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The overall EU-28 cereal yield forecast for 2014 is favourable, at the level of last year and above the average of the past five years (by 4.4%).
While overall growth conditions continued to be favourable and yield outlooks are positive, there are a few regions of concern. The Baltic countries and Finland experienced a chilly period that negatively affected final yields. In the Iberian Peninsula, the persistent rain deficit in the southern regions and in Castilla y Leon is starting to affect the vegetative growth of all summer crops, apart from those that are irrigated.
Frequent rain events characterised the weather between mid-June and mid-July in France, Germany, Italy and on the eastern Adriatic coast. The plentiful rainfall of the first half of July replenished the soil moisture and provided beneficial conditions for summer crops, but also delayed and interrupted the harvesting of the first winter cereals.
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Posted September 18, 2009
i've got nothing against ND at all shinner. i just posted the link. i watch college sports, but have no favorite, and make no effort to keep up with any of it.
It is obvious that it was a mistake, but the article doesn't give facts about what kind of event it was. The only thing it really says is
She said in court documents that she called the school's catering department three times about the payment, but didn't hear back until she received a threatening call from the school in June.
So she made three efforts to straighten out the mistake, and then the school called her at the end of the quarter when all the books were likely being done. Their oversight, mistake, and unwillingness to call her back are all things that are not her fault, and for that reason I side with her.
So she made three efforts to straighten out the mistake, and then the school called her at the end of the quarter when all the books were likely being done. Their oversight, mistake, and unwillingness to call her back are all things that are not her fault, and for that reason I side with her.
That's what she claims but I don't know that can be proven....and I ain't buying that she "thought finally something wonderful had happened" in her life when the school paid her a $29,387 tip line either. Give me a break. You're doing a pretty menial job and you even consider that that might be a genuine paycheck? C'mon.
She knew it from the start but spent the money anyway. I bet she never made a single call and I find it real hard to believe that no one answered the phone on 3 separate occasions. You gotta be real gullible to swallow that one.
Sounds to me like she (or a lawyer) came up with a "I called multiple times" story after the school contacted her and told her they wanted the money back.
I can just imagine a bank forgetting about an ATM spitting out $500 when you keyed in $50. Yeah, don't sweat it...you can keep it....our mistake. And that's minor compared to this.
It would be nice if the little guy won for once but be realistic...if she were genuinely concerned about it, couldn't she have taken a drive to the campus and questioned someone in person? That's why I don't buy the multiple calls thing. There's no way to verify it...and my bet is, she knows that. You can't prove she did, and you can't prove she didn't....but it garners sympathy, so use it.
The article says she was paid on April 17th and the school contacted her in May...sounds like she spent, what she knew wasn't hers, pretty fast.
I just don't get why it's ok for large corporations and universities to make mistakes and don't have to eat them.
Sure doesn't work that way for the average joe. You screw up you pay dearly, usually more than the original mistake. It's like going to the bank and saying "I didn't mean to spend that much money, now refund those fees or I'm taking you to court" It just stinks.
Just like the Best Buy screw up where they sold HDTV's for $19.99 instead of $1999.99. It might be ok if it worked that way for all of us, but it only seems to work for those who have an army of lawyers at their disposal.
finders keepers, losers weepers?
Basically, yeah. Again, I think the girl's a bitch and anyone with a decent amout of humanity WOULD return the money..but that said, ND fuged up. Big time. It was their mistake and they should have to get over it. Fire the accountant responsible and make sure it never happens again.
I I paid a $500 bill but wrote the check for $600 I would expect the company to credit me the $100 or send it back. Which is how it works with most anycompany you deal with.
The same should be true in reverse.
Morals are a bitch.
Posted September 20, 2009
apparently, some think they should apply only to corporations and universities.
Im sure Notre Dame really needs that money....what is that, like 1 years tuition for 1 student. Some how I think theyll make it.
Awesome reasoning....by that token, I bet the federal govt doesn't need my 8K in income taxes, so I'll just skip filing next year. Shouldn't be a problem...right?
Or...a few years ago, ADP screwed up and did double paycheck deposits for everyone in our department. Boy, all of us we really screwed up not withdrawing that money before they could take it back!
BTW - Tuition for undergrads is something like 38K (48K with housing).
Posted September 21, 2009
The devil really is in the details on this one, I see your point Shinner, but if she REALLY did try to alert them and they ignored her then it's their loss.
We here on the huddle will most likely never know the real truth, so
fug OFF THE LOT OF YA!


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Citation: Kleinfeld D, Griesbeck O (2005) From Art to Engineering? The Rise of In Vivo Mammalian Electrophysiology via Genetically Targeted Labeling and Nonlinear Imaging. PLoS Biol 3(10): e355. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030355
Published: October 11, 2005
Copyright: © 2005 Kleinfeld and Griesbeck. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abbreviations: BAC, bacterial artificial chromosome; TPLSM, two-photon laser scanning microscopy; XFP, fluorescent protein
For close to half a century, neurophysiologists have been able to record electrical signals from the millions of individual neurons that compose even the smallest mammalian brain. Despite this long history, which has led to significant strides toward understanding how neuronal activity translates into brain function, much of the way electrophysiological data is gathered is more of an art form than a science. Reproducibility, a cornerstone of scientific progress, hasn't always been forthcoming when recording from individual neurons in the brain, largely because of the improbability or uncertainty that different investigators make their measurements from the same neurons or even the same select subpopulations of neurons. How does one put together the information about activity in single neurons that are recorded by different investigators in different ways? Further still, how does one combine this information with knowledge of the underlying circuitry to make sense of the firing patterns that underlie normal brain function? Progress will come largely from the ability to reproducibly record voltages, as well as other variables that define physiological function, from identified neuronal cell types. The ability to record from the same subpopulation of cells on a routine basis is the singular means to validate measurements across different laboratories and move electrophysiology beyond its current, largely anecdotal status.
By definition, measurements from identified neuronal cell types depend on a means to visualize the cells in question. For simple neuronal circuits in invertebrates, in which the function of a cell is often well correlated with its physical location within a ganglion, simple light microscopy imaging is adequate to uniquely identify a neuron. Similarly, in a mammalian brain slice, gross architectonic features can be discerned from the visual texture of the tissue, while individual neuronal boundaries may be identified with optical techniques that minimize the interfering effects of scattered light. For the case of recording from brains in living mammals, the technical challenges that must be surmounted to record from identified cells are far greater. Antidromic activation of projection neurons, a heroic approach, provides selectivity in some instances [1]. Yet, at present, much of in vivo recording is performed blind, in the sense that cell morphology and phenotype are confirmed only from post hoc histology.
What advances lie ahead to advance the qualitative nature of mammalian in vivo recording? In particular, can electrophysiology approach the level of precision and reproducibility that one associates, for example, with biochemistry or molecular biology? The confluence of three avenues of technical advance—one in imaging, one in labeling, and one in behavioral training—suggest that in vivo electrical and optical recording from identified neuronal phenotypes in the central nervous system of awake behaving mice should soon be a common reality. That's the good news. But before we get too enthusiastic, it is important to realize that the major stumbling block in electrophysiology has yet to be solved. Electrophysiology remains a labor-intensive art form. Data gathering involves many manually controlled processes that require an extended and constant level of vigilance. This is to be contrasted with molecular biology, where standard tools and high levels of automation make acquisition relatively cheap in terms of time and expense, and thus shift the focus to conceptual synthesis. Time will tell if the technical advances described below advance not just the reliability of electrophysiology but further serve as a tipping point for its transition from an art to an engineering process.
Labeling of Specific Neuronal Phenotypes—Mus musculus as a "Simple" Nervous System
The age of transgenic animals and fluorescence labeling drives forward with ever greater abandon. Neurobiology is one of the great beneficiaries of the development of a rainbow spectrum of fluorescent proteins (XFPs) [2–4], in the sense that transgenic expression of these proteins reveals the three-dimensional outlines of individual living neurons with minimal cytosolic perturbation. For the electrophysiologist, this portends the engineering of mice in which defined subclasses of neurons express a fluorescence label. While this technique in mammals is not quite at the level of precision it has in invertebrates, where one can often identify individual neurons in vivo, such mice offer the possibility of allowing researchers to return to the same phenotypically defined neurons within a given brain region. A demonstration of the power of this approach is a well appreciated series of transgenic mice labeled via nonhomologous incorporation of an expression cassette (a short sequence of DNA) that codes for the pan-neuronally expressed Thy-1 promoter, a selected XFP, and ribosome binding [5]. The type of expression varies significantly from line to line as a result of strong positional and context sensitivity of the Thy-1 expression cassette when integrated into the genome. The resultant mosaic labeling is valuable for certain studies, but more importantly, it serves to illustrate that considerable "artistic" elements are currently at work in labeling the brain.
What are the essential difficulties in reproducibility and predictability in the generation of mice with labeled neurons? The use of expression cassettes in mammals suffers from the difficulty of identifying key regulatory elements, such as enhancers or silencers, that are necessary for the correct expression of a transgene [6]. A related source of variability is that expression of the label is influenced by the DNA sequences that flank the inserted DNA, yet the site of integration into the genome differs between transgenic animals. These difficulties are diminished through the use of bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) [7,8], which incorporate the entire transcription unit and large pieces of sequence 5′ and 3′ of it (Figure 1A). Although this approach is not perfect and can still miss out on important regulatory elements in some cases (Figure 1B), in the ideal case the BAC includes all necessary elements to express a reporter gene in the correct manner.
(A) A library of suitable BAC clones is scanned using bioinformatics and an appropriate clone, encoding a suitable cell-type-specific transcriptional unit with ample flanking regions, is selected. Note that only a few of the many possible enhancer and silencer regions are drawn. An exon that lies downstream of the ATC start sequence is selected to be replaced by the XFP/reporter sequence by homologous recombination (exon 2 in this example), and a shuttle vector that codes for the label together with flanking regions around the exon ("a" and "b") is constructed. The enzyme RecA is used to interchange the sequence for the exon and the label to form a modified BAC clone that codes for the label. The modified clone is injected into a mouse oocyte, where the dominant incorporation into the host DNA occurs through nonhomologous recombination.
(B) Many factors influence the phenotype of a given transgenic mouse, and thus the same clone may result in a number of lines with slightly different properties. The insert shows the XFP expression pattern for a line based on a BAC clone that contains the transcriptional unit of a glycine transporter.
(Image: Jean-Marc Fritschy and Hanns-Ulrich Zeilhofer)
Methods to incorporate reporter genes into BAC constructs are relatively straightforward (Figure 1A) and have led to an almost industrial-scale effort to generate and characterize a collection of mice with defined labeled neurons for further anatomical and physiological analysis [9]. Recent examples of transgenic mouse technology based on BAC clones demonstrate the accurate labeling of neurons containing the neurotransmitter glycine in the spinal cord, brainstem, and cerebellum (Figure 1B) [10], and the labeling of neurons expressing both parvalbumin and GABA throughout neocortex [11]. Other examples used clones with the gene for glutamic acid dehydrogenase (GAD-27) to select for all GABAergic neurons, but observed expression in only the parvalbumin-positive subpopulation [12,13]. It is to be expected that the precision of molecular biology will further evolve to produce mice with ever increasing specificity of subtype labeling.
In Vivo Visually Guided Recording of Labeled Cortical Neurons—Laser Jocks Turned Neuroscientists
Making mice with fluorescent neurons is only the first step; the second requires the means to visualize the axons and dendrites of these neurons, which can be less than a micrometer in thickness. In vivo two-photon laser scanning microscopy (TPLSM) [14,15] provides a unique means to image fluorescently labeled neurons that lie below the surface of the brain [16]. When used in conjunction with transgenic mice that are labeled by the expression of a fluorescent protein, TPLSM provides the necessary visualization to target a fine glass electrode to the membrane surface of one's neuron of choice [17] (Figure 2). TPLSM can image deep into scattering brain tissue, in excess of 500 μm under normal conditions [18] and down to 1,000 μm under special circumstances [19]. Although technical challenges—such as increasing the rate at which images are scanned and compensating for optical aberrations—one can, in principle, image and thus target neurons throughout almost the entire depth of mouse cortex.
(A) The two-photon laser scanning microscope is shown schematically. The critical features are the use of separate fluorophores, one for the label (GFP in this example) and another to mark the intracellular fluid of electrode (Alexa in this example) that have overlapping excitation spectra and different emission spectra (see [B]). The intracellular voltage shows a trace obtained under whole-cell patch of the response to vibrissa stimulation. Alexa, Alexa 594 dye; fs laser, titanium:sapphire mode-locked laser with 100 fs output pulse width; GFP, green fluorescent protein; PMT, photomultiplier tube.
(B and C) Emission spectra and fluorescent images from the GFP and Alexa channels. Confirmation of whole-cell patch is achieved by injecting Alexa into the GFP-filled cell, as illustrated in the overlay.
(Images: Troy Margrie)
Biomolecular Reporters and Drivers of State Variables—Proteins as Spies and Membrane Provocateurs
Apart from their role as phenomenally good, noninvasive labels of neuronal structure, XFPs have become the basis for a series of sensors of physiological variables and events, such as membrane-potential fluctuations and intracellular messenger dynamics [20]. Genetically encoded, these sensors are generated inside cells, do not require cofactors, and do not leak out of cells even during prolonged studies. These sensors will benefit considerably from the increasing accuracy of neuronal labeling via modified BAC clones (see Figure 1). Indicators of synaptic release [21–23] or intracellular [Ca2+] dynamics [24–28] might initially be the most appealing. While issues, such as signal strength and response kinetics, have still to be sorted out, recent work on transgenic mice that express these and other probes proved the feasibility of the approach (Table 1). An exquisite example is the expression of the pH indicator synaptopHluorin in olfactory sensory neurons of the mouse, which allowed for the in vivo imaging of patterns of activation in the olfactory bulb after odorant stimulation [21]. To the extent that optical microscopy is able to resolve their pattern of expression, XFP-based molecular probes offer a means to read out activity not only from a few but ideally from whole populations of identified neurons.
The complement to optical-based probes of neuronal state variables is optical-based perturbation mediated by intrinsic chromophores. The ability to perturb the state of neuronal activation plays two essential roles in systems identification. The first is to determine the effect of a depolarizing perturbation in neighboring as well as downstream cells. The challenge has been met, in non-mammalian systems, through the use of cloned photoreceptor complexes [29] and photolabile organic cages that release agonists of excitatory neurotransmission onto cloned channels that are expressed in defined phenotypes [30]. The second role is the inactivation of neuronal pathways as a means to open feedback loops and determine the direction of signal flow. For example, a modified K+ channel in which photoisomerization drives the reversible transition between closed and conducting states has been demonstrated in vitro [31]. One clear challenge is the functional incorporation of these and related photo-activated agents in defined mammalian cells.
Targeted Recording from the Awake Rodent—Molecular Biology Meets Consciousness
Immobilization is generally necessary for most forms of recording. Needless to say, immobilization achieved by anesthesia blatantly disrupts neural function, and the whole notion of attentive-based activation as well as motor output per se is lost. This problem is avoided with primates through the use of "head-fixed" animals that are trained to sit quietly while they perceive the world through arrays of projectors and tactile pads. The same form of constraint can be brought to studies with rodents through the use of head-fixed preparations [32], which has proved to be of critical importance for the study of behavioral [33] and electrophysiological [34] aspects of whisking. This strategy has also provided a means to record both optically and electrically from individual neurons that are labeled with organic [Ca2+] indicators (Figure 3A; J. Waters and F. Helmchen, unpublished data), and it is anticipated that recording and perturbation from cells labeled via viral transfection will soon be forthcoming [35]. The near-term challenge is to record from awake head-fixed mice.
(A) Photograph of a trained rat that is awake and head-restrained, ready for imaging of organic [Ca2+]-sensitive dyes. All aspects of the recording procedure demonstrated in primates are expected hold for mice as well. (Image: Jack Waters)
(B) Photograph and set-up of visual virtual reality for rodents. In this example, the rat is body-fixed, and can rotate on an axis, but is not head-fixed. The visual world of the animal is controlled by projected images, and reward is administered through a food tube. (Images: Hansjuergen Dahmen)
A final issue concerns the extent of behavior that may be expected with head-fixed animals, especially as a large block of research concerns spatial tasks and hippocampal function. Both primate electrophysiological studies [36] and human psychophysical studies [37] have advanced with the use of virtual reality. Recently, the same level of sophistication has been brought to bear on rodent studies [38] (Figure 3B), where body-fixed rats are constrained to walk on a near frictionless ball while they observe a virtual visual world. This advance already provides a means to record from rats when the tether, such as that for a head-mounted scanner [39], is too short for use with animals in mazes. In the best of worlds, this advance is a stepping stone to recording from head-fixed mice as they respond to novel environments.
Putting It All Together
The tools are there to perform targeted electrical and optical-based ion recording, and stimulation, of identified neuronal phenotypes in mice. Nonlinear microscopy, while still a tool of the aficionado, is approaching maturity [40]. The design of endogenous molecular sensors of cell function, while in early days, has attained a set of heuristics and material successes (Table 1). This suggests that signaling and circuitry in the mammalian nervous system may be addressed in a reliable and logical, if painstaking, way. Other recent work, involving methods to automate histology at the synaptic [41] and cellular [42] levels, will help place physiological measurements in the framework of detailed architectonics. The greatest challenges for in vivo electrophysiology appear to lie primarily in the areas of molecular biology and behavior. Gene expression through the use of BACs has been successfully targeted to only a few neuronal subtypes so far, yet must be pushed to all cell types. This highlights a need for better phenotyping of neurons, both by conventional histochemistry and by microarray analysis of gene expression, and a better understanding of the transcription factor logic that defines expression. Automated means for shaping animal behavior need to be advanced [43]. Critically, while the bias that "mice cannot be trained" is pervasive, there has been little concerted effort to breed and train calm mice that could be the background for transgenesis. Behavioral issues aside, it is a good bet that a mixture of genetics and optics will play a dominant role in delimiting the algorithms of brain function.
The ideas in this essay originated from presentations and discussions at the Imaging Neurons and Neural Activity: New Methods, New Results biannual conference and the Imaging Structure and Function in the Nervous System annual summer school, both held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2005. We thank Eve Marder and Ofer Tchernichovski for additional discussions and Ed Callaway and Beth Friedman for critical reading of the essay.
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A recent report demonstrates viral incorporation of a photo-activated cation channel into mammalian neurons and the use of this channel to gate spiking [54].
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Powerhouse UCLA at our place every year....I love being in the Pac 12.
Now lets go get a big time win.
No team from Utah has a win over a ranked team yet, lets be the first.
I'll be there tomorrow.
Will U?
- 6:04 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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I think that the utes will give the Bruin's a good game but will fall in the end. There is just too much talent at UCLA and not enough at Utah.
- 6:08 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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Gone fishin,
What does that say about the talent level of a team that Utah(who according to you doesn't have enough talent to beat a good UCLA team) beat by 17?
- 6:49 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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I think the Utes will win easily and stickers for everybody in attendance.
- 8:22 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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Great idea, EdGrady...I'm in!
Go Utes / Go Pac-12!
- 10:02 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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PAC-12 member for 3 years and every time I hear Utah's playing UCLA, or USC, or Oregon, or Stanford, or..... I love it!
- 10:03 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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"every time I hear Utah's playing UCLA, or USC, or Oregon, or Stanford,
I expect another loss added to Utah's dismal conference record.
I love it!
- 10:33 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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Utah fan: "What do the Runnin' Utes have to do to make not only your
Bracketology, but also the Big Dance?"
Joe Lunardi: "Re-do NonConf sked"
Just as knowledgeable fans have been saying since November, Chris Hill and coach small k killed Utah's NCAA tourney chances before the season began with their pathetic non-conference schedule.
- 10:43 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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I agree.
Beating up on cupcakes like Katherine community and west coast cupcake byu just doesn't impress anyone.
I am so glad we are finally playing real competition
Go utes! Onward. Upward.
- 11:28 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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Joe Lunardi: "Re-do NonConf sked"
And next year utah plays Kansas.
"Just as knowledgeable fans have been saying since November"
I think you mean... just as bitter fans have been saying since December 14.
- 11:31 p.m. Jan. 17, 2014
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@ Riddles in the Dark
I haven't heard anybody say differently. You're arguing against nobody.
- 3:15 a.m. Jan. 18, 2014
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Big game today, Win today and we're a 6th seed with some massive road games coming up next to prove if we belong at that spot.
- 7:28 a.m. Jan. 18, 2014
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In the end, it'll be the same rhetoric.
We played a tougher schedule than BYU, and just couldn't quite compete in the PAC.
Football next fall, will also be a repeat.
- 8:03 a.m. Jan. 18, 2014
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"Beating up on cupcakes like Katherine community and west coast cupcake BYU just doesn't impress anyone."
Don't kid yourself.
Beating up on Evergreen and St. Katherine high schools certainly didn't impress anybody, but #150 Utah beating #37 BYU was by far the biggest upset and best win of the season for Utah, and the worst loss of the season for BYU.
"Win today and we're a 6th seed with some massive road games..."
Just like CB, you're only fooling yourself.
The Utes have NO CHANCE of beating UCLA today and have even less of a chance of winning on the road where the Utes have lost 18 of the 19 games they've played since joining the PAC.
The truth is, the Utes are battling WSU, OSU, and USC for a 9th through 12th seed and an early exit from the PAC tournament.
- 9:24 a.m. Jan. 18, 2014
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Riddles, according to ESPN, Pomeroy, and Sagarin, you're fooling yourself. Pepperdine (153, 135, 133) and Loyola (184, 157, 164) were much, much, much worse losses than the game at Utah (51, 53, 63), which BYU never had a chance in after the opening tip. But the Cougs still have a chance to best those at Santa Clara (185, 171, 183) tonight. A mediocre record against a tough strength of schedule may drive an RPI up, but there are a lot of other, more consistent ratings to consider as well.
- 11:48 a.m. Jan. 18, 2014
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Riddles in the Dark
Riddles in the Dark
Gone fishin
You guys seriously don't think anyone believes you are happy with byu being in the WCC playing against nobodies in gymnasiums where they pull the bleachers out for each game, do you? Why don't you stop kidding yourselves and just acknowledge that you don't like what Holmoe has done. Maybe then you can you will realize that the University of Utah is not responsible for the predicament byu is in and you will be able to stop obsessing over everything Utes. Some of you guys are more informed about what's going on in the Pac-12 than I am. Why is that?
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1 or 2 point dogs at home, I'd say the Utes have an excellent chance. Good match ups between some of the best players in the conference, should be fun. Go Runnin' Utes!
- 12:43 p.m. Jan. 18, 2014
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byU is 0-4 against top 25 teams so I like Utah's chances better than byU's would be.
And speaking of top 25 teams, guess how many there are from the mighty WCC?
- 1:46 p.m. Jan. 18, 2014
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@Riddles in the Dark
This team is 0-3 on the road and lost in the final seconds of each game. This is not the same talent as the previous years. But you should know that since your team was eaisly thrashed by this same team.
The truth is this team is on the rise and just like football it's on its way to passing you by.
According to Vegas UCLA is a favorite by 1.5 point, so Utah has a great chance to pull off a win at home today.
- 1:59 p.m. Jan. 18, 2014
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Can't you kids quit bantering back and forth about the Utes and Cougars for
even just a little while? It gets old after awhile and proves totally
The Utah-UCLA game is on right now and the Utes are off to a great start. Let's enjoy the game and hope they can keep it going.
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I'm planning on selling a USB external hard drive that currently contains an old Ubuntu installation with stored passwords and banking information.
How can I securely erase the drive before selling it?
I'm planning on selling a USB external hard drive that currently contains an old Ubuntu installation with stored passwords and banking information.
How can I securely erase the drive before selling it?
Securely erasing a storage device
There's a command-line utility called
First of all, you need to identify the name of the device.
This might be something like
N.B. Make sure it is the correct device, picking the wrong device will wipe it.
Unmount all currently mounted partitions on that device, if any.
Then run the following, replacing
This will overwrite all the blocks on the device with random data three times, the
You can add the option
You can also set all bits to zero after the last iteration by adding the option
After this, you would have to repartition the device. The easiest way is to install GParted and use it:
Choose your device in the upper-right corner list. Then select
Then add a single partition that uses all of the unallocated space on the device, choosing
Just 'zero' it using the
This will overwrite the whole disk with zeros and is considerably faster than generating gigabytes of random data. Like all the other tools this won't take care of blocks that were mapped out for whatever reason (write errors, reserved, etc.), but it's highly unlikely your buyer will have the tools and the knowledge to recover anything from those blocks.
PS: Before you Bruce Schneier fanboys downvote me: I want proof that it's possible to recover data from a non-ancient rotational hard drive that has been overwritten with zeros. Don't even think about commenting otherwise! :P
Have a look at this definitive question on Security Stack Exchange
How can I reliably erase all information on a hard drive
This discusses various secure deletion options, along with physical destruction and wiping so you can decide which option may be your best bet.
Remember though that the current recovery status for different storage is as follows:
I generally use a destructive read-write test using
Note that if the report indicates a problem, I'd no longer sell the disk as it is likely to fail soon.
Usage example (if your disk is
you can use wipe
You can use that software or use the following command:
Were the "?" is, put the number of times you wan to shred the drive, then for were "(drive)" is, put the drive that you want to shred. Once your done, do whatever you want with it. I think that this method is more effective since you can control what is done to your drive and have immediate results.
For your information:
See the following links,
One more advantage of shred over dd in this scenario: I have a faulty disk that I need to return to the vendor for an exchange.
dd halts at the first bad block, and fails to clobber the rest (unless I painfully use skip=... to jump ahead each time it stops).
shred ignores write errors and happily continues in this case.
Go root and
Be certain you've got the right drive!
DBAN is an open source Boot CD to wipe the hard disk.
Down load from
burn it and boot the machine from CD, that's all.
Easiest way to do that is use :
where xxx is device, to ensure what device you have, type :
The device are indicated after disk word and to the colon char :, like this :
Don't mount file systems of your disk you want wipe etc. Shred will do what you want in part of time. -z option is for last run with 0 to hide wipe and is not necessary to wipe data.
Best way is to use dd like wrote previous users:
use urandom device as it is more modern and better way to obtain random pattern.
Other tools at this moment can be older and by less people develop. Shred is in core application of Linux.
Look at this example: wipe 2009 http://lambda-diode.com/software/wipe/. But it is known app. It is possible to use bleachbit but as I tried it took long time.
Those recommending to use shred are giving bad advice. Shred's own man page says it's effectively useless on journaled filesystems, which Ubuntu is almost guaranteed to be using if you don't change its filesystem defaults (ext3 and ext4 are journaled. As is resierfs and Reiser4 as well as many MANY other common Linux filesystems.).
Not to mention shred is completely useless for completely blanking or randomizing a disk, as it only works on individual files or sets of files (On the filesystem level, not a raw data level.). If you want to securely wipe a disk, you gotta use dd on the drive's main device node (For example: /dev/sdc instead of /dev/sdc1) while nothing is mounted on it.
It WILL take a while, but unlike shred it will completely and IRREVERSIBLY wipe a hard disk from MBR to final sector. Also, BIG WARNING on dd, make sure you are using it on the correct device or you'll at least PARTIALLY wipe the wrong disk. This could be disastrous if you accidentally use dd on a system drive, which will not only make it unbootable, but may irreversibly corrupt any given partition on the drive. This has given it the nickname "disk destroyer."
Shred is NOT a reliable tool for securely wiping a drive. If you're selling or giving your computer away the CORRECT way to empty the drive is to zero or randomize it with dd and never, ever use shred, as filesystem journals will effectively restore shredded files with no effort at all.


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Now the piano didn't always look like what we think of today. It evolved over the course of centuries. For the most part there haven't been major design changes since the late 1800's.
Now, one rather odd looking modification to the lid of the concert grand piano has been championed by a pianist performing at Carnegie Hall this weekend.
NPR's Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr reports.
JEFFREY FREYMANN-WEYR: The traditional lid of a piano is a massive single piece of wood. It's hinged along the left hand side of the instrument. For concerts the lid is raised held up by a stick so the sound bounces off the wood and is directed out into the hall. If you're a concert pianist playing a concerto with an orchestra, you really only have to conductor, it's the conductor's job to keep the other musicians in and the soloist together.
But what happens if you're both pianist and conductor. With the lid up on a concert grand, from the bench you're unable to see half of the orchestra. You can remove the lid entirely for a clear line of sight but then the sound is no longer directed toward the audience.
Mr. PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD (Pianist; Conductor): You have then to over articulate, over sync, over play and swell that's not idle neither for your colleagues nor for you and especially for the audience.
FREYMANN-WEYR: Pianist and conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard was on tour in Vienna in 2005 when he had a conversation with Stefan Knupfer, a Steinway piano technician.
Mr. AIMARD: And we were speaking about frustration if you play and conduct classical concerto - Mozart concertos, for instance.
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Mr. AIMARD: And then he said, pointing his cranium with his finger, well, I got an idea.
FREYMANN-WEYR: A few months later Knupfer showed Aimard a prototype of a new kind of piano lid that would address both the sight and sound problems of a conventional lid. It's called sound mirrors or (unintelligible) and it replaces the single piece of wood with six transparent louvered slats - think of a Venetian blind. They angled the sound back at the soloist who can still see through and over them. This means the piano has to be turned 90 degrees from it's usual position with the keyboard facing out.
Mr. AIMARD: Your sound could be projected behind yourself. In this case you play back to the audience and all the instrument was covered by this small piano reflectors.
FREYMANN-WEYR: And with the performers back facing the audience, some theatrical flare and facial expressions may be lost but Aimard says the music itself is more important.
Mr. AIMARD: If your goal is a certain truth - a certain simplicity, you can also do it showing your back or face or your sights to the audience.
FREYMANN-WEYR: Aimard says using sound mirrors; he can more accurately hear the balance between the piano and the ensemble. He says the new see-through lid system also gives the piano itself a more spacious and transparent sound because each of the flats projects a different register of the piano rather than the concentrated compact sound of a single lid.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard has already recorded as disc of Mozart piano concertos with the chamber orchestra of Europe using the sound mirrors lid.
Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr, NPR News.
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Due to Low fluids and Her measuring LARGE- Me small Frame and only measuring Fundal height of 33 we decided to induce at 38.5 weeks.
I was admitted the night before to start the cervical ripening pill- I was only 1 cm at 10pm - I can say the contractions were coming but nothing HORRIBLE actually more along the lines of what I thought contractions would be. I got the second dose at 2am and they did intensify but again nothing HORRIBLE. I Dilated to 3.
At 6am they started the PIT drip. That is when I WAS LIKE WTF. I started puking and begged for then to lower the dose- they offered me pain meds through IV and I refused I said not it will go to her and I don't want that… well an hour later I WAS BEGGING FOR THE DRUGS. About 30 minutes after the IV Pain meds the anestologist showed up and I got an EPIDURAL.. HEAVEN!!! I was like are you kidding me where was he an hour ago. LOL.
The Dr. comes in at 8 and breaks my water and tells me her heart rate is declining and I at that point was like "am I heading for a C/S?" He said lets wait and see. I slept a little and updated my FB and just chilled out… At the hospital I gave birth at they have a massage therapist their and she came in about 12 and asked if I cared if she tried acupressure on my feet.. I had an EPI I was like I wont feel it but go for it. It felt like when you try to massage your feet when they fall sleep but not painful. Need less to say an hour later I was at 6cm. She left and came back about 15 Min later and said you're the only one here today do you care to see if I can get you at 10. I was like HONEY- DO what ever you want! An hour later I was 9.5. The nurse was like get ready to push! I was like can I just lay here for a while I don't feel the urge to push. She agreed and came back 30 minutes later and I was 10cm. During all of the Foot massage the nurse would come running in and turning me trying to get her heart rate up and dared me to move when it did come up. So I am chilling at 10cm for an HR. and I asked the nurse if we could turn down the dose on the EPI. I was soo numb I could feel nothing. She said I wont be able to turn it back up. I agreed and she turned it down.
With in 20 min I NEEDED TO PUSH. She Called the DR. and Had me start Pushing. My Hubby WAS AMAZED HE STOOD AT THE END OF THE BED AND WATCHED AND SMILED AND COACHED ME TO PUSH- HE WAS AWESOME~ about 20 minute of pushing w/ the nurse the Dr comes in and she's Crowning and 3 Pushes later I had a beautiful Little Girl on my Chest! SUNNY SIDE UP AND ALL! I cried my Husband cried. IT WAS WONDERFUL! She was SMALLER than what we all expected! U/S CAN BE WRONG! I ended up w/ an episiotomy but It was SOO WORTH IT! The Epidural was GONE but the time the Dr was stitching me up but it wasn't painful!
Mallory was born @ 2:33 PM - 6lb 12oz 20 ¼ inches
SHE CAME SUNNY SIDE UP-AND had I not been a FTM I probably would have noticed! Lol
I was throwing clots like crazy. I had to stay in the birthing suite for 4 more hrs because I was passing MASSIVE clots. They gave me some type of drug to take 3 times over the next 2 days to help. Pushing on the belly is 100X more painful than BIRTH~ I must say the pressure on my bottom felt as though I had hemorrhoids but I didn't. that was the bad for 2 days. Dermoblast- Epi Foam and the Sitz bath LADIES is my new BFF! 5 Days PP I am doing good cramping / and sore but the meds help!
I had 3 Lactation Consultants in the hospital and she still did not get the sucking part right- She had a Small tounge and pallet they said- but they sent me home w/ a pump and told me to keep trying- well the first night was HORRIBLE SHE SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER! Finally I broke down and gave her a bottle- Its been Heaven Since! Breastfeeding is the only thing that bothers me about the whole experience- but IT WORTH seeing my beautiful baby girl happy! She sleeps awesome- eats awesome and rarely crys. I could change her clothes 100 times and she will just smile! And she doesn't cry when we change her~! She is the A VERY GOOD BABY!
GL to the Mommas who are still waiting on their precious Little ones. & CONGRATZ to the mommas who are at home loving their LITTLE ONES!


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I'm reinstalling WP after an experimental install that worked fine (after some help here). This time, anticipating multiple future blogs I installed it in a subdirectory. The path is like: http://jcm2044.net/WP1/BLOG1/
So far as I could tell I did not need to alter the wp-config.php file from before, although I decided to anticipate future installations by changing the table prefix from the default.
wp-config.php now reads (with security editing of the userid and password
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'ABC_WP'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'DEF'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'GHIJ'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'mysql8.ixwebhosting.com'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = 'AT_ '; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
// to enable German language support.
define ('WPLANG', '');
/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
When I get to step-2 of the installation I now get a page full of errors like the following:
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'usermeta ( umeta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, use]
CREATE TABLE AT_ usermeta ( umeta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0', meta_key varchar(255) default NULL, meta_value longtext, PRIMARY KEY (umeta_id), KEY user_id (user_id), KEY meta_key (meta_key) )
What have I done to try and fix the problem?
1) Deleted the old database and created the new one
2) Checked that my user permissions are full admin
3) Forced a reset of the password
None of these worked.
- Does WP not allow multiple subdirectories such as I've created?
- Do I have to change a path variable somewhere?
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Oct. 24, 2001 -- You thought adulthood would finally mean clear skin. Then you started turning red in the face. Well, if that blush is more than mere embarrassment -- if, in fact, you have the common skin condition called rosacea, take heart. Experts are offering up some promising new treatments.
Around 14 million Americans have rosacea, a skin disorder that causes redness and swelling on the face -- especially around the cheeks, forehead, chin, and nose.
"Rosacea can have devastating effects on self-esteem because it strikes adults who are in the prime of their life and who often feel that this condition affects their work and social life," says Allison T. Vidimos, MD, in a news release. She is from the department of dermatology at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in Cleveland, Ohio.
"Therefore, treatment options need to be quick and have little downtime, ensuring that patients get back to work and their families without too much disruption," says Vidimos.
Rosacea usually strikes fair-skinned people between the ages of 30 and 50. The problem may begin as 'easy blushing,' but then visible small blood vessels and acne-like pimples develop. Heat and cold, sunlight, stress, hot drinks, alcohol, spicy foods, and certain skin-care products can worsen the condition.
Rosacea is typically treated by avoiding the triggers that cause flare ups, and by staying out of the sun. Drug treatment includes antibiotics in both pill and cream form.
But if those treatments haven't produced the results you'd like, it may be time to turn to chemical peels and lasers.
Glycolic acid peels can be used in conjunction with antibiotics to speed up control of rosacea. They generally take 3 to 5 minutes, are applied every 2 to 4 weeks, and leave your face red for a few hours afterwards.
Topical treatments, however, including glycolic peels, only treat the acne-like pimples of rosacea. They don't get rid of the redness or enlarged blood vessels. But lasers can.
Vascular lasers attack tiny visible blood vessels just under the skin. Heat from the laser causes the vessels to collapse and disappear. There is no bruising with the new lasers, but they may cause temporary redness and slight swelling that lasts a day or two.
Intense light and laser therapy can also treat enlarged blood vessels. Both treatments take 15 to 30 minutes and are done every 6 to 12 weeks. You might need several treatments to get the problem under control, but after that, yearly treatments should be sufficient.
In some severe cases of rosacea, most often seen in men over 40, an enlarged red nose may develop from clogged oil glands. There are several treatment options, including removing excess tissue with laser surgery, dermabrasion, or electrosurgery. This sculpts the nose back into a normal shape, and can be done on an outpatient basis in your doctor's office. Healing takes about a week to 10 days.
"It's important for individuals with rosacea to seek treatment early to avoid progression of the condition and avoid any permanent scarring to the face," says Vidimos. "Today's dermatology offers a variety of treatment options that can achieve successful results and fit into even the busiest lifestyle."


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Tatcha Luminous Deep Hydrating Lifting Mask – Never ending moisture
Have you had those blah days – you know, when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, feeling totally tired, just not 100%. BUT there is a packed day ahead which you cannot reschedule. Your skin looks dull, dry, a little irritated, just bad! (It probably isn't THAT bad but we are our own worst critics, no?) You just want to stay home, in your comfortable bed.
Cue Tatcha Luminous Deep Hydrating Lifting Face Mask.
I am a big fan of Tatcha – its eyecream and lipbalm are part of my beauty essentials. See my Review here. So its facemask was on my "to do" list.
So, on that particular "bad" day, I reached for my newly delivered Tatcha mask. I ripped open the packet that contained a sheet mask drenched in red algae, green tea extract, ginseng root, royal jelly, to name a few.
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Nate Diaz trains with a formidable team that includes his brother, Nick, a former Strikeforce welterweight champion, former Strikeforce middleweight champion Jake Shields and reigning Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez.
"My whole team has been champions somewhere down the line," Diaz said. "Maybe, it's my turn to represent for my team."
Impressive victories over Jim Miller, Donald Ceronne and Takanori Gomi landed Diaz a shot at UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson in the main event at UFC on Fox 5 on Saturday at 5 p.m. at Key Arena in Seattle.
Diaz, a black belt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, fought his way into the UFC by winning Season 5 of "The Ultimate Fighter."� Diaz is now a veteran of 16 fights in the octagon with an 11-5 mark in the UFC.
"If you're not in the UFC already, TUF is a good shortcut and way to go about it," Diaz said. "I don't like sitting in a house with all those dudes."
It might not be much fun to live and train 24/7 with your potential opponents, but "The Ultimate Fighter" remains one of the best ways to earn a spot on the UFC roster.
"The guys come up through 'The Ultimate Fighter,'" UFC president Dana White said. "Nate Diaz has been fighting for years. He's fought everybody. The guys that come off 'The Ultimate Fighter,' it's our Triple-A to introduce our guys, but Diaz and (Mike) Swick and a lot of these guys have been around for a long time."
Here are the UFC on Fox 5 main card bouts that air on Fox at 5 p.m.: Benson Henderson (17-2) vs. Nate Diaz (16-7); Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (21-6) vs. Alexander Gustafsson (14-1); Rory MacDonald (13-1) vs. BJ Penn (16-8-2); and Mike Swick (15-4) vs. Matt Brown (15-11). ...
Here are the UFC on Fox 5 prelims that air on FX at 2 p.m.: Yves Edwards (41-18-1) vs. Jeremy Stephens (20-8); Raphael Assuncao (18-4) vs. Mike Easton (13-1); Ramsey Nijem (6-2) vs. Joe Proctor (8-1); Daron Cruickshank (11-2) vs. Henry Martinez (9-2); Tim Means (18-3-1) vs. Abel Trujillo (9-4); and Dennis Siver (20-8) vs. Nam Phan (18-10). Scott Jorgensen (13-6) vs. John Albert (7-3) stream on Facebook at 1:30 p.m. ...
MacDonald, who is one of UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre's main training partners, is considered one of the rising stars in the UFC's welterweight division. The 23-year-old has put together an impressive string of victories over Che Mills, Mike Pyle and Diaz. His fight against Penn at UFC on Fox 5 represents the biggest test of his career.
"There's a lot of hype behind (MacDonald) and you never know until you see a guy," UFC president Dana White said. "This is a big fight for Rory. The one thing you know about B.J. Penn is you're not going to run over him. B.J. does not cut, he's never been knocked out. He's got good stand-up, great submissions and wrestling. He'll be a big test."
St. Pierre fought Penn twice, winning a split decision and by fourth-round TKO, so did GSP have any words of wisdom for MacDonald?
"I didn't really ask him anything," MacDonald said. "I watched his fights and he told me a few things but I'm not the kind of guy that wants to know everything about somebody. I really don't care. For all I know, B.J. could have changed his training and he's a Muay Thai fighter now. I just get better as a martial artist and I react to what's in there. He told me a few things that are interesting but that's about it." ...
Rua faces Gustafsson in an important fight in the UFC's 205-pound division at UFC on Fox 5, but inevitably Rua gets hit with questions about UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who scored a brutal fourth-round TKO over the Brazilian in 2011.
"It's important to take (everything) step-by-step right now and I'm focusing on this fight," Rua said. "Everything can change after that. Right now, (it's all) about the fight against Gustafsson."
Rua turned down an opportunity to face Jones in a rematch at UFC 151 when Jones' opponent, Dan Henderson, got injured and had to pull out of the fight. Rua caught some heat from many fans for declining the rematch. UFC 151 ended up getting canceled.
"I was off – totally off training – when the UFC invite me to fight against Jones," Rua said. "Everybody knew that I was off those two weeks after my fight against (Brandon) Vera. So I am satisfied. I told the UFC that I just need six weeks, but I was explaining that (two weeks) is not enough time." ...
UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz suffered a setback in his rehabilitation and needed a second knee surgery, pushing back his return to the octagon. White announced interim UFC bantamweight champion Renan Barao will next defend his title against Michael McDonald in early 2013. No date or site has been finalized. ...
Rad Martinez (14-0) meets Shahbulat Shamhalaev (11-1-1) in the Season 7 featherweight tournament finals in the main event of Bellator 83 on Friday at 8 p.m. (tape delayed) on MTV2 at Caesars Atlantic City. Also on the main card, former Bellator bantamweight champion Zach Makovsky (14-2) battles Anthony Leone (10-5) and Bellator women's champion Zoila Gurgel� (12-1) takes on Jessica Eye (6-1). Bellator 83 stream live on MMAWeekly.com at 4 p.m. ...
Benson Henderson vs. Nate Diaz
When: Saturday
Where: Key Arena, Seattle, Wash.
How to watch: UFC on Fox 5 on Fox, 5 p.m.; UFC on Fox 5 prelims on FX, 2 p.m.; and UFC on Fox 5 prelims on Facebook, 4:30 p.m.
Outlook: After back-to-back decision victories over Frankie Edgar, Henderson (17-2) makes the second defense of his UFC lightweight title against Diaz (16-7) in the main event of UFC on Fox 5.
Prediction: Diaz's accurate hands and tricky submission game have helped him to an impressive string of victories over Takanori Gomi, Donald Ceronne and Jim Miller and a title shot. "The Ultimate Fighter 5" winner has had problems with strong wrestlers in the past. Henderson didn't rely on his excellent clinch and ground-and-pound against Edgar, choosing to use leg kicks and strikes. That would be a mistake against Diaz. I'm taking Diaz to pull off the upset.
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August 5th Day of Music and Theatre Arts that will include - launch of JOS Redmond Sonic Arts Album - launch of the new JOS website - JOS Volunteers Operetta ' Musing with Shades of Life' - two new JOS films, Photo-narrative Exhibitions, Further details to follow soon
Every Friday :development sessions at Vauxhall towards our Mini Operetta to be presented on August 5th.
May 2016 visit to the Grotowski Institute, Wraclow, Poland...
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JOS is now in it's 15th year of development, the JOS team of experienced inclusive workshop facilitators are skilled across the spectrum of creative arts practice and delivery.
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As every Carolina Panthers will remember, the Panthers made the Giants' final game at the Meadowlands memorable. For all the fun times the Panthers had there, they decided to help send off the Meadowlands with a 41-9 domination of the Giants.
I thought it was a great going-away present. The Panthers not only dominated in every aspect of the game, but they also did it with the backup quarterback, the No. 2 running back, and two backup offensive linemen. Good times.
Now, what better way to show appreciation for such a nice gift than to invite the Panthers over for the Grand Opening of the new Meadowlands. With any luck, the Panthers will respond to the Giants' hospitality with another big win.
The circumstances have changed a little from last game. First, Matt Moore will have Steve Smith the whole game and Jordan Gross to protect him. Second, Stewart will have to settle with splitting the 200 plus rushing yards with DeAngelo Williams. Third, there will be no Julius Peppers to harass Eli Manning. Fortunately, the Panthers will have Brown, Hardy, and Johnson to keep Eli company.
There are a few people who might spoil the party. Keith Bullock, the former general of the Titan defense, is filling the role left by Antonio Pierce. Without Pierce, along with a few other factors, the Giants defense fell apart and lived through a nightmare in the back half of the season.
The other party crasher is Bradshaw. I enjoyed watching Jacobs run the ball and fail miserably. Bradshaw is faster and more of a playmaker, but he can he be the main guy?
The Panthers also need to be the partiers they were in the last few games. They will not win if they do not run the ball, and they will not win if their offense does not celebrate enough in the end zone.
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Since 2007, Zimbra had belonged to the Yahoo Corporation. Vmware will use the technology for its own cloud IT services. With mail and calendar options in scalable formats, Zimbra fits perfectly into their concept, says VM ware. The technology will remain available for Yahoo services.
There are still no details of the costs. Yahoo took over Zimbra end of 2007 for $350 million. Zimbra lists its own activity as consisting of 55 million pay-mailboxes by 150,000 organizations. Their current product is the Zimbra Collaboration Suite 6.0. Alongside the commercial version, an open source edition is also available.
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when you kick a woman out of the house for failing to perform or do her man's bidding
Stacey made a bad sandwich so Frank cunt punted her out onto the street.
by simon starr December 02, 2009
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the swift act of kicking a female in the crotch with enough force that the foot actually gets lodged in the cunt.
the swift act of kicking a female in the crotch with enough force that the foot actually gets lodged in the cunt.
"Bitch, if you sleep with my man again, i will cunt punt you so hard they will have to dislodge my toenails from the roof of your mouth!"
by e-mo November 04, 2005
To strike a woman in the cunt so as to sufficiently bruise her babymaker. This may result in a toe fuck.
Yo, next time I see that slut i'm goin to cunt punt the shit out of her.
by BHyde2 May 21, 2006
Kicking a woman in the cunt like a football.
Don't touch me you bitch or I'll cunt punt you so fucking hard.
by Chadical May 06, 2003
the act of kicking a female in the cunt due to being very angry at them or for laughs.
Dude my cousin ate my food I had in the fridge so I cunt punted her.
by Kelol March 13, 2009
When a guy kicks the cunt as if punting a football (or just kicking). Getting the female back for punting him in the balls.
"dude, you got kicked in the nuts, even the playing feild and cunt punt her ass."
by "Big" Mike July 06, 2006
A swift kick to the female genital region launching the recipient into midair.
That girl was such a bitch I cunt punted her like no other!
by Sara Jane 22 November 06, 2008