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The Federal Reserve will continue its efforts to stimulate the economy, which the central bank said continues to suffer from slow growth and pressure from weak fiscal policy.
As it has done in recent meetings, the central bank's Open Market Committee said it stands at the ready to provide more stimulative measures beyond the $3 trillion in money-printing on which it has embarked since the financial crisis began in 2008.
"The Committee remains concerned that, without sufficient policy accommodation, economic growth might not be strong enough to generate sustained improvement in labor market conditions," the FOMC said in its standard post-meeting statement. "Furthermore, strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook." (Read More: Fed Easing Has Little Impact So Far: Out of Bullets?)
Most of the statement featured language familiar to Fed-watchers — concern over the muddling economy which it said is not being helped by fiscal foot-dragging in Washington. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has implored policymakers to avoid what he calls a "fiscal cliff," a reference to the series of tax increases and spending cuts that will take place if Congress and the White House cannot agree on deficit-reduction measures by the end of the year.
The only differences in wording from recent statements entailed the observation that consumer spending has picked up, business investment has slowed, and a note that inflation "has recently picked up somewhat" due to increased energy prices.
The Fed said it intends to keep its target rate near zero "at least through mid-2015," a pledge aimed as much at interest rates as it is in assuring investors that it will be an active participant in helping generate economic progress.
Though critics charge the central bank is suppressing normal drivers of the economy and risking inflation in the process, it shows no signs of letting up.
"What the Fed has been trying to do for a long time now is to elevate asset prices," Bill Gross, CEO at Pimco, the Newport Beach, Calif.-based bond giant, told CNBC. "They pumped the stock market until 2000, then they pumped the housing market until 2007 and now they pumped the stock market again — doubled it over the past three or four years — and now they're working on housing. It's a fair question as to whether this is an appropriate policy."
The latest statement comes a little more than a month after the Fed responded to a stubbornly high unemployment rate and weak growth by launching the third round of its quantitative easing program, or QE3.
In this instance, the central bank is focusing on buying $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities a month in an effort to spur home buying and refinancing. Fed officials hope wealth in the housing market will spread through the economy and spur hiring. (Read More: Here's What's Really Holding Back the US Jobs Market)
But QE3 results have been lackluster, with the stock market stumbling through a poor earnings season and mortgage rates actually moving higher despite the Fed purchases.
In addition to QE3, the Fed also is engaged in what is known as Operation Twist, in which it sells short-dated debt and buys an equal amount of longer-dated securities in an effort to drive down borrowing rates.
That, too, has been less than successful, with the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield rising as investors continued to flee risk assets.


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Search for energy in Texas intensifies demand for power
The shale boom has led to record growth in the demand for electricity in remote parts of Texas, panelists told a downtown Houston audience Wednesday.
Oil and gas worker camps and drilling activity have boosted demand in once sparsely populated areas including the Eagle Ford Shale and the Permian Basin, according to speakers at a Gulf Coast Power Association special briefing at CenterPoint Energy Tower.
The growth has left utilities scrambling to keep up.
For example, Oncor, which provides transmission lines around Midland-Odessa and Abilene in West Texas, added 247 megawatts to its system in the last three years, more than 10 times the capacity it added from 2006 to 2009.
"You can just see the exponential growth in the transformer infrastructure and capacity," said Robert Knowles, senior distribution planning engineering for AEP Texas. It operates in South Texas, where activity in the Eagle Ford Shale has caused a surge in power demand.
Hooking up new oil and gas infrastructure is much more expensive in the newly active oil fields than in places with established electric networks, said David Woody, senior manager of distribution planning for Oncor. That often means higher prices for electricity consumers.
The cost of land is one of the most significant drivers of these prices, especially in securing the right of way for new distribution lines.
"Landowners are wanting to make quite a profit," Knowles said.
And while utilities could acquire land through eminent domain by claiming a public interest, utilities say they prefer to pay higher prices than condemn private property.
"It is our preference not to go through the condemnation process," said Greg Boggs, vice president of Sharyland Utilities, which operates in the Midland area. "But these costs are part of what is required to get people up and running."
Outdated transformers and other equipment also present a challenge. Mobile substations can provide some relief, but they are designed for temporary outages, not long-term use.
"If I have tied up all my units and I have a failure in another area, what do I do?" Knowles said.
It normally takes about 36 months to build a transmission line or substation, but utilities are trying to trim this to about a year, Knowles said.
Better communications with companies planning to move into the area could help improve this process.
But as utilities for these regions grow, demand for capable staff is intense, making staffing issues an additional challenge for local utilities.
"Part of the problem is that the oil field also needs those people," Knowles said.

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Campaign: Peninsula Campaign (March-September 1862)
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Principal Commanders: Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter [US]; Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS]
Forces Engaged: 31,987 total (US 15,631; CS 16,356)
Estimated Casualties: 1,700 total (US 400; CS 1,300)
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On July 31, 2013, Jason Geffner of CrowdStrike discussed a new tool called "Tortilla" that allows incident responders and computer security researchers to hide behind the Tor network as they poke and prod malicious software infrastructure. Were I there, I would have asked Jason this question: What things should I not do while using Tortilla, and why shouldn't I do them? I know Jason and respect his technical skills, but if he and CrowdStrike don't have a good answer, that will say a lot about our field's collective ability to reason about actions along the Active Response Continuum. [D. Dittrich and K. E. Himma. Active Response to Computer Intrusions. Chapter 182 in Vol. III, Handbook of Information Security, 2005. http://ssrn.com/abstract=790585.]
This may sound like a trick question to some, but it goes right to an important distinction in the way the international law of war and humanitarian law is structured so as to protect non-combatants. The first concept that must be understood is that of distinction, which means combatants can only legitimately target other combatants, and must avoid targeting innocent civilians, who are protected from hostilities under international laws of war and humanitarian laws. So innocent third parties who are not involved in conflict should not be harmed. This protected status of civilians and the requirement for distinction is one reason why combatants must wear uniforms (another being that they may lose combatant immunity and prisoner of war status: see the Tallinn Manual, Rule 26.) [M. N. Schmitt. Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare.http://the-beacon.info/topics/international-law-united-nations/tallinn-manual-on-the-international-law-applicable-to-cyber-warfare-draft/, December 2012. Prepared by the International Group of Experts at the Invitation of The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.]. In a conflict, it is a war crime for a soldier to take off their uniform and put on civilian clothes before fighting, to fire their weapons from a vehicle marked as if it were a Red Cross or Red Crescent ambulance, to take up a fighting position in a church or mosque, or to establish operational military bases that are interspersed with civilian homes and shops. This is the issue that Tortilla raises, and is known as an improper ruse to fool the enemy into thinking the combatant is actually a protected non-combatant. As Rule 62 of the Tallinn Manual puts it, ``Improper use of [distinctive] indicators jeopardizes identification of the protected persons and objects entitled to display them, undermines the future credibility of the indicators, and places persons and objects entitled to their protection at greater risk.''
Let me be very clear. The issue here is not whether someone using Tortilla is a combatant or not, but rather are the things they are doing while using Tortilla to conceal their identity increasing the risk of harm to innocent third parties? People who use the Tor network for legitimate reasons have a right to use the network without being subjected to counter-attack. Someone using the Tor network to simply visit web pages and perform what could be considered benign counter-reconnaissance, may not look any different from normal Tor users. But just visiting web pages does not warrant a counter-attack. Now consider someone choosing to hide behind the Tor network to use it as a stepping stone to penetrate an adversary's network, to "disrupt or destroy," or to take other very aggressive actions that could result in a counter-counter-strike by the adversary. This is the (im)moral equivalent of firing weapons from a Red Cross truck, hiding behind innocent and protected parties around the globe, and putting those innocent and protected civilians at increased risk of harm. The risk vs. benefit distribution is not equal. The user of Tortilla to take high risk bears little if any actual risk -- if Jason's description of how well Tortilla works is correct, and I assume it is -- while all of the risk is placed on those people who operate Tor exit nodes who are the only visible "last hop" before the adversary's network.
This is a major problem that many of those who advocate taking very aggressive actions against attackers (the things that fall into the "hacking back" end of the Active Response Continuum Level 4) rarely consider. If you do something aggressive from your own network, the adversary can see you do it and can fire back. And if someone say, "Well, we are not combatants so the laws of war don't apply here," I answer that the problem of putting innocent third parties at risk still exists and you still have a moral obligation to address it. This actually happened with the Mariposa Working Group botnet takedown, and the resulting fire-fight took innocent third parties using the same network as MWG members off-line for several hours under a barrage of DDoS packets. ["So You Want to Take Over a Botnet...," by David Dittrich, Microsoft Digital Crimes Consortium 2013 meeting, Barcelona, Spain, http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/talks/dcc2013_dittrich_botnets.pdf, February 2013.] If you hide yourself by blending in with major carrier broadband users, or hide behind the Tor network's volunteer exit node operators, your actions could result in the same harm to innocent third parties from counter-fire being directed at the wrong party.
If there is no such caution against going too far with a tool like Tortilla, I feel morally obligated to question the ethics of making such tools public when they are promoted using provocative scenarios and aggressive language, but no rational warning or guidance on proper use being given to those who receive the tool. It is not sufficient to enable an improper ruse to be used in an aggressive cyber counter-attack and then say, "Hey! It was the guy who used the tool who is at fault, not me!" I believe there is a moral responsibility to exhibit integrity in these situations to minimize the harm that may result to innocent third parties. (I imagine the Tor folks might agree with this sentiment.) The recently released book by John Strand and Paul Asadoorian includes cautions that explicitly discuss Tor exit nodes, though in the counter-attack context, not the counter-counter-attack one raised here: "[Never], ever launch directed attacks against an attacker's IP address. This can backfire in a number of different and awesome ways. For example, you may be attacking an IP address, which is part of a botnet -- on a system host in DoD IP address space. Second, you could be attacking a TOR exit node." Without providing guidance and caution against getting too aggressive while using Tortilla, another of Strand and Asadoorian's cautions is applicable. "It just takes a few dumb moves in a few public situations and we are sunk. Let's keep active defenses going by being smart." [J. Strand, P. Asadoorian, E. Robish, and B. Donnelly. Offensive Countermeasures: The Art of Active Defense. PaulDotCom, 2013.]
Rather than just say what not to do, let me say what what I have done in the past to deal with this situation. I have opted to hide in plain site, which could involve using the same IP addresses as systems within my own network that have been compromised so the attacker would only see connections that they believed where "legitimate" (i.e., coming from their own actions of compromising computers), and only gone so far as to do things that would appear as "normal" (or perhaps just "bugs" in the attacker's own software) instead of things that would look like a hostile attack. For example, when performing initial experiments with enumerating the Nugache P2P botnet, we took our "honeypot" offline and used its address for the enumeration scans and did other things to be as un-detectable as possible, later switching back to the honeypot so the attacker (if they looked) would see everything appear as normal as possible. [D. Dittrich and S. Dietrich. Discovery techniques for P2P botnets. Technical Report CS 2008-4, Stevens Institute of Technology, September 2008. http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/papers/dd2008tr4/.] If you know which of your own computers an adversary has taken control of, swapping them out for your own instrumented hosts for collecting evidence does not put innocent third parties at risk, though it does take a greater level of sophistication and careful planning and execution. (But if you are engaging in aggressive actions, you had better be sophisticated, plan and execute your actions carefully, and take responsibility for collateral damage you cause. As David Willson put it in a BrightTALK panel presentation, "What I'm saying here is that the leadership has to absolutely make the call, and say, `This is what we're going to do, and how we're going to do it. Keep collecting the information and the intelligence so we can make better formed decisions and continuously move forward.' And then be willing to take responsibility for what happened. If the leadership isn't willing to take responsibility, then they can't do it and they are being negligent." [P. Judge. Panel: The Single Greatest Challenge in Data Security for 2013. https://www.brighttalk. com/webcast/288/64057, January 2013, @24:00].)
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NRA developing 'best practices' for school safety
The National Rifle Association has begun to put together safety standards and risk assessment guidelines it says will help protect schools from future incidents of violence.
Two months after launching a nationwide program to address school security, the National Rifle Association has begun to put together safety standards and risk assessment guidelines they say will help protect schools from future incidents of violence.
The National School Shield project will not be completed until April but Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman and a Homeland Security undersecretary in the George W. Bush administration, said his team has already found several areas where safety standards would help make schools more secure.
Hutchinson said the risk assessment exercises and "best practices" the NRA is developing have been modeled after those developed by the Department of Homeland Security for use of public and private entities. Once completed the exercises would enable schools to access their risks based on their unique facilities and needs.
"After you look at all of those things and talk to a lot of people then you access what they are doing and what the gaps are in security and more should be done," he said in an interview. "Every school has its unique characteristic…part of it is their unique community and part of it is school design and the threats that they have."
The program, initially unveiled during a NRA press conference in the wake of the December school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that left 20 children and 6 adults dead, was met with immediate criticism from those favoring more gun control.
Advocates of reforming the nation's gun laws accused the group of suggesting more guns in schools could solve the problem of guns in schools.
Hutchinson explained the project was a much more holistic process, involving trained security officials touring a range of schools around the country to help the schools conduct self-assessments.
In order to develop these tools, Hutchinson has recruited an assessment team – made up of federal law enforcement trainers, former Secret Service agents and other safety officials – to fan out across the country to schools in urban, suburban and rural communities.
Hutchinson outlined several factors when judging a school's readiness including the design of the building itself, expected response time from local police, drills that are in place and what kind of training that staff may have if an active shooter situation should occur.
"It's obvious from the record of violence in our country that most active shooter scenarios that have occurred in a school are over within minutes," he said. "And so it's all about the capability of an immediate response."
Part of that immediate response would be to install trained police officers, sometimes called "resource officers," to protect educators and students from potential threats to their safety.
"An armed guard is not a 100% guarantee of security -- we would never say that -- but it certainly enhances the response and whenever you can decrease that response time or improve that response time then you are going to diminish the loss of life," he said.
However, he said, the goal is not to arm teachers.
"Teachers should teach and others should protect," Hutchinson said.
During his visits to schools in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, Hutchinson noticed that while both school systems had sworn police officers on campus, many of the officers in California were armed.
"In Philadelphia, the schools use magnetometers in their high schools but the officers generally do not carry firearms," he said.
The NRA has not determined how every school could afford resource officers.
Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, said while the salaries vary, officers usually cost a school $50,000 to $80,000 a year.
For areas where the cost of resource officers might be prohibitive, Hutchinson said they are looking into whether a designated staff member could be trained to fill the role of a security officer – a move that also may require the controversial task of changing state law to allow a civilian to possess a firearm near a school.
Freshman Rep. Mark Meadows, R-NC, has introduced legislation to repurpose "unused" funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to revive a Clinton-era program called Cops in Schools (CIS) that provided grants to school systems to hire resource officers.
Hutchinson said Congress's role in this process should be limited to funding grants for additional training for officers in schools and that going back to the CIS program will not help.
"It funded a lot of resource officers' in the schools, the funding dried up and most of the school districts absorbed that cost on their own or split it with their cities," he said.
Canady disagreed, saying the grants would provide the resources necessary for areas that wanted protection but couldn't afford the price tag.
"I'd love to see that brought back," he said.
NRA President David Keene sits down with Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page to discuss the likelihood of assault weapon bans and universal background checks passing through Congress, and NRA's stance on the gun debate in America. (Jan. 31)


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The final results for the second race of the day are awaiting confirmation, pending the resolution of several protests under scrutiny by the International Jury.
In IRC Zero class, the president of the regatta organising committee and owner of Wan Marang set about the business of consolidating Monday's performance with another win in race four. His boat, skippered by Jaray Tipsuk, managed to secure a two-second win on corrected time ahead of Frank Pong's 76-foot Jelik. Reliable winds helped the team to achieve the superb result, as they have been practising intensely in wind speeds just below those experienced on the water on Tuesday.
Kevin Whitcraft, crew member and owner of Wan Marang, said, "The weather was good yesterday and absolutely great today. Any signs of northern monsoon winds held off and we've had a perfect day. People are happy and enjoying themselves in the good winds and clear skies. The race committee did a great job, especially on the course. Down wind we are pretty fast – it's our fourth year on board this boat so we're pretty used to it, with all the new components performing well. It's very light – 4.5 tonnes – and we've worked hard on it over the years. Today was particularly special as my son was part of the crew, stepping in at the last minute."
Frank Pong's Jelik team got their revenge in race five, a "round-the-islands" course, securing victory over the Sansiri-sponsored Katsu, skippered by Ben Copley. This IRC Zero class competition is shaping up to be one of the closest ever.
In IRC1, Steve Manning guided his Walawala 2 team to victory in race four and five, building on the strong performance his crew enjoyed last year, while David Fuller's Ichi Ban team could only manage second place in race four today. This class remains unpredictable, with at least five boats in contention to take honours at the end of the week.
The second race on Tuesday for IRC2 remains in the protest room, but Matt Allen's Ichi Ban team (one of two Ichi Ban teams competing in the 2012 Regatta) took the honours in race four.
No problems in the Firefly 850 Sports class with both race results in-the-bag. Some fast-paced action saw Hans Rahmann's Voodoo team notch up two more victories to lead the class by on seven points, ahead of Dyer Straits in second overall and Advanced Racing Team third in the standings.
The Multihull class introduced a new winner in race four, with Timothy Robins skippering Nipper. Fantasia had to settle for second, finishing some way behind the victorious Nipper team on corrected time. Andrew Stransky still has his eye firmly on the title, making for an intense battle over the remaining race days. Race five remains in the protest room.
In Platu One Design class, the team on Tuay Lek, skippered by Scott Duncanson scored the win in race four ahead of the other three all-Japanese entries in the class. Protests for race five will be heard by the Jury tomorrow.
Richard Dobbs and his Phuket King's Cup Regatta-winning Titania of Cowes romped away with the win in the first race of the Premier class today with another terrific performance. The team is really reaffirming its dominance, and could well be in for back-to-back Regatta wins. Results of the second race today remains in the Jury room.
Kirill Sakhattzev's Sail Plane team was victorious again leading a huge pack in the Bareboat Charter class, placing first in race three ahead of Russian compatriot Mikhail Beloborodov on Tinicola 2.
In the Cruising class, Linda, skippered by Jack Cristensen took their first win of the series while William Lo and his crew on No Name took first in race three. Points for consistency today go to the Sansiri-sponsored all-Thai team Ok-La.
Windsurfing honours went to Hong Kong Olympian Chun Leung Michael Cheng again today in both races, ahead of Thailand's Natthaphong Phonoppharat who finished second and third. Cheng is dominating the table, having won three of the first four races.


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PRINCETON, N.J. - The Yale men's swimming and diving team closed out a turnaround 2011-2012 season in the same place they ended 2010 - fourth (966.5). But for two seasons that ended so similarly, this year and last year couldn't have been more different: if eight new school records in the past three days is any indication, the Elis can expect even better finishes in the years to come.
Saturday's action began with the 1650-yard freestyle, the third distance event of the weekend. Freshman Rob Harder took second in all three of them, an impressive line in just his first Ivy League Championship meet. Harder finished all three of those races with NCAA 'B' Cut times, including his time of 15:17.50 in the 1650-yarder.
Another freshman, Mike Lazris, posted his second top-five finish in a backstroke event with his stellar fourth-place swim in the 200-yard backstroke (1:46.76). Classmate Andy Wingerson also earned points in that event, grabbing 18th in 1:52.24.
Senior Goksu Bicer was Yale's top finisher in the 100-yard freestyle, winning his heat to take ninth in 44.58. Sophomore Paschall Davis took 13th in 45.05, while classmate Pat Killian finished 22nd in 45.77.
Freshman Andrew Heymann (2:01.73) and sophomore Danny McDermott (2:02.27) both impressed in the 200-yard breaststroke, taking eighth and ninth, respectively. Freshman Ronald Tsui finished 20th to also add to the Eli point total.
Coming into this weekend's meet, freshman Alwin Firmansyah had the Ivy League's second-best time in the 200-yard freestyle. He would finish third Saturday, just getting touched out by Princeton's Oliver Bennett, though still earning a 'B' cut time of 1:46.21. Jared Lovett took 12th in 1:51.07 and Ed Becker 16th in 1:53.16.
Sophomore Tyler Pramer rounded out a solid weekend with a sixth-place finish in the 3-meter diving event.
Princeton continued its dominance of Ivy League swimming and took home the championship with a score of 1523.5, while Harvard took second. Columbia (1107.5) edged the Bulldogs, who can look to the stellar performances of their freshman class as an indication that the standings will look a little bit different this time next year.


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  Posted: Dec 26, 2017 - 23:31
Not trying start a flame war here, this is an honest question...is rage-quitting, then laying low (ie, staying offline for a few days) to preserve a win a valid tactic on fumbll? Had it happen to me in Black Box recently. I was going to tie the game with only a turn left in the match. The opposing coach left without explanation, then, after saying he'd finish the game, stayed offline for the next three days. I filed a ticket, and the resolution was rewarding him with a BB tourney win, all his winnings, and a random mvp. Though I was going to tie the game in the next turn, I received a loss, and no option to choose my mvp. I haven't been here very long, but is this the norm? Is there something in the rules and policies I'm missing here? Thanks!
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  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 00:04
I would raise a ticket in the support section for help from an admin. What you have described is not normal
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  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 00:17
cmok wrote:
Not trying start a flame war here, this is an honest question...is rage-quitting, then laying low (ie, staying offline for a few days) to preserve a win a valid tactic on fumbll? Had it happen to me in Black Box recently. I was going to tie the game with only a turn left in the match. The opposing coach left without explanation, then, after saying he'd finish the game, stayed offline for the next three days. I filed a ticket, and the resolution was rewarding him with a BB tourney win, all his winnings, and a random mvp. Though I was going to tie the game in the next turn, I received a loss, and no option to choose my mvp. I haven't been here very long, but is this the norm? Is there something in the rules and policies I'm missing here? Thanks!
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  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 03:45
Read that, and did file a ticket. It just seems to me that this is on odd way to do things. So, if I don't want to give my opponent a chance to tie the game, I can just leave? The only downside being that my mvp will be chosen randomly, and I might have to stay off the site for a few days? Doesn't seem like much of a downside...
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  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 04:36
Typically if the evidence is in your favor as the non quitting coach, my experience is that you will get awarded the win regardless of your opponent.
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  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 11:50
It's not normal nor it's acceptable. I would believe that if you can show to admin that "disconnection" was indeed used as tactic that coatch would be warned if not banned.
I have played nearly 400 games on this site and in those games I've suffered 4 concessions in those games (3 times by my opponent, 1 time by me - I can't rebember why -it was back in 2008!)
If that happends to you again I advice taking screen shot from the game state before closing the client so you can back up your argument.
Joined: Oct 13, 2015
  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 13:55
That is scummy, to say the least. I'm a bit surprised the admin resolved it that way, honestly.
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Joined: Mar 06, 2004
  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 13:59
No, not common or valid.
Can't remember it happening to me ever, though I guess it has some time long ago.
Joined: Sep 14, 2015
  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 14:06
This is weird as hell and the opposite of what is supposed to happen pretty much.
All coaches are supposed to make a valid attempt to finish games - failure to do so results in either the game being unscheduled, the result being pushed through, or a concession being awarded if appropriate.
Right now however, the admin-concession button is not working, so the only resolutions are unschedule or push-through result.
As described - your opponent left the game, and made no attempt to finish it, and left the game in a manner where the result was in question. Thus the admin staff have two choices for intervention: unschedule the game losing everyone all SPP gained, or push-through the result, giving you a loss but all SPP gained + random MVP.
The third way would have been to press your opponent to finish the game via admin message.
Were you clear about what you wished to happen in your ticket?
And also, when the ticket is resolved, you should receive a message from whichever security officer/admin resolved it - have you PM'd them/replied to it to query their decision?
Joined: Dec 09, 2017
  Posted: Dec 27, 2017 - 16:59
I did question the decision, but haven't received an answer yet.
Thing is, I did mention the coach's behavior in our previous match (we got matched up in back-to-back games in BB). After I had the audacity to make two 4+ dodge rolls, he went on a dice-whine tirade, telling me I sucked and didn't deserve to tie him. Pretty funny stuff, really, watching his meltdown. And yes, I did mention that in the ticket.
The admin DID say the match was conceded to me...but it went down as a loss for me, a win for him. That's a bit confusing. It's also odd that this was in the BB open tourney, so the rage-quitter gained a point for this, while I got nothing. Had it been in Ranked, I honestly wouldn't have cared (or even posted this, lol).
Joined: Feb 26, 2012
  Posted: Jan 01, 2018 - 22:06
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The admin DID say the match was conceded to me...but it went down as a loss for me, a win for him. That's a bit confusing.
This seems to me to be the most important bit of information and certainly should have been in your original post. It kinda answers your own question as well, as it should be clear that an error was made - and that your opponent's behavior is not acceptable under FUMBBL rules.
You have been wronged, but it doesn't seem to me, you try your best to have the confusion cleared. Another support ticket for the admin mistake is probably more constructive than whatever this thread is.
Joined: Sep 13, 2011
  Posted: Jan 02, 2018 - 00:12
I have only recently witnessed what I believe to be 'ducking'. I've been on Fumbbl for years and this is the first and only time I've personally experienced this.
In the admins defence its a busy time of year or responsible family types (the guys that make good admins) but I've never had 'no show' tickets open this long.
Not blaming anyone, is there anything I can do to help? (Outside of submitting anothet ticket)
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
  Posted: Jan 02, 2018 - 05:34
I am betting that you ran into a RED TAPE or BUREAUCRACY issue here.
You were in a TOURNAMENT right?
What it sounds like to me is you followed the normal Disconnection Rules.
But you did not follow the TOURNAMENT Rules.
Thus your opponent got the Tournament WIN... and he probably won by a Coin Flip.
It appears you understand the disconnection rules... so I am going to skip that.
When you are playing a Tournament Game and there is any sort of scheduling issues that might cause you and your opponent to be unable to complete your game by the deadline you need to contact the specific Admin of your Tournament Bracket.
So... if you have a Disconnect, or your Opponent has been Offline for days, or your Opponent is not responding to your attempts to contact, or maybe YOU have to be UNAVAILABLE for a few days putting a strain on your deadline and possibly requiring a brief extension, or FUMBBL is not working at the time you have agreed to play your opponent... or whatever might keep you from getting the game played on time... you MUST contact the Admin of your Tournament Bracket to inform him of these issues.
So... because you were in a Tournament and you waited and you did not contact the proper Admin your deadline passed (AND your OPPONENT was not online contacting the Tournament Admin either) the Tournament Admin forfeited the game by Flipping a Coin and you lost the Coin Toss.
Or maybe your opponent lied to the Admin... or maybe he tried to pull off a crooked moe like you describe... but HONESTLY I doubt it. (I don't doubt a possible Rage Quit, although idk.) I don't know who you were playing AND you SHOULD NOT name names in this instance.
What you SHOULD DO is contact the Tournament Admin. His name is linked at the top of your tournament bracket (most likely). Ask him why and explain what happened. He might even reverse his decision... but don't count on it. But he WILL investigate your opponent and if the facts show your opponent to have been cheating he will receive some sort of BAN. And maybe just a warning and a mark on his record that he has been warned (maybe he is a NOOB and doesn't know better... maybe he is 11 years old. idk).
To me this looks like FUMBBLs Left Hand not knowing what its' Right Hand is doing. Just a misunderstanding (on your part) of how the site Bureaucracy works. And it usually works pretty good especially considering it is all volunteer. You just stumbled blindly into a small Loop Hole in FUMBBL Government.
Anyway... check into what I am talking about and let us all know if I got that right. I could be entirely wrong.
Joined: Jan 14, 2009
  Posted: Jan 02, 2018 - 07:37
I assumed he was referring to the Jake Steel Blackbox Trophy as a "tournament", but this thought crossed my mind as well.
You forgot to capitalize BUREAUCRACY - looks that much more sinister and imposing that way
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
  Posted: Jan 02, 2018 - 10:45
It looks as though he has deleted all his teams. Wonder if he'll be back.
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A meteorite has exploded over central Russia, resulting in some absolutely nutso footage.
The first video above shows the moment the meteorite streaks across the sky before exploding, while the subsequent videos give you an idea how loud the thing was, before showing you the amazing trail left behind.
If ever there was a time for Morgan Freeman (or Bill Pullman) jokes, now is that time.


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No, this post is not an attempt to personally disparage the folks running North Carolina government. Rather it is an attempt to conjure up an image that captures the impact of the decisions that state leaders have been inflicting of late on their brethren and sistren at the local level.
As some readers will recall, The Three Stooges were an outlandish and slapstick comedy trio that had a long run in the middle part of the last century. In one of the trio's recurring bits, one Stooge (usually Moe – pictured on the left) would slap or punch the second Stooge, who would then, in turn punch the third member of the group. The third and most hapless Stooge would then turn beside him and find that he only had thin air to punch.
Sadly, this comedy bit pretty well captures the essence of what's going on in North Carolina government right now: Whether it's the McCrory-Pope team or the General Assembly that starts the punching, the ones left flailing at thin air are local governments.
For the latest classic example, check out the bill under consideration in the state Senate during the waning days of the 2014 session that would hamstring local governments in their ability to raise local sales taxes for important needs. While Senators sought to alter some of the the impacts of the bill last evening, it still promises to have a deleterious impact — especially on big counties like Wake and Mecklenburg. And, of course, this comes on the heels of several previous haymakers in which state leaders have slashed state support for locals.
The bottom line is that the overarching policy of the current conservative state leadership when it comes to local government is this: We're all for local control that's closest to the voters — except when we're not (i.e. any time anyone at the local level even thinks about doing something — like raising taxes to provide essential public services — with which we disagree). SLAP!!!


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May 13 2019 | By TSNE MissionWorks
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Apr 11 2019 | Patrick Cutrona, Special Assistant to the CEO
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Jelly Belly Bean Boozled Jelly Beans
We found this box of Jelly Belly Bean Boozled Jelly Beans in the very back of our candy stash. I was clearing out my stash to make room for all of the new stuff I need to review from the 2011 Candy and Snack EXPO. Initially I was really excited, liked I'd found a treasure buried deep in the depths of my candy cupboard. The initial excitement did wear off when I realized what I'd found. I completely forgot they had flavors like ear wax, booger, and vomit along with great flavors like peach, plum, and my all time favorite, juicy pear.
If this candy sounds familiar to you, then my guess is that you recognize it from the Harry Potter movies and the Jelly Belly Bertie Bott's product they make. You can watch a fantastic review of this candy from the Candy Gurus. Jelly Belly still sells this Bean Boozled product and it is probably a big hit for them. I'm guessing the Bertie Bott's candy is also a big hit, but it is the exact same thing with fancier packaging and a higher price tag. My seven year old burst into hysterical laughter and had an uncontrollable need to try and eat as many disgusting flavors as possible. I'm guessing he is the target market for this candy. I'm not saying that because I'm a genius marketing guru, I'm saying that based on his overly excited reaction to a candy that tastes like vomit. No really, there's a vomit flavor in there, so I can say that.
In the photo above you can see the crazy flavors that come in this box. They are all mixed up with the normal Jelly Belly flavors so it's a mystery game as to which flavor you'll actually get. The marketing on this candy is fantastic. I love the "Dare to Compare" and big yellow "CAUTION!" they put on this packaging. Those are like crack to any boy under the age of sixteen. Our family sat down and tried these out and turned this into a pretty fun activity. We had some favorites like toothpaste, black pepper, cafe latte, juicy pear and plum. We had some horrible experiences with vomit, skunk spray and ear wax. They were HORRIBLE, but were spot on for the taste. The baby wipe one confused the heck out of me because it smelled and tasted like the wipes we use on our one year old. Okay, I've never tasted those wipes, but if I had, I'm sure the taste was identical. The rotten egg flavor was probably the worst of all and never in a million years did I think I'd look forward to the buttered popcorn flavor, which looks identical to the rotten egg flavor. Buttered popcorn (which I do NOT like) would have been a relief compared to rotten egg.
Try these out, it was fun to sit down and laugh as a family trying out these flavors and watching each other's facial expressions. I can still hear my seven year old get really excited while reading the back of the box and saying "I can't wait to taste booger!". Jelly Belly, you marketing geniuses!
Taste: 4/5 Really Liked It (the activity, not necessarily the taste)
Calorie Counter: 1 box (really, who'd eat an entire box of this?) = 1 serving = 160 calories, 0g fat, 31g sugars
Price: $2.55 purchased at local grocery store
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Justin Bieber Miami DUI Case Likely Headed to Trial
Is Justin Bieber ready to stand trial in his Miami DUI case?
News broke over the weekend that Bieber had nixed an initial plea deal from prosecutors in his Miami DUI case, since he did not want to submit to random drug testing and because the arresting officer has a shady record.
It was said that The Biebs would consider a plea, just not the one that was offered. Now, it's reported that a plea will probably not happen and the case will head to trial.
The Biebs took issue with any plea that required a random drug test scenario or probationary terms.
Law enforcement officials close to the case told TMZ that they will not do a plea deal if the singer refuses drug testing. Neither side will budge and that means a trial looms large. (On a side note, this feels like a case of a beggar trying to be a chooser. The Biebs is really trying to write his own ticket here.)
The source is well aware of the problems with the officers and their credibility, since their accounts of the arrest -- that he smelled of booze and was driving fast -- do not line up with the facts as provided by a breathalyzer (which said Biebs blew a paltry .014) and a GPS readout (which said he was only doing 27MPH when he was said to be drag racing).
If the case goes to trial, The Biebs could be looking at three offenses: DUI, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license. He's looking at 2.5 years in jail at most, if it even got that far.
There is more Biebs news. Turns out Atlantans did not plan a protest of his possible move to their fair city. Even so, we're sure more than a few locals aren't stoked about having him as a possible neighbor, giving his history of un-neighborly, egg-tossing, spit-spewing behavior.


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A brand new song from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE entitled "Raising Hell" was premiered on last night's (Monday, November 18) edition of BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter.
A low-quality rip of the track can be streamed in the YouTube clip below.
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Matt Tuck stated via Twitter: "We haven't just raised the bar, we've sent it into fucking orbit."
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas told Billboard.com in a recent interview that the band has "already started writing for the next album, which is completely different from [this year's] 'Temper Temper'."
"It's definitely more of a step towards our first two records," Thomas said. "We always like to keep changing our records and our sounds and stuff. I think you have to change, otherwise it gets boring for us and the fans get bored. Look at all the great bands through rock history; they changed on all their albums — especially METALLICA. Their albums have always changed, and they're the biggest metal band ever. So we just want to keep changing and get to another level each time out."
Tuck told the U.K.'s Rock Sound magazine, "We're actually going to start working on the new record before the (U.K.) arena dates (in early December). We've got (producer) Terry Date coming over from America, we'd like to work with him, he'd like to work with us so we're gonna have a bonding session, write a couple of songs and see how it goes."
Date is known for working with heavier acts like PANTERA, WHITE ZOMBIE and DEFTONES, while BULLET's previous producer, Don Gilmore, is known for more commercial fare like LINKIN PARK.
Tuck said about hiring Date, "When we worked with Don, he was very much focused on chopping parts out and making things concentrated, now we want to work with someone who has worked with bands like PANTERA and DEFTONES, where that mentality was probably not in the game at all. We want someone to go 'it's not big enough' or 'it's not metal enough' and keep us focused on our talents."
Tuck told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that he had no regrets about the band exploring its more melodic side on its last two albums. "The big thing that we've learned is, like, you're not gonna please everyone all the time," he said. "As long as you do what you want to do and the band is happy and you feel you haven't given away your integrity, you know, I don't really care if people go, 'Oh, it's not metal enough, it's not heavy enough.' It's like, that's not what we are."
The singer said that the band already has "four or five song ideas" ready to go, adding, "It's riff after riff after riff after riff so far. We're very much concentrating on musical ability, we're showing off basically! We pulled back a bit from it on the last couple of records, on this one if we do work with Terry Date, I think it'll be a no-holds barred display of what we're about."
"Temper Temper" entered The Billboard 200 album chart at No. 13 earlier this year. The latest single from the disc is "Dirty Little Secret".


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Construction Industry Keeps Going on Green
Monday, December 3, 2012
Green construction and improvement projects already figure prominently in the work of local contracting firms, and national projections suggest that dollars invested in energy-efficiency upgrades could nearly triple over the next four years.
Calling green building "a bright spot in a still uncertain economy," industry data provider McGraw-Hill Construction recently reported that the value of U.S. energy-efficiency work — nonresidential and residential — is expected to grow from $85 billion this year to between $204 billion and $248 billion by 2016.
Green projects currently represent about 44 percent of all commercial and institutional construction nationwide, and that is expected to grow to 55 percent by 2016. Data covering San Diego County was not immediately available.
Douglas Kot, executive director of the U.S Green Building Council's San Diego chapter, said local commercial construction has not returned to pre-recession levels in most building categories, including offices. But the majority of new projects and upgrades going forward in the next few years are expected to pursue certification under the council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program.
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The pace of improvements will likely increase in the coming year, as the state of California moves to enforce previously passed laws requiring building owners to disclose energy usage to prospective buyers and tenants. "There's been a change in thinking where more owners are now looking at building upgrades as revenue-generating assets, rather than just liabilities that drain revenue," Kot said.
Local construction company leaders say demand for energy efficiency in commercial buildings is on the rise, as developers look to reduce costs and attract the best tenants — and as those tenants in turn look to recruit the top workers in fields such as life sciences and technology.
"It's developed to the point where it's an expectation now," said Whitney Dorn, sustainability manager for DPR Construction in San Diego, noting that private developers are increasingly calling for green elements to make their projects competitive in the marketplace.
DPR recently worked on green-oriented projects including Nautilus, a Torrey Pines office complex being updated by owner Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc.; as well as local renovations and expansions by life-sciences players such as Illumina Inc. and Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Even in cases where the landlord is unable to immediately charge premium rent for a green space, Dorn said building owners are looking primarily to bring in strong, eco-minded companies willing to sign long-term leases. "Developers feel they have a chance to bring in higher quality tenants if they have a green building," Dorn said.
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let them eat cake!
Sometimes, when you're charged with bringing a dessert to a party—a frequent request in the holiday season, especially—you just don't have the energy to bake layers upon layers, frost everything, etc. etc., despite your desire to impress everyone with your baking prowess. Sometimes you want to make a tried and true recipe, but you still want to knock their socks off with the look of the cake.
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It all started when the Everything Else Atheist posted a somewhat scathing exchange between herself and a professor at her college. This professor had been bringing in students to participate in "psychology experiments" which were actually efforts to identify psychic premonitions.
EEA wrote to him with some extremely reasonable concerns about whether proper scientific rigor had been followed in a domain that is traditionally overrun with pseudoscientific hacks. Among other suggestions, the professor responded by asking EEA to read The Conscious Universe by Dean Radin. At that point there was another, somewhat more frosty exchange of emails.
It gets fun here, because Dean Radin apparently googles his name every single day to see who might be talking about him. A commenter found the Everything Else Atheist blog because Radin descended from his ivory tower to dismiss EEA on his blog for being an uppity atheist.
Of course, responding to clueless broadside rants against atheists is what us Tiggers do best, so away we go!
I remember
Ah, the righteous arrogance of youth.
Wait wait, stop right there. Oh, this is going to be too much fun.
So right away after just one sentence, Radin telegraphs his compulsion to latch on to superficial personal aspects of his target… the very definition of an ad hominem. We have a long way to go before we reach the end, but I want to point out that not once in this entire post does Radin ever actually respond to her criticism.
I remember what it was like to feel intellectually superior to my college professors, many of whom seemed to be dullards who understood nothing. I grew out of that phase when I started to apply genuine skepticism, not just to others' beliefs, but to my own.
Radin mocks the temerity of those who would criticize a college professor, thereby offering an argument from authority, since those in high academic posts must never EVER be challenged. Which is a weird position to take, considering that Radin himself frequently has to explain that the scientific community doesn't take him seriously because of a massive conspiracy against him. Uh, what is it that he grew out of, exactly? Beats me.
Here is a good example of a young person who fits the profile of adolescent certainty (some people never grow out of this stage). Once a Christian, she lost her faith, followed by a commonly observed flip-flop — she became a fervent atheist.
Atheists, especially young ones in the midst of existential crisis, do not yet appreciate that their strong stance against religious faith is just faith of another color (i.e., scientism). They are also unable to distinguish between beliefs based on empirically testable ideas vs. beliefs based on faith. And like most true believers in scientism, they become very concerned that one might conduct experiments where the underlying mechanisms are not yet understood. I wish I could say that most students grow out of an over-reliance on the certainty of prevailing theories, but as I mentioned in my previous post, unfortunately many don't.
Oh, this is rich. First, like many apologists for woo striving to assert themselves as Real Intellectuals, Radin performs a little armchair psychology. His hypothesis is that nobody EVER disagrees with his point of view unless they are undergoing some sort of "crisis."
Then he launches into a tirade about "scientism." Now I don't know about you folks, but the only context in which I ever hear this is from smarmy post-modernists who wish to appear clever by deriding science as a legitimate means for finding things out. Wikipedia helpfully supplies:
"The term scientism is used to describe the view that natural science has authority over all other interpretations of life, such as philosophical, religious, mythical, spiritual, or humanistic explanations, and over other fields of inquiry, such as the social sciences."
Okay, so here's Dean Radin, exuding scorn for EEA because she applies the concepts of science to a realm in which he implies that it does not belong, since presumably it is information of a "philosophical, religious, mythical, spiritual, or humanistic" nature and not science at all. And you know, that's cool with me. Radin's under no obligation whatsoever to care in the slightest about silly concepts like "scientific method" and "peer review" and "academic honesty" or anything like that.
But wait a minute, let's remind ourselves of the context which brought about this exchange. A professor in EEA's science department was attempting to perform a science experiment in which he proved that precognition has scientific merit. And as support for this position, in lieu of offering up scientific research, he helpfully steered EEA towards Radin's book. Gee, I think somebody might want to notify this professor about how Radin really feels about science.
Her angst centered on an experiment studying precognition. Impossible! Violates natural law! Must be pseudoscience! With that attitude, any evidence offered, however obtained, can only be fraud, or worse.
Of course precognition is not prohibited by physics. The laws of classical and quantum mechanics are time symmetric, and there are many serious articles (this link has just a few examples) available on the topic of retrocausation, which is far more interesting and complicated than a superficial scan might suggest.
I'd just like to point out that at no point in EEA's post did she actually say any of this nonsense. She didn't say "ZOMG precognition that's like totally against the laws of NAYCHER!!!" Those hysterics are entirely from the voices in Radin's head. What she said, rather, was that (1) parapsychology is not taken very seriously among the scientific community; (2) it's had a really long time to produce the kinds of results that would make it worth taking seriously; and (3) the professor's techniques are riddled with holes that even an undergrad can see.
What does Radin do to respond to these charges? Well, he makes fun of her, and simultaneously manages to confirm her issues by blowing off requests for scientific rigor as "scientism." Good job, Dean.
Besides my own books (The Conscious Universe is finally in paperback!), I recommend Larry Dossey's new book to get a feel for the art and science of precognition.
But doing one's homework can be so taxing….
Hey, remember earlier when I said that Radin never bothers to actually address EEA's arguments? Maybe I should apologize for that because here's where he…
Oh wait, no. No, he's just trying to peddle his books.
I remember the sanctimonious pride that accompanies feelings of certainty, and I'm glad I outgrew it.
Thank goodness Dean doesn't have any lingering sanctimonious pride or feelings of certainty, because otherwise his post would have been really hard to read.


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Expedition Report: Estefanía Rodríguez in Antarctica main content.
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The American Museum of Natural History has approximately 200 working scientists who undertake more than 100 expeditions a year, doing original research and expanding the Museum's world-class collection of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts. The Expeditions Report podcast series offers an insider's look at what it's like to live and work in the field. Academic pursuits combine with adventure—whether racing against the cold in Antarctica, scouting reclusive snakes in Madagascar, or keeping one step ahead of the chainsaws in the rainforest.
In this edition, Assistant Curator Estefanía Rodríguez travels to Antarctica to study sea anemones on a ship that serves as a floating field station – and, on which, sometimes getting there is half the adventure.
Dr. Rodríguez studies the diversity and evolutionary history of sea anemones, primarily those that are found in deep waters. She uses her studies in taxonomy to build an understanding of the ecology of sea anemones, and how they got to such harsh environments as Antarctica in the first place.
Podcast: Download | RSS | iTunes (12 mins, 15 MB)
To learn more about Dr. Rodríguez's research, read this blog post about the discovery of a deep-water anemone impostor.


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Welcome to Eranda herbal spaSet on a beautiful mountainside with views over the emerald waters of the Gulf of Thailand, the Eranda Herbal Spa has a truly exceptional location and epitomises the natural luxury spa experience. Cascading waterfalls; stunning architecture, with thatched roofed pagodas and natural materials; beautiful tropical landscaping; stone walkways and stepping stones leading you up through the spa grounds and gardens; spectacular sea views; and graceful, polite and attentive staff all add to the atmosphere of peace and serenity at this spa.Eranda may have the appearance of an exclusive five-star resort, but this is purely a spa environment. There's nothing here to distract you from your choice of massage or treatment. In fact all you'll hear is the sound of trickling water, the rustle of palm trees swaying in the breeze, and the hushed soothing tones of subtle Thai music.The Eranda herbal Spa has the relaxing and soothing ambience you would expect from a high quality spa facility, but with an added air of exclusivity and luxury that completes the ultimate pampering experience.
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Wednesday May 1 2013 04:38:03 AM
Surf spot: Bolinas, United States of America
Session's Rate:
Wind direction: No wind
Nb waves ridden: 6
Length of the surf session: 60 min
Surfboard ridden: Funboard
Fins: 3
Weather and water temp: 80 out of the water. 50 in it
Waves height: 1m-1.2m / 3ft-4ft
Waves Quality:
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Waves Shape:
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Got there for the incoming tide (a few hours before high tide). I think I've discovered that I like it better than high or outgoing tide. More waves in many spots and less crowding in the popular spots.
I'm still learning so I managed to catch a few and get my feet on the board. Still not 100% upright yet. But determined... :)
Did get hit by a wall on my last wave. I had to spin fast or get clobbered as I saw it grow fast. Didn't quite have enough momentum and it tried to flip me. I managed to push up enough to keep on my board... but it ended up a beachbreak by the time it broke.. so no visibility.. just shit loads of sand. I managed to walk out of the water before the next break came and figured it was my sign to take a break. The whole patch sat flat after that one... so I called it a day. Only saw a few more rollers come in after that when I got changed and came back down to be a spectator.
Saw one guy get a good head gashing over in the Jetty. His head dented the crap out of the rail on his beautiful custom board. He was more worried about the board then the blood gushing down his head. lol Funny thing is I'd be exactly the same way about my board. ;)
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Dr. Passwater was Director, Research Analytical Laboratories at Allied Chemical Corporation in Marcus Hook, PA, Director, Applications Research Laboratory at Baxter-Travenol Laboratories, Inc. in Silver Spring, MD, and Vice President of Research of the American Gerontological Research Laboratories Division of Life Science Labs, Inc. in Rockville, MD.
Antioxidant Research
Dr. Passwater has been researching antioxidant nutrients since 1959 and discovered biological antioxidant synergism in 1962. In 1970, at Toronto, he presented his evidence to the Gerontological Society's Annual Scientific Congress that antioxidant nutrients offered a practical means of increasing human lifespan. He was the first to show that practical combinations of antioxidant nutrients increase the lifespan of laboratory animals (Chemical & Engineering News 1970). Previously, Dr. Denham Harman had developed the free radical theory of aging and had shown that large amounts (0.5% of the diet) of some non-nutrient antioxidants increased mouse lifespan.
The reports of Dr. Passwater's research, in 1970, by Ladies Home Journal, and in 1971, by Prevention magazine, may have been the first times that the words "free radical," "antioxidant nutrient" and "selenium" appeared in lay articles.
Dr. Passwater was also the first to publish that a synergistic combination of antioxidant nutrients significantly reduce cancer incidence (Cancer: New Directions. American Laboratory 1973). Dr. Passwater was also the first to publish an epidemiological study showing that vitamin E reduces heart disease risk (Prevention 1976). His original research has now been confirmed by others including three studies by Harvard University researchers.
Selenium Research
Dr. Passwater's research with selenium was first reported to the general public in the December 1971 issue of Prevention magazine. His research with selenium and other antioxidant nutrients had led to patents and a FDA Investigative New Drug application in 1970 for reducing free radical pathology and slowing the aging process. During 1970 through 1972, he found that selenium was a key antioxidant nutrient in reducing cancer incidence. In 1972, he filed for a patent involving selenium and other antioxidant nutrients in preventing cancer. (US 39140, US 97011) His latest selenium patent involves a class of diselenides to protect against cancer (EP 750911, CA126(10)135612s)
In 1973, he published in American Laboratory his research on selenium and other antioxidants in reducing cancer incidence. "Supernutrition: Megavitamin Revolution" (1975) and "Cancer and Its Nutritional Therapies " (1978) reviewed his selenium research in the prevention of cancer. He also published "Selenium As Food & Medicine" (1980), "Selenium Update" (1987), and "Selenium Against Cancer and AIDS" (1996).
Chromium Research
Dr. Passwater conducted laboratory animal research with GTF chromium and diabetic mice in the early 1980's and found that GTF chromium reduced obesity, reduced the side-effects of diabetes and increased the lifespans of diabetic mice.
He has written both a booklet and book on chromium nutrition. His booklet, "Chromium Picolinate" was published in 1992. This was followed by the book, "The Longevity Factor" in 1993. He has written several articles about the role of chromium in health.
Other Research
Besides his discoveries in cancer and aging, Dr. Passwater's research includes a five-year study with Drs. Linus Pauling and James Enstrom (UCLA School of Public Health) on the benefits of dietary supplements on a large group of Californian volunteers, and a study of the protective effect of vitamin E against heart disease. The Enstrom-Pauling study showed that the supplemented volunteers had only two-thirds the death rate expected for Californians of the same age, sex, race, etc. [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 79:6023-7 (1982)]. The vitamin E study was a retrospective epidemiological study of vitamin E users which showed that long-term vitamin E users had less than half the heart disease incidence of typical Americans of the same age, sex and race. {Prevention, Jan – Aug. 1976)
Dr. Passwater has written more than 17 books and 19 booklets. In 1975, his book "Supernutrition : Megavitamin Revolution," (Dial Press, Pocket Books) which was based on his laboratory research, was a #4 national best seller, introducing more than 1,400,000 readers to better health through good diet and supplementation during its 18 printings. Several of today's leading researchers credit this book with sparking their interest in this field.
One book, co-authored with Dr. Elmer Cranton, was selected by Library Journal as one of the top five health books for 1983, and one of the top 100 science and technology books in a field of 40,000 books. (Trace Elements, Hair Analysis and Nutrition, Keats Publishing) Other books include "Selenium As Food and Medicine" (Keats, 1980), "The Easy No-Flab Diet" (Marek, 1979), "Cancer and Its Nutritional Therapies" (Keats, 1978), "Supernutrition For Healthy Hearts" (Dial Press, 19770), "The Slendernow Diet" (St. Martin's Press, 1982), "The Longevity Factor" (Keats 1993), "Pycnogenol: The super 'protector' nutrient" (Keats, 1994) "Guide to Fluorescence Literature, Vol. I" (Plenum Press, 1967), "Guide to Fluorescence Literature, Vol. II" (Plenum Press, 1970) and "Guide to Fluorescence Literature, Vol. III" (Plenum Press, 1974).
In addition, he has written over 19 booklets and co-edited, with Dr. Earl Mindell, a series of over 100 "Good Health Guides."
Recent Writings
Dr. Passwater's most recent books for the public include "The New Supernutrition" and "Cancer Prevention and Nutritional Therapies." He is the Nutrition Editor for "The Experts Journal of Optimal Health," and is the scientific editor for Whole Foods for which he writes a monthly column "Vitamin Connection," to help bring the latest research on nutrients to the public. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Nutrition.
He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1959, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Bernadean University of Nevada in 1975. He was certified by the American Chemical Society in 1959 and in 1984 was elected "Fellow" of the American Institute of Chemistry. Dr. Passwater's discoveries have led to world-wide recognition. He has been twice honored by the Committee For World Health (1978 and 1980). In 1973, he was nominated for the American Chemical Society's Award in Chemical Education. Additional details are found in "Who's Who in the World," "Who's Who in America," "American Men and Women of Science," "Who's Who in the Frontiers of Science" and "Who's Who in Science and Engineering." Yet, he considers his greatest honors his family, his selection as 1987 Citizen of the Year in his community, the privilege of being the Chief of his community's Fire Department for ten years, being voted into the Delmarva Firefighter's Hall of Fame in 1993, and winning the nutrition industry's Achievement Award for 1989.


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Along with a mirrorless Android camera that seems too good to be true, Polaroid has announced two other mirrorless cameras that have sensors built inside the lenses. Intended for amateurs, the cameras' sensor placement prevents a novice photographer from accidentally ruining the interchangeable lenses.
The Polaroid iM1030 has an interchangeable lens along with a 3.5-inch LCD display, 18 megapixel sensor and HDMI. It'll retail for $350. The lower-end Polaroid iS2433 has a 16.1 megapixel Sony CMOS sensor, a 3-inch LCD display, HD video and will retail for $200. They'll both be available in Q2 of this year.


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Quentin Tarantino wants to quit Hollywood after shooting his tenth movie as he fears he will end up as an "old-man filmmaker."
The "Pulp Fiction" director is getting ready to release his eighth film, "Django Unchained," which stars Jamie Foxx, but he admits his self-imposed retirement is not far off.
Tarantino has just two movies to go before he considers calling it a day but is keenly aware that one directorial slip-up can ruin future projects.
He tells Playboy magazine, "I just don't want to be an old-man filmmaker… Directors don't get better as they get older. Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end. I am all about my filmography, and one bad film f– up three good ones."


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The Wisdom of God
18The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. 19As the Scriptures say,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
and discard the intelligence of the intelligent."e
20So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. 21Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. 22It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. 23So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense.
24But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles,f Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.
26Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes or powerful or wealthyg when God called you. 27Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. 28God chose things despised by the world,h things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
30God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.31Therefore, as the Scriptures say, "If you want to boast, boast only about the LORD."i
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Simple SEO Steps to Increase Your Holiday Rentals Ranking in Esher, Claygate, Hinchley Wood, KT10
The vast majority of today's vacationers in Esher, Claygate, Hinchley Wood, KT10 trust the Internet to help them find places to stay. However, studies reveal that 71 percent of search engine user don't look beyond the first page of results. If your possessions aren't there when possible guests search for rentals online, you might be missing out on earnings and guests. So how do you improve your odds of attaining a first-page ranking and attaining more keywords?
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When a search engine user clicks on a website in the results of the search, they have two choices: stay on the website and browse the information, or click on the back button and attempt to get a better option.
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Search engines basically see links from high quality websites as vote for the level of your website. If authoritative sites are prepared to guide their readers your way, so you probably have something useful to offer.
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