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Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican in whom some GOP activists have invested presidential hopes for 2016, has seized on the issue of immigration.
Rubio is hoping to stake a claim to leadership in the coming national debate and to revive Republicans' dismal standing among Latinos. What's striking about his plan, outlined so far in the media rather than in legislation, is that it appears to depart from President Obama's own approach in details, not principles.
Both agree on the logic and inevitability of amnesty for 11 million undocumented immigrants (though neither uses the word "amnesty"). Now they're just arguing over the price those immigrants should pay as a condition for remaining in America.
Specifically, while both envision a pathway to citizenship, they appear to part ways on how tortuous it should be. Obama would have undocumented immigrants pay a fine, learn English and clear criminal background checks before "earning" citizenship.
Rubio would have them jump through roughly the same hoops -- but only to qualify for an interim legal status, from which they could emerge some time later by applying for green cards as a path to citizenship. Same endgame, different timetable.
In fact, nothing in Rubio's proposal is terribly novel; it's a tweaked version of what many Democrats have wanted for years. It includes tough border controls; employment verification; a workable guest-worker program; and more visas for highly skilled science, tech and engineering graduates. Rubio even said that he would not insist on chopping his proposals into separate bills, in recognition that the White House and immigration advocates will accept nothing short of a package deal.
But the centerpiece of Rubio's plan, a pathway to citizenship with stages, is new for him. As a candidate for the Senate in 2010, he denounced amnesty for immigrants without papers. His position now, labels notwithstanding, represents a shift. It also requires guts.
Conservative Republicans in Congress and statehouses, in thrall to radio talk show bloviators, have vilified any solution short of mass deportation as a sellout that rewards scofflaws.
There are encouraging signs. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Republican vice presidential candidate last fall, has endorsed Rubio's approach. Other prominent Republicans, recognizing that Obama's 71 percent share of the fast-growing Latino vote spells long-term electoral doom, are urging a change. There is a growing realization in the party that a new tone on immigration would constitute a olive branch to Latinos.
Rubio, one of just three Latinos in the Senate, has made clear he's willing to lead. The question in the coming months is whether his party's mainstream, in Congress and state capitals, can be coaxed toward moderation.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he opposes universal background checks on gun sales and doesn't foresee such a measure being part of gun legislation in the House.
Requiring background checks on all gun sales is a top priority of the Obama administration in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, and has appeared to be emerging in the Senate as a possible area of bipartisan consensus.
But Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with media that such a requirement could unnecessarily inconvenience law-abiding citizens and lead to the creation of a national gun registry — something Goodlatte and many other Republicans oppose.
"It's not a very practical thing to do and you'll have a lot of inconvenience to law-abiding citizens at the same time you're not going to keep many weapons out of the hands of people who are misusing them," Goodlatte said. "I think there are better ways."
Instead, Goodlatte said he supports strengthening the existing background check system for gun buyers and cracking down on illegal firearms sales.
President Barack Obama proposed near-universal background checks after the December shooting of 20 children and six adults in Connecticut. Currently, the checks are only required for purchases from federally licensed gun dealers, not sales between private individuals at gun shows, online or elsewhere.
Obama also has supported limiting the size of ammunition magazines and renewing a ban on assault weapons, issues that were being examined at a Senate hearing Wednesday. But both those measures are seen as tough to get through Congress and Goodlatte has said he opposes both.
Expanding background checks has been seen as more politically doable, but Goodlatte's comments suggest tough prospects for that idea, too.

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I want to Create a remote only user for Remote Desktop.
I have 2 Win Xp Pro's, one with Remote Desktop enabled.
On the computer with the Remote Desk. Enabled, I want to create a user that can only logon remotly.
I created a user in the group "Remote Desktop Users" only on the Remote Desk. Enabled computer.
When I use Remote Desktop to login from the non-enabled Remote Desk. PC with the user, It logs me on and then logs off before I even get to see the desktop.
The only way I'm able to stay loged in, is if I add the user to the "Users" group.
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Singer/composer Don Carlos (born Euvin Spencer) founded the legendary reggae band Black Uhuru in 1974 with Rudolph Dennis and Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, friends from the rough Waterhouse district of Kingston.
Carlos didn't remain long with the trio; he left after recording only one single to continue his solo career, which had begun with inspired recordings like the full length LP Suffering. He performed for a number of years as Don Carlos and the Gold. In the early '80s he worked with producer Bunny Lee, and released some standout roots albums on various labels, including Harvest Time (1982) and the highly acclaimed Just a Passing Glance (1984) with the Roots Radics crew.
Black Uhuru went through many changes, the lead singer role going to Michael Rose (1977-1984) and Junior Reid (1986-87). In 1989 Duckie Simpson convinced Don Carlos to return to the band. The reunited Uhuru, with Carlos behind the mic, regained some of the popularity it had attained in the '70s and '80s. The trio released Now (1990), a solid recording remaking some of the material from Black Sounds of Freedom, and continued on to release Iron Storm, but that was the last Uhuru recording for Don Carlos. He broke with the group once again.
Don Carlos' next record Seven Days a Week (1997) marked his return to solo work. One of his best known offerings, and one that has garnered him an entire new generation of fans, Seven Days showcases his talents and skill with insightful lyrics and burning riddims, including massive songs like the title track and "Movin' (To the Top." The 1999 release of Groove With Me was a landmark for Don Carlos fans. A reissue of a vintage 1970s session, originally called "Pass the Lazer Beam," which featured Sly & Robbie and was produced by Bunny Wailer, the album is hailed as the rediscovery of a lost roots classic. Most recently, Don Carlos worked with The Congos and Northern California reggae band Groundation to put out Hebron's Gate (2002) which is chalking up impressive sales. In 2010, Don Carlos released a brand new CD entitled "Changes." In all Carlos has put out more than 20 solo albums.
Performing live Don Carlos is every bit as impressive as in the studio. His sweet tenor voice with Waterhouse style embellishments and African overtones combines with his high energy to make every set an unforgettable one. His burning passion and conscious strength are an inspiration to all who listen.
-- Mara Weiss


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Adriana Lima is Married to Marko
Victoria's Secret supermodel Adriana Lima confirms to People that she secretly got married (to basketball player Marko Jaric) on Valentine's Day! JJ reported on their engagement in June of 2008.
The pair eloped in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in a small, private civil ceremony.
Adriana said, "We are so excited about our future together. And we are really looking forward to a big romantic wedding this summer with all of our friends and family."
The happy couple will look to celebrate next in Adriana's native Brazil or Marko's native Serbia.


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I. In Focus This Week
Director's Note: Several hundred words from a grateful election geek
Plus FAQ on the future of electionline and Pew's elections portfolio
As announced a few weeks ago, today is my last day as director of Election Initiatives at the Pew Center on the States. Starting tomorrow, I will be joining the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota to help develop and expand their election program.
After 10 years crisscrossing the country talking about the future of election administration – especially the need for a better-developed system of recruiting, training and recognizing election administrators – it's incredibly exciting to, in essence, have my bluff called on making it happen.
The best part of the new job is that I will get to keep doing what I love most: work with the women and men across the country who do what it takes to make the American election system function day-to- day – not just on Election Day. You'll still see and hear from me in all of the old familiar places, and I hope to find new avenues to spread the word about developing an election system that keeps pace with the way Americans live today.
As I depart, however, I can't help thinking about everyone who has made my 10 years at Pew so deeply rewarding, both personally and professionally. Specifically, I want to thank:
- The Board of The Pew Charitable Trusts for their generous support of election administration reform beginning in 2001 and continuing today. After more than 60 years, the Trusts represent the Pew family's commitment to a better world - and I am humbled to have had the opportunity to help put that commitment into practice;
- Rebecca Rimel, president and CEO of the Trusts, both for being such an ardent public supporter of Pew's elections work but also for setting a high standard of excellence in everything we say and do;
- Sue Urahn, managing director of the Pew Center on the States, who is one of those (sadly, rare) people who manages to bring a potent combination of book smarts, street smarts and a heaping helping of humanity to her leadership of PCS;
- Michael Caudell-Feagan, deputy director of PCS, for being a great guide and mentor and someone from whom I've learned to become a passable manager – but mostly for getting to know me well back in 2006 and continuing to work with me anyway;
- Colleagues throughout Pew who I dare not name individually (for fear I'll forget someone) but who have made ideas, words, things and resources flow when and where they should – making my job easier even as I occasionally made theirs more difficult;
- All of the academics, advocates, vendors, technology experts and others who have been generous both with ideas and criticism through the years – we might not always have liked what one another had to say, but I have learned a lot and I dare say the field of election administration is better off as a result;
- The Election Initiatives team – David Becker, Elyse Berkowitz, Sam Derheimer, Courtney Dozier, Olivia Doherty, Paul Gronke, Tanner Horton-Jones, Emily Huston, John Lindback, Zach Markovits, Scott Melamed, Matt Morse, Carolynn Race, Gita Ram, Alexis Schuler, Charles Stewart, Stacie Temple, Stan Turner and Andreas Westgaard – whose excellence has been a inspiration every day and will make it hard to leave; and
- Of course, my electionline.org colleagues past and present – Sean Greene, Mindy Moretti, Kat Zambon, Alyson Freedman, Aron Goetzel and of course, my longtime friend and co-conspirator Dan Seligson – who have made the last 10 years literally a dream come true in every way.
Finally, a deep and heartfelt thank you to the thousands of election officials and policymakers across the nation for allowing me to be a part of your work. As far as I'm concerned, election administration is the coolest job in America (if not the world) – and I look forward to continuing the journey together.
To all of you – thanks for 10 great years. I can't wait to see what the next ten have in store.
Ever since the announcement, I've gotten several questions about what my departure means for other parts of Pew's portfolio. As a service to all of you, here are the answers:
Q: What's going to happen to electionline.org and the newsletter?
Q: What's the future of the Pew elections portfolio?
A: The work will continue at its impressive pace. The success of the Election Initiatives team in our campaigns to reform military and overseas voting and expand the Voting Information Project is well-documented, and we are excited about the future of our efforts to upgrade the nation's approach to voter registration. We also have some other interesting ideas in the pipeline – like the focus on evidence-based election administration – that you may be hearing more about in the future.
Q: Who's replacing you at Election Initiatives?
A: I would expect that there will be an announcement soon about the structure of the Elections team; until then, you should use the following contacts:
Q: Speaking of which, how do I contact you?
A: Doug Chapin
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New Year Brings New State Laws
ST. PAUL (AP) - The new year brings a variety of new laws in Minnesota.
New school buses will be required to have right-side crossing arms to protect students. The arms automatically extend when the bus stops and the flashing red lights are used.
Another law allows young parents who are finishing high school to exceed the limit of 10 absent days for which a child care provider can be compensated through the state's child care assistance program.
A third new law says licensed health care providers can no longer use third parties to solicit business from car accident victims. Some companies have used unethical practices to solicit business, such as promising a specific payout.
Another new law regulates insurance that covers portable electronic devices.
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If the Yoo Fits ...
Why shouldn't Jose Padilla sue John Yoo?
Once-upon-a-time enemy combatant Jose Padilla sued former Bush lawyer John Yoo earlier this month. At first, this looks like classic David vs. Goliath. A man convicted on terrorism charges last summer, after years of brutal confinement in a military brig, goes up against a Justice Department lawyer for writing the infamous torture memos that justified detainee mistreatment and for shaping detention and interrogation policy as a member of the inner ring Bush "war council." Padilla sued Yoo for the abuse he suffered, which included almost two years of being subjected to stress positions and death threats, and being deprived of light and sound and human contact outside of interrogation sessions—the whole grim works.
But the initial wave of reaction to the suit treated Padilla not as the little guy, but as the strong-arming giant. Or if not Padilla himself, then the human rights clinic at Yale Law School—which filed suit on his behalf. Law professor and blogger Jonathan Turley called the filing "highly questionable." Law professor and blogger Orin Kerr, finding Yale's involvement in the suit "particularly interesting" and noting that Yoo is a Yale alumnus, wrote, "I don't think Yale Law School ends up looking very good on either side of this one." And then the Wall Street Journal really piled on, calling the suit a "political stunt," "nasty business," and snidely speculating that Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh must be "proud of suing an alumnus [Yoo] on behalf of a terrorist."
The clinic blew it, according to these critics, by suing an individual lawyer (and, horrors, a law professor, since Yoo is on the faculty at University of California-Berkeley's Boalt Hall) just for giving bad legal advice. Lost in all the outrage on Yoo's behalf—even though it was noted in the first news story about the suit—was the small detail that Yoo is one of many officials being sued for Padilla's awful treatment. Others include former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft. This is not a case of a midlevel official taking the heat while the big guns waltz away. The problem was that the suit against the other guys was filed en masse in South Carolina, while the one against Yoo was filed only against him in California, because that's where he lives. But if it seemed like a stand-alone, it's not.
To Padilla's lawyer at the clinic, Jonathan Freiman, the suit is pretty straightforward. (Disclosure: I went to law school at Yale, and Jonathan is a friend of mine.) Since the 1971 Supreme Court Bivens decision, people who think they've been wronged at the hands of a federal official have had a right to sue in federal court. The justices said that "power, once granted, does not disappear like a magic gift when it is wrongfully used. An agent acting—albeit unconstitutionally—in the name of the United States possesses a far greater capacity for harm than an individual trespasser exercising no authority other than his own." Suits over prison abuse have long put this principle from Bivens to use. Often, they're filed against prison wardens and guards. But if you think higher-up officials are the ones really responsible for the mistreatment, you can sue them instead.
Freiman's theory is that Yoo's torture memos set the gears of abuse in motion by providing the legal justification for it, and that Yoo helped shape the Bush administration's interrogation policy as well. (Also on the five-member war council: then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and vice presidential counsel David Addington.) As law professor and blogger David Luban has put it, reacting to the uproar over the suit, "The basic point of the suit (regardless what you think of its merits) is to hold government officials accountable for torture and prisoner abuse—about as fundamental an issue of core human rights as anyone could possibly find." Luban also concluded that "any human rights clinic that wouldn't at least consider filing this lawsuit would be asleep at the switch."
That's because there's nothing outlandish about trying to hold lawyers accountable for actions taken on their clients' behalf, if those actions can be proved to be illegal. Government lawyers, like other officials, have recourse to immunity. But they're not necessarily entitled to absolute immunity—the kind that ends a suit before it starts. As Luban explains, the list for absolute immunity is a short one: The president gets it. Judges get it. So do prosecutors. But Justice Department lawyers who aren't working in a prosecutorial capacity? It appears not. In the 1985 case Mitchell v. Forsyth, a Haverford College physics professor sued former Attorney General John Mitchell for authorizing a wiretap of his phone without a warrant. Mitchell argued that he had absolute immunity because he was working in the interests of national security. The Supreme Court disagreed. The court reasoned that while prosecutors are subject to the checks of the judicial process, there were no "similar built-in restraints on the Attorney General's activities in the name of national security."
The court said that DoJ folk might nevertheless be entitled to qualified immunity, which all government officials can seek. The standard here is that you can't be held liable for working in your official capacity, as long as your actions didn't violate "clearly established" constitutional or legal rights that a reasonable person would have known about. In other words, you're protected unless you knowingly violated the law or you were plainly incompetent. The Supreme Court reasoned that qualified immunity would provide most officials with enough protection to do their jobs freely, without giving them a pass to blithely disregard the law. Money quote: "Where an official could be expected to know that his conduct would violate statutory or constitutional rights, he should be made to hesitate." (The court's italics.)
Some of the critics of the Yoo-Padilla suit worry about the effect it will have on other government lawyers. The concern is that they'll fear being sued and hedge their bets accordingly, even if they're not doing anything as exotic as embroidering a rationale for torture. But in Mitchell, the court said that sometimes catching a bit of a chill is a good thing. It's also worth noting, in this context, that Yoo isn't facing financial ruin or even risk: Following Padilla's wishes, the suit asks for damages of exactly $1. And DoJ has to offer to provide and pay for Yoo's defense.
Maybe Yoo's lawyers will be able to show he is entitled to qualified immunity. Maybe what he did wasn't illegal, or maybe he shouldn't have been expected to know that it was, as he would certainly argue. Here's the defense of his actions that he published today. And maybe the legal advice he gave in the torture memos can turn out to have been wrong—there's close to consensus about that, at least—without being blunderingly incompetent. It's also possible that the chain from Padilla's mistreatment to Yoo's memo writing and policy-making is ultimately too attenuated to hold him legally accountable.
These are familiar questions—the sort that many a Bivens suit raises. They are also questions for a judge to decide. Arguing that Yoo could or should win is different from denouncing Yale's clinic for bringing the suit in the first place. And think about the broader implications of the WSJ's tirade against the law school. The dean should have stopped a clinic from suing an alumnus on behalf of a client? What kind of standard of legal advocacy or academic freedom would that set—faculty members can write whatever they want in academic articles, but clinical lawyers can only file suits vetted for politically palatability? That seems like the entirely wrong place to end up. It's what comes of mixing up David and Goliath.


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Can Something "POSITIVO" Come From Being HIV Positive? New Campaign Says Yes
October 23, 2013
Philadelphia is currently playing host to POSITIVO, a brand-new, city-backed campaign that shows the faces of Latinos living with and affected by HIV, but does not tell the viewer each individual's status, NewsWorks reports. The images posted in shops and on street corners around Philadelphia feature people engaged in normal, everyday activities: on public transit, in the park, hugging and smiling.
The campaign is spearheaded by the Gay and Lesbian AIDS Education Initiative (GALAEI), which co-hosted TheBody.com's Twitter chat on HIV and the Latino community. The campaign strove to show the faces of those living with HIV and not models, so that people could see their neighbors and friends and identify with those in the ads.
Rafael Alvarez, featured in one of the posters, participated in the project because he wanted to refute the stereotype that Latinos are homophobic and overly stigmatizing of those living with HIV. He said:
Perceptions are reality, [a]nd if the perception of a community is negative or labeled in ignorance, then that's what's going to be the reality.
Louie Ortiz, the creator of POSITIVO, hopes that the posters will make the term "positivo" one of hope and will translate to more people getting tested for HIV. Also, he hopes to create a dialogue about HIV through the campaign posters, which will be up through the end of the year in Philadelphia.
Mathew Rodriguez is the editorial project manager for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.
Follow Mathew on Twitter: @mathewrodriguez.
Copyright © 2013 Remedy Health Media, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Servers are the heart of your computing infrastructure. Available in a seemingly endless array of memory, networking, storage, processor, and expandability options, Dell server systems were the choice of Readers' Choice voters because they support SQL Server's highly scalable platform.
Best 32-Bit Server and Best 64-Bit Server. Readers continue to rely on Dell's dependable line of PowerEdge servers and awarded them top honors in our 32-bit and 64-bit server categories. PowerEdge servers also won the 32-bit server category in SQL Server Magazine's Readers' Choice awards last year. Voters appreciate PowerEdge's sturdiness and price-performance. Dell's three PowerEdge server families comprise more than a dozen 32-bit and two 64-bit servers. Dell's Value Server family provides solutions for small business applications or home offices that are looking for an entry-level server. A versatile server for growing midsize organizations, Dell's Performance Tower line supports crucial business applications that need scalable, multi-processing performance and offers advanced technology to meet high-performance workgroup, departmental, and enterprise needs. For demanding network applications in a space-constrained environment, Dell's Rack-Dense Business server line meets high-performance, flexibility, and availability demands for service providers that must deploy multiple integrated servers in a small space. All PowerEdge products let you select from a range of components to design a server that fits your environment. Note that HP's Integrity Superdome Server came in a close second in the Best 64-Bit Server category. The close competition in this space is evidence that 64-bit technology is of growing importance.
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Grade Level: 6th – 8th grade
Subject Matter: Life Science, Chemistry
National Standards: NS.5-8.1, NS.5-8.3
Wax paper, cut into small squares, one for each student
Droppers – one for each student
Clear plastic cups – one for each student
Colored water (use food dye of any color)
Coffee filters - cut into thin strips about two inches long, one per student
Magnifying lens
Celery stalks (fresh with leaves on top of stalk) – one per student
Capillary action: the process by which plants transport water upwards and throughout the plant.
Cohesion: the force of attraction between water molecules that causes a tendency to remain together.
Adhesion: the attraction between unlike substances that causes them to stick together.
Xylem: part of a plant that carries water and nutrients from the roots to the stem and leaves.
1. Begin the lesson by viewing the Science Friday video, Lighting Up Leaves. The video examines the intricate patterns of venation that transport nutrients and water. Ask students to explain the process of how plants are able to defy gravity by transporting water from the roots at the bottom of the plant to the leaves at the top of the plant.
2. Tell students that they will conduct a series of experiments that will enable them to observe the processes that allow for water transportation in plants.
Activity 1
1. Hand out to each student 1) a small square piece of wax paper, 2) a dropper and 3) a clear plastic cup half filled with colored water.
2. Have students place five drops of the colored water on the wax paper, with each drop falling on top of each other. Observe the shape of the water. Why does the water form one big drop instead of spreading out? Will adding more drops on top make a difference? Investigate by having students place an additional five drops on top of the drop already fon the wax paper. How does the drop appear now? Why do the droplets stick together?
3. Have students place a separate, smaller drop close to the larger drop on the wax paper. Use the dropper to slowly move or drag the little drop as close as possible to the big drop without actually making contact with each other. Why does the drop follow the dropper? What happens to the small drop when it comes very close to the larger drop? Why did the little drop appear to be pulled into the big drop?
Activity 2
1. Hand out to each student a thin strip of coffee filter paper about two inches long. Have the students observe the coffee filter with a magnifying lens. Have students describe what they see. Can they tell from their observations what coffee filters are made from?
2. Have each students tape the coffee filter strip to the inside rim of the plastic cup. so that one end of the strip is dry and the bottom end of the strip is underwater. Ask students to predict what will happen to the strip.
3. After a few minutes of observation, have students discuss why the water was absorbed up the coffee filter strip.
Activity 3
1. Hand out one celery stalk to each student. Have students use scissors to cut two inches off the bottom of the celery stalk. Examine the bottom of the celery stalk. What can they see at the bottom of the celery stalk? Use the magnifying lens to observe the pattern of circles on the bottom of the stalk. What do the students think these are for?
2. Have each student place a celery stalk in the cup with colored water so that the freshly cut end is immersed in water.
3. Based on the results from the two prior activities, ask students to predict what they think will happen within the next two hours, six hours, 24 hours, etc.
4. Maintain a classroom chart that measures the movement of the water up the stalk for the next few days. In order to observe the movement of the water, have students cut the bottom of one of the celery stalks at the end of each time period that is being observed, and then use a ruler to measure the number of centimeters or inches. How long does it take for the water to reach the top of the celery stalk?
5. Have students examine thin slices of the celery stalk that has absorbed the colored water. What do the circles of colored water represent? Ask students discuss why, given their observations, the celery stalk is able to transport water up the stalk.
Plants have long, thin tubes located in their xylem that stretch from the roots through the stem and leaves. Water is able to move up the xylem through a process called capillary action. Capillary action occurs when the forces of cohesion and adhesion combine in such a way that they overcome the downward force of gravity, and cause water to move upward through the thin tubes. Water cohesion is the force of attraction between water molecules so that they stick together, while adhesion is the tendency of water molecules to stick to other substances.
• What variables can account for any discrepancies in the rate of capillary action in the celery stalks?
• How does transpiration (loss of water in a plant through holes in its leaves) affect the process of capillary action?
• What human body system can be compared to the process of capillary action in plants?
• Explain how the electrical charges of a water molecule create cohesion.
• What would happen if the tubes in the xylem were wider or thinner?
Have students design experiments using celery stalks to test the following:
• Does the rate of capillary action differ with celery stalks with leaves and without leaves?
• Does water absorbed at different time intervals mix within the plant?
• Is the celery stalk able to exchange water horizontally?
• Are different types of liquids also able to be absorbed by plants?


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Nat King Cole: Unforgettable
By: Legacy Staff
5 years ago
Nat King Cole died Feb. 15, 1965. On the anniversary of his death, here are 25 facts about the life and legacy of the legendary singer.
1. Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Alabama, he moved with his family to Chicago at the age of four.
2. He was already learning to play the organ at this time. The first song he learned? "Yes! We Have No Bananas."
3. Cole formally studied both jazz and gospel music and participated in the music program at Chicago's DuSable High School before dropping out while still a teenager to become a professional musician. His brother Eddie played bass in Cole's first band.
4. Cole's biggest early influence was Earl Hines, known as the "Fatha" of jazz piano.
5. He shortened his stage name to Nat Cole. Nobody knows exactly where the "King" nickname came from, but most think it was a play on the nursery rhyme "Old King Cole."
6. Cole left Chicago to tour nationally as a pianist with Broadway musician Eubie Blake. When the tour went bust in California, Cole decided to stay there permanently.
7. He settled in Long Beach, Calif. and formed the King Cole Swingers. The band had a steady gig at The Pike playing for $90 a week.
8. In 1937, Cole got married and moved to Los Angeles.
9. It was in L.A. that he first starting singing regularly as part of his show (at the audience's insistence).
10. But throughout the 1930s and early '40s, he was chiefly renowned as a jazz pianist, even playing at the first Jazz at the Philharmonic in 1944 (recordings credit him as 'Shorty Nadine,' a tribute to his wife).
11. Cole has been credited with being among the first bandleaders to use a trio of piano, guitar and bass at a time when big bands held sway. This combo would also be used by jazz heavyweights like Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson as well as blues artists like Ray Charles.
12. His first popular hit came in 1943 with "Straighten Up and Fly Right," a song based on an African-American folktale Cole's preacher father often referred to in his sermons. The recording is often considered a precursor to rock 'n' roll.
13. When he began to emerge as a singer, he dropped the jazz trio format and instead was backed by a string orchestra when recording. Some jazz purists accused Cole of selling out, but he would continue to occasionally record and perform "pure" jazz well into the 1960s.
14. Among his early hits was "The Christmas Song," written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells (oddly enough, the song was written on a hot summer day). Cole picked the song over the objections of Capitol Records and recorded four different versions between 1946 and 1951. It was the second version that became a big hit.
15. In 1946, Cole also landed his own radio program, a 15-minute show called "King Cole Trio Time" that ran on Saturday afternoons for two years.
16. Ten years later, he became the first African American to host a national television program with "The Nat King Cole Show." The show ran for a year but failed to find a sponsor, a development Cole blamed on racism. He was to said to have remarked, "I guess Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark."
17. Cole refused to play segregated venues (and in fact refused to play anywhere in the South after he was assaulted onstage by white supremacists in 1956 at a show in Birmingham, Alabama), sued hotels that refused to lodge himself and his band, and insisted on living in a then all-white section of Los Angeles amidst threats from the local Ku Klux Klan.
18. Despite all this, he was sometimes criticized for not contributing more to the civil rights movement.
19. Cole addressed the Republican National Convention in 1956, and then performed at the Democratic National Convention in 1960. He also performed at the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961.
20. Cole was a frequent guest on other shows, appearing on "The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom," "Your Show of Shows," and "The Jack Benny Program." He appeared six times on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
21. Cole also enjoyed a career on the big screen, appearing in 22 feature films – including an uncredited cameo in Citizen Kane (he is shown playing piano, his back to the camera). His last film was 1965's Cat Ballou, starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin.
22. Cole was a heavy smoker throughout his life, smoking up to three packs a day in his belief that it helped keep his voice sounding low and smooth.
23. When he died of lung cancer on Feb. 15, 1965, he was only 45 years old.
24. His final album, L-O-V-E, with its classic title track, was recorded just a few months before his death and released posthumously.
25. His daughter, singer Natalie Cole, recorded a version of his signature song "Unforgettable" as part of a tribute album in 1991. The album won seven Grammy Awards.


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While on the subject of "tried and true" image editing features like layers and masks , I can think of a parallel debate going on currently with computer OS software designers. It has to do with "files and folders". Many OS designers now say the files and folders concept is an antiquated metaphor and confusing to the young generation of smart phone users. New mobile OS's for smartphones and tablets are increasingly being designed by software teams that feel we should dispense with this time honored analogy to paper filing cabinets for records management. Seriously? The files and folders paradigm works, and it ported very well to digital records management. Why throw it away and hide where our files are kept so that each individual application has to outsmart us to find our files? Stupid, stupid, stupid. This movement to do away with the files and folders concept will cause all sorts of file migration (and migraine) headaches for digital librarians and archivists in the near future. Hence, a personal plea to all the software engineers following this thread.... KEEP both The "boringly conventional" files/folders and layers/masks concepts solidly in place on whatever new image editing software program you choose to give us.cheers,Markhttp://www.aardenburg-imaging.com
Good lens correction. Mustasch type distortions, deconvolution of motion blur, CA, Coma, sharpness maps to even out edge sharpness or field curvature, or correcting nervous bokeh, oval highlights, flare /veiling removal etc. Stuff characteristic of lenses that can be anticipated.Selecting sets of images and creating stitches and/or stacks still editable as RAW like for smart objects, removing objects, random noise, dark frame subtractions and the like. Stitches could be spherical panos or whatever. Combination of lens corrections, stitch and stack maybe could produce a Brenizer bokeh pano still editable as RAW (even spherical hah that would be awesome). While we're at it could a focus bracketed stack maybe have live DoF control for tilt/shift effects. Lytro lite. Focus peaking to see where we place fake focus or to apply correct amounts of sharpening. Frequency based retouching tools, like a live apply image with a slider for radius and quick way of viewing high/low pass but it's just done on the fly. Like a pair of channels with a bias between them. Then a retouching brush with options for content aware, texture, tone, clone, not eleventy different ones. Were you to sample a swatch it's just a brush.
Problem is not so much the precision of the rendering pipeline, problem is stacking.Especially if one of the steps in the stack involves blur in one way or another (think USM, local contrast enhancement, etc). In an interpreted pipe-line this would not only increase sampling requirements disproportionally and exponentially, but it disrupts the parallelism of the graphics cards internals. Additionally, some of the newer sharpening techniques rely on iteration. If you want to implement those types of functions it becomes progressively problematic if the entire pipeline is interpreted.
Secondly, what you want to determine also is the effect the user expects to see when they change some previous step. If they use a parametric brush on some particular location in the image, and they decide to turn on lenscorrections, or apply a perspective correction, then what should the position (and form) of the brush do? And what about if you stack images for panorama stitching and the user does the same? Note how simple misunderstandings can occur:If I ask you to "blend" image A and B, do you interpret that as: 1. start with A and blend B on top (not commutative), or do you interpret that as: 2. create a mix of A and B (commutative). What about if A and/or B have masks?
And finally, the size requirements for a photoshop image are usually significantly different than what our graphics cards currently are based on. Even if hardware will improve and become cheaper etc, you should still expect a 10 year time frame if at all, because the graphics cards are based on certain output requirements for gaming, video, and medical imaging. Well, I suppose password hacking could be added, but I'm not sure how that will affect the imaging capabilities of graphic cards.
But, any workflow that allows one to go back to previous steps could be called "parametric", and as such, as long as the expectations of the user are reasonable when deciding to redo a previous step, the application could be entirely "parametric". And a final result could be rendered based on recomputing the entire chain.
The thing that Jeff said that started me on this way of thinking was -- paraphrasing -- you don't want to do in a pixel processor what you can do in a parametric processor partially because of limited precision in the pixel processor causing potential damage to the image. That implies that the implementer doesn't always know just how much error can be tolerated.Jim
Another thing that came to mind when reading this thread was, aren't any other existing apps sufficient for photographers specifically? Or are they more geared toward creative post-processing than utility work?
I was using the example as a way to crystallize the discussion, not as a concrete product proposal, but, thanks for bring practicality into the picture.
I don't think doing intermediate calcs in FP (maybe not DP FP, but FP) is necessarily impractical. We are seeing a proliferation of DSP-derived processors on graphics adapters. Many of those processors support FP, and there is a trend to make the results of calculations available to programs running in the main processors. Indeed, you can buy add-in cards that do DSP-like processing that have no connection to a display; they're expensive and power hogs, but that should change. Image processing is relatively easily parallelized.
Another thing about the intermediate image processing that could ameliorate its inherently slower speed than custom-tweaked code: a lot can be done in the background. In order for a program to feel crisp to the user, all that's necessary is to update the screen fast. The number of pixels on the screen is in general fewer than the number in the file, so there's less processing to keep the screen up to date than to render the whole file. Just in case the user decides to zoom in, the complete image should be computed in the background. This also avoids an explicit rendering step, which could be an annoyance for the user. All this background/foreground stuff makes life harder for the programmers. On the other hand, think of the time they'll save not tweaking code.
Not really...Adobe and Photoshop has had a really long run of being best of breadwhich has pretty much dried up any competition. I downloaded GIMP and Pixelmator to test them out...yep, both will do some interesting things, nope, neither are a replacement for Photoshop. Seriously, Photoshop's position in the industry has, minimized the 3rd party development. Could the Photoshop CC decision change things? Yep...but don't count on substantial changes really quickly.
There are GPU implementations of stuff like blurring that seems to exploit the hardware quite well.
Perhaps a "linear" mode would be possible (in which edits are applied in the same order that they are tweaked by the user).
Current graphics cards have >1GB of memory, I dont think that buffer storage is the issue. Rather, the (in) flexibility of the processing hardware, the state of the implementation languages, the debugability and the testing matrix caused by significantly different hardware on the market seems like obstacles.
The problem you hinted at would still be a problem? If I did sharpening as step#2, then choose to "redo" sharpening as step#274, where in the re-rendered pipeline should the sharpening be applied?
I personally believe that LR doesn't currently find the right balance between the two, and adding pixel editing could force this to be re-designed, without entirely having to start from scratch.
"seems" being the operative word. There are implementations based on the lower resolution versions in a mipmap, but that doesn't scale and align properly. A good example of such bad blurring can be found in Apple's Core Image.
Yes, to all of your points, but as for storage: if you turn a 80 Mpx MFDB file into a 32bit floating point rep with 4 components,what do you get? And then you need to also store all kinds of crap of the processing pipeline, intermediate caching of results, etc
And then you want to create a panorama stitch with HDR with maybe 16 of those files
Oscar, I just realized that was you!
GPUs are no doubt being hyped, and many customers have unreasonable expectations
Are you saying that there are no high-quality, reasonable efficient (overlapping i/o) image processing algorithms running on GPUs? I looked into this a few years back, and expected there to have been some progress.
My computer does a thermal shutdown when I try to play SimCity 5 on anything but the lowest quality setting.
But it has never been Adobe's way.They always wanted to keep Photoshop esential for some tasks.
I think a node-based workflow, where one can piece together these operations in a logical flow, and revisit, rearrange, preview and create variations, with a real-time preview of any and all node outputs, would be a nice paradigm shift. I would have no problem working on a "smart preview" version of an image, from raw conversion, all the way to output sharpening at final resolution, with the ability to render portions of it all along the node chain to see a 100% res sample to check my work.
Good lens correction. Mustasch type distortions, deconvolution of motion blur, CA, Coma, sharpness maps to even out edge sharpness or field curvature, or correcting nervous bokeh, oval highlights, flare /veiling removal etc. Stuff characteristic of lenses that can be anticipated.


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...may as well stir the pot this a.m. Some interesting finds by a couple of profs out of Uof W.
"...1.6 percent of the domains infected the first IE configuration, the one mimicking a naive user blithely clicking 'Yes;' about a third as many domains (0.6 percent) did drive-by downloads by planting spyware even when the user rejected the installations.
In the same kind of configurations, Firefox survived relatively unscathed. Only .09 percent of domains infected the Mozilla Corp. browser when it was set, like IE, to act as if the user clicked through security dialogs; no domain managed to infect the Firefox-equipped PC in a drive-by download attack."
Was it d0pp trying to tell me in another thread IE in an NT environ was actually safer than Firefox? Lots o' luck, d0pp!


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New 2018 Keystone RV Summerland 2600TB
Step inside this Springdale Summerland travel trailer 2600TB and see just how convenient your camping can be. There is sleeping space for eight, and all the amenities needed to make traveling fun.
Just inside the entry door you will notice a front bedroom to your right. There is a queen size bed with closets on either side and overhead cabinets for added storage. You will also enjoy the front exterior pass-through compartment which is located beneath the queen bed and it can be accessed from either side of the trailer.
Straight in from the entry door there is a sofa bed for seating and also sleeping space if needed at night.
A booth dinette provides a place for dining and playing board games, plus it too can be made into additional sleeping space, if needed, by folding down the table. Across from the dinette is a refrigerator, three burner range, and large kitchen sink making cleanup a cinch. There are overhead cabinet for dishes and things.
The rear right corner features a private toilet and tub/shower, plus there is a separate sink just outside the door.
Double size bunk beds can be found in the left rear corner of this trailer, plus much more inside and outside!
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Within a few short months after opening the doors, Keystone produced its very first camper. Delivering big on quality, features and value, the public fell in love with it. A star was born! As the appetite for the camper increased, new Keystone models were added to satisfy growing customer demand. Along with this tremendous growth came the need for expanded production. To meet this need more manufacturing plants were built and staffed.
From new floor plan designs to patented inventions, Keystone leads the way in product innovation. One reason is our mission to stay close to the customer. When talking with campers or visiting dealerships, our sales, product development, and service teams, are always looking for ways to improve the camping experience. And we don't stop there.
Every member of the Keystone family is encouraged to contribute to making our campers absolutely the best possible. Through something we call Kamp Keystone, our employees camp free of charge at local campgrounds in the Keystone trailers we supply. Each year hundreds of our production workers, administrative staff and service team enjoy a day (or a week) at Kamp Keystone. Their evaluation of the experience and the feedback they provide results in continued product improvements. Ask us if we use our RVs...the answer is YES!
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Canucks Update: Ryan Kesler
The hype machine is set to start for Vancouver soon. This time, Canucks fans say, the team will win 16 playoff games, not 15, and finally capture the Stanley Cup.
With Cory Schneider emerging as more than just a regular backup, the team is guaranteed stellar goaltending even if Roberto Luongo falters. The Sedins are in their prime and riding consecutive scoring titles. Manny Malhotra is recovered from his horrific eye injury.
All those factors are encouraging, but one question not being asked enough during training camp is: what about Ryan Kesler?
The reigning Selke Trophy winner as the league's best defensive forward and 41-goal scorer won't open the season in the starting lineup. After offseason hip surgery, Kesler could miss up to the first month of the 2011-12 season. What will his absence mean for the Canucks?
The pessimistic viewpoint: a lot. Not only is Kesler a key source of secondary scoring (well, more like primary based on his goal total last year), he's usually charged with shutting down opposing teams' best players.
The optimistic viewpoint: not as much as people think. The Canucks tend to start seasons slowly anyway. They still won the Presidents' Trophy last year despite a slow start and despite the fact that Alex Burrows missed the first 10 games of the regular season after an offseason surgery of his own.
Optimists also believe youngster Cody Hodgson will step in to fill Kesler's void as the No. 2 center and greatly benefit from the increased ice time.
I lean more toward the pessimist side. We can't compare Kesler's absence to Burrows'. The latter is a key contributor but no one can match Kesler's defensive prowess among the forward corps (aside from Malhotra, but he can't score like Kesler can).
While Hodgson's expanded role is exciting, there's no guarantee that he'll become an instant star or that his chronic back woes won't resurface.
Don't be surprised if the Canucks stumble out of the gate, even more so than last season.


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Fairlawn Mennonite Church (Apple Creek, Ohio, USA)
Fairlawn Mennonite Church (formerly Maysville Conservative Mennonite Church) is located one mile east (1.6 km.) and one and one-half miles (2.5 km.) south of Apple Creek, Ohio. It was organized in 1949 and the church was built in 1954. There were 142 members in 1959. Tobias Byler was the bishop and David L. Stutzman and Wilfred J. Neuenschwander the ministers.
In 2011 the leading minister was Duane Detweiler and the congregation's membership was 161.
Anabaptist (Mennonite) Directory 2011. Harrisonburg, VA: The Sword and Trumpet, 2011: 48.
Additional Information
Address: 8520 Emerson Rd, Apple Creek OH 44606-9701
Phone: 330-698-5722
Denominational Affiliation:
Conservative Mennonite Conference
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|Richard D. Thiessen
|Date Published
|April 2012
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Gingerich, Melvin and Richard D. Thiessen. "Fairlawn Mennonite Church (Apple Creek, Ohio, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. April 2012. Web. 24 Sep 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Fairlawn_Mennonite_Church_(Apple_Creek,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=140660.
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Gingerich, Melvin and Richard D. Thiessen. (April 2012). Fairlawn Mennonite Church (Apple Creek, Ohio, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 September 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Fairlawn_Mennonite_Church_(Apple_Creek,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=140660.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 1105. All rights reserved.
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text: Review : Apricorn Aegis Padlock updated 05:10 am EDT, Sat September 5, 2009 by MacNN Staff One of the first truly OS-independent secure USB drives. MacNN Rating: Product Manufacturer: Apricorn Price: $160 (500GB, 256-bit encryption) The Good Truly "invisible" when locked. No noticeable slowdowns in use. Good build quality. Real OS independence. The Bad Extra software-based security would be helpful. features and build quality Apricorn offers the Padlock in 250GB, 320GB, and 500GB capacities with your choice of 128-bit or 256-bit encryption. Our review unit is the flagship Padlock model boasting 500 GB of storage and full 256-bit AES encryption, though we wish the company would make the 256-bit encryption standard; it's a small change that shouldn't add a $20 premium for the same storage. Right away, the Padlock has a noteworthy change in design compared to most other drives: it has a short USB cable fixed on the drive that that securely clips into the side of the hard disk for storage. Some portable drives have this, but it's always pleasing when it appears. The build quality of all of the components is very high. The keys on the front of the padlock are large and they provide good tactile response. The only user feedback on the unit is a small LED that changes from red, to blue, to green based on the status of the hard drive. To preserve data integrity in the event of a drop or spill the Padlock also sports some shock-dampening internal supports. user experience When plugging the Padlock into a computer for the first time, the system (which can run Linux, Mac OS X or Windows) doesn't even recognize that the hard drive is attached. Not until the user enters their password will the hard drive actually power up the USB connection and be accessible. As soon as the Padlock is unplugged from the computer it automatically relocks itself and will need the password once again. Once the password is entered, the Padlock functions just like any other external drive. We experienced no noticeable speed delays during our testing, despite the encryption, and found file copy speeds to be acceptable. All administration of the Padlock is done via the keypad. Trying to memorize the keystrokes to access and manipulate all of the menus could be cumbersome, but with the directions in front of us we found the administrative features easy to operate. The Padlock can handle up to ten user passwords and can vary their length from six to 16 characters. In the event that all passwords are lost or the unit must be reset, all data on the Padlock will be erased as the drive must be reformatted and repartitioned to be functional -- a permanent but potentially career-saving policy. As such, Apricorn's drive is for all intents and purposes uncrackable, or at least until it's mounted. That remains the one weak point: if a physical or network-only attack occurs while the drive is unlocked, it's about as vulnerable to data theft as an unguarded drive. That said, there are ways to protect individual files once they're exposed, and the majority of data theft seen with USB drives occurs when they're stolen, not when they're plugged in. wrapping up Our top-end unit retails for $160. Even when considering the price drop for a 128-bit version, other 2.5-inch portable hard disks with comparable storage can be found for around $100. But assuming hardware encryption is a must-have, we would say that the $40 to $60 price premium for keypad controlled encryption is reasonable. With a three year warranty, a variety of capacities, and advanced hardware encryption we think the Aegis Padlock line is a good value for the extra layer of security. The shock protection and build quality simply refine the experience further. If highly secure, yet portable data storage is what you're looking for, this is likely your first choice.


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A Lexington woman was the victim of a sweetheart scam that cost her $1 million, and Attorney General Roy Cooper is warning North Carolina consumers to beware of these scams.
A Lexington woman was the victim of a sweetheart scam that cost her $1 million, and Attorney General Roy Cooper is warning North Carolina consumers to beware of these scams.
Con artists are using technology to update an old scam where they use the promise of love to win victims' trust and steal their money, Cooper said in a press release.
"These days many people look for companionship online, and con artists know it," Cooper said. "Sweetheart scammers are using websites to meet, woo and romance their victims out of their money."
The Lexington senior citizen lost more than $1 million to a man who befriended her on Facebook. He led her to believe he was originally from Charlotte but was working in Africa. He conned her into repeatedly sending him money overseas, supposedly to cover expenses until he was paid for his contract work and could return to North Carolina to marry her.
The Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division heard from 25 victims of sweetheart scams last year who lost a combined total of more than $2 million. That's up from 2011, when Cooper's office heard from 17 victims who lost approximately $700,000 total to sweetheart scams.
Sweetheart scams first operated in person with con artists pretending to fall in love with lonely people in order to gain their trust and then exploit them financially. The scam has now moved to dating and social media websites such as match.com, seniorpeoplemeet.com, christianmingle.com and Facebook.
According to complaints filed with the Consumer Protection Division, a sweetheart scammer usually approaches a victim by sending messages expressing an interest in getting to know him or her. This is often followed by long online conversations designed to convince the victim that the new romance is real. Once the relationship is established, the con artist claims to experience an emergency while traveling or working overseas and asks the victim to wire them money.
Some victims lose hundreds or even tens of thousands of dollars to the scam. Many repeatedly wire money to their so-called beloved and only realize they've been scammed once the wire company or their bank becomes suspicious.
Sweetheart scams can strike men and women of any age, but seniors can be special targets, Cooper warned, especially if they post information online about a recent tragedy such as the death of a spouse. Of the 25 consumers who complained about sweetheart scams to Cooper's office last year, 10 were senior citizens.
Perpetrators of online sweetheart scams are usually located overseas, and Cooper's office works with international authorities to investigate them. Fraud experts with the Consumer Protection Division have helped intercept thousands of dollars sent overseas by victims of sweetheart scams, and last year thwarted three attempts by seniors to fly to other countries and hand-deliver cash to con artists.
"If someone you meet online starts asking you for money, even a small amount, that's a good sign you're dealing with a scammer," Cooper said. "Contact my office if you or a loved one may be caught up in a sweetheart scam."
To avoid sweetheart scams, Cooper offered the following tips:
• Remember, people aren't always who they claim to be online.
• Never send or wire money to a stranger you meet online. Once the money has been wired, it is highly unlikely you will ever get it back.
• Never give out your personal information to someone you meet online, no matter what the circumstance or why they say they need it.
Consumers can contact the Consumer Protection Division by calling (877) 5-NO-SCAM or filing a complaint online at www.ncdoj.gov.


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I shared a lot of this about a year ago, I don't really do this as a hobby anymore, I've updated a few things and made a few additions. But the overall change in my things has been the overall theme. Instead of space faring factions, I've changed the overall theme to a "Post Apocalpyse" theme, But not in the sense of a bunch of scrapmetal tanks and poorly constructed homemade guns. But more like they're in the rebuilding stage of post-nuked to shit civilization *An example being the Video game Fallout: New Vegas", I chose to not bother giving much complexity into the themes or names of these armies because they're all from an ambigious region of an unknown planet, I just can't be bothered to make up names for this stuff anymore
If anyone still remembers my old TLDR threads, they'd recall that instead of having one large army, I had about a dozen, five or six of which were of signifigant size. I'll show the largest one first.
Quick Backstory *Refer to the Wiki article, much of this below was written before I even had names for everything*
The War between the former Elkossian Federal Republik and the Peach Barbarians took a turn for the worst when the Peaches pushed the frontlines into the homeland, The Old World Government decided to Nuke both the Peach homeland, But the Peach armies were still charging toward the capital, and the Government resorted to bombing it's own territory to wipe the land clean, Unfortunatley they resorted to experimental WMDs which caused damage on a titanic scale, Effectivley wiping out civilization across the country and planet, except for small areas spared from the devastation.
50 Years later, The largest minifig population center is on the planet's largest Continent It encompasses Cities, Mountains, Forests, Deserts, Plains Regions, as well as Wasted Badlands. The Population centre however is fractured by as many as a dozen Post-Collapse Superpowers, City States and Autonomous Regions, All with different Goals, Ideologies and levels of power, Because of the devastation of the Great War, The way in which these Factions conduct war has changed signifigantly, The Majority of militaries consist of foot soldiers, Fuel is Precious, and is normally only used for military and industrial purposes, So Combat vehicles are only used in pivotal engagements. A new technology that the post-collapse world has created for war however is the combat drone. Drones were small enough to be able to run off Solar power, and were a much cheaper alternative to crewed vehicles. Crewed Vehicles was mostly limited to APCs and very large combat vehicles after the implementation of Unmanned Vehicles, Also known as Drones.
The "Triangle Wars" Began when preachers of the Great Triangle Society came in contact with the Dominion, and attempted to convert the locals, The Dominion responded by slaughtering the Preachers and invading the lands they came from. Other Regional powers entered the fray on various fronts against the Dominion and against each other
Again, These faction names will seem generic, I've given up trying to give them fancy names because while I put a lot of time into building these armies, I'm not -that- passionate about them anymore
Major Factions
Elkossian Dominion White/Black/Orange - Authorortarian Military Expansionist State - Offensive Faction - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=11236#p257356
Elkossian New Republik Black/Dgrey/Yellow - Conservative Libertarian Democratic State - Defensive Faction - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=11236#p257395
Techion Sovereignty Blue/Dgrey/Black - Technocratic Xenophilic Evolutionist State - Offensive Faction - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=11236&start=15#p258397
MOTA "Minifigs of the Apocalypse"Red/Black/Lgrey - Barbaric Anarcho-primitivism Doomsday Cult - Offensive Faction
Great Triangle SocietyGreen/Dgrey/Brown - Fanatical Religious Paramilitary State - Defensive Faction
Minor Factions
Pechen Remnants *Peaches* LGreen/Various - Remnants of the old-world Enemy army - Offensive Faction
The Brotherhood Dgrey/Lgrey - Reclusive Warrior Society - Defensive Faction
Desert Nomads Tan/Brown/Grey - Nomadic Semi-Civilized Raider Band - Offensive Faction
The Visitors Various -Tan/Brown/Grey - Highly advanced Extra-Terrestrial Alliance - Offensive Faction *Has no minifigs, Aliens, Robots, Monsters and Droids only*
The first I will feature is the Dominion.
DominionThere can be no peace in this world without order, We will subdue, or destroy those who oppose Order
Inspirations - Planetside 2's Terran Republic, Killzone's Helghan Nation, Fallout's Caesar's Legion, Real life Roman Empire. Fallout's Enclave
Containing much of the old country's Military heritage. The Dominion is Effectivley the Remnants of the Old World Government. However in the new post-collapse world. The Dominion and it's Leadership is obsessed with Control, Order, and Military Expansionism, Outsiders dismiss the Dominion as nothing more than a Bloated harem. As when it was founded, it functioned with a number of councillors, But Now it has a single self proclaimed Emperor at the head of it. They aim to create a post-collapse Utopia, But will use every asset of Authoritarian Brutality at it's disposal to repel it's enemies, and keep it's minifig populace productive and obedient.
The Dominion places heavy emphasis on Military power, no known post-collapse power can match it in brute strength or numbers. The Dominion Army is Organized, Professional, yet conventional. It's Primary doctrine is Brute Strength through Heavy armor and Overwhelming Numbers. The sheer weight of the Dominion's Military power has ended many wars with neighboring autonomous regions, before they even started.
Now what you opened this thread for. A lot of these are unmodified Star wars minifigs, I never bothered to change a lot of them because I liked the way they looked, and I couldn't make them into something I liked, without drastically reducing their numbers through canniballizing, So I just assigned the various SW figs different roles based on their numbers and appearance. Their Vehicles are all Custom though, Except for a bunch of bikes, which are never used anyway
Infantry forces in full
Command Staff, Left to Right Civics Director, The Emperor, Emperor's Personal Bodyguard, Ground Forces Commander *Not going to bother wasting time thinking up names, maybe someone else can give them some witty ironic titles*
Command Staff II, Industrial Director, R/D Developer, Powersuited Commando, Mechanized Commander
Cadets, Troopers still in training, When they are finished training they will be assigned to one of the Divisions, Infantry, Rifles, Specialists, which each have their own sub-divisions. The Special Purpose division also exists, but outside of the regular heirarchy. Troops do not go from Training into the SPD, They must finish a stint in one of the main three Divisions first. They are given low grade, captured weaponry and have no clear uniformity in their equipment
Light Infantry, Role is to flank and ambush enemies. as well as scouting and recon.
Assault Infantry Role is to take and hold ground, General purpose Infantry, Normally deployed in squads of 3, with it's 4th member being a Rifleman from the Rifles Division
Riflemen Role is to kill enemies from longer distances, with their high powered battle rifles, Units are always grouped with Assault Troopers in a 1:3 Ratio
Advanced Assault Infantry Experienced Assault Troopers given superior armor and training. Role is ambigious, Essentially the same as their predecessors, Although not always coupled with Rifles.
Advanced Riflemen Veteran Riflemen given new, flashy armor, and larger caliber rifles, Advanced Riflemen's Role is different than the regular. Is normally deployed in a trench warfare style. Inflict as much damage as possible from the greatest distance.Without getting their hands dirty. The Advanced Rifle Corps is larger than the regular due to most Riflemen being promoted into the corps early, or being moved out of the corps due to poor performance, whether that be reassignment or execution
Saboteurs, Role is to destroy enemy structures, installations and materiel. While still being competent fighters as well.
Shock Troopers advancement of Adv Assault Infantry, the best footsoldiers in the Dominion. Role is to charge into enemy lines and cause havoc by killing masses of enemies quickly.
Heavies, Role is to provide extra punch on the frontlines, whether it be Machineguns, Rockets. or even experimental OT weaponry
Combat OfficersLower tier Officers, Veteran soldiers of all backgrounds who have proven competent enough to lead and give orders.
Overseers Upper Tier Officers, Hardened Warriors and Leaders, each Division is lead by an Overseer, and those who aren't in charge of their own division, are often in charge commanding troops and lower ranked officers
Chem Troopers Troopers specializing in the deadly art of chemical and biological warfare *to be more specific, they are general purpose infantry that are deployed into areas where Chemical weapons have been used*
Mechanised Pilots, The drivers and operators of the Dominion's Non-Drone Land vehicles. Technically apart of the Special Purpose Division, but is one of the two groups in which Cadets can graduate into unlike the others
Support Staff, Blanket Term for various non-combat support roles, Left To Right, Technician, Medic, Mechanic, Engineer. Latter three are obvious roles, Technicians operate systems and machinery, and also assist the other Support staff. As more of a jack of all trades support role.
Dominion IFV Drones, and Gauss Drone, IFV drones are the most plentiful vehicles in the Dominion's Military, Strong armor and a twin machine gun for cutting down minifigs in droves, the Gauss Drone is a drone designed to destroy other drones, such as an Anti Tank role, for drones.
Dominion Battle Tanks, Pre-Collapse Medium Tanks that have been repainted, recieved new turrets and armor improvements. and upgraded with high caliber Gauss Cannons capable of destroying Drones, and moderatley effective against armoured vehicles such as APCs and Tanks. As well as Twin Machineguns like on the IFV Drones for taking out Minifigs.
Light Vehicles, Left is a Dominion FAV which have since been replaced by the right, the Light APC, Both are Post-war designs
APCs, Left is the common APC, Right is a Heavy APC. Both are upgraded, up-armoured pre-war designs
Lastly, Dominion Super-heavy Battle Tank, a Post-War design of only one is known to exist. Only known weak spot is the weapon itself, which must be vented after firing. Which is prone to overheat if the venting system is damaged
Size Comparison, and Crew hatch *Note the back shield has been dropped* I had a third picture showing it from the side, but Photobucket decided not to save it.
More to come.
*POLL NOTE - If I host a forum battle, it's going to be a sad knockoff of brikwars, it Will follow a simple forumla, each player will just give vague orders, Move there attack that do that etc, I will provide the "rulebook" so that participants can see how the specifics of the battle works and such, I'd personally rather host a forum battle than just a random game where I control everything,
Also, the "visitors" are a minor faction, but in terms of size, they are the second largest *may be surpassed by NR pending the arrival of my recent PickABrick parts order, Visitors are mostly SW Droids and random aliens anyway.


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