out of 9 Review this game 1. Your Score 0 out of 10 Rate this: • 10 • 9 • 8 • 7 • 6 • 5 • 4 • 3 • 2 • 1 • 0 • 0 1. Submit 2. Check Spelling 1. JacobP. Oct 10, 2007 DJ2 has a wealth of ready to be harvested, imaginative material, but it blows it all away in favour of run and gun. And shooting stuff, mindlessly. How could you make that concept not fun? DJ2 manages to find a way through mundane, boring gameplay and lazily designed levels. It's a shame to, because the game looks pretty good for a portable offering. Message to Backbone Studios: The point of a game is to be fun. Gameplay is what makes the game. You can have 8-bit sprites making bleeping sounds, and the game will do well IF it is fun. If there's going to be a Death Jr. 3, please m

Voter ID fight will continue October 4, 2012 The Altoona Mirror Opponents of Pennsylvania's new voter identification law won a critical battle Tuesday as a state judge blocked enforcement of the measure in this fall's elections. But don't think the war concerning voter IDs is over, even if the Corbett administration decides not to appeal the temporary injunction. The same fight is likely to emerge in 2013 as opponents once again try to block the law. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson ruled Tuesday that because of concerns about the ability for voters to get a usable ID before Nov. 6, the state cannot require one before people cast ballots next month. Election workers will be able to ask people for a photo ID, but if someone doesn't have one, that person still will be able to vote as normally. The voter ID law had said that those without valid IDs would have to cast provisional ballots and then provide the county board of elections with identification within six days of the election for their ball

Personal Record: Race Travel February 22, 2011 Me, I like to go. Offer me a trip to Iowa and I'll take back every mean thing I've ever said about the Midwest. Ask me to come along on an expedition to Antarctica and I'll forget that I suffer when cold and say, Hell yeah. Recently a friend who used to run told me that he was interested in training for a marathon, that he wanted something "picturesque," like somewhere in Italy, and wanted his (non-running) wife to join him on the trip and during the race. I got this message a couple of days after I had flown 24 hours to run, 36 hours later, a marathon. It occurred to me that traveling to do races may not always be the best idea, especially for people who aren't experienced marathoners. I told him to do a local one and then take a vacation in Italy. How much better it is to sleep in your own bed before and after a race, to eat your normal foods, to not worry about getting blood clots on long plane trips. To be able to find bathrooms to deal with the inevitab

Video: Peachtree iDac Digital-to-Analog Converter and Digital iPod® Dock From the Crutchfield Archives Crutchfield catalogs David Solomon, Founding Partner of Peachtree Audio, introduces their new iDac and explains how it makes the music on your iPod®, computer, and other components sound better. Tara: We're here today with David Solomon of Peachtree Audio and he's doing trainings at Crutchfield today. So we're just going to talk to you a little bit and learn a little bit more about Peachtree. So we're going to start here with the iDac, which is one of your newer products, and if you can just explain a little bit about it. David: Yeah, the iDac was something that we've had in the works for quite some time. It's really for people who have multiple digital devices. With an iPod, you can stick this into our dock and this dock is actually a digital dock that will take the information from the iPod, the ones and zeros from the iPod, instead of the analog output, and transfer it directly to our DAC, which basi

Saturday, November 30, 2013 Bike Brands at the Low-Key Hillclimbs Starting in week 5 I began asking riders to describe the bike they were on when they RSVP'ed for the following weekend's Low-Key Hillclimb. We used to write this down at check-in, but it made it a lot easier to search the data if I had it entered digitally. So if we had a rider on a red and yellow bike and couldn't identify him I could search for all descriptions with both "red" and "yellow" for the bike and realize there was only one such description. We also ask for jersey color, but still write that down at the start, since I for one have problems planning this sort of thing ahead of time. But maybe others plan their wardrobes better, so I may add jersey description to the RSVP form as well. But anyway, I decided to check what bike brands people were riding this year. So for rider numbers for whom I had a bike description (one per rider, so not counting the same rider multiple times if he rode multiple weeks), considered his bike descript

Recreate 'The Abyss' and 'Dambusters' With Google Earth Google Earth Google Earth is always a bit of a curio--appealing to the voyeur inside all of us a little, as well as tapping into some vague educational vein. It's just got a whole lot more curious though, with under-sea and WWII layers that'll really appeal to academics. Predictably Google's touting the new oceanic layers with the line "anyone can be a desktop Cousteau" but that doesn't detract from how interesting the new material actually is. Essentially Ocean Showcase is a part curated tour of the World's ocean floors, courtesy of National Geographic, and with videos by NG's Sylvia Earle. There's data from NOAA, information about fishes, whales and more sporty info on dive sites and surfing from suppliers like wannadive and wannasurf, and even data on World War 2 wrecks on the sea floors. Google Ocean It's a multi-featured new option in Earth and it's got undeniable educational value. But perhaps not quite so much as the other new layer Google's