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What do you do if you have insane computer programming skills, an Xbox Kinect, a copy of Minecraft and lots of free time? Hack the Kinect to make statues of real life objects in Minecraft, of course…Read More
The Mac App Store which was launched on January 6 has been cracked already by a team from the Hackulous community. The crack will be available in February 2011.Read More
Google Cr-48 has been hacked to run Windows 7 and Mac OS X. The Chrome OS based netbook Cr-48 can be hacked to run Windows 7 and Mac OS X.Read More
If you have a PSP Go or PSP 3000 with Original Firmware 6.20 you can now play homebrew games right from your XMB. With this Homebrew Enabler PSP 3000 or PSP Go users can unleash the full power of their device with homebrew games. These homebrew games and applications are courtesy the great PSP hackers Wololo and Total_Noob! Read on to find out how you can install the homebrew enabler on your PSP 3000 or PSP Go.Read More
Earlier today, the CBI website was hacked by Pakistani Cyber Army in retaliation against the hack by Indian Cyber Army on 35 Pakistani government websites. However, it looks like the CBI website is currently not functioning and has been taken down.Read More
CBI Website hacked. Pakistani Cyber Army has hacked the website of Central Buruea of Investigation (CBI). PCA hacked CBI and 270 other websites.Read More
India took a big technology blow today as hackers from Pakistan hacked into the official website of BSNL, the official telecom provider for indian government.Read More
Halo Reach is the new first person shooter from Microsoft's long line of successful shooters. But as Halo 2 and 3 suffered from pre-release leaks, so did Reach. Hackers were able to access and download the review distributable within a short while of the game being released on the market.Read More
There are many ways to hide Desktop icons. I'll cover three methods here. The method you choose is up to you.Read More
A list of 40 great How Tos regarding Twitter. Includes basic questions about using various Twitter features as well as some advanced queries for Twitter hacks and tricks.Read More
The website TCS.com which belongs to India's largest software vendor Tata Consultancy Services was hacked today by a French hacker. This hack will definitely lead to total embarrassment for the software firm who thrives on creating software and security systems day in and day out.Read More
The Official Orkut Brazil blog was apparently hacked by someone with the hacker leaving some html pages which contained malware on the site. Orkut is one of the most popular social networking site in Brazil and India with millions of users using it every day.Read More
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Ubuntu Tweaks has released the version 0.5.0 of the software. Ubuntu tweaks is a revolutionary software which takes customizing Ubuntu to totally new heights. This betters our experience of using Ubuntu. It has got many new features like syncing data from the web, a better UI and lots more.Read More

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"Looking" may have been met by a considerable "meh" by most of HBO's audience (seriously, those premiere numbers were dismal), but that doesn't mean the gay-themed dramedy isn't capable of prompting some pretty hilarious parody.
Funny or Die has presented "Not Looking," a Los Angeles-set spoof of the HBO series featuring Drew Droege, the hilarious comic behind the series of Chloe Sevigny spoof videos. (Seriously, if you've never see a Chloe video, you must. Now. Here.)
Mimicking the original "Looking" trailer, "Not Looking" follows around a group of four gay friends who seem more than a bit confused over what they're looking for in life -- or just how old they are.
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Goodwill helps veterans get back to work
Kevyn Gilmore has only worked for Goodwill West Texas about three months, but he claims he's found his calling.
Chuck Wilson, the nonprofit's coordinator of veterans services, said he put Gilmore to work in the distribution center when the veteran came to Goodwill looking for work.
Goodwill West Texas employs veterans like Gilmore through a grant from the Texas Veterans Commission that funds the Veterans Outreach Program.
The donation warehouse at the Goodwill — at 2200 N. 1st St. in Abilene — receives and sorts thousands of pounds of housewares, clothes and electronics each month.
Preparing it for Goodwill stores is no easy task.
Gilmore, a retired Navy engineer, said he noticed electronics were being sorted in a way that failed to use the working parts in a nonoperating device.
"You can take apart TVs, VCRs, anything electrical," he said, "break up the wires and circuit boards, separate the copper and the brass, and make more money."
Wilson said Gilmore's observation has brought in an additional $300 to $400 per week for the organization.
"It's not only good for Goodwill and good for Kevyn," Wilson said. "It's good for people who donate things. It stretches their donation even further."
Gilmore said the job is more fun than he ever imagined — and it's a good feeling to give back to the organization that was willing to help him.
"I trained myself," Gilmore said. "I dissect everything. The stuff that might have been thrown away before is actually worth a lot."
He works outside the distribution center, standing over a table in the sun. However, he said he doesn't mind the heat.
In fact, it's a job he claims he loves.
"I'll do it till they make me retire," he smiled.
They fearlessly serve our country, but veterans often face challenges in returning to civilian life.
No one knows those challenges better than Chuck Wilson. The Abilene man is the coordinator of veterans services for Goodwill West Texas and has aided countless veterans locally.
"Normally they're in need for some reason," he said of Big Country veterans who seek his services. "They've landed on some type of hardship, and our goal is really help out to the maximum extent we can."
Since 2009, the Texas Veterans Commission has awarded $15.5 million to nonprofit organizations in support of veteran services through the Fund for Veterans' Assistance.
The money was provided when lawmakers opted to allow one lottery card to go strictly toward veteran services.
Through applying for a grant, Goodwill West Texas was awarded some of that grant money to provide local veterans with life-enriching opportunities and services.
The grant money has allowed the local nonprofit organization to create an employment program that not only puts veterans to work at Goodwill, but equips them for jobs all around town.
Wilson supervises four veteran caseworkers who help local veterans look for work.
The situations of veterans looking for work in the Abilene area are all different, he said. Some have been unemployed and homeless for decades. Others have broad skills but have been laid off recently.
The program shows them everything from researching job opportunities to handling post-interview phone calls.
"Our goal is to not let them be totally dependent on us," Wilson said, "but to prepare them, give them resources to market themselves."
Each individual on the four-person outreach team — all veterans — is paired with a veteran seeking work.
The grant helps Wilson and his staff put veterans in employment positions outside Goodwill — some are working for the State School and Abilene Reporter-News — and their salaries are paid for the first three months through the commission.
They are provided minimum wage up to 35 hours a week for the first three months in hopes that the company will hire them for a longer term.
"It's a type of on-the-job training program," he said. "The employer will hopefully recognize the value of the employee and hire them on."
The program also provides some veterans employment opportunities at Goodwill. For example, two veterans in their 70s are limited when it comes to standing for long periods of time, but are still very capable employees, Wilson said. He has arranged for them to sort and price purses and belts in the donation center.
Caseworker Arlanda Robinson-Kinght said the initial focus is on preparing the veterans to be successful in the civilian workforce.
The Marine Corps veteran said many things can be difficult about returning to work after life in the military.
"Coming from the military world is totally different from the civilian sector," she said. "We try to teach them the best way to transfer their skills into their civilian life."
Wilson has made an effort to help veterans by taking them through an education program patterned after the military's Transition Assistance Program when they first come to Goodwill for help.
Army veteran Edward Sheppard said the help he received from Goodwill West Texas has proved invaluable in his work life.
His Army medic experience led him to a 27-year career at Hendrick Medical Center.
After his retirement, he sought employment elsewhere.
He has worked at Goodwill West Texas off and on since March, he said, while pursuing other job opportunities.
"I told someone yesterday that even though I make half the money here I made at the hospital, this is the best job I've ever had," he said. "I get so much more out of it."
For example, he said, he works with a deaf person and has learned some sign language. His schedule is flexible and he feels good about giving back to the organization he said has always opened its doors to him.
The services of Wilson and his staff stretch beyond employment. Wilson said it is not uncommon for the grant money to be used to pay bills of veterans going through difficult times. They have provided transportation to some local homeless veterans who have doctor appointments or need to visit a food pantry.
"We will do whatever we can," he said. "These people need a little help every now and then and I'll do absolutely everything in my power to help."
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Bulo Marer — Reports from Bulo Marer, a trading outpost which is under the control of Al Shabab in lower Shabelle region, say that attack helicopters with special forces have raided a house in that vicinity late last night.
Residents say that they were awaken with the sound of helicopters hovering the area followed by large bangs and an exchange of fire and unconfirmed reports say the house raided was suspected to be the holding site for a French intelligence whom Al Shabab kidnapped from Mogadishu in 2009.
Residents say that the helicopters repeatedly attacked the same house. Some unconfirmed reports say the special with the helicopters left behind the died body of one of their own and militants from Al Shabab took that body away.
Three other people are reported to have died in this helicopter attack in Bulo Marer. A website affiliated with Al Shabab report that it was French special forces who attacked Bulo Marer last night and the website says that the French failed to release the intelligence that Al Shabab is holding.
Bulo Marer is situated less than 30 kilo meters from Merka, the regional city of lower Shabelle region which is under Somali government forces and those from Amisom.


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The Kollectiv hears that, yet again, the thorny question of recognition of bringers-of-income into OUTM is being debated...with the loved-by-Cheryl-and-Daya-and-Tim-and-Kit solution of not giving anybody anything because it just encourages salami-slice publication in lousy journals, again coming to the fore.
Confused? Link out to here, here, here and especially here for enlightenment - but do hurry back....
The last post in particular highlights from personal experience just how active researchers fill OUTM's coffers:
3 yrs worth of PhD and MSc graduating students = 4 PhD, 4 MSc (8 Hons graduates not counted)
Income to OUTM :
Subsidy @R130 000 / MSc, R270 000 / PhD: R 1 600 000 for R533 000 / yr
Publication subsidy @R90 000 / unit, 20 papers: R1 800 000 for R600 000 / yr
Total: R1 133 000 / yr
And STILL people are saying that, because of the hoary old chestnut that a bad publication brings in as much subsidy from the government as a good one, people will publish bitty stuff in lousy-but-ISI-recognised journals.
This is a straw man of very little worth, and in any case, is easily set on fire.
Consider: Academic A publishes 10 articles in 2009, in journals with an average impact factor of 1. This would bring in - if all authors were from UCT - 10 x R120 000 = R1.2 million. Academic B publishes 5 articles in the same period, in journals with an average impact factor of 2, for an income to OUTM of R0.6 million. Right, so sleaze is rewarded for A, and excellence is punished for B, in terms of relative income - but it is so easy to fix!
Simply tie recognition of publications to relative worth, in terms of publishing quality.
How outrageously simple a solution is that?? In this altogether more worthy straw man, impact factor considerations alone would determine that multiplying A's net worth by 1, and B's by 2, would give the same figure - from which relative rates of recompense could be determined.
However, and as much as some of us might wish it to be the case, all disciplines are not equal in terms of IFs of journals, and this does need to be taken into account: for instance, while we would all aspire to publish in Nature or Science, with their astronomical IFs, we are mostly constrained to publish in discipline-limited journals - and the top-scoring journals in each field may vary very widely in IF scores.
And the ISI Web of Science site very kindly lists discipline-specific rankings of journals in terms of their IF scores...making it quite a trivial exercise to determine - say, for theoretical physics, or biochemistry - which are the top-ranking discipline-specific journals, and to rank individual publications accordingly. In fact, the Science Faculty for one currently asks that IFs be listed for all articles claimed in the yearly assessments - so it is in fact very easy to extract the necessary info to determine relative impacts of publications, especially if Departments (as guardians of disciplines) keep a league table of IFs.
With the corollary being that the information is used to calculate a fair return on output to individual researchers...!
Another straw man that is raised, however, is the one that publications are rewarded already - by promotion and advancement. While this is partially - and only partially - true, it ignores the elephant in the lab: the soft money-funded folk whose contributions to the fiscus are nowhere acknowledged, and who could supplement their own (sometimes precarious) existence with publication subsidy.
Another beast in the room is the question of postgraduate student subsidy: this is a concrete and easily attributable source of very real money for our institution, yet is also not ever recognised at the level of the individual. And it should be! Consider: UCT does not contribute directly to the teaching of any higher-than-Hons postgraduate; rather, it takes fees from them, sometimes takes money from the researchers supervising them for their space and overhead, if grants allow it, and allows them space and electricity and library access. Meaning postgrads are supported in terms of working expenses by researchers, and very often in terms of living expenses as well. Yet the government gives us R130 000 per completed MSc and R270 000 per completed PhD...which pretty much equals what I pay them as bursaries!!
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Ok, so here is the thing; WHY DO EBAYERS SELL TAMAGOTCHIS ?FOR SUCH BAD PRICES? Well? If Ebayers want to sell rare tamagotchis, why can't they just sell them for $20.00? Bids are horrible! Here's rip-off #1.
Ok. Here is a really bad bid. Don't bid on it. It's a total rip-off for a USED tama set! You must read this before it ends! Gosh, those sellers... MEAN! Be prepaired for rip-off #2.
Ok. Last one. This is a total rip-off. DO READ THIS! It is so mean to raise prices this high. Meanie sellers. One thing: if you are a rare tama seller, please sell them for at least $20.00. If they are so special to you that you wanna sell them for expenseve prices... JUST KEEP THEM!
Alright.. Please read, and have a nice day!
I also have to agree that this post bugs me. People sell them for a high price due to a thing called supply and demand. The fact of the matter is most of the tamas that are high priced is because they are RARE. They don't make most of the specialty ones anymore. Ones like the oceangotchi and the Santagotchi were produced in 97' 98'. Admittly the oceangotchi was a little high for my taste of prices, but that's part of buying an item - if you don't like the price tag with it - you don't have to buy it. Anything is worth what the buyer will pay. ALSO - this post was WAYYYYYYY off topic of the original poster just fyi - I wouldn't do that too often. :<
As for the OP and others in this thread. All tamagotchis are made in China. Even the ones from Japan XD. They say so right on the back of the device. I hate the expression a "china" tamagotchi - I prefer the term - "Hong Kong knock offs."


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WORCESTER, Mass. - Sixteeen members of the Holy Cross football team have been selected to the 2004 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, as announced by the league office. Leading the Crusaders were sophomore quarterback Jarrod Betz (Cincinnati, Ohio), sophomore placekicker Mike DeSantis (Belle Mead, N.J.) and senior tight end Edward Lobb (Denver, Colo.), who all posted grade point averages of 3.50 during the 2004 fall semester.
Other Holy Cross players named to the team were junior running back Gideon Akande (Chicago, Ill.), junior wide receiver Bryan Anderson (Shrewsbury, Mass.), senior running back Matt Bruckner (Western Springs, Ill.), senior offensive lineman Bradley Capon (Ebensburg, Pa.), junior linebacker Matt Dugan (Washington, D.C.), senior linebacker David Fitzpatrick (Long Beach, N.Y.), sophomore defensive back Casey Gough (Hinsdale, Ill.), junior tight end Matt Lane (Marlboro, Mass.), junior linebacker Jesse Loubier (Winthrop, Mass.), senior defensive lineman Nick Nelthorpe (Riverside, Calif.), sophomore linebacker Chris Nielsen (Center Line, Mich.), senior running back Tim O'Hara (San Diego, Calif.) and senior defensive back Nick Tenekedes (Chuluota, Fla.).
A total of 96 student-athletes from football teams around the league earned spots on this year's Academic Honor Roll. To be eligible for the Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must earn a grade point average of 3.20 or better during the fall semester, and be awarded a varsity letter.
The Crusaders, who went 3-8 overall and 1-5 in the Patriot League last year, are scheduled to open spring practice on Thursday, March 24. The annual spring game is set for Saturday, April 23.
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The country's final arbiter of justice, the Supreme Court, yesterday disrobed, for specific periods, two of Liberia's legal luminaries, one a Circuit Court judge and the other private lawyer, for varying actions found to be at variance with canons of the legal profession. As is often the case, the public is divided, with more respondents to The Analyst's roving interview asserting that the Court's verdicts however sorrowful were necessary to instill some order and sanity in the legal sector of the country.
The Supreme Court of Liberia recently brought down opinions on a couple of landmark cases, among them verdicts sanctioning two of its kin for acts inimical to the practice of law. The sentences, according to report, have no common roots but akin in their floating of ethics governing the legal profession.
Jones' 5-year sentence
Marcus R. Jones, one of Liberia's outstanding private lawyer and former presidential candidate, has been slapped with a five-year ban from law practice. The Supreme Court of Liberia took the decision against Jones based on a recommendation of the Grievance and Ethics Committee of the lawyers' association of Liberia.
Rev. Eric M. Allison had complained Cllr. Jones to the Committee over the lawyer's handling of case in which the Reverend who was Jone's clientele reported that he was not satisfied with how Cllr Jones handled the matter.
The case rose to become a Jones and the Ethics Committee's contestation when the Counselor challenged the decision of the Committee on grounds that it was not fair.
Though the report of the Grievance and Ethics Committee recommended penalty for the ethical transgressions committed by Cllr. Jones, the Supreme Court endorsed the recommendation with modifications to the effect of suspending him from the practice of law directly and indirectly in Liberia for the period of five (5) years.
The Supreme Court further ordered the learned legal practitioner to pay the amount of US$62,130 to Rev. Allison and his children within three months as of the date of the delivery of this opinion, further ordering that Jone's failure to comply will increase his penalty from suspension total disbarment.
"The Clerk of this Court is ordered to send a mandate to all courts of the Republic information them of this judgment and to have Counsellor Jones` similarly informed of this judgment; to have all of the appropriate authorities informed to ensure compliance with the judgment of this Court and that they will act consistent with law. Costs are disallowed. It is so ordered," the Supreme said in its verdict.
When the case was called for hearing, the Court said, Counselors Emmanuel B. James and Cooper W. Kruah appeared as amici curiae and Counselor Marcus R. Jones appeared prose.
"After a careful examination of the records in the proceeding of the Grievance and Ethics Committee, the position of the Amicius Curiae, and the legal argument presented by Counselor Marcus R. Jones who represented himself, and after considering the laws controlling," the Court opined, "Counselor Marcus R. Jones did not conduct himself in a professional manner as expected of a lawyer in this jurisdiction while handling the death claim of Rev. Eric M. Allison's wife."
The Court said Jones "committed serious ethnical and professional misconduct against his client. He mishandled, comingled and misapplied his client's money, thereby violating Rule 15, Code for the Moral and Ethical Conduct of Lawyers."
Cllr Jones represented himself before the Court Court.
6-Month for Judge Koroi Nuta
In a related development, the Supreme Court has also suspended another Liberian legal practitioner, Judge Korboi Nuta, for a six month period for what the Court described "glaring misconduct."
The Court's decision followed the consideration of the Judicial Inquiry Commission's findings and recommendations as well as arguments advanced by the respondent judge during hearing before the Supreme Court which noted that Judge Nuta showed no remorse in the face of some "glaring misconduct; and being convinced that the findings of the Judicial Inquiry Commission as well as its recommendation, further supported by the Amici Curiae, to the effect that the respondent judge is in breach of ethical standards, said report and recommendation are hereby approved and confirmed."
Consequently, the Supreme Cour further said, "Judge Korboi Nuta is hereby ordered suspended as a Circuit Court Judge for a period of six (6) calendar months. It is further our holding that during the period of his suspension, Judge Nuta will forfeit all salaries, benefits and other emoluments to which he would otherwise be entitled."
The Court says it holds that should the Respondent Judge in the future be guilty of any proven violation of the Judicial Canon in breach of his oath of office, the Court shall proceed to make the appropriate recommendations for his permanent removal from office as a judge.
The Supreme Court ordered the Clerk of Court to send a mandate to all courts of The Republic informing them of this judgment, to have the respondent judge similarly informed of this judgment and decision; and to have all of the appropriate authorities informed to ensure compliance with the judgment of this Court and that they will act consistent with law.
The Court says when this case was called for hearing, Counselors Emmanuel B. James and Cooper W. Kruah, appeared as Amid Curiae, while Counselors J. Lavela Supuwood and Lavela Koboi Johnson, appeared for the appellee.
Both opinions were signed by Associate Justices Jabineh M. Ja'neh, Jamesetta Howard Wolokollie and Philip A. Z. Banks, III.
Public Reacts
In roving interviews with members of the public, it was gathered that more Liberians praised the Supreme Court and the Grievance and Ethics Committee for their boldness in rendering the verdicts.
Though some say the ban orders are harsh and "tearful", they same such is need for the legal profession which has attracted enormous criticism for transgressions.
"Not too many professions have the gut to punish their indiscipline members," said Timothy Manteh, Jr., a university student, who contends that the debauched character of the judiciary is underpinned by lawyers misdemeanors.
"Surely the judgments of the Court against the outstanding legal practitioners will serve deterrence for others who think the law's association and the Court are toothless bulldog."


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The popular rapper Kanye West was booed at a concert in England after comparing himself to Hitler.
"I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm (expletive) insane, like I'm Hitler," West told an audience of 40,000 over the weekend at the Big Chill Festival.
As the audience booed, he said, "One day the light will shine through, and one day people will understand everything I ever did."
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Twenty-five-year-old Yonathan Melaku of Alexandria pleaded guilty last year to firing shots at several military-related targets.
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Suspected shooter Yonathan Melaku Thursday pleaded guilty to firing into military installations in Northern Virginia.
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Court records show a plea-agreement hearing has been scheduled Thursday for 24-year-old Yonathan Melaku of Alexandria.
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A federal magistrate on Thursday ordered an ex-Marine reservist accused of firing shots at the Pentagon and other military targets to remain in jail while he awaits trial.
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Yonathan Melaku is back in court on Thursday, where he waived a probable cause hearing.
Yonathan Melaku, Pentagon suspect to plead guilty in Leesburg larceny caseComment
A former Marine accused of firing shots at the Pentagon and Marine Corps museum in Quantico is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday on unrelated larceny charges.
Yonathan Melaku, Pentagon scare suspect to plead guilty in unrelated Va. caseComment
A former Marine accused of firing shots at the Pentagon, Marine Corps museum and other military buildings is scheduled to enter a plea in a Leesburg courthouse on unrelated larceny charges.
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The lawyer for an ex-Marine accused of firing potshots at the Pentagon and other military targets said his client does not have a grievance against the Corps.
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The Marines Corps says it has dismissed a reservist charged in a series of pre-dawn shootings at the Pentagon and other military buildings.
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The Pelican-in-her-Piety - what's in a name?
The heraldic device of a mother Pelican, plucking at her own breast in order to
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centuries. Many family crests, churches and cathedrals across the Christian
world display such an image.
Some medieval bestiaries describe the young as pecking at the paternal bird who,
in angry response, strikes back at them, inflicting mortal wounds. The adult
bird is so grieved by its actions that it pierces its own breast (known as
vulning - hence the word vulnerable) and on the third day he draws blood which,
when spilt onto the young, revives them.
The Pelican-in-her-Piety is an allegorical depiction of Jesus Christ, in both
His sacrificial love and resurrection. In an age when literacy was limited, the
image of the Pelican-in-her-Piety would have been recognisable and understood by
everyone who saw it and was, in particular, interpreted as being symbolic of the
Thomas Aquinas used the allegory in his 'Adoro Te Devote'
"O loving Pelican! O Jesu Lord!
Unclean I am but cleanse me in Thy Blood of which a single drop,
for sinners spilt,
can purge the entire world from all its guilt."
Modern understanding of the pelican is rather different from that of medieval
art, which often depicts a hook beaked, raptor-like bird; we understand that the
young, rather than feeding from parental life-blood, are sustained by food
regurgitated into the pelican's pouch.
Nevertheless, the Pelican-in-her-Piety, an image of self sacrifice, is as
powerful and meaningful today as it was in 13th Century. From great medieval
cathedrals to small churches across Europe, and including our own Living History
group, the image of the Pelican-in-her-Piety stretches across the centuries.
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|Joe Cobb (LBT) - Congress District: 4
|Joe Cobb
|Postal Box 1855, Glendale, AZ 85311
|Campaign Phone:
|623-399-7920; 602-421-9060; 949-338-9020
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|Occupation/Main source(s) of income:
|FERS pension; savings; consultant earnings
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|College instructor; Congressional economist
|University of Chicago, MBA and BA
|Birth Date:
|February 7, 1944
|Single parent of married daughter in California
|How long have you lived in Arizona?
|Since 2004 (part year); since 2006 full time
|What is your party registration and how long have you been registered as a member of that party?
|Libertarian Party since 1972
|Previous public offices you have sought/held:
|Candidate for Congress, 7th District Arizona - 2006
Candidate for Congress, 48th District California - 2002
Candidate for Congress, 48th District California - 2000
|Civic organizations in which you have been active?
|FairVote Glendale (put Proposition 404 on Sept. ballot), treasurer
FairVote Arizona, treasurer
Arizona Libertarian Party, treasurer
Maricopa County Libertarian Party, treasurer
Libertarian Party of Orange County, chairman 2004
|Are you using public funds in your campaign?
|Libertarians do not believe in taxpayer funding
|Do you have any sort of a criminal record or any outstanding civil judgments? Please be specific.
|What is the best piece of political advice you ever received?
|Chris Matthews book, "Hardball," has a chapter, "Hang a Lantern on your Problem." This advice was invaluable when I was publicly fighting my daughter's mother for divorce and sole custody back in 1989. (I won.)
|What character trait best serves a public official?
|The ability to listen to opposing points of view and to resond honestly and without ambivalence about my own beliefs. I worked for Ron Paul in Congress in 1983-85 and he practices this trait. He explained to me how it served him favorably when he had to explain to conservative Christians why he supported legalized drugs.
|What character flaw most harms a public official?
|When politicians are so eager to please everyone and attempt to find a middle path between opposing forces, they become whores and flip-flop on issues and betray themselves as fundamentally unprincipled.
|What is your favorite book (besides a spiritual text)?
|Thomas Sowell, "A Conflict of Visions" (1987) explains why so many of us disagree and how different kinds of issues become packaged together. This is a book about politics and psychology, and the history of ideas, more than a book about policies.
|What is your favorite place in Arizona?
|I love the Grand Canyon. I've stayed at the south rim several times a year in recent years and visited the north rim in 1998.
|Which Arizona political figure past or present do you most admire and why?
|Barry Goldwater was my boyhood hero. I read "Conscience of a Conservative" when I was 16 and its libertarian, federalism message inspired the rest of my life in politics. He exemplifies the best traits I identified above; an honest man who speaks straight with strong values.
|What are the three most important Congressional priorities you see for Arizona and how would you work to accomplish them?
|(1) Reform federal immigration law: the quota system must be repealed to end illegal immigration and restore economic growth to Arizona.
(2) Defending civil liberties against the "Patriots" and others whose war-terror mania is destroying traditional American legal rights, affecting all of us in Arizona.
(3) Establishing a market for water and changing the current government-ownership (non-market allocation) system. So-called "western water law" needs to be seriously re-examined by Congress.
|What are your views on Congressional earmarks and would you recommend such funding in your district? Are there any circumstances in which you would favor earmarks for Arizona or other states?
|I would eliminate all "earmarks" and special pork spending, even if my District might benefit from "bringing home the bacon" (at other Districts' expense). I would support a Congressional rule that every piece of spending and legislation has to be voted on separately, not as part of large, omnibus legislation that allows hiding of special interest programs. There is never any justification for earmarks for Arizona or other states. If something is in the national interest, and it happens to benefit my District, then the whole Congress should support it on the basis of merit, not using earmarks.
|What actions, if any, would you pursue to improve Congressional ethics?
|I would require every member of Congress and all personal staff to publish their income tax returns in the newspapers and perform quarterly personal financial reporting just as the Federal Election Commission now requires for campaigns and the Congress itself requires for lobbyists and Congressional office expenses.
|Are undocumented immigrants a net benefit or detriment to Arizona?
|Immigrants are a great benefit to Arizona. We want and need more of them. The detail that some come to work here without "permission" from the government is just an obscene requirement, adopted in 1921 and 1924, as a racist measure, driven by the Ku Klux Klan and the eugenics movement. I have just read and agree with Jason L. Riley of the Wall Street Journal, in his new book, "Let them In!"
|What would be your top priority for legislation to deal with the problem of illegal immigration?
|I would propose repealing the quota system first enacted in 1921 and 1924. I would allow unlimited work visas for anyone who goes legally to a border entry station and passes necessary tests for identification, criminal records, and health. The "problem" of illegal immigration is the silly detail that it is "illegal." It is not even a federal crime, not even a misdemeanor! It is a civil violation to enter the USA without a visa. That should be repealed.
|Would you favor a temporary worker program to help ensure employers in Arizona and other states have the necessary supply of workers?
|Absolutely, although I would want to make it permanent.
|To what extent, if any, does global warming pose a threat to lives, property and the economy? What should the federal government do about it, if anything?
|I do not believe that global climate change is caused in any substantial degree by human industrial activity. Global warming is happening, and I think variations in solar activity are a primary cause, but the current focus on the "anthropogenic" theory is just a resurrection of religious-type guilt beliefs because of modern civilization's success and prosperity. Global climate change has beneficial consequences, as well as problems. The more prosperous we are, the better we can cope with the problems. The proposals to slow down or reverse economic progress "to fight Anthropogenic Global Climate Change" will do very little to solve the problems and will make it more difficult actually to ameliorate or resolve them.
|Should Congress set a timetable for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq? Why or why not?
|Absolutely, the United States had no justification for involvement in the Middle East, no valid basis to invade Iraq, and we should bring the troops home as quickly as possible and get out of the area. How quickly? Beginning tomorrow morning would be good.
|Would you favor withdrawing troops from Iraq to bolster U.S. interests in Afghanistan? Why or why not?
|It is not clear to me even why the United States is involved in Afghanistan. The invasion there to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden failed, and the current efforts to bring western civilization to that primitive country is not in America's national interest.
|What should the United States do about Iran's nuclear ambitions?
|The United States should leave the Iranians alone. If they are as crazy as news reports seem to indicate, nothing will stop them from acting as international troublemakers for many years to come. It might be part of their Shia millennialist idea of the 12th Imam who will return to Earth like Christ in the final days, and they will blow up the world. But United States foreign policy should be as George Washington and John Quincy Adams described it, as "friendship and trade with everyone; entangling alliances with none."
|What specific cuts in spending or tax increases would you recommend to bring the federal budget into balance?
|I would not increase any tax. I would advocate more tax cuts. I believe there are vast sectors of the federal government that should be eliminated and programs cut out of the federal budget, beginning with the Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, and Department of Health and Human Services.
I would terminate the "annual budget" accounting system introduced in 1890 (since it does not work) and replace it with a "look back" appropriations system. This idea was first developed by me when I served as a staff member on the U.S. Senate budget commtitee. It worked from 1789 until 1890 very effectively.
|If you had to choose between increasing taxes or further increasing the federal deficit, which would you favor?
|I would prefer to increase the federal deficit, since investors buy bonds voluntarily but taxes are imposed by force and coercion and distort (reduce) economic activity. The national debt is a long-term problem, but not a very serious problem. The annual federal (and Arizona state) deficit is just a problem of overspending, wasting taxpayer resources, and it should be reduced to a zero deficit by cutting spending, but I do not support any budget surplus ideas "to pay off" the national debt.
|Would you favor a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade? Why or why not?
|Absolutely not. I believe a woman's right to terminate a pregancy is one of the "other rights" protected by the Ninth Amendment and the government should have no role to play in such a personal, private issue. I support the wisdom of Roe v. Wade in identifying a "trimester" system, and allowing a public interest in whether a third trimester abortion should be regulated (just as infanticide is regulated).
|Would you support a federal same-sex marriage amendment?
|Absolutely not. I believe the government should have no role to play in defining or regulating "marriage," which is an intensely personal and religious thing. This is another of the "other rights" protected by the Ninth Amendment and the government should have no role to play in such a personal, private issue. I think that allowing same sex marriage would be a good thing, and I recommend a book by Jonathan Rausch, "Gay Marriage; Why it is Good" (2004).
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I have always loved the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, mainly because I like to think I'm the humble tax collector but really most of the time I'm a terrible, terrible Pharisee. So we get to constantly examine ourselves and at the same time, we do get to evaluate--not judge, but evaluate--others. Christ himself, after all, said, "Beware of false prophets" [Matthew 7:15]. To that end, and in light of my own continuing and egregious self-righteousness, here are just a few instances where we might find our way toward distinguishing between the two stances. I'm sure you can come up with more!
TAX COLLECTOR: While quietly strictly adhering to Church teachings in own life, and utterly orthodox in belief and practice, sees "credentials" of a follower of Christ as being purity of heart, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, turning the other cheek, doing to the least of these, humility, and love. Stops just short of despairing of ever acquiring any of them.
TAX COLLECTOR: PHARISEE: Gives thanks not to be like "other" [i.e., substandard] people.
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It is my profound displeasure to have to announce that the blight on the TI programming community know as Hays Games has once again poked its head out of the ugly mess of their swamp of stolen code. As Frydsoft put it here, "Hays Games Co. is the echelon of everything that is bad about the Ti-Community. they lie, they cheat, they steal. they do it all. they like to make enormous claims about their software when they know that it is crap. They also have a thing for bashing top programmers in the Ti community, such as Bill Nagel, Joe Wingbermuehle, and countless others, and spread Propaganda all over the place accusing them of everything they do, and more. But their biggest thing that they are known for, is their code stealing. These people take Code stealing to an unbelievable level. They steal code from websites, and will steal entire programs, label it as their own, and then proceed to proclaim how great their program is vs the same programs they stole from." This group has repeatedly been shut down by ticalc.org, Geocities, and many other hosting and archiving sites, only to reappear in another annoying form. Please see for youself - gee, that "Doorways" logo looks awfully familiar - here: http://www.geocities.com/haysgames/. Also please sign the petition to help get rid of them here: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/nohays. If we can get 100 signatures, they say they will disappear. Please help with this community project.
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"Freddie's Dead" is a song by Curtis Mayfield. It was the first single from his 1972 soundtrack album for the film Super Fly. The single was released before the Super Fly album, and in fact before the film itself was in theaters. The song peaked at #4 on the U.S. Pop Chart and #2 on the R&B chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 82 song for 1972.[1]
The song laments the death of Fat Freddie, a character in the film who is run over by a car.
Like most of the music from the Super Fly album, "Freddie's Dead" appears in the film only in an instrumental arrangement, without any lyrics. The song's music is featured prominently in the film's opening sequence and also recurs at several other points. Because of this usage the song was subtitled "Theme from Superfly" on its single release (but not on the album). It is not to be confused with "Superfly", a different song and the second single released from the Super Fly album. The arrangement is driven by a strong bass line, wah wah guitars, and a melancholy string orchestration.
The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Rhythm & Blues Song but lost to "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone".[2] "Freddie's Dead" was ruled ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Song because its lyrics are not sung in the film Super Fly.[3]
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- Fishbone covered "Freddie's Dead" on their 1988 album Truth and Soul.
- MFSB released an instrumental cover of "Freddie's Dead" on their debut album in 1973.
- Master P recorded "Kenny's Dead", a parody of Mayfield's song for the television show South Park, featuring the character Kenny McCormick, for Chef Aid: The South Park Album.[4]
- ^ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972
- ^ "Grammy Awards 1973". Awards & Shows. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
- ^ "'Godfather,' 'Super Fly' Music Not Nominated For Oscar". The Toledo Blade. AP. 1973-03-07. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
- ^ Behymer, Josh (20 March 2005). "Kennys Dead Song???". Film Tracks. Retrieved 4 June 2009.


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French design superstars Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec lead the way into the museums with a fresh MCA exhibit and tell us what's delighting (and challenging) them this winter. Think snow, not ski bunnies.
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Country superstar Tim McGraw assembled a cavalcade of stars for his "ACM Presents: Tim McGraw's Superstar Summer Night" special that aired on CBS Sunday night (May 19). Check out this behind-the-scenes video for footage of the fun collaborations they put together.
Current country artists Jason Aldean, Keith Urban and Luke Bryan took the stage with Creedence Clearwater Revival's legendary frontman John Fogerty, plus Taylor Swift, Ne-Yo, Faith Hill, Lady Antebellum and new group Florida Georgia Line were on hand to perform as well.
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February 20th, 2010 #1
Starting Watercolors
I'm just starting with them, and I could use help. I'm working from photos now, and I've been told to watch out for the limitations - overexposure, and a limited color range.
So here's what I've done so far, hopefully this thread'll take off and show some real improvement by page 2...
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Those are pretty nice. Out of interest, what colors are you using? I have just started experimenting with watercolors myself.
The last picture is really nice. I would say, however, that the others look somewhat "overexposed", that is if a painting can really be that.
Those are my thoughts.
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February 21st, 2010 #3
I think you really need to focus on the shapes of color and light that you find in the images. the 4th painting does a better job of this than the rest but in all of them you are paying more attention to the linear quality of your brushstrokes than you are simplifying the masses you see. Forests may not be the best thing to start with as they are naturally very complicated and it is very hard to selectively simplify the unnecessary to bring out the necessary with such a high amount of detail. whatever colors you are using, you most definitely are not losing any intensity- the colors are obviously over saturated if you're looking for realism, but I don't think you are and they work well as you use them now. Just keep experimenting; with experimentation and practice you will gain a sophistication in technique that will make your work stronger as you progress. Keep it up. :]
"A drawing is not necessarily academic because it is thorough, but only because it is dead. Neither is a drawing necessarily academic because it is done in what is called a conventional style, any more than it is good because it is done in an unconventional style. The test is whether it has life and conveys genuine feeling."- Harold Speed
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February 22nd, 2010 #4
I completely agree - I would highly recommend John Carlson's book: "Carlsons Guide to Landscape Painting" - it is very inexpensive and considered one of the "cornerstone" books in landscape painting. Also of note, Carlson's main subject was New England forest interiors.
What would Caravaggio do?
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February 22nd, 2010 #5
Might want to check this guy out: http://dalelaitinen.com/index.php/category/paintings/
I think he's one of the best watercolor landscape painters out there - not much work with forest interiors but you can see how he simplifies to create strong compositions.
As Pariano points out - you're seeing and trying to paint every leaf and blade of grass right now - you need to learn to see the masses and forms of light and shadow - not the details.
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August 4th, 2010 #6
Wow, sorry for the late update everyone. I've been busy posting elsewhere. But I really appreciate the feedback, and I love the link to Dale, I went and saved it all on my harddrive.
Let's see to answer some questions...
1. I'm going for realism in terms of form/perspective/color relationships, but not so much in exact detail, so maybe I'm more of an impressionist.
2. I hear a lot that my colors are too saturated, which makes me worry about my monitor settings. Sometimes I look at this site on other computers and there is a huge difference that might make these works look garish. But, other artwork on this site looks fine on my monitor... Lately, when I put my artwork in photoshop for cropping, I try to tone down the colors a bit to hopefully get them to look more like the real works... But I'll be wary of this while I paint as well.
3. My main goal with these studies, besides simply learning watercolor, is to capture the feeling of light through the trees, how it's reflected, and cast, etc. I want to present the dazzling effect that I see when I go out in nature.
4. colors I use... They're all Winsor and Newton tube paints.
1. Winsor Red Deep
2. Quinacridone Magenta
3. Potter's Pink (hardly ever use it)
4. Cadmium Lemon
5. Pthalo Turqoise
6. Indigo
7. Prussian Blue
8. Indanthrene Blue
9. Sepia
I also have an ivory black and a gouache white, but I've never used them. The only time I ever touched up a screw up, I used acrylics. Here are some watercolors I've done since last Feb. Most from life, some from photos. The woman in the river is from a photo by Andre Jaf, and the woman in the tree is from a photo by Erro.
August 4th, 2010 #7
Wow, I see some vast improvement there. The last still-life looks good, and the last forest piece (before the church) is really great - some wonderful balance of lights there.
I think your solid areas of colour need some thought. Solid colour is hard to do in watercolour. You're obviously doing them a LOT better in your recent pieces than in your first ones, but the question is - even if they're solid in your reference, do they have to be solid on the paper? A space that is meant to be one single colour but has irregularities looks more distracting than a space that you allowed to bleed and dilute some. The spectator knows that it's meant to be just one "backdrop", but the slight differences in tone, colour and brightness add interest to those spaces without drawing any attention from the main subject.
Hope I was making sense.
Keep up the great work - that's some impressive improvement in this thread!
August 4th, 2010 #8
Thank you! And I think I get you, there's a great portrait artists in this subforum who did a watercolor portrait, and started with just a totally wet wash. It's amazing to see how he brings it back up to a realistic level. I think I'd need better paper for that, the stuff I've got doesn't really wash off that well. Anyone got any really good paper suggestions? Or technique? Because, even on Arches, if I use a paper towel to wipe away, I end up tearing at the fibres and screw up the surface.
August 4th, 2010 #9
Glad to see people working in watercolor! You should check out artists Milind Mulick and Vasudeo Kamath. You can find alot of Mulick's work on facebook. I would also suggest dropping by the watercolor landscape thread in te fine arts section.
You may also want to further simplify your studies. Instead of focusing on getting all the leaves on the tree, find the overall shape, tone, and color necessary to make the illusion of the tree.
August 5th, 2010 #10
Haha, I'm wrestling with Arches myself right now! Arches is a very particular paper - it sucks up paint and never lets it go.
Not sure if you can get it where you're from, but what I really like is Hahnemühle, Schöllershammer, or good old Canson. As long as the paper is thick enough (300 g/m or more) they've all got great wet-washing properties. I wouldn't want to swap them for Arches.
August 6th, 2010 #11
Gold Seven, thanks, I'm going to try and use up what I have and then I'll see what I can order online. I've still got stacks of Canson to use... Here are two more still lifes.
August 6th, 2010 #12
You definitely have an excellent grasp of the medium when it comes to realistic still-lifes! I'm loving that "baby" one. Nice idea to put your signature on the nappy. And the AVENT bottle turned out great. (We had them too, for our first kid... the second insisted on NUK, but what'll you do...)


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As far as roots go, Cal Schaefer is literally, and figuratively, rooted firmly in place at the North Dakota Winter Show.
ŌĆ£IŌĆÖve had a booth right here since ŌĆś73, in the same exact spot,ŌĆØ Schaefer said, pointing to the ground of the Main Exhibit building.
Schaefer began working at the show in 1963 doing general labor.
ŌĆ£I worked in the barns, wherever they needed help: cleaning, setting up all the rodeos and stage shows.ŌĆØ The job didnŌĆÖt pay very well, as Schaefer recalled, ŌĆ£It was only a dollar and a quarter an hour.ŌĆØ
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ŌĆ£In the early days, there was a lot more exhibitors, smaller booths, more machinery, and not as much of the stuff we have now for the average Valley City citizen,ŌĆØ he said.
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I was wondering if someone could help me figure out how to break a model up to look like it was smashed or destroyed. I have hexagon and blender but only basic knowledge of the tools inside it.
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This is why I haven't completely abandoned Poser yet; you can cut a model into tiny pieces and turn the parts into props..