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Top Republican strategists expressed both frustration and optimism for the future of the GOP at a panel discussion in the JFK Jr. Forum Wednesday night (Feb. 6).
Republicans in 2012 failed to connect to voters, according to many on the panel. The Republicans party must shift from one of exclusion to one of inclusion, said Ana Navarro, CNN contributor and co-chair of National Hispanic.
"I think you take the 2012 campaign and make it a manual on what not to do," said Navarro. "Somewhere in the process we have lost the heart of the conservatives. Somewhere in the process, conservatives have become and sound to others as righteous judgmental people."
"A conservative philosophy could be optimistic and hopeful, and I think that's where we've lost our way," said Karen Hughes IOP 2013, former advisor to President George W. Bush. "We don't sound optimistic and hopeful." The challenge, Hughes said, is to show that side of the party. "I don't' think we talk about our policies in ways that have been resonating with people in their daily lives."
John Murray IOP 2013, former chief of staff to Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) echoed Hughes's concerns. "We've gotten away from articulating a vision that is not just a different counter proposal, but is offering a different choice," Murray said. "What is the option that we're presenting and how does that dovetail into the larger purpose of the average American family," he said. "We have to get back to connecting."
"Republicans should have cleaned the clock of this president based on who we are as Republicans," said Ron Christie IOP 2011, former advisor to President George W. Bush and CEO of Christie Strategies. "We need to have the courage of our convictions to talk about why our policies are the right way to move the country, what the alternative is . . . and be very truthful about it."
"We need to come together — not under a big tent because no one is going to give up their identity — but as a coalition of conservatives," said Kerry Healey IOP 2007, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 2003 from 2007. "If we were to be able to harness a coalition of conservatives with a core of beliefs around economic policy, foreign policy, and states rights, I believe that could be a winning strategy that would bring us back to a competitive point."
There is a silver lining to this, said Navarro. "We have now learned that it is unavoidable to have a wake up call. . . . If we don't want to be political oblivion, we have to do better with women, with Hispanics, with African Americans, with everyone. We can't just be a niche party.
Institute of Politics Director Trey Grayson, moderated the event.
Panelists pictured (From L to R): Ron Christie, IOP fellow 2011, former advisor to President George W. Bush and CEO of Christie Strategies; Kerry Healey, IOP fellow 2007, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 2003-2007; and Karen Hughes, IOP fellow 2013, former advisor to President George W. Bush.
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"We need to come together — not under a big tent because no one is going to give up their identity — but as a coalition of conservatives," said Kerry Healey.
Panelists pictured (From L to R): Trey Grayson (moderator), Institute of Politics director; Ron Christie; Kerry Healey; Karen Hughes; John Murray President, Young Guns Action Fund, IOP fellow 2013, Deputy Chief of Staff to Eric Cantor 2010-12; Ana Navarro CNN Contributor; National Hispanic Co-Chair.
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The Little Marbled Scorpion is a relatively small species with a total body length (including the tail) of about 30 mm. As its common name implies, it has a dark brown marbling pattern on a light brown background. This marbling occurs over the body, legs and tail. It is widespread in southern Australia, and is one of the three known species of scorpions found in the greater Melbourne region.
Little Marbled ScorpionPhotographer: Dr Ken Walker / Source: Museum Victoria
It is usually found living under stones or amongst plant litter on the ground. However it is occasionally found sheltering under bark of standing trees. Little is known about the biology of this species.
The sting of the Little Marbled Scorpion can cause inflammation and pain for several hours, and medical advice should be sought.
Koch, L. E. 1977. The taxonomy, geographic distribution and evolutionary radiation of Australo-Papuan scorpions. Records of the Western Australian Museum 5 (2):83-367.
Walker, K. L., Yen, A. L. and Milledge, G. A. 2003. Spiders and Scorpions commonly found in Victoria. Royal Society of Victoria: Melbourne.
Hi there, Melissa. We can't advise about keeping native species in the classroom, as these species should not be removed from the wild. If you would like to keep an animal in the classroom, you will need to source it from a professional breeder. Further information is available from the Department of Sustainability and the Environment.
Hi Josh, the book 'Spiders and Scorpions commonly found in Victoria' published in 2003, states that the Little Marbled Scorpion is found in the ACT, NSW, southern end of the NT, SA, Victoria and the southern half of WA. I am not sure whether the species has been verified in Queensland since this book was published. The best place to try would be the Queensland Museum at this location. Queensland Museum Inquiry Service.
Hi Jenny,
We cannot identify the scorpion without seeing it. Could you please send a photo to the Discovery Centre so we can forward it to our Scientists?
Hi Chris, yes you are right – invertebrates such as scorpions are more active wanderers during the warmer months of the year. During winter they tend to find a retreat under bark or other material, depending on the species to sit and wait for the weather to warm up again.
Hi Toby,
Marbled Scorpions are common, particularly in the Melbourne region. They are possibly the most urbanised type of scorpion in Australia. Family pets are the ones most commonly encountering these scorpions, and therefore are bitten reasonably regularly. The venom of this group of scorpions is fast acting and any reaction should be obvious quite quickly. I don't know of any reports of cats or dogs showing major symptoms from a bite from this species, only short-term minor symptoms such as you outlined. If you're at all concerned about the health of the kitten you should take it for veterinary advice, but there are no historical records to suggest there should be any other problems.
Hi Tristan,
If your children are stung by the marbled scorpion they may experience inflammation and pain for several hours. We would recommend that you seek medical advice if this was to occur, and for your children to avoid contact with the marbled scorpion. In regards to your pets, scorpions generally have no interest in them. A pet may be stung if it stands on the scorpion or it was playing with it. The venom of this type of scorpion is fast acting and any reaction should be obvious quite quickly.
Hi Ms Mountain, you shouldn't need to be too concerned. Scorpions can be brought into the house under the bark of firewood. They can also wander under the door while looking for food. They have no interest in people or pets but if you stand on one in bare feet you may be stung. You may want to try some of those draught excluders if you have large and obvious spaces under doors. If you get up in the night for a drink it may also pay to put on slippers or turn on lights and make sure there are no scorpions on the floor. There are postings above relating to pets and scorpions.
Hi Elaine,
Your scorpions may have come into the house with firewood and bark, so if you have a pile of wood for a fire in the house, they may have inadvertently entered the house that way. The best way to rid the house of these scorpions is to remove any firewood from the house and do not leave things lying on the floor. Scorpions feed on small invertebrates so it is best to remove this habitat by cleaning away leaf litter and bark that is close to the house and cover compost and rubbish. You can try installing draught excluders on all external doors. As scorpions prefer to live in the garden you can carefully collect (wearing heavy gloves) scorpions and put them back in the garden.
Marbled Scorpions are a particularly small species, so the scorpions you have may be adults or subadults rather than young specimens. It would be unlikely that Marbled Scorpions would breed inside the house, as the environment there is too dry for them and they desiccate very quickly. Very young scorpions are even more susceptible to desiccation. Adult scorpions may be entering the house due to the very hot and dry weather recently, but it should be a relatively short-lived phenomenon.
Hi Amba, we forwarded your questions to our Live Exhibits team here at the Museum, and the response is:
Young scorpions remain on the mother's back until they are ready to move off and feed on their own. The exception occurs when the conditions aren't right (such as low humidity), and in this case the female may consume her own young for the same reason (poor conditions). It's important to feed the female at this time to prevent cannibalism.
Young scorpions may consume a freshly killed cricket or wood roach, but will generally feed quite well on pinhead crickets. These are available from many pet shops.
The number of young per gestation period varies for a number of reasons, but in this species Lychas marmoreus it is usually more than three. You may want to consider how to improve the scorpions' enclosure, particularly regarding humidity, temperature and soil moisture.
Hi Eamon, Little Marbled Scorpions (Lychas marmoreus) live under rocks and stones and in leaf litter, and therefore feed on small invertebrates that live there such as slaters, springtails, earwigs and small beetles. In captivity, they are usually fed small (pinhead) crickets available from pet shops. Scorpions have a very low metabolism (that is, they don't need much energy to survive) and spend almost all their time doing nothing, so don't need to feed more than once a week and often less. The ideal method is to put a small prey item in the enclosure every week or two, and remove the prey if it's not eaten within two days.
Hi Chris, The main predator of scorpions are other scorpions and predators such as birds, mammals, ants, centipedes, spiders, reptiles and amphibians. Cannibalism appears to be a factor in regulating the size of scorpion populations.
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Re: Lightnings vs Scots vs Snark vs Sunfish
Thank you for your response Foxy, but at only $1000 I don't care what the resale value will be. I can anchor it on the pond for ornamentation if that's all the more use it gets. I want to sail the South Pacific eventually so I'm looking for a single-hander to become skilled on. And hauling it down to FL to use for the winter would be great as well. The Caxambas Pass is very accessible to me, but has many shoals and shallows, with very strong tides,and I need to be cautious about what I get out there on. So I need to know more about the how well the boat sails than what it's worth in dollars.
And it looks like the only way I'm going to find that out is to go get it.
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Hope that you don't mind that I brought this from PM to the main thread. When I tried to respond, I got a message that I didn't have enough posts to send private messages. Go figure!
The sailing center that I refer to is the US Sailing Center, Martin County in Jenson Beach. It is on the east coast of FL where Marco is on the west coast.
I had never heard of a CL, but the pictures look similar to several other one designs out there. Unless the boat takes off and develops a fleet in your area, resale value will be low, just like the other hundreds of orphan one designs that never quite made it. OTOH, boats are, and never were, a good monetary investment. It is enjoyment you are buying and if you like the boat and it suits you, go for it.
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Thanks for your reply Foxy, I missed it earlier.
Maybe a Sunfish is worth looking into.Thre is a 16' CL that I'm looking at-I don't think they are commone enough for anyone to know. I posted an inquiry and got no responses, and that's a pretty wide audience.
It's a small boat that looks like it would sail well, but I know so little that I was hoping for advice. Thank you for your input, I appreciate it.
Maybe I can come visit your place when I'm in FL this winter. I have parents on Marco, but I get up and down the coast in both directions from there.
Where is your sailing center?
Re: Lightnings vs Scots vs Snark vs Sunfish
Thank you Paul for your excellent summary. The local (very small) club sails Lightnings and I was on one after having my Siren for a year and thought, my, what an uncomfortable boat this is! Duck! Duck!
I have noticed that not one of these old sailors ever goes out except on regular race day. Curious, why one would not take advantage of a good wind day to go out just for fun. So, I could fit in with the locals if I bought the Lightning, but I have a hunch it would give me more work than sailing. Your reply expressed that in realistic terms.
I don't want to race. But I don't want to just float around in a tub either. So your impression of both of those boats was quite apt.
There is an excellent buy on a very nicely kept Lightning nearby but there is also a 16 foot boat that looks similar, but is made by a much lesser known company, and is advertised as easily singlehanded with a mast that is easy to step by one, as well. I posted a query about it but got no replies.
Maybe you would be willing to take a peek at their website and let me know if you think it is a good choice. C&L Boatworks under products you'll see the 16' This one is a well used boat with only the mainsail, no jib or cover, for $1000, on a trailer, so I can get it home,though almost 3 hrs each way for me. I could order the jib and anything else needed for it. Or I could start looking for a cat. I seem to resist that in preference to a nice old fashioned boat. Thank you much!
Re: Lightnings vs Scots vs Snark vs Sunfish
Putting up a Lightning mast singlehanded can be done, but you'll want to try it with some helpers around the first few times. Missing the partners with the butt of the mast could be an expensive event. You might take some of the excitement out of the equation by attaching the backstay and perhaps the shrouds on one side to keep the mast from falling over in the opposite direction. Rigging and unrigging a Lightning can take a while, too, so you might be hard pressed to go out for short afternoon sails if you have to launch & rig each time you go out. The Flying Scot might be easier to rig. The mast is shorter and there are fewer controls to tweak, so setup might be quicker too. That said, the Lightning is probably the most comfortable of the boats you mentioned. It's a bit heavier and more stable than the others because of its deep steel centerboard. Its large sail area keeps it moving in light air, and can get it up on a plane when it blows. The Flying Scott will plane more easily, but can be a real tub in light air. The best thing to do might be to try sailing the different boats and see which would work best for you.
Re: Lightnings vs Scots vs Snark vs Sunfish
Thank You Rich for your great response, especially the links to the Portsmouth ratings.
Everything in sailing is relative to your conditions, and so all of the threads on which boat to buy for a "starter" didn't cover what I was looking for.
Since I would choose windsurfing over anything else on a good wind day, I am looking for a small boat to stay dry on for off-season sailing, which is when the wind is better inland. You would know all about that, being in PA.
And I've seen a couple of interesting offerings nearby so I get curious about these odd little bits of boat for sale. They all look like good fun to me.
I would LOVE to see a pic of your skiers behind your boat.
What an amazing ride that would be, without the sound of an engine. It takes less speed to wakeboard, so I'm sure you could get someone to be photographed in your wake. Looking forward to those pics! Thanks!
Re: Lightnings vs Scots vs Snark vs Sunfish
Here's a listing of Portsmouth rating system for inshore centerboarders which will define the relative 'speed' potential of currently raced (and formerly raced) 'small' boats: Centerboard Classes
& (inactive) Centerboard Classes-Inactive
For 'speed' and versatility, ... and for sailing in relatively 'flat' water, Id consider an MC Scow, an M16 scow, or a 'bendy mast'/tunnel hulled M20 scow (with ~35 'control lines' - a 'handful' for a single hander but can be done); however, with 'scows' they need to be 'heeled well over' and thus the need for some wind to be able to 'fly'. Ive occasionally pulled a water skier with my M20s !!!!! .... also: Thistle, 420, Flying Dutchman, 505, GP14, etc.
With the current continued demise of small sail boat racing, if you look hard, you might find an unused one of these 'pocket rockets' sitting in a driveway, etc. and that may 'go for a song'. My first M16 scow with which I won a 'lot of pewter' was a 'find' from a 'junk pile'.
Re: Lightnings vs Scots vs Snark vs Sunfish
We have a fleet of Flying Scott's owned by the sailing center I belong to. Mostly they are used for sailing lessons and recreational sailing by the members. They are very forgiving boats and very rugged. If you want a boat that you can take friends out in, its a good choice.
If you want to sail alone all the time, the Sunfish is a good choice. Easy to set up and fun to sail in a breeze. We have a fleet of those too, along with Opti's, Lasers, 420's, Hobie Waves & Getaways, kayaks, paddle boards and wind surfers.
Re: Lightnings vs Scots vs Snark vs Sunfish
If you want a boat easy to single hand, go with the sunfish.
Lightnings and the scots are fun but above 12 kts of wind will be a handful singlehanded.
That said, if it were me, I'd learn how to singlehand the lightening and make a sailing friend for those days that I'd like to try setting my hair on fire.
Getting a dinghy planing is a fantabulous adventure.
Re: Lightnings vs Scots vs Snark vs Sunfish
While a Scot is really meant to be doublehanded, I singlehand mine regularly. And it's okay with that up to about 15 knots, after that it becomes a bit overpowered, at least with my moderate skill level. They are quite difficult to capsize, you pretty much have to try or have something go very wrong. I trailer sail mine and raise the mast myself, but it's pretty heavy and not that easy. I suspect that although they are considerably easier to capsize, that a Laser might be better suited to what you're looking for. My .02.
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You risk being in the water with any small boat including every boat on your list. it would take a jerk LEO to cite you for being in the water to right a boat.
That said, the fastest small boat you can buy would be a cat. The Hobie 14 is a single handed boat. The Hobie 14 turbo adds a jib and is still a single handed boat. Both versions can handle extra crew members.
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British rockers Beady Eye are ready to return to the road.
The group will take the stage tonight in Dublin, Ireland for their first live gig since guitarist Gem Archer was hospitalized with severe head trauma back in August.
Beady Eye were forced to cancel all of their touring plans, but Archer has been working hard to get healthy enough to stand "alongside the rest of the boys" on stage again.
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In my racing I have played with ALL the features
We have used the units in well over 100 W/L events (1 MILE LEGS MORE OR LESS )and a whole bunch of distance races between 40 and 200 something miles
In the short W/L we always have enough time to mark the starting line and turning mark and I have then tried the various options that you can use
On distance races there is always a government mark we have to turn around with a well known GPS location
1. You can project a waypoint to any distance on any compass course as GPS VMG works better over long distances
I was never all that happy with the results
2. You set the waypoint and select the turn option and I find this gives very good and repeatable information about when to tack
On short or long courses the turn angle points out the favored tack right away and it works for me even on day sails when the wind is from a foul direction that requires mucho tacks to get anyplace
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Touchscreen concerns me although some quick research suggests it's resistive. Does anyone know for sure?
Con: They require more pressure than capacitive to register a tap, and are therefore not suitable for typing long chains of characters.
Pro: They respond to taps from a gloved finger.
I confirmed that my Oregon works fine when I am wearing a glove. Obviously, thinner gloves will give better resolution for your taps.
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...The most important feature is that after i give it a route it gives the BEST SAILBOAT information
If i am running a long leg down the sound dead upwind i want to know the best time to tack to cover it in the least time...
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It also grabs a nice track to look at later with all your speeds and bearings
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The 72H does FLOAT
The most important feature is that after i give it a route it gives the BEST SAILBOAT information
If i am running a long leg down the sound dead upwind i want to know the best time to tack to cover it in the least time
It also grabs a nice track to look at later with all your speeds and bearings
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OK, answer us this: Can/will the Oregon accept the marine maps? If it can, I'd have to agree, why would someone NOT want the higher res screen?
And the new Monterra looks good too but I don;t think it will be glove friendly.
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For me a big difference is the resolution.
The Oregon is 240 x 400
The GPS Map 78SC is 160 x240
Whichever you buy, the most economical way to mount it (if you have a pedestal guard) is this:
In addition to the one I have on my pedestal guard, I have an extra one that I take on charters with me. At the end of the week, I just cut the straps and bring it home.
Since the Garmin handhelds do not float, it's important to mount them, especially if you have an open transom.
In dry weather, I use OpenCPN in the cockpit. I run two instances of the program on my Netbook. One window is zoomed in for detail, the other one is zoomed out for big picture and AIS targets.
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Yes, my autopilot can be steered by selecting points on the GPS. It is nice because the system will learn and correct for leeway.
Another nice autopilot feature is having it follow a wind direction so that it can head up or down automatically when there are headers and lifters.
I use all of these features (go to point, follow compass heading, follow wind) at different times.
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I don't hate paper charts. I love paper charts. I just think for where I'm going next(Bahamas) I would have to get so many to cover an 800 mile stretch. And if I continue to the carribean I'll need even more. With a GPS or ipad or whatever I can get what I need to ahead I time.
Last summer I used iphone, eTrex and paper charts. I probably used 80-90% paper. But I was also in a 200 mile area and never without pretty easily identifiable landmarks. It made sailing by sight easy.
But the Bahamas are flat. It's got to be harder to find an anchorage when it's all....flat. I can't look at the landscape topography.
Oh, Alex. Another benefit to a fixed is being able to integrate it with an autopilot. As you may remember I said if there was one thing I would have done differently last summer it would have been to get an autopilot. It would be really nice to have it follow my route on the chart plotter instead of a compass course. They do that right?
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Not that I don't have 3 GPS on board all the time BUT a lot of you really see to hate paper charts
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OK, answer us this: Can/will the Oregon accept the marine maps? If it can, I'd have to agree, why would someone NOT want the higher res screen?
Yes, it works fine with marine maps. You can install the same charts onto handheld Garmin GPS units as what you install onto the marine ones.
northoceanbeach: Last year you were cruising with a smartphone (I think it was an iPhone). If you stay with that plan then the iPhone can do duty as a handheld GPS while hiking and cycling. The primary advantage of the Oregon over the iPhone for hiking and cycling is that it has replaceable batteries, but that mostly becomes a benefit on multiday trips.
The helm-mounted GPS gives you another advantage that you didn't mention. You can get sonar integrated (and radar integrated if you want to get fancy). I like having a single easy display to watch for depth and charts. The fishfinder display is very helpful for understanding the bottom profile and makeup when anchoring.
It is easy to setup most of these smaller marine GPS units to be removable when you are away from the boat. My Raymarine e7d came with a gimbal mount that lets you remove the unit with two thumb screws and by unplugging 3 cables (power, sonar, network).
If you already have a handheld GPS then by all means use it on the boat. If you are buying new I think that a marine unit makes more sense for about the same price.
Finally: watch REI return areas for used handheld GPS's. I got the Oregon 450 that lived on my Catalina 25 for $50 in the Seattle REI basement. At the time the same unit cost $400 new at REI. There was nothing wrong with it, the note said "batteries died too quickly". I brought it home and looked at the one track on the unit, it had been sitting on someone's counter for 8 hours doing nothing.
This is where you can find free charts for the Seattle metro area that are compatible with Garmin handhelds:
They also sell charts for a lot less money than Garmin.
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AMES, Iowa – Planting flowers at a local park, preparing a community meal, sharing stories with older adults or performing random acts of kindness: These are a few examples of service projects that Iowa youth will engage in during Global Youth Service Day, April 26-28.
Iowa AmeriCorps State of Promise and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach are organizing Global Youth Service Day projects throughout the state. 4-H clubs also may organize projects and list them on the Global Youth Service Day website, www.gysd.org.
Although Global Youth Service Day calls for service over one specific weekend, Iowa 4-H youth are improving their communities throughout the year and are learning from that service.
"Service-learning through AmeriCorps and 4-H Youth Development takes community service or volunteer projects to the next level by empowering youth to identify needs in their community and plan service projects themselves. This creates a more meaningful experience for youth," said Judy McCarthy, Iowa AmeriCorps State of Promise program director with ISU Extension and Outreach.
"Through service-learning, youth develop leadership skills and learn that they can make a difference in their communities," McCarthy said.
"Our ISU Extension and Outreach network of trained youth and adult volunteers throughout the state support service-learning by providing training and technical assistance to 4-H clubs and other youth development organizations. The goal is to involve many more young people in community-based service-learning activities and prepare them to be Iowa's future leaders," said Keli Tallman, 4-H youth development specialist.
In 2011-2012 Iowa AmeriCorps State of Promise members facilitated 148 service-learning projects with 1,554 youth, who served 4,498 volunteer hours. Eighty percent of the participating youth reported a positive impact on their lives and indicated they would participate in future service-learning projects, McCarthy said.
"The youth said service-learning was fun time after time in their evaluations, and they also encouraged other youth to do service projects," McCarthy said. "One youth offered very practical advice — 'Have fun, make friends and bring gloves, just in case' — which certainly would be helpful during projects that involve physical labor."
All Iowa 4-H members and 4-H clubs are expected to participate in service activities, Tallman noted, and more than 4,000 Iowa youth are enrolled in the 4-H citizenship project. Last year approximately 1,200 4-H youth and adult volunteers contributed 6,000 hours to improve their communities through the State 4-H Youth Conference and Pioneer Community Improvement grants. Twenty-five Iowa 4-H clubs leveraged $4,600 in Pioneer Community Improvement grants into nearly $18,500 in community improvement projects.
In a 2012 survey of 622 randomly selected 4-H club members, 72 percent reported they'd increased their citizenship practices after participating in a 4-H club, Tallman said.
"4-H club members indicated that being involved in 4-H helped them develop their ability to do the things that involved citizens do — such as participate in service-learning projects to improve their community," Tallman said.
"They better understood the importance of helping and caring about others and showing respect to others, especially elders. They learned to work with and learn from others and they recognized the importance of volunteering," Tallman said.
"Eighty-eight percent of the youth indicated that they plan to do other service or volunteer projects," she added.


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anyone have schematics of some sort for a LED unit for a hollow rangefinder.
no offence to hyperdyne, but 62 plus shipping is a little rich for me.
if anyones tried making one and succeeded, i'd really appreciate a set of prints
anyone have schematics of some sort for a LED unit for a hollow rangefinder.
no offence to hyperdyne, but 62 plus shipping is a little rich for me.
if anyones tried making one and succeeded, i'd really appreciate a set of prints
I can't give you any scematics... but I can give you advice! The easiest way to get blinking LEDs is buy a cheap piece of electronic that already has such a thing. I picked up one of these fake-car-alarm things at $7, but there should be model-railroad-crossing-lights at less.
Getting any of these would give you a rangefinder with two red lights that light one at the time, back and forth. Making it turn off in the "up" position would require you to create some sort of contact plates between the stalk and the ear piece, or to get an mercury switch or similar.
By the way... I really liked the looks of my car-alarm dealy; if my rangefinder would break, I could use it as replacement
I drew up a simple circuit for this not to long ago. Let me see if I can find it.
Thanks for the replies guys, and Buckeye, i'd be in your debt if you found something.
Thanks again
I was told to use an "N" battery holder or similar as your power source, a capacitor of some type to make it blink, and the leds which you solder directly to your wiring. Which sounded like French to me then as it does now, so any schematics would be extremely helpful as I want leds on my gauntlets and elsewhere also...
You seek my old thread-
I don't have schematic and what I did is not completely accurate, but since we have a con in a week and parts for the board and leds would not make it on time, I went to Wal-Mart and bought a pair of the blinking socks. They use tilt switches just like you would use to have the leds turn on at a certain angle. The only problem is that they blink a little on the fast side, but for $.50, I'm not going to complain since they will work until the board comes in.
That's interesting and looks fairly easy to do, but I have one question, do they just stay on? I didn't see a tilt switch anywhere. If they do turn on/off at certain angles, please tell.
There's a reed switch (magnetic switch ) in the ear of my helmet.
In my gloves there is a magnet built in.
If I move my hand near the ear of my helmet , the lights come on.
By the time you fight with it and get it to fit you will wish you had just spent the money from Mrgr8ness. I know for a fact since I own two and they didn't cost what the others do. Not to mention that Nic is a VERY honorable man and will take care of you. IMO
Wow, Wolters! That's awesome! I didn't even know those existed! :O Super cool! I just might add real blinking LEDs to my RF after all! (I have "dummy" LEDs in place, because I really didn't want to mess with complicated electronics, but that looks like even I could do! Anyone have any input about some kind of tilt switch? I'm not exactly familiar with a reed switch or mercury switch.
a tilt switch is also an option , i've seen them called mercury switches .
I expect them to be available at any good electronics store.
The reed switch too , by the way.
The reed switch just works like any other switch , just that it operates not mechanically , but by moving it into reach of a magnet.
They are limited to a certain voltage , but with batteries and leds this should be no problem.
Thanks Wolters! Now if I can be a tiny bit more of a pest, what battery did you use there?
These look great, i think you should do a little tutorial as to how you made it work...
OK, I picked up some LED's from RS yesterday, blinking reds and solid greens...
My question is, if using a (9V) single power source for both reds, they both flash at the same time... how to make them flash alternately?
With this diagram , and using 4.8 V , they start blinking together , but after a few times , their speed starts to differ .
Maybe if u use a slightly different resistor ?
I'm no electronics expert either.
Thanks Wolters, that helps a bit. Let's consider, for arguments sake, that I'm completely electronically stupid. he "reed switch" is the magnetic one, so why is there a manual switch also in your diagram? Is that just showing two possibilities for one location? The tilt switch could also go here instead, correct? And as someone asked before, how would you get them to flash alternately? (you mention a different resitor.. how would that figure into that scheme?)
The manual switch is inside the helmet .
That's just if I want to show someone how it works/looks.
It's on display at home , and I don't want to put on my gloves every time somebody wants to see it.
The tilt switch (or any other switch) could take the place of the reed switch.
They flash alternately as I made it , But the speed can't be changed. For that you would need the cirquitboard .
You could play around a little with voltage and resistors , but I wouldn't know what happens then.
Thanks Wolters, thats really helpful! It gives me renewed interest in lighting up my suit! I had tried rigging up a servo, but I fried my RC board because I'm thoroughly inept with electrical wiring.


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Parents across the country wrestled with fears for their children's safety as they prepared to return to school this week, while some districts planned to increase security in the aftermath of the massacre in Connecticut.
Many families went on a news blackout over the weekend to keep children from learning of Friday's attack on 20 first-graders and six adults by a gunman who then killed himself. But the prospect of going back to school Monday raised the likelihood that children would begin to learn details about an event that plenty of adults said they still could barely comprehend.
"You prepare your children to grow up and be successful," said Michael Whright, 28 years old, who has three young children in Pittsburgh public schools and a toddler in day care. "You don't prepare them for an early death."
School districts reassured parents about security procedures already in place, while some, such as Tampa, Fla., increased safety measures. A western Pennsylvania district sped up plans Sunday to arm security officers at its public schools in the hopes that officers would be able to carry handguns in school Monday morning.
Alicia Howard, of Jupiter, Fla., said her 12- and 15-year old daughters know about the shooting but said she tried to protect them from the "gory details" by hiding the front page of the morning's paper. "They know bad things happen, but I don't want them worrying about things they cannot change," she said.
At All Saints' Episcopal Church in Chicago, many parents said they intended to stick to their daily routine Monday morning, hoping to send a message to children that they would be safe at school.
Ana Schedler, 48, said she tried to shield her first-grade daughter from any news about the shooting. But she said her seventh-grade daughter fretted over the weekend, texting friends and asked whether a shooter could get into her public school on the city's North Side.
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"I've tried to reassure her and let her know this was a fluke and it's so unlikely to happen at her school," said Ms. Schedler, her eyes welling with tears. "But kids worry and, as parents, we have to be prepared to comfort them."
The feelings are particularly raw in Newtown, Conn., the site of Friday's rampage. State police said school-emergency plans across Connecticut were being re-examined, and it was unclear Sunday night whether the Newtown school district would reopen on Monday.
Roxanne Madar, 38, said she was nervous about sending her second-grade daughter, Bianca, back to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where the killings occurred. But she said she would if the school reopens. "I'm going to have to try to get over my fear that when my child is sent to school, she might not come home," Ms. Madar said.
Patricia DiMasi, 38, who lives in nearby Southbury, said she would keep her 5-year-old son home until her husband has a chance to visit their school and review its security procedures. Her friend Marcia Austin said her 11-year-old daughter wanted to go back to school. Ms. Austin said her daughter planned to scout the location of classroom closets after hearing that children in Newtown hid in them.
"I'm just shocked that these things are going through her mind," said Ms. Austin, 43. "It makes me feel like I want to move to a farm and lock the whole farm."
Board members of the Butler, Pa., school district, 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, voted Dec. 10 to arm the security officers at its elementary and secondary schools. Those plans have been accelerated. "We figured, we're going to do it anyway, so let's get it in place now," Michael Strutt, superintendent of the Butler Area School District said Sunday.
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Gail Raw, state manager of cancer screening and control services in Tasmania, and her colleagues, are empowering the women of outback Australia by improving the overall breast screening process by using the latest broadband technology.
Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death in Australia with more than 12,000 women diagnosed with the disease every year. Developing a more efficient service for diagnosing breast cancer is at the core of what BreastScreen Australia is doing when taking healthcare to rural areas, or "the bush."
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GAINESVILLE - As the saying goes, "All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten..." One school is trying to put that quote into action by teaching its students k through 12 to give back. The students themselves, decided to get involved after watching one of our stories on hunger. It's a lesson for the students in helping others.
Out of the classroom and into the real world-- One school is taking their lessons to heart. They're not the school of rock but Gainesville's very own Rock School.
And while they don't specialize in rock and roll, they do specialize in teaching their students morals, values and faith.
Jim Mckenzie the principal at the Rock School said, One of the things that is important for our school is to give our students service opportunities so that they can really understand how to make a difference in the community and we actually saw a story on TV20 about bread of the mighty food bank and we thought, what a great opportunity for us to do something to help our local community."
The administration at the school decided to play our No Hunger Games series for all students, K through 12. The reports which shed light to the situation of poverty in North Central Florida, made the students want to get involved.
16 students stepped off a white bus to hand deliver 16 hundred pounds of food, enough to feed a family of four for 60 days. One of those students was, Chaeli Norwood a 9th grader. "I know that most ads we see on TV are for people in other countries asking us to give money for them when in reality all around us there's people that are in need. So we really don't have to go far to help others," she said.
Loretta Griffis with the Bread of the Mighty Food Bank said, "A dollar would provide 7 meals and a meal is 1.3 pounds, if you bring two or three cans... You're going to make a couple of meals for somebody."
During their time here students put together boxes with different food items... Typically a box like this one of 50 pounds feeds a family of four, for 4 days.
Julie Nash another 9th grader said, "It's really humbling, because it's easy to take for granted all the things we have and you don't realize there are great ways to give back in our own community and I definitely wanted to do something about it."
They held a week long food drive that involved everyone, from pre-kindergarteners to seniors. "We decided that in order for us to meet our goal which was 2 thousand food items to collect for the organization, we decided that we needed the help of all of our students. So student council is just middle school and high school but we got the whole entire school involved. So our three hundred students, their goal was to get 5 canned goods from everyone... We were able to collect almost 100 percent participation," Susan Card a math teacher at the Rock said.
One student tells me she hopes the Rock School can serve as a model for other schools in the area. "I think it's really important for the younger generation to build leadership skills and character and it's just really important for us to take it upon ourselves to go and make a difference rather than just waiting for people who we think are more experienced to do it," Danielle Rhome a 10th grader said.
The Rock School will continue hosting food drives throughout the year and those involved in Student Council plan to volunteer here once a month. "I believe this is what god called us to do... He told us to be servants to people and by doing this I feel like not only are we representing him, we're representing our name at the school-- we're representing the school's name," Noah Wilburn a 9th grader said.
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- Food Banks Raise Awareness for National Hunger Action Month
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Can someone tell me the difference between, ESB, ROTJ and SE wookie braids?
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Can someone tell me the difference between, ESB, ROTJ and SE wookie braids?
Thanks guys.
hey bud. I know that ESB had 3 braids: black, a grey "variety", and flaxen blonde. I say "variety" b/c I think there is some color variation in the braid itself. I'm not an ESB expert though.
I think the RotJ/SE braids had some different colors and there are attachment differences (looped under arm vs. hanging from shoulder).
I did an interpretation of the MoM exhibit braids. I have a blonde, brown, black, and a blonde/black. There are also "tails" or shorter braids of grey, brown and black coming off of the blonde/black braid.
I would suggest searching for some of Julie's posts, as I know this has been covered before.
Thanks so much Mike! Appreciate the info!
3 braids - gray/silver unlooped, flaxen/light blond unlooped, & black looped
Brown braid looped, flaxen/light blond looped, smaller black & white braid looped. The black & white braid has a small black braid attached to the side of this. From what I can tell, this smaller black braid doesn't go completely around. There's also what I call a half braid of gray/silver attached to the smaller black & black&white braid.
Here's a link to the braids I've made: Braid Gallery
Hope this helps!
Julie thanks so much for clearing this up, appreciate your help!


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Vail-Summit Orthopaedics Sports Medicine docs offer free pre-season high school physicals
July 23, 2012
Dr. Richard Cunningham, sports medicine specialist and chief of surgery at Vail Valley Medical Center and Dr. William Sterett, head team physician for the U.S. Women's Alpine Ski Team, will offer free pre-participation screening physical examinations for all Eagle County High School student-athletes as required by CHSSA. With 25 years of performing these examinations between these two team physicians, this is an excellent opportunity for our local high school athletes and is available at no charge. These screening examinations are designed to identify athletes at risk for injury during the course of a sports season and will be done in accordance with the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines and with the same rigor used for USSA athletes. Athletic trainers, EMT's and physician assistants for Vail-Summit Orthopedics will donate their time assisting the doctors.
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Here are a few kid items I've been "slowly" working on for fellow brother here and his son. Because my last one piece missile mold sucked eggs, I decided to make a new two piece mold of my kid rocket master. Thanks goes out to Dark-Side for it. Now I'll be able to reproduce a higher quality missile and also make them in rubber.
It has taken me quite some time to complete this order. Therefore, I'm going to try my hand at making a kid sized Jango leather ammo pouch for the member and his son to enjoy...gratis. I'll post pics of it when it's completed in the next few days.:thumbsup
The last pic is a size comparison to a pull of my adult Jango gauntlet.


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Got a few questions...
I currently put my media into different root folders (childrens, running, ended) and then have smart play lists to access then. Is there a way to either place links to these smart play lists on to the main home window or maybe as a sublist under tvshow/videos like genres/files?
Also is there a way to remove the welcome button?
Lastly some other themes put a small overlay graphic on top of the tvshow/movie graphic (say a tick) when an item has been fully watched. This is in addition to the text listing the number of watch shows - is there a way to do this?
If this none of these can currently be done, any hint on what code files I would have to look at modifying - never played with skins/xbmc but eager to learn!
Thanks for this great skin,
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Some skins have options to allow you to place items like playlists/favorites right on the home menu. I use Transparency! as an example that supports this.
Edit: sorry, I didn't notice this was in the Simplicity sub-forum so didn't realize you were asking specifically about using that skin. Thought it was just a general question.
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1. You can add custom items to the home screen in skin settings.
2. If you go through the welcome screen it will prompt you to remove it.
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I seem to be having trouble with watch indicators. In the TV Shows section, I am in icon slide view and each tv show has text to show the number of watched and unwatched espisodes. However when I go into a particular show, I get no watched indicators no matter what view I use....
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska. -- Dr. Agarwal from Wichita State University will be presenting three talks in mid August. Everyone is welcome to attend the Computational Fluid Dynamics Electromagnetics and Semiconductor Device Simulation (CFD/EDS) talk and the General Aviation talk both located on the UAF campus. The General Aviation talk is an evening seminar open to the Fairbanks aviation community.
Dr. Agarwal is the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. He is also the Director of the Aircraft Design and Manufacturing Research Center and a Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. From 1978-1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Agarwal has done pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Acoustics, Computational Electromagnetics, and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Institue of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been the recipient of many awards for his technical contributions.
The updated schedule for these talks is as follows:
Toward Teraflop Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications Wednesday, August 13th, 10 a.m. Natural Sciences Building, Room 202 Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Based Technology to Semiconductor-Device Simulation Thursday, August 14th, noon Peking Gardens, 1101 Noble Street (corner of Noble and 12th) General Aviation: Past, Present, and Future and Status of PA-18 Supercub Tundra Tires Project Thursday evening, August 14th, 7 p.m. Natural Sciences Building, Room 202
"Towards Teraflop Architectures, Algorithms and Applications" During the past decade, a large number of parallel computers have been commercially built worldwide using SIMD or MIMD (both shared and distributed memory) architectural routes to parallelism. However, they have been limited to a peak performance of at most a few gigaflops. Very recently, new systems have been built which offer the promise of teraflow scalability to solve the so called "Grand Challenge Problems." Cray T3D, IBM SP2, Convex Exemplar SPP1000, Intel Paragon XP/S, KSR-2, and CM5 are some of the machines which fall into this category.
- This lecture will review these architectures and their potential for solving large scale problems.
- Interplay of numerical algorithms and system software (compiler, operating system, high performance FORTRAN etc.) in fully exploiting these architectures will be discussed.
- Selected benchmarks of large scale problems from linear algebra and matrix theory, and Computational Fluid Dynamics will be presented.
- The future trends in the development of scalable parallel hardware, parallel system software, and parallel numerical algorithms will be assessed.
- In addition, the potential of network computing for achieving teraflop performance will be examined.
"Application of CFD Based Approach to Electromagnetics and Semiconductor Device Simulation" It is shown that many of the well-known formulations for semi-conductor device simulation, namely the drift-diffusion model, the hydrodynamic model, and the energy transport model which are the moments of the Boltzmann equation for a Maxwellian or non-Maxwellian distribution, can be recast as a set of first-order partial differential equations in conservation law form. As a consequence, the well-developed CFD grid-generation techniques and solution algorithms can be applied for the numerical solution of these equations. However, the gridding and numerical algorithm employed must capture the physics of the problems, and these requirements differ substantially for semiconductor device simulation from those needed for flowfield simulation. In device simulation the grids and algorithms should be able to deal with scales from angstrom to micron and should model accurately the inversion layers. The author has pioneered this emerging application of CFD technology to device simulation. Several examples will demonstrate the power of this approach for semiconductor device and process simulation.
"General Aviation - Past, Present, and Future" A brief history of General Aviation in the U.S. will be presented. Its present status and future prospects wll be reviewed. The particular focus of this presentation will be on the recently created government/industry/university partnership to revitalize general aviation known as AGATE (Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments). NASA and the FAA are principal government participants, along with 70 corporate and university members. The AGATE group has established market-driven goals and objectives. The activities of the consortium are conducted through a series of "Work Packages," with the following current areas: Integrated Flight Systems, Propulsion Sensors and Controls, Training and Systems Technologies, Ice Protection Technologies, Integrated Design and Manufacturing, and Air and Ground Infrastructure. The consortium is designed to accelerate the processes for bringing new technologies from the experimental research stage to fully certified production status. Successes have already been demonstrated in the use of advanced satellite GPS-based "highway in the sky navigation" for air traffic control at the 1996 International Olympic Games, and in demonstrations of greatly simplified single power level control for piston engines. The AGATE consortium is poised to provide technical leadership for the general aviation community well into the 21st century.


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By using three deeps I will hopefully allow the bees to expand down as they are back filling the brood neat during that intense flow. The u of m has some crazy system using three ten frame deeps. I have not attended any of their classes, but it apparently works for them. After leaving two deeps and a medium, my bees were in the top box by feb. I would love to be able to checkerboard and enter spring with extra honey above the cluster instead of feeding.I don't use foundation because I am cheap. Thus far I have not had troubles getting bees to draw straight combs. You have to tinker a bit and micromanage a bit, but it can be done without any foundation.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The Miami Hurricanes have a long tradition of homegrown talent showcasing itself on the football field.
Canes legends like Michael Irvin, Sean Taylor, Jonathan Vilma, Santana Moss and Bennie Blades are just a handful of South Florida natives who shined while donning Miami's orange and green.
Over the course of the 2013 football season, HurricaneSports.com will honor a Hurricane football player with South Florida ties as the Milam's Market Homegrown Athlete of the Week. This week's player spotlight is Miami native Allen Hurns.
"Uphold the Legacy" is one of Miami head coach Al Golden's mantras for excellence at the University of Miami.
For senior wide receiver Allen Hurns, the statement rings true in more ways than one.
Hurns is a product of Miami Carol City High School, historically one of the county's top football programs.
The Chiefs have produced numerous players who have gone on to collegiate and professional stardom. Carol City is especially famous for developing many athletes who went on to stardom at the University of Miami.
The long list of former Chiefs who went on to become major contributors for the Hurricanes includes All-American defensive tackle Lester Williams, All-American wide receiver Santana Moss, national champion receiver Ethenic Sands, big play threat Sinorice Moss and two-time All-ACC safety Kenny Phillips.
When Hurns hears "Uphold the Legacy," he knows that goes beyond the legacy of the Miami Hurricanes. The 6-foot-3 senior wants to uphold the legacy the Moss brothers, Sands Phillips and Williams established before him as Carol City alums who went on to be standouts for the Canes.
Hurns has represented his alma mater well, playing in 36 games so far in his collegiate career.
As a freshman, Hurns played mostly special teams. The local product made four tackles but did not record a catch in his first year in Coral Gables. The fact that Hurns even played that first season was an accomplishment as the talented receiver was still recovering from an injury that ended his senior season at Carol City.
Hurns made a name for himself as a sophomore, playing in all 12 games and making seven starts. Fully recovered from the injury that cut his final high school season short, he caught 31 passes for 415 yards and four touchdowns, all career bests. Hurns' biggest performance that season came against No. 17 Ohio State, scoring the first two touchdowns of his career as part of a six-catch, 54-yard performance in the win over the Buckeyes.
As a junior, Hurns started eight of the 11 games he appeared in, hauling in 28 passes for 314 yards and a team-leading four touchdowns. His two-touchdown effort at Virginia helped keep the Canes in a seesaw battle against the Cavaliers, while touchdowns against NC State and Virginia Tech helped Miami earn victories in each of those games.
Hurns' senior season is off to a strong start, having already caught 16 balls for 275 yards and a career-long 80-yard touchdown. Hurns' play helped Miami jump out to a 4-0 start on the year. The veteran leader will look to continue contributing in a variety of ways as the Canes open ACC play this week against Georgia Tech.


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Facebook has been receiving a growing amount of criticism for some time now for continuing to allow pages promoting sexism, misogyny, and violence against women on their website. These pages exist despite Facebook's terms stating, "You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user" and "You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence." While different types of pages that violate these policies are regularly taken down, pro-rape, pro-violence against women, and other misogynistic pages have been allowed to stay. Occasionally these pages are flagged as "[Controversial Humor]," but many of them have no such designation. Such pages have sparked an ongoing debate over what counts as offensive and harmful, and who makes that decision.
Last week the Everyday Sexism Project began contacting companies and organizations as diverse as Dove Cosmetics, Audible, McDonalds, and FinnAir to bring to light the fact that their advertisements have been appearing on pages, such as "Drop kicking sluts in the teeth," "Dumping your girlfriend via Punching Her In The Face," "This is Why Indian Girls are RAPED," and "Rape is a harsh word I like to call it surprise sex." Some of these companies and others have been in contact with Facebook to express their displeasure over their ads and logos being displayed next to images of battered and violated women. Other companies have pulled their advertising from Facebook altogether. Perhaps as more and more companies and organizations that advertise on Facebook contact them after being notified by the Everyday Sexism Project, Facebook will begin to reconsider the actions (or lack of) that they have been taking in regards to the slew of misogynistic pages on their website.
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I was looking at some of the links he posted, there's one from pirate 4x4 which really interests me, he was the one with the nonreciprocating charging handle in the gas tube. I am going to try and do just as that guy did with a few exceptions, bring the barrel further into the receiver (he cut a few inches off the front of the receiver.) also use a dog-leg rear sight with rail possibly.
I need to see now if the AK gas block, front sight and rear sight block will fit onto a Suomi barrel.
Next step I think is to get a Suomi barrel, a suomi magwell and a .223 complete bolt.
Still have to figure out what exactly needs to be done to the Suomi barrel to get it to go into the AK trunnion and get it to seat properly.
Thanks for the link but he did stop making them :( kinda sucks too now I'm going to have to buy a Suomi parts kit to get teh magwell. I posted on here and on PAFOA for anyone that has a Suomi magwell they'd like to sell....hopefully I get one but other than that I'll have to get a parts kit.


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Are you Ben Stein from the "clear eyes" commercials?
I know this may sound rude but a colony of 200,000 bees is extreamly uncommon. Therefore, how could it even be possible to have 310 times that amount. Sorry but I think you are off by 61,938,000.
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Making slideshows is always a fun way to show your family and friends pictures of your adventures. We have all been to those family parties where old photos are displayed, but have you ever wanted to take all of your photos and do the same thing? Well, I have found a program that is extremely easy to use compared to a lot of flash slideshow makers out there.
Photo Flash Maker Free is a program that is simple to use and fun as well. After downloading and installing the program it launched automatically into a tutorial. The tutorial walks you through all the steps of making a good slideshow. Surprisingly this only consisted of three simple steps.
The first step was the adding of your photos. You simply press the add button in the top right, navigate to the picture or pictures you want to add, and press open. It will then display the pictures you have added in the box. Once you have added all the pictures you want to include, simply press the next button.
The next step was the adding of a theme to your slideshow. All you need to do is pick a theme here and press next.
The last portion of he tutorial has to do with how you would like to publish your new slideshow. It gives you three options for this step. They include: View The Slideshow, Open Output Folder, or Upload (which allows you to automatically upload it to you your Go2 Account). These options are pretty simple and straight forward.
Viewing the slideshow opened a browser window displaying the pictures with the theme you have just created. It offers you the option of copying and pasting the embedded code for you to share on your website of choice. Opening the output folder will just show you where your new slideshow has been saved. Upload allows you to upload your slideshow to your Go2 Account by simply logging in.
Ultimately, you do not have to use the tutorial to make your flash slideshows. The regular interface is just as simple to use. When you are looking at the interface you have three tabs at the top: Photo, Theme, and Publish. These are pretty much the same as in the tutorial.
The Photo tab is where you would add your photos. It displays photos you have added in the button portion of the window.
The Theme tab is where you will pick out a theme for your slideshow. You can change the frame rate and background color of your slideshow, along with some other features here as well. Under this tab you can also add music to your slideshow. All you need to do is browse for the music and select it.
The Publish tab is the same as the end of the tutorial above including the same three features. Making a slideshow this way gives you some additional features under the publish tab. You can burn the slideshow to a disc. You simply choose the Burn to disc option, insert a blank disc and press burn. It's that simple.
Ultimately, Photo Flash Maker is one of the easiest Slideshow makers I have ever used. Why spend hours making one slideshow when you can download this program and make one in minutes? Click here [1] to give it a try.


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Rome bindings should come with a universal disc that lets you use them on either standard 4- or 3-hole setups.
I've never tried ICS so I can't really comment.
Hey thanks for the response. I actually went ahead and got 09 Rome Targa after hearing all the praise for the Targas. I'm looking to hold onto my set for at least the next few seasons. Hopefully my gear is not too advanced for me. Also, I've heard 09 Rome bindings can fit on Burton boards if you turn them or something.. Is that true? Do I need a convert kit? Do I need to pay extra for that?
Anyway, I'm hoping someone can give me some input as to whether $400 for a lightly used set of 2008 Burton Custom ICS as well as 08 Burton Cartel EST bindings are a good deal. I'm considering returning my new set for this (I paid ~$450 for my set of all new 2008 Burton Custom non-ICS and Rome Targa bindings). Targa bindings are my first choice over Cartels but I'm sort of intrigued by the ICS.
|i just got a 2008 burton custom also ive ridden it three times sofar. as for bindings i got ride delta mvmnt dfc edition's (white with some lime green). really great match-up for the board. The bindings are 2008's also you can get them for like 110 (dfc edition) or 100 for the regular kind, i dont think theres much of a difference between dfc and non dfc just colors i think
So I've got a new 2008 Burton Custom, help me complete it?
Hello friends. I've had a lot of informative reading on these forums. Snowboarding noob here. Long post here. Hopefully you guys will read most of it. Maybe you will laugh every now and then. I've been to the park 3 times now, looking to go hopefully another dozen days before this lack of snow season ends (bear m).
*this paragraph contains some back story but not all that super important* I dropped $100 so far on terrible board rentals, and I'm getting set to get my own gear. I picked up a Burton 2008 Custom non-ICS for a little under $300 today. Prior to this with all my research I wanted a lib Tech trs btx, GNU rider's choice, perhaps a Rome Anthem, or a Burton Custom/Custom ICS. Well, I'm not a trillionaire and every other board minus the 08 Custom was crazy expensive (for a board). The best deal I could find for any of them was $400. I picked up a 154. I am 5'9 1/2", 165, normal body type. I was being a total beeotch the past week and didn't buy a 156 08 Custom, and it literally went out of stock as I was about to order. That's what I get for having my asshole sitting on my beeotch hands and poking my little toe up my nose. Just had to vent. Anyway, hopefully the 154 is not too small. I'm pretty bad at boarding. I think I fell about 10x more than anyone has on their first day in the history of snowboarding. My big toe is still bloody from the crappy rental boot. I bruised ribs. I sprained my wrist a half dozen times. I still can't control myself on flatland although that might be because of board. I can heel stop pretty well though (that's pretty much how I'm getting down the mountain, fighting it most of the way. I'm trying to overcome that "oh crap I'm going to die" sensation that I quote from another poster here by trying to go straight) I'm starting to learn toe stop. I'm fairly certain I'm regular, but occasionally I'll go goofy for a while. Probably because I can't toe stop very well. I don't do crap at the park as of yet except when I unintentionally block people from using the features. Basically I can't carve yet. But I will soon fly down the mountain trying once my gear arrives. And with pads. heh heh heh.
So basically I'm just going down the hill right now. Hopefully near the end of the season I'll use my balls to try a few jumps. Rails look like they hurt.
So I've bought the Burton Custom 08. And with it comes further headache. Through my research I narrowed down my binding choices to Rome Targa, Rome 390, and Rome Arsenal in that order (this was when I tried hard to find a deal on the TRS). So I've read that Rome will work on the Custom, but I just need to request a different type of plate or something. Anyway, I'm wondering if using Rome bindings are a good idea on this board. Because of the whole "..blah blah Burton works well with Burton blah blah." What's a good comparison to the Targas by Burton? Triads? Cartels? Am I right to assume Mission is comparable to 390? What compares to Arsenal? I guess for Burton bindings I'm looking at Cartels. Mission is probably a no go. Am I setting my sights too high? Should I just get Burton Custom bindings or some other cheaper offering? BTW, if I were to get a used Burton 08 Custom ICS board with Burton Cartel EST bindings for $400, does that sound like a good deal? I'm sort of curious as to whether the ICS is that dope. And I can't seem to find an answer to whether the 2009 Custom ICS has better tech improvements than 2008 Custom ICS. Mostly graphics?
As for boots I'm going to try and find a place where I can try some on. Buttt, any boot recommendations? I'm looking at Burton (Sabbath, Ruler, maybe Moto), 32 (lashed, prion? unleashed??), and I've picked up some chatter on Saloman brand boots. I have normal width I'd say. If anything ever so slightly narrow at the heel if anything. Probably normal.
Oh yeah, is it a bitch to use wrist guards that protect impact from movement on the top and bottom of the wrist? Anyone have experience with chest pads? I think my ribs have finally healed.
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Line 'em up, waver 'em
First group warms up
Waiting their turns on the ice
Practicing a smooth release
It's only twelve feet, you can hit the broom
You want what on the bottom of my shoe?
Step out gently now...
You know the rules...
If you fall
It makes the website
No matter how uncomfortable it looks.
Yes, you too.
Howard checks out the stick delivery.
Brian coaches sweeping practice
Let the games begin errr... continue
Rock's on it's way
Let's get rid of some of this yellow
good form for a new person
No, I'm not signalling for a left turn.
Yes, sweep that rock
That's good, now let go
Told you those knees would get cold
Another nice delivery
The rip was there to start wth
Brian pushes for sweeping practice
Ladies and gentlemen, here we have the four foot circle.
Virginia repeating the safety mantra... Gripper Foot First!
A bit more about safety and slip-sliding around
We got the rocks down here, now we gotta throw them back
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>Cross Training>Yoga GOOD!
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• Return to kicking my own ass by 2018
Team 9 from Outer Space
"Don't feel like running today...suck it up and run ...you're an athlete." (John Stanton, founder & owner of The Running Room)
Three half marathons later, I got a number. Half Fanatic #9292. :)
running yogi
Eat, Play, Run
I teach 3 times a week. Don't you just feel like a big weight has been lifted after your done.
Yep...well, the end moments of lying quietly weren't as relaxing as they should have been. One cat decided to lick my shin and walk laps around me and another kept affectionately falling on my head.
Dogs and cats "helping" me with yoga are one of the reasons I love going to a class! One time though, my dog did downward dog on my mat right next to me at home. It was adorable, wish I had a camera.
I agree, yoga GOOD!
I've got a fever...
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
Yogurt good...?
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Spend time with Medical Technology students
"I love medicine, but I prefer to be behind the scenes of patient care. I like the testing in the lab. You have to know so much and relate it to the patient. Lab people are methodical and process-oriented. I want to be involved, doing the lab work that's significant to the treatment of patients."
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The myth of Bruce's arm.
The myth of Bruce's arm.
Marshall gets beat by Fielder two days in a row
Its beginning to look like the only decent move Walt has made is getting Simon.
Marshall, Latos, Madson, Ludwick, Valdez
Gene Lamont looks like Humpty Dumpty over there at third.
Rounding third and heading for home...
Thank you Logan.
Rounding third and heading for home...
Atta boy Logan.
why doesnt simon pitch more??? he's alot better than Arredondo
Marshall has not been overly impressive so far this season
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I've an old Tasco that's served well for decades.
It's a 25x60, model 25t. Don't remember what I paid but it couldn't have been all that much 'cause at the time I had three hungry children and a wife at home.
I want to get a spotting scope but not break the bank. What would be a decent scope set me back? I cant imagine shooting at anything more than 300 Yds.
I've an old Tasco that's served well for decades.
It's a 25x60, model 25t. Don't remember what I paid but it couldn't have been all that much 'cause at the time I had three hungry children and a wife at home.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -- Bertrand Russell
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Robert J. Hanlon
I'm not saying buy it from them, but I got this Ncstar one and it works well out to 200 yards and the price is good. Best I can suggest for low cost.
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An absolutely awesome spoting scope for the price. More scope than you need @ 100 yds but @ 300yds and beyond it's a beautiful performer - it's all you'll ever need. Google it for reviews.
For something for 100 yd range, I use this spiffy compact Bushnell. Excellent optics, nicely compact and a lower price.
Bushnell Sentry 789332 Spotting Scopes - Sports Optics
Did I do that?
Bought one of those NC-Star Spotting scope for $59.00. It works OK. It has a slight ghost around image beyond half way in zoom. Image is somewhat green and not exactly great for low light. Mine has been dropped by my 4 year old twice. It works well enough to see where all my shots are at 150 yards on a target.
Impulse purchase at a gun show. It works far far far better than expected. I do have to admit, I can see more clearly with NIKON scope, but that NIKON scope isn't $60. I wanted something my daughters could bang it around watching cows. They like watching cows on telescope for some odd reason. It's this one....
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Group Dynamics
While there is certainly enough solo keyboard music to keep any performer busy for many lifetimes, it is nevertheless worth the occasional reminder that an additional many lifetimes could also be spent exploring the mountains of chamber music that includes piano(s). We'll skim the surface this week on Hammered! with chamber music for piano+.
We have all types of chamber combinations this week but actually begin with a few "cooperative" performances between piano solo and electronics, sort of like playing a duet with someone that never makes a mistake. Throughout the week hear movements from Benjamin Broening's remarkable work for multiple pianos and electronics called Recombinant Nocturnes, along with piano / electronics works by Eliot Britton, Angelica Negron, Ezequiel Vinao and others.
Of the more "traditional" chamber combinations we have very untraditional works by Thomas Ades (his Piano Quintet, performed live by Gloria Cheng and the Calder Quartet), Arthur Berger (who Milton Babbitt once called "the diatonic Anton Webern") and Elliott Carter (his staggeringly inventive Triple Duo, performed by the New York New Music Ensemble).
Friday's program is anchored by two piano / percussion pieces, the first by Brooklyn-based composer and Hammered! man-crush Ted Hearne called One Of Us, One Of Them for single pianist and percussionist, and the second by avant garde colossus Pierre Boulez called sur Incises for three pianos, three harps and three sets of percussion. Simply, a masterpiece.
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I'm working on a program that takes in a word, say 'test'. Then it will output every combination of lowercase and uppercase letters it can out of that word. For example, using 'test', we can make all of these:
The amount of possible words you can make is 2 (1 for uppercase and 1 for lowercase of each letter) to the power of the words size. Since 'test' is 4 characters long, its 2^4, which is 16, if it was a word like 'other', it would be 2^5, which is 32, etc...
The problem I am having is that I can't rattle my brain around a solution to doing this for any word entered. If anyone has any ideas, that'd be awesome.
One way would be to make an integer for each letter in the word. This is going to be hard to explain so bear with me...
So with 'test', we have 4 characters, that means 4 variables.
The first variable will help us create single-uppercased letters, like so (each color is a different variable):
You see how it just moves on down the word...
Now let me show you it with two uppercased letters:
Now here you can see that each variable, green and red, moves along the word.
When a variable reaches the end, the variable before it moves down 1, and the variable that reached the end goes to the character after that variable. So in our example, when green reached the end, the red variable went from 'T' to 'E', and the green variable went to 'S'. Then when the green variable reached the end again, the red went to 'S', and the green went to the variable after the red one, which was 'T'. When all the variables have moved all the way forward, it's done.
Here are 3 uppercased letters:
In that example, when the pink variable reached the end, the variable before it moved forward, which was the green one. The rule is basically, when a variable has reached the end, the variable (if any) before it moves forward 1 character, but if that character is at the end, the character before that moves forward 1 character, etc... Until all variables have reached the end.
And lastly, 4 uppercased letters:
Since all of the characters are already at the end, that is the only possible output.
Soooo, what this is saying, is that when given a word, the program will need to create X amount of variables, where X is the length of the word, then keep moving each variable forward until it either hits the end of the word, or it hits another variable. If all variables are either at the end of the word, or have hit another variable, there are no more combinations for that amount of upper-cased characters, then it will add 1 more variable to the mix to create 2, or 3, etc. upper-cased letters in the word.
So if anyone can tell me how to make integers on-the-fly in C++ that'd be great............................................. .....
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Woo, 2 edits in 10 minutes!
Anyway, seeing as how creating a butt load of variables on the fly then just destroying them would take a lot of cpu power, I was thinking of making a vector array, and just change the vector's size to the size of the word (since vectors were made to be easily resizable), then using the above rules to iterate through the array.
Also, if I' not just talking to myself, even though it's 3:53 AM, somebody tell me I'm not crazy .
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I was also thinking of making a class for each character that holds its postion in the word, if it's uppercase or not, and any other info I can think of. Also, making classes would be helpful, because if a word had special characters or numbers, you can't make them uppercase... so I could only make classes for letters, then iterate through each class.
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For now, unless there is a faster way, I'm using a vector of integers as each variable, and I've made up some basic rules of 'collision':
- if variable is at the end of the word, and it's not the only variable, move the character before it down one, and go to the character after that variable
- if variable has hit another variable, and it's the last variable, then there are no more combinations
- if variable has hit another variable, and it's not the last variable, then the variable before it moves down 1 and the variable that collided moves to the character after that variable
- after checking everything, if word is still valid, move the farthest down variable over 1
Oh and by the way by 'down', I mean down the word:
<- up down ->
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Alright, this is my last post for tonight because now it's 5:22 AM and I'm getting up at 7:00 AM -.-
Anyway, I've thrown together some pseudo-code for the program since winging it didn't really work...
Code:while the user wants to continue while asking for a file If file isn't open Tell them it wasn't open else if file is open break from the loop While not end of the file read word from line if word has no alpha characters in it output word else make word all lower case get word size calculate for the possible combinations (2^word size) for each amount of letters in the word (1-wordsize) erase var vector and valid vector for each alpha character in the word push back each alpha character's location to var and valid var size = vecsize while word is still valid reset word to lowercase for each vector in var, make those position's characters upper case output word to newfile/console if variable has hit the end of the word or another variable, and is the last variable word is no longer valid else if variable has hit the end of the word, and is not the last variable the variable before it goes down one, and the current variable goes 1 before that
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When Jethro said to them, 'Will you not fear? I am a faithful Messenger to you. So have fear of Allah and obey me. I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 177-180)
"Jethro" means "little division". A little division in a large society. It's also the name of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). A little division. People always abstain from materialistic and self-seeking people, this is mentioned here. And also the Messengers always say "I don't have any benefit. I am telling for Allah."


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Are the bees in Minnesota? And they have been there for years? Ya, they are in the soffit. Open it up and remove them.
Hard to see from those pics, but does that house HAVE a boxed soffit? It looks like a flat eave to me with a drip rail.
Would bees just build comb on the outside of the house like that without being in walls, chimney, attic etc?