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Posted Mon 16th of April 2012
This is about a 9 year old boy southern boy that gets a good sucking off
alot of the contents in this story is fantasy. Please respect it and if you dont just dont read it. Thanks. And its my first story so i know i messed up quite a bit. feel free to inbox me. this story will continue if yall liked it!
Kevin was 9 when he entered his first group home. He was a bit chubby, not too short. He has brown short hair. He was your average boy. He liked playing sports, and getting dirty. Growing up in the south, that was all there really was to do for a boy. His prior situation, he was living with his grandparents in Alabama, but his grandfather passed, leaving his grandmother to care for Kevin alone. His real mother was states away, couldn't handle being a young mom and dropped him off with her sickly elder parents. So this is why he ended in this shitty situation.
He was now in Louisiana. The old sticks. If he weren't a country boy before than he sure would be afterward. His new foster mother Ms Debbie, was older, and nothing like his grandma. He could sense that she didn't have alot of patience, but that she wasn't completely a bitch either. His case worker was right next to him when he walked into the 2 story home. It smelled very clean when they walked in, which reminded little Kevin of his old home in Alabama. His grandma loved cleaning. Mr Gold, his case worker set his things down, along with him. He had a buz lightyear spaceman and a pair of pajamas that he wore every night.
"Hello." Kevin says looking up at Ms. Debbie.
Ms. Debbie walked in and smiled down at Kevin, who was looking right back up at her.
Megan, her 14-year-old foster daughter followed down with Daniel, who was 7. He had on a rebel hat with fatigues and a white t-shirt. His hair was greasy and dirty looking. He had a tan and his finger tips were yellow like he smoked ciggarettes. He glared at Kevin, and Kevin glared back.
Meg bent down and led big at Kevin, giving him a kiss on the four-head.
"Hey cutie pie!" She said in her sweet southern tone.
He was sure he saw her cat as she bent down. She had on a mini skirt with a white blouse that if you quint hard enough you could see the nipple on the tit. She smelled like slight perfume, but not much.
He took a second glance in between her sweet smoothe legs to get one more peek of her sweetness. He didn't see much, just the lips.
After Mr. Gold felt fit, he got up to leave. He gave Kevin his last goodbye and told him to be good. Kevin clung to him for a second until he realized that this was he. He wasn't coming back.
Ms. Debbie picked him up brought him to the bathroom.
"Ok, young man, these are the rules. You do not enter Megan, Dan, or my room without permission. We will give you the same respect. Megan is the oldest, and you will obey her. Daniel is often on punishment, so I wouldn't go following his lead. I expect you you to clean up after yourself, and wash yours hands ALWAYS before coming indoors from being outside. Put the toilet seat down when you're done using it, and if you miss while you are pissing, clean it up. Is that all clear to you Kevin?" She finally finished.
"Yeah." Kevin replied.
"Good. Now take your bath, I'm making dinner downstairs so come on down and eat when you are done." She said as she opened the door to leave the bathroom.
Kevin sighed as he realized this was his new home. He had to follow all new rules and meet all new people. He was not looking forward to it, but he was happy to be somewhere stable.
He undressed and got into the tub.
He stood up as he washed his body and the door opened. It was Megan. She had on her bra and panties and she didn't budge as she saw Kevin naked standing up in her tub. He kinda giggled it around just to give her a little show. He wasn't shy, and he was proud of the few pubes he had grown on his junk. Her eyes quickly went down to his small manhood and she bit her lip. She moaned a little even. He eyes dropped to her slightly hanging ball sack with a few hairs on it. Her eyes stayed there for a second before she left and closed the door.
He finished, got dressed and went downstairs for dinner.
He first went outside to take in some fresh air. He spotted a rifle over in the shack to the left. It was left open. He wondered if it had bullets to go with it. He would investigate tomorrow and maybe go hunting around for birds or something.
He went into the kitchen and up to get a plate of food and sat down at the table. Daniel was right across from him. They exchanged grins as they ate their dinner.
The next couple weeks Kevin and Daniel got closer. They started trusting each other.
"Hey man, what's your biggest secret that you would never tell no one?" Dan said biting his bottom lip.
"Hmm. I don't know man. What about about you buddy?"
"You really want to know man?" He asked looking over at Kevin.
"Yeah. What?"
"I've had a BJ before." He said chuckling under his breath.
"A what?" Kevin said in response.
"A blowjob man. It's when a girl sucks on your cock. It feels so good." He said.
Kevin was half embarassed that he didn't know what a blowjob was, and that a 7-year-old had gotten one before he had.
"That's kind of weird man." Kevin replied.
"Weird? No it feels good. Meg swollows my knob all the time." He said making the gesture of oral sex.
"You want to feel it? She will suck on your guy too man." He said coming up next to me.
Just then he heard a knock at the door. Dan yelled out that it was open and in walks Meg. She tries to get Kevin to leave, but Dan tells her that it's ok and to close the door.
She has on nothing but a long T-shirt. Her nipples are hard and perking through her shirt. She smelled like soap when she walked in, and her hair was all wet and wavy. The boys mesmerised and wanted to sniff her all night. She pushed Dan up against the bed and roughly went straight for the zipper of his pants and immediately put the small 2 inch cock that came out of it into her mouth.
His head leaned back and he sighed in pleasure.
She sucked and pulled with the head of his penis in between her lips.
She slid down his pants and underwear while she was still sucking on him.
The sight of this made my dick hard.
He didn't have much control as she was holding him down and sucking him until he was pretty much screaming Megan.
She was milking that dick and mine was throbbing away in my pants.
Kevin wanted her to suck him like that.
He didn't know jack shit about sex, but he knew that he wanted his penis touched. Alot.
He finally started shaking and she sucked until he stopped humping her mouth. Kevin wondered if he little cock popped a juicy one in her mouth or not.
When she was done they made out and he played with her pussy.
He put his finger to her bud and started rubbing her in circles.
He was pretty unstable though and Kevin was sure that he could do a better job.
Kevin wondered if he'd stick his cock into her and feed her aching cunt.
Then he realized that he wasn't big enough to fit.
Kevin wasn't much bigger than him, but he sure as hell had a thicker one than his skinny weiner.
She got bored with him so she made him eat her pussy while she had me suck her tit.
She finally told Kevin to pull my cock out, and I did.
She must have loved young cock.
His 4 inch boner was good and ready. It was fat and throbbing. And she filled her hot teen mouth with his good old young country boy sausage.
to be continued..
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2012-06-17 02:14:29
Learn little sister brother sex
anonymous reader
2012-04-18 09:26:35
Try to work on not switching between first and third person views. If you pick on, stick to it.
anonymous reader
2012-04-17 10:07:10
dead right about it being about a country boy, i suppose the crap writing makes it look authentic
2012-04-17 07:43:25
I enjoyed the story. A little rough on the edges, but that's ok. It's about a country boy, right? :-) Continue on.
anonymous reader
2012-04-17 03:26:21
i would'nt continue, you need to delete this and do a complete rewrite. there's some good ideas but a lot of errors.
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This is a serious hit of vegetables, but all the recipes from the 60s were like that. As you make this, keep in mind that it isn't a stir-fry in the tradition of blazing hot woks and kung fu cooking style. This is more of a stew-fry. In fact, these days I skip the wok altogether and use a 7-quart pot.
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12 ounces assorted mushrooms, sliced thick or quartered
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2 fat cloves garlic, minced
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1/4 teaspoon crushed chili flakes
1 pound firm tofu, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 handful snow peas (about 4 ounces)
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1/3 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup dry sherry
1 tablespoon vinegar
3 tablespoons corn starch
2 teaspoons sugar
1) Turn the oven on to 400 degrees F. Peel and dice the eggplants into 3/4-inch pieces. Spread out on 2 cookie sheets and bake until eggplant browns around the edges, 15 or 20 minutes.
2) Meanwhile, start the long chop, keeping the ingredients separate. (I put each chopped vegetable on a piece of waxed paper.)
3) Measure the sauce mixture into a bowl and stir. The cornstarch will make it look like coffee with cream. Just before using it, stir it again till it looks like that.
4) When the rice is about done, start the stew-fry. Sauté the onion in a little oil over medium-high heat until it softens a bit, then add the carrots and cook for a couple minutes. Add the pepper and cook for another couple minutes. Follow this add-&-cook routine with the mushrooms, garlic, ginger, chili flakes, and eggplant. Add a little oil right along if necessary, to keep the vegetables from sticking unmercifully.
5) Finally, crank up the heat to high and toss in the tofu and snow peas. Give the sauce mixture a stir and pour it in. Bring the sauce to a boil. When it thickens and becomes shiny, it's done. Gently stir so everything is coated with sauce. Serve over brown rice.
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A Few Questions for a New Tank Hello everyone, I'm just setting up my first aquarium in years and have been scouring the net for info and generally have dug up what I needed, however now I'm beginging to encounter specific issues I would love to hear from you more experienced folks. First things first my set up; Tank - 50 gallon, 122cm L x 35cm W x45cm H Filter - Eheim Pro 3 600 (probably overkill but its a long story I wont go into) Light - One T8 48" aqua one sunlight bulb Fish - 2 platies, 1 adult guppy 2 immature guppies Plants - a handful of Java moss (that moss that looks like a vine) Tank has been set up/cycling for 2 weeks So my questions specifically are 1. Have a slight milkyness in the water (fairly faint but defintely there) and has been since day one. Initally thought is was the rock flour in the black sand but by now it should have settled down? Probably bacterial in that case but should it persist for this long in a new tank? (btw changing 10% of water every 2 days). Water is pH 7 and from our rainwater tank so no artifical chemicals etc in it. N levels - unknown, awaiting test kits to arrive (living in regional Australia has its down sides). Any thoughts on how to proceed? The milkyness is driving me nuts but doesnt seem to worry the fish. 2. Would like to add more plants over time but my gut feeling is my light is too low even for low light plants? 3. Stocking. I would like to keep maily neons/cardinal/rummynose tetras when everything has settled down and some guppies with a few small peaceful cat fish ( say a 50/50 split with the bioload on the guppy/tetras. tried the online stocking calculator and saw some big numbers (too me anyway) and just wanted to see what people with experience think. Thanks in advance War Monk |
Welcome to the forums! 1) White cloudyness/milky looking water is just a bacterial bloom, happens in almost all new tanks, it will go away in a week or two. 2) The light is probably fine for low light stuff and maybe some moderate. Low light really means low light. You could use a dual T8 if you wanted to go into the upper end of moderate lighting. Whatever you do, avoid T5HO fixtures, it's too much light unless you can get a single bulb fixture. Color spectrum should be around the 6500K area. 3) You have incompatible fish. Guppies, Platties, and other live bearing fish require moderately hard, to hard water. Tetras, especially cardinal tetras, require soft water. Some tetras that have been tank raised can do okay up to moderately hard water. You say you are using rain water, that's probably going to be pretty close to RO/DI water which means you will have a GH and KH of near 0. Better to do a mix of that with your tap water if you want soft water fish, you want ~4-6 dGH (minimum) for keeping plants. GH is General Hardness, KH is Carbonate Hardness. The little d means degrees, it is a unit of measurement. Some test kits give it in ppm (parts per million). |
Yes, WELCOME to TFK! I would agree that rain water, like filtered water RO, DI, RO/DI, alone is to 'pure' for fish and plants as there are no minerals. I also think you should mix this (say 50/50) with tap water for a better balance. (I mix treated DI water 50/50 with tap water for better balance of essential minerals). I also agree that the cloudy water is a bacterial bloom created by dissolved organics in the water. It should clear on it's own...just make sure you do not overfeed and stay on top of tank maintenance. I'm not quite the stickler as Geo as I have neons in my tank that is somewhere in the 7.0 - 7.6 pH range and most community fish seem to do well in a neutral to slightly alkaline pH, although in the wild, many do well in acidic waters. As mentioned, with so many tank and pond raised fish, the water chemistry rules relative to wild habitats get a bit fuzzy. For the most part, I believe that fish can adapt to fairly wide ranges in pH and hardness, however rapid changes can be a serious problem (which is why we should always acclimate fish slowly to our tank water). |
Thanks to you both for your replies. Generally good news for me I guess, just that for me tap water is rainwater! Usually this is a good thing ( water not tasting like a swimming pool, no water bills etc) but perhaps not so in this case. I'm betting there are salts you can purchase to harden up the water a bit? On the species front it sounds like my 2 favorites aren't quite going to overlap. Can anyone suggest any peaceful, bright and colourful fish that will be ok in the water suited to tetras? Cheers :lol: |
You're rather lucky to have very soft water. It opens up a huge range of the south american and asian fish for you. We're talking literally hundreds of fish. Just a few that come to mind right now are black neon tetra and rummynose tetra. They are both small schooling fish that would complement a school of cardinal tetra or neon tetra very well (if you haven't figured out, you can click on a shaded fish name for more info). For substrate fish you choose from many different species of corydoras like bandit cory and pepper cory or some loaches like kuhli loach or even some of the smaller species of plecos like gold nugget pleco or bristlenose pleco. Here is an interesting article about some of the most colorful freshwater fish in the hobby. Maybe taking a look through it will give you some ideas. The 75 most colourful fish | Features | Practical Fishkeeping You can take the scientific name and search it here using our Tropical Fish Profiles to find specific care requirements. |
A pH that low may not be a problem from most soft acidic water fish, you'll actually have very happy fish. But keep that in mind when selecting what to stock. You could even keep Discus ;) However, those are a difficult fish to keep so I wouldn't pick them to start with (and you need more than 50 gallons). They also have to go into a well established tank (one that's running for 6 months - 1 year prior to adding them). |
i could be wrong but that haze in the water, if it doesnt clear up, could be from the flourescent light. ive tried several different flourescent bulbs and always end up with standard incandescent bulbs for a light thats not overpowering. you could hold a lamp with a standard bulb over the tank to see if thats the problem. |
At water changes, I also treat the tank with Seachem Fresh Trace. |
yeah that cloudyness is what everybody says.its a bloom of bacteria.i cleared mine up really quick by leaving the light off except for when you feed them and it will clear up in a week or so.bacteria grows under light if you leave the light off as much as posable then you should be clear reallly soon.i want to add urge you to have your water tested weekly while its cycling to keep tabs on it.local pet shops usually do it for free. |
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"Music is part of the idiosyncrasy and culture of the country," said the native of Santa Clara, Cuba, who studied at Havana's National School of Music. "It's a very powerful place culturally. You can breathe the music, you can feel the rhythm just by seeing a woman walking by."
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Prieto lost a friend, Cuban bass player Charles Flores, who died of throat cancer last August at age 41. He released Flores's last CD, "Impressions of Graffiti."
"I promised him that I would put out his record," said Prieto, who performed with Flores as part of jazz pianist Michel Camilo's trio. "I miss him very much."
The Dafnis Prieto Sextet performs at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. tonight through Sunday (with an additional set at 11:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday) at the Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th St. in Manhattan. Information: +1-212-576-2232 or http://www.jazzstandard.net.
(Patrick Cole is a reporter for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)


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Use the cancel function to remove the guitar or bass from a track in your iOS library. Take Slash off November Rain, turn on your favourite lead setting from the amps memory and wail away on the solo.Isolate The Guitar Or Bass In A Song
Single out the guitar or bass sound in a track, maybe even to help you learn the bass parts from Metallica's '...And Justice For All'?Presets
THR Session comes supplied with presets to help you automatically get the balance right, whether you want to listen and learn or play along.A-B Repeat
Tap and select to single out the section of the song you want to play on. Ideal for singling out that tricky bridge section and going round until you get it right.Transpose
Change the pitch of the song up and down by a half or whole step.Slow Down
You can also slow down the track by as much as half without affecting the pitch.So say you need to get your head around a fast picked solo in the bridge of song to cover later, first hone in on section you need with A-B Repeat, Isolate the lead guitar to hear the part (slowing down if needed), then switch on the guitar remove preset to play along until you've got it down.
All this is possible on the move, backstage or on the bus, because the THR is battery powered. Play it back in the practice room or back stage to your band mates, transposing for any fixed key instruments.
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Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Chiroptera | Phyllostomidae |
Scientific Name: | Ardops nichollsi | |||
Species Authority: | (Thomas, 1891) | |||
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Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2008 |
Date Assessed: | 2008-06-30 |
Assessor(s): | Dávalos, L. & Rodriguez, A. |
Reviewer(s): | Medellín, R. (Chiroptera Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) |
Justification: Listed as Least Concern in view of its abundance within its restricted distribution, its presumed large population, and because its habitat is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. |
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Range Description: | This species is known from Lesser Antilles, from St. Eustatius to St. Vincent (Simmons, 2005). |
Countries occurrence: | Native: Antigua and Barbuda; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Sint Eustatius); Dominica; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Montserrat; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
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Population: | This bat is found only in the northern Lesser Antilles and is relatively common, having been mist-netted in rain forest, dry scrubby forest as well as in banana plantations, cacao groves, and botanical gardens. | ||
Current Population Trend: | Unknown | ||
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Habitat and Ecology: | This species is poorly known. It roosts exclusively in trees and other types of arborescent vegetation. It has been taken in forest, in trail bordered by tree and in cacao groves, often over streams. Six females collected in spring were reproductively active; one taken in April was lactating. Other females captured in March and April were carrying a single embryo (Jones and Genoways, 1973). |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Major Threat(s): | Vulnerable to hurricanes (Davalos pers. comm.) |
Conservation Actions: | Found in protected areas. |
Jones Jr., J. K. and Genoways, H. H. 1973. Ardops nichollsi. Mammalian Species 24: 1-2. Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 312-529. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA. |
Citation: | Dávalos, L. & Rodriguez, A. 2008. Ardops nichollsi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T2089A9234725. . Downloaded on 29 March 2017. |
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Viral SuppressionSynonym(s): Virologic Control |
When antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces a person's viral load (HIV RNA) to an undetectable level. Viral suppression does not mean a person is cured; HIV still remains in the body. If ART is discontinued, the person's viral load will likely return to a detectable level. |
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Add an address list to or remove an address list from an offline address book
Applies to: Exchange Online, Exchange Server 2013
Topic Last Modified: 2014-12-16
You can use the Shell to add or remove an address list from an offline address book (OAB). By default, there is an OAB named the Default Offline Address Book that contains the global address list (GAL). OABs are generated based on the address lists that they contain. To create custom OABs that users can download, you can add or remove address lists from OABs.
For additional management tasks related to OABs, see Offline address book procedures.
Estimated time to complete each procedure: 5 minutes
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the "Offline address books" entry in the Recipients Permissions topic.
By default in Exchange Online, the Address List role isn't assigned to any role groups. To use any cmdlets that require the Address List role, you need to add the role to a role group. For more information, see the "Add a role to a role group" section in the topic, Manage role groups.
Changes to the address list aren't available for client download until after the OAB in which the address list resides has been generated. For more information, see Update an offline address book.
You can't use the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) to perform this procedure. You must use the Shell.
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When using the AddressLists parameter, any address lists that currently exist will be overwritten. You must include existing address lists when you use the AddressLists parameter to continue to generate those address lists in your OAB. This example, in which you have AddressList1 and AddressList2, adds AddressList3.
Set-OfflineAddressBook -Identity "My OAB" -AddressLists AddressList1,AddressList2,AddressList3
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-OfflineAddressBook.
To remove an address list from an OAB, simply omit that address list from the list of address lists. This example, in which you have AddressList1, AddressList2, and AddressList3, removes AddressList3.
Set-OfflineAddressBook -Identity "My OAB" -AddressLists AddressList1,AddressList2
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For most political women, it was hard enough to get elected in the first place; they're not going to jeopardize what they worked so hard for by flashing the internet with some bikini shots.
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There has been deafening conservative silence on the sexist mudslinging against Democratic candidate Krystal Ball. It seems right-wingers have decided that they don't really mean it when they claim they're against sexism.
I feel bad for the politically-conservative women of the Tea Party who haven't gotten past the high school behavior most of us hated. It takes too much energy to keep that whole "mean girl" shtick going in the real world.
We need a Democratic woman who somehow finds a way to resonate with people in the way that Palin does, and in the way that Bill Clinton and George W. Bush did for their respective fans.
The Hilton Hotel in New York City was packed on August 6th and 7th with 2400 attendees who had come for the 6th Annual BlogHer Conference. The last t...
On the tenth anniversary of being able to celebrate Mother's Day as a mother myself, I've been thinking of some things about babies and children and motherhood for which I am eternally grateful.
The handful of men who run our nation's investment banking institutions aren't afraid of consequences that they consider to be mere slaps on the hand from an inconsequential agency.
This journey is our first return to China since we brought PunditGirl home and made her part of our family in 2001. I can't believe it's been that long; I feel like it's been a lifetime since we stepped off the plane.
What kind of example has Jenny Sanford set for her sons about how women should be treated in relationships?
If this is where we are in 2010 when it comes to permissible portrayals of women, I may have to live to be 237 before we're treated with even a modicum of respect.
While Gillibrand was a member of the Blue Dog conservatives in the House, she is an advocate and supporter of reproductive rights. Ford? Not so much.
When people dismiss Sarah Palin out of hand, I keep thinking one thing -- remember the last politician we scoffed at as not even close to being competent enough for the White House?
It's laughable and upsetting to me that Ford claims he is being "bullied" by Gillibrand, making references to party bosses trying to exert influence against him.
Many people who are against health care reform claim that a public option will result in rationing. But if denying a beaten woman coverage doesn't amount to rationing, what is it?
Apparently, many on the political right are without sin, because they wasted no time after Senator Ted Kennedy's death to start casting as many stones as possible.
If someone even jokingly threatens harm a federal official, it's considered a federal offense. Has anyone mentioned this to Glenn Beck?
If anyone can keep President Obama on track on this issue, it's Jarrett.
The message often sent to our kids is that it's okay for husbands to wander and that wives will still stick around, regardless of how badly they've been betrayed. That is, until Jenny Sanford.
Conservatives are going to try to convince America that no judge should be appointed to the Supreme Court who doesn't decide cases by applying the law to the facts of a case in a vacuum.
I love Michelle's story because it's similar to mine. What I don't love is the ooh-ing and ah-ing of journalists as if Michelle's story is something new, because it's not.
Is the Washington Post suggesting that finding two young girls dead in a freezer is somehow more heinous becase the mother had adopted them?
I started wondering what kind of confessions, political or otherwise, Elisabeth might have. As someone who was pro-McCain/Palin in the 2008 election, I bet there could be some really juicy ones!
If AIG employees don't get their millions, what are they going to do, quit? It's not like there are tons of jobs out there at the moment.
Senator McCain (or his staff) is on a Twitter campaign to convince us that he has our budget interests at heart and that the Democrats are going on a wild earmark spree.
Al Gore, it's not really kosher Twitter etiquette to have 160,000+ people on your list and then only be interested in what two of them are tweeting.
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First, the 16 mm New Wave; then the Super-8 No Wave; and now, an American film movement, based on DV, with a name that might belong to one of Harry Potter's friends: It's Mumblecore!
Dance Party, USA 5 p.m. Fri., Sept. 7–Sun., Sept. 9 (plus 3 p.m. Sat.–Sun.). Not rated. 66 minutes. Quiet City 7 and 9:15 p.m. Fri., Sept. 7–Sun. Sept. 9. Not rated. 81 minutes. Filmmakers Saloon Mark Duplass, Aaron Katz, and Lynn Shelton will appear 5 p.m. Fri., Sept. 7. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 267-5380, www.nwfilmforum.org. $5–$8.50.
Not much movie magic here: A recent college grad casually breaks up with her boyfriend, has a brief office affair, and then embarks upon another. At one point, she goes on location to the beach; in the big emotional scene, she tearfully confesses to suffering from "chronic dissatisfaction." Hannah Takes the Stairs, the third feature by 26-year-old Joe Swanberg, is something like the Mumblecore equivalent of Gone With the Wind.
Hannah arrives here on Sept. 28 to conclude this Mumble Without a Cause festival of three micro-indie New Talkies (aka Generation DIY, aka Cine Slackavetes, aka MySpace Neorealism, aka Mumblecore), a movement that coalesced two years ago when Andrew Bujalski's Mutual Appreciation, Swanberg's Kissing on the Mouth (a response, he's said, to Bujalski's 2002 Funny Ha Ha), and the Duplass Brothers' The Puffy Chair premiered at South by Southwest; over the next 18 months, these homemade, low-key comedy-dramas of twentysomething angst, along with related films like Aaron Katz's Dance Party, USA (a comedy-drama about teen-something angst), began turning up, while critical fave Funny Ha Ha achieved something like cult status.
Funny Ha Ha, which played Seattle two years ago, established the template. Set in a postgraduate milieu, it drew heavily on Bujalski's college confreres, using nonprofessionals to portray a small galaxy of awkwardly diffident young people—the most obnoxious loser played by the filmmaker. While following Bujalski's lead in constructing narrative and characterization out of constant chatter and a succession of uninflected moments, subsequent Mumblecormedies eschewed 16 mm for DV, became even more doc-like (most are half shot in close-up), and presented themselves as collectively scripted enterprises, with cast and crew often identical. According to Swanberg, everyone shared the same Chicago apartment during the making of Hannah Takes the Stairs.
Typically running a compact 80 minutes, these movies are disarmingly pragmatic, full of abrupt cuts and choppy inserts. Acting is mainly a coping mechanism. The characters in Hannah alternate between unconscious and self-conscious, and that's the charm. Embarrassment rules: In one typical interaction, Hannah (Greta Gerwig) contrives to have her ostensive boss (the ever-creepy Bujalski) come up to her cramped apartment where, squeezed in with her roommate on the couch, she fixes him with her pale hazel eyes and asks, "Do you think I'm doing OK at work?"
Thriving on the modest truth of clumsy mishaps and incoherent riffs, fueled by a combination of narcissism and diffidence, Mumblecore reflects sensibilities formed by The Real World (our life is a movie) and Seinfeld (constant discourse), as well as The Blair Witch Project (DIY plus Internet). Of course, Mumblecorps members prefer to cite Dogma or Gus Van Sant, who cast his upcoming mega-Mumble Paranoid Park through MySpace. That the filmmakers often appear on-screen gives their movies a psychodramatic edge. In his youthful Flesh of Morning, Stan Brakhage made a self-starring poem on masturbation; half a century later in Kissing on the Mouth, Swanberg presents himself ejaculating in the shower and brazenly flirts with porn. Kissing opens with its heroine (Kate Winterich) and her ex-boyfriend engaged in startlingly naturalistic intercourse—the movie's premise is her inability to give up these afternoon trysts, much to the discomfort of an adoring male roommate (Swanberg).
The denizens of Mumblecordia are often failed musicians or would-be writers. Joblessness is rife. Hannah refers to her boyfriend's newly unemployed status as "the step up of him pursuing nothing." Without apparent work or ambition (other than to appear in this movie), Kissing's protagonist is the quintessential Swanberg character. In his 2006, largely improvised follow-up, LOL, three guys are more involved with various cyber-relations than with any human at hand.
Swanberg maps a system based on cell phones, instant messaging, Web sites (with Kissing's Winterich self-reflexively playing an Internet sex symbol), and YouTube, to suggest a virtual world more compelling than the real one. Reviewing LOL sympathetically last summer in The New York Times, Nathan Lee noted that "the impact of technology on social relations has received subtler analysis elsewhere (see the films of David Cronenberg.)" True enough, but Swanberg's satire might be better appreciated as a critique of the fanboy fantasy world celebrated by Judd Apatow.
Mumblecore is demographically self-contained. Straight, white, middle class. The movies suggest college, without the course load. There are almost no grown-ups—which is to say anyone over 30. One exception is The Puffy Chair (seen here last Labor Day), a road movie in which the foundering Josh (played by co-director Mark Duplass, currently in town to act in another movie) sets off with his needy girlfriend to present his dad with an eBay-purchased simulacrum of a La-Z-Boy recliner he once enjoyed. Their casually ludicrous misadventures, most involving two-dimensional authority figures, are compounded once Josh's neo-hippie brother joins the expedition that, in essence, strips the upholstery off the couple's comfy, dysfunctional relationship.
Whether breaking up or hooking up, Mumblecordians spend much time pondering what to do and say. One of Hannah's most dramatic scenes has the protag and her boyfriend (Mark Duplass) wondering whether they should make love but not knowing what to do instead. As if to underline the pervasive fog of ambivalence, the centerpiece of Aaron Katz's Dance Party, USA, made when the director was 24, is a July Fourth fete where no one's dancing. For most characters, it appears to be the summer between high school and college, although this is never discussed.
Katz's fondness for the almost-oxymoron can be seen in the title of his 2007 Quiet City. Sweeter than Dance Party, USA (he'll attend screenings of both this weekend), it concerns a young woman who visits New York (swell, naturally shaky camera work on the train) who fortuitously meets a guy (unemployed, natch) in a cavernous subway station. Because she's stranded, they spend a lot of time hanging out together. There's a funny discussion of wine as it's consumed from metal mugs, but this is no Before Sunrise; the meet-cute is something more behavioral. Katz is less interested in wit than he is in shifting emotional states, and his concern is contagious. As in Hannah or The Puffy Chair, tension is less a function of narrative than a perpetual state of being.
Mumblecore's compulsive navel-gazing, paucity of external references, and narrow field of interest is not for every taste—as Sam Fuller told a French journalist who asked him about Rebel Without a Cause, "I hate these adolescents and their problems." Like, who doesn't—although, seeing these films, I regret no one was on hand to fashion art from the stoned blather or communal shenanigans of Vietnam-era twentysomethings.
These movies may be self-absorbed—but what else could a self-portrait be? Hannah is writing a play about Kant and Newton as 13-year-old boys, which could be how Swanberg views himself and his peers. The least to be said for Bujalski, Swanberg, Katz, et al., is that they are confronting the conditions of their lives, including making their movies. It's impossible to predict how the Mumblecorps will mature, but given their immersion in the moment, I suspect that the films they've made will age very well.


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Greetings my fellow Drago mates and friends! Today I present to you with another fun lesson on another character from "Winx Club", premiering on Nicktoons very shortly. How about we learn "how to draw Tecna", step by step? I had lots of fun creating this character, but I've got to say, her suit is pretty strange. She reminds me utterly of the Coneheads characters staring Dan Aykroyd and Chris Farley. Prepare yourself with a standard pencil, paper, and a kneaded eraser for clean, shapely erasing. I have experience use with this type of eraser, and if you've never heard of it before, it's a putty kind that forms the way you want it to. Ok, so, with all that being said, take your time and always practice if you want to draw the perfect looking Winx character. Who knows, maybe you'll be able to create your own to roleplay with. It's time for me to leave, since time's a tickin'. Don't forget to show me your finished drawings. I'd really love to see how yours came out. Thanks for viewing and have fun with your lesson, on this gorgeous day!
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In an ideal world I would create load test scripts that I could scale up to simulate 100/1000/etc simultaneous users all bashing away at my website (ASP.Net website).
However, given that I don't occupy such a reality my next best alternative is to use 100 real users for my "simulation"
What I am imagining is that I could put Performance Profiler on my beta production server and leave it going for a day to collect a decent sample of usage.
I realise that the presence of the measuring will marginally (?) affect the performance but I think my users can live with that considering the benefit will inevitably be a much faster app later on.
Is what suggest possible/advisable ... what's RG's take on this.
p.s. It would be really quite handy if you had an article/case study type document on this.


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- The term "brown bear" commonly refers to animals found along the coast. Brown bears that found away from the coast and in northern habitats are often called "grizzlies."
- There are approximately 30,000 grizzlies living in Alaska.
- Grizzly bears can a between 6 and 9 feet (2-3m) in length.
- Grizzlies have better sense of smell than a hound dog. They can smell food 3 miles away.
- The color of grizzly bear fur can vary from blond to black but grizzlies usually have brown fur with gray tips.
- A grizzly bear can reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour.
- Bears are among the only large predators that eat meat and plants on a regular basis. They have large canines for killing prey and large molars for chewing vegetation.
- A brown bear's jaw pressure is powerful enough to crush a human head.
- You are more likely to be attacked by a grizzly bear if you scream out loud, fight back, or run away.
- Bears tend to be bolder in the dark, and they move about the earth with their nose.
- Brown bears, larger than black bears, have a more notable shoulder hump, less-protruding ears and longer claws. The long claws are used to dig for roots and to dig up burrows of small mammals.
- Poachers often kill grizzlies for their hides, but rarely eat the meat as it doesn't taste very good.
- For 6 months of the year, and sometimes longer, grizzly bears hibernate due to lack of food in the cold winter months, surviving on fat reserves.
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My dearest fate,
Do I dare to write?
I dare, I dare.
Alas, my writing shall not be bright.
For, my dearest fate,
I've taken to crying in the night.
As, without you, my heart turns to dust,
And dust is no good, save for sweeping up.
And fate, my dear,
I'll never forget you.
Because forgetting is like a curse.
Once you forget, you can never remember.
And these memories of you, they keep my dusty heart safe.
Fate, dearest, dearest fate.
You've kept me safe these past few months,
And for that, I'm forever grateful.
Though, when my shields are down, who will protect me?
And so, my lovely fate.
My writing comes to an end,
And, I wish you all the best,
Though, if I think about it,
The best has already been and gone.
The best is dead now, fate, my love.
He died, long, long ago.
For when you took yourself off the face of the earth,
He took a pill, and died beside you.
-- All my love, Tragedy.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Artem Anisimov just keeps scoring for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Anisimov had the only goal of the game with 6:25 remaining in the third period and Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 saves to lead the Blue Jackets to a 1-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night.
It was the sixth goal in the last six games for Anisimov, who also has scored the last four game-winners for Columbus.
With the game still scoreless, James Wisniewski sent a pass from the left circle to Anisimov at the left faceoff dot. Anisimov carried the puck to the goal line before cutting toward the Nashville net and sliding a backhander by Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne just inside the far post.
"He skated down the ice and he actually made the drop to me," Wisniewski said of Anisimov. "I love when the D-man just stays there because then the forward just skates right around them, make a quick pass, and he's all alone with the goalie. He made a great move and scored."
The Predators have lost four in a row and seven of their last eight. They have scored just three goals in their last four games, and it was Bobrovsky's third shutout of the season for Columbus, which has won four of five.
"We've been shooting enough pucks, we're just not finding the back of the net," Nashville coach Barry Trotz said. "There are a lot of dry players."
Making his third consecutive start after being sidelined since late October with an infection in his hip, Rinne made 35 saves.
"I felt confident and I felt comfortable out there tonight," Rinne said. "Hopefully, myself too, I can improve all the time."
Rinne faced just five shots in the first, but with 5:45 remaining in the opening frame, he denied Ryan Johansen's wrist shot attempt from the right side off of a 2-on-1 break.
Midway through the second, Rinne got his blocker on Boone Jenner's shot from the right circle.
Nashville dominated the shots on goal in the first period, outshooting the Blue Jackets 14-5.
"I though guys did a great job in front of me," Bobrovsky said of his defensemen. "They shot from mostly outside, so they boxed them out. They were great."
The tables turned in the middle frame when Columbus put 15 shots on Rinne, and the Predators managed just four on Bobrovsky.
The Blue Jackets had the shot advantage in the third as well, 16-10.
The Predators had a chance to tie late in the third, but Mike Fisher's shot from the slot rang off the far post with less than 30 seconds remaining and then Bobrovsky got his glove on an attempt from Colin Wilson.
"It is one of those games where you are wondering is anybody going to be able to beat either one of those guys," Columbus coach Todd Richards said. "Bob came up big at the end when the game was on the line."
NOTES: Columbus made their only visit to Nashville for the 2013-14 season. The Blue Jackets and Predators were both members of the Central Division before Columbus moved to the Eastern Conference before the start of this season. ... Nashville was just 1-4-0 on its five-game homestand coming out of the Olympic break. The Predators are on the road for their next three. ... The Predators have not scored a power-play goal in their last four games.
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A challenging economy, longer life spans and a culture of consumerism have complicated Americans' efforts to plan and save successfully for retirement.
When the National Foundation for Credit Counseling asked 2,205 people last year about their greatest financial regrets, the top three responses were habitual overspending, inadequate savings and not putting away enough money specifically for retirement.
The Goal: A Nation of Super Savers
This lack of preparedness isn't just an individual problem; it impacts us all. And it's time for us to to transform our culture from a nation of spenders to a nation of super savers.
As a country, we have successfully tackled big issues before. That's why, as I say in my new book, Transform Tomorrow: Awakening the Super Saver in Pursuit of Retirement Readiness, and my website,Savingamerica.org, I believe we can leverage lessons learned from past public service campaigns to transform our approach to saving.
(MORE: When You Haven't Saved Enough for Retirement)
Now is the time to come together in a national movement and engage in thoughtful conversations about retirement readiness. The goal: to provoke everyone to save more – at least 10% of their annual income over their lifetimes.
Take a Page from 'Keep America Beautiful'
Like the successful anti-littering campaign "Keep America Beautiful" in the 1950s and '60s, we must focus our efforts on two fronts: behaviors and beliefs.
"Keep America Beautiful" recast the way Americans viewed littering and established a national understanding that we needed to act vigilantly to protect the environment. As a result, litter has been reduced by 61% since 1969.
I believe our country would benefit from a similar national campaign aimed at changing the public's mindset about saving for retirement.
The movement to improve our retirement preparedness must be all-inclusive, with participation from the financial services industry, employers and individuals.
What Financial Pros and Employers Can Do
For money pros this is a golden opportunity to become retirement plan advocates. Some already are, stressing the importance of saving for retirement to employers and employees.
But they need to push to help secure better outcomes for workers by pushing for more, and more effective,employer-sponsored retirement plans.
(MORE: The Retirement Gamble We're All Making)
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, roughly 40% of employees don't have access to workplace retirement plans. So if more employers simply offered 401(k)s and similar programs, they'd help workers save.
Employers with such plans should institute automatic enrollment, so employees will set aside a portion of their pay for the future unless they choose to opt out. The data shows that automatic enrollment goes a long way toward increasing participation in workplace retirement plans. Fewer than 5% of employees in auto enrollment plans opt out, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America.
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I'm just a audio guy forced to mess with Jitter and since I am becoming mad about one issue, I'm kindly asking you for help. I need to display png's with transparent background (that I've already sorted out somehow) and scale them real time. Seems like a not-so-hard job, but I still cannot manage. I can manage to scale my gl.videoplane – but that's not what I need, because than when the plane is smaller, I can move (offset) my image only on its borders, of course. I tried using matrix in the middle and to scale that but also didn't work out. Can you please push me / help me in the right direction?
Also – additional question – it would be perfect if the images will scale up equally on all sides – not just x and y growing, how would you that?
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This moist fudgy pizza topped with caramel, chips and nuts is sure to satisfy your family's sweet tooth. To prevent the tips of wedges from breaking when serving, I keep the topping thinner in the center. —Amy Branson, Bristol, Nevada
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- 1 package reduced-fat brownie mix (13-inch x 9-inch size)
- 1/2 cup fat-free caramel apple dip
- 1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- Prepare brownie mix according to package directions. Coat a 12-in. pizza pan with cooking spray. Spread batter over pan to within 1 in. of the edge.
- Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted 2 in. from edge comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack. Spread caramel apple dip over the top; sprinkle with chocolate chips and pecans. Yield: 12 servings.
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March 25, 1979 Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, left, of Michigan State, and Larry Bird of Indiana State during a news conference in Salt Lake City.
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Larry Bird was doin it a lil bit with that Addidas track jacket. It looks like he had a shirt with the matching collar.
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Talk to your kids about…
Despite Stanleys string of bad luck, what was his attitude? How did that affect his actions at Camp Green Lake and his relationship with the other boys? Did it have an effect on the Yelnats family luck?
Gypsy curses aside, can a persons life decisions influence his/her family for generations to come?
Louis Sachars novel has been published in nearly 30 countries and may be worth a read before checking out the movie. Find out more about the author at www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-sachar-louis.asp.


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41-year-old Garrison Spik, a communications director and writer, took the top prize in San Jose State University's 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with the following mental nightmare, "Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'" Sexy. Terrible writing hopefuls are asked to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. The contest has many categories, with awards for "purple prose" and "vile puns." The top winner receives a $250 prize and is urged to throw away his pens and pencils.


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Indiana State University will host its annual Family Day on Saturday, Oct. 30. This event is an opportunity for ISU students to show their appreciation for the important role that families play in their education and their lives. It's also an opportunity for families to see their student's home away from home.
The day begins at 9 a.m., with a variety of activities for siblings in the Bayh College of Education and Cunningham Memorial Library. Children ages 4-11 can take advantage of story time with Sycamore Sam, crafts and cookie decorating, assisted by Indiana State education students. Students ages 9-12 can learn about managing money with Networks Financial Institute. From 9-11 a.m., students will gain financial knowledge in classroom activities and aboard the Money Bus. Participants must register ahead of time and is limited to 25 students. Older siblings age 13-17 are invited to head on over to the Cunningham Memorial Library for board and video games.
Campus tours, led by the Sycamore Ambassadors, will be conducted every 45 minutes between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. The ISU bookstore will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the purchase of T-shirts, sweatshirts and books. Families can also access board games and play pool at Sycamore Lounge, located in Hulman Memorial Student Union, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Student Recreation Center will be a popular stop on campus by many during Family Day festivities. Families are invited to visit the facility and participate in informal activities in the three-court gym, MAC court and pool areas. Family members will need to complete a consent form, found at http://www.indstate.edu/parents/pdf/Family%20Day%20Guest%20Consent%20Form.pdf .
From 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. there will be a Favorite Recipe Brunch, open to all parents and families of both residential and commuter students. The menu includes a self-serve breakfast/lunch buffet. Tickets are $8 per person and can be purchased at the door. ISU students may use their meal plan.
After brunch is a perfect time for a game of bingo, sponsored by the Residence Hall Association. Sycamore Bingo will run from 12:30-2 p.m. in Dede I, Hulman Memorial Student Union.
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Bring your food items or monetary donations to the registration table or out to Memorial Stadium on Oct. 30. Donated items will be taken to Catholic Charities, a Second Harvest location.
A complete schedule of Family Day activities can be found at www.indstate.edu/parents or by calling Union Board and Family Services at 812-237-3830. Registration deadline is Oct. 22.
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LONDON—Secretary of State Byrnes, in his speech to the UNO Assembly in support of the resolution for creating an Atomic Commission, emphasized the fact that we entered the race to discover the secret of the atom "not to destroy but to save civilization. But if the race continues uncontrolled, the civilization we hoped to save may be destroyed."
And he concluded with the words, "We who fought together for freedom must now show that we are worthy of the freedom that we have won."
Those words were a challenge to the Assembly, but particularly, I think, they are a challenge to every individual citizen of every country that fought against Fascism—and nowhere should they be forgotten. I hope very much that, at some time, our President will make a speech to us in the United States calling upon us to understand what responsibilities we assumed through our participation in the United Nations Organization.
In regard to the terms which the Assembly adopted for the appointment of the Secretary General, there is one provision which may deter a number of men from accepting this position. And yet I think it is a very wise provision. Since the Secretary General will be in close relationship with a great many Governments, it is requested that, on retirement, he not accept any Government position in which his confidential information might be a source of embarrassment to other Governments or his own.
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Thursday evening, I attended a meeting of about 1,000 young GI brides. Army officers in charge of starting them on their way to the United States told them of the arrangements being made for their departure. There was great applause when they were told that shipping was now available, so that, between now and March, some 16,000 of them could be on their way to join their husbands. Priority number one exists for girls whose husbands are ill in the United States.
Representatives of the English-Speaking Union told them what it had planned in the way of assistance for them through its central office in New York and its branches in other cities.
I think it would be very helpful, not only to the young women who are going from Britain but also to those who are going from other countries, if one of our big national women's organizations would mobilize all other women's organizations to help these girls get adjusted to their new homes. In almost every town and village, there are such organizations. Volunteers could be found who could allot two or three "friends" to each newcomer and ask these "friends" to be responsible for helping the young woman in her first contacts. I'm sure this would solve many difficulties.
For instance, problem number one will be to find a home. Also, the newcomer will need to know how and where to shop. She must learn American customs. A "friend" can help to bridge the gap between past and present. This would go far towards insuring a happy future for our young soldiers, who perhaps do not realize themselves that such adjustments are not always easily made.


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The Radeon HD 2900XT can overclock. It is damn hot but there is still some space to push the card even further. This built by ATI (aren't there all) card could be overclocked by some 100 MHz over the original clock and this resulted with quite a performance boost.
Yesterday we told you here how the card performs at its default clock. The card at its default 745 MHz and 1656 MHz memory scores 10,650.
The overclocked one will gain some 600 points and the card was stable. It didn't want to go any higher than 840 MHz, but maybe some other cards will. Stable at 11260 points doesn't looks bad at all and we are sure that you would get some performance boost in games.
With this overclock the card becomes more competitive and every 3Dmark06 score increases. Here is the score.
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You feed it (via stdin) a text file written a silly little language, for example:
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...pipe the results through Graphviz
./heapgraph < example | dot -T pdf -o example.pdf
...and what you get back is a little series of graphs like the following:
I never worked out how to tell graphviz to draw the subgraphs from top to bottom instead of left to right. Help would be appreciated :-)
The context is that I'm in the process of reading Rabhi and Lapalme's Algorithms: A Functional Programming Approach. One of its introductory chapters has an explanation of graph reduction. It occured to me that I ought to write lots of little graphs and just walk through them. The general idea is that maybe one of the impediments to my understanding Haskell laziness/strictness was sheer impatience, that I was being far too motivated to make my programs go faster. I'm hoping that a slower and more methodical approach will work, for example, starting by making sure I understand basic ideas like a heap first.
Perhaps such a tool will be useful for you if you are in a similar position, or if you happen to be teaching this sort of stuff.


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- Reviewing Avionics Antenna Modules, Part 2
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A ntenna modules provide system integrators with a means of saving weight and volume in an airborne avionics platform. As mentioned in Part 1 of this article, combination Traffic Collision and Avoidance System (TCAS) and Transponder suites used on many aircraft rely on four different antennas, ten cables, and separate receivers and transmitters to provide protection against and awareness of other aircraft. Because of the use of discrete components, a TCAS system can be large in size and heavy in weight. But integration can provide considerable savings where savings in size and weight are required.
A conventional TCAS antenna array is passive. A TCAS transmitter with pulse power of about 200 W provides a transmit range of 45 nautical miles given typical directional antenna gain. During receive operation, signals received by the antenna elements are conveyed at very low power levels, because there is no power boosting from the passive antenna array. Receiver systems incorporating passive antenna arrays have an inherent receive range that is dependent, among other things, upon the characteristics of the passive components provided along the receive path, as well as noise, loss, sensitivity and other factors. The limited receive sensitivity is due in part to cable losses and noise within the receive signal path. In certain applications, it is desirable to provide a TCAS receive range of 100 nautical miles, which may not be possible with conventional passive antenna systems.
Figure 5 shows a block diagram of an active antenna module.
A transmit signal passes through one antenna port (6) and then splits and switches between four antenna BFN inputs (1, 2, 3, and 4). During directional transmit mode, each BFN input is activated alternately to provide directional antenna patterns for one quadrant (forward, right, aft, or left). During omnidirectional transmit mode, all four BFN inputs (1, 2, 3, and 4) are activated simultaneously. During directional receive mode, receive signals from the BFN pass through lowpass filters, switches, lownoise amplifiers (LNAs), and cables to the transmit-receive block. In the one common receive-transmit channel of the antenna module, the receive signal passes through the four-way splitter, two SPDT switches, and LNA2. The active antenna module provides greater receive sensitivity than a passive module, because the lossy cables and the transmit-receive block, placed after the LNAs, have a negligible effect on the overall receiver noise figure. The noise figure contribution of the transmission cables can be effectively eliminated, about 3 dB or a substantial portion of the receiver's noise budget. Mismatches at antenna module interfaces (cables, transmit-receive devices) also have a negligible effect on antenna module performance.
Several aspects of an antenna module adversely affect the performance of an amplitude monopulse system in estimating the bearing of surrounding aircraft11: (1) manufacturing tolerances, (2) different RF frequency, (3) antenna pattern shape, (4) sector to sector gain variation, (5) physical shape of the antenna, (6) variance of coupling between antenna ports, (7) antenna interface mismatching, (8) environmental conditions, and (9) component time-varying errors. The first five aspects can be corrected for by the antenna LUTs, and the next four aspects (69) can be corrected by the special calibration procedure. The amplitude monopulse system requires a strong amplitude balance between four receiver channels, including cables between the antenna module and the front-end receiver, because the aircraft bearing is measured by comparing the responses of the four receive channels. Difference in insertion loss and gain arise between these channels as a result of variation in parameters of physical components. The investigation results showed11 that the receiver channel loss/gain variance should be less than 0.5 dB to provide the acceptable bearing accuracy. Table 2 illustrates the influence of the destabilization antenna factors on the bearing error without an amplitude calibration.
To provide acceptable bearing accuracy,17 the following is recommended: (1) provide dynamic amplitude calibration; (2) use antenna LUTs; (3) the antenna pattern side/backlobe level should be less than -10 dB; (4) the antenna pattern gain variance from sector to sector should be less than 0.5 dB; (5) the antenna interface matching should be under control (return loss less than -15 dB); and (6) the variance of the differential coupling between antenna ports should be minimized.
Compensation of the destabilization factors can be realized by dynamic (during flight) amplitude calibration.10,11 For the amplitude monopulse system, the calibration should be done during a system operation called "on-line calibration," because the antenna and the receiver transfer functions can vary with environmental conditions (temperature, vibration, humidity, etc.). Usually, calibration is performed by the system manufacturer to compensate for the effects of manufacturing tolerances. However, imbalances due to changing conditions during flight require a dynamic calibration. There are two types of antenna array calibration. The first, a "radiative" calibration, employs free space as the calibration path between antenna monopoles. The second is the "non-radiative" approach, where calibration is performed by means of receiver channels and there is no radiation from the antenna array in the process of calibration. The second method of calibration does not correct for errors induced by the mutual coupling of antenna elements.
Consider a non-radiative calibration. Figure 2(a) (reproduced here from Part 1) illustrates the antenna SBFN with the calibration SPST switch.
The switch uses diode D3, which should be in the closed position during calibration mode, when the output power of hybrid H3 is reflected to the SBFN.10 Calibration of the system is achieved using a two-step process. In the first step, the calibration signal is applied to port 1 and reflected from the calibration switch to ports 2 and 3 of the SBFN. Information about the signal levels in these two channels is recorded in computer memory. During the second step, the calibration signal is applied to port 2 of the SBFN and passed to ports 1 and 4 of the SBFN. Finally, all four signals are compared to provide correction of the four output signals used for the bearing estimation.
In a radiative calibration, the calibration signal arrives at one antenna input, passes through the BFN, is radiated by the four antenna monopoles, and is received by the same monopoles due to mutual coupling between them. This calibration method uses the mutual coupling between antenna monopoles and does not require the special calibration switch. The mutual coupling is significant in small antenna arrays where monopoles are closely spaced. The amount of mutual coupling depends on the separation between antenna monopoles, antenna array geometry, and frequency. During the alternate activation of four channels by the calibration signal when, for example, channel 1 is activated, the three non-activated channels (2, 3, and 4) receive calibration signals due to mutual coupling between the antenna monopoles. The transmit/receive switches of these three channels are in receive mode and the receiver/ transmitter channels in these channels are in receive mode.