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Colin Jacobs scored on a penalty shot as Prince George posted a 6-2 victory over Victoria. Jacobs' first career shorthanded conversion was his team-leading 18th goal of the year. On Saturday, the Cougars will again square off with the Royals, who will continue to go without Logan Nelson (lower body) for at least two more weeks.
In the OHL, Dan Catenacci scored the game winning goal with less than two minutes remaining in regulation as Owen Sound edged Kitchener 2-1. Catenacci broke the tie with a power play strike to up his season totals to 28 goals and 62 points (9th in OHL) at the 50-game mark. Owen Sound will square off with division leader London on Saturday for their annual Pink in the Rink outing.
Justin Kea (-1) was unable to produce a point as Saginaw was doubled by Peterborough 4-2. 2013 draft eligible Jonatan Tanus scored his 10th goal of the year for the Petes, while fellow draft candidate Jimmy Lodge netted his 17th for the Spirit in defeat. The Spirit host Sault Ste. Marie on Saturday.
Alex Lepkowski posted a minus-two rating as Barrie scored pair of third period goals to earn a 3-2 shootout win over Kingston. The Colts get a week off before taking on Plymouth next Friday.
In the NCAA, Jake McCabe was a plus-one and Brad Navin recorded two shots on goal as No. 19 played to a 1-1 tie with No. 7 North Dakota. The rugged affair featured 28 penalties for a total of 99 penalty minutes, with McCabe contributing with a roughing double minor and 10-minute misconduct. The teams will look to break the tie Saturday in Grand Forks.
In the USHL, Judd Peterson (-1) notched a shot on net as Cedar Rapids was shut down by Chicago 5-0. Losers of seven straight, the RoughRiders host Youngstown on Saturday.
In Finland, Joel Armia went without a point for the second straight game as Assat blanked the Pelicans 3-0. Armia, who punched five shots on goal in 16:24 of work, has 13 goals and 20 points through 35 SM-liiga contests.
In AHL action, Mark Mancari's hat trick guided Rochester to a 5-1 win victory over Toronto. Brayden McNabb tied his career-best with three assists, while Kevin Porter and Evan Rankin scored the other Amerks goals. Rochester hits the road for their next four games beginning with Saturday's tilt in Syracuse.

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I wonder how many of this new features would be added until the first grand desktop environment / Linux distro could release the entire thing in a stable manner.
I mean, Wayland isn't supposed to be a complete and stable protocol at v1.0?
A ready-now protocol for the desktop and applications?
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AIKEN, S.C. – Jill Giguere (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) scored Coker's lone goal in the Cobras 8-1 loss to USC-Aiken on Monday night in a non-conference women's soccer match. Giguere's goal broke the Cobras five match scoreless streak.
Aiken was led by Aubrey Danielson and Katie Rumble, as each netted a hat trick, while Jenny Pinerio and Brittany Moores each scored a goal.
Coker goalkeeper Carrie Hudnell (Goose Creek, S.C.) had five saves in the match.
The Cobras will complete their 2010 season on Saturday against Lees-McRae at 4:00 p.m. in Banner Elk, N.C.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 220 diseños de 64 diseñadores freelance.
Brand name is "Olala", we are looking for inspiring & distinctive contemporary design to promote this new brand in the F&B industry (street-food chain).
Let your imagination run free for the Font, Lettering, Graphic, Format, Colors, etc... just integrate "Olala" into the logo. Beside the official logo, it will be great to have a recognition sign (unique, simple, easy to print).
These core values are the soul of our company: Authenticity, Innovation, True-Taste, Responsability.
We surprise and delight customers with a taste of "Olala", we always add new food creation to our menu and developed modern cooking methods to surprise everyone, everyday with our delighting gourmet cuisine.
We maximize fun and pleasure associated with good food and make a welcome refreshing change from the major players in the fast-food market. The style and decor of our outlet (modern and cosmopolitan ambiance), like the food and drink, is pleasurable, simple, fresh and trendy.
Abstract Contemporary artwork, something curvy rather than straight & square, the logo must offer a great lisibility of "Olala".
Going along with the concept of street-food chain, our new logo must increase appetite, must be the symbol of product's quality and service: clean, relaxing, innovative, elegant, comfortable, practical.
Giving the brand an air of sobriety, the colors are tranquile and eco-friendly with a certain hint of pop...(ie. orange, apple green, violet color scheme)
I don't want "deja vu", no design stolen, definitely avoid similitude with other brands in F&B industry, especially fast-food. It must be a bit "Frenchy" but I don't want to see something like "Olala" at the top of the eiffel tower....
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Cousins powers Kings to win over Mavericks
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Rudy Gay watched from a sky box seat as his new Sacramento teammates easily handled the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night.
The short-handed Kings looked formidable against the Mavericks.
DeMarcus Cousins had 32 points and 19 rebounds, and Derrick Williams scored a career-high 31 to pace the Kings to a 112-97 victory over Dallas.
Earlier in the day, the Kings completed a seven-player deal with Toronto that brought them Gay, Aaron Gray and Quincy Acy. Greivis Vasquez, Patrick Patterson, John Salmons and Chuck Hayes went to the Raptors.
"I guess I came on a good day because the team was playing great," said Gay, a veteran forward who is expected to make his Kings debut Wednesday at home against Utah. "Obviously DeMarcus and Derrick played well. So this is a good start and I can't wait to get out there with the guys."
A proven scorer, Gay will no doubt add more punch to a Kings lineup that has been unproductive at times this season. He was Toronto's second-leading scorer and has averaged 18 points and 5.9 rebounds in his eight-year career.
On this night, the Kings showed plenty of offense without Gay. Sacramento shot 47 percent, had 23 assists, and outscored the sluggish Mavericks 24-3 on fast-break points. Using just 10 players, the Kings led by 19 points after three quarters and by as many as 24 in the fourth in winning their second straight.
"We didn't care if we had 10 or 15 players, we had enough talent to win this game," Kings coach Michael Malone said. "… Our next challenge is to figure out the new guys and how they're going to play and at what position."
Malone knows one thing — Isaiah Thomas will be his starting point guard.
Thomas had 24 points and a career-high 12 assists, and Jason Thompson added 10 points and seven rebounds for the Kings. Sacramento has played 13 of its 19 games at home this season, going 4-9.
With Vasquez, the starting point guard gone, Thomas made his first start of the season. The team's second leading scorer and one of the NBA's most productive reserves, he got off to a great start, getting 10 points and three assists in the first quarter when Sacramento established an 11-point lead.
"That little Isaiah and DeMarcus Cousins are a handful," Dallas forward Shawn Marion said. "That's a heck of a duo right there."
Production from Cousins and Thomas, Sacramento's leading scorers this season, was predictable. What was unexpected were the contributions by Williams, who had struggled a bit since arriving in a trade with Minnesota on Nov. 26.
Williams hit 12 of 16 shots and connected on three 3-pointers, one more than he had made entering the game. He also added five rebounds and a career-high five steals.
"I finally hit a 3-point shot," said Williams, who was 0 for 5 with the Kings and 2 of 25 overall entering the game. "It's good to make that first shot, and it's good when the first couple go in."
Monta Ellis had 21 points for the Mavericks, who had won three straight, including the last two on the road. The loss also snapped a five-game win streak against the Kings. Dallas had won 15 of the previous 16 meetings and was 23-3 against the Kings dating to April 4, 2006.
Dirk Nowitzki had 18 points, Jose Calderon scored 11 and Shane Larkin had 10 for Dallas. Coming off an impressive win Saturday at Portland, the Mavericks shot 40 percent and were 5 of 27 on 3-pointers.
"I don't think we took them lightly, I think they just outplayed us," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. "It was one of those nights where they made a lot more plays than we did."
Sacramento continued to play well offensively in the third quarter, outscoring the Mavericks 35-26 to take a 92-73 lead. Williams made a pair of 3s, had two impressive dunks, and scored 13 points. Both Thomas and Cousins had 11 points.
The Kings squandered a 16-point lead in the second quarter, but scored 13 unanswered points in taking a 57-47 lead into the intermission. Ellis scored 13 points for Dallas.
NOTES: Sacramento outrebounded the Mavericks 29-14 in the first half and 51-39 overall. . Dallas concludes a four-game road trip Wednesday at Golden State. . Center DeJuan Blair started his fourth straight game, but was relatively ineffective with four points and four fouls in 14 minutes. . Rookie guard Ray McCallum made a jumper with just under a minute to play for his first NBA points. He had played only one minute previously. . Cousins had nine of Sacramento's 21 turnovers.


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You recall the prime-time Emmys.
That annual television feelgood of cosmic hair, butt-kissing and designer name-dropping? That pantheon of cosmetic tweaking, frozen smiles and scripted ad-libs? That Sunday gridlock of stretch limos from Malibu to points east?
Yup, the very same.
The deadline for handing in 2000-2001 Emmy ballots has passed, ending for now those paid "For Your Consideration" pleas that had been swelling trade publications for weeks as part of massive PR campaigns touting would-be nominees.
Although mostly legit, this season's ad hype was achieved at times by rolling out blurbs with misleading attribution. Or deceptively using them out of context, as in an ad for Richard Schiff of NBC's "The West Wing" deploying the following quote from someone writing in this paper: "I find myself rushing to turn up the sound while he is speaking."
Actually, writer Mary McNamara was faulting Schiff here, for talking too softly, after praising him as communications director Toby Ziegler. Oh, well. If shading truth were a crime, much of the industry would be in the pokey.
Nominations are scheduled to be announced in the wee hours of July 12, with the Emmy telecast airing Sept. 15. Here's hoping you don't find yourself rushing to turn down the sound.
"The West Wing" and HBO's "The Sopranos" are locks for nominations, of course. As are their stars and a slew of other actors and programs, a few being ABC's "The Practice," "Anne Frank" and "Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows"; NBC's "Frasier" and "Will & Grace"; Fox's "Malcolm in the Middle"; CBS' "Everyone Loves Raymond"; and HBO's "Sex and the City" and "Wit."
"For Your Consideration," though, are the following meritorious programs and actors much less likely to have made the Emmy cut. Good news, though. They are receiving in this hallowed space, instead, award nominations destined to be more cherished than those scheduled to be trumpeted in 10 days by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Behold . . .
The Shmemmys.
All right, no statuettes. It's the thought that counts.
* Shmemmy nomination to "Sharing the Secret," the quintessential small movie with a large wallop. This mostly unheralded CBS work was about a shrink (Mare Winningham) who learned--belatedly for someone with her skills and training--that her own teenage daughter (Alison Lohman) was bulimic. The topic had been done again and again, yet no cheap sentiment this time, no easy answers, no lectures, no unrealistic knotting of loose ends, just an honest, beautifully acted, written (by Lauren Currier) and directed (by Katt Shea) depiction of a terribly serious problem. Of the cast, Lohman shone especially bright.
* Shmemmy nomination to "Conspiracy," HBO's quietly horrific reprise of the Jan. 20, 1942, Wannsee conference at which Hitler's "final solution" for Jews was codified by Reinhard Heydrich--superbly played with smarmy wickedness by Kenneth Branagh--and his fellow arch criminals as matter-of-factly as businessmen setting sales quotas. A few critics found it too talky. They must not have heard the words.
* Shmemmy nomination to "Any Day Now," easily the best of Lifetime. It's sensitive, intelligent and TV's most daring drama series in terms of its volatile racial content, including this season's double episode devoted to dissecting the "N-word." "Any Day Now" also has going for it nomination-deserving co-stars in Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint.
* Shmemmy nomination to "Cora Unashamed," the opening period drama in an occasional series that PBS envisions as a U.S. alternative to its own "Masterpiece Theatre." Based on a Langston Hughes short story, it drew measured yet seething power from Regina Taylor as an African American housemaid who transferred her love from her own dead child to the daughter of her white employer, beautifully played by Cherry Jones.
* Shmemmy nomination to "Second Sight," another gift from the Brits, this time via "Mystery" on PBS. As arresting as any limited series anywhere, "Second Sight" this season returned the again-splendid Clive Owen as a hotshot police detective trying to hide his diminished eyesight from his bosses and other fellow cops.
* Shmemmy nomination to "1900 House," a smart, charmingly droll nonfiction series on PBS that had a British couple and their four kids spending three months immersed in history as a family at the turn of that earlier century. No phones, computers, movies or TV for these brave souls, nor any of the other modern amenities we take for granted. Watching them painfully cope was great fun and educational, a rare TV combination.
* Shmemmy nomination to "David Copperfield," not the season's U.S. version of this Charles Dickens classic (with Michael Richards as a Krameresque Micawber), but a sumptuous, finely mounted BBC rendering that aired on PBS. Versatile Bob Hoskins was Micawber, and Trevor Eve and ever-amazing Zoe Wanamaker delivered shudders as those terrifying Murdstones.
* Shmemmy nomination to "Jesus Christ Superstar." Herod in a white dinner jacket backed by sexy chorus girls? Jesus and his boys looking like leather bar regulars one moment, Jets and Sharks the next? That was Gale Edwards' outrageously modernized, largely underpraised new rendering of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera that ran on PBS. It was dazzling and pulsating, a tailored-for-TV twist on a recent stage revival, with golden Glenn Carter a pleasing JC and swaggering Jerome Pradon tearing up Jerusalem as black-jacketed Judas.
* Shmemmy nominations to Poppy Montgomery and Patricia Richardson. Although "Blonde" never quite rose to its subject on CBS, Montgomery was a bombshell stunner as both Norma Jeane and her high-wattage, Hollywood-erected alter ego, Marilyn Monroe, and Richardson (best known as Tim Allen's wife in ABC's "Home Improvement") the perfect mad narcissist as her destructive mother.
* Shmemmy nomination to Jeffrey Wright, and who would have thought it? Probably no role is harder for an actor than measuring up to a recent gleaming icon, in this case Martin Luther King Jr. How can soaring public charisma be replicated? Wright got there in HBO's "Boycott," not by playing big, but in depicting the great civil rights leader as life-sized, while capturing his distinctive rhythms and crescendoing in all the right spots.
* Shmemmy nomination to Alan Arkin as the oft-embattled liberal judge of A&E;'s promising new series "100 Centre Street."
* Shmemmy nomination to "The Chris Isaak Show," a goofy-funny Showtime comedy with the country rocker and his sidemen perfectly cast as . . . themselves.
* Shmemmy nominations to real-life siblings Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen, so achingly real as combative sisters in "The Old Settler," the opening work in the "PBS Hollywood Presents" series of occasional dramas originated by KCET-TV in Los Angeles.
* Shmemmy nominations to Audra McDonald and Eileen Atkins, in case Emmy judges overlooked how wonderful they were behind transcendent Emma Thompson in "Wit."
* Shmemmy nominations to Michael Imperioli and Jamie Lynn Sigler of "The Sopranos," in case the Emmy crowd missed how amazingly on point they, too, have been as Tony's brutal nephew, Christopher, and pampered daughter, Meadow, respectively.
* Shmemmy nominations to Brad Garrett and Louise Lasser of Showtime's "Club Land," he for being a vile stand-up comic you wanted to trapdoor into a vat of manure, she for being the humorous mother of another comic, who happened to be a schnook.
Speaking of schnooks, roll credits. I'm outta here.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain said on Tuesday that members of Congress should be "embarrassed" and "ashamed" for the suspension of death benefits for American soldiers recently killed in Afghanistan.
Speaking on the Senate floor, McCain said these $100,000 payments have been denied to at least five families because of the government shutdown, now in week two.
McCain, a former Navy flier and prisoner of war in Vietnam, said angrily that it is time for lawmakers to resolve their differences, reopen the government and figure out how to raise the U.S. debt limit, which is expected to be reached in the next 10 days or so.
"We know how it's going to end," said McCain, a five-term senator and one of the most influential members of Congress.
"Sooner or later the government will resume its functions. Sooner or later we will raise the debt limit," McCain said. "So why don't we do this sooner rather than later."
McCain said the government shutdown, triggered by partisan gridlock over Republican demands to defund or delay the new healthcare reform program as a condition of passing a spending bill, has caused Americans all sorts of suffering.
The Arizona Republican said the five families of U.S. soldiers killed last weekend in Afghanistan were hit with a "a double whammy" by the federal government: they suffered the loss of loved ones and were unable to receive the death benefits.
The $100,000 payment usually comes within a couple of days of a service member's death, helping the family grapple with the immediate financial needs before other federal government benefits become available.
The Pentagon says it is not allowed to pay these families a "death gratuity," as long as the shutdown continues.
"I'm ashamed. I'm embarrassed," McCain said. "All of us should be."
McCain said it is time to end the shutdown.
"There's a number of issues that we could sit down and negotiate within an hour if we will stop attacking each other and impugning each other's integrity and honor," McCain said.
"All I can say is that let's start this afternoon," McCain pleaded.
President Barack Obama reiterated earlier in the day that he is open to negotiations with Republicans, but only after they agree to end the shutdown and raise the debt limit.
House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, rejected Obama's terms, calling it "an unconditional surrender."
(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Philip Barbara)


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Lyon County
O'Connor, H.G., [1953] 2007, Geologic Map of Lyon County, Kansas; geologic formation boundaries adjusted by D.R. Collins to fit 1:24:000 topographic base of the U.S. Geological Survey: Kansas Geological Survey, Map M-105, 1 sheet, scale 1:50,000.
Paper copies of the complete map (with stratigraphic column and legend info) are available from the Kansas Geological Survey, 1930 Constant Ave., Lawrence, KS 66047 (or phone 785-864-3965) and at 4150 W. Monroe St., Wichita, KS 67209-2640 (phone 316-943-2343). The cost is $15.00 plus handling and sales tax.
O'Connor, H.G., 1953, Part 1, Rock formations of Lyon County, pp. 5-24, in Geology mineral resources, and ground-water resources of Lyon County, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Volume 12, 59 pages (available online)
The Kansas Data Access and Support Center (DASC) has ArcInfo coverages available for this geologic data.
Cartographic Services, Kansas Geological Survey
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Core Bike 2011: Show round-up and massive gallery
Ellsworth, FSA, Devinci, KHS, Deuter, Spiuk, BBB, Cinelli, Surly, Chub
Over the past month we've brought you loads of news from the UK's Core Bike and The Bike Place trade shows – there are links to all those stories to the right of this article. Here's a round-up of all the other bits and pieces that caught our eyes, along with a massive image gallery.
Ellsworth have revamped their whole full-suspension line for 2011. We brought you news about the 100mm Truth, 140mm Epiphany and the 100mm Evolve and 120mm Evolution 29ers back in October. UK pricing for the Truth frame has now been set at £1,995, with the other models having an RRP of £2,095.
UK distributors Haven were showing all these bikes at The Bike Place, along with the Moment all-mountain bike and Momentum four-cross/slopestyle rig. The latter is new for 2011, and looks ready to rip. It uses the same ICT (Instant Center Tracking) four-bar linkage suspension design as Ellsworth's other bikes.
Ellsworth's Momentum is ready to race or hit the dirt jumps on
Travel is 100mm, the same as the Truth, but the Momentum has a shorter wheelbase (42.8-45in, depending on frame size), lower bottom bracket (12.25in static) and much slacker 67° head angle. It comes with a Fox RP23 shock and is designed to be used with a 100mm Fox 831 fork up front.
As with all the aluminium models that have been revised for 2011, the seat tube pivot is integrated with the hydroformed frame and there's a semi-integrated tapered head tube up front. Something else the Momentum has in common with the rest of the Ellsworth range is that there's a wide range of customisation options on offer.
Ellsworth frames are available with loads of custom colour options. Seen here is an Epiphany with a custom green rocker and bolt kit
You can choose the colour of the suspension rocker, head badge, derailleur hanger, bolts and seat clamp. Most frames, although not the Momentum, are also available in an array of colours. Custom colour rockers and frames cost £150 each end, while bolt kits are £75.
The Momentum's bigger brother, the Moment, has 60mm more travel (160mm) but is similarly designed for a bit of rough and tumble, with a 68° head angle, 14in bottom bracket, 43-46in wheelbase and acres of standover room. Frame price is the same – £2,095.
The Moment has 160mm of rock-munching travel but is designed to be pedalled uphill too
FSA have been busy with a number of new road wheelsets. The FSA Team Issue uses Shimano Dura-Ace style carbon-reinforced aluminium clincher rims and weighs in at 1,400g. Which is a Dura-Ace kind of weight, too, although the £699 price tag won't save you many pennies compared to Shimano's offering.
At the same price and with similar rim construction is the Vision T42 wheelset. The Vision brand focuses on aero kit for testers and triathletes, and the T42 delivers with a 42.5mm deep rim section and bladed spokes. As you'd expect for an aero wheel, the T42 is somewhat heavier than the FSA Team Issue at a claimed 1,700g.
The Vision T42 aero wheelset has Dura-Ace style carbon-reinforced aluminium rims
Devinci's UK distributors Haven Distribution were showing the Canadian company's new full-suspension line which uses Dave Weagle's Split Pivot design, where the rear pivot is concentric with the axle. We brought you news on these bikes from Interbike in the autumn, but UK specs and pricing have now been confirmed.
Each of the three models – the Dexter cross-country bike, all-mountain Dixon and Wilson downhill bike – is available as a frame or as a complete bike, with a choice of three specs dubbed XP, RC and SL. Of most interest to the average rider is the 145mm-travel Dixon.
Devinci's Dixon is available with pricier or cheaper builds, as well as the RC spec seen here
The Dixon's frame is made in Canada from 6066 aluminium, and it comes with a 142x12mm rear axle and a tapered head tube. While the complete bikes are all fitted with 150mm-travel forks, Devinci's Gabe Fox says the Dixon is happy with anything between 140 and 160mm, depending on how you choose to define "all-mountain". Head angle is adjustable by 0.5 degrees independent of fork choice.
Pictured is the mid-spec Dixon RC (£3,449), with a Fox 32 Float RL fork, SUNRingle wheels, SRAM X9 transmission and Avid Elixir 5 brakes. The XP (RockShox Sektor, SRAM X7) comes in at £2,499 and the top-flight SL (Fox fork, Easton Haven wheels, SRAM X0 group) £4,999. Frame-only price is £1,699.
All of Ellsworth's suspension bikes use the company's four-bar ICT system
Inevitably the Wilson downhill bike is a little more expensive, but £3,299 for a race-ready XP bike with Fox VAN RC shock and RockShox Boxxer RC fork is pretty competitive. There's nothing on there that you'd feel the need to change urgently, certainly.
The Wilson uses a slightly different Split Pivot configuration, with the shock driven via a rocker that's concentric with the bottom bracket and links the bottom of the swingarm with the 3.5in stroke shock, keeping everything low in the frame. Travel is 216mm, with the rate curve optimised for coil-sprung shocks.
The Wilson is Devinci's new downhill bike, and it looks suitably slack and low slung
£5,694 gets you the top-of-the-range Wilson SL (Boxxer World Cup, Fox DHX 4.0 shock, DT Swiss/Mavic wheels, X0) or go for your choice of parts on the £1,999 frame, which comes with the same DHX 4.0 shock as the SL bike. Devinci bikes are available in the UK via Haven Distribution.
Dutch brand BBB have a high profile in Europe – they sponsor Quickstep and Cofidis on the road and the BMC mountain bike team – and now have new UK importers in the shape of Windwave. They have an extensive line-up of gear, including the team-issue Falcon helmet (£99.99) with carbon fibre and aluminium reinforcement. There's also a substantial eyewear range covering both budget and high-end models, as well as lots of clothing.
BBB's Falcon helmet has carbon fibre and aluminium reinforcement
BBB specialise in the kind of bread-and-butter stuff that bike shops rely on, but usually with a bit of a twist – brake pads with three compounds, replacement jockey wheels with ceramic bearings, frame-mount pumps that have a curved cross-section to hug the frame tube and so on. There are also plenty of commuter-friendly bits and bobs like lights and quick-release mudguards.
Spiuk is another name that's not well known in the UK, but they have a promising-looking range of lids, shoes and eyewear. The top-of-the-range Daggon helmet is available in road and mountain versions (ie. with or without a peak) for £109.99, in a load of colourways.
Spiuk's Daggon helmet is available with or without a peak, in loads of colours
It's said to weigh just 270g (small) and has 27 vents, but should be plenty tough enough thanks to an internal skeleton and carbon fibre reinforcement in key areas. Spiuk offer a crash replacement policy, where you can get a replacement helmet for half price.
Also designed for both road and off-road use is the ZS11R shoe. It shares many of the features of Spiuk's top-end ZS11RCSL (£165), including its High-Flow upper fabric, micrometric buckle, reinforced heel and ventilated toe cap, and it's available in a matching bright red colour option.
The Spiuk ZS11R looks a lot like the pricier RCSL but has a composite rather than carbon sole
But the SL's carbon fibre sole is replaced with a polyamide and glass fibre version to keep costs down. RRP is £89.99 and claimed weight is 675g. Spiuk products are available in the UK via Silverfish.
KHS's room at The Bike Place lacked samples of the brand's top-value full-suspension bikes on account of them all being with magazines being tested. That just meant that other bikes came to the fore, though. The CX200 looks like a worthy budget cyclo-crosser at £799 for a Shimano Tiagra-equipped bike.
KHS's CX200 looks like a decent budget cyclo-cross/commuting machine
The Alite hardtails seem to have at least as much bang for the buck as their full-suspension brethren. The Alite 2000, with Shimano SLX parts and an RST fork, is £799 (and is also available in a women's version for the same price), while the 1000 uses the same frame but Deore parts and an Omega fork at £549.
Deuter have a massive range of hydration packs and cycle-friendly backpacks. The SuperBike 18 EXP particularly stands out due to some unique features. Hidden in the top pocket is a hi-vis Windshield – designed to protect you, not the bag (although the pack does come with a rain cover, too).
Deuter's SuperBike 18 EXP comes with a hidden hi-vis Windshield
This is essentially the front section of a jacket. It unfolds over your head to protect your torso from wind and drizzle, as well as providing useful night-time/poor weather visibility. Just the thing for those days when you've forgotten to pack a coat, or unexpectedly end up riding home in the dark.
The SuperBike also uses Deuter's Airstripes system – essentially two large pads that run down either side of the back, allowing air to circulate in between – and has all the features you'd expect of a decent cycling backpack, including a hip belt, a range of pockets, a stowaway helmet holder and reflective detailing. RRP is £79.99. Deuter kit is available via i-ride in the UK.
Other features include a plethora of pockets, a hip belt and a stowaway helmet holder
Cinelli are bringing out a special edition version of their RAM 2 integrated stem and handlebar as part of their ongoing collaboration with graffiti artist Mike Giant. The carbon fibre cockpit is adorned with a skull and crossbones, and follows on from Mike Giant-designed bar tape, posters and catalogue art. The price is suitably exclusive – £524.99. Cinelli products are available in the UK via Chicken Cycle-Kit.
The Cinelli RAM Mike Giant has been designed by the eponymous graffiti artist
The Troll is an enhanced-function version of Surly's popular 1×1, with bosses for pretty much everything. The rear brake mount is tucked inside the rear triangle to keep it out of the way of rack and mudguard stays, horizontal track ends accommodate hub gears without having to bother with chain tensioners and there's even a pair of bosses specifically for Surly's own trailer. A frameset with chromoly fork is £429.99.
Surly's Troll is a versatile machine which is hub gear and trailer ready
Chub hubs are, as the name suggests, on the beefy side. Their unique design, where an oversized carbon shell is bonded to big CNC machined alloy flanges, should make for a very light and stiff setup. They're available in fixed, singlespeed, road and mountain bike (cross-country and downhill) versions, with prices starting from £135. All models are fully serviceable. Chub goods are distributed by Silverfish in the UK.
Chub's Single rear hub is available in dirt jump (steel axle and bolts) and singlespeed (aluminium axle, titanium bolts) variants


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The California High softball team is still waiting for its hitting to come around, but the Grizzlies' pitching was in fine form on the opening day of the Livermore Stampede.
Senior Lindsey Chalmers tossed a pair of shutouts as California won both of its pool play games Thursday at Robertson Park.
After beating Benicia 1-0 in a morning game, the Cal Poly-bound Chalmers struck out nine in a 2-0 win over Castro Valley.
"These were her two best games of the year, by far," California coach Joe Callaway said.
Against Castro Valley, Chalmers was locked into a pitchers' duel with Trojans senior Baylee Johnson until Kassie Kochan delivered a two-run single in the top of the sixth inning. Kochan's hit scored Nicole Schofield, who walked, and Kristina Pagano, who reached on a bunt single, and came after Cal had loaded the bases with one out.
Kochan also had the game-winning hit in the eighth inning in the Grizzlies' win over Benicia.
Castro Valley (5-4) threatened in the bottom half of the sixth but stranded runners at first and second after Chalmers induced a pair of pop-ups.
The victories were the first two shutouts of the season for Chalmers and California (4-3).
"My movement was much better than it was the last couple of weeks, and I had more speed," Chalmers said. "I just felt good out there."
Johnson was also tough on opposing batters. She had a no-hitter going through five innings and fanned 11.
Both teams featured youthful lineups behind their senior pitchers. No player on either team had multiple hits.
"We're still not sure who we are, but this is a good indicator that we're a contender," Callaway said.
California will face Carondelet on Friday at 8:30 p.m. in its final pool play game. A win over the Cougars would put the Grizzlies in Saturday's championship semifinals.
Livermore 7, Cosumnes Oaks-Elk Grove 3: Freshman Alyssa Ramirez went 3 for 3 with two RBIs and two doubles as the Livermore Stampede hosts won the opener of their tournament. Leah Taulton scored twice and had an RBI single in a game that lasted four innings due to the time limit.
Monte Vista 2, Heritage 1: Two solo home runs from leadoff hitter Lindsay Rood powered the Mustangs to a win in their Livermore Stampede opener. Kaylee James scored for Heritage to tie the game in the third, but Rood blasted her second homer in the bottom half of the inning to give Mustangs pitcher Mackenzie Murphy the win.
San Leandro 3, Hayward 0: Kevin Nava threw a no-hitter, striking out 10 with no walks, as the host Pirates (1-0 WACC) topped the Farmers in West Alameda County Conference play. Hayward (1-11, 0-1 WACC) had two base runners thanks to two San Leandro errors.
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text: Why are you doing so many PTs? Are you studying at all? You probably could get better use of your time by spending that hour each day just going over practice problems, past tests, etc. You're still missing questions, so why not aim to get them all right? As for an indicator of your score, I agree that you have to take a full PT to get a good idea of your score. After that, I'd say lay off the PT's until Dec. Keep studying, but there's no use repeatedly taking PT's and repeatedly getting questions wrong. Your goal should be to study, occassionally take the PT's, and see a rise in your PT score.


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She honed her communication skills in the health development sector having previously worked for Jhpiego Corporation and Population Services International (PSI).
She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and an Executive Masters in Business Administration.


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Women's Human Rights
Women's Human Rights
ISBN: 978-0-745-65494-2 April 2013 Polity 216 Pages
It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere.The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to:
- Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention
- Frame violence against women as a human rights issue
- Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism
- Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation
- Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights
Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements viii
List of acronyms and abbreviations x
1 Women's Human Rights Advocacy 1
2 Human Rights, Gender and Contested Meanings 22
3 Women's Human Rights as Equality and Non-Discrimination 44
4 Violence and Reproductive Health as Human Rights Issues 69
5 Women's Human Rights in Conflict and Post-Conflict Transformation 93
6 Development, Globalization and Women's Human Rights 116
7 Fundamentalisms and Women's Human Rights 140
8 Conclusion 160
Notes 167
Bibliography 176
Index 194
"Taking up the thorny issue of transnational feminist advocacy in the context of universal human rights protection, with all its visible failures, Niamh Reilly presents it as a case study in this well-grounded, thoroughly researched and timely book."
Times Higher Education
"A book I wish I had written. It is clear, authoritative, and covers off the main topics on women's international human rights in a way that would engage both an upper-year student new to the area and a seasoned academic wishing to deepen her own understanding."
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
"A precious contribution to the scholarly literature. The major strength of the book is its particular focus on an optimistic and applicable implementation strategy for the development of a more effectiv and efficient global women's rights regime."
Political Studies Review
"The way the author combines theory and practice is extraordinary ... This is only possible thanks to the experience and vision of the author."
Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
"Offers a compelling analysis of the historical shortcomings of human rights and their potential for women's human rights. Reilly's clear, succinct writing enhances the considerable merits of this landmark book that is essential for libraries and those committed to human rights and feminist projects."
"A lucid, informative and persuasive book."
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Australian Journal of Political Science
"Niamh Reilly attempts and succeeds in tracing the evolution of the women's human rights movement while simultaneously accounting for how transnational female advocacy has influenced and transformed the body of international human rights.This book provides a thought-provoking and at times inspirational account of how transnational female advocacy movements have helped to shape the context in which many of us work on a daily basis. The most poignant argument of this book is that human rights are not a static set of legal norms, but rather a consensus that is continuously debated, developed and elaborated. In my previous career as a university lecturer, I would certainly have put this text on my undergraduate reading lists for International Relations courses."
Global Policy
"Reilly has made a major substantive contribution to the fields of both gender and human rights with this book. Women's Human Rights records in rich detail and insightfully analyzes thr origins and progress of the global movement for the human rights of women over the past three decades. Notable for its breadth of scope, lucid writing style, and principled argument for continued advocacy to realise this unfinished agenda, this book is a must-read for all concerned with the future of women's rights in the 21st century."
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"Excellently researched, incisive and interesting. No contemporary account of the feminist movement and its project on women's human rights is complete without it."
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"Reilly has written an excellent and important book. Written in a clear and accessible way, the books deals with complex theoretical and political issues that need to be understood by anyone who attempts to understand contemporary issues of women and feminism in a variety of 'local' settings throughout the world today."
Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London
- exciting new textbook which explores the emergence of feminist advocacy for women's human rights
- traces the evolution of the women's human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas
- dentifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement and exposes the impediments to the realisation of human rights in women's lives
- demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives
- beautifully written and keenly argued, this book will be a must-read for students of feminist thought and human rights


text: Black Ice With Logo Zippo. Zippo Manufacturing Company has produced over 400 million windproof lighters since its founding in 1932. Except for improvements in the flint wheel and modifications in case finishes, Zippo's original design remains virtually unchanged today, still looks great and are easy to use. The Lifetime Guarantee that accompanies every Zippo lighter still guarantees that "It works or we fix it free™" for life.


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Mars exploration Orbiter Status
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbiter has now taken more than 3,000 images of Mars, resolving features as small as a desk in targeted areas covering thousands of square miles of the Martian surface. Already, this is the largest Mars data set ever acquired by a single experiment. The camera is one of six instruments on the orbiter.
During the first three months after the orbiter's primary science phase began in November, researchers saw an increase in noise and pixel dropouts in data from seven of the camera's 14 detectors. The effects on image quality were small in all but two detectors, but the trend raised concerns noted in a Feb. 7 news release.
Tests have yielded an explanation for the earlier pattern, and the camera's performance record shows the noise stopped getting worse after about three to four months of the science phase. Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, Tucson, principal investigator for the camera, said, "I'm happy to report that there has been no detectable degradation over the past five months."
A team at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo., designer and builder of the instrument, has used an engineering model of the camera's focal-plane system to successfully duplicate the problem. This has helped in understanding causes and in testing a procedure for warming the focal-plane electronics prior to each image. One cause is that an electrical interface lacked extra capability beyond minimum requirements. Another cause is an unexpected change in performance of another electronic component over the course of the first thousand or so large images. With pre-warming, the camera acquires good data from all detectors, though minor noise remains an issue in data from one of two channels of one detector collecting infrared imagery.


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Yeah, Chip Tha Ripper
S-L-A-B, you already know who it is
Uhh, yeah, uhh, ayy
Now baby I'm the ripper, your baby daddy's worst nightmare
Catch me by the Clair, I'll be right there
Niggas copy everything we say
Louie frames, eyes lower than my G-P-A
Riding and swervin', kush I'm blowin'
Doors wide, my trunk bump like Eddy Road
I don't cake hoes, I never tip the stripper
I'm rich, bitch, but you can call me "Cheap tha Ripper"
Shell toes, yes. P.R.P.S
There's a man riding a horse on top of my chest
Polo fresh, I am ze man
I be slam dunking Tanqueray shots wit' LeBron
Told niggas keep it Carmelo, okay
Rolled past Dave told him "hello" and "hey"
Me and Cash in something old on 23's, ho
Back window says "Mama Mel Bicho"
Skateboarders grind, I grind too
That's why you can catch me in D.C. shoes
I quit the team but believe I'm ballin'
Want a verse, put up a stack or quit calling
30's on my Chevrolet call me super duper
Garage like Roots I got more whips than Kunta
Riviera sitting on the Bulls best hooper
Y'all still riding 20's, y'all some Oompa Loompas
Doors swang on niggas that got bad behavior
My four 15's woke up the neighbors
Interior crocodile alligator
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater
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Chip Tha Ripper's freestyle for Street Starz Radio with Prettyboy Floyd. Also known as "S.L.A.B. Freestyle" (after Chip's entertainment company SLAB ENT).
This freestyle is famous for starting the Interior Crocodile Alligator meme. Believe it or not, the song came out way back in 2007. According to Know Your Meme, it first became popular in Summer 2008.
The beat for the freestyle is from the song "Go Head" by Ali & Gipp


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Jets outlast Wild for rare Central Division winby Patrick Williams
WINNIPEG -- Winnipeg Jets right wing Blake Wheeler scored his second goal of the game to break a 4-4 tie with 9:20 remaining, and his team defeated the Minnesota Wild 6-4 at MTS Centre on Friday.
Wheeler stuffed a rebound under Minnesota goaltender Niklas Backstrom to give him nine goals in 12 games in December after managing five in his first 28 games that included a goalless 14-game November schedule.
Tobias Enstrom scored an empty-net goal at 19:56 to seal Minnesota's fourth consecutive loss. The win broke a two-game losing streak for Winnipeg, which was coming off a 6-2 road loss against the Edmonton Oilers on Monday before the holiday break.
The Wild (20-15-5) are third in the NHL in home wins with 14, but the road has impeded Minnesota from making more of an impact in the standings. It is 6-12-3 on the road after losing all four on this trip. The Wild begin a four-game homestand Sunday against the New York Islanders and play eight of their next 11 games there.
"It's huge," Wild defenseman Ryan Suter said. "We can't win on the road, so we better make sure we play hard at home."
The Jets (17-18-5) won for the fourth time in 18 games against a Central Division opponent (4-11-3). It moved them to within six points of the Wild in the Western Conference Stanley Cup Playoff race and gave them their sixth home victory in regulation through 21 games.
A pair of teams that ranked in the bottom half of the League in scoring combined for five goals in the opening 7:04 and finished the first period with Winnipeg leading 4-3. The Wild, who ranked 29th in scoring with 2.13 goals per game, had nine goals in their past nine road games. The Jets, ranked 18th, put four first-period goals past Backstrom on 11 shots.
"[It is] another reminder," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "It's not who we are, and it's not how we're going to get it done."
Dany Heatley, Justin Fontaine, Stephane Veilleux and Mikko Koivu scored for the Wild; Jason Pominville has two assists. Evander Kane, Olli Jokinen and Dustin Byfuglien scored for the Jets. Andrew Ladd had two assists, and 13 Jets skaters recorded at least one point.
With Minnesota goaltender Josh Harding out of action, Backstrom made his fourth consecutive start and stopped 32 Winnipeg shots. The Wild chased Jets starter Ondrej Pavelec 7:04 into the game with three goals on six shots. Al Montoya replaced him and made 22 saves.
"The first period was a tough period for everybody involved when you've had three days off," Yeo said. "But [Backstrom] gave us a chance to win that game. I'm not going to say that he didn't play well."
The Wild opened the scoring 2:13 into the game when Byfuglien's defensive-zone turnover allowed Pominville to feed Heatley, who tapped in his eighth goal. Goals from Kane and Jokinen 2:09 apart put the Jets in the lead. Kane scored his 11th, finishing a 2-on-1 shorthanded rush with Michael Frolik 1:35 after Heatley's goal. Jokinen followed with his ninth goal, jamming a rebound under Backstrom's pads.
The Wild pushed back with two goals in 10 seconds, a team road record. Winnipeg center Mark Scheifele's clearing attempt banked off Fontaine's skate into the net at 6:54, breaking his 15-game goal drought after he started the season with six in 18 games. Veilleux followed with his first NHL goal since Feb. 2, 2010, beating Pavelec with a high glove-side shot at 7:04.
"I think you could see the three-day break in both teams," Jets coach Claude Noel said. "There were five goals scored in [7:04], and we made a goalie change that, for me, didn't really have anything to do with Pavelec. I think our team needed the jolt. We certainly couldn't continue to play that way."
Wheeler began the Jets' rally when he tipped his first goal of the game past Backstrom at 14:50 to tie it 3-3. Byfuglien's seventh goal off a scramble in front of Backstrom broke his 15-game goalless streak and moved the Jets into the lead at 17:50, the period's fourth lead change.
"The early goals can be deflating sometimes, and the best part about [the game] is that we found a way to come back," Ladd said.
Minnesota erased that Winnipeg lead 3:40 into the second period when Koivu deflected a shot on its second power play for his eighth goal and a 4-4 tie.
"It is [the] little things right now that are killing us, and [we are] finding ways to lose hockey games," Yeo said of a team that is 3-7-0 in its past 10 games. "Earlier in the year, we were priding ourselves on all of these little things. It's still there. We just have to find it. Our focus is not directed the right way right now."
Yeo looks forward to getting his team back to Minnesota.
"I think coming home is going help, first of all," Yeo said. "We can't just rest on that, for sure. It's just about us building our game first and getting back to that foundation and trusting that if we do that, that the result will come. We're trying to put the result ahead of the process, and that doesn't work."
The win eased some of the pressure on the Jets, who are 5-6-1 in December and have been close to drifting out of contention in the Western Conference.
"It hasn't been an easy month," Wheeler said. "It's been tough. A lot of our guys have been doing a lot of soul searching. Losing hockey games isn't a whole lot of fun. It's not a whole lot of fun to be productive in losses; you want to produce towards wins."


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Fiona - posted on 04/24/2012 ( 1 mom has responded )
This is a very touchy subject for me to talk about as its still fairly raw and I'm very emotiona over what has just happened... I'm 15 weeks and 3 days pregnant with my 4th baby. I'm 32. At week 14 weeks and 2 days i was offered the screening test for my risk of Downs Syndrome. well on monday of this week (15 weeks 1 day) i was shocked to hear that my doctor wanted me to come in and see him urgently. The thing i was fearing the most was told to me.... that i had a high risk of my baby having Down's, and that as i was now 15 weeks pregnant, i needed to go to Melbourne to have an Amniocentesis ASAP. I'm so scared as i have been told my risk is 1 in 78. That as i was told is that of a 36 year old! Is it right for me to feel cheated by nature? My reproductive system is working 4 years ahead of its time! Not only that - I fell pregnant with this baby in the midst of waiting for a LLETZ procedure (removal of precancerous cells from cervix), (i found i was 3 weeks pregnant the day after the procedure) and was placed on high miscarriage risk by my doctor until week 12... my pregnancy was pretty much considered a miracle as i should by rights have miscarried due to the bleeding i experienced for weeks afterwards and the fact that they had lazered a huge chunk out of the head of my cervix.... Anyway, I do feel cheated by nature. Why is it that at 32 i have the same risks for Down's in my pregnancy as a 36 year old?? has anyone else experienced this? The Royal Women's Hospital are being absolutely fantastic! They're ringing me to give me counselling every day until i get there... Have tolfd me that my risk is actually 2% of my child having Down's. I am still horrifically scared though... i dont understand what is going on with my body (as in why now) and my doctors cant give me an answer! My wish is that my baby is healthy and has nothing wrong (as any other woman) but i couldnt deal with a baby having Down's as i have one alreadu who has a Global Developmental Delay of 12-18 months... He's 6 and even now hatd to deal with.... VERY hard. So i couldnt go ahead with the pregnancy if it had Down's. I dont beleive that my baby deserves that kind of life, nor my family. What hurts the most is i have 2 boys, 1 girl now, and i am hoping for a girl to make my darling girl happy with a sister..... I dont have a sister myself as my mother miscarried my only chance at a sister at 6 weeks due to being RH Negative blood type, and at the time there was no technolgy to change the baby's blood type, until she became pregnant with me... So i want my daughter to have a sister like i never had. I'm sorry to ramble, but my head is spinning like crazy. There is no chance to have another child if this one has Down's, as my cervix (having had 2 abortions, 3 natural births, 2 miscarriages and now LLETZ) wouldnt hold a child if i terminate this one.
My question is - has anyone my age had the same result in a screening as me? and how has it turned out? i have 5 days til i go for my Amniocentesis and it's getting at me!


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Tumut High School
For all of my life I have been drawn to the Titanic. The way that something so vast in strength can be taken over by something as simple as frozen water; the way that strength is conquered by weakness. I took this idea and applied it to my own life, seeing many similarities between the ship and myself: between the iceberg and my last school year. As the pressure of school rose up, friends quickly began to fall out, causing havoc, and when too much pressure builds, you break.


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The Daily Word 02.04.10: Brakes, Booze, Bill O'Reilly
Computer in 2010 Prius has made the braking part of driving harder.
California Senator Duncan Hunter talked to NPR about why "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" should not be repealed. Good news: he sounds like a box of stupid.
NM Legislature: Proposed Senate Bill 132 would create an Hispanic Education Act targeted at closing the achievement gap between Anglo and Hispanic students. Is it necessary?
This is a dumb article that says people under 30 don't get Meryl Streep. Is this a real thing?
For Scots, who consume the most alcohol per person in the world, a caffeine-and-booze concoction is stirring up some trouble. Ah, my people.
Belen closed its schools yesterday because it was raining. Ah, my people.
This year, the New Orleans Saints are America's Team. Suck it, Cowboys.
The Great American Apparel Diet: A group of women agree not to buy any new clothes for a year.
This sculpture sold for $104.3 million, the most ever paid for a work of art. Which totally sounds reasonable.
Jon Stewart goes on Bill O'Reilly's show and is predictably awesome.
It's Alice Cooper's birthday.


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The Hill-Side Bandana - Selvedge Chambray Black
Brother-owners Emil and Sandy Corsillo of Hickoree's Hardgoods in Brooklyn, NY created a small U.S. made textile company called The Hill-Side. They scour the world for beautiful, uncommon textiles that they source in places like Guatemala, South Africa, the U.S. and Japan. They use those textiles to make neckties, bandanas, and scarves with narrow and streamlined designs. Bandanas are a great light neck warmer to wear along with a coat or jacket, a lighter alternative to a scarf. Each piece is handmade, cut and sewn at a small factory in New York City. Black Selvedge Chambray, 100% cotton from Okayama Japan.


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Hello DaemonForum,
I need some advice. I am not running any production servers yet or working in the Networking field. I'm a student who finally will make it to a Web Administration class this coming fall semester and I plan to be "WAY" ahead, hopefully. Now the fun begin I already have my first home network up and running, thanks to the daemonforum, (but barely since I don't see the packets flowing, it's not secure). I'll come back latter for that. For now it's time to tighten up machine-4 on my LAN which will be use for web development and testing "FreeBSD, Arch-Linux and Windows XP" and to do and store all my homework on. I need Virtualization on this machine only. For instance; when I build a nice FreeBSD or Arch-Linux running Apaches and other programs and/or from jails I can simply copy this OS from PRIMARY-1 (dd the partition) and dd it to an dedicated web or mailserver (my machine-3) or elsewhere as long as it it can be copy to partition PRIMARY-1 on that machine hard drive. I want it to "WORK" and not carry no Virtualization junk with it. I would use jails when it come to something used for production to begin with. Is this the way its suppose to work if we choose something like this? Here's an ideas about my present setup and what I want to do with KVM or VM over ESX 4.1.I if my processor qualify.
My first Gateway and LAN:
Machine-1 FreeBSD 8.0-i386 Gateway-pf Firewall Machine-2 Windows XP Mainly for internet Access Machine-3 FreeBSD 8.0-AMD Production Test Machine-ssh- ipsec-etc Machine-4 KVM or VM over ESX 4.1.I Development machine with internal access only
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Hope I'm not wording things wrongly but which would be the better choice today ... KVM or VM over ESX 4.1.I or something else. I want to go with the one that has hopes for FreeBSD as host someday even if I have to buy new hardware. But for now I'll go with whatever works for AMD Phenom Quad-core. It's not an Opteron so I guest it don't have build-in Virtualization. But it might have something that KVM or VM over ESX 4.1.I can use, if not, what would be the next runner-up.
I have no PRIMARY partitions to spare. Can I install KVM or VM over ESX 4.1.I to Extend partition.
Since FreeBSD is not supported as an host system, I rather use Arch-Linux as host. Are there any pro & cons when it comes to Arch-Linux vs Zenwalk or is there something more common for today use. I'm thinking of using a strip-down version of Arch-Linux or turning off what is not needed (if it help with performance). 85% performance would be just fine... anything over would be a bonus. As long as everything stays intact and don't get polluted with a bunch of add-on, especially in the guest systems i'll be happy.
I already forgot some of the stuff I read so I don't have a total understanding of hypervisor-based virtualisation and the minimum support needed from a processor to run either KVM or VM over ESX 4.1.I but I need to go ahead and post this than read more into hypervisor tonight before I get confuse.
Thanks in advance for any advice comments or ideas
I think you forgot question number 0: Do you want or need KVM/ESX?
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
After reading this now I really don't know what I want or need.
A brief architecture overview of VMware ESX, XEN and MS Viridian:
phoenix: There's also paravirtual disk and network drivers available for Linux and Windows which give native I/O performance.
.. Link 1 is now:
hansivers: For those of us who are addicted to benchmarks, i found this link quite interesting:
KVM is the way to go and from one of the pages at KVM it say this:
"Here is the setup which is used with kvm and qemu. Qemu can run as standalone, with kqemu module or with kvm module."
qemu-kvm-0.12.4 released
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 01:06 Haydn Solomon
Seems like something going on, but I can't find where it might say "FreeBSD as host" and can run Windows as guest.
A silent Thank you phoenix ... I can't believe my ears. I guest I'm half way there. More than I ever seen.. Now I'll see about KVM if this is not all of it. When I install and FreeBSD is HOST and it can make Windows XP as guest, I'll be more than happy.
kqemu on BSD FreeBSD Updating Base System $ freebsd-update fetch install Updating Ports System $ portsnap fetch extract Installing kqemu-kmod $ pkg_add -r kqemu-kmod Intalling qemu $ pkg_add -r qemu Loading kernel modules $ kldload kqemu $ kldload aio Creating the image file $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 kwinxp.img 5G Starting the vm $ qemu -cdrom /dev/acd0 -hda kwinxp.img -m 512 -boot d -kernel-kqemu -localtime Troubleshooting If you run into problems installing W2K or XP Os, run qemu without acpi and kqemu. $ qemu -cdrom /dev/acd0 -hda kwinxp.img -m 512 -boot d -no-kqemu -no-acpi -localtime If you are running a server without X, access your VM through VNC $ qemu -cdrom /dev/acd0 -hda kwinxp.img -m 512 -boot d -kernel-kqemu -vnc :0 -localtime
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now I get it...
An hour ago I read than lost a thread that said the problem with KVM with FreeBSD as HOST is that it don't read or handle block device like Linux and other UNIX can. Now I wonder how many documentation would one has to read to find that single sentence. It was in the design all along so my why, why search and pipe-dream is now OVER.
ESXi vs. VMWare Server (Is ESXi right for me?)
should work for your needs..
You may be trying to run before you can walk. Let me know how it goes.
dkizz, I really wanted this one but it is proving to be a bit too much. First it took guts for me to zero-out my wonderful 21 partitions after backing up my files. But I was going to have to do this anyway for Virtualazation because I had three tiny primary partitions and one giant Extended ... now I got (4) 250 GB partitions but now I'm kind of sorry. That little How-to link fool me
Today I started neatly listing all of xsltproc dependency and all above on the wiki list I used Fresh Port website that came up with like millions of additional dependenies per... . I got nevious and jump down to libXmu. I did not look no farther but it has 100's of files that need build with many 100's of other files like xsltproc but 1000x worse. It seems like in the end you will have a full-blown KDE or GNONE desktop system and that was not my intent.
I just want a command-line FreeBSD that will host Windows and Linux systems (a off and on switch) and they do what they want. I don't want a FreeBSD desktop, I use pcBSD for that or install VirtualBox on it since it seem to be what you end up with anyway.
I want a near raw FreeBSD ... Is a simple off and on switch possible or something with-out all the bloat. If so. What can I begin to eliminate and where can I find more information.
Also my most recent FreeBSD-AMD-8.0-DVD download ... in /usr/ports/emulators it only has virtualbox-ose 3.0.51
Anyone know "where we can get or how we get" an up-to-date port collection with or without the FreeBSD OS.
PS: I agree, VirtualBox may be all I need because it is for my command-line FreeBSD and Windows desktop and not for networkong.
Partition-1 = Raw FreeBSD
Partition-2 = Raw FreeBSD storage & Backup
Partition-3 = FreeBSD as Host (MAYBE!)-- VirutalBox
Partition-4 = Windows programs and storage
Who knows ... It may not be possible ... Have a Great Day
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All this to save a c-note or less ???
Out of days of googling and questions, I just found either Joel Perry Productions or Georges's Blog that told the "WHOLE" truth and nothing but the truth, by simply including in his instructions on how to install Vmware on FreeBSD ... He said "hopefully you have KMD already installed".
Who would think that even the experts at VirtualBox for FreeBSD Wiki would figure, anyone who try to install must know this already, so no need to say "hope you got x-windows fully install so you don't have to worry about every detail below". I guest that would be too much like right.
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U.S. peanut farmers need to increase acreage by as much as 20 percent in 2008 to meet demand and shellers have offered contract prices as high as $500 a ton to compete with corn, cotton, wheat and milo for available land.
"Supplies are very tight," said Richard Barnhill, president of Mazur and Hockman Peanut Brokers, Albany, Ga.
Barnhill spoke from his Georgia office by phone to the Oklahoma Peanut Expo recently at Lone Wolf, Okla. Barnhill said the current National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) peanut estimate of 1.87 million tons from the 2007 crop "is optimistic. Industry estimates put the figure at 1.805 million tons. That other 65,000 tons is simply not there," he said. "Either the harvested acreage number or estimated yield is off."
He said demand for the 2007 crop is about 1.985 million tons, with 1.43 million tagged for domestic consumption, 130,000 tons for seed and 425,000 for export.
"Exports are up more than 20 percent this year," he said. Those figures don't mesh with NASS either, but Barnhill said the government does not know what has been exported until after the fact, not "until a bill of lading comes through."
He said the big three peanut buyers, Clint Williams, Birdsong and Golden Peanut, all indicate increased export sales.
Carryover will be 180,000 tons less than from the 2006 crop. "Supplies got tight last fall. We need peanuts for 2008 to meet demand and build up carry-in. If we have production problems we might not have enough for the industry."
Demand has pushed up prices. "For three or four years, from about 2003 through 2005, we produced more peanuts than we needed. Prices stayed around 40 cents a pound for medium runners. In 2007, price jumped to 68 cents a pound."
He said prices likely will remain firm but that the $500 contracts signed last fall will mean an average 2008-crop price around 57 cents a pound. "The market is trying to figure out how many peanuts it has and how many it will need."
Several other market factors influence peanut prices. "Europe bought a big volume of U.S. peanuts in 2007. Argentina is finished with its crop and China is using more of its production (domestically) than ever. Demand (in China) for oil and edible peanuts has increased."
He said China is not exporting peanuts this year and that makes Japan, Europe, Mexico and Canada more dependent on the U.S. market. "China typically exports 500,000 metric tons of peanuts. They are not exporting any in 2008."
Mexico could be a good market for Oklahoma growers. "Oklahoma has a freight advantage to Mexico," Barnhill said.
The weak U.S. dollar also makes exports a bargain for other countries. "A 65 cents per pound U.S. peanut equals 47 cents a pound in Euros," he said.
The U.S. energy policy also affects peanuts, though indirectly. Energy and world demand for food have driven grain and soybean prices up so crops are competing for farmland to meet demand.
"The question is, what will U.S. peanut farmers plant?" Early estimates point to a 17.5 percent increase. "But that was before the recent run up in the cotton market. That could have an effect." He said a 15 percent increase seems more likely.
A 1.43-million acre crop and a yield of 2,900 pounds per acre would net a bit more than 2 million tons of peanuts. "That would be a comfortable carry-out and a hedge if we have lower yields but still not a risk of too many peanuts. The industry is not comfortable with just a 300,000-ton carryover each year. Industry uses about 140,000 tons a month so it takes at least 300,000 to cover transition (from one crop to the next)."
Barnhill said domestic demand likely would stay strong, despite of or maybe because of potential recession. "Peanuts and peanut butter do well in an economy that's struggling," he said. "Consumers have less disposable income and one of the first things to go is eating out. Restaurant numbers are already declining."
When that happens, peanut butter provides a good protein source. "Peanut butter use is up 24 percent over last January," he said. "So far, higher prices have not caused any sign of decline in demand."
He doesn't anticipate that a price in the middle 50 cents per pound range will affect consumption significantly. He also doesn't anticipate prices for corn, beans and other grains to decline within the next year or two but expects a three- to five-year trend for "grain and peanut prices at these levels or better."
Barnhill also advised any growers with 2007 peanuts in the loan not to forfeit. "See a local sheller," he said.
Alan Orloff, Clint Williams Company in Madill, Okla., said he's "more optimistic about peanuts than at any time in recent years.
China has a huge impact on the market and they are not exporting. For years China dumped millions of tons of peanuts on the world market at low prices. They can't compete with U.S. peanuts on quality. This year they reneged on contracts and blindsided the industry."
Mexico was a big buyer and with China out of the market, "Mexico is a big reason for today's higher peanut prices," Orloff said. "Things are looking up for peanuts."
Tyron Spearman, Tifton, Ga., editor of Peanut Market News, an electronic newsletter, said Georgia growers likely will increase acreage in 2008. "Soil moisture has been replenished," he said.
Early estimates point to a 1.225 million-acre U. S. crop. "A 15 percent to 18 percent increase in acreage will not hurt," he said. But getting that bump may not be easy with competition from soybeans, corn and cotton.
"Soybean seed supply is short, however. We'll need to treat more peanut seed if we plant this acreage."
He's fearful that a 24 percent jump might "bust the market next year."
Spearman said the USDA estimate of domestic peanut use for food from the 2007 crop is 5 percent down. They also estimate a 5 percent drop in exports. He agrees with Barnhill that the export figure likely is wrong and he hopes the domestic consumption figure is also in error. "I think it is."
Spearman said Japan will be back in the market for U.S. peanuts. "And Russia is now our number four customer after they built an M&M plant."
He said peanut imports have declined by 91 percent in recent years.
Spearman said peanut framer numbers, unfortunately, have also dropped, down from 17,916 in 2001 to only 10,002 in 2007. "That figure has leveled off now," he said.
"For now, we have a tremendous demand; the outlook is good."
Oklahoma State University Extension economist Kim Anderson said farmers need to look closely at crop options this year and "use prices to figure out the best option to pay for land, labor, capital and management."
He offered prices of crops competing for acres. Wheat futures market in early March was at $11.40 a bushel with contract prices 70 cents off that, $10.70. December corn was at $5.79 with contracts off only a dime at $5.69. Soybeans contracts with futures at $14.17 were $1 less at $13.17.
Peanut contracts were competing with the $500-a-ton contracts last fall.


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Guide to Geologic Hazards in Alaska
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Lewis and Clark on the Nature Trail
Self-Guided tour — Kansas Museum of History, Topeka
Grades — 4th-6th
In 1804 Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery embarked on an unprecedented exploration of western lands on their journey to the Pacific Ocean. In your classroom, your students will read about their journey using primary and secondary source materials. At the Kansas Museum of History and State Archives, they will explore our nature trail using exploration tools (we provide) and a journal worksheet. When they return to school they will write their own journal entry about their experience.
- Download the seven-page lesson plan (PDF): Lewis and Clark on the Nature Trail
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Cost per student: Use of the nature trail is free, however, this tour requires a $1 material fee per student. This does not include museum admission.
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With Colin Powell, Salesforce Board Goes to 11
Mar 14, 2014 2:47 PM PT
Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.) on Thursday joined Salesforce.com's board of directors, bringing the number seated at the table to 11.
The general, who has been friends with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff for several years, has been associated with the company's philanthropic activities which revolve around Salesforce.com's famous pledge to give 1 percent of equity, 1 percent of profit and 1 percent of its employees' time to charitable causes every year.
"This is just the natural development of an existing relationship between Gen. Powell and CEO Marc Benioff," said David Hartman, visiting assistant professor of management at Quinnipiac University.
"Benioff has publicly indicated that Gen. Powell was a source of personal inspiration to him for the past 15 years," he told CRM Buyer. "As Salesforce has continued to grow and develop its public sector business, the more direct involvement of Gen. Powell can help both from an external business contact point of view as well as an internal leadership development aspect."
A Public Affairs Coup
The news represents a major public and investment relations score for Salesforce. Even though long retired from public life, Powell is a highly respected and popular figure who has bipartisan political appeal. His presence will help Salesforce with its general customers as well as with analysts in the investment community who keep track of such things as board membership and good corporate governance.
In short, Powell brings star power to the board, David Johnson, CEO of Strategic Vision, told CRM Buyer. "He is someone that the general public is acquainted with and in many ways admires."
His prestige will rub off on Salesforce.com to a certain extent, Johnson added. "It gets people and investors looking at the company anew. If the company is looking for capital, this type of announcement helps that effort. It gets policymakers also checking the company out."
Tech Expertise
What Powell doesn't have is deep tech creds, although he has been involved in multiple activities in the Silicon Valley, noted Francis Petit, associate dean for executive programs at Fordham University
That may be beside the point, though, especially as Salesforce's board is stacked with industry veterans such as Craig Conway, former CEO of PeopleSoft; Alan Hassenfeld, former chairman and CEO of Hasbro; Craig Ramsey, former senior vice president of worldwide sales for Siebel; Lawrence Tomlinson, former senior vice president and treasurer for HP; and Maynard Webb, chairman of Yahoo.
What Powell is about is leadership, Val Wright of ValWright Consulting, told CRM Buyer. His deep involvement in charity work -- he is the founder and chairman emeritus of the America's Promise Alliance, among other activities -- is basically just gravy.
"Exemplary companies consider where they want to grow their business," Wright said, and they "build a board with the right expertise and knowledge to accelerate that growth."
Perhaps the question that really should be asked is why Powell would want to take on the job. As corporate governance becomes more and more a matter of regulatory concern and scrutiny, board members can be held liable -- or at least faulted -- when companies go seriously off the rails.
That does not appear to be a risk with Salesforce, but a board membership also can be very time consuming. That said, the retired four-star general is known for his energy.
Perhaps it comes down to a mix of friendship, admiration for Salesforce's charitable endeavors, and the appreciation of a new challenge in life, as Powell said upon the announcement.
"After many years of friendship with Marc and admiration for Salesforce.com, I am excited to be joining the company's board of directors," he said. "In addition to being on the forefront of innovation, Salesforce.com has been a remarkable leader and has inspired many other companies, as it has made philanthropy a central part of its value system."


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September 6th, 2006
Santa Cruz Earth First! and Free Radio Santa Cruz sponsor Buffalo Field Campaign Road Show -
Wednesday, September 6th at 7:00 PM at
The Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St. at the corner of Laurel and Center in downtown Santa Cruz.
About the Buffalo Field Campaign:
Buffalo in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are not protected on their year-round habitat. Yellowstone Park does not provide sufficient winter range for the resident herds of wildlife. Due to the deep snow, animals are forced to leave the park in order to find adequate forage for winter survival. When the buffalo follow their instincts and migrate to lower elevations, they enter a conflict zone where the politics of Montana directly clash with their survival needs.
During the winter of 1996-97, the Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) slaughtered almost 1,100 Yellowstone buffalo when they crossed the arbitrary park boundary into the state. These killings, combined with deaths from the unusually severe winter, resulted in a loss of nearly two-thirds of the herd.
That winter , the state of Montana and federal officials learned that they could no longer kill buffalo with impunity. Buffalo Nations (Now Buffalo Field Campaign), a non-profit grassroots coalition of Native American and non-Native environmentalists formed under the leadership of Michael Mease, videographer and founder of Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers, and Lakota activist Rosalie Little Thunder, with Seventh Generation Fund.
Our daily patrols and grassroots advocacy made it clear to the DOL that they would be held accountable for their actions. Everyday we stand with buffalo who are outside of the park from before sunrise until sunset.
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Turning On Youth to Democracy
March 11, 2006
"Ssshh. Ssshh. Listen. Listen."
En route from Springfield to the Classroom Law Project's Annual Youth Summit in Portland, a van full of high school students had been clamoring for tunes, restless with the drone of the road and National Public Radio.
However, when commentary turned to Harriet Miers' Supreme Court nomination, their chatter turned into rapt attention. A new generation of NPR listeners was born.
"In my heart of hearts, I always wanted to work with kids, to engage them and empower them to succeed," says Barbara Rost, program director for the Classroom Law Project.
Incorporated in 1984, the nonprofit organization strives to preserve democracy by teaching it. Educators, lawyers, and civic leaders work with thousands of high school, middle school, and elementary students each year to demystify the legal system and to create informed and active citizens.
Ongoing programs include: We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, which simulates congressional hearings; mock trial competitions at the regional, state, and national levels; Law Day workshops on issues such as forensics, hate crimes and terrorism, racial profiling, and religion in school; and the Youth Summit on legal or election issues.
The 2005 summit focused on the selection process for Supreme Court justices. When one of the attendees, a struggling student from an alternative high school, asked a question about the No Child Left Behind Act, Josh Carden, chief of staff for Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, asked for it in writing. He promised to have the senator pose the question to the nominee.
"At that moment, we changed a young man's life," says Rost.
Rost joined the Classroom Law Project on a part-time basis in 1997, not long after she and husband Terry Rost, a middle school science teacher, adopted two young daughters from China.
Each morning, Rost puts her girls on the elementary school bus, works full tilt until it's time to pick them up, then fits in weekend and evening hours as needed.
"Working less than full time has been a godsend to me and my family," she says.
Previously, Rost was a field representative and account manager at Westlaw, an online legal library service, and also managed one of the company's regional offices. From 1993 to 1996, she was an admissions coordinator at Lewis & Clark Law School.
Now at the Classroom Law Project, she works with a four-person staff plus hundreds of volunteers, many of whom are graduates of the law school. In the future, she hopes to expand the program to more communities, especially in rural Oregon.
"I could be making a lot of money working somewhere else," says Rost. "But to me, money is not as important as the message."
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Vasco Kohlmayer explains why waterboarding should be the interrogation method of choice in certain circumstances, namely when more conventional methods aren't working and the terrorist is believed, reasonably, to have vital information. Apparently, waterboarding has succeeded in breaking down resistance to providing truthful information every time it's been used (usually in less than a minute), even when the subject knows in advance that death is not a possibility. Moreover, the discomfort of waterboarding lasts for only a very short period of time and carries virtually no risk of long-term harm.
David Adesnik says he became very, very angry when I referred to Senators McCain, Graham, etc as "the terrorist rights wing of the Republican party." I'm sure it makes me at least as angry that McCain and Graham have placed sparing Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Zacarias Moussaoui from two minutes of anguish ahead of saving the lives of thousands of innocent people. Perhaps I should start calling McCain and Graham the leaders of the "security endangerment wing" of their party.