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South Sudan: Clearing the remnants of war
For almost three decades, the small town of Rokon in South Sudan was deserted because its residents had fled the conflict between the Sudanese army and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). But since the signing of a peace agreement in 2005, more than 4,000 people have returned to the town.
This homecoming has not been easy. The land surrounding Rokon, which lies about 90 kilometres west of the capital Juba, was heavily mined during the war. At the beginning of March, four young children were playing outside, watched by their mothers who were standing a few meters away, when suddenly there was an explosion. The children had been playing with or near a mine. All four were killed, and their mothers were severely wounded.
The Development Initiative (TDI) is a for-profit organization that has been tasked with clearing cluster bombs, landmines and other pieces of unexploded ordnance from Rokon and surrounding areas. TDI is a partner of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS).
"Hundreds of families have been living in fear in Rokon and other areas north of the town due to the presence of unexploded ordnance," says Graham Rees, who is leading TDI's efforts in Rokon. In places like Rokon, explains Rees, limited job opportunities mean that people rely heavily on the land to produce food and to generate an income. So despite the dangers, many choose to work in the fields.
Thirty-eight year old Rutha fled Rokon as a child in 1990. She returned with her three children when the peace agreement was signed, but she says it has been difficult for her family to settle back into life in the village.
"If the (mines and bombs) are removed from here, we will be able to go to the boreholes to fetch water, our children will be able to go to school and we will be able to cultivate our gardens without fear," she said.
A top humanitarian priority
Vincent Lelei, Head of OCHA in South Sudan, says that the work of UNMAS and organizations like TDI is critical. "Clearing mines and destroying explosive remnants of war is a top priority for the humanitarian community in South Sudan.
"Mine action partners are doing a huge service to civilians and aid organizations in this country - without them, much of our work to provide life-saving supplies, protection and services would be impossible," he says.
Since 2006, nearly 700 people have been killed or injured by mines or other remnants of war in South Sudan. But the threat affects many more. Aid organizations estimate that in 2013, the work to clear the debris of war will benefit 3 million people – a quarter of South Sudan's population.
To reach that goal, South Sudan's humanitarian appeal for 2013 calls on donors to provide about $30 million for mine action projects throughout the country. So far, about $25 million has been received.
"The operation is not easy," says TDI's Rees. "We have difficulties in accessing and surveying suspected areas during the rainy season, and this is compounded by the fact that funding for some projects has been delayed."
UNMAS and its partners can report significant achievements. Since 2004, they have cleared mines and other explosive remnants of war from nearly 2,200 square kilometres of land and opened 22,700 kilometres of roads.


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Why are liberals so intolerant?
posted at 1:16 pm on August 1, 2012 by Rob Bluey
Mike Huckabee, the Family Research Council and others have declared this Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. And while Americans should head to the chicken-sandwich restaurant to show their support, they should also take the opportunity to reflect on the intolerant left.
Watching liberals react to Dan Cathy's comments on marriage and family over the past two weeks revealed their real agenda: shut down and silence anyone who doesn't agree with them.
Big-city mayors from Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., vowed to use their political clout to keep Chick-fil-A out of their cities. When the company's top spokesman died unexpectedly last week, one liberal friend of mine declared on Facebook, "Oh, karma, you crafty bitch."
I thought liberals were the ones preaching tolerance?
The Chick-fil-A kerfuffle helped clarify a point conservatives have been making for years. Liberals are interested in debate only when they're winning. And on the issue of marriage, they're 0-for-32 in states that have put the question to voters.
That offers some explanation why mayors Tom Menino, Rahm Emanuel, Ed Lee and Vincent Gray promised to punish Cathy because of his differing view on marriage. What's scary, though, is that individuals with this much clout think it's appropriate to use that power to exact the punishment.
Never mind that Chick-fil-A takes no position on homosexual marriage, a point the company reiterated during the media firestorm. It didn't matter. Liberal journalists fanned the flames by deeming Cathy's comments endorsing the "biblical definition of the family unit" as anti-gay.
And to make matters worse for the mayors, Chick-fil-A hires employees and serves customers without regard to their sexual orientation. So in this case, the only people discriminating are the mayors.
Sadly, this is a trend that's played out too frequently of late.
Liberals used the same tactics they're now employing against Chick-fil-A earlier this summer to attack University of Texas professor Mark Regnerus. He published one of the most comprehensive studies examining the outcomes for adult children whose parents had same-sex relationships. Rather than learn from Regnerus' study or debate its findings, activists instead have sought to destroy his credibility and banish him from public discourse.
There's even an ongoing inquiry to examine his work. Anyone can request such a probe of the University of Texas. In this case, it came from provocateur Scott Rosensweig, who uses the pseudonym Scott Rose. He claims "scientific and scholarly misconduct" on the part of Regnerus and has made it a top priority to discredit and silence the professor.
Rosensweig isn't alone. A group of 200 scholars wrote a letter to the editor of Social Science Research, where the Regnerus study was published, questioning how the journal could print such a thing. The publication's own audit, released last week, "did not find that the journal's normal procedures had been disregarded, or that the Regnerus paper had been inappropriately expedited to publication, as some critics have charged."
The whole affair illustrates, once again, the left's intolerance of opposing views on hot-button issues. Regnerus could have reached a different conclusion and avoided the backlash. But because his results conflicted with the left's preferred narrative on same-sex parenting, the critics pounced.
Peter Wood wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
We get it: Researchers take note. Publish only findings that support the gay agenda. Departures from that rule will be punished up to and including career-ending academic show trials.
The summer wouldn't be complete without an attack on the Boy Scouts of America as well. Earlier this month, after a two-year review, the organization reaffirmed its longstanding position of refusing membership for openly homosexual individuals.
That's within its constitutional right as a private organization, but it was unacceptable to a group of individuals who would rather impose their own beliefs and trample on the Boy Scouts' rights. The Human Rights Campaign and Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation immediately condemned the organization, calling it a "discriminatory policy" and "dangerous message."
Americans have spent more than 200 years debating and disagreeing on a range of contentious issues. That's why we treasure free speech. But these recent actions — using political threats against a restaurant chain, advocating for the termination of a university professor and attacking a private organization's right of association — threaten to undermine that very right.
Rob Bluey directs the Center for Media and Public Policy, an investigative journalism operation at The Heritage Foundation. Follow him on Twitter: @RobertBluey
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Waited in the drive thru for an hour, loved it.
The line to the door was 50-60 people.
One loony protester.
That's about the ratio normal people to libtards in my experience.
Akzed on August 1, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Watch Dan Cathy give a cool $million to the Tea Party orgs tomorrow.
Akzed on August 1, 2012 at 10:58 PM

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I've found the gconf problem (and filed the patch in bugzilla). It was one of those classic 64-bit vs. 32-bit problems, combined with endianess issues. An int* had been passed to a function which expected a gsize*. gsize is 64-bits long and so the function was filling out the int and then some. This wasn't the actual cause of the bug though, on a big-endian system the first four bytes, that the caller sees when it dereferences its int, are the top 32 bits of the size, i.e. zero for the small files gconf uses. So gconf assumes the file is empty and tells the app that there isn't any such key. Little-endian machines luck out and get the right half of the 64-bit number.
Moral of the story: Always make sure you pass the correct pointer to a function. Not doing so is always a bug.
The other bug I'm seeing (and posting bugs for when I notice them) is dodgy pointer arithmetic involving casting the pointer to an int, doing something, and then casting it back. e.g.:
pointer = (char *)((unsigned int)pointer - 1);
On ppc64 ints and pointers are different sizes. Doing this chops off the high 32-bits of the address. Fortunately on Linux the code is loaded at 0x1000000 and the program is question doesn't normally chew more than 3G of data so it works.
Moral of the story: Never, ever, cast a pointer to an int. In C, the compiler will either let you do the operation directly or it is a bloody stupid thing to do.
Spatial Nautilus
I avoided mentioning this on the desktop-devel thread-of-doom, but I have a hunch I know why a lot of experienced nautilus users hate spatial mode. File managers work best when navigating data you've organised with that file manager. Spatial mode encourages wide, shallow trees with easy access for the things you care about (actually it probably encourages easy access for everything because you don't want to spend time burying things you don't care about). The people complaining seemed to have very deep, 10 000 file, home directories. Maybe that is the problem.
I like spatial nautilus because it adds value over the shell. Browser nautilus didn't. In fact I usually used a terminal in preference to nautilus.
My current work involves me wearing glasses which cut out near-IR light. Unfortunately they also cut out a lot of red light giving me an artificial form of colour-blindness. Using a computer has been an interesting experience. There are some good bits, magenta is now an almost pleasant colour, but there are also some subtle things that catch you out. Like all the suits in aisleriot being nearly the same colour.


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Montreal, Canada's second most populated city boasts 502 km of cycling paths and bike lanes and is currently increasing that number by another 51 km this year.
In Toronto, we just painted 2 km of bike lanes along Jarvis.
But, you may be thinking, Quebec and Montreal are known for having fantastic trails and much of this cycling infrastructure must be through parks and just for recreational riders. So, let's let the Montreal Gazette break down the numbers for us (click on the image for a clearer look):
More information about Montreals expanding cycling network from the Montreal Gazette:
breaking down montreal's 502-km cycling network
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Beginner's question - ammonia issue
Hello all,
I'm new into aquariums and just started about 3 months ago. I have a 36 gallon and a 10 gallon tanks. In the 36 gallon I only have 7 fish there: 5 buenos aires tetra, 1 male guppy and 1 female platy. The 10 gallon has 1 female guppy, 7 fries in a breeder box (5 guppy frys and 2 guppy/platy hybrid) and an african dwarf frog.
My problem is I can't seem to keep ammonia level down. I feed the fish twice a day, not overly excessive knowing uneaten food could raise ammonia. I vacuum the tanks at least once a week, sometimes the 36 gallon tank requires twice a week vacuuming. For the vacuum I use a small air tubing so it doesn't remove too much water while effectively sucking out all the fish wastes. I would say each time I vacuum the water loss is roughly 25% (replaced the water afterwards).
Within a couple days the tetras' fins would turn red indicating high ammonia (interesting tidbit to me) and sure enough after checking with the API kit it would always be at least 1 ppm. The filter on the 36 gal tank is Tetra brand, sized for 40 gal I think. There's a few bamboo plants hanging at the top of the tank (roots are immersed in water) and an amazon sword in the gravel. The live plants hopefully would help control ammonia but that hasn't happenned. There are are also a couple micro air bubblers and several fake plants.
When the ammonia goes up after only a day of vacuuming, I just add Nutrafin Cycle Bio Filter (beneficial bacteria, right ?) and/or Seachem Prime - but not at the same time. Then I can see the tetras' fins gradually become clearer. Still, I have never seen ammonia level goes to zero in any of the tanks. So I think something I'm doing is wrong. Pet store employees say to wait a little while for cycling to occur but I don't know if my tanks ever cycled if I keep vacuuming once a week.
So my question is, how often should I change the filter cartridge ? I haven't replaced it yet thinking the beneficial bacteria need to stay there. Maybe that's my problem ? Or is the vacuuming a problem ? Would vacuuming actually remove too much bacteria from the gravel ? Any idea what I'm doing wrong ?
Thank you very much, go ahead and post your responses here. I'm ready to answer them all in quest for better environment for the fish. I lost a few fish already, including frys, so I'm really determined to get everything straightened out so no more would unnecessarily die !!
Basically none of your tanks are cycled.
Do not replace any filter cartridges, this is where the beneficial baceria (BB) live.
Your 40G filter is too small to manage a 36G tank as when it has working media in it the flow rate can half, so a 40G filter is actually only good for a 20G tank.
Best advice is go to the beginners section, and read up on cycling with fish. Or return all your fish and read up on fishless cycling. Ammonia exposure will really harm your fish so to try and prevent this do a 75% water change every second day to keep the level of ammonia down. Remember to use water conditioner to the tank to remove chlorines and chloramines from the tap water and treat for the whole 36g not just the 27G you will be replacing.
Gravel vacuming will remove fish poop and also any uneaten food, which would pollute your water. Most of your bacteria is in the filters so don't worry about the Gravel and keep on vacuming it.
Last edited by ScottishFish; 03-03-2013 at 09:58 PM. Reason: TyposMy therapist says I need a bigger tank . . . . .
Grats on seeking help to better the lives of your fish.
Your tank is not cycled. No cycled tank should test positive for ammonia.
Give this great sticky a read and those are the instructions you'll need to follow for correcting this problem.
As a general rule, unfortunately, the employees at the fish store will not be the best resource for reliable information on your tank. I would stop adding the nutrafin. It doesn't cycle the tank for you. You will want to keep using the prime though as a dechlorinator. I also locks up ammonia and makes it less toxic to your fish during the cycling process. If you are only removing 25% of the water once a week, your ammonia will grow exponentially as you aren't removing enough water to make an impact on your numbers. You are going to need to start doing several water changes a week, possibly even daily, to manage your ammonia numbers throughout the cycle.
Do you test for nitrites and nitrates? What are your results on those tests?
You're right to not clean the filter, you also need to clean the gravel as little as possible and cut back on feeding.~Manna
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As you are currently cycling with fish, you should test your water daily and complete waterchanges everytime the ammonia and/or nitrites get over 0.25ppm and change enoug to reduce those back down to 0.25ppm. For example, if you ammonia or nitrite were to hit 1ppm, you would need to complete a 75% water change to being it back down into the safe range of 0.25ppm
There is a link below in my sig to the cycling with fish thread here that also explains all of this better than I can
Getting your parameters in line would be a big first step right nowIf you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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As someone new to the hobby, I started not knowing anything about cycling and just recently completed cycling my first aquarium. I lost 4 black neon tetras over a short time which led me to research just what I was doing wrong. This site and a beginner aquarium book helped me through it.
The above is good advice, except I would differ on one point. I have a 20 gallon Tetra brand tank with their Whisper 20 HOB filter. If you have the Whisper 40, you do need to change your filter cartridge regularly. You may have a build up of junk there that is generating ammonia. The biofilter is separate in that filter design.
You might also buy an additional ammonia test kit just to make sure yours is accurate.
It took me 56 days to cycle my tank. People will yell at me (I didn't know better at the time), but I did it with 20 neon and glowlight tetras and 3 cory cats. During the ammonia part of the cycle I had to change 25 to 50% of the water daily. When a couple of my glowlights started to show a little fin rot during the nitrite part of the cycle, I increased water changes. I regularly changed 50 to 125% of the water daily (2 or 3 changes) during the nitrite part of the cycling to keep levels down (and which cured the fin rot with no additional measures being necessary). I also added the recommended amount of API stress zyme to the water I was putting in to speed things along. My fish survived and are now seemingly happy. I would note that when I would change 50% of the water, and with a reading of 1+ ppm, my reading after the change would be 0.25ppm (when technically it should have read 0.5). i am not sure why this was the case, but the API test kits may not give exactly accurate readings (or at least you may not be able to interpret the results too accurately).


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posted at 8:41 pm on January 31, 2014 by Allahpundit
We hope the thinking behind the prospective push on immigration by the House Republican leadership isn't as sloppy as the statement of "principles" it released at the conference retreat in Cambridge, Md., yesterday. But that seems a wan hope. The principles could be the opening foray in one of the most mystifyingly stupid misadventures in recent congressional history, so perhaps it is appropriate that they were vague, sophomoric, and poorly written…
For some reason, House Republicans have fastened on eventual citizenship as the key issue. It isn't. What will matter most to the illegal population is getting legalized. The experience of the 1986 amnesty was that most formerly illegal immigrants didn't take advantage of the opportunity to become citizens. And it is the legalization itself that will act as a magnet to new illegal immigrants. They will take notice that we eventually welcome anyone who manages to come here to live and work in defiance of our laws…
We set out some of our policy objections to all this earlier in the week, and Mark Krikorian has written in detail about an alternative. But we continue to be stunned that House Republicans would even consider anything like this in the current political environment. It is inviting a poisonous intramural political brawl, and the base of the party will — justifiably — feel betrayed if an amnesty actually passes.
Some conservative lawmakers, like immigration reform foe Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), said the party should do nothing. Others, like Díaz-Balart and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), offered full support for the leadership principles and a green light for moving on to legislation.
But a large contingent of members stood up to urge caution and voiced concerns not so much with the substance of the principles as with the timing of pushing immigration reform in an election year and under a Democratic president they don't trust to enforce the law…
Distrust of President Obama, Díaz-Balart said in a phone interview, was "the biggest issue" that Republicans raised.
"I think we can get there, but that's the biggest challenge," he said. "We got a lot [of pushback] on the timing and a lot on the trust issue.
President Barack Obama didn't rule out taking some sort of executive action on deportations, saying Friday he is still "modestly optimistic" immigration reform will be passed this year but would consider other options if it fails.
"It is my firm belief that we can get immigration reform done this year," he said on a Google Hangout hosted by the White House. "I don't want to pre-suppose that we can't. Obviously, if at some point we see that it's not getting done, I'm going to look at all options to make sure that we have a rational, smart system of immigration."…
Taking some sort of executive action, or even hinting he might do so, would likely only worsen Republicans' distrust of Obama's willingness to enforce immigration law, which they've held up as a top reason to leave reform alone.
The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee said Thursday that the House won't vote on an overhaul of immigration laws for several months.
"When you lay out a major policy initiative like immigration, I don't know when it's going to appear on the schedule," Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) said to reporters at the party's retreat here. "My hunch is it doesn't come up tomorrow. It's probably months out, I don't know. But the point would be most of the primaries would've faded by then, anyway. By the time you get to June, most of them are behind you."
A senior Democratic aide who has worked for years on the House's immigration-reform effort acknowledged that "timing of the bill is a big part of it."
"Some Republicans were getting spooked by their challengers, but they swore they were in this and think it's the right thing to do," the aide said. "Two years is a long time in politics. They take the vote this summer and they don't have to explain it for another two years. By then, the presidential ticket will have been put into action, the bill is a law, and the sky hasn't fallen."
But Holler of Heritage Action warned that an effort to dodge the primary calendar could backfire on Republicans. "Either way, it's going to be bad policy and it's going to be dumb politics when it comes to November," he said.
"Certainly folks are going to feel, if they do this game on timing, people outside of Washington are smart enough to understand that. They will probably be more displeased if they see them trying to game the system."
"If Republicans wait until 2015 to tackle this issue, that puts a very emotional and controversial issue right in the middle of the Republican presidential selection process," veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres, a supporter of reform, tells me. "The opportunity for demagoguery will be exceedingly prevalent if we wait that long."…
If one candidate does stake out a position as the anti-amnesty standard-bearer, it could complicate things for GOP candidates (Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Chris Christie have all embraced reform to varying degrees) who actually want to support, and campaign on, some sort of immigration solution that deals with the 11 million.
"You could see a scenario where some of the candidates want to do something solutions-oriented on immigration, but then one candidate somehow wins Iowa on a "no amnesty' pledge," Patrick Hynes, a New Hampshire-based political strategist who was an adviser on both the McCain and Romney campaigns, tells me. "Then the other candidates would have to morph their positions to the right, thereby buttonholing themselves when the inevitable debate comes up again in the next primary states."
How an intra-party debate on immigration will impact the 2014 landscape is an open question. One House Republican familiar with the thinking of the candidates calls the legalization provisions contained in the principles released by House leadership "ludicrous and insulting" and tells me that, ahead of the 2014 midterms, the candidates themselves worry that "the whole effort will do nothing but provoke a scorched-earth, bloody civil war in the GOP, the only victor of which will be the Democratic party." Another House Republican tells me, via text message, that the "general feeling" is that "getting into immigration will hurt Senate takeover chances." National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brad Dayspring, on the other hand, doesn't see the issue having much of an impact. "Polling shows (immigration) is not an issue with huge resonance and each candidate will handle in the appropriate way for their constituents," he says.
Leadership aides have suggested that House Speaker John Boehner won't push legislation until after primary filing deadlines, but some say that raising the issue at all right now will make primary fights more contentious than they already are. "It's not good in general to have an ongoing civil war in our party when you're trying to unify the party, trying to get people to knock on doors and make phone calls," says a GOP member…
"A lot of people speculate that this is John Boehner's swan song," says a GOP representative. If so, some of his party's brightest stars will be looking to make their way to the Senate, and campaigning against their Speaker's position as they do so.
But this compromise won't do what it's supposed to do. It does nothing to address the reasonable concerns of those who opposed the immigration bill the Senate passed last June, and it does almost nothing to solve the party's political problem with Hispanics…
If you oppose a path to citizenship … you're not going to find much to like in a path to legalization. Some opponents say it's wrong in principle to reward people for law-breaking by giving them the very thing they broke the law to get. And for these opponents, illegal immigrants shouldn't get the chance to work in the U.S. legally when so many people in other countries who have applied in the proper way are still waiting…
Republicans shouldn't overestimate how much goodwill this legislation would buy them among Hispanics, either. For one thing, if it passed, it would do so with the votes of many more Democrats than Republicans; Hispanics who pay attention to this issue would know that many Republicans — maybe most — opposed it. For another, Democrats would still be able to portray Republicans as anti-Hispanic. They would attack them for denying citizenship to the newly legalized population and, for that matter, to the new guest workers the legislation calls for…
A better idea would have four parts: We'd increase enforcement of immigration laws at the border and in the workplace. We'd put people who were brought here illegally while they were minors but have otherwise obeyed the law on a path to full citizenship. We'd signal that amnesty for other illegal immigrants might be possible in the future once we're sure that enforcement is working. And we'd reform our legal immigration policies to let in more high-wage workers.
What makes the politics even worse for Republicans is that the failures of Obama's health care law presents them with an issue that, if played properly, could allow them to unify the party and attract independents – the same formula that helped win them the majority in 2010, the year Obamacare was passed. Democrats are desperate to get away from Obamacare as an issue, and now Republicans have given them a huge gift. Republicans were supposed to be focused like a laser beam on Obamacare this year, instead, they're showing themselves to have the aim of an Imperial Stormtrooper…
Should Boehner defy the base of the party and go through with the immigration push, an analogy once offered by Milton Friedman comes to mind. In the analogy, Friedman compared policymakers attempting to adjust policy based on lagging economic indicators to "a fool in the shower" who finds the temperature too cold, and overcompensates in the other direction so the water becomes scolding hot.
This analogy can also be applied to the way that Boehner has vacillated between being overly indulgent and overly antagonistic toward House conservatives during his time as leader. Having been criticized as a sellout for striking a number of tax and budget deals with Democrats, Boehner allowed the Obamacare "defund" effort to play its course to completely predictable disastrous results. Once the damage was done due to his unwillingness to take a stand against this doomed-to-fail strategy, he decided to get tough on the Right and he lashed out at conservative groups who reasonably criticized a December budget deal as "ridiculous."
Now, over the counsel of many conservatives, he's decided to throw Obama and vulnerable Democrats a lifeline by changing the topic from health care to immigration.
This is a sure loser for the GOP so long as we try to be the party that believes the nation should a) have some modicum of control over its borders and b) that the rule of law is important. The House GOP leadership jettisoned both of these requirements yesterday and adopted a plan that is virtually indistinguishable from the Senate Democrats plan.
All polls show that no one outside the Congressional big brain guys cares about this issue. Commonsense tells you that trying to develop a plan that will satisfy the lions share of the party base — which tends to view illegal aliens as, well, illegal aliens — and pander to enough Hispanics to move that electoral needle in a favorable direction probably doesn't exist. All the "principles" announced by the House GOP leadership do is reprise the experience we had with every immigration bill since 1965: illegals are legalized (and become Democrats), because of the legalization more illegals are incentivized, and happy talk is given to border security which is promptly undermined by the US Chamber of Commerce, K Street lobbyists, and their bag men…
We are led by buffoons. We deserve to lose.
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Hey does anybody know anything about this vehicle??
It's a big pretty white tank with red stripes, cannons on the sides and hover ability and it looks like a big, jagged Tylenol.
Surely there isn't anything else to know?
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I saw the latest pic, and I'm a little concerned that it'll be smaller than it should be. Still, that wouldn't bother me, it's just the lack of weathering deco that is its issue, and that certainly won't stop me from buying it. I just wonder if it'll be the breaking point that'll get me into paintwashing and dry-brushing.
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Should we fear open source software? Of course not. But that hasn't stopped federal courts from issuing bizarre warnings like this:
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After days of anticipation, EFF's "Encryption is Key" t-shirt for DEF CON 21 has been solved! DEF CON holds a special place in our hearts as one of the premier hacking conferences in the US, so for the past few years we have created special member t-shirts to honor the creative spirit of the infosec community. We started with "Things to Hack" at DC18, "Encryption Saves" at DC19, and our robot-pwning "Script Kitty" at DC20.
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Next week, one of the most respected security research conferences in the world, the USENIX Security Symposium, will be held in Washington D.C. Thanks to a gag order from a British court, however, it won't go quite as planned. The order forbids the authors of a paper describing fundamental flaws in car lock systems from discussing key aspects of the work, based on nothing more than speculation about a third party's alleged "misuse of confidential information."
Bradley Manning was convicted (PDF) on 19 counts today, including charges under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for leaking approximately 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. While it was a relief that he was not convicted of the worst charge "aiding the enemy," the verdict remains deeply troubling and could potentially result in a sentence of life in prison. The sentencing phase starts tomorrow, and a fuller legal opinion from the judge should also come soon.
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Recalling its previous relevant resolutions and in particular its resolutions 986 (1995) of 14 April 1995, 1111 (1997) of 4 June 1997, 1129 (1997) of 12 September 1997, 1143 (1997) of 4 December 1997, 1153 (1998) of 20 February 1998, 1175 (1998) of 19 June 1998 and 1210 (1998) of 24 November 1998,
Convinced of the need as a temporary measure to continue to provide for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people until the fulfilment by the Government of Iraq of the relevant resolutions, including notably resolution 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991, allows the Council to take further action with regard to the prohibitions referred to in resolution 661 (1990) of 6 August 1990, in accordance with the provisions of those resolutions,
Convinced also of the need for equitable distribution of humanitarian supplies to all segments of the Iraqi population throughout the country,
Determined to improve the humanitarian situation in Iraq,
Reaffirming the commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq,
Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,
1. Decides that the provisions of resolution 986 (1995), except those contained in paragraphs 4, 11 and 12, shall remain in force for a new period of 180 days beginning at 00.01 hours, Eastern Standard Time, on 25 May 1999;
2. Further decides that paragraph 2 of resolution 1153 (1998) shall remain in force and shall apply to the 180-day period referred to in paragraph 1 above;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take the actions necessary to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of this resolution, and to continue to enhance as necessary the United Nations observation process in Iraq in such a way as to provide the required assurance to the Council that the goods produced in accordance with this resolution are distributed equitably and that all supplies authorized for procurement, including dual usage items and spare parts, are utilized for the purpose for which they have been authorized;
4. Takes note that the Committee established by resolution 661 (1990) is reviewing various options, in particular the proposal made by the Secretary-General, as requested by paragraph 4 of resolution 1210 (1998), to resolve the difficulties encountered in the financial process referred to in the Secretary-General's report of 19 November 1998 (S/1998/1100);
5. Further decides to conduct a thorough review of all aspects of the implementation of this resolution 90 days after the entry into force of paragraph 1 above and again prior to the end of the 180-day period, on receipt of the reports referred to in paragraphs 6 and 10 below, and expresses its intention, prior to the end of the 180-day period, to consider favourably renewal of the provisions of this resolution as appropriate, provided that the said reports indicate that those provisions are being satisfactorily implemented;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council 90 days after the date of entry into force of paragraph 1 above and again prior to the end of the 180-day period, on the basis of observations of United Nations personnel in Iraq, and of consultations with the Government of Iraq, on whether Iraq has ensured the equitable distribution of medicine, health supplies, foodstuffs, and materials and supplies for essential civilian needs, financed in accordance with paragraph 8 (a) of resolution 986 (1995), including in his reports any observations which he may have on the adequacy of the revenues to meet Iraq's humanitarian needs, and on Iraq's capacity to export sufficient quantities of petroleum and petroleum products to produce the sum referred to in paragraph 2 of resolution 1153 (1998);
7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council if Iraq is unable to export petroleum and petroleum products sufficient to produce the total sum provided for in paragraph 2 above and, following consultations with relevant United Nations agencies and the Iraqi authorities, make recommendations for the expenditure of the sum expected to be available, consistent with the priorities established in paragraph 2 of resolution 1153 (1998) and with the distribution plan referred to in paragraph 5 of resolution 1175 (1998);
8. Decides that paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 of resolution 1175 (1998) shall remain in force and shall apply to the new 180-day period referred to in paragraph 1 above;
9. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Government of Iraq, to submit to the Council, by 30 June 1999, a detailed list of parts and equipment necessary for the purpose described in paragraph 1 of resolution 1175 (1998);
10. Requests the Committee established by resolution 661 (1990), in close coordination with the Secretary-General, to report to the Council 90 days after the entry into force of paragraph 1 above and again prior to the end of the 180-day period on the implementation of the arrangements in paragraphs 1, 2, 6, 8, 9 and 10 of resolution 986 (1995);
11. Urges all States, and in particular the Government of Iraq, to provide their full cooperation in the effective implementation of this resolution;
12. Appeals to all States to continue to cooperate in the timely submission of applications and the expeditious issue of export licences, facilitating the transit of humanitarian supplies authorized by the Committee established by resolution 661 (1990), and to take all other appropriate measures within their competence in order to ensure that urgently required humanitarian supplies reach the Iraqi people as rapidly as possible;
13. Stresses the need to continue to ensure respect for the security and safety of all persons directly involved in the implementation of this resolution in Iraq;
14. Decides to keep these arrangements under review, including in particular those in paragraph 2 above, to ensure the uninterrupted flow of humanitarian supplies into Iraq, and expresses its willingness to review the relevant recommendations of the report of the panel established to review humanitarian issues (S/1999/356, annex II) as appropriate with regard to the 180-day period referred to in paragraph 1 above;
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Ok, so I needed just one stamp for a letter/final payment for a pup, so I went to our local post office where a friend of mine works. As we were talking about a BBQ that they are having this weekend, she hands me a stamp and I slap it on the letter and down the mail chute it goes. The stamp was pretty with what looked to be a Christmas tree made out of swirling gold ribbon and the word "Greetings" on the bottom. At the top of the stamp was the letters "EID". I asked Marion what the letters stood for since I figured it was some new postal code for the "forever" stamps. She leaned over the counter and whispered, "read it backwards". I thought about the letters and rearranged them in my head and was shocked. She then told me that it was a Muslim holiday stamp. They had stamps for Kawanza, The Virgin Mary and Child for Christians, plus 3 other religous sects. No where on the other stamps were any words or messages that could be taken negatively by any other religion. Marion stated that they were getting a lot of compliants and that I should go to the website for the US post office and complain about it as well.
I am sick and tired of hearing how we hate the muslim community. If this is the message that they want to portray and send out to the American people than they should reap what they sow. So thank you US Muslims. Thanks for relaying your message not only to me but also to any recipienents of my outgoing mail. Thanks for taking a joyous time of year and polluting it with words of terror. Oh, and a BIG THANK YOU to our wonderful goverment for helping further the Muslim cause.
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It'd be interesting if advogato's diary engine allowed replies to entries. Seems like it would fit into the whole theme of "community site for free software developers". Of course, a diary is different from the main articles page, so the owner of the diary should have more control over it. Perhaps the ability to delete postings, or to restrict them to a set of trusted accounts (maybe adapt the site wide trust metric to a personal trust metric by using yourself as the seed instead of the seed accounts).
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Our purchase of foreign oil is a military strategy actually.
Let's say that doing things like fueling our rockets and moving our aircraft carriers across the oceans takes oil.
Let's say that every landmass on earth has oil reserves. Wouldn't that be a surprise?
Then let's say we buy and use everyone else's first.
What's the end strategic military result?
Well, foreign oil reserves are totally depleted and they CANNOT fuel rockets or steam warships. However, we still have our oil reserves that we haven't tapped yet - maybe because we claimed we were saving the polar bear. Maybe because whatever we claimed, we would up secure knowing that we're the last nation on earth that can steam an aircraft carrier or fuel ICBMs, and thus we stay secure.


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Description ADULT Has gray-brown plumage overall with fine, dark streaking on neck and breast. Back and wing feathers have small, pale marginal spots. Head pattern comprises two broad, dark lateral stripes on otherwise pale crown, and dark stripe through eye. Legs are bluish gray. JUVENILE Similar to adult, but feathers on wings and back have larger pale spots.
Dimensions Length: 17" (43 cm)
Habitat Locally fairly common breeding species on tundra, mainly in Alaska and Hudson Bay areas. Long-distance migrant; many birds winter in South America, but fairly common outside breeding season on Gulf and Atlantic coast beaches and rocky shorelines.
Observation Tips Easiest to find outside breeding season on coasts, mudflats, and coastal wetlands.
Range Rocky Mountains, California, Northwest, Western Canada, Alaska, Southeast, Eastern Canada, Texas, Great Lakes, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Florida, Plains
Voice Call typically comprises 5-7 whistling notes delivered at same pitch.
Similar Species Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus (L 21-23 in) is much larger, with rufous wash to plumage and much longer legs and bill. Sometimes seen in similar coastal habitats (estuaries and mudflats) in winter, on coast of Texas and Florida.
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the cyberman is missing his lower right arm and lower legs, with wires and stuff exposed. quite cool. they should do a decent exploding cyberman though. or one with an exploding head. as in the finale to season two. i kept thinking of Bender
oh yeah the tardis bank doors are a bit odd. they've got the molded stoppers on the bottom too. There again the doors are rarely fully open. and the real prop has a big painted backdrop inside. which the flight control tardis also has. won't have it for a couple more weeks yet. the whooshing has to wait.


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E-mu Audity
Only one Audity ever came off the assembly line. It is a state of the art computer based analog synthesizer commissioned by ex-Tangerine Dreamer Peter Baumann in 1979. It came at a time when E-mu, like other synth manufacturers of the time, were making a move towards producing an instrument that was more compact and more advanced than the purely analog modular beasts they had been making. Under pressure from synths like Sequential's Prophet-5, E-mu set out to make a very powerful analog synth. The Audity was a 16-voice instrument with a massive amount of programmability and stability thanks to the computer based technology that controlled it.
Unfortunately the instrument was so expensive ($70,000) that nobody wanted to buy one. It was also a bear to program. E-mu wound up shelving it in order to start over with a new concept inspired by the Fairlight. This led to a sophisticated and much cheaper sampler - the Emulator 1. But the Audity had not been forgotten by E-mu. Much of the Audity's multi-timbral design went into the creation of the sample-playback Proteus synthesizers, which in turn paved way for the Audity 2000 sound module!
The one and only living Audity is currently in a synthesizer gallery at the CANTOS Music Foundation in Calgary, Alberta Canada. It was never actually completed, so it has never actually worked. As such, it remains a truly one-of-a-kind show-piece of what could have been - the synthesizer equivalent of a concept-car.
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Manufacturer: Dell
MSRP: $799 as configured (Varies by configuration)
The Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop is Dell's mid-range productivity laptop offering, with a standard 15.4" LCD that is the sweet spot for productivity as well as portability. It doesn't have the exciting design that the XPS series laptops have, but what it lacks in design it tries to make up with simplicity. Is the Inspiron 1525 the right laptop for your needs? Read on to see our take on this laptop.
Dell introduced the Inspiron 1525 hot on the heels of the bulky Inspiron 1520, which is one of the most dissatisfying Dells I have ever owned. The Inspiron 1520 was unbelievably bulky with the 9-cell battery at 6.4 lbs. The Inspiron 1525 slims down slightly to about 6.1 lbs (or 5.9 lbs with the 6-cell battery). The dimensions are also shrunk down, as the 1525 loses 9.4% depth, 12.6% width, and 5.5% thickness as compared to the 1520.
The Inspiron 1525 shares many similarities with the higher end XPS m1530, as you can see from the expansion port configuration comparison images below. The major differences are that the Inspiron 1525 has a standard tray-loading DVD drive (vs slot loading), an extra USB Port (4 total), and a 56k modem. The overall size is virtually identical to the m1530, which itself is considered to be a fairly slim laptop.
Because of the compact size, the USB ports are situated very close to other adjacent ports (as well as to each other). This may cause fitment problems if you have USB devices with a large plug-print.
An interesting design point for the Inspiron 1525 is how the touch pad seamlessly blends with the keyboard palm rest. There is no seam, just a smoothly beveled edge, which gives just the right feel so that you know where the edge of the touch pad is. I prefer this design over the hard edge on the XPS m1530.
One annoying aspect that became apparent during everyday use is that the multimedia control buttons are very hard to see. The labels are unpainted sections with LED lighting beneath. The problem is that when the LEDs aren't active (i.e. most of the time, since they activate only momentarily when you press the buttons), the labels nearly impossible to read in many lighting conditions. I suppose you'll have to memorize the layout.
In terms of visual appeal, the Inspiron 1525 seems rather bland. Yes, Dell gives you an array of color options for the lid, but other than that it is a very utilitarian design. Don't count on your friends being impressed by this computer.
Because it doesn't have a dedicated graphics solution (it uses the integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 chipset), the Inspiron 1525 will not satisfy performance gamers. This is reflected in the Vista Experience graphics rating of 3.4, which can be compared to previously reviewed XPS m1530 with the 8600m GT video card clocking in at 5.9 on the same benchmark.
The SuperPI calculation (to 1 million digits) took 30 seconds, as compared to 18 seconds on the XPS m1530. The raw number crunching capability is clearly not robust enough to give this laptop front-runner status. However, on a less quantitative note, this laptop was able to handle older 3D games (a la UT 2004) at a decent clip.
Battery Life
Under general office operations & web surfing using wireless, the Dell Recommended power setting gives a battery life of about 4 hours (with the 9 cell battery). Going to Power Saver mode enhances the battery life to just under 5 hours. As with all laptops, the screen is one of the main power hogs, so keeping the brightness setting as low as acceptable will help the battery life. Overall, the Inspiron 1525 in conjunction with the 9-Cell Battery has excellent battery life. It should be enough to get a good chunk of work done while you're away from the power socket.
My overall impression is that the Inspiron 1525 Laptop is a utilitarian piece of machinery. It has a very neutral design overall, leaving me with a lack of excitement when faced with the prospect of owning one. Performance is middle of the road, as is the price, which will appeal to budget conscious customers who want a simple laptop. The battery life with the 9-cell battery option is outstanding, and should be suitable for taking notes through a day of meetings or lectures, or just playing solitaire.
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Got an email and a comment posted to the blog from a reader that has a great site on winter camping.
Please check the site out at http://www.wintercampers.com/.
I love their Charter:
We endorse and strive to achieve the following principles:
1. It's the journey, not the destination. We strive to enjoy our time in the woods. Some of our most memorable trips did not achieve the targeted destination.
2. The Jamboree Spirit. We have mutated the boy scout theme to encompass the notion of teamwork and individual sacrifice for the good of the team experience.
3. Leave No Trace ( http://www.lnt.org ). We endorse and strive to embody the principles of LNT.
4. 6 P's (Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance). Winter camping deserves to be taken seriously to avoid unpleasantries.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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In addition to "Roux", here is a relatively new one . . .
AFC Rebel Ridge Cosmic Rise 'N Fall - "Tide"http://www.findretrievers.com/news/w...c-rise-n-fall/Congratulations to Jeff Lyons and Madeline Yelton on their new CHOCOLATE AFC!! AFC Rebel Ridge Cosmic Rise 'N Fall earned his Amateur Field Champion Title by winning the Open at the Swamp Dog Club in Winslow, NJ, on the weekend of Sept. 28 being handled by Madeline. Tide also has an Amateur Win this fall at the Labrador Retriever Club trial so they are now qualified for the National Amateur Championship in 2013.
Tide is out of a breeding of their dog, REBEL RIDGE JIMMY A CHANCE, and FC RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL. Congratulations to all!


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Chip Lowery
Chip Lowery, the head coach at Choate for 23 years, is in his sixth year as a volunteer. He is one of the most highly accomplished and respected prep school coaches in the Northeast. At Yale he contributes tactical and technical analysis during games and practices.
"Chip's ability to read the game and provide analysis of individuals and teams is invaluable to the program," Tompkins said. "We are fortunate to have his experience and oversight as part of our staff."


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• The Dady Brothers, July 10
• The Jack Allen Big Band, July 24
• Almost Irish, July 31
• 78 RPM Big Band, August 7
For more information, call (585) 393-0410 or visit FerrisHills.com.


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What's up guys!!! I haven't been around of late so, I'm totaly lost. But, I just went out and bought the game for a modest 40 bucks! Got home Loaded everything fine, subscription went through just fine, went to hit play, and then it tells me I don't have enough RAM, and don't know how, but it told me my processor had 0 mhz! That's funny, how the hell am I using my computer in the first place then! This sucks, I let out the biggest DOHpe!!!! you've ever heard!!! So I had to uninstall everything and I gotta call tech support tommo..well this morning to see if there is anything I can do so I can play now, until I can update my computer!
So hopefully I'll see you soon wondering through the Universe, but I'd like to know what everone is doing with or within the game so EMAIL OR Prvt Msg me about your character names, any groups or clans you belong to and anything else important to you or to help me within the game! A BIG THANX if you do! Also, I'm registered as Darth_Aliksir through 'The Staiton', and If I get in any time soon I will probably name my character D'Aliksir(if they allow apostrophe's, other wise: Daliksir)
Don't forget to Email/Prvt Msg me! See ya soon!


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Hello RTF family,
I am looking for some input. I am going to be breeding my bitch within the next year and am curious who you all would rather have a pup out of. i have 2 males in mind. Both are QAA, and running AA Stakes currently. All parties involved have all health clearances done (EIC/CNM Clear, hips Good and excellent, elbows normal, CERF normal). I train with these dogs every day and LOVE them both! Many of you also know them. It is possible I would consider a different stud, but I REALLY love these boys and have a maiden bitch. Both pedigrees would be stacked!! I already have a pup out of one of them and really like him and am very impressed. The other, has never been bred. Just trying to see if any of you think these pedigrees would be any good at all. Any and all input would be appreciated. Thanks everyone!!
Dam's pedigree: http://huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=57357
Sire #1 Pete (never been bred, possibly yellow factored, DOB 4/20/11) http://huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=59660
Sire #2 Eddie: http://huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=47727
To make it easier, here are the pedigrees matched up.
Kali x Pete pup:http://huntinglabpedigree.com/testpedigree.asp?id=2168
Kali X Ed pup: http://huntinglabpedigree.com/testpedigree.asp?id=2167
As a note- both my bitch and Eddie are very high dogs. I am slightly concerned that these pups would be too hot to handle. Thoughts???


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Alternate name: Barred Sulphur
Family: Pieridae, Whites and Sulphurs view all from this family
Description The Fairy Yellow, Barred Yellow or Barred Sulphur (Eurema daira) is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found from Argentina north to the southern United States. Strays can be found up to southern Arizona, South Dakota, southern Texas and even Washington D. C.
The wingspan is 32–41 mm. Adults are on wing year round in the southern part of the range and in late summer and fall as vagrant.
The larvae feed on Fabaceae species, including Stylosanthes biflora and Aeschynomene species. Adults feed on the nectar of various flowers including joint vetches and shepherd's needle.
Dimensions 1-1 3/8" (25-35 mm).
Habitat Shorelines & salt marshes, Cities, suburbs & towns, Grasslands & prairies, Scrub, shrub & brushlands.
Range Texas, Southeast, Florida.


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In a fit of boredom, I hacked together a worklog/journal/comment system for work. PHP just fits so well with MySQL, it makes it fun.
I then tried to resurrect some of my (very) old Perl programming skills (or lack thereof) and make a script that crammed formatted input into the database if I e-mailed it.... Couldn't get DBD/DBI working, though. I guess that bears some work.
This driving while sleepy thing doesn't go well with the danger of moose and deer jumping in front of my car. I'll leave work earlier next time.


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Story: I'm not sure what it was about this story that intrested me so much, there weren't many suspenceful moments except for at the end of some matches and it wasn't a terribly deep plot, but nevertheless it was very entertaining. It followed 5 highschool girls and 2 boys in their kendo team, trying to get stronger together and do their best in tournaments. There were a few little side things that didn't really need to be there...such as Tamaki working part time and the Blade Braver series that she and Rin love so much...that honestly bothered me. My only major complaint about the storyline is I really... See full review
Story: For any of you who've ever seen the Maple Story anime, or watched any Warner Bros cartoons when all the characters were babies and living with the old woman: this anime has a very similar feel to it. I'm not sure why, it might be the overly simplistic story, undevolped, immature characters or the quirky BGM. I'm not sure why but it does. That being said, the plot is overly simplistic and seems like its meant for small children. A young Angel named Flonne is sent to the netherworld to assassinate their king, but upon arrival, she finds and awakens his son, the main character... See full review
Story: 11Eyes probably has one of the most original stories I've seen in a while. It starts out as these two kids who get sucked into an evil, dark, parallel dimention called The Red Night. There are monsters there trying to attack them and stronger 'monsters' called The Black Knights who seem evil and want nothing more than to annihilate the protagonists. Gradully we meet more and more people (who attend the same school might I add) who are repeatedly sucked into The Red Night, and we learn that each of them have some sort of power, ranging from a mulitude of unique swords to immortallity to controlling... See full review
Story:There really is no coherent, sequential story to speak of. It starts out intresting enough with Takumi, a reclusive otaku and a few creepy incidences/people randomly popping into his life. The creepy, mysterious stuff would be GREAT...if it were explained at all; but instead of explaining anything that's happening to this kid, more strange girls just keep showing up in his life out of nowhere and he keeps talking to this creepy 'Shogun' guy online (has he never heard of the 'block user' option?). To top that off, he somehow seems to suffer from random amnesia not caused by anything at all... See full review


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Hey Talt1, I just started to turkey hunt last spring. I kind of did things backwards and started out with a mouth call. There were a lot of fustrating moments with it but I kept with it (amazing how many hours a week you can pratice sitting alone in a squad car). If I had to do it over I would start with a box call and a pot / striker. It was much easier to get the right tones and cadance with those calls. I would then go to the mouth call because they are great when you need your hands free for your bow / gun. I found that Primos DvD Mastering the Art Spring Turkey Guide was very helpful. I also got a Primos combo pack of mouth calls with an instructional CD that was very good for learning basic turkey calls. H.S. Strut University also has a series of DvDs that the new hunter can get a lot of information from. They are Vol. 1 So, you want to be a turkey hunter, Mouth Calling 101, Friction Calling 101 and Box Calling 101. Each of the 101 videos comes with a call also.
After you get comfortable with your calls I would find and area before the season that has turkeys but you wont be hunting. I would then go pratice on and listen to live birds. I did this last spring and I believe it helped dramaticly. In fact I was lucky because there are several areas of state land in the city limits here that dont allow hunting so I got to pratice from Mid March right up to the time we got to hunt in late May. I plan to continue this pratice because there is no finer instructor then the real thing.


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My work usually results from a direct and labour-intensive process. Meditative process and tracing the time of creating the work are integral to an idea of direct experience, of being present, in the making and viewing scenarios. It could be termed 'Slow Art', in feeling the fullness of time in making, perhaps the work in turn slows down the viewer's 'normal' experience of intersubjective time. To give oneself time seems gently subversive in a world that is continuing to speed up.
Barcelona devotional was made in Barcelona during an Australia Council for the Arts residency. My research there included investigations into the use of pattern and repetition in both religious and secular works in light of an historical notion of mosaic work as a practice of paying tribute to the Muses (Protectors of the Arts) through a kind of devotional toil. This piece took the grid (mesh) as a starting point, which I saw as a metaphor for Barcelona as a prototypical urban centre. When folded, the grid becomes elliptical and suggests other less concrete connections, patterns and possibilities. During my residency I was intrigued by the proliferation of images of vegetal regeneration in public spaces, and echoes of these motifs emerged as the work took form.


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From the Archive: Dimebag Darrell Discusses Pantera's 1996 Album, 'The Great Southern Trendkill'
Speaking of lead work, my only grumble about Far Beyond Driven was that it didn't feature enough guitar soloing.
Well, there's definitely quite a few solos on this motherfucker! But beyond quantity, I think that I'm developing more of my own identity, lead-wise. My solos are more focused. Some of 'em even have a melodic, theme-like vibe in places -- like the one in "Floods." Also, I've gotten into doubling my leads, like Randy Rhoads used to do. I'm not panning them right and left in the mix: it's two right on top of each other. To a lot of people's ears it might sound like I'm using a chorus or a similar type of effect, but it's just me doubling my parts.
Yeah, there's definitely some guitar playing on this bitch, and once again man, there's a real live vibe in my rhythm work. If anybody wants to learn how to play these songs right, you can't just learn the main riffs and then merely repeat 'em, you've gotta listen real close to catch all the little techniques, slurs and bends that I put in there. I think it's the subtleties that really add to the depth of our material, much more so than having some outrageous lead guitar jack-off in every damned song!
While there's definitely more leads on Trendkill than on its predecessor, there are still areas where most bands would throw a solo but where you instead opt to lock in tight with the rhythm section and drive the riff home.
Hey, I love wailing out leads as much as the next guy but, as I've already said, only if it complements the track. And sometimes, that means not taking a solo. I don't want to come off like I'm trying to take away from playing lead though, 'cause I play fucking lead, man! I've worked hard on my technique, and it comes from the fucking heart, y'know. To me, though, playing what works best for the song is much more important than trying to impress other guitarists by jerking off all over the neck.
Sure, you can express yourself by stepping out as a lead player, but it's always truly something to see a live band jam together on a riff and hump it and ride it -- it's a jam session and that 's impressive right there, regardless of what type of music they're playing. And we do that kind of shit a lot. When we work a riff, it's not a lead break, it's a band break.
For example, there 's a part in "War Nerve" that was originally gonna have a lead break over it, but we weren't happy with the section I was supposed to solo over. Then, while we were working on improving the part under the lead, we came up with a riff idea that kicked so hard we said, "Fuck the lead, let's ride on this instead -- it'll kill motherfuckers when we jam on it live!" Basically, providing it's a bad-assed part, you're not gonna miss having a lead there. Pantera's a machine, and when we all throw down on a wicked part it sounds real fucking tough.
Is there slide work going on during the title track's solo?
Yeah. That's my favorite lead on the record. There's some nice stuff that shifts from speaker to speaker and, like you spotted, I even broke out a slide at the end, which was a completely spontaneous thing. I've done a little slide work on our music in the past to add some extra brassiness to a part, like on that riff in "Strength Beyond Strength," [Far Beyond Driven] but I've never really tried to use one up on the higher register of the guitar until now.
What made you decide to do it?
Riggs [drummer Vinnie Paul, Dimes brother] was cutting and producing my lead on "Trendkill," and towards the end he said, "Hey man, I could hear some slide in there." So, just for the hell of it, I cranked up the strings on my axe about half-an-inch off the neck, flipped it on the blues pickup, grabbed a slide and went for it. I totally winged it, but I'm a huge fan of Billy Gibbons so I've heard enough slide work to know how it should go. Using a slide is totally outta control because the frets won't save your ass if you're not in tune and right on the money! I have nothing but intense respect for people who can really take that motherfucker and keep every note in pitch.
Your solo on "Drag the Waters" also caught my ear.
Thanks. That lead's kinda like an old Van Halen thing where the band breaks to feature the solo. Actually, on this one I ended up keeping a lot of the original guide-track stuff I laid down while we were cutting the drums. It's funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it you decide to keep it because you realize that it's gonna be real tough to beat! In other words, it's good enough. Hey, man, like the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
You mentioned earlier that a lot of your rhythm work is spiced up with subtle little slurs and tricks. How tough is it for you to double a part when there's so much going on?
It's just a question of kicking back and taking the time to double the part properly. Sometimes it may take a while, but it's definitely worth it. I always go for that live, honest feel when I'm going for that first rhythm track. I'll never hold back on a part just so it'll be easier for me to double it later on -- to my ears it sounds sterile if you do that. I always want to get that initial track kicking and full of slurs, squeals and feel. I'll worry about doubling it later!


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