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April will be designated as Rosacea Awareness Month, as new research has tied rosacea to increased risk of a growing number of potentially serious illnesses.
April will be designated as Rosacea Awareness Month, as new research has tied rosacea to increased risk of a growing number of potentially serious illnesses.
Whether you're visiting a dermatologist for the first time or returning for your regular check-up, try out these tips and talking points to help guide your conversation.
People with rosacea may be more likely to have meibomian gland dysfunction, blepharitis and changes to the margins of their eyelids, according to researchers.
Whether responding to incorrect comments or dispelling the potential for false impressions, it might be a good idea to initiate a conversation about your condition.
How much do you know about rosacea?
Researchers in Denmark have reported a potential link between rosacea and migraine headaches.
New Year's Eve is an inconvenient time for a rosacea flare-up. Here are a few ideas for avoiding common rosacea tripwires.
Learn how you can play an important role in the ongoing search for the causes and other key aspects of rosacea.
More than a third of rosacea patients have said winter is the hardest season of the year.
Recent studies in the United Kingdom, South Korea and Denmark have found significant associations between rosacea and inflammatory bowel disease.
This year the National Rosacea Society is taking part in Giving Tuesday, a global day of charity that falls just after the shopping madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate with family and friends, but it can also be a time when potential rosacea flare-ups could make the festivities less enjoyable.
The latest issue of our newsletter is now available for online reading.
Despite increased information and awareness of rosacea, the misconception persists that rosacea is caused by excessive drinking.
"For several years I thought there was no light at the end of the tunnel with this condition, and that I would have to live with aggravated rosacea the rest of my life," she said.
A new survey of rosacea patients found most with eye irritation have not been treated for the eye symptoms of ocular rosacea.
Change in weather can bring special challenges. Here are some tips to help ensure that your fall is flare-up free.
Rosacea.org, the leading online resource for information about rosacea, is now optimized to work on mobile devices.
Researchers conducting a nationwide study in Denmark found that rosacea may be associated with increased risk of certain gastrointestinal diseases.
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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Monday, April 03, 2006
Who Were the Hittites?
The World Book Encyclopedia notes, "Hittites, were the earliest inhabitants of what is now Turkey to be recorded in history. They began to control the area about 1900 B.C. During the next several hundred years, they conquered parts of Mesopotamia and Syria. By 1500 B.C., the Hittites had become a leading power in the Middle East. Hittite culture and language were Indo-European, but scholars do not know whether the Hittites came from Europe or from central Asia."
The essay also has a short bibliography of books for doing research on the Hittites although I question why only books dealing with Egyptian history are included. There are several good books on the Hittites published prior to 1999 when this essay was apparently written. These include both The Hittites: And Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor by J. G. MacQueen and The Hittites by O. R. Gurney.
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The Hittites were a people who once lived in what is modern Turkey and northern Syria. Most of what we know about them today comes from ancient texts that have been recovered. It would seem that the first indication of their existence occurred in about 1900 BC, in the region that was to become Hatti. There, they established the town of Nesa. Over the next three hundred years, their influence grew until in about 1680 BC, a true empire was born.
This original kingdom was founded by a leader known as Labarna, and the kingdom was expanded by later rulers all across Anatolia and down to the Mediterranean Sea. So strong was this kingdom that in 1595 BC, they were able to raid Babylon. However, this initial serge of the Hittite empire was staggered due to the lack of a clear custom for the succession of Kings. Hence, the kingdom was only as strong as the current ruler, and within about 120 years, it began to crumble.
In Egypt, when their empire became weak as it did during three intermediate periods, usually due to a decentralization of government, the Nubians to the south, Egypt's only true neighbors, most often prospered. They frequently took back land gained by the Egyptians when Egypt was strong, only to lose it once more when Egypt recovered.
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- Jennie W said...
I have to say that I have never really liked this site. Its a travel site and seems very "pseudo" history to me. Students are attracted to it because it pops up quickly on Google, but I usually won't let you use it because the authors can't be verified...you don't know if they are students, professors, or just someone with time to kill. They do have references, of which I approve, but much of their material, I think, is very questionable. Just my opinion...feel free to disagree.
- Geoff Elliott said...
The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, Turkey contains priceless Hittite artifacts. It's well worth the visit. The museum has undergone an expansion and reorganization of the exhibits in the past few years and has become world class. While one can visit Hittite settlements in Turkey, most of the outstanding artifacts are in this museum.

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CHAPEL HILL – Jan Boxill, UNC's Faculty Chair, said Monday that the news of Sylvia Hatchell's diagnosis of leukemia came as a shock.
"I just talked to Coach Hatchell on Thursday night and she said she was going for tests, but I don't think either of us expected this."
WCHL's Aaron Keck spoke with Boxill on the WCHL Monday Evening News.
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Boxill said she's had a close relationship with Carolina's head women's basketball coach. She spoke with former Tar Heel basketball great, Rashanda McCants, just after the announcement of the diagnosis was released.
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Zotos Hosts Annual Cut and Color-A-Thon
Zotos International participated in breast cancer awareness month in October by organizing its annual cut and color-a-thon to raise funds for City of Hope's breast cancer research and treatment programs. The event began with the company recruiting stylists from Connecticut and New Jersey to volunteer their talent and services. The cuts and color services were made available to Zotos employees, family members and the public. The cut and color-a-thon was a one day event, held October 7, and raised $1,800 in City of Hope donations.
In addition to the salon services presented at the cut and color event, Zotos hosted a company-wide raffle, which featured items that were donated by the company's vendors. Prizes ranged from iPads, to restaurant gift certificates to hotel accommodations. The tickets were sold for $1 each and the raffle was open to employees from Zotos' home office headquarters in Darien, Connecticut as well as the Arcadia, California and Rosemont, Illinois offices. The raffle generated an additional $5,500 in fund donations.
Ron Krassin, president and CEO of Zotos International, who took advantage of the cut-a-thon commented on the company's charitable initiatives. "This is one of a number of events that employees participate in throughout the year and I am proud to be part of a company that values the importance of giving back to our community. City of Hope is an incredible organization and we are pleased to continue to support their heroic efforts," Krassin said. Visit zotos.com.


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One Year Later: Ten Things President Obama HAS Done Since He's Been in Office
by Anthony Asadullah Samad posted on Wednesday, 11 November
Obama Nobel One Year Later: Ten Things President Obama HAS Done Since Hes Been in Office One year ago, the United States witnessed the people take its government back from ideological tyranny, greed, and anti-intellectualism. The election of President Barack Obama was a worldwide event — a signal to the world that America, at last, had overcome it's last taboo (at least publicly), race. Graveyards all over America with generations of three centuries of racialized pasts either roared, "Finally," or rolled over in amazement that this could happen here of all places.
One year later, the nation is a lot more sober with the reality of what change really is, and what was necessary to bring change about. The most amazing thing about the past year is the short memories everybody seems to have about how bad things really were. People seem to have forgotten that the economy was in a freefall, two misguided wars were draining the U.S. treasury ,and we had little goodwill to be found anywhere around the globe.
All guns were pointed at us with no calvary in sight. Everybody thought Barack Obama was the better candidate. Everybody agreed that Barack Obama should be elected President. But NOBODY was going to call it, bet the farm on it, or even say it, above a whisper, that Barack Obama would be the next President — until they saw it with their own eyes. The reality of the Americ's situation, however, is that no matter who was elected President, the country was in trouble. And that's exactly how it's gone down.
The ignorant (who are not really ignorant, just still mad), the foolish, and the partisans all want to suggest that President Obama hasn't done anything in the 10 months since he's been President. They even want to blame the outcomes of this month's elections in Virginia and New Jersey as a referendum on the job Obama is doing. Like things were just going to turn around because Barack showed up. It's simple-minded and disingenuous to suggest nothing has been done. So, let's look at (at least) ten things President Obama has managed to achieve within his first year (that's not over yet):
* Ten: President Obama has slowed down the recession. Nobody is talking depression anymore, and some are talking recovery. Trying to catch this economy from crashing was like trying to catch a 100 ton boulder dropped off a 70-story building. The nertia alone is going to push you backwards until you can slow the force. Most wouldn't even step in front of a boulder coming at them like this. Obama stepped in the gap and stuck to a measured recovery plan of stimulus dollars and labor force transition.
* Nine: President Obama saved Wall Street. And Wall Street tried to punk him by paying itself first. He exposed the absence of regulatory oversight on Wall Street, and economic and financial investment reform is being discussed like never before.
* Eight: President Obama saved the collapse of the American automotive industry. By making GM restructure before bailing them out, and putting incentive money to help the industry, he saved the industry. People want to make jokes about "cash for clunkers" but the automakers aren't laughing. They're thanking him.
* Seven: President Obama shifted the focus of the war from Iraq to Aftghanistan, and putting the emphasis on reducing terrorism where it should have been all along-but now they want to say he's making war, not peace. Well, at least he didn't destabilize a whole region on a false premise. It's better than what we had.
* Six: President Obama relaxed Anti-American tensions throughout the world. This was more serious than the previous administration was willing to let on. The President made good on his promise to make a major address on American-Muslim relations and he did it in a Muslim country, showing a good faith that America hadn't shown in a while.
* Five: President Obama closed the prisoner "torture camp" at Guantanamo Bay. Holding prisoners for eight years without charging them was acceptable under the previous administration. It is not acceptable under this administration. Obama's next challenge is what to do with the detainees.
* Four: President Obama has made the environment a national priority, and a primary source for job creation. The era of polluting industrialists is over, and with a President that understands the benefits of green conversion, America can become a leader in the industry of the future.
* Three: President Obama has made education a national priority by putting emphasis and money behind new ideas like charter schools, but speaking directly to school children in telling them they have to do their part. It's what any President should be encouraging but Obama's so popular, he was accused of trying to "socialize" or "prothelitize" the children. It's a sad day when the President of the United States can't speak to school children because their parent's views conflict.
* Two: President Obama is on the verge of passing universal health care, with a public option, to insure everybody in America has care when they are sick. He's doing it, despite villification of ideologues and while in the midst of an H1N1 epidemic where millions could get sick this winter. The people feel him on this.
* One: President Obama has restored credibility to the American Presidency where the world is looking to him to lead America out of unilateralism and back into multilateral global cooperation. The Nobel Peace Prize was an acknowledgment that Obama had led and is leading a non-violent cultural revolution in America. Everybody, except for a few in America, can see the change. Still, the world understands what happened one year ago, and they thought they'd never see such a shift occur. The election of Obama helped the world see the light that America wasn't ready to self-destruct.
One Year Later: Ten Things President Obama HAS Done Since Hes Been in Office Not bad, for less than a year in office. People need to stop complaining that he hasn't done enough. Obama was elected President. He wasn't elected Jesus. Like Al Sharpton said on Meet The Press, "we now realize that Obama doesn't walk on water, but he's still the fastest swimmer in America."
One Year Later: Ten Things President Obama HAS Done Since He's Been in Office | The LA Progressive
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10. The economy is a mess and his "have my cake and eat it to" policy is typical politics. Either he owns the economy or Bush does. Instead he takes credit and passes the blame. What a joke.
9. Another have your cake and eat it too claim.
8. Sounds like a Mission Accomplished banner moment. Until the industry changes, it will be a mess. All Obama did was illegally payback union supporters.
7. Shifted the focus to Afghanistan and is in the 10th month of deciding whether to win or surrender. Way to go.
6. Yeah, Muslims have been showing the love at Ft. Hood. They don't hate us anymore, we clicked our heels in Cairo.
5. Seriously? It's still open.
4. Cap and trade is about government control and has nothing to do with the environment. Another "green job" myth, too.
3. He's so popular! I love how charter schools are a "new idea" yet some of us have been advocating to create them for years. One of Obama's first decisions was to end school choice in DC and send poor black kids back to failing public schools while he sent his kids to nice private schools. Once again, he chose campaign contributing unions over the people.
2. Obama is on the verge of spending trillions that will do little to extend coverage while doing nothing to reduce costs. This will be an absolut disaster.
1. Wherever he's trying to lead nobody's following.
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There is a rising chorus of impatient progressive bloggers, some on these pages, calling Obama a failure and a do-nothing president only nine months into his first of four years as president. SNL's "" on Obama may well have empowered some on our side to start playing on the fringes of the Limbaugh sandbox. While the charges and name-calling are not as vicious as the Limbaugh Lemmings, it has started nonetheless.
So what has our newly-minted ******* president been doing for nine months?
Let's start with what he has not done. He has not found a cure for cancer, reversed climate change, ended poverty, brought peace to the Middle East, ended all wars, created enough new jobs, or created a single-payer healthcare system. These are big ticket items that no president will ever accomplish, so it is a little disingenuous to suggest a standard for Obama that does not apply to all past presidents or to future presidents. As Princeton economics professor Alan Blinder says in assessing what Obama has accomplished so far, "If he seems to have achieved little, it's partly because he set out to do too much." To which I would add, and we created an unrealistic agenda for what we wanted him to accomplish.
Let's continue with what he has done. First and foremost, none other than the Wall Street Journal, in an assessment titled, "Democrats Quiet Changes Pile Up", says he has accomplished more in nine months than George Bush did in his first nine months.
Let's be specific:
1. Significantly, he buried the Imperial Presidency of George Bush and restored the Constitutional balance of government by respecting the equal standing of the legislative branch of government. As a former constitutional law professor, this is a major matter of change of tone and style that he promised during the campaign, and he has delivered. (Not pretty or necessarily effective given the Reid-less leadership in the Senate, but we are a constitutional democracy.)
2. Passed and signed the stimulus package, the biggest piece of legislation--ever--in blinding speed, thus being able to start to stabilize the economy, with GDP now projected to grow at the rate of 3 percent by the end of the year. Check the comeback of your 401K since Obama has taken over.
3. Stabilized the top 20 banks without federalizing them.
4. Reduced the rate of foreclosures inherited from the Bush administration.
5. Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that makes it easier to sue for wage discrimination, a dramatic reversal of the bill's fortunes under Bush.
6. Granted regulatory power to the FDA to control tobacco products, another dramatic reversal of the Bush years that industry has lobbied hard to prevent.
7. Signed the Matthew Shepard Hate Act that expanded federal hate crime protection to categories of sexual orientation and gender, to the major consternation of the Religious Right.
8. Killed the F-22 fighter jet program, a popular program with Congress, saving billions of dollars.
9. With a stroke of a pen, as a bill signing, enacted the largest conservation measure in 15 years, spanning the Bush and Clinton records.
10. Implement an electronic medical record system before any healthcare legislation was introduced. This new technology will be singularly responsible for saving lives and reducing the high administrative costs of healthcare, a key element of reform.
11. Extended a $2500 tax credit to 5 million families to help with college tuition.
12. Cooperated with Japan in bringing a $5 billion stabilization package for Pakistan.
13. Engaged the Muslim world in a dialogue, beginning with his unprecedented speech in Cairo, followed by an interview with Al Arabiya, and face-to-face discussions with Iran, a total reversal of the Bush years of Muslim baiting and hate.
14. Dramatically reversed the reputation of the United States around the world, with now most nations looking favorably on the US, and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize as one consequence.
15. Agreed to plan for bringing the troops home from Iraq, at a slower pace than what he promised, but based on knowledge that commanders-in-chief, not candidates, have.
16. Brought the White House online, doing for the White House what he had done for political campaigning. There are now online Q&A's with the administration, and a White House blog.
17. Released the names of all visitors to the White House, a total reversal of the secret Bush years.
18. Told Mexico that the US is responsible for some of their drug problems, a no small, but truthful admission.
19. Restored the rights of states to regulate the medical use of marijuana without fear of federal law enforcement intrusion.
20. Banned the use of torture, and he has begun a complete review of the torture policies under Bush.
21. Appointed the first Latina to the Supremes: Imagine what would have happened to the Supreme Court under four more years of radical Republicans. Obama has thus averted a long-term dramatic swing to the extreme right on the court, and appointed a progressive to keep matters in check.
In summary, and to those on these pages and elsewhere who see things differently, I say this feels a little like Waiting for Godot. Let's recall one thing that Samuel Beckett said in the mischievous play:
"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased."Link
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Contrast that from declaring victory in Iraq (even though the only discernible objective was to find and destroy WMDs, which were neither found nor destroyed), which had not (and as a matter of fact, never) happened. And Obama did not fly to Detroit for a photo-op, either.
So let's not turn this tragedy into more than what it was.
If you give any credence at all to facts, then you must acknowledge that the world is MUCH happier with Obama behind the wheel than it ever was with Bush.
"Green Jobs" are not a myth, either. Just go to Stillwater and ask T. Boone.
"School Choice," btw, is stupid. Its a euphemism for a voucher system, which doesn't solve the problem at all. Taxpayers still have to pay for the "failing schools." And who decides who gets a voucher and who doesn't? And if everyone gets a voucher, does that mean that all the "good schools" have to take in all the students from "failing schools?" If so, doesn't that reduce the student/teacher ratio AND put a bunch of teachers and administrators from "failing schools" on unemployment? Who do you think will hire these teachers? Probably the same schools that are now bursting at the seams with the voucher students.
So then you end up with the teachers from the "failing schools" teaching the students from the "failing schools" but they're doing it in buildings that were once "good schools." It's nothing more than a shell game and it makes no sense. Solve the real problem.
--AT&T Center, 5/9/2006
We can also say that TLM never bothers to defend his original points. In the 8 years I've been here, he seems to always do a talking-points drive-by, then disappears when people address his points. Because there are better things to do in Oklahoma, no doubt.
90% of the threads in this forum are started by leftists spitting out someone else's opinion and research instead of their own. I don't blame him at all for posting a short retort and getting the hell out of Dodge. If there's no effort on the part of the poster to formulate anything of their own in order to initiate a discussion, then why should anyone have to provide a full thesis in response to say that they disagree?
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All of those people who say that President Obama has "dramatically" changed the opinion of the US around the world have No Idea what they are talking about. I would be suprised if any of them have ever even been to another country recently.
Most people around the world like Obama as our president, and as a person, but few have changed their attitude about the US as a country. This is reflected in several European and Asian polls.
Anecdotally, I have spent the last couple months in the Middle East, talking with British, Australian, Pakistani, Indian, and Saudi nationals. Dozens of people, and without exception they all express the exact sentiment that I just mentioned. They like Obama, but have no reason whatsoever yet to change their opinion of America as a nation. Its not our politics they object to, but our culture.
Don't listen to pundits who are spinning agendas. Talk to people for yourself.
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My source? I spent five months in Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras this past summer (working with the UNHCR out of San Jose), and about the same amount of time last year in Europe. The year before, I lived in Spain for a while, and while there made several trips to Morocco. I've spent considerable time in Eastern Europe including Bulgaria and Albania. I've spent about half my last four years or so overseas. I've seen firsthand at local and professional levels abroad how the US was viewed, generally, during the Bush years; I've seen the change since 2009. Don't just discount every statement of "change" as punditry--the President's calm demeanor and intellectual deliberation doesn't play well in US 10-second soundbites, but that thoughtfulness and level of consideration is huge overseas. Maybe the feeling on the street is different in the middle east, but it's not fair to say that the sentiment if Riyadh is in any way global.
As much as President Obama was getting fricasseed domestically for his involvement in the Honduran coup-that-kinda-was, his approach to a situation that necessarily required a calm and reasoned approach probably preserved the recent quasi-peace of Honduras rather than tipping the balance toward the same military action of old. Can you imagine how cowboy diplomacy would have played out in the situation? I can; I was there on the streets in San Pedro Sula when the protesters for "Mel" claimed the bridge by the airport. I was in the corner Soda having a Barena with some locals, listening to them talk about the situation. There is no doubt about it: US ultimatum or threats of US intervention or reprisal would have escalated the already high local tension to levels that negotiation and time could not have lowered. The President's calm but unwavering insistence on the process for peace is what led to the first talks in San Jose, and stayed the hand of the protesters looking for a reason to light that fuse.
That is one example, but it's a marked departure from the old administration--and it's the very kind of difference that leads to the "dramatic" changes that you are so quick to dismiss as mere talking points.
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My beef goes back at least 8 yrs, during which time the left-wingers didn't even have the huevos to post here and this board was all FOX news BS from Dizz and TBNL. If you don't remember when this board was mostly right-wing, you were spending too much time where you ought to've: in the Spurs section.
I don't doubt TLM has great points to make, but in ALL these nearly 10 years posting here, I have YET to see the guy defend himself.
If that makes me an a-hole, so be it, but having spent more than a few hours here and there responding to people, it irritates me that the guy thinks he can breeze in and post something without corroboration as if it effin' matters.
And $, you're right: every country in the world still considers us with trepidation and -- on some level -- contempt. Our country has allowed despots to exist and has failed to cesnsure past despots. This certainly engenders cynicism on a global level, I agree. All that said, people are less convinced the USA is becoming a bona-fide fascist country.
It may be a small Page Ranking victory, but at least in Latin America -- where I work -- it is something better than we had under Bush, under whose administration people didn't know what they could expect.
People here are no less afraid of what the US can become, but they aren't afraid of something the US actually IS.
Dude, I have been a member of this board since I found it right after the 2003 championship so I don't know how I've been disappointing you for a decade. I don't waste a lot of time arguing on the internet, well, because it's wasting time arguing on the internet.
I, like most Americans, spent a few months before forming an opinion of how Obama would govern. He campaigned like a moderate but went too far left on major initiatives while exaggerating credit for all sorts of things (see: "saved and created" jobs) and blaming Bush constantly.
I saw him today complaining that we've been in Afghanistan without a strategy for 8 years. He was in the Senate for 4 (running for President for 2 of them) and has been President for 1. He called it a war of necessity. How does he not have a strategy in mind? In reality, this is just like the public option where's he stuck between satisfying the left and leading the country.
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I'm not calling you out because I think you're a fool -- we've never had any shortage of them here, and I don't care how they come and go. I do it because you seem to shrug-off discussions in which you contribute, and you've done it for 6 years if not a decade. I just wonder : if you don't want to try to back up the things you post, why do you bother posting? Just saying, man. Defend your points more often. Otherwise you just seem like the dearly departed news-bot, posting BS with no reference. Happy thanksgiving
^^^ That's the point at which most Republicans lose their credibility in my eyes. The attacks on 9/11 are obviously not W's fault, because a) he'd only been President a short while, and b) W inherited the military preparedness (or lack thereof) of the Clinton administration. Somehow, that same argument gets forgotten when we're talking about Afghanistan, Iraq, Fort Hood, etc. and President Obama's inability to cure the world in those same short months.
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Anyway anything he can do will be better than what Bush did. Bush had to be the worst president in US history: bringing the economy down and going to war on false premises, which in itself should be enough to send him to jail and all the other crap.
I would suggest that you get educated a little and investigate the facts. You talk like a little child who has no clue about what's really going on with our country.
SHUT UP!! You need to stop getting your facts from FOX News. Terrorist have hated america for many years! What kind of statement is that??? Talk about a half ass retort! I didn't blame bush for the attack. I blamed bush for starting a war for no reason! If you believe other wise, then you are in denial! Moron!
you sound like you're getting your stuff from FOX news, which isn't news at all. they're bias to the extreme. guys like Glenn Beck are what's wrong with this country. these are the same guys attacking Obama for doing right, stuff that Bush didn't do.
what about after 9/11 with that shoe bomber before X-Mas? it took Bush 6 days or so to make an announcement, only took Obama around 2-3 days to make an announcement about the most recent X-Mas attempt and these guys are killing him for that but love that Bush took so long. hypocrital!
what about Katrina and Haiti? how long did it take Bush to send help to New Orleans? around a week or so right? now Obama gets grilled because he sent help to Haiti way too quick (from guys like Limbaugh). i guess helping people who need it fast is a bad thing. hypocritical!
what about when the Fox News crew grilled Obama for inviting the "liberals" to the White House and not them? the good reason would be because it's all opinion and not news, but they attacked him for that. but of course they didn't mention that Bush only invited the Fox News people to the White House after 9/11 so they could air his propaganda on the war and did not invite the "liberal" media. hypocritical!
if Obama wasn't in this mess the Bush Administration did, there would be no arguing about Barack. we wouldn't have a poor economy, no stimulus packages, no federal debt, no nothing. but of course, for some reason, there's people out there who wouldn't mind having Bush again, you know, if you love not having money and sending your family to a war we shouldn't be in.
Obese people don't get obese overnight and they don't get skinny that way either. A lot of this mess will probably still be in need of fixing after Obama's out of office. After the economy recovers, deficit reduction NEEDS to be a huge priority.
Fox News and Glenn Beck is not what's wrong with this country. They are Symptoms of what is wrong with this country. Nearly every news media personality from Jack McCafferty to John Hannity to Lou Dobbs to Rick Sanchez simply reveal what is wrong:
People would rather be entertained by news than informed by it.
Fox News and CNN aren't doing anything suprising. It's the people that are vegging in front of it with their brains turned off then voting for whoever the retarded anchor just butt-kissed that's the problem. (e.g. Glen Beck and his hardon for Sarah Palin)
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Alki-Rubicon Racing notified us about the Kevin Black Vigil tonight and Memorial ride being planned for this weekend. Meet at 5:30, 24th and 65th in Ballard.
A candlelight vigil will be held for Kevin Black tonight at 5:30, not a memorial ride A memorial ride will be organized. Details will be posted soon on alkirubiconracing.com


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I decided to put them all together for a lovely group shot.
It's become quite a force, and I'm not sure if I'm going to expand them anymore save for a MOC here or there. I know some people strive to have the biggest / best army but I'd probably rather work on people for them to fight.
The assembled navy, with the new Disruptor gunboat (left).
Himmelsjäger: knights / pilots / naval officers. The undead guy is the Red Baron.
Some new Psychobots (front), one on a simple new Hound speederbike I built. They're supposed to be the Prussian answer to the Immortal Maniacs / Immortals themselves. Arnold Schwarzenegger is also back there.
High command. To the left you can see Johnny Blitzkrieg, the new Field Marshal with a prototype sniper, also behind the Kaiser and his highest officers is a new Engineer and a Scout.
Representing the Third Alliance: some Bavarian Commandos (based on the guys driving the death karts in Silva's battle) with a Bavarian Prince / Knight to lead them.
In the back are two Space Nazis made from leftover parts and the good Trattorian scientist Pedodoctor.


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Women Hid Boy for 8 Years: 2 Women Convicted for Kidnapping 8 Month Old Baby (VIDEO)
Two Texas women hid a boy for 8 years after kidnapping him when he was just 8 months old. The two women were sentenced to prison on Tuesday after an East Texas jury found them guilty.
According to reports, Gloria Walker was sentenced to 30 years for injury to a child and eight years for kidnapping. The sentences will be served concurrently.
Walker's daughter, Krystle Tanner, was also sentenced to eight years for kidnapping and eight years for reckless injury to a child, and will have to also serve those sentences concurrently.
The two women were convicted of the 2004 disappearance of 8 month old Miguel Morin, who is now 8.
San Augustine County District Attorney Kevin Dutton has said, "We believe that justice was done on behalf of Miguel."
The two women have denied kidnapping, telling state District Judge Charles Mitchell that the baby's mother had given him away to them.
Following the sentencing being read out, Walker said, "Justice is not served. We have not hurt no child. We loved and cared for him."
Prosecutors had told jurors earlier in the case that the two women had neglected the child over the 8 years they had abducted him for. They claim they did not allow him to go to school, and that they also denied him appropriate medical care when he needed it.
Defense attorneys had argued that this was not a case of kidnapping because the boy was sold to the women by his biological mother.
Dutton had stated in his closing argument that the women's claim that they were freely given the child by his mother was absurd, and that this was not evidenced by their actions over the 8 years.
He said, "If Ms. Walker and Ms. Tanner had a right to little Miguel, why wasn't he in school? Why didn't you get the rest of his immunizations? Why didn't you take him to the dentist? They knew they didn't have that right. They knew they couldn't put that baby out in the public eye."
Here is a video interview with Miguel's mother after he was found after 8 years:


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As genealogists we encounter many females in our lineages. There are the usual Marys, Sarahs, Anns, and occasionally an odd-ball name such as Submit. It is sad when they have no surname. Taxing all of our knowledge and patience, we try to find a document that identifies them. Maybe a probate file naming her as the daughter of so and so. Maybe a baptismal record naming her parents.
Identified women on my pedigree chart are fascinating. They are attached to a husband, but hopefully they never lost their true identity. They seem to cry out that their stories be told. For some it is easy and for others it is not. If you have stories about your female ancestors, be sure they are written down and passed down.
It is difficult to determine which females in my family touched my life the most. Many stood out as important people. I hope when I have passed that my legend and story will be told and have an impact on my descendants.
Three women who have counted in my life ...
My maternal grandmother was Nanne Jane Lewis Horne (Granny) born in 1889 in North Carolina. I visited my grandparents in their log cabin nestled in the mountains of northeast Tennessee when I was three years old. It was nine years before I saw them again, but yet there was a bond and family tie when I walked into their cabin. Granny married Samuel Stephen Horne (Grandpa Steve) in 1909. Why was she so special? She was a story-teller. When I became interested in genealogy she told me stories which I had to sort through to determine fact from fiction. Granny was a bit taller than Grandpa. Sometimes she towered over him in opinion also. I am told that when he wanted to join the CCC she refused, stood her ground, saying she was a Republican and they would eat turtle before he joined the CCC. When I turned 21 she encouraged me to vote and according to her the best vote would be cast for a Republican. Voting was a big thing for her ... a privilege she had earned and deserved as a woman. I have her butter churn, quilt and the letter she wrote telling me I should vote.
Granny's sister, Aunt Bertha Lewis Mahala, never had children. She was ten years younger than Granny and a teacher. Aunt Bertha was also the keeper of the records. It was the Lewis Family Genealogy Record. She was responsible for the Lewis reunions, staying in touch with family as well as delving into documents for family clues. She was a great influence in my life. Having graduated from Appalachian State College in Boone, North Carolina she had high hopes I would come live with her and attend school there, becoming a teacher. Instead I became a genealogist.
My late husband's great grandmother was a fascinating woman. She inspired me that women can do anything they set their mind and heart to do. Martha Anne Watts was born in 1875 in Missouri. She married and divorced, all within a span of about three years. Two marriages later she married William Henry Zehrung in Box Butte Co., Nebraska. He had three, motherless children. Will and Anne had three children of their own before divorcing. She left with the children in the middle of the night on a train bound for Denver, Colorado. Fending on her own, at times almost destitute, Grandma eventually stood proud and tall as the founder of a hospital in Denver. It was the precursor of a rest home. She was an inventor, nurse and business woman. Another marriage later changed her name to Coulter and ended in divorce. Newspaper accounts portray her as a gutsy woman when she was thrown in jail by the mayor of Denver. Grandma became very wealthy, but eventually lost her money through the unworthy schemes of her son. She died a pauper in the hospital she founded. Even so, she was an opinionated woman who had determination along with strength to do as she pleased.
Many more women are at the top of my list of interesting female ancestors. How many do you have? Have you told their story?


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Perfect at Home
Chapman is looking to become the first Panther team since 1995 to go unbeaten at home in a single season. The Panthers are currently riding a three-game home winning streak during which they are averaging 49.3 points per game. Chapman went 5-0 at the old Ernie Chapman Stadium 17 years ago as part of a school-record nine straight home wins from 1994-96.
Winning Season
The Panthers are also looking for their first winning season since 2008 and can clinch that with a win against La Verne on Saturday. Chapman has had three straight years with a 4-5 record after earning back-to-back winning seasons in 2007-08. The Panthers appeared on track for a winning season last year, beginning 4-1 before La Verne defeated Chapman and the Panthers derailed with a string of four straight losses.
Rush Hour
Chapman has rushed for over 100 yards in 11-consecutive games including Saturday's 32-13 loss to Redlands in which the team ran for 184 yards. The last time Chapman failed to rack up 100 yards was in a 14-9 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in 2011. In that game, Chapman was held to 53 yards rushing on 28 carries. During the 11-game stretch, the team has had nine 100-yard individual rushing games with five coming from sophomore RB Jeremiah McKibbins, two coming from senior RB Chad Milburn and one each from senior RB Al White and junior QB Michael Lahey. Against Redlands, White had a career-high 121 yards rushing on 31 carries.
39 is the combined number of tackles unofficially that the senior linebacking duo of Kellen Matsuno and Michael Mehlhaff had vs. Redlands on Saturday. Officially the duo combined for 34 tackles. Matsuno had 20 tackles, 18 officially, while Mehlhaff had 19 tackles, 16 officially which are career-highs for both players. While 20 and 19 tackles is quite a game individually, the Chapman single-game record is 28, set by Robert McGee in 2004 and the NCAA Division III single-game record is 30.
Head of the Class
Chapman is at the top of the SCIAC in rushing offense, sacks, sacks against and third-down conversions. The Panthers also have four individuals who lead the conference in one or more statistical categories. McKibbins is tops in rushing yards and all-purpose yards, junior RB Austin Maranville is first in kickoff return average, sophomore P Markus Trujillo is tops in punting and freshman DL Ben Wadors leads the league in sacks.
Special, Special Teams
Once again in 2012, Chapman has had excellent special teams play. Maranville is 21st in Division III with a kickoff return average of 26.46 yards while Trujillo is 19th in punting, averaging just over 40 yards per attempt. Senior K Mauricio Alfonso is second on the active Division III field-goals percent made list having connected on 5-of-6 attempts this season and 21-of-26 attempts in his career. The senior has connected on 80.77 percent of his attempts during his four seasons.
McKibbins Mix-up
In this week's NCAA statistical report, McKibbins dropped from No. 2 in the nation in rushing average to No. 8, when in reality his average never changed because he did not play due to an injury. The mix-up came when McKibbins – who was a game-time decision – was listed as a starter and thus a game played. That has been corrected and will be reflected in next week's NCAA report. That said, McKibbins still clings to the No. 2 spot in the nation this week at 175.0 yards per game, just ahead of Scottie Williams from Elmhurst (Ill.) at 174.6.
More McKibbins
It's hard to imagine a back in the nation that's having a better season than McKibbins. But there is - his name is James Clay, a senior at Mount St. Joseph (Ohio) who has already gained over 1,300 yards in six games (218.3/game). McKibbins is currently No. 2 in the nation with 175 yards per game on the ground and No. 4 in Division III in all-purpose yards 209.8 per game. His 875 rushing yards this season is already the third-highest total in school history and with 125 more he'll become just the second Panther ever with over 1,000 yards rushing in a single season.
Hall of Fame Game
Each year at a home football game, Chapman honors its past greats with a Hall of Fame ceremony and induction banquet. This year, Chapman Athletics will induct the Men's Tennis championship teams from 1985-88, as well as All-America baseball pitcher Jeff Blitstein '99 and three-time All-America softball outfielder Dawn Lopez-Aguila '01.
Chapman vs. La Verne - The Rivalry
The Panther-Leopard rivalry goes back 18 years and while La Verne won nine of the first 12 meetings, Chapman rallied to win five in a row until last year's road loss. Chapman still trails in the all-time series 10-8. From 1994-03, Chapman-La Verne was one of the most evenly-matched rivalries in Division III. Eight games were decided by five points or less and six of those games were decided by less than a field goal. In 2010, it took a touchdown run by White with 3:22 remaining to give the Panthers a 35-28 win at Chapman Stadium. Both Chapman head coach Bob Owens (1970) and quarterbacks coach Jason Reyes (2004) are former Leopards, as well.
La Verne in 2012
The La Verne football program is on the rise once again. After struggling with an 0-9 season in 2009 and a one-win season in 2010, La Verne finished 4-5 last year and is off to a 3-3 start in 2012. More importantly, La Verne is tied with Chapman with a 3-1 record in SCIAC play. La Verne has wins over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Whittier and Pomona-Pitzer. La Verne boasts a balanced offense which averages 186 yards rushing and 211 yards passing. La Verne RB Matthew Biggers will put Chapman's rush defense to the test. The junior is third in the SCIAC in rushing and 19th in Division III at 122 yards per game and has also scored five touchdowns.
Chapman Football on Air/Video Stream
For the sixth-straight year, Chapman has partnered with the school's on-campus radio station, Chapman Radio, to broadcast eight of the nine Panthers' football games in 2012, including all four home games. The games will be streamed live on the internet at http://www.chapmanradio.com/sports. A rotation of on-air student talent will provide play-by-play and commentary for every down of Chapman football. A video stream of the game synced with the Chapman radio broadcast can be found here: http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/chapman.portal#
by Doug Aiken & Chris Watts
Sports Information Director & Sports Information Assistant
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|2009-08-31, 13:36
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Shes made the series stand out to me.
|2009-08-31, 20:15
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One key element to Senjougahara's character: She's impeccably calm, cool, and collected. It's not just anybody that could look at a person she loves in a bloody horrific mess and not even bat an eye-lash. She's done this at least twice now with Araragi, so I think we can say that this is a key aspect to her character.
|2009-08-31, 20:19
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|2009-08-31, 22:00
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Feeling comfy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 44
Given what we've seen in the latest episode, it's interesting that Senjougahara before the crab was, in fact, very different from Senjougahara after the crab. This is something that Hanekawa had also alluded to in the first episode.
After all, if Senjougahara had been as coldly aloof in middle school as she was in high school, she wouldn't have been as popular. Middle-school Senjougahara appeared more cheerful, more affirmative, more caring for others. She even took the initiative to meet other people she found interesting, to check out fellow rivals in athletics and sports.
If you think about it, every character who encountered an oddity has been permanently scarred in one way or another. Araragi remains a nascent vampire; Hanekawa apparently suffers from inadvertent promiscuity; Hachikuji still floats among mortals; Kanbaru's left arm stays horribly disfigured.
So, in Senjougahara's case, some parts of her original personality never returned. It's just as Oshino had warned: Things won't go back to normal even though she got her weight/memories back. She's still missing her emotions, something she's now struggling, bit by bit, to recover.
I'm tempted to think of all these oddities, and their effects, as allusions to adolescence and growing up. Strip them away, and what we get is in fact a straightforward otaku-based story that involves themes familiar to most teenagers. The way we were before we became adults, the sometimes painful angst we went through, and the end result of that growing up process — that has all been expressed here through clever wordplay.
And some things, like annoying acne scars, will never go away. They just become part of the collection of things that give us "character".
It's just that, for the new Senjougahara, it comes with added spice (and spite).
|2009-08-31, 22:57
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|2009-09-01, 00:14
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Location: In the frozen wastes of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
Age: 42
She is a sociopath, she just wasn't born that way.
In Bakemonogatari, the real monsters have human faces.
|2009-09-01, 03:39
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dissocial personality disorder/sociopathy:
My goodness... Senjougahara fits almost all of the above descriptions to a T.
My condolences, Ararararagi-kun.
|2009-09-01, 03:43
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Half of the character types in anime fit half the things on that list.
We've been through this over on the Haruhi subforum. That was my point earlier. It's stupid to use that list to insult characters like that, and goes nowhere.
|2009-09-01, 04:39
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Anyway, in the case of Hitagi, I'm really not seeing some of these to begin with. Looking at this WHO list...
1. Hitagi cares about Araragi. She also showed caring for Kanbaru. Hitagi has empathy... she's just not the sort of person to express it profusely.
2. I don't see much evidence of Hitagi being a real irresponsible rebel. Actually, it's pretty responsible how she keeps coming to Araragi's aid.
3. Well... Hitagi seems to be doing Ok so far in maintaining her relationship with Araragi.
4 and 7 I'll say are valid. But 2 out of 7 is nowhere near enough to say "Yeah, that classification fits."
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Spoiler for ep8:
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If anything I'd say she's lost the knack for expressing emotions, at least in socially acceptable ways. Or possibly even enjoys her unconventional way of interacting with the world.
|2009-09-01, 09:01
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Having teen-aged characters makes it possible to help those who are youngest and apparently easiest to influence.
This story could well be applied to adults even in their late 20's or more... with few adjustments. The thing is the reach and effect would be less.
Adults tend to think too much of themselves and we are more jaded once we pass 25. Less influenced even by positive stories.
It is as if we feel the author is being totally pretentious when in truth we are the ones who are being pretentious.
I give this author a good rate for his ability to really craft a story that is fantastical but realistic and applicable at the same time.
You just have to think about it some.
Which oddly is the reason alot of people I see on bb's dropped Bakemonogatari.
They just don't "get it"
I can't fault them.
They are still at their young, want to see chicks with guns fight as well as ninja or shinigami with overly ridiculous and unnecessarily convoluted story plot lines, pulp fiction entertainment stage.
I wonder why shows like Welcome to the NHK never got much top billing.
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rocket beat me to it.... I don't think its that she's lost the emotions themselves, but that she lost the *tools* and *techniques* of expressing them properly. There's also the nature of Hitagi+Araragi which isn't really *that* unusual in the real world: sparring love duel between two equally powerful people.
|2009-09-01, 11:52
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Hitagi is simply reserved/subtle (with the exception of bold acts/statements every now and then) in how she expresses her feelings. You could even call it classy, perhaps. Overall, I like it. Quite ironically, she's like the anti-tsundere. Her sweet moments are transparent but calm (she doesn't hide her feelings; she just doesn't exclaim them loudly or bashfully/shyly). Her harsh moments are like stoic ice compared to the raging fire of a tsundere.
You know what she's like? She's almost like a female bishonen - like Byakuya (Bleach) or Sesshomaru (InuYasha) made female.
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A good way to do check if something is an inherent right or just a privilege is to see if women are being denied it. Suffrage? Inherent right. Free speech? Inherent right. Driving? Inherent right. It's what our "Drive free or Die" motto is all about. The freedom of movement largely means the freedom to drive, and women in large parts of the world don't have the same access we enjoy here.
For example, female passengers in the strongly Islamic city of Aceh, Indonesia are banned from straddling motorbikes — a common mode of travel — because the position is "improper." Granted, women can straddle the bike if they're driving so long as they are dressed "in a Muslim way"
That sounds totally safe but is, sadly, better than many other places. Where's the worst country for women drivers?
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The Netflix app for iOS was recently updated to 4.0, which includes a few new features - namely, a brand new episode selector for iPad, and a redesigned audio and subtitle selector for both iPad and iPhone.
The last big update we saw for Netflix was last fall, for their Just For Kids section. These additions aren't insanely groundbreaking, but they're better than a kick in the teeth. Plus, hey, bug fixes are always good.
As a side-note, Netflix announced their quarterly results today, which included a $1 billion in revenue and are on track to hit 30 million subscribers. Well done, Netflix. Oh, they also announced a new $11.99 family plan to stream to multiple devices at once.
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The Palmer House has four mature cherry trees that are in full bloom.
The trees are absolutely magnificent. When the petals begin to fall one can walk through the garden on a carpet of pink. It is almost magical. We also have a lovely apple tree that is also in bloom. Its blossoms are a lighter shade of pink. It marks the entrance to our Thornton W.Burgess shade garden.
Finding plants that thrive in the shade has been a challenge. We have a beautiful bleeding heart that is blooming now and several varieties of hosta and ferns. Later in the season I will add impatience and more begonias.


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Add link to kernel configuration guide on the wiki as per suggestion on #gentoo-doc by micsha
Bug 489782 - Switch links to wiki documents
Fix bug #485370 - genkernel uses --lvm, not --lvm2
Fix bug #463469 - Mention that built-in file system support is only needed for root file system
Fix bug #463475 - Add in devtmpfs in kernel configuration (remainder of architectures)
Fix bug #460852 - Move timezone information to the "Installing the Gentoo Base System" chapter
Part of bug #437338 - Do not set the dump (5th) field in fstab to 1, it might confuse users and isnt used anyway
Fix bug #405271 (thanks to Ogelpre) to update /etc/timezone wherever we say to update /etc/localtime as it is /etc/timezone that is the master, read by timezone-data to update localtime
Bug #372427 - Remove EVMS from documentation as it is not supported anymore
Bug #378973 - No need to use LiveDVD kernel configuration, might not even work properly. Genkernel provides a sane start
Fix bug #375757 - Use initramfs abbreviation, not initrd
#369841, initrd is in initial RAM disk, not a root disk Thanks to swift for a patch.
update genkernel locations, punt special pegasos genkernel info that doesn't seem to apply anymore. there's nothing pegasos-specific shipped with genkernel these days. bug 336010.
remove warning and related kernel config for special preemption code. josejx says it's working okay on PPC.
fix PPC abstracts
Update the PPC handbook for the autobuilds. Major version bump for this release. Fixes bug 260403, bug 292726, and bug 234310.
Some coding style changes (trailing whitespace, no tabs)
#232771 - Use kernel-name parameters, patch by email@example.com and verified
release time. note that since this is beta1, the release dir and stage/media names have been adjusted accordingly. also, the handbooks are marked with a disclaimer=draft, so once the final is out, that will be removed and the release names adjusted. in the mean time, these are live. the beta is officially released. no, it's not april fools, but it is april 1st. :)
Name of first menu item changed in make menuconfig
looks like modprobe -l will only work for the running kernel, not for the kernel just compiled. fixed in all handbooks, bug 188250
use a simple modprobe -l command, bug 187000
made Open Firmware usage consistent for all handbooks and translations, as suggested by grahl and rane on IRC, and approved by JoseJX. s/openfirmware/Open Firmware/g, so no revbump.
Fixed some kernel options.
seems the previous fix was made a little too quickly? reverting previous change.
for safety's sake, needed to move the conf.d/clock TIMEZONE edit to immediately before compiling a kernel. users still run into the warning message if it's left at the end, before rebooting. fixes http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-560322.html and other reports.
fixed a typo, thx to kucrut
#178179 cp timezone file to /etc/localtime to prevent warning until next emerge of sys-libs/timezone-data
2007.0 release is here; final changes and new docs
Remove all references to coldplug, bug 170679
removed USE=symlink by request of dsd as part of the USE flag removal from all kernel sources, bug 167703. also further vanilla-sources removals as it's unsupported.
added udev/coldplug blurb to the networked handbooks (no point if on networkless, as they have old portage snapshots) for bug 157346
Added note about removing /boot from fstab so that genkernel works.
Fixed defconfig->pmac32_defconfig in the handbook.
2006.1 networked docs are in. portage handbook still untouched per separate bugs. thanks to all the hard work, guys. blame me if something is wrong (and please fix quickly) :)
#132127, removed instructions about turning on Support for hot-pluggable devices, it's on by default since 2.6.16
Fixed defconfig for 2.6.16 and newer kernels.
Handbook for 2006.0, "Chuck Norris can divide by zero"
#118031 hb-install-*-kernel.xml files need TLC
#112802 USE="-doc" when emerging kernel sources to avoid dependencies (until the USE flags are described later in the handbook) #110596 (PPC only) Add make defconfig before make menuconfig #110038 cp time zone file instead of symlinking to it
#103041 Warn users against Etc/GMT* timezones
Fix location of genkernels initramfs file. Reported on the forums, not caught by release checking
Migrating to 2005.1
Added framebuffer section to kernel configuration.
Reverting stupid accidental commit, sorry YosWink.
Fixed typos for bug #100724.
Installing hotplug after coldplug is useless as it is a dependency; would only delay the installation
#97662 - Adding hotplug to boot runlevel is not needed anymore
#90393, CONFIG_HOTPLUG needed for udev. Thanks dsd.
Fix stupid typo
#90367 - Apply lspci fix to other architectures as well
Bumped the version
Fixes bug #92084.
modules-update is only needed for changes in /etc/modules.d/* which we do not do. Changes in /etc/modules.autoload.d are automatically taken into account by /etc/init.d/modules. Thanks for Terry Colligan for reporting
Added genkernel specifics.
Okay, got reply, kernel-config-2.6 is sources by genkernel regardless
Comment out zcat of kernel config for PPC. Dams doesnt think we need to specifically zcat the installcd config anywhere and the used location (kernel-2.6) is completely wrong anyway
Updating docos to 2005.0
adjusting made change for stage3 only
added changed for the login problem on ppc
Separation of Gentoo Handbook into Current and 2004.3
changed some things to the ppc docs
Converted dates to YYYY-MM-DD format
Moving 2004.3 documentation
Adding version/date information in pages
Two small fixes from John Richards.
#62186: Fixed language mistakes all over the place thanks to John Richards
#61645 - No modules for PPC anymore
Cleanup, removed - kernel 2.6 comments in code samples because it's now the only choice (2.4 has just been removed) - traces of JFS because it is not supported on PPC (HB says so)
Changes that has been known since the (inofficial) 2004.2 ppc-LiveCD has been released. Mostly it's kernel-2.4 stuff that has been deleted. And some updates about the Pegasos support.
Move over files from the draft/ directory. 2004.2 is released :)
#57937: removed occurrences of xfs-sources, gaming-sources and [*] /dev/pts
#56065: make kernel options easier to find in 2.4 & 2.6 kernels
#49831 - Use relative links for kernel source; some ebuilds break otherwise
2004.1 release. Moving docs from draft/ to correct space. Hopefully this goes without any issues *crosses fingers*
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Rachel Allen scored 17 points, but the Tennessee State women's basketball team fell to Eastern Kentucky, 79-75, in Thursday's first game of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament.
Playing in her final game as a college athlete, Alana Morris notched 14 points, while Second Team All-OVC teamer Chelsea Hudson poured in 11.
Eastern Kentucky was led by Marie Carpenter's 24 points, 22 of which came in the second half.
TSU had a seven-point advantage heading into the final period, but the Lady Colonels shot a scorching 51.9 percent during the final 20 minutes.
Tennessee State started fast as Morris scored from in-close off of a nice pass from Jayda Johnson on TSU's first possession and Johnson followed that with back-to-back jumpers on the next two trips down.
With the Lady Tigers leading 14-11, Brianna Lawrence found LaTeasha Hill underneath the basket on an inbounds play. Hill caught the pass, converted a layup and was fouled. The junior made the ensuing free throw to put TSU up by six with 12:52 left in the first half.
Eastern Kentucky responded with three straight baskets to draw even, but the Lady Tigers scored on nine of their next 10 possessions as a part of a 19-7 run to pull ahead, 36-24, with 3:43 to go before halftime.
Briana Morrow nailed a free throw in the waning seconds of the stanza, and TSU went into the locker room with a 39-32 lead.
The Lady Tigers were 11-of-26 (42.3 percent) in the first 20 minutes and beat the Lady Colonels in second-chance points, 12-2.
Carpenter drained the first three hoops of the second half, and the Lady Colonels took the lead, 44-43, via a pair of free throws with only four minutes gone on the clock.
TSU, which had only four turnovers in the entire first half, started the second with three consecutive to aid the EKU cause.
Eastern Kentucky got up by as many as six, but an 8-0 TSU run later in the period put the Lady Tigers back in front, 62-60, with 8:05 to play. Morris led the charge with a pair of buckets, and her second caused EKU to call time.
The sides went back-and-forth for the remainder of the contest, with neither side gaining more than a two-point advantage until two Carpenter freebies gave the Lady Colonels a four-point cushion, 79-75.
Allen had one more shot, but it went wide and the Tennessee State women's basketball season ended in the Nashville Municipal Auditorium by four points.
TSU was 7-of-13 (53.8 percent) from the free throw line in the second half, after knocking down 16-of-19 (84.2 percent) in the first.


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Thoughts on belief, knowledge and faith---rational and irrational; my journey to faith, and on the "Limits of a limitless science" (to paraphrase Fr. Stanley Jaki). A discourse on the consonance of what science tells us about the world, and the dogma/teachings of the Catholic Church; you don't have to apologize for being Catholic if you're a scientist.
Friday, December 15, 2017
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Almost 4,500 participants ran in the three-mile Vanessa Welch Reindeer Run at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, December 15, 2012. Proceeds from the holiday run benefit the Florida Hospital for Children Bone Marrow Transplant Program to help struggling families cover the costs of this procedure. The top eight male and female finishers received plaques and two SeaWorld tickets. The top eight male finishers were Ryan Jones, Jeffrey Surran, Brandon Scott, Tim Scott, Jordan Armstrong, Josh Jacques, Angelo Cusimano and Joseph Loyack. The top eight female finishers were Kelly Aribas, Alyssa Hamel, Jolene Vergauwen, Mylene Dally, Lindsey Woody, Ciera Williams, Emily Perkinson and Beth Jeck.
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Just in case you were wondering, even while you're lifting weights at the gym, your brain is still in charge. It's the three-pound organ between your ears -- not the depletion of ATP in your muscles or a servomechanism in your heart -- that tells you to take a break before doing one more rep. A new study reveals how the brain decides to issue a "stop work" order, and what factors it takes into account in giving the go-ahead for hard physical labor to resume.
The brain's bilateral posterior insula -- buried inside the organ a little above the ears -- registers and tracks the sensation of pain and its intensity and integrates that sensory information with motor function. Measurements performed there were found to be critical in the brain's calls for a break or a resumption in physical work, the latest research, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found.
The judgments issued by measurements taken there can be manipulated. And if you've ever watched a reality show or tried one of those "strong man" meters at the fair, the following will come as no surprise: Having a monetary incentive affects how high the signal will have to register there before the brain tells the body to take a break. Financial inducement will also shorten the recovery time necessary for an order to resume work to go out.


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DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed off stage at the World Economic Forum on Thursday during an angry discussion with Israeli President Shimon Peres over the crisis in Gaza.
Erdogan leaves the stage Thursday as Peres looks left.
Erdogan was visibly angered after Peres had said that Israel was committed to peace and blamed Hamas for the situation in Gaza, where Israel staged a three-week military operation earlier this month.
He then started to respond but was cut off by the moderator who said the debate had run overtime.
Earlier in the debate, Erdogan had described the military campaign in Gaza as "barbaric" and accused Israel of using excessive force. Peres said Hamas was responsible for the "tragedy," accusing the Islamist militants of creating a "dangerous dictatorship."
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner were among the other leaders making keynote appearances at the forum.
Earlier, U.N. chief Ban announced details of a $613 million humanitarian aid appeal for the people of Gaza following this month's Israeli military offensive.
Afghanistan's Defense Minister Mohammad Rahim Wardak called on U.S. President Obama to deliver on his pledge to commit more troops to the fight against Taliban and al Qaeda militants, but said his country needed more investment to prosper as well.
But Kouchner said France, which currently commits 2,600 troops to the NATO-led operation, would not be increasing the size of its deployment.
"We have just increased the number of our soldiers," he said. "There is no prospect of sending more troops for the time being, and it has not been asked."
Amid the gloom of a business summit at a time of financial crisis, former U.S. President Bill Clinton managed to deliver an upbeat message, telling delegates, "This is still a good time to be alive."
Clinton admitted that the deepening impact of the financial meltdown, which is dominating the agenda at this year's meeting in Davos, had left many people frightened -- but said the global scale of the crisis proved that the world's nations could no longer afford to turn their backs on one another.
"This financial crisis proves, as nothing else should or could, the fundamental fact that global interdependence is more important than anything else in the world today," Clinton said. "We cannot escape each other. Divorce is not an option."
Clinton, the husband of current U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, urged the current generation of international statesmen to rise to the leadership challenges posed by the financial collapse and climate change.
"This is not a time for denial or delay. Do something. Give people confidence by showing confidence," said Clinton, who served in the White House from 1993 to 2001. "Don't give up. Don't bet against yourself. Don't bet against your country. This is still a good time to be alive."
In a year when celebrities have been notable by their absence here, the appearance of the still-charismatic Clinton offered some light relief as delegates also turned their attention to the situation in the Middle East and the war in Afghanistan.


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July 19, 2006
Lipscomb University softball coach Kristin Peck has announced the signing of pitcher Christen Campbell from Lakeland, Tenn.
Campbell, 5-foot-6, was a four-year All-State, All-Region and All-District selection at Saint Benedict at Auburndale in Cordova, Tenn.
She was also the softball team's MVP all four seasons.
Campbell was a "Best of the Preps" finalist named by the Memphis Commercial-Appeal as a 10th, 11th and 12th grader.
Saint Benedict at Auburndale won four region championships in Campbell's four years with the team.
Her senior season the team won five tournament championships; beat Keller High School in Keller, Texas, the No. 1 team in the nation ranked by USA Today at the time; and finished the season ranked 18th in the nation.
Campbell will pursue a major in pre-medicine. She is the daughter of Joy and Ernie Campbell.
She chose Lipscomb because "it felt more like home out of all the visits I had."


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Finally a "laser" Austin Powers can truly brag about.
After 10 years of construction and $3.5 billion, the world's most powerful laser is being dedicated at the Lawrence Livermore Lab.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other dignitaries are expected to attend by the way.
The National Ignition Facility, NIF as it's called, is made up of 192 separate laser beams that are housed in a facility the size of a football field. They're designed to fire within a few trillionths of a second of each other at a frozen capsule of hydrogen the size of a pencil eraser.
Physicists hope to eventually ramp up its power to 500 trillion watts, which is 500 times the amount of electricity generated by the United States' power grid during peak operation.
With that kind of power, the hope is they'll be able to achieve "fusion ignition." Scientists theorize that the fusion of hydrogen atoms could someday provide an unlimited source of energy with no carbon emissions.
The plan is to attempt hydrogen fusion sometime next year.
NIF will also be used to ensure the reliability of the nation's nuclear stockpile without underground testing and will let astrophysicists mimic the conditions inside planets.
Critics complain that the $140 million a year operating cost is too much given the economic slump we're in. And they wonder aloud if hydrogen fusion is even possible.


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Tyler Perry:
I have been speaking to the FBI, attorneys and radio hosts… Right now, I have a call into the attorney general. This reminds me of black men being lynched and disappearing in the 60's.
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I Am Beyond Outraged By This!
For the past two days I have had a knot in the pit of my stomach. I was watching a show on Discovery ID called Disappeared. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. What outraged me the most is that in 8 years, not one national news outlet has picked up this story. 8 YEARS and nothing has been done. Wait until you read this! I did some research, and from the few articles I could find on this matter, here is the summary of one I'd like to share with you.
Still no answers about men last seen with deputy
By JANINE ZEITLIN, Sunday, January 22, 2006 NapelsNews.com
Marcia Roberts is haunted by her only child. She used to watch "Unsolved Mysteries" in her East Naples apartment in hopes of triggering her mind into unlocking what happened to her son. He's been gone more than two years. And she doesn't know where he is, or was. If he's alive or dead. But her answering machine has remained the same since the questions started:"Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known, Matthew Chapter 10, verses 26 through 28." Terrance Williams has been missing since January the 12th, 2004. The family would like to thank you for your continued prayers and your thoughts and acts of kindness." And she won't change it until she finds answers. And she will never stop looking. And she will never stop praying. "My mind just wanders and I wonder if that's good or not. I pray every night. I know God is tired of me," she says. And she will never give up.
The night he slipped from her life — Jan. 11, 2004 — Marcia said she picked him up from a Bonita Springs Pizza Hut where he worked as a cook and drove him to a friend's house. A day later, the last person confirmed to see him alive was a Collier County sheriff's corporal — the same man last spotted with Felipe Santos, a 23-year-old Mexican laborer just three months before. The corporal said he gave both men rides to Circle K convenience stores in North Naples within four miles of each other.
What happened between Jan. 11 and when Williams ran into Cpl. Steven Calkins, a nearly 17-year Collier Sheriff's Office veteran on Jan. 12, gnaws at his mother. Times, lies, inconsistencies and a story that doesn't jibe keep running through Marcia's head. Three witnesses told Sheriff's Office investigators they saw Calkins wave over Williams near Naples Memorial Gardens, a North Naples cemetery, between 9 and 10 a.m. Williams was driving a 1983 two-door white Cadillac with an expired plate and registered to someone else. He could have been picked up or cited for six violations, sheriff's investigators said. Shortly after noon, Calkins said, they met at the cemetery along 111th Avenue North when he spotted Williams having car trouble. Calkins didn't call in the traffic stop as required. Calkins blames the time discord on confusion and memory problems. Instead of taking him to jail, the corporal said he gave him a ride to a Circle K near Wiggins Pass Road on U.S. 41 because Williams said he was late for work and looked nice and "clean-cut." Calkins called a friend in dispatch, asking him to run information on an abandoned vehicle, even though he later said he had met Terrance by then.
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Telephone call: 01-12-04/ 1249 PM
Caller: Cpl. Steven Calkins/Dispatcher: Dave Jolicouer.
Dispatcher: "What are you doin' sucka?"
"Well I got a "Homie" Cadillac on the side of the road here, signal 11, signal 52 nobody around," Calkins says.
"I'm at the cemetery here at the corner of Vanderbilt and 111th," Calkins says later in the call.
"Oh yeah, you be doin' some prayin'? Been prayin' to the heavenly father?" Jolicouer says.
"Maybe he's out there in the cemetery. He'll come back and his car will be towed," Calkins says.
A half-hour later, Calkins contacted dispatch with Williams' full name, date of birth and asked the dispatcher to run a search, though Calkins later told investigators he only knew Williams' first name. Calkins called with a fake birth date Williams had used before and possibly when he got in trouble."4-1-75. Black/male. (singing)…," a transcript of Calkins' call to the dispatcher says.
After much pressure from Marcia to the police department this is another dispatch call.
Dispatch: 1-16-04
"I hate to bother you at home on your day off, but this woman's been bothering us all day. You towed a car from Vanderbilt and a hundred … Do you remember it?"
Calkins: "Uhhh, no."
"Do you remember … she said it was near the cemetery."
Calkins: "Cemetery?"
Calkins assures the dispatcher there was no one with the vehicle.
"Uh, well, somebody's at the cemetery telling the mother that you picked up the driver and he's been missing since Monday."
"Oh, for pete's sake."
Seven days later, Calkins wrote an incident report. He later told sheriff's officials he wrote it "to cover his butt." After dropping off Terrance, Calkins said he returned to the Cadillac and found there wasn't proper registration in the car. He felt duped so he called Circle K and asked for Terrance from his cell phone. The clerk told him she didn't know any Terrance, he said. Records showed Calkins never made the call.
More than two weeks after her son vanished, on Jan. 28, Marcia lodged a misconduct complaint against Calkins and an internal investigation ensued. Calkins was fired from the Sheriff's Office in August 2004. Eight pages in the Sheriff's Office internal probe outline Calkins' lies and inconsistencies about what happened. He hasn't been charged with any criminal wrong doing. An appeal by Calkins cited a report that Williams was seen at an East Naples gas station, though the investigators viewed video and didn't see Terrance. The appeal was shot down by Sheriff Don Hunter.
Williams owed child support. He has four children — now 13, 11, 5 and 8 — by four different women, his mother said. He spent time in a Tennessee prison in the mid-1990s in connection with an aggravated robbery, a Department of Correction spokeswoman said. Trespassing, DUI and driving on a revoked license were his other offenses.
Maybe he didn't always make the best choices, but Marcia said her son was trying to shape up and support his children. She said she and her son were too close for him to leave without a good-bye. He gave her away at her October 2002 wedding. And all of his things were just left behind. "They're going to tell me he just went somewhere," Marcia said. I'm his mother. His mother knows."
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Marcia's crusade for answers is heightened by questions about another missing man. Felipe Santos was last seen by his brothers getting into Calkins' squad car in October 2003. Calkins said he dropped him at Circle K on Immokalee Road. Marcia discovered the link when the Mexican Consulate in Miami called to tell her about Santos after her son vanished.
Asked during a recent interview with the Daily News to explain, Calkins said: "Coincidence extreme and that's all it is." "It was just bad luck. It was bad luck … I didn't think anything of it."
Acute coincidence helped the families tap lawyers for their cases."The coincidences are so extreme I want to get to the bottom of it," said Mark Miller, a Fort Pierce civil rights attorney representing Marcia."Sooner or later, I believe sooner, we'll find out what happened."
Linda Ramirez, the St. Petersburg lawyer for the Santos family, said it struck her that Calkins said he took both men and dropped them at a Circle K instead of at the sheriff's substation or jail."It would just seem to me you're not likely to find two people who have gone missing under similar circumstances without there being some kind of connection," she said.
To read the entire article, go to http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/jan/22/still_no_answers_about_men_last_seen_deputy/
This story reminds me of a time, when black men were lynched and no one was ever prosecuted for it. These families deserve answers! They have been trying to get national press on this story for years, to no avail. I have been on the phone with the FBI, Reverend Sharpton, reporters, the NAACP and anyone else who will listen. This can't go on in our America anymore. No matter what your race, this should outrage us all!
I'll be on the Tom Joyner Show in the morning trying to bring some light and attention to this and help these families. Also, I'll be following up with you in the near future to discuss our next plan of action. Please help me give Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos something that many people don't think the poor or disenfranchised have… A VOICE!! You've helped me do a lot of things, but none as important as this.
Talk to me! Tell me what you think.
If you have any information at all about these cases, please contact the following office:
Tampa FBI Office:
866.838.1153 (24/7)