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Natalya wrote:Wtf is going on in this thread?
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:There's something vaguely along those lines being cooked up for the new way armor works. Vehicles that ignore a die of armor would indeed have some kind of penalty to movement, but IDK what.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:Another idea would be to mess with acceleration: armored objects can only adjust their speed by halves, so a heavily armored APC that has a maximum speed of 12" will move 6" on it's first turn, then 12" if it continues to accelerate. Turning radius would not be affected, but slowing down would: even after hitting the brakes, the APC would travel another 6" before grinding to a halt.
stubby wrote:You were inb4beluga.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
Han Solo wrote: Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side kid.
Empire of Luchardsko WIP wiki pageBrikWars 2010 Rules wrote:BrikWars ... stands in pretty direct opposition to many fundamental elements of the LEGO® philosophy, such as "Not Teaching Kids How Funny It Is to Set People on Fire."
stubby wrote:IVhorseman wrote:What's also great about this version of armor is that "armor piercing rounds" finally make sense in the context of Brikwars.
For a long time I was considering using the d8 for armor piercing damage, and changing Rifles and Heavy Weapons into dmg:d8 instead of 1d6+x. It'd mean introducing d8s a little earlier in the rulebook than I'd originally planned though, and I'd still want armor to block at least some of the armor-piercing damage. A rule like "d8s become d8-2" or something makes it one level too complicated to be worth it though.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IX_Legion wrote:Would an armored fig with a shield who parries remove two dice of each type from damage?
IX_Legion wrote:And would it be OK to let the attacker roll for damage anyway, because critical success die can increase the number of dice in the attack, or would that be too complicated?
IX_Legion wrote:This would probably be player-made homebrew stuff, but you could also have selectively armor-piercing weapons. For example, my longbow might be AP vs. a chainmail-clad man-at-arms, but against the armored Death Tank it's useless.
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Last night at the Spartacus: War Of The Damned premiere in LA
No big revelations here. She showed them plenty in Spartacus
I'd like to see the chick on the rights shitpipe.
I'd pound her so hard, her blonde friend would fight to get a piece of me.
And they were spectacular
There really should be a Lambert vs. Bababooey2uall perv off.
Lambert do you like prostitutes too?
Old tits
My old dick wouldn't have a problem
Who's the blonde on the right?
Xena was awesome. But the ending sucked.
Used to partake in the hobby in the early 2000's. Stopped when they started posting pictures of the guys arrested on websites in every county down here.
You can still get a good Russian/Ukraine whore in Vegas sent to your room for about $300.
When the Spartacus guy got the cancer and died, the show went down the toilet


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Costa Brava Living
Walks and other things to do in the Costa Brava for people who aren't here just for holidays.
The Costa Brava is one of those places people imagine they know without ever visiting, lumping it with the Spanish Costas, the Costa del Sol or Costa Blanca, all sangria, siestas and sombreros. But it isn't. The Costa Brava is Catalan for a start. And the Costa part of the Costa Brava though truly beautiful, is only the start. Inland are ancient villages, castles, meadows and woods reaching all the way to the snow-capped Pyrenees.
Outside the six-week summer high season it is a land of walking, cycling, gourmet food and traditions. This is our blog of walks and other things. The walks and pictures date from November 2012 onwards and the photos were actually taken on the walks described.
Please feel free to contact us for more information, help planning a tour or possibly for a guided or accompanied walk. If you are looking to find somewhere specific you can search the site for walks in specific locations.
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This is our blog about living in the Costa Brava. We like to visit places. We walk (a lot) particularly into and around the Gavarres. Sometimes we travel around on bike. In the summer, we swim and canoe.
The walks have been walked since November 2012, and we originally added one or two a week but have slowed down now as we repeat walks, but we add updates if any important details have changed.
The photos are straight from the original walk or activity.
We like to make circular walks and our walks range in length from about 4km (an hour) to around 16km (four hours) - but probably about 2 1/2 hours on average - though if you want to reduce the length, there are usually shortcuts.
The map on the right shows where the walks are and will be updated as we continue to add more. To our surprise, the blog was also mentioned in the Sunday Times' Essential Costa Brava (Feb 2017).
The entries on swimming and beaches also start from Summer 2013. Unlike the walks which are reported as we did them (including photos), for the swimming and beach articles we're planning to update the details and pictures over time.
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- Calella de Palafrugell/Cap Roig to Castell - classic wild Costa Brava
- Far de Sant Sebastia (Llafranc) to Tamariu
- Platja d'Aro and S'Agaro
- Sa Tuna, Cap de Begur, Begur
- Eulogy to the Ruta del Tren Petit (Palafrugell, Palamos, Mont-ras and Vall-llobrega)
- Fornells and Aiguablava walk (GR92)
- Mont-ras to Calella de Palafrugell and Llafranc
- Platja de Castell and La Fosca
- St Antoni de Calonge, Torre Valentina to Platja d'Aro (almost)
- Escala, St Marti d'Empuries and beyond
- Bell-lloc and Castell de Vila-Roma (Palamos)
- Platja Sant Pol to Sant Feliu de Guixols
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- Blanes, Lloret de Mar, Tossa de Mar by GR92
Moving to the Costa Brava
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The Matterhorn was the last major mountain of the Alps to be climbed, not because of its technical difficulty, but because of the fear it inspired in early mountaineers. The first serious attempts began around 1858, mostly from the Italian side, but despite appearances, the southern routes are harder, and parties repeatedly found themselves on difficult slippery rock and had to turn back.
East face of the Matterhorn reflected in the Riffelsee.It was not until 14 July 1865, after several failed attempts and some nationalistically motivated backstabbing, that the party of Edward Whymper, Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas, and Douglas Hadow, with Michel Croz and the two Peter Taugwalders (father and son) tried the H?rnli route and found it considerably easier than expected. On on the descent Hadow slipped, knocking Croz off his feet, and dragging Hudson and Douglas with him. All seven were tied together and would no doubt have been killed, but the rope broke, sending the lower four to their deaths on the Matterhorn Glacier 1,400 m below. The bodies of all but Douglas were later found, and are buried in the Zermatt churchyard.


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ILAO will be hiring 2 - 4 law students for summer 2005 to
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- Researching, drafting and editing of web based legal
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Professor Ronald W. Staudt is looking for one to two law
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A Hollister-based plant breeder says he expects next year to be testing new pepper varieties for resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), a disease occurring in half the pepper fields sampled in 2004 on California's Central Coast.
According to Bob Heisey of United Genetic Seed Co., his varieties will be tailored to the region. Commercial varieties having resistance to the thrips-vectored TSWV exist in the southeastern U.S. but are not adapted to California.
The resistance, however, is controlled by a single dominant gene and can be transferred, with some effort by breeders, to material suited for California pepper production.
Presently, the only defense against TSWV is discouraging various species of thrips, present throughout the growing season, by applying imidacloprid to young pepper plants. While the chemical does not control thrips directly, they are repelled by its taste. Treating for them on nearby harvested fields of radicchio, also a host of both the disease and vector, has been another approach.
TSWV symptoms include yellowed and stunted plants and fruit having chlorotic spots and yellow halos.
In a survey of six viruses in pepper fields in Santa Clara and San Benito counties in the fall of 2004, Aziz Baameur, Santa Clara County farm advisor, reported finding TSWV infections in 21 of the 42 fields sampled. Infection rates with various viruses were estimated at 5 to 75 percent.
Resistance work
Heisey told a recent gathering of pepper growers and PCAs at Gilroy he also is working on resistance to four other diseases of sweet and hot peppers: Phytophthora root and crown rot, powdery mildew, cucumber mosaic virus, and Verticillium wilt. He anticipates having material to test for these in two to five or more years.
Development of resistance requires three major elements, he explained. They are: (1) a source of resistance, often from wild plants, (2) inoculation of plants to be able to sort the resistant from the susceptible, and (3) adapted lines or varieties for use as parents in the breeding process to achieve acceptable horticultural types for commercial use.
"Managing pepper diseases by the use of genetic resistance, if such resistance is available," he said, "is usually the simplest and most cost-effective method of disease control."
However, he added, years of research and thousands of dollars must be spent in finding, characterizing, and introducing resistance in new varieties.
"It's a long, arduous process, and breeders, pathologists, and technicians work to bring resistances from unadapted, sometimes wild, relative species into types with the proper horticultural type for the California pepper industry."
Turning to the other four diseases targeted for resistant varieties, Heisey said resistance to Phytophthora root rot is available in commercial peppers grown elsewhere but not accepted in California.
Expects to test
Incorporation of the resistance is complex and time-consuming, since both parents of a cross must carry the resistance, but he expects to be testing new varieties with high resistance within two years.
Heisey also anticipates in two years to be testing new materials able to fend off powdery mildew. The trait is thought to be carried by a single, dominant gene. Although multiple sources of resistance are available, the problem has been most sources are wild relative species not readily crossed with cultivated peppers.
However, a mildew-resistant, bell pepper-like source from a breeder outside the U.S. was successfully screened by Mike Coffey, plant pathologist at the University of California, Riverside, with support of the California Pepper Commission, and Heisey said it is being evaluated in the field this season.
Powdery mildew, a perennial problem for coastal pepper growers and target for commission research funds, is caused by a fungus, Leveilla taurica, and defoliates plants, exposing fruit to sunburn. Difficult to manage because it occurs with great variability, it has a strong ability to develop resistance to fungicides, none of which is an eradicant.
Lines from Asia and wild species were the original sources of resistance to CMV, a virus that comes and goes in California pepper fields. A persistent shortcoming of crosses thus far for this purpose is that not all plants of a population have resistance.
At least five more years of work, involving Cornell University and the pepper commission, will be needed to obtain CMV-resistant varieties having desired horticultural type. The resistance may be linked to small fruit size.
Vert resistance
About the same amount of time will be needed to come up with new varieties resistant to Verticillium wilt. How resistance to this disease is inherited is not clear to breeders, but breakthroughs to transfer it to bell and hot peppers were made a couple of years ago, and materials look promising as improvements to existing varieties.
Heisey said tobacco mosaic virus and bacterial spot, two minor diseases of peppers that occur sporadically on the Central Coast, also can be controlled by genetic resistance, as well as cultural practices.
The potyvirus complex of pepper mottle virus, potato virus Y and tobacco etch virus also has a history of striking coastal pepper fields from time to time. Resistance to pepper mottle, potato virus Y, and some races of tobacco etch are available.
Lest the pepper industry become complacent with resistant varieties once they are being used, Heisey warned that little is known about how pathogens adapt. A currently available resistance might not hold against local isolates of disease occurring in fields.
There is some evidence, he continued, that resistance to TSWV can be broken by an isolate, or strain, collected from fields in the Gilroy area. He said his company is using local isolates in its screening and re-isolates frequently from diseased plants.
Often by the time a new variety is developed and put into fields, a disease population makes an adaptation to challenge the resistance. The new isolate may then disappear or persist indefinitely.
And, he went on, growers can expect to pay more for improved varieties due to the intensive research in developing them.
Pay for protection
"Growers will have to figure those increases in their costs of production, but to avoid disasters like some fields we saw last year, they will certainly be willing to pay for a little insurance against diseases," Heisey concluded.
Another speaker at the gathering, Ken Melban, director of crop protection for the pepper commission, said the body is continuing to pursue a full registration for Rally fungicide on peppers.
In the meantime, the industry has been using the material under a Section 18 registration, while triazole, a compound in Rally, is being evaluated.


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OVERLAND PARK, KS — During a recession, some club operators turn to used and refurbished equipment in hopes of saving money, but whether that trend is holding true in this recession depends on whom you ask.
"People are looking at different ways to save today, and in terms of used equipment, it's one of the first things people look at," says Bryan Green, president and CEO of Culver City, CA-based Advantage Fitness Products, a company that plans, designs, supplies and supports specialized fitness and wellness centers.
However, Green says he hasn't worked with any operators looking to buy equipment from distressed clubs. In fact, he says that club operators aren't buying any equipment right now — new or used. Instead, they are extending their equipment leases, which has caused a glut of used equipment.
Some equipment brokers and refurbishers agree that used inventory is high, but so is demand for it, they say.
"The used equipment business is about supply and demand," says Chris Creighton, vice president of sales and marketing for Atlas Fitness Systems, a 25-year-old refurbishing company headquartered in Riverside, NJ. "Right now, demand is really high. We are actually moving half of what we are doing to brokers right now because they can't get it fast enough…because the demand is high."
The majority of used equipment that Atlas Fitness moves and refurbishes comes from operators who are replacing it with new equipment after expiration of their equipment lease, Creighton says. He also sees inventory from closed clubs.
Customers for used equipment often are operators of new clubs who can't get financing for all new equipment, so they mix used equipment with new, he says, adding that the savings on used equipment can be 40 percent to 60 percent. However, Green says that with the recession, manufacturers have been more aggressive in pricing new equipment, which means the savings on used equipment may not be as high as it once was.
About 65 percent of the used equipment that Creighton deals in is cardio equipment, since new models of cardio are introduced more frequently than strength equipment.
Eddie Tock, president of Eddie Tock Health Club Sales and Marketing Consulting, Garrison, NY, says used strength equipment is a better option than used cardio because of cardio equipment's higher wear and tear factor and shorter lifespan. Also, manufacturer warranties often don't transfer to the new owners.
However, Creighton says that if the product was on a lease, it was probably serviced regularly, and manufacturers may be more willing to transfer warranties these days. If the original manufacturer won't transfer the warranty to the new owner, Atlas Fitness will sometimes honor the warranty — depending on the equipment's age and purchase price.


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I asked the Lactation Nurse about a prescription to increase lactation and she recommended Reglan, it is the only perscription drug they give at this hospital for Lactation. She mentioned the side effects and told me to do my research before asking the doctor to perscribe it. I have looked at many articles online and reviews from other moms. I was just wondering.
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I am looking for something that can help my supply in a major way. My daughter does not nurse anymore so I am a slave to my pump. I pump every 2 hours through out the day and so far I have not seen a difference. I am producing 1 ounce every 2 hours and less the longer I go without pumping.


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The strength of the 2006 team was arguably its bullpen, which picked up the slack for a consistent, but hardly spectacular rotation.
Despite signing Billy Wagner, at the time an All-Star caliber closer, Omar Minaya let two significant keys to that pen, Darren Oliver and Chad Bradford, get away. The Mets have been struggling to get a bullpen chemistry since. An argument can be made the chemistry started to fizzle with the decline of Aaron Heilman, who was so good in 2006 save that pitch to Yadier Molina.
Even so, the team started strong in 2007, taking a 34-18 record into June. Would we all agree that 2006 and the first two months of 2007 was when the Mets' star burned its brightest?
They finished 54-56 the rest of the way in 2007, including a collapse in which they blew a seven-game lead with 17 to play. Much of the downward spiral was traced to a bullpen bridge that could not get to Wagner.
Since June 1, 2007, the Mets are 20 games below .500 – including another collapse in 2008 – and the refrain was the same after each season: The pitching is the problem. The 2008 team, by the way, blew 29 save opportunities.
It's a double-edged sword: The bullpen is overworked and ineffective. But, the reason it is overworked is because the Mets aren't getting quality innings from their starters.
For those who think I'm being too negative, those are the numbers.
I realize 2009 was a unique season because of injuries, but even under the assumption the core offensive players return to form this season, there remains largely the same pitching staff. Never mind the team's hot start one-third into the last season, more representative of their performance was the remaining two-thirds.
Getting Johan Santana was a significant gesture of improvement, but he makes 34 starts a year. The pennant is won or lost in the remaining 128 games, and this is where the Mets are weak and have not improved.
Even Santana is a partial question as he's coming off surgery. The team says he'll be ready, but said the same thing about John Maine. Maine's durability, along with his presence, are questions. We don't know what we'll get from Oliver Perez inning to inning, much less game to game. And, Mike Pelfrey has regressed. And, well, there is no fifth starter, yet.
Yes, Jason Bay will improve the offense, but in reality aren't we subbing his numbers for that of a healthy Delgado? And, there's another hole with the loss of Beltran. So, just how much better is the offense, really? And, what if Wright doesn't regain his power stroke? Can we say for sure Reyes is back?
Bottom line: We can't say the core is back to normal or will get that way.
In that case, it falls again on the pitching, which is the same pitching that failed miserably the last two-and-a-half seasons.


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MORRISON – An outsider. Someone willing to stand up for what is right. Somebody good with budgets.
Those are some qualities Morrison residents said they want in their next administrator. But one quality seems to be paramount: good communication skills.
Mayor Everett Pannier announced May 13 that he would not renew Jim Wise's contract; he was administrator for a tumultuous 2 years.
Like many others, Kimberly Martens, 39, hopes the city's next administrator communicates better with residents and accepts their input better than the previous council and Wise.
The new city administrator should make an effort to publish a newsletter on the city's Facebook page to let residents know what issues are going to come up at meetings, Martens said.
The only way residents can keep in the loop now is by going to the police department, where agendas are posted for council meetings, and most residents do not want to go there, she said.
Agendas also are posted on www.morrisonil.org and residents also can call City Hall, 815-772-7657.
Martens said she would like an administrator who is welcoming to businesses that want to come to Morrison, and who would create more events like Paint the Town.
"Whoever is going to come in needs to realize things need to change or the city will die," Martens said.
Tim Ebbers, 50, said he wants an administrator who cares about the needs of residents and employees.
"I'd like to see somebody who's going to work with city employees and residents instead of talking to them and saying, 'Oh, well. We're going to do it this way. It's my way or the highway,'" he said.
Pannier will advertise the job on the Illinois City and County Management Association website and in northern Illinois newspapers. He estimates the new administrator will be paid $60,000 to $75,000 a year. Wise was paid $75,000 a year.
One key quality he is looking for, Pannier said, is communication skills.
"He needs to be able to represent the city and work with not just elected city officials, but needs to be able to communicate with the community, listen and give feedback," the mayor said. "There are two sides to issues always. You need to be able to listen to both sides."
Pannier said he plans to narrow the applicant list to the top five, then ask council members and city staff to meet with those finalists and choose two or three for an in-depth interview. That process will involve the council and members of city committees such as the historic preservation commission, the planning and zoning commission, and the board of Odell Public Library.
He hopes to have a new administrator in place by September, Pannier said.
The city administrator will propose the annual budget, make recommendations to the council regarding ordinances and will supervise all departments.
Pannier will propose the appointment, and council members will vote on whether to approve him or her. A simple majority will be needed to approve the appointment, City Attorney Tim Zollinger said.
Under the terms of Wise's contract, the mayor had the authority to renew Wise's contract without a council vote. The new contract, which has not been written, must be approved by the council, Zollinger said; it may or may not have the same provision.
Alderwoman Marti Wood said the city needs someone who will really listen to what residents want.
Wise wanted issues brought to him rather than department heads, and sometimes he did not respond to all of the people who had problems, Wood said.
"Everything that we did had to go through him, and he said he'd address it with the proper people, but who knows if it got any further," she said.
"Residents would ask me questions, so I'd send a note to the chief of police, the mayor, the head of whatever department, and I was told, 'You just send it through me, I'll take care of it,' A lot of times you never got any feedback of what was decided."
Sometimes just a brief phone call can make a resident feel heard, she said.
Someone with grant-writing abilities also would benefit the city, Wood said.
Morrison needs more than a "yes" person, said resident Robert Fulton, 38.
The city needs someone who can advise the Morrison Business Advisory Group on how to make the downtown a destination for residents of other cities, Fulton said.
Like several other Morrison residents, he said, he hopes the appointed person will be from outside of the area and, therefore, objective and able to offer fresh ideas.
"My hope is that it would be someone ... who would not make it the status quo."
Fulton said he wants an administrator who will stand up for what's right for the city and who will be willing to sometimes break ranks with certain groups, such as the Historic Preservation Commission.
Gustave Bloom, 56, questions some recent uses of city funds, and said he would like to see the city, with public input, spend money better.
"All of the infrastructure needs to be redone as opposed to buying streetlamps."
He, too, wants somebody from outside the area who will not be part of the "good ol' boys' club."
"It seems as though they backdoor everything," Bloom said. "If anything affects the people of Morrison, the people of Morrison should know about it. It's a town. Everybody has a say in what goes on in this town."


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A scrapbook of original designs and proof prints for early Victorian bindings done by R. A. Harrison, ca. 1840s. Along with sketches for roundels and decorative borders, product labels, and a caricature, are a number of proof sheets for bindings, that retain, remarkably, their intense colors, making available to bibliographers for this period of book production, some of the most faithful hues (which can be described using the Centroid Color Chart).
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The United States recently marked the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which mandated gender equity in sports and influenced an international movement.
The United States recently marked the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which mandated gender equity in sports and influenced an international movement.
And for the 27th year, colleges across the country, including East Stroudsburg University, will participate in a National Girls and Women in Sports Day event Saturday, Feb. 9. The activities take place in Koehler Fieldhouse, followed by and in conjunction with the ESU women's basketball game against Kutztown at 1 p.m.
Sign-up begins at 8:30 a.m. and the clinic concludes at 10:45 a.m. The event, for girls ages 7-12 and in grades 2-7, involves instruction in a number of developmental sports mini-clinics with ESU's coaches and student-athletes.
It's a free event, which includes admission to the women's basketball game at 1 p.m. All participants should wear appropriate athletic wear and tennis shoes and bring a bottle of water. Associate Athletic Director Carey Snyder is overseeing the event.
Registration is limited to the first 150 girls who have submitted a completed registration form and waiver of liability form. Both forms can be found at the links above, or can be picked up in the ESU Athletic Office in Koehler Fieldhouse by calling 570-422-3642. The forms should be returned by Feb. 7 to the ESU Athletic Office in Koehler Fieldhouse or mailed to Snyder at ESU, 200 Prospect St., East Stroudsburg, PA 18301.
If you are a young female athlete or a parent of one, this could be a meaningful experience. Many girls have missed the opportunity to compete in sports while others may have hit the age for participation until now. This is a great introduction and learning experience to see if they actually might enjoy giving it a try under expert instruction.
And in another interesting news development, the U.S. Education Department is telling schools they must include students with disabilities in sports programs or provide equal alternative options. The directive, reminiscent of the Title IX expansion of athletic opportunities for women, could bring sweeping changes to school budgets and locker rooms for years to come, The Associated Press reports.
Schools would be required to make "reasonable modifications" for students with disabilities or create parallel athletic programs that have comparable standing as mainstream programs. Many have done that already. Some have not.
"Sports can provide invaluable lessons in discipline, selflessness, passion and courage, and this guidance will help schools ensure that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to benefit from the life lessons they can learn on the playing field or on the court," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement announcing the new guidance.
In other news, the Middle Smithfield Economic Development Committee is going to publicly invite East Stroudsburg Area School District board members to a meeting Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at the township building to discuss the commercial business tax abatement proposal. This would help develop a better tax base to help hold the line and maybe even lower school taxes in the district. ...
Lehman Township Supervisor Paul Menditto will announce Monday he plans to run for magisterial district judge in May 21 primary elections. More next week. ...
Since the June opening, 528 people have put in 4,956 personnel training hours at the $11 million Pike County Training Center in Blooming Grove, facility Director George Beodecker told Pike commissioners in a report. Training on live fire props will be offered in the fall.


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Linux Wi-Fi Works With wicd
wicd Linux Wireless
Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users. NetworkManager, KWifiManager, and various other utilities that have come and gone all attempt to make managing different network connections easy. NetworkManager and KWifiManager do a pretty good job, though you often have to finick and fuss a fair bit. wicd (pronounced "wicked"), the wireless interface connection daemon, tries to do the job better, so we're going to give it a test drive.
Don't Miss
- Linux Wi-Fi: Supercharge a Buffalo
- Linux Wi-Fi: Supercharge a Buffalo (Part 2)
- Build A Linux-Based Wireless Access Point
- Build A Linux-Based Wireless Access Point (Part 2)
- It's Early Days for 802.11n and Linux
KWifiManager is happy on both machines and with all interfaces. wicd, on the other hand, had problems with the ancient Prism 1 interface, and it wasn't too sure about the wireless PC Card either. There may have something about Debian Testing that it didn't like, because it performed perfectly on the T61 in both Sidux and Kubuntu.
Visit obtaining wicd for installation instructions. It was originally designed for Ubuntu, and there are now instructions for installing it on Debian, Slackware, Fedora, and Arch Linux. It's a nice little daemon with few dependencies; it does not depend on large wads of Gnome or KDE libraries, so it's a lean installation into any window manager or desktop. KWifiManager depends on about 15 megabytes of KDE dependencies, while wicd pulled in a mere total of two megabytes for itself and its dependencies.
wicd is included in Zenwalk and Linux Mint, and I expect more distributions to follow.
If you're using NetworkManager, which is the default on a large number of distributions, or any other wireless connection daemon, you need to remove it. There can be only one.
Initial Configuration
You should first have a working wireless interface. Then make sure that none of your wireless network interfaces are configured. In Debian, Ubuntu, and all the extended Debian family, /etc/network/interfaces should look like this, because you must always have the loopback device configured:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback
wicd is also supposed to manage wired interfaces if you choose, but I had some problems with it, so I configured mine manually. So leave all interfaces that you want wicd to manage un-configured.
On Red Hattish Linuxes (e.g. Fedora, CentOS) the insanely over-complicated configuration file structure means it's easier to use a graphical network configurator, like system-config-network. Or if you want to do it the hard way, rename your wireless /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* file to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*.bak.
Somewhere in your applications menu should be a nice wicd icon, or you can launch it from the command line with /opt/wicd/gui.py. I don't know why anyone would want to type all that, but now you know what it is. If you want a simple launch command like wicd you'll have to create a Bash alias or some such. When you open wicd you'll see something like Figure 1.
If you are in range of several wireless networks, all of them will appear on this page. You can hit the refresh button to make sure you're getting all of them.
Finally, you'll need to know which wpa-supplicant driver your wireless interface uses, and select it from wicd's preferences menu. wext is a generic driver that works with a lot of wireless interfaces, but it's usually better to select the driver for your interface. You may also need to configure your wireless interface name on the Preferences page. How you do know what these are?
Identifying a Wireless Interface
To find the name of your wireless interface:
$ /sbin/iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Non-wireless interfaces will say "no wireless extensions". To figure out what your wireless driver is:
$ lscpi -i | grep wireless
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network
Connection ( rev 02 )
A Google search on 'intel 3945ABG linux' goes to the IPW3945 page, which informs us that it is deprecated and replaced by the iwlwifi project. The Preferences page does not include anything that sounds like iwlwifi, but it does have ipw, which works fine. You could also refer to this table in the wicd Wiki. If there is an easier way to get this information, I'd love to hear it. And perhaps someday wicd will automatically find it on its own.
From here it's all gravy. Every time you're in a new location, wicd will scan and locate all available networks for you. Connect with a mere click on the Connect button, and with luck a little connection icon will appear in your systray. (If it doesn't, the FAQ tells you how to fix it). If you hover your cursor over it, or click on it, you'll see complete connection statistics. The Wicd Manager interface is a bit confusing, because the Connect button does not change to Disconnect, though there is a Disconnect button up top. As you can see in Figure 1, connection status is also displayed at the bottom of the Wicd Manager screen.
Encryption key management is a very nice feature, though it still has some rough edges. If all goes well, all you need to do is select the correct type of encryption and then enter the appropriate authentication information, such as the path to your encryption key, login and password, whatever you need to do. If you can't make it work, you may need to edit the encryption templates in /opt/wicd/encryption/templates. If you're experienced with wpa_supplicant it won't be a big deal, and the best help resource is the wicd forums; you'll find plenty of help there with any encryption problems.
- Wicd
- Chapter four of my own Linux Networking Cookbook goes into detail on managing and configuring wireless encryption
Article courtesy of Enterprise Networking Planet, July 7, 2008.


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Ed Robinson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 106 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Pictures from Paradise (picturesfromparadise.com)
We own and operate Maui's premier dive operation. (Ed Robinson's Diving Adventures; http://www.mauiscuba.com )
We offer SCUBA boat tours, SCUBA instruction, snorkel instruction and tours, and International group diving tours. Our business reputation is renowned throughout the dive industry primarily because of the service and care we extend to our clients.
I am the owner and I am also an accomplished underwater photographer. (Sample images; http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocean-art/)
We are creating a website where we will direct our clients to a gallery of images consisting of photos of themselves during their dives and an art décor gallery of tropical underwater and island images. In either gallery they can purchase prints.
Target audience is wide open. Our dive clients will be directed to the website but the art images will be marketed to anyone looking for (primarily) underwater images. This could be businesses or the public looking for underwater art prints to be used for décor.
Most of our audience will be somewhat serious divers, professionals or interior decorators so the logo should not be too cartoonish.
I envision a vector graphic logo consisting of:
* a camera or readily identifiable photography icon,
* Tropical plants (palm trees or a graphic that suggests lush tropics)
* Marine life (could be fish or green sea turtle)
Note: if a fish, it should be found in Hawaii. If I like your design but the fish is wrong I will give you alternate fish suggestions
* A sun background can be explored
* a water surface foreground can be explored
* a beach scene can be explored
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Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, is in the planning stages to open its first club in California, according to a report.
The Orange County Register reported earlier this month that a planning commission in Laguna Niguel, CA, has approved construction of a 128,000-square-foot Life Time club in a vacant site that was once home to the city's expo center. Officials expect construction to begin at the end of this summer, the newspaper reported. The project will include a three-story fitness center and a four-story parking garage.
Karen Jayne Greenwood, senior public relations manager for Life Time Fitness, says the company is looking at numerous markets across the country, including Orange County.
"Life Time is always performing due diligence in areas we believe would benefit both our company and the community should a Healthy Way of Life destination be built in that market," Greenwood wrote in an email to Club Industry. "At this time, of course, we are looking at areas like Orange County. Has anything been finalized? No. Until then, we can all California dream."
Life Time is developing a $40 million project in West Harrison, NY, despite the discovery of mild contamination levels on the property.
Throughout the year, the company also has been holding grand reopenings of clubs that the company acquired last year from Lifestyle Family Fitness, St. Petersburg, FL. The next grand reopening is scheduled for Aug. 18 in Henderson, NC.
Life Time reported clubs in 20 states at the end of last year. This year, Life Time opened a club in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, Ontario, the company's first club in Canada. It also opened a new club in Tulsa, OK, and held its 100th grand opening for a new club in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, GA. In addition to those openings, Life Time acquired Atlanta's Racquet Club of the South in February.


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Rebert's defense seeks to suppress some evidence
BROOKVILLE — An evidence suppression hearing was held Thursday in the case of an Emporium man facing charges for the double murder of a Snyder Township couple in 2010.
Thursday, attorneys for defendant Steven Patrick Rebert filed several motions in the Court of Common Pleas to have Judge John H. Foradora suppress certain pieces of evidence that were introduced by District Attorney Jeffrey Burkett through cross examination of Punxsutawney-based Pennsylvania State Police Tpr. David Ray, the criminal investigation assessment officer.
Foradora said three motions were made by the Assistant Public Defender Jacqueline Mizerock and Public Defender John Ingros to suppress evidence that they thought was improperly gathered by state police during the investigation into the deaths of Victoria Lynn Shugar, and her husband, James Wayne Shugar, both 61, who were found dead April 12, 2010, in their Coal Tipple Road home, Brockway.
Mizerock said she questioned a warrant issued April 29, 2010, for Rebert's home at 422 North Broad St., Emporium, to seize a 1987 Mercury Marquis. She said Rebert's car was never mentioned in the search warrant.
Ray said investigators were searching for trace evidence in the warrant, which included Rebert's apartment and the seats inside his car.
Mizerock also asked why another search warrant was issued May 5 to search the vehicle once again.
Ray said the reason for the second warrant to search Rebert's car was because it had been transported to PSP barracks in Punxsutawney, in Jefferson County, where the examination took place — not Emporium, where the first search warrant was issued. He said the investigative team held daily meetings and decided to add the May 5, 2010, search warrant to be on the safe side.
Mizerock also inquired about two search warrants issued June 3, 2010 — one for Rebert's home, the second one dealing with some specific valuable coins. But she said nowhere did the warrant allege that the coins belonged to the Shugars, or were missing from their home.
Ray said that Tpr. Matthew Powell, PSP computer crimes investigator, said there were searches regarding the value of certain coins found in the search history on Rebert's computer.
Ingros asked if there were coins listed on the first June 3 search warrant that were not found, along with the 30-30 Winchester rifle and ammunition. Ray replied the first list of coins was generic, mostly due to space limitations.
Burkett said a search of Rebert's computer found that some of the coins recovered from his apartment matched some of the coins on the Internet list.
Ingros asked Ray why the list didn't include the years, to which Ray replied that he could not answer.
Some of the coins found at Rebert's home were not on the original search warrant, Ray said, which is why they were added to the second warrant later in the day.
Burkett said 1935 Indian head nickels were observed during the first search, which is why a second warrant was drawn up to include them.
Mizerock asked why only two computers were confiscated from Rebert's home, while two others were left behind.
Ray said troopers took only the two computers that were in working order, as the other two were in bad shape.
No one knew that the coins existed until the Shugars' family members took an inventory of items in the home and produced a list of what was missing, Burkett said. Because the Shugars lived alone, it is difficult to determine what was taken, he said.
Ingros said there was no list of coins missing in the transcript of Rebert's preliminary hearing, and it was produced after the fact.
Foradora scheduled a second suppression hearing for Oct. 11, when he would likely deliver his opinion on the defense's suppression motions, as well as arguments regarding suppressing evidence from Rebert's native New York state, where he developed as a suspect in two homicides in 2005 and 2007 — both males, one shot with a rifle, the other shot with a handgun.
Information developed during searches of Rebert's Emporium home and was forwarded to the New York State Police, the Genesee County Sheriff's Office and Oleans County Sheriff's Office in New York.
Burkett is pursuing the death penalty for Rebert, who remains committed to the Jefferson County jail.


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Engines are not that much different than people in that both can only be pushed so far before they break. Luckily for us, our favorite engine shares a lot in common with our favorite people, especially the part about letting us push it past its limits. Danger Mouse (DM) has become so well known around these halls that it's practically thought of as one of the family now. And lately, we've been pushing it extra hard in search of extra power. Thankfully, it didn't break, but it began to fall down.
Even though DM can't talk, after the last dyno test at Vrbancic Brothers Racing it was obvious that the 1,000-plus dyno pulls DM has logged in its career were taking their toll. A decision had to be made and it had to be made fast. Would we continue testing until DM croaked? Or would we put him out to pasture like so many other magazine engines before? Or should we rebuild him fresh and make a new start on another year? The answer was pretty simple. We're hard-core for power and there's no way we were going to let DM turn old and gray gracefully. Nope, we intended to bend him and try to break him again this year and the only way to do that would be by rebuilding him first.
Right away we contracted with a very well known and respected engine shop in our neck of the woods to see if they could rebuild DM in time to keep us on schedule. The crew at Speed-O-Motive stepped up to the challenge and even signed on for the duration of this year's event. Meaning that they'll do the all wrenching and they'll also be doing most of the testing on their new DTS engine dyno. It was about time we handed over the multitude of chores involved with building and maintaining a monthly dyno mule and Speed-O-Motive was eager to tackle the task.
Rebuilder's Log, Date:January 2004After we dropped DM off at Speed-O's new West Covina, California, facility, owner George Ullrich took one of his best guys, Mitch Jackson, off of full-time engine-building duty to supervise as DM's Number One tech. From here on out, Mitch would also be getting help from our own Seth Millhollin, who puts in some part time work around the shop, (you're foolin' if you think these magazine gigs can pay all the bills) and the rest of the Speed-O crew.
Mitch tore DM down to find a few mangled bearings and some bits of broken distributor gear teeth in the bottom of the oil pan. The teeth came from a gear that sheared its teeth off one day on Westech's dyno. We yanked the distributor and replaced the gear and were up and running again in about 20 minutes. It was all over so fast that we forgot about where the broken parts end up and never pulled the pan to remove them. Yep, we were a bit lazy and there's really no way we'd ever condone running and engine after something like has happened. But, hey, that's why this is a test mule.
Mitch thinks that a few tiny, ground up pieces of distributor gear might have gotten past the oil filter and into the bearings, causing some wear and tear. Luckily, the crank and rods were fine and all DM needed, besides a new set of Speed-Pro bearings, was a quick pass with the block hone to scuff up the cylinder bores for a new set of Speed-Pro moly rings.
While the engine was apart, we also decided to exchange the pistons with a new set that Lunati made for us immediately after we'd put DM together the first time. The new pistons have a taller compression height (1.595 versus the old 1.555), meaning they sit higher in the bores, to correct the very low, -0.040 deck clearance the first set of pistons made.
That's because those pistons were stock-replacement slugs designed to be used in older blocks that had already been decked. But DM's brand new Mowtown block came delivered with a true 9.035-inch deck height and made that set of pistons sit too far down the bores. At the time, we left it alone because it more closely approximated what might be on the street today. Given that many engines have never been rebuilt for performance and might still have the low deck height that GM installed.
The new, taller slugs put DM's pistons right at "zero" deck, which is what we like to see for the best possible power. In addition, they also raised DM's compression by a little more than a half point. Other than the new slugs, DM was put back together just like it was the first time. The file-fit Speed-Pro rings were gapped a little wider than standard to accept some extra abuse and a pair of steel O-ring Fel-Pro heads gaskets (PN 1003) were clamped on top.
For its next bash on the dyno, we will retest the Holley Street Avenger TBI fuel injection system that we had tried before. To make DM more TBI friendly, Speed-O installed a smaller Lunati hydraulic cam and some World Products Sportsman II iron heads. Then they topped it off with a Holley Street Avenger dual plane intake manifold to give the TBI the strongest signal possible. We asked Speed-O to reuse the COMP Cams 1.5:1 magnum roller rockers button up the ignition with a new computer-controlled electronic distributor from Holley.
We figured even though this equipment might not break any records in the horsepower deparment, it would definitely complement the low-speed torque characteristics of the street-worthy TBI. Who knows, we might break a new low-end torque record with this set up. You'll just have to wait until next month to find out. Because that's when we'll head back to Vrbancic's dyno once again to see if we can make the TBI fly.
Danger Mouse Rebuild Specifics For Part 16Compression: 9.1:1World Products: Motown block 4.030 boreWorld Products: Sportsman II iron heads 64ccLunati: hydraulic flat-tappet cam PN50179LUN (268-279 degrees advertised duration, 215-224 degrees duration at .050, .489/.489 lift, 112-degree lobe separation, 108-degree intake centerline)Lunati: crank, rods, and flattop pistonsHolley: dual-plane manifold PN300-36 Speed-Pro: rings and bearingsFel-Pro: gasketsMilodon: oil system and fastenersSpeed-O-Motive: assembly


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Brolin Thunder
Last year, Josh Brolin thought his best Hollywood days were behind him. He'd sold his ranch, gotten busy with his stock portfolio, and cultivated a character actor's mustache. Then he delivered five bloodchilling performances in a series of Oscar-worthy films—and now Hollywood is beating his door down
The email arrives on Friday, from a publicrelations firm in Los Angeles, on behalf of Josh Brolin: "Josh wants to take you up the PCH on his motorcycle."
I write back, Okay.
I think, I'm going to die.
I'd talked to Brolin on the phone a few weeks earlier. I knew about the motorcycle. It's a Ducati, and back in 2006—right before shooting began on Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, in which Brolin had been cast as Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam vet who stumbles upon a valise of misplaced drug money and, subsequently, a world of hurt—Brolin rode it into an intersection, only to discover, and collide with, an oncoming car. He told me how he'd sailed through the air before hitting the pavement, thinking of his kids, thinking, Fuck, I really wanted to work with the Coen brothers.
He walked away from the crash, sustaining only a broken collarbone he would lie to the Coens about. He shot the movie—rolled down hills, got chased by a pit bull. All that activity helped the break heal, he says. But that's not the point. The point is I'm not a real man. Burning up the Pacific Coast Highway on two wheels beats tea and crumpets at the Chateau Marmont from a journalistic perspective, sure. And I'd feel really good about that if we died. I Googled "motorcycle passenger safety" and was convinced that we would. That I'd lean left when I was supposed to lean right and we'd Thelma & Louise it off a cliff.
You couldn't script it better: Brolin's very first film performance—in 1985's The Goonies—ensures that he'll always play the lead in the cavediving fantasies of women of a certain age. But despite his rugged charisma and stagehoned chops, he never quite clicks with audiences as a leading man and spends decades bumming around in the kind of unprestige movies that compete with golf on midafternoon basic cable ("Next on TNT: Josh Brolin stands near Invisible Kevin Bacon in…Hollow Man!")
Then, at the tender age of 39, not long after he's launched a daytrading career and sold his ranch near Paso Robles so that he'll never have to take another pickingupapaycheck acting job, he gets a moviestar moment. He works with the Coens, in No Country. Plays a malevolently mustachioed cop for Ridley Scott in American Gangster. A zombiebait doctor in Robert Rodriguez's half of Grindhouse. He plays men swaggering unshaven toward their doom, men you suspect smell like sweat and booze and gun oil. He brings to these parts—and other, less iconically badass ones, in The Dead Girl and Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah—a lowkey, hangdog magnificence, as if he's bartered some hunkiness for confidence, presence, gravitas.
And then he bites it on some Dead Man's Curve before taking his place on the Alist. Oh, and SOME WRITER ALSO KILLED.
Plus, there was the whole _holdingon _issue. How does a dude ride with another dude, exactly Grab his hips Wrap my arms around him like a Jersey girl trying to show Bruce Springsteen that her love is wild and/or real before this town rips the bones from our backs Was there a protocol regarding screaming
So when Brolin shows up—on a Monday morning, on a street corner in west L.A., near but not too near the house he shares with his second wife, actress Diane Lane—I try not to seem too relieved that he's driving a blue Chevy Silverado pickup. There was a chance of rain, apparently. Plus, last night he had this dream:
"We're speeding down PCH. And all the brake fluid has drained, unbeknownst to both you and me. We're going about fiftyfive, sixty, and there's no brakes. So I yell to you to hold on to the back of the bike. And I—kind of like I'm on a horse—I pop my legs around. I'm thinking about the shoes that I've chosen to wear, and if I can dig the soles in deep enough to actually stop us before we hit a car, and if I can steer—if you stay straight, if you don't panic and lean either way, can I get us to stop before we hit something"
He's not the kind of guy who sifts his dreams for clues, but this just seemed too explicit to ignore.
We hit the freeway and get out of town. Brolin wears sunglasses and a TEAMSTERS baseball cap. Puffs Winstons. Rhapsodizes about William Burroughs and Hunter Thompson. He tells funny stories about embarrassing himself in front of Tilda Swinton, geeking out during a recent meeting with Martin Scorsese to talk about a role ("I thought, Fuck trying to get a job—I just want to ask him questions"), and living in a crappy Hollywood apartment building whose penthouse tenant was Billy Zane ("I was like, Let me do one more Highway to Heaven episode so we can move"). His memory is spotty when it comes to proper nouns—PETA, Tilda Swinton—but he does an extraordinary Nick Nolte impression.
His dog, Milo—whiskered like the Lorax, with the barrelchested bearing of a much larger dog—hops up on the center console, as if to protect us. Milo learned a lot, Brolin says, from Cody. Cody was Brolin's old dog, a cowdog. He died; his collar hangs off the Silverado's rearview mirror.
Brolin tells me more about his accident. About the 300pound guy who materialized out of nowhere—as Brolin stood there with his arm hanging loose, going into shock—and demanded that Brolin apologize to the woman whose car he'd hit, leading Brolin to wonder if he'd actually died and the afterlife was an absurd Coen brothers movie.
"My wife makes fun of me constantly," Brolin says (he's been married to Lane for almost four years). "She says it's always fucking something. 'Why do you have to make it so hard on yourself' I didn't. But it's an interesting question. Because you're like, Was it fear Was it getting this part, and going, Can I really do it, now that I've gotten it"
We're driving fast through postcardapocalyptic Southern California—freshly wildfirescorched hills on the right, glittering ocean on the left. Brolin's glad to be out of town. We don't stop until we're somewhere near the L.A. County line, at a little seafood place called Neptune's Net.
"I love that it's kinda in the middle of nowhere," Brolin says. When Brolin asks the cashregister guy if they allow smoking, the cashregister guy asks if he means cigarettes. It's that kind of place. Patrons with Harleys sip prenoon twentyfourouncers of Corona on the patio. Provided you obey the posted noshoesnoservice policy, Mr. Spicoli, you can buy a cake of Mr. Zog's surfboard wax at the counter. Brolin picks one up, holds it to his nose and breathes in deeply, like the Irish Spring guy. We place our order—fish tacos, fried shrimp—and I ask Brolin how far we are from the city. He says maybe half an hour, and I remember that this is L.A., where distances are measured in minutes. I ask how many miles.
"I'm trying to get my bearings," I say.
"The point is not to get your bearings," Brolin says.
THIS IS BROLIN'S thing—he gets away. Whenever possible. Takes the wife, and the kids, or doesn't. He got this from his mom. He got a lot from her. It's the father, James Brolin, who tends to loom larger in discussions of Brolinrelated matters, because he's an actor, too. (Tonight, floating around the syndicated ether: James Brolin stars in Hotel, in Marcus Welby, M.D., as _The West Wing'_s dim fauxDubya, as silvermaned arm candy to Barbra Streisand, Josh's stepmom of almost ten years.) But the part of Brolin that feels at home on the road, the part of him, he says, that's not unlike Llewelyn Moss—that's from Mom.
Mom was Jane Agee, who died in a car accident in 1995. She'd grown up poor in Texas and aspired to act. Ten days into their relationship, she looked at James—they were drinking scorpions—and said, "We gonna get married or what" Maybe it was twelve days in—Brolin isn't positive. Jane would wake James up at 2 a.m., Brolin says, and say, "C'mon—we're leaving."
"He'd be so pissed off," Brolin says. "But he would end up having the most incredible adventure ever. She was the kind of person who'd be driving and say, 'I wonder what's down that dirt road' I love that."
Jane worked with Fish & Game. She turned the family's ranch in Paso Robles into a halfway house for animals that had been illegally removed from the wild. She brought home coyotes, chimps, mountain lions, the occasional tiger, and one bear. Brolin and his younger brother (who needed sixty stitches in his leg after being attacked by a wolf at age 6) spent a lot of time in close proximity to dangerous animals. "I had to clean the cages, which was absolutely irresponsible of my mom," Brolin says. "You just had to deal, man."
Brolin didn't grow up around show business. "You're closer to Hollywood in San Francisco," he says, "than you are in Paso Robles." When Brolin was 7, maybe 8, "I got on the school bus, and somebody was giving me shit. And I said, 'Do you know who my dad is' And they kicked the living shit out of me. And that was a good thing. Because whatever hint of that had started to blossom was snuffed out real quick. That's embarrassing, but it's the truth."
You were only 7, I say.
"Regardless," Brolin says. "Thank God I wasn't 27." Then, in a snotnosedkid voice: "Do you know who my dad is James Brolin, from Marcus Welby!"
"Obviously, I thought there was some kind of power behind it," Brolin says. "But it was also very elusive to me. I just knew my dad did this thing that everybody thought was, Wow. And when they kicked the shit out of me for [mentioning] it, that just confused me. And I ended up despising it."
He wanted to be a lawyer. Got good grades. He was also a punk. Sported a Mohawk. Opened for legendary SoCal acts like T.S.O.L. and Black Flag as the drummer in a band that became the semilegendary Santa Barbara hardcore outfit Rich Kids on LSD.
"The thought of being an actor was ridiculous. I didn't understand that there was a craft, that it involved behavior, psychology—all that stuff that I'm into now. I like it for those reasons alone. The act of acting is a pain. It's humiliating. You put yourself in a position that's very strange and awkward. Y'know, you're doing Flirting with Disaster"—in which Brolin plays a bisexual ATF agent—"and you're walking around with tattoos and nipple rings, licking somebody's armpit, and thinking, This is what I do for a living."
But in high school, he took an improvtheater class, and that led to more plays, which led to a string of unsuccessful auditions. By the time he got the idolmaking part in Goonies, Brolin says, "I'd been turned down a lot and been told a lot of negative things." But on the strength of Goonies, he starred in 1986's Thrashin', a '50sstyle juveniledelinquent flick on skateboards, promoted with the movieposter tagline: HOT. RECKLESS. TOTALLY INSANE. Brolin doesn't want to trash the movie—he still runs into people who tell him it inspired them to start skateboarding—but when he saw it, he didn't feel hot or reckless or insane. He felt mortified.
"I cried when I saw it" he says. "That performance. I thought, Get out now, or go figure out how to do this, because that's unacceptable."
He didn't appear in another film until 1994. He acted in a couple of shortlived TV series—The Young Riders, about the scruffily handsome heyday of the Pony Express, is the best remembered—and did theater on the East Coast. You get the sense that if the movies that rejuvenated his film career hadn't come along, he'd have been content becoming a sort of Sam Shepardian pickuptruck bard. He cofounded an L.A. theater troupe; this summer he cowrote and codirected Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, a play about the life and death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott. And his first short film as a director—X, about a prison escapee and his daughter, with Brolin's own daughter playing the female lead—just got accepted to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Brolin says that news is the thing he's most excited about these days.
"I swear," Brolin says, taking a taste from a cup of cocktail sauce with his little finger.
There's not a tiny bit of bullshit to what you're saying
"All this stuff—that people like the movies, that financially they're doing well—is amazing, because it creates more choices. But there's something about starting from absolute scratch, creating something, and having people react to it."
Does it bug you, I ask, that the notion that you've been doing nothing for twenty years—the idea that you've gone from zero to sixty—is such a big part of the narrative of your comeback
"I didn't feel like nothing for twenty years," Brolin says. "I felt pretty good. My son's in his second year of college. I [was able to] pay for that. He's doing well, and so are my daughters, and everybody's good, man, everybody's been happy. So, no. Zero No. Fifty to eighty Sure. Fifty to eighty I can deal with. Zero to one hundred, no."
Watching other actors succeed, Brolin says, "I never got bitter. I didn't feel like, 'Why isn't that me' No. There were…"
Here there is a long, wordchoosing pause.
"There were…"
Another pause here, an even longer one, a patch of windblown conversational Mojave. Brolin looks off into the middle distance, at a blue clapboard wall. A fly walks on his hair.
"There were moments when I wanted to be alone," he finally says. "That's for sure. 'Cause I was surrounded by famous people. That was a little unnerving. At moments. But not because of their success. Because of the cosmetics of it. The celebrity of it."
Do you mean—
"I'm not gonna be clear," Brolin says. Then he sort of relents, with a sigh. "I'm going through it right now. Diane"—who became a boxoffice draw earlier this decade, on the strength of movies like Unfaithful—"went through it. Suddenly, it becomes bigger than the work. And you're getting eighty phone calls in a day. And you wanna continue to be the person that you are by answering phone calls, like you did when you used to get five a day. It's much easier to call five people back than it is to call eighty people back."
If Brolin's having a hard time getting used to that ringing phone, maybe it's because he's come to enjoy the view from Hollywood's margins. He's had brushes with notoriety—three years ago, Lane called the police during what Brolin says was a nonphysical argument, and he was carted off to jail. She never pressed charges. ("It was embarrassing as hell," Brolin says. "The reality of the situation was that we yelled too loud—I yelled too loud—and she said, 'Fuck you. You wanna scream at me Guess what I can do.' Which I respect about Diane, fully. Fully. She's a tough girl. And I'm organically and lovingly frightened of my wife.") But mostly, he's operated in a vacuum, out of the papers, seldom airkissing other actors ("See you at Koi," he smirks. "See you at Nobu"), and it has shaped his sense of self.
Even the stories he does tell about hanging out with famous people tend to emphasize his outsider status. A few years ago, Brolin had dinner at Marlon Brando's house. He sat quiet most of the night, he says, watching other actors ask genuflecting questions about the craft of acting, watching Brando hold hands with a woman he'd met on the Internet and fumble through war stories. (" 'I was working with, um, what's her name, um—ahh, shit, what's her name' We're all sitting there, on the edge of our seats. 'Y'know, she's got the hair, and—shit, what's her name She was in the car—uh, when—Kazan,' and we go, Streetcar 'Oh—Vivien Leigh! Vivien Leigh.' ")
There had been a mud slide on the PCH that day. Brando had gotten out of his car to help somebody. "And as they were backing their car out of the mud, it hit him. Cut him a little bit, around his hip. There was a certain Scientologist at the house," Brolin says, "who had just reached another level of the Scientology grid. And I watched him use those newfound powers, um, on Brando's leg. It was pretty amazing to me, man. However wary or cynical I may be."
He laughs.
"There was one part of me that was like, 'Oh, come on.' But there was another, more real part of me that was like, 'I cannot deny that something good is happening here.' "
"GOD IT'D BE NICE to have a motorcycle right now, man," Brolin says.
We're back in the truck now, heading out toward the county line, where the terrain across the highway from the water turns Planet of the Apes–ish. It's never discussed, but from here we'll go no farther. We'll head back to the city—our getaway is an illusion, and Brolin's got a thing to do in Palm Springs later. He's still not totally comfortable in Los Angeles. He wants to buy another ranch. "I have to have the escape. It's not like, 'Oh, it gets me back to who I really am'—that has nothing to do with it. I just like the country."
I ask him how he got through the lean years—whether it was a blow to his ego that his leadingman career didn't shape up the way he might have expected it to.
"I just knew that things were going to be okay," he says. "I knew that I always had a choice. I'm not interested in just lying down and being happy forever. It's the fluctuation that's fun, man. That's what's fun about the stock market."
We should probably talk about the stock market.
A couple of years ago, Brolin got heavy into daytrading. He'd always been good with numbers. He met a guy, a businessman, Brett Markinson. A friend of Skeet Ulrich's. Markinson taught him how to pick stocks using applied mathematics. Or at least I think that's what happened—Brolin explained all this to me twice and lost me at Skeet Ulrich. What's important is that he and Markinson started a company together called MarketProbability.com, and that when Brolin talks about all this stuff—quantum mathematics, indicators, "playing the edge"—he sounds as excited as he does when he talks about acting. Really, he says, the skill sets involved aren't that different—you're thinking about psychology, motivations, behavior.
"If you look at a graph," he says, "it's just fear and greed. Don't watch the numbers. Watch the people."
We're poking along in hellish afternoon traffic now. "It was a business thing," Brolin says of his adventures in the market. "I felt like I was way behind, y'know But I love the creativity of it."
Trading stocks also gave Brolin a livelihood apart from the movies. It's still the way he makes his money—he didn't get paid that much for any of the movies he's in right now, he says—and before things heated up for him, having another income allowed him to pick and choose acting gigs more carefully.
"That was always my motive," he says.
He stops. Two very young blond girls in a black Escalade one lane over are bopping frenetically and unselfconsciously to some music we can't hear.
"God, those girls are pretty," Brolin says. "I mean, sort of. Look at that. They're just rockin' out. I love it. Just keep goin', man."
When they see Brolin, they stop rocking and start giggling—maybe they recognize him, maybe they're just embarrassed. Then the traffic jerks forward and they're gone.
"I see them back there, just going off," Brolin says. "That's hilarious. So—anyway. Ugh. I'm tired of talking about myself. You start to get a buzz in your head. That's when I know."
BACK IN THE CITY NOW, and Brolin's pointing out an apartment where his dad used to live, years ago, in a decrepit saltbox of a building called the Pacific Fontainebleau. "Things weren't going so well," he says. "Fluctuation. That's why—this moment's nice and all that, but you never know. My dad was living there. Happily."
We talk for a minute about the possibility of a Goonies sequel. He's heard Sean Astin's been telling people the movie's a go. Brolin only wants to do it if he can take it really dark—play Brand Walsh again as a homeless alcoholic or a paralyzed braininjury victim. He can joke about that movie now, because things have fluctuated. This feels good. Scorsese's calling. Brolin's in another place.
"It's like the dog, man," Brolin says. "The dog was really cute when we first got him. He was fluffy and pretty. And soft. And then he got older, and the hair got all coarse, and the lower jaw started to stick out. His teeth started to go in every direction."
All day, we've been talking about accepting what comes. How Brolin's found something, by relaxing into character roles, that had always eluded him on the leadingman track. I'm thinking about this as Milo climbs up between the front seats. Brolin grips Milo's muzzle, makes who'sagoodboy
faces at him.
He's cooler now, I say.
"It's not that he's cooler now," Brolin says. "What would be sad is if he changed, and I went, 'That's not what I bargained for. I wanted the goodlooking dog that was soft, that cuddled with me, and now he's not that, and I don't want him anymore.' He's changed, and that's cool. Look at 'im, man. He's so smart. He just makes me smile, every time."
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Officers from the Walton and West Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team have been out spotting vulnerable vehicles and helping shoppers stay safe at a Chesterfield supermarket.
PC Dave Randell and PCSO Kirsty Handby spent a number of hours at Morrison's on Chatsworth Road speaking to local residents, fitting purse chains and offering safety advice.
While at the store the officers also had a check round for any cars that had been parked up and left with valuables on show, a window open or a door unlocked.
Targeting purse and handbag thefts is a current priority for the Walton and West Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team, who are also trialling the Vulnerable Vehicle Scheme.
The Vulnerable Vehicle Scheme scheme has been launched to help reduce the number of incidents where thieves take advantage of unlocked doors or are tempted by valuables being left on display.
While out on patrol officers, on those Safer Neighbourhood policing teams taking part, are keeping an eye out for vehicles which are more at risk of being targeted by thieves.
If officers come across a vulnerable vehicle, they try to contact the owner to make them aware, to raise awareness of the risk and encourage them to follow crime prevention advice.
In cases where it is difficult for officers to find them, a letter is sent to the owner with details of what officers found during their patrol, along with further advice and information on the scheme.
PCSO Kirsty Handby said: "The event was really successful, because we had the chance to speak with many local residents, and raise awareness of how to stay safe both while shopping and also when you leave your vehicle."
The team hold regular surgeries and crime prevention events in the area.
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NSA Deploys Botnet Armies, Spoofs Facebook
Mar 13, 2014 3:46 PM PT
The latest Snowden revelations about NSA surveillance activities indicate the agency could infect millons of computers with malware, and has spoofed Facebook servers to capture traffic from targets. Documents previously leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden include detailed descriptions of its tools and techniques, First Look reported.
"It is not surprising that the NSA would create and deploy malware," Harley Geiger, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told TechNewsWorld. "What is surprising is the evidence the NSA is prepared to do so on a scale that could affect millions of computers."
Hacking and surveillance operations should be used "on specific targets with minimal impact on innocent parties, not on a massive scale," Geiger said.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
The covert infrastructure that supports the hacking program operates from NSA headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md., and from NSA bases in the UK and Japan. British intelligence agency GCHQ apparently was deeply involved in developing the malware deployment tactic.
In some instances, the NSA set up fake Facebook servers; in others it spammed victims with poisoned emails whose payload could record audio from the target computers' mikes and take photos with its webcam. The NSA also can launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites, according to the First Look report.
The program, launched in 2004, apparently was aimed initially at about 150 targets, but over the past decade, the NSA developed an automated system codenamed "Turbine" that extends its reach to millions of victims.
Turbine reportedly was developed as part of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit's work. It would enable the agency to attack millions of targets through computer network exploitation malware, which scarfs up intelligence from target computers and networks; and computer network attack malware, which disrupts, damages or destroys targets.
Turbine has been operational since at least July 2010, according to the report. The NSA deployed up to 100,000 malware implants against computers and networks worldwide and planned to continue doing so. Turbine is part of a broader NSA initiative named "Owning the Net" for which the agency sought nearly $68 million in funds last year.
The NSA reportedly also has malware that can circumvent privacy tools because it accesses computers before they are protected with encryption, and it can track VoIP calls made using Skype and other systems.
The usefulness of NSA's email spam program has diminished over the years as people become more wary of opening unsolicited emails, so the agency is turning to man-in-the-middle tactics, the First Look report indicates.
Reaching for the Stars
"Combating cyberterrorism is an extremely difficult task where having better visibility is always helpful," Joe Bonnell, founder and CEO of Alchemy Security, told TechNewsWorld.
"That said, the apparent overreach by the U.S. government highlighted by stories [such as the one about Turbine] is making their mission more difficult," Bonnell pointed out.
It is not clear how effective this massive surveillance program has been so far.
"This may be a matter of some dispute, just like there continues to be debate over whether the bulk collection of telephone metadata provides useful intelligence," the CDT's Geiger said.
The Impact on the NSA
This latest report, coming shortly after Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., accused the CIA of breaking the law and breaching constitutional principles, could further heighten congressional and public mistrust of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Feinstein, who chairs the United States Senate Intelligence Committee, has accused the CIA of sabotaging the committee's investigation into the use of waterboarding over several years.
The latest Snowden revelations also cast a shadow over congressional testimony given on Wednesday by General Keith Alexander, head of the military's newly created Cyber Command, that he is setting up 13 teams to launch cyberattacks on foreign nations in retaliation for similar attacks against the U.S.
"This and other reports have definitely thrown into question whether the NSA has the moral high ground in efforts to secure the Internet," Geiger pointed out. "If other countries decide to deploy malware en masse, it will be much harder for the U.S. to cry foul."


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Jesse needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Logo design for small virtual assistant training institute
The logo is going to be used on a website designed to be a resource and networking community for Virtual Assistants, while improving the quality of VA's in the community, and educating potential clients about their services.
We will offer virtual assistant services to people needing them through the network of virtual assistants on our website.
We will also offer training programs for virtual assistants and those wanting to become a virtual assistant.
- 2 colours: Purple is RGB 102, 51, 153 - Green is RGB 51, 153, 102
- Official Company Name: The Virtual Assistant Training Institute
- Logo should convey the beauty of "Virtual" Assistance. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, a virtual assistant can help. Like the idea of a globe with internet cables connecting different countries.
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- Prototyping towards a better user experience
- Designing websites has traditionally been an expensive and laboured experience. Many hours have been spent pouring over information architecture, deliberating interactions, elaborating upon wireframes and creating pixel-perfect Photoshop and Illustrator compositions, only for those design artefacts to be archived neatly away, on a server, never to be seen again. Read more – 'Prototyping towards a better user experience'.


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March 24, 2010
The so-called Carlson case, which began in 1984 and has spanned over a quarter of a century, has been reviewed four times by the Alaska Supreme Court. In it, roughly 12,000 plaintiffs challenged state laws charging non-resident commercial fishermen three times more than residents. They also sought refunds of any overpayment of fees. The state prevailed against roughly 2/3rds of the plaintiffs.
In the latest superior court ruling issued Monday, Judge Peter Michalski determined the remaining fishermen were entitled to refunds totaling $12 million. The remainder of the $75 million judgment is the result of a decision in 2003 by the Alaska Supreme Court to apply a statute with an unusually high interest rate to the refund amount, with interest accruing from the beginning of the case.
"For years, the Department of Law has worked closely with legislators on this matter, and we are providing them details on this latest decision," said Attorney General Dan Sullivan. "We have also filed an appeal to the Alaska Supreme Court challenging the interest rate applied in the judgment and the attorney's fees award against the state."
Judge Michalski's ruling establishes the particulars of the judgment against the state, based on previous decisions by the Alaska Supreme Court. The ruling sets out the final judgment as follows:
The total judgment is $82,290,295.94.
As large as this judgment is, recent rulings have significantly reduced the state's liability. For example, in 2008, in response to arguments by the state, the Supreme Court ruled that the allowable differential between resident and non-resident fees based on the monetary value of contributions to state fisheries management made by residents need not be exact and that the additional charge to non-residents would still be constitutional if no more than 50 percent above the calculated resident contribution. Those and other rulings substantially reduced the state's exposure.
The bulk of today's judgment is due to the Alaska Supreme Court's unexpected decision in 2003 to apply an interest statute for tax delinquencies and tax refunds to the refund of commercial fishing fees. The statute provides for an unusually high interest rate of 11 percent, compounded quarterly. The appeal filed today by the Department of Law focuses on the interest issue and on the award of attorney's fees against the state.
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