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Looks cool!
Sure, as a portable device it's ridiculous - no-one's going to want to lug that thing around. But as a simple to use, touch-screen media centre it would be amazing. It's irritating that no company makes something like this. I just want a device I can plug into an amp and speakers and play MP3s. Bundle this thing with a remote control and sell it for a netbook price and you've got a winner.


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Felton and Smith do more bad for the Knicks than good...the day we replace these guys is the day we become a more serious team. They're Isiah type players.
Felton and Smith do more bad for the Knicks than good...the day we replace these guys is the day we become a more serious team. They're Isiah type players.
what the fizzle
I had to step away from the game when they were up by 15. What in the world happened!?
I'm getting tired of this stand in one spot offense .. we're playin the Detroit Pistons
lol, Smith is so bad right now.
Well, I guess we found out that Woodson thinks JR Smith is a PF.
Sad as it is, I'll take a win.
Did we or did we not play SCARED/FRIGHTEN b.ball without a coaching-plan vs the Detroit Pistons last night?
We have no other plan to win other than attempt 35 shots from the 3-ball line .. pityful
What did u guys think of our non-existent team-defense, and our stand in one spot on the peremeter for 20 seconds on offense?
Our win over the Detroit Pistons were suppose to be shooting over 50% from FG, having close to 30 assists, and 8 of our players going to the foul line. But we did none of that, which leave the question open "What the hell do we do in Practice???"
The way we played the Pistons .... the Thunders are going to kill us tonight in OKC by a 40 point win.
Perkins/Ibaka/and Collison gell to well as frontcourt bigmen-defenders that put "Stop" signs on Griffin, Duncan, Howard, Gasol, Dirk, Zach, Gasol-2, Love, ect.
Stat dont have a chance against OKC frontcourt bigmen .. because coach Woody been playing with Stat's minutes, and putting Stat in weak slow-ballin lineups that always have our no-passing-skillz JR or Melo in it .... so what Melo & JR give Stat one decent-pass every-other-game, its ussually a back-door play b\c oposition know the two are ball-hoggers not passers...

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Rolls-Royce reveals Ghost Series II
Because it exists in the James May dimension, progress at Rolls-Royce could generously be described as… relaxed. Because this Ghost 'Series II' is the manufacturer's idea of a facelift.
So, what exciting new things has the company's 7-Series-based land yacht got now? Not a whole lot. On the outside there are fresh LED headlights that allow permanent full-beam, refreshed bumpers and bonnet, new paint options, and new wheel options. Oh and an optional light-up Spirit of Ecstasy surely to be found in London's next pop-up premium vodka bar.
Inside there are redesigned front seats, re-angled rear seats, and some new wood veneers on offer.
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Diskectomy is surgery to remove all or part of the cushion that helps support part of your spinal column. These cushions are called disks, and they separate your spinal bones (vertebrae).
Description of Procedure
A surgeon may perform disk removal (diskectomy) in these different ways.
- Microdiskectomy: When you have a microdiskectomy, the surgeon does not need to do much surgery on the bones, joints, ligaments, or muscles of your spine.
- Diskectomy in the lower part of your back (lumbar spine) may be part of a larger surgery that also includes a laminectomy, foraminotomy, or spinal fusion.
- Diskectomy in your neck (cervical spine) is most often done along with laminectomy, foraminotomy, or fusion.
Microdiskectomy is done in a hospital or outpatient surgical center. You will be given spinal anesthesia (to numb your spine area) or general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free).
- The surgeon makes a small (1 to 1-1/2 inch) incision (cut) on your back and moves the back muscles away from your spine. The doctor uses a special microscope to see the problem disk or disks and nerves during surgery.
- The surgeon finds the nerve root and moves it away. Then the surgeon removes the injured disk tissue and pieces of the disk. The surgeon puts the back muscles back in place, and closes the wound with stitches or staples.
- The surgery takes about 1 to 2 hours.
Diskectomy and laminotomy are usually done in the hospital, using general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free).
- The surgeon makes a larger cut on your back over the spine. Muscles and tissue are moved to expose your spine.
- A small part of the lamina bone (part of the vertebrae that surrounds the spinal column and nerves) is cut away. The opening may be as large as the ligament that runs along your spine. The surgeon cuts a small hole in the disk that is causing your symptoms and removes material from inside. Other fragments of the disk may also be removed.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
When one of your disks moves out of place (herniates), the soft gel inside pushes through the wall of the disk. The disk may then place pressure on the spinal cord and nerves that are coming out of your spinal column.
Many of the symptoms caused by a herniated disk get better or go away over time without surgery. Most people with low back or neck pain, numbness, or even mild weakness are often first treated with anti-inflammatory medicines, physical therapy, and exercise.
Only a few people with a herniated disk need surgery.
Your doctor may recommend a diskectomy if you have a herniated disk and:
- Leg pain or numbness that is very bad or is not going away, making it hard to do daily tasks
- Severe weakness in muscles of your lower leg or buttocks
- Pain that spreads into your buttocks or legs
If you are having problems with your bowels or bladder, or the pain is so bad that strong pain drugs do not help, you will probably have surgery right away.
Risks of Diskectomy
Risks for any anesthesia are:
- Reactions to medications
- Breathing problems
Risks for any surgery are:
- Bleeding
- Infection
Risks for this surgery are:
- Damage to the nerves that come out of the spine, causing weakness or pain that does not go away
- Your back pain does not get better, or comes back later
- Pain after surgery, if all the disk fragments are not removed
- Spinal fluid may leak
- The disk may slip again
Before the Procedure
Always tell your doctor or nurse what medicines you are taking, even medicines or herbs you bought without a prescription.
During the days before the surgery:
- Prepare your home for when you come back from the hospital.
- If you are a smoker, you need to stop. Your recovery will be slower and possibly not as good if you continue to smoke. Ask your doctor for help.
- Two weeks before surgery, you may be asked to stop taking medicines that make it harder for your blood to clot. These include aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn), and other medicines like these.
- If you have diabetes, heart disease, or other medical problems, your surgeon will ask you to see the doctors who treat you for those conditions.
- Talk with your doctor if you have been drinking a lot of alcohol.
- Ask your doctor which medicines you should still take on the day of the surgery.
- Always let your doctor know about any cold, flu, fever, herpes breakout, or other illnesses you may have.
- You may want to visit the physical therapist to learn some exercises to do before surgery and to practice using crutches.
On the day of the surgery:
- You will usually be asked not to drink or eat anything for 6 to 12 hours before the procedure.
- Take the medicines your doctor told you to take with a small sip of water.
- Bring your cane, walker, or wheelchair if you have one already. Also bring shoes with flat, nonskid soles.
- Your doctor or nurse will tell you when to arrive at the hospital.
After the Procedure
Your doctor or nurse will ask you to get up and walk around as soon as your anesthesia wears off. Most people go home the day of surgery. Do NOT drive yourself home.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Most people have pain relief and can move better after surgery. Numbness and tingling should get better or disappear. Your pain, numbness, or weakness may not get better or go away if you had nerve damage before surgery, or if you have symptoms caused by other spinal conditions.
Further changes may occur in your spine over time and new symptoms may occur.
Talk with your doctor about how to prevent future back problems.
Chou R, Loeser JD, Owens DK, Rosenquist RW, et al; American Pain Society Low Back Pain Guideline Panel. Interventional therapies, surgery, and interdisciplinary rehabilitation for low back pain: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline from the American Pain Society. Spine. 2009;34(10):1066-77.
Chou R, Qaseem A, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of low back pain: a joint clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society. Ann Intern Med. 2007;147(7):478-491.
Gardocki RJ and Park AL. Lower Back Pain and Disorders of Intervertebral Discs. In: Canale ST, Beaty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 12th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2013:chap 42.
Gasco J, Mohanty A, Hanbali F, Patterson, JT. Neurosurgery. In: Townsend, CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 68.
Gregory DS, Seto CK, Wortley GC, Shugart CM. Acute lumbar disk pain: navigating evaluation and treatment choices. Am Fam Physician. 2008;78(7):835-842.
Jegede KA, Ndu A, Grauer JN. Contemporary management of symptomatic lumbar disc herniations. Orthop Clin North Am. 2010 Apr;41(2):217-24.
Williams KD, Park AL. Lower back pain and disorders of intervertebral discs. In: Canale ST, Beatty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2007:chap 39.
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Re: eclectus vs african grey
Posted by conni on 8/04/08
On 8/03/08, Randy wrote:
> On 8/02/08, conni warner wrote:
>> hi I am considering a parrot and I have been reading
>> everything I can. What would you recommend an eclectus or
>> an african grey? I want a talker but a parrot that will
>> bond with the family not just one person. Any advice??
> All parrots have the natural ability to bond with just one
> person. Usually, it's the owner's fault( not done on
> purpose) because not enough time is spent socializing the
> bird with all members of the family immediately after first
> getting the bird. That should be the #1 priority.
> As far as talking, some have the ability to talk more than
> other species but on the other hand, any bird you get isn't
> guaranteed to talk no matter what their reputation. These
> are some of the things that aren't put in books. So, talking
> shouldn't be high on the list when choosing a bird. All
> birds talk, some in human language but more so in parrotese
> language and after a while, the owner gets to know exactly
> what that bird is saying in parrotese. Human talking by a
> bird is just mimicing something...parrotese is the true form
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No Reply is this still going on?
The deal still works if 10 people do the trip, $450 each way. The sign up is by April 20th as the prices in May goto full value. If you are interested post here in public and send me a PM I will then give you the details and the contact name at federal shipping. The pricing is based on two one way trips, for example if 10 sign up for the out trip then the price is $450 for that group. If 5 sign up for the return then their costs will be much higher. If someone signs up for a round trip and it is not 10 & 10 the their costs will be higher. The shipping out would be on the 8th so we can have our bikes for the 4th, they will arrive on the 15th. The trailer will be a dedicated trailer, once loaded the bikes will not be handled again until Portland.
Best, Paul
I would still be interested in the return trip, but it is departure date dependent.
I'm shaking the tree here, any more interest in going?
Where in Boston is the pick-up point and what is the timeframe?
How are we being guaranteed that our loved iron horses are not going to simply disappear?
Where is the pick-up point in Portland?
What is the cutoff time of day for picking up one's trusty steed?
Can the bikes have their luggage on them.... fully packed?
Who is responsible for tying the bike down in the trailer?
What is the accepted form of payment and when is it due?
Can anyone else think of other pertinent questions?
And then on a personal side, would anyone who is participating in this be willing to get me back home after dropping off my bike? I live alone so transportation is an issue for me. I am more than willing to pay for gas.
the down and dirty details: http://www.funtransport.com/
count so far?
Shipping out
Yes Ken
Yes Paul
Shipping home
You know you want to go to the west coast!
You know you can only spare 2 weeks vacation!
You know you'll kick yourself when you book in June for twice the price!
You just need to sit for a moment and make up your mind!
You know you want to see the sweepstakes draw your name!
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Early Bird Gets the Boot: Researchers Reclassify Archaeopteryx
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Archaeopteryx has long been hailed as a "missing link" between birds and dinosaurs. After a recent analysis of a different fossilized creature, however, Chinese researchers concluded that Archaeopteryx was not the first bird to have evolved, but was instead more like a dinosaur. This new categorization aptly illustrates the unreliability of evolutionary tree analyses.
Archaeopteryx had unique features that distinguish it from most modern birds, including teeth in its beak and a long, narrow tail. But it had core features that define birds, such as flight feathers, wings, perching feet, and a wishbone.
Based on these characteristics, scientists have referred to Archaeopteryx as a bird and not a reptile since the late 19th century. One popular book on birds stated that it was an "early bird" from which modern birds later evolved.1 Of course, science has not shown that it evolved from any reptile, or that it evolved into today's birds.2 It had no transitional features like half scale/half feather structures, but instead possessed fully formed flight feathers just like modern flying or gliding birds.
John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research, wrote in his 2010 book, The Fossil Record, "It is not enough that Archaeopteryx has some skeletal features in common with reptiles, for so does every bird or mammal alive today. Does this imply relatedness?"3
So what prompted Archaeopteryx's being reassigned from the bird group to a mostly dinosaur grouping? Oddly enough, it happened after a research team reviewed a new fossil found in China— Xiaotingia zhengi—and formulated an evolutionary tree that factored in the new fossil's characteristics. The methods used to manufacture such phylogenetic trees, which show proposed evolutionary relationships, are notoriously subjective, so it's no surprise that the new tree portrayed something quite different from those manufactured by other scientists.4
The Chinese authors published their results in Nature, saying that their analysis of characteristic traits placed Archaeopteryx "within the Deinonychosauria," even though "Archaeopteryx is placed within the Avialae by nearly all numerical phylogenetic analyses."5 In other words, these authors' results went against the consensus and moved Archaeopteryx from a category that included extinct birds to a separate category that included an even more evolution-inspired mixture of mostly dinosaurs with some extinct birds added in.
Nature News reported, "Analysis of fossil traits suggests that Archaeopteryx is not a bird at all."6 It's as though the scientists somehow found, after 150 years of looking at the fossil specimens, new Archaeopteryx "traits" that indicate it was not a bird after all. But the "analysis" was actually a comparison of a host of tiny skeletal details, all processed through algorithms that were pre-set to show evolutionary relationships even if no such relationships ever existed. This means that the reclassification was based on a study rigged with assumptions instead of straightforward analysis of the particular fossil that was reclassified.
In reality, Archaeopteryx is still just an extinct bird, and it is still not even close to an evolutionary transitional form, which evolution predicts most fossils ought to be. Only among the twisted branches of evolutionary thought can a creature be reclassified to a different taxonomic category not by direct examination of its features, but by an analysis of features from a totally different creature.
- Perrins, C. 1979. Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World. New York: The Reader's Digest Association, 9.
- Gish, D. 1989. As a Transitional Form Archaeopteryx Won't Fly. Acts & Facts. 18 (9).
- Morris, J. D. and F. J. Sherwin. 2010. The Fossil Record. Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research, 86.
- Thomas, B. and F. Sherwin. Darwin's Withering Tree of Life. Acts & Facts. 38 (5): 16.
- Xu, X. et al. 2011. An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae. Nature. 475 (7357): 465-470.
- Kaplan, M. Archaeopteryx no longer first bird. Nature News. Posted on nature.com July 27, 2011, accessed July 28, 2011.
Image credit: Copyright © 2011 Nature Publishing Group. Adapted for use in accordance with federal copyright (fair use doctrine) law. Usage by ICR does not imply endorsement of copyright holders.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on August 5, 2011.
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STAT thinks he's Larry Bird now...
STAT thinks he's Larry Bird now...
Clyde: I wonder what it feels like to keep shooting and not making anything.
Bernard King: I don't know!
Sig made by Sons of Thunder
Douglas is a moron. Shooting from 45 ft with 15 left on the shot clock? LOL only to have Miami come down and strike. ugh. He deserves to get chewed out for that. We need a PG bad.
Giraffries is in, get ready for a missed 3, a turnover and the Knicks to go down by 8.
DAMN Curry looks different.
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Gabourey Sidibe became known for her starring role in "Precious," a film that was produced, written and directed by African Americans. So it's fair to say she knows a little something about art and culture from the black perspective. That must be why producers of the public television show "AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange" tapped the actress, whose father is from Senegal, to host Season 5 of the show. "Afropop" debuted this Tuesday and will continue Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. ET through February 5th. (Encore broadcasts air at midnight.)
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A sectional garage door is ideal for several reasons. Stylistically, it sets a distinguished tone. It is also perfect for denser residential settings, or for driveways which have very tight vertical space constraints. When the sectional garage door opens, it seems to disappear into the structure itself, as panel by panel gently recedes out of view. Because of this intrinsic elegance, sectional garage doors have become immensely popular in respectable homes and in urban institutions where a stylish visual appearance is vital. Sectional garage doors can be furnished with a variety of amenities, including windows, cast-iron fixtures, or ornamental scroll work. Depending on the budget, incredibly distinctive fixtures can be custom designed to the owner's specifications.
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In general, automatic garage doors allow for a rapid entry and exit by use of remote controlled devices. An automatic garage door is also far more secure than a non-automatic garage door. The home or business owner can program the opener to respond to a pre-selected PIN code before the door will open, preventing thieves from unlawfully entering the premises. Automatic garage doors also allow owners to sync their systems to other home security systems, so that if a breach does occur, law enforcement officials will be notified immediately.
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$5,000 reward offered in Adams cat abuse case
ADAMS -- Police still have no leads as to who attempted to kill a young cat by hanging it last December, but they are hoping a reward will encourage someone to step forward with information.
Allen Harris, the president of Berkshire Money Management in Pittsfield, has offered $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible.
"This is a heinous crime," Harris said. "I recognize that without some additional incentive the perpetrator or perpetrators may not be brought to justice. I implore anyone who knows something, anything, that may be helpful to law enforcement to do the right thing and report it."
The 6-month-old cat, Cleo, was found tied to a makeshift gallows by a large shoe string and left to hang in the secluded area by a Specialty Minerals Inc. property along Howland Avenue (Route 8), according to Adams Animal Control Officer Carrie Loholdt. An SMI worker found the animal and called police. The cat is recovering.
"Whoever did this is a very sick individual," Loholdt said. "It was premeditated."
Jack Levin, professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University, said millions of people have abused animals and often it's children who feel powerless and express themselves through the abuse. It can be something as simple as using a slingshot to hit or kill a bird and most outgrow it and find a way to express themselves that's socially acceptable, he said.
Levin, who has studied the correlation between animal abuse and human violence for the past decade, said there's a limited set of people who abuse animals that are "far more dangerous."
"Someone who sadistically maximizes the pain and suffering of a cat or other animal in an up-close and personal way gets a thrill out of [the] act," Levin said. He suggested that the perpetrator is most likely a teenager, young adult or a group of young people.
The expert added that there's typically a linear progression for the type of people capable of committing such a crime and said it's likely this isn't the first or last time something like this will happen.
"It may be a warm-up, it may be the most recent in a series of such acts," Levin said. "Regardless, this person needs to be found."
Adams Police Sgt. Richard Tarsa said no other such crime had been reported leading up to the attempted hanging and nothing has been reported since.
"We don't believe this will lead to other incident, it appears to be an isolated incident," he said.
That doesn't mean police have ruled additional acts of violence out as a possibility however, Tarsa added.
"We're continuing to pursue any and all angles but haven't received any leads since the reward was posted," he said. "Whoever did this had to go out of their way to avoid being seen. No question, this was cruel and senseless."
Tarsa added that if a suspect is found, additional charges could be pending.
Loholdt said Cleo is starting to warm up to people but the road to recovery will be long and arduous.
"I've never seen a cat or other animal so focused and fearful of people's hands as she is," Loholdt said. "She clearly was tortured before the hanging."
If it weren't for the Northern Berkshire Cat Rescue group, Cleo would have been euthanized because of her fear of humans and the trauma she suffered, Loholdt said.
Several people have visited Cleo but most have declined adopting her because they soon realize how fearful she is and the amount of care it will take for the cat to be acclimated and feel safe.
One woman said she'd like to adopt Cleo but needed to meet with the rest of her family first to decide if it's viable, Loholdt said.
"Cleo's young enough that we believe she can make a full recovery with patience and time," she said. "This is a lifetime commitment."
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If girls of 16 are being raped, then the thing to do is, lower the age of marriage so that they can be raped by their husbands instead of by anybody who happens along.
For a full ten days after she was abducted and raped by a group of men, the teenager told no-one, terrified by the men's threats and their claim that they would distribute photographs they had taken during the attack.
When she did eventually tell her mother, things got even worse; her father, a gardener, unable to bear the trauma of what had happened to his daughter and the indignity of such photographs being passed around, swallowed pesticide.
In the following days, police arrested and charged seven men, all members of a higher caste. But the response to what took place by certain elements of society – a suggestion that the age of marriage should be be lowered to reduce rapes, and that such attacks were triggered by eating 'Western' fast-food – sparked both a wave of anger and a debate about India's attitudes towards women that has gripped the country .
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CAIRO—The political divide in Egypt widened as secular and liberal opposition forces raised pressure on President Mohammed Morsi to rescind an edict that consolidates his power and sidelines the judiciary.
Mr. Morsi's supporters, meanwhile, prepared for rallies Tuesday to preserve what the Muslim Brotherhood, the main Islamic party, called "legitimacy and stability."
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By Nora Carr
Ten years after the worst school massacre in U.S. history, the Columbine High School tragedy continues to shape crisis communications, particularly in K-12 education.
The shooting left 15 dead and dozens wounded, shattering a community and forever changing how the nation views school safety. It remains the standard against which other school tragedies are inevitably judged.
Post-Columbine, crisis management for schools and school districts has become more sophisticated while the communications environment has become more complex. Managing these issues well has become a hallmark of strong leadership teams and a highly prized asset.
On the other hand, poor communications management can increase harm and permanently damage organizations and their leaders. In fact, research shows that reputation recovery often hinges more on how well communications are handled than on the decisions made, actions taken, or whether the school or district is somehow to blame.
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There are several ways to catch catfish, and enterprising fishermen all across the Arkansas River Valley seem to come up with different ways each and every year. Here is a look at how most anglers are putting their catfish in the livewell.
One type of fishing that is quite prominent below the dam on the Arkansas River is known as "drift" fishing. If you are unfamiliar with this term, it really is rather simple. These folks motor up close to the dam, set out their poles and let the current carry them back down the river.
As they drift along they pick up a few fish along the way using a variety of baits that include shad, perch, worms, livers and stinkbait. Once they go a good ways and determine they are out of the fish they will simply start up their motor, pull back up to the dam and start the process all over again.
The folks who spend the most time working at Catfishing are the "snaggers" who use big rods and reels but no bait to snag big humongous catfish and try to get them back to the bank. You want to talk about work? These folks are the hardest-working fishermen on any creek or river bank.
If you have never seen these folk's fish, simply take a trip down to the lock and dam on a good hot summer day and watch them in action. If you have always thought fishing was easy, you will be shocked to see just how hard it can be.
There is also a surprise element to snagging as well because it is highly unpredictable as to the size and species of fish you are hooking up with. Sometimes these folks wrestle these big fish for long periods of time just to have them come unhooked and get away.
For us simple less-energetic types, bank fishing is still the best idea for catfishing. Day or night is good, but to beat the heat, night fishing is the best.
A variety of baits will work while bank fishing including — livers, worms, cut-bait, grasshoppers or crickets, minnows, and even some homemade stink bait. The trick is to find exactly what the fish are eating on and a good spot. Locally on Lake Dardanelle, if you can find a good limb overhanging the water during the mayfly hatch, you will have a highly successful trip.
Jugging or noodling are also other highly successful options and are almost as much fun as reeling them in. Usually these folks will put out their jugs early of the morning or late of the evening and scatter them out all across a certain area. Once the lines are baited and distributed they just sit back relax and wait.
The excitement starts when the jugs or noodles start bobbing up and down. Once that happens the chase is on, as these fishermen take after them in the boat and land their catch. You get several lines going at once and the heart pounding action seems nonstop, but then it might be a few hours before another line goes down.
Trotlines are another option for anglers and usually involve baiting a tied-out line of the evening, and then coming back the next morning to run the lines and see what you have caught.
This method is not as exciting as some of the others mentioned, but it is definitely one of the most productive. If filling your freezer is your objective, it is definitely a method you would want to try.
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I couldn't agree more.
Being an ardent advocate of TDD, I wouldn't think of writing a line of test software before I have the tests for that test software in place. Of course, the test-tests are also software and require that tests for them be written first and those tests require that tests, well you get the idea.
The nice part about TDD is that the tests test the code and the code tests the test. That is, if you write a test, make sure it fails, write the code, make sure it passes, you can avoid most of the worry.
Writing a good test library is harder, though.
Oops. Heh. Spend a year writing a book on Extreme Programming. I might be permanently incapable of telling when people are serious about holding silly ideas or just joking.


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A John Danks Christmas
The news this morning that the White Sox have signed John Danks to a five-year, $65 million contract took me–and I'm sure many Sox fans–by surprise.
All we've been hearing during this offseason is that Danks, Carlos Quentin, Gavin Floyd and Matt Thornton were likely to be dealt to lower the payroll. So, Danks' return to the South Side, as pleasant a surprise as it was, came out of nowhere.
The Danks signing signals a positive step in a hot stove period that has been confusing to Sox fans. Let's face it, none of the three main Sox moves made–this one, the naming of Robin Ventura as manager and the trade of Sergio Santos to the Blue Jays for hot pitching prospect Nestor Molina–were expected. Now, at least, with Mark Buehrle gone, Danks will anchor a rotation that currently includes Floyd, Jake Peavy, Chris Sale and Philip Humber/Zach Stewart. Certainly talented enough to compete in the A.L. Central.
There's undoubtedly more on Kenny Williams' "To Do" list. Floyd, Quentin and Thornton still could be moved. And based on what we've seen so far, key trades and signings could continue to come out of nowhere.
So, fellow Sox rooters, when you least expect it, expect it.


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international standards: reports from high-level round table
in New York
high-level round table to discuss international
standards to eliminate sexual violence against children
was held within the context of the 55th Session of the
Commission on the Status of Women the 28th of February
2011 in New York.
The round table discussed the contents and the
complementarity of the two most important international
legal texts in this field: the UN Optional Protocol on
the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography and the Council of Europe Convention on the
Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and
Sexual Abuse (the Lanzarote Convention).
Both the Council of Europe and the United Nations are
campaigning for the ratification of these treaties that,
if combined, create the necessary conditions to
effectively fight sexual violence against children at
national and international level.
The Lanzarote Convention was referred to as the most
comprehensive legal text that should serve as a
reference for action worldwide while through its
universal ratification, the Optional Protocol would
create a universal common legal space to address the
worst forms of sexual violence.
When speaking about the need to raise awareness on the
extent of sexual violence, the Deputy Secretary General
of the Council of Europe, Ms de Boer-Buquicchio
presented the
ONE in FIVE campaign as an empowering tool that
responds to concrete needs and creates opportunities for
action by all social partners.
The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General
on Violence against Children, Ms Marta Santos Pais, in
underlined the need to develop child-friendly
reporting and complaint mechanisms.
Ms Gordana Buljan Flander
described the functioning of the Center for Child
Protection in Croatia which she is heading and provided
a concrete example of the interest of good coordinating
between the various professionals involved in attending
to cases of sexual violence. She also demonstrated how
lessons learnt can be translated into information
material for children, parents or professionals.
The panellists also stressed the key role that
parliamentarians play in the ratification and
implementation of international treaties. Ms Maria
Stavrositu, a member of the Romanian Parliament and of
the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly,
referred to the creation of a network of contact
parliamentarians in support of the Lanzarote Convention
and the ONE in FIVE campaign.
The host and chair of the event, Ukrainian Ambassador
Yuriy Sergeyev, underlined his country's commitment to
children's rights and recent steps undertaken to fight
trafficking in children. Ukraine will soon be chairing
the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers and
children's rights appear as one of its programme


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The projections, carefully drawn and conservative, are stark: A current "parking deficit" of 901 spaces for downtown Palo Alto alone (meaning people park in neighborhoods) could explode to 2,390 by the end of 2016, according to the projections.
That is well above city staff projections in a March 18 report that foresee an increase in the deficit by 665 spaces for a total of 1,566 (available at www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/33531).
The new estimated impacts are based on some limited city studies and on a survey of parked vehicles in the neighborhoods that was done in April.
Developing the cumulative projections is still a work in progress, according to Neilson Buchanan, one of several residents involved in raising the concerns. He says the projections are flawed but on the conservative side. He has used 20 percent as an estimate for alternative transportation usage, for instance — well above estimates of actual use.
The residents are pushing for direct city participation in developing a cumulative model for growth in downtown that would also serve as an approach for other business districts, such as California Avenue and some major thoroughfares. A partnership, in other words.
There are three neighborhoods most impacted: Downtown North, University South and Crescent Park. North and south residents have experience heavy overflow parking for decades, but the problem is relatively recent for the upscale Crescent Park area.
The impact reaches well beyond the neighborhoods themselves. It is actually part of a broader issue of traffic — a political bugaboo in town for more than a half century.
The overflow also impacts the several thousand employees who work in downtown Palo Alto and the thousands of persons who head there to dine, shop or do business with the attorneys, financial institutions and other enterprises.
The fact that Palo Alto and Silicon Valley communities (from Cupertino to Menlo Park) seem to be leading a national economic recovery doesn't help with the parking problems, according to the residents. Downtown Palo Alto is one of the hottest points of the growth-demand surge, with several large and medium-size developments working their way through city reviews and expected approvals, in one form or another.
Representatives of all three neighborhoods met with City Manager James Keene May 31 to outline concerns and try to get a stronger city commitment to looking at the cumulative impact of new developments and increased intensity of use for downtown Palo Alto.
Developing cumulative projections is a huge challenge for city planning staff, usually neck-deep in keeping up with day-to-day demands. The pending retirement of Planning Director Curtis Williams at the end of June just adds to the overload on remaining staff, especially on Acting Planning Director Aaron Aknin. A national search for a new "permanent" director will continue the overload.
But the absence of a cumulative approach to planning and growth has been a frustration both to journalists and residents for decades. And it's no longer good enough for Palo Alto to bounce along from project to project, according to Buchanan, who once was chief administrator at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.
He and Ken Alsman, a former planning official in Mountain View and Downtown South resident, and others want to develop a partnership approach with the city to come up with a solid projection that would lay the groundwork for specific steps to alleviate the overflow.
The draft of their preliminary document cites 25 specific actions by city staff that would increase parking intrusion into neighborhoods versus five actions that would reduce the parking-space demand.
The bottom line, it states, is: "Downtown neighborhoods are being harmed from profound spillover of commercial vehicles unable to park in the downtown commercial parking areas. It is a clear finding of fact that commercial enterprise is being promoted by city policy and practices to the severe detriment of three city residential neighborhoods for the next three years."
And beyond, presumably.
In addition to specific development or redevelopment projects, two factors are expected to boost the deficit: (1) increased density of employees in existing buildings due to the high cost and shortage of office space downtown, increasing the deficit by 120 spaces (if 20 percent of employees use alternative transportation); and (2) an increase in the "development cap" for downtown that could add 320 to 400 spaces to the deficit (again depending on use of alternative transportation).
A half dozen large projects and several smaller developments are listed with estimated deficits, including: (1) a hotel at the old Casa Olga site at 180 Hamilton Ave., adding 73 spaces to the deficit; (2) an office/retail project at 500 University Ave., adding 66 spaces to the deficit; (3) an office/retail project at 278 University, adding 55 spaces; (4) an office/retail project at 135 Hamilton, adding 46 spaces; (5) a new skilled-nursing unit to Channing House, adding 40 spaces; (6) a general increase in retail and restaurant employees downtown, adding 40 spaces.
Lesser sources of increased deficit include opening a community history museum at 300 Homer Ave.; reconfiguring the former Apple Computer store at 451 University; additional outbound Caltrain passengers; re-use of the historic post office at 380 Hamilton; office/retail at 101 Lytton Ave.; and even the office towers and homes proposed in Menlo Park by developer John Arrillaga.
The question of whether the city staff can, or will, collaborate with the residents to develop a solid, confirmed base of information remains to be seen. Such joint efforts are rarities, locally and elsewhere. They can be significant time sinks.
But having a firm foundation of fact on which to build community decisions might be well worth the effort.
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Thompson, the tournament's sixth-seeded player, downed eighth-seeded Jared Hiltzik of Illinois, 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday. In five matches in New York, Thompson did not drop a single set. He becomes the second Bruin player to win an ITA Indoor title, joining back-to-back winner Benjamin Kohlloeffel, who won the championship in 2005 and 2006.
Thompson, who qualified for the Indoors after winning the consolation singles title at the ITA Men's All-American Championships in October, closes out the fall by winning 15-straight matches to up his record to 18-1. His winning streak started at the All-American Championships and continued when he won the Southern California Intercollegiates last week at UCLA. Thompson's only loss of the fall was to Oklahoma's Axel Alvarez in the first round of the All-American Championships, a loss he avenged this week by beating Alvarez in the semifinals in New York.
In addition to winning the tournament, Thompson was also named the ITA Indoor Sportsmanship Award winner.
UCLA junior Marcos Giron was also a winner on Sunday, taking home the consolation singles title with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Baylor's Patrick Pradella, who was the top-seeded player in the entire tournament.
Complete results from the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships can be found on the tournament's EVENT PAGE.


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From usually well informed sources [1, 2] comes news that Microsoft may halt development on Silverlight after version 5 ships, which could occur later this month. This news comes on the heels o word that Adobe is abandoning development of Flash for mobile devices [3].
Javascript isn't the most developer friendly technology out there, by a long shot. It lacks many OO features (inheritance, polymorpism, properties and indexers etc) which I personally want and almost demand when I zen into my programming sessions. A lot of people have a problem with this too and have created language translators. Google recently announced Dart, there is a neat compiler/language I've used called Haxe [4, 5], and heard there's even an open source C# to Javascipt tool available (which I haven't tried).
But fixing the problem of complex HTML5 development by converting other more featured languages to Javascript is half the problem. And the lesser half. The real problem with HTML5 is the incomplete, incompatible, and poor performing implementations. This is the part that's going to stymie the regular software developer for a VERY long time.
I'd love it if someday there were a unified development platform for all devices, but am opposed to using HTML5 as the answer now.
- http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2548975/microsoft-may-halt-development-work-on-silverlight-after-next-release
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-there-be-a-silverlight-6-and-does-it-matter/11180
- http://www.freep.com/article/20111109/COL41/111109013/Adobe-kills-Flash-mobile-devices?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE
- http://codebot.org/haxe/
- http://haxe.org/
- http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/


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Energy Availability vs. Power Needs
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These two critical parameters are related but different, and obscuring their differences can lead to design confusion.
I often hear reporters and commentators use "energy" and "power" interchangeably, as if they were two words for the same physical parameter. I can understand that confusion to some extent. You have to know what you are talking about to use them properly, and energy and power are vague concepts to most of these folks. It's somewhat similar to the voltage/current confusion we discussed last week.
But it also worries me when I hear engineers use "energy" and "power" almost interchangeably. I assume that, in most of these cases, the engineer knows what the words really mean, so it's just a matter of verbal casualness.
Let's be clear. Energy is the ability to do work. Power is the rate at which the energy is being used and work is being done. To look at it another way, energy is the time integral of power. The standard unit of power is watts, and the standard unit of energy is joules, watt-hours, or some dimensional scaling of those basic units.
My concern is that, by being a little careless in the use of these ubiquitous and very necessary engineering terms, we risk getting fuzzy in our thinking about them. In many designs, the energy storage element (a battery or supercapacitor, for example) is filled by available energy at one rate, yet it is usually called on to deliver power at a much higher rate. Of course, there are reverse situations, where a burst of energy fills the reservoir and then is drawn down slowly over time. Regardless, you have two processes that are linked together but somewhat independent, though they must add up in the aggregate.
Consider an energy-harvesting subsystem used to charge the battery for a data logger. The harvested energy trickles into the battery over time, but that battery must deliver bursts of power to the logger when it is acquiring or transmitting data. If the integral of the accumulated energy doesn't equal the needed power burst, it's an unsustainable situation.
Or look at an AC line charger for a smartphone or laptop. It has to supply only a modest amount of power to charge the device within a reasonable time when it is not in use, but it has to have much more robust capability if it is to charge the device while it is in use. The former situation is determined more by the energy the charger can deliver over some broad time. The latter one is an operational scenario, and thus it is more driven by power.
That's why it is important to use these two closely related parameters carefully and appropriately. In most situations, we accumulate energy, but we spend it as power in order to get useful work done through a combination of mechanical, chemical, or electrical means. This blurring is also what worries me about many green energy plans, however well intentioned. When you go through the energy capture/power spend reckoning, there's a real imbalance that must be acknowledged and addressed.
Have you ever been in a situation where the energy and power numbers were way out of balance, or misunderstanding and miscommunication about these two critical parameters led to design problems?


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Just wanted to post a comment about the great folks at RKA. I purchased a tankbag from a local dealer last year. While working on the bike, I somehow lost the strap for the front of the bag. I emailed RKA to see about purchasing a replacement. They responded with a request for my mailing address, and in about 4 days I found a new replacement in my mailbox, and no charge. This type of service is, in my opinion, above and beyond the norm. I love the bag and now that I know what kind of folks RKA are, will buy from them in the future.
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Hi Dugi,
I just dinged my 5th Lvl85 with many thanks to your great guide
This alt I purposely chose to be a Jewel-Crafter: now I'm doing the dailies for the profession and wished to return to some of the old factions to rep grind to get recipes to complete the recipe list (just for completion of the profession) when I noticed your guides don't incorporate a faction rep grind for all the factions!
I know some people within the forum has touched on this subject, but no one has actually suggested it as far as I can tell (but would be willing to bet you have thought about it lol).
I understand this may require a lot of work and a lot has already been completed within the achievments guide. I'm sure this will help the guide be even more comprehensive and awesome (which it already is :P ) but will go a long way to helpping get faction specific items and recpies etc which require a reputation requirement to buy them.
I know there is elements within the acheivement guide already that covers some faction, but others like ravenholdt, or shattered suns offensive on Isle of Quel'danas (which is missing all the dallies at level 70) would be great and also help towards acheivements like "Insane in the Membrane" and "40 exhalted reputations".
Yours Faithfully
Thank you for your great guides :P


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The Demons heat burned out fast.
After trailing by as many as 14 points in the first half, Durango High School caught fire in the third quarter to take a 29-28 lead over Cheyenne Mountain in Round 2 of the CHSAA Class 4A State Boys Basketball Championships on Friday in Pueblo.
But the sixth-seeded Demons blazing offense sputtered, and the third-seeded Indians put out the fire with a 22-10 final quarter to win 50-39 at the Colorado State Fairgrounds Events Center to move on to the Sweet 16.
We gave our full effort and kept that effort, but it just came down to executing, said Batiste, referring to some key turnovers in the fourth quarter.
The boys played their butts off. Looked like they were going to blow us out but we battled back, Batiste said in a postgame interview with KDGO 1240 AM.
Thats all I ask for: Leave it on the floor.
Ghassan Nehme was the driver behind Cheynne Mountains success. He finished with a game-high 18 points.
Nick Hamlin led the Demons with 14 points before he fouled out late in the game, and Ty Elliott contributed 11 to the DHS comeback.
Nine of Elliotts points came from 3-pointers, including one to give the Demons their final lead 32-31 early in the fourth quarter.
Willy Frownfelter, who scored 19 in the Demons first-round home win over Pueblo Central on Tuesday, was held scoreless in foul trouble before he fouled out with about 2 minutes to play.
It was tough without having him on the floor, but we went on that run with him not on the floor, Batiste said.
The Demons struggled early against the Cheyenne Mountain press before they found ways around it late in the second quarter to mount their comeback.
Batiste said his boys had to deal with some nerves in the big arena under the big lights before they got it together and started to play basketball.
The Indians led 22-15 at the half.
The Demons finished their season 17-7, 7-3 in the Southwestern League and a second consecutive trip to Round 2 of the state tournament.
Were not one of the main sports in Durango, so were trying to change that culture with hard work and dedication ... and we had a successful season, Batiste said.
The kids are starting to buy into the program. Coaching staff is doing an excellent job across all levels.


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Chancellor's Communication-September 22, 2005
September 22, 2005
After several difficult years of budget cuts, we were pleased and relieved that this year's budget allowed us to offer salary increases to our employees. In the weeks since the budget was approved, we have been working to get raises to everyone as quickly as possible through the required bargaining process.
Looking ahead, we have even more good news about salary increases: At the end of October, at the Board of Trustees' request, we will be presenting a plan for how we can make significant progress toward improving salaries for all employees over the next five years, based on the budget compact agreement.
I know that the past few years of budget cuts have been a difficult time for our employees, and I sincerely appreciate the hard work that everyone has continued to do on behalf of the CSU and its students. I am very pleased to be able to give everyone these long-deserved increases and I look forward to improving salaries even more in the future.
Thank you again for all that you do for the California State University.
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I inherited this plant from an emigrating colleague about 18 months ago; I have no idea what it is, and, probably therefore, it has never been very happy! I have experimented with different levels of light, water, etc, to some of which it responded by getting ill, and at best it has been doing-- not a lot.
The attached photos show it from above, from the side, and two closeups from different angles of a sort of bulb or tuber it grows from; by way of scale, its pot is 23 cm dia. I would be very grateful if someone could identify it so I could find out what it wants.
Could it be an oak leaved creeping fig - Ficus pumila var quercifolia ?
I would be really, really grateful if someone could identify this plant.
(It is definitely not a Ficus pumila var quercifolia, nor any kind of Ficus. The leaves of my plant are not growing off a central stem or branch; as you'll see from the pictures, each leaf sprouts from a sort of bulb.)
I wonder if it might be an aroid of some sort. It has hints of Philodendron (something like 'Xanadu') and Zantedeschia.
Whatever it is, I think it looks tropical and (considering those aerial-looking roots), I suspect it might be epiphytic. ...So growing it in soil might not be to its liking; might be better grown in bark chippings/moss/etc like an epiphytic orchid. Or if you do grow it in 'soil', I'd aim for something peaty, well-drained and well-aierated. Just a thought.


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Muir Glen BPA-free canned tomatoes - i included this because it's the only brand of BPA-free canned tomatoes on the market. these are also the only non-Italian tomatoes that in my experience yield a good pizza sauce. i tried the diced and whole varieties and thought the diced tasted a little better. BPA free or not, there is still a hint of tin can taste in these but not as strong as other tin cans
4) Bionaturale Organic tomato puree (no salt) - had a good balance of sweetness and acidity. no sugar needed here. just salt, pepper, and a little bit of dried herbs. made my best sauce yet using these on a recent Sicilian pie. these are milled to the perfect consistency for pizza sauce...not too chunky, nor too watery. this and the Bella Terra tomatoes were the freshest tasting of all the ones i've tried and can be used straight with minimal seasoning.5) Jovial Brand Whole Peeled tomatoes - one of the few whole tomatoes in a jar out there. tasted very good out of the jar, though the flavor was more reminiscent of regular canned tomatoes than italian. so far i've only used them in cooking. it tasted wonderful in a tomato based curry dish last week. tomorrow i'll be testing them out on a NY style pizza. even though they taste good, i doubt i'll be purchasing this brand frequently. $5-$6 for a puny 18 oz jar is pretty expensive.
This is probably an odd question for this forum, but does anyone here besides myself use non-canned tomatoes to make sauce with? I personally avoid all canned tomato products as I dislike the tinned taste and out of concern over the recent reports of BPA leaching from the lining of tin cans.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 1:31 PM
Town Square
Woman sexually assaulted by police officer impersonator in Pleasanton
Original post made on Aug 28, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 1:31 PM
a resident of another community
on Aug 28, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Had this department been using the Smart Shield this may have been avoided. This law enforcement impersonation deterrent developed exclusively for the men and women who protect our communities could have meant the difference for this woman.
a resident of another community
on Aug 28, 2012 at 6:20 pm
This is VERY frightening to me because this sounds remarkably similar to a run-in I had with a police impostor a few months ago. I was fortunate enough to get away without any altercation, but it's terrifying that this actually happened to someone. My issue occurred in San Jose in April.
a resident of Downtown
on Aug 28, 2012 at 7:54 pm
I am trying to figure out a few things here after reading the article in three different publications. Why did the victim wait so long to report this? Why does it not say what she was being handcuffed for? The so called Officer (the suspect) told her to get out of the car right away and he handcuffed her. I am sorry I would have questioned the suspect as to what I did wrong-just open the window a little enough to talk. any officer of the peace would surely understand.
a resident of Avila
on Aug 28, 2012 at 10:24 pm
This is very disturbing. There are also news about excessive force used by some cops. Now impersonating a police officer? So what to do when a cop pulls you over?
a resident of Downtown
on Aug 28, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Wassup-Only pull over if the police car has a solid red light lit on your car. If not, keep driving. You DO NOT have to stop unless the car has a solid red light on.
Now another victim has come forward.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 29, 2012 at 12:13 am
@ Stayceee When people start asking the victim why they didn't do this or that it takes the blame off where it rightfully should lie ...with the Perpetrator of the crime. That's exactly why she took so long to come forward because she kept telling herself she should have done this or she should have done that. Or she should have listened to her gut that was telling her something was wrong. She was also probably worried that people like you would make her (the victim) feel like she was stupid or should have know better. But its not her fault in any way shape or form its that sicko out there assaulting women and its easy to be on the outside thinking you would have know better but there is no guarantee that if you were in her situation you would not have done the same thing. Its late you hear a siren you pull over.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 29, 2012 at 8:37 am
As with all crimes, this should have been reported immediately. By not doing so, you diminish the chances the perp will be caught, further endangering other citizens.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 29, 2012 at 11:13 am
Common Sense HARSH POSTING!!
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 29, 2012 at 11:33 am
Ok so let's keep focusing on the victim and what she did wrong gosh my faith in humanity is gone
a resident of Del Prado
on Aug 29, 2012 at 11:37 am
common sense.. I think you're an arm chair quarterback who thinks they would have done it better. Over-simplifying this nightmarish report so you can preach.. None of us know the details.. you have vomited up the useless..
..and, she DID report the crime! For that, I thank her.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 29, 2012 at 11:41 am
"Common Sense", why would you jump to conclusions about the victim. There are a myriad of unfounded reasons out there. Why not jump to a conclusion that favors her, such as she works late in a restaurant, or works two jobs to send her kids to college. Try giving people the benefit of the doubt. She was a victim, and have you any idea how this type of assault effects a woman. This was ghastly, cowardice crime, after all.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm
the scary thing is there have been 2 Rapes now with in two weeks of each other in Pleasanton both happening in close proximity to each other they don't know if the crimes are related but my "common sense" would lead me to believe there is a serial rapist out there praying on women coming home from the bar. This women was ATTACKED August 5th and the Second woman was attacked August 19 in Kottenger park after walking home from a bar at around 2 am, so Please tell all the women in your life to be careful! don't walk to your car by yourself leaving the bar don't walk home alone, take a cab, stay in groups.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 29, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I feel really bad for the victim and shame on those who blame the victim. Too bad Alameda Co. Sherriff won't empower women to defend themselves by allowing concealed carry.
a resident of Vintage Hills Elementary School
on Aug 29, 2012 at 6:20 pm
The first thing that popped into my head, now belonging to AA for some time, is that she was probably walking home from a bar. None the less she is a victim of a horrific crime. My wish is that she reported it right away in order to possibly could have received some DNA to help catch this creep. May God Keep everybody safe and very aware.
a resident of Avila
on Aug 29, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Sexual assault is NOT rape. Not to minimize sexual assault (which, ultimately, could be a pinch in the rear end), but rape is bringing it to a whole different level. Hope they capture this guy as he will be charged with not only sexual assault, but kidnapping as well. Life in prison..
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 30, 2012 at 11:27 am
This kind of stuff was happening when I was in college down in SLO, turned out to be a serial rapist and murder, Rex Allan Krebs. Same pattern, targeting women late at night walking home from bars, then moved to breaking and entering. This is serious stuff, this guys needs to be caught and we need to be vigilent as neighboors, friends, and family to catch this sicko before he escalates his behavior.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 30, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Danielle...so spot-on, thank you for writing.
a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on Aug 31, 2012 at 6:08 pm
Sexual assault- is an assault of a sexual nature on another person, or any sexual act committed without consent. Although sexual assaults most frequently are by a man on a woman, it may involve any combination of two or more men, women and children.[1]
The term sexual assault is used, in public discourse, as a generic term that is defined as any involuntary sexual act in which a person is threatened, coerced, or forced to engage against their will, or any sexual touching of a person who has not consented. This includes rape (such as forced vaginal, anal or oral penetration), inappropriate touching, forced kissing, child sexual abuse, or the torture of the victim in a sexual manner.[2][3]
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Facing different teams with different players is the most difficult adjustment coming to a new league.
Some people might say that isn't as big a challenge since the start of Interleague play, but I think Interleague games just give you a little taste of the other league. The style of baseball in the American League is very different from the National League.
Also, playing Interleague games, you typically only face a team once. If you're a reliever, you might not even face the entire lineup. You have to actually get to know about the hitters when you move to a new league. Luckily, our coaching staff does a great job of getting us the information we need.
The change to a new league has refreshed me a little, too. I think it came at a good time in my career. You can become a little apathetic without realizing it sometimes, and switching teams and leagues is the kind of career event that can get you reinvigorated.
Maybe I was thinking I knew everybody in the NL already? Whatever the case, I've done a lot of work learning about the AL hitters and their tendencies, because I'm new in the league and understood coming here that I had very limited knowledge.
But more and more, you realize that you need to be proactive about learning the hitters every year, even if you aren't switching leagues. Hitters are different every year. Their swings can change.
One constant in the American League is my role with the team. I'm still setting up a closer, and I enjoy pitching at the end of games. I know I might pitch if it's a tie game or a one- or two-run ballgame.
A great thing about playing for the White Sox is that our offense is so strong that I never feel like we're out of a game. Tight games keep me on my toes because that means I have to be ready for the phone to ring in the bullpen.
Bobby Jenks has a totally different pitching style than my former closer in San Diego, Trevor Hoffman, but they both have that same focus and determination. They both make teammates happy that they're on your side.
In San Diego, I enjoyed getting my outs and then watching a future Hall of Famer close the game. It's been equally rewarding to watch Mr. Jenks get those final outs. He definitely has one of the top arms in the league. He's a bulldog who attacks hitters. He can get the job done quickly.
Scott Linebrink split the 2007 season with San Diego and Milwaukee before inking a multi-year contract with the White Sox. Linebrink, a native of Austin, Texas, has a 1.47 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP through his first 19 AL appearances.
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Tokoyo wrote:I got so desperate that I transfered a alt to a german RP server with low population. I logged on and off for 3 times for 20-30 min during a evening around 20:00-22:00 servertime, on a monday. Last time I logged on, to my great surprise 10-15 of them had spawned, and not a player in sight. Caught 2x uncommons, and became the happiest panda to ever
Formerruling wrote:The new pets added in 5.1 seem to correctly use the new spread out spawn system, but the pets like Minfernal and Scourged were not retroactively changed it seems - Still have to beat the CRZ coming back online after a reset to see many of them.
I doubt you'd find anyone outside of Games Development who holds a differing opinion.Draconigena wrote:On the CRZ thing: I guess I am not the only one hating that feature with all the heart.
On every spot with rare spawns, every time I see at least 3-4 other people hanging around from other realms. It is really starting to piss me off.
Angel_02 wrote:i tried 24hrs after server restart and still no luck i swear this pet is a myth
Breehit wrote:Good grief, unless Blizzard changes this "spawn at 24 hour intervals after server restart" thing, people like me who cannot go on WoW during the day on weekdays will be forever left out. I try every hour while I am online (weekends almost all day and evenings till almost 2 am). It feels hopeless. I do pray that it becomes more reasonable at the next patch. Until then, no scourged whelping for this working stiff.
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FutureAngels.com Radio Podcast — Episode 8
Orem Owlz manager Tom Kotchman spends his springs scouting for the Angels in Florida.
A new episode of FutureAngels.com Radio is now on-line. You can get to the show through the FutureAngels.com home page at www.futureangels.com.
You don't need an iPod to listen, although if you have one you can download the show, of course. All you really need is just a computer. When you get to the TPS Radio page, just click on the right-arrow next to the sound icon and it'll start to stream to your computer. You can also transfer the show to your computer as an MP3 file.
Personally, I think this is the best show yet.
The first segment is an interview with Paul Mosley, an original "future Angel" who was signed by the Angels out of Saugus High School in June 1961 at age 17. He was sent straight to Statesville, North Carolina, to play for the Angels' Class-D team, the Statesville Owls. Paul has some amazing stories to tell, including how the Statesville front office literally set fire to the infield to dry it out.
How I found Paul is a story in itself … If you've followed the podcasts and the web site, you know I've been doing research into the early days of Angels minor league baseball. A colleague of Paul's stumbled across the site as he did research looking for Statesville Owls memorabilia. He wanted to know if I had any suggestions.
I pointed him in the direction of Bill Moose, the local historian and SABR member who'd been so gracious in researching the town paper last year. (It helps that he's a columnist for the paper.) Bill knew someone in town who had kept Owls memorabilia.
Then I asked if he might arrange for me to interview Paul.
Quite honestly, Paul was absolutely stunned that anyone even remembered the Statesville Owls, much less cared to research them.
A flood of memories emerged from his past. Mind you, this was 46 years ago.
(I can't even remember whether I brushed my teeth last night.)
Until Monday, my research into the Owls had yielded just stats on a page, and clippings from a town paper.
And now … here's one of them.
Paul talks casually about his teammates, bringing them alive as real people. I knew the names from the clippings, but not their personalities, their life histories, and their experiences in Statesville.
The Statesville Owls live.
We're going to try to track down more of them. Who knows, maybe a reunion is in the future.
The second segment in the show is an interview with Orem Owlz manager Tom Kotchman, who's currently scouting Florida in preparation for the June draft. He was quite tired, as this time of year he logs hundreds of miles every day traversing the state. Kotch had a great story to tell about who he thinks is the best high school hitter in the state … and why that player won't be drafted in June.
The third segment is an interview with Quakes manager Bobby Mitchell. Recently on the FutureAngels.com Bulletin Board, someone claimed the Angels teach their minor leaguers to "hack." So I put the question directly to Mitchell, who of course debunked it. It's fascinating how some people on fan boards dream up these fantasies then latch onto them as if they're real.
And the final segment is a review of the last month for the Quakes and the Cedar Rapids Kernels.
Anyway, go listen to Paul Mosley. What an incredible story.


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Joe Papa has just accepted appointment as CEO of Valeant.
a. I am glad my short is mostly - not entirely covered. Joe Papa is a fabulous appointment - far better than Valeant deserved.
b. Papa has his work cut out for him. Valeant deserves to go bankrupt - and will go bankrupt unless the goodwill of bond holders and pharmaceutical payers is forthcoming. If I were auditor I would still qualify the accounts with a "going concern" qualification.
Given the treatment of stakeholders it will be hard to earn and maintain goodwill from bond holders and pharmaceutical payers. Valeant owned Philidor which was a systematic attempt to defraud pharmaceutical payers. It will take a lot of work to settle all the litigation and to get the payers to continue to pay inflated prices for Valeant drugs.
Joe Papa is far more likely than anyone I can think of to earn the goodwill of payers and bondholders and thus save Valeant.
I still think Valeant will go to bankruptcy, but I am less sure about it.
Even if Valeant files bankruptcy Papa should logically remain CEO. He will run the business better than most alternative CEO candidates.
This does not mean that I think Valeant should race back towards $100. Survivability is a long way from generating enough profit to meaningfully dint that $32 billion debt load.
Still for once I am not unremittingly bearish this company.
And here you will get me to say something I did not think I would say. If Bill Ackman was responsible in part for convincing Mr Papa to take the job then Mr Ackman has done Valeant and his investors a great service.
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The great matrimonial housing short-squeeze
It's a fairly consistent view around our office that house prices are absurd in Sydney - and winning a Sydney property auction is not a route to security, rather a route to becoming an indentured servant to a bank.
Alas we have one staff member married a few years with an 18 month old son.
I caught him looking at realestate.com.au. He told me his wife was looking.
His tart comment: short-squeezes come in many forms.
Alas we have one staff member married a few years with an 18 month old son.
I caught him looking at realestate.com.au. He told me his wife was looking.
His tart comment: short-squeezes come in many forms.
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text: I've tried myself to rationalize these insets as shelves, but each time I look at these, my unconscious tells me instantly window. As "Mark of Gideon" suggested, some outside windows do have shutters (compare to your post # 355), so what we are seeing here http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x06hd/muddswomenhd146.jpg http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x06hd/muddswomenhd395.jpg http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x05hd/theenemywithinhd141.jpg looks like windows with shutters closed (below the flight deck given the angle of the walls) on deck 12 or lower. Most interestingly, Kirk's (temporary) quarters are on deck 12 in "Mudd's Women" and so are probably Mudd's quarters (nice allusion: Who's in charge in this episode - The captain on the port or the captain on the starboard side?). Spock receives the guests in the transporter room (deck 14?) and brings them to deck 12 via turbo lift or shaft 7. Now, according to "Enemy Within" turboshaft 7 is near "engineering" to the (temporary) quarters, but Mudd and company arrive from the other side. It appears Spock has taken them up to deck 12 but first showed them their quarters (port side) and took a counter-clockwise corridor tour. This is suggested by Kirk's order to the security guard to take Mudd to "his quarters". How does the guy know which quarters his captain is talking about unless this has (previously) been established? If we seriously suggested, these windows were merely shelves, the inevitable question has to be why we don't see these (used as shelves) in later episodes and seasons? They were covered up with these Axanar Peace Panels or whatever these are (to hide Kirk's collection of porn?). To me it seems rather simple: Originally they had Kirk's quarters on deck 12 (and with windows) but then realized his quarters would have to be on deck 5 and there are no windows. Regarding "Mark of Gideon" we all seem to agree that this window should be in the engineering hull. However, after Odana has collapsed in the window room, Kirk carries her straight into a circular corridor: http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x16hd/themarkofgideonhd0872.jpg Since there also is a circular corridor in the engineering hull according to "Ultimate Computer" I'm unable to believe in rationalizing options that ignore a circular corridor. I'll take your last suggestion into consideration. Thanks for the discussion. Bob


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April 9, 2013 - submitted by James, United States of America
Q. I heard that Mylo Xyloto was planned to be a movie kind of like The Wall was. Then I remembered this when Phil Harvey tweeted about Xylobrytes being some sort of evil minions or something. Can you verify whether this is true or not? If it is true why did they never make a movie? That would've been great to watch.
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Phil actually called them "critters" in his tweet but they're alien type beings. I've only got Issue 1 (of 6) as yet, so haven't encountered them myself.


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WEST OCEAN CITY – Businesses in West Ocean City could be strongly affected by the 35-day closure of the Route 50 bridge this winter for drawbridge repairs, local business people fear.
"I think I should probably close for five weeks," said Renee Kelly, marketing and promotions manager for Ocean City Factory Outlets. "I think it'll be devastating to the retail market. … We get a lot of bus groups in the wintertime, but they stay in town. If they can't come over the bridge, they're going to go to the Rehoboth outlets. They're not going to go all the way around."
It was revealed at last week's County Commissioner meeting the State Highway Administration (SHA) is planning to close the Route 50 bridge for drawbridge repairs from Jan. 15, 2008-Feb. 19, 2008. The project is contingent upon funding, but SHA said last week it will either be done early next year or in early 2009.
Route 50 Carryout owner Steve Ladd said his Wine Rack store would feel the effect of the closure.
"It won't help, that's for sure," said Ladd.
At Superfresh, a manager who wished to remain anonymous reported the impact of not having Ocean City residents shopping could be huge on her store.
"We get a lot of business from over the bridge. I feel it will hurt us," said the manager.
Francis Scott Key Motel owner Annemarie Dickerson said there would be obvious effects from the bridge closure.
"Obviously it's going to have an impact on us," said Dickerson. "It's one we're going to have to schedule around."
Local business will ensure that the 35-day bridge closure is not a complete loss, according to the business people reached this week.
"The only good thing in our favor is that the residential community has increased so much in the last few years," said Kelly.
Ladd added, "A lot of our business comes from the West Ocean City area, but it'll kill the weekend tourist business as there'll be no one coming out that way on the bridge. Business probably doubles on the weekends compared to what it is on the week."
The anonymous Superfresh manager added, "I don't think they'd take a round trip to get to this plaza."
A lot of the Route 50 Superfresh's business, around 20 percent, comes from Ocean City, the manager reported.
"Our sales have been up. Now it's going to put a damper on that," he said.
But, said the manager, the store's customer base is loyal and the downswing should be temporary.
If the project is not brought forward to the beginning of January, said Dickerson, her business could take a serious blow. Every year the Francis Scott Key houses a large group for a convention during the timeframe of the proposed bridge repairs.
"They're not going to want to use Route 90 to get to the Convention Center," Dickerson said. "I think we'll definitely lose some groups because of it."
Tourists staying at the motel in the winter will probably not be much affected, Dickerson said. Most of those visitors come just to get away, not to visit the Boardwalk. They tend to eat in West Ocean City, swim at the motel's indoor pool and visit Assateague Island, not Ocean City, the hotelier said.
Most are philosophical about the necessity for the repairs to the drawbridge gears and beams.
"That's life. That's the way it's going to be," Ladd said. "There's nothing we can do about it. The bridge is old and needs maintenance."
"It is what it is," said Dickerson.
Ladd added, "We're just going to have to live with it."
Dickerson said she would rather have the repair work done as planned this winter than have the bridge fail in July.
"I'm going to have to go with January," she said, adding, "It could be devastating to happen to my business in summer."
If the drawbridge repairs were allowed to wait a few years, the bridge could get stuck in an upright position in the summer, a far more serious blow to local businesses.
"I've come to terms with it. I'm satisfied they're doing it in the best time frame they can," said Dickerson. "I just hope that whatever repairs they do are a good fix and it's going to give us some life in that bridge."


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Two candidates who describe themselves as favoring the interests of "residents first" were victorious Tuesday night in a San Clemente City Council election that could affect the majority outlook of the five-member council on contentious issues that end in split votes.
Candidate Chris Hamm and similar-minded incumbent Bob Baker picked up 25.8 percent and 23.2 percent, respectively, of the votes cast in the election for two available council seats, the Orange County Registrar of Voters Office reported.
In third place was incumbent Jim Dahl with 20.4 percent. Mike Mortenson, who with Dahl was backed by the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce's political-action committee, was fourth with 19.5 percent.
The vote tallies with all 46 precincts reporting:
- Chris Hamm, 9,969 votes, 25.8 percent
- Incumbent Bob Baker, 8,937 votes, 23.2 percent
- Incumbent Jim Dahl, 7,864 votes, 20.4 percent
- Mike Mortenson, 7,541 votes, 19.5 percent
- David Clegg, 2,628 votes, 6.8 percent
A sixth candidate with the same name as incumbent Bob Baker received 1,643 votes, or 4.3 percent. He withdrew from the campaign early on, but too late to be removed from the ballot. He was listed on the ballot as "0 Robert 'Bob' Baker," while the incumbent was listed as "1 Robert 'Bob' Baker."
Hamm, a firefighter, said "it's a little too early (to comment)" upon viewing the early absentee-ballot tally. But he was encouraged.
"The numbers that have come in so far have been positive," Hamm said. "I'm excited."
Hamm said that if he won election, "it just goes to show that the citizens of San Clemente are ready for a City Council that is looking out for their best interests."
Baker, a retired aviator elected to the council in 2008, voiced a similar sentiment. "I think the citizens want City Council members who put the interests of the residents first," he said.
Dahl, a retired fire captain who was elected to the council in 1996 and has been re-elected three times, said early in the evening that he was remaining optimistic. He said the absentee ballots in an earlier election had him in third place and he came back and finished first. "We'll see what happens," he said.
Mortenson, a business attorney, said he was a little surprised by the early vote counts, "but I still think there are a lot of votes outstanding and we feel pretty good still."
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