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Silicon Valley Community Against Gun Violence held its inaugural meeting on Jan. 17, and people from Atherton, Fremont, Hayward, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Carlos, San Mateo and Sunnyvale attended after the meeting was announced on the MoveOn.org web page, founder Bonnie Bernstein said.
The group is lobbying city officials to support Obama's gun-control push, and it hopes to encourage a variety of local actions, including gun-buyback programs. Former California Assemblywoman Sally Lieder, who attended the meeting, will be holding a community forum on gun control and violence reduction on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 1:30 p.m. at Mountain View City Hall.
Bernstein brought the group's message to the Palo Alto City Council Tuesday, Jan. 22, when the group asked the city to take two actions to support gun control: join the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which now has 800 members nationally; and issue a proclamation in support of Obama's gun-violence policies.
Members of the group are approaching mayors throughout the Peninsula to make similar commitments, she said.
Although the killing of 27 people, including 20 children, in Sandy Hook has become the flashpoint for a call to reshape gun laws and address mental health intervention, Bernstein said communities such as Palo Alto and its schools are vulnerable to gun violence on many levels.
"Not only are thousands killed each year in homicides or suicides, but the impact affects so many others. Each death leaves grieving loved ones in its wake. Those disabled from gun injuries are not counted in statistics, yet their lives are forever changed. Domestic-violence situations are escalated to a threatening level by guns. The fear of safety in parks and neighborhoods affects all citizens' quality of life," she said.
Bernstein's interest in the anti-gun-violence campaign occurred due to "a confluence of things in my life," she said. She as always been politically active, although not specifically with gun issues. She contributed to the Brady Act campaign, but this is the first time she has taken an activist role on the issue, she said.
As the group discussed the impact of gun violence locally, many members said they had been personally affected, she said.
"A trauma surgeon spoke about how she has seen horrors in her work; a school teacher survived a sniper attack in her school where she worked; another person had a member of their family be killed in L.A. This is the rippling effect of gun violence," she said.
Bernstein and Barbara Harley, a neighbor, said that during discussions of what group members wanted, one of the first things everyone agreed on was a gun-buyback program. They said they could encourage sponsorships to get guns out of homes and off the street.
Each member took on a task, such as looking at gun-related safety policies in the schools and talking to the police department, Bernstein said.
One way to protect local students would be for schools to send letters to parents informing them that they would be legally liable if their child were to use a gun that they have in the home.
"A lot of parents are not aware of it, although it is the law. It would be good for Palo Alto schools to have a straightforward and uncomplicated policy," she said.
Harley said the group is being sensitive to their use of language. They want to communicate in a nuanced way that is not alienating to people who own guns but who also can see a need for change.
"We want to present ourselves in a way that is a catchment of both sides," Bernstein added.
The group plans to use social media to spread their message. The next meeting will include a Twitter workshop for the less-technology savvy members.
"The Tea Party did this, and they got so much power, so why not those against gun violence?" she said.
"It's the time — it's a critical time," she said.
What do you think appropriate gun legislation should look like? Share your opinion on Town Square, the community discussion forum on Palo Alto Online.


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A Message to Illinois Library Patrons : Metropolitan Library System
A Message to Illinois Library Patrons
While you are aware of the financial problems the State of Illinois is experiencing you may not be aware of the impact it is having on your local public library service.
Illinois Library Systems are funded directly by the State. Two of the most important services that they support financially are shared online catalogs (SWAN in our case) and the delivery of materials between libraries.
Because of the long delays in receiving State monies due them, Illinois Library Systems are cutting services and staff. This will have an impact on your local library.
With the loss of MLS's financial support for services, your local library will need to cover these expenses itself and perhaps even downsize some services to make them more affordable.
The impact on services to patrons may include:
- Limits on the number of items that may be ordered or borrowed from other libraries.
- A longer waiting period for items requested from other libraries.
- Modification or elimination of special programs or joint ventures such as the Macy's Museum Adventure Pass program
Libraries are dependent on community support, and during these difficult financial times you can help your local library by:
- Limiting your interlibrary loan requests
- Returning your borrowed materials on time
- Paying your library fines and fees (all of which are used to buy new and replacement materials)
Over the next year(s) changes will occur as libraries adapt to the loss of system support. We will do all we can to keep you informed of these changes and to minimize their effects on service to you, our patrons.
Illinois libraries have always been and will continue to be committed to providing the best possible service to their communities. We will continue to work together toward that goal.
The priority of all Illinois libraries is to sustain the statewide delivery service and all shared online catalogs to make sure that resource sharing continues between libraries.


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Omer Asik scored 16 points on 6-of-11 shooting (4-of-5 FTs) with 16 rebounds, one assist, and one block in Friday's overtime loss.
Derrick Rose has agreed to join the Cavaliers according to Shams Charania of The Vertical.
Derrick Rose is meeting with the Cavaliers on Monday.
The Hawks have claimed Nicolas Brussino off waivers.
According to Ian Begley of ESPN, the Knicks have "strong interest" in trading for Kyrie Irving, but they are not willing to include Kristaps Porzingis in any potential deal.
Regarding the Kyrie Irving trade demands, the Cavs were given four preferred landing spots: New York, Miami, San Antonio and Minnesota.
Pau Gasol has agreed on a three-year deal to return to the Spurs.
Kyrie Irving asked the Cavs to trade him in a meeting last week, according to ESPN's Brian Windhorst.
Derrick Rose and the Lakers had a meeting for about three hours on Thursday, according to Chris Haynes of ESPN.com.
The Lakers will meet with free agent PG Derrick Rose on Thursday.
Troy Williams has agreed to a 3-year deal to stay with the Houston Rockets.
Derrick Rose is in "serious talks" with the Cavaliers on a one-year deal according to ESPN.


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An Overview of RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka/Busan.
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Homicide investigation underway on Forbes Avenue in West Ashley
From our News Partners at WCBD-TV:
Charleston Police are investigating a homicide on Forbes Ave. in West Ashley.
According to CPD spokesman Charles Francis, shots were fired around 12:05 a.m. Tuesday in the 1100-block of Forbes Ave., and the victim died at MUSC.
Detectives are combing the scene for evidence, and gathering information about a possible suspect.
This story is still developing. Check back frequently for updates.
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ECHO virusNonpolio enterovirus infection; Echovirus infection
Enteric cytopathic human orphan (ECHO) viruses are a group of viruses that lead to gastrointestinal infection and skin rashes.
Echovirus is one of several families of viruses that affect the gastrointestinal tract collectively called enteroviruses. These infections are common. In the US, they are most common in the summer and fall. You can catch the virus if you come into contact with stools contaminated by the virus, and possibly by breathing in air particles from an infected person.
Serious infections with ECHO viruses are less common, but can be significant. As many as 1 in 5 cases of viral meningitis is caused by an ECHO virus.
You may not have any symptoms. Symptoms depend on the site of infection but may include:
- Croup
- Encephalitis
- Meningitis
- Mouth sores (herpangina)
- Myocarditis
- Pericarditis
- Pneumonia
- Skin rashes
- Upper respiratory infection
- Sore throat
Exams and Tests
Because the illness is often mild and has no specific treatment, specific testing for echovirus is often not done.
ECHO virus can be identified from:
ECHO virus infections almost always clear up on their own. No specific medicines are available to fight the virus. Immune system treatment called IVIG may help patients with severe ECHO virus infections who have a weakened immune system.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Complete recovery without treatment is expected in patients who have the less severe types of illness. Infections of organs such as the heart (pericarditis and myocarditis) may cause severe disease and can be deadly.
Possible Complications
Complications vary with the site and type of infection. Myocarditis and pericarditis may be deadly while most other types of infection improve on their own.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of any of the diseases listed above.
No specific preventive measures are available for ECHO virus infections other than hand-washing, especially when you are in contact with sick people. Currently, no vaccines are available.
Modlin JF. Introduction to the enteroviruses and parechoviruses.In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 170.
Romero JR. Enteroviruses. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 387.
Review Date: 10/6/2012
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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PHILADELPHIA -- The competition was tough for the University of Pennsylvania women's fencing team at the Philadelphia Invitational held in The Coach Dave Micahnik Fencing Center today. The Quakers, ranked No. 8 on the College Women's Fencing Coaches Poll, went 4-2 on the day, dropping duals to No. 7 Northwestern and No. 9 Temple. After the day's results, the Red and Blue now have an overall record of 9-3.
After defeating both Sacred Heart and UNC, 20-7, Penn faced Northwestern to close out the morning rounds.
Claiming the 5-4 win in Sabre was freshman Shriya Joshi, junior Laura Barger, and sophomore quad captain Tiffany Chan. With a second weapon victory, foilists junior quad captain Luona Wang, freshman Cassidy Seidl, and junior Sarah Parmacek added seven points to Penn's overall score. Despite winning both Sabre and Foil, the Quakers couldn't keep the Wildcats tamed in Epee, falling 8-1. With that loss, the Red and Blue dropped the dual by one point.
After the lunch break, Penn defeated two more teams.
The Quakers took on Lafayette in round four defeating the Leopards, 26-1, and had 9-0 victories in Epee and Sabre. The Red and Blue followed that win with another in round five against Duke, winning 19-8.
Four duals ended the day, one of them being Penn and Temple. The last time the two Big 5 rivals met was at the Penn State Invitational, when the Red and Blue took a 17-10 win. With the scores even after the bouts in Foil and Epee – the Owls took Foil 5-4 while the Quakers won Epee 5-4 -- Temple got their redemption and won Sabre, 7-2.
Penn will be back in action next weekend when the teams travel to Northwestern for the Northwestern Invitational.
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Back outside it was now completely dark, the sky was clear and everyone was getting very drunk.
As if on cue, the buzzing of helicopters filled the sky—the president had officially arrived in Ramallah.
But it will have them in the sky; Russian pilots could be flying over Iraq within days.
Not a crime, by any means, but why, I shake my fist at the sky, why did they have to go there?
The country needs some Republicans who'll stand up to these blowhards and prove that one can do so without the sky falling in.
Not the sky, assuredly, and there was no place else possible, unless the door of the summer house.
The men gave a glance at the sky, and set forth at a smart pace.
But out of the sky came a voice and it cried 'Mercy—mercy to him!'
The husband is Orion, who follows the others through the sky.
You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
c.1200, "a cloud," from Old Norse sky "cloud," from Proto-Germanic *skeujam "cloud, cloud cover" (cf. Old English sceo, Old Saxon scio "cloud, region of the clouds, sky;" Old High German scuwo, Old English scua, Old Norse skuggi "shadow;" Gothic skuggwa "mirror"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)).
Meaning "upper regions of the air" is attested from c.1300; replaced native heofon in this sense (see heaven). In Middle English, the word can still mean both "cloud" and "heaven," as still in the skies, originally "the clouds." Sky-high is from 1812; phrase the sky's the limit is attested from 1908. Sky-dive first recorded 1965; sky-writing is from 1922.
"to raise or throw toward the skies," 1802, from sky (n.).
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Thanks to all that commented and expressing your opinions. Good article there by Marc.
Just a few points:-
- Are the main promoters following the unified rules as laid out by the American Athletic Associations/Commissions? It is very easy to get confused as from the local events i have been to that promote Amateur, Semi-pro, Pro-B, and Pro rules, i often think that as the sport is so young in the UK, that aren't we confusing ourselves with the sheer amount of variations of formats available for fighters? This then brings us to the titles on offer.... Semi-pro British champion. Pro European champion, etc. I haven't done a head count but i am pretty sure i live within a 5 mile radius of at least 4 British middleweight champions!!!!!
- Are the athletic commissions of the US made up of experienced people from MMA?
It is a hard one to see how regulation could come about. I certainly think that we are capable of self-regulating to a degree, but it would take a lot of time and effort, and a lot of publicity from the main figureheads to push the concept... The BBBoC is only a private limited company yet it regulates pro boxing quite well, even though there is an explosion of unlicensed events happening. It would take a lot of educating for people to want to only participate in sanctioned events.


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National Review Online's Whelan Attacks DOJ For Assigning Gay Attorneys To Civil Rights Case
National Review Online blogger Ed Whelan attacked [1] the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for assigning two gay attorneys to the team of attorneys working on Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, a case [2] in which the Supreme Court will address the extent to which religious organizations can engage in discrimination without running afoul of sex discrimination law.
In a blog post, Whelan quoted discredited [3] research [4] from Pajamas Media to attack one of the attorneys, Aaron Schuham, for his previous position with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an organization dedicated [5] to preserving the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
But Whelan then went a step further, stating that Schuham has a "same-sex partner [who] is ... Chris Anders, federal policy director for the ACLU's LGBT Rights project." Whelan further reported that another Justice Department attorney working on the case, Sharon McGowan, "was also a staffer on the ACLU's LGBT Rights project" and that she is married to a woman who is "the Family Equality Council's 'federal lobbyist on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender family issues.' "
Whelan then used this information to spin a conspiracy theory about the Justice Department possibly using the discrimination case as a step in their agenda to "have gay causes trump religious liberty":
Thus, insofar as personnel is policy,* it may well be that the Obama DOJ's hostility to the ministerial exemption in the Hosanna-Tabor case is part and parcel of a broader ideological agenda that would have gay causes trump religious liberty.
So, in Whelan's opinion, should all gay lawyers have been barred from working on a case that deals with the application of anti-discrimination laws to religious freedom, or just the ones who were previously gay-rights activists or have same-sex partners who are gay-rights activists? Or is it OK to assign gay lawyers to the case, but only if the Justice Department takes a position more to Whelan's liking? Whatever Whelan meant, it's a ridiculous argument.
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Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars. Integrated into WordPress, Gravatars are an avatar or gravatar is an icon, or representation, of a user in a shared virtual reality, such as a forum, chat, website, or any other form of online community in which the user(s) wish to have something to distinguish themselves from other users.
A Gravatar is essentially the same thing, but they are all hosted on a single server and are called up by encrypting the users' email address via the MD5 algorithm. So instead of having one avatar on one forum you visit, and another at a blog you visit, you could have the same avatar at both.
Gravatars are now integrated into WordPress. The following is a historical reference for Gravatars in WordPress. For information on how to use and customize gravatars, see How to Use Gravatars in WordPress.
A Gravatar is a dynamic image resource that is requested from a server. The request URL is presented here, broken into its segments. The URL always begins with:
The next part is a hashed version of the user's email address. The email address MUST be lower-cased first, then have all whitespace removed, before md5 hashing it.
An optional rating (or r) parameter may follow with a value of [ G | PG | R | X ] which determines the highest rating (inclusive) that will be returned.
An optional size (or s) parameter may follow that specifies the desired width and height of the Gravatar. Valid values are from 1 to 512 inclusive. Any size other than 80 will cause the original Gravatar image to be resampled using bicubic resampling before output.
An optional default (or d) parameter may follow that specifies the full URL, encoded URL, protocol included, of a GIF, JPEG, or PNG image that should be returned if either the requested email address has no associated gravatar, or that Gravatar has a rating higher than is allowed by the rating parameter. It may also contain one of the following options:
WordPress 2.5 marries theme authors and casual WordPress users together with support for Gravatars in the WordPress Administration Panels. Theme authors have an option to include Gravatars in their designs, and are recommended to do so. WordPress users can easily control their Gravatar usage in the Settings > Discussion Administration Panel.
WordPress users can change:
The function to add Gravatars to your theme is called:
get_avatar. The function returns a complete image HTML tag of the Avatar.
The function is called as follows:
<?php echo get_avatar( $id_or_email, $size = '96', $default = '<path_to_url>' ); ?>
The parameters are:
$comment here, in order to display the gravatar of the commenter. In other templates within The Loop (for WordPress 2.7 and lower), you can use
get_the_author_id() (deprecated in WordPress 2.8). For WordPress 2.8, please use
Some things to note here:
Code output:
The default output is when using the above function is listed below. Various classes are applied to img element to help you with element styling.

If the gravatar reverts to the default image due to a lack of an e-mail address (i.e. a pingback or trackback), whether you have specified a default or not, the
img element will also be given a CSS class of
If you wish to develop a WordPress Theme with Avatars for 2.5 and below, add a check for the Gravatar function to the code:
if (function_exists('get_avatar')) { echo get_avatar($email); } else { //alternate gravatar code for < 2.5 $grav_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/" . md5(strtolower($email)) . "?d=" . urlencode($default) . "&s=" . $size; echo ""; }
If you request a Gravatar image and the email you request doesn't have an account in the Gravatar system it returns a default image to you.
In some cases this might not be what you want, instead, you might want to know whether you will get back a real gravatar or if it will just be the default.
Example situations:
WARNING: You need to understand PHP to make use of the information below.
The trick to do this is to specify "404" as the default. In this case, the gravatar service will return a 404 error if no gravatar exists, instead of returning some default image. A real image will get a 200 code. It is best to check for 200, as some other errors might be returned as well, for other cases.
Here is an simple example validation function using HTTP headers. You will need to modify it for your needs:
function validate_gravatar($email) { // Craft a potential url and test its headers $hash = md5(strtolower(trim($email))); $uri = 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' . $hash . '?d=404'; $headers = @get_headers($uri); if (!preg_match("|200|", $headers[0])) { $has_valid_avatar = FALSE; } else { $has_valid_avatar = TRUE; } return $has_valid_avatar; }
A more full featured validation function that uses the HTTP API and Object Cache can be found here.


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ROCKVILLE, MD -- Total U.S. coffee market dollar sales grew 10% in 2012, attributable primarily to a dramatic jump in the single-cup segment, according to a new report from market research firm Packaged Facts.
The single-serve market posted a compound annual growth rate of more than 75% between 2007 and 2012 in tracked mass-market channels, according to the report, titled Single-Cup Brew Beverage Products in the U.S.
Packaged Facts estimates that overall retail single-cup coffee sales in the U.S. jumped by 82%, from $1 billion in 2011 to more than $1.8 billion in 2012, and will reach a projected $5 billion by 2016.
"Proven market performance and the expiration of an important K-Cup patent in September 2012 has led to a new round of marketplace competition, motivating long-standing category participants to step up their competitive strategies," according to Packaged Facts research director David Sprinkle. "One feature of this competition has been an influx of private-label and unlicensed beverage pods that work in Keurig K-Cup brewers."
New, more sophisticated and specialized single-cup brewer technology keeps elevating the quality of coffee made at home, while single-serve beverage manufacturers and marketers continue to broaden the array of products specifically designed for them, according to the Packaged Facts report. This increases the range of successful products, brand entrants and satisfied consumers.
While coffee beverages still predominate for single-cup brewers, other beverages including tea, cocoa and chocolate, hot and cold fruit drinks, and specialty wellness beverages are increasingly available, the report notes.
Several factors will continue to contribute to the continued growth of the single-cup beverage market, Packaged Facts predicts. They include a nation of increasingly discerning coffee drinkers with the desire to recreate coffee-shop quality at home. Continued adoption of single-serve brewers in offices and hotels also will continue to fuel growth, as will innovations in brewer technology that support enhanced beverage quality, along with an expanding selection of single-serve beverage options.


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Just for fun, I will leave the name of the winery till the end of the thread!
!3.8% alc (?), $26 Cdn, good natural cork, opened one hour, not decanted. Left half the bottle till day 2.
This red is a blend of 87% CS, 12% Syrah, 1% Malbec. Great match with Bresse Bleu cheese.
Color. Very dark, almost black in the centre. This `04 shows no sign of age on the rim which has purple flushes.
Nose. Cassis, black fruits, plum, "hint of clove" from fellow-taster. Still has some oak hints, spice on day 2 and some earthyness.
Palate. Initial entry thoughts are dry, medium tannins, full-bodied, plum. Some cherry as it opens, this is big, has to be 15%alc for sure. Entry level wine, "what tells me this is organic?". Good question.
I would not call this a fruit-bomb but needs food for total enjoyement. Some sweet fruits on day 2 but tough to finish what I have left.
I cannot make my mind up about this one.
`04 Kunde Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma County.


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What do the Statue of Liberty, a gorilla and the Hamburglar have in common?
If you said they've all stood on sidewalks of busy streets advertising nearby businesses, you'd be correct.
And if you've driven along Hawthorne Boulevard, chances are you've seen them: men and women in costume, beckoning to passing motorists by waving large signs advertising income tax services, cash-for-gold businesses and fast-food eateries.
But the popular advertising trend could be nearing an end in Lawndale, where a new ordinance aimed at revising restrictions on roadway signs - including human sign holders - is being crafted.
The proposed law, honed through the last year by the city's Planning Commission, actually allows more signs advertising local business - so long as they are erected on a temporary basis.
Decorative flags - or feather signs - and other portable advertisements would be allowed. The council discussed the proposed guidelines Monday and is expected to consider approving the ordinance in January.
The new ordinance would allow human sign holders, but restrict them from operating within 12 feet of any intersection. No more than six human signs per business would be allowed to operate at one time.
But at least one councilman is pushing for more restrictions on sign twirlers - and banning the use of costumes.
"I'm in favor of sign twirlers, but I'm against the costumes," said Councilman Pat Kearney, adding he is concerned the costumes inhibit sign holders from being fully aware of their surroundings.
"You can't see behind you," he said.
Councilman Larry Rudolph, who was absent from Monday's meeting, also voiced concerns about costumed sign twirlers during a public hearing in October, when the council discussed the ordinance.
In Lawndale, the men in gorilla suits standing near the intersection of Hawthorne and Artesia Boulevards with signs advertising a nearby cash for gold and payday loan business have become local icons.
Melanie Johnston, the store's manager, said sign twirlers - and their costumes - are protected by federal free speech laws.
"Wearing a mask is a First Amendment right," Johnston said. "To deny that would be to deny a constitutional right."
Johnston estimated that up to 90 percent of people who walk into the store say they came in because of the costumed sign twirlers.
"It's unbelievable how many people see these guys and the kind of interest they generate," she said. "The return we're getting on the gorillas is unbelievable."
The employees have been donning the gorilla suits for two years, working five-hour shifts and making minimum wage - $8 an hour.
Johnston's employees prefer the suit to hide their identity. Outlawing costumes on sign twirlers could lead to job losses across the city, she said.
"These guys live locally, so they like anonymity," Johnston said.
Sign twirler Michael Miller said he had no safety concerns over his gorilla suit.
"I can see fine, I can breath easy," he said. "I'd like my job to stay where it is because no one else is hiring."
But some see the costumed twirlers as a nuisance.
"This would only take us back in time and stop our city's progress," said resident Janice Givens. "Plus, it looks tacky."
For the ordinance to have legal standing, it would need to clearly define specific safety issues regarding costumed sign twirlers, said Richard Palmer, chairman of the political science department at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
"The ordinance, in order to stand muster in the court, would have to be pretty specific in terms of defining what are the safety issues involved and what the governmental interest is being served," Palmer said.
Roadside sign twirling is a growing advertising trend across the country.
"We're noticing more cities across the U.S. allowing it as opposed to cities that don't," said Josh Trees, president of Eyeshot, a Temecula-based marketing agency that specializes in human directional services. "As long as it's done in a tasteful matter, what's wrong with it? People want to hire sign spinners because it works."
Cities have taken different approaches to restricting or banning sign holders.
In Redondo Beach, there are no specific prohibitions on human sign twirlers, but every possible sign they could hold is banned under the city's Municipal Code.
In Tustin, sign holders operate under strict guidelines, including the mandate that "human signs shall not spin, twirl, swing or gyrate."
Commercial speech - advertisements for business - has less constitutional protection than political speech, said Charles Thomas, an assistant professor of business law at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
"Free speech and commercial speech are two different things," Thomas said. "Because these are for commercial purposes, they're on more tenuous legal ground."
For some businesses, sign twirlers offer a way to circumvent laws banning placing commercial signs on public areas.
"If you want to place a commercial sign on public land, the city is probably going to tell you no," Thomas said. "The way to skirt that is to have someone walking around. In essence, you're playing a game of cat and mouse."
For Johnston, the safety concerns about costumed twirlers are unfounded.
"I don't think it's really a safety issue," she said. "It's a way to sugarcoat it. They're just trying to restrict business."
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Good, bad, i dont know when i surf in the summer i surf at indian river, and it gets super crowded. And then with the removal of the sandbars in ocean city im sure it will get even more crowded, its gonna be bad. I dont wanna destroy a board, so i was thinking about getting a softtop. Discuss, do they ride well.. differences, advantages, disadvantages.. gooo
thanks guys
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PHOTOS: Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss take 'best road trip ever'
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(Yahoo!) - Just call 'em Thelma and Louise!
Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss took their matching haircuts on the road on Wednesday, cruising up the Pacific Coast Highway in California for what the Victoria's Secret model called "an adventure of a lifetime."
"Beach, forests, cliffs, Northern California, sand, flower picking. Best road trip ever," Swift, 24, captioned the above photo on Instagram.
karlie ❤'s @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/7bnYTH5Htp
— Karlie Kloss (@karliekloss) March 5, 2014
Swift and Kloss, 21, also made a pit stop at Big Sur along the way, and frolicked by the beach on their way home.
Wonder if these lovey ladies planned their little getaway at Sunday's Vanity Fair Oscar party? Taylor and Karlie were partners in crime at the exclusive bash.
Next time, we want in on the road trip!


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WOSH (Wide Open Smart Home) is a message-oriented middleware for controlling and automating a smart home. It comes with working services and devices. WOSH is an open multi-platform C++ framework. Its architecture is service (bundles) oriented and designed for distributed (cloud) computing. WOSH ships with library source, many services, and some applications (a server, a trayicon remote controller, and a GUI full-controller). Some features provided by its micro-kernel are a multi-user system with access policies, a centralized database manager and system monitor, and automatic network management and masquerading (on TCP). Some of the implemented services are: multimedia audio playback, monitor and control of X10 devices, remote control using instant messaging, and a remote control using SMS and call notification.
Freedomotic is an open, flexible, scalable, mashup-oriented software system which can interact with well-known standard building automation protocols and with "do-it-yourself" solutions. It treats the Web, social networks, and frontends just like any other sensor or actuator in your automation system. For example, you can tweet your washing machine to start the washing cycle. Freedomotic leverages modern enterprise integration patterns and distributed computing architectures, along with cross-language APIs for extensions.


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Foo Fighters Frontman Dave Grohl Welcomes Baby Girl, Loses Dad
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Dave Grohl apparently went through a range of emotions earlier this month.
Us Weekly says the Foo Fighters frontman and his wife Jordyn Blum welcomed their third child - a baby girl named Ophelia Saint Grohl - back on August 1st.
But not long after that, Grohl had to say goodbye to his father. James Grohl passed away on August 6th from a longterm illness. He was 75.
The rocker should, however, be back to getting good news soon. He and his fellow Foo Fighters are set to release their eighth album Sonic Highways in November, and Grohl's new HBO docuseries of the same name will premiere in October.
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Tuesday August 6th, 2013 12:53am
Rachel McCarthy was sitting in her 9th-grade biology course at James Bowie High School in Austin, Texas, when she was asked to come up with an idea for the class's required science project. She wasn't feeling all that inspired, faced with mandatory participation in the project. But she had an idea that would eventually turn into something greater than she ever expected.
"I'd never competed in a science fair, so I wanted to do something interesting, not something lame," says McCarthy, now a freshman goaltender at Pfeiffer University in North Carolina. "I wanted to see what would happen if I made a wood shaft and compared it to the factory-made metal shafts on the market. I wanted to see if a wood shaft could be more flexible and if it could have a higher impact strength."
Rachel and her father, Terry, started with no wood-working tools and no experience. But before long, they had a table saw and some large, makeshift rigs.
"We were looking to get the right angle to make the shape of a lacrosse stick," Rachel says. "But it was far too heavy, and kind of dangerous, actually."
So Rachel and her father began amassing a collection of more advanced hardware, including a router, a chop saw, a planer and more elaborate rig setups.
Though at the time Rachel had no intention of ever selling the shafts, she and her father began producing them, tinkering along the way and implementing improvements to the process. Rachel would go on to win her class's award for the top project. Then she was honored for having the top project at the school-wide science fair. Later, she would win first prize at a regional fair, then receiving an invitation to a state-level competition.
In April 2007, Rachel and her father produced the first shaft that would be placed in the hands of a user for testing. A consistent presence on IL's Lacrosse Forums, the McCarthys connected with several forum users who were interested in learning more about their progress with the shaft concept.
"For the science projects, we had started making more shafts," Rachel says. "I would make a shaft, put it in a rig and break it on video, which was pretty cool to watch. Plus we were getting more and more interest in what we were doing."
Rachel and her father began communicating more consistently with forum users who became increasingly intrigued by the father-daughter duo's efforts to make a stronger wood shaft.
To achieve that, Rachel says, she developed an innovative approach to constructing a different wood shaft in her sophomore year of high school. It was essentially a continuation of the science project that sent her to the state competition the year prior.
"I wanted to test what would happen if you took five different pieces of hickory and put them together with the grains going in opposite directions, so that when there is a force, the shaft would flex. The grains would be pulling in the opposite direction, keeping the shaft together. And I thought of using wood glue to help strengthen the shaft."
That year, Rachel would again win her class competition and the school-wide contest before taking first place in a regional science fair competition. That guaranteed her a stypend and the opportunity to travel to the 2009 International Intel/ISEF Science Fair in Reno, Nevada.
It was there that Rachel, only 15 years old at the time, was honored with an engineering award from United Technologies, which included a $3,000 stock grant. Along the way, she was approached by individuals who encouraged her to launch a venture with her concept.
"It was a huge deal to win that award," she says. "So I came home, and my dad and I decided to test the shafts out a bit more. We had put together a website prior to that, but then we started ramping it up."
With that, HIKSTIK — as Rachel named the company, a play on "hickory stick" — was well on its way. The McCarthys began conducting rigorous tests. According to the test results on the HIKSTIK site, the company's hickory shafts exhibit greater flex property and greater impact strength than most metal alloy shafts, including titanium.
Rachel had been introduced to lacrosse as an eighth-grader, when she attended the Peak Performance Goalie School in Texas. A fan of its natural flex properties, Rachel decided early on that she the only type of shaft she wanted to use is bamboo.
She and her father were asked by members of the Lacrosse Forums to produce a bamboo shaft, and they felt encouraged to do so, expanding their portfolio of woods.
The first test bamboo shaft went out to a Lacrosse Forums member in Feb. 2009. Since then, HIKSTIK has expanded its offering, creating shafts from white ash, Texas red oak and maple. Rachel and her father added rare, exotic woods to the mix, including ipe and purple heart.
While toying with a pile of wood chips, Rachel's father began piecing together scraps from various shafts. What he eventually assembled would become HIKSTIK's one-of-a-kind, 85-piece, 30-inch custom laminate shaft, which features patterned, interconnected pieces of purpleheart, Texas red oak, wenge and bloodwood — all in their natural color and finish.
"It makes a great gift for coaches or for anyone who loves lacrosse," Rachel says.
An example of the innovation found in the lacrosse industry, Rachel and her father are looking to grow the company, but still view the venture as a father-daughter project.
"It's something fun for my dad and I to do," Rachel says. "I've never been able to get into using a metal shaft. It's just my thing. Our shafts are really nice. They hold up well. And we're hoping to bring back a little bit of the old times for people who might not have ever used a wood shaft."
You can order shafts directly from HIKSTIK through the company's site. The company also does custom orders, including making shafts for lacrosse heads from previous decades, an example being shafts for some of STX's early heads with beveled-style throats (e.g. the Sam, Barney). The company can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Christian Louboutin
v. YSL
Simply put, it is a battle for the sole. Last year, Christian Louboutin sued Yves Saint Laurent, claiming a trademark infringement on his signature "Chinese Red" soles because YSL featured a red-soled shoe in its 2011 resort collection. Yves Saint Laurent countered that it has used red soles since the 1970s, and in August, a federal judge in New York ruled that Louboutin's trademark on the color was "overly broad" and not protected. But the designer was back in court this week to appeal that ruling. He appeared with Diane von Furstenberg at his side and told WWD that for YSL "this might just be a legal matter, but that's not the case for me. On the contrary, to me it is very personal."
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Thursday Friday
Birkin hunters have long traded tales of how to land the legendary Hermès bag, so Thursday Friday, the Los Angeles–based accessories company, came up with a simple solution—silkscreen an image of one onto a canvas tote. Hermès was not amused by the $35 Together bag and in January 2011 sued Thursday Friday for copyright infringement. Although Thursday Friday did not use the actual Hermès logo and claimed its tote was protected because it's a "parody," a judge disagreed—the case was settled for an undisclosed amount, and the Together bag was bagged.
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I've been looking at some of the comments on Renesmee's page, and it's like all of almost all the twihards on here only know that today (Sep 11) is just Renesmee's birthday. Hello people today is more than just a dumb character in the twilight saga birthday. Today is 9/11 the day probably more than 30,00 people lost their lives because of Osama Bin Lin aka the terrorist that one of three planes that hit the world trade center (the twin towns) in New York City.
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Ramsey: "Goal" for UofL to be in ACC Next Year
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Will the Louisville Cardinals be playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference next season? Probably, but it's not a 100 percent certainty.
-- UofL President James Ramsey says the goal is to be in the ACC next season, but there is one big obstacle at the moment.
-- Maryland has to leave the ACC before Louisville can join, and that school is currently challenging a 52-million dollar exit fee imposed by the ACC. The matter is currently in the courts and a ruling could be several months away.
-- The University of Louisville is still working with the American Athletic Conference on leaving a year early, and those discussions are going well.


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By Rikki King Herald Writer
EVERETT — The man set his cellphone to record video.
Then he set the phone in his shopping basket at the Walmart along Evergreen Way in south Everett.
He walked behind another shopper, the basket tilted underneath her denim skirt.
The man then walked into another aisle, set down the basket and left the store, checking his phone.
A loss prevention employee saw it happen. She called police.
The man, 34, of Edmonds, is under investigation for voyeurism in connection with the Nov. 26 incident. His phone was seized that day by Everett detectives, who also notified the victim. She was unaware of what happened, according to court papers.
Detectives obtained a judge's permission to search the phone in December. Forensic techniques can reveal hidden or deleted video content within cell phones.
The case is ongoing, said Everett police Sgt. Chip Higinbotham, who leads the Special Assault Unit, which handles sex crimes. The investigation eventually will be forwarded to prosecutors for review, he said.
The man reportedly told detectives that he heard about how to film up-skirt videos and wanted to try it. He told them he had "chickened out" and not made the recording because he felt guilty, police wrote in court papers.
The man has no known significant criminal history. Voyeurism is a felony under state law.
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Howard Lovecraft Review and Corrective Measures Vol. 2 Preview:Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
And now a Howard Lovecraft review from Publisher's Weekly:
The latest in the fertile field of Lovecraft spinoffs follows a young Howard, aka H.P., Lovecraft through an adventure in a dangerous netherworld. The plot takes elements of Lovecraft's actual childhood, including his father's nervous breakdown, and uses them to introduce readers to tropes in Lovecraft's work. The young Howard goes through a portal to another universe, where a mysterious book holds the key to freeing a society of children from an evil power that has encased them in a frozen, hostile world. Howard takes on the quest with the help a giant squid, facing danger and finding many of his assumptions are false. A chilly watercolor palate links the artwork of the various artists–each chapter has a different one–and the emotions on Howard's face become more complex as the story grows darker. Although marketed for all ages, the book, will likely appeal more to younger readers, who should find the plot's twists and turns and the young protagonist appealing. Older readers and hardcore Lovecraft fans may be put off by the juvenile dialogue and some of the panels that play up the cuteness, rather than the horror, of the story. (Mar.)
Also Ain't it Cool News has decided to preview a bit of our new title Corrective Measures Vol 2.
Link here -> http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45223
It's a bit of a scroll down but I'm sure you fine internet friends can find it.
That's all the press for now.
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WATCH: Crews rescue a 4-year-old from the mudslide
(NEWSER) – Positive news is hard to come by when it comes to the mudslide that wiped out a Washington state community, but footage is making the rounds today of a helicopter crew rescuing a 4-year-old boy from the muddy wreckage. Jacob Spillers was home with his two sisters, age 5 and 2, his stepfather, and his 13-year-old half-brother when the slide hit. The home was destroyed, and all were trapped inside, according to the Seattle Times.


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I'm trying to learn up on the topic of fuzzing, i'm using vmware workstation for the backtrack 3 & unpatched xp sp1 box. What i'm trying to do is the ultravnc 1.0.1 buffer overflow & the realvnc 3.3.7 buffer overflow. Basically when i set up the exploit on backtrack and then attempt to connect to it from the xp box all that happens is the program crashes in both cases (ultra & real). I attempted to look at the crash in olly debug but to little avail. What i would like to do is to recreate the crash manually, find a place for shellcode, and tell the program to jump to the shellcode. I appreciate any help that your willing to give. I'm basically just trying to recreate the buffer overflow to better understand how it all works. Thanks again for all your help.
I have just finished reading this book. Its easy to understand if you have programming background. I can still say that I have a lot more to learn about fuzzing even after reading this book.
Do you realize that those exploits are most likely Version specific AND Operating system specific? Also do you realize that you must be using ultravnc in order to use the ultravnc exploit as the realvnc exploit will most likely not work?
Fuzzing is just part of required knowledge in order to properly exploit programs. On top of that you must know what to look for and how to write proper exploits for each program. It is a must to know how to program and have a great understanding of any protocols your target is using. Along with in-memory fuzzing and file fuzzing.
Notice that it might be possible that the exploits your trying to use have been purposely miscoded in order to keep skiddies from using them at will.
There is no easy way to learn this so don't ask for it.
thanks hhmatt81 for your time and input. I'll def give the book a read. And i have an understanding of how buffer overflows work and why, just wanting to further my knowladge on the subject. Thanks again.
Go to google, type in fuzzing pdf, and you will find there is a very large volume of information that is available for viewing.
It is free, so you won't necessarily have to buy a book from amazon, and you can get it without that wait.
This is a very useful way to get information on many subjects as google finds pdf files.
The first search result is interesting, i can't post links yet as I am still a no00ob
portable w3af UI GTK !!
WebInspect has a click fuzzer
webscarab i use sometimes too
some stuff you may not know about
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mybrain
Jon kinda did these in reverse. The first edition was an "advanced" view at elite exploitation techniques using various overflows and network (wired/wireless) protocol/programming flaws. The second edition is a more in-deph view of, for instance, OOD(Object Oriented Design) and language architectures. I'd recommend the first edition if you are looking nito fuzzing, as the techniques shown in the book are exactly what fuzzing looks for.
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Imagine you are at a New Year's Eve party and you know only one person there, the hostess, who happens to be a good friend and you came because, well, she invited you.
You realize it is nearing midnight, when people will start grabbing each other for kisses. What do you do? Get in on the kissing or hide out in the bathroom until the coast is clear?
If you are me, you lock that bathroom door about 10 minutes before midnight and sit tight until about 10 minutes after the magic hour strikes.
And that's exactly what I did as 1984 turned into 1985.
Yep, I completely ignored that superstition that says if you don't kiss somebody at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve you are setting yourself up for a year filled with loneliness. So be it. At the time, that possibility was preferable to swapping saliva with complete strangers.
I was sharing this anecdote with one of my colleagues when she related her own New Year's Eve kiss experience, but with different results. She went to a gathering where she didn't know anybody except the couple who invited her to come along. Her midnight decision: Throw caution to the wind. She figures she kissed a dozen guys she had never met before and would never see again.
By now you're wondering why I am revealing such ancient and personal history.
I hope this can turn into a share-and-share-alike kind of deal. Now you tell me about your most memorable – good or bad – New Year's Eve kiss (or non-kiss, depending on the circumstances).
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Send them by email to Theresa Walker at email@example.com and put "Midnight Kiss" in the subject heading. Include your first and last name, city of residence and a daytime phone where you can be reached. No worries, we won't publish your phone number.
We'll need to hear from you by Dec. 17.
Oh and one more thing. About that year of loneliness that was supposed to unfold because I spurned smooching on a New Year's Eve? Six months later I met the man who is now my husband. Ever since, he's been the only guy I've kissed on New Year's and lots of other eves.
I sure didn't imagine that outcome, sitting by myself in that bathroom all those years ago.
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Heres some background,
I met SO (significant other) in August. Shortly after we began dating I moved in. I know, stupid move.I was so optimistic and naive. I thought he was the guy I had been looking for. Then, his true colors started showing. He admitted that he knew he had HPV when he started dating me. I was shattered. Initially he wasn't even apologetic. Just defensive. He's been manipulating me and has a told disregard for my health and he has the gall to be defensive. By this point my feelings are kind of strong, but there are other reasons why I am sticking with this guy.
It hasn't even been a month yet and he is always accusing me of things for no good reason. One time he took me to my sisters house and waited outsidewhen I came out he was mad as hell and told me to pack my shit, he was kicking me out because Im a liar. I was SO (significant other) confused and hurt. It completely blind sided me. He drove over the speed limit on the way home, accusing me and saying there must have been some guy in my sisters house that I was meeting.
I showed him what I was doing, I went to my sister to edit a picture of him and I and it turned out really nice. After that he apologized, I forgave him. I still put the picture on facebook and a lot of people 'liked' it thinking we were a cute couple. Pictures dont tell the whole truth.
So, a week or so goes by and his facebook account is open, I see a message he wrote to another girl! Wow. Words can not describe how ridiculous this guy is when it comes to accusing/suspecting me of cheating or flirting. He had a roommate that he swore I had sex with, for NO REASON. So when I saw this I was shocked.
He said he must have written it when he was high. He told this girl I had "trapped" him. This after he cries like a baby to me about how sorry he is about not telling me about the hpv. I have my reasons for staying, they arent really good enough. But they're enough to keep me around. Deep down I never truly forgive any of his actions, only outwardly.
It only gets worse. One of the nights he accuses me of sleeping with the roommate I tell him I think he's jealous of his roommate and he chokes me and calls me a bitch.When I start to pack my shit he wont let me go. I make it clear I want to leave.I hit him back and he starts asking me why I him HIM! Wtf. Crazy.
Ok. He has hit me since then. Last time he was furious because I changed my fb status to single. I forget why I did that. But he threatened to kill me if I didn't change it and pushed me around until I would. I refused. He slammed my head into the mattress and pulled me by my feet off the couch. I scraped my arm. Still I didnt move.
Fast forward to today. I woke up and he was screaming obscenities. Apparently his wallet was missing. It's 7 am. He goes berserk. Mind you, he's lost his wallet before a couple weeks ago. He had everything canceled and replaced.I honestly, have no idea where it is. He puts his feet (with dirty shoes on) on my couch and I ask him not to and he says I dont care about your couch and I say well I do and he says I would too if this were the only furniture I would have in my whole life. Wow.
Not only is he spitting on my character by accusing me of being a thief (he steals from his family btw), but he is also putting me down and saying I will never achieve success on my own.He keeps demanding his wallet back and insisting that I help him find it. Then he tells me about this other girl and how this and that she is and how she gives him hugs all the time (in class).He threatens to break my things. This goes on for 2 hrs. Then he gets a phone call from a cop telling him he's outside and he found his wallet!
So he comes to me and I stop him midsentence and tell him I dont want any apologies I just want to be left alone.
I care about him and I wanted to have a kid with him, but not any more. I can do so much better. He talks about having a baby and marriage every damn day and I just dont respond anymore. The main reason I havent moved on yet is because Im waiting until I find a job and become more independent. Until then I feel like I should stay here. But I dont think he deserves a woman like me.


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Medicinal cannabis would now be available as a prescription in Sweden after Sativex, a cannabis-based mouth spray, was approved by the Medical Products Agency for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).
"This is great news for those who can't get any relief from the most common drugs," Jan Hillert, an MS researcher at Karolinska Institute and said the institute is planning to closely monitor prescriptions for Sativex to ensure against abuse.
The cannabis-based mouth spray does not result in a "high" as the cannabinoids included — a near 1:1 mix of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) — are not administered in large enough doses, according to both the agency and Sativex manufacturer GW Pharmaceuticals, which grows medicinal cannabis and prepares the extract in Britain.
Sativex spray is used sublingually (under the tongue), has been shown by a series of medical studies to be successful for alleviating multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms.
"Evidence generated from clinical trials shows that Sativex® has a positive impact on spasticity in multiple sclerosis, while alleviating associated symptoms including pain, bladder or sleep disturbance," GW Pharmaceuticals said in a press release. "By relieving the symptoms of MS, Sativex® can improve patients' quality of life and allow them greater independence in performing their daily activities."
The cannabis spray is already available as a prescription medication in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Canada and New Zealand, according to GW.


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Step Brothers
Lord Steppington
01. More Wins
02. Dr. Kimble
03. Byron G feat. Domo Genesis & The Whooliganz
04. Legendary Mesh
05. No Hesitation feat. Styles P
06. Swimteam Rastas
07. Mums In The Garage feat. Action Bronson
08. See The Rich Man Play feat. Roc Marciano
09. Banging Sound feat. Fashawn
10. Step Masters
11. Tomorrow feat. Rakaa & Blu
12. Draw Something feat. Oh No
13. Buzzing Away
14. Just Step
Evidence has traveled the world, released a string of acclaimed albums with Dilated Peoples and as a solo artist, has become a respected producer crafting beats for Kanye West, Beastie Boys and Linkin Park among others. For his part, Alchemist has become one of rap's triple threats, producing for Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Nas and many more. Alchemist is also an accomplished rapper and Eminem's touring DJ. While they were building their respective careers, Evidence and Alchemist had worked together regularly collaborating on Dilated Peoples albums, Evidence's solo material and Alchemist's releases. As the pair continued collaborating, they began labeling themselves as Step Brothers when they would record, as noted on Evidence's The Layover EP. The pair then decided it was time to record an album together.
Now as the Step Brothers, Evidence and Alchemist deliver another stellar musical achievement, Lord Steppington, which delivers lyric-driven, punchline-heavy and intricate rhymes. Lord Steppington boasts the best of the duo peppered with frequent collaborators and friends, including Action Bronson, Roc Marciano, Domo Genesis, The Whooliganz, Styles P, Fashawn, Rakaa, Blu and Oh No.


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Sigma Theta Tau is the nursing honor society and chapters throughout the United States and in other countries. The Delta Gamma chapter is housed in the College of Nursing. The mission of the organization is to provide leadership and scholarship in nursing practice, education and research.
Membership is by invitation to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students and community nursing leaders. Once a year, undergraduate and graduate students with advanced standing are invited to an on-campus induction ceremony.
The Delta Gamma chapter meets formally throughout the year and hosts events such as:
MUSNA, the Marquette University Students Nurses Association, is a professional organization comprising nursing students at all levels that serves as a liaison between students and faculty. It is a service-based organization whose members volunteer within the university and the surrounding community.
MUSNA works hard to build strong relationships between the different grades and encourages students to actively organize, participate in and facilitate activities. Students are given opportunities to build confidence and leadership skills that can be applied to their future nursing practices.
MUSNA is an official member of the Wisconsin Student Nurses Association, a branch of the National Student Nurses Association. Members have the opportunity to attend WSNA/NSNA conventions in the fall and spring to further increase their opportunities at the state and national levels.
If you would like to become involved in MUSNA, please contact our faculty adviser, Judy Kowatsch, at (414) 288-3727 or by e-mail.


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'Defenseman Rory Fitzpatrick, who spent most of last season in the minors, signed Tuesday with the Buffalo Sabres. Fitzpatrick had two assists in 22 games with the IHL's Milwaukee Admirals before being traded at midseason to the Hamilton Bulldogs. There, he had three goals and 17 assists.'
The Sabres Report - August 14, 2001


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Feature: Package Rename Refactoring. In Package Explorer, use F2, "Rename…" in the Package Explorer context menu, or "Rename…" in the top-level File menu
Problem: In Flex Builder 3,
in order to refactor packages…well you couldn't. You'd have to do this manually or use another tool. Ouch.
Solution: Implement package rename refactoring. Thanks, Scott!.Share on Facebook


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Suno Resort 2013
Whether real or imagined, the prospect of an adventure in a far-flung locale is irresistible at any time, but particularly alluring when it comes to resort. As Erin Beatty will tell you, some of the most rewarding journeys a young designer will take are the personal ones, and as recent CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists, Beatty and Max Osterweis are beginning to wear that newfound confidence on their sleeve. With that in mind, the starting point for their fourth resort collection came down to gut instinct and exploring new ways to access the very essence of the label. "Emotions are such an important part of the shopping experience," said Beatty. "This season we really wanted to zone in on pieces that women will want to wear everyday."
For Suno, that meant looking at the familiar prints in their repertoire with fresh eyes. The colorful plaids the brand is known for were abstracted to look like dripping wet paint and the resolution of a charcoal print was blown up so big on a silk sweatshirt it became pixelated. The pair is exploring how the placement of those digital prints can shift the perception of a look entirely, and the graphic basketball-court motif on a baseball jacket and wide-legged pant was strategically aligned to enhance the oversize silhouette. They were mindful to include separates to ground all that printed matter, too, like icy-blue anoraks and easy woolen jackets. Those pieces are likely to be the first thing shoppers pick up in the chilly days leading up to the holidays; and given the sheer volume of the collection, they'll certainly be spoilt for choice. As the company continues to grow, maintaining core values where sustainability is concerned will be important too. The two factory floors in Kenya, where much of the collection will be produced, remain important destinations.


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you seemed upset.
Well that's the first time I've been accused of being on roids. Obviously if you look at my physique then I can see where you're coming from.
MMA Officials London, Essex and East Anglia representative
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
I vote gtfo.
Have you seen JDI's FB, its fucking laughable how sad it is, so yeah sanjdi sort your fb out you fame hungry little fucknut.
Sig awaiting witty quote from someone.
Whats wierd is that all the time he spends pretending to be other people, you'd think he would of read back some of his shite an thought "fuck i come across and type exactly the same no matter what name i use-time to mix it up a bit"
Shangchi, you know when you got found to have the same IP as Jay-why was that again? Oh an tell me about how many fb likes
,Chuck Norris and Camero...nah fuck tha coke an tranny stories FTW!


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Last post Oct 28, 2009 12:37 PM by gerrylowry
Oct 01, 2009 10:37 AM|Michelee|LINK
I have a mvc project with a page for security question and answer. I need to get the nunmber of wrong answers. I used a hidden control in aspx that is populate from TempData(<%= Html.Hidden("wrongAnswer",TempData["WrongAnswer"]==null?"0":TempData["WrongAnswer"].ToString()) %>).
In my controller action, if I get a wrong answer I use Request["wrongAnswer"] to get value I increment it and put it back to TempData and then return View(). First time I redirect to this action I put in TempData["WrongAnswer"]=0.
The problem is that the hidden always has value 0, my TempData is incrementing correctly but when im submitting my form the hidden doesn't have the correct value. Why is this happening?
hidden control and tempdata
Oct 01, 2009 11:44 AM|gerrylowry|LINK
Try putting break points in your code and on your .aspx page if you have not already done so.
You've a better chance of seeing what is going on if you patiently step through your .aspx and your code.
Gerry (Lowry)
Oct 01, 2009 11:46 AM|gerrylowry|LINK
P.S.: you might want to post more of your actual code.
Oct 01, 2009 12:36 PM|bradwils|LINK
On postback, all input helpers -- including hidden -- render the value that's in ModelState rather than the value that's provided from ViewData or the helper method. The assumption is that if you're re-rendering the form on postback, then it's because there was an error, and we should show the values the user typed rather than the values in the object.
In your controller action, you could remove the hidden value from ModelState to force it to use the new value.
Oct 02, 2009 03:37 AM|Michelee|LINK
Yes, I managed to resolve my problem. You ware right, this line do the trick:
12512 Points
Oct 02, 2009 08:40 PM|ricka6|LINK
Wouldn't it be simpler to keep track of this number in session state?
Oct 15, 2009 02:07 AM|gerrylowry|LINK
ricka6Wouldn't it be simpler to keep track of this number in session state?
This is a question because I do not know the answer and I am unsure whether my understanding is correct.
It seems that the idea of ASP.NET MVC is to be "stateless" and that using "session state" would break that mould.
N'est-ce pas?
12512 Points
Oct 15, 2009 02:24 PM|ricka6|LINK
I use session state in many of my samples to simulate a DB (persistence). Session used judiciously is fine.
Oct 27, 2009 04:30 PM|gerrylowry|LINK
interesting side effect of ModelState.Remove
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(Brad)) // we have to have a Brad
ModelState.AddModelError("Brad", "Brad is needed.");
ModelState.Remove("Brad"); // we want a new Brad !!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ PROBLEM: the error message also vanishes.
ONE SOLUTION: clone Brad
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(Brad)) // we have to have a Brad
ModelState.AddModelError("Brad2", "Brad is needed."); // clone of Brad
ModelState.Remove("Brad"); // we want a new Brad !!
To every solution it sometimes seems there is another challenge to be solved.
Oct 28, 2009 12:10 PM|bradwils|LINK
I don't understand... your hidden fields are generating model state errors? How is that possible? Did you generate the hidden field with an invalid value?
Oct 28, 2009 12:37 PM|gerrylowry|LINK
Hi Brad,
no, the hidden field is not generating an error.
I create some random data to create an arithmetical form of captcha.
Because of the RESTful nature of ASP.NET MVC, I encrypt the equation and pass it as a hidden field so that it can not easily be dissected by a bot.
A non hidden textbox field is available for the end user's answer.
If the end user fails to answer correctly, I eliminate both the wrong answer and the hidden, encrypted equation.
Everytime the end user is returned to that page, she/he is given a new random equation to solve.
Regards ~~ Gerry


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broadcom, woeful at best
and it would be ideal if you could paste us lsusb output with that wireless dongle attached.
Right I found this site the other day and thought it looked like a good o/s so thought a would give it a go. After installing BT3 Final Usb Version on my usb i fired that bad boy up and BT worked straight away but i had no wireless interface theres a broadcom 4315 in it but after searching about the fourms i found out broadcom aint so great and didnt continue that road. Ive had a Belkin Wireless G Plus Mimo USB Network Adapter lying about to thought i would give it ago shutdown the system plugged it and fired the system back up and to my surprise its seeing it as rausb0 but says something about WPA Supplicant is not started encryption cannot be configured the driver that i select it wext cause thats the one highlighted at the beginning but ive tried them. all any help would be great thanks.
broadcom, woeful at best
and it would be ideal if you could paste us lsusb output with that wireless dongle attached.
Yeah Dude Here Is The lsusb output
Bus 1 Device 3: ID 0c45:63e5 Microdia
Bus 1 Device 5: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp.
Bus 1 Device 2: ID 050d:905b Belkin Components F5D9050 ver 3 Wireless Adapter
Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 5 Device 2: ID 413c:02b0 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 5 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000
Ok so it has rt73 chipset, but why would it start wpa-supplicant is beyond my knowledge, maybe you configured wpa-supplicant.conf and that the device is in managed mode?
Yeah the device is in manage mode not to sure wot that means wots the mode i want to be in likes ad hoc?
managed: client to a network where you normally connect to a router.. i.e. in general SOHO setup.
check with man iwconfig.
right figured out how to change it from managed to monitor from looking through the fourms the problem now is that when i do airodump-ng rausb0 it doesnt find my AP, Were is when its in managed mode it finds it any ideas. Would Just Like To Add A Wee Note At The Bottom Sayin Thanks Too hatake_kakashi And To Everyone Whos Thread I Read (To Many To List Lol) Am Slowly Learnin But Havent Had This Much Fun In Ages.


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Rennie leads Tornados through first round of Tusculum Fall ClassicSeptember 26, 2011
BC sits eighth overall after first day's events
Greeneville, Tenn. - Thomas Rennie tied for the lowest back nine of the first round of the Tusculum Fall Classic at the Link Hills Country Club on Monday morning and sits in medal contention as the Tornados are eighth overall after the first day's events.
Rennie is currently tied for fifth overall with a first round score of 70, leading the Tornados to a first round total of 295 as Coach David Nelson's top four took on the field.
Michael Stamper sits three strokes back in a tie for 18th overall, recording scores of 35 and 38 to finish the round with a 73, while Kim Koivu is one stroke behind, carding rounds of 36 and 38 to sit tied for 28th overall.
T.J. Hoard rounds out the Brevard foursome, dropping four strokes off his front nine score to finish with a first round 78, tying for 57th overall after the first day's events.
The Tornados conclude the two day Tusculum Fall Classic tomorrow morning in Greeneville, Tenn.


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I have a ZFS partition that on 'fdisk -l' the partition is shown as ee GPT, but I can't read it/mount it with zfs-fuse 0.5. Any help?
Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69


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New on here so first off hello to everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good BJJ trainer or gym in or around middlesbrough, i have some experince with boxing and kickboxing and am set on the idea that i'd like to get into mma on an ametuer/semi pro level.
I know of a few places training MMA so i'm just putting the feelers out for anyone i may have missed.
any help would be greatly appreciatted.


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Nezar AlSayyad, chair of the University of California Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, correctly predicted on Tuesday that the military would seize power the next day.
AlSayyad also predicted Egypt's Constitutional Court would be a key part of the Army governing solution until new elections could be held.
The Berkeley scholar told VOA that unlike February of 2011 when the military removed long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak from office and assumed power, this time the Army toppled Morsi, but created a civilian council headed by an interim head of state.
Cites differences with Mubarak ouster
"I am not really calling it a military [coup] at all. To the contrary, I am insisting that what should be called a military coup is what happened on February 11, 2011 when in fact the armed forces of Egypt removed President Hosni Mubarak," said AlSayyad. "This was a complete coup because the military installed itself as the guardian of Egypt.
This time, the military simply removed a sitting president when there was tremendous opposition against him," he said. "This time, the military has actually created a civilian council to govern the country headed by the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court."
In a televised address late Wednesday, Army chief Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi said Egypt's constitution has been suspended and the head of the constitutional court appointed interim head of state.
Sisi declared that the army was reflecting the call of the Egyptian people, responding to massive opposition demands that President Mohamed Morsi step down.
As part of a new military-backed "roadmap" for the country, Sisi called for presidential and parliamentary elections, a panel to review the constitution, and a national reconciliation committee.
AlSayyad said he has no reason to doubt the military's declaration that the transition period would last for six months.
I have no reason to believe or to be suspicious about the time frame," AlSayyad said.
At least this time we know it is not completely in the hands of the military," he continued. "At least this time, we also know that the individuals involved have a degree of political knowledge and political experience. At least we have someone who knows the law."
Meanwhile, a senior official of the African Union (AU) says it is likely the AU's Peace and Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the change of government in Egypt.
Erastus Mwencha, deputy chairperson of the African Union Commission, told VOA he also feels it is too early to say whether Morsi's ouster can be characterized as a military coup.
The AU has a standing policy of not recognizing leaders or regimes that come to power through unconstitutional means.


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Topic: IPT
Hi Everyone,
I've gone through the discussion forum and I don't see enough on IPT. Has anyone had experience with IPT that has been truly effective? Any doctors you can recommend? I would appreciate any feedback or response.
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Hi Everyone,
I've gone through the discussion forum and I don't see enough on IPT. Has anyone had experience with IPT that has been truly effective? Any doctors you can recommend? I would appreciate any feedback or response.
Hi Nick,
I assume you mean Insulin potentiation therapy when you talk of IPT? I did a google search for this and there are many sites for IPT. Have you looked into this treatment, and if so what did you find?
This is from 2008 -
http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/Treatme … on-therapy
And a search here on this site came up with this -
http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … =687349665
Although there is a lot of information on the web about IPT, a lot of it seems to be a few years old and I couldn't find anything about it in journals. Do you have any links on it that you could share here?
Best wishes,
Hi Gavin,
Indeed I mean insulin potentiation therapy. I went to this site:
I did contact a couple of local practitioners and learned very little from them directly. I understand how theoretically it's supposed to work but I cannot find any evidence or scientific studies. I was hoping to find a cholangio patient who has tried this.
My logical side tells me that if IPT was really that effective, then its' discussion and availibility would be prominent and widespread. What I have heard is conspiracy-type chatter that drug companies don't want IPT promoted because that would cut into bread and butter chemo drugs. I just don't believe that. It's essentially lower dose of the chemo, and I think think drug companies would pioneer the way if IPT proved to be effective.
So if any cholangio patient or caregiver has direct experience with IPT, I am keen to listen.
The information expressed is not medical advice. The discussion boards are not intended to replace the services of a trained health professional or to be a substitute for the medical advice of physicians or other healthcare providers. Read the full disclaimer.


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I've been unsuccessful in trying to get the terminal beep/bell working using:
echo -e "\a"
The computer's sound system is okay - playing something in my browser works fine. Actually, now that I think about it I'm not sure if any non-browser sound works in my Backtrack 5 R2. Am I supposed to hear something when BT5 starts up?
I've searched the web and there doesn't appear to be any consistency on this. It's been suggested that this is a bug within Ubuntu. Some get it working using alsamixer (some, like me, don't). Modifying the blacklist file didn't do it nor did removing compiz (two other suggestions). Didn't find much of anything relating to the bell/beep in backtrack though.
I'm running BT5 R2 and Gnome in a VM environment.
Anyone seen anything similar to this?


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WATCH: Masked Michigan man clears snow for entire neighborhood
A Michigan man with a snowblower is being hailed as a hero by his neighbors after he cleared their driveways and walkways in subzero temperatures, unprompted and for free.
"When the snow first started to fall here, I noticed I had a couple neighbors that were out here trying to shovel," Brian Torrey, of Battle Creek, Mich., told Fox 17. Temperatures in Battle Creek dropped to -11 degrees Tuesday.
Torrey says he bought the snowblower at a yard sale last year, but had yet to use it. "I decided to fire it up and get out here and start helping people," he said.
The 32-year-old's unselfishness took some neighbors by surprise.
"I was kind of surprised because it's been a long time since we've had a neighbor do anything like that," one of Torrey's neighbors told the network. "A lot of them don't do their sidewalks half the time."
He offered to pay Torrey, but Torrey refused.
"I wish there were more people that did stuff like this, you know?" Torrey said. "You're not out here trying to make a buck, you're just trying to help people out."


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Lakers fans greeted new coach Mike D'Antoni with a warm pregame ovation.
Kobe Bryant welcomed him with an act of defiance.
The Brooklyn Nets offered him nothing but trouble Tuesday night.
And so it went during D'Antoni's much-anticipated debut on the Lakers' bench after spending his first two games stuck in their locker room after undergoing knee replacement surgery three weeks ago.
The Lakers didn't play with the same ease and efficiency as in recent victories over Houston and Phoenix, but they still managed to rally past the Nets for a 95-90 win in front of a sellout crowd of 18,997 at Staples Center.
"First of all, it was great to be out there, great to be with the guys," D'Antoni said after the Lakers rallied from a six-point deficit with a 17-6 flurry over the final 5 minutes, 18 seconds. "I think I sweated through my shirt, but other than that, it was pretty good."
In fact, D'Antoni spent most of the game seated on a thick cushion atop his courtside chair, somehow resisting his natural inclination to stand and direct his team while pacing the sideline. When he did leave his seat, he walked with a limp.
"It didn't hurt," he said of his knee. "I was a little peg-legged, but it was good."
After an electric start in which they bolted to a 10-0 lead, the Lakers limped along for quite a while, too. The Lakers wanted the same fast pace that carried them past the Rockets on Sunday and the Suns on Friday.
The Nets wouldn't allow it, however.
Brooklyn never led by more than 84-78, but refused to play along with the Lakers' new up-tempo offense. The Nets also had the size and the strength around the basket to slow down the Lakers' Dwight Howard in the paint.
Howard's dunk, off a lob from Pau Gasol, tied the score at 86-all with 3:05 remaining. They went ahead for good 87-86 when Gasol made a free throw with 2:37 to play. Bryant kept them ahead with six free throws in the final minute.
Overall, the Lakers made only 19 of 37 from the line (51.4 percent).
The Nets employed a Hack-a-Howard defense in the late going, fouling him in the open court and hoping he would miss his free throws.
Brooklyn was rewarded when Howard made only seven of 19, the only weak link in his game.
Bryant scored 25 points, Howard added 23 points, a team-leading 15 rebounds and four blocked shots and Gasol and Metta World Peace each scored 17 points. Gasol also had 11 rebounds and a team-leading seven assists.
Brook Lopez scored 23 points and Deron Williams added 22 points and 10 assists for the Nets, whose five-game winning streak came to an end. Joe Johnson scored 14 points and Reggie Evans did not score but had 11 rebounds.
"We did a good job communicating with each other," Bryant said after the Lakers won their third game in a row to move above the .500 mark for the first time this season at 6-5. "We adapted on the fly. ... We're getting in sync with each other."
Meanwhile, D'Antoni's first official substitution came moments after Bryant drew his second foul a little more than 6 minutes into the game. D'Antoni called for Chris Duhon to replace Bryant, but Bryant waved him off in no uncertain terms.
So, D'Antoni sent Duhon in for Darius Morris instead.
Welcome to the Lakers, Mike.
Bryant did the same to Phil Jackson on occasion. He would also check himself back into games, rising and walking confidently past Jackson when things got tight and he felt it was time for him to rescue the Lakers.
Jackson shrugged it off.
Mike Brown, fired last Friday, never seemed to get used to the idea.
In time, D'Antoni will learn to roll with it.
"That's good," D'Antoni said of Bryant's wave-off. "First of all, he better not foul because it's on him. Second of all, I've got to be able to trust (him). ... Kobe was in a great rhythm in the first quarter and I didn't really want to take him out.
"He wanted to stay in, so, good, stay in and keep it going."


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Brevard, N.C.- Claire Dillman won her number two singles match after pairing with Michelle Prata to win the number one doubles match, but the Anderson Trojans still managed a 7-2 victory over the Brevard College women's tennis team at McCoy Tennis Complex on Friday afternoon.
Dillman and Prata took care of business on the number one doubles court, taking down Avery Owens and Karen Ching 8-3.
Dillman then defeated Karen Ching on the number two singles court in three sets, 7-5, 6-7, 10-7. The senior has won her last five singles matches, dating back to a 6-0, 6-1 victory on the first court over Assumption's Erica Micciche on March 7th.
BC's Elise Labus took Hannah Ecleberry to three sets on the number four singles court but couldn't grind out the victory, falling 2-6, 7-6, 10-8.
As Sunday's match with the Mars Hill College Lions has been postponed due to weather concerns, the Tornados retake the court next on Wednesday as they host the Newberry Wolves at McCoy at 2 p.m.


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View: Petition for review | Petition for write of mandate
Los Angeles County prosecutors have petitioned the California Supreme Court for a new hearing to stop the conditional release of serial rapist Christopher Hubbart.
Jackie Lacey, the district attorney in Los Angeles County, announced her office's action against Hubbart in a statement issued Friday afternoon.
"I am asking the California Supreme Court to grant us an opportunity to oppose the release of a sexually violent predator into any community - not just ours," Lacey said, in the statement. "It's my job to safeguard our communities. This man has sexually assaulted nearly 40 women and, in my opinion, continues to pose a significant threat to public safety."
"This is an important issue that must be addressed," Lacey said. "The people of California deserve to have an advocate dedicated to protecting them all."
Lacey is also asking the court to determine that Hubbart's home is in Santa Clara County, not Los Angeles County, as a judge in Santa Clara County ruled earlier.
Hubbart admitted between 1971 and 1982 to raping and sexually assaulting 38 women throughout the state, according to the statement.
Lacey argued that Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown made a legal error when he declared Hubbart's home as Los Angeles County.
Hubbart, who was born and raised in Los Angeles County, hasn't lived in the county since 1972, except when he was paroled to San Bernardino for two months in 1993 and lived in Claremont.
In the years leading to his last arrest, he lived in Santa Clara County and has no family living in Los Angeles County, according to Lacey's statement.
The California Welfare and Institutions code requires a sexually violent person to be conditionally released to the county of his or her home "prior to the person's incarceration."
Lacey reported that from November 1979 to November 1981 Hubbart lived in Santa Clara County and was paroled there for two months in 1990 when his parole was revoked and he was returned to state prison.
In 1996, Hubbart was deemed a sexually violent predator and Santa Clara County last prosecuted him and initiated the proceedings. Since then he has been in state custody.
Claremont officials say they have not been told that Hubbart would be released to that city.
"Nobody has been notified that he will be released in Claremont," City Manager Tony Ramos said, a little more than a week ago. He said the state Department of Mental Health must notify the police chief 15 days prior to the submission of a release location to the Supreme Court.
The 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose denied the Los Angeles County District Attorney's challenge to Hubbart's release to Los Angeles County earlier this month.
Until the legal issues are resolved, the writ petition from prosecutors also seeks to stop any release of Hubbart.