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DataAdapter.Update Method
Calls the respective INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements for each inserted, updated, or deleted row in the specified DataSet from a DataTable named "Table".
[Visual Basic] Public MustOverride Function Update( _ ByVal dataSet As DataSet _ ) As Integer Implements IDataAdapter.Update [C#] public abstract int Update( DataSet dataSet ); [C++] public: virtual int Update( DataSet* dataSet ) = 0; [JScript] public abstract function Update( dataSet : DataSet ) : int;
- dataSet
- The DataSet used to update the data source.
Return Value
The number of rows successfully updated from the DataSet.
|Exception Type
|A source table could not be found.
|An attempt to execute an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement resulted in zero records affected.
When an application calls the Update method, the DataAdapter examines the RowState property, and executes the required INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements iteratively for each row, based on the order of the indexes configured in the DataSet. For example, Update might execute a DELETE statement, followed by an INSERT statement, and then another DELETE statement, due to the ordering of the rows in the DataTable.
It should be noted that these statements are not performed as a batch process; each row is updated individually. An application can call the GetChanges method in situations where you must control the sequence of statement types (for example, INSERTs before UPDATEs). For more information, see Updating the Database with a DataAdapter and the DataSet.
If INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements have not been specified, the Update method generates an exception. However, you can create a SqlCommandBuilder or OleDbCommandBuilder object to automatically generate SQL statements for single-table updates if you set the SelectCommand property of a .NET Framework data provider. Then, any additional SQL statements that you do not set are generated by the CommandBuilder. This generation logic requires key column information to be present in the DataSet. For more information see Automatically Generated Commands.
The Update method retrieves rows from the table listed in the first mapping before performing an update. The Update then refreshes the row using the value of the UpdatedRowSource property. Any additional rows returned are ignored.
After any data is loaded back into the DataSet, the OnRowUpdated event is raised, allowing the user to inspect the reconciled DataSet row and any output parameters returned by the command. After a row updates successfully, the changes to that row are accepted.
When using Update, the order of execution is as follows:
- The values in the DataRow are moved to the parameter values.
- The OnRowUpdating event is raised.
- The command executes.
- If the command is set to FirstReturnedRecord, then the first returned result is placed in the DataRow.
- If there are output parameters, they are placed in the DataRow.
- The OnRowUpdated event is raised.
- AcceptChanges is called.
Each command associated with the DataAdapter usually has a parameters collection associated with it. Parameters are mapped to the current row through the SourceColumn and SourceVersion properties of a .NET data provider's Parameter class. SourceColumn refers to a DataTable column that the DataAdapter references to obtain parameter values for the current row.
SourceColumn refers to the unmapped column name before any table mappings have been applied. If SourceColumn refers to a nonexistent column, the action taken depends on one of the following MissingMappingAction values.
|Enumeration Value
|Action Taken
|Use the source column names and table names in the DataSet if no mapping is present.
|A SystemException is generated. When the mappings are explicitly set, a missing mapping for an input parameter is usually the result of an error.
|A SystemException is generated.
The SourceColumn property is also used to map the value for output or input/output parameters back to the DataSet. An exception is generated if it refers to a nonexistent column.
The SourceVersion property of a .NET data provider's Parameter class determines whether to use the Original, Current, or Proposed version of the column value. This capability is often used to include original values in the WHERE clause of an UPDATE statement to check for optimistic concurrency violations.
[Visual Basic, C#, C++] The following example uses the derived class, OleDbDataAdapter, to Update the data source.
[Visual Basic] Public Function CreateCmdsAndUpdate(myDataSet As DataSet, myConnection As String, mySelectQuery As String, myTableName As String) As DataSet Dim myConn As New OleDbConnection(myConnection) Dim myDataAdapter As New OleDbDataAdapter() myDataAdapter.SelectCommand = New OleDbCommand(mySelectQuery, myConn) Dim custCB As OleDbCommandBuilder = New OleDbCommandBuilder(myDataAdapter) myConn.Open() Dim custDS As DataSet = New DataSet myDataAdapter.Fill(custDS) ' Code to modify data in DataSet here ' Without the OleDbCommandBuilder this line would fail. myDataAdapter.Update(custDS) myConn.Close() CreateCmdsAndUpdate = custDS End Function 'SelectOleDbSrvRows [C#] public DataSet CreateCmdsAndUpdate(DataSet myDataSet,string myConnection,string mySelectQuery,string myTableName) { OleDbConnection myConn = new OleDbConnection(myConnection); OleDbDataAdapter myDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(); myDataAdapter.SelectCommand = new OleDbCommand(mySelectQuery, myConn); OleDbCommandBuilder custCB = new OleDbCommandBuilder(myDataAdapter); myConn.Open(); DataSet custDS = new DataSet(); myDataAdapter.Fill(custDS); //code to modify data in dataset here //Without the OleDbCommandBuilder this line would fail myDataAdapter.Update(custDS); myConn.Close(); return custDS; } [C++] public: DataSet* CreateCmdsAndUpdate(DataSet* /*myDataSet*/,String* myConnection,String* mySelectQuery,String* /*myTableName*/) { OleDbConnection* myConn = new OleDbConnection(myConnection); OleDbDataAdapter* myDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(); myDataAdapter->SelectCommand = new OleDbCommand(mySelectQuery, myConn); OleDbCommandBuilder* custCB = new OleDbCommandBuilder(myDataAdapter); myConn->Open(); DataSet* custDS = new DataSet(); myDataAdapter->Fill(custDS); //code to modify data in dataset here //Without the OleDbCommandBuilder this line would fail myDataAdapter->Update(custDS); myConn->Close(); return custDS; }
[JScript] No example is available for JScript. To view a Visual Basic, C#, or C++ example, click the Language Filter button in the upper-left corner of the page.
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family, .NET Compact Framework
See Also
DataAdapter Class | DataAdapter Members | System.Data.Common Namespace

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New Target Identified For ALS Treatment
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease wherein the cells of the central nervous system (CNS) involved in movement and coordination are destroyed. Although the mechanism of ALS is not completely understood, inflammation is believed to play a role in the disease process. A recent study by Howard Weiner and colleagues at Harvard Medical School and Tufts School of Medicine investigated the role of inflammation in a mouse model of ALS. Weiner and colleagues found that the recruitment of activated immune cells known as monocytes into the spinal cord correlated with increased CNS cell death, and this recruitment was mediated by high expression of the chemoattractant protein CCL2 by resident spinal cord-derived immune cells.
Antibody-mediated depletion of the monocyte population reduced cellular recruitment to the spinal cord, decreased CNS cell death, and extended survival time in the mice. The analogous monocyte population in humans with ALS exhibited a similar inflammatory signature to the ALS model mice, suggesting that this cell population could serve as a marker of disease progression in human ALS patients. Thus, these results identify an inflammatory monocyte population as a potential therapeutic target for ALS.---
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A lone cross now sits in vigil over a highway crash scene that claimed the lives of six teens just south of Lloydminster early Saturday morning.
Mounties were responding to what would have been a fairly routine call of a semi rolled along Highway 17, just on the east side of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.
What they found instead was a tanker truck carrying crude, which had careened off the road surface and a car submerged in a slough nearby. Inside the vehicle were five teens, all declared dead at the scene, and a sixth outside the car who later succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
Mounties say all the victims were between 13 and 17 years of age.
UPDATE: Saskatchewan RCMP have confirmed that also killed in the crash are Aimie Candace Hurley, 14, from Lloydminster, Mackenzie Moen, 14, from Lloydminster, Naomi Salas-Schafer, 13, from Lloydminster, Kristopher Tavener, 17, from Marshall, Sask. and Jayden Boettcher, 16, from Marshall, Sask. and Tarren Attfield, 15, from Lashburn, Sask.
The cross that now stands at the site of the fatal crash reads, "R.I.P. Tarren Attfield Love Mom, Angel, Dad."
Friends remembered Attfield - who according to his Facebook profile is a resident of Lashburn, Sask., a town of approximtely 900 people and located 35 km southeast of Lloydminster -- through posts on Twitter.
Putting on a light show up there for us tonight eh bud ? @Tarren_Attfield ✨⚡ #loveyou #guardianangel #missyou 💕— Amanda Lavoie (@AmandaLavoie) July 28, 2013
Meanwhile, flags flew at half mast in the city of Lloydminster, where some of the victims are reported to have resided.
The town of Marshall, Sask., a small oil and gas town just south of Lloydminster was reeling after news of the tragedy, according to a report by The Edmonton Sun.
Brent Underwood, owner of Marshall Hotel, spoke with the Sun and choked up as he described seeing RCMP speaking with relatives of victims of the crash at the local Legion branch.
"I know them all," Underwood said of the victims.
"People I know are coming in distraught and leaving more distraught.
"It's just knowing all these people, seeing all the sadness and still not knowing the facts."
Investigators are probing the scene of the crash, but Mounties say they have not yet determined what caused the collision.
The semi driver is the only survivor of the violent crash and is in hospital with undetermined injuries, Mounties said. They cautioned it may be months before it's clear what led to the crash.
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Game of the Year (Windows)
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SummaryBreathtaking experience... but sadly, a little more than just that.
The GoodThis is by far the best technically achieved shooter to date. Not to mention that aside the fact graphic looks extremely detailed and wonderful, this game runs more than fine on some older machines. Let's be serious, it's hard to play some FPS nowadays unless you have a decent upgrade on your computer. Well, this game will allow you hours of fun without an upgrade of a sort.
This game gives you a feeling of a World War II on a slightly higher scale... you get to know a bit more about all those lunatics than you'd just want to shoot. But no doubt, everything about WWII looks great, from enemy soldiers, their AI, vehicles, structures, U-boats, planes, weapons, and the atmosphere is just plain ultimate and very authentic.
Well balanced background music nicely boosts up the atmosphere while the sounds are fine and versatile. But sound effects aren't the only ones good here, even better are the graphic effects (think of a scene when tank destroys the church tower, or when the experimental jet fighter does a loop towards the sky). The game gives you plenty of variety in level design so you won't much feel like walking over the same terrain (unless when you'll be thrown back at that very same terrain), and it's neat to see certain tricks such as shooting through the wooden floor or ceiling, making it collapse to gain a passage.
The game starts very intense and creepy, and promises to give you such a great story... but that's just what it promises. It doesn't go too well into direction towards being so good. Still, it doesn't leave you empty-handed. Every level is a new experience, tactical as well as full of fun, but that is as long as WWII is concerned. But then you get to see the real face of Id Software... *sigh*....
The BadIt wouldn't be Id Software and it wouldn't be crap if it weren't for the same creators that don't care about anything but the graphic. No doubt, game is perfect in many aspects, but imitating Doom and Quake during WWII is where it comes to worse. It all seemed so possible until you get to confront minions of the undead warlord and hordes or skeletons. The thing is, most of those supersoldiers and what not is impossible to kill (or destroy, assuming they may already be dead to some point) without getting wounded. And that is a fact. And more to the fact, that is simply unacceptable! To make an opponent which you cannot whack without getting seriously wounded yourself. Those floating lighting creatures come to mind. The best weapon cannot destroy them before they reach you, and their speed is simply too boosted.
This game seriously screws things up with adding anything but WWII, but with Id it was only to expect, and as much as this thing will annoy you, some of the levels are seriously well done. So, if you wanna experience some of the best parts in the history of FPS games, bite the bullet and risk playing crappy levels aside. That's the only way to enjoy this game, you gotta play it all, or none. It still beats the crap out of Allied Assault bigtime.
The Bottom LineI was really skeptical towards this game, especially since knowing how Id Software cannot do anything without adding some monsters on the scene. I wasn't wrong about that hunch in this game, either. This game so strongly depicts the best you could experience in a WWII first-person shooter, but they just had to add everything to make this game look close to Quake. But okay, majority still resides on fighting the nazis, so guess this can be tolerated... still, they did it a bit too much.
They said X Files meets WWII, and that may as well be close to unraveling the truth behind this game, 'cos X Files series did become worst in due time, and this game goes a little too far into supernatural. But even still, this game may guarantee some fun on a ground level, and is definitely the finest product that ever came out of Id Software, but I'm just as well very close to saying 'only one'. World War II is majority in this game, the rest is to add a point to the story that would be able to become as standalone and interesting even if there would be no WWII. But since it is time of WWII, the game takes good advantage of it to turn it into even more creepy story with lots of ammo rounds included.
Additional great thing about this GOTY version is that you get some behind-the-scenes concept, and lots of additional itzy-bitzy thingies one may care to appreciate. For the same price, it's still better than getting original one, isn't it? Plus you get the original Wolfenstein 3D in case you may skipped that masterpiece decade ago. It's a worthy package, that's for sure.
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The burning question on many fans of On-Air On-Soaps and of actor,Van Hansis, (Ex-Luke, As the World Turns) was why the actor did not throw his name into the hat for Daytime Emmy competition, as we reported here yesterday. Van's name is missing on the pre-pre nomination ballot.
Last evening on Van's facebook page he took time to answer his legions of fans as to why, even though he seemed a shoo-in to get a nomination, he chose not to participate in the Emmy game. Hansis posted: "Thank you all for saying how much I deserve that award. That is wonderful and kind and it melts my cold cold heart. But this year, what it came down to for me was how much did I want it, and I know "I could have been a contender" (Raging Bull, 1980, bet I'm the first soap actor to reference that!?! ) I realized I didn't want it that much to go through the hoopla that comes along with it. I only ever wanted to win to tell my parents how much their support meant to me, and I did, privately, and it was awesome."
Van also answered a line of questioning about his thoughts on his former castmate, Eric Sheffer-Stevens (Ex-Reid, ATWT) chances on winning the gold in the Supporting Actor category in which ESS is entered. Van stated simply, "I am very excited for him. I know he is gonna win."


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Researchers say they are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the deadly facial tumour disease that has plagued the Tasmanian Devil.
Over the past two decades, the deadly tumour has wiped out as much as 85 per cent of its wild population.
The breakthrough also has implications for understanding how similar cancers develop in humans.
- Katherine Belov
- Professor of Comparative Genomics at the University of Sydney
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Road sweep fuels Rangers
Lundqvist makes 40 saves as New York heads home with 2-0 edge in the series
Updated 12:29 am, Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Henrik Lundqvist made 40 saves and Martin St. Louis scored in the second period and the New York Rangers earned a 3-1 victory over the Carey Price-less Montreal Canadiens on Monday.
The Rangers lead the best-of-seven Eastern Conference final 2-0 heading back to New York for Game 3 on Thursday and Game 4 on Sunday.
St. Louis scored a day after he and his teammates attended the funeral of his mother, who died just before Mother's Day. The Rangers have rallied around the grieving veteran and have won five in a row.
New York's Rick Nash also scored while Ryan McDonagh added a goal and an assist to give the defenseman six points in the opening two games of the series.
Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal, which outshot New York 41-30.
"It's been an emotional weekend," St. Louis said. "I'll definitely never forget this weekend for many reasons, but I think the grieving process will still take a while.
"But that stuff is behind me. Tonight, we wanted to make sure we'd have the emotion we'd need to win this game because we knew they would come out hard, especially rallying, losing their best player, so I though we answered."
The Canadiens had Dustin Tokarski playing his first career NHL playoff game in goal in place of Price, the Olympic gold medalist who hurt his right knee in the series opener when Chris Kreider crashed into the net.
"It was a lot of fun," Tokarski said. "There was a lot of adrenaline. You grow up as a kid wanting to play in the playoffs, and I got the opportunity and just came up a bit short."
Coach Michel Therrien said he opted for Tokarski over regular backup Peter Budaj because of the youngster's record of winning championships at the junior and AHL levels.
"He's a winner," Therrien said. "I thought he played well. We talked to Peter and he reacted as a pro. He's a good teammate."
At the other end, Therrien said Lundqvist was the difference.
"I thought we played well, but the only reason we lost was Lundqvist. He stole that game," he said.
The Canadiens rebounded from a 7-2 thumping in the opener with one of their better games of the playoffs, but Lundqvist had a nearly flawless game.
Montreal's worst fears were realized in the first period, which it dominated while falling behind 2-1.
Rangers coach Alain Vigneault also gave credit to Lundqvist, saying "he's the only reason we were still in the game. They had total control of the pressure."


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!!Return of the Aquabats!
* From "Idiot Box!"
-->Children, I want to warn ya\\
'Cause I've been to California\\
Where [[TakeThat Mickey Mouse is a demon!]]
* The complete subversion of a BadassBoast that is "Aquabat March!"
-->Please don't kill us, we're just the Aquabats,\\
We're just trying to have a little fun!\\
So if you want to fight, we can duke it out\\
Please just don't kill me with your gun!
!!Fury of the Aquabats!
* From "Captain Hampton and the Midget Pirates!"
-->Now seven weeks into the trip, and Jim was sick\\
To the death of being sick\\
Some kind of action he wanted as he searched the seas\\
For every day was the same old... [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion stuff]]
* The goofy voices done by the Aquabats while listing random things in the pre-chorus segments of "Lobster Bucket!"
-->Cherry pits and paper clips and people talking smack!\\
Giant squid, it comes right up, pulls your train right off the track!\\
Mammoth broom will swoop right down and sweep you in a hole!
!!Myths, Legends, and Other Amazing Adventures!
* The send-up of Music/{{Korn}}s beat-boxing during "I Fell Asleep On My Arm!".
** The anti-climactic ending, where [[spoiler: the narrator finds that all that mosh-dancing he's implied to have done during the song helped restore the circulation to his arm. Then he goes jogging in the park with his buddies.]]
* "Radiation Song!" features Humongous from ''Mad Max 2'' introducing "Benjy the Tap-Dancing Mutant Boy".
* The amazingly gullible protagonist from "Hot Summer Nights (Won't Last Forever)!". Who falls hook, line and sinker for Liz's various excuses to avoid him. Including moving to Alaska and being an identical cousin.
-->I didn't know they even had identical cousins, and it made me miss you even more...
!!Hi-Five Soup!
* "Radio Down!" features [[WordSaladLyrics a hilariously nonsensical rap]] by guest singer Biz Markie.
-->Pump the bass, pump it to highs\\
I want some ketchup on my hamburger and fries\\
You know me as B-I-Z M-A-R-K-I with an E\\
And this is how I slow it down in the place to be
* The SpellingSong segment from "Hey Homies!"
-->H is for Homies, hugging home-girls who is hot
-->U is for You, my bro, can I get a hug or not?
-->G is for... [[BuffySpeak Good... hug... guy?]]
* The Commander's random ScatSinging at the tail end of "Just Can't Lose!".


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While working on a doomed book about commuting, Tim Brookes developed an odd affection for dirt roads. This led him to study his own driveway, a tiny dirt road, a masterpiece of inconvenience, a many-mooded borderlands in the balance of power between order and chaos. The result: The Driveway Diaries, a well-balanced mix of poignant and humorous observations about nature, the seasons and family life.
Tim Brookes is the author of A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow, which was selected as one of the top travel books of the year by The New York Times and Booklist. He has lived for two decades in Vermont, where he teaches and writes.
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The recurrent theme, however, is the driveway: the driveway down to the house, the driveway as historic artifact, the ecologic driveway, the taxonomy of driveways and the metaphysics of driveways.May 01 2005 | Read Full Review of The Driveway Diaries: A Dirt ...


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two questions:
First, will the major media actually bring the matter up? If it's strong enough they'll pretty much have to, but how long(then) will they try to put it off, and how hard try to dismiss it?
Second: Will any of the Faithful give a rats ass about it being illegal for him to run, or will they demand the Constitution be a: ignored or b: immediately changed?
I tend to think there's a real problem with his birth certificate, simply because if there wasn't he could short-circuit the whole damn mess by showing it; the only reason to keep it hidden is because there is/they think there is something to hide. If it were to be shown true, I'm a bit worried about the reaction. The Faithful will demand the Constitution be ignored, and does anyone think Howard Dean will not argue the same thing? A whole lot of other politicians will try to suck up to the weenies by going along with it. Not a good scenario.
I mean, we've got politicians like this on the national level, too. And as one of the comments says, "Fagan reflects his electorate. Don't slam him. You put him there." Yes, they did. And how much you want to bet most of them will want to return him to his taxpayer-supplied office at the next election, this either forgotten, forgiven or- considering MA- agreed with? A lot of the vile beings who'd say "Can't we just ignore the Constitutional problem for the First Black Candidate for President? Isn't his running more important?" have a constituency back home who'll agree with them. Look at this crap:
In a fiery soliloquy on the House floor, Fagan said he'd grill victims so that, "when they're 8 years old they throw up; when they're 12 years old, they won't sleep; when they're 19 years old, they'll have nightmares and they'll never have a relationship with anybody."
I know all the 'best defense possible' arguments: they do not include "destroy the life of the victim forever', though a lot of lawyers think it does(and wonder why people don't like them). This was one of the things that always pissed me off about lawyer shows back when I actually watched tv, you had one of two premises:
The noble, selfless believer in Truth and Right saving their client from the evil, nasty prosecutor
The noble, selfless believer in Truth and Right trying to put dirtbags in jail, often no matter what they have to do.
They were mostly the first, enough so that the mere mention of a new one causes me to think "Let's see, another show about self-righteous, self-indulgent lawyers with a Mission; I'll pass." The other... I remember an episode of Law and Order I once watched, where a woman had shot and killed an attacker on the subway. The forces of Justice were outraged because she had both carried a pistol without permission of the State, and she'd actually dared to defend herself with lethal force. When the facts about the deceased came out(long record, violent offenses, etc.) the prosecutor in charge just about went nuts trying to find something to put her in prison for: after all, "If we don't people will think they can get away with this."(near as I can recall the words) God forbid someone not go to jail for improper self-defense. Never watched that piece of crap again.
And both of them suck onto the current 'social crisis' for all they're worth. When the big child-abuse scare started in the 80's, you had the Defenders saving the innocent from the prosecutors who'd coached the kids and you had the Protectors trying to keep the kids from being savaged by the nasty win-at-any-cost defense counsel and put the evil molester behind bars. Until the next big 'crisis' or 'issue' came up. Toward the end of that period a show called 21 Jump Street actually had a really good show about how a lot of women thinking of/going through divorce or pissed at their ex were using accusations of abuse to screw over their husband, in many cases to keep them from seeing the kids. Along with that happening and the damage caused to the husband(life destroyed) and kids(unable to ever see Dad again, hearing him called these nasty things), it pointed out that almost never was the woman prosecuted, even when they had an admission of what she'd done; just 'too unpopular politically' to go after her. Hell, all she'd done was destroy her ex, her kids' father, so shut up and drop it.
Speaking of vile douchebags, hell YES the UN ought to be sued, but won't happen. I mean, if you actually held them responsible here, the Rwandans who survived the massacre caused in large part by the UN(at Kofi Annans' orders) refusing to act to stop it. And we can't have that, now can we?
Totally unrelated to the above, a couple of weeks before son's leave started he had a chance to call, and told me about a couple of odd rifles they'd found in an arms cache. He was describing it, and something was nagging at me, and then he mentioned the ammo. "Wait a minute, little bottleneck cartridge like the Tokarev fires?" "Yes." Perforated metal shield around the barrel, drum magazine?" "Yes." "Those are PPSh41 submachineguns, the Russians made millions of them in WWII!" They'd found two, and two cases of ammo. God knows when they wound up in Iraq. If could get permission they were going to take them to the test pit and try them out: I said to take pictures. I've heard of some StG44 rifles and ammo turning up a while back, no telling what all is waiting to be found.
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Last weekend in the German Grand Prix of Formula One (F1), Fernando Alonso won with Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa in second place. That would have been entirely without comment other than to applaud the ability of those two drivers to finish at the top of the pack, had Massa not been given veiled orders to let Alonso past him two laps from the end of the race.
Ferrari have been fined $100,000 for this, but the result stands – meaning Alonso remains a strong candidate for the overall F1 Championship, which is a very competitive 5-way tussle this year.
Nonetheless, purists complain; it wasn't the best driver that won the race, and Alonso has been given an "unfair" helping hand in his Championship pursuit. Ferrari have responded predictably defiantly: It has always been this way – not that it's right or wrong or ethical. Is it the driver, or is it the team? Purists would respond it is the driver and bemoan such malign intervention by teams.
Some have responded that more regulation needs to be introduced to stop this – the BBC article on Ferrari's response lists nine previous incidences of team orders affecting outcomes since 1997 alone. But of course that won't work. Teams will only find more veiled methods to get team orders out to drivers to ensure that the "right" result happens. Massa was only informed that his teammate Alonso was the "faster" driver, not told to let him past explicitly.
Bigger fines could be introduced – $100,000 in a multi-billion dollar industry is peanuts and won't stop any of the teams with a shout of the Championship to think twice about such corruption. But would bigger fines just make the methods of transmitting teams orders even more cryptic and hard to spot?


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A subset of Council 82 is taking steps to break away from their union following last month's contract negotiations.
The proposed coalition, which represents some 1,200 members of state agency law enforcement services, is calling for its members to sign petition cards expressing dissatisfaction with Council 82 leadership. It is requesting an election to be represented by the Police Benevolent Association of New York State, as the group is calling itself.
Nearly 600 petition cards were submitted as of Friday, according to a news release sent by the group this afternoon.
The employees in question include police who work in the State Park System, on State University campuses, for the Department of Environmental Conservation and forest rangers.
The offered contract that triggered the uprising — Council 82's first since 2005 — includes retroactive raises but no increases for the next three years. It also calls for higher health care premiums.
The breakaway group claims that the deal was unfair and that Council 82 failed to involve leaders from state agency law enforcement services in final negotiations. The following release identifies Manuel Vilar, a Long Island-based parks police sergeant, as the president.
The Police Benevolent Association of New York State (PBA of New York
State), a member-focused coalition of police officers representing the
interests of approximately 1,200 members of the state agency law
enforcement services (ALES) unit working at New York State's public
universities and colleges; state parks and historic sites; and across the
state as environmental conservation officers and forest rangers today
announced that they have taken the first steps toward seeking
authorization to act on the officers' behalf on matters ranging from
contract negotiations to legislative affairs to local management
Through a process known as decertification, and under the oversight of the
Public Employees Relation Board (PERB), members of ALES have organized a
statewide effort to collect signed petition cards expressing their
dissatisfaction with its current union, and requesting an election that
would install PBA of New York State as the officers' representatives.
On Friday, 595 cards, representing more than 50 percent of the ALES
membership, were filed at PERB's Albany office. Under PERB rules, an
expression from 30 percent of a union's membership triggers a
decertification vote and halts the contract ratification process.
PBA Vice President James McCartney said, "The members' action is both
loud and clear and represented by their signatures on the decertification
cards. In less than one week, members have initiated an action that
demonstrates support from the majority of the unit. Their support is
more than solid – it's steadfast." McCartney is a State University
of New York police officer.
"Simply put, the members of state agency law enforcement have lost
confidence in its current union; and are appropriately demanding a new
voice and representation," said Dan DeFedericis a former Troopers PBA
president working with PBA New York State organizers. "Police officers
from Western New York to Eastern Long Island are exercising their right to
seek an election that would replace Council 82 with an independent union
led and run by members of the Agency Law Enforcement Services Unit."
Dissatisfaction with Council 82 has been mounting in recent years, and
reached a critical point last month when the union's negotiators failed
to involve ALES unit leaders in the final negotiations and it advanced a
long-term proposal from the state without the negotiations committee's
knowledge of involvement. Council 82 is presently led by Christian Mesley
and James Lyman; both have long ties to the Albany Police Department
(APD). Mesley is a member of APD; and Lyman is retired from the force.
PBA President Manuel Vilar said, "The secret and backdoor deal that
Council 82 tried slipping by its own members was an insult to the very
officers that the union is supposed to represent." Vilar is a Parks
Police Sergeant stationed on Long Island.
"Despite the fact that these members of law-enforcement have been
working without a contract since 2005, they have gone to work in good
faith every day to serve and protect the people of New York," said
DeFedericis, "However, that same commitment was not being returned by
their union representatives and that is both unacceptable and
unprofessional. ALES members deserve and should expect more – and I can
ensure you today that the PBA of New York will be committed to being a
competent and honest union, which puts its member's rights and needs
In a related action, PBA of New York announced that it has hired the well
regarded law firm Gleason, Dunn, Walsh & O'Shea to serve as its general
counsel and will handle its contract negotiations. The Albany-based firm
has a significant history of representing the interests of law enforcement
officers across the state. The firm assisted PBA of New York with its
decertification filing.


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Seattle police are looking for a pair of gunmen who tried to rob three University of Washington students, and beat one of them with the butt of a gun early Saturday.
The three students were outside their fraternity house in the 4700 block of 16th Avenue N.E. when they were approached by two men just past 2:30 a.m.
The pair asked the sudents for cigarettes and when the students declined to provide any, the two robbers then asked for the victims' wallets and money. Again, the three men declined to comply.
That's when the two men each removed a silver handgun from their jacket and racked the slides, police said. The gunmen again demanded money, but the three students insisted they had none.
One of the gunman hit one of the students in the face with the butt of his gun. When the injured student tried to flee back into the frat house, the gunman followed, tackled him, and hit him in the back of the head with the gun.
Both gunmen then left. The young man who was hurt was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Police were unable to find the gunmen and the incident remains under investigation.


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The SF Mayoral Race: Ed Lee
Over the past eight weeks, KALW News has been bringing you the sound of the new season – no, not football or prime time television – but politics.
We've had extensive conversations with each of the 16 San Francisco mayoral candidates, and throughout these interviews, one name has come up over and over again: Ed Lee.
GERRY SHIH: Mr. Lee's name had been bubbling for weeks at City Hall – but nobody kind of thought it was realistic, simply because he had refused to do the job. He said he wanted to keep a city administrator's job. He's a low-key, kind of quiet guy, likes to stay out of the limelight, doesn't like any of the political drama.
We spoke with Bay Citizen reporter Gerry Shih earlier this year, right before the city's Board of Supervisors voted Lee to take the place of former Mayor Gavin Newsom. Since then, Lee has transformed from a little-known city administrator into the city's top candidate for mayor. And his rise hasn't been without controversy.
KALW's Ben Trefny sat down with Mayor Lee in Studio B, and began by asking about the neighborhood the current mayor lives in.
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ED LEE: I live in the Glen Park neighborhood, so that's kind of in the center of things. Glen Park is kind of the southern part of the city, so we're just off of I-280, you get off at the Monterey Boulevard exit. And you go right up and we're on top of the hill, behind what a lot of the neighborhood folks call the Blue School, which is the Glen Park Elementary School that just got renovated and has just reopened.
BEN TREFNY: Starting in Glen Park then, since you're mayor of the city, I'd kind of like to go around the city and talk about some of the different neighborhoods and then get your thoughts on those. Let's head just a little bit south of Glen Park to Visitacion Valley, Excelsior, and Ingleside.
LEE: Well I certainly have all the time in my own mind comparing what's positively happening in my neighborhood because there's very few vacancies in the storefronts. As soon as I get to the Outer Mission, Excelsior, which is just literally about a mile away, I do see some storefronts that are vacant. And the merchants there, and the residents there, and the supervisor of that district has asked me to pay a lot more attention to that area…
BEN TREFNY: John Avalos.
LEE: Yeah, and I've enjoyed walking with him through the district. We had a couple walks by ourselves through the Balboa BART station and we made some comparisons and immediately, I was able to help him make some immediate improvements – cleaning up some physical improvements, some balance between the station operators and the maintenance operations that are out there with the community who wanted a little more safer routes.
TREFNY: Let's go into my neighborhood: the Sunset and Golden Gate Park. What are your impressions of those neighborhoods?
LEE: You know they're beautiful, beautiful areas, of course. And I was out there part of the Outside Lands… There is a tremendous effort going on by the residents to do a lot of private volunteerism to improve their schools, improve their neighborhood parks. This public-private partnership that we've got going with Recreation and Parks – particularly around and in the parks at Golden Gate – I think are lovely.
TREFNY: Now we've lost a lot of gardeners in Golden Gate Park out there over the last few years. There have been trees falling in Golden Gate Park – how do you solve some of those issues in that area?
LEE: Well the public-private partnerships that we're developing are really supporting the parks now. But we've got a new program that just started on October 1, some 200 people have been hired through our human services agency. One hundred of them are dedicated to the parks, and they're going to help the full-time maintenance folks clean the parks. This is job training for people on welfare through the Cal Works program and other programs. One hundred of them are dedicated to the streets cleaning program – you see them already; they're in the merchant corridors as we talk… And I think you're going to see a tremendous turnaround resulting from the next year of this additional 100 people out there.
TREFNY: The economy is really the biggest topic on the table for all the candidates right now, and everyone has their different jobs programs. You mentioned one there. What do you see as the future for the economy and jobs in San Francisco?
LEE: Well certainly jobs growth and economic stability – that's my number one focus. And for the next four years, if I'm privilege to be the mayor of San Francisco, I'm going to keep creating jobs. I know that saving Twitter was one of the biggest decisions that our office working with the Board of Supervisors was able to do, because we literally saved 2,500 jobs leaving the city. These are jobs that are predicted to job in the next year and a half.
What resonated was not only did we do that for that company and for San Franciscans, we did it in the way in which it would immediately revitalize Mid-Market. And that's what I want to do with every merchant corridor of the city.
TREFNY: Being a true city veteran you know that there have been a lot of efforts to revitalize Mid-Market, for decades and decades and decades. Why would this be successful as compared to other ones? I mean I'm sure that people were just as optimistic as you are…
LEE: We learned a lot of the lessons from the past failures. And we know that there can't just be one aspect to do it; you can't just rely on a Twitter. What we're doing is we're putting together whole packages of things: small loans programs, hiring, arts, as well as more safety. We've got a sub-station that's going in.
But we're not even waiting for the sub-station. I already activated our civic engagement division from the city administrator's office – something very successful that we created was the community ambassador program. Something that I talk with even the owners of Twitter were concerned about was that they wanted the safety of their workforce to be very positive. And once you get safety in there, you're going to have a lot of businesses that want to locate. And it's much safer today than it was literally a year ago.
The community ambassadors program is going to have local people hired within the community to be additional eyes and ears to watch what happens on the street – especially those hours where people are going to work and coming off of work late at night. We're going to have additional eyes to help the police.
TREFNY: I want to do some quick word association. Give a thought on the word or phrase that I say. "Being the first Chinese American mayor in San Francisco."
LEE: Proud. Also a chance to say as an Asian American who has spent a professional career up here, what can I do to help everybody and to share the values that my family has with every neighborhood in the city. I'm very proud to do that.
TREFNY: "Chinatown."
LEE: Well Chinatown – very big attraction but struggling community. A lot of elderly, a lot of poor behind the facades. For me, helping build the Central Subway to help connect north and south into Chinatown is going to be very important.
TREFNY: "Rose Pak."
LEE: Good leader of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. I listen to her but I also listen to everybody else. I listen to a lot of people to make sure that I get good input. I get her input as well, but I have to make my own decisions.
TREFNY: "The Go Lorrie investigation."
LEE: You know, I wanted to make sure… I expect 100% compliance with our campaign, and we have it. We've opened up our books and we made sure that our district attorney who is probing this has got a good look at what we've done, so I'm very confident that we'll be found to not be the target of this. Having said that, you know I want to expect everybody who's working with my camp to be compliant, 100%, with every law. And those that think that they're supporting me by doing things that might be questionable, they're going to have to own up to that. They're going to have to be accountable to it, but we're running a clean campaign and that'll be shown, and I'm very confident that we'll proceed forward on this. Again, anybody who thinks that they're supporting me and they do questionable things, they're going to be personally accountable to that and I strongly encourage that they comply with the law – everybody has to do that.
TREFNY: Why should voters elect you to this position?
LEE: I'm excited about this city, I love it, I've been leading it, I've been demonstrating what I can do the first nine months as mayor.
I'm enthusiastic about every neighborhood of this city, and I want to make sure everyone is connected. I think that my leadership and my brand of style, putting people together, solving problems together, resonates with everybody. They don't want to see political factions be resulting from what's happening in Sacramento or even in Washington DC. I think our city is unique because we do come together. Why not do it more on a consistent basis, led by a mayor who loves every neighborhood of the city and wants it to connect up?
Find the full version of this interview, along with the other mayoral candidate interviews.
The SF Mayoral Race: Wilma Pang
In San Francisco, the mayoral election is just over a month away, and the 16 candidates have been stating their cases at debates around the city – one this past weekend took place before a Dog Political Action Committee. (It turns out, according to the SPCA and the U.S. Census, there are nearly one-and-a-half times as many canines in the city as there are children.) So, of course, retaining dog parks are a San Francisco issue right along with retaining families and jobs, growing businesses and cleaning up the streets.
Over the past several weeks, those are some of the topics that KALW's Ben Trefny has talked about with every one of the men and women who are running for the position of San Francisco's mayor. Continuing that series of conversations is the following interview with Wilma Pang, a music educator at City College of San Francisco, and now mayoral candidate.
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BEN TREFNY: So Wilma, let's start by having you tell us something about where you live in the city.
WILMA PANG: I've lived in Chinatown near Nob Hill for the past 30 years. People ask me why I live here with my so-called teaching income. I love Chinatown because I feel like I can help the real grassroots people. What I've been doing is bringing out the real indigenous Chinese positions in the community. They are very happy that art is being appreciated and they're also making coffee money.
TREFNY: Let's do a little word association. There's a lot of big issues that face the city of San Francisco. I'd like to get very brief thoughts on each one of these topics. Let's start with "Democrats."
PANG: I was a Democrat, but now I'm a Republican.
TREFNY: "Republicans."
PANG: I like the idea of Republicans because you think that they do try to help people with the idea of less government. Hopefully Republicans will try to make people earn their worth.
TREFNY: "Greens."
PANG: I'm not very familiar with Greens, but I like the idea of the word "green" because they're considered progressive and into grassroots issues.
TREFNY: "Undocumented Immigration."
PANG: I think it's a tricky issue. If the immigrants are harmless, I would say just let it go. If they've committed some really major offenses, that's something else.
TREFNY: What if they're taking jobs form documented citizens?
PANG: I don't think that's an issue because in Chinatown there are some undocumented workers. You really need them. You can't fill the lower-paying jobs with citizens. With picking strawberries, you really need people to do it. If you're so strict on undocumented immigrants, how are you going to get workers?
TREFNY: How about fair wage enforcement?
PANG: I'm for that.
TREFNY: Legalizing marijuana?
PANG: I say leave it alone because it's college kids and I smell marijuana on their breath. What am I going to do, crack down on them? If it's something that doesn't cause a great harm … I'm not for it or against it. Smoking is bad for you and that's legal.
TREFNY: The Mid-Market redevelopment
PANG: I'm for it, I think in the '50s and '60s it was the hub of the city. Now it's a dead area. I think revitalizing is a good idea.
TREFNY: The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard redevelopment?
PANG: That was so-called redevelopment, though I think you have to think about how are you going to clean up the mess?
TREFNY: The America's Cup coming to San Francisco?
PANG: Yeah that's a good idea to bring in dollars to the city.
TREFNY: Same-sex marriage?
PANG: Why not?
TREFNY: Muni?
PANG: That is a hot potato issue. Actually I've been on the board for SaveMuni.com and we talk about Central Subway. It's not because I'm running for mayor it's because I've been paying attention to Muni.
TREFNY: How do you save Muni?
PANG: We have simple ideas like putting more buses on Stockton Street. Or maybe light rail instead of subway. I don't own a car and I've been taking Muni practically all of my life. You can improve Muni. I would say it isn't 100% efficient, but we can do something to improve it.
TREFNY: When you think of San Francisco what do you think?
PANG: Our income is based on tourism. Art is very important. The art like what I've done in Chinatown brings in tourists. It's the greenest industry, but nobody pays attention to it.
TREFNY: Why should you be mayor of San Francisco?
PANG: I am a very experienced person. I think I'm a good person because I'm a professor and I see things differently. I see the glass as half full, not half empty. You have to put faith in people. There is hope.
Check back tomorrow for a longer version of this conversation, and listen to interviews with the other ten candidates on our SF Mayoral Race page.


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Richard Aregood was an editorialist for the Philadelphia Daily News when this was published, November 21, 1975. He has since moved on to other pastures, reportedly in Jersey. It struck a chord at the time. Some said it was extreme. I thought so. That's what made it memorable. As an experiment, place it next to the typical bowl of pabulum and bushwa newspapers call an editorial. Then consider which one sticks out.
Yes, the Chair
It's about time for Leonard Edwards to take the hot squat.
Edwards, for those of you who haven't been following his worthless career, has been convicted of two murders. He's awaiting trial on another murder and the rape of a 14-year-old girl.
He's 29 years old. Hopes of rehabilitating this piece of human crud are doubtful. It's even wildly optimistic to use the word doubtful.
The last time Edwards was freed, it was on bail pending an appeal of an overly generous third-degree murder conviction. He had just stabbed somebody to death and justice, in all its majesty, had found him guilty.
Edwards then went out and killed somebody else.
His second murder jury was right. He's not worth the upkeep.
Fry him.


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The gates are open for the spectacle that is the Driffield Show.
This year the Driffield Show celebrates its 139th year, with its winning formula of celebrating the traditional and embracing the future.
The Driffield Show has earned its place as a ' must do' event on the calendars of both the farming community and families looking for a good value day out.
Once inside the Show no one will be disappointed with the vast range of activities, displays, educational content and demonstrations designed to suit all ages regardless of your interests. This year the Show will once again combine its winning formula of celebrating the areas agricultural heritage whilst also taking the time to embrace new developments.
The popular working dog demonstrations will also be filling in time slots during the day.


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Fuel efficient and low maintenance, now with a wrap-around handle (R).
The STIHL MS 461 R chainsaw was made for tough cutting jobs and long workdays. This professional-grade saw is up to 20% more fuel-efficient than the MS 460 STIHL MAGNUM®, but delivers every ounce of the power. Its (R) designation indicates that this saw features a wrap-around handle. The wrap handle allows the chainsaw to be used in multiple positions for felling or limbing with hands in the proper positions. The MS 461 R also features our heavy-duty HD-2 filter technology for longer run times between air filter maintenance.
|MS 461 R Specifications - Professional Use
|76.5 cc (4.7 cu. in.)
|4.5 kW (6.0 bhp)
|7.1 kg (15.72 lbs.)
|800 cc (27.1 oz.)
|325 cc (11.0 oz.)
|GUIDE BAR LENGTHS (Recommended ranges)
|40 to 80 cm (16" to 32")
STIHL ROLLOMATIC® E Super
|STIHL recommends #3624 (33 RS3 84) OILOMATIC® saw chain and 25" 3003 000 4030 Ematic™ guide bar combination. The actual listed guide bar length can vary from the effective cutting length based on which power head it is installed on.
Important Information
* The actual listed guide bar length can vary from the effective cutting length based on which powerhead it is installed on.
Note: STIHL recommends use of fuel with no more than 10% Ethanol content. Using fuel with greater than 10% Ethanol content may cause damage to your equipment and may void your STIHL warranty. Learn More…
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Wrap Handle (R)
Saw can be used in multiple positions for felling or limbing with hands in the proper positions.
Adjustable Automatic Oiler
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STIHL ElastoStart™
The ElastoStart™ starter handle is an exclusive feature of STIHL. It is a starting grip with a built-in shock absorber that helps reduce the effort when pulling on the starter cord. The ElastoStart™ starter grip noticeably reduces the sudden peak forces (compression) normally felt during cranking. The forces which occur at the grip after the first compression stroke are smoothed out.
IntelliCarb™ Compensating Carburetor
The IntelliCarb™ Compensating Carburetor is designed to automatically adjust the air/fuel ratio when the air filter becomes restricted or partially clogged and maintains the engine's correct RPM. IntelliCarb™ uses air from the clean side of the air filter to control the diaphragm and flow of fuel. As the air filter becomes dirty and less air is available for the carburetor, the IntelliCarb™ system adjusts the fuel flow to compensate for the decrease in air flow. This is in contrast to typical carburetors that utilize this air from the "dirty" side of the air box.
Side-Access Chain Tensioner
The side-access chain tensioner makes it much more convenient for the user to adjust the saw chain with a bar wrench as opposed to the typical location of the guide bar adjustment screw.
Toolless fuel and oil caps with retainers
Simply lift the lever and twist the caps to remove or tighten. There's no need to use a tool to tighten or loosen.
Decompression Valve
The decompression valve, also referred to as 'deco' or 'deco valve', vents compression in the cylinder for easier starting. The decompression valve temporarily reduces the compression in the combustion chamber during cranking and helps reduce the effort needed to pull the starter rope. It is opened manually and closes automatically as soon as the engine fires.
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Reduced-Emission Engine Technology - Caring for Nature
The STIHL Inc. "Caring for Nature" seal identifies its powered products that are more environmentally conscious, producing zero or low exhaust emissions. STIHL Inc. defines "low exhaust emissions" as being cleaner than EPA and/or CARB exhaust emission standards.
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View the features common to many STIHL chainsaws.
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Bar and Chain Oil
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HP Ultra 2-Cycle Engine Oil
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Complete Filing Kits
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For Your Safety
Pro Mark™ Chainsaw Boots
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The STIHL Pro Mark™ designation identifies products for professional users.
Pro Mark™ Wrap Chaps - 9 Layer
Based on the convenience and comfort of our apron-style chaps, these orange Wrap Chaps extend fully around the lower leg to provide six or nine layers of Avertic™ Pro by Engtex® cut-retardant material. Just snap them up and adjust the waist to your ideal fit. They're a great choice for those who have demanding cutting jobs. STIHL chainsaw protective apparel is also wash and wear, unlike some other brands that require dry cleaning or light surface cleaning.
The STIHL Pro Mark™ designation identifies products for professional users.
NOTE: Chaps are measured by overall length from the waist down. STIHL chaps have a tough outer shell of oil/water-resistant nylon, treated with rain/stain repellent.
Available color: High Visibility Orange
Available length: 36"
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Meets ANSI requirements for earmuffs (ANSI S3.19-1974) and have a Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) of 25 dB(A), visor (ANSI Z87.1-2003) and hardhat (ANSI Z89.1:2009). Type 1 Class C
STIHL Pro Mark™ Dynamic Protective Gloves
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April 20, 2010
Everyday Makeup Look
29 comments:
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WOW - beautiful job! Love the finished look. I am not so good - need more practice and am lost when it come to face makeup. Maybe I can start with some of these products!
- April 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM
- The Petite Blogger said...
i really wanna buy the urbay decay primer!!!!!
btw loving the wedges in the previous post! plus the price tag is so cheap!!
xoxo jenna
- April 21, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Jess said...
This has some great ideas because I'm rubbish at pointing makeup on! You look so good!
- April 21, 2010 at 3:40 PM
- Rachel said...
um i am extremely jealous of your makeup collection.
i dont think i have ever put so many products on at once, but maybe i should because you do look really great.
natural but gorgeous.
so now im making a list of all your products to go take to the makeup counter :)
happy wednesday!
- April 21, 2010 at 4:37 PM
- Cristine said...
You have AMAZING cheek bones. Goodness! <3
Btw you have like more makeup in this photo shoot than I have had my whole life. :P
My skin is so sensitive I can't really wear any foundation. Even eyeshadow gives me eyelid rashes. :( BAH!
You make it look so beautiful! I wish I could have you do my makeup. Even if I got a rash LOL :)
Maybe I could hire you for my wedding hehe! <3
- April 21, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- AttemptingStyle said...
so pretty. much nicer than my usual blush/eyeshadow/mascara/chapstick thing.
- April 21, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Kristin said...
You look beautiful! I need to try that creaseless shadow. Creases on my lids drive me bonkers.
- April 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Amanda Lalique said...
pretty! Love this look for day... and love that bronzer and lipstick.. I like High Tea from MAC...
- April 24, 2010 at 12:05 AM
- Sarah M said...
Girl u dont even need makeup :D
hope u win the contest!
best of luck!
- April 25, 2010 at 7:07 PM


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Several of us were at a friend's house today indulging in a traditional Easter craft: the Eastern European art of egg decorating, or pysanky.
You begin with a raw egg, preferably white. Using a pen-like tool called a kistka, (not to be confused with the name of the female group that sings heavenly Eastern European harmonies, Kitka) you draw intricate designs on the egg. The tip of the scribe has a tiny metal funnel to hold a sliver of beeswax. Using the flame from a candle, you melt the wax and draw it wherever you want white to remain.
Your egg gets dyed the next lightest color, often yellow. You repeat the wax writing, covering up anything you want to remain yellow on the finished egg. Then you dye it the next darker color, such as orange.
These steps are repeated until you use the final, darkest color, which is often black. By this point, you have gone cross-eyed with eyestrain, and your brain is fatigued from trying to figure out what to color, what not to color, and which color to use next.
This is also the time when your egg looks terrible, covered in a web of wax. But magic is just around the corner…
You place your egg into a toaster oven, just hot enough to melt the wax, but not hot enough to cook your egg, then wipe the wax off. The bright colors and intricate designs of your masterpiece are now revealed.
Or, at least, that's the goal. In reality, we had blobs of color where we dropped wax by mistake, areas that we had forgotten to cover, and mishaps, such as cracks that threw all the hard work out the window.
The eggs stay raw and are left to dry. The inner portions evaporate, leaving a light keepsake that can be varnished and used as long as you can keep the bugs away from them and clumsy fingers from dropping them.
Before we knew it, most of the day had gone, but we were left with some very amusing designs and color combinations.
Our sixth grader finished this "sunset" egg and was going to make a second "alien" egg, then got frustrated and played with his guinea pig instead.
The geocaching fanatic of the group wrote out GPS coordinates and some other mumbo jumbo that we "Muggles" don't understand.
Our hostess made an adorable four-part barnyard egg, complete with ram, chicken, rabbit, and ox, which we insisted looked more like a cat. Or reindeer. Or something. But it was cute.
I tried to do a Hawaiian floral theme:
and ended up with an underwater scene once I saw how deep and rich the blue turned out.
We had a great time and vowed to do even better next year. Then we clutched the raw eggs to our bodies and tiptoed home.
Happy Easter!


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Taiwan style "San Bei Ji" (台湾风味三杯鸡)
A classic Taiwanese specialty. If you translate "San bei ji" it means something like "Three cups chicken". Its name is coming from the way it is prepared, using three cups of different special sauces to cook it. The original recipe can be found below - Bon appetite!
- About 10 pieces of garlic (蒜头)
- Ginger (4-5 pcs) (葁)
- 500g chicken (鸡肉)
- Sesame oil (芝麻油)
- 100ml of rice wine (米酒)
- 4 spoons of Soy sauce (酱油)
- Fresh basil leaves (罗勒, 九层塔)
Peel garlic and cut ginger into pieces. Heat up sesame oil in wok pan and carefully fry garlic for about 30 seconds. Add ginger, stir and fry for another 2 minutes. Finally add chicken meat and fry for another 2 minutes.
Add rice wine and soy sauce. Close wok pan and cook 10-15 minutes at middle heat.
Finally add basil leaves, stir and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Serve and enjoy!
Written on: May 9th, 2007 in Cooking.
Comments: 1
Comment by ohcheers
Time: 05/06/11, 4.36 am
Now that's a LOT of garlic. I like this. Just had a version of it at a local noodle bar and just wondered what it was MEANT to be like.
I must recreate!


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Richard Gere and wife split after 11 years of marriage
Get your lowdown on what's happening in the world of Hollywood.
Richard Gere and his wife Carey Lowell have separated after 11 years of marriage and are planning to file for divorce, according to reports.
The 64-year-old actor and Lowell haven't been seen together since a Hamptons screening of his thriller film Arbitrage last year, the New York Post reported.
One source close to the couple said that Gere and Lowell, who starred in the James Bond flick License to Kill have been spending time apart for quite some time.
Another source said that the couple have drifted into different lifestyles, as the Gere craves privacy and Lowell likes socializing with other bigwigs.
The insider said that the couple have a place in Bedford, New York, and Gere likes staying there because it's quiet and he likes the solitude but Lowell likes being in North Haven, Connecticut, in the limelight.
Image: Richard Gere and wife Carey Lowell
Photographs: Julie Fletcher/Universal Orlando Resort via Getty Images
Daniel Radcliffe not playing Freddie Mercury in biopic
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has dismissed rumours that he is replacing Sacha Baron Cohen in an untitled Freddie Mercury biopic.
Cohen, whose uncanny similarity with Mercury was one of the key factors in his casting, quit the film about Queen's late frontman due to creative differences.
There were reports that Cohen wanted to take the gritty R-rated route in representing Mercury's lifestory something that did not go well with band's remaining members.
Radcliffe, who came to know about his casting rumour through internet, said he would be completely wrong for the part.
'There is no truth to it at all. Everyone on the internet who I presume is saying I'm totally wrong for that part is correct. I am completely wrong for that part!,' Radcliffe told Empire Podcast.
'If I'd seen a rumour about me playing Iggy Pop, I'd think, 'Hey, I'd have a go at that -- that'd be fun!' but Freddie Mercury? No. I don't even know who the director is.'
They seem to be saying it's Stephen Frears and Tom Hooper on the internet.
Radcliffe joked that tabloids find it easy to attach his and his Potter co-star Emma Watson's name when there is any casting opportunity.
'This is the kind of thing that happens to me and it happens to Emma (Watson) with multiple Fifty Shades of Grey things. When somebody has column inches to fill, they just sub in one of our names,' the actor said.
Image: Daniel Radcliffe
Photographs: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
Jeff Daniels and Jim Carey return with Dumb & Dumber 2
Actors Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, who starred in buddy comedy Dumb And Dumber and its 2003 prequel Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, return to the big screen with the film's sequel -- set for a 2014 release.
Daniels, who recently won the Outstanding Lead Actor Emmy for The Newsroom, tweeted this picture from the film's sets and tweeted, 'We're back!!!'
Image: Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels
Photographs: Jeff Daniels/Twitter
Katy Perry stage unveiled in four cities simultaneously
The wax figure of singer Katy Perry (centre) is unveiled at the Madame Tussauds New York wax museum in New York September 24, 2013.
The museum pulled off a rare feat with three other statues of the pop star simultaneously unveiled in three cities -- Bangkok, Amsterdam and Sydney.
Image: Katy Perry
Photographs: Zoran Milich/Reuters
Down at Sesame Street
Cheryl Henson, daughter of Muppets founder Jim Henson, poses after donating Miss Piggy (right) and other puppets famous from the Sesame Street and Muppets television series to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington September 24.
Image: Cheryl Henson with the Muppets
Photographs: Larry Downing/Reuters


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Major Jackson's most recent book of poetry is Holding Company. He is professor at the University of Vermont and the Bennington Writing Seminars.
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Winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in Chains and a finalist for the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Award for The Infintesimals, Laura Kasischke is the author of seven books of poetry and nine popular novels.
Application Deadline: Friday May 15
New York artists and poets from the 1950s onward developed a new type of synergy – spontaneous, casual, and involving popular forms such as comics and advertising layouts.
New York City regional winners in the national Poetry Out Loud recitation contest come together for a performance of memorable and moving poems.
Poetry Out Loud is presented by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, and the Poetry Foundation
Nickole Brown (Fanny Says, BOA Editions), Betsy Fagin (All Is Not Yet Lost, Belladonna*), Emily Hunt (Dark Green, The Song Cave), and Jessica Jacobs (Pelvis with Distance, White Pine Press)
Previously scheduled reader Thomas Meyer cannot attend
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Readings by Timothy Liu (Don't Go Back to Sleep, Saturnalia Books), Sara Jane Stoner (Experience in the Medium of Destruction, Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs), Yolanda Wisher (Monk Eats An Afro, Hanging Loose Press), and Magdalena Zurawski (Companion Animal, Litmus Press)
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in Chains and a finalist for the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Award, Laura Kasischke is the author of both poetry and popular novels. She'll discuss how writing poetry and prose are utterly opposite ways of approaching material, language, and life, drawing on her own work as well as that of other multigenre writers.
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|Index of Applications
|p. xiii
|Index of Study Tips
|p. xvii
|p. xix
|Review of Basic Algebra
|The Set of Real Numbers
|p. 2
|Operations with Real Numbers
|p. 13
|Exponential Notation and Order of Operations
|p. 25
|Introduction to Algebraic Expressions
|p. 35
|Equivalent Algebraic Expressions
|p. 42
|Simplifying Algebraic Expressions
|p. 50
|Properties of Exponents and Scientific Notation
|p. 58
|Summary and Review
|p. 70
|p. 73
|Solving Linear Equations and Inequalities
|Solving Equations
|p. 76
|Formulas and Applications
|p. 90
|Applications and Problem Solving
|p. 99
|Sets, Inequalities, and Interval Notation
|p. 113
|Translating for Success
|p. 122
|Intersections, Unions, and Compound Inequalities
|p. 129
|Absolute-Value Equations and Inequalities
|p. 141
|Summary and Review
|p. 152
|p. 155
|Graphs, Functions, and Applications
|Graphs of Equations
|p. 158
|Functions and Graphs
|p. 174
|Finding Domain and Range
|p. 189
|Linear Functions: Graphs and Slope
|p. 194
|More on Graphing Linear Equations
|p. 205
|Visualizing for Success
|p. 213
|Finding Equations of Lines; Applications
|p. 218
|Summary and Review
|p. 232
|p. 236
|Cumulative Review: Chapters R-2
|p. 240
|Systems of Equations
|Systems of Equations in Two Variables
|p. 244
|Solving by Substitution
|p. 253
|Solving by Elimination
|p. 259
|Solving Applied Problems: Two Equations
|p. 269
|Translating for Success
|p. 278
|Systems of Equations in Three Variables
|p. 283
|Solving Applied Problems: Three Equations
|p. 290
|Systems of Inequalities in Two Variables
|p. 298
|Visualizing for Success
|p. 308
|Business and Economics Applications
|p. 314
|Summary and Review
|p. 320
|p. 323
|Polynomials and Polynomial Functions
|Introduction to Polynomials and Polynomial Functions
|p. 326
|Multiplication of Polynomials
|p. 338
|Introduction to Factoring
|p. 349
|Factoring Trinomials: x[superscript 2] + bx + c
|p. 356
|Factoring Trinomials: ax[superscript 2] + bx + c, a [not equal] 1
|p. 362
|Special Factoring
|p. 371
|Visualizing for Success
|p. 378
|Factoring: A General Strategy
|p. 383
|Applications of Polynomial Equations and Functions
|p. 388
|Translating for Success
|p. 396
|Summary and Review
|p. 402
|p. 405
|Cumulative Review: Chapters R-4
|p. 407
|Rational Expressions, Equations, and Functions
|Rational Expressions and Functions: Multiplying, Dividing, and Simplifying
|p. 412
|LCMs, LCDs, Addition, and Subtraction
|p. 425
|Division of Polynomials
|p. 436
|Complex Rational Expressions
|p. 444
|Solving Rational Equations
|p. 451
|Applications and Proportions
|p. 460
|Translating for Success
|p. 469
|Formulas and Applications
|p. 475
|Variation and Applications
|p. 479
|Summary and Review
|p. 490
|p. 493
|Radical Expressions, Equations, and Functions
|Radical Expressions and Functions
|p. 496
|Rational Numbers as Exponents
|p. 508
|Simplifying Radical Expressions
|p. 515
|Addition, Subtraction, and More Multiplication
|p. 524
|More on Division of Radical Expressions
|p. 530
|Solving Radical Equations
|p. 535
|Applications Involving Powers and Roots
|p. 547
|Translating for Success
|p. 549
|The Complex Numbers
|p. 554
|Summary and Review
|p. 565
|p. 568
|Cumulative Review: Chapters R-6
|p. 570
|Quadratic Equations and Functions
|The Basics of Solving Quadratic Equations
|p. 574
|The Quadratic Formula
|p. 588
|Applications Involving Quadratic Equations
|p. 596
|Translating for Success
|p. 602
|More on Quadratic Equations
|p. 608
|Graphing f(x) = a(x - h)[superscript 2] + k
|p. 617
|Graphing f(x) = ax[superscript 2] + bx + c
|p. 628
|Visualizing for Success
|p. 633
|Mathematical Modeling with Quadratic Functions
|p. 638
|Polynomial and Rational Inequalities
|p. 652
|Summary and Review
|p. 660
|p. 663
|Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
|Exponential Functions
|p. 666
|Inverse and Composite Functions
|p. 680
|Logarithmic Functions
|p. 698
|Properties of Logarithmic Functions
|p. 709
|Natural Logarithmic Functions
|p. 715
|Visualizing for Success
|p. 720
|Solving Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
|p. 724
|Mathematical Modeling with Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
|p. 731
|Translating for Success
|p. 740
|Summary and Review
|p. 746
|p. 750
|Cumulative Review: Chapters R-8
|p. 753
|Conic Sections
|Parabolas and Circles
|p. 758
|p. 771
|p. 779
|Visualizing for Success
|p. 783
|Nonlinear Systems of Equations
|p. 787
|Summary and Review
|p. 797
|p. 801
|Cumulative Review/Final Examination: Chapters R-9
|p. 803
|Handling Dimension Symbols
|p. 810
|Determinants and Cramer's Rule
|p. 813
|Elimination Using Matrices
|p. 818
|The Algebra of Functions
|p. 823
|Photo Credits
|p. 826
|Answers (Student Edition only)
|p. 1
|p. 1
|p. 1
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text: Sigridur Johannsdottir and Leifur Breidfjord have collaborated in Woven Tapestry Art Works and Church Vestments since 1978 with five private exhibitions with Woven Tapestry Art Works and participating in many group shows for Tapestry Art and Textile Art in Iceland and abroad. They have designed Church Vestment and Textiles for many churches in Iceland. New website is under construction. www.sigridurjohannsdottir. breidfjord.com


text: The following reply was made to PR kern/35821; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Martin Husemann <email@example.com> To: Elad Efrat <email@example.com> Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: kern/35821: /dev/mem is not readable any more Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:29:24 +0100 On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 11:10:02PM +0000, Elad Efrat wrote: > when did it (=acpidump thing) work with securelevel > 0? and did you try > with securelevel <= 0? You are right, it does not work on 4.0_BETA either. It works fine with securelevel -1. This does not make it less a bug - if the open succeeds, why should the read fail? Side note: EPERM is not an expected return value from {p}read. This behaviour disagrees with my reading of secmodel_bsd44(9), but maybe I'm missing something. Martin