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It's interesting that Republicans seem to have a monopoly on this kind of behavior. I see lefties do it once in a while, but I'd say it's a ratio of 10/1 or so Republican/Lefty bitch-fit throwing session...
Most of the guys that jump on here to have fun with different accounts tend to make wild posts in threads that are going on. They also spread out the threads they do start. They dont start making thread after thread acting like a moron.
I think this guy is what Rob accused him of being: a petulant child who isnt used to be told no. He got proven wrong, so now hes going to throw a temper tantrum.
Terrorist attack count against the Anything Goes Thread: 6
Props to Buddy, it's nice to have a Romney supporter around with some actual intelligence to debate with, & I've yet to hear him call anyone a socialist.
It's video time in the "Anything Goes" thread.
Video: Sorry Conservatives, Science Says You're Stupid
I think the majority of people are stupid, ergo I think there's plenty of dumb conservatives as well as plenty of dumb liberals, & vice versa for the smart ones.
Came back to my apartment today to see one of my roommates put a sign on the door that reads "Keep America free, fire Obama". Im almost sure the highlight of my day will be when I ask him what that even means. Dude is a moron. Like...is America not a free country now? Did something happen last night?

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Little more thought (Reg changes too) on this topic.
Much of Washington State/BC (fresh and salt) is C & R for unclipped Hatchery fish. All the fins, and back he goes. With little exception the case in Oregon (don't know about California).
Period, no vote. Here on the Rouge it's clipped fish only save for you can keep up to 5 during the 'winter.' Or what we call winter (woozies love it here). Spring run Kings (end of run now) are all Hatchery fish ... enjoy your dinner.
The one odd off river (that I can think of) is the Chetco in SW Oregon. Game department does a regular netting of the winter runs and take the fish up the the Hatchery on the Sixes (or Elk, can't remember) and does the 'egg/sperm' thing. As 90++ percent of the fish came out of the Hatchery (all from Natives) there's really no point in doing a fin clip.
Michigan has all kinds of them. A good 8 mile (I think) on the Manistee and one on each of the 3 branches of the Ausable River. Trout Unlimited was formed on the Ausable, and they call the 9 mile (Fly Only Creel Limit 0) on the main branch of the Ausable the 'Holy Waters.'
Plenty of fish, plenty of stocking fish too. Mostly Brookies and a 12 inch fish is a great fish. There are big Browns as well but they get fished hard believe it or not, they are not fooled easy. Most of the Trophy Waters are open to the hardwear guys. Usually have to go after them at night or during a major hatch. I love this time of year!!!!
As much as I love the fly only waters and all the tourist money it brings to the Grayling area....There is something to be said about a 3 year old that happens to lives on the fly only portion of a river that cant throw a line on a bobber off his dock though.
No Kill
I live in Illinois but do all of my trout, steelhead, and salmon fishing in Michigan for the last 20 years. Michigan has fly fishing only on several rivers (Big Manistee, Little Manistee, Ausable, Pere Marquette) a no kill section and FF only on the Pere Marquette and also the Ausable system. About a 100 miles of river are designated special regulations such as above legislation is in process to possibly expand it up to 250 miles I think. Has been very successful to date, however it is controversial with the non fly fishing anglers for sure, since prime blue ribbon waters are those which are designated for special regulations.
I was 17 years old when the Beaverkill in NYS had its articial only no kill stretch established in 1966. Fishing remains good 36 years later. All of the michigan rivers which have had this implemented also have resulted in improved fishing.
More is needed IMHO.
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One of the oldest venues for fly-fishing, no-kill is Hosmer Lake on Century Drive outside of Bend. Since the sixties, this has been managed as C&R for transplanted Atlantic salmon. The original stock was from the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, but there's another strain in there now, I believe.
Beautiful lake with very interesting fishing.
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I'll speak up for Massachussetts here. There are several rivers with no kill FFO sections on them. A quick list of those that come to mind is Nissitissit river by the NH border, Deerfield river, Swift river between the dam & rt 9 ( is it open?).
Mark, in CT there is also the Willimantic river in Willington, look down at the river the next time you stop at the rest area on west bound I-84.
This may sound like a whine, but I tend to stay away from such sections. I've noticed more fish with damage from hooks & handling in these areas than in those areas where fish can be kept.
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There are several Trout Management Areas in CT, but the only FFO no kill section that I'm aware of is on the Housatonic. The Farmington has a no kill section, but the restriction is single barbless hooks, so it's not FFO. The Salmon has a FFO section, but it's not a no kill stretch.
There have been several smaller rivers that have been newly designated as TMAs starting this season, so there may be others that I'm not currently aware of. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the Housatonic has another added to it at Bull's Bridge and Gaylordsville.
What do anglers think? They're glad to have some rivers that are open to year round fishing, although it can be quite crowded at times.
All-be-it, I'm sure there are more ..
the only one that I'm aware of is the very top end of the Rogue in an area called the Holy Waters ... for very good reason. Water is a 1/2ísh mile stretch below the dam to the top of the hatchery area.
Barbless hooks, fly only (no spinning gear and bubble, etc.), C and R. Some VERY large trout in this area. Hard for me to get results when the water flow is below 1,000 cfs, above this and it's a blast. Average day (below the hatchery with the salmon running you'll see a hundred yo-yo's chasing the salmon), the Holy Water area might have one or two people.
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My home network has several devices that do not have large persistent storage to keep log files. For example, my wireless routers based on OpenWRT doesn't log to the limited local storage it has, and a Flukso energy metering device log power readings to a ramdisk. These devices log a fair amount of information that I ideally would like to keep for later analysis. I have never before seen a need to setup a syslogd server, thinking that storing logs locally and keeping regular backups of the machine is good enough. However, it appears like this situation calls for a syslogd server. I found an old NSLU2 in my drawer and installed Debian Squeeze on it following Martin Michlmayr's instructions. I'm using a 4GB USB memory stick for storage, which should hold plenty of log data. I keep backups of the machine in case the USB memory stick wears out.
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End of the lambing season, thank goodness
At midnight last night, as Bob was doing c-section surgery on the fourth ewe this month with Warren's assist, we all decided the lambing season for 2014 was a bit of a bust. We had a rash of ewes that were "non-dilators," meaning their cervix never dilated enough to let the lambs be born naturally. It could be genetics, but Bob says the cause is uncertain. We also had several vaginal prolapses.
We are getting new rams this fall and Bob says he's breeding "speckle-faced" (crossbred) ewe lambs now, not purebred Dorsets. A good set of twins beats triplets and quads most days.
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Fights To Watch In November: Part 1
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We're going to start highlighting a selection of fights to watch monthly from now on. This month is a lot like last month where there's so many good fights that it's hard to squeeze them all into one article so this will be Part 1, featuring ten fights. Part 2 will come shortly after and will feature ten more fights.
For Part 1 and for the majority of these posts in general, I've decided to focus more on fights that people might not know about, as opposed to ones that are on the big shows that most of our readers will be familiar with. Since I'm calling these fights to watch, some have wondered just how to watch them, and well, the answer is pretty much YouTube for most of them.
November 2: Sam-A Gaiyanghadaogym vs. Petpanomrung Wor Sungprapai - Lumpinee Stadium - Bangkok, Thailand
The rematch with Penek continues to elude Sam-A, who lost to Penek back in May and is seeking to avenge that loss. Sam-A still remains one of the best fighters in the world and is faced with Petpanomrung, who he defeated in March. Petpanomrung is still very young and definitely has a bright future, already hanging with the top fighters, recently defeating Yodkhunpol Sitmonchai in September and losing to Pokaew in October. Sam-A and Petpanomrung are two of the more technical fighters so this fight, although it probably won't be a barn burner or anything, should be a very intriguing tactical display.
November 8: Roman Mailov vs Armin Pumphanmuang - W5 Fighter 8 - Moscow, Russia
Roman Mailov looks to continue his rise at 70kg, now facing Armin Pumphanmuang, who has made a name for himself this year at Thai Fight. The fight will be under kickboxing rules, so Armin will be at a disadvantage, but Mailov himself comes from Muay Thai, although he's fought a lot of kickboxing lately and has adapted to the ruleset. Mailov is only 20 and by no means would a loss hurt his career. He's being steadily built up on W5 shows in Russia, and ventured to Germany two months ago where he defeated Leo Zulic. Armin is by no means a top Thai but should at least provide a test for Mailov.
November 10: Masaaki Noiri vs. Yetkin Ozkul - Krush.24 - Tokyo, Japan
This is a battle of LiverKick's #1 and #4 lightweights, holding huge implications in the lightweight division. Ozkul takes the #1 spot if he wins. Ozkul is at a significant size disadvantage in this fight, with it being at 63kg, along with the height advantage that Noiri has over him. Both fighters' strengths and weaknesses play right into the others', so the winner will be the one that is able to better assert their strength and take advantage of the opponent's weakness. Ozkul's known for his heavy punches, and Noiri's main flaw happens to be punchers. Ozkul is most susceptible to tall fighters with strong and dynamic knees, something Noiri fits the bill of very well. Noiri has to be favored here, especially being on home turf, but if Ozkul lands with one of his power punches, Noiri will be in trouble.
November 10: Saenchai vs. Pakorn - Super Showdown - Glasgow, Scotland
November is a busy month for Saenchai, and this will be his first fight of the month. It's not too often that you see two Thais fighting in a foreign country, let alone two top Thais. Pakorn comes off a loss to Mongkolchai Phetsuphapan in October can be a very tactical fighter at times and can go from being a technician to engaging in a fire fight. With Saenchai the latter is almost guaranteed not to happen, and not many can out-technique Saenchai. With Pakorn, it's unlikely that he'll win but simply the scenario of the fight and that Pakorn atleast should be competitive make it a very fun fight.
November 10: Sahak Parparyan vs. Alex Sandro Pereira - It's Showtime Brazil - Sao Paolo, Brazil
Sahak's It's Showtime 85kg world title is on the line here. Pereira comes off two tournament wins in Brazil, with the second one qualifying him for this fight and spot on It's Showtime. Pereira definitely isn't the prettiest fighter in terms of technique and style, but I think he has a lot of potential. Whether he can beat Sahak or not, I do think he'll at least be competitive, especially if he has the conditioning to go five strong rounds. This is a great 85kg fight featuring one of the division's top fighters, also allowing us to gauge how good Pereira is when fighting against top competition.
November 16: Alex Harris vs. Madsua - Rumble of the Kings 2012 - Linkoping, Sweden
Rumble of the Kings is back with their annual November card, and one of the interesting fights on the event is this one. Alex Harris made a name for himself last year when he defeated Yoshihiro Sato, and then made an appearance at GLORY in Stockholm this year, losing to Nieky Holzken despite a valiant effort. Harris is back in Muay Thai rules for this fight and against Madsua, who's been a tough out for the likes of John Wayne Parr and Jordan Watson, defeating both of them. Harris will need to stay out of the clinch if he wants to win this one, though Madsua can still be a problem outside of the clinch for him as well.
November 17: Javier Hernandez vs. Michael Peynaud - Heroes IV - Cordoba, Spain
Although he got stopped from low kicks by Yuki a week ago, Hernandez will move on and still fight. Peynaud is another formidable opponent and won't be an easy opponent at all. This time Javier won't have to worry about travel or jetlag, being in his hometown. It's a very interesting match-up as Peynaud doesn't pose the same problems that Yuki did and his style is one in which it's unlikely that anyone will dominate this fight. It should be action packed with Peynaud looking to notch a marquee win and Hernandez looking to get back on track.
November 22: Saenchai vs. Damien Alamos - Best of Siam 2 - Paris, France
This is Saenchai's second fight of the month, and against the Lumpinee Stadium light welterweight champion. Damien Alamos is coming off a loss to Diesellek Aoodonmuang. Saenchai is smaller than Diesellek but that doesn't really matter as he's beaten opponents that are even bigger than Alamos and at or near a similar level to him. This is a fight that a lot of people have wanted to see ever since Damien became Lumpinee champion. Saenchai and the top fighters around 130-135 are just so good that many can beat larger opponents, and that will probably be the case here with Saenchai most likely winning in a fun fight.
November 24: Liam Harrison vs. Kaopon Lek - Thai Boxe Mania - Torino, Italy
Kaopon Lek is a former Lumpinee champion and former Fight of the Year in Thailand, with those accolades coming from the '90s, amazingly. What else is amazing is that he's only 35 years old and still going strong no less. He comfortably beat Andrei Kulebin last year, still showcasing what level he's at after all these years and living in Italy for quite some time. Liam Harrison has had some fights fall through due to injury but returned last month with a stoppage over Angelo Campoli, showcasing the low kicks that destroyed Andrei Kulebin. Harrison is a very dangerous fighter and this along with Kaopon Lek's ring savvy provides for a very intriguing fight.
November 24: Karim Bennoui vs Thomas Adamandopoulos - La Nuit des Champions - Marseilles, France
This fight pits LiverKick's #3 and #6 lightweights against each other. They faced off at almost exactly the same time last year on the same event, in the same place, with Bennoui getting a split decision win that many thought Adamandopoulos should've gotten. Bennoui hasn't fought since January, while Adamandopoulos rebounded from the losses to Bennoui and Ozkul with a big KO win over Ryuji Kajiwara and a win last month over Cyril Abbas. This fight is sure to provide some great action, much like the last one and will again be five rounds.


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I am using integers as bit containers representing bool values.
How do I make a fast instruction that reads some bit from one integer and sets its value to another.
Lets say: there are two 64 bit integers. One of them x has some bits set.
I want to rewrite every second bit from x to y (from beginning). How do I make that avoiding code similar to that:
y=0; //clear y t=0; for (int i=0;i<64;i+=2) if (x & (CONTAINER_INT(1) << (i%ContainerSize))) { y |= CONTAINER_INT(1) << (t%ContainerSize); t++; }
I mean I want to avoid if instruction.
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The Slow Shift from Cash Economies to Mobile Banking
As I have written previously on the blog, mobile banking has the potential to make daily life for the world's poorest not only more convenient, but also more financially secure. In fact, given the significant drawbacks of cash economies, mobile banking is now recognized as an effective antipoverty tool. After all, when someone stores her money in her home or on her person instead of in a formal bank account, she runs the risk that robbery or disaster will wipe out her assets. Studies show that when people save informally, they stand to lose between 15 percent and 25 percent of their savings each year—a huge loss for anyone but especially for those living on the edge. Read more »


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я бы установил, но не люблю бентли(((
Posted on November 9, 2012 6:58PM by CrazyEnd
nice mod
Posted on November 9, 2012 7:05PM by cameasromanz
Posted on November 9, 2012 7:31PM by ModxSwagg
nice, get it frm ru...bt why there is no plate for it?
Posted on November 9, 2012 9:52PM by raynier
Awesome car!! Here more style for you https://www.facebook.com/sponsoredwhips/photos_stream
Posted on November 9, 2012 10:26PM by azndjx
I already saw this car in a lot of IV mods and videos and now UPLOAD FERRARI F12 PPPLLLEEEEEAAAAAASSSEEE
Posted on November 9, 2012 11:55PM by -Furiou$_RaceR-
What ENB are you using @Nemko000?
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its my enb http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/Kamaz43118ykt
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Do you have a link for it Kamaz?
Posted on November 10, 2012 10:54PM by ZBNYNC
Only problem: Windows are unbreakable. But everything else is great.10 :)
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Posted on November 12, 2012 6:49PM by Matt0123
THX! Beautiful! 10/10 But I am still waiting for a Rolls-Royce Ghost.
Posted on November 14, 2012 9:40AM by Tadam1999
Thank you so much for this car, it is absolutely amazing. It's my favorite vehicle from GTA4-mods. The only problem is that the windows are unbreakable as Darthkac mentioned earlier. This makes it difficult to use on chase missions where you must shoot at their vehicle. I was wondering if you or someone you know would be able to fix this and upload it. Thanks again!
Posted on December 18, 2012 2:34PM by Cowbellkid
top speed of a real bentley is 360km/h
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left window is unbreakable. Please fix it before we give u 10/10. It's unique I'm sure.
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Funny you mention that - we met with Paul Dini right before the strike and he's an incredibly nice, intelligent guy too.
Funny you mention that - we met with Paul Dini right before the strike and he's an incredibly nice, intelligent guy too.
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
i pray they don't make a MM scout trooper. Those are so ugly to begin with. Kubricks, LEGO, super D stuff = cool. MM = yuck
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Target Manhattan beach: Picked up the Marvel Legends Rachel variant yaaaaaaaaaaay.
Redondo beach target: Nothing good.
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Hit Walmart today and found some of the Wave 1 figures.
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Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
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I was at my Wal-Mart today. They don't have room on their pegs.
In stock was:
SL Darth Vader
TAC Death Star Trooper
TAC Myoom Onith
TAC Elis Helrot
and yeah - I think that was basically it. Take the above figures and count multiples enough of them to fill 6 pegs and there you go.
San Diego gets stuff after LA does, so that's why I'm always watching this forum.
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"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
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I'm back! Now that I'm actually working on an open-source project (and getting paid for it) I figured I should start updating this again.
I now hold two Bachelor's degrees: one in Computer Science and one in Computer Engineering. I still feel like an idiot.
I'm working on the SOFTICE project: Scalable, Open (source), Fully Transparent, and Inexpensive Clustering for Education. It's an NSF-funded project through the University of South Florida, Lakeland campus.
The basic idea of the project is to use a cluster of inexpensive boxen to host a large number of User Mode Linux instances. On these instances, students can have root, and we don't have to worry about them destroying anything or disrupting network activity; they're effectively sandboxed from network use other than incoming ssh sessions.
My job is to design labwork for this system. For instance, one lab is to write a kernel module that overrides a system call. (We patch the UML kernel to export sys_call_table.)
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NAFC FC Buster.
i believe 2010 nafc fc acf fourleafs ice breaker (buster) is out of 2 untitled parents. I believe is father was close to his afc but didnt get it
just seen jacobs post
FC Matilda's Cool Girl Nicoal SH
I believe to be the only titled dog to be produced from two MH titled dogs. A hunting dog/pet, turned into hunt test dog, and finally campaigned and turned into a Field Champion.
One of the most talented and sweetest dogs I have ever had the pleasure to know.
Feared by ducks, envied by hunters and loved by dogs.
Nomadic Retrievers
FC Pintails Hunters Choice. Bobby Georges first fc. From a nice bitch of Evens and a couch potato show breeding male
My now 14 year old CLF. Bought her out of the back of a pickup in a Kroger parking lot as a birthday present. No titles until 3rd generation back but it was Rascal. A MN past and 40+ master passes and countless hunting retrieves.
Courage-being scared to death but saddling up anyway. John Wayne
If you don't know where you're going, every road will get you there.
Pick your battles. Be sure they're small enough to win but big enough to matter.
DISCLAIMER: The above post is the opinionated and biased view of your's truly, Lonnie Spann, and is in no way intended to reflect the opinions or views of the unfortunate individuals named below who just happen to be doomed with guilt by association.
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From left, Michael Thomas, Andrea Bühler and Jeremy Blair stand amidst the clouds from the mountains of St. Vincent that are harvested and distilled into pure, premium drinking water through a startup project developed in Princeton University's eLab.
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Video feature: Harvesting water from fog
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PH2OG Water is a startup project coming out of Princeton University's eLab that harvests water from clouds in the mountains of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and distills it into pure, premium drinking water. The idea originated in a social entrepreneurship class taught at the University in 2011.
In this video about the project and its origins, recent Princeton graduates Jeremy Blair and Michael Thomas and their partner Andrea Bühler discuss how the idea developed and how fog water is collected.
"I always knew that I wanted to give back to that place that I came from, so while we were developing our business plan, I realized that St. Vincent had some of the perfect conditions for cloud harvesting," said Thomas, a 2012 alumnus.
The company plans to work with humanitarian water organizations to provide funding for water projects around the world through a profit pledge with each bottle sold.
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The Official Guide to the TOEFL® Test, Fourth Edition is now available
The fourth edition of The Official Guide to the TOEFL® Test has been released. The newly released edition of the best-selling guide contains three full-length authentic tests offering students the opportunity to become familiar with the test and test format. Available in eBook and paper book formats through the ETS store and Amazon®, this is an authentic test preparation guide from ETS, developer of the TOEFL test. The latest edition of the guide is available in both English and simplified Chinese. Additional versions in Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and French will be rolled out in early 2013.
The fourth edition of The Official Guide to the TOEFL Test provides hundreds of sample questions, practical tips for each of the four sections — reading, writing, speaking and listening — and an overview of the scoring rubrics, including sample responses and feedback from ETS raters. The 653-page resource also contains the Writer's Handbook, a section focused on providing specific instruction on how to master the essay section of the test.
"We want students to be prepared and do their very best on the TOEFL test," commented Pamela Treves, Director of the TOEFL Brand. "As the creator of the TOEFL test, ETS is uniquely suited to walk students through the assessment, as well as share sample test questions that have appeared on past TOEFL tests. Being familiar with the test format and types of questions presented on test day will strengthen confidence levels for test takers. This guide is a great first step in preparing for student success."
The Official Guide to the TOEFL Test is yet another resource from ETS to prepare for the TOEFL test. ETS also offers TOEFL® Practice Online (TPO), an authentic TOEFL iBT® test that simulates the testing experience and provides same-day feedback on student performance.
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Triangle United and the John Avery Boys & Girls Club of Durham have partnered up to offer competitive soccer for its members. TU is assisting JABGC's soccer/ Latino outreach and gang prevention program by placing two teams, u11/u12, free of charge to parents and JABGC.
The combined effort by TUSA and JABGC supports Durham's inner city youth by using the beautiful game to promote healthy choices and successes on and off the field.
For read the press release click here. For more information about the John Avery Boys & Girls Club, please go to their website.


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Kevmaster wrote:I started my track!
Now that I'm a few seconds in I think what I had in mind will definitely work
What I'm curious about though is how this google spreadsheet thing works
Do/Can we somehow edit it for our updates and beta linking? Or will we be sending you any updates per PM and you're to change the sheet?
Feel free to update the document whenever you like. It should allow anyone with the link to view, and edit it without restrictions. If you have any problems doing so, please tell me.


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The membership of CCLHO includes the 61 legally appointed physician Health Officers in California, one from each of the 58 counties and three cities of Berkeley, Long Beach and Pasadena. CCLHO provides a state/local forum for the discussion of significant health issues in order to develop recommendations for appropriate health policy. This includes legislative and regulatory review. CCLHO meets semiannually and its Board of Directors meets monthly. Its various program committees consider technical and policy issues in communicable disease control and prevention; health promotion and chronic disease prevention; environmental health; emergency preparedness and response; and health surveillance data.
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New EV SSL Hijack Tool
Researchers to Release Tool That Silently Hijacks EV SSL Sessions - DarkReading
Researchers to Release Tool That Silently Hijacks EV SSL Sessions - DarkReading
If you think you're safe from man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks as long as you're visiting an Extended Validation SSL (EV SSL) site, then think again: Researchers will release a new tool at Black Hat USA later this month that lets an attacker hack into a user's session on an EV SSL-secured site.
Mike Zusman and Alex Sotirov -- who in March first demonstrated possible MITM attacks on EV SSL at CanSecWest -- will release for the first time their proxy tool at the Las Vegas conference, as well as demonstrate variations on the attacks they have discovered. The Python-based tool can launch an attack even with the secure green badge displaying on the screen: "It doesn't alert the user that anything fishy is going on," says Zusman, principal consultant at Intrepidus.
All it takes is an attacker having a non-EV SSL certificate for a Website, and he or she can hijack any SSL session that connects to it. That's because the Web browser treats the EV SSL certificate with the same level of trust as an SSL domain-level certificate. "There's no differentiation between the two certs beyond the green badge," Zusman says. If an attacker has a valid domain-level certificate, he can spoof EV SSL connections and execute an MITM attack, with access and view of all sensitive data in the session -- all while the unsuspecting victim still sees that reassuring green badge displayed by his browser.


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- 6 bone-in pork loin chops (8 ounces each)
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons cold water
- In a large skillet, brown pork chops in oil on both sides. Transfer to a shallow 3-qt. baking dish. In a small bowl, combine the onion, water, syrup, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, chili powder and pepper; pour over chops.
- Cover and bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Uncover; bake 15 minutes longer or until tender. Transfer to a serving platter or until a meat thermometer reads 160°.
- Pour pan juices into a small saucepan. Combine cornstarch and cold water until smooth; stir into juices. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with pork chops. Yield: 6 servings.
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"Delicious served with the Chunky Applesauce Recipe from this site!"
"I also added some chopped apple. It was delicious!!"
"I altered the recipe quite a bit, and it was very tasty. I used a small shallot & 2 cloves garlic because I didn't have onions on hand, and rather than bake the chops, I cooked the shallots in the pan juices after browning the chops, then returned the chops to the pan along with the sauce (I omitted the water and doubled the vinegar & Worcestershire), covered the pan and simmered until cooked. Then I thickened the sauce after removing the chops. It got rave reviews from the family."
"I made this tonight and I was just not impressed with it. I don't know if it's that you're suppose to use real maple syrup and I just had pancake maple syrup but it tasted weird."
"I am not good at making pork chops. I usually ruin them. But this recipe made them so easy! They came out very good. And the sauce is unbelievable! This was a big hit with my husband and two children. We will for sure be making this again soon."
"My husband told me these are his favorite pork chops. They are really easy to make and taset delicious."
"I stopped making pork chops for years because I thought they didn't have any flavor. No matter what I did, they were tasteless. I'll start using this recipe from now on. They were delicious!"
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Alternate name: Ermine
Family: Mustelidae, Weasels view all from this family
Description A short-tailed weasel with a dark tail tip and (typically) white on feet. Smaller than Long-tailed Weasel, with a relatively shorter tail (less than 44% head-body length). Males are 40-80% larger than females; animals can also be sexed by genital morphology. Back is brown in summer. Winter coat is white, with a black tail tip.
Dimensions 219-343mm, 65-90mm, 67-116g; / 190-292mm, 42-70mm, 25-80g
Similar Species Smaller than Long-tailed Weasel.
Breeding Breeds in summer, but delayed implantation results in 4-9 young born in spring, in a burrow or hollow log. Young reach adult size by about 6-7 weeks, and mothers teach the young to hunt by going out in family groups.
Habitat Alpine & subalpine habitats, Cities, suburbs & towns, Forests & woodlands, Grasslands & prairies, Lakes, ponds, rivers & streams, Meadows & fields, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Swamps, marshes & bogs
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska
Discussion Primarily a nocturnal hunter of mice, young rabbits, and other small prey. Uses most habitats in range, the widest variety of all mustelids.


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On 2-7 August 2014 a Pony Diabetes Camp took place in Leusden, the Netherlands. The camp was organised by the National Diabetes Association of the Netherlands and was for children with type 1 diabetes between the ages of 7 and 12. Our Young Leader Lisanne Jonker went along as medical supervision and to offer her volunteer support for the camp.
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By Errol Castens/NEMS Daily Journal
OXFORD – The new Oxford High School still is slated to open in January, but its completion is only one of several Oxford School District construction projects either under way or planned in the near future.
Bad weather has put Yates Construction behind on a tight schedule to get the new school completed before the fall semester's end.
"They are committed to the November 30 date," Sonny Brownlee, the district's director of school services, told board members on Monday. "They are behind, but they've had additional crews on masonry, so they're catching up."
Superintendent Brian Harvey said the school district is considering legal options against a contractor responsible for a faulty roof at Della Davidson Elementary, the district's newest school currently in use.
In other construction business, board members approved up to $15,000 for a feasibility study of adding a performing arts center back to the new high school plan with a private-sector fundraising effort.
The school board voted to consider contracts with Eley Guild Hardy architect firm to renovate the current high school and Oxford Elementary School. The OES renovations will include restroom upgrades, additional classroom space and a relocated entrance that will be both more secure and more parent-friendly, said architect Taylor Guild.
The board also voted to approve advertising to select an architect for renovations at Bramlett Elementary School at an unspecified time.


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Beautiful Old-Town Riga has been found by both the Germans and the British. I sometimes feel fortunate that the world has adopted English as the global language. It's so amusing to watch and listen as the Germans struggle to get by with the fluent English-speaking Rigan shopkeepers and food servers. It's equally as entertaining watching the same Rigans struggling to understand the odd sounding folks from Britain.
The town square of Riga is like a visit to Disneyland
Outside our hotel window, across the narrow cobblestone street in the quiet of the night a lone coach light burns. It's 3:00 a.m. I sit looking out the window at a reflection in a pool of water, listening to the quiet. But instead of reminiscing on our day of sightseeing in this beautiful city my mind focuses on the damned albeit silent television set that sits beside me. In backwater Vilnius we had no T.V. In prosperous Riga you can get maybe one hundred stations. And of course along with progress comes CNN International News. I pushed the On button on the remote control. In just thirty minutes I learned so many things I wished I hadn't:
The Pakistani President joked yesterday along with U.S. President George W. Bush that the CIA had earlier threatened to bomb the daylights out of Pakistan if they didn't become the US's new best friend.
For the first time in history a U.S
At that point it occurred to me that Canada may very well have been threatened with having its daylights bombed out if it didn't become the US's new best friend too.
It's now 4:10a.m. A band of English braves just went by our window with painted faces making war-whoop like sounds. I hope it's just a soccer game they're coming back from and that they're not planning to attack the peace-loving Rigans.
It's being suggested that Osama bin Laden died last month of natural causes. I can't help but wonder how different the world would be today if this had been suggested five years ago.
Meanwhile the Russians are happy that someone else is bombing the daylights out of Afghanistan.
I think I'll wear my Canadian T-shirt inside out, at least until we reach Western friendly Red China...wait a minute...is mainland China still called Red?
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I put up my scitex ct file format docs at http://electricmessiah.org/jay/ct.html. Its amazing to me that a file format that has gotten so much use for so long didn't already have any information about it online. I guess I'd should send an announcement to the various graphics file format faq sites.
I put gegl "opgen" into cvs the other day. I am pretty happy with it so far. We will have a crazy pipeline to compile the code... XML formated source code -> opgen -> gil -> gob -> c compiler ->linker


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Planning a trip to Thailand? Have one booked and not sure if you will be able to go?
While Don Mueang Airport, Thailand's former main international airport, now used mainly for domestic flights of low-cost airlines, has been affected by the flooding in the Thai capital of Bangkok, the new main international airport, Suvarnabhumi, remains dry and authorities are confident that the flood defences in place will keep it that way.
As of November 7th 2011, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office advised that Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, remains open for transit and that although Bangkok is not an ideal destination at this time, plenty of other areas remain unaffected by flooding including Chiang Mai, Phuket and Koh Samui.
If you would like to keep up with the latest situation in Thailand with regard to tourism please see www.thailandtourismupdate.com or the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT UK) Blog at http://uk.blog.tourismthailand.co.uk
Further travel advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office regarding Thailand can be found at their Thailand information page.
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It probably depends on what you buy and where you are in your building of a collection. If you're talking about guys that shop at a big box store or use mouth calls, then they are going to buy more than someone that buys custom box calls. Very few ppl will spend buy more than one $200 call per year.
I'm in the middle. I buy one expensive call and several mouth calls each year. However, I will not spend more than $5 per mouth call and the total is less than $100. Imagine I will stop buying anything other than mouth calls in a few years. I'll have about three of each type by then and not need anymore by any stretch.


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Have ripe bananas? Mix them into cupcakes that are so good, they don't need frosting.
Stir in 1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips in place of the toffee bits, or to be really indulgent, toss in a half cup of both!
To ripen bananas, keep them uncovered at room temperature. To speed the process, place bananas in a perforated brown paper bag with a ripe apple!
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Originally Posted by Spesh
If that reasoning were true there wouldn't be a steady market currently for semi-autos, yet there is. Aside from the obvious fact that new people are born & die every day, the same attitude that makes people buy a new sports car every 5 years, or a new flat-screen every 3, or the new madden every year, is the same attitude that keeps gun demand steady. You might not understand it, I don't really get the appeal either, but apparently there's a sizable chunk of people in this country (approx 20%) who are into it; it's not that they need it, it's that they enjoy it.
Australia is a completely different beast than the United States, no where else in the world is gun enthusiasm as sky-high as it is here. 88.8% of every home owns some type of fire-arm; highest rate on the planet by a country-mile. I don't really like it, but that's the reality.
As far as mental health; in the same way it was easier for me to buy illegal drugs than legal drugs, I think the same could easily happen with weapons. One example of evidence is that the CT shooter had a harder time legally buying guns than he did otherwise. We just have differing opinions on how to handle it; you believe in a ban, I believe in regulation. It's really no more simple or complicated then that.


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Posted December 7, 2001; 10:38 a.m.
Michael Cook, the Cleveland Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies , is the winner of the 2001 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for his book "Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought." The award recognizes outstanding publishing in Middle East studies.
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Started sending the resume around. The market may be depressed but so am I and this place is mostly the cause. My wife, having listened to me bitch and moan after work, tore a page out of her O magazine describing six signs it's time to change jobs. I answer 'yes' to four and vary on a fifth. I've thought hard about what bothers me and have this list:
Even though I'm non-essential staff and I didn't get the call to come in, I came to work early. I can't stand another day doing nothing but puttering around the apartment. Downtown is mostly empty and there are cops and national guard on almost every corner. I did spend Friday and Saturday visiting friends upstate and Sunday I went for a 170 mile ride on the motorcycle. It's easier to push the recent events out of my head when dealing with the immediacy of running through country roads at a fast pace. Think I'll go to the Super Sunday gathering at Marcus Dairy.
I'm probably not representing this accurately, tried to post
earlier... can't sleep.
I arrived at work today a little later than usual. Heard a crash while coming out of the subway but didn't think much of it figuring it's always noisy in downtown. Reached my desk, saw my red message light on, logged in and punched the code for my voicemail. My wife had left a nervous message asking if I was okay, that something happened at the World Trade Center which is just a few blocks from me and the stop she takes. I called back that I saw nothing and was okay and tried to check cnn.com. I heard a commotion in the aisle and found coworkers talking about the WTC. I suggested we check the big monitor in the Risk Management area on the other side of the office which faces the WTC. They had CNN on and I could look at the smoking tower as the news read in the background. I ran back to my desk and called my parents, leaving what must have been a barely coherent "We're okay" message since they didn't hear the news. We evacuated down the twenty-two flights of stairs to the lobby but were sent upstairs again. I returned to the other corner of the office and as we watched the WTC, before I could even recognize what happened, a plane struck the second tower off center and fire burst out the other side. Then CNN reported that a plane had struck the Pentagon. I ran back to my desk and found the red light. My wife. I called her and we agreed to meet at her office, farther away from the WTC, as soon as we evacuated my building. For some reason, I grabbed the fire escape kit with the water bag, dust mask and mylar blanket I leave in my in-box where it was dropped two years ago and grabbed another I had stashed in my overhead cabinet that I had scavenged for the cyalume lightstick. I didn't wait and stupidly took the elevator into the lobby. While going down, something shook and the lights blinked but the elevator opened into the lobby and I pushed out past the surprisingly large number of people down there since I thought everyone went back up. I stepped outside and it was all dust and smoke and wind. I put on the mask and started walking as fast as I could to Maria's office through a moonscape of dust. I might have been running. I remember thinking that I'm going to hyperventilate and slowed to a walk. The steel coffee carts with the hard rolls and bagels in the windows and young Pakistani guys inside were at the corners but noone was inside. People grey with dust were wandering in other directions. A Korean guy in a suit, gray except from his eyes, was hacking and vomiting in color next to a car while two grey people stood beside looking after him. All the stores seemed closed or closing and when the wind picked up, I ducked into doorways and turned away squinting. Everything was surreal and unfamiliar. As I got to City Hall the dust and smoke was less and I clambered over a low wall dividing the road that I never noticed before but must have been there for years. A woman in a beige skirt was trying to climb over it but couldn't and I turned to help and another guy lifted her arm and she stumbled over it and stood in the road. For some reason it seemed funny that she had not put away her cell phone the whole time. I tried to make it to Broadway, but the police were directing people and I hurried through a few streets I rarely take feeling even more lost. I got to Worth but had to divert back and circle a few blocks down as FBI agents and police were shouting and opening parked trucks and having people move away from the Federal court building. At an intersection, I ignored a busy cop and crossed the street and took off up Worth. The dust was thin but had reached here too and I felt relieved to find Maria down the street from her office. She had written a note in lipstick on the page of a magazine and posted it on the building, in case I got there after the police moved the evacuees away but I didn't need it. We were okay and we told each other that we should walk uptown away from the crisis and then figure out what to do. We walked without much talking, relieved that the other was okay, avoiding the emergency vehicles up to the teens. People were everywhere and all the mass transit was shut down. Lines were forming at banks and shops, anywhere there was a phone or ATM. In the Village and NYU, I got a few stares and realized that I was grey with dust. My black shirt and shoes were ashy-looking. We found an cash machine that wasn't empty in a bodega around the high 20's, got cash and bought water. I had my gym clothes and offered her my socks and sneakers but she just wanted my thin dress socks. We sat on the slate step of a townhome and I changed into sneakers and she put my decidedly unfashionable black socks on and slipped back into her shoes. We then cut across to the west side and continued up to the 50's. Like a cruel joke, it was a perfect day- sunny, a breeze, gently warm. At the West Side Highway, we started thumbing for a ride. Maria was getting tired and I itched everywhere the dust had settled on skin. A livery pulled over and let us in. The driver, a very small boned, very dark skinned man in his forties with an accent I couldn't recognize, maybe Ethiopian, said he lived around the GW Bridge and was going that way. We asked how much but he waved us off. Traffic snarled and he got onto Broadway around 125th. While he wiggled the car through the streets we tried to use the cell phone and managed to get our parents and tell them we were enroute. He drove until reaching a police line at the Bus Terminal. We asked how much he wanted and he said he didn't care. We gave him $50 and thanked him for stopping and he drove off to get home. We walked the rest of the way, arriving home at 1:35 and found ten messages on the machine. We made a list and started calling. When we finished, for some geeky reason I went on IRC and into email to let those people know I was okay. I finally showered, but I still felt gritty and itched on the back of my neck and inside my people know I was okay. I finally showered, but I still felt gritty and itched on the back of my neck and inside my elbows. Hours later, after watching the news, I am still in a little shock and indescribably happy that Maria and I were okay. We are lucky. I can't even conceive of the people, folks I don't know who I pass every day, who were down there. I hope they can contact their families. I hope they are unscathed. I feel very lucky. I read in email that the a number of people I casually know, some by name, were okay. Later, after having a drink and eating something I called coworkers and asked how they got home. Everyone was fine. Their spouses were there or enroute. I can't sleep.
Decided that this coming Monday, I will go to the gym around
the block from work, show my ID badge (for the discount),
and sign up. I sit at my desk seven or eight hours a day and
a year of this is starting to show. I figure I can exercise
for thirty minutes at lunch each day without disrupting my
schedule and I might improve my health and probably improve
my disposition. At least I'll break from the office for a
little while. I'm also sleeping better since changing my
schedule, so I guess that worked.
Just for the hell of it, I threw a 3Com 3C509B- only one PCI slot and it has an eepro in it- I had lying around into the slimline P90 running OpenBSD I use as a firewall and segregated the wireless rig. Reconfigured the access point to use the BSD box as the gateway, tweaked TinyDNS and created a new instance of DNScache to serve the new network, and played with the rulesets. My wife didn't notice the difference, which is proof enough. One of these days I'm going to have to replace this AST Bravo, with its Pentium Overdrive, 32MB of EDO, and a 1GB drive scavenged from another machine, with something cheap, faster, and small. I've had this little desktop powered on since at least November 1999 (oldest file in the system). I'm open to suggestions. I might snag a sbus nic and impress my headless SS5 into the role.
Books arrived. Remaining CDROMs didn't. Vacation didn't include planning a lot of time for reading but rather than toast at the beach I read into the Stevens book and experimented. Laptop battery lasts an uninspiring sixty-three minutes before forcing FreeBSD to sleep. I'm must try without running X but I suspect that it won't make much difference as most of my time is spent using Vim, reading manpages, and running gcc. Since it's a borrowed toy, I guess I can't kick.
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Electrical Tip: A Creative Way to Hide Wires
Cables and wires are an unfortunate side effect of our technology-soaked lives. From USB connectors to power strips and electrical cords, we're swimming in jumbles of awkward wire piles. An extreme example of this cable-mania can be seen in Google's recently announced project to install thousands of miles of fiber optic cable in Missouri. It will surely take huge teams of Kansas City electricians to deal with all of it.
Most solutions to unsightly cord messes focuses on hiding them out of sight, whether it's under a desk or tucked into a corner. But what if that's not possible?
Artist Maisie Maude Broadhead has come up with one novel way to actually show off wires in her "Cable Drawing" series. Using the electrical cord from a lamp, Broadhead creates intricate architectural details that work with the existing layout of the room.


text: I am looking at my options for a breeding of my bitch off Eba X Bubba Daughter. A breeding back to Magic would line breed to Bubba, one of the more underused dogs in recent history and a dog that I liked a lot. My problem is, i just dont see much coming off Magic these days and would like to know if anyone has used his frozen lately with reasonable success?


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What tackle do you recommend for sailfish?
I am about to buy a G Loomis CC GLX.
Will that be good enough to handle them?
Are you looking at the one piece loomis CC 12wt?
I had a chance to cast one this past summer and was very impressed. Incredibly light for the available power.
The only thing I didn't like was the new style guides that make a horrible squeeking sound when the line is stripped. On the plus side the new guides are incredibly light weight and indestructible.
Sailfish do a pretty good job of wearing themselves out and tend not to sound like marlin and tuna. Large bulky flies require a lot of grains to get them to the target.
Any well made rod of 12wt and above will work for sails but you will also need a solid reel with a first class drag.
For Atlantic sails in this hemisphere I'd say that any 11-12 weight tarpon rod should do fine. For Pacific sails off Mexico and Central America I'd suggest a 13-14 weight. There is little doubt in my mind that such a rod can reduce the stress on the fish by as much as 50%. A good 13-14 weight rod is meant to fight strong fish and have lifting power that most tarpon rods can't match. And sails do sound, though not as regularly nor as deep as marlin. I've watched guys who know what they're doing try to land Pacific sails on a 12 weight tarpon rod and it's not particularly pretty. The truth is that many of the best big game fly rods are quite inexpensive. Try the Temple Fork or Cam Sigler models for about half what a Sage or Loomis will cost you. And I think they're better rods for the use intended.
rigging for sailfish
My experience in Crocodile Bay, Costa Rica. I highly recommend a 14wt. rod and a "Marlin" series Billy Pate, anti-reverse fly reel. This reel will give you plenty of room for 600 yards of backing...essential!!! Your fly should be rigged with Owner hooks, size 6 or 8. tied with 80# line and a trailer hook. While many will consider a 12 wt rod sufficient, you will have to play the fish too much and end up with both you and the fish exhausted. Good luck.
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Anyone who's ever played a sport has heard the expression, "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." A lovely sentiment, but not one that every young athlete truly takes to heart.
But this movie, The Home Run, (don't worry, it's only 7 minutes long) depicts an amazing, true story of sportsmanship and courage that beautifully illustrates how it really is how you play the game that matters most.
If you've got a child who's competing in sports, you played yourself, or you just want a great story, don't miss this. And if you're a coach, send it to everyone on your team–and to the other coaches as well.
A warning: this is a real tear-jerker, so grab some Kleenex before you settle in. And be sure to watch all the way to the end.
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This Week's Top Tweets: March 2 – 8
Posted On March 8, 2013 by Guest Blogger
This week's top tweets ranges from endangered species to insightful ideas, with a little bit of humor thrown into the mix. Check them out and let us know which one was your favorite in the comments!
1. Shark Scarcity?
New study estimates that global commercial fishing kills 100 million sharks annually, reports @eilperin: ocean.ly/Z33lKY
— Ocean Conservancy (@OurOcean) March 4, 2013
Our most popular tweet of the week deals with an updated report on the amount of sharks that are killed every year by humans, with the tally at a sobering 100 million. That's 30 to 60 percent higher than sharks can sustain at their current population growth rates, which illustrates how large of a problem dwindling shark populations are becoming. With sharks being such a naturally powerful maintenance mechanism in the ocean, this is definitely a conservation issue worth looking into.


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i picked up the li-mu-bai and yu-shu-lien figures. these are pretty neat. the sculpts, paint, and articulation are all very good.
these figures are very well balanced, and unlike the LOTR stuff, can stand easily. i just wish the jen figure had her face showing.
their clothes are made of a rubbery substance, which should be used for the jedi robes on the 3 3/4 line instead of the hard plastic.


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"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48
Raven - Moneybird's Black Magic Marker***
(Esprit's Power Play x Trumarc's Lean Cuisine)
Mick - Moneybird's Jumpin' Jack Flash***
(Clubmead's Road Warrior x Oakdale Whitewater Devil Dog)
Peerless - Moneybird's Sole Survivor
(Two River's Lucky Willie x Moneybird's Black Magic Marker)
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
Many look good from a far but as you get closer to some they look far from good.
That's my boy "Blue"!!!! Flyin High in the Passenger Side x Katie May of Belgrade
I was going to hunt for WRL'S old avatar or maybe some of Mike Baker's photo's but I haven't saved them. "Are you hittin' on me mister?" said sweet young thing. "No, but I really like your momma."!!!
"Momma's a cougar, and she ain't lookin' fer you either."
Fat, tobacco juice, dribbling regards, JD
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
I'd have kept all these musings to myself, except that an alert reader sent me the "Talking Points Memo" that O'Reilly read Thursday on his show. If you want to fully understand how it exposes O'Reilly's intellectual dishonesty, a bit of context is necessary. In the Super Bowl interview, Obama and O'Reilly tussled over whether the latter is a fair interviewer. O'Reilly would ask Obama if he had done something scandalous. Obama would say no, that's just factually wrong. O'Reilly would defend himself, saying he was just asking questions about what many believe. Obama would insist that they only believe it because Fox News treats it as fact. And O'Reilly would insist that he isn't behind it, he's just asking questions.
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke


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John Howard, Australian Prime Minister 1996-2007, delivered his Liberal Party election campaign launch speech in a post-September 11 world. It included tough language on national security and border protection.
His statements were aimed particularly at asylum seekers arriving on boats in Australian waters – at this time Australia was refusing the Norwegian freighter Tampa permission to deposit rescued asylum seeks on Australian soil.
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What was your response to John Howard's election speech? Did you agree with Howard's tough stance on border security? Did it impact on how you felt as an Australian citizen?
I suspect it's people like me John Howard means when he says 'we decide who comes here' but I don't want to be part of his 'we'. I side with the ones who admit that harm was done, is being done, and would like to make things better. At least to try. Jenny Sinclair, Melbourne, 2006
As a nation we should be able to choose who we want to come here. Let's bring in educated people with a similar culture to ours, people who will work hard and fit in to our society rather than these people who don't speak English and don't want to assimilate. Peter Ling, Manly, 2008
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7.8% Unemployment!
We will have to wait until next week, or later, when they "adjust" the actual figures ... as they do every month.
Interestingly, nobody pays a lot of attention to the "adjustments". However, when we hear that unemployment has decreased from the previous month, we later find out that it was because the previous month had been adjusted upward.
It will also be interesting to learn the further figures of how many people dropped out of the work force, to see if that may have made the unemployment numbers go down.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
I don't use the PM feature, so just email me direct at the address shown above.
Actually this was a good jobs number by all the experts, but the folks that will be voting for Obama look and hear only one thing...7.8%
Revisions come out at the next report but the indicators in this report hint at a better number next month.
This is huge for Obama....it takes wind out of Romney's sail at the same time it make folks say lets not mess with it if it isn't broke.
7.8%? It's a false number because millions of unemployed Americans had their unemployment benefits expire. They are no longer unemployed because they are now on welfare. They fell off the unemployment roll numbers and are now getting welfare. Get the facts. There are millions unemployed moving to welfare. There are over 50 million Americans on welfare now unemployment numbers will drop and the number of welfare recipients will rise to over 73 million by the end of the year, and over 100 million if we don't turn our economy around.
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That is always the case..that doesn't change the fact that jobs are being created. This is bad for republicans...that simple.
See what is happening to the price of oil too....that is going to bite them too.
Both job and oil are not functions of the president but they get the good and the bad from both....trend now is to the good, so lets see if it helps O
Its been fudged the Dept of labor is already being called on it unemployment did not change yet its lower its a miracle! They said it woud be adjusted AFTER the Election. Because Romney has gone up in all areas after the debate all of a sudden we have lower unemployment. Romney is up up up in polls O can't stand it
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363,000 jobs lost and only 114,000 created yet unemployment went down? Makes sense to me.
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I've been slowly trying to sort out the bugs I've been seeing in the FreeBSD Xen code. The first annoying crash(es) are in the netfront network driver.
I started digging in the driver and found that the bug in question is due to some reasonably brain dead behaviour in the TX mbuf ring allocation. I've committed code to FreeBSD-current which enforces that there's space in the TX mbuf ring. I'm about to commit further fixes to enforce that there's space in the Xenbus TX ring.
The current Linux code has the same flaw. It may not be so easily tickled in Linux due to the driver model but it should still be explicitly catered for. That said, I get plenty of random network interface hangs in Linux/Xen; perhaps this stuff is related.


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The Islands of Lake Titicaca
Trip Start Mar 08, 2005
19Trip End Mar 29, 2005
The main islands the tour groups stop at are obviously touristy. But there 30 relatively large islands in the area, most of which are not visited by tourists. So these people really do live this way. Most of them just do it without an audience. It's believed that the people originally took to the islands to escape from the Incas on the mainland.
From there we took a 3 hour boat ride to a large natural island called Amantani. As soon as we arrived at the island people on the tour were matched up with families they would stay with for the night. The women were dressed in traditional clothing and sat on a rock wall waiting to find out who would be staying in there home. We all waited patiently to see who our host family would be. It was like we were picking teams to play kickball during recess. Bev and I were picked last and sent to right field.
Actually it was cool because we had been chatting with an English couple during most of the journey and all four of us were set up with the same family. Our dorm mother, Gloria, introduced herself quietly and we set out up the hill toward the homes that were scattered along the terraces carved into the mountains
The English couple (there names are Doreen and Stephen, but we'll just continue to call them the English couple) had an identical room above us. It was simple but clean and quaint. Our tour included accommodation and 3 meals. The first meal was a late lunch which was served on small table in our room. The four of us enjoyed quinoa soup, white rice and potatoes. It was basic but nice. Gloria was very soft spoken and covered her head and a portion of her face when she walked. Even as she served us she rarely made eye contact. As I am from from America, I didn't know how to handle a docile and quiet woman. I tried several times to engage her in conversation but without much success. It was nice because my Spanish is atrocious, but all of these people are native Quechua speakers, so Spanish is there second language. This means that they speak slowly and deliberately, which makes them easier to speak with than most Peruvians
After lunch Gloria led us to the town square to meet up with our tour group. Our tour guide (not Gloria) told us about the island and its history. It was really fascinating. The island held a great deal of importance for the pre-Inca and the Inca. It is still important today and considered a place of great energy. We hiked to the top of the island which is home to two temples: Pachu Papa (the father) and on the other the temple of Pachu Mama (the mother). I don't know enough about the people and the history to realize and appreciate the significance of these temples, so I was resigned to simply enjoying the views the mountain provided.
Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world and is shared by Peru and Bolivia. We left from Puno on the Peruvian side. There are a number of islands and the coast line is beautiful. It is all lush and green and carved with ancient terraces. In the distance the snow peaked mountains on the Bolivan side create a startling back drop. Despite all the people, it was absolutely stunning and peaceful. As we hiked up the hill we constantly passed the people of the island, all in traditional dress and bringing items down from the fields on top of the island. If you can use your imagination and make all the westerners disappear from your view, it's fascinating and mythical
After our hike we made it back to the square just after sunset. Gloria met us there to lead us back to our house. The island has electricity but it is only used on special occasions. For some reason my visit didn't constitute a special occasion, so it was very dark. We had noticed that our house had solar panels and lights in the room. But we hadn't checked to see if they worked. So I asked Gloria if we had electricity in our room. She said no, so we bought some candles at a shop on the plaza. We had a nice 10 minute stroll in the dark back to our house guided by a single flashlight (thanks Madre). Once there we walked into our room and Gloria turned on our lights. We all looked around confused. I asked her what hours the lights worked. She said they worked all the time, and hadn't I seen the solar panels? I said yes and she left us to try to figure out the puzzle. Evidently electricity means that you're on the power grid from the generator. Solar power is some other magical form of energy. So we sat down to a lovely dinner of...quinoa soup, white rice and potatoes. It was lovely, for the second time. Gloria barely spoke to us and we were a touch disappointed in our home stay. We all thought we'd be IN a home, interacting, chatting, knitting, baking, whatever. But this was just like a relatively sub par hostel stay. But sensing our angst, Gloria appeared at 7:30 and sat down on the bed by the table
Well Gloria was still shy but we chatted a little. My Spanish was enough to find out the following things: She had 4 children aged 4-14, there were seven people in the small house, the other two her father and his second wife. Her husband has passed away; I didn't inquire as to how. And as we found out in our lesson the next day the reason she is so shy is that she is once again single. Single women wear light colored shirts, partially cover their faces when they walk, speak very quietly, and rarely make eye contact. To a very large extent, culture governs all of our behaviors whether be realize it or not. What I found so interesting in this case is that when her husband died, she was forced to revert back to a dress and demeanor that she hadn't used in at least 14 years. That must be quite difficult.
So Gloria (at 7:30) asked when we were going to bed. It has been a long day so I said probably 10 or so. She suggested 9. We settled on 9:30. She went to bed soon after. She had to be up at 5 a.m. she said. Probably to make more quinoa soup, white rice and potatoes. The four of us sat around chatting and laughing until bedtime and Doreen and Stephen headed upstairs. Bev and I chatted about far off places and fell asleep.
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Each year, Pine View School students participate in a school-wide community service project. This year, when the students were trying to develop an idea, student coordinator and senior John Potvin asked the other student planners what they thought they could do to make a difference in the community. They all agreed that they wanted to do something to thank U.S. military veterans.
"We wanted to show how much Pine View loves the community and how much we care," said Potvin. "We've always done something to help people who are less fortunate, but this was a new aspect that we'd never touched on, and we all thought we could make a big difference."
The project, titled "Pine View Salutes Our Veterans," is a yearlong project that unites the entire school, from elementary students to seniors, in a four-part effort to thank veterans on a local and national level.
The first aspect of the project involved the school adopting a local veteran, who is on 100% disability, to help provide financial assistance to him and his family.
While stationed in Korea, Pine View's veteran was frostbitten and also developed acute asthma. Pine View will work to provide him with a new air-conditioning unit, which will alleviate some of his high electric bills and asthma problems.
Other aspects of the project include partnering with Operation Military Assistance Program to fill 50 backpacks with personal-hygiene supplies to send to homeless veterans; writing letters to currently deployed soldiers and various other fundraising projects, including a change-collection day, a flea market, kickball tournaments and selling shirts and buttons.
"A lot of people know that our students are gifted, but another thing that's nice is our ability to be active in the community," said Potvin. "The best part of all of this is knowing that you can make a difference, even with small things. We wanted to come together, as a school, and say thanks to these veterans."


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text: What a year, right? The election, the hurricane, and all that other stuff I don't remember from the first half of the year. 365 days is actually kind of a long time. So let's take a pleasant stroll down memory lane to revisit some of this year's arbitrarily chosen moments in sex news. We had so much fun together!


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Daphne Bramham has been a columnist at The Vancouver Sun since 2000. Her wide-ranging columns have resulted in a number of awards and in an honorary doctor of letters degree from Capilano University in 2013. She was a finalist in 2012 for the National Newspaper Award for column writing, an award that she won in 2005, the same year that she was named Commentator of the Year by the Jack Webster Foundation."
She is a three-time winner of the Beyond Borders Media Award for her investigative work on the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C. and for a series on sex tourism in Cambodia. Her book on Bountiful – The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect – was published in 2008 by Random House and was a finalist for three national non-fiction book awards.
Prior to writing the column, she was the Sun's editorial page editor as well as the Asia-Pacific reporter.
Born in Saskatchewan, Bramham has a master of arts degree from Simon Fraser University, a bachelor of applied arts in journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto and a bachelor of arts degree in English and German literature from the University of Regina. She has been honoured as an outstanding alumna by both SFU and the University of Regina.


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The Atmega 32UC3 has a stack that supports both TCP and UDP but no one has implemented a high level library in Arduino which can access the UDP functionality.
The driver for the wifi interface shouldn't be involved in layer 4... why would implementation of UDP be any different for this board versus any other ethernet adapter?
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