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For a givien partial order, how many generic extensions might exist? In other words, for a boolean valued model class which dreams of a generic extension, how many unique generic objects exist for a given partial order (which gives rise to a boolean algebra naming such an extension)?
It is often the case that when we force with a partial order $\mathbb{P}$, then in the resulting forcing extension $V[G]$ there may be other $V$-generic filters and indeed many other $V$-generic filters $G'$, even giving rise to the same extension $V[G]=V[G']$. Thus, although from a the filter $G$ we may construct the forcing extension $V[G]$, we should not think of the of the forcing extension $V[G]$ as necessarily determining $G$; different filters can lead to the same forcing extension.
For example, if $\mathbb{P}$ has an automorphism $\pi:\mathbb{P}\to\mathbb{P}$ in $V$, then it is not difficult to see that $\pi"G$ is also $V$-generic, and furthermore these generic filters give rise to the same forcing extension $V[G]=V[\pi"G]$. Since many of the most-commonly-used forcing notions admit numerous automorphisms, it is quite common that we find ourselves in a forcing extension $V[G]$ for which there are numerous filters $G'\in V[G]$ for the same forcing notion $\mathbb{P}$ with $V[G]=V[G']$. And we can often count them in a precise way, as Stefan did in his answer. In particular, highly homogeneous forcing notions, having numerous automorphisms, will always lead to forcing extensions having many $V$-generic filters.
Meanwhile, there are also interesting cases where the forcing extension necessarily has fewer or sometimes only one generic filter for that order, which it seems is part of what you are asking about. For example, from $\Diamond$ one can construct Souslin trees with the unique branch property, meaning that the tree in the forcing extension has precisely one branch (and with a Souslin tree, the generic filters in any extension are precisely the branches), and one can view this property of a forcing notion as a strong kind of rigidity. This kind of situation with Souslin trees was the theme of my article with Gunter Fuchs on the Degrees of rigidity for Souslin trees, where we separate various strong notions of rigidity into a hierarchy.
Another example is self-encoding forcing, the forcing notion that adds a subset of some cardinal $\kappa$, and then codes this set into the GCH pattern (or whatever), and then codes these new sets into the GCH pattern a bit higher up, and so on. The process catches its tail in $\omega$ many steps, and the result is that in the corresponding forcing extension $V[G]$, there is only one $V$-generic filter for the poset, and it is therefore definable there from parameter $\kappa$.
When a nontrivial forcing notion $\mathbb{P}$ necessarily leads to a forcing extension in which $\mathbb{P}$ has exactly one generic filter, then one should think of $\mathbb{P}$ as being far from homogeneous.
It is a bit difficult to understand the question. But are you asking for the number of different forcing extensions by a given partial order? From the perspective of the universe that we are living in? Or from the outside?
Let me be more specific. Let $M$ be a countable transitive model of set theory.
In $M$, let $P$ be Cohen forcing, i.e., the partial order of functions from a natural number
to $2$, ordered by reverse inclusion.
In the real world, there are $2^{\aleph_0}$ different $P$-generic filters over $M$.
Now, if you are interested in the number of extensions from the perspective of $M$,
that question does not really make sense, since $M$ doesn't have access to the generic filters over $M$.
Since $\kappa$ was an arbitrary cardinal of $M$, this shows that it is impossible to gauge the number of generic extensions from inside the ground model.
I hope this does at least tell you how the question should be phrased.
Let me add an easier observation about the number of $M$-generic filters, for a given poset $P\in M$, if we do the counting "from the outside". That is, suppose $M$ is a countable transitive model and we want the number of generic filters in the real world (which, in particular, sees a counting of $M$). As Stefan pointed out, there is an obvious upper bound of $2^{\aleph_0}$ because there are only that many subsets of $P$ altogether. On the other hand, this bound is attained by any non-trivial forcing $P$, where "non-trivial" means that there is some $q\in P$ such that every extension of $q$ has at least two incompatible extensions. (If this fails, then the generic extensions are just the ground model.) In this situation, the usual proof that generic filters exist (namely, list $M$'s dense subsets of $P$ in an $\omega$-sequence and build the generic filter in $\omega$ steps, hitting the $n$-th dense set at the $n$-th step) is easily modified to give $2^{\aleph_0}$ different generic filters, by inserting steps at which you choose arbitrarily one of two (previously selected) incompatible extensions of the condition chosen at the previous step. As Stefan pointed out, once you have $2^{\aleph_0}$ generic filters, you also have $2^{\aleph_0}$ generic extensions, because each of the extensions contains at most countably many of the generic filters.

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BELTON (January 18, 2013)--UMHB is holding their 12th annual Percussion Festival Friday.
A master class will be offered free of charge to area student percussionists at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Friday's performance will feature award-winning composer Casey Cangelosi who has received numerous composition awards.
Cangelosi will also be teaching Saturday's class.
The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Hughes Recital Hall and the class will also be held in the recital hall.
Both events are free and open to the public.
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I have a very simple question. In our project we store an object's orientation as a 3x3 matrix which holds the orthonormal base of that object's local space. For instance if the object is aligned with the axis of the world, then its orientation matrix is :
1 0 0
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Now we store the angular velocity as a vector that contains values in rad/s around each of the world's axis. For example if the object should rotate around the world's y axis at 20 rad/s, then the angular velocity is
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My question is then, say we want to apply this velocity over 1 second to the orientation matrix, how would we do this?


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The 10 Best Beach-Themed Crafts and Activitiesby Erin Dower
Sand, seashells, and stones can provide hours of family fun both on the beach and at home. Get some ideas for beach-related activities, games, and crafts to try with kids of any age.
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Seashell Wind Chime
This craft is almost as simple as a walk on the beach. Go on a shell hunt with your child and follow these easy directions to make your own seashell symphony. Toddlers can help pick out the shells, but only older children should help you with nailing holes in the shells.
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I´m trying to solve a problem of cancellation of reflexive finitely generated modules over normal noetherian domains. When $R$ is regular domain with $\dim R \le 2$, for finitely generated modules, reflexive is equivalent to projective.
Now I´m studying the case $\dim R=2$ and $R$ normal. In this hypothesis, reflexive modules are maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules.
I´m looking for references about this topic, with especial emphasis in lifting of homomorphism between factors of maximal CM modules: something like "... an homomorphism $M/IM\to N/IN$ can be lift to an homomorphism $M\to N...$"; indescomponibles maximal CM modules are welcome too.


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It is my understanding that the hair on the head is there to protect us from sunburn. I've never seen a bald animal, so isn't evolution in charge of addressing these type of things?
How is it that evolution gave us a thumb, but hasn't found a way to keep the hair on our heads?


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The Broward Sheriff's Office and Port Everglades officials have announced new security restrictions on nighttime travel through the port. These restrictions take effect immediately, and will mainly impact motorists trying to enter—not exit—the port area late at night.
Beginning tonight (Saturday) and until further notice, the main entrance at I-595 and Eller Drive and the north entrance at SE 17th Street and Eisenhower Boulevard, will be closed from 9:00 PM until 4:45 AM. The entrance at State Road 84 and U.S. 1/Federal Highway will be the only Port entrance open overnight.
BSO deputies will direct returning cruise ship passengers, convention center visitors and late-night patrons of Burt and Jack's restaurant to the available exit. BSO is asking motorists who use port roadways simply as a shortcut, to find an alternate route.
"Unless you have specific business at Port Everglades, you should avoid the area for the time being," Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne said. "Our deputies and SWAT team members will continue their increased patrols, and may stop and question motorists, especially those trying to enter the port at night."
BSO's around-the-clock heightened security is a precautionary measure, in response to Tuesday's terrorist attack.
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Good news for Google Apps users who want access to the same products regular Google Accounts have: An anonymous tipster tells me a Google Trusted Tester program is underway that "transitions" Google Apps accounts to full access to all GOOG products, including Voice, Reader, Analytics, and more.
Here's the official Help page which includes a visualization of the transition, in the screenshot here. (Here's a PDF, in case they pull access to the link.)
On this week's episode of TWiG, Leo, Jeff, and I were hoping aloud that there would be some way to merge existing Google/Apps accounts into one. It doesn't look like that will be possible. However, if you have a Google account that "conflicts" with your Apps account because you've assigned the same email address to both, GOOG will resolve the conflict by adding a +personal to your regular account's sign-in address. Stay with me here.
Here's what that means. If you have a Google account for firstname.lastname@example.com as well as a Google Apps account for email@example.com, after the transition you'll still be able to sign into your Google account using email@example.com. It's a bit confusing, and a little more work than the one-click account merge we'd hoped for. However, thanks in large part to Google's internal Data Liberation Front, many of Google's tools offer data export features. So, while it'll take some time, it shouldn't be difficult to export your data from your Google account and import it into your Google Apps account after this transition is done.
The only product I'm worried about? Google Voice. Since it's got my primary phone number associated with it, transitioning it from my Google account to my Google Apps account won't be a simple data export/import operation. I hope I'll be able to port my Voice number from my original account to my Google Apps account when all this goes down.
Update: Hooray!! You can currently request to port your Google Voice account to another Google account (though not a Google Apps account—yet?) Thanks, programzeta!


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The Culture and Music of Austria and Germany
Students are visiting Rothenburg and Munich, Germany, Salzburg, and Vienna, Austria. They are immersed in the history, culture, and music of these great cities. Students are visiting historically and culturally significant sites such as the Dachau Concentration camp, Mozart's birthplace, and Schonbrunn palace in Vienna. Click on Read More to view full blog postings.
Costa Rica: Biodiversity in the Rainforest, the Volcanic region, and the Dry Forest
Students on this travel interim are seeing and studying some of the greatest biodiversity in the world. Toucans and suspension bridges, poison dart frogs and zip lines, sloths and an active volcano, a dry forest and a look at the Pacific Ocean; all these are part of Costa Rica. The students explore the rainforest, dry forest and volcanic regions to learn about how the ecology of these regions work, how humans interact with these regions, and how we can learn to reflect on what we observe. Click on Read More to read the full blog postings.
Art and Artists in NY
This romp through the Big Apple includes tours of 8 major museums and 3-4 gallery districts plus visits to artists in their studios. Students will enjoy a little time for sight-seeing/shopping and hitting Broadway. Click on Read More to read the blogs in full.
A Simple, Decent Home: Partnering with Habitat for Humanity
Students are working as partners with a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate in their efforts to make affordable housing available to all. They are spending the majority of our time participating in the construction and/or renovation of houses in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Click Read More to read the full blog posting.
Spain: Art, Language & History that Shaped our World
Students are discovering sunny Spain and walk through its ancient cities and vibrant metropolitan areas. They are getting a first hand experience with a brief survey of art, culture, language and history of Spain. Click on Read More to read the full blog posts.
The Beatles in London and Liverpool
Many scholars of popular culture consider The Beatles to be a significant social force of the 20th century. The students are travelling to London and Liverpool to study the history and social impact of the Beatles. In London they will go to all of the major Beatles' sights and visit places of interest like Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, and Windsor Castle. They will also stop for short visits to Oxford University, and Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare's home). In Liverpool, they will visit all of the Beatles' childhood homes, places that inspired songs like Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane, places where the Beatles performed before they were famous, and a museum called The Beatles Story. Click Read More to read full blog posts.
Hope for Haiti; Post Earthquake Service and Learning
Students on this travel interim will have an opportunity to partner with Mission of Hope to serve at Haitian schools and orphanages and also participate in some construction projects. Click Read More to read the full blog posts.
Jamaica Interim 2012
Students are visiting the Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Mornings are spent working on the CCCD facilities and afternoons will be spent in the classrooms. The students have an opportunity to explore a bit of the island by taking the children on a field trip as well as spending a day in Ocho Rios climbing Dunns River Falls and shopping in the straw market and spending our last night on the island at an all-inclusive resort. Click Read More to read the full blog posts.
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OK, I'm still playing with my iPad and loving it, and I found another software App that is a lot of fun. ASKetch by Andrew Kern is supposed to work with finger motions and strokes alone, and not be used with a stylus or pen tool. I'll tell you what it is supposed to do (and it does it very well). Let's look at ASKetch as Mr. Kern meant it to be. First, I'll quote: ASKetch is a simple black & white procedural sketching program for drawing with your fingers. It is designed from the ground … [Read more...]
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(Review) FileApp: A Great iOS File Manager
The iPad is a great thing. It is not, however, a computer. It's a shift away from the familiar hard drive directories. The new iPad owner has to surrender to a new way : you can't really root around the hard drive looking for a file, all user experience is controlled by an app, and getting the right app is key. As most of us have found out, finding that right app is a bizarre mixture of dumb luck, suggestions from co-workers and friends and the endless lists of best 10 apps proliferating on the … [Read more...]
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(Review) Genius Scan: A Scanner App for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
OK, I admit from the start that I am in love with my iPad2; but it is the availability of Apps for it that make it such a part of my current life. I just encountered a new App that I think is going to be extremely useful in the future. It's an App called Genius Scan from Grizzly Labs that is intended for use on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In short, it uses the back facing camera of the iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch) to take an image that can be corrected and then mailed—that's in the … [Read more...]
Review: Dr. Roach's Photoshop Tutorial App for the Ipad
Dr. Michael Roach's newest version of Photoshop tutorial is a hit. Roach takes aim at photographers and artists who are ready to take a systematic, measured approach to learning arguably one of the most difficult photo editing programs to master. With this tutorial open on an iPad in view, a user can go through and unlock many of Photoshop's mysteries. Systematic is a word that best describes Roach. During his tenure of 30+ years teaching photography at an East Texas university, Roach devised … [Read more...]
For The iPad- Adobe Photoshop CS5: Tutorial for Beginners Available in the Apple Store
If you have noticed my free version of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Tutorial which has been available here for download at DigitalAppleJuice.com, I have to tell you that Apple has just accepted my Adobe Photoshop CS5—A Tutorial for Beginners as an App in the iPad section of the Apple App Store.Searching by my name from your iPad is the fastest way to find it, and it is available for $3.99 until the first week in October (October 9, to be exact) as a "Back to School Special." After that it returns to its … [Read more...]
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Usually your children bring home report cards, but now, the tables have turned.
Thursday morning, the Kentucky Department of Education released results from the 2002 Kentucky Core Content Test, which is part of the Commonwealth Accountability Testing system, or CATS.
School officials consider the test results very important. "They're important because they trigger a number of possible consequences at the state level with the Kentucky Department of Education," says John Settle, Bowling Green Schools Superintendent.
Reward schools have achieved their baseline goals, progressive schools have made progress, and assistance schools will receive help from the state to achieve higher test scores.
In the Warren County School District, all schools except Greenwood, Warren East, and Warren Central schools achieved reward school status. The three high schools fall into the progressive category.
In the Bowling Green Independent School District, five schools will receive rewards, Parker Bennett Elementary is a progressive school, while LC Curry and Dishman-McGinnis are in the assistance category.


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I want to keep my study of Mandarin fun and engaging. One way I thought might be helpful is if there was a resource that held quality translations of famous American speeches or writing. By studying and practicing the Chinese version of famous passages, I think I could learn the language at a more lyrical level, while still working from an (english) base I can easily comprehend. This would be as opposed to studying the speeches e.g. of Mao Zedong, where I would need to learn both the English and the Chinese version.
For example, if there were a resource that took the Top 100 Speeches from American Rhetoric, and translated them into Mandarin (ideally with commentary!) that would be exactly what I'm looking for.


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It it worth using a motor oil conditioner? Do they actually help keep an engine running better, or are they just marketing ploys?
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Just use the manufacturers reccomended oil, oil additives for the most part are gimmicks. If you really want to protect your engine use a quality synthetic like Mobil 1 or the like. Modern engines have more consistent tolerances and can even run oil for longer periods of time. Stick to manufacturer recommendations, whats in your manual. No amount of additive is going to improve how your engine runs, unless its hiding a larger underlying problem.
I don't know about automotive oils specifically, but there are aviation oil additives that have proven benefits. So, it's certainly possible that an additive could have benefit. I'm always very suspicious of them though.
You can "add" a few bucks to the price and buy a fully synthetic oil. That's the only "additive" I bring anywhere near my car. The same goes for "octane boosters".


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Congratulations to the wave of Republicans who successfully ran on promises to tackle rising government debt and cut the hugely bloated federal budget. On the campaign trail, most candidates were not very specific about how they would cut the budget, but when they come to Washington they will be looking for good reform targets.
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High-Speed Pork
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson provides a blistering critique of the Obama administration's plan for a national system of high-speed rail. Samuelson dismisses HSR as "pork-barrel" and "a perfect example of wasteful spending masquerading as a respectable social cause."
Dept. of Education to Survive GOP
For those of us who recognize that federal k-12 education spending has been a costly failure, it's been great to hear some tea party candidates call for the abolition of the U.S. Department of Education.
Halloween: Uncle Sam Style
The office of Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has released an appropriately timed report on federal subsidies that have gone to the deceased. From the introduction:
GOP: Cut $87.5 Million, Save Nation
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor's "YouCut" project has released a new video that attempts to visually underscore the impropriety of sticking future taxpayers with a mountain of federal debt.
It Ain't So, Joe
Vice President Joe Biden is an affable fellow, which sometimes makes his tendency to exaggerate the truth somewhat amusing. However, Biden's latest tall tale is as unamusing as it is wrong.
Postmaster General Stepping Down
Postmaster General John Potter has announced that he is stepping down. The Washington Post speculates on the reason for Potter's departure:
Cost Overruns for FBI's 'Sentinel'
It's another day and another cost overrun in the federal government. This time it's the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Sentinel project, which is supposed to create a new web-based electronic case management system for agents and analysts. Sentinel was projected to cost $425 million and be completed by December 2009. Instead, Sentinel is over-budget and behind schedule.
Earmarked for Corruption
Florida Times-Union reporter Matt Dixon deserves kudos for his detailed expose of Congresswoman Corrine Brown's (D-FL) corruption-tainted earmarking. Since 2008, Brown has sought millions for a non-profit in Jacksonville that employs a lobbying outfit that just happens to have Brown's daughter Shantrel on its staff.
Public's View of Federal Workers
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PG&E has admitted liability for the blast in public statements and in radio and TV ads. But in legal documents filed with the state utilities commission, it denied most of the state's allegations that it violated safety rules. The company has set aside $200 million to pay for potential penalties.
By CASSANDRA SWEET
SAN FRANCISCO -- PG&E should pay $2.25 billion in
penalties for a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion in San
Bruno, California, that killed eight people and damaged more
than 100 homes, state investigators and San Bruno officials
In their recommendations to California's utility regulator,
the state and the city differed on the details, but both argued
that PG&E violated federal and state safety rules.
PG&E, based in San Francisco, has admitted liability for
the blast but said proposed penalties were out of line.
Both the state and the San Bruno proposals to the California
Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) include $1 billion that the
commission already has ordered PG&E to spend on overhauling
its pipelines.
State investigators recommended that on top of that,
PG&E pay $1.25 billion in penalties to cover much of the
cost of safety improvements to its pipelines ordered by the
utility regulator in December, that otherwise would be covered
mainly by PG&E customers through fees.
A fine of that size would "send a message that safety is a
top priority and that gross negligence and recklessness will
not be tolerated," San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane said at a news
conference. "We believe if there's any case for punishing a
utility for unprecedented bad behavior, it is this one."
San Bruno officials argued the fine is commensurate with the
scale of the disaster and alleged missteps by PG&E that led
to the explosion. Federal and state investigators have blamed
PG&E for the blast, saying the company mismanaged its aging
pipeline system for decades.
"I understand the desire to punish PG&E," CEO Anthony
Earley said in a news release. "However, the penalties
proposed, far exceed anything that I have seen in my 30 years
in the industry and fail to appropriately account for the
actions taken by the company."
PG&E has admitted liability for the blast in public
statements and in radio and TV ads. But in legal documents
filed with the state utilities commission, it denied most of
the state's allegations that it violated safety rules.
The utilities commission isn't required to act on
recommendations and can make its own decision about what, if
any, fines it will impose on PG&E. The company has set
aside $200 million to pay for potential penalties.
Mr. Earley, speaking at a news conference after PG&E's
annual shareholder meeting, said the company has spent more
than $1.5 billion on pipeline related costs since the blast. He
added he hopes the state commission takes that into account
when it decides penalties. "The company has already paid a very
heavy price," Mr. Earley said, adding that the fine sought by
San Bruno was "unrealistic."
Mr. Earley, who was hired after the blast, has said in
interviews and in an ad campaign that PG&E had "lost its
way" before the accident and now was focused on beefing up
But company attorneys and representatives sounded a
different note in testimony and documents filed with the state
utilities commission in January, arguing that the PG&E did
nearly everything it was supposed to and followed most safety
"PG&E deeply regrets the accident of September 9, 2010,
and acknowledges practices could have been better but, at the
time, its gas operations were in line with common practice and
regulatory requirements," the utility said in January.
Some blast victims say they are still struggling to lead
normal lives. On the day of the explosion, Bill Magoolaghan's
wife, Betty, and the couple's three children ran for their
lives as a fire sparked by the blast raced toward their San
Bruno home.
Mr. Magoolaghan said in an interview that the children, now
8, 6 and 4 years old, still have daily nightmares and are
easily frightened by images of fire. He agreed with San Bruno
officials that PG&E should pay a large fine, hoping it
would serve to prevent future disasters.
"It's critical to have harsh penalties when you've killed
eight people and destroyed a neighborhood," he said.
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I just learned that Linux has a
sudo !! command which literally applies
sudo to the last entered command. I had never heard about it.
Is that a common control? Where can I find documentation about it?
This is just bash shortcuts. It's not
Take a look at the "History Expansion" section of the bash man page:
It's actually
This separation of functionality is one of the most beautiful design principles making Linux/Unix so much more powerful than other alternatives where each program is a separate independent island of conventions and capabilities.
"make each program do one thing, and do it well"
Rather than implementing !! inside sudo (or any other command) which can benefit from repeating the previous command -- it is implemented once (in the shells) and all commands can benefit from it. So you can do:
and so on.
But it doesn't end here. The shell does much more than expanding history via the ! event designators. Before executing your command, it does variable expansion, file-name wildcard expansion (globbing), command substitution, file/IO redirection, and much more. All of which can be leveraged and used in any command that's being invoked from the shell.
Another big advantage is that if you spend some time learning your shell ('man bash' in this case) you need to learn it once and you can use these powerful capabilities everywhere, all the time. It is much easier to learn one set of powerful principles and conventions, rather than relearn how command line agrs are handled in each program or utility.


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God demanded obedience of Adam, and He demands obedience of us. However, our obedience as sinners is not what secures for us the new covenant blessing of eternal life. Instead, the obedience of Christ on our behalf is why we ...Read More
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Not that long ago Linux barely had two drivers to rub together.
Now it claims to support "more hardware devices than any other operating system in the history of the world" and, figuring it's time to push IHVs to open their code, 150 Linux kernel developers, including Alan Cox, signed a "Position Statement" decrying the use of any closed source kernel module or drivers in Linux.
They say they're "harmful and undesirable" and "detrimental to Linux users, businesses and the greater Linux ecosystem." They say proprietary drivers are obsolete and non-optimal interfaces that tend to be buggy and make the OS less reliable and secure, even crashing it.
Linus Torvalds, the head kernel developer, did not sign the statement though
it was circulated by his employer, the Linux Foundation.
Unless your company can spend a lot of money on new technology, re-engineering your environment and hiring a comprehensive cybersecurity team, you will most likely move to the cloud or seek external service partnerships. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security, revealed what you need to know when it comes to encryption in the cloud.
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We're entering the post-smartphone era, where wearable gadgets from watches and fitness bands to glasses and health aids will power the next technological revolution. With mass adoption of wearable devices comes a new data ecosystem that must be protected. Wearables open new pathways that facilitate the tracking, sharing and storing of consumers' personal health, location and daily activity data. Consumers have some idea of the data these devices capture, but most don't realize how revealing and...
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What are the successful IoT innovations from emerging markets? What are the unique challenges and opportunities from these markets? How did the constraints in connectivity among others lead to groundbreaking insights? In her session at @ThingsExpo, Carmen Feliciano, a Principal at AMDG, will answer all these questions and share how you can apply IoT best practices and frameworks from the emerging markets to your own business.
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Ask someone to architect an Internet of Things (IoT) solution and you are guaranteed to see a reference to the cloud. This would lead you to believe that IoT requires the cloud to exist. However, there are many IoT use cases where the cloud is not feasible or desirable. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dave McCarthy, Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, will discuss the strategies that exist to extend intelligence directly to IoT devices and sensors, freeing them from the constraints of ...
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You think you know what's in your data. But do you? Most organizations are now aware of the business intelligence represented by their data. Data science stands to take this to a level you never thought of – literally. The techniques of data science, when used with the capabilities of Big Data technologies, can make connections you had not yet imagined, helping you discover new insights and ask new questions of your data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sarbjit Sarkaria, data science team lead ...
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Extracting business value from Internet of Things (IoT) data doesn't happen overnight. There are several requirements that must be satisfied, including IoT device enablement, data analysis, real-time detection of complex events and automated orchestration of actions. Unfortunately, too many companies fall short in achieving their business goals by implementing incomplete solutions or not focusing on tangible use cases. In his general session at @ThingsExpo, Dave McCarthy, Director of Products...
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WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications platform that is changing the communication dynamic in the financial sector. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Leo Papadopoulos, CTO of Cloud9, discussed the importance of WebRTC and how it enables companies to focus...
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With an estimated 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, several industries will begin to expand their capabilities for retaining end point data at the edge to better utilize the range of data types and sheer volume of M2M data generated by the Internet of Things. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Don DeLoach, CEO and President of Infobright, discussed the infrastructures businesses will need to implement to handle this explosion of data by providing specific use cases for filterin...
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IoT generates lots of temporal data. But how do you unlock its value? You need to discover patterns that are repeatable in vast quantities of data, understand their meaning, and implement scalable monitoring across multiple data streams in order to monetize the discoveries and insights. Motif discovery and deep learning platforms are emerging to visualize sensor data, to search for patterns and to build application that can monitor real time streams efficiently. In his session at @ThingsExpo, ...
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Early adopters of IoT viewed it mainly as a different term for machine-to-machine connectivity or M2M. This is understandable since a prerequisite for any IoT solution is the ability to collect and aggregate device data, which is most often presented in a dashboard. The problem is that viewing data in a dashboard requires a human to interpret the results and take manual action, which doesn't scale to the needs of IoT.
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SYS-CON Events announced today the Enterprise IoT Bootcamp, being held November 1-2, 2016, in conjunction with 19th Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Combined with real-world scenarios and use cases, the Enterprise IoT Bootcamp is not just based on presentations but with hands-on demos and detailed walkthroughs. We will introduce you to a variety of real world use cases prototyped using Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Spark, and Intel Edison. Y...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA, a cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. LeaseWeb is one of the world's largest hosting brands. The company helps customers define, develop and deploy IT infrastructure tailored to their exact business needs, by combining various kinds cloud solutions.
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It's 2016: buildings are smart, connected and the IoT is fundamentally altering how control and operating systems work and speak to each other. Platforms across the enterprise are networked via inexpensive sensors to collect massive amounts of data for analytics, information management, and insights that can be used to continuously improve operations. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Brian Chemel, Co-Founder and CTO of Digital Lumens, will explore: The benefits sensor-networked systems bring to ...
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Mali Rebels Push On Despite French Strikes
Al Qaeda Militants Shift South as France's Jets Attack Them in North, Raising Specter of Wider Conflict
Islamist rebels chased Mali's army from a garrison town deep in its own territory on Monday, striking back at the weakest link in a nascent coalition after French fighter jets hit militant bases deep in the Sahara.
The surprise move by what witnesses called a well-armed rebel force highlights the risk that the French campaign in Mali could widen as al Qaeda militants spread across the heart of the world's largest desert.
The advancing fighters took control of the small barracks town of Diabaly after attacking and defeating the Malian army there, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
The once-remote conflict in northern Mali is now within 250 miles of Mali's capital, Bamako, posing a grave test for the country's ramshackle military and adding to the mounting pressure for other foreign forces to get involved.
"Our role won't be to remain alone alongside Mali," France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday.
Mr. Fabius said the U.S. was helping with transport, communication and intelligence-gathering capabilities, while the U.K., Belgium and Denmark were providing transport assistance. Several West African countries, including Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso and Senegal, have pledged to dispatch hundreds of soldiers, but the timetable for their deployment has yet to be determined. Algeria, which has traditionally opposed intervention, allowed French combat aircraft to fly through its airspace to reach targets in Mali on Sunday.
The European Union said it would accelerate the deployment of its own mission to train Malian soldiers, but ruled out any potential combat engagement.
United Nations Security Council members, meeting Monday, didn't object to the French intervention, French Ambassador Gérard Araud said, portraying the response as an expression of support for the campaign.
France says its action is covered by a December Security Council resolution authorizing a military intervention by the African Union.
The French air campaign, which began on Friday, aims to uproot the Islamist militant groups—most prominent among them al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM—from their strongholds in northern Mali.
The militants, however, have fallen back on a strength: extreme mobility.
"These guys would break camp on five minutes' notice," said Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler, who was held hostage by AQIM for five months in 2009.
AQIM, operating across a vast stretch of the Sahara, has furnished arms, training and recruits to Mali-based rebel outfits bent on imposing strict Islamic law as widely as possible across West Africa.
Rebels on Monday advanced south from rebel-held northern Mali to Diabaly, about 30 miles into government-controlled territory.
"They were extremely well-armed—rocket launchers, everything," said local teacher Pierre Kone, who described a 30-truck convoy entering the town.
A spokesman for one of Mali's larger Islamist militias said his fighters raided Diabaly not to prepare an assault on the capital—but to throw Mali's military off-balance. "Our strategy is very clear," he said. "We're going to lead our own war….They won't decide what kind of war we fight."
People in Diabaly were fleeing—and encountering the rebels. "They came in to introduce themselves and say that they're here to defend Islam, and to fight the Malian army," said Mr. Kone, the teacher.
The Malian army has sent reinforcements to retake the town, according to Mali Defense Ministry spokesman Nouhoum Togo.
The attack on Diabaly came shortly after French and Malian forces said they had regained the small central Mali town of Konna, which had fallen into rebel hands last week. Territory there includes an airfield that French and Malian officials described as vital to any liberation campaign.
Over the weekend, fighter jets from France attacked targets deep in territories controlled by Islamist groups, notably the large city of Gao. The French also targeted sites along the border with Mauritania, as well as Kidal, a remote trading post near Algeria. The extent of casualties wasn't yet clear.
The Islamist rebellion grew stronger with the end of the conflict in Libya in 2011, as militants and looted weapons from Libya made their way to Mali.
Heavily armed insurgents then put pressure on the Malian army, which in turn lost control of the country's northern regions. In March 2012, the army mutinied and junior officers seized control of the government.
—Joe Lauria contributed to this article.
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Corrections & Amplifications
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM uses Mali's desert north, a region the size of France, as a base for operations across a much larger stretch of the Sahara. A previous version of this article incorrectly said AQIM operates across a stretch of the Sahara the size of France.


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Resources for Building Oracle ADF Applications
By Karen Scipi on Jul 24, 2013
This entry lists the best resources to use to get started building great applications using the Oracle Applications Development Framework (ADF) technology. However, if you're already an ADF developer, you can fast-track your learning curve by checking out our top 10 reads: Top 10 Things to Read If You're a Fusion Applications Developer.
List of Oracle Fusion Applications resources
The following table highlights the four key resources that we use when building ADF components and pages for Oracle Fusion Applications and offers examples for when to apply the information in each of these resources.
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|Determine information design and elements
|Oracle ADF Rich Client User Interface Guidelines
Your focus is data visualization, rich web user experience, visual development.
For example, if you were building a table, you would find guidelines for table design and table elements. Specific design and element guidelines include:
|Add specific core and task-dependent features and interactions
|Oracle Fusion Applications Usage Guidelines
You're looking for Oracle Fusion Applications-specific features and interactions that enable a cohesive user experience through the consistent placement and behavior of user interface elements.
Examples include:
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|Oracle Fusion Applications Design Patterns
|You want to apply common design patterns. Design patterns comprise common page designs that are built to accommodate common requirements that have been identified by the industry as best practices and have been proven by real users in our usability labs. Generally, our design patterns are delivered through JDeveloper as composite components, or they offer instructions on how to use ADF components.
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Is there a way to use punctuation in Siri dictation? For instance, if I tell Siri to text someone "want to meet for dinner?" - it won't track inflection, right? How can I add the question mark via voice?
To get Siri to use punctuation, you only need to speak the punctuation during the composition of your message. For example:
Speaking that exact line to Siri would equate to the following message:
CrushApps has a comprehensive list of commands and punctuation that Siri understands.
Here's a short summary as requested by Daniel. These are the ones I find most useful day to day.
But there are many more that include a surprising amount of edge cases. It's possible to dictate the following sentence: "The number, "pi", is ... 3.14 (approximately)."
Apple has added the complete list of punctuation you can dictate to the Knowledge Base.
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The simple answer to gluten is that gluten comes from wheat. It's one source of carbs out of many. It's in important part of baking, but a significant number of people have celiac disease or some other form of gluten sensitivity. As a result they need a gluten free diet.
The paleo diet and diets similar to that avoid all grains. They associate a number of bad things with grains and claim that our paleolithic ancestors didn't eat like that. Since no-one is still alive from that era, this is of course an educated guess.
This much we do know:
For people who are very sensitive to insulin levels due to being insulin resistant or diabetic, you absolutely have to avoid the high glycemic impact foods. However, it doesn't hurt people without those ailments to avoid high glycemic impact foods.
The Paleo diet claims that a more natural source of carbs would be your whole vegetables--particularly the ones that you do not have to dig to get (i.e. not tubers like potatoes). The general concept that the more processed a food becomes the less healthy is fairly sound. In short the body doesn't have to work as hard to break it down and incorporate it, and the processing tends to remove the most useful elements from the food (vitamins and minerals).
While I personally think that the Paleo diet takes certain aspects too far, such as removing all grains and legumes from your diet, in general there's enough to its principles to learn from.


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I have hunted LEMCO back in the 80's and knew I wanted to hunt leopard near West Nicholson. I thought I had found a good hunt. Big cattle country, large stocky cats. I wasn't interested in plains game so the few and far between horned game numbers were low and I didn't care. I knew this going in and I told the PH I would shoot no plains game on this hunt. I booked with a leopard PH that had been hunting with dogs in this area for 3 years. I thought I was on the right track. Wrong. A hound hunter will always be a hound hunter. We will get to that later. We were met by PH at the airport. Seemed like a nice guy, very pleasant. He had a hunter come into the area a few weeks before and had hunted leopard for 5 days. First thing, that was wrong. I was told I would be the first one in. They had baited for his cat and nothing hit in 5 days. After he left, a cat hit on one bait. PH pre baited with 8 cattle シ's to start my hunt. I had told him and we agreed to use cattle, not Impala for baits as the cats were used to beef for feed. We went to PH's house for the afternoon, met his wife, both very nice people. They live in a nice middle class area in Bulawayo. After talking for a bit and having a bite to eat we left for our 3 hour drive to camp. All was well with the accommodations. Not the fanciest but decent and clean. The First morning we started checking baits. The first baits were over an hours drive from camp at the north end of the properties and had been out for 6 days. Nothing had hit any of the 4 baits in this area of about 15 sq miles except genets and honey badgers. My first thought was; ' What's going on ?, and, why continue with these unproductive baits?' We then drove another hour south to check baits in a area about the same size but closer to camp and clustered in about 15 sq km. The entire area consists of small rocky hills with dry river beds between them. This made perfect funnels for game and great travel routes for cats. The cats were using the river systems extensively for travel yet baits were hung in larger funnels that did not narrow as much as the areas I had seen the majority of the cat tracks in. The 4 southern baits had one hit, It was a pair, one smaller cat and one fair sized cat. I was told, could be male or female. One of the tracks was definitely female. So we set up a camera to get some pics. First I was told it was a female with her young. Then I was told it was a small tom. In yet a later discussion this cat became a female. Strange how they talked about this same cat for the first 2 days as a smaller male, then it became the female's young, after that it completely changed it's sex. Same routine next day. No hits on the baits. I was then asked to shoot an Impala ram for bait. I was told we would need it if we found another new site. Okay bang dead dropped it in it's tracks. So now we check the same baits with the same results. Only the one hit by the same pair. We continue to leave unproductive baits hang. At this point I am seriously wondering why we are not moving these baits to the more traveled paths of the cats in the area. I say nothing. I'm a good quiet client. After all, this is a 'Professional Hunter' he knows his job, right? The next day he chooses an area to hang yesterday's Impala, #1 We also need to kill another cow. I'm all for it, I want to use the cattle for bait. We get 4 new シ's. We finish the day with the last bait being hit by the same pair. I'm asked if I want to hang a シ to keep these cats here. It's early in the hunt so I say heck yah. Do it. Nothing else is getting hit. Back to camp to sleep. Next morning back to the bait line. Nothing hits. A cat walked under the Impala and the PH gets excited. I'm not impressed, he came for the stink. The Impala wasn't skinned or gutted and after a day of rotting in the hot sun the odors permeated the air. The female walked right on by. Perfect scenario for a hound hunt. Just hit their track and follow it. Once again I am told, we need another Impala. I am thinking; 'Really ? We still have 3 シ's of the last cow in the truck and we need another Impala? Okay bang dead dropped in it's tracks. On to checking the same baits for another 14 hour day. Understand, there are 6 guys in the back of the truck. 1 scout from each of the 4 properties, his head scout and his tracker. then in the front of the truck is me, my wife and the PH. We all drive around int the same truck for 12 to 14 hours a day. There is a second Land Cruiser back at camp and one of his guys has a drivers license and drives all the time ?? I'm thinking, why doesn't he split the bait line up and have a couple of the guys check one half while we check the other. We could be done in half the time so if we ever do actually sit out in a blind we won't be so dead tired. It seems to me this would be a more efficient way to operate but... I am a good client and say nothing. We find another place to hang the Impala, #2, and we move on to checking camera's and baits. Nothing, we head back to camp. I forgot to mention while we were out we took a leg bone, one bone with very little, if any meat on it and laid it out on a large hill that was quite barren to try and pull in some hyena. I shook my head at this but what do I know, I'm just a hunter from the states?I'd only been hunting longer than this PH is old. With 3 cow heads, all their guts and bones laying all over the skinning shed floor, we put out a month old, dry meatless bone?.? But I'm a good client and I say nothing?. We go back to camp, eat, and a few hours after dark we go out for hyena. It takes 1 ス hours to get to the area. The PH and is guys drag along a home speaker system, 3 feet high and 18 by 18 wide, シ mile up this hill and start calling. An hour later we leave. An hour and a half back to camp... But I'm a good client and say nothing. The next day we are still checking baits that are now 10 days old. We are only feeding the genets and badgers. We hang anther Impala, #3, and pick up a track of a tom on one of the cow baits. We hang a camera and hang one more シ in the new place. Back to camp and sleep. The next day we check baits and I am told another Impala is needed. Bang, dead in it's tracks. We still have 2 シ 壮 of a cow in the truck and now a new Impala We get good pics of a tom on one bait. 100lb virtually cleaned of meat. Okay this looks good. We hang another bait and build a blind. I'm excited BUT... I know this cat is going to come in late, he ate a lot of meat last night. We had him on camera for 8 hours off and on, One time for over an hour in the tree starting at 8:30. Okay, let's sit?8 guys take 2 hours to build a blind and make enough noise to alert anything within a mile of our presence? Okay, I want to sit in a blind finally. We set up the mic and the light and leave the area. When we come back to sit, the PH doesn't get us in until dark. It is so dark I almost cans't see the bait to get my gun set up. Oh well, I'm fine. We sit? AT 11:00 o'clock the PH tells me WE MUST LEAVE I say 'What?' He states 'We must leave because the cat knows we are here?' B.S. I say to myself. Out loud I say Lets stay longer he's going to come in later. PH looks mad but we stay. 30 minutes later he starts to get his stuff together and tells me lets go. Now I'm Pissed. But I'm a good client and we leave. We had no light and were falling and stumbling out of the area and making enough noise to be heard a mile away. I actually felt bad at one point when the PH fell so hard he nearly broke his shotgun when he fell on the rocks in the road. We came back the next morning and guess what? The cat came and ate. Not a lot but 1/3 of the bait I said to myself, this aint going to work, he's fed enough in 2 days. 100 lb of meat, he won't want be back. If anything, he'll walk right by tonight. I'm thinking..'Let's leave him tonight and sit tomorrow'? SOOO... the PH says, 'we sit tonight, all night.' Hyrax started screaming about 11:00pm. The tom walks by, never goes into the tree. When daybreak comes the PH decides the bait was the problem, not enough he gets a 2 days old Impala that has not been gutted and not skinned in 80 degree heat..hmmmm Pulls it up the branch and the branch cracks under the weight. Here we go. We have a leopard on a bait eating beef. Now we throw an impala up and change the tree. Mind you now, in these 2 weeks not one cat anywhere has ever treed using impala for bait. The PH puts this rotten Impala full of flies right next to and around the シ of beef that is still ス there and has a nice skin on it and is just turing into jerky and holding up perfectly well. This cat doesn't want Impala. He has all the beef and calves he wants on this property. There are thousands around here but, I keep my mouth shut. I ask if we are going to sit tonight? I'm all in. What the hell, we aint got another bait active Well guess what? I'm told We have to let the cat get used to the bait and the new tree 5 feet away Right.... here we go. I expect the blind to stay Nope spent 2 hours dismantling the blind and loading the truck, I'm steaming by now but I still say nothing? We check other baits, nothing, hang 2 more and go back to camp. Now when I say nothing, it aint quite true. A lot of baits get walked by, two old hanging impala. Great for a hound hunter but we dons't have any hounds. Next morning we check the camera?Yep, the cat came in and fed. You can see by the pics he wants nothing to do with the impala and there it is, another chance lost The impala was bad meat and a bad idea. The cat never returned. We are now checking baits 2 weeks old and he still leaves then hanging....WHY? Move them to another spot to try to get some action or pull them down all together. Or at least use them for hyena bait?? Nope, they stay. Even the ones with female tracks under them. I'm told 努e leave them to see if they bring in a male? We had made a deal at contract time to take my wife out of camp for 2-3 days after 4 days to sightsee. It is now 7 days and I'm asking everyday to do this. Finally, when she is at her wits end and wants to go to Bulawayo and catch the next flight home?. he agrees to get my wife out, and I'm going with her. I'd had enough at this point. 12-14 baits up and no toms anywhere, so why not?only females and they are mostly walking past. He is excited but not me, He talks about how great hounds are and how this works great at getting fresh tracks. Cool, but we aint on no Dog Hunt?..Then before I leave 努e need more bait I buy another cow. He takes us back the 3 hours to Bulawayo. We stay the night and leave early the next morning to drive 4 and a half hours to Vic Falls. We get a 1 hour tour there and another hour to eat lunch at the Vic Falls Hotel, then we drive 2 ス hours back to a lodge for the night and leave at 7:00am to drive back to Bulawayo another 2 hours. PH picks me up and back to camp, 3 hours. Next day we need more bait. Impala?what a waste... bang dead on the spot. Another useless bait. The PH was suppose to have cattle lined up to use but he says it takes to much time to clear them and get them. Well he should have been better prepared and had them ready on the hoof to slaughter when we needed them. Aside from the fact he has 6 guys here, any one of them could take care of the clearing process. Okay, we have more baits to check and by now we have 4 impala hanging. The heat is bad, they are not lasting and the cats have a very easy time of catching calves. Hell, they all have cowbells on. Even a blind cat could find something to eat out here. The 12 quarters of beef are holding up fine as a nice dry skin has formed on each one. Even the hit one is holding up. The Badgers and Genets are getting fat. We have more than 12 baits hanging to date. We finally quit feeding the so called 2 females at one site. And I refused to put out another at a site where a small female was eating. She ate a whole シ steer in 2 nights?lol Guys this story could be a lot longer , I'm only hitting on the finer points of this? Next day same routine, I'm so pissed I'm not even talking anymore. No pulling of baits and finding new places. Rotting impala doing no good anywhere, so he tells me 'we need more bait'? Okay... I knew from day 5 that my opinion was, in his mind worthless and I know he thinks I don't know a thing about hunting cats but I finally had to make a stand. I said NOPE, I aint doing it. In over 10 days you have not been able to show me that a cat will hit on these Impala.' I mentioned I wanted to buy a small calf that we had seen a few days ago. It had been attacked by a hyena and had a torn up leg. I had seen her for 3 days now limping and only getting worse. The settlers in the area don't do much for their injured livestock. When I looked at her in passing, I said to myself What do you think girl? Can you get me my leopard She just blinked back. I knew she wasn't going to make it and either the infection or the hyena's would come back and get her. SO... the truck went silent and the day went on and ended with no more words from me or the PH. We ran the bait line for a few more days. Nothing but females, genets and badgers. I did get him to move a piece of beef to a tree with a rotten impala, that night after the female had walked in the area for 2 days, she treed and ate the beef but would not touch the impala. Okay day 13. I had only heard from my wife once in 5 days. Now I'm getting worried. Unbeknownst to me she had been trying to get the PH's wife to drive her back to me after 3 days. It took a HARSH demand on her part to get back to me. She felt locked in Bulawayo and something was always coming up with the PH's wife to not drive her back into camp. She arrived after 6 days. On day 14 we had had an impala hanging in a tree near camp. It had been there for 7 days and it was putrid. Green and black ooze coming out of it and maggots everywhere. Arrangements had finally been okayed to get the little injured calf. We got her and she was small. Only ス of her was good for bait, about 100lb. I nicely asked, as if I was walking on eggshells, if we could drop this rotten piece of crap Impala, because we had had 2 cats in the area and 1 under the bait for a few days but never going in the tree, and try beef? I dons't blame them for never going in the tree. I nearly puked when the Impala was dropped. A bag of green and black ooze was contained under the Impala skin. We set the bait and the PH says 'lets get that last Impala we shot about 4 km away and hang that also.' Okay it's pretty rotten but what the hell. We go to that bait and it had been hit by a small female, just the last 5 inches of the the ribs had been eaten. The only part of the impala that had dried enough to stop bacteria growth and be attractive to the female. Drove to and from then hung it with my calf ス We put the other half of the calf in another location. Back to camp. Okay, let's go Hyena hunting. We had dropped off some remnants of cows and the rotten old Impala baits, not mine but from the guy that hunted weeks before I arrived. That still pisses me off that he was there and I wasn't told till a week before I left for my hunt. Anyway, he loads up his speaker and we g. Then the speaker won't work?he doesn't know how to fix it. Someone else set it up for him, so we are in the bush on a cell phone trying to talk to the guy that built it. It never gets fixed. Reload and go back to camp. An hour later.. lets walk 1k or 2 towards the site and just sit on the bait?kay, 1 hour later we leave and go back to camp? That was the extent of my hyena hunting 2 hours in 15 days. Next morning day 15. This day will be the most memorable hunting experience of my life. We check baits starting way out from camp. We get to my fresh little brown eyed calf bait around noon. It's hit, hell it ain't hit, It's Gone. Both the Impala and my little brown eyed calf are ripped right out of the tree and are nowhere in sight. With 2 sets of tracks male and female. It's not a big tom but tom , maybe 120lb. We have them both in the tree on camera and he is about 1/3 larger than she is. We study the pics on a laptop, he is much bigger. Then I hear the PH say I think he's small? look his tail is very fluffy Well I say 典he tail is moving and blurred LOOK at the picture closer he then agrees. Okay, now the PH wants to hang a piece of shoulder that has been lying in the truck for 4 days. Overnight he would hang this piece of beef in a tree on a much traveled road at dark and remove it at daybreak so it would not get stolen by locals. This piece of beef was our mascot for 4 days Okay?'m thinking 2 cats lets get 2 baits up? think of my little brown eyed girl and what I said to her. 添our going to get me my cat aren't you?? I asked the PH to please take me to the other ス of the calf and pull whatever is left and put it here. It's the last night, my last chance, I say to myself. You would have thought I was pulling teeth trying to get him to retrieve this last piece of the calf from the other site. He did finally get the other piece. It had been hit and pretty much gone from yet another female. Yes females were everywhere probably outnumbering males 6 or 8 to 1. Dog hunting and Zim's (tom's only) law since 2004 has just destroyed the ratio of males to females. We built another blind, went and got what was left of the calf and went back to camp. The truck was taken to the skinning shed and they took out my calf. When we left for the blind I looked and asked where was it. I was told There isn't enough meat on it to matter I demanded they get it and PUT it in the tree. By now I'm at my limit and I'm pissed I guess I paid $12,000 to watch my PH hunt because I didn't matter nor were my wishes ever considered throughout this hunt. He got it but you could see he wasn't happy about it. We got to the tree and blind at 5:00 hung the bait next to the one already up and crawled into the blind?. Night fell and time passed. I dropped off to sleep once and then caught myself. The PH also dozed some. We had agreed if either of us started to snore we would elbow each other? I got elbowed a few hours into the night and awoke to the sound of crunching bone. The Ph stated He's in the tree Give him a few minutes and I値l turn the light on and see if we have them both up there.. I sighted my gun on a nice secure stand not having to touch it to view my lit red reticule crosshairs lined up 12 above the bait. The light came on and the leopard was lying on the limb just like one of my golden retrievers holding the bone of my little calf between it's front paws just gnawing away. He was eating my little calf. He stood up and got a better grip and I got a better look. I can clearly see his larger stature. A larger neck than a female. A neck larger than and thicker than his head. More body girth and depth and thicker in the leg than the female leopards. The PH says nothing. I say that's the male. He said, 'I cans't tell.' I say ' I'm sure', He states can't see if the female is on the tree okay, I pull the scope off the cat hoping to see the female in the dim light nearby?.I pick up movement below and behind the other cat that is eating. It's there, the second cat I say SHE'S THERE! Just below him. She can't get around him on the limb and I can she is the smaller of the two. He replies? I cans't see her I try to explain where she is and he doesn't see or cans't see?t this point I felt he didn't want to see her. Well just like this entire hunt has gone, my thoughts, opinions and experience don't mean crap. The PH's mentality is I dons't know anything. I'd mounted cats all my life, Male toms have a distinct stature vs. females. The neck structure, thickness, body proportions and head are very different. But who am I to say, I'm just a stupid U S hunter. I look at this tom thru my scope for 10 MINUTES waiting for the go ahead. As I did this I can tell you right now, you cannot break the trigger or bust the safety catch of a Winchester Model XTR .270. I pulled the trigger so hard the first time that I still have the bruise on my finger from a week ago. I held the pressure on that trigger for over 2 minutes till I had no strength left in me trying to break it or bust the safety and let it fire. The cat moved around giving me various shots , left broadside standing, right broadside standing, frontal, quartering away, lying down left and the PH still cans't see his nuts. HE keeps saying, it has a small head, Well hell yes it does, it's neck is larger than it's head. Typical male structure. But he cans't see what I see. The cat even shows me his ass. I'm pulling the trigger over and over in my head while the gun is on safety. I shoot this cat at least 10 times during this 10 minute period. The PH is looking thru one side of his binoculars like a telescope. I want to scream use both lenses!!!! Then the cat hears something off to his left and becomes alert, I hear some cow bells and he's out of there. Okay, I'd had it, I'd been screwed twice now. I came to the realization that my hunt was a mere scouting and research project for the PH for a future client. My hunt is over and I'm going to bed? roll up my sweatshirt into a pillow and make my bed and go to sleep?. Hours later, I get a bump, PH states He's back into the tree Crunch crunch? Okay, a minute later, let's turn on the light maybe this will work? Okay light goes on, 2 seconds go by with this cat in my crosshairs, I see and state That's the smaller cat now up in the tree, little head it's much bigger than it's neck, look at it's girth, a third the size of it's length I say to myself, if he had said shoot I never would have. I never put my finger on the trigger for HER , 'it's a lot smaller than the first cat' I tell him. He states I cans't tell which one it is? I really dons't care to look at this female anymore. I scan the tree with my 9x illuminated scope for the male. He's nowhere to be found in the tree. Before the PH even turns the light off, I'm back on my pillow, then a few seconds later she jumps the tree. Okay one more time a little later I get a bump. Dennis one's in the tree Okay I think what the heck maybe this time, I start to move to my gun, PH states I'm going to give them 30 minutes to see if I can get both in the tree together. Well at that point I just waited, 10 minutes later ruching stops and cat is gone decided then this was over. As I fell asleep, I thanked that little brown calf and her big brown eyes for getting me my leopard. Both leopards had been in that tree, both had only eaten the calf bait that I had insisted on hanging. The other bait went untouched. And the bait I hung had had only small pieces left on it. I had just completed a Green leopard hunt! Morning came and we walked to the tree. Yep both had been on the tree by the tracks confirming that 2 cats where there. PH states 的 dons't think the female climbed. BS She was the second cat in? As we walked down the road the line that will remain in my head for the rest of my life was stated by the PH. 的 just dons't think that was the tom for you to shoot, he was small and only a セ tom. It just wasn't the cat for you. I never said a word?.But in my mind I was screaming, when did it become YOUR choice to decide if it was big enough to take? It was a legal cat and my license NOT YOURS ! I held my composure and never said a word for hours? He offered me another hunt for ス price in the future? I will not except that nor ever have to. There is no reason to. I got my leopard and with the help of the little brown calf that escaped a more tragic death by infection or being eaten alive by another hyena attack or a leopard. Unlike most hunters I have the opportunity to have the leopard that should have been taken in Zim this year. A local leopard in a rescue had died around Jan of this year I have it in my freezer tanned and ready to mount. It will be moved to the corner of my den in my home as a memory of this hunt. Some will say I was not successful but I know with the help from that little brown eyed calf, that I was. In Summation: Yes I got my leopard after a lot of disappointment. The PH had some issues, Lost his dog of 12 years on my hunt at home, and his mother had a mini stroke the day before I arrived, and his sister arrived from Australia whom he hadn't seen in 8 years. He should have brought in another PH that would have had his head in the game in my opinion. Is this area full of leopards? Yes, but females to male ratio is about 7 or8 to 1. I saw FRESH leopard signs everyday and on virtually every road. Most were females. Has dog hunting affected this area? Dramatically, and it shows. Dog hunting let's the PH target males much easier. He has dog hunted this area for over 3 years taking many many cats. But last year he had 3 dog hunts and was unsuccessful on every one. I ran into and heard of 2 other PH's that had dog hunts going in similar area's for 15 days and they both never cut a tom track for their clients so they never even ran any leopards. Would I hunt leopard again in this area? NOPE Tom numbers to low . Would I hunt any area that has been dog hunted by what I have seen? Nope. It lowers the ratio of female to male Would I use a booking agent again? Nope I have never booked a safari before thru an agent or company. 6 safari's before went perfect, this one didn't. Would I bait hunt leopard with this PH again? NOPE! Would I dog hunt leopards with him? I suppose if I ever wanted to but have no need to. He is very much a hound hunter for leopards. Would I hunt elephant and buffalo? Yes that's his nitch and he needs to stay with those hunts. Was he nice and took care of us at camp and fulfilled our needs and made us as comfortable as possible? Yes. Traveling back home I put this all in perspective I have my leopard and a green hunt aint so bad for my wallet either?LOL No $4500 trophy fee No $1000 tip for PH No $300 dip and pack No $1000 shipping No $400 brokers fee Took extra money for a 2nd leopard I know I was dreaming but he had 6 on quota No $4500 for second leopard Took extra money for more game like hyena and civet and caracal after the leopard was in salt No $3000 I prepaid 1200 for bait and spent another 1800 while I was their, $3,000 bait bill in total so adding it all up. I came out of Africa with a leopard and $12,900 in my pocket. A nice deposit on my Marco Polo sheep hunt, that's next? My Bucket list of African game is all scratched off! BTW Adam,if you read this, you still owe me $15.00 for the wire transfer. When your office gal sent an invoice for the payment of the balance last Feb, she didn't notify me that you changed banks and my wire was returned. I sent it to your original bank that the 1/2 deposit was sent in Nov. I had to pay to send it again and have sent multiple emails asking for it. It's only $15.00 but it is the principle of it. If you can't I'll understand. I hear booking are down with your bookings about 50% and you've had to go back to putting your boots on the ground. It would buy me and the guys at work a couple pizza's for lunch someday, but if you need it more than me keep it.


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isn't he a pretty decent player?
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isn't he a pretty decent player?
He's been contemplating retirement all offseason and never gave the team a solid answer one way or the other. When training camp arrived and he did not show up, the Bills did not treat him with Favre gloves.
Oh ok, I didn't realize he'd been around that long. I knew he was a decent player, but that was about it.
Originally Posted by RuthlessBurgher
Treat him with Favre gloves ! That's Great ! :Clap
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Originally Posted by SteelCrazy
What do you mean ?
The brown stuff on your nose.....I'm just playing. I was in a funny mood earlier today. Really didn't mean anything by it.... :tt2Quote:
Originally Posted by fezziwig
For a couple of these posters I would have came to that conclussionn but you, I never recognized as a smart mouth so, I had to ask.
You have to admit, that favre comment was good. I like Farve and I respect what he has accomplished as a player but anymore I, can't help but think of him as some rocky movie.
Micky his trainer walks in, slaps farve in the head and tells him, " your done kid, you can't go back on the field. If a broken down old man can walk up and slap you in the face, what do you think some linebacker will do to you ? You got the heart but you don't have the youth, they'll make mince meat out of you. Face it, your washed up. "
Favre: but Micky, you don't understand I have to prove to the Packers I'm not some bum.