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Original post made by Marianne Dean, Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park, on Apr 8, 2007
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Apr 8, 2007 at 9:09 pm
*This city deserves better.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Apr 8, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Why should all posts be ignored if not signed. They are clearly real opinions by real people.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Apr 9, 2007 at 7:54 am
There's little enough discussion on these boards as is. If people were required to sign their names, that level would drop about 90%. Besides, half the fun is figuring out who wrote which post.
a resident of Hillview Middle School
on Apr 9, 2007 at 8:34 am
There are other forums in which people can express themselves orally or in signed written form. This is a place where the focus can be on ideas on not on individuals, and it's a place where one doesn't need to be fearful of personal attacks that are far too prevalent in our town. I like Town Square the way it is.
a resident of another community
on Apr 9, 2007 at 10:23 am
As an artificial person, I object to your bigoted attempt to limit Town Square postings to real people.
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Apr 9, 2007 at 10:37 am
Marianne Dean wrote:
"I suggest all posts should be ignored that are not signed with a real name. They are simply hot air. This city deserves real better."
I couldn't agree more -- the anonymity afforded in these forums makes a mockery of serious discourse, and of democracy in general. Just the other day I came across the following letter, one purportedly written by Menlo Park Planning Commissioner Henry Riggs and posted by Almanac staffer Renee Batti:
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The content of the letter is so ridiculous that I assumed someone had misappropriated Mr. Riggs good name, but I have since learned the letter is genuine. The example holds, however, and these forums are vulnerable to the whims of anonymous miscreants who would see our communities and our democracy crushed under the weight of umbrageous nonsense.
a resident of another community
on Apr 9, 2007 at 10:49 am
I think that easily offended people should definitely ignore the many, many things that offend them.
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Apr 9, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Well, let him out!
(There's a little Bart Simpson in all of us! Well, many not Mr. Riggs - or Ms. Winkler - or former Mayor Jellins - but most everyone else, I'm sure.)
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Apr 9, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Some clever person has way too much spare time. If you'd like to stop by, I have a stack of laundry and a house that needs cleaning.
P.S. Marianne, you're welcome to help out also!
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Weekend Acres
on Apr 10, 2007 at 8:32 am
Don't read this, because I'm anonymous.
If, by the city deserving "better", Marianne Dean means more truth than less truth, then there is a good case that anonymity, despite its costs, produces more truth.
A thoughtful article that uses the recent Libby trial as a vehicle to explain long-standing back channels and relationships between press and politicos can be found here Web Link
Those unfamiliar with the degree of interrelationships between reporter and official were probably surprised to learn that in one case "senior administration officials" later turned out to be Karl Rove and Lewis Libby, mouthpieces of the President and Vice President respectively.
Did you ever think that "senior administration official" in a newspaper article meant the President of the United States? The author of the article, a former reporter himself, recalls an incident in which he granted this kind of anonymity directly to President Johnson. Granting it to Rove or Libby is almost no less direct.
There are many, many reasons why those who routinely speak on the record also routinely speak off the record. And even though anonymity afforded by the internet can produce a lack of civility it also lets real insiders disclose deep background that the press routinely does not know and would likely never learn.
In Menlo Park, there are about 100 people on both "sides" who are deeply involved in a fuller version of events than the press, because they are elected officials, appointed officials, former appointees, staff, or political organizers– principles themselves in current or former public processes. They are not just airing opinions, they are also providing deep background and historical context, and they often cite or give fuller meaning to official facts that appear on the city's website that sit mostly unread by the public.
The Henry Riggs editorial/Almanac Derry story is a perfect example. Recently, the Almanac reported an "agreement" citing "sources close to the negotiation." Did you ever think that source might be say, the Mayor or another council member? Why anonymously?
How did the source establish bona fides with the reporter, and why did the reporter grant anonymity? The article does not address either of these, but in this case, if the source was a council member, (no council member has been described as being a party to the mediated talks) then he or she might have leaked it for personal political reasons, and the reporter might have certified the hearsay as an institutional courtesy while granting anonymity for personal reasons of his own, both to protect his source and to keep the on-going relationship.
The argument for anonymity in this case is the story would not otherwise be publicly available, and worse, a long-standing and valuable source would dry up.
Since the real parties in interest to the Derry project are described as being in "mediation" it's likely they are bound by some form of non-disclosure agreement as they move through detailed discussions. Did one of them talk to the reporter?
Ironically, confidential mediation might enable an un-intended "cheap shot" where lucky Henry Riggs, who enjoys a public title but no real knowledge, shouts loudly and publicly into a standing vacuum, challenging Derry referendum organizers who know better but who might be duty bound to remain silent. Anonymity would allow responsible rebuttals without jeopardizing trust among negotiating parties so long as no important details were disclosed.
Marianne Dean resorts to ad hominem by implying that the anonymous are gutless, but being gagged is not the same as being gutless. Perhaps Henry Riggs signs his name simply he because he enjoys that luxury.
Another subtlety of politics is that "policy" can never be isolated from "personality." In politics, there is always a chance that the author of an opinion will become the story. Frankly, who needs that?
Henry Riggs himself goes on the personal attack quickly moving from issues about Derry to ad hominem issues about petition signers and organizers and the current council.
But what is truly amazing and evident in the vast number of anonymous responses to Riggs post is their subject matter discipline. Only one of the respondents makes his or her response about Riggs. The remaining responses speak directly to the issues raised. In this case, those who responded anonymously were far more civil than those who did not.
For whatever reasons, good or bad, right or wrong, some who post opinions into the public sphere anonymously on this forum are often deep insiders to the processes they write about.
Shut your mind if you want, but for the discerning eye, there's gold in some of "them thar" anonymous posts. It's your job to mine the gold, but the Almanac is very savvy in putting this forum on its own web page.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Apr 10, 2007 at 2:20 pm
People need to very skeptical of the information in anonymous posts. Posters have no responsibility to get their facts right.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Apr 10, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I agree with the previous post. I really dislike being anonymous, but I'm in a situation such that giving myself away would be tantamount to professional suicide.
Posting anonymously is fun, no question. It frees the mind to go with the flow. But I don't see having fun as being in the same ballpark as having a responsible discussion.
a resident of Atherton: West Atherton
on Apr 18, 2007 at 11:17 am
I couldn't Agree more!


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SMART BETS: Auto Defiance
SMART BETS: Paul Reid
SMART BETS: Demon Waffle
Clubland photos
Calendar highlights
Local vocals (and instrumentals): Sixteen albums we loved in 2012
Wicked Weed Brewing debuts two floors of food and fermentation (Part 2, Downstairs)
Wicked Weed Brewing debuts two floors of food and fermentation (Part 1, Upstairs)
Post-consumer pantry: Not your ordinary vanilla
Stop making sense: Magnolia Ray brings a varied assortment of dishes to Weaverville
Ref the chefs: Asheville culinary competitions give diners a chance to size up culinary talent
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer (January 2, 2013)
Most returned gifts of 2012 holiday season
Possum Drop
Yellow Journalismed
Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler January 2-8: Promised Hyde Park Chainsaw
Now that the studios have finished putting their supposed best feet forward for Christmas—two cheesy cash-grabs and one re-issue notwithstanding—it's back to business as usual. Oh, sure there are some limited release things waiting in the wings that will be doled out to us in the coming weeks, but when all is said and done, the studios' January White Sale is upon us—as demonstrated by this week's notion of a mainstream offering.
New year, new clubs
Xpress added scores of new groups and clubs to its community calendar. Meet new people this year while catching some anime or honing your Scrabble, chess and amateur radio skills.
Fallen fighter: Don Holliday battles toxic chemical exposure
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra performs "Kiss From a Rose"
Special for New Year's Eve: The local steel pan fusion outfit releases this new video, recorded on Wall Street in downtown Asheville.
Blue Ridge Rollergirls announce 2013 schedule
Even in the off season, work continues to improve at the Blue Ridge Rollergirls. (photo by Bill Rhodes)
Auto Defiance: "We're going to keep the upbeat dancey direction"
The Nashville-based alt-rock outfit returns to Asheville on Saturday, Jan. 5. They'll play a 9 p.m. show at Emerald Lounge with fellow Tennessee bands A Great Disaster and Matt Sanders Band.


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One Direction band member Liam Payne suffered a minor injury after reportedly being mobbed by fans at London's Heathrow Airport over the weekend.
Payne touched down at the airport on Saturday and it was then that he found screaming and anxious fans there to greet him. Things become a bit unruly and Payne left the ordeal bruised. Luckily for Payne, he endured only minor injuries and also found the time to take to his Twitter page and write of the experience and share a photograph:
"Lol I just looked at my arm that's what happens when somebody pulls at your skin too hard" #crazyday twitter.com/Real_Liam_Payn… — Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) December 8, 2012
He also expressed some frustration on his Twitter page about the chaos at the airport in London in which he felt that he was being blamed for fans' behavior:
"I don't know why people are blaming us for this it's so sad 😦 when everyone's rushing and make it unsafe we get thrown back in our cars" — Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) December 8, 2012
Payne, who seemed to let his frustration subside as fans rushed to catch a glimpse of him, also shared a bit of comedy about the incident on Twitter:
"The awkward moment when a girl gives you a Chinese burn in the airport aha" — Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) December 8, 2012
"My scratch is that bad I think I might just have to cut my arm off -__-" — Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) December 8, 2012
Seeming to take the price of being a teen idol in stride, Payne also assured Twitter followers that neither he nor anyone else was seriously hurt and during his London visit he would see fans soon:
"Good news is we will probably see you all later anyway 🙂 so smiles all round and nobody got hurt" — Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) December 8, 2012
Additional reports indicate that One Direction's security team struggled to keep fans at bay and maintain continuity as a huge number of fans gathered at the airport to meet Payne. No word yet on changes in security for the band, although one can assume that things will be a bit different the next time Payne and 1D land at the next airport.
-Cicely C. Mitchell, Mix 96.5/Houston


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Karoon Strikes Oil Offshore Brazil with Kangaroo-1 Exploration Well
Karoon Gas revealed Friday that it has made an oil discovery in its Kangaroo-1 exploration well, in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil.
Mudlog, wireline petrophysical and MDT pressure data confirmed that Kangaroo-1 had intersected an 82 foot (25 meter) gross light oil column with an oil water contact in Eocene aged rocks.
"A wireline program is underway and full results are expected in the coming days. A decision to run a drill stem testing program will be assessed at the completion of the wireline evaluation program," Karoon said in a statement.
Karoon added that, while the oil column is not its primary target at Kangaroo-1, the discovery provides additional confidence in the other prospects within the company's blocks, including the Emu/Cassowary and Bilby exploration targets.
Kangaroo-1 is located within Blocks S-M-1101 and S-M-1165. The evaluation program is expected to continue through February with results being released as they become available.
After completing drilling works in Kangaroo-1, Karoon will move on to drill the Emu-1 and Bilby-1 wells in blocks S-M-1102, S-M-1137 and S-M-1166. These wells will evaluate multiple targets at Miocene, Eocene, Maestrichtian, Campanian and Santonian levels.
Karoon's Santos Basin blocks BM-S 1037, 1101, 1102, 1165 and 1166 are sited 124 miles (200 kilometers) off the coast of the Santa Catarina region of Brazil, south of Rio de Janeiro. The blocks, in shallow water depths of around 984 feet (300 meters), are on trend with oil and gas fields such as the Piracucá, Caravela, Vampira, Merluza and Mexilhão fields.
Karoon is the operator and the sole owner of all the blocks.
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Bay named NL Player of the Month
By Zachary Levine / MLB.com
The honors keep coming for Jason Bay -- almost as fast as his home run balls are leaving the ballpark. After receiving National League Player of the Week honors in consecutive weeks, Bay was named National League Player of the Month for May. Bay, who put on his best Barry Bonds impersonation during his award-winning month, becomes the first Pirate to win the award since Bonds did it in September 1992. The left fielder homered in six consecutive games from May 22-28, and his blast on the final day of the month gave him 12 to set a Pirates record for May. "I don't know that there is a hotter hitter in the league," Bucs manager Jim Tracy said. "With the type of at-bats that he's taking right now, I think you're beginning to see a guy that is reaching for a level beyond what you've see him do here the last couple of years. I think you are going to continue to see him do that." "I'm starting to pinch myself when I get in the dugout," Bay said during his streak. Just as the power came in a spurt for the Canadian-born slugger, his hitting for average did too. Bay ended May on a nine-game hitting streak that included five straight multi-hit games. His 16-for-40 stretch capped a month that would see him hit .321 with an astronomical 1.090 OPS. Bay's 35 RBIs were best in the National League. His surge has brought life to the Pirates, who have struggled but finished the month winners of five of their last six. Bay beat out a crop of National Leaguers with plenty of credentials, including Dodgers first baseman Nomar Garciaparra, who hit .375 with 28 RBIs, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard, who led the league with 13 home runs and Rockies outfielder Matt Holliday, who hit .400 with eight homers and 15 RBIs. Diamondbacks outfielder Eric Byrnes, Marlins third baseman Miguel Cabrera, Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols and Nationals outfielder Alfonso Soriano also recieved votes for the award.
Zachary Levine is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A Thule biking backpack is ideal for storing your gear on the way to work or on longer rides. You'll love the smart, stylish, and durable design!
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Whether it's grabbing your backpack and hitting the trail or a laptop backpack to join in the hustle and bustle of the city, you always want to have a pack you can rely on and not slow you down. Thule backpacks are stylish, safe, and easy to use – and tough enough to follow you wherever you want to go.
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He's beaten cancer and now Michael Douglas is ready to take on Liberace.
The Oscar-winning actor, who endured gruelling chemotherapy after being diagnosed with throat cancer in August, is prepping for his role as the legendary entertainer who died in 1987. Douglas said he'll take piano lessons, but hasn't decided if he'll sing.
"I've been watching a lot of tapes of him," Douglas, 66, told People magazine. "He wasn't the greatest dancer nor the greatest singer, but he was a great pianist and entertainer."
Douglas learned last week the tumor in his throat is gone. Experts say he needs three years of cancer freedom before he can claim to be cured. But Douglas is upbeat and trying to regain the 35 pounds he said he lost during his medical ordeal. He told People he will start shooting the Liberace biopic in the spring.
Douglas plans to attend the Golden Globes on Jan. 16, where he is a nominee for best supporting actor for his return as Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleep."
Selected Reading: People, IMDb, Liberace.org.


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Hey M Girls!
We have a BRAND NEW spin on the daily advice column on mmm-mag.com. Each day at 8:00 PM/EST we'll post a reader question and have our M Girl answer it!! Today, we're talking about crushing on two boys!
M Reader Justin Bieber101 wrote: "I like this guy, he's my first love and I can't get over him. But at the same time, I also love his best friend. I dated both of them and they're making me choose between them. If I choose one I will be heartbroken because I would miss the other one. I don't know what to do. Please help me!"
And M Girl's answer is: "I think you need to take a step back and reevaluate the whole situation. If you can't pick one boy over the other, than maybe you don't have that strong of feelings for either boy. If you were really in love with one of them, it would be easy to pick. If you care about both of them, maybe you should just consider being friends with both of them. Work on your friendships with them, that way you can have both of them in your life and not have to worry about missing either of them. It's not always about dating. If you want them both in your life, you might have to compromise a little. Good luck!"
Don't forget to check back here tomorrow for more advice. And if you've got a question you want M Girl to help with click here to submit it!


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I stand calm and collected in an open space and await my sensei.
(heyy, to master Ninjutsu on NB do I have to learn EVERY technique?
To have Tsunade you need mastery over ninjutsu, but under nin falls things like Ink, Tool Manipulation and other random things that she would never use)


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This portable air conditioner earned The Best rating from the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute because it cooled most effectively and offered more convenient features. The Best Portable Air Conditioner lowered the ambient temperature by 7.33ş F in two hours, while competing models could only muster a 2.33ş F decrease. Unlike lesser portable air conditioners with limited controls, The Best model has an energy-saving mode that automatically chooses the fan speed based on the current ambient temperature and the unit's set temperature. The unit can be programmed to turn on and off automatically at pre-set times, and its louvers can be set to oscillate for more even air distribution. The 14,000 BTU unit cools a room up to 400' sq. and also functions as a 12,000 BTU heater, a fan, or a dehumidifier. The Best model rolls on four casters, its exhaust system rests between a sill and an open window, and it has a washable air filter. Includes remote control. 32 3/4" H x 19" W x 17 1/2" D. (83 lbs.)
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KMeleonWiki > Resources > MacroLibrary
Welcome to the K-Meleon Macros Library. Here you'll find user submitted macros which showcase the features and possibilities of K-Meleon with the macros plugin. To get a better understanding of the macro language, check out the Macro Language page.
To submit your own, click here and place the link to your macro at the top of the list. For your convenience, you can use the Macro Submission Template as a guide to create your macro page by copy & pasting its contents into yours and then filling it out with your macro information.
...and is bringing some major changes with it. The next version of K-Meleon (currently in alpha stage) supports modular macros. I please all who have submitted macros to this library to update them for future Plug'n Play usage.
I suggest to submit macro modules for K-Meleon 1.1 to the new MacroLibrary2 and to leave the macros here for use in the current and previous versions of the browser.
For users who want to learn more about some of the changes in the coming K-Meleon 1.1, I've put together some hints in my personal K-Meleon 1.x Reference.


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Creativity: a demanding passion
Our designers continually revisit the themes that Piaget holds dear. They draw inspiration from a strong historical legacy and modern themes with a wide range of styles reminiscent of Hollywood glamour, magic gardens and the many facets of celebratory occasions.
Each Piaget design plays on the fluidity of materials and the radiance of light, thanks to the exceptional talent of our jewellers and gem-setters. Each Piaget design gives way to a new emotion: from diamond drops that trickle down the neck, quivering foliage that embellish and frame the face and the firework-like explosion of gems.
Very special care is given to finishes to provide long-lasting comfort and flexibility to the wearer.
The various professions involved in the design of a piece work in close proximity to provide prompt communication and responsiveness. By taking all technical and aesthetic constraints into consideration for each new stage in jewellery production, our technical expertise is fully focused on excellence in design.


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I am running Kaspersky Antivirus and tried to install the free Zone alarm Firewall version..
seems this two software does not agree with each other.
running the both of this causes the system to slow down to the point where you
will even have problems trying to shutdown..
is there a way or patch to make it so that I can run zone alarm firewall alongside Kaspersky Antivirus?
Operating System:Windows XP Pro
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I'm hoping this doesn't become a trend with third-party publishers and the Wii U. Founder, CEO and President of Crytek — the developer behind sci-fi shooter Crysis 3 — would love to see Crysis 3 on the Wii U, but the decision wasn't his to make; it was EA's decision. Yerli told Digital Spy:
There has been discussions between Nintendo and EA and Crytek, but the bottom line is that there's not enough business drive in it […] It's a purely business decision. I'd love to see it on Wii U, but what I love to see and what gets done at the end of the day are two different things. Even so, I could initiate it but someone has to sell it, right?
Yerli added that "It's a business decision between EA and Nintendo. If that business decision doesn't make sense, or seems to not make sense for them, it's… not possible for us to make it. We can't publish ourselves, and that's the bottom line."
Yerli has said in the past that his opinion of the Wii U is very high, and in June of last year, he mentioned that there was a game in development for the Wii U that uses the CryEngine 3. At least we know that that game is not Crysis 3 now.
You can follow Senior Editor Lance Liebl on Twitter @Lance_GZ. He likes talking sports, video games, movies, and the stupidity of celebrities. Email at email@example.com


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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2004 [United States] (ICPSR 28001)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
To ensure an accurate sampling frame for its Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the Bureau of Justice Statistics sponsors a census of the nation's state and local law enforcement agencies, known as the Directory Survey. This census, which is conducted every four years, includes all state and local law enforcement agencies operating nationwide that are publicly funded and employ at least one full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers. As in previous years, the 2004 census collected data on the number of sworn and nonsworn personnel employed by each agency, including both full-time and part-time employees. The pay period that included September 30, 2004, was the reference date for all personnel data. Variables include personnel totals, type of government, type of agency, and whether the agency had the legal authority to hold a person beyond arraignment for 48 or more hours. Previous censuses were conducted in 1986 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1986: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 8696]), 1992 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1992: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 2266]), 1996 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1996: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 2260]), and 2000 (Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2000: [United States] [ICPSR 3484]).
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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2004 [United States]. ICPSR28001-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-05-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28001.v1
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Geographic Coverage: United States
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Unit of Observation: State and local law enforcement agencies.
Universe: All state and local law enforcement agencies that were publicly funded and employed at least one full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers.
The 2004 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA) data collection form was mailed to more than 19,000 agencies potentially operating nationwide. This master list was created by compiling information from the following sources:
The 2000 CSLLEA.
Lists provided by Peace Officer Standards and Training offices and other state agencies.
A FBI list of agencies requesting new identifiers since the 2000 CSLLEA.
Responses were received through website, fax, and mail options. Responding agencies were screened for eligibility to be included in the final CSLLEA database.
Agencies were excluded if any of the following conditions existed on the CSLLEA reference date of September 30, 2004:
The agency was not operational.
The agency did not employ personnel with general arrest powers.
The agency contracted or outsourced to another agency for performance of all services.
The agency employed only part-time officers and the total combined hours worked for these officers averaged less than 35 hours per week.
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Joba, Robertson in fine form in loss to Phillies
Ichiro chips in three hits; catcher Murphy's two-run homer for naught
By Todd Zolecki / MLB.com
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Phillies didn't make much noise early in Tuesday's game, but homers in the seventh inning from Domonic Brown and Tommy Joseph powered them to a come-from-behind 4-3 victory over the visiting Yankees.
The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Ichiro Suzuki reached on an infield single -- his first of three hits -- stole second and scored on Mark Teixeira's double into the right-field corner with two outs.
New York right-hander Jose Ramirez allowed one walk in two scoreless innings, before David Robertston and Joba Chamberlain each threw a scoreless inning in relief. Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard was the only Phillies hitter to pick up a hit in the first five innings.
The Phillies tied the game on Kevin Frandsen's RBI double in the sixth inning, though the Yankees retook the lead in the seventh on JR Murphy's two-run homer. Brown's second homer of the spring drew Philly to within a run, before Joseph drove one over the center-field wall to put the Phillies ahead by a run.
Phillies right-hander Kyle Kendrick allowed three hits, one run and struck out one in two innings in his Grapefruit League debut.
"It was nice to get out there," Kendrick said. "I was excited. A little amped up a little bit in the first inning. I felt good. The body felt good. I was throwing mostly strikes."
Up next: Robinson Cano and Teixeira will continue logging at-bats before they leave to join their respective teams for the World Baseball Classic as the Yankees welcome the Orioles to George M. Steinbrenner Field on Tuesday for a 1:05 p.m. ET game on MLB.TV. Left-hander Nik Turley, who spent most of last season with Class A Tampa and has drawn comparisons to a young Andy Pettitte, will start for New York opposite right-hander Jake Arrieta.
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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History Museums
There's reading about history. Then there's experiencing history firsthand. And nowhere else provides opportunities to do the latter like Massachusetts.
Here you can stand on the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill; take in the hysteria of the witch trials at the Salem Witch Museum; stroll down the gas-lit cobblestone streets of New Bedford's historic whaling district and visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum; celebrate democracy at the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum; and see firsthand where all of the famous, and infamous, events that helped shape an entire nation took place.
For more information visit The New England Museum Association. A list of more than 400 museums and heritage sites from the New England region and their current exhibits.
Plimoth Plantation
Salem Witch Museum, Salem
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge
Epic History: it's all here
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Lok'Tar! For the Horde! Strength and honor! Ew, I'd never play an Alliance character. Look, it's another stupid night elf female. If it's red, it's dead! All the kiddies play Alliance ...
If you're Horde, you hear things like this every day. The Horde has a large number of loyal partisans who take great pride in being a member of the faction, and think less of anyone on the other side. The Alliance are pretty boys, little kids, ezmode, uncreative. The Horde has all the best heroes, the Horde are the real players, the Horde are the true good guys of WoW. You can't go five minutes in Orgrimmar without hearing one of these sentiments.
But, as Soy of Auchindoun points out, Alliance players don't seem to have the same vocal pride in their faction as Horde do. I've played both sides, and the most I've heard Alliance players call the Horde is ugly and evil. Which admittedly aren't good things to be called, but that's more about the lore than a direct attack on the players behind the avatars. Several players noted that underpopulated races seem to have more pride than overpopulated ones -- you'll see more troll, dwarf and draenei pride than undead, night elf and human. Perhaps that's the reason the Horde feels the need to claim superiority -- since they're the underdog on most servers, they have to do something to keep from feeling like scrubs. Also, the Horde has less prettiness, sparsely populated cities, and are widely perceived as evil. With all that on our heads, it's no wonder we need Horde pride. Adversity has strengthened our spirit and caused us to band together.
I started out as a night elf and ended up as a troll, so I don't really have too much faction pride. I feel a little proud whenever a Horde guild gets a world first, and I do like being a rare class/race/gender combination, but eh ... there are as many annoying people on my side as on theirs. Or, as Borogove of Proudmoore says, "Alliance has more idiots, Horde has more jerks. Pick your poison."
Are you proud to be a member of the Alliance or the Horde? What about your race or class? Do you really hate the other faction? Who do you think has more to be proud of?


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Skip to comments.The Yamal deception ( Dataused for the Global Warming Hoax
Posted on 05/10/2012 11:02:42 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
As many readers are probably aware, there has been an important new posting at Climate Audit about the Yamal affair. This posting is an attempt to set out the whole story of Yamal. It reworks an article I did in 2009 and incorporates new developments since that time. I hope readers find it useful. I have also prepared a Kindle version of the post, for which there is a small charge - click here:
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The story of Michael Mann's Hockey Stick reconstruction, its statistical bias and the influence of the bristlecone pines is well known. Steve McIntyre's research into the other reconstructions of the temperatures of the last millennium has received less publicity, however. The story of the Yamal chronology may change that.
The bristlecone pines that created the shape of the Hockey Stick graph are used in nearly every millennial temperature reconstruction around today, but there are also a handful of other tree ring series that are nearly as common and just as influential on the results. Back at the start of McIntyre's research into the area of paleoclimate, one of the most significant of these was called Polar Urals, a chronology first published by Keith Briffa of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. At the time, it was used in pretty much every temperature reconstruction around. In his paper, Briffa made the startling claim that the coldest year of the millennium was AD 1032, a statement that, if true, would have completely overturned the idea of the Medieval Warm Period. It is not hard to see why paleoclimatologists found the series so alluring.
Yamal saves the day
Some of McIntyre's research into Polar Urals deserves a story in its own right, but it is one that will have to wait for another day. We can pick up the narrative again in 2005, when McIntyre discovered that an update to the Polar Urals series had been collected in 1999. Through a contact he was able to obtain a copy of the revised series. Remarkably, in the update the eleventh century appeared to be much warmer than in the original - in fact it was higher even than the twentieth century. This must have been a severe blow to paleoclimatologists, a supposition that is borne out by what happened next, or rather what didn't: the update to the Polar Urals was not published, it was not archived and it was almost never seen again.
With Polar Urals now unusable, paleclimatologists had a pressing need for a hockey stick shaped replacement and a solution appeared in the nick of time in the shape of a series from the nearby location of Yamal.
The Yamal data had been collected by a pair of Russian scientists, Hantemirov and Shiyatov, and was published in 2002. In their version of the data, Yamal had little by way of a twentieth century trend. Strangely though, Briffa's version, which had made it into print before even the Russians', was somewhat different. While it was very similar to the Russians' version for most of the length of the record, Briffa's verison had a sharp uptick at the end of the twentieth century -- another hockey stick, made almost to order to meet the requirements of the paleoclimate community. Certainly, after its first appearance in Briffa's 2000 paper in Quaternary Science Reviews, this version of Yamal was seized upon by climatologists, appearing again and again in temperature reconstructions; it became virtually ubiquitous in the field: apart from Briffa 2000, it also contributed to the reconstructions in Mann and Jones 2003, Jones and Mann 2004, Moberg et al 2005, D'Arrigo et al 2006, Osborn and Briffa 2006 and Hegerl et al 2007, among others.
The data is not free
Much more including Graphs at the Web site.
AGW Ping.
What's even worse is were paying these phoney elitist climate scammers to doctor the data so they can please the enablers and keep the gravy train rolling in so the likes of gore and his minions and the socialist democrat party can give us the energy shaft and clean up financially.
A strange lack of twentieth century data
When McIntyre started to look at the numbers it was clear that there were going to be the usual problems with a lack of metadata, but there was more than just this. In typical climate science fashion, just scratching at the surface of the Briffa archive raised as many questions as it answered. Why did Briffa only have half the number of cores covering the Medieval Warm Period that the Russian had reported? And why were there so few cores in Briffa's twentieth century? By 1988 there were only 12 cores used, an amazingly small number in what should have been the part of the record when it was easiest to obtain data. By 1990 the count was only ten, dropping still further to just five in 1995. Without an explanation of how the selection of this sample of the available data had been performed, the suspicion of `cherrypicking' would linger over the study, particularly since the sharp twentieth century uptick in the series was almost entirely due to a single tree (It is true to say, however, that Hantemirov also had very few cores in the equivalent period, so it is possible that this selection had been due to the Russian and not Briffa).
The lack of twentieth century data was still more remarkable when the Yamal chronology was compared to the Polar Urals series, to which it was now apparently preferred. The ten or twelve cores used in Yamal was around half the number available at Polar Urals, which should presumably therefore have been considered the more reliable. Why then had climatologists almost all preferred to use Yamal? Could it be because it had a hockey stick shape?
The Khatdyta River experiment
But there was another mystery in Briffa's paper too. As we have seen, Briffa had been in the business of creating regional chronologies, for example supplementing Taimyr with data from other locations such as Avam and Balschaya Kamenka. Similar regional chronologies had been created for Fennoscandia and allegedly for Yamal. But the Yamal data appeared to represent only the original Hantemirov and Shiyatov data with no supplementation with other sites in the area at all. Why had Briffa left Yamal on its own, when the core count was so low? Suitable data was certainly available - Schweingruber had collected samples at a site called Khadyta River, close to Yamal, and with 34 cores recorded it represented a much more reliable basis for reconstructing temperatures.
McIntyre decided to perform a sensitivity test on Briffa's database, replacing the 12 cores that were behind the twentieth century uptick in the Yamal series with the 34 from Khadtya River. The revised chronology was simply staggering. The sharp uptick in the series at the end of the twentieth century had vanished, leaving a twentieth century apparently without a significant trend. The blade of the Yamal hockey stick, used in so many of those temperature reconstructions that the IPCC said validated Michael Mann's work, was gone.
Sound and fury
The reaction to McIntyre's blog posts on Yamal was almost instantaneous. The RealClimate blog, run by prominent climate scientists in an effort to protect the IPCC orthodoxy, ridiculed McIntyre's work:
McIntyre has based his critique on a test conducted by randomly adding in one set of data from another location in Yamal that he found on the internet. People have written theses about how to construct tree ring chronologies in order to avoid end-member effects and preserve as much of the climate signal as possible. Curiously no-one has ever suggested simply grabbing one set of data, deleting the trees you have a political objection to and replacing them with another set that you found lying around on the web.
A few weeks later, Briffa and some of his colleagues joined in, writing a long response to McIntyre. Interestingly, this took a slightly different line to their colleagues at RealClimate, acknowledging that Khadtya River met the criteria for inclusion in the the Yamal chronology, but claiming somewhat implausibly that they had not considered it at the time.
Of course, there have always been bad actors in these fields. But the seeming nonchalance with which different professions view the absence of ethics, or responsibility for mistakes of a serious nature, is truly frightening. The liberal mantra of "the ends justify the means" seems to be accepted all too easily. And apparently not a drop of shame or embarrasment is attached to these actions.
You can tell you are over the Target when the FLACK gets heavy!
Climategate and the Yamal-Urals chronology
Just weeks later, the attention of the Climate blogosphere was well and truly diverted by the Climategate disclosures, and the arguments over the Yamal core count was forgotten in the media storm that followed. However, there were many emails in the Climategate zip file that directly pertained to the Yamal story. The message that immediately attracted attention was one that demonstrated that CRU had funded Hantemirov and Shiyatov to collect the Yamal data in the first place, something that did raise questions over Briffa's claim that the data was not theirs to give to McIntyre. However, at the time most attention was focused on Shiyatov's request that the funds be sent to his private bank account so as to avoid problems with the Russian tax authorities.
However, there was another email that was much more important, although it was barely noticed by anyone apart from McIntyre. The email in question, number 1146252894, was from Briffa to a scientist at the Met Office and dated back to 2006.
Hi Philip,
We have three "groups" of trees:
"SCAND" (which includes the Tornetrask and Finland multi-millennial chronologies, but also some shorter chronologies from the same region). These trees fall mainly within the 3 boxes centred at:
"URALS" (which includes the Yamal and Polar Urals long chronologies, plus other shorter ones). These fall mainly within these 3 boxes:
62.5E, 62.5N (note this is the only one not at 67.5N)
"TAIMYR" (which includes the Taimyr long chronology, plus other shorter ones). These fall mainly within these 4 boxes:
There could be little doubt that these were the regional chronologies that had been prepared for the Royal Society paper. Crucially then, this email showed that Briffa and his colleagues had prepared a regional chronology that incorporated Yamal and the Polar Urals - a much wider area than the Yamal-only chronology that had appeared in the final paper.
Briffa's decision to drop the URALS regional chronology (incorporating Yamal and sites in the Polar Urals) in favour of a Yamal-only chronology with only a handful of trees in its modern section was starting to look indefensible. It was also hard to square the existence of the URALS chronology with Briffa's rebuttal of McIntyre's earlier blog post. When Briffa had said his revised Yamal chronology incorporated "all the data", he had actually only incorporated a handful of sites in the Yamal area, without mentioning that he had prepared the much broader-based URALS chronology. The deception in Briffa's response was now clear, at least to McIntyre.
The only way to prove that all this mattered, however, was to find out what the URALS chronology looked like. If it lacked the hockey stick shape, as McIntyre suspected, Briffa would be completely undone. McIntyre duly submitted a freedom of information request for the chronology itself and a list of the sites used. As he expected, this was refused, and before long the long and tedious appeals process was set in motion.
The Climategate inquiries
Yet more wood heaped upon the fire.
The Commissioner calls
In April 2012, the tide began to shift against Briffa. The UK's Information Commissioner wrote to UEA with some bad news - although a decision on the release of the URALS chronology had not been reached, the commissioner advised the university that there could be no good reason not to disclose the list of sites used and accordingly he intended to rule against them on this issue. Briffa's hand was finally going to be forced.
The list of 17 sites that was finally sent to McIntyre represented complete vindication. The presence of Yamal and Polar Urals had already been obvious from the Climategate emails, but the list showed that Briffa had also incorporated the Polar Urals update (which, as we saw above, did not have a hockey stick shape, and which Briffa claimed he had not looked at since 1995) and the Khadtya River site, McIntyre's use of which the RealClimate authors had ridiculed.
Although the chronology itself was not yet available, the list of sites was sufficient for McIntyre to calculate the numbers himself, and the results were breathtaking. Firstly, the URALS regional chronology had vastly more data behind it than the Yamal-only figures presented in Briffa's paper
But what was worse, the regional chronology did not have a hockey stick shape - the twentieth century uptick that Briffa had got from the handful of trees in the Yamal-only series had completely disappeared.
Direct comparison of the chronology that Briffa chose to publish against the full chronology that he withheld makes the point clear:
It seems clear then that the URALS chronology Briffa prepared to go alongside the others he put together for the 2008 paper gave a message that did not comply with the message that he wanted to convey - one of unprecedented warmth at the end of the twentieth century. In essence the URALS regional chronology was suffering from the divergence problem - the widely noted failure of some tree ring series to pick up the recent warming seen in instrumental temperature records, which led to the infamous 'hide the decline' episode.
Remarkably, however, Briffa did allude to the divergence problem in his paper:
These [regional chronologies] show no evidence of a recent breakdown in [the association between tree growth and temperature] as has been found at other high-latitude Northern Hemisphere locations.
The reason for dropping the URALS chronology looks abundantly clear. It would not have supported this message.
See the website for graphical data.
The "hide the decline" and the "Hocky Stick" were NOT mistakes.
I'm not holding my breath.
Mann considers himself a modern day Joan of Arc.
Then I guess he wouldn't mind emulating her demise.
Ironically it would be local rather than global warming.
But if we put the charcoal in the dirt, his final act would be one of carbon sequestration.
But, bending almost doubled over backward to give them the benefit of the doubt, even if it WAS a mistake, it was a very serious mistake which should have been screamingly obvious to them a long time ago; and they have failed to correct the record or take responsibility.
So I stand by my ethical point - even if it initially WAS a mistake, the refusal to take responsibility for it and actively try to correct the mistake is just as bad as deliberate deception. A search for the truth, no matter where that search leads, is the cornerstone of the practice of science. These would have been the actions of a few bad actors, at most, 50 years ago. Now, most of the scientific community seems to have no ethical problem with it.
They are no better than the drive-by media or the Wall Street manipulators ...
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"liam humphrey" [email@example.com]
Hello Atheist Experience,
I am sending an email to ask you a question about God's existence.
How, when you look out the window in the morning, can you not say that God doesn't exist?
There must be a bigger force that has created all this beauty. It can't be a coincidence, and science is unable to create such magic.
Science is a conspiracy theory. It is a ;lie by people who are in denial about Christianity.
I would also like to complain about Matt Dillahunty's techniques when confronting us. I find him rude and irrational.
Thank You
You're welcome.
And anyway, we do say that God doesn't exist when we look out the window in the morning (as well as other times). So what this dope is complaining about, I have no idea.
Addendum: So okay, it was a Poe. Still, remember what Poe's Law states: you can't tell. And we've gotten real emails just this wacky. So, nice one.


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Coal Tar Sealant Health Hazards
Coal tar is a brown or black liquid of extremely high viscosity, which smells of naphthalene and aromatic hydrocarbons. Coal tar is incorporated into some parking-lot sealcoat products, which are marketed as a means of protecting and beautifying underlying pavement. Sealcoat products that are coal-tar based typically contain 20 to 35 percent coal-tar pitch. Coal-tar-based sealants are emitting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) into the air at rates that may be greater than annual emissions from vehicles in the United States, according to new reports by the U.S. Geological Survey, published in the scientific journals Chemosphere and Atmospheric Environment. Children living near coal-tar-sealed pavement are exposed to twice as many PAHs from ingestion of contaminated house dust than from food, according to a separate new study by Baylor University and the USGS, published in the journal Environmental Pollution. Several PAHs are probable human carcinogens and many are toxic to fish and other aquatic life.
These results and those of previous research on environmental contamination and coal-tar-based pavement sealants are summarized in a feature article appearing in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Links to the four new articles on this topic can be found on the USGS website on PAHs and sealcoat.
Coal-tar-based sealant is the black liquid sprayed or painted on many parking lots, driveways, and playgrounds. An estimated 85 million gallons are used each year, primarily in the central and eastern U.S. Coal tar is known to cause cancer in humans and is made up of more than 50 percent PAHs.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are potent atmospheric pollutants that consist of fused aromatic rings and do not contain heteroatoms or carry substituents. Naphthalene is the simplest example of a PAH. PAHs occur in oil, coal, and tar deposits, and are produced as byproducts of fuel burning (whether fossil fuel or biomass). As a pollutant, they are of concern because some compounds have been identified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic.
Scientists estimate that the amount of PAHs released to air nationwide each year from new applications of coal-tar-based sealant are similar to or greater than annual PAH emissions from vehicles. USGS scientists measured PAHs in air above parking lots, with and without sealcoat, in suburban Austin, Texas. In a second study, PAH levels in air and in dried sealant were tracked for one year following sealant application to a parking lot. Two hours after sealcoat application, PAH emissions were 30,000 times higher than those from unsealed pavement. Parking lots with three to eight-year-old sealant released 60 times more PAHs to the air than parking lots without sealant.
Coal-tar-based sealcoat causes contamination indoors as well as outdoors. Baylor University scientist Spencer Williams used USGS measurements of PAHs in house dust to estimate the potential ingestion of PAHs by young children living near coal-tar-sealed parking lots. Ingestion of PAHs from food has long been thought to be the primary route by which children are exposed to PAHs. Williams' analysis indicated that children living in apartments adjacent to parking lots with coal-tar-based sealcoat likely receive more than twice as much PAHs from incidental ingestion of house dust than from their diet. PAH ingestion by children in those settings was estimated to be 14 times higher than by children in apartments adjacent to unsealed parking lots.
Some governments have taken action on use of coal-tar-based sealcoat. Fifteen municipalities and two counties in four states (Minnesota, New York, Texas, and Wisconsin), the District of Columbia, and the state of Washington all have enacted some type of ban, affecting almost 10.4 million people. Several national and regional hardware and home-improvement retailers have voluntarily ceased selling coal-tar-based driveway-sealer products.
Two kinds of sealcoat products are widely used: coal-tar-based and asphalt-based. The coal-tar products have PAH levels about 1,000 times higher than the asphalt products. Asphalt-based sealcoat is more commonly used on the West Coast and coal-tar-based sealcoat is more commonly used in the Midwest, the South, and the East.
For further information: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3101&from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsgsNewsroom+%28USGS+Newsroom%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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The entire Dumbarton Bridge will be closed during Memorial Day weekend for seismic retrofit work, bridge officials announced.
Effie Milionis, a spokeswoman for the Dumbarton Bridge Seismic Safety Project, said that during the three-day closure Caltrans will replace a major expansion joint on the western side of the bridge across six lanes of traffic.
The bridge will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday, May 25, to as late as 5 a.m. Tuesday, May 29, she said.
During the closure, motorists are encouraged to take public transit or use alternate driving routes.
Motorists should allow extra time for travel and use other bridges, including state highways 237 and 92 via the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, she said.
The closure over Memorial Day weekend will be the first time the Dumbarton Bridge will be closed for a full weekend for seismic safety work, Milionis said.
Seismic retrofit work began in the fall of 2010 and is scheduled to be completed early next year, she said.
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Yahoo! and Corporate Communications2
Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo! was fired yesterday. The first widespread notice was an e-mail she sent to employees, which according to the New York Times read:
I am very sad to tell you that I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.
For starters, no one wants to be fired over the phone. Maybe it was the only feasible way, depending on where the parties were at the time, but it's hardly ideal.
As The Consumerist points out, Bartz was hired to turn Yahoo! and its share price around, and that hasn't happened. So the firing wasn't necessarily shocking. Then, Yahoo! sent out its own message, in a press release that included the following paragraph:
Roy Bostock, Chairman of the Yahoo! Board, said, "The Board sees enormous growth opportunities on which Yahoo! can capitalize, and our primary objective is to leverage the Company's leadership and current business assets and platforms to execute against these opportunities. We have talented teams and tremendous resources behind them and intend to return the Company to a path of robust growth and industry-leading innovation. We are committed to exploring and evaluating possibilities and opportunities that will put Yahoo! on a trajectory for growth and innovation and deliver value to shareholders."
Does Roy Bostock really talk like that? I'm not sure anyone does–not when they're actually trying to say something, that is. This reads more like someone trying to avoid saying anything. I think David Meerman Scott gets it right when he says, "Yahoo! missed an opportunity to communicate like humans and deliver some real information."
A press release shouldn't be in code. Tell people what they need to know in a way they can easily understand. We're all busy. Show that you respect that. What have you got to lose?


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Something very odd is happening on my computer. For some reason, DLLHOST.exe is almost constantly hogging my computer's resources.
What it does is it constantly wavers from about 20% up to 99% of my system resources (mostly hanging around the 99% range...then dropping down to 20% for a second and spiking back up yet again to 99%).
This is incredibly annoying to me. It has only started doing this in the past few days, and I have no clue what is wrong, but it is annoying me because of the fact that it is constantly hogging so much of my system resources, that whenever I try to play music it becomes choppy, slow, and not-great-quality because the music doesnt have enough system resources to run while DLLHOST.exe is hogging up so much of them.
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The Houston Dynamo will play Mexican club Santos Laguna in the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals, to be played March 2013.
Although the Dynamo won Group 3, they finished as the seventh overall seed and drew the second seeded Santos, who won Group 1 with a 4-0-0 record. Santos is the reigning LigaMX Clausura champion and the 2011-12 CONCACAF Champions League runner-up.
The club is led by U.S. men's national team striker Herculez Gomez (pictured, above) and former Mexican national team goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez.
Click here for final CCL group stage standings.
CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal Matchups
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+ Mooney runners earn regional berths
Cardinal Mooney High junior Grace CasaGrande set a new personal record, finishing third in 19:39.44 to lead the Lady Cougars to a sixth-place finish at the Class 1A-District 10 Cross-Country Meet Nov. 2, at Taylor Park in Largo.
CasaGrande will advance to the Class 1A-Region 3 Meet Nov. 10, in Melbourne.
ODA's Carling Landeche finished sixth in 21:03.25 to pace the Lady Thunder, who finished fifth overall. Cardinal Mooney sophomore Cal Davidson Turner finished seventh to lead the Cougars to a sixth-place finish.
Davidson Turner will advance to the regional meet Nov. 10.
In the JV division, Cardinal Mooney freshman Ryan Lee Romero finished first followed by sophomore Tyler Shanahan.
+ Lady Thunder fall in regional quarterfinal
The Out-of-Door Academy volleyball team saw its season come to an end with a 26-24, 25-14, 25-11 loss to Clearwater Central Catholic in a Class 3A-Region 3 quarterfinal Oct. 31.
Lauren Maxey paced the Lady Thunder (12-10) with seven kills, three aces and 16 digs.
+ Sarasota Crew wins top honors
The Sarasota Crew team took home several first-place finishes at the 13th annual Halloween Regatta Oct. 27, in Tampa.
More than 300 competitors, representing 30 teams, participated in the regatta.
First-place finishes for the Crew include:
Men's Varsity 1x (Andrew Konecny)
Women's Varsity 1x (Shawna Sims)
Men's Varsity 8+
Women's Varsity 8+
Men's Novice 8+
Women's Novice 8+
Middle School 8+
Men's Varsity 4+
Women's Varsity 4+
Women's Novice 4+
Men's Varsity 2x (Chris Delaney and Thomas Pring)
Women's Varsity 2x (Christina Warren and Eliza Culp)
Men's Varsity 4x
Women's Varsity 4x
Women's Masters 4+
+ ODA wins Headmaster Cup
The Out-of-Door Academy football team defeated St. Stephen's 42-20 Nov. 2, to win the Headmaster Cup.
Quarterback Evan Wilson threw for more than 330 yards and five touchdowns and J.T. Fischer ran for nearly 140 yards and a touchdown. Wilson has now passed for more than 50 touchdowns and 6,000 yards in his career.
The Thunder will close out their season Nov. 9 versus Cardinal Mooney.
+ Cougars senior wins pair of regional titles
Cardinal Mooney High senior Matt O'Donnell won the 100-yard backstroke and the 500 freestyle during the Class 1A-Region 3 Swimming & Diving Championship Meet Nov. 3.
O'Donnell will now advance to the Class 1A Swimming & Diving Championships Nov. 10, at the Central Florida YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando.
Booker High junior Grace DiMeo also will advance to the state meet after winning the 100 butterfly. She also finished second in the 200 freestyle.
+ Lady Rams win regional championship
The Riverview High girls swim team won the Class 3A-Region 2 Swimming & Diving Championship Meet Nov. 3.
The Lady Rams 200 freestyle relay (Taylor Katz, Niamh O'Grady, Laura Toth and Hannah James) and 400 freestyle relay (Katz, Spence Atkins, Lexy Raybon and James) posted victories for Riverview and qualified for the Class 3A Swimming & Diving Championships Nov. 9, at the Central Florida YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando.
+ Observer crowns first Ultimate Sports Fans
The Ultimate Sports Fan contest winners for September are Adam, Tanya and Levi Waxler. The Waxlers submitted a photo of themselves cheering on the Rays in their victory over the Texas Rangers Sept. 9, in Tampa.
A new Ultimate Sports Fan will be crowned each month through May, and each winner will receive a gourmet tailgate package from Morton's Gourmet Market. The submission period for the November contest runs until Nov. 22, and voting will take place from Nov. 22 to Nov. 26. To submit your photo or vote for the next winner, visit YourObserver.com.


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> recently burnt George Bush in elegy.
We should all have a favorite elegy (n. song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation) over the loss of liberties and the death of compassion since Dubya was annointed president. Well, unless you count compassionate conservatism.
But really gnat, for shame. You should know the difference between past and past-imperfect tenses, by now:
They burned an effigy
An effigy was burnt
Tsk. Is there still room in that Auckland Grammar?
If there's room at Akl. Grammar, William will go. He can proofread his old man's editing


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