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How to Solo Like Angus Young, Jimmy Page and Tony Iommi
Jimmy Page was inspired by many of the same American blues guitar heroes as his British blues/rock contemporaries Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Peter Green. These heroes include the three Kings—Albert, B.B. and Freddie—as well as T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy and Otis Rush.
Page was also equally influenced by the fiery intensity of rockabilly guitarists Cliff Gallup (Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps) and Scotty Moore (Elvis Presley), as well as the futuristic daring of Les Paul. A student of many different styles of guitar playing, Page always combines in his solos a well-balanced structure and sense of melodic development with true depth of feeling. His progressive approach to soloing has pushed the nature of blues/rock guitar to previously unimagined territory.
FIGURE 5 is an eight-bar solo representative of Page's improvisation style. It's played in the key of A minor over a repeating Am-G-F (i-bVII-bVI) chord progression. The majority of the solo is based on A minor pentatonic (A C D E G), beginning in fifth position with a D-to-E bend on the G string. This note is bent and shaken using the same reinforced fingering and thumb leveraging techniques described earlier in reference to FIGURE 3.
This initial bend is followed by a stream of cascading 16th notes played across the next four beats on the top three strings, with notes quickly alternating between either the fifth and seventh frets or the fifth and eighth frets. Through the majority of this solo, a balance of eighth and 16th notes is achieved, giving the solo a forward-leaning quality as each phrase flows seamlessly into the next.
Over an F chord in bars 2, 4, 6 and 8, I occasionally incorporate an F note into the A minor pentatonic-derived lines in order to clearly relate the solo line to the backing chord progression; this approach is a Page trademark. Adding this one note also serves to broaden the solo beyond the strict blues territory while also strengthening the melodic quality of the licks.
Bar 5 begins with a descending run wherein a stream of 16th notes are phrased in two six-note groups that form an interesting melodic contour. A similar phrasing approach is used in bar 6 with successive four-note descending groups. The solo develops interestingly and builds to a climax in bars 7 and 8 with a repeated melodic "shape" that ascends the A minor pentatonic scale in seven-note phrases, starting from either the root note or the fifth each time.
While this may sound overly analyzed, in truth it is the application of these melodic phrasing techniques that gives the solo its clear sense of structure, which is a hallmark of all of Page's best lead work.


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by Tony Rosenfeld
Fine Cooking
Issue 63
When you're at the fish counter, you'll often see sea scallops labeled two ways—"dry" and "wet." (If they're not marked, ask.) Whenever you can, choose the dry scallops. "Wet" scallops have been treated with a solution called STP (sodium tripolyphosphate), which helps the scallops maintain their moisture (they're made up of about 75% water when fresh). The STP solution gives scallops a longer shelf life; they don't dry out or lose their plump appearance. As a result, you'll not only pay for the added water weight (and often get scallops that are less than fresh), but you'll also have trouble browning these scallops—no matter how hot your pan or oven—because of all that excess moisture. The STP solution can also give scallops a rubbery texture and cloud the mollusk's sweet, delicate flavor.
Tip: To get rid of the tough abductor muscle on a scallop, just peel it off, as shown in the photo.
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In early February 2010, my black lab gave birth to a litter of nine puppies. It was her first litter, and my wife and I were delighted to see nine healthy puppies and a healthy mother. However, our good fortune was short lived.
Approximately one week later, my wife noticed that one of the puppies had no use of its back legs. We immediately took the puppy to our local vet who said the legs were bruised and gave him a steroid shot to speed up the healing. There was no improvement in his state, so there was a second visit with the puppy to the vet. He took X-rays and determined that nothing was broken; he was just born paralyzed from the waist down. We were given the options at three weeks of age to either raise him as a paralytic or euthanize him. We brought him home to raise him and to love him.
We named him Dex, after the shot of dexamethasone that the vet gave him in an attempt to heal his legs. Dex had to drag his legs behind him to move around. Eating and playing with his siblings was difficult as best. We were instructed to perform daily physical therapy with him in attempt to prevent any muscle atrophy in the back legs, and we did it faithfully several times a day. His life was hard, and many tears were shed watching him drag himself around.
A few weeks later, Dex seemed ill. He was sluggish, and a terrible odor was coming from his legs. Tiny sores began to develop on the rear legs from dragging them around. When we tried to bathe him, his toes and toenails began to fall out one by one. That was a long night waiting for the sun to rise so we could head out for the vets office.
Our vet said that there was nothing he could do. His legs were basically rotting off of him, and we should have euthanized him when we were given the option several weeks earlier. Desperate and crushed, we took our sick puppy home with us.
In a last attempt, we found a pet hospital an hour away and took a very sick Dex there for help. The staff there was great, but the options were devastating. Apparently, Dexs mother had stepped on him as a one week old puppy and had dislocated his hips and broken his two legs. Blood supply to the limbs had been compromised, and thats why his legs had deteriorated almost overnight. The physical therapy we had been doing was in vain. A double amputation was mandatory or a sure death from sepsis was imminent. My wife and I told the vet to do whatever it took to save him.
Dex pulled through both amputations beautifully. However, what does one do with a two-legged lab? The amputations were too high up to fit him with a prosthesis. Labs are active and to limit his mobility to two legs was cause for concern.
Perhaps this is where I should talk about Dexs fighter spirit and his larger than life drive. He is by far the happiest dog Ive ever met, and he was retrieving even when he was dragging two useless legs behind him. He doesnt realize that he is different, and he has the playful nature of any lab puppy. He has never had a day of depression or hesitation throughout the pain and hardships that he has experienced. He is truly an inspiration.
After much research, we located Walkin Wheels, a company that manufactures wheelchairs for dogs. We purchased one, and it has changed all of our lives forever. This chair has given Dex his life back by giving him the gift of mobility. He can keep up with other dogs just fine, and he loves to go on long walks with us. He is a messy swimmer, but a swimmer nonetheless. He even enjoys chasing his Maltese sister around the island in the kitchen!
Dex has changed our lives for the better. He has taught us to never give up. He knows no limitations. He adjusts to whatever life throws at him. I hope you have enjoyed his story, and I hope you think about him the next time you have a bad day. Ive attached a link of him retrieving from You Tube. We know it will make you smile.
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Marion Rollings, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
236 West High Street, Bound Brook, New Jersey 08805
I am a licensed psychologist in the State of New Jersey providing Counseling and Psychotherapy to Individuals, Couples, and Families. I treat a wide range of mental health issues, problem behaviors, and relationship conflicts. I am a member in good standing of the American Psychological Association, the New Jersey Psychological Association, the Somerset-Hunterdon Psychological Association, the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and other specialized professional societies.


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FAU Boca Raton
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
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More than 70 percent of FAU's 30,000 students take classes at FAU's first and largest campus and the majority of the University's 175+ degree programs are based here. Located just three miles from the Atlantic Ocean and the beautiful beaches of Boca Raton, the campus features everything you expect from a modern university -- suite-style housing for nearly 4,000 students, brand-new athletics and recreational facilities, art galleries, a cafe/movie theater complex and so much more -- all in a vibrant, tropical setting with a student body that is the most diverse of all of Florida's public universities.
FAU Dania Beach (SeaTech)
101 North Beach Road
Dania Beach, FL 33004
The Dania Beach facility is home to ocean engineering research and technology development in the areas of acoustics, marine vehicles, hydrodynamics and physical oceanography, marine materials and nanocomposites. Dania Beach builds on five decades of excellence at FAU as home to one of the nation's first ocean engineering programs.
FAU Davie
3200 College Avenue
Davie, FL 33314
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More than 5,000 students take classes at FAU's second-largest campus. Conveniently located (central Broward County) with Broward College as part of the South Florida Education Center, FAU Davie offers coursework in 30 degree programs through the colleges of Arts and Letters, Business, Design and Social Inquiry, Nursing, and Science. The campus features more than 300,000 square feet of labs, classrooms and faculty, staff and student offices. It also hosts the innovative Teaching and Leadership Center and is the base of operations for FAU's Everglades research and restoration efforts.
FAU Fort Lauderdale
111 East Las Olas Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Located in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the campus provides a "real life" urban laboratory for students pursuing an accredited degree in architecture and is the location for the College of Business' Executive Master of Accounting program. The campus also is home to MetroLab, a collaborative exhibition and event space for FAU's engagement with the community.
FAU Harbor Branch
5600 US 1 North
Fort Pierce, FL 34946
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FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) is dedicated to exploring the world's oceans and integrating the science and technology of the sea with the needs of humankind. As a base of operations for a host of research and academic programs -- such as coral reef and estuary studies, marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation, semester-at-sea programs and a variety of research positions and internships -- undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty find HBOI's high-tech facilities and dynamic environment perfect for their varied pursuits.
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The John D. MacArthur Campus at Jupiter offers nearly 1,500 students coursework in programs from the colleges of Arts and Letters, Design and Social Inquiry, Education, and Science. It is home to the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College -- which provides 300 students with a live-in, all-honors educational experience -- as well as the Center for Environmental Studies, the Hibel Museum of Art and research facilities for two of the world's leading research organizations, the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Scripps Florida, a division of The Scripps Research Institute. Just four miles from the beach, students at FAU Jupiter enjoy the resources of a large research university and the advantages of a small campus setting.


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Just watched the 30 Rock Series finale. In the last scene, you can see a Cloud Car whiz by.
Just watched the 30 Rock Series finale. In the last scene, you can see a Cloud Car whiz by.
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
The Three Faces of Eve with Joanne Woodward.
Nice, since it was one of the few times I've seen it in its entirety. AMC has started its "30 Days of Oscar" stint prior to the self-serving event.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Mad Men Season V. Since nobody responded to my thread about the show I won't bother with a recap.
The Long Goodbye. Robert Altman's version of a Raymond Chandler novel starring Elliott Gould as Phillip Marlowe. I'd heard/read good things about this movie for a while and finally caught it. Thought it was so-so. Wish I had a buck for every cigarette Gould lit up in the movie.
Battlestar Galactic: Blood and Chrome. This telemovie reminded me of how great the show was and how much I miss it.
I decided to check out the over-hyped new shows on AMC tonight.
Walking Dead: Black & White: an obvious ploy to cash in on the show's popularity, but I actually enjoyed watching the pilot episode in black and white. It kind of added to the creepiness factor of the story. Kind of like a really intense episode of the original Outer Limits. However, the novelty wore off quickly by the time the second episode came on.
Comic Book Men: not really a new show either, but I really do enjoy it and this latest episode managed to mix two of my all-time favorite things: comic books and UFC. So it was a good episode.
Freakshow: strangely enough, it was a little on the dull side. Some of the gimmicks like sword-swallowing and fire-eating are neat the first time you watch them, but they lose their impact unless you watch them live and after you've seen it once, then the wow-factor diminishes significantly after each viewing.
Immortalized: this probably gets my vote for one of the worst new shows on TV. It was painful to watch right from the first few minutes. I did watch the whole episode because I've always been fascinated by taxidermy and was interested to see more of the process of how it was done. Instead we got several minutes of pointless hyping up of "legendary" taxidermists that I have absolutely never heard of and a lot of silly pro-wrestling type of trash-talking between the competitors. Horrible.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
The Hatfields & The Mccoys and also Here Comes The Boom. One was funny but I don't think that is what they were going for, and the other wasn't all that funny but again, I doubt that is what they were going for.
Silver Linings Playbook. Pretty good, I thought Jennifer Lawrence was great, even Bradley Cooper was good.
Hmmm. I'm going to see Bradley Cooper as Faceman in The A-Team movie soon.
I'm watching all my A-Team DVD collection and finally on Season 5.
This is the best one yet. They do "Crystal Skull" and Secret Agent Murdock, H.M. Murdock, 007.
It's the best season of The A-Team yet - when they work for General Stockwell and are unofficial agents of the C.I.A.
I wished The A-Team TV show had continued past 1987 with at least another season when they were with the intelligence agency.
BTW: nowadays we made a big deal out of torture and waterboarding. Did you know The A-Team did that on a regular basis on a kid's show? Yeah, they burned a guy under scalding water in a hotel shower and hung guys upside down while they interrogated them, as well as waterboarded them and it was shown on prime time TV.
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Anyways, I watched Identity Thief last night. It's actually pretty funny in parts. I thought the dynamic between Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy worked really well. There is a lot of very vulgar humor, though, so it's rated R for a reason (as a warning to any parents thinking it will be okay to take their kids to). The only thing I didn't like about it was that it seemed to send the message that it's okay to steal from a person, as long as that person is rich AND a jerk. It also basically explained how to steal someone's identity and get away with it, which helped to set up the movie, but is probably going to make it much easier for people to do this in the real world.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
Well listen, I just stole Donald Trump's car and I need a place to lie low. Can I stash it at your place, BigB?
We can take turns driving it.
Meanwhile, I don't have a problem with the waterboarding etc. either when it's used to stop irreversible attacks. To be fair, it does cause permanent PTSD.
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I have said it about a million times. The republicans and the conservatives are essentially two different parties that are trying to share the same house. I guess I could look up the history of the wig party to see if there was ever a greater need for a party to split apart, but I don't think there is. the conservative base is not going to turn out for Christie and the Moderate base is not going to turn out for Cruz. You try to figure that out into a win for the R's. McCain and Romney were hamstrung by the same phenomena. It is hard enough to win an election without your own party holding you back.
The way congressional districts are formed is completely corrupt for either party. I am not suggesting that democrats don't partake also, but I am asserting that if it were not the case so many "extremist" would not be able to win elections. To prove my point I will remind everyone that despite single digit approval ratings 85% of incumbents are going to stay in office this next election. It is not a tie score establishment party politics is winning vs. us and it is not a close competition. Stop thinking in terms of party politics and you will see that we only have the illusion of choice in our congressional leadership.


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View the scores now to see how the participating countries have performed.
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The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has developed the first ever Charter setting out the fundamental rights of the 415 million people currently living with diabetes.
The landmark document places the rights of people with diabetes, their parents and carers into three focus areas; the rights to care; information and education and social justice, whilst at the same time acknowledging the responsibilities held by people with diabetes.
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I've made a small game here:
It's kind of a wiki-like text adventure, where anyone can edit/expand the story.
I would be very interested to know how you would like to see it evolve.
Is there a feature where you would say "damn, this would be so cool!" ?
PS: if someone feels inspired to help, you are welcome! Drop me a note ;)
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The Guardian is never going to miss an opportunity to attack a Conservative government minister and a Jewish organization all in the same go. Let the story appear on Holocaust Memorial Day and just to rub it in, make sure that your source happens to run some anti-Semitic websites. The perfect storm which shows that The Guardian's obsessive ideological behavior blinds it to carrying out basic journalist professionalism.
Even when The Guardian is clearly in the wrong.
As Toby Young blogs at the Daily Telegraph:
Oh Dear. The Guardian is so intent on doing down Michael Gove that it has scored a spectacular own goal.
In today's paper, there's a report that Gove, in his capacity as Secretary of State for Education, has awarded a £2m grant to the Community Security Trust, a charity that provides security to Britain's Jewish communities. The reason this is a "story" is because Gove has been on the "advisory board" of CST since 2007.
In fact, there's nothing untoward about this. The CST doesn't itself receive any donations; rather, it distributes the money it receives to various security companies, none of which Michael Gove is on the board of. Indeed, it's such a non-story that Ed Balls issued the following Tweet last night: "I've had many disagreements with Michael Gove, but on this one he's right: CST do a great job on security for Jewish schools."
If you drill down into the story, it's clear that the source is someone called David Miller, professor of Sociology at the University of Strathclyde. He is quoted in the piece talking about Michael Gove as follows:
It is blindingly obvious that he should have stood aside, as this is a potential conflict of interest. This is another example of transparency rules in the UK being ineffectual and in serious need of overhaul.
But who is this Professor Miller? According to Harry's Place:
David Miller also runs a series of websites, one of which reproduced the thesis of a notorious neo-Nazi, Kevin MacDonald. MacDonald believes that Jews are genetically predisposed to scheme and conspire against non-Jews. The article was eventually removed, after this was pointed out to them. But, as far as we can tell, nobody was "sacked" from Miller's project for promoting neo-Nazi antisemitism.
Young goes on to say that this highlights The Guardian's willingness to regurgitate anti-Semitic propaganda. Tell us something we didn't already know.


text: I have a friend who lives in Louisville. I see 2 places south of there about 30-40 miles. One is Knobs State Forest and WMA and the other is John C. Williams WMA. I am looking for anyone who has hunted or frequented these areas, or knows someone, and can report on the Turkey populations in these areas. I do not need any specifics (but would not refuse) just some general observations such as more to the N,S,E or W sections just to give me a starting point, any camping in the area you could recommend? I will be doing more research through the year and will head down a few times to drive and hike the areas. Also I have never hunted out of the state of MI so any other pointers would be appreciated.


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Obama wouldn't stop talking 2 min to answer what a joke he talked forever. He likes to talk and say NOTHING. Romney will tear him up on foreign policy , Libya the attack , the video coverup, Susan Rice, Hillary& Pres lying about what happened than some staff came clean while Pres continued to lie, security being denied after it was asked for investigation FBI still not in there. Osama Bin laden dead, Obama claiming once he took him out terrorism was dead, and he had the nerve last night
Romney cannot get specific about what he will do because Obama will steal his ideas!


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what to think and what to do after Sandy Hook elementary school shooting? St. Nicolais is coming to town or NOT ?
what to think and what to do after Sandy Hook elementary school shooting? St. Nicolais is coming to town or NOT ?
it's time of the year to donate to wiki foundation.
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trying to wrap my mind around Prof. Foster's paper and catch-words:'alpha spending, alpha investing, Bonferroni method, FDR, mFDR, FWER', drawing my own idea expressed in this article critical examination of recruitment/promotion process. A creative person should initiate many human interactions in workplace to control his own mFDR, and not to be dragged or drugged into any delusional 'self-righteous' paths.
"When enough people share a delusion, it loses its status as a psychosis and gets a religious tax exemption instead." - Ronald DeSousa
recentlog.html got stuck by the above google map image...
thanks for posting Kipling's lullaby
"In the spring of 1877, Alice returned from India and removed the children from Lorne Lodge. Kipling remembers, "Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told any one how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. Also, badly-treated children have a clear notion of what they are likely to get if they betray the secrets of a prison-house before they are clear of it".
God bless the child, not to become Lord of the Flies
" Chongqing cat on a hot tin roof - the ugly face of communist party loyalty " will be my next script-writing assignment. Yes, Mrs. Kennedy of China was on trial and is now convicted of intentional homicide of an innocent Briton, Neil Heywood, old Harrovian boy, mentoring new generation of Chinese prince. Can all unintentional criminality of no-more-future-ruler, a Chinese copy of progressive 'Kennedy' ( Bo Xilai), both father of somewhat young and idealistic, Harrovian/Harvard educated son ( Bo Guagua ) and son of old elite guard of CCP be redeemed by her instinctual faith in the bloodline and family tradition and her intentional murderous rage against the 'other' foreign/alien party ?
hi mau, what brought you back ?
and why do you have to erase entry as back as 2004?
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An old acquintance of mine seen from other people's eyes. - 薛蛮子 一个嬉笑怒骂的好玩老头. comparative reading of "The Paradox of VC seed investing" by Brian Singerman from TechCrunch
LOL. what jazmine is this in the air ? after all these years
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The first of my two major research areas is the representation of spatial information in the rodent brain. I develop computational models of the hippocampus, an area thought to be involved in navigation and learning. There is evidence that the hippocampal "cognitive map" combines visual landmark information with another, internal sense of position maintained by path integration. I also model the rodent head direction system, which combines vestibular signals with visual landmark information to maintain an estimate of the animal's heading, and is a necessary prerequisite for path integration. My students and I have developed computational models which have reproduced a variety of behavioral and neurophysiological observations in these systems, and led to novel predictions.
My second major research area is models of animal learning and their implementation on mobile robots. Current projects include reinforcement learning models of the dopamine reward system, models of classical conditioning based on statistical inference, and a behavioral framework for the Sony AIBO robot.
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Rosa Farrell
Rosa Series: Final Fantasy IV – The After Years Debuted: Otakon 2013 Status: Retired Notes Cobbled together a maternity dress. I may decide to remake this eventually. read more →
Yuna and Rikku (festival-goer)
Yuna / Rikku Series: Final Fantasy X-2 Debuted: Otakon 2012 Status: Active Notes I never want to see fabric paint again. read more →
Kain Highwind
Kain Highwind Series: Final Fantasy IV (4) Debuted: Otakon 2012 Status: Active Notes My first real attempt at armor. Definitely needs improvements, but I'm pleased for the most part. The spear is actually 4 parts which I can break down for travel. read more →
Mio Kuroki
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Steampunk Edgeworth and Franziska
Young Miles Edgeworth and Franziska Von Karma Series: Phoenix Wright Debuted: Otakon 2011/AnimeUSA 2011 Status: Active Notes For Edgeworth, the theme leaned more towards London Dandy. Fran leaned towards the 'Wild West' to go with her riding crop. Both were based off of the 'Young' versions as seen in Ace Attorney: Investigations. read more →
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Break is over, Summer camp was an awesome experience and I need to share more with you once I collect me thoughts.
I will share this with you today however. Shared Experience!
One of Scoutings treasures is the shared experience of your Scouts and you. Summer camp is one of the best times to have the shared experience and make memories that will last forever.
On the last night in camp, we sat around the camp fire. Our SPL was talking with some of the guys about how great camp was and then I spoke up about the memories that were forged this week.
We went around the fire circle and talked about merit badges, mile swims, catching fish, hanging out with friends, and being part of a great troop.
This year is Camp Pioneer's 75th Anniversary. The guys of the Troop pledged to come back in 25 years for the 100th. We all decided that we would come back to Camp Pioneer to celebrate together. I'm in!
I had a great time with the Scouts this week at camp. They are all a part of a wonderful shared experience I will never forget!
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Actor and activist Danny Glover will speak on "State Execution: The Death Penalty in America" at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in McCosh 50.
His public lecture is being sponsored by the University and the Mercer County chapters of Amnesty International . He is expected to address a number of concerns about state execution, such as execution of the innocent, failure to act as a deterrent, and racial and socio-economic biases.
Glover has received wide recognition for his roles in more than 50 films, including the screen adaptations of Alice Walkers "The Color Purple" and Toni Morrisons "Beloved"; HBOs production of "Mandela," for which he received a Cable ACE Award and an NAACP Image Award; and the action-thriller "Lethal Weapon" series.
A tireless human rights crusader, Glover is a recipient of the Amnesty International USA Lifetime Achievement Award for his "efforts to bring worldwide attention to the human rights struggle." Such efforts have included his role in the civil rights movement in Namibia, his work as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program and his commitment to abolition of the death penalty.
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As same-sex-marriage advocates gear up for next Friday's scheduled vote on a gay-marriage ban, it's remarkable how dramatically the state's political leadership has changed since the most recent Constitutional Convention, a mere five months ago. Governor Mitt Romney, who was openly hostile to gay marriage, has been replaced by Deval Patrick, who is eager to support it. Stubbornly oppositional Senate president Robert Travaglini has given the gavel to staunch advocate Therese Murray. Long-time gay-marriage proponent House Speaker Sal DiMasi has become, in some eyes, the most powerful person in state government. The new attorney general, Martha Coakley, is fighting to protect same-sex marriages, whereas her predecessor, Tom Reilly, fought to prevent them. Even the Republican minority leaders in both the Senate and House are on record opposing the constitutional ban.
They, the most powerful people on Beacon Hill, are not just paying lip service to the issue. They are working actively to change votes, say those close to the action, in a serious effort to drive a stake through the heart of this latest attempt to write homophobia into the state constitution. To pull it off, they're focusing on just a handful of legislators who they believe could tip the balance in their favor.
Yet it's looking increasingly unlikely that they'll succeed. The sense on Beacon Hill these days is that the amendment still has more than the 50 votes needed to put the issue on the ballot in November 2008. And the list of possible vote-switchers is shrinking, say close Beacon Hill observers.
Based on past votes and public declarations, gay-marriage proponents need to sway eight of the 57 legislators currently expected to vote yes. That includes at least 20 Republicans and a number of immovable Democrats. MassEquality, the leading gay-marriage lobbying group, has narrowed the list of targeted legislators to two dozen, says president Marc Solomon. Others say the list of realistic possibilities is considerably smaller. As time runs out, many have begun to suspect that Murray will postpone the ConCon again.
Evidence of political power lies in delivering those last votes. So why don't Patrick, Murray, DiMasi, and Coakley have the juice to do it?
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It certainly seems that, after four years of exhaustive, and exhausting, debate on the topic, few legislators are likely to change their minds. But the task is made all the more difficult by the fact that the state's highest offices are filled by relatively new leaders, who haven't had years to solidify their power. Just as important, these leaders rose to power largely by not being Tom Finneran–like generals.
"DiMasi is not someone who tells people what to do," says Michael Moran, Democratic representative from Brighton. "That's exactly what he promised not to be."
Some have speculated that if the "whip count" — the leadership's poll of members — gets within a vote or two, DiMasi will deliver his closest lieutenants, including Robert DeLeo of Revere and Thomas Petrolati of Ludlow. And if Petrolati flips, insiders say, he will bring along his fellow Western Massachusetts Democrats, Michael Kane of Holyoke and Sean Curran of Springfield. But those close to the lobbying effort deny that such a scenario is in place.
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text: Very good points Happy. Hunting into the wind is very important. Also keeping your sheds clear of human odor is also a key. I had my buddy's hide the sheds from time to time but that wasnt always convenient. Maybe because i use thed shed cutouts to train my dog it kept his head up looking at the cutout but at the same time using his nose to smell the shed. I did use gloves when i handled the shed, and washed them after 2 training sessions. I also used the wax and put it on the shed cutouts to put out more scent. Thats an interesting story though. Something to deffinately think about!


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Family: Soricidae, Shrews view all from this family
Description Tiny shrew with a very short tail (<45% of head and body length). Smaller and browner than other short-tailed shrews in their range.
Dimensions 61-89mm, 19-37mm, 3-10g
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Swamps, marshes & bogs, Meadows & fields
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Texas, Eastern Canada
Discussion Nests are constructed of grass and leaves in hidden areas, and may contain up to 31 individuals. Occurs in wide variety of habitats, including grassy, weedy, and brushy fields, marshes, and wooded habitats.


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Paragraph three is interesting:Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''
Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.
In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's.
''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''
The New York Times from 2003:The Bush Admin tried to take steps to avert crisis and were opposed by...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...gewanted=print''The regulator has not only been outmanned, it has been outlobbied,'' said Representative Richard H. Baker, the Louisiana Republican who has proposed legislation similar to the administration proposal and who leads a subcommittee that oversees the companies. ''Being underfunded does not explain how a glowing report of Freddie's operations was released only hours before the managerial upheaval that followed. This is not world-class regulatory work.''
Significant details must still be worked out before Congress can approve a bill. Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.
''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.
This is why it is ironic to see the Democrats claiming to drive the fire truck to a fire they set and then turning around and blaming it on the Bush Administration.


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I am quite pleased to be able to make the first post in the area a positive one.
Hasbro, if the pictures are doing the new figures of FX-7, Zutton, Rebel Fleet Trooper (Tantive IV Defender), and the Imperial Officer any justice, then I have to say that this is one of the best and biggest leaps of improvement, (at least for the improvements I wanted to see) so far. These figures have brought back a level of excitement that I have felt few times in the last couple of years. It is a little early to say keep up the good work...but I'll jump the gun a little. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
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League Two round-up
Shrimps hit Crawley for six, Pilgrims still search for win
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Morecambe hit previous leaders Crawley for six to go top of League Two on goal difference, while rock bottom Plymouth are still searching for their first win.
Danny Carlton scored a hat-trick as Morecambe beat Crawley 6-0 go top, while the Red Devils slipped to fourth with the heavy defeat.
Lewis Grabban grabbed a brace as Rotherham beat Dagenham & Redbridge 3-1 to remain second, level on points with the Shrimps.
Shrewsbury made it four wins in a row with a 3-1 win over Hereford in the early kick-off to rise to third in the table, with Marvin Morgan notching a brace for the Shrews, who also had Terry Gornell sent off for serious foul play.
Jeff Goulding scored from the penalty spot and James Spencer added a late second as Cheltenham beat Macclesfield to go fifth.
Aldershot 1 AFC Wimbledon 1
Bradford 2 Bristol Rovers 2
Cheltenham 2 Macclesfield 0
Crewe 3 Barnet 1
Gillingham 1 Accrington 1
Morecambe 6 Crawley 0
Northampton 0 Torquay 0
Oxford 2 Burton 2
Plymouth 0 Port Vale 2
Rotherham 3 Dagenham & Redbridge 1
Shrewsbury 3 Hereford 1
Swindon 2 Southend 0
Torquay dropped to sixth after being held to a goalless stalemate at Northampton, who have now not won in five attempts.
Both teams finished with ten men as rock-bottom Plymouth slipped to a 2-0 home defeat to Port Vale, with Gary Roberts scoring a brace for the Valiants, who rose to seventh with the win.
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Luke Rooney scored a late penalty as eighth-placed Gillingham salvaged a point against Accrington, while Danny Hylton also scored a last-gasp equaliser as Aldershot earned a point against ten-man AFC Wimbledon, who had Ricky Wellard sent off after Max Porter had notched the opener.
Justin Richards scored a brace as tenth-placed Burton came from two goals down to claim a point at Oxford, who had earlier scored via Alfie Potter and Peter Leven.
Adam Dugdale was among the scorers as Crewe made it three wins on the bounce with a 3-1 success over strugglers Barnet, while substitute Jonathan Smith and Mehdi Kerrouche were on target as Swindon beat Southend 2-0 to register their third home league win of the campaign.
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GRAMMY winner Madonna was among the winners at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 15 in Los Angeles, earning the Best Original Song — Motion Picture honor, along with Julie Frost and Jimmy Harry, for "Masterpiece" from Madonna's self-directed W.E. French composer Ludovic Bource earned the Best Original Score — Motion Picture award for The Artist. (1/17)


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Description ADULT MALE Has lilac-gray underparts and gray-brown upperparts with white spots and streaks on wings and flanks. Orange-yellow wattle above eye, and reddish orange neck sac, are prominent only in display. Tail is dark with faint pale terminal band. ADULT FEMALE Similar to, but smaller than, male and with more mottled and marbled plumage. Wattle and neck sac are absent. JUVENILE Similar to adult female, but has more extensive pale streaking on back.
Dimensions Length: 15 1/2 -21" (39-53 cm)
Habitat Generally common, but found at low densities. In mixed woodland for much of year, but favors conifer forests in winter.
Observation Tips Usually solitary. Not unduly wary, but unobtrusive and hence often hard to locate. A displaying male is a fantastic sight.
Range Alaska, California, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Northwest, Western Canada
Voice Both sexes utter low growls. Displaying males hoot.
Discussion Plump-bodied grouse with long tail and neck. Male's otherwise rather unremarkable plumage is transformed during display by broadly fanned tail, puffed-up body feathers and colorful, inflated neck sac fringed by white feathers. Feeds on shoots, leaves, and berries in summer; winter diet is mostly conifer needles. Sexes are dissimilar.


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Visit Colquitt County through the ages. The museum houses articles depicting different aspects of early life in Colquitt County. The extensive collection ranges from rare Native American artifacts to Civil War memorabilia. Recently added was a Colquitt County Sports Hall of Fame permanent exhibit. This display on the history of Moultrie and Colquitt County is open to the public 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and on Sundays 2-5 p.m.
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<<WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) has drafted new rules that would let mining companies dump waste from mountaintop coal mining operations into rivers and streams, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
The proposed rules are aimed at lifting regulations prohibiting mining companies from disposing of material considered waste, including rock and dirt, in the nearby waterways, the newspaper said.
Mountaintop coal mining has been limited by federal rules and court challenges aimed at restricting how much of the waste from these operations can be dumped in waterways.
According to a draft "final rule" prepared jointly by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, the administration would eliminate that "waste exclusion," the report said.
The White House has been supportive of efforts to help the mining industry but has not approved the final plan, officials told the newspaper.
If approved, the proposed rules would provide a major boost to coal mining operations in West Virginia and Kentucky and stepped-up hardrock mining in western states, the report said.
The newspaper said the proposed changes could undermine efforts by environmentalists and community groups to fight mountaintop mining operations that they say cause unacceptable damage to rivers and streams.
Administration officials described the proposed new rules as basically an effort to bring the Corps rules in line with their interpretation of the Clean Water Act, the paper said.
The officials told the paper there is nothing in the act that prohibits the dumping of such mining waste in rivers and streams, played down any threat to the environment.
"The changes would harmonize the definition the Corps has been operating under with that of the EPA," said Greg Peck, an EPA official who has been involved in the rulemaking.
But officials of the environmental groups Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice, who obtained copies of the final draft rules on Thursday, described them as a major departure in policy, the Post said.
The groups believe the new rules could significantly weaken their legal case in fighting mountaintop mining operations in West Virginia and Kentucky, the newspaper said. >>
I find it to be pretty ironic that the administration is doing this to help bring the Corps rules in line with their interpretation of the Clean Water Act. Who's doing the interpreting?????? Even if the waste is only rock and dirt, waste of this scale can severely and adversely affect stream and river hydrology.
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Ok here goes guys, as an experiment, this thread is like all of the depths rolled into one thread. You don't like another member? Did they really piss you off or piss on you? ****ing fire back. But remember, keep it in this thread, don't carry it on in other threads.
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Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description Native herbaceous annual.
Habit: many-branched, coarse, bushy; hairy stems, green to red; to 1-3 ft (.3-1 m) tall; breaks dormancy in late spring; taproot.
Leaf: deeply divided; opposite on lower stem, alternate on upper stem; to 6 in long x 4 in wide.
Flower: spike (raceme) of tiny yellow-green florets; 1-4 in long; held at tip of stem.
Fruit: tiny seeds enclosed in a hard bur.
Warning Plant parts can cause skin irritation if touched.
Flower July to October.
Habitat Disturbed sites, over-grazed pastureland, roadsides, prairies, meadows; sunny, average to dry sites.
Range Native or naturalized throughout non-arctic North America.
Discussion Considered weedy or invasive in some locations. Its pollen, dispersed by wind, is the primary cause of hay fever in late summer and fall. Despite its unpleasant effect on human beings, this plant is an important provider of food and cover to birds and insects. Also known as: annual ragweed, common ragweed, low ragweed, short ragweed, small ragweed, Roman wormwood.


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Exxon's Partners
The news has been all abuzz since Exxon reported record earnings for 2005 - record earnings for Exxon, record earnings for the oil industry, record earnings for any company on the face of the earth. Yesterday the President defended Exxon's right to make such earnings but they didn't deter everyone from environmentalists who call Exxon a polluter to social activists who claim Exxon made its money on the backs of the "little guy" by gouging gas customers. There is a growing movement of those who think we should impose some sort of windfall profits tax on the company or force them to contribute money to aid the poor. Lost in all the knee-jerk liberalism is the facts underlying Exxon's enormous income statement.
Who profits the most when a company like this makes ungodly amounts of money? Well, first and foremost, there is the tax man. Included in Exxon's income statement is an interesting figure of $100 billion. That's the total taxes on the year's activity! I suggest to you that the federal government of the United States and the governments of the states individually could not function without the money Exxon pays to them. But no matter, if Exxon didn't earn all that money and pay all those taxes, someone else would. They didn't invent fuel. They simply run a company which does a better job of pulling it from the ground, refining and delivering it than any other company in the world.
Then there's the $18 billion in capital and exploration costs. That effort and the other operations of the company provide a huge number of jobs. And many of those jobs pay quite well. The money funds home and other purchases, college educations, etc. Nobody is lining up to say Exxon busts unions, pays beneath subsistence wages, or doesn't offer healthcare for workers' children.
Other companies are seeing instant profits like Alibaba and Instagram. Alibaba just recently recorded $9.3 billion dollars in sales in just one day. That number is astounding. Its current valuation is higher than companies like Apple because of its vast reach.
Instagram was bought by Facebook for billions of dollars. This shouldn't be too surprising considering how much money is being poured into hot tech startups. Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006. That seemed crazy at the time, but now it's nothing. Especially when you consider the massive reach that YouTube has.
These companies are great examples of how American Capitalism works. Tech marketing entrepreneur Issa Asad recently released a book about marketing on Alibaba called Instant Profits with Alibaba. He also has other books about Instagram, Vine, and SnapChat.
There's also $23 billion paid to shareholders in the form of dividends and share buy backs. Who the heck are these shareholders who got all this money and who, after all, are the folks who really get the $36 billion record earnings after all these costs are disbursed? There's a couple of blue blooded, rich white guys to be sure. Some are probably even from Texas and some may even make personal contributions to the Republican party. But most of the earnings goes to mutual funds and huge throngs of people who own shares in their private accounts. Anyone seeking a "safe" investment probably has a few shares of Exxon to go with their holdings in P&G, GE, etc. The largest owners of Exxon shares are, of course, institutional investors. Institutional investors are comprised mainly of mutual funds like Vanguard, Fidelity, Wellington, et al. Most of these funds probably have money from retirement funds like your employer 401K.
So, to wrap this up, when we speak of the unspeakable profits of Exxon, we should make sure to target all these human partners of the corporation. Corporations may be given personhood by operation of state law but they are hardly capable of doing all those good things we imagine rich people can because they are intangible - they don't walk around like you and me. Our governments are the largest partner of the company. Next up is probably all those employees - the ones whose kids go to school and play on sports teams with your kids. The rest of those "big rich guys" are you and me.
Can we now stop speaking about evil corporations? Liberals really should have paid more attention in school when teachers explained how American capitalism works.


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30th Rincon Classic
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By David Powdrell
Nobody sent me the memo. Without first checking www.rinconclassic.com, I went racing out of bed
crack o' dawn this morning thinking I was missing the 30th Annual Rincon Classic.
My first sign that things were amiss, however, was when I drove into the Rincon Beach parking lot with
empty spaces galore and no Quicksilver bus ominously parked on Bates Road. Oh well, it's always good
to get down to Rincon.
If you get a chance, support the Rincon Classic. It's a bunch of good folks doing good things for the
ocean and the environment, there are always some amazing surfers in the water pushing the limits of
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surfboards available and lots more.
Each Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. they'll announce on their website whether the week-end event is on or
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Video: Kevin Durant crosses over Matt Barnes, dunks on Lamar Odom
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Tuesday night's match-up of the two best teams in the West was missing Clippers guard Chris Paul, who sat with a bruised kneecap. Thunder forward Kevin Durant made sure the game wasn't lacking in top-shelf highlights.
With a little less than five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter and the Thunder leading the Clippers 99-85, Durant crossed over Matt Barnes at the top of the key before elevating past Lamar Odom for a thunderous hammer dunk.
Durant beat Barnes with a left-to-right crossover before taking one dribble and two long steps to get deep into the paint. Odom and Grant Hill wanted no part of a real defensive rotation, which would surely have resulted in an even more violent poster, and Durant skied easily as both looked on. Replays showed Durant getting his head level with the rim as he spiked in his patented one-handed extension slam. Oklahoma City went on to win 109-97, improving to a league-best 33-9. The Clippers dropped to 32-11. Durant led all scorers with 32 points and added seven rebounds and seven assists. Blake Griffin led the Clippers with 31 points, 11 rebounds and five assists.


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Three leading experts on Venezuela will discuss the national and
regional implications of President Hugo Chávez's rise to power at 4:30
p.m. Thursday, April 13, in 219 Aaron Burr Hall.
Francisco Rodriguez, an assistant professor of economics and Latin American studies at Wesleyan University, will address the question, "Why Did Venezuelan Economic Growth Collapse?" Rodriguez served as chief economist of the Venezuelan National Assembly from 2000 to 2004.
Ricardo Villasmil, a professor at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, will speak on "Venezuela: Socio-Economic and Political Challenges." Villasmil is an expert in economics, history and development issues.
Milagros Socorro, an award-winning Venezuelan writer and journalist, will address the topic, "Free Speech Threatened." Socorro is a political columnist for El Nacional and a visiting professor at the School of Social Communication at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
The event is sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Latin American Migration Project and the Program in Latin American Studies.


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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
It's an old, oft repeated story, but it is worth retelling because of its similarities with what is going on now in the Mississippi Legislature.
The reluctance of Mississippi politicians to opt into a federal health care program, as is occurring now, is not new to this state.
Flashback to the 1960s when the original Medicaid program was created by Congress. At that time, Mississippi, which opted into the program in 1970, was one of the last states to agree to participate in the state-federal health care program, which many called socialism at the time.
Flash ahead to the 2013 session of the Mississippi Legislature. There currently is an intense debate ongoing on whether the state should participate in a federal expansion of Medicaid that would provide health care coverage to those making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level – or about $15,000 annually for an individual or about $34,000 for a family of four.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant is adamant the state cannot afford the expansion even though the federal government will pay the bulk of the costs. Plus, he said he does not believe it is the role of government to provide health insurance.
In the 1960s, John Bell Williams was a Democratic congressman from Mississippi who voted against the original Medicaid program and supported Republican Barry Goldwater for president. Because of that, U.S. House Democrats stripped Williams of his seniority.
He came home in 1967 to run for governor. He campaigned against the national Democrats.
Yet he hired the future U.S. Rep. David Bowen, and Dr. Alton Cobb, then a state Health Department physician, to look at the federal programs that could impact the state.
Hearings were held throughout the state on the issue of Medicaid. Cobb, who later became state health officer, and Bowen said Williams attended every one of those hearings.
At their conclusion, he called a special session in 1969 where he urged state legislators to pass a bill so that Mississippi could participate in the Medicaid program.The special session started on July 22 and ran until Oct. 11. Hurricane Camille ravaged the Gulf Coast during the middle of the special session.
At the opening of the session, speaking to a joint session, Williams said, "Let us not delude ourselves into the false notion that we can – or will – evade the burden of caring for these unfortunate people. Our society, through the instrument of government, has always shouldered this responsibility, and I am sure it always will."
Williams added the state could not afford to turn down a federal health care program that would require the state to provide only 20 percent of the matching funds. He spoke of the economic impact it would have on the state.
"The simple fact is that someone pays for health services, and we must decide, who will do it and how," he said.
It should be noted that the most the state will ever have to pay for those covered by the expansion is 10 percent. For the first three years, starting in 2014, the federal government pays all of the costs.
This time around there have not been meetings across the state by the state's political leadership to garner input from the public about the issue.
Last week a Senate Public Health Subcommittee heard testimony from the working poor who could be covered by the expansion. Experts say a vast majority of the about 300,000 people who could be covered by the expansion are the working poor. The largest group of those – perhaps 15,000 – would be cashiers from grocery stores and convenience stores.
Bryant had a representative at the hearing, but he did not attend. It will be interesting to see if he attends a hearing on the issue slated for next month by the House Medicaid Committee.
In the 1960s, Mississippi was one of the last states to join the Medicaid program, which now covers about 640,000 elderly, disabled, poor pregnant women and poor children.
This time around it appears Mississippi will be one of the last states to opt into Medicaid expansion, or perhaps one of the few who say thanks, but we do not want that federal money.
Bobby Harrison is Capitol Bureau reporter for the Daily Journal in Jackson. Contact him at (601) 353-3119 or email@example.com.


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Task force to conduct survey of Dillon users, Feb. 18-27
Posted February 17, 2004; 08:18 a.m.
The University's Task Force on Health and Well-Being will conduct a survey in the coming weeks of Dillon Gymnasium users.
The survey has four questions and will take 15 to 20 seconds to complete. Survey days are: Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 18-19; Saturday through Tuesday, Feb. 21-24; and Friday, Feb. 27.
The purpose of the survey is to provide the task force with a profile of those who use the facilities and to determine how users distribute themselves across the various programs, classes and activities offered at Dillon. The information collected will help the task force formulate questions for a campuswide survey planned for later this spring.
Each time users enter Dillon on the targeted days, they will be asked to complete a simple Web survey on one of several laptops in the Dillon lobby. Additional staff will be provided to expedite this process and to minimize or eliminate any inconvenience.
The survey is being conducted with cooperation and support from the Department of Athletics and the Office of Information Technology.
President Shirley M. Tilghman appointed the task force last fall to examine University policies and programs that address the health care needs and promote the health and well-being of students, faculty and staff. The group is composed of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and is chaired by Janet Dickerson, vice president for campus life, and Robert Durkee, vice president and secretary of the University.
The task force issued an interim report in January summarizing its progress during the first four months of its work. The group continues to collect feedback from the University community through its Web site and hopes to complete a further report this spring.
Contact: Lauren Robinson-Brown (609) 258-3601


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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Angela Fritz , 6:14 PM GMT on February 23, 2012
We've launched a new extreme weather product this week: Record Extremes. Recent, globally record-setting years have demanded a product that combines U.S. and international record extremes into one, easy to use interface. The Record Extremes page will give you the option to see U.S. and international records on a map and table. You can select any combination of record types at once, which, combined with the map, provides a interesting visual way to investigate record-setting events. The product uses data from three sources: (1) NOAA's National Climate Data Center, (2) Wunderground's U.S. records, and (3) Wunderground's International records.
The NCDC records begin in 1850 and include official NOAA record extreme events for ASOS and COOP weather stations in all 50 U.S. states as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands. In this database you can find records for maximum high temps, minimum high temps, maximum low temps, minimum high temps, snow, and precipitation on daily, monthly, and all-time scales.
The Wunderground extremes were compiled by our weather historian Christopher C. Burt. Chris monitors 300 stations across the U.S. for Record Extremes in maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, and snow events. Most of these U.S. records go back to the end of the 19th century, though the oldest site in this database is Charleston, SC, where precipitation records started in 1737! Internationally, Chris monitors 150 countries worldwide for all-time record high temperatures and all-time record low temperatures. If you're interested in diving deeper into extreme weather in the U.S. and abroad, Chris's book Extreme Weather is an excellent resource.
Figure 1. All-time snow records broken during the Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011. These records were found by selecting NCDC as the source, a start date of 2011-01-31, an end date of 2011-02-02, "maximum snowfall," and "all-time."
We built the Record Extremes product to make it easy to find specific records you're looking for, or just browse the records in general.
Check records that were set on a specific date
You can check on records that were set yesterday, for example, by setting the calendar to yesterday's date, and selecting all the record variables and types that you're interested in.
Explore all records set in a certain time range
2011 was a record-setting year for the U.S., and most of the records were high maximum temp and high minimum temps. To see all of these warm records that were set last year, select "NCDC" as the source, 2011-01-01 as the start date and 2011-12-31 as the end date. Select Maximum High Temp and Maximum Low Temp in weather variables, and select all-time in the record type.
View current standing international records in the Wunderground database
Select either the Wunderground International records, and instead of choosing a date range, select "Show current standing records." This will bring up all standing records in the database for whatever record variable and type you select. Whereas we've collected every record ever set or broken from NCDC, the Wunderground records are always the current, standing record, whenever it was set. As you move your map around the globe, you'll see each country's all-time maximum high temp and all-time maximum low temp.
Filter your table results
Looking for a specific location or record within your search results? Use the "Filter Results" option in the table to narrow down your search.
Let us know what you think!
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Steve Albini is a pretty nerdy guy. It didn't take long in a conversation with him until we were talking about poker chat room culture, CuteOverload.com, and Rick Astley. The rock band that he sings and plays guitar for, Shellac, is pretty nerdy too. But like Albini himself, much of the band's charm comes from this attitude of not really caring how nerdy they come across. This is a band, after all, that built their own amplifiers and included specs on the amps in the liner notes of their first single. Of course, it doesn't hurt that they make blistering minimal hard rock with one of rock's greatest rhythm sections (drummer Todd Trainer, bassist Bob Weston) and one of rock's most singularly distinctive guitarists.
Shellac's most recent album, Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch And Go), released earlier this year, was their first in seven years. I thought it would be really cute to interview Albini in Italy, since the album title mentions Italy, and they were playing in Italy, and coincidentally I was going to be there anyway. But like a lot of things Shellac, "Italy" is just some involved meta in-reference, so I might as well have interviewed Steve Albini on Pluto. As it was, I interviewed him in a rock club called Interzona in Verona, setting of part of Romeo and Juliet, the work that, for you internet readers, was the original inspiration for Baz Luhrmann's classic 1994 film Romeo + Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as star-crossed lovers who packed large handguns and weren't afraid to use them on each other/themselves. Walking to the venue involved leaving behind the old world charm of the typically exquisitely Italian downtown area of Verona and entering an area haunted by the run-down relics of Italy's Fascist public works period.
So what is this place?It's actually pretty famous ― during the Fascist period, Mussolini had this idea that he was going to centralize all of the distribution of produce from Italy ― that everything grown all over Italy was going to come to Verona, to a central magazina, and then from there it would be shipped out to all over Italy under state direction. And to facilitate that, he built this big magazina, and there's a refrigerated train switch yard, and trains cars would come in full of fruits and vegetables, and they would stay refrigerated there and then they would go through the roundabout to get loaded up onto different trucks, all under refrigeration ― so it was all a big socialism of farm production. Of course it was a total disaster and never worked, and by the time everything was built and completed, the Fascists had been chased out so then there were these giant disused buildings that were eventually squatted, and over time the squat became a legitimate venue and organized with the city. The original Interzona rock club was in the big roundhouse, the frigatoria, and it was a kind of commune, left-wing thing. This building has only recently been used as a venue, and this is the new Interzona, but it's the same compound as the old Interzona, and gradually they are renovating it to become an arts complex.
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 303, November 05, 2004
Using Totalview with LoadLeveler on iceberg
The totalview debugger is available on both IBM systems at ARSC. This article focuses on using totalview with LoadLeveler on iceberg, ARSC's p655+/p690+ cluster. The use on iceflyer is slightly different and is described in a news item on that system ("news totalview").
The front-end nodes on iceberg are suitable for debugging serial and small parallel jobs, however sometimes it is necessary to do debugging work on a larger scale. The "debug" queue is available on iceberg for this purpose, allowing jobs with up to 32 MPI tasks to be run. To do this, you use an interactive LoadLeveler queue to run totalview.
Here's how:
I) Connect to iceberg through an X Window System interface (e.g., using ssh from an xterm). The totalview GUI uses X, although "totalviewcli" (for "command line interface") is also supported.
II) Compile your application with debugging information. The -g compiler flag will add this information. For example:
iceberg1 1% mpxlf90_r -g mpi-hello.f -o mpi-hello ** mpi_hello === End of Compilation 1 === 1501-510 Compilation successful for file mpi-hello.f.
III) Next, create an appropriate LoadLeveler script, specifying the "debug" class . Here are examples for both MPI and OpenMP applications.
MPI Example: 16 tasks using 2 nodes:
iceberg1 2% cat mpi.totalview.ll # @ job_type = parallel # @ node = 2 # @ tasks_per_node = 8 # @ network.MPI = sn_single,shared,us # @ class = debug # @ wall_clock_limit = 0:30:00 # @ queue ########################################### #Note: no executable needs to be specified # in this LoadLeveler script. ###########################################
OpenMP Example: 8 threads:
iceberg1 3% cat omp.totalview.ll # @ job_type = parallel # @ node = 1 # @ class = debug # @ wall_clock_limit = 0:30:00 # @ queue ########################################### #Note: no executable needs to be specified ###########################################
These LoadLeveler scripts are a little unusual in that they only request resources, and don't actually run executables. The executable will be specified by poe in the next step.
IV) Finally, start totalview. Totalview runs poe which launches the LoadLeveler script and runs the executable. The totalview option, "-a," specifies that the subsequent string is passed to the executable (which in this case, is poe). The name of the LoadLeveler file can be passed to poe using either the flag -llfile or the environment variable MP_LLFILE.
Using the poe flag -llfile:
iceberg1 4% totalview poe -a ./mpi_hello -llfile /wrkdir/username/mpi.totalview.llUsing the poe environment variable MP_LLFILE:
iceberg1% export MP_LLFILE=/wrkdir/username/mpi.totalview.ll iceberg1% totalview poe -a ./mpi_helloThe usage is essentially identical for OpenMP jobs, for instance:
iceberg1% export OMP_NUM_THREADS=8 iceberg1% totalview poe -a ./omp_hello -llfile /wrkdir/username/omp.totalview.ll
A few things to note:
Any environment variable settings made in the LoadLeveler script will be ignored. If your executable uses environment variables, either set them on the command line or through the totalview menu: Process | Startup Parameters | Environment .
Command line arguments to your program can be either passed in the totalview command line or using the totalview menu: (i.e. Process | Startup Parameters | Arguments ). Totalview uses the flag -a to pass any subsequent arguments to the executable rather than totalview. The poe executable will in turn pass any arguments it doesn't understand along to your executable.
In this example: totalview poe -a ./mpi_hello -llfile ./mpi.totalview.ll arg1 arg2 arg3 Totalview will pass the arguments, './mpi_hello -llfile ./mpi.totalview.ll arg1 arg2 arg3' to poe and poe in turn will pass the arguments, 'arg1 arg2 arg3' to mpi_hello.
Interactive LoadLeveler jobs do not wait in the queue for the requested resources to become available. If there are insufficient resources, your job will immediately fail, and display an error.
The debug nodes on iceberg have specific Unix services enabled which allow totalview to run properly. These are the only iceberg nodes on which these services are available.
You may use "llmap" to keep an eye on the debug nodes. Currently these are b7n1, b7n2, b7n3, and b7n4.
Your LoadLeveler job must use the debug class. It's the only class which runs jobs on the debug nodes. Jobs in this class are limited to the 4 nodes (32 processors) and 30 minutes.
X1: Accessing Open Source Core Unix Utilities
A nice feature of the Cray user environment is the "module" command. "Modules" allow multiple versions of utilities, compilers, libraries, and other tools to co-exist, and give each user a trivial method for independently selecting an individual combination. ("Modules," by the way, is open source, available through SourceForge. See: http://modules.sourceforge.net/ .)
Among the classes of software supported through "modules" is included "core utilities," such as "ls" and "cp." Two versions of core utilities are available: Cray native and open source. Thus, you can use GNU ls, and get nifty options, like the ability to specify your own block size, e.g.: ls --block-size=1000000 *.dat or you can stick standard "ls" which, of course, provides all the standard options.
As announced in news/MOTD on klondike, Cray's organization of open source utilities was recently changed. Core utilities are now split into a separate module, rather than being lumped in with the higher-level open source routines. Here are the two modules you need to know about:
The module, coreutils contains the open source version of about 100 basic Unix commands, such as:
cat chmod head tail ls sort
"coreutils" is not loaded into your environment by default. To load it, execute the command: module load coreutils To unload it: module unload coreutils
Unless "coreutils" is loaded, you'll get the standard native Cray implementation, which will work just fine for almost everything.
The module, open , contains about 150 open source Unix utilities, such as:
python make gzip perl expect zcat
It is loaded by default (unless you have modified your originally provided .login or .profile file).
To see what you're using, type the command:
module list
Note that both "open" and "coreutils" prepend the paths to their utilities to your PATH environment variable. Thus, for ALL utilities which have both open source and native versions (like "make," "diff," etc...), you'll get the open source version.
If you want only one specific utility from the open source module, and not everything, then don't load "open" or "coreutils." Instead, specify the complete path to the specific utility. For instance, if you wanted the open source versions of make and ls, you'd execute make and ls commands as follows: "/opt/open/open/bin/make" and "/opt/open/open/coreutils/bin/ls" .
(If this is confusing, don't hesitate to contact ARSC Consulting for help: email@example.com.)
Here's an example session using these modules... Note items 13 and 14 in the output from "module list":
% module list Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) modules 5) CC 9) cal 13) open 2) PrgEnv 6) mpt 10) totalview 14) coreutils 3) craylibs 7) cftn 11) X11 4) libsci 8) craytools 12) pbs % man ls ### man page shows "coreutils" LS(1) ls (coreutils) 5.0.90 (July 2003) LS(1) NAME ls - list directory contents % ls -l a.out driver ### Use "ls" from coreutils -rwx------ 1 username mygrp 6564000 Nov 4 16:43 a.out -rwx------ 1 username mygrp 6568240 Nov 4 16:54 driver % ls --block-size=1000000 -l a.out driver -rwx------ 1 username mygrp 7 Nov 4 16:43 a.out -rwx------ 1 username mygrp 7 Nov 4 16:54 driver % module unload coreutils ### Switch to native core utilities % module list Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) modules 5) CC 9) cal 13) open 2) PrgEnv 6) mpt 10) totalview 3) craylibs 7) cftn 11) X11 4) libsci 8) craytools 12) pbs % man ls ### man page doesn't show "coreutils" ls(1) Last changed: 09-10-2003 NAME ls -- Lists contents of directory % ### Native version doesn't understand "--block-size" option % ls --block-size=1000000 -l a.out driver UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- k UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- z UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- e UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- = UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- 0 UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- 0 UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- 0 UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- 0 UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- 0 UX:ls: ERROR: Illegal option -- 0 UX:ls: TO FIX: Usage: ls -RadC1xmnloghrtucpFbqisfLAHMDPS [files] % ### Correct usage of native "ls" % ls -l a.out driver -rwx------ 1 username mygrp 6564000 Nov 4 16:43 a.out -rwx------ 1 username mygrp 6568240 Nov 4 16:54 driver
Fall Training, 16 Nov: IDL
The next ARSC course in our Fall Training series:
Title: Using IDL to Visualize Scientific Data Instructor: Sergei Maurits, ARSC Date: November 16 Location: WRRB 009
Complete schedule: http://www.arsc.edu/support/training.html
Loupe Performance of the Cray X1: Part III
Sometimes no action is the best action. -- Kershner's Law
But not when you need an answer, sooner than anyone believes possible.
"Well, Bulwer," Snoopy's boss asked him, using that name he hated, "what have you got for me on those loops." Snoopy groaned and looked pained, and his boss rubbed it in. "Do you prefer Bulwer or Bullwer?"
"Just call me 'Snoopy,'" he requested darkly. He thought about storming out of the confrontation, but decided to answer. "We know that it's delicate matter to predict Klondike's performance from the compiler's loopmark listing of vectorization and multistreaming. It's like trying to use traffic lights to predict speed. Without green lights, you know it'll be slow, but green lights don't make cars move fast." Snoopy was inspired by coincidence, the sort of coincidence that detectives seek. "Do you realize that the hotter the weather in Melbourne and Sidney, the slower the traffic in Fairbanks? It's a fact. Check it out. I've got the data if you really doubt me."
Snoopy got one of those stares, not the kindly one that says, "What in the Seymour Hill are you talking about?" but the one that says, "I think it may be time to have you committed." He decided he needed reinforcements and explained that ARSC provides consultants and Vector Specialists. They understand performance analysis tools, and can even spell PAT. They know to look at program characteristics that affect memory usage in general and cache efficiency in particular, and if they get stuck... they have friends on the inside, at Cray.
To his list of Klondike quickening criteria from the last two newsletters, Snoopy added some more:
Structure code so that the innermost loops vary subscripts most rapidly.
- Fortran innermost loops iterate on the first subscript
- C innermost loops iterate on the last subscript
- Avoid dimensioning arrays with multiples of 16. Just changing the first subscript of a Fortran array from 128 to 129 can help speed programs he found.
- Sometimes simple changes of compilation options or environment variables will increase speed substantially.
"The real key to a complex case like this," Snoopy said, "is to know the tools in your toolbox, and take advantage of the best geekologists you can afford." Snoopy pulled down his USMC helmet a little and left, confident that the case was closed.
See you at SC04!!
SC04, the major conference for those in high-performance computing, is next week (Nov. 8-12), in Pittsburgh.
Be sure to visit the ARSC booth...
ARSC staff, and management will be available to tell you ARSC's story, hear yours, and look for ways we can collaborate.
Don Bahls, the new co-editor of this newsletter, will be there if you'd like to hassle him, or, better yet, offer ideas for Quick-Tips, articles, or anything else.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ Almost every program I compile these days requires some [[ pre-processing. [[ [[ The IBM XLF compiler runs the pre-processor if the source file has [[ the suffix ".F". For files with other typical Fortran suffixes, is [[ there any way, other than renaming the file, to get XLF to run the [[ pre-processor? # # Many thanks to Ed Anderson: # The way to tell the IBM Fortran compiler to look for suffixes other than the defaults (.f for Fortran compilation only, .F for the preprocessor+Fortran) is using the compiler option: -qsuffix=option=suffix The options to -qsuffix are f=suffix : New source file suffix o=suffix : New object file suffix s=suffix : New assembler source file suffix cpp=suffix : New preprocessor source file suffix You can specify more than one of these settings by separating them with colons. The manual gives an example of redefining the source file suffix to .f90 and the preprocessor source file suffix to .F90: xlf -qsuffix=f=f90:cpp=F90 -c foo.F90 If you're compiling using make, not on the command line, you will also have to tell make about the new suffixes and provide rules for them, for example: FORTRAN = xlf FFLAGS = -qsuffix=f=f90:cpp=F90 .SUFFIXES: .f90 .F90 libfoo.a: a.o b.o ar cr libfoo.a a.o b.o .F90.o: ${FORTRAN} ${FFLAGS} -c $< .f90.o: ${FORTRAN} ${FFLAGS} -c $< Q: I'm looking for an easy, automatic way of scanning through a list of files to change all lines like this: #include "some_string" to this: #include <some_string>
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The following information explains how PING clubs introduced after 1982 are impacted by various USGA/R&A groove rules, including the new "Condition of Competition" announced in 2008.
If you have a question that we have not answered above, please click here to send it to us by email. You may also find some of the following web site pages of the USGA and the R&A (linked below) to be helpful. Click here to review the USGA's August 5, 2008 Announcement. Click here to review the USGA's "Informational Club Database (Grooves)" - this site allows you to perform a search to determine the conformance of nearly all iron and wedge models. Click here to review the R&A's August 5, 2008 Announcement. Click here to review the R&A's "Club Groove Search" which is intended to provide the same search function, and result, as the USGA's search site noted above.