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Any recommendations for a portable dog blind for duck hunting? Have a fairly tall 90# dog. Thanks.
Any recommendations for a portable dog blind for duck hunting? Have a fairly tall 90# dog. Thanks.
I have 2 and the Avery product is by far the best.
Find it here: http://www.averysportingdog.com/products/Blinds.php
"Remember, it's about the Dog and the Dog work, it's not about you"
Rig-em field bully,after a year the Avery`s I had bottoms got shredded.Used daily in training along with seson rog em has held up.Little easier to set the rig em up also.It folds up like an accordian and seems easier yo hide also. Jim
hardcore dog blind, good quality and cheap
Appreciate the replies, but that's about 4 different recommendations! Any other comparison issues?
I think I will buy some material and make one for less than let's say 10 dollars. Salvo. Cheap yes. Ebay Yes....
Rogers has the Hard Core on sale. It looks like my GHG one and that's OK. (Front and back entrance is a mixed blessing when it's cold.) Mine is tight on my big guy. I see some new rounded top ones that might be better.
Friends Avery(?) is hard to set up, but warmer.
Last edited by Keith Stroyan; 08-20-2012 at 11:29 AM. Reason: (From web, seems like it's 1 inch higher than my GHG.)
Its also sold out....
I have owned 3.
Avery finisher i think, Hated the shape it seemed to cast a shadow due to the height and wasn't roomy enough for the dog.
The rig'em right. again was to high and found the triangular shape was difficult to hide, very tall blind. Worst part is that if the dog stands up or creeps due to its "fold up design" It folds like an accordian leaving the dog standing there.
I have gone back to my GHG Ground Force.. Best bang for the buck, there really arnt any down sides to it in my eyes.


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Well I just got back from Wal-Mart about an hour ago. I passed out around 6 pm, woke up at 12 am and said why not, let's see what they got. I heard the 24 hour Wal-Mart's put out their stock around that time.
I got there, a couple 1st day stickers, I already had those though(Ewok, Han, Chewy). But to my shock they had some Wal-Mart exclusive 501st LEGION Clone Troopers. Just my luck I only brought $40.
I got 2 501st LEGION and 2 Comander Gree's, no 1st day sticker though. I'm not sure how rare these 501st troop. are going to be, but I was considering buying more. I know the Target special, Commander Fox, is $12.99. A lil pricy, but I like the lil case it comes in.
So what do you all think would it be worth it to buy some more LEGIONs? I am starting to sell a couple doubles I have on EBay. Like Luke, Han, Grievous, R2-D2, Chewy all with 1st day stick. I'm still a new in this field so ya know. I started last Saturday and I already have a lil over 30 figures, hahaha.


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1999 Hope College graduates were presented to two students during
the college's Honors Convocation on Thursday (April 29).
Rebecca Timmer of Pella, Iowa was presented the John
Schouten Award while Adam Paarlberg of Alto, Mich. was the
recipient of the Otto van der Velde All-Campus Award.
The Schouten award is given to a senior woman who, in
addition to excelling in athletics, possess other strong
character traits and leadership abilities. The award is named in
memory of John "Jack" Schouten who was a long-time physical
educator and coach at Hope, in addition to serving as the
college's first director of athletics.
The van der Velde award is presented to a senior man for
outstanding contribution to the college in athletics, scholarship
and participation in student activities. The award, presented
annually since 1932, is named in memory of Dr. Otto van der
Velde, a 1915 Hope College graduate who lettered in four sports
and was later team physicians for more than 40 years.
A chemistry and Spanish major at Hope, Timmer has been a
standout cross country and track athlete. She is a two-time NCAA
Division III All-American in cross country. She was recently
named a GTE Academic All-American. A 1995 graduate of Pella
Community High School, she is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. David
Timmer of Pella, Iowa.
Co-captain of the football team, Paarlberg was an all-
conference Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA)
football linebacker. He is a business administration major. A
1995 graduate of Caledonia High School, he is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Paarlberg of Alto, Mich.
Both Timmer and Paarlberg were recently inducted into the
Hope College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the highest academic
honor can bestow upon its graduates. Each has received senior
awards in their respective academic areas, Timmer in chemistry
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Hey guys! I'm new to this wonderful site and would like to ask everyone, how would you rate some of these fine actors in the scale of 1 to 10, and if you can be bothered then tell a reason, why you rated them that way too, ok here goes:
Morgan Freeman(Shawshank Redemption)
Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, I Am Sam, Carlito's Way)
Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys, Kalifornia, Se7en)
Denzel Washington(Malcolm X,Training Day, Philadelphia)
Tom Hanks(Castaway, Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan)
Jimmy Stewart(It's A Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Rear Window)
Russell Crowe(Insider,A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)
Marlon Brando(The Godfather, On The Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire)
Robert De Niro(Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
Edward Norton(Fight Club, American History X, Primal Fear)
Al Pacino(Scarface, Scent Of A Woman, Godfather)
Kevin Spacey(American Beauty, Usual Suspects)
I put some films in there too, in case someone doesn't recognise the names.:-)
Johnny Depp 7
Sean Penn 8
Brad Pitt 7
Denzel Washington 9
Tom Hanks 10
Jimmy Stewart 10
Russell Crowe 8
Marlon Brando 10
Robert De Niro 10
Edward Norton 9
Al Pacino 10
Kevin Spacey 10
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OXFORD — Federal court records say a man has pleaded guilty to one count of stealing thousands of dollars in copper from farm irrigation pivots in Mississippi and selling it in Arkansas.
Curtis Tigues pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Oxford. He will be sentenced later.
Tigues and Ernest Calvin were indicted Oct. 25. Calvin's trial is set for March 4.
Authorities say Tigues is from Inverness and Calvin is from Belzoni.
The indictments say that Tigues and Calvin each sold more than 300 pounds of copper for scrap in Lake Village, Ark., in December 2010.


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Family: Parulidae, Wood Warblers view all from this family
Description ADULT AND IMMATURE Have mostly dark olive-brown upperparts, including wings and tail. Note the long, bold supercilium that becomes wider above and behind the eye and is more buff in front of eye, white behind (even width and uniformly buffish in Northern). Underparts are whitish overall, with a buff wash on rear of flanks and bold dark streaks on all areas except throat and undertail coverts (throat is streaked in Northern). Legs are stout and bright pink.
Dimensions Length: 6 1/2" (17 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly Apr-Aug) to wet wooded habitats in southeastern U.S.; winters mainly in Central America and around Caribbean.
Observation Tips Presence easiest to detect by song.
Range Plains, Texas, Eastern Canada, Southeast, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Florida
Voice Song is a resonant, whistling ti' tsiu tsiu tchew tchew; call is a grating tchtt.
Discussion Similar to Northern Waterthrush, but marginally larger and longer billed. and subtle plumage differences (mainly supercilium and throat) are best features for separating the species on migration; breeding ranges barely overlap in region covered by this book. Habits and habitat preferences are similar to those of Northern. Sexes are similar.


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Three area high school students will travel to Washington, D.C., in June with approximately 1,000 other students from around the nation after winning the Crow Wing Power contest.
Winners of the Washington, D.C., trip are Ashlee Hauble, the daughter of Lee and Kathryn from Brainerd; Journee Howard, the daughter of Shaun and Jen from Pine River; and Jessica Nies, the daughter of Robert and Cindy from Breezy Point.
Crow Wing Power joins other cooperatives around the nation to offer high school juniors a trip to the nation's capitol in Washington, D.C. Students in Morrison, Crow Wing and Cass counties entered the contest by writing a short essay about a new energy technology idea or a futuristic energy thought.


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Today I came accross an Iframer called Ziframer. But first of all: What is an Iframer?
An Iframer is a script which is used to test stolen FTP accounts and inject malicious code into web pages. If an FTP account is valid, the Iframer automaticly puts an Drive-by infection on the specified html, php or asp files.
In this case the Iframer is a PHP-script which is used to spread a variant of ZeuS (aka Zbot/WSNPoem). The Iframer is called "Ziframer" and is sold for 30$. The PHP script can bee launched via command line or accessed using a web browser:
The script is very simple and just needs a list of FTP accounts which the script should check. As you can see on the screenshot above, the input file (ftp.txt) currently contains more then 18'000 stolen FTP credentials:
In the file "iframe.txt" the attacker can define the (JavaScript- or HTML-) code he would like to inject:
The cyberciminal has also the possibility to set a timeout, a file where the script will report invalid FTP credentials (bad.txt) and a file which will collect valid FTP credentials (good.txt). The screenshot below shows you the script while working through the list of stolen FTP credentials (ftp.txt):
Last but not least the attacker has to define where he wants to put the malicious code. He has the following options:
end – Inject the code at the bottom of the page
change – Replace a text or a string in the page with the malicious code
check – Check if the malicious code is already on the page
Now the cybercriminal has just to press the "START" button to run the script. The Iframer script will now get through the FTP accounts and inject the malicious code which is defined in the file "iframe.txt" (see this one).
To make the use of the script more user friendly, the script has a readme file which describes the usage of the script in russian and english.
Content of readme.html (english):
[*] Console and Web interface
[*] Stabilno runs under Windows and Nix BSD
[*] Check for validity ftp
[*] Paste the Code (at the beginning or end of file. Or a full overwrite the file to your text – defeys)
[*] Strange Komentirovanie iframe'ov
[*] Convenience logs [*] All akki (valid \ invalid) remain in the database.
[*] The names of files, to insert the code can be set regExp'om, such as index \ .(.*)[_ b] or [_b ](.*). php | html | asp | htm.
[*] It takes on all the folders on the site.
[*] Function update replaces your old code to the new (for example, changed the addresses fryma)
[!] Recommend to use the console interface
Open a console (Start-> Run-> cmd)
Write to the path to php.exe for example c: \ php \ php.exe
then write the path to the script (zifr.php)
For example the so-c: \ php \ php.exe D: \ soft \ ziframer \ zifr.php
the script will run and display a certificate.
Open the console / ssh
Write to php then write the path to the script (zifr.php)
For example the so-php / home / user / soft / ziframer / zifr.php
the script will run and display a certificate.
-file -f Path to the file to your FTP
-code -c path to a file with code introduced
-inject -i Where vstavlt code three options
start – top of the page
end – in the bottom of the page
change – replace the text in the page code
-time -t Timeout for connecting to the FTP
-del -d With this option chyuzhye ifremy komentiruyutsya
-update -u Update your code with this option, the script ishet inserted your code and replaces it with a new
-good -g file where badat skladyvatsya working FTP
-bad -b file where badat skladyvatsya not working FTP
-hide -h If you enable this option, your code will not markerovatsya but you will not be able to use the function update
-restore -r Continue from the last FTP if you had not had time to do the whole list you can start from where you stopped
The Ziframe script is very simple an cheap. Even a n00b is able to use it.
It also demonstrates how efficiently and easily cybercriminals can distribute their malicious code to tremendous numbers of stolen FTP accounts. Automated mechanisms like this one shows how infection vectors are more and more shifted from E-mails with malicious attachments to Drive-by. The modular approach allows the cybercriminal to feed the script with different lists of compromised accounts that can be acquired on the underground market.


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When serving foods with unusual ingredients, write out a place card with the recipe name and place it next to the serving plate to let your guests know what they are eating. Also, consider labeling any foods with nuts or shellfish, since these are common allergens.
Chipotle chiles are actually dried, smoked jalapeño chiles. They have a wrinkled, dark brown skin and a smoky, sweet flavor. In addition to dried, chipotle chiles can be found canned in adobo sauce.
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Toba Batak people
Sumatra, Indonesia
Pair of architectural panels for house facade in the form of mythical creatures
19th century
wood, pigments
.1 109.2 (h) x 34.6 (w) x 35.5 (d) cm
Purchased 2005
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Singa are mythical creatures that combine the physical characteristics of crocodiles, lions, humans, horses, water buffaloes and other animals. Their fierce faces appear as protective talismans on a variety of objects, including houses, containers for magical potions and charms, and sarcophagi.
This pair of grotesque mask-like singa, with dramatic bulging eyes and elongated tongues, once decorated the ends of the long beams that support the traditional Toba Batak house with its distinctive curved roof and projecting gables. The geometric designs painted and carved onto the sculptures mirror the style of ornamentation found on the beams and walls of Toba Batak dwellings. The singa provide spiritual protection for the house, warding off disease, death and calamity, and bringing good fortune to its inhabitants.


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it is exactly what i have wanted for more than 25 years! cannot wait to get it installed. it is a scott creek, the round kind that is so easy to clean compared to the square ones.........................now i just need a copy of The Extruder Book by Daryl E Baird. not in my library or the one in the next county or ...................... they are checking for one in any library in the state of wv now.
Rejoice With Me For I Have A New Extruder!
Posted 29 July 2013 - 04:24 PM
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Posted 29 July 2013 - 04:26 PM
I have an old one thats been modified to fit a brent cap.
I'm sure you will kile it. Its a great handle machine.
Posted 29 July 2013 - 05:27 PM
thanks, mark, i am sure i will kile it. everything is going to be different now.
Posted 29 July 2013 - 06:18 PM
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Enjoy discovering all it has to offer.
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Posted 29 July 2013 - 09:32 PM
I'm so happy for you. I have a book called Extruded Ceramics; I'll have to see if I can find a copy of The Extruder Book you mentioned.
Posted 29 July 2013 - 09:53 PM
thanks all, Love the dogs! who is the cartoonist who does dogs like that? my dog has a few more black spots and draggy ears. ah....far side.
cant wait to get it installed. got to find the right spot, any suggestions from someone who has one?
Posted 29 July 2013 - 10:08 PM
I had a round one, in my first classroom. I loved the thing. It was easy to clean, had a nice long tube and I like the notched ladder system, for the plunger, compared to the yoke system of others.
Posted 29 July 2013 - 10:46 PM
DO place it on a beam. In fact I screwed a 2x6 to my wall beams with lag screws and then attached the extruder to the 2x6. Doing that sets it out from the wall just a bit and (again) according to the books helps if you ever want to add an expansion box to it.
I LOVE my extruder and was able to extrude 18 hollow test tubes on my first try. Even with adding the grooves and sprigs to each one like I do for testing glaze reactions to texture it only took me an hour to do all 18 including cleaning them up a bit before letting them dry. I read in the books that doing hollow extrusions is the hardest but I had no trouble getting good results my first try out its a really easy system to use. Cleaning the extruder was easy too just reached in and wiped out the aluminum tube with a sponge and rinsed off the plates in the sink.
Next I want to try the biggest hollow plate and see if I can make some round boxes. I also want to try using it to make coils but not sure if I have any plates with small enough holes for doing decent coils though I do have a couple blank plates just not sure how to go about drilling through steel.
Gee I'm so excited you got an extruder!
Posted 30 July 2013 - 12:36 AM
"Saving just one dog won't change the world, but it surely will change the world for that one dog."
Posted 30 July 2013 - 08:01 AM
Let us know how it works for you, I'm trying to decide whether to rebuild my home made one or buy a new one. Your post reminded me I left it full of clay last week, better clean it. Denice
Posted 30 July 2013 - 08:13 AM
Extruders are so much fun, i have two, a old Randall and a Big Blue. I make dies from used acrylic cutting boards, much easier to cut than steel. I also make animals from the tube forms!
Posted 30 July 2013 - 09:14 AM
thank you, all. placement is the big thing now, with all that is already in my studio, fitting it in will be the hard part. the really solid wall covered in 3/4 inch plywood was originally the brick back wall of the house. it is taken up with glaze ingredient storage tubs.
it came with the hollow dies. i will be able to make a variety of shapes for solid dies from the dollar store plastic cutting boards thanks, minspargal, or the 1/4 inch thick pieces of plastic i already have.
pug, you can drill holes in the corners (round corners) to make coils. after trying some square extruders in other places and struggling to pull the handle down, i was told that having an extra hole allows the clay to go through the main hole more easily. a relief valve sort of effect. (or maybe one of chris' outrageous untruths.) the right size "relief hole" becomes your coil. talk to marcia about coils from extrusions.
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Posted 31 July 2013 - 06:55 AM
I am interested in using the old cutting boards for making more dies. I have collected several but have not gotten around to trying it. Is there any secret to not having them melt while drilling? or is just going slow good enough?
Posted 31 July 2013 - 07:18 AM
Use a drill bit for plastics and drill a bit and stop and drill some more until it's gone through the board. Never had any problem with melting. I have one die with 5 holes so i can do a whole bag of coils in no time at all.
Posted 31 July 2013 - 08:47 AM
anyone else with die making suggestions? i have a butterdish made by LuAnne Cory in 1993 when she lived in Va. it is beautiful and has a bottom that is grooved with a flat top and slight edges. once it was flattened in the middle, she treated the ends like a pulled handle, thinning and flattening a ribbon of clay that is curled up into a handle at each end. graceful elegance. i wish she had not moved away.
Posted 31 July 2013 - 08:58 AM
anyone else with die making suggestions? i have a butterdish made by LuAnne Cory in 1993 when she lived in Va. it is beautiful and has a bottom that is grooved with a flat top and slight edges. once it was flattened in the middle, she treated the ends like a pulled handle, thinning and flattening a ribbon of clay that is curled up into a handle at each end. graceful elegance. i wish she had not moved away.
If you are doing some glaze testing, you can make an "L-Shaped" die, to make standing test tiles. When I was in college, some of the students in a glaze calc. class figured this out. Prior to the die, they had to spend time throwing small vessels, and cutting them into sections, to achieve the same effect.
Posted 31 July 2013 - 09:59 AM
Rather than mounting my extruder to a wall or post, I mounted it to a 2 x 6 pine board cut to a length that works in my basement studio overhead. I have two Harbor Freight ratchet bar clamp/spreaders that I use to temporarily attach the mounting board to my workbench. After use the extruder and board can be stored elsewhere. This allows the option of extruding anywhere the board can be clamped as well.
I was concerned that the pressure from extruding might tend to loosen the clamp, bend the board, or otherwise make the temporary clamping unstable, but it has worked very well with no issues. I mounted the barrel at a height such that I can look into it on tip toes (I am right at 6 feet in height), which has been a good height for extruding a long tube, while still being able to inspect and clean the barrel. I use a Scotch brand combo sponge/scrubby that just fits into the 4-inch nominal barrel to clean the clay out. I reach up into the barrel from below and inspect my cleaning from above, which works well. The only issue I have is that I have to make sure to line the handle up in between floor joists when the barrel is full to allow a full pull on the handle.
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Get Ready for Muppet Mania
Get ready for a Muppets onslaught beginning right about now.
Stage two is the opening of a new Muppets movie, which will arrive in theaters around Thanksgiving. The teasers are terrific ("The Fuzzy Pack is Backy Back!") and, like past screen productions (it's been 12 years since the last Muppets movie), it's loaded with big-name cameos.
First, however, is stage one, which is marked by the arrival of Muppets: The Green Album, an all-star compilation of classic material associated with the puppet characters. You've got OK Go kicking things off with the "Muppet Show Theme Song," followed by the likes of Weezer, My Morning Jacket and Rachael Yamagata putting their spin on some songs that have demonstrated genuine staying power.
"Rainbow Connection" has been around for more than 40 years now and "Bein' Green" was introduced more than three decades back. Kermit the Frog couldn't have imagined he was paving the way for reinterpretations by everyone from Ray Charles to Justin Timberlake.
The adventurous artists on The Green Album find a winning balance by bringing new mindsets to the material with proper reverence. After all, they, like just about everyone else under the age of 60, grew up with Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo and the gang.
It takes brave artists to follow in such mighty webbed footsteps.
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Description Green-dark green with white line along upper jaw. Yellowish flecks on back. Toe pads large.
Dimensions 2.2-4.1cm. (7/8-1 5/8")
Voice Nasal trill used as a mating call. Grunting quack before rainfall.
Breeding March-October in the south. April-August in north. Breeds among vegetation. Eggs attached to underwater vegetation at waters edge.
Habitat Temperate forests, woodland near water.
Range Texas to Virginia.
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Registration open for Volunteer Day, Nov. 8
Posted November 5, 2003; 10:10 a.m.
Registration is now open for Campus Volunteer Day, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.
Campus Volunteer Day allows Princeton students, faculty and staff to reach out beyond campus by participating in outdoor service projects in the nearby community. This year's projects will include cleaning and restoring local canals, parks and trails.
Anyone interested in participating can view a list of projects and register online .
The day will begin with free breakfast and T-shirts at 9 a.m. on the A level of the Frist Campus Center. Buses will depart from Frist to the volunteer sites at 9:30 a.m.
Campus Volunteer Day is sponsored by Community House, Outdoor Action, the Pace Center for Community Service, the Student Volunteers Council, the Undergraduate Student Government, the Frist Campus Center and New Jersey Community Water Watch.
For more information, contact Community House at (609) 258-6136.
Contact: Eric Quinones (609) 258-3601


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This is a simple Tea Box made from Curly Maple and African Coral wood. I make more boxes than I do turkey calls so I wanted to share one of them with you. The boxes that I make are tea boxes, jewelry boxes, humidors, mens valet boxes, keep sake boxes and special turkey call boxes for my matched sets. Pictures of one of those coming soon.
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Getting to Muhlenberg is easy. We're just a short drive from I-78, the PA Turnpike (I-476), US Rt. 22, and the nearest airport.
Get directions from Google Maps here.
Get Here By Car
Follow Interstate 78 (east-west), Interstate 476 (Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike), or U.S. Route 22 to Allentown, getting off at Cedar Crest Boulevard.
From Route 22, take Cedar Crest Boulevard exit south (left) to third traffic light, take a left on Chew Street, and follow Chew Street about one mile to the campus.
From I-78, take the Cedar Crest Boulevard exit north (right) and go six traffic lights. Take a right onto Chew Street and follow Chew Street about one mile to the campus.
The College is at 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, between 23rd and 26th Streets.
See detailed driving directions and map.
Get Here By Air
Lehigh Valley International Airport is located 15 minutes by car from the Muhlenberg campus. The airport is served by American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, United and US Airways, as well as their "express" extensions. For more information, check the LVIA website or call 800-FLY-LVIA (800-359-5842).
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Bieber, Greyhound, and Trans-Bridge Lines have depot facilities in Allentown. Bus service runs from New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., northern and western Pennsylvania, and most major cities.
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I'm tardy mentioning that this is the time of year when we commemorate the day that the U.S. descended into abject cowardice, bombing thousands who had nothing to do with the event, and shredding every hard-won liberty gifted to us by our forefathers. The number of individuals killed in that event was about equal to the number who died the previous week, and that week, and each week since, of lung cancer. The individuals personally responsible for those drawn-out, painful deaths walk around loose to this day.
On the up side, this was the first Monday in several weeks that Firefox hadn't crashed over the weekend while I was away. I guess this means 6.0.4 is better than 6.0.2.
I re-implemented rsync globbing recently. I think my code is probably better than Tridge's, but I haven't looked yet.


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Great subject and vantage point. And it's really good to see you pushing for a multi-gigapixel image. However, may I suggest that you go for a little more overlap between adjacent photos (I try for 30-50%). This will help you get rid of the vignetting in the future, though, of course, it also means shooting more images to cover the same area. I'm eager to see more from your neck of the woods. It's a shame Ebbets Field isn't there anymore. Maybe you could shoot the Mets new digs at Citi Field? Good luck and Happy GigaPanning!
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ean Little's most recent book, The Sweetest one of all, is a picture book for very young children and their parents. In it, barnyard animal babies ask their mothers who they are and each of them is told that he or she is the sweetest one of all. The book ends with a human mother telling her little one the same thing. And getting a loving hug in response. The playful text should continue to delight both children and adults even after many readings.
The colourful illustrations by Marisol Sarrazin are endearing and filled with lively detail. Each will hold small readers spellbound.
I Can Read Books Series, Harper, 2001, 64 Pages
Poor Emma! She has it all planned. Her parents are adopting a four year old boy named Max. Emma is convinced he'll be little and sweet, and it will be wonderful having a brother. When she tells her friend Sally that Max is coming to visit, Sally warns her that little brothers can be pests. Emma won't listen. Her expectations take a blow from reality when Max comes to visit. He isn't little and he isn't friendly. Max tells Emma the cookies she made him are "yucky." When Emma's friend Sally comes over, Max plays with Sally and her little brother, Josh. When Max leaves, he doesn't even say good-bye to Emma.
In spite of reassurance from her parents, Emma feels hurt; Max doesn't like her or her cookies and likes Sally best. In fact, Emma is mad, shouting, "...I don't need a brother. Brothers are nothing but pests!" Things do not improve when Max comes for the weekend. He wants to play with Sally and calls Emma "Yucky Emma." Max misses his foster mother, Jane, and cries for her.
As Emma sees how unhappy Max is, she begins to soften towards him. Reassurance from her parents as to their love for her helps. However, when Max moves in, he is still belligerent towards Emma and keeps calling her "Yucky Emma." Emma realizes that Sally was right; sometimes a brother can be a pest. When Max runs away after accidentally breaking her doll, Emma realizes how much she cares for him. When Emma finally finds Max, her little brother realizes he can depend on her when he needs help. When Sally congratulates "Yucky Emma" for finding Max, Max corrects her, saying, "Emma isn't yucky. She's my sister."
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Vick's Quad, Locked #3 Seed, Kolb & JV vs. Cowboys
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Michael Vick's quad injury is serious enough that he might not be healthy enough to play Sunday – even if head coach Andy Reid wanted him to. It's safe to say Reid doesn't want him to. More than likely, Kevin Kolb and the "JV Squad" will see significant playing time in the season finale against the Dallas Cowboys. "I'm not sure he could get back," Reid said. Reid h...


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Go button closer to the search box
The "Go" button needs to be closer to the search box/'Find by tag(s)' on the wish list. It is counter-intuitive to treat the whole section on the right side as one unit and expect users after they enter a search/filtering term to look all the way down and hit 'Go".
Not to mention that I personally usually hit only the enter key and expect the search to be executed. That, however, does not work on the wish list either – it turns a filter parameter into a tag


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Benzoin is a natural ingredient found in many types of skin care and beauty products. In its raw state, benzoin is a brown solid that with a slightly rigid or bumpy texture and has no noticeable shine. The ingredient can be called by a wide variety of names, including benzoin resin, gum benzoin and gum benjamin. It should not be confused with a chemical that is called also known as benzoin, which is used to protect plastics and other materials from sunlight. Although their names are the same, the substances have completely different chemical formulas.
The skin care ingredient benzoin is a product of the Styrax benzoin tree. This species is found in Southeast Asia, particularly on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java. The tree grows to be no more than 40 feet tall and is found in abundance in the region. Benzoin is produced from trees that are at least seven years old.
To make benzoin, a process known as distillation is often used. During distillation, the bark of the Styrax benzoin tree is boiled in water inside of a special container. The boiling creates a vapor that is rich in benzoin. The vapor quickly rises to the top of the distillation apparatus, where it travels through a series of tubes. The temperature inside of these tubes is much lower than the temperature in the boiling chamber, and as a result, the vapor condenses or becomes a liquid.
Often, once benzoin has been isolated from the bark of the Styrax benzoin tree, it is mixed with alcohol and left in a liquid form. This formulation of benzoin is commonly referred to as tincture of benzoin. The ingredient can also be mixed with a carrier oil to form benzoin oil. In some cases, the temperature of benzoin is dropped even more, so that the material forms the solid benzoin resin.
The use of benzoin in skin care can be traced to ancient China. There, the ingredient was used to promote the flow of energy and blood through the body. Modern day alternative medical practitioners who utilize Chinese herbs often recommend benzoin for the treatment of conditions that affect the heart, liver and spleen. In Chinese medicine, the ingredient is referred to as an xi xiang.
Historical records show that benzoin was used in Europe as a skin care remedy at least as early as the 19th century. Writings exist that detail ways to combine tincture of benzoin resin with rosewater for use as a facial mask and cleanser to beautify and brighten the complexion. Early skin care books and guides dating to the time period also recommend mixing benzoin with glycerin to treat chapping on the hands.
The use of benzoin resin for treating chapped hands and irritated skin in general continues to this day. Benzoin is often included in body and hand lotions and has a softening effect upon the skin, particularly when combined with a rich moisturizing ingredient, such as shea butter. The healing, soothing properties of benzoin have also led to its inclusion in creams and ointments used to treat nipple irritation in nursing mothers.
In addition to its soothing properties, benzoin is also a mild antibacterial, meaning that it eliminates infection-causing bacteria from the surface of the skin. Benzoin can be used in disinfectant topical creams and ointments as well as in naturally based antibacterial soaps. When applied before an adhesive bandage, benzoin reduces the risk for sensitivity to the adhesive and cuts down on redness and swelling. Some doctors also spray benzoin onto the skin before applying a cast to help minimize skin irritation.
Benzoin is widely used in skin care and beauty products because of its scent. The natural fragrance of benzoin is similar to vanilla, making it a common addition to vanilla-scented bath and body products. The ingredient is also widely used in perfumes and body sprays. Many types of incense used in homes and in religious services contain benzoin.
Practitioners of aromatherapy often tout benzoin's ability to alleviate stress and promote relaxation. As an aromatherapeutic treatment, benzoin oil can be used in a room diffuser or added to bathwater. The oil can also be applied directly to the skin for use as a massage oil.


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If all 47 million food stamp recipients had voted, they would have accounted for 75% of Obama's 62 million votes.
That doesn't begin to consider all of the other entitlement programs out there.
If all 47 million food stamp recipients had voted, they would have accounted for 75% of Obama's 62 million votes.
That doesn't begin to consider all of the other entitlement programs out there.
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All success belongs to the dog, all failure to the trainer.
New figures for unemployment claims, out today, are up 78,000. That's a BIG jump over the last report. While CA had been up to date on reporting, OR and HI were not, so that accounted for part of the jump. (The previous report "estimated" what OR and HI would be). NJ applications are up a lot for the newest report. One things it would be as a result of Sandy ... but NY applications are not as dramatically higher. But the highest number of new applications are for ... OH and PA. With the war on coal just beginning, I'd expect that will continue to get worse. Makes you begin to wonder about the timing on this info, doesn't it?
New figures out now indicate contraction of manufacturing in October ... including the auto industry.
Guess OH voters really did get suckered. PA has been a blue state for a long time, so not as surprising. Maybe the results of the war on coal will get their attention next time? And maybe the EPA will have begun leaning on fracking as well.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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Your right...it is hard to win against stupidity.
Romney said today that he lost because Obama bought the election. Last time I got a count the man raised more moneyu than Obama so it clearly was not for sale. Albeit the republicans thought it was.
So this post is trying to say that people turned out and voted for him for foodstamps.....but someone will rebut this with more stupidity....just wait


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Mousasi Upsets Kyotaro
- Written by Dave Walsh
In one of the 2 K-1 rules fights at Dynamite!! 2010, Dream fighter Gegard Mousasi improved his K-1 record to a perfect 2-0 with an upset win over Kyotaro. The K-1 Heavyweight champion came into the fight looking to avenge fellow K-1 fighter Musashi's loss to Gegard in 2008, but instead found himself added to Mousasi's mantle.
The first round was close, with both Kyotaro effectively using his superior skills to keep Mousasi at bay. But in the 2nd, Kyotaro slowed down and Mousasi caught him, scoring a knockdown that had Kyotaro doing the proverbial chicken dance. It looked like Mousasi would stop him in the 2nd, but Kyotaro survived until the final bell. The decision was academic, as Mousasi easily claimed the victory on the judges' scorecards.
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MARY ELLEN CLARK, STEPHANIE MORSE, AND C.J. WEINMAN were among a group of 70 attorneys and judges who convened at the First District Court of Appeal for a half-day workshop by the Tallahassee Women Lawyers, designed to encourage diverse applicants for Bar committee appointments in the next year. The event's purpose was to inform attendees about their options, the qualifications and experience levels best suited for available positions, and the best way to get a foot in the door for those interested in Bar service. TWL plans to track the number of attendees who apply and receive appointments. The program was funded through a Diversity Leadership Grant provided by The Florida Bar.
Bar's diversity grants promote inclusion
By Megan E. Davis
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The Florida Bar's Special Committee on Diversity and Inclusion is encouraging local bar associations to apply for grant funding for programs promoting diversity.
The grant program is meant to celebrate and promote awareness of various types of diversity, said Arnell Bryant-Willis, diversity initiatives manager for the Bar.
"Inclusion means areas of practice, gender, race, individuals with disabilities, age, geography, religion, and sexual orientation," Bryant-Willis said. "It involves a component that services and fosters awareness in the general community and the legal community."
In its third year, the grant program awards a total of $50,000 annually to local bar associations. To date, it has funded more than 70 projects, including 18 so far this fiscal year.
The grant's guidelines are purposely open-ended to allow voluntary bars to make creative proposals.
"We're not telling them what they need to do or how," Bryant-Willis said. "That's left up to the organization. Because of the differences in the programs, they are fitting the Inclusion Path to Unity initiative for the Bar in a very comprehensive way."
Programs have provided education for lawyers and the general public, increased mentorship, and provided avenues for becoming involved.
Tallahassee Women Lawyers
In January, Tallahassee Women Lawyers hosted a half-day workshop to encourage diverse applicants for the Bar's committee appointments in the next year.
Current Bar leaders helped attendees learn about various positions and qualifications.
"While the group has had a longtime active network to encourage credentialed members to apply for positions and support those applications, this is the first event held with the purpose of shepherding applicants through the process," said Jennifer Shoaf Richardson, secretary of Tallahassee Women Lawyers.
Both Bar President Gwynne Young and President-elect Gene Pettis spoke about their personal experiences and visions for diversity throughout the Bar's committees.
Several Bar leaders participated in a panel discussion and attendees were invited to breakout sessions on such topics as Specialty Service Opportunities, Taking Your Involvement to the Next Level, and Getting Your Feet Wet — For Young Lawyers.
Hillsborough Bar
In the fall, the Hillsborough County Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division received funding for its Before the Law Was Equal website and community education project.
The group interviewed prominent judges and lawyers who have made significant contributions to the diversity of the local legal community to create video oral histories.
The young lawyers also held a panel discussion on the segregation that existed in the legal community in the past and types of discrimination that still exist.
The YLD hopes to showcase the project at the Tampa Bay History Museum. The materials will also be available online.
Sarasota Bar
The grant program also funded Pipeline Project: Booker High School, proposed by the Sarasota County Bar Association. Judges and lawyers volunteered to speak, teach, and provide instructional services to minority students at Booker High School with an interest in the legal profession.
Voluntary bar associations may receive up to $1,500 individually, and two or more associations may jointly receive up to $3,000 for programs benefiting their members and the public.
Applications are due to the special committee by 5 p.m., Monday, February 18. Proposed projects must be completed before the end of the Bar's fiscal year on June 30.
"We're excited this gives voluntary bars an opportunity to reach out and provide service to the community," Bryant-Willis said.
For more information about the grant program, click on the member services tab on the Bar's website at www.floridabar.org.
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MKTG-4313 Promotional Strategies
An introduction to the various communication channels available for the spread of promotional information about goods, services and ideas to prospects. The course gives special attention to behavioral considerations and places particular emphasis upon the duties of marketing managers in planning, implementing, and controlling a program of promotional communication. This course is normally offered in the spring semester.


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Morgan awarded national fellowship
Posted June 15, 2001; 11:04 a.m.
John Morgan, assistant professor of economics and public affairs, is one of 12 scholars awarded a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship for the 2001-02 academic year.
The fellowships provide junior scholars with a year free from teaching to advance their careers. The fellows work on an original research project at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Morgan's research topic is "The Art of Conversation: How the Flow of Information in Organizations Affects the Quality of Decision Making and Expert Advice."
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So, I just logged into MySpace and I see "Remembering DJ AM" .. wait – WHAT!? So, of course I head to PerezHilton.com and see that sure enough, DJ AM has indeed passed away. So sad! He was only 36 and had his whole life ahead of him!
Perez posted on his site that he believed the death might have had something to do with the plane crash DJ AM was recently in (along with Travis Barker of Blink-182); like he never got over it …. Ugh – was there no one close to him that could see he was having trouble?
According to the New York Post – DJ AM was found in a Manhattan apartment yesterday and was pronounced dead at the scene. There was also drug paraphernalia with him. SO SAD!
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Brightest Lights
Winners of the "Brightest Lights" GigaPan Photo Competition are:
1st Place: Jason Buchheim - The Green Flash at the last moment of the setting sun
2nd Place: Issam Kanafani - Kaaba
3rd Place: Jim Trotter - City garden with parts
Thank you to everyone who participated. View all the submissions below!
Competition Entries:
voting ends February 19, 2013, 12:00AM
- Entry Name: Yes, Virginia --- has some Christmas lights by T. E. Smith-Lamothe
This residence near Burgess, Virginia on State highway #200 is famous in the region for its colourful and bright light display. The lights are a collection of every Yuletide theme imaginable and seems to grow larger every passing year.
- Entry Name: Granville Slopes by Ronnie Miranda
Granville Slopes is a 10 block area located between the Burrard Bridge (left) and Granville Bridge (right), sloping down from Pacific Avenue to the False Creek waterfront. Granville Slopes is emerging as one of Vancouver's highest density residential neighborhoods.
- Entry Name: Dogpatch Night View, San Francisco CA by Chris Gagne
A 360° nighttime pano from a rooftop in San Francisco's historic Dogpatch District, with views of Oakland, downtown SF, the Bay Bridge, the Port of SF, planes landing at SFO, and more. What neat things can you spot? Taken with a Canon 5D Mk II, 70-200mm f2.8 USM IS L II, a 2x extender. Exposed for 2" at f10. 540 shots...
- Entry Name: Ladera nocturna Navidad by Fotógrafo José Alfredo Betancur
Foto realizada en Medellín, Colombia. Sector centro oriente de la ciudad, comuna 8. Imágen tomada desde piso 15 de edificio en contrucción. Está compuesta opr 117 fotografías. Es un sector popular con escases de vías públicas y su origen proviene de la invasión de lotes en épocas de violenecia desde p...
- Entry Name: Millennium Park's Jay Pritzker Pavilion by Dror Yaron
The Jay Pritzker Pavilion stands 120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports the sound system, which spans the 4,000 fixed seats and the Great Lawn, which accommodates ...
- Entry Name: Buda Fortress / Budai Vár by Illes Tibor
Night panorama made by hand(!!)
- Entry Name: City garden with parts by Jim Trotter
- Entry Name: New York New York by Markus Iofcea
New York New York casino restort in Las Vegas
- Entry Name: Janus Laser by John Toeppen
Janus is a high power flashlamp pumped solid state laser used to explore high energy physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Janus is a dual beam Nd:YAG laser. Each beam is independent and capable of 1 kJ at 1.053 μm with pulse lengths from about 1 ns to 20 ns High brightness is achieved by converti...
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Umm Qasr aid effort 'a shambles' (BBC News)
Quote: One young man angrily said to me: "You support us when the TV cameras and newspapers are here, to show the world you like us.
"When they have gone you change. You have changed Saddam for another kind of imperialism."
Perhaps because the picture they paint of the US and UK is almost exclusively one of the imperialist occupation forces not wanted by the people.
I've kept from discussing the war for a long time because I simply (unfortunately) don't have the time to follow it up. But this lack of journalistic integrity shown by most of the UK and US press is simply too ugly to stay silent on.
Last week it was Iraqi's in Jordan that wanted to go back to fight for Saddam - according to Jordian authorities some 5000 are estimated to have gone back to Iraq, and a Jordanian border guard was apparently visibily happy that he could tell western media that Iraqi's are a proud people that will fight for their homeland.
It was also citizens in Baghdad, chanting anti US slogans and telling how, while they're against Saddam (most of them anyway), they saw the US and UK as just as bad - or even worse. One of the sentiments expressed was that Saddam has been working with the UN for the last 12 years, and despite that the US and UK rewarded them with 12 years of sanctions bringing the country to it's knees and follow up with a war.
Today it is this article, in the conservative, often hawkish, Norwegian newspaper "Aftenposten". They were also my source of the article on the Iraqi's returning from Jordan.
For those that dont read Norwegian, here's a few selected quotes. The occasion was the Kuwaiti Red Crescent handing out food parcels in Safwan. Foreign journalists were brought in in order to show the world how grateful the Iraqis would be... The title of the article is "Iraqis need water, got food".
"They smile and wave, but the words they greet us with are expletives so fould that our interpreter would prefer not to translate it. And the picture of Saddam that greeted the entrance to the city is gone. It's not the citizens, but the Americans who removed it."
"We don't need this food. We have food at home. But we need water. We had water, in a 40km long pipeline from Kor Al-Zunker. But last Friday, when the Amnerican helicopters came, the pipeline was bombed. Our electricity supply and phone exchange too. Now we stand here without water, says 50 year old Mohammed Jasem"
"Everyone we talk to among them says the same: We need water, not food. They are also united in another question: Their condemnation of the war. Of Americans and Brits, of bombs, dismemberment and abuse.
- Many here don't like Saddam Hussein, and would love to get rid of him. But this war isn't the answer. We don't trust Americans. We rose up against Saddam last time, in 1991, but the Americans betrayed us, Mohammed says."
"- Why should 25 million people suffer just because they want to get rid of one person, Mohammed asks" [on the question of it isn't a good thing that US and UK are now trying to get rid of Saddam]
"The situation in Safwan is tense. People are afraid of Saddams agents, and they fear Brits and Americans.
- They don't let us get out of here. All roads out of this area is closed. We can't contact our relatives, says 19 year old Kassim.
- We aren't allowed to bury the fallen Iraqi soliders out on the hillside their, either. Now they're getting eaten by dogs.
They defend Saddam here in Safwan:
- He's at least an Arab, and Iraqi. This is our country, we don't want the Americans here, says the people around Kassim."
"People are also angry about the good distribution, that it happens this way , on the side of a dusty road.
- We have a community building here. Why can't they distribute the food there? Why do it in this unworthy way? We're an old civilization, a people with a rich culture. Now they are killing our brothers. The people who fight against the USA are brave and noble. If they'd had as good weapons and planes as the Americans, it wouldn't be foreigners who controlled us.
- We don't like Saddam, Mohammed continues, but we're Iraqis, we're Arabs. And in this region, are there anyone that likes their government at all, he asks rhetorically.
- But don't you want democracy?
- Democracy is created by the people, not by the Americans. Now they only give Saddam an opportunity to destroy the country. Everyone here is against the war.
- USA says this is a war against Saddam, not against the Iraqi people?
- Whatever, but it is the Iraqi people who gets bombed."
We did catch the speeches by Ken Livingston (mayor of London) and Rev. Jesse Jackson, though. Especially Jesse Jackson was incredible. I'm an atheist, so his more religious comments didn't exactly impress me much, but his drive and passion, and his ability to get the masses going was immense.
The latest figures from the police as I'm writing this indicate more than 750.000 demonstrators, some say up to 2 million. Regardless who you believe, it was the largest demonstration of any kind in UK history, dwarfing even the celebrations after the end of World War II apparently.
And it wasn't the only place in the UK where people demonstrated.
To put this in perspective: If you believe the police, almost 1.5% of the population of the UK was on the streets of London today, marking their disgust for Tony Blair and George Bush.
And Tony Blair dare to continue to fight for a war? How dare he argue for a war that the people who elected him, who he is supposed to serve, so strongly has shown they do not want?
It showns clearly that he needs a lesson in democracy.
When you can draw a crowd that large, and when you can draw loud cheers by calling for the overthrow of the government if he don't change his mind (as at least one speaker did), it is time for the government to think things over very carefully.
I've never demonstrated outside of a few May first demonstrations when I was younger, even when I was politically active for a few years. This drew me out. My fiancee has never demonstrated before. This drew her out. We saw thousands of pensioneers, kids, people of all races, people in expensive coats and suits and people in cheap clothes, people of all kinds. People you'd normally never see at a demonstration side by side Socialist Worker Party people and other "professional" radical demonstrators.
It's a serious wake up call when pensioners, students, working people go to the streets in such large numbers.
These are people that are hard to draw out. These are people that stay away from elections in droves because they don't see it as important. These are people who'd rather stay inside, in front of the TV than go out in the could February wheather.
Yet they came. And they chanted anti war slogans. And they carried slogans.
And Blair still ignore us. How dare he defy the will of the people he serve?
The goal is to be the first registrar targetted entirely at ordinary people as opposed to business customers. It's going to be a tough thing to do, since we're breaking new ground in marketing domains and e-mail forwarding.
Our previous project, Nameplanet, did prove though, that there's a market for "vanity addresses" or simpler addresses on the form "email@example.com" (in Nameplanet's case by registering lastnames on tons of TLDs, in Personal Names case all on ".name").
Anyway, it's been a though few months, and it will likely be lots of work ironing the kinds out of the system for a while...
Ok, so maybe I'll take a break from it for now, and try not to be a total geek today...
It's hard when you do software development for a living, and stick with it's because you think it's almost more fun than the stuff you do in your spare time
I DO actually have other interests as well. Maybe I'll post some of my poems one of these days (allthough then I'll probably scare the few of you actually reading this away with overly soppy and/or depressive stuff - I rarely write when I'm not in the process of falling in love with someone or insanely depressed, usually because of rejection(1)).
London can be such a depressing city. It's been raining on again off again all day, the traffic is horrible, the air disgusting... Been thinking off moving out of the city for a while, but will probably wait until next May when our lease expires.
Property prices here are just horrible now. I'm used to Norwegian levels, and thought that was ridiculous, but come on, 200.000 pounds is now the average cost of flats and houses sold in London...
It never seizes to amaze me how far up the prices can go here withouth a significant increase in building projects (except for Docklands, which seems to be mostly luxury complexes anyway, due to its proximity to the City).
Ah well, guess we'll get something slightly outside town.
(1) But don't feel sorry for me about the rejection bit, I'm engaged to a woman I met more than two years ago, so feel sorry about my lost career as a poet instead, as I'm now too happy about things to write anything truly good - my depressive poems were always my best
When a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is there to listen, does it make a sound? In the the pseudo-random or algorithmicly generated world, the answer should be no, because the tree doesn't fall. It only falls if someone is there, or when someone arrives and "observes" the past.
The point is this: If your world is generated algorithmically in a way that allow you to "visit" any point in space and time, then why waste computing power calculating something that isn't observed? If you need the information later (say your game has a "history book" somewhere, you can calculate it then).
Notice that "observed" here is a fairly wide term. Someone "observe" an event if they are directly affected by it, for instance because they're there, and watching, but they also observe it if they see the effects indirectly: They get the news relayed etc.
So events are only generated if observed. How do you determine if they would be observed?
Thats where viewpoints come in. You generate events based on viewpoints. Viewpoints are points in space and time. To generate events, you would take a set of viewpoints and move them through time, calculating changes in the world according to the algorithms you want to use, and use a rule set to emit events according to those changes.
A rule might say that a government change from democracy to military dictatorship happens only with the use of military power, so such a change will emit a set of events corresponding to a military takeover.
What about details?
In the real world, think about what you know, and how it corresponds to level of detail. You can likely see the room around you, and describe objects in it in detail, and conversations in it as well. You may hear noises from outside. You may see news on TV, or in a local newspaper. News about your local area may include details about the shop around the corner, but from other countries you only get events of importance or interest to a larger audience: Major political events, like an election, disasters and so on.
In other words, the level of detail drops of dramatically with distance, and this is important, since otherwise you'd be swamped.
Translated to a game, that would mean that you use the viewpoints not only to decide what parts of the world to actually calculate, but also what level of details the events should have. There's no reason to simulate the full level of details about a military coup on a planet lightyears away. It might be noted in the news, if the planet is important, or the coup bloody enough, but thats it.
But an attack on the planet the viewpoint is on would be noteworthy, and the event generator would need to expand, both by increasing the resolution of advances in time - smaller changes to the timeline must be done, and more events emitted -, but also by splitting events into stream of events, and handling deviations if someone interfere. It might include simulating troop movements, or introducing AIs to simulate individual objects, as well as generating more meaningful news.
A viewpoint can essentially be there for anything from passively observing the world, to an AI player, to a human player, or anything else that require information about the world at a time period at a given point in space.
Pseudo-random numbers are numbers that are being generated with some algorithm that makes it possible to repeat the sequence if you seed the generation algorithm with the same value as you used initially, but that still seem to be random in that it is incredibly hard to predict the sequence without knowing the algorithm, and that have statistical properties that closely mirror random numbers.
Perhaps the most notable example of use of pseudo random numbers is Elite. (If you've never played Elite, shame on you, and you have no excuse, since there's an open source remake).
Elite is almost entirely based around pseudo random numbers: The universes are generated by seeding a random number generator with a fixed value. The planet names, political and economical data are generated by seeding the random number generator with a seed extracted from the random number generator with the universe seed.
Change the universe seed, and the game changes, completely.
Thats what allowed the original Elite to run on machines like the C64, the BBC, and a ton of others - contrary to many modern games, they didn't have to store ANY data about the planets, only a few bytes for the universe seed and a small set of functions to generate the code.
More modern examples of pseudo random numbers in computer games is Civilization and all it's descendants, Sim City and it's descendants and many other map based games.
However randomness could be used so much further. Games like civilization only create a basis for the further game, then AIs take over. Elite conceptually went much further, by basing the entire structure of the universe, including it's civilizations, on randomness, allthough it manifested itself in the game rather crudely (it didn't really affect you that the planet you visited was inhabited by green felines)
The main appeal of pseudo random numbers, or for that matter any formula or algorithm that can reasonably quickly generate unpredictable but repeatable sequences is that it allows you to represent a much larger world than you could ever hope to design or store on the users system. It also allow you represent a world with much larger amount of detail than would otherwise be practical.
It's worth noting that pseudo random numbers is usually only used to seed specialized generation algorithms for generating various part of the world.
For a world that is so large and complex, it makes sense that you don't need to model all events via AI's either. Most complex games, including Civilization for instance, hide a lot of what is going on from you. In most Civilization style games, you can only see what's going on around your own units, and even then there might be further restrictions on what you see.
In Elite, you only see whats going on immediately around your ship.
These restrictions play right into your hand if you want to use a randomly generated world.
Many of the benefits of randomness go straight out the window if you need to keep track of changes to account for developments in the world. However, in many types of games you don't need to most of the time.
Take an Elite style game, for instance, and add detail: Government types changes, military control and dominance fluctuates, etc. For almost any kind of change, you can put together an equation that give fluctuations over time that are reasonable. Add a few elements to the equation where you can affect it by random variables, and you have a model for generating a world where you can generate not only every position in space, but also in time.
Depending on the level of detail you want, you can go in at an arbitrary time and an arbitrary point in space, and see roughly what went on (in a newspaper headline type of way - details of events, such as how a ship navigates, will likely seem weird to a human player).
Now you have a static world that can be regenerated from a small string of numbers. But what about the player and non player AIs? Instead of recording everything that happens, you can calculate most of it, and whenever a player does something, you store information about deviations from the randomly generated world.
Imagine that you as a player in a space strategy game, destroy a ship. The ship was part of a military fleet trying to conquer a world. As a result of your action, the fleet loses its advantage, and the game doesn't manage to compensate by weakening the opposition quickly enough (without making it too obvious for the player), so the invasion fails, and the timeline doesn't work out anymore.
What should the game do? Record a deviation, and determine a target time for returning to the timeline. The world is under government X instead of Y, but some time over time T, the game will create events that will bring things back to where it should be.
As long as it's done smoothly enough, the players won't notice. This model also has the advantage that if the player stays close, then the player keeps affecting the timeline and will see little of the effects of the game slowly compensating to bring things back in sync, and if the players move around a lot, the player won't see whats going on, and any logical flaws in the compensation that is being done will be hidden.
This idea is essentially based on one of many theories trying to resolve the problems of time travel: What if any changes you make to the past will be compensated for so that you can only cause disruption for a limited period of time, before at least most of the rough differences between the two timelines have been resolved. So the further back in time you go, the less effect you can have on the present.
Structuring a world via pseudo random numbers in both time and space indeed make the game itself time travel in a way: The entire timeline of the game was set before the game started, and you as the player travel back in time and are allowed to affect limited pockets of space time, but as soon as you turn your back, the game engine compensates away all your changes, making you just a ripple in the ocean...
Wish I had time to do game programming
You might ask what the Amiga has to do with ETH. The answer is that in '94, after Commodore went bust, there were a lot of discussions in comp.sys.amiga.misc on Usenet about how to save the community, and ways to update the OS that at the time started looking dated (no virtual memory as standard, no memory protection as standard etc.). One of the things that came up was long term migrating to new CPUs, such as Apple did with the Mac. A guy called Edward Blevins posted this message (I love you Google Groups), as part of a HUGE discussion about what the new Amiga OS should look like.
The message points to a concept called Semantic Dictionary Encoding, introduced by Dr. Michael Franz in his doctoral dissertation at ETH. It's a method for encoding a semantic parse tree of an application in a hardware neutral form, and generate the final code at load time.
In a way it's JIT compilation as found in todays Java VMs, but instead of translating from bytecode to native machine code, Semantic Dictionary Encoding is based around translating directly from a simplified parse tree - you reduce the parse tree to a small subset of operators and data types, and optimize as much as you can, then you encode it in a way that at the same time compresses the file. When you load it, you do the final code generation step.
I loved the concept: You can instantly move binaries between systems with different CPUs. Code generators can be tuned to specific hardware combinations or specific CPUs instead of having to generate code for the lowest common denominator. Code generators can take command line arguments into consideration when generating code, allowing further optimizations. Generation can be done based on previous profiling data for YOUR system, etc.
This leads us back to protocol extension. Protocol extension is a way of extending class hierarchies at runtime. I read the report because I was impressed with Dr. Franz work on SDE. I implemented a C based prototype back in '96. I loved it, but didn't have time to go much further with it.
Same thing with SDE. I had a prototype Pascal compiler (because writing a Pascal compiler for basic Pascal is dirt easy) that generated SDE, and a dummy code generator for something pretty close to 68000 machine code. But I didn't have time to look closer at it.
Now, these are two examples of incredibly cool tech I've run into, that to this day is practically unknown in the tech world outside those of us geeky enough to read doctoral dissertations and technical reports from ETH...
Why is it that so few geeks seem to follow whats happening in the universities? Schools like ETH, and numerous universities around the world are spewing out great computer science work that you'd think open source developers would be jumping at instantly, but instead many of these technologies languish for years without anyone spending time on it. In SDE's case, Dr. Franz is still pursuing it to my knowledge, but seems to get little interest for it from people trying to reimplement his tech.
I could pull out dozens of examples of other great concepts that are also being ignored.
Why? Isn't people aware of the technologies? Or am I the only one who find them cool? Did they come at the wrong time?
I'd love to find out.
Ah well, as soon as I have time I'll start looking at protocol extension and SDE again... Hopefully it will be before I'm retired.
As the site grew, however, the sheer number of users means that I most of the time feel no connection to the person I'm replying to - most of the time it's a username I don't recognize, and someone I know nothing about. It doesn't help that, like many geeks, I'm not the most social person...
Maybe the introduction of the friends system and the journals will change that again, to some extent. Another thing might be chat (yeah, I know there's an IRC channel, but some of us are behind firewalls during the day - a proxied java irc client might be a nice thing
The user base of Slashdot contains a lot of extremely interesting personalities, and it would be great to be able to "connect" more with people than the current comments frenzy allows.
Anyway. If anyone reads this, feel free to e-mail me at email@example.com if you have comments
Like punning, programming is a play on words.


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The Decker Student Health Services Center of Binghamton University Receives AAAHC Accreditation
BINGHAMTON, NY – Binghamton University's Decker Student Health Services Center has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) for a fifth consecutive three-year period.
Achieving accreditation distinguishes the Decker Student Health Services Center from many other college health centers by indicating that it provides a safe work environment and the highest quality of care to students. It also means the Decker Student Health Services Center has met nationally recognized standards for the provision of quality health care set by AAAHC.
"We believe our students deserve the best," said Johann Fiore-Conte, director of Health and Counseling Services at Binghamton University. "When you see our certificate of accreditation, you will know that AAAHC – an independent, not-for-profit organization – has closely examined our facility and procedures. It mans that we as an organization care enough about our students to strive for the highest care possible."
Ambulatory health care organizations seeking accreditation by AAAHC undergo an extensive self-assessment and on-site survey by AAAHC expert surveyors – volunteer physicians, nurses and administrators who are actively involved in ambulatory health care. The survey is consultative and educational, presenting best practices to help an organization improve its care and services.
"Going through the process challenged us to find better ways to serve our students, and it is a constant reminder that our responsibility is to our students and the quality of care we provide," said Fiore-Conte.
Founded in 1979, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) is the leader in ambulatory healthcare accreditation with almost 5,000 organizations accredited nationwide.
AAAHC accredits a variety of ambulatory healthcare organizations, including ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery centers, endoscopy centers, college student health centers, military healthcare clinics, and large medical and dental practices. The organization serves as an advocate for the provision of high-quality healthcare through the development of nationally recognized standards and through its survey and accreditation programs. AAAHC accreditation is recognized as a symbol of quality by third-party payers, medical organizations, liability insurance companies, state and federal agencies, and the public.


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Halftime for the Brazilian press
3. Censorship via the courts
By John Otis
Published since 1824 in the Brazilian city Recife in northeastern Pernambuco State, Diario de Pernambuco is South America's oldest daily newspaper still in circulation. Over its 190 years the paper butted heads with the powerful and was censored by Brazil's military regimes. But last year Diario de Pernambuco suffered its first case of official censorship since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985.


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I never get to hunt as much as I'd like. Suspect its the same for most of us.
I did think back just to see how many I had and wondered how much time others get to spend in the field?
Alabama. 4.5 days
Georgia. 3 days
New Mexico. 3 days
MT. 3 days
Idaho. 3 days
16.5 total


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Population: 27,606,007 (July 2009 est)
GDP per capita (PPP): $2,600 (2008 est)
Total expenditure on health per capita: $ 177 (Intl $, 2006)
Uzbekistan is located in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan. Russia conquered Uzbekistan in the late 19th century, and it subsequently became a part of the USSR and the CIS before achieving independence in 1991.
Implementing Partner In-Country: Institute of Endocrinology, Tashkent (Drs. Zulaykho Shamansurova and Gulnora Rakhimova and colleagues)
International Partners: Insulin for Life
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Life for a Child Support
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We began assisting 42 children cared for by hospitals in the capital Tashkent in 2007, with insulin being provided through Insulin for Life, and visual blood glucose strips purchased locally. The support has grown, with 15 now also helped in Samarkand, and 40 in the troubled Andijan region.
The regular insulin and monitoring has led to marked improvements in quality of life, with children now being well, avoiding dangerous episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis, and able to focus on their schooling.


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Apple Accused by Greenlight of Breaking Law by BundlingChristie Smythe
Apple Inc. is violating the law by packaging a measure to limit the offering of preferred shares with other matters up for a shareholder vote, Greenlight Capital Inc. said in a court filing.
David Einhorn's investment firm said in a brief filed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan that Apple's move would cause "an actual and imminent injury" to investors. The Feb. 27 vote should be stopped unless Apple unbundles the measures and allows each to be considered separately, Greenlight said in the filing.
Shareholders "will have been irrevocably stripped of their right to fair corporate suffrage -- the very right the unbundling rules were designed to vindicate," Greenlight said in the filing, referring to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission "unbundling" rules it alleges Apple is violating.
"These harms all can be prevented by an injunction before the vote, and none can be remedied after," Greenlight said.
Apple said in a filing Feb. 13 that it isn't breaking SEC rules and that the preferred share measure isn't as restrictive as Greenlight alleges.
Einhorn, whose firm says it holds more than 1.3 million Apple shares, has argued that the Cupertino, California-based company should issue high-yielding preferred shares to return value to investors from a $137 billion cash hoard.
The hedge fund founder told Apple executives that their proposed preferred stock restriction could pose a "roadblock that was not needed" to his plan, according to a Feb. 13 filing by Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer.
Apple contends the measure that Greenlight opposes only eliminates so-called blank check preferred-stock provisions. Without those provisions, preferred shares could be issued as long as investors approve, according to Apple.
The case is Greenlight Capital LP v. Apple Inc., 13-cv-900, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).


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Pinnacle Foods to be acquired by The Blackstone Group
Pinnacle Foods Group Inc. agreed to be acquired by affiliates of The Blackstone Group for approximately $2.16 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2007.
Commodities Affecting General Mills
General Mills Inc.'s profit took a hit over the summer as efforts by the food company to protect against rising commodity costs ended up backfiring amid price swings.
Ozone Safe Food Inc.
Ozone Safe Food, Inc. announced July 12 that results were received from Assumption University (www.au.edu) in Bangkok, Thailand, for their broad spectrum bacterial testing on surface pathogens using Ozone Safe Food's 100 PSI mobile ozone unit.
New Snack Pack Pudding Flavors Debut
ConAgra Foods Inc. rolls out two new flavors in its shelf-stable line of Snack Pack pudding: Blueberry Muffin, Cinnamon Roll and Sugar Free Caramel.
Category: New Food Products
Product Type: Snacks
Kettle Foods Opens First LEED Gold Food Plant
Kettle Foods Inc., which has built a reputation on environmental consciousness, in September held the ribbon cutting on its second U.S. facility. The Beloit, Wis., plant is the first food plant to receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification from the U.S. Green ...
McCain's Oven Roasted Redskin Potatoes Debut
McCain Foods USA Inc. introduces McCain Farmer's Kitchen roasted redskin potatoes for foodservice.
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Cook's Ham Introduces Portion-Controlled Ham Chops And Medallions
Farmland Foods Inc., owners of the Cook's Ham brand, makes it possible to enjoy a full-size ham in a portion-controlled approach with its Cook's Everyday Cuts line.
Category: New Food Products
Product Type: Meat, Poultry & Seafood
Legendary cookbook is transformed into a premium line of frozen foods
To deliver the taste of homemade without all the work, Minneapolis-based Bellisio Foods Inc. rolls out a premium line of 22 Joy of Cooking frozen foods.
Category: New Food Products
Product Type: Packaged/Prepared Foods
Caribbean Passion Heats Up The Aisles
Inventure Foods Inc. has rolled out a new flavor in its line of Jamba All Natural Smoothies. Caribbean Passion, a tropically inspired smoothie flavor, is a best seller Jamba Juice stores and can now be made by consumers in their own homes.
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Bankruptcy judge approves sale of Jays Foods
A bankruptcy court judge approved the $24.8 million sale of most of the firms assets to Jays Acquisition Inc., believed to be pretzel-maker Snyders of Hanover Inc., as part of Jays Foods Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
Ready Pac Foods Inc.
SugarCreek is a privately-owned company that made its first appearance on the Food Processing Top 100 list in 2016.
TreeHouse Foods Inc.
Top 100-ranked, 2010 Processor of the Year award-winner TreeHouse Foods is 'the biggest company you never heard of.
Tyson Foods Inc.
Arkansas-based Tyson foods manufacturers beef, pork, poultry, frozen and prepared foods around the world.
Healthy Food Holdings to acquire Van's Waffles
Healthy Food Holdings, a portfolio company of private equity firm Catterton Partners, is set to acquire Vans International Foods, Inc., the maker and marketer of Vans Waffles. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
General Mills sells Pop Secret brand for $190 million
General Mills Inc. is selling its Pop Secret microwave popcorn business to Diamond Foods Inc. for about $190 million cash.
Davisco Foods to invest in South Dakotas dairy industry
As part of the recent cheese plant expansion project, Davisco Foods International, Inc. begins the anticipated Phase II plan with a capitol investment of $10 million.
Three Food Processing Plants Earn EPA Energy Star; Increase Energy Efficiency
The EPA recognized J.R. Simplot Companys Aberdeen, Idaho plant; J.R. Simplot Companys Othelllo, Wash. plant; and ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston Inc.s Quincy, Wash. plant as earning the Energy Star for superior energy performance.
DSM Food Specialties Inc.
New Maxapal A2 enzyme from DSM Food Specialties may be used to modify egg yolks and give egg yolk-based products superior emulsion properties.
Chili's Grill & Bar Comes Home
Many of the great soups, starters and entrees served at Chili's Grill & Bar are now available as heat-and eat retail options thanks to Bellisio Foods Inc.
Category: New Food Products
Product Type: Packaged/Prepared Foods
Kraft Introduces Jell-o Arroz Con Leche
In efforts to appeal to the growing Hispanic population, Kraft Foods Group Inc. introduces two varieties - Cinnamon and Vanilla - of Jell-O Arroz Con Leche.
Category: New Food Products
Product Type: Dairy
Kraft Introduces Oscar Mayer Gluten-Free Chicken Breast Hot Dog
Kraft Foods Group Inc. is growing its Oscar Mayer Selects brand with the Chicken Breast Hot Dog.
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Product Type: Meat, Poultry & Seafood
ConAgra to shutter five plants en route to 12 closings
In its most sweeping rationalization so far, ConAgra Foods Inc., announced plans in mid-September to close five manufacturing plants, although the toll could rise to 12 before completion of a reorganization plan.
Yet Another Walmart Initiative: Affordable, Healthy Food
Walmart Stores Inc., on Jan. 20, unveiled a five-point initiative to improve Americans' nutrition, including stocking foods with fewer negative ingredients and lowering the prices of healthier foods.
Tyson Files Suit Against USDA On Chicken Label
Tyson Foods Inc. has sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the company's antibiotic-free chicken label
Tyson unveils new R&D 'discovery' center
Tyson Foods, Inc. officially unveiled its new Discovery Center, a research and development facility designed to enhance the companys ability to create new foods and bring them to market more quickly.
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NPGA has learned that the Department of Energy (DOE) will soon publish its Final Rule on decorative hearth products in the Federal Register. DOE forwarded an advance copy of the ruling to NPGA late last week. In reviewing the rule, NPGA determined that DOE has modified its definition of "vented hearth heater" from its earlier proposal. Specifically, the agency has excluded gas log sets outright from having to meet any energy conservation standards. Decorative gas fireplaces are excluded from energy conservation standards only if they meet specified exclusion criteria that is consistent with the agency's July 22, 2011 proposed rule. In order for decorative gas fireplaces to be excluded from meeting minimum efficiency requirements, they must:
One of NPGA's main concerns with the proposal was the impact it would have on gas log sets. As proposed, it likely would have eliminated entire product lines as well as had a significant economic impact including the loss of jobs for the propane industry. NPGA is pleased that DOE removed the requirement for decorative gas log sets to meet minimum efficiency requirements without the need to meet any exclusion criteria. DOE states that they will review these products further and address them in a subsequent rulemaking.
Having said this, however, NPGA still believes that DOE erred by including both decorative gas fireplaces and gas log sets as 'covered products' within the Direct Heating Equipment (DHE) category, thus allowing them to remain subject to possible future DOE actions. While the industry has achieved a measure of success with the elimination of gas log sets from meeting energy conservation standards, the overall issue of whether decorative gas hearth products should be considered DHE is a complex one. To that end, NPGA continues to review the Final Rule and will consult with our industry leaders as well as legal counsel for next possible courses of action, as deemed appropriate.
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