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Tue April 30, 2013
On California Prisons, It's The Governor Vs. The Courts
Originally published on Tue April 30, 2013 4:32 pm
California Gov. Jerry Brown is locked in a legal battle over control of his state's prison system. Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling ordering the state to drastically reduce its prisoner population. Brown claims the state has made substantial progress, but the governor has stopped short of complying fully with the court order.
There's a long history of legal wrangling over California prisons. A federal court first ruled in the 1990s that mental health and medical care for inmates was so bad that the state's prisons violated constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
In 2011, after more than a decade of court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its prison population to about 110,000 inmates.
"What the court found was that the overcrowding was preventing the prison officials from delivering adequate medical and mental health care to prisoners," says Don Specter, the lead attorney for the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office, a penal reform group.
In its ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court gave California until June of this year to reduce its prisoner population. The state responded by shifting about 25,000 low-level offenders to local county jails in a process called "realignment."
Even so, the state prisons are still about 10,000 prisoners over capacity. And in January, Brown surprised many legal experts by throwing down the gauntlet. He said it was time to end what he called "intrusive federal oversight" of California prisons.
"Our prisons are not overcrowded," he said. "The experts that not only work here in California, but whom we hired to come and look at our system, advise me that our system is meeting the highest standards of health care and mental health care."
Brown said the state already has spent billions of dollars to improve prison conditions and that he can't release the last 10,000 inmates without jeopardizing public safety. He also accused the courts of "nitpicking."
But Brown's defiance got him nowhere. Earlier this month, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled against the governor — in very blunt words. California, it said, is still required to obey the Supreme Court order and "must immediately take all steps necessary to comply."
'Picking A Fight'
The governor's stance has led some legal experts to say Brown is provoking a constitutional crisis reminiscent of the civil rights era.
"The legal arguments that the state is putting forward make no sense," says Barry Krisberg, who teaches law at the University of California, Berkeley. He says it was unlikely that the same appellate court that ordered the state to reduce its prison population would have a change of heart.
"And I don't see what's the logic in picking a fight now, particularly a fight you can't win," he adds.
Indeed, many in California's legal community are scratching their heads at what Brown hopes to accomplish by challenging court orders. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at University of California, Irvine, says Brown is provoking a constitutional crisis.
"I think his defiance of the federal court order requiring the reduction of the California prisoner population is reminiscent of the Southern governors of the 1950s declaring their defiance of federal court desegregation orders," Chemerinsky says. "Both were misguided efforts to undermine enforcement of the Constitution."
And Chemerinsky isn't alone in that assessment. In its ruling against Brown, the appellate court panel also cited the same comparison with Southern governors.
But the Democratic governor shows no sign of backing down, at least not yet. At a victims' rights rally last week, Brown told attendees that this is a fight over public safety.
"I'm working every day trying to figure out how to take this case, which we are losing now, to get in front of the U.S. Supreme Court so we don't have to let out those 10,000 people," he said. "And I pledge to you that I will do everything under the law to achieve that result."
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section, contributor Ed Skoudis explains how an enterprise can prepare for a hacker's detonation.
In investigations conducted by my network forensics consultancy, Intelguardians, we've seen several logic bomb situations in the wild. In one case that combines the above ideas with an interesting and common twist, an administrator set up a logic bomb designed to trigger if he didn't log in for 90 days. The organization had actually fired this admin for other reasons and had removed his access from the system. His logic bomb attack persisted, however, acting as a silent sentinel. After 90 days, the organization was faced with massive data destruction.
To deal with logic bomb attacks, make sure your enterprise employs regular backups that are verified on a consistent basis. Secondly, make sure you have Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) enabled on your routers, which will ensure connectivity even when first-hop routers fail. And, finally, identify the personnel in your management chain who should be informed in the case of extortion threats. Determine these critical decision makers in advance, so that they can be quickly notified if and when such nefarious activity does occur.
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Ed Skoudis is a SANS instructor and a founder and senior security consultant with Intelguardians, a Washington, DC-based information security consulting firm. His expertise includes hacker attacks and defenses, the information security industry and computer privacy issues. In addition to Counter Hack Reloaded, Ed is also the author of Malware: Fighting Malicious Code. He was also awarded 2004, 2005 and 2006 Microsoft MVP awards for Windows Server Security, and is an alumnus of the Honeynet Project. As an expert on SearchSecurity.com, Ed answers your questions related to information security threats.
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an update on my last entry. i am stil alive, and nothing blew up. i really quite unexpectedly met someone. its going great. it seems you allways find what you want when you stop looking for it. i havent been this happy in a while..
choices, choices, so many choices. all apealling, most of them likely to blow up in my face. i really guess i have to pick one, and pick the peices out of me if it goes off.
In other news i had two great days with my friend marybeth. we say a movie (free with gift certs
Today i installed fog lights in my car. it went well, but we had issues finding a hole to run the wire through, and one of the connectors was miss wired.
micro management sucks. The best way to manage is to let people do their thing and to let them do it their way, as long as everything gets done.
im not happy. i used to look forward to going, but now i nearly dread each day, wishing it wouldnt come. i have been repurposed into something i dont like. i have no benifits, no hope for advancement, my only chance is escape.
this lj thing is somewhat addictive.
i have decided to do something productive with the hour or so a day I spend in the car going to and from work. Im going to get a set of cd's, and learn to speak french. i dont really care if i can write in french, if i need to i guess ill just sound it out like i do in english.. perhaps ill add the french dictionary to my mac.. anyway, converstional french will be usefull to have.
i dont know what it is, lately ive been on this big self improvment thing..
Congrats Steve on the baby boy.. its quite scary when your first friend (whos your ageish), has a (semi) planed kid.
imm starting to feel old..
hmmm blogs facinate me. You think you know someone, and then you read their blog. They seem much more eloquint in text then they do in life. i would imagine i sound less inteligent in text, given my lack of capitalization and horendus spelling.
I'm interested in this girl.. ive known her for years, allways had a thing for her. Shes a cutie, and has a great personality, today i casually approched her. next step Coffee.
Ive decided im going to try a take better care of myself. Eating junk food when stressed is a big reason my stomach bugs me. history holds when i kick one habit, another takes its place... I wonder what it will be this time. i also have this urge to get into shape, to loose a bit of this flab i have. i wonder how that will go.
After much pondering i figured it set up a blog. ill use slashdot because im to lazy to set up an account somewhere else, and this is here (kinda like ie in windows)
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This story was produced in partnership with Time.com
In early 1992, a census report predicted that 40 percent of children would soon live in divorced homes. As one of the most famous children’s television programs in the world, Sesame Street was determined to take on a topic most kid’s shows wouldn’t touch. They cast Snuffy, a.k.a. Mr. Snuffleupagus, for the part of child divorcee.
With a team of its best writers, researchers, and producers, a segment was scripted and shot. It went through a half-dozen revisions, with input from the foremost researchers in the field. And on a typical sunny afternoon on Sesame Street, the furry, red, elephantine muppet known as Snuffy prepared to drop the bomb on his loyal preschool viewers.
“My dad is moving out of our cave,” he confides to Big Bird one afternoon, distraught after knocking over a house built of blocks. “I’m not sure where,” he continues, crying. “Some cave across town.”
Big Bird, naturally, is horrified. “But why?” he asks his friend.
Snuffy blinks his long, dark eyelashes, and pauses. We know what’s coming. Well, he explains, “because of something called a divorce.”
You can pretty much guess where it goes from there: Gordon explains why divorces happen. Viewers learn that sometimes divorce can be “for the best.” We are assured that Snuffy and his sister Alice will always be loved. And yet when Sesame Street tested the segment on preschoolers, just weeks before it was scheduled to air, it was nothing short of a disaster. The children didn’t know where Snuffy was going to live. They didn’t think his parents loved him. Some worried their own parents might get a divorce. They cried.
“It was really the first time we’d produced something, put all this money into it, tested it, and it just didn’t work,” says Susan Scheiner, a longtime Sesame researcher, who worked on the segment. “We thought we had it. We thought this was really revolutionary, and then it was just bad.”
Sesame Street killed the show, and for the two decades since, producers have avoided the D-word on air — until now.
For the past two years, a concentrated team of researchers, writers, and producers in the outreach department of Sesame Workshop (the nonprofit that operates Sesame Street) have been working on a new version of that segment, replacing Snuffy with the sparkly pink fairy known as Abby Cadabby (whose parents, we learn, have been divorced for some time). On Tuesday, the Workshop will debut the 13-minute segment online — part of a massive multimedia kit called “Little Children, Big Challenges: Divorce” that includes a storybook (“Two Hug Day”), a guide for parents, and an app, funded as part of a larger initiative geared toward military families. The segment itself won’t air on TV — it’s among Sesame’s “targeted” programming aimed at specific populations — but it will tackle divorce directly, in a way producers hope is accessible, understandable, and, well, not quite so scary.
“We want kids to understand that they’re not alone, and that it’s not their fault,” says Lynn Chwatsky, Sesame’s vice president for outreach, who oversaw the project. “These kids love and adore Abby. So to know that she’s going through something similar to them, something challenging, it’s like, ‘Wow.’ It makes it OK to have a whole range of feelings.”
“Big feelings” is a theme of the video segment, which features Abby, the happy-go-lucky fairy-in-training, at its center. Viewers know little about Abby’s parents up until now, so when she and some friends decide to draw pictures of their homes, Elmo and Rosita are surprised to learn that Abby has not one, but two houses. “This one is where I live with my mommy,” Abby proclaims confidently, holding up her crayon drawing, “and this one is where I live with my daddy.”
The reason? Well, you know the reason. “Divorce means that Abby’s mommy and daddy aren’t married anymore,” Gordon explains.
It’s sweet, and certainly better late than never. Because, while the statistics may be dire — more than a million children have parents who divorce or separate each year; many of those breakups happen in the preschool years — researchers say that resources intended for preschool-aged children are still shockingly scarce. No, children of divorce won’t necessarily be more screwed up than their non-divorced peers, but they can be — if they don’t get the right support from the adults around them. So information for parents and children alike is key.
“I think the biggest challenge for parents is that they are overwhelmed themselves,” says Robert Hughes, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and one of four independent consultants who advised on the project. “So it’s managing their own emotions, and then figuring out how to deal with their children’s emotions. That’s where Sesame Street comes in — it gives you a tool.”
Most viewers may not know it, but Sesame Street was the first show to use empirical research as part of its programming. Now in its 44th season, what that level of research means is that producing shows for Sesame Street can take months, if not years — involving dozens of experts, researchers, and psychologists, as well as impeccably-sourced advisory teams who are asked to serve as critics. Big Bird as political pawn and Elmo sex scandal aside, it’s a model that’s allowed the show to tackle subjects that, as 30-year-Sesame Street veteran Lewis Bernstein puts it, “sometimes you’d think you wouldn’t want to touch with a ten-foot pole”: race, adoption, love, pregnancy, incarceration — even death. When, in the early 1980s, the longtime cast member (Will Lee) who played Mr. Hooper died suddenly, Sesame Street faced up to the change — explaining that Mr. Hooper wouldn’t be returning to the show (or his store). “If we left it unsaid,” the executive producer reasoned at the time, “kids would notice.”
Last month, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the show re-aired an episode in which Big Bird’s nest is devastated by a storm. “A lot of people want to shield kids from the tougher issues,” says Chrissy Ferraro, a writer on the show. “My feeling is, the more information the kid has, the better.”
And divorce? Sure, it will probably alarm some parents to see muppets talking about such an emotional minefield. Studies on the benefits of Sesame Street could fill a bookshelf, and yet the show has always faced criticism, over everything from Cookie Monster’s pipe smoking (ah, the early days) to Oscar the Grouch’s mood swings (yes) to Abby herself, who — when she became the first female muppet to join the show in a decade, in 2006 — some believed was too “pink.”
But these days, divorce is simply a reality — “a fact of American life,” as one dad involved in the project put it — and continuing to ignore it would be a conspicuous omission. And so, two decades post-Snuffy debacle, the outreach team eagerly took a second crack at the topic. Admittedly, it wasn’t simple. Researchers wondered which muppet had the best personality for the role, and what kind of vocabulary would be best to get the message across. While the goals were simple — help kids understand that divorce is never their fault, that mom and dad will still love them — accomplishing them was another story. “TV can be a very impressive teacher — if it’s done correctly,” says Dorothy Singer, the cofounder, with her husband, of the Family Television Research Center at Yale. Of course, there’s lots to it: “Pacing is important, repetition is important, the clarification of ideas is important.”
First, of course, there was the character to think about. Had Snuffy’s demeanor made him a more somber force? He’s got those big eyes, that deep voice, those long, weepy eyelashes. Would a pink, bubbly fairy be a better match for such a serious topic?
Then there was the crucial distinction of timing: Snuffy had experienced his divorce in the present; he was upset, angry, crying. His emotions were raw. But Abby would reveal her story as something that happened in the past — an important distinction, say researchers, to show kids that she’s made it to the other side.
But perhaps the most critical difference had to do with audience: targeting only the kids who are experiencing a divorce, or whose parents wanted to make the point of downloading the content. In other words, there would be no divorce segment catapulting into your living room unannounced. Sesame Street almost made that mistake before. But then, in 1992, there was no alternative online method for targeted or voluntary delivery of the segment, as opposed to broadcast.
The initiative will be available this week, and yet in testing programs this past March, kids seemed to get it. Huddled into conference rooms at Sesame Street’s midtown New York headquarters, preschoolers were broken into small groups, accompanied by a parent who’d viewed the DVD already. Each parent in the room was either divorced or separated.
This time, there was no crying. The kids knew exactly where Abby lived. They smiled. As Gordon and Abby sign off with a duet — repeating, again and again, “They live in different places but they both love me” — kids hummed along.
“It’s not her fault,” one 7-year-old offered.
“It made me feel happy, because Abby told Gordon a lot of her mixed feelings,” said another.
It’s wasn’t magic, exactly — but it felt like it had the blessing of a certain pink fairy.
”This isn’t an easy topic, but that’s the beauty of muppets,” says Chwatsky. “They can do things that even some grownups can’t.”
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NEW YORK – United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens today announced his retirement from the Court after serving for 35 years.
The following can be attributed to Steven R. Shapiro, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union:
"The nation owes Justice John Paul Stevens its deep gratitude for 35 years of distinguished service on the United States Supreme Court. Justice Stevens was widely perceived as a maverick during his early years on the Court and just as widely acknowledged as a master tactician during the latter stages of his career. From beginning to end, however, Justice Stevens has been an independent thinker who has been fiercely committed to the rule of the law and the Court's role in preserving it. Without his leadership, the Bush administration might well have succeeded in its effort to deprive Guantánamo detainees of any rights and any access to U.S. courts.
"The civil liberties legacy of Justice Stevens is deep and broad. He has promoted racial equality, supported gay rights and defended a woman's right to choose. He wrote the first decision recognizing free speech rights on the Internet and just a few years ago concluded that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
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Swaminarayan Akshardham, Delhi, India • 360° Aerial Panorama
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As you might know, almost all followers of Hinduism live in India, and no wonder the world's largest Hindu temple is situated in the capital of India.
Speaking of Delhi landmarks, one would traditionally mention Red Fort, Qutub Minar, and India Gate on Kingsway. So how come Swaminarayan Akshardham (which means "temple of the God"), a magnificent and beautiful temple, is not so famous? The answer is simple: it is very "young".
It was opened in 2005. The construction took over 5 years and involved 7 thousand artisans and 3 thousand construction workers from all over India. Their combined efforts gave birth to a building 42 meters high, 94 meters wide, and 106 meters long. The structure of Akshardham consists of 234 pillars, 9 shiny domes, 20 four-sided towers, and over 20 thousand figurines depicting themes from Indian mythology. There are over 148 statues of an elephant alone!
All the facing was done by hand. Outer surface of the temple is faced with pink sandstone, while the inner surface is faced with white marble. In India, pink color symbolizes love for God, and white color symbolizes absolute purity and peace.
Thanks to its enormous size the temple is included in the Guinness Book of World Records. The temple complex takes up 12 hectares of land and includes the temple itself, several parks, a museum, a large cultural center where one can learn about Indian traditions and customs, water canals, which you can traverse by boats, and lots of cafes and souvenir shops.
Every evening there is a laser show with dancing fountains on Swaminarayan Akshardham grounds. The fountains are built in the form of a lotus placed inside a large bowl-shaped basin. The inner side of the basin serves as steps and benches for thousands of viewers.
Construction of this beautiful site was funded by donations and done through a spirit of volunterism. In order to fill in all man-made lakes and canals surrounding the temple required huge supply of water from 151 ponds around the country. In a country, where clean water is as precious as gold, it was quite a generous donation as well.
Let's take a moment and listen to Stas Sedov's story about the photo shoot.
During last days of our trip across India we planned to shoot several sights in the capital of the country: Red Fort, Qutub Minar, and others. We didn't plan to photograph Swaminarayan Akshardham. We knew that we couldn't even bring a cell phone inside the temple, not to mention other heavy photo equipment. However, our success in Taj Mahal encouraged us to request a photo permit for Swaminarayan Akshardham.
When we entered the temple first time we had only one document in our hands: photography permit for Delhi and Taj Mahal. At the time we were not sure what to expect, but we decided to take our chances anyway. Even if we failed with a permit, at least we would see a new wonder of the world.
The next thing we know, we are talking to the middle-age man from the local administration. It's hard to remember what exactly we were talking about, but we got him interested in our project. At the moment he didn't give us a definite answer. But he did ask us to give him time to see if it was possible to get permit for aerial photography. Meanwhile he assigned a guide to give us a half-hour tour around museums and the temple grounds.
To tell you the truth, I didn't know of Swaminarayan Akshardham existence. For me it was just another Indian temple. But that was before I entered its premises...
Usually, at the end of every trip, when almost every day you see wonders of nature and artisan masterpieces, your emotions get "washed out". It is very unlikely that something would be able to surprise you. But this was an exception! To say that I was surprised is to say nothing! I was smitten by the grandeur of the idea and its magnificent implementation in stone. It's hard to describe the range of feelings you experience while walking the grounds of Swaminarayan Akshardham. You feel harmony, tranquility, and strength of your spirit. The only time I experienced something similar was during my visit to the Meteora monasteries in Greece.
Our guide told us that the temple has no iron elements in its structure, and no cement. The concrete was used only in the foundation. The rest was made of stone. Marble and granite for the construction was delivered from all over the world. It was processed using special technology, and then joint together. All pillars of the temple are stacked, and all stone elements are turned 90 degrees after being connected. It was done to provide seismic resistance in case of earthquakes, which sometimes happen in India. Imagine the level of precision required for stone processing to assemble this big "puzzle".
Beside the buildings' structure, wall facing is quite impressive: stone figurines cover the walls all around! The size of the carvings ranges greatly: from actual size to palm size, but even the smallest figurines have the highest level of detail.
The time of our excursion flew by. I was heading toward the exit, but felt confident that we would be back here.
We were called the following evening and granted the permit to photograph Swaminarayan Akshardham. Our first photo session was scheduled early in the morning, just before the site opens for tourists. Pigeons, flying in the morning sky, quickly welcomed our RC helicopter to their flock.
It was the most comfortable photo session we had in India: both by the atmosphere and the working process. Everything indeed went very smoothly. The temple security arranged an area for us in the center of the alley for the night shooting. The temple lighting was switched on 15 minutes earlier than usual especially for our photo shoot. We just couldn't do a bad job in these perfect conditions.
Leaving premises I realized that I had just completed my most important photo shoot in India. It wasn't Taj Mahal that won me over in this extraordinary and amazing country, but Swaminarayan Akshardham! I truly hope to return to this temple one more time someday.
nikunjnik's shingala, India
"I did not know about this temple. It is magnificent and I hope to visit it some day. Thanks!"
Birgit Blume, Germany
C D PATEL, India
Pravinbhai Thaker, India
Nitin Thacker CA, India
"I hope to visit this TEMPLE one day. What a marvel? Only unique foresight, planning and will of God can enable one to build such a unique structure. Jai Swaminarian to everyone"
Praful Rughani, United Kingdom
"Probably best place to visit and see Indian artitechture, it is amazing"
Ghanshyam Patel, United Kingdom
ANIL UPADHYE, India
"Maybe the best place on earth."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Iran
مجمد فرخی, Iran
"There is no doubt that Akshardham temple is now identity for Delhi. Delhi missed its spiritual soul for over 900 years and now with Akshardham temple the 'REAL SOUL' of Delhi-Sanatan Dharma is ever impressive and divine. Congratulations to AIRPANO team that you have truly captured the architectural SOUL of Akshardham temple... Amazing...Captivating...Art in its best form and technology..."
Praful Jethwa, Australia
"Vary nice many thanks"
Harshad Patel, United Kingdom
""I just visited Swaminarayan Akshardham temple (DELHI,INDIA) in May 2007. I love that! Must visit again!" "8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD""
JOÃO JOSÉ BRÍGIDA, Portugal
nishith chauhan, India
"""Really, BAPS Swaminarayan Temple is great, Even I am living here in India but, I didn't see it, but because of this panorama I amazed the great temple.., And a amazing photography with its bested photographer""
Rushiraj Gadhavi, India
"Wonderful, Never seen such a beautiful monument Delhi should be proud of this wonderful creation."
jayantilal Amin, United Kingdom
"i like Swaminarayan Akshardham is a so big and so good i coming india and i am go to"
Jatin patel, USA
"it was so beautiful i cried"
patricia towner, United Kingdom
"This is the wonderfull place in the world...I'm proud to be a''BAPS''"
Saiyam Patel, India
"Fabulous & wonderful job done by airpano.com team, Genuinely this website is mind-blowing. It is true that we can pass our whole time without blinking eyes.I really appreciate for this, awesome."
Prajwal Sah, Nepal
"magnificent and wonderful monument by the Hindu devotees by self-help post independence."
chandra shekhar, India
VINEETH kunnath, India
"I and my wife, Krishna, visited this marvellous piece of art and architecture and were immensely pleased and paid great tributes to Hindu History, our ancestors and the whole Hindu community at large. It is now the first and foremost hallmark of our capital city. thanks who made it."
Basheshar Nath BHANOT, United Kingdom
"Divine Inspiration, Amazing work and Creating Wonders.. Thanks Airpano.ru too."
Akshay Raval, India
"Akshardham Temple has remarkably revived the ancient Hindu Art, Spirituality & Architecture with this magnificent, beautiful, grand and marvelous temple in Delhi..."
Aditya Agnihotri, India
"Overall very nice pan aroma except those birds,by the way how was your experience in the exhibitions?"
Jimmy Thomas, India
"I have visited akshardham twice,the place is truely divine,peace prevails in this place,you will find peace here-a must visit place...."
Neesha patel, India
"Wow......!!! It's miracle . It is world best structural engineering. I am proud to be an INDIAN and HINDU. this type of 'DHAM' never bild in the world without pramukhswami maharaj."
ravi gohel, India
"Akshrdham-"Emrald set in Pearls""
DrDevendra V Shukla, India
"JAI PRAMUKH SWAMIJI TO: PUJYA PRAMUKH SWAMIJI BAPA FOR HIS IMAGINATION OF EXCELLENT REMARKABLE MASTERPIECE WORK AND AUSPICIOUS MONUMENTAL OF HEAVENLY CHOICE OF AKSHARDHAM AT NEW DELHI INDIA REGARDS ASHOKPATEL, JYOTI AND FAMILY HOUSTON -TEXAS USA-77034"
ASHOK PATEL, USA
"I wished i could stay the whole day in this temple. I went in February. The cool breeze and sun set image. There is no words to decribe the feeling inside. I cannot wait to visit this place again with my friends and family .. They should allow ppl to bring books and write or study here.. the air has special powers."
Vinothini Kasinathan, Malaysia
"Amazing architecture ... Wonderful monument .. World class exhibition and musical fountain ...must see monument ..."
Saurabh Vaghela, India
"excellent creation of pramukhswami maharaj."
Dikesh patel, India
"NEVER BEFORE NEVER AGAIN"
N.V.S.KRISHNA RAO, India
"A very good example of MANAGEMENT in this world.Which is possible because of mu guru " PRAMUKH SWAMI MAHARAJ "...I proud to be a part of " BAPS ""
Kamal Vaja, India
"Jay Swaminarayn to BAPS AND PRAGAT BHARM SAVARUP PRAMUKHSWAMI MAHARAJ.It very very very good work for world its way for take MOX."
Nirav Gajjar, India
"Akshardham is a heaven on the earth."
Nishi Jalota, India
"It is the brightning sun among the world's famous buildings stars."
Arjun Mistry, India
"Jay Swaminarayana ! The search of PEACE with PURITY is now completed. We are lucky to have such pios dham in INDIA."
Rajiv Vaidya, India
"One should never miss the opportunity of visiting Akshardham..its Heavenly place."
Sowmya Karamcheti, India
"every person in the world should visit "akshardham" once in their life... otherwise they miss great opportunity too feel peace & thruth of life..."
jaykishan patel, India
"Feeling proud to be Indian & BAPS Swaminarayan........... No words to say....... Just Amazing , Jay Swaminarayan"
Hardik Dave, India
"Em Abril de 2006 visitei este suberbo, magnífico e maravilhoso templo. Todo aquele trabalho em mármore branco e rosa e ouro ... magnífico.No meu entender, deverá ser incluido nas melhores maravilhas do Mundo. Parabéns India. Parabens Akshardham. Repito ...LINDO, LINDO, LINDO"
JOÃO JOSÉ BRÍGIDA, Portugal
"I visited Swaminarayan Akshardham temple in Aug 2012, it is amazing! Must visit again!"
Naseer Thodi, India
"I have visited, amaging, like to visit again n again. Seen with ground level only but when saw with aerial eyes its beautyfull."
Dinesh Pancholi, India
"Speechless !!!!!!!!!!! No words to describe !!!!!"
Manish Bhavsar, India
""WOW" "8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD" ..."
Akash Patel, India
"Amazing wonder, a source of divine inspirations for all times; Thanks to Pramukhswami Maharaj for giving such a divine gift to the society..."
Rajendra Sarvaiya, India
"This is one of the man made wonders on this beautiful Earth."
Vinod Maisuria, Canada
"the creation is very good, pramukhaswami is great architectural."
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2013 Best New Board Technology
New tech doesn’t always mean it’s the next best thing to hit the market, sometimes it’s just great marketing poised to make you believe it’s great. For 2013 some companies braved the conventional norms of snowboard building to create something new and innovative. Being skeptical of anything revolutionary I sat around poking and prodding these boards before strapping them to my feet and sliding sideways for the final practical exam.
2013 presented itself with four amazing new technologies from four varying brands: Flow, Echelon, SIMS, and Contract. Each tech is unique to the brand or the respective designer(s) and provides a function to improve riding. Choosing the order to which these stick out as being the most innovative was a daunting task but much like The Highlander there could only be 1, at least as the best.
SIMS has a huge legacy in snowboarding and although they’ve somewhat fallen by the wayside over the course of the last decade that doesn’t mean they aren’t working on new technology that is beneficial to all kinds of riders. Enter their X-Wedge featuring E-Board™ Technology which integrates a 2.5 degree ergonomic canting into the board but doesn’t sacrifice feel or board flex. Having knee problems and knowing how canting in my binding as well as the footbed of my boot benefits me as a rider this only seemed natural to step on. I’m a huge advocate of canting and believe in the future everyone will be riding with some form or another of it whether it’s in the board, boot, or binding. Because of this and how the X-Wedge tech made this board feel I had to give it top honors. Here’s a review of the tech in action on the E Board.
If you’re not from Poland or even Europe you have probably never heard of Contract Snowboards. This company first caught my attention about two years ago and it wasn’t because they were from Poland but it was their 3D Snake Transition Technology. The idea that a board could essentially be pressed with three camber zones between the feet to act as a spring was intriguing. It made total sense that it would allow you to load up and spring in and out of carves, but I was more worried about how it would lock into a boardslide in the park. After riding their park board The Circus that worry was washed away. The level of snap on edge is unparalleled by anything I’ve ridden. This adds to the control factor allowing you to slingshot back and forth through hard carves.
The third stand out isn’t an unfamiliar face to snowboarding. If anyone remembers Omatic snowboards BS Technology then Echelon’s True3D and Lite3D base profile should look surprisingly familiar. Same technology different name although they Echelon did add its own ideas into it. The Lite3D was theirs as well as having it put on camber. I still occasionally bust out my Omatic Extr-Eco from time to time and thought that BS Technology was lost until Echelon was able to snag up board designer Jason Kanes and get a license on this. I’m a firm believer in this tech as you can have razor sharp edges but not have to worry about them hanging up on jibs. It also helps in edge control.
The final best new piece of tech comes from Flow in the form of tit implants in the board or A.B.T (Augmented Base Technology). Well not exactly tit implants but more of a silicone dampening built into the core. While I only got to ride this on the Rush and I didn’t think it stood out as something that worked super well I witnessed first hand up at Mt. Hood this spring one of their regional riders do a double wildcat that came up short causing the board to snap. Had this board been built with just a traditional wood core and nothing else I’m pretty sure I would have been carting his ass to the hospital, instead the A.B.T. allowed him to ride it out and absorb most of the impact causing less fatigue and stress to his body. Granted the board broke but the rider didn’t and honestly that’s better than destroying yourself and the equipment. From my personal experience riding it and seeing it in action I think another season of tweaking and the guys at Flow will have it dialed in to where it needs to be.
In a nutshell these are the four biggest things that stood out to me as being progressive for the technical side of snowboarding and changing the way boards ride and are built. Everything in this article serves a purpose, mainly to make snowboarding better for you guys and you can’t fault any company for doing that. Keep an eye out for our Best Good Platinum Test Award Picks for the boards we rode this season coming soon. | <urn:uuid:05490832-972d-4413-ac1b-d8cc69ddaabf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.angrysnowboarder.com/2013-best-new-board-technology/comment-page-1/ | 2013-06-18T22:32:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968266 | 1,024 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Sunday, January 6th 2013
Just a few hours ago a mysterious Twitter account by the name of 3rdEyeGirl popped up, bringing with it a string of cryptic messages and links to a few curious Prince-related items.
Two of the links were remixes of a pair of Prince tracks — his latest single Rock and Roll Love Affair and interestingly, a fantastic extended version of Laydown, originally from his 20Ten LP.
The next link contained a rehearsal video of Bambi, originally from Prince’s 1979 self-titled record. The performance is recent, featuring a stripped down version of the Prince’s New Power Generation band with Hannah Ford on drums, Ida Nielsen on bass and NPG-newcomer Donna Grantis on guitar. Prince is shown wearing shades and a hoodie while busting out some fiery guitar licks, definitely more rocking than most of his recent-ish output.
Yet another link revealed a brand new song called Same Page Different Book, a fairly funky track discussing Prince’s favorite thing — religion. It’s… well, it’s Prince.
It’s hard to tell if the 3rdEyeGirl account is some weird marketing attempt by Prince’s team or someone who got their hands on some unreleased material via other means, but either way you can check out the songs/rehearsal video below.
Thanks to Dr. Funkenberry for the heads up.
Same Page Different Book:
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Knight Capital Group Inc. (KCG) capped its biggest rally in nine years after getting takeover offers from Getco LLC and Virtu Financial LLC, setting up a bidding war that may end its 17-year history as an independent company.
Getco’s cash and stock offer values Knight at $3.50 a share, an 18 percent premium from the Nov. 27 close, and retains its public listing, according to a filing yesterday from the Chicago-based high-frequency trader. Virtu submitted a bid to buy Knight for about $3 a share, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. Another person familiar said the company’s offer was made yesterday. Knight was bailed out by six financial companies in August after losing more than $450 million in a trading malfunction.
The offers represent divergent structures (KCG) for the surviving company and will force Knight’s board to choose between immediate cash and a value ascribed in part by the stock market’s view of Getco. Shares of the Jersey City, New Jersey- based market maker rose 15 percent to $3.42 yesterday, bringing its three-day rally to 37 percent, the most since July 2003.
“If you’re involved in a share deal, then you’re betting that their market is going to continue to grow and there is an upside after the deal, whereas in a cash-only deal the upside is you’re taking cash, and cash now,” said Sang Lee, managing partner at Boston-based Aite Group LLC, in a phone interview. “It really depends on how the shareholders look at the market that all these firms are in.”
Virtu, Getco and Knight are automated market makers. While Getco and Virtu operate across asset classes mainly on exchanges and similar platforms around the world, Knight focuses on U.S. equities. It’s also a wholesale market maker that services hundreds of retail brokers including Fidelity Investments and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (AMTD) by executing buy and sell orders for individuals. Neither Getco nor New York-based Virtu is in that business.
Knight slipped 3.8 percent to $3.29 as of 9:42 a.m. in New York. Volume for the company was 47.3 million shares yesterday, more than 18 times its three-month daily average of 2.58 million shares through Nov. 23, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Knight declined to comment on Getco’s proposal, citing a policy to not discuss shareholder activities, according to a statement from the company. Doug Cifu, president and chief operating officer of New York-based Virtu, declined to comment.
Under Getco’s proposal, its chief executive officer, Daniel Coleman, would head the new company and Knight CEO Thomas Joyce would be non-executive chairman. The offer is a 41 percent premium to the stock’s closing price on Nov. 23, the filing said.
Getco is proposing a two-step reverse merger in which Knight would be reorganized as a holding company with Getco receiving 242 million newly issued shares and warrants to buy 69 million more. The company would make a tender offer for up to 154 million Knight shares -- about half those outstanding, excluding Getco’s current stake -- at $3.50, or about $539 million. Getco’s existing stake in Knight, about 57 million shares, would be retired.
“They think there’s long-term value in the company because they’re making a bid and because of how the warrants are structured,” Keith Ross, CEO of PDQ enterprises LLC, a Chicago- based dark pool operator, said in a phone interview. He was head of Getco from 2002 to 2005. “The warrants give them an incentive to help the company be profitable. This is an additional carrot.”
Two people said automated market-maker Virtu plans to assert in talks with Knight that the offer is more attractive than the bid announced yesterday by Getco because it is for all of Knight’s shares and is more likely to be completed, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The proposal would be financed by capital contributed by Silver Lake Management LLC, which owns a stake in Virtu, other private equity firms and individuals, and a loan commitment of at least $1 billion led by Credit Suisse Group AG, another person said. All three spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
“An all-cash offer is going to trump mixed consideration, but we still don’t know where Virtu’s offer is going to be exactly above $3, while we know that Getco is at $3.50,” Sachin Shah, a special situations and merger arbitrage strategist at Tullett Prebon Americas Corp. in Jersey City, said in a phone interview. “The board will have to evaluate the merits of each offer and it may be looking for more from a white knight or from these two bidders.”
Knight shares were above $10 prior to the trading malfunction and bailout, which diluted existing owners by more than 70 percent. The company dodged bankruptcy almost four months ago when six financial firms, including Getco, provided $400 million to restore the company’s capital after the trading malfunction, when incorrectly installed software caused it to bombard U.S. exchanges with unintended orders.
“What happened with Knight made them more of a takeover target than other firms,” Adam Sussman, partner and director of research and Tabb Group LLC in New York, said in a phone interview. “It makes sense for the industry and the company. There’s an oversupply of capacity whether it’s on the market- making, execution or research side.”
Getco’s offer would result in no shareholder (KCG) owning more than 20 percent of the combined company and most large shareholders would be under 10 percent, according to the filing today. The board of the combined company would include four directors nominated by former Getco shareholders and three directors currently on Knight’s board. Getco said it has lined up $950 million in financing for the deal.
The ultimate value in combining Knight and Getco will depend in part on whether the shares trade at a discount or premium to their book value, which Getco estimated at $3.50, Christopher Allen, an analyst at Evercore Partners Inc. (EVR) in New York, said in a phone interview.
“What it would trade at post-bid is hard to say because we don’t know what Getco’s financials look like,” Allen said. “You’d have to know more about Getco’s profitability, risk profile, volatility of earnings and balance sheet before you could say whether they’d trade at a premium or discount.”
Knight has transformed over the last decade from mainly handling orders from individuals sent by brokers into a financial services company with institutional clients, electronic trading and businesses in fixed income and currency. It owns the Hotspot FX and BondPoint platforms, provides research and asset management and got into the reverse mortgage business in 2010. Knight had more than 1,545 employees at the end of September, it said in a regulatory filing.
In an Aug. 6 interview, Getco’s Coleman said Knight’s disappearance wouldn’t have yielded a “better world” for Getco. Without Knight’s ability to provide liquidity, “it would be more expensive for everyone to trade,” he said in a phone interview.
“In some ways Knight’s a competitor, in some ways they’re a client, in some ways we’re their client,” Coleman said. “But at the end of the day the liquidity they provide and I think the liquidity we provide probably makes both of us better. This is in our strategic interest to make sure Knight stays viable.”
Along with Getco, founded in 1999, the firms that provided capital to Knight in August included Blackstone Group LP, brokerages Stifel Nicolaus & Co. and Ameritrade and investment banks Stephens Inc. and Jefferies Group Inc. (JEF) Virtu does not have a stake in the company.
Jefferies profit from its stake in Knight may be pushed to $160 million based on the valuation Getco is proposing and $120 million for Virtu’s $3 a share bid. The firm acquired convertible preferred securities that were swapped for about 81 million common shares of Knight for $1.50 each.
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The Lassen Hotshots were formed in
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Wallace was named the first superintendent of the Lassen Hotshots.
Don ran the crew until 1977, at which time Joe Carvelo took over.
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countless crewmembers. Many of these hotshots returned to honor Jaime
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Don Wallace –1974 to 1977
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Stan Kubota – 1997 (detailed)
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Mike Sherman - 2007 (detailed)
Allen Schultze - 2008 (detail)
Fred Brewster - 2009 to Present
Former crew captains include: Joe Carvelho, Scott Vail, Rick Addy, Rod Vineyard, Tommy Tucker, Dave Sandbrook, Bob Edwards, George Schwerian,
Bill Walker, Rocky Tow, Larry Vogan, Dave Ramirez, Kelley Jones, Bob Richardson, Paul Johnson, John Bristow, Chuck Lewis, Mike Sherman, Robert Moreno,
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With five years gone and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners released, Israel's hostage crisis has finally come to an end. Gilad Shalit is free. So is the more violent portion of 1,027 prisoners who will eventually be turned over by Israel 477 Palestinians responsible for the murder of 588 Israelis, mostly civilians.
Despite the many words dedicated to coverage and analysis of the prisoner exchange, the news media has generally overlooked the fact that Hamas had held Shalit in violation of international law, out of contact with his family and out of reach of Red Cross representatives.
The New York Times goes even further in its online article today. Not only does the newspaper omit the context of Hamas's mistreatment of its hostage; it also allows a Hamas spokesman to claim that Shalit was treated well, in contrast with Israel's supposed mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners. The allegation is featured prominently in paragraph seven of the story by Ethan Bronner and Stephen Farrell:
[Hamas spokesman] Abu Obaida ... said that Hamas treated Sergeant Shalit according to the Islamic morals, while Israel deliberately dealt with our prisoners with torture, compulsion and revenge. (Accessed 10/18 at 4:30pm)
If readers are exposed to this dubious claim, surely they deserve to be informed immediately that the conditions of Shalit's imprisonment were deemed by the International Committee of the Red Cross, and even human rights organizations generally hostile to Israel, to be in violation of international law. The ICRC noted that "Hamas, by not allowing contact between Mr Shalit and his family, was violating international humanitarian law." Human Rights Watch, a routine critic of Israel, said the conditions of his detention were "cruel and inhuman" and added that "the prolonged incommunicado detention ... may amount to torture." And B'tselem charged Hamas with a "war crime" for holding Shalit as a hostage.
But the New York Times ignores these assertions, which cast serious doubt on the Hamas spokesman's claim. And while it would have been easy to find an Israeli spokesperson who agrees with the ICRC, the reporters didn't bother to secure a quote from Israel on the subject.
It's not that the Times has a policy of allowing one side's claims to go unrebutted. Here, for example, is how the newspaper in July covered Israel's charge that a prominent Hamas member was involved in a planned flotilla to Gaza:
On Friday, the Israeli Army told journalists that Tarek Hamud, 32, a son-in-law of Khaled Meshal, the Damascus-based head of Hamas, was with the flotilla in Athens, playing a leading role in its organization. Mr. Hamud leads the Palestinian Association of Hamas, according to Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman.
Flotilla activists denied any links to radical or terrorist organizations and said they had never even heard of Mr. Hamud. Izzat al-Risheq, a spokesman for Hamas in Damascus, said Mr. Hamud ''has nothing to do with the flotilla in any way. He is in his house right now in Damascus. This is a lie by the Israeli Army aimed at getting people to oppose this humane mission.''
Hamas denies having any role in the flotilla. ("As Flotilla's Problems Mount, Activists See Hand of Israel," 7/2/2011)
Also disturbing was the reporters' reference to an Egyptian television interview with Shalit prior to his return to Israeli custody, a grilling he was apparantly forced to endure. Before quoting from the interview, Bronner and Farrell introduce it as follows:
Sergeant Shalit, the first captive Israeli soldier returned home alive in 26 years, was unexpectedly interviewed on Egyptian television before being handed over to Israel. Sitting in a blue checked shirt and speaking Hebrew, he smiled and reflected on the questions before answering them.
The New York Times reporters don't bother to mention that, as the Associate Press explains, "Hamas militants were in the area as the interview was being set up. One of them stood behind Schalit's chair, wearing a black face mask, a green headband of the Qassam brigades Hamas' military wing and filming with a video camera in his hand."
Even more outrageous is the report's sketch of a seemingly serene Shalit, who "smiled and reflected" on questions that in reality were surely emotionally jarring.
The Associated Press describes it differently: "A gaunt, pale and uncomfortable looking Schalit appeared to struggle to speak at points during the appearance on Egyptian state TV, and his breathing was noticeably labored as he awkwardly answered questions." At one point, "Schalit gasped for air, [and] the handler suggested halting the interview because Schalit wasn't feeling well." A separate report by another New York Times reporter notes that during the interview Shalit "struggled frequently, his gaunt face lolling from side to side."
Video of the Shalit interview corroborates the these other accounts.
The outrageous claims by the Hamas spokesman, and by the reporters themselves, yet again lead readers astray about Israel and its realities.
The print copy of the newspaper's Shalit coverage, published after CAMERA contacted New York Times reporters and editors about the problems in the previous day's online story, was considerably improved. The report acknowledges that Hamas stands accused of mistreating Shalit, and tells readers he was denied Red Cross visits. Instead of describing a smiling Gilad Shalit, it now describes the interview with Egyptian television as "uncomfortable."
But the original article, which countless readers were exposed to yesterday, remains online unchanged. And the question remains: How could the newspaper in the first place publish the piece as it was originally reported, and what motivated the reporters to falsely cast the Shalit interview as a serene affair and promote unchallenged Hamas allegations against Israel? | <urn:uuid:a71fa8dc-01ff-4cc2-9ba2-721bcb46c193> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=35&x_article=2135 | 2013-06-18T22:57:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971262 | 1,214 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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ClearConnex adds the LS Research ZigBee Plus Expansion Card to its product roster. Starting ahead is now in the cards like never before.
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, January 26, 2012 — In yet another profound advancement of its start ahead, finish ahead philosophy, Research Triangle Park-based ClearConnex, an innovative embedded wireless engineering firm, is pleased to announce the addition of the ZigBee Plus Expansion Cardto its quickly growing roster of products.
The card was developed in strategic partnership with Cedarburg, Wisconsin-based LS Research (LSR), a leader in local area wireless product development, certification and manufacturing and a trusted ClearConnex partner in local wireless. Like all ClearConnex Plus Expansion Cards, the ZigBee Plus Card can be added to expand off the shelf modem capabilities with virtually no application or hardware development time.
Compatibility is critical.
Compatible off the shelf wireless modems include Sierra Wireless Fastrack, Maestro Heritage and Xact Trax. ClearConnex's ClearComm software will include support for the card as well. Other ClearConnex expansion cards include the GPS Plus Card II. Plus Expansion Cards are available for license or quote now.
Strategic partnerships are key.
Ryan Rangel, ClearConnex CEO, "Working with LS Research on the development of the ZigBee Plus Expansion Card was extremely productive. I appreciate the local area wireless expertise they bring to the table. It's a perfect complement to our wide area wireless expertise. This synergy has combined to produce an exceptional expansion card.
I can see that LS Research will be an invaluable strategic partner with us on many card and module projects to come. Developing customizable building blocks with them to increase our start ahead capabilities is just good business."
At your service. To finish ahead.
Rangel adds, "The design is an example of a customizable building block to start hardware projects ahead. On one hand, we can take off-the-shelf modems and expand its capabilities to include new functionality, like ZigBee. Or, the functionality of this card can be integrated into a fully custom design.
In fact, with our design services we could add new functionality to any expandable platform and have a custom device at a fraction of the development costs of a fully customized device that was made from scratch. A great example of our start ahead, finish ahead philosophy."
Starting ahead is practical.
LSR President Bill Steinike agrees. "This ZigBee Plus Card turns regular off the shelf wireless modems into a ZigBee-to-cellular gateway and is a great complement to our ModFLEX product line, including our soon-to-be announced USB to ZigBee/802.15.4 and Ethernet to ZigBee/802.15.4 gateways. It's a great way to increase modem functionality without reinventing the wheel."
Added Theresa Benson, LSR's Business Development Director, "This is just the beginning of how we can expand off the shelf modems with new wireless capabilities. We have a family of Wi-Fi modules, TiWi™, that we're looking forward to working with ClearConnex on in the near future. Our relationship promises to be a 'start ahead, finish ahead' effort."
About LS Research
LS Research is a premier wireless product development company specializing in RF design. Our design services include hardware and software development, antenna design, CAD and layout. We also provide EMC certification services, and sell both catalog and custom-developed RF modules. LSR is at the forefront of the latest wireless technologies including Wi-Fi, RFID, MICS, NFC, Bluetooth, BLE, ANT+, 802.15.4, and ZigBee. We have developed a long history of helping Fortune 500 companies and startups with new product development. LS Research is the only wireless product development firm with turnkey design service, modules, and an on-site IEC 17025-approved test facility for all your testing and certification needs, including EMC scanning, ETSI testing, and FCC and IC certification.
RTP North Carolina-based ClearConnex specializes in finishing any wireless device project ahead with expert engineering services that build upon innovative product platforms. To start projects ahead, ClearConnex provides a proven set of licensable software and hardware products as customizable building blocks. This approach combines the flexibility and functionality of custom development with the cost effectiveness of an off-the-shelf solution-an industry first.
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Fitness, or cardio, boxing is derived from the sport of boxing and implemented into an individual or group exercise program. Cardio kickboxing has become a very popular group fitness class and can be found in just about any health or fitness club today.
Cardio kickboxing incorporates total body cardiovascular training with sport-specific techniques with or without equipment. An hour of cardio kickboxing can burn, on average, around 1,000 calories. Be sure to contact your physician before participating in a cardio kickboxing class, especially if you have limitations or high risk factors such as high blood pressure or cholesterol, family history of heart disease, age, and certain body weight.
Shadow boxing is a popular workout tool as well. I use this form of exercise almost every session with my clients, and they seem to love every second of it. I use a series of jabs, hooks, upper-cuts, and kicks to get the entire body involved and the heart rate racing. I typically use shadow boxing as a second warm-up activity (following a mile on the treadmill or elliptical).
I have my clients participate in no more than 15 minutes of shadow boxing due to the intensity and elevated heart rate. Fifteen minutes of shadow boxing with me burns around 300 to 400 calories (without stopping). Good luck with your workouts!
Benefits of Cardio Kickboxing and Shadow Boxing:
- Improve cardiovascular endurance
- Increase total body strength
- Improve muscular endurance
- Reduce body fat
- Improve circulation
- Improve total body coordination
- Great way to spice up normal exercise routines
- Meet new people
- Bond with friends
- Burn an enormous amount of calories
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As my wife and I prepare for the arrival of our first child, we've been
babysitting our nephew more and more often. This past weekend we traveled about
5 hours to the east and visited her grandmother and took him with us. As we made
it halfway through the first full day there, the laptop computer and Baby Neptune
proved to be an invaluable tool.
This series of videos are based upon the Mozart Effect, which is:
· The use of music and the arts to improve the health of families and
· The general use of music to improve memory, awareness, and the integration
of learning styles
· The innovative and experimental uses of music to improve listening
and attention deficit disorders
· The therapeutic uses of music for mental and physical disorders and
· The collective uses of music for imagery and visualization, to activate
creativity, and reduce depression and anxiety
This by no means represents all the uses and aspects, but presents a good overview
as to the theories behind the entire series of Baby Einstein videos. A series
of images (still and moving), music, sounds, and spoken languages are repeated
in an effort to induce the desired results.
There are opponents to this series of videos, ones that feel that introducing
children at this young of an age (they're intended for 1 to 18 months)
is wrong no matter the content. Obviously the opponents to this series are either
stay-at-home parents or ones that have maids that help with the cleaning.
These videos often prove themselves to be invaluable when the baby is fussy
and you're trying to prepare a bottle or nothing else seems to calm them.
To top that off, I'd rather my child (borrowed or not) watch something
that is halfway education and entertaining than the latest episode of whatever
is on the television.
Like other recent entries in the series, the disc has a more specific theme.
Having run the course of royalty free composers and other historic artists,
this one focuses on introducing the baby to water, hence the name.
The 30-minute running time of the video is filled with whales, water and water
themed toys being displayed on the screen to a series of lively tunes. The playful
hand-puppet characters that frequent these videos are present, as well as several
children that play peek-a-boo from underneath umbrellas (which proved to be
a popular section). Several scenes from a large aquarium are present and are
also present on a separate 12-minute section. I believe these were filmed at
the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, as I recognize several of the fish and
Overall, it's another successful entry in this ever popular series that
doesn't deviate slightly from the others that have come before it.
Video: Considering the audience, the video on this disc is
quite spectacular. The stock or live action footage looks especially good, but
the sequences filmed using the toys and puppets virtually jump off the screen
when matched to the black background.
Audio: The stereo mix is as same as ever, bright and evenly
mixed, so it provides a soothing listening experience and one that catches your
baby's attention easily.
Extras: Aside from the repeat play feature on the main video,
there is another 12-minute section of footage from the aquarium set to music.
Flashcards are also present that reveal the names of the bathtub and other water
related elements at the press of a remote button. There is also a DVD-ROM section
that has pages for your child to color when printed out and links to buy the
toys featured in the video.
Overall: As proven by my nephew's reaction, the videos
do a good job of entertaining your child. At this young of an age (less than
1-year old), it's hard to verify the educational value. But from watching,
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Judge Ian Visser is not only shameless, he's pants-less! Zing!
"I was in a bar the other night. It doesn't matter where, because I'm lying…"
I am not a follower of the comedy world, especially the arena encompassing the stand-up circuit. I generally blank out when people discuss acts they've seen or heard, and I rarely seek out the genre as a source of entertainment. I was probably the last person in North America to realize who Dane Cook was, and whenever anyone points me to a comedy clip online I usually have no idea who the comic is prior to watching.
My experience with comedian and writer Louis (pronounced "Loo-ee") C.K. follows a similar pattern. Unbeknownst to me, the Emmy winner has been writing in the industry for years, including a stint with Saturday Night Live and the film Pootie Tang (yes, he admits it). His profile has been growing recently with appearances on the late-night television circuit and a recent HBO sitcom, Lucky Louie.
Louis C.K.—Shameless was filmed at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood, California in November of 2006. Shot in front of a live audience, the viewer gets an hour of biting comedy that covers such diverse topics as raping Hitler, wearing possum-related t-shirts, and punching your child in the face.
Louis' style is very simple: a man stands on-stage and rails about what has happened to his life after marriage, kids and all the rest of it. This may sound like a bummer, but it's impossible not to revel in how willing Louis is to complain about his family and their foibles. When a guy calls his own four-year-old daughter an "a-hole" (and explains why she is one), you know you're getting the straight story. I probably spent as much time laughing at the man's willingness to reveal his flaws as I did the actual comedy material. A lot of it crosses the line into near-inappropriateness, but it only adds to the hilarity of it all.
The direction of Louis C.K.—Shameless is simplicity itself, the camera switching from wide shots to close-ups of Louis and sparing us from those irritating and distracting audience reaction shots. The 16:9 widescreen image is solid with no artifacting or color issues. The Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track is clear and sharp with a nice balance.
Louis C.K.—Shameless features a pair of extras. The first is Louis' HBO half-hour special, shot several years ago. Louis' delivery and style in this act are similar to his current work, but there is a lack of attitude that contrasts with his recent material. If anything, Louis' is even grumpier now, with his current act focusing more on his real-life disappointments than the staid "you-ever-notice?" bits featured in this special. Although the comedy in this offering isn't as cutting or personal, it is still a nice inclusion. The second bonus is a short promo trailer featuring a pair of scenes from Louis' short-lived sitcom.
Like most comedy, Louis C.K.—Shameless won't appeal to everyone. However, if you like your laughs cynical, unabashed, and profane, this DVD should find a space in your collection's comedy section.
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Dyhard is a certified stoner said 09/05, 12:20 AM
I would choose neon green & black, just like my avatar. You know how sick those two colors would look together?
PCH-LEH GO HEAT! said 09/05, 12:26 AM
going for the "popular" vote, eh?
baby blue is sick...
Baby Blue is the polor opposite of black, not so barbaric, but effective.
For example: Oilers jerseys were pimp... Even the chargers powder blues.
Baby Blues universal, the man MJ put it on the plateau. Not to mention, my hometown pro golfer, Davis Love da 3rd.
Dyhard is a certified stoner said 09/05, 12:43 AM
To me, when I look at the baby blue, the first thing that comes to mind is the Tar Heels and Oilers. And the retro Chargers jerseys. To me, the powder blue isn't original.
What is original, though, is the neon green and black. What team out there, just off the top of your head, does that remind you of?
Maybe some Oregon Ducks' uniforms, but even that isn't their main colors. I would use the neon green & black as my main colors.
I don't want to be just like other teams. I want to be original. I want to be the only team that people think of when they think of the color. I want people to be able to recognize who my team is just by seeing the color combination in a picture.
To me, powder blue wouldn't do that. But, neon green/black does.
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Sony Computer Entertainment has announced it is buying the cloud-based gaming company Gaikai for around $380million (£243m).
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The buyout of the Californian firm will help strengthen Sony's online offering, allowing them to bring a new cloud service onto a variety of devices with an internet connection, which include the company's PlayStation console, PS Vita handheld console as well as Sony's smartphones, tablets and TVs.
Sony Computer Entertainment's President and Group CEO, Andrew House, said in a statement: "By combining Gaikai's resources including its technological strength and engineering talent with SCE's extensive game platform knowledge and experience, SCE will provide users with unparalleled cloud entertainment experiences.
"SCE will deliver a world-class cloud-streaming service that allows users to instantly enjoy a broad array of content ranging from immersive core games with rich graphics to casual content anytime, anywhere on a variety of internet-connected devices."
Asked only a few days ago what role he would take on if Gaikai was sold, CEO David Perry said he would not be stepping down.
"My objective is clear. In the history of the games industry, some day there will be a chapter in the book on cloud gaming. We have to see this through to the end. We have to finish what we started," he told Forbes.com. "We'll stick around for a good time yet. There's plenty more work to be done. I'm not selling and moving on. I'll continue working."
Perry is due to speak at the Develop In Brighton games conference in July as part of the new Visionaries series.
Gaikai owns servers in 88 countries around the world that help games from over 40 publishers - including Electronic Arts and Ubisoft - to stream more easily to PCs, laptops, tablets and Smart TVs.
The company was set up in 2008 and employs 80 people, with a list of investors that includes Intel, Qualcomm and Limelight. Perry said Gaikai was already working on new technologies, including near field communication (NFC).
"You start to see how crazy things are going to evolve. I saw a demo of a near field communication bump on Friday, where if you touch two devices you can pass things around from one to another, or touch a phone to a TV and it becomes a controller," he told Forbes.com.
In June 2011 ex-PlayStation executive vice president Phil Harrison warned the current gaming brands that in just 10 years iPhone and iPad maker Apple could own the world's games industry. "If they carry on unrestrained in their growth, then there's a pretty good chance that Apple will be the games industry," Harrison said. Harrison was a key player in the creation and launch of all three Sony PlayStation consoles and joined Gaikai's advisory board in May 2011.
Perry echoed Harrison's sentiments in his recent interview. "The game industry is responsible for some of the biggest entertainment launches in history. Everyone in entertainment from set top box makers to consumer electronics companies realise they need to monetise their devices. Apple's shown that to them," Perry told Forbes.com.
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Lindsay Lohan's new lawyer has a white rabbit's foot hanging from the handle of his Louis Vuitton briefcase.
"That's for good luck," Mark Heller said. "Lindsay Lohan is a great beauty with tremendous talent and I believe that all she really needs in life is a little bit of luck."
A receptive judge, cooperative prosecutors and a good lawyer might help.
But after six drama-filled years through the Los Angeles criminal courts system, starting with two drunk driving convictions in 2007, Lohan may have exhausted her supply of those.
She has appeared in court at least 20 times before four Los Angeles judges who found her in violation of probation five times and sentenced her to a total of six months in jail.
The actress faces a March 18 trial that includes charges of lying to a police officer about a car crash, reckless driving and violating her probation for a shoplifting conviction.
Lohan did face a receptive judge at a pre-trial hearing Wednesday.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Stephanie Sautner is the same one that found her guilty of stealing a necklace from a jewelry store and violating probation two years ago. She praised Lohan for completing the terms of her sentence a year ago when she lifted her supervised probation.
Judge Sautner retires next month, so another judge -- yet to be determined -- will preside over her trial.
There are two prosecutors, including one from Santa Monica where the car crash happened last June and another from the Los Angeles city attorney's office which is overseeing the shoplifting probation. While they've not taken a public position, several media reports -- not confirmed by CNN -- have said they want Lohan to spend at least six months in confinement.
Heller, who met with the prosecutors for the first time Wednesday, said they seemed to be "very much interested in serving justice."
What would justice be in this case?
Past justice for Lohan has included less than two weeks behind bars in her six trips to the Los Angeles County jail. Measures to relieve jail overcrowding led to her release after just hours in all but one of those visits. Lohan did spend 35 days confined to her Venice, California, home. She also served about 67 days of community service, mostly working at the L.A. County morgue.
"Justice always has to be tempered with mercy and jail is not always the answer," he said. "When people find themselves coming before the court there's usually a very serious underlying reason and cause."
In fact, Lohan acknowledged her drug and alcohol addiction in past court appearances. She's spent 250 days in five rehab facilities since January 2007, including one long court-ordered rehab stint after a failed drug test.
Her father has been urging Lohan to enter rehab voluntarily ahead of her trial, hoping that would satisfy the judge and prosecutors.
Heller said it was premature for him to talk about a plea deal with the prosecutors since he just got the case file Wednesday.
While her previous lawyer, Shawn Holley, entered a not guilty plea on Lohan's behalf two weeks ago, Heller did not go as far as to suggest to reporters that she did not lie to police or violate her probation.
Lohan took the bold move of firing Holley, who steered Lohan through her many legal troubles over the past few years.
She appeared reluctant, however, in court Wednesday when Judge Sautner asked her if she wanted to replace her.
"Today, yes," Lohan answered.
Sautner approved the switch to Heller, a New York lawyer for 44 years -- with the exception of a five-year suspension from practicing law for bar rules violations.
"This is not the most complex case we've ever seen," Sautner said.
But it could send Lohan to jail again. Sautner warned her a year ago that any violation of the law could mean she would have to serve 245 days in jail -- the remainder of her suspended sentence from a shoplifting conviction.
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Venue hire for Foundations of Open Media Software
As you are aware, FOMS - the Foundations of Open Media Software workshop - has taken place for several years now in the week ahead of LCA.
FOMS brings together open source software developers around open media software to address and fix burning issues that will help move open media software into the limelight. Issues such as the support of Ogg Theora/Vorbis for HTML5 in Firefox, Webkit, Chrome and other browsers, or the definition of an open audio api are key issues of concern. Much good code and new technologies originate at FOMS.
In recent years we have always managed to find a sponsor for the venue of FOMS - NICTA, the Victorian Government, a university room as part of the LCA hire.
Wellington, however, seems to be a really difficult location. Our venue sponsorship with a company just fell through. We have now tried multiple organisations and nobody is prepared to give us a room for the 3 days of this year's FOMS for free.
We have, however, managed to get a special offer from Standards New Zealand, which comes to roughly A$950 - all other offers are a multiple of this price.
FOMS is working on a fairly tight financial basis where sponsorship money goes towards flying in open source developers - which, incidentally, typically end up being LCA attendees/helpers.
Thus, as representative of the FOMS organising committee, I would like to request sponsorship from LA for the A$950 for FOMS 2010 venue hire. We are more than happy to put the LA logo on the Website to credit the sponsorship.
Please let me know if you require more information. BTW: the workshop will already be in 8 weeks.
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Her way of giving back is through a program she created — the community holiday giving.
The program, which gives donations of toys, food, clothing and other items to residents for Thanksgiving and Christmas, has been a success since its beginning.
“It was my idea,” said Richmond-Shockley. “I created it because a lot of our seniors and the working poor are overlooked. For instance, there are mothers who are working and earn $2 above the poverty line but still can’t afford necessities for their families.”
Preparation for the program begins as early as the January following the conclusion of the holiday season.
Around that time, Richmond-Shockley begins either collecting donations or purchasing items to distribute.
Enrollment for the program begins months later, in August, and residents can apply to be recipients for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
To qualify for the program, Richmond-Shockley does a full case management work-up and evaluates each family on a need basis and income levels.
Since the program’s inception, the organization has serviced 20 zipcodes in the metro Atlanta area, including in the cities of East Point and College Park.
The reach, however, has sharply declined in the past few years, according to Richmond-Shockley.
In the past, as many as 500 total families benefited from community holiday giving, but Richmond-Shockley had to make the tough decision this year to lower the amount to 425.
“We had to allocate funding for the expansion of our home office and other administrative fees,” she said. “I had to look at my budget and make wise decisions.”
Despite the decrease in those helped, Richmond-Shockley is still upbeat about the upcoming distribution for Christmas.
Those families who received contributions for Thanksgiving received them on Nov. 17 between the hours of noon and 3 p.m.
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Some American Idol fans may have been shocked by tonight’s final three results, but once you consider the talent that was standing up there on that stage looking over the top five, and the kind of night everyone had, it really wasn’t that surprising. It was definitely a wakeup call for many fans with Chris Daughtry on many minds.
Everyone expected Matt to be in the bottom three, except Simon Cowell and me, it seems. Well, I knew he had a good chance for being there, but I also thought he had a good week. Unfortunately, everyone had a good week. The judges were split over Matt in his critiques, so it really wasn’t too shocking.
Kris Allen being in the bottom three was a surprise. Despite the fact that Simon took crap from Ryan Seacrest, and himself for that matter, he didn’t call it all wrong this week. He didn’t think Kris had the confidence with his performance, and it seems the fans didn’t either, as they put him in the bottom three. Last week, I was thinking we’d see Kris in the final two because of his steady rise in momentum.
All four judges praised Adam Lambert. Adam was the one Idol everyone was figuring was safe, yet there he was not just in the bottom three, but the bottom two. We all had flashes of Chris Daughtry standing in that spot in final four and going home. He did well this week, just like everyone did, but he allowed much more of his theatrics into his performance than he usually does, and perhaps standards/Rat Pack week wasn’t the week to do that. Additionally, while he was good this week, he’s good every week. He’ll have a hard time topping all of what he has done so far in the competition.
Momentum can do a lot for you in this competition. Kris is on the rise and still has more he can do, not reaching that pinnacle yet, but Adam doesn’t have that far to go. He’s already shown us his trump card and thrown it out weeks ago. For Danny Gokey, he did that the first few weeks then leveled out and started falling out of favor with his fans. He picked up that momentum this week and ran with it, securing one of the top two spots of the week.
The one wild card here week to week is Allison Iraheta. She’s been in the bottom three more often than anyone left. Matter of fact, three times as many. Yet she still sticks around. She can have great weeks, then be in the bottom three, can have questionable weeks, and doesn’t show up there at all. She’s a hard one to predict what will happen, but she has to realize with all that that each week is borrowed time for her.
Moving forward, let’s look at it this way. The last person to win this show after having been in the bottom three is Fantasia Barrino. That’s right five seasons ago. Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, and David Cook never were in the bottom. For that matter, David Archuleta was never in the bottom either. Our final four now consists of one person to never be in the bottom, one person that has been there three times, and two people who have now made one appearance each.
Will Adam Lambert be the first American Idol crowned since Fantasia to appear in the bottom, yet triumph over it? If anyone could, he could, yet I think we saw tonight that it’s way too early to stick that crown on his head. I thought he wouldn’t be in danger until final three, but when you have the skill level of performers that we have this season, anything is possible. Unlike last year when we knew it would be the two Davids practically all season long, this one is going to be unpredictable probably up until final two.
One final though, or actually a request. Is it too early to ask if Jamie Foxx can be the permanent guest mentor all next season?
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You know you've made it big in the reality television world when we're still talking about you long after you got the boot from your Bravo gig…or in one lady's case when her whole city's series got the ax.
The classy, articulate, and extremely refreshing Stacie, who says she initially turned down a spot on Housewives fearing it would be too “intrusive,” has always presented herself as the type of person that would not engage in catty, famewhoring behavior. Now she is commenting on the constant altercations and misbehavior happening on reality shows and wondering just how much of it is actually real!
Speaking to Sister2Sister, Stacie expresses her displeasure at the extreme behavior exhibited to generate ratings and C-List celebrity. “I just think that at this point, people have flipped tables. They’ve had fights… that now, it’s almost a competition to see how outrageous you can make the show,” Stacie laments, echoing what many fans are starting to suspect.
“I think in the first or second season it really is real because the people are real people. They’re not actors; they don’t know what to expect. By season four, you’ve got to outdo for ratings. And it becomes, you know, it’s all about entertainment.” Here’s looking at you, Real Housewives of Atlanta!
Stacie believes the decorous behavior (save for those Sahalis) displayed on RHODC, which “lacked the typical catfighting and hair-pulling seen on the other ‘Housewives’ shows” is one of the reasons Bravo issued a cancellation notice! Except Stacie feels that was a mistake as not all viewers want to watch the non-stop arguing!
“I think based on the tons of fan mail that we’ve gotten, there was a segment of viewers that were really happy to see something that was a little different, but for whatever reason the powers that be decided to cancel,” Stacie explains of how a little too much realness may have discouraged the network from continuing the series.
Regardless, she has no regrets! “I’m proud of the way that we portrayed ourselves on ["RHODC"], and relieved that the overall takeaway that I’ve gotten is that other women could identify with me, and see a woman who was doing positive things.”
Stacie is so over reality TV — she no longer watches, preferring shows with “positive portrayals” of women. Adding that she’s never seen Basketball Wives or Basketball Wives LA, two shows obviously known for outlandish antics.
So what does Stacie watch? Vh1’s Single Ladies, a fictional show. “I liked that it was circled around a business owner who’s trying to do her own thing. I like shows like that,” Stacie declares, hoping networks will seek to provide reality shows that exhibit that same positivity!
THOUGHTS ON STACIE’S INTERVIEW? DO YOU AGREE WITH HER THAT REALITY SHOWS HAVE BECOME TOO DRAMA DRIVEN AND NEGATIVE? AR YOU READY FOR SOME MORE POSITIVE REALITY SERIES OR DO YOU LIKE THINGS JUST THE WAY THEY ARE?
Discussing why D.C. may have been canceled, Stacie quickly dispels the myth that poor ratings led to the show’s demise (although most fans found it boring) and believes it was the Salahi scheme that caused the cancellation.
“People tried to say it was poor ratings. We had some of the highest ratings for all of the shows,” Stacie protests. “We had a character that did something that’s never been done before on national television,” she says alluding to ultimate grifters, Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashing the White House. As for Stacie’s opinion of the Salahis: “Both of them are nuts!”
She does feel that Michaele is the better of the two (if you can imagine) and corroborates accounts that Tareq was a very negative influence in her life. “I did get to see a side of [Michaele] that made me sympathetic toward her,” Stacie admits. “I think the relationship between her and Tareq was not positive in any way, shape or form. So if running off with a rocker is gonna make her happy… then great for her.”
As for Stacie’s life post-television – she’s doing great – and has maintained her friendship with out-spoken Brit,Cat Ommanney! “Life is good! I’m really, really busy on a couple fronts, besides just the normal family stuff,” she says, referring to her thriving real estate business and her charity, Extra-Ordinary Life.
She also reveals she still keeps in touch with her biological father whom she met in Nigeria and plans to visit again soon.
And as for Stacie’s desire to return to the spotlight: “I mean, never say never… but for me it’s all about the image. If it was a quality show, yeah.” So, I’m guessing that rules out anything on Bravo!
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Huawei says U.S. probe unlikely to affect other business
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HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd said on Wednesday a U.S. congressional committee probe into whether its access to communications infrastructure poses a security risk is unlikely to affect its businesses in other overseas markets.
The House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee issued a report earlier this month urging U.S. companies to stop doing business with Huawei and ZTE Corp, the world's No.2 and No.5 telecommunications equipment vendors respectively, over security concerns.
The move has prompted Canada and Britain to also look into similar issues, sparking concerns that it could affect Huawei's business in other markets.
"No, I don't think there will be an impact," Huawei's Senior Vice President Zhang Chunxiang told Reuters, responding to a question on whether its other overseas business would be hit.
Zhang, who spoke on the sidelines of a business event in China's eastern city of Hangzhou, said both sides were still talking and that the U.S. investigation was a sign of trade protectionism.
"They investigated for 11 months and they didn't consider all the different material supplied by Huawei and they still came to that conclusion. They investigated like they never investigated at all," he said.
BLOCKING HUAWEI FOR YEARS
After the almost year-long investigation, the committee warned in a 52-page report that China could use equipment made by both companies to spy on certain communications and threaten vital systems through computerized links.
A staff member of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said the panel has been receiving "dozens and dozens" of calls from current and former employees and customers reporting supposedly suspicious equipment behavior, chiefly involving Huawei.
Huawei and ZTE have denied the allegations in the report. Huawei's U.S. spokesman, William Plummer, warned the panel's recommendations would set a "monstrous, market-distorting, trade-distorting policy precedent that could be used in other markets against American companies".
Currently, the U.S. market contributes single-digit percentages to both companies' overall revenues, with the bulk of their sales coming from mobile phones.
Huawei has made previous attempts to sell telecoms equipment to major U.S. carriers, but failed.
"For many years, U.S. has been blocking the entry of Huawei," Zhang said.
The U.S. investigation comes at a time when the United States is headed for presidential and congressional elections In November, with campaign rhetoric heightening trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.
President Barack Obama blocked a privately owned Chinese firm from building wind turbines close to a U.S. military site, and challenged Beijing on Chinese auto and auto-parts subsidies in a World Trade Organization case.
His Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, says if elected he will label China a currency manipulator "from day one".
(Writing by Lee Chyen Yee; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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Fiber optic cable is a familiar sight at the companies of Telecom Valley which neighbor SSU. With light emitted from the many filaments, the cable stands as a symbol of the multitude of ways Sonoma State has an impact upon the surrounding region.
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Sonoma Insights is the University magazine of Sonoma State University. It is published twice each year by the University Affairs Office. The print version is distributed to alumni, faculty, staff, parents of students and friends of SSU.
- THE SSU IMPACT After conducting an extensive economic and social impact study, it is apparent that the CSU is changing the state of California, and Sonoma State is making a huge impact in the North Bay. This issue of Insights looks at the numbers and gives a “face” to the impact of Sonoma State University.
- Locally Grown The rise of large, discount franchises and the Internet only serve to inspire alumnus Tom Montan, the marketing whiz for a Sonoma County bookstore.
- Demand and Supply When local telecommunications companies asked Sonoma State to assist in providing highly trained professionals, the University responded.
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Crime Scene Investigation intern Aaron Damm uncovers the real world of forensics.
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Unlike any other program in the area, Sidekicks gives developmentally challenged children a place to get in the game and have fun.
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Music assistant professor Lynne Morrow finds the promise in music theater.
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The book Into Thin Air originally began as a magazine article. Outside Magazine sent Krakauer, an experienced mountain climber, to write an article about the commercialism surrounding Mount Everest. Krakauer got the magazine to agree to pay for him to attempt to summit the mountain—something he had always dreamed of doing—rather than reporting from Base Camp, as was the original arrangement. After writing the magazine article, Krakauer wasn't finished telling the story. He continued researching and contacting other climbers, revising existing information and supplying new, more thorough details of the account.
by Grizzthekid2014, August 07, 2012
When the clients would have sexual relations the book specifically stated that it what called " Sause making" I think you guys should add that in their because its important fact and could be on high school test knowing how specific teachers are these days. Thanks!
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Yes! This is perfect. I kinda wish I was this guy...kinda.
hahaha! i wish i could move like him, but not wear that turtleneck.
I had to call my oldest daughter over to see if this was in fact "The Twizzlers guy" She has confirmed it and I felt proud that I knew that - weird, heh?
good job!! 10 internet points for you. :) haha
That guy makes me feel sick...it's too weird.
no way! nathan b is my best friend... :)
Haha sorry. It's not so much him per se, it's the crazy movements.
hahaha it's understandable. it is...odd.
Haha yeah man, those moves make me feel kind of sick! And yet somehow better than I was before.
that's the perfect description of this guy.
At first I was like, "I have to show M!" (because he would probably try to copy those dance moves and that would be awesome.) And then I was like... "hmmm... might give him nightmares. never mind."
oh my goodness...i would love to see him recreate this...but you're right, it IS kind of frightening, even to me..
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Lee Westwood has confirmed his plans to move to the United States at the end of the year.
The 39-year-old Englishman, who currently lives near his birthplace of Worksop, has won 40 professional titles but has yet to claim a major in 57 attempts - with his best finishes being the runners-up spots he claimed at the Masters and The Open in 2010.
At the end of 2010, Westwood became the first European player since 1994 to rise to world No.1 after replacing Tiger Woods. Westwood is currently third in the rankings behind Luke Donald and Rory McIlroy.
Westwood, who finished tied for 10th in this weekend's US Open - four shots behind winner Webb Simpson - said of his decision to leave England for America: "There are a number of reasons but the main one is I haven't got that much time left at the top and I want to give myself the best chance of staying there as long as I can."
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Summary: The Tenth Edition of the pre-eminent textbook on physical examination and history taking contains foundational content to guide students' approaches to history taking, interviewing, and other core assessment concepts, as well as fully illustrated, step-by-step techniques that outline correct performance of physical examination. The comprehensive content is intended for high-level nursing education and practice markets, medical students, and related health professions ...show more such as physician assistants. Text includes free head-to-toe assessment and techniques of communication videos. ...show lessEdition/Copyright: 10TH 09
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State regulators are allowing a large Ohio aluminum manufacturer to defer electric bill payments for the remainder of the year.
Ormet Corp., located near Hannibal in eastern Ohio, has benefited from a unique electric-rate subsidy with American Electric Power that has reduced its costs by more than $150 million since 2009.
That subsidy includes $54 million this year.
The Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday approved the company's proposal to defer this year's remaining payments until 2014 and 2015.
The PUCO says it approved the delay, agreed to by AEP, to provide continuity to the employees and businesses dependent on Ormet.
The commission also says any additional requests for help from Ormet should be accompanied by a business plan confirming its long-term ability to exist without support from ratepayers. | <urn:uuid:12db38bf-9256-4d49-85b9-fba8a25bb5b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.the-review.com/ap%20state/2012/10/17/ohio-company-s-deferred-electric-payments-approved | 2013-06-18T22:58:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973333 | 166 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Easter weekend heralds the official start of Spring for many. The resurrection of Jesus and the rebirth of Mother Nature make for a beautiful and welcome marker on our calendars. Many of us will celebrate this weekend with a standout Sunday meal. When I think of Easter meals, I of course think of the glazed ham. The next food that "springs" to mind (yow!) is asparagus. It just goes with Easter and lots of people (including me) love it. Yes, the asparagus is there in a starring role on top, but there is a lot going on underneath in the flavor department.
Those flavors are a blend of earthy sweetness from spring vegetables and herbs blending with the sharp, tangy notes of the cheeses accented with a kick from a bit of cayenne (optional, but good). The texture has a creaminess that makes the dip perfect for spreading on crostini, toasts or crackers. It is a great starter for your Spring gathering, but with a glass (or two☺) of white wine, it can easily be made into a meal. | <urn:uuid:00f40e4c-d445-4500-999a-32a70650d96c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thegalleygourmet.net/2013_03_01_archive.html | 2013-06-18T22:58:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947906 | 229 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Was the deputy's action justified?
NEWS 8 EXCLUSIVE
DALLAS — It was Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, and Chris Moore — riding southbound on Stemmons Freeway in Dallas in a pack of 50 to 100 sport bikes — was pulled over while traveling below the speed limit.
"I didn't expect that at all," Moore said.
Officers were out in force that weekend, working to prevent another shutdown of a Dallas freeway like the one on Memorial Day weekend 2011 that ultimately led to three arrests.
So why was Moore pulled over?
Dallas Deputy Sheriff James Westbrook said he wanted to see what was on Moore's camera.
MOORE: "Was I doing something wrong? What am I being pulled over for?"
WESTBROOK: "The whole group of you guys."
MOORE: "No. I was not, individually. How can you pull me over?"
WESTBROOK: "The reason you're being pulled over is because I'm gonna take your camera and we're gonna use it as evidence of the crimes that have been committed by other bikers."
MOORE: "I have not committed any crimes, and you cannot take my personal property from me, sir."
WESTBOOK: "That's fine. Need to see your license and registration."
Moore's lawyer, Hunter Biederman, reviewed the recording.
"Here this officer decided to just go rogue and pull over the first guy he saw with a helmet camera on," he said.
The way Moore sees it, it's not illegal to have a video camera. But when the Deputy returned, he arrested Moore for having a concealed license plate.
WESTBROOK: "You're under arrest for your license plate being obstructed. Place your hands."
MOORE: "Are you kidding me, dude?"
WESTBROOK: "Place your hands behind your back."
As Moore continued to protest, the deputy lost his patience.
MOORE: "Why'd you pull me over in the first place?"
WESTBROOK: "Have a seat, okay?"
MOORE: "Sir. Sir. What you did to me was not right. You know it."
WESTBROOK: "I'm going to ask you one more time to have a seat."
MOORE: "That's f'ed up. Where's my bike going?"
WESTBROOK: "Sit down.I'm telling you to chill out."
Westbrook is then seen on the video shoving Moore into his squad car and slamming the door forcefully.
In a written statement, the Sheriff's Office said Moore was stopped because of a concealed plate. The video was confiscated and turned over to the gang unit as evidence.
Moore's bike was impounded; then he spent eight hours in jail — all of it, he says, on a charge that was made up after the fact.
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On Saturday afternoon the Emporia State women's softball team played for the Division II National Championship and ended up losing 1-0 to Humboldt State...at least that's what the record books will indicate. I was watching the game as it got down to the final innings and in the bottom of the 6th inning (they only play 7 innings in softball) with one runner on base and the Hornets trailing 1-0, April Huddleston ripped a deep drive down the left field line that easily cleared the fence...the umpire called it foul, and at first I was convinced that the umpire had made a bad call. JB Bauersfeld and I reviewed the tape after the game with our equipment here at the station we were able to look at the play frame by frame as the ball went over the fence. It is pretty clear that the ball was indeed foul...but by mere inches. Take a look at the video and decide for yourself. The ump did make a good call but you can see just how close Emporia State was to winning this game and forcing another game....tough luck. I do want to say congrats to the team for a great run through the post season. | <urn:uuid:af420655-c3a4-4fa8-8b0d-deb1614dd9ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wibw.com/blogs/drew/19047084.html | 2013-06-18T22:39:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98677 | 252 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Family members are speaking out about new developments in the death case of a Lauderdale County toddler.
"We were all really frustrated about it because we were told it couldn't be continued again," said Chasity Tanner.
However, Tanner says the trial of the man accused in the death of her son has been continued again; this marks the third time.
When two-year-old Landon Tanner died in September 2010, Chasity says she and the man accused, Justin Clearman, were engaged. The couple, along with Chasity's two children, lived together in Causeyville.
According to autopsy results, Landon died from blunt force trauma to the head.
"Our intentions with any of this is not to throw anyone under the bus. All we want to know is the truth about what happened to our child," said Chasity Tanner.
"I feel sad for Landon because we are his voice. And if we can't talk and say things for him we'll never get justice until that court date," said Landon's grandfather, Danny Tanner.
Prosecutors say it's not unusual for cases with multiple attorneys and doctors involved to be continued several times. Although disappointed about the case being continued again, Landon's family members say they just want closure.
"I want them to do every single thing they need to do and have to do to find out exactly what happened to Landon, so that justice can be served for him," said Chasity Tanner.
"I want answers! I want someone to explain what happened to our baby; somebody to tell us was it an accident or intentional? Why did this happen?" said Danny Tanner.
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There is a certain part of Caleb Caston's family that hopes he becomes an Arkansas State Red Wolves.
Since part of his family made the move from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to Marion, Ark., a few years ago it would be awfully convenient for going to see games.
The first time Mookie Sturdivant puts on a Red Wolves uniform, he will be in another country.
Sturdivant, a freshman out of East Poinsett County, is ready to see Canada.
The offer list for Verkedric Vaughns is long.
And it could get longer.
But the list of his commitments is short, and Monday night the talented cornerback from Mesquite (Texas) Poteet made an oral pledge to the Arkansas State Red Wolves.
Tyler Zuber tweeted during the Sun Belt Conference Tournament recently he wished he had on the Arkansas State Red Wolves uniform right then.
"He was like that when we signed him,'' said ASU assistant Anthony Everman said. "we had to tell him to relax and enjoy your senior season."
Memorial Day morning Tommy Raffo was in his office working on next season's Arkansas State Red Wolves baseball team.
"It is a never-ending process,'' he said. "It is all about recruiting now."
2012 Record: 10-3 (7-1 in Sun Belt)
Head Coach: Bryan Harsin (First Time Head Coach)
Last Bowl Game: 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl: beat Kent State 17-13
Stadium: Liberty Bank Stadium in Jonesboro, Arkansas (capacity = 30,406)
Home Field Advantage: ranked 19th out of 55 mid-major teams
2013 Schedule Link
Out of Conference: 8/31 vs Arkansas...
It is time to start over with a clean slate.
And for the Arkansas State Red Wolves baseball team that is a good thing.
"The season is over and we are all 0-0 now,'' said ASU coach Tommy Raffo
JONESBORO,Ark. (5/11/13) – A familiar face will be returning to the Arkansas State University men’s basketball program as former A-State standout and Sun Belt Conference (SBC) Freshman of the Year Brandon Reed is joining the Red Wolves for the upcoming 2013-14 season.
Arkansas State has a new commitment that fills one of the Red Wolves remaining scholarships for the 2013 recruiting class. AStateNation.com spoke to Money Hunter Wednesday evening, only a few minutes after he got off the phone with ASU New Head Football Coach Bryan Harsin.
Courtesy: Mizzou Athletics
Columbia, Mo. The University of Missouri has wrapped up its search for a final opponent for its 2013 football schedule, as Mizzou and Arkansas State University have agreed to a home-and-home series, with games in 2013 and 2015. This seasons game will be played in Columbia on Sept. 28th, with the return game scheduled for Sept. 12, 2015 in Jonesboro, Ark...
The Arkansas State faithful are following in Tennessee’s footsteps and have posted their head coaching vacancy on Craigslist. As far as we know this post has not been flagged for removal yet so if anybody is interested in applying, here is the Craigslist listing.
We like scoring almost as much as Petrino does
Dress Code: ABSOLUTELY NO VISORS
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Arkansas State is having to look for a new head football coach now that Guz Malzahn bolted to Auburn after just one year in Jonesboro. Unlike snakebitte-n Tennessee, there is actually someone who actually is interested in coaching the Red Wolves. The bad news for Arkansas St.? It's Bobby Petrino. At least Luke Matheson says Petrino is .
Yes I said it, and no I'm not...
Arkansas State says defensive coordinator John Thompson will serve as interim coach for the Red Wolves as they prepare to play No. 25 Kent State in the GoDaddy.com bowl next month.
Thompson takes over for Gus Malzahn, who's leaving Arkansas State for Auburn after one season. Malzahn led the Red Wolves to a 9-3 record and a Sun Belt Conference championship.
Via AP on Fox
December 06, 2012
Brace yourself. This is how the folks in Jonesboro are gearing up for Saturday's huge Sun Belt Conference game. That game will pit the host Arkansas State Red Wolves (8-3, 6-1) up against the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders (8-3, 6-1) in a winner-take-all scenario for the conference championship. The fine people at Arkansas State decided to make a little a promotional video...
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It was announced this evening according to Arkansas State SID that former Auburn and much maligned running back Michael Dyer has been dismissed for violation of unspecified team rules.
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My gal BuzzSugar sat down for an exclusive interview with 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer (aka geeky page Kenneth). He's not exactly a foodie - although he has previously said that he will do any job that pays him at least in some part with food - but I love this guy so I forced her to ask him what was in his fridge.
"Not much. Carrots and hummus, and blueberries - which are good for putting in yogurt."
The rest of the interview is fantastic, and you can learn why his character Kenneth eats chick peas out of the can, so be sure to check it out. - BuzzSugar | <urn:uuid:7a2caea3-c5a6-4848-bf2a-eec5245dd03a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yumsugar.com/Yummy-Link-What-Jack-McBrayer-Fridge-228757 | 2013-06-18T22:45:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984747 | 135 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Beulah “Carol” Kelley Fulks 1937 - 2013
Carol 75 passed away on January 22, 2013 at renaissance hospital in McAllen Texas. Visitation will be Sunday, January 27th @ 5PM, @ Roller-Crouch funeral home, located in Mountain View, 405 S. Peabody Ave. Services will be held @ St. Mary catholic church 17068 Hy. 66, Mountain View, Arkansas Monday, January the 28th & 10:30 AM; Followed by a grave side service @ Pleasant Grove cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, Carol requested donations be made to CCVI “School for the visually impaired children, 3101 Main St. Ks City, Mo. 64111. “Little Man”, Carols 3 year old great grandson attends this school: “code donations” @ WWW. CCVI.ORG “ NOTATE IN MEMORY OF “TAYENS” GREAT- GRANDMOTHER.
Carol was born October 4th, 1937 in Tonganoxie Ks. To Olen & Hazel Kelley , was raised in the Eudora Ks. Area. About the time she was in the 7th grade, she drove a car and took her siblings to school and picked up some of the neighboring children.
Carol meet and married EL Fulks of Mountain View Ar. on April 26th, 1954. As a team they bought & remodeled many homes in Eudora, about 17 by 1973. In that time Carol followed her dream and went to cosmetology school, Owned & operated a beauty shop for over 20 years in Eudora. Carol wasn’t afraid of hard work she did everything from plumbing to roofing & was really good @ painting & wallpapering, While raising her children RICK, ROGER, & DAUGHTER RONDA. They then moved to Grove OK. In 1977, Near her parents, one of her brothers & 2 of her sisters. Where they lived for many years enjoying boating, fishing off their lake front dock, going dancing & playing cards with friends & family They then relocated to Texas, after moving a few more times they settled in Edinburg Texas.
Carol was preceded in death by her Parents; Husband, EL FULKS; Brother, Bob Graves; Grandson Chad Olen Fulks; Brother in law, Merlin Eisenbarger; Brother in law Byron Davidson; Son in law Winston Parker.
She is survived by her Sister, Patsy Eisenbarger; Sister, Connie Davidson; Sister, Linda Bower; Brother, Red King & wife Cathy; Sister in law Laverne Graves wife of Bob; Son. Rick Fulks & wife Sharlyn; Son, Roger & wife Bernadette; Daughter Ronda Parker; 16 Grandchildren; 15 Great- Grandchildren; & one Great-Great-Grandchild.
She also enjoyed driving a big rig over the road with her husband, knitting, crocheting, needle point. Donated hundreds of knitted hats she made for preemie babies to hospitals. She also loved Bowling, traveling, visiting with friends & family. Attended St. Joseph Catholic Church in Texas.
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Is America fighting a permanent war, or at least a war that will span generations? From the First Gulf War to expel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, to the military operations to enforce sanctions on Iraq, to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all our covert military operations in response to terrorist attacks on us in between, we’ve been at war for 20 years, and there is no end in sight. Is this our new reality?
Bob Woodward, in his new book, Obama’s Wars, quotes General David Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan: “You have to recognize also that I don’t think you win this war. I think you keep fighting. It is a little bit like Iraq, actually . . . Yes, there has been enormous progress in Iraq. But there are still horrific attacks in Iraq, and you have to stay vigilant. You have to stay after it. This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.”
General Petraeus was talking principally about Afghanistan, but he also was talking about the broader war on terror, and his words should give us cause to pause and think. We’ve fought many wars since our nation’s founding. We understand war. We’ve become the world’s preeminent military power. Still, we are a peace-loving people, and we think of our wars as relatively short, distinct segments of our history. Like most nations, our war-fighting objective has always been to win quickly and decisively. In Korea and Vietnam, when we were unable to do that, we substituted an “exit strategy” for victory. One worked out; the other didn’t.
The Cold War spanned generations, but it was a war of espionage-counterespionage, a nuclear-arms race, and propaganda punctuated by hot wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the Third World. With the exception of Korea and Vietnam, which together took up only a quarter of the Cold War, American warriors weren’t routinely killing our enemies on the battlefield or coming home in shiny metal coffins.
Like the Cold War, the war against terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamist-Jihadism, or whatever you want to call it, is no short-term endeavor. What makes it different is that it is predominantly a hot war with a relatively small but growing segment of the Muslim world that seeks to spill as much American blood as possible.
Since 9/11, the fundamental debate we’ve been having with ourselves is how to deal with them. President George W. Bush and his administration adopted an aggressive and “preemptive” strategy. They initiated a retaliatory war in Afghanistan against the al-Qaeda leadership that attacked us and the Taliban who enabled them. And although Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, Bush waged a war against a regime that he believed possessed weapons of mass destruction that Islamic terrorists might acquire.
Over time, both wars morphed into what they are today: wars to establish friendly, democratic governments in the heart of the Islamic world and deprive our enemies of recruits and bases from which to attack us. The war in Afghanistan is also very much about Pakistan and keeping its government and nuclear weapons out of the hands of Islamic extremists.
Candidate Barack Obama campaigned against the Bush strategy. And, although he has called Afghanistan “the necessary war,” both as a candidate and as commander-in-chief his goal has been to extricate the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan at the earliest possible date. Woodward’s book provides new insights into President Obama’s thinking on this. Woodward reveals the president’s political concerns about staying in Afghanistan and Obama’s belief that America could “absorb” another 9/11-type attack. In quoting Petraeus, Woodward also captures what America’s preeminent general knows better than anyone about the enemy and the war we are fighting.
All U.S. forces are scheduled to leave Iraq and begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2011 — policies seemingly at odds with General Petraeus’ statement. But Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t our only battlefields. As recent failed terrorist attacks on the United States by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen, and Islamic extremists based in the Waziristan region of Pakistan have demonstrated, the terrorist threat to the U.S. is a real and present danger on multiple fronts.
Close down one terror cell and another pops up somewhere else. And if you relieve the pressure on the old cell, it will only reappear. It’s a lot like the war on drugs. We know that we won’t win the drug war simply by killing, capturing, and incarcerating drug dealers. It’s a demand-driven problem. But neither can we stop killing, capturing, or incarcerating them. You only have to look across the border into Mexico to get a glimpse of what happens when drug cartels become too powerful.
We won’t win the war on terror simply by killing, capturing, and imprisoning al-Qaeda terrorists and Taliban fighters; but neither can we afford to let up on them. If we pull out of Iraq or Afghanistan before those countries have governments that are stable enough to keep a tight lid on our enemies, we’ll soon be right back where we started. We can use missile and drone attacks and covert forces to kill our enemies in Yemen and Pakistan; but what do you think will happen when the next Umar Abdulmutallab or Faisal Shahzad succeeds in killing hundreds or thousands of Americans? Will we not again retaliate?
The negative effects of permanent war on the U.S. armed forces, on the American people, and on America’s diminishing financial resources are obvious. When compared to the effects of a chemical, biological, or nuclear terrorist weapon going off in an American city, however, those effects become secondary considerations.
No matter how much President Obama or his successor may want to end the permanent war, there is no exit strategy in a war with an enemy that relentlessly attacks the U.S. homeland. We can’t negotiate our way out, like we did in Korea; nor can we simply decide it’s costing too much in lives and treasure and walk away from it, as we did from Vietnam. This time the enemy will come after us.
Whatever your views on America’s ongoing multi-front war, it is not going to end anytime soon. We’ll be fighting this war “for the rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.” The Pentagon, the White House, and the American people must come together on a strategy for sustaining that fight until we ultimately defeat our enemy.
Ed Ross is the President and Chief Executive Officer of EWRoss International LLC, a company that provides global consulting services to clients in the international defense marketplace. He publishes commentary at EWRoss.com.
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On the suggestion that the gonococcus was one of the organisms susceptible to sulfanilamide, it was decided to treat gonorrheal vaginitis in children by oral administration of sulfanilamide in further search for a simple and effective method of handling this therapeutic problem. After encouraging results had been obtained in cases of vaginitis, sulfanilamide was applied to the treatment of gonorrheal urethritis in boys and of gonorrheal conjunctivitis.
This report summarizes the results of treatment with sulfanilamide in 9 cases of conjunctivitis, in 5 cases of urethritis in boys and in 22 cases of vaginitis in girls since May 1937.
Diagnosis of gonococcic infection was made on the basis of the finding of gram-negative intracellular diplococci, morphologically typical of gonococci, in smears from the eyes, urethra or vagina. Gonococcic complement fixation tests made on admission were positive in about two thirds of the patients. Cultures for gonococci were not available to | <urn:uuid:2b191f97-79d2-44db-9ef0-560776301a2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1178253 | 2013-05-19T10:04:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951702 | 226 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I'm configuring SQL 2008 R2 Transactional Replication (with non-updatable subscriptions).
I'm using the
I need to specify the
What are the minimum roles/rights that this user requires on the subscriber server?
I've scoured the documentation for this but nothing jumps out at me.
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check this link out, I recently used the information to give minimum rights for a pull subscription
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Oakland Athletics' A.J. Griffin: Most Underrated Pitcher in MLB
June 24, 2012.
That was the day that Oakland A's rookie pitcher A.J. Griffin's dream of pitching in the big leagues came true.
From his debut all the way up to the gem he tossed last night (Wednesday) against the Angels, Griffin has been tormenting major league hitters every start.
The 24-year-old has made 11 career starts since that first outing and has yet to receive a loss, going 6-0 in that span. Those six straight wins to begin his career make him only the third pitcher in Oakland A's history to accomplish that feat.
Though Griffin himself has only earned six decisions, the team has gone 9-2 overall on days that he is the starter. In his defense, during one of the two losses he left the game with a shoulder injury after only 1.2 innings pitched. Oh, and in the other he allowed zero runs on two hits.
How is it that the rookie hasn't ran into a loss by now?
Besides the fact that the A's have been one of the best teams in baseball since his call-up, it might also have something to do with him posting a 1.94 ERA and holding opposing hitters to a .202 batting average against him.
Even though most starters have a little more than double the amount of games as Griffin, his BAA is lower than any of today's biggest aces. The closest players to him are Gio Gonzalez (.206), Clayton Kershaw (.212) and Justin Verlander (.216).
You know you're doing something right if you're beating out names like that.
Griffin's ERA speaks for itself. The best in baseball right now out of qualified players is David Price at 2.54, and he is in the discussion, if not the front runner, for the AL Cy Young.
Any time a player's ERA is sub-2.00, it should open some eyes. Especially if that player has made double-digit starts.
If you're looking for a weak spot in his season, good luck. His worst game of the year came against the Twins in his fourth start. He gave up a season high eights hit, while allowing three runs, another season high. The two homers he allowed that game make up almost half of the total he's given up this year (five).
Even with the "rough" outing, Minnesota couldn't knock Griffin down, as he picked up his first career win that night.
Because of his late debut, Griffin can't rightfully be considered for any major awards such as the Cy Young, though his numbers in his short tenure are good enough. And with Mike Trout just down the road in L.A., who has all but actually been handed the Rookie of the Year trophy, Griffin won't get much recognition for that either.
Just like the A's though, the big right-hander will just have to continue to fly under the radar, shocking the world one win at a time.
*Stats are from ESPN.com.
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A group blog from members of the VB team
I can't tell you how excited I am to return to the Visual Basic team after almost eight years of absence! I spent much time working in groups around Microsoft including games, office and business solutions. But in each of these areas I focussed primarily on enabling developer scenarios.
And now I am back! And what am I here for? Well, to continue to evolve Visual Basic into the best product for our customers.
My personal goal is to make Visual Basic even more approachable and usable by anyone! I know this is possible as I myself cut my teeth on BASIC when I was in the single digit age category. Even with all of the incredible technologies we have introdued over the years, Visual Basic needs to continue permeate the community at large and be the tool of choice for highly productive application development.
I invite you here to share your experiences or hopes for what we can be doing better, and I will be sharing my own journey as I reintegrate into Visual Basic.
As a note, we have opened a Small Business Developer Center on MSDN (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/smallbusiness/default.aspx) something I am very passinoate about and a new forum as well (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1812&SiteID=1)
I have a little project I am working on over the weekend, a self-study project that might be useful for others to try. I will post my results next week.
-watching the summer disappear
I feel like I should say “Welcome” but not being an actual member of the VB team that sounds awkward. Nonetheless welcome. I cut my teeth on QBasic when I was 13. Like you, and Microsoft, I suppose, I haven’t completely removed myself from my humble beginnings.
I want to start off by saying what you all are doing right, for me:
Runtime Agility – the VB runtime has seriously impaired VB’s proliferation outside of the mainstream .NET world. In my experiences with it and the Mono project as well as the heart-breaking blow dealt us by the release of XNA GDE for C# only the runtime has really locked off VB from a whole new and developing audience. I am very happy to see the VB team make a move on this.
Dynamic Language - the dynamic possibilities of VB have long been a banner for detractors. That Microsoft is actively moving to promote its dynamic capacities in a positive light is a good sign, especially as it further differentiates the language from its upstart little sister, C#. I’m a little disappointed that VB9 couldn’t be as dynamic as was foretold (Dynamic Interfaces *tear*) but am already hyped up about VB X. Microsoft has long demonstrated a knack for taking things which are revolutionary and bringing them into the mainstream fold in an easily consumable form. I really do hope you can present dynamicism in a way that is attractive to dynamic language enthusiast and at the same time do it in a way that the static purist can grudgingly respect.
Community Outreach – I think the VB team does make an effort to speak to its community. I really like this and would like to see it taken further. During the beta of VS2005 there was an -obnoxiously obvious- place to give feedback on future language features and really converse with Microsoft directly about concerns (and bugs). I remember some great flame wars, er… um feedback over EnC and the With block in C#, and My.Forms in VB. I didn’t get that same warm fuzzy feeling this time around and I’d really like to see that sort of XP involvement again. There have been a number of feature decisions on VB9 which took me by surprise. Some I didn’t agree with or understand. Some of those I’ve rationalized in my own head since then but it would be really great if you could share your rationale with us. I’m not saying that sarcastically. I was outraged when I saw auto-implemented properties in C++/CLI in 2005, and now in C# 3.0 but not VB. I have (this afternoon actually) decided that with code snippets this bit of syntactic sugar is a nice to have but certainly acceptable fat to trim in a time/budget crunch. But that’s just speculation on my part, hearing it from the VB team directly would have saved me a lot of swearing.
I have pages and pages of experiences with VB, good and bad, I could flood you with, but now that I know where to find you *fiendish grin* I’ll save them for later ;) Again, Welcome.
I'm really happy to hear this type of feedback. The VB team tracks these posts closely and we use them to shape our plans. Please feel free to flood us with pages of experience, especially the bad one's as this is how we learn and can provide the best experiences back to you.
I am going to be working to understand those developers that are looking to significantly increase their productivity and provide "good enough" solutions in the fastest time possible (this is what I remember from my days as an indepdendent VB developer). Watch for my follow up post!
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2 images. New Palisades slide inspection, 10 April 1958. Mayor Norris Poulson; Karl Rundberg (Councilman); Admiral Cushing Phillips (Admiral); G. Austin Schroter; John Harding (District engineer).; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1958-04-10. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: New Palisades slide inspection. #52: L to R: G. Austin Schroter, consulting geologist and chairman of Geological Hazards Committee of Los Angeles; Mayor Norris Poulson, Councilman Karl Rundberg, District Engineer John Harding and Admiral Cushing Phillips, president Los Angeles Board of Public Works inspect new slide area from top of bluff during tour. #61-62: Mayor Norris Poulson, Councilman Karl Rundberg and Admiral Cushing Phillips, president of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works, inspect wide crack in concrete pavement of shuffleboard and badminton courts near swimming pool at luxurious $2,000,000 Pacific Gardens apartment-hotel in Pacific Palisades. Geologists say cracks indicate another slide due (will be 4th in two weeks in Palisades area)". | <urn:uuid:7a15e3e8-53d5-48e8-a1f3-b4a61bff8fec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll44/id/53816/rec/17 | 2013-05-19T09:56:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.824117 | 245 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Creu Prydain Decach
07 July 2010
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has welcomed today’s announcement of the dismissal of an allegation that its Chair, Trevor Phillips, was in contempt of Parliament.
In a report issued earlier today, the House of Lords Committee for Privileges and Conduct stated that “taking all the circumstances into account, we do not consider Mr Phillips’ conduct to amount to a contempt of the House.”
Today’s finding follows a previous finding by the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee which indicated that it was “unable to conclude .... that there had been any contempt of the kind alleged in the Joint Committee’s [on Human Rights] Report”.
The Lords Committee also said that it had some sympathy with Mr Phillips’ view that “the dividing line between legitimate engagement with committees and inappropriate interference amounting in some cases to contempt is unclear.” As a result, it has recommended that guidance issued to witnesses appearing before Lords select committees should be amended.
The former Chairman of the JCHR, Mr Andrew Dismore, had alleged that “it was difficult to escape the conclusion that some Members had been influenced in their approach to the draft Report by their private conversations with Mr Phillips.”
The Lords committee found that Mr Dismore’s allegations were “subjective, and that no firm factual evidence is presented in their support; nor are they borne out by the submissions by individual members of the JCHR.”
The Lords Committee also expressed concern that as in Mr Phillips’ case, current procedure affords individuals who are the subject of such personal criticism in a committee report no formal opportunity to see and comment on a draft ahead of publication.
Reacting to the report, Mr Phillips said: “I’m pleased that both Committees have dismissed the allegations of contempt. During this process it has become clear that the current procedures governing conduct between individuals, organisations and parliamentary committees are not clear to almost everyone involved. I therefore welcome the Lords privileges committee’s recommendation that proper guidance should be published. As parliament increases transparency and accountability, this guidance should help ensure that the process and conduct of committee hearings are clear and open.”
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Markus in Finland recently sent me a link to this post in which Muho Roshi, the abbot of Antaiji temple in Japan criticizes me and then proceeds to praise himself for how much more of a bodhisattva he is than I am.
For those who don't know, Antaiji is famous mainly for being the temple that "Homeless" Kodo Sawaki and his student Kosho Uchiyama lived in. I've always been a little vague on this because Sawaki was known for being a master without a temple. Apparently he actually had a temple of his own, but he wasn't there most of the time because he traveled around the country leading retreats and teaching zazen as well as promoting the many books he wrote. Sawaki is my teacher Nishijima Roshi's biggest influence. Shunryu Suzki was also a big fan of Sawaki.
These days Antaiji is one of the few Japanese Zen temples that a foreign person can go and train in. Often when people ask me about training in a Japanese Zen temple, I refer them to Antaiji. A few people who have come to my Zen retreats and talks have taken the bait and gone out there.
All I know about Muho, other than what I just now gleaned from a quick skim of the Wikipedia entry on him, is that he's German. I'm not sure how he got to be the abbot of Antaiji. I've read a few of his pieces on-line and I always liked them. I believe it was Muho who first shed light on the hatchet job done on Kodo Sawaki by Brian Victoria in his book Zen At War. Muho pointed out a number of places where Victoria wildly mistranslated Sawaki to make him sound like he was a blood-thirsty promoter of the Japanese war effort in WWII. Sawaki was nothing of the sort and anyone who can read Japanese can read the pieces Victoria translated and easily see that Sawaki said nothing at all like what Victoria has him saying in his book.
Muho's criticism of me comes completely out of the blue as far as I can see. But judging by the piece Muho chose to write about, the man must be quite a follower of my writing. This is the kind of thing one could only find by conducting a pretty thorough search of stuff I've written. He chose to pick on something I wrote specifically to the group in Los Angeles that I used to sit with who had asked what it would take to get me to return there as a full time teacher for the group.
I thought about it for a very long time and came up with a list of conditions under which it would be feasible for me to do so. Apparently Muho thought the conditions I stipulated proved that I was not the kind, caring individual that he (Muho) is and he decided he'd better point that out.
The piece he criticized was not really intended for public consumption, although it was not in any way secret either. It was meant to point out to the folks who were asking me about this what I, as a guy who makes his living from writing books and lecturing, would need in order to lead a group in Los Angeles. I wanted the group to have realistic expectations as to what I could and could not do for them.
I have quite a bit of difficulty with what Americans call "setting boundaries." Very often when I am leading any kind of a group, certain people will take advantage of what a total push-over I am and monopolize my time. I decided that one way to remedy this and to be available to everyone fairly was to do what college professors do and have specific "office hours" during which I'd be available by appointment.
What I'm suggesting in the letter I wrote to the people in Los Angeles is an entirely new system very specifically tailored to my own personal life. It's completely different from what happens if one steps into an established temple with an established protocol and an established way of generating income. I'm not saying that's easy to do either. But most of the problems that my letter to the people in Los Angeles addresses are already solved if one has that kind of a temple.
Muho criticizes me for suggesting that I would not be available all the time for such a group in much the same way and for much the same reasons that Kodo Sawaki was not always available all the time for the regular attendees at Antaiji. I'm sorry, Muho, but if I were to make myself available 365 days a year at such a temple, I have no idea how I could earn my keep. And I'm pretty stubborn about earning my own keep.
FYI: Just in case the reaction to this piece becomes "Brad is planning to move back to Los Angeles and lead a group," I want to point out that I have no such plans at all. I am willing to discuss such a possibility if it becomes feasible. As of now, it is not feasible at all and there is no reason to believe it will become feasible any time soon.
ANYWAY, what bums me out most about Muho's piece is that it is so utterly disappointing. There are a small handful of people out there in the Zen world who take an attitude that goes something like, "You cannot be a real Zen teacher if you didn't become a Zen teacher the way I became a Zen teacher." This is completely missing the point of what it is to be a Zen teacher. Muho's sneering remarks about me make it clear that he holds that attitude.
It's pleasantly surprising to me that I encounter very little of this type of criticism. Most Zen teachers I know are very accepting of me, even though I didn't become a Zen teacher in what is now considered to be the standard way. I think most of them understand that what is commonly thought of as the "standard way" of becoming a Zen teacher is something that developed rather recently. Dogen never did zuise. Nor did Bodhidharma. Buddha himself never did either. Nor did any of these people suggest you had to. I'm unaware of Dogen ever recommending these steps either. The head monk ceremony and all of that stuff are, at best, from the late-medieval period. Many are very recent developments.
I'm hardly the only Zen teacher out there who has come by his Zen credentials in a non-standard way. Most of the teachers ordained by Kobun Chino Roshi were also ordained in non-standard ways, as were a lot of others. So I am not writing this just to defend myself.
Oddly enough, I can think of many situations in my association with Nishijima Roshi in which he placed me in much the same position as a ceremonially appointed "head student" and in which I did things that were sort of like zuise, though it was not at Eiheiji or Sojiji temples. Also my "training period" with him, though it was never called that, lasted about seven years, which would be pretty standard at a "real" temple. It involved, in an informal form, many of the same steps one would do ceremonially at a "real" temple.
Nishijima Roshi was not a fan of Soto-shu and its bureaucracy, organizational protocols, ceremonies and rituals. He didn't think it was necessary for a Zen teacher to be recognized by Soto-shu, even though he himself is. Dogen was never recognized by any such organization, nor were any of the great masters of the past. Organizations like Soto-shu arose much later and retroactively included the great masters of the past in their ranks. One wonders if Dogen would really have wanted to be seen as the founder of contemporary Soto-shu if he'd had any choice in the matter. I imagine he would not.
Having said that, I am aware that there need to be some kind of standards as to who is and is not a legitimate Zen teacher. Otherwise you get guys like "Zen Master Rama" claiming to be Zen teachers because they had a dream in which Buddha made them a Zen teacher or some such nonsense. But the basic standard is only that you have a legitimate lineage of a living Zen teacher who recognized your qualification to teach and who himself had a living Zen teacher, and so on for at least a few generations back. I have that. So does Muho. For that matter so, unfortunately, does Genpo Roshi. Which goes to show that this, in itself, doesn't mean everything. But it does mean something.
Still, I am very firm in my conviction that official recognition by the Soto-shu corporation of Japan is not a very good final criteria for what makes one a real Zen teacher. Muho seems to be concerned about the future of Western Zen. I sincerely hope he is not suggesting that recognition by the Soto-shu is the way to solve all of our problems. | <urn:uuid:a2f4d047-b158-414e-b669-6232929308a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/2011/01/in-which-i-am-criticized-by-master-of.html?showComment=1294161225348 | 2013-05-19T10:25:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988924 | 1,871 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
HELENA — In the half-hour before Steve Bullock delivered his first major speech as governor of Montana, chatter filled the House chamber as legislators, state officials and members of the media speculated about what he would say.
Bullock spent much of his first State of the State address discussing education. He promised to focus on job training in Montana schools, which coincides with his plan to put 2,500 people to work on construction projects at colleges and universities around the state.
He again called on the Legislature to accept federal money to expand Medicaid to serve nearly 70,000 low-income Montanans currently without health insurance. He also advocated for a $400 one-time property tax rebate, the elimination of an equipment tax on 11,000 Montana businesses, and the end of dark money in elections.
Although he had already publicly addressed many of the priorities outlined in his speech, Bullock made a surprise announcement about a new website to view the state’s checkbook.
“We’ll have a searchable database so that anyone in Montana — or anybody across the world, for that matter — can look at how we spend the taxpayers’ money,” he said. “It’s the right thing to do and it’ll lead to a more effective government.”
He unveiled the website, www.transparency.mt.gov, the next day. Visitors to the site can search for information on state spending and employee salaries.
Republicans praised the announcement, which came two years after former Gov. Brian Schweitzer vetoed a bill proposed by a Republican lawmaker to create a similar website.
In the official response to the Democratic governor’s speech, Rep. Austin Knudsen, R-Culbertson, stressed Republicans’ desire to work with the governor, but he also outlined some key differences.
He said members of his party worry about federal funding and cannot trust Washington, D.C., to keep its promises.
Although Knudsen did not mention Medicaid by name, state Republican leaders have expressed concern over the federal government’s ability to uphold its end of the bargain, as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. The expansion of Medicaid would require the state to pick up 10 percent of the tab by 2020.
Knudsen also suggested the Legislature reduce taxes for all Montanans – not just those who own property. He also said he sees opportunity for lawmakers from both parties to agree on how to reduce the business equipment tax.
Here’s a look back at other highlights of the session’s fourth week:
Construction projects at colleges
The University of Montana plans to construct a new Missoula College (formerly known as the College of Technology) on its South Campus, but some Missoula residents want the new school built elsewhere.
Lawmakers heard testimony on House Bill 14 last week, which calls for about $100 million in state bonds to fund nine construction projects at Montana campuses. The measure, as outlined in Bullock’s address, would create 2,500 construction jobs.
A $29 million provision to fund construction of the new Missoula College drew heated debate at the hearing. Opponents want the new facility to be built next to its counterpart near Fort Missoula. The current plan calls for the college to move to a location closer to the main campus, where it would interfere with the university’s golf course.
Administrators from Montana’s higher education community said the current plan reflects a decades-long vision for the university. They also stressed the urgency of building the new two-year school. An increasing student population has led to crowded classes, some of which are held in trailers because there’s no room in the school’s two buildings.
Parents would have to give written permission for their children to take sex education under a new proposal that awaits a vote on the House floor. The measure also prevents organizations that perform abortions from providing informational materials or instruction in schools.
House Bill 239 passed the House Education Committee 11-7 last week in a straight party line vote with Republicans in favor.
Supporters of the measure told the committee that parents should decide whether to allow their children to learn about reproductive issues in school. They also said parents must be made aware of the curriculum. Currently, parents can choose to opt their children out of the instruction.
Several proponents also criticized Planned Parenthood, whose Teen Council visits several Montana high schools to teach students about health and sexuality. Marybeth Adams, a family nurse practitioner from Belgrade, said that the earlier the organization educates children about sex, the earlier young women get pregnant and have abortions.
Opponents argued that sex education is vital to preventing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Several members of the Planned Parenthood Teen Council said their peers often feel more comfortable discussing reproductive issues with people their age rather than parents or other adults. They also said they help clear up misconceptions about safe sex.
“Some teens believe that consuming enough Mountain Dew will lower their sperm count enough to not impregnate them,” Teen Council member Hattie Lunceford said. “This myth is exactly why sex education deserves to be a part of our schools’ curriculum.”
Several proposals to combat anonymous money in Montana elections faced wide opposition last week during hearings in the House State Administration Committee.
House Bill 265, sponsored by Rep. Steve Fitzpatrick, R-Great Falls, would double the amount of money an individual can donate to campaigns. He said the bill would “level the playing field” by providing candidates with more money to respond to attack ads paid for by third-party groups.
Opponents said allowing more money in elections would only make the problem worse.
Matt Leow, who organized November’s successful initiative calling for limits on corporate campaign spending, urged lawmakers to listen to their constituents.
“We need to deal with the problem of corporate personhood and the concept of money as speech because those are the two concepts on which the Citizens United decision was based – not by inviting more big money into the process,” he said.
Another measure, House Bill 229, sponsored by Rep. Scott Reichner, R-Bigfork, faced similar opposition. His proposal also calls for increasing individual contribution limits and ending restrictions on how much money political parties can give to candidates.
Schools, doctors, the state’s student athletic association and individual citizens have come together to promote better education about the signs and effects of concussion injuries.
Standing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Cydni Steigers told the story of how her son, Dylan, had received multiple concussions while playing football. He died in May 2010 when he was removed from life support, just one day after he stumbled off the football field with another concussion.
“If we can keep one child and one family from suffering the tragedy we have suffered, the value of passing this bill would be immeasurable,” Steigers said.
Senate Bill 112, sponsored by Sen. Anders Blewett, D-Great Falls, calls for school districts to inform coaches, athletes and parents about the nature and risks of brain injuries. It also requires that athletes suspected of sustaining a concussion be removed from play and receive a medical clearance before returning to the team.
(Reporter Amy Sisk can be reached at 425-466-6633 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow @amyrsisk on Twitter for the latest from the Capitol.) | <urn:uuid:31597d42-20d7-4bf6-b869-49c629aa4c8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://havredailynews.com/news/governorlaysouthisagendalawmakersstudyconstructionconcussionandsexed.html | 2013-05-19T10:17:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966478 | 1,545 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Posted by htsbackup on December 10, 2007
Problems. This is what actually has happened in the time that I have been admin for HackThisSite, and all of it's subsites. HackThisSite is a community of (dare I say it) "hackers." Mostly wannabe hackers. This is where the 'noobs' come to learn to hack. This has always been the case, and every single person has been there at one point. I've been with the community (mostly irc for the large portion) for over 3 and a half years. Long time members know me, and know how I act and respond. I am making this statement in regards to multiple... beliefs of other views of me. I "took over" the hackthissite project in September of 2006. Everyone involved at that time was happy that I was taking over (literally unanimous). There was a team of admins, developers, irc opers, moderators, and all the like working together just as anyone would have wanted. Then the first problem arose... Wells, the lead HTSv4 developer, and a highly skilled programmer, had written a trojan horse program. He was using it (named "Mailcrack") to infect HackThisSite members by linking people on irc to the download site. When I found out, I was literally outraged at this. Does this make me crazy? Or a 'bad' admin? I proceeded to ban him from irc in an attempt to prevent spreading of his trojan. This event (me banning the lead dev) caused an uproar against me. Shockingly, not one person was on my side that morning. I was appalled to realize this, but reluctantly removed his ban. Later, I talked to one of the long time developers and current root admin of HTS, "html." She's been with the site as long as I have, but admin/dev on it far longer. I told her what happened with Wells. She had the exact same view as me. Later, I reinstated the ban, as well as 'censoring' his website from being spoken on the irc, in order to prevent spreading of this "Mailcrack" trojan. This naturally caused another bit of an uproar. html and I agreed to make a front page news post apologizing for Wells and his actions. Later, in a private channel, Wells agreed to stop spreading the trojan, and come back to working with the team. The news post was immediately deleted. A day or two later, I noticed some funny action between Wells and another member on irc, named "pacifico." I messaged pacifico, and proceeded to...interrogate him. I found out Wells had lied to html and I, and was still spreading his trojan...just more quietly. Again, banned. Now that I'm typing this up, I really don't see what could have inspired me to allow him to ever come back...Keep reading. During this whole ordeal, Wells has had full root access to HTSv4. At this point (being banned again, 'caught') he proceeded to perform a command "rm -rf /" on HTSv4. That means every file on the server (technically that "jail") was deleted. He then used his acquired 'bots' (from the trojan horse) to DDoS hackthissite.org. He knew of a coding flaw on the main site that would bog the server down to the point that it would start denying access. He did this. Lasted for quite awhile... html finally rewrote the script to not even allow it to 'check' unless implicitly called. In the end, after this 'problem'... Wells came back to work on HTSv4, and apologized (to me), stating that he realized my actions (banning him) were actually exactly what he would have done, and commended me for them. Here comes number 2... One night, I get home and hop onto irc. My client is always connected, so I was able to see recent events. The first thing I notice is three users "having a go" at each other, 2 vs 1. On one side, scenestar and Codewebs, using racist slurs and whatnot (which at the time were specifically listed in the rules as a 'no-no') against a newcomer, who in fact was a black man, and truly disliked racial slurs. I silently watched as the first two berated this newcomer, named "blackatk." In the end, scenestar (who had op) kickbanned blackatk. At this point, I'm severely angered. One of my own ops just banned someone, while being a complete racist to them? Not in this community. I immediately banned scenestar from the channel, just like he did to blackatk, and removed the ban on blackatk. I removed scenestar's access from the channel as well. This sparked a conversation with this "blackatk." Once he realized my position on HTS, he wanted to talk, on the phone, immediately. We talked for the next couple hours... He lead me to believe that he ran a somewhat secret company in the computer security field. He explained that he has many 'hackers' that work for him, as well as ties to the federal government. What interested me about this character was his interest in hackthissite... HTS is well known for being the starting place, or otherwise "n00b infested." So what would an 'elite' group want with HTS? I'm not sure. But I'm not stupid either. I played it out Over the course of either weeks or months, I'm not sure, blackatk had a small group of people "involved." Information about him spread around, and Jeremy, founder of HackThisSite, found out. He merely heard that blackatk was related to the federal government, and immediately wanted him gone. I couldn't care less, but that would ruin my plan on finding out the truth about this "blackatk". blackatk stuck around for quite awhile. He was silently recruiting people (apparently) and just waiting for *me* to tell him what to do. Or something like that... I'll pause this problem for now... Lovely lucky lady number 3. Scenestar. Ironically, his nickname actually explains pretty much everything I'm going to divulge about this unique character. scenestar had been a developer for hackthissite for a long period of time. When I "took over", it was OutThere and scenestar running RootThisBox. OutThere had a problem of lacking to be around...like...ever. Finally, I gave the word to scenestar that he was running the RootThisBox subproject of HackThisSite. There were problems with this before we even started. RootThisBox has always had the address of http://www.rootthisbox.org . The problem was, during the period of time before I "took over", we had lost access to the registrar that held this domain. We were, at the time, using http://rtb.hackthissite.org. This starts the 'real' problem that came out of this situation. A few days before the expiration of 'rootthisbox.org' scenestar and I talked about it. I had a plan to 'snatch' it right as it expired. scenestar managed to muster up enough cash to buy a new server, and unbeknownst to me at the time, a new domain, rootthisbox.net. Ahh yes, some of you have heard of it. Let's continue... The night before the expiration of rootthisbox.org, scenestar told me he has ordered the server, as well as the domain. I told him not to worry about the domain, but it was already too late. Well, alright, I guess we can prevent people from attempting to pull off a similar site, like hackthissite.com (this site frames the real hackthissite with ads, but I wrote a script on hackthissite to skip past it). At this time he's telling me this, I had checked the registrar for 'lost password' info (for rootthisbox.org). I then noticed on the WHOIS record that the email address was actually @hackthissite.org, which I had access to. I set up a working email server that night, just hours before expiration of the domain that we had for a few years. I got the pass, logged in, and bought the domain again. Saved. scenestar had claimed he wanted to run a hosting site on his server, as well as possibly using it for a roothisbox 'box' (user submitted boxes are used for rootthisbox as a challenge to hack into). scenestar had made it apparent that he did not like FreeBSD, which was the current OS on the server hosting the sites. That was part of his wanting a new server, for him to work off of, using Debian. Again, cool, whatever. The problem itself begins to manifest itself. At this time, we're using the original, and official, rootthisbox.org domain. It had been this for years, and was under my control, which as my position I'm the main system administrator. I suck at being a dev Anyway, scenestar made it known that he wanted to move 'rootthisbox' to his server. At this time, I felt that it was ok, because scenestar seemed like an ok guy. criticalsecurity.net was being hosted by Sid/WhiteAcid. I had the IRC in my bedroom (don't ask, long story). I had hackthissite.org on the main server, DNS on another server, etc. My thoughts for doing it like this was in the event of a DDoS, only one portion of the community goes down. Wow did I make a mistake allowing scenestar this... One day, I notice on the front page of HackThisSite.org, that scenestar has made a news post stating the rootthisbox is moving to .net, and not .org. That right there is a breach of trust and security in my opinion. He did not tell or talk to any of the other admins/devs of this 'move'. We all felt that it was inappropriate for a single person to make a decision like that. At this time, I pointed rtb.org to hts.org. scenestar and I faught about it, and in the end, I called all the admins together with a list of reasons as to why scenestar should no longer be a part of this team. He had tried to 'officially' make a major decision without talking to anyone, and that's a pretty damn big decision he made. Also, on his server, he had implimented ads. I personally didn't want ads on any of the sites (special conditions for the ones on hts.org) but it was just google ads. Then I hear he also signed up for a 'firefox' click ad that got him money on each click. Annoying, but fine. Then I hear he installed "IE Destroyer" if I remember correctly. It was basically a popup, that happened on EVERY page load while using Internet Explorer. This means that more than half of the users to the site get a popup on each page. What did it say? It said to download firefox, with a link to the download right there. A download that would give scenestar money. At this point, he has literally tried to steal the rootthisbox project away from ALL of the hackthissite admins, without telling people. He is also attempting to make money off of it. This is a non-profit group. That means no money making required. I myself removed the paypal donation link from HackThisSite, because it's non-profit. The admins, and some others, relevant, held a vote. It was a unanimous decision to remove scenestar. Now somewhere in here I forgot to mention that he rm -rf / the rootthisbox (on my server). It was during our 'fight' about the domain and moving servers. I also forgot to mention that when he was working on rootthisbox, he managed to 'code' a layout that wasn't too bad. Except he didn't code it. Someone found where he stole the layout from, which later he confessed to. Now, during this whole issue... I found out that some time in the past, scenestar had managed to rm -rf / hackthissite.org. Had I known that, I would not have given him control over such a large portion of the community. He was eventually removed. This 'problem' isn't over. People have told me on many occassion that scenestar was crazy. I knew he wanted money, and enjoyed power. I didn't quite know how 'crazy' he was until after this. After this, he started hating me. And I mean truly hating me. I received multiple death threats from scenestar, stating that he would kill me, and/or make my life miserable, and everyone in my personal life as well... He's on the opposite side of the planet... I felt no harm coming from a drug addicted lunatic(this is a fact). He continued to try to persuade people to come to his rootthisbox.net site, which at the time was just another premade downloaded script. Let's put this one on pause... Problem 4, or problem 1, again. Wells, once again a nice working developer for the site. A short time before this incident, the last remaining 'core' admin, html, had decided to quit. -----BREAK----- Before I took over, there were 4 admins. IceShaman, html, Jeremy, and archaios. I replaced IceShaman - Silent-Shadow, html, Jeremy, archaios. archaios 'left' - Silent-Shadow, html, Jeremy Jeremy was sent to jail - Silent-Shadow, html scenestar was 'removed' After a bit, html and I treat Wells as a core admin - Silent-Shadow, html, Wells html quits - Silent-Shadow, Wells (kinda) -----BREAK----- So now that html is gone, there is no one working on the current HackThisSite. No one really doing anything with RootThisBox. Wells was kind of working on HTSv4, but as he recently got a job, that was more and more...put off. IceShaman was also working on HTSv4. A few days after html quits, I get desperate. I have 0 people. I start grabbing people I trusted, people I knew wanted to help, etc. Wells messages me one day about an issue with HackThisSite (coding problem) that he wanted to fix. At this point, I needed help. I gave him access. This was the same day a public transit bus (full sized) ran me off the road in my new (used) car. I was stressed. Near wreck, no devs, etc. I gave him access. What happens? Less than an hour later, Wells has zipped the hackthissite source, as well as the database, and uploaded them to his server. Then he said he quit. I had just filed for vacation due to the stress from the near car accident. And now I get this? There goes my vacation. One day passes. scenestar, with rootthisbox.net, has downloaded the copy of hackthissite, and is now running a broken clone of hackthissite. I saw this as somewhat of a problem, just because scenestar has been trying to accomplish what his name suggests, for the last several months. He's quite a pest. I now have a small dev team that is very eager to work. First thing done is some bug fixes. Over 40 of them. Including some mission fixes. And then some new features. At this point, we're 6 months into my 'term' as admin. Things are happening on the site, etc. Wells claims that if things stay good, he'll come back. scenestar, of course, is just causing problems because he *hates* me. Back to problem two... blackatk and his 'crew' of elite hackers for his 'company'. At this time, nothing could have made me happier than to see rootthisbox.net go down. Now, blackatk, having said 'federal' ties, should be able to accomplish this. Hell, scenestar is running a site identical to hackthissite.org, which at the bottom states this, and I quote "This site is the collective work of the HTS staff. Please don't reproduce in part or whole without permission." I gave blackatk all ISP and host provider contact info. blackatk informed me he also contacted someone at the FBI. Now remember, I've been 'dealing' with blackatk for nearly 5 months at this point. Not once has anything he said actually been proven. This is the first thing I've asked him to do. So what happens? We go into a private 'meeting' channel, #0ps. Inside are 4 people. Me, blackatk, a user name bri3d, and a user named Huggles. Both users are/were HackThisSite members. He proceeds to initiate an "attack" on rootthisbox.net. I waited for anything relevant in the channel. Finally, I just do a port scan, paste in the channel, and go idle. bri3d was afk, so it was blackatk and Huggles. Huggles... isn't exactly what I would call 'skilled'. In any case... nothing got done. This was no suprise to me, because at this time I had figured blackatk was a fraud. Reasoning? Why would the owner of a computer IT security company stick around HTS for 5 months waiting for me? Some had make accusations that he was a "fed". If that was the case... why the hell would the government give a rats ass about keeping someone here for 5 months? There were far too many holes in his story, and after failing to take down rootthisbox.net (which I had the ability to due, as I had contacted the ISP before talking to blackatk). I told the ISP to keep it up, and let me know of any 'problems'. None arose. Blackatk had said he even got the FBI involved. (Why would the FBI care about two feuding hacking sites? Especially if the problem site is international?). At this point, I gave up on blackatk. He had no skill, and his choice of people were shockingly poor (except for a few). Somewhere before this next part, I finally "went off on" blackatk, and told him to never return to HTS. Huggles went with him. I managed to obtain a log stating that I (Silent-Shadow) needed to be 'dealt' with, as well as orders to sieze my computers, and remove my from HackThisSite. (It AMAZINGLY never happened.) Blackatk was a fraud. Damn good with psychology though. So, everything goes quite for a bit. scenestar is still running a clone of hackthissite, and it has it's ups and downs (some dns problem, which ironically blackatk claimed credit for). somewhere in the last couple months, archaios came back, and was given protected op status in the main channel on irc. One of the developers, Truth, had a problem with archaios, and likewise the reverse. It's all just IRC drama, and always will be. One day, while I'm at work, having the usual stressful day, Truth messages me. We talk about something that happened earlier in the day, then he mentions wanting to be unbanned from #hackthissite. I ask why he's banned, as I didn't know what happened. The reason was "cock jokes". He went on to explain that he was making cock jokes, and out of nowhere, archaios kickbans him. He pasted the time that he was kicked as 20:47 (not sure on the '7'), which is 8:47 his time. We have a 3 hour difference, so that's 5:47 my time. At the time he told me this, it was 6:45 my time. This was one hour after he was banned, and we had been talking for about 15 minutes... After arguing a bit, and disputing a few things back and forth, he makes it clear he wants to be unbanned. He made it clear, and specifically noted that he's one of the "last active developers". In other words, he was saying that if I don't unban him, he quits. It's a simple form of blackmail, because he knew I didn't want him to quit. At the same time, I'm not going to bow down to such demands. How would that look for someone in my position? I'm the last remaining core admin, and developers have the power to control me? I told him no. But, I logged into irc from work, and took a look at what happened. <IceShaman> no you were bang on <IceShaman> well, no banging for you with that small thing <Truth[laptop]> My petite cock? <wired> chode <Truth[laptop]> My little rod. <Truth[laptop]> My itty bitty poker. <IceShaman> you don't want a poker <IceShaman> you want a choker <Truth[laptop]> My miniscule wankstick. <Truth[laptop]> My teeny clittickler. <IceShaman> archaios <IceShaman> I think you should stop spelling it misspelt <IceShaman> that past participle was coined by Shakespeare, and I'm going through a hate Shakespeare phase <IceShaman> so, gogo misspelled <Truth[laptop]> My modest muff-pusher. <IceShaman> Truth, honestly, your cock is too small to be adequately described <IceShaman> by your clever witticisms <Truth[laptop]> My stunted babyflute. <IceShaman> babyflute? <IceShaman> paedophile <Truth[laptop]> well I was gonna go for babymaker <IceShaman> PAEDOPHILE <wired> lol <Truth[laptop]> my insufficient spermbus. <archaios> shut the hell up <archaios> you're talking shit <archaios> both of you <Truth[laptop]> my inconsequential vaginastuffer. * Truth[laptop] was kicked by archaios (I told you to stop that undersized loverubber. * archaios sets mode: +b Truth[laptop]!*truth@HTSUser-A32449A0.cable.mindspring.com * Truth[laptop] was kicked by archaios (that was a mistakees, but even the NORMAL stupidity is more sensible * archaios sets mode: -b Truth[laptop]!*truth@HTSUser-A32449A0.cable.mindspring.com As you can see, he was actually warned, as was IceShaman, for the 'cock jokes'. At the bottom of this, you can see that he was unbanned. These aren't my logs, but I remember the time difference. Truth had been banned for less than 3 full minutes. Remember, we're talking about being unbanned, a full hour later. He was already unbanned before even talking to me. He had been warned. He then threatened me with resignation if I did not unban him. I presented this information to him. He tells me that because I had allowed archaios to come back, and Truth wanted to still help out, that he had /ignored archaios. For me. Thus he never saw the warning. I asked him, repeatedly, who's to blame for this problem today? I never get a straight answer. Eventually, he quits. He has done this in the past, thrown a little tantrum over irc drama, etc. Hell, I do it. The problem was this time he had access to the site. He made a front page news post stating that he quit, and that he couldn't work with me. He also noted that scenestar, for lack of a better word, 'sucks'. I deleted that post. I had not removed Truth's access because I felt he would realize that it was his fault, and come back, and continue working. That didn't happen. Truth rewrote several of the php scripts on the site, including backdooring various locations. He even hardcoded some content into the scripts so that even though it was gone from the database, it was still displayed (which was confusing as hell I might add). At this time, due to security reasons, I had firewalled him from both irc and the site. I didn't want him trying to gain access to anything after what he did. We fixed a couple of the hardcoded 'stuffs' and some random db things. Then 'it' happened. Truth gave Wells (who at this time is wasn't being helpful, and was basically helping mess things up more) access to the backdoor. Wells proceeded to give every user admin, while removing the admins privledges. They overwrote all news items with a link to one of Wells "sites" where he makes fun of both HackThisSite as well as the founder, Jeremy. scenestar finds out every user has admin...including him. He also makes a couple front page news posts. I saw this some time after it happened. I don't know how long it was up like that. scenestar had managed to post his propoganda claiming that I'm crazy or something, and that everyone has moved to rootthisbox.net. I took down the site in less than 20 seconds. It was down for 3 days, mostly untouched. I was waiting. Watching, of course. Hell, my name even implies it. Finally, we work on the site, bring it back up. That the morning of this writing (which has now passed midnight, so I guess yesterday morning). Throughout the day, as I had launched with the same code that might have been tampered with due to the backdoors, I was repeatedly checking the site. Nothing 'bad'. Good. I was also looking at scenestar's site. On the front page, he has this news post... ------------------------------------------------------------ 28/04/07: Silent-shadow fails at life by scenestar Fucking commit suicide already and instantly become an hero. Your life is pathetic meaningless lie and you know it. ------------------------------------------------------------ And I'm crazy? He's pissed off because I took from him the power that he loves so much. As I look, I notice that the comments on this news post have grown quite a bit. I realize that while I had HTS down, people had come to RTB.net. Here's one of the comments... ------------------------------------------------------------ By: Heemlo - 04:12 am Sunday May 06th, 2007 Report this post are there people actually using this site, not realizing it is not the real one? and how did no1 catch on to the fact that silent-shadow is crazy lol ------------------------------------------------------------ how did no one catch on that i'm crazy? Because obviously I'm not. Ask any sane person around, but be very careful if you choose to give scenestar or his website even a moments glance. He also linked to a forum post on his site... Here's some snippets ------------------------------------------------------------ for those not interested to read through all the text here's the summary: -- Founder jeremy hammond is in jail, All active staff were forcefully removed and new staff members are suspected FBI informants ready to arrest members. Current admin silent-shadow is a Fucking traitor Join rootthisbox.net today to rebuild the community we care about so deeply. ------------------------------------------------------------ Founder in jail? True. All active staff forcefully removed? False. scenestar was the only one 'fired'. The rest quit. New staff members are suspected FBI informants? False. I don't even know what to say to that accusation. The only reason I can think of him using that for his reasoning is because of my actions involving blackatk which ironically in the end proved to be that he was a fraud. These FBI staff members are ready to arrest memebers? False. LOL - I actually laughed on this one. Current admin Silent-Shadow is a "Fucking traitor"? I won't make a true or false claim on myself. I have been told by some, including html (the last core admin) that I'm the best admin HTS has ever seen. On the other hand, I have a group of people who truly dislike me (Wells, scenestar, blackatk, etc). I will AT LEAST say I'm the most controversial admin. If you read the rest of his forums post, he actually talks about blackatk himself! I talked to Truth about what he did, and he realizes he shouldn't have done what he did. He accepts the responsibility of what he did as well. I have been "running" hackthissite for the last almost 7 months. Things HAVE improved from the time I became admin. Things in the background have gone up and down...a lot. We have devs leaving, admins leaving, and both coming back or being replaced. I know my decisions aren't always the best, or the 'right' decisions. But remember, in problem one, when I banned someone I knew was infecting users with a trojan, I had somehow made myself the enemy because of WHO it was. The long standing members of the community felt that I should have allowed Wells to do as he saw fit because of everything he did for HTS. I thought about that actually... What has Wells done? He coded a very large portion (like 90% or more) of HTSv4. Which has been in the making for over 2 years... Sounds like a lot... but in two years? That's barely anything. What has he done against HTS? rm'd the files for v4 once. People argue because it was HIS code, he should have the right to. Fine. What about infecting users? Or DDoSing the site on a vulnerability he knew about, but didn't tell the people (me or html) where it was (not that it wasn't hard to find...). What about when he released the source code? Which scenestar then used to impliment a clone of hts... Or what about when he used Truth's backdoor to mess up the sit even more? Now, I don't hate Wells. Hell, I like the guy, but I don't like how he has dealt with and handled HTS. He's an amazing coder. Pure skill. But his actions show his character. Wells has the capability of being a 'nice' guy. He also has acted exactly like scenestar. When he used Truth's backdoor, he overwrote every news post. Here's a snippet "Silent-Shadow is a fed. He is destroying hts." That's a copy and paste (I saved a snapshot of the defaced homepage). Ironically... It claims I'm a fed. People have been doing that for awhile now, and anyone that actually pays attention knows I'm not a fed. But let's take a look at the second part... "He is destroying hts." I've been paying for the servers the last 7 months. I've been trying to get people to work on coding new content and missions, as well as fixing the site. I've personally had to go in and fix things that others had broken: I had to rebuild the HTSv4 jail when Wells rm'd it; I had to remove Truth's backdoor, as well has manually fix all of his scripts; I had to set up a new jail because of what scenestar did to rootthisbox. Wells claims that i'm destroying hts, when he's the one that has botnetted (ddos), infected users, released the source, and everything as such? Silent-Shadow is destroying HTS? False. I wanted to end on more info about scenestar. People have gone to his site, and actually believe what he has stated. They believe it to such a shocking degree... ------------------------------------------------------------ By: Heemlo - 04:12 am Sunday May 06th, 2007 Report this post are there people actually using this site, not realizing it is not the real one? and how did no1 catch on to the fact that silent-shadow is crazy lol ------------------------------------------------------------ I can only tell my side of the story. My side is this... scenestar, in the last few months, has done quite a few things to me, against me, personally. I have a voicemail on my cellphone where he claims he wants to kill me, or make me suffer, as well as everyone in my personal life. I plan to host it as soon as I find a better method of recording it than just holding my phone to a mic. He also, after launching his clone of HTS, put the HTS source and database files onto thepiratebay.org, a torrent site. In the comments, he had something like... "And don't forget to give the current HTS admin Silent-Shadow a call to remind him that he is a child molesting paedophile that doesn't deserver to live" Which was followed by my home address and phone number. Because of everything he has done, I finally firewalled him from hackthissite in an attempt to not let anyone succumb to his lies. He evades every wall of protection I can put up. He also had some users from the xelix irc network helping him out. He's managed to convince a shocking amount of people that I, Silent-Shadow, am the bad guy. Am I? His site has a front page news post saying that I should die. I have a front page news post stating the entire story from when I started running HackThisSite. 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Cats are limited in their ability to express affection for us. Mainly, they rub their bodies against ours, particularly their cheeks where their ‘happy’ pheromones are produced (or exuded; I don’t claim to know much about cat physiology). They knead their paws on us, with claws extended, and sometimes, in their excitement, they nip. In none of those instances do they mean to hurt us, but if you aren’t trimming their nails regularly, and they still have their teeth, both of those signs of affection can be a tad painful. Leaving aside the obvious sophomoric human parallels to the above, that’s pretty much it for a cat’s ability to express affection for a human.
Some of you are lucky enough to have cats who will let you pick them up and snuggle them. I’m terribly jealous of you. Of our two cats, one will tolerate being picked up if it’s necessary to be moved from point A to point B, but the other will run if he even suspects that’s what we have in mind. Since he’s usually wrong about our intent, it’s also difficult to pet him, unless he initiates contact.
That cat, the male, is at his most loving when we’re in the bathroom. He loudly demands attention when we are either sitting on the pot, or have just stepped out of the shower and are dripping wet. Personally, I’d rather pet him while sitting down than immediately post-shower when his fur will get stuck all over me. Despite my aversion to cat fur on my wet skin, however, whenever my cats ask for attention, I am prone to drop everything and respond. (Cat people will understand.) Imagine then, how painful it must be to have to give up your cats, for whatever reason, to the uncertain future of a shelter.
A woman I know was recently forced, by medical circumstances, to take her two cats to a shelter, after she had tried, unsuccessfully, to find a home for them. After a week or so, she contacted the shelter to find out how they were, and if they had been placed with a new family. They told her that one of the cats had had a horrible time adjusting, stopped eating and drinking, and cried constantly. After several days, she’d apparently made herself so sick that they’d had no choice but to put her to sleep. I know the shelter in question, and they’re wonderful people, so I’m sure they did what they felt they had to do. The woman, however, was horrified, and promptly returned to the shelter to retrieve the remaining cat.
My heart breaks thinking about that poor woman. She is never going to forgive herself for what she will always think of as being responsible for killing her cat. Instead she’ll spend her days coughing and trying to catch her breath, while her remaining cat rubs against her asking for attention, which she will be unable to resist providing, thereby exacerbating her inability to breathe. Cat people will understand. | <urn:uuid:e6ce36fd-6a83-4628-8b71-fe046412b69a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://judymintz.com/tag/cats/ | 2013-05-19T10:02:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984861 | 649 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Safaricom and Nokia Corporation have launched Nokia E7 symbian based smart phone in Kenya. Nokia E7 boasts of perceived similarity to a mini computer with integration of world class applications such as CNN, Sales Force Full, Sports Trackers and Angry Birds. The main drawback of Nokia E7 is its operating system based on Symbian software considering today’s preference to Google’s Android software. It was previously marketed as a mini computer featuring a full QWERTY keypad and an Amoled touch screen.
- 4 inch Clear Black AMOLED Touch Screen. Nokia E7 display screen offers a unique and an enhanced visibility capable of reducing the effects of direct sunlight. It has a fairly advanced pixel density comparable to that of iphone 4’s Retina display and unmatched viewing angles. The Nokia E7 display screen has an orientation and ambient light sensor ability and produces up to 16million colors.
- 8.0 Mega Pixel Camera. A 16:9 view finder coupled by dual led flash gives Nokia E7 an outstanding ability to provide unmatched photography experience; it is further enhanced by face detection capability and an additional secondary VGA camera for video calls. Nokia E7’s 8.0 mega pixel camera supports HD 720p video quality
- Storage. Nokia E7 has a total of 16MB internal memory which is more than enough you will ever need to store user content.
- Internet Connection. Nokia E7 is 3G enabled with high speed internet connection on HSPDA cat9 (10.2Mbps maximum speed), HSPDA cat5 (maximum 2.0Mbps). Supports WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g/n and Microsoft outlook synchronization, calendar, contacts and notes. WiFi allows wireless internet connection on Nokia E7.
- Bluetooth for wireless connection with other Bluetooth enabled devices allowing sharing of files.
- Intergraded GPS/A-GPS receiver and OVI maps for car and pedestrian navigation.
- Nokia E7 boasts of a large QWERTY and well placed rubber keyboard making it more comfortable to type.
- Free 80MB Safaricom data bundle per month for 6months with every purchase of Nokia E7 handset at Safaricom shops
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Unlike past years, no clear-cut No. 1 Draft pick
Choice looks to be between prep outfielder and Stanford pitcher
It seems that the only thing certain about the top of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft is that there is no certainty.
There is no clear-cut choice for the No. 1 overall pick this year, no Stephen Strasburg or Bryce Harper. Some in the industry believe there isn't even necessarily a Gerrit Cole, last year's top selection by the Pirates. With no obvious direction to head in, the Astros, who hold the first pick, are looking at seven or eight potential candidates.
Some seem more viable than others. A survey of national cross-checkers and scouting directors made it clear who most consider to be the best talent. When asked who they would take if they were picking No. 1, it was almost unanimous: Georgia high school outfielder Byron Buxton. At the same time, though, the same scouts, with one exception, believed the Astros would not take Buxton. Nearly all thought Stanford right-hander Mark Appel will be this year's No. 1. College pitchers usually need less time to reach the Major Leagues and are considered less-risky selections.
The annual First-Year Player Draft will take place on June 4-6, beginning with the first round and compensation round A on Monday, June 4, at 7 p.m. ET. The first night of the event will be broadcast live on MLB Network and streamed live on MLB.com. Rounds 2-40 will be streamed live on MLB.com on June 5-6.
MLB.com's coverage, sponsored by CenturyLink, includes Draft Central, the Top 100 Draft Prospects list, Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of every Draft-eligible player, and Draft Caster. You can also keep up to date at Draft Central and by following @MLBDraft on Twitter. And get into the Draft conversation by tagging your tweets with #mlbdraft.
There will be a lot of talk across all venues about what the Astros will do and how it cause things to filter down. As one scouting director put it, "We can't figure out No. 1. How are we supposed to figure out [our pick]?"
With that in mind, here's a closer look at the potential choices for the top pick, from strong candidates to dark horses.
Mark Appel, RHP, Stanford
Rank in Top 100: 2
Some see him as this year's Cole, a college ace with outstanding stuff who hasn't always had the results you'd expect.
Why he should go No. 1: Three future above-average to plus pitches. Prototypical pitcher's body. Pitching for major college program as its ace. Looks and sometimes pitches as future top-of-the-rotation type. Should be relatively quick to the big leagues.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: Results have been inconsistent. Stuff has been inconsistent, with his velocity sometimes fluctuating from inning to inning. That's led some to small whispers about his toughness on the mound.
Byron Buxton, OF, Appling County HS, Ga.
Rank in Top 100: 1
A toolsy outfielder who's drawn comparisons to the likes of Justin Upton, he is the clear consensus pick as the most talented player in the class.
Why he should go No. 1: One scout called him a "six-tool player." Ability to do everything on a baseball diamond, with plus tools across the board. One scouting report labeled him a future MVP type.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: From a small town in Georgia, he hasn't been tested by top competition during his regular season. As a high schooler, it might take him longer to get to the Majors than some others on this list.
Kevin Gausman, RHP, Louisiana State
Rank in Top 100: 4
This Draft-eligible sophomore has progressed from being a pure thrower, when he was coming out of a Colorado high school two years ago, to being a much more complete starting pitcher.
Why he should go No. 1: Big, projectable right-hander with two potential plus pitches in his fastball and changeup. Mental toughness, goes right after hitters with the potential to be a front-line starter.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: His breaking ball isn't as good as his other two pitches, making it difficult to see him as a future No. 1 starter, which is what you want with the top pick. If breaking ball and overall command don't come, could be a future reliever as opposed to top-of-the-rotation starter.
Michael Wacha, RHP, Texas A&M
Rank in Top 100: 9
Why he should go No. 1: Big (6-foot-6) with four-pitch mix. Two are potential plus in fastball and changeup. Consistent performer who really knows how to pitch.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: Inconsistent breaking ball. Fastball has been plus in terms of velocity, but it's been flat this spring. Hasn't been as dominant this year as he was first two years of college.
Kyle Zimmer, RHP, San Francisco
Rank in Top 100: 6
Why he should go No. 1: A future front-end anchor, top-of-the-rotation type. A power pitcher with future plus fastball and breaking ball. Has a fresher arm because he was converted to pitching, so he hasn't thrown as much as others.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: He might have a fresher arm, but it's also less tested. Not having pitched as much gives him less of a track record to go on.
Mike Zunino, C, Florida
Rank in Top 100: 3
Why he should go No. 1: Has the chance to be a top-notch everyday catcher with power. One scout said he has tools comparable to Matt Wieters.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: He's not No. 1 on most teams' boards in terms of talent. It would be more of a draft out of need than taking best available player.
Carlos Correa, SS, Puerto Rico Baseball Academy (Rank: 5): With strong showings this spring and tools aplenty, he's been shooting up Draft boards. But it's tough to get full evaluations on players in Puerto Rico and if you're going to take a high school position player, why wouldn't you take Buxton?
Max Fried, LHP, Harvard-Westlake HS, Calif. (Rank: 7): Top prep arm, left-handed, projectable, with the chance to have three above-average to plus pitches. But only two high school pitchers have gone No. 1 (though both were lefties) and Fried hasn't thrown as well lately. | <urn:uuid:8f76f628-8570-461b-81c0-b0d66d847508> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120503&content_id=30334830&vkey=news_kc&c_id=kc | 2013-05-19T09:48:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973034 | 1,436 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
One of the best shows on television has to be the new CBS reality show, Undercover Boss. If you missed it Sunday night, I recommend you catch it next week. Apparently, 38.6 million people watched the debut of the show in which executives work incognito within their own companies.
Sunday's episode revealed the huge disconnect between corporate policy and how it affects the work/life of employees. It showed how far removed the top executive can become from the bottom rung employees who have interaction with the customers. Larry O'Donnell, the president and COO of Waste Management, posed as an entry level worker and took on jobs such as sorting recycling, picking up litter and cleaning toilets. He learned from a recycling worker that she is docked two minutes for every minute she is late from her half-hour lunch. He learned from a female garbage truck driver that she has to pee in a coffee can to keep on schedule. He learned from a plant worker that she is doing the job of several workers and getting paid an hourly wage. At the end of the episode, O'Donnell made changes, handing out promotions and raises and allowing breaks into the schedules for the female drivers.
I heard O'Donnell in an interview yesterday withElvis Duran (radio host) and O'Donnell said he had no idea the effects of his corporate policies to drive productivity and he never would have known because although he visits sites, he arrives as president and doesn't get the candid feedback from employees. He was amused at the way "corporate" was used to describe the jerks at the top, knowing he was the guy the workers were talking about.
A critic for Time Magazine had some gripes with the show. He writes: "Every problem O'Donnell witnessed comes out of shareholder demands for productivity, to wring more work out of every penny of wages. Does anyone believe there aren't plenty of other workers in the same straits in a company the size of Waste Management? You stop cutting costs, you disappoint the market, and you get canned. If Larry O'Donnell has too much of an Ebenezer Scrooge change of heart, Waste management can find another Larry O'Donnell.
Good point. But I like a show that details the reality of how hard some people work to earn a buck. I like a show that shines a light on how far removed those in the executive suite can become from the reality of how hard it can be to balance work and life when you are facing health issues or financial hardship.
Even though Undercover Boss is a prime-time entertainment show, and maybe even cheesy big network PR for executives, I'm a supporter. If Undercover Boss makes even one CEO consider spending time with front-line workers, if it leads to one change that's favorable for employees, I think it's done a great community service. I'm willing to give this show another hour of my time next week.
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NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
Updated at 12:53 p.m. ET- President Barack Obama announced Friday that the administration will not require religious-affiliated institutions to cover birth control for their employees.
Capping weeks of growing controversy, Obama said he was backing off a newly announced requirement for religious employers to provide free birth control coverage even if it runs counter to their religious beliefs.
Instead, workers at such institutions will be able to get free birth control coverage directly from health insurance companies.
"Under the rule, women will still have access to free preventive care that includes contraceptive services no matter where they work. That core principle remains," he said from the White House briefing room.
"Religious liberty will be protected and a law that requires free preventative care will not discriminate against women," Obama added.
An announcement from the White House reveals that later today the President will announce contraception rule changes. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
Planned Parenthood responded Friday with a statement, saying, "The Obama administration has reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring all women will have access to birth control coverage, with no costly co-pays, no additional hurdles, and no matter where they work ... we will be vigilant in holding the administration and the institutions accountable for a rigorous, fair and consistent implementation of the policy ..."
Following an intense White House debate that led to the original policy, officials said Obama seriously weighed the concerns over religious liberty, leading to the revamped decision.
It was just on Jan. 20 that the Obama administration announced that religious-affiliated employers -- outside of churches and houses of worships -- had to cover birth control free of charge as preventative care for women.
These hospitals, schools and charities were given an extra year to comply, until August 2013, but that concession failed to satisfy opponents, who responded with outrage.
Catholic cardinals and bishops across the country assailed the policy in Sunday Masses. Republican leaders in Congress promised emergency legislation to overturn Obama's move. The president's rivals in the race for the White House accused him of attacking religion. Prominent lawmakers from Obama's own party began openly deriding the policy.
The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and MSNBC's Chris Matthews join a conversation on how the White House will respond to the Catholic Church's demands.
The sentiment on the other side, though, was also fierce. Women's groups, liberal religious leaders and health advocates pressed Obama not to cave in on the issue.
The furor has consumed media attention and threatened to undermine Obama's re-election bid just as he was in a stride over improving economic news.
Political reality forced the White House to come up with a solution to a complex matter must faster than anticipated.
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One player wasn’t allowed to play at all, the other played, but not as much as he would have liked and certainly not up to his standards.
For University of Cincinnati freshman forward Shaquille Thomas and sophomore forward Jermaine Sanders, the 2011-12 basketball season – despite the Bearcats’ success in going 26-11 and advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2001 – was largely an ordeal.
“It was hard,” Thomas said. “That was my first year of ever sitting out from playing basketball, but I adjusted and I just tried to get better every day.”
Thomas, a spindly 6-foot-7, 187-pound swing player from Paterson, N.J., provided a glimpse of his talent Tuesday night in the Deveroes Summer League at Woodward High School. He scored 25 points and displayed a knack for finishing around the basket and using his long legs to sprint quickly up and down the floor. He can’t wait for the 2012-13 season to start.
“I’m eager to play,” he said.
You can’t tell by looking at him, but Thomas says he has gained about 15 pounds since arriving at UC last summer. With his long arms on defense and his ability to score both inside and outside, he could create serious match-up problems for UC opponents this season.
Last year at this time, Thomas was dealing with the uncertainty created by the NCAA’s questioning of alleged academic irregularities at NIA Prep in New Jersey, where he attended high school. Eventually, the NCAA ruled that Thomas could attend UC and practice with the team after fall quarter, but could not play in games or travel with the team. The good news for the Bearcats was that he would still have four years of eligibility remaining.
After the ruling was issued, Thomas focused on using the year to get better and to help his teammates improve in practice. He said he received a lot of support from UC coach Mick Cronin.
“I got used to it after awhile,” Thomas said. “He always encouraged me to keep on playing and don’t get down on myself.”
Sanders’ experience was much different. He got to play as a freshman but not as much as he had hoped when he began the season as one of the most heralded of UC’s incoming recruits. A 4-star recruit from Far Rockaway, N.Y., Sanders was named the all-Manhattan Player of the Year by the New York Post after averaging 18.1 points per game at Rice High School. He was known not just for his scoring but for his overall game, including his passing ability. But he struggled from the outset at UC.
He says it’ll be a different story for him this year. He has lost 15 to 20 pounds to enable him to take advantage of Cronin’s plan to be more of a running team and, like JaQuon Parker a year ago, dedicated himself to working harder during the summer.
“You’ve got to be in the gym a lot,” Sanders said. “I’m working way harder than I did last summer, just getting my shot better, my speed better, my defense better.”
Sanders played in 28 games last year, averaging 8.5 minutes, and scoring a total of 48 points. He shot 38.1 percent from the field, 36.8 percent from 3-point range and 50 percent from the free throw line. His season high was 12 points on Dec. 17 vs. Radford.
He expects better things as a sophomore.
“Last year, with me not really playing a lot, when I would get in the game, I would be frustrated, not really knowing what to do,” Sanders said. “It was just me being mad that I wasn’t playing a lot. I’m working hard this summer so I won’t have to go through that this year. Now I know what to do.” | <urn:uuid:e9fe4258-c412-438a-b387-15bcf3a4e96a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120718/SPT0101/307180109/Thomas-Sanders-ready-contribute-UC?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Cimg%7CUC | 2013-05-19T10:25:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985939 | 854 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Oklahoma football: 2003 Big 12 title game loss to Kansas State still stings former Sooners
During Bob Stoops' 13 years in Norman, the 2003 conference championship game is his only loss to Wildcats coach Bill Snyder
NORMAN — Mike Stoops insisted he doesn't think much about — or remember much from — the last time he matched wits with Bill Snyder.
“Shoot, that was 8 1/2 years ago,” said the Oklahoma defensive coordinator. “It's a blur to me. I don't really think much about it.”
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As for some of the Sooners who spent the evening of Dec. 6, 2003, chasing Darren Sproles down the Arrowhead Stadium field, watching their perfect season wiped away in humiliating fashion?
They think about the 35-7, Big 12 championship game drubbing from Kansas State all the time.
“We didn't go out there and play hard enough,” said Teddy Lehman, then a senior linebacker who won the Bednarik and Butkus awards.
“We didn't block, didn't tackle. Didn't do the things we'd done that whole season. They weren't even close to the team we were; it's not even debatable.”
Many who watched the 28-point rout that day would probably take that debate.
During Bob Stoops' 13 years in Norman, the 2003 Big 12 title game is his only loss in seven meetings with Snyder, who had both Stoops brothers on his Kansas State staff in the early 1990s.
The Oklahoma defense has generally done pretty well against Snyder's offenses, with this one giant exception.
Oklahoma took a 7-0 lead on its first drive but watched Kansas State quarterback Ell Roberson and Sproles, the small, lightning-fast running back, light up the scoreboard for five unanswered touchdowns to win the game and Snyder's only conference championship.
On the first play of the second quarter, senior cornerback Derrick Strait — that year's Jim Thorpe Award winner — blitzed and hit Sproles five yards behind the line of scrimmage. But the diminutive Sproles spun off the tackle and sprinted for a 55-yard gain to set up the Wildcats' first score.
“The whole thing started there,” Bob Stoops said. “If we make the tackle, who knows what happens?”
Bob Stoops refuses to blame the game entirely on his defense that night, pointing to the offense's stagnant performance and inability to capitalize on several opportunities throughout the game.
Still, Sproles finished with 22 carries for 235 yards — a stunning 10.7 yard-per-carry average — against a defense that gave up a season average of 3.8 yards. One of Roberson's four touchdown passes was a 60-yarder to Sproles.
For a variety of reasons, the game was a shocking and difficult pill to swallow for Sooners everywhere.
Oklahoma was being hailed as the greatest college football team to ever play, and for a time, it certainly seemed like a possibility.
Seven Sooners became first-team All-Americans, and four won prestigious individual awards — including Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Jason White.
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The real problem is rising tuition, say student leaders
This is a response to Liam Ledgerwood’s argument against student union fees, which appeared in The Arthur at Trent University. What do you think about student fees? Tell us in the comments section, on Twitter @maconcampus, or on Facebook.
We are sorry to hear that levy fees are troubling you and that you feel ripped off. Further, it is extremely troubling to hear of such an abuse of student monies at York—that is wrong. However, your piece misses some of the most amazing work these levies accomplish. Here is a quick, incomplete list of what they support:
—two food banks, feeding both hungry students and those less fortunate in the Peterborough community
—a free market to exchange goods
—a pan-campus and Peterborough-wide anti-rape campaign
—a transit system used by some 6,000 people daily
—a health benefits plan, which students can remove themselves from, used by 3,000 students
—employment for more than 100 students offering invaluable job experience (for example: Arthur staff writer)
—political and charitable goals including raising money for Haiti after their last earthquake, talking about mental health on campus, and helping those who cannot afford the full cost of childcare.
If we wanted these groups, we’d fund them voluntarily.
Liam Ledgerwood’s piece for The Arthur at Trent University generated more than a couple letters to the editor. After reading his argument below, check out one of those responses, written by two student politicians who support the fees. What do you think? Tell us in the comments section, on Twitter @maconcampus or on Facebook.
When I was an eager and green first year at Trent University, I remember my father telling me a story about one of his university friends back in the 80s. Like Trent, York University offered any student group “free” money to help finance its activities. Well, my father’s friend started a group, received a few hundred dollars, went and bought “prizes” (read: stuff he wanted) and held a “fundraiser” auction that went unadvertised. When no one showed up, guess who kept the prizes?
I laughed at the time, but I recently read the list of levies that each student at Trent pays to support various organizations, clubs, charities and special interest groups on campus. Every single one of us pays more than $180 per year to support more than 30 groups that most of us have a) no participation in b) receive no benefit from or c) have never even heard of.
Each year, $18.79 is charged to us to pay for Trent Radio (does anyone know the frequency?), $18.87 for Trent Annual (despite my never even seeing a Trent Yearbook through three years here), $12.50 for the politically ideological Ontario Public Interest Research Group, and the list goes on. Sure, some of these levies are “refundable,” but the total of all available refunds is only $51, and we have to go to groups individually to get our own money back. There’s no “opt out” button. | <urn:uuid:bb2cec1b-076d-4248-9a1a-ce0ae5e91605> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/tag/trent-central-student-association/ | 2013-05-19T10:17:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96025 | 684 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
SERC will be conducting research on the Contee Farm site. For specific questions regarding the archaeology of Contee Farm, please contact the Anne Arundel County Archaeologists and Londontowne.
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Ecological Modeling Lab: Landscape ecology, nutrient transport, wetland and stream health, spatial analysis and ecological modeling. Visit the site.
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Terrestrial Ecology: Terrestrial community ecology, consumer-prey interactions, invasions biology. Transport of nutrients through watersheds. Visit the site. | <urn:uuid:a359481c-5f68-4635-8feb-f57e3499f958> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://serc.si.edu/education/conteefarm/scientists_corner.aspx | 2013-05-19T10:23:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.800698 | 139 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
So who held the best convention? Republicans or Democrats?
It’s the question my bosses, my colleagues, my friends have asked repeatedly since I returned from the better part of two weeks on the road covering the slickly produced infomercials better known as political conventions in the United States.
As Ambassador Gary Doer pointed out to me in Charlotte, N.C., conventions Americanstyle are far different than their Canadian counterparts.
The party’s nominee is a foregone conclusion after a long primary process. Very little debate occurs about what path the party should take on the critical issues of the day. The presence of corporations and lobbyists is pervasive, just as it is on Capitol Hill.
To paraphrase the ambassador, American conventions don’t exactly present democracy at its finest.
As journalists, it’s almost impossible to dig out any news at conventions. The convention puppet-masters who control access to the delegates, to the convention floor and to the politicians don’t want news to be made. Instead, they want rave reviews from the “critics" — also known as news reporters. They control every syllable of every message. Speeches are vetted.
Speakers are told how to respond to any journalists who manage to snag some face time.
And so, in the absence of news, we tend to cover them as we would any grand production.
So to answer who held the best convention, you have to determine who had the best speech.
Who was the biggest disappointment? Who had the knockout punch? Whose remarks are bound for the highlight reel for years to come? Who was a complete embarrassment? Who went badly off-script?
Here are my picks: Best speeches: Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Ryan and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Note the absence of those two duds, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, on this list. Read on!
Biggest disappointments: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
Romney tried, he really did. But his safe, largely dispassionate address left many delegates cold when they needed to fall in love.
As for Obama, his speech was flat, joyless, and absent of the sweeping poetry he’s known for.
It makes sense — he’s dealing with a glacial economic recovery; Americans are hurting four years after a devastating economic recession took hold.
But his address was still a buzz kill following the sheer jubilation that Bill Clinton brought to the convention with his spirited, funny defence of the president a night earlier.
Knockout punch: The staid and patrician Sen. John Kerry, surprisingly enough, directed some real barbs Romney’s way, mocking his gaffe-plagued trip abroad earlier this summer and delivering what many described as one of the best lines of a long political career: “Ask Osama bin Laden if he’s better off now than he was four years ago!"
The highlight reel: Michelle Obama’s loving testimonial to her husband’s character is going to be the speech future first ladies study for weeks and months ahead of their own convention speeches.
And Condi Rice’s eloquent, wise, moderate and heartfelt address will be the one you’ll see played over and over again in 2016, when establishment Republicans desperately try to convince her to run. Leave it to the women!
The embarrassment: Clint Eastwood. And despite the brave faces Republicans presented in the hours after the actor’s bizarre prime-time conversation with an empty chair, they were appalled.
In the convention hall, in Tampa nightspots, in airport lounges and aboard D.C.-bound jetliners, Republicans were openly, incredulously asking one another how convention organizers allowed it to happen.
Eastwood stole the spotlight from Romney and from the powerful, moving, humanizing speeches made about him by family friends, and it made the anti-Hollywood Republican party look hypocritical to boot.
Off message: Vice President Joe Biden seemed to want to out-do Bill Clinton, but his own rambling ad libs weren’t particularly funny and went on far too long. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie didn’t mention Romney until almost 17 minutes into a speech that was all about him.
Romney looked understandably miffed.
So what’s next? To a certain extent, more of the same at the three debates scheduled for next month. Obama, Biden, Romney and Ryan are all said to be in heavy-duty debate rehearsals, so the lines will be canned, the talking points hammered home, the skill of not answering a question finely honed.
But even so, debates offer an element of unpredictability, immediacy and real-time drama that conventions don’t, and as silly as it may seem, I believe they’ll determine who wins on Nov. 6.
So tune in! It’s more political theatre, to be sure — but without the puppet-masters.
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Hybrid car owners can continue to use faster carpool lanes in Virginia thanks to a new state law, but they risk a ticket if they don't have the right license plate.
This year's General Assembly extended indefinitely a rule allowing drivers of fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles to ride in the faster "high occupancy vehicle" lanes along the Dulles Toll Road, Interstate 66 and Interstate 95/395, even if they're riding alone.
Lawmakers intended to simplify a law that previously had to be approved every year, leaving hybrid owners to wonder whether it was still legal for them to use the HOV lanes. But the rules still aren't so simple.
Hybrid drivers can only use the HOV lanes along I-66 if their clean fuel license plates were issued before July 1, 2011. Only hybrids with plates issued before July 1, 2006 can use HOV lanes on I-95/395. Any hybrid can use the carpool lanes on the Dulles Toll Road.
Lawmakers agreed in 1994 to allow anyone with a hybrid car to use the carpool lanes as a way to encourage Virginians to buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. But when hybrids became more popular, they also started to clog the HOV lanes, infuriating carpoolers.
"We got a lot of calls from motorists seeing a difference, saying there were way too many hybrids out," said Virginia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Joan Morris.
Lawmakers responded by restricting hybrid owners' access to HOV lanes but made exceptions for anyone who was already using the HOV lanes before the restrictions were put in place. Restrictions were placed on I-95/395 in 2006, and so hybrids bought before then were allowed to continue using it. Restrictions were placed on I-66in 2011. The license plates from each year are different so police can tell at a glance when they were issued.
Del. Tag Greason, R-Loudoun, who sponsored the new extension and drives a hybrid, defends having different rules on each road.
"Sometimes a one-size-fits-all decision is not the best decision. What about the individual who went out and bought a hybrid specifically because the law said they could use this and then we go ahead and change that?" he said. "To change that with one fell swoop would probably be unfair to those who made that investment in the first place."
But the state police won't be cutting drivers any slack just because the law is confusing.
"Enforcing HOV rules -- that's what makes HOV effective," said Virginia State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller. "Our guys take HOV rules very seriously." | <urn:uuid:cb3eccca-df84-4119-95c9-9666b5426462> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/597646 | 2013-05-19T10:17:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976327 | 540 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Apparently some fancy-schmantzy dinner was put on for the sponsors of the FDR Open in Phoenix (that’s a golf tournament, apparently). And really, no golf tournament dinner is complete without a high-risk acrobatics performance. How did it go, you ask?
San Diego resident Jose Angel Vera [not pictured], 33, was performing an acrobatic stunt involving chains in front of more than 700 people. As he was unraveling the chains, he fell from the rafters onto the ground. Witnesses said he fell on his head. [ :( ]
[...]A server explained that the ground is asphalt and that there were no supports or safety nets.[...]
The dinner was cancelled as police investigated the accident.
Oh, and he died. I guess nobody told that guy that those rafters were Tiger-proofed. But seriously, it kinda pisses me off that the PGA Tour, in these trying economic times, can still afford to have acrobats at their sponsorship dinners. I’m lucky if I see two homeless guys fighting over a shopping cart when I walk out of Burger King. Just remember that if one of them catches fire and you make a wish, it comes true. I have the insurance check to prove it. | <urn:uuid:58e2fa4c-3708-4877-9570-98e6c6ec5291> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://withleather.uproxx.com/tag/not-exactly-the-greatest-of-ease | 2013-05-19T09:57:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981423 | 260 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The following is a sampling of our preferred properties in some of the locations visited on this tour and is meant to be indicative only. Hotel properties are not confirmed until 30-60 days before trip date. You can click on the hotel photo to view the official hotel website (if available). For sample hotels in other locations on this tour, please contact us.
||Jalman Meadow Ger Camp
Location: Jalman Meadows, Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area, Mongolia
The camp has a maximum capacity of 20 guests in double occupancy gers. The entire ger camp is fully collapsible, and do not have shower nor WC blocks. The toilets are long drop style allowing for natural decomposition. Showers can be organized in the outdoors with hot water by portable showers and a shower tent that is provided. Solar panels and windmills generate some electricity for refrigerator and kitchen use.
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||Narantuul Hotel |
Location: Ulanbataar, Mongolia
Located in the heart of Ulanbaatar midtown, modern style Narantuul Hotel features 24 individually decorated guest rooms. Every room has a private balcony and equipped with high speed internet access, cable TV, mini bar, and IDD service.
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This week has been a busy one so far, and will continue for the rest of the week. The company has dicided to change software as an improvement to both knowledgebase and employee workload. It's called SAP. This is basicaly an SQL database will be used to create purchase orders, control billing, shipping, invoices etc. Directly linked with all Fujitsu Siemens Companies + Factories around the globe. It wont affect me as i'm technical and dont get imvolved with these aspects. However im obliged to learn the proccess regardless. So, training Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, then on to Ausberg in Germany for Thursday and Friday. The weekend is my own, then im of snowboarding at the Three Valleys in France. Then back to work for further training. | <urn:uuid:28e02679-2838-480d-bb45-dde1ec644cbf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.advogato.org/person/gregf/diary/5.html | 2013-05-19T10:34:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949914 | 164 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |