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questionsdid you know there's a forum moderator job posted… Honestly, yes. But I doubt everyone read this. I think the wife would kill me if I left the family behind to work for Woot! "i assume there's open access to a freezer full of whiskey stones." I've been looking nearly a year for that freezer. :( @inkycatz: the whiskey stones exist. The whiskey, not so much. Maybe only the good stuff in jumbowoot's office. Johnnie Walker Blue label is what I'm thinking I still want a deals.woot moderator job so that I may obliterate all duplicates. To me, it sounds like an incredibly tough job. @inkycatz: out of curiousity, has anyone ever brought the item(s) listed in the "Make sure you bring" section? mainly because i'm not sure i could get 7 lbs of Vermont cheddar in time for an interview. One side note if you are sincerely looking at this job or know someone who wants this job, it would be of great advantage for you (or the applicant) to be in/near/moving/wanting to live in Seattle. Just sayin'. @carl669: Honestly, I have no idea. I forget what it was I should have brought (it was a year ago) with the job listing I replied to, but all I did was bring my awesome. Since I guess it was pretty awesome (obviously? YAY STAFF SQUARE), I'm thinking folks might want to up their game. It can't hurt. Besides, we like cheese. I like cheese, anyway. I need more grilled cheese material. FEED THE TEAM. I'd love to come work for Woot! Wonder if they offer relocation assistance, since I'm not in Dallas or Seattle. @giggleloop: I have no idea. I was already living here (Seattle) when I applied. :) (What I'm really saying is if you think you're up for the task, apply, ask, see what happens?) I wouldn't be able to maintain "consistent SEO tagging." I love all the tags. And is THIS a sign of things to come? You know what grinds my gears? When employers post job openings but don't list expected compensation. I know it is unprofessional to ask about compensation right away but I feel like this is an antiquated thought. It would be like an applicant saying "Well I have years of experience in the industry, but I'll be more specific after you decide to hire me." Just my 2 cents/pointless rant/incoherent rambling. I'd move out there. Yayz. Just wish it said how much the wage is. @inkycatz: Out of curiosity, why do you say it would be of benefit to live in Seattle? Unless I'm completely misreading the posting, this seems like a job that would pretty easily fall into the "work from home" category. Is office time a part of the job? @thedogma: I'm typing this reply from my cube in the office, if that's an indication. Office time is very much a part of the job and expected (although often flexible because @gatzby is cool like that). ps. For those thinking of "yeah I'd move to Seattle", be sure of that sort of thing - speaking from personal experience, I moved for a job once before and while I don't regret it because of the job itself, I do know it was to somewhere I wouldn't have moved otherwise and as such, was a lot unhappier than I should have been for a very long time. i'd also suggest you take a long hard look at the weather in seattle before deciding to move. i moved, but lousy weather doesn't bug me that much. Yes I did I check the woot jobs semi regularly. They have some uber high experience requirements for most jobs, though :( Can't say I blame them!) Also, I agree, with @carl669, I moved to Seattle last year for a job and it is fine most of the time, but it does rain here for 10+ days straight sometimes, but to be honest the rain isn't as bad as the clouds. It's almost always cloudy, even on days it doesn't rain at all. Can't wait for summmmmaaaa! On the plus, we got about 3 inches of snow and I got 2 days off from work for it :) Yes. I sent in my resumè a long time ago. Heard nothing. Have sads. @inkycatz: That may explain why I haven't heard anything. I guess they aren't looking for a NYer... Boo. @inkycatz: No whiskey stones, but the beer cooler is in my office... Perks! @josefresno: Oh so that's where it is! (I really need to get out of my cube more.) jumbowoot himself emailed me and told me to not even bother applying. something about pre-disqualification, whatever that means. pffff i wonder how many of the current mods were wooters before joining woot. i'd apply, but what if i got the job and had to create a new username! what would happen to my recently obtained (as in yesterday) black square? I've had a forum moderator job back in my high school days. Didn't get paid because I volunteered for it, and there was like at least 300 active members a day to the thousands registered. It was an online gaming forum so yeah, could imagine all the people now. At first it was like a pretty neat job having "God-like" powers over the internet. But to me, it's a lot of proof reading every new post for anything that violates the rules.. so here I am obsessively reading in my chair until my eyes started burning. With Woot on the other hand, I'm pretty sure most of us are mature enough to not post anything NSFW (best I've seen are pictures of cats).. unless of course they have some kind of bot that filters those well, which I guess my old forum didn't. I wonder if Woot staff gets any incentives for working with Woot though? @carl669: As far as I know, so far all of us. :) (I was barely active in the community, but I liked buying stuff!) Quite certain there's some jiggery that can be performed with that sort of thing, but I've had fun building up my staff account "fresh". Of course for the first few weeks I had everyone telling me to buy something, which ended up being some cheese over at wine.woot... Oh, wow. It really all comes back to cheese, doesn't it. @joshobra: My perk is the cat gets fed, and I get that special peace of mind that comes with having a job. I'm not too complicated, I guess. I was gonna say that if you are looking for the cheese at Woot, you need to be talking to WineDavid. I think, in addition to being Lord And Master of the King's Cellars he is also CheeseMaster. And sometimes (like today) also Chief Confectionary. (mmmmm, toffee!! Too bad I'm still trying to lose the fat from the salted caramel pecan clusters he hooked me up with.) @wilfbrim: Oh, the preview that ToffeeKing gave makes me so hungry whenever I read past it, especially this part: The second is a peanut butter toffee coated popcorn with dark chocolate and a touch of sea salt...amazing stuff. I'm going to have to brave the weather and start hiking again so I can be in shape when this stuff comes around... @inkycatz: Yeah, I remember that cheese. It was awesome. I've seen the posting and keep thinking on and off how fun it would be to work for woot. On the other hand, there are likely to be a ton of things that we just plain ol' never have to see thanks to the mods. @joshobra: Trust me, I may not have been here as long as some people, but things are relatively calm right now compared to how they were just a few years ago. Use to be that you couldn't browse a woot off comment thread without seeing tons of lol cats, goofy and gross gifs, the "skittles girl," and the infamously long long long long long cat. I remember people complaining (bragging?) how they would get probated for posting the long long long long long cat.

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Picture This: 7 Tips for Perfect Pics Whether you're taking pictures for photo Christmas cards or everyday photo cards, we know that you want to make your pictures - the star of your card - look great. Believe it or not, when it comes to photography, knowing some simple tricks will make all the difference. And if you take better pictures, you're going to be happier with your cards! You've already got the tough part down... you have the special people and amazing places whose pictures can make any card perfect. As far as how to take the best photos of them, Cardstore talked to professional photographers and asked for advice - here's what they said. Change your perspective Most "amateur" photographs are taken from the photographer's-eye level, usually standing up. Stand out and shoot like it's your job by exploring alternative camera angles... crouch down, get up above the subject or even lay flat on the ground. Doing something as simple as changing your angle can take an average image and make it dynamic and interesting. If you're taking pictures of kids or pets, for instance, crouch down low and experiment with taking pictures from an eye-to-eye point of view. (For more tips on taking pictures of kids, take a look at this article on our blog.) On the other hand, if you want to be the most popular photographer at the high school reunion just hold your camera about a foot over your head as you snap every picture. The simple trick of having everyone in the photo look upwards a little bit makes the extra years - and the extra chins - magically disappear! When it comes to changing angles, there's no right or wrong. Experiment, have fun, and see what works for you. Go steady Who says pro tips have to be hard? You can instantly improve the quality of your pics by attaching your camera to a tripod. Or, if you don't have a tripod, use your imagination: lean on a tree, rock, table, a building - or even on someone's shoulder. In a pinch, you can pull your elbows tight into your sides to create stability. This is much easier than holding a camera up by your face and trying to hold it steady. Having a steady shot will give you the clearest photos. Get up close & personal When taking portraits, it's important that the people are the focus of the picture. Make sure your subject fills the majority of the frame, and don't feel the need to include their whole body in a shot; a picture from the waist up usually works well. You don't need to center subjects in a picture, either. Get creative by posing your subject off to one side to a get a more styled look. If you're using a camera phone, our best advice is zoom with your feet - in other words, walk closer to your subject rather than use the "digital close up" zooming feature. We all love our camera phones, and you'll be amazed at the difference that one simple trick will make in your photos. To increase the brightness in a room, hold white pieces of poster board around your lamps to "bounce" some light back into the scene. Turn off the flash Take advantage of natural light as much as possible to create more interesting shots, even playing with taking pictures at different times of the day - you'd be surprised by how much more warm and flattering an early morning or evening sun can be compared to the bright shine of midday. Experiment throughout the day to find your own "magic" sunshine level; it tends to be unique for everyone. For outdoor scenes, you can also play around with a technique called "backlighting" by shooting with the sun behind your subject. Backlighting can create a warm halo effect around a person, and sometimes add a soft sun flare. For indoor scenes, you've got plenty of options. To increase the brightness in a room, hold white pieces of poster board around your lamps to "bounce" some light back into the scene. Or to create a softer feel in a shot, take your picture in a room with lots of windows and open your shades up all the way. Then drape a white sheet over them to diffuse the light. This diffused light technique is a great trick if you're taking pictures of a baby - just take the pics next to the window, and drape another white sheet over whatever table or chair the baby is resting on. Come up with a game plan When it comes to photography, a little planning can go a long way. Before you start snapping shots, spend a few minutes considering the background and color story for your photos. A busy background will compete with the person (the star of the show!) you're photographing. Stay away from bold patterns, as well as other visual distractions like light poles, trees, and people passing by in the background. Choose colors that "work" with your composition. You want to create a scene that complements your subject, not clashes with it. This also applies to wardrobe - busy patterns and bright colors distract from people's faces. Instead, have your subject wear muted or basic colors, or subtle patterns. It never hurts to avoid baggy clothing, and aim to wear something that enhances your shape. Try layering techniques, and use jackets and blazers to subdue patterned shirts or dresses. And as long as we're talking about what to wear... if you're posing a group shot, make sure it looks like everyone's heading to the same place! We're not talking about matching t-shirts or cheesy his-'n-her outfits, but having a woman in a cocktail dress standing next to guy in shorts and a polo shirt just doesn't work. Limited depth-of-field can render less important parts of a picture soft and dream-like, while keeping the important parts of the picture – your main subjects – in sharp focus. And, really, we don't mean to sound like your mother - but use that iron! Nothing will make you cringe like seeing wrinkled clothes in your family portrait. Google your camera If you're anything like us, you probably have no idea where your original camera manual is right now. And that's okay, because if you're reading this it means you have the power of the Internet on your side. Go ahead and search your camera model, along with the word "settings" or "icons." That will give you a great overview of what all those weird symbols mean. Want more information on your camera's mysterious icons? Here's a link to a helpful article, which provides a quick overview of the symbols found on most digital cameras. Once you've got the tech basics down, you can begin to play around with some of the advanced settings on your camera, especially in "Manual" mode. For example, you can try a technique called "limited depth-of-field." Limited depth-of-field can render less important parts of a picture soft and dream-like, while keeping the important parts of the picture - your main subjects - in sharp focus. You can do this by opening your f/stop to the largest opening (which is the smallest "f/" number). Most consumer lenses have maximum f openings of f/2.8, but fixed (prime) lenses, such as some 50mm types, will open to f/1.4. Manual mode will also let you adjust things like the shutter speed, which comes in handy if you're taking pictures of pets or other moving objects. Using the fastest shutter speed setting on your camera will help you avoid blurry shots. Shoot, shoot, shoot! Pro tip number seven is actually the easiest and most fun: Take as many pictures as you can! Instead of taking just one or two pictures of the scene you've set up, why not take 30 or 40? This isn't 1995, when you would have had to pay for the development and printing of 40 shots (not to mention film!). The joys of being digital is that the more pictures you take, the better your odds will be of finding that perfect shot in the batch. And taking the perfect picture for your card is what it's all about, right? And there you have it... seven simple tricks from the pros that are guaranteed to improve your photos! And once you're ready to showcase your pics to the world, here are some awesome Cardstore photo cards: Blank Photo Cards Add a photo and personalize your card with an instant memory. Shop blank photo cards > Photo Cards It's not just a card; it's a conversation piece. Make your favorite photo the main attraction. Shop all photo cards > Word Bubble Cards Create your own comic clouds. A personalized funny page for any photo. Shop word bubble cards >

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Greece, Spain, Italy and now US. Is Recession coming? by on August 9th, 2011 Recession is at the foot-steps, and there is no denying that the logic has to come back and win over intentions. There has been talks about a lot of booms and bursts but for last 70 years US had always maintained AAA ratings from the rating agencies. Image Credit: What does this mean? This means the rating agencies were either ignorant or unwilling or afraid to bring any logical analysis reports on US Economy. Standard and Poor has done excellent work by lowering the credit rating, and even though the agency has got serious remarks from several corners. Many folks went ahead and said they wont do any busienss with S&P, and others said the agency has gone crazy. But the reality is different. American Economy is far from being ok. Its not good at all. If you keep 50 Economic Analysts of the World and ask them to rate India, China and US, the most stable and forward looking is clearly India. India has energy, huge youth population and the new breed of entrepreneurs that are aiming to put a mark in the World. For US, its just the opposite. US was once known for its performance and now the same country needs to bail out banks and automobile companies to remain afloat. The country is in direct war with 3 nations — Afganistan, Iraq and Libya, and is in indirect war with many nations. The general people hardly know about whats happening outside and most of the jobs they do are basic jobs that any illiterate can do. Now, if we come to China, it is the nation run with great leadership and vision to rule the World. It was once the factory of the world, and is now slowly becoming the innovation hub. Chinese have their strengths — discipline, hard-work and vision. When this is the structure of societies of these great nations, when we look back at the economic data. American is in red for around a decade; it has fiscal deficit while China and India are building huge reserves. China has more than a Trillion Dollar of American Treasury, while India has more than $300B of Forex Reserves. The US Treasury was last known to have just $73B, which is lesser than Steve Jobs’ Apple’s cash reserve. The situation is actually alarming. We heard Greece entering the area of economic collapse last few months, and the nation is helped by IMF and EU to keep afloat. Italy, Portugal and Spain are fighting hard to keep their economy afloat. Reason — fiscal deficit that has come from uncontrolled spending and irrationality. After knowing all this, when I learnt that India is rated at BBB-, while US is just brought down from AAA to AA+, I can hardly believe the rating agencies. Spain has better rating than India. God bless them whoever makes such ratings and god help more to the folks who actually believe it. The economic crisis or recession of 2011 is happening, and it is happening to make world more rational. The rating agencies have survived the great recessions of 1973, 1995, 2001, and 2008. But if they fail to keep people informed this time too, they should be the ones shut down.

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Iran-Iraq war remains exhumed   |   Feb. 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM BAGHDAD, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- More than 150 bodies of those killed the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s have been exhumed, the Red Cross said. Iraqi and Iranian officials, operating under the auspices of the International Red Cross, exhumed the remains of 178 Iranian and Iraqi soldiers killed during the war in the 1980s. "The representatives of both countries reiterated their commitment to continue the search and to plan more such joint missions in the coming months," added Joana Durao, a representative from the ICRC in Iran. "They also agreed to have the remains of 21 Iranian soldiers repatriated before the end of February." Iran, Iraq and the ICRC set up a process to identify those missing from the war. More than 2,500 missing people have been accounted for and the remains of 407 soldiers repatriated. The latest mission was the second in three months in Iraq. Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980 following Iran's revolution. The war, the longest conventional war in the 20th century, left hundreds of thousands dead on both sides. Since the U.S.-led invasion, Iran and Iraq have moved closer diplomatically. "The Iraqi authorities, including their Ministry of Human Rights, and the Iranian authorities worked together closely to locate and exhume the human remains," Dika Dulic, from the ICRC delegation in Iraq, said in a statement.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Headin' Down South I've found three little bits of copy regarding the larger world and the Nentir Vale's place in it: • "A broad borderland region." • "The Nentir Vale is a northern land..." and • "(Harken Forest) separates the Nentir Vale from the more populous coastal towns of the south." Sticking the Vale up along the northern border of the kingdom takes care of the first two points. Making the rest of this Nerath Empire remnant into a bastardization of southern England satisfies the third point as well a my current preoccupation with Bernard Cornwell's King Arthur books. But please let me know if you've any better published sources for expanding the map, won't you? I'm working entirely from the DMG and H1. Update: Misspelled "capital". D'oh! Latest update: I got to thinking about Colmarr's comment that the Hammerfast trade route needed somewhere to go. It occurred to me if the Vale were on one side of a hellaciously vast mountain range, it would explain why people on the other side would refer to the mountains as something else beside "Dawnforge". Plus, a safe route through such rugged terrain really would be an asset worth guarding with a fortress. Thanks Colmarr! =) Colmarr said... The location of Hammerfast doesn't make much sense to me. IIRC, the dwarven city is on a major trade road, and there is no reason for a major trade road leading into coastal mountains with nothing on the other side. You either need a port to the east of Hammerfast or the Dawnforge mountains aren't coastal. crazyred said... I hear ya Colmarr and I wrestled with that. My thinking, however, was the "major trade route" could, once through the mountain range, could take a sharp left and head up the coast. For some reason it would bug me if the "Dawnforge Mountains" were to the west of residents of the other side. Calling them the "Sunset Mountains" sounds a little too Malibu for my taste. Thanks for dropping by! Dar said... Nice! and Yoink! I really like the little peak of the wider world you give here. Colmarr said... Glad to be of service :) Van der Hoorn said... The "Winter of the Witch" article in Dungeon Magazine 162 also has some info on the Nentir Vale. crazyred said... @Van der Hoorn: not being a subscriber, do you think you could bootleg me a copy? SupSteff said... Dear Doodle, Why you don't integrate the information from the adventure P1 and P3 ; respectively, the therund baronny (and moon stair), the town of Vaester (and gloomdeep). And more importanly, where is the elsir vale. Thank you a lot, for your maps. There are very suggestive and deteilled. Best regard crazyred said... I'd love to Sup! I don't have either P1 or P3 (I only have the DM guide and H1) so I'd need someone to post/email a summary or an excerpt. You, perhaps? Also, what is the Elsir Vale? Thanks for stopping by! Iron said... Great map. But there is a bit of information that you missed. In the last entry for Fallcrest (29. Lower Quays), there is this in the second sentence of the second paragraph. "The Swiftwaters carry cargo all the way down to the Nentir's mouth, hundreds of miles downriver." This makes the the information for the Harken forest a bit odd, since Daggerburg is described as being in the southwest region of the woods and close by the Manor. With the rest of the woods separating the Vale from the coastal cities. Iron said... Here is the URL to the exerts from P1 on Wizard's site. The first two pdf files contain a brief description of its location in relation to Nentir and a map of a the region (respectively). Be aware that the scale of the map in P1 is different from the one used for the Nentir map. Hope that helps. crazyred said... Excellent, excellent, thanks for that catch! So help me with a solution here; the Harken forest should extend... further West? Feel free to send me a drawing if you want. SupSteff said... The Elsir Vale is the location of "the scale of war" Dungeon mag campaign and of an old published 3.5. adventure "Red Hand". And this vale that you can find many maps on the net, is linked by the "king road". And there is an old article on en-world forum with map that show the link beetween the two zones. Have a great day Toldamore said... If MY D&D4e world, Hammerfast leads to the large kingdom of Osden and straight across a vast desert (on the Great Desert Way road no less) is the marvelous Citystate of Brary and the eastern coast. That is what the trade route leads to. Iron said... Not sure that I have a good solution for that one. The best I can come up with is to have the western edge of the forest be only 20-30 miles long but the eastern edge (following the Dawnforge Mts. south-south east) be 2 or 3 times longer (50-100 miles). If I were to draw a rough map I would have a buffer of about 80-100 miles between the forest and the coast. Maybe there are not any major settlements worth mentioning between the coastal cities and the valley. As for the coastal cities, I would not put them on an ocean coast or even a sea, I would make it a large lake, like Lake Superior, whose eastern edge is also the Dawnforge, like the forest. Depending on how meandering you want the river to be, the distances mentioned might about cover the "hundreds of miles downriver."

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Ironically, we had lived in Chicago and played in the same underground music scene, but never met. Even more bizarre: we had both left Chicago to go back to college in Central IL; we met after joining this site. Life, timing, and the undercurrents of the universe are amazing. I do have a few friends that occasionally send messages through this site, so I'm going to keep this profile up and leave the original info in tact below. Maybe I should also add: making new friends here is still fine by me, as long as it's understood I'm NOT INTERESTED in ANYTHING MORE! I've also changed majors (sounds silly at my age) and am now studying digital media/design. I still want achieve my mobile art class dream (see below)--but came to the conclusion that No Child Left Behind is definitely leaving art programs behind...and several other subjects too, really. Caught somewhere between the artistic and the practical, I approach life with a sense of wonder at the simple (the way light plays on a surface of a field or object) and marvel at the mundane (paying bills) trials of everyday existence. I would like to say that I believe in romance supreme, but feel that I'm old enough to know better. At this point I am simply searching for new friends and acquaintances with a minor hope that I may one day meet someone that knows the difference between simple love and a real relationship. Love tends to wax and wane; real relationships require more attention and work- a partnership that faces all of lifes' ups and downs, embraces the static realities of basic survival (need to eat, etc) and the continual unfolding of personalities: an evolutionary process involving two people. Complicated, indeed! I have decided that I would rather not have kids (even though I'd be a great mother) than have them with just anyone, or just for the sake of having them. So there you have it...part cynic, part dreamer. More willing to be alone as age encroaches, but oddly hopeful that it won't always be as such. I often describe myself as emotionally retarded, thanks to some bad experiences, yet I don't feel so screwed up that I am damaged goods. Am I cautious with me heart? Yes. Am I buried treasure waiting to be discovered? Yes, but you'll have to be willing to do some digging if you want to win me over. Wow me with your brain. Make me laugh. Discussion of books is a bonus. Appreciation of the arts preferred. La de da de da...etc, etc, etc. I am artistic, silly, and passionate What I’m doing with my life After a failed marriage to a younger man, I decided to abandon a somewhat successful career in retail sales and management. This means I moved from Chicago to small city USA and returned to college. It's a slow process; I may graduate by the time I'm 40. I want to teach art, ideally to form a non for profit organization that takes classes to school districts that can't afford art programs. I'm not guaranteed to succeed at the latter, but prefer to give it my best, rather than eek out a living doing something less rewarding with my life. I’m really good at drawing, painting, collage, reading, reading in between the lines, conjecture, flirting, singing, doing a little soft-shoe, listening, talking, sniggering, eating popcorn with straws held like chopsticks, understanding opposing viewpoints and still disagreeing, sneezing three times in a row, star gazing, not giving a crap about Hollywood stars, turning off the TV, listening to Blues Before Sunrise and This American Life, tying my shoes, tying your shoes, making chili, understanding similar viewpoints and agreeing, voting, cleaning the bathroom, brushing my teeth, ignoring religious zealots, annoying over-the-top conservatives, being loyal, taking time out for friends, choosing cheap wine, drinking expensive wine, playing Scrabble (travel version=one of the best inventions of the 21st century), pretending to be a dumb blond when it's handy, asking more questions than I should, answering fewer questions than asked, openly bitching about The System and feeling powerless to change it, escapism, choosing fruits and veggies at the supermarket, rolling my tounge, spending time alone, talking to strangers, feeling like a social outcast and not caring if I am, making obscure references to Kids in the Hall skits, sharpening pencils, not being scared of spiders or other bugs, doing my best in spite of it all, shooting rubber bands, stream of consciousness typing, wishing there was a more practical use for Silly String, tangling yo-yo string, playing botchi ball, unraveling the secret desires of the human heart and re-raveling them, eating meat, laughing at the futility of it all, planning my next move, running to my car in a downpour, opening cans, choosing oven mitts that coordinate with kitchens and dining rooms, building my hopes up, thinking geeks are sex-y, telling people when they have food caught in their teeth, wearing my heart on my sleeve, tinkering with reality, having a sometimes flippant attitude about the nature of human existence, reading to much into other peoples comments, flying kites, making up my mind, changing it, putting mascara on other people, making a mess with chalk pastels, filing paperwork when I have to, denying the way that the world is declining, reclining with the declining world, following directions, finding my way across busy streets without getting hit by cabs-buses-inconsiderate drivers, being concerned about the religious "right" imposing their beliefs on people like me, pumping gas, wishing for a better life, making a better life for the future, talking to and snuggling with my pet bird (a quaker parrot), being immersed in city life, sleeping in a sleeping bag-outside on a camping trip, painting my toenails but not my fingernails, tripping over my own feet when I walk, dancing to unusual music, buttering toast in a hurry, naming other peoples babies, spelling poorly, cussing in languages other than English, writing mediocre poetry, sharing, kissing, sleeping to late to be productive in the winter, studying, giving speeches, starting over, opening my mind to new ideas, following through on promises, giving massages, toiling for a job well done, faking foreign accents, surfing the net, providing minor tech support to family, tickling unsuspecting people, openly admitting that I don't know it all, trying to learn more, feeling like a single brush stroke in a overwhelmingly large universe, wondering what will happen next, happening, foiling the plans of evil doers, driving my car, walking on old or overgrown pathways in the woods, washing dogs, making mountains out of molehills, shoveling snow off of sidewalks, planting myself in the middle of a room and people watching, sketching people/places/things from memory, typing more random things than most people will likely have the patience to read, choosing a restaurant that will please more than 2 in a party of 5, throwing golf balls, swearing to never make the same mistakes, making some of the same mistakes anyway, alphabetizing my books by author, arranging my CDs by genre-caring little about the alphabet, wishing I had better technology, praying for warmer weather, waiting out the heatwave, cutting through traffic, merging, pretending to listen in classes that bore me, clipping my nails into the trash can, wiggling my eyebrows, finding parking in Lincoln Park, mourning the masses, admitting when I am wrong, wronging when I am admitted, drinking room temperature water, faking the words to songs I don't know, goofing off online, picking out fine chocolates, purchasing office supplies, telling it like it is, liking it as it could be, being, fighting the urge to scream in public, ya-ya-ing instead of clapping, scrambling eggs, tip-toeing through the house, putting up with bullshit for a paycheck, guessing peoples nationality or heritage, plucking eyebrows, finding large noses sexy, making strangers nervous with a glance, melting peoples' suspicions with a smile, hugging, hiding my hardware store fetish, wondering why we exist, existing in a dream world, throwing caution to the wind, getting winded climbing two flights of stairs, losing at arm wrestling, reading tarot cards, being a skeptic, chewing serveral times before swallowing food, making lunchtime quality at work, spinning the bottle in off-time, wondering why foreigners hate rootbeer, drinking a good Heffeweiss, admiring men who can catch-gut-scale their own fish, baiting the hook and casting a line, making things out of paper mache', using body lotion, winking, wrapping presents, striving to be a better person, being sorry that I am not a bitch, giving advice, loving this godforsaken planet and its inhabitants in spite of itself/ourselves, collecting as little as possible, being sentimental without the help of objects, being objective, making friends in strange surroundings, openly admitting that I am imperfect, making vanilla flavored pancakes, packing boxes, doing laundry, pretending that I am more complicated than I am, surprising people with how complex I really am, crying quietly, laughing uncontrollably, finding other peoples lost objects, writing letters, painting rooms with a faux finish, programming NPR into as many radio presets as possible, accepting that I am Ameri-centric, being sorry that I have traveled less than I'd like to, being glad that I have traveled as much as I have, being spontaneous, sewing when needed, wanting more out of life and tring to get it, offering one of my Altoids, attracting swarthy-looking foriegn men, pretending to know better, doggy-paddling in open water, making it up as I go, going up as I make it, trying to hard, over analyzing, hating Warhhol for being right, loving Picasso for being diverse and not being ashamed that that might sound predictable, giving books away after I have read them, being a voyeur on this website but being to shy to contact most of the people who intrigue me, being frustrated that the interesting men seem to be sooooo far away from my small berg, finding culture in surprising places, eating at mom and pop restaurants, filling in the gaps of my odd life, trying to decide who I will be in 20 years, just being who I am in the meantime, remembering who I was when I was younger, throwing minor hissy fits when life is frustrating, compromising in a relationship, cleaning out my car on a regular basis but not washing it, keeping to many odds and ends in my trunk, carrying a small purse, wearing minimal makeup, being a girly-girl, holding a grudge against the second and third grade teachers that gave me math-phobia, wondering if shallow people are happier than me, considering that a head injury might do me some good if it made me a simpleton, catching the small jokes in the Simpsons, aware of the fact that overly muscular men are a turn-off, never caring if my socks match, walking and running in high heels, refusing to blindly follow fashion, recommending books, waiting for someone to tip me off on a good read, not gambling for money, curious to know if anyone out there will be bored enough to read all of this and realize that I am being totally honest and dead serious, thinking that the glass is neither half full nor half empty-but that the glass just "is" AND the glass just "isn't". The first things people usually notice about me I’m an empty essay… fill me out! I'm creative. I am naturally kind in my approach to the world. I have unusually pale eyes. I think too much for my own good sometimes. I'm an idealist in a typically unjust world. Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food Help your potential matches find common interests. All lists are in random order, what I am up for depends on my mood. If you see something we have in common on these lists and want to suggest something new, message me. If you see something you know nothing about and are curious, message me too-I'm not a snob. a) Fiction of all sorts. I belong to a website called Do I really have to pick some titles? Fine, be that way: Wicked, The Lovely Bones, The Life of Pi, Searching for Hassan, A Confederacy of Dunces, Fahrenheit 451, Slaughterhouse Five, Skinny Legs and All, Still Life with Woodpecker, Dune, Sphere, The Metamorphosis, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Education of Little Tree, Speed of Light, The Handmaid's Tale, The Stranger, The Jungle, The Great Gatsby, etc... b) Young Frankenstien, Harold and Maude, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Blue Velvet, Dead Alive, Walk the Line, The 6th Sense, Delicatessen, Blade Runner (directors cut, no voice overs please!), Johnny Stickino, The Princess Bride, LA Story, Better Off Dead, Frakenhooker,Dead Man, Being John Malcovich, the (real ;p) first three Star Wars, Logan's Run, The Elephant Man (David Lynch version), anything Monty Python, etc. -I like a "good-bad" movie every now and again, as much as like the artsy ones. Subtitles are fine by me. c) Anything that I won't hear on the radio 'til I'm sick of it. I love American roots music (bluegrass, blues, big band, swing, non-sleepy-jazz), classic rock and roll, and world music. I like my country old-timey, I like my blues gritty, my rock and roll guitar heavy, and wolrd music drum-driven. I openly admit to liking polka and lounge. I enjoy a wide range of noisy electronic music. I like punk from the era when it was still under-produced and recorded by musically challenged, angry people. I stopped listening to commercial radio sometime in the early 80's. A rattled off list: Autechre, Aphex Twin, Skinny Puppy, Miles Davis, Jim White, Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, Dean Martin, Buckwheat Zydeco, Souixsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Kodo, Zakir Hussian, The Moog Cookbook, The Six Fat Dutchmen, Hank Williams Sr, Wolfsheim,Coil,Johnny Cash, Peter Murphy, Foetus, 242, Medeski Martin and Wood, Cab Calloway, Plasmatics, Gene Autry, Orbital, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughn, Dead Kennedy's...and many, many more. d) If I cook, it is usually simple and typically Americanized. If I eat out I love adventure: sushi, Indian food, Thai. I love being surprised by flavor and will try most food at least once. I love spicy food-give me a jalapeno to eat and watch me smile and reach for more. Having grown up in the Midwest, I am not a huge fan of seafood. So far as I can tell it has to be cooked just right to appeal to my palate. If I had a last meal to order, it would have to include a banana and popcorn-seriously. The six things I could never do without 1) art supplies 2) road trips (I love roadside attractions! Americana! Hoorah!) 3) coffee 4) books 5) music 6) hope Ok, the last one is contrived...but it's that or list the blatant--water, oxygen, food, sex...blah de blah blah I spend a lot of time thinking about The nature of human existence, the mystery of the universe/God (NOT limited to the Judeo-Christian or Muslim perspective), the why-how-what of anything that catches my interest, that creating (art, literature, music, kids) is just humankind's way of trying to cheat death. When I get to grumpy about living in an imperfect world I like to read books about dystopian societies. A Brave New Wolrd by Aldos Huxley is always a good shot in the arm-it's frighteningly insightful. Thankfully, I still believe that America is teetering in between the Civilized and the Savage. On a typical Friday night I am at home reading...lame but true...I am not a drinker by nature and avoid bars most weekends. I like to go out and socialize but hate being drunk or feeling out of control. If I do go to a bar it is more likely to be divey than fancy; I outgrew big clubs when I was 22. I would rather hang out and have coffee or a flavorful beer and talk without shouting. The most private thing I’m willing to admit I’m an empty essay… fill me out! I'm as riddled with flaws as any human being and don't expect to ever stop growing or learning. I miss the following about Chicago: the food; people think that "eye-talian" and Chinese food are exotic where I live now. Hearing 10 languages in 10 mins of walking. I miss the choices of transportation in Chi...walk, el, bus, car. I miss the easy access to original live music, as well as the variety of theater and art. -I don't miss the high cost of living or the difficult parking. I still don't know if I'll move back when I finish college. If I could wake up with the vast knowledge and skill at one instrument tomorrow, it would be the accordion. Laugh if you will, yet it is one of the most versatile instruments and it never needs tuning, thus making it one of the most popular instruments worldwide. Poor ol' accordion...not appreciated enough, by so many people. You should message me if Offer a few tips to help matches win you over. You're as bored as I am with meeting people in conventional ways (bars, fix-ups) and/or too shy to walk up to people in person at random places. If you aren't offended that I've answered so many of the questions for matches and taken so many of those ridiculous tests; it snowed a lot here recently and I have been rather bored to say the least. I also spent some time reading them off to one of my best friends, while we laughed a good streak about how inane they are. Because I dare you to be so brave! Add a photo to: Stay fresh with Instagram Are you sure you want to delete this album? Where's your photo? Drop it like it’s hot Photos must be at least 400 x 400px Edit thumbnail Add a caption You look fantastic!

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 The baby bird wan't the only pecker in this tale Sometimes you just kinda shake your head in disbelief. I hope there's a judge who will look at this and toss it. Use your damn common-sense people. Woodpecker-saving daughter costs mom $500, possible jail time By Kristin Fisher - WUSA9 "I've just always loved animals," said Skylar Capo. "I couldn't stand to watch it be eaten." Skylar couldn't find the woodpecker's mother, so she brought it to her own mother, Alison Capo, who agreed to take it home. The rest of the story:

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How Can We Help Refugees Break Out Of Poverty? by Chelsea Wagner Chelsea Wagner, DSI Class for 2014, originally wrote this article for It's hard enough to move to a new city. Tougher to move to a new country. But imagine moving to Buffalo, New York, after spending a decade in a refugee camp in Nepal. You don't know anyone. You don't speak the language. You don't even have a winter coat. And you're in Buffalo. There's no one to call to help you unpack your truck, which is okay, because you don't have anything to put in a truck, if you even had a truck. Which you do not. Refugees are different than other immigrants; refugees don't get to plan their trips. By definition, they've fled their old lives. They've left behind homes, communities, and careers—all with the hope that they'll somehow find a safe place to live and begin again. Last year, more than 1,300 international refugees from Burma, Bhutan, and Iraq, moved to Buffalo. The international resettlement agencies place refugees in cities where the cost of living is low—cities like Buffalo, where housing is cheap because residents have left and the market has gone down. The number is not unusual for Buffalo, which over the last 10 years brought in more than 8,000 refugees, but it is a growing number, and those numbers are leading to new communities and new opportunities. Buffalo, like a lot of rust belt cities, needs help, and its newest residents could become a profound resource toward revitalization. One of the harsh realities of the federal resettlement policy is that most refugees are resettled into poverty. Funding for resettlement makes up less than one percent of the overall federal budget, and each family receives a only a modest amount upon arrival to get their lives started in the U.S. Refugee families also receive welfare assistance during their resettlement period, but that can last less than a year, and some argue that the money isn't enough to break a cycle of dependence that begins in refugee camps. It's a bad start for the refugees and for the organizations that are supposed to help transition them into independence. Refugees, like the waves of immigrants before them, often find themselves working unskilled jobs in factories, processing plants, hotels, and restaurants. It's not a sector where the wages are good, and yet refugees are often pushed into these jobs because they don't speak English well, or because the skills they acquired in their home country go unrecognized. It's tough for anyone to make a living on a minimum wage job. And often, even when there's work, refugees have a hard time getting enough hours to support themselves and their families. So despite the tireless efforts of resettlement workers, many refugees remain dependent on the welfare system long after their resettlement period. I spent three years working at a resettlement agency in Buffalo. We were a nonprofit institution, and most of our funding came from the federal government and grants. We worked harder than our pay grade, like most people who work for nonprofits. And we worked to make miracles happen with the scarce resources available. My colleagues and I worked every day—and on our off days—devising ways to squeeze every resource, to find donations for new families, to connect refugees to people who could do what we could not. But no matter how hard we worked, we'd end up with the same clients again and again, helping the same refugee after he was laid off from his temp job for the fourth time in a year.  During the employment program intake interview, you ask a refugee his or her dreams and goals.  Then you tell him or her that job isn’t available. Resettlement workers can't work any harder, so how can we work smarter? How can we innovate to improve the quality of life for refugees, to provide economic independence and alleviate pressure on resettlement agencies? Refugees are people from all walks of life: laborers and masons, artists and craftspeople, journalists, doctors, engineers, teachers, and business owners. It is an educated, skilled population with the motivation to succeed. We need to start understanding that this population is a resource, not a drag on resources. Buffalo's new immigrant populations can contribute to the city's revitalization, and they can do it by starting businesses. This is already happening. Refugee entrepreneurs are already opening restaurants, retail shops, and grocery stores. A favorite example in Buffalo is West Side Value Laundromat, a business started by Zaw Win, a Burmese refugee. In addition to being a laundromat, it is now also community center with a small art studio space in front. For the last four years, organizations like the Westminster Economic Development Initiative(WEDI) and its partners are helping guide refugee entrepreneurs through the process of starting a business in the U.S. WEDI's business incubator marketplace, the West Side Bazaar, boasts a large number of refugee-run businesses. The West Side Bazaar played a big role in attracting attention and increasing foot traffic to Grant Street, one of the main streets on Buffalo's West Side, a neighborhood long plagued by crime. Many refugee and immigrant entrepreneurs who started in the incubator have expanded their businesses and moved to their own storefronts, many of which were previously vacant, in neighborhoods across the city. In the field of social innovation, we look to those who seem to be succeeding where the majority of their peers are not—the social deviants—to show us the key behaviors, resources, and leverage points that make them successful. In the case of economic dependence among refugees in Buffalo, we should be looking at the social deviants as well as at organizations like WEDI in order understand what works best, not in theory but in practice. At SVA's Design for Social Innovation program, I have begun a new project designing a program that can supplement the work of resettlement agencies and organizations like WEDI. There are complex systems at play and, by mapping the relationships within them, leverage points are emerging. By talking to the social deviants in the community, I'm discovering what sets them apart. By engaging the larger refugee communities, I'm finding what they identify as barriers to economic independence. By collaborating with other organizations in Buffalo doing great work, I'm finding ways to overcome those barriers. We can develop a new approach to economic independence for our new neighbors, one that can help refugees break out of the systemic poverty and the grips of learned helplessness. One that expands on the great work being done by organizations like WEDI. One that harnesses the skills and social capital brought to Buffalo by refugees. And in a city that has suffered from a lack of jobs for decades, what better way to find employment than to create it. Image by chiakto /

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[www.f-117a.com] Title: Page born: April 01 2002 [Senor Trend in flight.(LMSW)] "Ben said 'Okay.' The rest of us said, 'Oh, shit.'" Original F-117A program manager Alan Brown on Ben Rich accepting the USAF's deadline of 22 months from contract to first flight of the F-117A. On November 16,1978, Lockheed was awarded a contract for five full scale development (FSD) test aircraft under the code name Senior Trend. The Senior Trend aircraft came to be defined as a single-seat night surgical strike fighter, with no radar but a very comprehensive electro-optical system for aiming its weapons. Because it was intended to operate at night, and had no radar, there was no requirement for any air-to air capability. Apart from it's low observable (LO) design, its most unusual feature was associated with it's covert mission: the outer wings were removable, allowing the aircraft to be stowed inside a C-5 transport. [C-5 Galaxy with F-117A onboard. (LMSW)} The C-5 would ferry the fighter and its support crew into a base (quietly and discreetly at night) within striking distance of its target.(Note: this was how many of the first aircraft were delivered to Groom Lake. In fact, the image to the right shows a crated up Senior Trend F-117A being loaded aboard at the Skunk Works in Burbank. This method was later abandoned in favor of aerial refueling during flying with the thought that by the time an aircraft was disassembled, transported, and reassembled the crisis would be over.) The USAF saw the Senior Trend aircraft as one that would be used singly or in pairs against a small range of targets. Not many would be needed, explaining the initial order of only 20 aircraft. The five FSD aircraft were not prototypes, but test aircraft that after the initial testing phase could be upgraded and become part of the operational fleet. When the FSD's were flight tested, the data and design changes would be immediately implemented on the FSD's as well as any future aircraft to roll off of the production line. [Photograph showing the six sided hexagon cross section of production tailfins.(Unknown)] For example, FSD-1 (#79-780) showed stability and control problems that did not show up during wind tunnel tests. This was rectified by enlarging and lengthening the tail fin, and changing the tail fin from a four faceted diamond shaped cross section to a six sided hexagon cross section. FSD-1 was modified after the 10th flight (August 6, 1981). It initially flew with the larger fins on Oct. 21, 1981. FSD-2 (#79-781) which first flew on September 24, 1981 was retrofitted with larger fins after four flights. During retrofit, a production nose assembly was also installed replacing the conventional nose boom it originally delivered with. FSD-3 (#79-782) was retrofitted with the new fins while still in the production jigs, and each aircraft leaving the Burbank plant after that had this change implemented into its airframe. Although the honeycomb structure of the FSD's exhaust system successfully handled the 400degF. temperature change between it's outer skin and the inner skin, the super heated air consistently caused warping at the four inch deep opening at the rear of the platypus. Once the precisely faceted panels lost their shape, the RCS bloomed from some aspects-defying the whole purpose of the aircraft. [FSD-1 was fitted with experimental blow-in doors. Notice the 4450th TG A-7D acting as a chase aircraft. (LMSW)] FSD-1 was fitted with large, experimental blow-in doors over the platypus exhaust system to see if they would help cool the engines' superheated gases. Eventually, it was found that an expandable , shingled structure would take care of the problem, resulting in the implemented complex exhaust system, incorporating sliding elements and quartz tiles to resist heat without changing shape. Other design changes include: the current mesh screen covering the FLIR as opposed to the original faceted flat surface having holes-creating a hard "screen", testing of fixed leading edge slats in an attempt to improve lift and reduce drag, and a change in the trapeze bomb hoist among other things. [FSD-1 being reassembled in a hanger at Groom Dry Lake after delivery.(LMSW)] The USAF required that the aircraft carry at least 5,000 lbs. of ordnance or auxiliary fuel or both, added with the need to store these items internally if the aircraft was to keep it's low observable qualities, required that there be a large internal bay. Airframe and size limitations restricted engine placement to the fuselage. This resulted in the aircraft having a remarkably wide structure with engines and wheel wells placed outboard of the bay, and a more modest wing sweep of 67.3 degrees. (As opposed to the Have Blue's 72.5 degree sweep.) The increased wing area provided better lift for the heavier FSD while keeping with the shape of the hopeless diamond. The dart like appearance of the original XST's also gave way when the IR acquisition and designation (IRADS) was added. Made up of a downward-looking sensor (DLIR) under the fuselage, and the FLIR ahead of the cockpit, the IRADS's need to retain good downward visibility in the FLIR resulting in the nose of the aircraft having a steep, blunt shape. This feature added some to the FSD's observability, but not an amount substantial enough allow the overall observability. [FSD-1 undergoing engine test in a hanger at Groom Dry Lake. The camoflauge netting was for the sake of security. (LMSW)] Also, it was originally believed that the inward-canted tail fins on the XST's would help shield the upward facing exhaust system from aerial IR detection. In doing this, the fins actually channeled the hot exhaust gases straight downward below the aircraft, increasing the IR signature from below. The twin tail also required that each fin be mounted on it's own separate boom. Although the distance was insignificant in the XST's, the larger FSD's distance of approximately 11 feet across the exhaust system made this arrangement impossible. Therefore, the split tail was abandoned by the now familiar V tail. The new arrangement was placed at the end of a stronger lengthened center spine to increase it's distance from the exhaust. It was found that the V-tail actually disperses the exhaust gases better than the split tail. [F-117A with braking parachute deployed. (Unknown)] Other features included the two small twin doors immediately forward of the V-tail where the parachute breaking system is located. (Even though the FSD's did not have the high sink rate of the XST's, the aircraft still landed at a speed of 180 mph plus. Landing techniques lowered the landing speed by 10 mph and the parachute is now only used in landings with high crosswinds or on shorter runways.) The FSD also had a tailhook to be used in combination with a portable arresting cable and two hoists that raises and lowers the munitions back up into the weapons bay and forward into the air stream respectively. (Note: this is the exact opposite of the landing gear that retract forward into the aircraft.) [FSD-1 in camoflauge paint scheme that was applied to FSD-1 for flights #2-11. (LMSW)] [Inflight view of FSD-1 in desert camoflauge from underneath. (LMSW)] FSD-1 was originally delivered unpainted (See earlier picture on this page) and was painted in a camouflage paint scheme for it's first flight. That was abandoned for the standard gray used on all four subsequent flight test aircraft. Ben Rich, head of Skunk Works, personally preferred the gray and would have delivered the entire run in gray, but chief of TAC, Gen. Bill Creech, wanted black since it would mask the faceting and their shadows during the day. "You don't ask the commander of TAC why he wants to do something. He pays the bills," later recalled Rich. "The Skunk Works plays by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold sets the rules! If the general had wanted pink, we'd have painted them pink." [Flight Test Engineer patch from early test flight days. (Patch designed by Flight Test Engineers Dan Fuller and Major Dave Coombs.)] The Groom Lake crew called the FSD's "Scorpions" because of its menacing aspect and forked tail. (Other names applied to the F-117A include "Black Jet" and "Cockroach".) Two patches appear to have been worn by the personal at Groom. One featured featured a standard T-38ish aircraft and a scorpion separated by a lightning bolt with "Scorpion FTE" (Flight Test Engineer) written below. This patch was specific to the FTE's for the program. Since they could not ride in the aircraft (F-117A's are single seat) , they rode in the T-38 chase. (which is why the T-38 is featured on the patch). Published reports that FTE stand for "Flight Test and Evaluation" are incorrect. The second features a Scorpion with "Baja Scorpions" written across. (The Baja supposedly refers to lower or southern Groom Lake where testing was taking place.) In all, about 40 patches are known to be related to the F-117A, including patches related to individual test programs. [NOYFB Patch given to upper Skunk Works managment under Ben Rich. (Unknown)] Even the C-5 flight crews that picked up the completed Senior Trend aircraft from Burbank had their patch-a black circle with a white crescent moon and a large question mark. On a tab at the top of the patch was "DON'T ASK!," while another tab at the bottom carried the letters "NOYFB." (None Of Your F#@!*#% Business) A similar patch (although possibly not specific to the F-117A) was given to upper management under Ben Rich and is shown here to the right. It must be remembered that the F-117A number came along later in the project. At the time other aircraft operated at Groom. These included the Red Squadron-a squadron of Soviet aircraft that the US government had "acquired". These flights where logged in the pilot's logs as YF-110, YF-113, YF-114, etc. The pilots of the Senior Trend aircraft logged in the next in sequence, the YF-117A for a lack of an unclassified designator. When Lockheed printed up the Dash 1 flight manuals, they printed F-117A on the front cover. Supposedly neither the US government or Lockheed wanted to pay the reprinting cost. [First flight pilot Hal Farley posing with an F-117A years later. (LMSW)] On June 18th, 1981, Lockheed test pilot Hal C. Farley lifted the nose of FSD-1 off of the runway at Groom Dry Lake and made the first flight of the F-117A. FSD-2 made it's first flight unpainted on September 24, 1981. FSD-3 was initially painted gray and made it's first flight on December 18, 1981. FSD-4 was delivered in early 1982, but remained grounded for RCS configuration until 7 JUL 82. FSD-5 made it's first flight on April 10, 1982 and was used for navigation/autopilot and avionics development. On September 25, 1985 the left tail fin "fluttered off" of FSD-2 (#79-781) while doing a pull-up maneuver during a daylight weapons test at Groom Lake. As the black tail with its large white 781 fell to earth, the pilot, Maj. John Beesley, was unaware anything had happened (because of the computer compensation) until the chase plane told him. He brought the aircraft in for a safe landing, and was later awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Restrictions were placed on certain regimes of flight (high speed) and the all-moving metal fins were replaced by thermoplastic graphite fins. (This incident is on file because the whole test was being filmed, but the footage is still classified.) On July, 18, 1990 FSD-5 (#784) flew with the new rudders. (Possibly lifting the speed restriction) The last graphite rudder was fitted in 1992. Current operating FSD's are operated by the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron, 412th Testing Wing, Air Force Flight Test Center, Air Force Material Command at Palmdale California Plant 42. Full Scale Development (FSD) Aircraft [FSD-1 on pole at Nellis AFB. (Tony Landis)] FSD-1 (#79-780) Made it's first flight on June 18th, 1981 at Groom Dry Lake Nevada. FSD-1 was used for most testing related to the basic air vehicle. It was delivered unpainted, but made it's first flight in desert camouflage. Was configured with the conventional nose boom, and small vertical fins. The small verticals were replaced after the 10th flight (August 6, 1981). It initially flew with the larger fins on October 21,1981. It was positioned by the gates at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada on May 16, 1992. This was the first of the F-117A series to take up gate guardian duties. [IMAGE] FSD-2 as displayed at the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB. (Unknown) [IMAGE] FSD-2 upon arrival at the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB.(Unknown) FSD-2 (#79-781) Made it's first flight unpainted on September 24,1981. It was originally configured with the conventional nose boom and small tail fins. It was retrofitted with larger fins after four flights. During the retrofit, a production nose assembly was also installed. The first SENIOR TREND RCS test flight on January 23 1982. This aircraft was used for weapons separation, anti-icing, flying qualities, and performance testing. It reportedly carried a White Playboy Bunny on the fin during testing. It was delivered to the US Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB on July 17, 1991. FSD-3 (#79-782) Ship 782 made it's first flight occurred on December 18, 1981. It was used for acoustics and navigation system testing. Initially painted gray. Later painted black after the brief period with the US Flag on the underside. Currently being flown by the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, Calif. as a WSC Avionics Test Bed. [782 in flag scheme.(USAF photo via Jim Goodall)] FSD-3 (#79-782) with the US Flag Ship #782 was initially painted grey. However, later in Nov. 1983 the aircraft was painted with a U.S. flag motif painted on the underside. The reason for this-the aircraft was officially being unveiled to high ranking officials, including Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger during a F-117A test force change of command ceremony at Groom Lake. The above is the first photo of this paint scheme widely available to the public. This photo appears in "F-117 Nighthawk" by Paul Crickmore, published in July 1999. As with past photos of the F-117A, now that the first photo has been published, the author is sure that other photos of this scheme will soon appear in the public domain. The upper surface was painted flat black with standard gray markings. The tail markings have been duplicated exactly in Mike Machat's "Lockheed Legends" painting. There was a 6" (not 6' like in the Goodall book and the drawing) white disk with a Lockheed skunk logo near the top of the tail. Below it, and spread out rather more widely than usual, were USAF and 782. The forward third (ending about 6" aft of the retractable blade antenna) of the underside was blue with 50 white stars. The stars were in even rows, except a few stars had to be nudged out of line to accommodate the DLIR window. The thirteen red and white stripes increased in width toward the aft end (Think "rising sun"). A camera pod under the right wing (to photograph weapon drops) was in the middle of one of the red stripes, and was also painted red. The plane approached the reviewing stand from the south and banked to show it's top surface. As it reached the center of the crowd, the plane banked again to show the American Flag. The crowd went wild. It was a beautiful airplane, and kept its patriotic colors for a number of months before being repainted overall flat black. FSD-4 (#79-783) Initially delivered in early 1982, but remained grounded for RCS configuration until July 7, 1982. It was used for RCS and IR signature testing. Later used for avionics integration tests. During the early Senior Trend years FSD-4 had it's own patch-a red delta shape with the number "4" and a black scorpion superimposed over it. The shape was based on the wing of the plane. Currently being flown by the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, Calif. being a WDC Avionics Test Bed and testing low observables. This aircraft performed a flight demonstration and was on static display October 18th and 19th at the 1997 Edwards Air Force Base Airshow displaying "79 783 ED" on the tail. FSD-5 (#79-784) First flight was on April 10, 1982. Used for navigation/autopilot and avionics development. Currently being flown by the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, Calif. being a OCIP/RNIP Avionics Test Bed and testing Weapons Compatibility/Separation, Performance/Flying Qualities, Flutter, and Structural Loads. This aircraft performed a flight demonstration and was on static display October 18th and 19th 1997 at the 1997 Edwards Air Force Base Airshow displaying "79 784 ED" on the tail. The tires were all black, but the inside of the MLG (Main Landing Gear) wheel (which is usually white) was painted yellow, with a small, black 'Baja Scorpion' stenciled on the center 'wheel cap'. "Pete's Dragon" Contrary to some published reports, aircraft (FSD-4)#784 was not delivered with a color drawing of Elliot, the dragon from Disney's "Pete's Dragon" in tribute to Col. Pete Winters, the USAF site commander at Groom Lake. (Elliot remember was invisible to everyone except Pete.) Apparently, that aircraft was #787 and it was named for Pete Barnes. Barnes was assigned to fly IOT& E in #787. Also contrary to published reports, The Pete's Dragon artwork was not on the tail of aircraft-rather the night before Barnes's first flight (July 8, 1982), Brad Brown (a painter for LADC) painted a dragon design on the side of the aircraft, after hours, on his own time. Pete's Dragon also had it's own patch-a black shield with a green dragon and "Pete's Dragon" in red. Patrick Allen Blazek writes that the origin of the "Pete's Dragon" patch in part derives from the Walt Disney movie of the same name that featured an invisible dragon. The USAF crew chief for the aircraft was Clyde Fonner. To raise money for Fonner's retirement party, the patch was designed. Aircraft #787's first flight was in the summer of 1982 (With USAF acceptance on August 23, 1982.). It was used by test force as a defecto-FSD for initial operation test and evaluation. This IOT&E program has come to be known as the Dragon Test Team. (FOR MORE INFO PLEASE SEE "THE DRAGON" PAGE). 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Freud-Debunker Bill Domhoff Dream Un-Weaver Friday, March 01, 2002 Bill Domhoff Photograph by Timothy Archibald Forget Freud and his interpretations. Statistics are the key to unlocking the meaning of dreams, says Bill Domhoff, a psychologist and sociologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Along with his colleagues, Domhoff has broken thousands of dreams into coded elements such as characters, emotions, settings, and types of social interactions. By performing statistical analyses of these elements, the researchers can study what we dream about and perhaps begin to develop data-driven theories about why we dream. Domhoff discussed his work with Discover associate editor Kathy A. Svitil. Do we know why we dream? I'm unimpressed with any evidence that dreams have a function or a purpose. I think they are an accidental by-product of two great evolutionary advances: sleep and improved cognitive abilities. Dreaming is a kind of freewheeling thinking that the mind goes through when there is no external input to bring it back to reality. If that is true, then is there any value in dream interpretation? I think it is a scam. I recently went through Freud's masterwork, pulling out every assertion and comparing it with the systematic empirical studies conducted over the past 75 years, including my own. I don't find support for a single one of Freud's specific claims. Freud said all dreams are wishful, for instance, but there is a lot of evidence against that. I've given up on Jung as well. It's sad that these theories continue to attract so much attention when they are clearly not adequate. We ought to move on. So what determines the things we dream about? Dreams express our conceptions of ourselves and of people close to us. If I take 100 of a person's dreams, and I study his interaction patterns with his parents, siblings, and friends in those dreams, I can then predict his relationships in waking life. Do you find any larger patterns in the content of people's dreams? There's a lot of overlap, but there are differences by age, by gender, by personality, and by culture. The most striking differences have to do with physical aggression. There is little of it in the dreams of children, but it increases in the teenage years. Men's dreams have more aggression than women's. Almost invariably, smaller societies have more physical aggression in their dreams than do Americans: They are killing animals, being attacked by animals, which is much closer to their daily life. But Americans have more physical aggression in their dreams than do the Swiss and the Dutch. Does that mean our society is more aggressive? It certainly fits with the fact that we kill each other far more frequently. You've found that people have the same basic dreams over and over. What does that tell you? I don't know, but no dream theory can account for it. A person suffers a trauma—say September 11—and several months later starts having an upsetting dream about it. Five or 10 years later, the same person may be doing well in his waking life, but he is still having that dream. The Freudians would say the dream proves the problem is unresolved. But does it prove anything? Dreams may simply run on their own track. What is the biggest misconception people have about dreams? That they are often about sexuality. Most dreams are about aggression. Only 10 percent or less of dream content involves sexuality. Dreams don't have much eroticism, and certainly not much pleasant eroticism. People dream they are with the wrong person, someone is watching, they feel guilty. When people talk about having great sex dreams, they are usually talking about daydreaming, not actual dreams. Comment on this article Discover's Newsletter Collapse bottom bar Log in to your account Email address: Remember me Forgot your password? No problem. Click here to have it emailed to you. Not registered yet?

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Sacred Texts  Christianity  Early Church Fathers  Index  Previous  Next  Chapter XXI. The answer to the question raised. Eccl. 1:9, 10. Gen. v. 4-30. Gen. iv. 17-21. In Gen. vi. 2 the mss. of the LXX. fluctuate between γγελοι τοῦ θεοῦ and υἱοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ. The interpretation of the passage which Cassian here rejects is adopted by Philo and Josephus, the book of Enoch, and several of the early fathers, including Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius and others. The explanation, which Cassian here gives, taking the “sons of God” of the Sethites, and the “daughters of men” of the line of Cain, is apparently first found in Julius Africanus (οἰ ἀπό τοῦ Σὴθ δίκαιοι), and is adopted among others by Augustine, De Civitate Dei, Book XV. xxiii., where the passage is fully discussed. Ps. 82:6, 7. Wis. vii. 17-21. Deut. 8:3, Exod. 34:16, 1 Kings 11:2. Next: Chapter XXII. An objection, as to how an unlawful intermingling with the daughters of Cain could be charged against the line of Seth before the prohibition of the law.

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pt-table-usage - Analyze how queries use tables. pt-table-usage [OPTIONS] [FILES] pt-table-usage reads queries from a log and analyzes how they use tables. If no FILE is specified, it reads STDIN. It prints a report for each query. • Read the tool’s documentation • Review the tool’s known “BUGS” • Test the tool on a non-production server • Backup your production server and verify the backups pt-table-usage reads queries from a log and analyzes how they use tables. The log should be in MySQL’s slow query log format. Table usage is more than simply an indication of which tables the query reads or writes. It also indicates data flow: data in and data out. The tool determines the data flow by the contexts in which tables appear. A single query can use a table in several different contexts simultaneously. The tool’s output lists every context for every table. This CONTEXT-TABLE list indicates how data flows between tables. The “OUTPUT” section lists the possible contexts and describes how to read a table usage report. The tool analyzes data flow down to the level of individual columns, so it is helpful if columns are identified unambiguously in the query. If a query uses only one table, then all columns must be from that table, and there’s no difficulty. But if a query uses multiple tables and the column names are not table-qualified, then it is necessary to use EXPLAIN EXTENDED, followed by SHOW WARNINGS, to determine to which tables the columns belong. If the tool does not know the query’s default database, which can occur when the database is not printed in the log, then EXPLAIN EXTENDED can fail. In this case, you can specify a default database with --database. You can also use the --create-table-definitions option to help resolve ambiguities. The tool prints a usage report for each table in every query, similar to the following: Query_id: 0x1CD27577D202A339.1 Query_id: 0x1CD27577D202A339.2 The first line contains the query ID, which by default is the same as those shown in pt-query-digest reports. It is an MD5 checksum of the query’s “fingerprint,” which is what remains after removing literals, collapsing white space, and a variety of other transformations. The query ID has two parts separated by a period: the query ID and the table number. If you wish to use a different value to identify the query, you can specify the --id-attribute option. The previous example shows two paragraphs for a single query, not two queries. Note that the query ID is identical for the two, but the table number differs. The table number increments by 1 for each table that the query updates. Only multi-table UPDATE queries can update multiple tables with a single query, so the table number is 1 for all other types of queries. (The tool does not support multi-table DELETE queries.) The example output above is from this query: UPDATE t1 AS a JOIN t2 AS b USING (id) The SET clause indicates that the query updates two tables: a aliased as t1, and b aliased as t2. After the first line, the tool prints a variable number of CONTEXT-TABLE lines. Possible contexts are as follows: SELECT means that the query retrieves data from the table for one of two reasons. The first is to be returned to the user as part of a result set. Only SELECT queries return result sets, so the report always shows a SELECT context for SELECT queries. The second case is when data flows to another table as part of an INSERT or UPDATE. For example, the UPDATE query in the example above has the usage: This refers to: The tool uses DUAL for any values that do not originate in a table, in this case the literal values “bar” and “bat”. If that SET clause were SET instead, then the complete usage would be: Query_id: 0x1CD27577D202A339.1 The presence of a SELECT context after another context, such as UPDATE or INSERT, indicates where the UPDATE or INSERT retrieves its data. The example immediately above reflects an UPDATE query that updates rows in table t1 with data from table t2. • Any other verb Any other verb, such as INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, etc. may be a context. These verbs indicate that the query modifies data in some way. If a SELECT context follows one of these verbs, then the query reads data from the SELECT table and writes it to this table. This happens, for example, with INSERT..SELECT or UPDATE queries that use values from tables instead of constant values. These query types are not supported: SET, LOAD, and multi-table DELETE. • JOIN The JOIN context lists tables that are joined, either with an explicit JOIN in the FROM clause, or implicitly in the WHERE clause, such as = The WHERE context lists tables that are used in the WHERE clause to filter results. This does not include tables that are implicitly joined in the WHERE clause; those are listed as JOIN contexts. For example: Results in: The tool lists only distinct tables; that is why table t1 is listed only once. The TLIST context lists tables that the query accesses, but which do not appear in any other context. These tables are usually an implicit cartesian join. For example, the query SELECT * FROM t1, t2 results in: Query_id: 0xBDDEB6EDA41897A8.1 First of all, there are two SELECT contexts, because SELECT * selects rows from all tables; t1 and t2 in this case. Secondly, the tables are implicitly joined, but without any kind of join condition, which results in a cartesian join as indicated by the TLIST context for each. pt-table-usage exits 1 on any kind of error, or 0 if no errors. Prompt for a password when connecting to MySQL. short form: -A; type: string type: Array type: string; default: DUAL Table to print as the source for constant data (literals). This is any data not retrieved from tables (or subqueries, because subqueries are not supported). This includes literal values such as strings (“foo”) and numbers (42), or functions such as NOW(). For example, in the query INSERT INTO t (c) VALUES ('a'), the string ‘a’ is constant data, so the table usage report is: The first line indicates that the query inserts data into table t, and the second line indicates that the inserted data comes from some constant value. default: yes Continue to work even if there is an error. type: array Read CREATE TABLE definitions from this list of comma-separated files. If you cannot use --explain-extended to fully qualify table and column names, you can save the output of mysqldump --no-data to one or more files and specify those files with this option. The tool will parse all CREATE TABLE definitions from the files and use this information to qualify table and column names. If a column name appears in multiple tables, or a table name appears in multiple databases, the ambiguities cannot be resolved. short form: -D; type: string Default database. short form: -F; type: string type: DSN A server to execute EXPLAIN EXTENDED queries. This may be necessary to resolve ambiguous (unqualified) column and table names. type: string Discard events for which this Perl code doesn’t return true. This option is a string of Perl code or a file containing Perl code that is compiled into a subroutine with one argument: $event. If the given value is a readable file, then pt-table-usage reads the entire file and uses its contents as the code. Filters are implemented in the same fashion as in the pt-query-digest tool, so please refer to its documentation for more information. Show help and exit. short form: -h; type: string Connect to host. type: string Identify each event using this attribute. The default is to use a query ID, which is an MD5 checksum of the query’s fingerprint. type: string Print all output to this file when daemonized. short form: -p; type: string Password to use when connecting. type: string short form: -P; type: int Port number to use for connection. type: array; default: time,30 type: string Analyze the specified query instead of reading a log file. type: time; default: 0 Wait this long for an event from the input; 0 to wait forever. This option sets the maximum time to wait for an event from the input. If an event is not received after the specified time, the tool stops reading the input and prints its reports. This option requires the Perl POSIX module. type: time How long to run before exiting. The default is to run forever (you can interrupt with CTRL-C). type: Array By default, the tool sets: short form: -S; type: string Socket file to use for connection. short form: -u; type: string User for login if not current user. Show version and exit. • A dsn: charset; copy: yes Default character set. • D copy: no Default database. • F dsn: mysql_read_default_file; copy: no Only read default options from the given file • h dsn: host; copy: yes Connect to host. • p dsn: password; copy: yes Password to use when connecting. • P dsn: port; copy: yes Port number to use for connection. • S dsn: mysql_socket; copy: no Socket file to use for connection. • u dsn: user; copy: yes User for login if not current user. PTDEBUG=1 pt-table-usage ... > FILE 2>&1 For a list of known bugs, see • Complete command-line used to run the tool • Tool --version • MySQL version of all servers involved • Output from the tool including STDERR You can also get individual tools from the latest release: Replace TOOL with the name of any tool. Daniel Nichter pt-table-usage 2.2.12 © Copyright 2013, Percona LLC and/or its affiliates. CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Created using Sphinx 1.2.2.

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I Was Raped at 55. Here Is How I Responded. What women really think about news, politics, and culture. July 29 2013 5:07 AM Rape Myths I was raped at 55. Here is how I responded. Woman sitting in corner, head in hand (B&W) Photo by Terry Vine/Stone/Getty Images Angie Epifano, the woman who was raped last fall in an Amherst dorm room, reported that she could hear her friends having fun in the next room as she endured the ordeal.* I mentioned this to a friend of mine recently, and she wondered why Angie hadn’t banged on the wall or yelled for help. On the surface, my friend’s question may seem legitimate, until you consider that it is less often asked about women who have been beaten or kidnapped, and almost never about women who have been robbed or mugged. Most consider it a sign of coolheaded intelligence for the victim of a mugging, for example, to peaceably hand over whatever the thief asks for, while keeping one’s eyes averted like we’re told to do when confronted by an aggressive dog. Practically the first thing you’re taught in a course on how to respond to a rapist is that you should not fight or make a scene because you could end up dead. I didn’t scream or fight, either, when I was raped in my own bed at the age of 55. The reasons were logical and illogical, historic, complex, and also smart. He held a knife, and I assumed he was the serial rapist who had been breaking into women’s houses in my Mexican town for eight months. I’d heard accounts of the four women he’d raped before me. The first two had fought and been beaten; the second two, having heard about the first two, didn’t fight and so were not left with black eyes and bruised ribs. Even if the man who raped me had not held a knife and I’d heard nothing of his other attacks, I’m 99.9 percent sure I wouldn’t have fought. I have never been in a physical fight in my life, have no training in martial arts, and do not consider myself strong enough to ward off any man. Also there was an awful inevitableness about it all, of a worse fear come true, an acceptance: Now, I will be raped. Still, I did try to talk him out of it. “This is sick,” I said, repeating back words he’d used himself with his other victims in a perverse version of post-rape intimacy during which he tried to ellicit sympathy by talking about how sick he was. “You talk too much,” he barked at me, then imitated a whining baby, “Na, na, na, na.” This taunting did not make me angry. I was not angry—or perhaps I was not in touch with my anger. I was too terrified, my heart buzzing like a field of bees, adrenaline charging through every organ, my skin vibrating. Perhaps women who do respond physically to danger possess a fighter’s instinct, physical prowess, or they’ve been taught to stick up for themselves. A friend of mine was once out sailing alone with a man who tried to rape her when they were far from shore. She kicked him then jumped overboard and swam more than a mile to safety. Recently, while the same friend and I crossed a Brooklyn street and a car at a light jumped forward, she pounded the fender with her fist, shouting, “Asshole!” A reaction I admired. Mine had been to believe I must have been crossing out of turn. We are all different; still, every woman I know, from the moment she’s learned such a thing can happen, dreads being raped. Most of us walk through a dark house, building, parking lot, or down a deserted street, afraid of the shadows, of the strange sadistic man, lurking, stalking, plotting to pleasure himself by the rush of power he will get from our humiliation and the subjugation of our will to his. And then when it does happen—whether it’s a stranger or, even more likely, a person you know—which it will to an estimated one-quarter of the women in the world; when you are physically appropriated for someone else’s pleasure; when you smell him; when his hands and fists and weapons touch your body; when this man, whose intention is to take whatever he wants from you no matter how you feel about it, mimics postures and actions that have been shared before only in intimate consensual moments, a response to this sick perversion of intimacy does happen, even if it’s nonphysical and nonverbal: It’s a plea in your heart, Don’t hurt me; a begging, Please go away. Rape victims do not exactly remain silent during the rape. They’re screaming inaudibly through the whole thing. Some women  may become silent for other reasons: fear that we won’t be believed, shame of being seen as at best unlucky and at worst damaged, dread of the stigma that will attach itself, and knowledge of the human tendency to blame the victim to avoid empathizing with her, which would require imagining another’s horror and humiliation as our own. But there’s another reason some women stay silent: Women have internalized the message that if it happened to them they must have at some deep, subconscious level caused, invited, even wanted it to happen. In countries that are still squeamish about sex—I count both the U.S. and Mexico among them—women will never feel comfortable admitting to sexual crimes done to them. I was at an advantage. At 55, I’d been a feminist my entire adult life; I refused to feel guilty and knew better than to indulge my feelings of shame. Yet I still dreaded being known for the rest of my life as a woman who’d been raped, a victim. Gratefully, my indignation soon overrode this: I hadn’t done anything to be ashamed of, dammit, the rapist had. I reported the attack, and wrote the details of it in the town newspaper. Five days after the article appeared, the rapist was caught, and then he was convicted. Beverly Donofrio. Beverly Donofrio. Courtesy of the author Before the trial, the judge mandated that I talk to a court-appointed psychologist to assess whether I’d been damaged by the attack. The psychologist was embarrassed by his task and apologized for his “backward country.” He told me that if the rapist were found guilty, the severity of his sentence would be determined by how much damage he’d caused. I told him I no longer wanted to sleep in, or even live in the house I’d built and loved; I told him I couldn’t sleep through the night and often awoke screaming, convinced there was an evil presence in my room. Later, at the trial, the judge asked me why I didn’t fight. I told her about my foreknowledge of what had happened to the other victims. I did not even think to say with high indignation, “He had a knife, [you moron].” As a society, we subliminally hold ancient prejudices. The woman must be at least complicit in any rape and even the instigator, by dressing or acting provocatively, by not being sufficiently wary, by incautiously walking down a deserted street in the night or the day, by getting drunk, by leaving a party with a guy, by accepting an invitation, being too naïve, trusting, sexy. Merely by being women, we’re alluring, and worse: we’re temptresses. With this course of reasoning, the burka seems a reasonable solution. In societies like ours that accept rape myths—acquaintance rape happens because of “mixed signals,” rapists can’t control sexual urges, women lie about being raped, women invite rape by their actions or their dress—men are more likely to commit rape because these beliefs make it seem almost acceptable. At my trial, the serial rapist’s attorney read his deposition. In it he said he’d have a few beers then break into women’s houses and “cause a little mischief.” I’ve no doubt that is exactly how he thought of his crime. I’ve no doubt many rapists think the same of their crimes: “Na, na, na, na, na.” Stop whining; what’s the big deal? The rapist was asked if he had anything he wanted to add to his deposition, and he ran on for an hour. Among other woe-is-me statements, this is the most memorable: “These women are ruining the good name of my family.” How dare we cause all this trouble? How dare we not? *Correction, July 29, 2013: This article originally stated that Angie Epifano was raped at a frat party. She was raped in a dorm room.   Slate Plus Slate Picks

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Not to knock cellophane tape as a method for in-car iPhone navigation, but if you want to use the new TomTom app in a more proper setting, you'll want the official TomTom car kit. In addition to enhancing the GPS signal and charging your iPhone, it's also got hands-free dialing and a speaker that's (presumably) better than the phone solo for giving directions. At a rumored price of just under $200 with software, it's not a bad deal if you were planning to shell out $100 for the US maps, anyway. We're still on the fence, but the hypnotic soundtrack of the promotion video is admittedly alluring. See for yourself after the break. [Thanks, Arthur] See more video at our hub!

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Not signed in (Sign In) CommentAuthorIron Imp • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 edited Given this is Whitechapel, I'm going to assume you're all familiar with tranhumanism and a lot of you will be familiar with UK based documentary filmmaker Rob Spence, who lost an eye in a shooting accident, but turned misfortune around by having a custom wireless camera built into his face by way of a prosthetic he can now use for his film career. I was looking him up on a whim, having seen him featured on the modern day analog for a circus freak show that is the "Diagonal View" program... I came across this video, where he took it upon himself to look at the (excellent) videogame Deus Ex: HR and also meet and great with some of the most exceptional living cyborgs today. The video is a great 12 minute watch and I wanted to share it, but for further discussion value, lets put on our thinking hats and speculate on what augments we'd personally fancy, given our various interests and proclivities... For myself, I'd obviously be interested in the application towards sound. Naturally, I am thrilled that technologies like cochlear implants are allowing deaf people to hear, but from from a creative perspective, I've always been taken with the notion of a matrix style brain plug (in XLR format or 1/4" format) that you could plug directly into your amp or mixer and think sound... That's a simplified pipe dream by itself (for the forseeable future), but using biofeedback and controlling brainwaves to translate into analog control voltages has been in practice since the late 60's, and more recently, digital values for MIDI / OSC. My friend and synthesis teacher Don Garbutt, an older gentleman, told me about how rooms full of techno hippies at university would gather round to watch someone struggle for 40 minutes to finally be able to control the pitch of a single oscillator in a modular system with their mind. He admitted it that for all the cool ideas behind it, it was sorta like attending a dodgy theremin performance, but other more dedicated and well funded pioneers like Kraftwerk have been all over that technology with moderate success. Brainwave Freq - CV We live in interesting times and the collision of the human mind with both practical and artistic technologies will be an emergent shift worth watching. :) • CommentAuthorArgos • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 Awesome video! I'd like bionic implants in a few different levels. On a personal level, I am EXTREMELY near-sighted, so I would like bionic that can see well. I can expand this to a professional level, since, as I scientist, I often find myself in the lab (at least I did in college, heh, we'll see what happens in the real world), and I would love to be able to zoom in on the things I am working with, which is what would take me from just wanting lasik to cure my near-sightedness to wanting a bionic eye. It would also be neat if the eye can give me an AR view with measurements if the things I was working with. Also on the professional level, bionic arms and hands that are better at controlling their motor functions and allow to me to make more efficient and precise measurements in the lab. This would also help me to work on my experiments with a decreased chance of sample contamination due to human error. On a different level, as someone who loves body modifications in general, I'd be interested to see how I could use this technology to apply it aesthetically to the human body. However, one of the things I like about body modification is that I feel that the process or organic body modification allows to to get to know my own body better and connect with it, so I'm also worried that bionics might take some of that away from me. I'm definitely interested in how bionic implants can take us from being humans to being transhuman, but also how they can strip away our humanity. 1.  (10513.3) I'd take some kind of eye enhancement, I've had total deafness in my right ear since I was a baby, so some kind of replacement there would be nice, and I'd like my joints all rebuilt to not be so damn frail, as human joint design is clumsy at best (I'm looking at you, God!) Mainly though, I want my sub-dermal communicator. I look forward to being part of the hive mind. :) On a marginally more serious note, I've been doing a lot of thinking and writing about H+ recently, and am very interested in how an h+ society would treat those that opt out of improvements. • CommentAuthorArgos • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 Ooooh, yes a subdermal communicator would be amazing! i'm sure we'd see some sort of shift in how H+ and non H+ people see each other. Those who opt to willfully remove a limb to get a bionic one would be shunned by a lot of people - I wouldn't surprised if religious types were against it. Those who get implants and such for the fun of it might be thought of as freaks at first, but as it became more popular, the H+ and non H+ crowd would start getting along, and then maybe H+ would become the dominant norm. I'm curious to know how to those who become H+ due to accidents will treat those who were born "normal" (for lack of a better word) or weren't in accidents that choose to replace body parts with bionics. • CommentAuthorArgos • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 Also curious to know how advancements in H+ technology can be of use to genderqueer folk. One of my professors, who is a transwoman, did her MFA using second life. She immersed herself in second life for 365 hours as a dragon, to mimic the one year requirement that transfolk are required to live as their sex of choice if they want reassignment surgery, to ask the question if living virtually as a different species can satisfy that requirement for those wishing to be something completely different. Anyway, she used to talk a lot about the use of technology to become "Transreal," and how we can use such technologies to create and shape our own identities. CommentAuthorIron Imp • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 edited You may actually be able to overcome your deafness in the one ear with a Cochular implant. It's obviously a complicated procedure and if you get by in day to day life fine, it might be more trouble than you need, but if you're interested here's the link on the general technology and procedure - Just so you know about some of the options out there. 2.  (10513.7) @Iron Imp - Thanks for that, it made for an interesting read. I think I'll hold out for a better version tho. As you say, I function perfectly well with one ear, in fact my direction specific hearing is very strong, I've always assumed that it is compensating for the loss of the other one. This is what puts me off: Still, chalk another one up to H+. Bionic ears are go. Whilst I'm writing, it occurs to me that another of the "conditions for transhumanism" is that we start to grant and recognise rights for sentient non-humans, which reminds me of this story and this lawsuit, and I wonder how far off we are from that. • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2012 @Magnus - Governments around the world are consistantly failing to recognise Human Rights Conventions (or in the case of the UK, trying to back out of previous agreements). What makes anyone think that they are likely to grant rights to non-human sentient beings - apart possibly from a few incredibly progressive nations? (nb, Not that I am necessarily against the idea) Regarding the H+ movement, I am one of the "we have been transhuman ever since we started to use tools" camp. As someone who uses an augmentation to see properly at normal distances (ie. I am miopic and wear glasses to correct my sight), and other tools to augment my vision for greater distances (binoculars and telescopes) or smaller scales (microscopes) I believe we have already gone beyond our natural biological limitations. Is someone fitted with a medical pacemaker a cyborg? How about Oscar Pistorius? Already non-surgical (i.e drug) treatments are commonplace in sports to boost individuals performance. Are steroid/HGH/EPO users PostHuman? On a personal level I feel somewhat in a minority in that I don't have any tattoos/piercings or other body-mods, and I can't foresee a time where I would be wililng to grind myself with any kind of H+ augmentation, beyond possibly wanting my vision corrected with LAY-ZERS at some point. I have no issue with whatever with other people going down the elective body-mod route and I can see why people would want to augment their fleshy meatselves for additional/greater abilities. As a fan of wearable computech, Clatter-style HUD contact lenses would be kinda awesome though..

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Saturday, December 20th, 2014 Why You Must Push Past Your Pain Barrier effort and pain barrierI often call the gym or workout environment “the strength of will proving ground” because we have an opportunity while in that environment to not only test our will but develop it as well.  But the physical training environment is even more than that. It can also serve as an acute opportunity to identify the self imposed limits we place on ourselves in any given area of our life. If you have ever run into what appears to be an immovable WALL on your success path (that somewhat unidentifiable and insurmountable THING that stands between you and your objective) and were unable to get past it – you may understand what I mean when I say “self imposed.” In my opinion and experience those so called “insurmountable/immovable external obstacles” don’t exist. It has been proven time and time again that there is virtually nothing that can stop a completely committed, motivated and determined human being from achieving their objective, providing the objective falls within the laws of physics… and even those laws are not written in stone when it comes to the power of human endeavor. So why then, if 10 people set out to achieve something great will 8 of those 10 people be stopped dead in their in tracks long before reaching the end of their journey? The answer to that question is the same answer to why most people never achieve the physical results they anticipate experiencing when they start an exercise program. They’re unable, unwilling or lack the motivation to PUSH PAST THEIR SELF IMPOSED PAIN BARRIER. Several years ago, around the same time Richard Simmons introduced short shorts, slouch socks and sweating to the oldies to the world we began to reject the phrase “NO PAIN, NO GAIN” as excessive and unnecessary.  Since that time we have been popping one pain medication after another and have been running to the doctor’s office at the first sign of illness or physical discomfort all in a desire to avoid physical pain at all costs. The truth is – for decades we have been conditioning ourselves to avoid anything that so much as resembles pain or discomfort in our lives and as a result we’ve wound up suffering even more with no growth to show for it.  “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle” ~Napoleon Hill Bodybuilders, and elite athletes of every verity have long since understood that pain and discomfort in the gym is part of the growth and development process and have conditioned themselves to push past the otherwise self imposed physical pain barrier that would and does stop most people. The gym is an opportunity for you to feel the pain, push past it and even embrace it as part of your personal growth process both physically and emotionally.  It will serve as a new conditioning process and open the door to understanding and excepting the pain, discomfort, fear, doubt and uncertainty that will unavoidably precede the growth you want to experience outside the gym in your relationship, finances and leadership position in the world. Keep in mind one of my favorite sayings as you attempt to push through,  “Pain is only weakness leaving your body” Watch The Muscle and Fitness Video Tom Terwilliger Muscle and Fitness Welcomes Tom TerwilligerSee all the MAX MIND SET Videos Fitness - Mindset - Goal Achievement No BS. No Spam. Sign up for the MaxMindset newsletter and get the info you want delivered straight to your inbox! Share This Page BANNER - unleashing ambition machinex One Response to “Why You Must Push Past Your Pain Barrier” 1. I’ve had a few people take exception to this “push past the pain” philosophy when I posted the video and blog post on FB. So I should make the obvious even more obvious by stating it clearly. Pushing past the pain barrier does not mean ignoring the pain of an injury or a serious orthopedic problem. Those are not internal self imposed (although possibly self inflicted) barriers – they may be issues that should be identified and dealt with not ignored or arbitrarily pushed past for the sake of short term progress. And with a few exceptions they are not necessarily legitimate excuses for stopping or quieting. The pain barrier obstacles I refer to in the video are the ones that stop us from banging out 10 or 12 reps when our body says stop at 8. It’s the self imposed weakness that shows up in the form of pain or discomfort just when we are about to break through to knew levels of growth either physical or emotionally. The conditioned weak will use the discomfort of a simple hangnail or blister as an excuse for not showing up and unless you want that to be you – you must recondition yourself to push past pain and discomfort in the name of growth and development.

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=/nojavascript/"> Mutation | CK-12 Foundation Skip Navigation Key Concept Mutations are caused by environmental factors known as mutagens. Examples of mutagens include radiation and certain chemicals. Germline mutations occur in gametes, and somatic mutations occur in other body cells. Mutations may alter entire chromosomes or change a single nucleotide. Their effects may be neutral, beneficial, or harmful. Mutations are essential for evolution because they are the ultimate source of genetic variation in a species. • CA.9–12.IE.4.c; CA.9–12.LS.7.c • NSES.9–12.C.2.3; NSES.9–12.C.3.1; NSES.9–12.F.1.1 • AAAS.9–12.5.A.1; AAAS.9–12.5.B.4, 5; AAAS.9–12.5.C.6; AAAS.9–12.5.F.3, 5; AAAS.9–12.6.E.2 Lesson Objectives • Identify causes of mutation. • Compare and contrast types of mutations. • Explain how mutations may affect the organisms in which they occur. Lesson Vocabulary • chromosomal alteration: mutation that changes chromosome structure • frameshift mutation: deletion or insertion of one or more nucleotides that changes the reading frame of the genetic material • genetic disorder: disease caused by a mutation in one or a few genes • germline mutation: mutation that occur in gametes • mutagen: environmental factor that causes mutations • mutation: change in the sequence of bases in DNA or RNA • point mutation: change in a single nucleotide base in the genetic material • somatic mutation: mutation that occurs in cells of the body other than gametes Teaching Strategies Introducing the Lesson Call on volunteers to describe drastic mutations they have read about or seen in science fiction stories or movies, or describe examples yourself. Explain that real mutations rarely have such drastic effects, but they are extremely important. Without them, evolution could not occur. Tell students they will learn more about mutations in this lesson. Assign the activities at the URLs below. Students will investigate the effects of different mutations on the encoded proteins. Differentiated Instruction Pair less proficient readers with more proficient readers, and ask partners to make a table comparing and contrasting the following types of mutations: deletions, insertions, duplications, inversions, translocations, and point mutations. LPR Ask a group of students to create a public service announcement identifying common mutagens that may cause cancer and ways that people can reduce their exposure to them. Have students make a video of their announcement and present it to the class or, if possible, the entire school. Science Inquiry Have students do the online activity Test Neurofibromin Activity in a Cell (see URL below). After reading about the protein neurofibromin and its role in normal cell division, students will predict how mutations in the gene for this protein might affect cell division. Then they will use an interactive animation to test their prediction. They will observe the simulated effects of different mutations on cells as though seen through a microscope. Common Misconceptions Misconceptions about mutations are common. Discuss the examples below and give students the correct facts as well as examples of mutations that illustrate why the misconceptions are false. 1. All mutations are harmful. 2. All mutations change the protein products of genes. • Fact: Some mutations have no effect on protein products. For example, mutations may occur in noncoding sections of DNA, or they may result in synonymous codons that code for the same amino acids. 3. All mutations have phenotypic effects. • Fact: Many mutations are recessive and do not affect phenotypes. Having one copy of the normal allele is sufficient for a normal phenotype. For example, the mutations that cause PKU and cystic fibrosis are recessive. Two copies of the recessive alleles must be present for the diseases to appear in the phenotype. Reinforce and Review Lesson Worksheets Review Questions Points to Consider Sometimes even drastic mutations do not affect the proteins produced by a particular type of cell. The reason? The genes affected by the mutations are not normally used to make proteins in that type of cell. In all cells, some genes are turned off — they are not transcribed — while other genes are turned on. • How do cells control which genes are turned on and used to make proteins? • Can you think of a mechanism that might prevent transcription of a gene? Image Attributions You can only attach files to None which belong to you Please wait... Please wait... Image Detail Sizes: Medium | Original Original text

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Buying E-PL5 or E-M10 Started 10 months ago | Discussions thread Junior MemberPosts: 40Gear list Re: Buying E-PL5 or E-M10 In reply to ttan98, 10 months ago Well once you add in the cost of a new or used EVF, the price of the EPL5 is closer to that of the EM10, so it's hard to argue for the EPL5. I have an EPL5 with VF4 and I love the combo, but I can't say I'd buy it today over the EM10.  I actually find the EPL5 okay to use even with my large-ish hands, but I suppose it depends how you shoot.  I mostly just keep it in A and use exposure comp and a back button to focus, so I don't really feel that deprived of controls (plus the super control panel is only a button press away). However the little dial thing on the back is annoying and fiddly, and when I look at my other camera - a Ricoh GR - which is not that much bigger, I wonder why Olympus couldn't have fit in an additional dial or lever or something.  But I do like how the EPL5 can go from something you can fit in your palm like the GR (with a pancake lens and no EVF) to something more substantial in your hand eg. with the VF4 and a larger lens.  mcentral's gear list:mcentral's gear list Ricoh GR Sony a6000 Sony E 50mm F1.8 OSS Reply   Reply with quote   Complain Keyboard shortcuts: Color scheme? Blue / Yellow

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It was only a matter of time before the lovable punks at Mega 64 took on Beyond: Two Souls for some real-world mockery. And lo, they have done so, and it's pretty funny. Guess what: people don't appreciate it when a dude with a camera goes around knocking crap over.

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Knowing Movie Review Summary Actors: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Knowing Lucinda Embry writes a page of random numbers and adds it to a time capsule in her elementary class. 50 years later, Caleb Koestler retrieves the capsules contents while he is a student at the same elementary school. Caleb's father, John, begins investigating the numbers. John finds out that the numbers have a specific set of sequences referring to major disasters. John tracks down Lucinda's daughter Diana and Diana decides to help John. She tells John that Lucinda used to hear voices. John has a sudden revelation and goes to telescope observatory. While he is there, he discovers a solar flare that will soon destroy Earth. Diana and John think about taking their children to the caves. Meanwhile, Diana stops for gas and some strangers take their children. Diana chases them and crashes in her car. John reaches her and watches her die. A space ship descends from the sky and takes John's son and leaves John. The solar flare will soon destroy earth unless someone does something to stop it. Best part of story, including ending: What I hated about this story is that everyone dies. Best scene in story: My favorite scene was when the solar flare comes because it was entertainingly scary. Opinion about the main character: What I liked most about Johnathan was that he had the will to find out more information from Diana about Lucinda. Please enter the number 42 plus two in the right box. Script Analysis of Knowing Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Main Character Writing Style Movies with storylines, themes & endings like Knowing Knowing Message Board (click here) 2 Ways to Search! Our Chief Librarian

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© 2014 Shmoop University, Inc. All rights reserved. The Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale The Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Analysis: Plot Analysis Initial Situation When the manciple of the local university becomes ill, Symkyn, the miller, takes the opportunity to steal even more flour than usual from it, prompting two clerks, John and Aleyn, to journey to the mill next time to prevent it from happening again. All of the elements for a really good conflict are in place with this set-up: Symkyn's more blatant than usual cheating of the university prompts John and Aleyn to boast that they'll prevent him from doing it again; having publicly announced their intention, they can't back out now. But we know Symkyn's a proud guy, not to mention supremely unethical. Will he figure out a way to cheat the students despite their stratagems? John and Aleyn announce their intention to watch the corn being ground. Symkyn promises himself that he'll manage to cheat them anyway. Symkyn makes the conflict between himself and the clerks totally clear. He also clarifies that he sees the conflict as one between the learning of clerks and the common sense street-smarts of peasants like him. The clerks ask to spend the night at Symkyn's house, and bed down with the family in their shared sleeping quarters. Just when we thought the conflict was over and Symkyn the clear winner, John and Aleyn decide it's too late to go home tonight. The fact that they bed down in the family's shared quarters, in close proximity to Symkyn's wife and daughter, and that they've got a bone to pick with Symkyn, leads us to suspect that something naughty will soon be afoot. Aleyn has sex with Symkyn's daughter. John has sex with Symkyn's wife. Aleyn and John get "payback" for their stolen corn. Everything in the story has been leading up to this, from numerous double-entendres in the tale's scenes and language to the opportunity presented by those shared sleeping quarters. When Aleyn calls sex with Malyne "esement," meaning both payback and physical release, we know that the sex is pretty much a done deal. John moves the cradle to his own bed to get Symkyn's wife into it. As Aleyn creeps back to their bed in the morning, he's confused by the misplaced cradle and crawls between the sheets with Symkyn. Mistaking the miller for John, Aleyn whispers to him that he's just had sex with Malyne. The minute John moves that cradle, we know disaster's about to strike. Sure, it causes Symkyn's wife to hop into bed with John, but since Aleyn doesn't know a thing about it, he's sure to hop into the wrong bed, too! Sure enough, he does, and to make matters even worse, he brags about sleeping with Malyne to the last person he should. Now the reader is left wondering how Symkyn will react to this slight to his daughter's honor. Symkyn leaps out of bed in a rage, and he and Aleyn go at it. His wife, mistaking him for a clerk, strikes him over the head with a staff. Aleyn and John beat Symkyn unconscious. The tensions that have been brewing between the characters, and the suspense that has been slowly building, get released here in physical violence. Finally, the rivalry between the clerks and the miller, which was never stated outright but always implicit, is out in the open. John and Aleyn leave the mill, taking all their flour – including the part that John stole – with them. The narrator explains that "thus was the miller repayed." John and Aleyn are the clear winners in this conflict, getting not only their full amount of corn, but also something "extra" in the sex they have with the miller's wife and daughter and the beating they give Symkyn. The narrator draws a moral from the story, saying that this punishment served Symkyn right for cheating his customers. People who Shmooped this also Shmooped... Noodle's College Search

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Breaking News Jacinda Barrett Omarr's daily astrological forecast, For release 08/02/14 for 08/02/14 BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Jacinda Barrett was born in Brisbane, Australia, on this date in 1972. This birthday gal is known for her roles in such films as "School for Scoundrels," "Poseidon" and "Ladder 49." She starred in the short-lived 2013 TV series "Zero Hour" and has played recurring roles on "The Following" and "Suits." Barrett has been married to actor Gabriel Macht, star of TV's "Suits," since 2004 and the couple has two children. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don't put a down payment on your dreams. Sometimes it's good to build castles in the air and treasure a few unrealizable fantasies. At the same...

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To the ends of the earth Between tea breaks, Alastair Sawday explores the hidden sandy coves and gorse-scented clifftops of the unchanging south-west Cornish coast Like many Englishmen brought up in the 50s, I spent most of my holidays in the UK. I went to the Western Isles and knew them as lovely beyond believing; Holy Isle, too, and the beaches of Northumberland. I spent weeks and weeks in Wales as a cadet and boy scout, wet behind the ears and in my boots. I lived in Suffolk and knew the marshes around Havergate Island like my hand's back. I tramped around Surrey and canoed the river Wey. But it was not until my widowed mother married a Cornishman that I learned of the Cornish coastal path. What a magical discovery that has been. Around south-west Cornwall there come together so many of the qualities we look for in a perfect walk: sea views, fresh wind, a sense of drama and of being away from it all, natural beauty on a grand scale, and a sense of achievement. You are never far from help or a cuppa, yet feel a million miles away. I have walked it countless times, with and without dogs, children and friends. I will do it again and again. The very words "Land's End" carry weight; there is a sense of magnificence about the place. If you ignore the buildings and press on, within 10 minutes you are on the clifftops. Your eyes strain against your common sense, dropping you vertically down to rocks that have broken the mightiest waves. The granite is beautiful, worn into shapes and colours that still lure artists. Streams emerge, dark from journeys across open moors, in the valleys and crevices. You are heading for Nanjizal, a wide, golden beach when the tide is out, a fine picnic place often devoid of people. But there is life all around: frigate birds soaring and plunging with killing accuracy, fulmars gliding closer to the cliffs, shags stretching their wings to catch the sun, even grey seals. In the past few years, basking sharks have also cruised in and out of the bays here. Climb up the long flight of steps from Nanjizal and you are heading for Porthgwarra, a tiny hamlet of fishing boats and granite cottages. You hug the clifftops, with the moor to your left and a fohorn blowing its regular warning out to sea. In spring, flowers bring the cliffs to new life: birdsfoot trefoil, kidney vetch, campion, wild garlic, foxglove and ragged robin. The bushes seem to be alive with birdlife; the path always surprises, with twists and turns, dips and rises, squeezing you between granite walls. The names, too, are dramatic: Ardensawah Cliff, Black Carn, Pellitras Point. Wreckers have lured ships to their doom here, and you can see how easy it must have been. High above Porthgwarra is the coastguard lookout, scanning the seas as far as the Lizard. You can take an easy path straight to the village or continue round the clifftop - more beautiful and exhilarating. At the head of the bay is a tiny cottage where tea and cakes (key elements of any good British walk) await. At the bottom of Porthgwarra's old slipway, you can dip your toes into the water and grope through the natural rock tunnel back to the path. It is 20 minutes to Porthcurno, but soon you are looking down to another golden beach, Porthchapel, a short rock-climb away. A gentle ascent, scented with broom and gorse, takes you to a high point above the bay, a place for painting and dreaming. And thence, in five minutes, to the glorious Minack outdoor theatre. The path now becomes a series of steps leading down to Porthcurno beach, one of Britain's best. There is a fine beach cafe, plus a village shop, and a museum that celebrates the crucial role of the transatlantic cable that emerges here. The beach is a great place to take off your boots and scamper (or limp) across the sand and into the water. It is always cold. The last half-hour lies along the cliff overlooking the beautiful Porthcurno Bay, facing the rocky peninsula with the Logan Rock on its ridge. Down to your right, at low tide, the brave bathers of "Pedny" beach stroll far out into the bay on the sand. This is as lovely as a sea can be, and a fine place to take your clothes off. Instead of branching left to take the farm track to Treen and its Logan Rock pub, you could press on and fork right to explore the real Logan Rock. The peninsula juts dramatically into the sea and a happy hour or so can be spent exploring. I have often taken a book and hidden among these rocks, on a patch of turf just above the sea. It is a fine thing to read, or snooze, while perched above such views. And in the 30 years I have been walking here, I have seen almost no change. Now that is special. · Alastair Sawday is the publisher of

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Thinking Differently – developing new ideas “It’s the things people know … that ain’t so”, Howard Armstrong, Inventor of FM Radio What is it that allows people to come up with ideas outside the box? When I ask teachers what do they see are the skills required for the 21st century some of their answers include lateral thinking, risk-taking, problem solving, etc. So teachers are also interested in creating thinking that is “outside the box”. Gregory Berns, in his latest book “Iconoclast”, addresses the world of people who create breakout ideas and distinguishes where they come from, how the brain often works against us and what we can do to seize the day. Our brain is a physical organ that consumes energy and performs feats of astounding complexity. The brain has a fixed energy budget (around 40 watts) and it can’t demand more power when it needs to do something more powerful thus it has evolved to do what it does as efficiently as possible. In its essence our brain is designed to: • make what is conscious … unconscious • take shortcuts all in order to ensure that its energy usage remains within its budget. Inside of these two principles we discover humanity’s greatness … and its constraint. The greatness comes in the brain’s ability to adapt … its constraint comes in the shortcuts it takes to ensure that it remains within its energy budget. I have two children and currently my 6 year old, Chiara, is learning to read. She began with looking at the pictures and interpreting what was happening on the page to tell the story. Bit by bit Chiara started to associate the words on the page with the pictures on the page. As she developed her sense of what the meanings behind the squiggles on the page meant I began to notice that she had created a bank of words in her head. Sometimes that bank of words were the actual words on the page and she reproduced them because it seemed right. Sometimes the word on the page … had similar letters to ones that she knew but it was a different word … and my wife and I corrected her. Bit by bit she is training her brain to recognise the words and attribute meaning to them from the context she is reading them in. Bit by bit the brain is making unconscious what is conscious. Through repetition and correction Chiara is developing her reading skills. It was the same when you and I learnt to walk. It was the same when I learnt how to throw a discus during my years of competing in track and field athletics. It is the same in everything that we learn. We learn a skill or knowledge such that we can refer to it automatically and unconciously. So that we don’t have to THINK! But the problem with this is that the brain takes short cuts in developing our concepts of the world. Here is an optical version of this. Kanizsa Triangle Kanizsa’s triangle appears to indicate that there are 2 triangles in the centre. One that is “white” and one that is bound by the vertices in 3 corners. But … that is your brain making a shortcut. What is actually on the page is 3 pacman type symbols and 3 angles. Notice how difficult it is to just see those 6 figures without associating the two “triangles” with the figure. Our brains take shortcuts all the time. It interprets the world and creates feelings, emotions, contexts, and ideas from its shortcuts. Paraphrasing Berns … when confronted with information streaming from the eyes the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible (time is energy). The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. This means it must draw on both past experience and any other source of information (such as what other people say) to make sense of what it is seeing. This is why having inquiries and having the students question their ideas and contexts is so important. In a world that is changing exponentially (many of your current students will be going into jobs and careers that have not been invented yet) the individual who does not challenge their ideas and beliefs will be left behind.StreetOptical Illusion If you want to develop new ideas and have students who think “outside the box” it will only occur in an environment that allows for that. Given what I wrote earlier, we must also have explicit teaching and rituals to embed knowledge and processes. However, the challenge I throw down to you today, and for the future, is How are you creating an environment where your students challenge their own thinking? If you are interested in joining a group of teachers developing 21st century skills register at Views: 46 Join The Future of Education Support Free PD! A Learning Revolution Project Twitter Feed © 2014   Created by Steve Hargadon.   Powered by Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service

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Bookmark and Share Soundtrax from our listeners around the world This summer on Dispatches we've been airing some of our correspondents' and listeners' memories of music they've heard on travels and assignments abroad.  We asked for more letters, and got some.  Roberta of Gananoque, Ontario: Like many people, I find music particularly evocative of places I've travelled and times in my life, and a couple of songs always take me back to memorable places. One is Melissa Etheridge's cover of Janice Joplin's "Piece of My Heart". I downloaded that song to my iPod while I was on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. I added it to my running playlist and would listen to it while running along Kandahar airfield early in the morning. Although I can't say for sure that the song and the images occurred at exactly the same time, when I hear it, it reminds me of running along-side the air-field at dawn, with black hawk helicopters lifting off in formation and the sun just starting to heat up the dusty landscape. My tour in Afghanistan was the most memorable experience of my professional career and that song takes me back there every time I hear it. The other is Bob Marley's "Is This Love". When I was in India in 1998, on an undergraduate term-abroad, it was strangely ubiquitous. I heard it in so many shops in the City of Pune, home of the university where I was studying, that it became the theme-song for my stay. I have no idea why that song was so popular with Indian shop-keepers, but it's a great song, and makes me think of the crowded, colourful shopping district of Pune every time I hear it. I love your show, thank you for so many interesting stories. Best wishes, Jon Claydon, who now lives and works in London, U.K.: Good morning I listened with interest to Neil MacDonald's description of hearing Bowie's 'This is Not America' (July 7 Dispatches) in a German beerhall while surrounded by Nazis and Nazi memorabilia. Music is definitely evocative and can take me back to an event (maybe a bit less political) or a period in my life in the first bars of a song. Some music that comes to mind: Bowie's 'Let's Dance' cassette which I listened to on my Sony Walkman on a Greyhound bus from Calgary to Vancouver when I started university at UBC. The music matched my excitement of a new start in Vancouver, particularly 'China Girl'. A couple year's later I took a year out from UBC to study French in Paris, and accompanying me was Rick Gleason, the Canadian man who was later killed in the Bali bombing, who liked my idea of getting away for a while. Without the aid of any Walkman I kept singing (in my head, I hope) Joni Mitchell's 'Free Man in Paris'. It was the theme song for the whole time I was there, and while I was escaping the inevitable career grind for one more year, just as the writer of the song had escaped the music industry grind And a decade after that, living in London at the height of Brit Pop, on a motorcycle drving on the Hammersmith flyover one beautiful summer's evening with Blur's 'London Loves' playing in my ear. So much evocative music. All the best Jon Claydon Hammond Joshi of Moncton: A few years ago, 2007, I went to India on business trip and visit a friend from Canada who was trying to establish himself in India. We're both East Indians but lived most of our lives in Canada. It was a trip with many modes of travel. We went north to the foothills of the Himalayas, flew to Banagalore, visited a coffee plantation, saw a ginger farm, and it was amazing. The whole country is so diverse in all of its geography and people. The one thing I loved is the music. India is an attack of the senses. The colours, the smells, the pollution, the noise of cars and imaginative other forms of transport from overloaded trains and buses, to just plain old fashioned animal powered carts. The music and in particular a song that will forever be etched in my brain, is a song called  "Lift Karadey " by a singer named Adnan Sami Khan.  It's a song about getting money, and getting ahead. Looking to the heavens for God to give a guy a bit in life. Children would dance in the streets, traffic would grind to a halt and the poorest of the poor, would rejoice. It was an anthem to them. To me it reminds me of just how great we have it in Canada and how a song can literally warm the hearts of those that have nothing but hope. It's a catchy little number and I love it. Thanks. Elaine Cawadias of Ottawa: The first trip my husband and I took as a married couple was in 1981.  We went to Mexico and visited several archeological sites.  Chichen Itza and Uxmal were amazing but we will especially remember our experience at Teotihuacan.  Picture it. Ee are at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun enjoying the view and the magnificent ruins.  And then we heard it; "can you take me to Funkytown?"  Making his way up the steep steps of the pyramid was a young fellow with a ghetto-blaster the size of a small suitcase (as they were "back in the day") blaring out that classic disco hit Funkytown. Unforgettable. Damon O'Brien of Victoria: Rick, I caught your program last week, and was fascinated by your story about covering Marc Garneau's launch into space (Dispatches June 16), and the music that experience lodged in your memory.  I thought I would share a musical passport with you of my own, which I hope you enjoy.  I was in Bornean Malaysia a few years ago, and like other young drifters, I would pick up the guitar whenever I saw one, hoping to endear myself to the locals, whose naive tongue I knew next to nothing of.  Music being, after all,  the 'universal language.'   It turns out there are lots of equally clumsy guitar players over there, and like me, they also love American pop music.  Their handicap being, however, that very few of them could speak more than the most basic English.  What a strange and joyful experience, to play in a room full of smiling until-just-then strangers, all singing along with great spirit, using "la-la-la-la" throughout the many verses of "Hotel California" and coming in strong on the chorus.  I'll remember that song with great fondness, and thank you for sending my thoughts back to those verdant days. • Commenting has been disabled for this entry.

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What is an asteroid? Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit around the Sun; most of them are located in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists believe there may be more than 50,000 asteroids in that belt, and perhaps millions more elsewhere in space. They range in size from nearly 20 feet (6 meters) in diameter to some as large as 600 miles (965 kilometers) across. (While 20 feet seems small compared to 600 miles, the smallest asteroids would still have a strong impact if they hit Earth.) Slight changes in asteroids’ orbits occasionally cause them to collide with each other, resulting in small fragments breaking off from the whole. Sometimes these small fragments leave their orbit and fall through Earth’s atmosphere as meteors. Some scientists have suggested that it was a huge asteroid’s collision with Earth 65 million years ago that caused the massive damage that led to the extinction of dinosaurs.

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Monday, 22 April 2013 5 chances to win a cutting edge occupational psychology textbook update: this competition is now closed and the winners have been contacted. Thanks for your entries. We have five copies to give away of Occupational Psychology: An Applied Approach by Gail Steptoe-Warren, kindly donated to us by the publishers Pearson. From the publishers: "Occupational Psychology: An Applied Approach introduces students to the essential theories in this area, from motivation and wellbeing to group roles and individual differences. The book explores the impact of every topic from the perspective of the individual, management, and the organisation as a whole, encouraging the reader to consider the consultancy process at each stage." For your chance to win the book, simply post a brief answer to this question set by Pearson - "How do you think an occupational psychologist can have the most impact on a workplace?" Five winners will be picked at close of play on Friday 26 April. Please remember to leave an email address for us to contact you. For inspiration, remember you can read about new occupational psychology research here on the main Research Digest and over at our sibling blog the Occupational Digest. Good luck. 1. David Lurie10:42 am The best way I can think of having an impact is just by raising people's knowledge of the role of psychology at work - whether that's giving impromptu talks, lunch and learns, or just evangelising about occ psych until people tell me to shut up. The last is most common, sadly. 2. Michele11:18 am Occupational psychologist have the most impact in the work place because they identifying abilities and developing potential - through using tests and job-relevant exercises at selection, and in career counselling.motivating people - in designing payment and reward systems, and advising on health and safety issues.assessing performance both on and off the job - in designing appraisal systems, advising on stress management.helping people and organisations adapt to change - advising on how to change attitudes and behaviours to improve customer service.designing effective organisations - advising on the best type of management systems, identifying effective human resources strategies, and designing jobs to fit peoples' skills,hope this help, thanks for reading ,michele 3. Occupational psychologists can divert their knowledge in many different aspects in a workplace, such as selection and assessment during and after staff recruitment, evaluating business efficiency and performance, improve employee's relationship by providing relative schemes and consultation, improve their abilities and motivation by implement training schemes etc. In my opinion, occupational psychologists could exercised their role best would be in improving the business productivity whilst take care of worker's well being. In other words, focusing on identifying the problems and weakness in the human resources management, and devise ways to improve it. As far as research have already showed that employee's well-being, satisfaction and motivation are inter-related and are associated with productivity, therefore the social aspects of employees cannot be neglected while keeping business goal as the focus. Taking care of their well-being, intensify their sense of self as a group in the company, identify their weakness in work- ship and hence providing problem-shooting training session could help archive the target. Thanks for the give away, looking forward to learn more and the have a look of the updated techniques! 4. "How do you think an occupational psychologist can have the most impact on a workplace?" Be innovative. as how the world is constantly improving itself, occupational psychologists must keep their pace and be as ever-changing as the world - meaning using modern ways of influencing the workplace, in additional to traditional methods like the boring personality tests. To have the most impact on a workplace, an occupational psychologist can permeate his/her influence into each and every stage of production and process within an organisation, including personnel selection, management, improving productivity, appraisal, and more. To make this possible, occupational psychologist can head the human resources department or act as a consultant of the company for human resources management and productivity concerns. For instance, for personnel selection, occupational psychologists can design the best tests and assessment methods to choose the best person for the job. But what can be new? Something that fascinated me recently is how recent studies have shown how a person's social networks can help interviewers or companies to identify whether he is the right one. Some research also showed how facebook can reveal a person's personality traits among the Big Five; how weird email addresses could impair your chances of getting a job... Other than traditional ways of personnel selection, the occupational psychologists can take a step ahead - analysing other dimensions that someone else might have neglected. Managing employees, improving productivity and enhancing morales can also be innovative too. As some new research reveals the implications of people being late in meetings, occupational psychologists can exert their power through observing every little thing that might be of a completely different angle of normal managers. Putting a nervous person in a team might bring advantages. For instance, another recent research showed a positive relationship between time on Facebook and productivity. Is procrastination necessarily a bad thing to morale and efficiency? Real life work place research can be done specific to their own organisations can help maximize productivity in an innovative while practical way. Just as everything else in the world, one must be innovative to be able to lead. And for a pioneer and a leader, this person must be versatile. An occupational psychologist, to make the greatest impact in a workplace, is best to make use of novel research and apply these studies in the workplace to choose the best person and boost productivity (of course, be practical too); to be a step ahead of every one. Thanks for reading! 5. In Hong Kong, it is not so popular to hire a occupational psychologist in a company. I hope that people in HK will understand more about the role of occupational psychologists and the benefits, such as how they can boost the work efficiency, manage the relationship between employers and employees and maintain a good mental health in workplace. Also, the message of work-life balance would be spread among companies in the future. 6. I'd love to see more awareness of context and physical cues as ways to nudge and prompt pro-social behaviour in the workplace. Occupational psychologists, as far as I can tell, could do a lot of good by helping others to focus on the good and not always be about fixing problems. Positive occupational psychology, anyone? 7. It is a matter of posture. If the Occupational psychologist is an instrument of the status quo he/she will never cause positive impact. He/she should be alinged with the people's needs and work on the transformation of the workplace no the continuity. 8. Colin Capaldi1:39 am I believe that an occupational psychologist is in a unique position to help implement organizational policies, activities, interactions and environments that are conducive to both worker productivity and employee satisfaction. Considering the considerable amount of time we spend at work, a workplace that promotes the physical and mental well-being of its employees is essential. An occupational psychologist can have the greatest impact by promoting and implementing best practices that are supported by current research in order to boost the health of the organization, as well as the health of its workers. I have not yet had the opportunity to take an occupational psychology course, so winning this textbook would provide a great learning experience. Best of luck to all! 9. By focusing relentlessly on science against the ceaseless flow of management fads and the popular business books that spawn them--both of which are oftentimes based on nothing more than appealing anecdotes and comforting step-by-step models. Occupational psychologists would do well to emulate corporate counsel. Lawyers do net let a desire to "partner" with senior leadership cloud their legal judgement because they know they will be held accountable by their profession. Likewise, occupational psychologists should have the courage to put the best science on the table and let the chips fall where they may. ( 10. Anonymous8:22 am The best way to use a psychologist in the work place would be to use someone inconspicuous in the background not drawing attention to themselves to get a clear idea of ways to optimis people's productivity and see any underlying issues people may have. Not spying on them as such but seeing there natural persona which is always the best way to diagnose any underlying issues they may have. It's a win win the company has a psychologist who can monitor people and the people who wouldn't normally come forward to a psychologist get monitored. 11. I'm not an occupation psychologist. I'm effectively a field practitioner. I make my living helping companies create more productive, fun workplaces. This book will provide evidence and ideas for what I do. Mark Levison - 12. Homeostasis, that is my analogy. The Occupational Psychologist keeps a constant state of optimal functioning within organizations. By constantly developing new relationships with every department involved in a given context, the Occupational Psychologist will uncover new ways of bringing people together for an even better functioning of the whole. 13. Anonymous1:33 pm Create the best business case/benefits for the Board and make a difference to the people in the organisation. 14. mihaela3:13 pm Be closely in touch with people in a company and with their needs, implement interventions that respons to these and prove their benefits. Bring psychology close to them and them close to (occupational) psychology. 15. C Boycott4:06 pm I am still in the middle of my MSc in occupational psychology and am aware I have a lot to learn so I may be a bit off the mark here. But, from the stories of my lecturers and the experiences I’ve had, I think from a consultancy perspective at least, it is ultimately about perceptions of worth. Regardless of whether the service is to provide training, development, assessment, coaching, change transition, it all stands or falls on how much the client really values the occupational psychologist. So it’s up to us as occupational psychologists to demonstrate our worth, by doing the following: 1.Know our stuff (we are supposed to be the ‘expert’). 2.Show the client we know our stuff. Demonstrate why it was a good thing to ask for us. 3.Present ourselves well. Looking and acting professional is half the battle. 4.Listen to what the client has to say (even if we don’t agree with it). 5.Be prepared to have our ideas and methods questioned. A lot. 6.Repeat point 2. In doing this, we, as occupational psychologists will demonstrate that we are the expert and the client was right to ask for our services. The client will then not only be more likely to implement our methods but also be more likely to ask for our services again in future. They will also be more likely to recommend us to others, thus maximising the impact we can have on their workplace and elsewhere. So in short, most impact is achieved through demonstration of an occupational psychologist’s worth to a workplace. (I hope that was brief enough!) 16. There are several ways in which an occupational psychologist can have an impact on the workplace. From a businessperson and employer's point of view, an occupational psychologists can do wonders in terms of increasing staff productivity and as a result of that, increasing revenues and profits. From a worker's point of view, however, it adds a caring side to the HR department. It reminds them that it's not just about getting hired and fired, and that the establishment doesn't just care about what goes on within its four walls. It reminds them that to be a good worker, and be healthy in general, a balance needs to be struck between work and life, and that they're not on their own when trying to achieve it. In a time when we're all spending more and more time at work, and the world is paying more attention to psychology, occupational psychologists are just going to become more and more important, I feel. 17. The occupational psychologist needs to have insight of his skills, knowledge and abilities. He then needs to understand what the workplace needs, and apply his skills, knowledge and abilities. The workplace is driven by some goal. The occupational psychologist needs to come in and provide ways for the workplace to be effective, efficient, and ethical in meeting that goal. He/ she needs to coach, consult and teach workplace leaders about appropriate behaviours in order to ensure that workplace goals are met. Nathi Khoza - 18. Anonymous4:30 pm This question reminds me of a quote. "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." The simplicity of this quote has the feel of something out of The Art of War and begs the question what are the right things? The power of occupational psychology lies in it's ability to provide a scientific structure about how to optimize the workplace. Occupational psychology not only applies to management but also those working below them and gives them the tools to be successful. Words like "optimize" and "success" are broad because the impact of occupational psychology are equally broad. Whether the goal is greater productivity, accurately accessing employees, or leaving each day enthusiastic and with a smile on your face occupational psychology provides people with the knowledge and framework in a scientific context to help people to achieve their goals.

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Minecraft unlikely on Wii U Minecraft unlikely on Wii U Load of blocks Nintendo's eShop may be attracting a lot of small developers but Mojang, the team behind smash hit Minecraft, doesn't seem very keen on the idea. Speaking in an interview with Edge, Mojang's Jens Bergensten had this to say: Microsoft has an exclusivity deal for consoles. When it runs out we'll consider Minecraft for PlayStation, but Wii U is very unlikely. Jens Bergensten, Mojang Unfortunate news, since the Wii U's GamePad could be considered a natural fit compared to standard console controllers. Would you like to see Minecraft come to Wii U, or is it old news already? 's avatar Rob Jones 3,021 news items Share this story User comments 4 posts Artakha said: I would love for Minecraft to be on the Wii U. It's certainly a great fit considering you can use the Gamepad touch screen just like you would a cursor on a Computer. While still retaining the dual analog and control scheme that the game would require for being on consoles. 1 year ago 13 posts EMurphy said: I've been saying Minecraft would be great on Wii U since the console came out. The Gamepad really would be perfect. A shame they're not considering it. 1 year ago 1 post Deadmau5 said: Is it on wii u or is it not yet of is it never going to be on wii u 1 year ago Write a comment Instant join Around the Web Widget by Zergnet

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Denedo presents yet another jurisdictional question Upon reading Mr. MacLean's comments below, it occurred to me to wonder whether the Supremes even have jurisdiction to review CAAF's decision in Denedo v. United States, 66 M.J. 114 (C.A.A.F. 2008). My tentative answer is it doesn't look like they do. When Congress extended the Supremes' cert jurisdiction over CMA decisions in 1983, it did so in a very limited fashion. 28 U.S.C. § 1259 provides that the Supremes can review CAAF decisions: (1) of affirmed military death sentences, (2) issued in response to a JAG's certified issue, (3) issued after granting a direct review petition, and (4) in other cases "in which the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces granted relief." That final subsection is what gave the Supremes jurisdiction to review CAAF's issuance of a writ that led to Clinton v. Goldsmith, 526 U.S. 529 (1999). But in Denedo, has CAAF "granted relief"? Here's Denedo's decretal paragraph: Accordingly, we remand Appellant's petition to the United States Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals for further proceedings, where the Government will have the opportunity to obtain affidavits from defense counsel and submit such other matter as the court deems pertinent. The Court of Criminal Appeals will then determine whether the merits of Appellant's petition can be resolved on the basis of the written submissions, or whether a factfinding hearing is required under United States v. DuBay, 17 C.M.A. 147, 37 C.M.R. 411 (1967). The court will determine whether Appellant's counsel rendered deficient performance and, if so, whether such deficiency prejudiced Appellant under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S. Ct. 2052, 80 L. Ed. 2d 674 (1984). If prejudice is found, the court shall determine whether the requested relief should be granted. Denedo v. United States, 66 M.J. 114, 128 (C.A.A.F. 2008). That doesn't look like "relief"; it looks like kicking the can before deciding whether to grant relief. And if no relief, then no Supreme Court jurisdiction. Norbert Basil MacLean III said... Based on the language of 28 USC 1259(4) I agree with CAAFlog's tentative analysis that SCOTUS does not have jurisdiction. I think "relief" is the key word here. And as CAAFlog pointed out, CAAF did not grant any relief to Denedo; it just remanded to the lower court for more fact finding. I think the Government is going to have to wait on Denedo - it's not ripe for SCOTUS review yet. Cloudesley Shovell said... According to CAAF, NMCCA had jurisdiction to review Denedo's petition under Art. 66. After NMCCA denied relief, Denedo appealed to CAAF, and CAAF granted review. CAAF never says in its opinion upon what statute it relied to review the case. However, the only way CAAF has jurisdiction to hear a case is via one of the three mechanisms in Article 67. It wasn't a death penalty case, the JAG did not certify anything, so CAAF must necessarily have been acting under Art. 67(a)(3). Denedo's writ was a "case reviewed by a CCA"; Denedo petitioned CAAF for review, and CAAF granted review. 28 USC 1259 expressly gives the Supreme Court jurisdiction to hear cases under Art. 67(a)(3). There is nothing in the language of either Art. 67(a)(3) or 28 USC 1259 that limits jurisdiction to cases heard on "direct review". That phrase appears nowhere in either statute. The Supreme Court's jurisdiction to hear Denedo (if it gets there) is clear. Norbert Basil MacLean III said... Cloudesley Shovell: I don't believe SCOTUS jurisdiction rests under 28 USC 1259(3) as it was a writ appeal and not a petition for review. I cannot find any cases where an extraordinary writ appeal was treated as a petition for review. Does anybody know of any such cases? CAAFlog said... Sir Cloudesley, SCOTUS's jurisdiction to hear Denedo isn't clear at all. As Mr. MacLean points out, 28 U.S.C. § 1259(3), gives SCOTUS jurisdiction to review "Cases in which the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces granted a petition for review under section 867(a)(3) of title 10." 10 U.S.C. § 867(a)(3) provides (at least according to the MCM -- the final "a" seems a bit strange) that "The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces shall review the record in . . . all cases reviewed by a Court of Criminal Appeals in which, upon petition of the accused and on good cause shown, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has granted a review." Denedo doesn't appear to be such a case. Instead, on 30 March 2007, CAAF docketed the case with this notice: "Misc. No. 07-8012/NA. Jacob DENEDO, Appellant v. United States, Appellee. CCA 99-00680. Notice is hereby given that a writ-appeal petition for review of the decision of the United States Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals on application for extraordinary relief in the nature of a writ of error coram nobis was filed under Rule 27(b) on March 29, 2007, and placed on the docket this 30th day of March, 2007." 28 U.S.C. § 1259(4) appears to have been expressly designed to provide SCOTUS jurisdiction over CAAF decisions granting extraordinary relief while withholding SCOTUS jurisdiction over CAAF cases denying extraordinary relief. It appears that Denedo isn't yet in that first category. Cloudesley Shovell said... I understand your point, but respectfully disagree, out of stubbornness if nothing else. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Consider me disgusted by the whole affair. Laws and sausages and all that. Anonymous said... I would think SCOTUS has jurisdiction for the limited purpose of deciding whether a lower appellate court had jurisdiction to even hear the case. Am I missing something? John O'Connor said... Am I looking at it too simplistically to think that Denedo got "relief" because the Court's decision gave him a hearing before the CCA to which he otherwise would not have been entitled? I haven't done any research, but that seems rational to me. Anonymous said... Agree with J O'C. Denedo has his relief - a hearing. Anonymous said... I agree with cloudesley and jo'c. Denedo clearly was a case "reviewed by a CCA in which, upon petition of the accused and on good cause shown, the CAAF has granted review." Art. 67(a)(3). Also, relief was granted in the form of a hearing. This case is a "must review" by the Supremes. CAAFlog said... 1815 Anon, Can you provide ANY "Denedo clearly was a case 'reviewed by a CCA in which, upon petition of the accused and on good cause shown, the CAAF has granted review.' Art. 67(a)(3)."? I think it would stretch the normal meaning of the word "relief" to say that it includes a hearing. Does that mean that any time a civil litigant survives a motion for summary judgment and gets a jury trial, the client has received "relief" and the attorney should be eligible for attorney's fees under any applicable fee-shifting statute? Of course not. Would we say a death row inmate received "relief" because a U.S. district court held a hearing on a habeas petition before denying it? Of course not. Nor does CAAF grant "relief" by docketing a case and holding an oral argument. Nor does CAAF grant "relief" by ordering a DuBay hearing. It would be supremely ironic if SCOTUS were to torture its jurisdiction-granting statute in order to hold that CAAF overreached its jurisdiction-granting statute. CAAFlog said... Let's try a thought experiment divorcing the relief question from the Denedo context. Hypothesize that a convicted servicemember on appeal alleges IAC. Hypothesize further that CAAF orders a DuBay hearing which makes factual findings. CAAF then rules that there was no IAC and affirms the findings and sentence and the Supremes deny cert. Has the servicemember received relief? I would certainly answer that question in the negative. That being so, I think it would be an exercise in outcome oriented analysis for me to argue that Denedo received relief merely because CAAF ordered further proceedings in his case without purporting to affect the findings or sentence. As much as I disagree with the majority opinion's jurisdiction analysis in Denedo, I would not advance that outcome-oriented interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 1259(4). Anonymous said... caaflog, aside from the relief issue, i don't see any stretching to say that denedo petitioned caaf to review a cca decision and on good cause shown, caaf granted review. Just following the plain language. anon 1815 John O'Connor said... CAAFlog, not all differences in statutory construction are "outcome-oriented" just because they differ from your construction (wink).

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The Domino EffectGone are the days of cheap $1 per gallon gas. Do you even remember the time when a $20 bill could have easily filled your car’s gas tank? I sure do, but it seems like such a distant memory these days. Across the nation, we continue to see a rise in gas prices. According to AAA, the average gas price is $3.517 per gallon. And the price of oil is hovering around $105 a barrel. Many experts predict that we will continue to see gas prices go up. The direct impact of high gas prices is easy to see, because it costs you more money at the pump. But for an economy in recovery mode, the domino effect of high gas prices is concerning. What do I mean by the domino effect? Well, higher gas prices could raise the prices we pay for other goods and services too. For example, it could push transportation costs (airlines raise airfares, taxis charge fuel surcharges, public transit) up and raise the prices on consumer products — to account for higher petroleum costs. In the end, these costs are passed on to consumers and we all pay more for goods (e.g. higher food prices) and services (e.g. shipping). As for the economy, when consumers spend more money on gas they have less money to spend on other things. Despite this reality, gas prices continue to soar. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Energy released a new Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Price Update, which showed that we are still paying more at the pump. In fact, gas prices have gone up a staggering 28% since this time last year. And half of this increase has occurred since the beginning of this year (Jan. 2011) alone. Back in December 2010, a former Shell president (John Hofmeister) predicted gas prices could go up to $5 per gallon by 2012. Could he be right? Stop the presses, it’s already been reported that a gas station in Orlando, Florida (near the airport) is actually charging $5.39 a gallon for regular gasoline. Watch the video below to see America’s most expensive gas station. How high will gas prices go? No one really knows, but it looks like Wall Street is predicting they will continue to rise. And if they continue to go up, the domino effect will impact consumers’ wallets —as the prices we pay for food, transportation and other products increases. What are your thoughts on gas prices? Have they effected the way you drive? Other interesting articles: Photo: BaylorBear78

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14 cows were mowed down by a train in Renwal area in the district on Monday. The incident occurred near Mindi railway crossing where the stray cattle were grazing, police said on Tuesday. A passenger train run over the cows killing them, they said, adding that there was no damage to the train. Post-mortem was conducted on Tuesday at a local veterinary hospital.

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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 08:47:15 EST Subject: The Armed Criminal in America by James Wright This is Wright's 5 page summary of his 70+ page article published by the NIJ. National Institute of Justice Research in Brief November 1986 The Armed Criminal in America by James D. Wright Violent crime that threatens or abuses the physical safety of its victims lies at the heart of the crime problem in America today. In turn, the use of firearms to commit these crimes increases the seriousness of the violence problem. Each year, some 30,000 Americans die through the suicidal, homicidal or accidental abuse of guns; several hundreds of thousands are injured; many hundreds of thousands more are victimized by gun crime. And the contribution of armed crime to the public's fear of crime is incalculable. To shed light on armed crime, the National Institute of Justice recently sponsored a study that surveyed more than 1,800 convicted adult felons (all men) incarcerated throughout the country. The survey asked these felons how and why they obtain, carry, and use firearms, especially in the commission of criminal acts. This Research in Brief summarizes the results and policy implications of the study as they pertain to the nature of the criminal firearms market, criminal firearms preferences, the motivation to own and carry guns, and how members of the survey sample thought they would respond to various types of gun regulation. These results and implications apply only to the particular criminal population studied: serious adult male felons. Other groups, such as juvenile offenders, first offenders, female offenders, and less serious (nonfelony) adult male offenders may have different patterns of firearms acquisition, ownership and use. Therefore, they may respond to entirely different criminal justice initiatives. A Typology of Armed Criminals To facilitate analysis of the survey, the research developed a general typology of criminals based on their weapon use in crime. The largest group (39 percent) within the 7-category typology is the /unarmed criminal/, men who had never committed any crime while armed with a weapon and who function as a comparison group in most of our analysis. Also defined are two groups of "armed--not-with-a-gun-criminals" (11 percent) -- men who had committed armed crimes but never with a firearm. Based on the weapon used most frequently, this group is further divided into "knife criminals" and "improvisers," the latter typically armed with a variety of ready-to-hand weapons. The other half of the sample are "gun criminals," who have been divided into four groups based on their frequency of gun use in crime: one-time firearm users (men who had committed one, but only one, gun crime); sporadics (men who had committed "a few" gun crimes); and two types of predators (men who had committed many gun crimes): handgun and shotgun predators, depending on what kind of gun they said they had used most frequently. Table I shows the distribution of the total sample across these seven categories. Table I also shows the average "total criminality" score in each of the seven categories. (This score reflects the sum of all the crimes a felon reported ever having committed, weighted by the seriousness of each offense.) The results confirm that the felons identified as gun predators are overwhelmingly the most active criminals in the sample; the two predator groups (handgun and shotgun), who make up about 20 percent of the sample, account for approximately half the sample's total criminality. Table 1 Total criminality of offenders by typology of weapons used in crime Criminal type Number of Percent of Avg total offenders total sample criminality score Total sample 1,874 100 139 Unarmed-criminals 725 39 61 Armed-not-with-gun criminals Improvisers 79 4 101 Knife-criminals 134 7 109 Gun criminals One-time gun users 257 14 84 Sporadic gun users 257 14 151 Handgun predators 321 17 332 Shotgun predators 101 5 265 * "Total criminality" is an index measure or score reflecting the sum of all the crimes the felon had ever committed (as reported in the study questionnaire) weighted by the seriousness of each offense. The index numbers have no intrinsic meaning except that lower numbers mean fewer or less serious crimes and higher numbers mean more or more serious ones. The table shows the average score on this index for each group. The Nature of the Criminal Firearms Market Three-quarters of the sample said they had owned one or more firearms at some time in their lives. Seventy-nine percent of these -- more than 1,000 -- said they owned at least one handgun. The handgun owners responded to a number of detailed questions about the methods and sources they used to acquire their most recent handguns. Their answers provide previously unavailable details describing the nature of the criminal gun market. The principal results: (1) Legitimate firearms retailers play only a minor role as direct sources of handguns for adult felony offenders. Only about one-sixth of the gun-owning felons obtained their most recent handguns through a customary retail transaction involving a licensed firearms dealer. The remainder -- five out of six -- obtained them via informal, off-the-record transactions involving friends and associates, family members, and various black market outlets. The means of acquisition from these informal sources included cash purchase, swaps and trades, borrowing and renting, and often theft. The criminal handgun market is overwhelmingly dominated by informal transactions and theft as mechanisms of supply. The off-the-record nature of the market is further illustrated in the responses to a series of questions concerning the ease with which these men felt they could arm themselves upon release from prison. (As convicted felons, of course, all these men are legally prohibited from acquiring guns upon release, under provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.) Most of the sample (gun owners and nonowners alike) thought it would be "no trouble at all" to acquire a gun upon release; about 80 percent felt they could obtain a suitable handgun in a few days or less. When asked where they would go for guns, their sources were friends, the street, and various black market sources. These results suggest certain policy implications. Policies attempting to regulate handgun acquisition at the point of retail sale may be effective in preventing some types of criminals from acquiring firearms (e.g., juveniles or nonfelony offenders), but they are likely to have little effect on the most serious handgun-owning felons represented in this sample. Hardcore felons of the sort studied in this research rarely use customary retail channels to obtain handguns. (2) Gun theft plays a critical role in connecting the adult felony offender to his firearms supply. Half the men in the total sample had stolen at least one gun at some time in their lives (as shown in Figure 1). Many had stolen more than one. A few, particularly the more predatory felons, had stolen guns in extremely large numbers. At least 40 percent and perhaps has many as 70 percent of the most recent handguns owned by this sample were stolen weapons. These percentages include not only the guns that the felons stole themselves (32 percent), but also guns that the felons knew or believed to have been stolen prior to their acquisition of them. Like other theft, gun theft appears to be an "opportunity" crime: most gun thieves (76 percent) stole guns when they came across them, not because they were looking specifically for a gun to steal. The purpose of most gun thefts (70 percent) was to sell or trade the gun to someone else, rather than to obtain one for personal use. Still most of those who had ever stolen guns kept at least one of them for personal use, usually because the stolen gun was a better quality weapon than the gun they were carrying at that time. Most gun thefts (84 percent) occurred in private residences, but thefts from "high-volume" sources (retailers, wholesalers, shippers, and manufacturers) were also widely reported. These high-volume thefts may in fact account for a larger share of the total volume of stolen guns, due to the potentially greater number of guns stolen per theft. The ideal gun control policy would be one that directly affects the illicit user but leaves the legitimate user pretty much alone. Formulating such a policy, however, presupposes a sharp distinction between the licit and the illicit markets, a distinction seriously eroded by the heavy volume of gun thefts from legitimate owners. The survey data suggests that a successful policy for controlling criminal access to firearms must necessarily address the problem of gun theft, perhaps including measures for informing legitimate owners about the extent and seriousness of gun theft and about procedures for adequately securing their firearms. Criminal Firearms Preferences Many gun control policy proposals are targeted to particular classes of firearms: to handguns in general or somewhat more commonly, to certain restricted classes of handguns, particularly the law-quality ones. The rationale for such proposals is two-fold: (1) legitimate gun owners have little or no need for or interest in such firearms and (2) illegitimate gun owners do. To assess the nature of the criminal demand for firearms, the survey asked for information on both the qualities the sample preferred in a handgun and the characteristics of the most recent handgun they actually owned. Contrary to popular belief, neither line of questioning revealed much interest in small, cheap handguns among the adult felons in this sample. Such interest as was observed was concentrated among felons who had never used firearms to commit crimes. The hardened firearms criminals in the sample both preferred to carry and actually carried relatively large, well-made weapons. The most common among the recent handguns owned was a Smith & Wesson .38 equipped with a 4" barrel. No more than a third of the most recent handguns owned by criminals would qualify as "snubbies" (barrel length of 3 inches or less), and only about 15 percent would qualify as "Saturday Night Specials." Figure 1 Gun Theft by Criminal Type Percent who had ever stolen a gun 80 * * * 70 * * * * * * 60 * * * * * * 50 * * * * * * * 40 * * * * * * * * * * 30 * * * * * * * * * * * * * 20 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 10 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 0 * * * * * * * Unarmed Impro- Knife One-time Sporadic Handgun Shotgun visor Criminal gun-user gun-user predator predator While the average price felons paid for their most recent handguns was not especially high -- falling in the $100 to $200 range -- the average quality of these guns was relatively high. Presumably, gun prices are heavily discounted in the markets exploited by these men. Analysis of the relationship between types of firearms carried and extent of criminal activity revealed that the more a felon used his guns in crime, the higher the quality of the weapon he carried. Among the truly predatory criminals in the sample, the small, cheap handgun was definitely not the weapon of choice. Much the same results were obtained in questions about "preferred" handgun characteristics. In general, far more interest was shown in features such as accuracy, firepower, traceability, and quality of construction, than price or size. The study concluded from these findings that the strategy of purging the market of small, cheap handguns may be largely irrelevant to the felons most likely to commit gun crimes. It is, of course, possible that such handguns are much more important to first offenders, juveniles, or other classes of criminals. Gun criminals in this sample, however, did not have much interest in small, cheap handguns. The Motivation to Own and Carry Guns One reason criminals acquire and carry handguns is because many crimes are easier to commit if armed than if not. Beyond these obvious criminal motivations, however, the survey also shows that gun criminals own and carry guns because they were raised around guns and have owned and used them all their lives. Most of them associated with other men who owned and carried guns as well. Furthermore, the majority tended to keep their guns loaded at all times and fire them regularly, often at other people. Half the men in the sample claimed to have fired a gun at someone at some time; half also claimed to have been fired upon (excluding military service in both cases). In fact, many respondents stated that a man who is armed with a gun is "prepared for anything that might happen" -- an opportunity to commit a crime or the need to defend oneself against the assaults or predations of others. Therefore, while handgun carrying among felons is in part a rational response to the nature of their criminal activities, it is, in equal measure, an element of the lifestyle arising from early socialization and from fear. Given these results, it is not surprising that the major motive acknowledged for acquiring and carrying guns was self-protection. Concerning their most recently owned handgun, 58 percent of those who had ever owned a handgun cited "self-protection" as a very important reason for the acquisition; "to use in my crimes" was very important to only 28 percent. ("Self-protection," in this context at least must be interpreted with some caution. Part of it no doubt implies protection against being preyed upon or continually harassed by other criminals who are better armed. Another part implies protection against armed victims, against the police, and against the prospects of apprehension during a crime.) In this connection, about two-fifths of the sample had at some time in their careers encountered an armed victim; an equivalent percentage had at some time decided not to commit a crime because they had reason to suspect that the intended victim was armed. (These findings, too, must be interpreted with caution. Although the survey did not ask who those "intended victims" were, it is likely that many would be the felons' own "colleagues," since men of the sort studied in this research are clearly not above preying upon one another.) A third of the sample (of gun criminals only) made it a practice to carry a gun more or less all the time, as shown in Figure 2. This ranged from about 10 percent for the one-time gun users to more than 50 percent for the handgun predators. Another half carried a gun whenever the circumstances seemed potentially dangerous -- when doing a drug deal, when going out at night, when they were with other men carrying guns or, more generally, whenever their ability to defend themselves might be an issue. Only one in five of the gun criminals claimed that they carried a gun only when they intended to commit a specific crime. Consequently, the actual use of guns in crimes appears to be more a by-product of strongly ingrained gun-carrying habits, rather than the result of intentional planning for armed offenses. The Response of Felons to Gun Policy Measures Proposals for new gun legislation surface with some regularity. The survey asked felons how they thought [they] would respond to some of the proposed measures. The results are obviously conjectural, but nontheless of considerable interest as indicators of how felons themselves expect such measures would affect them. First the felons were asked what they thought they would do if "the cheapest handgun you could find cost more than you could possibly afford to pay." Among gun criminals, most said they would either borrow or steal the handgun they wanted; others said they would respond by carrying sawed-off shoulder weapons. Next, they were asked what they would do in the face of a ban on small, cheap handguns. They overwhelmingly responded that they would carry bigger and more expensive handguns instead. Finally, they were questioned about their possible response to a complete handgun ban. In answer to this question, a majority of the gun criminals -- and more than three quarters of the predators (the truly high-rate felons in the survey) -- said that they would respond by carrying sawed-off should weapons. The general pattern is thus one of lateral or upward substitution: the weapons that gun criminals said they would carry under various hypothetical firearms bans were either just as lethal as, or more lethal than, the weapons they would have otherwise carried. The message these men seem to be sending is that their felonious activities would not suffer for lack of appropriate armaments. Their intent, it seems, would be to find substitutes that might be somewhat less convenient, but would be at least as effective as their current weaponry. Given that their response predictions are accurate, the implication of these findings is that many commonly proposed gun control measures could well prove to have unanticipated and counter- productive consequences -- at least among the serious adult felons studied here. Implications for Gun Policies Findings from the survey suggest the following: * Controls imposed at the point of retail sale would not be effective in preventing the acquisition of guns by serious adult felons because these felons rarely obtain their guns through customary retail outlets. * Since theft of guns is a predominant means by which felons procure firearms, the 30 to 50 million handguns currently possessed by legitimate private owners represents a potentially rich source for criminal handgun acquisition. An effective criminal gun control policy must therefore, of necessity, confront the issue of firearms theft. At a minimum, there should be programs to educate the gun-owning public about the importance of adequately securing their guns. * Among the most predatory felons, gun ownership and carrying is seen as essential because they fear what the prospects of an unarmed life on the streets would mean for their physical safety and security. For this group of most serious offenders, enhanced sanctioning policies would be unlikely to pose must threat; for them, the cost of being caught unarmed in a dangerous situation would be many times greater than the cost of a few years in prison. * For less predatory felons, however, sentence enhancement policies do seem to have an important deterrent effect, since a sizable majority of the felons who do not use guns in crime cite "stiffer penalties" as a very important reason for their decision not to carry firearms. * Finally, the survey findings suggest that, at least for the serious adult felons included in this sample, certain commonly proposed gun-banning measures could have strongly undesirable consequences, resulting in the substitution of more powerful and more lethal firearms. Gun-banning policies may be responded to differently by other types of offenders, however, and could represent a more effective deterrent to firearms use by juveniles, non-felony offenders, and other types of criminals. James D. Wright of the University of Massachusetts was the principal investigator on a study of firearms use in crime, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and published by the Institute in July 1985. A more complete version has recently been published as "Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms" by James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi (Hawthorne, New York: Aldine Publishing Co., 1986) From the Director The armed predators who use guns in the course of their crimes are the source of much of the violence and fear that plague many urban neighborhoods. The debate over how to keep guns away from criminals has been intense and longstanding. Until recently, legislators and policy makers have had little empirical data to inform the debate. If we are to achieve the goal of separating predators from guns, then we need to know how and where they obtain their weapons and how they use them in their criminal activities. This Research in Brief summarizes the findings of a National Institute-sponsored study that provided valuable new information about these questions. The knowledge produced by this study was cited by those involved in the policy debate over new gun control legislation passed by the Congress in 1986. Based on interview with more than 1,800 incarcerated felons, the study found that few of the gun-owning felons had bought their guns from a retail source. Rather, the majority usually obtained them from family members or friends or on the street. Often they stole them. This research can help in the effort to develop more effective strategies to keep the predator from weapons of terror. The findings suggest that, for career criminals at least, vigorous enforcement and tougher penalties for those who commit crimes with firearms may be more effective than regulation. Our emphasis ought to be on "use a gun, go to jail." New technology may also aid in the search for solutions. If we could do a better job of detecting concealed weapons, our emphasis would shift from efforts to control weapons at the point of purchase to identifying those who are carrying and using guns for crime so they can be arrested and prosecuted. NIJ is pursuing research toward a weapons-detection system that could reliably indicate concealed firearms. While much additional testing will be required before a system becomes operational, initial indications are promising. All side of the debate over gun control acknowledge that the use of weapons in crime is a major threat to the public and a pressing issue for policy makers. The National Institute is pleased that this research has contributed to informed discussion of the key issues. Advances in the technology of weapons detection may help shape new and more effective policies to help curb violent crime. James K. Stewart National Institute of Justice

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tagCelebritiesDesperately Seeking Britney Ch. 02 Desperately Seeking Britney Ch. 02 In the final installment of the Britney series Deb, her biggest fan, finally fulfills her fantasy when she becomes a fuck toy for Britney and her friends. It stands alone, but reading the first three parts (Piece of Me, Toxic, Desperately Seeking Britney) may be helpful. "Get up and get dressed baby. Hector's waiting." From a deep sleep Deb hears the voice. She is confused and has no idea where she is. When she opens her eyes she sees Manny standing by the side of the bed holding her bikini and wrap. It all slowly comes back. Deb was just gang-banged by twenty strangers in a strip joint. She can still feel it in her pussy and ass. Even her jaw is a little sore. "Put these on," Manny orders. Deb sits up on the side of the bed and stuffs her oversized tits into the top. She stands and pulls the bottoms up her legs slipping them over her pussy and ass. Deb slides the white wrap through her arms and ties it at the waist. Her feet slip into the flip flops under the bed. She turns and faces Manny. She can't believe that she is still horny. "Do you want to have a little fun first?" Deb asks with a wicked look in her eyes. "It won't take long." Without waiting for an answer Deb drops to her knees and unzips Manny's fly. She reaches into the opening and pulls out his sizeable member. Her tongue shoots out and swirls around the knob. Deb sucks it into her mouth. She can feel his cock expanding as she continues to tease him with her tongue. When he is fully erect she drools spit down his shaft and pumps him with her hand. Deb looks up at him like a hungry whore. "I just love sucking cock. Do you want to fuck my mouth? Do you want to shove your cock down my throat? I want you to. I want you to make me gag and choke and drool spit all over my tits. Then you can cum all over me." Manny knows he should bring her directly to Hector but he can't help himself. He grabs her by the hair and slams his cock between her lips. He drives it into the back of her throat. He pulls out and slams into her again until his entire cock disappears and her lips are pressed against his wiry pubes. He feels her tongue snake out and lick his balls. She looks up at him to let him know how much she loves what she is doing. Manny grabs her head and fucks her face like a madman. He can feel his cock slamming into her throat and his balls bouncing off her chin. Rivers of spit are pouring from her lips and drooling down her neck. Deb is making loud choking and gagging sounds each time he slams his hard meat into her mouth. "Ssshhuuupp... sssspppp... gggaaa..." Manny pulls his cock from her lips and grabs her hair forcing Deb to look up at him. She is breathing hard and, from the wild look in her eyes, appears to be on the verge of an orgasm. Her pussy is leaking like a faucet and her nipples feel like they are going to burst. 'More," she demands while ripping off her bikini top. He slams his cock back down her throat and fucks her face even harder. Tears are streaming down her cheeks. Spit drools in strands onto her naked tits. Deb slips a hand into her bikini bottoms and rubs her clit. Seconds later her body jerks. Juices gush from her pussy. Deb climbs onto the bed and tilts her head back over the side of the mattress. Manny rams his cock down her throat until his balls are pressed against her nose. He slams in and out of her mouth like a maniac driving it deep into her throat on each thrust. Spit is now running into her nose and drooling down her face. Her hair is becoming matted with saliva. Manny reaches down and tweaks her nipples while his cock continues to hammer her mouth. Deb shoves a hand into her bikini bottoms and digs three fingers into her fuck hole. They make loud squishing sounds as she pumps them in and out of her cunt. Her body explodes in a series of orgasms that have her head spinning out of control. She feels Manny's cock swell. He pulls out. "Oh fuck... AAARRRGGGHHHH..." Hot cum explodes from his tip like a fire hose drenching her lily white titties and dark brown nipples with gobs of man-seed. Manny aims his cock at Deb's hungry face and unleashes a second blast. A torrent of cum explodes onto her lips and chin before traveling down her face and into her hair. Deb can't believe how much cum is shooting from his cock. He continues to pump spurt after spurt all over her face and tits. She finally takes him into her mouth and squeezes the last few drops out of his throbbing member. Manny is still hard despite the huge release. Deb keeps sucking his cock until he is groaning and ready for more. "Fuck me," she demands. Deb quickly climbs onto her hands and knees, pulls her bikini bottoms down her thighs and tilts her ass in the air. Manny guides his vein-streaked cock to the opens folds of her glistening cunt. His knob splits her open and spears into her hot chamber. Deb gasps when she feels his monster punch deep inside her belly. Cum is dripping from her tits as they sway back and forth on her chest each time he slams his cock into her pussy. "Fuck me harder. Shove your big cock up my cunt. That's it... oh god... yes... fuck me." Manny slides his thumb across her asshole and presses it against her bud. Deb feels her sphincter open and his thumb push into the opening. She gasps. More filth from spews her mouth. Reaching between her legs Deb touches her clit. Seconds later her body jerks and twists from another orgasm that rips through her pussy. "In the ass. Fuck me in the ass," she begs. Manny presses the huge mushroom-shaped tip of his cock against Deb's tight asshole until it punches into her body. His cock continues deeper and deeper. Manny grabs her hips and repeatedly slams his hard meat into her tight passage. Deb shoves two fingers up her gooey cunt and pumps them in and out of her dripping chamber. "Oh fuck... oh god... uuunnnggghhh... harder. Shove your big cock up my ass... nnnnggghhhhh... make me cum baby... oh fuck... yes..." The orgasm hits like a thunderbolt. Her body jerks and thrashes against his thrusting cock. Her big tits sway from her chest like water balloons. A scream pierces the air followed by another. Juices gush from her cunt and drip from her hand. Despite having just cum Manny feels his cock swell inside her tight orifice. He thrusts hard and grunts. Hot seed spews into her bowels sending Deb into another series of screaming orgasms. "We gotta go," Manny says finally pulling his dripping cock from her asshole. "The boss is going to be pissed. He doesn't like to be kept waiting." Deb wipes the cum from her face, pulls her bikini and wrap back in place and follows Manny up to suite 1105. Hector is signing papers that one of his goons keeps handing to him. Deb stands nervously in front of his desk waiting for him to acknowledge her presence. He finally looks over to Manny. His eyes are cold and serious. "Why did you bring this whore into my office? I run a respectable operation." "Sorry boss," Manny replies. "I was under the impression you wanted to see her. My bad. I'll get her out of here." Hector's eyes turn to Deb who is standing there confused. "You're the cunt that wants to see Britney. Is that right?" She nods her head. "Turn around and look up at that TV monitor," Hector orders. After a moment the screen fills with a video of Deb getting fucked by the 20 guys in Hector's club. It is clear from the video that she loves every second of the gang-bang. She can't get enough. Deb feels a tingling in her pussy as she remembers the experience. "Do you think I'm going to expose Britney to that whore? You're nothing but a cum-eating slut. Now get out of here. I don't want to see your face again." "But I thought that's what you wanted," Deb blurts out as tears stream down her cheeks. "Don't talk to me slut. Manny, get her out of here." Manny grabs her by the arm and takes her into the hall. Once they are alone he gently grabs her shoulders and looks down at her. "Look, Hector can be an asshole. I'm sorry. You've been a good sport so I'm going to go out on a limb for you, but Hector can never find out. Meet me outside the big cabana in an hour. Britney's sponsors are throwing a pool party. Rumor has it that she's going to make an appearance but it's not certain. I think I can get you in." "Oh thank you, thank you," Deb says throwing her arms around his neck. "You don't know how much this means to me. If there is anything I can do for you... anything at all..." "We'll discuss that later," Manny replies. "I gotta get back before Hector gets suspicious. I'll see you in an hour." Deb can hardly contain the excitement bubbling inside her. She has an hour to kill and decides to use it preparing for the possibility that she'll actually get to meet Britney. After buying a few items at the hotel drug store she goes into the ladies locker room. She showers and carefully shaves her pussy rubbing cream all over it, then rubs a sweet smelling lotion over her body. Finally she applies some make-up and brushes her hair. "Hey sexy," Deb whispers moving her face closer to the mirror. "If I were Britney I would want to fuck you. Now go out there and give it your best shot baby." Deb moves her hands to her tits and squeezes them with her fingers. Her lips press against the mirror and kiss the girl looking back at her. The tips of their tongues touch. Deb feels her nipples swell and a trickle of cunt juice leak into her bikini bottoms. She steps back from the mirror and adjusts her top until her tits are practically popping out from it. She leaves the locker room and heads for her date with destiny. "Follow me and stay close," Manny tells her. "You're coming in as my girlfriend. Make it look like we're a couple, and don't say a word to anyone." Deb grabs Manny's arm. Butterflies flutter in her stomach when they pass the security guard. He waves them through. Deb notices him staring down at her tits. She puffs them out and puts a little extra sway in her ass as she walks away. She feels super sexy and wants everyone to know. "Okay, we're in. Doesn't look like Britney's here yet. Just mingle with the crowd and pretend that you belong. I gotta get back upstairs." "I'm going to make this up to you later, Manny... I promise." "I'm know you will, baby. Now go have some fun." Deb walks around and notices how the guys are staring at her tits. She loves the attention. It makes her pussy tingle. Suddenly there is a commotion near the corner where she is standing. Her jaw drops when she sees Britney emerge through a door leading into the cabana. Deb tries to catch her breath as she stares at her idol. Britney is wearing a tiny white bikini. Her big tits bulge up from the top like they are about to pop out. The outlines of her dark nipples are barely visible against the thin material, and the hard tips are poking through like little pegs. Britney seems oblivious to the effect she is having and goes about her business greeting friends and associates like everything is perfectly normal. Britney continues to move closer to where Deb is standing. Deb's eyes trace down Britney's body and across her muscular stomach to the tight bottoms cut down in a "V" just above her pubic mound. Her pussy puffs out against the thin material which is molded tightly to her swollen "cameltoe". Deb's legs are shaking. Her head is spinning. Things are happening to her body that she can't control. Her nipples feel like they are going to explode. Her pussy is throbbing. Her heart is pounding. She looks up and locks eyes with Britney who is standing right in front of her. Then it happens. Deb feels her pussy clench. She squeezes her legs together to try and gain some semblance of control but it doesn't work. A short gasp escapes from her throat and then another. She bites her lip and bends slightly at the waist exposing even more of her tits. Her legs begin to shake. Pussy juice gushes into her bikini bottoms. Her body jerks as another gush of cunt juice squirts from her pussy. Britney continues to stare at Deb until the orgasm passes. Her eyes scan the length of Deb's body and then back up to her face. She finally turns and heads for another group to greet them. As she leaves Deb can see the bottoms of her exposed ass cheeks jiggle around the white material stretched tightly across her crack. For the next half hour Deb tries to get close to Britney again but it is impossible. She is disappointed when Britney leaves through a door in the far corner. She can't believe she actually had an orgasm without even touching her pussy. Deb is still tingling all over and trying to decide what to do next when two strong hands grab her arms. "You're coming with us miss." Deb feels a sense of panic. Two extremely large and muscular men guide her to an exit door. They pull her into an elevator and up to the top floor. They open a door and guide her into a small dressing room. On a hanger in the closet is a short white silk robe. "Take everything off and put that on," one of the men orders. "Just do it," he tells her in a voice that makes her quiver. The two men stand and watch Deb slowly remove her top. Her huge globes bounce free. She turns to them and smiles cupping her tits with her hands to entice them but it doesn't work. "The bottoms too," he commands. Deb complies until she is standing in front of them completely naked. He bald pussy puffs out from between her thighs like a ripe peach. She reaches down and parts the folds with her fingers hoping this will break the ice. "Now the robe," he says impatiently. Deb is scared. She doesn't know what is happening. She pulls on the silk robe. It barely covers her ass and is a little tight in the chest accentuating the size of her huge tits. She follows the men down a hall to another room. They knock on the door. When it opens Deb receives the shock of her life. "You're a naughty girl," whispers a soft feminine voice. "But you like being a naughty girl, don't you? That's why I asked them to bring you here." Deb is staring into the eyes of her idol. She can't believe this is real. Britney is staring back at her and wearing an identical white silk robe which exposes a generous proportion of her perfectly proportioned tits. The sensations welling up in her body are incredible from being so close to the woman she has masturbated to so many times. "I knew I liked you the moment you had an orgasm at my reception," Britney says smiling at Deb. Britney excuses the two goons that escorted her upstairs. She guides Deb through the entranceway and into a huge and lavish suite. Deb immediately recognizes Jason, Britney's fiancée, sitting on the couch. "Hi honey," Britney says in a soft voice. "I've bought you a present. I think you're going to like her." "Thank you baby," Jason replies as he pushes down his shorts and kicks them from his feet. "Is it okay if she sucks my cock?" "Of course sweetie," Britney says with a loving smile on her face. "She'll do anything you ask her to do." Britney takes Deb by the arm and guides her towards the couch. She is still speechless from the shock of seeing Britney. She can't believe this is happening to her. It's like a dream. Deb looks down and sees Jason's limp cock lying on his thigh. "What are you waiting for?" Britney orders more than asks. "My baby said he wanted you to suck his cock." Deb drops to her knees and slides her hands up Jason's thighs. She wedges her body between his legs. Deb tilts her head forward and flicks her tongue across Jason's limp member. She feels it twitch and begin to grow. Without using her hands she teases his cock with her lips and tongue until she can slide her mouth down his shaft. Britney sits on the couch next to Jason and snuggles against him. He puts his arm around her shoulder and pulls her close. They kiss. Deb bobs her head up and down Jason's cock until all eight inches are fully erect. She lifts her lips from his knob and drools spit all over it, then plunges her mouth down his length and takes him deep into her throat. "Oooohhhhh fuuuck," Jason moans throwing his head back. "I told you that you were going to like her, honey," Britney whispers while pushing her tongue into his ear. "She's licking your balls with your cock all the way down her throat. What a whore." Being called a whore by Britney gets Deb even more excited. Cunt juice gathers in her pussy. She lifts her lips from Jason's cock and drools more spit down his shaft. Her tongue teases the knob making him squirm. Deb plunges her mouth back down his length pressing her lips against his saliva soaked pubes. Jason twists and turns in agony. "Ooooohhhh... oh god... aaahhhh..." "Do you want me to make him cum?" Deb asks as she pulls her drooling lips from his throbbing flesh. "No... not yet. I want to suck it first." With that Britney slides her head down his body until the knob of his cock pushes between her lips. She uses her tongue to torture him even further, then slams her mouth down his length taking him deep into her throat. Deb watches intently from only inches away. She still has a hard time believing she is here. Everything is so surreal. Britney finally pulls her lips from Jason's hard meat and looks at Deb with hungry eyes. Spit is running down her chin. She flicks her tongue around his knob like it is an ice cream cone keeping her eyes focused on Deb. "Don't you just love sucking cock?" Britney asks Deb. "I do. It makes my pussy all wet and gooey to feel his hard flesh slide between my lips and into my throat." Britney slams her mouth back down Jason's length pressing her lips to his drenched pubes. She slides a hand between her legs and rubs her dripping pussy. Her fingertip flies across the swollen clit like a hummingbird flapping its wings. The pounding in Deb's head is intense as she watches her idol sucking cock and fingering her pussy. "Mmmmmmm... mmmppphhhhh...gggghhhhhh..." Britney is squirming on the couch with Jason's cock still deep in her throat. Her body begins to shake when she cums. Juices explode from her cunt and coat her thighs. As the orgasm finally subsides Britney slides her drooling lips from Jason's cock. She kisses her way up his body to his neck and ear. "Would you like to cum in the whore's mouth baby?" Britney asks in a whisper. "Oh fuck yes... but she better hurry." Deb quickly moves her mouth over Jason's knob and wraps her lips around the flange. Deb finds the spot on the underside of his cock and rubs her tongue rapidly across the sensitive nerve endings. She wraps her hand around his shaft and pumps him firmly twisting and turning his hard meat in her fingers. Jason's moans become more desperate. He puts his hands on the back of Deb's head and digs his fingers into her scalp. "Oh fuck... oh god... AAAARRRRGGHHHH..." His body lifts off the couch. Deb clamps her lips tightly around his shaft. Cum explodes from his cock like a rocket. It shoots into her mouth so hard it feels like he is peeing. A second blast of cum fills her mouth. Her hand squeezes his cock and pumps more cream out from his spewing shaft. Deb has a hard time keeping all of it in her mouth and feels some leak out the corners. "Don't swallow," Britney orders Deb. "I want to see what you have in your mouth." Deb slips her lips off Jason and quickly clamps them shut to keep the huge load sloshing around in her mouth from leaking out. She looks at Britney whose face is only a few inches from hers. Deb tilts her head back and parts her lips. There is so much cum that some of it trickles down her chin. "Honey, look what you did in her mouth," Britney says pushing the side of Deb's face so she is facing Jason. "You really drained your balls. That is so much stuff." Jason grunts his agreement. Britney leans forward and licks the small trickle running down Deb's chin. Their lips meet in a kiss. Britney dips her tongue into the creamy mixture in Deb's mouth. She rolls onto her back pulling Deb with her. Jason's cum slowly drools into Britney's mouth until it is full. Britney rolls over in Jason's lap and slides her mouth over his cock. Cum oozes down his shaft and trickles over his balls and asshole. 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UK's Iraq inquiry turns focus to Bush officials 02/25/10 | by admin [mail] | Categories: Political I webbed the news today, oh boy! Recent revelations from the UK’s Iraq inquiry seem to confirm what we’ve long suspected, and common sense told us, under Bush II, war with Iraq was inevitable—there was nothing Sadaam could do to satisfy Bush II. So, under dubious pretenses, (it was obvious there were no WMDs lurking), after Sadaam satisfied every single Bush II ultimatum, with no coalition in place like Bush I was able to craft, the US drove our one Arab ally against Al Quaida in the area into a hangman’s noose and loosed the very evil is said it was trying to root out. Simultaneously, we forgot about the war in Afghanistan where we were actually fighting Al Quaida for a change because some idiot determined that Sadaam was more evil than Bin Ladin. Maybe it was a ratings move…not too many reporters lining up to embed themselves on patrol in Afghanistan whereas even Geraldo volunteered to be embedded in Iraq. We, as a country, sure treat the rest of the world weirdly. Makes you scratch your head trying to understand things at times. I mean there’s a large segment of us who want to change the rest of the world to be just like us, while at the same time they are trying to deport foreigners who have immigrated to our country so they can be just like us. Am I the only one who sees the disconnect? Back in the 70s we were told the world would run out of oil within 20 to 30 years. Here we are 40 years later and pumping oil like there’s no tomorrow. I’ve been expecting the Mammoth California Earthquake for most of my life and it hasn’t happened yet. And for the last three years we’ve been told a terrorist attack was bound to happen in the next few months and it’s been pretty quiet on the home front since 9/11. That all of these things are likely to happen, at some point in time, I do not dispute. Are some of them more likely to happen sooner rather than later, quite possibly. But if I’m living in Denver and California falls into the ocean after a 9.0 on the Richter quake, I’m not really going to be all the affected by it. Although I may think about getting some beachfront property in Arizona before it gets too expensive. I’m glad Who Dat won the Super Bowl. New Orleans deserves it when I think how they must feel seeing the US effort to rescue Haiti dwarf anything that they, the victims of Katrina ever received. Even sadder are new revelations that faulty engineering by the Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for much of the flooding. They began constructing levees in earnest after Hurricane Betsy in 1965. They also did shoddy work. Back in the day the USACE was the bomb performing engineering feats of wonder. It’s one thing when you get screwed by Cousin Vinny the contractor, it’s another entirely when you get screwed by Uncle Sam. I bet if you asked the average American how they thought cell phone service the United States compared to the rest of the world you’d get back an overwhelming majority of folks saying the US had the best service. (If you didn’t already know, when it comes to cell phone service we aren’t all that much better than most third world countries.) This false sense of entitlement, this unsupported leap of faith that America is the best in everything is not only wrong, it’s dangerous to ourselves. It’s clear to me that Bush I had a well developed sense of reality, while Bush II fell victim to blind faith…and look at the mess we’re in now. Myself, I lost respect for the government of this country about the same time the government lost its respect for me. R-E-S-P-E-C-T is a two way street. After 1964, and the nonsense called the Warren Report was the end of respect from me. It’s truly a sad state of affairs when laws are passed more for their fat content than their value. I’m talking about pork, of course. I suggest the Congress of the United States takes a lesson from sports and makes it against the law for any representative or senator to cast his vote in favor of a bill that provides funding to his or her own state. Maybe then we’ll have laws with merit and substance, rather than nonsense fueled by greed. Class action lawsuits can be good things under the right circumstances. I see that there’s a class action suit brewing against Toyota because the recent recall for stuck accelerators has lowered the resale value of Toyotas. That’s quite some insidious and odious mind that came up with that concept. Let’s put the common sense rule into play….get over it folks, shit happens. Live with it. You could have bought a Saturn, or any of the other numerous defunct US car brands and then where would you be? How’s their resale value holding up? Even with the hit Toyota’s resale value has taken, they’re still hold one of the top resale values. I See An America - Volume 1 Issue 43 - Repurposing The News 01/10/10 | by admin [mail] | Categories: Media I webbed the news today, oh boy. What a sense of deja vu. I've been noticing that a lot of late. A week old story suddenly reappears on today's headlines. Doesn't seem to matter if it's or or There no longer is a read-by date for news apparently. Read more » I See An America - Volume 1 Issue 43 - The Great Depression and Our Depression 01/07/10 | by admin [mail] | Categories: Financial The nucleus of both the Great Depression of 1929 and Our Depression of 2008 was the financial markets. Stock market shenanigans in '29, sub-prime mortgage abuses in '08. In both cases, excessive greed by the insiders, the elite, the moguls, the ruling class, whatever you want to call them, was the reason for the economic collapse. Too much rape and pillage of the common man, joe sixpack, the little guy and the system ran out of money. The big difference is the approach to getting ourselves back on track. In 1929, FDR created "make work" projects, which paid the unemployed for doing work that may not have been necessary. The classic example would be to hire person A to dig a hole, and person B to fill in the hole. Even if that was 100% the case, 100% of the time, I find it better than the 2008 solution of bailing people out by giving them money for having screwed up. While they both have merit (up to a point) in putting money back in the economy there are two significant differences. One: In 1929 the money went to the little guy, the worker. In 2008 in went to the the bankers, the financiers, the brokers. Two: The message in 1929 was that if you worked, you got paid. This is an enormous part of self-confidence and feelings of self-worth. The 2008 message was that if you were rich and screwed things up, the government would throw money at you. And allow you to take bonuses for having done "such a good job." Not only does it breed resentment within the working class, it breeds an sense of entitlement in a group of people who are human beings and as corporate executives. What happened to the American work ethic? Listening to ESPN radio while at work, is not working. If you were my employee, you'd be fired on the spot. There's far too much political correctness and far too little common sense. Here's the important thing. You need to see this video (trailer below)'s an amazing collection of facts, opinions, educated guesses, and most importantly, survival tips. Because, my friends, with the clowns that are in charge of things today, we haven't seen anything yet. Our economy is on its absolute last legs. So watch the trailer of The Fall of America and the Western World and decide for yourself...are you willing to bet your future on those who are in charge of our country's financial policies? Because, if you're not, you owe it to you and your family the get this tape. To do nothing is to risk everything. I See An America - Volume 1 Issue 42 - Health Care Debacle 12/31/09 | by admin [mail] | Categories: Political, Health The seamy side of politics has never been exposed so blatantly as what we've witnessed during the health care debates. It's clear that many of the votes have been bought and paid for by the insurance companies, the existing bill is a travesty that holds little promise for improving health care, and that Ted Kennedy is rolling over in his grave. To even consider fining someone who can't afford health insurance for not having health insurance is government hypocrisy at its worst. As things stand there are no winners (except the insurance companies)...we are all losers. While I identify with the spirit of the public option, I shudder at government administering health care. What's needed is a realistic look at the problems and non-conventional thinking about solutions. There are plenty of examples of health care systems that work in this country. Kaiser Permanente is a prime example. Their premiums are cheap, their service is excellent, and out of pocket co-pays are minimal. Most importantly, Kaiser makes money, so it is a sustainable model. Let's look at how they do things: first and foremost, Kaiser emphasizes preventive medicine...let's fix the problem before it becomes something major. I concur. But I think we can do better. I've long thought that the role of the Federal government is as follows: each citizen of the United States gets born for free, buried for free, is provided free education and medical (including dental and vision)offerings (or can choose to go to private schools or use personal physicians and pay out of their pocket) and if they are willing to work 40 hours they can earn enough to rent lodging, have money for food, and be able to afford payments on a second hand car. Anything elective (like private school, abortion, plastic surgery, cosmetic dentistry) comes out of the citizen's pocket. The key is to have rational limits on what is covered under this health plan. Here's what I propose: childbirth, annual physical checkups, flu shots, childhood vaccinations, emergencies (heart attack, broken leg, gunshot wound, etc) dental fillings and crowns are covered with a $50 co-pay. Plastic surgery, cosmetic dental work, abortion, liposuction, and other optional treatments are not covered but can be purchased for additional money.) Doctor visits for routine (non vital) ailments like colds, ingrown toenails, poison ivy would have a nominal doctor visit of around $50. Generic prescriptions are filled for cost plus $5. Brand name prescriptions are filled for cost plus $25. Lab and testing costs need to be factored in. They need to be reduced to reasonable amounts because in this model, our tax dollars will be paying for these lab tests. There are certainly economies of scale that can be arranged to make this so. The final key to this business model is the scale in which physicians get paid. Currently, the range in pricing for a doctors visit to doctors with private practices is very wide. Depending on the doctor, a visit can range from $50 to $350 for the same thing. To make the plan work, doctors would receive the $50 co-pay plus a reasonable fee for any additional medical treatment (surgery, etc.) As much as Obama wants to use health care as a signature event in his administration, this bill is not acceptable. I See An America - Volume 1 Issue 41 - Fear Mongering In The Absence Of Fact Part Two 08/26/09 | by admin [mail] | Categories: Political, Health I webbed the news today, oh boy. It seems the Kennedy dynasty has run its course. The four brothers, all dead in service of their country. The golden sun, also dead at the wheel of his private plane. The shining daughter, who recently disclosed political ambition but withdrew before running is left to carry the torch, or at least hold it aloft until a generation can be skipped and a new prince emerges. The Kennedy's three, John, Robert and Ted has charisma and social conscience and wished to make America a better place for all who lived here. JFK's brief presidency was defined by standing up to the Soviet Union while not going to war, fighting organized crime and obtaining civil rights reform. Civil rights was passed in honor of his sacrifice. Robert stood for stopping the war in Vietnam and treating our country's poor with more equality. He too was assassinated. The war in Vietnam ended, but not in his honor and the plight of the poor remains poor. Teddy was up next...never as charismatic as his older brothers, Teddy ran himself off the road and off the discussion for president one night in Chappaquiddick and settled for becoming the most productive senator over the next forty years. For over the last two decades, Ted Kennedy championed a national health plan to cover everyone. For two decades, the lobbyist won. Will Ted's death be honored with passage of the National Health Reform? Stay tuned.... So far the political battle of health care has been one of the ugliest political brouhahas I've ever seen. The lies and distortions and hate that have been unleashed by the far right and United Health are blatant. As was the position of the Republican party on this issue. Put into plain speak the Republican partly line is "Fuck the health plan, let's roll out our hate mongering political bag of tricks because we can bring Obama down on this issue if we spin it right." So far, fixed news, the christian right, and some inane senators have done a powerful job of delusional sound bites that have been repeated often enough that America seems to have lost its mind, or at least its common sense and swallowed them whole. From death panels, to no options, to limited service, to immigrants being covered for free, the far rights is pushing buttons with a fury. The lobbyist whose pocket these grand ol' elephants are riding in is throwing money like confetti. If the National Plan included an option to open up Kaiser Permanente Clinics around the country, the problem would be solved immediately. For those of you who haven't heard about there medical insurance go to (note, they may not have a clinic there but pick anyone to see plan details). I've been using Kaiser since the early 1960's and have yet to come across a medical program that makes more sense, offers so much, for such a low premium. Those foolish enough to believe the urban myths about Kaiser are losing out...Kaiser doctors are among the best I've ever seen. They are truly focused on making you well. December 2014 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat  << <   > >>   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31       I see an America that is at a crucial junction in its future. The choices and actions we make today will have long lasting impact on our country's future. XML Feeds multiblog platform

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Human genome sequence helps target cancer The human genome is being used to produce a new generation of drugs that target the genetic changes responsible for individual cancers. Information from the sequencing of the human genome has already provided elegant new drugs, says Paul Workman, director of the Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics. Imatinib, a drug used in cases of chronic myeloid leukaemia and gastrointestinal stromal tumours, is one example. Drugs like this target specific mutations in cancer cells and significantly reduce the toxicity associated with more traditional, less selective treatments. Treatments linked directly to cancer genomics also hold the promise of personalised drugs to match the molecular make-up of individual patient's tumours. There are challenges associated with this genetic approach, not least the development of drug resistance. Workman believes that these challenges will be overcome within the next 10 years. Chris Incles

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Take the 2-minute tour × In every ATM I've seen, the card is "swallowed" by the machine, and returned at one point or another (or not, if you type the wrong PIN 3 times or whatever). This leads to people forgetting the card, as exemplified in Why don't ATMs give you cash before your card? However, many other machines - vending machines, auto-parking, gas pumps, supermarket auto-checkouts, etc. - only require that you swipe the card. This looks better to me - the card never leaves your hand, and you're much less likely to forget it. Why this difference between ATMs and other machines? Is it just so the ATM can swallow your card if it doesn't like you or your PIN attempts? share|improve this question In the UK, and I believe much of Europe, we have a system called 'Chip and Pin'. Today, it is pretty much impossible to use the old 'swipe and sign' method of purchase, and your card remains in the terminal until your transaction is authorised. –  Brendon May 25 '13 at 13:50 The bank (and the machine) reserves the right not to give you the card back. For example, if it's known to be stolen or you type the PIN in wrong 3 times. So by taking the card in, this puts the ATM in control of that. Keeping the card would not be such a good idea at a vending machine or supermarket checkout for example! –  Roger Attrill May 25 '13 at 15:04 @RogerAttrill Many payment gateways actually send through a status code that explicitly requests the card be retained for security reasons in situations like a supermarket checkout (e.g. response code 34 from eWAY). –  Kit Grose May 26 '13 at 23:58 @KitGrose I was going to mention that cards can be retained by staff (as opposed to by the machine itself) in supermarkets, but wasn't sure whether my information was up to date or even true in the first place. So - thanks for the link! :-) –  Roger Attrill May 27 '13 at 16:25 In Australia all contemporary cards (that I know of) have both a chip and a PIN, but unlike in the UK we don't use the term "chip and pin". Some people might call them smart cards but mostly we see them as just one more in a long line of variations since such cards first appeared. –  hippietrail May 28 '13 at 23:40 7 Answers 7 up vote 48 down vote accepted By holding onto the card, the user is clearly informed that their transaction is not yet complete. If the card was given back before any transaction, the user may be uncertain as to whether they are still authenticated. Giving back a physical piece of identity makes it absolutely clear that you have 'logged out'. There is a perceived and an actual security risk involved. Suppose for example you 'sign in' to your account, and the machine gives back your card immediately. You may withdraw £100, and when prompted 'Do you wish to perform another transaction?' you may accidentally select 'Yes' rather than 'No', particularly if you do not understand the language the machine is using. Walking away from the machine at this point would obviously be a huge security risk. share|improve this answer Note that most (if not all) ATMs have a time out period - if you don't press anything for XX seconds, they will reset to their default state (starting screen). –  Anderson May 28 '13 at 21:49 Just a side note: when you opt to perform a second transaction, most, if not all, ATMs now require you to enter your PIN again. This hasn't always been the case. I don't remember explicitly seeing this as a requirement from the PCI guidelines, but its an industry standard. –  justnS May 29 '13 at 19:39 All the ATMs I use take in the card and return it immediately, and I think require the pin each time you transact. I think the risk of accidentally staying signed in (especially given timeout) is less than accidentally leaving your card behind, which is easier if the machine keeps your card. –  Dandre Allison May 31 '13 at 2:15 @DandreAllison that might be regional. All ATMs I've used in the last decade or more keep the card until the transaction is complete, then return it just before the slot opens where you can take out your withdrawn money (thus trying to make sure you don't forget the card, as you can't get to the money while the card is in the slot). –  jwenting May 31 '13 at 5:48 @jwenting I don't doubt it changes based on where you are, or even what ATM provider you use. I was commenting on the risk. Also noting that if the machine returns the card immediately, why actually take it from me increasing likelihood of forgetting? Not giving you the money before you take the card is a forcing function, which sounds useful. I wonder what happens if your transaction(s) weren't to withdraw money (which is probably the common transaction, speculation)? –  Dandre Allison May 31 '13 at 16:19 For several years, ATMs in larger cities such as New York, do not swallow the card. You either just swipe, or it spits it out immediately and then you perform your transaction. These ATMs also often have vestibules that require you to swipe your card to gain access. This makes it harder to gain access to the ATMs, and if for some reason you need to leave quickly, you can do so with your card in hand. This behavior seems to be configurable on a machine-by-machine basis, as I have seen machines across all different banks behaving like this. share|improve this answer In addition to the reasons @Brendon mentioned in their answer: The "swallow" machines are much less error prone. With the swipe types it's possible to orient the card in the wrong direction in multiple ways. It's possible to swipe too slow for the card to be read, etc. With the "swallow" machines the card can only be entered in the correct orientation. share|improve this answer Can't say that the "swallow" machines are easy - I often can't get the card in just the right angle, etc. –  Jonathan May 26 '13 at 20:21 Yeah. I always feel uncomfortable when I have to swipe a card/ticket. –  unor May 31 '13 at 22:45 In San Francisco Bank of America ATM's take the card but then return it immediately. You put in your pin to make transaction and if you need a second transaction you need to put in your pin again but not the card. I assumed every ATM worked that way now for the reason you suggest of not forgetting the card. share|improve this answer there's no vestibule or inner room you need the card to enter at these. They are in public space on street corners outside. The ATM's used to take the card for the whole time about a year ago. –  user31192 May 29 '13 at 2:24 I think the other reason they switched to returning the card immediately was because when people forget the card using the old take and hold system it's easy for the next person in line to access their account, so the take and return immediately practice reduced money theft. –  user31192 May 29 '13 at 2:25 In most ATMs in Brazil and in some ATMs en Chile you are actually required to extract your card of the slot manually before entering your PIN or making any transaction. You only can do one transaction at a time, so there's never risk that you leave your account "open". If a card needs to be blocked (for instance, after multiple failed attempts) the block happens at the card ID level, rather than just retaining it, which would cause trouble for other users. Besides reducing forgotten cards (and the cost associated in blocking and renewing them), this also avoids people forcing ATMs trying to extract trapped cards, and saves man-hours in technicians having to go open ATMs to do the same thing. share|improve this answer In my country (Argentina) for several years we are seeing ATMs that require one to insert the card in a slot and leave it there, but the card is never swallowed (normally, I never tried to enter many wrong PINs). At any moment you see the card and it seems possible to pull it and run away. When you tell the ATM that you don't want to do anything more then the card slot and the screen start blinking like crazy with a don't forget your card message. share|improve this answer you're obviously talking about the default Banelco network, but Itau banks have their own machines with a different system –  Devin Sep 28 at 1:48 1. It's for security - if your card was stolen and the thief keys in a bad pin three times, the machine will terminate the transaction and will not return the card - your account will be suspended and you'll need to speak to the bank to get it fixed. 2. It's for security (2) - if you are being threatened by a mugger to withdraw your money, you can comply to the muggers demands but key in the wrong pin three times. The machine will terminate the transaction and will not return the card - your account will be suspended and you'll need to speak to the bank to get it fixed. 3. It's for security (3) - You can do multiple transactions as long as your card is still in the machine. When your card is returned to you, it means your transaction is complete and no further transactions is possible without reinserting the card. You'll be given your cash or your print out and that's it. 4. It's for financial reasons - If your account is suspended or has specific blocks placed on it, the ATM will not return your card if you insert it - this will require you to go to the bank and solve the problem with your account. 5. It's for banking reasons - Maybe the bank wants to force you to upgrade to their newer card model, so they don't return your old. You'll have to call the bank and request for a replacement. share|improve this answer Your Answer

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See Andy's other stuff: RSS Feed Follow Andy Contact Me >> Newsletter #918: The “Admit When You’re Wrong” Issue Not everyone likes to acknowledge when they’re wrong. They’re afraid it will attract more negative attention, make them look bad, or admit some kind of defeat. But mistakes actually create great opportunities for you to shine — if you can handle them understandingly, show some humor, and be transparent. Here’s how you can admit that you’re wrong and gain more fans from it: 1. Laugh with them 2. Let everyone know 3. Show them how you fixed it 4. Check it out: Sharp Suits 1. Laugh with them Chances are you know some true Internet Explorer haters — you may be one yourself. So what can a company with an awful reputation do to redeem itself from being laughed at by critics? Laugh with them. At least, that’s what Microsoft is doing with a microsite to promote the new version of their browser (that some people actually like). People are taking notice of Microsoft’s blatant campaign to not take themselves too seriously, and they’re loving them for it. They come across as more savvy, understanding, and cool by joking about their past failures and the comeback they anticipate. The lesson: Sometimes humor is a great way to get your critics to give you another shot. Learn more: Tumblr 2. Let everyone know You might be tempted to handle errors quietly and out of sight so that no one knows you slipped up. Don’t hide your vulnerabilities — make them into word of mouth opportunities. Netflix sends coupons to their entire email list when they mess up, even if the mistake only affected a few people. That way, everyone knows they’re the type of company to fix what’s broken and apologize for it — which is much more meaningful than any attempt to appear perfect. The lesson: Tell more people about learning from your mistakes and more people will be talking about how cool you are. 3. Show them how you fixed it Apologies are great for making amends with upset customers — but showing them how you made it better could turn upset customers into loyal fans. For example, MarketingProfs updated their site’s home page to something easier to navigate — something most companies do every once in a while. But what most companies don’t do is explain how they made it better. MarketingProfs took the time to describe the changes they made with a behind-the-scenes article and explained why those changes matter. The lesson: By showing your customers how you fixed a problem, you’re giving them a reason to trust you’ll do the same in the future. Learn more: MarketingProfs 4. Check it out: Sharp Suits Here’s how some Irish designers make lemonade out of lemons — that is, how they make art out of the crazy feedback their clients give them. Check it out: Sharp Suits Email to a friend: Privacy: We won't save or reuse these emails. Comments are closed.

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 IAF Instructor, Student Killed in Plane Crash - World - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com IAF Instructor, Student Killed in Plane Crash Ad Feedback JERUSALEM, Israel - An Israel Air Force flight instructor and his student were killed Wednesday when their plane crashed during a training flight in the Negev desert. Captain Matan Asa, 24, and Cadet Carmi Ilan, 19 were returning to the Hatzerim base after a half-hour exercise flying the aircraft close to the ground when the accident occurred. "The planes were flying in a single file, one after the other, and when the lead plane turned in the direction of the base in preparation for landing, the pilot saw the crashed plane," IAF Chief of Staff Colonel Yochanan Locker said. "They did not hear any distress call over the communications network. Apparently, the whole incident occurred within a few seconds," he said. Ilan, who began the pilot's course a year and a half ago, had accrued many hours of flight time, and his instructor, Asa, was a combat pilot who flew F-16s fighter jets. Officials said the fact that their plane was largely intact following the accident would facilitate the investigation. Source: Haaretz Log in or create an account to post a comment.  

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What Keeps a Guild Together? This is my weekend question to you. Doesn’t matter what the size or purpose of the guild is. But what factors do you think contributes to the longevity of an organization? I wish I had a sample size of GMs or Officers I could talk to. I’ve always wanted to know what that one key ingredient was. Is it progression related? Or is it based on the people within? Does it have to do with the standards or policies set out by the leaders? While it’s foolish to expect guilds to last forever, that doesn’t mean that you can’t at least study and find out how to weather your guild through tough ordeals.  What do you think keeps a guild together? Error, no group ID set! Check your syntax! About Matticus What keeps a guild together isn't just "good leadership" (it helps) or "dedication to a single cause" (again, it helps) and it's not entirely unlike a relationship because it exactly is a relationship. Nobody has an obligation to stay together for any reason, because if you're there for purples, well, any port in a storm will do. If you're there for one or two people, you find yourself not wanting to be there when those one or two people aren't there. A guild pulls together, and stays together, because there's a familiarity, there's a connection that pulls everyone to stay. It's a lot of things. It's good leadership. It's similar goals. It's a relationship. It's a sense of humor, it's being on the same pages, it's being in the same book. It's when you can't imagine being any other place because any other place you could be is only going to make you sad you aren't among the same familiar faces. What keeps a guild together, from my experience, is people having faith that they never fight their battles alone. The obvious answer is leadership, but I think it has more of a nuance than that, more akin to what keeps a friendship or a marriage together. It's understanding that there will be times of discontinuity and personal squabbles, but overall, the old tried-and-true values of love, respect, and above all else, a sense of humor go a long way. Managing expectations is true in any relationship, and that comes from clear communication. Easy to say, but tough to do, as most things. Other posters have hit the nail on the head as far as the concepts are concerned, so I'll just add to this with two terms I think are apt: 1. Conceptual Integrity - Defining what the guild is and is not, what it's goals are, and being clear and faithful to this vision. 2. Leadership - You need strong, honest leaders who act as interpreters and custodians of the vision of the guild, who are well positioned to do so because they understand the vision and buy into it. The guild I am in at present has been raiding since Karazahn and was founded on the clear vision of a small scale (13 members) 10-man raiding guild who aim to clear all HC content on a 3-day a week schedule.  Our ethos of respectful raiding emphasises maturity, personal responsibility and good comradeship. The culture of the guild is strong and stable, despite many members hanging up their raiding boots over the years. all the other posts so far express a good amount of the key things to keep a guild together. coming out of an unfortunate situation with our guild leaders i cant stress enough how important it is for the members to have confidence in the people in positions of power. as one of the biggest APB guilds on the server i am on, a big part of building that is having players that know that when stuff hits the fan they have someone to go to that can fix whatever issue that comes up. once you loose that trust from your players its really hard to get it back.  Delivering your member's expectations.  And confidence in the guild.  Each member has a bank of generosity. When that's cashed out, you lose members. This causes ripples. Sometimes "crumbles".  The trick is to make each member feel valued, talk to them and manage their concerns. A great mental shift I used to employ was turning them from being discontent into helping become a part of the solution. "How can we fix X or Y".  You needed to know what people were thinking as much as plan ahead. People need to see effort. If things go wrong, you need to show them what you're doing to fix it and be seen doing it.  Some  of this is covered  by recruiting players with the "right personality" - players who stayed to the end with a nother guild are probably quite loyal - but that's no guarantee. Off the top of my head - more INTP/ENTP/ISTP/ESTP than INTJ.  Part of this is encouraging a team spirit. Cliques are the enemy of guilds. In WotLK, we'd not let them form - they end up turning into "this group of people are alright - everyone else is letting us down". Anything we could do to build confidence within the guild - from pushing for WoL rankings during farm to highlighting good play. I'm a bit full of shit sometimes but I could get people excited.  One thing that was probably counter productive was how I demonised people who left the guild. Never had a problem with them but sometimes I'd throw in little embellishments like "they wanted me to kick person X" or ascribe some selfish motives. Wasn't real - was just about creating an atmosphere. Oh! The speech.  "It's easy to be part of a good guild when things are going well. But Sam leaving the moment something goes wrong tells us what sort of person he really is. Leaving when you're needed the most... some people are here to ride along on this guild's achievements. Some of you are prepared to make this guild great.". 2-3 years on. I talk to Sam all the time. It was just... a thing. War is peace.... Finally... credit to our  rivals... I'm glad they were full of trolls because it made things so easy for us to keep people motivated.  The above was exhausting.  Well, I may now be retired, but this is a great question. I think the answer differs based on what the purpose of the guild is. That said, in the broadest terms, I think what keeps a guild together is a stable leadership that is willing and able to communicate expectations and requirements as needed. To be more specific, communicating expectations and requirements can be anything from ilvl requirements, raid dates, addon requirements, even requirements on how you're allowed to speak to others in the guild, or even while a member of the guild (no trolling trade, for example). I think a lot of guilds fall down on the whole communication bit a LOT and I further think that leads to problems in achieving the common goals. Here's a hypothetical example: A raiding guild (more casual than hardcore, but will get through some heroics) at the start of the expansion. - The guild's leadership decides it'll take them about three weeks to get to 90 and what they think is appropriately geared for normal MSV. - Leadership does not communicate this timeline to the guild. All it would take is something like "hey guys, be ready in three weeks! If you have any problems getting to this level of readiness, let us know!" - The lack of communication means that the more advanced people (who dinged 90 in under 48 hours) get restless and may jump ship. It also means that the less-advanced people (who took their sweet time) may be removed from their raid team when they're not ready three weeks in, EVEN THOUGH the leadership never said specifically "hey, be ready by this date". - The lack of people, period, means a lack of progress and a lack of progress means the ability to recruit goes right out the window. Just by not communicating adequately, the guild has shot themselves in the foot. The leadership gets frustrated and tired from trying to recruit people who never even apply and they question why on earth they want to even be an officer and then they jump ship because all they want to do is RAID, FFS! My dime's worth. Good, level-headed leadership that keeps their guild in steady progress toward the goal that the guild is organized around (whether that's raid progression, PvP, role-playing or anything else). Part of this is good organization and planning and part of it is active and smart recruiting that consistently infuses the guild with the "right kind" of people for the guild...personality fits and people oriented on the same goal that the guild is. 1. […] Spark post – thinking about the post made over on World of Matticus about “What holds a guild together?” […] 2. […] the topic of personality – recently I was reading comments posted on Matticus’s ‘what keeps a guild rolling post’ mentioned earlier in the week and the Myers-Briggs personality types were mentioned, as in you can […]

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Random Reader Question A reader asked this question: I started reading your blog years ago with my mother – I was just a kid. Fast forward to now and I am 1 year away from a business degree which was absolutely influenced by you and your start-ups. However, I have always found it interesting that you opted to graduate with a political science degree and throughout my college career I kept it in the back of my head. I had always used it to remind myself that what I am learning in school is not necessarily going to make me successful – I have to do that on my own. I am finally writing to you about this because I just have to know why. I have spent many sleepless nights in the past few weeks deciding what to do with my final year of school. My best friend and I are one summer away from having our own website and I am endlessly battling with myself between majoring in marketing or finance. As far as careers go, I am much more interested in a marketing career, but with my research I find time and time again that for an entrepreneur, or really anyone attempting to become financially independent, that finance is essential knowledge. I would like your advice on the matter because I know you have developed your own projects without majoring in either of these subjects. I would like to know your stance on a situation like this and any advice would be much appreciated. From all the experience I’ve had with “successful” people is that the educational background wasn’t necessarily the reason for the success, but definitely helped in it’s own unique way. We can take a familiar example like Adam McFarland who graduated with an engineering and programming background, but has ended up being part of a very successful car oriented ecommerce site. Did his engineering and programming education itself make this happen? No….but it sure helped when he created and then re-vamped the site using his coding background. So here’s what turned me off business school: First and foremost I just didn’t get it. What does that mean? Isn’t everything technically business? Dig a little deeper and it breaks down into things like marketing, finance or accounting. None of those seemed particularly interesting to me at the time. Second, I took a look at what the graduates did after school and where they went to work. It just didn’t seem exciting to me (keep in mind that’s simply my opinion). Our business school at The University of Texas had a very high out-of-college job rate, but that didn’t interest me as I was more into starting a company. Third, I was originally a computer science student (but eventually couldn’t cut it…apparently a huge percentage of computer science students are WAY better than I am at coding). I was interested in building a talent which I could build something with….something that would give me an advantage over others. I was already into computers so it seemed a natural fit. If I could do it all over again, I would have worked harder towards getting a computer science or engineering degree. That stuff takes years of education….business lessons can often be picked up in a few good books. Perhaps this might work well for you: 1. Piece of paper with “Marketing” vs. “Finance” 2. Write down the names of the associated classes you must take for each major 3. Which one appeals to you more? If reading financial statements and learning the intricacies of banking/accounting are interesting to you, then finance might be better. And if whatever the hell it is they teach in marketing is more interesting to you…..well you get the point. My conclusion is this: Marketing or finance….which one appeals to you more? There’s really no one-size-fits-all answer here. I think either of them will provide you with valuable experience you can apply to other situations or businesses in your life. You might also find my advice to a college grad an interesting read. What might interest you even more is Steve Jobs’ commencement speech about “Connecting the dots” later on in life….how things he learned early on had a serendipitous way of helping him out later on in life:

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Grand Theft Auto Online has over 500 missions, including heists Grand Theft Auto 5 is going to be massive. And its online multiplayer will only make it bigger. New details from Game Informer magazine reveal exactly how big Grand Theft Auto Online will be. According to Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, there are over 500 missions. Some will be playable single-player, but others will require teaming up. And although there are hundreds of missions to choose from, only relevant ones will be surfaced first. "The game analyses your playing style as you play and surfaces missions that appeal more to your style," CVG reports. Missions involving particularly large teams will open up a lobby window. From there, team roles can be assigned, such as sniper, look-out, and transporter. The crew leader can also tweak settings for the mission, such as time of day, weather, difficulty, and the number of lives. Eventually, when you have enough cash to purchase a "high end residency," you'll unlock even more missions. Specifically, you'll be able to set up heists like the main campaign. Grand Theft Auto Online doesn't ship with GTA5, however. It'll be available in October.

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A Mile A Day 800 days!!!!! (Read 166 times) Just logged my run today and realized I was at 801 - passed 800 and didnt realize it.  Just goes to show you how routine it is for me to just go in and log a run each day. on the flip side, the barefoot thing isnt going so well.  1/2 mile each the last two days and had some pain on the top of my foot when I ran today.  Damn, might have to rest for a week or so again to try to heal it up and then start again back at lower mileage.  Or maybe I'm just doing something wrong.  I don't know anything about barefoot running, but wow, congratulations on 800 days! I'm going to be excited when I hit one month. Have you qualified for Boston? I want to interview you! Message me! Congratulations Jeff!  1000 days does not seem too far away!  MM #2929 Congratulations!  800 days is almost unfathomable! Apparently top of foot pain is common when you start  barefooting.  So much so that they have an acronym for it on the barefoot forums. Congratulations Jeff!  1000 days does not seem too far away!  Trying to get to 1020 at least so I can surpass Darrin's (Young1)  record.  I just got the new USRSA listing and I am #201 now - moved up 8 spots from last year. That's awesome Jeff. I am just starting out, at 71 days today, you are an inspiration to us all. Keep it going!!

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Publishers Weekly (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved Scalzi's hectically paced and philosophical continuation of the Old Man's War series is an invigorating and morally complex interstellar thriller with heart. The human Colonial Union has lost the trust of neighboring worlds due to allegations that it's been delaying Earth's technological development so it can "farm" Earth for colonists and soldiers. When the Polk, a Union ambassadorial starship, is obliterated while on a secret diplomatic mission with the alien Utche, the Union sends in a "B-team"-rebellious and unorthodox Lt. Harry Wilson, meek diplomatic assistant Hart Schmidt, and aggressive ambassador Abumwe-to seal negotiations and discover who (or what) destroyed the Polk. Scalzi injects the thrilling wonder of escapist science fiction with the painful despair of human betrayal and selfishness, focusing as much on conflicts of the heart as on warring alien civilizations. First released as digital serial installments, the book's chapters reverberate with cliffhanger suspense, building and resolving a central conflict while building on more complex story arcs. Deeply realized characters and stinging webs of political and social deceit lend mystery and emotionally harsh realism to a thrilling setting of deep space and distant worlds. Agent: Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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IN MOST COMMUNITIES, businesses pay for garbage collection based on the size of their trash containers and how many times per week those containers are emptied. Residences, however, pay a flat fee regardless of the amount of trash they place on the curb or how often it is collected. For about 10 years now, the EPA has tried to get cities to catch up with businesses and charge a variable rate for garbage based on the volume generated. At first, progress was fast, as three states more or less mandated “pay-as-you-throw” systems. Since then, the pace has slowed. Variable rate advocates argue that these systems allow waste generators to understand the true costs of garbage disposal. When they do, people will recycle more and generate less garbage. The facts are well-known. The amount of trash set out for disposal decreases with pay-as-you-throw pricing. But less waste isn't being generated. It's being managed differently. With volume pricing systems, more material is placed at the curb for recycling. Yard waste is composted or “grasscycled.” More food waste is ground-up in garbage disposals and sent down the sink for handling by wastewater treatment systems. Recycling and composting rates probably increase the most in those cities that had the lowest rates when pay-as-you-throw programs began. But someone still has to pay for the recycling and composting programs. And I've never seen sales data that supports the argument that people change their shopping habits in pay-as-you-throw cities. So what's all the fuss about pay-as-you-throw? Why is a libertarian in Massachusetts pushing a vote on his town's new variable-rate program? And why did someone bomb a transfer station in Connecticut that has twice voted down a similar proposal? I can understand the libertarian's argument. He says that pay-as-you-throw is a hidden tax. He's right if garbage taxes aren't cut when a new pricing scheme goes into effect. In that case, elected officials are simply stealing money by imposing a new tax in the guise of a user fee. If they are changing the way people pay for a service, they should lower the taxes that previously were used to pay for the service. But bombing the transfer station? Obviously that's an irrational exception in a debate playing out in many Connecticut communities over how to pay for garbage. Rising costs have caused some of the angst in Connecticut. The state's largest resource recovery authority lost $220 million dollars in an ill-fated deal with Enron, and politicians are scrambling to find ways to cover the authority's losses. Pay-as-you-throw may add to the financial problems of the state's resource recovery authorities if it significantly reduces the amount of waste being disposed and forces the incinerators to raise their tipping fees or fund themselves through hidden taxes. Maybe variable rates were oversold. For communities with low recycling rates, rising disposal costs and competitive disposal options, they will be beneficial. But in other circumstances, they may cause problems instead of solving them.

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Schacht v. United States From Conservapedia Jump to: navigation, search In Schacht v. United States, 398 U.S. 58 (1970), a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held that there is a free speech right to discredit the military in theatrical performances that include wearing a military uniform. A conviction under federal law was thereby reversed. Justice White wrote a concurrence, joined by two other Justices, which argued for leaving to a jury whether the conviction at issue was a legitimate theatrical performance. Personal tools

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Disc Golf Review Submit Review Disc Reviews Latitude 64 Little Flyer Disc Flight Ratings Instructional Articles Technique Repair Throw Analysis Beginner Tips Disc Selection Dyeing Discs "Best of" Awards The Contributors Disc Review Gateway Disc Sports Type: Putt and Approach Diameter: 21.0cm Available Weights: 140-175g Plastic: H Series No Image Available Flight Rating Category Value What Gateway says: The Chief is a very durable stable approach disc and putter. Maximum Flight Speed NA Resistance To High Speed Turn NA Amount Of Low Speed Fade NA Propensity To Fade NA Glide NA Relative Distance NA Qualitative Analysis Value Recommended Skill Level NA Predictability NA Uniformity Of Break In Period NA Overall Durability NA Description of the Ratings System. Player Reviews Posted 10-21-03 Submitted by Dan Pereyo pereyod@yahoo.com The "H" plastic chief is my upshot disc. Being a quite overstable putter, I find it very useful for long up shots 150'-200' because I can throw it hard with snap and it will hold its line with a nice predictable fade at the end. On holes between 250'-300' I find the chief to be an excellent short range driver. Again it will hold its line when thrown with snap. It doesn't glide that well, so throwing it high will help you get that distance you need. I have found both styles of chiefs to be valuable addtions to my bag and my game. Posted: 07-13-03 By Blake Takkunen - the Webmaster - <blake@discgolfreview.com> My Review: The Chief is a slow, small diameter stable to slightly overstable putt and approach disc. While the same mold as the Wizard, the Chief is molded in Gateway's higher end, "H Series" plastic. I would compare the feel and wear of this plastic to that of Discraft's older Elite Pro plastic (XL, X2, APX, MRX era). The plastic is smooth, slick, and clean feeling and is less likely to scrape or warp than the Wizard's plastic. There are two stiffness variations of the Chief, while both have a firm rim, one version has a softer, "spring-ier" flight plate which causes a slightly different flight that I will elaborate more on. Overall, I find the flight difference between the two to be small but most players will have a preference in terms of the feel. The Chief falls into the same class as the Wizard, Big Bead/KC Aviar, and Magnet as a putter and short range driver. Thrown flat, the Chief will hold a straight, stable line with a slight fade at the end, which is a little more pronounced and earlier in its flight than its Wizard counterpart. Thrown hyzer, it will hold a long sweeping hyzer or can achieve a straight to left flight path depending upon its nose angle. On an anhyzer and given varying degrees of nose angle and height, the Chief can hold a constant gradual right curve or achieve a nice S-curve. The Chief is slightly slower than a Wizard or big bead Aviar but with more lift and carry making it better suited for low ceiling shots as it will stay in the air longer at low speeds. In a stability comparison, the Chief is a bit less high speed stable than a Wizard (but I definitely wouldn't call the Chief flippy) and more high speed stable than a big bead Aviar. In terms of low speed overstability, the Chief is a bit more low speed overstable than either an Aviar or Wizard as it will fade both earlier and harder. I would give the Chief an advantage over the Wizard and Aviar in terms of predictability of its finish, as in, always to the left, but this disc also has a tendency to "hang" in the air and may fade more than desired in certain situations. Comparing the different flexibilities of Chiefs, the firm Chief will be slightly faster, but the "springy" Chief will carry farther and has a bit more glide. Personally, I prefer stiff putt and approach discs, and on occasion I have found on longer approaches and short drives, if I throw the springy version with a lot of snap, it at times will result in a bit of off-axis torquing (aka "flutter") as the disc will bend slightly during the throwing motion and unbend upon release causing some wobble and power loss. As a putter, the Chief will hold a very straight line for about 25 to 30' but will finish a bit left on longer putts. The smoother plastic makes it a bit easier to achieve a clean release, but players who prefer a stickier putter may find this too slippery in their hand. The Chief, regardless of variation, is softer than the Wizard so it will flex a little more on impact, but it is also slightly less adept to grabbing chain. Flightwise, the Chief has slightly more lift than an Aviar Putt & Approach and has much greater lift than the Wizard. This allows the Chief to carry farther than the Aviar or Wizard but is a bit more "loose" on its line as on occasion it will "hover" a bit too much for my tastes and finish farther left than desired. However, players who putt hyzer will probably find the Chief a more predictable choice than most of the other putters on the market. A strength of the Chief is its ability to fly with a nice, gradual "swim" on longer putts when given a slight anhyzer angle and I have found this to add about 20' of distance to my putting range. In terms of durability, the H series plastic is more resiliant to dings and scuffs than the Wizard plastic and so far has had excellent memory after taking some hard dings without warping. I have noticed only slight change in flight after breaking them in, which hasn't effected the high speed stability but has made them fade a bit later in their flight, which I find makes them straighter and longer than when new. Overall, I feel the Chief is a very solid disc and adds a nice bit of versatility to the Wizard/Chief mold. I would raise the comparison of the two as similar to the similaraties/differences between the Teebird and Eagle with the Wizard being a bit more high speed stable but overall straighter, while the Chief is less stable early in the flight but with more fade at the end. Submit Your Review Back to Main Page

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 French get extra 40m allocation Today French radio amateurs have finally been granted permission to operate in the region 7.1 to 7.2MHz. Vive la France! GPS Interference A week ago I received a Yaesu VX-8GR VHF/UHF APRS hand held transceiver with GPS. The transceiver performs as expected except in one extremely annoying respect - its GPS takes a very long time to get an initial fix on its position after switching on the radio. It cannot get a fix from inside the shack at all. By contrast, my HTC smartphone will get a fix in a couple of minutes whilst sitting in its charger cradle on the shack desk. Or at least, it did. This morning I noticed on that the last reported position of my smartphone, G4ILO-10, was somewhere in Somerset. I started the APRSISCE application with the intent of "bringing it back home" by sending a position report with the correct location. But after ten minutes the phone had not managed to get a fix. I switched off all my radio equipment in case one of them was an interference source, and rebooted the phone, and eventually after several more minutes it obtained an accurate fix. I am beginning to suspect that something is interfering with GPS reception in the area of my house. If you Google "GPS interference" you will find links to numerous articles and research papers raising concerns about what is apparently an increasingly common problem. One article states that a directional television receiving antenna widely available in the consumer market contains an amplifier which can emit spurious radiation in the GPS L1 frequency band with sufficient power to interfere with GPS reception at distances of 200 meters or more. Other potential interference sources include spurious outputs from TV transmitters. Another website states that "We are seeing increasing evidence of GPS interference and also apparent erratic behaviour (e.g. mis-reported location)" and provides a form for reporting cases of interference. This page provides links to two reports on the issue which unfortunately require registration in order to access them. Have other amateur GPS users experienced difficulty in receiving the satellites or an increase in inaccurate position reports? For many GPS applications the effects of this could have rather greater impact than a radio ham's inability to report his position to Perhaps the US administration was rather hasty in its decision to decommission Loran. Tuesday, June 29, 2010 D-Star illegal in France Steve, GW7AAV, was quick off the mark to post about the announcement yesterday on the website of DR@F, the French association of amateur digital mode operators, that D-Star has been ruled illegal in France. The reasons for the ruling, if I understand correctly, are that D-Star permits a radio to be connected to the internet (which is apparently illegal in France) and that it breaches rules prohibiting encrypted communications on grounds of national security because parts of the patented proprietary AMBE codec are undisclosed. The group is appealing for all European amateurs to sign a petition to the European Parliament against the ban. No doubt this will have as much of an effect as the two petitions to the British Parliament to get interference-causing internet-over-mains-wiring devices banned. Issues like this illustrate what a hopeless idea the European Union really is as it attempts to harmonize things between member states while countries (especially France, which started the EU but implemented only the directives that suited it) stick tenaciously to their own different rules and regulations when they want to. I'm not sure if it is true that French amateurs are not permitted to connect radios to the internet, as if it were, Echolink nodes and APRS gateways would also not be permitted, and a quick check of some relevant websites show several of each with F callsigns currently operating. As for the argument that transmissions are encrypted, whilst the closed and proprietary nature of the codec does prevent someone from designing their own decoder, the chips (and indeed D-Star radios) are readily obtainable allowing anyone who wishes to do so to monitor communications. I am not, as regular readers know, a fan of D-Star, but this looks to me a bit like the result someone who is also anti D-Star trying to abuse their position to get it made illegal in France. I hope our French comrades are successful in getting this ban lifted. Monday, June 28, 2010 BBC to investigate interference complaints Ofcom, the UK telecommunications regulatory authority, has announced that it will pass the responsibility for investigating reports of interference to TV and radio services to the BBC from July 1st. On that date, members of the public experiencing interference to radio or TV should lodge a complaint with the BBC using a web form, which may advise them of issues such as a local transmitter fault. Some UK amateurs have expressed concern about the possible effect of this change, but I don't consider it likely to make much difference. As far as I can see, Ofcom will still be responsible for issues of interference to amateur radio such as that caused by PLT devices. These days, TVI and BCI are fairly infrequently experienced and almost always caused by a poor or faulty antenna installation or receiving equipment. Putting the BBC in charge of investigating complaints of interference to its own services makes a lot of sense. Friday, June 25, 2010 Deaf by design I've never been a fan of Apple products. I have always felt that Apple was a brand aimed at fashionistas concerned more with style and the coolness associated with owning a particular product than with practicality. So for example phones were made with non user-replaceable batteries in order to make them very slim. Now it appears Apple's engineers have made another slip-up in the name of style. Users of the new iPhone 4 are reporting that they lose the signal whenever they hold the phone. Apparently a section of the stainless steel band that runs around the phone is used as the antenna, and the part that radiates is on the lower left hand side - nicely surrounded by the fleshy palm of your hand if you hold the phone in your left hand. It seems to be that Apple could do with a radio ham on its design team. Even the newest Foundation licensee - in fact even a CBer - could have told them that antennas are supposed to point upwards. Bouncing off the ISS When using the ISS you need to use different settings to what you would use for terrestrial APRS. Digipeating, if enabled, must be turned off. You want to be connected to APRS-IS so you can gate received packets to the internet, but you don't want to send anything received from the internet out to the ISS. You probably don't want to display data from the internet on the map, to leave it clear to show those stations received by the radio. If you want to transmit through the ISS yourself you must also change the APRS path to "ARISS". Not a very useful activity perhaps, but fun to try. Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Yaesu VX-8G A recent addition to the G4ILO shack is a new Yaesu VX-8G hand held transceiver. In case you are thinking that I need professional help over my addiction to hand held radios you may be right - however a week or so ago I received an email from someone who has a collection of 150! Long-time followers of my blog may recall that less than a year ago I bought a Yaesu VX-8E APRS transceiver with GPS. However I found that the usefulness of APRS was limited by the lack of digipeaters and internet gateways in this part of the world. I decided to use a smartphone based APRS client, APRSISCE instead and sold the VX-8E shortly afterwards. Using the cellular network instead of amateur radio has its advantages but it eliminates the interest of seeing how far a little 2m RF can go. Interest in APRS has increased in this area over the last few months so I decided to give RF another go. In the meantime, Yaesu brought out an improved version of the original VX-8R called the VX-8DR and a lower cost version called the VX-8G. So I didn't regret my decision to sell the VX-8R as it allowed me to acquire the updated version. One of the things I really disliked about the VX-8R was the clunky way the GPS attached externally to the radio (and the absurdly expensive fixing bracket.) The VX-8R (and the updated DR) has a number of other features that I never used and didn't need in an HT: 50MHz coverage (including AM), short wave receive (which was useless anyway without an external wire antenna), a barometer/altimeter and a temperature sensor. Nor did I care that it was submersible. I did lose a brand new HT in the Solway several years ago, but as I didn't immediately notice it had fallen off my belt I never found it again. The VX-8G lacks these unwanted features and can be set to vibrate when you receive an APRS text message - a new way to get a thrill out of amateur radio! More importantly it has the GPS built into the radio which makes for a much neater package. It costs about the same as a VX-8DR without the GPS option. The VX-8G is not available yet in the UK so I purchased it from Solid Radio, an eBay trader based in Hong Kong. This was the most expensive thing I have ever bought from a Far Eastern trader and I felt like I was taking a bit of a gamble, but the radio arrived in just over a week and with no unpleasant surprise on delivery. The VX-8G looks very similar to its older brother but is a little slimmer and lighter. I seem to remember that the body of the VX-8R was metal, or else it had a substantial chassis that added to the weight. With the standard battery installed the VX-8G is noticeably lighter than my Kenwood TH-F7E. The Yaesu's GPS takes much longer than the one in my hTC smartphone to acquire a signal. In fact after waiting several minutes on first turning on the radio I started to worry that the GPS wasn't working so I stood it out in the garden on a table where it eventually established its position. On subsequent occasions it has still taken a few minutes to fix its position which is a bit annoying. Operationally the radio appears to be the same as the VX-8R and the menus are very similar. One of the new features is SmartBeaconing which varies the frequency of position reports according to your speed and whether you have changed direction. There are different settings for this depending on whether you are walking, cycling or driving. The original model would only send position reports on a fixed time interval. Once I had enabled SmartBeaconing it sent a very accurate track of my walk. It is too early to say with any precision what battery life is like but initial impressions are that with the GPS enabled it is pretty poor - a criticism that unfortunately is also true of the smartphone. I used to have a navigational GPS called an iFinder GO2 which ran for about 18 hours on two AA batteries so low current consumption GPS devices do exist - why doesn't Yaesu use them? In the VX-8 radios when you use APRS the problem of short battery life is compounded by the need to disable the power saver (which causes the receiver to listen in short bursts rather than all the time) so you don't miss the start of a beacon or message sent by another station. The VX-8G uses the same batteries as the VX-8R and DR models so a higher capacity pack available, but it is quite expensive. I am pleased with the VX-8G so far and am looking forward to discovering where I can be tracked from. I think APRS holds some of the same fascination as WSPR on the HF bands in that it is interesting and sometimes surprising to see how far your low powered signals can travel. I don't know when the VX-8G will be introduced in the UK or what its UK retail price will be but I expect it will still be quite an expensive radio. A pity, as I think the cost puts a lot of people off discovering APRS for themselves. Saturday, June 19, 2010 I did a quick lash-up of the UHF FM transmitter module I received a few days ago which I was planning to use in a low-power Echolink node, mainly just to see if it worked. It did, but I discovered a small snag. The audio output isn't squelched. The Echolink software requires either normal squelched FM audio or a carrier operated squelch signal on one of the serial port control lines. As neither of those is provided I guess I am going to need to generate a squelch signal derived from noise. But as I am not knowledgeable enough about electronics to design my own circuit I am going to have to find one first. This appears easier said than done, though there seem to be a surprising number of patents on the subject. It isn't an urgent problem as I'm not in any hurry to build this project. I'll probably have more enthusiasm for it once the gloomy autumn weather starts. Friday, June 18, 2010 Making a mistake, rapidly Someone commented in the eHam ratings for my blog that I spent too much time complaining about retailers. I'm sorry about that, I only tell it how it is, but it appears that no-one in this country is capable of doing their job properly. Perhaps the government's policy of sending 50% of people to university means that most people are over-qualified for the job they do and are too bored by it to actually think about what they were doing. Phase 2 of my shack renovation was completed earlier this week. It should have been finished a couple of weeks ago. Olga designed and ordered a system of wall units including shelves, cupboards and a bureau with a door that drops down to form a working surface. This bureau is to be my workbench - now I can start something and when I have done enough for one day I can just close the door on it so everything stays looking tidy. The consignment arrived consisting of all 11 boxes as marked on the shipping labels. However as we started to assemble it we found that a few bits, including the entire bureau, were missing. On contacting the retailer they were sure that 12 boxes had been sent, but the bureau was never discovered and they had to order a new one from Sweden - hence the delay. My workbench is now separate from my operating area so I can no longer use the Diamond power supply that powers my radios to power my projects. So I needed a variable power supply for the workbench. Yesterday I was pleased to win in an eBay auction a refurbished variable power supply from Rapid Electronics for about half what a new one would have cost. The courier delivered a large parcel this morning which was labelled with my address, but when I opened it I found four retractable mains cable extensions that had been ordered by Workington Sixth Form College, together with their invoice. So now I have to wait in while Rapid arranges for its courier to collect the mains extensions. Whether I will ever see the power supply, or whether it will just vanish like our original bureau, remains to be seen. I'm sure some readers must be thinking "take a chill pill, mistakes happen." But mistakes seem to happen rather too often, if you ask me. If you were in the mail order business, wouldn't you put systems in place to ensure mistakes like this don't happen, because they annoy your customers and cost money to rectify? Rapid Electronics "operates a Quality Management System to BS EN ISO 9001:2008." What a load of spherical objects that is. While on the subject of retailers, last week I sent an email to a company that advertises notebook PCs with Linux installed, asking for a quote for a system for my business. I have not received a reply. Why does that not surprise me? Thursday, June 17, 2010 One Foot in the Grave This blog is meant to be about my hobby, amateur radio. Occasionally I have given in to the temptation to blog about some other event that has affected me, or let off steam about some topic that has annoyed me. But as I discovered a few months ago when a couple of the American ham radio blogs I read decided to vent about Obama, health care and other issues that Americans care deeply about, it can be very disconcerting to encounter far off-topic subject matter in a specialist blog, especially if the opinions expressed are ones with which you profoundly disagree. So in recent months I have tried to resist the temptation of controversial posts. Sometimes I still get the urge to write about these topics, though. So to satisfy that urge I have started a new blog. Its title is One Foot in the Grave; the subtitle is Ramblings of a real-life Victor Meldrew. British readers who have seen the BBC comedy series of the same name will know what to expect from this. Readers from other parts of the world will have to see for themselves, though perhaps much of what I will be writing about won't be of much interest to them anyway since it is going to be mostly about the trials and tribulations of life in the UK. Nevertheless I hope that a few of you may find it worth following One Foot in the Grave and even telling other people about it. Wednesday, June 16, 2010 A new article about APRS I have just added a new article to my website: APRS - Putting ham radio on the map. It's quite a long article, but do read it if you have the time. I hope that it will explain what APRS is for to the many people who don't seem to understand, and even more I hope it will encourage more people to try it. If you like the article and think that it will help to spread the word about APRS, please post links to it anywhere you think would be appropriate. Tuesday, June 15, 2010 New APRS client for Linux Undesired attention I wish Murphy, the patron saint of things that don't work, would leave me alone. It's a bit frustrating reading on other blogs that someone spent a weekend and ended up with some perfect working piece of gear while I spent several hours just trying to get a computer to talk to a radio. Although APRSIS32 now supports transmit and receive using AGW Packet Engine which can use a soundcard as a modem I have never decoded a single packet, nor have my beacons been reported as heard by anybody. I started to wonder whether my cheap USB dongle - one of those things about the size of your thumb with a USB plug on one side and two 3.5mm stereo jacks on the other, that cost next to nothing - was up to the job. It had worked acceptably well for Echolink, but although my braaaps sounded to me like packet, they might not sound enough like packet to someone else's decoder. My computer's on-board soundcard is in use by my K3 so there was no point in trying that. But I did have another slightly better USB audio dongle being used for PC sound, so I decided to swap them over. I removed the cheaper dongle in order to better access the audio sockets and when I replaced it I received a message from Windows that "One of the USB devices attached to the computer has malfunctioned" and it disappeared from the system. Giving up on computer sound for the moment I proceeded to try to test APRS packet transmission using the other dongle. But although I was receiving audio OK and keying the transmitter I was not transmitting any audio! I fished the interface out from behind the rigs - a trying task ever since I installed the new shelving - in order to test it with my netbook and FT-817. It worked perfectly with Fldigi. Perhaps a bad connection? Back in position connecting the Icom to the shack computer and still no transmit audio, even though I could plug the computer speakers into the headphone output and hear the braaps being generated by the software! Eventually it finally dawned on me that the AGWPE soundcard software only generates audio on the left channel. My radio interface was wired to the right channel! The cheapo USB audio dongle (that was now malfunctioning) presumably had a mono output so I was getting audio on both channels. The better one was generating proper stereo so there was no output on the channel I was using. D'oh!! Fixing this ought to have been simple. Just open up the interface and switch the wires so the one from the left channel provides the input instead of the right one. But of course, it wasn't. Even though the cable from the stereo jacks used in this interface had no less than four insulated wires within the screening, only one was connected to anything - the tip (right channel) of the plug. The ring was unconnected. So I had to take another audio patch lead, cut it in half, and use that to make new audio cables for the interface using the left hand channel. Finally, it appears to be working, though I have still to decode an APRS packet. But now I have no computer audio because the other USB dongle is still broken and the connecting cable was cut in half to get the interface working. I came this --><-- close to saying "the hell with all this" and ordering a Signalink USB interface this morning. Monday, June 14, 2010 Antenna analyzer from China An antenna analyzer is a very useful piece of equipment and I have never regretted buying my AA-200, though I probably wouldn't get one now with the current model priced at £410.00. Even the basic MFJ-259B which is not exactly renowned for its quality construction will set you back £260.00. So I was interested to discover that the Chinese have entered the market with the Feature Tech AW07A which can be bought on eBay for a much more reasonable £160.00. The unit can measure RF impedance and SWR from 1.8 to 490MHz (making it more directly comparable to the MFJ-269B model) as well as measuring capacitance and inductance. It may be used as a non-precision signal source and frequency counter, and with the addition of an inductor may be used as a dip meter. It looks like a nice addition to any amateur's toolkit. Cutting off your head to cure a cold I received an email from a German CB operator named Dieter (I presume he is a CB operator from the callsign) asking if I knew of a program to design a SuperMoxon antenna for 27 or 28MHz. I replied, as I would have done to a licensed amateur who had asked the same question, that I didn't. The SuperMoxon was designed and made by Ron, GW3YDX. Only he knows how he designed it. My reply to Dieter's email address bounced back with the message: "Sorry, your envelope sender has been denied: The recipient 550 5.1.1 does not want to receive mail from your address." Dieter wouldn't have known, since he contacted me through the form on my website, that I use a Gmail email address. So if I understand correctly, the German ISP is blocking all mail from the largest email service in the world (though I suppose it's possible that it is only blocking email from me.) I guess this has something to do with preventing spam, since I read recently that a lot of spam comes from fake Gmail addresses. But if can't distinguish spam from real email - something Gmail does extremely well, and one reason why I've been very happy to use this free email service - then perhaps it should stop using half measures and turn off email altogether rather than leave its customers wondering why they don't receive replies from some of the people they contact? Sunday, June 13, 2010 Uranus to blame for poor propagation A recently published paper suggests that the peaks of the next two solar cycles are likely to have greatly reduced sunspot activity similar to solar cycles 5 & 6 during the Dalton Minimum of 1790 to 1830. Solar records going back over 11,000 years have been correlated with planetary ephemeris and the results appear to show that solar cycles are affected by the position of the solar system's outer gas giants Uranus and Neptune. However I'm not sure what is more depressing: the thought that I'm unlikely to see a solar maximum in which ten metres is wide open for worldwide propagation during my lifetime, or the reaction of some of our fellow amateurs to the news on "WHY CRY about it? Buy a BIGGER antenna & amp for the bands you enjoy & have FUN!" read one comment. "All the whiners about hams using kilowatt amps will be crying constantly. Life is too short for QRP." went another. QRPers have been having fun throughout the extended solar minimum of the last few years and will no doubt continue to do so despite the dearth of sunspots. What is sadder, in my opinion, is the passing of an era when radio amateurs were all thoughtful, intelligent, articulate, considerate and gentlemanly individuals who treated their fellow enthusiasts, whatever their interests, with respect. Noises off Back to front Last night for the first time in a very long time I operated RTTY. I made ten contacts in the BARTG RTTY 75 contest. The reason was that Elecraft had released a beta version of firmware for the K3 that enhances the built-in DSP modems to support the 75baud RTTY mode that was being used in the contest. Now that the K3 also supports a way to get decoded text into a computer program I thought it would be fun to give it a try. For those unfamiliar with the K3, the transceiver boasts a built-in Morse decoder plus DSP based modems (encoders and decoders) for PSK31, standard 45.5baud RTTY and now 75baud RTTY. As the K3 doesn't allow direct input from a keyboard, the usual way to use this facility is to send text using a Morse paddle and read received text on a scrolling 7-character window of the K3 display. However, using a program like KComm it is possible to send and receive text using software commands over the CAT interface as well. Since, like most things that require good motor skills, I'm hopeless with a paddle (or key) at anything much above 12wpm, that's what I did. I installed the new firmware and it decoded 75baud RTTY signals perfectly, so I waited for the contest to begin. After it did, I soon found that although people were hearing me they weren't decoding me. I got lots of QRZ?, ??????? and SRI NO PRINT. I started to get frustrated and began thinking that RTTY is an obsolete mode that has no place in the 21st century because I know I could have made contact with these stations easily using PSK31 and a fraction of the power. I decided to switch to soundcard mode and use Fldigi to try to make some contest contacts, and then found that people were replying to me on the first call! So clearly there was something wrong with the RTTY being generated by my K3. This morning I tried receiving some of my transmitted RTTY using the FT-817 and Fldigi on my NC-10 netbook. When the RTTY was generated by Fldigi it was received perfectly. However when it was generated by the K3 I received gibberish unless I switched the K3 to REV DATA mode (i.e. reverse sideband.) Since I was receiving the RTTY perfectly OK using the normal sideband I presume that the K3's transmitted RTTY was reversed. I have reported it to Wayne and await comments. Unfortunately I did have some problems with KComm as well. After a while, it started aborting the transmission of any macro after the first few diddles. Like many programs, it has grown to the point where it is hard to understand what is going on any more and my interest in programming has fallen off a cliff in the last few months. I don't know if I will ever get around to fixing the problems and releasing the final version. I do like using it, and KComm is the only program that really supports the K2 and K3 properly because it doesn't treat them like a Kenwood TS2000 (whose command set it nominally shares) but was written to take account of the way these radios actually work. Saturday, June 12, 2010 QRP antenna I bought a copy of Practical Wireless today and noticed the following in the Waters and Stanton ad inside the front page. It isn't often words fail me, but three hundred quid delivered for a hand held QRP antenna?!? I guess it would perform about as well as my home-made Wonder Loop. Thursday, June 10, 2010 Avoiding the Microsoft Tax I need a new office notebook. Yesterday, while working on something a thin bright blue vertical line appeared on the screen. It's still there this morning. I guess the TFT display is going on the fritz. Well, this Toshiba Satellite M60 is 4 1/2 years old and has been in heavy use 10 hours a day 5 days a week for nearly all that time, so I can't complain. Time for a replacement. The trouble is, I use Linux on my work PC and it doesn't seem to be possible to buy a high-spec laptop with Linux ready installed and working on it. Obviously, I'd like to avoid paying for a copy of Windows I'm not going to use. If you've ever seen it on sale, you'll know that the cost of a copy of Windows is quite substantial. Since, thanks to Microsoft's obsessive copy protection, it will be an OEM copy locked to the hardware and without installation media I won't even be able to install and use this copy under VirtualBox if I want to. But also, as it's a work machine, I'd like to buy one on which the operating system is supported and all the hardware works with it. I've installed operating systems far too many times in my life to have any enthusiasm for doing it one more time, and I know from experience that laptops often contain hardware that isn't supported out of the box by Linux. When we bought a new laptop for Olga a couple of years ago I bought a budget HP laptop that came with Windows Vista - which ran so slowly it took two hours just to finish it's automated initial setup routine. I installed Linux but had an anxious couple of hours as I couldn't get the wi-fi adapter to be recognized. I did in the end, and the chances are that any problems with whatever system I got this time could be resolved after hours of ferreting through support forums. But that long ago ceased being fun and I would really prefer to avoid it. However, it is virtually impossible to buy a PC or laptop with Linux installed and supported. Dell appears to offer a small selection of laptops preinstalled with a long superseded version of Ubuntu. There is also a firm called The Linux Emporium that offers a limited range of Lenovo laptops with Ubuntu installed on them. But they have nothing that meets my spec. This old Toshiba has a 17in display with WGXA+ 1440x900 resolution and I'm not going to settle for anything smaller. So it seems the only way I am going to get what I want is to buy the laptop I want, pay the Microsoft Tax, throw away Windows and do my own Linux installation. Is it any wonder that Microsoft enjoys such a virtual monopoly when people who buy PCs don't even know there is an alternative? Why hasn't the EU done something about this? It has taken months and cost millions to force Microsoft to install a screen that lets people choose what web browser to use, despite the fact that a) the browser market already has healthy competition and b) switching browsers later on if you want to isn't a problem. But it has done nothing about a situation that forces people to pay for a Microsoft operating system even if they know enough not to want one. Even if computer manufacturers don't want to offer Linux because they don't wish to support it, they should at least be required to offer the OS as an optional extra so those who don't want it don't have to pay for it. KREF3 let-down Wednesday, June 09, 2010 PLT DX Contest Small minded Britain I'm sorry for another non-radio related post but as someone whose wife is an immigrant from outside the EU I can't let this news pass by without comment. The British government has announced today that it is bringing forward measures to require people from outside the EU who marry British citizens to demonstrate a knowledge of English in order to obtain a visa. I think this is discriminatory, insulting and a denial of what ought to be a basic human right to be able to live in your own home with the person you have chosen to marry. Although Olga knew sufficient English when she came to the UK to have met the requirement had it existed at the time, I know of British men who have married women they met whilst working or holidaying in Russia, China or Asia who spoke little or no English at the time they came here. I'm sure most of them learned the language after they got here, which of course is now (quite rightly) a requirement for gaining British citizenship. But there is a world of difference between allowing someone to learn the language in their own time, if they choose to (after all, gaining citizenship is not essential to live in Britain) once they are here, instead of compelling them to do so before they are allowed to live in the country that is home to the person they married. It's the difference between treating someone with respect or as a second class citizen. I'm sickened by some (the majority, actually) of the small minded comments supporting this measure on the various blogs and news media forums. It seems that most people in this country view all immigrants as idle spongers who contribute nothing and only come to the UK to claim benefits and become a drain on public services. I'm sure that's true of some, but all of those I know are hard working and pay their taxes. I also know of many born and bred Brits who prefer living on benefits to getting off their backsides and earning a living. Perhaps we should cut benefits and make them less attractive? If it's OK to stereotype immigrants then I guess it's also OK to stereotype working class Brits as lazy uneducated whingers who think the world owes them a living just because they are British, and who complain about immigrants taking their jobs when the truth is employers prefer immigrants because the British are idle, useless and far too prone to "take a sickie." There was a TV programme a couple of months ago where firms that employed East Europeans were persuaded to hire some unemployed Brits and they either were late for their first day, called in sick, or had egos that couldn't take being shown up for being too dumb to do even a simple manual job properly. I'd employ a Pole instead of a Brit any day. There is a latent racism in British society which is pandered to by the right wing mass media, with the result that the government can get away with policies like this that go completely against the old British tradition of fairness. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that someone coming to live in Britain has a means of support, whether that is a Swiss bank account, a job or a husband. But to keep people out because they can't speak the language when they have a husband to support them (spouses from outside the EU aren't even allowed to work for the first two years in another nonsensical piece of regulation) is pure discrimination which I'm sure we'd be up in arms about if it started to be applied when we want to live in their countries. It's well known that the British are useless at languages. When in Rome - or Paris, or Madrid, or Moscow - JUST SPEAK ENGLISH LOUDER. About ads and websites This morning I see that Peter G4NKX has written on his blog about "Personal Web Targeting". Peter wrote it after noticing that ads were appearing on various sites that were related, not to that site, but to things he had previously been looking for. These days I earn my living from internet marketing, so it is something I know a bit about. I was going to comment on Peter's post but it would have been rather a long comment. In the past I have been asked by a couple of my readers to write about topics related to running a website and blog but there have always been other topics that took priority. Someone even slammed my blog's rating at eHam because "the ads were annoying." So this is perhaps a good opportunity to tackle this topic. If it is of no interest to you, you may as well skip the rest of this post. First, why ads on websites? Put simply, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Web hosting costs money. If you run a professional site and need to employ people to run it, paying their salaries costs money too. Sites like Fred AA7BQ's cost a lot of money to run and the ads allow people like me to access it for free. If you don't like the ads, Fred provides the option to remove them by paying a subscription. If you don't want to pay, you also have the option of not visiting I certainly don't expect Fred to pay the running costs out of his own pocket. The same goes for most of the sites you visit on the internet. If there weren't ads, most of the web wouldn't exist and a lot of the rest would be subscription-only, as the websites owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation have recently become. It will be interesting to see where that ends. I've sometimes been asked why there are ads on my website. I'll be as brief as I can. For best part of the last 20 years I have worked freelance. As the demand for my services declined due to recession, people who hired me moving on and so on, I was forced to look for new ways to make money. I stumbled into internet marketing more or less by accident and since my ham radio hobby site was one of my most popular sites I thought I'd try advertising on it. I certainly couldn't live off the income generated by this site, far from it, but during times when my income only just paid the bills the fact that my hobby made a bit of money allowed me to resist selling my gear and even make the occasional new purchase. Currently my business website makes us a comfortable living. But as I will eventually be retiring without the benefit of a final salary or inflation-linked pension scheme, in fact without much of a pension at all, I will soon be back in the situation where hobby expenditure is a luxury. So I expect I will be trying to make pocket money from my hobby right up until the day I finally become a silent key. The issue Peter raised in his post was about ads appearing that related to something he had previously searched for, not the site he was currently on. Though he doesn't mention it specifically, I presume he is referring to Google, which recently changed the way its context based advertising service AdSense worked. Previously, the ads that were displayed on a web page through the Adsense program were related solely to the content of that web page. When I first tried AdSense on my sites I felt that it actually enhanced the value of the pages. I have found out about radio products I might otherwise never have known about through the ads that have appeared on my and other ham radio web pages, so on balance I consider AdSense a good thing. For the last couple of years the world has been in recession. The number of internet advertisers and the amount of money they have to spend has fallen. So Google has looked at ways to try to maintain advertising revenues. It has gone into partnership with DoubleClick, a long established web advertising company, to create what it calls interest-based advertising. Essentially it gets your browser to store a piece of information called a cookie when you visit a site, containing information about the topic of that site. When you visit another site that displays Google ads it can display ads related to the previous topic rather than the topic of the current site if the previous topic's ads are likely to be more profitable to Google (and the site owner.) Personally I think this is a step backwards. I would prefer people who visit my site to see radio-related ads primarily, not ads about bathroom fittings or whatever else they have been looking for. I haven't observed a significant increase in advertising revenue since Google introduced its new policy. But in this new tough economic environment where people have to justify every cost website owners have to take what the advertisers will give them. I don't think the subscription-only model is going to work for News Corporation, it certainly isn't an option for hobby sites like mine (or even and I am not going to forego my small but still worthwhile advertising earnings just because some people consider that advertising invades their privacy. You open a newspaper or watch TV and see ads about all kinds of things that aren't relevant to what you're reading or watching. Why does it become such a big deal when it's on a web page? Google has a Privacy Center which sets out its privacy policy with regard to advertising and also provides a link to the DoubleClick privacy policy. There you will find an Opt Out button that allows you to opt out of interest-based advertising or alternatively to set preferences for the types of ads you don't mind seeing. There are also software tools including plug-ins for Firefox that can block ads from appearing in your browser. However I hope you don't use them. Personally I regard blocking the ads that help pay to keep a site running as a bit like stealing. As I said earlier, there's no such thing as a free lunch and every website that you visit for free is costing somebody something to provide it. Tuesday, June 08, 2010 Another K3 panadapter option? Cross Country Wireless recently introduced a new product, a built, boxed and ready to use SDR receiver that is optimized to work with the bog standard sound card provided with every computer. It covers two 48kHz segments which may be on one or two bands using a switched local oscillator. At £49.95 it looks like something of a bargain. I was looking at the product's web page this evening and the thought occurred to me that this might make a rather good inexpensive option for a panadapter for the Elecraft K3. It would need a different crystal to cover the K3 IF output frequency which is 8.215MHz, but that shouldn't be a problem. CCW might even offer this as a stock option if there was a demand for it. As the receiver covers 40m and 30m everything else should work OK unmodified. The key point would be whether there is adequate isolation to prevent the local oscillator leaking into the K3 IF and desensitizing the receiver - the reason why most people use a buffer amplifier when using SoftRock boards for this purpose. I don't have a great urge to have a panadapter display and I already have three sound cards (well, one and two USB sound modules) in use with my shack computer so this isn't something I'm planning on trying. But I thought it might be worth mentioning the possibility for other K3 users. Even if the idea is a non-runner, the Cross Country Wireless receiver still looks like a very nice product. Better late than never? QSLing made easy As regular visitors to the site will know, I'm a big fan of eQSL. I don't need QSLs for awards because I don't chase them, and in a hobby that has embraced the internet in just about every other aspect electronic QSLing seems to me to be the most logical way of confirming a contact that saves time and money. And more important than that, for me, is that it relieves me of a tiresome chore. So when I read about GlobalQSL in John Harper AE4X's blog my immediate thought was: Why haven't I come across this before? As you'll see if you follow the links, it's a service that prints QSLs on demand and sends them to the bureau. You export your log to an ADIF file, upload it to the service, pay, and the job is done. As with regular printing services there is a minimum order of 100 QSLs and the price drops if you send 1,000 or more. You can also order blanks to be sent to yourself for direct QSL requests. There is a free QSL designer program (for Windows) that you can download from the GlobalQSL site and use to design your card. As you can see from the sample above (and others on the site) the results are very professional and leave nothing to be desired. You can order 10 samples sent to you from your design for $8 to test the quality. I created an account (it's free), logged in and found that there were 14 QSLs already printed and sent to me. I think GlobalQSL is a brilliant idea that retains the convenience of electronic QSLing but allows you to satisfy those contacts who prefer to receive real QSL cards. Monday, June 07, 2010 D-Star reaches Cumbria Kudos to Lynn KJ4ERJ, developer of the brilliant APRS client APRSISCE. Yesterday he read my comment that the program doesn't support transmit through the soundcard based AGWPE software yet, and today it does! So now my APRS beacons are braaping out over the Cumbrian airwaves. I have noticed a bit more APRS activity round here in the last few weeks. Today I noticed another new station mobiling around the north-east of the county - G7NZR. The info for this station showed that he was actually using DPRS, the digital version of APRS, and was being gatewayed through MB6CA. This is a D-Star simplex node set up by G7NZR. Its coverage map shows that MB6CA can't be heard in Cockermouth or Workington, so for the time being at least West Cumbria is still a D-Star free zone. When I looked at the MB6CA coverage map I was reminded of a map I saw some years ago showing the spread of grey squirrels across the county. Overseas readers may not know that the grey squirrel is an illegal immigrant - from the US, no less - and it has been gradually wiping out our indigenous red squirrels, so that there are now only a few pockets of them left. Will D-Star be the grey squirrel to analogue FM's red, gradually increasing its territory as more and more people are persuaded to make the switch, until Icom ends up with a virtual monopoly over the VHF and UHF bands? Sunday, June 06, 2010 QRP on Echolink Saturday, June 05, 2010 888 miles using a hand-held Friday, June 04, 2010 Heard in Prague I came a little closer to my objective of trying to make a DX contact using only a hand-held radio this afternoon. After dropping Olga off in town for a hair appointment I went up to my usual haunt Watch Hill accompanied my my 2m and 10m hand-helds. I had just stopped on the top when I heard Geoff G4WHA/P calling CQ WOTA from Kidsty Pike on the GP300 which was on my belt. He was a bit noisy as the radio only had the rubber duck on it so I foolishly decided to swap it for the 5/8 telescopic before calling him. Unfortunately in the minute or so it took to swap over the antennas I lost him and didn't hear him call again. Colin 2E0XSD called me and we had a brief chat, then I made several other calls hoping to catch Geoff or anyone else who happened to be listening. After about five minutes Colin called again to say that he was hearing activity on 10m FM. I got out the Intek with the 4 foot whip and started listening around. I did hear some activity, including what sounded like a French station down in the noise on 29.600 who was not clearing the FM calling channel. I also heard what sounded like Russian on 29.620. After numerous calls on 29.600 I heard a CQ from OK1AQW near Prague in the Czech Republic, loud and clear. I called him but he replied that I was too weak to copy. A couple of minutes later I started calling again and OK1AQW came back to me with my full callsign! I replied "OK1AQW this is G4ILO/P you are 55 in IO84 QSL?" but got no response from him. I repeated his report several times but heard nothing. I don't know if a full 4W would have made a difference, but a couple of days ago I adjusted the full power level of the H-520 back to 2.5W to try to mitigate the problem of high current draw when the SWR is less than perfect. So that was a gotaway, unfortunately. I didn't hear any more DX on 10m, but I did have a QSO with Roger G0MWE from Dearham who was using a new FT-897D and pleased to hear some activity on 10m. Roger suggested I should use a better antenna which would certainly be possible to erect up there but that would defeat the object of using the hand-held. But I'm sure with perseverance I will eventually achieve my objective. Thursday, June 03, 2010 A community in mourning Wednesday, June 02, 2010 Dead mic When using a hand held radio with a long whip antenna for more gain I often prefer to use a speaker mic so I can hold the radio in a steady, upright position. I have a speaker mic for the Kenwood TH-F7E (which fits the old TH-205E as well) and I have one for the Motorola GP300. But needless to say neither of them fit the Intek H-520 Plus 10m rig because the wiring and pin spacing is different. The official Intek speaker mic is rather expensive so I looked on eBay and found a speaker mic for "Alinco Icom Standard 2-pin" with the correct pin spacing for less than £7 including postage from Hong Kong. When it arrived I decided to check what the audio sounded like by listening on the K3 while I made a call. The mic keyed the radio up but there was no audio. To make troubleshooting easier I swapped the antenna for a dummy load and audio was then heard! I then tried a variety of different antennas and power levels and was soon pulling my hair out. I would hear audio with the dummy load connected and none as soon as I switched to an antenna. Eventually I tried the very short antenna supplied with the H-520 on the lowest power setting, 0.1W and I heard audio. It was looking very much as if the presence of radiated RF was somehow interfering with the audio. But the amount of RF required to cause the problem must be small as 0.1W on any of the larger antennas resulted in no audio from the speaker mic. I didn't know whether the RF was causing a problem with the microphone or the radio. I tried clamp-on ferrites at both the mic end of the cable and the plug end but neither made any difference so I was none the wiser. This particular made-in-China speaker mic is held together with screws that require a nonstandard five pointed key to undo so I couldn't look inside to see if it used screened cable. I decided to give up on that speaker mic and do what I could have done in the first place if I hadn't thought spending seven quid would be an easier solution. In my junk box was the business end of another cheap Chinese speaker mic from which the cable had been 'borrowed.' I noticed in the past that the curly cables used for these speaker mics are often not screened. I happened to have a length of stereo audio cable with each channel separately screened. I wired this up to the spare speaker mic and attached suitable 2.5mm and 3.5mm jack plugs to the other end. When I tested it I now had transmit audio even on high power with the 4 foot telescopic whip! At this time I don't really know whether the mic I bought was at fault because I don't have another radio that uses the same size plug spacing to test it with. Given that I have been less than impressed with other aspects of the H-520's performance I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the radio that has inadequate filtering for RF picked up on the speaker mic cable. Change of emphasis? I have never owned a Ten-Tec transceiver (although I once built and used one of its transverter kits) but I always thought that the thing the company's products were most renowned for was their good support for CW operation and excellent QSK. So I was surprised to visit the Ten-Tec website a few days ago and see beneath the logo the slogan "The SSB Company." Obviously CW isn't seen as so important these days. In the last couple of years Ten-Tec has dropped its kit range, its QRP Argonaut transceivers and most recently has been in the news for announcing that it will be rebranding the Chinese-made HB-1A QRP CW transceiver as a Ten-Tec product. I suppose someone somewhere has decided that this makes commercial sense but it doesn't seem to me like the way to hold on to a reputation as an innovative indigenous American manufacturer of quality radio products for the discerning amateur. Tuesday, June 01, 2010 Can APRS count for contacts? Colin, 2E0XSD, raised an interesting question this afternoon in the Wainwrights On The Air forum when he asked what the rules were regarding making contacts using APRS. I confess that I hadn't thought about it and haven't come to a conclusion at the moment. For those who think that APRS is merely a way of using ham radio to transmit position reports that can be received and tracked I should explain that it is a lot more than that. One of its best features, if one that is not all that widely used, is the ability to send text messages to other APRS users. For example, if you see someone's position on the map and would like to contact them on the radio you could send them a message to ask whether they are on the air and what frequency and mode they are using. You could use APRS text messages to exchange exactly the same kind of information with another station that you might exchange in a normal digimode contact - signal report, name, QTH, locator and so on. This could arguably constitute a valid contact. But most of the time APRS users are not in direct radio contact with one another so the messages may be passed with the aid of digipeaters: stations that receive an APRS packet and rebroadcast it. Even more common these days is the use of internet gateways (IGates) that route messages between APRS stations via the internet. There are also an increasing number of APRS users who use mobile devices and the cellular network to send and receive APRS. So I have come to regard APRS as a kind of hybrid system that is not purely amateur radio and I do not regard conversations held using APRS messaging as radio contacts in the sense that I would log them, QSL them or use them to qualify for an operating award. But that's just me. If two people exchange APRS messages over RF with no digipeaters or IGates involved, is there any reason that this should not count as a contact? I must confess to having mixed feelings about APRS. When I first found out about it I thought it was an extremely useful system and I still do. My wife Olga worries when I go walking in the hills on my own and likes being able to see where I am at any moment on a map on her computer. If I don't return she will know my last position and could send someone to look for me. And it is a useful way to alert WOTA summit chasers to the fact that you are approaching a summit that you are going to activate. But I quickly became disappointed when I discovered that this functionality could not be achieved if you relied solely on amateur bands RF. Then I discovered Lynn KJ4ERJ's program APRSISCE which can run on a data enabled mobile phone and connect to the internet-based APRS infrastructure and I was able to get the kind of usage I envisaged from it. (In this part of the world even the cellular data coverage isn't 100% but it is still a big improvement.) But although I now use the mobile client whenever I am on some radio related outdoor activity, I found that using an internet connected client destroyed the radio interest because I could now communicate using APRS with anyone, anywhere with the same kind of reliability as sending an SMS or an email. APRS is too useful to hobble it by insisting on using only amateur bands RF as the transmission medium. Because of that I don't feel it can be used to make contacts or QSOs in the sense that is generally accepted within the hobby and I'm not convinced that it would be right to make an exception for message exchanges that are "direct." But I'd be interested in other people's opinions on the matter. Great Cockup

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News Release Archive: News Release 575 of 967 May 17, 2001 02:00 PM (EDT) News Release Number: STScI-2001-14 Astronomers Puzzled over Comet LINEAR's Missing Pieces May 17, 2001: Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small as smoke-sized particles and as large as football-field-sized fragments. But it's the material they didn't see that has aroused their curiosity. Tracking the doomed comet, named LINEAR, the Hubble telescope and the Very Large Telescope in Chile found tiny particles that made up the 62,000-mile-long dust tail and 16 large fragments, some as wide as 330 feet. But the telescopes didn't detect any intermediate-sized pieces. If they exist, then the fundamental building blocks that comprised LINEAR's nucleus may be somewhat smaller than current theories suggest. See the rest: Q & A: Understanding the Discovery 1. 1. How do astronomers know that pieces are missing? 2. Astronomers compared the estimated mass of comet LINEAR's nucleus before it disintegrated with the estimated mass of the debris spied last summer by Hubble and the Very Large Telescope. The two numbers didn't match up. In fact, the mass of the debris was 100 times less than the mass of the intact nucleus. 3. 2. Where are the missing pieces? 4. Astronomers suggest that most of the comet's bulk after the breakup was contained in pebble-sized to house-sized fragments. These fragments cannot be seen by visible-light telescopes because they do not have enough surface area to make them stand out in reflected sunlight. Back to top Credit: NASA and Hal Weaver (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)

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you are viewing a single comment's thread. view the rest of the comments → [–]AsynchronousChatInnkeeper[S] -3 points-2 points  (1 child) You obviously weren't a marketing or polisci major... This 'cone of silence' thing is some real cult bullshit. Serious people nail theses to doors. Your username is apt, though. (seriously, a conversation with 1000 Notre Dame stakeholders can do a hell of a lot more than a sternly written letter; if nothing else, it can produce a wave of 1000 sternly written letters)

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LA CROSSE, Wis. -- A record amount of money has been spent already on Wisconsin’s gubernatorial recall election, with out-of-state donations leading the way. We've already seen $40 million to $45 million spent on this race so far. That makes it the most expensive state election in Wisconsin's history. It's also takes the cake for the most outside money flooding in. Non-Wisconsin donors are pouring money into this race, seeing it as an indication of where the rest of the country may go, especially when it comes to union rights. "The amounts are just astronomical by any standard. It's very rare that you get outside money in a state race, at least substantial amounts," said UW-L Political professor Joe Heim. That's because national interests are seeing what's happening in Wisconsin and wondering what the outcome of the recall election will mean for them. “This recall election has become something of a national referendum. And there are interests across this country that I think really see Wisconsin as a domino, and they want to make sure that that domino falls in a way that favors them. Because I think that they figure that domino will knock over a lot of other dominoes," said Mike McCabe, the director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. So where are the candidates getting their money? Let's start with Gov. Scott Walker. He's raised $25,350,775.80. It's the most any candidate for any state office has ever raised. According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, 60 percent of that money is coming from outside the state. Walker said he's raising out of state money in response to the out-of-state donors on the other side. "A good chunk of it came because people saw how much was coming in over the past 15 months from out-of-state special interests to attack us, so people across the state and, in many cases, across America, said that they were going to help us counter that," said Walker. Heim doesn't buy it. "Frankly, most of the outside money is coming to Scott Walker,” said Heim. “But don't underestimate the fact that labor is also involved ... They see this as a life and death struggle." So let's take a look at the governor's Democratic challengers. Kathleen Falk raised $1,018,600.25. About 46 percent of that money came from outside Wisconsin. Tom Barrett raised $831,508.41. About 13 percent of his cash came from out of state. Doug La Follette and Kathleen Vinehout both received a sprinkling of contributions from out-of-state. La Follette reported raising $118,087.55, but about $112,000 of that was his own money. Vinehout raised $93,998.33 -- mostly from individual contributions. But Heim said this money is just the beginning. "Some Democrats are holding back until they know who their candidate is. They really want to get more bang for their buck. So I would expect a lot of Democratic givers to wait until the primary is over with and then give," said Heim. This is just the money that’s been reported so far. Candidates have only turned in campaign finance reports for donations through April 23. All of the candidates will have to turn in another report at the end of this month. Since Nov. 4, Walker has been allowed to collect unlimited contributions to respond to the recall. The group that organized the petition drive was allowed to accept unlimited donations, but the challengers have not been allowed to do that.

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Friday, July 13, 2012 ILLANUN: Raiders of the Sulu Sea Raiders of the Sulu Sea The Iranun are a Moro ethnic group native to Mindanao, Philippines, and the west coast of Sabah, Malaysia (in which they are found in 25 villages around the Kota Belud and Lahad Datu districts; also in Kudat and Likas, Kota Kinabalu). Their current population is estimated to be around 1,000,000-1,500,000 (2008 est). For centuries, the Iranun were involved in pirate-related occupations in the Malay world. Originally from the area around Lake Lanao in southern Mindanao, Illanun colonies spread to Sumatra through the Sulu Archipelago, and the east coast of Borneo. Most Illanun are Muslim. Their language is part of the Austronesian family, and is most closely related to Maranao of the Philippines. Its ISO code is ISO 639-3 ill. Historically, the Iranun were given the exonym Illanun during the British colonial era.  Illanun – the fiercest pirates in the Malay world? Posted by shahrinms As cited in the wikipedia, for centuries the Illanun was regarded as the fiercest pirates in the Malay world. It is thought that the Malay word for pirate, ‘lanun’, derives from the word ‘Illanun’. Originally from the area around Lake Lanao in Southern Mindanao, Illanun colonies spread from Sumatra through the Sulu Archipelago and the east coast of Borneo. Most Illanun are Muslim. Illanun was probably the local pirates mentioned in the textbook who destroyed trading post of EIC in Balambangan. WH Treacher (first governor of North Borneo) also cited Borneo was full of pirates and headhunters – namely Illanun and Sea Dayaks. So it could be true Illanun or amongst others involved in the attack of Balambangan probably due to feeling of insecurity for the British success thus the British left to find a safer trading place (i.e. Labuan) offered by Brunei in exchange of protection against Sulu. In addition, Illanun was also happened to be known as the Lords of the Eastern Seas. They were slave raiders who made a living by trading and capturing slaves whenever they were on seas. They would sell these slaves to cave owners to work in birds’ nest caves and to entrepreneurs to collect jungle produce in what is now known as Sabah and Sarawak. “Raiders of the Sulu Sea” A Historiography Documentary film focusing on Zamboanga City depicting how the Spaniards defended the city with the Fort Pilar as Spain’s last stronghold and bastion of defense and economic expansion in the South of the Philippines . It depicts the Southeast Asian flourishing free trading in the area and the adverse effects and repercussions when Europeans such as the English, Dutch and Spanish who wanted to control the economy as well to colonize and Christianize. The film focuses on the slave raiding as retaliation on colonizers- the sophisticated ancient maritime vessels such as the Lanong, Garay and the Salisipan and tools of war such as the Barong, Kris, and the Kampilan and the well organized forces that is launched for slave raiding the coasts of Mindanao Visayas, and Luzon, between July to October called as the Pirate wind “ Pirate monsoon” It also focused on the fate of the Captured Balangingi Leader called Panglima Taupan and his family who eventually was exiled to the north of Luzon in Cagayan, and was made to work in the Tobacco Plantation- and his descendants who went back to Zamboanga and settled in the outskirts of Taluksangay with the surname Dela Cruz Nuno- Maas Nuno, the ancestor of the present Nuno clan of Zamboanga. Art Historian Icelle Gloria D. Borja- Estrada together with Dr. Samuel Tan and Margarita Cohuangco and other International Asian Historians contributed to the success of this film Produced by Oakfilms3 based on Singapore for Q channel, Discovery Channel and the National Geographic for International Release. illanun pirate An Illanun Pirate illanun war boat Illanun War Boat pirate weapons Pirate Weapons The pirate wind Cover of the book "The Pirate Wind" Tales of the sea robbers of Malaya by Owen Rutter

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It’s a “nearby star” at only 25 light years distant and together with Arcturus and Sirius, one of the brightest stars in the Sun’s neighbourhood. Vega is a vertex of the Summer Triangle. Its spectral class is A0V (Sirius, an A1V, is slightly less powerful) and it’s firmly in the main sequence, fusing hydrogen to helium in its core. Since more powerful stars use their fusion fuel more quickly than smaller ones, Vega’s life time is only one billion years, a tenth of our Sun’s. Vega is two and a half times more massive than our Sun and burns at fifty times the power. Vega has a disk of dust and gas around it, discovered by the IRAS satellite in the mid 1980s. This either signifies planets or planets that may soon form. The protoplanetary disk is, as can be guessed from its name, believed to be a precursor to the formation of planets but it can persist long after planets have been formed if there are no gas giant planets such as Jupiter. Several centuries from now, Vega will take over from Polaris as the North Star, owing to the precession of the equinoxes. See Polaris for more information. Click here to learn more on this topic from eLibrary: comments powered by Disqus

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Take the 2-minute tour × I was using Less CSS but it creates too much duplication. Each HTML page I have includes 3 different stylesheets; two are common to all the pages (IE-support and 960 grid system) and the third stylesheet is a custom one made for that page. With Less CSS it was duplicating all the CSS code from the 960 grid system into the third stylesheet. All I need are variables and functions/mixins/classes...basically a way to put duplicate CSS code in multiple spots. share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 There are not enough words with which I can describe how awesome SASS is ... it is exactly what you are looking for. It even has a CSS3 superset mode. It is almost god. And while you are investigating SASS, take a look at Compass (based on sass) - it has ready templates that you can use as mixins for your styles. It includes 960, Blueprint, YUI, and many others (some via plugins). share|improve this answer For some reason the Compass website is not available at the moment, the code is here: github.com/chriseppstein/compass and a quick google search "sass compass" can find plenty tutorials to get your started. –  Evgeny Nov 2 '10 at 20:30 It's quite straightforward to use a server-side language to roll your own CSS framework. Here's a basic example in PHP: $blue = '#00f'; $largeText = '24px'; h1 { font-size: <?=$largeText?>; color: <?=$blue?>; For mixins, you'd need to store the whole chunk of CSS in a string. share|improve this answer Your Answer

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Monday, August 8, 2011 Cloud Backup These days, everything is going to "the Cloud". The Cloud is a conceptual framework of network-connected computer storage, accessible to anyone from any location, as long as a network connection exists. Apple recently came out with their iCloud product, a subscription service that is the latest iteration of their internet service which first was called dot-mac, then renamed to mobileMe. ICloud is intended to be a shared storage space for your MacBook computer, your iPad and iPod, and your iPhone. It will, Apple hopes, be able to unify several devices and their data for instant synching everywhere. It isn't as if iCloud is the only cloud-based service. Amazon has its own Cloud Player and storage app for Android phones, and Google already has free web-based apps and storage. Carbonite, the backup company, has a system which backs up your computer to the Cloud, and allows for access to all of your computer's files from any internet connection. Verizon offers a cloud-based storage solution for their customers. There are other cloud services out there, as well. When you start using Cloud services, you will have to create accounts, and probably also pay a monthly fee for access. Some services will provide storage space for no cost up to a certain quantity, then charge for a larger storage space. If you want to change cell phone or internet providers, you will often be required to migrate your data to another cloud. It will be very confusing for some, and the difficulty involved in changing services will be a real deterrent to ever changing. Another likely scenario will emerge where users will have multiple cloud accounts across several different services. In fact, it is more than likely that people will establish their cloud storage accounts, then after a year or two may have three or more cloud storage locations at the same time. Married couples and families will have multiple storage accounts for each member. The number of cloud accounts will explode. The ability to manage cloud storage services will become very complicated. The idea here is to create a device, which will be a Network Attached Storage device, which will automatically log in to all of your and your families cloud accounts, and make a backup of all of them on a local media. It could be called a Rain device, or a Snow device, or Precipitation device. Neat, huh? It would be made possible by creating a program in a ROM in a NAS device. In fact, it could be a program in a future upgrade of an existing NAS device, like Netgear or Linksys make. It would store the login name and the user's passwords in memory, along with the URL of the cloud resources. The whole thing would connect to your internet at home. It could also be used as a local storage device, as space allows. It would log into the cloud, scan the file structure, and make a list of all of the files stored therein. Then, it would create a hierarchical file structure that is identical to your cloud service, and copy every file that it finds in there. Subsequently, it could react to duplicate files by comparing them and only copying them if they are different, and possibly based on a date or time stamp. This is one idea which I expect to see in use very soon. I haven't heard of anyone doing it yet, so I want to be sure it is recorded here, in the cloud, for posterity, and also so I can show people later on when somebody patents it and makes a million bucks. If you read this, and you do make a million bucks, kindly remember me, and kick me down a little. Ten percent is all I ask. Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Getting Rid of Automatic Checkouts This isn't my idea, but it is a good one. A major supermarket chain has decided to remove its customer-operated automatic checkouts. They have over 100 stores which will have them eliminated. I am fully behind this idea. They are an example of a complicated system to get the customers to check themselves out of the supermarket. There are some drawbacks, which make them less than desirable. For one thing, there is the bagging system, which expects a certain weight for each product scanned. There is a lag between scanning and bagging,  If you have a cart with 85 items, it can take quite a while to get out. Then there is the constant barrage of repetitive instructions. Scan the next item. Place the item in the bagging area. Unexpected item in the bagging area. Please scan your next item. A human cashier has certain advantages that come from skill and experience. They can converse. They can press a button and scan 8 items at once. They can tell what your produce is without looking it up in the system. They move fast, and they can help you put your groceries in a bag. And they are skilled at getting your payment. I have written about automatic checkouts in previous posts. I want them to have different user-selected voices, like a GPS. I want them to have a shut up button for experienced users. But I don't use them, for the simple reason that they are frustrating to deal with. I think they are a stretch for technology, unlike ATM's which anyone can operate because they are limited in their scope. Automated checkstands have too many layers of complication. I will be glad to see them gone. Sunday, May 22, 2011 Automatic Checkout Machine Voices This seems to be a favorite subject for me. I do shop for groceries in my family, more than the other people in my household. I have had several ideas, some of which I think are quite good, relating to cash registers. I really can't understand why at least one of them has come to see the light of day. My first was the beep sound where the cashier in the different lines scan the groceries and other items, and the register goes beep, beep, beep, as the products pass by. I think it would be cool and also somewhat pleasant if the registers each had a different beep, like register 1 beeps, register 2 beeps a little higher in pitch, and so on down the line. In some of the busier discount stores, it would be almost musical. I blogged this idea already, if you want to read more. My next idea was to put a silence button on the new automated machines, which I find really annoying. They tell you to scan the item, they tell you to put it in the bag, they tell you to insert cash, and if you have a lot of items, you will have to listen to the machine tell you what to do for a long time. I don't know what the advantage is for the consumer, because it takes longer to check out that way than having an experienced cashier do it for you. So today, I was at the supermarket buying a loaf of bread, when I was in the cashier line. The automated line was going pretty good and four machines were issuing their repetitive instructions to four different customers. They all had the same voice. The same woman's voice, probably some white woman, too. It is the same voice in all of the competing supermarkets and many other stores. Ralph's and WalMart's and Raley's and Home Depot, they all sound the same. It struck me: Why don't they give the cash registers different voices? For one thing, the people at four different registers would be able to have four different voices telling them so that they wouldn't think the register next to them was telling them what to do. They could have a selection of voices, like several male and several female voices. They could have unique voices for their own stores, so Home Depot could have their own voices, and WalMart could have theirs. Next, they can have them in different languages, too! I think it is a great idea. The cost of having someone read all the possible phrases a cash register uses would be minimal, and the license for the sound of a voice could be very lucrative for someone. I would offer my own voice, for a very reasonable price. Hey, they could license celebrity voices. They possibilities are endless. Now, how could one make a profit from this? If some chain of stores wants to have their own branding, like OSH could get their commercial guy to speak for the registers. People would go there just to hear the cash register voices. Sales would definitely go up, and personnel costs would go down as more people went for the automated cashiers, thereby eliminating human cashiers, saving the companies money. Well, I'll be waiting to see when someone implements this idea. I don't care to make a lot of money off of it, but if you happen to use it, and it works out for you, please remember the guy with the coolest ideas. Ten percent is all I ask. Sunday, May 1, 2011 Intersection Beacons Everyone has a Smartphone now, and the Smartphone is actually starting to supplant the dedicated GPS. Not completely, but starting. A dedicated GPS has certain advantages, like large amounts of data stored on-board, with no network connection needed. Smartphones need cell service, at a minimum a 2G network. With the number of G's increasing rapidly, soon we will be looking at 6G networks, but now everyone is at about 3G or 4G, with many people starting to make the move to 5G. This is all well and good, as long as you stay within the bounds of the network signal. As soon as you go beyond, the Smartphone becomes as useful as a brick with apps. This is not to denigrate Smartphones, actually, but a suggestion for improving the functions of dedicated GPS devices. These days, pretty much every intersection is controlled by a computer. They are probably even networked, which gives this idea even greater value. I would like to see every computer-controlled intersection equipped with a beacon that would constantly broadcast the state of the intersection. It would be implemented using antennae that are directional in nature, pointing and broadcasting their status towards oncoming traffic. They would send a time signal and the color of the light to approaching traffic, plus the remaining time until the light is expected to change. Each packet would contain the current time as a reference, plus the state of every light in the intersection, such as straight, left turn lanes, right turn and crosswalks. The current GPS databases would need to be extended to include the configuration of known intersections as to what signals were present, and the state of the intersection could be decoded on the GPS screen. It would tell you that the light ahead is green, but will turn red in 8 seconds. Given your then-current speed, it could warn you if you were going too slow to make the light, maybe advise you to slow down or to continue at the current speed, or accelerate if safe to the posted speed limit. Already, GPS manufacturers have traffic service, where they broadcast traffic alerts constantly. Databases are showing where all the red-light cameras are, and it is only a matter of time before GPS databases will include posted speed limits and the location of every single stop sign on the planet. Making intersections broadcast their state to oncoming traffic could add a dimension of safety by warning drivers of the red light they might not be aware of, and lives could be saved. This idea is not intended to make it easy to avoid red-light violations, and any suggestion of that might work to delay implementation of this fantastic idea. Probably anyone who is opposed to this idea works for the county or city government, and would not like to see people have this information available. They also might not want to spend public funds on something so frivolous, but if only one life were to be saved, it would be worth millions, right? Right? So who could object? Also, the data could be put on the internet, and Smartphone owners could access the data from Google Maps, as they are being voice-guided on the way to work. "The light ahead at 6th and High Streets is red, and will turn green in fifteen seconds." "The light ahead at Main Street and Wall Street is red and the crosswalk is active." "The light ahead at First Street and Sunset Blvd. is green but will turn red in 7 seconds." These are just some off-the-cuff examples of what your GPS might someday tell you. And if you are the one to turn this idea into gold, can you please remember me? I only want 10%! Tuesday, March 29, 2011 How About PayPal Using People? or, PayPal Hell! I have noticed a disturbing trend. It seems that many businesses are opting for voice-trained response systems instead of human operators. Maybe people are too expensive, because they tend to make small talk. I say this because I have been dealing with PayPal customer support for about three weeks on an issue that stems from a certain policy they have regarding the use of checking accounts. I have been trying to do some eBay business, and have gotten to the point where I have bought too much stuff from them. They flagged my as having spent to much, and asked me for a checking account number. Well, I had no problem with that. I gave it to them. But it didn't take. So, I called them. Well, actually, I tried to contact them via e-mail. I had to select categories and then enter a PIN on the phone before the machine would talk to me. If machines that have to use and understand human speech become the norm, we are in trouble. A machine is only as good as the programmers who programmed it, and they are human too. For some reason, they like to make it very difficult to reach a human being. And once you get past the machine, after it cannot figure out what you want, you can go on hold for quite a while. I called them, and it took a good two minutes for the machine to yield to my will. After that, it dropped me onto hold, where I was subjected to some horrible upbeat Jazz-like music, with a radio-announcer voice constantly telling me all the ways that I could get my problems solved by using their help system on the web page. I finally spoke to a human, and was told that my account was already being used. It seemed to have been stuck to a previous e-mail address that became a spam magnet, and I stopped using it. Subsequently, I closed that PayPal account, and another which had also been used with the same bank account. Then I called them back. Same ordeal getting into a hold queue, then a different agent telling me the same things as before. After updating the story, I got another answer which was that I had to get the checking account off of a third PayPal account which belongs to my wife. She has her own use for it, and a checking account for that use, and the funds don't mingle with our home accounts. I tried to tell them, but they insisted that she call them to give them permission to break the connection. She did, and waited through the same hold pattern to be told the same things I already knew. Twice. I have since called three more times, and e-mailed them a dozen more. They don't reply to emails most of the time, except by an automated response system, but I did get to speak to a customer service supervisor, with no resolution, and got a personal email from a tech in their system somewhere. I still don't have a satisfying outcome. I finally had to close the account because it is getting personal now. I'm waiting for my check, and then I'm going to tell people what they are in for. Which leads to the idea part: I'm sure this is nothing new, but what about renting some office space, and putting a bunch of phones in there, and hiring some underemployed Americans to answer the phones and direct calls to qualified technicians? This would have the advantage of giving a sympathetic and understanding voice to people when they call because of some frustration they are experiencing. Heck, even if the problem were never solved, at least the caller would feel like someone cares. The technology exists to route calls to phones based on a formula to make sure every phone operator gets the same amount of time in calls. They could also put computer terminals in, where people could log the calls, and when someone has to call five or ten times, the problem wouldn't have to be re-described. The problem here is time. If I call a company, like PayPal, and have to voice-navigate a computer system to get to a person, they have stolen some of my time. And when I send a long message and the system logs me off for inactivity before I finish the message, and then drops the message because I have to log in again, they have stolen my time. I have never experienced such poor customer service from any entity, not even the Department of Motor Vehicles. This is my idea. I could make a million bucks off of it. Sunday, March 27, 2011 Earlobe Openings Here's an idea I've been mulling over for a few weeks: One thing I have noticed about people in the coffee shops is that there are quite a few that have wild and eclectic haircuts and many with tattoos and earlobe gauging. Earlobe gauging should be called gouging because it makes the earlobe larger. It has been a custom in some primitive societies to stretch parts of the body by inserting objects into openings, enlarging the openings gradually, and then putting in larger objects. Ear gauging is a variation of ear piercing, which makes a tiny hole larger and larger. Personally, I am not a big fan of bodily immolation. I don't care for ear gauging or tattoos. It looks painful, and makes me cringe. Tattoos, because they are permanent and sometimes the content may be desirable at the time of application, but the tattooed may have a change in taste and be stuck forever defaced with images all over their shin. Because of these things, I usually get my coffee at the gas station nowadays. But this is not about tattoos, it is about the ear gauging thing. When a person gauges their ears, they bgin with a pin, then insert a cone in the hole. The cone enlarges the hole, and they push it in farther and farther, until the cone goes all the way through. Then they put a disk in, which I have seen as big as a quarter in some cases. This actually can lead to a practical value for a loop of skin hanging from the bottom of the ear. The disks I have seen are usually white or black plastic, and shiny. The do not seem to have any other function but to hold the opening open. Here's the practical part: Why not make something like a BlueTooth device, with a speaker in it? You could make a pair of stereo earphones that way, with no wires. They could have a jack for a very short single ear bud, or they could be designed so that the mass would be supported by the earlobe, bit part of it would be at the ear canal opening sending sound into the ear. A real advantage would be that the user could have sound but not have to cover the ear with extremal headphones or plug the ear with ear buds. Think of the safety ramifications of not restricting hearing while being able to listen to music! Wow! Yes, well, I do get excited sometimes. This is my latest brainstorm, and I had to put it down on keyboard and screen before someone else thought about it. It's is like the app I thought up some time ago about turning the iPhone screen into a mirror. It would probably consist of a program that dims the backlight way down so that you could see your reflection on the shiny surface. I didn't think much of that idea, until I saw on the Internet, that someone else is making it. Anyway, like other ideas I have had, this one is free for the taking, but if you use i and make money from it, at least mention where you found it. And if you are feeling generous, and want to take good care of your Karma, send me a few dollars. 5 percent is all I ask. Sunday, December 26, 2010 Sagging Suspenders In a previous post, I described my idea for a garter belt-style of suspenders. I guess it was a decent idea, since someone is now marketing a similar product. Even though I didn't draw a picture, it is pretty clear that the product is just as I described it. You can read about it here. It is always possible, actually, that someone else came up with the same idea independently. I didn't patent the idea, so I don't have any real claim on it. But this is why I blogged it here in the first place: I do get to claim credit for having thought of it first. Of course, my ideas are free for the taking, but I do accept thanks in the form of a share of the profits, if you happen to make any money off of them. 10 percent is all I ask.

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DCB/DBC Mobile beta VÉNIARD DE BOURGMOND, ÉTIENNE DE, officer, coureur de bois, explorer of the Missouri; b. c. 1675 in the province of Normandy, son of Charles de Véniard Du Vergier and Jacqueline Jean; ennobled in 1725; d. in France. If others before him had ventured into the region, Bourgmond can nevertheless be considered to be the first explorer of the Missouri, for he went farther up it than his predecessors and wrote down his observations in two detailed reports which furnished the material for mapping the region accurately. Bourgmond came to Canada in 1695, and everything leads us to believe that he had been deported. At first he doubtless served as a soldier, for it was not until 1705 that he was given the expectancy of an ensign’s commission. In 1702 he took part in Charles Juchereau de Saint-Denys’ expedition down the Ohio. He was attached to the garrison of Fort Pontchartrain at Detroit, and in 1706 he took command of it in the absence of Antoine Laumet, dit de Lamothe Cadillac, and Alphonse Tonty. With about 15 soldiers it was difficult to maintain order among the tribes living nearby, who were allies of the French but who distrusted one another. When the Ottawas [see Le Pesant] fell unexpectedly upon a group of Miamis, Bourgmond, who had not been able to prevent the incident, shut the gates of the fort and opened fire upon the assailants. A few Miamis, 30 Ottawas, one soldier, and the Recollet Constantin Delhalle lost their lives in the affray. Although Lamothe first praised the young officer’s bravery, the authorities rebuked him instead for his blunder. The account left by the commissary Clairambault d’Aigremont is damning for Bourgmond. But this account was written two years later when Bourgmond had become a mere deserter who merited no consideration whatsoever. It was probably towards the end of 1706 that Bourgmond and the soldier Jolicoeur deserted to go to live in the woods with Pichon, dit Larose, and a woman known as Mine La Chenette or Mme Techenet [Elizabeth? Couc*]. Desertions at Detroit were, indeed, a common matter; it was reported in 1703 that one-third of the garrison had disappeared. When Larose was brought back to the fort and tried by court martial in November 1707, he tried to cast all the blame on Bourgmond, in a vain attempt to save his own life. Bourgmond, he said, was caching beaver pelts on an island in Lake Erie and was “ready to go over to the English and to live with them for good.” Cashiered and treated as a ne’er-do-well, Bourgmond spent the next five years in the depths of the woods, probably living in the Lake Erie region, with an 18-month stay among the Mascoutens of the Lower Ohio to trade in pelts. It was not until 1712 that Bourgmond met the Missouri Indians, probably while accompanying some of them on their way back after they had come to the help of Renaud Dubuisson, who had been menaced at Detroit by the Foxes [see Pemoussa]. But he did not stay long in their territory and went down to Mobile to spread the news of his new acquaintances and to offer his services, in return for payment, to bring about alliances with the various tribes of the Missouri region. His proposal was accepted, for the French were nourishing the dream of commanding an access route to New Mexico and perhaps to the Western Sea, as well as of appropriating mines that were said to be very rich. Bourgmond devoted the year 1713 to visiting Louisiana and stopped for a time with the Illinois Indians before undertaking the exploration of the Missouri in March 1714. His appearances at the Jesuit missions in the period from 1712 to 1714 brought on an avalanche of denunciations. In unison Fathers Pierre-Gabriel Marest and Jean-Marie de Villes, the bishop, and M. de Ramezay wrote that he was leading a life that was not only scandalous but also criminal, in that he was causing disorders among the Illinois and was preparing to bring the English into the region. There can be no doubt about the very free morals of the coureur de bois, but there are no facts to bear out the accusation of treason. Bourgmond’s dissolute life was enough, however, to rouse the wrath of the missionaries, who were above all intent upon protecting the Illinois’ morals. The minister of Marine satisfied those who were complaining by giving Cadillac secret orders to have Bourgmond arrested, but the governor of Louisiana does not seem to have been in a hurry to carry them out. Bourgmond has left two reports on the 1714 exploration trip, which took him to the junction of the Missouri and Cheyenne Rivers. The first report contains topographical data covering the region from the mouth of the Missouri as far as the Platte River. The second completes the first with geographical and ethnographical observations, covering the area as far as the territory of the Arikaras. After he had sent off his reports, Bourgmond remained for four more years in the region, then went back to Louisiana at the time of the war against the Spanish, in which he took part. Le Moyne* de Bienville requested that he be awarded the cross of the order of Saint-Louis, and the council wanted to send him back to the Missouri country to pacify the various tribes there. But Bourgmond, whom the company still owed 4,279 livres, preferred to sail for France with his son, who was born around 1714 in the Missouri country. It became evident, however, that it was more and more urgent to consolidate the French positions to the west of the Mississippi, believed to be menaced by the Spanish after Pedro de Villazur’s ill-starred expedition. An end to the permanent warfare which raged between the Padoucas (Comanches), who controlled access to New Mexico, and the other tribes whom Bourgmond had won over to the side of France was especially desirable, for it was impossible to conclude an alliance with the former without alienating the others. After Dutisnés failure, Bourgmond was considered to be the only person capable of carrying out this enterprise. Upon his arrival in France he was awarded a captain’s commission, with the title of commandant of the Missouri country, and the cross of the order of Saint-Louis. On 17 Jan. 1722 he was commissioned by the Compagnie des Indes to establish a fortified post on the Missouri, from which it would be possible to enter into relations with the Spanish, end the war against the Padoucas, and, when his mission was completed, bring some Indians back to France to make them aware of the king’s power and rekindle the public’s interest in the undertakings in Louisiana. If all these conditions were fulfilled within a period of two years, Bourgmond would be authorized to live in France, where he had just been married, and would receive the patent of nobility that he was seeking. Many delays and vexations were to characterize this second expedition. Bourgmond and his company did not arrive among the Missouris until November, just in time to prevent the Otos and Iowas from concluding an alliance with the Foxes. Despite illness and the insubordination of his lieutenants, Bourgmond succeeded in having the Fort d’Orléans built, some 450 kilometres from the mouth of the river, opposite the Missouris’ village. Despite the hesitations of the officers of the colony, who now considered the undertaking chimerical and costly, Bourgmond, who had finally received supplies, embarked upon the pacification trip. Acclaimed everywhere as a chief, he rallied the Missouris, Otos, Osages, Pawnees, Iowas, and Kansas, who came in his wake to offer to make peace with the Padoucas, giving up at the same time a profitable trade in slaves. The engineer La Renaudière took part in this triumphal expedition and is believed to be the author of the account which has been preserved of it. He noted that the child whom Bourgmond had taken to France shared in all the honours bestowed upon his father, and that it was thanks to his return for good among his own people that the council of the nations, meeting at Fort d’Orléans on 5 Oct. 1724, having received assurances about the risks of the voyage, agreed to send ten delegates beyond the seas. These delegates arrived at New Orleans with Bourgmond, but there, as an economy measure, the delegation was reduced to four persons. These were the Missouri, Osage, and Oto chiefs Menspéré, Boganientim, and Aguiguida, and the daughter of a Missouri chief, Ignon Ouaconisen, who was accompanied by her slave Pilate. The Illinois Chicagou, chief of the village of the Michigameas, went to France at the same time, but being the only Christian in the group, he was under the care of Father Beaubois*, who kept him away from Bourgmond’s Indians as much as possible and obtained some private audiences for him. They first sailed on the Bellone, which sank as it was leaving the roadstead, and despite the fright which this accident caused them the delegates sailed off again and arrived in Paris 20 Sept. 1725. There they were immediately received at the head office of the Compagnie des Indes, along with Bourgmond, who acted as their interpreter throughout their stay. A second and more formal audience took place on 8 November on the occasion of a directors’ meeting. The comptroller-general, Charles-Gaspard Dodun, replied to the speeches of the representatives of the Three Nations and of the Illinois chief and had tobacco, Indian and sumptuous French costumes distributed to them. On 22 November they were received at Fontainebleau by the Due de Bourbon, who presented them at court, and two days later ushered them into the king’s chambers. “Our territories are yours,” declared the spokesman for the Three Nations; “settle French people there, protect us, and give us White Collars [priests of the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères], or prayer leaders to give us instruction.” Thereupon each took off his chief’s insignia and placed it, feathers, bows, and quivers, at the monarch’s feet. The king questioned Bourgmond and the Jesuit at length on the customs and religion of the Indians and had a presentation made to each delegate of a gold medal, a watch, arms, and a picture painted for the occasion and representing the audience. Before returning to Port-Louis the Indians also had the honour of going hunting with the king. During this stay, which lasted two months, they also visited all the interesting sights of the capital; the fountains of Versailles and Marly played for them; at the Théâtre des Italiens two of the chiefs gave a performance of dances which were found rather disconcerting. Never had the city and the court received Indians with so much display, but all this show had meagre results. A year after the delegates had returned to their country, Fort d’Orléans was evacuated and abandoned to some Canadian fur-traders. Having renounced the New World and a life of adventure, and having been ennobled by letters patent in December 1725, Bourgmond still had to claim 3,000 livres in salary and for reimbursement of his out-of-pocket expenses incurred in providing the Indians during their stay at New Orleans and the crossing with the rations of bread and meat that the Conseil de la Colonie had refused to issue them. “He is staying in Paris,” he wrote, “only to wait for you to render him the justice that is due him.” It is not known whether the Compagnie des Indes did reimburse him, for from then on Bourgmond left no trace, whilst Fort d’Orléans and the precarious peace which were his work were likewise soon forgotten. Louise Dechêne Véniard de Bourgmond, “Routte qu’il faut tenir pour monter la rivière du Missoury,” AN, Marine, 3JJ, 201 [published by Marc de Villiers Du Terrage in La découverte du Missouri et lhistoire du fort dOrléans (1673–1728) (Paris, 1925), 46–59]; “L’Exacte Description de la Louisianne, de ses ports, terres et rivières, et noms des nations sauvages qui l’occupent, et des commerces et avantages que l’on en peut tirer dans l’établissement d’une colonie,” AN, Col., C13C, 1, ff.346–56 [published by Marcel Giraud in Revue historique, CCXVII (1957), 29–41]. Other-sources used include: AN, Col., B, 36, 37; C11A, 21, 29, 34, 35; C11E, 14, 15; C13A, 5, 9; C13C, 1, 4; D2C, 49, 51, 222; E, 48 (dossier de Bourgmond); F3, 2. BN, MS, Cabinet des titres, P.O. 2959 (Bourgmond’s letters of nobility); a copy of this document is published in BRH, XXIV (1918), 254–56. BN, MS, NAF, 2551, ff.81–82; 9304 (Margry). SHA, A1, 2592. Charlevoix, Histoire (1744). 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Thursday, June 28, 2012 We Have Moved! Oh Shit...... We Major! TB&TB is back, and better than ever!  Or at least we are older and wiser.  Maybe we are just doing something....COME CHECK US OUT! ! All your favorite sports, today's topics, cat pictures, and ass clownness over at OUR OWN WEBSITE! So come check us out.  Get more stuff like this. God Bless America! Thursday, March 10, 2011 The End 2 months ago, I came up with the radical idea of re-launching this blog. Big and I had let things go stale, but we still had plenty to say, so I thought, maybe I’ll jump start things with a series of mini-posts and that would be that. After all, I was maintaining being active on our Twitter account the entire time, and I figured as social media progressed, why shouldn’t we re-join the fray and re-establish ourselves within the blogging community. So, for the past 10 weeks, Big and I have been fairly diligent on blog posts. We’ve tried to get one out each day, and though Big wasn’t all that jazzed about doing it again, he stepped in when I couldn’t and produced his usual greatness. Inigo and Fezzik had returned! It was Twitter that turned the corner. I liked Twitter. I really did. It was a way to follow comedians, sports reporters and other bloggers and know what was going on prior to stories hitting websites. I followed a few friends, but for the most part kept my focus on the other groups for entertainment. I’m not sure when it happened, but somehow we (myself included) lost our veil of civility online. I’m not talking about trollers and general internet commenters, I’m talking about friends talking to each other. When I meet with my friends in person, I’d like to think we all have a good time. We kick each other in the balls, we make jokes, we tell stories, it’s a good time. We don’t sell things to each other. We don’t intentionally annoy each other. We aren’t deliberately malicious to each other. Somehow with the advent of Twitter,the tables turned. Now, when with friends, everyone spends the entire time looking at their phones. They’re not conversing with each other, they’re Twittering with people who aren’t there or sometimes with the person next to them. Rather than telling friendly jokes, we’re spamming each other, checking-in, and telling each other “you should totally check this out” sales pitches. I don’t even want to hang out sometimes because what’s the point? I’m basically talking to the crown of everyone’s head because their staring at their phones. I know everyone thinks I’m calling out Bear for his ChevySMC nonsense, but I think that, for me, was just the breaking point. For all intents and purposes, I should be happy for the guy, after all, one of my good friends won a friggin’ iPad, and that’s pretty fucking sweet. But, after the spamming on Twitter and the, oh so classy, “I won the iPad bitches” text message, I was angry. I was angry because it felt like someone valued winning a toy over keeping a good relationship with their friends. And then I got angry at myself, why the hell am I getting upset? It’s Twitter – who the hell maintains a relationship on social media? But don’t we? When’s the last time I’ve actually had a conversation with my friends? Been awhile. We excuse ourselves with the occasional tweet or Facebook post as though that’s somehow the way to maintain a friendship. Sure, you’ll argue that I don’t come out anymore. It’s a fair argument, but it isn’t like anything is stopping me. I just notice that when we do come out and join everyone, all I see is everyone on their phone, heads down with their thumbs in a tornado (“Is THIS the only way I can talk to you, Dad?” ). Why do that when I can relax at home? So…now what? Consider this my last post, for good this time, from this blog and the end of my using Twitter. I’m sure I’ll get called a pussy by this person or that because I’m worried about what anyone else thinks or I’m getting upset because someone said something mean to me. Maybe I’m a hypocrite who does fine in doing a Waldorf/Statler impression, but when I have to actually interact, I keep my trap shut. Maybe I am a pussy, a hypocrite or just an person who doesn’t get new technology and how people communicate today. Either way, I can’t really think of anything positive with my friends and my relationships that’s happened with Twitter or this blog. I have a laundry list of negativity, hypocrisy and all out stupidity that has come from it. Big may post here again, but I think now that he knows I’m done, he’ll retire because he was pretty much done as it was. I was the one responsible for dragging him back in. We’ll leave the URL and site up because I still use the link tree on the side. For those that I know, I’ll see you when I see you. For those that I don’t, I’m happy you came by our little corner and read what we had to say. It has been a great 3 years writing and sharing thoughts with everyone, but I think we’ve run our course. Big's Response I couldn't have said it better. The relationship that I have with social media is definitely a love-hate relationship. Parts of it are fantastic, the ability to follow people of whos opinions I value, to be the entertained or learn from them, is such a great thing. the ability to follow events in real-time, is something I didn't expect but come to thoroughly enjoy from twitter. But there are some bad uses of social media, and they do become the turn in the punch bowl. It's my fear that those who do use it poorly will drive away people like Brown. As for the blog? I think it's best that we put it this way, don't expect new content all the time, if there's ever something we feel we want to write about we have space for it, right here at the big and the Brown. Treat us like the sugar sheet, the site we link to. they don't post everyday, hell they don't post every month but when they find something interesting and they think that their readers would enjoy it they post it. That's what we've become. So come check back with us every once in a while, maybe we'll have some new content maybe we won't. And if Brown is really done, it's been fun. I'm glad we could share our insane, heated, sports conversations with people outside of us. maybe they enjoyed it, maybe they didn't, but I know I sure did. cheers. Tuesday, March 8, 2011 When Twitter goes horribly wrong Not much to say here, but if you consistently tweet spam messages, you’re obviously trying to ruin the job you’ve done in trying to make everyone like you. If you actually win whatever it is you’re trying to win, I hope you drop it and it breaks and you cry.  You are the reason that global warming exists , cancer can’t be cured, gas prices are up and Justin Bieber is popular. If you see someone tweeting a stream of spam messages, you have full authority, under the letter of the law, to walk up and punch them right in their bearded face. Monday, March 7, 2011 Catching up First off, did you like that ruse I pulled to get Big back?  I hope you did.  I’m gonna get that large man blogging again regularly whether he likes it or not. Admit it, it felt good, didn’t it?  Anyway, I was out of town last week travelling and under water all weekend, so I missed out on a lot of things. 1. Charlie Sheen.  Wow.  I refuse to believe any of this is legit. I think he and CBS knows how much Two and a Half Men is lampooned by everyone for being a shitty show that caters to the lowest common denominator and that watching that show regularly is akin to having brain herpes.  I think they crafted this elaborate ruse to rope the cynical viewer in so as to capture all audiences.  All of the stupid people who were already watching will continue watching, everyone else will tune in to see how Chuck Lorre writes himself out of this one.  Combine that with an inevitable book or movie coming out with Charlie Sheen – VIRAL MARKETING ALERT! Anyway, it’s entertaining as hell, but I don’t buy it for one second.  People are already getting tired of “winning” and “tiger blood”.  The shtick will die when it turns into the next SNL bit and everything will return to normal. 2. Spring Training Spring training has sprung.  We’re all watching the Rangers with baited breathe.  Will they do a good job?  Will Michael Young turn to cancer? Can CJ hold up the rotation?  Will Colby repeat?  Will Neftali Feliz make a good starter or are we “Joba Chamberlain-ing” him?   Kind of good to hear baseball be at the top of everyone’s sports brains in Dallas in March.  Great for the Rangers, but the Mavs are getting kind of ignored, which sucks. 3. Pluckers opened near me. Not really much else to say, short of the fact that my wife and I are already regulars.  Anything else?  No?  Good.  Talk to you tomorrow.  Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Growing Older - Its Cool Man I couldn't find a good pic to go with this post, so here is a chimp on a segway Growing older: this is something that is often looked upon with large, fear filled eyes. Most people seem to look at the drawbacks, the questions, the……. negative parts of growing older. When should I have a family? Will my body hold up? I can't keep up anymore. Things of that nature. While some of those things are true, there a lot of really good things about growing older as well. As I approach turning 30 years old, I'm tired of all that negativity, let's talk about some of the great things about being a late 20s early 30s guy in 2011. Let's talk about some of those. So here's another list (what? Did you do a list yesterday? What are you, list man from listatinia?) That I like to call: Big’s best parts of Olddom. This one is almost no-brainer. Just being alive longer, exposing yourself to different situations, gives you an edge over people who haven't been in them. The experience that you have can be anything. How many fender bender's have I been in over the past seven years? Zero. The seven years before that? At least eight. And this can all stems from the fact that I’m just driving more. It has made me a better driver, and I've been in more driving situations to know how to react when something negative does happen, so I can avoid said accident. Experience also gives you the ability to give good advice. Talking to a 24-year-old who just got out of college and is chasing his dream, you can literally help him with some sage wisdom that you learned just a few short years ago. Let's not discount the experience that you gain in the art of courting and pleasing the opposite sex. I saw a comic that I couldn't agree more with when he said, and I'm paraphrasing here, while the libido of the 19-year-old may be stronger than mine, I'm like a well-trained sniper who can one-shot kill from 300 yards, and he is like a baby with a Tommy gun. Sure you shoot more bullets, but hitting the target for you is almost accidental, mine is a precision strike with deadly accuracy. The arts. I've always been a fan of the arts, I was in theater my younger days, I played in the high school band as well as taught myself guitar in college, and while I personally have very little artistic ability when it comes to the visual arts, they fascinate me nonetheless. That said with the more experience you gain, the different emotions you encounter, and the more research you can do that only comes with age, truly gives you more respect and admiration for all of them. How do you truly understand loss never lost someone, I can you understand exploration if you yourself have never explored? Questions like “am I doing the right thing?” “Is this the best I can do?” or “why did this happen?” Helps give depth and meaning to artists like Dégas, Shakespeare, or the dude who wrote “alligator rock.” Speaking of music, this might be my favorite part of growing older. While there's no question that popular music is for the young, artist like Lady Gaga, Bruno Marrs, and Katy Perry are all talented in their own right, and I can even enjoy some of their song stylings, my ability to fall in love with a pop act may be nonexistent nowadays. And I've never been one to preach things that you often hear “music aficionados” say. Things like “the radio doesn't play good music,” “the bigger the band gets the more water down their sound is,” and my personal favorite “oh so-and-so sold out, and is just doing it for the money.” I don't say those things not because they are necessarily true, because to a degree they all are, just not in the negative connotation that they are most often used, no I don't say those things because to me music is such a personal choice, and depends heavily on your influences, emotions, and more importantly personal taste. If your brain hears Britney Spears’ “If you Seek Amy” and it sparked joy and excitement inside of you, me telling you that you're wrong, and you shouldn't feel that way, is one of the most destructive things that I could do. So with all my preaching done then, and explain why growing older I enjoy music more. The more time you have to explore things, and try new things, the more often you will find something fantastic that you didn't really even know existed. This has been my experience with music as of late. Diving into genres and sub genres of music lead you to find new and exciting things. The whole alt-country scene (Whiskey town, Casey Anderson), led me to the alt country rock scene (Lucero, Sun Volt), which led me to the indie rock scene (MGMT, Death Cab), which led me to the East Coast indie rock scene (Gaslight Anthem, Airborn Toxic Event, LCD SoundSystem) and who knows where it will go next. Another great thing about all of this, is most of these bands, or least bands like them, will come through Dallas, and play venues that are not the AAC, or Verizon, or the Yellow Pages, big arena type places. You might catch a band at the double wide, or dada, or aidars saloon, where you can have a cold beer, a shot of whiskey, and stand back and listen to music. And that brings me to the last point I want to talk about drinking is a double edged sword as you grow older. It's very true that bouncing back from a hard night of boozing becomes more difficult older you get. Not to mention the fear that comes with overindulging, for some reason a DWI is far less scary at the age of 22 that is a 29. While getting blackout drunk, and puking everywhere was sometimes a goal to some people in our younger days, now it's kind of looked down upon. More so by yourself and other people. All that said, drinking still kicks ass as you get older. You can enjoy a good buzz more without needing to get “wasted”. Some people have a little more money(not me), so they can enjoy a finer spirits. Pitchers of Miller lite are replaced with bottles of seasonal Sam Adams, or even gasp, a glass of red wine. It's not as strange anymore to see a middle-aged man with a martini, or a glass of scotch, as it would be if you saw younger man do it. I could probably go on little bit longer, hell I didn't even get into sports, but as I look down and see this is already over 1000 words, I'm going to Just end it with this. Getting older, as all things in life, has its positives and negatives, it ebbs and flows, it has its hills and valleys, and I try and take it upon myself when I am in that valley, not only look behind me and say “look up great that hill was,” but look in front of me and say “look how great that hill is going to be.” Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Big podcast list Dog Listening to Podcasts? Dog Listening to Podcasts. One of the things I've recently been getting into, I say recently but it's been like two years, and to be honest it's probably one of the reasons why don't write much this blog anymore, is the wonderful world of podcasts. We have often joked that the big and the Brown should start their own podcast, and it yet may still happen, but today I bring you the dear readers my list of podcast that keep me entertained. There's a mix of sports and humor history and even little psychology. So enjoy! This and the Nerdist are probably the two podcasts I listen to the most. When I say the most a mean almost daily. I'll pop one of these two all my speakers when I'm getting ready in the morning, or when I'm working out, when I'm playing a videogame that doesn't require sound. The BS report is hosted by Bill Simmons, a columnist for, who writes mostly about the NFL, the NBA, and anything Boston sports related. He's a big pop-culture fan, especially pop culture of the late 80s early 90s. He's a big fantasy fan, he plays fantasy baseball fantasy football and even talks about fantasy basketball every once and a while. His show is a mix of entertainment and sports, with guests like Adam Corolla, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel on the entertainment side and Mark Stein, Mike Lombardi, and Ric Bucher on the sports side. He is extremely entertaining and I cannot recommend him enough. If for no other reason than to hear him and Dave Jacoby talk about the real world Road rules challenge. Pure gold This is the other podcasts I listen to extremely frequently. It's hosted by Chris Hardwick, who used to host singled out on MTV, which I know is not high selling point but this guys comedy is extremely good. His interaction with his cohosts Mike Myra and Jonah Ray is entertaining enough on its own, but each week they interview a different "famous person.” Usually another comedia n, and usually they talk mostly about stand up, where inspiration comes from, how they got started, what they like about stand up what they don't like about stand up, all those normal things that interviewers ask what it's done with great humor and self-deprecation. It's called The Nerdist due to the website that came before it that Hardwick runs, and Hardwick's philosophy that every body nerds out over something, whether it's comedy, video games, movies, or even food. Because of this show, I've started following different comedians, watching different television shows (like Dr. who), and all in all becomes a much more rounded nerd. Love it. Fresh Air Podcast I know it's from NPR, but before you start with the whole “there's big pushing his liberal agenda” bit, here me out. This is a great little podcast that involves interviews and reviews of both pop-culture and the arts. Terry Gross is the host of the show and usually puts out one about every week. Recent interviews were with James Franco Natalie Portman, and Tom Hooper who was the director of the King speech. If you’re into hip hop at all, go find the interview with Jay Z. Great stuff. Comedy Death-Ray Radio Comedian Scott Aukerman host this little podcast, and brings with him a lot of his buddys from the world of “alternative comedy” which is a bullshit term, but that’s the label most of the have. Guys like Andy Richter, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Ian Black, Adam Scott, and Paul F Thompson. If you dig those types of comedians, you’ll dig this show. History of the world Podcast This is a series that the BBC did called a history of the world in 100 objects. It's 100 different podcasts that last about 15 minutes each, and each one focuses on one object and uses that object to explain the time period from which it came. Shrink rap radio To be honest this is a podcast that I've yet to start listening to, but one that I'm very interested in. The tagline for this is "all the psychology you need to know in just enough to make you dangerous." I've been on a bit of a what makes your brain tick kick lately, and this is just a part of it. Topics of this podcast include: mindful sleep mindful dreams, a psychiatrist most bizarre case studies, and exploring behavioral economics. I know this will be everybody's cup of tea, but I thought my included in this list. Monday, February 28, 2011 Bow to our New Overlord! (and lets see if i can still do this) Oh Sweet Lord Trebek! What have you DONE!?!? With brown out this week, Its my goal to give all 14 of you that still come to our little cul-de-sac of the blogoshpere what you expect, fresh piping hot content. Should be good times. I haven't done this consistently for a while now. Its like riding a bike right? So let me just step up on this shwinn here.....OH GOOD GOD! Does physical humor work on a blog? (Gets up, dusts self off, trys to hide raging pain boner) Well that was fun. So on to my point. Whats up with computers? I know right? Crazy! Man i'm rusty. Bare with me, or this might be a long week. Let me just lead off with the part of this story that i know about, Sports. I mean come on, we are a sports blog right? That's what everybody is here to read about, right? Hardcore Sports Manlove! Its not like Deadspin has started running daily bits about pop culture....... Or TBL often starts and ends each day with a round up of non sportie news........ or that Bill Simmons has a highly rated pod cast that often talks about Real World/Road Rules Challenges........ or that the ticket in Dallas despite it's poor 9,000 watt station is out dueling mighty ESPN and CBS radio stations with segments such as "trifecta talk," "top 10 temperatures," and pimping bands at the reconsider lounge...... Wait, all those things are happening? Fuck. I HAVE been gone a while. One thing will never change, however, and I know this to be true like death and taxes, The NFL and their union will always be the most powerfull being on the planet, and NEVER EVER GO AWAY....... (receives text from brown) I swear to all that is holy, if there is no NFL Draft, and i don't get to spend 10 hours a day studding draft film's like a Stevie studies Cunninlinguis tapes....... (receives another text from brown) there will be a draft......just maybe no season next year. Good, my stab-ability scale just went down from Julius Caesar to Ron Goldman. Good, now onto my point of this whole post. The NFL Draft Combine. (wow, even i didn't see that one coming, but give me time, it will all come back around) The Combine is going on as we speak. (i may or may not be streaming it at The big name, skill guys on offense (QB's, RB's, WR's TE's) and the o-line went through there drills this last weekend. Let me share with you some of the numbers. 40 yard dash fun facts. 5 Guys so far have run SUB 4.4 40's. (fastest so far being the running back from maryland Scott) All but 1 QB was sub 5.0. 7 at 4.65 or under. 4 sub 4.5. 2 o-line guys ran a sub 5.0 (Kelce from Cincinnati, and Bartholomew from Syracuse.) and one (Newton from Arkansas State (what up sun belt!)) at 5.01. That means 3 O-linemen ran faster than the slowest QB. 8 Runningbacks ran a 4.5 or under People of Note: Jake Locker: 4.59 40, 35 inch vertical, 10' broad jump, 6.77 three cone, 4.12 20yard Shuttle Cam Newton: 4.59 40, 35 inch vertical, 10'6" broad jump, 6.92 three cone, 4.18 20 yard shuttle Julio Jones: 4.39 40, 17 Bench, 38.5 vert, 11'3" broad (record is 11'4" AJ Green: 4.50 40, 18 Bench, 10'6"broad. I know that's a lot of crazy numbers that i just spit at you, and most of you don't know what any of those mean. Point of all this is let you know this: These guys are freaks. More so now than in past years even. 2 QB's who will play QB in the NFL running a sub 4.6 40? A WR who can jump from a standstill no less, the length that would equal 2 browns head to toe? (He's not a tall man) All of this can mean only one thing, these guys are.............. Judgement day is here! Watson on Jeopardy has proved computers are smarter than us, now they are faster and stronger than us as well. All hail Skynet! ( I know, it was a long post to get to a stupid, predictable joke, but give me a break, i'm rusty, i'll do better tomorrow. )

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Albert & Makrouhi Hougassian and their daughter Berthe In early 1942, the Tancmans, Jews of Polish origin, left Paris with their daughter Paulette (b. 1937) and resettled in Lyons, which was then in the unoccupied zone. One day, while walking in the street, M. Tancman saw the French police arresting Jews. Sure that he was witnessing a roundup, he fled in fear to a bakery. The only person on the premises was the salesgirl, sixteen-year-old Berthe Hougassian who immediately offered the terrified man shelter in the home of her parents, Albert and Makrouhi Hougassian. Tancman’s wife and five-year-old daughter joined him later. Until Lyons was liberated in September 1944, the Tancmans stayed in the Hougassians’ modest home, together with the Hougassian’s daughter, Berthe, and twelve-year-old son, Raymond. The Hougassians, of Armenian origin, were especially sensitive to the French authorities’ persecution of the Jews because Albert had been spared in the Turkish genocide of Armenians in Turkey. Hougassian, fluent in several languages, worked as an interpreter at police headquarters and used his connections to supply the Tancmans with forged papers. The Hougassians wholeheartedly sheltered the Jewish family who had come into their lives unannounced. They shared their food and their small apartment and enrolled young Paulette in school. In her postwar testimony, Paulette noted that she was so confused by her identity change that she found it hard to answer “present” when her false name was called.  Throughout the Tancmans’ stay, the Hougassians hid their rescue action from friends and acquaintances and assumed great risk in so doing. The Tancmans’ relatives knew where they were hiding, and despite the danger, the Hougassians allowed them to visit on several occasions. On December 22, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Albert and Makrouhi Hougassian and their daughter Berthe as Righteous Among the Nations. This online story was made possible with the support of: Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

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Jump to content Improving System Performance without Adding Memory for HP Desktop PCs (Windows Vista) • PrintPrint This document pertains to HP Desktop PCs with Windows Vista. Use this document to help make Windows and other software perform better. The information below provides ways to improve system performance by making more resources available. Remove viruses and spyware If the computer is performing slowly after connecting to the Internet, adware or spyware programs might be installed. Spyware and adware software programs use the Internet to download and upload information in the background. Some of this information might be sensitive or unwanted advertising. Scan for viruses and spyware using antivirus or antispyware security software. Remove any viruses and spyware found. For more information see: About Spyware, Adware, and Browser Hijacking Software (in English). Close all open programs not being used Only use programs that are necessary. Minimizing a programs window might not stop that program from using the processor and memory. Being connected to the Internet, listening to music, and running virus scans are all ways to use up your system resources. Try running virus scans and other system tools while no one is using the computer or when away from the desk. Work offline when convenient. Closing programs that are not necessary helps Windows perform more efficiently. Manage startup programs by preventing background programs from loading A startup program is software that opens when Windows opens. Over time, as you install more and more software programs, the number of small icons in the notification area increases (usually these icons are in the lower-right corner, next to the time). Each of these small pictures represents a program running in the background, and each one uses valuable system resources. Move the mouse pointer over each small picture to find what software it is. Common programs that load and run in the background are Security Software, Windows update, Instant messaging software, and multimedia programs. You can increase system resources by stopping some of these tasks from loading, or by changing their settings. This can be achieved in several ways because these programs often open from various places. Figure 1: System tray icons Use System Configuration to prevent programs from launching Show me how CAUTION: Only disable items that are known and unwanted. Disabling system critical items might cause problems. 1. Click Start , and type msconfig into the Start Search field, and then press Enter 3. When the System Configuration window opens, click the General tab and make sure Selective startup is selected. Figure 2: General tab General tab 4. Select the Startup tab and remove the checks from any tasks that do not contribute to the system and are unwanted. If unsure about a task, write the name down and research it on the Internet later. Do not remove a checkmark if you do not know what the task is (if possible, do not close HP Total Care Advisor, HPRun, and Microsoft Windows Operating System). For a list of files that are recommended not to remove, review the HP support document: Using Microsoft System Configuration (Msconfig) in Windows Vista . Figure 3: Startup tab of the System Configuration Window Startup tab of the System Configuration Window 5. Click OK to accept the changes. Restart the computer. After Windows starts, a message window might appear stating that Windows has blocked some startup programs. Click the message to view the blocked programs. Figure 4: Blocked programs message Blocked programs message 6. If Windows or other software stops working after a checkmark is removed from a task you were unsure about, restart the computer and reverse these procedures to replace the checkmark. If needed, you can press F8 after the first blue HP startup screen (after the computer has been turned on) to open safe mode. Remove icons from the Startup folder Use the following steps to prevent unwanted items from loading: Show me how 2. Right-click Start , and select Open. The Start Menu folder opens. 3. Double-click Programs. 4. Find and open Startup. 5. Any icons present in Startup are programs loaded when Windows opens. Right-click any of these icons and select Properties to reveal more information about the icon. 6. Press and hold the Ctrl key. While holding this key down, click the icons that you do not want. 7. Click Edit, and select Cut. 8. Close all open windows to return to the Windows desktop. 9. Double-click the Notstartup folder on the desktop that was created earlier. 10. Select Edit and Paste from the Notstartup folder. The icons that were cut from the Startup folder are now placed in the Notstartup folder. 11. Restart the computer. Any items removed from Startup no longer open, but can be opened by double-clicking the desired item in the Notstartup folder. Empty the Recycle Bin Show me how 1. From the Windows desktop, double-click Recycle Bin . 2. Right-click any mistakenly deleted items, and then select Restore. 3. Click Empty the Recycle Bin. Windows removes the contents of the Recycle Bin from the hard disk. 4. Select Yes to confirm. 5. Close the Recycle Bin. Deleting temporary files and directories This step increases hard disk space and reduces the time Windows takes to access the hard drive. It also resolves problems with spooling print jobs. Windows uses a TEMP folder to temporarily store files intended only for temporary use. Over time, these files can build up and cause problems. To delete these files, use the following set of steps depending on the Windows version: Show me how 1. Close all open software programs. 2. Click Start , All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then Disk Cleanup. The Disk Cleanup Options window opens. Figure 5: Disk Cleanup Options Disk Cleanup Options 3. Click My files only or Files from all users on this computer. 4. Select the drive you want to clean up, and then click OK. A message displays telling you that Disk Cleanup is calculating how much space you can free on the disk drive. Figure 6: Disk Cleanup progress indication window Disk Cleanup progress indication window 5. Place a check next to the types of files you want the Disk Cleanup tool to delete. Temporary files are safe to delete. CAUTION:Selecting some options can have a negative effect. Examples: selecting Hibernation File Cleaner can prevent the computer from entering hibernation mode, selecting Setup Log Files deletes files that online phone support agents use to help troubleshoot setup problems. If you are unsure about what to delete, do not delete the files until you know that the files are not important for your use of the computer. Figure 7: Disk Cleanup Disk Cleanup 6. Click OK. 7. Click Delete Files. Check for hard disk drive errors Perform the following procedure to check the integrity of the hard disk drive in Windows Vista. Close all open programs before beginning the disk check. Show me how 1. Close all open software programs. 2. Click Start , and then click Computer. Figure 8: Selecting Properties for the hard drive Selecting Properties for the hard drive 4. In the Properties window, click the Tools tab. 5. Under Error-checking, click Check Now. Figure 9: Tools tab Tools tab 7. If desired, click the check box next to Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. Figure 10: Check Disk window Check Disk window 8. Click Start. If prompted to Schedule a disk check, click Schedule disk check and follow the on-screen instructions to restart the computer and scan the disk for errors. Figure 11: Message that might appear if Windows is unable to check Message that can appear if Windows is unable to check Defragment the hard disk drive The Disk Defragmenter tool takes all the scattered bits of program data and groups them together in more efficient areas of the drive. Run Disk Defragmenter as follows: Show me how 1. Close all open software programs. This includes background programs such as scanners. 2. Click Start , All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then click Disk Defragmenter. NOTE:If Disk Defragmenter repeatedly starts, a hidden background program is still accessing the hard drive. Restart the computer in Safe mode and try again. 3. Click Defragment Now. Figure 12: Disk Defragmenter Disk Defragmenter 4. If prompted, select the checkbox for each disk you want to defragment, and then click OK to start the disk defragmenter. This could take a few minutes or a few hours, depending on the amount of data on your hard disk drive. You have the option to click Cancel defragmentation to stop the tool. Preventing memory allocation problems Allocated memory space from programs that are no longer open can cause problems. Over time, this unused memory space can build up, causing Windows to slow down and use the hard drive more. These memory leaks are causing the system to slow down if the computer runs well when first turned on, but performs noticeably slower after several programs are opened and closed. Memory leaks can happen when software is closed before it has fully opened. Always allow programs time to fully open before closing them. As a rule, wait five seconds after a software program opens before closing it again, even if the program was opened unintentionally. In more rare occasions, an incompatible software program might continue to allocate memory while it is running, causing the system to slow down and eventually lock up. To immediately fix memory leaks, restart the computer. For a permanent fix, isolate software programs that might be causing the leaks by using the following steps: 1. Start with a fresh session of Windows by shutting down and then turning on the computer. 2. Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, and then select Start Task Manager to open the Task Manager window. 3. Click the Performance tab to view the amount of available physical memory. Figure 13: Performance tab in Task Manager Performance tab in Task Manager 4. Click the Resource Monitor button to view how your computer is using the memory. Figure 14: Memory graph in Resource Monitor Memory graph in Resource Monitor 5. Click the arrow next to Used Physical Memory, and then scroll down to view which programs are using memory. 6. Open a program suspected of causing the computer to run more slowly. 7. View the System Resources percentage or the amount of physical memory again and write it down. 8. Close and reopen a suspected program repeatedly, comparing this number to the one recorded. Each time, wait about 10 seconds before opening again. 9. If the system resources percentage or available physical memory continues to decrease, a memory leak is occurring. Contact the program's vendor for available patches or fixes. 10. If the System Resource percentage or available physical memory comes back near to the same numbers each time, the suspected program is probably not creating a memory leak. Freeing up space on the hard drive Windows uses unused space (free space) on the hard drive for different types of operations such as caching and virtual memory. The computer might not run reliably if the free disk space drops below five percent of the total disk space. CAUTION:You might see a Recovery (D:) hard drive. This hard drive is reserved for system recovery and should not be used for anything else. If the computer displays messages that the drive is full, see Error: Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on Recovery (Windows Vista) . To see how much space remains on the hard drive: 1. Click Start , and then click Computer. 2. Right-click the hard drive (C: is most common), and click Properties. 3. View the amount of space available next to Free Space. Figure 15: Disk properties Disk properties Show me how 1. Click Start , and then click Control Panel. 2. Under Programs, click Uninstall a program or double-click the Programs and Features icon. 3. Highlight a program name that is not used, and then click the Uninstall/Change button. If you are prompted for an Administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. Click Yes to remove the program. Figure 16: Removing programs Removing programs 4. When done, a prompt might appear to restart Windows. Wait until completely removing the unwanted programs; then restart Windows. Adjusting System Restore settings System Restore is a feature of Windows that can revert system software and settings back to a particular date. System Restore does this by saving the changes made to system files in a restore point. These restore points use a lot of hard drive space. System Restore can fill 12% of the hard drive with restore points if left unadjusted, regardless of the entire size of the hard drive. Turning off System Restore deletes all restore points for that disk. You cannot restore the disk until you turn on System Protection again and a restore point is created. Turning off System Restore To save hard drive space, use the following steps to turn off System Restore for a hard disk drive. Show me how The System Properties window opens. 2. To turn on System protection for a hard disk drive, place a check in the check box next to the drive. 3. Click OK. Using System Restore to fix problems The System Properties window opens. 2. Click the System Restore button. The System Restore window opens. 3. Click Next and follow any on-screen instructions. Updating software Software conflicts can cause the system to slow. HP, Microsoft, and other software manufacturers release updates to address these problems. Make sure that you go to the HP software download site and use the Windows Update tool regularly. For more information, see the HP support document Obtaining Software and Drivers . Recommended maintenance schedule To free resources and keep the computer running correctly, follow a maintenance schedule as listed below. Recommended maintenance schedule Daily tasksWeekly tasksMonthly tasksQuarterly tasks Manage e-mail • Delete e-mail from unknown sources. • Do not open attachments that you do not trust. • Organize e-mail. Protect against viruses, adware, and spyware • Update definition files or schedule a weekly automatic update. • Run a full virus, adware, and spyware scan or schedule a weekly automatic scan. Use Windows Update Check for updates or schedule a monthly automatic update. Set new passwords Optimize system performance Review the Start menu Set the Start menu to open only needed applications. Clean the computer, monitor, keyboard, and mouse Use a portable vacuum to remove dust and debris from ventilation areas. Clean up Web browser files • Delete cookies. • Delete cache. • Delete history files. Clean up the desktop Delete or remove unneeded icons and software programs. Turning off nonessential graphical features Graphical features and programs can use a lot of system resources. Turning off these features can improve system performance. This section explains how to close the Windows Sidebar and how to adjust visual effects for best performance. Closing Windows Sidebar If you are not using the Windows Sidebar, you can close this program to increase system performance. To close Windows Sidebar, right-click inside the Windows Sidebar and then click Close Sidebar. Figure 17: Closing Windows Sidebar Closing Windows Sidebar Adjusting visual effects for best performance Show me how The System window opens. 2. Click Advanced System Settings. The System Properties window opens. Figure 18: System Properties System Properties 3. Under Performance, click Settings. The Performance Options window opens. Figure 19: Performance Options Performance Options 4. Click the Visual Effects tab. 5. Select Adjust for best performance, and then click Apply. Disabling Windows Aero Windows Vista provides a visual experience known as Aero. Windows Aero can be used to change window colors, provide alternate tasking views, and make the window borders transparent. CAUTION: Disabling Aero can greatly improve system performance, but might prevent certain software programs from opening. For example, if you have an HP Touch computer, disabling Aero prevents the HP TouchSmart software from opening. By default, Aero is enabled on Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate. While Windows Aero does offer benefits to your computing experience, it comes at a cost in system performance. If you do not want to use the Windows Aero features and increase the performance of your system, follow these steps to disable Windows Aero and apply a different theme: Show me how 1. Right-click an open area of the desktop and select Personalize. The Personalize appearance and sounds window opens. Figure 20: Personalizing appearance and sounds Personalize appearance and sounds window 2. Click Window Color and Appearance. The Window Color and Appearance window opens. Figure 21: Window Color and Appearance window Window Color and Appearance window 3. Click Open classic appearance properties for more options. The Appearance Settings window opens. Figure 22: Appearance Settings window Appearance Settings window 4. Select a color scheme, and then click Apply. 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Code Pink Journals CodePINK Journals Monday, May 05, 2008 Grandmothers say "TAKE ME, NOT MY GRANDCHILD" We had a wonderful Grandmothers action at the MRS today! Grandmothers showed up, walked the picket line, and blocked the doorway! The marine recruiters locked the front doors and refused to speak with our Grandmothers, refused to invite them inside to talk or to come outside to talk, refused to recruit our Grandmothers. The Berkeley police, stepping up to protect the Marines from Grandmothers, stood in a line in front of the doorway, attempting to block our Grandmothers from knocking on the door and entering. The action began around 10:00am this morning when 87 year old Nettie placed her wheelchair directly in the entrance and refused to move. Police sprang to the defense of the Marines and ordered Nettie to move. She refused. Police told Nettie she was trespassing. She said we were trespassing in Iraq. Police told Nettie she was blocking the door. She said she wanted to block youth from being recruited. Police told Nettie to move. She said she'd move after the marines did. Police tried everything, short of arrest, to get Nettie to move. Nettie refused. Nettie spoke strongly, from her heart, for a long time. Police tried unsuccessfully to convince Nettie to give up her post blocking the doorway. Nettie finally told police that she was going to leave in about 10 minutes more anyway. Police backed off and watched the continued protest from several feet away. By noon, 90+ year old Fran Rachel and 80+ year old Dolores Helman had arrived along with about a dozen other grandmothers and CodePINK supporters. Police had lined up once again in front of the doorway, blocking the entrance to the MRS. The Grandmothers decided to march in a picket line in front of the MRS, singing and chanting. As soon as there was a slight opening - the 6'3" police officer shifted sideways - Fran darted in and began to knock on the door. Dolores followed on her heels and the rest of the Grandmothers closed ranks around these two courageous Grandmothers wanting to speak with recruiters and willing to risk arrest. Once again, police spoke for over 20 minutes with Fran and Dolores as the Grandmothers knocked on the door, called up, and beckoned to the Marines holed up inside. The Marines refused to allow the Grandmothers to come inside or to come out to speak with our elders. The police constantly attempted to stand between the Grandmothers and the Marines front door. Fran and Dolores kept up a steady dialogue with the officers and press, telling everyone why they were there and talking about the promises they made to their grandchildren and great-grandchildren to work their hardest to END WAR NOW! It was quite moving. The police threatened to cite these women but never did. The Grandmothers promised to return next Monday at 10:00am with more Grandmothers and supporters and to stay until the Marines welcome them inside, invite them to dialogue, and recruit Grandmothers instead of grandchildren! So mark Monday the 12th on your calendars! And call us at 510-524-2776 if you are willing to stand with the courageous Grandmothers next Monday! They are asking everyone for your support - for 15 minutes, an hour or longer! We will post photos and a u-tube as soon as possible. $339 million a day for war - $750 million to solve present hunger crisis what is WRONG with us u.s. americans? we are content with giving corporate war profiteers and the military $339,000,000 dollars a DAY - and yet, the world needs a mere $750,000,000 to solve the present world hunger crisis - and we are unwilling to do this. how will we ever be able to get our souls back if we cannot even commit TWO days of war funding to ending this hunger crisis? what happened to our right minds, the minds who believe that preventing hunger is more important than occupying a sovereign nation? why do womyn have to do EVERYTHING! Meg wrote: I believe women need to work toward healing kids who have lost their souls in combat. they are psychologically destroyed and Safe Spaces to tell their stories and engage in Creation are necessary... and yet... i could not find ANY services for this after googling "women healers for Iraqi Veterans," and the like. can someone explain this? YES it is necessary to march and protest and fight and fight against this inane and horrendous war. but truly, please, where are the mammas who will take on the duty of putting love back into the hearts of these beings? hi meg - weeeellllll, i have to ask many questions for instance, why do we womyn have to do EVERYTHING? men chose to go to war, chose to destroy their souls, as well as the lives of many other humans, and then it is OUR responsibility as womyn to heal them? hmmmmm we are so overwhelmed, challenged, besieged now attempting (not so very successfully but we are determined to prevail soon!) to prevent those very men from taking that step in the first place - which is the only real way to prevent them from destroying their souls and taking life - it is hard to fathom yet another monumental task on my plate at least. i know there are womyn who are dedicating their lives to this very task - they might not be on the internet but they are on the gi rights hotlines and ccco, etc. i also have other priorities - i want to heal the womyn who have been the victims of these men - the ones who are raped, tortured, beaten, their children destroyed as well - these womyn are my priority - and if/when i have energy left over, i will move on to the men. but i believe the men have to heal themselves and be responsible for their own healing - womyn have been trying for at least 10,000 years in some cultures to care for men and clean up after them - i don't have much hope for doing things the same way still for this generation. i think the best way we can help men heal is by healing ourselves and taking over so that those who believe it is wrong to kill, torture, rape NO MATTER WHAT- those are the ones who lead this world - not men who are willing to justify killing to get what they want! peace, power, fierce sisterhood, zanne

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Exclusively in the new print issue of CounterPunch In the aftermath of the bomb attack on a disco in Kuta Beach, Bali a number of journalists wrote about the loss of innocence in that exotic isle. They must have been overcome by another spasm of the historical myopia that afflicts the scribes of today. Maybe they received their information from Colin McPhee’s best-selling […] Bali Mon Amour In the aftermath of the bomb attack on a disco in Kuta Beach, Bali a number of journalists wrote about the loss of innocence in that exotic isle. They must have been overcome by another spasm of the historical myopia that afflicts the scribes of today. Maybe they received their information from Colin McPhee’s best-selling account of his enjoyable stay on this island, called A House In Bali: “In the afternoon and evening Bali grew unreal, lavish and theatrical like an old-fashioned opera scenery.” This was as much an invention as the earlier perception of Bali, defined by the colonial invasion and onslaught which began in 1846. “The Balinese are fierce, savage, perfidious and bellicose people, loath to do any work, and so they dislike agriculture,” a Dutch visitor had written some hundred years earlier. Only after conquering and domesticating these ‘bellicose savages’, a task completed in 1908, did the Dutch authorities and other Westerners start to appreciate the locals and their culture. Less than a generation after Dutch troops had massacred 4000 locals in a puputan, a fight to the death, Bali was on its way to becoming a major tourist destination, marketed as a gem of purity and innocence, of beauty and delicacy. By initially attracting the glitterati of the Western metropolitan centres ? glamorous people like Noel Coward and Charlie Chaplin as well as other aristocrats, artists (among them musician Colin McPhee) and actors ? the island established itself as the site of paradisiacal innocence in the tropics. Several Hollywood films were shot (Bali, The Last Paradise!), several best-sellers set in Bali were written. Any cruise liner worth its dime would include this fabulous island on its itinerary. By the ’50s, Bali was a dominant image of South Sea Romanticism, as if created by Rousseau and Gauguin and choreographed by promotional experts from New York. Many fell for the fake charm. Even an intelligent and reflective man like Pandit Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, was lured into calling Bali the “Dawn of the World”. This packaging remained intact, even after Independence. Now Bali was the Indonesian candidate for Paradise, a role that fit snuggly into the nationalistic designs of the two successive ruling generals, Soekarno and Soeharto. However, Soeharto made life difficult for the ad agencies when, in the aftermath of his coup in 1965, around 50,000-100,000 supposedly Communist Balinese were massacred by their brethren. The ’70s saw the advent of mass tourism: the untouched beaches were transformed into clearing houses for the escapist dreams of Australians, Americans and West Europeans. Hotels still advertise with slogans like: “Paradise hasn’t changed for thousands of years, except to get better.” Or: “Paradise begins and ends in Bali. Bali’s greatest asset are the Balinese themselves, a serene, harmonious people, spiritual in a pure and delightful way.” Little wonder that Bali’s culture became a reflection of the image of tourism agencies. Merchants, hotel owners and artists have a common interest to preserve this profitable, streamlined culture, which reliably offers what the visitors expect. “Nobody on Bali could seriously think to challenge the idea of Balinese culture. Even those people who oppose tourism and see themselves as defenders of tradition are supporters of the idea,” writes anthropologist Adrian Vickers. Even if this culture were to perish, one would take its death mask and use it as long as the sweet grimace on the mask conjures the image of an idyll for the innumerable tourists. As far back as 1971, a World Bank expert came to the conclusion that Bali’s cultural expressions would soon disappear. But he was not unduly worried: “Bali can still retain its romantic image and be thought of as a green and sumptuous garden.” The true history of this Garden of Eden was, however, human, all too human. In the 17th century, Bali was an important exporter of slaves, who were shipped not only to the different ports of the Indian Ocean, but all the way to South Africa and beyond, to the Caribbean. Business boomed, until the first complaints found their way to the Indonesian Archipelago. Seemingly without reason, the Balinese slaves had run ‘amuk’. They had even dared to seize a whole ship and to maroon the crew ? what humanity, though: instead of throwing the slavers into the sea, the Balinese had dropped them ashore! The Dutch East India Company continued to receive so many complaints, that they forbade the import of Balinese slaves in 1688, in an ordinance whose language is reminiscent of the EU decision to restrict the import of English beef. The term amuk initially referred to a highly ritualised form of confrontation between clans, in which the two best warriors fought one another without any restraint. For Balinese society had never been peaceful or idyllic. A multitude of greedy princes sought reassertion in small but bloody skirmishes. The court literature is full of romantic war legends, which describe in hyperbolic detail how the corpses of the enemy were heaped up in mountains, how the flowing blood formed an ocean. There were too many masters and too many wars. This historical excursus has, of course, no bearing on the gruesome inhumanity of the recent crime, but it does put it into perspective. The violence of terrorism is not the Original Sin, but the latest in a series of horrors perpetuated on this beautiful island. The murderous bomb blast did not destroy the innocence of Bali, it damaged a successful trademark. ILIJA TROJANOW is a German novelist, and Special Correspondent for the Suddeutsche Zeitung, and currently lives in Bombay (India). Trojanow can be reached at: ilija@bom5.vsnl.net.in

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Taylor Swift Songs by Lyrics Random Music or Taylor Swift Quiz Can you name the Taylor Swift Songs by Lyrics (quite hard)? Quiz not verified by Sporcle How to Play this night is flawless i dont know how my friends could be so mean i'll be 87, you'll be 89 i dont know why but with you i'd dance show me how much better you are freedom aint nothing but missing you i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry back up, baby, back up, did you forget everything? i'm shining like fireworks, over your sad empty town take pictures in your mind of your childhood room every little piece, love nobody ever lets me in i'm gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well you play guitar, i'm invisible and everyone knows who you are i hope you think my favourite song you might think i'm bulletproof, but i'm not any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored standing alone in a crowded room and we're not speaking hold on, baby you're losing it he respects my space and never makes me wait you used to shine so bright but i watched all of it fade if you could see that i'm the one who understands you come on, come on, say that we'll be together i'm lovestruck and looking out the window it's not unbroken anymore you're a bad idea should've thought twice before you let it all go with that same big, loud opinion but, nobody's listening i was a flight risk with a fear of falling can you feel this magic in the air? maybe i'm just a girl on a mission friday night beneath the stars who you are is not what you did cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world you put up walls and paint them all a shade of gray burn burn burn baby burn i know that we could work it out somehow somebody else gets what you wanted again i just wanna show you, she dont even know you i've got you down, i know you by heart you've got the keys to me i feel you forget me like i used to feel you breathe my faith in you was fading your face and the beautiful eyes and the conversation with the little white lies cause it's late, and your mama don't know he'd never tell you, but he can play guitar so baby make me fly written on the back of my hand Friend Scores   Player Best Score Plays Last Played You You haven't played this game yet. You Might Also Like... Created Apr 11, 2011ReportNominate Tags:song, Taylor Swift, swift, taylor

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Slideshow Iconslideshows MORE Is Your Family Ready for a Dog? 10 of 11 What are some other options? If you've read through all these points and now realize that you don't have the time, money, or room for a dog, don't despair! There are other options for you. Have you ever considered volunteering at an animal shelter? The dogs at these facilities are always looking for loving people to walk, brush, and play with them. You'll get all the benefits of owning a dog, such as companionship and affection, but you won't be responsible for round-the-clock care. How about fostering a dog? If your long-term plans aren't conducive to owning a dog, but you're still yearning for one, consider a foster program. If you meet the qualifications, you can take a dog in temporarily, until it is placed with another loving family. There are foster programs for shelter dogs, breed rescue groups, and service dogs. The plus side is you are providing a safe environment for a foster dog. But beware...oftentimes it's very hard to see your new friend go. Next: More popular galleries stay connected Enter your email address to sign up or manage your account. Facebook icon Twitter icon Follow Us on Pinterest editor’s picks Gift Ideas Sure to Please Kindergarten Readiness App Wins Gold Find Today's Newest & Best Children's Books!

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In the final installment of our three part interview with Styles P on The Combat Jack Show, Styles details the impact that Diddy had on his career. While acknowledging that The LOX and Diddy had creative differences during their Bad Boy years, he says it was worth the experience. "I learned a lot from Puff. As far as his work ethic, it would be hard to find someone that could match that," he states. "He invented leaving the club and going back to the studio." Combat Jack also asks about a recent quote that outlines the veteran rappers' annoyance in the lack of competitiveness that occurs in rap. "When you get on a track with another artist, you supposed to want to bust his ass," Styles P explains. Referring to rap as a "verbal sport," Styles harkens back to the classic 1996 record between Jay-Z and The Notorious B.I.G., and how that magnetic dynamic is lost today. "When I listen to 'Brooklyn's Finest,' I listen to two MC's that's cool but competitive, going at each other."  Styles P's new album, Float, is in stores now. Check out the previous two installments of the DJ Premier interview below:  RELATED: Episodes 1, 2 and 3 of The Combat Jack Show with Prodigy

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Join The Discussion Moves by Jeb Bush add to talk of 2016 candidacy read more > Ebby Halliday acquires Fort Worth’s Williams Trew read more > Taking the Cake: Sundance had pursued Cheesecake Factory for many years read more > Fort Worth businessman to lead Abbott, Patrick inauguration efforts read more > Meridian Bank Texas parent acquired by UMB Financial for $182.5M read more > Save the tigers? It may be too late. “I sometimes get pictures that people think look fake,” says Steve Winter, whose remote-controlled camera recorded two cubs in India; Winter spent a decade photographing tigers in the wild in Asia. CREDIT: Steve Winter/National Geographic Society.) Amy Mathews Amos Special To The Washington Post. Photojournalist Steve Winter spent a decade photographing tigers in the wild in Asia. In 2007, when his life partner, writer Sharon Guynup, joined him for an assignment in India's Kaziranga National Park, they both came away concerned about the fate of these great animals. A century ago, more than 100,000 tigers roamed across 24 Asian countries, from Turkey to Indonesia. Today, they have disappeared from most of their historic range, and poaching, deforestation and a huge Chinese market for tiger parts (which are used in traditional Chinese medicine and as luxury items) have reduced their numbers to no more than 3,200. "We realized that tigers are almost gone, and no one seems to recognize that," Guynup said. The couple have collaborated on a book, "Tigers Forever," that combines magnificent images of the wild animals with troubling text about their dwindling state. Guynup said they hope it will shock the world into doing something "before the tigers are gone." The two recently spoke by telephone with The Post from their home in New Jersey on what it will take to save the world's biggest cat. Q: Americans often assume that tigers are protected. How have conservation efforts failed? A: Guynup: Because big conservation organizations have such huge fundraising needs and large administrative costs, their message to the public is often "We're saving tigers, we're saving polar bears." I think that message has lulled the public into believing that we're actually making progress. The biggest downfall of every large conservation organization today is that they are not addressing the demand [for tiger parts]. Unless the demand from China is stopped, tigers won't survive very far into the future. The organizations that are addressing the demand are the Wildlife Protection Society of India, the Environmental Investigation Agency based in London and WildAid, based here in the United States. Those are smaller, investigative, nimble organizations, and they're on the ground doing the undercover investigative work showing what's happening. And the combination of legal tiger farms in China, where they can legally sell skins, and an ongoing trade in tiger bone for tiger bone wine [believed to cure arthritis and impart strength, among other things] is killing the wild tigers across their range. Q: Are those sales to China the biggest threat to tigers? A: Guynup: Poaching has really skyrocketed, and it's fueled by the legal trade within China. There was a call by the international community in 2007 for all tiger-range countries to phase out tiger farming. But China's tiger farms have only grown. As long as those farms exist and there is a legal trade, they will not only stimulate demand but also launder all the wild products. China argues that they should be able to have tiger farms because it's a domestic issue. But it's not. That demand is killing India's tigers and Thailand's tigers and other countries' tigers. Winter: Stopping habitat loss is also very important. I saw that in Sumatra. When I first went to Sumatra [which is part of Indonesia] for a tiger story, we thought that [the Sumatran] tiger would be the next subspecies to go extinct. Now, that no longer seems to be the case [because their population appears to be higher than previously estimated]. But there also doesn't seem to be any movement toward protecting whatever land is left and stopping the rampant destruction of the forest for palm oil and wood. The fact that tiger numbers are now understood [to be higher than previously thought] in Sumatra is important. And value has been placed on their continued survival by some important people in Indonesia. For example, one of the country's most influential businessmen, Tomy Winata, has [become interested]. He founded a tiger sanctuary in 1996, which is part of a national park. With effective enforcement and zero tolerance toward poaching, he and his team have successfully secured a significant area. And Thailand also created [an enforcement project] at the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary in 2005 on the Thai-Burma border that has a protection force that is now being mirrored in other South Asia protected areas. But tigers don't exist in viable breeding populations elsewhere except in a few limited locations in India, Sumatra and Siberia. Guynup: That patrol in Huai Kha Khaeng is a military-style patrol that does a pretty good job of protection [against poachers]. National parks that have tigers living within them need protection the same way cities need police. More than half of the world's remaining wild tigers live in India. The Bengal tigers in India are the biggest hope for tiger survival. But it's a country that is trying to keep an economy cranking at a high level, and there are 1.2 billion people living in India, so there's a fight over resources and land. India is a poaching target because it shares a long, porous border with China. India is where the most tigers are, so that's the source [for many poachers]. Q: Your book chronicles both the thrills and perils of tracking tigers throughout Asia, including dodging a charging rhino and patrolling for poachers with rangers. What was the biggest challenge you faced? Winter: I think that always the biggest challenge is showing readers something they haven't seen before and creating renewed interest. You would never see a tiger in Sumatra or Thailand without using remote cameras [that trigger photographs when animals walk by], and because of the way I use remote cameras with artificial lights that balance with the daylight, I sometimes get pictures that people think look fake. Or they just stop when they see them. Which is great, because even if someone says, "Wow, that looks unreal," they've just spent five seconds longer on that picture than they normally would. Because people are inundated with images 24/7, my job is to find a different way to photograph tigers, not just from the top of an elephant or in a jeep, but eye to eye with these intimate portraits that I'm able to get through the camera traps. But it's very dangerous because you're on the ground. In Kaziranga, I was filled with tension every time I exited the jeep to check the traps, because there are other animals like rhinos and elephants around, and you're entering their territory on your feet. Q: And then you faced some challenges when you came home. Hurricane Sandy hit just as you began pulling this book together, and you were forced to evacuate your house. Guynup: It affected me more than Steve because I was starting to research and write the book on a very, very short deadline. I did my first overnight Skype interviews to Asia from a Super 8 motel where we stayed for about 10 days with our 90-pound Lab, our four-month-old puppy, the cat, my adult son and Steve and I, so that was a little crazy. Steve lost 20 years of field gear, and we lost lots of personal stuff. Our home wasn't ruined, but we had huge storage in the basement that included prints and original slides. Q: The book includes spectacular photographs of wild tigers, but it also includes disturbing images of poachers, traps and other animals. Why? Winter: I've found two ways to overcome information overload. Number One is showing people images they haven't seen before and Number Two is showing images that might be a bit disturbing. So they look at them and hopefully they will find out the story behind the photograph. I also looked at Kaziranga as a kind of historic landscape where tigers live with species as in centuries past. This is what it used to look like and still does in a few select locations. It's great to see intact ecosystems that are protected with a variety of animals that are in them. Guynup: Steve began his career as a photojournalist. So when he photographs wildlife, he approaches his assignments as a photojournalist. Unless you're going to tell the whole story and show people why these animals are disappearing and get them to care and hopefully to act, all the pretty pictures in the world aren't going to save these animals. Q: What else should be done to help save tigers? Guynup: The international community needs to join together and pressure China to stop the sale of tiger parts, skins, bones, all tiger parts from all sources, both captive and wild. And tiger-range countries need to use tools that are available through Interpol and other international agreements, to step up enforcement. If the demand is stopped, if the tiger farms are phased out and enforcement steps up, we can save tigers. But if that doesn't happen, they're going to disappear, possibly within our lifetime. People might think, "Oh, farms: Well, that kind of takes care of it all, and then we'll put them back." But once tigers have been in captivity and in contact with people, they're too dangerous to put back into the wild. There are heavy population pressures in Asia, but India has over 40 tiger reserves. There's plenty of land. And now many areas are working to set up corridors to connect these reserves, so that the populations don't become inbred. As long as tigers have habitat, food and protection, they're a very resilient species. They bounce back. There is hope. — — — Mathews Amos writes about environment, health and history from Shepherdstown, W.Va. < back Email   email Did the College Football Playoff Committee get it right?

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User Profile Every puzzle has an answer. Male, 17, I play games. What else do you need to know? Sat 18th February, 2012 Recent Comments Prof_Clayton commented on Nintendo Download: 11th December (Europe): Highly reccomend BLOK DROP U and Color Zen if you want some puzzles, especially with BLOK DROP U getting a bunch of free levels added on soon. Also would say that while I haven't played the actual trilogy, PW 1-3 are all amazing games which deserve to be played by everyone who enjoys a good story. Rune Factory 4 is worth it if you think you'll like it. Not everyone's cup of tea but I don't usually play that genre of games but was pleasantly surprised by this one, and with the studio having closed this is probably your last chance. Prof_Clayton commented on Nintendo Download: 4th December (Europe): Christmas Wonderland 4 Description: "Christmas Wonderland 4 is a great Hidden Objects game packed full of gorgeous graphics, hidden surprises, fun puzzles and engrossing mini games for ALL the family to enjoy." I'd certainly hope a hidden object game has hidden surprises. And I don't think its possible to have an engrossing mini game, or its not really a mini game anymore. Prof_Clayton commented on Review: Snake Den (Wii U eShop): I didn't think it was quite this bad, but I didn't run into really any of those bugs with my time with the game. You also forgot to mention the in game leaderboards which add some value to the game as they show the top score & your closetst rival. And a minute per dollar is pretty harsh. This game works VERY well in the category of 'Family with small children' game. You can't lose & the parents can help the kid through the level. It's child friendly and there will be an update eventually which will add music. Prof_Clayton commented on Review: Watch Dogs (Wii U): I was feeling a 6/10 before I even clicked on the review. Ubisoft is one of my least favorite developers now... would be my least favorite but unfortunately they do have the Rayman IP in their possession. Prof_Clayton commented on Shigeru Miyamoto Discusses Production of the P...: So this interview has actually been edited in translation, Nintendo Life. All mention of Flipnote Studio 3D has been removed from translation of the original Japanese interview, where it was repeatedly mentioned. Was this on purpose? Yes. Flipnote Studio 3D deconfirmed for good. Prof_Clayton commented on Talking Point: The amiibo Range Grows, Yet Key...: On a general video gaming chatroom, I'm running a poll for everyone who enters- from LPers to XBoxers to Nintendo fans to Playstation owners to those looking for a new system... the range is very wide. In just a short time, we've gotten 47 responses to the question, "Will you be piking up any amiibo?" Ignoring the 5 troll answers of "Hi", we have 42 random gamers answers. 20/42 answered 'What's an amiibo?' 9 answered 'No' 5 answered 'I still don't know' 5 answered 'Yes, only a small handful though' 2 were unsure of what they did still, though had heard of them 1 answered 'Maybe 1' If Nintendo only has that small of a selection of gamers even knowing what an amiibo is, they could be in serious trouble. They do, as this article states, need to get word out and clarify as to what they do, and will do, if they want to have sales. Prof_Clayton commented on Weirdness: Dan Adelman's Made a Game, Albeit a...: This needs better editing or orginization or something. All I got was a game couldn't be ported so Dan Adleman made a bad version to prove it could be but it couldn't because there was no art which there actually was but wasn't sent but no sound was sent either and the game for Wii U is for download on PC and its an official game and Nintendo Life enjoyed Woah Dave but its not coming to Wii U? Prof_Clayton commented on Bandai Namco Announces Ace Combat: Assault Hor...: @Worthy Finally, somebody who gets it! :D You also get the figurine along with the DLC as well, making it both a physical and digital purchase at the same time. If you buy amiibos you like, odds are you'll be buying the games they are in as well and likely getting even more for free. Prof_Clayton commented on Paper Monsters Recut Now Pencilled In For 13th...: Its a fun game for families who want to play, but as someone who played this platformer, I can easily say this was easier than a Mario game. The level design wasn't aways hot either, but I feel for any younger kids or casual gamers this is a very fun time. Prof_Clayton commented on Expect To See More Spin-Off Titles Like Hyrule...: Notice how he worded that. "In this way, we are preparing to expand on our characters while also increasing the number of software we output and allowing our customers to have their next experiences in certain franchises without waiting three years." This basically said, based on his wording, that they will take their most popular characters and give them spin off games between releases, inbetween the normal releases, in certain franchises. Hence, every mildly popular Nintendo franchise is up for grabs on the Wii U for a crossover title. You ask, what's popular? Take a look at Smash Bros- Pokemon (Getting Pokken Fighters), Fire Emblem (FE x SMT), Mario (Another Mario Spinoff), Zelda (Hyrule Warriors), etc. Where it gets interesting is the unannounced titles. If you look at every smash bros character series' representation, you'll find that Metroid, Kid Icarus Uprising, Punch Out!!, Retro NES in form of DHD & Dr. Mario, Animal Crossing, Wii Fit and a few third party titles have all increased. I feel that this means, based on a lack of the number of titles Iwata seems to know of but not revealed, that we will see Wii U spinoffs of some of these series, as they are growing in popularity. Metroid, Kid Icarus and Animal Crossing all seem like perfect fits for me, but anything can happen- DHD & Dr. Mario were each recognized in form of NES REMIX. tl;dr I'm calling an Animal Crossing, Metroid and Kid Icarus (well, I wish the third could happen...) spinoffs on Wii U due to smash reps. Prof_Clayton commented on Moon Chronicles Developer Seeking Interest for...: I'm starting to dislike these guys more and more as time goes on. Renegade Kid is a well known name to the internet, at least to anyone who is slightly interested in gaming, and they shouldn't need to borrow funds from their players in hopes of porting a port. The 3DS version's sales are all they should need- if it sold well enough, they should have the money needed to port it over. If it didn't, whi bring it to a console with such a smaller userbase? It won't sell better. They clearly need better management, or money management, or better business decisions, or something. Because they should be above Kickstarters by this point. They've released so many games that they should have the funds to launch new ones... if they don't then they aren't being very profitable and need to get off of their high horse. tl;dr Company trying to get people to fund a nonprofitable game to hide the fact that they're having some issues. Also trying to hde it behind an air of supremacy. (Or at least that's my guess) Prof_Clayton commented on Moving Player Announces Game Adaptation And Pu...: Rakoo is giving off some serious Disney/Lion King vibes. It looks like an insta buy for me as that trailer really sold me on the game. Glad to hear that Moving Player is willing to do this, but I wonder how many games they can handle at once? Hopefully a handful, which is what this sounds like. Prof_Clayton commented on Satoru Iwata Outlines Nintendo's First QOL Pla...: If they make more money they can make more games, I suppose (even though they're rich they'll be a little more risky since a failure console/game would have less of an overall impact). I just hope that whatever they choose to do, it doesn't hurt video games. Prof_Clayton commented on Nintendo Returns to Profit as Wii U Sales Show...: The 3DS is dropping fast, and no wonder, it is growing more outdated hardware-wise every minute. They can't get the new 3DS out in the wild fast enough, in my opinion. Wii U is also thankfully getting that much needed boost, but after Smash releases I almost expect the hardware sales to divebomb. Everyone is "waiting for Smash" and as such by the end of the year the majority of interested consumers will have one. Now if marketing steps up they could help to spread awareness of the Wii U, but I don't count on it due to their inconsistent marketing thus far. With software though, that's where Wii U will truly shine, in 2015, as every new user will be finished with Smash. :) Prof_Clayton commented on Review: Shantae And The Pirate's Curse (3DS eS...: Meeehhhh... I don't know. I've been playing a lot of good games lately, and I can SMTIV for that price... or a selection of just as good indie releases. I'll probably end up waiting for a sale. The problem with these for me is that it feels too much like a full release, rather than a small eShop game. Prof_Clayton commented on Hazewalker Kickstarter Campaign Launches With ...: What a terrible first impression. Seriously, your KS video is your most important feature... what I saw was a strangely designed (artwise) game with basic platforming, generic combat/enemies and nothing brought to the table at all. Nothing I would even consider backing; though it might be a good game, the video honestly led me to think otherwise. EDIT: Also, the main piece of artwork looks kinda derpy. Not that I'm trying to hate on this game, I actually hope the developer reads this comment and understands I'm trying to help rather than hate. Because its probably a good game but we need to see that in the video.

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Flipboard's Mike McCue If there was one phrase that dominated SXSWi this year, it was "social media". Every other panel had the phrase in its title, every other attendee seemed to work in the space, and everyone wanted to tell you about how their innovative social media app was going to shake up the industry. But Mike McCue of Flipboard doesn't need to hustle. His news and social media aggregator is already being taken very seriously by a publishing industry going through bad times and looking for a new digital saviour. Large images are the order of the day Flipboard pulls the links your friends are sharing online into an attractive interface reminiscent of a traditional magazine, with a clean design, print-style layout and large images. Now magazines themselves are getting on board. Flipboard has launched a trial with a diverse group of publications, including Conde Nast's Bon Appetit, The Washington Post magazine, Wired and Sports Illustrated. Now if their web content is linked to via Flipboard, rather than just opening a browser window to the magazine's site, that content will be pulled into the app and formatted in a way that fits much more closely with the Flipboard experience. Framing content "Making content look great is one of the things I'm personally very passionate about," says McCue. "When you look at an article from a magazine on the web, it just doesn't look anywhere near as good as that same article does in print. The images are squished down, the content has been narrowed into a tight column, it's surrounded by ads and sidebars, and there's just a lot going on that one page. But you look at a magazine in print and it looks amazing, because it's not filled with all that other stuff." Magazine apps aim to square that circle, of course, and McCue concedes that some of them are pretty good. But there's a disjoin between the information in the article - often sent to the printers weeks before - and the constantly updating nature of the web. "Magazine apps take the printed magazine and basically replicate that experience on the tablet," McCue explains. "But while people are okay with information being a little out of date when they buy a paper product, when they look at content on a digital device, the last thing they expect is for that content to be old. Flipboard is about marrying the interactiveness of the real-time web to the timeless principles   of print design Mike McCue "Flipboard is about taking the up-to-date information and interactiveness provided by the real-time web and marrying it to the timeless principles of print, the traditions of design typography, the rythmn of storytelling," he explains. "So I think we're seeing something totally new. The idea itself isn't new, of course, it's the implementation. "A lot of people have thought about this idea before. But there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.  You have the iPad and the whole tablet revolution in terms of how you're presenting content. You have the whole social media realm, which is all about discovering new content in totally new ways. And then you have HTML5, which is incredibly powerful and allows these beautiful pages to be created now. "Those things have finally hit critical mass. And that combination has allowed us to take this vision of a personalised publication and bring it to life and do it in a way that's fresh and unique. It's not so much about you picking manually what you want, it's about being really inspired by the people you care about: they're the ones that are effectively curating the mag for you. And it works incredibly well." Media partners Flipboard hasn't had to seek out media partnerships, he explains: the publishers have come to them. "When we first shipped they really wanted to be able to format their content for Flipboard. So we built a platform that allows them to automatically convert their web content to pages that look like they were from the pages of their main magazine. Those pages load a lot faster and they're beautiful to look at. That's a great thing for them and it's a great thing for readers." Right now, no money is changing hands, but McCue has ambitious plans that he believes will ultimately change the way publishers monetise their digital content. "We're planning to put in full-page print style ads that will be inserted in between articles or in between pages of a four or five-page article," he explains. Web content today isn't being well monetised because the banner ads are actually making the content look worse Mike McCue The distinction between types of ad may sound trivial, but to McCue it's key to the entire proposition. "Web content today isn't being well monetised because the banner ads are actually making the content look worse," he argues. "The content has to make room for those ads; it makes the page load more slowly; and they're kind of blinking at you while you're trying to read an article. What we wanted to do was really to simulate the notion of a magazine where you have the content, it has all the room it needs to breathe and it looks beautiful. And so do the separate, full-page ads. "Ask people who read Vogue magazine, for example: 'Hey would you like to pay for Vogue with the ads or maybe without the ads?' Almost everybody would say they wanted the ads, because the ads are so specific to that readership. And if the ads are done well - they're not making the content look bad like it usually does on the web - then I think it's a great model  and everybody wins." New features McCue concedes the Flipboard interface could be easily copied by rivals, and I ask him if any of the technology is patented. "It's not so much about patenting, it's more about leadership," he replies. "It's about really knowing where you're trying to go and why. And if you really focus on that, on what your users care about, what your partners care about, then everyone else who's copying you is just going to be copying your last release, and you can keep moving forward." Flipboard is certainly moving forward right now, with the latest release adding Instagram integration, social search functionality and a healthy speed boost. McCue is also working on an iPhone version. "Partly that's a pragamtic thing because it's all based on iOS," says McCue. "But won't be shrinking the iPad version, we'll be building from the ground up. If the iPad experience is about sitting back and taking an hour absorbing things, the iPhone app needs to be more about a world where you're quickly scanning information; you're standing in line and want to mark something to read later; or you want to be able to quickly understand what's happening across all your social networks. And they'll sync up with each other." Other devices will have to wait, though, says McCue. "My little team has just 31 people and if we were all spread out on Android and lots of other programs, it'd be really hard for us to keep moving at the pace we are, with lots of new features. So we've taken the strategic bet that that's the right approach. Each one of those platforms will require some special thinking. But I'm looking forward to ultimately getting there." Subscription offer Log in with your Creative Bloq account site stat collection

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View Full Version : Spot Annealing August 30, 2005, 10:09 AM I’ve read in Brownell’s Gunsmith Kinks about spot annealing using a 12 volt battery. The application was for tapping scope mounts on a hard receiver. I want to use this application for unbonding screws that have been permanently loctited. It seems you could control exact heat location using this method better than a torch. Loctite’s web calls for some 250 to 400 degree F to unbond its permanent products. Does anyone know the temperatures involved with such a technique? Can anyone offer experiences using this technique? August 30, 2005, 11:25 AM It's much easier to use a soldering iron. Just hold the tip of the iron against the screw for a short time. The heat goes exactly where you want it. Harry Bonar August 31, 2005, 07:31 PM Dear Shooter: Some of the methods are good; I like the soldering arm with a spot of solder. However, you have changed the chemical state of the steel in the area of peak pressure. On such guns I prefer aperature sights on the reciever, they are virtually as accurate as a scope at "normal" gun hunting distances. I frown on some of the "professional" advice I get from Brownells; such as the 11 1/2 thread pitch on Turkish Mausers - I called the error to their attention and I never saw an alteration of that site! Harry B. September 2, 2005, 08:31 AM All sorts of odd techniques abound, and some work better than others. I would suggest the battery approach is too hard to control predictably since the current will have different magnetude and heating effect with any variation in contact intimacy. I designed a contact resistance measuring instrument for spot welding machines, and I know how easily one can alter the heat peak temperatures and distribution just with variations in contact pressure. Morever, the Loctite is not a conductor, so wherever it is between the screw and the receiver current will flow poorly and not heat well. 200°F-400°F is not hot enough to anneal a receiver. A receiver that was quenched and hardened and drawn in that temperature range would be too brittle to be safe. Non-deforming hammer-head hard is about RC-50. It takes around 800°F to draw most oil-hardening alloys to that. Tempered barrels are typically drawn at 1100°F (around RC-30) to remain elastic enough to withstand chamber pressures. At the very least, any reciever you have would have been drawn back higher than 575°F to get above the upper end of the 500° embrittlement range. As long as you aren't getting tempered steel above its original draw temperature, you aren't going to anneal it appreciably. Just put the screw driver in place and apply torque and a hot air gun until it gives.

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a status higher than best friend. A bro always has his bro's back. You can easily spot bro by finding a small group of males doing something stupid. Contrary to popular belief, a girl can also be a bro. They mainly live by a set of rules (or guidelines) commonly called the BRO CODE. Brah and Bruh are different pronunciations typically used by douches to refer to basically any other male and should not be used unless you want to sound ridiculously douchey. The bond between 2 bros is everlasting and very rarely breaks apart. Many times, the bros will assist each other when hitting on chicks and a good bro will always jump on the "grenade" when his bro is hitting on a chick with an ugly friend in order to attempt to ensure that his friend will receive the best outcome possible. Unfortunately many young males misuse this sacred title reducing it to nothing but an obnoxious phrase a guy calls everyone in his frat. Douche 1: sup brah? Douche 2: sup bruh? guy 1: dude they are such big douches guy 2: yeah i know right? Hey bro, i met this chick i really like. You think you can help me get her? guy 1: I got your back bro. av KevJin 24. april 2014 The name of a buddy when you are addressing them informally. Hey bro, can you give me a hand? Hey bro! How are you? Bro, you need to give up on her. av deejpeach 29. oktober 2012 guys who all think theyre gods gift and hang out together. wear sports wear with skate brands. most likely play sports drink, smoke, party with the cool chicks. guys who all fuck a certain group of girls, banging eachothers girlfriends back and forth but are all still friends. also high socks with logo and vans av Kota B 22. august 2012 1. "Positive vibe merchants." 2. Men of legit status. 1. Human-like 2. To not start beef with anyone; to suck it up and bite lip when in the midst of it. A: He cool? B: he's bro. A: He's a legit guitarist, and an original bro. A: Fuck him and fuck you!!!!!!!! B: bro................. Proper bands consisting of original bros: 311, tool, death, Rush, and many more. Terence Mckenna was a bro. John Lennon was a bro. Jesus is believed to have been the first bro, hence his fame. av music_display 23. november 2011 The penultimate male friend of a male. A dude who's chill, always looking out for the positive, and likes to crack jokes to cheer everyone up. A friend who is selflessly willing to support you, whether it be a fight, emotional man talk, or footing the bill. A bud who you don't have to force conversation with and can just pop a squat down with and have a good time. Great to have around for casual social scenarios: eating out, sitting off the side at a party, or hanging with the boys. Preferred attire would be casual, sparse in accessories, and trendy. Junpei Iori is such a bro. av ReallyDaddy-O 21. november 2011 a male person who is usually blood related who has very close bonds to you . or a very close friend that is dear to your heart and a person you would do anything for . #1 : were so good friends #2 : yeah ino your like a bro to me av know.it.all 10. august 2011 Men who play the game of lax. (lacrosse) and when they arent playing... their partying. Fun to be around and usually very nice and kind. Lax is their life. Usually seen wearing either cargo shorts or flow society shorts. no shirt or pinnie, crew cut black or white socks. Hat backwards or angled, sunglasses. Swag always on, never turned off, always lookin for a good party Yo bro. wats up Nothin much chillin Lets lax right on av JagsBro 9. august 2011 Gratis daglig nyhetsbrev

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Michelle Rodriguez: Sexy Sardinia Swimmer Posted Sunday June 29, 2014 2:03 PM GMT Taking some time away from her busy career, Michelle Rodriguez scored a luxury yacht and went sailing on the coast of Sardinia, Italy today (June 27). Joined by some friends, the “Fast and Furious” female donned a skimpy black bikini and began performing various daring jumps into the ocean while shutterbugs looked on. In a recent interview, Michelle discussed her sexuality in light of her on/off relationship with English model Cara Delevingne. She explained, “I've never walked the carpet with anyone, so they wonder, ‘What does she do with her vagina?’ Plus, I play a butchy girl all the time, so they assume I'm a lesbo. They're not too far off. I've gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f*cking curios to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.” Photo Credit: AKM-GSI

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I just finished New Moon, and I'm trying to get through Eclipse. Can someone please tell me what all the darn rage is about? In New Moon, she could have told that story in half the book. Why does she take so long to get to the point? It will be nice to get back to my BDB series.

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Take the 2-minute tour × I'm looking at an output of a single dry sensor EEG headband with the sensor positioned above left eye. As a side effect of it's placement, the device picks up eye blinks, and some eye motion as changes in the amplitude of the raw output waveform. It is clearly visible, and I can probably detect it algorithmically. My question is - does frequency of eye blinking (not controlled) reveal anything about the state of (autonomous?) nervous system, or processes that take place within the brain? For example, what is the difference between blinking involuntary X times per minute versus Y times per minute for the same individual? Does blinking get suppressed in response to some stimuli, like loud noises, speech, etc? I appreciate your input! share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 People avoid looking at what they don't like thinking about. A feared enemy, an individual whom you have something to hide from.. Avoidance of looking/excessive blinking is a sign of fear. It's basically a sign that the individual is not having a good time looking at what he is looking. Sometimes people are lying and then they don't like looking at whom they are lying to... for them it would be nicer to look out the window or something that takes them away from their subject for a bit of time. I would expect blinking to increase when lying. Personally I have noticed excessive durational closing of eyes (a second or so), exactly at the moment of stating their lie. Those are off course people who are honest to themselves but are trying to be dishonest to you. But some people lie to themselves as well and they may be more difficult to detect. share|improve this answer Your Answer

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{ Posts Tagged ‘purple sand cherry’ } My sand cherry's a sucker Ok, I lied. My sand cherry has suckers. Let me explain. I have a sand cherry tree in my front garden. It's very lovely–especially in the springtime, but lately, there is new growth coming up in the form of tiny little trees all around the base. These little guys are very hard to pull out–probably because they're attached to the roots of the existing tree. I turned to Anne Marie to find out how to get rid of my baby trees without harming their mama. The new growths from the base of your sand cherry are suckers and they are still attached to the roots of the tree. Most sand cherries are shallow rooted and are prone to producing suckers since they naturally have a tendency to grow in dense thickets. They will also sucker, especially if the roots have been damaged from digging around the shrub or tree. If you want your sand cherry to be a single trunk and not have the suckers, they can be dug up, severed from the mother plant if they have plenty of roots and given away to friends. Or, dig down to where they are attached to the root, grab hold of the sucker, twist and pull. Cutting them off at the soil level or below will not stop them from returning. Like rose suckers, the growing bud must be removed totally by twisting and pulling it out. While I was on the subject of sand cherries, I thought I'd ask Anne Marie a question a reader had. “Hello, I planted a sand cherry tree this spring and it's not looking good and has lots of chew holes. What should I do?” According to Anne Marie, the sand cherry is going through a little transplanting stress and is feeling the effects of either a fungus disease called shot hole or an insect attack by any number of pests; from caterpillars like sawflies to Japanese beetles. Take a look at the leaves and if you don't see any pests on them, this is a good sign and they may have moved on. Also you don't see numerous brown spots on the leaves (the beginning of shot hole disease), Anne Marie recommends focusing on keeping the plant healthy and not worry about what caused the chew holes. Don't fertilize the tree until it gets a little more settled, but do make sure it has enough water and that drainage is good. Also it should be planted at the same depth as it was growing in the pot, with just a small increase (2.5 cm) for mulch over the root area.

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Title: Redhead Prison Escape Description: You are a cool redhead, who went to prison for a few little mistakes and a bit of bad luck. Because it's Xmas eve you decide to escape once and for all. Help her escape and get home! Rate: Suitable for everyone If the game does not load is probably because you have AdBlock installed (Please disable it) << See Score Ranking >>

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Related topics AMD ATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 DirectX 11 GPUs DX11 gaming on the cheap? AMD ATI Radeon HD 5770 Review AMD's Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 are the mid-range members of the new HD 5000 DirectX 11 graphics chip family. They're fabbed using a 40nm process, just like their bigger brothers. AMD ATI Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire's HD 5770: reference Radeon HD 5770 design But the number of transistors in these mid-range chips - codenamed 'Juniper' - has been reduced by just over a half, from the 2.15bn in the 58x0 design, codenamed 'Cypress', to 1.04bn. The area of the chip has also been quartered, from 334mm² to 166mm². Armed with that information, you won’t be surprised to learn that the number of unified shaders in 5770 has been halved too. Which is to say that the 5870 has 1600 shaders and the 5770 has 800. The 5750 has 720. When it comes to clock speeds, the 5770 has the same 850MHz core speed as 5870 while the 5750 runs at 700MHz, which is slightly slower than the 5850's 725MHz frequency. The specification of the memory breaks with tradition as the junior 5750 and 5770 use 1GB of GDDR 5 just like the grown-up 5850 and 5870. In the past, we've been accustomed to mid-range chips that use slower memory than their high-end siblings do. The high-end chips use a 256-bit memory controller while the new mid-rangers settle for a 128-bit controller. It's a safe bet that AMD has chosen these shader counts and clock speeds to ensure there is a clear distinction between each member of the HD 5000 family and it also results in a neat cascade of prices. AMD ATI Radeon HD 5750 Radeon HD 5750: cool runner The 5870 sells for £299 or you can buy the 5850 at a more reasonable £199 and still get masses of DirectX 11 performance. The 5770 slips in at £132 and the 5750 costs £110. The prices put the new DX11 chips head-to-head with Nvidia’s DirectX 10 GeForce GTX 260, which typically sells for £125-160.

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Refresher Course Halloween, a spooky stamp collecting season By Janet Klug When October rolls around, people today start planting tombstones and skeletons in their front yards. It seems as though some folks decorate more for Halloween than they do for Christmas.. Figure 1. A 32¢ Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula stamp (United States Scott 3169). Click on image to enlarge. Figure 2. A 3¢ George Washington stamp bearing a skull-and-crossbones killer cancel. Click on image to enlarge. Figure 3. A 2¢ carmine Washington stamp bearing a jack-o'-lantern killer cancel. Click on image to enlarge. Figure 4. A Montreal tombstone postmark cropped from a stampless cover. Click on image to enlarge. Figure 5. A British tombstone naval censorship marking from World War II. Click on image to enlarge. Figure 6. King Alexander's death mask can be seen in the outlined section of this 50-para Serbian stamp. Click on image to enlarge. Figure 7. The 60-haleru+4.40-koruna Heydrich Death Mask semipostal stamp (Bohemia and Moravia Scott B20). Click on image to enlarge. Figure 8. A wide-band mourning cover mailed from Providence, R.I., on May 25, 1895. The cover contains a letter written on similar wide-band mourning stationery. Click on image to enlarge. Figure 9. A black-bordered 30-dinar Franklin D. Roosevelt stamp (Greece Scott 469). Click on image to enlarge. Figure 10. A cover mailed from Sydney, Australia, in 1950. The letter, unclaimed by the addressee, was sent to the Sydney Dead Letter Office before being returned to the sender. Click on image to enlarge. When did this start to happen? When I was a kid, all we did was stick a pumpkin with a not-too-spooky smiley face out on the front porch. Stamp collecting also is loaded with Halloween decorations. You just have to know where to look. It's easy enough to find monsters from literature and films on stamps, such as those issued in 1997 by the United States Postal Service that picture classic movie monsters. One 32¢ stamp in the set features American Philatelic Society member Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula (Scott 3169). Figure 1 shows the stamp. But there are more challenging spooky things to collect than a movie Dracula. In the post-Civil War era, many American postmasters carved killer cancels out of cork. For their cancels, they used all sorts of images that have become synonymous with Halloween. One is the skull-and-crossbones cancel used on the 3¢ green George Washington stamp shown in Figure 2, and another is the jack-o'-lantern cancel used on the 2¢ carmine Washington stamp shown in Figure 3. That jack-o'-lantern looks remarkably like the ones I carved as a youth. "Tombstones" is the name for an entire category of postmarks. They get their name from their appearance, which bears an uncanny resemblance to a, well . . . tombstone. Similar tombstone-style postmarks were used in many countries, primarily in the 19th century and the early 20th century. A Montreal tombstone postmark graphically cropped from a Canadian stampless cover is shown in Figure 4. This style of postmark fell out of fashion, but was resurrected during World War II for British tombstone naval censorship markings, such as the one shown in Figure 5 graphically cropped from its cover. Well, if we are going to look at tombstones, I suppose we can also see some extremely weird death mask stamps. In 1904, Serbia issued a set of eight stamps commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Karageorgevich dynasty and the coronation of King Peter I. The five lower value stamps (Scott 79-83) show Karageorge (Black George), the founder of the dynasty, and his descendant Peter I. King Peter I came to the throne after King Alexander from the rival Obrenovich dynasty was assassinated in 1903, ending the Obrenovich dynasty. When the Serbian stamps are inverted, Alexander's death mask can be seen. It is made up of parts of the faces of both Karageorge and Peter I. The 50-para stamp (Scott 83) is shown upside down in Figure 6. It might not be easy to make out from the illustration, so Figure 6 outlines the face to make it easy to see. Ghastly, huh? Eugene Mouchon, the stamp designer, claimed the death mask was unintentional, but many people believed that supporters of the Obrenovich dynasty deliberately made rival Alexander's face appear on the stamps. A real death mask is depicted on a 1943 stamp from the Nazi puppet state of Bohemia and Moravia. The story behind this is certainly grisly enough for Halloween. Nazi SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated in Czechoslovakia in 1942 after he had promised to "Germanize the Czech vermin," as he put it. In retaliation for Heydrich's death, Hitler ordered that the mining village of Lidice be liquidated. On June 9, 1942, five days after the assassination, security police surrounded the village. A woman and a boy were shot while trying to escape. All the men and boys over 16 years of age, 172 in number, were confined in a barn. On June 10, they were taken out in groups of 10 and shot. Later 19 men from the village who were working in the mines were taken to Prague and shot. Seven women from the village were taken to Prague and shot. The other 195 women of the village were sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp, where seven were gassed and 42 died of mistreatment, starvation and disease. The village's 90 children were examined for racial characteristics and then were given to German families to be raised as Germans. The village itself was burned, dynamited and bulldozed. The name, Lidice, was removed from all maps and written references. The 60-haleru+4.40-koruna Heydrich Death Mask semipostal stamp (Scott B20) is shown in Figure 7. In years gone by, it was customary to place a wreath on the front door of a house when a loved one passed away. Men wore black arm bands. A widow wore a black mourning gown, called widow's weeds, for at least a year after her husband's death. Taking this to extremes was Queen Victoria, whose husband Prince Albert died in 1861. Thereafter she wore black in his memory for the rest of her long life. Stamps bearing Victoria's portrait after Albert's death are sometimes called "widow's weeds" because of Victoria's attire. It was also customary to use black-bordered stationery during the time of mourning. Envelopes that have black borders are called "mourning covers," and they are very collectible. I have heard varying explanations of why some mourning covers have wide bands of black and others have much narrower bands. One theory is that the closer the relationship to the deceased, the wider the bands of black on the stationery. Another theory is that as the period of mourning progressed, the width of the band decreased in size until eventually it disappeared entirely. Figure 8 shows a mourning cover sent May 25, 1895, from Providence, R.I. It has a wide band and matching wide-band letter paper inside. Taking the black edging one step further, some countries have issued mourning stamps. Figure 9 shows a 30-dinar Franklin D. Roosevelt stamp (Greece Scott 469). The black-bordered stamp is from a set of three issued in December 1945 to mourn the loss of this world leader. Greece also issued mourning stamps for King Constantine and King George II. Of course, Greece was not the only country to issue mourning stamps. Belgium, for example, upon the death of King Albert in 1934, issued a 75-centime stamp (Scott 257) in black with black borders, and Yugoslavia issued black-bordered mourning stamps (Scott 102-15) after the assassination of King Alexander in 1934. Where do letters go when they die? To the dead letter office, of course, often abbreviated DLO. A letter can be undeliverable for many reasons. Perhaps the address is incorrect or incomplete. Maybe the recipient moved and left no forwarding address. Perhaps the address is undecipherable. When such occurrences happen, the letter is returned to the sender. If there is no return address, the letter goes to a DLO, where clerks can attempt to complete the address, find the recipient who moved or look for a return address within the contents. If the DLO clerk is successful, the letter goes out in a new outer envelope. Figure 10 shows a cover mailed from Sydney, Australia, in 1950. The letter was unclaimed by the addressee and was sent to the DLO, where a clerk noted by pen inscription that the recipient "left 25/7/50" (July 25, 1950). The cover bears a rubber-stamped pointing hand directing that the letter be returned to the sender. Halloween can be pretty spooky. Stamp collecting, with all of its death masks, mourning stamps, tombstone cancels, and dead letters can be pretty spooky too. You might want to be particularly cautious on Halloween night — especially if you go near your stamp albums. Happy Halloween!

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What is LawBrain? Fourteenth Amendment From lawbrain.com The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution focuses on issues of citizenship, equal protection, due process, and privileges and immunities. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, has generated more lawsuits than any other provision of the U.S. Constitution.This amendment is known as a Reconstruction or Civil War Amendment as it was adopted immediately following the U.S. Civil War. The Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution[1] reads: The Litigious Nature of the Amendment Section 1 of the amendment has been the centerpiece of most of this litigation. It makes "All persons born or naturalized in the United States"citizens of the United States and citizens of the state in which they reside. This section also prohibits state governments from denying persons within their jurisdiction the privileges or immunities of U.S. citizenship, and guarantees to every such person due process and equal protection of the laws. The Supreme Court has ruled that any state law that abridges freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to trial by jury, the right to counsel, the right against self-incrimination, the right against unreasonable searches and seizures, or the right against cruel and unusual punishments will be invalidated under section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. This holding is called the incorporation doctrine. Sections 2 to 5 have been the subject of far fewer lawsuits. Some of these sections seem anachronistic today because they reflect the immediate concerns of the Union's political leadership following the North's victory over the South in the Civil War (1861–65). Section 2, for example, penalized any state that attempted to abridge the Voting Rights of its black male residents by reducing the state's representation in Congress (no female resident of any race was afforded the constitutional right to vote in the United States until 1920). Section 3 prohibited from holding state or federal office any person who engaged in "insurrection or rebellion" or otherwise gave "aid or comfort to the enemies" during the Civil War. Section 4 reaffirmed the United States' commitment to pay its Civil War debt, while declaring all debts and obligations incurred by the Confederate government "illegal and void." Section 5 enabled, and continues to enable, Congress to pass "appropriate legislation" to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. Citizenship Clause The Fourteenth Amendment was drafted to alleviate several concerns harbored by many U.S. citizens prior to its ratification. The most obvious concern related to the status of the recently freed slaves. Five years before hostilities commenced in the Civil War, the Supreme Court declared that people of African descent living in the United States were not "citizens" of the United States, but merely members of a "subordinate and inferior class of human beings" deserving no constitutional protection whatsoever Dred Scott v. Sandford,[2] 60 U.S. [19 How.] 393, 15 L. Ed. 691 [1856]). The Fourteenth Amendment vitiated the Supreme Court's holding in Dred Scott by making all blacks "born or naturalized in the United States" full-fledged citizens entitled to the same constitutional rights provided for every other U.S. citizen. The racist attitudes expressed in Dred Scott also manifested themselves after the Civil War. In 1865, the southern states began enacting the Black Codes, which deprived African Americans of many basic rights afforded to white Americans, including the right to travel, bear arms, own property, make contracts, peaceably assemble, and testify in court. The Black Codes also authorized more severe punishments for African Americans than would be imposed on white persons for committing the same criminal offense. The Fourteenth Amendment offered an antidote to these discriminatory laws by guaranteeing to members of all races "due process of law," which requires the legal system to provide fundamentally fair trial procedures, and "equal protection of the laws," which requires the government to treat all persons with equal concern and respect. Due Process Clause Dred Scott was not the only Supreme Court decision that influenced the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment. Barron v. City of Baltimore,[3] 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 243, 8 L. Ed. 672 (1833), also played a significant role. This case involved a Maryland wharf owner who brought a lawsuit against the city of Baltimore for violating the Fifth Amendment's Eminent Domain Clause, which prohibits the government from taking private property without "just compensation." Baltimore defended against the wharf owner's lawsuit by arguing that the Fifth Amendment only provides relief against action taken by the federal government and offers no protection against state governments or their political subdivisions. The Supreme Court agreed with Baltimore. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice John Marshall asserted that the Constitution created the federal government, and the provisions of the Constitution were designed to regulate the activity of the federal government. The people of each state enacted their own constitution, Marshall contended, to regulate the activities of their state and local governments. Thus, Marshall reasoned that the U.S. Constitution operates only as a limitation on the powers of the federal government, unless one of its provisions expressly restricts the powers of state governments, as does Article I, Section 10. Article I, Section 10, provides that "[n]o State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation," or "pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts." This wording, Marshall maintained, demonstrates that the Framers understood the type of clear and unequivocal language that must be used to make a provision of the federal Constitution binding on the states. Because the first eight amendments to the Constitution do not contain language that restricts the powers of state governments, Marshall concluded that the Bill of Rights was inapplicable to the states. The Supreme Court's decision in Barron weighed heavily on the mind of John Bingham, the Republican representative from Ohio who was the primary architect of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Bingham said he "noted … certain words in the opinion of Marshall" when he was "reexamining that case of Barron." The chief justice, Bingham stressed, denied the wharf owner's claim because the Framers of the Bill of Rights, unlike the Framers of Article I, Section 10, had not chosen the type of explicit language that would clearly make the Bill of Rights applicable to state governments. "Acting upon" Marshall's "suggestion" in Barron, Bingham said, he "imitated"the Framers of Article I, Section 10:"As [these Framers had written] 'no state shall … pass any Bill of Attainder …' I prepared the provision of the first section of the fourteenth amendment." Bingham's remarks shed light on the Supreme Court's decision to make most of the provisions contained in the Bill of Rights applicable to state governments through the doctrine of incorporation. Under this doctrine, the Supreme Court has ruled that every protection contained in the Bill of Rights—except for the right to bear arms, the right to indictment by grand jury, the right to trial by jury in civil cases, and the right against quartering soldiers—must be protected by state governments under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court has explained that each of these incorporated rights is "deeply rooted in the nation's history" and "fundamental" to the concept of "ordered liberty" represented by the Due Process Clause (Palko v. Connecticut,[4] 302U.S. 319, 58 S. Ct. 149, 82 L. Ed. 288 [1937]). Any state that denies one of these rights is violating its duty to provide the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed to the residents of every state by the Fourteenth Amendment. Although a state may provide more constitutional protection to its residents than is conferred by the Bill of Rights, the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits any state from providing less protection. For example, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of sobriety checkpoints, which authorize police officers to stop motor vehicles to determine if the driver has been consuming alcohol, regardless of whether the stop was based on probable cause or made pursuant to a search warrant as required by the Fourth Amendment (Michigan v. Sitz,[5] 496U.S. 444, 110 S. Ct. 2481, 110 L. Ed. 2d 412[1990]). The Minnesota Supreme Court reached the opposite conclusion, invalidating arrests made during traffic stops at sobriety checkpoints because they did not comport with the state's constitutional provisions prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures (Ascher v. Commissioner of Public Safety,[6] 519 N.W.2d 183 [Minn. 1993]). Privileges and Immunities Clause Whereas the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses have given rise to a panorama of legal claims such as the sobriety checkpoint cases, the privileges and immunities clause has produced only a few lawsuits since the end of the 1800s. Like most other legal terms in the Bill of Rights, the phrase privileges or immunities is not defined in the Constitution. Nor does the phrase possess a meaning that is self-evident. However, some insight into the meaning of the Privileges and Immunities Clause may be gleaned from statements made by the man who drafted it, Congressman Bingham. Bingham said the "privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States … are chiefly defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States… . These eightarticles … never were limitations upon the power of the states until made so by the Fourteenth Amendment" (quoted in Adamson v. California,[7] 332 U.S. 46, 67 S. Ct. 1672, 91 L. Ed. 1903[1947] [Murphy, J., dissenting]). Senator Jacob Howard echoed these thoughts, stating that "these privileges and immunities, whatever they may be—for they are not and cannot be fully defined in their entire extent and precise nature—[include] … personal rights … such as the freedom of speech and of the press, [and] the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances." Similarly, Representative James Wilson made it clear that the "privileges and immunities of the citizens of the United States" include "[f]reedom of religious opinion" and "freedom of speech and press." Notwithstanding the statements made by these congressmen, the Supreme Court has limited the application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Privileges and Immunities Clause to provide only negligible protection against the state and federal governments. In the slaughter-house cases,[8] 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 16, 21 L. Ed. 268 (1873), a group of New Orleans butchers brought a lawsuit to invalidate a Louisiana law that granted a monopoly to a local slaughterhouse. The butchers alleged that the state-chartered monopoly violated their "privileges and immunities" to pursue gainful employment free from unlawful restraints. In an extremely narrow reading of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court rejected the butchers' argument. The Court held that the Privileges and Immunities Clause protects only rights derived from U.S. citizenship, such as the right to habeas corpus and interstate travel and not rights derived from state law, such as the common-law rights of tort and property asserted by the New Orleans butchers. The Supreme Court has neither overruled its decision in the Slaughter-House cases nor expanded its narrow interpretation of the Privileges and Immunities Clause. Most constitutional scholars have since pronounced this clause a dead letter. Equal Protection Clause If the Supreme Court has provided a more conservative interpretation of the Privileges and Immunities Clause than envisioned by the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, it has provided a more liberal interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause. In Brown v. Board of Education,[9] 347 U.S. 483, 74 S. Ct. 686, 98 L. Ed. 873 (1954), the Supreme Court ruled that the doctrine of "separate but equal," in which the black and white races were segregated in public schools and other places of public accommodation, was "inherently unequal" and denied African Americans "equal protection of the laws." The ambit of the Equal Protection Clause was later enlarged by the Supreme Court beyond racial segregation to cover an assortment of gender discrimination claims asserted by women. Thus, the Framers' original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment has not provided a useful yardstick to measure the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. Since the mid-1940s, the Supreme Court has strayed further from the Framers' original understanding, recognizing controversial privacy rights to use contraceptives (Griswold v. Connecticut,[10] 381 U.S. 479, 85 S. Ct. 1678, 14 L. Ed. 2d 510 [1965]), obtain abortions prior to the third trimester of pregnancy (Roe v. Wade,[11] 410 U.S. 113, 93 S. Ct. 705, 35 L. Ed. 2d 147 [1973]), and view obscene pornographic material in the privacy of one's own home (Stanley v. Georgia,[12] 394 U.S. 557, 89 S. Ct. 1243, 22 L. Ed. 2d 542 [1969]). In 1996 the Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause had been violated by an amendment to the Colorado constitution prohibiting legislative, judicial, or executive action at the state or local level from protecting homosexual persons from discrimination in Romer v. Evans,[13] 517 U.S. 620, 116 S. Ct. 1620, 134 L. Ed. 2d 855 (1996). The Supreme Court has extended the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment to private actors when they become so entwined with state or local government that they become, in effect, state actors. In Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association,[14] 531 U.S. 288, 121 S.Ct. 924, 148 L.Ed.2d 807 (2001), the Court held that a state athletic association was so closely connected with the public schools as to become a state actor. The association sought to curtail the alleged football recruiting abuses of Brentwood Academy, a private school with a very successful football program. 1. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/ 2. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/60/393.html 3. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/32/243.html 4. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/302/319.html 5. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/496/444.html 6. http://caselaw.findlaw.com/mn-court-of-appeals/1324455.html 7. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/332/46.html 8. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/83/36.html 9. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/347/483.html 10. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/381/479.html 11. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/410/113.html 12. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/394/557.html 13. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/u10179.html 14. http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/99-901.html Curtis, Michael Kent. 1993. "The 1859 Crisis over Hinton Helper's Book, The Impending Crisis: Free Speech, Slavery, and Some Light on the Meaning of the First Section of the Fourteenth Amendment." Chicago-Kent Law Review 68. Curtis, Michael Kent. 1988. Review of No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights in Harvard Law Review 101. Rierson, Sandra L."Race and Gender Discrimination: A Historical Case for Equal Treatment Under the Fourteenth Amendment." Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 1. Stone, Lawrence. 1977. The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England 1500–1800. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. External Links Related Resources on FindLaw Related Blogs on FindLaw                                                                             Web Services by Yahoo! See Also Admin, FindLaw Michelle, FindLaw Sarah, FindLaw dave

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latest stories: See Inside Scientific American Volume 307, Issue 1 Scientists Trek to Collapsing Glaciers to Assess Antarctica’s Meltdown and Sea-Level Rise As glaciers collapse toward the sea, scientists struggle to figure out how fast the southern continent is melting and what that means for sea-level rise One summer soon the Scar Inlet ice shelf will cross a critical threshold. Repeated cycles of melting and refreezing will harden its surface until it can hold large melt ponds. Those ponds will drain into exposed crevasses. As water accumulates in crevasses, its weight will drive the cracks deeper—“like a wedge,” Scambos says—until they reach the bottom of the ice, breaking off a long, skinny Tetris berg. The rupture of one crevasse will produce shock waves that will set off others closer to land's edge. The entire ice shelf might disintegrate within only a few days—maybe just hours. That is how Scambos thinks Scar Inlet will die. The AMIGOS will let him test the theory. Their cameras will show melt ponds forming, crevasses opening and ponds draining into them. Shots of the pole lines will show the ice shelf straining and buckling. The ridgetop camera will record the pattern of iceberg calving. The AMIGOS on Flask and Leppard will show how the glaciers speed up as the ice shelf holding them back collapses. By having upstream and downstream stations on each glacier, Scambos will see the dynamic nature of glacial response—the manner in which the bottom of the glacier accelerates before its higher reaches do, thus causing it to stretch, thin and welt up with crevasses the way Sjögren Glacier did. The Scar Inlet ice shelf, Scambos says, “is teetering on the edge.” Rock, Data, Scissors Glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula that have lost their ice shelves are indeed thinning at a rapid rate of five to 10 meters a year. The data come from laser altimetry measurements that were taken by the now defunct ICESat and, more recently, by aircraft. The crucial question is how this rate compares with the gradual thinning that has happened since the close of the last ice age 12,000 years ago—and in particular, whether the recent ice shelf breakups are truly unprecedented. Greg Balco, a geologist at the Berkeley Geochronology Center who was on the Palmer, wanted to answer this question. On a cold, overcast morning a helicopter ferried Balco and me from the Palmer to Sjögren Glacier, 30 kilometers west. Sjögren's fjord held ice 600 meters thick as recently as 1995, right before the Prince Gustav ice shelf broke up, but now it holds seawater instead. The helicopter dropped us on a bare, rounded mountain beside the fjord. The peak's gray-and-white-layered bedrock was worn into smooth curves and was raked with scrape marks—scars that a younger, thicker Sjögren Glacier left as it rode over this terrain thousands of years ago. “This is beautifully polished,” Balco said of the bedrock. “It looks like it deglaciated last week.” Scattered all around were stones that did not match the bedrock—a brown volcanic boulder here, granite over there. Sjögren had carried them in from far away and dropped them in their present locations as its ice melted. Balco used these oddball rocks to figure out how quickly Sjögren Glacier has thinned over thousands of years. He picked his way uphill, collecting rocks at different elevations. Back home, he analyzed them to see how long they had been exposed to sunlight by measuring tiny amounts of a rare isotope called beryllium 10, which forms when cosmic rays strike stone. By measuring how long rocks at different heights on the mountain have seen sunlight, Balco could calculate how quickly the glacier thinned and reexposed the mountain. A year after the expedition Balco had analyzed rocks collected from around two glaciers—Sjögren and Drygalski. His results suggested that the glaciers have undergone major retreats at least once in the past 4,000 years—indicating that both the Prince Gustav and Larsen A ice shelves had collapsed at least once in that time. Rights & Permissions Share this Article: Scientific American Holiday Sale Give a Gift & Get a Gift - Free! Give a 1 year subscription as low as $14.99 Subscribe Now! > Email this Article

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Friday, December 28, 2007 You might be Taliban if You own a $300 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes. You have more wives than teeth. You’ve ever opened a can of falafel with a mortar round. You’ve ever had your camel repossessed. You can’t think of anyone you HAVEN’T declared Jihad against. You’ ve ever been asked, “Does this burka make my butt look too big?” You’ve felt the urge to “rub her out” after seeing a woman’s exposed ankle. You wipe your butt with your bare left hand, but consider bacon “unclean”. A tip of the Akubra to Father Joe. Tuesday, December 25, 2007 The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away On the night when we celebrate His greatest gift to us, Mike had his dad taken from him. He's had a rough time of it, and it sounds like he was well ready to go home, but it's still hard to lose your dad. At least now he's got a body that works as it should, and he gets to be with family he hasn't seen in a long time, as well in the presence of the Lord Himself. And Mike, we're praying for you. Friday, December 21, 2007 Scrooge (1935) I mentioned with an earlier movie that films like "It's a Wonderful Life" are so much a part of our cultural Christmas experience that it's hard to believe they ever weren't. "A Christmas Carol" goes even farther; it's almost as much a part of our cultural holiday canon as Santa Claus. The trinity of past, present and future, the theme of sin and redemption, the contrast between material and spiritual benefit... it all is soaked into our subconscious that it's hard to imagine a Christmas without some reference to it. A quick run-down on IMDb shows 53 different versions on film, and I'm sure there are more. I remember seeing Henry Winkler do a good retelling of it in the 70s, and Bill Murray deserves a medal for "Scrooged". ("Staple the antlers on!") The 1935 Scrooge, though, is probably the best I've seen so far. It's a straightforward rendition, without comical characters and the winking inside jokes that you have to put in today because the story line is so familiar. It also doesn't get into Scrooge's childhood in an attempt to explain his loathesomeness. He's just a rotten person, that's all, without any excuse. But the theme of repentance and change is stronger here because of that. There's no cute Tiny Tim at the end, saying "God bless us, every one," but Scrooge's change of heart is a complete 180. It sticks to the book about the way I remember reading it. The acting is a little heavy-handed, probably because the actors were stage-trained and talkies were still kind of new. But the intensity is unmatched. This is far and away the best Christmas movie I'll be posting here. Do yourself a favor and see it. It's a straight-up, 200-proof Christmas Carol, the way Dickens would have wanted it done. Are these really genes I want to share? Actually, probably. My Reverend Auntie shared a story about my cousin, her Favorite Son (hereinafter referred to as "FS"). I haven't seen him in years, but this sounds like the Mike I remember: The paper drive was a great success. Friday, December 14, 2007 A step in faith for a good cause Wunderkraut and Frau Wunder are in the process of adopting a seriously adorable little girl from China, and they can use some help. Our paper work was officially logged into the Chinese government on December 12 of that year. We expected to wait 9 to 10 months until we received our referral, but a month later the entire adoption system in China came to a dead stop due to internal government politics. Our short wait grew to almost two years, but we are happy to announce that on December 5, 2007, we were notified that we had our referral and the very next day we saw our daughter for the first time. Feng Yun Man (soon to be Mei Elyse Talley) was born on March 18, 2007 and is currently in Fengxin Orphanage in the Jiangxi Provence, not far from Nanchang, China. (Try Google Earth) We expect to be traveling to China by mid January to bring Mei home to her new family. The cost of foreign adoption is very high. When we started this whole process we did not have a single dollar, but we prayed and knew that the Lord would provide. And provide He did! In a very short time, the Lord blessed me with side work and the work just kept coming. It meant long nights and weekends, but it was worth the sacrifice. We went from having no funds to having enough money to pay for the entire adoption plus some money towards the airfare. However, the two year delay caused us to have to resubmit parts of our paper work and that depleted the travel money. Depending on the amount of advance notice, the total cost of the tickets will be between $2,000 and $4,000. We are asking you to prayerfully consider donating towards the cost of the airfare to China. We are also asking that you keep our family in your prayers, especially baby Mei. Take a look at that little girl. Really, we want her in this country to help raise the average cuteness of American children. The need for money is a serious one, though, so if you can, please try and help them out. They've got a PayPal button up, as well as an address. I doubt if we'll be able to send any money ourselves, but we'll see what can be done. If you can't give anything, at least pray hard. We'll certainly be doing that. If the Lord owns the cattle on a thousand hills, He (and His people) can pony up for a couple of plane tickets. Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Waiting for the lawsuit This sort of thing must be silenced. Before you know it, we'll be overwhelmed by dangerous attitudes like peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Someone is trying to spread a little Christmas cheer along New Jersey's Garden State Parkway. The AP reports that just after Thanksgiving, two large glass ornaments mysteriously appeared on two large pine trees alongside the Parkway in New Jersey's Pinelands. Since then, five more decorations have popped up in the same house-free area. Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs lawyers of Christmas! Merry Christmas, Mrs. Calabash I haven't actually seen The Great Rupert, but in the course of posting it I decided I have to as soon as I can get a little free time. It sure looks like a cute one. Certainly it can't be too bad, if it stars The Schnozzola. Let me know what you think if you see even part of this! Bless me, your honor... Shouldn't it work the other way around? "He will have to recite seven psalms from a book in the Old Testament," Judge Perez told the Santiago daily La Tercera. He added, "This is not a sentence that just occurred to me." Tuesday, December 11, 2007 The Seattle Center Fun Forest will be closing. I don't have a lot of positive memories of Seattle. I lived in the area through most of my teenage years, and I wasn't really very happy there. I was - and am - a small-town boy at heart, and I wanted more than anything to go back to Goldendale. But one of the things I didenjoy was taking the Metroid bus downtown and hanging out at the Pike Place Market and the Seattle Center. Even when I didn't have any pocket money (which was most of the time) I would take a book and sit and enjoy the atmosphere. Once in a while my folks would take us all to the Center, and buy ride tickets at the Fun Forest. (I didn't ride them myself; I can't even cope with a carousel for more than one ride.) It may not be my favorite part of the place, but it's an institution. Heck, my mom and dad were there at the World's Fair in '62, when it first opened. As long as they're dismantling the Seattle Center, I have a suggestion for what they can do with the Space Noodle. It's long overdue, after all. Monday, December 10, 2007 Romney Roundup I know Mormons are kind of exotic critters to the east-coast media, but the sheer amount of bigotry that's getting published is really cheesing me off. Anti-Catholicism is sometimes called "the last acceptable prejudice," but that vitriol is minor compared to what passes for journalism when Mormons are involved. First, the good. You mean he's got a life outside of funny underwear and baptizing dead people? Who knew? One discouraging note is that if the WaPo is writing positively about a Republican, it means they think he hasn't got a chance. Still, at least it means one reporter has his head somewhere outside his lower digestive tract. The bad. Romney's a racist-cracker-ofay! So there! A few of the more egregious quotes: Whenever a proselytizing Mormon knocks on my Harlem door, I chase him away as brusquely as I would chase away a Klansman, or an evangelical Christian Republican, and for much the same reason. I have zero tolerance for racial intolerance. And I have zero tolerance for smarmy blockheads. Can't you just smell the crosses burning? (Actually, Mormons don't use crosses; maybe they'll have to burn spires or something.) I'd be interested to know if he's ever actually seen a Mormon ward's ethnic makeup. The LDS church is loaded with Hispanics, Asians and Pacific Islanders. Probably a third of the church is non-white. Can his own church in Harlem (assuming he attends one) boast the same kind of diversity? I doubt you'd see a whole lot of white faces there. But that's different. Those aren't racially intolerant churches. What exactly is the shelf life of God-inspired bigotry? Mitt Romney grew into adulthood under a Mormon doctrine instructing members that Negroes could not enter heaven or the priesthood because they were cursed by God, and inferior. Laying aside the Mormon hocus-pocus, Romney is no different in such racial conditioning than his comparable, evangelical white Christian, to say nothing of the secular crowd. "Grew to adulthood?" Yes. He was 30 years old when the church declared that the priesthood was now open to black men. (Heaven was never closed to them to begin with, but the calumny sounds better that way, so let's just leave that in. Who'll ever know?) Is the charge that he could have changed the teaching, and didn't? How much influence does he think the average young man has over a church of millions? Or is Payne saying Romney should have left the church in order to pursue a more color-blind way to heaven? If so, it says something about Romney's loyalty and Payne's, respectively. Romney sticks to the church he's committed to, even if some of its tenets aren't to his liking. Payne seems to think it's better to switch gods according to who suits him best. From there, Payne descends into some kind of incoherency about disparate drug law enforcement. Which is clearly instigated by the secret Mormon cabal controlling America's judicial system. Which is managed by... white men! That proves it! Romney's a racist! And the ugly: I don't think the bozo at Newsday really meant to suggest some shadowy Mormon Illuminati skulking about in preparation for the day when they rise up and subjugate America under their dread regime of decaf pop and green Jello. Elva Anderson knows it's coming, and wants to warn us all. She knows all about it, because she consulted Sandra Tanner, who is to the Mormons what Jack Chick is to the Catholics. Here's what Mrs. Anderson has to say: Frankly, I don’t think I can count on Mr. Romney’s prayers to his god who is busy birthing spiritual babies on another planet — not while bin Laden is also busy birthing babies on our planet (12 to 24 physical children, according to Wikipedia) and countless spiritual progeny, all of whom hate us. So, money or not, I’m going to have to say “no” to Mitt Romney. I’d rather count on the prayers of someone like Mike Huckabee; he prays to the same God the pilgrims prayed to. Money might move some conservative leaders, but it won’t move the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when the Philistines, Assyrians and Babylonians come after us with their nuclear warheads. If Romney is elected to the presidency, God will turn His face away from America, and darkness will reign upon the earth. Because the real role of a president is to pray for the country, not to manage it. Update later in the day: It just occurred to me that holding Romney responsible for the sort of lurid rumors Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Payne are spouting is equivalent to expecting Guiliani to justify his adherence to the faith of Maria Monk and Alberto Rivera. It's not even his religion they're finding him guilty by association with; it's a caricature. Sunday, December 09, 2007 How to get away with sexual harassment Glenn Sacks thinks this SNL sketch is an illustration of how subjective sexual harassment standards are; i.e., if she doesn't like it, it's harassment. Maybe so, but I'm not trying to make a statement here. I just think it's a hoot. (My apologies to anyone in the mammarily-unchallenged community who took offense at the word "hoot.") Friday, December 07, 2007 Your Friday Christmas Movie I figure it's about time to put up another film, since Christmas is bearing down on us like a logging truck. This one is only a Christmas movie by way of setting; the actual plot is only peripherally related. Then again, some of the films we most associate with the holidays are like that. "It's a Wonderful Life" is an obvious one; it's so firmly established in the American Christmas canon that we can't imagine it with a summertime setting. Every year, we see a romantic comedy or two that are set at Christmas just because that's a lucrative time for the release. I'm partial to 'While You Were Sleeping" as an example of that genre. The theme that ties these together is a sense of hearth and home, an emphasis on families and togetherness. Real families, of course, get on each other's nerves during the holidays, but that, too, is taken for part of the fun. In Christmas movies, family is paramount. The holiday-family-schmaltz dynamic also makes for an ideal way to make a sentimental movie not come across hokey, especially with one like today's film du jour. There's also kind of a built-in deadline that establishes the film's timing, as the characters want everything to be perfect for Christmas. Although "Son of the Navy" sounds like the sort of thing you call a man when you want to provoke him into a tavern brawl, it's actually a benign, even pollyanna film. The plot is a familiar one: a little orphan boy tries to wangle himself a family for Christmas, even if he has to create it himself. It's also got the familiar comic elements of mistaken identity, a bickering couple that you know will end up in love, and a cute dog. I don't know why this little boy didn't keep acting as an adult; his last credit seems to be a Dragnet episode when he was about 20. IMDb doesn't have any other biographical information and I can't find any Social Security death record for him, so he's probably alive out there somewhere at the venerable age of 80. (Martin Spellman, if you ever find yourself here on a Google search or something, drop a comment and tell us about yourself, would you?) Besides him, James Dunn and Jean Parker (who immediately afterward was the charming leading lady in the last film I posted) turn in a delightful performance as the sort of people who shouldn't be allowed in the same room together. It's a cute, light B movie, all in all; not pretentious, just sweet. This film has one more poignant note that the makers couldn't have predicted. It was released in 1940, as the Depression was winding down and it looked as though everything would be all right at last. By the following Christmas, the whole world would have changed, and the Navy would be reeling from the attack at Pearl Harbor. (That was 66 years ago today, in fact.) But for that short time, we get to see a military man and his makeshift family with no bigger problems on their plate than their personal lives. Which is how it should be. So pull up a chair, pour yourself a warm cup of something, put on your toasty socks, and enjoy: (Leave a comment if you see this, and tell me what you thought.) Update: I removed the Tourette's Syndrome Barbie because the sound was interfering. If anyone wants to see it, it's not hard to put back. I think it's pretty much run its course, though, as far as novelty. No hurry. Finish your coffee break. I think if I were a Lewis County Sheriff's deputy, I'd have a second cup and maybe even a doughnut before setting out on this rescue. When your county looks like this, you've got bigger things to worry about than these cretins. Wednesday, December 05, 2007 If Tetzel had had the Internet This makes selling indulgences look like small potatoes. And I'll bet they've never had to give a refund to a dissatisfied customer. Sunday, December 02, 2007 This is my life! What we say and what they hear: What I said: Kiddo#1! Breakfast! What Kiddo#1 heard: We’ve been up for half an hour and have been busy setting the table. I asked what you wanted to eat. The coffee maker beeped and the toaster popped. Everyone is gathered in the kitchen but you, and we called you for breakfast, but it’s actually a clever trick to fool you. You can defeat our nefarious purpose by sitting on the couch continuing to read, and we’ll be powerless to defend against you! What I said: If you want a stuffed animal, go in your room and get it. What Kiddo#3 heard: I will never let you have a stuffed animal again in your life. Go read the whole thing. This rates her a spot in my sidebar for sure.

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Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals 'irrational and invidious' Written by Peter Foster Thursday, 12 April 2012 Rate this item (0 votes) The Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals are “irrational and invidious” and fail to follow the basic tenets of the law, defence lawyers for the alleged al Qaeda mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing has argued Launching an attack on the unique military tribunals that will also try the five men accused of the September 11 attacks, lawyers said the Guantanamo court system was founded not on constitutional or legal principles but on “political self-interest”. The lawyers for Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, a 47-year-old Saudi man accused of orchestrating the USS Cole bombing in 2000 that killed 17 US sailors, said their client deserved the same legal rights as US citizens. Quoting from the opening US declaration of Independence, that “all men are created equal”, Michel Paradis, argued that Mr Nashiri could be “deprived of his life in a way that a citizen of the US could not be” if he is convicted and sentenced to death, as the prosecution wants. The pre-trial hearings for Mr Nashiri, who is due to stand trial in November, are being intensely scrutinized by media organisations, legal scholars and human rights groups anxious to see how transparent and open the hearings will actually be. The court’s chief prosecutor, Brigadier General Mark Martins, rebutted the defence claims, arguing that there was a “rational and legitimate” reason for the US Congress to create the special tribunals. The Guantanamo courts were first introduced by George W Bush, but were overhauled in 2009 after the Obama administration took office, to make evidence extracted under torture inadmissible and reduce the use of hearsay. Brig-Gen Martins argued that defendants, because they fought “from the shadows” in breach of Article 4 of the Geneva Convention, were being afforded a “full panoply of statutory rights” even though they had failed to comply with the “basic laws of armed conflict.” His defence came after making several high-profile speeches arguing for the legitimacy of the reformed Guantanamo hearings their army officer juries, including at Harvard Law School last month. However the proceedings have been dogged by concerns that the US Government is unfairly censoring the hearings, using national security considerations to hide its own embarrassment over allegations of maltreatment and torture. According to a 2004 CIA report, Al Nashiri was repeatedly subject to ‘waterboarding’ while in detention; had an automatic weapon cocked against his head while blindfolded in a mock execution and was threatened with a revving power drill. Al Nashiri was captured in Dubai in 2002 and held for several years in secret CIA prisons in Thailand and Poland before later being transferred to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Defence lawyers had asked for permission for Al Nashiri to testify about his torture at the pre-trial hearing, but the judge side-stepped the issue by granting a defence request to see their client unfettered by shackles. Al Nashiri will be allowed to testify at his November trial, however it remains unclear how much of his words will be made public. David Schulz, a lawyer acting for several leading US media organisations, warned that the US government must respect the Constitutional rights of the public to freedom of speech and information and keep the hearings as open as possible. He argued that even classified information — under Guantanamo rules everything uttered by a detainee is considered “classified” — should be made public unless the government could show its disclosure was likely to be an actual threat to national security, or put an individual at risk. If acquitted, Al Nashiri will almost certainly not be set free because of his status as a prisoner of war in an on-going conflict, a situation that defence lawyers say is a fundamental breach of the basic right to acquittal. International rights groups remain largely scathing of the Guantamo process, arguing that the Obama reforms have not gone far enough to enable the Guantanamo defendants to have a fair trial, including allowing the military authorities to pick the juries. “These are fundamentally flawed proceedings. There is a gross inequality of arms between the prosecution and the defence in terms of resources and access to evidence,” said Reed Brody, a legal counsel with Human Rights Watch observing in Guantanamo. Source: The Telegraph Login to post comments Sign up for email updates Get the latest news, appeals and campaign updates. All Events ... What's New

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House Transforms Like Megatron into Houseatron There are a number of ways that you can go about making a futuristic house, but why dilly-dally with "modern architecture" and solar cells to make your house seem more futuristic when you can make your house transform into Houseatron? Yep, that's right, Houseatron, the latest of the Transformers (houses in disguise?). Ross Russell and his wife Sally wanted something different for their house. Their house, called the "Sliding House," is a house that basically has an outer sleeve than can be retracted from the house whenever they please. This leaves a house that's mostly made of windows allowing in as much sun as Ross and Sally desire. The architecture was designed with the help of Alex DeRijke. The house, located in Suffolk, VA, was made to enjoy in the mountains, the weather, and the surroundings. If they want to enjoy the weather and local environment, all they have to do is turn on the four small electric motors which retract the sleeve in only six minutes and very quietly. In the winter they can keep the "sleeve" over the house to keep them warm, and in the summer on a nice day they can keep the "sleeve" off. So if you're still waiting for the Transformers to enter our world and become a real thing, then wait no longer, because Houseatron is near. I suppose it's an Autobot because it protects people from the weather and surrondings... [mattdollings (YouTube) via Gizmodo] Like this? You might also enjoy... Subscribe to the Best of TechHive Newsletter

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San Francisco is 5 miles across...true or false? How wide is San Francisco? Uhhhh, K.Soze, Golden Gate Park is bigger than Central Park all by itself... SF is indeed 7x7 miles. In truth though there is no genuine reason to run to the Southern half of the city, especially the SE corner, unless you live here. Nothing for the toursits to see or for the locals to do, except get up to no well brought-up. It's 7 x 7 miles Central Park surrounded by New York is bigger than SF How on earth could Central Park be bigger than San Francisco? The entire island of Manhattan is 23 square miles. San Francisco is 7 miles broad X 7 miles long = 49 square miles. New York is big because of the outer boroughs, not because of Manhattan (which is tiny). San Fancisco proper isn't very big, but nearby are lots of outlying communities. S.F. is 7 miles by 7 miles. No, 7. The whole city is lone 49 square miles. Loco is correct. You can actually shift somewhat further if you live, say, within the Sunset, and go to the Embarcadero. All contained by all though, we are a small town of merely about eight miles within width. Punch within your destinations to Mapquest and check it out! yes, it's 7x7 (actually the name of a local magazine). But within reality, the cut that you'd hang out surrounded by is merely 2 or 3 square miles. Related Questions: I take in nation cannot travel to the top of the Statue of Liberty anymore? Can family still dance within sector of it?   When is the Embassy Suites downtown going to open out spinal column up?   How can I find out from locals just about their favorite things to do, see and munch through?   Hottest Nightclubs for 21 year olds contained by Vegas?   Hi!!i would know where on earth I can go through appartaments contained by sublet?   • Is at hand something extra I have need of to dial for a 310 nouns code? • AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: Who does the best braids surrounded by Houston, TX? • Why are rowhouses so cheap within north philly closure 19132?

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The World's Forum for Aerospace Leadership • Donate • Press Room • Renew • View Cart The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) • ARC • AIAA Foundation • Industry Guide History of Flight from Around the World The forbidding Andes Mountain range made Argentina an attractive destination for flight pioneers from other countries and a challenge for the country's own people. The first Argentinian manned balloon flights, mainly with French aerostats, occurred in the second half of the 19th century, but it was not until the first years of the 20th century that the frequency of those flights increased. On 24 June 1916, E. Bradley and Capt. A.M. Zuloaga flew over the Andes in a flight that started in Santiago, Chile, and ended in Argentina's Uspallata Valley. The flight took a little more than three hours and reached an altitude of 8100 meters. It was the first flight over the Andes range. Argentina's first officially recorded flight of a vehicle heavier than air was made by the French pilot E. Brégi on 6 February 1910, during the centennial commemoration of Argentina's May Revolution of 1810. The celebration included several planes and pilots from France and Italy. Brégi flew a biplane Voisin with a 60 CV engine, reaching an altitude of 60 meters and a speed of 53 kilometers per hour. In 1912, Teodore Fels used a Blériot to accomplish the first crossing of the Rio de la Plata, joining Buenos Aires with Montevideo, Uruguay. Fels flew back to Buenos Aires the following day. The following year, the German pilot Lübbe, in a Rumpler Taube with a 110 CV Argus engine, set the world record flight with a passenger over the water, flying from Buenos Aires to Montevideo. Flying across the Andes range was an obsession for the Argentine aeronautical pioneer J. Newbery, the passenger in that plane, and it prompted him to improve the altitude world record. On 10 February 1914, with a Morane Saulnier aircraft powered by a 80 CV supercharged engine, he reached an altitude of 6225 meters, exceeding the world record by 75 meters. However, Newbery crashed and died without accomplishing his goal of crossing the Andes. That accomplishment went to 1st Lt. L. Candelaria on 13 May 1918 in a Morane Saulnier (Parasol) with a Le Rhone rotary engine of 80 CV. However, Candelaria flew to the south, where the mountains are lower. The crossing over the highest peaks of the range was performed on 12 December 1918 by the Chilean pilot D. Godoy, who flew a Bristol airplane equipped with a 110 CV engine. Two years later, the Argentine V. Almandos Almonacid made the first night flight over the Andes in a Spad aircraft with a 220 CV engine. Almonacid also carried out the first night bombing mission for the Allied Forces during World War I. The first planes to fly in Argentina came from France, and some were used as models for the first Argentinian planes. In 1910, P. Castaibert began the construction of the first Argentine airplanes, but production was interrupted when, because of World War I, he couldn't import the engines he needed to complete them. The Castaibert planes were used for exhibition and school, and later were the first planes used by Argentina and Uruguay's air forces. Two of those planes are now in the Museo Aeronáutico of Uruguay. In 1924, Raul Pescara, an Argentinean working in Paris, built a coaxial helicopter with biplane rotors and achieved a record by flying 736 meters. He was one of the first to recognize the autorotation phenomenon, and he also achieved control of the flight through cyclic-pitch change, obtained by warping the blades periodically as they rotated. For more than 65 years, the biggest aeronautical development and production center in Argentina was the Fábrica Militar de Aviones in Córdoba, an inland city 700 kilometers from Buenos Aires. The company first built airplaces (1929) and engines (1930) under license and later began building its own planes. The first national plane conceived and produced was the Ae.C.1 (April 1932), a three-seated passenger plane with a covered cockpit. In August 1947, the first flight of the IA-27 (Pulqui I), a jet fighter designed and developed in Córdoba by a team led by the French engineer E. Dewoitine, took place. It was the fifth jet fighter in the world and the first built in Latin America. The Córdoba factory employed other European professionals, particularly Germans and Italians, to work with Argentineans on military and civilian projects, including flying wings, swept wing fighters, small- and medium-sized passenger transports, and general purpose aircraft. However, most of these projects only reached the prototype stage. Aero-commercial operations in Argentina began on 10 June 1919 when a company founded by S.H. Kingsley made flights between Buenos Aires and others cities in Argentina and Uruguay. The first passengers were taken across the Rio de La Plata on a De Havilland plane. Kingsley's operation flew 8750 kilometers until financial difficulties forced him to close operations. His place was soon taken up by other companies, such as Aeroposta Argentina, founded in September 1927. Aerospota began regular flights in January 1929 with Breguet 14-A-2 and Laté 25 airplanes. The opening of aero-commercial routes in Argentina was made by intrepid men battling against a hostile environment and precarious logistical support, especially in Patagonia. Originally provided to AIAA for the Evolution of Flight Campaign, 2003. Next: Austria

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From Metropolis Read the latest version of draft legislation from the Assembly and more about medical marijuana laws in the region. Medical marijuana has been enacted into law in 16 states and the District of Columbia, but the issue has faced tougher hurdles in Albany, where Republicans who control the Senate have been resistant. But now, the idea has a new champion in Sen. Diane Savino, a Staten Island Democrat who has allied herself with the chamber's Republican majority on many issues and is the lead sponsor of a soon-to-be-introduced bill. Ms. Savino and the sponsor in the Democratic-controlled Assembly, Richard Gottfried, said they're hopeful that they could pass the bill if Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, were to get onboard. "He hasn't said no," Ms. Savino said of Mr. Cuomo. "He's willing to have a conversation." A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo didn't respond to requests for comment on the issue. As a candidate for governor in 2010, Mr. Cuomo said the dangers of medical marijuana "outweigh the benefits." But he appeared to soften his stance last year when he told reporters that his administration didn't have a "final position" on the issue. Mr. Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat who is leading the effort in the Assembly, said: "It can still be done this year, especially if the governor gets involved, but that would have to happen pretty soon." Wherever Mr. Cuomo settles on the issue, there promises to be a stronger effort than in past years to get the legislation to the floor of the Assembly and Senate. A Quinnipiac University poll from February 2010 found that 71% of New York registered voters—including 55% of registered Republicans—support the idea of allowing adults to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if a doctor prescribes it. And there could be support from a handful Senate Republicans with an independent streak. Republicans lead the Senate with a slim majority. Sen. John Bonacic, a veteran Republican who represents several mid-Hudson Valley counties west of Poughkeepsie, said he is "open" to medical marijuana legalization, if the drug is dispensed with a prescription from a physician. "I think if the safeguards were there, it might have some traction," he said. The growing marijuana industry is paying attention to New York's shifting landscape. Greenwerkz, a major for-profit dispensary in Colorado, has contacted Albany lobbying firms about the possibility of doing business in New York. "From the company's standpoint, we're interested in seeing what the bill looks like. We would love to participate in New York," said Meg Sanders, a partner at Greenwerkz. Though advocates say support for medical marijuana is growing in New York, its potential will depend on details. Mr. Gottfried said a new version of the bill would have a "hardship" provision allowing patients who live far away from a dispensary to grow their own pot plants. It would also extend to patients deemed too sick to travel or too poor to buy the drug. But Ms. Savino said that provision might have to be removed to attract more Republican support. Albany came closest to passing a bill in 2005. Then, the measure had a Republican sponsor, Vincent Leibell, who has since left the Senate and pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges. The Republican majority leader at the time, Sen. Joe Bruno, a prostate cancer survivor, said he supported the idea, but balked at language in the Assembly's version. The Assembly—where support the measure is broad—passed a medical marijuana bill in 2007 and 2008, both times with wide margins of support. There are also political parallels to the debate over same-sex marriage, the passage of which in 2011 depended on a small number of Senate Republican votes joining with a much larger number of Democrats. According to lobbyists, 28 Senate Democrats are supportive of medical marijuana. While Republicans are overwhelmingly opposed to the bill, advocates say they see a potential for at most a half-dozen GOP votes. The bill would need at least 32 votes for passage. And like with gay marriage, it would also need a green light from Senate Majority Dean Skelos to bring the bill to the floor. A spokesman for Mr. Skelos said he's "generally opposed" to medical marijuana and that the issue has not come up this year. Opposition to medical marijuana remains strong, including from the New York State Conservative Party, whose influence in Republican politics was tested in the battle over same-sex marriage. "There is no control over who is using the marijuana. It opens a Pandora's box for the illegal use of marijuana," said party chairman Michael Long. One important Republican in the debate, Sen. Kemp Hannon, the Long Islander who is chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said it doesn't make sense to loosen marijuana laws at a time of growing concern about illegal sales and abuse of prescription drugs. "To start dealing with other substances which have not been vetted or tested is not something I want to go near," he said. Under the last version of the bill, patients would have to be certified by a physician that they have a "serious condition" for which marijuana would provide a "therapeutic or palliative benefit." The state health department would issue them registration cards that expire after a year. Under previous versions, certified patients and designated caregivers would be allowed to possess no more than 2.5 ounces of marijuana, excluding the weight of food if distributed in edible form. The drug could not be consumed or displayed in public view. "This is not about getting high; this is about getting relief," said Ms. Savino, whose parents and grandfather died of lung cancer. "It's incredibly painful. You only have morphine. You get to the point where nothing works." Write to Jacob Gershman at

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Take the 2-minute tour × I didn't found the proper forum - so move the question if you find a better place for it. We have 10 houses scattered in the area 500 meters in diameter, and have a tiny DIY CATV network providing houses with 2 analog TV channels (don't laugh it's third world). We use cheap CATV signal boosters/line amplifiers at some intermediate houses to get the TV signal to the farthest houses. Now we want to setup an IP network between the houses, so what is the lowest cost solution for that? We won't need more than 1 megabit, so basically speed doesn't matter. The lowest cost solution seems to be "ethernet switches hanging on trees", but it's not reliable. DOCSIS seems too powerful for our tiny setup, so we consider DSL (VDSL/SHDSL, also it seems there are 8-port ADSL DSLAMs for $600), EtherLoops ($160 per modem pair) and newer EoCNA standard. The EoCNA seems attractive because of reuse of our CATV cables. The question is, if we decide to deploy ITU G.9954 Ethernet Over Coaxial Network (EoCNA), what are the requirements for our signal boosters? Do they need a special capabitity to pass the backward signal? Are there any good white papers/docs about the ITU G.9954 technology? What else technologies can we consider, given we targeting $300 per house with up to 10 houses? Some houses may be rather close, so we think of mixing long-range and short-range techs (e.g. wifi repeaters or plain ethernet between some houses) if that can lower the cost. share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 up vote 0 down vote accepted From an EoCNA device documentation: Amplifiers often do not include EoCNA in their downstream band. In cases where this type of device is installed, it should be replaced with one that has a bypass in the EoCNA band. Bypass is done by connecting a low pass filter (LPF) with a cutoff frequency of 45MHz in parallel with the amplifier as shown in Figure 1 (a). Note that in the cases where the amplifier has amplification for both downstream (DS) and upstream (US) directions (i.e. for the return channel, as shown in Figure 1 (b)), it would have overlapping bands with the LPF used for bypass and undesired effects such as positive feedback might occur in which case the amplifier should be replaced. So you would just need to add bypass LPFs to your amplifier installations. share|improve this answer Most cable signal boosters either do not pass reverse signals, or pass them but do not amplify them (this is to avoid injecting RF noise into the cable plant). You need to purchase bidirectional cable amplifiers in order to ensure that the return signals make it to your head end. Also note that since you are already running a CATV network (based on your question) DOCSIS is probably the better choice for your deployment: It may seem like overkill, but it is a well-proven technology with a large ecosystem of hardware and software tools available to support your deployment. The initial costs will be balanced by the savings in maintenance & troubleshooting, as well as end-user hardware. share|improve this answer Your Answer

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Friday, March 12, 2010 Dangerous dancing double standards There are some things the girls learn at school that I just don't have the discipline or energy or interest to reinforce at home. The example that sets the standard is food that falls on the floor. There is no leeway at school and the girls know that any food that falls on the floor must be disposed of immediately. At home, we often allow the five-second rule. Because it hurts a little when I chop a bowl of $6.99/lb organic out-of-season strawberries into bite sizes only to see it be overturned by an excited preschooler. Quick re-rinse, and everything's ok! And we're even more lax with dry foods like crackers. I just don't get paranoid. If the girls realized the illogic, though, they'd be right to question us. They know a professional cleaning crew sanitizes their classrooms every evening. I should probably be more worried about the floors at home. (I'm not, though.) L loves to help with her baby brother's diaper change. She selects which diaper will grace his bottom and she pulls wipes out of the container (one. at. a. time...) and hands them to me for use. She's involved - fantastic! Until it wasn't. As I do most afternoons, I picked the girls up from school and naturally I had their baby brother with me. As I got him out of the car I smelled that distinctive aroma letting me know that his nethers needed attention. This happens a lot at daycare pickup, so much so that I build enough time into being at school to attend to his changing and feeding demands. I use the infant room's changing table and rocking chair. That will be his classroom soon enough, so I figure I'm just giving him a head start on familiar surroundings. And at the end of the day, when the younger kids have all abandoned their classrooms to that noble evening cleaning crew and gathered in E's class to play together, the girls get extra time to run around, so everybody's happy. Except for the other night, when I arrived to find L midst-temper tantrum. She didn't want to play, so she wanted to be my helper with her brother's diaper. And she didn't want to use the infant room, she wanted him to be changed on the table in her room, the two-year-old room, and she didn't want to stand by me as usual, she wanted to climb up on the table with him, because it's her table. She loves that table because it has a pull-out ladder so the kids can climb themselves up to assume the position. She wanted G to climb up, too. She wasn't satisfied with the explanation that he'll have to learn how to sit up before he can climb up. To prove her point, she didn't wait for me as I gathered baby, diaper, wipes. She climbed up and pointed to where I should lay her baby, his diaper, her wipes. As I nakedized his bottom I paid little attention to her actions, assuming she was opening the wipes, as per custom. Instead, to my surprise and dismay, she was donning a pair of the blue latex gloves that her teachers wear when they wipe bottoms. The dancing double standard. I couldn't convince her that she could skip the gloves because it was an inter-family diapering event. And it took forever, because she lacked the coordination to remove the wipes while she wore gloves. So she would remove her glove, remove a wipe, replace her glove; then remove her glove, remove the second wipe, replace her glove. Unfortunately, I needed many, many wipes. Was I entitled to my surprise? Probably not - the girls do love to adhere to the rules they learn. Was I entitled to my dismay? Yes. Those two gloves had already been lying on the table, inside-out, when L climbed up. Those gloves were pre-used. Pin It Nonnash said... Funniest story in a long time! Oh, btw, we (by we I mean G) knocked L's oranges out of the fridge and all over the floor the other day. I started to panic and then I realized they were L', so I shrugged, scooped them back into the container and put them back in the fridge. :) Courtney said... I found your blog today and was amazed by how similar our lives are. I just had baby #3 on February 10th and my oldest daughter turns 4 on Monday :). When is your oldest daughter's birthday. Your son even looks like my son in some of his pics. Pretty funny. Isn't life crazy now? I can't ever get a moment of rest these days :). noteverstill said... Courtney, our oldest turned four on January 26. I love that they'll be so close together as they grow, bit I absolutely empathize-- we're not sleeping much now, either :) MommyWise said... Hilarious! nicely written too

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Game Guys review - Mark of the Ninja 11:16 AM, Sep 26, 2012   |    comments • 'Mark of the Ninja' for Xbox 360. • 'Mark of the Ninja' for Xbox 360. • 'Mark of the Ninja' for Xbox 360. • 'Mark of the Ninja' for Xbox 360. • 'Mark of the Ninja' for Xbox 360. • Share • Print • - A A A + If you were a ninja, what kind of ninja would you be? Would you live in the shadows, using misdirection and stealth to sneak past your enemies undetected? Or would you sarve a path through the night, sneaking up on enemies in order to slaughter them? Whatever your preference, the downloadable stealth title Mark of the Ninja lets you approach the game how you want, in a refreshing change of pace. As you may expect, this game places you in the role of a ninja, seeking revenge for an attack on his dojo. A special tattoo imbues him with enhanced ninja powers, but will slowly drive him into madness as well. The game's story is told though animated cartoon cutscenes, with a style that resembles a children's cartoon, but with a more grim setting to go with it. The story, however, is not as compelling as the excellent gameplay. Mark of the Ninja is a game based entirely upon sounds and shadows. If you want to successfully stealth your way through the game's levels, you'll need to be very careful about staying out of the light and keeping quiet around guards. In an interesting move, the game provides you with a lot of information about your immediate surroundings; a guard's field of vision is made quite clear, as is any region lit up by searchlights, and the world brightens up if you enter the light to indicate how enemies can see you. Sounds are also made very clear to you; whenever you or an enemy make noise, the sound is represented as an expanding circle on the screen. If a noise you make expands to reach an enemy's ears, they are alerted and will start hunting for you. This information is limited to your immediate surroundings, though; if there are any areas or rooms out of your line of sight, they will be blurred and hidden from view, and only occasional footsteps or other sounds will be made clear to you, in a more true-to-life mechanic. Despite all the information you're given about your surroundings, the one thing the game won't tell you is how to beat any of its challenges. Where some other stealth games might lead you right to your intended sneaky path, Mark of the Ninja throws you in headfirst and tells you to have at it, and doesn't care how you get to the end. You're often provided with multiple paths to your destination, with some of them obvious and other ones harder to spot. On top of that, the game lets you choose a pacifist or murderous route to take through the levels; while there is a sizeable "no killing" score bonus at the end, impressive stealth kills are also rewarded. The only thing you really can't do is race through a level setting off all the alarms; you have a very small amount of health, and five quick bullets will end your escapades if you're discovered. Whatever way you play the game, it will be the ninja way. Adding to your freedom are a number of items that will help you in your missions. Darts are a faithful ally, letting you destroy lights, distract guards, disable traps and more, and can be required for some missions. Other items include noise makers, to distract guards, spike mines, which turns careless guards into Swiss cheese, and smoke bombs, which block laser paths and let you make a quick getaway in a tight spot. There are a couple of instances where you are forced to use one or the other, but through most of the game, they let you come up with a number of different strategies on the fly. Many of those strategies might be failing ones, but the punishment for death is not too severe: you just start again from a nearby checkpoint, ready to try a different method. When you do make it past a group of guards, the victory is much more satisfying knowing that you had to come up with a plan yourself, rather than discover the game's predetermined path. The game isn't perfect, however, and some problems arise from time to time. For example, there are multiple different actions assigned to the B button, from hiding to moving bodies to hitting switches; if you're near a body and a switch at the same time, you're not guaranteed to perform the action you intended. Guards will occasionally bug out and not patrol properly, making certain sections impassable. On one occasion, the game's freedom in itself ruined my progress; due to a wonky checkpoint system, I found my character reloading at a checkpoint early in the level, but without any of the items I would have needed to proceed, as I had used them already in going forward, then back. Mark of the Ninja's presentation is very polished. All of the game's graphics have the appearance of hand-drawn cartoons, though it might be Flash-animated in the end. This looks excellent in cutscenes, of course, but also gives the gameplay itself a pleasing visual style. Enemies are distinct, standing out from the background and popping out on the screen. The game's music is rather minimal, letting you focus on the sounds of the environment, but the voice-acting in the game is well done, if not full of standout performances. Guards will mutter to themselves or talk to each other in a conversational way, letting their thoughts be known and letting you know if a guard is on alert or giving up the chase. The game offers plenty of replay value, as well. There are twelve main levels to explore, and while a master could blaze through each one in under ten minutes, a new player could spend thirty minutes or more trying to puzzle their way through. On top of that, you are scored on your performance at the end of each level, with more points being awarded for better ninja skills. You can try for personal bests, or you can compare your scores to those on the leaderboards, and try to become the best ninja on Xbox Live. Any downloadable game that offers ten or more hours of gameplay is a winner, in my book. What distinguishes Mark of the Ninja from other downloadable games is the freedom it gives the player, letting everyone play in the ninja style they choose. The multiple strategies and paths, as well as the blatant lack of hand-holding, make every successful mission feel like a major accomplishment, a feeling that more games need to cultivate. If you're looking for a challenge, an excellent stealth game, or both, Mark of the Ninja is absolutely worth your time and money. Final Game Guys grade: A- (Microsoft provided a copy of this game for review.) - by Jim Avery for's Game Guys Most Watched Videos

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James McAvoy Is Fleming, Ian Fleming The baby-faced Scottish actor James McAvoy ("Atonement," "Chronicles of Narnia") will be starring in an upcoming biopic about the life of Ian Fleming, the man who created James Bond. Pajiba.com notes this puts him out of the running for Bond. But does it? Imagine how crazy and meta that would be: Casting McAvoy as both the character and the man who created him!? Actually, on second thought that seems like a terrible idea. [Pajiba] •Meanwhile, "Salt," a nearly two year-old film starring Angelina Jolie, is slated to be released July 23rd, 2010. Originally called "Edwin A. Salt," the name of the CIA-thriller was changed after Sony couldn't land Tom Cruise to play the male lead. A dozen interns were sad on that day, for their duty was to go through the script and replace every "he" with "she." [Variety] •Audiences said "Nein" to "Nine"! [Disengage Entertainment Weekly writing style.] The Fellini-inspired musical is about one more terrible weekend away from being a certifiable flop. In its second week "Nine" pulled in just $5.5 million despite starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and other famous actors. Probably because it wasn't in 3-D or something. [THR] •Today Variety wonders how much influence critics actually have on the Oscars race. Basically, it comes down to critics' ability to champion smaller movies that might otherwise get overlooked by Oscar voters. Case in point: "The Hurt Locker," which has lots of Oscar buzz thanks, in part, to winning a number of critics awards. [Variety] •USA! USA! USA! USA Networks was number one in cable ratings for the year. The network's two most-watched series—"Royal Pains" and "White Collar"—propelled it to a record 3.27 million viewers in prime-time. Fox news Channel was 4th, effectively killing CNN whose ratings fell off 30% this year. Although to be fair, the CNN new years special with Kathy Griffin, Lance Bass and Anderson Cooper hasn't happened yet. It will be huge. [THR]

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