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Pictured: Alena Tofte in action on Wednesday at the NCAA Ski Championships (Chris City)
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Three Harvard skiers were in action at the NCAA Ski Championships hosted by the University of Vermont this weekend with the Crimson finishing 17th nationally.
On Wednesday in the giant slalom, Rebecca Nadler (33rd) and Catherine Sheils (35th) competed for the Crimson while Alena Tofte placed 31st in the 5K Free Technique Nordic event.
Tofte came all the way back from her No. 2 bib number and she held off a competitor by two tenths of a second to finish at 15:31.1.
"Alena easily beat her seeding and was just six seconds out of the top 25," noted Nordic coach Chris City. "The course features a challenging final uphill where a number of skiers withered and where many finishes were decided. We think Alena was putting time into a lot of people on that part of the course.
I'm really proud of Alena's result - she skied a good race, and did so on the biggest stage in college racing. It's easy to lose one's composure under the pressure of a national championship and Alena didn't. She skied to her game plan, and it's nice when you can ski a race that's reflective of your talent when the pressure is on. It's a very solid result for her first NCAA race."
On the slopes, the Crimson were not as fortunate but the program;s skiers were able to finish their races among the nation's elite.
Sheils suffered a fall on her first run that set her behind the field but she finished in impressive fashion with a second run time of 1:06.17. Nadler was also slowed on her opening run before clocking in at 1:06.50 to edge Sheils.
On Friday in the 15K mass start classic event, Tofte was caught in the pack. She eventually caught the middle group to secure a 35th place finish in a time of 59:28.7, springint the last leg to get in under an hour in the grueling event amidst tough, sticky conditions.
Challenging conditions for the classic mass start race resulted from several inches of new snow followed by warm temperatures overnight and steady rain during the women's race. Most of the eastern teams went with Klister wax, while many of the western prograsm chose to use a form of waxless ski called "zeros." In pre-race testing, the waxed skis performed better than waxless, but there didn't seem to be a distinct advantage to either in the race itself.
"The start of the course is largely downhill and Alena's skis were not as fast going down as others' so she was near the back from the beginning," said City. " She fought forward over the three laps. Because the wet, new snow was slow, it was a very long and tiring race for everyone. Alena held in well and it was a solid result for her in a very strong field.
I'm proud of the way Alena performed in her first NCAA Championships. She skied with great composure under pressure both days. It was good for her to see the best collegiate skiers in the country and there are definite lessons she can take forward for the future."
The women's slalom was the final event for Harvard with the Crimson competing on Saturday.
Nadler led the charge, finishing 20th while having a second run time that was 17th best. Sheils shook off a near fall to finish both of her runs and place 28th in the event.
Sheils and Nadler are the first-ever Harvard women's alpine NCAA qualifiers. Tofte is Harvard's first Nordic qualifier since 2004 and just the third since Harvard rejoined Division I in 1990.


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Are you ready for some football? If all you could muster was a half-hearted "maybe," then perhaps a demo will help you measure your precise levels of football preparedness. Luckily for you, a Madden NFL 13 demo is coming out tomorrow, just in time for the pre-season.
It will offer two Play Now matches: the New York Giants versus the San Francisco 49ers, which you may recall was last season's NFC Championship game, and the Seattle Seahawks versus the Washington Redskins. EA touts more presentation features in this version, including pre-game interviews with players and a detailed post-game wrap-up with Jim Nantz and Phil Simms. On the Xbox 360 version, you'll be able to try out the Kinect features for calling audibles. You can also try out brand new Vita features on that platform's demo.
The announcement also gives word that you'll be able to create a Game Face in the demo and import it to the main game. If you're not sure if you're even getting the main game, you can play the demo and tweet about it for a chance to win it in a drawing, along with some bonuses. Madden NFL 13 hits on August 28.

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New York Jets @nyjets
The Jets have rushed for more than 115 yards in four consecutive games.
When you only field half a quality team this is what happens. I work with Universitiesm, so let me "grade" them
Defense: Quality, not elite, but quality Grade:B
Special Teams, Good, not great: Grade B-
Passing game: Bad Grade D
Running Game: meh: Grade C-
Average of all 4 parts: C to C- Translates to on a 16 game season.....
6 to 8 wins.... right where the Jets are on track for. No surprises
Opponents are folding to get better draft picks now that the top slots are reasonably priced. With each extra Jet win, a future of mediocrity becomes more secure. Yippie....we'll be picking in the teens ....watch out league...we're coming
Only squeaking by against wretched teams (and looking badly while doing it) pretty much sums up our season.
That's pretty sad given:
1) the team is only two years removed from playing for the AFC Championship
2) expectations for this season were sky high by the media & fans (and fueled by Rex's big mouth)
3) the realization this might be the new normal with the bad contracts and salary cap hell that will occur next season
I wouldnt call it winning games as much as its the other teams sucking far more than we do.
We basically just stumble onto wins.
I really dislike you for this question...
Just look at the record of the teams we're facing .
Everything will be answered.
Top draft picks are extremely valuable because they cost a team so much less now.
And if those teams are so bad, how are they all sitting at 5-6 wins?
the Jets line up Mark Sanchez, Shonn Greene, Kerley and Schilens/Gates/Gilyard and usually Cumberland/Reuland as their offensive skill players. The talent is obviously not there. And for that group to contribute (defense has obviously been better) to a 6-7 season so far is pretty remarkable, regardless of who is on the schedule. it's not just the kind schedule (though through the first 11 games, the Jets had the toughest schedule in the league) that's got the Jets to 6 wins.
This is why.
This team is built on this.
me·di·oc·ri·ty (md-kr-t)
n. pl. me·di·oc·ri·ties
1. The state or quality of being mediocre.
2. Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance.
3. One that displays mediocre qualities.
me·di·o·cre (md-kr)
Moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary. See Synonyms at average.
Has been for decades.
on who influenced the decisions on Revis, Mangold, Harris, Dbrick, is no longer
there and his personnel moves left the jets 8-8 for "two" seasons in a row and no money to fill glaring weaknesses. And a history of drafting less than stellar players in the first three rounds or players with enough upside to develop.
There are questions why Tebow was brought in, Why did he let 17 contributing players become FA in one year, Why did he cave into Revis and give him a 2 year extension with a no tag, and structure it so that even if he leaves as a FA the jets take a 6mill cap hit. Why the public pursuit of Manning instead of a quiet call to Archie. Same with Aso.
It sounds like you believe that getting to 8-8 with a team of which almost 1/2 of which are FA this year, and with little cap money seem like a good
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The Senate campaign of political neophyte Gabriel Gomez is off to a rough start, but Republicans writing him off are doing the party a disservice. The former Navy SEAL and private equity investor shouldn't be ruled out simply because he offered supportive words for President Obama. In the three-man race for the GOP nomination, Gomez deserves a chance to be evaluated on his merits.
The flight from Gomez's campaign began last week after it emerged that only two months ago he asked Governor Patrick, a Democrat, to appoint him to the Senate after the resignation of John Kerry. In a Jan. 17 letter, Gomez vowed to support Obama's gun control and immigration agenda. Such promises infuriate some Republicans, who bridle at any sign of accommodation with a Democratic president. Two of the three co-chairs of the Women for Gomez group quit. Republican activists castigated him. Lost in the kerfuffle, though, was that Gomez never renounced his party. In the letter to Patrick, Gomez described himself as a "moderate Republican."
Party loyalty is often an issue in primaries, and neophytes like Gomez might have even more to prove to skeptical voters; their political resumes are so thin that they have little goodwill to draw from. But ruling out a candidate because he hasn't displayed sufficiently rigid partisanship is a recipe for continued gridlock. As a newcomer, Gomez still has a lot of explaining to do — his apparently shifting positions on gun control, for instance, are something he will need to answer for. Opponents are right to press him on important issues. But a few supportive gestures to Obama shouldn't be one of them.


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Frac sand mining can help ease a country's dependency on natural oil and frac sand and gain a profit on the lower gas prices. In order to understand the frac sand mining growth and its intricacies, it is essential to understand the frac sand mining industry report. In earlier days frac sand mining industry was quite small and was on the verge of potential growth in particular regions.read full post for more details.
As it is region based, most of these jobs are concentrated in the Jackson county around Monroe county, Buffalo and Trempealeau. Many other places where frac sand is naturally available are also trying to take advantage these days.The business is more prospective in agricultural area, and places where dry, condensed as well as evaporated dairy product manufacturing can take prominence.
Economical growth
Many of these counties mentioned above are also experiencing huge buyouts of land from many companies with a thought of building sand mines in their counties. Hence, the salary paid to workers in these regions where many families together work in these frac sand mines are significantly higher as compared to the wages in the other regions. Some of the economic indicators shows regional concentration as compared to other regions. This clearly indicates that the region is much more conducive for sand mining as compared to the rest of the nation.
Statistical data
To give you clear statistics of the economical growth, below is the actual data
● 2001 location quotient is around 17.34
● 2011 location quotient is 77
● total change adds up to 9
● total percentage change is 13.3%
● 2011 average earnings per worker comes up to $136,363
Job prospects
Sand mining is booming across the nation and hence the job prospects is also increasing tremendously. Industrial sand mining has grown 24% from past 8 years. Besides this, the industry has spiked almost 40% from 2 years and slightly dipped to 8% in 2013. As per the 2014 predictions, it is anticipated that there might be a good recovery possible for all of these losses.
Hence, the jobs in US more than 4,500 last year is anticipated to reach up to 5,000 this physical year. Therefore, the average wages might hike up to $78,500 in sand mining industry. This industry has increased the job prospects from 0 to 117 jobs in just 3 years. Sand mining jobs are 275 times more concentrated in some regions as compared to the national average.
Export oriented
Certainly frac sand mining has an export potential since not every country or geographical area is capable of mining and selling these frac sand. You can buy frac sand here: http://buyfracsand.net/. This is a great business as it brings in fresh supply of money as compared to other circulating dollar business in the area. Sand mining is the 6th most popular industry in Ottawa Peru and Illinois. Places like big metro areas like Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, etc, are popular sand mining and exporters though there are tons of other industries which are big giants in the manufacturing and export field.


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:)Yes, you are right, it WILL be OBAMA'S NAME that will be in the history books..............as well as this information:Quote:
jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 09:56 AM
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To all you Freeper Trolls -
When the history books are written on the death of Osama bin Laden it will be OBAMA's NAME not George W Bush's name that
will be in the section on how OBL was finally captured and killed.
Obama refused to make a decision about it, allowed Jarrett to delay, delay, delay, and finally had the decision taken away from him by the military commanders and others All Obama could think about was the politics of it........not what was best for the nation.
White House Insider: Obama Hesitated Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden
by Ulsterman in Issues, May 3, 2011
"What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, did not know is that Leon Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him and only him, involving a covert on the ground attack against the compound."
I have been told by more than one source that Leon Panetta was directing the operation with both his own CIA operatives, as well as direct contacts with military both entities were reporting to Panetta only at this point, and not the President of the United States. There was not going to be another delay as had happened 24 hour earlier. The operation was at this time effectively unknown to President Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett and it remained that way until AFTER it had already been initiated. President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted back to the White House to be informed of the mission. Upon his arrival there was a briefing held which included Bill Daley, John Brennan, and a high ranking member of the military. When Obama emerged from the briefing, he was described as looking very confused and uncertain. The president was then placed in the situation room where several of the players in this event had already been watching the operation unfold.
Read more: http://socyberty.com/issues/white-ho...#ixzz1LUKdR3JD


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The following events have been or will soon be taking place across Indiana to promote the INFluence message at the local level and encourage more women to accept the Call to Action issued by former State Health Commissioner Dr. Judy Monroe. The agencies listed have all received small mini-grants through the Office of Women's Health to help support their efforts.
December 2, 2009: INFluence Women's Health Forum of Delaware County, Tobacco-Free Coalition of Delaware County
January 31, 2010: Go Red for Women Fashion Show, Family Services Association Howard County Tobacco Coalition
February 6, 2010: Love Your Heart Spa Luncheon, Hoosier Uplands, Daviess County
February 16, 2010: INFluence Your Heart! Cardiovascular Department, Hancock Regional Hospital
February 18, 2010: Celebrate the Heart of Women, Dubois County Extension Homemakers Organization
February 23, 2010: Affairs of the Heart, Henry County Community Foundation
February 25, 2010: Know Your Heart, Love Your Heart, Hendricks County Health Department
February 26, 2010: Women of INFluence: Here's to Your Heart Health, Healthy, Tobacco-Free Madison County
February 27, 2010: Day of Dance, Deaconess Foundation, Vanderburgh County
February 27, 2010: Exercising for a Healthy Heart, Decatur County Family YMCA
February 2010: Women's Leadership Luncheon, Kathryn Weil Center, Tippecanoe County
March 9, 2010: From a Spark to a Flame, Clark County Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coalition
April 24, 2010: 2010 INFluence Asian Minority Women's Health Forum, Asian Services of Indiana, Marion County
May 27,2010: Building a Woman's Passion for a Healthy Heart, Purdue University Cooperative Extension, DeKalb County
June 5, 2010: Healthy Heart, Healthy Life, Carver Community Organization, Vanderburgh County


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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — Below is the text of the statement issued Tuesday by the finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven nations. The G-7 consists of the U.S., Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the U.K., and Canada:
We, the G-7 Ministers and Governors, reaffirm our long-standing commitment to market determined exchange rates and to consult closely in regard to actions in foreign exchange markets. We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that we will not target exchange rates. We are agreed that excessive volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and financial stability. We will continue to consult closely on exchange markets and cooperate as appropriate.


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10% for my broad's vampire games.
Here's how you can tell that Dreamcast failed. Instead of making Sega piles of money, it lost Sega piles of money, and it caused them to get out of the console business forever.
Believe it or not, the gaming business isn't about giving you and your friends fun games to play, it's about making money. That's why it's hard to qualify the XBox as a success. The XBox lost more money than any other console in history. Microsoft has lost billions of dollars on the XBox. Heck, it's still losing money on a quarterly basis as Microsoft readies the 360. If the XBox 360 is as big a financial disaster as the XBox then Microsoft investors are almost certainly going to wonder what they are doing throwing their money down a hole.
What other areas are those? The PDA/cellphone area? No, I gotta say, I think they're losing there. The MP3 player area? No, I gotta say they're losing there, too - even though the majority of MP3 players use MS software, many still don't, and even MS employees agree that the iPod is better [wired.com]. The PC peripheral area? No, I think companies like Logitech and Kensington are still beating them there. The PC gaming area? No, id and Valve
Cycles in consoles exist because the older consoles and games have to be sufficiently out of date to allow a new cons
It's easy to say the Xbox failed due to the fact that it lost money. However, it's hard to find a 10-year old nowadays who doesn't know Halo. They might also know GTA, but Halo has much less controversy surrounding it and is more likely to hit that critical pre-teen brac
Which would explain why most people say it "failed".Indeed, the people that accuse Dreamcast of being a "failed" system invariably are those that never had a dreamcast!
They assigned it the value of Dreamcast 2.0. There hasn't been a Dreamcast 2.0 yet, so the XBOX 360 is currently null (Nothing in Visual Basic).
Therefore, it actually doesn't exist. Quod erat demonstratum etc.
(Now, having seen many pictures of the console before this, my head will surely explode in either case.)
(define XBOX360 DreamCast20)
I always find it amusing when people slam the Gamecube because it's too kiddy. Invariably, people who make this claim don't own the console. Repeat after me: the [gamezone.com] Gamecube [capcom.com] is [killer7.com] not [eternaldarkness.com] kiddy [soulcalibur.com], despite [ign.com] repeated [activision.com] claims to the contrary [xiii-thegame.com].
Even if you're not looking at M-rated games, there are sever
Actually, allow me to explain...
#1 - The Xbox 360 is not launching an entire year before its competition; it's launching 4-8 months before its compeition.
#3 - The Xbox 360 is still bulky.
#12 - How the Hell do they consider a VMU highly customizable? If nothing else, they could've mentioned the fact that you can change a Dreamcast's shell. Then again, you can do that with pretty much any gaming console.
#14 - Dreamcast had a whopping three Bleemcast! discs releases, and maybe one or two Smash Packs (d
I don't think the article is meant to be taken seriously. It is part of their "launch coverage" (read: we need to fill time). It is interesting to look at, and some of the coincidences are surprising, but I think it is meant as a laugh.
Either way, when you get to the second page, that is when the article becomes more serious. Many of the 10 reasons the XBox 360 will succeed show why a similarity from the previous page isn't so similar after-all.
An example of this is on the first page, they show both the DC and the 360 have a way to connect to the internet (modem, and ethernet) and tout playing against your friends and such. On the second page, they point out the difference between the modem (yeah, you can use it) and XBox Live (already established, successful, high speed, and there is a good broadband penetration).
This is just one of those "Isn't this interesting" articles, sort of like those things about the similarities between Lincoln and Kennedy. While many of them are kind of eerie, many of the similarities are a stretch and you can see people were just reaching for another connection.
Prove that an article can make little and no sense to you.
Pedantry aside, I fully understood the comparative list of pictures the article had: Peter Moore, the similar logos, the similar OSes, etc.
As DRM and other crap like lawsuits threaten the mod comunity I just hope they remember that cool mods help sell consoles.Half the fun is finding out what you can do with it BESIDES play games.If
You don't mean that they don't care, right? You mean they aren't going to go out of their way to allow it. I'm sure they don't want you modding it to run Linux, because then, not only have you bought a $700 computer from them for $400 (or whatever the numbers are), but they've lost out on a potential sale of Windows.
WTF? The stupid article is more fortune-telling than anything else. There's nothing technical or logical about the article. It's basically looking for signs of omens. If Mars is aligned on Venus' right on the launch date, the XBox 360 is bound to succeed....
They saved the real reason it would succeed until the end. Piles and piles of cash. M$ would all but give the console away to make sure that it succeeded and that is the reason it will do well. People will have $10 worth of anything that is free.
Perhaps the rest of the PC industry could counter this rise of the console by designing a standard PC spec for gaming. First create a few simple categories. I suggest "PC Gaming Machine 2005 Level 1, 2 and 3". In each category spec out three of four machines (eg one amd with a nvidia, one intel with nvidia, etc) built with decent components. Level 1 machines have top of the range components, level 2 is where most people will be, level 3 is entry gaming. The games publishers could just test their game against these machines specs and get a tick in the "PC Gaming Machine 2005 Level 2 Compatible" (or whatever) box.
Simple, understandable and doesn't need to cost the Earth.
For example, my friend has a P4 2.1 Ghz, 512 mb Pc-2100 ram, 80 Gb HD, and a Radeon 9200 (128mb). I, on the other hand, am running on a P3 1Ghz, 386 mb Pc-133 ram, and a Radeon 9200 (128mb). I run Warcraft (and pretty much everything else) MUCH more smoothly.
Fair enough, if care for you machine and keep free from malware then yes it will probalby run faster. The point though is that jonny six pack doesn't understand what a processor is let alone the concept of malware.
By giving them a really simple set of check boxes they can just look down and see if their machine _should_ be able to play the game or not. There is no need for them to learn what a MHz is or how it's defferent from MB etc etc. This could easily take some of the fear out of buying a PC.
The article also goes on to mention why the 360 will not fail miserably like the Dreamcast.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard


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Band students awarded scholarships
Hendersonville Community Band has awarded Jim Stokes Music Camp Scholarships to Henderson County band students. These awards, funded by concert ticket sales and contributions, are named in honor of HCB founder and conductor Emeritus Jim Stokes.
Clarinetist Emily Labbate from West Henderson High will attend Mars Hill College Summer Music Camp. Rebecca Sneed, flute, and William Shoemaker, French horn, both from North Henderson High, received awards to music camp at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The Henderson County Summer Band Program is a day camp for middle school students. This year, 16 students from Flat Rock Middle were awarded scholarships: bass clarinets, Katie Rollins and Jaime Villa; clarinets, Cassidy Levi, Chico Hernanday, Elizabeth Armstrong, Brittany Richardson and Davyn Moss; flutes, Kayla Wooten and Heidi Mallwitz; percussion, Matthew Burnette, Nomi Settles and Ryan Stepp; saxophones, Ali Warrenfeltz and Tiffiny Revis; and trumpets, Wesley Freshwater and Madison Hudson.
The Community Band has awarded 22 scholarships for the Summer Band Program to Apple Valley Middle students: clarinets, Emily Miller, Lauren Ledford, Kathy Martin, Adam Lytle, Melody Mull, Piper Robertson, Emma Alfaro, Marco Rojas and Gloria Mota; flutes, Carmen Jones, Alex Prokson, Cassidy Erskine, Emily Myers and Michaela Kolarova; French horn, Caroline Dechant; percussion, Bradley Cole and Jesus Thomas; tenor saxophone, Christopher Peters; trombones, Madison Green and Chandler Bolick; and trumpets, Piper Merrill and Adam Knox.
There are eight Rugby Middle students receiving scholarships: alto saxophone, Emma Polnay; clarinet, Conner Miller; flute, Claire Shrader; French horns, Sean Sullivan and Hunter Koch; percussion, Collin Huske; and trumpets, Michael Bell and Collin Miller.
Applications for scholarships will be available in spring from school band directors, private music teachers and Community Band members.
Odom accepted to UNC Dance Team
Madison Odom, a recent graduate of North Henderson High who has danced for Pat's School of Dance for 14 years, recently tried out and made the UNC Chapel Hill Dance Team.
With only five open slots, Odom was one of three incoming freshmen to make the team. She will perform at home football and basketball games and in the "Late Night with Roy". In addition, the dance team will compete in the NDA nationals in Daytona, Fla. next spring.
Odom plans to major in biology and continue on to medical school. She graduated fourth in her class at North Henderson and was in the honor block and was an N.C. Scholar. She was involved in National Honor Society, Key Club, Student Council and FCA, and was North's dance team captain this year. Odom also volunteers with Special Olympics and Relay for Life every year.
Beam to attend Rockettes workshop
Kathlene Beam, a rising junior at Hendersonville High who has been dancing for 13 years at Pat's School of Dance and competing at dance competitions with Pat's School of Dance Performing Arts Troupe since the age of 6, auditioned for and has been invited to New York to attend the Rockettes Summer Intensive Workshop from July 28-Aug. 2.
Beam dances tap, jazz, ballet, hip-hop and lyrical. More than 3,000 dancers from across the U.S. auditioned for 400 spots. There are six workshops held in New York that include training in the Rockette style of dance.
This is the first time since the beginning of this program 12 years ago that the rehearsals and workshops will be held at the official practice site of The Rockettes. At the end of the week on Aug. 2, Beam will perform at Radio City Music Hall. This is just one of a few avenues to become a Rockette and to fulfill a dream that Beam has had for several years.
Republican Women's Club hosts Forstchen
The Henderson County Republican Women's Club recently hosted William R. Forstchen as its luncheon speaker at the Cedars. Forstchen is a professor of History at Montreat College and holds a Ph.D. with specialization in military history from Purdue University.
Forstchen has written more than 40 books. His 2009 novel, "One Second After," was on the New York Times Bestseller List for 12 weeks.
With 80 members in attendance, Forstchen spoke on topics such as the possibility of an EMP strike, the legacy of Gen. Washington, and the need to teach the principles of the Constitution in public schools.
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I know what progesterone does, it inhibits testosterone from converting to DHT. I got that! Totally understand this. The more progesterone, the less DHT. The problem with me is that my progesterone is high but my DHT is sky high!!! And I still have no libido!
A few friends of mine (that think they know it all....re-hashing mofos) told me that progesterone doesn't only inhibit testosterone from converting to DHT, but that progesterone in itself also blocks DHT from entering DHT receptors. Ummmm....I thought it was estrogen that did that. No??? So WTF?
Does progesterone, like estrogen, also block DHT from entering DHT receptors?


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Do you know what your grandfather looked like as a young man? Would you like to read – in his own words- about the smell of the apple orchard where he met your grandmother? What he felt when he first saw her, the color of her eyes, where they went on their first date? How about his long dangerous voyage from his homeland – how he felt when he stood on the deck of the ship and saw America for the first time? These are the details that slip through our fingers as history is passed from one generation to the next.
But not anymore.
My husband disguised it well, but I knew. I had known for the last seven or eight years.
Red was sixty-five and I was forty-seven. We had been married for sixteen years. The eighteen years between us never made a difference. His sense of humor, wit, intelligence, and gift of gab were incomparable, his laughter contagious. He was a knight in shining armor for me and for his family. He had always surpassed me mentally and physically. Until now…
I am a brand-new caregiver. For almost two years my wife has been suffering from dementia, the category into which she was placed after the discovery that her spinal fluid had been misrouted through her brain - in my engineering mind, she had a valve fail. She had been able to do some chores around the house but her real persona had been disrupted. Then three weeks ago, she suffered a mini-stroke, called a TIA. It really changed her. The things she had been able to do before it hit were difficult or impossible for her now.


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August 2, 2011 > Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
NEW YORK (AP), Apr 12 - Disposables, cloth. Cloth, disposables. Fifty years after Procter & Gamble introduced affordable throwaway diapers, dubbing them Pampers, the battle over baby's bottom rages on.The brand brought on a revolution in baby care in the United States, obliterating safety pins, soaking pails and diaper delivery trucks. But reusables have been inching back slowly into the mainstream, with the predictable faceoff among parents choosing one or the other, although some families use both.In 1958, with other disposables already out, P&G's version was a ``fortunate failure'' during a summer test run in Dallas, Texas, according to a company history. Consisting of pads and plastic pants, it made babies uncomfortable in the heat.The company tweaked the invention into a one-piece and went calling on parents again in 1961. They played in Peoria, Illinois, one of the markets chosen, but customers said the cost of 10 cents each was too high. More tweaks followed and the price went down to 6 cents. By 1979, Pampers was a billion-dollar brand.The disposable diaper industry, now worth more than $25 billion, crushed the cloth market. But wait. After the save-the-planet zeitgeist of two decades ago failed to produce a blockbuster comeback, reusables have become de rigueur in certain circles, and to some parents who lack money for disposables.The new cloth diapers are hardly a threat to the big guys in throwaways, but in crunchy enclaves like Portland, Oregon, and Northampton, Massachusetts, it is a rare parent worth his yoga mat who would dare consider disposables, at least out loud.Reusables can be had in big box stores and discount houses. Stashes sometimes are passed on to friends. They still comprise roughly 5 percent or less of the diaper market, but it was the other way around in 1956 when disposables accounted for about 1 percent. That is when P&G chemical engineer Vic Mills went in search of a better alternative to cloth for his newborn grandchild.Disposables have been around since at least 1935, primarily as a niche item for trips away from home, but they never broke through to overtake cloth until Pampers hit, tapping into the postwar fervor for all things new, convenient and timesaving, especially among women setting up house in suburbia.``Empowerment of women was a big piece of what was behind that,'' said Jodi Allen, general manager for Pampers. ``Offering conveniences, offering more options, was clearly part of the culture at that time.''Today, saving the environment and keeping anything that isn't ``green!'' away from baby is driving interest in reusables. The green question is especially vexing as both sides bandy scientific studies involving so many variables that the Natural Resources Defense Council considers the issue a wash when it comes to disposables in a landfill versus reusables in the laundry.``We don't recommend one over another,'' said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the environmental action group and director of its solid waste project.``A compelling argument for getting rid of disposable diapers absolutely does not exist. It's a personal choice, but it really can't be made on environmental grounds. There are costs both ways,'' he said.Cloth advocates are scrappy. They have a public education arm, the Real Diaper Association, which is not to be confused with a trade group, the Real Diaper Industry Association.Reusable diapers come in cotton, hemp, bamboo, wool and less organic forms. The flat cloths of old have been reinvented in prefolded, fitted, pocketed and all in one ``systems'' that offer breathability, expandability, leak control, Velcro, snaps and a three-armed fastener called a Snappi. There's also a cuteness factor in brightly decorated covers, many from mom-grown businesses fueled by Internet interest.``Even if there really are no indications that future generations of humans will be able to survive our mistakes, I can wash load after load of dirty diapers with some trite optimism,'' said cloth-user Thomas Chang, the stay-at-home dad to year-old Olive in Northampton.Shhhh: He and his wife use disposables at night.In Portland, 20-month-old Alexander's mom, Kris Vockler, went for disposables all day long after she worked out a metric carefully weighing the pros and cons, the big pro being that she travels a lot and decided they were hassle-free when her son was along for the ride. He's mostly potty-trained now but Vockler's memories are fresh.``We live outside Portland, where, if you know the place, picking disposables and saying so would give us funny looks,'' she said.There are a lot of ``what abouts'' in the cloth versus disposable debate. There's the cotton, pulp, petrol and industrial agricultural complexes to contend with on both sides. And what about the landfills, a subject that comes up a lot.Disposable diapers, according to Hershkowitz, comprise about 1.5 percent of all municipal waste generated in the United States, and municipal waste makes up about 2 percent of all waste from all sources. As someone who cares, he's been looking for answers to the diaper dilemma for decades, ``and there's just no clear position to take. I wish it was that easy, but it's not.''P&G's Allen, a believer in ``giving babies the best, most comfortable experience,'' is no cloth-basher. ``I certainly don't want to downplay the cloth diapering options and the fact that parents are looking for options that are also good for the environment,'' she said.In his enlightened western Massachusetts town, Chang notes that few day care centers support cloth, although that is changing.Most states allow child care providers to decide for themselves whether to accept reusable diapers. Generally, day care centers are not terribly receptive, said Heather McNamara, mom of two in San Diego, California, and executive director of the Real Diaper Association.The group maintains a searchable database of cloth-friendly day cares and massive amounts of other information at Realdiaperindustry.org. McNamara sees a steady stream of cloth converts there.``There's a large silent population of cloth diaper users,'' she said. ``People come to us almost daily and say, `I can't believe I didn't know about this before.'''


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John Davidson's days with the St. Louis Blues have come to a close.
In a joint press conference on Friday, both he and new Blues owner Tom Stillman announced that one-time broadcaster turned front-office success will move on from the organization to pursue other opportunities.
"We would like to thank JD for his commitment and dedication to the Blues organization over the past six seasons. He has been instrumental in revitalizing the Blues franchise and has built a strong foundation for our organization, which will ensure the club's success well into the future," said Stillman. "He has also developed one of the top teams in the game today. We wish JD, Diana, and their daughters, Lindsay and Ashley, great health, happiness, and success in their future endeavors. We will always consider them part of the Blues family."
The Post-Dispatch initially reported last week that a source close to the situation revealed that club agreed to a buy-out for an undisclosed amount. Davidson, who rose to the rank of president of hockey operations, had three years remaining on his current contract and is owed approximately $6 million.
Davidson came to the Blues in 2006 along with then-owner Dave Checketts, after the club finished with the worst record in the NHL the previous season. It broke a string of 25 consecutive playoff appearances for the franchise (1980-2004), which entered the league in 1967.
Under his watch, the Blues remained competitive in the stacked Western Conference, bringing in top talent like Paul Kariya, Doug Weight and Jaroslav Halak, while hiring Jack Adams Trophy winner Ken Hitchcock early this past season to turn a struggling squad into a Central Division winner.
St. Louis finished 49-22-11 in 2011-12, posting its second-highest point total in franchise history next to a 114-point campaign in 1999-2000. However, despite allowing the fewest goals in the NHL, the Blues were eliminated in the second round by the eventual champion Los Angeles Kings in a four-game sweep.
"St. Louis has been nothing but outstanding to me and my family and we have enjoyed every minute here," Davidson admitted. "Although we did not accomplish the ultimate goal, I am proud of where this team is on and off the ice, and they are in excellent hands with this management team. St. Louis and the Blue Note will always be in our hearts, and we wish the organization and these great fans nothing but success in the near future."
Checketts sold the Blues, with NHL approval, to Stillman, a St. Louis native and brewery magnate, in early May.
The 59-year-old Davidson played parts of 10 seasons as a goaltender with the Blues and Rangers. He spent three decades on television in Canada and the United States, winning the 2009 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for his contributions to broadcasting.


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Preventing Cold and Flu Season in the Work Place
During the holiday season, it's easy to catch a virus and pass it on to others. All of the extra activity of holiday shopping and late nights wrapping gifts tends to leave people feeling run-down. Likewise, they are more exposed to being trapped in spaces with tons of germs floating about at holiday parties and family gatherings. This jeopardizes their chances of staying healthy and increases the transfer or germs and illness in the workplace. Better Business Bureau advises business owners to take initiative in preventing the spread of illness in the workplace.
"Beginning in late November each year, the flu affects millions of us", said Mechele Agbayani Mills, President and CEO of BBB Serving Central East Texas. "Keep your employees healthy by maintaining a clean and productive work environment."
BBB offers the following tips to help protect employees and customers as much as possible:
Acquire products that ward off germs. Hand sanitizers, tissues and disinfectants are all products that can aid employees in keeping the workspace clean. Make them readily available throughout your workspaces.
Advise employees to stay home. While sick employees may deem it necessary to attend work, their presence will only expose healthy employees to contagions. If employees are sick, they should stay home for at least 24 hours after they no longer show symptoms. Consider creating a leave policy that allows employees to work from home should they (or their children) fall ill.
Enforce good hygiene in the work place. Institute the cleaning of shared equipment such as phones and computers, and wipe down common areas with disinfectant regularly. Remind employees of the importance of washing their hands, as well as covering their mouth when sneezing and/or coughing. Encourage them to "sneeze in your sleeve," rather than into their hand, to reduce the spread of germs.
Promote flu shots. Search for on-site flu shots through your local hospital, retail pharmacy or other health care provider, or consider reimbursing some or all of the cost for employees to receive the shot on their own.
Hold a health fair. Contact your local hospital to see if they provide health fairs for employers. If your business isn't large enough, you can possibly team up with others in your building, office park or neighborhood. If you are in a retail location, you can invite the community, as well. You can also contract the coordination of an on-site health fair with a company specializing in the service.
Be the example. It is important for the employer to follow the same advice being given to the employees. As the boss, it may seem impossible to take a sick day, but it is just as important for you to stay home and keep your germs out of the office.
The CDC has made it easier with a free employer tool kit, http://www.cdc.gov/flu/business/ "Make It Your Business to Fight the Flu."
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OCEANSIDE, CA (KSWB/CNN) At 105 years old, an Oceanside woman will become the oldest person to toss the ceremonial first pitch at a Padres game when she takes the field Sunday.
Agnes McKee is considered one of the oldest residents of San Diego County and shows no signs of slowing down.
In honor of her big birthday, McKee was chosen to throw the first pitch at the Padres game on July 20.
"I am very honored to do this, it's exciting and I hope I can get through it," said McKee, who weighs around 90 pounds and stands just shy of 5 feet. "I was really glad I got up this morning, I was afraid I wouldn't."
For the last several months, in between bridge and bingo games, McKee said she has been practicing for the perfect underarm pitch.
"When this happened I tried to learn some of the names of the ball players in case somebody asks me that," said McKee. "My husband played baseball and we went to many games when we lived in Cleveland."
McKee credits her optimism and positive outlook on her milestone achievement.
"My main thing is to enjoy everyday as it comes along, don't worry about things that haven't happened yet," said McKee.
The small-town girl from Indiana will spend Wednesday night alongside Mayor Kevin Faulconer and the San Diego Fire Department celebrating her 105th birthday.
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The FRSA protects employees from retaliation when they report safety violations to the government or report work-related personal injuries or illnesses.
"Safety is our highest priority and this agreement is an important step in providing protections for those who report unsafe conditions," said FRA Administrator Joseph Szabo. "Establishing a formal process for safeguarding the rights of employees who report safety violations is critical to maintaining workplace safety and fostering strong safety cultures."
Under the agreement, FRA will refer railroad employees who complain of alleged discrimination to OSHA and OSHA will share copies of the complaints it receives with FRA. OSHA will also share any findings and preliminary orders that OSHA issues. The agencies will work together to develop training for FRA on how to handle complaints of retaliation and to assist OSHA enforcement staff in recognizing potential violations of railroad safety regulations revealed during whistleblower complaint investigations.
FRA and OSHA sent a joint letter to railroad and transportation associations expressing their commitment to work together to ensure that injury reporting is as accurate and consistent as possible. The letter highlights an increase in railroad injury/incident reporting in recent years and provides concrete ways that the associations' member organizations can improve the safety of their workplaces and improve their compliance with federal regulations.
Detailed information on employee whistleblower rights, including fact sheets with information on how to file a complaint with OSHA, is available online at www.whistleblowers.gov.


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July 07, 2012, 09:23:30 AM »
Sometimes, things that make you feel good happen in the oddest places.
Yesterday, we were shopping for a major appliance. The rep who served us was very helpful. While registering the sale on the computer, I noticed that he had an unusual last name. It was the same last name as an author I somewhat admired and I asked our sales rep if he was a relative.
As it happened, the author had been his Grandfather and he was surprised that I knew the man's work. We had a short but pleasant chat and both of us went away a bit happier than we were before.
I'm sure many people here have had interesting and pleasant encounters like this. Why not share?
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I was in the parking lot of a local store and spotted a notebook on the ground. I looked at it and realized it was a log someone was keeping of their travels. I looked for a name but found none. However there was a name "mom' and a phone number in the back.
It was mother's day and I figured the owner of the book might call their mother that day, so I called the number and told the woman answering that if she had a child traveling I had found their travel log book. She said she did have. I believe they were on their honeymoon. I told her I thought they might call her since it was mothers day and if they did, to tell them to continue to keep the log because I would send them the one that I found. I did send it, and later got a letter from them and a vial of Mount Saint Helen's ashes from when she'd erupted that year. I was so glad to be able to do something so unusual for someone.
I've never knitted anything I could recognize when it was finished. Actually, I've never finished anything, much to my family's relief.
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Bijou, that was very cool of you!
Mine was much less dramatic but still fun.
My mom was helping my drive cross-country with my kids as we were making a major move. (Mr. Dragon had gone on ahead.)
We took 'the road less travelled' because it was shorter and had far less traffic.
Being less travelled, it was also less populated.
We quickly discovered a rule of road travel.
1) Any town of more than 1500 people will have a hotel.
2) A town must have at least 3500 or more people before the hotel is anything you'd dare actually stay in.
This meant that our overnighting options were thin. When we got to a suitable town anytime near the end of the day, we stopped.
Could be another two hours before something else turned up.
So random chance of the road had us in a little town in northern Ontario.
The first hotel we tried had no room (and was kind of rude anyway), so we went to the more-expensive-looking one across the street.
The price difference was minor, and the service was wonderful!
They had a lending library of books in the lobby for guest use and as I was browsing it, the owner pointed out a book - a biography of a notable local.
The local was a writer named Lesley McFarlane. Who wrote under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon.
Turns out that the "Hardy Boys" books, beloved from my youth, were written in that town!
Not all of them of course, because there was a stable of writers producing the books, but Lesley McFarlane wrote something like 23 of the first 26 or so, in addition to other works (including one Nancy Drew book!)
I bought a copy of the autobiography and I still remember that random stop fondly!
"I think her scattergun was only loaded with commas and full-stops, although some of them cuddled together for warmth and produced little baby colons and semi-colons." ~ Margo
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Posting only so I can check on posts to this thread. I have no cool stories like this but these are awesome!
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July 11, 2012, 10:17:04 AM »
Here's another from some years ago.
Friends brought a visiting colleague to a restaurant we frequented. We were all quite friendly with the bartender.
The guest was introduced. His last name was the same as that of a famous alcoholic beverage (think Bacardi or Dewars). The guest ordered the drink of that name and the bartender, making polite conversation, asked if the guest was related to that family.
He was. In fact, he was one of the brothers who inherited the family business.
'Wow!', said the bartender. 'I'venever served a brand to a brand before!'
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July 11, 2012, 03:36:48 PM »
When I worked at Big Box Store as a cashier I was having a bad day. I was tired and everything that could go wrong had gone wrong. Then a guy came through my till wearing a shirt that said "You never forget your first Doctor." We had a really awesome conversation about Doctor Who. I think we're the only two fans in Saskatchewan.
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August 22, 2012, 11:18:07 AM »
I was shopping at a clothing store where they ask you of the name of the salesperson who had helped you. I had totally missed her name tag, and ended up pointing her out. Then her assoicate said her "oh Reader helped you out" and it took me a minute to realize she wasn't talking to me but about her co-worker. Given that my first name is so unusual, and I've only run in to about 5 other people with my first name in my life. So the assoicate called her over and we had a nice conversation about our shared name. Of course hers was spelled different, and to my knowledge no one I have met, or told my name to has seen my spelling of it.
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One of our freelancers is the son of the authors of some of my absolute favorite children's books (think of a cute little badger girl).
I have long wanted to pick his brain about them, but apparently (per other co-workers and the Internet) his rel
with them might be a sore subject.
And another of my co-workers is a children's book illustrator and author of considerable talent.
I never would have thought to run into two great connections to the children's literature world here.
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Not one I've had, but one I could potentially, and would love to have. My dad's side of the family came from England, after landing in Canada, and then scattering throughout the US. One "branch" of his family is up in PEI, and a few years before my dad passed away, he and my mom were able to go up and meet some of them, etc, which was something he had always wanted to do.
I want to go to PEI as its gorgeous, and there is a woman who own's a B&B, who has both my first and last name. So I think it would be fun to go up, and stay there. I can just see the confusion as I try and make my reservation!
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In a former job I called another military base for some reason, and found myself talking to a Sergeant Messier. Charles Messier (1730-1817) was a French astronomer who was a comet hunter, and he made up a catalog of 110 objects that were not comets. Those objects are still known by their M numbers, e.g. M31 is the Great Nebula in Andromeda, etc. I asked this sergeant if he'd ever heard of Charles Messier, and it turned out that he was a descendant. He was amazed that I'd actually heard of Charles Messier, and we had a nice chat about astronomy.
for anyone who's interested
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When I was in high school I was interviewing for a job at a local shop. I was in the back office with the manager and the bookkeeper. The manager interviewed me, then also introduced me to the bookkeeper. Upon hearing her last name I asked her if she had a son named Rob. She did and asked if knew him. I said no, but I had one of his old textbooks, and proceeded to open up the schoolbook and on the inside cover her son was listed as the 'owner' several years prior to me. He had already graduated a few years earlier.
Later on I learned that I got the job because I had such great attention to detail, for remembering that name in the text book.
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Several years ago, as I was walking out of the store, a young man of some type of Asian (important) descent say "Jackie."
I don't recognize him at all, and look to see if I was wearing my name tag. I'm kinda freaked out, and say, "how do you know me?"
He says, "I don't know if you remember me, my name is Phan (shortened a lot)"
I said, "Are you kidding me? I always wondered what happened to you guys."
He and his family immigrated from Laos, early 80's, to my hometown. They only stayed there for a short time, before moving to a city 30 miles away, or so. He then moves to the town I live in now, and we run into each other some 30 years later, and he remembered me. There are people out there I went to school with from the time I was 5 all the way through high school, who couldn't pick me out of a line up if I had a name tag on, and here's the young man, who knew me for all of a couple months and he remembered me.
One more...
I LOVE whole bean coffee. Quite by accident, I discovered Berres Brothers bulk bean coffee. The company is also just up the road a way, relatively speaking. Our favorite here being their Hilander Grogg. One day a couple came through my line, and they had bought a bag of the coffee. I was asking them their favorite, and told them the story of how I came across the coffee, and our favorite. I finish ringing them up, and give them their total. The wife of the couple, hands me their check, as form of payment, and the last name on the check, Berres. I was a little floored, but I can imagine, they enjoyed the critique I gave of their coffee.
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Last summer I was loading groceries into my car. I was approached by a man saying he was really embarrassed but was trying to raise $20 to fill his car with gas to complete his trip home to a town about 2 hours from my city. He didn't look like the typical pan handler and this isn't a parking lot where this is common. It seems he was traveling back home cross country, ran into car trouble and maxed out his credit card getting it repaired and he had no access to cash either. He offered to show me his driver license, provide an IOU and a promise to send me the money when he got home. It so happened the town he mentioned was where I was born but only lived till I was 2. But when he pulled out his drivers license I saw his last name was the same as a couple that had been long standing friends of my parents though I hadn't seen any one in family in almost 20 years. I asked if he knew the couple. "Yes, they are my parents. I'm moving back home to take care of them." Standing in front of me was their youngest son who I had learned to walk with, talk with and drive our mom's crazy as the youngest children of both families. Our families had stayed close until he and I were around 8 but our mom's would get together for lunch every few years for a another decade. And when she attended my mom's funeral she was one of the most comforting people to have there. In a city of 4 million people, he found me to ask.
My other one was when DD and I were da
. We'd been invited to his mom's house for dinner as his mom's sister was visiting. I knew this aunt had lived in a small town near where I grew up, but didn't recognize her last name. However, when I walked in the door she immediately shouts "Oh, my your "my mom's first names" daughter!" It seems she had worked in an office close to my mom's store and her and mom would visit during the day and she remembered me coming and going from the store all the time.
And lastly, I was moving to California from Texas for a job right after college graduation. A friend who graduated with me decided to come with me for my move and for us to have a vacation before our jobs started. We had gone to the same small town highschool together but hadn't become close friends till we ended up at the same college in the same major. She had never been to a Disney park so we went to Disneyland for the day. We took a break at lunch and were sitting in a cafe when she starts really laughing. Sitting in the same cafe were two guys who had been in our graduating class of 100 who neither of us had seen since graduation. It seems they had attended the same college and decided to take a trip out to LA before starting their jobs too.
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But the whole craziness following CN makes no damned logical sense! We are supposed to be geeks and look at things logically so lets do that.
1.-The woman whose guns the dirtbag son stole was 100% allowed to own guns and had passed EVERY background check, so tougher laws would do nothing as she was clean as a whistle, not so much as a speeding ticket from what I've seen of the case. 2.- The most important thing which is CRIMINALS DON'T CARE ABOUT LAWS which is why they are called criminals and not Easter Bu
However they feel about gun parts personally, being involved in distributing them could one day be a very bad thing. It's best to leave that to special-purpose sites.
before this latest school shooting they really did not care. there has been an AR-15 receiver up on thingiverse for more than a year.
and there have been several school shootings in that time.
thingiverse even conducted a poll a few months back, the subject was whether or not users wanted to allow weapons on the site. i dont know the result of the poll, but the practical effect was nothing - they left those items up.
now all of a sudden they took them down.
nevermind 30+ children died today in automobile accidents (statistical average).
And automobile deaths are on the rise while school shootings are getting more rare over the last 25 years.
nevermind 30+ children died today in automobile accidents (statistical average).
I agree with you completely, assuming I understand where you're going with this, and I probably do. Our society has chosen to put cars everywhere, but a gun rack is now stigmatizing anywhere but bumfuck. And let's not forget that cars are major polluters (not least as they are made of steel) and have many downstream ecological (and other) consequences which could, were we to care, be calculated in miles per death though perhaps not very precisely. And yet, we don't, because the automobile manufacturers' lob
A colleague of mine tried to print lego bricks with his 3d printer. They didn't mesh... He tried repeatedly, and often his pieces would separate into layers in the middle of the print job...
Publishing gun parts on thingyverse is more a political statement than a serious way of bringing guns into the hands of the people.
How very trendy of them.
It seems that absolutely no one is above using this tragedy for getting attention for themselves and their own gain.
It's like they say; a politician should never fail to take advantage of a disaster.
I don't blame anyone for worrying about liabilities, but Pandora's Box is open, there's no closing it now. The specs for many, many firearms parts are readily available, and anyone who wants to take the time to translate those designs to 3D, is going to be able to print them, and distribute the designs. I'm waiting for someone to notice they can print 3D magazines, of any capacity they want. Yes, this is another opportunity to learn that all we do for good, can and will be perverted to bad. Are we willing to throw out the whole 3D printing movement as a result?
Maybe the argument that we all need to be having is: "Does prohibition of objects ever work?" Alcohol, Drugs, Guns, Porn, Books, etc?
Are we willing to throw out the whole 3D printing movement as a result?
The Slashdot readership probably isn't willing to do that, but broader society might be. Consider the pieces that are in place:
3D printers, makers, and the like have become enormously popular among libertarian types. There was quite a lot of attention devoted to these projects at last year's PorcFest [porcfest.com] gathering (1000+ attendees) for one.
Good to know which groups to dis-invite and boycott this year.
I like how libertarians are all in favor of liberty, until you do something they don't like. Especially because, if this wasn't about guns, but rather, say, sex toys, the libertarians would be supporting their right to decide what content they host unquestionably.
If a libertarian group would dis-invite someone for exercising their rights and liberty, then that group is clearly NOT a libertarian group.
I don't know much about gun technology, so maybe somebody can explain why the lower receiver is the controlled part. Why not the barrel? It seems to me that the barrel is the heart and soul of a gun. You can make a gun with just a barrel and nothing else: it's called a cannon.
Furthermore, I would think the barrel would be the hardest part to manufacture, given the forces and temperatures it must endure, and having to be perfectly straight, and rifled. I would imagine that 3-D printed barrels are probabl
I suspect that it was picked as the "gun" for the AR-15 because it's where the "logic" goes. That is, the trigger is there, the safety, and anything that selects between different firing modes.
Fully automatic (machine gun) and burst (three shots with one pull of the trigger) modes of fire would be implemented in the lower receiver, for example. These are heavily regulated. So it's in the ATF's interests to distinguish between AR-15 lower receivers that have these features implemented, and those that don'
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By now you've surely gotten the memo: Storytelling is 'it' in business and communication today. But places can, and do, tell stories, too."
This is a great article because it is one of those pieces that continues to expand our notion of storytelling and how to apply its principles for more meaningful and richer experiences in our lives.
In this case, how story dynamics shape our physical environment. I know I've talked about this before and curated at least one other article about this. As one trained in researching and analyzing built environments (vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes), I've known for decades how our mental and social constructs show up as expressions in the buildings and spaces around us.
If we are hard-wired for stories, think in stories, and language in stories, then it makes perfect sense that we build storied environments. Walt Disney knew this and consciously designed his themepark as storied spaces that we move through. The best architects and city/landscape designers know this. Yet all too often we are confronted with buildings and landscapes with no soul. That's a major bummer because those places/spaces do not enliven us, but diminish us in some way.
OK -- off my soap box. Read this short but meaty article about storytelling and workplace design. Then cross your fingers people start paying attention and start designing different kinds of spaces for us!


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Punahou School wins 2011 Hawai'i Ocean Science BowlUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Posted: Feb 28, 2011
On Saturday, February 26, high school students from all over the state of Hawai'i and Guam competed in the ninth annual "Aloha Bowl," the Hawai'i regional competition for the National Ocean Science Bowl (NOSB).
Five high school students from Punahou School won the competition, and will represent Hawaiʻi in the NOSB, which will be held April 29 – May 1 in Galveston, Texas. Members of the winning team include Jordan Kaneshige, Karl Heyer, Kai Aknin, Calder Atta, Phillip Lin, and Coach Dave Strang. Waiakea High School's Team A took second place, with Maui High School coming in third.
This educational program was developed to stimulate interest in the ocean sciences among high school students and demonstrate to the public the importance of the oceans in our daily lives. One of the long-term goals of the program is to foster the next generation of marine scientists, educators and policy-makers for the ocean sciences.
During the competition, students were asked three types of questions: toss-up, bonus and team-challenge. Toss-up and bonus questions are in a multiple-choice or short-answer format. The team-challenge question is written out and handed to both teams at the half time of each round. These questions require higher cognitive skills, often use visual aids such as charts, maps, and graphs and the students work together to earn as many points as possible, which may make the difference between winning or losing the round of competition. Question difficulty increases as the competition progresses.
The Aloha Bowl is organized through UH Mānoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and is funded by the NOSB, with Hawaiʻi assistance from the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR), UH Mānoa's Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS), and the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation's Storm Water Management Program.
For more information about the bowl, visit http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/nosb/ or http://www.nosb.org/.


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Hey, EMC. You and I are seriously falling out over this marketing crap
I like you really, but what's with this Mega Launch hype?
Posted in Storage, 5th September 2013 15:56 GMT
Storagebod Word has reached me that EMC's marketing dept may not be reacting quite so well to my previous post; yet if truth be known, I actually toned down what I really wanted to write because I wanted to ensure that people who I like and have time for didn't catch too much flak.
Although I speak only for myself, I know that I am not the only person who feels similarly about the current strain of EMC marketing.
What I found so disappointing with the storage giant's Mega Launch of products and updates this week is that there are some interesting pearls, but they got lost within the hype and general hullabaloo.
The re-write of the VNX2 code is very long overdue and, from what I can see, gives EMC a solid base for its mid-range offerings.
It will allow the biz to take advantage of the tick-tock releases from Intel and, if it has done serious work on the RAID code, it would surprise me if EMC hasn't at least laid the groundwork for a future alternative data-protection method - for example, a micro-RAID distributed across all disks with improved re-build times.
To move to a more modular software architecture has to be sensible and should allow EMC to transition to a software-only virtual array in the future.
If it has talked about such things, as opposed to concentrating on the hype, and put the VNX2 into a context of future innovation, then that would have been more interesting.
Of course, EMC continues to talk very fast about VNX being a unified platform. In reality, we know it isn't – not in the way that NetApp is, anyway. That's fine, but it still grates that marketing's smoke and mirrors are involved.
But the VNX2 announcement is not without problems, either; can I take an existing VNX and migrate non-disruptively to this new code? Do I have to take services and products such as VPLEX to enable this?
And then there was the ViPR general availability announcement; much more detail and context could have been put around this, especially when aligned with the Project Nile "product". I can see the beginnings of a platform strategy emerging – and an interesting one at that. I'd be interested to know how some of their partners' products fit into the picture; companies such as Panzura for example?
Yet where are the technical details? This side of EMC "marketing" has sadly vanished, only to be replaced by shallow glitz. Much could have been forgiven and the announcement could have been put to one side as the carnival it was.
It is sad that I miss Chuck Hollis's take on these announcements. I know that Chuck was a real drum beater for EMC, but there would have been technical content and interesting pearls. These days, it seems that the real detail has to be obtained face-to-face where most of the crap can be cut through.
So with a VMAX announcement probably due next year, probably at EMC World, I would hope for a more considered approach and a more balanced approach – but I shan't be holding my breath. Breathless seems to be the current EMC marketing approach.
EMC have some good and some great products, and some gear with serious challenges. I know from my day-to-day dealings with EMC that some are really trying to shift its culture and convince customers that they are different.
The Mega Launch leads me to question that. ®


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Burnley caretaker boss Stuart Gray has a near full-strength squad available for the visit of leaders QPR.
Northern Ireland striker Martin Paterson is doubtful with a thigh problem and midfielder Chris McCann remains absent as he recovers from a long-term knee injury.
But Gray has no other worries as the Clarets bid to topple Neil Warnock's high-flying outfit at Turf Moor.
Burnley have revealed their search for a new manager is ongoing but that Gray will definitely remain in charge for this weekend's match.
Norwich manager Paul Lambert turned down the chance to succeed Brian Laws at Turf Moor and Watford's Malky Mackay and Bournemouth's Eddie Howe have also been linked with the post.
Laws left Burnley on December 29 following the club's dismal home defeat to Scunthorpe the day previously.
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After two and a half days of misery, the market clearly needed a reminder that U.S. consumers are still doing relatively well. The major indexes are now in positive territory after the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index rose to 84.9 from 82.6 in October. That's the highest level since July, 2007; the level of consumer expectations is also at a five-year high.
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Walldorf, Germany-based enterprise resource planning software maker SAP got into mobile security as a result of its $5.8 billion acquisition of database management system vendor Sybase in 2010. Sybase was a pioneer in mobile device management with its iAnywhere products in 2000. SAP rebranded it Afaria and, in addition to direct sales, it licenses Afaria to distributor Ingram Micro. Gartner praises Afaria's container architecture and application development tools. SAP Afaria Cloud is the company's SaaS product. The company also has a partnership with Mocana for secure mobile app management capabilities, including containerization.


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Skip to comments.Syria: 100 Gunmen Surrender to Army, more Israeli-Made Weapons Seized
Posted on 10/27/2013 7:26:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In the meantime, army units have seized on Monday a number of Israeli-made missiles held by opposition armed groups to be used against the national military and the peaceful civilians.
"The seizure was made near the village of al-Tabeh in the countryside of the southwestern city of Daraa," Al-Alam TV correspondent reported.
Among the confiscated arms, there were a large amount of Israeli-made weapons and ammunition, including developed machine guns and wireless communication devices.
This was not the first time that Syrian troops have made such a seizure, where media outlets have showed previously arms with Hebrew inscriptions indicating they were originated from the Zionist entity.
...Syria was hit by a violent unrest since mid-March 2011, where the Syrian government accuses foreign actors, mainly the Saudi Arabia and Turkey, of orchestrating the conflict by supporting the militant opposition groups with arms and money.
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Crypto AQ supplied with IDF weapons?
Wow this is getting COMPLICATED.
That's funny—play the Jew card about the weapons.
"Jew" is the racist get-out-of-jail-free card of the MidEast.
DESTROY iSLAMISM!
This means that [GASP!] fellow Moose-limbs were collaborating with JOOOooozzz!
Is that believable-that the radical Al-Queda were collaborating with the JOOOooozzz?
It might help the casual reader to know al manar is Hezbullah's media outlet.
The Muslims have proven themselves to be liars of the first order.
They're manipulating for their own purposes. I doubt there's any Israeli involvement favoring either side: it just doesn't profit Israel to get involved, it would only inflame them if they were.
From what I can tell, they're staying assiduously neutral. In fact, it would likely be better for Israel to lean toward the Known Enemy, Assad, as he kept a lid on things...of a sort.
My $0.02. YMMV. The Mideast is a messed up place.
Hebrew blankets? C'mon, that's gotta be staged, like so many other photos we've seen come out of there.
How long would anyone survive in Syria carrying around a blue and white blanket in the Israeli national colors, like their flag, and in the traditional pattern?! About four seconds before they would be fired upon by all sides.
No, those blankets were brought out for a disinformation campaign for external consumption by the gullible in Araby, to quote Kipling.
> It might help the casual reader to know al manar is Hezbullahs media outlet.
Thanks jz638!
This is easily faked. Hezbollah probably has captured Israeli arms. The Hezbollah organization is an ally of the Assad regime, and they can use these weapons to make it look as if the opposition is in league with the Zionists.
Now, if Israel really wanted to help the insurgents (and there is little sign that they do), they could easily give them arms without Hebrew markings, and they would probably give them old stuff previously captured from other Arabs.
All we know is that the whole Arab world is in a great mess. If Obama ever had a coherent policy in the area, it is a shambles now.
I will just guess how they got the weapon's..I think it someone should look at Obama administration ..we all know these thugs are close to Obama's heart..
Yeah, I'm aware; I should also point out that the emphasis in the excerpt was added by me, looks like everyone got the point, which is good.
Of course it's faked. This is yet another piece of pro-Assad agitprop, which admittedly is commonplace, even on FR.
I'm fairly certain that any country has a warehouse full of weapons from other countries that they could supply if they wanted to maintain plausible deniability. Israel, like the US, Russia, China and Iran supply weapons to just about anybody. But I'd be surprised if Israel supplied easily identified material to either side as the political repercussions are not easy to work out in advance. Now, this isn't to say some enterprising Israeli with access hasn't made a non-government sanctioned deal.
I didn't see that — you're right.
That's plainly ridiculous.
Now I disbelieve this.
If true, Israel has made a serious mistake, arming Al Qaeda and its allies.
The Israeli state arming the Syrians seems the least likely explanation.
Israel thinks it has bigger enemies than Al-Quaeda like Hezbollah, Iran and the Assad government they back in Syria.
AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group in this country, lobbied for US military action in Syria over chemical weapons and Israel's ambassador to the US told the "Jerusalem Post" that Assad should go.
Israel's survival from its earliest days has often involved getting its enemies fighting each other so they aren't fighting Israel.
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PlayStation is all about innovation. So while some competitors may attempt to increase resolution and framerate, Sony goes the other way. A new title update coming to Infamous: Second Son will give players the option to reduce the framerate.
A new 30 fps option will lock the framerate. Currently, the game renders with a variable framerate--something that Digital Foundry criticized. "While performance generally manages to stay north of 30fps, the resultant judder compromises the fluidity of the visuals and produces inconsistent controller response. With Second Son averaging around 35fps, the player receives little additional benefit as a result of this choice. By limiting the frame-rate to 30fps they could have delivered an open world game with a very consistent frame-rate and controller response," they noted.
Sucker Punch's Brian Fleming defended the unlocked framerate on PlayStation.Blog, saying "we prefer the unlocked frame rate, but we recognize that some players find it distressing."
Other new options coming to the game is the ability to turn the HUD off--particularly helpful if you're taking screenshots #PS4Share. You'll also be able to change the time of day at whim (once you beat the game). This should help you make even more gorgeous screenshots #PS4Share.


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Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr provide fascinating insights into what people like to read online. The almost instantaneous data generated by social media reveal what types of stories people are drawn to.
Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr provide fascinating insights into what people like to read online.
The almost instantaneous data generated by social media reveal what types of stories people are drawn to. They also create a conflict of sorts: The information provides a road map for pursuing stories that might score high in reader interest, but it doesn�t necessarily reflect whether readers find those stories important news or simply entertaining.
The reality is that many people seem to look to social media for one type of story and traditional news outlets for others. Often, The Dispatch delivers both. The trick is to figure out how to balance the display of important news with readers� appetite for entertaining stories.
Consider the numbers on these stories from the past couple of weeks:
� Reporter Laura Arenschield�s Feb. 1 story on the Champaign County man buried astride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle was shared more than 57,000 times from The Dispatch�s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/columbusdispatch) and read 370,562 times on Dispatch.com. The story about Bill Standley�s unusual funeral would have generated even larger numbers had aggregating websites not lifted parts of the story to write their own versions. (In college, this is called plagiarism and would get you expelled.)
� A Thursday story by reporter Earl Rinehart about a coyote killing a miniature dachshund in a fenced Upper Arlington yard was shared more than 2,100 times on our Facebook page. The cautionary tale was read more than 10,300 times on Dispatch.com, where it generated 57 comments.
� A story by reporter Lori Kurtzman about how hopping mad beer enthusiasts were over a man buying 400 bottles of limited-release beer was read more than 23,000 times on Dispatch.com and shared 10,000 times on Facebook. The Jan. 31 story explained how an employee of Savor Growl, which sells beer, was photographed buying the Hopslam brew from a competitor. Some accused him of buying it to resell it at the store, which the owner disputed and no one could prove.
� Another Kurtzman story, published Jan. 25, detailed the unusual name changes some people have asked local judges to approve. The story was read nearly 28,000 times on Dispatch.com and generated 187 comments. There was great interest in the stories behind these name requests, especially the person featured in the article, Sheila Crabtree, who seeks to change her first name to Sexy.
Those stories were very popular online and in social media. While I don�t have evidence to prove it, I�m confident that readers of the print editions of The Dispatch were interested in those stories as well.
Only one of the stories � the one on name changes � appeared in print on Page One, even though all were considered for front-page display. The others didn�t win a spot on the front page for a variety of reasons. Among them were the strength of the other stories offered that day and our perception of what you expect to appear on the first page of your newspaper.
There�s a place for these stories in the newspaper. The question we ask ourselves is, which place?
If history is a predictor of the future, some who read this column will write to say that we blew it � that all of those stories should have been on Page One. Others will say that we got it right. And some others will say that even the name-change story didn�t belong on the front page.
Here�s something to consider: That these stories were popular even though they did not appear on Page One suggests that readers will find good stories anywhere. Supporting that notion is the fact that research tells us our readers go through the paper quite thoroughly.
Additionally, we have created destinations in the paper and online to make it easy for readers to find stories that will score high on the �interesting� scale. Specifically, Page A2 is our destination for �Not to be missed� stories, which are must-read items that often become part of the daily buzz. A list of highly read stories and popular topics also appears across the top of Dispatch.com every day.
We take great care in where we place stories online and in print. We debate the merits of each, maybe too much. Our goal is to weigh the values of our community and readers, the news value of the stories being considered, and whether we�re establishing precedent by how we display a story � something that is of particular importance during political campaigns.
Thanks for providing feedback that helps us with this process.
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