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Is continuing human evolution a good thing?
There have been some suggestions that humans will stop evolving now that we have much more control over our own environment. Natural selection, the driving force of evolution, is also being affected as the weak now survive due to advances in medicine and other technologies. Indeed many of the changes in human bodies over the last couple of centuries, such as growing taller, have been caused by these environmental changes not evolution. As evolution is such a slow process it will be a long time before we can look back and say for sure whether it has or not. Regardless of whether we are evolving do we wish to continue evolving? Humanity is certainly not perfect but compared to other animals on earth we seem to be pretty well off as it is.
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Humans are still fairly primitive.
Humans have not evolved much over the last 10,000 years. This is partly because humans don't reach maturity as quickly as other species and so don't breed as fast, so there aren't as many mutations. Also, our environment isn't stable enough for us to have time to physically adapt to it, especially when it is more practical to think up a way around the problem that threatens survival.
Despite not evolving, we have improved ourselves as a species dramatically. We have much longer lifespans, we can adapt the environment to our own needs to keep ourselves alive where we would normally be dead. We can build worldwide societies. We even have the ability to travel off the planet, and we can imagine worlds wildly different to our own, thus giving us the potential to escape from our situation. We no longer think only of survival, but try and find meaning outside our mundane lives. We praise artists, philosophers and poets. We can create societies with some measure of fairness and justice, where the strong can't entirely take advantage of the weak.
If we could evolve to match our situation, we would be physically and mentally optimised to improve ourselves even further. We could encourage traits that lead to more complex brains, ingenuity and imagination and remove instincts that we don't need any more and may be holding us back. Plus our cocks arent big enough.
The fact that we haven't evolved suggests that we actually can't evolve - our environment changes too rapidly - and that it would be a wasted effort to try and encourage evolution. If we are surviving perfectly well without evolving, it isn't a problem that we aren't evolving. We should concentrate on continuing to progress in ways that ensure our survival.
We are in a position to guide our own evolution.
We have made some progress in genetic engineering, such as identifying and treating genetic conditions, and we are working towards life extension. We have the potential to guide our evolution by choosing what beneficial mutations occur in the next generation. Whatever the negative consequences of evolution might be, such as lessened resistance to disease due to overuse of medicine or loss of social skills due to over-reliance on communication technology (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6057734.stm), we are in a situation where we can prevent them, for instance by identifying the genes that affect disease resistance and social skills and correcting flaws in them.
We could be adapting to an environment that will suddenly change.
Currently we are reliant on expending huge amounts of resources and large-scale processes that could be disrupted fairly easily. The environment we adapt to is probably probably going to reflect this. If we evolved to suit our environment now and there was a sudden radical change in our environment, such as running out of resources, losing the ability to power technology or losing the ability to communicate globally, we wouldn't be able to cope with the change and there would be a massive loss of life, even more than there would be now when we are dependent as a society but not as a species.
This could also be said to be an argument in favour of evolving to deal with such a cataclysmic change.
We are evolving too much for the planet to cope with.
We are living longer but still breeding at the same rate. Our lifestyle uses more of the planet's resources than ever. If we evolve to become larger and have longer lifespans, we are going to end up making this problem worse.
Our brains will become larger and more complex as well as our bodies becoming larger, and so we will be able to think of better solutions such as developing sustainable alternative energy sources and managing the population growth sensibly.
We won't be human.
At some point in our evolution, we will inevitably branch off into new species. If we can survive without evolving, we are more likely to retain our humanity.
Clinging to humanity when the species we evolve into may well be superior is misguided pride.
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A North Carolina State of Mind :)
Garner, NC, October 5, 2012
After a leisurely start to the day we got on the road about 10 and drove about 262 miles. Our destination was Garner, NC, where Justin and Gwen live. We arrived about 3:30 and got all set up. The place we are staying is a mobile home park and they can go either way. This one is very nice and clean, with grassy, shaded sites. The best part is that we are only 4.5 miles from Justin and Gwen. This is the first time we have stayed here, but I think we will come back. After getting all set up we came to the kids' house and got pizza for dinner. Yum! I was able to get all my laundry done at their house, also.
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Lakeview's Lincoln Insurance spans three generations
For three generations, Lincoln Insurance Agency in Lakeview has catered to the insurance needs of area residents.
Many of those insured with Lincoln have been clients since the business first opened its doors in 1983. That's when Dallas Lincoln left the agency he had been with for 13 years and hung his own shingle as a State Farm representative. Shortly after that, Dallas' son, Todd Lincoln, joined the team and the Lincoln Agency was officially born.
Though Dallas is now more or less retired, he still spends a little time at the agency when he's not vacationing in Florida.
It was in 2004 that Todd's son, Chad Lincoln, climbed aboard, officially making the agency a three-generation operation.
Whether Chad's son, Mason, will go into the family business is anyone's guess, but the family is hopeful.
"Mason's not quite three years old," Todd said. "But you gotta start them young. He'll be our fourth generation."
According to Todd, the Lincoln Agency, located on M-46 in Lakeview, fills a unique niche in Lakeview's insurance market.
"Instead of trying to insure every home and auto in Lakeview, we worked the investment side of the house," Todd said. "We handle annuity sales, long-term care and health insurance and life insurance. That's our forte."
Todd adds that, in the years since its inception, Lincoln Insurance has built up its name recognition in Lakeview and the area it serves, a 30-mile radius.
"This creates a lot of flexibility for those of us who work here," Todd said. "We've been very fortunate in that we have a good, diverse staff.
There are protocols in place and everyone does what they're supposed to do."
Chad, who is mostly responsible for the company's outside sales, said he enjoys working in the established, family business.
"I feel more of a personal connection with the business, as opposed to just getting up in the morning and going to work," Chad said. "There's a little extra pride involved in grabbing a client's file and seeing they have been with us since the '80s.
"I think it goes a long way toward the relationships with our clients that when they call or stop in, they're not just an account number or a policy number; everybody's on a first-name basis."
That personal service and connection to the community are the factors that will likely propel the Lincoln Agency forward for generations to come.


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There were some discussion earlier about this being due to php not doing secure http correctly. But I have verified that my php is correctly linked to openssl. I have also enabled php error logs in wp-config, but my error log is blank.
Like buttons and the fan widget is working correctly.
Is there anything I can do to debug this further?
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(Soccer America provides ongoing coverage of the 2018/2022 World Cup bid process.)
By Paul Kennedy, Editor in
Concacaf president Jack Warner, who serves on the FIFA executive committee as one of its eight vice presidents, certainly doesn't
mince his words.
Speaking at the Leaders in Football on Tuesday, Warner stole the show with his comments critical of the England World Cup 2018/2022 bid committee. "My colleagues are
saying very quietly that the guys who are coming to them are lightweight," the Trinidadian said. "This is the type of thing that loses you a bid. You have to look at what others are doing and also
be creative yourself - these things are not happening."
He had earlier said England was "creeping along. It's better than standing still but I would have thought they would be galloping
by now. I am not being unkind. I have been a FIFA executive committee member for 27 years, I have seen many other bids, and while England has all the attributes to be a worthy host country, I am
not convinced they are making the most of those attributes."
He went so far as to say that the joint Spain/Portugal bid was the favorite to win the 2018 World Cup, expected to go to a
European country.
"Spain is doing quite well and some people have even expressed the belief to me that if the vote were taken now they would win," he said. "There is, of course, a long time to
go, and many things can change."
"Because we faced our demons in the past, in England you can play your
football without racial abuse, and that's not true everywhere. You can also do it with the assurance that when we see signs of any re-emergence of the problem we will stamp on it and take it on,
head on."
-- FA and bid chairman, Lord Triesman, playing the racism card with a not-so-subtle attack on European rival Spain, where English players
were racially abused by fans during a friendly at Madrid's Bernabeu Stadium in 2004.
A change in plans?
[GULATI WATCH] This week's Leaders in Football in London was a must-attend event for World Cup bidders. Among the Americans on hand were MLS commissioner Don Garber, AEG president Tim Leiweke and, of course, U.S. Soccer president and World Cup bid chairman Sunil Gulati, who drew laughs from the audience with his dig at the beleaguered England World Cup bid.
"The moderator asked me about our World Cup bid and
I said, our thinking on the way over here was, we're bidding for both but thinking more about 2022," Gulati told the New York Times. "But with England in trouble, maybe we should be thinking more
about '18."
The Havelange influence
[RIO 2016] Six and a half years after FIFA awarded
Brazil the 2014 World Cup, the IOC named Rio de Janeiro as host of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Brazil has sure come a long way in the last two decades. Leading up to the 1988 FIFA executive committee
vote, Brazilian Joao Havelange, then-FIFA president, no so subtly championed the USA's bid for the 1994 World Cup in competition with Brazil's bid. (Brazil
finished third behind the USA and Morocco.)
Havelange, 93, still carries political weight in international circles. He is the longest-serving member of the IOC and worked hard to bring
the Olympics to South America for the first time. "I have a dream of seeing history made in 2016 with the first Games in South America," said Havelange, who competed in the Olympics in swimming and
water polo 14 years apart and was FIFA president from 1974 to 1998. "I invite you all in 2016 to my city in new Brazil for my 100th birthday." Havelange is said to have personally received the
support from 20 of the 26 IOC committee members who voted for Rio in the all-important first ballot.
The solar bid
[QATAR] What lessons can be learned from the IOC vote for Rio and its rejection of the Chicago candidacy? What impact could it have on the USA's chances for 2018 or 2022?
Rio's winning argument was that being awarded the Olympics would bring the international competition to South America for the first time. If that line of reasoning is applied to the 2018/2022 bids,
the country with the strongest case is Qatar (though you'll get an argument from Australia). A Qatari World Cup would bring the World Cup to the Middle East for the first time.
Qatar's bid has one huge obstacle: the
heat. Hassan al Thawadi, the head of the Qatari bid committee, has ruled out the possibility of constructing indoor stadiums but suggested solar energy could
be used to provide energy for cooling equipment. "We would not enter anything without thinking we could win it," he told the National. "We are dedicated to this and believe we have a good chance. This is the right time
to show what we can offer in uniting western and eastern cultures, but more importantly leaving legacies for the future generations, including creating a greater understanding of the Middle East
for the rest of the world. One of the challenges everyone has got in their mind is the question of the weather. We believe we can change perceptions on this point."
Back to Yokohama?
[JAPAN] Tokyo's failure to secure the 2016 Summer Olympics was initially viewed as the death knell for Japan's 2018/2022 World Cup bid. The Japan Football Association had initially
indicated that its bid was contingent on Tokyo winning because it was hoping plans would go forward for the construction of a 100,000-seat Olympic stadium in Tokyo that could be used for the World
One of the requirements for the 2018/2022 World Cups is that the host country have at least one stadium with a minimum capacity of 80,000 seats. Japan's largest soccer stadium is the
72,000-seat Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, site of the 2002 World Cup final. FIFA president Sepp Blatter gave Japan a reprieve last week, however, saying that
Nissan Stadium could host the 2018 or 2022 final.
Putin's blessing
[RUSSIA] The USA
has the support of President Barack Obama, and Russia now has the blessing of President Vladimir Putin. On the eve of
the decisive Germany-Russia World Cup 2010 qualifier, Russia formally launched its World Cup 2018/2022 World Cup bid with words of support from Putin.
The Russian bid includes 15 stadium in 14 cities: Northern Cluster (St. Petersburg,
Kaliningrad), Central Cluster (Moscow, Podolsk), Southern Cluster (Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi), Volga Cluster (Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Samara, Volgograd, Saransk) and East of Ural


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I should start a box warming business!
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One size, fits all!
We were supposed to have a special, never-before-released, picture of me in a box, but the Massage Therapist can't find it on the hard drive. Figures!
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Phase III
The third and final National Dialogue session is focused on receiving feedback on the final proposals concerning:
-Counterterrorism and Domestic Security Management
-Securing Our Borders
-Smart and Tough Enforcement of Immigration Laws
-Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering from Disasters
-Homeland Security National Risk Assessment
-Homeland Security Planning and Capabilities
The QHSR is a congressionally mandated review of the nation's homeland security policies and priorities that will guide homeland security for the next four years.
Some of the discussion will be web-based and we invite you to participate.
For all you need to know about the QHSR including a video message from Secretary Napolitano, you can go to the QHSR Homeland Security Dialogue page.
Blogger Bob
TSA Blog Team
7 comments:
- Anonymous said...
That's nice. Why do you refuse to post, on this blog and at the checkpoints where TSA is using its virtual strip-search machines, images of the same size and resolution as seen by the operator of the strip-search machine?
- September 25, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
Stop with the complaints about the images of the WBI. YOU HAVE BEEN SHOWN THE IMAGES!!! Your repetition serves no purpose.
- September 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
All snarkiness aside, This is supposed to be the QHSRP-III section of blog.
At this point in time, I believe that most of readers of this blog think the images the WBI machines are disturbing, but I also believe that most are also tired of off-topic posting.
Personally, I would actually like to know how the results QHSRs have changed since their inception. Unfortunately, any useful information that the TSA does provide about those reports will probably be drowned out by WBI 'strip search machine' posts.
- September 25, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- Anonymous said...
"Stop with the complaints about the images of the WBI. YOU HAVE BEEN SHOWN THE IMAGES!!! Your repetition serves no purpose."
If Bob had posted the images at the the same size and resolution as seen by the operator of the strip-search machine, he would have been able to post links to them. Since he has not done so, we know that TSA continues to be evasive and dishonest about these machines. One more reason America hates TSA.
- September 25, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
How has the QHSR II change the way that TSA does business?
- September 25, 2009 at 8:45 PM
- Daisy Morgan said...
Its time to stop complaining about the WBI images. And yes it is time for TSA to be more transparent. And its tim America loved TSA.
Seriously, all this WBI posts are just making things seem absurd.
- October 14, 2009 at 7:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
To the geniuses who think that complaints about "WBI" machines are purposeless, emigrate to a country where blind complicity with an overbearing authority is considered honorable. Otherwise, realize that the complaints that you bemoan are the will of citizens who compose this country. We as a populace, especially in the context of the Bush administrations' depravity, have a responsibility to demand candor from our leaders. The admonition by some to post "on-topic" is disappointingly petty in a time of real concern. In light of TSA's recent indiscretions, this forum ought to be thoroughly saturated with dissent.
Whether or not this comment is screened, bear in mind that we will be heard, by any means necessary.
- December 30, 2009 at 9:36 PM


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I think it's very likely that ex-Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell is a prat. In fact, he's probably a pompous, condescending, bad-tempered prat.
However that doesn't give police the right to destroy his career because they despise him and a government that has cut their budgets, frozen their pay and reduced their pensions.
And if it turns out that officers DID fabricate evidence about that altercation at the gates of Downing Street in order to bring down a Cabinet minister, then God help us all.
Because if they're capable of stitching up the power brokers, what the hell could they do to US? How many ordinary people could they – do they – routinely fit up? People who, unlike Mitchell, have no voice and no clout?
Because even now your word or mine doesn't count against a copper's... in court or anywhere else.
But what kind of culture exists in modern policing if officers think it's OK to make up evidence they know will destroy someone? And why, when the integrity of the entire force is under threat, has Met boss Bernard Hogan-Howe only just come back from holiday?
Did he think accusations that his men fitted up a Cabinet minister weren't important enough to warrant his presence?
Last week, Hogan-Howe ludicrously said an officer who lied in an email claiming to be a member of the public who'd witnessed Mitchell's outburst (he hadn't) didn't really affect the original account of what had happened.
Eh?? Of course it does. Especially as that account by two diplomatic officers – who'd said Mitchell's rant was so vile that members of the public were visibly shocked – is also now in doubt as CCTV footage shows passers-by barely registered what was happening.
If the police want us to respect them and the laws of the land, then they cannot abuse those laws to settle scores with a government they don't like. Nor can they use it to destroy the careers of people they deem to be arrogant tossers... even if they are.
Most of us were brought up to respect the police and to believe they are motivated by everything that is good and decent. But that belief system is finished now.
Not just because of this, but because of Hillsborough – where officers look to have lied. And in Rochdale where they ignored the fact white girls were being raped by Asian gangs for fear of being branded racist.
At the time Plebgate broke, Police Federation chief Ian Edwards piously announced that by giving credence to Mitchell's account of what had happened the Prime Minister had "doubted the honesty of bobbies everywhere". The implication being that a copper's word is sacrosanct. Not any more. And that's a tragedy for the good cops, the honest ones, the ones who still uphold the concept of law and order.
I have no doubt Mitchell was rude to those officers in Downing Street. But then I don't expect to respect politicians, many of whom are motivated by self-interest and power.
However I DO need to trust and respect the police. I need to believe they're better than the rest of us, that they won't lie, hurt people or abuse the rules they expect us to live by.
More importantly we need to trust the police as an institution because it symbolises the authority of the state. If it's corrupt, how can we feel safe?
Back in September Irene Curtis, boss of the Superintendents' Association, said Plebgate had become an issue about the integrity of the police. It has. And some of them are looking like they don't know the meaning of the word!


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So the closest public range to me is about 25 miles away. After work if i wanted to go its a real pain in the ass. What i'm wondering is:
Am I able to bring a locked-out, in the case pistol to my OWN place of business, with NO LIVE AMMUNITION in my possession. Lock it up there for the day with the only key in my possession, then drive to the range, then back home. With NO DEVIATIONS between home to work, work to the range, and the range back home.
Is this deemed unlawful in NJ?
I do love NJ but at the same time the gun laws here SUCK. The "travel" law in NJ basically says I am supposed to go from Home to the range and the range back home with no stopping in between.


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April 12, 2014
1:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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M Street Northwest
Washington, DC, D.C. 20036
The 2014 Pink and Drink crawl is BACK in Washington, DC on Saturday, April 12th! Join the nation's biggest PINK bar crawl as we bring people together for a day of drink specials, new friends and your best pink outfit! Come solo or join thousands of the city's craziest, most fun breast cancer awareness supporters. It's time to get ready for cheersing, music, raffles and prizes!
When: 1PM – 9PM: Saturday, April 12th, 2014
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Around 8:30 a.m. on August 30th, Fairview Township Police clocked a Red Pontiac G6 going 82 mph in a 65 mph zone on I-83 South. When Officer Picciurro tried to stop the vehicle, it swerved between the lanes and got off the Interstate at Exit 35, the Lewisberry Exit, at a high rate of speed. The vehicle entered the parking lot of a restaurant and drove around the building. The officer went around the restaurant in the opposite direction to try and block the vehicle, but the vehicle failed to stop and drove around him.
The vehicle then drove South on Yorktowne Road and went the wrong direction down the one-way ramp to I-83. Fortunately, the officer got a good look at the driver and had a partial registration number. Given the danger that following the car would create to other drivers, the Officer did not follow the vehicle. According to a bystander, once the vehicle went down the exit ramp, it went South on I-83.
Through further investigation, Fairview Township police were able to track the registration back to a Pontiac G6 owned by 35-yr old Michael Yingling Jr, from Susan Road, Harrisburg. Officer Picciurro was able to use a photograph to identify Yingling as the driver, and additional checks revealed that he worked at Rite Aid in Etters. Around 9:45 a.m., Police found the vehicle at his place of employment and arrested Yingling. Yingling was charged with Fleeing or Attempting to Elude Police, Reckless Driving, and Speeding, and was taken to the York County Booking Center.


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He's best-known for the hilarious personae he played on Kids in the Hall – from a quirky cop to Cabbage Head – but when beloved Canadian funnyman Bruce McCulloch performs this week in Vancouver, he'll be playing a decidedly different character: himself.
Directed by One Yellow Rabbit's Blake Brooker and featuring long-time collaborator Brian Connelly of legendary Toronto bands Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and Atomic 7, Young Drunk Punk chronicles Mr. McCulloch's life, from his early days as a young punk in 1980s Alberta to his flannel-clad stretch in grunge-era Toronto to his pajama-donning days as a family man in the Hollywood Hills.
Along the way, he tells darkly hilarious – and mostly true – tales, among them a bad sex weekend with his wife, getting mistaken for a pedophile at a junior high production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and feeding his dying father applesauce then later dropping his ashes in a Safeway dumpster.
But Mr. McCulloch says the show is anything but a vanity project; rather, after years of working behind the scenes writing film and TV scripts in Hollywood, he was keen to reconnect with audiences – many of whom also feel like they don't quite fit.
"I reveal stuff about myself, but it isn't just about me. It's about everybody and their weird things," says Mr. McCulloch, who is working on a companion book. "The lucky thing about finding Brian and doing Kids in the Hall was I thought I was the only person who felt the way I did – and then I realized there are thousands, if not millions, of people, and that we're all outsiders."
Mr. McCulloch also weaves in comedy and a couple of songs, and sometimes works in tales that are à propos to the city where he is performing – like the time he was in Vancouver and a friend of his, who was a nurse, made him take ecstasy.
But at bottom, he says, Young Drunk Punk is part success story, part cautionary tale.
"I say in the show, 'Never trust a man who says "Trust me,"'" quips Mr. McCulloch, who, despite his colourful history, is reluctant to offer life advice. "I don't know how good my advice would be. I think it's more, 'Don't do some of the things that I've done.' "
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Kwikset door handle issues
Just bought a couple of passageway (no lock) door handles from Kwikset. Problem is that if you tighten so the handle doesn't slide around then it binds and the latch doesn't release after your release the handle. If you loosen the screws then the latch moves freely but the handle jiggles and is too loose. There is no happy medium.
The problem seems to be that the handle side with screws is metal on metal. The handle turns within the metal circular part with screws. When you tighten the handle down that metal on metal contact doesn't allow the knob to turn back on its own.
Tried grease. Any other suggestions? Thanks.
My suggestion would be to take it back and exchange it for a Schlage brand.
Far better lock set and the finish will not rub off like a Kwickset will after a few years.
I thought about that and may do it. I want to change out all of them in the house so I was trying to be budget conscious. Any idea how the Schlage operate to not have this same problem?
Schlages have a seperate return spring for the knob to recenter it. Kwiksets depend on the latch spring.
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HOLMER Green were hit for six in north London by a rampant Haringey Borough.
Chris Allen's side will have to try and erase this drubbing from their memory quickly ahead of a crunch month in their survival bid.
The heavy loss did little for their goal difference as they remain three points from safety and were riddled with injuries and unavailable players for this weekend game.
Ex-Chesham United striker Darrell Cox bagged a hat-trick and started the rout on four minutes before Charles Douse made it two just three minutes later.
Cox netted again on 22 minutes before Christopher Benjamin drove in a fourth and Cox completed his first-half treble to give his side a mammoth 5-0 lead at the break.
Holmer managed to tighten up in the second-half but Benjamin scored his second of the game before a late Danny Boateng header was scant consolation for the Greens.


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When parsing the matchups between 2012 NCAA Tournament championship contenders Loyola and Maryland, there's one position where the Terps hold a distinct experience edge over the Greyhounds.
Maryland goalie Niko Amato knows this game. He started as a freshman netminder in cage against Virginia in the last year's championship contest at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium. Though the Terps lost 9-7 to the Cavaliers, Amato earned precious experience when it comes to preparing for this weekend's schedule. This year, he expects to lean on the knowledge garnered from last year's run in prepping for Monday's game against Loyola.
"I think the experience factor is helpful from last year," Amato said Sunday during a pre-championship press conference. "But the most helpful part of being in the same situation as last year's is the days in between the games and the times leading up to face-off. Because you really want to try and manage your emotions and not spend too much energy before the game. Just kind of peak at the right time.
Just like in games like last night's against Duke, you saw how frantic it was in the opening whistle. Being in this game last year kind of helped me settle in and calm my nerves a little bit and help manage some of the younger guys on defense."
No doubt, Amato's play during his two-year run as the Terps' starter has been impressive. Last season, he was the a young pup in goal, feeding off a veteran defense featuring All-ACC and All-American players in Brett Schmidt, Max Schmidt and Ryder Bohlander. As the newbie, Amato had to earn respect from his upperclassmen teammates and establish himself as a DI goalie presence.
"We didn't even know who was going to start in goal until February last year," head coach John Tillman said. "It was between Niko and [former Maryland goalie] Mark White. And to be honest with you the people's choice was White, because the guys in front of him were all seniors. We had to be very smart, because if we just gave the job to Niko in September, they would have been [upset]. We really had to let it play out, play out, and what was nice was, when we scrimmaged Syracuse, Niko was lights out and the kids were like 'We're OK with him.'"
It all came together for the freshman netminder. Amato finished his first-year campaign earning All-ACC and All-NCAA Tournament honors while posting a 7.35 goals against average and a .564 saves percentage.
This season, the Philly native has served as the defensive veteran, helping guide a rebuilt close defense that, at the beginning of the 2012 season, featured two inexperienced sophomores and a touted freshman. Amato helped with the rebuilding process, eventually guiding the unit to a 7.88 goals against average and No. 9 national ranking for team defense.
Off the field, Amato says he likes to keep his team loose. His good will is evident among his teammates, who, at least during this NCAA Tournament run, can't help but crack up when they talk about Amato's inspirational speeches prior to game time.
Amato continues a lush legacy of top Terrapin goalies. Inside Lacrosse ranked Amato the No. 1 goalie recruit in the class of 2009 while starring at Philadelphia lacrosse power La Salle College (Pa.). He also tutored as a prep under Philly native and former Maryland Terrapin goalie Brian Dougherty. The pair still text message and talk, on both good days and after bad performances, through the season.
"He made it up to the Lehigh game in the first round," Amato says of Dougherty, who is currently the head coach at Division II Chestnut Hill. "We text back and forth. He basically told me I had to step it up, especially against Johns Hopkins. I don't think it's his favorite team. He lets me know what he's seeing, where I can improve."
Amato also credits current Maryland Lacrosse volunteer assistant and director of operations Brian Phipps, who played goalie for the Terps from 2007 to 2010, with helping develop his game. Former Maryland Terrapin goalie Jake Reed, who played goalie from 1974 to 1977 for the Terps (and now is more famously known as the owner/operator of the Nike Blue Chip camp), also has a strong relationship with the current netminder.
The four were together at last year's NCAA quarterfinal game against Syracuse, which Maryland won 6-5 to earn a spot in the 2011 final four. After the game the four took a picture together, cementing a legacy that stretches form the early '70s to 2012.
"I've been really fortunate, really blessed to have all those guys around," says Amato. "It's a pretty special goalie legacy, and I'm fortunate and proud to be a part of it, and I just hope to get one more win this Monday."


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The rating firm Standard & Poor's has some good news for California. The state's outlook, it says, is now "positive," up from "stable." The analysts are so optimistic that on Jan. 14, when revising the outlook, they said the state's credit rating could be upgraded in two years. Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, released his budget proposal last week and, as he did last year, announced a surplus—but urged caution to not spend it all at once. According to the new report from S&P, while the surplus is nice, that's not the reason it thinks an upgrade could be on the horizon.
First, the analysts like a change in 2011 that over time has allowed Brown to lay the groundwork for a more stable future. The measure, Proposition 25, allowed the legislature to pass a state budget with a majority of votes. Previously, any budget needed two-thirds approval, which created political gridlock and led to situations such as what happened with the 2011 budget, which was passed 100 days after the fiscal year started. Such uncertainty made it harder for the state to get the short-term loans needed to pay expenses early in the year as it waited to collect taxes, which mostly came later in the fiscal year. To manage its cash flow, the state resorted to all sorts of convoluted, one-off fixes, including issuing IOUs and borrowing from other state funds. The piecemeal approach, S&P says, prevented the state from dealing with its bigger fiscal problems.
Second, the analysts really like Brown. He has focused on paying down what he dubbed "The Wall of Debt," the $35 billion in loans, IOUs, and other liabilities that had piled up. While his proposed new budget does increase spending, it also accelerates payments on the debts.
Finally, S&P really, really likes Brown's new proposal for a rainy day fund. California's budget is dependent on taxing the wealthy on their income and capital gains, which fluctuate greatly. Brown's proposed fund would set aside excess capital gains taxes in flush years and save them for down years as a way to smooth out the revenue.
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Reporters are questioning dubious claims that could be being employed for the purpose of launching the next war, and they are doing so BEFORE the war kills tens of thousands of people. This is a sign of MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT! Don't let up now!
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Q On another matter, does the White House have an update on the investigation into Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's role in the Iran hostage crisis?
MR. McCLELLAN: Sure. A couple of things. One, it is something that we have been looking into. In terms of the President, we've looked into the allegations that were made, and -- about his involvement in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. We know he was a leader of the student movement that organized the attack on the embassy and the taking of American hostages. However, we are still looking into whether or not he was actually one of the hostage-takers. That's something we continue to look into.
Q Scott, what -- Scott -- just hold on a second. He was a leader of the student movement that orchestrated the attack on the embassy and the taking of the hostages, but you don't know if he was a leader of it? That sounds like --
MR. McCLELLAN: We don't know if he was explicitly one of the hostage-takers.
Q But he organized the attack that led to the hostage-taking.
MR. McCLELLAN: He was a leader, is the way I would describe it, of the student movement that organized the attack and the taking of American hostages.
Q Scott, what more --
MR. McCLELLAN: We're continuing to look into it.
Q What more information do you need at this point, and what are you looking into to try to actually determine that?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, when we have more to say on it, then we can talk about it at that point. But that's the update in terms of what we know at this point.
Q Where is the evidence leading you now? Do you believe that he was involved --
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know -- I'm not going to go there at this point, John. We're going to continue to look into it.
Q As a substantive matter, if he was the leader of an organization that led to a hostage-taking, what does it matter if he was actually there physically doing it?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, remember, I told you I don't think it should surprise anyone, given the nature of the regime in Iran, that he might have been involved in this kind of activity. But, again, there were people that were actually the hostage takers and carried it out, and we're still looking into that.
Q How do you know that, though, Scott? How do -- is this from photos, or from interviewing people over there --
MR. McCLELLAN: This is the latest update. If there's more to share, we will do so once we're at that point.
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Why did this come up all of a sudden? Call me suspicious, but I don't like the fact that the MSM is asking questions about Iran out of the blue. Why? Are they aiding and abetting McClellan by discussing his talking points, helping to establish the fear factor before the next war? Where is Guckert when you need him?
I AGREE there trying to install the FEAR factor before the next war.
It appears many in the MSM are helping again!
What's worse is the new title for the war - global struggle against violent extremism...isn't that like Iran? Everyone seems to be having a good giggle about the change in the MSM, blaming it on Bush's approval ratings, but I see it as a new title for a new campaign.
Everything else has happened lockstep :
1) 'new Pearl Harbor' and Afghanistan
2) Iraq
3) then wars in many theatres?
I've just come across your site and read the infamous Downing Street memos...this is just unbelievable! So while the petition is being made in America I see NO MENTION of it anywhere in the British news, obviously because of the supposed suicide bombings...how convenient for all... what is happening to the world? It's like all the conspiracy theories suddenly became TRUTH!
it was in the british news - it was covered about as well as it was in the American news. That's why you haven't heard about it.
One convert at a time.
This isn't just coming up now! You are just finding out about it now.
Just as with Iraq, where the invasion began months before the "official" launch of the attack, so too, the U.S. is already making war against Iran. And once again, the facts are being fixed around the policy. Listen to this talk by Scott Ritter (remember him? The UN arms inspector?) given last month in Boston:
Q & A: http://www.traprockpeace.org/audio/ritter_23june05_qa.mp3
If for some reason these links don't work, here is the page they are on:
You will here how the U.S. is already committing acts of war against Iran from Afghanistan and Iraq, how the nuclear threat is being invented and how the invasion is planned to come down the Caspian Highway from our bases in that bastion of freedom and democracy, Azerbaijan!
Here is some additional evidence:
"US War with Iran has Already Begun"
(also by Scott Ritter)--Thrusday23June2005 (Al-Jazeera)
"USA Plans to Expand Military Presence in Azerbaijan to
Strike Iran"--Wednesday13April2005 (Pravda)
"Iranian War Ballons"--21July2005
"Third Front"--23July2005
Free Market Network News (http://www.freemarketnews.com)
The more this information is deseminated, the harder it will be for the imperialists in Washington to act surreptitiously.
On the surface, it may sound improbable, given the strain on the military from the operations in Iraq.
On the other hand, those 20,000 to 30,000 troops they're talking about removing from Iraq next year aren't being assigned a specific destination, are they?
No, you can't occupy Iran with 20-30,000 troops.
BUT, it's a short and easy truck ride,Baku to Tehran. You look up;all you see is the muscular underbelly of the USAF. Consequently, you look ahead, and nothing is in your way.
You just take Tehran, announce that as with Santa Fe,Nashville,or Tallahassee,the orders now come from Washington. Just follow the directives, and nobody (else) gets hurt.
If this sounds crazy to you, imagine how sane it must sound at the pentagon.
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I think the main stream media wants an answer. The Bush administration is trying to plant the idea that the new leader of Iran was part of the hostage taking and the MSM is pushing for a clear answer - was he or wasn't he? I think some of those reporters don't believe the information and they got Scott McClellen to back down.
It's REFRESHING to see the MSM more aggressive lately, but they got to pick up their speed, and not just complacently wait for "opportunities" like WhiteHouse press conferences. They got to start doing more hard-hitting investigative reporting 24/7 on several fronts: Iraq, Iran, Rove, DSM, etc. This is WARTIME , and that pre-empts info-mation (runaway bride, etc.)
Are there any ideas as to what can be done to?
1: Position a movement for effective engagement against the policy of pre-emptive war against Iran?
2: Not have that movement disintegrate after the "9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States" that Mr. Cheney prophetically announced as our "official" (catalyzing) event that will give us cause to attack?
3: Have an effictive structure in place, after said event, to combat the results of the catastrophe?
I know one thing that has to happen. The senate and house need to stop handing power over the the white house.
Are the GOPs that sold on Neo-conism? Are they all bought or all fools? The GOP Rep who declared "Freedom Fries" , he seems very distraught by the situation now.... why are the other ones so stubborn? Will the Republican Party itself ever dis-enfranchise itself entirely from this Neocon cabal?
It really does appear the intent may be to go into IRAN next! i can see how there is a run up to start MARKETING this intent like how the IRAQI invasion was marketed. If you really are interrested in helping to prevent the next war then listen to this.
the US millitary man power level is presently insufficient to meet current obligation's. their below minimum as we speak. if they're actually planning further adventure's into IRAN, they need to initiate a draft, which some preliminary steps have been in place for awhile now. by resisting any draft, by withholding new recruits, they have to defer any intent to invade IRAN. they simply can't do it without a serious increase in their manpower. I'TS SIMPLE MATHIMATICS! you cant have a war without an army. lets deny them our sons ans daughters. those presently deployed will ultimatly be rotated home or they'll revolt! WITHOUT INVADERS, THERE CAN BE NO INVASION!**HUMPHREY**
The whitehouse "press" are mere stenographers.
Am I suddenly supposed to believe they are now real journalists?
History will judge them harshly. They dishonour themselves and betray their children. They gave true understanding to the word "shame".
I can't believe the MSM doesn't find treason and a war on a LIE,News!
As a Republican(former) I thought the gop and the MSM went totally over the edge on going after Bill Clinton-Monica!
We have corruption and covers up's in every dept. of the Bush government and the MSM won't report or investigate.
The Bush administration has compromised National Security,they started War on a LIE,the coverup of 9/11,theres money missing from many depts. of government,and they sit back and do fluff stories.
The Bush administration is currently setting up to start war with IRAN,illegally and the MSM finds this okay.
They are already fighting at the borders,they need Bolton in the UN and they'll start WW111 and the MSM thinks this is okay.
One has to conclued that the MSM is behind this illegal war and is working for Bush 100%
And the New York Times had the odasity to come out after the war started and apologize for not questioning the Bush administration more on there reasons for war in Iraq.
What's there excuse now!
But they found Monica and the stain Newsworthy,
An illegal war isn't newsworthy.
Comproming National Security isn't newsworthy.
Investigating 9/11 isn't newsworthy.
Cheating in National Elections isn't newsworthy.
Missing money from many depts of government isn't newsworthy.
Watching the Bush administration set up to start WW111 isn't news worthy.
Having our Geneva convention violated isn't newswrothy
Having our structure of government and our Constitution destroyed isn't newsworthy.
Knowing this administration has a plan for world dominance,dictatorship(PNAC) isn't newsworthy.
Having the biggest defecit in US history isn't newsworthy.
Having every fracture of our country under funded,schools,library.etc. isn't newsworthy.
Having Israel spy threw out the US isn't newsworthy.
Having Sharone say he's running the US government isn't newsworthy.
Gannon a male prositute working under a false name in the Whitehouse isn't newsworthy.
Plus alot more issues.
But years of Monica and the stain WAS!
We currently have almost 2000 dead soldiers,thousands wounded and thousands of dead innocent Iraq's all because of a War that was started on a LIE and they don't find this newsworhty.
I question the number of dead as this government has LIED about eveything.
I am thoroughly disgusted and convinced the MSM is behind and supports the Bush government behavior.
It's a sorry day in American when so many men support corruption,treason,the killing of people for profit,the destruction of our Constitution and Geneva Convention,the prison abuses,and many othere evil deads.
Why are so many people perplexed by the MSM's "failure" to uncover and report the facts about the whole sordid mess of how this administration lied the country into war and smeared anyone exposing their fixing of intelligence? When everyone recognizes the fact that the czars controlling nearly all of the MSM are part of the same neocon cabal controlling the administration and Bush, then the reason for this "failure" is obvious. It is, therefore, highly unlikely that the MSM will ever become as incensed over. or even interested in, this admimistration's lies as it did over Clinton's attemped cover up of his oval office escapades.


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"help!'' gotta 79 camaro 388 stroker. stumbling? hesistating?
i just got it and i want to get it running perfect. its got tons of money invested but its got a bug somewhere..
1979 chevy camaro
388 stroker
this is what i was told when i bought it.. some parts were verified just from looking.
350 block .060 over
400 crank
eagle rods 6''
dish top pistons. ? didnt give me a name brand.
dart iron eagle heads.
1.5 roller rockers they are a stainless steel color..
heavy duty valve springs.
all he said was the cam had a .640 lift.
didnt say what brand or anything..
hooker long tube headers.
3'' exhaust run out to flowmasters..
victor jr. high rise
holley 750dp 1450 series.
dont know much about it .. this is the most i can tell you.. but i need help please.
at first i thought it was loading up on fuel but it dont smell rich and the plugs look fine. if anything they look a little hot..
when u first hit the gas it falls on its face. then goes .. if you hold it at 30% throttle is just bucks and hesitates.. wot it hauls *** but hesitates a little..
i was going to check timing but the timing pointer is missing due to new chrome timing cover..
anyways i was just wondering what u guys think ..
it seems like it is detonating but i dont hear spark knock. its a loud car so i probly wouldnt hear it anyways..
You need to get all the information you can, because based on what your combination looks like, it's pretty roudy and biased more towards a race combination, and it's out of tune.
Begin with the fuelling. Check the fuel system from tank to carburetor. You need 6 psi seat pressure, and if you don't have a psi gauge, get one. Next pull the plugs and see what they look like. If you are running a stock, out of the box carburetor, the combination might be all wrong for what you have.
Do you have any vacuum leaks? If you do, then any work you do to the carburetor is going to be off.
Next work the ignition side. Are the cap, rotor, wires in good condition, are the wires routed properly to prevent crossfire, is the coil good. If you have an amplifier box, is it wired and running properly? Are the plugs gapped properly? Is the distributor functioning properly? Where's the timing at?
Valvesprings. You are running a .640" lift cam, and even though you didn't disclose the timing specs, more than likely pretty raunchy. Did the springs go soft? Are you getting coil bind anywhere?
Piston to valve clearance. If it has not been checked with that cam, you could be kissing the pistons and that will cause a miss.
What kind of fuel are you running? Is the octane too low?
Get the timing light out and a vacuum gauge. Install an O2 bung into your headers and see exactly what the air/fuel ratio is like. If you are not comfortable dialing in the carb, send it out to a reputable carb shop with all the details to your car so that they can get the jetting, power valve, accelerator pump combination specific for your vehicle.
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thanks for all the info. sounds like you know you stuff. found the problem it was a plug wire melting out the #7 header. it was sparking on the header. I just ordered new moroso wires. do I need the hei wires? I hope not cause I ordered non hei. its got msd dizzy. I eas reading and I think only stock oldet dizzys have hei.. idk
Use a quality 8mm wire set specific for the HEI distributor.
Sounds like low initial timing to me or maybe not enough accelerator pump.
First thing to do is get a pointer for the timing. Then you need to check for true TDC with a piston stop.
Big cams need lots of initial timing. But I kind of doubt 0.640" lift, so you need to check that also.
What distributor do you have? I hope it is an aftermarket hei that is adjustable because your engine will need a custom ignition curve.
25 degrees initial and 35 degrees total would be a good starting point.
how do I knowif its an hei dizzy
My mistake, read your post wrong; if it has a small cap non HEI, big cap with coil in the middle, HEI. If you have a coil wire that goes in the middle, like most regular distributors, it's a non HEI.
25 degrees initial sounds a little high. I thought. about 14 degrees initial made around 34 total at 3k rpms
Until you get a grip on what it is you have and how/what to tune it like, just be damn sure the total timing is not over 34º or the damage caused will be expensive! Once the initial timing and the rate that the timing is added in by the mechanical advance weights and springs is dialed in, you can change the total to a bit more than 34º to see if the 1/4 mile trap speed increases any. Once the trap speed quits climbing, go back 2º and use that as the maximum total timing.
25º initial is not at all too high for a cam w/specs that would support 0.640" lift. Even a solid roller w/that much lift will have a lot of duration/overlap- and thus the need for a lot of initial ignition advance. A flat tappet cam even more so. In fact, if the cam is as radical as it could be if the lift is really what you think it is, the timing curve may be superfluous and would be better off locked at the maximum w/o a curve, period!
That said, regarding the ignition timing/curve, start lower and work your way upwards rather than the other way around. As you add initial remember that you need to reduce the mechanical to compensate otherwise the total will be too high- and you have to avoid excessive total timing at all costs. I cannot stress this strongly enough! The rate of added advance will want to be as fast as you can add timing, w/o getting into detonation. This is largely a trial and re trial type of process. Take your time, take NOTES as you make changes (trust me- you think you will remember, but you won't) and soon enough it will be dialed in better than before.
Pay attention to the plugs and performance as you increase the timing. An adjustable vacuum advance might be a good addition if you find the carb is getting too far into the transition slots at idle, but that remains to be seen, you might not have a vacuum advance as an option, and the engine might have such erratic vacuum at idle as to make using a vacuum advance difficult if not impossible, anyway.
Last edited by cobalt327; 06-17-2011 at 12:29 PM.
run a colder plug
what plug is in it had a 388 doing the same bottom line the plugs were to hot.
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problem with elementary transformation for matrix
Hi, All,
I used a series of elementary transformation to reduce a matrix to a tridiagonal matrix. when I wrote the program in notebook, I run step by step. everything ran well and it give me explicitly the result of a matrix.
but after I save this notebook and open it after a day, I run the whole notebook and print out the product of these elementary transformation, Mathematica does not give me explicit result of matrix, it gives me a product of these elementary transformation. do not know why. I print out Print[V] and here is my result:
please help me and it is urgent for me.