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Main Entry of Lighthouse Keeper's Residence Vacation Rental at Cape Disappointment State Park.
The North Head Lighthouse was built in 1896, and this buidling served as the residence of the Lighthouse Keeper. Today this house and the Assistant Lighthouse Keepers Duplex are available as fully furnished vacation rentals at Cape Disappointment State Park through Washington State Parks. Each vacation rental features full kitchen, living room, dining room and 3 bedrooms.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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all you dudes bumming monkeys..thats how aids started
I smacked a kid in the face with a gameboy, one of those old school bad boys from the 90s, in my defence he started the fight...
I was getting chased by my mate with a snowball once, ran across a junction were a guy knocked me over his bonnet with a motor, didn't hurt so I kept on running. 100 yards down the road I slipped on a bit of ice and fell smashing my dome, my mate then took his opportunity to smash me in the face with the big solid snowball, as I was lying in agony, some dude ran up and started kicking fuck out of me. Turns out it was the guy in the car that hit me. He shit himself when he hit me so he decided to batter me!
It was a bad day in my young life.
My mates little brother used to shit on his hand and throw it at people, nothing to do with this, just thought I'd add that.
Rob McCrum, Pro BW. www.bjjscotland.co.uk
Slightly different, worst thing I ever did as a kid was snap my banjo string when I was about 14, tore it right back to the wood! Actually making me feel sick writing this.
Rob McCrum, Pro BW. www.bjjscotland.co.uk
your mates little brother huh?
Aye, I'm sticking to that story.
Rob McCrum, Pro BW. www.bjjscotland.co.uk
Cool thread.
When I was a kid I threw some poo at the kid who was with us on a family day out somewhere.
Took a chair out from under my friends backside just as he went to sit on it, causing him to crash on the floor making the class laugh.
Sat on a school hall dinner table with a few others. Unscrewed a salt pot, put it back only for some fat fuck to pick up the salt to salt his chips, goes to pour the salt on only to find the top drops on his chips along with a big gush of salt.
Kicked a fat kid in the stomach using the crane kick in Karate kid
Kicked a girl in the fanny
Faked being ill to get out of going to school
Stuck 2 fingers up at mum
Stuck 2 fingers up at my cousin

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There is nothing "more specific" about your post.
You didn't even say which encryption your AP has.
Ok let me be a little more specific in this post.
I'm using BT5-vm-Gnome..
The very first time I used it it worked with my wireless card.
And i know the vm notices my wireless card is active because it sees it.
But when I try and connect to my wireless AP it always gives me that damn "BAD password".Ralink RT2870/3070 rt2800usb - [phy1]
Now i researched this problem on plenty forums and haven't a stable fix for it. Can any help?
There is nothing "more specific" about your post.
You didn't even say which encryption your AP has.
Read the forum rules:
Well for starters WPA2 is the encryption I use for my AP.
Also alfa awus051nh usb card that's my device.
ok as you can see my chip set was posted in the very first post.
And I know that card works I tested prior to this post. And when I first utilized the card with BT5 it worked flawlessly. Also connected to my AP with no problem no hassle straight out of the box. But now it doesn't connect. Even after I removed the vm and re installed BT5 on vm player it still doesnt work.
To be a tad bit more "specific". The very time I used BT5 my key was different. I changed it and changed the Essid. Due to the fact that the default Essid was broadcasting several of the same Essid. So I never changed mines out of the box and there were allot of AP's around me with the same Essid. So I changed the Essid and the key.
So any suggestions?
I tried some minor things like restarting Wcid...
Tried removing and reinstalling it some forums said try that.
I was thinking there was something I might have to config.
Some people said to downgrade versions from 1.7 to 1.6.
Sorry about that well let me go into a little more detail.
I have the "alfa awus051nh" with the chipset listed in the first post. I'm currently utilizing WPA2 for encryption association.
Now when I first used this card with BT5 it worked flawlessly out of the box. But after i restarted the Vm it just didnt work anymore.
So I thought to myself maybe I should reassign the essid because my AP was broadcasting the same essid as a few other AP's around me. So I changed it and the key.
Now sometimes when I scan it comes up with no "wireless" found but when i use "rfkill unblock all" i rescan it finds the WAP's around me and mines as well. The thing is when i go to properties in the wicd network manager and choose the right setting for the encryption (WPA) it always gives me "Bad password" everytime.
Now i tried removing wicd and restarting it "aptitude network-manager" and restarting it "/etc/init.d/wicd restart" same situation. Any suggestions?
Try editing yoru /etc/networ/interfaces to read only these two lines:
Fixed the problem for me, but I am using Gnome Network Manager. May work for you too. If not, after you are done, apt-get the gnome network manager package. (can't remember the package name exactly. just google it.)Code:auto lo iface lo inet loopback
yea i did that still no progress.. Lol
Basically what i did was gedit /etc/network/interfaces to read those two lines. Saved it restarted it. Then after that failed I tried the second option Gnome network manager package.
Thanks for helping though.
hm im going to try and look into gnome network manager.. i wonder if this post will even show up.. still waiting on mod approval.. (not sure there are mods here lol)
Yea dude i've been researching it. Does the kde version utilize that horrible Wicd network manager?
I've searched google and seen several forums with the same issue as well.
Did you try it with entirely removing the security from your AP to test it?
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(1964) Ground-Water Resources of Marshall County, Indiana
Basic data report by J. S. Rosenshein and J. D. Hunn about ground-water resources of Marshall County. Includes data on water levels and water quality. Includes water well records (with geologic descriptions by drillers and authors' interpretations).


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The Big Parade (1925)
directed by King Vidor
Frames in this review are taken from the 2013 Blu-Ray release.
Originally written May 2005 from a viewing of the 1988 VHS release.
There two halves of The Big Parade are so different in tone
that they're almost two films. If we were to give them titles, the
first half could be called Life in the Army, a nostalgic look at
the camaraderie of basic training and garrison duty. The second half
could then be called War is Hell, a nightmarish experience of the
trench warfare that dominated the First World War on the Western Front.
This intentional stylistic dichotomy gives the film the same perspective as
the American doughboys had in the Great War. A rapid transition from peace
to war, a burst of patriotism, a baptism of fire in intense combat,
and then victory just 19 months later.
While All Quiet on the Western Front achieved its impact by soaking
up the desperation as it accumulated over four long years, The Big Parade
shocks the viewer with its rapid change of tone that quickly drives out any
naïveté about war. We are first treated to an hour of horsing around and
chasing French girls, lulling us into a false sense of security. Then
WHAM! The paradisiacal world comes crashing down, and the protagonist is
thrown into the relentless whirlwind of combat.
That so much bitterness can develop from a (comparatively) brief exposure
to combat makes a rather different and even more forceful statement on
the horrors of war. [...]
The Voice of the Dolphins, and Other Stories
By Leo Szilard
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1961.
While working on the Manhattan Project, Leo Szilard claimed that he and his fellow Hungarian scientists were really extraterrestrials. Hungary, after all, was a small country in eastern Europe with a population of less than 10 million. How else to explain the great concentration of brilliant Hungarians in the field of physics? They are clearly extraterrestrials with an advanced knowledge of physics, far beyond that of earthlings. Without their help, we would not have been able to unlock the primal energies of the nucleus.
After reading this book, I'm convinced that he was telling the truth. And furthermore, that his species has not just great wisdom, but also the power to see into the future. In the anchor story of this collection, "The Voice of the Dolphins," Dr. Szilard outlines in great detail the future history of the world from his vantage point in 1960. In doing so, he demonstrates astonishing prescience with the accuracy of his predictions. He does not fear to give dates to specific events, often nailing them down to within a year or two of when they actually happened. The discrepancy can be explained by the fact that the Martians' abilities wane as they stay on our planet over a long period of time.
What stands out about Szilard's stories is his thoroughness in thinking through his topic, as well as their personal impact and prescience. Szilard was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, only to see his dreams of a better world turn into an armaments standoff. He was so disgusted by the effects of his work in physics that he moved into biology after the War. Knowing these facts, we can appreciate how his conscience must have driven him to try and set us on a better course. We can also appreciate his frustration at seeing the dysfunctional politics of the world's most powerful country (the Senate filibuster gets a mention). How is it that people could fiercely resist moves that will produce logical and obvious advancements for humanity?
Perhaps we need dolphins — or Martians — or at least Hungarians, to show us the way.
The Perilous Fight
America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815
By Stephen Budiansky
Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Stephen Budiansky likes to deeply explore a topic that is of interest to him, using an outsider's perspective to expose deeply cherished myths. In The Perilous Fight, he seeks to refocus the discussion of American naval successes in the War of 1812, from the traditional celebration of the frigate victories against the world's premier naval power, to a broader appreciation of the asymmetrical anti-commerce strategy pursued by the U.S. Navy Department. The book does not quite deliver on this promise, easily showing the plausibility of his thesis but not conclusively demonstrating that it had any effect in bringing the war to a close. At the same time, it is also a fresh and vivid account of the naval events of the War of 1812.
Intriguingly, Budiansky emphasizes the tenuous nature of American independence at the beginning of the 19th century. Very little progress had been made since the Revolution, cities had barely grown or even shrunk in size, and Southern planters lived in an environment of amidst "genteel poverty." This was before the Industrial Revolution, before the cotton gin. Yet America remained a large market for manufactured goods, and the merchant marine enjoyed the success that eluded the rest of the American economy. Indeed, British shillings remained more common than American coinage.
Since tariffs formed the basis of taxation, the Napoleonic Wars had severe effects on the U.S. Treasury, causing disruptions to the American merchant marine. Budiansky covers familiar ground from the history books: the debate over neutral rights, the British blockade of French-dominated Europe, Thomas Jefferson's pet project of Republican gunboats to replace Federalist frigates, etc. But he fleshes it out with details that rarely make it into the history books, describing the high interest rates that the Treasury was having to pay for debt, as well as appreciating the logistics behind navy operations. For example, Jeffersonian cutbacks had left the Constitution as the only American ship cruising on station in the Mediterranean. Thus, the Chesapeake affair was not only a national humiliation, to have a warship boarded by another power in sight of one's own shores. It also delayed the relief of the Constitution, whose crew grew near-mutinous as their original two-year enlistments were forcibly extended to four.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Five years in the writing, Richard Rhodes' history of the atomic bomb has become a landmark in the field of science popularization. At over 900 pages long, the book is very comprehensive in its recounting of the events that led to the most terrible weapon ever devised by man. It is really several different books in one, shifting in tone and emphasis as it follows the concept from start to finish: from scientific discovery to military-industrial project to the study of political decision-making in war.
The first third of the book is largely an account of scientific discovery, as experimenters worked to uncover the structure of the atom at the turn of the 20th century. Even in this foundational period, it was easy to see that nuclear bombardment involved energies that were orders of magnitude greater than the chemical reactions already familiar to science. It was natural to speculate about how to unlock those energies someday, and thus the dream of nuclear energy developed right alongside the earliest experiments. Frederick Soddy described the possibility of nuclear energy in his book The Interpretation of Radium (1909), based on his work alongside Ernst Rutherford. H. G. Wells then picked up on the idea in his famous novel The World Set Free (1914).
But the early nuclear bombardments could only play with atomic forces at a small scale. With the discovery of nuclear fission, it became obvious that a chain reaction was possible and could be used to multiply the energies released. But it would not be worked out in a time of peace on earth and brotherhood among men. With the expulsion of Jewish academics from German universities and the looming onset of World War II, the leading lights of atomic science left Europe for America. In just a few years, the center of gravity in the physics world had shifted across the Atlantic.
Red Plenty
By Francis Spufford
Faber and Faber, 2010.
Who would've thought that one could write a novel about Soviet central planning? A journal paper or a scholarly monograph, certainly. But a novel? Yet that is the format that Francis Spufford has selected for his book Red Plenty. The book begins with Khrushchev's promise that communism would outproduce capitalism, then moves on to the mathematicians and economists who tried to make central planning work scientifically. Tragic consequences sometimes ensued, as consumers rioted over the (higher) prices and (lower) salaries demanded by the linear programming equations.
Meanwhile, Gosplan employees had to react to unanticipated problems, and factory managers had to figure out how to make plan and earn their expected production bonus. Sometimes , they could only do it through unofficial channels like the tolkash, a "pusher" or reverse-salesman. Instead of trying to convince consumers to buy his products on behalf of his employer, he tries to convince factories to sell him what his clients need in order to make Plan.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Scribner, 2010.
In The Emperor of All Maladies, oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee has written what surely will be the definitive popular history of cancer medicine. The author credits Richard Rhodes' monumental account of the Manhattan Project, The Making of the Atomic Bomb [read my review], for inspiring the writing of this book. In subject matter, though, this book is more along the lines of Horace Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation. Indeed, the history of cancer is also the history of medicine. As other human diseases were conquered by vaccination (18th century), antisepsis (19th century), and modern pharmaceuticals (20th century), cancer remained resistant to the primitive onslaughts of early medicine. The ancients knew just enough about cancer to pronounce it incurable, and only recently have we discovered enough about cancer biology to mount a direct attack against it.
Dr. Mukherjee has written a remarkable book about a remarkable disease. One may quibble with the philosophical direction that the book takes, but the magnitude of his narrative achievement is undeniable. He has managed to capture the excitement of scientific discovery alongside the clash of medical egos, tracking the progress of human understanding of this most difficult of diseases. At times, the chronological narrative bogs down a bit in the mass of details and clash of competing models. But for the most part, the author produces some of the clearest and most vivid popular scientific writing that I've read.
The story of cancer is the story of a disease that has altered our expectations of medicine, frustrated our technological skills, and challenged our brightest minds. Our successes have been hard-won, and our failures have turned out to be paradigm-changing. That is why cancer is, truly, the emperor of all maladies.
The Pentium Chronicles
The People, Passion, and Politics behind Intel's Landmark Chips
by Robert P. Colwell
John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Bob Colwell was the lead architect of the Intel P6 project, which was eventually released as the Pentium Pro processor. The marketing name suggests only a small evolutionary improvement over the original Pentium, but the engineering reality is far different. The original Pentium (P5) was designed at Intel's original facilities in California, by many of the same engineers that had worked on the 80486 and 80386. The P6, by contrast, was designed by a brand new team in Oregon, charged with the weighty task of securing Intel's dominance of the microprocessor world by bringing the full range of RISC techniques to the x86 platform. The first engineer to join that project was Bob Colwell.
He also relishes several "I told you so" moments over Intel's recent stumbles. For example, he was called a "Chicken Little" for pointing out that Intel owed a great deal of its success to missteps by competitors. They shouldn't pat themselves on the back too much, for at some point, continued speed would no longer be enough to keep Intel on top. He saw the end of the megahertz race in 1998, about five years before Intel slammed into the thermal wall. He also saw Itanium as a hopelessly complicated combination of unprecedented architectural changes, and thought that it should instead have been a proof-of-concept research project.
Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle
by Donald K. "Deke" Slayton with Michael Cassut
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1994.
"America's Chief Astronaut Speaks Out at Last!" The publisher isn't
exaggerating with that tagline. This autobiography reads like it came
straight from Deke Slayton's mouth, complete with copious usage of his
favorite expletive "goddamned." I'm sure some of it has been smoothed
over by the cowriter, but it still reads like practically a transcript of
the taped conversations. The language is short and punchy, just like the
way Deke spoke.
Michael Cassut made a risky decision to leave Deke's words largely
unpolished and intact. It works. Deke's voice really comes through in the
book, and we appreciate his accomplishments all the more for it.
The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
by Jacques Steinberg
Paperback: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0142003085
The Gatekeepers goes a long way towards demystifying the college admissions process in the United States. Steinberg adapted the book from a series of articles that he'd written in the New York Times. Unlike most article adaptations, he actually has enough material collected to justify a full-length book. Apart from the somewhat overlong mini-biography of admissions officer Ralph Figueroa that opens the book, it's captivating reading.
I knew a fair amount about college admissions to start with. I went to a very competitive suburban high school. I applied during the 1999-2000 admissions season – the same season chronicled in this book. One of my apartment-mates in grad school went to Wesleyan, the college whose admissions office threw open its doors to Steinberg. I do admissions interviews for applicants to my alma mater, almost all of them students at a super-competitive suburban high school. So I have a better idea than most people of how the admissions game is played.
The Hollywood Economist:
The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
by Edward Jay Epstein
Melville House, 2010.
Edward Jay Epstein once wrote the Hollywood Economist
column for Slate. But these are hard times in the media industry. So
clearly, it's time to compile those columns into a book – a sequel of
sorts to his earlier elucidation of Hollywood economics, The Big
Picture [read my
review]. As with any compilation of this type, there will be some
repetition. But the column format forces him to get
right to the point, and it is eminently skimmable for the most salient
Informed by his knowledge of industry financials, Epstein
presents some truly fascinating nuggets of
information. Who knew, for instance, that Tom Cruise was such a
clever financier? He had enough star power that he insisted on 100%
accounting, in which every penny of revenue gets counted when calculating
his percentage, instead of Hollywood accounting. As a producer, he
sometimes took more out of the movie than the studio – which made the
powers-that-be at Paramount so mad at him that they dumped the
War of the Worlds project.
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Toys that must be constructed offer children many developmental benefits.
When we were kids, there was nothing more exciting than using our imaginations and toys to build up our own extravagant, magical worlds. Building blocks were used to make entire cities or towns for our action figures and Barbies to explore. Tinker toys were used to build dream cars, homes, rocket ships, animals, you name it! And, all the while, it kept us entertained for hours without ever getting bored and breaking to watch TV or play video games.
Luckily, these building and construction toys have remained popular throughout the years despite all of the high technology, internet-driven toys that have sprung up on the market to appeal to the younger, hi-tech generation. The hours of fun and entertainment that these building toys, such as Laser Pegs, provide is due in large part to the many developmental benefits that these toys offer kids.
Many developmental psychologists, parents and teachers have started to encourage children to play with construction toys where they can design their own environments, as these types of toys help to develop and enhance problem solving skills from a young age. In addition, building toys are ideal from refining motor skills and hand-eye coordination in children, and promote a capacity for creative, divergent thinking.
Here are a few more developmental benefits that children excel at when they play with building and construction toys such as Laser Pegs:
Cooperative Play
Studies have shown that kids become friendlier and more socially-savvy when they work on cooperative construction projects. For example, in one study, autistic children who attended play group sessions with toy blocks made a greater social improvement than kids who were coached in the social use of language. However, it's not just children with special developmental needs that earn these benefits. Other research on average-developing children suggested that kids who work on cooperative projects also form a higher quality of friendship.
Math Skills
Any type of activity that involves blocks or building is linked with better math skills in children. One study which observed elementary school children and their play habits found that children who played with block toys in more complex ways were more likely to achieve higher math schools during their high school years.
Problem Solving Skills
Construction and building toys offer children a way to grow in their divergent play―any activity or play that involves problem solving and creative thinking to determine an outcome. Because kids can put together construction toys in a variety of different ways, it helps them to think through their motions and better solve divergent problems. Kids who played with building toys are also found to be more creative in their attempts to solve problems.
There are many benefits that come along with playing with these types of toys. If you are interested in learning more about the many educational benefits that Laser Pegs can have on children with developmental disabilities, be sure to check out our Education Page today.