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Dozens of videos were posted on YouTube this year showing a valet at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown St. Louis doing donuts, peeling out, burning out, revving engines and spinning tires in expensive cars. You know, being normal valets.
Someone calling himself "valet underground" posted dozens of videos on YouTube, showing fancy cars being driven to the extreme in a parking garage about six months to a year ago.
The general manager of the Hyatt hotel in downtown St. Louis confirms it happened in his garage and according to the local Fox affiliate, tire marks are still visible on the pavement. He says the Hyatt fired this valet company, which has been identified as AAA Valet, from Atlanta, Gerogia, before he even knew of the video. He says the hotel replaced them with a St. Louis based valet company, and once he saw the video, he called AAA Valet to alert them to their employees' conduct.
Although the videos showing the parking garage antics were removed from YouTube Tuesday night, we've got a compilation of the videos here.
This, by the way, is why we will never hand over our keys to a valet. Ever. [Fox2News]


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On March 22, Pope Francis proved good to his word of several months ago and named the first members of an unprecedented papal commission for child protection.
The eight members are from all over the globe, but four are women and one, Irish lay woman Marie Collins, was also a victim of clergy sexual abuse as a girl in the 1960s. Another notable appointment is Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley, archbishop of Boston.
The pope had announced the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors back in December and tasked it with advising him on the Church's efforts to protect children and offer pastoral care for victims of abuse.
In all, there are three members of the clergy and five laypeople, including the four women. All have impressive reputations in areas such as child psychology, childhood development, law and the care of victims of sexual abuse. Though the members are from eight different countries, seven hail from Europe or the United States, where the crisis has been especially severe. Ireland, in particular, is still coming to grips with the dimensions of the abuse. Pope Francis did not appoint a head of the commission, instead apparently wants to provide the members with their own room for decisions.
In a Vatican press conference announcing the new commission, Vatican spokesman Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, S.J., explained that it is expected to work quickly to set up its final structure, clarify the full scope of its responsibilities and canvass for names of additional candidates, especially from other continents and countries.
Cardinal O'Malley stressed in December that the commission's primary purpose is pastoral, and it will neither interfere with any of the current authority of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that has jurisdiction over the cases of abuse around the world, nor impinge on the obligation of bishops to oversee the protection of children in their respective dioceses. Lombardi added, "the Commission will take a multi-pronged approach to promoting youth protection, including: education regarding the exploitation of children; discipline of offenders; civil and canonical duties and responsibilities; and the development of best practices as they have emerged in society at large."
In defending the authentic record of the Church, Lombardi quoted both of Francis' predecessors, Pope Blessed John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, citing Benedict's address to the Irish bishops in 2006 at which the pontiff recommitted the Church to safeguard minors and "to establish the truth of what happened in the past, to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it from occurring again, to ensure that the principles of justice are fully respected and, above all, to bring healing to the victims and to all those affected by these egregious crimes."
In a recent interview with the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis readily acknowledged the wounds caused by the scandal even as he noted that the abuse of children is widespread all over the world. And, Francis said, the "Church is perhaps the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility. No other has done more. And the Church is the only one to be attacked."
While criticized by some pundits for sounding defensive in the interview, Francis is deeply committed to carrying forward the reforms. Lombardi told reporters, "Pope Francis has made clear that the Church must hold the protection of minors amongst her highest priorities."
The earnestness of the pope is made manifest with his choices for the commission, starting especially with the Dublin-born lay woman Marie Collins, who was herself a victim of sexual abuse and is today an international leader in the effort to protect children and bring justice for survivors. She assisted the Archdiocese of Dublin in setting up its Child Protection Service in 2003, was a founding trustee of an advocacy and counselling support group for abuse survivors and gave her name to the Marie Collins Foundation, a UK charity for helping children who suffer sexual abuse and exploitation via Internet and mobile technologies.
Collins brings the vital perspectives to the commission of a survivor of abuse by the clergy, of the failure of Church authorities to hear properly the voices of victims and the needs of those recovering from the ordeal.
Cardinal O'Malley — already part of the eight-member Council of Cardinals that advises the pope — has a long track record in dealing with the scandal, especially in Boston, and has a strong pastoral touch.
Catherine Bonnet, a French child psychologist, has been a powerful and even prophetic voice in France and across Europe about the effect of sexual abuse and the sexual exploitation of children.
Fr. Humberto Miguel Yáñez, an Argentinian Jesuit, is head of the moral theology department at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has known Francis for many years and even had him as a professor during studies at a Jesuit Argentine college.
Baroness Sheila Hollins, a former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and currently the president of the British Medical Association, was recently named to the House of Lords and is ranked among Britain's foremost specialists in child development and disability issues for children.
Claudio Papale, an Italian lay jurist, is a noted expert in canon (or Church) law and moral offenses and teaches at Rome's Pontifical Urbaniana University.
Hanna Suchocka, prime minister of Poland from 1992-1993 under the presidency of Lech Walesa, is currently Poland's ambassador to the Holy See and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican. She also served as minister of justice and attorney general of Poland and is widely respected in the areas of human rights and international law.
Another Jesuit, German Father Hans Zollner, is academic vice rector of the Gregorian University and head of its Institute of Psychology. He was one of the key figures in organizing a landmark international symposium in early 2012 in Rome focusing on clergy sexual abuse under the title, "Toward Healing and Renewal" and at which Marie Collins was a speaker.
Francis has kept a significant promise to maintain momentum in combatting clergy sexual abuse by filling the first seats of the new commission with serious and credible members. He is also demonstrating a collaborative style and openness to voices from outside the halls of the Vatican, especially those of women. In this new commission, we may be seeing a glimpse of what Francis intends in the full reform of the Roman Curia that is coming later this year.
Matthew Bunson is OSV senior correspondent and co-author of "Pope Benedict XVI and the Sexual Abuse Crisis" (OSV).
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What better way to prepare for the heat we're likely to encounter in France than riding up Page Mill Road when it's 90-95 degrees? Making it especially tough is having Page Mill as the first hill of the day. That's one mean way to start a ride. Page Mill is one of those hills it's really tough to get a rhythm on; that bottom section starting just past the golf course/country club turnoff is just plain ugly, and it's not until you get past Foothill Park that you can really get a handle on it. And that handle is pretty darned slippery, especially between park gates 3 & 4, where it's gut-wrenchingly steep and you're thinking why didn't you go up Old LaHonda instead, an easier grade with lots of shade?
Adding insult to injury is Strava claiming I got a personal best on the climb, at 47 minutes. Umm… no. It wasn't that long ago I did it in 44, and my son probably could have closed in on that time today too, except that he was being relatively-civil and stayed with me all the way up. OK, it seemed like it wasn't that long ago, but since I loaded the last three years worth of data from my Garmin into Strava, maybe it was longer ago than I thought!
We wasted no time heading down West Alpine for another date with Haskins Grade, a climb that Kevin claims to hate but is getting much better at, getting his own personal best today at 9:52 despite not climbing it for time. At least not until the last half mile or so when he noticed his time was pretty good and rode the rest hard. Funny how that works.
I'd like to say it was a fun run out to Pescadero, but not really; the stiff headwind and heat made it pretty tough. The upside? It's rare that a cold Coke tastes as good as it did today!
Heading north on Stage we once again faced a headwind, yet did pretty good times up the two hills, primarily because motivation was provided by rabbits (cyclists ahead of us). Speaking of rabbits, I should have mentioned we had earlier seen a rabbit the size of a small deer as we rode Arastradero between Alpine and Page Mill. It was seriously huge!
The lower and middle sections of Page Mill proved to be Kevin's undoing; we'd normally climb Tunitas in 45 minutes or so, but he was barely able to turn the pedals for a while. He can out-climb me dramatically on the first couple big hills of the day, but eventually he wears out and I keep on going. He did a miraculous recovery when the steep stuff ended though, charging the rest of the way at a pretty respectable pace.
In the end a tough ride with the unexpectedly-high temps causing a pretty significant weight loss (6.5 pounds for me) due to not drinking enough, even though I tried. Maybe I did drink enough and I burned 6.5 pounds of fat? Don't I wish!


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Rudolf Carnap, (born May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf, Germany—died September 14, 1970, Santa Monica, California, U.S.), German-born American philosopher of logical positivism. He made important contributions to logic, the analysis of language, the theory of probability, and the philosophy of science.
From 1910 to 1914 Carnap studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy at the Universities of Jena and Freiburg im Breisgau. At Jena he attended the lectures of Gottlob Frege, subsequently acknowledged as the greatest logician of the 19th century. Frege's ideas exerted a deep influence on Carnap.
After serving in World War I, Carnap earned a doctorate in 1921 at Jena with a dissertation on the concept of space. He argued that the conflicts between the various theories of space then held by scholars resulted from the fact that those theories actually dealt with quite different subjects; he called them, respectively, formal space, physical space, and intuitive space and exhibited their principal characteristics and fundamental differences.
For several years afterward Carnap was engaged in private research in logic and the foundations of physics and wrote a number of essays on problems of space, time, and causality, as well as a textbook, Abriss der Logistik, (1929) in symbolic, or mathematical, logic (see formal logic).
Career in Vienna and Prague
In 1926 Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle—a small group of philosophers, mathematicians, and other scholars who met regularly to discuss philosophical issues—invited Carnap to join the faculty of the University of Vienna, where he soon became an influential member of the Circle. Out of their discussions developed the initial ideas of logical positivism, or logical empiricism. This school of thought shared its basic empiricist orientation with David Hume, an 18th-century Scottish philosopher, and Ernst Mach, an Austrian physicist and philosopher. Its leading members, informed and inspired by the methods and theories of contemporary mathematics and science, sought to develop a "scientific world view" by bringing to philosophical inquiry the precision and rigour of the exact sciences. As one means to this end, Carnap made extensive use of the concepts and techniques of symbolic logic in preference to the often inadequate analytic devices of traditional logic.
Carnap and his associates established close connections with like-minded scholars in other countries, among them a group of empiricists that had formed in Berlin under the leadership of Hans Reichenbach, an eminent philosopher of science. With Reichenbach, Carnap founded a periodical, Erkenntnis (1930–39; refounded 1975), as a forum for the new "scientific philosophy."
The basic thesis of empiricism, in a familiar but quite vague formulation, is that all concepts and beliefs concerning the world ultimately derive from immediate experience. In some of his most important writings, Carnap sought, in effect, to give this idea a clear and precise interpretation. Setting aside, as a psychological rather than a philosophical problem, the question of how human beings arrive at their ideas about the world, he proceeded to construe empiricism as a systematic-logical thesis about the evidential grounding of empirical knowledge. To this end, he gave the issue a characteristically linguistic turn by asking how the terms and sentences that, in scientific or in everyday language, serve to express assertions about the world are related to those terms and sentences by which the data of immediate experience can be described. The empiricist thesis, as construed and defended by Carnap, then asserts that the terms and sentences of the first kind are "reducible" to those of the second kind in a clearly specifiable sense. Carnap's conception of the relevant sense of reducibility, which he always stated in precise logical terms, was initially rather narrow but gradually became more liberal.
In his first great work, Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928; The Logical Structure of the World), Carnap developed, with unprecedented rigour, a version of the empiricist reducibility thesis according to which all terms suited to describe actual or possible empirical facts are fully definable by terms referring exclusively to aspects of immediate experience, so that all empirical statements are fully translatable into statements about immediate experiences.
Prompted by discussions with his associates in Vienna, Carnap soon began to develop a more liberal version of empiricism, which he elaborated while he was professor of natural philosophy at the German University in Prague (1931–35); he eventually presented it in full detail in his essay "Testability and Meaning" (1936–37). Carnap argued that the terms of empirical science are not fully definable in purely experiential terms but can at least be partly defined by means of "reduction sentences," which are logically much-refined versions of operational definitions, and "observation sentences," whose truth can be checked by direct observation. Carnap stressed that usually such tests cannot provide strict proof or disproof but only more or less strong "confirmation" for an empirical statement.
Sentences that do not thus yield observational implications and therefore cannot possibly be tested and confirmed by observational findings were said to be empirically meaningless. By reference to this testability criterion of empirical significance, Carnap and other logical empiricists rejected various doctrines of speculative metaphysics and of theology, not as being false but as making no significant assertions at all.
Carnap argued that the observational statements by reference to which empirical statements can be tested may be construed as sentences describing directly and publicly observable aspects of physical objects, such as the needle of a measuring instrument turning to a particular point on the scale or a subject in a psychological test showing a change in pulse rate. All such sentences, he noted, can be formulated in terms that are part of the vocabulary of physics. This was the basic idea of his "physicalism," according to which all terms and statements of empirical science—from the physical to the social and historical disciplines—can be reduced to terms and statements in the language of physics.
In later writings, Carnap liberalized his conception of reducibility and of empirical significance even further so as to give a more adequate account of the relation between scientific theories and scientific evidence.
Career in the United States
In 1935 Carnap moved to the United States. Although he was not Jewish, he had been vulnerable to persecution by the Nazis for his social-democratic political beliefs. From 1936 to 1952 he served on the faculty of the University of Chicago. During the 1940–41 academic year, Carnap was a visiting professor at Harvard University and was an active participant in a discussion group that included Bertrand Russell, Alfred Tarski, and W.V.O. Quine.
Soon after going to Chicago, Carnap joined with the sociologist Otto Neurath, a former fellow member of the Vienna Circle, and with an academic colleague, the pragmatist philosopher Charles W. Morris, in founding the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, which was published, beginning in 1938, as a series of monographs on general problems in the philosophy of science and on philosophical issues concerning mathematics or particular branches of empirical science.
Since his Vienna years, Carnap had been much concerned also with problems in logic and in the philosophy of language. He held that philosophical perplexities often arise from a misunderstanding or misuse of language and that the way to resolve them is by "logical analysis of language." On this point, he agreed with the "ordinary language" school of analytic philosophy, which had its origins in England. He differed from it, however, in insisting that more technical issues—e.g., those in the philosophy of science or of mathematics—cannot be adequately dealt with by considerations of ordinary linguistic usage but require clarification by reference to artificially constructed languages that are formulated in logical symbolism and that have their structure and interpretation precisely specified by so-called syntactic and semantic rules. Carnap developed these ideas and the theoretical apparatus for their implementation in a series of works, including Logische Syntax der Sprache (1934; The Logical Syntax of Language) and Meaning and Necessity (1947). Carnap's interest in artificial languages included advocacy of international auxiliary languages such as Esperanto and Interlingua to facilitate scholarly communication and to further international understanding.
One idea in logic and the theory of knowledge that occupied much of Carnap's attention was that of analyticity. In contrast to the 19th-century radical empiricism of John Stuart Mill, Carnap and other logical empiricists held that the statements of logic and mathematics, unlike those of empirical science, are analytic—i.e., true solely by virtue of the meanings of their constituent terms—and that they can therefore be established a priori (without any empirical test). Carnap repeatedly returned to the task of formulating a precise characterization and theory of analyticity. His ideas were met with skepticism by some, however—among them Quine, who argued that the notion of analytic truth is inherently obscure and the attempt to delimit a class of statements that are true a priori should be abandoned as misguided.
From about 1945 onward, Carnap turned his efforts increasingly to problems of inductive reasoning and of rational belief and decision. His principal aim was to construct a formal system of inductive logic; its central concept, corresponding to that of deductive implication, would be that of probabilistic implication—or, more precisely, a concept representing the degree of rational credibility or of probability that a given body of evidence may be said to confer upon a proposed hypothesis. Carnap presented a rigorous theory of this kind in his Logical Foundations of Probability (1950).
Carnap spent the years from 1952 to 1954 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he continued his work in probability theory. Subsequently, he accepted a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles. During those years and indeed until his death, Carnap was occupied principally with modifications and considerable extensions of his inductive logic.Carl G. Hempel


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My Objective:
1. Host website on a wireless lan. Specifically a authorization/identification page.
2. Force connection to this site from inside the network.
My Tools:
Latest win distro of Apache web server.
Linksys WRT54G wireless router
What I've tried:
Setup the website just fine. Assinged it to 192.168.1.100:8080. Then I configured my router to port foward all connections besides my own to the address. (sloppy i know, but i wanted to check it real quick) Jumped on a buddy's computer, and it didnt work. After lurking the net for some help I figured out that my port forwarding AND loopback function did not work on my router. Turns out that my firmware had a huge bug in it. I came across a rather interesting story about crazy programmer,Sveasoft, harassing a website owner for posting firmware code that is under GPL.
I know that I am not expirenced enough to be going around flashing firmware here and there, but I will not rule out this option completely. I do not believe I will be able to accomplish my objective with just my router.
I can only think of one possible way to get this to work. I can create and host my own DNS server, and point my router to it. This I am not too froggy about, considering that the webserver was more than I have ever done before. However, I will do what is necessary to achieve my goal.
My Question:
Is there a easier way to do this? I certainly would like to know before becoming my own little ISP eheh.


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As Patrolman T.E. Parsons prepared the machine, Cruz scooted his chair toward Parsons, lifted his leg and "passed gas loudly," the complaint said. Cruz, according to complaint, then fanned the gas toward the officer.
"The gas was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature with Patrolman Parsons," the complaint alleged. He was also charged with driving under the influence, driving without headlights and two counts of obstruction.
Cruz acknowledged passing gas, but said he didn't move his chair toward the officer nor aim gas at the patrolman. He said he had an upset stomach at the time, but police denied his request to go to the bathroom when he first arrived at the station. "I couldn't hold it no more," he said.
He also denied being drunk and uncooperative as the police complaint alleged. He added he was upset at being prepared for a breathalyzer test while having an asthma attack.
The police statement said he later resisted being secured for a trip to a hospital that he requested for asthma treatment.
Cruz said the officers thought the gas incident was funny when it happened and laughed about it with him.
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Just ten days shy of the big day, The Game has called off his wedding with his longtime girlfriend and baby's mother Tiffany Cambridge. They were planning on having their wedding broadcast as a reality TV type of event, and The Game has allegedly already spent around $500,000 on the wedding preparations. Yesterday, July 18th, The Game and Tiffany updated their website with the message that read:
"We regret to inform you that the wedding of Tiffany Cambridge & Jayceon Taylor has been cancelled."
Apparently they just didn't get along. This isn't the first time Game has cancelled a wedding however. Back in 2006 he proposed to Valiesha Butterfield but called off their scheduled March of 2007 wedding as well. The Game tweeted a few short statements regarding the recent wedding cancellation after they announced the news.
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The Occupy Wall Street protests have started a national conversation about how capitalism should work – or if it can work at all. But for all the talk about the problems with our financial system, it seems like few workable solutions have emerged. After several large bank bailouts, many people feel powerless. But others are taking action to get that power back.
CHARLIE MINTZ: Can you tell me what you're doing?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I'm painting a giant foreclosure sign that we're going to be putting up on the big banks throughout San Francisco to symbolically close them. Move your money.
KALW's Charlie Mintz recently talked with some San Franciscans about this very issue. Mintz was in Justin Herman Plaza on November 5 – what was called "Bank Transfer Day," an online campaign to remove money from corporate banks and open accounts at credit unions.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I did it yesterday. My sense of the influence of money in government and power, and all the issues of who is controlling the means.
According to a survey by the Credit Union National Association, 650,000 people moved their money in the four weeks leading up to Bank Transfer Day, moving an estimated four-and-a-half billion dollars. The American Bankers Association contests those figures, and no one will know for sure until official numbers are released in February. But there's no doubt many people are making the switch.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Jesus kicked the moneylenders out of the temple for doing what our banks do. And he wasn't particularly peaceful about it. As I like to say, we are being more peaceful than Jesus. We need to get bankers the hell out of running our country.
So what will the impact of this exodus be? Charlie Mintz has some answers.
CHARLIE MINTZ: To understand the impact of Bank Transfer Day, you need to know some things about banks, and you need to know some things about credit unions. So I talked to someone who knows about both.
DARREL DUFFIE: My name is Darrell Duffie.
Duffie's a professor of economics at Stanford, and he can tell us a lot about the big banks.
DUFFIE: They are darned big...
Darned big.
DUFFIE: They can be up to 2 trillion or so of loans in their portfolio, which is enormous.
All together the four largest banks – Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, CitiBank, and Bank of America – have about seven trillion dollars in loans on their balance sheet. That's roughly half the size of the national GDP.
Now let's compare that to the size of credit unions.
DUFFIE: Well, credit unions are essentially small banks that have a limited set of things that they do.
Because they're non-profit, credit unions are exempt from income taxes. Banks argue that gives them an unfair competitive advantage. So In response, Congress has limited the amount credit unions can lend out, to just 12.5% of their assets.
DUFFIE: More or less they're limited to simple retail deposit taking: loans for homes, cars and small businesses.
Banks have no such requirement. They can lend out as much as they want, provided they keep 10% of their deposits on reserve. So in theory, they can keep growing indefinitely. Meanwhile, the credit unions' loan cap keeps them small – and makes it harder for them to hold their own.
JAMES KAHN: What we have in the U.S. is kind of a two-tiered system where we have a number of very large banks…
That's James Kahn, a Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University in New York.
KAHN: The large banks have been getting bigger, and the small banks have been disappearing or getting absorbed into larger institutions.
Kahn's talking small, for-profit banks, but the same thing can happen to credit unions. Our four biggest banks hold more than four trillion dollars in deposits. That's 44% of all the deposits in the country.
Meanwhile, the 7,400 credit unions? They've got around than $1 trillion in deposits – less than 10% of the country's deposits. So even when people move about five billion dollars out of big banks and into credit unions, Stanford's Darrel Duffie says it probably doesn't much matter.
DUFFIE: Five billion dollars is an enormous amount of money for you or me, but for the large banks, it's not something they would like to see happen, it's not going to take them down.
This isn't just Duffie's opinion – every economist I spoke with was in agreement on this issue. The big banks just control too much of the country's total deposits.
KAHN: The too big to fail is still an issue.
Economist James Kahn says, even a few million people moving their money wouldn't make much of a difference.
KAHN: That's gonna require more of a political solution.
So deposits – especially relatively small ones – aren't really that important to these banks. In fact, they might not even want them.
DUFFIE: It happens we're at a time right now when the large banks actually don't have as much benefit as they did in the past of having a lot of deposits because they're flush with cash.
Banks are flush with cash for two reasons. One is that the federal government stepped in big time during the 2008 financial crisis. The Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP, basically bought bad assets directly from the banks, to the tune of around $700 billion.
On top of that, the Federal Reserve pumped trillions of additional dollars into the banks. This helped them stay in business, but it didn't do anything for their second problem: lack of demand.
KAHN: The money's just sitting there.
James Kahn says banks used to earn profits by paying a certain amount to borrow money from customers, then loaning it back out at higher interest rates.
KAHN: In the boom years of the '90s or even first years of last decade the money was going out as fast as it came in.
Two factors have dried up loans. One, the recession has meant businesses are asking for fewer loans. Two, after days of easy lending leading up to the financial crisis, banks are being stricter with who they loan money to, so since they're no longer using those deposits, the big banks are okay letting small customers go.
KAHN: For smaller deposits, the larger institutions don't even care that much, because they tend to make more money on the larger deposits anyway. It's kind of win-win because the larger institutions don't really value them that much.
A win-win – except for one wrinkle. While it's true that small deposits are generally unprofitable for banks, those accounts make the banks money in other ways:
REBECCA BORNE: Fees.
Rebecca Borne is an analyst at the Center for Responsible Lending, a national bank watchdog group.
BORNE: Fees play a significant role in the profitability of banks. And they've really played an increasing role over the last several years, as banks have been squeezed more on interest rate spreads.
The spread is the difference between what banks pay for money, and what they charge to loan it out – with interest rates at historic lows.
BORNE: Over the last decade or so…
– banks increasingly rely on fees.
BORNE: …back-end, what we call back-end, or hidden fees that tend to be not transparent, and tend to have a significant disproportionate impact on checking account customers who are most struggling financially.
In 2009 the Federal Reserve changed the rules on overdraft fees, so now customers have to opt in. This was supposed to hurt bank revenue, but it's not clear yet if that's happening: data from the Sunlight Foundation shows it has. Revenues from fees are actually down from 2009. To compensate, the banks have tried introducing other fees. But that hasn't gone over so well.
The five dollar debit fee initially proposed by Bank of America, for example, is dead in the water. Just over a month ago, it was proposed by the bank and met with the ire of everyone arranging with consumer groups, congressmen, even President Obama.
Both Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase are abandoning their plans for the $5 debit fee. Yesterday, Sun Trust and Regents Bank announced that they too would be giving up the fee.
One last reason the big banks might actually care about their masses of departing customers: publicity. There was an economic reality behind the bailouts: The big banks controlled too much money to just collapse. But there was a political reality too. Banks like Bank of America and Wells Fargo used to have an image as America's banks. That's starting to change, and with every switch to a credit union, it changes a little more.
For Crosscurrents, I'm Charlie Mintz.
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I still leave the lines connected to the kite. Its a pain if you have one bar for two or more kites, but if its one on one it makes life simpler.
How many kiters with fifth lines get tangles after unwinding
Reunite gear with owners here.
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When I was a Blade flyer(or as Leo would say " from a Blade Pilot's point of view...") the linew were always attached and rarely got tangled. I am almost in aggreeance with you(thats a real word, just not spelled right)that leaving the lines attached is the way to go but because the kite has to be rolled up so carefully-like packing a parachute, it is not that much of a time saver. I will try it again now that I am more proficient in knowing which way to untangle the lines from the bar end. Maybe they can make the lines inflatable too so when you pump the kite the lines pop out from the kite!
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While I was working out on my hike yesterday, I was heading home when I stumbled across this little guy. I wonder if these are more useful than a club to prevent your car from getting stolen??
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But legendary is a valid -- maybe the best -- description for Creedon, who died July 3, leaving behind a legacy that may never again be matched.
A giant of a man with a heart to match, Creedon was a close friend to many. If you picked up a Camera sports section during his reign, he was your friend, too. He loved Boulder, he loved his profession and he loved people -- and he dedicated a huge portion of his life to all those things.
Creedon built a dynasty in Boulder, a sports section that was annually deemed one of the top 10 in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He hired some of the best young writers and editors to be found, and while the names changed over the years, the one constant was Creedon, the man upon whom Boulder depended for a quality product.
He always delivered. From the day he was hired as a young reporter in 1962 to the day he retired in 2001, Creedon gave the small city of Boulder a major league sports section.
The Camera covered Super Bowls, bowl games, NCAA championships, NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs, the Tour de France and the Olympics. The Camera's sports section was known and respected by newspaper editors across the nation, many of whom tried -- unsuccessfully -- to hire Creedon.
But while many will remember the Camera as a major league paper, Creedon never let his reporters forget that the paper's backbone was the community.
That kind of attention to the community didn't go unnoticed or unappreciated.
Bobby Anderson, a homegrown Boulder kid who went on to All-American fame at Colorado and first-round NFL draft status, remembered earlier this week what Creedon meant to youngsters in Boulder County.
"Dan made us feel special, created drama and added importance to everything we did on the field," Anderson wrote in an email to CUsports information director Dave Plati. "He was very complimentary and wrote in such a way that inspired me to be better and do better.
"As an athlete you wanted to be written about by Dan Creedon."
Generations of youngsters in Boulder grew up with the same goal and same appreciation.
Creedon's sources were unmatched. He knew coaches, administrators and front office personnel in every sport at virtually every level. Equally important, they knew and respected him. They knew he was a journalist who could be trusted, and they took him into their confidence.
They trusted Creedon for a very simple reason: he was a man of conviction. A man of rock-solid ethics and unwavering integrity, and a man that never -- ever -- compromised any of those qualities. He believed journalists had a responsibility to serve as the eyes and ears of a community, and the only way to fulfill that duty was to do it with honesty, dedication and discipline.
He never wavered from that belief.
Today, there are dozens of his protégés still working around the nation. I'm proud to say I'm one of them. He was tough and demanding (think Vince Lombardi with a Diet Pepsi), and the best boss and best friend anyone could ever ask for.
It's a term thrown around loosely these days, attached to far too many people who have simply enjoyed a little success.
Creedon never worried about such things. His ego was not wired for personal accolades. He simply wanted to give his friends the best sports section possible, a goal he accomplished many times over.
Today, his friends will gather to send him home. We'll tell Creedon stories, we'll laugh at the memories and shed some tears. We'll remember all the attributes that made him a special man, and we'll wish he could be with us one more time.
But deep down inside, I know this: wherever Creedon is today, he'll read this column. He'll wish he could have "taken a look" before it was published, because there are some changes he would have made.
I hope that's the case. I hope he's gotten this far, because on behalf of all his friends everywhere, I want to add one more thing:
Thanks, Dan. It was an honor and a privilege.


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Here at CES we got a chance to sit down for a roundtable discussion with Samsung's designers to talk about the look, feel, and process of the brand new Series 9 ultrabook. The brand new design, which comes in 13-inch and 15-inch models, has a super-slim body (only .5 inches thick), a 128GB SSD harddrive, an Intel Core i5 2467M processor, 4GB of memory, and a 1600×900 resolution screen, among other things. Packing all of those features into a super slim body that weighs under two pounds is a feat of both engineering and design. Senior Designer Junghwan Hong and Principal Designer Sangwon Yoon were on hand to discuss the challenges and accomplishments of the 12-month design process.
The new second generation of the Series 9 ultrabook put the focus for the designers on the slim form factor and the precision of each and every component. The new model made the switch from duralumin to aluminum, which makes the notebook extremely strong despite its slim profile. Designer Junghwan Hong said that the design of the original Series 9 was inspired by paper, which is light, thin, and easy to hold. The clean lines of the new model keep that inspiration in mind. The designers wanted to make it as solid and strong as possible while maintaining the extreme thinness. "I went to the factory every week in Korea," said Hong. "I really wanted to make it as perfect and precise as possible."
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The large Samsung brand, which manufactures many different components, made the ultra-sleek design possible; "Every single component is customized," said Hong. Almost every part imaginable had to shrink in size to fit into the notebook. Even getting the LCD screen to be as thin as possible was a struggle of engineering and design. In only 12 months, Samsung put 24,000 hours of research and development and 9,000 hours of design into the Series 9 ultrabook.
According to Hong, the company was going for a "premium" look with the new Mineral Ash Black color scheme and the "sandblasted" finish that gives a subtle metallic look and is helpful in avoiding too many fingerprints. The sides of the notebook are a double-anodized shiny silver, which is a simple design element that keeps the look fresh. "In order to make it look slim, we highlight this shape," said Hong, who was a main designer on the project. When talking about the company's design philosophy, Hong explained that they work off of the acronym STAR, which stands for simple, thoughtful, authentic, and remarkable. "Simple is always better."
Despite the skinny form factor, the designers (with the help or hindrance of the engineers, depending on your outlook) managed to pack many important features into the design. The notebook has two USB ports (one 2.0 and one 3.0) on either side, an SD card reader that was built into the bottom of the chassis (but is accessible from the top), and a full keyboard that is backlit in a unique bluish white.
Based on response from consumers, Samsung eliminated the 11.6-inch model and is now offering only 13 and 15-inch models. While we only got our hands on the 13-inch model, the 15-incher is unique because it is built on the chassis of a 14-inch notebook. The screen size accounts for the 15-inch descriptor, thanks to an ultra-slim bezel by Samsung, but the notebook itself has the same footprint as a typical 14-inch notebook.
The designers rightly emphasized that the look and feel of the product was important to them, down to the packaging that the Series 9 comes in, the wallpaper that appears on the screen, and even the dongles that come with the notebook. "Every single product for the series 9 has been touched by designers," said Hong. It shows; the Series 9 itself is no doubt a feat of design, and very little has been compromised in the way of necessary functionality, making it a success in the eyes of designers and consumers.
Samsung plans to release the new design on February 27. The 13-inch model will cost $1,400 and the 15-inch model will set you back $1,500.


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Selma: Good Sunday morning alt
alt: Hello Selma, how yo feeling today?
Selma: Feeling pretty good and you? Are you getting ready for the BIG game
alt: yep, bout 3:00 PM I'll put on my 'game face'. LOL
Selma: LOL
alt: and I think I'm pulling for the Ravens.
Selma: I thought the game was not until 7 or 8 PM, what are you going to do for 4 hours
alt: get in the mood LOL
Selma: LOL
alt: been looking at the 'new' records on familysearch.... WOW!!! it is are amazing what they are getting up online.
Selma: Isn't that their plan..to put all these records out. It is hard to keep up
alt: I'm seeing a lot of documents that I got years ago from different courthouses.
Selma: If they continue to put them out there..doesn't it make Ancestry less profitable?
alt: and I like their new search feature for TYPE of record
Selma: Sure makes it easier for us
alt: could be, at least the will make Ancestry step-up and put more records online and also to improve their search features. a cousin who went to Edgecombe County NC last summer and got the complete Will for my Kelly Dickens, she hadn't shared a copy with me as yet. Well, the complete Will is now online with FamilySearch. Sent her an email letting her know she didin't have to bother now to send me a copy. LOL LOL
Selma: Article in current NGS Journal on Black Slavery Emancipaiton Research in the Northern States
alt: is it online?
Selma: Wow..alt that is great re: The will by a James W. Perry, AG, CG
alt: is it about when slavery was still legal in the North? or manumission papers filed in northern states by formerly enslaved people?
Selma: Good overview of the laws in the states as they relate to Emancipation and records that are generated..also mentions Ohio The Ordinace of 1789 established the NW Territory & banning slavery..etc..
alt: right, on the NW Ordinance ... sounds like a good article.
Selma: Yet all of the states in the Territory except Wisconsin, adopted Black Laws. The NW territory wasn't just anti - slave..it was also anti-black In 1804 Ohio put laws into effect forbidding negroes, slave or free, from crossing without papers..
alt: very much so on the anti-black.... Ohio became a State in 1803 & passed the Ohio Black Codes almost iimmediately (1804) I have my freedom registration papers for several of my AA ancestors in Ohio dating as early as 1816,
Selma: Knowing the laws of the states you research are a must..laws generate documents..but you know that already
alt: and I have some records of ancestors fight the Black Codes which were reperaled in 1849. fighting they say a 'bond' had to be posted for Blacks entering Ohio.... however, I have yet to ever find any record of a Bond being posted in any of the 20+ Ohio counties that I have researched. not saying they aren't there.... just that I haven't seen any.
Selma: Well if anyone is going to find them it will be you.. LOL
alt: I don't know Selma... health is not allowing me to do much onsite researching any longer. thank God for the Internet and what is becoming available.
Selma: Understand alt
alt: would you like a copy of a newsletter from the Multcultural Genealogy Center of Ohio to read.. if so I can send you a PDF file. they are an interesting group
Selma: Oh sure..I like reading stuff.. Where is the Multicultural Genealogy Center
alt: these are folks from southeastern Ohio and part of the tri-racial groups.
Selma: Ummm
alt: Newsletter is on the way. this group has some very good researchers and are hooked into the Diversity programs at Ohio Univ. located in Athens, Ohio. Hmmn, got an email from Vicky, says she can't get into the Chat. You still there Selma?
Selma: Sorry got a phone call
alt: Okay.
Selma: Oh ok...re: vicky
deannie: Morning Alt and Sema
alt: Hello deannie... how are you doing in chilly Chicago today?
Selma: Afternoon deannie
deannie: Chilly fine and you Alt....how you doing Selma I going out today....it snowed yesterday about an inch but that will not keep a die hard Chic Town down....
Selma: We had 1 to 3 inches here last week..and folks paniced
alt: I was having printer trouble and was thinking of getting a newer printer (clogged printer heads).... went to an Internet site and found procedures and a product that solved my problem for 9.95 ..... Works like new and I saved some bucks, whew!! I hear ya deannie 1 inch ain't nothing for a midwestener.
deannie: If you can died people on the internet you can find any thing lol
alt: yep deannie... I just typed in 'clogged printer heads' and a bunch of stuff came up LOL
Selma: LOL
deannie: Will have to make it short....my sister said she was leaving at 12:00 I going with her but she ready now....I chat you all tomorrow....
alt: have a good one deannie
Selma: Have a good day
deannie: you too
alt: daughter & son-in-law just called an invited us over for a combo party ... Super Bowl & Birthday.... today is his and one of their daughter's birthday.
Selma: Well go get your game face on alt...and celebrate
alt: Had ro sen my best wishes.... too cold for this 'old man' to go out in this weather today had to send
Selma: Oh..I thought you were going to say you were going.. LOL
alt: Anita would have to put a pistol on me for me to go out today LOL LOL LOL
Selma: LOL Alt..gotta run... You have a good day...
alt: bye
Selma: Bye


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The best living symbol of horse racing's Holy Grail was on the phone this week, keeping the hope and vision alive.
In 1978, Steve Cauthen was to the American sports scene what Jordan Spieth is now. He was a bright, new athletic face, destined for magazine covers and history books.
At age 21, Spieth won the Masters. Not unthinkable, but certainly amazing.
At age 18, Cauthen won the Triple Crown. More unthinkable and more amazing.
Cauthen is 54 now and his calling is quite different than that of Spieth, who will probably win the Masters again and who can rely on dozens in his sport to be spokesmen for golf's great moments.
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Selkirk Grace:
Some hae meat and cannot eat.
Some cannot eat that want it:
But we hae meat and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
Scots - whether real or adopted or simply fans of all things Scottish - all around the world are celebrating the 252nd birth anniversary of their beloved Bard, Robert Burns tonight. A proper Burns Supper includes, of course, a Selkirk Grace (see above) and a haggis & neeps & tatties and an Address to a Haggis and a Toast to the Lassies and several other must-haves - and during my seven years in Edinburgh I had a pleasure of attending several Burns Suppers, some ticking all the right boxes. Lovely memories indeed...
Now, back in Estonia, I must settle for a slightly more low-profile celebration. I cannot get my favourite haggis here, and at this point of time (just 10 days after the birth of our second child), I'm in no shape to make my own :) I might make a cock-a-leekie soup for supper, and finish the meal with a lovely glass of cranachan (going easy on whisky this year, of course).
Cranachan is one of the most popular Scottish puds - and the ingredients - whisky, oats and raspberries - are all excellent in Scotland. You may have encountered this dessert under other names - Cream Crowdie (containing some soft cheese 'crowdie') or Tipsy Oats, for instance. Raspberries are an important component of Cranachan, suggesting that originally this dessert was served during the height of summer, when raspberries are in season. However, it's now served often during Hogmanay (the Scottish new year's celebrations) and during the Burns Supper (but then raspberries freeze rather nicely).
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Serves up to six
100 g medium ground or pinhead oatmeal (rolled oats, if these are easier to get hold of)
3 Tbsp Scotch whisky (I love a smokey whisky here)
400 ml whipping cream
100 g caster sugar (or less, to taste)
300-400 g raspberries
Put the oatmeal or oats on a heavy non-stick frying pan and toast slightly over a medium heat (stir regularly to avoid burning!)*. Take off the heat, drizzle the whisky over the oatmeal and stir to combine. Let stand and cool.
Whisk the cream and sugar until soft peaks form. Stir in the whisky-infused oatmeal and divide between dessert glasses.
Top with plenty of raspberries.
Place into the fridge for about 30 minutes before serving, so the flavours could mingle and develop.
Then serve and enjoy!
* If you want a crunchier pudding, then toast some of the sugar alongside the oats - this gives you a more caramelised oat mixture.
* If you want a crunchier pudding, then toast some of the sugar alongside the oats - this gives you a more caramelised oat mixture.


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J. Sesso needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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BBi, BlackBook Industries
We are a hardware and software technology company bringing digital games and media to the older gamer crowd that remembers having a little blackbook for phone numbers and for remembering important pieces of information about their dates. We liked the company name: BlackBook Industries because it sounded dark, almost like a company that could be found in Gotham City with Batman!
Our target audience is primarily adult men 21 - 35+ years old, who think they are "players" in games and in life, and our secondary audience is women of the same age, so we are sensitive to their needs as well.
We are looking for a logo to use that will provide a large corporate image.
The logo can include the entire name, or an abbreviation of the name (BBi for example); or just "BlackBook" as another example.
A few logos we have liked have had a star in them, over the i in BBi; Stars were used as a rating system in the little blackbooks, so it is a relevant item. 4 or 5 stars meant the date was very good.
Another logo we liked had used blackbooks stacked up like a city landscape in the background with a moon indicating nighttime, and the words BlackBook Industries in the foreground.
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The City of Lincoln is interested in acquiring property in the Stevens Creek watershed for a regional park that could potentially be co-located with other facilities in the future. Acquisition of land for a future regional park is included as a strategy in the City-County Comprehensive Plan. In the past, park sites have been coordinated with schools, libraries and recreation facilities.
The potential Stevens Creek land purchase is "replacement property" that will enable future redevelopment of public property at 21st and "N" street. The property proposed to be redeveloped was part of an area where Federal Land and Water Conservation Funds were used to develop outdoor public recreation facilities. This Federal grant program requires that any land sold at a location where grant funds were used must be replaced on a value-for-value basis. The Parks and Recreation forestry and maintenance shops at that site will be relocated.
Desired qualities of the land to be acquired include the following:
The City-County Planning Department will send letters to property owners in a portion of the Stevens Creek watershed to inquire about potential joint use sites. Those interested in having their land considered for purchase are asked to submit a letter of interest that describes how the land meets the desired qualities and specifications. The letter should include the Parcel Identification Number(s) used by the Lancaster County Assessor's office. Letters of interest must be postmarked on or before March 31, 2012 and should be sent to Nicole Fleck-Tooze, Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Department, 555 S. 10th St., Suite 212, Lincoln, NE; 68508.
Letters of interest will be reviewed by a committee that will include representatives of the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, the City Parks and Recreation Department, the City-County Planning Department, and the City Urban Development Department. The purchase price will be established by fair market value of the land as determined by a mutually accepted independent appraiser.
The purchase must be approved by the Lincoln City Council, and also the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the National Park Service because of conditions associated with Federal grant funds that were used in development of a portion of the site that is being replaced. The purchase of the land is expected to be finalized by the end of 2012.


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Back to Washington Taking Command of the Continental Army
Minutes of a conference, held by the delegates of the honble Continental Congress with General Washington, 18-22 October 1775
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of the honble Continental Congress with
General Washington
October 18th 1775
Minutes of a Conference of the Delegates of the
The credentials of the several Members of this Conference
The President of the provincial
his Place accordingly.
The Members of the Conference then
First -- To cause proper Methods to be taken for conti
Resolved, that it is the opinion of the Mem
The third Instruction was then read by Paragraphs,
The Committee, having been informed, that
2d What should be the Pay of the Officers & Privates; that of some
That of the Privates: unanimously agreed, cannot
October 19th 1775.
The Members of the Committee to confer with General
Present, as yesterday.
Matthew Thornton Esqr,
President of the
New Hampshire
1. It was proposed for consideration, what Number each
Agreed unanimously, that each Regiment consist of
2. Of what Kind and Quality of Provisions a Ration
Resolved, that it be, as follows:
One Pound of Bread or Flour p Diem.
Three Pints of Pease or Beans p Week, or Vegetables, equi
valent at 6s p Bushel for Pease and Beans.
One Pint of Milk p Man p Day, or at the Rate of 1d p Pint.
One half Pint of Rice, or one Pint of Indian Meal
p Man p Week.
One Quart of Spruce Beer, or Cyder p Man p Day, or
9 Gallons of Molasses p company of 100 Men p Week
Three Pounds of Candles to 100 Men p Week for Guards &c
Twenty four lb of soft soap, or 8lb hard soap for 100
Men p Week.
3 What is the best Method of providing Arms for the
Agreed, that it be recommended to the several Assemblies
Also, that the good Arms of all such Soldiers, as
Friday October 20th 1775.
The Committee met, present as before.
It was now proposed to the consideration of the
Agreed, that the Cloathing be provided by the Continent, & paid
Also that a Man, who brings a good new Blanket
2d. What is the best Method of getting Provisions for the
Agreed, that the best Method of procuring Salt Provisions
That in the Article of Flour and Bread, the Com
3. By whom the Officers should be chosen and recommended,
Agreed, that such Officers, as have served in the pre
Agreed, upon a Representation from the
Octr. 21. 1775.
The Members of the Conference met, as before, except
If appearing, on a full Discussion and
be proposed to the Officers, now serving in the present Army,
that they signify in Writing, as soon as possible, which of them
will continue to serve, and defend their country, and which
of them will retire. And, that such Officers, as propose to
continue in the Service, and are approved by the General,
proceed to inlist their Men into the continental Service, upon
the same Pay and Allowance of Provisions, as is now given. --
The Service to continue to the last Day of December 1776 --
subject to be discharged at any Time by the Continental Con
gress, as has been heretofore practised in the like Cases.
Agreed, that, if upon Trial it should
The Rules, and Regulations of the Con
1 All Persons, convicted of holding an unwarrantable
October 22d. 1775.
The Members of the Conference met.
Present, as yesterday.
The Rules, and Articles of the Continental Army, were
That it be recommended to the several Legislatures of
That any Person, who shall
2d. That all commissioned Officers, found guilty
3d. That all non Commissioned Officers, or Soldiers, convic
That it be recommended to the
That in the Punishment of cashiering an officer
That the 3d. Article of the Rules &c. be
That the 5th Article be
Death, or otherwise, at the Discretion of a General Court
That the 8th Article be amended, to make De-
That Articles 20th, and 21st be amended, by pu-
That the 17th Article be amended, by expressing the
That the 25th Article be amended,
That the 29th Article be amended, by making the Embez
That the 30th. Article be amended, by ma-
the Enemy.
That the 55th Article be amended, by expressing
It appearing, that both Ge
The Committee then proceeded
First, what steps are necessary to
Upon a Discussion of all Circumstances
2d. What Distinctions are necessary to be made,
Agreed, that the General Court ought
The Delegates then proposed
shire, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Rhode
Island, could and would furnish by the 10th. of March
next, and on what Terms.?
Massachusetts Gentlemen
Connecticut Gentlemen
The President of
New Hampshire Convention
The Governor of
Rhode Is-
to raise 1500 Men on the same Terms.
Upon considering the addi-
It was then deliberated,
Agreed, that the Determination
The General then
proposed the
Should there not be a
Agreed, that, if it be indispen
The Conference then broke up
A true Copy of the Mi-
Edmund Randolp[Pages 18-23 are blank.]
Aid de Camp to
His Excellency.
General Washington
Cambridge Novr. 2d. 1775
Inclosing Copy of the Proceedings of the
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"For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life…" - L. Ron Hubbard
Such an adventure is also what ultimately led L. Ron Hubbard to the founding of Dianetics and Scientology and thus, a route to previously unimagined spiritual heights. Among other landmark events of the journey: In July of 1952, L. Ron Hubbard became the first to scientifically isolate, measure and describe the human spirit, while objectively demonstrating spiritual potentials well in advance of scientific thought. Moreover, those potentials were found to be possessed by every human being and just as universally attainable. Thus developed his description of Scientology as accomplishing the goal of every great religion: Freeing the soul by wisdom.
All told, L. Ron Hubbard's works on Dianetics and Scientology comprise the largest cohesive statement on the human mind and spirit—more than 5,000 writings and 3,000 recorded lectures. Contained therein are answers to life's most profound mysteries: the enigma of existence, the riddle of death, the realisation of states not even described in earlier literature. Also from these works come Scientology technologies to rear children, repair families, educate, organize and provide relief in times of illness or suffering.
So that all may avail themselves of these technologies, L. Ron Hubbard directed the rise of Scientology Churches all over the world and thus, the birth of a worldwide religion. It is a practical religion. It is applicable to every aspect of human existence and it is religion for the here and now. But at its core and within every Church of Scientology lies this enduring invitation from its Founder: "We are extending to you the precious gift of freedom and immortality—factually, honestly."


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Venture Patrol Letter
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For the BSA 'V' emblem awarded to youth and adult Varsity Scouts see Varsity Scout Letter.
Award requirements
A Venture patrol letter may be earned by Boy Scouts in a who participate in an ultimate activity or sporting activity.
A Venture patrol is an optional patrol within a Boy Scout troop for boys 13 to 17 years old. The Venture patrol's youth leader is the Venture patrol leader. The Venture patrol letter is administered by the Assistant Scoutmaster-Venture. A Venture patrol can be a full-time, part-time, or one-time activity.
Venture patrol letter
The Venture patrol letter is awarded to members of the Venture patrol who participate in an "ultimate activity." Ultimate activities are high-adventure or sports activities that are preceded by training sessions. At the completion of each ultimate activity, one of 26 Venture Activity Pins are awarded and pinned to the Venture patrol letter. Venture Patrol Activity Pins correspond to the 14 Venture program pamphlets and 12 sports Varsity Scout Features pamphlets. Ultimate Adventures may be derived from the 36 monthly activities contained in Woods Wisdom, from the Seven Outdoor Skills Instruction manual, or Passport to High Adventure.
Source: The Boy Scout Handbook (38105), Boy Scout/Varsity Scout Uniform Inspection Sheet (34283)
Remember that a Venture Patrol is Not part of Venturing and as such cannot wear Venturing Green or Green Shoulder Loops. Do not Remove
Help with these requirements
External links
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Thanks, Lobster, for naming me as "Chair". I can try to moderate the process, with lots of help from IRC regulars. I would leave the discussion of content to the co-chairs.
It would be good to start the discussion here so that only items for consensus-building are taken up during the meeting.
In my view, some of the important concerns are:
1. How an official new release is built and decided - insights are needed from the experiences of "Deep Thought" 4.2 and "Lucid Puppy" 5.0. Playdayz and WhoDo will be good co-chairs here.
2. How a new official release is supported, and (vice-versa) how the usefulness of previous support infrastructure is maximized (despite the new features of the new release). Kirk and Jemimah will be good co-chairs here.
3. How a puplet is built and supported. Ttuuxxx and Tazoc will be good co-chairs here.
4. Files repository. Mark (MU) and Eric (caneri) will be good co-chairs here.
Readers are concerned that the many builds of Puppy can confuse users. The converse can be argued that the many builds of Puppy will be good for users, as they can pick the best choice for their setup. What may be important is how the builds are mapped (like a tree), how well each build is explained/understood, and how each build maximizes the available support infrastructure.
To give you an idea of the website support demands, puppylinux.org is already a business level account, but its usage still exceeds the limits by 150%. With a good mapping of the different builds of Puppy, this usage can be distributed to other existing support facilities.
Of course, a big level of support is provided by this Forum - thanks, John.
Some points are already "given" when I wrote this, like (1) Barry leads the development of the core "Puppy", (2) everyone is free to do development work in his/her own way, and (3) the community does development as well as user support.
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Thanks, Lobster, for naming me as "Chair". I can try to moderate the process
Thanks Raffy.
Welcome back to cat herding
. . . truly never been done . . .
I have reduced the meetings to one
Developers welcome
Next meeting will be set here or at the end of the actual meeting
How an official new release is built and decided - insights are needed from the experiences of "Deep Thought" 4.2 and "Lucid Puppy" 5.0.
At the moment Barry decides - based I think on the potential and possibility
So Puppeee is near to becoming an official release being at RC2 stage
5.0.1 is now the official Puppy
and 5.1 is being worked on
Playdayz and WhoDo will be good co-chairs here.
I am happy to second them as chair or deputy chair as they prefer
and step down - or become secretary (secretary still wanted)
I have written to Coolpup to give a report on the Wiki - if he does not
I'll do it - if time or interest
If anyone wants to report on how the IRC channel is now set up
- that would be a useful insight
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Post subject: Item jon1: Puppy 6 format structure proposal + other related
Raffy / Lobster, may I place this as an agenda discussion Item with the developers?
I want to put it out in advance as i'd like it to have / need some pre-thought.
For those who haven't read this, this first bit is copied from page 8 of Puppy 5.1 to 6.
I hope to "attend" if I may, to have a Developer discussion on this:-
I'd also like to expand and put my idea forward that it's time the puppy system grew up and had two component stages.
Puppy 6 may be that time!
The first stage is the core, that part of puppy that should be a "bare-bones of bare-bones". Consisting of the system and basic utilities only, covered under the menu as filesystem, utility, and above, but not including any applications other than a tiny (basic non-invasive) browser. It should be java aware by default. All configuration components should be working towards being interfaced via the browser, then many help directions and messages can be available. I believe there is even a text type browser out there somewhere, that can be used for the pre-x stages.
The second stage consists of applications and packages of applications. The only requirement is that they must be inclusive. In other words, would have no component that is reliant on another package or set of packages. I would only put a restriction on this group of a requirement of having an individual .pet for each application in their .sts package set. This is so those that only want one application can have access to it.
I think you would find that many groups would willing to work to this matrix, as they wouldn't have to supply the core level part, only what is required to meet their version.
i'll add more later
My idea is that new users can already download/offcd/buy the standard Puppy as a "look-see and try" and do.
Eventually those that stay (as we all have) will want something slightly different;
some Applications that are in the basic package removed, as they don't use them and perceived that they "are in the way";
some Applications that they have added as pup's or pets, and suit what they want to keep and use for the long run;
or someone else has created a specialist mix .sts package they want to add to trial before permanently adding.
Currently, to "special" a version is still not easy. They can add, but removing "junk" is a problem.
If those at this second stage, can have a "barebones" or basic package plus addon's, they will be able to create a "special version" of their own and to closer to what suits them specifically, and I believe be happy to stay rather than look elsewhere.
It should also make it a little easier to change and update the base when necessary or expedient.
It should also simplify that "specialist .sts package" as the maintainer would have a "standard base" to work with.
And, it all can be done with "minimum of thought" by the adverage user without the need to delve deep in the system.
I believe that they will, spread the word on this capability of Puppy, and that can only be to the good.
The alternative model, as far as I can see, is to have it "mandatory" that each official version created "must" have a barebones version released in parallel. And I don't like the words in quotes in the previous sentance when talking Linux, it's the wrong language!
Anyway, that is what I'd like to "talk" through with the developers.
added from another post
8-bit wrote:
I agree to a point.
Make a bare-bones Puppy, but then install all the applications from PET packages and from there, make the final ISO.
That way, the ISO/ Puppy would come with it's normal applications, but they could be uninstalled with Puppy Package manager and replaced with ones of ones choosing.
Of course some applications rely on others being there for dependencies. So it would be possible to break Puppy.
Mind you, it is just a thought.
thank you 8bit & sharibeth,
I do like that thought though, it would cover the idea of the structure I am trying to get across.
standard cd for new and happy to work with users;
user modified version with unwanted "bumf" removed for later when you have worked out what you actually want.
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Post subject: Item Jon2: Test scripts/instructions
Raffy / Lobster: Could this be discussed please:
Can there be made available for all a basic set of instructions for those trying a version to help with fault/problem identity simplification.
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Have added this to the wiki
Any other business
creating fault/problem template
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"Barebones" approach sounds good, but in practice quickly becomes a mess...mostly do to dependencies and updating. Staying with well integrated basic apps that all work together has the advantage of introducing apps that the user may not have known about. Pets are then a means for specific usage (I like vim, tcltk, skype, etc). Having a few unused apps isn't a problem with a distro of under 120 mg, even on older computers. Often I've found myself actually using them.
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Regarding creating barebones I read this post on Barry's Blog the other day:
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"Barebones" approach sounds good, but in practice quickly becomes a mess.
before the objective is missed
a bare bones is not for the end user to use or have to use
or even think about using or imagine to use just to be clear
the sky won't fall for the end user because they never see this stage
a stripped down base is what developers could add to the "starting point" test it and
make PACKAGES to update the base between the developers
a happy go between that allows a lot of creativity to select packages
that are customized and not found anywhere else because they are hand crafted
by the people that know what they built and they can test it to perfection before
adding it officially to the base
when good ideas are found in official or special versions "customized versions "
they are added to a base by the developers to make their own flavor
what is happening now and has happened for years is a MESS
everyone adding to an ISO and not having a clue how to make a simple package of their own work to share with the other developers
which is a lazy non productive re inventing the wheel every version dead end
1.) for a clear idea of what I am talking about anyone could take any package from any distro slackware ,slitaz ,debian, rpm,(* bsd use their sources) etc.......
linux compatible and make it work on puppy
2.)and I for one can't easily sort out the spaghetti mess of trying to take some features
duct taped super glued into a "customized version" or the latest new thing that went official so sharing is not an option with this behavior
and this is open source linux if anyone has forgotten
so if the developers ever plan to share it has to start with packages (build scripts are the best but wake me up I'm dreaming if puppy would ever take that step)
the package format is trivial at this stage
but important in the building stage
any team work requires a team
being a just a player shows your skills on solo projects
I maintain a solo project so to speak also
and so do others here in the forum
I think there is a great waste of resources
becausee of the mind block called official whatever
if a team idea started nothing could stop it
what I see mostly what type of user puppy attracts is the desktop user
they want to use ubuntu but don't know how to install it and it runs slow on their computer
so they use puppy ,then when they figure out how to install in ubuntu
they leave or they can't leave because it runs too slow
so they decide to bloat puppy and make it run slow
now think about this where are we going
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big_bass wrote:
......hand crafted by the people that know what they built and they can test it to perfection before
adding it officially to the base
sounds good...thanks for the clarification
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Not that you asked for my opinion, but ...
I think there are three things that keep this otherwise-excellent Linux distribution from becoming much more useful, and thus much more popular:
1. There are far, far too many different derivatives and versions of Puppy, so many that "Puppy Linux" doesn't mean much. This makes solving problems really difficult, as the exact combination of derivative, version, and hardware is often unique.
2. Finding information on Puppy is really difficult. Forum searches return far too many hits for any common problem, and information outside the forum isn't organized at all. Of course, this is exacerbated by #1.
3. The package repository situation is just abysmal. Finding anything beyond the few packages listed in the package installer involves searching the forum, and then #2 comes into play, exacerbated by #1.
I like Puppy a lot. I've got it running pretty well on my laptop, but it's been a struggle. It deserves to be more popular.
Solving the three problems above doesn't have the glamor of producing a custom-tuned Puppy derivative with one's own name on it, but it is what will make Puppy great.
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Posted: Sat 29 May 2010, 19:48
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I think Puppy is chaotic
it makes us very innovative
and means there is duplication and divergence
Each Puplet or woof expression has something
I stopped producing Linux Tmxxine
because it was so easy to produce a Puplet
that there was no need for a few different apps
and background to have its own version
Many, many projects fail or are abandoned . . .
Many more invigorate, influence and improve
Some of the presently most creative Puplets and wooflets
(for example Slaxer_pup)
deserve more inter developer co-operation
- that is the reasoning behind meetings
which hopefully we can do once a month or so . . .
We'll see
Hope you can make it
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I am one hour before New York time so that's 4:00 am
Sunday morning I f I went fishing at that time I could sneak out of the house undetected
I will be able to offer an exchange of ideas
but at a later time in the day
I believe that a balance
is in need most people feel it in the air
thats why meetings are called in the first place
not everyone will or can express themselves
well some steam is usually released at first
because ideas can get bottled up over time
but the first step to fixing a problem
is to know what the problem is
some people focus on problems and get run down
some people focus on solving the problems
and have a better outlook and some wins along the way
the only difference is how you handle the information
sort through it with a lot of salt ( in Mexico with lemon and hot sauce too )
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big_bass wrote:
I will be able to offer an exchange of ideas
but at a later time in the day
Don't count on it, Joe. The inmates have taken over the IRC asylum again today. Some nick-swapping loon has been calling himself/herself Lobster, WhoDo, etc and so I gave up... Sad state of affairs. We need a private, invitation only channel to keep the nut cases from spoiling the discussion IMHO.
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Can we set something like that up?
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2.0 Deployment
The following are the some components that currently being deployed
3.0 Research and Development
Other than working on to get the infrastructure ready, we have done some work in the following areas:
a. Visualization
Due to the amount of data (read logs) produced by our honeynet, some team members spend some time to enhance visualization of the data collected. You can view some of these samples in the URL mentioned below.
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While I had given up on the possibility of changing the tier six talents, others had not and Blizzard listened. So the good news is we get kick ass new talents and Lissanna can awake from her depression and stop cutting her self with an icky mage. Here are my more detailed thoughts.
Disentanglement — no longer a talent. Shapeshifting for all druids just breaks roots.I completely agree with Lissanna's assessment here. Disentanglement was a boring talent in a boring tier. Breaking roots by Shapeshifting has been baseline for druids as long as I've played this game and that should never have changed. Losing the heal that Disentanglement provided sucks a tiny bit, but we druids have so many other self healing options that it isn't a big deal at all.
Dream of Cenarius:
Dream of Cenarius — increases damage spells by 70% (up from 30%)..From a PvE Moonkin perspective, Dream of Cenarius is probably the new blah talent of the tier, and when we look at the two other options below you will see that it really suffers by comparison. It has two issues.
First, no one is going to take a healing buff over a DPS buff. That is one of the primary reasons for redesigning the talent system again. So we can completely ignore that part of the talent for now. Second, any time I can cast Nourish or Healing Touch, I can cast a nuke. The only exception is when there isn't a valid target, and that doesn't happen that often during fights.
Finally, there has been some speculation on EJ that we could use a short heal like Regrowth to buff a long nuke like Starfire, or use a heal to buff a strong spell like FoN, Starsurge, or Starfall. As has already been pointed out on EJ, Regrowth is now a resto only spell so that idea won't work, but it may be beneficial to use to buff our stronger spells. That said, I don't have high hopes for that possibility. It would likely be a tiny improvement that required a heavy handed use of mechanics to achieve. The other options are easier and likely stronger. I expect most PvE players will ignore this one, but it could be huge in PvP.
Heart of the Wild:
Heart of the Wild — now also grants 6% passive Agility and Intellect.While writing this post, I was tweeting about the changes with Lissanna, Hamlet, Murmurs, and others, and I was surprised that several of them were still quite negative on Heart of the Wild after this change, but I can see their point. Adding a 6% passive intellect bonus to HotW is a bit like redoing the kitchen in a house with a bad foundation. Sure, it's nicer and more useful but none of the fundamental problems have been addressed.
As I and many other people have said before, expecting players to change roles temporarily is going to be problematic for quite a few reasons that I won't get into again. However, this change is good because if for nothing else it give us a useful talent and it give Blizzard and opportunity to show that their base design of Heart of the Wild is useful.
Nature's Vigil:
Nature's Vigil — Increases all damage and healing done by 30% for 30 sec, with a 3 min cooldown. While active, all healing spells also damage a nearby target for 50% of healing done, and all damage spells and abilities also heal a nearby friendly target for 50% of the damage done.To be honest, this sounds pretty amazing. I don't have a whole lot of criticism for this new ability. A 30% DPS buff over 30 seconds is pretty strong and the healing it generates sounds great as well. I really have only two minor concerns.
The first concern is that the two aspects of this spell address competing goals. To maximize the DPS potential of this ability you will have to cast it on cooldown and use the healing component at times when it may not be useful. To maximize the utility of the healing component you may not be able to cast it on cooldown and limit its DPS potential. However, this is a reasonable choice and one that makes playing the game interesting.
The second set of concerns, are really just unanswered questions about the healing mechanic that will probably be answered once it gets on the beta server. For example, how does it choose who to heal? Is it a target of target type of situation or is it a smart heal that picks the lowest person in range. Also, what is the range of the heal? If I'm DPSing Goriona on the Blackhorn encounter does no one get healed because no one can get in melee range?
Over All Impression:
Over all these are big improvements to the tier. As several people have pointed out there are still several issues with the talents that we can criticize. However, no one can deny that these changes move the tier from being a boring after thought to providing a more interesting choice with a significant impact.
If all this went live my guess is that Nature's Vigil would win out as the most common choice. In terms of pure DPS math it likely ties or wins when compared to the straight 6% Int boost provided by HotW. In terms of utility, it also likely wins since Heart of the Wild is a very situational and Nature's Vigil doesn't require a moonkin to stop DPSing.


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