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GOP Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy On The Iran Deal Vote
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy joined me today to discuss the Iran deal and the House's consideration of it:
HH: Joined now by the House Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, Congressman from California. Majority Leader of the House now at a crucial moment actually in world history. Majority Leader McCarthy, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
KM: Thanks for having me, Hugh. I appreciate this.
HH: What is the status of the Iran deal? When's it come to a vote? What do you think is going to happen?
KM: I actually just came back from Israel this month. [There about] thirty-five members on the members on the Republican side. I think the Democrats have like eighteen. We've actually had a couple of days of bipartisanship over there, looking and analyzing, at the same time, of how it would affect the region. So when we come back, there's a clock that is ticking. We'll have until September 17th according the parliamentarian, and in the House, we will take it up the first week. And when you look at this, Hugh – think about this – everything else in history, this should be a treaty. But the president wants to take foreign policy and make it like an executive action where he doesn't even work for the two-thirds in the Senate to have a treaty or a simple majority in the House and Senate. But he wants to hold the minority within a minority to uphold the veto – to change the course of not just America, but of the world. You know, in thirteen years, if this goes forward, Iran could have a nuclear weapon that could be approved by America. Thirteen years is not that far away. Fifteen years ago was 9/11.
HH: What was the reaction in Israel to the proposed deal as you moved around the Israeli political and military elites?
KM: Both groups had some tremendous meetings with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, and he was the best I have ever seen him – the prime minister. He came in and brought a whiteboard and said, "I've cleared my schedule. I'll take any question you have, and let's walk through it." And I've been throughout the region in other parts, I know the king of Saudi Arabia in today's meeting with the President. I was over there six months into Iraq and then to Saudi Arabia. Their concern was more about the money Iran was going to get. Think about what Iran does with their money now when we have sanctions, but when you got a suspension, and they're getting – which could be bigger than Greece bailout – what are they going to do with that money?
HH: Well that's why I attempted to raise that yesterday with Donald Trump when we side-tracked into a rather infamous exchange now. But I wanted to know–
KM: You got a little tough on that, too, Hugh (laughs).
HH: (Laughs) Just a little. But a hundred and fifty billion in Soleimani's hands is what I'm worried about. He is a mastermind of terror and what is Netanyahu and his colleagues say will happen to that money.
KM: Well, not only his colleagues, everyone that knows it around the world. He will fund terrorism. What has he done now from Yemen into Syria into Iraq into places. He is funding terrorism everywhere else and now you get a windfall. What happens when we read these stories if somebody is an addict and they get a windfall of money? They OD. This person – Iran – will OD, spend endless money for terrorism around the world. Privately, leaders in the Middle East have told me that they are more afraid of that money than they are of anything else, that that will disrupt and the safety of everything else that is happening. And maybe an advantage in different parts where we don't know if we can sustain.
HH: Now Kevin McCarthy, there are thirty-four Senate Democrats already on the record. The second presidential debate in which I'm participating comes up and I'm sure the Iran deal will be on the table. If the House rejects it, and the Senate gets it to the vote and rejects, the floor of that debate on the 16th, do you think that's going to happen so we have at least an opportunity to persuade the American people via the statements of the candidates on the stage about the deal.
KM: Yes, we will have it before then because of the deadline of the Senate piece, but the American people are there two-to-one opposed to this. Think of this. The American people – they had a poll last week – in the swing states. These are not red. These are not blue. These are the swing states. Two to one opposed to it. You have a majority – the bipartisan majority vote in the House and Senate will be opposed to it. The next leader of the Democrats inside the Senate is opposed to it. The ranking member on foreign affairs inside the Senate is opposed to it. Those that know and have studied and people that have been trusted, are opposed to it. In Israel, it's not from one side or one party – the opposition of Bibi is opposed to it because they know it, they see it, they live it every single day. And the president isn't trying to get the majority of America supporting, he's trying to uphold a veto and just play the one-third. Who in the history of America's presidency ever would lead foreign policy by trying to just hold one-third when everybody else says it's the wrong thing to do.
HH: Well, I hope everyone listening contacts their senators and congressmen to urge a no-vote on the deal. Let me ask you a related question – whatever happens, especially if this deal goes through, we need America's military to be funded and I believe the House has passed a defense appropriations bill, but I believe the Senate is filibustering that. Am I correct, Kevin McCarthy?
KM: Yes, you are. In the House, we've taken up the approps. process. The Senate has not. This is crucial to what the world will look like because people will have to realize, if this goes into agreement – it's not just about Iran and America – there will be a nuclear weapon race. Why would any other country not hold back? And think about the change in pace. So now there's a reason our allies don't trust us and our enemies don't fear us. That is becoming an unsafe world. You know what the President in Alaska – what does he look out when he looks at the strait? He looks out a number of Chinese ships. Georgia. What do they do they see this week? They see a spy ship from Russia sitting in a submarine port. They would have never taken this action before.
HH: Do you think the eighteen Democrats who went with you that you'll get some of them to vote no?
KM: They have to. I do not see how they can walk where we walked. We went bipartisan to look at an Iron Dome system. The Iron Dome that sits there knocks down ninety percent of those missiles that came from Hamas in the Gaza Strip who are not far from it. But think for a moment, even in America, why we're doing this agreement this Iran, they still can have ballistic missiles tested. Those are not missiles being tested to try to go to Israel. Those will go around the world, and thirteen years they can load those missiles with a warhead that is nuclear. And thirteen years, again, is not that far way – 9/11 was fifteen years ago.
HH: Kevin McCarthy, you make an elegant case. I hope people are listening and I hope they pick up the phones and they call their senators and Congressmen, especially those thirty-four Democrats in the Senate who've already made up their mind before the debate happens. It's astonishing to me. Thank you for joining me, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the House of Representatives, just back from Israel.
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WASHINGTON – Exercises and the promise of more exercises in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine has reassured America's European allies, the deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Europe said here today.
Speaking at a Defense Writers Group breakfast, Maj. Gen. Walter E. Piatt said the command is well-situated to answer threats to security in the region and to further interoperability among NATO allies and partner nations.
The exercises mean the United States takes its commitment to NATO and to allies very seriously, Piatt said. The exercise program is not new, he stressed, noting that the U.S. Army wanted to continue to build on interoperability with NATO allies gained from more than a decade of war in Afghanistan. But the program has grown with Russia's actions in Ukraine, he added.
Shifting to preparedness
U.S. Army Europe had been training U.S. and multinational troops for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for years at state-of-the-art facilities in Grafenwohr and Hohenfels, Germany. "So we were meeting the operational demand," the general said. "We needed to shift from meeting the operational demand to meeting operational preparedness."
Coalition forces -- very well-schooled in counterinsurgency -- had to learn again the full range of operations, Piatt said. "We didn't know what was next, but we knew we wouldn't do it alone," he said. "If we're going to deploy together, we need to train together."
The first series of NATO exercises under this new plan took place in November. Officials were going to rotate a unit from the United States to Germany for Exercise Combined Resolve, but sequestration spending cuts quashed that, Piatt said, so U.S. Army Europe used local units and went forward.
Proof of principle for multinational brigade
The exercise combined U.S., Czech and Slovenian forces making up most of a brigade. Nine countries participated with about 3,000 service members. Piatt called it the "proof of principle" in creating a multinational brigade.
"What we learned was our allies are very competent," he said. "There are experienced forces throughout Europe."
This was followed by Combined Resolve 2 and Sabre Junction, and the command is ramping up for Combined Resolve 3. Soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, are arriving in Europe with their tanks, armored personnel carriers and other accouterments for the exercise.
Going forward, U.S. Army Europe would like to bring over a heavy brigade combat team, Piatt said, and when the exercise is finished, it would leave its equipment in Europe for follow-on forces.
U.S. Army Europe has roughly 31,000 soldiers -- a far cry from the more than 300,000 assigned to the command at the height of the Cold War. Yet these forces -- plus rotational units -- will be a seed for NATO interoperability, the general said.
Interoperability is about relationships
At its core, Piatt told the defense writers, interoperability is all about relationships. Building trust and understanding each other's capabilities and procedures are key to coalition operations -- from disaster response to full-out war, he said.
"You don't want to meet the team on the ground for the first time," Piatt said. "We saw this many times in Afghanistan, … where you would be meeting forces from other nations for the first time when you have a real operational demand. We're doing that now so the relationships and trust are in place before deployment."
He spoke of a recent exercise in which a Hungarian joint tactical air controller called in a German Tornado to provide fire for a U.S. armored battalion. "That's how it works. That's interoperability. That's how the alliance works," the general said.

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You and your family love snow cones (who doesn't), and you want to keep the fun going after you leave the fair, carnival, or mall. Home snow cone makers are basically ice shavers with some cabinetry to make them more stylish and appealing. It would be tempting to buy a cheap snow cone machine, but you may be disappointed with its performance.
A snow cone machine needs a special design to get the ice to come out like you're used to at the fair or carnival. Making snow cone machine ice is very hard on the equipment and many of the inexpensive models may not be able to take the punishment.
Also, if you're just making snow cones for yourself, a smaller shaved ice machine may be fine. If you're making them for your family and their impatient friends at a party, then a smaller, less expensive sno cone machine will only cause frustration. I can think of few things worse than having half your kids and their guests eating snow cones and half just standing there bored. It's even more likely that the kids without snow cones will cause some sort of mayhem because they have nothing to do.
Save yourself the embarrassment, frustration, and impatient whining by purchasing a better quality snow cone maker that can quickly satisfy multiple requests for snow cones while providing the kind of snow cone ice experience you're used to.
Also, remember that many snow cone machines can provide ice for more than just snow cones. Many desserts and drinks call for shaved ice and ice shaver machines made for snow cones can easily handle whatever is required.
Few machines come with syrup in a variety of snow cone flavors and snow cone cups, so you will have to buy those yourself. If you want to make it yourself, I've seen some great recipes for syrup online. Why would you want to make it yourself? Besides saving money, making it yourself gives you the flexibility to make new flavors and make sure the flavors you love are just the way you like them.
Here's one popular recipe.
DIY Snow Cone Syrup
- 1.5 cups sugar or Splenda
- 1.5 cups water
- 2 packs of your favorite flavor Kool-Aid mix (can use sugar free)
Mix sugar and water in a sauce pan and bring to a boil. After it is boiling, mix in 2 packs of Kool-Aid mix while boiling for about 1 minute. Let the mixture cool. Put mixture into a squeeze bottle or sports drink bottle. Make the ice and squirt in syrup to taste!
Don't want to make your own syrup? Here are some choices to Snow cone syrup and the traditional cone cups.
We looked for snow cone machines that are reasonably priced, fully capable, and look good in your home. Take a look at our list and see if one of these fun sweet treat machines is the best snow cone machine for your needs!
Nostalgia Electrics RSM602 Retro Series Snow Cone Maker
If you're looking for a snow cone maker that will look great in your home and fits on your countertop too, the Nostalgia Electrics RSM602 Retro Series Snow Cone Maker is a great choice. It lets you use standard ice cubes to make shaved ice fast for snow cones, fruit slush drinks, yogurt snow and smoothies. Its retro design will look fantastic in the kitchen, family room, or rec room, but is also perfect for dorms, offices, and clubhouses. Stainless-steel ice-shaving blades insure long life. Here's what you need to know.
- Countertop retro-styled snow cone maker with stainless steel ice-shaving blades
- Side tray to hold cones
- Removable ice compartment
- Uses regular-size ice cubes
- 2 reusable plastic cones included
- Built-in safety on/off switch
- Easy to use and clean
- Makes great ice
- Fun and versatile for kids and adults
- Compact for easy storage
- Noisy operation
- Questionable durability
- Some reported problems with reliability
- Ice can get stuck
Nostalgia Electrics SCC200 Vintage Collection 53-Inch Snow Cone Cart
The Nostalgia Electrics SCC200 Vintage Collection 53-Inch Snow Cone Cart takes snow cone making to a whole new level. Already have a popcorn machine, love the nostalgia look, which you had a snow cone cart like the carnival; then this is the shave ice machine for you! It's really a beautiful machine that will look good in any family room or rec room and is sure to be the life of any fundraiser or party for children or adults. It not only looks great, it does a great job of shaving ice fast, comes with a handy storage compartment. Unlike some models, it comes with cups and syrup as well. Here's what you need to know.
- 53-Inch high vintage snow cone cart with retro styling
- Shaves 2 lbs. of ice in 90 seconds
- Tempered glass windows
- Ice shaver machine has stainless steel shaving blades
- Uses standard ice cubes
- Complete with storage compartment for storing syrups, extra cones, and supplied
- 100 – Paper cones
- 100 – Spoon straws
- 2 – Syrup bottles
- 1 – Metal ice scoop
- Great for parties of all sizes
- Look great in your home
- Could pair with a popcorn machine
- Makes perfect ice
- Needs assembly
- Included snow cone syrup mix not the best
- Very short power cord
- Must wait until ice cubes soften before using
Waring Pro SCM100 Professional Snow Cone Maker
When it's hot and the kids want something cool, there is nothing more refreshing and more energizing than an icy snow cone. Whether you're an adult or a child there is something special about a shaved ice drink. This machine not only makes snow cones but it can provide the perfect shaved ice for all those party drinks as well. One of the best home snow cone machines is the Waring Pro SCM100 Professional Snow Cone Maker. It fits compactly on your counter, can make enough shaved ice for 4 snow cones in 30 seconds, and it's perfect for parties, all kinds of get-togethers, fundraisers, and more. Here's what you need to know.
- Stylish kid-friendly carnival design
- Professional-grade motor and blade mechanism makes enough shaved ice for 4 cones in 30 seconds and also supports all types of icy party drinks
- Built-in pull-out serving tray
- Fits compactly on the counter
- Uses up to 12 standard ice cubes at a time
- 12 – Paper cones
- 4 – BPA-free reusable plastic cones
- Makes ice fast
- Easy clean-up
- Very user-friendly
- Safe operation
- Ice chute is small
- Compact for easy storage
- Handle is flimsy
Snow Cone Machine
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Robert Kent advises on matters related to business crimes, internal and government investigations and corporate compliance. Top-ranked in Chambers USA since 2012, clients note his extensive experience in complex global investigations, his deep understanding of FCPA matters, and his capability in compliance program advice.
Robert is a former chief of the Complex Fraud Section of the US Attorney's Office in Chicago, supervising its white-collar crime prosecution program. He has successfully handled over 15 jury trials and 15 appellate arguments.
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Robert focuses on internal investigations, white-collar criminal defense, corporate compliance and complex civil litigation. He has represented numerous corporations and individuals in government investigations and proceedings. He has also counselled many corporate clients on improvements to their compliance programs, anti-corruption due diligence in advance of mergers and acquisitions, and responses to data security breaches.
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- Conducted internal investigations to resolve allegations of violations of the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws for companies in the defense, healthcare, communications, public relations, manufacturing, telecom, automotive, electric power, oil and gas, food processing and freight-forwarding industries.
- Obtained a full declination for a global defense contractor from the DOJ and the SEC in an FCPA investigation arising from a USD 1 million bribe scheme executed at the company's China subsidiary.
- Represented two financial institutions in negotiating non-prosecution agreements with the DOJ in connection with tax fraud allegations.
- Represented an engineering firm in negotiating a non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ in connection with trade secret theft allegations.
- Acted for a professional services firm in obtaining a full declination from the DOJ in connection with a False Claims Act investigation.
- Represented a manufacturing company and a healthcare company before the SEC in connection with investigations into accounting fraud allegations.
- Conducted internal investigations to resolve allegations of fraud and theft for companies in the manufacturing, real estate, medical diagnostics, information services, advertising and travel industries.
- Advised companies in multiple industries on compliance program design and implementation.
- Represented numerous individuals in government investigations of alleged corruption, healthcare fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, tax fraud and antitrust violations.
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I'm watching the President's address from the carrier Abraham Lincoln. What a spectacular setting for a "shift in focus" speech - a ship that's been at sea for ten months, whose crewmembers fought in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and who are now just a day's journey from their homes and families.
I watched earlier footage of the President arriving in an S-B3 Viking jet, making it the first fixed wing carrier landing of a sitting president. He had wanted to fly in on an F-18, but it's only a two-seater aircraft, and the Secret Service wouldn't allow him to do it. I liked the fact that "Navy 1" had "George W. Bush, Commander in Chief" stenciled beneath the cockpit window. He admitted that he did take the controls for a while on the flight to the ship - he had been a pilot in the Texas National Guard Air Force.
Some people will say that the President's visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln is just a political publicity stunt. Maybe so, but I have to say, I think it's pretty cool. And looking at the faces of those young sailors, one could tell that they are all just THRILLED to have him on board. There is a genuine depth of feeling from these thousands of service men and women as he moves among them.
[Even if he is just Airforce.]
Quote du jour:
"Only events and not a man's exertions in his own behalf, can make a President."
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) US president, lawyer
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MELBOURNE, Fla., July 11, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has achieved a CMMI(r) Level 5 rating in the Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Integrated Product & Process Development and Supplier Sourcing (SE/SW/IPPD/SS) models at its Melbourne facility. A Level 5 is the highest possible for benchmarking commercial and defense industry best management practices and processes.
The Melbourne facility, part of Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems sector, has attained the additional organization-wide Level 5 maturity ratings for IPPD and SS against the Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI(r)) standard. The facility achieved a Level 5 rating for SE/SW models last year.
"The success at achieving an additional CMMI(r) Level 5 for the IPPD and SS models at our Melbourne operation is further evidence of our commitment to quality and continuous process improvement," said Alan Doshier, sector vice president and general manager of the facility. "Adding these to our existing systems engineering and software Level 5 processes are key to our business growth and low-risk program execution, especially as we pursue major opportunities such as the Air Force's Air Operations Center Weapon System Integrator and KC-135 Tanker Replacement programs."
"In addition to covering all our engineering disciplines, we had the processes in our program management, procurement and material departments appraised and included in our assessment," said Bob Devoe, director of Engineering, Logistics & Technology at the Melbourne facility. "This Level 5 CMMI rating demonstrates our product-development maturity and that our leadership understands the importance of developing a process culture and is committed to achieving the highest standards."
"The effort this division has made stepping up to an additional CMMI(r) Maturity Level 5 is significant," said Andreas Felschow, external lead appraiser for The Process Company and SEI partner.
This rating ranks Northrop Grumman within the top 10 percent of the industry in process management and assures Northrop Grumman customers that the company is providing improved quality, greater productivity and predictable program performance.
The rating was achieved after a comprehensive assessment conducted at the company's Melbourne, Fla., facility. The Process Company, LLC, an external organization independent of Northrop Grumman, conducted the appraisal in accordance with the formal Standard CMMI(r) Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI(tm)) methodology.
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Miscellanious Panel Changes in Update 2
There have been a lot of other UI changes with Update 2 so far, mostly stemming from the Character Panel change and the LI revamp that is in the works. Here are some screenshots of the changes I've noticed so far.
The new 'Wallet' — has the old barter wallet in it as well as your money, destiny points and 'Shards' for relics. Accessible from a button on the radar and also by hitting 'B'.
New LI Window — Note the two extra tabs and the red/gold icons on the legacy. It is believed they denote Pool A/B.
New ^ Menu drop Downs — Under 'Character' you can see there are some new drop down submenus. This is because most of this is not accessible from the character panel anymore. This could be annoying when trying to look at Reputation.
The New Instances in the Instance Join Panel — as you can see, we've gotten some new instances! The top one is the raid, the next to are fellowships, and the bottom two are small fellowship. Note that you can't access them from the IJ panel until you discover their actual location in-game.


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PeopleManager is a modular system allowing you to select only the tools that are relevant and useful to your business without being burdened with unnecessary tools that make the system harder to use and upkeep. The HR module contains all the important employee information in one, easy to use, place.
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Most organisations that do not have a dedicated HR system manage their employee information in a selection of excel spreadsheets, which have a tendency to grow in number and complexity as the business develops, with the constant concern that the data may not be accurate across the board.
PeopleManager has been designed to free employers from the time consuming and resource heavy maintenance of manual records ensuring that you have easy access to your employee information in a straightforward way. Its structure and flexible reporting tools will save you time and costly resource maintaining a variety of manual data sources.
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- Time and Attendance Module for those employers who want to keep a close, accurate track of working times and absences
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- Employee Portal – employees can update their information, submit holiday requests, complete appraisal forms or access HR documents e.g. Handbooks. Putting the responsibility for their key data back in their hands.
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- Agency Module – allowing agency employers more specialised selection based rotas. Remote time sheet and expenses submission, client invoicing and cost/profit analysis.


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Geeco Jet king self priming pump with in built Venturi & Nozzle enables automatic priming with suction capacity up to 25 feet. No foot valve or check valve required in the suction pipe. Totally enclosed fan cooled class B insulated motor with in built Thermal over load protector give a long trouble free continuous service. Aluminum powder coated motor body. Durable cast iron volute with dedicated priming port for volute filling . Heavy duty Class F insulated motor makes the unit best in its class.
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- Maintenance free running
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Power 12.5hp to 20hp
Head Up to 200 feet (60 mts)
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There he stands in front of the sign. Smug. Mayor of Podunk. Mr. Big in Smallsville. Always dressed like he was going to a funeral. Got to make a good image, he said. "Thank You. Come Back Soon" the sign says. He designed it. He had it built. Talked someone into donating it. Why pay if you can get someone to give it to you. Think of the impression it will make and business it will bring he told them. Arm twisting. Coercion, but subtle. Smarmy, I thought, with that red heart and frou-frou lettering. And those cheap porch posts from the lumber store. He had one placed at each edge of town. Get 'em coming and going, he said. He didn't mean it; not really. Well, maybe if you were a nice white family with well-behaved kids and you kept your grass mowed and your dog didn't bark too loud and you were conservative and Protestant. Even better if you were Pentecostal. Otherwise, not so much. Maybe nothing overt, no real harassment or hassle. But if you knew him you knew it was there. The cops knew what he expected. They knew what would happen if they didn't follow the rules. Still, in his mind, appearance was most important. He believed his own stories. The fact that his children avoided him and his grandchildren were afraid of him and he yelled at his wife and called her worthless were side issues. Don't talk about it to anyone or you'll really get it. Wide berth. "Come Back Soon" the sign says. I made it out, Granddaddy. No, I won't.
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It is Thursday.
Today I ate chicken noodle soup for lunch. And multi-grain rice crackers.
Sheeeeiiittttt! It is only day two of NaBloPoMo and already I'm wondering what I've gotten myself into. How am I gonna produce a post a day? I'm just not that inspired. My life = boring. What to write about. What to write about.
Or, being honest here, my un-weight loss. I just really, REALLY, depressed myself by counting the weeks I've been attending Weight Watchers. Tonight is week 38. And I haven't even broken the 20 pound mark yet. I have been thisclose some weeks. And this
close other weeks. It is frustrating me to the point that 20 is now my least favourite number. 20, I hate you more than 13. I hate you more than 85 (number of pounds I need to lose). I hate you more than 30 (number of days I have to blog in a row…and could I please whine about this fact more?).
Two weeks ago, I was a mere 0.2lbs away from my 20. So last week I tried to do everything right. I ate well, I counted my points, I journalled, I worked out…and I gained another pound. I actually cried all the way home. I blubbered and sniffled all the way through the drive-thru, where I purchased enough fast-food to double myself in size. I cried along with Spandeau Ballet (so truuuue, funny how it seems, I'll always be fat, I'll never live the skinny dream…) on the radio, until I pulled into my driveway and weeped all the way to the front door. Where I was met with two shining faces, waiting eagerly as they always do, to enquire, "how much did you lose this week Mom?"
Some say it's easier to lose weight if you do it with a friend or relative, but I'm beginning to think they didn't mean me, the Green-Eyed-Jealous-Bitchy-Monster. I joined WW with my Mom and Sister-in-Law. In fact, I practically had to drag my Mom to her first meeting. She insisted she couldn't stick to a "another" diet regimen, she'd been on enough diets in her life to know they didn't work and she just didn't have the energy to try. Guess what? Out of the three of us, she's lost the most weight. She's done the regular exercise, she's kept up her food journal, she's gone without treats. She'll probably hit the 45 mark tonight. For the first time in my 34 years, she has a waist! And my SIL, Debbie, she's lost over 40 pounds herself. She looks fabulous and just recently put on a pair of jeans two sizes smaller that she hasn't worn in five years.
And me? All I can think of is how I hate being so behind them. They're both over the 40 mark and I can't even break the 20. I'm feeling like a loser. Not a weight loser, a regular joe-blow loser. The next 65 pounds just seem so daunting. I mean, if I can't even lose 20lbs how the hell do I expect to ever reach 30 or 40 or 80?
Right now I'm of the mind that if I ever actually get over the 20 pound hump I don't want any acknowledgement for it. The WW leader usually gives you a gold star for every five pounds you lose and then makes a big deal about it by announcing it in the meeting. I'm going to request that she doesn't do that. It needs to be skipped. Because when she asks me that question, "so how is the program working for you?" a lot of bad swears will flow out of my mouth, accompanied by black smoke and flying insects. Also a fullscale WWF-like wrestling match could ensue, complete with some bashing of those uncomfortable hotel meeting room folding chairs over people's heads. There may even be mention of where she can actually stick that gold star…
…like right up 20's ass!


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Finegan's assorted managerie of beeping junk.
Ghetto-Colo Status:
Machines On:
6 (Gaspode, Tyler, Wolfwood, Osiris, Tom, DrGonzo)
Laptops Functional:
3 (Sidearm, Earth, Nimble)
Last Updated:
5-19-05 Well, Hunter S. may be gone, but Raoul Duke is alive in well in the ghetto-colo. Introducing DrGonzo, the new house fileserver. In other news the house is at the fewest number of running machines since we moved in, with Tenacious, Diane, and Orwell all retired for the time being. (5-21-05) and with the 2x250 SATA drives that arrived, Dr.Gonzo now has 1Tb of storage, ph33r my fileserver!
June 27th, 2004
Almost 1 year of the new machines page and I like the way its working out. I added the
Ghetto-Colo Status
heading above to further help my ever decaying sanity. It just covers the ghetto-colo boxen and laptops, not the rest of the diaspora that is my root access.
June 30th, 2003
I figured it was about time to get over the
, idiosyncracies of the machine's page, as well as clean off the poor crates that have been parted out, gutted, stuffed in a closet or turned into a nightstand.
For the sake of sanity, posterity, and humour, here's the original
The criteria for being on this list is now:
Regularly running.
Has a reason for existence. (I left Gomer on the old list, as well as plugged in, for far too long.)
I have root access.
Internet Hosts
: Around Decemeber of '04 we noticed that Melchoir was crashing on a pretty weekly basis, so Saneesh and I resolved to do something about it. Then a few months passed as I was junked out on World of Warcrack and Saneesh was distracted by something shiny. Then we had the
that required an emergency re-install. In a consumerist fit that involved some bourbon at a local bar that happened to have free wireless, I snagged Minnow off of Ebay to replace the near constant yo-yo'ing Melchoir. It's been about a week with Minnow on the job as the 5th Clockwatching server, and aside from 1 daylong hiccup I pray to the grep gods was just a scsi driver issue, I think we're much better off. I had to put up the PayPal button to get some kickback from the expenditure, and was stark raving shitkicking amazed that nearly the whole bill was covered in 6 hours. I also promised that the phatest donation would have the honour of naming the new machine, and that went to Spoon. So here is Minnow:
Slackware 10.1
Two 800Mhz Pentium 3 Coppermines
73Gb SCSI RAID 1
Nope, None...
Found an obscure bug with 2.4.25-pre7 where XFS on a 4k chunk, built on a raid array with a 1k chunk algorithm, freaks out the raid buffer and
it keeps juggling back and forth between the two
. Since I had to go to the
Undisclosed Location
to boot it to 2.4.25-pre7, I was a little put out by the fact that it wouldn't work all peachy keen like I thought. Evidently a fix is in the works according to some LKML chatter, but after recreating the bug on Diane, the quickest and easiest fix I could find was just slapping on a 2.6.1 kernel. Well shit, the Clock is now on its 3rd kernel series, having started with 2.2.16. We remote booted into 2.6.1 after a solid test on Diane, still, it takes balls to "boot and pray". I was planning on blaming it all on Saneesh if it didn't work.
A few days prior to the Ides of Clock we dropped a single 1Gig stick into Melchoir and fired it back up. That's about it for nickel and dime upgrades, after this is dual Xeons or something.
Upgraded the shit out of Melchoir's OS, doing an install of Slackware 10.0 on a spare SCSI 18Gb (Thanks again to Twi, who donated Melchoir in the first place >:) It takes a lot to Clockify a base install these days, and there's still stuff here and there that I'm finding is broken. The migration went alright this time, easier then last even, despite the fact I couldn't get Melc to boot from his scsi drive so I just used a spare IDE partition for /boot. That, and the entire time I was at the
undisclosed location
I had this monster spot cooler blowing freezing air right at my ass.
Slapped Slack 10.1 on Melchoir as an emergency upgrade, then within a week realized it was time to get a new machine, and picked up Minnow, which is an SGI 1200, nearly identical hardware to Melchoir, a VA Fullon 2200.
was my last big computer purchase. Okay, before you start screaming "bullshit" at the top of your lungs, I'm not fucking kidding here, I haven't spent more then $75 for a whole machine since I picked up Wolfwood a year and a half ago for something like $300 off of E-bay. Then I ran around and spent money on a Type 5 keyboard and downloaded Solaris 8 and picked up a Sun monitor only to find that: It came with a freebee keyboard and mouse, and with a pre-install of Solaris 8, and none of the that was on the invoice. The monitor was just me being a dumbass and not knowing that Sun had switched to HD-15 with the Ultra 1. A year ago I stuck OpenBSD on it after a long stint of SuSe 7.3 Sparc edition, after about 5 hours of it running Slow-laris.
OpenBSD 3.7
270Mhz UltraSparc IIi
4.8Gb IDE (wooowheee, yeah, this sucks!)
1, 15-inch, that the framebuffer continues to freak out, so I don't even bother to run X.
Updates: 11-09-03
Upgraded Wolfwood to OpenBSD 3.4, had to use the miniroot trick yet again, this thing just doesn't like cd-rws. As usual, an OpenBSD version upgrade is just humorously easy.
Upgraded Wolfwood to OpenBSD 3.5, damn I love miniroot!
Upgraded Wolfwood to OpenBSD 3.6, fuckin-A, miniroot still kicks ass.
Upgraded Wolfwood to OpenBSD 3.7, blah blah blah miniroot rules. Blah!
is the product of our need here at the ghetto-colo to rip the crap out of DVDs. We were doing alright with Orwell and then Diane on the job, but 7 hour rip times were just weak! Weak I say! So I picked up this insane beast and was agog at the fact that it POST'ed when I first hooked it up. It's big, its smart... and I hate Gentoo, but until Patrick compiles a native Slackware for x86_64, I'm stuck.
1.8Ghz AMD Athlon64 3000
80Gb Western Digi, 250Gb Western Digi and yep... a 200Gb Western Digi.
1/4 of the KVM of Doom and an S-Video connection to the 29-inch TV using atitvout and VESA framebuffering.
Updates: 5-21-05
2x250Gb SATA drives arrived along with the 14xDVD-RW. This is going to get vulgar.
is the assemblage of the two machines that
sent me and the old SS10 I bought off of git.ads. It has a crappy 8-bit GLX framebuffer, a buttload of RAM, an unrecognized FDDI NIC, another unrecognized SCSI wide card, and... that's about it. The idea is for this to take over as the house router when Orwell gets decommissioned and Melchoir takes over the job as the Clock. Due to the Cisco FDDI card not being supported, I bought a 100BaseT card off of Ebay for $12. It should be here in a few days. Gaspode took about fourteen hours to compile everything in the ports tree enough to get mozilla-firebird working... yeah, fourteen hours.
NetBSD 2.0rc4
Dual Ross HyperSparc 90Mhz
9Gb Seagate scsi SCA
1 17-inch Sun Monitor, hand swapped... damn I need a cheap W13J KVM.
Got the second network card in from Ebay. All ready and set-up to route, just waiting on the colo-space and the drive rails for Melchoir.
After placing a hail mary E-bay bid on a pair of Ross 90Mhz Sparcs I was quite surprised to find that I won the damn auction, so a week or so ago I was greeted with a nice little $10 package. I fought for a while to get NetBSD 1.6.2 to run SMP, later to get NetBSD-current to run, but they haven't gotten around to supporting the HyperSparc in SMP yet so it was off to Debian, which took installing woody and then apt-get'ting to sid, a royal 2 day pain in the ass.
Gaspode now has the job of being the primary DNS server. Yeah, a 10 year old machine running yesterday's 2.4.26 kernel with a pair of Ross HyperSparc chips on Debian's unstable branch is my
DNS server. Someone called me daring for this... wow, daring got lame didn't it?
I got sick of Debian hiccup'ing all over the kernels I had compiled and constantly booting into a 2.2.twentysomething compile that pre-dated the written word. The downshot was that 2.2 kinda lacks that whole iptables support kinda thing, which unfortunately means that the firewall script doesn't run and Gaspode's ass is exposed to the world in all of its port sniffing glory. If I made the default 2.4, inexplicably the machine hangs on kernel uncompress every fourth time. Well, as I can't make Georgia Power keep the juice rolling like they used to, I figured it was best to give NetBSD another run as they seem to have gotten their shit straight with Ross CPUs with 0 cache. It only took a hand built CD and 2.5 installs... yeah, sure that was worth it... Well, Tenacious has Gaspode's IPs and duties for the time being while I get NetBSD firing on all cylinders, and both processors.
The Dude
machine that was two years in the making. This is one of those brand-stinking new crates that sends me reeling with RAM envy. Serial ATA, a BIOS that talks to you, USB 2.0, firewire, an 800Mhz FSB, blah blah blah fucking evil shit fast blah. Well, I had to install on The Dude's SATA drive, connected to an Intel ICH5 SATA controller, which isn't supported in Slack 9's 2.4.20 kernel, nor the 2.4.21 upgraded kernel (well, sorta, but in legacy [read hdparm 5Mb/sec] mode), so I compiled 14 versions of 2.4.21-ac4 and finally got one small enough to take over for the default kernel on a slackware scsi2.s boot floppy. Then I fought with initrd and shit... this isn't a how-to, so I'll wrap it up with: I dropped a marmot in the tub and now The Dude is my Bitch. It also boots into some software from Redmond, but that's not my problem.
Slackware 9.0 / Windows XP Pro
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz, 800Mhz FSB
1Gb (Isn't that fucking sick, I mean a whole damn GIG! Shit man, in '96 Evil Matt and I were swooning over Jer's 1Gb hard drive!)
80Gb SATA
1 17-inch (that originally belonged to Tenacious) but the card does 2, Grant's going to buy a 17-inch
vanity accessory
flatpanel shortly.
er... thedude.clockwatching.org until his IP changes, gotta learn tsig keys...
[7-29-03] Grant slowly dropped off all the parts he had borrowed, which makes me feel guilty as all of his from old
are still strewn around the house. He's got his vanity viewscreen now and so I've got to get the nicotine stained old EV700 off of the livingroom floor.
Crates behind a firewall, laptops, etc.
was built for Saneesh out of the guts of about 5 different machines: TheScreamingBrain's motherboard and chip, Ruprecht's RAM and Nic, Orwell's old case, Wurlitzer's old PSU, and Samsara's drives. This was where our naming schema broke down, tested into the ground, we couldn't really agree on what constituted the soul of the machine, so after some jokes about calling it Stein or Frank or Adam (ala Buffy the Vampire Slayer[Season 4 villian], we settled on Leisure's suggestion of Osiris. It took two tries to get Gentoo on it happily. We figured why not just give it the Clock's old IP address while we were at it.
Gentoo 1.4
Intel Celeron 466Mhz
2x6Gb WDs
1 17-inch, one of the ones that was just lying about.
was my impulse buy off of Ebay within 24-hours of the sudden demise of Nimble. Alas poor Nimble! Well, Thinkpads cost too much new, but they depreciate at an exponential rate that matches them up to their cheap ass Dell, HP, Compaq and (not as much) Sony counterparts, so when picking up a used laptop, I would be a fool if I didn't buy another Thinkpad. I ranted and raved after Nimble croaked and called my geek friends with their myriad connections to cheap gear, and was even in danger of picking up... dare I mention it, a Mac, when I just hit the FleaBay and went shopping. All day I had been declaring over the phone, "Help me out, I need a new sidearm!", so a name was sort of obvious from the start.
Slackware 10.0
Pentium 3 900Mhz Coppermine
14.1 crisp little TFT
None, damn thing is a laptop!
Wow, didn't take long for Slackware 10.0 to come out so Sidearm got an update. I'm stuck on the horns of a dilema, apm provides a working sleep mode, but under acpi the CPU throttling works correctly whereas when I pull the plug on Sidearm it doesn't work quite right, there's an odd lag to mouse clicks, etc... hardly noticeable, but annoying. I can invest the time to get acpi and suspend working, but I'm pretty fuckin lazy if you haven't noticed. What to do, what to do... Well, the XFree86 4.4 s3savage driver works with X.org's X server, so that was a relief, although its weird not having an XF86Config file for the first time in 3 years. The Port replicator is about useless. I took it to work and it won't successfully let me switch the mouse from the PS-2 connected mose (hooked into the 8 port KVM) and the eraser head when I pull Sidearm off of the replicator. I mean if I whack X, it still thinks /dev/psaux is that port replicated mouse. I can't figure out how to get it to see 2 so I can just add a second entry to x.org.conf (or whatever the fuck XF86Config is now). Yeah, I know... a USB mouse, but then I would have 2 mice at my desk and that's lame, no the KVM doesn't do USB ports and no I'm not getting a USB hub for work, that's even more silly. Here's the real annoyance, when the video is plugged into the replicator, if I've got it switched to the LCD with s3switch (which fucking rules, right up there with atitvout!), or if its switched to the CRT, mplayer -vo xv just displays a blue box. If I take it off the replicator and just plug the CRT into the connector on the ass end of the laptop... works fine on both the CRT and LCD. Wiggedy eh? Sidearm's primary purpose at work is to play DVDs, so this is a little awkward.
has been my trusty little laptop for about 3 years now. It started out with Windows 2k, then Mandrake 8.0, RedHat 7.2, Slackware 8.0, Slackware 8.1, and now OpenBSD 3.3. I've dis-assembled the poor fucker twice, dragged it to a number of cities, abused it with just about every wireless chipset on the market, and through all of this I have come to believe in the hardiness of IBM equipment. It weighs too much, its the size of a friggin' surfboard, its a Thinkpad!
OpenBSD 3.5
Pentium 3 500Mhz Coppermine
er... 1, 15-inch I think, its friggin huge!
None, the fucker is mobile!
In a fit of pique I switched Nimble over to FreeBSD 5.1 from the five months or so I had it running OpenBSD. I'm liking Free a lot more then the last time I tried it around 4.5 or so. We'll see, I haven't gone through the ports tree to see if I can get firebird to compile yet.
Oh yeah... I forgot how much FreeBSD hates me. I figured it was time to figure out what these Gentoo freaks were all about.
In the middle of playing the Beastie Boys
, Nimble let out one little click and keeled over. I'm going to be guttin him soon to see if he's resurectible. This will be my first time going into a laptop's guts with no idea what is actually wrong.
Got bored and finally gutted Nimble. One tiny little wire was no longer connected, so one day and a tiny dollop of solder later and old Nimble is back on the job. This little fucker is a warrior. Probably going to OpenBSD it here shortly.
was a loan from Rob to take over for the fact that Nimble ate it when the power pin snapped free of the board about a year ago. Aside from the ballsucking Trident Cyberblade i7 video card that didn't get supported until XFree 4.2.1, its a solid little machine. When Nimble made it back from the shelf, I got the okay from Rob to continue on the loan to Nick, who now lives in the ghetto-colo, and since Nimble runs OpenBSD, this little bastard gets hammered with a lot of wireless fun, recently the ADMtek 8211 and Realtek RTL8180L chipset based cards. A few weeks ago we had about a half-dozen or so Clockwatchers over for some Bourbon and bullshit. Morphy here got handed around the circle a lot as people wanted to take a look at photos in the archive or lookup who played so-and-so in such-and-such on
. This spurred me to say, "Hey could you pass over the
, its my turn!", and now I'm screwed, as none of us here at the ghetto-colo are canabanoids, but we have a laptop commonly reffered to as the
. Nimble has since picked up the nickname
Slackware 9.1
AMD K6-3 450Mhz
128Mb, and 8 gobbled up by this nut-munching Cyberblade!
1, little 13-inch TFT
er... none, unless you count the living room.
I just took Morphy up to Slack 9.1, and really, I'm sad to say that I can't tell much of a difference. Everything is just the littlest bit newer.
After the power pin on the InfoBong snapped back in February, it took a while for Saneesh to have the time to put the motherboard back in order. I've now disassembled every damn laptop in this house.
Morphy's ghetto-rigged power-pin setup barfed again, so I dissasembled it and stuck it in a drawer. I'm not taking it off the list as I did with Nimble because this is a pretty brief setback. I'll be surprised if I wait until Saneesh makes it back from vacation.
is the last of the Nine. Saneesh picked up 9 laptops from his Father's girlfriend's company before they hit a dumpster. We only really fiddled with five of them, one of two matching Texas Instruments (Saturn and Jupiter), and three of the four matching LapNotes (Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury). Earth recently got the 3Gb drive out of the gutted Toshiba (Neptune), and a fresh install of Slackware 9.0, then a kernel upgrade via Tyler, and a pcmcia-cs compile as yenta_socket can't handle a Cirrus pcmcia bridge. This is all so that the
Grand Wireless Experiment
from two years ago can be rekindled as my co-worker Joel wants to try and get connected to the GT wireless network from off-campus via a 20Db gain yagi antenna he's getting off of Ebay. We'll see... its bound to be fun at least.
Slackware 9.0
Pentium 1 133Mhz
24Mb (yeah, that's right, 24! a it runs X! Really crappily and Firebird horks, but it runs!)
1, er... 12-inch TFT
None yet, but who knows... maybe after some tsig key madness.
I built about three years ago this coming January. It started out as a 1Ghz Slot A T-Bird, but that didn't work out so an RMA or four later and it was a 1.2Ghz Socket A T-bird. Its been through the ringer: windows 98, Slackware 7.1, 8.0, 8.1, and now 9.0 with some stops over with RedHat 7.0, 7.2, 8.0, FreeBSD 4.4 and a brief LFS that never ran much... which I should try again. Now it just dual boots Slowlaris 9 x86 and Slackware 9.0. The machine is friggin Hydra, every time I get cut down by boredom, Tyler gets another Monitor or OS. Right now I'm down to 3 and 2 respectively. I don't know what I'm going to do to this little warrior that's been through 4 video cards, 2 scsi card, 5 monitors, a dozen OSes, 4 CD/DVD drives, (but only one hard drive). In January its going to be about time to buy a new desktop uber-fucker, a new "pimp chip". The AMD Athlon64 should be rationally priced by then, and thanks to Grant I have newfound respect for Nvidia cards. This is going to be fun. Until then Jack keeps rockin' with a 3840x1024
Gentoo 1.4
AMD Thunderbird 1.2Ghz Athlon
512Mb (been up to 768Mb before... never noticed the downgrade)
1 40Gb Maxtor
3, 2 19-inch matching Samsungs and 1 19-inch Dynatron. Really, really sick!
nope, none...
Updates: 11-10-03
Switched over to Gentoo, doing one big fat emerge now, genkernel created a hanger on me, so I hand compiled one before work today. Bye-bye Slowlaris too... never could get it to boot right...
Captain Ed
I picked up at LWE for about $50 from some third-hand computer kit shop somewhere in or around Silicon Valley. Its a fun little beast. I had to borrow a copy of Irix from twitch, then hook up one of these ancient scsi CDROMs that Saneesh brought by and I had been using as jumper farms. It only took about two days, but I finally got it running ssh and apache and some other non-archaic services. Heck,
Freeware at SGI
even had a recent build of Mozilla's Firebird that installed on it. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the thing next, but hopefully something. Right now its sitting on top of Tenacious, open-cased as the only scsi-2 cable I have has 2 connectors and I can't figure out how to jumper the hard drive alone to terminate.
Irix 6.5.3
SGI Mips RS4600 133Mhz
4Gb beast of a Seagate, scsi-2
1 17-inch Sun Monitor
I turned on some port forwarding so the webserver running on this little guy is visible:
. I also dropped $10 on a little damn Scsi-2 active terminator. Hopefully the drive won't get so hot as to melt the case, but its pretty damn warm. Also, Indy Cams are about $5 on Ebay, so there's some apartment chatter about having CoffeeCam!
is the machine I was handed at work. Actually, was handed three dust cover relics and informed, "build something", so I set about figuring out which was the quickest, best video card, etc. Then I scavenged around the office for PC100 SDRAM and found 2Gigs over 3 sticks. Too bad this damn thing only recognizes .5Gb, but I might get around to flashing the BIOS and see if that helps. Its CPU fan emits a wheezing noise, its not a happy little machine. Every day at work I always manage to kick it by accident. Yeah, that's an accident alright.
Slackware 9.1
Pentium II 300Mhz
8Gb Something or other
1 17-inch Sampo POS, and some other no-name 17-inch.
I actually snagged the second monitor and I think this thing is now running on a Matrox G400 and an S3 Trio or somesuch, its been a while since I bothered with an /sbin/lspci. The little bugger won't die, I'll give it that. Its now hooked up to this monster 8-port KVM so I can break things without having to leave my desk. Also I managed to squirrel away a DVD-rom, which makes it the world's crappiest DVD player.
is one of three old echostar boxen that Saneesh scored from work. Some retired, never quite ready for prime time player. We had rumblings of building a Beowulf cluster, but as no one we know has actually gotten around to doing that, we didn't want to break the trend. In true
Great Escape
tradition, Dick and Harry are sitting un-used off to the side.Well, Saneesh needed a Windows machine around for Spice, some evil EE crap for Tech, so we came up with the ground rules:
The machine shall not be booted when the sun is out. Let not the blue screen mar the light of day.
The machine may not be connected to the network for more then 1 hour at a time. If so we've got to cleanse the network and live chickens are expensive.
The machine is a toy damnit, and I need a copy of something like StarCrack...
Windows 2000
Celeron 433Mhz
1 17-inch old beaten down Gateway EV700 shared with Diane.
None... oh my no.


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What do you do if you get a question in a media interview that you don't want to answer or can't answer…a question that comes at you rather like a wayward missile fired in a test?
I don't know what media training Prime Minister Theresa May has had, but if she had asked us how to answer a tricky question, we'd have suggested a different way to respond to Andrew Marr quizzing her on what she knew of the failed Trident missile test – a way to lessen the chance of being asked a tough question not once but four times.
Apparently Henry Kissinger once said, "If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately."
If you don't, what you risk is what seems to be happening now: what she knew and when is beginning to emerge in dribs and drabs.
A day after the Marr interview we've now been told, via a Downing Street spokeswoman, that May had been briefed about the test when she became prime minister.
But, alas for the spokesperson, that has not sunk the issue, because the media were still not told whether the PM knew the missile had misfired.
So here's another maxim worth noting: journalists don't stop covering the story just because someone won't talk to them. In this case, they won't stop covering it, just because someone won't answer that last key point.
Instead, reporters pursue the story with greater fervour, because when an interviewee or organisation appears to be building a defensive wall, reporters simply reach for longer ladders.
Perhaps we'll get an answer this afternoon when the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon addresses MPs. But if that happens, it will look as though the truth has been dragged out, rather than given openly and freely.
This is at best putting the matter into damage limitation territory. It's a no-win situation.
But we're not saying interviewees should answer every question a presenter or reporter asks. Absolutely not. But what you should do – and the Prime Minister did not do – is say why you can't answer.
There might be a host of plausible reasons, such as commercial sensitivity (you don't want to help your rivals), financial reporting rules, or it relates to something outside your area of expertise.
These work even better when preceded by the empathy response, e.g. "I can completely understand why you're asking me that, but…"
So what should Theresa May have said?
She could have tried the "security defence" – so, "That clearly relates to a matter of national security, which I obviously cannot discuss, but what I can say is…"
However, that only works here if the success/failure of tests has not been commented on publicly in the past…and they have.
She could perhaps have bought herself some time: "This is a matter of national security and one I want to discuss further with senior military advisers first, but I will be commenting on it later." It's not ideal, but at least it's not ignoring or reframing the question.
In reality, and given the way what-the-PM-knew-and-when has dominated the headlines, the best answer, if true, would surely have been to say, "Yes, I was told the test had misfired, but let me explain why I believe it would have had no bearing on the vote to renew Trident in the summer….."
I suspect that's the quote we'll soon be hearing.
But how much better it would have been had the PM landed that one yesterday, instead of veering horribly off course with some misfired messages, which only put the media and opposition parties in a state of heightened alert.
How Mrs May probably wishes that Marr interview had been just a test and not for real…


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3 Tips To Consider When You Rent A BMW M6 Cabrio
Have you been wanting to take a vacation to enjoy the sights of this gorgeous country? You just might be holding off due to the high cost of most travel destinations. However, vacations are an integral part of life and they should be enjoyed as much of possible.
With that in mind, we have found three tips that will allow you to get the best deal n a rental car without breaking the bank. In fact, using these tips you just might be able to rent a BMW M6 Cabrio! Imagine the level of fun and excitement that can lead to any vacation.
One of the very first things you are going to want to do is plan your trip as early as possible.
In fact, once you have confirmed your travel dates, it is not a bad idea to start looking for a rental car. This is especially true if you are planning to rent a luxury supercar.
These types of cars are rare and not typically found in your typical rental lot. In addition, as silly as it may sound, think about what you really want a rental car for.
Are you looking for something for a quick joyride in an exotic location like Nice or something to allow you better access to area destinations? These plans will have a large impact on your need for a rental car.
One area that people can save a lot of money is remembering one simple tip before they return their rental car. This little detail revolves around remembering to fill your tank up to the point it was when you got the car. In many instances, you will not only be charged for the cost of the gas but will receive a penalty sum on your credit card.
While this may not seem like a large amount with the price of gas rising every day and rental car companies losing valuable time having to refill, it can add up rather quickly. While we understand you want to burn the open road, just make sure you fill it up before you return it!
If you are not the type of person who dies not mind flying by the seat of their pants while traveling, you will want to stay as flexible as possible. In many instances, a week difference could mean substantial savings. Likewise, if you are able to rent mid-week as opposed to weekends, you can save a considerable amount of money.
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Who are the RSO Singers?
Around 2003, the RSO Community Chorus was disbanded due to concern over the audience's continued interest in large-scale oratorio works. Guy asked Barb Armstrong and me what we thought about the idea of a smaller "broadway-style" chorus and who we knew in the community who could possibly direct it. While I had been the accompanist for the larger chorus for a number of years, I was aware that many people missed singing in a group and that somehow between members of that chorus + people I knew from RCT—maybe we could put one together. Silly me—I said that I had directed several musicals and was familiar working with small groups of singers from theater and my church job. I guess I stepped forward to suggest myself. (I very distinctly remember his response: "No, seriously, who could we get?") He had a meeting with a couple of managing directors at RCT to consider a possible collaboration of personnel, and when he asked them who they recommended—they suggested me since I was already part of the RSO organization and knew most of the people who sang in the larger chorus. I believed we needed to continue some kind of choral group as an extension of the RSO—and Guy decided to trust me to put a group of singers together.
I reached out to strong, mainly non-professional musicians who I thought would be a good fit for the style we were trying. Some theatrical, several choral directors, all familiar with one another. It was almost instantly a family. We tried a minimally staged Broadway medley of songs the first year and a little more elaborately directed Gilbert & Sullivan operetta shortly thereafter. This group was willing to try differing styles of music to sing in concerts with the orchestra and would make themselves available for fundraisers as requested by members of the board. While most of the personnel is constant, as volunteers they need to usually commit to several months of rehearsals and performances. But they are busy and active members of the community. I always feel fortunate when I am able to recruit a balanced mix of singers, especially if they are excited about the music selected for them to perform. Whenever possible, we consult with one another to agree on the music we want to sing. We now have a fairly regular seasonal routine of concerts we are part of in the subscription series,and recent annual fundraising events contributing to being part of a fun evening of inclusion in this reputable and highly respected arts organization. I hope the community recognizes us as a local musical extension of the orchestra. We are all grateful to have the chance to work together and I appreciate the opportunity to continue to help feature great local talent!
See the RSO singers perform at the RSO's next fundraising event "Twist and Shout" on April 29th. Make sure to arrive early to see them!


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WordPress (an OpenSource project) is like a Facebook or Tumblr for websites — it allows you to easily login, add content, change the look and feel of the site, post images, and upload images and video — but is much more powerful and customizable than most anything else you have probably used. The only limitation is your knowledge of HTML, CSS, and PHP.
Difficulty: Beginner
Estimated Time: 14 hours. This includes the time to learn the skills and complete the project.
The requirements for the WordPress badge are broken into two categories, content and site management. For the badge, you'll need to complete the requirements for both skill categories. You will need to be able to describe to a program specialist the different skills and how they were used in your project.
- The difference between posts and pages.
- Ordered Lists
- Unordered Lists
- Links
- Making links that open in a new tab/window
- Adding images/photos to post content
- Adding videos to post content
- Ability to use the Text Editor to add custom HTML elements into content
Site Management:
- Creating a menu in WordPress
- Adding Widgets and Plugins
- Installing Themes
- Editing CSS within a theme
- Backing up a website
Project Ideas:
You will need to create a final project that uses the skills below. Additionally, you will need to be able to describe the skills to a Program Specialist and explain how they were used in your project.
Once the project is complete, the next step is to submit an application for review. In this, you'll need to submit a description of the project and an explanation of how you've used the required skills. Additionally, you'll need to submit a link to your completed portfolio entry for the project.
If you're looking for a free method to demonstrate the above requirements, you can sign up for a WordPress.com site. While WordPress.org is different than WordPress.com, it can be a getting started point. However, using this method will have limitations and you won't be able to demonstrate all the badge requirements. That being said, you'll be able to demonstrate the Content Requirements using this method, but not the Site Management Requirements.
Here are two alternative methods that will enable you to complete all the badge requirements:
You can install and run WordPress locally on your computer. If you do this, you can create a page that meets the requirements and submit the content for review. Here are some resources for this process:
If you choose to do the above option, you can take screenshots of your progress and submit that through the application form.
Another alternative is for DHF to provide you with a hosted environment for your WordPress site. If you're serious about developing your WordPress skills, please contact us and let us know your intent. Submit a request through the contact form or email address that is linked at the bottom of this page. There will be additional requirements with this option, but anyone who is interested in further developing WordPress skills in a live setting should pursue this option.
There are several excellent WordPress, HTML, and CSS resources out there, including entire YouTube playlists dedicated to specific skills. Here are some to get you started:
Getting Started:
- WordPress Informer YouTube Playlist: This is a comprehensive YouTube tutorial provided by WordPress Informer. Chapter Two in this playlist is about webhosting, so you may want to skip over that chapter on your first run-through. The other chapters are relevant to the skills you'll need for the WordPress badge.
- WordPress Codex's Getting Started with WordPress: If you prefer to read along with a website to read WordPress, the WordPress Codex is an excellent resource. This link contains a great list of resources sorted into categories.
- W3 Schools: W3 Schools is an excellent resource for all web related coding. There is a wealth of information, lessons, tutorials, references, and quizzes to work through.
- Beginning HTML in WordPress: Excellent reference for which HTML tags can be included in WordPress pages/posts.
- WordPress School – Visual and Text Editors: Explanation of the pros and cons of WordPress Visual/Text editors.
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text: Ragetti was a member of Captain Hector Barbossa's pirate crew serving as a cannoneer aboard the Black Pearl. He appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, and At World's End. He and his uncle Pintel never leave each other's side. He was in numeros battles such as the raid on Port Royal, skirmish off Isla Cruses , battle of Calypso's maelstrom, and capture of the Black Pearl, where he is supposed to have died.He possesses a wooden eye which pops out often; it also can be used as a distance weapon in place of a gun or axe, this eye was also Barbossa's piece of eight.


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David Ben-Ariel warns about a German-led Europe that God will permit to nuke the American, British and Jewish peoples for our national sins. Whether it's Christmas, Easter, abortion or homosexual marriages, they're all to blame and abominable, as brought out in Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall


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Garrettloader is a Thief Fan Mission Loader aimed as an alternative to the outdated DarkLoader (DarkLoader can not handle Thief 3 Fan Missions), created by Richard Potter (potterr on TTLG).
Game SupportEdit
GarrettLoader supports:
- Thief 1
- Thief Gold
- Thief 2
- Thief DS
- System Shock 2
- The Dark Mod (including standard Doom 3 Maps).
There is also support (in a basic way) for:
- Thief 2X (a full 13 mission Unofficial Sequel to Thief 2)
- Dark Metal (a heavily re-engineered version of Thief 2 and DromEd, Dark Metal allows Thief 1 FMs to be played in Thief 2, it also has masses of new objects, characters, AI intelligence and game systems).
Also since version 1.31, GarrettLoader has support for hundreds of other games via reference files, you can try it with the supplied reference files for Half Life 1 and Half Life 2.[1]
Install Game patches:
The self-extracting installation file included with Garrettloader will walk you through the installation process.
To easiest way to use FMs after downloading is to create a separate directory on your PC and save them there. In the setup portion of Garrettloader, you can specify the exact location where you are storing your FMs.
See Where to find Fan Missions.
Configuration of Games and Fan Mission directories.
Thief 1Edit
Specific info
Thief GoldEdit
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Thief 2Edit
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Thief DSEdit
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Manual clean up of filesEdit
Occasionally you will find that you'll start a new mission and run into problems. For instance, you might load one mission and when you start to play you'll see something that indicates you're going to be playing a mission other than the one you selected or you might experience crashes.
Sometimes GarrettLoader fails to cleanup the Thief folder while uninstalling a FM, so you might have to do it manually:
Install the original game missions and delete any remains of the following folders in your main Thief folder:
- Pal
- Bitmap
- Books
- Fam
- Intrface
- Mesh
- Obj
but don't delete:
- movies
- crfs
- res
Next, reinstall the mission you want to play and it should load properly.
External linksEdit
- Thief Fan Missions FAQ, TTLG Forums.


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What a week it's been. We've had the parties. We've said our goodbyes. We've packed and re-packed to make things fit. Now…it's time for Larry to haul all my things to Alaska!
Maybe I was overly optimistic when I thought three cases and a duffle bag would fit all my gear. Actually it kind of does. What it doesn't include is any tools, emergency supplies or spare parts! Larry is the "support crew"; the one who has unintentionally inherited the role as our pack mule for the trip. The poor guy has packed, shuffled, stuffed and re-packed more times than I can count. I'd ask him for a couple of spare bolts. They're buried somewhere beneath his luggage rack. I think he'd kill me.
Ultimately, we've gotten everything to fit and I've learned that sometimes less is not more. A few months back I told Larry that I'd have plenty of room to haul some of our extra supplies. How wrong I was. But I'm still confident he won't leave me stranded. After all, we're family! …plus, I have his computer in my side case.


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Employing the latest architectural trends to design the curved lines, natural ventilation, large columns and the standout feature called the Arch of Triumph, the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban was built prior to South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup at a cost of R1.6 billion. It's a multi-use stadium capable of running practically any event in this 56000-seat venue. If necessary, seating can be scaled up to hold 85000 visitors. During construction, the surrounding area was upgraded to create open spaces where safe walking and bicycling is possible.
The stadium is open all week for the public to enjoy the many offerings, the most popular being the Skycar, a trip up the arch to reach a viewing platform 106m above ground. The sea and city views from the platform are simply spectacular. For the energetic, there are stairs up to the platform.
Adrenalin seekers can attempt the Big Rush Big Swing, the highest swing in the world that travels across the length of the field.
Stadium tours are offered for those wanting to find out more about this state-of-the-art facility and if walking is not your thing or you are in a hurry, opt for a Segway gliding tour to get the condensed version.
The stadium has a few restaurants and coffee shops to relax at after revelling in the activities.
Moses Mabhida Stadium is the home ground of Amazulu Football Club, Durban's professional league outfit. Check the papers for the football schedules to watch a game.
On the first Saturday of each month, the I Heart Market is held at the stadium and is hot with the locals wanting artisanal breads, farm-fresh produce, good eats and a bargain for the home.
The stadium is close to Durban's famed Golden Mile of warm swimming beaches and within easy access to the airport and the city's hotel precinct.
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Cybersecurity: Preparing for Accountability
By Grigoriy Milis, CTO, RFA
It is the responsibility of each hedge fund to ensure that this information is protected from the kinds of data breaches that have led to international news headlines. No firm is too small or too inconspicuous to fall victim to an attack, and with the release of the SEC's OCIE Cybersecurity Bulletin, a clear message has been sent that every hedge fund must have network security safeguards in place.
One of the key takeaways from the SEC bulletin is that checking the boxes next to technology solutions is not enough for a firm to be considered protected from a breach. The idea that the right combination of security precautions will create an impenetrable barrier around network assets is a misconception.
While advanced technologies exist that can prevent known attacks and detect suspicious activity, there are numerous "zero day exploits" that capitalize on previously unidentified flaws in business applications that will go undetected until malicious activity begins. In addition, employee errors such as revealing passwords to a third party or clicking on a link disguised as legitimate correspondence, such as an email from a bank or a shipping partner, put the company at risk in ways that technologies may not be able to prevent.
Beyond failing to fulfill the guidelines set out by the SEC, this kind of "set it and forget it" approach to securing the network will not live up to the obligations firms have to protect their clients. Technology is not to blame when a firm fails to respond effectively to a data breach. Simply put, hedge funds will be held accountable for cyber-security incidents and will be penalized if they take a casual attitude towards their clients' data.
Attacks on data must be treated with the same approach as the one taken towards natural disasters in the wake of Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy: cyber-security incidents will happen and steps must be taken to minimize the impact of these incidents. There are three main elements to cyber-security preparedness: technology protection, employee education, and a clear incident-response plan. It is this last point that can mean the swift resolution of a breach versus an ongoing issue that can lead to stolen data and a loss of investor confidence.
Many hedge funds leave themselves open to exactly this kind of risk, with over 80 percent of investment advisory firms reporting that they lack a formal incident-response plan in the Investment Adviser Association's 2014 Investment Management Compliance Testing Survey.
Have a Plan
In order to begin creating a complete incident-response plan, firms must understand what these plans should encompass. Much like the firm's overall business continuity plan, a cyber-security incident-response plan contains the steps that specific team members must take once a potential breach has been identified.
Technology such as monitored intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) and next-generation firewalls (NGFW) will provide early alerts if suspicious activity is detected, but it is up to the firm's employees to respond appropriately to lessen the damage. These plans will be unique for each firm, and the plans of larger firms with more complex infrastructure may require the inclusion of more elements and additional departments.
The first step in an incident-response plan should be to learn what data is affected by the breach. This includes identifying systems and servers that have been breached, along with what team members are responsible for those systems. From here, the responsible parties will have a set series of actions that must be taken to triage and quarantine compromised systems. Research must be done to identify how the threat entered the network.
Attacks can occur in a vast number of ways, including via unpatched software, unauthorized web usage, and spear-phishing attacks that target employee behavior. Once a determination has been made as to how the attack occurred, steps must be taken to ensure this type of attack will not happen again. This resolution will most likely take a form that combines technology enhancements with employee education.
It may seem pessimistic to assume that any firm can fall victim to a data breach, but it is a line of thought that will make businesses take threats to their network security seriously. The fact is that investors, regulators, and partners have an expectation that when they share their most sensitive data, it will be kept safe from compromise. While the increased level of accountability placed on hedge funds may seem intimidating, there are common sense steps that can be taken to reduce the impact of a cyber-security incident. Your firm can't afford to be unprepared.
Cyber-security: Preparing for Accountability (Waters Technology, October 24, 2014)


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Oil Pulling for Teeth Whitening and Bad Breath Tested
When oil pulling was put to the test for teeth whitening, halitosis, and dental enamel erosion the results were no better than rinsing with water or worse.
Subscribe to Dr. Greger's free nutrition newsletter at http://www.nutritionfacts.org/subscribe and get a free excerpt from his latest NYT Bestseller HOW NOT TO DIE. (All proceeds Dr. Greger receives from his books, DVDs, and speaking directly support NutritionFacts.org).
This is the 3rd in a 4-part series on oil pulling. If you missed the first two, watch them here:
• Does Oil Pulling Help With Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Does-Oil-Pulling-Help-With-Cancer)
• Oil Pulling Benefits for Plaque and Gingivitis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Oil-Pulling-Benefits-for-Plaque-and-Gingivitis)
The final nail in in the coffin of oil pulling in the last video of this series, The Risks of Oil Pulling (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-risks-of-oil-pulling).
How can we protect our enamel? See:
• Plant-Based Diets: Dental Health (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-dental-health/)
• Protecting Teeth From Hibiscus Tea (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Protecting-Teeth-From-Hibiscus-Tea)
• The Downside of Green Smoothies (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-downside-of-green-smoothies)
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