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This article provides the information on "Precision Mobile Workstation M6600 Trusted Platform Module (TPM) error in device manager after applying custom image to the system causes no TPM found error enabling Bitlocker".
System user was trying to install Bitlocker on a recently imaged Precision Mobile Workstation M6600 and it states that the need to upgrade the TPM version from 1.0 to 1.2. The user had gone to the Dell website and download the control vault driver and firmware but the issue persisted after the driver and firmware update.
The Bitlocker issue was resolved by the execution of the following steps:
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Afghans rush to learn risky art of defusing bombs
CAMP BLACK HORSE, Afghanistan (AP) — In a desolate field outside Kabul, an Afghan soldier hunches over a knee-high robot equipped with cameras, multidirectional pincers and tank-treads built for rough terrain. Carefully, he attaches four bottles of water and a tiny explosive charge to the robot. He uses a remote control to guide it 50 meters (yards) away to his target: a simulated backpack bomb.
"Explosion! Explosion! Explosion!" shouts the soldier, Naqibullah Qarizada, in a warning to others nearby. Then he remotely detonates the charge.
A small dust cloud kicks up. If all has gone well, the blast has pushed the water into the bomb with enough force to knock out its triggering mechanism. But to be safe, his partner, Hayatullah, climbs into a heavy protective suit before lumbering over to pluck out the blasting cap and seal it in a fortified box.
The two men are among hundreds of Afghan soldiers training to take over the dangerous fight against the war's biggest killers: the Taliban-planted bombs known as IEDs that kill and maim thousands of people each year on and around the country's roads and towns.
A few years ago, there were almost no Afghan bomb disposal experts. Now, there are 369 — but that's far from enough. The international coalition is rushing to train hundreds more before the exit of most coalition forces by the end of next year.
Each day on average, two to three roadside or buried bombs explode somewhere in Afghanistan, according to numbers compiled by the United Nations, which says that the explosives killed 868 civilians last year, 40 percent of the civilian deaths in insurgent attacks. Also, buried or roadside bombs accounted for 64 percent of the 3,300 international coalition troops killed or wounded last year, the NATO force says.
Known in military parlance as improvised explosives devices (IEDs), the bombs have long been a favorite Taliban weapon that can be remotely detonated by radio or mobile phone when a target passes or triggered by pressure, like a vehicle driving over it.
The U.S. military has over the years developed advanced detection and disposal techniques that manage to defuse about 40 to 50 IEDs each day, says Col. Ace Campbell, chief of the Counter-IED training unit. The coalition is working to transfer that knowledge to the Afghans who will be responsible once most foreign troops leave next year, and Campbell says Afghan teams are now finding and disposing about half of the bombs most days.
"Whenever I hear about an IED or I find one myself — maybe you will laugh, but I become very happy," says Hayatullah, 28, who has completed the highest level of training and like many Afghans uses just one name. "I am happy because it is my duty to defuse it, and I will save the lives of several people."
Hayatullah also has a personal reason for his chosen profession — his father was killed in a mine explosion. He was just 13 when unknown attackers planted two anti-personnel mines outside their home in Parwan province, and he says the memory fuels his desire to save others.
The country's main bomb disposal school is located at Camp Black Horse, set among a dust-swept field on Kabul's eastern outskirts, where a rusted-out Russian tank looms on a distant hill, a reminder of Afghanistan's long legacy of war dating back to the 1980s Soviet occupation.
Here, a team of about 160 instructors runs 19 different courses, ranging from a basic four-week awareness program for regular Afghan soldiers to the eight-month advanced "IED defeat" course that is a slightly shorter version of the U.S. Army's own counter-explosives training.
"We are giving them the best instruction that we have available, and they are picking it up," said U.S. Army Maj. Joel Smith, one of the training program's leaders. "Some are getting killed, some are dropping out, but their numbers are growing."
Still, it is a race against time to produce enough experts to fill the gap left by foreign troops' withdrawal. On Tuesday, NATO formally handed over full security responsibility to Afghanistan's fledgling 350,000-strong security forces, though many of the remaining foreign troops will stay until next year in a support and training role.
The goal is to have 318 full-fledged Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams, each with two or three Afghan experts, spread out around the country. But Afghan security forces now have less than 60 percent of the bomb specialists they need — hence the fever pitch of training.
"These guys are on a more accelerated program due to necessity," Smith said.
Equipping the Afghan teams is also a challenge. The coalition plans to distribute 12,000 metal detectors to regular police and army units, and each of the specialized disposal teams is slated to receive one of the high-tech robots that Qarizada and Hayatullah were working with. But Smith said each of the robots costs $17,000, and so far only about half of those needed are in the hands of Afghan teams. And that is not even taking into account who will maintain the sophisticated machines in a country where dust clogs nearly every machine and technical expertise is scarce.
Bomb disposal units gained widespread fame with the 2008 film "The Hurt Locker," but in real life the process — while still dangerous — is much slower and more methodical. The ultimate goal is to try not to approach a live bomb until it's been neutralized, which is the point of the exercise with the robot and the protective suit.
But with thousands of buried bombs and more being planted every day, it's impossible to have such sophisticated tools everywhere. That's why the program also trains regular Afghan army and police for four weeks in how to recognize signs of a smaller IED — freshly moved earth, or perhaps a conveniently placed culvert next to a bridge — and neutralize it in the crudest but simplest way: setting a smaller charge, moving far, far away and blowing it up in place.
Even such basic disposal takes weeks of training. Sitting attentively on rows of benches under a lean-to in the field, a group of Afghan soldiers listens to contractor James Webber, a former U.S. Air Force bomb disposal expert, as he explains how long to make a fuse so whoever sets it can then dash away for four minutes, or 240 seconds, to safety before the charge blows.
"So, 240 seconds divided by our burn rate - what do you get? Anyone got a calculator?" Webber asks.
The recruits nod, squint, calculate.

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While we spend a great deal of time figuring out which is the best camera you can buy, the best cameraphone ever made and the only compact you'll ever need, we don't spend a whole lot of time telling you how to use them.
So, in this collection of straightforward mini-guides, we're collecting the best photography tips from Stuff's expert snappers. No long technical explanations, just different ways to try taking photos, with any camera.
We'll be expanding this guide every day over the next week, so keep checking back for more useful tips.
Part 1: it's all about background
In a nutshell, bokeh means blurred background. One of the first things you should learn in photography is that you don't want all of your picture in focus - pick out the details you want the picture to be about and blur the rest, and your picture will have purpose. Here's how.
part 2: learn to zoom
A zoom lens doesn't just magnify things, it changes the way they look. Spend 10 minutes mucking about with the zoom on your compact camera, and you'll find your photos take a big leap forward. Here's the guide.
part 3: go prime
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in photography is to buy a nice expensive DSLR or compact system camera, and then only use it with the simple 'kit' lens that came with it. The first, best upgrade you can make is to attach a prime lens - here's why, and which one to buy.
part 4: pan for gold
Panorama mode might be something you've used once or twice, but it's actually a startlingly powerful creative tool that can create amazing special effects - read this guide, and find out how.
part 5: family album
If you're a parent, you probably take an average of thirty billion photos per year of your children. Follow this smart, simple guide and learn to do it properly.
Part 6: write with light
All kinds of photo-magic can be achieved by simply switching to a slow shutter speed. Find out how to shoot long exposures in our guide.
Part 7: go monochrome
Want to turn your hand to the oldest type of photography? Check out our guide to shooting black and white pictures to add some vintage cool to your snaps.
Part 8: Capture the action
Those athletes just won't stay still enough to let you take a photo, will they? Time to brush up on your action photography with our guide from a pro mountain biking snapper.


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"The KDE community today announces the start of the Calligra Suite project, a continuation of the KOffice project. The new name reflects the wider value of the KOffice technology platform beyond just desktop office applications. With a new name for the Suite and new names for the productivity applications, the Calligra community welcomes a new stage in the development of free productivity and creativity applications for desktop and mobile devices."
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RE: Application names
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So, they renamed many applications - at least the "base" KOffice applications. And the word processor application is called .... wait for it .... Words. Really? Words?? That is a trademark infringement lawsuit waiting to happen. And before y'all come shouting about the inability to trademark protect generic ... words (pun intended) - remember how Microsoft shoved it to Lindows...err...Linspi...err...Freespi...err...whatsitsname.
It might be a problem if "Word" and "Words" were the actual names of the products.
The actual product names are "Calligra Words" and "Microsoft Word" respectively. There should be no confusion between these names.


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Big Tex Burn Down
Monday, 19, November
Big Tex Burn Down
DALLAS (AP) — Big Tex — the 52-foot-tall metal-and-fabric cowboy that is an icon of the State Fair of Texas — has been destroyed in a fire.
Television footage showed firefighters around the structure Friday morning. Mostly all that remained of the figure was the metal structure. The fabric that made up the structure's hands and sleeves could still be seen.
A Dallas fire spokesman didn't immediately respond to an email message seeking comment.
The fair has been celebrating Big Tex's 60th birthday this year.
With a 75-gallon hat, 50-pound belt buckle and folksy, slow drawl to greet visitors — "Howdy, folks!" — Big Tex has been the star of the fair since 1952.


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Last night I was online, shopping coincindentally on Cyber Monday, for presents for both my Dad's birthday and my nephew's birthday.
A work colleague happened to catch me online to ask some questions. Now, these answers are not from a book, just what I said right out of my head -- JUST as I would if you and I had this conversation. Here is our Lotus Sametime conversation, verbatim, no editing. updated: one minor edit marked by [] -- OK, and I also put in the html tags and made the requester anonymous, of course. So -- sure, I could have said more about the virtues of data sharing and WLM. They are many! Forgive me, it was nighttime and I wasn't in a "marketing" mood.
In any case, please enjoy the truthiness of this exchange.
Dec 1, 2008
8:25:22 PM coworker Hi, do you have time to give me a 101 lesson on db2 z stuff?
8:28:11 PM me right now?
8:28:19 PM coworker yes
8:28:38 PM me what do you need to know?
8:29:07 PM coworker ok here come the stupid questions...
8:29:10 PM what is data sharing?
8:29:58 PM me it's 2 DB2 subsystems that share one set of data, for availability and scaling beyond one machine
8:30:06 PM 2 or more that is
8:31:02 PM coworker ok so that leads me to another question, can you explain subsystems, lpars ? what is it like in windows world?
8:31:46 PM me a subsystem is a DB2 installation
8:32:18 PM an lpar is a "logical partition", kind of like a VM on windows...
8:32:59 PM coworker can you install anything else on a subsytstem?
8:33:12 PM how do subsystems and lpars relate to each other?
8:34:34 PM me a subsystem is just db2's code, it runs in an operating system which is in an LPAR. other programs (like IMS and websphere) can be installed in that same operating system instance in that same LPAR
8:36:49 PM coworker oh oi see, i'm getting confused with the subsystem term to mean a z/OS OS term
8:36:50 PM got it
8:36:57 PM so tell me about hypersockets?
8:37:56 PM me they are a "fast pipe" for TCP/IP between LPARs on a physical z box - like a 1GB network but faster (don't know the exact numbers)
8:39:10 PM coworker so is this DRDA or no?
8:39:15 PM or using db2 connect
8:40:30 PM me DRDA communication messages travel over over TCP/IP, so if both sides are in LPARs, then they can go over the hypersockets - such as Linux on z on one side in an LPAR, and DB2 z on the other side in an LPAR
8:41:27 PM coworker so when 2 lpars communicate they do not use TCp/IP, they use hypersockets
8:41:30 PM is this correct?
8:42:32 PM me they do use TCP/IP, which travels over the hypersockets as a physical path - like a network wire
8:42:53 PM now... 2 datasharing members don't use either, if that's what you're getting at
8:43:12 PM they use the coupling facility to communicate
8:43:21 PM coworker is this built into z/OS or db2?
8:43:26 PM me z/OS
8:43:26 PM coworker the copuling faciloity
8:43:29 PM i see
8:43:50 PM me it's a separate feature of z - parallel sysplex, which is what datasharing is built on
8:44:25 PM coworker how come a customer would want to use data sharing? benefits? cons?
8:45:26 PM me benefits are availability, since all of db2 maintenance can go on one member at a time so they can keep their data available
8:45:49 PM also scalable, since the number of threads to connect to one db2 is limited, the other threads can go to another db2 -- they share all the data
8:45:51 PM coworker o i c
8:46:02 PM ok got it
8:46:08 PM me good!
8:46:13 PM coworker wait one more question hahaha
8:46:15 PM me k
8:46:17 PM coworker tell me about workload mgmt
8:46:22 PM tha'ts a z/OS thing right?
8:47:05 PM me yes - it helps balance when there's more than one subsystem on the LPAR, also helps balance priority between different db2 threads and even helps choose which data sharing subsystem gets a connection based on how busy the systems are
8:47:57 PM coworker how come this is such a big advantage over windows let's say
8:48:06 PM doesn't all operation systems do this
8:48:56 PM me no - windows doesn't let you set the priority of different programs/users/etc (as far as i know)
8:50:52 PM coworker yes you can via task manager
8:50:55 PM although not sure how smart it is
8:51:15 PM what makes z/os workload mgmt so sophisticated
8:51:21 PM i'm just wondering what's the big deal
8:52:28 PM me it's got a pretty complex set of rules and levels of priority, frequent sampling, decaying priority over time, different rules for different times of day, etc. That said, I didn't know it was considered that big of a deal
8:54:30 PM coworkerhahahaha
8:54:36 PM thanks for your db2 z/os 101
8:54:43 PM me any time


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Lord Howe Island, NSW
'Paradise' is a word often used to describe World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island, which sits in the Tasman Sea, less than two hours' flight from Sydney or Brisbane. Only 400 visitors are allowed at any time, bicycles are the best way to get around and there's no mobile phone reception. Walk the white beaches, snorkel the world's southernmost coral reef and hike through palm forests to the top of Mount Gower. Leave modern stress behind in this natural paradise, while still enjoying modern comforts such restaurants, day spas and luxurious accommodation.
You won't see any power lines or high-rise buildings on Lord Howe island, which is just 11km long and 2.8km at its widest. Birdsong fills the clean air and lush mountainous terrain rises up all around you. Only 300 people live here permanently and the charming village is just one street. With cars restricted, bikes are the best way to get around the island, most of which is protected as marine park and subtropical rainforest.


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Focusing on shares of Egain Corp (EGAN), we note that the opinion signal on the stock is presently 24% Buy. For the last month, the opinion signal is recorded as 96% Sell. This is the combined signal for the previous month when applying a wide array of studies based on price movement. Using these same guidelines, the signal for last week stands at 16% Sell. Investors may also be interested in the strength and direction of the opinion signals. The opinion direction is currently Strengthening. This is a measurement over the past three trading sessions that provides an indication of whether the latest recent price movement is following the signal. A Buy or Sell signal with a "Strongest" direction indicates that the signal is gaining strength. The opinion strength signal is presently reading Minimum. This is a longer-term gauge verse the historical strength.
Investors may be trying to decide which way the stock market will shift over the next couple of quarters. Having a general idea based on research is one thing, but constantly trying to time the market may lead to negative portfolio performance. Of course, overall market downturns can be frustrating to everyone invested in shares. Being able to ride out the day to day volatility and make proper investing decisions based on solid stock examination, may help the investor secure profits down the line. Investors who spend too much time focusing on stocks that have already made a run may find themselves in a sticky situation if they get into the name to late. Just because a certain stock has been going up for a long time, it doesn't mean that the momentum will be sustained into the future. Taking the time to find quality stocks instead of just looking at the hot stock of the day, may allow investors to keep thriving in the market.
Many investors opt to keep a close watch on the views of sell-side analysts that cover the stock. The current analyst rating on Egain Corp (EGAN) is 4.5. This is based on a scale where a 5 would indicate a Strong Buy, a 4 would equal a Moderate Buy, 3 a hold, 2 a moderate sell, and a rating of 1 would indicate a Strong Sell.
Following recent activity on shares of Egain Corp (EGAN), we can see that the stock price recently hit 8.54. At the open, shares were trading at 8.45. Since the start of the session, the stock has topped out with a high of 8.91 and bottomed with a low of 7.73. After noting current price levels, we can see that the change from the open is presently 0.48. Shifting the focus to some medium-term indicators on company shares, we note that the reading from the 40-day commodity channel index is currently Buy. The CCI indicator is mainly used to identify oversold and overbought levels. Switching to the 50-day moving average vs price signal, the reading is measured at Buy. This indicator is used to watch price changes.
Investors may be wondering what's in store for the next couple of months in terms of the stock market. Bull markets are times when investors may be willing to take some liberties with stock picks. Risk management is typically on the minds of many investors. Investors trying to gain an advantage may be searching for the perfect balance and diversification to help ease the risk and give the portfolio a needed boost. With so many different stocks to study, it may take a while to hone in on the proper ones. Investors will also be closely following the next round of economic data. Investors may be on the lookout for the next major data announcement that either keeps the bulls in charge or ushers in the bears.


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My teaching and scholarship focus on Renaissance and seventeenth century British literature. I am particularly interested in genre, historiography, narrative, and gender.
My book Seventeenth-Century English Romance: Allegory, Ethics, and Politics was published by Palgrave in 2007. I edited Judith Man's Epitome of the Historie of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus for the Early Modern Englishwoman Series from Ashgate Press, and have published articles on a variety of topics in early modern literature.
I teach courses in sixteenth and seventeenth century British literature, including Shakespeare, studies in genre, and studies in gender and literature. As Director of Marquette's Women's and Gender Studies Program, I also teach the Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies and the program capstone course.
"Civility and Extravagance in Timon of Athens and Urania," Mary Wroth and Shakespeare, eds. Paul Salzman and Marion Wynne-Davies. London: Routledge, 2014, 95-112.
"The Narrative Turn Against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa," in Go Figure: Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World, ed. Judith Anderson and Joan Pong Linton (NY: Fordham University Press, 2011), 73-90.


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PetieMarie22 wrote: Daisy does not enjoy being slammed to the ground, or head-butted, or sat on...
PetieMarie22 wrote:Border Collies always catch my eye and I'm very interested in them. They are said to be the smartest dog breed. They are also known to be super high energy. It's hard enough keeping up with a 3 year old pit bull!
furever_pit wrote:Herders are SO different from our bulldogs. I find it pretty interesting to see how different they are.
I know Cairo pretty much came with the retrieve built into him and it's made it very fun to work with him on those exercises. He doesn't drop the frisbee though, just keeps headbutting you with it until you either play tug with him or out him so you can throw it again.
Malli wrote:PetieMarie22 wrote:Border Collies always catch my eye and I'm very interested in them. They are said to be the smartest dog breed. They are also known to be super high energy. It's hard enough keeping up with a 3 year old pit bull!
Most dog "intelligence" tests(all that I've heard of) are graded on trainability, so not smarts but following direction, although most people also equate good listening ability or trainability with smarts as well
maberi wrote:PS - I would work Cairo on multiple discs if I were you. Drop = the other disc activating
furever_pit wrote:If I were imprinting him for disc dog I probably would. But for FR, that's just not the best way to do it. I reactivate when he barks because it transfers to the decoy later in the blind search and in bite work in general. I also use tug with a soft frisbee as a way to work on his counters.
katiek0417 wrote:I will say that with my guys (herders) they are definitely focused...on anything they want. Some more than others...
Jue will 100% stare at something...even if you try to hide it from him, he stares at the place where he thinks you put it.
Cy, you can see it in when we work...he finds one decoy on the field that he wants, and it doesn't matter what the other decoys are doing, he will sit there and stare (and shake) at the one he wants...
The other dogs...all do that same focus thing...but I've used it to my advantage to get an attention heel...
TheRedQueen wrote:Sawyer plays with invisible toys...'nuff said.
TheRedQueen wrote:There was a study that I've seen referenced in different dog training books...it had dogs doing a maze to get to food (or some other reinforcer). The sheltie sat and waited for assistance...the basenji (so called "hard to train" breed) went through and figured it out quickly. Showed how some breeds are bred to look to humans for what to do next, and some are bred to work things out on their own. Herders are bred to be biddable...easy to train...doesn't make them necessarily smarter than other breeds, just different. My hounds have been smart...just not as willing to work with me for little pay-off.
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Lady Comanches down Memphis, remain perfect in district volleyball
The West Texas Lady Comanches hosted the Lady Cyclones of Memphis Saturday afternoon in their last home appearance. It took four, but WT High kept their District recorded unblemished 25-19, 24-26, 25-17, and 25-18. The Lady Tribe has already clinched the District Crown for the second year in a row. The team is talented at every position and are gearing up for a run in the post season.Cheyenne Tull and Sarah Kelley were almost unstoppable at the net. Tull had seventeen kills and Kelley fifteen. On the defensive side of the net, Kelley had five blocks while Tull had three. These two ladies are a big part of the team's success. They are beasts at the net. Abby Summers led the team in assists with twenty five. Elyssa Snider was the team leader in digs with nineteen and Summers had seventeen.Rachel Wallace served two aces. Bekah Wallace and Abbey Rios were responsible for some great defensive plays. Devin DeLapp, Erin Summers, Madison Heston, Hailee Flaharity, and Lani Hazle made additional key plays for the Lady Comanches cause.West Texas has won ten out of their last eleven matches.


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Note: The correct title of this article is mythavtest. It appears incorrectly here due to technical restrictions.
Internal video playback can be tested with mythavtest:
mythavtest /myth/tv/1003_20060302232800.mpg mythavtest dvd:\\ mythavtest dvd:\\/path/to/dvd.iso mythavtest bd:\\path_to_bluray_mount
Without an argument, this tool also exercises the "Live TV" recording chain. This can even be done on a machine without any tuner cards by creating a dummy MpegRecorder which loops through a sample MPEG file.
On a machine that supports V4L, just add an IVTV type card in mythtv-setup, with the device set to something like "file:/path/to/some/mpeg/file.mpg". You also need to attach the card to a video source.
On non-V4L machines, you currently need to manually create entries in the capturecard and cardinput tables. videodevice=file:/path/file.mpg, cardtype=MPEG, inputname=MPEG2TS. On such machines, you also need to have built the backend with --enable-hdpvr


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Tyler Sterk played in two tournaments for the Gauchos this season... At the Braveheart Classic he finished 34th-place where he shot a 226... Scored a season-best in round one of the Braveheart Classic scoring a 71... In total he played 6 rounds and had 455 strokes, with a season average of 75.83 per round.
Sterk played in four tournaments for UCSB in 2009-10...His highest finish was 22nd-place at the Big West Championship where he shot a 227...Shot a season-best 66 in the third round of the Del Walker Intercollegiate...Sterk also shot 69s in the first round of the Barona Collegiate Cup and the Wyoming Cowboy Classic...In all, played 12 rounds and had 888 strokes, 74.00 per round.
Sterk improved immensely in his freshman season...Played in two tournaments and finished the a stroke average of 76.33...In his first collegiate tournament, shot a season-low 69 in the opening round of the John Burns Intercollegiate...He finished the tournament with a stroke average of 73.
Tyler Sterk redshirted during his 2007-08 freshman campaign.
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Tyler Sterk attended La Costa Canyon High School where he played for Coach Steve Armstrong...Finished as a 4-year Varsity Lettermen and Scholar Athlete...Guided La Costa Canyon to a 2006 CIF San Diego Runner-up and a 2007 CIF San Diego Section title...Was a member of the San Diego Union-Tribune's All -Academic Team...Trained by Chris Mason.
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Thread: William Cheung
3/09/2004 6:46am, #1
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William Cheung
I think this is what caused the Emin/Cheung fight:
In reply of the William Cheung Interview Feb 1996 Mitcham Kwoon.
The following letter appears in Martial Arts Magazines
3, Nullah Rd., 2C/fl., Kowloon,
Hong Kong Tel 3-816044
Dear Sir,
RE: Point Three of the minutes of the 11th General Meeting
Recently we have received many letters and complaints about a person
called William Cheung who has distorted many affairs with ulterior motive.
As the board of directors of the Ving Tsun Athletic Association -- the
general association of the WHOLE Ving Tsun (Wing Tsun / Wing Chun) system,
which was founded by the late Grandmaster Yip Man and most of his senior
students since 1976, we have the responsibility to clarify the following
1/ William Cheung has NEVER been regarded by anyone of his fellow-students
as the grandmaster or the leader of the whole Wing Chun Clan.
2/ NOBODY is recognized as the so-called "No 1 student of Grandmaster
Yip Man" and we have NEVER heard of William Cheung as the "No. 1 Fighter
of the Wing Chun Style".
3/ "Footwork" in the Wing Chun System is regarded as a most advanced
technique. We do not deny that some of the students of Grandmaster
Yip Man did not learn the whole system, but it is NOT TRUE that
William Cheung is the ONLY person to have ever learnt the entire
Wing Chun System" as what he announced in his advertisement.
4/ There have NEVER been any techniques in our system called "DIM-MAK" or
"Disabling Pressure Points", NOR any so-called "Missing Techniques" since
the creation of the Wing Chun System by Ng Mui.
5/ When Grandmaster Yip Man taught the techniques to his students he asked
NO-ONE "to take an oath not to reveal the secret to anyone during his life
time." He taught according to the potential of his students, teaching
the most advanced techniques to the most talented ones.
In the mid of 50's there had been a kid called William Cheung who had studied
in Grandmaster Yip Man's school for a few years intermittently and left
Hong Kong when he was 18 years old, and since then had become isolated from
his instructor and all the other fellow-students. During his short training
he surely gained the wrong impression in thinking that Grandmaster Yip Man
never taught the advanced techniques to students other than himself. And yet
we do not know how much William Cheung really learned himself.
It is regrettable that his lies have gone so far (i.e he told the
reporters that Grandmaster Yip Man had taught only him the so-called
"traditional Wing Chun", but had taught all his other students the
"modified Wing Chun").
However, any average person could easily analyze his techniques and see
this statement must be a lie. It is unthinkable that Grandmaster Yip Man
would choose to cheat all the students except one impudent kid, who actually
had little respect for him!
We feel sorry to have such an ignorant person in out clan, We want
to establish our position: we have NEVER AGREED with his Crazy
self-promotion, though we do understand his motive in casting himself as the
"Superman" in the William Cheung's Wing Chun System.
Yours faithfully,
The Board Of Directors and Attendance in the meeting of clarification
the distored affairs.
Wong Shun Leung (Chairman)
Leung Ting (Vice Chairman)
Tong Chao Chi (Vice Chairman)
Lok Yiu (President)
Yip Ching (Vice President)
Ho Kam Ming (Vice President)
Siu Yuk Man (Secretary)
Chan Tak Chiu (Treasurer)
Tsui Sheung Tim (Membership Management)
Koo Sang (Membership Management)
Lee Wai Chi (Public Relation)
Victor Kan (attendance)
Yip Chun (attendance)
3/09/2004 6:47am, #2
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William Cheung's response to a letter from the
leading masters of Wing Chun. This version comes from Australasian fighting Arts
Vol 10 nr 3.
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Firstly, I want to point out that the statement by the Ving Tsun Athletic
Association in their letter that the "the association was founded by the late
grandmaster Yip Man and most of his senior student since 1976" is not true,
because Yip Man died in 1971. So he couldn't have founded the Ving Tsun
Athletic Association in 1976 as claimed.
I shall attempt to answer their letter point by point:
(1) I am the leader of the Traditional Wing Chun because I am the only person
who inherited the whole Traditional system of Wing Chun. Furthermore, I also
know the modified version thoroughly, and know that it is inferior to the
Traditional system. I therefore proclaim myself the Grandmaster of the
Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu. If anyone does not think so, he can come and
see me and I will be more than too pleased to show him.
(2) I was the only person that Grandmaster Yip Man chose to carry on the
whole Traditional Wing Chun system. I am the best fighter in the Wing Chun
Style. This was acknowledged by the late Bruce Lee, and recognized by many
famous masters of other styles. I anyone needs proof, I would only be too
pleased to oblige.
(3) Nobody - I say nobody - was taught the traditional Wing Chun footwork but
me. I Leung Ting and company knew it, they would be showing their students. It
is like the case of the Bil Jee form. Nobody knew the proper form except me
and that is why they have been telling people that the Bil Jee form was too
dangerous even to show it; in order to cover up the fact that they don't know
it. I was the first WEing Chun master to put Bil Jee in a book so that
everyone can learn the correct version.
(4)Dim Mak or disabling Pressure Point Techniques was passed on to me, along
with the whole Traditional system of Wing Chun. If you have read my article on
the subject you might understand how it works. However, ther is no medicine for
ignorance; Leung Ting and company deny the existence because they don't know
it. At least this time they admit their ignorance. My book on Dim Mak, or
Disabling Pressure Point Techniques, will be on the market soon. Keep your
eyes open. In china there is a Kung Fu monk who could stand upside down on one
or two hands. Some people can break a half dozen inch boards with a punch.
Maybe there are people who can stand on a dozen eggs. I can stand on two
without breaking them. All these can be called tricks if you like, but the
fact is that I am still "the best Wing Chun Fighter". I dare anyone to prove
(5) It is irrelevant to argue whether Yip Man had made be take an oath before
he taught me the complete Traditional Wing Chun System, because no-one else
was privileged to witness it. The fact is, that after 36 years of training in
Wing Chun, I have the confidence to say that I am the most knowledgeable
master in the Wing Chun System and I am the best fighter, and I am willing to
prove it to them at any time, anywhere. Unlike Leung Ting and company, as
shown in the photo, you only have to take one look at them to realize that
none of them look that part of martial artists. I could safely say that none
of them have done any hard training in recent years. They certainly don't look
very impressive!
In the 50's I was a kid . . . so was Bruce Lee . . . full of enthusiasm and
energy. We learned Wing Chun together and we were determined to make a name
for Wing Chun and ourselves. And we did. In the 50's Leung Ting was still "in
his diapers". He didn't learn Wing Chun until the 1960's from Leung Chun,(Yip
Man's student) of his own admission. He is one generation behind Bruce and me.
However, according to the article published in "Secrets of Kung Fu" Vol 2
1977, hundred of Kung Fu masters in Hong Kong - including Leung Chun, Yip
Shun, Tsui Sheng tin, and Wong Shun Leung - denounced Leung Ting in very
strong terms (I have enclosed copies) Leung Shun was reportedly saying that
Leung Ting wasn't learning from him, but from his student Jah Bak. This makes
Leung Ting two generation behind Bruce Lee and I.
And Leung Ting's claim that he was Yip Man's closed door student is on what
grounds? In the 60's, Yip Man was a heavy drug user, and did not enjoy very
good health. There was no way that Yip Man could have taught anyone in that
state of health. Even his own sons, Yip Chun and Yip Ching, who came to Hong
Kong in the 1960's, had to be content to train with Yip Man's senior students.
Wing Chun is a system which was developed for one to be able to master in
three to four years. Grandmaster Yip Man, from age of twelve to sixteen,
learned four years part time the modified version of Wing Chun with Chan Wah
Shun and, from age 17, he learned 2 years traditional Wing Chun from Leung Buk
(Leung Jung's son) in Hong Kong. Wong Shun Leung only learned modified Wing
Chun for three years part time and he began teaching in early 1955. Loh Liu
probably started teaching after only 2 years part time training in the
modified version.
I studied Wing Chun for 4 and one half years part time in the modified
version, and then 2 and one half years full time in the traditional version,
when I was living with Yip Man. I learned the modified version as well as the
traditional version. After I completed my learning, I have continued to
practice for a further 28 years, and I still practice daily.
From these factors you can see that I am the most qualified practitioner in
both modified and traditional versions of Wing Chun Kung Fu. I proclaim myself
the most knowledgeable master and the best fighter in the whole Wing Chun
I would like to close off with a very famous Chinese proverb : "Practicing
Kung Fu is like paddling upstream - if you don't go forward, you must go
backward, and seldom you stay in the same spot". It is no surprise to find the
whole group in the printed photo appear to have gone so far backward that I
would be ashamed to be associated with them.
William Cheung
3/09/2004 7:31am, #3
Much ado about nothing."You realise the transformations give a man enough strength to destroy a truck with his bare hands!?
YOU HAVE BETRAYED ME, IN THE WORST POSSIBLE MANNER!!" - KiWarrior
"Sport ? That kind of thing's not my bag baby!" - Sammy Franco
"This system was developed with the help of notible BJJ fighter Ribbon Muchado." - "Sifu" Anthony Iglesias
3/09/2004 7:57am, #4
from the point of view of an outsider this looks like:
Q. You dancing?
A. You asking?
3/09/2004 8:09am, #5
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I am ashamed to admit I actually own one of Willian Cheung´s books.That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,
Quiet the dog, tether the pony
To a distant post;
Our master Caesar is in the tent
Where the maps are spread,
His eyes fixed upon nothing,
A hand under his head.
- W.B. Yeats
3/09/2004 8:10am, #6
If anyone does not think so, he can come and see me and I will be more than too pleased to show him...I am the best fighter in the Wing Chun Style...I anyone needs proof, I would only be too pleased to oblige...
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3/09/2004 8:35am, #7
God, that Boztepe "fight" was worse than some of the ones I remember from school. Actually it was far less funny than most of them."You realise the transformations give a man enough strength to destroy a truck with his bare hands!?
YOU HAVE BETRAYED ME, IN THE WORST POSSIBLE MANNER!!" - KiWarrior
"Sport ? That kind of thing's not my bag baby!" - Sammy Franco
"This system was developed with the help of notible BJJ fighter Ribbon Muchado." - "Sifu" Anthony Iglesias
3/09/2004 12:01pm, #8
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The main problem with that fight was it was tapped with a crappy camera from a crappy angle.
3/09/2004 1:15pm, #9
No one cares....
Lest of all should WC/WT/Wing whatever the **** you want/VT people....Surfing Facebook at work? Spread the good word by adding us on Facebook today! https://www.facebook.com/Bullshido
3/09/2004 1:16pm, #10
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NBC's Dateline: "What Were You Thinking?"
We human beings are woefully inadequate at rational thinking, as this excellent program shows starring one of my skeptical heroes, Michael Shermer. This report offers overwhelming evidence for my Outsider Test for Faith, since it shows we are gullible social creatures who conform our actions and beliefs to our social grouping. Enjoy.


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Integrated petroleum giant BP plc (BP) has announced that its embattled Chief Executive Tony Hayward will be stepping down in the wake of the company's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP was heavily criticized for its seemingly slow initial response following the rupture of a well on April 20th, with much of the blame directed at Mr. Hayward. Indeed, BP ADRs have plummeted more than 35% in the ensuing three-month period, with mounting pressure on the company to replace its Chief Executive. Mr. Hayward will be replaced by Robert Dudley, the BP engineer who has spearheaded the company's clean-up efforts. His succession marks the first time the British company has been led by an American.
After a series of failed attempts to cap the well, BP's latest effort has apparently succeeded at stemming the flow of oil. A more-permanent solution--the drilling of two relief wells--will not be completed until August -- at the earliest.
Meantime, BP turned a $2.1 billion profit in the June quarter, excluding a $32.2 billion charge related to the ongoing clean-up effort, compared with $4.4 billion in the prior year. Factoring in that charge, the company suffered a $17 billion loss. In addition, BP expects refining margins to decline, which may weigh on results in the third quarter and for the rest of the year. Too, BP has suspended its dividend for the balance of the year. It will review its payout policy in early 2011.
About The Company: BP plc. is one of the world's largest integrated oil companies. Its daily production in 2009 (including equity interests) was as follows: oil & liquids, 2,535,000 barrels; natural gas, 8.5 billion cubic feet; refinery throughput, 2.2 million barrels. The 2009 refining availability was 93.6%. Also that year, the average selling prices were: $56.26 per barrel of oil (vs. $90.20 in '08); $3.25 per thousand cubic feet natural gas (vs. $6.00 in '08). As of 12/31/09, BP had proven reserves of: 5.7 billion barrels of oil; 40.4 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas. The estimated pretax present value of these reserves is $118 billion. The company has equity interests in 4.9 billion barrels of oil and 4.7 tcf natural gas.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Jul 2011 20:50 UTC
I've kind of painted myself in a corner with that headline, because I never anticipated I would need another preview article for this project. However, thanks to all your comments on both the site and through email, the scope of this project has grown considerably. As part of this growing scope, I'm acquiring more and more devices, and yesterday, I managed to score a phone which, while almost forgotten by most of the rest of the technology press, contained two very important firsts. Not only was this the first phone with a capacitive touch screen, it was also the first phone with an interface design from the ground-up for finger/touch input. Say hello to the LG KE850, better known as the LG Prada.
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Show the Prada to x people and I wonder how many will think it's an iPhone.
The colors are different, the button shapes/positions are different, the front doesn't look the same apart from the speaker. Turn both on and they will look even more different.
People's faces are much more the same, same number of eyes, ears, nose, mouth, all in the same position. So Brad Pitt and I look almost the same to you and millions of women.
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Sort of remind me of Vanilla Ice's contention that the background of Ice ice baby wasn't a rip off of Queen's Under Pressure.


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VGU's Nate Gamer gets you ready for a year of Smash Bros news in this article discussing everything we know and everything we can assume about Nintendo's forthcoming mascot fighting game.
Characters you should expect:
Shulk from Xeno, Chrom and Masked Marth from Fire Emblem Awakening, Little Mac, Krystal from StarFox, Geno, and MegaMan.
yeh let's get excited about a game not coming till 2014, and has no character list and no trailer yet we should prepare our-self?
sony or ms announce something in advance and media is oh what the heck most of these aren't coming for 12-24 months but nintendo can do the same yet they did a excellent job?
sony should announce Vita is gonna get Uncharted,Resistance,ratchet,K illzone,Gt etc, but nothing for a year lol
give me a break gaming media still looks at Nintendo as their 1st crush and a lot of times nintendo gets a free pass when other don't
What's up w/ the dislikes? Tell me your characters and unlike you, I'd actually say why, then dislike.


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June 25, 2010
Routine HIV testing is central to ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In the United States, someone becomes infected with HIV every nine and a half minutes. More than 20 percent of the estimated 1.1 million Americans living with HIV infection do not know they are infected.
On National HIV Testing Day, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, urges everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 years to be tested for HIV at least once in their lifetime in keeping with the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People at high risk for HIV infection -- including substance abusers and their sexual partners, gay and bisexual men, female partners of bisexual men, and individuals with multiple sex partners -- should get tested at least once a year.
Knowing one's HIV status is vitally important to the individual and for protecting the broader public health. Testing positive for HIV infection is the critical first step linking a person to counseling, medical care and treatment, which help improve quality of health and stave off HIV-related complications and co-infections. People who know they are infected with HIV also are more likely to reduce behaviors that could transmit the virus to others, which benefits the larger community.
Later this year, in collaboration with CDC and local health departments, NIAID will launch a feasibility study in several U.S. cities, designed to determine whether expanded HIV testing along with better linkages to medical care and treatment can show value as part of a broader campaign to reduce HIV incidence.
Although expanded HIV testing initiatives and prevention efforts appear to be having some positive impact, far too many people still are getting infected with HIV. Nearly three decades into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, more than 56,000 new HIV infections occur each year, an unacceptably high rate that has remained relatively stable since the late 1990s.
HIV infection may not grab the headlines as it did during the darkest days in the 1980s, but it is still a serious, incurable medical issue that can lead to AIDS -- a disease that claimed nearly 18,000 American lives in 2007. Too many people are diagnosed with HIV late in the course of infection, missing the window of opportunity when antiretroviral therapy can provide the best health outcomes.
Sadly, the stigma and fear associated with HIV testing are still very real concerns for many. On this National HIV Testing Day, we all must do our part to eliminate these obstacles and emphasize the important, lifesaving value of getting tested. To find an HIV testing site near you or for more information about HIV testing, visit AIDSinfo and AIDS.gov.
Dr. Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
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We promised to roll out new features this week, and we've delivered. You can now comment on any photo in either a guestofaguest image gallery or an individual's profile page. Right now all comments on photos are anonymous (in order to save commenter's from having to enter in a lot of information), but they will be moderated (so be nice!).
So if you see a fun party, or a dress you like, a guy or gal you fancy, something that inspires you to sound-off, and realize that the picture could use a few extra words of expression, now is your chance!


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FERPA TrainingFamily Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Consider this hypothetical situation:
Edward has posted the mid-term and final examination grades earned by the students this semester in his Biology class at Acme Community College. In the posting of mid-term grades, each grade was associated with a student's initials. The list of final examination grades associated each student's grade with the last four digits of that student's social security number. Edward posted the lists on both his office door and the website he maintains for his classes at Acme.
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Busso — an Italian company with US distribution — had an impressive array of small furnishings at Maison & Objet. Many of these designs have dual or space-saving functions ideal for small space living.
Busso products can be purchased in the US from their online shop. Some of the Busso lacquer collection is available at Bobby Berk Home, Unica Home and ABC Carpet & Home in New York City.
• TipTop wall-mounted working station by Marc Krusin for Busso — an attractive
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In search of a doctor to discuss heart health on the NBC 7 News, PR man Vince Heald struck out with his medical sources. He finally looked in his desk, where he found a 1993 roster for Harbor View Medical Center, a former client, long-since closed. Discovering an old pager number for Dr. Richard Butcher, Heald took a flyer. Ten minutes later, Butcher returned his call. When Heald told his young account exec the good news, Anya Moberly was thoroughly confused. "What's a pager?" she asked.
Like no business: Allowing just one venue in each city to host an Oscar Night America fundraiser, the Motion Picture Academy has picked the Vi and Joe Jacobs Center at Market Creek. It's a big boost for southeastern San Diego's hard-earned transformation from blighted neighborhood to cultural village. The Community Campership Council is beneficiary of the 5 p.m. Sunday celebration . . . Critical raves recorded for San Diego Opera's "Moby Dick" included an excerpt from a review by Concertonet.com that might have relevance to Baby Boomers: "The highly anticipated and visually stunning production [is] far better than an E ticket ride at Disneyland!" Gen-X, Gen-Y and Gen-Zers, not so much. Disneyland printet its last E ticket three decades ago.
Politics as usual: A private polling group with national Republican clients is the latest to test the San Diego mayoral race. And it shows DA Bonnie Dumanis picking up some steam. The poll has Republican Carl DeMaio and Democrat Bob Filner in a tight race for first among "likely" voters, with 30 percent and 26 percent respectively, and Republican Dumanis at 22 percent. Republican Nathan Fletcher gets 14 percent . . . Yesterday's debate in the race for the 52nd District congressional seat, the first under the state's new open primary, drew four of five candidates. Republican Brian Bilbray, Democrats Scott Peters and Lori Saldana, and Tea Party-friendly Republican John Stahl battled in a forum hosted by the Conservative Order of Good Government. Political consultant John Dadian sees Stahl and conservative Wayne Iverson as potential spoilers in veteran Bilbray's reelection bid. With voter registration fairly even at 36 percent Republican, 33 percent Democrat and 27 percent "decline to state," it's possible, says Dadian, that Democrats Saldana and Peters could squeeze incumbent Bilbray out of the runoff.
I on San Diego: Some happy news, for a change, from the embattled Sweetwater Union High School District. William Virchis, who sold newspapers as a child on the Chula Vista school grounds when it was home to a produce warehouse, has been tapped for a singular honor. A teacher in the South Bay for 40 years, tomorrow he'll be the first to have a district department named in his honor: The Bill Virchis Visual and Performing Arts Department.
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While supply chain risk and sustainability are the two greatest concerns in supply chain management today and are frequently intertwined, they are often viewed in isolation. Most of the existing literature on supply chain risk substantially ignores the impact that the buying firm and its activities have on external supply chain risk. This report argues that supply chain risk and sustainability should be addressed concurrently in strategic and operational plans. Boards can provide guidance, in their oversight role, to direct the consideration of supply chain risk and sustainability collectively, rather than as separate concerns.


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There's no doubt that the Samsung Galaxy S II has been the best selling Android phone in Europe and Asia this summer. Samsung's dual-core powered phone has taken the rest of the world by storm and it looks like we'll soon be able to enjoy it here in the U.S. as well. They are set to unveil the U.S. versions of the Galaxy S II on August 29th in New York City. We're expecting the Samsung Galaxy S II to launch on all four major carriers, but we'll just have to wait to see if all of the crazy rumors turn out to be true.
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The University of North Florida Women's Center, One Jax Institute at UNF and the Women's Center at Jacksonville, in conjunction with Protect Our Defenders, an organization dedicated to increasing awareness about the problems of rape in the military and supporting its victims, presents the compelling documentary, "The Invisible War" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, and Thursday, Oct. 25, in Building 58W, Student Union Auditorium, Room 2704, on the UNF campus.
The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session by Jacksonville resident and former naval aviator Lt. Paula Coughlin, a Tailhook scandal survivor. "The Invisible War" is a Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary about one of the U.S. military's most shameful secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. armed forces.
Coughlin is speaking out again after at least 38 women have reported being sexually assaulted by instructors at the Air Force's basic training school. One instructor has been convicted of raping a trainee and sexually assaulting several others, while 14 other instructors are being investigated or have been charged.
"I just couldn't watch any more without speaking out," said Coughlin, also a member of the Protect Our Defenders advocacy board. "I was absolutely distraught to think that in 20 years, the situation and the work environment for women in the military is less safe and less professional. It has really become just so abusive."
This summer Coughlin started an online petition demanding a public hearing by the House Armed Services Committee to investigate the sexual abuse scandal at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. More than 10,000 Americans have signed the petition. She and four other victims of military sexual assault recently delivered the petition to HASC Chairman Buck McKeon, R-Calif., just before a closed-door briefing on the Lackland scandal.
Coughlin plans to participate in upcoming hearings. "The American public needs to hear the scope of this devastating epidemic of rape and assault on their military members and to hold leadership accountable," she said.
During the 1991 convention of Navy and Marine Corps aviators, Coughlin says she was fondled and groped by up to 200 men in what was dubbed "the gauntlet," a hotel hallway where military officers ambushed and attacked women. She reported the incident to her boss; however, after being told, "That's what you get" by her superior officer and learning that dozens of other women had filed similar reports, she went to the press. Coughlin later sued the Tailhook Association and the hotel where the convention was held. In all, 87 women came forward and admitted they had been assaulted with no prosecutions.
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Thai Beef with Rice Noodles, Broccoli & Green Onions
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Source: Recipe from Chef Charlie Trotter
A Thai-inspired noodle dish filled with a fantastic assortment of textures and flavors. Wonderful aromas rise from the serving of beef, noodles and vegetables.
2 1⁄2 tbsp. hoisin sauce
2 tsp. garlic chili paste
1 tsp. lime juice
2 tbsp. soy sauce
1⁄4 tsp. sesame oil
2 tsp. grapeseed oil
12 oz. beef tenderloin, diced
1⁄4 cup chopped Spanish onion
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 tsp. minced ginger
2 green onions, cut in 1-in. pieces
1⁄4 cup each red and yellow bell pepper, diced
1 cup broccoli florets
8 oz. spaghetti, cooked
1⁄2 cup mung bean sprouts
1. Combine first five ingredients in a small bowl and season to taste with salt and pepper.
2. Add grapeseed oil and beef to hot pan and cook for 5 min., or until browned. Remove beef from pan.
3. Add onion, garlic, ginger, green onions, red and yellow pepper, and broccoli, and cook, stirring constantly, for 3-4 min. or until slightly tender.
4. Add spaghetti, beef, bean sprouts, and hoisin mixture, and stir well. To serve, season to taste with salt and pepper.


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Product Review: The Freezer Compost Bin from Fuccillo
Name: Freezer Compost Bin from Fuccillo
Price: $60
Rating: Recommend*
I'm a city dweller who lives in a 2nd floor apartment with no outdoor space or garden to call my own. While I have plans to start my own indoor worm composting system at some point, for now I drop my compost off at my weekly CSA pick-up, where it's then given to my neighborhood community garden. So that means that I'm always looking for a better way to store my scraps. Enter the Fuccillo Freezer Compost Bin:
How It Works:
The Freezer Compost Bin from Fuccillo is made of silicone and kept in your freezer to prevent scraps from decomposing, eliminating odor and fruit flies. To empty, you simply push the flexible silicone bottom and pop the frozen scraps out. It measures about 11"x 6"x 6" and can hold up to 3.5L. All bins are now being manufactured in Pocoima, California.
The bin was developed by Salvatore Fuccillo and Jennifer MacEwan in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a city with one of the most successful organic waste diversion programs in North America. Having achieved a 60 percent diversion rate, the city was looking for new ways to encourage people to compost. They approached students at the College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) to develop a kitchen collection container better than the rigid plastic varieties. Jennifer and Salvatore were students there and they determined to create a product that addressed the three primary concerns people have with composting: fruit flies, odor, and leftover residue. They realized that many people don't compost because of odor and concerns about flies, or they freeze their scraps to avoid these problems in plastic containers or bags which are rigid and hard to handle when frozen, so therefore require liners.
The Freezer Compost Bin is intended to make composting "fast, satisfying, and fun." It's advertised as having a sleek design which looks good sitting on your countertop when preparing a meal or scraping a plate; it's virtually impossible to break and has a lifespan of up to 50 years; it has a deep handle that works for all hand sizes and strengths; it's specifically sized to work in top, bottom, and side freezers, as well as sinks and dishwashers; also, it includes the financial and environmental advantages of avoiding liners and plastic bags.
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So, What Is Silicone?
The first question I had about this product when I received it was regarding silicone. What is it exactly and is it a more environmentally-friendly solution than plastic? First of all, silicone (not to be confused with silicon, which is a natural chemical element) is a man-made polymer that is derived from silicon together with carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sometimes other chemical elements. It's considered a low-taint, non-toxic material, and has a variety of applications.
In the case of the freezer bin, Fuccillo states that the silicone in their bin is "made up mostly of a glass-like substance found in quartz and rock," and that is has a lifespan of 50 years—no doubt because it's practically indestructable.
The Pros
I think this bin is great for apartment dwellers like me with no backyard or vermicomposting system— people who want to compost but have to preserve their scraps for days at a time before they can get to a drop-off. I freeze my scraps to avoid smell and fruit fly problems, and in the past I've frozen them in whatever I had on hand, usually a bag or yogurt container. The problem with this is that, when frozen, it can be very difficult to get the food back out again, and completely impossible if it's in a rigid container. I never bought liners, so I don't have experience with those. So I found the Fuccillo compost bin to be really handy! It was easy (and nice looking) to keep the bin on the counter while cooking, and it fit compactly into the freezer. (No bulky bag to deal with.) The best part, though, was how easily the food slips out when I drop it off. Everything freezes, but nothing sticks, and the bin goes right back into my freezer again.
The Cons
While I don't really have room for a larger bin in the freezer even if they made one, my biggest problem with the bin is that it filled up way too quickly. I ended up needing to use secondary containers for all my food scraps because my original bin was overflowing. But this is mostly due to my personal system of once-weekly drop-offs, and if emptied more frequently, it obviously wouldn't be a problem.
The other con that I think people will mention is the cost. $60 seems like a lot to spend on what some might consider just a "fancy container" for holding scraps, when you could use a leftover yogurt container, or a bag of some sort to hold your scraps, or just another regular bin underneath your sink or on the counter. But for any kind of composting system, there's usually some bit of equipment or materials needed to stave off smells and flies—a countertop bin, a biodegradable or charcoal liner (which will need to be replaced). So, a durable, long-lasting bin that makes it easy to store and dispose of scraps without the need for any additional materials seems like a good investment.
Overall Assessment:
If you have an outdoor compost bin or pile that you can access at any time, then this is obviously not the product for you. But for people who would like an easy, no-mess and aesthetically-pleasing solution to preserving their scraps for days or weeks, then I think the Compost Freezer bin is a good bet.
*Our Ratings:
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Apartment Therapy Media makes every effort to test and review products fairly and transparently. The views expressed in this review are the personal views of the reviewer and this particular product review was not sponsored or paid for in any way by the manufacturer or an agent working on their behalf. However, the manufacturer did give us the product for testing and review purposes.


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A Stored Value Card (SVC) is a card-based electronic alternative to cash.
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SVCs use the computer chip on the card to verify and perform financial transactions in an "off-line" communications mode, versus traditional debit/credit cards that contain a magnetic stripe and run in an "on-line" communications mode.
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In 2005, all United States military branches came together to create ideal specifications for a .45 ACP caliber pistol. The program sparked early collaboration between FN Manufacturing and Phillips-Medisize to create the FNP-45 using metal injection molding (MIM) within a short time span.
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Based on a novel by
Patrick McGrath, Spider was directed by David Cronenberg,
in 2002, and stars Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne
and Lynn Redgrave. Set in the 1980s during the beginning of the
movement from institutional to community care, the film tells the
story of a mentally ill man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia,
who is released from a psychiatric hospital after 20 years to live
in a hostel for the mentally ill. Cronenberg says about the film,
"Spider is an austere psychodrama with a profound human
mystery at its heart. It has the feel of Samuel Beckett confronting
Sigmund Freud."
David Cronenberg is a director well known for his highly
original horror films and this film was regarded as a departure
from his more usual style. It is interesting to note that
Cronenberg deferred his own salary to make Spider. He is quoted as
saying: "Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're
all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems,
to fend off madness and chaos." Spider is definitely a film that
explores one man's struggle to fend off psychotic breakdown and
chaos whilst trying to face the reality of his past.
From the opening credit sequence, showing a series of Rorschach
inkblot images to the accompaniment of a beautifully
haunting folk song, the scene is set for a film about the mind.
Spider begins with a train pulling
into a London station and disgorging its commuters, all
purposefully bound for their destinations. Only as the platform
begins to empty are we shown the dishevelled figure of Mr Cleg
(played by Ralph Fiennes), apprehensive and unsure of his
surroundings, carrying a small suitcase. From this very first
encounter, we experience Mr Cleg's self-absorption and
preoccupation with an internal dialogue. He walks the familiar
streets of East London, in search of a half way hostel, where the
authoritarian Mrs Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave) is in charge. She shows
Mr Cleg to his room, where we see him react anxiously to the sight
of the gas heater, an ominously significant motif in the film.
The main body of the film focuses on Mr Cleg's
trips out into the local community, where he grew up, and examines
the effect these visits have on him. The viewer shares several
different views of his past experiences mixed up with each other.
These comprise some apparently accurate flashbacks to his boyhood,
showing the early signs of his schizophrenia developing, and
several scenes from his time in the psychiatric hospital. The
remaining recollections are made up of Mr Cleg's distorted beliefs
of the events leading up to the tragic death of his mother, in
which he is also present in the frame, commenting on the
characters. In these scenes, the film makes us party to the
psychotic internal workings of his mind.
We learn how he acquired the nickname of
Spider from his much loved mother (Miranda Richardson), and how he
would weave string webs in his room as a child. We witness Spider's
emerging jealousy of his parents' intimacy and his feeling of
rejection by his mother, as he watches her attempts to reignite the
sexual relationship with her husband (Gabriel Byrne) when their
marriage is under strain. The story that unfolds in Mr Cleg's mind
reveals a very traumatic childhood involving the death of his
beloved mother at the hands of his father and the arrival of his
hated stepmother, a prostitute. However, the film gives us a clue
that what we see may not be a wholly accurate account of what
happened, by using the same actress, Miranda Richardson, to play
the part of both his mother and his prostitute/stepmother.
In his hostel room, Mr Cleg scribbles 'non
words' frantically in a special notebook that he must hide safely
in his room. As his mental state deteriorates, we see him convinced
that gas is leaking from his heater requiring him to strip off his
clothes and tie himself in newspaper for protection. Challenged by
ever more powerful, painful memories, his paranoia increases and he
steals some tools from Mrs Wilkinson.
In a seemingly accurate boyhood memory, we see
Spider plan to avenge what he believes was the murder of his
beloved mother using string connected to the gas tap in the
kitchen. In the hostel, he tears up his precious notebook, weaves a
string web about his hostel room, echoing the same behaviour from
his childhood, before threatening violence toward the hostel
manageress. At this moment, Mrs Wilkinson is played by Miranda
Richardson rather than Lynn Redgrave, to represent the confusion in
his mind about her identity. Finally, overwhelmed by the accurate
memory of his mother's death, he suffers a relapse of his paranoid
schizophrenic illness and is recalled back to the psychiatric
This is a film that focuses on the inner and
outer worlds of its main character. It tells the story of Mr Cleg's
external reality as a man with incompletely remitted schizophrenia,
as well as plunging us into his psychotic internal world where we
are unsure of what is true and what is falsely constructed. As
such, the shifting sands of reality in the film give the viewer a
glimpse of what it might be like to suffer from schizophrenia.
On the one hand, the film presents an accurate
portrait of someone suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, who has
spent many years in an institution. The excellent performance by
Ralph Fiennes is very believable and draws us in to caring about Mr
Cleg and his predicament. He demonstrates some of the negative
symptoms of schizophrenia very well, such as social withdrawal,
blunted affect, poor concentration and paucity of speech. In
addition to this, the personal details, such as his wearing of four
shirts at once, having tobacco stained fingers and keeping his
possessions in a sock, are all in keeping with the diagnosis and a
long period of institutional care. He shows evidence of responding
to the abnormal perceptions of auditory, olfactory and, possibly,
visual hallucinations. By the end of the film we learn that many of
his recollections were in fact delusional memories. For these
reasons, Spider could serve as a very good starting point
for a discussion about schizophrenia in its more severe and
intractable form and the effects of long term institutional care,
as well as examining the issue of risk assessment at the time of
transfer from an inpatient setting to the community.
On the other hand, the film explores Mr Cleg's
internal world and in so doing, it offers an introduction to the
Relations theory of the psychoanalyst Melanie
Klein. Spider visually represents the defence
mechanism called splitting,
employed to manage the persecutory anxieties associated with what
Klein called the paranoid-schizoid
position. The delusional memory
sequences give us access to Mr Cleg's inner world of thought and
feeling and suggest that when his 'good mother' seeks to
reinvigorate the sexual aspect of her marriage, she is split off
and experienced as a 'wicked prostitute/stepmother'. The use of the
same actress to play both his 'good mother' and his 'bad
stepmother' supports this view. With Klein's Object Relations
theory in mind, one can suggest that this defensive splitting,
which occurred in his childhood and is represented in his
delusional memories, has served to protect his idealised 'good'
mother from the persecuting 'bad mother' whom he ultimately
attacks. It is only when his boyhood attack on the 'bad' mother
results in her death, that the film shows us that he has also
killed his 'good' mother, confirming that they are parts of the
same person.
In schizophrenia, there is thought to be a
pathological development in the paranoid-schizoid position in which
the mechanisms of projection, introjection, splitting,
idealization, denial and projective and introjective identification
may fail to master anxiety, resulting in a defensive disintegration
of the ego if anxiety is too great. It is only when Mr Cleg is
placed back in the community where he grew up, and where he is
unable to avoid being confronted by the anxiety associated with the
truthful recollections about his childhood, that these defence
mechanisms are overwhelmed and he suffers a complete psychotic
The phenomenon of transference
is also visually represented in the film. By once more substituting
the actress who plays his 'wicked stepmother' for the one playing
Mrs Wilkinson, we are shown his unconscious redirection of angry
feelings for his 'bad' mother on to the hostel manageress, perhaps
triggered by her harsh, authoritarian manner. The transference in
this case very nearly results in serious violence.
Spider therefore also offers the
opportunity to discuss Klein's Object Relations theory, and could
lead to a further exploration of her work. For a good summary of
these concepts, I would also recommend a book entitled
to the Work of Melanie Klein" by Hanna
Segal, (New edition 1988, Karnac
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* Google, IBM climb on strong results
* Apple slides after the bell, Netflix shares jump
* Coach shares plummet after weak quarterly sales
* Dow up 0.5 pct, S&P; up 0.15 pct, Nasdaq up 0.3 pct
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The S&P; 500 rose for a sixth
day on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected profits from IBM
and Google but the rally could be halted as Apple's after-hours
miss sent its shares lower.
The S&P; was just 4.7 percent from its all-time closing high
as IBM's and Google's earnings, released after Tuesday's close,
followed on the heels of stronger U.S. economic data.
"People were kind of nervous about earnings coming into this
quarter but numbers have shown so far strength in earnings,"
said King Lip, chief investment officer at Baker Avenue Asset
Management in San Francisco.
But Apple, still the largest U.S. publicly traded
company, fell 8 percent in extended trading after sales of its
flagship iPhone came in below analyst targets and quarterly
revenue slightly missed Wall Street expectations.
"One thing that stands out is the company's ballooning
balance sheet, where they now have $137 billion dollars in cash
and investments," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist
at RDM Financial in Westport, Connecticut. "You've got to wonder
when they're going to put some more of that to work."
Declining issues beat advancers in both the NYSE and Nasdaq
during regular market hours, in a sign the market's rally may be
overstretched. The broad Russell 2000 index closed the
day down 0.3 percent after earlier hitting and intraday historic
high just below 900 points.
Shares in IBM Corp, the world's largest technology
services company, climbed 4.4 percent during regular market
hours to $204.72, providing just about all of the Dow's 67-point
Also helping the tech sector was a 5.5 percent jump in
Google Inc to $741.50. The Internet search company
reported its core business outpaced expectations and revenue was
higher than expected.
The S&P; technology sector rose 1.2 percent.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 67.12 points or
0.49 percent, to 13,779.33, the S&P; 500 gained 2.25
points or 0.15 percent, to 1,494.81, and the Nasdaq Composite
added 10.49 points or 0.33 percent, to 3,153.67.
The benchmark S&P; 500 is a mere 0.35 percent away from
hitting 1,500, a level not seen since Dec. 12, 2007.
S&P; 500 futures fell 4.1 points, or 0.3 percent,
while Nasdaq 100 futures fell 20 points or 0.7 percent.
Netflix shares soared 32 percent, above $136, after
the video subscription service said it added subscribers in the
United States and abroad and posted a quarterly profit.
LED maker Cree Inc jumped 22 percent to $40.85
after it forecast a higher-than-expected third-quarter profit,
and reported results above analysts' estimates.
Upscale leather goods maker Coach Inc plunged 16.4
percent to $50.75 after reporting sales that missed
Clearing a market hurdle, the U.S. House of Representatives
passed a Republican-led plan to extend the country's borrowing
authority until mid May. This delays a confrontation in Congress
similar to one in 2011, which generated a stalemate that
triggered the first-ever U.S. debt rating downgrade.
Thomson Reuters data through Wednesday showed that of the 99
S&P; 500 companies that have reported earnings so far, 67.7
percent have topped expectations, above the 65 percent average
beat over the past four quarters.
Overall, S&P; 500 fourth-quarter earnings rose 2.8 percent,
according to Thomson Reuters data. That estimate is above the
1.9 percent forecast at the start of earnings season.
Top U.S. manufacturers sounded a confident note about their
expectations for 2013 on Wednesday as fears of the year-end
"fiscal cliff" faded into memory.
In the regular session, about 6.1 billion shares changed
hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and NYSE MKT,
below the 2012 daily average of about 6.45 billion.
On the NYSE, roughly 15 issues fell for every 14 that rose
and on Nasdaq seven declined for every five gainers.