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Poems by manny moreno : 9 / 8
Liberty and Justice For All
Summer afternoon
in Modesto
tramps piss in
a parking lot
in broad daylight
by Bank of America,
no shame to
their game.
There in
they scavenge in
garbage bins
for morsels before
maggots do.
Tattered spirits
draped in rags
scrape along
sidewalks shared
with solemn stiffs
in grey suits and
shiny shoes.
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I might have to try this! Not so much for the nostalgia, but because one of my biggest problem with alts is that I level slowly, and when all my friends blaze by me in level I feel more and more like a dead weight to them and just give up on that toon.
The idea of a guild where everyone has to stay within a certain level range (and that cap only raises about four levels a week) really appeals to me! It feels a lot more doable than "keeping up with the Joneses", and yet gives me a reason/motivation for doing what relatively little leveling they're asking for in the time allotted and not dragging my heels.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
That is definitely one of the huge factors that might draw me in.
I have a history of taking my time to level new characters, and even when you're in a 'no rush, take your time' guild, seeing everyone else shoot past is rather underwhelming and makes you lose the will to continue sometimes.
The level cap idea is fantastic. Ahh...I have so many alts as it is, but it would certainly be interesting to at least see the Alliance side quests before they're gone completely (I've never managed to get an Alli past 20-30 range).
Bah, I give in....*goes to make alt*


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DETROIT (AP) — Abraham Nemeth, the blind designer of the internationally recognized Nemeth (NEH' meth) Braille Math Code, has died at his home in suburban Detroit.
Nemeth's niece, Dianne Bekritsky, says he died Wednesday of congestive heart failure in Southfield. Nemeth was 94.
The New York native earned his master's degree in psychology after being deterred by counselors from pursuing his passion for math because he was blind. But his wife encouraged him, leading to his pioneering work with Braille codes.
Nemeth started working on the code in the 1940s, seeking a simpler system to what was being used at the time, and his innovations have been lauded by the blind community.
Bekritsky says her uncle "Abe" also was an accomplished piano player and was adored by family, friends and colleagues.


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This Stock's Value Is 'Virtual' But 'Really' Expensive
Richard is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
The market is filled with examples of stocks that trade at high premiums. Ask any investor and they will gladly tell you with great conviction why such a high valuation is deserved. But if you press the issue and inquire about growth rates, uncertainty takes over. To that end, VMware (NYSE: VMW) serves as a perfect for example.
While there's no question that VMware is the undisputed market leader in virtualization software, I worry that its rate of growth will soon become an obstacle to the premium it commands. Said more plainly, the stock is expensive. In its Q4 report on Monday, unless higher rate of growth returns, investors should begin to question if what they're paying for in VMware is real or just virtual.
Q3 Proved Challenging As Competition Caught Up
While I've always liked VMware, I've also wondered how much revenue deterioration investors will tolerate. Nonetheless, the P/E keeps rising. Granted, the core operational numbers have been steady as evident by how its kept rivals such as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) at bay.
However, as VMware showed in Q3, in areas such as desktop and delivery, Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) is proving to be a worthwhile threat. VMware reported net income of $156.8 million, or 36 cents per share on revenues of $1.13 billion. On an adjusted basis, the company earned $303.4 million, or 70 cents per share when excluding stock-based compensation and other items.
VMware did what it had to do to meet revenue targets while also beating EPS estimates of 63 cents. While the rate of growth was solid at 20%, it is not significantly outperforming Microsoft, which trades at one quarter of VMware's P/E. Likewise, Citrix, which trades at a P/E that is 18 points lower, outgrew VMware by 1% in revenue.
Let's not forget Red Hat, which posted an 18% year-over-year increase in revenues, which is only 2% lower than VMware. In other words, though the virtualization business may have some challenges in the broader context, competition is beginning to chip away at VMware's once-wide lead.
Then again, VMware understands the gap is narrowing. That the company recently spent 30% more in R&D speaks to its level of commitment and it will spare no expense to protect its market lead. In many respects, this has worked since of its 20% growth, almost 30% was due to increase services demand. Nonetheless, there are constant questions about the industry's future and investors should get more clarity when VMware announces its results.
Expectations for the Quarter
The Street will be looking for earnings of 54 cents per share – representing a year-over-year growth of roughly 4%. This is a 2 cent increase over the past three months from estimates of 52 cents. It seems analyst have taken a slightly bullish stance on earnings despite the drop in profits in Q3. For the full fiscal year, analysts are expecting earnings of $2.01 per share.
In terms of revenue, analysts are looking for another quarter of 20% growth – albeit flat sequentially. Sales are expected to arrive at $1.28 billion for the quarter and $4.59 billion for the full fiscal year. Seeing as VMware has produced double-digit revenue growth over the past four quarters, these should be fairly easy targets to meet.
For that matter, the company has averaged almost 24% revenue increases during that span. As is often the case with high-growth companies, profitability remains the issue as net income has decreased over the past two quarters, including -11.7% in Q3.
Then again, this was due to VMware's increase in spending. With rivals clawing at its heels, VMware was fighting for the business that still remains in an environment that has raised doubt about the long-term future of the desktop virtualization industry.
Is Virtualization Here to Stay?
For now, it's anyone's guess as to when enterprise spending is going to recover. The real issue is whether or not virtualization will remain a critical IT priority when it does. For instance, even though VMware posted an 11% jump in license revenue, the growth rate was slower than expected.
However, there are signs that this has become an industry concern, because although Citrix reported 21% revenue growth in its recent quarter, Citrix only generated 7% growth in desktop licenses – its lowest level in quite some time.
What's more, with licenses being the industry's primary growth metric, investors are eager to learn if this was an aberration or a sign of an eroding virtualization business. On the other hand, it may be a case where one rival is dominating the market seeing as Red Hat posted 19% growth in subscription revenue. Does that mean customers have now favored Red Hat? It certainly seems that way.
The good news for VMware is that aside from having a solid solution it is majority owned by EMC, so it will continue to enjoy a great deal of support. Likewise, Citrix will continue to benefit from its relationship with Microsoft that has existed for almost two decades. But it's worth asking if Microsoft's own cloud/virtualization ambitions might interfere with their relationship.
Bottom Line
As the future of IT takes shape it will be interesting to see not only what becomes of virtualization, but how the sector evolves in terms of valuation. And even if virtualization evolves to mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, investors should not assume that these rivals are simply going to roll over and concede the market for VMware.
For now, VMware's strong fundamentals and market position will help carry it through the sector's transition. Too, the company's strong cash position and solid balance sheet makes VMware one of the toughest names to bet against. But at current levels, the stock does not work – not at this valuation.
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1 Introduction
• Is it possible to attain more from computer software than just improved computations, the storage of your files and the automation of business processes?
• Will we ever be able to make internet searches by asking questions of our search engines instead of using single or a combination of single words?
• Will computers ever be able to deal with natural language?
• Computers are able to process data. But will computers ever process information? In other words: Will we ever be able to automate information?
Many attempts have been made to have computers 'think', but without a concept as basis for these attempts, these remain useless. With a well thought out concept as base, you have a chance to achieve the goal.
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Here in NSW it looks unlikely I will be elected at this stage. This is despite the truly incredible campaigns run by our 48 lower house candidates, supported by many thousands of our members and supporters across the state. You have all done an amazing job.
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Mesas in the Northern Amazonis Region
If this world is getting too much for you, just remember there are others not too far away…
Mesas in the Northern Amazonis Region
If this world is getting too much for you, just remember there are others not too far away…
Dice Shaming
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What the hell happened to the second to last one
Dice of shame - if you've ever played an RPG, you've been there
I refuse to call it a failure
This is the best fanfiction I have ever seen.
Probably not the first to say this, but the dialogue on a Hodor/Groot fanfic would be awesome!
Posters of the International Federation of Anarchists.
Capitalism: We shoot at you, we rule you, we fool you, we eat for you. Workers: We feed you all.
The Great Are Only Great Because We Are On Our Knees - never a truer word said…
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Interesting case of an article being completely correct, but for all the wrong reasons - replace the word Jung with the word Freud and almost every statement would still be true (except the bit about UFOs, but then Freud's views on women were just as bizarre, so I'd count that as even), and don't even get me started on the supposed validity of most psychological tests. As for psychology being an empirical science, even with the spurious benefits of neuroscience, the discipline is the product of just as much educated guesswork as this article (rightly) claims MBTI is.
"What I like to do is take that video of David Lynch talking about the horror of watching films "on your fucking telephone" and watch it on my fucking telephone, and then I think about things like why, in Britain, we call the television the telly but we call the telephone the phone, and that maybe we should have called the television the vision, except of course that they were once called televisors, so we could have called it the visor, which is actually kind of nice, and in Spain they're still called televisors so why the fuck not, and also it occurs to me that once upon a time people could listen to concerts over the telephone, and now we can make phone calls through our televisions, and given that "film," "television" and "phone" are now words that denote spaces around things rather than the things they originally defined, I think I'll watch a film on anything I like and all devices are now called "scopes" until further notice."
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I wanted to like this book, really I did. I could not be more in the target audience if I tried - only 2 years older than Ernest Cline, the 1980s he grew up in and so obviously celebrates in "Ready Player One" was my 1980s (albeit from a UK perspective) - the Atari 2600, AD&D, Star Trek, dingy game arcades, Star Wars, MMORPGs, lots and LOTS of Monty Python… the list goes on. Hell, from this description alone, I'd so be playing in the OASIS:
"The Firefly universe was anchored in a sector adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy, with a detailed recreation of the Star Trek universe in the sector adjacent to that."
But whilst I found it enjoyable (my favourite geek in-joke being Wil Wheaton and Cory Doctorow getting consistently re-elected as president and VP of the OASIS User Council), I couldn't really warm to the book. To some extent, the problem might have been my over affiliation with the geek worlds Cline uses to describe his world of 2044 - perhaps (younger?) readers less familiar with not so obscure to me AD&D modules might find what is being described as compelling and interesting, but for me it all seemed a little obvious. And perhaps even a little lazy too - it's all well and good dealing with perfect recreations of classic films and so on, but to say stuff like "their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who's TARDIS" (without developing things a little further), whilst designed to show how 80s both Wade and his fellow OASIS denizens are, seems like the most lackadaisical application of a simile to me.
In terms of the writing overall, I was also never entirely convinced by Wade's voice, especially when such phrases as "her entries were filled with self-deprecating humor and witty, sardonic asides" are put into his mouth as examples of his standard, everyday speech. Similarly, Wade's supposed position as a top "gunter" and Halliday scholar is often sacrificed for the expediencies of plot - not getting the whole Zork/Frobozz thing seems like an odd lapse, over and above the fact it drives the story forward, and only serves to chip away at the convincing characterisation of the book's protagonist. Having said that, maybe the problem is that having come up with his extremely ingenious premise, Cline finds it insanely difficult to consistently come up with plausible riddles (God knows I would) - so for example, whilst Art3mis's linking of the last clue to Shakespeare is presented as being hugely revelatory to the other characters, surely the first thing any of them would have done would be to cut and paste the phrase into 2044's equivalent of Google and find out where it came from…?
I know my next criticism might seem odd for a book mainly set in a wholly created virtual world, but I was troubled by Cline's description of the "Real World" of 2044. Whilst entirely plausible in general, and redolent of William Gibson and his take on how the intersection of technology and society could conceivably pan out, this book doesn't share his ability to create a world that feels realistic all the way down. Although Wade is a product of the Stacks, the book would have held together better if it had, like Gibson does, shown how tech use (or lack of it) differs at different levels of social spectrum - I found it hard to believe that either culturally or economically the very poorest people on the Earth (by which I mean your African subsistence farmer kind of poor) were all logged into the OASIS. Of course, Wade is an unreliable narrator at times, but rather than feeling like his mitigated POV, this lack of reality in the real world being described in the book seems to be a (wholly understandable) reflection of the author's necessarily Western viewpoint. Not so much a problem when we are in the OASIS, but given a major character arc involves Wade's movement towards living in the physical world, the undercooked nature of the real world of "Ready Player One" is jarring.
My final bone of contention is IOI - as the bad guys of the piece, they are too obviously THE BAD GUYS, their motivation for taking over OASIS being purely monetary. OK, that is the underlying raison d'être for most corporations, but no bad guys in history have ever stated that they are the bad guys - even the Nazis had what seemed to be perfectly acceptable justifications for their policies amongst those ordinary people who supported them. "IOI believed that Halliday never properly monetized his creation, and they wanted to remedy that" - how many companies do you know of have a marketing strategy that says in bald terms "we only want to make money out of you - suck it up!", and how long do you think they'd stay in business if they did? If we are to believe this world Cline has created, for me I would have liked to have seen things from the other side of the propaganda curtain, as it were, because otherwise IOI seem to have as much depth as a moustachio-twirling villain of a Victorian melodrama (something which is only reinforced by the straightforward drone-ness of their avatars).
All of the above might make it sound that I didn't like this book, but I did - it's just that I didn't like it as much as all that. Cline's geek credentials are impeccable (although I'd argue the toss as to whether or not Car Wars was actually a role playing game, GURPS Autoduel notwithstanding) and his vast amount of film, game and book references provides a great deal of pleasure for the geek reader in spotting them all (my favourites being the Brazil-themed aliases Wade uses at one point). But to some extent I feel that this would work better as a film (aside from the fact that the IP/licensing issues for such a project would be insane), since a good actor would be able to imbue Wade with a little more depth and reality than Cline has been able to.
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NO! THIS, IS, SPAARR Nah, I'm just trying a hand at this genre. Metal and techno/trance seems to be the more popular type of music out there, so I'm opening my tastes up a bit.
Well this one is a favourite of many, so I'm uploading it just because of that. I'll upload the one I personally like in the second part.


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'Tinker Tailor': Darkness Shines
Kat Murphy, Special to MSN Movies
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" begins in darkness. Some of that dark shapes itself into silhouette, knocks on a door. A wizened old fellow materializes in a wedge of wan light: "You weren't followed, were you? Will you come in?" And finally, "Trust no one."
Thus does director Tomas Alfredson formally signal the nature of the haunted house we're invited to enter. The elements of that unsettling prologue -- mysterious shade admitted from mausoleum dark by ancient gatekeeper -- suggest horror movie, especially Alfredson's breakout vampire film "Let the Right One In" (2008). We're primed for the perfectly crafted "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" to be a spook show in more ways than one. A meticulously visualized anatomy of melancholy, this challenging movie freezes you to the edge of your seat, adrenalized with terror and pity.
Alfredson seamlessly merges the genres of espionage and horror: John le Carré's dispassionate Cold War spycraft now plays out in a tomb-world, sucked dry of air and color, prowled by walking dead. "Let the Right One In" used vampirism as metaphor for essential, if perverse and fleeting, human connection; "Tinker Tailor" expands the metaphor to embrace the human condition as an awful state of suspended animation, in a climate that withers love or faith.
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That paranoid geezer in the prologue is Control (a riveting John Hurt), head of MI-6's nest of undercover men. He's about to post a minion to Hungary on an off-the-books mission to suss out the possibility of a Russian mole at the highest level of the Circus (le Carré's sobriquet for Spy Central). When that mission goes fatally wrong, Control is forced into retirement by a coven of cold-blooded colleagues.
Without warning or explanation, Control deliberately takes his right-hand man out of the game with him. George Smiley's (Gary Oldman) reaction to the arbitrary termination of a decades-long career? The minutest adjustment of his sight line. Spymaster and "son" bid each other farewell, rigidly posed before a high ironwork fence, separated by an abyss of silence.
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Some time later the resurrected Smiley, rummaging through his late boss's fusty digs, discovers chess pieces adorned with pictures of the Circus' ringmasters, each a possible Judas. The nursery rhyme-named suspects include Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Poor Man -- respectively, Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), a malevolent little leprechaun; Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), seducer extraordinaire; saturnine Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds); and reptilian Toby Esterhase (David Dencik).
Enlisting a Circus insider (the excellent Benedict Cumberbatch, BBC's Sherlock Holmes), Smiley begins -- doggedly, sans James Bond derring-do -- to tug at the web of lies and betrayal he calls home. So tangled are the threads he follows, we despair of his ever finding path or pattern. Sometimes those threads lead us back in time -- most notably, to a foreshadowing Circus Christmas party -- but the lens of memory is as likely to blur as clarify truth and guilt.
Coolly pursuing intelligence, Alfredson's camera eye inches slowly toward window after window, to frame spooks looking out, as though thirsty for some clue that might complete and revivify the existential jigsaw puzzle in which they're trapped. "Let the Right One In" began with a lonely child perched at a window, spying on other, seemingly happier lives across the courtyard, each apartment a movie screen for a boy with hungry eyes. Similarly, Circus thug Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) surveils three windows across from his hotel, witnessing infidelity and a wife's bloody beating. Tarr's Peeping Tom, blinded by a damsel in distress, blows his cover to take a leap of faith. In these cold climes, love is always a fatal fall. Even Smiley can't "see straight" for doting on wife Ann, his "Achilles' heel."
There's no emotional exit in these Escher-like environs, no real "outside" or locus of everyday life, nothing beyond the Circus, despite mindless commitment to winning the Cold War for an abstraction called the West. Everyone's a permanent insider, encoffined in shabby offices and dim apartments, sky-blocking edifices, even a claustrophobic camper.
Alfredson's Circus becomes fascinating theater of futility (shades of Beckett). Living for/on meager transfusions from a vast, arterial system of intel, spy-folk -- mostly male, often closeted homosexuals -- lap up dribs and drabs of toxic "treasure" (i.e., information). Smiley, wonderfully misnamed, may be waiting for God or Revelations, but there's no payoff, no endgame.
No one in "Tinker Tailor"'s cast, a pantheon of British heavy-hitters, sets a foot wrong. Firth manages, masterfully, to thin his omnivorous charm and good looks, exposing terrifying emptiness beneath. Mark Strong especially surprises, leaving recent cartoon-villain roles behind to deliver a nuanced, heartbreaking performance as another spy who, ensorcelled by a smile, tries to come in from the cold.
But it's Oldman whom Oscar should reward. A clenched soul hunkered down behind a worn mask, scoured of affect, Oldman's Smiley turns his head like a gun turret, black-hole eyes absorbing data and pain. Emotion leaks out of that carapace just three times: when he spies his wife's infidelity; in exasperated contempt for a colleague's shallow treachery; and most terribly, during a long monologue in which he recounts, in devastating closeup, a long-ago meeting with Russian counterpart Karla, when the soul-killing pointlessness of life in the Circus hits home. The hollow man's mask decomposes, Nosferatu blasted by sunlight.
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That game will prove to be a good preseason test for both Green and Whitworth. Green will likely be covered by Pro Bowl cornerback Brandon Carr, or the up-and-coming Morris Claiborne. Whitworth will face the likes of defensive ends DeMarcus Ware and Anthony Spencer( if he's healthy) coming off the edge, as they make up one of the top DE-tandems in the league.
Green finished this past season with 97 receptions for 1,350 yards and 11 touchdowns and made the Pro Bowl for the second time in just his second season while also being named to the NFL All-Pro team.
Whitworth was named as a left tackle to the AFC Pro Bowl team this past season.
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Tick . Tock .
Goes the clock,
Even for the Doctor
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Project completion! This is the longest personal project I've done. Shout out to Big Finish, the audios really fuelled me through this.
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]-Tenth Doctor
"I don't age. I regenerate. But humans decay. You wither and you die."
see >previews of other doctors<
because sad is happy for deep people
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]-Eighth and Ninth Doctor
"There was a war, and we lost."
I couldn't do 8 and 9 separately, they put each other in context.
see >previews of other doctors<
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]-Seventh Doctor
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way."
no amount of cheesy 80s fx could dampen your swagger, you adorable little manipulative b@st*rd you = 3=
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]-Sixth Doctor
"Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into other patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal."
i actually really, really like the sixth doctor ~ what a cutie ~
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]-Fifth Doctor
"There's always something to look at if you open your eyes!"
see >previews of other doctors< ______________________________________________________
i think this is the type of cricket batting called "the sweep" >_>
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]-Fourth Doctor
"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard."
see >previews of other doctors<
man it took so long for this update >_>
i blame distraction#1 and distraction#2
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]-Third Doctor
"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting"
see >previews of other doctors<
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]-Second Doctor
shh…and so it continues…
[50 Anniversary Project Preview]
shh…it's begun ;)


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About.com's Derrick Riches describes the Old Smokey Electric Smoker as "basically a tin can with a heat element[,] a drip pan and a couple of racks for the food." It looks more like a coffee run than a smoker. Riches includes it on his list of the top 10 smokers for under $400, however, and owners rave about how easy it is to use and how moist and tasty food smoked in it is. It uses regular wood chips rather than proprietary briquettes, and there is a drip pan (for easy cleanup), but no water pan. Two 15-inch stacked racks hold the food; in fact, Riches cites as a negative the "top load design," which he says "can be a little awkward." If you want an inexpensive smoker but want to access the food more easily, the Brinkmann Vertical Gas Grill (*Est. $150) gets good reviews.
We found the best review of the Old Smokey Electric Smoker at About.com, where barbecues and grilling guide Riches writes a full review. Owner reviews at Amazon.com and Northern Tool and Equipment offer a look at how it performs over time.
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1. About.com
Derrick Riches rates the Old Smokey Electric Smoker 4.5 out of 5, writing, "Old Smokey has been making smokers since the 1930's and [has] been one of the most popular brands in and around Texas. This electric version is [a] heavily tested unit and has proven to be highly durable and easy to use." (Note: ConsumerSearch is owned by About.com, but the two don't share an editorial affiliation.)
Review: Old Smokey Electric Smoker, Derrick Riches
2. Amazon.com
Close to 70 owners rate and review the Old Smokey Electric Smoker at Amazon.com; the average rating is 4.5 out of 5 stars. Almost all the owners rave about the food cooked in the Smokey Mountain smoker, though a couple complain that they couldn't get it to smoke food at all.
Review: Old Smokey Electric Smoker, Contributors to Amazon.com
3. Northern Tool and Equipment
About 45 owners have posted reviews on this site, and like those at Amazon.com, they give the Old Smokey Electric Smoker very high ratings; all but three of them give it either 4 or 5 stars. One writes, "This is the smoker for the beginner as well as a seasoned pro. You really can't miss with this unit."
Review: Old Smokey Electric Smoker, Contributors to Northern Tool and Equipment
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We have some 64 bit Win7 machines now and our print server is 2003. We dont have the printers mapped automatically at logon, we let the pupils add the printers manually. Our problem is that everytime a student add's a printer it is requiring administrator logins to install. This is everytime a pupil logs onto a new machine.
I have looked around and found a thread on these boards which talks about some GP settings;
User Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Printers : Point and Print Restrictions
Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Printers : Point and Print Restrictions
but these are for 2008 not 2003 so i wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction?
In 2003 there is an option for point and print in;
User config -> admin templates -> control panel -> printers -> point and print restrictions
I am a little bit lost and a day of googling hasnt really produced too many worth while answers......
Thanks a lot for any help you might be able to offer.
edit: quick edit to say i have all the 64 bit drivers we need installed as additional drivers on the 2003 print server, the printing works fine once an administrator has put in the details to allow the driver to install. I know that the reason the driver doesnt automatically install is due to group policy settings restricting pupils from installing any software but without turning this off (which isnt really an option) is there a way around this?


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Gosh ... let's see ... 4 copies of Amon Duul 2's Wolf City, 2 copies of Can's Ege Bamyasi, 2 copies of Klaus Schulze's Mirage, 3 copies of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra, 2 copies of Stackridge's Mr Mick, 3 copies of Gong's You, probably 4 copies of Close to the Edge, and at least 2 copies of Atom Heart Mother, and ... 2 copies of "Live on Blueberry Hill" by Led Zeppelin ... the best bootleg I have ever heard in my life. Lastly, 2 copies of at least one of the original Raving and Drooling/Gotta Be Crazy, that was delayed by you know who. And all this was with a very nice Pioneer turntable and a Stanton Cartridge that lasted 30 years after it cost me $300 dollars in 1978!
Probably more albums, too! I even came to dislike the CD version of Wolf City, with the song order backwards. Somehow, Side 2 at the front, did not sound as nice and fine as the album ever did! I thought the transition from Side 1 to Side 2 was perfect! And in the CD it didn't work backwards!
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Jon and Vangelis - The Friend Of Mr Cairo has the same mess on CD. Backward it doesn't work much.
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Allison Oakes will make her debut at the Bayreuther Festspielen with Gutrune (Götterdämmerung) and Gerhilde (Die Walküre) in the new production of the ring cycle 2013.
Other upcoming engagements include Salome for Staatstheater Oldenburg, Tosca for Theater Münster and Senta (Der fliegende Hollaender) for Boston Lyric Opera.
With several recent and significant European highlights to her credit, including Elisabetta (Don Carlos) and Tosca for Staatstheater Darmstadt, her debut in Italy as Miss Jessel for Teatro La Fenice di Venezia with Sir Jeffrey Tate, Elsa (Lohengrin), Marietta in Korngold's Die tote Stadt and Chrysothemis (Elektra) for Theatre Regensburg and Senta (Der Fliegende Hollaender) for Theatre Wuppertal, British soprano Allison Oakes is developing an admirable European career.
Other guest engagements took her to Theater Heilbronn for Tosca, Theater Erfurt for Agata in Le Cantatrici Villane, the Prinzregententheater Munich and Theater Ingolstadt for the Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) in Schloss Schönbrunn Vienna and Theatre Dessau, Oper Frankfurt for Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw and Chrysothemis (Elektra) in Staatstheater Nuernberg.
Allison Oakes began her vocal studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music in Great Britain and went on to complete her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar with Prof. Gudrun Fischer. During her studies, Allison sang many roles ranging from baroque to contemporary opera and was also awarded the Licentiate of the London College of Music.
Recently she gained the attention of both critics and public alike by winning the First Prize, Audience Prize and Orchestra Prize at the Lauritz Melchior Singing Competition for Wagnerian Voices in Aalborg, Denmark in 2010. During her studies she also won the First Prize and audience prize at the Robert Stolz Vocal Competition in Hamburg in 2005.
Her concert and recital repertoire is broad and comprehensive and she has also taken part in international Masterclasses with Françoise Pollet, Judith Beckmann, Jakob Stämpfli and Thomas Hampson.
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The "Making" of Kaatu Kuyilu from Thalapathy
Lyrics & Chords
Myself and my brother are in the process of doing kaatu kuyilu manasukulla song from Thalapathy. On a fine saturday morning, we started doing this with an aim to finish this by the end of the day. After a lot of "ultimate fun" :D we managed to complete the song. When i started mixing this i found a lot of Bloopers/ talk during recording. We just used to mute them and continue recording. This time it was so very funny, we thought we could upload the fun we had during the recording in the form of a "making Audio". We just couldn't stop laughing after hearing this !!!! Hope you all would enjoy too on this great weekend.
To give you an idea of what is in this audio, all of the content in the audio was done during recording and we also made our mom hear this song and wanted to ask for her opinion while accidentally keeping the recording on ! I just rearranged the whole thing to be like a story ! Again, hope you will enjoy this !
Mixing – Balaji
In the Audio – Balaji, Ramji, Lakshmi (my mommy)
Ajay kumar said
Vanduthutomullae – vazhi mele vizhi veichu un uploadkaaga wait pannein – ippo live recording ehvandurichu – so adanaale thundu podurein – vandu kallu podurein….
Luv & Cheers!
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Adithi said
Ada paavigalaa! Enna kootthu da ithu!
Paavam ammaava oru vazhi pannitteenga! Evvalavu cute-aah innocent-aa solraa amma, "Super da" ! :)Hugs, ma!
Appram Baju, intha maathiri nee Ramjhiya kaala vaarrathu enakku konjam kooda pidikkala! x-( Paavam kozhandaiya ippdi padutthi vecchirukke nee! Onna paarthaale avanukku naakku kozharradhu!
Can't wait for the final version of comedy peice to come out!
(aamaam……unga veetla evvalavu paeru…ekkacchakkamaana paeru sirikkara maathiri irukku! ;))
Enjoyed it very much! :)
podha ROFL =))
:O cha……nalla vandhuchchu anney….
enna vandhuchchu ???
koppa kozlam ah??? LoL nalla kaalam theppa kozhlamnnu solla illai……
Andha aio was so cute ya….
ippadi laam mooka ilukaama paper tissue use pannunga pa……cha cha thaanga mudiyala….
kaththa vechchi eh ??
unga oorla laam kuppai kuzham kaththuma????
OMG could not stop laughing man
andha sirippu chance eh illai pa………sirichu sirichu vayiru punnayiduchchu…….
thideernu padharudha? ……ean sir ippo paamba vandhuchchu ? paattu thaaney??
energy venuma? ….boost kudichchu irukalaamey?
dance veraya ?
neenga endha sruthi peththi solringo ?
OhO mudhalla unga amma sonnadhu puriyala appurem thaan purinjudhu….head set paththi pesuraanganu……LOL
Unga ammava ninachcha paavama iruku Balaji
Oru paatulaye ippai paduthuringaley avangala….
But guys….I really enjoyed this a lot.
actually Loved it.
Natural ah irundhuchchu.
Awesome !
- Roshine *
"ஒரு சிற்றோடையின் சலசலப்பாய்… சிறகாய்…சிலிர்ப்பாய்…எனக்குள் ஒலி எழுப்பும் சங்கீத சப்தஸ்வரமாய்… நீ "
Ahalya * in love with music * said
Balaji- ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL
Enaku sirichu sirichu vairu valikudhu……chance-eh ila….muziboo-la side la asatha povadhu yaaru show nadakudho nu oru nimisham nianchiten….ROFL
uravukelam kavala pata jenmam naanila he hey……ROFL.
Kuppa koolam PATHA vachu nu paadinavana neenga paada vidama "konda inga" nu mic avan kayila irundhu parchichadhaalayo enamo appuram paadum podhu kuppa koolam KATHA vachu nu payan bayandhu poi paadirichu.
Paavgam Balaji unga bro….ungala paathu romba bayandhu thadumaari words elam type adikira madhiri pogudhu….paavam dhaane konjam soli dhaan kudingalen…lol
Unga amma is very lucky to have u both….avanga dhenaikum unga rendu peeru koothayum paathu enjoy panikitu irrupanga….
It was too funny….but thanks for sharing this with us……superb!!
"இசைக்கு ஏது எல்லை"
Naanum ahalum phonela solli solli sirikka inniku oru matter kidachuttu :D
We could not stop laughing ……
- Roshine *
"ஒரு சிற்றோடையின் சலசலப்பாய்… சிறகாய்…சிலிர்ப்பாய்…எனக்குள் ஒலி எழுப்பும் சங்கீத சப்தஸ்வரமாய்… நீ "
Vishnu Mohan ( busy mode) said
Balaaji enna ithu :o kalakka povathu yaru compotitionikku send panan vechiruntha audio mathi inge pottu vittiya
Paavam amma Cute voice amavodathu :D amma pattu paadumaa, oru duet avangalodu sernthu paadu
Appuram ramji arasiyalile ithellam sahajamappa :D
Waiting for final version appo irukku periya periya Kallu :P ippave ready panni vekkuren
Nalla Njoy panninen balu ;) nalla idea, ellorukkum varuvathu than ippadi ellam thirippi pottu ketta interesting aa irukkum :D But ippa post ellam pannuvathilla Neenga panniyirukku ;) kalakku
ராஜ் குமார் அஞ்சன் said
Ada paavigalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…………… Enna ithu??? novel idea Baaju…. Bloopers were really enjoyable. Ramji ya pottu ippadi paduththa koodathu nee. Avana vachchu comedy panrey nee?? x-( Kooda ammavayum serththunda… Amma innocent ah, 'ithu enna sariyavey vaikka mudiyala thalaila' nnu solrathum, 'super da', 'super' & 'ennathu da' nnu solrathum ultimate. Ayyo unta inimey ushaar ah irukkanum pa. Phone la pesum pothum konjam jaakrathaya pesanum. Thaththakaa piththakkaa nnu ethavathu naan uLari atha record panni inga post pannittaa konja nanjam irukka image um damage aayidum pa. :D just kidded. Hugs! Hugs! Hugs! Thought u were a king of 'Sapak Takraw' but seems that u have got a creator in u too. Nalla idea and it came out very well. To my favourites.
Thanks & Regards,
Music is what our feelings sound like….
Kumaran said
Seemma galaattaa!!!! summa Padharudilla!!!!!!! :-) Enjoyed!!!
Meera Manohar said
LOLL… that was really enjoyable guys!
A few of my random posts:
Vaseegara (cover version) from Minnale
Allegra (cover version) from kandasaamy#
Iktaara (Wake up sid) with George Kuruvilla and arrangement by Anil.B.S
My song list on Muziboo
sooooper funn…sirischu sirichu vayiru vali…
laughng clips pottu…timinga potirukinga…
patharuthunne nu solrathu kettu siripadakka mudila enakku…
rendu perumkum pidichirukku sali…lol
amma athukku mela…
ithenna seriyave vaika mudila thalaila….
cho soooperda romba nannarukku…haha….
sema idea balaji…sema kollya irukku…3 vatti thirumba thirumba kettu sirichen….
ராஜ் குமார் அஞ்சன் said
again kekking…. patharuthaamla…. :D ada paavigalaa!!!! sema rousu vitturikeenga… Lol…. Baaju!!! nee romba avana paduththarey…. thalailaye kotta poraen paaru unna. Amma comments vera top…… superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…… echo aayindey irukku en kaathula…. saapdavey mudiyala. orey vayaththu vali enakku…. Bloopers compile panni oru site eh aarambikkalaam pola irukku. nalla idea koduththirukkey Baaju. ;-)
Thanks & Regards,
Music is what our feelings sound like….
Pratane said
Koothu superr :)…
Braga J said
Adangokka mokka! Unga kudumbam oru kadhambam thaan po. Paavam, auntya poatu damage panni vechuruka. Avanga permission illama record panni, oor olaguthuke upload panni vechuruka.
Biju Ramachandran said
that was NEW.may be we cud hear many such recordings in future.(THE MAKING)
biju ramachandran
Ahalya * in love with music * said
Balaji- came back to listen again….favourites-kula pootachu
Neenga unga thambi kaala viluradha konjam imagine pani paathen…lol….kaariyam aaganum na vilundhu dhane aaganum…lol.too bad muziboo-la video cliping able ilama poochu…….:(.
expecting more….LOL
"இசைக்கு ஏது எல்லை"
Unnikrishnan Kb said
hilarious. Seems like we can make a movie out of this. Hilarious. Seriously. I couldn't stop laughing for a while.
Please listen to my recent uploads….
Engeyo Partha Mayakam (Tamil Cover)
Cham Cham – Striker(Hindi Cover)
Baby Can I
Dil TO Bacha Hai (Hindi Cover)
Hai Rama (Hindi Cover)
Kangal Irandal
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Kadhal Rojave – Roja
Tara Balakrishnan said
very funny:) super :) very enjoyable…. ramji and ur mom sound damn innocent! paavam:)
My latest post…
Deepa kumar said
Balaji, I am the 100th player pa….Actually my internet was not working at home for the past few days….So I did not hear any of the Muziboo uploads. Ahalya was telling about this upload and I was so much eager to hear this….Ida kekkama mandaye vedichudum polaaiduthu….So innikku headphones eduthundu vandu officela secreta pottu kekkalaamnu paatha internet sema slow….1 sec ku mela play aagala….enakku BP innum eriduthu….apporam download link kodutha 30 seconds mattum download aaiduthu….emakku sma kaduppu….oru vazhiyaa kadasila download panna ara mani neram aachu :-( oru vazhiyaa ketten kadasila….one uploada kekka evvalavu padayeduppu eduthirukken paaru …. lol….
Rendu perukkum pidichirukku sali….ROFL
Patharuthunne….hahaha….sirippu thaangala….
Mookka uri urinu urinjurukkengaa……lol
Aduthu ammavayum vittu vaikkala…. paavam record pandrade theriyaama avangala pesa vechu idula upload vera…. Ida seruya veikka mudiyala thalaila was tooo innocent……Ida repeat vera pottirukkenga….kadasila super sollirukkangala….adu daan ellatha vidavum soopero sooper….Loved the way she said…. endaa sirikkareenga nu amma kekkum bodu romba paavama irundu…. ongalukku rendu oda kodukkalaamnu thonithu….
Enjooooooooooooooooooooooyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddd a looooooooooooottttttttttttttt………….Goes to my favourites……
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Sushane Shankar said
cheinga daaaa cheinga!!
Deepesh A k(indefinitely on and off) said
haha….kootho koothaa….:) enjoyed it
Swamy Kitcha said
Enna maappugala sowkiyamaa?? :) koothu pattaya kilappiteengha. Great thought in doing this making of track. Great blooper editing/mixing too :) Felt like being part of the fun but anyways, enjoyed it thoroughly. Thumbs up to all those hidden voices :)
When you get a chance, please do tune into my latest posts :
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Bella said
Even though I don't understand Tamil all the way….It sounded really fun and hilariously funny…All of you seemed to be enjoying a lot and I enjoyed listening in….Thanks for letting us be part of it by sharing the audio clip.
Idha thirumba favorite panna mudiyuma ? :P
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Sushanth Shankar said
Hey bros!
Now this is 1st of its kind i am coming across on Muziboo! :) Very well done! :D
Paavam amma… She is so sweet when saying "Sooper da"…. :D Avareyum vachu comedy pannreengla?? :D
Loved it bros! Keep them coming….
All the very best!
- Sushanth
Adithi said
En ratthatthin raththangaLey!!!! Thirumba kaettaen intha comedy piece-a! Dei thirumbi vaangadaa Muziboo-kku! Missing you both a lot! :(
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- 4 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter, melted
- 2 to 3 slice(s) bananas,slice1/2 thick
- 20 piece(s) oreo crushed cookies.
- 1 pint(s) strawberry ice cream
- 1 cup(s) strawberry ice cream topping
- 1 pint(s) chocolate ice cream
- 1 cup(s) hot fudge sauce.
- 1 pint(s) vanilla ice cream
- 1 cup(s) pineapple ice cream topping
- 1 cup(s) heavy cream
- 2 tablespoon(s) sugar
- 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
- Cherries
- Chopped walnuts
- Pineapple topping
- Combine the oreo cookies and the melted butter,mixed until all of the cookies are evenly moistened, make it as a bottom layer in preparing pan. Top with the banana slices. Put the pan in the freezer for at least 10 to 15 min.
- Top the banana layer with the strawberry ice cream, as an offset to spread an ice cream into smooth even layer, and after doing this again put the pan in freezer for at least 30 min. After that spread the strawberry topping ice cream topping into the entire ice cream layer, and put the pan in freezer for min 1 hour.
- Top the strawberry layer with the chocolate ice cream, as an offset to spread an ice cream into smooth even layer, and after doing this again put the pan in freezer for at least 30 min. After that spread the hot fudge sauce into the entire chocolate ice cream layer, and put the pan in freezer for min 1 hour.
- Top the hot fudge sauce layer with the vanilla ice cream, use an offset to spread an ice cream into smooth even layer, and after that cover it with plastic wrap, and put it into the freezer, and freeze it over night.
- 1 hour before serving release the cake from the pan,and put it into the rounded plate of the same size,and wrap the pan with the hot kitchen towel,and keep it for 30 Sec.Remove the bottom of the pan if cardboard is used, and put it into the serving plate and again freeze for at least 10 min.
- When the cake is in freeze making the whipped ice cream, mixed the heavy cream, sugar, vanilla extract in the bowl. Using the whisk attachment, whip on medium speed, until the cream is light and holds, and medium to firm peak from 2 to 3 min. At the time of serving spread the whipped cream around the outer edge of the cream. Top of the cake garnish with a cherry and fill the space in the middle with the pineapple topping and top with the Chopped walnuts. Now your yummy banana chocolate cake is ready to serve..
- For making this Banana Chocolate Cake you have to plan for at least 1 day before.
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The assessment editor manager is responsible for the management and day-to-day operations of a team of approximately 8 direct reports of editors. The manager is responsible for overseeing the editing within the Assessment Development Department, being knowledgeable regarding current projects, work, and initiatives within college-specific teams, and creating and updating style guides and WGU standards.
Duties of this team include entry of assessment items into various delivery systems, editing and quality control/assurance, as well as trouble-shooting problems with assessment materials and delivery platforms. The manager is responsible for determining appropriate processes and workflow for the team, managing personnel, approving time-cards, and other general managerial duties. In addition, the manager will also work closely with other assessment managers to ensure that publication resources are allocated in a way that aligns with department and university goals and priorities.
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- Communicate new publication to internal and external stakeholders
- Manage assessment editors
- Investigate and implement new test tools
- Work with outside vendors to improve and enhance existing assessment tools
- Trouble-shoot and solve delivery problems
- Work with internal IT group and vendors to ensure proper functionality of and communication between internal and external systems
- Coordinate resources with other assessment managers
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Work with learning resources and course mentors to write and edit preassessment exams (including training)
- Edit department documents
- Facilitate technical facilitation, accuracy reviews, Angoff reviews, and performance assessment reviews
- Participate in item development workshops
- Write items that are psychometrically sound for objective assessments
- Work with internal and external SMEs to interpret needs and intentions for performance assessments
- Perform psychometric edits for objective assessments to ensure validity and reliability, (e.g., alignment to objective and cognitive demand, plausibility of distractors, etc.)
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Sad but true Abortion has killed 14 million black babies since 1970.
Somehow this was considered to be a racist billboard and taken down even though what they're saying is true.
Really? Because I thought the most dangerous place for African Americans is ON THE FUCKING STREETS WHERE THEY GET SHOT AND BEAT UP BY COPS FOR NO FUCKING REASON OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT THEY'RE EXISTING WHILE BEING BLACK. OR HOW ABOUT THE FACT THAT COPS BREAK INTO BLACK PEOPLE'S HOMES AND FUCK THEIR SHIT UP UNDER FALSE ALARMS. But hey, what do I know? I'm only an innocent little Black girl who doesn't know any better.
All of the awards.
Isn't it interesting how pro-life conservatives suddenly give a fuck about black people when they're useful for pushing a state-sanctioned, forced pregnancy agenda? But once that child is born, you're on your own Ms. Welfare Queen. /sarcasm
I've said it before and I'll say it again — conservative pro-lifers only care about PoC children when they're in fetal form. Not able to support your child after birth? Well you should have thought of that before you had the kid, amiright???
(also is it just me or does everyone think of "That's Amore" when they see "That's Abortion")
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Game Recap: Cubs 3, Giants 2
Jeff Baker is looking like a hell of a pick up by Jim Hendry. It was his bat -- and his bat alone -- that lifted the Cubs to victory last night in a game dominated by pitching.
Ryan Dempster went 7 innings and allowed only 2 runs, but Brad Penny was even more effective. The only runs the Cubs scored in the first 8 came from a double play ball -- hit by Baker -- after which the Giants scored 2 runs (1 immediately in the 4th, the other in the 7th).
Then, in the 9th inning, Derrek Lee drew a walk, stole his first base of the year, and was then knocked home by a Baker ball that could not be contained by the ballpark. Carlos Marmol then proceeded to strike out the first batter he faced, before giving up a single to Randy Wynn and then walking Travis Ishikawa. Then, like the Marmol of old, he buckled down and struck out two batters to end the inning.
Since joining the Cubs, Baker is batting .329 with 4 homers and 19 RBI. Odds are he's a backup at best next year, but he has definitely been a pleasant surprise in 2009. Anyway, the Cubs play the Giants again late tonight.


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Crash Course in Perimeter Security Technology
Technologies are merging to combat security threats, especially those created by vehicles
The establishment of a secure perimeter is possibly the most foundational concept in the security industry. Whether the task is to apply Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles to a new campus environment or to protect Class A national assets, the secure perimeter identifies that point at which the security program is initiated.
The technological tools that are applied at the perimeter can vary according to a number of factors, such as the specific purpose of the perimeter, the characteristics of the site and the nature of the asset.
Three Categories of Perimeter Security
It may be helpful to think about perimeter types in three categories. First, security perimeters define a line of demarcation from a public to a non-public area. Once the perimeter is crossed, new rules are in force as promulgated by the property owner or the authority having jurisdiction. In some instances, this is the only defined perimeter for a facility — college campuses generally fall into this category. As an individual turns off the public street and onto the campus, signage is normally used to inform the individual that they are now on university property, to obey posted speed limits, etc. In CPTED terms, the university is establishing territoriality. Everything else on campus is largely open to the visitor.
A second type of perimeter also establishes a line of demarcation but with an ability to detect those that violate that line. Reliable perimeter intrusion detection has been and is an essential component of security systems for the protection of assets. These perimeters provide for authorized passage through access control portals for both personnel and vehicles; however, an unauthorized penetration initiates an alarm, which signals the malevolent intent of the intruder and simultaneously initiates response activities. Depending on the facility, the response could range from notification of the local law enforcement agency to activation of an armed response team.
A third type of perimeter is defined and designed to physically deny unauthorized access. Almost exclusively focused on vehicle-borne threats, this approach arose out of the vehicle bomb attacks on U.S. Department of State (DOS) and Department of Defense (DoD) facilities beginning in the mid-1980s. The importance of this type of protection has been reemphasized with events such as the Khobar Towers bombing in the mid-1990s and, of course, recent events in Iraq. These perimeters are typically characterized by systems that can absorb the kinetic energy of a fully loaded truck traveling at high speeds; and intrusion detection systems are typically not deployed (or needed) in these circumstances.
It logically follows that different technological solutions are employed to achieve the different goals implied by the second and third perimeter types discussed above.
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SPOKANE-- A seven-year-old girl fighting cancer and facing a stack of medical bills got a little bit of help from her community.
Pete's Pizza held a fundraiser Wednesday for Sierra Higbee.
Her parents say their insurance company refuses to cover the cost of the surgery to remove her tumor.
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The ABCs of Summer Hair Repair
If a summer of fun in the sun has wreaked havoc on your hair, fear not
By Colette Bouchez
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
Most of us are quick to acknowledge the need to protect our skin from the rigors of summer heat and sun. But come Labor Day a quick glance in the mirror frequently lets us know what we forgot to protect -- our hair.
Indeed, a season of exposure to sun, salt water, and chlorine chemical residues -- not to mention a few extra chemical "sun" streaks for style -- can come together to wreak havoc on our tresses. By the end of the summer, experts say hair can become so dehydrated it looks and feels nearly fried.
"From a technical standpoint, there's a protective coating on hair called the hydrolipidic film; if you have dry hair, that film is broken down somewhat anyway, when you color it, it breaks down a little more -- but when you add sun, salt water, and chlorine, you can destroy the film altogether," says Melissa Baker, national training advisor for Rene Furterer hair care products in Paris.
The end result, says Baker, is that moisture located deep in the core of the hair shaft evaporates -- and in what seems like one "poof" your "pouf" can be gone.
"Hair looks, feels, acts, and actually is, crying out for moisture," says Baker.
That means hair not only has a dry look and feel, but can also be frizzy, unmanageable, have problems holding a curl or style, and even take longer to dry. In its worst form damage causes the ends of the hair to split, and breakage can begin.
"When hair dehydrates it becomes brittle and when it becomes brittle you get the broken split ends that go up the hair shaft and cause fuzziness and frizziness and sometimes breakage; it's a cumulative process," says celebrity hair care expert Peter Lamas.
Like skin, hair is comprised of proteins that need moisture to function. But, unlike skin which has its own supply of moisture from within, hair, says Lamas, is dead, so once the moisture is gone -- it's gone.
Problems are further complicated if we lighten or streak our hair. That's because our natural supply of oil resides in the pigment. Remove the color, says Lamas, and you strip out the oils.
"This leaves the hair wide open to the environment -- so not only are you pulling out the oils, which dries the hair, but you are also making it more vulnerable to the elements, which can cause even more dryness and eventually damage," Lamas tells WebMD.
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While damaging hair can come easy, repair can be frustratingly hard. Experts say that's because many of us turn to styling aids -- such as mousses and gels -- to force our damaged tresses to do what we want. And that can be a big mistake.
"If you are having problems with your hair -- it's frizzy or won't hold a curl or style -- it's natural to reach for more styling aids. But when hair is damaged, these products can make it look and feel worse," says stylist Juan Juan of J Beverly Hills Salon, and developer of J Beverly Hills hair products.
Instead says Juan, begin at the beginning -- by first replenishing hair with a salon-quality moisturizing shampoo and rinse-out conditioner. But, he says, don't consider yourself "finished" before adding a leave-in conditioner as well.
"Rinse-out conditioners do not deposit any protection on the hair -- in fact, if you leave any residue on your hair it can react with the elements and cause even more damage," Juan tells WebMD.
Conversely, he says, coating hair with a leave-in conditioner -- products that are usually sprayed on after washing or styling -- take protection and manageability to a whole new level.
"It coats the hair which helps seal in the moisture you replenished with your shampoo and conditioner, but it also seals out further effects of damaging elements, such as the sun or even air pollution," says Juan.
While this combo can often do the trick, if it doesn't, the next step is to incorporate a hair mask into your regimen. A relatively new term in the hair care industry, a mask for your tresses does somewhat the same thing as a facial masque does for your complexion. In short, it revitalizes and replenishes deep within the hair shaft.
"A mask is loaded with emollients and vitamins that will coat the hair and help close the cuticle," says Lamas. This, he says, lets you add moisture, and then trap it inside to help the hair look and feel better.
To properly use this treatment, experts say dampen hair with water, then coat the scalp and each strand with your mask. Wrap your hair in a towel or plastic cling wrap for up to one hour.
"The longer you can leave it on your hair, the better the result," says Juan. When you're done, shampoo and condition hair as you normally would.


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Fairhaven Marine Killed In Afghanistan
Fairhaven has lost a native son while he was fighting for our freedom.
Fairhaven has lost a native son while he was fighting for our freedom.
Albany police released this footage after charging 47-year-old Yiqiang Wu of Schenectady, NY with assault as a hate crime for Thursday's fight at a checkout line.
Proving once again that the men and women in uniform are in fact superheroes, this US Airman decided to show off his basketball skills in full uniform. What he pulled off was an incredible windmill slam dunk, wowing everyone who was watching.
The Christmas season is the happiest time of year. We get to spend extra time with our family and friends, and there are endless supplies of cookies. While these few weeks are filled with tons of cheer, it's also the sappiest time of year, especially in the good ol' USA. It's the ideal time for overseas military men to surprise their loved ones, and of course, create tearjerker alert YouTube videos of it all.