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Despite its huge move, the bulls are betting that Radian still has room to run.
optionMONSTER's Heat Seeker monitoring system detected the purchase of about 6,900 July 12 calls, most of which priced for $0.55 and 40.59. Volume was more than twice open interest at the strike.
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Traders also bought July 22 calls in related company Assured Guaranty earlier in the week. Those contracts almost doubled by today as AGO climbed.
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Trailer Goes Underground
Dungeon masters
Watch a gloomy new trailer for Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, in which a player and their companion pawns lay the smackdown on subterranean monsters. Dark Arisen, follow-up to last year's action RPG Dragon's Dogma, comes out on April 23 (US) and April 26 (UK).
An expanded edition of Dragon's Dogma, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen includes the original full game alongside the expansion content. On the cursed Bitterblack Isle, says publisher Capcom, players will discover an underground realm with "over 25" new enemies, new high-level skills and augments, and new weapons and armour sets.
There are also more character customisation options and the option to play with the original Japanese voices. How it is you add more customisation options to Dragon's Dogma's bewilderingly flexible character creator, we can't wait to find out.
An import system will let those who played Dragon's Dogma carry over their existing characters. But wait, there's more! Returning players also receive 100,000 Rift Crystals, unlimited Ferrystones and the Gransys Armour Pack for their Dragon's Dogma loyalty.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The draft is back at Daytona, and so is the last-lap drama.
In a return to the kind of bumper-to-bumper racing and tight finishes that first grabbed NASCAR fans a generation ago, Sterling Marlin and Mike Skinner won the Gatorade Twin 125-mile qualifying races Thursday for the Daytona 500.
Marlin gave Dodge its first victory after a 16-year absence when he passed Daytona master Dale Earnhardt on the last lap, and Skinner climbed out of a sickbed to beat Dale Earnhardt Jr. by inches.
The 26-car fields were a moving mosaic throughout most of both races, with nearly constant position changes and a record 21 lead changes in the two 50-lap races.
What a change from last year on Daytona's high banks, when the two races featured one lead change in total, mostly single-file racing through the entire 250 miles and almost no excitement.
The nearly constant excitement this time, with 10 leads changes in the first race and 11 in the other, had the 125,000 spectators at Daytona International Speedway pumped up, as well as the drivers who will make up the 43-car field in Sunday's featured event.
Mike Skinner raises the trophy after winning the second Gatorade 125 qualifying race for the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Thursday, Feb. 15.
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''Sunday is going to be the best Daytona 500 on record,'' said Marlin, a two-time winner of NASCAR's biggest event, who gave Dodge its first victory in its re-entry into Winston Cup racing after a 16-year absence.
He also gave team owner Chip Ganassi -- a four-time winner in CART -- his first NASCAR triumph in his very first race.
''Nobody is going to dominate the race,'' Marlin added. ''You can pass a lot. Before, you just hung in line and rode and rode. If the guy ahead of you made a mistake, you could pass him. Now anybody can pass just about any time.''
Jerry Nadeau, whose Chevrolet started last in the opener and wound up following Marlin past Earnhardt to finish second, said: ''This is just a sample of what racing is going to be like Sunday.''
The third caution flag of the opening race came out on lap 46 when rookie Ron Hornaday spun and defending Daytona 500 winner Dale Jarrett was hit from behind by Buckshot Jones as he slowed to avoid Hornaday. Both Hornaday and Jarrett spun off the track but drove on to pit lane.
That set up a restart with one trip remaining around the 2 1/2-mile oval.
Earnhardt Sr. was ahead of Jeff Gordon when the green flag waved, but Gordon slipped back into the pack and a horde of challengers loomed in The Intimidator's mirrors.
Earnhardt, who has 12 qualifying victories among his record 34 Daytona wins, nearly pushed Marlin into the infield grass as he tried to keep him from moving by on the long back straightaway. But Marlin, getting a big push from Michael Waltrip, streaked past and pulled out to a 0.103-second victory, about two car lengths.
''I was a sitting duck and they were the hunters,'' said Earnhardt, who led three times for a race-high 19 laps.
The pack behind the winner looked like a big-city rush hour, with rookie Andy Houston fourth, followed by Jimmy Spencer, Gordon, rookie Jason Leffler, Jeff Purvis, Waltrip and rookie Casey Atwood.
Skinner, whose only other Winston Cup victories were in a pair of exhibitions in Japan, wiped away tears of joy after beating Earnhardt Jr. to the flag by 0.004-seconds.
''We were right there with the cream of the crop,'' said Skinner, who was hit by stomach flu Wednesday night and spent nearly two hours getting intravenous fluids before Thursday's race.
''I forgot about it in the car,'' Skinner said of his queasy stomach. ''Having Junior beating on the side of you is as bad as having Senior beating on you.''
Skinner and the elder Earnhardt are Richard Childress Racing teammates.
Although there was a 10-car breakaway in the middle portion of the second race, with the front-runners content to stay in single file for a while, at the end it was a 19-car draft, with three-wide moves on every lap.
Rusty Wallace led from lap 34 through 45 and appeared ready to put the lie to the Ford teams' loud complaints of an aerodynamic disadvantage this season. But the Chevys of Earnhardt Jr. and Skinner, and the Pontiacs of Ken Schrader and Ward Burton blew past Wallace on lap 46.
Skinner then took the top spot from Earnhardt on lap 47 and stayed out front -- barely -- to the end.
''To win a race, any race, at Daytona is an honor,'' Skinner said. ''But I'd trade it in a minute for a points win on Sunday.''
Jeff Burton finished third in a Ford, followed by brother Ward, Wallace, Schrader and Matt Kenseth.
The only caution flag in the second race came on lap 36 when Tony Stewart, who won last Sunday's Bud Shootout, spun, was bumped by Schrader and hit Elliott Sadler. Stewart went through the backstretch grass, flattening all four tires. But he was able to continue to the pits and went on to finish 11th.
Neither Bill Elliott nor Stacy Compton, who clinched the front-row starting positions for the 500 last Saturday in time trials, had a very good day. Elliott slipped back into the pack early and wound up 20th in the opener, while Compton had handling problems in the second race and wound up 23rd.
Former race winner Derrike Cope and Dave Marcis both came up short in their final efforts to get into Sunday's 43-car field.
Cope was 18th in the first race and Marcis, whose string of 32 consecutive Daytona 500 starts ended last year, was 21st in the second. Each had to finish in the top 14 to make the field.
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I Never Would Have Known
My wife and i have been together for 23 years and 2 weeks ago she broke down and asked me for a divorce. We were not talking much and sex was a thing of the past. We had drifted so far apart that anything that was said seemed to be a personal attack on her.
After she told me something inside woke up and i have been trying to put the pieces back together and save our marriage. She tells me she needs some time and wants me to move out for a little while. I love her very much and have opened myself up to her, something i haven't been able to do for a long time.
My life is in a tailspin and i don't know what end is up, when i have to leave her and the kids I'm not sure how i will be able to handle it. I'm sure i will, its not the being out that bothers me its the not going back that is tearing me apart.
As we talk more and more she tells me she is confused at how i have been acting but still needs the time to think. i know its not all my fault but i cant help but think, if i did, said, did, acted, touched a little more we would not be were we are at. i want to hang on because she is the only one i have ever loved and do not want to loose her over something that we could work out. I'm so confused and hurt but i try to keep my head and hopes up.
I am in a very similar place. It is the not knowing that is the hardest, I think.
well my situation is much like yours except I left my husband, it was a mutual agreement but he now says I planned and decided it all on my own, he somehow has forgotten all of our discussions and decision making before I left. I am slowly dying inside I cry everyday ... when we talk on the phone I cry, my heart is heavy I miss my children (three grown boys) none of whom have been to see me yet at my new place, its been almost 4 months now. I do call them and we all text each other but its not the same. I am lonely all the time. He says he still loves me and we have started to go to counselling so I do truly hope that works. How we got here I don't know....yet
I see you wrote this several years ago.

I'm interested in how it worked out for you.

I'm in exactly the same shoes right now that your wife was in back then.

I'm curious as to how you ultimatly reacted and how she responded.
My husband walked out on our 28 year marriage. He wanted a separation but I knew once he walked out the door, it was all over. 2 years later, I'm still alone and hurting just as much as the day he left. If you think your marriage is salvageable, get help. Your wife has thought about this decision for sometime, before asking you for the divorce. I truly wish you well.
why do you think it took you so long to discover how you felt about her? I've beentrying for 8 years of our 10 year marriage to get my husband to care about my feelings. i'm separated now too and he says he loves me, but we've been there done that, and he gets better for a while then he gets worse than before. Are you just afraid to break a bad habit called marriage?
Hello,

I went through a similar situation ten years ago. I can appreciate you being shell-shocked. At the beginning I was completely confused, Trying to cling to her. The more I tried the more she was pushing me away. She was not interested in counsellings or any other attempt to reconnect.

I could not take living under the same roof anymore. I have moved out. It was tough at the beginning, but then the pain started to ease. In time, things calmed down. We started talking again and got back together.

Unfortunately, we have never resolved our original problems. We just pushed them under the carpet and pretended that everything is OK. After getting together we SHOULD HAVE gone to the marriage counseling. We managed to stay together until now, slowly drifting apart.

Now we are back to where we have been 10 years ago. My wife had found her high school flame and felled in love with him. It may or may not last. This is not really relevant. What is relevant is that she needed emotional fulfillment she was not getting in our marriage. We are on the verge of separation now. I don't think we will make it this time.

1) My advice to you is to try to let go of her and concentrate on yourself. Pamper yourself, do something interesting, different then usual. This will give you confidence and may make you more attractive in your wife's eyes. This advice is much easier to give then to implement. I am struggling myself. Hurting like hell.

2) If she decides to get back together with you, go to marriage counseling and deal with your issues. Do not just hope that everything will be fine - it will not.

3) If she does not want to be back, then number one above will help you cope and put your life together.

One is for sure, no matter what you do it will hurt. Prepare yourself.

Good luck


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Everytime I start a GUI app, all the objects(buttons, labels, everything!) in the window are invisible at start. To make them visible I have to change the size of the window, and when I do that(by "dragging" the edges of the window), all objects just pop up. I want them to be visible at start, so that I can make the window unresizable.
I have this problem no matter what objects I put into the frame. Worth mentioning is that I'm programming on a mac.
So, the big question, how can I fix this?


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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WAVY) – A Currituck man is facing multiple charges after police say he broke into an Elizabeth City pharmacy and took hundreds of pills.
According to the Elizabeth City Police Department, officers were notified about a burglar alarm at Todd's Pharmacy North side at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. Officers responded, and saw a man 'walking suspiciously' in the area, and stopped to investigate. Police said officers confronted the man, who had cuts on his arms and assorted pills in his pocket.
Additional officers went to Todd's Pharmacy and found the drive-thru window broken out, as well as blood on the broken window.
Police said the suspect, identified as 22-year-old Christopher Stuart of Currituck, was interviewed and found to be responsible for the break-in. Stuart was charged with felony breaking and entering, felony larceny after breaking and entering, felony possession of stolen goods, and misdemeanor injury to real property after causing about $600 worth of damage to the drive-thru.
Police said Stuart was found with 730 pills, which he thought were pills taken to aid with narcotics withdrawals.
He was placed on a $10,500 bond.
According to police, this break-in comes less than three weeks after a robbery at a CVS on West Ehringhaus Street. A 36-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly went into the CVS, jumped the counter and stole illegal narcotics.


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Nice tuning of the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 here by IMSA.
The car is based on Lamborghini's height-adjustable sports chassis and gets some ravishingly expensive central locking wheels, a carbon fiber body kit of some extent, bespoke spoiler and carbon fiber seats along with interior carbon fiber widgets. The polished stainless steel exhaust is the only performance improvement, adding 29HP and 15 lb-ft of torque to the output of the 5.2-liter V10 for a total of 581 HP and 413 lb-ft of torque.
Related news: GermanCarBlog, P4MR, Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4
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Skip to comments.German Man Who Typed Schindlers List Dies at 91
Posted on 06/13/2011 8:40:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mietek Pemper was responsible for typing famous list that saved 1,000 Jews during Holocaust; will be buried in Jewish cemetery in Germany.
Mietek Pemper, the man responsible for typing Oskar Schindlers famous list that saved more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust, died Tuesday in Augsburg, Germany, at age 91.
Pemper is to be buried in the citys Jewish cemetery, and local officials plan to order flags to be lowered to halfmast, the Agence France-Presse reported.
RELATED: 'NY judge allows Schindler's original list to be sold' The fight for Schindler's list
During his imprisonment in the Plaszow concentration camp, Pemper served as the personal typist of Nazi commandant Amon Goeth, from 1943 to 1944.
At one point, he secretly read a letter sent to Goeth from Berlin announcing that all factories not producing goods for the Nazi-war effort would be closed down. Pemper was subsequently able to convince Schindler, a Nazi-party member who initially hoped to profit from the Germanys invasion of Poland to switch his plants focus from enamel production to anti-tank grenade rifles.
Pemper then, at great personal risk, gave Schindler a typed list of more than 1,000 fellow prisoners who could work in the plant.
Schindler famously saved more than 1,200 lives through a mixture of work opportunities and bribes to Nazi officers.
Though he died in anonymity in 1974, Schindlers story was famously adapted by director Steven Spielberg in the 1993 film Schindlers List, which won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Pemper served as a consultant on the film, and in 2005 published his memoir, The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List.
In the book, Pemper pondered what the world would have been like if there had been no war, or Nazi extermination effort.
Goeth would probably not have been a mass murderer, nor Schindler a saver of lives. It was only the extraordinary circumstances of war and the immense power granted to individual men that revealed the nature of these men to such an impressive and terrifying degree, he wrote. Fate had placed me between the two of them, and it was like having an angel on one side and a demon on the other.
The majority of those picked for the list were chosen through questionable means, and bartering.
The unfortunate truth is this isn't one of the more honorable stories of resistance and survival.
You expect "fairness" during the Holocaust?
Thanks for posting.
To anyone interested, you can place virtual flowers and/or write something at Find a Grave:
Birth: Mar. 24, 1920
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Holocaust Figure. Born Mieczyslaw Pemper, during World War II he was a Jewish Polish citizen, when he was arrested in 1943 and sent to the Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland. Because he spoke German, he became the personal orderly and typist for the camp's brutal and feared German SS Commandant Amon Goeth. It was there that he befriended German industrialist Oskar Schindler and informed him that he secretly read in mail from Berlin, that all factories which were not producing goods for the Nazi war effort would be closed.
He convinced Schindler a member of the Nazi party, to abandon enamel production at his plant and start making war ordinance. At great risk to his own life, Pemper supplied Schindler with a typed list of fellow prisoners to be recruited for work at the revised facility.
Together with Schindler, he is credited with saving the lives of some 1200 Jews through work schemes and bribes paid to German officers. After the war, Pemper testified to the Polish Supreme National Tribunal at the trials against war criminals, where Amon Goeth was found guilty and hanged in September, 1946.
Pemper remained a close friend of Oskar Schindler until he died in 1974. In 1993, Pemper served as an adviser to director Steven Spielberg on the film "Schindler's List", which won seven Oscars. He also is the author of best seller "The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List" (2005), a book of his memoirs. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffi
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Who said anything about fairness?
People did what they had to do, but to elevate the story of Oscar Schindler to righteousness is morally bankrupt.
German man? Oh, OK.
God works thru many channels, most of them imperfect.
I bet the 1000+ he saved and their descendants think he was one righteous dude.
I'd like to think G-d would have seen those 600-1200 Jews who achieved safety as having the potential to seed an uprising.
I'd like to think when we say never again, that includes turning out backs and letting our neighbors die...or worse, trading fine art, and jewels alongside the names of our neighbors in order to live.
I'd like to think the teachings of Hannah and her Seven Sons still resonates. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0008_0_08365.html
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TDPAHACL is designed to be a simple and fast access control list (ACL) module written in NodeJS, built specifically for use with the awesome ActionHeroJS API server. TDPAHACL controls access to actionHero actions based on user roles (complete with recursive inheritance) based on a simple JSON config file.
Master: 0.3.5-alpha - Not recommended for production use
This module is under development and should not be considered complere or secure...yet
Operating system support should not be a major issue for this module though I always mention in my projects for transparency that I do not design or test for correct function on non-*nix-like OS's (e.g. Windows). If you want to test/develop and submit pull requests for Windows support then I will certainly consider them but likely only if they have minimal to no impact on performance and reliability for *nix-like OSs. The reason for this is simply that I personally don't consider Windows to be a serious server operating system and thus a good direction in which to spend my time and i'm not trying to offend anyone. I realise that others may completely differ in opinion and you're always welcome (obviously) to fork the repo and create your own version with Windows support. If my time were unlimited then I would likely spend some time on Windows support but sadly it's not.
TDPAHACL itself has a few dependencies (which are all NPM modules):
Please log any issues/problems in Github issues for this project.
Installation is simple, either:
npm install tdp-ah-acl
tdp-ah-acl as a dependency in your NPM package.json file and
npm install your module
git clone git://github.com/neilstuartcraig/TDPAHACL.git (assuming you have git installed). You'll probably need to amend the require() path if you use this method (unless you clone into your node_modules directory)
Once you have installed the NPM module, you can
require() the module as normal in your script, then use the new constructor and finially initialise e.g.
var TDPAHACL=require("tdp-ah-acl");var tdpahacl=new TDPAHACL();tdpahacl.init(api, "../config/TDPAHACL/TDPAHACLConfig.js", __dirname);
Then you'll need to run the ACL check, usually in an actionHero action preProcessor e.g:
var TDPAHACLPreProcessor=function(connection, actionTemplate, next){ tdpahacl.roleHasPermissionsOnAction(userRole, actionTemplate.name, actionTemplate.version, function TDPAHACLRoleHasPermissionsOnAction(roleAllowed) { if(roleAllowed) { next(connection, true); } else { next(connection, false); } });}; // You could use unshift or push hereapi.actions.preProcessors.unshift(TDPAHACLPreProcessor);
For a complete, working example, see the example initialiser file in this module.
Configuration is via either a directly passed-in standard javascript object or a file (as shown below) which contains a valid NodeJS module which exports exactly/only a javascript object in the correct format.
The format for the config file is:
var ACLTestConfig={ ruleProcessingOrder:"deny,allow", // "deny,allow" or "allow,deny" allowReinitialisation:false, // true/false exitOnRoleProcessingError:true, // true/false rules: // object containing sub-objects, one per role { role1: { inheritsFromRoles:["<ROLE-2>","<ROLE-3>"], // Array of roles to inherit from allow: // Array of actions (an optionally version ranges) to allow for this role [ "<ACTION-NAME-1>[:<SEMVER-ACTION-1-VERSION-RANGE]", "<ACTION-NAME-2>[:<SEMVER-ACTION-2-VERSION-RANGE]" ], deny: // Array of actions (an optionally version ranges) to deny for this role [ "<ACTION-NAME-3>[:<SEMVER-ACTION-3-VERSION-RANGE]", "<ACTION-NAME-4>[:<SEMVER-ACTION-4-VERSION-RANGE]" ] }, ... roleN: { ... }, ... }}
Most of the config should be self-explanatory but some notes are:
Configuration via config file is as simple as passing a path to the config file to the
init() function e.g.:
var TDPAHACL=require("tdp-ah-acl");var tdpahacl=new TDPAHACL();tdpahacl.init(api, "../config/TDPAHACL/TDPAHACLConfig.js", __dirname);
Configuration via object is a simple matter of passing a JavaScript object to the
run() function e.g. (these rules are contrived so don't read too deeply into them specifically):
var ACLConfig={ ruleProcessingOrder:"deny,allow", allowReinitialisation:false, exitOnRoleProcessingError:true, rules: { superUser: { allow: [ "*" ] }, admin: { inheritsFromRoles:["statsUser","authenticatedUser"], allow: [ "admin/*:>=2.0" ], deny: [ "admin/*:>=3.0" ] }, statsUser: { allow: [ "stats/appInfo:>=0.0", "stats/serverInfo:>=0.0", "stats/graphs/*" ], deny: [ "stats/graphs/sensitiveInfo" ] }, authenticatedUser: { inheritsFromRoles:["public"], allow: [ "pageContent:>=2.0", "navigation:>=1.0" ], deny: [ ] }, public: { allow: [ "login:>=3.0" ] } }} module.exports=ACLConfig; tdpahacl.init(api, ACLConfig);
TDPAHACL has a number of functions and variables, most of these are private to the instance itself, you can see them by looking at the source code of the main module. The public functions are as follows:
TDPAHACL.init() is the (synchronous) initialisation function which sets up the instance, importing config and creating the ACL map (a private object) which controls access to actions.
See the example initialiser for an example use (or the example above).
TDPAHACL.init() is the (asynchronous) ACL rule check function which determines whether or not a role has permission to run an action/version.
See the example initialiser for an example use (or the example above).
This (synchronous) function is not expected to be used often but is a simple method which normalises action.name's passed in to this module to try to ensure consistency and reduce the likelihood of error. It currently simply trims whitespace from the beginning and end of the actionName.
var normalisedActionName=TDPAHACL.normaliseActionName(actionName);
This (synchronous) function is not expected to be used often but is a simple method which normalises action.version's passed in to this module to try to ensure consistency and reduce the likelihood of error. It converts integer action.versions into semantic version numbers e.g. 1 becomes '1.0'.
var normalisedActionVersion=TDPAHACL.normaliseActionVersion(actionVersion);
TDPAHACL uses the built-in winston logging from actionHero (configuration information). The bundled tests however just use console.log (and not in a very clever way) for simplicity.
Since actionHero API apps are well-defined in terms of their available endpoints (publicly available API methods), TDPAHACL works a little differently to most other ACLs which do not have such strong definition - at least it's different to those I have previously used. The major setup is performed by the init() method, no real surprises there, what init() does is roughly:
This means we offload the vast majority of the processing work to the initialisation stage, meaning our runtime process is fast, really fast - all that's needed is a test on the ACL map hash for each action/version requested.
If you need to know more, you're probably best looking through the main module library and the example actionHero initialiser.
This is something I considered however, as a general rule, your API should be granular enough that you can appropriately restrict permissions based on the action name only. For example, a well-modularised API should have endpoints roughly as follows:
Rather than a single auth endpoint which might receive a parameter which determined the action (login/register/delete/logout) to perform.
incidentally, you can achieve the above in actionHero by creating a directory/folder inside the "actions" directory/folder called "auth", adding actions inside the "auth" directory/folder called login, register, delete and logout whose action.name is "auth/login", "auth/register", "auth/delete" and "auth/logout".
Parameter-awareness may appear at some later stage in TDPAHACL but don't count on it! Relying on the action name and version alone is faster and simpler yet still works for most use-cases. You're welcome to raise an issue if you really need parameter awareneness (or fork the project).
Security is obviously (being an ACL) a pretty high priority for this module. A key part of the security is in the public/private methods of the module, achieved by using function-scope, only listing public methods where strictly necessary.
The security of the module will be subject to continuous evaluation and suggestions/pull requests which improve the situation are very much appreciated.
Major changes are listed below:
TDPAHACL is issued under a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. This means you can share and adapt the code provided you attribute the original author(s) and you share your resulting source code. If, for some specific reason you need to use this library under a different license then please contact me and i'll see what I can do - though I should mention that I am committed to all my code being open-source so closed licenses will almost certainly not be possible.


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Pokémon Name: Croagunk
Type: Poison / Fighting
Classification: Foul-mouthed Pokémon
Pokédex Number: 129 Sinnoh / 453 National
Ability: Dry Skin – Sunny Day lowers HP, while Rainy Day raises HP; Anticipation – Dodges super-effective attacks
Dream World ability: Poison Touch – 20% chance of poisoning opponent whenever user makes contact
Useful Attacks: Poison Stab
Location Found:
Diamond/Pearl: Great Marsh
Platinum: Route 212, Great Marsh
HG/SS: Safari Zone (post-National 'dex, Marshland area), Pokewalker - Rally
B/W: Route 8 (swarm)
A favorite of Team Galactic,Croagunk is a foul-mouthed, dirty-fighting frog Pokémon found in Sinnoh's swampy Safari Zone. Its interesting Poison / Fighting type make it doubly weak to Psychic attacks, but its Anticipation ability may even out the odds a bit and finally let the Poison type shine.
Evolves to Toxicroak at Level 37.


text: Eclipse Community Forums - RDF feed https://www.eclipse.org/forums/ Eclipse Community Forums TPTP profiling initiative pilot https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/42197/137172/#msg_137172 The TPTP project is starting an initiative to improve the usability of the TPTP profiler. Within TPTP we modestly call this initiative POG (Profiler Of the Gods). We have addressed a number of usability issues in the most recent Ganymede delivery and are now soliciting Eclipse plug-in developers to try the profiler and give us feedback to improve the overall profiling experience. If you are a plug-in developer and would like to participate, please reply to me (Eugene Chan <firstname.lastname@example.com>) so I can keep you abreast of the developments as this effort progresses. Those who participate can expect enhanced support from the TPTP team in return for their efforts to help us shake out the profiler. TPTP has created a quick start guide: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Profiling_with_TPTP_-_plug-in_develo pment We will be doing support using the newsgroup eclipse.tptp. When posting to that group for support on this initiative, please put 'POG' in the subject line so that we may properly triage our community support efforts. This will also make it easier for the community to find postings that are relevant to this effort. This iteration of the profiling initiative pilot is targeted to close on Dec 2,2008 so we can incorporate your experiences and suggestions into the next iteration ready for the spring Ganymede point release. The intent is to continue this effort on an ongoing basis, with each release being better for the community than the previous. Thanks for using TPTP! Eugene Chan]]> Eugene Chan 2008-10-16T15:15:15-00:00 Re: TPTP profiling initiative pilot https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/42197/137183/#msg_137183 Help us make the Profiler of the Gods :) TPTP is quite proud to be doing this initiative. Every Java developer should have a solid profiling capability; it is a core tool in any development environment. The TPTP profiler is shipped in some of our contributors products, so we are quite sure that the fundamental technology is solid, but we realize that there are some usability issues. We have tried to address many of these in the most recent Ganymede delivery. Eugene's email announces an initiative by TPTP to get user feedback and incorporate it into the profiler to improve it's usability for the benefit of both the community and our contributing companies. We plan on doing two iterations of this for the Galileo delivery; this is the first one, ending December 2nd, 2008. By this coming June, we should at least have the Profiler of the Demi-Gods, if not POG itself ;) I congratulate (and pity ;) Eugene for stepping up to the plate on this one. All of you who have done direct user support know the joy of having a good user to help you make the product better, and a poor user who quickly loses interest as he/she moves on to the next fun thing of the moment. Eugene, I hope you get good users! --oec]]> Oliver E Cole 2008-10-16T21:18:54-00:00


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She is pretty. She is talented. She is one of the fittest B-town moms. And we are talking about none other than Divya Khosla Kumar, who gave back-to-back hits in her short span of career as a director.
But today, our feature is not dedicated to her work but her mesmerising look. We have brought to you the most beautiful stills of Divya from Instagram, which will surely make you go gaga over her beauty!
However, Divya tried her luck in acting in 2004, when she bagged a role in multi-starrer film, Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo, which also starred Superstar Akshay Kumar. But it was her debut directorial, which brought her to the limelight.
Divya's debut directorial,Yaariyan, grabbed the youth's attention and the film was declared a hit, in spite of getting average reviews.
While talking to TOI, Divya had revealed her struggle as a director and here's what she had said:
"It has also didn't become a director overnight. I didn't step in one day and say, 'Oh I want to make a film, let's do it'. I have worked hard and trained myself for years. Initially, Bhushan was not comfortable about me directing a movie."
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"He was worried about how I would deal with all the criticism that came with it. So he kept discouraging me for eight years, while I kept convincing him. I directed music videos for the company that became a hit and I won his confidence."
"He is a sharp businessman and is protective about the brand of his company. He won't let his wife do anything on her whims and fancy if it ruins the company's reputation. No one has seen my struggle. I have worked hard to reach here. I am a pretty face so people don't want to give me that much credit. Jinhe nahin maanna hai, I can't help it."


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It's wedding season, and if you're like me, that means you've been scouring stores and the web for perfect dresses to wear. And, with re-wearing a dress harder than it used to be because of Facebook and Instagram, chances are, you're looking for several dresses. Not to be worried, we have you covered. Here are some of our favorite looks for evening dresses. I love that the mermaid dress has made a huge comeback. I find this look to be very flattering but also sexy.
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We also love this orange mermaid showstopper.
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Hi! I'm River. I will be 3 years old this July. I was the last of my brothers and sisters at Golden Acres Farm in Pennsylvania. Someone was supposed to take me home, but Leslie and Sara got me instead. I think it was fate. I'm extremely affectionate, love to give kisses, and ever so loyal. If you give me my favorite sweet potato treats, I'll dance for you! I love to play frisbee for hours and to jump in bed to snuggle on weekends (that's the only time I'm allowed up there). There's a cat that lives with us too. Her name is Maggie. In the morning, I give her a little kiss. She's got a little bit of attitude, but she's not so bad.View Profile


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Riverfest Elora 2012
Cuff the Duke, The Wooden Sky, Tony McManus, Lisa Bozikovic, The Boo Radley Project, Karis Tees, The Elora Acoustic Café, Howie Southwood (host)
- Riverfest Elora founder Marilyn Koop passes away in April. A committee is struck to ensure the festival continues on in her memory.
- Riverfest organizers place a giant "M" beside the stage at the start of the festival, as a tribute to Marilyn Koop (the "M" representing Marilyn's iconic signature). The tradition continues today.
- The Wooden Sky joins headliners Cuff the Duke for their encore and cover Tom Petty. Members of the Wooden Sky jump into the audience with their instruments and play with the crowd.


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حدَث التاريخ ،و عدد الغرف، و عدد الضيوف
حدَث التاريخ ،و عدد الغرف، و عدد الضيوف
The hotel is built around a spectacular atrium themed as a tropical paradise. Dining at the Sun City Hotel is a gastronomic experience not to be missed. All rooms at the hotel offer superb views of the Pilanesberg Mountains. Every room has air-conditioning, an en-suite bathroom, telephone, television, radio, mini bar and safe. All luxury rooms feature a dining room and lounge, as well as private patio. Choices range from the African-themed Calabash to the Oriental Orchid. The hotel is home to the Sun City Casino, Salon Prive, and the International Room. Three conference venues are available


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by Andrew J. West
This will be my masterpiece.
I dribble paint onto the canvas with my bare hands in a continuous viscous stream, allowing the magnet inside my soul to join with the Earth's gravity to guide the oil's fluid oscillations. Next, I kneel on the gallery floor and use my hands as brushes with my fingers as bristles. Flicking paint, then smearing it with the side of my palms as palette knives until, finally, digging furrows into the oil paint with my nails.
In a moment of inspiration I pick up the large canvas by the wood frame, taking hold of it by the stretching strips across the back and starting to spin with it over my head, twirling like a Whirling Dervish in ritual ecstasy. I start tossing the turning canvas in the air and catching it, dancing as though doing wild airsteps with the painting as my partner—with a swing soundtrack of saxophones and clarinets blaring—flinging it behind me, catching it and flipping it back, taking it by the edge and launching it upwards, landing it flat on the floor and sliding over it on my chest face first. Jumping up, I grab it by the corner and start to rotate, getting faster and faster until I can't hold onto it any longer and we go crashing into opposite walls.
The audience lets out an enormous cheer as I get to my feet and giddily cross the gallery to examine the painting. The frame's been cracked, but nothing that can't be fixed.
Better still, leave the marks of the painting's violent birth visible for the world to see! Paint is everywhere, smeared all over both sides of the surface. It's got fingerprints and handprints, a footprint where I'd trodden on it and there's even an impression of my face where it came to rest. It looks like a Hindu swastika made by my flailing arms and floundering legs.
I place it in the middle of the space suspended from the ceiling of the Bangkok gallery so the crowd can view both sides of my visionary self-portrait. I look down at myself. I too am slathered in paint. I won't clean it off—I've been ritually washed—baptized as a sacred artist by immersion in holy oil. I must stay exactly as I am now, with myself as part of the exhibition, maybe even hang myself from the centre of the gallery alongside this piece.
Yes! Brilliant idea! That's what I'll do! Pure genius!
Looking at it is like looking at a mirror into myself. The paint shines out, phosphorescent pigments that illuminate the darkness of the bleak, surrounding world of grey half-tones, which is flat like a black and white photograph taken by an amateur on an overcast afternoon. The paint shouts loudly with words, but in a pitch so high the human ear can't hear it, like ultraviolet light that can't be seen by the human eye. It's an inexpressible perception, an inconceivable knowledge, a telepathic thought.
To see it one doesn't require sight, but insight. The photons of this light pass through me as though my body doesn't exist, but my essence bathes in it, becoming itself visible, shining with the hidden light of immeasurable love emitted silently by the all and everything. I see myself for the first time as I truly am, an art god clothed in radiance with unlimited talent bestowed upon me.
I have the incomprehensible power to reveal the hidden light through art to those who've never seen it. Despite my concern that these people aren't ready—that I might blind them with the brightness even I find so brilliant as to be almost unbearable—I must shine.
I get another framed canvas and hang it from the ceiling. Looking at the white cotton reminds me of another mirror, only this one is fogged up, fog which will be brushed away as I paint. But what shall I see? What will reveal itself on the other side?
Poetic truth only ever arises from within the artist: never from without. And it's at its best when spontaneous, free from the chains of predictability.
I close my eyes and a vision appears projected on the canvas at the back of my eyelids—I see myself hanging in the gallery, with the painting I'd just finished and the one I'm about to begin hanging either side of me—some will no doubt say it's a copy of the cliché of Jesus Christ crucified on the cross between two other criminals at Calvary, but these archetypal symbols repeat themselves throughout the ages without conscious intention.
I open my eyes and begin to paint, this time using a brush. I start with a quick sketch of the overall scene. I depict the crowd of spectators surrounding me. They have come to witness the miracle of my resurrection as a work of art, with faces illuminated as they turn toward me, insignificant satellites reflecting the light of the sun radiating at the celestial centre. Next, I paint the picture hanging either side of me, then concentrate on the focal point: the image of myself hanging in the centre of the canvas.
I paint myself holding the brush with which I'm painting myself posed as I am now with an arm outstretched toward the canvas, I paint myself holding the brush with which I'm painting myself posed as I am now with an arm outstretched toward the canvas, I paint myself holding the brush with which I'm painting myself posed as I am now with an arm outstretched toward the canvas, I paint myself holding the brush with which I'm painting myself posed as I am now with an arm outstretched toward the canvas, I paint myself holding the brush with which I'm painting myself painting myself painting myself painting myself painting myself endlessly… I'm creating a universe not of two dimensions or even three or four, but one of infinitesimal possibilities.
The audience lets out another raucous roar. I'm approached by someone dressed all in white I've seen hanging around on the art scene before, an art critic for Bangkok Post. The critic nods and shakes my hand.
What do you think of my performance?
Interesting, very interesting, replies the critic.
Interesting? You're an art critic: can't you say anything more interesting than that?
We'll see. Would you like to show me the rest of your exhibition?
We move to the nearest piece and do a lap around the gallery. As we walk, the critic narrates his review.
Divining an artist's outpouring of fantastic images from their childlike imagination is comparable to interpreting dreams through enigmatic physical forms. The tangible dreams of one such creator can now be decrypted at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) until the end of the month, affording audiences the opportunity to see themselves through the transforming eyes of the artist.
An artist's dream may not be considered as revelatory as a prophet's in ancient times, but the dream-inspired works of this artist retain the power to slip beneath the ego and into the id, performing the miracle of telling the modern world what is otherwise unknowable. Geniuses, saints and mystics have depended on dreams to enter their subliminal selves, returning in the morning with renewed inspiration and insights into reality, leaving little wonder why many artists also sidestep the limitations of the senses by turning their attention inward.
Through dreams artists scratch beneath the surface, something all artists strive to achieve, attempting to suffuse the pores of their canvas by boring into the world around them or deep into their own interior in an attempt to tap one of the scarce wellsprings from which acute meaning and originality are derived. Through such means, the artist escapes the cosmic illusion that the phenomenal world is real, a powerful force driving almost every aspect of human life. And while most of us are unwilling or unable to disentangle ourselves from our empirical egos, this artist has taken up the challenge to present their own personal illusions to the world.
In this solo show at the BACC, the essence of existence is expressed in nothing more than paint splattered across canvas, metaphysical purity revealed by brushstrokes. Here, art draws upon the fount of creativity flowing beneath consciousness, finding inspiration on the edge of feeling, love, desire, darkness.
The critic finishes the review at the same time as we return to the centre of the gallery. Someone else nods at me and shakes my hand, passing me their card. It reads: Dr. James Liu, Director, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA 94102 U.S.A.
As I'd done with the critic, we do a lap of the gallery as the director speaks.
Forging a path in the highly competitive world of art is a challenging proposition for any artist, and many of the most talented from among the cohorts have fallen by the wayside. After investing years of their lives building their abilities, they have to tackle the difficult business of building their reputations in the hope of making a living as a professional artist, and very few of those who set out on this arduous journey succeed in reaching their ultimate goal. Indeed, many lose their minds along the way, as the fine line between illusion and reality we call art becomes blurred.
The risk involved when it comes to backing new talent, and deciding which talent to back, is no less problematic. It requires risking a great deal more than mere capital—we risk our reputations—and making the right call requires the acumen to anticipate the future before it arrives in the present. We need to discern the real artists who are the harbingers of things to come from those who represent nothing more than their own misguided egos. Worse still are those who present only their own distorted perception of themselves and the world. We need to catch these in our filter as we sift through the sea.
I feel… I know… that you and your work are harbingers, and on behalf of the Museum, I wish to acquire these three masterpieces—that is the two canvasses hung from the centre of the space and you yourself—and install you permanently on display in San Francisco…
As the director goes on opening and closing his mouth like a fish, his stream of words become so heavy they can no longer be dissolved in the air around us and they become bubbles that rise upward as the atmosphere around us thickens to the point where it liquefies and becomes unbreathable except through gills. It's so dense it's like being crushed at the bottom of a salty ocean, with untold tonnes of water pressing down on me from above. The director's mouth finally opens so far his lips stretch around his head and down, an aperture consuming his entire body, leaving nothing but a howling bubble of rising air.
I look around at the paintings hung from the walls and the sculptures scattered here and there. They too begin to warp as they drift in the refracting water. The fore and background recede and swell together, contorting contours, distorting the walls of the gallery that begin to buckle under the oceanic weight.
People float, becoming parachutes. Suspended body parts detach from torsos and reattach randomly throughout the hybridised crowd. Women's elongated arms are now where men's legs should be. Men's stretched heads are now where women's arms should be. Ears, eyes, noses and mouths all sail freely through the gallery, finding and creating new mismatched faces for themselves arbitrarily. Eyebrows and moustaches trade places. Skins crawl. Sex organs abandon their owners and couple together in a writhing orgiastic assemblage.
The whole incongruous scene becomes a surrealist entanglement of anatomical transmutations, seemingly unending permutations of births and deaths, marriages and divorces, a compositional frenzy of disparate elements without stability, gleaming with vibrant intensity. But the fabric of the universe can't sustain the kaleidoscopic mutations of motifs and symbols. It ripples, ripping into zigzag fragments. Reality itself becomes beleaguered, convulses, shatters and splits off into shards as the scaffold supporting the collage of the universe collapses and collides in a crumbling geometric heap of incoherent volumes.
The dislocated mess eventually melts into giant inkblots that settle down and separate into immense fields of dissolved colour, pigmented primordial layers that blend together until becoming a monochromatic mirage. At last I escape the forms, floating forever in the freedom of a colourless vacuum, so empty the waves of the monotone voice that had found resonance as they'd flowed within me become tendrils so stretched out they can no longer propagate and lose all meaning, decomposing echoes of muffled transmissions lost in the endless expanse of incomprehensible emptiness. And in the meaninglessness, at last I finally find the deep and true understanding of everything I'd spent my lifetime seeking and that is ultimately only to be found in the complete and utter silence of the perfect present.
Editor's Note on Perfect Present:
You can view a larger picture of the drawing for Perfect Present by clicking on the picture at the top or going to Vasan Sitthiket's Perfect Present Art.
Note on Author's Work:
Perfect Present is not Andrew J. West's first story in Eastlit. The following works have also been published in Eastlit:
- The Mansion was published in the June 2013 issue of Eastlit,
- Art of Evil appeared in the August 2013 issue
- The Puppet Tree was published in the October 2013 issue.
- The Student featured in the Decemebr 2103 isssue.
- Self-Portrait appeared in Eastlit February 2014.
- Three Worlds, the online photo-poetry exhibition was in Eastlit April 2014.


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Ciera Daniels and Eric Cato
Here's how we met
We met at a James A. Shanks Jamboree when we was both 13. He was eating a blow pop and was looking quite sexy and I had on a mini skirt push-ons in place and hair right he said was sexy he had to talk to me. His cousin and one of my good friends introduced us and we have been together every since.
Here's how we got engaged
He has asked me several times to marry him, but I told him I wasn't ready and I wasn't so when he asked this time we were in a pawn shop purchasing a laptop and playstation 3 and he popped the question on spot in front of everybody and I said "Yes" that was after the clerk said YES lol! It was nice.
Why we're excited about our wedding date
Because we have been together for 12 years and feel that we have grown and are now ready to make these big commitments. I decided the month April because my aunt's birthday is this month and she died of leukemia when she was only 11 years old. It's the time of year when everything is nice.
Our worst date
Don't have one
Our best date
Our first time going out we went to the movies and out to eat he always have opened doors for me and was a gentlemen. I couldn't ask for a better soulmate.
Who's the better cook, and why?
I am the better cooker because I am always in the kitchen and every meal I prepare he tells me "Damn, this good!" lol But if I ask him to cook he will and can.
Where our likes overlap ...
We both enjoy a lot of the same things such as favorite color RED, same brands, movies, music and etc. I could go own for hours.
... and where they don't.
he don't like onions, bell peppers, and corn and I do enjoy them all.


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June 2, 2005
Spirit, The Problem Child
In their explorations of Mars, both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers found evidence that liquid water was once on the planet's surface. Joy Crisp, project scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, discussed the rovers' long journey and their surprising discoveries at a public lecture on May 19, 2005. In this contribution, Crisp explores why the Spirit rover might be called a problem child.
This edited transcript of the lecture is Part 2 of a 4-part series.Astrobiology Magazine -- "Spirit is the problem child, so to speak. It took us a lot longer to reach our science objectives with Spirit, but it's really coming into its own right now.
In the first three months, all that Spirit encountered was volcanic basalt lava. Here we were, trying to find lakebed sediments or river sediments, some clues to past liquid water. We found evidence for little trickles of water, clues that tiny amounts of water had gotten into these volcanic rocks, but we weren't finding any evidence of a past environment that would have been favorable for life. At this point at Bonneville Crater, we saw that the rover was still in good health, so we made the bold attempt to try to drive to the Columbia Hills.
We weren't sure we would make it. We decided to drive as fast as we could, and five months after landing, on martian day 156, we made it to the base of the Hills. We immediately found a very different kind of rock that had signs of past liquid water.
There's a diversity of rocks in the Hills. They range from grey to orange, which is telling you how oxidized or altered they are, how rusty they are. You see some rocks that look massive and smooth, and some that look corroded. This might be due to variations in water alteration.
The "smoking gun" evidence for liquid water was found in the rock Clovis. This rock was soft compared to the basalt lava rocks out on the plains. If you've ever been to Hawaii, the basalt lava there is very hard. It has been difficult to grind into this sort of rock on Mars.
The results from the Mössbauer spectrometer told us that the mineral goethite was abundant in this rock. Goethite's formula is FeO(OH) -- it contains OH, which only forms in the presence of liquid water. That water may have been groundwater alteration"¦it may not have been flowing on the surface. We aren't sure.
We have argued about all the rocks in the Hills, as to whether they are sandstones laid down by liquid water, or volcanic eruption ash tuffs or airfalls, or whether they were formed by impacts.
We found pyroxene, olivine, and magnetite, which are volcanic minerals, but we also found hematite, goethite, and nanophase oxides, so it's like a volcanic rock that has been altered, or volcanic rock that maybe got transported by water, or impacted.
There is some layering in these rocks in the Hills. We've been trying to test the hypothesis as to whether these layers were put down by water, one layer at a time, or if they represent volcanic eruption blasts, one blast at a time, or one impact event at a time. We haven't been able to figure that out yet.
One of the unusual things that we've found in some of the rocks in the Hills is that, in the infrared, we get a signature that is similar to fresh volcanic glass. This has been puzzling to us because we're finding that in conjunction with this is highly altered, oxidized minerals like the goethite and the hematite. The chemistry is showing high bromine sometimes and high chlorine and high sulfur, which aren't in normal volcanic amounts.
So how could we have fresh volcanic glass in the rock? One possibility is that instead of fresh volcanic glass, maybe there is impact glass in here - minerals that were impacted and shocked and converted into a glassy phase. Or, maybe they're so altered that there's some kind of cruddy, amorphous phase that was formed when the water affected these rocks - we don't know yet.
I hope you're getting a sense of how puzzling these rocks have been. If we're going to get an answer, we'll probably get it from the textures of the rocks. As to whether they are sandstones, sedimentary, laid down by water, whether they're volcanic airfall deposits that came out of an eruption column and landed where they are, or whether they formed by impact blast, when an incoming asteroid hit Mars and broke things up. Or it could be a combination of some of these processes. That could be why we're so stumped. It's hard to sort things out when there was more than one process going on.
But we're very happy because we are seeing signs of past liquid water. Even if this was groundwater and the rocks were just soaked by it, that does represent an environment where life could have possibly existed.
You can walk for very long distances on the Earth and keep encountering the same kind of rock. When you send a rover to Mars, you don't know if you're going to have the same thing happen. So a great thing about Spirit is, having finally made it to the Hills after that long drive, we are now encountering, over very short distances, striking changes in the chemistry and the minerals that we're finding in the rocks.
There are also some signs in the soil of the action of liquid water. One place where the rover wheel had disturbed the soil was very white. We started taking measurements, and there was a striking amount of salt. I'm not referring to table salt - NaCl - but to sulfate salt. This was iron sulfate salt, and it was the first time we've seen iron correlating with sulfur.
This is a hydrated iron sulfate, so this was our second "smoking gun" evidence indicating past liquid water. The soil is about 50 percent salt, so water must have been percolating in this soil, soaking it, and these salts precipitated out of it. Or that happened somewhere else and they were transported here and formed the soil.
When Spirit climbed to Larry's Lookout, and looked back at where we had come, we saw layered rocks that were connected with one another. We saw that these layers were dipping at about a 20 degree angle, at about the same dip as the slope of the hill we had come up. These exposed layers, to a geologist, are very exciting, because you can follow the layers at great length to see if they change, and you can tell what's younger and what's older.
We're about halfway up to the top of the Hill, but we found such good stuff right where we are that we're spending some time here, looking at these rocks before we continue our way up. We're exploring, so if we see something that looks good we might head off into a different direction. We may change our minds as we go."
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Lines of evidence: The science of evolution :
Homologies: cellular/molecular evidence
All living things are fundamentally alike. At the cellular and molecular level living things are remarkably similar to each other. These fundamental similarities are most easily explained by evolutionary theory: life shares a common ancestor.
The cellular level
The molecular level
These characteristics of life demonstrate the fundamental sameness of all living things on Earth and serve as the basis of today's efforts at genetic engineering.
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Understanding Evolution © 2018 by The University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, and the Regents of the University of California


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Let Me In is one helluva vampire movie – minus the body glitters and the smooching. Directed by Matt Reeves, the film debuted in Philippine cinemas this week and is definitely a treat for fans who have been yearning for a bloodsucker story done right, with all the darkness, horror and gore that only the REAL spawns of Count Vlad can bring. The film is a remake of Let the Right One In, a hit 2008 Swedish film directed by Tomas Alfredson which in turn is based on a novel of the same title written by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Set in 1983, Let Me In tells the story of a 12-year old boy named Owen growing up in a small town in New Mexico. Bullied in school and coming to grips with his parents' impending divorce, Owen is the archetypal scrawny boy who's disturbed and got no friends. Kodi Smit-McPhee, who earlier gained prominence as Viggo Mortensen's son in The Road, plays the role.
Things would change for our boy when he befriends a 12-year old—more or less—girl who has just moved in the apartment complex where Owen lives with his mom. The girl's name is Abby and she's accompanied by a limping middle-aged man (played by Richard Jenkins) who goes on a killing spree every night to get the blood for his charge to drink. Abby is portrayed by Chloë Moretz, who's more popularly known for playing Hit Girl in Kick-Ass.
At first glance, you'd think that Let Me In is just another one of those flicks where a mortal gets help from a seemingly monstrous being who can stop a skidding van with one bare hand. Well, no. For me, the film's theme is about friendship at its purest, most innocent level and how it can inspire one to take control of his life. In the movie, Abby tells Owen to defend himself from the bullies, to hit harder if need be and that she will help him if necessary.
Let Me In has received rave reviews and is well on its way to becoming a classic. If you loved the Swedish version, you'd be delighted to know that Matt Reeves' version stuck to the original for the most part. Even the scenes have that gloomy, haunting feel commonly seen in art films and rightly so. For fanboys and girls who have the time this weekend, you definitely can't go wrong with Let Me In.
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Copy of the Incident Report
In the interest of protecting the privacy of the minor/student involved, however, a small portion of the testimony has not been reprinted.
Saline Area Schools
by Ben Williams, Principal
Rob White, Athletic Director
The purpose of this report is to present the findings from the investigation that was conducted on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007.
On Monday, August 27th, 2007, around 6:30 p.m. in the evening, Mr. White received a call from Jared Falkowski, Head Freshmen Football Coach. Jared described an incident that had taken place toward the end of their practice that day that would be considered Gross Disrespect by a student-athlete toward a coach. The student-athlete in question is Student X, and the behavior, as Jared described it, was directed toward the coaching staff.
Mr. White requested that the coaching staff who witnessed the behavior by Student X document what they observed. Those three reports (from coaches Jared Falkowski, Mike Burchyett, and Brian Buchanan) confirm that with fifteen minutes left in practice, the players were given a water break. After that water break, they started the last ten minutes of conditioning. A few minutes into the conditioning, Student X yelled at Coach Buchanan, "We never get any water." To this statement Coach Buchanan replied that he had just received a water break and could have more water once conditioning was over. Student X was glaring at him. Coach Buchanan asked him if there was a problem, and he continued to glare, then when Coach Buchanan walked away, he yelled, "F--- you!" Coach Burchyett came right over and said, "Student X, we have a problem." His reply was, "Yeah, and my parents are going to sue you to h---." At this point, Coach Falkowski told Student X to go to the locker room and remove his equipment. Coach Buchanan noted that Student X did not stop to get water on his way to the locker room. As practice was wrapping up, around 5:30 p.m., Coach Buchanan went to the locker room to check on Student X, who was still visibly upset. Student X's locker is right by the door. Coach Buchanan stood by the door as he told Student X that he needed to calm down because he just wanted to talk to Student X. Student X said, "(this portion of the testimony has been deleted to protect the student's privacy.)" Coach Buchanan told him that football was a serious commitment and that if he wasn't having fun he should inform his parents. At this point, Coach Falkowski arrived in the locker room as he was leaving practice and Student X repeated his statement about hating football and how his parents won't let him quit. Coach Falkowksi told Student X he would talk to his parents.
Student X's brother was there to pick Student X up, and after talking to Student X, the brother went to the coaches' office by the football field to ask about what had happened. Coach Falkowski asked him for his father's cell phone number and told him he needed to discuss it with Student X's parents. Student X's brother provided the phone number then walked away saying "f---ing morons," or "f---ing idiots" in front of many players.
Ben Williams, the building principal, and Rob White, the athletic director, and Coach Falkowski met with Mr. and Mrs. X and their three sons, on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. to discuss the incident. During the meeting, Student X denied swearing or ever stating that he hated football and that his parents wouldn't let him quit. In fact, he denied all of the coaches' statements about what happened that afternoon. During the meeting, each of the family members began making various allegations against the freshmen football staff. Mr. Williams and Mr. White assured the family that they would be investigating the entire incident further, including the their allegations. The family was told that Student X was on a hiatus from practice until the investigation was concluded. They were assured that the investigation would be conducted as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Immediately after the meeting ended, Mr. Williams and Mr. White interviewed five freshmen football players whose names the X family provided as witnesses to corroborate Student X's story. Also interviewed were the four freshmen football coaches and the full-time athletic trainer.
X Family's Allegations
The student-athletes participating in freshmen football are not given ample opportunities to hydrate.
Of the five players interviewed (whose names the X family provided), all five said any time they wanted water or needed water they felt like they could get water. They did not feel like the amount of water was being restricted. Coach Falkowski provided the practice schedule from the date in question and there were many water breaks scheduled. The full-time athletic trainer, Jaime Coral, said that the entire football program makes water available all the time and provides many opportunities for student-athletes to drink. She stated that the football staff does a tremendous job providing opportunities for student-athletes to stay hydrated. And she is at every practice and every competition.
X Family's Allegations
Coach Falkowski uses abusive and derogatory comments as a form of intimidation toward student-athletes, such as "You're a bunch of f---ing p---ies," and "If it's not a stick in your eye, get your a-- on the field," and "You don't need water, it will make you stronger," and "Stop being a f---ing p---y all the time," and "You do not deserve water, you did not work hard enough."
Of the five players interviewed (whose names the X family provided), all five adamantly stated that none of the coaches had ever made such statements, nor had they ever singled out any one athlete with derogatory comments. They also stated that the coaching staff uses praise more than criticism. Of the four coaches interviewed, none of them had ever heard any of the coaching staff make those comments that the X family described.
X Family's Allegations
Student X missed the water break because he was talking to Coach Bianci and was really sent to the locker room during the conditioning for being disrespectful for asking for water.
Coach Bianci remembered having many conversations with many players during practice, but could not recall whether he was talking to Student X during the water break right before conditioning. Of the five players interviewed (whose names the X family provided), all five of them stated that they know when water breaks are, and that they always get a water break before conditioning. A couple of the players stated that Student X doesn't like conditioning and has a pattern of messing around before conditioning starts and dragging his heels, such as stopping to tie his shoes, etc. In this interview with the five players, it came out that during conditioning (before the incident started), Student X said to his teammates, "F--- this. I don't want to do these sprints." In addition, the five players interviewed, as well as two of the coaches who were nearby, stated that Coach Falkowski sent Student X to the locker room after Student X yelled "F--- you," and "My parents are going to sue you to h--l," not after a request for water.
X Family's Allegations
Student X never swore.
Of the five players interviewed (whose names the X family provided), two of them thought that Student X was saying "F--- you" to a teammate. Three of the players were sure he was saying it to Coach Buchanan. All five heard him swear. Coach Buchanan and Coach Burchyett heard him swear and were sure that Student X was saying it to Coach Buchanan.
X Family's Allegations
The freshmen football staff are in violation of MHSAA rules by not allowing Student X to get water immediately when he asked for water.
Of the five players interviewed (whose names the X family provided), two of them said they heard Student X ask for water. Three of them never heard Student X mention water. Of the four coaches, only Coach Buchanan heard Student X mention water, and he didn't think that Student X was asking for it right then, he heard Student X say, "We never get any water." In addition, the MHSAA does not have a rule about water that schools must follow. The paperwork the X family brought with them that they printed off from the MHSAA website is a suggestion, not a rule. Exact wording on the material entitled Preseason Alerts is that "Coaches and administrators should review the material and also consider similar procedures . . . "
The material then states that for "Proper Conditioning in Hot Weather, heatstroke and heat exhaustion may be preventable if the proper precautions are taken. Probably the best method is to have water available at all times and to allow the athlete to drink water whenever he/she needs it. Never restrict the amount of water an athlete drinks, and be sure the athletes are drinking the water." As previously stated, the five players and the trainer interviewed strongly believe that the freshmen football staff is following the MHSAA suggestion provided on their website.
Based on the investigation conducted by Mr. Williams and Mr. White, they conclude that the freshmen football staff have broken no rules, nor have they conducted themselves inappropriately or without regard to student-athlete safety. Mr. Williams and Mr. White do conclude that Student X did conduct himself with Gross Disrespect by cussing and threatening staff with lawsuits during practice.
The Saline Athletic Department's Rules and Regulations, which every parent and athlete are provided, states that "The behavior of Saline student/athletes will be held to the highest of standards. Athletes must understand that they represent the community and the school. Proper behavior in school, at athletic contests, and during bus rides shall be exhibited at all times. Coaches will deal with poor sportsmanship, vulgarity, and other forms of poor behavior and disrespect. Any action by athletes that violates behavior standards will result in appropriate discipline ranging from corrective action prescribed by the coach, to suspension from competitions(s), or expulsion from the team.
After discussing the best interest of the program and appropriate discipline for Student X with the four freshmen coaches, Mr. Williams and Mr. White concur that Student X should be expelled from the freshmen football team, effective immediately.
It should be noted that Student X may try out for another sport in another season this year if he so chooses. However, prior to participating in another sport, Student X must pay his pay-to-participate fee, which has not been paid yet this year, or he must fill out a scholarship form prior to tryouts.
It should also be noted that there has been an issue this year with the X family not wanting to pay admission fees at sporting events. It should be understood that when any of the X family comes to sporting events in the future, they must pay the admission fee like everyone else.
Ben Williams, Saline High School Principal
Rob White, Saline Area Schools' Athletic Director


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AUSTIN - State Rep. David Simpson, a tea party-backed lawmaker best known for his legislation targeting intrusive airport security searches, said Monday he is challenging Joe Straus of San Antonio for the speaker's post.
Simpson immediately was endorsed by fellow East Texas Republican Rep. Bryan Hughes, who had been waging his own bid against Straus for speaker.
Straus, who fended off a tea party-fueled challenge before the regular session two years ago, has expressed confidence in his support from House members.
"I have the support of a strong majority of Republicans and a strong majority of Democrats," Straus said Friday. "And I make no apologies for working with both parties. And I think members understand that part of the job as speaker is to take some of the heat, and I've learned how to do that."
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Straus spokeswoman Erin Daly reiterated Monday that he has the support of the majority of House Republicans and Democrats.
Anti-groping bill
First elected speaker in 2009, Straus has come under criticism from some hard-right Republicans and some Democrats in the wake of last year's legislative session in which lawmakers grappled with massive budget cuts, a stricter voter identification requirement, redistricting and other hot-button issues, including Simpson's so-called anti-groping bill.
"I respect Speaker Straus as a fellow legislator; however, we differ on the way that the House should be led. And I am not alone in that opinion. The culture of 'go along to get along' politics, where members face intimidation and retribution should they disagree with a leadership decision, stifles representative government," said Simpson, a Longview Republican just re-elected to his second House term.
House members will choose a speaker when the Legislature convenes Jan. 8.
Simpson, who has taken the GOP leadership to task over budget issues, championed the anti-groping measure, an issue for tea party stalwarts who oppose over-reaching government. After the measure passed the House in regular session and the federal government suggested it could close down commercial flights from Texas airports, Straus in a special session said the proposal was seriously flawed and would make Texas a laughingstock. The bill did not become law.
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Despite the decidedly conservative flavor of state lawmaking in 2011, Straus has been targeted by those on the right who say additional conservative legislation should have been taken up by the 150-member chamber when Republicans had a supermajority.
"We want a speaker who's going to make sure that key reforms get votes," said Michael Quinn Sullivan, of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, citing zero-based budgeting and a stricter spending limit as two examples. "He is certainly not a conservative in the vein that most Texas conservatives talk about being a conservative."
Straus also has been criticized by some of the Democrats who helped him become speaker for the way he dealt with issues, including redistricting, voter ID legislation and budget cuts.
"The speaker's race is really not about Joe Straus versus whoever the flavor of the day is in the Republican caucus. The true issue for me is that Joe Straus has an opportunity to demonstrate whether he's going to be the speaker that I supported in 2009, someone who demonstrated that they can work with both parties, or the speaker who presided in 2011, who pretty much didn't miss an opportunity to run over Democrats on the House floor by enacting extreme legislative policies riddled with wedge issues and cuts," said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, who heads the House Mexican American Legislative Caucus.
Uphill battle
"Republicans believe that healthy and respectful competition is good for any business or organization," said Rep. Myra Crownover, chairman of the House GOP caucus.
Despite the attention on Simpson's bid, unseating the incumbent would be an uphill battle.
"(Straus) is entirely safe," said lobbyist Bill Miller, a Straus supporter and a friend of Rep. Tom Craddick, a Midland Republican who lost the speakership to Straus. "As one who knows the business of speaker's races, he's solid."
Austin Bureau Chief, San Antonio Express-News
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