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The Best Oak Money Can't Buy
The cost of this stock is physical exertion, but it's fun and rewarding.
By Peter Follansbee
Pages: 38-43
From the October 2011 issue #192
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The riven oak that I use for joinery work is the best stock available; but it comes at a cost – the labor invested to produce it. Money can't buy this material; you must split and plane it. But the rewards are many. The oak produced in this manner is unsurpassed, better even than quartersawn stock. Each riven board is perfectly radial, and consequently very dimensionally stable. Straight-grained oak, freshly split, or "green," works like a dream. The effort involved in splitting and "dressing" the stock is physical, but fun work.
Another benefit of working this way is that you learn a good deal about trees and wood – how they grow, how it behaves. Green wood cuts much more easily than dry stock. Some planning is necessary in scheduling the processes that follow the splitting and planing, but it's simple enough. In this article, I will outline the steps I go through to produce stock for joinery projects.
The log is key. I look for an oak that is dead-straight, and free of branches, knots or other deformities. It should have a nice round trunk, not oval or misshapen in any way. Crosscut the log between the swelled butt and the first branches. Over the years, I have had success buying logs from a local sawmill; firewood cutters are also sometimes a good source for a log.
If you are not experienced with handling large logs and the equipment to work them, it's best to work with someone skilled at it. Chainsaws are a great aid to cutting large logs, but are best left to someone who is trained with them. Follow all safety precautions. Oak logs are quite heavy; use levers and other aids to move the log, and to prop it for crosscutting.
Set your log up on spacers, timbers or some large split sections of firewood to get it up off the ground. When cross-cutting, set these supports so that the saw is not between two spacers, but beyond the pair of them. Trying to saw between them results in the log closing in on itself and pinching the sawblade. A pinched saw is not fun. Clear the area underneath the intended cut to avoid hitting debris with the saw. Sometimes it's best to saw partway through the log, then roll it and come in from the other side to finish the cut.
The lengths of log I work with vary, depending on the projects at hand. For a joined stool or a carved box, I can make the pieces from a log as short as 2′ plus a few inches; for joined chests I need some pieces longer than 4′, but a great deal of the stock is short. All these are approximate lengths. Diameters are critical to the width of the board you will get. I like logs 2′ or more in diameter. Sometimes you can get narrow stock out of a really clear smaller log; but I wouldn't work with one much under 18″.
Time to Split
For short lengths, as for the joined stool or box, I stand the log up to split it; it's easier on the back. Score across the middle of the log, right through the pith, or center. You can score this line with the wedges and maul, or use a dull hatchet struck with a wooden club. The idea is to begin to sever the fibers with this scoring.
Then I place a thin steel wedge at each side of the end grain, out toward the sapwood/heartwood demarcation. Drive these in little by little. Light blows of the maul work best; heavy handedness tends to cause the wedges to bounce out of the log. Drive them in tandem. Listen for the cracking sound of the fibers tearing up. Stop hitting the wedges when they still have an inch or two sticking up from the log. The tendency is to bury them all the way in, but if for whatever reason the log does not give up, you can rescue your wedges if you have left an inch or two to strike side-to-side.
Usually by now a split has opened up enough to get a wooden wedge in place; I often locate this between the two steel wedges. As you drive this, the steel wedges come loose. Get them out of the way. Then drive the wooden wedge nearly to its head. By now a split should be running down the sides of the log. You can leapfrog the steel wedges into these side splits, and knock them in. More wooden wedges might be necessary as well. If there are fibers of wood criss-crossed inside, remove the steel wedges, drive wooden ones in to open the log up as much as possible, then get in there with a hatchet or long-handled axe and snip these fibers. Watch for the log falling open when these let go. Shins and feet are particularly at risk.
I sometimes will hew away the bark from the sides of the split; it helps you see what's happening. I am more likely to do this on a longer log than the short one shown here.
If I can see inside the split and there are no large fibers crossing inside the log, I go ahead to the next step before separating the halves. I score and split one half into quarters. This is easier if the log is still standing. Good straight stock will split reliably in this length.
Aim to always split the stock in halves – this equalizes stress on the log, and it results in splits that run true. Trying to break it into odd sections (thirds, fifths, etc.) usually results in some waste. Sometimes you get lucky, but it takes a really good log. At this stage, I tend to work one quarter, or at most one half, all the way into boards, as shown in the opening picture. I split it out into the desired stock thickness, then dress it in the shop with my bench planes. Leaving the rest of the log in large chunks retains its moisture. This is counter-intuitive to modern woodworking – I want my stock as green as possible for as long as possible – just the opposite of the kiln-dried crowd.
Splitting Into Boards:
Froe & Riving Brake
Sometimes to further split the oak into rough boards I use a froe and riving "brake." The froe is a wedge-shaped blade, about 10″ to 12″ long, with an eye at one end. The handle fits upward into this eye. In use, the froe is struck with a wooden club that drives the blade into the end grain of the billet. This starts the split. Then you put down the club, and twist the froe's handle, advancing the split. Shove the froe down to the bottom of the split, and twist again. To distinguish this aspect of the work from the maul and wedges work, I call this "riving" or cleaving the stock, and the previous step "splitting."
The riving brake is an aid in this step; it is a large wooden tripod with two rails fixed to its front legs (which are about 3′ apart at the height of the crossbars). I like to make my brakes with the bottom rail on the front of the legs, and positioned pretty much level. The top rail is nailed/fixed to the front of the leg on my right, just above the bottom rail. Its other end is angled upward, and fixed to the inside face of the leg on my left. Leave 8″-9″ between them at the wider end. Other rails fasten the front legs to the rear leg. These increase the stability of the brake, and also sometimes give you another spot to brace your workpiece.
The brake allows you to manipulate the split; by exerting more or less pressure you can direct the path of the split – to a degree. Drop a billet of wood into the brake's cross-rails, standing it up with the thinner end up. Drive the froe into the end grain with the club. Aim to divide it in half, as before. Drive the froe all the way into the wood.
At this stage I put down the club, and pull the workpiece up between the rails, until it's just about level, and with its bottom end caught in the fork of the rails. Twist the froe handle to continue the split. The rails provide the leverage. If the split "runs" to one side, turn the stock over so the thicker half of the piece is downward. Then exert leverage against that thick half as you twist the froe. This should start to bring the split back in line. Sometimes it is necessary to flip the piece a number of times.
Stock for furniture is usually around 1″ to 2″ thick, and at that thickness the riving is easiest. Slow going is good for beginners. Listen to the sound; with practice you will learn to hear differences in the riving.
Looks Like a Board
So now the stock should be radially riven to an oversized thickness and width; and it begins to look like boards at this point. The bark and sapwood must be removed before you can work it in the shop with bench planes. For this step, we purposely sidestep the rule about always splitting in halves. I usually use the froe to knock off the sapwood and bark. Drive the froe just inside the area of sapwood, then twist. Most likely, your split will run out. Come in from the other end and repeat. With the joiners' hatchet (broad hatchet, hewing hatchet, side hatchet – it has a lot of names) hew away any sapwood that remains.
Hewing is something new for many furniture makers; it is very rewarding work, but there is a degree of finesse involved. You don't just go hacking away at the wood. First, consider the shape of the tool – the hatchet has only one bevel. Mostly flat on its back, it has a slight scoop along the cutting edge, and is fitted with a short handle, which is held in one hand. You will also want a large hewing stump (also called a hacking stock or chopping block). Mine are about 20″ diameter or more, and about 24″ high. I keep one or two outside where I break open the logs, and another in the shop. Keep the surface of the stump free of debris, otherwise the hatchet's edge is dulled quickly.
Posture and stance are important. Hold the stock on end, positioned across the stump from you. I lean the stock a little, and the action of the hatchet is plumb, or perpendicular to the surface of the stump. I'm right-handed, so I drop my right leg a good bit behind me. This serves two purposes. The first is with my feet spread apart like this, it makes a more stable base from which to work. Second, with my leg back out of the way, an errant blow from the hatchet is less likely to make contact with my body.
Make relief cuts with the hatchet to a visual line just inside the sapwood. You can strike a chalkline, too, if that helps. Use a light chopping action. Start at the bottom and work upward about three-quarters of the way up the stock. Stop before you get close to your upper hand. Now straighten the stock up, and keeping the hatchet in the same path as before, swing it lightly to remove the stock you have scored with the first cuts. Removing sapwood this way is good practice for actually hewing the finished surface as preparation for planing.
Next comes dressing the stock into boards. For this work, I usually move into the shop, where I work at the bench and stump. Check each radial face to see which is best. We are looking for whichever face is closest to flat with no twist, no bow or hump. If there are problems, use a hatchet to remove the bulk of excess material so that planing will go more quickly.
Get Ready to Plane
There are many methods for holding the stock for planing. I will describe the bench I use; it's based on 17th-century engravings to a large extent. I use a "bench hook" – a 17th-century term for a toothed iron planing stop set in a wooden block in the bench. Raise or lower the bench hook so that it catches the end grain of the workpiece, but make sure it's low enough so the plane iron doesn't hit it. I just shove the workpiece into the teeth of the bench hook. I sight down along the top surface of the stock to check for wind or twist and other deviations from flat. While there is no 17th-century evidence for winding sticks, I find them quite useful. You can make them from two pieces of very straight-grained stock. Plane them to an even width. Check them against each other to ensure that they are straight. To use the winding sticks, set one near each end of the board, crouch down, close one eye and sight across them. If their top edges both lie in a plane, then the board is not twisted. If thereis a twist, the winding sticks will readily reveal it. Then the first strokes of your planing will be aimed at correcting this twist.
Fore Plane
The first plane I use is a "fore" plane – similar to a "scrub" plane these days. The one thing both these planes have in common is the shape of the cutting iron, and the thickness of the shaving they are set to cut. The cutting end of the iron is a convex curve, sometimes quite pronounced. The shavings are thick, to quickly remove as much stock as possible. There is at times debate about the proper length and width for these planes. I think there is a great deal of leeway here. I prefer a wide plane for this work. I find it more comfortable to handle than the narrow planes commonly sold as scrub planes these days. Mine are usually shorter (about 8″-10″) than what we think was used in some 17th-century contexts. Some of my fore planes are German smooth planes that I reground to a convex iron. I sometimes throw away the cap iron and make a new wedge for them while I am at it.
The aim for this planing is to remove the bulk of the material, in preparation for finish planing the surface. The green wood shaves with remarkable ease. The fore plane can be used in line with the grain, or directly across it, or anywhere in between. At this point, the condition of the surface is of no concern. Check frequently with winding sticks and a straightedge to be certain of your progress. The planing strokes head toward the bench hook. I often am shuffling the workpiece this way and that so that my plane aims for the hook. If the stroke does not aim for the bench hook, the workpiece can whip around and go skittering off the bench – not a problem unless someone is watching, or is in the line of fire.
Jointer Plane
If the stock is really the best quality, my next step is to plane it with a jointer plane. A fine shaving is all I want; the gist is to smooth and flatten the stock, and remove the marks from the fore plane. The wet wood planes quite easily, but it will not take the best finish right now. The main goal at this stage is to produce a nice flat face that is as smooth as the stock will allow at this point.
I next strike a chalkline on this face, near the edge where the sapwood was removed. This edge is easiest to straighten. I trim the edge with the hatchet, then use the jointer to plane it nice and even. To secure the stock for planing the edge, my bench has two options. For some short stock, I secure the end of the stock in a double screw – a pair of wooden cheeks fixed to each other with large wooden screws. This keeps the stock up on edge, then I jam its forward end against the bench hook. For longer stock, I fix the piece in the single screw on the bench's edge. This sometimes requires its other end be propped up on a peg in a sliding deadman.
Now with the face and edge done, I mark the thickness on the planed edge; use either a chalkline or marking gauge. Depending on how much thickness needs to be removed, you can rive some off with the froe, this time employing the tendency for uneven splits to run out – otherwise you can hew off the excess or plane it with the fore plane.
That's a lot of options, but over time all of these techniques are employed, depending on the specifics of each board. I try to work the boards down to rough thickness. Sometimes the rear face is only worked to the fore plane stage. Frequently I will leave the second edge for later. These riven boards often taper in width as well as thickness, and sometimes I can't decide what width I need until I have a project in mind.
Now Wait
The surface you plane in dead-green stock like this is excellent, but not the best. There tend to be some fuzzy qualities to it. Before I proceed further, I sticker the boards in the shop, and let them sit for a while. How long depends on several factors – the relative humidity in the shop is the most critical. Winters in my shop are dry with the heat on; summers are humid with the windows and doors open. So stock takes longer to settle down in summer than in winter.
If the room is too dry, you might want to seal the end grain of the boards, particularly with thicker stock like that for the stiles for joined stools, and chairs and chests. I use yellow glue; I often have it around the shop, but only rarely use it as an adhesive. Thus mine goes bad before I finish the bottle, so I don't mind using it for this. Dedicated sealers can be found as well. Latex paint can work, too.
The heavier stock I even bury in a pile of fresh shavings for the first few days. Then I sticker it in a pile (away from any heat source or sunlight). I find that white oak is trickier to dry than red oak. Thick (2″ or more) pieces of white oak often want to check on the end grain, or even along the tangential surface. Burying them in shavings for a while first often is enough to slow down this drying.
Take them out now and then to look them over. Slower is better; this is not to be rushed. Stickers provide air flow between the boards. If you stack the boards without them, mold will form on the faces of the stock.
When I am really organized, and working a lot of boards at once, I often write the date on the end grain. This makes it easier to keep track of a lot of stock.
Smoothing Plane
After the boards have sat for a while (roughly two to four weeks) I can then take them from the stack, and with a sharp smoothing plane, re-plane the surface. We're just talking about a few strokes to clean up any torn, fuzzy fibers. The surface of the stock has dried enough now to take a finer finish cut with the plane; but the interior of the stock is still moist. Thus cutting is still easier than it would be on kiln-dried stuff. Now is the time to carve decoration, cut joinery, and do any turned work for the project at hand.
When things go really well with a log, I end up with stock prepared far ahead. If it gets drier than I want, I reserve it for boxes, panels in joined work, some framing parts, etc. I store it on shelves up on edge so I can easily see the width of the stock. In this pile, it needs no spacers between.
That's about the run of it. It sounds like more work than it is. As with any handwork, with practice you end up making various critiques and decisions as you work the stock; it needs to be thinner here, wider there. It is an ongoing culling process, making boards directly from logs. But you won't get better stock anywhere – and by the time it gets to your bench for a project, you'll know that board backward and forward. PWM
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How Can I Make Him Regret Losing Me? It's All In Your Attitude
"How can I make him regret losing me?" There's the one question you've been longing to find an answer to, right? You feel so incredibly lost since the break up. You know in your mind that you should really just pick up the pieces of your broken life and move on but you don't really know how to accomplish that. What your heart tells you is much different. It's screaming at you to do whatever you can to make him see what he lost so he comes running back to you, heart in hand, begging you to be his girl again. If only it were as easy as wishing to make it happen. Unfortunately, it's not. If you truly want to make the man curse the day you walked out of his life, you have to shift your attitude and show him a whole other side of the woman he once couldn't live without.
The First Step to Make Him Regret the Break Up
The first, and definitely most important, step to take when you want to ensure your ex regrets the moment of the break up is to become the woman you've always longed to be. We all wish there were things about ourselves we could change. They don't necessarily have to be related to our physical beings. For instance, if you've long wished you could pursue a degree, enrol in night classes. If you've toyed with the idea of changing careers, do some research into that now. Whatever you've had on your personal self improvement to-do list should be your sole focus. This is the moment in your life when you can become the woman you've always known you had the potential to be.
Don't Use Jealousy to Make Him Wish He Had You Back
Many women mistakenly jump to the incorrect conclusion that in order to make their ex feel deep regret he has to imagine them with another man. It makes sense in a very logical world, but love and emotion are far from logical. If you travel down this heady road and you attempt to make your ex jealous, you're going to end up feeling more alone than you do now. Men aren't like us. They don't feel the fire of envy boiling within them when they see an ex with another lover. For us, as women, this is often the catalyst that makes us rush back to our ex, hearts all confused, ready to do whatever he wants to make the relationship work. Men would much rather just walk away for good. If your ex boyfriend sees, hears or even imagines that you're dating another man, he'll push you out of his heart forever. The only regret he will feel is regret for not ending the relationship sooner. Hell believe, based on your actions, that you had one foot out the door for months and were just waiting to grab your chance to be with someone else.
Maturity as a Tool to Make Him Remember His Love for You
I know how difficult it is to stay poised when you are faced with something as tumultuous as a painful breakup. You feel as though your heart is on your sleeve and you struggle to understand what you should be doing tomorrow, let alone for the rest of your life. Those emotions are personal and should be kept as such. If you call your ex asking him repeatedly why he dumped you or what you can do to win him back, you're devaluing who you are as a potential, future partner to him. You have to resist all temptation to do that. You must stay strong and focused on the end goal which is that future that you dream of.
If you distance yourself from your ex boyfriend for a time and show him that you're strong with or without him, he'll soon start to regret the break up. He'll see all the qualities in you that he initially fell for. He'll remember the woman who could make him laugh at the drop of a hat and who could touch his heart unlike anyone else. By being strong, self focused and removed, you will be drawing him back in and the only bait you have to use is maturity and patience.
Learn about my personal journey to get my ex boyfriend back. It's never as bleak as it seems – you can get him to love you again if you understand the steps you need to take and what you must avoid doing.


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NAI Announces Member-Wide Compliance in Its Annual Report and Launches New and Improved Consumer Education Resources Around Interest-Based Ads
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - Feb 7, 2013) - The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) today released its 2012 Annual Compliance Report, which provides a comprehensive view of how the organization's members, comprised of nearly 100 third-party digital advertising companies, are complying with the NAI Code. The compliance review demonstrated that member companies continue to take their obligations under the Code seriously, and the results are a strong indication that self-regulation of online advertising is working today. The Compliance Report also provides insight into new developments within the organization, including the NAI's compliance monitoring tool, which helps to identify potential technical issues before they can affect users, as well as the newly launched consumer education resources provided on the NAI website.
The NAI Code of Conduct has among the highest standards in the industry surrounding best practices for notice, choice, transparency, use limitations, data minimization, security, and accountability requirements with respect to online behavioral advertising. The NAI enforces this Code through a comprehensive compliance program that includes annual reviews, ongoing technical monitoring, sanctions procedures, and annual reporting. The 2012 compliance review covered the 76 member companies subject to review, and included nearly 100 interviews, as well as an extensive review of thousands of pages of questionnaire responses, privacy policies, contracts, internal policies, marketing materials, website content, training materials, and other documents by NAI staff.
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In addition, because of the disincentives established in the NAI Code, no evaluated company was found to collect or use sensitive consumer data or to merge PII with non-PII for OBA purposes.
Each year, the NAI leverages the findings of its annual review to further strengthen its self-regulatory program and update its Code to ensure that it remains relevant. The organization also includes a review of its own accomplishments and an overview of priorities for the year ahead within its Annual Compliance Report. Among its achievements, the NAI built and implemented a compliance monitoring tool to identify and resolve potential issues before they affect users. It also launched a new website and consumer education page, and it began fully enforcing a health transparency policy. In 2013, the NAI plans to update its Code of Conduct to include guidelines on the collection and use of data on mobile devices, and the use of technologies other than standard http cookies.
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By Nicole Froio, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The blocos (street samba parties) are a main attraction during Carnival season in Rio de Janeiro, but they can leave behind incredible amounts of dirt, trash and carnage. Every year, there is one particular victim that suffers after a bloco finished its festivities; the flowerbeds in Ipanema.
In their inebriated, fun-filled stupor the party-goers forget (or don't know) that the flowerbeds are nurtured and looked after by residents and public attendants all year long. As a result the plants are usually stomped on and destroyed, not to mention turned into trash bins and toilets.
This year, the Rio government is surrounding the flower beds next to the buildings on Avenida Vieira Souto (Vieira Souto Avenue). However, the main twenty little gardens spotting the median along the beach-side roadway have been left without any protection.
Riotur has promised they will be put behind protecting fences by 5:30 PM today, before the Banda de Ipanema performance. Until last night, nothing had been done to achieve this goal.
Residents are worried about the main beds in Ipanema with reason, as they only just restored them to health since last year's Carnival. Efforts to save the plants were made by the Rio government and the car dealership Serttel/Samba, in partnership with Itaú Unibanco.
Jaime Monjardim, president of the Comercial Association of Ipanema and Leblon, told O Globo he thinks the plants get a death sentence every year because of Carnival.
He said: "Last year, after the blocos went by, eighty percent of the flower beds were destroyed. We made great efforts to restore them. Now, the city council is letting forty blocos perform here. Even with the fences, we can't contain this many people."
According to Riotur's website, there are only fifteen blocos scheduled to perform in Ipanema. In Leblon, the flowerbeds should be fenced and ready to go by February 1st according to authorities.
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Burst Angel -- Baku Ten (Bakuretsu Tenshi)
WOW, did you see that animation, awesome
If the entire series will be like this everything else is gonna look so dull
Seems to be a rather normal mecha series, so I fear a 10 line story and nothing but battles...
Not sure yet if I'll check this one out, maybe one episode for the art ...
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Baku Ten (Bakuretsu Tenshi)
Another genius anime series by Studio Gonzo ?
Well, after watching episode 1; yes, definitely.
1. The animation
Better then all other new series. Much action scenes, too.
2. Opening
Not bad. Matter of opinion.
3. Character design
Amazing. But somehow it reminds me a little of Noir (really; can`t help it) ... and on the other hand of Kiddy Grade.
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I just saw the raw of Bakuten, and I've to say that this series rocks!!! The spectacular battle in the opening of the show is entirely done in 3d, of which Gonzo is famous for. However, I feel that that the subsequent animation can be improved, but of course I'm nitpicking here. As for the story, the first episode is a typical 'introduce the main characters', but I dont understand enough japanese to tell the details here. Lastly, just as what Mb81 says, the character design is amazing, but I dont understand why it reminds him of Noir and Kiddy Grade..?
Another awesome series by Gonzo, really...
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It had nice eye candies and character design was very nice. But who know about the rest. It's been only one episode and it can go either way in things like character development, plot, etc. Should check it out for at two or three more episode before deciding to continue watching it.
By the way this series can be generalized as girls with attitude who has guns.
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God... I hope it doesn't end up like Noir... Geh... That annoying little music box from the beginning was so evilllll... They kept replaying it over and over again...
I am just a little disappointed that they grey haired female character is well... a girl... From those posters a while back (the Girls X Guns X 3DCG one) I thought that the grey haired character was a guy
But the character designs look really nice... I can't wait for this to be released with English subs
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The Opening Animation (not OP song) is spectacular albeit... not... smooth, but spectacular nonetheless. As far as characters are concerned, I did not get the "Noir-ish" feeling as mention in above post.
The premise of this show is what's dragging me in at this point--a post-apocolyptic Metro-Tokyo with the obligatory urban chaos and human decay. It's a place where things have gotten so bad, that the strict Japanese gun-control laws*** that we know in reality are moot, so much so that the government in this near-future fanstasyland has simply declared to its people, "Go ahead and arm yourselves, it's a dangerous world."
If anything, Baku-Tenshi reminds me more of R.O.D. the TV series, in that here (again) is a freelance group of people (girls) working for an unknown entity, making a living stealing from petty-crooks and mobsters.
The characters, as expected of most 1st episode, are largely uncommited and besides the obligatory run-and-gun, there was little in terms of development. Then again, it is the first episode.
As I skimmed the preview, the mention of "Shibuya" and its "utter chaos and lawlessness" cracked me up as it is true in the Shibuya, Japan we know today, albeit without too much of the general urban decay seen in Baku-Tenshi. I remember being in Shibuya a couple years back and boy was I glad I was there during the day By all accounts, according to a Japanese friend of mine(a guy named Jun 純 ... I poke fun at him at lot for that ), it's a mess in Shibuya. Maybe kj can shed more light on that as he's only a few JR rides away
In any case, I'm expecting good thing out of this series, and am keeping an open mind just because it's GONZO
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Note: Damn that was a good read at 7 A.M. Please excuse and correct any translation discrepencies.
Japanese Deadly Weapons-control laws--rough translations here... it's a good read
Chapter One basically says "Anyone, with the exception to those in the circumstances listed herein, are NOT to possess firearms." The Chaptor One list is long, specific, and far more restrictive than the ones in the States. Then again, in the United States, we just have the 2nd Amendment, which recogizes the right to bear arms (personally I don't agree with the current interpretation, but that's just me, my opinion, and don't flame me for it) and plenty of restrictions to keep us safe.
Chaptor Two recognizes the need for deadly weapons in very specific circumstances (sea-fishing, hunting, and such...) and list out the requirements as well as a strigent screening and registration policy.
Bah read the rest yourself if you want I'm tired. Oh and Chaptor Five lists ou the punishment for the violators of these statutes.
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"It's amazing,'' Perry said. "You can shoot 64 and be two behind. Typical day on the Champions Tour.''
Only three of Mize's eight birdies came on putts inside 10 feet. He holed a 25-footer on No. 7 and a 45-footer on No. 11.
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SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - An alleged leader of the New York arm of a global cyber crime ring, which stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks, was shot dead during an attempted robbery in the Dominican Republic last month, Dominican police said on Friday.
Alberto Lajud-Pena, 23, was killed on April 27 in a house in the city of San Francisco de Macoris about 100 miles northeast of the capital, Santo Domingo, according to police.
Investigators found $100,000 in cash in the house, as well as an M-16 assault rifle, two 9 mm pistols, a revolver, ammunition clips and a telescopic sight. The money and weapons belonged to Lajud-Pena, police said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's largest community college might be forced to close next year after regulators voted on Wednesday to strip City College of San Francisco of its accreditation.
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges cited a lack of financial accountability and a raft of other longstanding problems, including leadership and governance deficiencies, when it voted to stop accrediting the two-year school serving 85,000 students as of July 31, 2014.
Lost accreditation would trigger funding cuts that would shutter the 78-year-old school.
The college vowed to remain open, and the state chancellor, who oversees the community colleges, proposed appointing a special trustee to oversee the school and strip the local governing board of its power, City College spokeswoman Jennifer Aries told Reuters.
Aries said the college would request a review of the decision, and if necessary, appeal it. "In the meantime, the college is open, we are accredited, we are enrolling students and moving forward," she said.
Alisa Messer, an English instructor and president of the faculty union, also vowed to keep the college open.
"We've spent the last year turning ourselves upside down to meet the accreditation demands, and apparently it wasn't enough," she said. "It's destabilized an institution that's already in terrible straights because of funding cuts.
"We're vowing to ensure that the college remains open and accredited."
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee called the troubled college "an irreplaceable and valued institution" and pledged to work closely with college and city officials to expedite necessary reforms to keep the college's doors open.
He described City College as "central to our efforts to equip our youth and adults with the skills to compete and succeed in the 21st-century economy."
"Our city's economy depends on it," he said.
The U.S. Department of Education authorizes the commission to evaluate community and junior colleges every six years.
In a news release, the commission said the college had fully addressed only two of 14 necessary recommendations for change. The commission cited inadequacies in financial accountability, leadership and governance as the primary obstacles to turning around the school.
City College began operating in San Francisco with about 1,100 students in 1935. It has nine primary campuses, nearly 200 neighborhood sites and offers vocational training in nursing, culinary arts and aircraft mechanics.
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This page explain how to add support for your superio chip in Superiotool.
The superio I have(SMSC LPC47N217) is already supported but has no extended dump, we'll show how to add that.
Here's the main structure(from superiotool.h) for adding extended registers:
struct superio_registers { int32_t superio_id; /* Signed, as we need EOT. */ const char *name; /* Super I/O name */ struct { int8_t ldn; const char *name; /* LDN name */ int16_t idx[IDXSIZE]; int16_t def[IDXSIZE]; } ldn[LDNSIZE]; };
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Bulls' season a snore without Rose
It says a lot about Chicago's upcoming NBA season that as many people know when the Bulls are going to open as know when the Blackhawks' season will begin.
But you're forgiven for having no clue that the Bulls on Wednesday at home against Sacramento will play the first game of a season that couldn't be less relevant if the Bulls were also locked out.
The NBA season can be an exercise in futility for the best of teams without a chance to win it all. The Bulls without Derrick Rose will merely be exercising.
And until the day Rose returns from a knee injury, with apologies to Tom Thibodeau, the Bulls simply aren't a factor.
Of course, this is heresy to the likes of Thibodeau, who will coach the players he has on the roster, and he will coach them harder than any coach in the NBA.
To him, Rose will be out of mind, if not out of sight, until the day Rose is cleared to play.
The Bulls will win a lot of games, too, just as they always do in the regular season, because Thibodeau will ensure that his team plays harder, and with better defense, than any team in the league.
They will grind and they will fight and they will defend. They will wear teams down and discover ways to win games they shouldn't win. It's a Thibodeau trait, and we would expect nothing less.
It's just that it doesn't matter until Rose returns and even then it probably doesn't matter much, either.
While it may be hard to remember now, there was a time last spring when many around these parts thought the Bulls could win the NBA championship.
That wasn't the opinion here, but we'll never know what might have happened against the Heat had Rose not been injured in the final minutes of Game 1 against Philadelphia -- when he probably shouldn't have been on the floor.
Prior to that moment, the Bulls thought they could give Miami a run for its Eastern Conference money, having earned homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs for the second straight year.
But the Bulls couldn't beat the Heat in 2011, and they would have had a similarly difficult time in 2012.
If the Bulls were healthy today you could probably pencil them in for another bout with Miami, but even with Rose they are still not a team built to beat the Heat.
At the same time, Boston got a bit younger and deeper this summer as the Celtics look to make another run. Indiana and Philadelphia also think they can compete for one of the final two spots in the East, and Brooklyn will be entertaining though probably not ready to face the West.
Regardless, Miami improved with the addition of Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis and will again save something for the postseason, an approach Thibodeau is unwilling to consider even with a full roster and Derrick Rose at 100 percent.
When he makes his comeback, the good news is Rose won't be exhausted for the first time in April, but the bad news is not even Rose knows for certain how much confidence he will have on a rebuilt ACL.
The Bulls won't allow Rose to play until his knee is 100 percent and seriously tested, but it's easy to forget that last season Rose played only 39 of 66 regular-season games as he suffered numerous injuries, including a turf toe, foot strain, ankle sprain, pulled groin and back spasms.
If he's entirely healthy, there will still be a roster that has played without him for several months, and it will take some time for all of them to adjust.
Add it up and it looks like a misplaced season for the Bulls, a playoff season but not one in which it's reasonable to believe they can reach the NBA Finals.
That is stunning when you remember where they were on April 28 in the minutes before Rose hurt his knee. They had taken apart Philly in Game 1 and looked to be on the same path as the season before when they met the Heat in the Eastern Conference finals.
That feels like a very long time ago now.
Nevertheless, it will be incredibly exciting and a huge Chicago event when Rose comes back.
He will give Bulls fans hope again for another postseason run.
There will be big talk of big things, the hype breathtaking and the noise ear-busting.
Wake me when it happens.
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The House gaveled back into session Wednesday afternoon, May 10 this year's legislative agenda in what is known as the Veto Session.
Veto Session
The House gaveled back into session Wednesday afternoon, May 10 this year's legislative agenda in what is known as the Veto Session. The House has proposed several packages in order to reach an agreement with the Senate on taxes and budget and is waiting to receive responses from Senate negotiators. While waiting for a compromise to take shape, the House voted on conference committee reports left from when the legislature adjourned the regular session in April. (Conference Committee Reports allow several similar bills to be bundled together to pass as one bill – this allows weak bills to make it through the system by being bundled with a strong, popular bill. It sometimes forces you to vote in favor of something you oppose, just to ensure the primary legislation does get passed. Many of us opposed the procedural legislation at the beginning of session in January but could not garner enough support to stop the procedure).m
During the veto session, the House meets twice a day to discuss the conference committee reports which are passed during the day. As reports are completed by committees, they are then brought to the House floor for a vote of the full body. This will be the same procedure for the budget and tax reports once an agreement has
been reached. While veto session can be slow and frustrating at times, it is important to allow the process to work to ensure good state policy is achieved.
Budget/Tax Update
The House and Senate both continue to negotiate over differences between our two budget and tax plans. The conference committees on budget and tax have to reconcile the two different budgets and tax plans into one uniform bill for the budget and one bill for the tax plan. The one constitutional duty of the legislature is to pass
a budget before the session ends and a key component to the budget is tax legislation. Thus, the work of the budget and tax conference committees is especially important to ending the session. During the legislative session both the House and Senate passed two-year budgets which included recommendations for FY 2014 and FY 2015, each leaving the state in the black. The House budget has an ending balance of $386.8 million in FY 2014 and $104.8 million in FY 2015. This is compared to the Senate
budget which has an ending balance of $492.0 million in FY 2014 and $377.7 million in FY 2015. The House budget contains an additional $211.4 million in cuts from the governor's recommendation and the Senate plan contains an additional $48.7 million from the governor's recommendation. It is important to note the House budget saves more money and spends less than that of the Senate's. The House's ending balances are lower
because of the differences in the House and Senate tax plans.
The significant difference between the House and Senate tax plans is how they treat the state sales tax rate.
The House plan contains a 2 percent growth in revenue trigger so that as revenues grow above 2 percent from the previous year, the excess funds would be used to continue to buy down income tax rates. The House plan would also allow the state sales tax to drop from 6.3 percent to 5.7 percent on July 1, 2013 as it is slated to do
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The position many legislators now face is how they will vote on the one cent sales tax. Many legislators opposed the tax when it was voted in two years ago. Several more voted in favor of it two years ago based on the promise that it would sunset, as scheduled this year. Many new legislators campaigned on the issue to
sunset the tax, which supports the House position. The final outcome this week is sure to contain interesting compromises in order to come to agreement on both the tax plan and the budget.
I encourage you to call me at 785-296-7653/913-683-0871 or e-mail me at email@example.com and let me know your thoughts and/or suggestions. We will adjourn later this month, but I will still be available to discuss any topic you are interested in. Thank you for the honor of serving you!


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The Kalashnikov assault rifle, or AK-47, is one of the most dangerous and widely used weapons in the world. For more than 60 years, nations, rebels, gangsters and child soldiers have wielded the gun.
And now, Russian officials say it's outdated. As part of a $700 billion army modernization program, the country has announced a redesign of the rifle.
New York Times foreign correspondent C.J. Chivers — author of The Gun, a book about the Kalashnikov — tells NPR's Audie Cornish that the updates are mostly cosmetic.
The plan is to add external features that would allow the use of accessories like flashlights and laser rangefinders. According to Chivers, at its core, the new Kalashnikov is basically the same rifle. The only change is that it seems to be targeting a new market.
"This new product, called the AK-12, is really going to be designed for traditional military customers," he says. "They're making this for police forces and military forces."
But Chivers doubts they'll have much luck reaching those customers. He says the market is already fully saturated with Kalashnikovs made not only in Russia, but also in Iraq, North Korea and China, to name a few places.
"There's a glut out there already of these rifles for the people who need them in short order, say, to go to war in Libya or to go to war in Syria or to go to war most anywhere else," he says.
That glut can be attributed to the gun's incredible staying power.
Designed in 1945 by former Russian tank gunner Mikhail Kalashnikov, the AK-47 was the first gun to bridge the gap between submachine guns and long, heavy rifles. It was a simple, reliable, lightweight weapon that almost anyone could use. And once it was put into mass production, it was available to almost everyone.
Saving 'Russia's Coca-Cola'
More likely, Chivers says, the redesign is motivated by a desire to help save "the Detroit of the modern rifle world."
"The main Kalashnikov plant for the Russian Federation is the same as the main Kalashnikov plant during the Soviet Union's time," Chivers says, "and that's located out in the Ural Mountains in a city called Izhevsk."
The fortunes of Izhevsk have risen and fallen with the popularity of the Kalashnikov. Today, it can be characterized as a struggling factory town, but orders for new Kalashnikovs could help change that.
A second likely motivation Chivers cites is national pride.
"The Kalashnikov is in many ways Russia's Coca-Cola. It's their brand. It's the one thing that they made that we all know of and that has had global saturation," he says. "And to have it sort of catch up to what's been going on in Western rifles — the ability to carry all these additional features — and to have it going forward as a legitimate brand and not a legacy product, I think that's driving some of this, too."
Vladimir Putin isn't the only Russian icon with an image problem. The Kalashnikov assault rifle, or AK-47, is one of the most dangerous and widely used weapons in the world. It's used by nations and rebel groups, by gangsters and child soldiers. And now, Russian officials say it's outdated. So they've announced a redesign of the AK as part of a $700 billion army modernization program.
Here to talk to us about what's in store for this notorious weapon is C.J. Chivers, roving foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is also author of a book on the Kalashnikov, called "The Gun."
Welcome, Chris.
C.J. CHIVERS: Thanks for having me.
CORNISH: So, to begin, what was so remarkable about the AK-47, the original, that has allowed that weapon to endure for so long and to proliferate?
CHIVERS: Well, the AK-47, when it first came out, sort of bridged the difference between the submachine guns of World War I and the long, heavy rifles of the era up till that time. And what it did was it put into mass production a simple and reliable, lightweight weapon that almost anyone could use to make automatic fire. And then it was mass-produced in such numbers that it became available to most everyone outside of Western democracies. And this is the reason that it's still around. It worked really well, and it's out there now in uncountable numbers.
CORNISH: What are the changes that the Russian military is planning?
CHIVERS: At this point, they're largely cosmetic. This is the latest in a cycle of sort of reimagining the Kalashnikov. And what they're doing in the simplest sense now is putting on different external features that will allow the weapon to more easily have a site, or a flashlight, or a laser range finder; a number of accoutrements or sort of aftermarket add-on items that can bring the weapon more in line with what you see many Western conventional military is carrying.
CORNISH: Can you tell us about the manufacturing of this weapon? We've talked about how it's proliferated, but in Russia, how will these changes be significant?
CHIVERS: Well, I think the significance here is principally social. The main Kalashnikov plant for the Russian Federation is the same as the main Kalashnikov plant during the Soviet Union's time. And that's located out in the Ural Mountains in a city called Izhevsk. And Izhevsk is, in many ways, a Detroit, maybe the Detroit of the modern rifle world. Its fortunes have risen and fallen with the sort of pre-eminence of the Kalashnikov rifle. And the emphasis now would be on fallen.
Since the end of the Soviet period, there have been very few orders. And this is, in the simplest sense, a struggling factory town that's looking for more orders so it can keep more people at work. There's also sort of something psychological at work here. The Kalashnikov is, in many ways, Russia's Coca-Cola. It's their brand. It's the one thing that they made that we all know of and that has had global saturation.
You know, we don't buy Russian pacemakers, or Russian watches, or Russian perfumes, or Russian automobiles in any significant numbers. But the Kalashnikov is the thing, and to have it sort of catch up to what's been going on in Western rifles - the ability to carry all of these additional features - and to have it going forward as a legitimate brand and not a legacy product, I think is driving some of this too. That there's an element of the feel-good here no matter how many rifles actually, in fact, will be sold.
CORNISH: Chris, of course, you're talking about this in terms of its manufacturing a benefit for Russia. But what does it mean, you know, for the rest of the world? This gun is considered one of the most dangerous because of the number of people that have died because of it.
CHIVERS: Well, I think you could argue here that what's good for Izhevsk is not necessarily good for the world. And that Izhevsk is facing a saturated market, which means there's more of these out there than anybody needs already. And having Russia leaning forward into rifle exports right now probably is in the interests of its defense fear, and it's in the interest of this one manufacturing center. But I'm not sure it's good for the rest of us.
CORNISH: C.J. Chivers, thank you so much for talking with us.
CHIVERS: Thanks for having me.
CORNISH: C.J. Chivers, he's a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He's also author of a book about the Kalashnikov called "The Gun." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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LeAnn Rimes cuddles with a cute puppy while visiting a pet adoption stand on Saturday afternoon (March 30) in Los Angeles.
The 30-year-old singer has previously adopted an abandoned dog into her family.
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