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I recently acquired MCI JH 618 SN 0308 built May 1981. It has been dead for a while, and I'm really hoping to resurrect it. The Audio Power Supply is fried, but the peripheral supply works! (The lights are on, but nobody's home...)
I have a quote from GRS in Hemet, CA for a brand new 18V (and phantom) supply. However, the main and most confusing item is that the -18V audio power rail is shorted to ground and +18V rail all over. I cannot find out where this is happening. It certainly won't help to have 8-16 Amps of fresh clean power running through that!
So before I get a new PSU, all of the channel modules have been pulled, and the Master section motherboard has been disconnected and removed from the rest of console (all power, ground and jumper connections de-soldered.) Before I pull the entire harness out from channels 1-18, and beyond... does anyone have an idea where I could check that I might be missing? I am an amateur tech at best, I know enough to be dangerous, and stupid... But I'm very willing to learn, and certainly get a lot of enjoyment out of it.
The previous owner(s) did quite a hack job all over... If anyone is interested I have many hilarious pictures to share.
It's not all bad, however.
SUPPOSEDLY, all of the channel modules are in working order. HA!
Other highlights include 2 dbx goldcans in the master section, one John Hardy preamp, and 2 Vari-Q channels. There is also a mystery non-factory group return(?) module fashioned for the lower right of the board, under the patchbay.
No automation and VU meters make this console a bit easier to deal with, but still a much bigger project than I've ever attempted! Hopefully some of you out there know the right questions to ask, and can guide me... I'm grateful for your wisdom! I'm a long time lurker, first time poster.
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Rabbi Paul L. Saal is the founding spiritual leader of Congregation Shuvah Yisrael. He received smicha (ordination) through the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations and served over a decade on its Steering Committee. He is the current vice president of the Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council. Rabbi Saal is a trustee and affiliate faculty member of the Messianic Jewish Theological Institute. He is a former editor of Kesher:A Journal of Messianic Judaism and is the author of many published theological papers and articles. He and his wife Robbie are the parents of four daughters and one grand daughter and reside in West Hartford, CT since 1994.
A number of years ago, while taking a leisurely walk with my wife and in-laws, we happened upon a very understated and unpublicized public demonstration.
Among messianic Jews, much has been said concerning the parallels between the sacrifices of the paschal lamb and that of Yeshua. After all, the paschal lamb was the essential sacrifice which God commanded the children of Israel to make before liberating them from bondage to the Pharaoh of Egypt and bringing them to Sinai where they would enter into a covenant of service to Him.
We most often think of patience or savlanut as the capacity to deal with frustrating delays or obstacles that interfere with our plans or objectives.
There's an old saying that goes, "If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!"
Just this morning as I was finishing a Yoga session I casually overheard an interesting and perhaps telling conversation. As I was coming out of the locker room I passed a common area where one of the instructors was "holding court" with a few students.
I find that one of the most enigmatic stories in the Besorot for the modern reader is that of Yeshua quieting a storm. The account is found in Matthew 8, Mark 4 and Luke 8. Though there are some small differences, the accounts are largely the same.
Several years ago I had the opportunity to attend one of the last public appearances of one of the most renowned philosophers of the last half of the 20th century. At the outset there must have been 3000 academics, philosophers and theologians who assembled in the auditorium in Toronto to hear the famous man.
This week we embarked upon our annual reading of Bamidbar. The Fourth Book of the Torah is so named since it begins "Vay'daber Adonai el-Mosheh b'midbar Sinai (And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai)."
Often when we speak of the righteousness of God we conjure up images of perfection. After all, God directed Moses, "Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for holy am I, Hashem your God" (Vayikra 19:2). Unfortunately our efforts often fall short of God's highest standards and can leave us feeling inadequate.
"Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone on the face of the Earth." (Numbers 12:2-4) It was this statement that first made me wonder if Moses did in fact write the entire text of Torah that is attributed to him.


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Do you remember back in the days when a Pentium III doing 600GHz was awesome? At that time, when guys at Intel were foretelling that the increase of the processors clock rate will have no end, or at least none that they could possibly envision, you'd see that oath as testimony of the faith in a future of endless possibilities, gaming-wise.Later on, Intel went as far as publishing a Pentium 4 which was degraded version of the Pentium III. Less complex, less instructions, it was able to go higher in clock rate than any Pentium III, something like 1.8GHz easily. It went on. People even bought laptops with Pentium 4 2.6GHz. And then people started noticing: hey! it's winter, it's freezing damn cold outside but I'm not even forced to turn the heat on! Or funnier, hey, why do my brand new laptop is making more noise than a vacuum cleaner? And what black magic made power supplies became a noticeably costly component of a computer?
Well, that's all about physics. And there's not much to do about. The faster the computer processing unit run, the more energy it will burn, the hotter it will get.
AMD was smart enough to soon start shipping processors with lower clock rate than Intel ones for the same effective potential. It was also smart enough to brand them accordlingly, branding them for instance something like 3200+ to tell they would be as potent as a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz, while they had a way slower clock rate.
Intel could surely not completely obviously go backward – and publicly recognize AMD wittier. But they could not loose the growing market of the laptops, where the heat issue (not to mention the impact on the batteries life) was too much of a problem with Pentium 4, so they invented the Pentium M… based on the Pentium III, of course.
Considering the unavoidable antagonism beetween fastness and energy consumption, the best idea that someone (who, I do not know) came up with was to enable the operating system to set the clock rate according to the current need. It comes with many different names (Cool & Quiet, whatever) and I believe is it now available with most recent processors. On Debian, you just have to install cpufredutils and load the relevant kernel module cpu (powernow_k8 for instance on my AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core workstation) and then pick a policy. Yes, you have to pick a policy, like on demand, performance, etc.
Obviously, there is a performance loss (hence the name –performance– of the policy which actually only set the clock rate to max) since you are not always running the fastest possible: there is always a delay needed for the operating system to understand that now you need full speed when it was idle just before. The different policies purpose is to optimize this delay – tuning inertia, in which regard on demand is simply harsher than conservative.
Next step would be to have the operating system guessing if you'll need full speed or not according to what you are actually doing (which software do you run, etc) and what you are about to do according to past usage (yes, logging what you use to do and making guess).
So currently, on a workstation like mine, using cpufreq on demand is probably a wise choice. Most of the time, it will run slower than it could, because you do not need full power of a recent processor to browse over the web, reply to mails and whatever crap like that you may want to do. And when you're compiling a piece of code, when you are encoding a piece of music, then you'll have full power. I never or rarely use GNU/Linux to play games so inertia is not a crucial issue – however, to play games, it would surely be best to set the policy to performance, even if after the game is started it will likely, anyway, request full power (surely, you configure your games to the best resolution, anti-aliasing, etc, that your box can handle, don't you?).
(Not to mention that, gaming-wise, graphical cards now do a big part of the job, the most important anyway, making CPU less important by comparison to so-called GPU… but that's another story)
So, now, I'll get straight to the point. I run also a little shuttle box as local server. It serves files, it is up 24h/24 and do plenty of small things. It comes with a Celeron 2.6GHz but it surely would do as well with a slower clock rate. With in mind the idea of reducing the heat of this processor as much possible, I searched over the web on the subject of underclocking. The mainboard of the shuttle, by design, does not allow to make this processor run slower than it does. There is no possibility of playing with cpufreq or alike with a Celeron – which is actually a crappy Pentium (no L2 cache, less instructions, etc).I found however interesting the idea of buying a processor designed to run with a faster front side bus than the actual mainboard we have. It focus on the fact that the processor clock rate is actually determined by both the clock multiplier and the front side bus (FSB).
This shuttle front side bus runs at 400MHz. If I pick a processor, says, designed for a 800MHz front side bus, which is usual of Pentium 4 around 3GHz, it will run twice slower.
So I spent nine euros to get a (used – but the Celeron 2.6Ghz is not brand new either) Pentium 4 2.8GHz. And now, my shuttle runs 1.4GHz. Processor temperature is around 35°C, and the sole fan of the box is around 1300RPM. Nice side effect, this processor got Intel's Hyper-Threading (simili multiprocessor), which is definitely good for a server.
I guess I could even use cpufreq with this new processor. But I'm not sure it would let me go as far as reducing by a factor of two the clock rate. And anyway, I'm happy in this case with such clock rate set up by hardware.
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We've just heard that a federal judge in Alaska has decided to impose a powerful legal injunction on Greenpeace US which prohibits even legal protests within a certain distance of Shell's vessels involved in Arctic drilling operations.
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An injunction is a special type of remedy normally reserved for extreme and immediate threats and could mean really severe penalties for anyone caught breaking it. Even more disturbing is that Shell based much of its complaint on the actions of Lucy Lawless, who boarded a drillship with Greenpeace New Zealand. Xena may be a badass, but she and a handful of Greenpeace New Zealand climbers over 6,000 miles away are hardly a reason for the involvement of U.S. courts and this extraordinary ruling.
The injunction will remain in place until October 31st 2012 - the end of Shell Oil's 'drilling window' in Alaska. After this date the ice gets too thick for support vessels or spill response equipment to even get to the scene, let alone do anything about it. That's a pretty terrifying prospect.
Under the injunction Greenpeace USA is banned from going within 1 km of Shell's two main drilling vessels or 500 meters of the other ships they're planning on taking to the pristine Arctic. Shell wants to hide their drilling program far away from public view, because the reality of industrial drilling in the Arctic is going to be ugly as hell.
But all is not lost. When an oil company with billions of dollars employs an army of lawyers to undermine the right to peaceful protest and free speech, then you know you're doing something right. Since Greenpeace New Zealand launched this campaign over 300,000 people have written to Shell telling them that Arctic drilling is one of the great mistakes of our age, and the company has resorted to legal bullying because they're scared of public opinion.
Greenpeace is just one part of a growing movement which will continue to oppose Arctic drilling peacefully and vigorously this year and in the future. This desperate drilling program will do nothing to bring down gas prices in the US, but everything to endanger America's last true wilderness and play havoc with our climate. It's time we start protecting the best interests of the 99% instead of a handful of corporate executives pursuing the next billion dollars in profit.
We invite all of you to join us in exposing this corporate bullying for what it is. Help us show the world that melting sea ice should be a warning that we're making a major mistake, not an invitation to keep pumping the oil that is causing the problem in the first place. Now is the time to stand together, against the wealth and power of the fossil fuel elite. Now is the time to make your voice count in the battle to save the Arctic.
Dan Howells is Deputy Campaign Director at Greenpeace USA.
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I remember the Shell adverts in 2010 in the UK demonstrating their green credentials by pledging a humongous $10M to developing renewable energy. For ...
I remember the Shell adverts in 2010 in the UK demonstrating their green credentials by pledging a humongous $10M to developing renewable energy. For a company which made £11Billion more than usual that year, this pledge is like a sick joke which demonstrates their psychotic commitment to tearing up every forest, seabed and icecap in the world for every drip of oil before they rest.
I don't understand the kind of human being that could run a company like this and make decisions which effectively kill thousands of people year on year. They need help.
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If money is the determinant in what is right or wrong, then we are truly fucked.
Shell can buy governments, judges and laws and we the pe...
If money is the determinant in what is right or wrong, then we are truly fucked.
Shell can buy governments, judges and laws and we the people can only stand by and grab our ankles.
Money CANNOT tell us what is right and wrong. People with VOTES and VOICES and people who are willing to go to PRISON must be the arbiters of our future.
We have precious little else to bring to the fight.
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Practice Supta Hasta Padangusthasa first to insinuate the mechanics of the pose into our minds and bodies. When we first practice the pose on the floor with the pull of gravity working in our favor, we can open the hamstrings and the work with the hip flexion and neutralization of the pelvis in a more easeful way. In this space we can also begin to feel the rooting of the femur bone into the hip socket and the power that is required in the straightened leg to maintain the stability of the pose. There are three main variations of this asana as well as its standing counterpart. The first directs simply the lift and extension of one leg while the other acts to strengthen and stabilize. The second version abducts and externally rotates the lifted leg, while the final version realigns the lifted leg at the midline then revolves the torso.
The most common limitation in all variations of Hasta Padangusthasana is tight hamstrings. To extend the leg, we lengthen the hamstrings intensely. This can be more accessible when done with a strap, but when done by taking hold of the big toe (as the name of the pose suggests) it then involves the muscles of the forearm and the shoulder as well. In striving for balance in standing Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana, it is often common to create imbalance in the hips to compensate for weakness in the standing leg adductors in order to achieve a false sense of center. In addition, it is common to experience hip flexion as a compensatory expression of the full pose.
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Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana asks us to dig in deep, rooting into our core, our center, to find balance instead of falling back on the habitual tendencies that can trick us into thinking we've got it all figured out. The more deeply we root both femurs into their hip sockets, them more we ask our standing leg, our spine, our pelvis and our core to support us. In reaching for the fullest expression in any variation of this pose, we are met with multiple observances of our own weaknesses and an opportunity to gain more and more strength the more we willingly sit with what we uncover. After all, that is the point of asana, "to sit with" whatever surfaces, even if it doesn't reflect the parts of ourselves that we hold in high esteem.
When we rely only on our compensatory strategies to move through our lives, we sacrifice a true connection to our center for an external expression of balance. We might look like we've got it all together at work, at home, or on our yoga mats, but then when we are put to the test, we find ourselves flailing, waving our arms madly about trying not to lose the illusion of balance and strength that we've worked so hard to create.
Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana is an opportunity to hone that authentic center within us, to choose not to put our energy into our superficial or false coping mechanisms, and instead to cultivate the deep inner qualities that can lead to true and authentic balance and strength. In touching this center purposefully, though it may not be easy, it will lead us to lasting and genuine experiences of strength, balance and flexibility in any situation.


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From the days of the PS one, this downloadable game allows you to play the classic original on your PSP handheld system or PS3 home console.
Street Fighter Alpha 2 ups the ante on the prequel to the Street Fighter saga with 18 fighters and several new options, including high and low Alpha counters as well as more moves and combos for each character. In addition, the second title launches the Custom Combo system which lets players use up a super meter to perform devastating multi-hit combos.
Also known as: Street Fighter Zero 2
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Release Date: June 4, 2009
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Cursed to Azkaban Prison by Severus at a young age for meddling in the dark arts, Saphira has recently escaped captivity. Learning of her brothers death, she is now free to practice the dark arts, and pick up where Lord Voldemort has left off. She recently put a love spell on Draco Malfoy.. Shhh.
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Pebble Beach seems to be a befitting location to debut the new V12 565hp Aston Martin Vanquish on American soil. The company has announced a celebrity-like appearance schedule for media, customers and attendees of the famed Monterey Week (August 15-19) to get an up-close look at the car.
First stop is McCall's Motorworks Revival (August 15) officially debuting the Vanquish to the American public. It's next appearance will be amongst the privileged crowd at the Quail Motorsports Gathering August 17. Finally making is public debut on the putting green of the Pebble Beach Lodge August 19 during the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
Throughout the entire week Aston Martin will host customers and friends at their private estate situated in the hills of Carmel overlooking Monterey Bay, where a more intimate session with the vehicle is planed along with guest host Design Director, Marek Reichman. Visitors will also have the chance to interact with partners like Davidoff, Jaeger LeCoultre, Louis Roederer, Lugano Diamonds, Timothy Oulton, Vizio and William Grant & Sons.
"We are very excited about the Monterey program this year and the opportunity to showcase Vanquish at a series of events which are now firmly established as some of the most captivating of the year for automotive enthusiasts from around the world," said Julian Jenkins, Vice President, Aston Martin The Americas.
The Aston Martin Vanquish pricing starts at $279,995 MSRP and will begin deliveries across America in early 2013.


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When Nevada was admitted to the Union in 1864, Carson City was already a growing, prosperous community.The Pioneer Cemetery (or Walsh Cemetery) located on the hillside at the west end of Fifth Street was already being used for burials. Major William Ormsby, after whom Ormsby County was named, was originally buried here after dying in the Pyramid Lake War in 1860s. He was later reburied in New York. His scout, William S. Allen, is still interred at the Pioneer site, along with other early settlers of the territory.
The Pioneer and Lone Mountain Cemetery (aka Wright Cemetery) both contain markers dating as far back as the early 1860s. Many of the individuals buried at the hillside cemetery were moved to Lone Mountain Cemetery in the mid-1860s. Despite many of the individuals being re interred at Lone Mountain, the little Pioneer graveyard was still patronized for many years, evidenced by one of the few remaining markers bearing the date of 1871.
According to available records, there were originally seven separate cemeteries which were formed into one cemetery known as Lone Mountain in 1971. In 1979 the pillars at the entrance to the Cemetery were moved 500 feet east of their original location when Roop Street was expanded. Roop Street originally ran directly to the Civil War monument on the far north end of the cemetery grounds. Many of the oldest stones are made of sandstone from Abe Curry's quarries which were located on the site of what is now the Nevada State Prison on Fifth Street. Lone Mountain Cemetery today encompasses sections for the Masons, Oddfellows, Catholics, two Babyland areas, Hebrew, Grand Army of the Republic, veterans, and a city cemetery section which dates back to the territorial days. The forty-acre site contains memorials to Carson City pioneers of every denomination, ethnic background, and economic or social standing. Together they represent a unique cross-section of early-day Nevada.
Many of the plots in Lone Mountain Cemetery reveal names of once, and still prominent Nevada families. A walk or drive through Carson City reflects names now familiar in other contexts: Curry, Long, Musser, Bath Streets, the Ormsby House, the mansions of Yerington, Bath, Curry, and Rinckel are just a few whose origins lie buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery. On the other hand, many gravesites at Lone Mountain and the other cemeteries in Carson City are unmarked. In some cases, the gravestones are broken or missing. The name of a person may be known through burial records, but the specific site is not. In other situations, particularly burials at public expense, a marker never existed. The known and unknown, the famous and forgotten, all now lie in our historic cemeteries, along with their stories that are quickly fading from memory with the passage of time. That is the reason for this history, to remember, to educate, and to preserve our past for the future.
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Ringo Deathstarr were originally formed in 2005 by singer and guitarist Elliott Frazier in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas, but after moving to the more musically happening climes of Austin, he stabilized a final lineup with guitarist Renan McFarland, bassist Alex Gehring, and drummer Dustin Gaudet. Ringo Deathstarr's self-titled debut, a five-song EP, was released by the British label SVC Records in the fall of 2007. After a few more years of playing shows, shuffling members before settling on Gehring and drummer Daniel Coborn, and honing their sound, the band was signed by the U.K. label AC30 after making a big splash at their Reverence festival in 2010. The band's first album, Colour Trip, was released by AC30 in the winter of 2010, and was licensed by Sonic Unyon for release in Canada. They next issued a compilation of previously released tracks, 2011's Sparkler, before returning with the Shadow EP in early 2012. Later that year, their second full-length album, Mauve, was released. An EP, God's Dream, followed in 2013, then their third album Pure Mood came out on Club AC30/Reverberation Appreciation Society in late 2015. ~ Stewart Mason~ Rovi


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In the technology world, just because you have a new idea does not mean it will translate to a real company that can produce revenue. These companies have started with a germ of an idea – say, teaching you guitar or helping employees communicate about projects – and created a company that intends to grow quickly and become a major success. We tapped each one to find out how the product works and how the founders plan to keep the start-up momentum going.
Some companies are born out of necessity. After David Sacks founded the company Geni, which helps you research your family tree, he found the growing staff needed a way to communicate with each other. Sacks eventually developed the private social networking tool Yammer internally, then spun it off as a separate start-up. The idea is that employees can post questions, find company info, check on the expertise of co-workers, and track projects in a secure portal. Sacks, the CEO of both companies, now says the next step is to help companies develop their own apps and will offer some third-party apps for the service, including one that tracks questions and another for tracking ideas. Yammer is also expanding and will be opening operations in Europe and Asia soon.
LARK Technologies
Waking up in the morning does not need to a jolting experience. For couples, one alarm doesn't help – one person might need to wake up to go for a run, but it wakes up the other person. The LARK Up system, which is partly an iPhone app, docking system, and wristband, is intended for couples where one person needs to wake up earlier than the other. The wristband sends a soft pulse that wakes you up, but there is no audible chime. CEO and founder Julia Hu says she worked with a Harvard sleep expert and MIT engineers to develop the LARK Up system. "The wristband is a wearable haptic and sensor device that is built on LARK's patented Up technology, which has a dynamic vibration profile that is optimized to wake users and prevent desensitization. It wirelessly connects to a mobile phone and the user interface and controls are on the mobile phone creating a superior user experience," she says.
Here's a unique concept that's still in a design phase but set for production next year. TerraManus is developing a "human-powered tractor" called the TerraSaver, which is intended for third world countries where a power source is not readily available. The hand-operated tractor uses hard plastic wheels that gouge a rut in the soil to create reservoirs that help with water flow. TerraManus is currently working with several agriculture companies in the US on a field test, and has worked with the US Commerce Department and the Chinese government on financing a field test.
Raw Talent Group
This guitar tutoring system works much like Guitar Hero or Rock Band in that the software, which runs on your computer, listens to your performance and compares it against an instructional video. You then get a rating based on your performance that helps you learn from mistakes. The software includes a USB-to-guitar cable and works with any guitar, comes with 15 tracks including songs by Joan Jett and The Clash, and also includes the free AmpliTube effects software for distortion and delays.
Rentasmile.com is a service for people in the unique position of needing administrative help in a job or as a small business owner, yet who can't afford (or don't want to bother with) hiring an employee. Like a virtual concierge, Rentasmile.com helps you book a meeting, reserve a lunch appointment at a restaurant, or even make a phone call to a client. The basic service costs $35 per month for 30 requests. A second-tier service, called Business Assistance, is more comprehensive: you can request that someone provide help desk support, transcribe an interview, or answer your e-mail for you. This service starts at $200 per month for 20 hours of work. The company plans to expand to the UK, Canada, and Australia in the coming months, and will release an iPhone and Android app for tracking tasks.
Q-Track Corporation
Near-field communication works like RFID in that it transmits a wireless signal only in close proximity to the receiver. The Q-Track technology uses long waveforms that run about 1000 feet to track the location of objects. The signal emits a low frequency that is under 1MHz for a coverage area of about 230 feet. The technology is now being used at a nuclear facility to track objects, in a coal mine to track personnel, and even to track objects and personnel for emergency situations, such as a house fire. "Our pilot application is in the nuclear industry. Our technology locates workers in a nuclear training facility and simulates radiation exposure, providing the same feedback they'd get in a real nuclear environment with real radiation," says Dr. Hans Schantz, the CTO of Q-Track Corporation.
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GUARDED by a ring of police officers and security guards Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes has boarded a flight to Australia where he is wanted on multiple sex assault allegations against children.
Hughes, 64, boarded Qantas flight QF2 at London's Heathrow Airport bound for Sydney via Singapore just after 7.30pm on Tuesday (0630 Wednesday AEDT).
The former prime-time TV star did not speak with waiting media as he boarded the flight some two hours before its scheduled departure.
The flight is due to land in Sydney at 6.50am (AEDT) on Thursday.
"(Scotland Yard) can confirm that Robert Hughes … was extradited to Australia from London Heathrow on an extradition warrant this evening, December 11," a police spokeswoman told AAP.
"He is wanted in connection with allegations of gross indecency, indecent assault and sexual assault towards children in NSW, Australia, between August 1984 and August 1990."
Hughes consented to an order sought by Australia's attorney-general that he return to Sydney for questioning in relation to claims made by five people.
He has not been charged and his lawyer has indicated he intends to defend the allegations.
A warrant, signed by Britain's home secretary, outlines 11 accusations made by people who were aged seven to 15 years at the time of the alleged abuse, which coincided with the actor's starring role in the hit family sitcom, Hey Dad!.
Alleged victims include the daughter of family friends and pals of Hughes' daughter, a London court was told during extradition proceedings.
Claims against Hughes were first made public in 2010.
He was living in London with his wife when arrested in August 2012 by police seeking his extradition.
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: I am happy to post, does anyone know why "Prince Albert" as a piercing is called that? It was in an Anthony Burgess book; Wikipedia describes it well, but origins I don't know. I can only guess it is a ref to the Prince Regent? Does anyone know why?
Legend states that he had such a piercing. It may for all anybody knows be true, but there is no evidence for it. It is possible that the naem was given because of the resemblance of this specific kind to a "Prince Albert" watch chain, which was a fashion that the Prince genuinely did wear, and that this name gave rise to the story of the Prince having the piercing.(VSD)
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So Cardiff Anime & Gaming Con 2017 was last weekend it was great, a lot of hard work, but it paid off as I had such a blast! Facebook keeps reminding me of this cringe of a video from CAGC 2016 and the status to go with it is terrible XD SUPER CHEESY! and I mean CHEESE!. Basically this was when I was crewing I think this was my 3rd time crewing, but my 1st in Cardiff cause I always crewed at Bristol as thats where I live.
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I am going to be completly honest here! I barely style my wigs because usually they are short in length and I just brush it and everything is fine.
WELL... this Coco Bandicoot cosplay required a bit more of styling than my other cosplays. This wig styling is from HELL I'm still not 100% happy with it, but its better than nothing at all. What I found out is that its ok to do your own version rather than having it PERFECT to the original. I know alot of people like it too be an excact


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The title of this post is something that civil procedure professors tell their students on or about Day 1 of law school, and yesterday's vote on gun control legislation illustrates the point well. The unwillingness of Majority Leader Reid (or his party caucus) to push for real changes to the Senate's cloture rules at the beginning of the year is now coming home to roost. Expanded background checks for gun purchases got more than 50 votes, but not 60 votes. The NRA and other like-minded groups are playing by the current filibuster rules and practices. It's not their fault that these rules and practices are unsound.
The party caucus is to blame, not one person, including not forcing the issue since a majority of the caucus was willing to reform it.
This doesn't mean that taking advantage of it is not the "fault" of someone else. If I leave a loaded gun in the house and my unhinged guest used it, the guest is at fault too. They don't get off the hook because I helped him/her.
The filibuster is workable if the body as a whole uses it soundly. Some will say it was used as intended here. Any rule will require some good judgment. No rule will not have possible bad applications. It has to be applied with good faith and wisely.
The Democrats are not giving up the filibuster for a reason.
The GOP background check and concealed carry bills received as many or more votes than the Manchin and Feinstein bills.
Then there is the prospect of Senate control in 2015...
Would have come to roost in a bigger way, if Reid had rammed through with grossly inadequate debate a contraversial bill that could barely get a majority. This was the sort of bill that only had a chance of passing if the general public were kept ignorant of it's details, and haven't we all had a belly full of those by now?
Time for a waiting period on legislation: No vote until the full text has been publicly available for a couple of weeks.
Bart: The GOP concealed carry amendment is presumably the Cornyn one, which would have led to a major weakening of gun regulation. As a response to Newtown, breathtaking.
But what was the GOP background check amendment? It's hard to think of anything weaker than Manchin-Toomey, so was this also an attempt to emasculate the already feeble current law?
"so was this also an attempt to emasculate the already feeble current law?"
No, I think it was an attempt to pander, but to pander cheaply. The problem for those two is that there isn't really any "sweet spot" where you're being harsh enough to buy the approval of gun controllers, and yet mild enough to not piss off gun owners.
A major 'weakening' of gun regulation would be nice, given that much of that is just codified infringements of the 2nd amendment, enacted during that decades long period when the Court was refusing to hear 2nd amendment cases. Like a major 'weakening' of censorship, it would have been a victory for civil liberties.
It's not clear to me what lessons we can draw when the voting level is set at 60. That changes the incentives for marginal voters on both sides. For example, a red state Democratic Senator might have voted for background checks knowing it wouldn't pass, to please the party leaders. S/he might then have voted to weaken safety laws also knowing that wouldn't pass, but that the vote would give him/her a campaign talking point.
I'm not even sure we can assume that the background check bill would have received 50 votes if that had been the margin of victory. Any Senator concerned about the politics of the vote has very different incentives if his/her vote is perceived as the casting vote.
Mark is exactly right. In addition, if it took 50 votes to pass, pro- gun control Democrats might have declined to support Manchin-Toomey, instead insisting on a more aggressive measure that would have gained less support from blue state Republicans and red state Democrats.
Bottom line : there is no way of knowing whether senators are voting for or against a measure because they want to advance that outcome or because of how they want to position themselves in light of an outcome that is already known. But in this case, there is good reason to suspect that both sides are playing their respective bases for fools.
"At least in the case of Manchin and Toomey, we needn't suspect, we know with absolute certainty that they played their base for fools. They got elected in no small part on the basis of being opposed to gun control, and then turned around and betrayed everyone who voted for them on that basis.
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"At least in the case of Manchin and Toomey, we needn't suspect, we know with absolute certainty that they played their base for fools. They got elected in no small part on the basis of being opposed to gun control, and then turned around and betrayed everyone who voted for them on that basis."
What gun "control" did they propose? Do you currently feel that your RKBA has been infringed or "controlled" because you are asked to undergo a background check prior to purchasing one from a dealer?
Why, yes, I do feel that a right is violated when you must seek the government's permission to exercise it. Further, I still recall the way the Clinton administration used to shut down the system during the big gun shows, so that nobody could buy guns during them. And how they violated the law, collecting data the law explicitly prohibited, in an effort to create just the sort of gun registration system the law prohibited.
I oppose any move which would result in data concerning gun purchases passing through the hands of a government which might compile it for later infringing use. I'm not going to pretend that a presumption of good faith is appropriate here.
Brett curiously doesn't think voting rights (sic) are violated when you have to get a background check.
The comment is misleading anyhow. If you actually had to ask "permission," it would be a problem. But, the issue here is that there are certain people that do not have the "right" to buy a gun.
Can we focus on this? Let's say if a person is underage or is on furlough from a mental institution with schizophrenia or is serving sentence of a felony or perhaps is not a citizen. Such people under Heller and McDonald do not necessary have a constitutional right to have a gun.
So, like Brett's support of voting background checks, it is proper and constitutional to ensure that the person buying the gun does not fit these categories, especially if the check is done quickly.
The two people also were elected for various reasons. Unsure how "betrayed" they were, especially since the bill didn't pass and very well might -- given the times -- been a means to protect such voters from more strict limitations.
Voters should realize their representatives are not potted plants and also act with respect to ongoing events. Any "no new taxes" type pledge also should be taken with a grain of salt, since in politics there rarely are or should be absolutes.
Brett's cite of history also is notable. Look to the future, young man, I believe someone once said.
"Why, yes, I do feel that a right is violated when you must seek the government's permission to exercise it."
The right is the right to keep and bear arms. How is that violated by a background check for purchase? Or do you think the government should not be able to prevent anyone from purchasing a firearm?
I don't think the government can prevent anyone from buying a firearm, short of imprisoning them. Preventing somebody from buying a firearm legally is scarcely the same thing.
Never quite understood the importance of making it as hard for a felon to buy a gun as to buy pot.
I think it makes it harder. Take pot since you give it as an example yourself, the fact that lots of people can still get pot doesn't mean laws against pot don't make it harder to get pot. It's always interesting to see libertarians argue on the one hand that the WOD is such a draconian set of heavy-handed burdens and on the other if it was lifted no effect on pot use would follow...
But that's really beside the point, which was that requiring a background check doesn't act as any infringement on those who would pass it.
Brett, as a Second Amendment absolutist, takes "pot" shots at pot. But in his view do we even need a Second Amendment or even a Constitution for that matter to exercise what he seems to consider natural rights? Is there a bit of the anarchist in Brett or is this merely his libertarian strut as surely even he cannot pull himself up with his own bootstraps? Query: if there are natural rights, are there natural responsibilities as well? What a maroon!
"Query: if there are natural rights, are there natural responsibilities as well?"
Care for your children and do not harm others.
That is about it.
Mr. W: "The right is the right to keep and bear arms. How is that violated by a background check for purchase?"
The right is the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right. Thus, any act of government which would prevent a person from exercising the right must be must be narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest in the least restrictive manner.
An government financed instant check system would likely pass this test.
A system requiring the buyer to pay a fee to a limited number of government licensed to perform a check that may take days or even weeks arguably should not pass strict scrutiny.
Our yodeler's designation of a natural responsibility to " ... do not harm others" might clash from time to time with Brett's and presumably our yodeler's claimed natural right to arms. Of course, in self-defense with arms, often harm results to others who may be innocent. So how would our dyslexic duo explain such a clash between a natural right and a natural responsibility - a natural dilemma?
The right to keep and bear arms does not extend to harming others with arms, nor does infringing on the right to keep and bear arms protect others.
"An government financed instant check system would likely pass this test.
A system requiring the buyer to pay a fee to a limited number of government licensed to perform a check that may take days or even weeks arguably should not pass strict scrutiny."
So your opposition is based in the fee, the wait and/or the routing through certain private entities (the first and last seem to be attempts at 'privatization' of this function which I'm a bit surprised you'd oppose)? Do you have the same opposition for all three equally?
I'm actually just curious.
Mr. W:
The point is that the government should not be imposing burdens on fundamental rights, not that I dislike one burden over another.
A fee to purchase a firearm is no different than a poll tax to vote.
Limiting background checks to licensed firearm dealers creates bottlenecks and delays.
Government failing to maintain or to provide adequate access to their computer databases creates delays.
We are not even discussing the fact that even the most efficient background check has proven to be utterly useless.
"A fee to purchase a firearm is no different than a poll tax to vote."
So do you oppose recent efforts by several GOP controlled states to require paperwork (which comes with fees) from those seeking to exercise their right to vote?
It's not clear that our yodeler believes that the "right to keep and bear arms" is a natural right or a positive right (per the Second Amendment), or perhaps both. This permits him to jump back and forth over the fence. I believe it is a positive right (subject to the introductory Militia clause), as the Second Amendment fails - as does the rest of the Constitution - to specifically focus on an individual's "self-defense." Now, "self-defense" may be a natural right that was recognized in the common law. But the common law was not incorporated into the Constitution, as least under originalist views. Yes, the states, many of them, specifically did so with their constitutions incorporating the common law as it had been developed in England and refined in the colonies, but each state did not have a uniform rule as to what constituted "self-defense" that would serve as a defense to assault and battery. Over time, some states varied their definitions of "self'-defense" by common law decisions or by statutory provisions. As I understand it, there is no federal common law. Thus, the Heller and McDonald decisions can result in a lack of uniformity in the meaning of "self-defense" built-into the Second Amendment as it changes in some states over time. This might suggest that a state as the tail can wag the federal dog on the application of Heller and McDonald per the Second Amendment.
Second Amendment absolutists Bert and Brat, our dyslexic shoot-first duo, see no problem with an individual having a veritable arsenal of weaponry as a basic right. But consider that the law of property developed over time the concept of nuisance relative to property rights. If our version of Frick and Frack had arsenals in their abodes and carried many weapons both openly and covertly, might they not be nuisances, potentially deadly nuisances? Might others feel harmed by such that maybe each of them might be subjected to "self-defense" efforts?
The pot reference is strange. I don't know what it means. Does he mean legally or realistically? Query if felons are able to get medicinal marijuana.
Mr. W. replies to the standard "it's a limited check, so what's the point" argument, which would block loads of laws. Also, Brett (my snark is noted, but it's because he simply is ignoring it) has a rank double standard here in respect to voting rights.
Unlike voting laws, there actually are lots of people who don't have the right to guns that obtain and use them & the results are more tragic. But, Brett is more concerned about gun rights.
This was the sort of bill that only had a chance of passing if the general public were kept ignorant of it's details, and haven't we all had a belly full of those by now?Post a Comment
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The report examines parts of the country that would feel the most pain from $85 billion in cuts that are set to automatically start taking effect March 1 without a bipartisan deal on sequestration. Actual cuts may be around 13 percent for defense and 9 percent for other programs because lawmakers delayed their impact, requiring savings over a shorter period of time.
"The District of Columbia along with its neighboring suburbs in Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland are particularly vulnerable due to the multitude of defense agencies and contractors located in the region," said the report by Wells Fargo economists Mark Vitner and Michael Brownsaid.
Defense spending has been estimated to account for 9.8 percent of the combined D.C., Virginia and Maryland economies in 2010, the report noted.
The report also cited Huntsville, Ala., and St. Louis as areas vulnerable to defense cuts.
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Georgia, for example, is home to three areas like that, including Columbus, Warner Robins and Hinesville, according to the Wells Fargo report. As for larger metro areas, Navy towns like San Diego and Norfolk-Virginia Beach also could be affected. Hawaii, home to the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, also could see layoffs and reduced income growth, the report said.
"In addition, Alaska with its Air Force, Army and Naval operations would also be disproportionately impacted from defense cuts," the report said.
While nondefense cuts will be spread out more across the country, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia ranked at the top for states with a high level of exposure to nondefense spending reductions, which could affect areas ranging from biomedical research to homeland security.
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Often when you spend your days surfing the web for interesting articles about yoga in the news, you encounter the same beautiful bodies in amazing asanas without a touch of fatigue in their faces or cellulite on their bodies. Their hair is perfectly styled, with manicured hands and pedicured feet and only the most pricey yoga clothes. It might turn readers off to lead your article or clip with a dirty, large, poorly dressed, unkempt person on the cover. So when you encounter a person who is breaking through those stereotypes in a profound way, you pay attention, and in the process you open your heart. One yoga teacher has been able to see beyond all of the external gloss of the growing popularity of Western yoga, and find beauty on the floor of a soup kitchen teaching hatha yoga to homeless men.
Julie Eisenberg, who was laid off from her job as a researcher for a labor union earlier this year, was approached by Deputy Director of Miriam's Kitchen in Washington, D.C., Catherine Crum about teaching yoga once a week to those who have fallen on the hardest of times. She doesn't gain any fame or notoriety from her choice to arrive every week at 8 a.m. to teach the handful of mostly men who lower themselves down onto the basement floor to sit on yoga mats and move their bodies. And though it may seem difficult to teach and practice yoga in an atmosphere full of distraction, both Julie and the mostly men she teaches choose to do it anyway.
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The classes of 2-8 students per week, are mostly men ages anywhere from 20 into their sixties and often Hispanic or African-American. The students come from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds, which was surprising to Eisenberg, and made her see "how tenuously many of us are connected to the ability to pay rent, buy food, and make ends meet on a day to day basis." Drawing on her certification in Kundalini yoga and her background as an Iyengar practitioner prior to that, Eisenberg brings yoga that is accessible to all physical and mental abilities to Miriam's Kitchen. It is also a practice meant to uplift the students, after all, Eisenberg says, "The purpose of Kundlini is for the students to surpass the teachers!"
The definition of Karma yoga is action without thought of reward or accomplishment. To act purely for the benefit and well being of others isn't' always an appealing idea to the tail end of the "me" generation. But Eisenberg has found the shift from her professional career to the path of selfless giving fairly smooth. Her background in labor organizing took her all over the country, exposing her to all walks of life, and a number of specialized populations. Through teaching occupational health and safety for her years as a labor organizer, she feels more prepared and familiar with the students at Miriam's Kitchen, though she admits that she's been learning a lot along the way. To supplement her understanding and ability, Eisenberg trained through an organization called www.streetyoga.org, who specialize in addressing the specific needs and considerations for the homeless.
In the process, Eisenberg and others in affiliation with Yoga District Studio in D.C., a studio that offers affordable or by-donation yoga classes in community-run yoga centers committed to eco-friendly practices, have formed an organization called Yoga Activist to continue and expand the work that Eisenberg has begun at Miriam's Kitchen. The work in the last year seems to be having a definite impact. Some of the participants in the Miriam's Kitchen classes are finding their way to community based donation classes in other studios and other areas beyond the walls of the soup kitchen. Also, the interest is starting to grow. Eisenberg said that every week they are practicing in the midst of a great deal of activity after breakfast at Miriam's Kitchen, and people are paying attention. "Last week, a fellow in is early sixties asked if he could just watch," said Eisenberg, "and I could tell by the look on his face at the end of our session that he'll be on the mat with us soon."
The yoga classes are touching more than just the physical bodies of the participants. As the Washington Post reported from one of the participants that as the stress and disappointment of life on the streets starts to mount, he ""breathe(s) out: 'Whoooosh.' And I calm down. I remember the stuff that Julie said, and I use that yoga on the street."