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The terrorists used mobile phones and tools like Google Earth to plan, coordinate and execute the operations, India and Israel have been howling about those tools ever since.
Bank robbers usually escape in cars so maybe we should ban automobiles to cut down on the number of bank robberies! Its' the same logic.
Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?
Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?
It's not easy for a bank robber to escape on a duck.
It's not easy for a bank robber to escape on a duck.
Are you sure? AFAIK no bank robber has ever been caught when escaping on a duck.
Are you sure? AFAIK no bank robber has ever been caught when escaping on a duck.
You make a good point there.
Are you sure? AFAIK no bank robber has ever been caught when escaping on a duck.
You make a good point there.
Quick, someone get me the fastest duck in town! I've got a full proof plan to get rich.
"I've got a full proof plan to get rich."
Yep, full proof, alright. 200 proof, for sure.
I think that you are either misunderstanding the point or trying to mislead us.
Everybody knows that oranges are the superior escape vehicle.
Ducks, on the other hand, are just a tool for terrorists.
therefore we should make ducks mandatory !
Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?
Why that's like asking a NASCAR engineer why do they need engines with extremely radical cam profiles! [howstuffworks.com]
P.S.: The joke is probably funnier if you are like me and know nothing about cars.
Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?
Fair enough. How about this:
Bank robbers usually duck when police shoot at them, so we should kill all ducks and serve Canard a l'Orange in prison.
Why is it always cars for the analogies?
It's easy to make a car analogy that sounds right, so you get modded up. Then the guy that actually understands how digital technology works can correct you and then HE gets modded up. If a good metaphor was used, only one guy would get modded up. It's a win-win!
Bank robbers usually escape in cars so maybe we should ban automobiles to cut down on the number of bank robberies! Its' the same logic.
Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?
Or clown suits which most robbers wear and thus make clowning a very suspicious metier for that matter.
Bank robbers don't kill 175 and wound 308 people.
Furthermore, cars are regulated, stealing a car to commit a felony is an extra felony, driving a car to take someone else to a bank robbery is a felony.
This is the reason behind the license plate. If a car is used in a crime it simplifies locating the registered owner of the vehicle.
I for one welcome this for entirely selfish reasons. More barriers the Indian government can put for running a competitive business and outsourcing, the better for us out here in Europe and North America
When Company XYZ looks to outsource, one more check mark on the sheet, Employee can't use BB [X]
More local jobs, yippee!
When Company XYZ looks to outsource, one more check mark on the sheet, Employee can't use BB [X]
I like the your romantic picturing. Now back to reality. Companies will not be too preoccupied on matters concerning privacy of members of the off shoring company on which they dumped shit loads of badly specified work because they failed to organize back home.
Bank robbers usually escape in cars so maybe we should ban automobiles to cut down on the number of bank robberies! Its' the same logic.
To be fair, the automobiles have 15 days to comply with publishing who is in the car and coordinates of all travel.
Bank robbers usually escape in cars so maybe we should ban automobiles to cut down on the number of bank robberies! Its' the same logic.
Please don't give them ideas. Not so much banning cars, but requiring all cars to have kill switches that police can access like they do with their bait cars [wikipedia.org].
Well, they must be banned unless the auto-makers give the gov't master keys to every vehicle sold. I guess in India, they do.
Unfortunately, the gov't doesn't know which cars to drive away in until after the attack...and the vehicle is normally too damaged for the key to even work properly anymore...
Do you think it is really about fighting terrorism?
The British government justified spying powers "to fight terrorism", but they were actually used to fight minor offences (dog fouling, fly-tipping, government employee false sickness claims).
Just like the British government, the Indian government cannot really say they need to compromise human rights to make it cheaper to police minor offences, or too keep an eye on people doing perfectly legal things the government and police disapprove of (which also happened in Britain).
As long as as a Web based concern doesn't have a bricks 'n mortar presence in the relevant country/state & does no banking/investment in the relevant country/state, it has nothing to fear from the country's legislature/courts/regulatory regime except a jurisdiction based web-filter, a la China, Iran, Australia, & that's a problem for the relevant country/state's own citizens/residents to deal with or work around.
Why web based concerns worry about the laws of countries they're not operating from is beyond me..
Oblig: Australia does not have a web filter.
It only had an (unpopular) proposal to do so courtesy of a couple of retarded senators. Which has now basically been scrapped. The legislation never even made it to being drafted, let alone introduced into Parliament and debated.
Problem with Slashdot is that people read a few hyped up, overly dramatic headlines and think they know what's going on
How will they post their homework problems on comp.lang.c++ for us to solve?
"please for help with homework, i give problems below. for all grade, please showing steps. due tomorrow."
2) List and explain three one-way functions.
3) List five rhymes for the word "orange".
if P=NP then write("TRUE!")
"2) List and explain three one-way functions."
Birth (just try to go back the other way)
Sex (Well, this is kind of an while/endwhile or some other type of loop)
Death (see Birth)
"3) List five rhymes for the word "orange"."
Door Hinge
Beer Binge
Dope Syringe
Spine twinge
Solution number 1: N==1, any P
Solution number 2: P==0. any N
-inge does not rhyme with -ange.
It does if you cock your hat to one side and saunter a little.
"Birth (just try to go back the other way)"
Men have been doing that since the dawn of time.
a) "Door Hinge"
b) "Your fringe"
c) "you're singed"
d) "whores binge"
e) "sore grinch" (?)
Heh heh, you're not kidding. I work the support desk for a specialist software company and I regularly get e-mail that essentially says 'I don't know enough to do my job and I don't want to do the leg work to find out myself, teach me'. I usually respond as nicely as I can and provide some information to give them a leg up but basically I point them at a bunch of reference sources for them to read and leave it at that. I'm here to support them, not educate them. I don't think they know the difference.
Glad I don't correspond with anyone in India.
It all depends to a single phone call or support request regarding a critical issue. You may even end up giving private/semi private info.
Yes, the call centers in India. Wonder why companies panic when Satyam had issues?
Yeah, you're doing it wrong. Just use MITM DNS attacks to use fake SSL certs.
Love, China.
Mumbai police found that the attackers had used illegal SIM cards not linked to their identities as well as SIM cards from other countries. So they are cracking down on SIM cards so if some terrorist enters the country they can track him and tap his calls.
Then they heard about skype which uses IP so they need a way to tap that as well. Then there is google voice (maybe) and FaceTime. They have to crack down on wifi because it works a bit like cellular comms.
You see the whole tracking of communication thing
You see the whole tracking of communication thing is slipping between their fingers and they are grabbing whatever they can, not expecting to get even 1%. I doubt it will make a difference in the next attack.
And I agree with you. I always tell people, if I was to become a criminal I'd never get caught! That's what they "all say" right? But people who fall into actually doing that sort of thing don't actually think the way we do (most of the anyways).
If anything, it's probably for PR and to scare people off from using those resources for 'crime.' I mean, most of them would believe it as long as they demanded it and the companies remain active in the country even IF it didn't happen.
I've heard SO MANY STOR
Also, I'm not from the US, but how could you get the impression that "the streets are paved with gold" in the US from watching american television?
One famous example (though a movie, not TV... and yes, I know it was a book first): The dirt poor Joads from _The Grapes of Wrath_ had a truck.
Desparate Housewives: On one income, everyone's living in a large house and has two cars. Even the one with more kids than I can count. Oh, and when one becomes _really_ poor when her husband is blinded, the extent of
RIM will probably tell them to go piss up a rope - they can't afford to lose all their non-Indian government customers.
The other two should do the same.
Speaking of which - all those outsourced-to-India types are going to complain when they can't use their crackberries any more.
Bingo. End-to-end encryption is why Apple still hasn't put a dent in RIM's enterprise market share. India already pulled this crap once before, and RIM did indeed tell them to pound sand.
I hate it when I can't judge if things like this is just power-play or if they actually honestly mean what they say.
Does it matter when the end result is always that they do both?
I'm not so sure I would say that the terrorists have won, or that the terrorists would say that they've won. I guess the assumption is that they're all sitting in their caves going "Oh, they are so afraid that they are giving up all those precious freedoms which we so hate! Hooray, we win!"
When in reality it's an almost hopeless cause they're pursuing, getting coalition forces out of Afghanistan using fricken jerry rigged IEDs that have probably taken out almost as many of their own building the damn thing
If the terrorists have won depends on their goals. Which goals did they state?
I would say the governments have won against their citizens.
RIM, Skype, and Google's communications already "comply with formats that can be read by security and intelligence agencies" if the government wants to wiretap the suspects upstream of their devices.
Can it be read? Print it out or keep it on the screen, your choice.
Is it human-readable? Sure!
Does it mean anything on first glance? That's questionable.
I am merely playing devil's advocate.
We have outsourced some of our repetitive grunt work to a company in India. Once we got the glitches and language barrier out of the way, they have proven they can do the job so long as they are told EXACTLY what to do. Otherwise they will halt the moment they go off-script and not continue until we have made a decision. Sometimes I think they "get confused" just to get a break on some of the shittier work, but there's no way to prove this. It doesn't make them extra money to do this, since they have more than one job in the pipeline at any given time.
The problem is that we have to use e-mail to communicate with them. It's hosted on our own server, and they use a VPN to access it. Will WE have to comply with these conditions as well? If so, they can kiss the contract goodbye because we are bound by privacy laws to keep this information out of the hands of third parties -- including foreign government agencies.
For example, one of the things they will do is check to make sure an insurance policy has the same drivers and vehicles on it that we submitted to the carrier. In order to do this, they must cross-reference the driver list containing the name, date of birth, driver license number, and state of residence. The middle two of these four are considered protected information under both state and federal statutes.
"we are bound by privacy laws to keep this information out of the hands of third parties"
outsourcing to India does not involve a third party? sheesh
You do realize that India has the notion of serving warrants, right? They can't snoop on you without a warrant, same as in the U.S.
This is easily solved when, facing the loss of the contract, your subcontractor just lets agents from the Indian intelligence service use the VPN from their end.
The proper response from Google should be a simple "Your terms are acceptable.". Followed by all IP addresses assigned in India getting only a "403 Forbidden" page when accessing any Google service, and all search results leading to sites located in India or operated by Indian entities being removed from the listings. For extra Bastard points, all e-mail originating from Indian addresses gets rejected and all phone calls from India get a no-service tone.
The whole thing that makes Blackberry's so popular in the US is their security features. Not just with the public either, the US Government loves them some Blackberrys. They are a major customer and threatened to intercede in the patent case (patents are an explicit right of the federal government, and the law allows them to take them away for various reasons). There are several reasons they like them so much, but the security is a big one. If you look at the BB lineup you find they nearly all are FIPS 140 complaint. Now most people wouldn't give a shit. You can have superb crypto without that extensive verification process. Well, the feds care, it is their standard after all.
So I can't imagine RIM is at all interested in weakening their security as it is a major selling point to their major customer.
Could it mean Microsoft is already complying?
The Government shouldn't have the right to come in to my house and rummage through my letters.
Of course, we have to remember that rights are whatever the people with the guns say they are.
If Google is disclosing our Gmail to various governments, they better send each of us a plain and clear letter (a gmail email) telling us exactly what their policy in this regard is.
Hello? Yes, this is technical support for gmail applications. Am I having talk with government of India?
Yes. I understand that you are having difficulty with reading emails of your populations.
Have you been plugging your monitor into the plug on the back of the computer?
Excellent. I am so very sorry you are still having the problems. We are checking now your network cables......
Unfortunately, Slashdot is more or less a support group for disgruntled techies, and the focus of their ire for the past several years has been on outsourcing. Oddly, if you suggest to one of these "creative thinkers" (who laugh at the lack of creativity of their overseas counterparts) to start their own company so that they may then hire pure-blooded u.s. citizens, they'll balk. The irony is that these self-proclaimed paragons of creativity themselves lack the creative spark to be entrepreneurs. I bel
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Coming soon to a jungle near you mosquitoes genetically engineered so they cannot give people malaria. But this time scientists want to do it right.
WASHINGTON Coming soon to a jungle near you mosquitoes genetically engineered so they cannot give people malaria. But this time scientists want to do it right.
Mindful of labels like "Frankenfoods" given to genetically modified crops, and of attacks against test patches of gene-engineered plants by environmental militants, they hope to reassure the public about their newly created insects.
"I think we have reached quite a critical point in the development and use of these organisms," said Anthony James, a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California, Irvine.
James, whose lab is working on mosquitoes that could not host the malaria parasite, said some strains are ready to be tested outside the lab.
"We need to identify the next level in this whole adventure," he told reporters in a telephone briefing.
James and other experts in entomology, genetic engineering, disease and regulation were meeting on Tuesday to talk about what they need to watch out for as they develop and test biotech bugs.
History of Getting it Wrong
Scientists have a history of getting it wrong, even as they try to save the world from insect-borne scourges, said entomologist Fred Gould of North Carolina State University.
"In the late 1940s entomologists had no reason to doubt that DDT would cure the world's pest problems," he told a conference sponsored by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology.
DDT, it turned out, affected a range of animals and drove some bird species to near-extinction by weakening their eggshells.
"In the 1960s, advocates of biological control did not consider that imported predators of insect pest species might cause extinction of rare species," Gould added.
Researchers need to look for unexpected side-effects, said Dr. Ravi Durvasula, medical director of Yale University Health Services. "It's not just (a question of) efficacy here. It's an issue of perception, it is an issue of risks to the environment," he said.
"Once it is out there ... the perception tends to get set in stone," agreed Mark Mansour, a healthcare regulation expert at the law firm Morgan Lewis.
As many of the genetically altered creatures are meant for release in the developing world, it is important to set up global regulations in safety and licensing, Mansour told the meeting, available as a webcast on the Internet at http://www.pewagbiotech.org.
And local input is key.
"What we need to do is develop a catalogue of what the concerns are," James said.
"Scientists are going to have different lists from people who do legal work, people who are ministers of health, people who are looking for votes."
Then, before any creature is field-tested, those concerns must be addressed, James said.
Durvasula's team is working to develop a kissing bug that cannot carry Chagas disease, which can lead to a range of problems from heart disease or digestive tract malfunctions and which kills 50,000 people a year in Latin America.
Instead of affecting the bug itself, Durvasula's approach is to alter a bacterium that allows the bug to carry the trypanosomiasis parasite.
But modifying bacteria is different from modifying an insect, given that bacteria can freely exchange genes with a range of other bacteria and even viruses, he said.
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SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize 896
I got to Mojave yesterday evening (it's a long way from El Paso), slept in my car, and got to the airfield itself just before 4 a.m. Traffic on state highway 58 was brisk already, though not clogged (which it later became), and nearly every car was turning onto the two-lane entrance heading for acres of packed-dirt parking spaces near the runway from which SpaceShipOne would take off.
The crowd which built up in the following hours was surprisingly quiet on takeoff, which happened right at 7:45 local time. Not exactly hushed -- perhaps "hesitant" is a better word, or maybe just waking up. Only scattered clapping (guilty!) as the White Knight / SpaceShipOne piggyback duo lifted off, followed shortly by two chase planes, an AlphaJet and a Beechcraft Starship. The enthusiasm grew, though, as the flight progressed; a P.A. system kept the spectators informed of the trip's progress.
When SpaceShipOne finally separated and fired upward ("Good release, good release!" over the P.A, followed by enthusiastic cheering), it was after three separate two-minute warnings, then for one-minute and 30-second intervals. After an 84-second burn followed by a clean shutdown, SpaceShipOne coasted to its final altitude. At 90 seconds into the flight, the ship was well past 100,000 feet, and out of sight to the unaided eye. At 7:51, an altitude of 328,000 feet was reported, but the ship was still climbing for the next 40,000 feet under its own momentum. The reported peak altitude is enough to top the previous record, set by an X-15 at 354,200 ft. in 1963.
The descent was happily uneventful. At 60,000 feet, Binnie experienced "slight oscillations" -- consistent with previous flights, according to the announcer, who continued to count down the altitude. At approximately 45,000 feet, the conditions are right for contrails, and more cheering erupted when those popped into view. The crowd perked up and cheered even more with the first of two sonic booms audible on the ground (the booms that occur during ascent aren't), pointing and shading their eyes from the sun, following the ship as it traveled in wide arcs to bleed off the energy of the ascent, followed by a smooth 3-point landing.
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Group B -Australia, England , Zimbabwe
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Thu 13 September 6th Match, Group B - England v Zimbabwe
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Fri 14 September 9th Match, Group B - Australia v England
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The Embassy of Japan is pleased to present an exhibition on the life and art of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a renowned woodblock print and book illustration artist.
Hokusai is celebrated by Japanese and western artists alike for his subtle understanding of line, form, and balance which is exemplified in his bold compositions. His lifelong desire to continually improve his craft, whilst working across a broad range of genres, led to him creating some of the most iconic images in art history.
A number of those iconic images, including 'The Great Wave' and 'Red Fuji' are contained within the series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji', published when the artist was in his seventies. Within this series Mount Fuji features at times as an omnipresent feature in the background of everyday scenes, and at others entirely dominates the composition. This series in particular caught the imagination of the print purchasing public and the series became a resounding success.
This free exhibition gives a chance to see some of his original prints up close, and to discover not only how Hokusai helped to change the world of woodblock printing in Japan, but also the influence he had on artists in Europe.
The exhibition has been created with the kind support of the British Museum and the Japanese Gallery, London.
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The McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce's staff recently took a course on organization of personal finances. Taught by Prosperity Training's Barb Mikula, the course helped us understand our personal finances, get organized with the help of a provided file system, and analyze where we are managing our financial life well and where we had a bag of holes that was depleting our resources. Best yet, we gained information on how to save a bundle in areas not thought of before.
We went into these sessions fearing guilt but instead we were euphoric. For the first time we were in control of our financial lives. Truly a life changer. We now have the tools we need to save money that can be used for things we enjoy. I welcome anyone to gain more information about the excellent training by Prosperity Training which is now available on DVD at prosperitytraining.com. You will find the DVD quite easy to follow and entertaining as you hear stories about how Prosperity Training's Barb and Ed Mikula dealt with their own financial woes.
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Have you downloaded the app McHenry NOW? You are sure to save oodles of money while shopping at home.
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Get ready to Scramble on April 26. The networking luncheon will be loaded with referral sources and clients. All attendees have the opportunity to physically present their organization to non-competing business people sitting at their table. They then move to two more courses for an entirely different group of people.
Between 150 and 200 businesses will be in attendance.
New location for the Scramble is McHenry Country Club. Bring a non-McHenry chamber member guest and you get in for a 25 percent discount. The guest will get in for half price. Bring two non-chamber member guests and you get a complimentary sponsorship. Think of the visibility!
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The chamber golf outing will tee off May 15. Held at McHenry Country Club, the Home of Taylor Made, the chamber's golf outing allows members and their guests to play at a private course where Taylor Made got its start. Shotgun at 10:30 a.m.
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Never Eat Alone luncheon will begin at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at Kiera's Confections. Price is $8 for homemade soup, loaded potato, beverage, tax, tip and a luscious cupcake. Instead of grabbing food on the go, eat with chamber members and make a new connection.
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Next mixer will be It's All About Kids, today at 31 North Banquets. Support the fight against pediatric cancer by attending this mixer. Drieske Moving and White Glove Delivery mixer will be April 2. All mixers start at 5 pm. First time? Ask for Kay at the door.
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On April 3, Barb Mikula of Prosperity Training will give us a taste of how good it feels to have our financial house in order. Please attend this Bring Your Lunch and Learn in the chamber office at noon.
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St. John's Prep (8-1) at Xaverian (4-6), 10:15 a.m.
Once again, a battle for the Catholic Conference title. Can Prep's one-two backfield punch of Johnathan Thomas and Alex Moore carve up a Hawk defense boasting 6-foot-2, 285-pound University of Michigan recruit Maurice Hurst and 6-2, 305-pound Ray Gobbi? Xaverian has won its last three games after a 1-6 start. Prep has not lost since Week 3 against Everett.
Central Catholic (9-1) at Andover (9-1), 10:30 a.m.
Central captures the Merrimack Valley Division 1 title with a win. An Andover victory, however, creates a three-way logjam with the Red Raiders and Lowell, resulting in the Warriors likely emerging with the playoff berth based on a point system.
North Reading (8-1) at Lynnfield (7-2), 10:30 a.m.
With both teams 4-0 in the Cape Ann/Northeastern Division 4, this matchup has never carried so much weight. Will the visiting Hornets ride senior back Carl Lipani to their conference title and a postseason berth? The hosts have a stout defense yielding just 9.7 points per game.
Newburyport (6-4) at Amesbury (8-2), 10 a.m.
With one conference loss, the visiting Clippers must corral senior quarterback Matt Talbot (15 TDs passing, 10 TDs rushing) and Amesbury (4-0 in Cape Ann/Northeastern Division 3) to earn another ticket to the Division 3A playoffs. The Indians are averaging a league-high 30.4 points per game; Newburyport is yielding a league-low 12.7.
Westford (7-3) at Acton-Boxborough (7-3), 10 a.m.
Lincoln-Sudbury has clinched the Dual County Large, so there is no playoff spot on the line, but this clash has promise. QB Troy Faretra and wide receiver Justin Mount are a prolific pass 'n catch connection for the Grey Ghosts. Junior backs William Tejada (17 TDs) and Thomas Saponaro (5 TDs), along with senior Billy Jackman (6 TDs), form a three-headed running threat for A-B.Anthony Gulizia can be reached at email@example.com.


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A 21-year-old man remains in a stable condition in a Sydney hospital after he was shot twice by police in the southern highlands on Saturday morning.
Brendan Crisp was shot in the right shoulder and left side of his chest, on the corner of Shepherd and Una streets in Bowral, in the early hours of the morning.
Officers said Mr Crisp was shot after he had made threats against them but would not confirm reports that he had told them he had a gun in his backpack.
Police had been negotiating with the man at the time of the shooting. Paramedics were called at 6.50am.
The officer who shot him was a senior constable attached to the traffic highway patrol command, police said.
A resident said she had heard shouts and then a gunshot, then saw police swarm around a man on the ground. Another resident said: ''I heard the shots but I thought it was just someone having a go at some cockatoos with a cork gun.''
Mr Crisp was taken to Wilton parachute base and flown to Liverpool Hospital by helicopter. He was in a critical but stable condition last night.
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Chocolate is a symbol of love, it creates happiness and joy, that is why chocolate is always on a top list of Valentine's Day gift ideas. Beverly Hills Chocolate Tour offers a different way to celebrate Valentine's Day with chocolate for you and your loved one.
It's a 2.5 hour tour with a professional guide through the historic chocolate shops in Beverly Hills. Indulge your self when tasting the chocolate samples from every shop on the tour plus getting special offers from every purchase in most of the shops. You might also spot shopping celebrities and aspiring stars in Beverly Hills. Learn all about the architecture and local Hollywood legends. You don't have to worry about the extra chocolate calories as you can burn those off while you walk.
On the first day of February, the month of love, I got the chance to experience the Beverly Hills Walking Chocolate Tours. I was so lucky that day the tour was guided by the founder, Casey Martin who greeted me and other participants with her 'as warm and sweet as chocolate' smile. She has been running the tour for 4 years every Thursday and Sunday afternoon all year round. This is why the tour is also a great gift for moms, grads and dads.
The tour started at the world's first cupcake bakery, Sprinkles. It is a cute busy shop with eye-catchy colorful decoration, and the most awesome thing is the cupcake ATM machine. There is always a very long queue at the ATM as it is such a fun way to choose and buy your cupcakes. While the person from Sprinkles explained the history of Sprinkles, we tasted their original chocolate marshmallow cupcakes.
The tour continued by walking through the most famous street in Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive. It is known for an ultimate luxury shopping experience for so many years. Here is where all the most luxurious brands can be found and off course where some celebrities can be spotted. We stopped for a while to take some pictures while Casey explained about the history of Rodeo Drive that apparently developed as a shopping district in 70's and become famous in 80's.
The second shop we visited is Coupa Café, located just 1 block to the left from Rodeo Drive. Coupa Cafe featuring an international menu combined with the best of authentic Venezuelan dishes. We got to taste a cup of Mayan Hot Chocolate, a mix of cayenne peppers, cinnamon and premium Venezuelan chocolate. I may say this drink is very unique, a good mix of sweet and savory that makes you feel comfort and energized at the same time.
Casey seems to understand that after the two rich-chocolate experiences, we somehow need to balance. She then brought us to the American Tea Room. I was wondering why would she brings us to the tea house on a chocolate tour, then I got the answer; they have Choco-Late blend, a caffeine and fat free antioxidant-rich rooibos with brown cacao husks, dark flecks of vanilla bean that gives sweet and woody aroma.
American Tea Room also has the biggest collections of Earl Grey and rare Matcha blends. It is probably one of the best teashop that I ever seen in my life. It has not only many kinds of different tea from all over the world, but also beautiful exclusive tea sets that tea lovers would be thrilled to have at home.
After the cupcake and chocolate drinks indulgence, now it is time for even richer indulgence.. brownies!! The Beverly Hills Brownie Company simply makes us having the biggest and sweetest smile of the day. It has 23 unique varieties of brownies from red velvet, peanut brittle, s'mores, salted caramel and some are gluten-free.
They are as fabulous-looking as they are sumptuous-tasting and uniquely shaped so that every individual brownie has an edge on each side and a center.
The tour got even better as we stepped in to the next place, The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, an amazing shop with the most rare, hand made, farm fresh cheeses.
The Cheese Store also carries the essentials for serious cooking: artesian chocolates, olive oils, Austrian pumpkin seed oil, French walnut and hazelnut oil, varieties aged over 50 and 100 years of balsamic vinegars, seasonal white and black truffles, the best charcuteries and the freshest caviar.
Et voila, I found myself getting crazy in a cheese store on a chocolate tour!
Two hours seemed too short without realizing that we finally got in to the last store. From outside Vosges Haut-Chocolate looks just like a common fancy looking chocolatier in Paris. It is far beyond than that. As I entered the shop I discovered that they inspire people to interact with the world in a different way, through esteemed craftsmanship chocolate as a power of storytelling.
Their chocolates are made from the finest ingredients from all over the world. And their signature creation is Bacon and Chocolate. Two equally obsessive foods come together to create an unbelievable taste combination of sweet, smoky and savory. We got to sample all of their chocolates, as you can imagine; it was really the last but not least.
I have to say this is such an amazing experience for everyone, especially chocolate lovers. When you hear 'chocolate tour' some people might think that it will be too much. Well it is not, because Casey and her team really understand what to give to you so that you will have the most memorable chocolate experience ever. Book your tour on this month of love and get a special Valentine's Day offer.
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The project, proposed by the port's longtime tenant Tesoro in partnership with the logistics company Savage, will bring North American crude oil to the port by rail where it will then be transferred to marine vessels for transport to refineries in California, Washington and Alaska.
Approximately 42 acres of port property will be leased by TSJV to accommodate a rail unloading facility, storage tanks and a vessel loading area. The estimated capital investment by TSJV is $100 million and revenue to the port over the 10-year lease period is expected to exceed $45 million. The facility also is expected to create between 80 and 120 permanent jobs and 250 temporary construction jobs.
With lease approval, the project now moves into the environmental permitting process. Washington's Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council will act as the lead agency for local and state permits and the companies will work through an extensive process, addressing local, state and federal requirements. As with all port tenants, TSJV is required to obtain all necessary permits as a condition of operation at the port.


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iPhone game wins top plaudit at Australian developer awards
Game Developers' Association of Australia (GDAA) crowns Firemint's Flight Control as best Aussie-made game of 2009; Heroes Over Europe and Puzzle Quest: Galactrix also honoured.
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I've been browsing the forum for quite some time now and I've gathered a few suggestions along the way. I'm already enjoying the community and people that I've encountered and thought I would put in my two-sense. Feel free to take it constructively or ignore it. I don't mind either way, but keep in mind that I did take the time to write all of this up and am only offering suggestions because I care...lol. By the way, I'm willing to offer any help in the graphics/design area if you are looking for any help.
Forum Skins
I've been a vBulletin user/admin on many forums for quite some time now (at one point I even owned one...) and while I realize that many users are browsing the site on their BB's, it would be really cool to see some new skins. I'm wondering why there aren't any forum skins to choose from?
VIP Name Colors
Another suggestion would be to have more VIP colors. I would love to purchase VIP but I'd like it even more if I could have a different color name. Or even be able to choose the hex of my name - that would be really sweet.
Easier Navigation/Layout
Compared to other forums, this one is a little difficult to navigate around. I think this is mainly due to the advertisements - especially because the adverts go along with the colors scheme visually. At first glance it's a bit difficult to tell the advertisements apart from the site/forum and it's not terribly graphically appealing. If you were to change the layout a bit, you could still have advertisements that aren't as obtrusive to the layout of the site/forums.
BBOS Design/Color Scheme
Nothing matches! Your logo is red and black yet the forums are blue and gray. You could make a really hot site/forum design that complimented your logo and looks really professional very easily. The logo is AMAZING and I love how you have this to go with it: Very cool! Why not create equally amazing icons to go along with it?
With all that said, it looks like somebody or somebodIES worked extremely hard to get the forum looking how it does now and I must say that it does look very professional. For me it just doesn't have that "wow" factor that I think it has the potential of getting.


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The news that Gov. John Hickenlooper told a Senate committee that he and his companions drank fracking chemicals has captured the attention of activists around the country. "You can drink it. We did drink it around a table, almost ritual like, in a funny way."
His words reminded me of a hearing that I attended many years ago concerning the Rocky Flats Nuclear facility. One of their top officials said something very similar: Why it was so safe he would make himself a plutonium hamburger and eat it!
Aside from the patent ridiculousness of both these statements and the kind of good old boy mentality of Hickenlooper, there is cause for grave concern. If our government officials and those in the fracking industry have convinced themselves that fracking fluids are so harmless they can drink them, then they are certainly not going to exert any caution in protecting these chemicals from entering into the air and the drinking water of the citizens. This is exactly what is happening. Their eyes have been blinded by greed and self delusion.
The powerful Oil and Gas Conservation Committee, which is designated to regulate state laws on fracking, is composed of members who have close ties to the oil and gas industry.
Citizens are in a similar situation to Rocky Flats. It was citizen organizing, marching and demonstrations that helped close Rocky Flats and we must do the same thing now with fracking. We are not alone, many other countries including France, Bulgaria, Romania, South Africa, Germany, England and Ireland have already banned fracking or have instituted a moratorium until more evidence is forthcoming about safety.
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Ready to Learn
Children are developing different skills and different ages. Below are some age appropriate suggestions on how you can help your child learn these critical foundational skills.
Toddlers - Ages 2 to 3 Preschoolers - Ages 3, 4, and 5 Middle Childhood - Ages 6 to 11
Toddlers – 2 and 3 Year Olds
Each child is unique and develops at his/her own pace; a challenge family and caregivers are constantly juggling. However, generalizations can be made about the ages and patterns in which children acquire skills.
A Helping Hand
At this age, early attempts to be social – to 'connect' with others are important. Positive helping acts – pro-social behavior- begin to blossom in two to three year olds. Sharing, empathizing, comforting, patting, and gift giving are ways in which young children reach out to the big world around them.
A Window to the World Around Us
Two and three year olds also begin to develop an awareness of far-away places and future events, which grows in to a sense of curiosity and anticipation. Airplanes, relatives that live far away, birthdays, and holidays become fun and exciting. Animal friends also become important as children grow in their understanding of living things. Plants, birds, and pets are a wonderful source of discovery and playfulness.
Hear Me Roar
By age three, a child's vocabulary has grown from 200+ words (at age 2) to about 900 words, and a toddler's hunger for new words is never-ending. This 'language explosion' means that they are very interested in naming objects. Be sure to start with things and objects they see very day or use often. Also, Encourage toddlers to talk about and verbalize what is bothering them instead of acting out.
Busy Bodies
Why does it seem that two and three year olds are in constant motion? Exciting large-muscle growth allows toddler's awkward, stiff walking to blossom into more skilled movement that will soon become jumping, climbing, hopping, tricycle riding, ball kicking, and throwing. Inevitably, this also brings plenty of opportunities for bumping, falling, and scratches.
Small-muscle coordination is growing, too. Toddlers begin to show more interest in drawing and copying shapes, dressing themselves, and turning handles.
Ideas for Growing Muscles
and Minds
Families and caregivers of two and three year olds can build on a toddler's growing mind with a variety of activities. Here are a few suggestions.
Preschoolers – 3, 4, and 5 Year Olds
There is a Big World out There
For the growing preschooler, friendships begin to bloom starting with the extended family to include family friends and child-care pals. Selfishness begins to give way to cooperation and sharing. The child's social awareness shifts from the family to the outside world, from neighborhoods to routine social settings (preschool, the park); the world is seen as a larger place.
I Can Do It Myself
Preschoolers develop a sense of time as well as a sense of themselves as people, with their own names, ages, addresses, and unique families. Problem-solving skills and reasoning skills begin to grow. Preschoolers are rapidly developing more of an awareness of their environment and a sense of who they are.
Talking Back to the Television
Vocabulary grows from 1,500 to 2,500 words between the ages of 3 and 5. Early reading centers around the rhythm of language, environmental print, letter and sound play, and a rich climate of stories, books, songs, poetry, finger-plays, and print.
Let's Get Up and Do It, Too!
For the growing preschooler, self-control and judgment still haven't caught up with his/her physical skills. However, the preschooler becomes quite an athlete through exploration with muscle play, motion, force, and movement. Balancing, hopping on one foot, tiptoeing, and catching large objects are now part of their skill set.
Ideas for Building Strong Minds
and Muscles
Caregivers of preschoolers can build growing minds through:
Middle Childhood – 6 to 11 Year Olds
These years of 'middle childhood' are a crucial bridge from home to school. The social, cognitive, physical, and emotional progress of these years is often more gradual and less obvious than in earlier periods.
The Three R's + a
Healthy Television Diet
Six to 11 year olds have made the transition to full days of school and will learn the reading, writing, and arithmetic that form the basics of lifetime learning.
Television Watching +
Plenty of Discussion
Imagination continues to flourish, but no longer dominates as children this age now have the ability to reason and manipulate ideas and symbols. They can use their minds to arrive at solutions rather than needing to touch or move objects in order to solve problems.
Children Can Learn to Associate
What They See on Television
with What They Do
Peer groups are often formed and friendships take on new depths as the growing child can 'place themselves in other's shoes.' This interest in friendships intensifies during this period.
Go Out and Do It!
Physical development in children from 6-11 years most often sets the stage for adulthood. It is a period marked by much growth – an average of 2.5 inches and 6 pounds per year – and by challenges and successes.
Parents and Caregivers with
Children in Middle School
Should Encourage
Age Appropriate Learning
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For all you needs on sonic the hedgehog from new games, transformations, and shows. This is the place for all sonic fans.
If you could make a new sonic game what would it be.
Like sonic 06 but fix the controls
I'm a Legendary GI member.
That's easy! Sonic Chronicles 2... for Nintendo 3DS
I would say... Sonic Adventure 3!
I heard thier making sonic dark chronicles 2
From SonicStadium.org???! If so, will Shade be back?!
If they did that it would be sweet!!
Yeah it would!
How about a new game in the storybook series but about different grimm tales. Not gonna lie, the story book games were actually decent in their own right. But make it for the 3ds
there is still one storybook tale left
i know, but they sega hasnt said what the theme is
Ah yea they make ask for help from fans
I gotta write a letter to Sega and ask them about keeping Sonic Adventure 3 a secert!
Guys, I have a question... How come we don't have an awesome Sonic picture as the icon for this group? What's there now is just the GIO generic.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - John Calipari's rebuilding project at
Kentucky is ahead of schedule.
Freshman star John Wall shook off a leg injury to finish with 16
points, including the clinching free throws with 4 seconds
remaining, and the fifth-ranked Wildcats held off No. 10 North
Carolina 68-66 on Saturday.
Patrick Patterson added 19 points and seven rebounds for
Kentucky (8-0), which snapped a five-game losing streak to the Tar
Heels (7-2) and inched closer to becoming the first program to
reach 2,000 victories. The Wildcats have 1,996, while North
Carolina has 1,991.
Kentucky is off to its best start since the 1992-93 season, when
it started 11-0.
Deon Thompson led North Carolina with 14 points and Will Graves
added 13, but the Tar Heels' second-half rally stalled in the final
Wall and fellow freshman Eric Bledsoe made sure of it, making 5
of 6 free throws in the last 30 seconds after North Carolina had
trimmed a 19-point deficit to two.
Bledsoe shook off a couple off costly late-game turnovers to
knock down a pair of foul shots, and after Graves missed a
3-pointer and the rebound bounced out off bounds, Bledsoe made one
of two to put Kentucky ahead 66-61.
After a tip-in by Thompson pulled Carolina to 66-63, Wall
finished his breakout performance by calmly sinking two free throws
with 4.3 seconds left.
Graves hit a meaningless 3-pointer at the buzzer, and by then
the Wildcats bench had poured out onto the floor to celebrate the
biggest victory in years.
Calipari said before the game he was anxious to see how the
Wildcats responded after getting "punched in the mouth."
The answer proved to be easy: Get the ball into the hands of
Wall, who dazzled the NBA scouts in attendance with the kind of
playmaking ability that will likely make him a lottery pick next
spring if he chooses to leave. Wall finished with seven assists,
five rebounds and a handful of spectacular plays.
It almost wasn't enough to hold off the defending national
champions. North Carolina trailed by 15 at the break but slowly got
back in it by slowing the tempo.
It helped that Wall was off the floor. He slowly walked to the
locker room early in the second half with a leg injury, sending an
uneasy buzz through the record crowd of 24,468 who packed Rupp
Wall missed seven long minutes, but Kentucky managed to retain
the lead thanks to some shaky shooting by the Tar Heels. North
Carolina was 39 percent from the floor and missed several bunnies
in the lane during Wall's absence.
He returned with Kentucky up 54-42, but the Wildcats looked
dazed at times as the game slowed to a crawl. Still, after North
Carolina pulled within one possession, Wall delivered.
The win provided redemption of sorts for the Raleigh, N.C.,
native, who dreamed about playing for the Tar Heels. Though North
Carolina pursued him throughout high school, his relationship with
coach Roy Williams cooled during his senior year.
Wall said Williams called him before last spring's NCAA
tournament, saying the two would talk when the tournament was over.
Williams never called back, and Wall opted for Kentucky.
He did his best to show Williams what the Tar Heels are missing.
North Carolina built an early 9-2 lead which the Wildcats
quickly erased behind their freshman star. Wall started with a
dunk, then followed it up moments later with a ridiculous reverse
layup. The two plays seemed to settle his teammates, sparking a
28-2 flurry.
By the time Patterson capped it with a pair of free throws, the
Wildcats led 30-11.
The run looked awfully familiar to the Tar Heels, who were
buried by Syracuse last month in the finals of the 2K Sports
Classic after the Orange opened the second half with a 22-1 burst.
North Carolina bounced back with three straight wins, including
an 89-82 victory over No. 9 Michigan State on Tuesday, giving
Williams hope that his young team had matured.
The Tar Heels hardly looked it during the first half, turning it
over 11 times, allowing Wall to go to work in transition.
North Carolina simply had no answer for the speedy point guard,
and Kentucky roared into the half with a 43-28 lead and appeared
well on its way to posting the first signature victory of
Calipari's tenure before holding on in the end.
No. 5 KENTUCKY 68, No. 10 NORTH CAROLINA 66
Graves 4-10 1-2 13, Thompson 6-13 2-3 14, Davis 3-6 3-5 9,
Ginyard 2-7 0-0 5, Drew II 3-9 0-0 6, Strickland 2-5 0-0 5,
McDonald 0-0 0-0 0, Watts 0-0 0-0 0, Henson 0-3 1-2 1, D.Wear 1-1
0-0 3, T.Wear 0-3 0-0 0, Zeller 5-10 0-1 10. Totals 26-67 7-13 66.
Cousins 2-7 1-5 5, Patterson 8-12 2-2 19, Miller 3-7 0-0 8, Wall
5-10 5-7 16, Bledsoe 2-7 5-6 9, Dodson 3-7 1-2 9, Harris 1-2 0-0 2,
Stevenson 0-0 0-0 0, Orton 0-2 0-0 0, Harrellson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
24-54 14-22 68.
Halftime-Kentucky 43-28. 3-Point Goals-North Carolina 7-20
(Graves 4-7, Strickland 1-1, D.Wear 1-1, Ginyard 1-4, Henson 0-1,
T.Wear 0-1, Zeller 0-1, Drew II 0-4), Kentucky 6-16 (Miller 2-5,
Dodson 2-6, Patterson 1-1, Wall 1-2, Bledsoe 0-2). Fouled
Out-Ginyard. Rebounds-North Carolina 37 (Davis 10), Kentucky 39
(Patterson 7). Assists-North Carolina 11 (Drew II 6), Kentucky 13
(Wall 7). Total Fouls-North Carolina 18, Kentucky 17. A-24,468. d
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Team Records and Series Notes
With the win Kentucky improves to 8-0, and with the loss, North Carolina falls to 7-2.
Off to an 8-0 start, UK has jumped out to the best start to a season since the 1992-93 campaign when UK opened 11-0.
UK owns an 11-21 all-time record against North Carolina with a 6-6 mark against the Tar Heels in Lexington.
The Wildcats have a 122-61 record against teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
UK has a 43-31 all-time record against teams from the state of North Carolina.
UK will return to action, facing Connecticut in the DirectTV Big East/SEC Invitational, at Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y. The game will be televised by ESPN, with a tipoff on Dec. 9 at 9:30 p.m. ET.
First-Half Notes
Kentucky used the starting lineup of John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Darius Miller, Patrick Patterson and DeMarcus Cousins for the seventh consecutive game. UK owns a 7-0 record with this lineup.
UK and Cousins won the tip for the seventh time in eight games.
UNC's Will Graves opened the scoring with a three-pointer from the corner, putting UNC up 3-0 early.
Cousins' put-back under the basket put the Wildcats on the board with 19:04 left in the half.
At the 15:28 mark of the first period, North Carolina held a 9-6 lead, with UK getting four points from Wall in transition.
Ramon Harris and Daniel Orton were the first UK players to check in off the bench, coming in with 16:46 left in the half. That is the team-best fifth time Orton has been the first sub and the third time Harris has checked in off the bench first.
Patterson's jumper in the paint gave UK its first lead, a 10-9 advantage with just under 14 minutes left in the half.
Miller's three-pointer with 12:36 remaining in the half extended UK's streak to 719 consecutive games with a three-pointer made. UK's 719 consecutive games with a three-pointer ranks third in the NCAA.
At the 12:36 mark of the first half, UK was in the midst of a 16-0 run to take an 18-9 lead.
Cousins' two points gave UK its first double-digit lead of the game, a 22-11 advantage with 10:52 remaining in the half.
With just under nine minutes in the first half, UK was in the midst of a 28-2 run, owning a 30-11 lead with 8:25 remaining in the first period.
After UNC hit a three to cut the lead to 30-14, Darnell Dodson drilled his second trifecta of the half to put UK up 33-14 with 8:05 left.
Wall connected on 1-of-2 free throws with 3:06 left in the half, with UK holding a 40-23 lead.
At the end of the half, UK held a 43-28 lead, with the Wildcats shooting 57-percent (16-for-28) from the field and 67-percent (6-for-9) from behind the arc.
North Carolina won the battle of the boards, totaling 17 rebounds to UK's 16. UK had nine assists and nine turnovers in the first half.
UK's 43 points in the first half are the fourth-most points for the Wildcats in the first half this year. Kentucky's 53 points against Sam Houston State is the most in the first stanza this season.
Wall led the Wildcats with 13 points, three rebounds, five assists and two steals in 19 minutes. Patterson totaled 11 points, five rebounds, a block and a steal in 17 minutes.
Second-Half Notes
UK started the lineup of Wall, Miller, Bledsoe, Patterson and Orton in the second half. This is the second time this season that UK opened with this lineup in the second period.
Wall found Harris for a dunk with 19:15 left in the game, getting UK's first points of the half and putting the Wildcats up 45-28.
With a three-point play, North Carolina cut the UK lead to single digits, with UK holding a 45-36 lead with just under 17 minutes left in the game.
Eric Bledsoe's two points in transition advanced UK's lead back to 49-38 with 15:17 left in the contest.
Patterson netted four consecutive points to give the home team a 53-40 edge with 13:25 remaining.
Crossing the 10 minute mark in the game, UK held an eight-point lead, 54-46.
UNC freshman forward Travis Wear sank a three-pointer from the corner with 9:25 left in the game to cut the UK lead to 54-49.
At the under-eight timeout (7:29 left in the game), UK held a 56-49 advantage, with Wall totaling 13 points and Patterson registering 19 points.
Graves hit a free throw for UNC, cutting the UK lead to 59-54 with 5:26 remaining.
At the under four-minute timeout, UK was holding a 59-56 lead with 3:34 left in the game.
Two free throws from Bledsoe extended UK's lead to 61-56 and then he connected on an up-and-under layup to make it 63-56 with 1:52 remaining.
UNC immediately countered with a three-pointer from Graves, cutting it to 63-59 with 1:45 left.
Deon Thompson sliced the UK lead to 63-61 with a basket with 32.4 seconds remaining.
Bledsoe was fouled with 30.5 seconds remaining and connected on both free throws to extend the lead to 65-61.
Bledsoe was fouled with 16.5 seconds left and made the first of two free throws, making it 66-61. His miss on the second free throw snapped 11 consecutive made free throws by Bledsoe.
Team Notes
Kentucky is the NCAA's all-time wins leader with 1,996 wins. UK needs just four more victories to become the first team to eclipse 2,000 wins in college basketball history. North Carolina sits in second place all-time with 1,991 total wins.
A crowd of 24,468 fans filled Rupp Arena for the game, setting a new Kentucky record. The attendance surpassed the previous record of 24,465 fans on Feb. 10, 2007, a 64-61 loss against Florida.
The Wildcats have out-rebounded their opponent in all eight games this season, besting UNC by just a two-point margin at 39-37.
UK finished the game shooting 44-percent from the field and 38-percent from behind the arc. UK has shot over 44-percent in each game this season.
Kentucky held North Carolina to 39-percent shooting from the field and 35-percent from three-point land. UK has held each of its opponents to under 50-percent shooting from the field.
UK won the points in the paint, 30-28, also getting 18 points in fast break situations, with UNC totaling eight fast-break points.
After forcing North Carolina into 16 turnovers, the Wildcats have now forced each opponent into at least 11 turnovers in each game this year.
Individual Notes
Patterson totaled a game-high 19 points in 37 minutes, adding a club-best seven rebounds.
Patterson has now scored in double figures in seven of eight games this season.
He added one blocked shot, giving him one block in each game this year.
After connecting on his lone three-point attempt, Patterson has made a three-point shot in six of eight games.
In three career meetings with the Tar Heels, Patterson has totaled 19 points in each game. Patterson is averaging 19 points and nine rebounds in his career against North Carolina.
Wall charted 16 points, adding five rebounds, seven assists and three steals in 32 minutes of action.
Wall has scored in double figures in each game of his UK career.
After setting the UK freshman record with 14 assists in the win over UNC Asheville Monday, his seven assists now give him at least five assists in each game this year.
Wall's five rebounds are one shy of his career high, when he snagged six in a win over Rider.
With three steals, Wall has swiped three or more steals in four games.
Miller blocked a season-high two shots, adding eight points, four rebounds and two steals in 32 minutes.
Has made a three-pointer in seven straight games after a 2-for-5 outing from behind the arc in today's contest.
Cousins had five points and five rebounds in 15 minutes.
Cousins has now totaled four or more rebounds in each game this season and has at least one block in each game.
Bledsoe finished with nine points and two assists in 17 minutes.
Bledsoe made 5-of-6 free throw attempts until missing the back-end of a two-shot foul. Previously he had made 10 consecutive from the charity stripe.
Dodson came off the bench to score nine points and grab a career-high five rebounds.
In five games this year, Dodson has scored nine or more points in four games.


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First profiles uploading to YouTube now
It'll be several hours before the first documentary videos are (finally!) ready for viewing, but they are uploading to YouTube as I write this. You can watch them there, on the Videos page here, or even on the home page, but I also will blog about them individually to make sure blog subscribers are notified when the videos are ready to view.
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Ayla was on the show back in the days when I did a lot of "American Idol" blogging, so let's see what I said about her. It was 2006, the year Taylor Hicks won and Katherine McPhee was the top female.
February 7, 2006:
There was the beautiful basketballer Ayla Brown, who belted robotically but made it on athletic attitude. Simon said the brilliant words that could stand as a critique of the whole show: "There's something empty about it all."February 21, 2006:
Ayla Brown, the beautiful basketballer. She motivates herself by thinking about how Simon called her "robotic" and "empty." She's singing some cheesy song in a horribly cheesy style. Oh, it's something like "Reflection." It's harsh and abominable. She puts that pop-groan into it, but I'm not embarrassed for her, because she's so pretty and so tall. When she's done, she says, "I just feel so complete," as if she'd just had sex with herself. Appalling! But will the judges complain? Again with the praise. Is there no relenting? Simon calls her a "hard worker" with "a limit." But he credits her with "some emotion." Disgusting overpraise!March 7, 2006:
Ayla Brown is just atrocious but the judges are very kind to her, perhaps because she looks fabulous -- really tall! -- and was adorable in the film clip talking about how when she was a kid she believed her dad was Elvis Presley. They don't want her to go.March 9, 2006:
[M]y two picks to leave -- in the female category -- are in fact leaving. Ayla fights not to completely burst out crying. Oh, don't feel sorry for her. She's beautiful, tall, a basketball player, and a straight-A student. She'll be fine.Ha ha. Well, they are a lovely family, and they seem to know how to leverage their loveliness. Does Scott Brown deserve to be Senator? I don't know enough about him to say, but I certainly suspect that his extreme handsomeness is a good part of the reason why people are responding to him so enthusiastically.


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I run Windows guests on Linux hosts. I cannot imagine any reason I would want to flip that around.
and do standalone versions they require a 13Gb root drive ? like surface ?
Drivers? Like it or not with so many major subsystems constantly being futzed with drivers break a LOT more often on Linux than they do on Windows.
This of course makes complete sense if one takes only a second to think about it, you have multiple kernels, major changes to the subsystems, and only a limited number of devs, most of which have no ties to the hardware whose drivers they are working on. Compare this to Windows where you'll have a single kernel for the 10 year run of the OS, same subsystems, and
Like it or not with so many major subsystems constantly being futzed with drivers break a LOT more often on Linux than they do on Windows.
i'm sorry you have so much trouble. i've never had as much trouble with drivers in linux as in windows, but each to their own i guess.
the problem with your argument is that anyone would be forgiven for thinking with all the great things you mention about windows (compared to linux) it was a better OS. all it really means it that windows has no excuse for its driver fuck ups... it certainly doesn't make them less likely.
there's good reason why datacenters are full of linux servers.... and it has less
Actually talking to some Linux admins the only reason datacenters are full of Linux? COST with a capital C, MSFT under Ballmer has made WinServer licenses this hedge maze of doom, where one can't be sure you are in compliance without a corporate lawyer, and the whole requiring users to have CALs pisses guys off. But since with servers 1.- The hardware never changes, 2.-They all run distros that stick to truly ancient kernels and have glacial update schedules, like Debian Stable or Red Hat, then 3.- They don
--You're a Friend, so pls take this in the spirit that it's intended.
--I have had trouble with the last couple of Linux Mint revs and driver regressions when trying to upgrade on the same hardware. Right now I can only run Mint 11 on my 6-core AMD box, or else I don't have sound ++ maybe some video / screen saver stability problems. Very disappointing. Although, there are quite a number of Debian-derived distros out there, and I haven't really tried poking around to see what might work because of tim
Hyper-V - while Microsoft would love for everyone to run Windows Server everywhere they know that isn't going to happen. They also see the virtualization trend and they want to have Hyper-V dominate that market. They are a bit behind vmware and possibly KVM yet, but they do have a solid product they want to push.
I'm assuming almost everything they talk about will be how you can virtualize your existing Linux machines on to Hyper-V.
I signed up for a 90 day demo Azure account, just to see how it compares to Amazon AWS, and was surprised as hell to see them offering Linux vms.. So just for giggles, spun one up, and sure enough, it was CentOS. They're pretty darn cheap on the demo though, I left the vm running and set a reminder to kill it before the 90 days was up, and about 30 days into the demo, I get an email telling me the account was getting close to running out of the "free" specs and I'd need to add a credit card for charges to continue.. This, mind you, on a vm thats just the os/normal services, nothing else running.. I went ahead and cancelled the demo.. Will stick to AWS and their free tier... I've had both a Win2003 AND an Ubuntu vm running there on the free tier for nearly six months, and both are actually runnning some remote services that I had been running on my home servers..
Not much, but there is a cold-wave going through Hell.
Mitt Romney sponsors Obama's campaign victory.
Seems anti-antithetical for MS to host anything involving Linux... what's the catch?
Well as per this article Microsoft is offering Linux on its Azure platform [pcworld.com], so its quite reasonable for a major vendor of Linux services to want to be part of a Linux conference (and I had to stop myself from laughing out loud when I wrote that)
And from another article from this year Microsoft cracks top 20 list of Linux contributors [theverge.com]. So again its reasonable for MS to be at the conference.
Even odder...
Obama sponsors Romney's campaign victory...
Nope, not April 1st. I'm curious what Microsoft has to say. No doubt it is to praise Microsoft, but I wonder if they are going to positively speak about Open Source and Linux
linux and MS have a common enemy.
(only half kidding.)
As they are organized now, Apple and MS have a common enemy: Linux.
Ok, MS will backstab Apple removing itself from the aliance some day. But I doubt they'll make it so public.
it would be fairly public because pretty much the only thing they could do is withdraw MS Office for OSX, they couldn't sue them for patents or other IP due to already in place cross licensing agreements that breaking would cost them a significant amount of cash. They have other products for Apple but Office is the only one people really use.
I thought their common enemy was Google (although Google does use lot of Linux in its business).
It's Android. Android is Linux from Google... So, yes.
linux and MS have a common enemy.
(only half kidding.)
Don't you mean VMWare?
When is Winux coming out? LOL
Well, linux brings them alot of cash... Android-flavored
Azure (the MS cloud) now supports Linux images. They probably want some attention for that.
Also MS is being realistic (unlike some here). Their customers use other techs. They know it. They long ago dropped the 'use only our junk', thats apples job these days...
Azure (the MS cloud) now supports Linux images. They probably want some attention for that.
Yeah, it appears that they do: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/schedule [linuxfoundation.org]
Join em.
Join em.
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win...
Then they abuse you.
Then they make you abuse others while they watch.
Then you become them.
Then you ignore them.
Then you laugh at them...
Hey SlashDot, how about some "News for Nerds" sometime soon? This is two days in a row with an announcement about some large corporate entity throwing money into a marketing pot. If we wanted this kind of news, we'd be on the Businessweek site right now.
http://slashdot.org/submission [slashdot.org]
Hey SlashDot, how about some "News for Nerds" sometime soon?
Will this do? [slashdot.org]
They wouldn't have to (lose dominance) if they took a few steps:
1) Complete wine
2) Port explorer, the common controls, and COM
3) Sell it all bundled together
But as they say, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall".
MS has been an enemy of linux since the beginning. Taking their money now just shows that Linux can now be bought off.
MS has been an enemy of linux since the beginning
I'm pretty sure Linux was created to offer a free Unix OS for personal computers. Linux may have been Microsoft's enemy, but I don't think it worked the other way around, even despite MS's funding of SCO and the whole Halloween document leaks ordeal.
Hey Bruce, nothing but respect, but if "proprietary drivers" loaded into the kernel is the only way I can get my work done, it's kinda hard for me to jump on the "binary blobs are evil!" bandwagon...
Hi Chibi Merrow,
Why are proprietary drivers the only way you can get your work done? I'm not asking you so much as I am asking you to tell me why it happened to you. It's probably going to be something like company X wouldn't make open drivers. And then tell me if you really think that company X is protecting some precious intellectual property and if they would actually be damaged if it was released as Open Source.
Very often the driver only works on their specific hardware, and there isn't really any chance of financial damage from opening the driver.
But then, for some of us, we run Linux and/or use other Open Source software because of cost, stability, feature sets, and the fact that it meets our needs. While the Free part is nice, it is an ideal, and if using a binary blob (that has never caused a system issue for me) on my desktop system so I can play Xonotic, Urban Terror, the original Quake, etc. in 3d with decent frame rates is what is required, I personally don't mind. But then, that is *my* needs/wants/desires, for my machines.
If you use Linux
From my point of view, "binary blobs in the kernel are evil" is a form of future-proofing. It limits the changes that the kernel developers can make without breaking them. When you don't understand what something is doing, it's hard to manuver around it.
OTOH, I will admit that I also have a sidgeon of ideological bias. But I also have a large lump of practicality. I've had too many systems die under me because of something proprietary that nobody understood or could fix, and which the prior manufacturer
I have 3D hardware here too. It has wonderful frame rates and drives a whole lot of monitors from just one card. It runs on the open driver. I was just careful what I bought. Please try that next time.
There will come a day when that binary doesn't run with modern kernels, and the manufacturer has gone on to other things and no longer supports it.
Certainly will... but my current vid card (since that is the blob I referenced earlier and you are now) is a 5 year old nvidia card... when it no longer meets my needs, I certainly will be replacing it, and open source-ness of the drivers will take a large part of the accounting... but when I bought it was "do i want it working and a blob, or just basic 2d support and open"...
Well, in my case, it's nVidia.
And from them (and their proxies), the explanations I have generally heard have been:
1) There are things in the code that they do not have sufficient rights to release in an open manner.
2) There are features of the "graphics hardware" implemented in software as part of the driver, and they believe these features give them a competitive advantage which would be lost by opening up the code.
3) There are workarounds for hardware defects in the code, and releasing them would embarra
Hm. I worked for 19 years in film, 12 of them at Pixar. I am aware that Intel graphics are not a high-performance solution at this time. What is ATI lacking today in cards that run properly with open drivers?
I work in Air Traffic Control simulation, primarily Control Tower and Cockpit simulators. We've got a custom deferred renderer for very complicated lighting conditions... Like night time around an airport with literally thousands of dynamic lights.
In the past, our shaders just didn't work on ATI cards under Linux. Or they fell back to software mode. Or they gave unacceptable performance. Haven't tried them recently, but any time I look into the current quality level of AMD's open source Radeon drivers, the
I can see it now... a bright future for linux, walking side by side with MS.
Just ask Nokia how they became what they are now
link [geekwire.com]
"So you want to love those conferences to death. I've killed at least two Mac conferences. First there was the Mac App Developers Conference. I was on the Board of Directors of the Mac App Developers Association long ago, and after I left I worked to try to turn it into a cross-platform developers conference, and I did. I managed to make it.. their last conference was very cross-platforn, both Windows and Macintosh, which of course turned off their Macintosh audience; half of the conference was irrele
Don't be so surprised. Microsoft has done more for open source than Apple ever has.
And they've done more TO open source than Apple ever has. What's your point?
Does "SCO" ring any bells? Assertion of patents on FAT? Pressuring OEMs not to offer Linux preloaded? Munging Internet Explorer to make open source browsers look bad?
I could go on, but I have better things to do this evening and very little interest in pursuing some pointless argument. Feel free to hate Apple, indulge amnesia or whatever turns your crank. All these companies can be expected to do what they think will help their bottom line.
For the record, I'm glad MS is showing signs of playing nicer
There's no exit door on the Microsoft tent!
The cynicism was completely warranted a decade-plus-change ago. It isn't >>as much anymore. Just because a group of people put forth something as truth and agree among themselves that it is, isn't proof or truth. At worst, it's a bunch of like-minded haters agreeing on something (shocking concept). At best, it's people speaking more out of emotion than logic. While most Nerds are certainly incapable of change, not all nerds are that way. I prefer to keep an open mind at all times.
It is still warranted. They haven't done ANYTHING positive that comes even close to approaching the negative things they have done in the past. The first that comes to mind is the way they stacked the committees on the Word processor format standard. And got a totally unusable standard mandated. Even though it includes microsoft proprietary features, even Microsoft hasn't managed (or chosed?) to implement it. (I'm not counting partial implementations. Anyone can do those. Even an ASCII text file woul
I guess, if they don't do anything vile for a decade, I might sort of trust them even if they don't start doing positive things. I give that a 0.00,000,000,000,001% chance. At most.
You don't count UEFI or should i reset the clock?
I don't count it yet, because I don't yet understand it. I suspect that it will reset the clock.
Linux is embedded in a great many products in the world and Microsoft collects a lot of money in license fees from those installations. A lot more than 20,000 I'd say.
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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Monday, June 9, 2014
By Terry Bailey
The regular weekly meeting fo the Mitchell County Commissioners was conducted with two Commissioners, Jim Marshall and Tom Claussen present and with one commissioner, Mike Cooper, absent.
After calling the meeting to order a general discussion was held regarding the various activities conducted in Mitchell County over the past weekend. It was the general consensus that the Eight Man All Star Games were very successful and that the city of Beloit and Mitchell County benefited greatly from this activity that drew visitors from all across the state of Kansas. The Relay for Life activity was again conducted and it too was considered very successful.
Kristen Kadel, interim County Health Nurse, requested a fifteen minute executive session with the two commissioners to discuss non-elected personnel. When the regular meeting resumed it was announced that no decisions had been made.
Ed Debesis, County EMS Director, was on hand to present his monthly report to the commissioners. The ambulance service made fifty-three runs during the month of May. The average patient age was 61 years of age with and equal distribution of male and female patients. An ongoing area of concern is in the area of Medicare/Medicaid write off. It is almost impossible to predict with any certainty what they will pay for and what they will deny.
Debesis told the Commissioners that he and Richard English will be assisting in a Paramedic Field Ops activity in Hutchinson later this week. Because the program has expanded it will be conducted at the Fairgrounds this year. Mock drills and emergency calls will be conducted to allow training for real life situations. Debesis said he hoped to do some recruiting for possible new employees through the process.
Larry Emerson, Public Works Superintendent, told the Commissioners that John Cashatt told him that in regard to the grant applications, guard rail replacement did not have a high priority. It seemed wise to find a way to incorporate other road bed improvements with the guard rail replacement to make the grant more attractive. Cashatt also suggested that bigger grants tend to receive more attention than smaller grants. Once again it was suggested that Heather Hartman might possess important data regarding the economic impact of the project. It was also noted that the post and cable guard rail can be replaced with metal guardrail.
Emerson reported that he had only received two applicants for the position that was advertised. He will continue to advertise to see if more applicants can be attracted.
The lowboy trailer that was supposed to have been delivered for each of the past two weeks is supposed to be delivered this week.
Emerson requested a ten minute executive session to discuss non-elected personnel. When the regular meeting resumed it was announced that no decisions had been made.
An accident south of Asherville took place when a pickup truck ran off a bridge. There was not much damage to the bridge, according to Emerson, but he wasn't sure about the pickup.
A resolution regarding unpaid warrants was adopted by a 2-0 vote. These are checks that have been written by the county but have not been cashed. The checks written by the county have a date on them by which they must be cashed. Those outstanding warrants would be checks that exceed that time period.
Commissioner Tom Claussen wanted to remind the general public of the sacrifices made by our servicemen on June 6, 1944. This past Friday was the seventieth anniversary of D-Day. Had they failed on their mission that day, history would certainly have been changed.
County Clerk Chris Treaster announced that the auditors would be here this week doing their yearly review. "This is always a busy time but it is a necessary activity to help keep us headed in the right direction," announced Treaster.
At this point having dispensed with all the business for the county at this time, the meeting was adjourned.
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SteelyDel Brushguard Installation
Currently the guard is only available for EA81(80-84 style front end) models so until the EA82 model guard is released the instructions will only apply to the older models.
The guard ships in two pieces. The smaller bracket replaces the chrome pipe that is under the bottom front edge of the bumper. Then you have the other piece that is of course the guard.
Remove the chrome pipe from your vehicle. First remove the skidplate if necessary then along the back of the chrome pipe are black vented metal pieces. Using 10mm socket or wrench remove the bolts that attach these. Use penetrating oil prior to removal or you might not have much left after removal. Then use a 12mm deep socket to remove the nuts on the end of the pipe and it will want to drop off (watch your head if you're under there!).
That being removed now its time to attach the new piece that replaces your chrome pipe. Put the 12mm nuts back on and torque fairly hard.
Acquire some nuts/bolts or whatever you prefer to use to hold the upper piece to the lower piece of the guard. You need 4 total for the bottom part of your guard and 2 smaller diameter but fairly strong/long bolts for the upper attachment to the top of the edge of your bumper.
Loosely torque the bottom 4 nuts and bolts and then tilt the guard to the angle you desire. Now drill a hole thru your bumper (its plastic but there's metal behind the plastic), on each spot and slide the bolt thru those holes.
Now you can attach the nut to each small bolt at the top of the guard, and torque the bottom 4 nuts and bolts.
Attach your fog/driving lights and you are ready to roll!
Below is the first "Iowa Made" SteelyDel Brushguard. Click here for more info on previously made guards.....and a small storyline of them.
As you can see the guard does not restrict the light output of your headlights, or block your turn signals. You can still add the center lamp that many of the USMB guys are adding and/or a set of foglights as well. No issues with BYB type liftkits as well as their kit is a body lift and this is attached only to the vehicle body.
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