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I guess i have an unpopular view on this. I think i heard the radio spot, but didn't read the article. When all else fails, i want to be able to defend myself. I just don't see a down side to that.
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I have read the article. I agree with the sheriff. I don't want to wait, cross my fingers, hide, etc. I want to fight for my life and take it out of the hands of the criminal.
I agree with this. Yes, arm yourselves. America has one of the least violent cultures of the world and anyone who claims otherwise is unaware of the raw data or dishonest.
Because the world needs more vigilante religious nuts.
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The slick new Facebook Beta app for Windows Phone, which was released at the end of April, and saw some bug fixes and minor improvements a few days later, has just received its second update. Version 220.127.116.11 doesn't seem to come with a change log at all, so it's not quite clear what exactly is new.
Given that this is still a beta and only got a slight version number bump, we're guessing this is just some more bug fixes. At any rate, even with whatever bugs remain, it's a huge improvement over the original Facebook app. If you haven't tried it yet, you really ought to. You can get it here for free.
Be sure to report any bugs and suggestions to the developers in the Settings > About section of the app. Your input will help lead to a better user experience.
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love bites. Ok not talking about vampire romances or zombies dating. Am talking about the fact that there are people who get love marks on their necks (and other body parts) and I cannot think of the name of them at the moment. That is how out of touch I am with a love life.
My day revolves around a certain dog who wanted an encounter with a skunk this morning. No, thanks. Been there, done that. And in Cici-ville, you know all is upside down since that is her perspective from lying on her back looking at the world.
Anyway, romance is not supposed to be dead for those of us over a certain age (50 or even 60). In fact, I wrote a press release for Dr Christiane Northrup, a wonderful woman's doctor, who had proof that women get hotter and sexier as they age. And our peak sex lives are supposed to happen as we enter our Golden Years.
OK. well, as usual I guess I am missing out on the trend. I never did get REALLY married (well, I did for four years) but I am talking about FALLING IN LOVE, TRUE LOVE marriage for 10 years PLUS with my Prince Charming, I have been divorced for 15+ years now and Cici has been my only companion. That is sad, don't you think?
So to add a little spice to my life (and yours maybe), I am going to write about my romantic life or lack thereof, attempts to write about romance and singlehood as a pet guardian. I will also include travel into the mix. Just thought that I would warn you that I am going to be taking this left turn into a new topic arena. Just in case you are interested, have tips, advice and/or are offended by romantic/sexy topics. Not graphic nor erotic stuff. Do not want to invite voyeurs, perverts or child molesters onto this blog. Anyone with an unhealthy appetite can leave now. Thank you very much.
But if you are willing to go along on a new track with me, hop on the bus, Gus. And don't fuss about it. And if you think Baby Boomers, seniors and old people do not have a love life, think again. Valentine's Day is soon upon us and we expect flowers and chocolates. We will be posting about love gifts for your dog and for the pet guardians as well as romantic retreats that are also pet friendly (our annual Valentine's Day gift guides).
I have been trying to get through writing ONE romantic comedy book for awhile now. Think Jennifer Crusie meets Janet Evanovich meets Ciciville. Well, I had some of the elements down that I want in the book. But so far, I have changed the locale four times, from Las Vegas, to a made up town in Arizona based upon an actual town in Arizona, to 29 Palms and now we have landed on Virginia City, NV. Back to Nevada.
The setting is because it is about a romance blooming in the desert. And it has ghosts, a haunted B&B, that was a former house of ill repute, and a dog that goes humping everyone's leg in the night. The heroine has two romantic interests. One her boss, Editor/Publisher of the newspapers she works for. Oh no no, you did not. Yes I did. And a new reporter. The two of them are to write dueling columns about a topic, to bring the gender wars into focus, gin up controversy and to sell newspapers. She is not sure how she feels about any of it. And she has two old aunties, who raised her, who think she is getting married to a dog. She IS planning a BIG gala dog wedding to raise funds for the local animal shelter. But her aunties are Lucy and Ethel on steroids. So what do you think? Would you read a book like this? If I can get passed Chapter 3, perhaps you will be able to do so.
I am also working on the format for the California Travels with Cici guide I wrote, a new travel guide (much smaller) for the Southwest USA, and a chronic pain guide with a pit bull perspective. Perhaps one of these days, I will actually complete ONE of them or ALL of them. It would help a lot to have an agent. But in order to get an agent, I have to complete ONE book. Self-publishing is probably my best option.
In the meantime, if you have any thoughts about dating a dirty old lady (never mind), seniors dating, dogs dating, over the hill writers writing romance novels, (Grandma Moses was in her 90's when she painted her first painting), then please feel free to comment below (keep it clean). thanks.
oh yeah, love bites… hickeys. That is what I was trying to remember, the word hickey. Do you think it will be in the dictionary? When you were a kid did you look up all of the dirty words in the dictionary like we did? what do you know, it was in the dictionary. Bad dictionary. Sit. Stay. Now Go Fetch me the rest of the plot for this book I am writing. Now I definitely have to include hickeys in it, don't you think?


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Apple CEO Apologizes in China, and More
What's News: Apple CEO Tim Cook apologizes for customer service policies in China. Orbitz and American Airlines settle antitrust lawsuit. Prosecutors seek death penalty for alleged Colorado movie theater shooter, James Holmes. Photo: Getty
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2006 dinner with students and faculty.
Meggan Roberge being presented with an award by Gustav Papernack.
Our guest for the 2006 dinner was Gustav F. Papanek (2nd row, third from the right). President of the Boston Institute for Developing Economics (BIDE) and Professor of Economics Emeritus at Boston University.
2005 Omicron Delta Epsilon dinner, New student indictees with guest Mark Canlon, a Saint Michael's alum who went on to get a Ph.D. and now is the chief economist for Verizon.
Dr. Natarajan and Dr. Walsh debate outsourcing, moderated by Dr. Kessel
Professor Nick Clary asks a question at a debate.
Professors and seniors on a Friday evening at a pub in Burlington
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John Carvellas with his wife Betty making a grand entrance to a faculty party in honor of new faculty members.
2007 Senior Party
Group photograph from the 2007 senior party
Former Economics majors share their memories of Saint Michael's and discuss their careers, graduate school, and how the college helped prepare them for life and work. (from left to right:)
Faculty and students at the alumni centennial talks.
President Marc VanderHeyden presenting a centennial award to economics alumni Olya Linde '96.


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Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the annual tree lighting is a staple of the local traditions ringing in the holiday season in the city. Thousands gather every year to storm the Common and partake in the festivities, with local celebrities performing and WCVB-TV broadcasting the event live on the air. This year's guests included Joey McIntyre of New Kids on the Block, American Idol finalist Siobhan Magnus, the Radio City Rockettes, Rockapella, the Boston Ballet and the Boston Children's Choir. There was even a fireworks display! Once the Christmas tree is lit up, the entire city lights up with the rest of its decorations, from the lit stars hanging in Downtown Crossing, to the other trees strung with lights in the Common and Public Garden.
This tradition has an interesting history that many may not be aware of, however. For the past forty years, Boston's Christmas tree has been donated to us by the people of Nova Scotia, as a gift recognizing the assistance that the Boston Red Cross and the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee provided when the province's capital, Halifax, suffered an explosion in its harbor in 1917. The following year in 1918, the province sent its first Christmas tree, and then in 1971 the gift was revived by the Lunenburg County Christmas Tree Producers Association in order to spur Christmas tree exports in addition to acknowledging Boston's support in the disaster. Years later, the Nova Scotian government took charge of overseeing the annual gift in efforts of also promoting trade and tourism for the region. Realizing the importance the tree has come to have for both cities, the Nova Scotia Department of Naturnal Resources have defined a very specific set of guidelines for the selection of the tree.
In addition to donating the tree, representatives of the Nova Scotion government also make a point to attend the tree-lighting celebration, and the people of Nova Scotia also tend to support Boston's major sports teams!
This year's tree is a 45-foot white-spruce, donated by Ken and Donna Spinney of Central Argyle, Nova Scotia. According to BostInno, this year is the first year that the tree will be lit extra bright using 4000 LED lights, in addition to 48,000 other ones adorning the sixty other trees lit up in the Common and the Garden.
So, armed with your new knowledge about one of Boston's beloved holiday traditions, enjoy the rest of the day with your family and friends! In the meantime, you can also check out boston.com's photos showing what the official Christmas tree has looked like throughout the years. It looks like it used to be a lot taller back in the 30s. Click here!
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Ruh to the roh. Coca Cola says it has found illegal fungicide in orange juice made by Coke and its competitors. The illegal fungicide was originally used on oranges in Brazil but has made its way to store shelves stateside. Watch what you drink!
The FDA confirmed Coke's fungicide find and has started inspecting various brands' OJ to see which products are contaminated. Coke didn't name any specific brands that were contaminated, only saying the fungicide was found in "its and competitors' currently marketed finished products". Coke, which makes Simply Orange and Minute Maid, and Pepsi, which makes Tropicana and Dole, are the biggest OJ producers by far.
According to the great Internet encyclopedia, the fungicide in the OJ, scientifically known as carbendazim, can cause infertility and destroy testicles in high doses. The amount of carbendazim in the OJ isn't significant enough to do that kind of damage but WAIT WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING ME, DESTROY FREAKING TESTICLES?! I'm only drinking fresh squeezed OJ from now on. [Fox News]


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C is for chocolate, which really ought to be added to the USDA food pyramid in its own category. The Field Museum in Chicago has an excellent traveling exhibit that includes natural history, social history, economics and Fair Trade, and free samples (!).
C is for Citius Altius Fortius (Latin for Faster Higher Stronger), the motto of the Olympics. In that spirit, inspired knit bloggers in the blogosphere are offering various Torino Olympics (February 10-26) knit-alongs, buttons and links below.
- For competitive types, there's the 2006 Knitting Olympics, hosted by Stephanie. She would seem to be in training for the 2010 Vancouver games and has six rules, over 1,800 participants, a movement to ban the mighty Wendy (who isn't interested in playing), and gold medals – only gold medals.
- For calm process knitters, there's the Eddie Along inspired by Eddie the Eagle and hosted by Margene. She has two roolz, one of which is enjoy the process.
- And for charming slackers, there's the Homer Simpson Olympic Knit-along aka Too Lazy to Make a Button hosted by Susan. She has three rules, a motto, and beer.
- No Olympics is complete without collecting buttons. Some of my favorites are over at Bead Slut and JenLa. The latter pretty much captures my feelings.
C is for caritas, the Latin root word (as long as I'm on a Latin kick) for charity. Many knit bloggers support charitable causes, which is commendable. I knit my bit, particularly prayer shawls, but tend to keep my charity knitting off the blog.
C is for controversy. I find the current struggle over the ownership of certain words – such as "stitch," "and," "'n," "bitch" – leaves me cold. Commerce and plenty of corporate attorneys are involved, of course. Jenna gives her usual penetrating commentary in her aptly named Stitch v. Bitch; more partisan views may be found elsewhere.
C is for Chinese or Asian Lunar New Year, which this year fell on January 29, although some people celebrate for pretty much an entire month. Happy New Year! It's the Year of the Dog, also the Year of the Sox, 200Sox. I do seem to be obsessed with socks this year.
And C is for cotton and cashmere and camel and for cable and the ubiquitous Clapotis. That's my mini-version under the plate of cookies. The cookies, incidentally, barely lasted the photo shoot.
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It's rare that you'll see a featured truck with such minimal suspension modifications as Todd Farrand's 2005 Ram 2500. With true-to-size 41.5-inch-tall Pit Bull Rocker radials on TrailReady beadlocks riding under factory sheetmetal, this truck is outfitted with only 2 inches of lift … thanks to a large amount of sheetmetal cutting by Mercenary Offroad to make the tires fit. While the low-slung Dodge has a short list of modifications, it was easily one of the most gawked-at trucks on our recent Fullsize Invasion trail ride in Moab, Utah. The giant tires combined with a cutting-edge front bumper made every Cummins truck fan look twice, and no doubt inspired a few guys to go home, grind off some sheetmetal, and drop their trucks a few inches.
While Todd is still finding a few more points to trim, he went home after a week in Moab with three out of four fenders still looking pretty clean and void of tire-induced crunches.
Vehicle: 2005 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 Quad Cab
Owner: Todd Farrand
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Front axle: Dynatrac ball joints, 4.56 gears, Mercenary Offroad diff cover
Rear axle: ARB locker, 4.56 gears, Mercenary Offroad diff cover
Suspension: KORE progressive rate coils, Bilstein 5100 shocks, no sway bar, KORE mini packs in rear
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In 1886, the Portland & Willamette Railway Company purchased a right-of-way through John Sweek's land on the Tualatin River's west bank. Profiting from the sale, Sweek took advantage of the railroad's location and platted a town around the depot – calling it Tualatin. The city was incorporated in 1913, and despite its sleepy history it has awakened to dramatic growth and change over the last 30 years.
Tualatin is a vibrant suburban city of 27,000 people located 12 miles south of Portland. This town offers the luxury of a quiet community with easy access to Portland, Mount Hood, the Oregon Coast and the Columbia and the Clackamas River. There are numerous planned neighborhoods with homes that range in style and characteristics. Residents can walk their dogs or participate in recreational sport teams at the many public parks situated throughout the city.
The Tualatin School District offers residents a great public education from Elementary through High School.
For most of its history, what Tualatin lacked was a proper downtown. So in 1985, its urban renewal agency bought 19 acres in the town's core and set about building the downtown it never had. The result is Tualatin Commons, a 3-acre man-made lake surrounded by a hotel, restaurants, office buildings, apartments, condos and shops. Residents stroll around the lake and enjoy outdoor concerts every Friday night in July and August.
Tualatin has more than 200 acres of parks, trails, natural areas and an active tree preservation and planting program that earned Tualatin the nickname "Tree City, U.S.A." The Tualatin River meanders through town at an unhurried pace, carrying canoes and kayaks along its tree-lined expanse. In addition, the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge is home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants.
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - The mother of a Marine killed after a shooting spree that left one dead in Texas said Tuesday that she doesn't know what prompted the attacks, including the stabbing of his wife in North Carolina.
Lance Cpl. Esteban J. Smith, a 23-year-old Marine, died Sunday in a gunfight with Texas authorities after a shooting rampage that left one person dead and several hospitalized. Authorities believe Smith fatally stabbed his wife, Rubi Estefania Smith of Bakersfield, Calif., in a Jacksonville, N.C., motel room near Camp Lejeune before the shooting rampage.
Esteban Smith's mother, Rosalva Jimenez, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday that she last spoke to her son on Thursday. She said her daughter-in-law had recently traveled from their California hometown to North Carolina to surprise him. She said her last phone conversation with her son was brief because he was at work and that she knew of nothing that would have led to the crimes.
"He was OK, but he went crazy all of a sudden," she said, speaking in Spanish.
She said her son had just married his wife in December and that he was preparing to leave the armed forces. "He wanted to come back, go to college, become a mechanical engineer," she said.
Smith was a veteran of two combat tours in Afghanistan, but Jimenez said she never asked him about what happened there. "I didn't want to hear," she said, adding that she hadn't wanted her son to go to war.
She also said she didn't know of any problems between her son and his wife. "Maybe they argued and he went crazy," she said.
Authorities have said the Texas victims were likely randomly targeted but have not said why Smith made the 1,500-mile trip to the town of Eden or where he may have been going.
"I imagine he was in Texas because maybe he was driving home" to Bakersfield, his mother said. "That's the road he would take."
Jimenez said she's sad for the people affected but that her son wasn't a monster.
"He was a very bright, quiet, calm man. He was the type of person that would not even like when you would raise your voice," she said.
A West Texas sheriff wounded by the gunman told The Associated Press the shootings appeared to be indiscriminate.
"This guy was intent on killing anybody and everybody," said Concho County Sheriff Richard Doane, who was shot near his left ear. "None of it makes sense."
Doane said he is uncertain whether Smith killed himself or was killed by law enforcement.
Smith, who was also from Bakersfield, was stationed with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune. Base spokesman Master Sgt. Jonathan Cress said investigators have determined the firearms used in the shootings were not issued by the military.
An assault rifle, handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were recovered from Smith's vehicle.
Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Maureen Krebs said Smith enlisted in November 2008. He returned from his second tour as an infantry rifleman in Afghanistan in November 2012. He was awarded several decorations, including a Combat Action Ribbon and the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Krebs said.
The Texas shootings began about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, when the gunman shot a passenger in a car carrying three people in their 20s in the Eden area of Concho County, about 210 miles southwest of Dallas, Doane said
Doane said Smith pulled up behind the trio's car and started firing.
"They thought he was throwing rocks at them and he was actually shooting at them," Doane said.
The driver slammed on his brakes, turned around and headed toward Eden, where he hid the vehicle in a car dealership lot. That move probably saved their lives, Doane said.
Over the next 90 minutes, two more people were shot while sitting in a car at a convenience store in adjacent McCulloch County. Both were treated and released from a hospital, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger said.
Shortly after 6 a.m., Alicia Torres, 41, was found dead in her car in Eola, just east of San Angelo, Vinger said.
Doane said when authorities discovered the shooter was headed toward Eden again, they had to act quickly.
"We made a decision: We can't let him back to town," he said.
The suspect fired on Doane's vehicle when the sheriff came upon him north of Eden. He died during a gunfight with a DPS trooper and a state game warden coming to Doane's aid, according to the DPS.
Rubi Smith's remains were found Sunday afternoon at a motel near the gates of the sprawling Marine base on the North Carolina coast. Police spokeswoman Beth Purcell said Rubi Estefania Smith appears to have died from a knife wound.
Injured in the Texas rampage were Laura Mandanas, 26, of New York; Casimiro Solis, 48, and Charlotte Feldman, 43, both of Brady, Texas; and Eric Kothmann, 52, of Menard, Texas. All were treated at hospitals and released, Vinger said.
Without stops, it is more than a 22-hour drive from Jacksonville, N.C. to Eden, Texas.
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EDEN, Texas (AP) -- A West Texas sheriff wounded by a man who killed a woman and injured four other people in a rampage Sunday says the shooter "was intent on shooting anybody and everybody" as he drove.
Concho County Sheriff Richard Doane said Tuesday that Lance Cpl. Esteban J. Smith pulled up behind one car carrying three people and started firing at them. Doane says the shooter hit one passenger in the cheek before the driver slammed on his brakes, turned around and headed toward Eden where he hid the vehicle in a car dealership lot.
Doane says Smith later wounded him near his left ear after the Marine pulled over following a short chase.
Doane says he's unsure whether Smith killed himself or was killed by authorities.
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The 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force Public Affairs Office released the combat history of a Camp Lejeune marine Tuesday suspected in two murders which includes 2 deployments to Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Esteban Smith was killed in a shootout in Texas Sunday after authorities say he killed a woman in a random shooting and police suspect he stabbed his wife to death in a Jacksonville hotel room.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Marine Corps officials say they are cooperating with local law enforcement agencies in Concho County, Texas, and Jacksonville in the investigation of
Smith suspected of stabbing his wife who was found dead in a motel room at the Sunset Inn on Western Boulevard in Jacksonville. Texas officials say he went on a shooting rampage in 2 counties and inured several people while shooting from his pickup truck and killed one woman.
Camp Lejeune officials say Smith was a Lance Corporal with the 3rd Batallion, 8th Marine Regiment. They say he is from Bakersfield, California and joined the Marine Corps in November 2008. They say his Military Occupational Specialty was Rifleman, and he deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, from August 2010 to May 2011 and again from April to November 2012.
Smith's personal awards include the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, a Combat Action Ribbon, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal (2nd award), a Navy Unit Commendation (2nd award), Sea Service Deployment Ribbon (2nd award),and the NATO Medal - International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan.
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Texas authorities have identified a Camp Lejeune Marine who was killed Sunday after a shootout with lawmen.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says 23-year-old Esteban Smith was shot by state troopers and a Texas game warden.
Camp Lejeune says the Marine is also connected to a woman's body that was found Sunday afternoon in a Jacksonville motel room.
Jacksonville Police identify the woman found in the motel room as 21-year-old Rubi Smith, Estaban's wife. Investigators say she had been stabbed to death.
Smith was a lance corporal with the 3rd Batallion, 8th Marine Regiment, according to Camp Lejeune officials.
In the Concho County, Texas shooting, authorities say the 23-year-old Marine was killed after they chased the man for almost two hours early Sunday morning. Authorities say the man opened fire from his pickup truck on random cars in two counties near San Angelo. One woman was killed and five people were wounded, including the Concho County sheriff.
Authorities found that the Marine was armed with an assault-style rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Camp Lejeune says Smith was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division.
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Military officials say a woman's body found in a Jacksonville motel and a shooting spree in Texas that left two dead and five others wounded are connected.
Jacksonville police say the body was discovered Sunday afternoon at the Sunset Inn on Western Boulevard.
A Camp Lejeune spokesman says a 23-year-old Marine is connected to the shooting death of the woman in Jacksonville as well as the shooting in Texas.
In the Concho County, Texas shooting, authorities say a 23-year-old North Carolina resident was killed by lawmen after they chased the man for almost two hours early Sunday morning. Authorities say the man opened fire from his pickup truck on random cars in two counties near San Angelo. One woman was killed and five people were wounded, including the Concho County sheriff.
Authorities found that the gunman had been armed with an assault-style rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Camp Lejeune says the Marine was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division. His name has not yet been released, as well as the name of the woman found dead in the Jacksonville motel room.
Jacksonville police have not said how long they believe the body had been in the motel room before being discovered Sunday.
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A death investigation is underway in one eastern Carolina city after a body is found in a hotel.
Details are limited at this time, but a Jacksonville Police say that the body was found early Sunday afternoon at the Sunset Inn on Western Boulevard.
"This is a joint investigation with Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The death investigation is in a preliminary stage and there is no additional information to release at this time," said Chief Mike Yaniero, Director of Public Safety.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact JPD Detective Derek Simmons at (910) 455-4000 or firstname.lastname@example.com Crime Stoppers (910) 389- 3273 offers rewards of up to $2,500 for information leading to arrest. Callers to Crime Stoppers are not required to reveal their identities.


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Issue: Sustainability
Sustainability including issues related to the environment, population, natural resources, economic development, social justice, energy, etc.
Student Learning Outcomes
All courses in the Sustainability Issue help students learn the following:
1. How the course relates to sustainability.
2. How complementary and competing perspectives covered in the course contribute to the ongoing discussion about sustainability.
3. Collaboration - two or more students working together and sharing the workload equitably as they progress toward shared learning objectives.
4. Problem Solving - the process of designing and evaluating strategies to answer open-ended questions or achieve desired goals.
5. Integration - the process of synthesizing and applying existing knowledge, past experiences, and other perspectives to new, complex situations.
ANT 340 - Culture and Environment
Compares different adaptive strategies of cultures from around the world and seeks understanding of ethical and social values different groups have related to the environment. Attention is focused on how humans relied on cultural mechanisms in the past to adapt and change their physical and natural environment. Prerequisites: Junior standing, WRT 150 and either US Diversity or Historical Perspectives. Fulfills Cultures - Global Perspectives.
BIO 338 Environmental Ethics
Examines philosophical underpinnings of environmental ethics. Explores approaches for understanding sustainability issues, solving ongoing environmental problems, and developing a global environmental ethic. Biology majors may not use both BIO 328 and BIO 338 as elective credit within the major. Prerequisites: Junior standing, Writing 150 (C or better) in order to get SWS credit.
ECO 345 Environmental and Resource Economics*
Develops a systematic economic framework to analyze market and government allocations of natural and environmental resources. Topics include relationships between population growth, land development, and environmental quality; regulatory versus market-oriented environmental policies; supplies and prices of mineral and energy resources; and harvest and protection of forests and fisheries. Prerequisites: ECO 211 or ECO 200 and Junior standing.
EGR 306 Urban Sustainability
Social, environmental, and economic points of view are engaged to study how successful cities work. Study approached using assigned reading compared to direct observation and immersion into urban environments. Focuses on the interaction of built environment with social and natural environments. How engineering decisions about materials used in buildings impact structural integrity, energy use, and economics. Prerequisites: MTH 110 and Junior standing.
EGR 406 Renewable Energy Systems: Structure, Policy and Analysis
A survey of the technological as well as economic, societal, and public policy issues associated with renewable energy systems. Topics include generation using renewable resources such as solar, wind, hydropower, and biomass as well as advanced energy storage systems and distribution. Energy research and analysis techniques are introduced. Part of the Sustainability Issue. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: Junior standing and (STA 215 or STA 220 or STA 312). Credits: 3.
GEO 360 - Earth Resources in Transition: Conventional to Sustainable
Exploration of transition from conventional to sustainable earth resource issues, technologies, and science. Focuses on one, or a combination, of earth resources: water, energy, or earth materials (minerals and metals). Topics may include water resources, treatment and usage; oil and gas origins, exploration, recovery, and refining; mining and metals recovery.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
HTM 368 Geotourism
A study of geotourism, tourism that sustains or enhances the geographic character of a place. Topics include: community development, land use and planning, conservation of resources, tourist satisfaction and marketing, with the purpose of sustaining or enhancing the environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage, and the well-being of a places residents. Prerequisite: Junior Standing, HTM 202 (recommended).
LIB 322 - Wicked Problems of Sustainability
Sustainability, as a wicked problem, is an intractable, on-going and high-stakes issue. This course engages students in participatory research on the inextricably linked dimensions of sustainability, such as economics, environment and social equity. Students will work with community partners to address specific interdisciplinary problems of sustainability. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
NRM 451 Natural Resource Policy
Study of how natural resource policy is developed and implemented in the United States. Focuses on public policies toward renewable resources such as forests, biodiversity, land, recreation, and water. Includes foundations of the American legal system, choice of policy instruments, and basic methods of policy analysis. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
PLS/ENS 303 Introduction to U.S. Environmental Policy
This course examines the decision making processes to cope with modern environmental problems. The course focuses on both domestic and international environmental issues with special attention to interests, ideas, and institutions. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
SOC 351 Urban Sociology
Explores urban theory (Chicago School, political economy, and cultural approaches); the evolution of cities; suburbanization, race relations, street life, sustainability (economic, social and environmental), redevelopment, urban politics, and international comparisons. Readings focus on theory, specific cities, and environmental concerns. Prerequisites: SOC 201 and Junior standing.
WGS 335 Women, Health and Environment
This course is an overview of contemporary women's health issues focusing on the interconnectedness between health and the environment. Topics include reproductive issues, pesticides, sustainable development, occupational hazards, health insurance, and breast cancer. Discussions and readings will focus on the impact of race, class, and sexuality on women's health. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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New labor-saving, self-insulating tap and splice connectors give you a competitive edge.
Everyday, contractors face the challenge of how to win competitive bid contracts. Reducing material or labor costs is always helpful. However, finding ways of being more productive is sometimes the only way to reduce labor costs. And although there are many ways to perform different tasks, costs of materials are often pretty close to what the contractor bids on a project. A new category of connectors, self-insulating multi-tap connectors, is one way to significantly reduce the labor of tapping and splicing.
The continued evolution of electrical tap and splice devices has led the industry to obtain code approval for the tap and splice connectors. Various lengths of rectangular aluminum blocks make up these connectors. Drilled, the blocks can accept conductors. Range taking size is a function of the conductor hole size. The length of the bar determines capacity. A unique feature of these multi-tap connectors is their integral insulating cover. Previously, you could buy this range of connector sizes and conductor capacities only in power-distribution blocks. The multi-tap capability is up to seven taps. Split bolts normally allow one tap, although one special type can accommodate two taps. Their economical application range, combined with simplicity, make them less expensive than power-distribution blocks. This is enough to make contractors turn their heads.
One of the nation's top 50 contractors, Cannon & Wendt, Phoenix, Ariz., had a six-figure contract on a project to upgrade a microchip plant. When Jim Plotz, vice president of the company, learned of this new type of connector, he brought it to the foreman's attention. Plotz faced a dilemma. Time, space, and money were at a premium. Cannon & Wendt has a policy of investing in the latest labor-saving tools and connectors, so they chose these connectors.
They used eight self-insulating multi-tap connectors in the project, including transfer switches for the main generators, two ATS switches on the roof, and two pump transfer switches. Photos 3 and 4 (on page 48D, original article) illustrate the efficient arrangement of the splices required of the sixteen 350 kcmil conductors in the limited space at the A BUS and B BUS.
So what do you need to know to use multi-tap connectors? Just a few simple rules and some practical guidelines.
Application. You can use multi-tap connectors in any normal, dry, and protected location or in place of a split-bolt connector, a mechanical connector with a snap-on protective cover, or a power-distribution block. You can't use them in a wet location or where vibration or cold could damage the cover. Here you should use anchored power-distribution blocks. You can buy specially rated connectors for watertight applications. However, each should carry the manufacturer's part number and wire range capacity.
Selection. You should select connectors to accommodate applications; the size of main would be the larger, and the smallest tap would be the smaller needed. And pay attention to the tap hole requirement, comparing that with the connector's tap holes.
Installation. Don't forget: all connectors require an Allen wrench to install. Freestanding multi-tap connectors with integral insulating covers are rapidly becoming an industry standard for fast and versatile electrical distribution connections. You can rely on these connections if you follow Code installation procedures.


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
It's easy on the 4th of July to comment on freedom and how so many of us take that freedom for granted. In the back of our minds, when we're not busy with the usual distractions of work, family or Facebook, we know this to be true.
And in the news, one doesn't have to look far for a reminder of that. Just look at the continuing unrest in the Middle East, from fresh uprisings in Egypt and Turkey to war in Syria. Yeah, we do have it good here compared to the rest of the world. We can say and write nearly anything we want (even if it gets monitored and stored in a server farm by the National Security Agency).
One thing we don't always see is how some of the freedoms we take for granted are those that are not evenly distributed among all U.S. citizens.
Last week was a true milestone for such freedoms when several significant rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court took us a lot closer to ensuring the freedom for all U.S. citizens to marry whom they choose.
First was the decision by the court that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional. That act, signed into law by then President Bill Clinton, meant that same-sex couples were not entitled to federal benefits. The law also allowed states to refuse to recognize as legal any same-sex marriages performed legally in other states.
Second was the ruling affirming that California's Proposition 8 – a state constitutional amendment that outlawed same sex marriage that was later ruled unconstitutional by a federal court in 2010 and appealed – was in fact unconstitutional.
This is not only good news for same sex couples looking for equal protection under the law, but also for all Americans.
In a country that celebrates freedom above everything else, it was always remarkable to me that we'd tolerate any laws that restrict freedoms, particularly the freedom to marry those we love. Any constitutional amendment that would outlaw same sex marriage, in my mind, would make the document a work of great hypocrisy.
Some might argue that a legal endorsement of marriage infringes on the religious practices and attitudes of those who believe same sex relationships are a sin. With all due respect to those who feel that way, the law of this land is not about religious attitudes.
The Supreme Court's rulings last week were a welcome endorsement of freedom and a great step forward. I hope we'll never again have to entertain the question of whether same sex couples have the right to marry.


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Stay cool with sweet watermelon recipes
Watermelon Cake
8-10 servings
For the cake:
1 package white cake mix
1 1/3 cups cubed fresh watermelon
1 package mixed fruit gelatin powder
3 egg whites
1 tablespoon cooking oil
For the icing:
2 (8-ounce) packages softened cream cheese
1/2 cup softened butter
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup watermelon juice
Red food coloring
Grease and flour a Bundt pan. In a large bowl combine dry cake mix, watermelon, gelatin powder, egg whites and oil. Beat until smooth. Pour into the pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 35 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool on a rack. When cool, frost with watermelon icing.
For the icing, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar and watermelon juice. Stir until blended. Add a few drops of red food coloring to enhance color.
From Doris Settanni of Bethel, this week's cookbook winner
Watermelon Lime Fresca
Serves 1
4 ice cube-size watermelon chunks
2 tablespoons limeade frozen concentrate
Splash water
Holding a watermelon like a bowl on the counter, take a spoon and scoop out all the red goodness and put the fruit into a gallon sealable plastic bag. Freeze for later use. To make the drink, put 4 ice cube-size watermelon chunks into a blender, add limeade and water, blend. Pour into a glass and enjoy. For variations, add some frozen banana chunks, strawberries, mint leaves or a splash of rum.
Adam Ellyson of New Canaan
Summer Salad Plate
Serves 1 or more depending on amounts
Sliced fresh burratta cheese
Sliced watermelon wedges
Fresh basil leaves
Balsamic vinegar
Extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper, to taste
This recipe is based on a classic Caprese salad, but in place of the sliced tomatoes and mozzarella cheese, it uses watermelon and burratta cheese.
Layer first three ingredients on a serving platter as you would a Caprese salad; sprinkle with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, add salt and pepper to taste.
From Diane Luizzo of Milford
Watermelon Salad
Serves 4
2 cups cubed, seedless watermelon
2 cups arugula
1 cup sliced cucumber
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons crumbled feta cheese
Salt and black pepper, to taste
Sprinkle melon with salt and toss with arugula and cucumber. Drizzle vinegar over all. Top with feta, salt and pepper. Serve.
From Mary Ann Arlio of Trumbull
Watermelon Salsa
Serves 6
1½ teaspoons lime zest
¼ cup fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon black pepper
3 cups seeded, finely chopped watermelon
1 cucumber seeded, diced and peeled
1 mango, peeled and diced
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded, minced
1 small red onion, chopped
8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
½ teaspoon garlic salt
Tortilla or pita chips, for serving
Stir together lime zest, lime juice, sugar and ¾ teaspoon black pepper in bowl; add watermelon, cucumber, mango, jalapeño, onion and basil. Toss gently.
Chill until ready to serve. Add garlic salt just before serving. Serve with chips.
From Mary Ann Arlio of Trumbull
Watermelon Sweet Tea
Makes about 1¼ gallons
1 gallon water
¾ cup sugar*
5 black tea bags, Lipton's preferred, or use your favorite
3 to 5 cups diced watermelon
2 sprigs Thai basil, leaves only
Tiny watermelon wedges, for garnish
*Depending on the sweetness of the watermelon, you may need to adjust the amount of puree or sugar used.
In a large pot over high heat, bring the water to simmer. Turn off the heat and stir in the sugar until fully dissolved.
Add the tea bags and let steep for 30 minutes.
Remove bags and let the tea cool completely. Using a blender, blend the watermelon into a puree.
Lightly mash the basil leaves on a cutting board with the flat side of a knife or in a mortar and pestle to release the aromatics.
Add the puree and basil to the tea and mix well.
Serve with plenty of ice and garnish each glass with a watermelon wedge.
From Brenda Buenviaje, chef/co-owner of Brenda's French Soul Food in San Francisco


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Korg, a leading innovator in keyboards and synths for the studio, touring and DJ markets, expands its micro line of portable synthesizers with the microKORG XL synth with vocoder (MKXL), offering a variety of tools for performers, producers, computer musicians and beginners alike.
Joining the ranks of the top-selling originals microKORG and R3, the 37-note velocity-sensitive microKORG XL offers Korg's legendary analog modeling, along with an ergonomic interface, in a lightweight and portable keyboard. MKXL employs full eight-voice, multi modeling technology, a 16-band vocoder, on-the-fly parameter editing and USB MIDI connectivity, all packaged with the all-new, great-feeling Natural Touch keyboard action.
The microKORG XL utilizes Korg's powerful RADIAS engine to offer a rich analog sound with 128 stunning sounds right out of the box. Everything from thick basses and crisp leads to sumptuous pads and fantastic arpeggios are never far out of reach with the unit's intuitive genre and sound categorization system. In addition, external audio inputs let players use any audio source as the waveform, which can then be processed using MKXL's synth engine. Also on board are 17 effects derived from Korg's KAOSS series of dynamic effects processors. Included are reverbs, choruses, decimation, distortion, grain shift, several types of delay, flanger and much more. Users can apply two effects at a time to any program or performance. A virtual patch mode lets users further sculpt their sound by setting synthesis parameters to be modulated by other parameters. Up to six virtual patches are available per program.
microKORG XL's interface provides clean, uncluttered control. Three large knobs let players instantly modify the current sound to their liking. The knobs can also be used to explore the full edit mode with the large backlit LCD screen as their guide. The full edit mode allows users to choose filters, adjust AMP, EG and LFO settings, add effects and EQ the sound, then save it all on the spot.
The built-in vocoder features 16 bands with formant shift. An included heavy-duty gooseneck mic provides immediate access to the vocoder. In addition, any sound source can be run through the vocoder via the stereo audio inputs. A fully sync-able step arpeggiator lets users choose from six preset patterns (Up, Down, Alt1, Alt2, Random and Trigger) or create their own with the on-board step arpeggio editor.
microKORG XL offers direct USB connectivity with users' computers, allowing it to act as a MIDI controller for their favorite software. The three real-time knobs on the front panel can transmit MIDI messages (control change), so they can be used as controllers for software synthesizers. USB also provides instant access to the dedicated Editor/Librarian, without the need for additional interfacing hardware.
The microKORG XL's compact size is perfect for musicians or DJs looking to add a synth to their setup, especially when space is an issue. It is also a great choice for use in a computer-based music setup. With its battery power option, it can be easily transported from studio to stage to living room.
For more details, view the microKorg XL product page


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Flow Freeride World Festival Finals
The contest is just a sliver of Tailgate Alaska. But when you have a parking lot full of freeride freaks, and a big bag of cash and heli time up for grabs, and endless venues for riders to prove their skills, it's almost mandatory. The true attraction is Alaska—its seemingly endless mountains, hair-raising lines accessible from your tent door, alien-esque northern lights, and the uneasy feeling that you could just be swallowed up in a second in these glaciated mountains. All of this, plus powder and world-renown riders, creates one of the most captivating contests in snowboarding. Words are only a slice of the place and the experience, so here are the photos and results to back this rider-judged, freeride throw down.
1. Brandon Reid
2. Sammy Luebke
3. Mikey Marohn
4. Max Zipster
5. Donny Mills
6. Scotty Lago
7. Micah Hoogaveen
8. Cody Beach
1. Emily Weer
2. Yoko Nakamura
More coverage from Tailgate Alaska: What Is Tailgate Alaska?


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Here in Southern California we are spoiled with great weather, sandy beaches, and excellent avocados. However, you can only make guacamole so many times. With a pile of avocados on my counter, I had to think of a way to use them that didn't involve garlic and onions.
If pepper and pears sound like a strange combination, how about avocado in a cupcake? I can promise you it is equally delicious. The cupcakes are dense, moist, subtly spiced, and not too sweet. The avocado gives a richness hard to find in many cake recipes, but doesn't add an overwhelming flavor. Because they are plain, these cupcakes lend themselves well to experimenting with additions-you can try nuts, chocolate chips, dried fruits, or different combinations of spices. Unfrosted, these make great muffins for a morning treat, but a lemon cream cheese frosting adds the perfect citrusy touch to these fun cupcakes.
Avocado Cupcakes
15 Servings
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon each: nutmeg, cinnamon,cloves, and allspice
1/4 cup vegetable shortening (Crisco)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, x large
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons milk
1 cup avocados, mashed (about 3 medium avocados)
In a bowl mix together all dry ingredients, set aside.
Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add lemon juice, avocado and milk; mix until thick and creamy.Add dry ingredients mix well. Spoon batter into muffin cup filling about 3/4 full. Bake @350 for 15-20 minutes. It can also be baked as a 9x13 cake, but increase the baking time to approximately 30 minutes. Frost with lemon cream cheese frosting.
Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
2 oz butter
3 oz cream cheese
2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
Juice and zest of one lemon.
With mixer beat confectioners sugar and butter until crumbly. Add lemon zest and juice. Beat in cream cheese 1 ounce at a time, continue beating until smooth and fluffy.
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TJM5555 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Every Hit Song.com
We are music industry veterans launching a music download site which offers every digital track available on a promotional basis. This is not an e-commerce site. Rather, it is a promotion music redemption site.
Think iTunes - we want this to be bigger than life but needs to appeal to all demographics. While this is a web address, keep in mind that this is going to be on business cards etc as it is the name of the company.
Should not be genre or instrument specific. However, we are offering music from every major Artist. Logo should include a stylized font that is easy to read - leaning towards contemporary - avoid anything that could be considered "retro", "cute" or "quirky".
Avoid graphic references to the CD, record.
Bottom line:
We need a logo and font that speaks to the product that we represent which is: Every Hit Song.
Do not limit yourself to black and white.
The most imaginative design that translates clearly will win.
Good Luck!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Photonovels and Movies / Indiana Jones and the Mayan Secret - CHAPTER TWO!!« on: March 24, 2014, 06:20 AM »
Chapter Two, suckas!
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Well done! A worthy effort for sure. Loved the hangar bay diorama.
That was fun Lance! I enjoyed the story.


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Drones are in the news thanks to a leaked Department of Justice memo outlining the legal reasoning behind the killing of American citizen and al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar Al-Awlaki.
For those of us extremely unsettled by the Bush-Obama policy of extra-judicial assassination by unmanned aircraft, it's nice to at least see some major news organizations dusting off their mostly useless conventional wisdom-spewing megaphones to update the country on the government's ongoing secret assassination program via robot. The secret not being that it's happening but that no one's allowed to know who's being killed or for what reasons, other than those that the Pentagon or White House allow us to know.
With no chance for judicial review before the drone is in the air and on its way to blow up a target, the Obama administration has essentially cemented a permanent policy that theoretically allows for the killing of just about anyone. In northwest Pakistan we are likely creating excellent recruiting material for the next generation of disaffected young males—or at least those who were lucky enough not to be in homes that have been incinerated from the sky. When President Obama appeared in front of a group of children to sign his 23 executive orders and call for tougher gun legislation, it was hard not to think of the missions he's personally approved that have killed and maimed children all over the Middle East, including al-Awlaki's teenage son, who was murdered in a drone strike separate from that of his father.
For understandable reasons, there are not a whole lot of good numbers on this, but the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (that still exists?!) estimates that since 2004 in Pakistan alone there have been 2,400 people killed by drones, including 475 civilians and 176 children. If you want to follow a grim Twitter handle, try @dronestream, which is tweeting reportage of every American drone strike since 2002.
However, that does not mean the public debate—mostly happening on the left—has necessarily done justice to the conundrum faced by the political class.
Part of the objection to our drone war seems to be that the method sounds so sci-fi, so newfangled and precise, what with the President personally approving targets. Our sensibilities recoil from the thought of Obama, with his jealousy-inducing beautiful family, keeping a kill list in his desk drawer; that the president has said goodnight to his daughters on the same night a home with a girl Sasha or Malia's age disintegrated into fire and rubble via American-made drone.
However, this is only because drones are visible, documentable, and dramatic. The fog of war is not. We would do well to remember that there is no sanitized version of war, only history making opaque all the atrocities involved in winning (or losing) one. With the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, we heard of the revolting events in Haditha or Blackwater's Baghdad massacre, but we rarely tuned into the more mundane murders of civilians, whether it was a family that failed to slow down at a checkpoint or white phosphorous incendiary devices burning innocent bystanders or any of the thousands of other underreported tragedies. Innocent people die in war because war is about murdering more people than the opposing team, and those two military misadventures saw no shortage of those killed or scarred in similar or worse ways than the—by comparison—highly limited drone war. The only difference is in the optics and the intimate nature of targeted assassination. In one we see a clear through-line from the dead in Pakistan to Washington decision makers. In the other we see a scared 23-year-old reservist tragically opening fire on a car with a similarly scared Iraqi family, but we do not immediately connect the thread to our political leaders in the same way.
The popular misconception of war has a long and florid history. I'll never get over picking arguments with people who see the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki as the ultimate example of an unaccounted war crime. As if our fire-bombing of Tokyo where we were just melting people in the streets would have been any better, or how the Allies basically won the war in Germany by leveling that country's targets both military and civilian. The war we so romanticize as our "good war" was partially won by engaging in the equivalent of aerial war crimes from Dresden to Tokushima.
But this is undeniably true of every major military conflict, from the psychotic carpet-bombing of Vietnam to the muddled inconsistencies of COIN in Afghanistan. Every American president, almost by definition, has left office with an awful lot of blood on his hands.
One has to be able to hold two thoughts in his or her head at once. For instance, you could be a fierce, outspoken opponent of the Iraq war from the moment of its inception, you could think Bush and his crew of neo-conservative magical thinkers exploited a national tragedy to send not-their-sons-and-daughters into a quagmire that killed or wounded many of them and ruined countless more lives. Yet you can also acknowledge that when Uday Hussein turned up dead as a result of this unnecessary war, the world instantaneously became a better place—this being a man who tortured soccer players for poor performances and showed up to random wedding parties to kidnap and rape the bride.
All this to say that threats to peace and human dignity exist everywhere. They are not the fabrications of the military-industrial complex, and they require serious discussion and even introspection about how a free society should deal with them.
Our military will be killing a lot more people in the coming decades. Al-Qaeda is the great chimera, a useless all-purpose buzzword boogeyman to describe a much larger, more amorphous problem. Now that the French have invaded Mali to push back insurgent forces everyone is calling them al-Qaeda or "al-Qaeda-affiliated," which is like lumping together me and George Clooney as "Hollywood-affiliated."
Warfare at its most basic is nothing more than a fight over the allocation of resources. Throughout history we've attempted to dress it up in religious or nationalistic clothing (and to be sure, that is always helpful in drawing young men to lay down their lives), but it's always essentially about land or spices or oil or water or opium or trade routes. The modern world has opened up an enormous disparity between the haves and the have-nots, a gulf that is all but unfathomable to most of us who gladly participate in perpetuating it. Western hegemony has created a world of desperate, impoverished, and exploited people, who see many good reasons for fighting back. If you'd grown up in a village with medieval notions of women and sexuality, constant subsistence struggles, and foreign armies shooting your friends and blowing up parts of your town, what would your reaction be? And if there are charismatic characters coming by to tell you that God wants you to help right this wrong?
While it would be preferable to tackle widespread poverty, misogyny, educational deficits, and all the rest rather than attempting to cut the heads off of these ever-renewing threats, we should only expect things to continue this way, if not get worse.
Afghanistan and Pakistan will not be the last cradles of malcontents looking to wage asymmetric warfare on the bright, gleaming target of the United States (or France or the U.K. or Germany, etc.). Climate disruptions alone virtually guarantee that Yemen and Pakistan will run out of water even as floods devastate entire regions. Nigeria, with its endangered agriculture, rural-to-urban migration and endless conflicts over the country's environmentally disastrous oil extraction, will probably face destabilization in the next decade. Crop failures across the Middle East and North Africa will be endemic, desertification will continue, mass movements of refugees will sow chaos, and those are only the things that we can easily predict. There are numerous regions of the world that are environmental and economic tinderboxes just waiting for a match, and they will produce the next crop of religious fundamentalists who will see the best way of reckoning with these problems as blowing up innocent people in the developed world. Even absent American military intervention that radicalizes population, environmental factors will do the work anyway. We will be involved not in a war on terror or a police action against al-Qaeda but a more or less permanent state of unconventional conflict with disparate non-state actors for the foreseeable future.
[Deep breath] Understanding all that, there will not be an American president in the future who will unilaterally give away the ability to kill people with robots, nor will Congress ever attempt to take away that power, and it seems unlikely voters will ever demand it. The question then becomes can we develop a legal framework that regulates the executive's use of targeted drone strikes? War will never again work the way it used to with enormous nation-states lining up carefully demarcated forces, and our laws and norms should adapt to acknowledge this new reality. After 9/11 Congress passed an insanely broad authorization for the use of force that gave the president wide-ranging authority to
use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
That's the legal justification that Obama's DOJ used in targeting American citizens. In other words, there are no limits to presidential power when it comes to pursuing "organizations or persons he determines" could potentially plan a future attack. Could Obama or a President Rubio order a drone strike on me? Sure. Could they order one on a political opponent? According to two successive White House readings of this law, yes.
That's why the problem is not the drones, nor is it killing people who are plotting to blow up airliners over Detroit. The global order as we know it will continue to produce zealots, madmen, and desperate revolutionaries until we start thinking about why this order is broken and how we might fix it. For now, however, it's a problem of a complete lack of transparency and accountability, an abrogation of the fundamental democratic right of due process. The drone program must somehow be reigned in and brought under the rule of law, and until then it will live on as a glaring mark on every president—including those I like—who keeps a kill list in his desk drawer.


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The real Doc Holliday (1851-1887) was a Georgia dentist who, after a long process with much history in between, became a badass of the western U.S. Most notably, Doc Holliday was responsible for the death of Tom McLaury and possibly others in the Gunfight "at" the O.K. Corral. He and Wyatt Earp, along with Earp's brothers Virgil and Morgan, engaged in a thirty second gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona on 10/26/1881. Three men, Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton were killed. The Earps and Holliday left alive, but in ensuing events, Morgan Earp was shot dead, leading to a vendetta by Wyatt Earp. He was joined by Holliday and the two have become legends of the west.
Their story was featured in several movies, including:
Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Holliday died of tuberculosis in Colorado in November, 1887.
Their story was featured in several movies, including:
Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Holliday died of tuberculosis in Colorado in November, 1887.
Doc Holliday was the most badass gunfighter to ever enter the West.
by Holliday February 17, 2006
A internet persona and IRC whore comparable to God himself. A self proclaimed closet geek known for his class, style and amazing good looks.
Doc Holliday makes my pants kersplode with joy.
Doc Holliday is better than you.
Doc Holliday is better than you.
by Anonymous November 04, 2003
When a man takes his spouse on a train ride, ties her up and gags her, and kicks her off the train into a field of angry buffalo while firing a pair of six shooters into the air.
I totally gave that bitch the ol' Doc Holliday. I just wish I was there to see that trampled skank after the buffalo were finished with her.
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Fast fill fountain complete
This new type fountain is very popular in that it can easily be filled to the top water level by using a hose. Whoever is filling the fountain can move around the room and just insert the hose to the top hole and fill to the desired level. This unit is 2 pieces — a pan and a cone. The cone can easily be picked off for cleaning.
Quail grill for P-23 and P-1.5
Photo shows a specially made grill for quail, pheasant or bantam for use with this waterer. All other type larger chicks do not need this grill. The fountain is designed so it can be used for baby chicks all the way thru full-grown poultry.
Grill for P-25
This new plastic 5-gallon fountain is designed very similar to our popular No. P-23 Plastic 3-Gallon fountain. This unit is basically similar in design to the 3-gallon fountain but made much heavier to compensate for the additional weight of the waterer. It also has a center section in the bottom which will screw out enabling you to fill it with water without taking off the base. It also will work with the No. 112 electric heater base and the No. P-STAND round platform stand as described on page 47..
405-B Base
Screw on plastic base only for 455 One Gallon Fount. Packed: 12
Plastic slip-on base for mason jar only
PLASTIC SLIP ON MASON JAR BASE. This unit is non-threaded, has a raised center core and slips inside the neck of the mason jar. It is made of high density polyethylene and unbreakable under normal handling. Packed 3 dz. Shipping Wt. 7 lbs.
1 Gallon chick fountain
The Chick Fount has proven, year in and year out, to be the world's finest chick fount. The complete fount consists of the NO. 455-J plastic jar, constructed out of high density polyethylene, and the NO. 405-B plastic base, constructed out of high impact styrene. The Chick Fount has not only proven to be the most popular of its kind but is also the most durable and versatile.
1 Gallon Plastic Jar
White plastic jar only for 455 One Gallon Chick Fount. Packed: 12
Quail plastic base only
This new plastic base is the first of its type made to fit a wide mouth 1-gallon jar. The drinking area is designed to be non-drowning for quail, pheasant, bantam or any other baby chicks. The very small drinking area does not allow the baby chicks or baby game birds to get in and drown. Being 1-gallon size it is much more convenient than using quart jar bases; in other words, one filling instead of 4. It fits our standard 455-J 1-gallon plastic jar.
1-gal twist-lock fount
This new fount is practically unbreakable. The jar is now ribbed for extra strength as pictured. It is injection molded instead of blow molded for a much smoother inside with no turned-in bottom lip to hold back water and have a buildup of friendly bacteria. The red base attracts birds so they will drink more. The jar has a 7" mouth easy to twist, the base locks and twists instantly. The jar and base are nestable for minimum space in shipping and storage.
Plastic base
Plastic jar
Plastic float valve
The new No. 53-WVA Plastic Float Valve is far improved as it is now made of all plastic to cut down on corrosion and scale buildup, to make the float work far longer at top accuracy. It is sturdy, easy to clean and uses inlet pipe thread 1/2" male x 1/4" female; the valve seat rotates for extended life. The float and arm assembly are molded in high-impact styrene. The valve body is molded Delrin. The whole float unit is non-toxic and non affected by medicine or other additives.
Plastic screw-on base for mason jar only
PLASTIC BASE. This unit is by far the most popular of the mason jar bases. It has a 6" diameter and depth of 1' with a raised center cone. It is threaded and will screw on our P-1-QT Plastic Mason Jar or any standard size mason jar. It is also widely used as a cricket waterer, made of high impact styrene. Shipping Wt. 7 lbs. Packed 36.
Galvanized pan
This heavy-duty 3-gallon watering pan is ideal for watering chickens Manually or by attaching a float valve for automatic watering.
Plastic drown-proof base
PLASTIC DROWN-PROOF BASE. It is ideal for quail, bantam, pheasant or any other small birds in that the drinking space is narrow enough to keep them from getting in the water and drowning. Works very well with our No. P-1-QT Plastic Mason Jar or any other standard threaded mason jar. Packed 36. Shipping Wt. 5 lbs.
5-GALLON PLASTIC FOUNTAIN - 2pk
The newly designed 5-Gallon fountain is directly modeledafter our very popular NO. P-23 Plastic 3-Gallon fountain. Though this unit is very similar to the 3-Gallon fountain, the NO. P-25 5-Gallon fountain is made considerably heavier to compensate for the addition weight of the extra 2 gallons of water. This unit is also equipped with a center plug in the base that allows you to fill the fountain without removing the entire base. This added feature dramatically cuts down on filling time creating additional efficiency to your daily operations. This unit is fully compatible with both the No. 112 electrical heater base and the No. P-STAND round platform stand.
3-Gallon Plastic Fount
is now introducing a new, revolutionary 3-Gallon fountain that is ideal for a variety of uses. This fountain utilizes the twist-lock style of connection which creates a sure-grip environment that completely eliminates leaking. The P-23 Plastic 3-Gallon Fountain is also equipped with a heavy-duty nylon handle allowing the user to safely carry the entire unit from it. Being comprised of plastic, this unit will not rust, rot or corrode. This unit is also very easy to clean and will not develop the strong smelly taste that transpires from metal galvanized models. The NO. P-23 Plastic 3-Gallon Fountain has been specifically designed with no seems to insure a leak-free unit. This is by far the best manual style fountain currently offered on the market today.
Pop bottle fountain with spring - 12 pcs
12 pcs For convenience and economy. This fountain lets you use a common pop bottle hanging on the outside of your bird and small animal cages. The fountain is of smooth plastic, snaps securely on the neck of the bottle and projects through the wire 2 inches inside the cage. A spring is furnished for looping around the bottle to hold it on the cage. Easy to refill, easy to clean.
Quail base complete with 455-J jar
Quail base complete with 455-J plastic 1 gallon jar. Unit utilizes 49-QB drown proof base to protect baby chicks and quail from drowning themselves. One gallon capacity allows for reduced labor costs when compared to quart sized models. Packed: 12
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Plank is a lightweight dock. I tried it out on an old laptop running Xubuntu 12.10 and liked it. Eventually I decided that plank could take the place of individual app launchers and the window buttons plugin on the xfce top panel. So I got rid of those.
Screen space is tight on the laptop. I looked at the blank space in the middle of my top panel, looked at plank taking up space on my screen, and thought, why not have plank share the top of the screen with the top panel? Well, it doesn't work because plank and the top panel both want to be on top. They compete with each other.
I found a workaround. I put a small, transparent panel on each side of the top of the screen, and I have a transparent themed plank in the middle. It works with no conflict, great! Unfortunately the transparency means I have to paint a fake panel at the top of my desktop picture. This makes it difficult to swap desktop pictures, and changing to themes that specify different color panels is not easy either.
I am posting a screen shot of my top panel area so you can see what I mean. If anybody is interested I can post the plank theme and settings I use. It would save a lot of trouble if I could configure the xfce top panel to stay underneath plank. That seems unlikely.
I see someone has written an xfce panel plugin for another dock called DockBar X.
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/dockbarx … lugin.html
An xfce panel plugin for Plank could be the answer I am looking for.
I have learned that there is an existing panel plugin that gives most of the functionality of plank-dock.
This works for me in xfce 4.10, Ubuntu 12.10. I am marking this thread as solved.


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Velocity Solutions needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 83 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
We have been running a radio show here in Australia which is currently called - "The Wild Revolution Radio Show"
It was initially called just "The Revolution Radio Show".
We are now looking at re branding it as "The Radio Revolution" Radio show and looking for a completely NEW and Fresh/exciting logo.
Website and Flash banner artwork requirements will be required once we find the perfect logo.
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- "The Radio Revolution" or "Radio Revolution" Logo RequiredWould like to Incorporate the Original "Revolution Star" in the logo if possible. here is the link:
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Here is a link to an image someone from the Radio Station designed just for a presentation (in case it gives you any creative ideas...
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It is worth noting that the "Radio Revolution" radio show will be aired across Australia on the radio network owned by Macquarie Media.
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I know I have supplied quite a few links above with a fair bit of information but the key things I would like you to remember when designing this new logo are:
(i) This is for a National Radio Show;
(ii) We are attempting to "REVOLUTIONISE" AUSTRALIAN RADIO" - hence "Radio Revolution" ....for example one of the voice overs in our radio show at the beginning of the show says...
"Something is happening to Australian Radio....The Radio Revolution is HERE!"
Note:- Here is an old Flash File from when we first started the radio show 5 years ago. If you can view this flash file and listen carefully to the music and the lyrics you will hear something like what we are trying to start fresh again...Revolutionising Radio and It's about the music and the DJs...
Any questions please email me at email@example.com
- Logo and associated Colours/Fonts for "Radio Revolution"FRESH - EYE CATCHING AND REVOLUTIONARY PLEASE !!
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A condition characterized by small testes with hyalinization of the seminiferous tubules, variable degrees of masculinization, azoospermia and infertility, and increased urinary excretion of gonadotropin. Patients tend to be tall, with long legs, and about half have gybecomastia. It is associated typically with an XXY chromosome complement, although variants include XXYY, XXXY, XXXXY, and several mosaic patterns (XY/XXY, XXY, XXXY, etc.). (Dorland, 27th ed)
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The Alumni Association, Career Services and the Office of Campus Life are hosting the first ever Willamette Career Strategies Boot Camp – March 15th 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM in the Alumni Lounge
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Limited Space: Only 50 spots available and they are likely to fill up fast!
Cost to attendees – The best $20 you'll spend. Covers coffee, lunch and take home materials.
Register at the Career Services office (3rd Floor of the UC) M-F 8:00-5:00.
Registration requirement – Hard copy of your resume
Registration closes March 7th or when all slots have been filled.
The following alumni mentors will be in attendance to help with career coaching:


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thenexttodiePosts: 905Joined: Fri Mar 13, 2015 7:59 pm Gender: Male
Mean friends are the best friends
From Science News
Association for Psychological Science
People may try to make someone else feel negative emotions if they think experiencing those emotions will be beneficial in the long run, according to new research. The findings expand on previous research by revealing that people may sometimes seek to induce negative emotions in others for altruistic reasons, not simply for their own pleasure or benefit.
I can imagine such a study having similar results in the US. It's pretty much common knowledge there that the people who "talk shit" to you (especially at work) are the people who like you the most.
Evidently this study was done somewhere in UK. Since I think many of you are from the UK, I was wondering what you all thought about this.
(I only meet British people when I am vacationing in warmer climate and have always thought of them as being nice, almost to a fault, and are always trying to cheer others up.)
"..the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." Tolstoy
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SparhafocPosts: 2667Joined: Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:48 am
Re: Mean friends are the best friends
thenexttodie wrote:(I only meet British people when I am vacationing in warmer climate and have always thought of them as being nice, almost to a fault, and are always trying to cheer others up.)
They're being polite because they don't know you that well.
With my closest friends, my subculture is purely banter - the most egregious insults, demeaning, mocking, and general no holds barred sarcastic banter - the wittier, and more cutting the better. Drawing oohs and winces from others is basically how you keep score.
Really, only close friends though, and they already know I love them and would be there for them whatever the cost.
"a reprehensible human being"
Beliefs are, by definition, things we don't know to be true.
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Bango SkankPosts: 216Joined: Sun Jun 22, 2014 4:15 amLocation: Finland Gender: Male
Re: Mean friends are the best friends
Some form of reverse psychology at play?
"There are those to whom knowledge is a shield, and those to whom it is a weapon. Neither view is balanced, but one is less unwise."
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Program Micro-controller like Arduino for ws2811 LED's.
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Hello, I'm working on a art project that will use 50 addressable 5050 RGB led's (ws2811's).
I need to hire ($$$) someone to write the program to run on a micro-controller i.e. Arduino.
Each of the 50 Led's will cycle a particular color, for a period of time with a specific brightness and a fast fade on/off, or instantaneous on/off, or a slow fade on/off. The led's will all need to start at different, if not random times within a few seconds at start-up (so they don't blink at the same time).
I would supply the led order and specs:
Led 01 green, 2 seconds on, 2 seconds off, Fast fade on/off, 60% brightness
Led 02 white, 1seconds on, 4 seconds off, slow fade on/off, 100% brightness
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Manchester United striker Federico Macheda has returned to the Barclays Premier League champions from his loan spell at Doncaster to receive treatment for a hamstring injury.
Macheda, who joined Rovers in mid-September on an initial one-month deal, is expected to be out for around three weeks.
Doncaster plan to resurrect the deal once the 22-year-old Italian is fit again.
Macheda has scored three goals in five Sky Bet Championship appearances, including four starts, for Paul Dickov's side.
He marked his first start for Rovers with both goals in a 2-2 home draw with Nottingham Forest and scored the winner at Hillsborough in a 1-0 victory over south Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday, who last month were also keen to sign the former Lazio trainee.