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Without taking partisan sides or naming names, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton excoriated national leaders Saturday for the federal government shutdown and Washington's gridlocked politics, saying stalemates are eroding America's standing internationally.
In a paid speech to an audience of a few thousand people at the National Association of Realtors convention in San Francisco, the Democrat - and potential 2016 presidential candidate - cut a centrist path before the politically mixed audience of Realtors from around the U.S. and dozens of countries.
Later, she and her daughter, Chelsea, headlined a fundraiser at the Regency Ballroom for the Clinton Foundation's Millennial Network, an event aimed at voters younger than 30. Clinton has made a series of paid speeches around the country in recent weeks. She reportedly was paid $200,000 for each of two speeches at Goldman Sachs events last month.
She was decidedly more political during an appearance earlier Saturday in Los Angeles, where she urged Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. The effort has been stalled by House Republicans who do not support a pathway to citizenship for those living in the country illegally.
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"Our diversity is one of our great strengths, and part of the obvious argument for immigration reform is that we are a country of immigrants, and we should be celebrating that rather than fearing it," the Los Angeles Times quoted Clinton as telling hundreds of people at an event benefiting the Mexican-American Leadership Initiative at the University of Southern California.
In San Francisco, Clinton anchored many of her observations in experiences from her recently completed four-year stint as America's top diplomat who visited 112 countries during President Obama's first term. She said the view of America's political gridlock from overseas is "eroding the attitudes others had of us."
'From crisis to crisis'
"We are careening from crisis to crisis instead of getting together and focusing on what we could do right now. None of you would run your businesses that way, and we shouldn't run our country that way either," Clinton said.
She recalled meeting with Asian business leaders in Hong Kong during Washington's 2011 battle over raising the debt ceiling.
"And all (the business leaders) wanted to talk to me about was that the full faith and credit of the United States was in doubt?" Clinton said, adding that she reassured them that the crisis would be resolved.
Clinton said she was bothered by what she heard from foreign officials during this fall's federal shutdown, which occurred after she left office. She said she heard "disturbing statements" from Chinese finance ministry officials who wondered if "we need to de-Americanize the world."
"We have to get back to putting the common good ahead of personal or political interests," Clinton said, a statement that earned her the loudest applause of her 24-minute speech.
"I am hopeful that we will get back to that great big center that is the home of most Americans where we think about how we solve problems and work together," she said.
Clinton was greeted by standing ovations at the beginning and end of her appearance. However, several people later said some of their conservative colleagues told them that they had no desire to see Clinton, a longtime lighting rod of criticism for the right.
Noncommittal on 2016
Asked whether she plans to run for president, Clinton said, "I don't know. I do know that whoever runs, on either side, I hope has the same enthusiasm that you do for the kind of problem-solving, smart politics that built our country."
Even some Republicans in the audience, like Linda Robinson of Tennessee, were impressed "by how she wants to unify our country and get us working again."
Outside Moscone Center, about 150 supporters of the Ready for Hillary group that's trying to launch her candidacy rallied and waved signs. Kate Maeder, an organizer with the group, said it is important to elect a woman to the White House.
"She would be such a role model for generations of young girls to show that they could achieve whatever they want," Maeder said.
Clinton supporters and those who saw her speech shrugged off her request that no news media be allowed in the main hall when she gave her address. Before Clinton spoke, the audience inside Moscone Center was asked not to use recording devices or take photos. Many did use their mobile devices to snap photos during the event.
Joe Garofoli is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @joegarofoli


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Since these are the worst days on the NBA calendar, I was curious who Raptors nation liked the best, outside of Raptors players. So post your favourite former NBA player and your favourite current NBA player who don't don the Raptors red/purple and why.
For me, my favourite retired player is probably Rasheed Wallace. Jordan and Barkley are right up there, but I loved the way Sheed could impact so many parts of the game. His interior post defence and rebounding are staples of the game, but it's his superior shooting ability (for a big) that sets him apart. Used to watch videos of him in Detroit showing all of his trick shots. Left and right hand (2 balls at the same time) 3 point shots, no problem. 3/4 court bounce into the ball rack that is only an inch wider than the ball, book it. From behind the basket on the running track, swish. He could do it all, and if he had KG's heart, I don't doubt that Sheed could have been one of the greatest players ever. So while he was an underachiever (unless you count the record for Technicals), he was such a joy to watch, knowing he could do it all.
For current players, I'm a big Ray Allen fan (Jesus Shuttlesworth!) but I'm going to go with Russell Westbrook. During his rookie season, I had a sports package and I used to stay up late and watch random games. It wasn't long before I started following this rookie PG (and a sophomore Durant) tantilizing on that terrible Thunder team (that led to Harden's #3 pick). The aggressiveness for a point guard was almost unheard of. Lots of mistakes were made on that team, but you could see the potential oozing out of those two. Plus the awesome local TV commercials made the evening extra enjoyable.
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Size no problem for Mount Greylock's Ethan Ryan
Ethan Ryan didn't become a running back until the eighth grade. He was originally one of the smaller tight ends around.
Ryan is still one of the smaller running backs in Berkshire County, but that hasn't stopped him from putting up a second consecutive 1,000-yard season and leading Mount Greylock back into the Berkshire County championship game.
"I was smaller than everybody. That's how it's always been," Ryan said. "I've been underestimated. It makes you a better player."
Ryan and his Mount Greylock teammates will take the field in Dalton Wednesday night to play Wahconah Regional in the Plus-One game that decides the Berkshire County championship. After that, it's off to the Division III tournament, where Ryan and the Mounties will look for their third consecutive Super Bowl championship.
Ryan comes into Wednesday's game having rushed for 1,402 yards on 160 carries. That comes out to nearly 9 yards per carry. In nine regular-season games, the senior running back broke the 100-yard mark seven times and went over 200 yards twice. In six games, he carried the ball fewer than 20 times. He also scored 23 touchdowns and had multiple touchdowns in eight of his team's nine games.
"There is some type of chip there," said Greylock coach Shawn Flaherty. "Ultimately, He's just a force. What drives Ethan is that he loves to compete."
He is listed on Mount Greylock's roster as being 5-foot-8, 180 pounds. He replaced Jason Pilot as Mount Greylock's go-to running back two years ago, and is a far different back than the 6-1, 210-pound Pilot.
Pilot ran for consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in 2009 and 2010, while this is Ryan's second consecutive season at that mark.
"When you look at him, he doesn't look like a small guy," said Hank Barrett, the Greylock quarterback who is out for the season with an injury. "I'll stand next to him and he's my height.
"There's something in him that you don't see in all athletes. There's that fire."
Ryan said he was a little surprised that he's had the kind of season he is having. Last year, Kent Hanson was the go-to guy in the Greylock offense.
"Last year, he had Hanson who people had to watch," said St. Joseph's coach Gary Bianchi. "This year, everyone's defense is focused on trying to stop him."
Bianchi and Flaherty both praise Ryan's internal battery that never seems to run down and keeps his legs moving until he's finally stopped. Ryan said he learned that in the youth leagues. He also credits basketball for helping him develop the skills needed to run for 1,400 yards.
"My youth football coach said always run with your head up," he said. "In basketball, you have to keep your head up to see what's going on the court."
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Entrepreneur Nicholas Roper Working to Give Youth a Chance
February 25, 2013
Cheyney University senior Nicholas Roper, an entrepreneur, is working on a business plan to help inner-city youth
Nicholas Roper is glad he transferred from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) to Cheyney University this past summer. Two years ago, the Abington, PA native left IUP to come home and help his mother, taking an administrative job in a dermatology office at University of Pennsylvania Hospital to help make ends meet. Eventually, he started taking some classes at CU's Center City location--doing an entire semester's worth of work in half the time. The Liberal Arts major with a concentration in Business likes the accelerated pace so much, he still takes classes at CUCC, even though he started full-time at CU's main campus this semester.
"I love the program because you still learn--if not more in 7 1/2 weeks-- because the key/core elements are strongly emphasized. You have to get the little things on your own," the 23-year-old admits, but "everything is compact. Every point is crucial. The classes feed off of each other so that you're always using what you learn from semester to semester."
Another CU benefit that Roper loves is the Entrepreneurial Leadership Center (ELC ) which gives students who want to start their own businesses access to resources to support their goals. ELC Project Development Coordinator Reginald Whiteside helps bring accomplished entrepreneurs and successful business leaders to campus to mentor and advise students. Roper is part of the ELC's new CEO program, a student club for students who want to become entrepreneurs. Roper credits Whiteside with helping him hone his entrepreneurial idea. "He is a big help," Roper insists. "He encouraged me to pursue my own non-profit and work on a serious business plan. It started with me having an idea, to me making my best friend, Bonnie Roldan, a senior at IUP, my partner."
Roper's non-profit, Destined to Achieve, Inc., is not yet licensed but he's working toward that goal. His small company is geared toward getting inner city kids tutoring, mentoring, counseling, networking, and involved in community service in the Philadelphia area.
"I hope to eventually branch off in other cities like Pittsburgh and Harrisburg," Roper shares. "I want to mentor youth and have an after-school program for high school kids starting in 9th grade. I believe that it's never too late. A lot of kids aren't college prep material until the last minute or even after graduation and they still go on to college and become successful. I want to have college kids mentor high school kids."
Over Christmas break, Roper, who believes in giving back to his community, partnered with another young entrepreneur from Drexel University, Clinton Taylor, to hold a toy and food drive, basketball tournament and social networking event in an effort to help others. "We had a great turnout for all three events," he exclaims. "People donated over 250 toys and 150 canned goods that all went to the Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia. Needy families received toys and food for the holidays." In addition, the basketball tournament brought neighborhoods together in a positive way and students were able to meet successful professionals at the networking event. All three events will now become annual events, Roper says.
"I was very impressed that he took his time off over Christmas break to give back to at-risk youth in his community," Whiteside states. "He's a hard worker and one of our future leaders of the Philadelphia area."
Roper, who went to a Catholic school in Philadelphia because his mom didn't think public schools were good enough in the city, watched many of his friends who did go to public schools, drop out of the race when it came to college. They didn't go, for whatever reasons.
"I want to help make sure kids have a chance," the CU senior says. "I just feel that if you put the right people in the right places, anything can happen. All it takes is being enlightened, having someone in your corner who sees your desire, and pushes you and encourages you. If you give them the right tools," he says, "such as character-building workshops and mentors from the outside who are successful in their careers, more young people will succeed."


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Friday's unemployment report provides more proof that the economic recovery is continuing.
At the same time, Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, is warning that $85 billion in spending cuts that went into effect on March 1 will be, in his words, a "headwind in the months to come."
Krueger noted that Friday's report was the first since those budget reductions took effect.
The White House has insisted that the spending cuts will damage the economy.
The Labor Department said Friday that U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months. The unemployment rate dipped to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent, however, because more people stopped looking for work.


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… is that you send mail with stuff that doesn't put it in the proper threading headers.[1] So while everyone else's replies show up sorted into the respective threads in the right places, nice and easy to follow, your stuff ends up somewhere at the bottom of the mailbox, 40 mails away from the thread to which it belongs, and I have to manually go in and add the headers to stitch the whole mess back together, so I can read it. The alternative would be to delete the mails unread in order to
Ah, crap. That's a very legitimate complaint. You know, I should really consider going back to their old, clumsy interface. It's much less user-friendly, but at least it sent email correctly. So far, I have the following issues:
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hi, i have a strange problem. the xfce-terminal opens alway without window-decoration. i don't used any compix, compositor, or any special xorg.conf with a propritor drivers... a standard xorg.conf. and the terminal is the onliest programm, which has no window decorations... i don't know why..
and no, the problem isn't solved when i use the button in the menu "show window decorations"... nothing changed... its like a window without a window
BUT... the terminal has a window, but it is transparent... you can't see any button or border, but when the window-decorations is "on", you can click on the "transparent window" and move it... you can see it on this image..
and here i move the terminal..
so the "transparent" window looks like the desktop or the window below it....
ah.. the system is a new arch linux.. i use xfce since > 4 years, on debian, ubuntu, zenwalk... but i had never this problem... perhaps it is an arch problem, but it looksl ike a combination or so... the strange thing is, that it is only the terminal... no other programm... i also created a new user, nothing changed...
thanks and sorry for my bad english..
papierschiff (in engl. a boat made with paper)
Maybe right click terminal -> preferences -> appearance -> Display borders around new windows.
hej, thank you for your answer...
this change nothing... there are two posibilities: to enable the border (etc), than it looks like i descriped on my first post (pseudo "transparent" window decoration...) or "no window-decoration", than there is no window decoration, but i want to have a border etc for the terminal...
Sounds like a configuration issue. Try with another user or mv .config .config.old from the console and restart.
hej, thanks for you idea, but it doesn't help. so at the moment i don't use xfce, when i use arch. this makes me crazy, but i can't change it. perhaps i should go back to debian / xubuntu... i will wait, untill the xfce-version gets an bigger update....
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Mailbag: Are Mets playoff underdogs?
Jim Street answers fans' questions after NLDS Game 2
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-- Adam, Queensbury, N.Y. Green's numbers against the Dodgers are outstanding all right, but in the bigger picture, Chavez hit left-handed pitchers better than Green. Chavez was 26-for-78 (.333) against lefties during the regular season, while Green was 44-for-165 (.267). Chavez also gives the Mets more speed on the bases, stealing 12 bases compared to four by Green. Therefore, with the Dodgers starting lefty Hong-Chih Kuo, Randolph decided that Chavez, who batted .306 overall this season, was the right guy for right field. Chavez proved that it was a good move as he went 2-for-4 and scored the first run of the game. After the first pitch of the game, why did Dodgers manager Grady Little appear to question the lineup with the plate umpire?
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I was wondering the same thing. Whenever that happens so early in the game, it almost always has something to do with a lineup discrepancy. After the game, Little explained, saying, "I guess it was a bookkeeping error from the other side, because the lineup card that we got was not the exact one the umpire had, the official one. I guess they had a late scratch from their lineup or something, but it was nothing major. That's what happens when you start using these computers to do these lineup cards." The lineup the Dodgers received had Green playing right field, but the "official" lineup had Chavez out there. Because the umpire had the correct lineup, Little walked back to the visiting dugout and the game continued.With Pedro Martinez and Orlando Hernandez out of the Division Series because of injuries, do the Mets have less pressure on them? They might consider themselves underdogs instead of favorites and therefore are playing looser than the Dodgers.
-- Mike, Temecula, Calif. Well, Mike, you could be right on the money. In the 1972 World Series, the Oakland Athletics didn't have Reggie Jackson available because he was injured in the final game of the American League Championship Series, and they still beat the Cincinnati Reds. Good teams have a way of overcoming adversity, and the Mets certainly should be used to it by now. They have been extremely resilient all season, and the postseason apparently will be the same.
Do you think Grady Little will play someone other than Kenny Lofton in center field in Game 3?
-- Alex, Los Angeles
-- Bill, Ventura, Calif. My guess is that Little would play James Loney at first base. The rookie is a left-handed hitter who tied a club record with nine RBIs in a game against the Rockies on Sept. 28. He led the Pacific Coast League in batting this season with a .380 average and hit .284 in 48 games with the Dodgers. This is a much bigger stage, however, and expecting him to lead the offense could be asking too much. Even so, a hobbling Garciaparra might be a worse alternative.
Jim Street 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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Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Company
Fifth Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 05/01/2001, Docket: RP01-317-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 512 Original Sheet No. 512 : Effective
1. Upon Shipper's failure to pay when due all or any part of amounts billed in connection with services
rendered or to comply with the terms of this Agreement, Transporter may terminate this Agreement and/or
suspend service, as appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of the General Terms and
Conditions of the Tariff.
2. Transporter may terminate this Agreement if it relates to service under Section 311 of the Natural Gas
Policy Act of 1978 ("NGPA") if it also terminates like service for others on a not unduly discriminatory basis
which is consistent with applicable law and regulations.
3. Upon termination hereof for whatever reason, Shipper agrees to stop delivering gas to Transporter for
service and, unless otherwise agreed by Transporter, to seek no further service from Transporter hereunder.
Shipper agrees to cooperate with and assist Transporter in obtaining such regulatory approvals and
authorizations, if any, as are necessary or appropriate in view of such termination and abandonment of service
4. Termination of this Agreement shall not relieve either party of any obligation that might otherwise exist
to cash-out or correct any Imbalance hereunder nor relieve Shipper of its obligation to pay any monies due
hereunder to Transporter and any portions of this Agreement necessary to accomplish such purposes shall be
deemed to survive for the time and to the extent required.
5. This Agreement shall be subject to the provisions of Rate Schedule PHS and any other applicable Rate
Schedules, as well as the General Terms and Conditions set forth in Transporter's Tariff, as on file and in
effect from time to time, all of which by this reference are made a part hereof.
6. Transporter shall have the right at any time, and from time to time, to file and place into effect
unilateral changes or modifications in the rates and charges, and other terms and conditions of service
hereunder, and as set forth in said Rate Schedule and in said General Terms and Conditions, in accordance
with the Natural Gas Act or other applicable law.
7. For wheeling service, subject to the provisions of the Tariff and this Agreement, Transporter shall
receive, transport, and deliver, for the account of Shipper for the purposes contemplated herein, on an
interruptible basis a quantity of Gas up to the quantity or quantities authorized from time to time by
8. For wheeling service, Gas shall be (i) tendered to Transporter for transportation hereunder at the
Point(s) of Receipt and (ii) delivered by Transporter after transportation to Shipper, or for Shipper's account,
at the Point(s) of Delivery on the terms and at the points shown in this Agreement. Subject to the provisions
of the Tariff, Transporter shall tender for delivery quantities of Gas thermally-equivalent to those delivered
by Shipper, less Compressor Fuel retained to the extent required by the Tariff.
9. Except as otherwise permitted in the Tariff, this Agreement shall not be assigned by Shipper in whole
or in part, nor shall Shipper agree to provide services to others by use of any capacity contracted for under
the Agreement, without Transporter's prior written consent. In addition to all other rights and remedies,
Transporter may terminate the Agreement immediately if it is assigned by Shipper or if Shipper subcontracts the
capacity to others contrary to the provisions hereof, whether the assignment or contract be voluntary, or by
operation of law or otherwise. Subject to the above, the respective rights and obligations of the parties under
the Agreement shall extend to and be binding upon their heirs, successors, assigns and legal representatives.
Any person which shall succeed by purchase, merger or consolidation to the properties, substantially as an
entirety, of either party hereto, shall be entitled to the rights and shall be subject to the obligations of its
predecessor in title under this Agreement; and either party may assign or pledge this Agreement under the
provisions of any mortgage, deed of trust, indenture, bank credit agreement, assignment or similar instrument
which it has executed or may execute hereafter.
10. Any notice, statement, or bill provided for in this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be considered
as having been given if hand delivered, or, if received, when mailed by United States mail, postage prepaid, to
the addresses specified therein, or such other addresses as either party shall designate by written notice to
the other. Additionally, notices shall be considered as having been given, if received, when sent via facsimile
or through electronic data interchange.
11. Shipper agrees that any representations and agreements contained in any credit application submitted in
connection with this service shall be incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.
12. All modifications, amendments or supplements to the terms and provisions hereof shall be effected by
supplementary written or electronic consent of the parties.


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The Civic Center station is on MARTA's Gold and Red lines, offering fast connections via rail throughout the Atlanta metro and to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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Grampian Mountains > Ben Macdui > Climber's Log
Ben Macdui Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Along with Rafa
Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2015
|Reached the summit from the Cairngorm Ski Centre, together with Rafa Bartolomé. We also bagged the summit of Cairn Gorm on the way back. Nice day, but strong wind in the early afternoon
|Posted Aug 24, 2015 12:25 pm
|Rafa Bartolome
Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2015
|we climbed ben mcdui and cairn gorm from sky centre in a very windy day but the area was very interesting
|Posted Aug 23, 2015 5:36 pm
|Another lovely Cairngorm peak
Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2011
|Trekked during a weeks trip. Was approaching +30c with no wind, I could see for miles!
|Posted Jan 13, 2012 6:05 pm
|34 years ago!
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 1977
|Date approximate. This was for a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award expedition when I was 17 years of age. We made the ascent and then traversed the Laraig Gru - in perfect weather. I have always wanted to go back there.
|Posted Aug 10, 2011 1:29 pm
|Rainy Day
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2009
|Camped on the ridge due to heavy rain and summited early in the morning in thick fog. A beautiful hike hike back to the car in the late afternoon though.
|Posted Mar 2, 2011 8:54 pm
|November 2008
|We went there in November 2008. Very strong wind, poor visibility + snow. Navigated mainly using the map and the compass. We started walking from the Rangers / Ski Centre and went through the summit to the Loch Avon and then back. We met some guys from Belgium next to the Loch that day...
|Posted Nov 18, 2010 11:51 am
|Clear day
Date Climbed: May 25, 2010
|Hiked to Macdui as part of a trekking trip in the Cairngorms.
Most of the day, visibility was excellent. I got up to the plateau from the Lairig Ghru by way of the Chalamain Gap, then hiked straight to Macdui. Couldn't see any path, because the plateau was still covered in snow.
|Posted Oct 17, 2010 3:06 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2009
|Went the tourist path up and the scrabblers route down. Got a chance to see Scotland's only herd of wild reindeer.
|Posted Aug 7, 2010 11:12 am
|Long Hike
Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2008
|.... from Glen Derry
|Posted Jul 21, 2010 5:54 pm
|A kid's introduction to mountain hiking
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2008
|Got a call from a friend of mine, who got utterly tired of her 17-year old son sitting in front of the PC for the whole summer vacation and literally begging me to take her son on a trip somewhere. I figured the Cairngorms would've been a much better introduction to Scotland than the Nevis Range for someone who's never seen mountains before, and I decided to go up to Cairn Gorm; if it all turned to be too much, we could still take the funicular down and call it a day. Fortunately, I had underestimated his stamina and me managed to take in MacDui as well, unfortunately not before my sweet girlfriend decided to run down scree on her flipflops and took a pretty nasty fall, resulting in the removal of a little piece of Ben Macdui from underneath her knee cap a month later in Poland...
|Posted Oct 22, 2008 7:06 am
|gorgeous cairngorms
Date Climbed: Jun 4, 1999
|Posted Sep 1, 2008 8:43 am
|Re: gorgeous cairngorms
|Link doesn't work, copy and paste this;
My Cairngorm photos
|Posted Oct 22, 2008 6:58 am
|Supersize Me
|Enjoyed a long day doing Ben Macdui including a flirt with the remaining snow. A good test of zero vis navigation too, it works!
|Posted Jan 24, 2008 1:18 pm
|Route: Glenmore - Creag an Leth-choin - Ben Macdui
|A very long day - good route though - looking down the length of the Lairig Ghru - bit cloudy, old snow still on the top..!
|Posted Jan 6, 2008 4:19 pm
|From Linn of Dee
Date Climbed: Jun 1, 1995
|The route started at Linn of Dee and goes via Carn Crom and Derry Cairngorm to Ben MacDui. The descend goes to Carn a'Mhaim and then back to Linn of Dee. A fine day: about 30 km and 13 hours.
Not to forget that since that day I know how deep and cold scottish rivers are. Past Carn a'Mhaim we stayed to the right of the Luibeg Burn cause we didn't find a good passage. That went fine until we came to a large fence crossing the way and the river. Going back? Never!! My girlfriend climbed Indiana-Jones-alike along the fence and I pulled out my shoes and went through the river. I can tell you, it was REALLY cold ...
On the other side my trousers were wet because of the strong current. So I walked the last 10 kilometers or so wearing the woolen panty hose of my girlfriend. Thank God it wasn't pink ...
|Posted May 14, 2007 1:52 pm
|White Out!
|Did it in some really, really cold and cloudy conditions, we were in a white out for quite a while
|Posted Apr 27, 2007 2:14 pm
|A couple of times
|Climbed it twice, once with my Dad on a lovely September day in 1996 from Braemar and also in October 2004 alone on a great day but with quite a lot of snow then descended to the Lairig Grruh and camped in a blizzard. No sign of the big grey man either time!
|Posted Jan 29, 2007 5:46 pm
|Cairn Gorm - Cairn Gorm plateau - Ben Mac Dui
Date Climbed: Nov 6, 2006
|Arrived late on saturday and managed to reach the summit of Cairngorm just before dark. Slept in my car and left early the next day to retrace my steps and continue to Ben Macdui. Sadly the clouds reached its summit some 15 minutes before I did. Got blown over a couple of times, and it was quite cold, but I was alone on the plateau the whole time! Nice day out.
|Posted Nov 21, 2006 1:51 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2006
|Rained and rained and rained, no visibility at all. I'll have to do it again on a sunny day.
|Posted Jun 30, 2006 12:38 am
|Route Climbed: Ski Lodge-Cairngorm-Ben MacDui Date Climbed: January 2001
|A very long day out, some serious map and compass work needed in a snowstorm
|Posted Jan 13, 2006 3:55 am


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DETROIT - Banika Jones said she is doing whatever she can to find her missing 2-year-old daughter.
Bianca Jones has been missing since Friday. Her father, Dandre Lane, was the last person to see her. Lane told police that he was carjacked with Bianca in the car. According to Lane, the carjackers took off with Bianca strapped in the back seat.
The vehicle was found in a Detroit alley, but Bianca has remained missing.
Banika Jones said she last saw her daughter on the girl's Nov. 28 birthday.
UNCUT: Banika Jones speaks with Local 4
"We had cake and we sang. It was just a small affair with some family. She was very excited. She had just been to the movies that day," Banika Jones said.
Police have questioned Lane's carjacking story. Banika Jones said she hasn't even thought about Lane's story and that she hasn't really spoken with him.
"I don't even think about that," she said. "All I can think about is finding my daughter."
Investigators searched Lane's home for evidence. Police said some things were taken from the home.
Banika Jones said she is letting police handle that investigation. She just wants to find her daughter.
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Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls director David Cage says he's excited to learn more about PlayStation 4.
what ever this guy and his company put on ps4 ill buy it first day. im hoping that beyond does well on ps3 and sony buys this studio. sony should also get atari and sega. yeah yeah, i know its a long shot but sony is the only company with the highest studio count and most ips that are always trying to make new ips and acquire new studios
Hold the phone.Did David Cage say that they quote 'can't wait to see what can be done with PS4' and "I can't really talk about the PlayStation 4"? Is that a conformation? I mean if their was no PS4 wouldn't David Cage have been told? But here he is talking about a PS4 that people claim doesn't exist. I mean the only other thing i can think of is that Sony is keeping Quantic Dream in the dark or that they are talking about the eventual release of the next gen PlayStation. If not they practically confirmed a PS4.Don't want to read too much into it but I am putting this in the PS4 evidence pile.
I would have thought they would have had the development kits long time ago.
Same here David Cage! The 20th if they show KZ4 I'll probably go crazy. Even though its a next gen launch title it's gonna look crazy good! Now when David Cage gets hold of the PS4 with some quality development time along with other Sony exclusive 1st party developers we will see epic greatness no doubt.


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BSU Catalog Home
Section I
In 1919, Bemidji Normal School began its first regular school year with 38 students. The school was chartered by the Minnesota State Legislature in response to a growing need for public school teachers, and teacher training was its primary curriculum. Then, in a pattern familiar to American higher education, in 1921 Bemidji Normal became Bemidji State Teachers College, offering a four-year degree.
Reflecting ongoing changes in the curriculum, the school was renamed Bemidji State College in 1957. In 1975, in recognition of its growing role as a multi-purpose educational institution, it became Bemidji State University. BSU now hosts more than 5,300 undergraduate and graduate students. It offers majors in an expanse of baccalaureate fields of study as well as master of arts and master of science degrees. Some of its degree programs and research activities are unique in the state.


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World Archives Project: NYC Naturalization Indexes
From Ancestry.com Wiki
Revision as of 12:56, 20 September 2013 by Kateshort2 (talk | contribs) (Created page for a pre-wiki project)
About this project This project is closely related to the other New York Naturalization project, except this one focuses on petitions for naturalization filed in courts in New York City itself.
The cards themselves look different from those in the New York Naturalization collection, but the basic information is the same. One thing to watch for though, is that sometimes the nationality is recorded on the back of the card.
Because these cards are so standard and the handwriting is not difficult to read, this project has an Easy difficulty. Anyone can feel comfortable participating in this project.
This collection is sponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Southern Nevada.


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Never mind damp leaves on the corners, us folk down here in the
Ozarks have to contend with walnuts on the roads! Ever try to ride over ball bearings?
Its never boring in the Ozarks!
Never mind damp leaves on the corners, us folk down here in the
Ozarks have to contend with walnuts on the roads! Ever try to ride over ball bearings?
Its never boring in the Ozarks!
We here in Pa have to deal with our fair share of the Black Walnut trees. Very slippery stuff and yes hard as ball bearings
Did you ever notice how they only grow on the blind side of a corner?
Walnuts and golf balls, same thing when riding. I almost hit a golf ball lying in the middle of the road. Beware of golfing areas.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
When I lived in Santa Barbara I remember mashed olives in the street under the olive trees. Talk about slippery!
Original litter
Original owner
2012 Ural Gear Up
Locally, it's truckloads of tomatoes in early September. When they go around corners they always shed a few and there are tomato paste slicks.
'06 Triumph Scrambler (Trans-Labrador veteran)
I remember the tomato trucks! We had a Del Monte plant in San Jose, CA. From late June until the end of summer there were tomatoes all over the freeway. They'd pile up on the right shoulder. The smell from the plant wafting across the road when the wind was right was pretty intense too.
Between black walnuts and moles, my backyard is like a mine field of ankle twisting bombs.
The tree will be taken care of next spring (it's mostly dead/dying anyway), but the moles may prove to be more difficult.
And yes, walnut covered streets make me squeemish.
-Leave the gun, take the cannolis.
Way back in 1969 I was riding my 250 BSA to fight school and went around a corner and wiped out after hitting a flock of worms.
Ambassador BMW MOA Ontario Canada
President Niagara BMW Riders #298
Knights of the Roundel #333
1977 R100RS, (Retired) 1993 R100GS (just getting started)


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- AcademicsB
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- DiversityB
- CampusB+
- AthleticsB+
- Party SceneD-
- ProfessorsB
- LocationD-
- DormsA
- Campus FoodB-
- Student LifeC+
- SafetyA+
Harding University is ...
Private not-for-profit, Restorationist
Athletic Division
NCAA Division II (with football)
Athletic Conference
Great American Conference
From Harding University
Do you belong at Harding University? Harding is a private Christian liberal arts university located in Searcy, Arkansas. Committed to pursuing academic excellence and establishing strong spiritual foundations, the university attracts students representing all 50 states and 54 nations and territories. Harding offers more than 100 undergraduate majors; professional and graduate degrees at the master's, specialist, and doctoral levels; as well as study abroad opportunities in locations such as Australia, Chile, England, France, Greece, Italy, and Zambia.
Harding University Rankings
Niche rankings are based on rigorous analysis of key statistics from the U.S. Department of Education and millions of reviews.
Acceptance Rate
SAT Range
ACT Range
Application Fee
High School GPA
Accepts Common App
Net Price
$18,372/ year
Average cost after financial aid for students receiving grant or scholarship aid, as reported by the college.
Based on faculty accomplishments, salary, student reviews, and additional factors.
Student Faculty Ratio
Evening Degree Programs
- 89%
- of students agree that professors put a lot of effort into teaching their classes.63 responses
- 67%
- of students agree that it is easy to get the classes they want.64 responses
- 61%
- of students agree that the workload is easy to manage.64 responses
Most Popular Majors
Liberal Arts and Humanities67 Graduates
Early Childhood Education60 Graduates
Psychology52 Graduates
Kinesiology and Exercise Science50 Graduates
Biblical Studies41 Graduates
Business Administration and Management38 Graduates
Communication Disorders37 Graduates
Nursing37 Graduates
Accounting32 Graduates
Social Work and Youth Services30 Graduates
Full-Time Enrollment
Undergrads Over 25
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Varsity Athletes
What one word or phrase best describes the typical student at this school?
Based on 47 responsesReport
Campus Life
Freshmen Live On-Campus
- 37%
- of students say they don't have Greek life.75 responses
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- of students say varsity sports are a big part of campus life.92 responses
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Employed 2 Years After Graduation
- 91%
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Harding University Reviews
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Although I have only been at Harding University for one semester, I cannot imagine attending a better school! The community is amazing, and the teachers genuinely care about their students. I am confident that I am getting a great education that will prepare me for the next level of my studies. Most importantly, Harding provides the unique experience of learning academically while also growing in your faith. Through bible classes, chapel, and the amazing students who attend this school, my relationship with The Lord is growing everyday. Harding has a lovely campus and is beautiful on the outside but what makes it the best is the students and teachers on the inside!
Harding University is a great place for higher level education! The community is fantastic and the campus is stellar; especially for a smaller university. With being a smaller school we have smaller size classes which results in a more personalized experiences with each of your professors. Searcy is a small town; however, it is growing tremendously and there are many things to do that are fun with friends!
Harding is a great school and very well respected in the community. People actually say a diploma from Harding can get you a job anywhere. It's an expensive private christian school, though and an overbearing amount of rules that even extend to the surrounding towns. If you are looking for a Uber conservative, christian favoring education, and you have enough money, or qualify for scholarships/grants/etc., this is a great choice. If you want independent living and to expand and explore your way of thinking while learning unbiased information, this would be a difficult place to thrive.


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President Obama will likely call for a 1 percent federal pay raise in his fiscal 2014 budget request set for release next week, according to unions and other federal employee advocates.
But employee groups are worried that the administration may also propose to hike employee pension contributions and eliminate a retirement supplement for future participants in the Federal Employees Retirement System.
"If past behavior is any indication of future behavior, then that's what we're looking at," said Jessica Klement, legislative director of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. With a salary freeze now in its third year, she said, the effect of such measures would look like a pay cut.
The White House will send the request to Congress on April 10, a spokesman said last week. That's more than two months later than the Feb. 4 due date. The White House has blamed the delay on uncertainties created by repeated budget standoffs.
The administration told union leaders in February that Obama would seek the 1 percent across-the-board increase, which would take effect in January if lawmakers go along. Base federal pay has been frozen since January 2011.
At the National Federation of Federal Employees, President William Dougan was hopeful that lawmakers wouldn't block a pay increase for next year. Given the length of the current freeze, "we've seen some interest of some in Congress to end that practice," Dougan said, noting that many federal employees also face lost wages because of sequester-related furloughs.
But Dougan added that any administration bid to revive a plan for raising federal employee pension contributions would be "misguided."
In its request last year, the White House proposed increasing the contribution rate for both FERS and Civil Service Retirement System employees by 1.2 percent over three years. For FERS participants, that would have meant a boost in their contribution rate from 0.8 percent of salary to 2 percent. CSRS employees would have seen their pension contributions grow from 7 percent to 8.2 percent.
Also under last year's White House proposal, future workers would have lost a supplemental payment that current FERS retirees not yet eligible for Social Security receive.
None of those proposals won congressional approval, although lawmakers did agree to increase FERS contributions for federal workers hired since January.
In its recently passed 2014 budget blueprint, the Republican-run House aims to go much further in terms of cuts to federal pay, benefits and staffing. The blueprint, approved by the House on March 21, would:
• Cut the federal workforce by 10 percent, or roughly 210,000 employees, through attrition by 2015.
• Reform federal employees' pay levels, pay raises and benefits "to better align with those of their private-sector counterparts."
• Increase the amounts of income that federal employees, lawmakers and congressional staffers contribute to their pensions. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the increases should be similar to the Simpson-Bowles commission's recommendations, which call for making FERS employees pitch in the same amount that federal agencies contribute on their behalf. This would increase FERS employees' contributions by roughly 5.5 percentage points to about 6.3 percent.
By contrast, a 2014 budget proposal passed by the Senate on March 23 states that federal employees "have borne the brunt of recent deficit reduction efforts" and proposes no changes to pay and benefits. "A smarter approach to savings," the document says, would involve reviewing contractor compensation and seeking to make better use of the government's buying power.
For lawmakers, the next step could be an attempt to reconcile differences in a joint budget resolution, said Robert Bixby, executive director at the nonpartisan Concord Coalition, which advocates for responsible fiscal policy.


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John Paton, a newspaper executive who has championed the transition of traditional print newspapers to the digital age, on Wednesday was named the chief executive of MediaNews Group, the parent company of 15 Bay Area dailies including the Marin Independent Journal.
Dean Singleton, the co-founder of MediaNews, will step down as CEO but will remain chairman of MediaNews and publisher of the Denver Post and the Salt Lake Tribune.
"I have known and respected John Paton for more than 20 years," Singleton said in a statement. "We are delighted to tap into John's experience as we continue to grow our own digital presence."
Paton, who is chief executive of the Journal Register newspaper chain, will retain that position while adding the posts of Media-News CEO and CEO of the newly created Digital First Media.
The two newspaper groups will be managed by Paton through Digital First. Paton will report to the boards of each newspaper company, and will take a seat on the MediaNews board of directors.
"We're going to consolidate brain power and platforms and sales in many cases," Singleton said in an interview. "It gives us the synergies of two companies while keeping the companies separate. If you look at the audience created by MediaNews and the Journal Register, it's huge."
Together, MediaNews and the Journal Register will operate in 18 states and have more than 880 print and digital products that provide news and information to an audience of 57 million people a month.
A longtime newspaperman, Paton has been outspoken on the need for traditional newspapers to transform themselves in the Internet age. "Newspapers have to be profoundly changed within three years if they want a shot at the next five years," Paton said Wednesday.
While the print product remains very important, the focus will be on developing "multiplatform news companies" where the customers choose how to get their news, he said. "Whether it's mobile, phone or tablet — and lots of them want it in print — we'll give them that," he said.
Newspaper analyst Ken Doctor of Outsell in Burlingame said Digital First Media is the first firm of its kind. "It's a new company, the first post-analog local news company. It's a mindset change," Doctor said.
Paton, who has been a media executive for more than 30 years, is the co-founder of impreMedia, which he and his partners built into the largest news and information company serving the U.S. Latino population, according to his company biography.
He was named Editor & Publisher's Publisher of the Year in 2009 and regularly speaks about company transformation at media conventions. Paton, who lives in New York, is a graduate of Ryerson University's journalism program.
MediaNews, based in Denver, is the nation's second largest newspaper company measured by circulation. MediaNews and its affiliated companies publish 57 dailies and more than 100 nondaily publications and operate 187 websites in 11 states.
The Journal Register Co., based in Yardley, Pa., has more than 350 multiplatform products that distribute news and information to an audience of 21 million people each month. It operates in 10 states. It was purchased by the investment group Alden Global Capital in July. Alden is also a major shareholder in MediaNews.


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The bride-elect is the daughter of Bobby and Marian Loyd of Russellville and the granddaughter of Eura Mae and Wendell Loyd of Conway, Erma Lee and the late Lee Rackley of Ida. She is a 2005 graduate of Russellville High School and a 2010 graduate of Arkansas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. She is employed by Simmons Foods Inc. as a food safety coordinator.
The prospective groom is the son of Ronnie and Annette Pugh of Miami, Okla., and Scott and Lisa Smith of Alma. He is the grandson of Bessie Pugh and the late Wesley Pugh and Alton and Myrtle Rogers, all of Greenwood. He is a 2003 graduate of Greenwood High School and a 2008 graduate of University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a Bachelor of Science in finance. He is employed with Arvest Bank in eastern Oklahoma as a financial advisor.
The wedding is planned for 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, at the home of the bride's parents. A reception will follow.
Invitations will be sent and friends and relatives are invited.


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Lynzeee wrote:Oh i just remembered.
the movie lacks the conversations that MADE edward and Bella- there was NO MENTION of the lullaby at all- he didn't hum it once- we should have heard the convo they were having on the bed- that was like important- also if they were going to CUT all that out- they should have added more to the pre-meadow. seriously the convos were just Not there- non-twilight readers should have been LOST- it felt like twilight readers were in on something everyone else wasn't- if i had never read twilight and went to see the movie i probably would have never thought they were in love... thats hard for me to admit.
I am sooo feeling you right there Lynz.
The lack of conversations really had me down.
If I hadn't read Twilight before I saw this movie, I would have questioned how in the world they fell in love soo fast. I think that those convos in the book were really important, and they should have added more.


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Day 31: Love 'em
If you're still sticking around reading my posts, thank you! I feel like most of what I did this month was reveal to you all my weaknesses and bad habits! As October ends so does my 31 Days to Being a Better Mom--but not the journey. My final thoughts are that I want to love my kids. I want them to know that I love them. I know that it comes out in actions: hopefully all the things I talked about all month. And that I shouldn't be comparing myself to other moms because my kids don't want other moms. They want me--and your kids want you.


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Revelations: Protect, preserve love
July 29, 2011 at 2:29 a.m.
Last night, I watched a friend cry. It was one of those hard, girl cries, where black eyeliner runs down your face, but you don't notice, and probably wouldn't care if you did.
Her offender? An ex-boyfriend. He cheated; she left him. It's not an uncommon story in the world of women. And three months later, after she's had time to sort through the emotions attached to such a deception, he pops up on Facebook with a friendly note. No mention of how she was doing, or desire to get back together. It was a note he might send any other friend, any other day of the week. But they weren't just friends, and it wasn't any other day.
Some (men) might think his note was a perfectly nice gesture, right? He messed up and wants to make nice.
But for a woman struggling to recover from a broken heart, gross deception, and sustaining feelings of rejection, a Facebook note - which overlooks my friend's previous months of emotional turmoil while trying to get over him - seems downright thoughtless.
Surprisingly, my friend's breakdown was the second I experienced last week. A coffeehouse regular I often run into around town, also broke down unexpectedly while telling me about a divorce she was going through.
Hers was a similar situation. He cheated; she left him.
Only they were married, she's in her 50s, and she was starting over for the first time since she was 19 years old. Her breakup was both emotionally and financially burdensome, and one she said was terrifying to go through alone.
After listening to both women's stories this week, I couldn't help wonder what's happening to the men in our society. Where are the decent, family-oriented, want-to-commit-forever, men? You know, the men who open your car doors after you've been dating 10 years, and tells you you're beautiful when you're wearing sweats and no makeup.
The ones who defend their relationships openly, and don't hesitate to correct other men if their jokes get a little too "get in the kitchen and fetch me a beer, woman" inappropriate. The ones who decide to say "no" to an invitation to the strip club because they wouldn't want their wives to be home, feeling uncomfortable all evening, knowing their husbands are staring at other naked women.
The ones who know when they're tempted by an attractive co-worker or clerk at the local grocery store, they choose not to engage in "harmless" flirting. The ones who know they're weak with alcohol or women when out with certain friends, and choose to be extra careful, and on-guard, because of it.
The ones who would rather work on their relationships when they become less exciting - visit a counselor, visit a pastor, talk about their problems in low tones without name-calling and screaming, pray to God every day for multiple years (if needed) for complete marriage restoration - before considering walking out on their family.
Where are those men? Do they even exist anymore? Is marriage really unsuccessful as statistics report? Or is it just easier to terminate promises and plans, and walk out on your spouse?
After my conversations with the women, I started thinking about love. I thought about how Paul describes love in 1 Corinthians, as patient and kind, not boastful or prideful and doesn't take offense. It doesn't keep records of wrongs. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes and always preserves.
It always protects, and always preserves.
I thought about how beautiful that was to write more than 2,000 years ago. But I thought about how much more beautiful it is to believe it in 2011, and carry it into our daily relationships with people we love.
And Christ commands husbands in Ephesians 5 to love their wives as He loves the church. And because he loved his church so much, wanting to protect and preserve it, He died a martyr's death for it. I wonder how many men, future husbands, husbands-to-be and married men, think about the intensity of that kind of love with the women in their lives. And I wonder how many of them are willing to protect and preserve it - even die for it if they had to.
I wonder.
Jennifer Preyss is a re porter for the Victoria Advocate. You can reach her at 361-580-6535 or email@example.com.


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Airline Mergers: What the Father of Deregulation Might Say
What would Alfred Kahn, the "father of airline deregulation," have to say about the potential combination of AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and US Airways Group Inc. and the emergence of a U.S. airline industry Big Four?
Mr. Kahn passed away in 2010 at 93, but not without leaving behind a considerable body of work that addressed the topic of airline consolidation. The Cornell University economist, who dismantled the U.S. system of airline fare and route regulation under President Jimmy Carter, was an active commenter on the airline industry's tribulations well into the post-9/11 era.
Mr. Kahn predicted that freeing U.S. airlines to compete without federal interference would result in lower fares and increased competition – and for the most part, he was proven right. However, Mr. Kahn warned that travelers would benefit only if federal antitrust regulators prevented airlines from gaining enough control over key routes and markets to boost fares and stifle choice. More in the full post.


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As others have said popping and spitting back through carb usually indicates too lean condition on that carb. Since the problem is just off idle the problem
is often idle mixture setting or idle jet dirty or small hole in throat above idle jet and under throttle butterfly plugged (spray carb cleaner up idle jet and confirm
it comes out in throat EYE PROTECTION!) Also spray up through main jet while you have the bowel off.
Before fiddling everything and introducing too many variables try to isolate the problem with logical steps
1) Confirm problem is on one or both carbs by warm engine up to temp and then pulling the throttle cable at each carb one at a time.
Is the action the same or does only one carb falter? If only one carb confine your investigation to that one.
Report back
2) Set idle a little faster than you had it - does problem persist?
Report back
Are you forced in Canada to burn the alcohol contaminated gas? If so then 5 years is entirely too long to expect carb to remain clean and idle jet clear.
3) Before you get any farther into carb investigation confirm the valve clearance is to spec.


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Justin Simien
Kyle Gallner
Dennis Haysbert
Brittany Curran
Tyler James Williams
Tessa Thompson
Malcolm Barrett
Teyonah Parris
Marque Richardson
Brandon P Bell
Critics' Pick
Dear White People (R)
Comedy 108 October 24, 2014
Samantha runs afoul of the college dean (Dennis Haysbert). Meanwhile, there are larger issues for him to untangle, involving the university's housing policy and the conflicts between the residence containing the largest number of white assholes and the house where black students land.
Simien is as fascinated by intra-racial confusion as by the interracial kind. Dear White People moves fast, at the rate of a dozen or more zingers a minute, which makes the experience of watching it exhilarating, if at times a little exhausting. In fact, Dear White People is so pinpoint-focused that it never finds its larger concentration, although that seems to be part of Simien's intent: Gay black sci-fi nerd Lionel (Tyler James Williams) doesn't know where, exactly, he's supposed to fit in, because there's no such thing as "exactly." If Dear White People had all the answers -- well, then, we really would be living in a post-racial America.
Justin Simien Kyle Gallner, Dennis Haysbert, Brittany Curran, Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Malcolm Barrett, Teyonah Parris, Marque Richardson, Brandon P Bell Justin Simien Roadside Attractions


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December 18, 2009
New(ish) nearly nekkid Nikki shoot ;)
Well, OK not that nekkid - but the title practically wrote its-self!
It's nice to see new photos of Nikki - now we just need some Jackson ones... what is he, shy?!
Via Lion&Lamb
- Lorabell
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I don't care what anyone says - Nikki is beautiful. Not a fan of this type of pictorial, but she looks great in it.ReplyDelete
What do her tattoos say?ReplyDelete
she's beautiful!ReplyDelete
but you put these up befoe i think :)
Jeah Jackson! Come on! Give us some Jackpics!ReplyDelete
I like the tat below her arm pit. Anyone know what it says?ReplyDelete
I love Nikki, and she is absolutely gorgeous, but the whole "serious, sexy" look doesn't do her justice. When she's laughing, she is stunning.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2009 at 2:13 AM
Yeah I'm not a fan of this sort of mens mag portrait. Yet it probably reflects her personality more than that most women who do it. I am also not a Nikki fan but I don't see why they insist on making her blond in Twilight, why don't they just let her be beautiful and brown haired. She does not look good as a blond and insisting on that hair color is kind of dumb.ReplyDelete


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If the New York Times notices…
IMAGINE walking into the toy department and noticing several distinct aisles. In one, you find toys packaged in dark brown and black, which include the "Inner-City Street Corner" building set and a "Little Rapper" dress-up kit. In the next aisle, the toys are all in shades of brown and include farm-worker-themed play sets and a "Hotel Housekeeper" dress.
If toys were marketed solely according to racial and ethnic stereotypes, customers would be outraged, and rightfully so. Yet every day, people encounter toy departments that are rigidly segregated — not by race, but by gender. There are pink aisles, where toys revolve around beauty and domesticity, and blue aisles filled with toys related to building, action and aggression.
It's what I keep saying (as do other people) – some things that just jump out at everyone if they're in racial or ethnic terms, seem just normal in gender terms. Michael Shermer would never say, "it's more of a white thing." Lots of people who would never call anyone a "nigger" in anger think nothing of calling a woman a bitch or a cunt in anger. And yes – toys aren't arranged by race, so why are they arranged by gender?
During my research into the role of gender in Sears catalog toy advertisements over the 20th century, I found that in 1975, very few toys were explicitly marketed according to gender, and nearly 70 percent showed no markings of gender whatsoever. In the 1970s, toy ads often defied gender stereotypes by showing girls building and playing airplane captain, and boys cooking in the kitchen.
But by 1995, the gendered advertising of toys had crept back to midcentury levels, and it's even more extreme today. In fact, finding a toy that is not marketed either explicitly or subtly (through use of color, for example) by gender has become incredibly difficult.
It's the Hot New Thing, policing gender. Not policing gender is so last century, so boring, so politically correct.
The ideas about gender roles embedded in toys and marketing reflect how little our beliefs have changed over time, even though they contradict modern reality: over 70 percent of mothers are in the labor force, and in most families domestic responsibilities are shared more equitably than ever before. In an era of increasingly diverse family structures, these ideas push us back toward a more unequal past.
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Bad work days can help you to appreciate the good ones
For the past 30 years or so I have been engaged in a profession that I have truly enjoyed. Like every job, not every day is great. I have always shrugged the bad days off and told my family that you have to have some bad days in life, in order to appreciate the good days.
Apart from the tragedy and cruelty police officers see throughout their careers — which can certainly put a pall on their day — there are just some days that everything you touch goes wrong.
"Coach Sok," my police academy director, one of the men who brought the Field Training Officer Program to Michigan and current president of Field Training Associates — which educates veteran officers how to teach new police officers — had a term for really bad days during Field Training. Coach Sok called them a "snow day."
A "snow day" starts when a rookie officer makes a mistake, gets rattled by the mistake and can not seem to function while under the watchful eye of a field training officer who is placing numerical grades on the rookie's performance. These normally occur early in training, and the wise field training officer realizes the officer is not reacting to what is going on in the street, but worrying more about being graded, and consequently everything they are doing is going wrong.
On such a day, to calm the recruit, the field training officer will declare a "snow day," and dramatically tear up the grading sheet and either take over the car or at least tell the rookie, "Okay, let's just go out and have some fun and do some good police work."
Once a police officer is out of training, there are no snow days, so you just have to ride out a bad day. Those days it is best to take a step back, hole up somewhere and catch up on paperwork you have been meaning to do.
A typical bad day might start off with a dead battery on your personal car. That caused you to forget to pick up your dry cleaning and thus not have a clean uniform shirt in your locker. You break a shoelace putting your boots on, and the sergeant informs you that long report you wrote yesterday got "lost in the system" and will have to be rewritten. Every adult has had such a day.
Next you may go out on a traffic stop and decide not to issue a ticket, but give a warning accompanied by a little lecture. I believe an officer should either write a ticket or give a verbal warning explaining—perhaps lecturing — why what the motorist did was dangerous and illegal. Adult motorists should get a ticket or a lecture—but never both.
On this bad day, however, while you are lecturing the motorist you feel an odd draft and realize your fly is down. Nothing kills your command presence while trying to be stern more than having your fly down, an errant mucoid dangling from your nose or slipping on ice walking back up to deliver the warning. Great safety lectures are lost on the motorist, whose attention is drawn more to your buffoonery than the eloquence of your verbal warning.
If your head is not properly in the game in police work, it can be dangerous to you and the public you serve.
Some days can go from good to bad in a heartbeat — like when my old police academy mate, Wilma, and I spotted a brand new pickup truck with a motor scooter and some other power equipment in the pickup truck's bed, out cruising around in freezing rain at 4 a.m. at East Stadium and South Industrial.
We ran the license plate and found the truck was stolen. We activated the toplights on the police car, and the chase was on. Through ice-covered side streets north of Stadium, we slid around after the stolen pickup with the other stolen goods. All was proceeding well in this rather low-speed chase caused by the ice on the roads.
The thieves came to the T intersection at Brooklyn and Golden. On this darkened icy night, the thief driving the pickup mistook the driveway, running westbound along the north side of an apartment building, as a continuation of Brooklyn.
What are the chances at 4 a.m. on a weekend that an Edison truck would have a lineman up in a bucket working on a power line right at the end of that same driveway? Today I realize, better than usual, since there was an ice storm.
The driver of the stolen pickup tried to shoot the gap between the apartment building and the Edison truck with inevitable results — he crashed and wedged into the corner of the apartment and the rear of the lineman's truck. That stolen truck quickly stopped.
I came to a stop while undoing my seat belt. Wilma was doing the same; she tossed the radio microphone on the seat and bailed out of the passenger seat after the pickup truck passenger. I lost track of her about that time.
When I bailed out of the car I was surprisingly quick out the door. Hasty is a better word. I took about three steps around my door and towards the pickup before I fell due to the ice.
Then I noticed how earsplittingly loud it was in front of the car because the siren was still yelping—that sounded really stupid but was not my biggest problem.
The much more immediate and critical problem was that, in my haste, I had neglected to shift the police car into park. I ran back around my open car door to stop the car, about the time the right front bumper hit and broke a 6-foot-tall privacy fence.
The thieves were long gone. The lineman got bumped around in the bucket but was relatively unscathed. The pickup truck damaged the corner bricks on the apartment building, the rear of the Edison truck and, of course, both sides of the stolen pickup. I do not recall if the suspects were caught by back up officers or not.
All I remember at this late date are the reams of paperwork I cost Wilma and I and the later comparisons of my pursuit performance to the Keystone Kops. It was a bad night at the office.
Lock it up, don't leave it unattended, be aware and watch out for your neighbor.
Rich Kinsey is a retired Ann Arbor police detective sergeant who now blogs about crime and safety for AnnArbor.com.
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Thu, Jan 10, 2013 : 11:36 p.m.
This was funny and made me laugh.
Thu, Jan 10, 2013 : 5:51 p.m.
I love all your articles. You are so "to the point" with common sense. Thank you for your insight.
Thu, Jan 10, 2013 : 2:04 p.m.
This reminds me of a funny story, on This American Life, told by a retired police officer about his first day as a rookie riding with an experienced cop. His adventure snowballed from a squirrel in the attic to the home owner with a busted nose to a burning sofa in the front yard. I think about that when I'm having a bad day and suddenly I feel much better about myself.
Thu, Jan 10, 2013 : 12:02 p.m.
Nice column, Officer Rich! So the secret's out: despite police sternness, we citizens can't help but notice the occasional buffoonery. ;)


text: As most will find when they take their bike to the Balkans they may need to buy border insurance (green card insurance) as most insurers these days wont extend the insurance beyond Croatia. I have found differing information everywhere in regards to this and thought I would start a thread so that everyone can get an idea for what they are in for. It seems that everyone has varying experiences but some area also paying 50 euro while others are paying 10 euro for the same cover. If everyone knows about what the going rate is, could help when bargaining at the border and keeping overall costs down. This will be a thread constantly updated, if anyone wants to post theirs so I can edit and add them to the list that would be great. Plus if you got past the border without paying for insurance, please post so we can list which border crossing that was. I expect that experiences will change depending on the mood of the border officer of the day but over time if we can work out the best places to cross the borders it would save inmates a lot of cash. Over the next fortnight I will be crossing all of these so will be adding my experiences plus I am adding in a few from the research I have done. By all reports you should not have to pay more than 100 Euro in Insurance fees to visit all the Balkans countries. If you are looking for cheap green card insurance for the EU member countries (does not include Balkans) see this thread. Please post, Country crossing into, Location crossed at, Price and date crossed. Prices per bike. Albania - 12.40 Euro for 15 days, crossed from Montenegro near Ulicnj, date unknown. - Waved through free, from Greece, Sagiada/Konispol, Early 2012. - Waved through free, from Montenegro, on the north side of lake Skada, Bozaj/Hani i Hotit, 12/06/2012 - Waved through free, Debar / maqellare border, October 2012. - Waved through free, South of Leskovic, August 2013. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 10 Euro (7 days cover) - 08/06/2012 - crossing from Croatia at Metkovic - crossing through small section of coastline to get to Dubrovnik from Split, no green card required - 36 Euro (7 days) - Aug/Sep 2012 - crossing at Brod in North - on Sunday made it difficult to buy insurance. - 21 Euros (3 days cover) - Aug 2013. - 21 Euros (3 days cover) - From Montenegro at Vilusi, just east of Niksic Croatia No longer need - part of the EU, if you have coverage for the EU, you have coverage for Croatia. Kosovo[a] http://www.iak-ks.com/CIU.html - Here is the official page. Looks like you get out for around 13 Euro for a bike for a short trip. - 15 Euro for 7 days, paid in Euro - from Macedonia near Shkolla on M3/E65 from Skopje, 23/06/2012 - 15 Euro - date unknown. - 15 Euro - Aug/Sep 2012 - crossing at Rožaje, Montenegro Macedonia - 50 Euro for 15 days- from Albania, near Librazhd (Lake Orchid), date unknown. - 50 Euro for 15 days- from Albania, as above SH9 crossing, 16/06/2012 - 50 Euros, Kymenichka / Uzem border, October 2012 All reports are that it is 50 Euros for Macedonia Montenegro - Waved through free (very nice border officer with good English said 'don't worry about insurance'), From Bosnia (from Sarajevo) on E762, near Hum, headed towards Zjabliak, 10/06/2012 - 10 Euro for 14 days, From Croatia Near Plolice (E65), date unknown - Waved through free, From Albania at Muriqan/Sukobine crossing, early 2012. - Waved through free, sukobin / Muriqan border, October 2012. - 10 Euro - Aug/Sep 2012, crossing From Dubrovnik. - Waved through free, Near Vermosh, August 2013. Serbia Reports coming through that you no longer need green card insurance if you have EU insurance. See these threads http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/europe/current-balkan-insurance-details-particularly-64211-2 We will see how this comes into practice when crossing border in a week from now. - Waved through free, from Macedonia, on the E-75/M1 near Tabanovce, 24/06/2012, Didn't even ask to see the papers for the bike. References: http://motoventurers.com/borders


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Over one hundred protestors rally at the County Courthouse (Courier Photo/J.L. Martello)
by Rebecca Nuttall
Courier Staff Writer
Days after the verdict in the Trayvon Martin murder trial, a group of over 100 protestors descended on the Pittsburgh City County Building to present a list of demands to elected officials.
Their demands were drafted to put an end to tragedies like what happened to Martin, a 17-year-old who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman.
Bekezela Mguni reads off their demands for the politicians of Pittsburgh. (Courier Photo/J.L. Martello)
"We're not just talking about Trayvon as an isolated incident. We're talking about this in a national context," said Bekezela Mguni of New Voices Pittsburgh, who helped organize the rally.
"When the verdict came down, people all over felt an intense amount of guilt and rage. (Zimmerman) got out of his car to follow and shoot Trayvon. The trial became about why Trayvon deserved to die, and that's what Black people experience everyday."
For hours, the group stood and sat outside of Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's office, their chants and songs reverberating down the hallway, as four police officers stood guard. Although the mayor's assistant Jim Sheppard said he would take their demands to the mayor, the group said they wanted to speak with the mayor in person.
Mayor's sepecial assistant Jim Sheppard (Courier Photo/J.L. Martello)
"Knock, knock. Who's there? Pittsburgh for Trayvon. Pittsburgh defending Black bodies. Pittsburgh standing our ground," they chanted in unison.
But the mayor never came. At one point, the protestors were told two representatives would be allowed to enter the office to deliver their demands to the mayor personally. However, when they entered, Public Safety Director Michael Huss greeted them instead.
"It's important for us to be acknowledged. Too often Black concerns are pushed to the side," said Joy KMT, one of the group's leaders. "It's a travesty that an elected official can choose to ignore an issue that plagues the city. The mayor's refusal to acknowledge our presence speaks volumes to the ethical and moral fiber of our elected representation."
The rally on July 17 began at the County Courthouse, where newly formed group Pittsburgh For Trayvon shared their demands. One demand was for Pittsburgh to renounce its title as the "Most Livable City" until conditions improve for African-Americans.
Ngani Ndindie hands City council president Darlene Harris the demands from the protesters and Harris says she will present them to council. (Courier Photo/J.L. Martello)
At the City County Building, the group had hoped to personally deliver their demands to Ravenstahl, City Council President Darlene Harris, and democratic nominee for mayor Councilman Bill Peduto. Harris and Peduto, along with Councilman Bruce Kraus agreed to draft a resolution, taking the group's demands into consideration. The council members were told they had three business days to respond.
"I was sort of like you on Saturday night. I felt sad. I had a pit in my stomach," Peduto said. "If it's galvanized you to try to make a difference in the city of Pittsburgh, I'll work with you. I promise to work with you to make Pittsburgh an example."
The action at the City County Building was a result of an impromptu sit –in at Freedom Corner in the Hill District on July 14.
"For most Black people in Pittsburgh, this verdict was injustice as usual. Out of that, we had the opportunity to envision what we want and we had the opportunity to come up with a list of demands," said Joy KMT
Their demands target the legal violence towards and brutalization of Black people; the economic violence inflicted on Black communities; the violence directed towards the physical wellness of Black people; the institutional violence perpetuated against Black people; and the emotional and physical violence inflicted on Black communities.
Some of the protestors stayed through the night and others returned to the site the following morning.
Follow Rebecca Nuttall on Twitter @PghReporter
Trayvon Martin protesters visit Pa. mayor's home
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A group protesting neighborhood watch guard George Zimmerman's acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin have slept outside the Pittsburgh mayor's office and posted signs at his home asking the city to investigate its treatment of black residents.
Mayor Ravenstahl has issued a statement saying he has "heard and read" the protesters'" concerns, but says they don't have the right to come onto private property and "frighten people's young children" – an apparent reference to his 4-year-old son, Cooper.
The group Pittsburgh For Trayvon has also issued 14 demands to improve city conditions for Blacks to city council.
Police have stepped up patrols around Ravenstahl's home, but public safety director Michael Huss says the protesters outside the mayor's office have been peaceful.
Director of Public Safety Michael Huss speaks with LaTasha Mayes, Bekezela Mguni and Brandi Fisher saying you can stay here as long as you want just leave a walkway so that people can get in and out of the office. (Courier Photo/J.L. Martello)