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See the beauty of Christmas with a stroll in downtown Moberly. Moberly businesses have decked their halls, decorated their windows and are ready for holiday shoppers. The Living Windows event reminds us of past generations when visiting with friends and neighbors on the streets was a special part of the weekly shopping experience. What can you expect in downtown Moberly Thursday night? Smiles, children laughing, singing, the MHS band playing, a Cookie Fest, and lots more along with a friendly shopping experience you won't find in the city.


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2008 Track and Field
Bluffton at Capital Invitational
Jason Fisher breaks his own school record in the weight throw
By: Evan Miller, sports information assistant
January 28, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Bluffton University men's and women's track team traveled to Capital University on Friday, January 25, 2008, to participate in the Rev. Mike Hout Invitational. The women's team scored 15 points for a ninth place finish, while the men's team scored 31 points, placing eighth out of eight.
Senior Sarah Humphrey (Upper Sandusky/Upper Sandusky) scored eight points for Bluffton, placing second in the women's 500 meter run with a time of 19:40.74. Ashley Smith (Delta/Delta) took fifth place in the 400 meter dash with a time of 1:04.66, picking up four points. Megan Koch (Elida/Elida) picked up three points for her team by finishing sixth in the 400 meter dash, crossing the line in a time of 1:06.13.
Leading the men with a total of 11 points was sophomore Jason Fisher (Rockford/Parkway) who placed third in the weight throw (14.03 meters) and fourth in the shot put (14.18 meters). Fisher's performance in the weight throw broke his own school record set a year ago.
The 4x200 squad, consisting of Rex Brown (Wauseon/Pettisville), Zach Kerber (Lima/Elida), Steve Havens (Fremont/Lakota) and Robert Johnson (Columbus/Marion-Franklin), placed sixth overall and earned six points for the Beavers. Also faring well for Bluffton was the 4x400 team which finished in 3:49.99 and picked up four points in the process. Members of the 4x400 team included Tyler Fairchild (Toledo/Whitmer), Ben Althaus (Delhi, NY/Delaware Academy), Mike Timpe (Wauseon/Pike-Delta-York) and Collin Wagner (Pettisville/Pettisville).
Mike Timpe took fifth in the men's high jump (1.68 meters), scoring four points. Jared Auer (Curtice/Genoa Local) also grabbed four points with a fifth place finish in the shot put (12.35 meters). Sophomore Ben Siebert (Celina/Celina) scored one point for Bluffton with a ninth place finish in the 1000 meter run (3:09.62). Picking up another point for the Beavers was Collin Wagner who ran a 39.24 in the 300 meters.
Bluffton returns to action on Friday, February 8, 2008, when the Beavers travel to Ada for the ONU Series Meet. The meet is slated to start at 5:30 p.m.


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Carmageddon is coming to Android devices next Friday, May 10, following its iOS release way back in October. Like its iOS brother, the Android version of the blood-soaked racing game will be free at launch for a limited time.
Joystiq reports that the remake includes enhanced graphics, customizable touch pads, and Facebook and YouTube integration. It will be free for the first 24 hours on Google Play.


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Husky by name and husky by nature - that's the message from some of New Zealand's young guns as they put the 2013 Husqvarnas through their paces at Kimmy's Motocross Park near Huntly.
Mike Ramsey is committed to raising the brand's profile here. Known as 'Mr Motorcycles' and a competitor in MX, enduro and crosscountry over his long career, Ramsey now lives and breathes Husqvarna.
The Swedish brand began with bicycles, building its first motorbike in 1903. It's best known for world championship-winning MX and enduro bikes. Back in the 1960s and 70s it won 14 motocross and 24 enduro world titles and it's racked up another three world enduro championships since BMW bought the marque in 2009. Since then it's given Husqvarna a shake-up, a message Ramsey is keen to underline.
He's expanding the dealer network, putting in-your-face neon signs on shop fronts and has put his "balls on the line" for a broad lineup, with five MX bikes from the CR50 up, eight enduro, three crosscountry, four road and three adventure bikes here or landing soon.
It was the TC250 fuel-injected motocrosser that up-and-coming enduro rider Liam Draper preferred. The 16-year-old Aucklander found time between NCEA studies to win the Australasia under-17 Junior Trials and the Oceania Junior Trials, the A-grade NZ title against all ages and the Junior title.
Last weekend he won the first round of the Extreme Enduro Series expert class, and he aims to follow his hero Chris Birch - with whom he sometimes rides - from local trials to international stardom.
He focused on that goal early - astride his first motorcycle at the age of four, testing bikes for a locally-owned magazine from the age of nine and competing in trials from 12 and enduro from 13. He remains independent of bike brand sponsorship and spent the day flying the jumps and roosting the berms of the MX track before putting the enduro bikes through their paces.
He's familiar with the CR125 motocrosser, having ridden the Dead Toad crosscountry race with it. "My first senior race - I got eighth and the bike was part of that, with its power range. It's strong at both the top and bottom end, and it was easy to set up, to adjust the suspension."
After some years sampling Huskies he reckons the brand has improved a lot, though there are two things he'd like to see change. "The rear guard snaps easy - that's minor - but the side shrouds stick out too far. When you go into corners they catch on branches too easily and rip off."
Draper's happy to see Ramsey at the helm, someone focused on ensuring riders get the best out of their bikes.
As for Ramsey, he's free with unprintable words for buyers who shop online for a better price overseas, then complain when they can't get their bikes serviced locally. Dealers must commit to buying high-tech equipment that links their workshops to diagnostic computers overseas, allowing the bikes to be tuned over the net to perform at their best in Kiwi conditions. He admits you pay a premium to buy off a dealer's floor, but that premium pays for the service and backup to emulate Draper or Birch.


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Everton's Phil Jagielka ready to grow up and become captain next season
Phil Jagielka has admitted responsibility is something he needs as he prepares to become Everton captain.
Last Updated: 02/05/13 3:40pm
Jagielka will lead the team when Phil Neville moves on in the summer and he hopes he will be as successful in the role as his predecessor.
The England centre-half claims they are very different characters but it is a challenge he is looking forward to and says it has come at the right stage of his career.
"Responsibility is something that I need," he said. "I'm still a bit of a big kid when it comes to messing around - afterwards. Everyone says what a fantastic captain Nev has been, that he has been such a professional.
"People sometimes don't understand that. He conducts himself right in every aspect, on and off the pitch.
"Maybe I can be a bit juvenile at times. That's the character I am, that's the character he is.
"I'm sure that we will be very different captains, but hopefully we will have a very similar impact on the squad.
"I'm 30 now, not 16 and 17, so the time has come for me to grow up.
"If someone has got a problem, or they need help and advice, rather than hiding from it, I will try to help them out."
Jagielka has deputised as captain at times this season in the absence of Neville, but concedes that he is still getting used to the idea that he will be taking on the armband full-time.
"It's a strange one," he said. "Nev is still here and I am still vice-captain. It's not like he's retired or injured. He is going to play again.
"It hasn't sunk in properly, as technically it is not mine yet. Just being captain when he has not been here has been a fantastic honour.
"I've have been here for a decent amount of time. I pretty much know how the club works and it was brilliant when the manager pulled me in to confirm it.
"Different things can happen. New players can come in and they can take it, so it's good that it's me.
"It probably won't hit me until next season when I haven't got someone else to hide behind. It's something that I have got to look forward to - even if I have to sit next to the manager for the team photo!"


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April 4, 2007
The greatest tech product of all time: Netscape.
19 comments:
- Joe said...
Netscape WAS good. Now AOL has it and it sucks.
- Hazy Dave said...
The "first game that required actual use of your brain" statement is blatantly false. Tetris' innovation was mostly that there was no shooting, hitting, eating, chasing or destroying of other characters in the game, and it was still a fast-moving ever-changing addictive puzzle to solve. (Pong met the first criteria, but fell short a bit in the latter category.)
- MadisonMan said...
Zork should be on the list instead of tetris.
I'm glad the SmartModem is on the list. I still recall the elation of plugging in my first 9600-baud modem (ca. 1988) and seeing the text just fly by!
- bill said...
Pretty good list. For myself, I'd add two:
The PINE email client. Made email almost fun compared to using ELM.
And back when the best way to get around the internet was knowing how to use Archie and Gopher, the Web was new, modems were slow, the X-terminals in the computer lab were always full, the Lynx text viewer was a wonderfully efficient way to browse.
- Pete Fanning said...
I was more of a Doom person myself :)
- SteveR said...
I loved using Netscape (late nineties)
- Ann Althouse said...
I used to play Zork! It was really hard. All text. You had to picture everything. Tetris is about addictive simplicity. It's impressive from a design standpoint.
- The Drill SGT said...
I think they ranked games and consumer items like tivo too high and some things like the original Mac OS much too low.
And though frankly it wasn't created by Microsoft, I was surprised that MS-DOS didnt make the list. It certainly was a consumer product that created a (evil?) empire.
- Bruce Hayden said...
The problem with DOS is that it was evolutionary. It really didn't have much that CP/M had (and indeed was essentially cloned from a derivative of it). And CP/M was a crude PC version of Unix, which of course was a stripped down minicomputer version of Multics (ok, I admit bias here - I was patent counsel for the company that ended up owning Multics, and did much of the legal work to finally shut it down - Also, I have read Gary Kildall's autobiography, which is his side of how MSFT ended up with DOS).
I would definately put the Mac in the top 5. After all, it is the basis for the GUI that most of us use now (though for most of us, in the guise of Windows). For those of us who spent a lot of time in DOS, it was a major breakthrough. But then, should they be recognizing the PARC origins?
I would also put the Internet up near the top. And having been involved in data communications throughout the 1980s, that the big breakthroughs were DNS and porting TCP/IP to run over Ethernet (and ATM, etc.) We struggled and gave up trying to port it to run over X.25 in the late 1980s, and then, just a couple of years later, it was running over Ethernet, etc. and it exploded.
And if they are going to recognize Netscape, what about Mosaic, and, indeed, Hypertext. While Netscape gave the WWW to the masses, it surely didn't give it to me. Interestingly, IE 6 still prominently recognized its roots in Mosaic all these years later (check "About" in the Help tab).
- YAMB said...
Something I remember reading about Tetris in its early days was its appeal to women. It was one of the first games to have broad appeal across the sexes, and designers were eager to figure out why women would play Tetris when they weren't typically drawn to other kinds of video games.
I can personally attest to Tetris' appeal and addictiveness to women, or at least this woman.
- The Drill SGT said...
Bruce, I agree having used Mosaic 1A5 back in 1993
but on the MS-DOS issue, they seemed to be valuing market share and consumer impact far more than innovation. that's why I made my MSDOS comment. it wasnt innovative, but it had a huge impact on the industry.
- Bruce Hayden said...
Getting back to Ethernet and the Internet, during the latter 1980s, I was working as a software engineer supporting the Dept. of Agriculture. We had implemented a crude file transfer protocol over X.25, and were looking at the next revision. At the time, we had one of the larger networks around, some ten thousand computers, that had to somewhat communicate with each other. Our home grown FTP protocol just wasn't going to work.
One of our designers had worked on the design of TCP/IP while in graduate school, and convinced us to try to implement it. Meanwhile, we were also trying to implement an OSI model in parallel. The problem then was that TCP/IP ran over a network of IMPs, which were dedicated communications front end systems. The IMPs communicated with each other and one or more backend hosts. There weren't very many of them - maybe a couple dozen. A Sprint company had won a department wide X.25 contract, and we thus had to run whatever we developed over that.
We kept hitting brick walls, and after a bit over a year, abandoned the TCP/IP project. Mostly, the problems involved addressing issues - of how to convert IP addresses to X.25 addresses.
And then, all of a sudden, a couple years later, it was ported to run over Ethernet, etc., and the rest is history. But it was nowhere trivial - we had a lot of good minds working on it, and couldn't find a good, elegent, general solution.
Of course, with the tools available today, notably DNS, I could probably do most of the work to make TCP/IP run over Ethernet in a day or two.
But looking back, you have to remember first that TCP/IP had been optimized for a very different environment than what it is used for today. And secondly, that the trend at the time was towards a very structured 7 layer OSI model. TCP/IP over Ethernet is nowhere near OSI compliant (as defined in the late 1980s). Indeed, we were, during that time, facing U.S. govt. mandates that future data communications systems be OSI compliant. Not only the government, of course, but everyone then was trying to move in that direction. Then, all of a sudden, a real bastardized protocal(s), TCP/IP, took over the world.
- Balfegor said...
I would definately put the Mac in the top 5. After all, it is the basis for the GUI that most of us use now (though for most of us, in the guise of Windows). For those of us who spent a lot of time in DOS, it was a major breakthrough. But then, should they be recognizing the PARC origins?
Whoever had the first mouse-controlled GUI should be up there in the top five at leastk, whether it was Apple or this PARC thing I've never heard of. That should probably rank higher than Netscape which, while a great product in its day, just doesn't feel like it had anything like the same impact.
I also wonder what the Zip drive is doing there. It was a nifty device, sure, and for a few years I stocked up on large numbers of Zip disks. But seems to have turned out to be pretty much a dead end, as far as data storage goes.
Glad to see Linux appears there (if only at #45), but I think that other more application-style open source projects should be on the list somewhere. Blender, for example, is the first open source product that, honestly, seems to me to have a broader and more useable feature set than commercial products (e.g. Caligari Truespace) -- it's not quite a rival to programs like Maya, but it comes closer with every release. In other areas, the GIMP is a widely used open source graphics editor, and the Open Office suite of applications, while still buggy, shows some promise of developing into a serious rival to commercial products. I think that development is pretty significant -- not immediately, perhaps, but with a significant potential to change the dynamics of a lot of the software industry.
I'd also include hotmail and other (ad-supported?) free email services as a major tech product. They're kind of borderline for a top-50 list, but significant, I think.
- The Drill SGT said...
PARC was to computing as Menlo Park was to electricity. well sort of :)
- katiebakes said...
what a fun list! makes me nostalgic for when my dad finally caved and upgraded to the SUPER FAST 2400 baud modem.
i also got a huge kick out of the part about printing out those banners on the connected printer paper every time there was a party. we used to spend hours designing those things!
i think the most significant tech product in my life was the buddy list.
- Joe said...
Of all time?
How about, I don't know, the printing press? Telephone? AC current? The light bulb? The transistor?
The microprocessor was arguably the single most important invention after the transistor.
The Apple II was important because it first commoditized computers.
However it was the IBM PC/DOS/Lotus 1-2-3 combination that made a compelling business case for personal computers. dBase and WordPerfect aren't far behind. The impact the IBM PC and these three software packages was beyond huge; everything else since pales in comparison.
The next most significant product was Phoenix BIOS, which made clones possible.
(And while Netscape was important, it really just laid the foundation--it was bad old Internet Explorer that brought web surfing to the masses. And anyone who actually had to use early Netscape can remember what a miserable piece of software it was--oh, the memories of it crashing hard while doing nothing!)
- Tibore said...
Well Balfegor, I'd have to say that personally, I agree with Zip being on the list. The Zip was the most successful product of the early mass storage drives. I remember when I was in sales, and before that in college, how difficult mass transport of data was. Zips were salvation in price and capacity. I remember the earliest worm and MO (magneto-optical) drives that predated the Zips; they were wonderful, but Zip just somehow took off and captured the consumer public's imagination somehow (I actually preferred MO's at first, before the price and availability of media was so solidly in favor of the Zips). The fact it became a dead-end, victimized by CD-R (then -RW, then DVD-R, etc.) doesn't change the fact that in it's time, it was THE removable, portable storage medium of choice.
- Tibore said...
Regarding the rest of the top 50:
I do agree with Linux's inclusion, although I have a bit of a quibble in singling out Red Hat. Then again, this list is about "consumer" products, right, even though the article says "Tech Products" so I guess that's why Red Hat's there.
This list has to be limited to "consumer"/end user tech products. Otherwise, the non-inclusion of the Apache web server would be way too big a blunder.
Anyway, moving on...
Sound Blaster 16... one of the first products so prevalent to x86 architecture that it was practically a standard. I remember selling those; it was a product I could honestly get behind because it was just so durn reliable. Other cards sounded better, but SB16's just plain worked when you slapped them in.
Bill: Good notice on Pine. Yes, to me, that unequivacably belongs on that list. Maybe it wasn't included because it was mostly deployed server-side. Still though, I think it needs to be **high** on the list.
And Gopher... totally forgot about it's existence. Gopher used to be the way to go to get things. Find an address somewhere like on Usenet and go get it.
Here's some thoughts:
PC-Anywhere. I'd consider putting it on the list; when I used to deal with large clients, PC-Anywhere was one of the most sought after remote administration tools out there. Terminal Services has pretty much put that out to pasture, but in it's day, it was in serious demand. At least for my customers. Way back then.
Winsock: Anyone remember having to install that to get internet connectivity? It was one of the most important programs out there in the early days of dialing in.
And what about Zip, as in PKZip and WinZip? Or, in the Mac world, Aladdin's Stuffit Expander? Even nowadays, compressing a file for transfer is desireable, if not as mandatory as times past. But back when 14.4k was a screamin' connection, file compression was of the utmost importance. If you were a Unix geek, you could always tar-and-gzip, and/or uuencode, split, and reassemble. But Stuffit and PKZip made compression easy. I really think it should be up high on that list.
Given the popularity of music downloads, whether illicit or not ;), would a standard be eligible? It's not really a "consumer product", nor a tech "product". I'm of course talking about ".mp3" Don't know if it should be on this list or not, but I sort of feel it belongs. Without it, number 6 (the iPod) may not have come to be.
And as long as we're talking iPod: What about the one that pretty much started it all: The Creative Labs Rio? Yes, the iPod is far, far more popular, and a trillion times better, but the Rio opened the door (yes, I know Eiger Lab's F10 came first, but no one even knew about digital audio players until the Rio came out. The F10 may have existed first, but the Rio truly "opened the door" to DAPs for the consumer).
Stopping here... it's time for lunch, and I could go on forever...
- LoafingOaf said...
Tetris is a fun and addictive game, but it doesn't require brains. Once you pick up the simple and obvious strategy for staying alive, you can keep a game going for a really long time while completely drunk and only semi-conscious.


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Over the past few months, we've been exploring the world of data-driven applications, from Facebook to mobile services. Following on from our Christmas hacking, we've also been working with several developers to help them turn their ideas into applications. Helping developers do great things with data is part of our vision, and we've offered financial backing, technical support and the use of Kasabi's features. Here, I'll introduce you to three projects below, and we'll be following them as their applications develop.
Exploring Botanical Gardens from a Smart Phone
StrongSteam: Ian Ozsvald and Kyran Dale
The StrongSteam team are working on an iPhone app that opens up new levels of exploration for visitors to botanical gardens. The app will let people access tons of information about the plants they find by taking a photo of the label. The app uses advanced character recognition to read the Latin name from descriptive labels, and pulls in data from a variety of sources to tell the user far more about the plant than could be available on signs.
They're using the StrongSteam datamining API for matching plant labels and IDs, then using datasets in Kasabi (GeoSpecies, DBPedia and BBC Wildlife for example) to extract detailed information about plant species. The user will then be given facts, figures and other pieces of information, letting them learn far more about the plants they find interesting.
My Society: Paul Lenz
Through the popular app, FixMyStreet, My Society has been giving people the ability to report damaged infrastructure to their local authorities for a few years. Using smartphones, people have been highlighting things like potholes and broken streetlights across the UK since 2008. The app is now due a complete overhaul, upgrading to a more sophisticated, HTML5-based service. The new FixMyStreet will be a more powerful, responsively designed mobile-web version of the older native apps, and will use Kasabi to store a continuously-updated list of new problem reports. The new dataset will include information about councils, kinds of damage, timestamp and status of repairs along with detailed lat/long locations.
John Peel Time Machine
Storm: Dave Kelly, Mike Ellis, and Paul Leader
Developers from Storm are putting together a time machine travelling back through some of the greatest musical events of the 20th century under the watchful eyes of the legendary BBC radio DJ, the late John Peel. Building on the dataset of John Peel Sessions, the web app will guide users' journeys on their search for artists who appeared on the live recordings of John Peel's long-running show.
The Time Machine will work on a timeline, giving a high-level view of the Peel sessions by year, and highlight some of the relationships amongst musical artists. Where it can, it will link to recordings of the live sessions, and provide biographical information about the artists. The time machine will also provide information about the albums and tracks featured, and point users towards playlists of sessions, which they can purchase or listen to via the likes of iTunes or Spotify.
I shall be speaking with the teams of developers on these projects in the next couple weeks, and will share their progress and experiences here on the blog. I'm sure they'll be happy to answer some questions you might have, and our own Kasabi team is more than happy to hear your ideas about data-driven apps too. Drop me a line or leave a comment below.
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Some people have the weirdest fetishes.
Did anyone even bother to check the date of this so called news? The photo thread shows May 2010 as the posting date.
Some of the photos in that thread are even 7-8 years old. The one about Pilot Helmet (post #21) show the defense minister of Iran in 10 years ago!!!
List of military equipments produced in Iran: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_equipment_manufactured_in_Iran [wikipedia.org]
Iran has built :
frigates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Frigate_Jamaran [wikipedia.org]
fighter planes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa'eqeh [wikipedia.org]
fully reverse engineered Bell 214: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_214 [wikipedia.org]
stealth drone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofreh_Mahi [wikipedia.org]
Normal drones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karrar_(UAV) [wikipedia.org] , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohajer [wikipedia.org], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ababil [wikipedia.org]
long range radars like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matla-ul-fajr [wikipedia.org]
copies of Hawk SAM upgraded with phased array radars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersad_(Air_Defense_System) [wikipedia.org]
copy of SM-1(RIM-66) SAM: http://www.irandefence.net/showthread.php?t=70624 [irandefence.net]
2nd country producing anti-ship ballestic missiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalij_Fars [wikipedia.org]
Sina class missile boats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_missile_boat_Paykan [wikipedia.org]
Three classes of submarines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaaem_Class_Submarine [wikipedia.org] , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadir_(submarine) [wikipedia.org] , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahang_1 [wikipedia.org]
To name a few.
considering they have 70 or so million people, which is about on par with France or the UK (actually slightly larger) you would expect them to be able to quite a diverse range of equipment.
Given sanctions and their GDP you expect it to not necessarily be as good as comparable western productions, but it can still be in quantity and respectable quality.
I'm also curious why they are producing a 40 year old variant instead of targeting a newer one -
Its a wee bit difficult to reverse engineer a helicopter that you dont own.
They are great helicopters, and their size and simplicity are reasons the US Marine Corps still use both UH-1 and AH-1 variants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_AH-1_Cobra [wikipedia.org]
SuperCobra are up to a Z variant.
Decades later....doh....
In terms of what the US has, well have a look at the AH-64D. That's the current unclassified nifty toy, though it has been around for a bit. Particularly look at the longbow package, the thing that makes a D variant what it is. It is a rather big upgrade. Remember that with things like tanks n' choppers n' so on the fundamental design may be kept for many years with various upgrades made to it. The US still uses B-52s but they are far more advanced today, despite being the same airframe.
You could look at it
Yes, but they'll only do so 40 years later
, Iran's locally-grown Cobras will be armed with 'different types of home-made caliber guns, rockets and missiles,' according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. 'All the phases of designing and manufacturing of the chopper have been done inside the country and the helicopter enjoys some capabilities which make it preferable to Apache Choppers,' says Brigadier General Kioumars Heidari. Iranian officials stress that Iran's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country,
So, basically, you're copying 40 year old tech from your enemies, but because you can't buy the bullets or missiles to shoot, you're going to arm them with whatever you can cobble together. It's like Junkyard Wars, only with dictators instead of teams. Yeah... I can see why they say we shouldn't perceive it as a threat... but it's not because they're dangerous or anything. They'll probably kill more of their pilots in training flights than we would with a bombing run or twenty.
They aren't really a military threat to anyone, at least not as a conventional military. It's doubtful they could produce reliable engines for this helicopter - even the chinese seem to have trouble with this.
Who knows what they'll do when they finally make a nuke, but that's another issue.
The main threat is their export of radical islamic revolution. This is a sideshow. Heck it might just be a dog and pony show and all they did was refurb an existing one.
So, basically, you're copying 40 year old tech from your enemies, but because you can't buy the bullets or missiles to shoot, you're going to arm them with whatever you can cobble together.
You say that like they'll be building guns out of steel pipe and ball bearings. But the truth is, making guns in a new caliber and making ammunition to match is easy enough that some hobbyists do it in their garage.
There are, apparently (I Am Not A Military Expert), valid military reasons to make your guns and ammunition incompatible with the enemy's. America and the rest of NATO were the first to use 5mm-caliber small arms - the M16, FAMAS, L86, etc. are all chambered for a standard 5.56mm round, and I believe most even have compatible magazines.
The USSR and the rest of the Warsaw Pact could have used the same, but that would mean that, in a war, any ammunition supplies the enemy captured would be usable to them. While that would also mean that any ammunition supplies they captured could be used by them, they decided not to take that risk, and instead created an essentially-the-same-but-incompatible 5.45mm round. The Chinese, likewise, eventually created their own version, this one in 5.8mm. While none of their ammunition can be used in anothers' weapons, they have essentially the same performance characteristics.
Iran is simply doing the same thing. Instead of using NATO-standard 7.62mm miniguns, 20mm autocannons, 40mm grenade launchers or 2.75" rockets, they'll use ones that are just slightly incompatible, but nearly identical in performance.
From a theoretical standpoint, there's two reasons for doing so. One reason is economics - trying to stimulate their own arms industry, rather than import from others. If you mandate the use of incompatible ammunition and weapons, foreign production becomes useless, while the domestic industry gets nearly-guaranteed profitability.
Another could be that they are more concerned about being invaded, rather than invading others. You are, after all, more likely to be the one capturing supplies, rather than having your supplies captured, when you are on the attack. History would seem to bear this view out - during the Cold War, neither side used intercompatible ammunition, and as it turns out, neither side much wanted to invade the other. The most notable case of cross-compatible weaponry was in WW2, when the British designed the Sten gun to use the same ammunition as the German MP40. And guess what (spoiler alert)? Britain later invaded Germany!
OK, that's probably a massive simplification of things (remember, IANAME), but still, look at things from Iran's view for a second. The US, a country they have *very* poor relations with, just invaded two countries next to them and occupied them for years. And now it almost seems like they are, once again, manufacturing evidence of WMDs and putting out agitprop to get the citizens ready, once again, to invade some Middle-Eastern country. Even if they actually *are* guilty of trying to build nukes (honestly, I wouldn't be that surprised if they were), can you blame them for worrying that the 1st Armored is going to be driving towards Tehran sometime soon, and planning to defend themselves?
You say that like they'll be building guns out of steel pipe and ball bearings. But the truth is, making guns in a new caliber and making ammunition to match is easy enough that some hobbyists do it in their garage.
That's making one, or at best a small handful of weapons that will babied on the range. It's cool and all... But it's not building weapons by the gross lot capable of withstanding field conditions, being maintained by the lowest common denominator, etc... That's a very different problem.
I Am Not A Military Expert
Yet, that doesn't stop you from pontificating at length.
should not be perceived as a threat to any other country,
They're not a threat to other countries. They're a threat to their own people [latimes.com]. Currently the regime discourages dissent and protests through beatings and jailings, but people still stand up against them. How many will still do so when threatened with a helicopter gunship... Whether it works as advertised or not?
I can see them off-shoring production to China and getting 100's a month. Their big problem is going to be training pilots fast enough.
As far as the "age" - it was a good design then and is still a good design. Upgrade the weapons to something more modern and they are going to be very dangerous on a battlefield.
because all the trained ones go down thud. God/Allah/yo'momma forbid they ever try and fire any of that backyard armament. gas pipe ain't good gun barrels. and I'm not going to say why
They are a fine design, presuming Iran has all the parts working right (there's more to making a perfect copy than making it look similar). However they've got nothing on modern choppers. It isn't even so much the actual bits that have to do with flying, but the electronics for communications and attack.
What makes the AH-64D so fearsome is the whole "longbow system". So one helicopter with longbow radar, could even by a Cobra with it, sneaks forward and peaks its radar dome up over the trees or buildings. T
Yeah, and so is the "Rescue" label and some other printing on the side of the cockpit. The plate says something like " TOP IMPORTANT REMOVE BEFORE OPERATIONAL FLIGHT."
Why would they do that?
Maybe they got those parts as surplus and just used them
Have we made any advances in helicopter technology that is beyond Iran's reach? I understand the purpose of this article is to mock Iran, but what if they start copying nuclear weapons from that era? And how long will it take them to build equivalents to our modern helicopters?
The Cobra is a widely used and available helicopter. The US uses the chassis for forest fighting: they aren't exactly difficult to find or examine closely. They probably could have bought one on the open market (maybe even indirectly from the US itself). Nuclear weapons are slightly harder to find.
However, with that said, the problem with building a nuclear weapon has never been (not for 40-50 years or so) the design. That is actually quite easy, most physics graduates could probably design you one. The ba
In related news, Adobe announced that the Iranian government has purchased several licenses of Photoshop CS6.
The absent ones are always at fault.


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A quick and simple project, with a TNT and already altered McCalls 2401 (View F), and a floral stretchy cotton which was used a couple of weeks ago on my Alma Blouse
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Jul 7, 2013, 10.26 PMby Mary Athey
your dress is gorgeous, i love that fabric. As for your sewing machine? i have the same problem here in northern ireland. finding someone to repair my machines yes plural lol is non excistant. I love vintage machines as they plow through thick and thin but i don't shell out big money any more. I bought one on ebay and i paid over £80 with p@p. it stopped working, the seller sent me the foot pedel part but its still dos'nt work great. I now spend no more than £25 on one at car boots etc. i have about seven now lol x
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Thank you, Mary! Oh I know! It's costing me a fortune to attempt getting the machine repaired — this was entirely an emotional choice, as the two of us have gone through so much together! In the meantime though, I've been enjoying getting to know my Singer 99k, and it's been great! x
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/apple_iphone_5_set_to_hit_shelves_this_june_says_foxconn_staffer/
Foxconn staffer lets slip iPhone 5 ship date
Hiring thousands of workers to assemble handsets
Posted in Personal Tech, 3rd April 2012 13:12 GMT
iPhone 5 rumours picked up a couple of notches today after a Foxconn recruiter let slip that the manufacturer is hiring staff for the next-gen Apple phone's production.
A human resources worker from Foxconn's Taiyuan, Shanxi Province plant said the company is hiring 18,000 workers for the fifth-generation iPhone, the World Business Satellite channel on TV Tokyo reports by way of local fansite Macotakara.
The recruiter may not have the full gen on iPhone production at the company, but it didn't stop him allegedly revealing Apple's plans for a launch this June.
The news correlates to analysts' iPhone 5 predictions made in February.
Of course, as with the predictable flurry of next-gen iThingy rumours, we'll take this one with a pinch of salt.
Other recent whispers suggest the iPhone 5 will feature a 4.6in display. We'll let you know more on what Cupertino may or may not have up its sleeve as and when. ®


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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Saying Goodbye To Spider-Man...
This wonderful article (tinyurl.com/2ecrdpy) Saying Goodbye To Spider-Man by Matthew H. Kleinertsums, up my feelings about the current "Brand New Day" direction of the Spider-Man titles. Although growing with Spider-Man in the 1970s and 1980s, I too felt betrayed and dropped the title for the first time since putting it on my pull list in 1983... Thankfully I haven't read any of the current One Moment In Time storyline.
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Mumbai-Based global digital payments system-- TimesofMoney--is set to enter the Tanzanian market as part of its Africa expansion plan that focuses on supporting cost effective online remittances.
The company is expected to launch its revolutionary online remittance and money transfer solution in the coming months and allow Tanzanians to receive money from anywhere in the world, straight into their bank accounts.
"We tied up with Diamond Trust Bank in Kenya recently to offer these services to NationHela users.
Tanzania is the next key market where we would like to tie up with banks to offer our remittance services to people living in the diaspora and sending money back home to their families," said Avijit Nanda, TimesofMoney Chief Executive Officer.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, there are slightly over 2,000,000 Tanzanians living and working in different countries in the world, with the World Bank putting their remittances last year to 75 million US dollars (about 120bn/-).
TimesofMoney will enable Tanzanians living abroad to send money to relatives and friends back home online, eliminating the pain of standing in queue at money transfer agents.


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Testing the appropriate filters
I'm pretty sure my father is going to get mad when he reads this article.
When I was a kid, he made me write down the definition of "appropriate" 50 times after I told a dirty joke in front of a priest who came to our house for dinner.
I had to do a pacemaker once, on an austere woman who reminded me too much of the nun who gave me a detention in seventh grade for flirting with a girl named Kelly. When I made the initial incision, the patient was deeply sedated, her head and body draped in a sterile blue field. While we worked, someone said something funny, followed by a dirty joke, which reminded me of a truly dirty joke, which I - of course - told (unrepeatable here). The blue drape shook.
The scrub-nurse and I stared wide-eyed at each other, afraid that our patient had been awake.
"Are you OK?" the nurse asked.
"Pretty funny," the patient said, giggling, and drifted back to sleep.
When I went to see her later, she had a school principal's stare.
"How are you?" I asked.
"Fine," she said.
"Do you remember anything from the pacemaker implantation?"
"No. I didn't feel anything."
Recently, I was on the other side of the blue drape. When Gatch (Dr. Daniel Gaccione) said he could fix the pain in my shoulder, my surgery date was set. At Pequot, Eric Balch, the anesthesiologist, gave me a shot and then he said something hysterical and I laughed so hard, it hurt. And then I woke up, trying to recall what Balch said.
Three days later I was back at work in the ICU with a comatose patient. The ICU nurse kept smiling at me, as if we shared an inside joke.
Finally, she said, "How's your shoulder?"
"How did you know?" I asked.
"Are you kidding? I was your recovery nurse. You talked to me for over an hour," she noted.
I had absolutely no recollection of that conversation. Under normal conditions, I struggle to prevent myself from saying inappropriate things that I think are funny (just ask my wife), and here was this nurse, who incidentally is one of the prettiest nurses in the hospital, with whom I spoke for an hour while stoned on anesthesia drugs, disinhibited more than usual, and to whom I said God-knows-what.
"Eeewweell, did I say anything stupid or inappropriate?" I asked.
"Nothing inappropriate," she said. She didn't comment on the stupid part, but at least I dodged the inappropriate bullet again.
A few days later, I was at a party when I saw the pastor of a local church, someone I like and respect. I told him I'd just had shoulder surgery and I showed how I could raise my arm over my head. When he seemed impressed, I joked that my secret was that I rubbed Viagra on my shoulder so that I can raise it up over my head. He turned red. I kept on, saying that if my arm stays up for more than four hours, I'd have to seek immediate medical attention. He just walked away.
When I got home, I decided I might have to write down the definition of "appropriate" a few more times.
Three decades later, Desiree Michaud's friends and family still seek closure


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'bridgekeeper' helps converting Perl code to Python source. The
quality of the output Python source depents on the quality of the
input code.
If there are constructs within the Perl code which are not possible
in Python, you will get warnings. Eg. when using a name for both a
hash and a scalar within the same scope (%foo, $foo).
'bridgekeeper' consists of
The name was inspired be the bridgekeeper-scene in Monty Pythons
'Search for the Holy Grail'.
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MURFREESBORO, TENN. - Despite drawing 11 walks and gathering nine hits, Saint Louis lost to Middle Tennessee, 3-2 in 11 innings. However, the Billikens managed to defeat Bowling Green in their second game, 6-1.
In the first game, the Bills were down early with the Blue Raiders scoring in the bottom of the first. However, a great game from junior RHP Alex Alemann (6.1 IP, three hits, one earned run, three strikeouts, one walk) kept SLU in the game. The Billikens tied in up in the sixth on a sacrifice fly from freshman shortstop Alec Solé to score junior third baseman Grant Nelson.
Saint Louis scored again in the eighth. Solé delivered a double down the left field line, knocking in senior catcher Connor Gandossy from second to bring the score to 2-1 in favor of the Bills. However, Middle Tennesse answered right away, scoring in the bottom half of the inning.
The game went into extra innings, with the Blue Raiders ultimately delivering the knockout punch on a two-out single in the bottom of the 11th. Senior Steve Jensen picks up the loss after going 1.2 IP with three hits, one earned run and three strikeouts.
In the second contest, SLU scored early and often against a young Bowling Green squad. In the first innning, the first two Billikens to the plate got on base. Jordan Hammerman drew a walk and Mike Levine was hit by a pitch. A passed ball advanced both runners. Nelson drove them in with a single through the left side.
The Falcons scored their first run in the top of the second, their only run on the day. The Bills retaliated with a two-out single from junior DH Steve Fernandez in the bottom half, driving in Nelson. This brought the score to 3-1 in favor of Saint Louis.
Levine tacked on another run on a single through the left side that scored freshman Jon Corbitt. Corbitt scored again in the sixth on a sacrifice fly from Hammerman. Fernandez scored SLU's final run on a single up the middle from Corbitt in the seventh.
Senior Jerry Mancuso picks up the win, going 3.2 IP, with three hits, two strikeouts, no walks and no runs allowed. Freshman James Norwood also threw well, with 4.0 IP, three hits, two strikeouts, one walk and one unearned run.
The Billikens return to action tomorrow, Feb. 19 in Nashville, Tenn., where they take on Belmont.


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Splash Damage, developer of Brink, is now at work on a licensed game that will apparently reuse Brink's engine with a recognizable cast of characters. However, the company in charge of the IP has reportedly stepped away from console publishing.
IndustryGamers says the deal is with a "major entertainment brand," and says it's based on "one of the biggest American pop culture brands of the last 50 years." Otherwise, the project is being kept in the dark at the moment.
So, a 50-year-old franchise that lends itself to a multiplayer shooter, owned by a company that has shied away from consoles. We're inclined to guess Marvel -- the company is now owned by Disney, and Disney Interactive Studios moved more into mobile app development after closing some PC and console studios. But that's pure speculation, and maybe they'll surprise us all by showing off their tight new multiplayer shooter based on Mork & Mindy.
[UPDATE: Since the initial story broke, Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood tweeted to VG247's UK News Editor Johnny Cullen what's more or less a blanket denial that runs contrary to the initial report by IndustryGamers. It reads:
@JohnnyCullen Yes. We're not working with Disney. We're not building a pop culture IP. We're only using BRINK tech for BRINK updates atm
It would seem as though there's nothing to see here people, after all. Kindly, move along. That said, we'll keep you apprised of any new developments on potential upcoming Splash Damage projects as they are revealed.]


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Student Group Inspires Women in Engineering for More Than Three Decades
As the faculty and staff of Stevens work tirelessly to produce engineers prepared to lead scientific discovery and manage technology to solve complex problems, one student organization – the Stevens chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) – has long-ensured that the University's female undergraduates have the same opportunities to succeed in the engineering profession as their male classmates.
SWE is a national nonprofit that empowers women to advance in the field of engineering. For more than 30 years, Stevens has been home to a student chapter of SWE that is dedicated to raising the number of female engineering graduates and helping female students achieve full potential in engineering careers.
The establishment of the chapter – one of the Stevens' earliest groups created for women and their advancement – was a grassroots effort by some of Stevens' very first female engineering undergraduates. According to articles in The Stute from that year, it was established in the spring of 1976 with 19 members and officially chartered the following fall with 30 members – almost the entire female student body. President Linda O'Brien Hanley ('77) is quoted in The Stute as saying, "SWE hopes to become an active function for women on campus by serving as a medium for women to recognize and utilize the opportunities available for them."
Soon after the chapter was chartered, Kathy Cunningham Seasholtz ('78), the second president, and Dolores La Marca Wagoner ('79), vice president, attended a regional SWE conference hosted by the State University of New York (SUNY), which helped to enhance the group's impact and membership, even though there were very few female students at Stevens at the time, let alone female engineering students.
"Once we had an idea of what our objectives should be and the critical mass to make an impact, we started providing academic, professional and personal support for the members of SWE with the goal of enhancing the position and image of women in engineering," Wagoner said.
The chapter became more active on campus, working with the Stevens Admissions Department to encourage prospective female students to come to campus for tours and open houses and speaking to them about what it was like to be a woman in a male-dominated university and career path. Another major contribution was leading discussion groups at Stevens' first-ever "Women in Engineering" program, which brought more than 115 high school girls to campus for a day-long conference in 1977 and later became an annual event.
"Now, women in engineering are by and large accepted, but back then there were very few role models," Seasholtz said. "So, back then – while the women's movement was gaining momentum – SWE was mainly a recruiting tool. We showed young women that there were really talented women in engineering and we could support them if they wanted to study engineering and work in engineering careers."
Through these promotional efforts, the chapter set an early precedent that the University would be highly supportive of women's technical education. The current chapter, which has been in operation for a little over a year, is continuing to play its part.
Suzanne Hartwell, a Mechanical Engineering major and current president, was integral in restarting the chapter after a brief hiatus. Now a senior, Hartwell held a national membership to SWE even before enrolling at Stevens, and she was eager to join the student chapter during her freshman year. However, the chapter became inactive the following year. After she completed a co-op assignment in Illinois and was back on campus full-time, Hartwell made it her mission to get the chapter up and running again last spring.
"I felt that SWE was an extremely valuable and important organization, and I wanted to make sure Stevens was doing everything it could to make women a bigger part of engineering," Hartwell said.
Today, there are 75 active members of the chapter, most of whom are female engineering majors but some who study related subjects, such as computer science. The group meets regularly to plan educational outreach activities, social events, professional development activities and fundraisers. This year's planned activities include a blood drive, a visit to an elementary school to promote engineering to young girls, and an extremely popular "Top 10 Reasons to Date an Engineer" t-shirt sale.
Members also attend regional and national SWE conferences, where they attend seminars by successful female engineering executives, participate in leadership building activities, network with engineering students and professionals, and meet with potential employers at career fairs.
"We really are a family," said Hartwell, who met her best friend and roommate through SWE. "It is so helpful to have female mentors who can give you advice on your classes, your resume, or your internship or job search."
Students join SWE for many reasons, including networking opportunities, academic support, and, of course, resume-building.
"Being a member of SWE looks impressive on resumes and was always the first thing employers asked me about during interviews," said Hartwell, who has accepted a job offer from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).
Seasholtz and Wagoner, who both began their careers as the lone women in engineering departments made up of scores of men, said SWE was one of many aspects of their Stevens education that gave them the confidence to thrive.
"There were so few of us in academia or in industry, and we didn't have many mentors or coaches of our own. It was important to have that bond and connection with other women who were facing the same challenges," said Seasholtz.
"SWE was really networking for women in its earliest form," added Wagoner.
The Stevens chapter of SWE has undoubtedly played an important role in the steady growth of the number and role of women at Stevens, as well as the acclaim of the University. In fact, its long history of initiatives to advance women in the field of engineering contributed to the Stevens Office of Women's Programs winning the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 1998.
Even if it didn't touch their lives directly, today, the thousands of women have who have graduated from Stevens with Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degrees and achieved career success in industry can thank the Stevens chapter of SWE for – at the very least – always supporting and encouraging their dreams.
If you are interested in learning more about the Stevens chapter of SWE, please contact the Stevens Office of Student Life.


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As rugby explodes in growth across the nation, we are excited to offer this incredible opportunity to the next generation of young rugby players.
San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) May 02, 2013
Nike Elite Rugby Camps has secured ten current or former Team USA players to coach young rugby players this summer. Elite's coaching staff will be headlined by current Team USA star player Colin Hawley. Hawley played for the USA Eagles National Team in the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Hawley will coach the Stanford University Nike Elite Rugby Camp together with former USA 15s player/coach and current Stanford Director of Rugby, Matt Sherman. Sherman will direct the boy's and the girl's overnight camps at Stanford University. The Nike Elite Stanford girl's camp will also feature USA Women's National Team players, Bisi Ibrahim and Christina Nesberg. In addition to the camp at Stanford, Sherman will be directing a week-long day rugby camp in Marin County in Northern California.
Nike Elite Rugby Camps coaching staff also includes Team USA player and five-time All American at the University of California Berkeley, Chris Biller, as well as current team USA player Mike Petri. Petri represented the USA in both the 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cup and will share his wealth of experience with Elite Rugby campers. Team USA players Zach Fenoglio, Brian Doyle, Shaun Davies, Nic Johnson and collegiate All Americans Chris Clever and Alex Lichtig complete the 2013 Elite coaching line-up.
Jason West, Vice President of US Sports Camps stated, "Nike Elite Rugby Camps offer young rugby players the opportunity to receive top-level coaching directly from national players. It's rare in any sport for young aspiring athletes to receive instruction directly from their heroes. We're blessed to be working with a great collection of athletes who truly want to give back to the game and move the sport forward domestically."
Since Ethan Willis founded Elite Rugby Camps, Team USA players have mentored and coached over 5,000 avid young rugby players. "By providing young players with the opportunity to work directly with USA players and coaches, they have been inspired to reach their goals both on and off the rugby field, from the most accomplished players in the game. As rugby explodes in growth across the nation, we are excited to offer this incredible opportunity to the next generation of young rugby players," said Willis.
Founded in 2009, the mission of ELITE Rugby Camps is to provide rugby education to young athletes and coaches, and engender confidence and self-esteem on and off the rugby field. ELITE is dedicated to providing campers with one on one and group coaching from current and past members of the USA Rugby Team. Coaches carefully construct each day to provide campers with the most memorable experience possible.
About US Sports Camps, Inc.
US Sports Camps (USSC), headquartered in San Rafael, California, is America's largest sports camp network and the licensed operator of Nike Sports Camps. The company has offered summer camps since 1975 with the same mission that defines it today: to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill enhancement. Additional rugby camp information can be found online at ussportscamps.com/rugby or by calling 1-800-645-3226.


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Did you know that it is National Kidney Awareness Month? Similar to how kidney disease can affect humans, it can also develop in pets. As a matter of fact, kidney disease is the second leading cause of death in cats. This is pretty scary if you're a cat owner, right?
What do kidneys even do? Well, they are organs that have two main jobs:
1. Remove waste/toxins from the blood
2. Maintain bodily fluids
The job that kidneys perform is just as important as the job of our hearts. Without kidneys, animals, as well as humans, would die.
The problem with kidney disease is that it is hard to detect until it is too late. When you begin to see symptoms of the disease in your cat or dog, it is likely that 75% of their kidneys are already damaged. Such symptoms include:
• Increased thirst
• Increased urination
• Cloudy urine
• Loss of appetite
• Weight loss
• Bad breath
• Ulcers in the mouth and on the tongue
• Dull coats with heavy shedding
Since kidney disease is hard to detect until most of the damage is done, you have to take care of your pet's kidney health (and all aspects of their health) the moment you become a pet owner. In order to do this, make sure that you take your furry friend for yearly check-ups with your vet, and ensure that your vet is doing yearly blood work. It is easier to detect illnesses, like kidney disease, through blood tests than relying on symptoms.
If your cat, dog, or any other pet has kidney disease, it is likely that your doctor will recommend the following treatment options:
1. Diet change
2. Fluid therapy
3. Various medications
Make sure you do the research regarding the pros and cons of all treatments. There are even natural options to help with kidney disease that you may find more suitable for your pet.
Below is a list of cat and dog breeds that are the most susceptible to kidney disease:
• Abyssinian
• Persian
• Siamese
• Beagles
• Bull and Cairn Terriers
• Chow Chows
• Dalmations
• Doberman Pinchers
• English Cocker Spaniels
• German Sheperds
• Minature Schnauzers
• Poodles
• Shar-Peis
• Samoyeds
• Shih Tzus


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Pro-Muslim Brotherhood forces attacked protesters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi with rocks and clubs in Cairo Wednesday.
It's the latest in a series of clashes since Morsi, a longtime Brotherhood official, issued a Nov. 22 decree effectively placing himself above judicial oversight. He has said he will nullify it if voters approve a Dec. 15 referendum ratifying a controversial new draft constitution rammed through an Islamist-dominated assembly early Friday.
Although the document declares a right to freedom of speech, it also includes a prohibition on "insults" to "religious prophets." Another provision would require government authorization to operate a website.
Wednesday's clashes targeted several hundred anti-Morsi protesters who had camped out near the presidential palace.
Demonstrators say they will do everything possible to defeat the referendum. "Our marches are against tyranny … and we won't retract our position," Hussein Abdel Ghany, a spokesman for the protesters, said Tuesday. Eleven newspapers shut themselves down Tuesday to protest Morsi's "dictatorship," and banks said they would close three hours early in solidarity with the protesters.
The New York Times reported that Morsi's Freedom and Justice Party warned three former presidential candidates, among them Amr Moussa and Mohammed ElBaradei, that they would be held accountable for any violence that occurred.
Egyptian riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators near the presidential palace in Cairo on Tuesday. Officials in Morsi's office said the Islamist leader fled the palace as protesters broke through police lines.
While Egyptians take to the streets to oppose what they claim is a nascent tyranny, Morsi and his Islamist government can count on support from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). For example, CAIR-Los Angeles boss Hussam Ayloush praised Morsi for assuming more power in order to prevent "corrupt judges" from the "undermining and undoing of every democratic step."
In a Facebook post, Ayloush blamed Egypt's internal strife on the secular opposition: "Much of the Egyptian opposition seem to be more interested in opposing Morsi and the MB than actually helping Egypt become a stable and institutional democracy,"
CAIR-New York's Cyrus McGoldrick disparaged criticism of Morsi as "a last stand by old pro-West/Mubarak/Israel crowd to keep power in judiciary."
CAIR-San Francisco chief Zahra Billoo dismissed American concerns that the Islamist-backed draft constitution wouldn't protect human rights. "Why do we care about what the Egyptian Constitution says about indefinite detention, when it is being practiced by the U.S. government?" she wrote in a Twitter post Monday.
Several oceans away in Tahrir Square, Egyptian women see things very differently. They charge that the Brotherhood is "paying gangs to go out and rape women and beat men" protesting Morsi's policies.
Female protesters in Tahrir Square provided harrowing accounts of sexual assaults they say were carried out by thugs on the Islamist group's payroll.


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The city of Tuscaloosa's lone red-light enforcement camera resulted in 306 citations in its first 30 days of operation.
The city of Tuscaloosa's lone red-light enforcement camera resulted in 306 citations in its first 30 days of operation.
Only the camera at the intersection of 15th Street and Sixth Avenue/Dr. Edward Hillard Drive has been installed and activated so far. It focuses on the eastbound lanes on 15th Street, three straight lanes and one left turn lane.
More cameras are pending approval by the Alabama Department of Transportation because they fall on state controlled highways.
Once approved, cameras will be placed at the intersections of Interstate 359 and Skyland Boulevard; McFarland Boulevard and Skyland Boulevard; McFarland Boulevard and James I. Harrison Jr. Parkway; University Boulevard and Lurleen Wallace Boulevard North; and University Boulevard and Lurleen Wallace Boulevard South.
All red-light violations caught on camera will be reviewed by a Tuscaloosa police officer before a $110 citation is issued. Officers also will be allowed to monitor footage related to Amber Alerts or other searches for suspects.
However, the 2010 act of the Alabama Legislature that granted the city the right to use an automated photographic traffic signal enforcement system does not allow police to issue citations for any other violations, such as speeding.
Tuscaloosa Police Lt. Brad Mason, one of three officers who review footage to determine if a citation is warranted, said the process doesn't take up too much time now but that he expects it to increase drastically once all the cameras are online.
City officials have been working to get the cameras online and operational since January 2012, when a tentative contract to install and operate the camera system was awarded to Gatso USA Inc.
According to the contract, Gatso agreed to fund the installation and three years of maintenance and monitoring in exchange for $30 of every paid fine.
After that, the city and Gatso can agree to extend the contract.
Gatso also paid to install signs and other warning devices to alert motorists to the presence of the cameras.
If officers decide a violation occurred, Gatso will then mail a citation notice to the registered owner. With the identification number on the citation, the recipient can go to www.viewcitation.com to access photos and videos of the violation, the speed at which the offending vehicle went through the intersection and how long the traffic signal had been red.
If the owner of the vehicle was not the driver when the violation occurred, procedures are in place to rectify that.
Payments can be submitted to Gatso via the Internet, phone or mail. The payments will accrue in an independent bank account, from which Gatso will give the city its designated share once every 30 days.
Motorists can challenge the civil violation in municipal court and, if desired, Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court, which will hear appeals of the lower court's rulings.
In each instance, the city will have the burden of proof.
Reach Jason Morton at firstname.lastname@example.com or 205-722-0200.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Throwback Tuesdays continue when the Gauchos host Cal Poly in a non-conference game on Tuesday, April 10 with first pitch now scheduled at 2 p.m.
All Tuesday home games this season are titled Throwback Tuesdays with lower ticket prices and discounted merchandise – especially on throwback jerseys! Every Tuesday home game at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium will honor a UCSB team from the past and this Tuesday will honor the 2001 team, which went 40-17 and played in a Regional at Notre Dame.
Music from 2001 will be played all game long and there will be numerous chances for fans to win prizes with trivia based on 2001 facts and events.
The 2001 Gauchos featured three future Major League Baseball players in Skip Schumaker, Ryan Spilborghs and Virgil Vasquez. That team had a pair of All-Americans in Vasquez and James Garcia as well as five First Team All-Big West players. The Gauchos featured six players who finished in the Big West's top-10 in batting average as Schumaker hit .400 and six others finished with batting averages over .300.
Call 893-UCSB for tickets. Gates open at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium an hour and a half prior to first pitch. The game will be broadcast live online by clicking here.


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Westfield Academy and Central School hosted the biennial Westfield Quilters Guild Show over the weekend, making this its 10th show.
Strolling through the gymnasium, where scores of quilts were hoisted on frames of PVC piping, one could admire a myriad of patterns and colors among the hanging quilts, ranging from traditional, artful, paper-piercing, applique, scrapping, even Civil War-themed quilts.
While most of the quilts were not for sale, there were vendors from quilt shops in Jamestown, Olean, Erie, Pa., and Meadville, Pa. Quilt appraisal was also available.
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Quilts were on display at the Westfield Academy and Central School.
The guild was organized in 1993 with 35 members in attendance. It is a highly active guild, with 100 members from across Chautauqua County, as well as neighboring counties in New York and Pennsylvania. Its members participate in many programs, including retreats, classes and listening to speakers.
The guild contributes what it calls "Comfort Quilts" to various local charities, service agencies, medical facilities and nursing homes. The quilters either make these quilts independently or together in workshops. Last year the guild donated to eight organizations.
Pam Farnham, the first vice president of the Westfield Quilters' Guild, has been a member for eight years. She joined when she enrolled in a quilting class taught by an international teacher. At her first meeting, there was a group of 40 quilters industriously crafting quilts for the community.
"It was a fascinating, positive and uplifting group, and so that's why I joined," she said.
A quilt, Farnham explained, is very different from a blanket. A quilt has a top, a batting (the cotton stuffing in the middle) and a backing.
"It's like a sandwich - a Fluffernutter sandwich," she said.
Farnham is proud of the range of styles and skill levels present in the guild.
"We like to demonstrate our variety, to show everything we're working on. It's a good representation," she said.
As for herself, she said she tends to start a project and then flies by the seat of her pants, creating the tapestry as the spirit of the muse possesses her.
"This guild stands out from other shows. It brings the greatest varieties of quilters, and quite a few who are at mastery-level," she added.
President Dianne Stanton has been a member for 12 years.
"It's a great guild. I love the people here, and we're always looking for new members," she stressed.
Gloria Colgrove, another member, has quilted for 30 years. She began to sew when she was 20 and found the craft enjoyable and rewarding. She is attracted to shades of purple and indigo, evident in much of her work. Her piece "Kinabalu," which she spent over $800 crafting, won third place for piercing.
The Quilters Guild meets on the third Thursday of each month (except December) at the United Methodist Church of Westfield located at 101 E. Main St., Westfield at 7 p.m. The guild is open to beginners and experts.


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DURHAM — The Coe-Brown girls indoor track team placed second Sunday with strong performances from Elisabeth Danis, Jelasa Nelson, Katie Scannell and Alley Savioli who each won individual events. Danis won the 3000 in 10 minutes, 42.4 seconds, Nelson won the 55 dash in 7.5 seconds, Scannell won the 1,500 in 5:21.9 and Savioli won the shot put at 37 feet, 8.5 inches.
Nelson added a second in the 300 (45.8) and a third in the long jump (15-1.75). Brooke Laskowsky (2nd 3000, 11:05.6), Sam Donohue (3rd shot put, 31-0.75) and Katelyn Terry (2nd 600, 1:46.5) also added top-three performances for the Bears.
The boys team had its best showing of the year behind Jeremy Brassard and Anthony Toscano wins. Brassard took first in the 1,000 in 2:40.5, eight seconds ahead of second place.
Toscano won the 300 in a time of 39.0 seconds. Lucas Fisher (2nd 3,000, 9:59.2), Jared Nelson (4th 3,000, 10:24.4) and Drew Yonchak (4th 1,000, 2:52.4) all contributed points to the third-place team showing.
Noble second at Merrimack meet
MERRIMACK — The Noble High School wrestling team of North Berwick, Maine, placed second overall at the Merrimack Hall of Fame Tourney on Saturday.
Noble had two champions in Billy Gagner at 113 pounds and Joe Grenier at 152; two second-place finishers in Joe Langley at 106 and Jacob Guimond at 182; and a fourth in Devin Bourque at 126. Oyster River junior Caleb Cole placed second at 160.
Oyster River's Brendon Ouellette was the New Hampshire freshman state champion at 145 pounds at Concord High School on Saturday, going 3-0 on the day. Ouellette pinned his first two opponents.
St. Thomas Aquinas senior captain Nick Arau went 2-2 on the day at 152 pounds and Thomas Knizewski went 1-2 at 132.
Traip girls fourth
GORHAM, Maine — Ashleigh Roberts won three events Friday to lead the Traip Academy girls indoor track team to a fourth-place finish with 83 points.
Roberts won the 55-meter hurdles, the 55 dash and the long jump in the senior division.
Also in the senior division, Jocelyn Lorrey finished first in the triple jump and fourth in the 400. Laurel Simonds was third in the 55 hurdles and Kelsey Barnes won the pole vault with a WMC league record of 10 feet, 6 inches.
In the junior division, Hannah Nightingale won the 55 hurdles, took second in the 200 and tied for third in the high jump.
The Traip boys finished sixth with 16 points. In the senior division, Gavin Frisbee was second in the 200, Zach Benton took fifth in the 200 and Devyn Childs finished third in the 55 hurdles.