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29th April 2012 04:05 AM #1
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What is your formula?
Hey there!!!
What brand of baby formula you have given your child?
What can you say about it? Is your child accepted it or not?
I gave my 2 boys the same formula as prescribed by their Paediatrician, S-26 Gold, and I did not encountered any problems. I am just grateful that my kids are very accepting in regards with their milk.
Share your stories or comments about the formula.
5th June 2012 11:12 AM #2
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This is a new question in the same thread: what is the best alternative for dairy-based formula (for an infant who cannot seem to keep down dairy-based products)?
5th June 2012 02:47 PM #3
Hi MumsHelper50,
I've heard a lot of concern over soy based formula so, personally, I would stay away from this. I would actually try a goat milk based formula, as goat milk is much more tolerable than cow milk. The reason for this is because a cow has 4 stomachs to digest it's mother's milk. A goat only has one (as do we) so goat milk is easier for us to digest.
Dr. Sears has a good article on feeding infants goat milk formula.
And here's a great recipe for raw goat milk formula inspired by the Weston A. Price foundation.
I know you had some concerns that bub may have autism and until you rule this out I would highly suggest that you do what you can to help your daughter continue lactating so that bub can have the absolute best food for humans. If this just is not possible, then my next choice would be creating a homemade raw goat milk formula.
Hope this helps.
Warm regards,
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Thank you for the info, Kate. I will definitely look into the Dr. Sears article; I am not too brave when it comes to things like making our own milk, but I will check and see what all this entails. I was encouraged that Elizabeth at least got breast milk for the first month, but her mum was afraid to continue once she got her fever with the mastitis. Even so, it was so hard for her stop expressing, her poor breasts would leak at a moments notice, heaven forbid she would stoop over to pick up something! I'm so grateful she is past all that now, it was a rough time for mum, she felt very guilty having to give up the breast milk for Elizabeth.
6th June 2012 02:51 PM #6
Hi MumsHelper50,
You'll have to do what works best for you and Elizabeth, but also know that you've only got 4 more months and then she should be able to graduate to goat milk with nothing added (or cow milk, but it sounds like she doesn't do cow milk very well). The Meyenburg Goat Milk has a very strong "goaty" flavor, so we avoid that and go with either raw goat milk from a local dairy goat breeder or milk that is sold at our local grocery store that is not ultra-pasteurized (it is pasteurized) and has an expiration date that is at least 2 weeks out. The longer the milk sits, the more goaty it will taste. However, goat milk that is less than 24 hours old tastes better than cow milk. When we get it raw, we freeze it immediately and then defrost a quart at a time by placing the container in warm water.
My 3rd baby was very sensitive to cow milk and would throw it up, so once I stopped breastfeeding (around 2 1/2 years of age) I transitioned him onto goat milk. In fact he was so sensitive to the lectins in cow milk that he would react to the predigested cow milk lectins that he got through my breastmilk. Needless to say I didn't have any dairy for 2 1/2 years, while I was breastfeeding him.
If you're concerned about possible autism or behavioral concerns I would definitely stay away from soy as the soy beans are tumbled in aluminum vats and can pick up high amounts of aluminum which can be a cause of autism. Sadly aluminum is very hard to avoid because it's in places you wouldn't normally think it would be.
And if your daughter has another baby, it's important to know that the best way to resolve mastitis is to tuck baby in next to you, even if you have fever, and let her breastfeed as much as she possibly can and in different positions to help alleviate the plugged milk ducts. Warm compresses and warm water from a bath or shower can also help to drain the ducts better, but breastfeeding is super important during that time.
And when you want to stop breastfeeding you can wrap cabbage leaves around the breast. Just take a fresh cabbage leaf, and crumple it a little to release some of the juice, and then wrap the breast in cabbage leaves. This will help to dry up the milk.
Warm regards,


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In this edition of The Making Of, we take a look at yet another one of our new collections (my, our design team has been busy).
Patriot meets pen in a premier collection celebrating all things red, white and blue. We're calling it — drum roll, please — Americana. And what better time to launch it than while we're all dreaming of fireworks and BBQs?
First, there was Inspiration.
"This collection came together as I was going over the archives," recalls VP of Creative & Product Development Rachel V. Ivey. "I noticed that Crane was present for every Presidency. With an election approaching, developing a collection that celebrates our country was a pleasure."
Next, the team thought about Americana's target customer, and came up with three types:
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An embossed George Washington was nipped and tucked to perfection…
Envelope liner color for the Peace Note were checked…
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For the second consecutive year the Hope College
men's tennis team has been honored for academic achievement by
the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
The 1999 squad is one of just 11 NCAA Division III teams
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teams who maintain a cumulative team grade point average of 3.2
or above (on a 4.00 scale).
Hope also had four members of the team named Scholar-
Athletes for achieving at least a 3.5 or higher grade point
average. Honorees are Erik Berg of Lansing (Lansing Catholic
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seniors this fall.
The Flying Dutchmen, coached by Steve Gorno, finished second
in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA)
standings last spring. The team tied a school record for dual
match victories in a season by posting a 15-3 record.
Other letterwinners on the team included Chad Bollinger of
Petoskey (Petoskey HS), Kai Bouchard of Hinsdale, Ill. (Hillsdale
Township Central HS), Kevin Gingras of Muskegon (Mona Shores HS), and Raj Malviya of Holland (Holland HS).


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*... Could Destabilize the Internet*
This starts off on a flawed assumption, that the internet is stable.
*... Could Destabilize the Internet*
This starts off on a flawed assumption, that the internet is stable.
Two words: Leopard
I think it it's "if you can't beat 'em directly on the field of battle or if you can't buy them out, see if you can choke off their logistical support". People will run from hosted Moodle because Blackboard now runs it (and starves it of good support/innovation). Then some genius administrator who holds purse strings will say "Hey, how about we host with Blackboard!?!?!"
People throw around the term 'secure' all the time
Does the OS keep apps away from data they shouldn't have access to? Does its browser have the best track-record on drive-by's etc.? Does it mean it has/hasn't been exploited in the wild or not (e.g. Safari is riddled with security problems, but how often is it pwned in the wild?)? Do you want to be able to click links wildly and not get infected (and unicorns and rainbows)? Good security policies and enforcement of them? Criteria for/review of apps in the mobile stores/markets?
The specific case from the article wasn't asking them for their password, but that's another good question angle.
This line of logic assumes that showing FB pages contain a bunch of embarrassing and undignified content/activities
Cant really come up with an argument there
I know this is
Ask the interviewer "Can you tell me what reason you need to see a personal account of mine such as Facebook?" If you're on track to a high-profile position, support of one or one where security is paramount, they may have a reason. I mean
Ask/point out that you are uncomfortable with exposing friends/families information (as well as your own). Again, a security/background check may trump that anyway (if it's a condition of the job). While it's a policy, the human in front of you may actually consider that point.
Ask "How do I know what I show you will be kept confidential?"
Maybe even ask them
*Because yes, there is a whole heck of a lot of inane stuff on Facebook.
That might work for 3 weeks or so until FB automatically resets permissions to default-world-viewable and you have to manually fix them again.
We see how that worked out for Sauron, right!?!?!
I don't have a cellphone you insensitive clod!
For security sake, maybe we should just go back to punch cards!?!?!?
>> Once you pass a certain point, people become far more vulnerable than technology, so improving the technology won't help security.
>> However, even if the hackers got the algorithms for how that works it still wouldn't help them because the algorithm again uses a set of private data (keys) for each installation. The hackers would have to get that data along with the algorithm they presumably have now.
True enough
**You misinformed, willfully ignorant and delusional Fanboi's are the reason people on / . hate Macs**
Now I remember why I love to read
PS - I run Ubuntu at home.
1) If you are a security researcher, do you want to win/pwn the MacBook Air or some random brand Winders notebook? To me, the Mac is the bigger/more fun target in an event like this.
2) From TFA: *He said the creation of a reliable exploit was "much more difficult" than finding the vulnerability.'*
Yes, Macs are not safe, but the crack was also not trivial. Something tells me they didn't come up with it on the spot.
3) From TFA: *Bekrar said VUPEN plans to hit Internet Explorer 8 on 64-bit Windows 7 (SP1) later in the contest.*
Well, we can see where they focused first.
4) 'Mac goes down first' is a much cooler headline than 'Sec. team puts all their effort into cracking Mac first, Will try Windows next'
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- Deadline Hollywood: Nikki Finke says that her sources at Disney and its rival studios both believe that "Tangled," Disney's 50th animated motion picture, had a huge opening day yesterday and will greatly exceed most box-office projections for the 5-day holiday weekend. Analysts had forecasted a cumulative take of $35-$40 million, but a Disney competitor said that early data shows that the number will be "much bigger than expected," and sources at Disney believe that it will wind up in the high $60s when all is said and done on Sunday.
- The Wrap: Dominic Patten reports the latest twist-and-turn in the investigation into last week's murder of Oscar publicist Ronni Chasen. Yesterday, TMZ, the gossip site, posted footage from October 28 — captured by a private investigator who was looking into an unrelated matter and videoing "people entering and leaving Chasen's luxury high-rise building on Wilshire" — that appeared to show Chasen driving a vehicle that was not her own, raising the obvious question of whose it was and why she was driving it. TMZ removed the video from its site, though, after friends of Chasen told The Wrap that it could not have been Chasen, as she was in Europe on that date. The mystery continues.
- 24 Frames: Steven Zeitchik notes that mothers have historically been portrayed in a favorable light on the big screen — with a few noteworthy exceptions like "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Mommie Dearest" (1981), and "Precious" (2009) — which is why he was surprised to find that in 2010 films, "All those good mothers have gone and a host evil ones have come to take their place." Among the examples that he cites: Claire Bloom's repressing Queen-mother in "The King's Speech," Barbara Hershey's overbearing stage-mother in "Black Swan," Melissa Leo's manipulative agent-mother in "The Fighter," and Jacki Weaver's conniving grand-mother in "Animal Kingdom."
- The Playlist: Kevin Jagernauth posts author/Entertainment Weekly columnist Stephen King's list of this year's top 10 films, which, as always, is among the first to be released and includes many more horror/populist selections than most critics' lists. His picks are: 1. "Let Me In," 2. "The Town," 3. "Inception," 4. "The Social Network," 5. "Takers," 6. "Kick-Ass," 7. "Splice," 8. "Monsters," 9. "Jackass 3D," and 10. "Green Zone."
- Ministry of Gossip: Matt Donnelly shares video of Monday night's episode of "Chelsea Lately" on E!, during which the talk show host Chelsea Handler interviews the actress Gwyneth Paltrow about the upcoming film "Country Strong," in which Paltrow portrays a recovering drug addict. Interestingly, Paltrow tells Handler that she called upon her "Iron Man" co-star Robert Downey, Jr., a recovering drug addict himself, for advice — "I actually e-mailed [Robert], who has been sober for a long time. He wrote me the most amazing e-mail and helped me understand it."
- The Awards Insider: Nicole Sperling observes that "Harry Potter" is "the most successful film franchise in box office history" — its first seven installment have brought in more than $5.8 billion internationally, thus far, including the recently released "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" — but has yet to register in a serious way with the Academy. (The few nominations that the franchise has received have been in categories such as art direction, costume design, and visual effects, and none have resulted in wins.) It's unlikely that the most recent installment will do much better, but Sperling explains how a strong final installment in July could result in a stronger showing, with voters "essentially honoring the eight-picture series for its overall achievement."
- Inside Movies: Dave Karger considers the possibility that Oscar voters might reward "Black Swan" with Oscar nods for both best actress hopeful Natalie Portman (who is already a "foregone conclusion") and Mila Kunis (who is still very much on the bubble). Karger also posts an exclusive clip from the film, which will debut in theaters a week from Friday.
- Cartoon Brew: "The Brewmasters" shares the Academy's recently-released list of 33 films that "have fulfilled the qualifications necessary to be considered in the category of best animated short for the 2010 Academy Awards." They note that members of the Academy's short films and feature animation branch "will vote on a shortlist of ten films from this list" and that a second round of voting will subsequently "narrow it down to the five nominees." It is of note that only three filmmakers involved with these 33 films — Tomasz Baginski, Don Hertzfeldt, and Bill Plympton — have previously been nominated for an Oscar.
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Liam Dann finds a day at the Gold Coast Sevens perfect for father-son bonding.
Father-son bonding - you've got to start early, right?
We are on the Gold Coast for a week and the International Sevens are on. So rugby it is. Why not?
It is a lazy Sunday afternoon, and it is finals day.
With Mum and the rest of the kids off to Tropical Fruit world, 4-year-old Theo and I jump out at Skilled Park, a 27,000-capacity venue home of the NRL's Titans.
Walking in with the crowd provides a great reminder of how Pacific-focused the Gold Coast has become. All the Island nations, and Kiwis, are heavily represented. We probably outnumber the green-and-gold supporters.
True to form, everyone looks like they have a bit more dosh - GC-style.
This is Theo's first time at a major sporting event and his first time at a big stadium.
I wasn't allowed to brave the wild crowds of Lancaster Park until I was 10. The highlight of one match back then was watching a varsity student get so drunk he stripped naked and urinated on his own clothes.
The Gold Coast Sevens is far removed from such debauchery. Professional sport these days goes out of its way to create a family environment.
There's a bouncy castle and dodgem cars and the fancy dress Sevens is famous for.
Gold Coast Sevens hasn't yet hit Wellington's heights as a costume festival. Still just in its second year, the aim is to grow it in similar style.
That said, if the young Kiwi blokes in front of us are any guide it looks a grand spot for a sunny afternoon of beer and rugby.
I play it safe with a two-beer limit. Theo's happy because he gets chips and a drink.
After some initial awe at the size of the venue he's revved up to watch some rugby and can't wait to see the All Blacks. You know, the "Seven's All Blacks". Shhhh ... close enough when you're 4.
Sevens is a great form of the game for kids. It moves so fast, you can generally see the ball, seven minutes each way and on to the next one.
Theo knows a few countries too. We go for England in one game because Auntie Katie lives there. They win.
We go for France because of our friends Luka and Thomas. If a team looks like losing we just switch allegiance.
After about an hour and half he's getting restless so we hit the amusements. He's game for the dodgem cars, a slightly overconfident call that ends in tears, but there are some high-speed adrenaline thrills along the way.
But we head back to our seats happy and I grab the second of those beers. He hits the icecream.
Time for the All Blacks versus Argentina. Quarter-finals rugby.
I'm realistic enough about kids to know this is just an afternoon outing, so this is the big game for us.
And it is tense. Just like the replay of last's year's World Cup quarter-final it looks for some time like it could go either way. But the All Blacks win. Celebrations - it might as well have been the World Cup final as far as Theo is concerned.
We settle back, the boy cuddles up on my knee as I sip the beer slowly and watch the shadows get longer and the crowd more boisterous.
The singing gets louder. From Gangnam Style to Country Roads. What a hit. The crowd sings on, completely ignoring the restart of the next game.
But it doesn't matter. It isn't just about the rugby any more. It is all atmosphere.
Theo has fallen asleep, the excitement has been too much. I watch a couple more games, then it's time to meet the team on the way back from Tropical Fruit world. I carry out my dreamy lad, waking just enough to recall his dodgem triumph as we pass out the gates.
Father-son bonding - mission accomplished.
Getting there: In partnership with Virgin Australia, Air New Zealand flies daily to Coolangatta Airport on the Goldcoast. Skilled Park Stadium is located in Robina just 13km from Surfers Paradise.
Accommodation: We stayed in the family-friendly apartment at Wyndham Surfers Paradise. +61 7 5579 6500
Liam Dann travelled the Gold Coast with assistance from Air New Zealand and Queensland Tourism.


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xstylus wrote:Vlad G Pohnert wrote:And Trust me, you don't need the parents to come down to the con raisng hell to what thier kids saw.. that's not what way to get parents to attend the event
Besides, why can't all you editor just make nice and clean family safe AMVs
If someone manages to make a good G rateable AMV using Urotsukidoji, Bible Black, and LA Blue Girl I will buy them all the beer they can drink at the AMV meet and greet. True bet.
Does it have to be all three sources or just one of them?


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Antennas For Handheld CB Radios
All the current model handheld CB radios we stock use the same type of antenna with a BNC connector. A BNC connector is the type that you push down and twist to attach. We carry 3 types of replacements for handheld antennas. The SA1 is a 9.5 inch flexible rubber antenna similar to the antenna that ships with most handheld CB's. The SA2 is a similar antenna, only longer at 2 ft. This antenna will give your handheld a little more range. The Cobra HATA antenna is a 27 inch telescoping antenna. It is not flexible like the other two, but gives you the ability to collapse the antenna for storage.
In addition to these antennas, an external antenna can be connected to a handheld CB radio. Any properly set up CB antenna will connect to, and work with, a handheld radio with the proper adapter. The most common Mobile CB antenna connection is a PL259. This can be adapted for a handheld CB with an AR3 adapter.


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V&A Illustration Awards 2014
V&A Illustration Awards 2014
Congratulations to the five winners of the 2014 V&A Illustration Awards who were presented with their prizes at the awards ceremony on 2 June.
This year's published category judges were Art Director at Telegraph Media Group Gary Cochrane, Art Director at Profile Books Peter Dyer and V&A Director of Design Moira Gemmill.
Judging the student entries were illustrator and lecturer Leah Fusco, who was a Student Award winner in 2007, and designer James Nunn.
A display of the winning illustrations can be seen in the National Art Library Landing Gallery from 3 June – 2 July 2014.
Click on the tabs above to see the winners in each category.
The V&A Illustration Awards celebrate the best illustration published over the last year. Original artwork from the best illustrated book, book cover, editorial illustration and student illustrator of the year are recognised.
The V&A Illustration Awards are supported by the Enid Linder Foundation


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Swan-Ganz catheterization is the passing of a thin tube (catheter) into the right side of the heart and the arteries leading to the lungs to monitor the heart's function and blood flow, usually in persons who are very ill.
Right heart catheterization; Catheterization - right heart
The test can be done while you are in bed in an intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital or in special procedure areas such as a cardiac catheterization laboratory.
Before the test starts, you may be given a mild sedative to help you relax.
You will lie on a padded table. Your doctor will make a small surgical cut near the groin or in your neck. A flexible tube (catheter, or "sheath") is placed through the opening, into a vein. Sometimes it will be placed in your arm or wrist. You will be awake during the procedure.
A larger catheter is inserted and carefully moved into the upper chamber of the right side of the heart. X-ray images may be used to help the doctor see where the catheter should be placed.
Blood may be removed from the catheter to measure the amount of oxygen in the blood.
During the procedure, your heart's rhythm will be constantly watched using an electrocardiogram (ECG).
You should not eat or drink anything for 8 hours before the test starts. You may need to stay in the hospital the night before the test. Otherwise, you will check in to the hospital the morning of the test.
In critically ill patients, the test may be done in the intensive care unit.
You will wear a hospital gown. You must sign a consent form before the test. Your health care provider will explain the procedure and its risks.
You may be given sedation to help you relax before the procedure, but you will be awake and able to follow instructions during the test.
You may feel some discomfort when the IV is placed into your arm and some pressure at the site when the catheter is inserted. In critically ill patients, the catheter may stay in place for several days.
You may feel discomfort when the area of the vein is numbed with anesthetic.
The procedure is done to evaluate how the blood moves (circulates) in people who have:
It may also be done to monitor for complications of heart attack and to see how well certain heart medications are working.
Swan-Ganz catheterization can also be used to detect abnormal blood flow between two usually unconnected areas.
Conditions that can also be diagnosed or evaluated with Swan-Ganz catheterization include:
Abnormal results may be due to:
Risks of the procedure include:
Very rare complications include:
Davidson CJ, Bonow RO. Cardiac catheterization. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders; 2011:chap 20.
Kern M. Catheterization and angiography. In: Goldman L,Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 55.
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I dont know about your states gun laws but all of that is needed now to own a gun in my state and my higher authority is the second amendment.
Yet my brother in law got a DWI several years back and had to use a public defense attorney and ended up with a fellony charge for that and now he can not own a gun or hunt because of a irresponsible driving decision...he was not in a wreck and was on an ATV on a county gravel road.
You'd really hate the pic of my 9 year old shooting my AR "deer rifle" then, but I guess if it was a wooden stock 223 with bolt action it wouldnt be a problem.
Sooo if the Christmas cards where with a kids first deer and they had their bolt action ,would that be acceptable to you?
I see your type as the ones that say if you cant beet em join em. Go ahead give them 2 of your guns and tell them one is mine !
Example ... Ted Nuggent ,very extreme yes I agree ,but he has a much needed role in this fight because they have their extremest's and we need them on our side also to trump the Rosanne Barr's for equal balance.
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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Ok...keep looking at it through rose colored glasses. But tell me, wouldn't it be smarter just to enjoy our guns and use them as the tool they were designed for without making mockery with them? Oh no...I used a $5 word. Just think about it....enjoy your guns and keep it to yourself....I'm sure their is a mom at the your children's school that would be very alarmed to hear that your young children or handling firearms especially assault rifles.
When I lived in NJ....I found out that one my sons friends could not come to my house because we had guns in the house, albeit they were in a safe. So encouraging the bragging of shouting assault rifles with children gets parents nervous.
Kind of like our dog trials...we don't push them on the folks that view the useless killing of ducks. So out of sight out of mind and no one complains. But if we did, it would just be a matter of time and we would be using the rubber ducks like in Canada
That being said, I completely agree with the second point. That photo, which is perfectly OK (except I don't like the fact that it appears that all have fingers inside the trigger guards) within some sections of the sporting population, could easily be used pretty convincingly against gun owners by the shrill elements of the anti gun faction. Once on the web, everybody can see it and use it for their own purposes. I hesitate to use words like stupid (you see I didn't use any in my first paragraph), but this photo seems ill advised and perhaps a bit naive to me.
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
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But its not out of sight out of mind ,when a NFL thug makes national news for killing his babies momma,then the heat is put right back on responsible gun owners.
By no means am I the type to parade my guns around ,but I will also not look the other way as extremists try to take them.
The only thing that gun assaulted was a piece of paper,it inflicked the same damage as your so-called hunting rifle.
If the NJ parents where not so mis-informed about you as a gun owner maybe the kid could have came over ,but instead people like you choose to keep quite about how guns and responsibility go hand and hand.
Canada uses rubber ducks because they gave into goverment ruling long before the duck issue...see how this cycle works ...give an inch and they will take a mile.
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Susan Odom of Atmore, Ala., believes she would have choked to death if she hadn't dialed 911 on a traditional copper wire landline. A 911 call from a cellular phone or an Internet-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service often requires routing the call to the correct emergency response center, which can cause delays for first responders when every second counts.
"If you call 911 from a landline, you get several advantages," Odom said on her local newspaper's website of the 2009 incident. "First, the call shows up on a computer screen in the correct 911 center. The screen shows a map and exactly where the call is coming from, the address and the name of the residence. Should the caller be unable to speak, get confused or not know where they are, the 911 screen shows EMS … right where to go."
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Since copper lines are self-powered, "it makes even more sense," for older people in rural communities or areas prone to storms to resist offers from cable, cellular and satellite companies, Santanam says. "In case of bad-weather conditions, landline phones are much more likely to be available," he says. "For example, satellite-based Internet services in rural areas can have outages during storms." And cellular towers can be vulnerable to losing power in natural disasters, as occurred during Hurricane Sandy.
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"Reverse 911 calls" — prerecorded robocalls that enable authorities to notify people about imminent dangers such as tornados — don't automatically contact cellular or VoIP phones.
"Landline carriers are required to provide the phone numbers of their customers to local reverse 9-1-1 systems," writes Carmelita Miller on the website of the Greenlining Institute, a think tank in Berkeley, Calif. Cellphone users and VoIP customers generally must sign up to receive emergency alerts.
Harold Feld, senior vice president of Public Knowledge, a consumer watchdog organization in Washington, D.C., says that abandoning a landline to save a few dollars per month can prove costly. "Unlike traditional phones, there's no mandatory quality of service for any of the newer technologies," says Feld. The quality of VoIP and cellphones is "very variable," he says. Medical alert services and remote monitoring of medical devices such as pacemakers that are designed for traditional landlines may or may not "work on an IP substitute and will absolutely not work on wireless," he says.
Feld says landlines could become an endangered species. AT&T and Verizon, the two largest landline providers, are eliminating some landlines because maintaining them is less profitable than providing wireless or VoIP services.
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A few days ago I've published a short analysis of a Trojan dropper which I call DNSTrojan (see New Dropper Uses DNS To Communicate). During this week I've tried to mitigate the threat by nuking at least some of the DNSTrojan C&C domain names by pointing them to my sinkhole.
In the first attempt I was able to redirect the traffic of the C&C servers to my sinkhole for around 9 hours. Afterwards the cybercriminals propagated a new C&C domain to the infected clients using httpdsconfig.com (the infected clients regularly contacting httpdsconfig.com using DNS to receive a list of C&C domains they should use).
A few hours later I was able to sinkhole the new domain name as well. Below is a chart showing the number of Apache handlers during the time the domain names have pointed to the sinkhole:
As you can see, the sinkhole had a huge server load. In totally, the C&C traffic has been redirected to my sinkhole for 10 hours. During this time I was able to count 23'000 unique IPs hitting the sinkhole. So I estimate the botnet size to 35k-50k unique IPs per day. This seems to be a huge number but in fact this isn't a really BIG botnet (let's compare: recently I was able to monitor a botnet which had a size of over 320'000 unique IPs per day).
Below is a chart which shows the botnet Geo location of the Trojan:
During the sinkhole action I was confronted with a unexpected problem: The botnet size wasn't a problem but the fact that each bot queries the C&C every 30 seconds struggled my server into some performance problems. As you can see on the chart above, it ended with a downtime of the sinkhole server. In cooperation with Shadowserver I've now moved the domain names over to the Shadowservers sinkhole which should be able to handle that amount of requests easily.
In the last blog post I've published a list of C&C domains which are associated with the Trojan. Below is a updated list with additional domain names which I've came across so fare:
Another interesting find which I've made during the sinkholing action is that the cybercriminals are obviously using some kind of monitoring server. They periodically calling a PHP file called check.php on the C&C domain names to check whether the servers are still accessible:
220.127.116.11 "HEAD /check.php HTTP/1.1" 200 "curl/7.18.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/184.108.40.206 libidn/1.8 libssh2/0.18" "
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AS number: AS49770
AS name: SERVERCONNECT-AS ServerConnect Sweden AB
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IP address: 126.96.36.199
AS number: AS16265
AS name: LEASEWEB AS
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If we put the things together we can draw the following picture:
As shown above, the C&C servers are obviously just acting as nginx proxies which are redirecting the to the real mothership (which is currently unknown). Here is the list of nginx proxies which I've identified so far:
188.8.131.52 | US | AS32097 | WII-KC – WholeSale Internet, Inc.
188.8.131.52 | US | AS32097 | WII-KC – WholeSale Internet, Inc.
184.108.40.206 | US | AS32097 | WII-KC – WholeSale Internet, Inc.
18.104.22.168 | US | AS32097 | WII-KC – WholeSale Internet, Inc.
126.96.36.199 | US | AS32097 | WII-KC – WholeSale Internet, Inc.
184.108.40.206 | US | AS32097 | WII-KC – WholeSale Internet, Inc.
188.8.131.52 | US | AS32097 | WII-KC – WholeSale Internet, Inc.
188.8.131.52 | US | AS32097 | WII-KC – WholeSale Internet, Inc.
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text: Aerospace & Defense Print this page Overview Expanding a company internationally while managing complex security regulations. Scenario planning for a world that could become very different overnight, depending on who wins a war or an election. These are only two of the various types of challenges that Wharton Executive Education might explore in a learning and development partnership with an aerospace and defense firm like yours. Expertise To confront the changing nature of the aerospace and defense marketplace, many leading defense companies are aggressively focused on becoming more agile by driving transformational enterprise-wide change. At Wharton Executive Education, we help A&D firms like yours to grow by developing learning solutions linked to your company's strategic business goals and competency models. For example, if you are an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) firm looking to manage the uncertainty of sequestration, we might collaborate around a learning program that helps your top talent become more nimble in order to focus less on contracts and more on commercialization. From monetizing new technologies to shifting corporate culture, we help A&D firms take advantage of their strong resources and core competencies. Examples of topic areas include: Scenario Planning Integration of Strategy and Finance Corporate Value Creation Strategy Execution Translating Military or Engineering Leadership Skills into Corporate Success Leading and Changing Corporate Culture Collaborating Across Organizational Silos Thought Leadership Wharton Executive Education creates educational experiences that will transform the way your firm does business. In creating a custom engagement, we may draw on Wharton resources like these: Mack Institute for Innovation Management The Mack Institute for Innovation Management is an exclusive network that connects business leaders, researchers, world-class Wharton faculty, and students. At the Institute, thought leaders from across academic disciplines and industries come together to explore how companies survive, compete, and thrive through innovation management. The Institute's multidisciplinary faculty and researchers develop practical approaches to managing innovation and share this knowledge through thought-provoking conferences, workshops, and publications. Visit the Institute's website » Tools & Solutions We have partnered with a range of world-class aerospace and defense firms to create transformative executive education experiences. Some examples of tools and solutions we have used in custom education engagements include: Leadership Development Solution Wharton Executive Education partnered with ITT Exelis, a diversified top-tier global aerospace, defense and information solutions company, to create a leadership development program designed to strengthen the company's leadership pipeline. The residential program, which was led by Wharton faculty, featured business acumen and leadership content explicitly linked to Exelis' core competencies. The program included a business simulation, experiential sessions, incorporation of individual coaching sessions into the larger program, and integration of Exelis' leaders in teaching roles. Enterprise-wide action learning projects were C-suite sponsored and coached by Wharton faculty. Participants left the program with actionable plans designed to improve efficiency and directly affect Exelis' bottom line. Faculty Ian MacMillan, DBAThe Dhirubhai Ambani Professor; Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Director, Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center, The Wharton SchoolResearch Interests: Entrepreneurship, new venture management, strategic managementSee Faculty Bio


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Braun Men's Analog Chronograph Watch BN-35WHG
Braun Corporation celebrated 90 years in 2011, and the design world celebrated the return of Braun timepieces. Braun's clocks, watches and calculators of the 1980s were known for their clarity, reduction and innovative technology. Produced under a renewed license, these watches and clocks are in some cases very close to the originals, in others they are updated to meet today's technology.
As head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Dieter Rams (born 1932) emerged as one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century by defining an elegant, legible, yet rigorous visual language for its products. Each of the hundreds of products he developed during forty years with Braun, was unerringly elegant and supremely versatile.
Rams' objective was to design useful products which would be easy to operate. His designs always looked effortless with an exquisite simplicity born from rigorous tests and experiments with new materials and an obsessive attention to detail to ensure that each piece appeared flawlessly coherent. Dieter Rams remains an enduring inspiration for younger designers, notably Jonathan Ive and Jasper Morrison, who have acknowledged his influence in their work at Apple and Rowenta respectively.View other products by Dieter Rams
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BIG BIG BIG CONGRATULATIONS!!! To O/H Pam King & Top Flight's "Cherry"Bomb for finishing the derby JAM at the Labrador Retriever Club of MI. This was Cherry's first derby ran & Pam handled her spectacular. Great Job.
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Perhaps the most anticpated film for me since Episode II or Lord of the Rings, One Hour Photo first came to my attention nearly a year ago.
Based solely on the strength of the image used for the movie poster (that of Robin Williams as his character Sy Parrish looking passionatly at a strip of 35mm film negative) and a brief description of the concept of the film, I anxiously awaited its release. When I finally had word that this film was to premiere, I was crestfallen to discover that it was going to be one of those "limited release" situations. A major studio (in this case, 20th Century Fox) finds excatly the type of script that they proclaim is so rare in Hollywood, puts up the money to carry it through production, then abandons it at distribution. This was the unfortunate fate of "Memento", a film I nearly missed on the big screen. It seemed that I would be making quite a trek from Arlington to far North Dallas if I hoped to see Robin Williams in what promised to be his finest hour as a dramatic actor.
But alas, the folks at Fox Searchlight had mercy on me and this gem of a film and it has now been afforded a much broader release. And that being the case, there should be no excuse not to seek it out as I did. And as for the promise of that first fleeting image and plot synopsis? "One Hour Photo" delivers!
Robin Williams shines like never before in a disturbing performance as photo technician Sy Parrish. The depth of this character is so great that nothing of Williams' own manic personality is allowed to show through (an unfortunate side-effect all too common when the transition is made from purly comic to purly dramatic acting). Obsessed with a suburban family through his vicarious intrusion into their lives (from years of processing their photographs), Williams' character begins a decent into madness that is both realistic and unflinching. And despite what on the surface may seem a transparant and predictable plotline, "One Hour Photo" is repleat with surprises. Like a negative that slowly reveals the photograph contained within, the plot slowly, methodically develops, not quite revealing the entire picture all at once. I cannot give a high enough reommendation to this haunting drama.


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Over the past three years, Hanley Wood has consulted building and architecture experts under its Vision 2020 program to discuss the role of sustainability in the future of the design and construction industry between now and 2020. The consensus is that we must change the way we design, construct, and operate our buildings, and we must do it now. So what does this mean?
For Hanley Wood Sustainability Council members Doug Bennett and Mary Ann Lazarus, it means expanding the scope of our professional relationships to tap into new collaborations and alliances. Bennett is the conservation manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and Vision 2020 Water Efficiency section leader, while Lazarus is the founder of HOK's sustinable design initiative, AIA resident fellow, and co-lead of the Building Design + Performance section for Vision 2020.
How can architects and builders work with the utilities and other partners to advance sustainability? How can utilities and other partners work with architects and builders?
Doug Bennett: I'll tell you about my "aha" moment related to this. By the mid 2000s, I had been a conservation professional for a while, and spent my time gong to siloed meetings with other conservation professionals. Yet when I got home from each one, I'd have other meetings with builders and consultants who were looking for guidance regarding water. With this in mind, I approached the American Water Works Association about inviting other sectors and people to our meetings to make them more dynamic and to build relationships that would help everyone involved. But they said no.
I kept insisting that we needed more interaction and after a couple of years, my own agency allowed me to start an interdisciplinary conference, which became Water Smart Innovations. There are more than 100 presentations, and people are only allowed to speak for 25 minutes. The idea is to share ideas and find common interests among 1,000 people who ordinarily wouldn't interact that much.
Mary Ann Lazarus: There's value to having everyone in the room. From my experience, with an integrated design solution, you want people that will be operating a building in on the early decision making process because they can not only come up with pretty innovative ideas, but also can offer a reality check.
The team is changing. There is the traditional team that includes engineers, architects, planners, and specialty consultants. But, in the last 20 years, there have been changes to include contractors, as well as a new layer of team members who start to touch on additional issues that we recognize are important, even if we don't really understand how they work. This can lead to breakthrough thinking. As an example, at HOK I've worked through a collaboration with the Biomimicry Institute, known as Biomimicry 3.8 after the idea that we can understand the way nature has solved problems for 3.8 billion years, and adapt these lessons either directly or analogically to the built environment. To work on those translations, we've had biologists—people who have training in biological solutions and adapting and abstracting them to make them understandable to design professionals—at the table. This opens up a whole new world of ideas.
Another partnership that is really important is with building scientists to create a deeper knowledge of the science and being able to do early performance models to help guide performance. A third that is just starting to appear in the world of design and planning is with climate scientists who provide data and predictability to climate change modeling. There is a new ilk of social scientists that is also hugely important because actual building performance is very dependent on occupants. Do you understand how to work with occupants and bring them into the design process? How does that engagement become part of the long-term operations plan? These questions make a social scientist a very valid member of the team.
These are just a few examples of the next iteration of specialists and knowledge that can be brought in to provide a different way of thinking and, like Doug said, it really opens up the dialogue.
Bennett: You mentioned a few things that could be contact points between architects and utilities, and one is climate change. Progressive utilities are getting very involved with climate change and hiring their own climate professionals who can interpret scientific studies. Climate change has the potential to dramatically affect our long-term resource portfolios, so that's an arena where we may all be able to talk along the same plane. If my water supply is going to change, then changing the built environment is a good way to try to cope with that. How can we predict the change and how it will affect demand over time?
The other interesting element you mentioned is occupant engagement because I believe we both get unintended consequences in this realm where you think people will interact with an idea in one way and they don't. Sometime you get the opposite of what you were aiming for, and there's a lot to be learned there. However, professionals on projects cash their checks and move on. It's too rare that people go back and look under the hood to see what they did, how it's performing, how the building is functioning with people in it, how people use the amenities and features put into the building, and what can be learned for the next project. I would guess that there are a lot of people in the architectural field that just look at one project at a time.
Lazarus: The way that contracts are written pushes that model, but there is an element of the profession that is trying to build post-occupancy evaluation into the process. It's not mainstream yet, but one step was LEED requiring the owner to report energy and water use after a year. This info goes into a database where can be analyzed. Another is the benchmarking legislation that is developing around the country.
When you're doing responsible, energy-efficient design, the effect of occupant variables can be very big. If you've taken care of all the things that you can automate, and you have highly efficient systems, lighting, and a high-performance envelope, then you see occupant issues becoming critical. How can you build that into the planning and address both the occupant's needs and flexibility? You don't want to design a new building that can't change function—it has to be flexible and adaptable to whatever comes down the pipe so that it's not torn down and replaced.
Doug, we've chatted about your interactions with homeowners and ways to engage people. Are there things that you've learned that could translate to the building design process?
Bennett: One thing that came to mind when Mary Ann was speaking was Jevons Paradox, which is the theory that as you make something more efficient, people will increase their consumption of it. We see it happen. It's a behavioral thing where people use efficient devices and designs as a rationale for loosening up on their conservation efforts. For example, think of someone who gets a hybrid car and ends up driving more miles per year. Why do they do this? One reason is that they think it is ok and the other is that the impact the gas pump is lower and for the same amount of gas money they were spending before, they can drive 50 percent farther. The same behavior is true when you give people things such as LED lighting—they are become more likely to leave the light on when they leave a room because they rationalize that it's only using a tiny amount of energy. We have seen this in graywater studies. An Australian utility gave people graywater systems and found people increased their potable water use. Does this mean we should try to hide efficiency efforts?
We've also found that people consider graywater or alternative water supplies to be a low-valued resource so they only use it on low-valued uses. It's the idea that if you were walking to work today and found $20 on the street, you wouldn't spend it as thoughtfully as you would $20 that you earned by working, because the money on the ground came to you for free and it seems like bonus money. It's similar to people who get their tax rebate and buy a motorcycle or things they wouldn't spend their hard-earned money on. People behave that way with a lot of things, including fuel, electricity, and water. For example, if you have a high-efficiency toilet, do people flush it more?
Lazarus: That provides more reason for bringing in the social scientists who really understand these behavior issues.
Bennett: We have to keep in mind that some technologies work really great in the hands of the choir and that often, in our professions, we're engaging with the choir—people who think like us. However, these technologies may not work as well with the masses at the karaoke bar because they don't care as much as we do. There are technologies, such as alternative water supplies, that produce great results in the hands of green thinkers, but produce horrible results in the hands of the tract-home dweller.
Lazarus: Thinking about the early days of doing green buildings at HOK, we would get excited to try new techniques and products, such as incredible light controls. The clients were willing to try them, but we learned that the technology could be more sophisticated than the client could handle. The easiest thing to do was the stuff that no one knew about.
Bennett: My pet peeve with show homes that have the highest level of cutting-edge technology is that it seems wasteful. We put extreme things in these homes rather than thinking about how to get 10 percent better housing for 50 percent of the market instead of doing high-tech homes for three percent of the housing market. We need early adopters to get press and lead the way for others to follow in their footsteps, but I think we tend to go overboard and miss the opportunity to make what we are doing incrementally better and get a large number of people to adopt it.
Lazarus: We always liked to say "raise the base, stretch the top." If everything was a little bit better, you'd have a net benefit past the one or two signature projects. Those signature projects demonstrate the feasibility of doing breakthrough ideas. You can't have one without the other.
How do you forecast the type of use or occupant behavior that might happen in a building? How do you create flexibility knowing that the performance may not necessarily end up being there at first?
Bennett: We look at averages. A person in one unit may use three times as much energy as someone living the same hours in the unit next door. Sometimes I look up the water usage on my own street because I'm familiar with the people living there and what their landscape looks like, and it's all over the place. As a utility, all you can do it look at the larger outcomes and find what is expected from the average home.
Lazarus: Monitoring and submetering is important so that we can watch and see if something has been left on over the weekend. It's been promoted as a long-term efficient methodology that might have an upfront cost, but it pays off and there is a track record now showing the benefits of metering and submetering.
In terms of flexibility, things are changing and we now talk about being net-zero ready. Can you design or retrofit a building to potentially transfer a clean energy solution to it? Those kinds of strategies are being developed so that we don't necessarily depend on a particular electricity or water source.
In terms of resilient design, you don't want to be relying on a single system. Optimally, you will have a backup system that could be used temporarily if you are without power for a while. Hospitals and crisis centers did this in an old-fashioned way, but they also are now taking other technologies into account, such as PV that can feed back into the grid. To me, it's not just about flexibility of a utility, it's also about flexibility with redundancy.
Bennett: You still have to be sensitive about the cost of those things because they don't get used often.
Lazarus: That's the conundrum.
Bennett: I found it interesting that Tucson adopted a code so that all new homes need to be dual plumbed so the homeowner can choose to use greywater if they wish. It added $1,200 to the cost of building a home, and they built more than 700 homes. But no one connected to the greywater system. The advocates anticipated 20 to 30 percent of people doing it in the near term, but so far no water has been reclaimed.
The reality is that most people think "Water comes into my house, it goes out, I pay a bill, and I'm fine." Now, don't get me wrong: The system is an asset at some point. But it's discouraging to see how much it cost to do that and have such a little impact, when there are other ways to spend that money and product results on day one.
I wanted to go back to something Mary Ann brought up. One of the challenges of utilities is that they are local. Now, big firms such as HOK work all over the world and can design a building anywhere that there is a client and analyze the situation in each place. Utilities don't do that—they focus on their specific place and customer base. One of the challenges in finding data and comparable building types. If we wanted to study multifamily housing to see how much more efficient it is than single-family housing, we may want to collect data from other cities and communities, but one of the challenges ins that because utilities are local, they all have different classification systems. I don't have the same customer classes as my peers in Texas and what I call a Class 3 residential multifamily dwelling in my jurisdiction may be a Class 4 in Texas. So, when you want to combine data on bigger projects, there's an extraordinary amount of work that must be done on the front end to make sure you put apples in the apple basket and oranges in the orange basket. That data would be extremely valuable to the green buildingdycfftxqtbycyerfv effort. You wouldn't necessarily need tons of sub-metering data, but you would at least have base-level data on the performance of different buidings.
Lazarus: USGBC is starting to gather that kind of data on LEED buildings, and we primarily rely on the CBECS database for standard energy use across the nation by building type, but it's now 11 years old. You can drill down regionally, but sometimes people tell me that the regional numbers are bogus because there are too few buildings in the mix. I hadn't heard that this was a quandary on the utility side, but we're hampered by this, too, and it's constantly a challenge.
Stay tuned for future conversations between the 2014 Hanley Wood Sustainability Council participating in our Vision 2020 program. Scroll over points in our on-going timeline to learn more about the path ahead in green building. Track our progress all year as the Hanley Wood Sustainability Council shares its perspectives on initiating, tracking, and ensuring progress toward these sustainable priorities and goals. This year's program will culminate in an exclusive Vision 2020 Sustainability Summit in conjunction with Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in New Orleans, and with a special Fall edition of ECOBUILDING REVIEW.


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Erickcek wins Churchill Scholarship for study at Cambridge
Posted March 11, 2003; 02:08 p.m.
Senior Adrienne Erickcek has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship for graduate work at Churchill College, Cambridge University, next year. She is one of 11 students who received the scholarship, which pays for a year of tuition, fees and living expenses.
Erickcek is an A.B. candidate in the Department of Physics . At Cambridge, she will earn a certificate of advanced study in mathematics (similar to a one-year master's degree) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
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OK, so as you think the chosen one is some sort of hero, tell me why I have any reason to vote for someone who has trashed me for playing by the rules?
A few examples: cash for clunkers.. Why is my hard earned money buying someone else a new car??? I had 2 clunkers according to him but they both missed by 1 mpg. Uh???
I get soaked in federal income taxes yet I buy someone a car?????
A friend on the west coast should be foreclosed on due to nonpayment. INsane as they just got 2 percent for 5 years and then 2.5 percent fixed for the rest of the loan. WHAT THE FUC*????? I pay extra on my mortgage every month and get screwed for doing that! They pay no costs for that refi yet if I want to go fixed I'll pay points etc even though I'm not behind and have paid down 75 K beyond the required payments.
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I was bouncing around on some of the blogs and found a cool post on a blog that I follow. The subject was something that I think we all do or have, but give little or no thought to… What do you keep in your pack, or items that never leave your pack. I read her list and then some of the comments and it got me to thinking and actually running out to my pack to see what I never take out.
I assumed at the outset that this list was to be that stuff that NEVER comes out of my pack.. so for me that would be those items that I take no matter what kind of camping I am doing, no matter where I am going, or no matter how long or far I am venturing in the woods.
The other component to this discussion is who I am camping with. Scouts or just friends and family.
So I want to know what those items are in your pack. Here is my list of items that just never come out of the pack.
1. First Aid kit. I check it annually when we show the new Scouts some of the things that they should consider when making their own kits. But it never comes out of my pack and is always loaded in the right hip belt.
2. Poop kit. This kit consists of bags, toilet paper, Wet One singles. Pretty sure that's self explanatory.
3. Ditty bag of fire starting materials. A couple cotton balls covered in Vaseline, a few Wet Fire cubes, a Light My Fire fire steel, and a few sticks of Fat wood and a lighter.
4. Zip lock bag with one extra wool socks.
5. Ditty bag with about 50 feet of line and a compass, Micro pure tablets.
6. UCO Candle Lantern
7. Headlamp and 2 extra batteries.
8. Clothing bag with synthetic long sleeve top, Poly long bottoms, beenie hat, light gloves.
9. Hammock (Warbonnet Blackbird) and Tarp (Warbonnet Super Fly)
10. Water Filter
I remove my tarp and hang it dry for a day or so then it goes right back in.
I always keep my Top quilt and Under quilt hanging till I need them.
Clothing is decided in planning for the trip.
Food bag is clipped to backpack till I load it. Water Bladders are in food bag till they are filled.
Cook kit is loaded on outside of pack and I decide how much fuel etc when I meal plan.
I wear my knife (Light My Fire Mora).
So that's the basics.. What never leaves your Pack?
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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I am a turkey hunter. I have been for over 30 years. I also perform pre-market and post-market testing for many companies, including turkey choke manufacturers.
For the last 10 years or so I've participated in still target shooting events. You win those events by putting the most pellets in a 3" circle (none touching the outside line, a "clean" target) at 40 yards, shooting without a rest.
It's my belief that those shoots had some relevance 10 years ago when turkey guns, turkey chokes and turkey shells were largely non-existent. Those events, sponsored by the NWTF, inspired gun, choke and shotshell manufacturers to better their products and we've all benefited from those improvements.
Today, at least in my opinion, the shotshell manufactures have surpassed all expectations of 10 years ago and have shells that are much better than we could have ever anticipated. While they've been working to make shells that deliver good even patterns, in a 10" or 20" circle, still target shoots have continued to concentrate on what combination could deliver the highest count in a 3" circle.
I don't think that 3" circle has much relevance to most of us as turkey hunters or to shotshell manufacturers currently.
I'd like to know what you, as a turkey hunter, want as far as a pattern goes, from your turkey choke and shotshell.
Would you like an even pattern in 10", in 20" or what sized circle, at 40 yards? Is 40 yards the standard you use or is there another distance that make more sense to you?
Do the results of a "still target shoot" mean anything to you? Would those results mean more to you if they more closely resembled hunting patterns?
If you could decide what the standards would be for winning a still target shoot, what would they be?
I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this.
P.S. I apologize for the length of this post. I'm just trying to find a way to help all of us make better decisions on what we use for hunting.


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If you've heard anything about Mazda recently, chances are it was talk about the highly anticipated debut of the redesigned 2016 MX-5 Miata, the iconic 2-passenger roadster that sports new styling, greater refinement, and a long list of upgrades. However, while the spotlight may shine brightest upon the Miata, the new-for-2016 CX-3 crossover SUV deserves its share of attention, too, as do the mildly restyled Mazda 6 and CX-5. Also returning is the popular Mazda 3, now offered in fewer configurations but with additional standard features. The unique Mazda 5 miniaturized minivan has been discontinued.
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Hi everyone!
Just wanted to say hello from Connecticut and look forward to learning as much as I can. I've been hunting for 35 years now (both my son and daughter hunt as well) and have had GSPs and we now have Labs - Chocolates - Love the brown dogs. Hannah will be seven this year and Jackson has just joined our family and only 11 weeks old. After having GSPs, Hannah was our first lab and we just fell in love with the breed. She does hunt and I use her exclusively in water. Lost my 16 year old GSP last November and he was my field dog. We don't do much upland hunting anymore, grouse are hard to come by and our pheasant program here in CT stinks which is why we moved to ducks and geese and the reason for our first lab. Look forward to catching up on all the great information here and learning as much as I can - sure wish I would have found this site years ago.