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Atmail is a fully-featured email server and Webmail client, allowing users to send and receive email via a Web browser or mobile device. It has full support for IMAP mailboxes, and an optional email-server mode that uses EXIM as the MTA. Features include a scheduler, MySQL backend support, spell-check, address book, calendar user preferences, multiple accounts, SpamAssassin support, migration scripts from other mail servers, a customizable interface, an attractive AJAX interface, an optional group sharing Calendar/Addressbook, and an Outlook plugin to sync Contacts/Tasks/Calendar data between a Desktop, Mobile, and Webmail client or other email users.
Geeklog is the weblog software that concentrates on performance, privacy, and security. It features Web-based administration, surveys (polls), user-customizable boxes, a friendly administration GUI with a topic manager, an option to edit or delete stories, an option to delete comments, a search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/Atom format), calendaring, and much more.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Jawa Open Eyes is a visual network monitoring tool developed in Java for managing network and Internet resources. It supports SNMP v1/2/2c for collecting MIB-II information, port scanning, and SSL capable URL time response. The main features include visual network monitoring, multi layer network topology designer, email alert, trap sender and receiver, trap agent, and real time logging to DB and Web.
rimric interactive offers complete intranet/Internet databasing and collaboration solutions for any sized business or project. You can maintain invoices, purchase orders, contacts, investment groups, securities, and other data sets, or establish a Wiki based on standards, all using the fastest technologies available.
Bricolage greatly simplifies the complex tasks of creating, managing, and publishing vast libraries of content. With advanced features such as fully-configurable workflows, customizable document types, and comprehensive Perl and PHP templating support, it has been designed from the ground up to scale to meet the demanding needs of large organizations around the world.
Cerb is a fast and flexible Web-based platform for business collaboration and automation. It helps you remember anything about anyone, collaborate from anywhere, deftly reply to a flood of email, automate, stay informed, capture feedback, track time, flag opportunities, manage tasks, share expert knowledge, and otherwise execute efficiently.
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, Web-based, multilingual, tightly integrated, all-in-one wiki, CMS, and groupware. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box". It is highly configurable and modular. All features are optional and administered via a Web-based interface. Major features include a robust wiki engine, news articles, discussion forums, newsletters, blogs, file and image galleries, bug and issue trackers, a link directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, FAQs, a banner management system, calendar, maps, mobile access, RSS feeds, a category system, tags, an advanced themeing engine (Smarty), spreadsheet, live support, shoutbox, inter-user messaging, menu generator, advanced permission system for users and groups, internal search engine, external authentication support, and more. It was formerly named TikiWiki.
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The State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) grant will help expand and improve the Bay Area Rapid Transit's (BART) Hayward Maintenance Complex to accommodate the additional fleet and other system and operational needs when the future BART Silicon Valley Berryessa Extension comes online. The recent state allocation will go towards a reconfigured shop to maintain the BART Silicon Valley extension fleet, a component repair shop and trackwork to connect the new facilities to the existing yard tracks and tie-ins to the BART mainline.
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The Center for Nonprofit Management at Lawrence Tech hosted an exchange session on June 14 with 10 delegates from Belarus on the topic of the U.S. nonprofit sector and its relationships with American government agencies related to delivery of social service programs.
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Shellpic uses shell escape codes to display images in a terminal, IRC or NUTS client.
Release Notes: This version adds the --nuts switch which creates ouput suitable for NUTS talkers. It also adds support for Python 2.6.
Worker is a file manager for the X Window System with the classical two panel interface. It features a fully graphical configuration, while still allowing manual editing of the configuration file without the need to restart Worker. Any external program can be integrated easily into the GUI using buttons, hotkeys, and file type actions. Worker uses file recognition by file content or by filename extension (or both). Different actions with completely configurable commands can be assigned to each file type.
Release Notes: This release adds a breadcrumb navigation for faster access to previous and parent directories. The copy dialog optionally remains open after completion. The ".." entry can be displayed again. The free space check for the copy operation has been fixed in case invalid values are returned by the OS. Some minor other issues have been fixed and the translations have been updated.
Talend Open Studio for Data Integration is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool. Talend Open Studio for Data Integration can perform jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding to database synchronization, as well as file format transformations. Its graphical interface is made with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are generated in Perl or Java. The application was designed to be extended with components written by users.
Release Notes: This release adds many new features and bugfixes.
Talend Open Studio for Data Quality helps you to profile your data. The ergonomic interface allows you to define metrics (indicators) and collect statistics on your data in a few clicks. It comes with a set of regular expressions that helps you to identify bad data. You can create your own regular expressions and use them in data profiling analyses. A lot of options exist for each indicator, which change the behavior of the indicator so that it gives you more pertinent information. Data quality options on indicators alert you when your data quality is not what you expected.
Release Notes: This release adds many new features and bugfixes.
Talend Open Studio for MDM provides the key data management functions across integration, quality, and governance to get users started with master data in their companies. It allows users to install, implement, and manage a single solution across all these key functional groups, decreasing complexity and time to value for MDM projects.
Release Notes: This release adds many new features and bugfixes.
Talend Open Studio for ESB is an innovative, Eclipse-based tooling environment for modeling, configuring, and deploying integration solutions using the Apache-based open source enterprise service bus (ESB), Talend ESB. Talend ESB is a versatile and flexible ESB that allows organizations to address integration challenges, from simple departmental projects to complex, heterogeneous IT environments. Powered by the Apache CXF, Apache Camel, and Apache ActiveMQ Open Source integration projects, it makes enterprise-class integration accessible by delivering a cost-effective and easy-to-use way to integrate and expand systems and applications.
Release Notes: This release adds many new features and bugfixes.
SIP is a tool to generate C++ interface code for Python. It is similar to SWIG, but uses a different interface format. It was used to build PyQt and PyKDE, and has support for the Qt signal/slot mechanism.
Release Notes: This release fixed some minor regressions.
Tomb is a system to make strong encryption easy for everyday use. A tomb is like a locked folder that can be safely transported and hidden in a filesystem. Its keys can be kept separate; for example, you can keep the tomb on your computer and its key on a USB stick. Tomb is written in code that is easy to review and links shared components: it consists of a ZShell script and desktop integration apps; it uses standard GNU tools and the cryptographic API of the Linux kernel (dm-crypt) via cryptsetup.
Release Notes: This release includes various usability fixes and documentation updates. Password changing and key changing procedures have been refactored, and scripted use has been tested against a few new wrappers being developed. A .pot strings file is made available for translators.
Dosage is designed to keep a local copy of specific Web comics and other picture-based content such as Picture of the Day sites. With the dosage command line, script you can get the latest strip of a Web comic, catch up to the last strip downloaded, or download a strip for a particular date/index (if the comic's site layout makes this possible).
Release Notes: Several comics have been fixed. Source releases are now available from PyPi.
Firejail is a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces. It currently implements hostname, filesystem, PID, IPC, and networking stack isolation, and it runs on any recent Linux system. It includes a sandbox profile for Mozilla Firefox. Firejail also expands the restricted shell facility found in bash by adding Linux namespace support. It supports sandboxing specific users upon login. The software also includes a small monitoring utility, firemon.
Release Notes: This release adds support for running servers, zsh and csh shells, and a number of fixes to chroot and private mode.
ZXTune is a set of portable cross-platform applications (GUI/CLI) intended to play chiptunes. It features advanced ripping possibilities that let you search for music in big data sets. Supported ZX Spectrum chiptunes formats include AY, AS0/ASC, FTC, GTR, PSC, PSG, PSM, PT1, PT2, PT3, SQT, ST1, ST3, STC, STP, TXT, TurboSound, VTX, YM, CHI, DMM, DST, PDT, SQD, STR, TF0/TFE, TFC, TFD, and COP. The Commodore64 SID format is supported. Supported PC chiptunes formats include 669, AMF, DMF, FAR, FNK, GDM, IMF, IT, LIQ, PSM, MDL, MTM, PTM, RTM, S3M, STIM, STM, STX, ULT, XM. Supported Amiga chiptune formats include DBM, EMOD, MOD, MTN, IMS, MED, OKT, PT36, SFX. Supported Atari chiptune formats include DTM, GTK, TCB. The Acorn chiptune format DTT is supported. Supported compressed formats include CHARPRES, CC3, CC4, CC4PLUS, DSQ, ESV, GAM, GAMPLUS, HRUM, HRUST1, HRUST2, LZH1, LZH2, LZS, MSP, PACK2, PCD61, PCD62, TLZ, TLZP, TRUSH. Supported archived/container formats include FDI, HOBETA, HRIP, LHA, RAW, SCL, TD0, TRD, ZXZIP, ZIP, RAR, SNA128, and Z80.
Release Notes: This version add support for installing/moving to SD card in the Android version. Author displaying on the lock screen widget and media button processing were fixed.
RemoteBox is a graphical tool which lets you administer guests or virtual machines running under VirtualBox on a remote server or even your local machine if desired. You may, for example, have a root server on the Internet, a server at home, or a server at work running VirtualBox but want to have the convenience of managing the guests easily from your local machine. The virtual machines run in headless mode, which means you don't need an active graphical display on the server but you can still connect and view the displays of the guests. The goal of RemoteBox is to provide a GUI that should be familiar to VirtualBox users while allowing them to administer a remote installation of VirtualBox. It does this via the VirtualBox API and SOAP interface, which are exposed when running the VirtualBox Web service. You can also use RemoteBox simply as an alternative interface for managing VirtualBox on your local machine.
Release Notes: This minor release fixed SOAP versioning issues experienced by some users. In addition, an appdata.xml file is bundled for packagers with distros that use it.
o42a is a high-level general purpose programming language. It is compiled, statically-typed, prototype-based, logic-driven, and primarily declarative, while the imperative programming style is also supported. A program written in o42a is closer to natural English text than one written in any C-like programming language. The language is designed with programming productivity and code maintainability as main priorities. This achieved by powerful, yet restrained, semantics, and expressive and natural syntax.
Release Notes: The multiple inheritance support has been dropped. The object value definition algorithm has been significantly simplified. The object statefulness functionality has been replaced by eager value evaluation. Changes have been made to the syntax of sentences, local declarations, and value assignment to avoid any possible conflicts. New features include static fields, aliases, yield statement, short adapter declaration syntax, and short field override syntax. Some rarely used and confusing features were removed.
Upmpdcli turns MPD, the Music Player daemon into an UPnP audio Media Renderer, which you can control with any UPnP control point application.
Release Notes: This release adds support for the OpenHome ohMedia services, which mainly allow managing the playlist on the renderer, allowing multiple compatible control points to share a renderer in a meaningful way.
LnBlog is an easy to use Weblog designed for flexibility. It has few requirements and works well in shared Web hosting situations. It requires no database, no special PHP extensions, and no particular Web server configuration. All data is stored in text files and the file access module can be easily configured to work when PHP's safe mode is enabled. Its features include support for themes, plugins, TrackBack, Pingback, Podcasting, and the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs. It supports multiple users, multiple blogs, file uploads, permanent articles, and RSS feeds for entries, topics, and comments. It also comes with a number of standard plugins for managing comment and TrackBack spam.
Release Notes: This release fixed a number of bugs and added a rich-text HTML editor for writing your posts.
XOWA is a desktop application that can read and edit English Wikipedia offline. It displays articles in an HTML browser, and can download images on demand. It can also be used for Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, and the non-English counterparts.
Release Notes: This release includes significant enhancements to JTidy (to be more compliant with tidy), UI changes such as Close Other Tabs and Undo Close Tab, new options for privacy, images for Dutch (update) and Turkish (new) wikis, as well as other minor changes.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Release Notes: A problem where copying a database did not copy the constraints has been fixed.
Elm Millennium Edition is a text-based mail client. There are two branches: Elm 2.4ME+, which is based on Elm 2.4, and Elm ME+ 2.5, which also incorporates some code from Elm 2.5. Elm Millennium Edition contains enhanced MIME and character set support. A subset of UTF-8 (Unicode) is handled. It can read mail from a local mbox and POP and IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It can also view digests as a mailbox and reassemble fragmented (message/partial) messages. It includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
Release Notes: This release adds "folder-locking", "pager-header-display-mode", "mailbox-locking". and "mailhome-locking" global elm.rc (or user elmrc) options, changes paging of long lines and header field names on builtin pager, and changes locking of mailboxes and folders. It also adds a '?' (help) -command to the Message Header Edit Screen and '?' (help) on main and the Elm 2.5 style file browser's option menu changes. Some other changes and bug fixes are included.
Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, compared, and repacked by patool. The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files without having to remember myriad programs and options. The archive format is determined by the file(1) program and as a fallback by the archive file extension. patool supports 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ADF (.adf), ALZIP (.alz), APE (.ape), AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), bzip2 (.bz2), CAB (.cab), COMPRESS (.Z), CPIO (.cpio), deb (.deb), DMS (.dms), FLAC (.flac), gzip (.gz), ISO (.iso), LRZIP (.lrz), LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm), RAR (.rar), RZIP (.rz), SHN (.shn), tar (.tar), XZ (.xz), zip (.zip, .jar), and ZOO (.zoo) formats. It relies on helper applications to handle those archive formats (for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives). The archive formats tar, zip, bzip2, and gzip are supported natively and do not require helper applications to be installed.
Release Notes: P7zip RAR detection on OS X systems has been fixed.
BalanceNG is a modern, IPv6 capable software IP load balancing solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and set up. It offers session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It implements a very fast in-memory IP-to-location database, allowing powerful location-based server load-balancing.
Release Notes: A bug with the GNAT implementation has been resolved. Upgrading is recommended if GNAT (BalanceNG V3 NAT) is in use. A bug with location based load balancing has been resolved. A location group may now contain up to 128 characters. The manual has been updated and contains a description of the upcoming bngsync protocol (UDP port 10439).
Lynis is an security auditing and hardening tool for Unix derivatives like Linux/BSD/Solaris. It performs an in-depth scan on the system to detect software and security issues. Besides information related to security, it will also scan for general system information, installed packages, and possible configuration mistakes. The software is aimed at assisting automated auditing, configuration management, software patch management, vulnerability detection, and malware scanning of Unix-based systems.
Release Notes: This release fixes a security vulnerability. Several new tests for nginx have been added. Debugging via profile is possible (again) and some adjustments have been made to the screen output.
FTPL (FakeTime Preload Library, aka libfaketime) intercepts various system library calls and tricks programs of your choice into seeing a faked system time without having to change the time system-wide. This can be used for running legacy software with Y2K bugs, testing software for year-2038 compliance, debugging time-related issues such as expired SSL certificates, and using software that ceases to run outside a certain time frame. The faked time can be specified either absolutely or relative to the real current time, and optionally also affects file timestamps. The faked clock continues to run, but can optionally be frozen, slowed down, or made faster. A wrapper script "faketime" simplifies the usage, similar to tools such as fakechroot.
Release Notes: A new filter command feature controls which (sub-)processes libfaketime is applied to. Various stability issues were fixed.
4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (by using it as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for example, for playing video DVDs), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (meaning console games).
Release Notes: This release is distributed in the form of a multiboot CD, which allows you to make network installations of the following systems: Debian 7.5, Fedora 20, Slackware 14.1, and Ubuntu 14.04. It is also possible to boot 4MLinux 9.0 Rescue Edition to prepare the installation of these systems (by performing data backup, disk partitioning, and the like).
F*EX (Frams' Fast File EXchange) is a Web based service for sending very big files from one person to another. The sender uploads the file to the F*EX server and the recipient automatically gets a notification email with a download URL. Files are automatically deleted after download or an expiration date. The recipient and sender only need an email program and a Web browser. Sending to multiple recipients needs storage on the server only once. In contrast with other file transfer services, it has no file size limits at all and comes with shell tools for scripting up/downloading.
Release Notes: Better parameter filtering has been implemented to prevent cross-site scripting attacks and request forgery. Some other minor bugs are fixed.
RackTables is a tool to manage tens of racks, hundreds of servers, and thousands of MAC and IP addresses. It will work with a single rack as well. It features a real-life rackspace model, typed rack objects with flexible attribute sets, a tagging system, IP address management ready for NAT, virtual routers and load balancers, accurate network connection handling, a universal search function, a multi-user access model, and an extensible dictionary.
Release Notes: This release incorporates assorted enhancements, including better handling of particular network and server equipment, correct displaying of some data in the database, support for custom LDAP port, a new autotag for the client's IP address, per-port displaying of learned MAC addresses, and a patch cable management feature. It is recommended for all users of the stable release series.


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* Baseball and College Football: Two Peas in Pod?
* The M Zone gets Punk'd!
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M Zone gets punked again by fiascobowl.org
Let's get this straight.
*UCLA fans put a few dollars together for the anti USC billboard.
*UCLA fans don't like the location of that billboard across the street from USC's campus and stadium, even though it garners national attention. (The location of the billboard was really unimportant, as it was the idea of the billboard that captured the minds of the cfb fan)
*UCLA fans express their dissatisfaction of the billboard's location by creating a site about Miami and Ohio State.
*UCLA fans advertise this site throughout the web.
*UCLA fans reveal that it was all a joke.
*In that revelation, they come out as UCLA fans and give the exact same reasons for their disatisfaction as USC fans gave for their dislike of the billboard.
IQ of one who believes this line of reasoning is below 90.
- April 03, 2006 11:14 AM
yost just proved how moronic he is by believing that. anyone with half a brain can see that it was a USC fan pizzed at the billboard writing that. why else all the jabs at all LSU fans while USC gets praised and lauded?
- April 03, 2006 11:25 AM
Yost is completely infatuated with USC though. Haven't you been reading this blog for a while?
This can't be UCLA fans. UCLA/LSU fans are in cahoots anyway. Their fans love and respect each other right now. Just go to their boards to see.
Anyway, whoever wrote it (my money is all on USC) didn't do a good job in disguising themselves. It jabs at LSU (something Bruins fans don't do) and praises USC (something that Bruins fans would rather castrate themselves than do).
- April 03, 2006 12:31 PM
You have to understand that yost is what people these day call "challenged."
- April 03, 2006 1:12 PM
At least USC fans won't be wearing Gator shirts tonight like the bRuin fans wore Longhorn shirts at the basketball games. At the second game I asked a young fan what the (hook 'em Horns) two-finger sign meant. He said it was for Texas to which I replied the game is between the bRuins and the Trojans. After stuttering for a bit he quietly left after USC beat them and rendered him to the status of eternal dumb-ass.
- April 03, 2006 2:03 PM
- Yost said...
Doh! You guys got me.
Have to run. Short yellow bus is out front.
- April 03, 2006 2:40 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Yost, don't forget your Reggie Bush jersey and your butterscotch pudding snack cup.
And, don't forget that you are special.
- April 03, 2006 2:45 PM
Yost, that's your response? It only enforces the notion that you knew the whole time that it wasn't UCLA fans and probably USC fans. Just one more example of your love affair with theTrojans.
- April 03, 2006 2:59 PM
He loves to cry when he's "been wronged" by others but when he does the same, he just ignores it.
- April 03, 2006 3:08 PM
Oh MZone, how you've disappointed me and my powder bluecomrades
- April 03, 2006 3:25 PM
Owned. Where's yost, baggy, wangs, king, and Benny?
- April 03, 2006 3:59 PM
No way those are UCLA fans. No wonder people don't take this site seriously. I doubt they even wrote that wonderlic test. Probably stole it themselves.
- April 03, 2006 4:13 PM
- Wangs said...
I don't even know what the f you fellas are talking about here.
Yost - I have only one question: why does any discussion of UCLA or USC extend beyond which has the better cheerleaders?
- April 03, 2006 4:26 PM
- Wangs said...
I guess we could also re-visit whether USC's most famous alum, OJ, did it or not.
- April 03, 2006 4:28 PM
Well, USC and Michigan should have this "love affair"--they've always respected each other for one simple reason: There's a lot to respect! Those who have been there and done that for so long understand.
- April 03, 2006 4:29 PM
- Wangs said...
Does UCLA have any famous alums?
- April 03, 2006 4:30 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
Wangs, UCLA might not have one of their most famous athletes be an ACCUSED double murderer, but the list of famous UCLA alums is impressive: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Troy Aikman, Arthur Ashe, Tom Bradley, Carol Burnett, Jimmy Connors, Francis Ford Coppola, James Dean, Gil Garcetti, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Jim Morrison, Reggie Miller, Michael Ovitz, Rob Reiner, and Jackie Robinson.
- April 03, 2006 4:33 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
I love how these "Anonymous" posters make it seem so obvious that this was a prank. Looking at the comments from the original post, there was no one who hinted this might be the case.
To be honest, if I'd seen this several months ago I would have thought "No one's a big enough idiot to spend money to put up a billboard about some perceived slight from years ago." But then I heard about onepeat and realize that there are plenty of people who would spend that kind of money to publicly show how inadequate they feel.
- April 03, 2006 4:37 PM
- Wangs said...
Tom Bradley, Gil Garcetti.
Local elected officials make the short list?
Didn't your favorite sports analyst, Bill Walton get high at UCLA?
- April 03, 2006 4:38 PM
I guess that's what Neil Armstrong (USC alum) and Bill Walton have in common.
- April 03, 2006 4:41 PM
- Wangs said...
Anon 1:41 -
That's funny.
I can imagine Neil and Bill sharing a bong . . . arguing about who has the hottest cheerleaders.
- April 03, 2006 4:48 PM
Benny Benny Benny. It's not the prank that was so obvious. No one could have known that. It was the ensuing email sent to Yost that anyone with at least a 3rd grade reading comprehension would figure out that UCLA fans didn't write it. "Try 8 miles away." What we're flaming is Yost's attempt to still put it up, selling the email and billboard as truly being done by UCLA fans bashing LSU and praising USC. It was clearly USC. So now, the newer question is why you Yost jumps at the chance to perform fellatio on the Trojans while going after everyone they oppose, i.e. Tiger and Bruin fans. Hmmmmm.
- April 03, 2006 5:03 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
theonlyrelevantprogram, I wouldn't be knocking other people's "reading comprehension" with writing such as the one in your last post.
If I follow it correctly, you're trying to insuate that Yost is some sort of closet 'SC fan. Yeah, right. He's worked on this blog for six months under the guise of being a Michigan fan, all the while really being a Trojan backer. You got him.
First off, none of us on this blog have anything against LSU, except for all of the onepeat losers. Second, we have nothing against UCLA and have never posted anything anti-Bruin. Personally, I typically cheer for UCLA over USC. As wds4usc posted above, I think we all have respect for USC and what they've done over the past three years (TWO national titles, etc.) and throughout college football history. We're college football fans - we can acknowledge other team's accomplishments without feeling diminished or inadequate.
- April 03, 2006 5:29 PM
- April 03, 2006 5:29 PM
It's time to be honest.
UCLA fans did not make that site.
It was USC fans who want to make LSU fans look bad for putting up that billboard in their own backyard.
But yost either is too dumb or too stubborn to admit it.
- April 03, 2006 5:31 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Wangs, I've read the transcripts of the one interview O.J. did without a lawyer before being charged.
Although the cops did a terrible job of questioning O.J., there's about five thousand verbal indicators of deception, an admission that he occasionally still hooked up with Nicole for sex, and a couple of clues that he stalked her and hung around her house waiting for her to come home from partying.
Best line, when asked about why he dripped blood from a cut on his hand all over his house his answer was: "I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff."
He did it. And I bet he doesn't consider LSU a MNC for 2003, either.
- April 03, 2006 5:35 PM
Thanks, Benny. Neither of us measures our own success by other schools' failures. And if the bogus site was done up by USC fans, great. The LSU and UCLA "fans" put themselves in the line of fire. They should stop crying as they had it coming since this "onepete" crap was started.
- April 03, 2006 6:08 PM
- Yost said...
You read me wrong: I really don't give a rat's cornhole who did it. It was a good practical joke no matter who put it up.
If you want to investigate b/c of some deeper meaning, have at it.
- April 03, 2006 6:44 PM
This was a good practical joke?
It was a joke, but it was neither good nor practical.
I too think it was USC fans.
- April 03, 2006 7:07 PM
- Yost said...
I know, I know. All "Anonymous" comments today are people who a) knew it was phoney from the get-go (but never mentioned it after initial post on the subject) and b) just "know" it's USC fans who 1) put up the original fake website knowing we (and other sites would pick up on it) and 2) when the FiascoBowl folks revealed that it was an April Fool's joke, again knew that we would do a story on it giving props to the "alleged" UCLA perpetrators of the site in such a way that it would actually be pro-USC.
Yeah, makes perfect sense, Columbo.
- April 03, 2006 7:13 PM
It's the same guy who made the USCdynasty.com page and tried to get a billboard in Baton Rouge, but couldn't afford it.
Go to register.com and see for yourself unless he's already taken down his info.
- April 03, 2006 7:27 PM
Please, tell the truth. The money was there but the billboard company in Baton Rouge turned him down due to threats of violence. The USCdynasty guy was also personally threatened. A little bit different than being unable to afford it. But that's how these stupid, ignorant urban legends start.
- April 03, 2006 7:37 PM
The Onepeat guys got threatened also with physical violence.
If the Uscdynasty guy was he should have brought it to the police. As is, it was probably a lie and an easy excuse for him not to put it up when he realized he couldnt afford it.
- April 03, 2006 7:38 PM
I heard he was killed in a drive-by incident somehow linked to cocaine drug lords out of miami.
- April 03, 2006 7:39 PM
- Yost said...
"The Onepeat guys got threatened also with physical violence"
Really? The ANONYMOUS "Steve" got threatened, huh?
- April 03, 2006 7:42 PM
You know, you're not funny, little coward anon. Check his site for the text of the entire letter from the billboard company. But you're just a moronic slob who likes to make light of threats of violence. What a class act you are!
- April 03, 2006 7:45 PM
LOL. Come on. All it says in that letter is that there were threats of vandalism. Do I need to give you links to USC fans threatening the billboard if it were to be put up in Los Angeles?
- April 03, 2006 7:54 PM
Here we go again. I'm leaving to watch the game. Sorry the site has been so befouled by idiots. See you later.
- April 03, 2006 8:07 PM
USC fans cannot accept any sort of rational dialogue.
USC didn't put up the billboard because there were threats that it would be vandalized. The threats against the guy doing it are unproven, and if real, should have been reported to the police.
There were far more threats against the LSU billboard. I remember seeing quite a few even on this site in the comment section.
So now what, USC?
LSU owns you in debate so you try to sully LSU's reputation while exalting USC's. Only problem is that you're not as good as you think you are and LSU is not as bad as you think it is.
- April 03, 2006 8:16 PM
Little "Steve" is at it again. No, you don't "own" USC in debate because you have to have a legitimate issue to debate rather one from your twisted imagination. Now go take your meds, "Steve."
- April 03, 2006 8:24 PM
Seriously, what is wrong with some of these LSU people?
- April 03, 2006 8:32 PM
- Yost said...
I have a hunch it's not LSU people as much as probably two Onepeat folks. I actually feel bad for 99.8% of the LSU fans who are unfairly lumped in with these folks.
If you notice, everytime we do anything that even remotely alludes to the billboard stuff, we get all kinds of "Anonymous" comments ripping USC and us (b/c of our views on Onepeat).
Gee, I wonder who it could be?
- April 03, 2006 8:36 PM
And still the issue -- that these USC fans have tricked you again -- goes unaddressed.
- April 03, 2006 8:46 PM
"Again?" Gee, when was the first time? Oh, let me guess. Get ready for a diatribe.....You had it coming LSU-breath.
- April 03, 2006 8:51 PM
Yeah. They tricked them by posing as Miami fans first. And the second trick is posing as UCLA fans.
Don't be so stupid.
- April 04, 2006 12:51 AM
Seriously, this has got to stop. Delete this thread and never mention Onepeat, the fiasco bowl, the billboard, USC fans, LSU fans, UCLA fans, or anything that might derail your blog as much as it already has.
- April 04, 2006 12:51 AM
Actually, it's quite a day when LSU, UCLA and Miami all get "sullied" even further and USC, Ohio State and Michigan look like innocent victims. Whoever did it took on SIX programs at once! My only question is how to get Notre Dame in there somehow...
- April 04, 2006 7:14 PM
It's obvious that WDS is a suc fan trying to flame here.
The only thing it looks like, SUC fan, is that a couple of USC fans tried to play cloak and dagger games to sully another's program. Real class acts sullying another's program under the attempted guise of our fans. UCLA fans have much better things to do than that. If they were men, they would have announced their true fanbase identity instead of hiding behind another team.
And before you make some idiotic comment on the game last night, please remember the 11 banners we have and the fact that your team couldn't even make the NIT.
- April 04, 2006 8:17 PM
Here's my take.
All OSU fans - garbage
Some LSU fans - in denial about 03
Some Miami fans - fairweather and poor sports
Some UCLA fans - don't know much about them actually.
Some USC fans - the most arrogant I've encountered on the interent
All Michigan fans - the epitome of all that is right in college sports.
Just a thought.
- April 04, 2006 8:20 PM
Hey anon 5:17: I don't flame. I have more respect than that and those who have seen me here know that. But talk about sullying a program! What were LSU and those stupid bRuin fans doing with the billboard? Please. You are showing your total lack of class which, unfortunately, seems to be the hallmark of UCLA. And you think you know what I'm going to say about the basketball game? How about congratulations for a fine year. I support the athletes, not jackass fans. Now go put on your Texas shirt, although those great, classy Longhorn fans shouldn't be subjected to it.
- April 04, 2006 8:50 PM
"Actually, it's quite a day when LSU, UCLA and Miami all get "sullied" even further and USC, Ohio State and Michigan look like innocent victims."
Don't lie. You were trying to start **** with LSU, Miami, and UCLA fans. Please. The only thing looking bad here is the classless USC fans who were low-life and had to hide behind a false identity. But you conveniently haven't addressed that issue, now have you.
And I have never dealt with any Miami fans, but every single LSU poster that came on our boards were respectful and classy. Even after the game and before the championship they were acknowledging our dominating performance and wishing us good luck on a great season. Can't say the same about our SUC neighbors several miles away.
Only a handful of our fans wore those Texas shirts so cry on. SUC fans ARE the most arrogant ***holes in college sports. 2nd is ND. So flame on wds, flame on.
- April 04, 2006 9:26 PM
Dude, you are a weasel. Payback is a bitch and the billboard folks got it in spades. Don't throw stones and not expect them to be hurled back. It was an embarrassment to most of the LSU fans and I do feel badly for the majority of their good guys and gals. But some of them went on with it ("Steve")and their newfound friends in Westwood joined in on the "fun." You don't address that. The truth is you got punked and it's called payback. I know it's hard to deal with but you'll get used to it.
If that's a flame, well that's your opinion. I like to have fun here and make comments just as you do. Because one of them stung a bit you go ballistic. We've dealt with nasty comment after nasty comment just like yours.
And by the way, we had the same positive response from the Texas fans before, during, and after the Rose Bowl.
Finally, if you accuse me of flaming, why are you calling us a-holes? Please, act a bit more educated and look up the word "hypocrite."
- April 04, 2006 9:47 PM
Yost and gang, this is truly not a fight I wanted. I do like to have fun and comment on the situation at hand and if someone thinks I've flamed, I apologize. That's not been my intent at anytime. I have plenty of dear friends from our so-called rivals and it never gets out of hand like this. I know there are some hurt feelings at this time so I'm going to let this one go.
- April 04, 2006 9:53 PM
- Yost said...
No worries. We understand who's behind all this. It's not LSU fans, it's not UCLA fans, it's not SC, etc. etc. etc. It's about a few billboard folks.
- April 04, 2006 9:57 PM
In yost's mind:
USC is blameless in every way.
- April 04, 2006 10:50 PM
- Yost said...
What exactly should SC be blamed for? They don't deny LSU won a SHARE of the national title for 2003. Onepeat "fans" are the one causing problems, not USC fans.
When USC fans do something to be "blamed" for, we'll be the first to point it out. But so far, they haven't.
And we're not "pro USC." As fans of a team that has lost more Rose Bowls than we can count to the Trojans, we have no reason to be biased toward them. But when morons surface trying to rewrite history, well, we become big supporters of them or anybody else (hence the reason we also jumped to Ohio State's defense when we thought the other billboard idea was real. I guess next you'll accuse us of being Tosu fans).
- April 04, 2006 10:54 PM
Goddamn Tosu fans!!!
- April 05, 2006 12:23 AM
haha, no seriously, every fanbase has had its fun with this dumbass thread. Now don't mention any of the above topics EVER EVER EVER again for the love of God.
- April 05, 2006 12:24 AM
And to the UCLA fan, sorry about the game, was cheering for you guys.
- April 05, 2006 12:25 AM


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USFWS National Digital Library
January 1998
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Brown Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis
"A wonderful bird is the pelican; his bill
can hold more than his belly can. . . . "
So begins Dixon Lanier Merritt's well-known
limerick. It is not far from the
truth. The pouch suspended from the
lower half of the pelican's long, straight
bill really can hold up to three times
more than the stomach.
In addition to being used as a dip net,
the pouch holds the pelican's catch of
fish until the accompanying water—as
much as three gallons— is squeezed
out. During this time, laughing gulls
may hover above the pelican, or even
sit on its bill, ready to steal a fish or
two. Once the water is out, the pelican
swallows the fish and carries them in its
esophagus. The pouch also serves as a
cooling mechanism in hot weather and
as a feeding trough for young pelicans.
Range and Description
The brown pelican, also called American
brown pelican or common pelican,
inhabits the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf
Coasts of North and South America. On
the Atlantic Coast, the species can be
found from Nova Scotia to Venezuela
and on the Pacific Coast, from British
Columbia to south-central Chile and the
Galapagos Islands. On the Gulf Coast,
the species is found in Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and
Mexico. The birds are fairly common
inland at the Salton Sea in California,
lakes in Florida, and bodies of water in
southeast Arizona.
Measuring up to 54 inches long,
weighing 8 to 10 pounds, and having a
wingspan between 6-1/2 feet and 7-1/2
feet, brown pelicans are the smallest
members of the seven pelican species
worldwide. They can be identified by
their chestnut-and-white necks; white
heads with pale yellow crowns; brown-streaked
back, rump, and tail; blackish-brown
belly; grayish bill and pouch; and
black legs and feet.
Behavior, Diet, and Nesting Habits
Pelicans are long-lived birds. One
pelican captured in Florida had been
banded 31 years earlier!
Brown pelicans are strong swimmers;
young ones barely able to fly have been
timed swimming at 3 m.p.h. Rather
clumsy on land, pelicans fly with their
necks folded and their heads resting on
their backs, using slow, powerful wing
Pelicans are primarily fish-eaters,
requiring up to four pounds of fish
a day. Their diet consists mainly of
"rough" fish such as menhaden, herring,
sheepshead, pigfish, mullet, grass
minnows, topminnows, and silversides.
On the Pacific Coast, pelicans rely
heavily on anchovies and sardines. The
birds have also been known to eat some
crustaceans, usually prawns.
Brown pelicans have extremely keen
eyesight. As they fly over the ocean,
sometimes at heights of 60 to 70 feet,
they can spot a school of small fish
or even a single fish. Diving steeply
into the water, they may submerge
completely or only partly—depending
on the height of the dive—and come up
with a mouthful of fish. Air sacs beneath
their skin cushion the impact and help
pelicans surface.
Pelicans are social and gregarious.
Males and females and juveniles and
adults congregate in large flocks for
much of the year.
Brown pelicans typically begin to breed
between the ages of 3 and 5 years.
The birds nest in large colonies on the
ground, in bushes, or in the tops of
trees. On the ground, a nest may be
a shallow depression lined with a few
feathers and a rim of soil built up four
to ten inches above ground, or it may be
a large mound of soil and debris with a
cavity in the top. A tree-top nest usually
consists of reeds, grass, and straw
heaped on a mound of sticks interwoven
with the supporting tree branches.
The male delivers material to the
female, who builds the nest. She
typically lays 2 to 3 chalky white eggs
that hatch in about a month. In most of
the nesting range of the pelican in the
United States—from South Carolina
to Florida in the East, in southern
California in the West, and in Alabama,
Louisiana, and Texas on the Gulf—peak
egg-laying usually occurs in March
through May.
Parents share in incubating the eggs
and raising the young. Like many
birds, newly hatched pelicans are
blind, featherless, and altricial—that
Brown pelican swimming
Lee Carney/USFWS
By the 1960s, brown pelicans had
nearly disappeared along the Gulf
Coast and experienced almost complete
reproductive failure in southern
California. Studies proving the pelicans
were not harming commercial fisheries
helped to stop their wholesale slaughter.
In 1970, under a law that preceded the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the
brown pelican as endangered, a term
that means the species is in danger of
extinction throughout all or a significant
portion of its range.
In 1972, the Environmental Protection
Agency banned the use of DDT in the
United States and restricted the use
of other pesticides. Since then, there
has been a decrease in the level of
chemical contaminants in pelican eggs,
and a corresponding increase in nesting
Consistent Improvement
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife
and Fisheries' reintroduction program
from 1968 to 1980 reestablished
brown pelicans in the State, while
natural recolonization and improved
reproduction restored the birds to
their historic numbers in Texas and
California. Brown pelicans responded
well to efforts by conservation partners
to protect, restore, and manage nesting
islands, as well as create new islands
with dredge spoils. These actions
improved reproductive success in
restoring the birds to their historic
In 1985, brown pelicans in the eastern
United States, including Alabama, all
is, completely dependent upon their
parents. They soon develop down that
is soft and silky, followed by feathers.
Average age at first flight is 75 days.
Threats, Protection, and Recovery
Brown pelicans have few natural
enemies. Although ground nests are
sometimes destroyed by hurricanes,
flooding, or other natural disasters, the
biggest threat to pelicans comes from
people. In the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, pelicans were hunted for
their feathers, which adorned women's
clothing, particularly hats.
Several efforts in the early part of
the 20th century were meant to curb
the decline of brown pelicans. In
1903, President Theodore Roosevelt
designated Florida's Pelican Island as
the first national wildlife refuge, a move
that helped reduce the threat of plume
hunters. Passage of the Migratory Bird
Treaty Act in 1918 gave protection to
pelicans and other birds and helped
curb illegal killing.
During the food shortages following
World War I, commercial fishermen
claimed pelicans were decimating
their industry and slaughtered them
by the thousands. The nests were also
frequently raided for eggs.
With the advent and widespread use of
pesticides such as DDT in the 1940s,
pelican populations plummeted due to
lack of breeding success. When pelicans
ate fish contaminated with DDT, the
eggs that they laid had shells so thin
that they broke during incubation.
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Endangered Species Program
4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Room 420
Arlington, VA 22203
Prepared by:
Department of the Interior
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
November 2009
of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and
points northward along the Atlantic
Coast, had recovered to the point that
the populations were removed from
the Endangered Species List. The
U.S. Gulf Coast populations in Texas
and Louisiana, although still listed as
endangered, were recently estimated at
nearly 12,000 breeding pairs. The brown
pelican is also still listed as endangered
in the Pacific Coast portion of its range
and in Central and South America. The
population of the subspecies found in
southern California, which includes
nesting islands in Mexico, is estimated
at more than 11,000 breeding pairs.
As a result of the ban on the use of
DDT in the United States, as well as
complementary conservation efforts,
the species has made a strong comeback
and, in view of its improved status,
has been removed from the list of
threatened and endangered species
throughout its range. The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service now estimates the
global population of brown pelicans at
650,000 individuals.
Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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Remember the 70's? C'mon, of course you do. The Bee Gees, John Travolta, and Ford Pintos exploding on rear impact? Well, LARD hasn't forgotten. And they are dying to share those memories on the title track of their new EP, 70's Rock Must Die. 70's Rock Must Die is an epic screaming for a music video. It's a trip down Melrose with long hair and leather- Jello, Al, and Paul flipping the bird as they drive. And, yes, that actually IS Jello singing.
As you know, we're so into this little ditty at ATR that we have purchased a 1979 FORD Pinto that will be auctioned off on eBay the day of release - February 7th, 2000. If you like this, there is plenty of merchandise to go along with it: iron-on t-shirt transfers, buttons, posters, y ou name it
As you may have surmised, the track 70's Rock Must Die is a bit of a musical departure for LARD. But don't fret, the rest of the EP harkens back to the LARD that we all know and love. Here are 2 new gems boasting crushing guitars, freakish noises and Jello's wailing vocals - the pulverizing sounds that have come to characterize LARD.
This is the first LARD release in over 2 1/2 years. In fact, these tracks didn't make it onto their last album, and we couldn't keep them on the shelves waiting for the next.
"You wouldn't think JELLO BIAFRA would attempt something as anathema to him as a turgid, seven-minute 70s rock anthem. But the hilarious title-track here shows the ex-DEAD KENNEDYS leader will go just about anywhere to make an acrid comment. No kidding, you could slip this baby on any urban classic rock station, in between the obnoxious, puerile shock-jock rants, and the mindless headbangers would eat up its Stones/Aerosmith/Zep/AC/DC cock-rock riff like mice who don't notice the trap around the cheese until the steel-trap surprise lyrics slam into them! (And even hard rock fans who never notice ridiculously awful metal lyrics won't be able to escape this hysterical chorus refrain, "Well c'mon! C'mon! 70s rock must die!" Spinal Tap would be hard-pressed to lampoon the genre better; Biafra even dons a plausible Axl Rose voice for the occasion.
In fact, this send-up is so good, a thousand 80s hair bands in head bands, leopard-skin pants, and muscle t-shirts (and their spandex girlfriends) spring to mind like an outbreak of a styling mousse plague. But whereas Spinal Tap was just for cackles, Biafra's loathing is obvious. He decries the ceaseless perpetuation of the vapid rock charicature that punk bands like Dead Kennedys meant to crush, while lamenting that the opposite has since occurred: Nowadays, "Alternative" bands just warm over the same wanky riffs with a smart-ass'itude, and suddenly the genre goes from cartoon to credible? New shiny bottle, same fetid product. In any case, this is drop-dead funny.
As for the rest, "Volcanus 2000 (We Wipe the World)" returns Lard to its original 1988 industrial footing provided by collaborator AL JOURGENSEN of MINISTRY, slinging a similar sneer at all the self-conscious, neo-satanic slummers who want to be the next Nine Inch Nails. The "mountains of trash" in the coda sound too real to anyone who has seen the stink and odious rot of landfill like Staten Island's near New Jersey, or gotten a whiff downstream of a passing garbage barge. But it could just as easily refer to your average record reviewer1s daunting, decrepit new-CD pile. Finally, "Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter" is a fine metallic-industrial stomper. Biafra remains one of the great brains in all of underground music, and it's good to hear him putting his twisted jibes to a beat again. In any form!"- Jack Rabid/The Big Takeover


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Originally published on February 6, 2013 1:31 pm
The economy may be on the rebound, but life is getting tougher for some people in the middle class. With rising gas prices, insurance costs, and higher payroll taxes, people are feeling squeezed. Host Michel Martin asks if there's any financial relief in sight.