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A Terrebonne council member is using his law enforcement background to suggest a crackdown on an increasingly popular street drug.
A Terrebonne council member is using his law enforcement background to suggest a crackdown on an increasingly popular street drug.
Greg Hood, councilman and retired Houma Police captain, will propose a parish law to outlaw the sale of bath salts.
"This will be another way to battle drug use in our community," Hood said. "Some drug-related items aren't illegal to sell. For example, some cities have what can be called a head shop, where people can buy bongs and marijuana clips and other kinds of drug paraphernalia which, to me, promotes drug abuse."
Hood said he got the idea from the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office narcotics department.
"They're trying to fight it, so it was brought to me and hey, whatever I can do," Hood said.
Parish Attorney Courtney Alcock received Hood's request in advance because such a law must be drafted by the legal department. Alcock will present the ordinance during Monday's Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee meeting.
"Allowing this is like saying 'Here, I'm going to make it easy for you. Here, I'll help promote you destroying your body as long as I make money,' " Hood said. "People are making money off peoples' addictions and misfortunes in life."
Hood said he's calling for a unanimous vote for the agenda item. He said he's confident the rest of the council will vote to make it illegal to sell bath salts because "everybody wants to make this parish a better place."
Representatives from the Sheriff's Office will attend the meeting to present the parish officials with backup information, including the numbers of arrests related to bath salts and the number of patients Terrebonne General Medical Center has seen in recent months because of the drug.
"The fact that they even have to get numbers from a hospital means evidently we have a problem," Hood said.
Other agenda items to be discussed this week include a public hearing during the regular council session at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday about the dangerous or vicious dog fees the council approved two weeks ago.
Terrebonne residents whose dogs attack someone could soon face nearly $300 in fees, in addition to any court costs and fines.
The Parish Council is scheduled to consider the new fees Monday.
The proposed ordinance would be added to the Terrebonne animal-control law, which saw some sweeping changes last November.
In addition to current court costs and fines, the proposal would impose a $225 administrative-hearing cost, a $35 charge for investigating and determining ownership of the dog and a $30 fee for processing the case and serving notices.
The fees, totaling $290, will all be required for anyone who wants a chance to prove a dog isn't dangerous.
There would be a $150 fee as a penalty for failure to appear at hearings in the case.
A final vote will be taken immediately following the public hearing.
Committee meetings start at 5:30 p.m. Monday on the second floor of the Government Tower, 8026 Main St., Houma.
The full council will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
For complete agendas visit the parish government's website, tpcg.org.


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A man defending his girlfriend from an unwanted advance was stabbed and critically injured this morning during a scuffle inside a trendy Near West Side lounge, police said.
The incident happened at about 12:10 a.m. at the Plush lounge in the 1100 block of West Madison Street, according to police.
Witnesses told police that the 43-year-old victim was quarreling with another man when the second man pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim in the neck, police said, citing early reports.
The victim was taken Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. The attacker fled and remained at-large.
The altercation appeared to have started after the attacker began making passes at the victim's girlfriend. The victim stepped in and the heated argument led to the stabbing, police said.
Police hadn't located any surveillance images that captured the stabbing.
Management at Plush -- which operates as a restaurant by day and chic lounge by night -- couldn't be reached for comment this morning.
Harrison Area detectives were investigating.
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These guys were acquired by a team that took Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion from the MLB scrap heap and all of a sudden were 2 of the most fear hitters in the league. Same team, same AL East. Also, Rasmus is a huge downgrade from Stubbs defensively and on the basepaths.
But again, these guys have been headaches everywhere they've been. Escobar did not make one bad decision. He has made a career out of making bad decisions. Right now, this Reds team is about as drama-free as it gets. Why add bad apples to this team? Let's throw all the stats out of the window. These guys are trouble. Always have been. This Reds team has a good thing going from a chemistry standpoint, I don't see messing that up for a couple of malcontents


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Feb. 22, 2013
But an infield hit that barely made it back to the pitcher was all the jolt the Sooners needed.
Senior outfielder Brianna Turang led off the seventh inning of a scoreless game with a chopped infield single, sparking Oklahoma to a 2-0 win over Nebraska in Palm Springs, Calif. The win improves OU to 14-0 on the season with nine of those wins coming via shutout.
After Turang's single, sophomores Lauren Chamberlain and Georgia Casey each drew walks to load the bases. Senior Jessica Shults then singled through the right side on a 1-1 count to plate the game's only runs.
Senior Keilani Ricketts secured the win, battling Nebraska's Tatum Edwards in a tight pitcher's duel.
Ricketts threw her fifth shutout of the season as she struck out nine batters in a complete-game effort. She yielded just three hits and allowed one walk.
Edwards was effective, but wild for the Cornhuskers. She gave up two earned runs on two hits and struck out eight, but she walked nine and hit another batter.
Up until the seventh inning, it was a game of missed opportunities for both teams.
The Sooners and Cornhuskers each put two runners on in the second and third innings but couldn't capitalize.
In the fifth inning, each team put runners into scoring position but neither was able to score.
Oklahoma loaded the bases with two outs, but a strikeout ended the threat.
Courtney Breault led off the fifth for the Huskers with a single to center field. Two sacrifice bunts later put her on third, but Ricketts got Gabby Banda to pop out to Jessica Vest at shortstop.
The Cornhuskers again got the leadoff batter on in the sixth, but Ricketts struck out Brooke Thomason and then got Edwards to hit into a 1-6-3 double play to squelch the Huskers' last good scoring chance.
Oklahoma closes out play at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic on Saturday morning against No. 23 Florida State. First pitch is set for 11:30 a.m. CT.


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ODU Wrestling Falls To Cumberland (KY)
By ODU Athletics
Jan. 11, 2003
The Old Dominion wrestling team finished competition at the Va. Duals with a 20-19 loss to Cumberland (KY) on Saturday at the Hampton Coliseum.
The Monarchs lost five of the ten bouts, including two falls, dropping their dual record to 2-2 on the year.
Freshman Matt Ulrey (St. Mary's, MI) earned his first collegiate win and fall in the 165 match, tying the score at 13 all. Senior Ben Summerlin (Lynchburg, VA) took a tough 14-3 loss in his 174 pound class giving Cumberland a 17-3 advantage, a lead they would never relinquish.
Freshman Adam Wright (Bridgewater, VA) continued his winning ways with a 6-1 win at 184 pounds, but Greg Gill (Chesapeake, VA) lost his 197 pound match 6-3, putting ODU behind 20-16.
Junior heavyweight Derrell Lorthridge (Wilmington, DE) needed at least a major decision to tie, but could only earn his 13th win of the season with a 6-3 decision, leaving the Monarchs one point shy.
Wright and Lorthridge won all three of their matches at the two day event, improving their team-best records to 13-3. Lorthridge also has a team-high six falls.
In the finals of Old Dominion's American College Division, SUNY-Brockport defeated Maryland 25-16 to win the division.
ODU will return to action this Friday when they host American in the Field House at 7:00 p.m.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Woman on knee - sketch/training Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Woman on knee - sketch/training" Mogroljunior memberMember #Joined: 23 Oct 2000Posts: 4Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 5:01 pm A image I started with some weeks ago and then got stuck, I don't know if I should attempt to make it more detailed or leave it as it is. When I try to make my images more detailed I usually end up, imo, destroying them, perhaps the feeling of the image is lost or something... The head is too small, the thigths too large perhaps, it's a bit fuzzy and weird, the original is about 4 times larger. Comments welcome, but please be gentle. Back to top faustgfxmemberMember #Joined: 15 Mar 2000Posts: 4833Location: unfortunately, very near you. Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 5:23 pm no. ------------------ sky high with a heartache of stone you never see me 'cos i'm always alone/ministry the law of lead now reigns!@#!/earth crisis firstname.lastname@example.com icq#35983387 http://faustgfx.0wns.org Back to top PlouffememberMember #Joined: 17 Nov 2000Posts: 225 Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 5:27 pm um what is this hehe =) an explanation behind the pic you are making would be good .. from what i can tell its a VERY musculair women having her period in the woods and swimming in her own blood? ------------------ "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." -Charles Horton Cooley Back to top Wyatt TurnermemberMember #Joined: 18 Oct 2000Posts: 501Location: Everett, WA, USA Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 5:46 pm sOME OnE needs TAmpAx. hehehe. Back to top TinuschmemberMember #Joined: 25 Dec 1999Posts: 2757Location: Rhode Island, USA Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 6:08 pm *runs away* Back to top IanmemberMember #Joined: 19 Mar 2000Posts: 1339Location: Singapore Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 12:27 am *clicks back button furiously* Back to top Mogroljunior memberMember #Joined: 23 Oct 2000Posts: 4Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 3:14 am I don't know really... it started out as a sketch of a woman and then turned into this, I suppose it's a little wicked. I'll post another picture someday, one that isn't so gruesome. Back to top SPike.CoMmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 194Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 4:07 am My biggest concern is that this guy lives close. Ick! Please post something that won't give me nightmares dude. Du har rätt bra nerver för att lägga ut sånt här på nätet. Jag kan inte ens tänka mig sånt här. Back to top IrulannmemberMember #Joined: 20 Nov 2000Posts: 66Location: Dallas, TX Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 8:45 am aww now guys be nice I think it's a great beginning---just a little refining would be best, the fuzziness is an asset, especially considering how gruesome the pic is--maybe just refine her face, her appendages...lots of people do the "large thigh" thing--it's a good tactic. maybe work a little more on the anatomy of the arms, otherwise it's a good pic ------------------ All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ********************** I Imagined an Image My Image Imagined Me and I became It's puppet just a Child of It's Imagery http://www.geocities.com/winterblood_fyrestryfe/digipage.html" TARGET=_blank> http://www.geocities.com/winterblood_fyrestryfe/digipage.html Back to top LightmemberMember #Joined: 01 Dec 2000Posts: 528Location: NC, USA Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 6:47 pm Refine the face? Thats the best part of the picture! The face is great.. maybe you could get some inspiration from Goya. -- ps hope this dude doesnt live near me either! =) Back to top MasacciomemberMember #Joined: 07 Jun 2000Posts: 178Location: Sydney,australia Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 9:11 pm it smells of cabbage in here... Back to top ShadowmanmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 2000Posts: 282Location: Glen Ridge N.J. USA Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2001 11:43 am Get this chick a maxi pad for christ sake. Back to top shardikmemberMember #Joined: 09 Apr 2000Posts: 494Location: Buffalo, NY Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2001 12:00 am i agree with light, u should leave the face as is... but how is this a woman on knee.. get her some midol too man... shes gotta have a massive headache ------------------ -matt Back to top AwetopsymemberMember #Joined: 04 Oct 2000Posts: 3028Location: Kelowna Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2001 10:15 am ack.. my eyes... ------------------ I think Im wearing out my CTRL-'z' http://noelsart.cjb.net Back to top DryfirememberMember #Joined: 21 May 2000Posts: 945Location: Long Island, NY Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2001 4:17 pm THAT KICKS SO MUCH ASS!!! 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But "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "Lincoln" will both be vying for best picture and best director at the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, after Thursday morning's Oscar nominations saw some shocking omissions, surprising delights -- and Oscar history being made.
Rounding out the nine best picture nominees are: "Zero Dark Thirty," "Argo," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Silver Linings Playbook," "Amour" and "Django Unchained. The other nominees for best director are Ang Lee for "Life of Pi," David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook," Michael Haneke for "Amour" and Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
Noticeably missing from the best director nominees were Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty," Tom Hooper for "Les Miserables" and Ben Affleck for "Argo."
"Lincoln" earned the most nominations of the day -- 12 -- including nods for performers Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field.
Lee's "Life of Pi," a story about a shipwrecked young man who shares a lifeboat with a tiger, followed with 11 nominations. That was followed by the epic musical "Les Miserables" and the quirky romantic comedy "Silver Linings Playbook," which earned eight nominations apiece. "Argo" earned seven.
In addition to Day-Lewis, the best actor nominees are Bradley Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook," Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables," Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master" and Denzel Washington for "Flight." Best actress nominees include Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty," Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook," Emmanuelle Riva for "Amour," Naomi Watts for "The Impossible" and Quevenzhane Wallis for "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
"Amour" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" made especially strong showings.
The two movies are making academy history. At 85, the veteran French actress Riva is the oldest nominee in her category in academy history, while Wallis is the youngest best actress nominee at the age of 9.
Vying for best supporting actor along with Jones are Alan Arkin for "Argo," Robert De Niro for "Silver Linings Playbook," Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master" and Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained." All five nominees in the category are previous Oscar winners.
In the supporting actress category, Field will be competing against Amy Adams for "The Master," Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables," Helen Hunt for "The Sessions," and Jacki Weaver for "Silver Linings Playbook."
The 85th Academy Awards are scheduled to be held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland on Feb. 24.


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Olive Mary Fye, 91
Olive Mary Fye, 91, formerly of Punxsutawney, died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, at Punxsutawney Area Hospital, following a lengthy illness.
She was born May 28, 1919, in La Jose, a daughter of the late John and Belle (Williams) Sylvis.
Mrs. Fye was married to Glenn Fye, who preceded her in death.
She was a member of the Big Run Christian Church and the Sykesville Senior Citizens.
Surviving relatives include three children, LeRoy Fye and wife Cindy of Curwensville, Harold Fye and wife Joyce of Atlanta, Ga., and Nancy Breth and husband Larry of Punxsutawney; a sister, Dorothy Carlson of Erie; a brother, Ray Sylvis of Erie; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by four sisters and two brothers.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, and from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, at the Leo Nedza Funeral Home, Sykesville.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, at the funeral home with Pastor Barry Fillman officiating.
Interment will be in Lakelawn Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Rescue Hose & Ladder Fire Company of Curwensville.


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Top 5 with Lisa Foiles: Top 5 Cutest Redheads
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You could do with a dash more red in that, Lisa. It came out more brunette. But, you want to spike up the auburn, I'll have no problem with that. And no love for Trip from Enslaved? Sadness...
mmmm..i find red-heads sexy.
My favorite videogame red head has to be Jessica from Dragon Quest VIII. She wanted to set her own path, faced her mother to go out on her own, taking revenge for her dead brother, even was a boss in the game for one point. Even her voice actress made her sound wonderful.
"I'm gonna have to fuck you up now."
WOO SUIKODEN II! Awesome RPG, and Tengaar is great too.
Also, redheads are haaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwt
Well, she is a crazy redhead.
Lisa, am I doin' it right?
Nerf double barrel FTW
I'm more into brunettes, but redheads are a close second.
Yeah Lisa's red hair looks pretty brown to me.
hooray for redheads! especially if they were fake blond before that! no rage quit, but cheer stay!
about the video? well, the predominatnt feeling was: short; it felt really short (due to the nerf gun shoot-out?)
...i guess this episode was really good, considering it made me think; a big thumbs-up!
You gotta stay redhead Lisa. Redheads are awesome.
Rage quit for no Leliana. >:(
I dunno if I agree with Tengaar but any love for Suikoden is always good. Unless its S4. S4 was horrible even if I actually kinda liked the idea of weaponized WMD runes.
... *stops hyperventilating*
Seriously though. Red Heads are the best thing since sliced bread. Way better than blondes. Usually not portrayed as thick as blondes. And 10x cuter and funner.
And plus, Pokemon and Kingdom Hearts? ON THE SAME LIST.
Best. List. EVER.
I used to love me some Lisa Foiles... until she dyed her hair red which turns the Testosterone switch in my head ON.
Great video! I'm beginning to think that these intro/outro sequences the top 5's are getting almost deserve their own spin off series. This episodes definitely gave me a good laugh! :D
I would have had Elly from Xenogears on my list. http://www.gameforums.ru/uploads/567207-xenogears.ellie_sofia.lober.jpg
for good or bad, the intro's are comedy gold on this!
OH YEAH Suikoden! I always say that Final Fantasy is to The Gramercy Riffs as Suikoden is to The Warriors. My friends and I seriously must invite you to a panel at next years Anime Conji.
Hmmm i think Trip from Enslaved should be on this list!
Yeah it's not a very red red. I still like it though.
As always, nice episode. I want that double barrel nerf gun.
has a little red tint I like it better than the blonde, now make it black and do the most gothy characters or something
Simply put.
How has no one mentioned Karen Gillan from Doctor Who yet! This makes me sad :-(
Did she just get hotter? Awesome.
Still, good video. Keep up the good work!
very cool top five, love the random side stories more please nd did ya do a digital media course.
Just saying.
Also, it is nice to be able to watch these clips without being blinded by blond...bonnets. Okay, not bonnets, but alliteration!
It is red because of the BLOOD
Lisa Foiles,
Marry me.
Did she seem ... less stupid to anyone else? I mean it's still a series of bad jokes... But she's not cringe-worthy anymore... Can hair change a person's personality...
I really enjoyed this video. In an age where video game companies seem to be trying to out measure each other's female character's busts, it's nice to take notice of the characters that are cute, and aren't basically a pair of boobs with arms and legs.
Love the hair, keep it red!
I choose you mrs Foiles as my #1 :D
her hair isn't even red!
Left 4 Dead: Nerf Gun edition.
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Helen A. Weinberg of Shaker Heights, Ohio, a summer resident of East Hampton since 1970, died of lung cancer in Cleveland on April 20 at the age of 84, after an illness of four years.
A professor of literature, composition, and art criticism at the Cleveland Institute of Art for 46 years, Ms. Weinberg became active in cultural life here soon after she and her husband bought a house on Spring Close Highway. She wrote art criticism for Newsday, lectured at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, and led book discussions at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, among other undertakings. In addition to her years teaching in Cleveland, she studied and taught at Vassar College and Columbia University under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She owned a loft in SoHo from 1980 to 1987.
"She was a great patron of the arts," John Weinberg, one of her sons, said, noting that she had a large collection of works by emerging and established artists and former students. A large part of her collection is now owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
"She had a wonderful personal style and a great eye," her son said. "Her homes were filled with her collections of beautiful art, objects, and books."
Born in Orange, N.J., on June 17, 1927, Ms. Weinberg grew up nearby in West Orange and graduated from Wellesley College in 1949. She held a master of arts degree and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.
She was married on Sept. 11, 1949, three months after her college graduation, to Kenneth G. Weinberg, an attorney. He died in 1999.
Besides her son John, who lives in Richmond, Va., she leaves another son, Hugh Weinberg of New York City, and a daughter, Janet Weinberg of Los Angeles. A sister, Ruth Arnstein of New York City, also survives, as do five grandchildren.
A funeral service took place at Mayfield Cemetery in Cleveland. Memorial donations can be sent to the attention of Dr. Abraham Chachoua, Thoracic Research Program, N.Y.U. Cancer Institute, 17th Floor, One Park Avenue, New York 10016.


text: Unless you've been cowering under a rock the last few weeks you'll know that Get Physical are back for a rapturous return in Room One this Saturday. We've maintained a special relationship with DJ duo M.A.N.D.Y during their ten year reign of the label, providing a home to the likes of DJ T and Booka Shade and specialising in a frantic brand of party tech-house. What we love most about the music brothers in arms is how they identify themselves through their recognizable style of the simple pleasure of playing out together. So, in the new surge of heat we're experiencing mid- Summer we thought it be would fun to ask them away from the decks how they like to spend the season. One half of M.A.N.D.Y, Philipp Jung gives us their guide on everything from summer soundtracks to hangouts and discusses the 10 year landmark of the label. Stream Tiger Stripes - This Man ( M.A.N.D.Y. vs LOPAZZ Edit ) out now on Get Physical below. How are you celebrating 10 years of Get Physical this Summer? Philipp: Obviously we are doing more label-parties around the globe and are trying to gather most of the people we worked with and have spent some really good times with over the past 10 years. What does the 10 year landmark mean to you? Philipp: It's nothing really new that time passes by quickly, but seriously it's crazy. I think all the people, who started back in the day never thought about this in terms of running a business for so many years. A lot of them disappeared as well, so I am very happy we are still here and actually think we are on pretty solid feet right now. The team is the best we ever had and I am very happy with the musical outcome. As with many other labels the booking part gets vital for the surviving of the label so we are focusing a lot on this. The recording business is pretty dead, so we have to find new ways to survive, there are 7 people in our office and we need to feed them. How would you sum up the Get Physical journey so far in three words? Philipp: Blood, Sweat & Tears and tons of good moments. What are some of your favourite Summer hang outs? Philipp: Just sitting here on a little island called Hvar in Croatia. This could be a place where I could stay a little longer because it is so beautiful. But there are so many nice spots, we just played on the most historic bridge in Avignon, South of France: this was some very special moment and of course the festivals like Melt, Fusion and Burning Man. What's your Summer soundtrack? Philipp: This changes the whole time. A friend made me listen to Sixto Rodriguez, since I discovered him he's on constant repeat. Perfect Summer music. What's your favourite Summer eats? Philipp: Patrick and me love Spaghetti Bolognese. It can often happen that the night goes on a little longer and food will be not in sight for some long hours, we need a solid base. The ingredients should be organic lean minced beef, onion, garlic, chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, little bit sugar, fennel, carrots, red wine, fresh basil and dried oregano. And you should cook it for a couple of hours. It even tastes better the next day after the after hour. Favourite Summer holiday destination? Philipp: No laptop, best buddies, not too much techno, good food, sports and sleep. It could be anywhere where it's calm and beautiful. What are your expectations for your Summer gig at fabric on Saturday? Philipp: For some reason which I can't even explain, the last gig was so long ago, it's not even funny. As everyone knows we do have a very close relationship to the whole fabric crew so we are really happy to be back for some Room One action. We seriously can't wait for this moment again. Thanks for having the Get Physical label night again, may there be another 10 anniversaries come.


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2008-09 Women's Basketball
Mt. Vernon Nazarene 77, Thiel 49
Mt. Vernon Nazarene pulls away in second half for 77-49 win over Thiel
By: Brandy Bidlack, sports information assistant
November 21, 2008
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BLUFFTON, Ohio - Mt. Vernon Nazarene women's basketball team knocked off Thiel College, 77-49, in the first game of the Bluffton Tip-Off Tournament on Friday, November 21, 2008. The Cougars remain undefeated at 4-0, while the Tomcats fell to 1-2 overall.
The Cougars were led by Lauren Johnson with 28 points as she dialed long distance with six three-pointers and went 4-for-4 from the free throw line, had five steals, one assist, and one rebound. Amanda Himes added 19 points, pulled down nine boards, and had one block and one assist. Rachel Fiely tallied 14 points, four assists, four rebounds, and three steals. Alexis Harkins finished with six points, five assists and one block for the contest.
Towanda-Michelle Warren paced the Tomcats with 12 points and two assists. Amber Jenae Bodrick added 11 points, nine rebounds, and two assists, while teammate Kim Stitt hit for seven points, one assist and grabbed a game-high 10 boards. Catie Seiber chipped in eight points, two rebounds, and two assists. All four Tomcats picked up two steals in the loss.
Thiel will face Saint Mary-of-the-Woods at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 22, in the Bluffton Tip-Off Tournament. Mt. Vernon Nazarene moved into the championship contest and will battle Bluffton in the final game of the tournament. The contest is slated to start at approximately 3 p.m., following the Thiel-SMWC game.


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Doris's Sweet Shop to host monthly chamber coffee event
The Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly Chamber Coffee at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at Doris' Sweet Shop, located at 1404 Hailey. The business is owned by Doris Johnson, who founded the bakery in 1988. She and Horace Johnson operate the bakery, while Brenda Kamer is the on-site manager. Six workers are employed at Doris' Sweet Shop.The bakery specializes in donuts, rolls and pastries for breakfast, while offering hamburgers and sandwiches for lunch. Doris' Sweet Shop also offers custom wedding, anniversary and birthday cakes. Coffee, tea and cold drinks are available as well.Doris is glad that she opened the bakery and says that she loves helping and waiting on people. Her wonderful customer base spans from California to Florida, and she has delivered wedding cakes all over Texas. In addition, Doris has received awards for her baking and wedding cakes and was in the nationwide register of Who's Who. She notes that her slogan for the business is "Love at First Bite."


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Helping Iraq One Project at a Time
By Dennis Walikainen | Published
An organization in Iraq led by a Michigan Technological University alumnus is seeking to help Iraqis rebuild their nation.
The Iraqi Hope Foundation (IHF), founded by Major Don Makay '99, is a nonprofit "dedicated to the stability and prosperity of Iraq through investment in private, small and mid-size business and entrepreneurs," according to its mission statement.
He started the effort in 2008, along with veterans and Iraqis."Both the military and the Iraqis have sacrificed a lot of time and effort serving there," says Makay, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan himself. "Many of us lost friends, family or comrades. We wanted to be a part of the long-term solution, which we saw in private business and opportunity. And we had many experiences with qualified, skilled and educated Iraqis who would be glad to work if they had access to capital."
That access was mostly blocked, due to the unsettled status of the Iraqi government and businesses.
"The final reason was the intrinsic link between unemployment and crime, terrorism and instability," Makay says. "In the end, we wanted to see Iraq become prosperous since we had seen so many suffer, not only during the recent campaign but historically. Thus, our motto—'Honoring the Sacrifice by Building the Future.'"
The foundation, which has an office in Constantine, Mich., also honors fallen heroes. One example is the Al Mustakbal ("The Future") construction materials company. This Iraqi business was built in memory of Captain Greg Dalessio. "He was a friend of mine who served with me in Germany and again in Iraq," Makay says. "He was killed in '08 while we were both on deployment in Iraq."
With $25,000 in seed money, the Iraqi-owned Al Mustakbal was able to build an office, storage space, and begin marketing its services in Baghdad. The business will employ 10 people and will repay part of the grant.
"IHF helped me establish something for my future," says Al Mustakbal owner Muthanna Badiya. "It helped me build this project, which will help me and Iraqis to do business and move the country's economy forward."
The foundation also has helped the mother of an Iraqi who served with US troops. They helped return her son's body to Baghdad from the US after he died this September.
"Alex" (his real name remains secret for security reasons) was an interpreter who served under Makay in Baghdad in 2006. He lost both legs from an insurgent's roadside bomb while on patrol with Makay's infantry company. Makay's men saved Alex, only for him to endure more than 70 surgeries in Jordan and the US over a five-year period. His wounds were so bad, he was never able to wear prosthetics.
"I visited him several times," Makay says. "Sadly, he died this September. "While he lived, we promised we would ensure that he was returned to his family in Baghdad. My team helped synchronize the effort, with the insurance company, to help transport his remains back to his family in Baghdad. My representatives in Iraq received the remains, helped prepare him and were in the funeral procession. We also raised $5,000 and delivered it to his single mother who is raising two more boys."
The foundation is also working on other humanitarian efforts, such as providing winter clothes for the poor.
"Since we are in fundraising phases, we are seeking government sponsorship," he says. "But, we can't secure that unless we build and can prove that we can do more, and we can't do that until we raise initial capital to grow."
Makay stresses that this foundation, while dedicated to veterans, is focused on helping Iraqis, .
"We want to emphasize that IHF is a program to honor veterans' sacrifices by ensuring what they fought and died for was not in vain," he says. "Also, you will notice that the program is about Iraq's suffering: that is why you don't see any photos of US military on the website, because it is really about Iraq's prosperity, which will ultimately honor our effort."
The foundation's goal is lofty: $300,000 in 15 months, and it is over 10 percent there. The founders have spent over $110,000 of their personal funds in building the organization.
"This initial capital will help us not only do more projects, but get a couple of full-time workers," Makay says. "With that, we can start showing the results that will eventually make the government feel comfortable enough to sponsor us. The US State Department has reviewed our program and recently accepted us among others as being eligible for future proposal submission."
Makay received his bachelor's degree in scientific and technical communication and an associate degree in electrical engineering technology. He was a member of Michigan Tech's Army ROTC.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 60 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Win Butler of "Arcade Fire" (credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
(LIVE 105) – When in Philadelphia, do as Boyz II Men do.
On Monday night, Arcade Fire made a stop in Philly where they showed off their superb vocal stylings with a little bit of Boyz II Men's "Motownphilly."
The Canadian band went not too hard, but not too soft, showing that Philly is slamming and they are not afraid of doin' a little east coast swag. It's the guy on the sax though that really makes this song work. We want more of him.
Arcade Fire is currently on tour in North America, making stops in Toronto, Austin, Cleveland, Denver and Brooklyn, for a two-night stand at the Barclays Center. The band is also set to headline night three of this year's Coachella, alongside OutKast and Muse, taking place on two weekends in April.


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Upcoming Park Ridge Health events
Park Ridge Health is hosting the following events:
◆ The oncology community support group meets from 10:30 a.m. to noon Friday in Burchard/OB Conference Room at Park Ridge Health, 100 Hospital Drive, Hendersonville. The group is offered by Park Ridge Health Oncology Center and open to anyone in the community undergoing the stress of cancer treatments.
Caregivers and family are welcome. Facilitated by Suzanne Watkins, R.N., O.C.N., O.N.N., and Darlene White, Park Ridge Health volunteer and cancer survivor. Call 828-681-2917 for more information.
◆ Bone density and blood pressure screening is set for noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at Etowah Lion's Club Health Fair, 447 Etowah School Road. The free screening is for osteoporosis. Wear shoes and socks that are easy to slip off.
Dr. Ramsey to provide OB/GYN services
Dr. Jamie L. Ramsey, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, is joining the staff at Transylvania Regional Hospital. She will begin seeing patients full time in July. She will join Dr. Brian Barrow, who has been providing OB/GYN care in Transylvania County since 2010.
Ramsey is board eligible in obstetrics and gynecologic surgery, and practices medicine in Asheville.
She earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 2006. She completed both her internship and residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville.
Before becoming a physician, Ramsey worked as a registered nurse in the labor and delivery of mothers and their babies. She has a passion for breastfeeding, routine and high-risk obstetrics, and minimally invasive gynecological care that includes complementary and alternative treatments when possible.
To make an appointment, call 828-884-8860.
Dr. Ratcliffe honored for behavioral health work
Psychiatrist Dr. Robert R. Ratcliffe was honored recently when he "semiretired" after 17 years of service as medical director of the St. Luke's Hospital's Center of Behavioral Medicine.
During a special luncheon where he was surrounded by staff, friends and family, Ratcliffe shared smiles and memories of his many years serving Polk County. Recently he made the decision to slow down, passing the title and the challenges of medical director to his colleague Dr. Belynda Veser.
Several days later, the board of trustees recognized Ratcliffe and the staff for outstanding service and attentive care they provide patients who are admitted to the Center of Behavioral Medicine, which serves adults ages 55 and older who are suffering with mental health issues.
The center has been serving patients since 1996. Ratcliffe was instrumental in the development of St. Luke's program.
Call 828-894-2408 for more information.
From staff reports
Health Briefs: June 12
Upcoming Park Ridge Health events


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When you offer to replace a broken item, how sincere are you? (I recall threads where the offer to replace something is treated as a "courtesy" offer, with the expectation that the owner of the broken item declines the offer. Especially when the item in question is an expensive one.)
If someone made it clear to you that you would be expected to provide a replacement or compensation for a broken/damaged item, would you be offended?
Do you expect to provide an exact replacement (when possible) for the broken object? Or would you consider that something "similar" would be "good enough"? (i.e. was I being a SS to expect an exact replacement for my expensive antique vase? Or should I have been satisfied with "a" vase, even if it came nowhere near to matching what was broken?)
Really, there are two things that owners of art glass should be doing:1. INSURE YOUR COLLECTION! We've had two breakages, one that DH did and one that the dog did. The pieces were really irreplaceable and losing one really broke my heart but it was on the TV console (this is a while ago.) Anyone could have knocked it over! Insurance paid full value. 2. Anything that valuable should probably be in a display case. You can get an antique thingy with doors on it and glass panes for much less than some of these collectible items would cost. With a child around, lock it!Collections are usually made up of items that really can't be easily replaced. While it is polite to try to replace something, I think the owner should protect their items. In the OP's case, I find it appalling that the guest was actually handled the item. I wouldn't let that happen to my treasures.
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Microsoft has much more experience with malware than Google does.
I don't want my searches returning malware links.
Especially since they're incompatible with my OS.
So Google's better, right?
No, Bing is better. At finding malicious sites.
I always knew it must be good for something...
No, Bing is better. At finding malicious sites.
And if you're running Windows, Bing and Desktop Search show the same results.
So Google's better, right?
No, Bing is better. At finding malicious sites. I always knew it must be good for something...
I have found Bing maps to be far superior to Google maps in many locations. The airplane views especially are usually better, and Bing allows for multiple angles and rotating the view for the airplane photos. In many cases, the satellite photos are higher resolution also.
5,000 across all 4 tested search engines vs. 10,000,000 pages searched with just Bing. The real story here is that search engines generally don't return malware pages at all anymore, but lets put that line at the end and make it another corp-war story instead.
5,000 across all 4 tested search engines vs. 10,000,000 pages searched with just Bing. The real story here is that search engines generally don't return malware pages at all anymore, but lets put that line at the end and make it another corp-war story instead.
How about browsers? Google Chrome will attempt to block you from going to a known malicious site.
Meh if you are using a browser in low rights mode with sandboxing who fricking cares. To me that is the bigger take from this, as even Google wasn't right 100% of the time, none of them are, so its better not to have the browser running with the same rights as the user so you don't have to depend on some search engine saving your ass.
Personally I use Bing simply because I've made $20 in gift cards from doing the same searches at the shop i would have done anyway. if these companies are gonna be making mon
I use Bing
ha ha!
don't get jack shit from google
Yeah, those greedy bastards just take take take. I visit their website and they 'take' my search from me!!!
I should charge them for the privilage of accepting my search terms and running my e-mail client.
They are making MONEY off you dumbass. Think Google is a fucking charity? they are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? That is one thing MSFT got right, the Google mailman commercials because that is EXACTLY what they are fucking doing, they are going through YOUR MAIL to find out more data to sell to their REAL customers which are the advertisers.
So if you wanna give shit away for free? Sucker every minute yadda yadda, me I want a God damned cut. You can bet your last dollar they are making mor
I'd rather pay $20 than use Bing.
Meh if you are using a browser in low rights mode with sandboxing who fricking cares.
You don't have to do legit system damage to be annoying. I've had plenty of users who have gotten infections consisting of a single executable in a temp folder that managed to somehow get itself to start up often enough to make a mess of people's systems. It helps prevent PERSISTENT damage that requires post-infection tools like Combofix or gMER, but it is still enough to make users upset and think that Super Duper Antivirus 2015 Pro has found kiddiepr0ndownloader.trojan and that they need to pay $29.95 usi
8 digit UID dude? Yeah been building these things since Ronnie Raygun was in the oval office so i think i know not to be going to "www.dumbass.com" and thinking if I hit the clown I can win an iPod.
But frankly the last few years, since I switched my customers over to a low rights mode browser and have sandboxing by default on the browser? They have to be REALLY fucking stupid to get infected, I mean clicking through a dozen "yes I'm an idiot" boxes to install the damned bug. If they just surf normally and
Bing's servers run on Windows
Google's servers run on *Nix
Of course Bing is going to find more malware!
Bing's servers run on Windows
Google's servers run on *Nix
Of course Bing is going to find more malware!
Bada Bing!
Not according to Netcraft. [netcraft.com]
You have to remember that Akamai is a caching service, and won't necessarily reflect the actual web servers' OS types.
Not saying for or against, but just pointing that out.
That's probably Akamai cdn that Netcraft is picking up.
I can't imagine Microsoft would run Bing on Linux, especially since they created it from scratch (and not an acquisition like Hotmail).
That would be like Richard Stallman sporting an iPad.
From TFA:
Google the Safest
The study concluded that while all the search engines the lab evaluated delivered malware, Google delivered the least. It was followed by Bing, which returned a disconcerting five times as much malware as Google.
That's what it says: Bing is better than Google for people who want to find malware.
The study concluded that while all the search engines the lab evaluated delivered malware, Google delivered the least. It was followed by Bing, which returned a disconcerting five times as much malware as Google.
That's what it says: Bing is better than Google for people who want to find malware.
And what's really scary is that "followed by Bing" implies that other engines returned even more, starting from a point 5 times as high!
You call it Bing. We call it Bung.
Thank you for your sig, I use it at work quite a bit.
My new malware detection strategy is garaunteed to detect 100% of all web based malware.
The AV solution is so fast and simple, you don't need to install anything, you don't even have to click a single link (I would reccomend you don't): In my AV system Every Page is Considered Malware!
> In my AV system Every Page is Considered Malware!
I've lost track of this conversation. Are we talking about Facebook now?
If they stay on the current course? I'm personally predicting 5 years, as it seems like everyone is looking at exit strategies. I mean you have the OEMs starting to sell Chromebooks which selling PCs without Windows would have been the kiss of death not even 5 years ago, Ballmer refuses to listen to the consumers which have made it clear their Apple ripoff strategy is a DO NOT WANT, and finally if rumors are true the X720 is gonna be torpedoed not by bad hardware but by bad management.
Just on inertia they could go another 3-5 but after that they are fucked, its obvious business alone isn't gonna be enough to keep them at their current bloated size and its even more obvious that they suck balls when it comes to consumers, so I give it 5 if Ballmer stays in charge.
MSFT is still worth billions. that adds 5 years by itself. Just look at Dell. Just trying to go private(smart move long term) has the investor sharks circling to get a piece of the pie, This is going to extend dell going Private by at least a year, and if they manage to stop it the sharks will bleed Dell dry.
No MSFT going down won't be quiet or quick. It will be a mob of investors trying to force all the cash and other holdings to be sold and/or given to them while things get even worse. Personally I expect Ballmer to try and save the sinking ship not realizing all the other rats have left him behind.
I'm waiting for the board to punt kick his ass like a 30 yard field return because frankly the ONLY person hurting MSFT IS MSFT, Ballmer is so damned clueless he thinks aping what was hot 3 years ago will work (it won't) and that he can use the old lame ass EEE strategy to sell tablets (really REALLY won't) and is just burning the fricking business.
Bring in someone which has common sense and they can not only stop the downward spiral they could actually grow the company. Problem is Ballmer just reads the st
they suck balls when it comes to consumers
Not yet, but don't lose all hope. Ballmer will try just about anything.
Once businesses start going the way of Munich, [h-online.com], they are done.
Thanks to all the Microsoft FUD going around, people are going to think that Google is telling their neighbors that they've been looking at furry videos.
"Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware"
IMO this is a bullshit article. Why?
https://www.virustotal.com/en/about/ [virustotal.com]
"What is VirusTotal
VirusTotal, a subsidiary of Google, is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners. At the same time, it may be used as a means to detect false positives, i.e. innocuous resources detected as malicious by one or more scanner
"Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware"
IMO this is a bullshit article. Why?
It's actually a bullshit headline. It's a case of "Finding" malware in your search results means they actually missed the malware and therefor found less malware than Google.
We're number one!!! We're number one!!!
Except they aren't. Yandex returned twice as much malware as Bing.
...and admittedly small percentage of websites."
editing plz?
I was irritated by that too, but it is a direct quote from the article. I'm not sure if it is fair, but it immediately made me doubt the reliability of the information in the article.
(you must be new here)
Says the UID that came approximately 41 million signups after mine...you need to be here longer before you can use that statement. Honestly, you must be new here =D
Dude, your math sucks.
You're over one million. He's 39 thousand.
Sure you weren't looking at his comment number?
Its ok, he must be new here.
We're Number One!
Easy to achieve, I have found a lot of website malware that only manifest if your user agent is Internet Explorer, those infected sites have code that try to hide injected HTML/JS code to Google Bot. Unless Google start violating the robots.txt convention and crawl the net as Internet Explorer, those sites will be never detected by them.
I have not found an infected site that include code to hide from Bing, so this could help MS, and MS could be using information obtained by the users that browse with Internet Explorer and use their Antivirus Software
LOL, way to not even read the summary, Bing returned 500% more results containing links to infected sites, quite the opposite of what you are saying.
haha you got me there, but my experience is true, If Google was allowed to cheat the User Agent when crawling, those websites could be hidden to the users. Those infected sites I found were not listed as malware on Google. So if if you are a malware website author, hide from all Search engine bots and you have more change to not be listed by them
If Google was allowed to cheat the User Agent when crawling, those websites could be hidden to the users. Those infected sites I found were not listed as malware on Google.
Soooo, you're saying that Google was unable to find malware because their indexing agent didn't advertise itself as IE. By that logic, Google would be missing more malware on it's scan, and therefore would be serving MORE malware infested sites as top/high results to search queries? But the article is saying that Bing is serving more malware, and by definition finding and filtering out less of it than Google.
Logic fail or reading fail? Either way, read and try again...
Google's been in the search game for a while now. They're quite used to being scammed, SEOd, manipulated, and probably have whole departments and armies of programmers/scientists just devoted to keeping their search results malware and scam free (As much as possible at least)
Google often goes out of their way to point out that their main purpose is to simply categorize and index the information available on the internet.
I'm afraid the Internet will beat them in the end.
Take web browsers. We had this piece of shit called Netscape, that was innovating the hell out of everybody else, and taking over the whole Internet. MS saw that happening, realised it was just wrong, and came with the excellent solution called Internet Explorer. It took them a while to get it right, but by the time they reached version 6 they did it. They had created the one all, end all of browsers, the ultimate web browsing solution, and Netscape was nowh
The title is wrong. A more useful one would be "Bing shoves 5x as many malware links at you at the top of your searches, without realizing it."
Nice to know Bing is good at finding something !
Bing finds LESS malware than Google because it offers up 5 times MORE malware to users than an equivalent Google search. The title may lead one to believe that Microsoft is BETTER at finding malware, but in fact, they suck MORE at it...
If you read the article, the mpm (Malware per Million) is quite low in any case, but because there are billions of searches a day, that makes the odds much more likely to occur than, say winning the Lottery...
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Gallery: Uncle Terry Shot Some More Photos Of Lindsey Wixson
You guys! I think I figured out why Uncle Terry likes Lindsey Wixson so much. It's not because she's the fashion world's answer to Joan Didion.
It's because she looks really fucking young. I know she's only 17, but I'm talking precocious 11-year-old, Toddlers and Tiaras young. Look at these latest snaps and tell me you don't agree. Wixson turns 18 this coming April, so I'm guessing we can look forward to a creepy nude shoot from her soon.
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By Mike Vasilinda
August 20, 2013
The Federal government is giving Florida 7.8 million dollars to hire "Navigators" to help people sign up for the Affordable Care Act. But Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi are raising privacy concerns.
The US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius came to Tampa last week to announce cash for the state is to move forward on Federal Health Care reform. "Will help local individuals and families apply for coverage," says Kathleen Sebelius.
This letter, from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and 12 other Republican Attorneys General raises questions about training for the new Navigators. Bondi vocalized the concerns at a State Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
"Are they going to be fingerprinted? Are they going to get background checks? Here's why that is important, they are going to have access to your tax information," says Pam Bondi Attorney General (Courtesy : The Florida Channel).
Bondi was joined by the Governor who asked pointed questions of the state Insurance Commissioner. "Do you think you could actually train somebody to do this job in twenty hours?" Governor Rick Scott asked.
"Ah, No… No," was the response given.
Progress Florida believes there are political motivations behind the criticism. "They are going to face server criminal penalties if they violate any people's privacy, so I really think what we are seeing here is just more politics," says Damien Filier Progress Florida.
Experts say that the biggest fear of people violating your privacy isn't help navigators, but people who email you or call you on the phone asking for information.
AARP says consumers need to exercise basic caution. "Do you own research because chances are the person who is calling and asking for that sensitive information is not on the up and up," says Leslie Spencer, AARP Florida.
Training for Navigators was cut from 30 hours to 20 in an effort to get the program up and running by October.


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TreyW9723 wrote:Victor Sullivan wrote:Trey, you've been told not to spam. Please don't continue. You are on thin ice, good sir.
im not spamming any more wat do u mean
Quoting my post and only adding a , especially after you already posted your excited reaction, could be considered spamming. Posting your excited reaction in all caps is not very good form either. I suggest you read the Forum Guidelines. The first thing they say is
Posting in the forum is a privilege, not a right. If you want to continue to keep this privilege, play by the rules.
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Famagusta (Turkish: Gazimağusa, Greek: Αμμόχωστος Ammochostos, [1]) is a city in Northern Cyprus.
Get in
You cannot cross directly into Famagusta from the government-controlled areas of Cyprus. Instead, you must cross the Green Line into the Turkish-occupied territory (known as the de-facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus). The nearest place to do this is from the Strovilia crossing near Agios Nikolaos, which is located inside the British sovereign military base area.
In general, you will need to travel by car. Famagusta has no functional public transportation, and there are no regularly scheduled public transportation links across the Green Line (although private tour operators do operate across the Green Line during peak tourist periods).
Get around
Self-drive is the most common way of visiting Famagusta, whether in your own vehicle or a rental car. Bicycle rentals are not available. It's possible to travel on foot, but sidewalks are in very poor condition where they exist. If on foot, be very careful not to accidentally cross into areas quarantined by the Turkish army and/or the UN, as doing so risks arrest. Taxis are a better (and safer) option for the independent traveler without a car. These are widely available and generally inexpensive for either point-to-point trips or local tours.
Famagusta largely maintains the look of a war zone, with a bombed out and fenced off downtown. The fact that the city is largely inaccessible limits sightseeing opportunities. Enjoy sunning yourself on the public beach next to the ruins of once-posh hotels, surrounded by concertina wire. While there are no lifeguards, Turkish soldiers with M-16s provide plenty of security.
Gambling and prostitution are both legal, and are the primary forms of entertainment in Famagusta. There are numerous casinos, bordellos, and similar places of ill repute. Illegal drugs are also plentiful in Famagusta, with access to the Mediterranean Sea creating a popular smuggling route.
Fuel is available in Famagusta, and supplies can be purchased from a few small markets. Note the available supplies are slanted toward agriculture, which is the primary economic driver in the region.
Most of the larger casinos have restaurants, and they are probably your best bet. Otherwise, there are kebab parlors scattered around the city.
Food in Northern Cyprus is not prepared to the same standards of cleanliness or hygiene as in the south. The safety of tap water is spotty at best. Accordingly, the traveler is recommended to take appropriate precautions in avoiding food-borne illness.
The casinos will gladly serve you free drinks as long as you're gambling. Most of the brothels have bars as well. Otherwise, liquor, beer and wine is available from most corner stores.
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I have thought that our nation's laws were based upon the Constitution. Can someone help me understand why the following quote is at the top of the United State's Justice Department website: "The common law is the will of mankind issuing from the life of the people"?
Taken at face value, it appears to me that this says that if a sufficient number of people do something, then that becomes a correct and lawful thing to do.
Following that train of thinking, we do not need police or courts, just let people do whatever they deem right and it will become so.
I have contacted the Justice Department and they do not seem to even know the quote is on the website.
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Weekly Recap Sept. 20
Tennis team picks up two wins on week
In a busy week for the BlufftonUniversity women's tennis team (3-4, 2-3) the Beavers split their matches, going 2-2 for the week. Bluffton started out the week with a victory over arch rival DefianceCollege, 6-3. The Beavers continued to play well as they defeated NCAA Division II opponent FindlayUniversity 8-1. Going into the weekend the Beavers traveled to AndersonUniversity for a three way match against Anderson and Franklin. Against Anderson, Bluffton lost a close match 5-4 and then fell to Franklin 8-1.
Freshman Chelsey Person (Bellefontaine/Bellefontaine) continues to dominate her No. 6 singles slot winning all her matches this week, she is still undefeated in varsity singles competition. Against Defiance and Findlay, Sophomore Jenna Liechty (Goshen, Ind./Bethany Christian) looked very impressive not dropping a set in either match. The doubles partners of senior Stephanie Keefe (Tiffin/Calvert) and junior Kara Schrock (Middlebury, Ind./Northridge) and the team of sophomore Lisa Cherry (Waterville/Anthony Wayne) and Chelsey Person went undefeated in doubles against Defiance and Findlay winning handedly in both matches.
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COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON (12-5, 4-1 SoCon) vs. GEORGIA SOUTHERN (7-10, 1-3 SoCon)
Game #18
January 17, 2013 • 7:00 p.m. (ET)
Hanner Fieldhouse (4,358)
at Statesboro, Ga.
Television: None
Radio: College of Charleston Radio Network (ESPN Radio 910 AM)
Series History: CofC Leads 21-18
Last Meeting: CofC def. Georgia Southern, 58-53, on Feb. 23, 2012 in Charleston, S.C.
Internet: Free Live Video and Live Statistics at www.GSEagles.com
Twitter: @CofCBasketball
College of Charleston: Doug Wojcik
First Year at CofC: 12-5 (.706)
Eighth Year Overall: 152-97 (.610)
Georgia Southern: Charlton Young
Fourth Year at GSU: 36-75 (.324)
Fourth Year Overall: 36-75 (.324)
RADIO (College of Charleston Radio Network)
Play-By-Play: Jeff McCarragher
Color Analyst: Everett German
TELEVISION (None)
Georgia Southern (7-10, 1-3 SoCon) will be the first stop on a tough, two-game Southern Conference road swing for the College of Charleston men's basketball team (12-5, 4-1 SoCon) as the two South Division rivals battle it out on the hardwood on Thursday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. (ET) at Hanner Fieldhouse in Statesboro, Ga. The Cougars have won seven of their last eight games including a 73-69 victory at The Citadel on Jan. 14. Three contests in the course of six short days could prove taxing for CofC, but the team currently owns one of the best road records in the nation at 6-0. The Cougars are one of only 14 remaining unbeaten road teams and are tied with seven other NCAA Division I schools who boast the most road wins this season. Defensively, both teams rank No. 2 and No. 3 respectively in the league in scoring defense and field-goal percentage defense with CofC holding opponents to 62.1 points per game and a 41.1 percent accuracy from the floor. The Cougars are currently tied for first place in the South Division standings with Davidson with 4-1 marks.
1. College of Charleston (6-0)
2. Wyoming (5-0)
3T. Louisville (4-0)
3T. Cincinnati (4-0)
3T. Creighton (4-0)
3T. Utah State (4-0)
1T. College of Charleston (6-0)
1T. Murray State (6-1)
1T. Stephen F. Austin (6-1)
1T. UT Arlington (6-2)
1T. Bucknell (6-3)
1T. Louisiana Tech (6-3)
1T. Bryant (6-3)
1T. Norfolk State (6-8)
Georgia Southern claimed its first league win of the season with a 70-57 upset of preseason divisional favorite Davidson on Jan. 14, which snapped a three-game losing stretch for the Eagles. They were picked to finish third in the preseason coaches poll behind the Wildcats and Cougars. GSU also pulled off a marquee win earlier this year at Virginia Tech out of the ACC (78-73) on Dec. 15 under fourth-year head coach Charlton Young. The Eagles are paced by junior guard Eric Ferguson, who currently ranks among the top 10 in the league in scoring (8th, 14.6 ppg) and rebounding (3rd, 7.6 rpg).
Fans can listen to all CofC men's basketball games throughout the 2012-13 season on ESPN Radio 910 AM in Charleston or via a live audio link at: www.charlestonsportsradio.com. Voice of the Cougars Jeff McCarragher and color analyst Everett German will call the action live from Georgia Southern on the College of Charleston Radio Network.
#22 Anthony Stitt, G, 6-1, 180, So. (11.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 3.2 apg, 33.4 min)
#4 Andrew Lawrence, G, 6-1, 185, Sr. (13.9 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 4.1 apg, 31.2 min)
#3 Anthony Thomas, F, 6-7, 207, Jr. (8.1 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 1.5 apg, 28.5 min)
#53 Willis Hall, F, 6-6, 235, RS-Jr. (7.2 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 0.8 apg, 24.4 min)
#1 Adjehi Baru, F, 6-9, 225, So. (10.4 ppg, 9.2 rpg, 0.5 apg, 33.1 min)
#24 C.J. Reed, G, 6-3, 191, Sr. (11.5 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 3.2 apg, 33.6 min)
#11 Tré Bussey, G, 6-2, 175, Jr. (10.9 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 1.6 apg, 34.3 min)
#0 Cleon Roberts, G, 6-5, 177, Fr. (7.9 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 0.8 apg, 25.4 min)
#3 Eric Ferguson, G, 6-7, 210, Jr. (14.6 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 1.4 apg, 29.9 min)
#34 Kameron Dunnican, C, 6-8, 215, So. (1.4 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 0.5 apg, 11.1 min)
CofC leads 21-18 in the all-time series with Georgia Southern. The Eagles ended an eight-game stronghold in the series by the Cougars in both team's last meeting (L, 58-64) in Statesboro, Ga. Five of the last six contests between the two schools have been decided by 10 points or less.
W, 58-53, in Charleston, S.C. on 2/23/12 (+5)
L, 58-64 in Statesboro, Ga. on 1/21/12 (-6)
W, 65-61 in Statesboro, Ga. on 1/26/11 (+4)
W, 92-84 in Charleston, S.C. on 12/4/10 (+8)
W, 90-72 in Statesboro, Ga. on 1/30/10 (+18)
W, 68-59 in Charleston, S.C. on 12/3/10 (+9)
W, 81-68 in Statesboro, Ga. on 2/19/09 (+13)
W, 100-87 in Charleston, S.C. on 1/10/09 (+13)
Senior point guard Andrew Lawrence looks to place himself among the list of Cougar greats who have reached 1,000 career points at CofC. He is 18 points shy of the honor and would become the 30th player in school history to reach the milestone with 982 career points to date.
• Coach Wojcik has never faced Georgia Southern in his eight years as a Division I head coach, but is now 4-2 lifetime versus Southern Conference opponents. Prior to taking over the helm of the CofC program, Wojcik had only faced a team from the league once – a home loss at Tulsa to Appalachian State (0-1) in 2010-11. He is currently 4-1 versus league foes in his first year and CofC's final year in the SoCon.
• Coach Wojcik will take part in his 250th career game against Georgia Southern on Thursday. The former Navy, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Michigan State assistant has won 61 percent of his games since starting his Division I head coaching career at Tulsa in 2005-06.
• It will be a Georgia homecoming for three CofC Peach State natives in redshirt senior Matt Sundberg (Kennesaw), senior Bart Benton (Monroe) and junior Trent Wiedeman (Suwanee). Two staffers will also return to their home state in assistant coach Amir Abdur-Rahim and video coordinator Richarde McCray both from Marietta, Ga.
• Wiedeman played with Georgia Southern junior guard Tré Bussey in the 2010 GACA North-South All-Star Classic. Wiedeman starred at Greater Atlanta Christian, while Bussey was a standout at Lithia Springs High School.
CofC 73, The Citadel 69
• For the 13th time this season, CofC went with the starting five of sophomore Anthony Stitt, senior Andrew Lawrence, junior Anthony Thomas, redshirt junior Willis Hall and sophomore forward Adjehi Baru (11-2).
• With the win, the Cougars claimed their 50th win in the all-time series with crosstown rival The Citadel. Both teams will see each other again in 10 short days at TD Arena on Jan. 24.
• CofC remains undefeated on the road with a perfect 6-0 mark which is the most wins among the 17 other schools in the country who remain unbeaten on the road this season. Wyoming is 5-0.
• Andrew Lawrence turned in his sixth 20-point game of his career with a game-high 21 points. He has now tabulated 982 career points and is 18 points shy of his 1,000th career point.
• Adjehi Baru registered his sixth career double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds versus The Citadel. It marked his third-straight game with a double-double which marks a career-best stretch.
• The Cougars knocked down a season-high tying nine three-pointers against the Bulldogs. They also had nine threes in road wins at No. 21-ranked Baylor on Nov. 24 and at Charleston Southern on Nov. 28.
• CofC took care of the basketball and had only 10 turnovers in the ballgame – just three in the second half of play. It was the team's second-fewest miscues this season behind eight at Vermont on Dec. 29.
• It was the first-ever meeting between two best friends in CofC Head Coach Doug Wojcik and Citadel Head Coach Chuck Driesell. Both have known each other since the early 90's when both coached and were roommates at the Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, R.I.
"It's a good thing, but there is a lot of basketball left. When you like at all of these RPI rankings on conferences, whether it's Conference USA or the Southern Conference, all of those conferences for the most part, are one bid leagues. It makes for great conference play and great games. It goes to show at the end of the day, we are all fighting for those three (tournament) days in March." – CofC Head Coach Doug Wojcik on Southern Conference play and Georgia Southern's upset of Davidson on Monday night
"It is a quick turnaround – five games in nine days. We only have a one-day prep for Davidson. For me and my staff, it's the first time we've seen these teams. Our kids have preconceived ideas about teams, but we don't. Right now, we have prepared for Georgia Southern, because it's the next game and then, we will go from there." – Coach Wojcik on the quick turnaround between games
"Not that Baylor was hostile, but anytime you go to a ranked team's home floor, it is tough. Vermont had a great crowd and we have seen a little bit of that already. Give our kids credit. They have really responded and performed well on the road." – Coach Wojcik on traveling on the road in front of hostile environments
"Every game in the SoCon is tough and the Georgia Southern upset of Davidson really just proves it. Anyone is beatable. Davidson was the frontrunner of the conference, and now they have been beaten, so everyone is on an even playing field right now. We have two really tough road games at Georgia Southern and Davidson. But, we go in with a lot of confidence knowing we are 6-0 on the road right now. We have been playing really well on the road, but we know it will be another tough challenge for us and are looking forward to both matchups." – CofC Senior Point Guard Andrew Lawrence on the tough two-game road swing at Georgia Southern and Davidson this weekend
"It will be hard game. I remember I didn't play the first game (in the home-and-home series) against them (Georgia Southern) last year. Both games will be hard, but we have to focus on getting better and getting those two wins on the road." – Sophomore Forward Adjehi Baru on the quick turnaround from The Citadel game to two more road games at Georgia Southern and Davidson


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HyTrust Appliance 3.5
Cloud startup HyTrust is showing off HyTrust Appliance 3.5, which it's describing as a "major upgrade" that provides a level of security for virtual and cloud environments that can help prevent "catastrophic, Snowden-style breaches."
HyTrust says its appliance can help a company with virtual and cloud environments avoid the disastrous scenario of a rogue admin copying all its virtual machines and walking out the door with confidential data.
To protect against insider attacks, HyTrust Appliance 3.5 includes role-based monitoring, automated threat detection and real-time alerts. It also works in accordance with the "two-man rule," which prevents a single actor from using stolen credentials to make off with sensitive data.
HyTrust also announced an $18.5 million Series C venture capital round led by Intel Capital, VMware, Fortinet and In-Q-Tel, the CIA's investment arm.


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Shouldn't we lie down, put a paper bag over our head or something?
What they told us to do in the event of a nearby nuclear strike was to hold our AK in front of us in outstretched arms.
When asked what that was supposed to accomplish, our "initial military training" (yes, it's a real thing that they teach in schools [themoscowtimes.com]) teacher told us that it is so that melting steel won't drip on the government-issued boots, increasing the chances that they might serve another recruit in defense of the Motherland.
A large part of this is that people's instinct when they see the flash is to go to the window to see what it was. The flash and the shockwave can arrive anywhere from seconds to minutes apart, and people all gather round the windows to see what's going on.
Just tell everyone to do it, and those that happen to be far enough to not be incinerated or irradiated might survive.
(And to those that aren't, it won't matter either way.)
I grew up in the middle of Silicon Valley - a major techno-industrial center wedged between a fairly major military base and two major population centers. As part of my Boy Scouts Disaster Preparedness merit badge, we had to explain our plan in case of a nuclear war being declared. I told them "kick back on the roof in a lounge chair and watch the mushroom clouds go up."
There was a brief pause, and the instructor said "Fair enough."
That's one way to look at it. Personally, when the grim reaper comes for me, he'll have a fight on his hands. My family has a plan, and there are emergency supplies including medical, and food and water for three days in each vehicle, we have a direction, (away from city center) and a meeting place already arranged. In the case of an EMP we likely won't have transportation, but you can't plan for everything. I admit the plan works best in the case of a dirty nuclear device detonated in the heaviest popu
I have a plan to. Make damn fucking sure the politician I vote for is far fucking more interested in diplomacy than war. My plan seems like a far better idea for survival.
More importantly from the government's point of view, any training that reduces injuries, even non-life-threatening injuries like cuts from broken glass, also reduces load on responders.
Of course, in any realistic WW3 scenario all that this would accomplish in the end is a slightly larger food riot once the food runs out.
Now in this day and age with slimmed down just in time delivery, the food would run out in less than 72 hours in all major metropolitan areas. The food you see on the shelves in your local food store is pretty much what's in store, plus whatever is in any trucks that manage to make it to the store.
Come to think of it, I bet it would take less than a hundred nukes aimed at a carefully selected list of choke points in the transport infrastructure to doom everyone in North America to starvation. The same thing goes for Europe and (to some extent) Russia. Even a very limited nuclear war could probably be incredibly lethal if both sides were aiming to kill/incapacitate the other side's population.
I think we'd better learn the words to Waltzing Matilda and maybe keep the cyanide pills handy.
This might be one of the best things to happen for SpaceX.
I'm sure they're all popping champagne bottles in the office right now.
Also a good thing if you don't want to help fund Putin's wars of conquest.
Wasn't it nice when at least space programs still worked together and were kind of outside the scope of international quarrels. Astronauts working together, at least to me, were a symbol of how we were still all civilized people who had a lot of common interests and could work together peacefully.
http://www.spacenews.com/artic... [spacenews.com]
Seems NASA started this over the month ago.
If there is anything to know about Russians, is they do not like getting bullied. And before you say "OMG, Russian are bulling Ukraine!", this is not the first time east Ukraine and majority were told to take a hike by the so-called "westerners".
Quick note: East Ukraine was Russia. West Ukraine was Poland. Borders were redrawn and now you have populations with different leanings. Imagine that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... [wikipedia.org]
Uh, like other countries like to get bullied?
98 lb guy doesn't like getting bullied? Tough shit, schedule him for a 2:45 wedgie.
275 lb football player doesn't like getting bullied? ok, fine, take him off the schedule.
Same with countries, that's why they all want the nukes, it's the nukes that make all the difference.
The first wave of purges between 1929 and 1934 targeted the revolutionary generation of the party that in Ukraine included many supporters of Ukrainization. Soviet authorities specifically targeted the commissar of education in Ukraine, Mykola Skrypnyk, for promoting Ukrainian language reforms that were seen as dangerous and counterrevolutionary; Skrypnyk committed suicide in 1933. The next 1936–1938 wave of political purges eliminated much of the new political generation that replaced those who perished in the first wave. Being accused of using the "Skrypnyk alphabet" – in other words, using Ukrainian Cyrillic letters instead of Russian ones – could lead to arrest or death
Sure the majority of the people in eastern Ukraine might want to belong to Russia, but those people have only lived there since the 40s through the 70s for the most part. In which case I propose they just move back to Russia, and leave Ukraine to the ethnic groups that were cleared out.
The median age in the Ukraine is 40, meaning half of people were born during or after 1974 and thus have no home on the Russian side of the border. So you would have them pack up and find a new city for the convenience of certain people (Crimean Tatars I think you mean) that have been living outside the area for 60 years? I can't think of how that could possibly make you any better than Josef Stalin that kicked the Tatars out of their homes in WWII, maybe worse, since he at least had the excuse of alleged N
Hm, that's an interesting suggestion.
Then what about people in US move back wherever they came from and leave the continent to the ethnic groups that were cleared out ?
Well the Snowden leaks messed up American Credibility.
For the most part he leaked stuff that everyone knew that we were doing it anyways. But because of the leak it gave government politicians something tangible to grab on and scold the US for, and pressure public opinion away from the US.
Russia is doing this too, with its citizens having proof of American bad guys, they can play to the paranoia that was already there, and use this to push their own objective. As America doesn't have a moral stance of thei
Except this latest spat is specifically about Crimea.
Except this latest spat is specifically about Crimea.
Now, now, let's be clear. This 'spat' is about Syria.
1) US wants Syria taken down, appeals to world to do so.
2) Russia blocks at every turn.
3) US attempts end-run, attracting only France in the process, then backs out
4) US deploys PsyOp to destabilize Ukraine, and 'spontaneous' protests break out.
5) Now Russia has more pressing shit to deal with than Syria...
You do realize the space program(s) started out as competitors, right? The whole thing started as a result of this little "international quarrel" called the Cold War.
How does one suspend GPS? Russia doesn't control outer space above their country.
ps - Elon Musk must be chuckling.
Then Russia would just be hurting itself as the satellites around the rest of world will continue to function.
Russia has its own system called Glonass. Most modern navigation devices support it because all the GPS modules implemented it when Russia decided to impose massive import duty on GPS only devices. They probably wouldn't be hurt by GPS because Glonass is adequate for civilian use and the military would never trust GPS to begin with.
It won't just affect Russia either, it will affect nearby countries. If the GPS system can't be maintained with new satellites it will eventually degrade and fail, but presumably the US has a backup plan to keep it going with different launch vehicles. I imagine there will be some considerable cost involved though.
A GNSS primer:
GPS will still function fine. It's a cold war technology: it was designed with the understanding that Russia would try to thwart it, not maintain it. There is zero danger that it will "degrade and fail" without Russian support. Ground stations are useful because they are known positions which should be very constant moment-to-moment (though there can be inches of movement in the long term). That makes it good for calibrating out error. The sort of errors it's good for calibrating out are pretty much only notable at the cm level, if you are actually in Russia. Russians with GPS systems won't notice.
GLONASS is the Russian program. It pretty much JUST covers Russia. It covers it well, making it good enough for civilian use. But then again, so is GPS, even without Russian ground stations. The notion of adding GLONASS ground sites in the U.S. is kind of meaningless. They could put up satellites that actually provide good coverage of the U.S., but I can't imagine any real tactical or economic advantage. It's saber-rattling aimed at people who don't know what they're talking about.
Meanwhile GPS is long in the tooth. Planned errors are inserted into the signal to degrade performance if you don't have the "key" to correct for them... but any government who cared to have military-grade GPS has it, either through the black market in Israel, or basic reverse engineering and intelligence. As such, the U.S. actually offered the proverbial keys to it's allies (read: everyone, especially Europe), but Europeans decided that they could not stand to ride the U.S.'s coat tails. They want an independent, European-controlled GNSS system. (This is not imprudent, as the current NSA- and Ukraine-related tensions show.) This is when they started pouring more money into Galileo. This was originally envisaged as a 50/50 joint public/private venture, but no companies actually stepped up to take part in the expensive R&D effort of re-building something that already exists. It is now a (very underfunded and behind schedule) 80% public venture.
Meanwhile, governments that may become unfriendly in the future -- like China, which always speaks of "when we invade Taiwan", never "IF we invade Taiwan" -- can't trust anything that the U.S. might shut off. Hence, they are building out their own system, BeiDou. The main focus of their "limited" version of the system was obviously South China Sea, but they supposedly plan a global build-out.
GLONASS is the Russian program. It pretty much JUST covers Russia
My Nexus 4 in the UK regularly picks up Glonass GPS satellites. I guess I'm not that far from Russia...
Any payload launched with Atlas V can be launched with one of the Delta IV rockets. That was the whole purpose of the EELV program to begin with. The problem is a lot of payloads are dimensioned to fit in a Lockheed Martin Atlas V with Russian RD-180 engines and won't fit into anything smaller than the Boeing Delta IV Heavy with US RS-68 engines and the Delta IV Heavy costs... a lot.
Then Russia would just be hurting itself as the satellites around the rest of world will continue to function.
IIRC, Russia has a law requiring all domestically produced/sold GPS devices to support GLONASS.
Turning off the GPS ground stations wouldn't anything to limit Russian's use of GPS/GLONASS devices.
Worst case scenario, it could limit precision for devices that actively use both satellites to derive the location.
And every Russian with a phone made by anyone other than a Russian phone-maker would be SOL.
Except that basically all phones on the market have been dual-constellation (or more, some support Galileo too) since early 2012 or so.
Russia put MASSIVE import taxes on navigation devices that didn't support GLONASS, so all phone manufacturers switched to dual-constellation chips as it was FAR cheaper than the tax penalty.
It's not about suspending GPS. It's about land based sites. Some kind of signal boosters I suppose.
GPS is normally only accurate to within a few yards, and when the system was opened up to civilian use in the late 90's the military put in a discrepancy to the civilian signals so that they'd be off by a few dozen yards.
Then someone hit upon the idea of checking GPS against a known good reading.
GPS base stations do this. They know where they are, exactly. They listen to the GPS satellites report of where the satellites think they are, then broadcast the margin of error out to nearby GPS receivers. As a result, the accuracy of the readings can be gotten exact down to a few feet.
So successful was this that the military eventually discarded the idea of putting in an intentional margin of error for civilian signals.
Don't you wish you could... [forbes.com]
One of the primary reasons given is that space exploration (in particular the highly speculative Mars mission SpaceX continues to look into) are high risk long term ventures and they don't want to be beholden to investors to meet quarterly numbers. To which I say put it in the company bylaws, mission statement, and investment prospectus and let the investors decide. I would love the chance to invest in a high risk, high reward, long term thinking company. There are so incredibly few of them out there, it
Presumably Elon wants to build rockets, not have another company owned by Wall Street where profit is all that matters. You can put it in the bylaws all you want, but the first time the CEO makes a decision for the long term health of the company rather than short term profits, the major shareholder will get together and sue him out of existence.
All HTTP connections to US websites will be redirected to a youtube video of Putin striking manly poses while riding on top of a grizzly bear.
That reminds me somehow of the bear fucker scene from "Super Troopers" [youtube.com]
Do a quick bunch of mealy mouthed video bites proclaiming solidarity and further cooperation to, well, study the situation.
I have no faith in our leaders here in the US or in the EU to stop Putin.
And the closest we can come to even calling those votes/referendums illegal, they violate the will of a group of thugs who overthrew the legitimate, democratically elected Ukraine government a few months ago.
Ukraine's "democratically elected" government was hardly overthrown: the composition of the Rada remains the same as it was before the trouble started. Svoboda, for example, was already in parliament under Yanukovych. All that changed was that Yanukovych fled, and then most of the the members of his Pa
The US needs to stop Putin, and the space front rather than Ukraine is the perfect place to start. The EU is hopelessly hooked on Russian gas and scared silly of Putin, so don't expect any help there. The first space race took us (using 'us' in the human race sense) to the moon, and very little since. Maybe the next one will take us to Mars?
As an aside, 'our leaders' needs to include the people. Shifting off Russian oil and gas will be painful financially, and economies that are only just getting back on th
We need to bring back the NASA programs and other things that are vital to national security in house rather then outsourcing to the lowest bidders...
This is exactly why comparative advantage is complete BS. When you let another foreign entity control your means of whatever it may be (rocketd, iPhones, car parts, tools, etc etc) you lose that ability to utilize it when the political poo hits the fan.
Watch the space shuttle program make a dramatic re-appearance. This is a massive national security issue that I bet no one brought up when they decided, "Gee, lets go and outsource our rockets and launches to a foreign power we've had cold relations with since the early 20th century."
This is what happens when people look solely at the bottom line. It gets a little hard to project your power into a region when that same region makes most of your equipment (I'm looking at you China!).
This is exactly why comparative advantage is complete BS. When you let another foreign entity control your means of whatever it may be (rocketd, iPhones, car parts, tools, etc etc) you lose that ability to utilize it when the political poo hits the fan.
I disagree. It's quite possible that this decision wasn't made lightly. I'm sure there are some Russian businesses which are being hurt by this. When countries trade with each other, and become dependent upon each other, there's a higher motivation not to go to war with each other or let political poo hit fans. While trade dependency is a strategy that kind of hurts when war breaks out, it decreases the likelihood of that war actually breaking out.
I think that policies should be optimized for day to day living during peacetime, not war.
Good point, I should have included that the US needs to stop antagonizing Russia and China. If our leaders want to play global bully then they need to understand that there's two sides of this coin. You can't project hegemonic power without a solid base to stand on. Putin said it best, "Everything in the world is interdependent and once you try to punish someone, in the end you will cut off your nose to spite your face.
the US needs to stop antagonizing Russia and China. If our leaders want to play global bully
It's worth pointing out that many of the countries bordering Russia and China desperately want to be our friends right now, because they're worried about their local bullies. Many of these countries have been on the receiving end of Russian or Chinese imperialism in the past, and are anxious not to be come satellite states. Even Vietnam, which as as much reason to hate the US as just about anyone, is on increasingl
The Shuttle program was ended because the shuttles were no longer safe to fly. They are not coming back.
Why space shuttles?
They were a magnificent achievement for the '70s, but they were never a cost-effective means of delivering payloads into orbit.
Define cost effective.'
The sanctions and bans clearly will not work to defuse the Ukraine crisis. The Russian public has bought into Putin's nationalist rhetoric. Putin completely controls the political discourse in the mass media within Russia. This year, Kremlin increased pressure even on web based news, social networks, and blogs. Every Western sanction is met with a counter-sanction from the Russian side. The Russian economy and standards of living may suffer (some have serious doubts about the effectiveness of these sanctions), but I don't think they will make Russia back away.
Moreover, it's not clear what is the goal of the western sanctions as their goal is often amorphously described as "deescalate the situation in Ukraine". What does this mean? Russians think that annexation of Crimea is a done deal. Not just Putin, average Russians too. They certainly won't back away from that. As for the instability in east Ukraine, it's not clear how you prove who is escalating what right now? The locals in East Ukraine are certainly as pissed off at Kiev as it gets, specially after deadly Odesa clashes and the coup in Kiev. I don't think they need a lot of encouragement from Putin at this point.
The best way to defuse the crisis in Ukraine, is to help this country rebuild its democratic institutions and economy. While Ukraine is viewed as the victim in this dispute, its government must do more to accommodate the concerns of its Russian-speaking citizens in the East regions. For one, they should be allowed to elect their local government officials.
Stop believing what you see on the news. The US and Russia both have agents on the ground in Ukraine stirring this whole thing up. Pretty much everything you see on TV was setup by one side or the other. I've no idea what's really going on other than that it's not whats on TV. Almost every time you read about something over there, you can go to youtube and watch video from people that were actually there and completely debunk what you just read.
Reporters are lazy, accept what the government feeds them, don'
This might really hurt Russia. The Soviet Union struggled to stay apace with technology, and Russia has too since the collapse of the USSR. Space technology was one area where Russia could make money and truly claim to be among the best. If they're not careful this might kill off one of their few chances for profitable exports in the world economy.
I suspect the ban on using Russian engines to launch the US military satellites is more of a posturing. Russian rockets and rocket engines are used mostly to launch civilian satellites.
I suspect the ban on using Russian engines to launch the US military satellites is more of a posturing. Russian rockets and rocket engines are used mostly to launch civilian satellites.
Except the number one thing in the news lately about those engines has been the massive US military block buy of rockets that use them. When the judge ordered a preliminary injunction to keep ULA from buying them a bunch of US businessmen, bureaucrats, politicians, and military types freaked out. Which was practically a sign to the Russians saying, "You can hurt us."
The GPS thing is partly posturing, but mostly about limiting military accuracy in the off chance we try something stupid. It's not likely, b
Kill shuttles, kill the DC-X, kill spaceplanes, kill research, find the cheapest possible source of launchers. Make a business out of manned spaceflight. So now we're hostage to Russia, because they were cheaper than building a reusable launch system. SpaceX ain't ready yet. So, we're screwed. May Elon Musk get what he wishes for, and may he be able to deliver. Next month.
Now can we build up our space launch infrastructure?
In terms of economic impact on US it is pretty toothless. ULA has already stated that they have two year supply of RD-180 engines and that they are perfectly capable of manufacturing the engines themselves. The reasons for buying these engines from Russia are mostly political - US supports Russian engineers so they don't go and build rockets in Iran. On the other hand Elon Musk must be laughing out loud. The Russians just created the perfect political environment for the congress to act and allow SpaceX to compete with ULA for military satellite launches, something that only few days back was made impossible by a court decision. Good job Ruskies, you just open the door for your most aggressive competitor.
As far as the shutting down GPS ground stations in Russia goes, this will only impact the accuracy of the system on Russian territory. So the only way somebody in US may feel pain is if they fall off their chairs laughing.
Unfortunately, ULA has stated that it would cost one Billion dollars to set up their own engine production here in the US. Sure that's nine tenths congressional/military bribes and lining shareholders pockets but expect the US to be paying for the factory any day now.
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