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The NBA's Blake Griffin has a mean slam dunk. Chris Paul's side hop is nearly unstoppable. What does Mirin Fader '13 bring to the court? Great storytelling skills and a love of the game.
Last semester Fader interned with the Los Angeles Clippers, where she worked as a writer for the NBA team's website. Now, the English and comparative literary studies major spends her days researching Toni Morrison and her evenings reporting courtside at Oxy's Rush Gymnasium as the men's basketball beat writer.
"Other students that I do internships with go to the big schools with the big journalism programs," says Fader. "Learning how to write is what I learned here, so I think it worked out."
Standing at exactly 5-foot-0, Fader was often one of few females, the youngest, and sometimes the shortest person in the room during her time with the Clippers. She credits Michael Wells, Occidental's sports information director, for preparing her to hold her own among the likes of ESPN's Steven A. Smith and J.A. Adande, whom she recently found herself sitting between.
"Mirin is a fantastic writer with a particular knack for writing about basketball and sports in general," Wells says. "When you mix writing chops and sports knowledge you end up with great sports journalism. She's got both."
Although Fader may not have realized it when her fellow interns were laying out their knowledge of the inverted pyramid, she is a member of a distinguished line of Oxy journalists. Bessie Beatty 1907 covered the Russian Revolution for the San Francisco Examiner in 1917, Steve Coll '80 shared a Pulitzer for explanatory reporting for the Washington Post, and Patt Morrison '74 has long been a favorite columnist for the Los Angeles Times and L.A. radio host.
Much like her predecessors, Fader's narrative skills have already provided her with many unique opportunities. In addition to working for Oxy and the Clippers, Fader also interned for KABC-TV Sports, where she interviewed prominent sports figures such as Magic Johnson, Jerry West and Rick Neuheisel, and assisted in the production of the Sports Zone with Rob Fukuzak. In 2010, she was a finalist in KTLA Channel 5's Sportscaster for a Day Competition.
She has also contributed articles to Dime Magazine and the Los Angeles Sparks team website.
"Everyone knows the score of the game, everyone can read a box score," she says. "But it's different when you make a story out of it and that's what I've been learning how to do for the last couple years, and that's what I practice."
Fader says Wells could have told her to turn in her game recaps "when [she] had a chance," but instead he encouraged her to write her stories as though she were on a big-league deadline.
"Athletes always say that when you change levels from high school to college it's such a jump, but in the end once you get on the court, basketball is basketball," she says. "I feel the same way with going from covering Division 3 to covering the Clippers: The arena might be 10 times bigger, it might be 10 times louder, and I'm dealing with multimillionaires instead of Division 3 classmates, but in the end the game is still the game."
Fader, who played basketball at Lewis & Clark College prior to transferring to Oxy her sophomore year, is also helping other young women find their love of the game. She serves as a second-year assistant coach for the varsity girls basketball team at Polytechnic School in Pasadena.


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Digital Files Reorganized! - Part 2
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Thank you Linda for this post. I have my genealogy things on Dropbox but I did not know there was a app for the smart phone.
I will have to search and install. I also would like to know how to get rid of some useless apps. I click and drag to the trash can but they reappear like a bad penny.Hey. Linda! I am finally moving all my genealogy files to DropBox. I was worried too that it would be a pain to re-link them in my RootsMagic database, but so far, it hasn't been too bad since I am not changing the actual file names. I'm doing it in chunks like you did because I also feel that it's less stressful to do that.
The main reason I finally decided to move to DropBox is because I am about to buy a new laptop because this one is getting ancient. Do you know what will happen if I save an .exe file in DropBox? Will it just download from there to my new computer? I'm just wondering if I really need my software CDs to download some of my software programs, such as Legacy, or if I can just upload them to DropBox and then download from there to the new computer.


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Адрес | Via Eurialo, 00181 Roma, Италия |
Тип жилья | Квартира |
ID жилья | FU5P0TTX |
Процент подтвержденных запросов брони | 100% |
Время ответа | Несколько часов |
Календарь обновлен | Вчера |
Little and Delicious, very stylish, just renewed flat, the ideal for a couple. In a very quite, elegant, residential neighbor, you can find any comfort you use to have in your own house. The apartment is located in the basement and ground floor in front of the courtyard, the apartment has three windows, one in the bedroom and a window in the bathroom also has a door window near the small kitchen. Internet Free WI-FI 24/h.
The apartment is located close to the City Center, by metro just 3 metro stops ( 6 minutes ) you will reach the downtown and from there you can see the most important attractions in few minutes walk, you will see... Vatican City, Trevi Fountain, Spanish steps, People's Square, Villa Borghese Park, Basilic of San Jhon in Letran, Coliseum, Train Station Termini at the Airport and more!!
The apartment is available with Wi-Fi, we provide complete linen and towels, heating, unlimited hot water, brand new bathroom with shower, laundry, hair dryer, living room with 42 "TV with integrated Wi-Fi and Sky TV-satellite, room with 32 "TV with satellite channels, 1 queen size bed and a half ( for couples ), dresser, mirror cabinet with four doors, desk PC, well-equipped kitchenette with electric oven, microwave oven, coffee maker, refrigerator, blender, dishes, etc.. all the comforts you would expect to find ...
The apartment is granted on an exclusive basis. The cleaning are done in accordance with the guests. Linen and towels are changed every 5 days. I am at your disposal for every need, suggestions, things to see, restaurants, etc.. We will provide maps of the city with the most important points to visit.
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• Check-In: 13:00
• Check-Out: 11:00
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Цена за неделю (1 гость) | 27064 руб. |
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Максимальная продложительность визита | 3 недель |
Заезд после | 13:00 |
Заселение до | По договоренности |
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I can recommend this apartment!
Christian provides the equipment for kitchen and bathroom, and the apartment was very clean. There was food and drinks inclusive.
The area was not far from the center of rome.
Christian was a great guy, Thanks!
I can highly recommend this aparamtent. It has everything you Need inside and also the area that it is in it is very Close to the Center of the City (5-10 Minutes with the Metro). Inside the Apartment is clean and everthing is up to date. Christian provides really everything you Need such as towles, bedding and even Drinks in the fridge. Could have not asked for a better Apartment.
The best way to start with Wimdu.
Christian's Apartment was my first time staying anywhere with Wimdu and I can only suggest to stay in this aparamtent when you are in Rome.
The Apartment is small but sufficent for a stay for two People. The Apartment is away from the street therefore very quiet for the nights in. Everything was clean and modern Christian even provided Food and Drinks and fresh towles. This Apartment has everything you Need. Christian as a host is very friendly and always helpful. He provided us with a map and also a binder with everything that we Need to get around Rome. The area is very nice and even after dark it is safe to walk outside. The next Metro Station (Metro line A) is within a few blocks and there are also nearby restarautants and gelato places. With the Metro you can reach termini or other places within 10 minutes. When we return to Rome we will stay in this Apartment again for sure.
The apartment is really good! It is very clean and has everything in it. We have a really nice stay here. If you are going to travel in Rome, this is definitely the best choice you have. By the way, Christian is a very nice guy. He also offers the pick-up service from the airport.
The apartment is cute and clean. The kitchen is kinda small, but functional and big enough to cook in. There was a lot of food and drinks given by the owner. Even spices and olive oil, ... There was more then enough equipment.
The bed is good, bathroom is small but clean and good. The TV's are enormous. (living room, bedroom). Marilyn Monroe watching you while you sleep is kinda creepy though. But that is the only bad thing that we can find about this apartment. So all in all it's a superb place to stay. Close to the public transport.
Cristian is a friendly guy, who is Always available if there are any questions or remarks.
Thank you for the wine btw.
And we will see you soon!
Appartamento carinissimo dotato di tutto il necessario. Zona ben servita dalla metropolitana e appena fuori dall'appartamento si trova ogni negozio che possa risultare utile (vicino c'è anche un centro commerciale). Proprietario gentilissimo ed estremamente disponibile. Esperienza fantastica, consigliatissimo!
Wir wurden von Christian sehr nett empfangen und er hat sich um alles gekümmert. Allerdings waren wir mit dem Appartement nicht zufrieden. Die Unterkunft befindet sich im Keller und die Wände sind feucht. Aus diesem Grund entsteht auch ein unangenehmer Geruch, welcher ohne ständiges Lüften nicht zu ertragen ist. Das Bett ist für zwei Personen sehr eng bemessen, gleiches gilt für das Bad.
Christian was amazing from the arrival to the departure!
The apartment is great, it has everything needed to make anyone's stay feel like home, it's well located and there are fantastic restaurants and shops around.
Christian gave me all instructions to go around the city as well as great suggestions.
I recommend this host and this apartment to everyone visiting Rome!
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During the ceremony, the City Council and School Board members, as well as three new Police Commissioners, will take their oaths.
Mayor T.J. Jean, who was re-elected in November, will make his inaugural address, and the City Council will also vote to elect the deputy mayor.
As of the November election, the City Council has five new members, including Jake Collins for Ward 1, Donald Hamann for Ward 4, Robert Gates for Ward 5, Mac Kittredge for Ward 6, and James Gray for Ward 6.
New School Board members include at-large member Kathy Dunton, and Ray Turner for Ward 2.
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BATON ROUGE - A cybercrime attack recently compromised P.F. Chang's Chinese Bistro and AT&T customer accounts.
The AT&T breach took place between April 9th and April 21st and P.F. Chang's said that their June 10th breach included stolen customer credit and debit card data.
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Posted on 01/26/2006 6:41:13 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
An 18-year-old Lititz man pleaded NOT GUILTY to two counts of criminal homicide in the shooting deaths of his girlfriend's parents - a case that sparked a national manhunt when he fled the state with the 14-year-old girl.
David Ludwig also waived his right to an arraignment, which had been scheduled for yesterday, according to papers filed in Lancaster County Court late Tuesday afternoon.
Ludwig, who is being held without bail, is accused of gunning down Michael and Cathryn Borden inside their Lititz home Nov. 13 after Michael Borden ordered him to stop seeing their daughter, Kara Beth. Ludwig could get the death penalty if convicted.
The girl, who was not charged, fled the state with Ludwig after the shooting. She was with him when he was captured in Indiana the following day after he crashed his car into a tree while being chased by police.
Ludwig admitted to the killings, authorities have said. He allegedly told detectives that he and Kara, both of whom were home-schooled, wanted to "get as far away as possible" and get married, but that she was not involved in planning and carrying out the killings. Ludwig also pleaded not guilty to a charge of reckless endangerment.
Merrill Spahn, a lawyer who is part of a court-appointed defense team, said Ludwig will also plead not guilty to statutory sexual assault and to carrying a handgun without a permit, additional charges that were filed in December.
Ludwig's trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 5.
There is no point to pleading guilty unless they offer you a deal. They're not going to do that with this guy.
What's the point of pleading not guilty when he confessed?
The girl was defiant and has a lot to learn. (Did you get the 15K?)
I see you just signed up on FreeRepublic. I hope you are not a troll. You're just being sarcastic here, right???
Oh! Home-schooled, eh? That explaines it. Glad they pointed that out for me.
The girl, who was not charged,...
Why has she not been charged? Surely, she heard the shots he fired. Even if she did not know beforehand, she must have known after he killed her parents.
Yep, Home-Schooled, I expect to be murdered by my kids anytime now!
I just can't imagine what that poor young girl must be going through. I pray to God that she does not blame herself.
She darn well should blame herself. Even if she did not help him plan it she ran off with him after he had just murdered her parents.
Yep, Home-Schooled,...
Well, of course. And her parents raised her Christian, too, so I guess they were just askin' for it. /s
You gotta be joking. From what I've heard she knew what was going down. She is just as guilty as he is. If she is suffering from guilt it is because she is guilty.
I heard someone here once post this: How many here at Free Republic would have said "Darn right I'll throw the first stone, the woman's a harlot".
"Home-schooled, eh? That explaines it."
Hey, at least these kids were probably actually homeschooled for many years. This story is at least not like hearing about some toddlers (whose family has ended up in a mess) being "homeschooled".
I believe Kara Borden will be charged. Ludwig said he was looking to her for a signal before he shot her parents. She did not give a signal. Probably one blink from her would have saved her parents.
My opinion, this is one out of control child who thinks she's a woman. She is nothing more than a delinquent juvenile. She has proven she can deceive and lie.
She has stood by while her lover took the parents of her siblings, these children have been through more than most people will go through in a lifetime. I don't know how they could stand to be near their sister Kara.
I just hope the whole truth comes out before this selfish girl ruins some other family.
Despite the fact that the authorities have not charged her with any complicity in the crime, going on what's been published, I can't see how a rational human being, even at her age, could convince themselves that they played no role at all in the murder of their parents.
What am I getting wrong here?
I guess the defense is depending on the "poor little boy" defense or somehow feel they can suppress the voluminous evidence against him.
Or maybe his parents are in the mix and are insisting he plead not guilty, maybe as a way to save face for them.
I disagree with the posters who say there is no reason to plead guilty unless the accused is offered a deal. Pleading guilty when it is obvious you are guilty allows you to plead for mercy---i.e.,you accepted responsibility, have remorse and now ask for mercy. This is most likely to work in a case such as this one.
When the accused doesn't plead guilty and there is loads of evidence against him, this just ticks off the judge and jury. Why did I sit here for four weeks (or more) listening to this garbage? Is the accused not remorseful at all? Why didn't he just take responsibility for the crime he obviously committed? It certainly can reduce sympathy for a clearly guilty defendant.
Unless, of course, you are O.J.
he and Kara, both of whom were home-schooled
When will we ever read an article that says, "the killer, who was public-schooled..."
You got Audio Free Republic? Cool.
He's hoping that there's at least one idiot sitting on his jury.
I'd take that bet.
I sincerely hope she DOES blame herself. And learns a lot. She was defiant, she was angry and head-strong, and acting on that kind of self-righteousness often leads to very dire consequences. She learned it young and the hard way. She is NOT an innocent victim of this, imho.
She doesn't have to "blame herself"; there are many people who do.
Probably never since the home school bashers all drink from the dumbed-down public education fountain. They'll continue to be deaf, dumb and blind while considering themselves to be elites who know it all.
There's more to this story than meets the eye. This young lady could be as guilty as her BF.
BTW, Welcome to FR! (I read through your posts and notice no one else bothered.)
I believe Kara Borden will be charged.
I hope you are right. She is just as guilty as he is.
Since he already confessed, it makes no sense to plead not guilty. IMO
Newspaper articles haven't commented on where the kids are and if they're together.
His lawyers will be hoping to put several on the jury.
"He's hoping that there's at least one idiot sitting on his jury. I'd take that bet.
His lawyers will be hoping to put several on the jury.
I read one article, I believe it was in the Lancaster news, that said insanity is one plan. Seems there is some sort of disorder that runs in his family. I read the article but can't recall all the details. He has a sister with downs syndrone, seems like that was a link to the insanity plea.
I think he is just cold hearted, selfish, spoiled, arrogant and just plain mean. That is blunt, but my feelings exactly.
Also, he must have thought he was smarter that the legal system. He had bragged to friends that he thought he could kill someone and get away with it. Well, we see how far he got.
I'll be interested to see what she says in court. Maybe by then, she'll have some idea of what she did.
Agreed. Unless the defense is supremely confident they can have the confession suppressed, pleading "not guilty" is not a good move.
This is a comment from Lancasteronline
"Ludwig's plea of not guilty is a "procedural formality," meaning that this is a common practice. It also says that the plea doesn't mean that's what he's going to plead when he goes before a judge, nor does it even mean there's going to be a trial."
Seems like a lot of things in PA are different. And, he has already admitted guilt. Seems odd to me.
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You are totally right. This kid made a decision to kill, because he wanted what he couldn't have, and then he was arrogant enough to think he could get away with it. Murder. Bad decision -- choose evil, reap huge consequences. Hopefully he will.
Some, like I, are not willing to give her a free pass which says she holds no responsibility at all for what occurred. I hope I am not being vindictive...I do not take pleasure in any part of this tragedy.
Tough as it is, though, we have to take responsibility for what we do. Wouldn't we all like to escape the pain of absolutely knowing we erred...we did it?
If Kara has a working conscience, she will pay for any part she had in this crime. No one has to condemn her. She will prosecute herself.
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Update: Congrats to Ann S.! She's the winner of my Christmas enovella, MY LADY BELOW STAIRS from my last post.
from Mia Marlowe…
One of my favorite parts of writing historical romance is the research. I love digging into how people lived in other time periods. Here's a bit about how Christmas was celebrated during the Regency.
The Family that Plays Together…
There was no NFL football game to occupy Christmas revelers during the Regency era. People had to make their own fun, and rakish young fellows might have a good deal of fun.
But Christmas was a family holiday. Source documents record the glee of boys and young men returning home for Christmas from their boarding schools. It was almost as if they were inmates suddenly freed from prison! To celebrate their return, their families enjoyed parlor games, many with unlikely names: Shoe the Wild Mare, Hot Cockles, Steal the White Loaf, Bob Apple and Snapdragon.
Regency ideas of fun were a little different from ours. In Hot Cockles, for example, a blindfolded young gentleman would lay his head in a young lady's lap while the other players whacked his bum. In order to win, he had to guess who'd struck him. The game of Snapdragon involved snatching raisins from burning brandy.
Clearly, these folks needed cable TV badly!
Food, Glorious Food
While roast beef and venison were the main course of the dinner, along with goose, capon, pheasant, bustard, swan and/or peacock, the real treat of the Regency Christmas meal was the pudding.
A pudding needed to be started before the first Sunday of Advent in order to be considered a true Christmas pudding. It was thought to improve with time. The recipe called for a mixture of thirteen ingredients (to represent Christ and the twelve apostles) which was boiled in a pudding cloth. Usual ingredients included suet, brown sugar, raisins, currants, citron, lemon and orange peels, spices, crumbs, flour, eggs, milk and brandy.
Other Christmas deserts included gingerbread, butter shortbread, trifle and syllabub (a milk, brandy and wine concoction which might be drunk or later whipped, gelled and eaten.) Children delighted in sugar plums and ginger nuts.
Making the Merriment Last
The Regency Christmas season lasted from Christmas Eve till Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany (when the arrival of the magi at Christ's side is celebrated). Each day was filled with music making, skating on frozen ponds, and gentle rustic pursuits.
The custom of the First Foot on New Years Day was particularly important. It was considered very lucky if the first visitor to "set foot" over one's threshold was a well-favored, dark haired man. (How very practical! When isn't a tall, dark and handsome guy at the door good luck?) Often in small villages, a fellow who fit the description would be appointed to visit every home, bringing symbolic gifts of salt for wealth, coal for warmth, and bread for food. The householders would offer him food and drink in return and an auspicious year was assured.
Twelfth Night was filled with even more revelry than Christmas Day itself. This was a time for amateur theatricals, music and games. A bean was hidden inside a cake and the person who discovered the bean was proclaimed the Lord of Misrule and might dictate the events of the evening. With wassail flowing and spirits high, Twelfth Night was a fitting end to the Regency Christmas celebration.
What's your favorite holiday activity, game or recipe?
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Google's gone "Glasnost".
It has revealed how it delivers data the FBI when presented with a demand. They wanted to make clear that government agents don't show up and actually access their servers. Google apparently does that itself, and then delivers the Court Ordered (FISA) data (after review) themselves, in order to dispel any impression of the government physically doing it themselves: No additional data is provided.
"…when Google is legally required to hand over data about its users, it usually delivers it using a file-transferring technology called secure FTP, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, said in an interview on British television." – NYT
Apparently the data is forked over by FTP (and by secure external HDD courier delivered), and that there's no "back door" in its computers.
Google says it knew nothing about PRISM. Perhaps not the name, but it certainly knew about it in general terms in 2008.
I'm left wondering whether Google is saying this (like Sergeant Shultz), in order to present a "our hands are clean" or whether they've been instructed to say that. Also, how could we ever know if that's true or not?
It's not as if anyone can be trusted, right?
Isn't that the whole point of those NSA (and who knows who else's) programs?
Small wonder no one believes the government anymore.
And that line about, "No one is listening to your telephone conversations."?
ABC News thinks differently about that: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&#.Ub8W5Pmsh8H
""Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News." – ibid
To me, "pull up this call" means it was monitored and recorded, despite having nothing to do with terrorism. So, this is what they're doing instead of looking for those terrorist "needles in a haystack"?
Makes the question "Who watches the Guards?" particularly relevant. People say, "Well there's Congressional Oversight". If so, where was it when that kind of eavesdropping was going on?
"The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), called the allegations "extremely disturbing" and said the committee has begun its own examination." – ibid
Anyone ever see or hear of any results? That was 2008, by the way, not that it's any different now.
The NSA's actions are to intelligence gathering what Abu Ghraib was to prison law. Incidentally, guess whose intelligence crews ran Abu Ghraib.
Do I believe NSA testimony? Well, do you?
"In a written statement, Gen. Alexander said: "We have been entrusted to protect and defend the nation with integrity, accountability, and respect for the law. As Americans, we take this obligation seriously. Our employees work tirelessly for the good of the nation, and serve this country proudly." ABC
I love the "denial" from this General guy. But at least they're spying on their own as well...
It is, however, good that we now know the name of their head lug. That way, we can bring back "[expletive] Hoover"!
In all seriousness.... I'm not so much scared or outraged as just disappointed that so few people even bother worrying about their privacy anymore. I've long since stopped sending sensitive information unencrypted over mainstream media... luckily, anything of value I have to communicate is academic in nature, and my university has a pretty secure intranet.
You'd think. I bet it isn't.
More secure than the telephone system, apparently...
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US Army and CIA?
of course i still wouldn't believe anything an NSA representative says.
i don't think though, that Google was "instructed" by anybody. they release their transparency reports since three years now.
i just hope President Putin can stop Obama from doing his own version of the Kosovo/Lewinsky stunt to distract you Americans from this affair.
I believe they are watching and cataloging everything and FISA is only used when they want that data used in court.
At the lowest level, sure. But check this out: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-08-22/news/0508220115_1_alexander-cellular-communications-predecessor/2
did not remember this guy in particular, but this is indeed scary ...
they really made him the director of the NSA after this happened under his command. looks like they consider him competent
Just goes to reinforce my theory that the rot has spread to every level.
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Hand"ful (?), n.; pl. Hand flus (#). [AS. handfull.]
As much as the hand will grasp or contain.
A hand's breadth; four inches.
Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. Bacon.
A small quantity.
This handful of men were tied to very hard duty. Fuller.
To have one's handful, to have one's hands full; to have all one can do. [Obs.]
They had their handful to defend themselves from firing. Sir. W. Raleigh.
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I was talking to Coach Jerry this AM about my re commitment to being more mindful of what I am eating and see if It moves the needle. He said something that struck me — he asked me how many nuts i eat on a given day. I think that may be the key! I eat too many almonds and am getting way too much fat in my diet. Because the quality of the food I eat is pretty sound –and exercise, check – got that under control to say the least! So I definitely think that may be they key –starting yesterday, I am being ultra conscience of what I am eating and not deviating from the Paleo plan. Let's see how that works!
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Unlike many fresh herbs, the stems of cilantro are tender enough to eat and can really add to a dish, say Chowhounds. "I used to only use the leaves," says grayelf. "Then I discovered banh mi where cilantro is chucked in by the handful on the stem. Now I put the stems in whenever I think I can get away with it for the extra crunch and flavour." The stems have lots of flavor; most people chop or mince them. "The crunch and punch is a really nice contrast," says eight_inch_pestle.
Cilantro roots also have more intense flavor than the leaves, "which is why they are favored in bold Southeast Asian curry pastes and marinades," says JungMann. Cilantro with roots attached can sometimes be found at farmers' markets and at Southeast Asian markets. "Every time I get a bunch with roots I cut 'em off and freeze 'em till I have enough for a recipe," says grayelf.
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I just watched 2 Marc Watts videos, Fire and Ice and Back to Africa available from Safari press. These are not your usual hunting videos and are highly produced but everything is filmed in real time with no acting. The hunting is great and it is not a shoot em up. You get a great feel of being on the safari and there is lots of hunting action. Overall I found them to be quite good and would reccomend them to anyone who likes to watch hunting rather than the usual whackem and stackem style african videos you seem to see out there.
Diamond Hitch While the DVD are OK there is a lot of editing. Work done in the production room and so on. I have a couple of Watts DVD's also and while he is a noted crack rifle shot, and has hunted all over Africa. There are many DVD's provide a truer picture of what you will come across while on safari. Some of the long range shots taken on Crock and Hippo just because he can show off his rifle skills. Leaves the average person thinking he can do the same thing while on safari after watching his DVD's.
Well said! And there in lies the rub! That's why on some properties you have to pay for pulling the trigger! In Zim, if you fire a shot on Hippo and Croc they are deemed shot and you pay! True hunting, in my humble opinion, is about the pursuit not the kill. Otherwise it should be termed 'sharp shooting' and not 'hunting'! The thrill of getting in very close and knowing you have truly outwitted your quarry brings a very special feeling....which is why I love bowhunting so much! I get the same from hunting Buffalo and Ele with rifle coz I like to get very close in!
James, Some one is always trying to entertain you with their skills somehow. Any suggestions about some good ones you liked?
I have a few from many...Family quality DVD on African hunting have been gifted to family members to see if i can gather any interest. Boddington DVD's are good Sullivan DVD's are good Big Bore DVD's are good. Carter DVD is good. Robertson's DVD is good. Dead On DVD interactive simulator on where to place shots...Very Good The thing is you can learn something from every one of these DVD's. Example: 1. Shooting skills needed - Watch and learn... 2. PH interaction with Client - Watch each DVD very close and learn. 3. Different country interaction - and yes they are different. 4. Setting expectations - your personal review and set realistic expectations. 5. Checking Gear - Do not go over board less is better... 6. Rifles - Double & Bolt rifles - 7. Safari Settings - how they differ and what you can expect. 8. hunting vehicle set up...ride inside or on top 9. self conditioning for conditions you will encounter. I do not like swamps personal, been there done that. You see the list can go on Shot placement
James, while I respect your opinion and agree they are highly produced, the way they show actual hunting with no re-enactments or bull makes them worth the money for me. I am so tired of seeing videos that go like this - shoot an animal, shoot an animal, shoot an animal then replay the shot on an animal, then shoot an animal, etc with little if any actual hunting footage. Yes he has an ego but in the videos I have, the PH called for the shot on each and every animal and he took time out to talk about shooting and the importance of practice and shooting within your own personal effective range. There are certainly many other good videos out there and these videos are not my favorite but certainly worthy of my time to watch them. Remember this when watching videos, they are there to entertain us, if we get an education that is good too but is not neccesary IMO. I would rather watch a good adventure than a how-to 90% of the time.
I just watched 2 more Mark Watts videos. 'Africas perfectly shot plainsgame' and 'One shot - hunting Americas oldest game preserve'. I have to say, as impressed as I was at the first 2 videos, these last 2 were terrible. They were poorly put together but not terribly, however no respect was given to the animals, more emphasis was placed on killing with one shot than putting down a wounded animal and measuring the horns of an animal while it was still choking on its last breaths was a huge turn off. I now know why there is so much animosity against trophy hunters if the ones that behave like this are the benchmark. I consider myself to be a die hard trophy hunter but was disgusted at this type of behavior. The overall feel of both videos was that he enjoyed killing far more than hunting. I still recommend the first 2 videos but stay away from the ones I just mentioned.


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Even among the many who agree that action to halt climate change is a necessity disagree on what strategies to pursue and, crucially, whether those efforts should be undertaken by private industry or the government. The task of Structuring an Energy Revolution, by Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian, is to convince a reader that a coordinated public-private program to stimulate innovation is necessary. Or, as one review put it:
Think of all the venture capital firms in Silicon Valley sorting through all the brilliant technological innovations and the reality that very few of them will end up making their investors money. The authors of these books seek to elucidate what conditions would be needed to foster technology revolutions in a free market society where risk-averse capital avoids innovative energy technologies where the chances of ultimately being incorporated on a wide scale into power generation and transportation are interminably small.
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It's all well and good, one might think, to pair public and private. But what about coordination on the global level? Climate change is, after all, a global phenomenon, and some of the most contentious issues relate to various nations' efforts (or lack thereof) to compensate for their fair share of emissions. Somewhat to the same point, another review of the book asked whether the kind of energy revolution they called for could be accomplished by the United States on its own.
Weiss and Bonvillian argue that innovation in energy technology, although a global imperative, depends on R&D at the national level. They are convinced that the U.S. innovation system, which was ranked number one in the World Economic Forum global survey in 2008, is entirely capable of meeting this challenge. In a book by U.S. authors aimed for U.S. readers, a conclusion that U.S. leadership is still essential if innovation is to occur with the urgency we need, is no surprise. As a European Union citizen, I would like to protest. Extending on the Apollo analogy, I call for another race to the moon. Ultimately all citizens of the world would be winners in such a race, but there are also national benefits for the race winner.
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Freedom Law School is offering $100,000 to the first person who can demonstrate any of the three propositions listed below. The winner can collect up to $300,000 if he or she can prove all of the propositions below.
1. Show what statute written by the Congress of the United States that requiring Americans to file an income tax "CONFESSION" (return) and pay an income tax.
2. Show how Americans can file an income tax "CONFESSION" (return) without giving up their 5th amendment right to not give any information to the government that may be used to prosecute them.
3. Prove that the 16th amendment to the United States Constitution, which, according to the IRS and modern American courts permitted the income tax to exist was lawfully added to the United States Constitution.
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•There is no statute that makes any American Citizen who works and lives in the United States of America liable or responsible to pay an income tax. Individuals only become liable to pay the income tax when they "VOLUNTARILY" file a tax return and the IRS follows their assessment procedures as outlined in the Internal Revenue Code.
•If there were a statute, which clearly and unequivocally required the filing of such tax returns, such a statute would be unconstitutional under the present income tax system to the extent that it would require individuals to give the government information which could be used against them to prosecute them criminally. Although the IRS and the modern American courts claim that the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution permitted the income tax to be imposed on the compensation for labor of the average working man, the 16th Amendment was not properly added to the United States Constitution. See www.thelawthatneverwas.com for documentation of this issue.
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Sen. Barbara Boxer had been appealing to my better instincts as she never has done before. The California Democrat provided a crucial vote in favor of a resolution sought by President Obama to authorize the use of military force in Syria. Boxer voted for military force even though that position was highly unpopular among her constituents.
The U.N. Security Council hadn't passed a corresponding resolution. Boxer didn't care. She argued that Washington must act lest Iran "view us as a paper tiger."
On Tuesday, before Obama addressed the nation on the need for Congress to authorize military force against Syria (sort of and one of these days) to redress President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against his own people, Boxer appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball." She was a spitfire. She insisted the Senate had the votes to move the resolution forward. She railed against host Chris Matthews for not showing video of gassed children during the interview setup. "No one talked about what Assad did to his people," she fumed. Boxer forcefully made the moral argument that the use of "vicious" chemical weapons against "babies, infants, children" demands action.
Boxer touched on all the good reasons to support Obama's call to arms - not boots on the ground - in Syria. Assad's use of chemical weapons could embolden terrorist organizations. Al Qaeda might get some of his lethal stash. Iran is watching. Western powers have to stand for their rules; otherwise the world's weasels will think they can attack U.S. assets with impunity.
Then, like Obama, like Secretary of State John Kerry when he asserted that any U.S. strikes would be "incredibly small," Boxer demonstrated why Washington Democrats cannot be trusted to do the right thing in Syria. Boxer praised the president for being so resolute, praised her committee for passing the resolution and referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to press Assad to hand his chemical stockpile to international handlers. "It brought us to this moment where we have a hope here that we can resolve this in a way that doesn't require military force," quoth Boxer.
In other words, the administration was bluffing, and she showed the cards to prove it.
If the past week has proved anything, it's that the Obama administration is more afraid of its own threats than Assad is.
There are reasons to be circumspect. The Arab Spring strengthened such U.S. enemies as Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. If Assad goes, al Qaeda-friendly rebels will gain traction. U.S. firepower could take innocent lives - which would defeat the mission's purpose.
Voters are sick of foreign wars, not just the casualties but also the price tag. Moreover, it makes no sense for Washington to threaten military force to combat evil while pledging that any attacks will be "limited." Team Obama waved a white flag before firing a shot.
In short, Obamaland made a hash of the politics and the messaging. This president is so clueless about saber-rattling that when he threatened the use of military force, Putin knew how to turn Boxer's and Obama's "moment" into an opportunity.
Debra J. Saunders is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @DebraJSaunders


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Entries tagged with django
"djpeewee": use the peewee ORM with your Django models
I sat down and started working on a new library shortly after posting about
Django's missing API for generating SQL.
is the result, and provides a simple translate()
function that will recursively
translate a Django model graph into a set of "peewee equivalents". The peewee
versions can then be used to construct queries which can be passed back into
Django as a "raw query".
Here are a couple scenarios when this might be useful:
- Joining on fields that are not related by foreign key (for example UUID fields).
- Performing filters on calculated values.
- Performing aggregate queries on calculated values.
- Using SQL statements that Django does not support such as
. - Utilizing SQL functions that Django does not support, such as
. - Replacing nearly-identical SQL queries with reusable, composable data-structures.
I've included this module in peewee's playhouse, which is bundled with peewee.
The search for the missing link: what lies between SQL and Django's ORM?
I had the opportunity this week to write some fairly interesting SQL queries. I don't write "raw" SQL too often, so it was fun to use that part of my brain (by the way, does it bother anyone else when people call SQL "raw"?). At Counsyl we use Django for pretty much everything so naturally we also use the ORM. Every place I've worked there's a strong bias against using SQL when you've got an ORM on board, which makes sense -- if you choose a tool you should standardize on it if for no other reason than it makes maintenance easier.
So as I was saying, I had some pretty interesting queries to write and I struggled to think how to shoehorn them into Django's ORM. I've already written about some of the shortcomings of Django's ORM so I won't rehash those points. I'll just say that Django fell short and I found myself writing SQL. The queries I was working on joined models from very disparate parts of our codebase. The joins were on values that weren't necessarily foreign keys (think UUIDs) and this is something that Django just doesn't cope with. Additionally I was interested in aggregates on calculated values, and it seems like Django can only do aggregates on a single column.
As I was prototyping, I found several mistakes in my queries and decided to run them in the postgres shell before translating them into my code. I started to think that some of these errors could have been avoided if I could find an abstraction that sat between the ORM and a string of SQL. By leveraging the python interpreter, the obvious syntax errors could have been caught at module import time. By using composable data structures, methods I wrote that used similar table structures could have been more DRY. When I write less code, I think I generally write less bugs as well.
That got me started on my search for the "missing link" between SQL (represented as a string) and Django's ORM.
Becoming a Django Apologist
It's been roughly four years since my introduction to the Django framework and I thought I'd write a little post to commemorate this. In my mind nothing had as big an impact on my career as my decision to work at the Journal World. When I started there I knew basically nothing about software engineering or open-source, and it is entirely thanks to my excellent (and patient) coworkers there that I was able to learn about these things.
Structuring flask apps, a how-to for those coming from Django
The other day a friend of mine was trying out flask-peewee and he had some questions about the best way to structure his app to avoid triggering circular imports. For someone new to flask, this can be a bit of a puzzler, especially if you're coming from django which automatically imports your modules. In this post I'll walk through how I like to structure my flask apps to avoid circular imports. In my examples I'll be showing how to use "flask-peewee", but the same technique should be applicable for other flask plugins.
I'll walk through the modules I commonly use in my apps, then show how to tie them all together and provide a single entrypoint into your app.
Shortcomings in the Django ORM and a look at Peewee, a lightweight alternative
In this post I'd like to talk about some of the shortcomings of the Django ORM, the ways peewee approaches things differently, and how this resulted in peewee having an API that is both more consistent and more expressive.
The missing library: ad-hoc queries for your models
I think it would be great if more sites allowed users (or consumers of their APIs) to produce and execute ad-hoc queries against their data. In this post I'll talk a little bit about some ways sites are currently doing this, some of the challenges involved, my experience trying to build something "reusable", and finally invite you to share your thoughts.
Working around Django's ORM to do interesting things with GFKs
In this post I want to discuss how to work around some of the shortcomings of djangos ORM when dealing with Generic Foreign Keys (GFKs).
At the end of the post I'll show how to work around django's lack of correctly CAST-ing when the generic foreign key is of a different column type than the objects it may point to.
Micawber, a python library for extracting rich content from URLs
A while ago I wrote about an awesome API for retrieving metadata about URLs called oembed. I'm writing to announce a new project I've been working on called micawber, which is very similar but with a cleaner API and not restricted to django projects.
Integrating the flask microframework with the peewee ORM
I'd like to write a post about a project I've been working on for the past month or so. I've had a great time working on it and am excited to start putting it to use. The project is called flask-peewee -- it is a set of utilities that bridges the python microframework flask and the lightweight ORM peewee. It is packaged as a flask extension and comes with the following batteries included:
- Admin interface a-la django
- RESTful API toolkit a-la tastypie
- Authentication system
Suggesting tags with django-taggit and jQuery UI
One of the problems mentioned by a couple people when I asked for suggestions on improving djangosnippets.org was the proliferation of tags. This is a well-known problem on sites that allow users to enter their own tags, where misspellings are frequent and its sometimes unclear whether a tag should be plural or singular.
To try and reduce the amount of different tags on djangosnippets I ended up using the jQuery UI autocomplete tools to provide users with hints when they enter tags for their snippets.


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After online acclaim, 'The Bunker' goes to print
Five people freshly graduated from college, and all on paths that will lead to apocalypse for the world.
It's not what most would expect as they prepare for their own futures but, said writer Joshua Hale Fialkov, it's not every day five friends chance upon a mysterious bunker with warnings about a devastating future to come if ways are not changed and different roads taken.
Such is the premise of "The Bunker" by Fialkov and artist Joe Infurnari, whose work on the book has seen its popularity grow so much that they are jumping the digital divide to offer it in print through Oni Press.
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With the success of the title digitally — five chapters are online at $1.99 apiece now — publishers expressed interest. Oni was picked because of its reputation for titles like the Scott Pilgrim books "Whiteout" and "Queen and Country," Fialkov said.
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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
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Grrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm just writing this thread because i am extremely irritated right now:twisted:. i keep reading threads from this same person and they are all mostly regarding breeding fish! In another post he had , he also mentioned he is only 14! when i was 14 my parents would not have allowed such things even if i wanted to breed cockaroahces! Breeding anything (cat, dog, bird, reptile, FISH) come with a VERY big responsability and it is VERY costly. I do not believe just anyone should willingly breed anything. Only responsible, knowledgealbe people should breed animals. i mean i know accidents happen, it happened to me! but thats the risk you tank when keeping animals of same breed but opposite gender in the same area....usually babies are produced. But even though i am NOT a breederi am still set up to deal with babies if i need to. You also need to think about what you are going to do with them afterwards. you want them to go to GOOD homes with people who will care for them and make sure they are happy and healthy! :shock: DONT BREED IF YOU CANT AFFORD OR DONT KNOW WHAT THEY NEED!!! |
u have problems why did u post two of the same things in different places wow u think ripping on a kidd is good wow!! |
im not ripping on kids...more so the parents for not giving their kids the proper things to make sure they are successful! |
I don't think Mollie meant it the way you are takeing it. She is just trying to point out the common sense fact that you should be takeing care of your current fish properly before you even think about breeding more. Just because they are fish does not mean that there is less responsiability than say dogs, or cats or any other living thing. It is great that you are asking questions and trying to learn but we are talking about living breathing creatures here not just something you can make then dispose of when you are tired of them or don't want to do there weekly water changes anymore. I do not mean to offend you or anyone else but it just seems like you are trying to breed alot of different fish at one time but yet do not have the proper set ups to take care of all the fry you will have if the breedings are succesful. If I am wrong and you do have everything to properly take care of your current fish as well as the large groups of fry you may have then I am sorry in advance for misunderstanding your plans. |
Mollie fan is correct in her thinking and it wouldnt matter what age you are........Breeding fish is a very daunting task for the people (myself included) that have the resources for all the extra tanks and special food it will and does require......People who thinks its cute to have "baby" fish, usually dont provide the correct things to raise the fish to adulthood and end up losing the fry fish, or worse have their tank degrade and take out all their fish from disease or the overload of maintainance.....Currently i am raising 2 types of guppies, each species requiring 3 tanks each..I do water changes every other day to provide the clean water and habitat that they need......Most people have a tough time maintaining one tank......Alot of the members who ask breeding questions only have a solo tank, unless your ready to provide more tanks and ALOT more time and money, dont do it.......In the end, its the fish that suffer... |
yea. i have 2 tanks and a pair of my fish breeded and i lost all of them because of my lack of knowledge. now i have around 40-50 convict cichlids in one tank living hapily together because i reasherched. i didnt breed them perposfully just that when a male and female will breed and u have to be prepared. if ur trying to breed them and dont have more tanks for the babies then simply dont do it. |
yea but i am trying to gain knowledge i am not breeding them at all none of them.its just i want to know more i am the victim here but everyone needs to read all my other posts it does not say i put them to breed yet.anyway im done breeding my gourami and cories and silver dollars because they are not mine and i have said that in a couple of my posts.ive been researching fish for about 2 mts now i know how to sex them and i just need to know more about stuff that im not finding on the web and this website has a lot of breeders on them.just because im 14 does not mean i am il prepared. im just yound with a little lack of knowledge on breeding fish.and i just want to show everybody that and how am i not taking good care of my fish?how in the world is molliefan right? |
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Biokid....i did not mean to offend you, i am VERY sorry that i did. I think it is great that you are as eager to learn about fish keeping and breeding as you are. when i was 14 i was also eager and i have been in the vet field for almost ten years now, since i was 14. in a couple of your posts in regards to the betta situation you made comments that sounded to me like you were going to breed the bettas no matter what with the 2 1 gallon fish bowls you had and it just upset me to think about the condition they would be in if that were the case. as mentioned above i am in the vet field and see all too often that people breed animals just for the hobby of it and it turn out very badly, mostly for the animals....again i am very sorry and i hope now you can understand why i am so passionate about the situation at hand. and i cant say enough...i am SOOOO sorry!!! |
awe it just upset me that u made a thread about me in a bad way but i see what u mean i put my female in the 10 gal tank with the male but with a divider so dont worry i wont breed them without knowing more info trust me.i did take it the other way that is because u made it sound so serious and i AM SOO SORRY about what i said about u. |
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Digia has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Qt software technologies and Qt business from Nokia. Digia has sent a letter to the KDE team that it intends to pretty much continue what Trolltech and Nokia built up, so not a whole lot ought to change for KDE - luckily.
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"Does anyone think when Nokia becomes cheap enough, MS will buy them out?
Basically everyone believes that. Elop was put in charge of Nokia for a reason, while still being paid by Microsoft. " My suspicion is MS just wants Nokia's patents. Like what they did when they destroyed Silicon Graphics. They will acquire the patents at bargain basement prices and then let Nokia slowly die.
Nokia already started to sell its patents.
$22 million for 500 of its most valuable patents is a joke. There patents where estimated ~10 billion and now they sell them in pieces far under priece. A sign they need fast more cash and others, like Microsoft, are not offering enough.