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Hello everyone
We all know Graphic River's "3 variations rule". At first take it seems fair cause it prevent authors bulk their portfolios and the marketplace with easy-to-make & with no-further-value derivatives. But what of the cases that the derivatives are not easy-to-make, have added market value and/or need to be more than 3 in order to make the whole effort complete, worthwhile for the author as well as price friendly for the buyer? Would you say then that this rule is, not really unfair but… inadequate? I'll start by setting out a personal example and I'll generalize as I go along.
I recently developed a cartoon blue bird character to be marketed with Royalty Free (RF) licence via RF agencies like Envato. The idea was to create a character that could give visual aid to someone's twit. The whole project consists of 15 illustrations/poses that covers a variety of emotions and situations. The study for the basic character's style and a set that would be complete took more than half of the whole project's time .
I packed these 15 illustrations in 5 items of 3 poses each. The first 3 in line were approved and placed in the library on the $6 price range and the latter 2 were rejected due to the "3 derivatives rule" with the underline suggestion of making three 5-poses packs to include all. My guess is that the 5-pack items would be at the $8 or $9 price range. My experience from other agencies I uploaded this and other sets as single files is that 70% of the buyers prefer to purchase only one illustration as fit for their project and only 10% purchased bunches of 3 or more. If this statistic stands true it makes the 5-pack price unfriendly to 9 out of 10 potential buyers. On the other hand 3 single-pose items would dismiss 80% of the project and a 5-pack at $3 or $4 price range would make the effort not worthwhile. (you can see the approved items here: http://graphicriver.net/item/blue-bird-happysmartyopen/3472123?WT.ac=portfolio&WT.seg_1=portfolio&WT.z_author=gnazlis http://graphicriver.net/item/blue-bird-shocklolemotional/3472864?WT.ac=portfolio&WT.seg_1=portfolio&WT.z_author=gnazlis http://graphicriver.net/item/blue-bird-strictseriusvicious/3473049?WT.ac=portfolio&WT.seg_1=portfolio&WT.z_author=gnazlis)
There are subject categories like cartoon characters, logos, brand IDs or Icons that intake the possibility of having many more than 3 marketable derivatives, if worked thoroughly. There are many authors that wants to do the extra work in order to produce an outcome that meets their highest standard. Having this outcome available, at a fair price is at the best interest of all involved. I acknowledge that the "3 derivative rule" helps keep the library in order and prevents "junk" from reaching the marketplace. On the other hand it closes the door on many more market-worthy creations and tend on "policing" certain categories into unfriendly prices, either towards the author or the buyers or both. I believe that a restriction approach creates a gap that needs to be addressed by both the GR team as well as authors. Neither can really determine the marketability of derivatives. We should allow the market decide for that. A restrictive rule can only mean loss of revenue for both GR and authors in exchange for the necessity of the library's order.
My take on this issue is that the "3 derivative rule" could be replaced by an option that produces revenue and keeps the library even neater. I suggest creating a folder/item option that could be called "Project". An authors could put in one "Project" as many derivatives as he determines are marketable and split them in equally priced items. This "Project" can have the same presentation structure (thumbnail, preview) as all other items. When buyers visit it they'd be presented with an interface that allows them the option to choose to purchase any number of derivatives or the whole "Project" at proportional prices (something like the option i-Tunes gives of buying a whole artist's album or individual tracks).
For instance, let's say one creates 15 poses of the same "Santa-Claus" cartoon character. He/she can put them in only ONE "Project" and let the buyer buy as many poses as he needs with a price structure as follows: one pose for $3, two for $5 and every one after that for 1 extra $ or alternatively buy the whole "Project" for $12. This way there are no restrictions neither to the buyer nor to the author and GR, given this option, could impose a "no derivative" rule and have the library even neater. Envato's advance and versatile preview system makes it ideal for such an option. This would convert a "restrictive rule" all RF agencies have to a "creative solution" no other agency has. I believe it would give a boost to exclusivity on both the authors and the buyers by producing an environment that encourages more creativity and fair pricing…
Fellow authors and GR staff I'm interested on hearing your take on this
George Nazlis illustrator – author
note 1. The prices ($) would still be set by GR and would be based on a single purchase, for instance: first item $100%, second $60%, every other $30% , Project $80% of the sum of all individual items.
+1 This is a very good idea ! Let's hope it'll mean something for GR Team and change something.
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I've been using an internal beta of Fireworks CS3 for several weeks now to wireframe Flex projects, and let me just say… Fireworks CS3 rocks. Particularly with the new Flex components library that comes with Fireworks CS3, and the pages feature that allows me to specify which layers are shared across which pages, the time it takes me to develop wireframes has literally been cut in half, leaving me more time to actually focus on designing the best user-experience.
I wrote up an article with one possible workflow using the Fireworks to design, style and skin a Flex application. You can read the article here at the Fireworks Developer Network.
What's more, with Fireworks CS3 including a AS3 engine, I've packaged the Flex Style Explorer as a Fireworks Extension that will run directly in Fireworks. You can download and install the MXP here.
Fireworks CS3 is required.

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Super ad: VW 'Darth Vader' wins Cocky Award
With their cheese heads and terrible towels put away, students at the University of South Carolina have cast their votes and declared Volkswagen Passat's "Darth Vader" this year's Cocky Award winner for best commercial in the eighth annual Super Ad Poll.
The USC poll ended in a tie with half of 60 students in Bonnie Drewniany's "Super Bowl Advertising" class choosing the VW spot about a little boy who believes he has magical powers. The other half chose Doritos "House Sitter," an ad about a man who brings his roommate's grandfather back from the dead.
Ultimately, the winner was determined by the online version of the Super Ad Poll, where other students, alumni and the community rate the commercials using the same criteria.
"This is the first time ever we have had a tie," said Drewniany. "We saw a lot of slapstick humor last night that fell short in resonating with viewers. In the end, it was the sweet, kinder and gentler humor of VW's 'Darth Vader' that people liked."
The class gathered at Ifra/Newsplex in the SC-ETV building to critique the national ads that aired during Super Bowl XLV for likeability, persuasiveness and brand identity.
"Volkswagen had the best two ads of the night with the VW Passat with 'mini Darth Vader' and VW Beetle with, well, a beetle," said Brock Henderson, a senior visual-communications major.
Senior Jonathan Williams, a political-science major, voted for Doritos. "The Doritos ad was funny and had strong brand identity," he said.
Doritos "House Sitter" and Chrysler "Detroit Tribute" took second and third place, overall, respectively.
Lauren Bovit, a senior majoring in business, said scoring the ads helped her apply what she has learned about advertising.


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Network of Public Prosecutors
or equivalent institutions
at the Supreme Judicial Courts
of the Member States of the European Union
Réseau des Procureurs généraux
ou institutions équivalentes
près les Cours suprêmes judiciaires des Etats membres de l'Union européenne
Budapest, 26 May 2012
The Network of Public Prosecutors or equivalent institutions at the Supreme Judicial Courts of the Member States of the European Union approved this Final Document during the Plenary Meeting held in Budapest between 24-26 May 2012.
1. The General Assembly of the Conference refers to the common constitutional heritage of the European Union and to the founding principles of the European Union relating to freedom, democracy, the respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as the rule of law. The task of the Prosecution Services and the Prosecutor Generals' Offices in each country of the Union is the protection and the supervision of the respect of these principles.
2. We are convinced that the Network contributes to a more effective European cooperation by identifying common principles in the different legal systems of the Member States and by sharing experiences. We underline the importance of the examination of better utilization of the existing cooperation instruments.
3. In the past years, the economic, social and political stability of the European Union was severely tested by the global economic and financial crises. The effects of the crises are still perceivable in the Member States, therefore an actual topic Effect of the economic crises on the work and structure of Prosecution Services and on the training of prosecutors in the European Union has been chosen by the Network for this Plenary Meeting.
4. It is clear by now that due to the effect of the global financial and economic crisis Member State Prosecution Services have to face new challenges. In many countries criminality has increased or its structure has changed significantly. The current difficult economic and financial environment evokes professional challenges which emphasize the need of good governance. The independence, impartiality, financial autonomy and efficiency of public prosecutors are values that have to be assured and guaranteed under the present circumstances.
5. As austerity may have a contraproductive effect, in the present situation Member States should endeavour to provide for the Prosecution Services proper technical equipments, better access to training for prosecutors and other staff members, and better access to technical expertise that is required in support of evidence used in courts.
6. As a general principle the economic crisis should not influence the quality of prosecutorial work in a negative way. The introduction of new structures within the Prosecution Services e.g. the establishment of specialised units for fight against economic crimes and corruption, or quality assurance systems can contribute on a large scale to maintain professional quality.
7. To put the effects of the crisis in a wider context the Network calls the attention of its members to the following best practices introduced in the course of the Plenary Meeting: integrated management of human, material and financial resources and specific training in this respect; internal re-organisation; introduction of new administrative positions; profound monitoring of expenditures; utilization of EU funds in increasing organisational efficiency.
8. In this difficult period experience exchanges and mutual trust play an extremely important role. This applies both for institutional and interpersonal relations. By better cooperation and coordination among the European and domestic actors the fight against crime and the protection of rights can be considerably improved.


text: I've heard so much about Free that I decided to look at all the games and just focus on him using the all 22. I'd looked at an occasional all 22 and looked at Free some but I'm just going to look at him. It takes me less than an hour to watch a game including looking at some plays more than once. I did not watch the defense play much at all but that's not the goal here. If any others want to post their comments please do so. You don't have to have the all 22 to do so either. It would be nice to get some comments from the coaches film from others though. Game 1: Dal vs NYG Free had a pretty good game. He gave up no sacks, was decent in the run game and was very good sealing and getting to the second level. If he can make contact on a player off him then he will drive that player where he wants. He played well against the outside rush getting into position well with good balance and arm extension directing his guy way past Romo. Having said that let me say that he was only challenged a few times and when bull rushed he didn't do as well although he kept Romo up. He got caught holding on one inside move that could have been a sack. Romo escaped around the pressure to the outside and completed a pass to OT but it got flagged. NY just didn't rush us that much outside and we got the ball out quickly for the most part. Romo threw a pick when he had pressure up the middle and had to alter his throw as well as throw quickly and off balance. In other words he should have eaten it or thrown it away. He just makes so many plays while escaping and extending plays I can see why he doesn't want to give up. That's a big thing for him to work on. But the pressure came up the middle and not from the edge. He was sacked twice. I'd have to go back and look at NYs defense as I just concentrated on Free. They looked like they wanted push up the middle and contain on the ends and that's why Free didn't have to respond to much pressure. If anyone wants to comment on that we can let the thread drift as long as we come back to Free. I did notice that if he lets his guy get into his body he doesn't have the strength to stop the bull rush. I didn't watch his hands this go round but generally he got a punch and extension with good balance with the exceptions being bull rushed or a swim to the inside once. I'll try and watch how they are getting inside and creating problems on the next game. If I have time I'll go back and look at this game again but I'd like to get a few games in and see how the thread goes. All in all I'd give Free a B here. No A since when attacked he gave up ground a little too often even making Romo move around Free and his guy. So there were some problems I could see but they weren't exploited or challenged much in this game. If we get a lot of posts here then we'll just do a thread on each game. We'll just have to see how it goes.


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When you and your baby have settled into a comfortable routine, you may feel the urge to rejoin the outside world—to introduce your baby to those you love and to interact with other adults yourself. This transition should not be difficult as long as you are getting the sleep and nutrition you need to sustain your milk production and keep your energy level up.
Breastfeeding a baby while resuming your pre-baby life should become routine relatively quickly once you are comfortable with several breastfeeding positions and different nursing clothes. You will discover some great advantages of breastfeeding—how easy it is to pick up and go when there are no bottles to prepare and no pacifiers to search for. And life is much less expensive when you don't have to stock up on formula every week. Getting out and about with a breastfed baby is easier now that breastfeeding in public is becoming a common and accepted practice virtually everywhere across the country, thanks in part to a surge of state and federal legislation protecting mothers' rights to breastfeed wherever they like.
Still, you may encounter the occasional challenge to your new lifestyle. Critics may admonish you for nursing in public, ask you when you plan to wean your baby (even when he's just months old), or suggest you offer the baby a bottle of formula if your milk doesn't let down readily when your baby wants to nurse. (Even after several months, glitches occur occasionally in your supply-and-demand relationship with your baby as he experiences a growth spurt, you go through a stressful period, or other life events occur.)
You may find situations where you just don't feel at all comfortable breastfeeding while others are present, especially in the early weeks as you and your baby are learning your new breastfeeding skills. In these cases, simply excuse yourself and go to another area to nurse, or express your breast milk ahead of time and feed it to your baby in a bottle when you need to after the baby is three to four weeks old.
Around this time, you may wonder how you will adjust to working while continuing to breastfeed. You may be separated from your baby for longer periods, requiring you to provide one or more bottles of expressed breast milk to your infant's caregiver in your absence. Planning ahead, along with the solid base of breastfeeding experience you've acquired, will help you adjust to whatever changes occur. Once you have committed yourself to nurturing your baby in the best way you can, little can stand in the way of a lasting and fulfilling breastfeeding relationship.


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I am getting a huge number of crawl errors from Google Webmaster tools, for example,
Error: http://www.berkshiredentist.com/yoast-ga/outbound-article/www.usa.philips.com
[Favorite Links | Berkshire Dentist](http://www.berkshiredentist.com/favorite-links/)
[Favorite Links | Berkshire Dentist](http://berkshiredentist.com/?page_id=61)
[Favorite Links | Berkshire Dentist](http://berkshiredentist.com/favorite-links/)
Furthermore, my favorite link checker Link Sleuth, only crawls the first page.
The site seems to have generated errors from the beginning.
Here is my .htaccess file:
#suPHP_ConfigPath /home/berkshi1
DirectoryIndex index.php
#to redirect urls from old to new urls
Redirect 301 /pages/services.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/patient-services/
Redirect 301 /pages/home.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/
Redirect 301 /pages/library.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/patient-library/
Redirect 301 /pages/contact.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/contact-us/
Redirect 301 /pages/about.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/about-us/
Redirect 301 /pages/links.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/61-2/
Redirect 301 /pages/gallery.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/photo-gallery/
Redirect 301 /pages/forms.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/new-patient-forms/
Redirect 301 /pages/patient_library/veneers.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/porcelain-veneers/
Redirect 301 /pages/patient_library/gumdisease.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/gum-disease-serious-but-treatable/
Redirect 301 /pages/patient_library/diagnodent.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/diagnodent-laser-reflection-finds-imperfection-aids-in-correction/
Redirect 301 /pages/patient_library/airabrasion.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/patient-library/
Redirect 301 /pages/patient_library/implants.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/implants-permanent-secure-tooth-replacements/
Redirect 301 /pages/patient_library/digitalxray.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/digital-x-rays/
Redirect 301 /pages/special.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/
Redirect 301 /pages/services.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/
Redirect 301 /pages/faqs.htm http://berkshiredentist.com/
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
What am I missing?
The links in your source looks fine (although your source code does look a bit crowded). Which type of crawl errors are you getting?
Jesus wept ... and that was before he looked at the source code of a Wordpress page.
For some reason, there's a bunch of Javascript that seems to be screwing up your outbound links:
About Cosmetic Dentistry
It looks like bots are trying to follow the link in the script snippet as well as, or instead of, the actual link destination. As that link is only there to track what people have clicked on, and doesn't actually resolve to the correct page but instead to a 404 error, it looks like that's why Googlebot is having trouble.
Very interesting about the Javascript code. It is not in the content HTML.
About Cosmetic Dentistry - Learn about procedures, view photos and find out how you can beautify your smile with cosmetic dentistry.
Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
How do you find the Wordpress Google Analytics program setting to disable it? I am having the same problem.
Frankly, it's been so long, I don't remember. I googled on
google analytics event tracking outbound links and found a whole bunch of articles including this one.
Hope that helps.
A Ha! I remember now. The setting is in the WordPress plugin "Google Analytics for WordPress" configuration. See attached screen shot.
We had an issue that also added a redirect between where the user clicked and the end destination, caused by some google tracking stuff. The client noticed it when clicking on links lead to blank pages (it seems the intermediate google server was down for an hour or so and the client (understandably) freaked out).
BTW wonder if you can remove this in your htaccess file:<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
If you know you have mod_rewrite, get rid of that. It's a silly-expensive check that I believe happens at every request. For some reason it seems default with some hosting setups as a safety feature, but it's only meant as safety when you're first setting up and might not have mod_rewrite.
my be the link is broken. try to fix the link.


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Denise L. Cote
News about Denise L. Cote, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Highlights From the Archives
The Sisterhood Judging WorldCom
BOTH are former federal prosecutors, formidable in their courtrooms. They are also fast friends, contemporaries who rose through the legal ranks in New York City during the gritty 1970's and the more prosperous 1980's. And, for the next few months, Denise L. Cote, 58, and Barbara S. Jones, 57, United States District Court judges in Manhattan, will be front and center in the trials of WorldCom's former chief executive, Bernard J. Ebbers, and the investment banks and auditors that advised the company as it spiraled into bankruptcy.January 30, 2005 businessNews
Trying to Turn Back the Clock on Deals Gone Sour
Several clawback cases over buyouts that ended badly have resulted in thousands of shareholders fighting to keep the money that was paid to them....
August 24, 2016, Wednesday
MORE ON DENISE L. COTE AND: Bankruptcies , Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures , LyondellBasell , Cote, Denise , Suits and Litigation (Civil) , Basell Holdings , Lyondell Chemical Company
Ruling That Apple Led E-Book Pricing Conspiracy Is Upheld
A federal appeals court said it agreed with a 2013 decision that Apple conspired with publishers to raise prices for e-books....
July 1, 2015, Wednesday
MORE ON DENISE L. COTE AND: Apple Inc , E-Books and Readers , Book Trade and Publishing , Antitrust Laws and Competition Issues , Jobs, Steven P , Cote, Denise , Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates)
Judge's Ruling Against 2 Banks Finds Misconduct in '08 Crash
Judge Denise L. Cote of Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Nomura and the Royal Bank of Scotland misled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
May 12, 2015, Tuesday
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New York Process Servers Lose a Suit on New Rules
A federal court confirmed the right of the city's Consumer Affairs Department to enact rules addressing "sewer service" — the nondelivery of court papers....
August 23, 2014, Saturday
Lawmaker in Manhattan Pleads Guilty to 2 Felonies
Gabriela Rosa, a Democrat in her first term representing a district of Upper Manhattan, was forced to leave office for making false statements....
June 28, 2014, Saturday
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Apple Wins Temporary Stay on Court Monitor
Apple won a small victory in its attempt to oust a court-appointed monitor. The court ruling sets the stage for more legal battles to come....
January 21, 2014, Tuesday
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Court Gives a Victory to Pandora Over Licensing Streaming Music
A federal judge ruled against Ascap, saying it must make its entire publishing catalog available for licensing by Pandora....
September 19, 2013, Thursday
Judge Sets Restrictions for Apple on E-Books
Apple will face restrictions in its agreements with publishers, but not the extensive government oversight sought by the Justice Department....
September 7, 2013, Saturday
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Judge Wants Narrow Focus in Apple Price-Fixing Penalty
Judge Denise Cote said she wanted the punishment "to rest as lightly as possible on the way Apple runs its business."...
August 28, 2013, Wednesday
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Judge Considers Limits on Apple's Future E-Book Deals
A proposal that would force Apple to negotiate with publishers one at a time is an attempt to prevent the company and big publishers from collusion....
August 10, 2013, Saturday
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I have a Asus G2S-A1 and the hardware is identical except for the larger screen. I didn't have the black screen issue but when I chose nvidia compiz there were no boarders around windows and I couldn't type in konsole. When I chose the regular kde option key-presses would be repeated three times.
I solved these problems by copying the nvidia 169.04 beta driver installer to my usb key. Then, using the nvidia compiz option, and hitting ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the x server, I installed the driver and manually configured xorg.conf and typed startx.
Now compiz works (cube and effects) but when I ran aireplay-ng my wireless card (Intel 4965 AGN: ipwraw driver) stopped responding (it worked fine for browsing the web though).
169.04 driver:
www . nvnews . net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=102509 (remove spaces)
laoen you need to enable P.M. support on your account so I can send you detailed instructions.


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Consortium Reforms Shift Tax-Based Student Aid to Families Who Most Struggle with College Costs
Dec 12, 2013
By Julie Strawn
This is the final entry of a three-part series highlighting charts from the recent publication, Higher Education Tax Reform: A Shared Agenda for Increasing College Affordability, Access, and Success, written by the Consortium for Higher Education Tax Reform for the Bill & Melinda Gates initiative, Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery. The Consortium is a partnership of four organizations concerned with college affordability, access, and completion for low- and modest-income individuals: the Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success at CLASP, Young Invincibles, the New America Foundation's Education Policy Program, and The Education Trust.
Our package of reforms would realign the $34 billion federal investment in tax-based student aid with national goals of increasing college affordability, access, and success.
More than 80 percent of families would continue to be eligible for higher education tax benefits under our proposals, which would eliminate overlapping tax benefits, make it easier for families to understand and claim tax-based student aid, and deliver aid when college bills are due. Further, we propose linking tax breaks for higher education institutions to their performance on college access and completion. Finally, we would reinvest any potential savings from our reforms into student aid. Every dollar should be used to improve college access, affordability, and success, including through funding for the Pell Grant program.
Critically, our proposals are also fiscally responsible. According to estimates from the Tax Policy Center, our reform package would raise $16 billion in revenue over ten years (2014-2023)-funds that would further help students through reinvestment in financial aid. Under our proposals, tax-based student aid would go primarily to the low- and modest-income families and individuals who most struggle with college costs.


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Visiting Carnegie Hall
The historic Carnegie Hall was commissioned by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891 and has been one of the world's premier venues for classical music ever since. It boasts an Italian Renaissance design, which was courtesy of the genius architect William Burnet Tuthill. Though the New York Philharmonic moved to … Read More


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About Lawas STOLport
Lawas STOLport serves the rural area of Lawas in, Sarawak. It handles weekly flights to Bekalalan and Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The STOLport serves Malaysia Airlines' MASwings.
There are currently plans underway to relocate the airport. The proposed location will open the STOLport to people along the Sabah-Sarawak border.
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We are pleased to inform that runway recovery works at Sibu Airport is now complete and the airport had resumed normal operations at 0000 hours, 10 April 2017, with the first flight commencing operations 0928 hours this morning.
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A stirring week for the Cleveland Browns has turned sobering.
Starting left guard Jason Pinkston remains hospitalized with blood clots in his lungs, a life-threatening condition he's grateful was detected early. After the Browns revealed Pinkston's condition after practice on Friday, he confirmed his illness on Twitter while being treated at the Cleveland Clinic.
"The news is true I've been hospitalized with blood clots in my lungs very thankful our medical staff did a great job of taking action," Pinkston wrote on his account. "And catching it at a early stage it's obviously clear I won't be playing for sometime but more importantly I'm thankful to be alive."
It's believed the blood clot contributed to him becoming ill in last week's win over Cincinnati. Pinkston will not play Sunday against Indianapolis and the Browns do not know when the second-year guard will be released from the hospital or cleared to return.
Redskins, Bills fined over injury reports
The NFL fined the Washington Redskins and Buffalo Bills $20,000 each Friday for violating league procedures on reporting injuries.
The injuries involved Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III and Bills defensive end Mario Williams.
Washington was fined for not properly updating media on Griffin's status during the Oct. 7 game against Atlanta after he left with a head injury that turned out to be a mild concussion. Coach Mike Shanahan had described Griffin as being "shaken up."
"In reviewing the matter, the appropriate medical care for Griffin was never in question," the NFL said in a statement Friday. "The Redskins' medical staff acted appropriately and with great care for Griffin's well-being."
Goodell appoints Tagliabue for bounty appeals
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell appointed predecessor Paul Tagliabue to hear the appeals of four players suspended in the Saints' bounty scandal.
Goodell said Friday he notified Jonathan Vilma, Will Smith, Scott Fujita and Anthony Hargrove, as well as the players' union, that Tagliabue would be the hearing officer to "decide the appeals and bring the matter to a prompt and fair conclusion."
The union and the four players had asked Goodell to recuse himself, contending he could not fairly rule. Their second set of appeals will be heard Oct. 30.
Around the league
Panthers • Carolina coach Ron Rivera said starting cornerback Chris Gamble will have an MRI on his right shoulder to determine if he has a torn labrum, the same injury that sent offensive lineman Mike Pollak to injured reserve earlier this season.
Gamble has been ruled out for Sunday's game against Dallas and Rivera is "concerned" he may end up on injured reserve.
Jets •Rex Ryan says New York Jets running back-kick returner Joe McKnight will be a "game-time decision" on whether he plays Sunday in an AFC East showdown with the New England Patriots.
McKnight is questionable with a sprained left ankle suffered in last week's win over Indianapolis. He did not practice Friday, but told reporters Thursday: "I'm playing. For first place, I'm in there."
NFL schedule
• San Francisco 13, Seattle 6
• Arizona at Minnesota, 11 a.m.
• Green Bay at St. Louis, 11 a.m.
• Baltimore at Houston, 11 a.m., Ch. 2
• Washington at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m., Ch. 13
• Dallas at Carolina, 11 a.m.
• New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.
• Cleveland at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.
• Tennessee at Buffalo, 11 a.m.
• Jacksonville at Oakland,2:25 p.m.
• N.Y. Jets at New England,2:25 p.m., Ch. 2
• Pittsburgh at Cincinnati,6:20 p.m., Ch. 5
Open • Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego
• Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m., ESPN


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Obama's concerns about letting the alleged Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria go unpunished dovetailed with broader pro-Israel concerns about maintaining U.S. credibility in the region and the dangers of unconventional weapons.
WASHINGTON — Pro-Israel officials rolled their eyes this week in response to the opposing spins about their support for President Obama's drive to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad for his purported use of chemical weapons against his own people.
Some suggested that once again, the tail was wagging the dog and Israel was leading the United States into another Middle East war. Others charged that the president's arm-twisting was forcing the pro-Israel community to take sides in a congressional debate it would rather avoid.
Whatever the truth, Obama's concerns about letting the alleged Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack go unpunished dovetailed with broader pro-Israel concerns about maintaining U.S. credibility in the region and the dangers of unconventional weapons.
"A lot of folks are watching, friends and foes," said David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee. "If we blink, if we flinch, foes will draw their own lessons and the world will become a more dangerous place.
"And friends are also watching, including friends in the Arab world, friends in Israel, elsewhere. They will draw their conclusions, fairly or unfairly, that they cannot necessarily rely on the United States."
Jewish groups were hesitant initially to support Obama's push to strike following an attack that is said to have killed more than 1,400 Syrian civilians, including several hundred children. But the reluctance all but evaporated after top Obama advisers outlined the administration's proposed legislation in a conference call last week with Jewish leaders.
The next day, Sept. 3, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee mobilized its grassroots to call members of Congress. On Tuesday, 250 of its top members held one-on-one meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
The lobby's talking points, as outlined by an AIPAC official who spoke anonymously, are twofold.
"One, there is a very strong strategic case: If we are to deter Iran from obtaining an unconventional weapon, we must stop its proxy Syria from using them without consequence," the official said.
"Then there is the moral case: Barbarism on a mass scale must not be given a free pass. We have sent the photos and videos of hundreds of children being stricken, and it is imperative America must act."
Despite the forcefulness of AIPAC's push and the lobby's vaunted clout on Capitol Hill, Obama faces an uphill battle in gaining support from Congress for a strike. In the U.S. House of Representatives, sentiment leans against authorizing a strike. The Senate appears to be split evenly.
The nod from AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups could help shift the balance — in part because lawmakers tend to defer to groups considered expert on a given topic, but also because of the fundraising prowess associated with the pro-Israel community.
AIPAC's support is joined by other leading American Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Notably, both partisan Jewish organizations — the Republican Jewish Coalition and the National Jewish Democratic Council — are backing Obama.
Despite the community's caution to have the president lead lest it be blamed for another Middle East war, commentators already are fingering Israel as the catalyst for American military action.
"AIPAC wants this war" was the headline over a string of posts by Andrew Sullivan on his influential Daily Dish blog over the weekend. And the conservative Jewish radio personality Michael Savage blamed Israel outright on his syndicated talk show.
"I'm sick of this slavish worship of Israel," Savage said, according to the conservative website Newsmax. "No, it's America first and Israel's the tail, not the dog. We're the dog, they're the tail. And I'm sick and tired of America being yanked around like we're the tail and they're the dog."
Until recently, Israel had maintained a careful distance from pronouncing on the Syrian civil war, except to note that it would respond to any attack on Israel — by the government or the rebels. But The New York Times reported Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reaching out personally to some congressional leaders at Obama's urging.
Neither the Israeli embassy nor U.S. congressional leaders would confirm the Times report. But in the wake of the chemical attack, Israel has grown more vocal in supporting a response that would degrade Assad's unconventional weapons capability.
"Israel agrees with President Obama that the use of chemical weapons is a 'heinous act' for which the Assad regime must be held accountable and for which there must be 'international consequences,' " Israel's ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, wrote last week on a Facebook message. "Israel further agrees with the president that the use of chemical weapons promotes the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and encourages 'governments who would choose to build nuclear arms.' "
Oren's former deputy Dan Arbell said any Israeli pronouncement on a matter of intense public debate would have to be made with considered delicacy.
"It's always a fine line to walk," said Arbell, a lecturer on the Israeli-Arab conflict at American University. "You don't want to insert yourself into the middle of a debate."
Harris said the narrative of Jewish eagerness for war — peddled heavily during and after the Iraq War — was to be expected. But he added that this should not inhibit Jewish groups from exercising their right to make their views known.
"We're proud Americans who have every reason and right to engage in the debate as other Americans," Harris said. "We care deeply about American influence and American national security."


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Meet the Think Tankers Advising the U.S. Military in Kabul
The military sponsors trips for think tank experts to consult with commanders in Afghanistan – and shape the debate back home.
Amid the media frenzy over former CIA director David Petraeus' extramarital affair, we were struck by a quick reference in a Washington Post story about Petraeus' time running the war in Afghanistan:
Prominent members of conservative, Washington-based defense think tanks were given permanent office space at his headquarters and access to military aircraft to tour the battlefield. They provided advice to field commanders that sometimes conflicted with orders the commanders were getting from their immediate bosses.
So who were these think-tankers and what exactly were they doing?
We spoke to some of them.
The most prominent and frequent traveler appears to have been the American Enterprise Institute's Fred Kagan. Best known as the intellectual author of the Iraq surge strategy, Kagan said he and his wife, Kimberley Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War, spent a total of about 270 days in Afghanistan while Petraeus was in command from summer 2010 to summer 2011, and about 128 days under Gen. John Allen, who took command after Petraeus and remains in the position.
Like others we spoke with, Kagan said Petraeus and other generals have routinely brought think tankers to both Iraq and Afghanistan, both to solicit outside advice and to shape the debate back home.
"General Petraeus liked to talk about 'directed telescopes' to describe people who go down to lower echelons and see what's going on and go back and help the commander get a better sense of that," says Kagan, who added that he has been going on such trips since 2007. The other aim of the trips was for the military to "help inform people who were going to be writing in the national debate to understand what was going on on the ground."
Responding to the Post's characterization about the military resources made available to think tank members during Petraeus' time in charge in Afghanistan, Kagan said: "Everybody who travels to Afghanistan or any combat zone at the invitation of the military is given access to military aircraft."
On the issue of providing advice to field commanders that conflicted with advice of their bosses, Kagan said: "We were always very careful to say we are not giving you orders, we're not passing on orders. We're not doing anything except giving you our opinion."
Defense Department spokesman Bill Speaks told ProPublica that the Pentagon often reaches out to such outside experts to advise war commanders.
"We do periodically invite those experts involved in relevant research to receive briefings on the status of the campaign," Speaks said in an email. He said the military does not have a comprehensive list of think tank members who have visited the U.S. headquarters in Kabul.
Indeed, the trips do not appear to have been part of any formal program, and they often differed in length and purpose.
Other think tankers we spoke with say they spent much less time in Afghanistan than Kagan, usually a few weeks or less. Those who have participated are from both Republican- and Democratic-leaning think tanks and they said they were not compensated.
"We did battlefield circulation, visited units in the field, and met with local political and security leaders," says John Nagl, a retired Army officer and current fellow at the Center for a New American Security who took one military trip to Iraq and two to Afghanistan.
Nagl — who said attendees were responsible for getting to Kabul on their own and the military then covered transportation, lodging, and food — believed the trips allowed him "to be better informed in my analysis and advocacy."
Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, who has taken the trips several times to both Iraq and Afghanistan, says the practice first became common under Petraeus during the surge in Iraq in 2007.
Kenneth Pollack, also of Brookings, credits a 2007 military trip to Iraq with prompting him and O'Hanlon to write an influential New York Times op-ed supporting Petraeus' surge strategy in the country.
"I hesitate to say these trips are uniformly good or bad. They can be both, they can be neither," Pollack told us. "It so depends on the people you meet and the people you're taking" on the trip. At times "there's no question they're trying to have you see things the way that they see them. But if you're smart about it, you can get past that."
Max Boot, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has also gone on the trips. He declined to comment.
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Who propagandizes who?
Who has what axe to grind?
As a plain citizen, a veteran, a peace lover, and one whose military experience was obtained more than 50 years ago, the military has a goal to perpetuate itself forever. There is no longer a draft, so there's no pressure from outsiders (parent-citizens) who can call their local congressman to complain that their child-service member told them about military incompetence that they may have witnessed.Think tankers, also wish to ingratiate or be ingratiated.
As a taxpayer, I object strongly that the military is using our resources to promote supportive points of view (by elaborately and expensively hosting these people), that will be used with and against other citizens and taxpayers. Kagan and wife are particularly odious in this regard, but it is the monetary waste, and the needless, if small, putting-in-harms-way of pilots and various support troops to keep these people happy that is totally unacceptable. I suppose Ms. Broadwell was a think-tanker in waiting. Petraeus and the other overfed 3 and 4 stars should be docked and punished, even retroactively, for concocting this scheme. And add the civilian politicos of Bush and Obama for going along with it. It stinks.
Why is the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institute called a Think Tank but Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC or Natural Wildlife Federation NWF both of whom have considerable expertese in their field of environment rather than defense - they are called lobbyists.
Where are the journalists who should have been reporting on this since 2007?
Thank you for Propublica.
This kind of thinking on the part of the Pentagon began under President Nixon, and continued, as the people and thinking that Nixon had around him stayed, under following administrations. Only Carter and Clinton administrations could have countered that, and anyone who knows career military and navy knows they are already very conservative in outlook. This is still absolutely outrageous!
It lowers my already low opinion of Petraeus.
report this to the Federal Whistleblower's hotline. The military needs to stop experimenting with captivated groups/soldiers and women and now gays, though they have been in the military a LONG, LONG time.
so, if everyone is irradiated, is the threat lessened? What debate? I'm sick of these LONG wars, talk of wars and other agendas. They make me sick.
How interesting! If readers will recall the outrage when NPR interviewed former General officers during the Iraq war what gives Petraeus et al the right to allow these "pundits" to exercise their telescopes on our dime and then return home to shape public opinion. Again, I am outraged at this flagrant disregard for civil control of the military. I have no problem with the news outlets sending a reporter to a campaign but I demand that they pay their own way inbound, in country and outbound. I also believe it is acceptable for them to interview the brass but the interview must be at arms length otherwise they are moving along a British press continuum. Frankly, we need to avoid these really stupid wars.
I love it. The same groups who gave us the Iraq war and the incompetent Defense dept. strategy to manage the war are still peddling their wares both at home and abroad.
It is, of course, an outrage, but what else should we expect from this group? One can only wonder at what the military guys getting shot at or blown up think of these bozos.
Interesting to note that these private citizens felt safe in a war zone while our troops in forward bases and elsewhere lived with what was often fatal risk. It would be interesting to know what military manpower (taxpayer $$) was diverted for the protection of these valuable Washington assets for the duration of even one informational trip.
This is a spin operation. All our generals have an appropriate background and training to take well informed, risk managed and supportable action- that is what we pay them to do. I have long advocated for the forced retirement of generals becasue America is overstocked with old, nonfunctioning three and four stars. Many of these flag officers have little oversight and operate in the margins while pulling in six figure salaries and padding their retirement.
What is even more disturbing, than biased civilians seeking to broaden the own financial position at the expense of taxpayers, and to promote their own political views for profit, is that we American's get very little independent reporting on the war in Afghanistan by real reporters, and I consider reporters for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, etc. to be entertainers only, hardly in a position to report facts alone, since their motive is always the bottom dollar. Rick Norlund
Think tankers or thick wankers?
Glad to see all the usual suspects represented. No wonder it's so tough to be a simple voting citizen back here in the States but outside the Beltway. We're just not close enough to the "action."
Looks like the Very Serious People who populate the Beltway Village have second (third?) homes near Kabul. No wonder nothing ever changes. No wonder we are still in America's longest war, the latest one we will lose.
The troops who have sacrificed life, health, and family for this war have been given the shaft and will wait far too long for the benefits owed them. But by all means, let's overpay the contractors and consultants!
Being served in Kabul military base for a year as helping forces;
I feel, it stinks
I'm sick of this long war.
Iam a pediatrician, have seen more than expected cases of leukemias among Afghan kids
I was there when planes were bombing areas full of civilians, because of possibility of presence of a' Taliban' suspect.
I've seen psychologically broken American soldiers
Frankly, America needs to avoid this really stupid war
Generals in visiting us were assuring that : this is not to be ended.
The same thinking who gave the Iraq war
Where r the real reporters, to tell about homeless population, without infrastructure, with an American supported government full of corruption
I've seen American soldiers carry kids by their bare hands from ice cold homeless villages to sheltered areas by individual work
May be up tp 25% of kids die every year because of weather.
Somebody should ask the Kagans if the delay in the surge in Iraq until 2007 - when it was clearly necessary prior to the 2004 elections - had anything to do with the 2004 and 2006 elections.
That is, were members of the American military sacrificed upon the altar of Republican political goals? Was the Iraq surge delayed because the Republicans knew that people like me would have been grinding their faces in the shunting aside of General Eric Shinseki and Rumsfeld's lie of "Six days, six weeks..doubt six months."????
The Republicans are monstrous liars…monstrous murderers…they kill their own….our own. They need to pray that they don't see me at St. Peter's side…or, for that matter, in hell. lolll…only after Iraq comes their mismanagement of Afghanistan.
In short, I am watching eight years of heinous economic and war crimes being swept under the rug…if Nazi Germany had only had a Fox and the party apparatus that the RNC has, there would never have been a Nuremberg.
H.S. Batman, THE W.P. quoting Kimberly and Frederick Kagan as the Subject Matter Experts for the post 2014 Order of Battle in Afghanistan. For a second I thought I was reading that other neo-con print, THE WSJ.
That's what we need, historians who've never served in the military, being taken seriously on end state. Better for Fred to spend more time exercising and to write more NON-PEER reviewed garbage that does not impact the livelihood of the 47% - those of us in the military.
Recommended innocuous articles: "If Rambo had a third more firepower, he would have won Vietnam" or "A third more Private Jokers (Kagans) would have won the Tet Offensive."
Just keep the Thinkless Tank stuff academic and for god's sake not real world. You never know when a Commander sleeping around with his biographer is going to actually sell this crap to civilian leaders
Good grief; yet another newspaper I have to abandon…
We have come to accept as "research" formulation of concepts designed to promote a particular viewpoint. Real research follows the facts wherever they may lead.
May sound like lines of unsolisited or less-greedy advisers but *INLANDISH fresh ingredients for truly mankind benefiting newer & contemporary *Thinktank is available in the soil of North-America right now for almost free of cost.
Great folks need to be working and available behind 'OBAMA-Biden 2013 to 2020 at least' and beyond.
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Nov. 30, 3:55 p.m.
I love it. The same groups who gave us the Iraq war and the incompetent Defense dept. strategy to manage the war are still peddling their wares both at home and abroad.
It is, of course, an outrage, but what else should we expect from this group? One can only wonder at what the military guys getting shot at or blown up think of these bozos. "Mr Schmidt ever here of Vietnam and those wonderful think tankers, the Bovaine Scat never ends it seems.. SOme dumb arse think tanker knows better than the man on the ground. I say put a rifel in the hands of those wonder thinkers and let them do a tour then think>>////Now that would be real and one could probably get some real advice,,,,,
Keep in mind Hillary Clinton's recent statement, that the United States needs to start spending more money to get Washington's "message" out.
There's a push for a propaganda war. These guys aren't a coincidence; they're the salesmen.
Have these think tankers taken the same oath to support and defend the US Constitution that the military officers have taken?
Notice how they're all zionist jews? All part of the network which committed mass murder on 911. See http://www.bollyn.com
Only in America!
loollllll…@papa charlie: Well, they've all sworn to bill on time, increase their bill whenever they can, and be long, long gone before anybody ever comes across the wire…
Matter of fact, I betcha they'd bump wounded off evac planes bugging out.
I knew there had to be a reason why the Defense Department spends twice as much as the next 15 nations on earth combined.
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I have read the Backtrack wireless compatibility list and saw NetGear WPN511 - Range Max is this the same thing as I am describing above. is there different versions like v1 will only work and v2 won't.


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75% of White People Have Zero Minority Friends
Listen to Why Can't We Be Friends Radio by War on iHeartRadio
(NEWSER) – Three-quarters of white Americans lack any minority friends, a survey finds: Their social networks, according to the Public Religion Research Institute, are "entirely white." The average white person with 100 friends, meanwhile, would have a single black friend, a single Latino friend, one Asian friend, and one mixed-race friend, the Washington Post reports.
A black person with 100 friends would typically have eight white friends, per the survey. The data seem to prove the Chris Rock joke that "all my black friends have a bunch of white friends—and all my white friends have one black friend," Christopher Ingraham notes at the Post.
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Lamaa Abdullatt came to Utah to learn about cooperation and leadership. But the Iraqi high-school student also wanted to learn something else.
"I wanted to learn how to ride a bike," said Abdullatt, one of nine students spending two weeks in Salt Lake City as part of the U.S. State Department's Iraqi Youth Leadership Exchange Program.
Now in its second year, the program helps to "bridge the gap between the Iraqi people and the people in the United States, specifically in Utah," said Allison James Garcia, program officer for the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy, the sponsor.
During their time in Utah, the students participated in leadership-building activities and community events and created a digital media project called "Be the Change." In it, the students discuss the role of youths in the world and how they can bring about change in their communities. A free showing of the project takes place Saturday at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. (See information box.)
In addition to all those activities, Abdullatt learned to ride a bike, with the help of her host family. Abdullatt, who lives in the city of Nasiriyah, the capital of the Dhi Qar, a province in southern Iraq, thinks there are a lot of differences between the two cultures.
"We are different in a lot of areas," she said . "I don't think there are a lot of similarities between Iraq and the United States."
The students were selected for the program by the United States embassy in Iraq based on their leadership potential and current roles in their communities. The group visited Washington, D.C., and the Global Youth Village in Virginia before arriving in Utah. They will go to New York before returning home.
The students will then take what they learned in America and develop projects to better their communities.
In addition to the nine students from Iraq, one Utah student from Skyline High School participated. Afras Crsial, who has an interest in international affairs, heard about the program through the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy. He applied and was accepted in the same manner as the Iraqi students.
"It seemed like an interesting opportunity," said Crsial, who added that the experience has been worthwhile.
"We learned a lot about leadership skills, listening skills, dialogue versus debate, and how to cooperate instead of compete," he said. "I learned a lot of things about the Iraqi culture and life in Iraq, and I would have never learned those things otherwise."
He believes that kind of understanding is important for those who will eventually be leaders in the United States.
"The United States has been heavily involved in Iraq in the recent decade, so it's important for us Americans to know things about Iraq and what the situation actually is," he said.
One of the main things Hussein Taher Faisel, who is also from Nasiriyah, noticed during the Utah trip was the difference in how people greet one another.
"I noticed that a lot of people were nice to me and always had a smile on their face," he said. "In Iraq when someone meets you, he asks you to come to his home and eat with him."
Beyond the greetings, Taher Faisel found few differences between the two cultures.
"I wanted to participate in this program to know more about the American culture, to meet new people, to make new friends and to see the country that I've been hearing about since I was young," he said, noting that he wanted to learn "how [Americans] think about my religion, my nationality."
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A free presentation of "Be the Change," a digital media project created by nine Iraqi high school students who have traveled to Utah as participants of the U.S. Department of State's Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program. The program is administered locally by the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy.
When • Saturday, July 20, 4 p.m.
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find position in a list made by string by searching incomplete string
I have a list of strings like
list1={{"a", "b something", "a", "a", "b", "c", "b"}
In this list, 'something' is a sting that I will not know in advanced and
there are several spaces between the 'b' and the 'something' in one string.
The number of the spaces is unknown.
I want to find out the position of the this "b something" sting in the
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Position[list1, "b*"]
and I also tried,
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both of them gave me {} as results.
Also Cases[list1,"b"~~___] or Cases[list1, "b*"] does not work. I can get
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works nice on my Aspire on in KDE VESA mode mate
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Wifizoo 1.3 - Eee PC Edition release.
Hello to all. I have added a new version of my Wifizoo Web interface customisation to my website at http://www.wifizoo.info/. The new version has been shrunk down, hopefully to fit smaller screens such as the Eee PC.
This version is miniaturised for the EEEPC. I've made the buttons smaller amongst a few other things. I only currently have access to the EEEPC 701 to test on. Please let me know if there are any issues on other devices, and if it is readable for you etc etc. Also big thanks to shamanvirtuel, and hope you don't mind, as i integrated your reset button into this version.
Download at my website or you can view a screenshot here.
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works nice on my Aspire on in KDE VESA mode mate
nice 1
wow, nice man. Thanks 4 the tought...
im getting a eeePC 900 20Gb (4+16) in a few days.. so.. couldn't be a better idea.
Excuse my english..
thanks for the feedback. glad to hear it works. i think i might buy an EEPC 900 to test on next
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That's the same that wifizoo 1.4 evolution
Just wanted to say thank you for this wifizoo mod. Works well.
hi benjy -
Although i did take the reset button off wifizoo 1.4 evolution, and i thanked shamnvirtuel for that on my web page. This is still version 1.3 with my redesigned web interface but for the EEE i made the buttons smaller, mnore light weight etc etc....
Shamanvirtuel did integrate my web interface into Wifizoo 1.4 also so it will be cool when we get that finished up.
RxCoup - Killthepage
I've got a 900 (and a 701, but haven't tried it on there yet), but am having trouble getting it running.
After putting the card in monitor mode, "python wifizoo.py -i ath0" ends in "socket.error: (100, 'Network is down')"
Update: Running Kismet, "python wifizoo.py -i kis0" seems to work. Thanks!
glad you got it working.
i am currently trying to decide between the 901 and the MSI wind.
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With the passage of Measure CL in our local community, I understand that seniors age 65 or over can be granted an exemption from payment on any parcel owned by one or more persons. Where does one apply for such an exemption?
- L. Scanlan
Tom Johnstone, superintendent of the Wiseburn School District - one the five districts that will benefit from the parcel tax - said school officials are working with the Los Angeles County Assessor's Office to establish the procedures.
"As soon as we have this information, we will send it out through our neighborhood associations to ensure that we reach every household with seniors," he said. "We will also provide assistance to any individuals that need it."
Johnstone added that because the tax will not be levied until late 2013, there is plenty of time to work out the specifics.
Measure CL will allocate funds for teacher salaries, computer technology, school security and other general-fund expenses at the Hawthorne, Lawndale, Lennox and Wiseburn elementary school districts and the Centinela Valley Union High School District.
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Academic Program > Major and Minor Fields of Study > Art
Chair Thelma S. Rohrer, Ejenobo R. Oke
The Department of Art offerings provide studio and lecture courses designed to develop an understanding of the fundamentals of aesthetics and the development of the skills that enable a person to use art as a successful medium of communication. Courses are provided for students with a professional interest as well as for others seeking cultural enrichment. Students contemplating an art major should submit a portfolio for purposes of placement. Non-majors may have prerequisites waived.
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Major in art; 39 hours; ART 131, 201, 210, 213, 315, 346, 499; two courses selected from: ART 342, 344, 348; twelve hours of electives in art.
Seniors are expected to participate in a senior exhibition and to successfully complete the senior comprehensive evaluation prior to graduation.
Minor in art; 27 hours: ART 131, 201, 210, 213, 315; one course selected from: ART 342, 344, 346, 348; nine hours of electives in art.
Requirements for teaching majors are available in the Office of Teacher Education.
Courses ART
131 BASIC DESIGN - 3 hours
Introductory experiments and practice in various media with emphasis on understanding the principles of composition, color theory and mechanical perspective.
201 ART AND LIFE - 3 hours
A course emphasizing the role of the artist in society through an introductory study of materials, processes, and the history of art in its broadest sense. Progression from those areas with which the contemporary student is already acquainted (advertising, design, and architecture) to a survey of the fine arts up to the present day. C-4AR.
205 ELEMENTARY ART EDUCATION TECHNIQUES - 2 hours
A course to develop skills in handling various media for use in the elementary and junior high/middle schools. It combines a study of the art curriculum at these levels with a study of the general elementary curriculum and how the two are interrelated. Lab fee required.
210 PAINTING I - 3 hours
Introductory course in painting and drawing in various media. Prerequisite: ART 131 or consent of instructor.
213 FIGURE DRAWING - 3 hours
Figure and portrait drawing from live models. Prerequisite: ART 131 or consent of instructor.
216 ELEMENTARY ARTS AND CRAFTS - 3 hours
A companion course to ART 205 with emphasis placed on the construction and application of various craft media to the elementary and junior high/middle schools. There is further study of the art curriculum and its relationship to the total curriculum of the elementary and junior high/middle schools. Lab fee required.
221 CAMERA TECHNIQUES - 3 hours
A non-laboratory course in the use of the camera as an artistic medium, in journalism, as an aid to teaching and for pleasure. The course, which will help the beginning as well as the advanced amateur, deals with composition, lighting (natural and artificial), preparation of slides from books for use in class, macrophotography, slide-copying and color correction. Lab fee required.
223 ENAMELING - 3 hours
The study of fusing ground glass on metal, generally copper or silver, using a special enameling kiln. The traditional techniques of wet inlay, sgraffito, basse-taille and cloisonné will be explored as well as some contemporary design concepts using enamel. Generally offered in January. Lab fee.
225 FABRIC DECORATION - 3 hours
A study of surface design on fabrics, using dyes and inks. The student will explore discharge, tie dye, batik and silk screen methods of application of design principles to the fabric surface. Various finishing techniques will also be explored. Generally offered in January. Lab fee.
241 CERAMICS - 3 hours
Practice in wheel throwing, sculpture, various methods of hand building and glaze formation. Lab fee required. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
251 ART IN CONTEXT - 3 hours
This intensive course introduces students to that art of a specific region within its geographic, historical, and social context. May be repeated to different locations. January. C-4AR.
271 THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCTION - 3 hours
Problems in three-dimensional design, using paper, metal, wood, plaster and clay. Lab fee required. Prerequisite: ART 131.
302 FIGURE PAINTING - 3 hours
Figure and portrait painting from live models. Prerequisite: ART 210.
303 SCULPTURE - 3 hours
A basic course in sculpture in various media. Lab fee required. Prerequisites: ART 131, 271, or permission of the instructor.
310 PAINTING II - 3 hours
Advanced studies in pictorial composition in various media, emphasizing experimentation and individual development. Prerequisites: ART 131, 210. Spring, alternate years.
313 FIGURE DRAWING II - 3 hours
Figure and portrait drawing from live models. A companion course to ART 213. Prerequisite: ART 213.
315 CRAFTS - 3 hours
Designing for and working with various craft media including paper, wood, metal, metal enamel, clay and other ceramic materials, plastic and weaving materials. Technical skill to be developed in two- and four-harness weaving, in the use of the potter's wheel and in the compounding of ceramic glazes. Lab fee required. Prerequisite: ART 131.
321 GRAPHIC DESIGN - 3 hours
Practical experience in designing layouts for various advertising media, including computers. Lab fee required. Prerequisite: ART 131.
336 OUTDOOR SKETCHING AND PAINTING - 3 hours
Drawing and painting of outdoor subjects with major emphasis on watercolor technique. Prerequisites: ART 131, 210.
342 HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ART - 3 hours
The study of art from pre-history and ancient times through the 1200s. Spring, alternate years. C-4AR.
344 HISTORY OF RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART- 3 hours
History of art from the 1300s through the 1700s, including the proto-Renaissance through Rococo. Fall, alternate years. 4AR.
346 HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART - 3 hours
History of art from the 1800s to the present, including both European and American movements and the impact of photography. Spring, alternate years. C-4AR.
348 HISTORY OF WORLD ART - 3 hours
The study of art from specific regions of the world, with emphasis on art from non-Western origins, including the art of China, Japan, India, and areas of Africa. This course is both history and project based. Course requirements include a practical component, whereby students are responsible for making art related to a specific region of study. Fall, alternate years. C-3GC.
475 INTERNSHIP - 3 hours
Students will work with professionals in institutions related to their goals. They might act as research assistants, helpers in photo labs, catalogers, text-panel writers or packers-unpackers for art exhibits. This experience links classroom instruction to actual career responsibilities. The student is supervised by a professional employed by the specific agency. Prerequisite: approval of the department chair.
499 SENIOR PROJECT (W) - 3 hours
The senior project consists of a portfolio of works and writings, and a senior exhibition and/or thesis under the guidance of a primary and secondary faculty advisor. The senior project can be geared to the student's area of specialty, whether it is studio or history emphasis. The writing portions and revising process will provide advanced writing opportunities. The senior project will serve as an individualized, capstone experience in the major. Prerequisite: Senior standing; permission of department chair.
380 or 480 SPECIAL PROBLEMS - 1-4 hours
A student who has demonstrated ability to work independently may propose a course and pursue it with a qualified and willing professor. The department chair and the vice president and dean for academic affairs also must approve. A set of guidelines is available at the Office of the Registrar.
385 or 485 SEMINAR - 1-4 hours
An in-depth consideration of a significant scholarly problem or issue. Students pursue a supervised, independent inquiry on an aspect of the topic and exchange results through reports and discussions.


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Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College Sport Information Department, in conjunction with Coach Paul Hamilton, are pleased to announce the release of the 2011 Brevard College Football Media Guide.
Some of the features inside the guide are the Brevard College Football Quick Facts, player profiles, alphabetical and numerical rosters, season preview, 2010 statistics, the preseason All-Conference team, information on all 11 Brevard College football opponents this season and much more.
Cover artwork and design were done by Seth Montgomery, with special thanks to photographers Duane Jones, Christie Cauble and the Brevard Sports Information Department.
2011 Football Media Guide
2010 Football Media Guide
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Arcadia, CA, Feb. 8 -- With the major prep races on the road to the Kentucky Derby just underway, HRTV (R) will offer racing fans the latest, up-to-date information on the exciting Triple Crown trail when it premieres the weekly "Fasig-Tipton Pursuit of the Crown, presented by Twinspires.com" show, beginning this Thursday, February 9 (8 p.m. ET).
The comprehensive, informative show will not only focus on the upcoming 138th edition of the "Run for the Roses" from Churchill Downs, set for Saturday, May 5, but the entire Triple Crown road -- the Preakness (May 19) from Pimlico Racecourse, and the Belmont Stakes from Belmont Park (June 9).
HRTV's tandem of Laffit Pincay, III and Jeff Siegel will again co-anchor the show, delivering the latest in weekly Derby happenings. It will again feature weekly insights from HRTV's talented stable of analysts.
The 30-minute show provides detailed interviews with key owners, trainers, jockeys, of possible Derby/Triple Crown contenders, in addition to offering analysis and profiles of the top contenders for the Derby from HRTV's experts.
Beginning on Sunday, February 26, 8 p.m. ET, HRTV will again introduce a second weekly installment of "Fasig-Tipton Pursuit of the Crown, presented by Twinspires.com" to its programming schedule. This half-hour show, slated for each Sunday, will offer an instant recap of the weekend's stakes races that have Triple Crown implications.
About HRTV
HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, is a television-based multimedia network dedicated to equine sports. HRTV's programming features horseracing from top U.S. and international racetracks, as well as a wide range of world-class English and Western horse competitions, news, original programming and award-winning documentaries covering the world of horse sports. The live stream of HRTV is available on a subscription basis to high-speed Internet users worldwide at www.hrtvlive.com. In the U.S., the HRTV television network is available via telco, cable and satellite in over 19 million homes.
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Eight one-act plays written and directed by Mt. San Antonio College students will be part of "Nighty-Night" at the college's Studio Theater Thursday through Dec. 9.
Performances will be at the Studio Theater found on the Mt. SAC campus, 1100 N. Grand Ave. in Walnut.
The plays are a series of bedtime stories with characters such as talking teddy bears and space aliens, a statement from the college said.
Theater professor Richard Strand coordinates the production.
Performances begin at 8 p.m. Thursday through Dec. 8. A special matinee performance will be offered at 2 p.m. on Dec. 9.
General admission tickets are $14 and tickets for senior citizens, students and children ages 13 and under are $10.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.tickets.mtsac.edu.
For addition information and ticket information call the Performing Arts Box Office at 909-274-2050.


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Thread: Toddler discipline
27th May 2014 06:20 AM #1
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Toddler discipline
My 2 year old has always been a great listener but it seems now that she wants more freedom and I don't want to always be saying "no" but if its something thats not safe I want her to listen. What are some effective ways to discipline her so when it's important, she is a good listener.
16th June 2014 06:15 AM #2
We are advocates of gentle discipline here on the Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond forum. There is now a huge amount of research backing this up and it really is the only effective way of helping your child to long-term show appropriate behaviour by focusing on connection (i.e. the relationship) rather than correction.
Dr. Sears, the attachment parenting doctor, says on this topic:
'Discipline is more about building the right relationship with your child than using the right techniques. You want to put into place a guidance system that keeps the child in check at age four and keeps his behavior on track at age forty, and you want this system to be integrated into the child's whole personality, a part of him or her.'
You can read more practical ideas about gentle discipline from Dr. Sears here. I agree with Dr. Sears - the best way to build respect with your daughter is to focus on your relationship rather than her actions.
Remember at age 2 children are just learning to explore the world and it is natural and normal for them to push boundaries more. Of course, this doesn't mean that you let them do unsafe things but you can remove them from risky activities in a respectful way. Children of this age are also easily distracted and so you need to make sure you come down to their level and gently get their attention before talking to them.
I can't put it better than the author Peggy O'Mara, who writes:
'Effective discipline is based on loving guidance. It is based on the belief that children are born innately good and that our role as parents is to nurture their spirits as they learn about limits and boundaries, rather than to curb their tendencies toward wrongdoing. Effective discipline presumes that children have reasons for their behaviour and that cooperation can be engaged to solve shared problems.'
Have a look at Little Hearts Gentle Parenting - it is an excellent resource on this topic.
Warm wishes,


description: For male hooded seals looking for a mate, nothing's manlier than flailing around a hot-pink balloon.

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Hooded seals look normal enough, swimming under ice sheets in search of food.
The impatient males fight for the right to wait by the female, who become available after they wean their pups.
Two males size each other up, get ready to rumble and blow a nose balloon.
They get their name from this hood-like bulb on the top of their heads.
They use it to demonstrate their manliness. Because nothing's manlier than flailing around a hot pink balloon.
There is a method to this rosy madness.
The males top out at 9 feet, 900 pounds.
That's a lot of weight to throw around. A lot of energy to spend.
If a bigger balloon can scare off a smaller male, that's a smart strategy.
But these males are evenly matched.
It's on to punching...shoving...and off-the-ice chasing.
The victor re-emerges to court the soon-to-be-available female.
Will his big balloon impress her?
Good enough.
He relaxes next to momma and pup. The hood now back undercover. Looking quite normal.  Almost.


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Thread: WTB Mathews MR5 or Z7 Magnum
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WTB Mathews MR5 or Z7 Magnum
Hi all,
I am looking to upgrade my bow to something newer and faster than what i currently have. I am looking to buy a used mathews mr5 or a mathews z7 magnum, would also consider a mr6. Looking for one in good shape, bare or set up does not matter. Would like to be under $650, would also consider a trade although i don't think anyone would want to trade for an older bow than what they already have as im looking for a newer bow. But its an option so here is what i have currently, Mathews Switchback with 29" draw set at 65lbs , cobra stabilizer and knuckle, cobra 3 pin sight, trophy ridge revolution arrow rest, brand new custom orange and black string, orange harmonic dampers or the factory black ones, switchback series case, orange and black wrist sling, peep sight kisser button, and 4 carbon express cx400arrows. I am located in western IL and would prefer a face to face deal, will meet and pay in cash. Please let me know what you've all got if theres anything out there
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Troy-Waterford Bridge Reopened
The bridge that connects Troy and Waterford has been reopened after being closed Friday after an inspection found a safety defect. The 126th Street Bridge carries Route 4 over the Hudson River.
Crews worked Saturday on an emergency repair to allow the bridge to be reopened.
Here's more from the NYSDOT statement:
Motorists are advised that the 126th Street Bridge carrying Route 4 over the Hudson River between North Troy/Lansingburgh and Waterford is open.
A 1½-inch crack was found in a diagonal support beam during the bridge's routine bi-annual inspection this week and following analysis, NYSDOT closed the bridge at approximately 4 p.m. on Friday. The Department mobilized immediately to design and install an emergency repair, installing a cable to carry the tension load formerly carried by the cracked beam and allowing the bridge to reopen today at approximately 5:15 p.m.
For up-to-date travel information, call 511 or visit www.511NY.org.