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At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
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We didn't lose track. There is no option A where the disc is "removable" and you can play the game. all game discs will be like PC games, a one-time download medium tied to a serial number AND your online account (so at this point you cannot even uninstall and physically hand over the serial key like warcraft or Starcraft used to)
Effectively, these are MORE LOCKED than even Apple's App Stores that at least let you have 5 copies on ipad/iphones for one price.
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The project is fully-funded by an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant from the Federal Railroad Administration andis part of a larger $163 million, 15-mile mainline track expansion between the cities of Commerce and Fullerton, known as the Triple Track Project, which lays an additional third track next to two existing lines.
"In a densely populated urban region such as Los Angeles, passenger and freight rail lines often compete for track access," said Acting Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "This project makes it possible for us to better serve the public by helping to alleviate congestion and improve on-time performance."
Construction of the Triple Track Project is divided into eight segments of mainline capital improvements. In addition to improving safety and reducing noise, completion of all 15 miles of the new track will allow for expanded passenger and commuter rail service through the corridor.
"BNSF and Caltrans share a long-term commitment to improve the efficiency of rail transportation in California," said D.J. Mitchell, BNSF assistant vice president, passenger services. "Investments such as this will help improve rail passenger service, while maintaining consistent and reliable rail freight capabilities within the region."
"Amtrak continues to look forward to the implementation of all track improvements to the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor," said Michael Chandler, Amtrak general superintendent, Southwest Division.

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I'm pretty sure I must have read wrong the sign that identified "Green Chicken Road." But I don't care, I enjoy contemplating why the chicken is green, and why it was awarded the honor of having a road named after it.There was a store at the mall that had a non-working light-up letter, making it The Gods Shop (really The Goods Shop). My friends and I spent entirely too much time discussing its possible merchandise.
I'm currently out of state visiting a friend, and while we're out driving, we usually pass a sign that says "MAKE YOUR YARD SPECIAL!" However, the "fork" at the top of the Y in "yard" was cut off somewhat, making the Y look a lot more like a T and therefore like a word I probably shouldn't be saying. The first time we passed that sign, I couldn't figure out WHAT it said - I read it with the T, knew it couldn't have POSSIBLY said that, but it took another pass about a week later before I could get a better look and finally figure out that they were advertising lawn decorations.
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Brooks is talking about the bookcover that illustrates the previous post ("Romney, the man who says 'marvelous'"). He writes that "the illustration shows the British nation as a large man. The people make up the muscles and flesh. Then at the top, there is the king, who is the head and the mind."
Does Brooks marvel at Obama visualized as a large man and
In many ways, Barack Obama has lived up to his promise. He has created a thoughtful, pragmatic administration marked by a culture of honest and vigorous debate. When Obama makes a decision, you can be sure that he has heard and accounted for every opposing argument. If he senses an important viewpoint is not represented at a meeting, he will stop the proceedings and demand that it gets included.Oh, brother.
If the evidence leads him in directions he finds uncomfortable, he will still follow the evidence. He is beholden to no ideological camp, and there is no group in his political base that he has not angered at some point in his first year.Oh, my lord. Defer! Defer has been a big word these past 2 weeks, as the Obama administration demanded deference from the judiciary.
But his has become a voracious pragmatism. Driven by circumstances and self-confidence, the president has made himself the star performer in the national drama. He has been ubiquitous, appearing everywhere, trying to overhaul most sectors of national life: finance, health, energy, automobiles and transportation, housing, and education, among others.
He is no ideologue, but over the past year he has come to seem like the sovereign on the cover of "Leviathan" — the brain of the nation to which all the cells in the body and the nervous system must report and defer.
The country is now split on Obama, because he is temperate, thoughtful and pragmatic, but his policies are almost all unpopular....Oh, really? How's that rage going these days? Rage or deference? What are you seeing?
Many Democrats, as always, are caught in their insular liberal information loop. They think the polls are bad simply because the economy is bad. They tell each other health care is unpopular because the people aren't sophisticated enough to understand it. Some believe they can still pass health care even if their candidate, Martha Coakley, loses the Senate race in Massachusetts on Tuesday.
That, of course, would be political suicide. It would be the act of a party so arrogant, elitist and contemptuous of popular wisdom that it would not deserve to govern. Marie Antoinette would applaud, but voters would rage.
If I were President Obama, I would spend the next year showing how government can serve a humble, helpful and supportive role to the central institutions of American life. Even in blue states like Massachusetts, voters want a government that is energetic but limited — a servant, not a leviathan.But as brooks are not oceans, Brooks is not Obama. And Obama did not take that advice. "Political suicide" was committed. Is it noticeable? The health care bill was passed, even after Ms. Coakley lost. And now, the people — who made it perfectly clear at the time and continue to make it clear that they did not like Obama's policies — look to the Court to save them from the Leviathan, and the Leviathan says defer.


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Kudos piper on your new BFF
the always annoying octogenerian chowd turd from texas
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Blaming the OC for an anemic Offense with the QB Rex has put under center is funny. Last season Shotty was the scapegoat.
Extending Sancheese with a big contract was hilarious.
Getting a cap hit for his crappy services that would choke a horse falls to Tanny/Rex.
Woody is clueless.
Bad news top to bottom for the organization.
Too bad Woody wouldn't sell the franchise.
The argument that was floated around at the time of the Sanchez extension was that the Jets were potentially locking him in at a discount if/when he performed up to his potential or draft slot. Except the opposite was also possible, and the Jets are now staring down one of the worst, most untrade-able contracts in the league barring this miracle "jump" from him.
[The Jets beat the Coltswho do have a winning recordQUOTE=PatsFanTX;4704407]Congrats on beating up on the bottom-feeders in the NFL.
Against teams with winning records, the Jets are 0-6 and have been outscored 190-79.[/QUOTE]
Can some one explain to my why the F when the other teams in this division show any improvement it is ALWAYS at the Jets expense. If the Dolphins and Pats are any good it's beating up the on the Jets. The Jets must be the key to winning this division.


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[Manga Maniac Cafe] How did you come up with the concept and the characters for the story?
[Paula Altenburg] I always come up with the characters first. Hunter and Airie's first meeting was the first scene I had in my head. I wanted Hunter to be a bounty hunter at first, which is how he got his name, and I really saw him in a western/desert setting. He morphed into a demon slayer. Airie started out as a half demon bandit. I'd meant for her to be more of an outlaw, but as she grew, it was obvious her personality was much more innocent and gentle. She has quite the temper though, and Hunter finds that out the hard way. The story world grew up around the two of them with a little prompting from my editors. I'm all about the characters and have a little trouble remembering that the reader doesn't "see" my setting if I don't put it into words.
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[Manga Maniac Cafe] If Hunter had a theme song, what would it be?
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[Manga Maniac Cafe] Name one thing Airie is never without.
[Paula Altenburg] Fire. It's a significant part of who she is, kind of like breathing.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things will you never find in Hunter's pockets?
[Paula Altenburg] That's a great question! Hmm. 1) Pretty stones, or anything someone else might pick up out of curiosity and want to save. He's not a collector. 2) Bullets. He's not much into guns either. 3) Hair ribbons. That seems like it should go without saying, but the guy has seven sisters so it's not too much of a stretch. He hasn't seen them in years, but he still really loves them and thinks of them often.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is Airie's greatest regret?
[Paula Altenburg] Airie never got to say goodbye to the priestess mother who raised her. That bothers her because rituals that should have been carried out had to be abandoned, and her mother was left without a proper burial.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What are your greatest creative influences?
[Paula Altenburg] It doesn't take much to get me going. My imagination's pretty active. I'm big into "What if" scenarios, but I'm an abstract thinker and not visual at all. At some point I'd like to write a story that's kicked off by Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," though. A song, an image, or a movie can all inspire me, but it's usually an emotional reaction to one specific thing about them. In Hallelujah, it's the line "He saw her bathing on a roof." From there, an entire storyline jumps into my head.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things do you need in order to write?
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[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is the last book that you read that knocked your socks off?
[Paula Altenburg] I only read books that knock my socks off. Life is too short to read anything else. I will totally toss one aside if I'm not wowed by it because there are plenty more out there waiting to amaze me. Having said that, I have a bit of a love affair going with George RR Martin and his Game of Thrones series. He's an author who does everything well.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If you had to pick one book that turned you on to reading, which would it be?
[Paula Altenburg] I was reading before I started school, so I'm not really sure what got me started. Johanna Spyri's Heidi sticks in my mind. So does Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell. My mother tells me I read the original versions. She's a former English teacher and alternates between horror and fascination at my reading choices. As long as the writing's good, I'm okay with it.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you like to do when you aren't writing?
[Paula Altenburg] I'm a reader. It's my favorite thing in the world to do. Next up comes watching movies. I also like to run. I enjoy traveling too, but overall, I'm quite boring. (Notice that travel placed last on that list?) My husband's European and we go often, but I'll take my Kindle and sit on someone's couch while he visits with family. His sister and I went to Paris and Brussels together a few years ago and visited every museum and art gallery we could find because we both love history. I talked her into taking a tour of the sewers in Paris and she hasn't forgiven me yet.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How can readers connect with you?
[Paula Altenburg] Through my website at www.paulaaltenburg.com, on Facebook, and Twitter @Paula Altenburg. I swear I will friend and follow, and respond to all e-mails!
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Well, first I want to say "hi" to evebody in the thread.
I just watched the movie and i'm feeling a bit uneasy with some questions. I know that the movie was intended to left some openings, maybe for a new "season", but i would be glad if someone could share his/her impression about these points:
Spoiler for Questions and some thoughts:
Hmn... hope that someone could help or ad something to that. See ya!
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Well, I finally (after sitting on my HDD for two months) watched this and it was amazing. Everything about it was great. My only complaint is that it was too short! I wouldn't mind a sequel, focusing more on Sammy in particular. A nice triangle with Rikuo, Sammy & Nagi would be interesting too.
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1. The way I see it, the cafe ruleboard has been distributing information about the place to its patrons, firstly information about the place, and then other peripheral information, for example its patrons (e.g. Katoran was able to go through the frequent customer list of Time of Eve). This, in addition to the movie opening scene, demonstrates the cafe ruleboard's ability to transmit information.
Secondly, if you look at the background screen in the opening scene, Sammy does not possess Code: Life, but Code: Eve. That's probably Shiotsuki's parting shot AI, since the investigator spy android in Masaki's part of the story also uses Code: Life, which would imply it being in widespread use. I wouldn't be surprised if the ruleboard was programmed to let on info which only Code: Eve was privy to, given that Shiotsuki programmed them both.
2. I think the implication is pretty clear that Nagi's the girl in the article. It ties in very nicely with the ending montage where she had to be warded in hospital and undergo physiotherapy. Also, readable bits and pieces of the article stated that an anti-android baton (ostensibly similar to the one in Sammy's flashback which Ashimori destroyed her predecessor with) was used to hit the girl. Another circumstantial proof comes in when you see everyone watching Masaki's father on TV and Nagi goes all melancholy, and making a reference to how it was in the past as well.
Furthermore, eye colour can be changed now via coloured contact lenses, I don't see why it can't be changed in future.
As for your third point, I feel it all falls into place once the pieces above are put together. I'd be happy to clear any specific doubts that anyone has regarding the implied background of the show though.
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This seemed like the best place to put this. A dark little short film about robots and unintended consequences. Its about 13 minutes long
|2011-03-26, 17:36
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Recently I was talking with my mom and it turned out she had heard about this one (it was showing in NYC for some festival) so I showed her the OVAs and she liked the series quite a bit. Really hope that either the OVAs or the movie get licensed over there, that and I would like some more of the series please. XD
|2011-03-27, 02:31
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Beautiful fighter.
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|2011-03-27, 09:38
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I found the movie version and we watched the end of it (since I had heard about the new scenes in the credits, turns out they changed the dialog in the scene right before the credits too) but I wouldn't mind seeing the movie version sometime too.
(And it's not that strange that she heard about it actually, I've shown her stuff like The Secret of Kells before and I was the one who found her watching Spirited Away and got into anime that way, not the other way around XD )
|2011-03-31, 14:45
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|2011-03-31, 15:01
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I watched the OVA bout a year ago and the Movie just recently and I gotta agree the Movie is worth it, I can't say if the quality is that much better since the series had extremly nice HQ animation already imho. In any case the few added scenes do make it worthwhile and as Drago said it has a nice flow. I rec. this to anybody who wants to get non Anime&Manga addicted people hooked with a nice, slowpaced and thought-provoking story presented via beautiful artwork.
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Just finished watching the movie and it was really good, with a lot of new revelations about Nagi and Dr. Ashimori's motives (though still quite vague, but guessable at this point).
Yuki Kajiura's ending theme was really good by the way.
From what I can tell, Nagi as a child developed the same love for her houseroid as Masaki did but the Ethics Committee rampaged and attacked Nagi hospitalizing her and destroying her houseroid. Dr. Shiotsuki whose work was to foster acceptance of deeper trust/relationships between human and androids found out about Nagi and decided to help Nagi rehabilitate because Nagi was someone who can truly love an android; donating his left hand would be part of it (the last shot of nagi's left hand would therefore be showing the metal surgical brackets inserted). The duo's mission then became creating an environment where robots and humans can meet as equals but the first cafe met with sabotage. Leading to the breakdown of relations of shiotsuki with his mentor Ashimori and left with Nagi to continue his work. Ashimori was probably the skeptical type but believed in Shiotsuki enough to let him continue to roam free hence "Android Promotion Committee" pro-android is Ashimori's alignment. Another shot shows Shiotsuki working on the computer so Code:Eve could be the result of his further research. And Sammy's flashback (which might be the "nightmare" she discusses with Nagi about) showed her being attacked by Ashimori seemingly in a classroom environment with other researchers and later revived by Shiotsuki. Perhaps at that time a new program Code:Eve was installed and Ashimori has been since tracking this new propagating phenomenon.
And that's as far as I can make of the story.
But I do have now a question of interest. The time gap seems pretty far apart between each cafe experiment. The current Eve no Jikan is modern and super hightech (electronic backdrop, holographic menus) vs the seaside wooden seats and tables. How old is Nagi would be my question? Shiotsuki seemed to have aged so much as to required robotic transplants of new vocals and Ashimori's hair is all white (vs the shot in the ending arguing with shiotsuki)
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So there's a kickstarter to bring the movie to blu-ray for an international release with official English subs. Just bringing to attention, in case there are any lingering fans of the show around!
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If a pharmacist heard the name Clindesse (a vaginal antibiotic cream) or Clindets (antibiotic cream for acne) while filling a prescription over the phone, you could see how they might confuse them, especially if one was more familiar. But the patient receiving end of such a mix-up might not be amused.
The government has a system in place to try to keep similar looking and sounding drugs from ending up on the market together. But the pharmaceutical industry has been pushing to kill the system.
There are nearly 800 pairs of drugs like Clindesse and Clindets that look or sound alike, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, or ISMP, a patient safety group that compiled a list of them. And the ISMP says all of these similarly named drugs are a big problem, because name mix-ups are responsible for about 25 percent of all medication errors.
"We see errors all the time," Michael Cohen, president of ISMP, tells Shots. "And though it's rare, some of these mix-ups are fatal."
The Food and Drug Administration has a name review process that's supposed to prevent pharmaceutical companies from using a name that's too close to another one already on the market. And they have forced drug companies to change the names of about a dozen drugs over the years, says Cohen.
But this summer, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, called this current system "burdensome and disruptive" to doing business. PhRMA also wants the policy repealed because it says FDA officials have an arbitrary way of deciding which names are better than others.
In a blog post this week on Philly.com, Cohen acknowledged that the system is far from perfect, but it "provides a crucial safety benefit."
"Of course it's not a scientific process," Cohen tells Shots. "But instead of repealing it, couldn't there be a public meeting to explain where the problems are?"
There have been a few recent incidents where the need for such a system seems to have been validated. In late July, the FDA announced it had received 226 reports of confusion involving Risperdal, a drug for schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders, and Requip, used to treat Parkinson's and restless legs syndrome. The two drugs had similar labels with matching colors, and also are prescribed at the same doses at the same frequency. The companies were asked by the FDA to change the packaging and lettering to help differentiate the drugs.


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It's here in the U.S., as Michelle Malkin writes: The Justice Department's inspector general this month released a disturbing report that exposed federal prisons as a fertile breeding ground for terrorists. It was a red alert on a bureaucratic failure that jeopardizes not only other inmates and prison employees, but also the country at large. Yet it got next to no notice. And, as Michelle notes, the state prison systems »
The Big Picture in November
Joshua Muravchik in the Los Angeles Times, on why he will vote for President Bush in November: Sept. 11 was a watershed, but it was new only in scope, not in kind. For three decades, Middle Eastern terrorists had assassinated our diplomats, brought down our airliners, blown up our servicemen in their bunks and berths. They even bombed the World Trade Center. Yet as long as they were killing us »
Exile on Arab street
Our friends at No Left Turns have more on the good news from Iraq, both with respect to the reconstruction and with respect to politics. As to the latter. Peter Schramm is pleased with the selection of Iyad Alawi as Iraqi premier for three reasons: "First, and most important, this guy is a politician–and a reasonable one–with some base. And, he knows how to get others to support him. Note »
Memorial and remonstrance
One hundred and forty thousand folks attended the ceremonies dedicating the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington this afternoon: "World War II veterans honored at memorial dedication." President Bush spoke at the dedication, with decorated World War II veteran President Bush (41) and President Clinton also in attendance. Below is a photo of the three presidents. In his dedication speech, President Bush paid tribute not only »
They were right the first time
Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has more on the new evidence of a substantial connection between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda. Big Trunk discussed this matter here a few days ago. An interesting sidelight in Hayes' piece is a compilation of various Clinton-era pronouncements suggesting precisely the connection that we more recently were told did not exist (and, indeed, could not exist, inasmuch as Saddam was a secular, not »
The Sickness Spreads
The Sydney Morning Herald, one of Australia's leading newspapers, is far left even by the standards of the New York and L.A. Times. But this is beyond the pale. The Herald has assigned crack-pot Richard Neville to explore the mystery: "Who Killed Nick Berg?" Needless to say, Neville doesn't fall for the obvious explanation–the al Qaeda guys, who tend to decapitate westerners whenever they get the chance. No, that would »


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Release Notes: A new Crypto Token concept. Complete GUI support for configuring software and hardware security modules. CMP configuration in the GUI, supporting multiple different configurations through CMP Aliases. A new Internal Key binding concept merges the Certificate Authority and Validation Authority functionality. Support for Java 7 and JBoss 7. Support for OCSP extended revoked status compliant with RFC6960. OCSP RFC5019 responses with unknown response code are no longer cached. Support for OCSP archive cutoff date for expired certificates. Speedups when starting the command line interface.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release containing a few new features and improvements. Noteworthy changes: the ability for External OCSP responder key renewal at absolute times. Certificate expiration notifier can now filter on certificate profiles, not only CAs. A publisher for sampling of issued certificates. User-friendly output of certificate profile dependencies when deletion can not be done. A new language tool for developers and localizers. OCSP rekeying now works on JBoss 6.1.0 and JBoss EAP5.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug reading large OCSP requests over HTTP 1.1 using chunked encoding. It fixes a few minor XSS issues. It fixes an issue where building the Validation Authority (VA) failed on specific platforms. The VA health-check URL is now what it is claimed to be in the property file. You will need to reconfigure devices monitoring this URL. This release documents EJBCA integration with Djigzo. It adds a plug-in build system. It has improved support for Chinese in the admin GUI.
Release Notes: This release corrects comparison of public keys in HSM and CA certificates, fixes regression during republishing, and adds many small bugfixes.
Release Notes: Improved CMP interoperability, and minor improvements and bugfixes. A bug that made it impossible to delete end entity profiles on certain databases and hsql (test database) in particular was fixed.
Release Notes: Performance optimizations were made, so it is now possible to issue over 400 certificates per second (depending on configuration). Certificate enrollment now also works with Safari and Chrome browsers. Support for PrivateKeyUsagePeriod certificate extension was added. A time zone bug issuing CVC certificates was fixed. More admin console and public Web improvements were made. The ISO8601 date format is now used consistently when entering dates in the admin console. Norwegian UNID numbers are automatically generated from CMP requests. Many small bug fixes and improvements were made.
Release Notes: In this release, the underlying framework has changed from Java Enterprise Edition 2 to 5. EJBCA 4 will constitute the solid base for EJBCA for the coming years. The database schema is well defined for all supported application servers and databases. You are now able to switch application server. The Ingres database is supported without patching. Numerous features and improvements were made. Reliability of EJBCA services was improved. Many small bug fixes and stabilizations were made.
Release Notes: It is now possible to easily upgrade from EJBCA 3.6.x to 3.11.x. A MySQL mapping using the MyISAM storage engine and UTF-8 encoding was fixed. The ETSI QC value limit can now have the value zero. The admin GUI was improved. A new favicon was provided for the EJBCA Web interfaces. An issue with cached end entity profiles was fixed. Session information spill-over to other edits when using the "Back to certificate profiles" link was fixed. An issue with using the required flag on Cardnumber in end entity profiles was fixed. This also resolved an issue where the DN field Unstructured Address did not work.
Release Notes: This release implements RFC4387. It adds extended information to edit user WS-API. It has a GUI application for batch-enrollment from CSR. The external OCSP responder is also a CRL Distribution point. Options to issue certificates without database storage. Supplies a custom certificate serial number over CMP in RA mode, Supports one CMP RA secret per CA. Adds SSH and MS code signing extended key usage. Optimizations, GUI improvements, and minor bugfixes.
Release Notes: An admin GUI error running on JBoss 5 was fixed. Some issues with audit and approvals when using admin certificates issued by an external CA were fixed. The admin GUI was harmonized and its looks were improved. Caches of profiles and CAs were added and improved. Performance was improved. A CLI for clearing caches was added. An installation issue was fixed on Windows when JBoss is installed in the root directory. Re-publishing of certificates when CertReqHistory is not used was fixed. CertReqHistory is enabled by default for new CAs. The German translation was updated. Unrevocation is supported using WS-API.


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New Jersey's Gov. Chris Christie on Friday announced mandatory evacuations for his state's coastal residents as Hurricane Irene approached. He said this weekend was not the time to get dinner in Atlantic City, but the Ducktown Tavern in Atlantic City is intent on staying open.
Atlantic City Tavern Offers Shelter In The Storm
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As I left the store (less than 10 minutes later) the same boy to ask me the first time asked me again. So I answered "Sorry, you already asked me. I'm still not interested. Good luck." Again, with the smile. The boy made a face at me and then turned to the other boy and said (quite loud enough to be heard by everyone around, including me) "{Diety}, how are we supposed to know if some stupid {ahem} was asked or not."
Not rude (and actually quite intelligent) but in my experience, it's best not to engage cursing teenagers unless you're an authority figure.
Quote from: jmarvellous on October 12, 2012, 02:00:13 PMNot rude (and actually quite intelligent) but in my experience, it's best not to engage cursing teenagers unless you're an authority figure.This. It's not a lot of fun even if you ARE an authority figure. I would however have gone with Shoo's suggestion. It's hardly going to be good for business having a couple of kids cursing out customers and I'm sure the manager would appreciate a heads up.
Sometimes, if a rhetorical question is asked snarkily in my earshot, I feel like giving a sincere answer.
I would not have answered the young man. But I WOULD have gone into the store, asked for a manager, and reported what the young man said. I doubt store manager would have taken kindly to that young man speaking to/about his customers that way.
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The Lone Tree Lions got back to their winning ways last night against WACO.
Lone Tree went up 6-0 throughout the game, up until the sixth inning when WACO made a big push and came within one of tying. WACO's defense then shut down the Lone Tree Offense and had their chance in the bottom of the Seventh to come out and complete the comeback, but Avery Edwards struck out the last batter to notch the win.
Lone Tree head coach Tom Dickey says his team has been having middle inning trouble, and after four straight losses it isn't physical or mental errors.
"I'm thinking right now, since we haven't been winning games it is probably a confidence issue more than anything, we're not going out there and doing the thing that we need to do to stay in the game or close the game out," Dickey said. "I believe it is a confidence issue more than anything."
Lone Tree continues their marathon week tonight with a a game against Mediapolis. Dickey says he would like to win this game because he is tired of his team's conference season being spoiled.
"We've had several teams come in and spoil our season over the last week, maybe not our season but our chance to be in the conference title race," Dickey said. "I think it's our time to spoil someone else fun, and hopefully we can do that against Mediapolis tonight."
Lone Tree host Mediapolis tonight.


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Risky wrote:I have several friends who have upchucked after smoking.
But, yes, I would think this is not a new phenomenon;
maybe it just now has a name.
We know that the stuff available now is massively stronger than what was available 30 years ago. Perhaps that has changed a rare occurrence into a more frequent one.


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From MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell
As he announced on Morning Joe today, Sen. Evan Bayh is forming a Moderate Dems Working group that will meet every other Tuesday before the Democratic caucus to discuss legislative strategies and ideas.
Per Bayh's office, the group's goal "is to work with the Senate leadership and the new administration to craft common-sense solutions to urgent national problems."
Video: Bayh is forming a 15-person working group focused on fiscal responsibility.
Here's part of a statement to be released very shortly from Bayh... The group will focus "on the upcoming budget negotiations and the importance of passing a fiscally responsible spending plan in the Senate."
More: "Leading the new group are Democratic Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Tom Carper of Delaware and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas... [O]thers joining the group are Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of Florida, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Udall of Colorado, and Mark Warner of Virginia."


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Budget pressures at the Pentagon have renewed a debate about the value of the US Navy's giant aircraft carriers, with critics arguing the warships are fast becoming costly relics in a new era of warfare.
With the Pentagon facing US$500 billion in cuts over the next decade, a navy officer has dared to question the most treasured vessels in his service's fleet, saying the super carriers are increasingly vulnerable to new weapons and too expensive to operate.
"After 100 years, the carrier is rapidly approaching the end of its useful strategic life," Captain Henry Hendrix wrote in a report published this month by the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think tank with close ties to US President Barack Obama's administration.
Changes in naval warfare mean that carriers "may not be able to move close enough to targets to operate effectively or survive in an era of satellite imagery and long-range precision strike missiles," Hendrix wrote.
Under US law, the military is required to maintain 11 aircraft carriers. Ten are currently in service after the retirement of the USS Enterprise, which is due to be replaced in 2017 with the USS Gerald Ford, the first of a new class of "big decks."
The new carrier carries a prohibitive pricetag of US$13.6 billion, double the cost of the last aircraft carrier. And that does not count the US$4.7 billion spent on research and development for the new class of carriers.
It costs about US$6.5 million a day to operate a single carrier strike group, which includes five other warships, an attack submarine, an air wing of 80 fighters and helicopters, and a crew of 6,700.
Hendrix maintains the return on the investment is paltry.
Each F/A-18 fighter in the carrier fleet has dropped roughly 16 bombs in 10 years of war, which works out to about US$7.5 million for each bomb when all the costs of the aircraft are taken into account.
That compares to the cost of firing a Tomahawk cruise missile, at about US$2 million each. Five naval destroyers armed with Tomahawks cost only US$10 billion to build and US$1.8 million a day to operate, Hendrix said.
Apart from the mushrooming cost, carriers are facing mounting dangers from increasingly sophisticated ship-killing missiles, skeptics say.
US strategists are fixated on China's DF-21D missile, which they fear could potentially knock out a carrier and deprive the US fleet of its dominance on the high seas.
Former US secretary of defense Robert Gates cited the anti-ship missiles and other high-tech weapons in a speech in 2010 in which he questioned whether it was worth spending billions on more carriers.
"Do we really need 11 carrier strike groups for another 30 years when no other country has more than one?" Gates told retired naval officers.
Advanced missiles and stealthy submarines "could end the operational sanctuary our navy has enjoyed in the Western Pacific for the better part of six decades," said Gates, who referred to carriers as potential "wasting assets."
His remarks alarmed naval leaders, and the latest dissent has failed to dissuade most officers, who view the big decks as crucial and say that China is deploying its own carrier.
Pete Daly, a retired vice admiral who once commanded the USS Nimitz carrier strike group, defended the ships as a vital element of US military might.
To hit deeply buried targets, fighter jets flying off a carrier were more effective than Tomahawk missiles, and knocking out a super carrier is "very, very hard," said Daly, now head of the US Naval Institute.
As for China's missiles, "it was an additional threat to take into account," Daly said.
However, "the US Navy is very aware of this and has plans to deal with it," he added.
The cost of the carriers had to be compared with the huge funding required to protect and supply air bases and troops on land, as illustrated by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.
The carriers could also be ordered in without the political strain associated with a drawn-out ground war.
"The American people are very wary of commitments ashore, there's no appetite to go in and have a 10-year presence in some place," Daly said.
"Here you have a force that can go to a location, deal with a task ahead and then leave quickly or stay as long as it needs to. The political dynamic of that is completely different," he said.


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Doug Patel reckons his company has pushed 'billions' of pamphlets and flyers into letterboxes all over NZ.
A bloke I know got most annoyed when he was served a miserably small steak at a pub on the city fringe. He got even more annoyed when the management was, as he thought, dismissive of his concerns. So he resolved not to get mad but to get even. He rang Doug Patel.
You may think you don't know Patel, but you see - or spurn - his work pretty much every day. And, assuming you have had a letterbox the whole time, you've been doing so for the better part of the last 50 years.
Patel, you see, is the king of circular distribution. And the aggrieved steak-eater wanted to arrange delivery of a circular to every house within a 5km radius of the disobliging publican's premises, with a photo of the offending steak above a few well-chosen words of his own.
In the end, he thought better of doing the circular drop, but Patel gave him a hell of a good price and he reckoned it would have been money well spent.
Patel doesn't want me to mention the price because he thinks it will give his competitors an advantage.
It seems strange to me, since any of them could ring him up and ask him for a quote at any time, but I'm happy to oblige. Anyway, if the truth be told, Patel's not much bothered by competition these days.
He's slowing down, he tells me. Working when it suits him, "when I get the good one".
I've squeezed past the empty cardboard boxes occupying half the corridor and clambered up the stairs to his HQ just off the main street in the Sandringham Rd shops.
Patel's installed behind his cluttered desk, which looks much as it probably always has: a phone, stationery, pens. A computer is conspicuous by its absence.
"I like to see things in writing, properly," he tells me, by which he means on paper. It's hardly surprising, since paper has been the medium by which he's transacted business for almost half a century.
"I'm 68 now," he says, "and things are all going on the computers and all this sort of thing. Business is not that big now. Customers do want the service but the money's not there."
Under various names, but latterly as Circular A1 Distribution NZ Ltd, Patel was, until 1997, the second-largest distributor in the country after NZ Post.
"We used to have big contracts, including the supermarket chains, so we were doing all right."
Those big contracts have gone to competitors now - thanks, says Patel, to "a very silly man" at one of the grocery giants.
At the same time, modern marketing techniques, using new technology and social media, have eroded the letterbox drop as a way of drumming up business or communicating with customers.
It will still work for big businesses such as the supermarkets and The Warehouse "because people do have the habit of looking at what's the special today, you know?"
Born in the Indian state of Gujarat, Patel first settled here in the early 1960s and started delivering things pretty much right away: he put the Auckland Star in subscribers' letterboxes in the afternoon and then sold it on Customs St to city office workers heading home.
The progression into circular distribution was inevitable.
His eyes roll in mock horror when I ask him how many supermarket specials flyers and chain-store pamphlets his army of contractors - as many as 6000 on some jobs - have pushed into letterboxes.
"Billions," he says, beaming. "To do the whole of New Zealand today is 1.3 million households. We don't do that now but we used to do it every week."
He's aware that there are plenty who won't admire that achievement and he has no argument with them. He doesn't even resent it when people call what he delivers "junk mail".
"But," he adds, "those are the same people who will always complain that things are too dear. But they don't want to take something that is right under their nose and browse through it [so they can save money]."
And, recalling the days when promotions included free samples, he says "they'd be the number one who get on the darn phone and complain that they never got one".


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Doctors at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite replaced a piece of 2-year-old Tripp Halstead's skull on Monday.
A tree limb fell on the toddler at a Winder daycare center in late October, causing a critical brain injury. At that time, doctors removed part of his skull, to help ease swelling.
The surgery, which began at 9 a.m. and ended around 2:00 p.m., "went great" according to his father Bill Halstead.
During the surgery, doctors also reset Tripp's feeding tube, moving it from his nose to his stomach.
In an update on Facebook Bill Halstead, said, "Tripp is out of surgery and getting ready to go from the recovery room to the ICU. Stacy and I are anxiously awaiting our first chance to see him, we are so proud of him for being so strong through all of this."
The anticipation of another surgery has his parents Bill and Stacy Halstead feeling mixed emotions.
"We get so excited by the fact he will have his skull back," Stacy Halstead said. "And then the seriousness of another operation kicks in. So it's very stressful. We keep positive thoughts. He's got tape all the way on the side of his face and tube. When they remove that, we'll actually be able to see his whole face for the first time."
For nearly six weeks, Tripp's parents have had to rely on pictures to see his smiling face.
They've shared those pictures on their Facebook page, where more than 100,000 followers keep up with Tripp's progress.
Ever since Tripp was critically injured, community support has continued to grow. A fundraiser softball tournament was held Saturday at Victor Lord Park in Winder.
The event started in the morning with 29 teams playing all day and into the night to raise money for the family.
Stacy Halstead was not able to attend, but her husband Bill Halstead was. He threw out the first pitch.
"He was amazed at how many people stepped up and were there playing softball for Tripp. It was just so heartwarming," Stacy Halstead said.
The organizers, Allison and Kenneth Lee, visited the Halsteads at the hospital on Sunday and presented them with a check for $6,300.
Stacy Halstead told CBS Atlanta News, "Generous acts like that allow me to stay by my son's side. We really appreciate all that everyone has done for us."
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A fish-eye view of the International Space Station, captured by NASA spacewalker Ron Garan, features the recently delivered Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer in the foreground. A Russian Progress cargo ship and a Soyuz crew capsule are docked on the left end of the station. The structure to the left of the AMS is a radiator. One of the station's gold-colored solar arrays is visible in the background. And off to the right, the shuttle Atlantis is docked to the station's Harmony node.
After the space shuttle Atlantis lands, the focus of the U.S. space program shifts to the International Space Station — so it's fitting that NASA spacewalker Ron Garan took a moment to capture this eye-filling wide-angle view of the station at the end of this week's final outing of the space shuttle era.
This wasn't the last spacewalk by any means. The 500-ton space station is as big as a football field and as roomy as a five-bedroom house, and it's going to need plenty of exterior upkeep over the next decade of operation. But it was the last opportunity for astronauts to take pictures of a space shuttle in outer space ... from outer space.
"Only one problem with this image — the tendency to make you stop whatever you're doing, stare at it, lose your concentration and drool uncontrollably," NBC News space analyst Jim Oberg says in an email. "At least that's how it affects me."
'Big deal' for space station science
It's also fitting that NASA has finally revealed how scientific experiments will be managed aboard the space station in the years ahead. Today the space agency announced it has selected a Florida-based nonprofit group known as the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, or CASIS, to take charge of research operations that use the U.S. portion of the space station as a national laboratory. The center will be located at the Space Life Sciences Laboratory, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
The U.S. segment of the space station was given national-lab status in 2005, and over the past few months, NASA has been evaluating potential partners for managing the lab operations. CASIS will be in charge of maximizing the station's research return for non-NASA applications — based on scientific peer review, analyses of the economic and technological value of potential projects, and the availability of funding. NASA said CASIS will also raise the station's profile as an educational platform.
The cooperative agreement initially will have a value of up to $15 million per year, NASA said in its news release.
"The space station is the centerpiece of NASA's human spaceflight activities, and it is truly an national asset," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was quoted as saying. "This agreement helps us ensure the station will be available for broad, meaningful and sustained use."
CASIS is a consortium of organizations spearheaded by Space Florida. "CASIS is a perfect fit with the state's strategy to support the space, science and technology industries through strategic collaboration and partnerships," Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, the chair of Space Florida's board of directors, said in a statement. "By making the space environment more widely accessible to industrial and academic research, the ISS National Lab will help strengthen and diversify the U.S. economy and inspire the next generation."
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who flew on the shuttle Columbia in 1986, said today's announcement was "a big deal."
"It's going to bring money, jobs and industry to diversify an area hard-hit by retirement of the shuttle program," Nelson said in a news release.
Breakthrough or multibillion-dollar bust?
The space station has long been criticized for providing less research value than scientists had hoped. We'll have to see if that criticism fades now that the station is out of its construction phase.
During a briefing conducted before Atlantis' launch, Mike Suffredini, NASA's space station program manager, said the initial goal was to devote 35 hours of the astronauts' time to research on a weekly basis, plus whatever they wanted to do during their off time. "We find that crews give quite a bit of their weekends to research," he said.
One of the space station's marquee science projects is a long-running investigation of how microgravity affects the virulence of pathogens such as the microbes that cause salmonella poisoning or MRSA. Scientists involved in the project, which could result in new vaccines, have an experiment aboard Atlantis for the last shuttle mission.
"We're close to some groundbreaking news here, so this could be a good one," Joe Delai, payload manager for Atlantis' STS-135 mission, told journalists.
It'd be nice if the post-shuttle era came to be remembered as a golden age for space station science — but what do you think? Is the station suited for science, or will it turn out to be a shiny $100 billion white elephant? Feel free to weigh in with your comments below. And while you're contemplating your comments, feast your eyes on these additional images from Tuesday's spacewalk:
NASA via Reuters
Spacewalker Ron Garan rides on the International Space Station's robotic arm as he transfers a failed pump module to the cargo bay of space shuttle Atlantis.
NASA via Getty Images
NASA spacewalker Mike Fossum takes a picture while attached to the International Space Station's robotic arm on Tuesday. California's Central Valley can be seen far below as a green swath running from left to right, with Mono Lake shining like a tiny blue jewel.
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METAMORA – It was a nonconference game that neither hosting Metamora or Morris could really afford to lose. At the same time, an even matchup that was there for both the Redbirds and the Redskins to take.
Seems the two teams scored so fast at the onset that the scoreboard blacked out – literally.
Morris scored on a 71-yard TD run at 8:35 of the first quarter and Jake Reed added the PAT kick, but then 1:18 later, the Redbirds scored on an 88-yard TD run by Nick Holman. Prestin VanMieghem's PAT kick then tied the score.
The two teams then settled in defensively to coincide with the scoreboard blackout. It lasted through the end of the quarter and into the second before the lights came on again.
Right before the half, Metamora would light up the scoreboard to take a 14-7 lead into the locker room at halftime. That came after an 11-yard pass from quarterback Holman to Drew Beenders and a PAT kick by VanMieghem. The last drive before the half was the most impressive in the game up until that point as it went 11 plays and 74 yards in 3:09.
Morris came back with a nice drive in its second series of the second half with Walker providing the big play in the series. In the Wildcat, Walker bolted 43 yards – which eventually resulted in a 1-yard TD run by Walker. Reed's PAT kick made it 14-all.
For a while it looked as though the game was destined for overtime. However, the Redskins stopped a Redbirds drive when Walker recovered a fumble deep in Morris' own territory, then turned that into a 35-yard field goal by Reed with 2:48 remaining.
The Redskins ran mostly Wildcat in the scoring drive that culminated in the field goal. The drive went 10 plays and 77 yards and ate up 5:40 off the clock.
On Metamora's last drive, the Redbirds drove the length of the field, making it all the way down field. The big play in the drive was a 23-yard pass play to Tim Brennan. Morris rose up, however and stopped the potential tying drive to seal the win.
It is the fourth win by Morris against one loss against Metamora in the history of the rivalry.


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Fast food begets a fast-food culture that has seeped into pretty much everything going on in the world today, the chef Alice Waters told a crowd gathered at UCLA for a presentation about edible education.
Fast food, Waters said, affects our laws, rituals and "ways of doing things"; and it permeates business, journalism, architecture and how we treat one another.
Royce Hall was nearly full Thursday evening with, among others, school cafeteria workers, master gardeners, public health students and teachers and fans of Waters. But David Binkle, the Los Angeles schools food services chief, got nearly as loud an applause as she did – presumably a rare moment for people who provide school lunch.
The event was part of a science and food series and also included Dr. Wendy Slusser, associate clinical professor of pediatrics and medical director of the UCLA Fit for Health program. She is the leader of healthful nutrition activities for the UCLA chancellor's Healthy Campus Initiative.


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This job goes beyond the badge. Dealing with inmates, investigating a crime and putting out the blaze are just part of job descriptions. But the applications are starting to pile-up. Demetris Newble is just one of the many who want to work for the Winnebago County Sheriff's department.
One plus for those trying to get a position in the county, with a new jail facility the sheriff's department will have to hire 120 officers over the next 3 years. This week both Rockford Fire department and Rockford Police department also started accepting applications.
Every two years the Rockford Fire department starts the hiring process. In 2000 only 606 people applied. In 2002 there was 855 people who filled out applications. Already the department is anticipating a large turnout this time around.
It's a four-step process to be a part of Rockford's Police and Fire department. First the application and then there's a physical test. Next, applicants must take a personality assessment and then an interview with the Police and Fire commission.
Those who make the cut will be a part of the qualified candidate pool for 2 years.
Here are the dates that various law enforcement agencies will be accepting applications.
The Rockford Fire department will be accepting applications starting May 3, 2004 and ending June 4, 2004. Applications can be picked up at the City of Rockford Fire department between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The Rockford Police department started taking applications on April 26, 2004 and will continue until May 21, 2004. Applicants must be between the ages of 21 and 34. You can also apply online at www.ci.rockford.il.us.
The Winnebago County Sheriff's department's application process is on going.


text: The last 24 hours have been a veritable roller coaster for any American who has any interest in the civil rights and personal freedoms of every citizen of this country. And that's all of us, right? We all care about this country, don't we? I thought so. Let's relive all the excitement together, in the common cultural language of tweets and memes. Shall we begin?


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Sony offers gamers a part in the Uncharted saga
Make a Drake compo
Posted in Personal Tech, 5th March 2012 14:09 GMT
Sony has launched a competition in which you can try to win a trip to the Naughty Dog studios in Los Angles where you'll create your own own multiplayer character for Uncharted.
The 'Uncharted Audition' Facebook competition asks entrants to try their hand at three challenges, including coming up with a Nathan Drake-like name, submitting a video of themselves performing the moves, and a voiceover to a muted game scene to demo their vocal skills.
Ten European finalists will be selected to compete at a live event in LA, with the winner visiting the Uncharted studio to create their own playable character for an upcoming Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception update.
The competition runs from this Friday, 9 March until Sunday, 18 March. Is it time you grabbed your camera an dusted off that Indiana Jones or Lara Croft cossie? ®


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BOSTON — This is what the Bruins brought Cam Neely back to thire organization to do, and why they promoted him all the way to president of the franchise.
Just like his playing style on the ice, Neely is a straight-shooter as a front-office type. He's not afraid to show emotion or light a fire under those around him. And if Neely's interview on the Felger & Massarotti show on 98.5 The Sports Hub this afternoon wasn't an attempt to raise the stakes for his general manager Peter Chiarelli then my ears must be playing tricks on me.
When asked by The Sports Hub's hosts if a deal is close, Neely said "yes." Earlier in the interview, although he stated he didn't want major changes made to the roster, he spoke as though pretty much anything is on the table in terms of trade bait — even the option to trade Toronto's first-round pick for a rental player.
Now we all know that Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli likes to play everything close to the vest. He rarely acknowledges rumors and his answers in on-air interviews and meetings with the print media often sound like they've been pulled straight from a congressional hearing.
So now Neely is airing Boston's business in public. And how bad will the GM look if he doesn't get a deal done, or the deals he swings aren't big enough to appease the masses?
The gauntlet has been thrown down by Neely, and most wouldn't have it any other way. Despite his declarations about liking this current club's makeup and the chemistry of the team, Neely seemingly still thinks an upgrade is in order.
For Chiarelli to say on the rival station that he'd "bet on it" when talking about getting a deal done is one thing. For Neely to basically take all excuses out of the equation and leave it up to Chiarelli to close things out is almost a mandate to get something done or face the consequences when a team the GM doesn't supplement fails in the second round of the playoffs again.
Cam Neely isn't challenging his teammates to join him in the corners anymore. But he's obviously demanding his underlings in management to give maximum effort in the personnel-upgrade department.


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Can't believe no one has posted about Stu yet! I think he's a stunner.
Stu somehow reminds me of Jamie. I'd like to see him fuck Ron, who also a pretty boy.
New guy Willis:
Judging by Hugh's first performance--he doesn't have much personality on screen. Just a great body. Honestly, I now think he'd do better as a bottom--he's so passive.Quote Originally Posted by readymade View Post
Please, god--let Hugh go all the way. He could be the next Mike Branson.
I don't think he has a quality face.....
willis has a perfect cock!
Since the addition of the bareback scenes the models tend to shoot two loads in one scene - even the newbies (the shoots appear to last the whole day as reported), I don't think they did that when they fucked with a condom. It kind of reminds me of the 80s and early 90s where two cum shoots per scene were quite common (given there was an edited break between them). Now, this raises a few questions, but since most of the guys seem to be more "on the radar" than on other sites, I'm not surprised by their horniness to perform that well.
I guess it's also the effect of supplemental "help" that provides them with the wood to keep them going for so long. I've had different experiences with hornier men, so I doubt it's all that natural every time.
In the BTS for the last scene with Pavel, he discusses with the cameraman the fact that they had been shooting sex "yesterday" : so it would seem that they take at least two days shooting when there are double loads in one update. Maybe more if there are some exterior shots?
Compared with CF's "real-time" shoots, it seems at lot of efforts (and a lot less realness) are put in SC's updates.
As there seems to be a lot of people behind the scenes during SC's shoots (at least two cameramen plus the lady "straightness" consultant, plus the lighting crew - they seem to use a lot of lighting equipment - plus gaffers etc) it would make more sense to book them for two days ahead of time rather than send them home after one day. "Sorry guys, we're done".
As the BTS sounds heavily scripted some times, it is a lot of stuff to shoot in only one day. Except when there is no BTS (a distressing occurence lately).
Sorry I'm pushing for my theory, but in my mind, it means that the models get along at least a couple of days and that makes them more sympathetic, not just sex machines who can withstand "cameraman douche".
I agree that the so-called BTS often sounds set-up. The earlier ones on both SC and CF seemed to be calculated to reinforce the models' 'straightness' (masturbating to straight porn, etc.) Perhaps they were true, but my point is that those were the BTS they chose to show.
I also wonder about the truth of some of the 'things overheard' in the write-ups, especially Curtis telling Joshua he was hot or saying that he could feel a guy cumming in his ass. It would be hot to actually hear that.
CF still has the edge over SC and RB in the real-time dep't, though I think that's changing since the move to Vegas and the studio.
Oh fuck. I'm pretty sure they revealed Jarek's real name in this video (stupid editor). If he doesn't come back because of that I'm gonna be pissed, he's my favorite SC top.
^I don't know if that deterred Jamie, since his name was pretty well known at the time they fucked up.
Back when they did the CR trip, whoever did CF's Facebook called Trey by his real name.
Which model is this?
Jeremy. Looks like he was just a one-solo wonder in 2009.
thanks. just about all his pictures have these incredible 'pointing north' boners! simply stunning!
The write-up from the new Ryan & Jarek video ends with this:
But that wasn't the end. You've simply got to see what what Ryan does with the second load Jarek dumps in his ass!
"What can I say," Ryan said with a grin. "I'm a dirty boy!"
Not subscribing at the moment so I haven't seen the video. Anybody care to spoil it for me? I'm intrigued.
Jarek who cums in Ryan's ass. Ryan gets off his dick and rubs the cum that leaked out of his ass all over it and then sucks it.
Wow, they're gettin dirtier and dirtier over at SC. Thanks for the info.
Thinking that SC has passed CF this year in terms of real-time sex. Their models are just more connected and seem more into each other- lots of cuddling and holding and frottage.
Brandon, in particular, has the sort of really hot "I'm going to make love to you bottom boy" moves we haven't seen since CF's Brent
The CF scenes are still much more fluid. Real time just isn't SC's thing. They have several models who they could probably just let loose and go for it (Calvin, Jarek, Curtis and, of course, Jamie), but instead they choose to do the two minutes in this position, three in that. Their fans must like that kind of 'variety'. For me, as soon as I get into them fucking in one position, they move on to another. It disrupts my fantasy.
Could you imagine how hot a Calvin Brent scene would have been?
Also, I'm not really into Ryan but he was sensational with Jarek. I'd love to see Jarek paired with Coner, another excellent bottom (who can ride like there's not tomorrow).
Too bad #%[email protected]$ replied to you with typically pretentious twaddle.
Initially I was not a big fan of Ryan's but since his return he has been amazing and surprisingly cuter. This scene with Jarek is off the charts hot. And though I love Jarek as a top, I can't wait to see him bottom again.
Meanwhile, if either Willis or Montgomery returns, I'll have to look into a lifetime membership.
The new guy Montgomery is such a hunk -- WOOF!
BTW: Why no buttshots of Montgomery? Not eve in the pre-shoot pics.
I wish SC would require ALL models to show asshole. They do sometimes, but its inconsistent. They should make it mandatory. I really wanted to see Montgomery's ass and hole.
He mentions Behind the Scenes that he'd be up to do more videos. I do hope they get him back.
Montgomery's cock reminds me of Marshall's.
Models come back from the dead on SC more so than on that other site. Curtis had two year-plus hiatuses. I have yet to despair of Jamie as I have of Travis. I wonder if he finally joined SEALS?
Be really hot if Jamie pulled a Dakota.
Which scene was that in?Nor is he mine. He looks like Jack Lemmon, only Sean Cody isn't making The Apartment. Second cumming of Jamie is a tall order. I couldn't imagine Ryan saying "Y'all wanna fuck?"
Hot? I thought Dakota made a bunch of super homophobic remarks when he was asked about his past at SC. Not really hot to me...Be really hot if Jamie pulled a Dakota.
Brent-Calvin would be smoking, but imagine Brent-Brandon: they are both total pleasers, seemingly far more concerned about their partner's pleasure than their own.
Another cross-pollination that would have been amazing is Jarek-Travis (Travis The Bottom, that is) - a bareback scene with Jarek seeding Travis, who then cums hands-free as Jarek's cum is leaking out of his ass.
We can dream buddy. We can dream.
Imagine if Travis had yelled "I can feel it!" as Jarek was cumming in his ass!
The scene would have been very different. After making his usual comment about packin' heat, Travis would say "you gonna fuck me with this big dick?"
The other SC-CF pairing I want to see is Peter, the slightly psycho long-dicked robo-top who so clearly gets into fucking-- doing a double on Lucas and Dawson the way he did with Calvin and Joshua.
And then we'd turn him loose on Travis, who'd cum about 3 times before Peter even realized the director was telling him to slow down...
Oh no, I was talking about Dan (real name Dakota) from SC. He went on to do UFC fighting and made a bunch of homophobic comments when asked about his porn past.Come on, Dru's the thinking man's model! I don't recall anything controversial in Dru's interview. He simply compared the two sites. He had nothing but good things to say about SC. The only subtext I picked-up was that Dru saw CF as a long-term arrangement.
I still believe what Danny said was only what his manager told him to. Gay and sports still doesn't mix, especially when combined with porn. Just watching him you know he couldn't have hated it.
I am praying for a Coleman bottoming scene for today's update.
Another fucking Alexander update... I am disappoint.
Too bad #%[email protected]$ replied to you with typically pretentious twaddle.
Seriously, Miles and Alexander looked like Edward Cullen fucking Jacob Black.
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Joshua gets fucked by Abe... excellent!
Abe is very, very into it. And Joshua is as noisy as ever.. though he's met his match in the vocal department with Abe.
Abe is every bottom boys fantasy top - good-hearted macho man who wants to take control in a gay fantasy fuck story way, but who is also super turned on when his bottom is feeling it and when he cums while getting fucked. In other words, mutual lust.
You get an internal cum shot (though no evidence for the skeptics other than Josh asking Abe if he can "feel his cum in there") plus ATM action (never a turn on for me)
These guys were clearly into each other - or they have mad acting skills. (I'm betting on the former.)
It felt, for all the world, like you were watching a first-time Craig'sList hookup that was about to turn into a regular Friday night fuck date and that in about a month from now, Joshua was going to get Abe to try and break out of his jeans and hoodies wardrobe and try something a little more stylish...
Oh, and Abe looks enough like Ryan Gosling that you can indulge your fantasies there, girl.
Every time I watch Joshua's scenes I have to turn down the volume. But it IS a very good scene. Joshua is so hungry for Abe's cock. It's like he's not just sucking Abe's cock; he's going to devour it. To me Abe looks like a more muscular and more handsome Simon Dexter.
Here's the proof of that internal cumshot.
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Is there any reason why a judge would not sign off on the agreement the NFL has come to with its' brain-damaged retired players? I think so, but the suffering people won't see the money they need for treatment for many, many years if this goes to trial. So the judge must sign off even though the evidence of a trial would stir to the top of the public attention might justify a humane pulse and lose the NFL some fans and produce more legislation; perhaps a viewing warning, a viewer discretion notice at the beginning of the concussion-ridden game, followed with further warnings upon return from commercials. Such shows as "The Walking Dead," "Sons of Anarchy," "Dexter," "Game of Thrones" (all of which are not real) give their audience a viewer discretion notice several times during an episode.
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The F501/N2020 is the 1st commercially viable body integrated autofocus by Nikon production started in 1986. It is in like new condition inside and out (fully functional). Many extras. Some are: the data back( MF-19), the AA battery pack(MB-3),eyecup(impossible to find, took me months), and a lens hood(HN-24), oh, not to mension, the Nikon flash(SB-20)and much, much more. It usually sits atop my Slik U-212 tripod. The auto-focus response is great for being Nikon's 1st attempt at the new technology. A pure joy.


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Legends race-day kicks into action at Bathurst on Sunday, honouring past heroes with a connection to the central districts city. The Tulloch Cup honours the former Tommy Smith-trained champion which stood at stud in the area; the Barb Handicap honours the 1866 Melbourne Cup winner born in Bathurst; the Rising Prince Handicap aligns to the 1985 WS Cox Plate winner trained in Bathurst by Deidre Stein; the Gold Circle Handicap remembers the 1981 Epsom winner, bred, trained and owned in Bathurst; the Hugh Bowman Handicap honours the champion Sydney rider from Dunedoo who was under the care of riding great Billy Aspros, also with a race named in his honour. The $25,000 Bathurst Cup (2000m) looks an even affair with a husband and wife team - jockey Jon Grisedale and trainer Donna Grisedale - combining with Magic Ivy. Jon Grisedale, 49, a past Bathurst Cup winner with more than 1200 wins to his credit, said the mare was "feeling fantastic. As good as gold."
''Sunday's Peter Milling Dubbo Yearling Sale offers a rare opportunity to acquire a youngster by Youthful Legs, a veteran American-bred sire closely related to Danehill, who has a reputation for supplying performers with iron constitutions," writes breeding buff Brian Russell. The yearling is out of Sutton Star, a daughter of Magic Albert. Youthful Legs is the sire of 17-time winner Youthful Jack, Malta (14 wins), Hexy Legs (13), Youthful Edition (12), Adhemar (12), Get Up (11), Sutton Friend (11), Sir Redford (10), Gold Buckle (10) and I Love Legs (10). Typically, the sale has a long history of allowing buyers to attain reasonably cheap buys who more than pay their own way.
Port Macquarie jockey Allan Chau will be sidelined for over six months after a race fall at Grafton last Saturday. Chau's mount, Simple Love, came down on the home turn. He suffered a fracture to his C2 vertebrae, a fractured shoulder, torn shoulder ligaments, a broken finger, injured wrist and fractured jaw when a following horse clipped him. "He's in good spirits but pretty shaken," said Chau's manager Graeme Flyght. "The worst thing he was complaining about was he wasted before the meeting and can't eat solid foods with the broken jaw." Chau is recuperating in John Flynn Hospital on the Gold Coast.
Prussian Secret, a $7000 tried horse purchase from Victoria and now the winner of 14 races, is being readied for the Tamworth Cup. The gelding, trained by former champion apprentice and buck jump rider Cody Morgan, finished third in last year's cup. Prussian Secret scored an amazing win second-up over 1100m at Grafton last Monday when he flew over the final 400m to edge out Spiritist. A winner of the Mackay, Gunnedah, Wellington, Quirindi, Armidale and Coonamble cups, the gelding has amassed almost $250,000 prizemoney. Meanwhile, another Grafton winner, Eumeralla Quest, is headed towards the $35,000 Armidale Cup (1900m) on March 18. Prepared by Robert Knight, the six-year-old was another Victorian cast-off, arriving at Knight's Armidale stables as a maiden winner in Casterton.
TAB meetings: Sunday - Bathurst, Canberra. Monday - Scone, Murwillumbah. Tuesday - Port Macquarie, Friday - Grafton. Saturday - Dubbo, Queanbeyan.


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Josephine C. Duron, 91, of Gold Hill, Ore., passed away Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at her home.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Oscar F. Duron, July 8, 2003; they were married for over 50 years.
She is survived by her six sons and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was active in her faith as one of the Jehovah Witnesses and looked forward to God's promise for the future and shared this word with others.
Her hobbies include crocheting and making various items for family members and friends. She was a very kind and understanding person and enjoyed visiting with people. She will be greatly missed by all.
Memorial services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, September 28, 2013 at the Gold Hill Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness.
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Back then, Microsoft was considered the plucky young visonary upstart sticking it to the no-result daydreamers and imaginationless old stodgy businessmen alike... sort of the way George Lucas was considered back when he made THX 1138.
Heck, to illustrate the kind of competition they fought against: I had an IBM PC from the early 90s once. Their cases were kept locked by special keys that only Authorized IBM Distributors could open, so if as much as a cable came loose, you'd have to go back to them and pay to get it repaired -- and they typically would only repair it for a few years, after which you were expected to upgrade again. The case had a single point of control (somehow, they tied all the connectors to that one key), and if you tried to open your case any other way, you would not be able to get your computer repaired. Freedom from this sort of hardware lockin was revolutionary.
Not to mention they made software that other companies used to grow and thrive. How many companies used some form of MSBasic, or implemented the MSX standard?
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I think I may have posted in the wrong area, noone seems to go to meet and greet My Bad. Ireplaced both frt cv shafts the same day and when I was done a problem arose. My AT oil pressure light stays on and flashs constently, the car will not shift into drive, i have 1st 2nd and 3rd gear but nodrive. The funny part is one of the pressuse control solenoids now runs all the time with ignition on and has never done that. I have unplugged main plug and tested for pwr going to the plug going to the trans and 2 prongs have pwr dont know if just one should have pwr or what. Also if I put the shifter to 1st gear the car will go ahead and shift to 2nd Please help
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Posted 22 March 2011 - 09:45 PM
Check to make sure you did not break or disconnect any wires under the car by accident. Check engine and tranny grounds.
How did the car run before hand.
The tranny light flashing means there is an electrical fault from the last time the car operated (in your case all the time). There is a way to pull codes and I bet you have a bunch of them. Search here on how to do it
How did the car run before hand.
The tranny light flashing means there is an electrical fault from the last time the car operated (in your case all the time). There is a way to pull codes and I bet you have a bunch of them. Search here on how to do it
Posted 23 March 2011 - 02:37 PM
the car ran just great before this, thank u 4 ur help I have been triing to check the wiring but really havent find anything weird, and part of the problem on checking the wires that go to the solenoids is ithey seal inside the trans. I have had 1 or 2 people mention the wires but just cant find it. Like my bro said I didnt have the problem when I started the job so I obviously did something. Do u know if there are other wires to check other than the ones going directly into the trans. And thanks again for replying.:-\
Posted 23 March 2011 - 02:42 PM
oh yea there is one code it states: pressure control module A then under that says electrical and that was with a hand held diag comp and apparently its making the solenoid stay on could there be 2 wires touching:-\
Posted 23 March 2011 - 06:46 PM
I know this is an obvious one, but you didn't put the gear oil for the diff in the tranmssion right? Sounds stupid but that would fit the circumstances.
Never anything supid, just Data Points..
And yes it has been done before.
Posted 24 March 2011 - 02:23 PM
no have not put fluid in either the trans or diff both trans is full and diff a little low but wasnt going to put fluid in because of the other prob. Do you think it would be easier to drop the pan and see what wire is coming out of the solenoid and follow from there or will I be opening a can of worms that would get me in more troubles:-\
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miller60 writes "HP Labs is developing a concept for a 'net zero' data center — a facility that combines on-site solar power, fresh air cooling and advanced workload scheduling to operate with no net energy from the utility grid. HP is testing its ideas in a small data center in Palo Alto with a 134kW solar array and four ProLiant servers. The proof-of-concept confronts challenges often seen in solar implementations, including the array's modest capacity and a limited window of generation hours – namely, when the sun shines. HP's approach focuses on boosting server utilization, juggling critical and non-critical loads, and making the most of every hour of solar generation. Can this concept work at scale?"


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As of 1st November 2009 the project source code is hosted on GitHub, a great collaborative development environment. Browse or fork it at http://github.com/clientside/amplesdk
Release Notes: The main development focus in this release was on improving stability and features of the core module of the SDK - runtime. Multiple tweaks were applied across all UI languages implementations too. Almost a hundred issues and feature requests have been addressed in this version, thanks to community feedback and support. Amongst the highlights are a CSS3 transitions shim for IE6-9, a bind() function, Date now() shims, XUL observes and overlay elements, support for custom Event interfaces and XML processing instructions, content localization with @aml:content and @aml:values attributes, and more.
Release Notes: The major focus was on maturing the platform core. The runtime module is now used in multiple projects and commercial products. New features include implementation of the good parts of the jQuery API, a core localization service, a plugin infrastructure, support for IE9 and FF4, an HTML5 canvas element for IE6-8, and a guarded API. The UI elements registration API was simplified. The component-in-component implementation was re-visited. Multiple fixes were made to the SVG implementation for IE6-8. The XUL implementation was enhanced.
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Needed a cargo liner for my new Honda Pilot, but ended up replacing the poor quality OEM mats also. The front & second row mats have grommets installed to keep the mats in place. The second row mat arrived with the grommet holes punched, but was missing the grommets. With a quick call to customer service, Autoanything & Lloyd's resolved the problem in less than a day, and had a replace mat on it's way. The best customer service experience I have had in a long time. The mats look and feel great, but are slightly darker (black) than the OEM mats. The OEM mats are probably charcoal instead of black, but they still look great.


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There. I said it. Based on his past record and accomplishments, one could even argue they got the best available coach. But in the immortal words of Lee Corso,
Just four short years ago, Michigan nabbed a can't miss coach who'd won everywhere else he'd been. And 10 months ago after the can't miss coach did, they hired what a sizable portion of the U-M fan base called -- and I'm being kind here -- the 85th choice when "better" choices like Jim Harbaugh and Les Miles didn't pan out. And Michigan's equivalent to some of a "safety school" hire has so far gone better than almost any of us dared to dream.
Point is, you don't know. So while Ohio State fans spent much of the yesterday
And just who is this guy? Yeah, I know about the "W"s and "L"s, but I mean the man behind the headset. The man whose program had over 30+ arrests in his 6 years at Florida. Who quit, then unquit, then quit again when things got tough in Gainesville. Who swore he wasn't interested in the OSU job a couple months ago -- so much so that his daughter took to Twitter to quell the speculation -- then denied again last week while parsing his words like a practiced politician when the story began to leak about his impending hire. It was "truthiness" at its finest.
So sure, the hire looks perfect on paper. And on the Buckeye blogs. But the games aren't played there. As Matt Hayes said in the Sporting News, the Urban Meyer the Buckeyes think they're getting might not be the one who'll actually be on the sidelines.
But what if Meyer turns out to be as advertised?
Bring it. Because isn't that who you want to go into Columbus and beat next year? Isn't that what The Game is all about? Bo vs. Woody. The Ten Year War. Our best against their best.
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Saina Nehwal's dream of an Olympic gold was shattered when she lost to a superior Wang Yihan of China in the women's singles semifinals. Saina, the first Indian shuttler to play in an Olympic semifinal, could not match the class of the reigning world champion. The 13-21, 13-21 defeat was her sixth straight loss to Wang, who remains the only Chinese the Hyderabadi has never beaten.