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Lawmakers in Washington are working hard to write and pass laws that would have fuel efficiency standards in the U.S. changing drastically in coming years. While some in Washington support the new standards for vehicle efficiency, others oppose the standards. Along with mandating better fuel economy across a carmakers fleet, Washington is also seeing green and renewable fuel alternatives for vehicles.
In the U.S., ethanol has been added into the fuel we run in vehicles for years. Ethanol is as high as 10% in fuels today and some that are against ethanol, which is derived from corn, claim that the biofuel is increasing the price of some food items in America. A report published by the GAO claims that the use of ethanol has driven the cost of some food items up as much as 20%.
With all of Washington in cost cutting mode in an effort to shore up the federal budget lawmakers are looking at everywhere money can be saved. One place that some in the Senate want to save money is by repealing the subsidy on ethanol. The
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Growth Energy, and ethanol association, CEO Tom Buis said, "The Senate missed an enormous opportunity to take real action on deficit reduction and energy policy when it failed to put oil subsidies and giveaways to the same test as ethanol."
On the other side of the coin, Kate McMahon coordinator of biofuels campaigns for Friends of the Earth said, "Senators scored a win for the public and for the environment by voting to end this $6 billion giveaway." She continued saying, "[the Senate delivered a message] that the ethanol industry's days of living high off the taxpayers' hog have come to an end."
The effort to end the ethanol subsidy now goes to the House for voting. White House spokesman Jay Carney says that the Obama administration supports a reduction in the ethanol subsidy, but does not support a full repeal. Some claim that 39% of the corn produced in the U.S. is currently going into fuel tanks. With the costs to reach the
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MARTIN SCHRAM: Congress fails to act on student loans
In a bipartisan act of calculated inaction and willful indifference, the Democrats and Republicans who run Congress passively allowed a key student loan interest rate for low- and middle-income students to double.
The senators and representatives weren't around for the fallout, of course — they'd already dashed out of town for their Fourth of July vacations. An estimated 7 million low- and middle-income students receive these so-called subsidized Stafford loans each year. They represent a quarter of all student loan recipients. Last year, the 3.4 percent interest rate on those loans was extended for one year so Congress could reach a compromise solution.
But of course, this Congress couldn't compromise itself out of a burning building — so, on July 1, the rate soared to 6.8 percent. Now those who can least afford it must pay twice as much in interest as those who got their loans before the end of June.
Depending on how much a student borrows, the estimated cost of a four-year college education could increase by anywhere from $1,000 to the $4,500 projected by Congress' Joint Economic Committee.
This would require low- and moderate-income students to pay 6.8 percent interest rates at a time when folks with excellent jobs and excellent credit are getting mortgages for, say, 3.9 percent and buying a new car with a zero-percent interest loan. Also at a time when tuition costs are soaring and families are scrimping so their children will be able to go to college.
As the senators and representatives skedaddled out of town without acting on the loans, President Barack Obama's familiar voice of compassion was missing. We didn't hear Obama demanding loudly that Congress do the decent thing by simply extending the discounted Stafford loan interest rate until a permanent deal could be done.
Perhaps his silence was due to the political laryngitis that often plagues Washington. After all, this political war isn't your typical battle of Blues versus Reds.
Democrats are mainly battling Democrats, much to the bemusement of Republicans. Conservative Republicans are at odds with conservative Republicans, much to the merriment of Democrats. The Republican-run House passed a proposal that would tie future subsidized Stafford loans to market-based rates. A number of Republican senators are pushing a similar proposal. And — here's what rankles a number of progressive Democrats — Obama also offered a market-based plan in his 2014 budget. While Obama would lock in rates for the lifetime of the student loans, the GOP House plan would allow rates to climb year by year.
Now this: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a progressive clarion, has proposed a very different market-based plan. She wants to peg interest rates for subsidized Stafford student loans to the Federal Reserve's discount rate — currently just 0.75 percent.
She cites a Congressional Budget Office report saying the federal government will make $51 billion from all student loans this year, not just the subsidized ones. That's more than the annual profit of any Fortune 500 company.
This gets us to an outcome that seems both mindless and heartless. The new interest payments, forced upon already-overburdened students, would add hundreds of millions of dollars in federal revenue.
"We should not be profiting from students who are drowning in debt while we are giving great deals to big banks," Warren and Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., wrote in a recent Boston Globe op-ed column. They are right, of course.
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Schedule: From 10.30pm to 11.00pm (Mon-Fri) on Star-Plus Last Updated: 24 - Jun - 2014The show is centred around the desertion of brides by NRI grooms that is prevalent in various regions of Punjab. Gurbani is the story of young and spirited girl from Punjab with dreams in her eyes of an NRI wedding and a happy life thereafter.The title of new show Gurbani has been replaced with Bani – Ishq da Kalma, said an official statement from channel Colors on Monday. The decision comes after various Sikh organisations reportedly expressed concern over it. "With utmost respect and humility, we request the complainants to view Gurbani as merely a name and in context of a fiction show that endeavours to bring a social issue to the fore. However, to respect the sentiments of the people, we have decided to change the name of the show," read the statement from the channel.


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Foreigners living in Denmark have been compelled to give up their original citizenship in order to obtain Danish citizenship. The New Alliance, the nation's newest political party, is preparing to introduce new legislation in parliament which would make dual citizenship legal in their nation. Current laws forbid a Danish person living in another country to take citizenship in that nation without surrendering their Danish rights. Mikhail Godfredsen, a political consultant with the new Alliance points out: "We're more or less living in a world without borders nowadays. The current law is somewhat obsolete when we have so many Danes working and living abroad or married to a foreigner. You don't give up your nationality just because you live elsewhere."
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Originally formed in Paris, France, KMFDM were founded by Konietzko and German painter/multimedia performer Udo Sturm. The duo made their in-concert debut on February 29, 1984, when they performed at an opening for an exhibition of European artists at the Grand Palais in Paris (with the show consisting of Sturm playing a synthesizer that would play feedback, and Konietzko playing a five-string bass). The same year, KMFDM issued their debut release, Opium, but Sturm exited the group shortly thereafter (around the same time, Konietzko was joined by drummer En Esch, who would remain with the group until 1999). With Sturm out of the picture, Konietzko and Esch put KMFDM on hold at first and joined up with New York industrialist Peter Missing to form the outfit Missing Foundations. But before the new outfit could issue any recordings, both Konietzko and Esch had dropped out and returned to KMFDM (Missing Foundations would carry on with replacement members and go on to issue albums on their own from the late '80s through the early '90s).
KMFDM's sophomore effort, What Do You Know Deutschland?, came in 1986 and was the group's first of many for Chicago's famed industrial label Wax Trax! But instead of if being an album of all new tracks, it was comprised of selections spanning from 1983 through 1986 (in fact, several were prior to Esch's joining). Around this time, KMFDM struck up a relationship with artist Aidan Hughes (aka Brute!), who would steadily supply cover artwork for the group; the images would become synonymous with KMFDM's hard-hitting music. Konietzko and company pushed forward with such further '80s releases as 1988's Don't Blow Your Top and 1989's UAIOE, during which KMFDM found themselves in the middle of an underground industrial movement (it didn't hurt matters that Wax Trax! quickly became one of the leading industrial labels in the world, as they were the home to such other similarly styled acts as Ministry, Revco, Front 242, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, etc.).
But KMFDM had yet to tour America by 1989 (having heavily toured Europe with the likes of Einstürzende Neubauten, Young Gods, and Borghesia, among others), something they sought to correct when they were offered a slot opening a U.S. tour for labelmates Ministry, who at the time were readying their classic The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste release. With the tour lined up for a summer launch, it was pushed back several times (due to Ministry leader Al Jourgensen falling ill) and the tour finally got underway in December 1989. The tour successfully established KMFDM as a band to watch in the industrial underground, as they returned to Europe after the tour's completion to work on their fifth full-length release overall, 1990's Naïve. Realizing that industrial's future lay in the U.S., Konietzko relocated KMFDM's home base from Hamburg to Chicago during 1991. The same year, KMFDM's side project Excessive Force was formed, issuing a debut release, Conquer Your World, in 1992, the same year that KMFDM issued a new release as well, Money.
But just as it appeared as though KMFDM were about to break through to a wider audience, Wax Trax! suddenly found itself on hard times, resulting in the label being bought out by TVT Records. What followed for KMFDM were some of its best-known and strongest releases: 1993's Angst (which earned the group its first real exposure on MTV via the video clip for the track "Drug Against War"), 1995's Nihil, and 1996's XTORT. During the same time, Excessive Force issued a second release, 1994's Gentle Death, while Konietzko relocated once more, this time to Seattle. Further releases followed in the late '90s (1997's Symbols, 1998's Agogo, and 1999's Adios), before KMFDM disbanded on January 22, 1999.
In the wake of the group's split, Konietzko assembled a new outfit, MDFMK (yep, KMFDM spelled backward) and issued a lone self-titled release in 2000 before KMFDM reunited in 2002 for an all-new album, Attak, and the live album Sturm & Drang Tour 2002. The year 2003 saw the release of WWIII, followed by WWIII Live 2003 a year later. Released on KMFDM Records, 2005's Hau Ruck was classic KMFDM in all its aggressive industrial power. The Ruck Zuck EP followed in 2006, with the full-length Tohuvabohu landing in 2007. Remix album Brimborium and rarities collection Extra, Vol. 1 were both released in 2008. Blitz followed in 2009, with the greatest-hits compilation Würst arriving a year later. New material arrived in 2011 with the loud and heavy WTF?! Kunst followed in 2013, with a song dedicated to the jailed Russian anarchist group P**sy Riot along with a collaboration featuring the Swedish group Morlocks. In 2014, the group celebrated "Over Two Decades & A Half Decades of Conceptual Continuity" with a live album, We Are KMFDM, and their 19th studio effort, Our Time Will Come. KMFDM signed a new contract with Ear Music in 2016. Their first release for the label was ROCKS: Milestones Reloaded, which featured remixed and updated versions of their hits.
In addition to leading KMFDM, Konietzko has also worked with other artists, either playing, producing, or remixing tracks and/or albums by Die Krupps, Front 242, kidneythieves, M People, Peter Murphy, Pig, Schwein, Sister Machine Gun, and Swamp Terrorists, among others. ~ Greg Prato
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Track List: ROCKS-Milestones Reloaded
Track List: Salvation - EP
Track List: Our Time Will Come
Track List: We Are (Live)
Track List: Kunst
Track List: Amnesia
Track List: Wtf?!
Track List: Wurst
Track List: Greatest S**t
Track List: Krieg
Track List: Blitz
Track List: Blitz (Deluxe)
Track List: Extra: Volume 3
Track List: Vol. 2-Extra
Track List: Tohuvabohu
Track List: Nihil (Remastered)
Track List: Ruck Zuck
Track List: Hau Ruck
Track List: Sturm & Drang (Tour 2002)
Track List: WWIII
Track List: Attak
Track List: Boots
Track List: Adios
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Track List: Xtort [Remastered]
Track List: Nihil
Track List: Angst
Track List: Money
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Track List: UAIOE
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Track List: What Do You Know, Deutschland?
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Alex Preston gets 'Idol' praise during Granite State homecoming
By KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Sunday News Correspondent | May 10. 2014 10:55PM
American Idol contestant Alex Preston, center, signs an autograph during a parade in downtown Durham with his parents, Paul and Alice Philbrick, of Mont Vernon, on Saturday. (Mark Bolton/Union Leader)
It was a loud homecoming for Alex Preston, New Hampshire's quiet "American Idol" contestant, who has secured a spot in the top three of Season 13.
Fans waited for several hours to get a glimpse of Preston, 21, who arrived in style with a large limousine and "American Idol" camera crew in tow.
"It means so much that I can actually be here in person to thank you guys for all of the support you have been giving me," Preston told the crowd.
"We are all so incredibly proud of you," she told Preston, a 2011 graduate of Souhegan High School and a student at the University of New Hampshire. "You are by far the most popular thing to be going on in New Hampshire."
Preston was the only contestant to submit an online audition and be accepted for Fox's hit music competition.
While visiting with fans at Mont Vernon Town Hall, Preston took the opportunity to sing his original song, "Fairytales," while also singing his version of Ed Sheeran's "A-Team."
Preston said he was excited to return to New Hampshire.
"This is absolutely insane that the whole town came out to support me. It is absolutely crazy," said Preston, who was joined by his parents and siblings.
"It is a lot of work, but it is worth it," said Preston, who has already secured a spot on the "American Idol" summer tour.
As for his college career, Preston says he is still a student at the University of New Hampshire, but has been deferring classes since his "Idol" journey began. He acknowledges that he may take some time off after the tour.
Parade at UNH
Durham also celebrated Preston's homecoming on Saturday with a large parade and free concert at the Whittemore Center. People from all over New Hampshire and beyond traveled to hear Preston sing.
Preston's sister, Samantha Philbrick, described her brother's journey as unbelievable.
"What can I say, this is beautiful," the younger Philbrick said while watching a large crowd cheer on her brother.
Sandy and Andy Brackett traveled from Moultonborough to see Preston.
Student Jillian Belliveau, 20, of Manchester, said the event was another great boon for the college.
"We've had so much talent come from UNH," Belliveau said.
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The 2012 European Championship is underway and Arsenal.com will be keeping you regularly updated with the progress of the Gunners taking part in the tournament.
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Poland 1-1 Russia, Group A
Tuesday, June 12
Andrey Arshavin claimed a superb assist for Russia but Dick Advocaat's side had to settle for a point as Poland fought back to claim a 1-1 draw in Warsaw on Tuesday night.
Arshavin - and Russia - started the match relatively slowly and the co-hosts came close to opening the scoring early on but Sebastian Boenisch saw his header saved by the feet of Vyacheslav Malafeev.
Five minutes later Poland striker Robert Lewandowski struck a superb dipping volley that flew just over the bar as his side ramped up the pressure, while Eugen Polanski had a goal disallowed in the 18th minute.
But Arshavin was growing in influence and the 31-year-old soon broke away down the left flank and sent in an inviting cross for Aleksandr Kerzhakov, but the striker headed wide. Moments later the pair combined again, but this time the Arsenal man could not get on the end of the forward's cross.
Russia finally broke the deadlock in the 37th minute and once again Arshavin was involved. He sent in a delicious curling free kick from 25 yards out and the ball flew off Alan Dzagoev's shoulder and into the far corner for his third goal of the tournament.
The second half was an even more open affair, with Russia a threat and Poland refusing to lie down and accept their fate. Indeed, within 12 minutes of the restart the co-hosts were deservedly level as captain Jakub Blaszczykowski cut in from the left and struck an unstoppable strike into the top corner.
It was a breathless affair with both sides committed to attack, and Dzagoev again went close for Russia while Poland's Polanski tested Malafeev with a firm effort.
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Confusion has continued regarding trends in global temperatures. The misconception 'the global warming has stopped' still lives on in some minds. We have already discussed why this argument is flawed. So why have we failed to convince ;-) ?
The confused argument hinges on one data set – the HadCRUT 3V – which is only one of several estimates, and it is the global temperature record that exhibits the least change over the last decade. Other temperature analyses suggest greater change (warming). Thus, one could argue that the HadCRUT 3V represents the lower estimate, if a warming could be defined for such a short interval.
A comparison with other temperature analyses, such as the NASA/GISS (pink in the figure on the left), reveals differences. We can also compare with model-generated data (re-analyses), keeping in mind that one must be very careful with these data since they are not appropriate for studying long-term climate change (they give a misrepresentation of trends – at least on a local scale). Nevertheless, information from independent data suggest an increase in global mean temperatures even over the last decade.
All scientific questions involve some degree of uncertainties (error bars), and these can only be reduced if one can prove that they are influenced by an external factor ('contamination') or if some of the data are not representative for the study. Hence, if some of the data are incorrect, then it's fair to exclude these to reduce the error bars. But this requires solid and convincing evidence of misrepresentation, and one cannot just pick the low values and claim that these describe the upper limit without proving that all the data with higher values are wrong. In other words, arguing that a lower limit is the upper bound is utter nonsense (even some who claim they are 'statisticians' have made this mistake!).
Another issue is that some of the data – i.e. the data from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) – have incomplete coverage, with large gaps in the Arctic where other data suggest the greatest increases in temperature. The figure below reveals the holes in the data knowledge. The figure compares the HadCRUT 3V data with the NCEP re-analysis.
Figure caption: The difference between Oct. 2007 – Sep. 2008 temperature average and the 1961-1990 mean temperature for HadCRUT 3V (upper left) and NCEP re-analysis (upper right). Below is a comparison between the 12-month 60N-90N mean temperature evolution (red=NCEP, black = HadCRUT 3v)). (click on figures for PDF-version)
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Pictures: Save the Children matchday
Arsenal Football Club dedicated its Premier League match against Fulham on Saturday to Save the Children, which saw players and supporters join forces to help support the Club's global charity partner.
As part of the day, players donated a day's wages along with many Arsenal staff to help raise funds for the charity, while a host of other fundraising initiatives took place in and around Emirates Stadium, giving supporters the chance to contribute to the partnership, which will support education projects in the UK and overseas and enable the poorest children to get a better start in life and fulfil their potential.
Volunteers were out in force and they were joined pre-match by two familiar faces in Carl Jenkinson and Jack Wilshere, who both did their bit by bucket collecting and selling raffle tickets outside on the podium, much to the surprise and delight of home supporters.
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Hey, Wassup?
It has been a long without come over here, the last day I logged in was in 2006.
How are you all doing? I'm not coming back but I wanted to know who is still here.
I remember some of you.
I remember a guy who I sold my helmet. Francis i think. You still got it dude? ahh my helmet
I also remember a guy that came from Germany to Spain to buy my whole costume. Two days later it was on ebay , It was Loanstar, you still got the costume? You have any idea of who is wearing it now? I'm curious
I also remember Cruzer, probably the guy i most apreciated here but there was some kind of mistake or something I didnt get but he got angry with me (probably due my bad english) about some shippment costs I had to pay? Never knew... Is he still over here?
I also remember a guy with a JDFett armor. Dont remember his name but he was my first reference. Oh yeah, and I remember a guy who scammed eveyone with his replica bots. Don't remember his name. I actually bought him a pair but it was before he scammed everyone so I received it.
I found this pic of how my costume looked like;
I see it now i think: **** dude, you must be proud of it, you looked the real jango fett
In fact, those were 2 years of making it... ah nostalgia
So how are you guys doing?
4 years without coming here.... You already got functional jetpacks?


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The Canadian Lacrosse Association announced the 24 players selected to the National Team for the 2014 FIL World Championship and four former Canisius standouts are set to compete on the sport's biggest stage. Dan Coates '11, Angus Dineley '07, Adam Jones '11 and Matt Vinc '05 were all selected as members of Team Canada that will contend for the championship in Denver, Colorado from July 10 to July 19.
Canisius Head Coach Randy Mearns is also serving as Canada's Head Coach for the championship and oversaw the process of trimming the roster to 24 players.
"When we started this journey in the summer of 2012, we were certain that our player pool would be the most extensive group of players with character, talent, lax IQ, experience and athleticism ever assembled for Canada lacrosse," Mearns said. "It indeed was the case. The reality is that determining our final roster was both very challenging and extremely difficult. We have so many players and that's a great thing for Canada lacrosse. As a staff, we adhered to our process with constant player evaluation and analysis, staff debates and discussion. In the end, we had to make decisions, as tough as they may be, to move to the next stage of our process - the 2014 World Championships."
Coates anchored the Canisius defense during his four-year collegiate career. The St. Catharines, Ontario native became the first Griff defender to earn first-team All-MAAC accolades during the 2011 season. He led Canisius with 52 ground balls, while placing second on the team with 18 caused turnovers. A 2011 first-round selection of the Colorado Mammoth of the NLL, Coates also led all MAAC defenders with 4.33 ground balls per game in 2011 and totaled 113 ground balls and 40 caused turnovers during his career.
Dineley played for the Griffs from 2004 to 2007. He appeared in 39 games with 28 starting assignments and ranks sixth in school history with 306 career saves, fourth with a .528 career save percentage and second with a 9.63 goals against average. During the 2005 campaign, Dineley recorded a save percentage of .595, the ninth-best mark in the NCAA.
The program's first All-American in 2008, Jones helped the Griffs to their first MAAC title the same season. A three-time All-MAAC First Team selection, he ranks 10th in the school's record book with 129 career points and sixth with 98 career goals. A 2011 first-round selection of the Colorado, Jones has shined in his first three seasons in the NLL. The 2012 NLL Rookie of the Year, Jones has accumulated 213 points, 101 goals and 112 assists in his three years with the Mammoth.
Vinc, a member of the 2006 gold medal-winning team and the 2010 squad that took silver, led the Griffs in ground balls in three different seasons and ranks fifth all-time with 258 career ground balls. A 2004 and 2005 All-MAAC selection on defense, Vinc was selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2005 NLL Draft as a goalkeeper and is currently a member of the Rochester Knighthawks. He has helped lead the Knighthawks to the past two NLL Championships.
In addition, former Griff standout and assistant Jason Levesque is set to serve as Team Canada's assistant coach. Levesque is currently the head coach of Division III Alma College.
Canada and the United States have split the last two world championships with Canada claiming the 2006 title and the United States taking the 2010 crown.


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hi there just joined the forums and new to photography.I got my first dslr in november a nikon d60 just thought i would put some of my first attempts on to see what you think all comments will be taken on board how bad http://s1040.photobu...../photo shoot/ i dont know how to put the pics so if anyone can help please do all the photos have not been croped or photoshoped they are all straight off the camera
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Started by bry50n, Jan 07 2012 02:10 AM
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Posted 07 January 2012 - 02:10 AM
Posted 13 May 2012 - 10:50 AM
The pictures are nothing special. It might be that your models don't really look too good through a camera lens or something else. Either way there aren't enough pictures to tell where your skills are.
Posted 15 June 2012 - 11:17 AM
I am agree with saira. First photo shoot is always significant in anyone's life. I was too excited in my first photo shoot. I really appreciate your effort. You really did a good job in your first photo-shoot.
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Posted 28 October 2012 - 11:42 AM
I agree also, your first photo shoot was a job well done. You can never stop learning with photography so dont be afraid to try different things and change settings on your camera. Try Aperture priority adjusting the F-stops to see what results you can achieve. All the best!
Posted 21 November 2012 - 05:35 AM
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 05:17 PM
Les bons appareils photos se revendent facilement au black je vous conseille d'avoir un bon coffre-fort homologué pour vous faire rembourser en cas de cambriolage
Mieux vaut prendre un coffre-fort agréé A2P
Mieux vaut prendre un coffre-fort agréé A2P
Pour sécuriser un appareil photo, rien ne vaut un bon coffre-fort agréé par les grandes assurances.
Posted 28 March 2013 - 09:52 AM
I found it boring, but as it is your first shoot so it is special to you. Good luck for the next shoot
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New program encourages diversity in op-ed writing
By Alex Chituc | October 13, 2011
(Yale Daily News) A new program introduced at Yale in the spring aims to bring more female and minority experts into the field of opinion writing. The Yale Women's Faculty Forum and the Provost's Office have provided $50,000 to sponsor the Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship at Yale, which pairs senior faculty members with writing mentors from the OpEd Project, a New York-based organization that works with universities and nonprofits across the country to encourage gender equality in opinion journalism. OpEd Project instructors work with 20 "OpEd fellows" — female and minority male members of Yale's faculty — for two years of mentoring.
Men compose 87 percent of Wikipedia editors, 84 percent of pundits on Sunday morning talk shows and 80 to 90 percent of contributors to newspaper opinion pieces, according to the OpEd Project's website. American studies and women's gender and sexuality studies professor Laura Wexler said those statistics motivated her to spearhead the effort that brought the OpEd Project to campus in May, with the help ofSchool of Medicine professor Shirley McCarthy. At the time, both Wexler and McCarthy were co-chairs of the Women's Faculty Forum, a group that promotes gender equity at the University.
"We need a greater variety of voices to help expand public commitment to scientific research, enrich our social world and deepen our political choices," Wexler said in a Wednesday email. "Yale faculty members do important work in all these areas. Yet translating the results of our specialized research for the public idea space is an art in which few of us are trained."
Newspaper op-ed editors are usually not biased against women and minorities, McCarthy said, but those segments of the population submit fewer op-eds for publication.


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AMES, Iowa — One in eight Iowa State University students don't realize they owe student loans, while two in five don't realize how much they owe. A recent study of Iowa State students represents the latest effort to address their student debt and financial literacy.
Cynthia Needles Fletcher, a professor of human development and family studies and family resource management specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach, was one of the researchers who conducted the study.
"Our goal is to use the information to target and improve our education and counseling programs, and to see how this information can also inform the body of research surrounding college students and their financial capability," Fletcher said.
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Arsène Wenger says it's time to focus on the future after the Club agreed terms for the sale of Samir Nasri to Manchester City.
The Frenchman has signed Gervinho, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ryo and Joel Campbell in recent weeks but has also bid farewell to Cesc Fabregas and Nasri.
Wenger acknowledged it has been a blow to lose two of his most influential players but he is concentrating his mind on those currently at the Club.
"The summer was difficult because we had Fabregas and Nasri on permanent transfer negotiations and that is draining in the end," said the manager.
"We lost two great players and that's the sad side of the story but at some stage it has to be over because we want to focus on the future.
"Overall what you do not want is to have players who play and think they go the next morning, that is not ideal. You want players who are completely committed to the long term, to defend our chances."
Wenger would prefer to have resolved the futures of Fabregas and Nasri earlier than August but he explained that the timing was out of his control.
"It is not naive [to think it could have happened sooner] but what you forget is that it does not depend only on us," he said.
"We wanted to sort all these cases out very early after the summer but it wasn't possible and the pace is not only dictated by us unfortunately."
The full interview with Wenger is now available on Player. He discusses: Udinese, the departure of Nasri, his transfer plans and more.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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A 48-year-old West Valley City woman is accused of going on a nine-month shopping spree at her employer's expense that resulted in nearly $24,000 worth of merchandise disappearing.
Police said the Kohl's employee admitted that she stole nearly $24,000 in clothes, Christmas ornaments and vacuums over nine months from the store located at 3031 S. 5600 West, according to charging documents filed Tuesday in 3rd District Court.
Authorities allege the thefts began at about Christmas 2011. On each occasion, the woman would select about 15 times that totaled about $300 in value, place them in a bag and walk out of the store, charges state.
Police said the woman was "shocked" at how much the thefts had added up over nine months.
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Got this on the AK forum also, but I'm wondering where would be the best place to find one, and how much money are these bringing?? Thanks in advance.
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I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."
OPTICS PLANET got mine for $188+ Way best deal and a highly rep company I understand. Site didn't work and I called them and left a message. Gremlins! If we could just shoot those "hackers and spammers" all this crap would self resolve. LOL now.....don't turn me in.
I used the 4X on a AK way back. It had a lens that looked to have been made from a melted down Coke bottle. The lens had a bubble in the glass at the 10 o'clock posit. Light gathering, you ask? Silly goose. The cross hairs looked to have been painted on the glass with a small brush somewhere inside the scope and the vert bar had a point, tho-it-be off center and tilted, on it that made it appear like a 2X4 whittled. I have never seen such a poor specimen in my life and couldn't have imagined it. The thing came off the assembly line "broked".
The owner just smiled coyly at the look on my face and said "go ahead, try her out". Off the hood of a hot truck and a blanket, I put 20 out of 20 rounds into a 4X4 inch piece of steel plate in quick fire. Bang..clang....20 times at 100 meters. I had never fired a AK. That piece of crap scope went 6 hours in the woods shooting everything in sight, safely now, and was still; holding true zero. He took it out of the back of his PU truck and slapped the scope on the rifle. I am looking forward to my 8 X 42 that is in the mail. They work just fine and they look bitch'n.


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BLOOMFIELD, Iowa – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is hosting a workshop for commercial fruit and vegetable farmers who are growing produce in high tunnels. ISU Extension – Davis County is sponsoring the free event to be held Tuesday, Oct. 30, at the extension office. The Davis County Extension office is located at 402 E. North St. in Bloomfield, Iowa. The workshop will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., with registration beginning at 8 a.m. Light refreshments will be served.
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Yes, that basically means the board will be hard to control, either in terms of initiating slow speed, skidded turns, or keeping speed under control when carving. Taken to all extremes, a very stiff, long board, with a large sidecut radius will require a delicate balance of finesse and manhandling to make skidded turns. Likewise, it will take a significant amount of skill and aggressiveness to make it turn tight, with a controlled speed when carving.
The most difficult board I've ridden to turn at slow speeds has been an Oxygen Proton 178. An alpine deck, it was quite stiff, and exhausting to ride with hardboots if the day demanded skidded turns. Skidding turns felt like riding a 2x6. It felt sluggish when carving at slow speeds, too...but there was a magic speed when it came alive and vaulted from carve to carve. THAT's where it became extraordinary.
My current ride is the most demanding (and the most rewarding) board I've ridden at speed. It's a Coiler 182 new school race, ridden with plates and hardboots. With a 17-meterish progressive sidecut, it will jetison down the fall line at the slightest whiff of intrepidation, but will also pull mind-boggling G's and ass-to-snow carves when aggressively (and correctly) powered. It eats ice for breakfast when I arrive on-slope, on time, and can deliver the correct balance of finesse and power. It's unbelievable, really, but certainly not something I'd set a beginner down on.
BTW, I love seeing some of these old boards mentioned. My first board was a homemade plywood deal, painted to look like a Burton Backhill in the mid-80's. I didn't have a Black Snow (or similar deal, I forget) until the late 80's. I didn't get my first Burton until 1990!
Yeah, baby, that was cutting edge and extreme...and I had hair!!!
Thanks for all the feedback guy's & gal's! I can't believe how many of you started off with such crappy, "mickey moused" or just plain DIY equipment??? (...or for that matter, how many of you must be some seriously "Old Farts" like myself!!!)
You ALL have my Eternal Gratitude for sticking with it and helping to develop & create this sport so I could come along so many years later and discover just how much I love it!!!!!
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...Outside of that scenario, anyone that says, "that board will ride you" to a newb that bought a board that is too "advanced" (aka expensive) for that newb's skill level, is just jelly that the newb can afford a shinier stick than they can.
|I started on a BlackSnow Master. Then rode a Burton woody, then I had a Look.
In my opinion, "that board will ride you" would just mean, it will be tough for you to control. This would simply just be with respect to a board too long and too stiff for a newb. But as the rest of this thread has clearly pointed out, in the end it doesn't really matter now does it? All these people with examples of broken, ill-fitting boards as their first, yet they are still here. If you go out and fall in love with riding, but get the wrong board as your first, it doesn't matter. You will still go out and ride your ass off and eventually beat up your board enough to buy a new one.
Outside of that scenario, anyone that says, "that board will ride you" to a newb that bought a board that is too "advanced" (aka expensive) for that newb's skill level, is just jelly that the newb can afford a shinier stick than they can.
I learned on a old stiff Camber board I bought off craigslist. The Bindings were always falling apart to, I remember having to steal little screws from the dash of my car or I used bailing wire to fix them.. I was to stupid to bring extra hardware I guess.
It was painted like a Coors light beer, and had "Be Original" on the bottom. Somebody must of got it as a bonus/gift from the Coors plant in Golden. CO. years, and years ago.
Used it for my first couple of years, when I bought my first good board/Bindings and boots I was in shock how much nicer it rode and how much easier it was on my feet!
I still have the Board, It's hanging in my basement above the bar.
I learned my lesson from buying my first wakeboards. My first wake deck was an out dated Connely that was shaped like a small surfboard, that thing was a tank. Took me forever to get it up on the water. My second one was a cheap Hydroslide true twin, this one was a hell of a lot easier to get up on plane, but still sucked to ride. So when I decided to plunk down some real money for a set up, I started doing a lot of research, and asking questions on forums. I ended up with a Hyperlite Premier, loved that board rode the same shape for about 6 years. 3 years ago I switched to a Murray pro model, felt like I had to learn to ride alll over again, very unforgiving, and very fast.
When I moved from rentals to my first snowboard, I did a ton of research, and landed here. I ended up with a K2 Brigade 163w that I still ride 4 years later. It's classified as a intermediate all-mountain board, works perfect for me. This year I did pick up a Nitro Target 157w because I wanted something a little more playful, spent Fri. trying to get used to the shorter deck. It's still a kind of stiff all-mountain deck, but with it being shorter and my weight (230) it flexes good, I can butter the shit out of it.
I guess my main point is, when buying a first deck, do some research, don't just plunk down a shit load of cash because you think more expensive is better. Try to find reviews of a couple different models that fit what style of riding you want to progress in. If I would have jumped from beginner/rental right to pro level boards in either sport I think things would be way different in the way I progressed.
I learned on a 92/93 K2 AC 161 which was the smallest of the sizes I could get for an "all mountain" board from K2 at the time. I think I had the choice between the 161, a 166 and 176 if I recall. I really wanted the Farmer pro model but I think it only came in a 166 and felt too big to me. That thing definitely rode me.. was damm stiff, especially at the size and my size at the time, fast as hell too. There was no lazy riding on that thing.
I ride a Salomon Man's board now and it is also a board that requires some focus, I tend not to push my luck if I feel I am getting tired. Would rather call it a day a run early and feel great the next morning than get sloppy and end up paying for it. I'm also getting old which may factor into that decision process.
In my limited experience my stiff board (raptor) is really fun and precise for the first 4 hours. The last couple runs of the day are the crappy part.
At that point fatigue sets in, and I haven't had the 100+ days of experience for my muscle memory to be there when I am not concentrating. The board will punish every bad form. I am at a point I can save most of those, but it makes a very exhausting end of the day.
|I learned on a stiff camber my first year (granted if it was too long it wasn't by much), and still enjoy riding it to this day. It definitely had a bit of a learning curve on making turns w/o eating it, and flat cat tracks were the scariest thing in the world for a while.
My first board was a Ride Timeless. I still miss that thing even if it's just hanging on my wall. I had a borrowed morrow board before that to learn on. It got stuck on snow even when waxed, basically no edges. And was slow as heck. While my friends were having fun on bumps in the snow I was getting launched off to hell. Every little bump made me twitchy and was so hard on my legs. Everyone else was wondering why I was just landing on my ass when they would be able to ride over those same bumps.
It definitely made me a better ride as the season went on, learned to hold and edge and keep my knees bent. Learned how to absorb bumps and really carve down the mountain. Learning curve was definitely different for me and my buddies.
I would still suggest a 'new' person to have a softer board initially though. It'll make learning easier/less painful. And it won't leave them as frustrated. But if you already have one you just have to be more sensitive and aware IMO.
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Ben Affleck 'Smartly Directs' His New Movie 'Argo'
Argo tells an incredible true story: How a CIA agent rescued six Americans from the jaws of the Iranian Revolution with a little help from the good folks of Hollywood. Besides directing it, Affleck also stars in Argo.
Moving on, now, on this Friday morning. The new film "Argo" tells an incredible true story - how a CIA agent rescued six Americans from the jaws of the Iranian revolution; with a little help from Canada, and the good folks of Hollywood. Ben Affleck directs and stars, and Ken Turan has our review.
KEN TURAN, BYLINE: "Argo" begins on Nov. 4, 1979, when a mob of Iranians stormed the American embassy in Tehran, and took dozens of hostages. But six Americans secretly escaped the building, and took refuge in the Canadian ambassador's residence. The CIA turns to rescue expert Tony Mendez, played by Affleck, to get them out.
BEN AFFLECK: (as Tony Mendez) The only way out of that city is the airport. You build new cover identities for them. You send in a Moses; he takes them out on a commercial flight.
TURAN: Mendez comes up with the idea of having the Americans pretend they're a team of Canadians who entered the country to do location scouting for a movie. A Hollywood producer asked to help with the deception - wonderfully played by Alan Arkin - is flabbergasted at the prospect.
ALAN ARKIN: (as Lester Siegel) OK. You got six people hiding out in a town of - what? - 4 million people, all of whom chant "death to America" all the livelong day. You want to set up a movie in a week. Then you're going to sneak 007, over here, into a country that wants CIA blood on their breakfast cereal, and you're going to walk the Brady Bunch out of the most-watched city in the world.
AFFLECK: (as Tony Mendez) Past about 100 militia at the airport. That's right.
ARKIN: Right. I got to tell you, we did suicide missions in the Army that had better odds than this.
TURAN: Once Mendez arrives in Iran, "Argo" turns serious again. Affleck, as an actor, is at his best, getting the nervous houseguests to understand the severity of the situation.
AFFLECK: (as Tony Mendez) Where was your passport issued?
TATE DONOVAN: (as Bob Anders) Vancouver.
AFFLECK: Where were you born?
DONOVAN: Toronto.
AFFLECK: Torono - Canadians don't pronounce the T.
RORY COCHRANE: (as Lee Schatz) Some Komiteh guard is actually going to know that?
AFFLECK: If you're detained for questioning, they will bring in someone who knows that. Yes.
TURAN: "Argo" was persuasively written by Chris Terrio, and smartly directed by Affleck. He is especially good at cross-cutting between the different stories; briskly moving back and forth between the houseguests, the Iranians, the bureaucrats in Washington, and the Hollywood types. Americans in the movie have to endure a whole lot more jeopardy than apparently happened in really life. But this is no documentary. It's a major studio motion picture - and a heck of a good one, at that.
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Wayne State University Law School's Tenth Annual Treasure of Detroit Gala will be held at the Gem Theatre in Detroit on Saturday, March 24, 2007.
The evening will begin with a cocktail reception at 5:30 p.m. The presentation of the honorees will take place at 7 p.m. Detroit Free Press features department editor and Names & Faces columnist John Smyntek will be the master of ceremonies for the program. A seated dinner will follow and the evening will conclude with dancing to the music of Little Davy and the Diplomats.
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Posted by Stephen Mann on August 26, 2011
In a "spare" hour this afternoon I needed to create a list of the Top 20 ITIL adoption mistakes for a Forrester client. An hour later (I made sure I time boxed myself to avoid scope creep … oh dear, scope creep could be included below too) I had 50. Quite scary really.
Anyway, IMO it's an interesting list and most likely incomplete. What it is, however, is something that could potentially be used as a tick list for organizations starting out with ITIL or considering a change of IT service management (ITSM) tool. Please take a read and let me know what I missed (or if you think I am making bits up).
Understanding and Vision
1. Believing the ITIL hype or, for my American friends, "drinking the Kool-Aid". It's about improving the business not adopting ITIL
2. Not understanding what ITIL is, i.e. that it is only a framework. There is no such thing as ITIL-compliance. Oh and ITIL does not equal ITSM and vice versa
3. Not understanding that it isn't about "doing ITIL" but rather that it is about "using ITIL"
4. Thinking that either ITIL is a silver bullet or that it is "the only fruit". What about ISO 20000, COBIT, USMBOK, Six Sigma, and CMMi?
5. Not fully understanding the breadth and depth of the changes it will require across people, process, and technology
6. Not understanding the level of resources (including cost) and commitment needed to adopt it
7. Not understanding the criticality of people to success
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Did the word 'free' prompt you to read this post :-) ?
Stephen Mann's post a couple of weeks ago on 'Giving Back To The IT Service Management Community' got me thinking in regards to ways in which the industry could give something back easily. The reality, I believe, is that we need to take ITSM back to its roots, back to focusing on IT customers.
One of the problems I see with ITSM adoption is that it is all too easy to get lost in a framework such as ITIL and to lose focus on the customer element. Unfortunately, ITSM adoption is not a one-size-fits-all approach and so adoption can be different from company A to company B, which means that trying to adopt a process from a guide can be difficult and can feel impossible.
The answer to good ITSM adoption practices lies within those practitioners who have implemented processes, experienced the highs, the lows, the sweat and even the tears. In order to really build best practices these people need to share these experiences back to the rest of the community. So one way I think we could do this is to arrange a 'Free ITSM Practitioner Meet Up' which I thought could maybe be called ITSMME (me=meet up). This would follow the successful Cloudcamp format and would be an evening, free to attend event with an agenda like this:
Posted by Stephen Mann on August 18, 2011
A "bonus" blog today (and hence it is quickly constructed) and the subject area will need to be returned to at a later date. The reason for the bonus blog is that I am a little bit excited.
SysAid, a provider of IT help desk and customer service software solutions, has provided me with a subset of the service desk benchmarking information captured through its customers' use of its software (on an opt-in basis, of course).
To me, this is the sort of stuff that the ITSM community (see my previous blog) is crying out for – information that helps them to understand where they are and what they should aspire to. More information about the SysAid benchmarking is available at http://www.ilient.com/it-performance-benchmark.htm (link is provided for more detail on the definitions for the benchmarks below).
Average Service Requests (SR) closed per Admin (Service Desk Agent)
Important note: If you follow the above link, the assumptions show that the SRs are "incidents."
Quick comment – I am assuming that this is per day but I am seeking clarification. As with all the slides in this blog, please treat with care in the absence of sample sizes.
Percent of Surveys Answers vs. Sent
Posted by Stephen Mann on August 15, 2011
In IT service management "circles" there's a lot of talk about Social Media (with new terms like "Social ITSM") and Cloud (with debates such as "Is Cloud the death knoll for ITSM and ITIL?"), but what about another aspect of the changing business and IT landscape that doesn't get enough attention – Mobile?
We all have mobile devices (and I am deliberately stressing "devices" here), I don't know whether I am a good or bad example having travelled recently with a work laptop and BlackBerry along with personal Android and iPhone devices, and an iPad. I know, how sad. But mobile devices, and their use and management, pose a serious challenge to I&O organizations.
My Forrester colleague Matt Brown recently blogged about "Enterprise Mobility, Competitiveness and The Future Workplace Experience", including an interesting statistic and "WIM" (what it means):
"Enterprise Mobile Technologies: Individual employees are able to put the latest mobile devices and apps to productive business use faster than their employers can. Our data suggests the most highly mobile (and highly paid) employee segments (33% of the information workforce) already embrace these tools to make themselves more productive from work, from home, and from the road. What it means: Companies have little control over who uses these."
Posted by Stephen Mann on August 11, 2011
For those of you that put up with my tweeting on Twitter, you will already know that I am obsessed with customer service. Or to be more accurate, I am obsessed with being treated like a customer. While a polite Englishman at heart, I am not prepared to tolerate poor customer service. In the words of David/Bruce Banner, "You won't like me when I am angry."
"But what has this to do with ITIL?" I hear you screaming at your screen. Please bear with me as I recount last Saturday night and Sunday morning (thankfully there is no link to the film of the same name).
Last weekend I spent a single night at a "chain" hotel. The customer service upon arrival was excellent, on the back of my loyalty card I received a room upgrade and complimentary soft drinks and chocolate bars in the room. Ah, the world was good and I was "living the dream." I felt like a valued customer. Fast-forward to the following morning and the picture couldn't have been more different.
During the night the room had been so hot that it was difficult to sleep. "You should have turned down the heating or opened the window," I hear you cry. Check and check. The wall-mounted thermostat made no difference. The window, somewhat morbidly, had been screwed shut. I didn't call down to reception as I couldn't face a handyman/woman messing around in my room in the middle of the night (if they were actually available).
Posted by Stephen Mann on August 4, 2011
No, this isn't about the returning of your ITIL books to ITIL's makers (just think how much they would cost to post) but more of the reaping of the knowledge and experience held within the ITSM community (ITIL's creators, publishers, trainers, consultants, software vendors, ITSM practitioners, and ancillary roles such as analysts) for the benefit of all.
This is by no means a new idea. Various conversations have taken place over the years to create lower-level, more granular, and ultimately more practical best practice information that is freely available to ITSM practitioners. Whether it is in the form of blogs, white papers, discussion threads, podcasts, special interest groups, or "free" training and events, such information is invaluable to the IT people "at the coal face" who don't want to have to "reinvent the wheel" nor to have to read through a set of ITIL books which IMO isn't really designed for the hectic work lives of ITSM practitioners. Practitioners just don't have the time even if they have the inclination. They will also struggle to find really practical help and assistance from such a "sea of text."


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