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|Rob Keller
It is true I believe that the ones that got it easy are not working hard enuf while others are forced to pick up their slack.
Like MOST People who go to a gym to work out.
they are not working hard enuf to start with .
Too many Pencil pushers & desk jockeys those people loose touch with reality & what it take to do the job.
There is never an easy answer for anything in life! There is just life and lots of things that make us mad. I found (after a divorce you really start re-thinking life) that my purpose in life is for my children. And reality.....there is never an easy answer for anything that life puts on us. Everything can and will affect us or someone-else in a negative way.
Ratz....I'm rambling. LOL's.
Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy when you're driving down the highway , huh?
|Rob Keller
There is NO PROFIT in the Cure Or Answers.
In there lies the problem.
There are working "Joe's" that could run this place better than the thieves in there now.
See When George & Tommy & Ben ,helped start our great country .
They did not just push a pencil around in Washington.
A good hard days work would kill off most politicians, I have no doubt.
Put the Prisoners & Politicians out on chain gangs & the others ,
Donate their organs to people who will put them to good use.
Why do we need to spend Billions on a space program when people are starving on this planet?
Don't get me wrong, I love astronomy but too many rockets & not enuf people leading healthy lifestyles because of lack of Fund-age.
All this is nothing more than a day dream, because unless the 99% stand up & gripe the 1% will never let go of what they got.
because most of the 99% need to be told what to do because they lack ambition & Motivation .
Not everyone can be the boss
So there ya go full circle
What a waste of time
The Laws are made for the criminals ...they are the ones that benefit from them .
There is no justice for the victim of a murder. But the Perp gets to sit in jail sucking up tax payers money for 20 years while they go from appeal to appeal.
The system is flawed
It past due for a major upgrade
Its to the point that the ones who pay their dues get penalized.
The ones that don't skate by with out a care.
Having to take a piss test to get a job is a great example, but what do you do refuse & spite your family?
The other side is do you want a crack head rolling behind your family sitting on top of 80,000lbs @ 70 MPH?
I think not.
so where id the middle of the road anyway?
I think that mandatory drug testing for anyone receiving public assistance is a wonderful idea! So is making them "work" X number of hours per week at some type of public job. The problem with the current system is that it's all just a free ride for those who wish to abuse it. It was created with good intentions but it just no longer works. If we can come up with two simple ways to improve the system why can't Washington? Oh, that's right...it's because the liberals and the bleeding hearts would raise too much of a stink about "abusing" the poor!
I don't know about the rest of you but I figure I'm always about one unemployed month away from being one of those "poor" myself. (I think a lot of folks are even if we don't like to think about it.) If the worst happened and I had to fall back on the government to eat or keep a roof over my head you better believe that I'd think that picking up trash off the roadside a couple of days a week or something was a small price to pay. A helping hand should be just that a helping hand, NOT a free ride for life!
Yes, drug related crime would no doubt rise but if we didn't have to spend untold millions on welfare abusers perhaps we could actually afford to increase our police force and build some more prisons so putting criminals back of the street early to ease prison overcrowding would no longer be necessary. I guess what I'm saying here is that if my tax dollars are going to go towards housing & feeding some low life I'd rather that they be in jail where at least they are not free to produce yet another generation of public leeches!
Yes, those who fail the mandatory drug test should have their children taken from them. Could a government run orphanage really do a worse job of raising them than their drug abusing parents are doing?
This seems to me, to be a no brainer. A little common sense goes a long way. Too bad our government just doesn't have any!
My wife and I were talking about this recently too (We got the same Email from her dad...). Basic conclusion we both came to is indeed a pretty sad one if you stop to think about it this way. Say the Goobermint started testing for drugs before doling out the welfare checks/food stamps/federal aid/ whatever you call it. Suddenly crack/methheads have a lack of funds and ability to finance the addictions they have. What do they start doing? Start robbing business's and private homes, that's were the money is, right? How else would they finance the habits they have?
It's not like you see any too many drug users just showing up at an employer's door just begging to go to work. That would be the day. Take the easy way out and steal for what you need. I could foresee the crime rate going thru the roof and drug related violence becoming even more prevalent. Personally, I'd love to see mandatory drug tests for those on welfare, but at the expense of needing more slugs for my 12 ga., I'd rather not see it happen. Ever here of the lessor of two evils? If I caught someone burglarizing my property, I can guarantee they will never do it again. However, I do know that I'll have to answer for that judgment call with a life sentence as well.
My solution to all this is probably too simple too, but here it is.
1. Clean house in D.C. The President, the House, the Senate, even clear out the lobbyists. Start completely over. Give elected officials one chance. If they can't find enough loopholes to make their millions of $$$'s in one terms' time, why give them decades to do it? Ted Kennedy and my own states' Dave Obey come to mind. I say line their pockets once and toss them out. This may be the only way to execute real change in government.
2. This part may throw a few for a loop, but please hang with me as I explain my reasoning why. Legalize drugs, and then tax the snot out of them. 50% tax should do it. Probably finance the entire government payroll on the taxes alone. Works well for the tobacco industry. Just don't subsidize the "drug farmers" like they do the tobacco farmers. Anybody that has been around tobacco farming knows exactly what I'm talking about. Portions of what smokers pay in cigar/cigarette taxes are funneled right back into tobacco farmer's pockets to help them out in bad growing years.
Now I'm also talking about strictly enforcing a lack of drug use in certain professions, Dr.s, emergency health care providers, and airline pilots come to mind right away. Now here it gets a bit touchy, but hear me out. One of the biggest challenges to this is that the parents in this country will have to step up what they do to make sure that their children can tell the difference between morally right and wrong from an very early age. More on this in a bit...I've never tried drugs, and saw no reason to try them. Heck, I don't even take aspirin for a headache.
Another part of legalizing drugs in my system is to inflict the most severe punishments our courts dole out for people convicted of any crime with any known narcotic in their system. I'm talking death penalty here, boys. Would you get high and knock off a liquor store if getting caught meant getting a one way trip six feet under? How about driving impaired by drugs? Simply put, you commit a felony or kill someone and test positive for drugs, you die. No second chances, no stays of execution. Make people think before they shoot up about the consequences, and drug usage will drop. Crime rates (barring those in D.C. of course ) will drop as well. Who needs a new SuperMax prison if you clean house once a week? I really like the "electric bleacher" idea that was posted earlier.
Anyways, I'll step down now before I say something I may really regret.
In a while, Chet.
|I am against welfare except for the most needy cases, and I do mean needy. I am also against drug testings. I want people out of my life, my blood and government out of my wallet.
This past summer I took a vaction hitting all the "Birth of a Nation" stuff from Boston down to Virgina. That is one thing I kept thinking over and over, who in the living hell could we call on to do something that Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, etc. did? LOL, there isn't a combination of twenty people in any office in America would could/would do what any one of our founding fathers did on their own!!!!
Give me a break! We have the best country in the world, it just needs some repair work. But we certainly don't need to start over!
|Rob Keller
OK I'm in a wild spin heading for a snow drift with my foot to the floor but...
Really how can we BEEACH
Bad kids trace back to bad parents who trace back to bad parenting...95% of the time.
Me having NO KIDS see the good in good well raised kids now & then.
On to my point.
Look @ our Government how many Trillions of Dollar$ are we in debt?
So how can we expect the simpletons to take care of their selves when the "..{I use this term extremely lightly} Best minds of our country" can even do it.
Around here you are Either Poor or OK there is no middle of the road..
Seems like it would be better just to start a new USA.
like the GOOBERment aught to file bankruptcy.
brian, i'm familiar with the muslim bakery stories, they pop up in the news on a regular basis--they're nut jobs. and all the kooks live in bezerkley, but is that all you could come up with!! what about richmond? east palo alto? or THE CITY?? the bay area has become looney tunes. (no offence to you)
i am against the electric chair.....
i am for electric bleachers!!!!
happy new years to all you hot rodders.
Are you kidding me? Did you see the fight they put up with over giving a finger print to collect Welfare?????
GOD YES make them pass a urine drug test, how much more common sense does it need to be?
But if you are going to talk government gone mad, how about this one. Now for all you liberals preaching about Bush, this is DEMOCRAT COUNTRY boys. This is Ex Ca govenor Jerry "wheat germ" Brown who was mayor of Oakland Ca when this happened. What happened to the 1.1 million given to the Black Muslim Bakery? (click here) The "Black Muslim Bakery" they refer to in the story has done things like went and trashed corner stores in the black neighborhoods because they were selling liquer, saying that it was the stores fault the neighborhood was full of winos. Now, I agree to some degree with their point, however, seems all the stores that got trashed where Asian owned.
The latest was a number of them being arrested for killing some poor newspaper reporter who was about to write a story on them.
This is right next to a city (Berkley) where they took the American flags off the fire trucks because they didn't want to "offend" anyone!
Just hand it out, hand it out no questions asked. Pump out babies, borrow money and max out credit cards, do what ever you want, we are here to give you anything you need.
By the waym this is the same government that Hillary and Micheal Moore want to run the our health care system.
Drug test them , schmug test them , they'll still be able to buy booze and take whatever pills they may take.( xanax , vicodin,oxycontin , etc , soforth , so on .... )
Wouldn't it be better to make welfare reception dependant on community service? There are plenty of good programs the cities and states could use "volunteers" for ( trash pickup and such....) then the welfare folks would REALLY be looking for work , not just sitting back and collecting. We sentence people to "community service" all the time as punishment for crimes. If criminals can do that type of work , so can able-bodied people who want a "free" paycheck.
I know if I needed welfare and they told me , sure - you have to work here or there - I'd be down with working for it. Welfare should be in place to help people not be hungry. Not to help them live a life of leisure.
There's my dime.
If you are on welfare/unemployment you should be looking for a job. Most places now days make you take a drug test so if you don't pass the test you are not able to look for work. I don't know but wouldn't that be a reason to deny them.
Here in Oregon they now have Oregon trail card instead of food stamps. It is just like an atm card. We don't want them to feel bad when they go by junk food.
One more thing. Why dont government/state employees have to take drug tests?
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Re: Home schooling for Cruisers
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From all I have seen and read, the 'failure' or under achievement of home schooling is extremely low, miniscule. Can anyone say that for the us public school system?
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From all I have seen and read, the 'failure' or under achievement of home schooling is extremely low, miniscule. Can anyone say that for the us public school system?
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K12 and Connections Academy are the two that we have used. Our oldest daughter, who is with us on the boat, is a graduate of K12.
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Self educating your children:
If you want to do it you will read the "positive" posts and go away smiling.
If you do not want to do it you will read the "negative" posts and go away smiling.
Some learners seem to learn no matter where you put them and who "teaches" them.
Some learners don't seem to learn no matter where you put them and who "teaches" them.
If you do not have the skills you need (Literature, Science, Art, Music, Mathematics, Sociology etc.) then it might be best if you get some qualified help.
Me, I think an educator should be a trained professional, but many people home school with good results. And, if you are a world cruiser, with children on board, you might indeed finding yourself doing "Home Schooling", "Home Mechanical work", "Home Dentistry", "Home Surgery".
Good luck in your adventure.
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But david, the challenge for parents homeschooling without a net (ie without a homeschooling resource center or a network of fellow homeschooling parents) is that the pupil will have the same teacher for every subject, and thus be subject to the weaknesses, and strengths of that sole-source educator.
If you are not a strong speller and don't like to read, for example, what are the odds that you will emphasize that aspect of the curriculum, and by extension, what are the odds that your child will have an interest in literature and be able to structure a sentence coherently?
i disagree with your philosophy on the societal responsibility for educationEducation has been seen as a societal responsibility going back to the ancients. even in primitive tribes, children have always learned skills as part of the group. it is a relatively recent phenomenon, largely of the first world, to assume the parents can privately educate our children better than the group as a whole.
Where the public education system falls apart is the failure of the educator/parent link. If parents and educators don't work together, the school and the students fail.
i have had discussions with people who want to withdraw their children from the public system and homeschool their children because of some vague and unformed belief that the public school system is a failure. ias how many conferences they have had with their children's current teacher, how many PTA meetings they have attended, what volunteer work they do at the school, and the answers often range from "none' to "little.' I ask, if you are relatively uninvolved in your child's education now, how successful do you think you will be as their teacher in the future?
that tends to kill the conversation.
Our children were public schooled through elementary school, then homeschooled through their high school years, after giving high school a try.
Was it a success?
they both "graduated' earlier than their peers, getting their GED and going on to college 2 years ahead of their peers, and both are thriving in the college environment. They had support through a homeschool resource center, and they understood the importance of deadlines, and their performance was measured, and above average performance was rewarded.
Would we do it again? depends on the kids, and the kids needs. I believe that one has to have at least attempt structured school- some kids, in fact most kids, thrive.
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The real lesson of my prior post was that society has put a huge burden on parents by implying that only professional teachers can do the job and that it can only be done one way. I've got nothing against teachers, my father was one. My daughter is one and she was home schooled except for one semester of high-school and her senior year of high-school.
It is a big scary responsibility. It is now the norm to pass it off to society. It is always the parents responsibility no matter what, but for homeschoolers it is more obvious.
As someone who is 10+ years past that stage based on seeing dozens of children being raised in radically different ways I'm pretty sure our schooling choices have much less impact on most children than we would typically expect.
In other words, chill, have fun and play it by ear.
If you have a kid like my daughter who was reading the complete works of Shakespeare the third time by age 11 and snickering in the corner over the randy parts you will have a different experience than with my son who could build anything out of Lego's and delighted in making rubber-band boobie traps all over the house and playing forts in the swamp next door. But didn't want to read until very late.
The biggest advantage I see for home schooling is the opportunity for the parent to tailor the day to the child. If the child is ahead in some skills either reading, math, welding, machine repair, carpentry or behind in some skills, traditional school can be very damaging.
It is very hard for a teacher to keep children from being either bored or lost and frustrated when they have so many to care for and limited time and state enforced tests to cram for.
Homeschooling while anything but easy can actually be easier in some circumstances with some children.
But like I said before it is definitely not for everyone.
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Did you homeschool your children, Brenda?
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There is no school like home!
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We're not cruising yet, but we've been on the road for the past two years in an RV. We've got one school-age kid, and my wife has been teaching him using the Ambleside Online curriculum. It's gone pretty well. He doesn't always want to do his lessons, but it's becoming less of a problem. Now that he's started 2nd grade, we're putting more of the responsibility for his lessons on him (instead of us making him do them) and he's responding well to that so far.
We've also run into a number of traveling families that unschool. It's definitely very popular - no curriculum, no milestones, no pressure. I can't speak to the results though.
- John
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We home schooled both of our children. Daughter is 32, son is 28. Daughter has her US teachers certificate and is teaching in Guatemala City and loves it. She aced college, loved it. She still visits with her favorite professor whenever she gets back to the states.
Son didn't want to go to college and is a sailboat rigger in Annapolis. He has always made more money than our daughter, and has no college debt, so go figure.
I had a fun answer to the most common question we would get when someone found out we were home schooling.
The question was" "Aren't you worried about socialization"
My answer was: "Yes it is a big problem I worry about it all the time. They spend so much time with other kids and their parents what with their museum trips, trips to go to work with parents, trips to zoo's, aquariums, farms etc. it never ends. Excess socialization is something I'm concerned about."
I would get a stunned look and a mumble. I wasn't really kidding either.
We were pretty moderate. My wife tried to cover a regular curriculum. It only really takes a couple hours a day. Most of the day in schools if you remember is wasted. Moving between classrooms, discipline and just plain waiting. If you get mono you can keep up with your class with someone that comes to your house for an hour or so a day.
We had some friends that were pretty extreme. They believed in un-schooling. They made it their business to not teach their kids anything. They had lots of material around, would suggest what to do during the day but there were no education goals at all. If the kids asked a question they would answer it. Most of our friends has children that went to public school of course. In the end I was amazed at how little anything mattered. The unschooled, the public schooled and and moderate homeschooling like ourselves. The ones that wanted to go to college went to college and did well. The others found jobs they liked to do.
You would have thought it would have made a bigger difference but it didn't. I'm talking about probably 50 children.
My favorite story was one of our young unschooler friends who couldn't read by the time he was about 14. At that time he could already rebuild an engine and weld because that is what he liked to do and his father was adamant about not forcing anything on him. Eventually he went up to his mother and asked to get help reading. After she fainted and she came to they started and within weeks he was up to grade level. The reason, he wanted to be able to read his motorcycle shop manual.
The fact of the matter is that some children thrive in public school, some in private school and some home schooled.
Based on my experience while I understand it takes a trained expert to teach 20+ children at once in a school setting or a college setting I'm pretty sure any literate parent can handle K-12 for a handful of their own kids with a little help providing they are willing to put in the time and money. We found it was not cheap, not easy and took a lot of time. It is way easier to send them to school.
It is definitely not for everyone.
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Figured I'd show you all the progress I'm making on my custom Mando so far. I'm about 75-80% done.
Concept Designs
Vest and Belt
Armor (cyanide72)
Guantlets (Ruffkin)
Helmet (Rubies Jango with Rembrandt Enterprises visor)
"Halfway" Concept
This was the pic I took of all my progress so far. At the time of the picture I didn't have a visor and my chest plates were not painted yet. So I used some "digital manipulation" to create the effect of the visor and painted chest plates. The real thing will look pretty much like that. The only things missing now are the shoulder pieces, gauntlets, knees, thighs, boots, and cape.
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After a long day of wedding photography, or any day for that matter, I love relaxing with a good cigar, and a drink. It usually ends up being a craft beer, but every once in a while a good spirit is just what the doctor ordered.
For the past year or so, my dad Ray, and sister Elle over at Smart Site Strategies have been working with DiSalvo's Station restaurant in Latrobe. From time to time they bring me in to shoot photos, create a short video, and help create newsletter content that is needed.
A little while back after a Sunday brunch, we were down stairs smoking a cigar, when Joey asked if I could grab a few photographs for him. All I had on me was a camera, a 50mm lens, and a small video light, so we made do with what we had, and shot a few quick photos for their news letter.
I really enjoyed shooting these, but I wish that I had brought some lights with me.


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Meal in a Mug - Gabriel Gate - Raspberry and Passionfruit Flan
05 July 2013 , 1:30 PM by Annie Reuss
The ever popular Meal in a Mug segment has been taken to an all new level with our latest guest ... he was the original television masterchef ... French Chef, Gabriel Gate spent time in the ABC kitchen with David Curnow. Gabriel whipped up a delicious Raspberry and Passionfruit Flan.
Passionfruit and Raspberry Flan in a Mug Serves 2
Use two small mugs (250 ml size)
a little oil to grease 2 mugs
1 punnet of beautiful raspberries
pulp of 2 fresh passionfruits
2 tsp corn flour
2 tbsp caster sugar
2 tbsp almond meal
1 large egg
4 tbsp pouring cream
4 tbsp milk
icing sugar shaker with icing sugar
Method: Place 12 raspberries in each greased mug. In a bowl whisk the passionfruit pulp with the corn flour, then add the caster sugar, almond meal, egg, cream and milk. Pour the custard over the raspberries and cover each mug with plastic wrap. Microwave on high for 3 minutes. Allow to rest, covered, for 10 minutes before removing the plastic wrap. Top with the remaining raspberries and dust with icing sugar.
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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
A tribute to Joe Strummer I created a while back for a blog somebody was doing about unsent letters/letters you wish you could send or something like that, that I turned into an unused zine/myspace flyer - just tweaked it slightly to add the link to my page here on wemakezines.
The original letter was something I wrote for someone on a fansite asking for messages to Joe for them to leave round/by his memorial stone at Glasonbury (part of an rememberance during the festival). about 2004 or 05 I think - then reused and turned into cut and paste on a (shop bought) handmade coloured paper background with glued on glitter stars between the words in copies of the first issue of Hopelessly Romantic zine. This reworking was done from a scan for printing colour inserts and re-cutout using an old hacked/cracked copy of PSP over a rescan of a spare low-res photocopy of a magazine photo I loved and had used (in a different context) in issue 1.
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One of the miracles of the Dead Sea Scrolls the earliest surviving texts preserving the Old Testament of the Bible is that they survived at all.
"In ancient Israel, we have very few written documents that have ever been discovered," said Risa Levitt Kohn, co-curator of "Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times," a new exhibit opening to the public Friday at The Leonardo in downtown Salt Lake City.
The exhibit features 10 actual scrolls featuring not only Old Testament passages but other religious texts that go back two millennia. (Another 10 scrolls will be swapped in later in the exhibit's run.) The exhibit also features artifacts of the period, "from mundane pottery to the monumental," Kohn said, including a four-ton piece of Jerusalem's Western Wall, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
The exhibit, said The Leonardo's executive director, Alexandra Hesse, when the show was announced in April, is "the most significant exhibit The Leonardo has opened to date."
Bryton Sampson, The Leonardo's communications manager, said this week that attendance for the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit is likely to top the 350,000 who attended the museum's most-popular exhibit of all time, "Body Worlds III."
Texts from ancient Israel are so rare, compared to those of other civilizations, because of the material on which they were written, Kohn said in an interview this week.
Writings found from ancient Mesopotamia were on stone tablets, while ancient Egyptian documents were written on papyrus materials that withstood the elements. In biblical-era Israel, documents were written on parchment.
"Stone survives very well; if there's a fire, it just get harder," said Kohn, professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaism and director of the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University. "But writings on parchment moisture destroys it, fire destroys it, bugs destroy it."
The 900-plus pieces of parchment that are commonly called the Dead Sea Scrolls, Kohn said, were found in caves about a mile off the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. Those caves were a perfect environment for preservation: dry, dark and largely left alone until their discovery in the late 1940s.
Though the Dead Sea Scrolls "revolutionized our understanding" of the Old Testament, Kohn said, the translated scrolls revealed surprisingly few variations from the Bible as it was handed down through the centuries.
"If you compare your standard version to these biblical scrolls, there are some spelling changes, some handwriting changes. There are small scribal errors," Kohn said. "But the big differences are few and far between."
Much of the research into the Dead Sea Scrolls has been done by scholars at Brigham Young University, said The Leonardo's Sampson. Because of that, the Leonardo is mounting a companion exhibit, "Unlocking the Past," that covers the research done on the scrolls.
For museumgoers, Kohn said, seeing the actual scrolls as well as artifacts from ancient Israel is a moving experience.
"As a historian, I always think it's very, very powerful to come into contact with the real thing," Kohn said. "Being in the presence of things that are 2,000 to 3,000 years old is at once very humbling and very powerful."
Dead Sea Scrolls in Utah
The exhibit "Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times," featuring 10 actual scrolls of Old Testament text and related religious writings, along with artifacts of ancient Israel.
Where • The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City.
When • Opens Friday, Nov. 22, and running through April 27.
Hours • Sundays through Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Tickets • $23.95 for adults; $14.95 for youth (12-17); $9.95 for children (6-11); free for children 5 and under; $19.95 for seniors (65 and over), students and military with ID; $13.95 for Leonardo members.


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LE and the military means domestic and international LE and military services. This is NOT about which is better, or which YOU like better. Use your research skills if you don't know....the answers are readily available from the web.
LE and the military means domestic and international LE and military services. This is NOT about which is better, or which YOU like better. Use your research skills if you don't know....the answers are readily available from the web.
Military is obviously the Beretta. Locally(and elsewhere), the Beretta is pretty frequent with most police departments too. So if I had to count US Armed Forces AND LE Beretta would have to win, obviously. The inclusion of military makes Beretta the winner. H&K has a pretty strong precense among SOCOM(Mk23 ring a bell?).
Not sure you need a poll for this, as you said. It's not opinion, it's empirical fact. Glock has something like 70% of the US LE market, last I saw. I know that all the orders Galco gets from UK cops are also for Glocks. Galco sells more Glock holsters than anything. In fact, if you left off 1911s and J-frame Smiths, I think we'd literally sell more Glock holsters than all other guns combined.
Military contracts are more political - witness the current US service pistol. I don't think SOCOM has more than a few Mk. 23s in inventory, by the way, and every single high-speed guy I've ever talked to (including SF, USMC Force Recon, Pathfinder, Ranger) has preferred the 1911 or the M9 - if he gave a crap about pistols at all. The market for the Mk. 23 is so tiny Galco doesn't even bother to make holsters for it.
I'm not sure either group can be classified generally as "pros" (except that some of them carry guns in the course of getting paid). Most cops I see at the range are pretty average shooters, though their gunhandling is usually safer than Joe Sixpack's. Most soldiers are abysmal shots, and the Big Army is more afraid of its own weapons than the enemy, anyway. Marines are generally better rifle shots, but pistol training is sparse and pretty lousy in the military.
I believe that is correct, Glock has 60-70% of the LE market. Locally, the large city PD is carrying S&W in both 9mm and 45. The new recruits are coming out onto the streets with the M&P40. The suburban departments I see vary from Glock, Beretta, Sig and Smith.
World wide. Glock I would say hands down.
Can not reply I am not working for a police dept.
I have 2 LEO friends that are carrying a Glock and a Beretta 96D. Not sure about anywhere else, but in my area it's Glock and Beretta.
When I see police in various cities I always look to see what they are carrying. I seem to see Glock the most. Certainly not a scientific study on my part but just an observation.
Id also have to agree with Glock being the most widely used.
And I dunno about anyone else, but Ive noticed alot of officers carrying Sigs aswell, more specifically P229's.
worldwide, probably the CZ models, used a lot in Europe, much more than Glocks......
Up here almost all the SO uses 1911's.
Down here most city PD carry Glocks. Texas DPS carries Sigs. Deputies and Constables carry mostly 1911s. Like the others, just an observation.
I'm just auditing this course, so if I flunk this test, it don't matter.
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I know of two counties in the Atlanta area that carry glock. I don't know about the rest. I stay away from there as much as possible. Ga. DNR and GBI do too as far as I know.
Here in Tuscaloosa, AL, the city issues Sig 220 or 229.:smt067 :smt068 :smt071
Around here it is Glocks used by more LE departments.
I was looking through one of my gun mags and came upon a CZ ad that claimed that their guns were the most widely used by police/military/security worldwide...
For Law Enforcement which out numbers the Military I believe that it is the Glock. My department issues the Sig Pro 2340 DAO in 357 Sig. The Sig 226 In 9mm +P+ is issued by an adjoining town while the bigger town north of us issues 40 S&W Glocks. The State Police issue 4506 Smith & Wessons in .45 acp. Several posters Mentioned PROs but I do not feel that most Police officers considers themselves Gun Professionals unless they are on SWAT or SERT Teams or Attached to the Firearms Training function. For the Line Officer the Firearm is just a thing he carries just in case. I have told by officers that a good pen is more important to them than their duty weapon.
The Glock has a big following as it is easy to carry and simple to use and reliable even following missuse. Many of the Gun Pros do us the 1911 Colt design.
Here in Northern Florida they use Glocks. I think .40's, but they are big on their Glocks. LE further west in Florida seem to use Berettas, from all the fucking cops that pulled me over that way. In the tiny town in Wisconsin I used to live in, they carried Smith .40 automatics. Can't remember what model, 4506 or something like that. They were fullsize, not compacts.


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Lukasz Fabianski insists Arsenal will be doing everything they can to lay their hands on the Carling Cup this season.
The Polish international was in fine form as the Gunners knocked out Bolton on Tuesday night, making a series of fine saves as the visitors chased a late equaliser at Emirates Stadium.
Fabianski hailed the spirit of the Arsenal team after they came from behind to win. The 2011 finalists are two steps from a return to Wembley and their goalkeeper is determined to lift the trophy this time.
"This year we are trying to go for that trophy, to win it," he said. "I think there is a big desire to do it.
"When you saw the team on Tuesday it was a mixture of experienced and young players. Since I have been here every single season it looks like that. All the youth players, players from the Reserves, they have an opportunity to show themselves. Every single year they are proving that they deserve to play for Arsenal.
"It was a good result against Bolton, especially after we conceded a goal early in the second half.
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Boomer, thanks for your reply. That's kinda what I was thinking afterward.
FWIW, the corrections were for not listening to sit, down, etc. I was attempting to get his focus back on me. Snd I always carry treats so there was plenty of reward when he finally loojed at me and listened. Not sure it was that clear to him though as to the corrections.
How would you go about working thru this issue?
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Once the dog is over threshold his mind is over stimulated and he isn't learning anything. So you weren't teaching but punishing him. Nothing wrong with a needed punishment but it needs to be completely clear and concise to the dog why he is getting punished. Not really sure punishing a dog for being excited is my cup of tea though.
Once we were walking along a river bank and I was so focused on a conversation with my friend that my dog saw a guy fishing and literally swam into the water and tried to get his orange fish bobble. I apologized profusely but the guy didn't look happy at all. I'm a fishermen myself and I would've been pissed! It's hard enough to catch fish when it's completely quiet.
Here is pic on our hike before he went lunatic.
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Tucker is almost 11mo. He likes people and other dogs, but we are working on not being so vocal with his excitement. I have drastically curbed his greeting new people and honestly he doesn't seem to care so much any more about meeting them, but just gets excited around groups of people and new experiences.
Today after hiking we stopped at a general store and walked across to a small public trout pond. Lots of people fishing. Lots of young children. But pretty quiet as they WERE fishing.
Within 2 minutes he was completely wound up. Screaming, talking, howling, you name it. He is not only huge, but LOUD. Controlling him wasn't an issue otherwise, but we retreated back across the street before someone threw us in the pond
I went back to the truck and put on his ecollar and went back to hang out at a distance. Right now we use a very low setting and that works for everything else, but a few corrections and he still didn't know I existed.
So, I cranked it up, so to speak (still at less than 1/3 of the highest setting and he listened. We then did some general obedience and went in closer before we called it quits.
I admit to feeling bad about turning it up, but he was being a complete jerk.
Was using the ecollar ok in this situation? I didn't have time to call my trainer and talk thru it obviously. I had to make an executive decision and he is almost a year old. With the amount of hiking and traveling he's already done, this shouldnt have been an "Oh my!" experience for him.
And of course now I'm second guessing myself. I guess I could start duct taping his mouth shut...
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Sebastien Squillaci has called on Arsenal to respond like a "great team" at Wolves on Wednesday.
The Frenchman admitted the goal that consigned his side to defeat against Newcastle at the weekend was avoidable but offered no excuses and claimed it was not "catastrophic" for their title aspirations.
Instead the 30-year-old simply placed the emphasis on Molineux in midweek.
"No [I am not worried]," he said. "We're still third in the Premier League and top of our group in the Champions League.
"But when you play for a team like Arsenal, after two defeats you need to respond. A great team doesn't concede three consecutive defeats. So the next game will be really important, we need to show that Arsenal are a great team. We need to respond well at Wolves on Wednesday.
"It's too early [to talk about our title chance having gone]. We lost a game but it's not catastrophic. The season is long but, for sure, we must not lose anymore points at home. We know that home results are very important to be champions.
"Fatigue is not an excuse. Lots of players didn't play against Shakhtar. We just need to talk about what didn't work and then work on it.
"We're disappointed because we didn't let them have too many opportunities. We didn't play a great Newcastle. But they scored this goal, which we could have avoided.
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This delectable soup feels like fall! Its golden color and rich, satisfying flavor have made it a favorite of mine—which is really amazing because I was convinced I didn't like squash until I tried this recipe.—Becky Ruff, Monona, Iowa
- 5 medium leeks (white portion only), sliced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1-1/2 pounds butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cubed (about 4 cups)
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1-3/4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons thinly sliced green onion
- In a large saucepan, saute leeks in butter until tender. Stir in the squash, broth, thyme and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until squash is tender. Cool slightly.
- In a blender, cover and process squash mixture in small batches until smooth; return all to the pan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Add cheese; stir until soup is heated through and cheese is melted. Garnish with sour cream and onion. Yield: 6 servings.
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"I lighten it up by using light butter, reduced fat cheddar, & fat free sour cream, and it is still delicious!! Plus, it makes my house smell like Thanksgiving when it's cooking. :)"
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"Excellent and easy squash soup recipe. Instead of leeks I substituted chopped onion, and also I used a buttercup squash instead of butternut. I had roasted the squash ahead of time and was looking for something to make with it. I find that roasting saves all the peeling and chopping. I omitted the cheese and froze the soup for a later meal and will add the cheese at that point, but to be honest it's wonderful without it too."
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"Very easy to make and very flavorful without needing salt. I did use ground white pepper instead of regular pepper."


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|Cadillac's also have a problem with the intake manifold gasket in the front below the intake. My caddy was overheating for a while it kept eating up thermostats and it was the gasket was doing it, I replaced it and never had the problem again
A stock Caddy thermostat has a bell shape deal on the bottom of it. That bell covers the bypass that Caddy installed to warm the motor quickly. You can tap and plug this hole so that a standard Chevy type thermostat can be used, or none at all if you choose. You will need a 1" plug and tap the hole under the thermostat housing with a standard pipe tap. Drill a small, 1/8" or so, hole in the plug so that it won't air lock.
What type of mods are you allowed in this class? A dual plane intake off a 472/500 flows better than a 425s single plane. A ported 472/500 intake will come close to a stock Edelbrock as far as power and flow. A 1" carb spacer will do wonders as well. Your heads have 2" intake, and 1.625 exhaust valves stock. You can use Pontiac valves in your Cad heads for a cheap upgrade. A 2.11" valve will flow much more than a 2". You should shoot for 32* total in the timing department. Fuel pump flow is also a real issue with the Cad. They can't hardly keep up with a stock motor, let alone under racing conditions. You can use a high flow Olds pump by changing the arm out for the Caddy piece. A 472 or 500 will also bolt in place of the 425. Being a Cadillac, nobody would know anyway......Dan
One other thing. Have you had the car across the scales yet? They aren't as heavy as everybody thinks........
Thanks for the help.
I have read the plugs a few times after race and they looked slight lean/hot. Fan clutch is good, shroud/box are intact. I will try the thermo change, as well as fuel pump check and bowl supply. One thought, because it doesn't like to sit and idle, is I may have compound problems. Your diagnosis of fuel starvation makes sense to me, but I also get hot at idle. One change at a time, re-test, try again. At least the testing phase is a lot of fun.
I really appreciate your help. This gives me a few new ideas to work through.
In the Cad Company catalog, they mention a little bit about the carbs running dry on a dyno run. Granted this were on 400hp 500ci. But it may be happening on the 425, just takes a little longer of a run for the fuel system to fall short. Take a look a the following site (if you are not already familiar with it), it may offer some help.
|one suggestion i can make is to do a plug chop, run it at high RPM, then quickly let off the accelerator and shut it down, then pull a few plugs and see what they look like, if they are white it`s too lean, which leads me to believe it could be with a open exhaust, even so you richened the mixture to compensate for this, it could still be too lean if your Q-jet came off a "smog mobile" which were already too lean from the factory, also check the fuel pressure, if the fuel pump can`t keep up with the demand, it could be running right on the edge of the bowl being dry also causing a lean condition as Q-jets have a small bowl, but have massive secondary`s and when you stomp it, it`s dumping some fuel in there and it don`t take long to empty the bowl. it`s also possible the trick you did to the thermostat isn`t slowing the water flow down enough, I`d just stick a 160 degree job in it with a small hole drilled in the outer edge so it`ll help to burp some of the air out of the system. stock fan meaning clutch fan? if so check it also to make sure it`s still good and that the thermal unit on the front of it isn`t missing in action. you do have the air dam still under the car? if not this can cause it to overheat also.
79 Caddy Overheating Issues
I am still new to this board and appreciate the honest answers and helpful attitude all of you have. This is not necessarily a hot rod question, but is about a racing application. I have a pretty good background, especially with SBC stuff, but am running a 79 caddy with a 425 in an entry level dirt track class. Because most rounders don't mess with caddy stuff, I thought that maybe you guys might have some ideas. Here are the details:
-425 stock compression
-shimmed SB valve springs (reduce float above 4000)
-Big 4 core radiator
-Q-jet with choke removed, larger primary main jets/matching rods, slight mods on secondary rods
-Notched plenum wall below secondaries, cast iron intake
-Timing at 10 @ 1000, 28 @ 3500+ (total advance)
-Stock, open exhaust
-High octane pump fuel with 20% racing fuel mixed (recommended by the other stock class racers)
-I removed the thermostat "button" and put the base in to act as a flow restrictor
-Stock fan
-Stock shroud
-RPM: 5500-6000 peak at end of straights
The problem that I have is the temp. If I sit in the staging area too long, as with a long yellow in the race prior, it starts to get hot pretty quick. (250 - 260) If I can get on the track right away, it is a little happier, but will still get hot before the end of the race. I think that I'm getting enough fuel, and it seems like it has decent accel out of the corners until it gets hot, then the valves start to float a bit easier. I am running with water wetter and staright water, also suggested by the boys at the track.
The temp gauge is sure distracting when the needle gets to the up side. Best finish has been 2nd in the feature, and I'd sure like to figure this out so that I can worry about going faster instead of runing cooler.
Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.
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Nurse and Lawyer have been on vacation! Well, Ok, not really. . . Laywer was taking the bar exam, and Nurse was on vacation. In the mean time, though, I've caught up on some reading. Have you seen this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review?
I don't just suggest it because on of the authors (Paul Farmer) is a great inspiration to me, but because it shows great wisdom and promise. . . the authors suggest that health care is in crisis in this country, and that's a great time to fix it– in part by expanding our concept of what health care means. Perhaps, they suggest, we can take lessons from successful programs in low-resource situations– by, for instance, addressing basic physical and social needs. It's not a new idea– but it's not often applied in this genreally rich country. Take a look. Give it a think.
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Four years of academia prepared Jen Carver Comer for this moment, but it's a bit intimidating, nonetheless.
On her 29th birthday, less than a week after donning a cap and gown with thousands of other graduates at Weber State University, Comer is going before a juvenile court judge to offer her opinion about a young offender's prospects.
"I'm a firm believer [that] you go in the room being the smartest person there, knowing everything about the case," says Comer. "So I've done my homework."
Comer, an Army veteran who did two tours in Iraq, is finishing up an internship at the Farmington Bay Youth Center, where she has been a youth worker for several months. It's in that role that she is going before the judge.
The internship is one of her last student projects; this summer she'll finish a senior capstone course and another internship at WSU's law enforcement academy, completing dual degrees in social work and criminal justice. (WSU allows students to "walk" at commencement in the spring because there is no ceremony for those who finish school in summer).
And then she'll be ready for the next chapter, studying for a criminal justice master's degree at WSU in the fall and beginning work on a master's degree in social work in summer 2014.
While her own background of childhood abuse and family dysfunction gives her a soft spot for troubled teens, she also wants to teach law enforcement candidates about cultural sensitivity and diversity.
The two degrees equip her well, says Bruce Bayley, a criminal justice professor and one of Comer's mentors.
"She'll be a conduit between those two worlds that often don't get along very well," says Bayley. "She'll be a mediator."
'I protect people' • T.J. Carver, Comer's 5-year-old son, holds up the WSU medal on a purple ribbon that his mother gave him.
They wave and grin at each other, as T.J. sits in the Dee Events Center arena seats with his stepdad, Daniel Comer, 2-year-old stepsister Scarlett and grandpa Bill Comer and his partner, Shereen Strong.
Comer is down below, in a crowd of hundreds of graduates of the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences. Two red, white and blue cords signify she is a veteran, like many of the criminal justice majors.
Daniel Comer, whom Carver married in August, beams as he watches her walk up to symbolically collect the first degree, then the second one.
Comer is grateful for their blended family's support, but disappointed that her father, who lives in Washington, did not come. She is the first in his family to graduate college. The first in her mother's, too, but they no longer speak.
"I about lost it when they had the families stand," Comer says, describing the moment during commencement when families are recognized for their support.
After commencement, she flashes open her graduation gown to reveal a short black sheath dress. Her spike heels are red sateen with black lace.
To celebrate her graduation, birthday and Mother's Day, Comer is getting a ninth tattoo.
It will be a pair of angel's wings that look made of iron, with blades in place of some feather tips. A bullet hole will pierce the place on her back directly behind her heart.
"I'm the protector," she says. "I protect people, I shield them. Basically, I take the brunt of it."
'I didn't think I could do it' • She is reflective this afternoon, hours after graduation, considering her long road from the Army to likely graduating with a GPA in the neighborhood of 3.30.
A native of a small town in Northern California, Comer left it at age 18, barely out of high school, and joined the Army.
Two tours in Iraq and a broken marriage later, she was 25 when she settled in Utah so her 2-year-old son could be near his father's family.
The first two semesters almost killed her ambition.
"I didn't think I could do it," Comer says. "I really just wanted to quit. I didn't think I was smart enough."
But Charlie Chandler, director of WSU's Veterans Services office, recognized her leadership skills and helped her rediscover her strengths.
Comer is tearful as she recalls, with gratitude, Chandler's kindness and that of four professors whom she credits with molding her.
Corina Segovia Tadehara, a social work professor, helped Comer learn about herself in what Comer remembers as an "emotionally draining process."
It was in one of her first classes with Tadehara that Comer created a ceramic mask that she carries today in her Jeep; her son, T.J., wants to hang it on his wall.
She painted the outside red, white and blue and adorned it with symbols of her life to that time, journeys across the world and little-boy toys.
She painted the inside in camouflage colors, including a silhouette of a soldier kneeling before a battle cross, symbolizing a fallen soldier.
"On the inside, I'll always be a soldier," says Comer. "And you always remember the ones you lost along the way."
She credits Bayley and Jack Rickards, director of the law enforcement academy, with teaching her diplomacy and tact.
Steve Vigil treats her like a colleague as she finishes her last projects with him, empowering her to be the professional she has trained to be.
"I literally had an epiphany with him," she says. "He brought me full circle."
Comer, says Tadehara, does not give herself enough credit.
"Ultimately, she gets all the credit. We were just sounding boards, in her corner," Tadehara says. "She has so much going for her. I don't think she always sees it."
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As part of an American Homecomings series, The Salt Lake Tribune has followed Iraq veteran Jen Carver Comer as she studied, served on the student senate, worked at the veteran center, raised her son and remarried during her senior year at Weber State University. See the story archive at http://www.americanhomecomings.com/category/veterans-stories/jen-carver/.
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EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett sings "What I Have To Offer" and delivers some bad news to Paul Rudd in a deleted scene shot during the filming of Judd Apatow's new movie This is Forty. You can see the clip below!
"What I Have To Offer," off of the band's 2010 release Tomorrow Morning, is available on iTunes. EELS also performed the main titles song "Calling For Your Love" in the new Cirque du Soleil film Wolrds Away. The song is now streaming HERE. To celebarate the release of their upcoming album Wonderful, Glorious, out February 5 on E Works/Vagrant Records, EELS will embark on a world tour kicking off February 14 in Santa Ana, California and include dates across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Europe. The tour will wrap up on April 24 in Paris; please see below for a complete list of dates. Tickets are available HERE.
The ever-changing project of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett (aka K), EELS recorded Wonderful, Glorious at Everett's new Los Feliz, CA studio. Dubbed "The Compound," the new space invigorated Everett's writing process. "It was exciting," he says, "it filled me with hope for limitless possibilities. And I realized I'd had a similar feeling when I first put the band together for the last two tours." The band, which features guitarists The Chet and P-Boo, bass player Koool G Murder and drummer Knuckles, all had a hand in the writing of Wonderful, Glorious. "The only rule I had was 'let's try it,'" says Everett. "If anyone in The Room had an idea, I'd say 'let's try it.'"
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Artist's BiographyDick began studying the vibes in Grammar school with marimba master Jose Bethancourt of the Chicago Symphony. He attended Notre Dame H.S., which also produced pianists Jim McNeely, Al Pheeney and trombonist James Pankow. While there he was awarded "best soloist" at the state competition. He attended North Texas State Univ. for one year and took a quartet to the Collegiate Jazz Festival where he was judged, "an excellent player" by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.( see Press Clips ) The following year he attended Northwestern Univ. playing in the lab band with David Sanborn. Soon after that he left school to form a quartet with drummer Maurice White, who later founded Earth, Wind and Fire. The Chicago jazz scene in those days included several jazz clubs that Dick frequented to hear the music of Trane, Miles, Bill Evans, Stitt, Peterson, Garner, Ellington, Basie, etc.
Moving to northern Ca. by 1970 he collaborated with Jerry Hahn, Bill Mathieu, George Marsh, Rich Fudoli and others on a record entitled Ghost Opera. He recorded a vibes solo background for a meditation and yoga record by Swami Kriyananda, which was a best seller of the day and one of the first "new age" recordings. With a grant from the California Arts Council he produced a jazz and poetry project with Gary Snyder and later with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Sisto took a gig in Louisville Ky. with David Leonhart and John Goldsby at a jazz club called Stanley J's, where they backed many name musicians. At the same time he developed a relationship with the writer and mystic Thomas Merton, who was also a jazz lover.
In recent years Sisto has performed at jazz clubs throughout the midwest including the Green Mill, Andy's and Pops in Chicago, The Blue Wisp in Cincinnatti, as well as festivals in Indianapolis, Nashville, Elkhart, Ind. and Louisville. He has toured Great Britain five times where he received rave reviews, working prominent venues. Festival gigs have included performances with David "Fathead" Newman, Milt Hinton, Ira Sullivan, Willie Pickens, Fred Hersch, Barry Ries, Harry Pickens and others.
Currently, he is the music director at the famous Seelbach Bar at the Seel bach Hilton Hotel where his trio has backed great jazz artists such as Pat Labarbera, David Liebman, Joe Morello, Joe Labarbera, Kevin Mahagony, Bobby Shew, Kenny Werner, Dave Samuels, Rich Perry, Andy Laverne, Don Braden, David Hazeltine, Walt Weiskoff, Scott Wendholt, Lynne Arrialle, Steve Davis and many others.
He also hosts two public radio jazz shows for WFPK, Louisville. The Inner Ear and the most recent called Jazz Folio, an interview and performance show on which he has performed with and/or interviewed guests such as Phil Woods, Toots Thielmans and Paul Winter as well as most of the Seelbach guests previously mentioned. His CD End of Time was 28th on the Gavin Radio Airplay List.
Sisto appears as a sideman on more recent CD's by tenor saxophonist Mark Colby, and guitarist Kenny Poole.
He has been the vibes teacher for the Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops for over ten years. Dick is a Musser vibraphone and Pro Mark mallet clinician. He has developed a signature mallet for Pro Mark. ( See mallet page ). He is the author of The Jazz Vibraphone Book, published by Meredith/Hal Leonard.
Dick's wife Penny is the internationally famous fabric artist whose innovative work has been shown worldwide and has been featured in the Smithsonian Institute. His son Jeremy is an actor who has appeared in numerous films as well as the HBO series Six Feet Under. He played the lead in the NBC and TNT mini-series, Jesus and Julius Caesar.


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hi ive got a problem when im dumping in airodump-ng there is no other mac attached to the bssid there is just the bssid there and i cant get a handshake without it so how do i go about this, thanks
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then type airodump-ng wlan0
then airodump-ng -w capture -c 1 --bssid MAC wlan0
my problem is i only get the bssid mac i don't get the second mac ie not connected to a pc but if i go on my phone and try to connect to it, it will bring the mac of my phone up will this still give me the 4way handshake even if i haven't put the password in
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I think you're trying to find the station number. Is that showing up?CH 1 ][ Elapsed: 24 s ][ 2011-04-17 16:40
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yeah..me too...i cant do a handshake with the airodump...
hey guys my problem is when I type :
airmon-ng start eth1
interface chipset driver
eth1 broadcom wl(monitor mode enabled)
I need to know on which mode is it on>?
like: (monitor mode enabled on mon0)
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I have installed the bt4 r2 and here is my problem with pics:
and now when I type airodump-ng eth1 look what do I have:
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Unless mistaken, eth1 applies to your ethernet connection. wlan0 or wlan1 applies to your wireless card. When doing airmon-ng start wlan0 (or 1), this command switches the card into monitor mode hence the output of mon0. From this point, all commands use mon0 as in airodump-ng mon0. To get the handshake you are seeking, a wireless device has to be connected to the AP via the key so the --deauth command can perform it's task of kicking said device off the network forcing it to log back into the network with the key it has on file.
To the original post, I am having the same problem as there is no wifi device connected to my AP, only a desktop that is hardwired which has no need of using the AP's wifi password. I will have to connect another wireless device so I can watch the --deauth command kick it off the network for a fraction of a second and capture the handshake. Then start perfecting the process of cracking the handshake .cap file. One step at a time I guess.
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My current research activities are focused on advances in several fields of rapid technology development, notably wireless networks, energy systems and social networks.
The dramatic increase in demand for new capacity and higher performance has been a major issue in the design and deployment of contemporary wireless networks. The development of these capabilities is severely limited by the scarcity of two of the principal resources in wireless networks: energy and bandwidth. Emerging generations of wireless standards are addressing these issues through the use of techniques such as cooperative communications, spectrum sharing, energy harvesting, cloud processing and densification of infrastructure. One focus of our recent work in wireless networks has addressed the fundamental limits of such techniques through information theoretic and related analyses of relay and interference channels, and the role of feedback in improving communications performance in such channels. Another focus has been on the development and analysis of new signaling and networking structures, such as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), designed to enable the techniques noted above. A further issue that we are addressing is the fundamental ability of the physics of the radio channel to provide security in data transmission, and the development of codes and other methods to exploit this capability.
Our work in energy systems has focused on smart grid, which has emerged as a key technology for improving the efficiency, efficacy and security of the distribution and consumption of electric power, and particularly for the integration of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power into the electricity grid. Our work in this area has focused on the use of advanced methods from communications and information technology to address several issues arising in this context, including the detection and amelioration of bad data and physical attacks on the grid, the study of privacy issues for both operators and consumers, the development of distributed algorithms for state estimation and control of the grid and the use of game theory and prospect theory to develop an understanding of the behavior of grid participants.
In the area of social networks, our work has focused on understanding and modeling the connectivity of small-world networks, and on the role of social interaction on collaborative sensing and decision-making tasks.
Preprints of recent and forthcoming publications describing this research can be found on the ArXiv website:
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"Universal Compressed Sensing for Almost Lossless Recovery," (with Shirin Jalali). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 2933 – 2953, May 2017.
"Content Pushing with Request Delay Information," (with Wei Chen). IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 1146 – 1161, March 2017.
"Cloud Storage Defense Against Advanced Persistent Threats: A Prospect Theoretic Study," (with Liang Xiao, Dongjin Xu, Caixia Xie and Narayan B. Mandayam). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – Special Issue on Game Theory for Networks, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 534 – 544, March 2017.
"On Simultaneously Generating Multiple Keys in Joint Source-Channel Model," (with Wenwen Tu, Mario Goldenbaum and Lifeng Lai). IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 12, No.2, pp. 298 – 308, February 2017.
"Secrecy Rate Beamforming for Multi-cell Networks with Information and Energy Harvesting," (with Ali Arshad Nasir, Hoang Duong Tuan, Trung Quang Duong). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 677 - 689, February 1, 2017.
"Probabilistic Tensor Canonical Polyadic Decomposition with Orthogonal Factors," (with Lei Cheng and Yik-Chung Wu). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 663 – 676, February 1, 2017.
"Wireless Physical Layer Security," (inaugural article, with Rafael F. Schaefer). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Vol. 114, No.1, pp. 19 - 26, January 3, 2017.
"Learning-Based Distributed Detection-Estimation in Sensor Networks with Unknown Sensor Defects," (with Qing Zhou, Di Li, Soummya Kar, Lauren Huie and Shuguang Cui). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 130 – 145, January 1, 2017.
"Secrecy Rate Optimizations for Secure Multicast Communications," (with Kanapathippillai Cumanan, Zhiguo Ding, and Mai Xu). IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing - Issue on Exploiting Interference towards Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Communications, Vol. 10, No. 8, pp. 1417 – 1432, December 2016.
"Distributed Constrained Recursive Nonlinear Least-Squares Estimation: Algorithms and Asymptotics," (with Anit Kumar Sahu, Soummya Kar and José M. F. Moura). IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks – Special Issue on Inference and Learning over Networks, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 426 – 441, December 2016.
"Load Shifting in the Smart Grid: To Participate or Not?" (with Yunpeng Wang, Walid Saad and Narayan B. Mandayam). IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 2604 – 2614, November 2016.
"Hypergraph Based Wireless Distributed Storage Optimization for Cellular D2D Underlays," (with Li Wang, Huaqing Wu, Yinan Ding and Wei Chen). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – Special Issue on Spectrum Sharing and Aggregation for Future Wireless Networks, Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 2650 – 2666, October 2016.
"Quickest Linear Search over Correlated Sequences," (with Javad Heydari and Ali Tajer). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 5786 – 5808, October 2016.
"Security Games with Unknown Adversarial Strategies," (with Andrey Garnaev and Melike Baykal-Gursoy). IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 46, No 10, pp. 2291 - 2299, October 2016.
"Relay-Aided Space-Time Beamforming for Interference Networks with Partial Channel Knowledge," (with Wonjae Shin, Namyoon Lee and Jungwoo Lee). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 64, No. 19, pp. 5119 – 5130, October 1, 2016.
"Secrecy Performance of Finite-Sized Cooperative Single Carrier Systems with Unreliable Backhaul Connections," (with Kyeong Jin Kim, Phee Lep Yeoh and Philip V. Orlik). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 64, No. 17, pp. 4403 – 4416, September 1, 2016.
"On Rate, Secrecy, and Network Connectivity Tradeoffs for Wireless Networks," (with Ruolin Zhang and Cristina Comaniciu). IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 1559 – 1562, August 2016.
"Impact of User Pairing on 5G Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Downlink Transmissions," (with Zhiguo Ding and Pingzhi Fan). IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, No. 8, pp. 6010 – 6023, August 2016.
"Relay Selection for Cooperative NOMA," (with Zhiguo Ding and Huaiyu Dai). IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 416 - 419, August 2016.
"Machine Learning Methods for Attack Detection in the Smart Grid," (with Mete Ozay, Iñaki Esnaola, Fatos T. Yarman Vural and Sanjeev R. Kulkarni). IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 1773 – 1786, August 2016.
"Disintegrated Channel Estimation in Filter-and-Forward Relay Networks," (with Kao-Peng Chou and Jia-Chin Lin). IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 64, No. 7, pp. 2835 – 2847, July 2016.
"Maximum Distortion Attacks in Electricity Grids," (with Iñaki Esnaola, Samir M. Perlaza and Oliver Kosut). IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 2007 – 2015, July 2016.
"Cooperation of Storage Operation in a Power Network with Renewable Generation," (with Subhash Lakshminarayana, Yunjian Xu and Tony Q. S. Quek). IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 2108 – 2122, July 2016.
"Mining MOOC Clickstreams: Video-Watching Behavior vs. In-Video Quiz Performance," (with Christopher Brinton, Swapna Buccapatnan, and Mung Chiang). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 64, No. 14, pp. 3677 – 3692, July 15, 2016.
"Training Design for Channel Estimation in Uplink Cloud Radio Access Networks," (with Qiang Hu, Mugen Peng and Xinqian Xie). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 3324 – 3337, July 1, 2016.
"A General MIMO Framework for NOMA Downlink and Uplink Transmission Based on Signal Alignment," (with Zhiguo Ding and Robert Schober). IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 4438 – 4454, June 2016.
"Wireless Information and Power Transfer in Multiway Massive MIMO Relay Networks," (with Gayan Amarasuriya and Erik G. Larsson). IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 3387 – 3855, June 2016.
"Delay-Energy Tradeoff in Multicast Traffic Scheduling for Green 5G Cellular Systems," (with Chuan Huang, Junshan Zhang and Shuguang Cui). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Series on Green Communications and Networking, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 1235 – 1249, May 2016.
"Cluster Content Caching: An Energy-Efficient Approach to Improve Quality of Service in Cloud Radio Access Networks," (with Zhongyuan Zhao, Mugen Peng, Zhiguo Ding and Wenbo Wang). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Series on Green Communications and Networking, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 1207 – 1221, May 2016.
"Near-Optimal Modulo-and-Forward Scheme for the Untrusted Relay Channel," (with Shengli Zhang, Lisheng Fan and Mugen Peng). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 2545 - 2556, May 2016.
"Energy Storage Sharing in Smart Grid: A Modified Auction Based Approach," (with Wayes Tushar, Bo Chai, Chau Yuen, Shisheng Huang and David Smith). IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 1462 – 1475, May 2016.
"Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer," (with Yuanwei Liu, Zhiguo Ding and Maged Elkashlan). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Techniques for 5G Wireless Communication Systems, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 938 – 953, April 2016.
"A Survey of Energy-Efficient Techniques for 5G Networks and Challenges Ahead," (with Stefano Buzzi, Chih-Lin I, Thierry E. Klein, Chenyang Yang and Alessio Zappone). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Techniques for 5G Wireless Communication Systems, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 697 - 709, April 2016.
"Residual-quantization Based Code Design for Compressing Noisy Sources with Arbitrary Decoder Side Information," (with Yi-Peng Wei, Shih-Chun Lin, Song-Jheng Lin and Hsuan-Jung Su). IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 1711 – 1725, April 2016.
"A Learning-Based Approach to Caching in Heterogenous Small Cell Networks," (with Bettagere N. Bharath and Kyatsandra G. Nagananda). IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 1674 - 1686, April 2016.
"Joint Beamforming and Broadcasting in Massive MIMO," (with Erik Larsson). IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 3058 – 3070, April 2016.
"Towards a Consumer-Centric Grid: A Behavioral Perspective," (with Walid Saad, Arnold Glass and Narayan Mandayam). Proceedings of the IEEE - Special Issue on Microgrids and Energy Efficient Buildings, Vol. 104, No. 4, pp. 865 – 882, April 2016.
"On the SNR-Evolution of the MMSE Function of Codes for the Gaussian Broadcast and Wiretap Channels," (with Ronit Bustin, Rafael F. Schaefer and Shlomo Shamai). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 2070 – 2091, April 2016.
"Opportunistic Detection Rules: Finite and Asymptotic Analysis," (with Wenyi Zhang and George Moustakides). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 2140 – 2152, April 2016.
"The Likelihood Encoder for Lossy Compression," (with Eva Song and Paul Cuff). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 1836 – 1849, April 2016.
"On the Achievable Rate of OFDM with Index Modulation," (with Miaowen Wen, Xiang Cheng, Bingli Jiao and Liuqing Yang). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 64, No. 8, pp. 1919 – 1932, April 15, 2016.


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Elizabeth Edwards knows that nothing is simple or easy when it comes to cleaning up toxic waste, but Edwards, a professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto, is looking for ways to harness microbes to do our dirty work for us. Dr. Edward's research focuses on the biodegradation of chlorinated solvents in the environment – the means by which microbes can actually make a living by eating our noxious waste.
Chlorinated solvents like trichloroethylene (TCE), perchloroethylene (PCE), and others, have a sordid history in the environment. They have long been used as degreasers and dry cleaning fluid, but before there were regulations about how to handle waste, manufacturers and dry cleaners dumped old, dirty solvents in evaporation ponds or out the back door of the facility. Some of the fluid dumped this way evaporated, but since chlorinated solvents are both dense and recalcitrant, much of the liquid seeped straight down to the groundwater. And stayed there. Among other projects, Dr. Edwards is looking at the ability of mixed cultures of bacteria to break down these solvents in a step-wise process, with the expectation that we'll eventually be able to treat the contamination at some sites with injections of microbes.
In this interview, Dr. Merry Buckley talks with Dr. Edwards about why chlorinated solvents are such a difficult environmental problem, how working in environmental consulting for a time helped her realize where she wanted to focus her research, and why we might have to make some tough decisions when it comes to cleaning up the hundreds (thousands?) of solvent-contaminated sites in North America.
Dr.Edwards will be speaking at ASM's 109th General Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which will take place from Sunday, May 17 to Thursday, May 21, 2009. please visit the General Meeting website to register for the meeting, view the preliminary program, or reserve your hotel stay.
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