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came on new truck nail went into side wall. Had to replace tire. Nothing specialabout this tire, maybe weak side walls.
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Great tough long wearing tire but don't get them muddy. Have 90000KMs on them and still have about 20% tread left. Good general AT tire, not a good off road tire.
Size: 31x10.50R15
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These tires are noisy, there traction on wet and a small amount of snow isn't good, ice just forget it. They don't corner well on wet roads. They do not get good traction on takeoff on wet roads. It's not a powerhouse, just 3.9L Magnum V6. The tire doesn't do well in mud or gravel on a average hill. The tires have not worn well.
Firestone tires are notorious for having too hard of rubber tread design which reduces it's traction capabilities, especially when cold.
Size: 235/75R15
Vehicle: 2001 Dodge Dakota 2 Dr Extended Cab Pickup, 7 Ft Bed Base (235/75R15 108 S) with 19308 KM of Tire Wear
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The absolute worst tire I have ever purchased. I didn't even get 30,000 miles out of them. I will never buy another firestone tire. I flushed 1,200 dollars down the toilet. Please do not buy these tires....
Size: 265/65R18
Vehicle: 2008 GMC Sierra 1500 4 Dr Crew Cab Pickup, 6 Ft Bed Denali 18" option with 43443 KM of Tire Wear
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A college basketball season is a long, winding road of different matchups, contrasting styles and sometimes unfavorable scheduling conditions. Indeed, the most successful teams are the ones who can navigate with aplomb.
This is a big reason that the month of November is one for experimenting. And coach Larry Krystkowiak is currently playing the mad scientist with his Utah Utes.
The Utes split the first two games of the season, and their next four will feature three days of Thanksgiving tournament basketball, starting with Wednesday night's matchup against Idaho State at the Huntsman Center.
Krystkowiak fully expects the legs to be weary by Saturday night. Call it an ongoing test over the next 72 hours. It's one Krystkowiak hopes his team will easily pass.
"We set this up intentionally," Krystkowiak said. "We wanted to give our guys differing styles, and we want to simulate what things could be like later in the season in a tournament format. A lot of teams do this early in the season. This is out way of challenging our guys."
Over three games, the Utes expect to play against three different types of teams. There's Idaho State, the school from Pocatello that is expected to play a patient style of hoops. The Bengals want teams to defend for 35 seconds on each possession. Friday night features Wright State, the athletic team that will look to push the ball in transition whenever possible. The shot clock won't be much of a factor in that matchup. Lastly, there's Central Michigan, a hybrid of the first two schools.
For Utah, each team presents a different challenge. After a disappointing loss last Friday to Sacramento State, it isn't a stretch to think these three games will prove important to the overall mental health of the Utes.
"We want to come out and play well through the start," senior center Jason Washburn said. "We think playing in a nonconference tournament like this can help us down the road when games come one after the other. The better we play now, the more we think it will benefit us later in the season."
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P At the Huntsman Center
Tipoff • Wednesday,7 p.m.
TV • Pac-12 Network
Radio • 700 AM
Series history • Utah leads 23-4
Last meeting • Utah 71, Idaho State 59 (Dec. 16, 2011)
About the Bengals • Idaho State is looking for its first win of the season. … The Bengals are led by Melvin Morgan, who is averaging 14 points per game. … Tomas Sanchez is the main playmaker for ISU, dishing out 4.5 assists per game. … Utah is the second in-state team Idaho State will play this season.
About the Utes • Jason Washburn has scored 700 points in 92 career games. … Aaron Dotson is listed as doubtful for the tournament with a stress fracture in his foot. … Utah is coming off a loss to Sacramento State. … Glen Dean and Jarred DuBois average a team-best 13 points per game.

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Sheriff's deputies arrested three people Sunday on suspicion of stealing $300 in merchandise from a Highland CVS store.
Dontae Cook, 33, a parolee from Fontana, Sean Raikes, 32, a Highland resident who is on probation and Amber Phillips, 23, of Colton were booked into Central Detention Center in San Bernardino on suspicion of robbery, San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said.
Deputies received a report of a theft at the CVS Pharmacy at 27310 Baseline at 8:50 a.m. Officials say Cook and Raikes walked into the business with the intent to steal store products.
They grabbed merchandise and left the store without paying. When the store alarm sounded, a store employee confronted them. The robbers threatened the employee, got into a vehicle driven by Phillips and fled.
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'''Obviously, what Arthur Levitt said is true in the sense that in the traditional investment model, you wouldn't (invest),'' Quinn said. ''But I think Tom has a belief that we can make this work. I think he has a belief that we can get an economic system that's good for us and the players. This is a faith-based investment, not a money investment.'''
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Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster has been reappointed to the Board of Governors for the California Indepedent Systems Operator, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday.
A Democrat, Foster was first appointed to the California ISO board in 2010, by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The California ISO is a nonprofit public organization that manages the state's wholesale electric transmission grid.
Foster is a former president of Southern California Edison and worked for the company from 1984 until 2006, when he was elected Long Beach mayor.
The board position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $20,000, Brown's office said.


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Matt Russell is one of Navy's greatest players ever: a three-time All-American and the 2004 USILA Goalie of the Year as a sophomore who led the Mids to the '04 NCAA Final. After another combat tour overseas, he's back in the States and wowed fans at last week's LXM Pro 949 event in Orange County, Calif.
Like many Navy alums, he was outraged when USNA let Richie Meade go last month. Here's his take on a move that has drawn a flood of spirited discussion in the last month.
By Captain Matthew M. Russell, U.S.M.C.
Navy Lacrosse 2002-2006
I was forwarded an email the other day regarding the firing of Coach Richie Meade from a 1960s Navy Lacrosse alumnus urging other alumni to congratulate Naval Academy Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk for ousting Coach Meade.
By the time I got to the bottom of his e-mail I couldn't believe what I had just read and wanted to turn my anger toward the few alumni who had worked so ruthlessly to separate Coach Meade from Navy Lacrosse, but instead I regrouped and asked myself what I could do to help the situation. The answer is simple, do whatever it takes to reinstate Coach Meade.
What these few alumni from the 1960s do not understand is. … well, just about everything that Navy Lacrosse stands for today. To remedy that, it is up to the three decades of Navy Lacrosse players closer to today's game to educate these men, as well Navy Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk on the negative consequences of what they are doing for the Naval Academy as an institution. My mood turned from anger to sorrow as I read in this email that those alumni who conspired to rid Navy of Meade are styling themselves as the "Decade of Dominance."
The Decade of Dominance refers to the 1960s when Navy won several USILA national championships in the pre-NCAA era. I must say that during my time at the Academy I admired and strove to emulate the accomplishments of the great Navy Lacrosse teams of yesteryear, particularly those classes and players who understood what it took to become a winner on and off the field. Throughout my time at the Academy and beyond, I have benefited from the leadership, coaching, mentorship and example of many of these winners — including Coach Ray Finnegan, Colonel John Rupp, Colonel Glen Miles, Andy Ross and Sam Marrone — with the hope that I can at some point give back to Navy Lacrosse as they have so willingly given for all of us.
Now some may find it surprising, but I can't recall a single time over 10 years that I heard any of these men boast of their accomplishments as players. The only thing I remember these men being concerned with was developing the current Navy Lacrosse team into winners and men of character to serve our country. I would imagine that my Navy Lacrosse mentors' modest reticence was a major reason that I myself looked up to these men as the core of what it means to be a Navy Lacrosse player. And it was no surprise that Coach Meade, who understands what it takes to breed men of character, surrounded himself with these fine men.
Former Army Coach Jack Emmer certainly understands the dual role a coach has at a service academy, especially in wartime. Not surprisingly, Coach Emmer was one of the first to comment publicly on how big of a mistake Gladchuk made in firing Coach Meade.
While I can understand the Decade of Dominance's disdain for losing, and Gladchuk's bottom-line mentality I can't understand how these men have lost sight of how much more Coach Meade brings to the table than wins or losses.
Their misguided warpath must be a result of a combination of things. Perhaps they are so far removed from the game that they just don't understand how Division I lacrosse has changed … how much more competitive it is these days. Or maybe some of their sons didn't play much for Coach Meade. Even worse, maybe they don't understand what Coach Meade has done, and continues to do, for his players over the last 17-plus years. Regardless of the reason, they need to understand that they have fired a man that would undoubtedly go to war side by side with any of his players, on or off the lacrosse field.
Coach Meade is a legend! Coach Meade is a warrior! I for one strongly believe that he must be reinstated so he can lead Navy Lacrosse to victory and uphold the legacy we all expect.
Readers who have not attended a service academy may find my plea confusing, since I didn't refer to this year's losing record for Navy, or recent losses to Army, or failure to make it to the NCAA Tournament. However, those who understand the mission of the Naval Academy will realize why these short-term considerations will matter little if Coach Meade is not at the helm, shaping his men morally, mentally and physically to defend our nation's military leadership.
In closing, I am saddened by the fact that these few alumni had what seems to be such a big role in the dismissal of Coach Meade. I will continue to look up to the true modest legends of Navy Lacrosse history from the 1960s onward and hope that we can come together as one to do what is right by the players. If the conclusion is to look beyond Coach Meade, I wish his replacement the best of luck and offer him one piece of advice.
While Chet Gladchuk's bottom line will be to win games, the players and alumni will ask so much more of you. Your mission is to develop men morally, mentally and physically during a time of war. You cannot fail. If you have questions please call Coach Richie Meade. There is no one better at the job.


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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Cbz40, Dec 31, 2006.
What a joke
these announcers are going to put me to sleep
Worst call I've ever seen in my life.
What a BS call there. The refs threw a bad flag and they had to come up with some BS excuse to justify their flag. The NFL needs to look at these calls and penalize refs for making poor calls.
So stupid call.
PLEASE DONT LET THEM SCORE on the opening drive!!!!
Pass from Kidna Incomplete.
A bad one.
PRESSURE------------ 3rd and 12.
sorry guys im late but we got jobbed by the officials again!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Who is Demarco Ware???
3rd and 12
3 Wides No shotgun:
Kitna blitzed, pass , Caught Roy Williams then runs over Newman and out of bounds for a 1st down.
No Pressure........................Receiver not covered....BS
There in a 4-3.....
morw soft defense on 3rd down
1st and 10
3 Wides Playaction, dump off Cason for a nice 1st down.
wow if the lions can move the ball like this against us....i dont know what to say
*** was that defense? If the F-in Lions scoree on this opening drive after a piss poor call by the refs I'm going to explode.
4-3 again
1st and 10
3 Wides, Run right Carpenter hit him first, Roy finished him off for a gain of 4.


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Vavileqel was invented by me, Vavva, a year ago. In the Tower of Babel thread, I published some information about the language, and decided that I should post in my own thread if I should post more about it. Initiated by a wish for eliminating annoyances with Norwegian, my mother tongue, this language ended up somewhere between rural Norwegian and Hebrew in matters of style. So far I haven't translated that much to it, although I've done some Biblical translations (Lord's Prayer, Tower of Babel and various verses) and common phrases, so it should be viable to some degree. It has its own con-script, but it's not ready for digital usage yet.
The language has a V-S-O order and is written from right to left, partially a tribute to the Semitic touch I gave the language and part because I myself am left-handed and thus made it optimal to write. Vavileqel does not contain cases, e. g. all nouns are in nominative. However, just as with most Indo-European (and those based thereof) languages, numbers are important (a book, books etc.).
Stress is important to pronounce the words; otherwise, all vowels and consonants are of equal length, the stressed ones may be slightly longer for the sake of convenience, if needed. Stress is always on the [b]second last syllable/[b], except for when the word ends with an -i, -u, -al, -il, m or a grave accent is placed somewhere. Note: the diphtong ai overrides all these stresses.
IPA: /vɑvil'ɛxɛl/
Vavileqel has, as already mentioned, a custom, all-lowercase alphabet. It has 22 letters/sounds, and all letters are pronounced exactly the same each time. Diacritics and symbols, as well as numbers, are excluded. The pronounciation is more or less based on Norwegian, with some own sounds (click and lisp) and some Semitic-sounding ones.
a – alid - /ɑ/
b – belid - /b/
c – celid - /ç/ German "ich".
d – delid - /d/
e – elid - /ɛ/
h – helid - /h/
i – ilid - /i/
j – jelid - /ʃ/ English "share".
k – kelid - /k/, unintentionally aspirated in beginning of words (intuitively easier to say)
l- lelid - /l/ Not broad and English l.
m – melid - /m/
n - nalid - /n/
p – balid* - /p/ See k.
q – qelid - /x/ Russian "Mikhail" etc.
r – relid - /r/ Trilled r.
s – selid - /s/
t – telid - /t/ See k.
u – ulid - /ʉ/ Close to English "look".
v – velid - /v/
x – xelid – /ʪ/ Lateral lisp.
y – ylid - /y/ "True" y sound.
' - 'elid - I believe it is /ʛ/. Click sound.
*p must always be placed in the end of words; otherwise the letter b is used as a rule.
aä/eë/iï/uü - /ɑʔ'ɑ/ /ɛʔ'ɛ/ etc.
dash (-) - /./
´ - stress which overrides other rules (except ai)
In words with a ' (verbs and the word 'us "and"), the ' separates the word into two words by rules of letter-placing and stress. ________________________________________________________________________________
For the sake of convenience, the structure is very simplistic and does not prepare the user for long, comma-ridden sentences. In fact, commas aren't there at all! Only short sentences with a (for now) limited vocabulary are used here.
Here's the Lord's Prayer in Vavileqel, with a very literal, word-by-word translation to English. It doesn't make that much sense in the translations...
Ervebemi (our (the) father)
(Note: The translation is from Norwegian; thus, some may not recognise all the literal translations.)
A'ev ke ut be kemem erv-vé be mi. (are You in the heaven our the father.)
Lad'eë ke-vé be cem ilev a'ves. (Let Your the name hallowed be made.)
Lad'eë ke-vé be hitim maä've. (Let Your the kingdom come.)
Lad'eë ke-vé be tidel ut be havlu sas be kemem tid'ev. (Let your the will in/on the Earth as the heaven happen.)
Ji'eë dev erv yc erv-vé ycme be yrp 'us sixari'ev erv erv-vé be irsak sas sixari'ev erv erv-vé ibe irsakvu. (Give to we today our daily the bread and forgive we our the sins as forgive we our the sinner-people.)
Lad'eë erv dev be torvap maän-up'ev 'us sixari'eë erv dev be byl. (Let we to the temptation no-come and forgive/free we from the evil.)
A'ev be hitim ke-vé 'us a'ev ke-vé be aval 'us a'ev ke-vé be qajk dev idasel. (Is the kingdom Your and is Your the power and is Your the glory for forever.)
Amen. (Amen.)
I hope this gets somewhat appreciated! If you have any questions regarding the language or other matters, I will answer.
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If I read this right, you have "y" as the vowel <y> and not the glide <j>. Is that right?
Re: Vavileqel
Yes, as a pure vowel and not a hybrid vowel-consonant, as it is in English. Like a "i" with more rounded lips, as it's pronounced in many languages, in addition to those where they use ü (although the sound differs slightly).
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A9 TV; 31 October 2011
When we have Islamic Union these lovely faces will smile with sweetness. There will be no system that kills women. Women will be well-groomed and attractive. Bigots imagine that they will look like stoats, that life will die, that humanity will die, that art will die, that science and everything will die, that they will slay all of life's beauties and install an extremist system. No way. It will be like it was in the time of the Prophet Solomon (pbuh), like the Age of Felicity. Joy, beauty and delight will prevail everywhere. Being against make-up is terribly wrong. That is our Prophet's (pbuh) own personal advice, for women to put kohl on their eyes. If they do that, it means they do everything. Kohl has the greatest effect of all. Kohl shows women off best of all. When you have kohl, that means you have everything. There was also rouge at that time. A kind of make-up of the time. But the materials were more natural then. They used henna, for instance, and other things. Because human beings are weak. But they become attractive when they are well groomed. Of course they must be well groomed. Women must also be well groomed, and men must be clean and smart. Some people are disgusting and live like animals. That is unacceptable.
The internet is the Dabbat al-Ardh, the one referred to in the Qur'an. I have described it before. The way of the Mahdi and the way of the dajjal [antichrist] reveal themselves within the Dabbat al-Ardh. Because we can grasp the way of the Mahdi by comparing it to the way of the dajjal. For example, their mouths are filthy and vile and aggressive and bigoted. Their mouths are godless and bookless. Their mouths are those of the PKK [terror organization] and curs of that kind. What do we call the sum total of that? The mouth of the dajjal. The community of the dajjal. A team belonging to the way of the dajjal. But if we look, we see love, affection, compassion, quality, beauty, goodness, forgiveness, pleasant conversation and hospitality, then that is a branch of the way of the Mahdi. An arm of the Mahdi striving against the arm of the dajjal. We see that when we look carefully. Otherwise, the way of the Mahdi is invisible to the naked eye. The way of the dajjal is invisible to the naked eye. People expect a creature with one eye in the middle of its head. And when they talk about Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) they immediately want to see a single person. OK, Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) is one person, but his effects come through his ideas and his followers. The dajjal is one person, but he also acts through his ideas and followers. The arena where these ideas clash is the world. Where is the most powerful and visible arena? The internet. When you look at the internet you see a total battle of ideas against the way of the Mahdi. Against the way of the Mahdi, like a rabid dog. You can see its attacks. It attacks the truth, beauty and right as if it were rabid. You can see the foaming mouths of the extremists, the mouths of the irreligious and their allies. You can see the atheist on top and a member of the alleged terror organization Ergenekon behind.
Then comes a pervert, and behind him an atheist. Next comes a member of a communist terror organization. Another one is a bigot. Then comes another arm of bigotry. But these are all one single team. A single community or a single nation. They act as the way of the antichrist. But Muslims are good people, honest and fine and pleasant. They act as a separate community. Of believers, of people who love Allah. Christians who believe in the existence and oneness of Allah are allied with Muslims. Those Jews who believe in the existence and oneness of Allah are also allied with Muslims. And there is a merciless struggle going on. What kind of struggle? An intellectual one. One waged with intelligence, knowledge and philosophy. Now, my brother may say, "the internet is against Muslims." Let us imagine he says that it contains writings against Muhammad Rashid Erol or Sheikh Nazım Kıbrisi, or against Bediuzzaman or me, meaning my group of friends, or against the followers of Esat Coşan. What does that mean? It is a manifestation of the way of the dajjal. When you look you will see the way of the dajjal.
You will see the way of the dajjal in their filthy, bigoted mouths, in their loveless mouths devoid of beauty and quality, in their mouths that strive to pollute and foul the world. Because the dajjal's job is to pollute and foul the world. Hazrat Mahdi's (pbuh) duty it to beautify it and cleanse it. The dajjal pollutes. The way of the dajjal pollutes the air and the streets. But the way of the Mahdi cleans the air. So people and buildings are clean. The dajjal just makes people foul. But the way of the Mahdi beautifies people. The way of the dajjal makes them ugly. They end up with dull, meaningless, soulless faces. Their faces grow ugly and repellent, cold and uncared for and filthy. They turn into apes. Almighty Allah says in the Qur'an they turn into pigs and apes. He turns them into pigs and apes. They assume a foul and ugly appearance under the way of the dajjal. But under the influence of Islam, the Qur'an and the way of the Mahdi, light, beauty, goodness and loveliness will come to people's faces. But the way of the dajjal has a filthy mouth. Its talk is filthy. It uses foul words. It is without hope and full of fear. It seeks to spread fear. It expresses terror. It uses perverse terminology. But the way of the Mahdi expresses love, beauty, peace and goodness. You can see the bitter struggle between the two on the internet. Look for a committee of the dajjal on the internet and you will see them right away. And if you look for Hazrat Mahdi's (pbuh) people, you will see them right away. The mouth of the way of the dajjal is destructive in all it says.
That is why a hadith about the dajjal says, "the dajjal has a pipe, from which a thousand and one sounds emanate." Look, "a thousand and one sounds." The internet and the television are also the pipes of the dajjal and produce a thousand and one sounds. But they are also the stage for the way of the Mahdi, a place where the way of the Mahdi fully reveals itself. It also uses them to show up the filth and foulness of the way of the dajjal. It produces many different sounds. It may be in the form of bigotry, or the PKK, or the terrorist mindset or a suicide bomber. But they all have the same mindset. The way of the Mahdi wants people to live. The way of the dajjal wants to kill. The way of the Mahdi aims for long lives, the way of the dajjal wants short ones. The way of the Mahdi is full of joy, but the way of the dajjal means grieving and weeping. It encourages tears and weeping. It engages in a constant philosophy of sorrow. But the way of the Mahdi uses joy to preach against the way of the dajjal. The way of the dajjal says there is no Allah, in its own eyes. But the way of the Mahdi constantly talks about the existence and oneness of Allah.
People have seen such passion and love in people's eyes for the first time on this channel. I can honestly say I have never seen true passion in a woman's eyes on any TV channel. On none of them. Maybe I just never came across them. But I have never seen deep love on any channel. People may have shown each other true love, But I have never come across it. I suppose it must happen, insha'Allah. And its being so sweet and joyful and such a far cry from bigotry is a lovely thing. Because our distinguishing characteristic is that women will be beautiful under Islamic Union. Homes will be lovely, and people, and food and cars and everything. But under the concept of Islamic Union thought up by the dajjal, life is poisonous, pitch black. There is no joy or beauty there. People stink, women stink, and everywhere there is filth and dirty talk, hypocrisy and trickery, show and pride, deceit and artificiality. It involves telling lies in the name of Allah, making the religion unrecognizable, putting it in a dead-end, locking it up, it involves madness and bloodshed and wrong of all kinds. But Allah will destroy such a filthy and disgusting system. He will not permit it. Allah will tear it down wherever it is. But those fools cannot see. Does Allah not tear that system down wherever it may be? Does He not ruin it? Do you still fail to understand? They are still trying to persist in their filth. An idiot throws a stone into a well, and a thousand people cannot get it out. People have a predisposition against this bigotry. There is a chain effect; "You mean, you are not an extremist either?" they say. "May Allah forbid, how can I oppose bigotry? Of course I am a bigot," they say. That is the vile system they have set up. Even bigots are disgusted by bigotry, but they pretend to be bigots for their own advantage. Otherwise they are not really bigots. That is the horrible system they have set up. They all imagine everyone else is a bigot. They all smother one another in that psychopathic system. That is unacceptable, and we will never allow it.
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) loved women very much, and the power of the Prophet (pbuh) is specially set out in the hadiths. He was a very strong person. His strength and love were very powerful. We see that in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. The bigots do not like to hear that, but I say it anyway, insha'Allah. All the prophets have had a huge love of women. In proportion to their faith. The more faith a person has, the greater his love of women. That is how much he loves their beauty, and how much he loves animals. That determines how much he loves beauty and cleanliness. He loves all that is beautiful. In proportion to his faith. But bigots loathe women, and seek to turn them into apes because they detest them. They try to turn them into something disgusting. Bigots dislike pretty women. And Allah dislikes them. He gives them foul women who stink. And they are all disgusted by one another. Both are utterly filthy. Their women are like the wife of Abu Lahab. They all spread filth. Allah sets them up with one another. He gives bad men to bad women, and bad women to bad men.
The bigots cannot even imagine classy, high quality Muslims. It would never cross their minds. They could never dream of that kind of lifestyle. Ataturk was also aware of that, masha'Allah. He spoke of "faithless teachers." That is a splendid way of putting it. Look, Ataturk had a huge love for genuine religious teachers. But he loathed faithless ones. Base guys like that. He would call them to him and they talked and behaved falsely. They tried to give him a good impression of them. But Ataturk loathed them. Ataturk said a lot about that.2011-11-20 22:02:44


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Two local synagogue baseball leagues bring together Jews across the religious spectrum.
When it comes to playing for his synagogue's softball team, Arthur Huppert said, he's in denial about his age. A few minutes later, his body reminded him when he pulled a hamstring while unsuccessfully trying to reach base on a fielding misplay.
As Huppert, 61, a physician and member of Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley, sat on the bench, dejected after his second injury this season, Adam Karloff, a player from Aish Philadelphia, walked over from the other side of the field to help him stretch the leg.
Huppert's effort on the play and his exchange with Karloff represent two of the qualities that players say they enjoy most about the Lower Merion Synagogue League: the chance to exercise in a semi-competitive environment — preferably without getting injured — and to interact with others whom they otherwise might never meet.
The league spans much of the spectrum of Philadelphia Jewry with 14 teams, including Orthodox shuls such as Aish in Bala Cynwyd and Chabad of the Main Line, Conservative synagogues such as Beth Am Israel and Har Zion in Penn Valley and Reform synagogues such as Temple Sholom in Broomall, this year's top team during the regular season.
Further north in suburban Philadelphia is the Delaware Valley Synagogue League, a club not much different from the Lower Merion league . Both play modified fast-pitch softball.
Delaware Valley, however, allows women to play. Softball requires the occasional physical contact and that would make it uncomfortable for Orthodox players, several in the Lower Merion league said.
Still, even the Delaware Valley league, where there are no Orthodox synagogues represented, is comprised mostly of men, and there has been talk of an all-star game between the two leagues.
And players in both leagues have this in common: They all say they enjoy the brand of camaraderie that only can be found on the diamond and in dugouts.
"It's beautiful," said Rabbi Eli Kopel of Aish in Bala Cynwyd who occasionally plays but was only watching on Sunday at Belmont Hills Park as Aish and Beth Am faced off in the first round of the playoffs.
"I love the fact that we're able to see all different types of shuls and show that the Jewish nation is one. When you have your baseball jersey on and you're out here, you don't look at a player as Conservative or Reform, you look at them as fellow Jews out here having a good time."
Before the first pitch, players on the Aish side joked about the umpires, who one player said were "mostly sober." It wasn't clear what he meant until the umpire showed up without a brush to clean off the plate and slurred out the balls and strikes.
The Aish catcher, Yoel Israel, said he enjoys the position because it gives him a chance to talk with the ump and opposing players.
"Usually, I end up talking to one or two players and I make a friend or two, which is nice," said Israel, a 27-year-old from Bala Cynwyd who has been in the league for three years.
What does he say to hitters?
He said he talks "smack if they're friendly. Some people can take the smack. I'm not trying to hurt or offend anybody, but if they can roll with it, that's my preferred route of conversation"
Aish defeated Beth Am 10 to 8 and will move on to face one of two Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El teams on Aug. 4.
Since its founding 13 years ago, the league has been dominated by Beth David Reform Congregation in Gladwyne, which has won the championship 10 times. On the opposite end is Chabad, which joined the league this year and went winless in 13 games.
Scott Plavner, a founder of the league and former commissioner, joked that Beth David "cheats. They keep all their worst players home for the playoffs."
Plavner, a 56-year-old writer who belongs to Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, said he formed the league, in part, to try and build membership in shuls' men's clubs or to use the teams to build men's clubs at synagogues where none existed.
At Har Zion, there was hardly a men's club when the league started, Plavner said, but it now has more than 50 members.
Once the league established itself, he challenged the various teams — and eventually it became a requirement — to perform a mitzvah project with the funds raised from team dues and various events related to the games. Last season, for example, Temple Sholom prepared and served a meal at a homeless shelter in Upper Darby.
"It gives you a good feeling and makes you realize how fortunate we are to be able to play softball on Sundays," said Jay Prager, 46, who is the current commissioner of the league and coach of the Temple Sholom team.
Across the river, the Delaware Valley league's 18 teams from Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist synagogues — along with one from Goldsteins' Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks funeral home — do similar community service with funds raised during the season.
The league, which has been around since 1988, is the National League to the American League in Lower Merion, And the games are scheduled differently. Delaware Valley plays games Monday through Thursday, whereas Lower Merion only plays on Sundays. Another difference, to the chagrin of some Delaware Valley players, is the league's decision a few years ago to give up aluminum bats in favor of wood bats, for safety reasons. Lower Merion still uses the metal variety.
A few minutes before Bill Serotta solidly hit a softball into right field for Temple Beth Ami in a playoff game against Old York Road Temple-Beth Am last week at Mondauk Park in Upper Dublin, he shared his thoughts on the bat switch.
"I hate it," said Serotta, who is 33 and works in a family chandelier business.
Despite Serotta's complaints over the loss in power — he said he used to hit double digit home run totals in a season, but now he only hits a handful — he doesn't lose sight of why he's out there.
"I played baseball my whole life and then moved into the softball world. This is the first softball league I played in, and these guys welcomed me with open arms and I've made a lot of great friendships because of it. That's really the biggest thing for me," he said.
Eric Patent, one of two Delaware Valley league commissioners, is the guy who gets to hear all the feedback — the gripes and the thank yous — from players. He said he's had team captains file protests against the outcomes of games after an umpire admitted a bad call. In Major League Baseball, that means waiting to hear from commissioner Bud Selig about overturning a loss but in a men's softball league, it means just about nothing because it is, after all, a men's softball league.
He's had to eject players from games. And he has to manage all the scheduling, which this year's weather has made especially challenging.
For Patent, who joined the league almost 20 years ago and has been commissioner nearly the entire time, the league is more about Jews connecting with one another rather than connecting bat with ball.
When he started as commissioner, he said, similar to the Lower Merion founder, he "was hoping the synagogues would use it as a tool to build membership."
"It's not as cut and dry where we can look at five members that we added because they play softball, but I definitely think it was another tool that synagogues could use to say, 'Hey join our synagogue and play on the softball team," said Patent, 50, a resident of Lafayette Hill and a member of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel.
Patent continues his role as co-commissioner despite the fact that two herniated discs have kept him from playing for five years.
"I would love to be playing but my back doesn't really support it. Just being out there is great though," said Patent, who owns a technology consulting firm.
"I've watched the league get older and then I've watched the influx of younger people come in, and to have fathers and sons playing on the same team is great."


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Brandeis University, 1971.
Ph.D. (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics)
Harvard University, 1975.
B.A. (Biology)
Brandeis University, 1971.
Ph.D. (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics)
Harvard University, 1975.
Description of Research ExpertiseResearch Interests
- Murine coronavirus pathogenesis, central nervous system, liver and lung
- Murine coronavirus antagonism of the OAS-RNase L pathway
- Organ specific virus- host interactions
- Viral and cellular phosphodiesterases
- Middle Eas Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus pathogenesis
- Role of inflammasome related cytokines in murine coronavirus acute disease and chronic demyelination
Key words: murine coronavirus, human respiratory coronavirus, viral pathogenesis, interferon antagonist.
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Susan Weiss, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
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My lab studies coronavirus pathogenesis. We use murine coronavirus, mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) infection of mice as a model system for the study of: 1) acute viral encephalitis; 2) chronic demyelinating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis and 3) virus-induced hepatitis. We have the important tools of a well-developed animal model system and two reverse genetic systems with which to manipulate the viral genome. Human coronaviruses are primarily respiratory viruses, and include the common cold viruses OC43 and 229E as well as the emerging viruses MERS and SARs that cause severe and life threatening diseases. We are beginning to study human coronavirus interactions with respiratory tract cells. Our long-term goal is to elucidate the viral and cellular determinants of coronavirus tropism and pathogenesis in the brain, the liver and the lung. Much of our current work focuses on coronavirus-encoded antagonists of type I interferon, specifically virus-encoded phosphodiesterase that antagonize the OAS-RNase L pathway. Another direction in our lab is the study of the role of inflammasome related cytokines in viral clearance as well as both acute and chronic MHV induced disease.
Currently we are carrying out the following studies:
1. Virus-encoded phosphodiesterases (PDE), that act as type I interferon antagonists. The MHV ns2 gene encodes a phosphodiesterase activity that specifically cleaves 2-5A, the activator of Ribonuclease (RNase) L, a potent antiviral response induced by type I interferon and infection. Homologous proteins with RNase L antagonist activates are also expressed by some other coronaviruses, toroviruses, other members of the coronavirus superfamily as well as type A rotaviruses, that cause severe gastrointestinal infections of children. Activation of RNase is cell type specific and most most robust in myeloid cells and antagonism of RNase L is required for the induction of hepatitis by MHV. We are currently investigating the mechanisms underlying activation of this pathway and antagonism by virus induced phosphodiesterase and their role in pathogenesis.
2. Human coronaviruses and RNase L antagonism. A group of other group 2a Betacorovaviruses encode ns2 homologs that we have recently found to have phosphodiesterase activity. We are characterizing these PDEs now and beginning to investigate a possible role for RNase L antagonism in the respiratory tract, the major target of most human coronaviruses including the lethal, emerging pathogen SARS and MERS.
2. Inflammasome associated cytokines and MHV acute and chronic disease pathogenesis. We are investigating the roles of the two inflammasome related cytokines IL-1 an IL-18 in coronavirus pathogenesis. This includes understanding their roles in protection against and contribution to acute encephalitis and hepatitis and in addition a possible role in the chronic demyelinating disease.
3. Role of receptor in MHV entry, spread and pathogenesis. The only known receptor for MHV is the carcinoembryonic antigen protein, CEACAM 1. However, the highly neurovirulent MHV-JHM strain spreads cell to cell in the absence of the expression of this receptor. Using transgenic CEACAM 1 deficient mice (ceacam 1a -/-), we have found that JHM can replicate and cause CNS disease and mortality in the absence of viral receptor. We are using a selection of MHV mutants and tropism variants in combination with primary cells derived from wild type and ceacam 1a-/- mice to elucidate the mechanism of viral neuron to neuron spread and the role of receptor independent spread in disease. We also plan to discover alternate receptors used by MHV in the absence of ceacam1a.
Rotation Projects
1. Coronavirus RNase L antagonists: Investigation of the mechanism by which MHV ns2 as well as human coronavirus ns2 homologs inhibit the oligoadenylate synthetase (OAS)-ribonuclease (RNase) L interferon stimulated anti-viral pathway. This includes understanding the contributions of host OAS and RNase L gene expression, host interferon response as well as virus encoded phosphodiesterase in the activation and antagonism of RNase L. Projects also include investigation of activation of the OAS-RNase L pathway in myeloid cells versus other cell types and how this impacts on pathogenesis. These projects involve studies of virus in primary cell types as well as in vivo experiments in mice and involve carrying out a wide variety of techniques, including viral pathogenesis, cell culture, cloning, in vitro protein expression and real time qPCR.
2. Mechanisms of MHV neurovirulence. Investigation of the roles of IL-1 and IL-18 in MHV pathogenesis and clearance (comparing effects in the brain and liver) as well as virus induced demyelination. This includes comparison of viral replication and clearance during infection of IL-1R and IL-18R knockout mice with C57/Bl6 wild type mice and the mechanisms underlying difference between pathgoenesis of wild type an knockout mice. This project includes cell culture, infections of mice, isolation of immune cells, flow cytometry as well as Western blots.
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Dillon Birdwell- Graduate Student
Ruth Elliott - Research Specialist
Stephen Goldstein- Graduate Student
Yize (Henry) Li- Postdoctoral Researcher
Judith Phillips- Research Associate
Yuyan Wang, Visiting Scholar
Selected PublicationsZalinger Zachary B, Elliott Ruth, Rose Kristine M, Weiss Susan R: MDA5 Is Critical to Host Defense during Infection with Murine Coronavirus. Journal of virology 89(24): 12330-40, Dec 2015.
Banerjee Shuvojit, Li Geqiang, Li Yize, Gaughan Christina, Baskar Danika, Parker Yvonne, Lindner Daniel J, Weiss Susan R, Silverman Robert H: RNase L is a negative regulator of cell migration. Oncotarget Oct 2015.
Ogden Kristen M, Hu Liya, Jha Babal K, Sankaran Banumathi, Weiss Susan R, Silverman Robert H, Patton John T, Prasad B V Venkataram: Structural basis for 2'-5'-oligoadenylate binding and enzyme activity of a viral RNase L antagonist. Journal of virology 89(13): 6633-45, Jul 2015.
Zhang Rong, Li Yize, Cowley Timothy J, Steinbrenner Adam D, Phillips Judith M, Yount Boyd L, Baric Ralph S, Weiss Susan R: The nsp1, nsp13, and M proteins contribute to the hepatotropism of murine coronavirus JHM.WU. Journal of virology 89(7): 3598-609, Apr 2015.
McMillan Matthew T, Pan Xiao-Qing, Smith Ariana L, Newman Diane K, Weiss Susan R, Ruggieri Michael R, Malykhina Anna P: Coronavirus-induced demyelination of neural pathways triggers neurogenic bladder overactivity in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. American journal of physiology. Renal physiology 307(5): F612-22, Sep 2014.
Adedeji Adeyemi O, Singh Kamalendra, Kassim Ademola, Coleman Christopher M, Elliott Ruth, Weiss Susan R, Frieman Matthew B, Sarafianos Stefan G: Evaluation of SSYA10-001 as a replication inhibitor of severe acute respiratory syndrome, mouse hepatitis, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronaviruses. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 58(8): 4894-8, Aug 2014.
Silverman Robert H, Weiss Susan R: Viral phosphodiesterases that antagonize double-stranded RNA signaling to RNase L by degrading 2-5A. Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research 34(6): 455-63, Jun 2014.
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Banerjee Shuvojit, Chakrabarti Arindam, Jha Babal Kant, Weiss Susan R, Silverman Robert H: Cell-type-specific effects of RNase L on viral induction of beta interferon. mBio 5(2): e00856-14, 2014.
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Scalzi, John. Old Man's War
On John Perry's 75th birthday, he did two things: he visited his wife's grave, and he joined the army. The Colonial Defense Force, to be precise. When humanity reached the stars decades previously, they found that the universe is a very crowded place. Countless other intelligent species fight to colonize the same planets humans want, and some of those species have developed a taste for human flesh along the way. Thus, the Colonial Defense Forces were formed to protect those colonies humans have already secured and to toss the aliens off planets humans want to colonize. The CDF only takes fully mature adults, however, age 75 and up. Everyone assumes they have some secret rejuvenation technology to make the old young again, but no one knows what it is…no one but the CDF soldiers themselves, that is.
John quickly makes friends with a group of the other 75-year-old new recruits and they manage to stay in touch through training and beyond, from battle to battle with strange and diverse alien species. But when John encounters a Special Forces supersoldier who looks exactly like his long-dead wife but has none of her memories, he realizes that there is more to this endless war and to the CDF than he or anyone on Earth ever suspected.
Riffing on such sci-fi classics as Starship Troopers and Time Enough for Love, Scalzi's Old Man's War is nevertheless a fully-realized and unique view of humanity's future among the stars, and was voted one of the Top Ten most influential science fiction books of the last decade by poll respondants on popular speculative fiction blog Tor.com.


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As widely reported, Carolyn Charlesworth, a veteran second-grade teacher, was fired from her El Cajon Catholic school because her estranged husband appeared to pose a Sandy Hook-style threat to kids on campus.
Fear, we learn once again, can be the lowest (and depressingly common) denominator.
In 1989, a pipe bomb exploded beneath a van driven by Sharon Rogers, a La Jolla Country Day School teacher. Because Rogers, who escaped unhurt, was the wife of Navy Capt. Will Rogers — commander of the Vincennes, the cruiser that had mistakenly shot down an Iranian airliner — authorities treated the explosion as an act of terror.
In a panic, Country Day forced Rogers from her position. One trustee who resigned in protest said, "We have taught our children the wrong thing. "
In 1995, a university psychology professor was charged with threatening the lives of his ex-wife, a Poway elementary teacher, and her new husband, a teacher at a middle school.
Jittery parents called for the banishment of both suspected targets.
Security was beefed up big time, but the teachers stayed. In the end, nothing bad happened.
Meanwhile, the district had hired Sharon Rogers as a substitute and then as a full-time teacher.
Poway likes to preen over its test scores. But on my score card, the district won a blue ribbon for refusing to run in fear.
In supporting state legislation protecting the rights of workers under violent threat, Charlesworth recently said something memorably smart:
"As a parent, I get their concerns. I do have four children. (But) every time we step out the door, there is that fear of the unknown. In today's world, it is more dangerous to have an unknown threat than it is to have a known threat."
Think about it. Genetic snipers may be hiding in bloodstreams. A youngster's neck may be broken diving into a pool.
In the lottery of life, the majority of kids don't suffer from an identified threat but in unforeseeable calamities, physical and biological.
Catholic administrators believe they acted prudently in firing Charlesworth. They reduced the long odds of disaster.
Well, maybe so. Hard to disprove.
But this seems much more certain:
We have taught our children the wrong thing.


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text: Picked up the Knubster for my Rich Price and let me tell you, that thing is freakin awesome. It really does what it says as I had a great chance to put it to the test yesterday through 2 tides, barreling beach break head + and screaming. It really does increase drive without the drag of a tri, although when I look at my fin set up, I'm like holy crap there is a lot of **** there. I have to say that I think its the best of both worlds. With the Knubster the board didnt get too loose off the top like a quad sometimes will and it takes the drift out of the board, the 2 worst traits of a quad in my opinion. I think I might also grovel with just the front fins in and the Knubster, the possibilities are multiplied with this thing. I was given it as a gift from a shaper friend and if you own a 5 box set up, get one.


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Kate Upton Turns Down Teen's Prom Date Offer
The hopeful prom teen who invited Kate Upton to be his date is apparently still dateless. Fox News reports the model has turned down Jake Davidson's request to accompany him to his May prom in Los Angeles. Davidson made headlines last week when his YouTube invite went viral then got a phone call that almost changed everything.
Upton joined Davidson in a conversation with NBC's "Today" show about his viral video and told the teen she loved it. The "Sports Illustrated" cover model then told Jake she would check her schedule, promising she would go with him to the prom if everything worked out. Unfortunately for Jake, Kate's all booked up and it appears she won't be accompanying him to the big dance after all.


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Pro Concert: The PoRazone Love Project
Musically Minded Academy
Sunday, March 24, 2013 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The Porazone Love Project: Music for, about in the interest of personal social responsibility
The Porazone Love Project: Music for, about in the interest of personal social responsibility: is the exciting collaboration of Raz Kennedy and Pollyanna Bush. They will present a dynamic live performance featuring original song and storytelling. These songs and stories are from a larger multi media theater piece that they are developing entitled "Talk to me:transcending the communication breakdown. This piece includes theatre, video and dance in addition to the original songs and storytelling. This compelling narrative attempts to illustrate the underlying causes of mis-communication which can give rise to disharmony in relationships. Raz and Pollyanna draw upon their personal stories and experiences and those of others, which reveal the need for deeper listening in the intrapersonal, one on one relationships and relationships within families, between communities, races, ethnicities, genders, classes, societies, cultures and nations. The full theater piece is expected to launch in September.
Pollyanna Bush has been performing as a singer, pianist and dancer in the San Francisco Bay Area for 26 years. Her performance credits include 12 years with the avant-garde and eclectic group, Obiba, followed by 20 years of producing shows featuring her own songs, dance/choreography and theatrical presentations. She has performed in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London and Hawaii. She has shared the stage with luminaries such as Richie Havens, Shana Morrison, Vonda Shepard, Gary Malkin and Raz Kennedy. Her dance credits include principle dancer of the Ruth Langridge Dance Company, The Elisa King Dancers, Pearl Lang Dance Company, and apprentice in the Martha Graham Dance Company. Pollyanna's recording credits include two full length albums with her band Obiba and two full length albums, "Colors" and "Dying to Be Born", featuring her original songs. She is a featured vocalist on the compilation CD entitled "Women of the Bay", produced by Joey Muller, and on Michael Stillwater's CD entitled "Arc in Time". She has sung lead and backing vocals on numerous songwriter demos and is a featured vocalist on the "American Idol: Karaoke Revolution" video game. Her songwriting awards include Best Song of the Year for her song "Strange" in the West Coast Songwriters regional contest and Best Pop Song, "Innocent Heart", in the West Coast Songwriters International Songwriting contest. "Innocent Heart" is a featured song on the compilation CD, "Heart of Innocence", produced by Lloyd Barde of Backroads Music. As a music educator for 26 years, Pollyanna has taught improvisational singing workshops in Paris and all around the Bay Area. She has co-taught with Mokale creator, Tony Elman, at Double Bear in the Santa Cruz Mountains and with Raz Kennedy at the Stanford Summer Jazz Workshop. Pollyanna has her own music studio, Alley Cats Music School in Fairfax, CA, where she coaches singers, teaches piano, songwriting and directs group singing ensembles. She has been Music Director and faculty member of The Chaplaincy Institute for Creative and Healing Ministries in Berkeley, CA for 11 years where she teaches circle singing and spontaneous sung prayer. In September 2011, she joined the teaching faculty at Musically Minded Academy. She also teaches her own developed fusion of Pilates, yoga and dance at the Women's Fitness Center in Fairfax. She has been a participant in the Diamond Heart Approach, which is a self inquiry practice, for 17 years and incorporates her practice in all areas of her creative activities. She currently sings in the, Mirabai Ensemble, an a cappella vocal group under the direction of Michael Smolens in addition to composing, recording and performing with The Porazone Love Project.
Raz Kennedy has been performing and recording as a vocalist, vocal coach and producer in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years. His performance credits include six years as a founding member of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra, as well as projects with June Watanabe Performance Ensemble, Toni Childs, Rebeca Mauleon, Bob Ostertag, Bonnie Hayes, Linda Tillery, George Coates Performance Works, and Oberlin Dance Collective/San Francisco. His recording live credits include backup, ensemble or lead vocals for/or with hit song producer Narada Michael Walden, (Whitney, Mariah, Aretha), Al Jarreau, Todd Rundgren, Whitney Houston, Bobby McFerrin, The Bobs, Jason Becker, Wael Kabbani of the Iambic Dream Project, Joel Harrison, Mickey Hart, Kenny Loggins, Rhiannon, Sting, Claytoven Richardson, Molly Holm, Gerald Alston, Marilyn McCoo /Billy Davis Jr, Earl Klugh and Lynn Asher as well as for film, video, television and radio. As a vocal coach and vocal producer, Raz has multiple Gold and Platinum records to his credit. Clients include: Adam Duritz and members of Counting Crows, Grammy Award winning artists Los Tigres Del Norte, Universal Recording artists Stroke 9, Rancid, Dreamworks recording artist Davey Havoc of AFI, Aaron Carter, Chantelle Paige of Flipsyde, Caroline Vreeland, A-Teens, Lavay Smith, Hilary Duff, Nicole Riw, members of Metallica, Victoria Theodore (Stevie Wonder Band), Brett Anderson of The Donnas, Joe Bagale, Jasmine Guy, Sakai, Spencer Day, Karina Lombard, James Nash of The Waybacks, Jolie Holland, Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, Sakis Rouvas, Bamboo Shoots, Will Evankovich of American Drag, Forest Sun, Shana Morrison, Noelle Hampton, Pollyanna Bush and Jerry Harrison (founding member of Talking Heads). Raz presently produces, writes and arranges vocals for live and studio projects. Raz is on the faculty at three of the Bay Area's top music study institutions; Blue Bear School of American Music in San Francisco, The Jazzschool in Berkeley and The East Bay Center for Performing Arts in Richmond. He has studied Latin Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian music in Cuba and New York, has toured the U.S. and internationally in Europe, Asia and South America. Raz' latest effort, "The Porazone Love Project" is a performance art collaboration with Pollyanna Bush.
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Blog-free November
Larry the Free Software Guy — who doesn't really like to refer to himself in the third person, but would rather do that than start this a blog post with "I" — gave you all a gift with a blog-free November.
Sorry to yank that out from under you, because there's a lot going on in the FOSS world as we race into the commercially driven holiday season.
First things first:
Support Partimus: Six schools (so far) in the San Francisco Bay Area run GNU/Linux labs thanks to the efforts of Partimus, a nonprofit organization that provides repurposed computers running free software to students and schools which need them. Partimus is holding its first fundraising event on Dec. 15 from 5-7 at the Creative Arts Charter School, 1601 Turk St., in San Francisco. Register here, and even if you can't make it, donate anyway — be a benefactor and fill in what you can afford — since it's the kind of project that lifts FOSS and makes it more ubiquitous.
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils: In a little over a week, the Call for Presentations for the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 9X closes. December 13 is the deadline and if you're inclined to give a talk, submit your proposal here. Judging by the resounding success of my presentation at the Utah Open Source Conference, I have submitted an updated, new-and-improved version of "User Groups 2.0: Noob Morning in America" for SCALE. The laser show introduction is something that is not to be missed.
[Note: OK, so there's no laser show, but the presentation is a good one, in my humble estimation.]
Back home again in Indiana: Another expo that has arrived on the FOSS scene is the Indiana Linux Fest, which recently announced its dates and location. The inaugural Indiana Linux Fest will take place on March 25-27, 2011 at the Wyndham Indianapolis West hotel near the Indianapolis International Airport. The growing number of shows is a testament to FOSS's strength and growth, and for those in the area — or even if you feel like heading to Indianapolis in a month other than May — you can race on over for ILF.
Saluting the kernel: The Linux Foundation released its report on development of the Linux kernel, and Red Hat still leads on the corporate side of things. Red Hat contributed 23,356 changes to the kernel since the release of version 2.6.12 on June 17, 2005, according to the report amounting to 12.4 percent of the total. Among corporate contributors, Novell was next with 13,120 changes (7 percent), followed by IBM (13,026, or 6.9 percent) and Intel (11,028, or 5.8 percent). But the greatest number of changes, the report notes, was made by people who were classified as being of unknown affiliation (35,663, or 18.9 percent). Another category of developer, of "none" affiliation, also made a sizeable contribution – 12,060 changes or 6.4 percent.
[A certain corporate entity based in Malta seems to be missing from this report, and you can read the PDF verison of the report here and determine which one that might be.]
So, did you miss me?
There's a lot more where that came from and a lot of developments going forward. Watch this space.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
December 3, 2010 at 10:59 am
Yes we did miss you.
You spelled Colonel wrong (Saluting the kernel)
And that foreign company that hasn't been helping with
that other kernel has seen the last of this Colonel.
With all the tech that is preached here one must wonder why
these presentations of LtFSG are not online somewhere. Sure
would like to see that laser stuff.
Partimus! There are some very nice people in the OpenSource
sphere. /me is looking in his wallet.
Keep those cards and letters coming folks!
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Charlotte Hornets to Unveil New Logo
So it was announced last week that on Saturday, Dec 21, the Charlotte Bobcats will reveal the new brand identity for their change to the Charlotte Hornets for the 2014-2015 season during halftime of their game with the Utah Jazz. We happened upon some of the new logo options, which were designed by the same design firm that just recently rebranded the Appalachian State Mountaineers logo.
Have a look below! These look pretty awesome, and whichever one they finally go with, we're exciteed about it!
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In that gray time between Christmas and spring, Oscar season helps brighten the days. Busy with work and family, my wife and I rarely get to the local cineplex, but we try to see at least four movies a year at our neighborhood theater — enough to have a passing acquaintance with the Academy contenders. With the Oscars as with the Super Bowl, it helps to have someone to root for when the competition unfolds.
Oscar night itself is a colossal bore for me. All awards ceremonies — even the ones in which I've had a chance of taking home a trophy or plaque myself — seem like an exercise in tedium.
I much prefer to watch "31 Days of Oscar," a month-long film festival on Turner Classic Movies that features Academy Award contenders from the Hollywood vaults. My wife records the best of them, hoarding movies for winter weekends the way some people stack cords of firewood against the threat of cold.
Start watching most of these classics, and you feel compelled to finish them, which is why, I suppose, they're so celebrated in the first place.
On a recent weeknight when we should have behaved responsibly and gone to bed, we stayed up much too late until the credits rolled on Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent." When Hitchcock made the movie in 1940, as Europe lapsed into war and the conflict threatened America, Gary Cooper turned down the role of leading man.
Cooper thought that thrillers were a bit beneath him, a common Hollywood attitude before Hitchcock elevated the genre to an art form. One of the biggest pleasures of "Foreign Correspondent," in fact, is watching Hitchcock work out some of the techniques that set the gold standard for cinematic suspense.
Like so many Hitchcock projects, "Foreign Correspondent" features a lively set of cliffhanger scenarios for the hero to overcome. With everything from a plane crash to an ominous windmill, the movie plays out like a round of miniature golf — one lively obstacle after another, the game complicating into a contest that leaves no margin for error.
Joel McCrea, who embraced the part that Cooper declined, plays an American journalist who takes an assignment in Europe, where he tangles with Nazi agents. The most memorable scene in the movie comes in the final moment, when McCrea's character, broadcasting from London as the German bombs fall, alerts U.S. listeners to the coming storm:
"It's as if the lights were all out everywhere, except in America. Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, ring them with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them. Hello, America, hang on to your lights: they're the only lights left in the world!"
Maybe someone will make a speech that good on Oscar night next Sunday, but I doubt it.


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text: Does anyone know the truth? I have heard a lot of talk about the start of dredging and would just like to know when it would take place and where. You see i must know in order to stack my vacation time up and use it then. God i can't wait! Its like Christmas for me when i see all that sand violently spewing on the beach. Now i know you surfers out there hate this and cry that it ruins your spots. o boo hoo. For us skimmers its almost a miracle sent from the big man up stairs. So if anybody has some insight please let me know.


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hello alli want use code javascript it can open 1 file .txt
You almost certainly can't do that with JavaScript.
What are you wanting to do with that txt file?
i want open file .txti want read 1 message in file .txtbecause i know file .js can run by file wscript.exe of Windowxp
Like Paul said with JavaScript alone its 100% not possible, the only way you can achieve this is by using a back end server side script that opens the file and returns it to your JavaScript code.
you can't use javascript
How about this code example, where the contents of a text file is read?http://bulletproofajax.com/code/chapter03/ajaxtest/index.html
thank paul_wilkins !
Can u body onload this function ? (grabFile(this.href); return false;)
You don't even need the onload. Just move the script from the link down to its own script section near the end of the body, and get rid of the link.
i would like to studing javascript can you for me document about javascripti want write code javascript run by wscript.execan you help me ?
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By Ed
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Use for kayaking. Keep feet dry and warm.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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I bought these for my husband because he works at a golf course and during the winter they spend a lot of time repairing irrigation pipes and he spends more days than not soaked to the skin in 20-40 degree weather. He just got them so I can't comment on how long they hold up (I'll try to remember to come back and comment on that later) but they've kept his feet warm and comfortable and dry. Even though his boots were completely soaked thru, his feet remained dry. Even in the coldest weather (granted we are in NJ so we don't have arctic temperatures) his feet have remained warm regardless of whether or not he is working in water. Very impressed! Also pleased with how quickly they arrived.
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These are wonderful! I purchased these for my son for Christmas. He love them! He has worn them around the house without shoes and commented how warm his feet stayed. To test if they were totally waterproof he walked outside in the snow without shoes on and his feet stayed totally dry! We are impressed!
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Excellent product, just what the doctor ordered
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I bought to product to keep my 91 year old mother's feet dry when she takes a bath. Mission accomplished. The home care people are quite happy with the socks and the socks do the job well. The fit is very good and they are comfortable and keep the feet dry and water out. This is a far better solution than the products the health care store has for sale for the same purpose.
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The best use for this product is if you know you will be hiking or working in places where your feet will become wet from puddles or worse. These socks will keep out water and you will not be standing in water all day.The downside to these socks is that any foot-sweat will stay inside too. So if you are prone to this problem, you will definitely have cold feet.
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I love the idea of this product. But with a uncomfortable seam going down the centre of the underneath foot section. I am walking on a seam which is VERY uncomfortable. I have to twist the sock into a position that is not annoying. Very dissapointed.
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There's been a lot of talk about the potential of a future Amazon monopoly on ebooks if the DOJ gets its way and forces the major publishers to abandon their preferred agency model in favor of a wholesale model.
Currently, publishers set ebook prices -- the charge is that they illegally colluded amongst one another to do so -- whereas under the terms of the proposed settlements, Amazon will have the option to pay publishers wholesale prices, and then sell to consumers at a loss.
Doing so brings in customers -- cheap books! -- but could put Barnes and Noble out of business, setting Amazon up as the dominant force in the industry.
The fear, then, is that Amazon locks up the market, puts most of the competition out of business, and subsequently raises prices back to sustainable levels.
Some pundits don't see this as a credible threat.
Just to get this out of the way: If Apple and publishers colluded to raise prices, they should pay whatever penalty is deemed appropriate for having done so. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that they did -- and many experts agree -- but that's what a lawsuit will sort out.
Even so, I don't think it's premature to think about Amazon's role as a potential monopoly, and the future impact that may well have on consumers, given that 1) Amazon is a business, not a charity and 2) they're out to turn a profit.
Here's what we know:
Amazon sells some models of the Kindle at a loss.
This is true of both the Kindle Fire and the $79 entry-level Kindle:
It's been widely reported that Amazon is willing to lose $10 a pop for every Kindle Fire it makes and now it appears that the online retail giant may also be planning to sell its $79 Kindle ereaders at a loss.
Research firm IHS (formerly iSuppli) has determined that it costs Amazon about $84.25 to make one of the soon-to-be-released ereaders, according to a report this week from MainStreet. That's obviously more than the $79 list price for the device and it wouldn't be the only forthcoming, below-cost product in Amazon's stable, if an earlier IHS manufacturing teardown for the Kindle Fire holds water.
The conventional wisdom is that Amazon can take a hit on hardware, because they'll make up that lost revenue on services.
But wait:
Amazon doesn't make any money on Prime, either.
Amazon Prime is a $79-a-year membership program that essentially comes with (as in: it's all free!) a good deal of the "conventional wisdom" services that bring value to both the e-ink Kindles and the Kindle Fire.
- Free 2-day shipping on anything purchased from Amazon.
- Free access to (advertisement-free!) instant-streaming movie and TV content.
- Up to 1 free book per month.
So, for $79, I'm not paying for movies because I'm streaming them for free, and Amazon isn't even making any advertising revenue. If I'm frugal, I'm borrowing books, rather than buying them. (There are entire websites devoted to helping Kindle owners find free content.) On top of all that, Amazon is paying an awful lot of money to publishers and movie/television studios in order to be able to offer these deals:
Prime is so crucial to the Seattle-based company that it is willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year on the program, by some analysts' estimates. Until this year, Prime offered only quick shipping for $79 a year. But the online retailer has added services to Prime while keeping the price unchanged as a means of keeping customers loyal to Amazon's more-profitable operations.
Amazon is paying flat fees to some publishers for the rights to lend books, but for some titles the company is buying a digital copy every time a customer borrows a book.
In many cases, when a Prime customer borrows a book, Amazon pays the publisher full price for that book. Publishers are businesses too -- if you're not paying for something, you can bet Amazon is. The trend has been to add more services to Prime, not less, and the price of entry hasn't moved an inch.
And, finally, Amazon is hoping to get back into the business of selling books below cost:
[The settlement] is a big win for Kindle owners," Amazon said in a statement. "We look forward to being allowed to lower prices on more Kindle books…
Amazon is taking a loss on the hardware, taking a loss on a lot of the services, and plans to resume taking a loss on some of the content.
This strategy has had an undeniably negative short-term effect for both income and revenue:
The Seattle-based company (AMZN) also said it may fall short of analysts' earnings estimates for the current quarter as it continues to invest in long-term initiatives, such as the Kindle Fire tablet and Amazon Prime, aimed at enticing customers to buy more and exclusively on its site.
Net income fell to $177 million from $416 million a year earlier. Revenue rose 35% to $17.4 billion. But revenue fell short of analysts' estimates. The stock closed Tuesday at $194.44, but fell as much as 11% in after-hours trading.
Amazon, it must be noted, is a publicly traded company.
If the bet is to sustain these losses in order to "entice customers to buy more and exclusively on the site" -- which is another way of saying that Amazon is attempting to buy the market out from under its competitors -- who is it that honestly believes that the low prices and too-good-to-last free offers will stick around once they've (inevitably) achieved that goal?
Amazon can't give away money forever.
This could lead to a future in which Amazon controls the publishing industry, prices normalize at a level that is higher than consumer have been groomed to expect, there's no competitive alternative to turn to, and wary publishers spitefully hold back on ebook innovation even more than they already do.
Unless, of course, publishers innovate their way out of this mess.