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Thomas Vermaelen saw positives and negatives in Arsenal's recent draws at Aston Villa and Everton.
The Gunners captain was disappointed not to come away from either game with a win - but feels that it may be some time before the true value of those two points is known.
"Having come away from Aston Villa with a point, in a game I think we should have won, we wanted the win against Everton," Vermaelen told the Official Matchday Programme. We have the quality to beat anybody, so a point at Goodison Park was a bit disappointing.
"But when you go to Everton you always expect a tough physical battle, and a hard game in general - Manchester United lost there earlier in the season so it's never going to be easy.
"Everton had a few chances, but I felt we dominated the game in spells. We were sloppy in dangerous areas at times, and that's how they scored their goal - that's a shame, because at 1-0 it seemed we had things under control.
"It was hard to know how to feel at full time; I thought three points were possible, but it might look like a good result in a few weeks' time."
Regardless of that, a win against Swansea City would be a big boost as the team embarks upon a busy December schedule. Vermaelen respects the Welsh side's pedigree, but is confident that the Gunners can do the job.
"Swansea will be strong opponents - I watched their game against Liverpool last weekend and they impressed me," he said.
"Their manager Michael Laudrup was, of course, a legendary player and spent time with my old club, Ajax, towards the end of his career. He has done well as a manager too, particularly with Getafe in Spain, and his Swansea team is now looking very good. We're in for a big test, but if we work as hard as we always do then we can win."
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I keep finding good pics from our trip back to Wisconsin last May. We hit up almost all of our favorite plant places including The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (it's all California natives and all awesome). It was foggy when we visited, so the poppies weren't open. I think that purple-blue plant is Penstemon heterophyllus, but I'm not 100% sure.
Hurray for California native Salvias!
Just for fun I've been checking out Ceanothus varities online, since I want to plant one when we move back. I think 'Kurt Zadnik' might be the one. I like this description from Yerba Buena Nursery,"The same species as 'Carmel Creeper', this selection differs in having a slightly smaller leaf, brilliant midnight purple flowers, and in that it has not been planted over thousands of acres of the state. "
Pretty sure this looker is 'Pamela' but not 100%. I've been starting a list of CA native plants we're going to need in my head.
Another cute little reasonably sized agave I've always liked.
That's it for now, but did you notice I didn't include our all time favorite CA native succulent that starts with D? It's coming soon.
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At 7 mos I think my most challenging house training project has finally suceeded.
I am going to suggest that you stay outside until she goes (ok so this is a long long time - yeah, it is inconvenient & frustrating). Then you name it & have a party with lots of praise. And I agree with crating her inside. It will be easier to clean the crate than clean the whole room.
Another thought if you decide to continue with the room rather than the crate is to use a piddle pad for her. That would at least provide a target. Once she gets used to the piddle pad (they seem to be very attractive for dogs) and targetting it, you could try a piddle pad outside.
She is not being defiant.
Have you ever punished the dog for pottying in the house?
Can you be certain that your daughter is actually doing this properly as well. If the dog pottyies in front of people and the people over-react, then the dog will be afraid to potty when people are paying attention to it. They need to know that pottying in the right place is the really, really good, happy voices, etc.
If teenage daughter was on the phone with BF, but has to take puppy out and the puppy isn't performing quickly enough, or is being jerked outside because someone is feeling irritated, then it can make house training a nightmare.
she is one that does not seem to mind stepping in her business. I am afraid that even with a crate she will go and lie and step all in it.
that is exactly how my dog was, and it was such a challenge. I just kept washing him everytime he would do it, and I think he got used to being clean and grew to like it. It took a full year to realiably potty train him. But the good news is once he was trained he was great and very reliable with it.
|Just wanted to make sure all understood that I am not expecting Mya to be trained in a week and I know it will take time to get her potty trained, I have just never had a dog that was so determined to not go potty. I will think about the crate. I just hate to do that to her with her prior circumstance. The room she stays in is a small bathroom and she is one that does not seem to mind stepping in her business. I am afraid that even with a crate she will go and lie and step all in it. I am up for the challenge. She is well worth the work!
I would encourage the crate training too. A crate, when used properly, is a safe place for puppies, and a lot of dogs really like it. It really helps with potty training. We only use the crate if we won't be home for awhile, but if the door was open all the time, Warden would probably prefer to nap in it too (we keep it closed because he always manages to squash his ears when he sleeps in there, and they are soft enough as it is lol )
I know this can take longer with dogs that have had to use their crate as a potty, but dogs will tend to want to avoid lying in their own pee and poo. This combined with the praise and treat party you will throw for her every time she goes outside will help her learn where the right place to go is. Right now, she is choosing to use the safe room because she can pee and poop whenever with no pressure from you, and then she can go play and lie in a dry space after.
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|Each puppy is a little bit different. I found taking my boy out 20 min after eating was a waste of time. He would just look up at me and then want to play... It was more like an hour after eating before he started sniffing around. Watch your pup closely you will soon figure out what her puppy dance is. When she starts it scoop her up and get her outside.
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I understand that puppy training takes time but she is refusing to go. I thought maybe there was something else I could do to help her understand because I am pretty sure she has to go when taken out.
As for a crate, this is a personal choice. She was caged long enough. I personally like to the safe room technique.
but now she is being defiant.
Hi Tremor - I think rather than being defiant she just doesn't understand yet what is expected of her. I also had a dog once that was kept in a dirty kennel as a puppy, and it took a LONG time to housebreak him. He would actually go to the bathroom then lay in it.
If possible, I would start crate training her if you haven't already. It really helps with potty training. And also, try not to come back inside with her until she has went to the bathroom outside. She seems to think the safe room is where she is supposed to go to the bathroom, so I would be sure not to give her the chance to do it again by crating her.
My GSD was housebroken pretty quickly, but he still had occasional accidents for a month or so after coming hom. I think one week home isn't near enough time to expect a puppy to be housebroken, esp one like yours who maybe didn't have any prior training.
Good luck!
I understand that puppy training takes time but she is refusing to go. I thought maybe there was something else I could do to help her understand because I am pretty sure she has to go when taken out.
As for a crate, this is a personal choice. She was caged long enough. I personally like to the safe room technique.
|1 week? My puppy came from rescue. He was 12 weeks old when I got him, and the rescue was great about puppy care. It still took about two weeks for him to be completely potty trained. He is a PUPPY!
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The VCT doesnt spring anywhere
The VCT Elim works but you have to buy 2 adj cam gears and then some time on the dyno
|Also I have read about a vct delete kit that you make Tom? What are the ups and downs of deleting the vct? Its pretty much a stock engine:( would this be a waste of my time? I appreciate your time and input Tom, thanks once again..
|Thanks Tom... I will look into that today when I get off work... I hope its simple fix as so... but knowing my luck I doubt it... Was just weird because it only seems the belt is loose between the two cam gears like my vct is stuck towards the frnt bumper....If I remember correctly wouldnt the vct gear want to spring back towards the windsheild and take the slack out of the belt between the two gears? If the tensoiner is going bad n allowing the belt to slack, wouldnt it start to slide off the gears towards the pass fender.. Dealt with this when I did my timing tryin to get the belt tensioned right, too tight i thought moved belt towards engine, too loose made belt run towards fender part of pulley..,. My belt is still in the middle where I tensioned it too when I did my timing...
Sounds to me like your have issues with the idler / tensioner , the VCT should turn but not easy at all till you bleed the oil out of it
The VCT gear is not there to take the slack out thats the tensioners job , I would check to make sure one is not loose or bearing goin out on them , thats about the only place you can get slack from
Bad/Frozen VCT Gear? Miss drvin my baby plz help?
Well its one thing after another with my svt..I love the car too death but its been such a pain in the ars since day one.. So otherday I took a 8 hour trip to columbus there and back and my vct gear on my intake cam started making kind of a ticking/ rotational, metal tapping metal sound...Had no problems what so ever with the car that night, no power loss no hesitation nothing, ran completley fine... Well the next morning I go to start to leave for work and it just cranks over and kinda wants to start but wont, so the third time i tried cranking it over it sounded like a backfire threw thee intake so i let off... The next crank i noticed it cranked over smooth n quick with no compression.. So checked coil, plugs,compression n made sure she had gas n spark wich she does, but I notcied my timing belt was loose only between the two cam gears on the top...so with some reading iv learned u are suppose to be able to turn the intake gear towards the windsheild? i know u shoulnt b able to see play with the t-belt tensioned properly but my belt between the 2 gears has about half inch of play I can move up and down.. The vct gear I cant spin towards windsheild n seems locked up..Now shouldnt (with the play in my belt) my vct gear spin back towards windsheild and remove the play in my belt? Isnt this what the spring in the vct gear is for to hold the gear towards winsheild? did timing about 12 k ago n know my belt hasnt been loose like this until this happend... any advice would be greatly appreciated...Anybody switched to aftermarket adjustable gears? if so what all does it take to do so?
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As more than 90 per cent of corporations worldwide use social media [2], experts on Saturday predicted spending on advertisements through the platform would boom in Jordan and the region.
They said spending is expected to increase in the next few years as companies start to become more aware of the importance of social media platforms, which provide interaction and engagement with a wide audience across the world.
Speaking at a session during the 3rd Arab Social Media Forum, experts said businesses that use social media witnessed a 74 per cent increase in the volume of traffic on their website.
"Social media has started to take a share of corporate budgets for media campaigns and media planning [3]," noted Firas Steitiyeh, product manager at the Online Project, a social media agency.
"Businesses need to have a presence on social media platforms and I expect the trend of relying on these platforms to rise in the near future," Steitiyeh said.
Rafah Al Khatib, CEO of Reach Holdings, shared similar thoughts.
"In 2012, corporations in Jordan and in the region allocated a small percentage of their budgets to advertising in social media, but we see a trend that they are relying on these platforms more than before," Khatib said at the session.
"In 2013 and the years to come, I predict a huge demand on social media. There are about 110 million Internet users in the Middle East, an overwhelming majority of whom use social media networks," she added.
In Jordan, where Internet penetration reached 63 per cent by the end of September, there are some 2.517 million Facebook users and more than 50,000 Twitter users.
Hazem Abu Lughod, co-founder of Prodigi, said social media platforms are the fastest growing in the region in terms of subscriber base.
"Social media platforms complement the offline presence [physical headquarters] of any business," noted Abu Lughod, whose firm is a social networking and marketing agency.
Participants at the forum, which attracted marketing and IT experts from Jordan, the region and Europe, discussed several issues, including social versus traditional media, and using the platform for social good.
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Planes expected to reroute following massive solar eruption
A powerful M9-class solar storm that unleashed a coronal mass ejection toward Earth in the early hours of Jan. 23, 2012 (GMT).CREDIT: NASA/SDO/SOHO
An immense blast of plasma spewed late Sunday night from the sun led to the strongest radiation storm bombarding our planet since 2005, and a rare warning from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency -- and even a plan to redirect certain high-flying airplanes.
NOAAs Space Weather Prediction Center -- the nations official source of warnings about space weather and its impact on Earth -- issued a watch for a geomagnetic storm expected to hit our planet Tuesday morning after a satellite witnessed an ultraviolet flash from the massive solar eruption, according to Spaceweather.com.
There is no risk to people on Earth, Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center told FoxNews.com.
But as a rare precaution, polar flights on Earth are expected to be re-routed, Kathy Sullivan, deputy administrator of NOAA, said today at a Meteorological Society meeting in New Orleans, La., according to Space.com.
Eruptions on the sun shoot tremendous streams of charged particles away from the star -- in this case directly towards us.
"There is little doubt that the cloud is heading in the general direction of Earth," Spaceweather.com announced in an alert. The blast from the immense solar radiation storm let loose with a so called coronal mass ejection (CME) that will hit the atmosphere Tuesday morning, something NASA and NOAA monitor for as it could cause problems for astronauts, communications satellites, and even rocket launches.
A preliminary inspection of SOHO/STEREO imagery suggests that the CME will deliver a strong glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on Jan. 24-25 as it sails mostly north of our planet," SpaceWeathers bulletin read.
It could also affect navigation and the power grid.
The solar flare spat out late Sunday, Jan. 22, at 10:59 p.m. EST was rated an M9-class eruption -- nearly an X-class flare, the most powerful type of solar storm.
NASA spokeswoman Kelly Humphries told Space.com the six spaceflyers currently living and working on the orbiting outpost are not in any danger.
"The flight surgeons have reviewed the space weather forecasts for the flare and determined that there are no expected adverse effects or actions required to protect the on-orbit crew," Humphries told SPACE.com in an email.
The flare led to the largest radiation storm of its kind since 2005 -- one still only described as a three on the scale of one to five, Biesecker told AFP.
NOAA measures geomagnetic storms on a five-point scale from 1 to 5. G1 storms are minor, leading to weak power grid fluctuations and having only minor impact on satellites. G5 storms are extreme, leading to widespread voltage control problems, damage to transformers, radio outages and satellite problems.
NOAA warned that of geomagnetic storms on Tuesday as well -- another result of the flare. They may be as strong as G3, causing intermittent navigation issues and problems with low-Earth satellites.
The sun's activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle, Space.com reported. Currently, activity in Solar Cycle 24 is expected to ramp up toward a "solar maximum" in 2013.
This still from a NASA space observatory video shows one view of a powerful, M9-class solar storm that unleashed a coronal mass ejection toward Earth in the early hours of Jan. 23, 2012 (GMT).
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Black Blade: It's only a matter of time before the grid gets fried and electronics stop working. Seen it before on smaller scales but we haven't had a full on solar EMP strike yet.
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Coonan - Silver Bullets
I am soooo tempted to buy a set.
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Coonan - Silver Bullets
I am soooo tempted to buy a set.
A vampire once flew into my window, so I waved a cross at him.
"NaahWon't work on me," he said in a heavy Yiddish accent.
Silver is for weir wolves.
I would rather use silver 00 buck, that way when he changes into a bat I can still hit him.
He must have called in for Fangsgiving.
I'll get my coat.
I knew one vampire who preferred to bite women on their bosoms.
He was always singing, "Fangs for the mammaries..."
(I'll hide behind the ghost of Bob Hope.)
You guys are not taking this subject seriously. When your windows rattle on a dark and moonless night, hiding under the bedclothes might not be enough to save your pimply asses.
I'm puttin all of you on my ignore list.
That really is enough lame 'Fang' jokes.
Fang you very much
If you are an unarmed Welshman, what are you typing on your keyboard with? Your toes?
I can make jokes that are even worse, but instead:
If you are unarmed, how do you handle all those "...English foemen, English spearmen, English bowmen"?
A very rotund Harry Seacomb once said, "I'm from Wales," to which Peter Sellers replied, "Well, you certainly didn't come from minnows!"
Shall we end the hijacking now?
It's been rumored these will not work on Zombies. What would be the proper load for both Vampires and Zombies??
I hear Speer is coming out with a line of Gold Dot ammo that have garlic infused in the hollow point in case of vampires. No news on zombie loads though.
For zombies, head-shots will suffice. Remember: "Braaaaaains...braaaaains!"
For vampires, the job is more difficult: Aim for the fangs. A double-tap should do the trick.
As always, bullet placement trumps ballisticsespecially on vampires.
Well the ignore setting in my UserCP did not have a Silver Bullet option. So that's worthless.
As for hijacking the thread, it was a pretty silly topic to start with. You can fly it to Cuba for all I care. :)
Actually I kind of enjoyed it. Gonna bookmark those bullets or maybe just buy some for Christmas gifts for my sons and BIL next year. In the meantime I'm going to email Speer and check on the progress of the vampire/zombie load project.
Our ride almost didn't happen.
As we boarded the blimp, my chief assistant brandished a huge sewing needle, and then asked the pilot, "Does this thing have enough gas to get us to Cuba?"
The co-pilot wanted to throw us off, but the pilot had himself a good laugh, and the ride proceeded.
Good one Steve.
Well I ordered a box. Following Popeye's thinking, I will hand out a few pairs to friends in appreciation for favors they have done for me. I would have liked to have given out a cylinder full to each but at $5 a round that's a bit much for me.
This thread was a lot of fun. Thanks all. :)
.327fed mag 100gr xtp 12.2 grs. 296. I'm glad I came here this evening, lots of good laughs enjoyed it. thanks for the mammaries
Well my silver bullets arrived. They come packed 8 inside a wooden stake. There's a whole page of warnings on the back of the package:
WARNING! This is live ammo. Do not drop or misuse. Ammunition is very dangerous...yata..yata.
WARNING! This ammo is not recommended on vampires as it will only make them mad.
WARNING! The Stake has a sharp pointy end that can impale you . Avoid the sharp end and be careful around others.
WARNING! If any of these WARNINGS are news to you, this might not be the ideal product for you to own.
WARNING! If you are confronted by a Werewolf, Vampire or Zombie, STOP drinking. Hand your keys and this kit to a friend. It's probably just Halloween.
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Yamal and Polar Urals: a research update
Guest commentary from Tim Osborn, Tom Melvin and Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit, UEA
Records of tree-ring characteristics such as their width (TRW) and density (usually the maximum density of the wood formed towards the end of the growing season – the "maximum latewood density" – MXD) are widely used to infer past variations in climate over recent centuries and even millennia. Chronologies developed from sites near to the elevational or latitudinal tree lines often show sensitivity to summer temperature and, because of their annual resolution, absolute dating and relatively widespread nature, they have contributed to many local, continental and hemispheric temperature reconstructions. However, tree growth is a complex biological process that is subject to a range of changing environmental influences, not just summer temperature, and so replication, coherence and consistency across records and other proxies are an important check on the results.
Tree-ring records have greater replication (both within a site and between nearby sites) than other types of climate proxy. Good replication helps to minimise the influence of random localised factors when extracting the common signal, and it also allows the comparison of information obtained from different independent sets or sub-sets of data. If independent sets of data – perhaps trees with different mean growth rates or from different sites – show similar variations, then we can have greater confidence that those variations are linked to real variations in climate.
In a new QSR paper (Briffa et al., 2013), (BEA13) we have used these approaches to re-assess the combined tree-ring evidence from the Yamal and Polar Urals region (Yamalia) of northern Siberia, considering the common signal in tree-growth changes at different sites and in subsets of data defined in other ways. Together with our Russian colleagues and co-authors, we have incorporated many new tree-ring data, to increase the replication and to update the chronology to 2005 and have reassessed the inferences about summer temperature change that can be drawn from these data. The paper is published as an open-access paper (no paywall) and supplementary information including the raw tree-ring and instrumental temperature data are available from our website.
Figure 1 illustrates our inferences about past summer temperature variations. Low tree-growth periods for which the inferred summer temperatures are approximately 2.5°C below the 1961-90 reference are apparent in the 15-year smoothed reconstructions (Figure 1d), centred around 1005, 1300 (Figure 1b), 1455 (Figure 1c), 1530, particularly the 1810s where the inferred cooling reaches -4 or even -6°C for individual years (Figure 1a), and the 1880s. These temperature estimates will be interesting for the current debate about the representation of volcanically-induced cooling in temperature reconstructions, and for testing of climate model simulations.
There are numerous periods (Figure 1d) of one or two decades with relatively high growth (and inferred summer temperatures close to the 1961-90 level) but at longer timescales (Figures 1e and 1f) only the 40-year period centred at 250 CE appears comparable with 20th century warmth. This early warm period was both preceded and followed by periods of low ring width and so the central estimates of the temperature reconstruction averaged over the warmest 100-year period near the 3rd century CE (205-304 CE) are 0.4°C cooler than the 1906-2005 mean. Allowing for chronology and reconstruction uncertainty, we find that the mean of the last 100 years of the reconstruction is likely warmer than any century in the last 2000 years in this region.
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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Ambassador Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Stephen Sestanovich is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and the George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His book Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama has just been published by Knopf.
From 1997 to 2001, he served as U.S. ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the Secretary of State for the former Soviet Union.
Prior to joining the State Department, Ambassador Sestanovich directed work on Soviet (later, Russian and Eurasian) affairs at two of Washington's leading public policy think-tanks, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
From 1984 to 1987, he served as senior director for policy development at the National Security Council. He was a member of the State Department's policy planning staff from 1981 to 1984 and senior legislative assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1980 to 1981.
Before coming to Washington, DC, Dr. Sestanovich was assistant professor of political science at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (1978–80) and visiting assistant professor of political science at Columbia University (1979–80).
He received his BA from Cornell University and his PhD from Harvard University. His writing has appeared in the National Interest, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, American Interest, New Republic, POLITICO, and other publications. Ambassador Sestanovich is a member of the board of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy. As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Belfer Center Lunches are strictly off-the-record. By requesting to attend the Lunch, you agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the contents of the seminar. Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions. Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events.


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For Lisa Betts and her husband, the conversation started Friday at their Silver Spring, Maryland home, not long after they heard about the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 children and six staff members at a Connecticut school. How safe, they wondered, was the school their two children attend?
They ticked off its safety practices: Doors are locked. There's a buzzer system for visitors. Students practice emergency drills. Video cameras are installed.
"I think it's forced all of us to look at the realities of the world we live in," Betts, the mother of a kindergartner and fourth-grader, said of the rampage in Newtown, Conn.
Across the region and the nation, similar questions about safety have become more urgent as parents find themselves looking at their schools in new ways after one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.
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"Turning our schools into fortresses is not going to solve the problem," said Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia professor who studies school safety and cautions against solutions too specific to the Connecticut case.
Federal data show that the number of student homicides at schools has dropped.
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Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, a nonprofit that has developed safety plans for thousands of schools, said districts are likely to feel pressure to upgrade security, as they did after Columbine and later at Virginia Tech.
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Another big issue is training, many experts agreed.
Dorn said that schools should more regularly drill for emergencies and that all adults in schools should be taught how to respond to a range of events, such as a "gunman at the school, a woman upset with a knife, someone yelling and screaming who appears mentally ill, a kid having an asthma attack. The more you practice a variety of crisis situations, the more you can appropriately match responses more quickly."
Mental health issues are a prevailing concern. Cornell, of U-Va., said that the majority of shootings are preceded by threats that someone knew about and that "threat assessments" help bring attention — and help — to serious cases.
Jon Vernick, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore, said some schools may need safety upgrades, but "placing the burden just on the schools is not fair."
Schools can only be as safe as their communities, Vernick said, adding that he believes a major part of community safety involves effective gun policies. "Sadly, our federal and state gun laws are very porous," he said, "and they don't do the things we need to do to keep guns out of the hands of high risk people."
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Equiptment question
Hey everybody, I know that the bottom line when shooting is the person behind the bow, but how much is the equiptment? I just got a new setup and it is night and day better than my old bows that I had been given. I had learned to shoot well enough for hunting and could get pretty good scores on fun 3d shoots, but this new bow is the thing. How much difference is a dozen fatboys with blazers going to make,different release/etc... Here is my setup for hunting
Hoyt vipertech 65# 29.5"
Gold tip pro hunters with 100gr field pts
Judge hunter release
fuse 10" stabilizer
I would like to take my shooting to another level any suggestions?
Next LevelOriginally Posted by Tim Hansen
It sounds like you have a good bow and associated equipement. At this point, you could do spend time tuning your bow (walkback, creep) along with paper tuning. Perfecting form is also crucial to consistent shooting. Trust the equipment you have and work on getting everything working together. I would recommend getting with a reputable pro shop and have them give you some pointers on grip, stance, alignment, release, etc. Start with form then work on tuning.Steve C
Portage, MI
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If your talking 5 or 10 years old vs today...a world of difference it can make.
Depends if your going for speed to help with your error's in yardage judgment, or your already great at judging yardage and want better line cutting?
Depending on which you want, your form is the next big step.Keith
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It's time once again to cast your eye over 5 of the best goals from the FA WSL in this month's Goal of the Month competition. And Arsenal have two contenders this Month in Kim Little's strike against Doncaster and Jordan Nobbs long range effort against Lincoln.
With long range efforts, volleys, headers and great solo strikes, we were not short of goals in the month of May. After working hard to whittle it down to just 5 contenders it's now over to you to Call the Shots and vote for your favourite.
Arsenal have two contenders this month in Kim Little's strike against Doncaster and Jordan Nobbs long range effort against Lincoln.
GOAL A Kelly JONES LIVERPOOL v Chelsea
GOAL B Jordan NOBBS Lincoln v ARSENAL
Arsenal youngster Jordan Nobbs has started the season strongly for the Gunners and showed she is just as capable scoring goals as she is setting them up for her teammates. When Lincoln failed to clear under pressure the ball eventually fell to Nobbs who showed superb technique to rifle the ball home.
GOAL C Kerys HARROP Everton v Birmingham
GOAL D Kim LITTLE Doncaster v ARSENAL
Arsenal's Kim Little is no stranger to scoring goals and her quality shone through in this goal against Doncaster. Little's great first touch allowed the midfielder the extra yard of space to let the ball sit up and then hit a well stuck volley past the helpless Helen Alderson.
GOAL E Danni BUET Lincoln v CHELSEA
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Kieran Gibbs believes that Sunday's derby against Tottenham is perfectly timed to banish any negativity from the past 10 days.
The young left back made a long-awaited return from injury in the Champions League defeat at AC Milan and, having sat out the FA Cup exit at Sunderland, is now determined to come back strongly against Spurs at Emirates Stadium.
Gibbs wants Arsenal to use the derby as a launchpad for the rest of the season. "It's more than just another fixture, it has something special and we can use it to put things behind us," he told the Official Matchday Programme.
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"Spurs have improved a lot, though, and you have to give them credit. Any team that's in their position at this stage of the season has clearly done well, so we're in for a real battle. All I can say is that we'll be ready."
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Jamaican Blue Mountain, you say? Pshaw... that's middle class stuff... :)
Around $150 or more a pound for the roasted beans, this coffee has to be shipped directly from the plantation. It is the legendary Kopi Luwak... and here's where the snickering begins.
This exotic coffee from Indonesia can only be found on plantations in Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi. Not only do they have to grow a good bean but it requires the assistance of Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, the Palm Civet (/snicker). This small mammal is common in many parts of South-East Asia and does the very important function of eating the raw red berries, digesting them, and then pooping them out! (/snicker /snicker) The enzymes from the digestive tract apparently help to break down some of the bitter proteins. The happily fed mammal then walks away to eat another day. Farmers collect the beans and give it a light roast, then vacuum pack it and ship it to coffee extremists worldwide. John ordered it from AnimalCoffee.com I believe.
I just had to try this out, even though I'm not a coffee drinker myself.
For our afternoon of watching the Tivo'd new season episode of Battlestar Galactica, John brought his pristinely packaged poo poo coffee, along with his shiny brass coffee pot and burner, which he uses to make Turkish/SE Mediterranean coffee (yes, the true gritty stuff).
John ground a handful of beans in his brand new matching brass hand-mill coffee grinder, since it gets smaller grains than an automatic mill. It takes about a good 5-10 minutes of grinding to get it that way though. Then with some fine drinking water for fewer impurities, boiled over a small alcohol stove, the coffee came out quite nicely.
Not being a coffee connoisseur--here's a link from someone who's more in tune with it--allI could tell is that it was still a little bitter but had no harshness atall. It was strange to me but the others liked it.
He thinks we stillneed to refine how much coffee to water and how fine to grind it. Thegrit was not as fine as the Turkish coffee he usually drinks (about 2pots a day). But as you can see none of it went to waste, and people quite enjoyed it to the bottom. (/snicker)
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Welcome to Golden Goals - a FREE video series on USA.Arsenal.com which showcases some of the finest goals in Arsenal's history.
Each of our weekly clips will feature footage of a classic goal plus expert analysis from former Gunner Stewart Robson and Arsenal.com editor Richard Clarke.
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Dennis Bergkamp v Bolton (H) 05-05-1996
While many of Dennis Bergkamp's famous goals showed off his craft and guile, this Golden Goal -- at the end of his first season with Arsenal -- shows a completely different side of the player.
On the final day of the 1995/96 season, Arsenal hosted last-place Bolton Wanderers knowing that only a victory would guarantee fifth place in the league -- and UEFA Cup qualification.
As the clock ticked down, Arsenal's hopes of earning that spot in Europe took a big blow. Bolton defender Andy Todd stunned the Highbury faithful and gave the visitors the lead with just 14 minutes left in the game.
But six minutes later, David Platt's swiveling effort restored hope. And moments later, the 'Iceman' would complete the comeback.
Platt found Bergkamp 25 yards from the goal, and Bolton's center-backs were still yards away from the Dutchman. Bergkamp set his sights on Keith Branagan's goal and fired a stunning, laser-like effort into the top left-hand corner. Arsenal were in Europe.
And the crowd went wild.
Scorer of beautiful goals? Of course. But this strike proved that Bergkamp could hit the truly important ones too.


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'Former Buffalo Sabres' player and coach Mike Ramsey heads the list of inductees into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. Ramsey, currently an assistant coach with the Minnesota Wild, will enter the Hall here on his 41st birthday, Dec. 3, along with two other Minnesota natives – Ramsey's 1980 U.S. Olympic teammate Dave Christian of Warroad, and Paul Johnson of West St. Paul.'
Ramsey is honored
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By Chris Harris
Robin van Persie doesn't mind what Arsenal win this season - as long as they win something.
The Dutch forward helped bring the FA Cup to north London in 2005 but is still waiting to follow up his first success as an Arsenal player. Van Persie has been close a few times, not least when he scored in the Carling Cup Final last season, but a last-minute defensive mix-up cost him the chance to lift some silverware.
Now 27, the Dutchman knows it's time to right the wrongs of last term and he has called for extra focus at the business end of the campaign to ensure Arsenal turn promise into prizes.
"The very least for us is to win something," said Van Persie. "It doesn't really matter what it is. We made the final a couple of times and went to the semis a couple of times, so it's time to win something now. Hopefully we can achieve that this year.
"Maybe we can focus more on the stage of February onwards, that's where it went wrong over the last couple of years. Maybe we can focus on that period. Most of our players will be fresh from now until the start of January. When you want to win things, the season actually starts at the end of February. That's when we need to play better or do things a little bit differently."
Van Persie has been arguably the hottest striker in Europe this year - he scored a joint-record 18 goals from January 1 to the end of last season and has netted in a record nine consecutive Premier League away games. He wants to pick up where he left off when the new campaign starts next month.
"For me, it was the first time that I could really push on from February or even earlier. I set myself a big aim to keep going as long as I could," he said.
"Everyone needs to find their own trick, to push themselves to play better than you normally do. That's what I did. Hopefully we can do that as a team because you are always stronger as a team than as an individual."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Hi all,
I've read some of the forums before but this is my first time posting...
Am giving some serious thought to doing a teaching abroad certificate. Was thinking of either China or Japan, partly because I've always wanted to go there and I've heard that's where the work is. Is that the case?
About me: I am a native English speaker and have a 2:1 degree in English (literature). After uni, I worked as a teaching assistant in primary schools and an adult's college. Then I went on to work in a children's home for autistic teens, using simple sentences and alternative communication methods. Also I draw comics (this may seem apropos of nothing but a friend of mine did a TEFL and said that his being able to draw came in handy).
1) Is my work experience relevant or not?
2) I got made redundant at the kid's home so could I still get a teaching post now that I'm not working?
3) I also know that the prospective TEFLer needs a qualification (gone are the days where an English speaker could just go and work by virtue of speaking English alone). Any recommendations of courses (though I've heard the CELTA is pretty good?) and ones to avoid (if not more important).
Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks...


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The Cleveland Indians announce a Tribe Fest VIP night
(Cleveland) A dozen Indians players will be on hand for autographs at an event in the Club Lounge at Progressive Field on Friday, January 24th that will precede this year's second annual Tribe Fest event on Saturday, January 25th, and Sunday, January 26th.
This exclusive event will take place in the Club Lounge at Progressive Field, from 6:00pm-8:00pm on January 24th. Players will sign autographs from 6:30pm-7:30pm, and ticket holders will have the opportunity to get one autograph from each of the players in attendance.
Players scheduled to appear are; Michael Brantley, Carlos Santana, Yan Gomes, Mike Aviles, Ryan Raburn, Danny Salazar, David Murphy, Corey Kluber, Zach McAllister, Bryan Shaw, Lonnie Chisenhall, Carlos Carrasco, and Trevor Bauer. All player appearances are subject to change.
There are only 300 tickets available for this event, and are expected to go quickly. Tickets are $80.00. Light hors d'ouevres will be served, and soft drinks will be complimentary. A cash bar will be available. Parking will be available in Tri-C's garage, located on the south side of Carnegie Avenue directly across from Progressive Field. To purchase tickets to the event, visit Indians.com/ TribeFest.
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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
Hey folks.
I'm not sure if this is allowed here, the general impression I got was that this was a group for compzines. However ... I just started a zine distro (www.onceuponadistro.com) and am looking for zines to carry. Primarily I am looking for personal zines by women, queer folks, and POCs, but will give consideration to anything with a personal slant and a fair amount of introspection.
Please send a sample copy and your wholesale terms to:
Sarah Rose
201 W. Evergreen Ave #1012
Philadelphia, PA 19118
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'Kalinin, the Sabres' lone rookie, has been a significant contributor to the success of the Sabres' defensive sextet. He even recorded an assist on the winning goal in his NHL postseason debut.'
Kalinin has been solid . . . knock on wood
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- Fixed makemkvcon not being killed
- makemkvcon now also killed in windows (probably)
- Added settings for host/portname
- Added remote/local option
- Added support for browsing
- The script now has a settings section with the following options:
"Autoplay main feature" -> Turn this off to enable selecting the stream from the BR
"Use local or remote MakeMKV" -> If set to remote, the script will simply wait for a stream to become available on the configured IP and Port. It will not try to load MakeMKV itself (means no MakeMKV required on XBMC machine)
"MakeMKV location" -> Point this to the makemkvcon executable. If it's on your path you should not need to change. On windows, you will probably need to browse to the location
"IP address" -> The IP of the machine with MakeMKV. When in localmode, you cannot change this
"Port number" -> The portnumber to listen to.
When starting the script it will ask if you want to play a disc or browse. When you select play a disc it will simply take the BR in your player and load it. When you select browse a browse window with your video share should come up. Simply select an ISO or and index.bdmv file (note, only select index.bdmv if you want to run directory structure BR's, other files like MediaObject.bdmv won't work for now.)
If you've deselected the autoplay main option a select should come up which lets you select which chapter to play.
I'll admit to it being ugly as hell, but it seems to work for now. Let me know how you get on when trying this.
Note As mentioned earlier iso's and dirs on SMB shares won't work on linux at the moment if they've been added to the source of XBMC as such.
I'll update the first post of this thread sometime later this week.
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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
Very nearly out of print, IDST#3 is about the experience of bereavement after the initial shock has worn off. It also includes travel stories and discusses an emotionally abusive relationship and its aftermath. Price: 50p.
Read a review here: http://version1.itsnicethat.com/index.php?id=313
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|The Green Bay Phoenix Ticket Office conducts ticketing for three Phoenix sports: men's basketball, women's basketball and volleyball. Attendance to all other home events is free to the public unless otherwise noted.
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|Tickets are available for pick up at the Green Bay Phoenix Ticket Office from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday. Tickets ordered 10 days or more prior to an event will be mailed or held in Will Call if specified by the ticket holder.
|Everyone age 2 and older must have a ticket to enter a Phoenix event. Any child under 2 must sit in the lap of a parent or guardian and may not occupy a seat.
All tickets should be treated like cash. The Green Bay Phoenix Ticket Office is not responsible for any tickets that are lost. Please contact the ticket office if you have any questions regarding lost or destroyed tickets.
|Payment for season tickets can be made in cash, by check payable to Green Bay Athletics, or charged to VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express. No refunds or exchanges are made unless an order cannot be filled.
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|Men's and women's basketball season ticket holders can exchange unused season ticket (tickets must be for an upcoming game) for a future regular season game.
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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 1, August 25, 1994
New Information on ARSC's T3D
New Operating System on ARSC's T3DOn August 14, 1994 the latest release of the T3D software (MAX 22.214.171.124) was installed on the T3D at ARSC. This software supports the 3 models of the CRAFT software environment:
- data parallel
- worksharing
- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) message passing
news t3dinfo more
New Queue Structures for the T3DAs of July 1, 1994, a new queue structure was set up for batch submissions to the T3D. Currently there are three batch queues:
QUEUE NAME RUN QUEUE-PE'S R-PE'S R-TIME P-TIME LIM/CNT LIM/CNT LIMIT LIMIT LIMIT ------------- ------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ m_8pe_24hr 4/1 32/2 8 86400 86400 m_16pe_24hr 2/0 32/0 16 86400 86400 m_32pe_24hr 1/0 32/0 32 86400 86400The queue structure is subject to change and its current configuration can be checked with the qstat -m command on denali.
New Accounting on ARSC's Y-MP and T3DWith the new operating system change, the accounting formula was changed to include CPU time on the T3D. Briefly the accounting formula is now:
1.000*Y-MP(CPU-hours) + 0.050*T3D(CPU-hours) + 0.005*Memory(MWord-hours) + 0.003*Disk(GByte-hours) + 0.003*DMF Silo(GByte-hours) + 0.000*CRL Tape ------------------------ = total SU'sNotice that one hour's usage of a T3D processor is 1/20th of one hour's usage of the Y-MP processor. For more information on the accounting formula, type on denali:
news accounting moreor see Accounting.html
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About Alzheimer's Disease: Legal and Financial Planning
Many people are unprepared to deal with the legal and financial consequences of a serious illness such as Alzheimer's disease. Legal and medical experts encourage people recently diagnosed with a serious illness—particularly one that is expected to cause declining mental and physical health—to examine and update their financial and health care arrangements as soon as possible.
Basic legal and financial instruments, such as a will, a living trust, and advance directives, are available to ensure that the person's late-stage or end-of-life health care and financial decisions are carried out. A complication of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease is that the person may lack or gradually lose the ability to think clearly. This change affects his or her ability to participate meaningfully in decision making and makes early legal and financial planning even more important. Although difficult questions often arise, advance planning can help people with Alzheimer's and their families clarify their wishes and make well-informed decisions about health care and financial arrangements.
When possible, advance planning should take place soon after a diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer's disease while the person can participate in discussions. People with early-stage disease are often capable of understanding many aspects and consequences of legal decision making. However, legal and medical experts say that many forms of planning can help the person and his or her family even if the person is diagnosed with later-stage Alzheimer's.
See also:
Money Problems (PDF, 156K)
How to Pay and Plan Ahead
www.alzheimers.gov is the Federal Government's gateway to reliable, comprehensive information from Federal, State, and private organizations.
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Featured Research
Declining capacity to perform the financial tasks of daily living may be one of the first noticeable signs of Alzheimer's disease. NIA-supported researchers from the University of Alabama, Birmingham assessed financial capacity in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and found that declining financial skills were detectable in the year before their conversion to Alzheimer's. Read more »