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Mosby's Dental Dictionary defines evidence-based decision making as: a type of informal decision-making that combines clinical expertise, patient concerns, and evidence gathered from scientific literature to arrive at a diagnosis and treatment recommendation.
Or more graphically:
There are five elements to the approach:
Choose the highest level of evidence. Start at the top of the pyramid and work your way down. Does Cochrane's have a systematic review? If not, is there another systematic review out there? If not, are there randomized controlled trial articles? If not, is there a case study? The top four tiers are secondary evidence -- information has been appraised and filtered. The fifth tier (Control Studies) indicates primary evidence. These are not filtered so try for peer reviewed articles.
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Marijuana Grow House Arrest
On July 17, 2014, Detective Scott Morgan arrested Jose Rodriguez, DOB: 8/1/62, for Cultivation of Marijuana, Trafficking in Marijuana, Theft of Electric-Grand Theft, Ownership of Property for the Purpose of Manufacturing a Controlled Substance and for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
On the above date members of the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office and Narcotics Task Force executed a search warrant at 22020 NW 264 Street. The search warrant was signed by the Honorable Judge Sweet on the same day. During the execution of the search warrant, Rodriguez was present at the residence.
The following items were located inside the residence: Thirteen (13) growing marijuana plants with active root systems that weighed approximately 38.10 pounds. The plants were approximately 4 feet tall. The approximate value of the marijuana is $114,000.00; large black plant buckets, timers, capacitors, breakers, AC chiller, 1000 watt bulbs with aluminum housing and ballasts. Two (2) Ziploc bags each containing approximately ½ ounce of marijuana; a calendar with a list of the chemicals needed to grow the marijuana plants. It also contained numbers that coincided with the marijuana grow and what stage the plants were in; a shoe box that contained well over $10,000.00 in U.S. currency; and a plastic bag that contained marijuana trimmings.
Rodriguez-Hernandez was transported to the Okeechobee County Jail. Bond is to be set at first appearance.
Sheriff Paul C. May said of the raid, "The Drug Task Force has been successful again. We will continue to rid our county of these growhouses. When you're in this type of business you never know when we will pay you a visit. But rest assured, we will."
As always, the nature of the probable cause to obtain the search warrant is privileged information and will not be released.

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7 Legendary Acts of Petty Revenge
#3. Banning You from the Country
Let's face it: Divorce is a pain in the ass. You have to deal with paperwork, fees, lawyers and judges.
What if you want to make a clean break from your spouse without the hassle? An immigration officer in the United Kingdom devised the perfect solution. While his wife was visiting her family back in Pakistan, he logged into the immigration department's database and put her name on the country's Terror Watch List.
Oh, shit.
When his wife tried to return to the United Kingdom with her perfectly valid passport, she was surprised to be denied entry and forced to return to Pakistan. She was baffled because she had never been involved in any sort of criminal -- let alone terrorist -- activity, so she called her husband. Since he was an immigration officer, she figured that he would be the perfect person to take care of the misunderstanding. He told her that he would look into it and subsequently implemented that plan by having "the time of his life," according to an immigration source.
"Honey, I can't just drop everything because of your problems. You know October is my busy time at work."
It wasn't until the man came up for a promotion three years later that his instant divorce formula was discovered. As he was being vetted for a promotion, his superiors noticed that his wife was a suspected terrorist, which tends to be the sort of thing that people notice when you work for the Immigration Department.
At that point, the immigration officer was left with somewhat of a dilemma: deny knowledge of the information and lose his job, or admit that he was responsible and ... lose his job. He admitted that he was indeed the one who put his wife's name on the list and was subsequently fired. According to unnamed officials, he has become a "bit of a legend in immigration circles" -- presumably for different reasons among women than men.
"Relax baby, players gotta play."
#2. Making You a Sexual Deviant on Television
In 2005, CSI producer Sarah Goldfinger was looking to buy a house. Married real estate agents Scott and Melinda Tamkin represented the seller of a house that Goldfinger ended up making an offer on. The seller accepted the offer, but right before the close of escrow, Goldfinger pulled out of the deal when the building inspection revealed that extensive repairs were needed (thus there would be no place to put the moon laser we assume everyone named "Goldfinger" is required to own).
Five years later, the Tamkins were watching an episode of CSI when they noticed two characters named Scott and Melinda Tucker, a pair of shady real estate agents who were also into kinky sex. They also noticed that the name of the episode's producer, Sarah Goldfinger, sounded familiar. Remembering that they had been involved in a failed real estate deal with Goldfinger years earlier, Scott decided to get on the Internet and look up the episode.
That's when he noticed that several online descriptions of the episode actually listed the characters as Scott and Melinda Tamkin, not Tucker. He even came across the original casting call, which had these two character descriptions:
"[SCOTT TAMKIN] Mid to late-30s, this slick, attractive, hard-drinking extensive bondage/porn-watching man who's been a mortgage broker since college and feels his world drop out from under him during the mortgage crisis. His clients have left him and his own house may be foreclosed on. He is a suspect in his wife Melinda's murder."
"[MELINDA TAMKIN] Mid 30s, Scott's wife ... Melinda's death may have occurred during kinky sex in which she was handcuffed to the bed."
"Honey, why does the name 'Scott Tamkin' sound familiar to me?"
To add to his growing annoyance, Scott soon realized that an Internet search for his and his wife's names turned up several sites describing the "alternative" lifestyle of Scott and Melinda Tamkin. This couple was fictional, of course, but the Tamkins were furious. A good amount of their business came from Internet referrals, and they did not want to risk any possibility of mistaken association with murderous sexual deviants -- although there probably is a real estate market for that.
"You were right, son -- that house is fucking hot."
They filed a lawsuit, but Goldfinger denied the charges, claiming that she had used their real names only as a "placeholder" during the writing process and that the casting calls and script were accidentally leaked before she could change the names. Ultimately, the case was dismissed on the grounds that the fictional Tamkins could not be linked conclusively to the real-life Tamkins and, thus, Goldfinger was protected by her First Amendment rights.
#1. Turning Your House into a Cemetery
As the Quartermaster General for the Continental Army during the Civil War, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs was responsible for transporting troops and maintaining supply lines for the entire army.
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"Stand back, I'm quartermastering."
Meigs was also a hardcore Unionist. Even though he was originally from Georgia, he despised any officers who resigned from the U.S. Army to serve in the Confederate Army. One such officer was Colonel Robert E. Lee, who left behind a prestigious 35-year military career to fight for the South and (in case you slept your way through 12 years of grade school) eventually became the Commanding General of the entire Confederate Army.
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And namesake of the most awesome car ever.
At the time of his defection, Lee and his wife lived in a mansion called Arlington House, located on a 1,100-acre estate in Virginia. Lee told his wife to flee, which was somewhat of a wise move, because the land was overrun by Union forces less than a month later. Citing failure to pay taxes, the government eventually seized the estate which we assume Lee had left filled with Home Alone-style boobie traps.
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"Also, I pooped in every room."
By 1864, as casualties mounted to the hundreds of thousands, military cemeteries were quickly filling up. This is when Quartermaster General Meigs stepped in with the biggest "fuck you" of all to his former colleague -- he recommended that Arlington be established as the Army's newest cemetery. His proposal was accepted, and his first order of business was to bury the bodies of 26 Union soldiers in Mrs. Lee's prized rose garden. By the end of the war, more than 5,000 soldiers had been buried there, all for the purpose of preventing Lee from returning to his old home.
And the plan worked. Not wanting to stir up further animosity with the government -- and presumably hoping to avoid angry Union zombies -- Lee never challenged for the return of his land.
"That's OK. You guys can keep it."
It wasn't until 1870 that Lee's son, George Washington Curtis Lee, successfully sued for the return of the estate, immediately selling it back to the government for $150,000 (or around $3.5 million in today's dollars). The Arlington House has since been restored and is now considered a historic building. Meanwhile, the 300,000 gravestones dotting the grounds of what is now Arlington National Cemetery will forever represent the giant, corpse-filled middle finger of Quartermaster General Meigs.
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Hello Elayne,
I am thinking about getting a VHC piercing. . . I read your article about genital piercing and I wanted to thank you for making that information available to everyone.
I am hoping that this piercing will help me break free from the self imposed chains on my sexuality. I'm not sure why or how it happened but, over the years I became extremely sensitive to the derogatory things men would say about a woman's body. Even acts of innocent school boy humor would cripple me in my mind. I felt shameful of my less-than-perfect breasts and weird looking vagina which caused me to be very guarded during sex, even in a committed relationship.
In the past I have always shielded my body from others eyes, from embarrassment. However, I am now with someone who for some reason sparked me to work on my mental and emotional problems with my sexuality. In just a few shorts months I have improved greatly. I am starting to realize that everyone is different looking and that no one looks like a porn start with a perfect, hairless, tan and pink vagina with hardly any labia. I am starting to adapt a new idea of "normal" which is that there is no such thing and that if you love someone you will love everything about them, even if it's different or strange. I feel as if this piercing could be very beneficial for my process of reclaiming pride in my body and sexuality.
Thank you very much for your time and once again thank you for your website.
"Elayne Angel is the EPITOME of knowledge/professionalism/excellence and everyone should tip their hat to what she has done to educate the world in this trade that she is THE QUEEN OF!!! Love You Angel!!! Thank You For Helping Make Me Who I Am! Your Friendship/Advice/You As A Person is SO Appreciated!!!" Jeremy Youngman
Hi Angel,
I can't thank you enough for your help finding Clay at Infinite!! I went and had it done Saturday, he was really fantastic. He performed the VCH on me, it went very well, no problem at all. The placement looks just where it should be! You were so right he is a very cool and funny guy. I actually took a friend with me and she was thinking about getting the VCH but after Clay took a look at her, he told her she was perfect for the Triangle, and so she had him do it. It went perfectly, no problem for her either! You have helped me so much finding the right piercer, I truly thank you for all of your efforts. You know without your website I would have never been able to gather all the information I needed to know about these types of piercings, I would have stopped thinking about it years ago. So you have helped me on all levels. I hope you are doing well and that the book is coming along just fine, it will help so many people like me.
Take Care Angel,
Hi Elayne,
Wow, I feel like I've spent a lot of time with you this week! That's how well your fabulous voice shines through in this manuscript. It's clear, authoritative, informative, with little bursts of humor to keep the reader interested. Well done!
I was hoping that you could please give me some advice.
I'm wanting to get a tragus piercing but am still breastfeeding my second child who is now 12 months old. (I have had a navel piercing for many years with no problems and had a tattoo many years ago as well.) I read the website on safe piercing and it suggests to wait for 3 months after the birth before getting any form of piercing. My son is 12 months. I was speaking to the piercer at Polymorph in Sydney today and they mentioned a few things that I was hoping you could clarify. Firstly they suggested that there is an issue of adrenalin going through my breastmilk which could send my baby hyperactive. I'm not so concerned with that as an issue unless you suggest it's a major, major problem. Secondly, the piercer was hesitant to pierce my tragus while I'm still breastfeeding as a concern of acquiring an infection and it passing through my breastmilk to my son. I am only feeding my son still on average twice a day and he is on full solids as well. The website on safe piercing doesn't seem to suggest not piercing at this stage. What is your opinion? The guys at Polymorph were very helpful in trying to help me make my decision but I thought I would enquire further before making my choice to pierce at this point as I obviously don't want to risk an infection and then passing it on to my child. Please advise?? Do you think it is safe to pierce now? Look forward to hearing from you.
Regards, Trish
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SABOL, Helen D. (Durazio), 92, passed away Tuesday, October 2, 2012, at Life Line Hospital in Wintersville, OH.
Helen was born April 2, 1920, in Tiltonsville, OH, the middle child of the late Eugene and Lucia (Salerno) Durazio.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul John Sabol, whom she married on November 25, 1946, and their beloved son, Michael Paul Sabol; two brothers also preceded her in death, Erclino (Lucky) and Gildo Durazio both of Follansbee, WV.
Helen is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Paula and James Taylor; son, David John Sabol; grandchildren, Lara Spendiff and Jessica Taylor of Columbus, Samantha Taylor and Michael Sabol of Toronto; and great grandson, Colton Michael also of Toronto. In addition, she is survived by two sisters, Adelia (Del) Thomas of Arizona and Jeana (John) Cola of Nevada; a sister-in-law, Anna Sabol of Toronto; and a host of nieces, nephews and godchildren, including Patricia Ceglie of Follansbee and Erin and Jason Adler of Arizona.
She was formerly employed by Arkell and Smith of Wellsburg, WV, where she made many dear and lifelong friendships.
Helen was always a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother, who liked to crochet and bake wonderful treats for her family and friends. She was an avid bingo player for many years and, in recent years, enjoyed playing with her friends at the Laurels.
Friends and family will be received from 6-9 p.m. on Friday October 5 at the Clarke Funeral Home in Toronto. Visitation will also take place Saturday morning from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church North River Ave., Toronto and will be followed by a Funeral Liturgy with Mass with celebrant the Reverend Father Thomas Vennitti. Interment will then take place at the Island Creek Cemetery.
A vigil service will be held 6:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made in Helen's name to the St. Joseph R.C. Church or the donor's charity of choice.
The family wishes to thank the staff of the Laurels of Steubenville, and Life Line Hospital for thee many acts of kindness and caring they provided Helen and her family.
To view the obituary, sign the guest register or send condolences to the family go to www.clarkefuneralhome.com


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I'm trying to locate where some files are stored and I can easily browse to them via ssh by going to "cd ~/foldername", however, I have no idea what directory "~/" actually is.
When I browse around folders via WinSCP (yes, I'm a Windows admin), I can't seem to locate this folder at all.
This is probably the most "noob" question I've ever asked but I've been having a tough time Googling it due to the length and it not actually coming up.
Note: I'm using Amazon Linux on EC2 if it makes any difference.
Thanks in advance.


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WEIRTON - Johnna Marie Paoloemilio and Steven Scott Deshuk were united in marriage on May 26 at St. Joseph the Worker Church. The 2 p.m. ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Pete Giannamore.
The bride was escorted to the altar by her father and given in marriage by her parents, John and Kathryn Paoloemilio of Weirton. The bride chose an A-line gown with sweetheart neckline and corset closure with a bodice adorned with a crystal embellished band.
She carried a bouquet of fuchsia roses, peonies, Noreen lilies and pearls tied with a satin ribbon.
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Mr. and Mrs. Steven Deshuk
The groom is the son of Larry and Angela Long of Apple Grove, W.Va.
Tara Paoloemilio served as her sister's maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Marisa Paoloemilio, sister of the bride, and Kara Magnone, Ashley Stucin, Erica Pietranton and Jessica Durst.
T.J. Deshuk, brother of the groom, served as best man. Groomsmen were Dan Baus, Dell Smith, Edwin Sudduth IV, Michael Criste, the late Christopher Belfoure and Jacob Halsey, nephew of the bride, and Tyler, Peyton and Josh Barton, cousins of the groom.
Flower girls were Eleciana Patton, niece of the bride; Madison Paoloemilio, cousin of the bride; and Isabella Barton, cousin of the groom. Ring bearer was Grant Barton, cousin of the groom.
After a reception at the Serbian American Cultural Center, the couple honeymooned at Sandals Grand Rivera Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
The bride is a 2005 graduate of Madonna High School and West Virginia University with a bachelor's degree in nursing.
She is a neonatal ICU nurse at Thomas Memorial Hospital in Charleston.
The groom is a 2005 graduate of Point Pleasant High School and WVU with a bachelor's degree in finance and a master's degree in business administration.
He is a financial adviser with Edward Jones in Charleston.
The couple reside in Scott Depot, W.Va.


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Let $(a_{mn})_{m,n\in\mathbb{N}}$ and $(b_m)$ be sequences of complex numbers.We say that $(a_{mn})$ and $(b_m)$ constitute an infinite system of linear equations in infinitely many variables if we seek a sequence $(x_n)$ of complex numbers such that $\forall m\in\mathbb{N}:$ $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}a_{mn}x_n=b_m$. Note that in general the order of summation matters.
I am sort of a undergraduate student with focus on number theory and have some background in functional analysis (2 semesters functional analysis, 1 semester non-linear functional analysis, 1 semester operator algebras, 2 semesters PDEs), so I am sort of a becoming number-theorist with bias for functional analysis :-) That is also why I am fascinated by the above defined object as a sort of natural extension of a practical problem from linear algebra.
We have never dealt with this type of objects and I wasn´t able to find much on google that I could start something with, maybe partly because I have searched in the wrong way. That is why I have a request if you could recommend some introductory literature focused on such infinite systems of linear equations in infinitely many unknowns over $\mathbb{C}$.
Thanks in advance!


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The brightness of my laptop is reset to Max on every restart. I tried the solution provided at this website but had no luck.
This command
cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness
cat: /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness: No such file or directory
Then I go on to find that I don't have any folder named
but a folder called
Every time I increase or decrease the brightness using the Brightness Control Keys the "brightness" and the "actual_brightness" values get updated.
Is there any method I could follow to set the brightness to a fixed value on everyboot and vary it as and when I need it using the Brightness Control Keys.


text: I'm going to keep going with the anime style lessons to recreate your favorite Adventure Time characters in an awesome anime style. Having said that, here is "how to draw anime Jake" from Adventure Time. Instead of turning him into a more realistic type of dog, I wanted to transform Jake's potential and go from a round bubbly looking pet, into a strong aggressive looking pooch because let's face it, he does save Finn from sticky situations. Anyways, have fun drawing anime Jake, I will be back with more drawing fun. Adios mi amigos.


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published a new leaflet to help people who are in great
The leaflet, Feeling overwhelmed – helping you stay
safe, is aimed at people who feel like they have no
control over their life and who may be thinking of harming
themselves. It encourages people to find someone they can trust and
provides a detailed list of support organisations. The leaflet also
explains clearly and simply how to make a 'safety plan', to help
organise people organise their thoughts and get the right support
at the times they need it.
Dr Alys Cole-King, a consultant liaison
psychiatrist who authored the leaflet, said: "Thousands of people
are overwhelmed every day, but is possible to find ways to get
through these intense feelings. Distress can be a sign that you
need to change something in your life, and this leaflet has been
written to show people that there is always hope and there is
always help."
Feeling overwhelmed – helping you stay
safe is the second in a special series of leaflets produced by
the College to help people who are distressed, are experiencing
suicidal thoughts or thoughts of self-harming. The first leaflet,
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Cordless Drill/Driver and Flashlight Kit, 3/8", 18 Volt for $19.99
coupon code: 62286379
Original: $44.99
With 21 torque settings, this 18 volt cordless drill driver allows you to perform a variety of drilling tasks. The cordless drill driver comes with a swivel-head flashlight with 3-position tilt to illuminate your work in dim areas. Features include an electric brake, keyless chuck and one 18 volt battery interchangeable with other 18 volt Drillmaster tools.
Electric brake
21 torque clutch settings
LED light for clear view in dark corners
Battery is interchangeable with other 18 Volt Drill Master tools
Comes with: 3-5 hour charger, AC/DC wall adapter, one 18V 1300 mAh NiCd battery
Name Cordless Drill/Driver and Flashlight Kit, 3/8", 18 Volt
Brand Drill Master
Clutch setting 21
Maximum speed (rpm) 900
Maximum Torque (ft. - lbs.) 84
Number of speeds 1
Reversible (y/n) Yes
Variable speed (y/n) Yes
Voltage (volts) 18
Voltage type VAC
Chuck size (in.) 3/8 in.
Product Weight 2.5 lbs.
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Don't even bother, the battery is nickel cadmium. It'll be shot within a year.
@charlesp2009: Then again, $20 per year isn't that bad...
@wingnut99: I'd rather have a $20 plug-in drill. More power, better performance. Everything I ever need to work on is always near an outlet anyway.
With power tools I always recommend to buy quality. You'll spend more upfront but the tool will last. Generally, in my experience, anything under $35 or so is just future landfill.
Buying used tools at yard sales, consignment stores, even places like Goodwill can be an excellent way to get quality tools for low prices.
"Buying used tools at yard sales, consignment stores, even places like Goodwill can be an excellent way to get quality tools for low prices."
Good way to get worn out junk too. And how about that Goodwill warranty...20 seconds or 20 feet whichever is first.
I bought one of these years ago. And scrapped it a year later when I got a Ryobi OnePlus set.
Good: Cheap.
Bad: Cheap.
Seriously... it works, and the battery lasts if you take care of it -- but HFT makes -zero- effort at taking care of them for you -
If you recharge before the tool dies, you get memory. No "recondition" mode on charger.
If you leave the battery on the charger for >6 hours, the battery is shot (it overheats). There's a warning in the manual, but IRL this means if you leave it overnight, the battery is toast.
If you leave it in the flashlight with the flashlight on, the battery is toast -- cell reversal because evidently HFT made no effort at matching cells.
At $20, it's tempting, but wait 'till the fall (when tools start slowing down) and go to Home Depot (Lowes doesn't seem to discount "slow moving stock"). You'll be able to get a Ryobi NiCd kit for under $50 (good for half a yard of weedwhacking), and then you can upgrade to Lithium for $35 or so.
Oh this sucks I just bought my Dewalt 20V Max Full combo! I could have saved huge!!!!!
I believe I have this same kit, but a couple years ago it was blue.
The drill is ok, never used the light except just testing it to see if it worked.
My only gripe? It takes hours to charge and drains [even without use] in a couple hours. Like someone stated above, its a cheap battery.


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Comtech Negotiating New BFT-1 Deal; Analysts See Promising Signs for 2012
[Satellite News 03-12-12] Comtech Telecommunications is currently holding negotiations with the U.S. Army for a new Blue Force Tracking 1 (BFT-1) contract that would sustain its business after losing its BFT-2 bid in 2010, Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg confirmed during the company's latest financial results report and conference call.
"Although we are not yet certain of the exact mix of products and services that we will be asked to continue to supply, we are optimistic that at least one new BFT-1 sustainment contract will be awarded prior to March 31, 2012," said Kornberg.
Comtech's 2012 fiscal second-quarter earnings fell 64 percent, but the company raised its 2012 full-year earnings guidance to $1.34 to $1.44 per company share, from its prior view of $1.25 to $1.37 a share. Comtech also raised the low end of its full-year revenue forecast to project a minimum of between $420 million and $430 million.
Though the company's second-quarter revenue and GAAP earnings dropped significantly compared to the same period in 2011, Comtech managed to beat expectations on both metrics. Comtech booked $99.1 million in second quarter revenue of $99.1 million. Analysts projected net sales of $92.8 million on the same basis, though its GAAP reported sales were 39 percent lower than the prior-year quarter's $162.8 million
"During the second quarter, we continued to successfully execute our business strategies," said Kornberg. "Our second quarter results clearly demonstrate that, despite challenging global economic conditions and operating in a period of significant U.S. and foreign government budgetary constraints, our business remains strong and our long-term growth plans remain on track."
Raymond James Analyst Chris Quilty said that despite its shortcomings, Comtech's 2012 second quarter results showed encouraging signs for investors, primarily due to a more upbeat outlook for its battered Mobile Data business.
"[Comtech's] Mobile Data upside was a surprise," Quilty said in a report issued March 9. "Mobile Data revenues were approximately $10 million above our forecast at $25.4 million, reflecting follow-on orders from the U.S. Department of Defense, but a sharp decline in its microsatellite business. Management expressed confidence that it will conclude an IT licensing agreement with the Pentagon and receive a definitive one-year BFT/MTS contract in a matter in a matter of weeks along with a three- to five-year IDIQ sustainment contract."
Comtech's core Telecom business, however, is still struggling with weak margins and a lackluster book-to-bill ratio, according to Quilty, who found the company's outlook for its Mobile Data segment tenuous, as the company's current Pentgon contract ends on March 31.
"Comtech's Telecom segment, which represents the core growth driver for the Comtech story, experienced an 18 percent sales decline and a sequential 670-basis point decline in EBIT margins to 16.2 percent – its worst performance in nine years," said Quilty.
Analysts identified two main factors that are hampering Comtech's growth: declining MTS/BFT manufacturing volumes and the completion of two large over-the-horizon microwave projects totaling nearly $50 million.
Though Quilty acknowledged that neither of these problems are not likely to be resolved soon, the fact that Comtech management affirmed that it is targeting EBIT margins of higher than 20 percent for the 2012 full year should boost investor confidence.
"Comtech appears to have turned a corner, posting its best EBIT margin in six quarters at 5.3 percent and a marked improvement in orders. Money-losing development projects are in the rearview mirror and recent bomb jamming contracts should yield double-digit margins," said Quilty.


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Way down in Egypt Land!
As events have swirled in Egypt, it is not hard to follow the blood and gore. It is less clear what's really going on. When Lindsay Graham and John McCain appear as the chief American interlocutors, you can be sure our policy is adrift. Reading Pat Lang this morning, I found the following comments from a journalism professor at the American University of Cairo focused on media coverage filling in some of the missing pieces. Read it here; it's short!
And here is the NYTimes account of media coverage: not as short.
UPDATE: Here is the inevitable, "The U.S. has-had-it scenario," with Russia and Saudia Arabia joining forces to calm things down in Egypt with China as backstop. Provocative and Sobering. Asia Times.
Paul Pillar at the National Interest argues that the U.S. could let the military aid to Egypt go without serious consequences for the U.S. or Egypt, but perhaps with some consequences for Israel, which has undertaken a diplomatic initiative to keep the aid flowing to Egypt. In brief, the Egyptians have no desire for a war with Israel and the Israeli military can thwart the Sinai terrorists. The problem for Israel: in the 1979 treaty with Egypt, it promised to make peace with the Palestinians within five years. A long five years!
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Here's a politically incorrect statement: Schliefer is right: since Viet Nam for a huge portion of the American populace the military is incapable or unwilling to do anything right.
It seems to me that Obama's policy has been vacillating because the players (except the military) have been vacillating, and possibly they need to vacillate at this point. The players include the military, the native Muslim Brotherhood and the Al Queda extremists and their local buddies, and the rest of tthe people who just want to get down to making a living. Two of the latter three will have to join forces, but none of them want to share power. The situation is likely to continue until a strong leader emerges who can unify at least two of the factions.
Here is a statement by Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac, president of the Assembly of the Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops of Egypt:
And Spiegel-online today has three different takes on what is happening.
Patriarch: sounds like he (and the Assembly?) support the military.
[Lindsay Graham getting the vapors] - again! - is really getting old. This particular friendship with John McCain is becoming more and more absurd, and more uncomfortable for us to watch.
I think that the Obama Administration has it just about right in dealing with the overthrow of Morisi in Egypt - a messy and as unsatisfying as that may be. Were not dealing here with dissention at the local chamber of commerce over the menu at luncheon.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't. It's best to wait for the dust to settle before the US puts its collective foot in it.
Yes, I feel compassion for the Egyptian people. They have suffered for a very long time. But if anyting our own American experience has taught us is that freedom is not free. There will be more bloody days ahead for Egyptians. It is very difficult prospect to take an entire society from despotism and dictatorship to democracy in less than a generation. This isn't going to play itself out like a Hollywood script.
The standard for the US should always be what is best for the vast majority of the Egyptian people. How can we help them to realize their own "Bill of Rights"?
From the Egyptian patriarchs and bishops:
Lastly, we address the international conscious and all national leaders that they understand and believe that what is happening in Egypt now is not a political struggle between different factions, but a war against terrorism.
That is a pretty consise statement of what this all means. Most news reports I've absorbed on these events have focusd on the violence, especially the number of victims / the body count. They don't particularly position this as a war against terrorism.
This piece in Politico, by a former Obama Administration State Department official, criticizes the Obama administration for vacillating on Egypt (and a number of other hot spots in the Middle East). But if the Egyptian bishops (who, it may be worth noting, are the oppressed minority in this picture; theirs is the view of the marginalized) are formulating this correctly, it doesn't seem that complicated: the Obama Administration should support the Egyptian military, and cutting off foreign aid would seem to contradict that support. Am I missing something?
Maybe you're missing that the VP resigned in protest of the violent crackdown last week, a level of violence which he deemed unnecessary. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-egypt-protests-elbaradei-idUSBRE97D0X720130814
Before we get all weepy-eyed over the lovely intentions of the Egyptian Army, that army was last seen as an X factor as anti-Mubarak demonstrators waited to see whose side it would come down on. Before that, the army was the bulwark of the Egyptian dictatorships, starting with a general (Muhammed Naguib), followed by Colonel Gamal Nasser. and so on. The dictatorship spent a lot of time outlawing and torturing members of the Muslim Brotherhood, with the Army (and police) perforce doing the heavy whipping and whacking. If the army has now become the paladin of Egyptian democracy, that's nice but it will be news to a lot of Egyptians.
About the only place in that part of the world where one can feel confident saying a good word about the army is Turkey. Turkey is, like, 99 percent Muslim, and a democracy. (The latter fact was unknown to the Bush administration which thought it was creating the first Muslim democracy in Iraq. Oh, well.) The Turkish army was the guarantor of democracy. Lately, there were demonstrations against the semi-religious government in Turkey, and the Army was on the sidellines. But then the international press, with the attention span of the common housefly, flew off to Egypt, and who knows what is going on in Turkey now?
The Egyptian Christians, even at the episcopal level, can hardly be thought to be objective or even-handed between the Brotherhood and the army that is currently sitting on it. If the Brotherhood were to achieve its ultimate stated goals, things would go very badly for Christians. That alone is no reason, though, to sprinkle the army with holy water.
What if this is both a struggle between factions, more than two probably, and a struggle against terrorism?
Factions: The army, the Muslim Brotherhood, the liberals, the seculars, the non-military elite and the non-Muslim monorities (Copts, Catholics, Jews). The military is more or less the arbiter because it is organized, resourced, and it has most of the heavy weaponary. It is hardly surprising that the statement from the Patriarch, representing the Christian community, is in favor of the military; they are its only protection.
Terrorism: Militants and salafis in the Sinai, who attacked the army under Morsi; some factions of the MB (my impression is that they are not of one mind on how to proceed); Jihadis wandering in from Libya next door: perhaps a small contingent of Al Qadea in North Africa.
My guess is that the U.S. will do what Israel asks. At the moment, it is to keep aid to the Egyptian military coming, though it appears we have no leverage over them or any other faction. That's why McCain and Graham are allowed to run loose. IMO, the U.S. has no independent policy right now.
In the patriarch's letter, "...the international conscious" should be "conscience," of course.
In his 2006 Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," Lawrence Wright pointed out that the 1952 military coup that ousted King Farouk had Muslim Brotherhood support, but that the Brothers soon fell out with the military and the Nasser-led suppression of the Brotherhood began. According to Wright, "In a story that would be repeated again and again in the Middle East, the contest quickly narrowed to a choice between a military society and a religious one. Nasser had the army and the Brothers had the mosques."
As it was 60 years ago, so it is today.
According to an NPR report that I heard this morning, the Morsi government and the Brotherhood encouraged conspiracy theories about Egyptian Christians, helped whip up hate against them and must bear a lot of responsibility for the persecution that they are now suffering.
Thank you for your expression of concern about the Jews in Egypt, Margaret, but there are hardly any left, probably fewer than 100. Thanks to the founding of Israel, the 75,000-strong community in 1948 managed to escape in the following years. Otherwise, they, too, would be the victims of the current persecution, and perhaps bearing the brunt of it, as they did for so many centuries in Arab countries.
My best guess is that the United States will do what it thinks is in its best interest. It will certainly take into account the treaty between Egypt and Israel, because it is one of the cornerstones of U.S. policy in the region, but so are its relationships with Jordan and Saudi Arabia, both of whom are backing the Egyptian army. And so are its fly-over rights in Egypt, which are important to a lot of its operations, and its preferential rights to passage through the Suez Canal. I have read or heard that the U.S. is the only country whose warships Egypt allows to pass through the Canal, but I haven't confirmed it.
There is a very good memoir by Andre Aciamn, Out of Egypt, about his family departure during WWII from Turkey to safer territory in Egypt.
Turkey may technically be a democracy, but that status is fraying badly:
I have visited that country about 7 or 8 times over the past 20 years and have local friends there. They all admit (albeit very cautiously) that the political environment there has worsened since Erdoğan has become Prime Minister. Granted, they are not Islamists by any stretch of the imagination. They are secular to the hilt and want to keep it that way.
Bassem Sabry reports at Al Monitor that
"On one hand, the Brotherhood is faced with the combined power of an antagonistic administration, the media, the judiciary and a substantial number of people who seem to be confronting the Brotherhood in the streets out of their own volition. The Brotherhood is even facing the leaderships of the country's top two religious institutions, the Coptic church and Al-Azhar. Most remarkably, a senior Al-Azhar leader and scholar, Dr. Ahmed Kreima, had reportedly declared that Al-Azhar's council of Sharia scholars has deemed the Brotherhood apostates."
Could it be that calmer heads are starting to prevail?
HT Andrew Sullivan
Oh come on. Any journalist old enough to feel a liberal's Vietnam angst probably cut his or her journalistic teeth in places like Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicauragua, Chile, or one of countless other countries where they could witness the benevolent, liberal democratizing effect of military rule for themselves. The fact is, Egypt has spent billions of dollars -- our dollars, mostly -- making sure the military has all the firepower, so of course it's a dangerous thing that the generals get to decide what's right in the civil sphere -- you don't have to use Vietnam to explain journalists' scepticism.
And the first half of this guy's piece, where he says what Americans don't know about Egypt, is just wrong -- I've read everything he says in articles in the MSM, usually following a phrase like "supporters of the military claim that". What bothers him is that his point of view isn't presented as "truth" and everything else as "lies and falsehoods."
Don't get me wrong -- if I were in Egypt I'd probably agree with this guy. But the truth is that Egypt has got itself into a position where a bad option -- military rule -- may be the best option, and a thousand people are dead in the streets. That's hard to present as good news.
But the truth is that Egypt has got itself into a position where a bad option -- military rule -- may be the best option, and a thousand people are dead in the streets. That's hard to present as good news.
That's also my impression. As to the patriarch, given the burning of Christian churches and the intimidation of Christians there (Here's a link with a list. I don't know what that website is worth, but the list is pretty horrifying: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/15/reported-list-of-churches-and-christian-institutions-attacked-in-egypt-since-wednesday-will-astonish-you/ ,) his support of the military may simply derive from the principle "the ennemies of my ennemies are my friends," and who can blame him for that?
It takes two to make peace, Margaret.
For the first fifteen years after the Camp David Treaty, it was the official and actual position of the Palestinians that they would never make peace with Israel, which they contended had no right to exist. It is the official and actual position of half of the Palestinians today – those in Gaza.
To the best of my knowledge, in the 65-year history of Israel, the Palestinians have never – not a single time in 65 years – made an offer of peace to the Israelis.
When Israel has made substantial, good faith offers, as it did at Camp David in 2000 and as Ehud Olmert did in 2008, they have been rebuffed in bad faith by the Palestinians. The Palestinians responded to peace offers in 2000 by saying no to everything Israel offered, by refusing to make an offer themselves, and by initiating a terror bombing campaign in Israel that killed over 1,100 Israelis, including 150 children, before it was finally put down by the Israeli army in 2004. And they didn't respond to Olmert's peace offer in 2008.
When Israel unilaterally ended settlements and occupation in Gaza in 2005, the Palestinians responded by electing Hamas in 2006 to be their governing party. Hamas is against peace under any circumstances and is sworn to the ultimate destruction of Israel. It is also the most virulently and openly anti-Semitic party to govern anywhere since the Nazis ruled Germany.
A subsequent war between Hamas and Fatah left Hamas only in charge of Gaza, which it rules as a dictatorship, and Fatah in control of the West Bank, which it governs (through the Palestinian Authority) as a dictatorship.
And, of course, all of this is against the historical rejection of the two-state solution by the Palestinians and the three all-out wars and countless terror campaigns that they and their regional allies have waged to destroy Israel.
The Spengler article in the Asia Times Online echoes his long-standing claim that the Arab Spring is doomed to failure. In this, he appears, unfortunately, to be right. Look at Syria! Look at Libya! Look at Egypt! Even in Tunisia, where it all began, the two leading opposition figures to the current Islamic government have recently been assassinated. But I don't know whether Spengler has a basis for his other provocative geopolitical claims in his article.
Both Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post are reporting this morning that Turkey's Erdogan, who supports the Brotherhood, is claiming that Israel is the mastermind behind Morsi's overthrow. As though the Egyptian Army and the Egyptian people are controlled by Israel. Of course, in Egypt there is widespread belief among Morsi's opponents that Israel is the mastermind behind the effort to prop up Morsi!
But we tend to forget that in so much of that part of the world hatred for Israel and Jews is whipped up by the governments, just as it was being whipped up against Christians in Egypt by the Morsi government.
On state television in Egypt (during Mubarak's reign) and in Turkey mini-series appear about the Jews' master plot to control the world. And this anti-Semitic tripe seems to be gobbled up by the populace.
Even in the United States, there are those who claim that the Jews control United States foreign policy in the Mideast, but fortunately these views are held only by a fringe element.
In my comment of today at 11:50 a.m., the last sentence should read, "And, of course, all of this is against the background of the historical rejection of the two-state solution by the Palestinians and the three all-out wars and countless terror campaigns that they and their regional allies have waged to destroy Israel.
Jeff: Your Hasbra-like efficiency in responding to all things Israel is noted.
As you say, it takes two to make peace.
Claire said, "Maybe you're missing that the VP resigned in protest of the violent crackdown last week, a level of violence which he deemed unnecessary."
And, oh look, now the military government has arrested him for speaking out against them:
"Former vice president accused of 'betraying national trust' because of resignation after crackdown on Morsi supporters." (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201382013218872674.html)
Margaret says, "Jeff: Your Hasbra-like efficiency in responding to all things Israel is noted."
What I note, Margaret, is that you didn't defend your position. Instead, you responded with an empty, substance-less one-liner.
In your update to your post, you faulted Israel for not making peace with the Palestinians within 5 years of the Camp David Treaty "as promised." When I posted a substantive and fact-based response (my 11:50 a.m. comment) to your naked assertion, pointing out how unfair and misleading it was, your response didn't address any of the facts I adduced. It didn't deny them. Or admit them. Or address them. It ignored them.
And it didn't admit that your original comment was unfair. Or deny it. Or address it. It ignored your original remark.
It being a free country, you are free to respond with one-line gibes to substantive comments disagreeing with you. But it being a free country, I'm free to point out what you're up to.
And by the way, if by "Hasbra-like," you intend to invoke the Hebrew word, you have misspelled the English phonetic spelling. It is "hasbara", not "hasbra." You left out a vowel. If you mean some other word, Hebrew or English or Venusian, I was unable to figure out what it was.
Jeff: excuse the misspelling; you got my meaning.
Like you, I hope to see Israel flourish even beyond its current flourishing. But you organize your "facts" and opinions around that proposition that it is flourishing and will flourish without making peace with the Palestinians. That seems to be the view, as well, of the current government. If only the Palestinians would move on as the defeated people they are, Israel could have its Jewish and democratic state from the sea to the river. That is a choice Israelis and their government may want to make. I don't see why the U.S. and its citizens should acquiesce in it.
Margaret: First, I note that you have skipped to a broad philosophical comment and left unaddressed once again the topic that was actually under discussion.
Second, with respect to your broad discussion, I don't accept the way you have framed the issues. The difference between us is not that you desire peace and I'm indifferent to it. After all, in my very first comments to you some ten months ago, I said exactly what peace deal I favored. Here is what I said verbatim: "We both know that without certain concessions on both sides the odds of peace are low. Israel must end the occupation, and withdraw the settlements in the West Bank except for certain major population centers that hug the 1949 armistice lines (the "green line," or the pre-1967 line) for which there must be appropriate land swaps. And Israel must also cede East Jerusalem to the Palestinians. The Palestinians, for their part, must recognize Israel's right to exist in peace as a Jewish state and normalize relations with it. They must relinquish the 'right of return.' And they must agree upon security arrangements to be negotiated by the parties, perhaps with help from the international community. Do you agree?"
These are pretty much the terms of broad consensus in the international community and what the U.N., the U.S., the E.U. and Russia ("the Quartet") are aiming for. Notice that I asked you whether you agreed. You never responded and I can't recall ever seeing anything by you indicating what peace terms you are in favor of. Are you willing to say now? Do you agree with these terms? If not, why not? I've been forthright about the terms of peace that I favor. Will you be forthright, too?
The real difference between you and me is that I mainly blame the Palestinians for the current mess and you mainly blame the Israelis. You are correct that most of my posts are pro-Israel, but for you to fault me for that is the pot calling the kettle black. I wouldn't have to post any comments if you were half-way fair in your posts, but as it is, my comments and those of other pro-Israel people serve as a needed counterweight to your uniformly negative posts about Israel. Your remark in this post with which I have taken issue is just the latest and a typical example of that.
As for whether it is Israel or the Palestinians who have the most to prove about the willingness to make peace, I would think that given facts such as those that I set out in my comment today at 11:50 a.m., it is the Palestinians, but even here, I have been more forthright than you. I have said this about Netanyahu: "I have my own doubts about Netanyahu, but I have equal doubts about whether Abbas and the Palestinians are ready to commit to peace and normalization in exchange for statehood." And I have said: "As for the West Bank, there is admittedly reason to be suspicious of Netanyahu's good faith, but there is equal reason to believe that Abbas will not or cannot agree to those things that the Palestinians must agree to for there to be peace, particularly relinquishing the 'right of return.' His tactic is to try to take steps through the U.N. to move toward the establishment of a state without making any of the concessions necessary for peace. ... Perhaps both governments, as currently constituted, are now in bad faith.."
But I can't remember any comparable statement from you. Are you willing to admit that there is reason to doubt whether the Palestinians are willing to make peace?
Last, the United States is probably the largest benefactor of the Palestinians in the world. Over the past five years, it has averaged $750 million per year in contributions to the Palestinians, either direct aid or contributions to UNRWA. Yet, I have never seen you post a comment questioning why the U.S. and its citizens should "acquiesce" in their wrongdoing and all their rejections of peace.
The truth is that 75% of the American people disagree with you about Israel and so do the Congress and the President. And so do I.
Has everybody noticed how what to do about Egypt turned into Israeli-Palestinian non-relations? It's as inevitable as the extra point in football, but we usually talk as if the Muslims are the only ones hung up on it.
Tom: As the person whose blog this is, Margaret has the perogative, I suppose, to post updates that address new issues. As for me, I'm just responding to what she said.
Margaret: I found this in the Wikipedia article, "Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty" -- "The treaty was received with enormous controversy across the Arab World, where it was condemned and considered a stab in the back. The sense of outrage was particularly strong amongst Palestinians, with the leader of Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, stating: 'Let them sign what they like. False peace will not last.'"
I'd like to call attention to this piece by Andrew Doran in National Review. Without embracing his analogy to Kristallnacht, I'd note that his view seems to align with that of the Egyptian Catholic patriarch that was discussed above.
... and Kirsten Powers paints the same picture in the Daily Beast. Headline: "The Muslim Brotherhood's War on Coptic Christians"
Thanks Jim, Is the Coptic community bearing the brunt of MB revenge? Christian communities elsewhere in the ME--including in Syria and Iraq are under siege, sometimes it seems from all sides.
And Jeff, especially for you: What's with the "pay back" attacks on Christian insititutions in Israel; it appears these are carried out by settlers, or their supporters, but it is not always clear who or what is behind them. Presumably the government does not approve.
Margaret asks: "And Jeff, especially for you: What's with the "pay back" attacks on Christian institutions in Israel; it appears these are carried out by settlers, or their supporters, but it is not always clear who or what is behind them. Presumably the government does not approve."
To the extent they exist, Margaret, they are to be condemned and they are a black mark against Israel. But you provide no information about the nature and extent of alleged payback attacks on Christians by Israelis, so its difficult for me to respond further. You say that it is not clear"who or what" is behind them, so I'm not sure what is your basis for your accusation, especially since Palestinian Arabs persecute Christians.
Here, for example, is a sourced article on the persecution of Catholics in Gaza. http://voices.yahoo.com/christians-gaza-fear-their-lives-as-muslims-403365.html.
And here is an article on Arab persecution of Christians in the West Bank. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/1498033/Islamic-mafia-accused-of-persecuting-Holy-Land-Christians.html
I do know that the Christian population in Israel has grown from approximately 48,000 in 1948 to 150,000 in 2000, largely because of their freedom to practice their religion. I believe it is the only country in the Mideast where the Christian population is increasing


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The girl and her mother are seeking U-Visas, which are granted to immigrants who are victims of crimes.
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Identifying Effort
We're all guilty … of focusing too much on what we enjoy and/or what we're good at, while neglecting our weaknesses or the things that just aren't fun. As trail runners, we often skimp on speed training in exchange for logging miles and exploring beautiful places. If you are training to race, performing a variety of workouts at different effort levels is vital for efficiency across all energy systems utilized during a race. Your training plan should include training-pace runs, long runs, thresholds, hill repeats and intervals, all to capitalize on aerobic (endurance) and anaerobic (speed) efficiency.
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3-2-1 Drill (Fartleck)
Trail races include undulating terrain that forces you to run through different heart rate zones. The more you can simulate running within those zones in training, the better your body will respond to them during a race. For fun speed days, I often assign clients my 3-2-1 Drill. I love this fartleck workout because it focuses on running fast within a longer run, allowing you to reap both aerobic and anaerobic benefits. The sequence of running hard, easy, hard, easy, etc. teaches your body to fluctuate efficiently between high and moderately high heart rate zones.
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- 30 seconds training pace (recovery)
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Once i've downloaded the demo, i'll get going on a Wycombe Wanderers page
Once i've downloaded the demo, i'll get going on a Wycombe Wanderers page
I'll put up the Reading thread if no one else has done it.
God man stig, can't do it myself right now so I'd appreciate it if you could
Done. Any more that we get permission for, I'll put them up if someone else doesn't beforehand.
Jammy - I think you said about waiting in the GTPG thread whilst people are changing their threads, remember they can be edited on the FM wiki so it wouldn't be a problem if we added them now.
It wouldn't be a problem now, but I think if we were to continually bump up the thread in GPTG for the next few months, we'd only start to get on people's nerves. As well as that, it's much easier to add the threads to the site when they're finished.
We should leave it for now and come back when most of the threads are done IMO.
I'll be doing the odd article from now on, but i might not be getting FM10, so i probably won't be able to contribute much this year (Not that i did much for FM09 tbf )
Fair enough! Is it that you don't like this year's FM or are you just too busy?
I think everyone has a busy year this year - that's what we get for having 3 out of the 4 regulars still at school...
Am I the only one who isn't then?
Well Alan, Hamilton and I all are (Alan year 12?, Hamilton not sure, I'm year 11) so yes, you are
Didn't know that. Makes me feel old
You're pretty much an OAP tbh.
Just for you <3
What's year 12? I'm in whatever the last year of school is over in England is.
IIRC if I was living in the UK I'd be in the year 3 years ahead of GCSE year, whatever that is - if that makes any sense
No need Jammy.
Alan - Year 12 is the year after GCSEs. It is the first year of A-Levels. Usually Year 12s are 16 or 17.
I'm 17 and actually it was two years ago that I did the Irish GCSE's. That sounds about right.
Anyway... this wiki site.. I'll post up the Lazio guide now in a few mins.
Yep, that's it
Good idea Alan
Well, you edit every once in a while, and you're one of the most frequent editors. Which is a shame really, we could do with a few more regulars on the site...
I'll wait to update the team guides until we have permission for the FM10 guides. Also i'll keep an excel spreadsheet if you want so we have a definitive list of which team guides we have on the site.
Sounds good Stig
Want me to ask the mods if it's alright to make a new thread in GPTG about FM10 threads?
Just wrote up my first FM10 player profile
Is it okay if I leave you two in charge of the club guides for FM10? I really don't know what I'm doing with regards layout of club pages, plus I don't have a whole lot of time on my hands. Think it's best if I just stay out of it altogether.
If anyone could add my Lazio page for me it'd be appreciated
Yep, that's fine.
Fine by me too.
Thanks stig
I just added the infobox to the Lazio page and removed the gptg disclaimer - technically it's in violation of our house rules so I thought it'd be a bit hypocritical to leave it in
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I apologise for not starting on my Wycombe guide yet, i've had millions of pieces of homework to do and packing etc. for a battlefields trip that starts on Friday
I'll try and get it up over half term, but no promises as it's unreliable me! Plus, i'll be tired from my trip to France & Belgium, we leave at 4:15 AM on Friday FFS
Ah right, forgot about that. I don't really care if I get credit or not so I'll do nothing to it.
Freagle's account activated btw.
Edit: 3900th post.
Been redoing the main page, it was all a bit out of date now FM10 is released.
Selected article has also been changed, however this will be changed again in 5 days (for Novembers one) which is why I chose one which probably won't generate much interest. No point having a very popular one just for 5 days. (it's 'Bugs' now fwiw)
Also, I've removed the links to the FMH and Fansites category - there wasn't enough in either of them to warrant them being on the main page imo.
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to both of those things
The countdown looked strange, agreed. I tried to get the background to that weird green that most of it is (could we change this to a different, more FMy colour?) but I couldn't find how, andknew I'd mess it up. But it did look a bit strange anyway, agreed.
The Category thing wasn't centered because if it was, it took it half under the image and looked dodgy. But now the countdown has gone, it's better in the middle. It was only put on the right because of the countdown
I've bolded the 'podcasts', 'blogs' and 'Q&A Sessions', do you think it looks alright? I'm not sure about it, I don't think it's noticeable enough to make it worthwhile, it could do with having 'podcasts', 'blogs' and 'Q&A Sessions' as the first words on each point but that would make it read badly imo.
Oh, and under the logo, could we add a 'SI Affiliate' badge like most (or most that I've seen) other SI affiliates have? If the footballmanagerwiki logo moved up, with the SI Affiliate underneath it, I think it'd look alright.
Agreed, I don't like the bold text either. What I think you should do is remove the bold text that you just put in and make the links to pages bold.
If you can find the SI affiliate logo, I'll try and have it added. I tried looking for it once, but couldn't find anything.
I've reworded it, so the points start with what they are going to discuss.
Do you think it looks a bit too robotic and unnatural? If so, I'll change it back.
This section could use a little more clarityNew coaches atributes needed for 7 star training
ddm = determination + discipline + motivating
strength, aerobics
fit * 9 + ddm * 2 >= 270 -> 7 >= 240 -> 6 >= 210 -> 5
etc .....
or even in a small table based format, just to make it more readable & understandable at a quick glanceCode:Strength or Aerobics Fitness*9 + ddm*2 210+ = 5 240+ = 6 270+ = 7
I'd planned more for the middle, but that looks like a better idea. I'd thought like below;
but it looks odd. If we were a FML affiliate too it'd look better with two underneath the main badge, but not with just one. Something like this then;
Second one looks good imo.
Agree with you Jammy.
Do you think it looks any better now? I found it difficult to figure it out myself so I might have made a mess of it in places.
That looks a lot better Alan, however it's quite lengthy so maybe we could have it all on a separate page? When we have the FM10 spec on there too, it'll be an amazingly long page.
So maybe we should have both FM09 and FM10 on separate pages, or have FM10 on the main Training page then FM09 on its own page?
It's not that long now I don't think. Maybe make separate pages if/when we get a FM10 guide done?
Yeah, that's what I said - but do you think it'd be best to;
- Have them all on one page
- Have a Training page, FM10 Spec page, FM09 Spec page
- Have a training page that has FM10 spec on it, and a FM09 Spec page.
Yeah, sounds good to me
Which one though?
I think someone needs an early night
You're confusing me - I thought you somehow wanted all of those pages to be made
They all sound more or less the same to me. Go with whatever one you think is best.
Okay then, imo either
- Have seperate pages for Training/FM10 Specs/FM09 specs
- Have Training + FM10 Specs/FM09 Spec pages.
We'll try the latter when the FM10 specs are out - I reckon it'll be fine but it depends how long they are.
Just to let you guys know, I am back.......same excuses as others (lots of work etc.)
I also have permission from Freagle and Spike to use their transfer and wage budget guides for each league, which I will upload/create tomorrow.
That's good
Alan, the FAQ's page looks good - is there anything that I could help you with with it?
Got this week off for half term, so will be able to do a bit more.
Thanks. The plan is to have anything and everything in that page in condensed form if you know what I mean, so if there's anything you can think of, just throw it in there.
Yeah, so basically a summary of the site?
Once it's done, I reckon we should put it on the sidebar?
Pretty much, excluding club guides and the like of course.
Wouldn't be a bad idea to add it to the sidebar when it's done
K, I'll add it when I think of any.
Made a 'Contracts' page, is there anything I could add to it?
Looks good, and can't think of anything else to add to it
Any idea what FAQs I should add?
I'm not sure what else should go in tbh - guess we should just develop it as we think of things in the future...
I'll redo the Empoli page once I pick up FM10
Also, on looking, the Empoli badge and info is wrong. It's now the Dynamo Kiev badge and info
He does .
Has the FM10 skins page been done yet? If not I'll get started on it now. I'll also update the FMRTE thread.
Nope, hasn't been done. There aren't any noticeable skins yet are there?
Why did you remove the Specs bit on the FM10 page?
You had put it in the middle of the new features section, I thought that you included it by accident..
i quote from the fm wiki site:
'They are the Premier League's reigning champions, and have won England's top division 17 times, one short of Liverpool's record of 18 league titles'
im quite sure its 18-a-piece right now
Stig, I've put the Arsenal FM10 page up. I'm not sure how you want them to link together (so it links to the main Arsenal apge), so would you be able to sort that out for me pelase? Cheeeeeeeeeers
Can do mate.
Edit: Done.
Legend, cheers
What do people think of the Arsenal Edition page? http://footballmanagerwiki.co.uk/ind...rsenal_Edition
I wasn't sure whether to put the FM09 or FM10 image at the top. Decided on FM10 because it's the most recent, rather than chronological order. Agree with that choice?
It wasn't my fault
God knows where the posts intended for this thread ended up...
Does anyone think that we should have pictures of the kits on the club page for each team?
It'd be quite a lot of work mate, and I think most of them say what colour the kits are anyway but it's up to you - it would look quite good I suppose. It's another thing that might need updating when a patch is released, too. It depends if you think it'd be worth the amount of work it would need?
What do you think of this page? I found out how to link to a certain section of the page;
[[Resource Archiver#Browse Archive|Browse Archive]]
That'd take you to the Browse Archive section on the Resource Archiver page.
Page 10
Shows how many more threads are started just after a release [at least half could have been avoided by using the search function - another place another time for that moan I know!].
I've updated the Steam achievements page with the descriptions but not added the points that each are worth due to me not installing via Steam.
We have over half a million page views
Cheers mate, it's great to know that the site is helping people and tbh, it's done better than I think anyone thought it could have!
It's good to see that different people have different 'specialist' areas on the game. I'm quite good at noticing transfers and keeping squads up-to-date.
Fantastic site, keep up the good work.
Yes really
*waits for tottenhamfmo7 to spot an error*
*Sulks in corner.*
I meant on the wiki though fwiw.


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Kelli Swenson, a senior at Dakota Wesleyan University, was named this year's recipient of the Bishop Armstrong Peace and Justice Award during DWU's Baccalaureate service Saturday.
Swenson, of Chamberlain, is a double major in business administration and leadership and public service with a concentration in policy communication.
"When one reflects on your extensive involvement in a wide range of activities focused on assisting 'the least of these,' the term 'servant leader' comes strongly to mind," DWU President Amy Novak said in Swenson's citation. "With regard to leadership, your involvements exemplify two important aspects of promoting peace and justice. One is that the capacity to organize is a critical skill in moving others toward a more just and peaceful world. The other is that servant leadership means finding ways to engage others in shared leadership."
Swenson is the president of Student Senate, a member of the Student Ministry Council, a resident assistant on campus, and a Student Ambassador. She is a four-year member of the dean's list, a Randall Scholar, 2013 recipient of the Vicki Clarke Memorial Endowed Scholarship, McGovern Center Scholar, and a member of the McGovern Advisory Council. She has organized and volunteered with DWU mission trips to New Orleans, Peru and Mexico, as well as community outreach projects. Kelli interns with DWU's institutional advancement/alumni relations department. She was named 2014 Miss Wesleyan on April 25.
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I'm looking for a step-by-step guide to changing the oil of 2004 Nissan Xterra. I found one a very useful one for my Lexus but I can't find one for my Nissan. Does anyone know of one or would like to write one?
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For your car? It's going to be tough to find exact instructions. There are plenty of resources on the internet for changing oil in general. It's not a big deal at all, there are only a couple things to keep in mind:
Basically, avoid killing yourself and/or your car. I think those two are the only ways to really screw up on an oil change.
Car specific info
If your car is a VG33 Xterra (the 3.3L, that year they switched to a 4.0L), I can tell you that the oil filter is a canister type (the more widespread type). It should be on the driver's side toward the front of the engine, facing straight down. The 4.0L is also a canister, but I can't remember quite where. In the VQ35 Pathfinder, it's right above the crossmember, angled forward and down (45 degrees). You have to remove the plastic cover under the car between the bumper and the crossmember. I imagine it'd be very similar to that. Plus, the VQs have a drip guide (finally!).
The drain plug is toward the rear of the vehicle's engine. The 3.3L Xterra's have a very short lower oil pan section, you can't miss it. The 4.0L... can't remember what side, but it's there and hard to miss.
General info
*You can leave a car on ramps and start it. You can on jackstands too... but if in doubt, swap 8 and 9 around.
Here are some good "how-tos" I found:
I noticed that some guides tell you do warm the car up before draining. Not sure why they would recommend this. You want the oil cool (when it hits your hand, hot oil doesn't feel good), and you want it all drained to the pan (when the car's off, all the oil slowly returns to the pan). Maybe, if you're in northern climates, you don't want molasses coming out, but still...
I change it in the morning when the car is stone cold.
A few tips that those How-Tos don't mention:


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is condemning what he calls the murder of two American military officers in Afghanistan's capital.
Pentagon press secretary George Little says in a written statement that Panetta believes Saturday's killings in Kabul are unacceptable.
The nationality of the gunman hasn't been confirmed.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack inside a heavily guarded government building, saying it was retaliation for the burning of Qurans on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
Little says Panetta received a telephone call from his Afghan
counterpart, who offered his condolences and apologized for the
Little says Panetta urged the Afghan government to take "decisive action" to protect coalition forces and to curtail violence after a week of unrest sparked by outrage over the burning of the Muslim holy books.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- For the first time in the decade-long
war in Afghanistan, the top commander of the U.S. and NATO forces
has recalled all international ministers from Afghan ministries.
This is in reaction to the killing of two American military advisers Saturday inside a heavily guarded ministry building.
Violence has sprung up in the wake of protests in Afghanistan over the burning of copies of the Quran at a U.S. army base.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack at the Interior Ministry, saying it was retaliation for the Quran burnings.
The two U.S. officers were a lieutenant colonel and major, and Afghan and Western officials say they were found dead on their office floor.
Western officials speaking on grounds of anonymity say the two
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A Taliban spokesman has identified the shooter as one of their
sympathizers. He says an accomplice inside the ministry helped him
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The Pentagon says the Afghan defense minister has called U.S.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to apologize for the shooting and
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DOVER, Del. (AP) -- A U.S. soldier killed during protests in
Afghanistan had talked with relatives about the backlash over the
burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base before he died.
Twenty-two-year-old Cpl. T.J. Conrad of Roanoke, Va. -- promoted
posthumously to sergeant -- was one of two U.S. troops killed
Thursday by an Afghan soldier amid anti-American sentiment over the
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Conrad's oldest sister told The Associated Press he was in good
spirits when she and other relatives chatted with him over the Internet on Wednesday, but he noted the backlash over the Quran burnings, which resulted in two more American deaths on Saturday.
The Department of Defense said the bodies of Conrad and Sgt.
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I am looking for some software what could react to music in realtime and could create some visual effects from given presets.
Simply I am looking some kind of software what could partiality replace VJ.
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My knowledge in this arena is far from comprehensive, but if you don't mind weird generative visuals, I've heard of people putting together rather elaborate video-processing patches using Max/MSP and Jitter.
Rather than automatically generating visuals based on sound, which is difficult to do meaningfully, why not make your own music performance more visual? This way you don't need a VJ, you can create a visual show, and people will be watching YOU instead of the visuals you project?
You can use input devices that are impressive to watch in a live performance setting, and hook them up to software for live performance, like Ableton Live.
One example of such an input device are the audiocubes by percussa. The audiocubes are smart cubes that can change colours through built in lighting, and they can generate MIDI based on their position and orientation. The cubes integrate with Ableton Live through MIDIBridge, a free app for audiocubes.
Alternatively you can also use grid controllers which have LED matrices, like the akai APC40. With these kind of controllers the movements you will be making will be mostly finger movements, so hard to see from a distance. With the audiocubes the movements are larger (because you move actual objects), so they are easier to see by the audience. Also check out this blog post: http://www.percussa.com/2012/09/01/how-to-engage-the-audience-when-performing-live-with-a-laptop-featured-question/
Another possibility might be to use DMX lighting, and hook that up via a USB-DMX bridge to software like Max/MSP, which could analyze audio in realtime, and then map that to DMX messages for the lights. This does require quite a bit of programming though.


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When configuring the Linux kernel, what are the advantages and disadvantages of enabling UTS namespaces? Would the new system be harmed if UTS namespaces were disabled?
UTS Namespaces are per-process namespaces allowing a process to have different namespaces for different resources. For example, a process could have a set of namespaces for the following:
NOTE: the use of namespaces was limited only to root up until version 3.8+ of the Linux Kernel.
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Currently, Linux implements six different types of namespaces. The purpose of each namespace is to wrap a particular global system resource in an abstraction that makes it appear to the processes within the namespace that they have their own isolated instance of the global resource. One of the overall goals of namespaces is to support the implementation of containers, a tool for lightweight virtualization (as well as other purposes) that provides a group of processes with the illusion that they are the only processes on the system
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I inherited Metz 35 CT2 flash from my grandfather and I don't have an idea how to set it up for use with my old manual Praktica camera. There is a "slider" which has lens hood numbers on it, DIN numbers above and distance in meters below. Then there is a chooser with options: TTL, M, yellow A, blue A, red A (these colors are also marked in the distance below the slider). How should I set the slider and chooser when I want to take photo with my all manual Praktica? Can someone roughly describe what does all the options mean?
Googled at some Pentax maillist archive:
So I guess the slider at the top sets power for manual mode, where aperture/ISO/distance table is a guide for setting the correct power. Colored auto modes might be build-in metering for different f-stops, and TTL should be TTL metering work with some Metz-compatible camera.


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Veteran Atlanta news anchor Amanda Davis of Fox 5 has been arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol after a wrong-way wreck.
The anchor at WAGA in Atlanta was driving northbound in the southbound lane of Piedmont Avenue early Sunday morning when the crash occurred, according to the Atlanta Constitution-Journal.
Davis was arrested near Piedmont and 14th in Atlanta.
"Upon speaking with both drivers, the officer noticed an odor of alcohol emanating from Ms. Davis' person," Sgt. Lyon said in a statement, according to 11 Alive. "He asked her if she had been drinking, to which she did respond in the affirmative."
Davis would not take a field sobriety test, but a DUI officer found probable cause to arrest her, according to 11 Alive. Davis was charged with reckless driving and failure to maintain lane. Her license was confiscated and she was taken to jail.
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