Jake Tapper responds to my initial piece on his suggestion that Mitt Romney should be expected to explain his faith to voters. He questions why, if Romney can say he is religious, voters should be expected not to ask what that claim means to Romney. Others in the blogosphere have similar questions. It's clear that despite some well-defined standards for respectful discourse, we as a nation simply haven't come to an agreement about what is and is not fair game in discussing the religion of a candidate for national office.
I would like to submit a few suggestions from a Mormon perspective. First, it is important to note that the Tapper position (in which questions about any of a candidate's beliefs appear to be fair game — he posits that he should be able to ask Romney about where he thinks he'll end up in the eternities), while appearing even-handed, would raise a de facto bar from office to any person belonging to an ill-understood religious minority. Imagine the scenarios under this model. Catholic X runs for president and has to answer a few questions about abortion and maybe an odd question about transubstantiation (maybe). Mormon X runs and the door is wide open for direct questioning to the candidate on everything from polygamy to church history to the most obscure statements of past church leaders.
Why the difference? Is it because Catholicism contains fewer topics that appear strange to outsiders? Of course not. It's because people have become used to Catholicism to the point where they understand that the Spanish Inquisition has little impact on a modern Catholic's ability to run a country. If Giuliani were expected to give explanations about his views on the Saints, birth control, Papal infallibility and the mystery of the Host, on a national stage, he'd look like he was nuts and no one would vote for him. Trouble is, he'd never be expected to answer such questions. But similar questions would be directed at a Mormon, Muslim, Buddhist or Adventist candidate, not because their beliefs are weirder, but because they're a bit more novel to the American public.
Thus, conclusion number one regarding the "no holds barred" view of things is that it is functionally prejudicial to all religious minorities. For that reason alone it is suspect. Related to that problem, and similarly objectionable, is the double standard that arises, in which members of large denominations are asked nothing at all about their religion, whereas members of smaller religious communities are labeled as "the Mormon" or "the Jehovah's Witness," making it far more difficult for a candidate to author his own public identity.
But there is another reason to object to the no-holds barred position: relevance. Given that religious beliefs are by definition sacred and personal to adherents, there ought to be a reason for intruding upon them (and no, Mitt Romney has not made an issue of his personal beliefs. He has been asked about them, but has not volunteered them). Thus, the questioner carries the burden of showing the relevance of the inquiry.
Tapper gives three good examples that illustrate my point. First, he says that people are legitimately curious about the separation of the sexes at Joe Lieberman's synagogue. Second, it is a point of proper concern whether President Bush sees Biblical doctrine as a guiding force in Middle East policy. Third, does Mitt Romney really think he's going to own a planet in the afterlife? (short answer: no.). Anyone see the difference between these inquiries?
The question about the segretation of sexes bears on a candidate's principal values. That is, it raises a question of what this candidate believes about the equality of the sexes. The connection is not strong, but it is at least there. The question about Bush's Middle East policy bears directly on . . . his Middle East policy, something well within the purview of presidential politics. On the other hand, the question about Romney's views on his eternal state are apropos of absolutely nothing. They have no bearing on policy, government, or values. Given that disconnect, the third question is far different from the first two, and is simply not relevant to public discourse.
And this leads to the RomneyExperience Relevancy Test.* At present, I believe there are two narrow areas on which the public has a legitimate interest in being informed as to a candidate's religion. First, the public is justifiably interested in religious beliefs that will likely inform a candidate's present or future policy positions or political behavior. In this category, I think one could fairly ask Mitt Romney what his religion tells him about the use of nuclear weapons, or how his faith informs his view on the legitimacy of democratic government. Attenuated and contrived links between religions beliefs and policy positions should not be entertained (George Stephanopoulos's fatuous attempt to link Romney's eschatology with Muslim popular opinion is a good example of this sneaky approach).
The second category of legitimate questions on religious beliefs are those that aid in revealing a candidate's core values. Does the candidate's faith inform his approach to humanity in general? How does the candidate's commitment to his religion bode for his character in other spheres? What is the religion's emphasis on forgiveness, family, personal responsibility, community, and hard work? I believe that respectful iterations of such question are very much on the table. Inquiries about how a candidate imagines heaven, or his response to obscure and peripheral religious teachings tell us very little about the person, and therefore do nothing but sensationalize a faith that some take very seriously.
Finally, everyone ought to remember that there are much better ways of discerning all of the above than to ask questions about a candidate's faith. To find out how a candidate will act in office, check his stated platform and his past record. To understand his values, scrutinize his life, his family, and his personal demeanor. Attempting to divine such things through the subjective and inscrutable lens of religion is an empirically suspect practice, entertaining though it may be.
*Subject to revision, of course.


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Perhaps the greatest accolade we can give Cherokee is that they will always have the style, color, and size you need, in stock. That's because no one manages their inventory and distribution like Cherokee does. Orders come in and are shipped that same day, plus, the customer service is impeccable.
At the Cherokee headquarters they are constantly seeking fresh ways to incorporate the latest nurse-friendly apparel technology into their high style pieces. Stretch technology? Check. Moisture wicking fabrics? You bet! Softness and durability? Obviously. With their many brand collections you are sure to find a uniform to fit your scrub fabric needs. For those of you who love an athletic, yet soft nursing uniform, you just need to try out the wildly popular Cherokee Infinity scrub line which features a fit like none other. Each Infinity medical uniform has Certainty® antimicrobial technology properties which provide protection from unwanted bacteria and minimizes odor, thereby extending the longevity of the uniform; what more can you get!
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With this assessment, Couric joins a long and growing list of white-women-who-don't-get-it, when it comes to racism, such as Geraldine Ferraro. As Adia Harvey wrote here back in March, "Making the case that sexism is worse than racism or even that it is the primary source of women's oppression ignores the experiences of minority and working-class women (who simultaneously contend with racism and capitalist exploitation) and ultimately alienates these women from feminism and feminist causes." Couric, like Ferraro, is no doubt speaking from her own experience in which she certainly encounters sexism but doesn't encounter racism. Why would she? Given her skin-and-class privilege, it's almost certainly the case that the only kind of inequality Couric faces in gender inequality. And, she's right to call it out for what it is. But this doesn't mean that Couric is right about racism, or about sexism's significance relative to racism.
Instead, Couric's comments simply reveal that she's clueless about the pervasiveness of racism in this society because she's never encountered it herself.
She's not alone. Another white woman in the news recently who has revealed her lack of recognition about racism is Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a celebrity co-host on the television show "The View." In an exchange with Whoopi Goldberg last week about the use of the "N-word" and the fact that racism is pervasive in our society, Goldberg asserted that she and Hasselbeck live in "different societies" at which point Hasselbeck broke down in tears. This isn't the first time that Whoopi and Elisabeth have gotten into in about racism on the show. Back in March of this year, when Hasselbeck said she was "offended" by the fact that Barack Obama referred to his grandmother a "typical white woman" who would be fearful if she saw a group of African-Americans on the street. Elisabeth explained that she is a "typical white woman" herself and would never be afraid of a group of black kids on the street. Whoopi, however, didn't buy it, and called her on it. At the end of the exchange, Hasselbeck pleaded with Whoopi for a "rule book on racism," basically admitting that she didn't get racism.
I think it's understandable, really, that the privileged white women like Couric, Ferraro and Hasselbeck don't get racism given how little analysis of it there is in our society.


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Q: FSTAB not loading properly So today I updated my /etc/fstab to mount few NFS shares to my NAS and while I can type in the terminal and successfully mount them, fstab doesn't seem to fully execute after restart.
I am running Mint, but I'm not sure if it matters.
This is my fstab file.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
/dev/mapper/mint--vg-root /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=0fad24fa-b1e5-48aa-b738-a06f214207b9 /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=3715-6F02  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/dev/mapper/mint--vg-swap_1 none            swap    sw              0       0

#3/13/2018 NFS shares to Synology
10.0.0.5:/volume1/homes/alex2wr    /media/alex2wr   nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0
10.0.0.5:/volume1/homes/alex2wr/Downloads    ~/Downloads   nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0
10.0.0.5:/volume1/video    ~/Videos   nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0
10.0.0.5:/volume1/photo    ~/Pictures   nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0

A: I think that the problem is the relative paths used. If you run in console:
mount -t nfs 10.0.0.5:/volume1/video ~/Videos

Works because the ~ refers to the user's home folder. When you restart the system the ~ does not, so you have to write the absolute path, eg:
 10.0.0.5:/volume1/video /home/<username>/Videos

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Virginia A. Hammond, 72, 111 N. Lincoln St., Marion, was backing her 2005 Ford passenger car at 2:15 p.m. March 10 from a drive in the 100 block of North Lincoln St., Marion, when it struck 2003 Chrysler Cruiser owned by Jeanice B. Thomas, 222 N. Cedar St., Marion that was legally parked on the street.
Donald L. Alcorn, 70, 71 Lakeshore Road, Marion, was driving north in a 1994 Ford van on Upland Road at 11:50 a.m. March 28, when he crossed the center line and collided with a 2006 Ford truck driven by Joseph J. Sklenar, 75, 10 Lois Lane, Marion, breaking mirrors on both vehicles.
Walter Kleinsasser, 88, 312 S. Adams St., Hillsboro, was northbound on Main Street near B Street, Hillsboro, in a 1997 Pontiac passenger car at 12:30 p.m. April 1, when his vehicle struck the rear of a parked 1997 Ford pickup, owned by Rodney Wedel, Newton.
A 1997 Pontiac passenger car received scratches and small dents on the passenger side while parked in a parking lot at 701 S. Main St., Hillsboro. The accident was reported April 2 by Megan LeeAnn Pauls, 415 S. Main St., Apt. 7, Hillsboro.
Two people died April 1 in a two-vehicle crash one mile east of Peabody on U.S. 50. Markus L. Ivy, 37, and Sarah M. Esgro, 32, both of Wichita, died at the scene when their westbound 2006 Saturn passenger car crossed the center line, sideswiping a 2005 Freightliner, driven by Michael J. Dorrian, 64, Savage, Minn., at 7:03 p.m. Owen L. Nave, 30, Wichita, was injured and transported by air ambulance to Wesley Medical Center.


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Q: Iterate for loops alpha = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

for a in alpha:
    for b in alpha:
        for c in alpha:
            for d in alpha:
                print str(a) + str(b) + str(c) + str(d)

The code above will generate all numbers between 0000 to 9999. However, I do not like the way the code is structured. Let's say I would want to do this to produce numbers up to a ten digit size; that would require 10 for loops. Is there another way the same result could be achieved, without having to insert countless of for loops?

A: The obvious way:
for i in xrange(10000):        # or range if python 3
    print "{0:04d}".format(i)

You can also specify the with as an argument:
for i in xrange(10000):        # or range if python 3
    print "%0*d"%(4,i)

A: I'm not sure whether you want combinations_with_replacement or product. I think it's the latter, but… try them both with, say, 2 or 3, and see which one is what you're asking for.
for combination in itertools.combinations_with_replacement(alpha, 3):
    print ''.join(map(str, combination))

for element in itertools.product(alpha, repeat=3):
    print ''.join(map(str, element))

Although I'd probably generate the combinations out of strings, instead of generating them out of integers just to convert them to strings:
alpha = '0123456789'
for combination in itertools.combinations_with_replacement(alpha, 4):
    print ''.join(combination)

A: expect_len = 10
max_val = 10**expected_len -1
my_list = ["%0*d"%(expect_len,val) for val in xrange(0,max_val+1)]

I think at least


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PCDU Episode 126: Emirates Wants You!
By Grant (Falcon124), on March 11th, 2016%
They say patience is a virtue and hopefully our audience has plenty of it because it's been a while since our last episode was released. Fortunately we've been able to make some time available to record content, edit it and get this episode into the feed. For this one Steve & Grant are joined by Maikha Ly for interviews with guests on topics including Emirates recruiting, photography at Melbourne Airport, the inaugural Womens' World Hot Air Balloon champion and breaking an ATC simulator (no, really, Maikha somehow managed to do it!).
Want to fly for Emirates?
(Image courtesy of Victor Pody – www.victorpodyphotography.com)
This episode unfolds as:
0:09:17 – Emirates are recruiting people from around the world to join their expanding crew ranks, both in the cockpit and the cabin. We speak with Andy Longley, Emirates' Recruitment Manager (Flight Operations) about the airline, their selection criteria & process and career opportunities. With an expanding fleet of aircraft including a healthy collection of Airbus A380s & Boeing 777s, there are plenty of good reasons to consider flying with Emirates. If you're interested in joining them, check out the Emirates Careers page for more information.
0:56:39 – Steve catches up with Anna Gillett from Melbourne Airport to clarify a few issues relating to aircraft spotting & photography options at the airport, especially with the recent introduction of the Terminal 4 car park.
1:06:45 – Back in 2014 Grant caught up with Nicola Scaife who had recently become the inaugural Womens' World Hot Air Balloon Champion. They chat about how she got started in ballooning, her career as a commercial balloon pilot, developing her competition skills, winning the championship and what it's like to compete alongside (and at times against) her husband.
1:42:32 – During the Avalon Airshow in 2015, Maikha traded his turboprop for the Control Tower as he had a try at Airservices Australia's Air Traffic Control Tower simulator with Peter McMillan.
1:51:49 – Steve, Grant & Maikha wrap up the episode with the news that:
PCDU will be at the Tyabb Air Show in March (we're once again producing the official air show DVD)
We'll also be at Wings Over Illawarra on the 30th of April & 1st of May where, in addition to producing the official air show DVD, Steve & Grant will be joining Peter "Ando" Anderson on the commentary team.
The Kyneton Air Show will be in October and although it's a long way off it's looking very promising.
Photo credit: Cover art image courtesy of Victor Pody
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Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara Quietly Fall for Each Other in First 'Carol' Trailer (Video)
The period drama explores the mutual attraction between two women in the 1950s
Greg Gilman | August 17, 2015 @ 6:50 AM	Last Updated: August 17, 2015 @ 7:05 AM
Subtle sparks fly between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in the first teaser for Todd Haynes' lesbian drama "Carol."
The film, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival where it won two other awards, follows a department store clerk (Mara) falling for an older, married woman (Blanchett).
Kyle Chandler ("Bloodline") co-stars in the 1950s-set drama based on Patricia Highsmith's novel "The Price of Salt." According to TheWrap's Steve Pond, the Weinstein Company's Nov. 20 release is " both an exquisite miniature and a majestic love story."
Also read: Will Smith to Star Alongside Rooney Mara in 'Me and Earl' Director's 'Collateral Beauty'
"Depicting an era in which same-sex relationships were hidden (for an era in which they're headed for a likely Supreme Court endorsement), Haynes keeps things quiet and elegant, but with an edge of tension that runs through the early scenes," Pond wrote in his Cannes review. "Blanchett and Mara engage in what might almost be flirting, if flirtation were even an option in polite society.
Also read: Cannes Film Festival Winners: The Complete List
Watch the international teaser above to see exactly what Pond is talking about.
Gay Hollywood: 41 Out and Proud LGBT Stars (Photos)
Ellen DeGeneres, talk show host, actress and comedian
Jodie Foster, Oscar-winning actress and director
Zachary Quinto, actor and producer ("Star Trek")
Neil Patrick Harris, former "How I Met Your Mother" actor
Robin Roberts, "Good Morning America" anchor
Jane Lynch, former "Glee" actress and "Hollywood Game Night" host
Jim Parsons, Emmy-winning actor in "The Big Bang Theory"
Raven-Symoné, former "That's So Raven" star
Guillermo Diaz, actor ("Scandal")
Maria Bello, "Prisoners" actress
Sarah Paulson, star of "American Horror Story"
Matt Bomer, actor ("White Collar," "American Horror Story")
Cynthia Nixon, former "Sex and the City" actress
Kristen Stewart, actress ("Twilight" series)
Holland Taylor, former "Two and a Half Men" actress
Adam Lambert, singer and "American Idol" alum
Elton John, singer
Sara Gilbert, actress and producer of "The Conners"
Cheyenne Jackson, actor ("30 Rock," "American Horror Story")
Colton Haynes, actor ("Teen Wolf," "Arrow")
Ellen Page, actress ("X-Men," "Juno")
Ben Whishaw, actor ("Spectre")
Wanda Sykes, actress and comedian
Wentworth Miller, "Prison Break" star
Rosie O'Donnell, actress and former talk show host
Portia De Rossi, actress ("Scandal," "Arrested Development")
Ricky Martin, singer
Lily Tomlin, comedian and actress ("Grace & Frankie")
Sam Smith, Oscar-winning singer and songwriter
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "Modern Family" actor
Laverne Cox, "Orange Is the New Black" star
Meredith Baxter, "Family Ties" actress
Barry Manilow, singer
Amandla Stenberg, actress ("Everything Everything")
Darren Young, WWE superstar
Daniela Vega, actress ("A Fantastic Woman")
George Takei, former "Star Trek" actor
Ezra Miller, "Justice League" actor
Jillian Michaels, "The Biggest Loser" coach
Ian McKellen, actor in "The Lord of the Rings" and "X-Men" franchises
Sean Hayes, actor in "Will and Grace"
From actress Jane Lynch to actor Zachary Quinto to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, stars who serve as inspirations for Pride Month
Bradley Cooper Loves Kitchen Violence in First Trailer for Chef Comedy 'Burnt' (Video)
By Joe Otterson | August 13, 2015 @ 7:17 AM
Todd Haynes to Receive Director Tribute at 2015 Gotham Awards
By Steve Pond | August 6, 2015 @ 9:00 AM
Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford's Dan Rather Drama 'Truth' Gets Fall Release
By Matt Donnelly | July 31, 2015 @ 1:47 PM


Why chi-square? Why not a chai latte?
Why questions have got to be the worst. Little ones are such pros at this. And if you have a toddler, you're probably too dang exhausted to play the never ending game of why. Think of all the fun that Aunties and Grandparents get to have with this question.
I'm asking myself "Why?" these days. And it's not productive at all.
Please know that I am not complaining here. I signed up for this. I want my degree, and I am willing to sacrifice some lazy days and Netflix nights to see it through. I love almost all of my classes. Three out of four to be exact. Interesting, useful topics presented by knowledgeable and interesting professors, 75% of the time. Things like the four P's of marketing, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and how others in China greet one another. All great stuff.
Until it comes to the dreaded fourth course. QMB3200. Economic and Business Statistics II. The QMB is literally Quantitative Methods in Business, and if that gives you a headache, same. You can now be in my support group.
The professor is from India, and he is an engineer by trade. He's actually brilliant and tries to bring this not-exciting methodology to a place where we understand what in the *#@! he is actually talking about. But I can't am having a hard time understanding the concepts and an equally hard time listening to him explain it.
Don't get me wrong, I am not lazy or apathetic (okay, a tad bit apathetic). All of this can literally be done in Excel or other programs. By other people who perhaps will work in the office next to me. And they can "crunch the numbers" and yes, I will want to know what they mean. But right now it's kind of like WHY AM I BEING TORTURED THIS WAY?
Remember in grade school when we had to learn long division? And we couldn't use calculators?
Yeah, it's a little bit like that.
Do you know what the entire basis of Statistics even is? It's all about sample data. The reason you spend a bajillion hours calculating sample data and proportions and all that nonsense is because, according to my professor, we can never know the data of the entire population. Hello? Has anyone at the college level heard of Big Data? It's going to replace this entire field and future generations will never have to suffer such a terrible fate.
So why do I have to take this class? It's the same as little kids asking their parents basically any why question. Because they said so, that's why. Guess I'm still a rebel at heart.
At the beginning of the semester, I took this screen shot just for fun. Let's pause and enjoy this moment, shall we? (this is not my current grade at all, btw). This was my grade after basically turning in ONE homework assignment. It wasn't like the answers were correct or anything. It's so much fun to pretend I can freeze this score (insert mad woman maniacal laughter).
For the moment, we need to call down all the powers from above that I miraculously pass this course. Because the exam grades are a whole 'nother story altogether, and I've got one coming up fast. If, oops, I mean, when I pass, I plan to celebrate heavily, with champagne and maybe even fireworks.
I'm not sure what the big takeaway is here. You get to be grateful this is not your life right now? Maybe you've got an encouraging story to share about a class you conquered against all odds? If you can toss up a little prayer that I'll make it through, I'd be so grateful.
There has been plenty of whining about some of the classes I have survived. I'm in the home stretch towards my Associates degree and I found myself two credits short. I thought a painting class would be a fun and easy way to knock those babies out. Read on to see how not-easy this class actually is.


Microsoft BIDS (Business Intelligence Growth Studio) is a superb development environment for SQL Server specialists to create a SQL Server based mostly data warehouse and OLAP cubes. And it was already about assembly business wants through actionable information", in this case deciding the number of truffles and sandwiches to make for the following day, based mostly on the previous demand in J. Lyons Co. tea outlets within the UK. If business is OK to view four hours old data then reporting setting needs to be fast in drilling the summarized information.
Analytics Intelligence transforms the data of the different enterprise areas of the corporate (Advertising and marketing, HR, Finance,..) into strategic data, thus facilitating resolution-making and the definition of business methods. Likewise, as the business environment adjustments, so do the necessities organizations have for their enterprise intelligence applications. In addition, the enterprise also needs to give people the proper training so they can get the most of the instruments which can be chosen. A broad category of pc software options that enables a company or organization to gain insight into its crucial operations by way of reporting functions and analysis instruments. Particularly, a developer makes changes, runs checks, identifies errors or processing enhancements to deal with, and then makes more modifications.
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Discovering Dean Atkinson's now-defunct web site chronicling the homegrown rock bands of Coronado in the 1960s brought back a lot of fading memories that I had better write down before they disappear altogether.
Somewhere in Gr. 8 or 9, maybe, my first group formed—the 'No-Counts.' We took the name from a Kingston Trio lyric ("Some people call me a no-count, others say I'm no good"), suggesting both that we would have liked to be seen as dangerous and scruffy (which we were not) and that we had a modest and ironic sense of our own talents. I didn't own a drum kit, so I had to borrow a snare drum and cymbal from the school bandroom when we played. That's right, no bass drum. No bass guitar, either, just two guitars and part of a drum set—though we did add a sax later on. These were the days of Silvertone guitars and amps from Sears. Jerry Bowen was the leader. Mike Bradshaw played bass lines on his six-string guitar, and later Bob Mauhar joined us on sax.
I bought a cheap Japanese drum set on installment—$10 a month—and slowly my equipment, and everyone else's, got better.
The No-Counts didn't last long. We only played the simplest songs, and mostly instrumentals. We didn't have a bass player or keyboardist, and we didn't have much singing talent. I think Jerry Bowen must have moved. But it was a start.
Around Gr. 9 and 10—1965/66/67—everything evolved to a new level. My second group, the Towne Criers, included two guitars, keyboards, bass, and drums. I think the name came from a Paul Revere and the Raiders song title. 1965 was a huge year: "Satisfaction," "Wooly Bully." We could play anything we heard on the radio. In our heyday we played at least once every weekend, often twice—school dances, the Yacht Club, the city pool, the VFW hall, even the enlisted men's club on North Island (a U.S. Naval Air Station). I remember making $15 for a 3-hour gig and thinking, "I'm getting paid to have fun!" For a long time that $5/hour, tax-free, was the best money I had ever made.
The first songs I played with the No-Counts were Ventures tunes: "Walk Don't Run" and "Pipeline." I realize now I never owned a single Ventures record, but their influence on us was huge. We played "Wipeout," "Apache," "Telstar," "Let's Go," and covered the same songs they covered: "Caravan," "Ghost Riders in the Sky," "Green Onions," "House of the Rising Sun," "Secret Agent Man," "Tequila." Another popular instrumental, by the Marketts, was "Out of Limits." Later, the Towne Criers kept playing these standards and added more. All the groups played "Money" and "Johnny B. Goode," and the surf songs that didn't require too much singing talent: "Surfer Girl" is the one I remember best. When Paul Revere and the Raiders became popular, we covered their songs, and all the songs they covered. The #1 standard, of course, was "Louie Louie." Not too many groups played Beatles' songs—they were difficult—but everyone covered the of Rolling Stones: "Time Is on My Side," "Under My Thumb," "Get Off My Cloud," "Heart of Stone," "It's All Over Now," "Mercy Mercy," "Not Fade Away," "Spider and the Fly," "Stupid Girl."
I didn't sing, but I do have a memory—I'm not sure whether it was with the No-Counts or early on with the Criers—of singing back-up one time on the Paul Revere and the Raiders tune, "Just Like Me." I had a tiny tape-recorder mic taped to a music stand, plugged into god-knows-what. "Aah, ah. Aah, ah. Aah, ah. Aah, ah." We finished the song, the last in the set, and as I was climbing down from the stage a kid came up to me and said, "Wow, man, who was singing the background vocals? It sounded just like the record!" I nearly fell down laughing.
The Criers were a very talented group. Richie Heinz, our bass player, has been playing music around San Diego ever since. Robert Mansueto, rhythm guitar, became a dentist but has remained an amateur musician whose interests moved towards jazz as he grew older. John Chambers was from Chula Vista. As I recall he first came into the Coronado scene with Dugan Richardson. Soon thereafter the Criers got together, and as I understand John has been playing music for many years now as well. John started out playing the accordion but then bought a Farfisa organ, and adding the keyboard really changed what we could do, compared to other bands that only had guitars. By far the greatest talent in the band, however, was Danny Orlino, our Guamanian lead guitarist: a genius, as you will see. All four of them could sing, too.
My mother was very strict, and I needed a car to carry my drums to and from gigs, so early on she would drop me off and then pick me up. Later I would get a drive from somebody who had a car and a license, but I didn't turn 16 until the summer before Gr. 11, and by then my professional career was over, so I was pretty out of it socially. I played the gigs, then I went home.
We got together for mid-week practices to learn new songs. As soon as a new song hit the charts we would learn it and add it to our repertoire. In those days, no one wanted to hear original music: they wanted to hear their favorite songs from the radio, and they wanted them to sound exactly like the radio. That's what we did. I remember that we got along fine except at practices, where there was always some kind of argument that resulted in somebody quitting the band. By the weekend, though, they would have cooled off and we kept playing.
It was with the Towne Criers that I reached my peak as a musician. I remember one night playing a school dance in the high school quad when I was 'in the zone'. I sort of woke up at the end of a complicated fill and thought, "Wow, how did I do that?" Years later I saw the great be-bop vibist Bobby Hutcherson play in a small club in Portland, Oregon. At the end of a long, scorching number that left him gasping for air, somebody called out, "Hey Bobby, what key was that?" "I don't know, man," he said, "I was playin' all of 'em." When the technique disappears and you just play what you feel, that's when it's magic.
By the age of 15 I had seen a lot of drunks and smoke-filled rooms. We played many times at the Enlisted Men's club on North Island, where every sailor in the Navy, it seemed, was from Oklahoma. We played "Wipeout," and for a laugh the rest of the band just left the stage when my solo started, leaving me up there pounding away for what seemed like hours. Afterwards one of the drunken swabbies expressed his overflowing admiration. "You shor' can play the hell outta them drums, kid!" Good times.
I can't remember why we did finally break up, but sometime after that I was riffling through albums in a record shop and found the first Jimi Hendrix release, "Are You Experienced?" I had never heard of these guys but the album cover intrigued me so I bought it. After one listen at home I called Richie Heinz: get over here right now! When he heard it, he said something appreciative like "Holy shit!" and we decided we had to play this music.
Here's where you get a glimpse of Danny Orlino's talent. We got together at school for one practice. Danny had never heard Hendrix before, but within an hour he had figured out "Purple Haze" and we had it down note-for-note. It was awesome! We got permission to perform at lunchtime, and set up against the wall of the auditorium inside the concrete-and-stucco quad. The lunch bell rang, hundreds of students poured out of classrooms, and at full volume we launched into "Purple Haze." The crowd went wild, as they say. We played it four or five times in a row. I never had so much fun in my life. And I never got over how quickly Danny learned to play Hendrix.
The Criers had a coda, however: one last gig, at a cowboy bar in Imperial Beach. Strictly for the money. We entertained ourselves by playing Jimi Hendrix tunes and watching the cowboys' reactions, and then fooled around playing requests like "Lonesome Me" that we had never played before (Neil Young wouldn't produce his brilliant version for a few years yet). Our first break lasted about an hour. All in all it was a somewhat sad and seedy conclusion to what had been a really impressive run.
Jimi Hendrix was one of the great transformers who changed the music forever. By the time he arrived on the scene I was a bit bored with the straight 2-and-4 of most rock songs, so playing like Mitch Mitchell was glorious, almost a non-stop drum solo. Of course, just as Charlie Parker spawned thousands of boring, endless sax solos by untalented imitators, so Hendrix's pyrotechnics led to a whole lot of really bad music. But Hendrix also helped me to recognize that a musical career was not in my future.
One weekend evening I got myself smuggled into the Junior Officers' club on North Island to hear the Centaurs, who were to me legendary superstars. They had a new drummer, Carl Spiron. He was 4-5 years older than I, but he had only been playing for a couple of years, whereas I had started in the school band program when I was eight years old. He had good time, but didn't do much that really impressed me. During one of the breaks we got chatting and I showed him the Mitch Mitchell lick from "Little Miss Lover" that I'd been working on for 2-3 weeks. "Do that again," he said. In less than five minutes Carl had it down pat and could play it faster than I could. I knew I was done. Not too long after that Carl was playing with unbelievable chops in the power trio, Framework.
I believe it was that same night when I heard Drew Gallahar, the Centaurs' bassist, say that Big Brother and the Holding Company played 'trashy' music. The remark (which embarrassed Drew when I shared this memory with him) stuck with me because I had such respect for Drew and the rest of the Centaurs as musicians. They were well-trained, and highly skilled; they read and composed music, and more than one of them played multiple instruments. So Drew's passing remark really made me think about popularity vs. quality, about the importance of musicianship, and about the way a 'trashy' song like "Louie Louie," recorded as a demo in one take by the The Kingsmen, could become a classic and could have an energy that made its obvious shortcomings as a piece of music irrelevant. Meanwhile, really superb musicians might never reach such success. And then, of course, people like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix might combine musical genius with great popularity and musical success.
One more Hendrix-related story: Dave Vaughan was a couple of years older than I, a very talented drummer blessed with good looks and a great drum kit. He could play circles around me. One night there was a gig with lots of musicians jumping in and out, and for some reason both Dave and I played on "Purple Haze," more or less back-to-back. Somebody came up and told me I had played it better than Vaughan, which was flattering in a wishful sort of way, but I knew the truth: I played it exactly like Mitch Mitchell, while David played it his way.
A lot of these talented musicians got their start in the school band program. When I was in Gr. 4 Mr. Granzer, the junior high band teacher, visited our class with a bunch of instruments and gave us the pitch. I took the form home and showed it to my mother, who figured that whatever I chose, it would last no more than two weeks, so better to choose the cheapest option, which turned out to be drums: a pair of sticks and a practice pad. Five years later the poor woman was living with a rock 'n roll drummer.
After that I had regular lessons with Mr. Granzer until Gr. 7, when I joined the junior high band. The man who inspired us all, however, was Lauren Sanders, the high school band teacher, who created a jazz band in addition to the regular school band. His senior groups amazed the whole community in their concerts, won competitions all over Southern California, and even recorded albums. Many, many people benefited enormously from his work. In band class, we rushed to arrive early so that we could 'rock out' playing Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme before Mr. Sanders called us to order. The drummers in the back were always raising havoc, practicing twirls and bouncing sticks off the floor while waiting for the woodwinds to get their act together. We had weekly challenges in which the younger players got to challenge for the 'first chairs'; it was very hierarchical, and we loved it.
I 'retired' sometime late in 1967 when I was in Gr. 11. I had realized the limits of my musical gifts, and at the same time the music changed. Hendrix changed it one way, and the Beatles changed it in another with "Sgt. Pepper," which was so complex that even they couldn't perform most of the songs live. The Doors changed it, too, injecting a European expressionist sensibility with themes of murder, incest, and despair. The common denominator for all these shifts? LSD, of course. The early acid fantasies of the Summer of Love and Peter Max and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" quickly turned into the mayhem of Altamont, the Manson murders, and Kent State. Jimi asked us, "Are You Experienced?" and the answer was no, we were pretty innocent, actually, and in retrospect we were a lot better off that way. The acid trip was a bummer.
The musicians' attitudes about playing music changed, too, around the same time. Before, we were just out to have fun. Now everyone wanted to find an agent and sign a contract and hit it big—which I thought extremely unlikely.
I got a taste of this in the one gig I played with the West Coast Iron Works. They were looking for a new drummer, and I was interested enough to give it a try. The gig was a San Diego State frat party in a private home up in the hills somewhere. These guys were giants—swimmers and football players—and were consuming oceans of beer along with a toxic mix of "192" and grapefruit juice. I spent the night literally pouring out the booze that was pooling inside my drum rims and fighting off drunken Cyclopses who wanted to play my drums "just for a minute." I had to think fast. "Hey, man," I would say, "I'd love to let you play, but my insurance policy strictly forbids anyone but me playing on this equipment. I'm really sorry." When we finally finished I couldn't believe I'd made it through the evening in one piece. I started carrying my drums out to the truck and found utter chaos: scores of cars sliding down slopes in various directions. Gridlock + total inebriation + total darkness + steep inclines. Yikes!
Somehow we got out onto the freeway and I thought my troubles were over, but then we blew a tire. It was a long, long night. Gary Carter wanted me to join the group and contribute all my earnings to the band's purchase of a new sound system. They were looking for an agent, or had one, and had big plans. I, however, had no interest in owning one-seventh of a P.A. system. Finally he gave me my cut, and that was the last time I played music for money. Sometime after that they recruited David Vaughan to play drums for them.
At least, that's how I remember it. I'd be happy to be corrected.


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Roger Federer eases into quarterfinals with sweep of Steve Johnson
Looking in fine form after two days of rest, Roger Federer equaled Jimmy Connors' Open-era record by reaching his 14th Wimbledon quarterfinal.
Federer, a seven-time champion at the All England Club, has not dropped a set in the tournament through four matches after beating unseeded American Steve Johnson 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 at Centre Court on Monday.
"I would have never thought that I was going to win the first four matches in straight sets, so I'm extremely pleased," Federer said. "The matches might be tough, but then the rest in between [is] great."
The victory gave Federer his 306th match win in a Grand Slam and put him into his 48th quarterfinal at a major, three wins away from becoming the first man to win eight Wimbledon titles. He is tied with Pete Sampras and William Renshaw with seven.
"You can always, always lose the tournament in the first week, but never win it," Federer said. "So I did a lot of things right the first week and from now, you really want to -- or you have to -- start playing your best tennis."
Looking fresh and sharp after two days off, Federer broke Johnson five times and was in control throughout a match that lasted just over 90 minutes -- one of 16 men's and women's fourth-round matches on the schedule.
"I didn't think it was as easy as it maybe looked," the third-seeded Federer said.
Federer hadn't played since Friday, when he was the only man to finish a third-round match, and he was able to rest over the weekend while the tournament cleared up a backlog of matches caused by a rainy first week.
He next faces No. 9 Marin Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, who advanced when Kei Nishikori retired from their fourth-round match.
The fifth-seeded Japanese player was trailing 6-1, 5-1 when he decided to stop the match, giving Cilic a spot in the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
Nishikori warmed up for Wimbledon by playing on grass in Halle, Germany, but he pulled out before his second match because of a rib injury.
Sam Querrey suffered no hangover from his win over No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic as he beat Nicolas Mahut of France 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Court 18.
Querrey is the first American man to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals since Mardy Fish in 2011 and the first to make it that far at any Grand Slam sinceJohn Isner and Andy Roddickat the 2011 US Open. The No. 28 seed will next face either sixth-seededMilos Raonic or 11th-seeded David Goffin.
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Roger Federer beats Steve Johnson in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
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Roger Federer talks about his fourth-round win over Steve Johnson at Wimbledon.
Fed applauds Johnson's fiery forehand down the line
Steve Johnson blasts a huge forehand shot from way beyond the baseline that eludes Roger Federer, who applauds Johnson's effort during their fourth-round match at Wimbledon.
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Doctors Recognizing Increased Diseases from Air Pollution by Chemicals Sprayed into Our Atmosphere
June 2, 2018 by Edward Morgan
Since 1990, Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases have been rising rapidly all over the world, as has environmental pollution. The same holds true for respiratory diseases, according to the WHO (World Health Organization).
Fracking, vehicular emissions, coal-fueled electric energy plants, and others are all contributors to environmental pollution.
However, there's one air polluter that's more ubiquitous than all the above put together. It appears high above our atmosphere in the stratosphere. It's very noticeable to the naked eye from the ground but hardly recognized for what it is by most and denied as anything unusual by most government sources.
It's the deliberate spraying of chemicals into our atmosphere by aircraft to create artificial clouds designed by scientists in the field of geoengineering. The creation of these artificial clouds are known by several terms: aerial spraying, aerosol spraying, solar radiation management, or stratospheric aerosol injection. The actual clouds that appear in the sky are called chemtrails or persistent contrails.
Denied as a "conspiracy theory" by most in the corporate-sponsored "mainstream" media, the fact that chemicals are being sprayed into our atmosphere as part of the science of "geoengineering" is a fact that is well documented.
For our previous articles on this topic, please see:
Artificial Clouds and Geoengineering: Public Exposed to Toxic Chemicals
Controlling Weather for Profit: Geoengineering and World Dominance
Today, some holistic physicians who truly study health beyond what they are taught in medical school, are recognizing the severe health implications of this aerial spraying as they link chemicals in our atmosphere to neurological diseases, respiratory illnesses, and other auto-immune diseases.
Our Sky is Becoming a Disease-Inducing Pollutant
Gradually, more health and science experts are recognizing that these trails from high-flying aircraft are not simply harmless contrails, engine exhaust vapors that condense in colder air and dissipate rapidly. They are recognizing that these persistent trails are not incidental to aircraft engine exhaust. They are seeing them as chemicals being deliberately sprayed throughout most of the world.
These trails, observed, photographed, and video-taped by curious sky watchers all over the world since circa 1990, do not dissipate. Often appearing in crisscrossing groups, they linger for hours and stretch from one horizon to the other, widening to form a hazy cloud cover containing nanoparticles of heavy metals, mostly aluminum, barium, and strontium, as well as other toxic particulates.
Those who are aware of these patterns and question them are mostly ridiculed. A few observers are given explanations from lower level officials claiming that what they're seeing is either a military radar-blocking chaff screenexercise or weather modification spraying harmless metal particulates to reflect away sunlight and curb global warming.
Whatever the actual purpose, the spraying is mostly a program that geoengineering scientists talk about implementing while denying they already fully exist, or to what extent they exist.
They do exist, however, and independent scientists and medical experts are very concerned.
The following short video by Kimberly Carter Gamble has a few clips of geoengineering aerial spraying interspersed with an excellent commentary regarding these dangerous chemicals being sprayed into our atmosphere.
In addition to blocking life-supporting sunlight, as artificial clouds form, the particulates don't stay in the stratosphere at around 35 to 40 thousand feet where the geoengineering planes are flying. They drift down to earth level atmospheres and contaminate vegetation, crops, and animal and human lungs.
The high altitude sprayed aerosol toxic metals, mostly aluminum, barium, and strontium, have been discovered in air and water traps all over the world after periods of intense spraying from more than one high-flying aircraft.
A group studying geoenginnering near northern California's Mt. Shasta has observed rising amounts of aluminum, barium, and strontium in the mountain's snow covers.
The whole county of Shasta is heavily wooded and mountainous and lightly populated. It has no heavy industry that would spew these toxic metals onto the top of one of California's highest mountain. These metals are all highly toxic metals for animal and plant life.
Some argue that aluminum is already in the ground, and it is the most prevalent metal and third most prevalent element in the earth's crust. Yet, they fail to mention that aluminum is bound with other elements. The aluminum used for manufacturing or vaccines is not bound. In this form it's toxic.
To get to that form, large bauxite ore deposits are located and mined, then the ore is processed to produce unbound aluminum which is used for lightweight items of all sorts, including aircraft and land and sea vehicles as well as vaccines. (Source)
Learn more about aluminum's toxicity.
The following video is an edited montage of some of the testimonies on aircraft aerosol geoengineering given by experienced health practitioners, scientists, and a lawyer, who share what they know at a late 2014 Shasta County (California) council hearing that ran close to three hours.
The upraised arms waiving hands or fingers was intended to replace cheering and clapping on points agreed on by audience members to save time and move on with the meeting, which still took almost three hours to finish.
For more on sky-borne nano-aluminum particulates, scroll down to this earlier Health Impact News article to the section titled "Nano-Aluminum: The Biggest Nano-Technology Problem." It's just under a photo of five aircraft with large plumes trailing, read on from there. You can access it here.
The GeoEngineering Watch website also has much information, especially for those just learning about this topic. Find them here.
Some Adverse Effects on Respiratory and Neurological Health
Dr. Russell Blaylock is a retired neurosurgeon and professor of medicine who also served as an editor with the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons and the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association.
He is also the author of Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, Vaccines and Brain Development and other books as well as a lecturer who appears on several YouTube videos.
Dr. Blaylock writes:
The internet is littered with stories of "chemtrails" and geoengineering to combat "global warming" and until recently I took these stories with a grain of salt. … I rarely saw what they were describing in the skies.
Then, over the past several years, [prior to 2012] I have noticed a great number of these trails. … They are extensive, quite broad, are laid in a definite pattern, and slowly evolve into artificial clouds. … now so many dozens every day are littering the skies.
Of special concern is the effect of these nanoparticles on the brain and spinal cord, since a growing list of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) are all strongly related to exposure to environmental aluminum.
Nanoparticles of aluminum are not only infinitely more inflammatory, they also easily penetrate the brain by a number of routes, including the blood and olfactory nerves [in the nose]. Studies have shown that these particles pass along the olfactory neural tracts, which connect directly to the area of the brain that is not only most affected by Alzheimer's disease, but also the earliest affected in the course of the disease. It also has the highest level of brain aluminum in Alzheimer's cases.
The intranasal route of exposure makes spraying massive amounts of nano-aluminum into the skies especially hazardous, since it will be inhaled by people of all ages, including babies and small children, for many hours. We know that older people have the greatest adverse reaction to this airborne aluminum.
Inhaling this environmentally suspended nano-aluminum will also produce tremendous inflammatory reaction within the lungs, which will pose a significant hazard to children and adults with asthma and pulmonary diseases. (Source)
Dr. Ilya Perlingueri wrote in 2010:
Over the past decade, independent testing of chemtrails around the country has shown a dangerous, extremely poisonous brew that includes: barium, nano aluminum-coated fiberglass [chaff], …
Barium is known to adversely affect the heart. Aluminum has a history of damaging brain function. Independent researchers and labs continue to show off-the-scale levels of these poisons. (Source)
There is a recent YouTube video of an unnamed physician in California stating that there is now a recognizable medical diagnosis called "chemtrail lung."
It's unlikely that aerosol geoengineering is going to be pushed back soon. That Shasta County council meeting was late 2014. If the tape of that meeting had been sent as promised, one would think there would be some sort of repercussion or leak into mainstream media. Yet, here we are in 2018… what has changed?
As we reported back in 2015, global climate change is seen as a huge opportunity to make money through geoengineering, and world governments are rushing forward to capitalize.
Ways to Protect and Detox from Chemtrail Toxins
So, what is one to do with this doomsday scenario?
Bolster your immune system by avoiding processed foods and sugar.
Drink only purified water, and stay away from pharmaceuticals containing fluoride, which combines with aluminum to make it more toxic.
Also, avoid painkillers and "fever reducers" containing acetaminophen.
When you go outdoors, you can protect yourself with scarves and mufflers that contain activated charcoal filters, such as those available here. Drive with everything closed and recycle the vehicle's interior air to avoid taking in particulates after heavy spraying.
Bolster your immune system with supplements, especially vitamin D3 cholecalciferol from sheep lanolin or fish oils. Avoid fluoride in drinking water and avoid pharmaceutical drugs.
Unusual muscle weakness with heart palpitations after heavy spraying could indicate barium toxicity, which diminishes your potassium levels. Increase your potassium level by supplementing it.
When aluminum ions and magnesium ions combine, they clot the blood. A good blood thinner is ginger root – taken as a tea or as capsules – and also ginkgo biloba. However, those shouldn't be used if you're already taking a blood thinning medication/pharmaceutical, to avoid bleeding internally or profusely from cuts.
Essential fatty acids help push aluminum out through your hair. Healthy fatty acid sources include flax seed oil, evening primrose oil, krill oil, organic butter, hemp seeds or oil, and virgin coconut oil. Caprylic acid found in coconut oil helps eliminate aluminum from the body. (Source)
Silica combines with aluminum making it bound again and easy to eliminate. Ionized silica in high silica content real mineral waters is the only studied agent that penetrates the blood-brain barrier to neutralize aluminum for elimination. Compare silica contents on actual mineral water bottle labels to get the best one available. (Source)
Chlorella is actually a single-celled food that can be used on a daily basis to help detox toxic metals constantly. Other food sources of aluminum binding silica, which may not penetrate the blood-brain barrier, are tinctures of the horsetail herb and cucumbers (organic).
Food grade diatomaceous earth is also high in silica and can be used internally for intense heavy metal detoxing as needed. Food grade activated charcoal can also be used.
Usually, a two week period of consuming them twice daily will help considerably. Some prefer to use food grade bentonite clay. Bentonite clay can be consumed when mixed with pure water or used for a bath to soak the body completely.
The following video presents some natural first aid and purification solutions:
This video provides coverage of aerosol spraying weather modification:
Sources for more information:
https://carnicominstitute.org/wp/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
Source: http://healthimpactnews.com/2018/doctors-recognizing-increased-diseases-from-air-pollution-
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It as been my experience ( because I DO bring this up to total strangers) that most people do not understand that w are being sprayed like bugs and so they don't care.


The Savin 8016 is a multifunction printer that has integrated scanning, copying and faxing functions, which are designed to provide the core of an office's digital communication and document processing system. This unit is designed to be efficient and reliable under heavy office workloads without compromising quality or consistency. Documents can be produced in hard copy form or sent digitally through an office network. An easy to use control panel makes operation convenient and fast, reducing wait times for offices that need to process documents on the fly or complete high volume jobs.
The core engine of the Savin 8016 comes with a solid state scanning element with dry process, dual component image processing produces prints with a resolution up to 600 x 600 dots per inch with 256 levels of grayscale.
Standard paper input capacity is 350 sheets, divided between a 250 sheet paper tray and a 100 sheet multipurpose tray. Model upgrades provide an optional increase of input capacity through an additional set of input trays, providing a maximum possible input capacity of 1850 sheets.
Copier warm-up time is less than 15 seconds, with a first copy speed of 6.5 seconds.
There are plenty of connection interfaces available for this model, which provide compatibility with any type of network and any type of computer or device, new or old.. Ethernet 10/100Base-T and USB 2.0 are standard. Optional interfaces include Firewire, 802.11 Wireless LAN, Bluetooth and Parallel.
A wide range of computer operating systems are supported, including Windows XP, Mac OS X and Unix.
The optional scanner module can scan documents at speeds up to 43 items per minute with an optical resolution of 600 dots per inch, and digital output can be saved and stored in TIFF and PDF formats.
The Savin 8016 also has an optional fax module with a 33.6 Kbps business class modem that can transmit letter size documents at a rate of less than three seconds per page and can scan each page in less than one second. 3 MB of page memory can hold 240 sheets of digital fax document data. A built-in memory backup can store both incoming and outgoing faxes for one hour in the event of an emergency or power outage. Documents can also be faxed through a LAN network or sent to email.
Two optional document feeders are available, making it possible to automatically load and scan both single-sided and double-sided documents.
The Savin 8016 has a maximum print speed of only 16 pages per minute for the base model and up to 21 pages per minute with model upgrades, which is on the slow end for laser printers in this class, since the design is meant to provide reliability and consistency rather than speed.
The standard output capacity of 250 sheets of plain paper is not upgradeable, requiring constant attendance on high volume jobs with thousands of printed pages.
A two-digit quantity indicator only allows for a maximum of 99 copies, which requires constant reprogramming for high volume print jobs with one or two page documents.
A maximum print resolution of 600 x 600 dots per inch is average for printers in this class, providing merely acceptable results when printing business documents such as memos, letters, invoices and reports. Graphic reproduction can look grainy and pixelated with the limited resolution and only 256 levels of grayscale.
The NetBEUI protocol is provided for connection to certain networks, but an additional Smart Device Monitor needs to be installed on each client, making configuration slightly more difficult.
The 192 MB of printer RAM that is installed needs to be shared with the copier, scanner and fax machines, which may not be enough for printer sharing through a network, and can cause frequent pauses and delays in carrying out jobs.
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Replacement toner can be purchased for this model, in a refill bottle, which can restore a toner cartridge to a full yield capacity of 9,000 sheets. As with other Savin models, the drum is independent of the toner cartridge, allowing for maximum consumable usage and reduced costs. At average toner prices, pages can be printed at a cost of one cent for 5 pages.


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Meet A Gee-Gee
Angelica Blais | Dance
Maclaine Chadwick | Fulcrum Staff
"Meet a Gee-Gee" takes a look at the people under the jerseys. Whether they're varsity athletes or otherwise, we ask the players questions you want answers to. We get the dirt, straight from the horse's mouth.
MEET ANGELICA BLAIS: third-year human kinetics student and avid dancer. Blais took a break from preparing for the dance team's upcoming showcase to chat with the Fulcrum about her own experiences in dance and those of her teammates—who can do way more than the Dougie.
The Fulcrum: How long have you been dancing?
Angelica Blais: Sixteen years. I started with ballet, and I got into tap early on. When I got into competitive dancing was when I was introduced to jazz and lyrical, which are my two main styles. It wasn't until high school that I discovered hip-hop, and that's when I really started to grow as a dancer—when I had all of those different styles. I'm glad I got the basic ballet training, because that has helped me learn everything else.
What do you think is the biggest misconception about dancers?
That it looks easier than it is. A lot of people don't understand the hard work we do and how difficult it is to get to the level we are at. A lot of us have been dancing for ten or more years, and it takes a lot of hard training to get to that point.
If you could be on any other team here at the U of O, what would it be?
Probably volleyball—I'm not very good at it, but I like it.
What is your fondest memory of being on the team?
Last year we did the NHL All-Star game and got to perform for the fans there. That was the coolest thing ever; I felt like I could do that for the rest of my life. We got to entertain the crowd and go up to kids and dance with them. It was such a great way to bring what we do to the community. That was the coolest thing I got to do with the team, but overall the best experiences I've had have been at competitions.
What is the biggest challenge that you face regularly as a dancer?
A big challenge for me was accepting myself as a dancer in my own body …. [Healthy] body image and self-esteem is a really big challenge in dance, especially when you are being critiqued and judged on the way your body moves.
If you could give any advice to a first-year student who wanted to try out for the team, what would it be?
Get involved in as many ways as you can with the dance community in Ottawa. There are classes that the university offers, and we have our own open classes every Friday. That's how we get to know people in the community that aren't on the team. We host non-competitive classes where people come and a member of the team teaches a combination or a class, and it's a different style every week. It's how we get to know you—I've gotten to know a lot of people who have auditioned for the team through those classes.
My teammates would vote me most likely to ________.
Fall. Or smile. We have this one choreographed dance move in one of our numbers where we jump and fall on our knees—I'm the only one that will ever do it, and I fly when I do it. I just fall to the ground.
What's the best part of being a Gee-Gee?
The community, and just being able to say that I'm a Gee-Gee. It's a community feeling—I have my Gee-Gees girls, and it's almost like a second family.
The dance team is currently preparing for their annual fundraising showcase on March 3 at the Ottawa Little Theatre. Tickets are $10 for students and showtimes are 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
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CIS Top 10 rankings raise questions
Dylan Yegendorf
Without the use of conventional win-loss, head-to-head, and strength of schedule statistics, the rankings are compiled in a totally subjective manner—at the coaches' discretion.
Preview: The final eight in CIS basketball
The Fulcrum breaks down the top eights team that will compete in some thrilling and surely unforgettable hoops action at the CIS national championship.
Gee-Gees beat Ridgebacks in Game 3, head to second round of playoffs
Charley Dutil
The Gee-Gees men's hockey team was back on the ice Sunday for their decisive matchup against the Ontario Tech Ridgebacks. Wearing their garnets, the Gees looked to punch their ticket to the OUA East semifinals to take on the Trois-Rivieres Patriotes later this week.
An exploration of Sportation


What are the odds of raising two children who grow up to become number one NFL draft picks, as well as Super Bowl Champions and MVPs in back-to-back seasons?
Well, my research did not uncover this statistic, but according to the NFL Players Association, "of the 100,000 high school seniors who play football every year, only 215 will make an NFL roster. That is 0.2%!" And of the 9,000 players who compete on the collegiate level each year, only 3.5% of those players receive an invitation to the NFL scouting combine.
Indeed, the odds of playing professional football on Sunday are tough, and competing against your sibling at the same time – that is even tougher.
You would think that there's a secret to raising professional athletes. But if you ask Archie Manning, also known as the father of Peyton and Eli Manning, two of the most recognizable faces in the NFL, he will tell you that a how to guide does not exist. In fact, he shrugs off talk that suggests he planned, from day one, to raise NFL athletes.
Peyton and Eli both play the quarterback position, and have led their respective teams to the Super Bowl. In 11 playoff appearances with his former team, Indianapolis Colts, Peyton made it to the Super Bowl twice (a Super Bowl XLI win over Chicago and a Super Bowl XLIV loss to New Orleans). While younger brother, Eli, on the other hand, is hungry for a third Super Bowl ring (he has two wins over New England – Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLVI). However, when it comes to sibling rivalry, Peyton leads the "Manning Bowl" series, going a perfect 3-0.
So, what was it like growing up Manning?
In the third season of ESPN Films' SEC Storied documentary series, which kicks off tonight with The Book of Manning (Tuesday, September 24, at 8:00 p.m. ET on ESPN), that question is explored and answered.
Archie: I don't know if we ever talked about it. It just evolved. People will tell you, I was always very reluctant, very slow to talk about their future.
Maybe the first Manning Bowl in '06, I remember us sitting down and looking at each other and just saying, "What in the world is going on here?" When Peyton won his Super Bowl MVP and the next year the Giants and Eli won one. That's when it hit us, this wasn't a plan.
Archie: I think the first thing that my sons will tell you, that I never tried to be their coach. I didn't give them as much advice as some people might think, being a former player myself and a former quarterback. If they asked, I gave them my opinion.
But I think that they would tell you this, too. I tell the same thing to young quarterbacks. The best advice I try to give a young quarterback is, you need to know what you're doing. You need to know what you're doing, because if you know where to go with the football, you can get rid of it and throw it and you won't get hit. And that's advice a quarterback needs to have, especially a passing quarterback or somebody that's going to be in the pocket.
Archie: I don't think that's a goal that parents should have for their children, whatever sport it is, to be a professional [athlete]. As parents, we don't need to be the ones that push that. They have to like it and enjoy it and want to do it. And parents, we are just there to support [them]. It never was a goal to get Peyton to the NFL, and so even though he got there, it wasn't our goal to push Eli along to get to the NFL. They were motivated to play and get better, and they had a great work ethic. That's why they got there.
My advice for parents is to support your children, make sure they are having fun. Support them and be there for them. Give them encouragement and make it a life lesson that along the way they are learning to make good decisions and do the right thing.
Archie: It's been a real blessing and maybe somewhat of a miracle what Cooper went through. Immediately, of course, we wanted to check on Peyton and Eli and have them checked to make sure they didn't have that same stenosis, which they didn't.
And then, knock‑on‑wood here, they both have been so fortunate in regard to injuries in their career. So when Peyton had his first neck surgery and the second and the third and the fourth, obviously we were concerned. Football wasn't primary on our mind, it was ‑‑ let's try to get Peyton healthy.
The fact that all the doctors cleared him to play again, there's no guarantee you'll get to come back and play. A lot of people didn't think he would. We just didn't know. He never took football for granted because of what happened to Cooper. But I think he always knew he was fortunate in regard to health. But he wasn't ready for his career to be over, not like that. Not [after] four surgeries and having to leave the place where he had been so long. He just didn't want it to end right there.
On Peyton and Eli's NFL endorsements.
Archie: If you look at their history, the associations they have and the corporate partners they have, it's quality. I've always thought if you're going to have a relationship like that, you hope it's not just a quick one; that it's something meaningful, and you're part of something within the company. The DIRECTV [Football on Your Phone] the rap video was certainly odd to me, I had a very small part. This is a 15‑year relationship our family has had with DIRECTTV. They are a wonderful company and they have great people. They are a big part of the NFL, so it's a good tie‑in.


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Q: c# Получение строки Ошибки try
{
.........
......Код
.........
}
catch
{
    Как получить номер строки кода, на которой произошла ошибка?
}

A: В .NET есть класс StackTrace, который позволяет "выдрать" из ошибки все необходимое.
Делается это примерно так:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    try
    {
        throw new Exception("Некая ошибка");
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"StackTrace: {e.StackTrace}\n\n");

        var trace = new StackTrace(e, true);

        foreach (var frame in trace.GetFrames())
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();

            sb.AppendLine($"Файл: {frame.GetFileName()}");
            sb.AppendLine($"Строка: {frame.GetFileLineNumber()}");
            sb.AppendLine($"Столбец: {frame.GetFileColumnNumber()}");
            sb.AppendLine($"Метод: {frame.GetMethod()}");

            Console.WriteLine(sb);
        }
    }

    Console.ReadKey();
}

Пояснения:

*

*throw new Exception("Некая ошибка"); - Тестовая ошибка.

*catch (Exception e) - Получаем информацию об ошибке.

*Console.WriteLine($"StackTrace: {e.StackTrace}\n\n"); - выводим StackTrace в виде строки (такой нам генерирует Exeption).

*var sb = new StringBuilder(); - Собираем необходимые данные в билдер.

*Console.WriteLine(sb); - Выводим.

Вывод:
StackTrace:    в VFS.Program.Main(String[] args) в D:\Projects\Other\TestedApps\VFS\Program.cs:строка 100

Файл: D:\Projects\Other\TestedApps\VFS\Program.cs
Строка: 100
Столбец: 13
Метод: Void Main(System.String[])

Если вы хотите получать такие данные без студии, то не забудьте о наличие .pdb файла!

A:     static void Main()
    {
        try
        {
            int i = 3;
            while (true)
                Console.WriteLine(i / --i); // тут будет деление на 0
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(e.StackTrace);
        }
    }

В .NET Core мне выводит, что ошибка на 13 строке, там находится Console.WriteLine()
at ConsoleApp1.Program.Main() in D:\Projects\C#\ConsoleApp1\Program.cs:line 13


We write because we must; it's what we writers do. It's a calling. What we write about is sometimes humorous, light, and uplifting, or sometimes serious and fraught with meaning, or some of both. We can only write from who we are– even in fiction, because that's what we've been given, and so that's what we have to give. It might not be everybody's cup of tea.
Reading a book is a journey we take in consciousness. There have been a few books I've started to read and then stopped, because I realized I didn't want to take that particular journey. Intuition, that little voice from the inside, told me there might be glimpses of truth I wasn't ready for yet, or things that would hurt me or reopen old wounds, and so I chose not to go there. The little voice inside is always my best guide. Sometimes it says No, not now" and later it may say yes, or it may not. Everybody has that little voice. The book I'm writing now, a memoir, has some dark passages. A few old friends who started to read it, stopped when they got to the hard parts.
Of course I want everybody to love my book, but I know that not everybody will. Books that tell the truth will always be uncomfortable in places. Like life, books take some commitment, courage, and pushing on through.
This book has claimed me, it is my calling. I can see clearly now, that all the events of my life, even the worst of them, have had a purpose, and what I've learned from them, I have a duty to share. The time has come to do the work, and I have said yes to the calling.


If last year's 'Influence' EP is anything to go by, we're going to see a lot more of Crookes, at least. Every track, not just the incendiary 'Power', sounds like it's ready to be heard by more people - and if the 1.3 million views of her 'Mother May I Sleep With Danger?' performance for COLORS Berlin are anything to go by, she's not that far off.
Not that she's too concerned with numbers as any arbiter of success. "I don't feel anywhere near the level of 'damn, I made it'. But my grandma's face at my headline show, and seeing my mum and dad in the crowd, is a huge deal for me. Whenever I catch their eye, it's always half a look of disbelief, and then just a massive wad of support." With more live shows beckoning this summer, including The Great Escape, and a debut album pegged for 2019, there's going to be a lot more where that came from.


Car racing games are close to the heart of many, with some memories dating back at least a decade. Everyone who is into gaming would have played a car racing game at least once as the pure joy of cursing in iconic locations in super powerful machines is every child's dream.
The past two decades are dotted with specs of brilliance with some truly spectacular car racing games.
Without further ado, let us look closer at the top-10 car racing games of all time.
The first game in the Gran Turismo series is the highest rated racing game on Metacritic. Initially released in 1997 for the PlayStation, the title went on to sell over 10 million copies till 2013, becoming the best-selling PlayStation game of all time.
The game features 140 cars and 11 race tracks and a wide range to competitions, ensuring that it was way ahead of its time during its launch.
The third game in the series – Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec takes the second spot on the list. The game expanded so much on the first two games, with bettered handling and gameplay mechanics for a realistic experience. Featuring 19 race courses, players are treated a whole bunch of competitive modes from short sprints to endurance races, providing great replay value.
The first Gran Turismo game released for the PlayStation 2 cemented itself as one of the greatest racing games of all time.
Burnout 3: Takedown – the game that revolutionised the Burnout franchise includes so many features that one would want in an arcade racer. The game introduced takedowns, which allowed players to take out the competition by ramming them off the road. Along with standard races, Burnout 3: Takedown includs other game modes to keep the players occupied for a long time.
Forza Horizon 4 is the latest game in the Horizon series, which is like no other title. Horizon 4 is an open-world racing game that relies heavily on the online aspect. Up to 72 players can join a single synchronised server and compete against other racers in various events across a fictitious land. Moreover, the game features dynamic weather and changing seasons, ensuring that players are always treated to something new each month.
Developed by Turn 10 Studios, Forza Motorsport 3 is a 2009 racing video game that includes over 400 cars and more than 100 race track configurations. The game brought in a lot from the previous iteration while also introducing new additions to the game along with improved graphics, audio and gameplay mechanics. Furthermore, the customisation options of the game are vastly improved, as well.
EA Sports' F1 Challenge 99-02 is essentially four Formula One games packed into one as it features authentic race cars and tracks from the 99, 00, 01 and 02 seasons. Improved textures, better vehicle dynamics and huge customisation options to tweak the car before the race made F1 challenge 99-02 the best F1 racing game of the past decade.
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 set a benchmark for rally racing right after its launch. Developed by Codemasters, the game features events and a couple of vehicles from the 2000 World Rally Championship. Also, the game improved a lot over the original by introducing new modes, enhancing graphics and gameplay mechanics.
Developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft Studios, Project Gotham Racing 2 is an Xbox exclusive racing game that hit the stores in 2003. The title features a unique progression system and boasts over 100 cars and numerous events, which ensures that there is enough variety for the players.
Project Gotham Racing 2 was praised by all sections of the gaming society.
Burnout Revenge took the previous game in the iteration to a whole new level. Improved graphics, controls, new game modes along with the ability to the keep the players at the edge of their seats would ensure Burnout Revenge stands out as one of the best arcade racing games for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360.
GTR 2 – the game that simulates the GT Championship is a very polished attempt at the genre, which allowed it to cement itself as one of the best GT simulation games. Apart from being a sports car racing simulator, GTR 2 has tonnes of customisation options built-in, giving freedom to the players to build custom cars and race tracks, which ensured that the game built a huge fanbase amongst the racing community.


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Kasavana of Phoenix Tower selected by EY as an Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020 Florida Award Winner
In Daily News Briefs by Wireless Estimator October 13, 2020
Ernst & Young LLP (EY) has announced that Dagan T. Kasavana, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Phoenix Tower International was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2020 Florida Award winner.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards program is one of the preeminent competitive awards for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies. The award recognizes those entrepreneurial leaders who are excelling in overcoming adversity; financial performance; societal impact and commitment to building a values-based company; innovation; and talent management.
Kasavana was selected by an independent judging panel. The award was announced through the program's first-ever virtual awards gala, hosted by Deborah Norville, anchor of Inside Edition, on October 8, 2020.
Founded in 2013, Phoenix Tower International (PTI) is the fastest growing global wireless communications infrastructure provider in the world. PTI owns and operates in excess of 9,000 towers, 986 km of fiber, and over 80,000 other wireless infrastructure and related sites throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.
PTI's investors include funds managed by Blackstone and John Hancock.
PTI's teams in more than 15 countries are devoted to helping their wireless infrastructure partners — customers, sellers, landlords, and communities — achieve their goals. Focused on the principles of unwavering hard work and integrity, team PTI demonstrates this mission every day through the fair and collaborative manner in which they deal with our business partners and the dedicated operation of the wireless infrastructure sites they own and operate.
"I am honored to be recognized by EY with this incredible distinction, which truly belongs to each one of our team members who work tirelessly to drive PTI to new levels of success! Thanks to them, PTI is unstoppable!"
Since 1986, EY US has honored entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, spirit of innovation and tenacity have driven their companies' success, transformed their industries and made a positive impact on their communities.
Kasavana will go on to become a lifetime member of the esteemed multi-industry community of award winners, with exclusive, ongoing access to the experience, insight and wisdom of fellow alumni and other ecosystem members in over 60 countries — all supported by vast EY resources.
As a Florida award winner, Kasavana, is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020 National Awards. Award winners, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced Thursday, November 19.
Tags: Tower Owners, Tower Portfolios


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namespace v8 { namespace internal {

// Arguments provides access to runtime call parameters.
//
// It uses the fact that the instance fields of Arguments
// (length_, arguments_) are "overlayed" with the parameters
// (no. of parameters, and the parameter pointer) passed so
// that inside the C++ function, the parameters passed can
// be accessed conveniently:
//
//   Object* Runtime_function(Arguments args) {
//     ... use args[i] here ...
//   }

class Arguments BASE_EMBEDDED {
 public:
  Object*& operator[] (int index) {
    ASSERT(0 <= index && index < length_);
    return arguments_[-index];
  }

  template <class S> Handle<S> at(int index) {
    Object** value = &((*this)[index]);
    // This cast checks that the object we're accessing does indeed have the
    // expected type.
    S::cast(*value);
    return Handle<S>(reinterpret_cast<S**>(value));
  }

  // Get the total number of arguments including the receiver.
  int length() const { return length_; }

 private:
  int length_;
  Object** arguments_;
};

} }  // namespace v8::internal

#endif  // V8_ARGUMENTS_H_

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