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Ask Eartha: Increasing a home's green appeal in more ways than one
Special to the Daily
Dear Eartha,
I'd like to make my home green and efficient, but what is the evidence that anybody else will care? My Realtor or the next person that owns it, for example.
Sam, Silverthorne
There have been some recent studies that show that third-party energy certifications and renewable energy systems do, in fact, substantially raise the selling price of homes. Even better news is that our local Realtor association is doing a better job of reflecting this information in the home buying and selling process.
Adding green features will add value to your home. A recent study of 1.6 million homes in California found that green certification raised the price of a home by 9 percent, or more than $34,800 over non-certified homes. Common features of a third-party certified Energy Star home are insulation, air sealing and efficient HVAC systems, which may be accomplished for less than the increase in the home's value. Three other studies in Washington and Oregon show similar results and that green homes may actually sell faster, not just for more.
This is also true when adding renewable energy features like solar to your home. Until recently few studies were able to show that homes with PV systems sold for more. However, a recent Berkeley Lab study found that homes with PV systems sold for $17,000 more, or an average of $5.5 a Watt. This is relatively similar to the cost of installation locally.
Other good news. Our Summit Association of Realtors has recently added green features to their searchable database for Summit County homes, the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). This is part of a statewide effort to accurately reflect the value of green features in the home buying market. We know that green features are important to people and that they are willing to pay more to have a tight, energy efficient, low-utility-bill home. So now when you want to sell your Energy Star home or search for one on the market, it is easy for your Realtor to help. An additional green addendum allows you to highlight a number of diverse green features in your home. Does your home have great passive solar or energy efficient lighting fixtures? Does it have all no-VOC paint or insulated concrete forms. A Colorado Energy Office study shows that 90 percent of home owners will be able to identify some feature in their home that they can highlight in this green addendum.
Summit County realtors are now being offered additional training and education on green building, third-party certifications and green features. Realtors should leave this class with a better knowledge of green and energy efficient features and ability to reflect these features in home sales. This training is being offered during two four-hour time slots, April 17 at the Summit Association of Realtors classroom. Realtors should call HC3 to register (970) 668-5703.
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Get Out!
Hunting Anton Chigurh—and Relaxation
It only got creepier when I pulled up to the Regal Motel. I arrived at dusk and was immediately overcome by the feeling that there was a transmitter in my luggage and Chigurh was tracking down the satchel of money I'd hidden in the vent.
I never saw Bardem there, but I did cross Chigurh's path again at the Plaza Hotel about a mile away in downtown Las Vegas.
The lobby and the creaky staircase at the Plaza were familiar because of the film, but the bigger, historical inn was missing the ominous feeling that was so intense at the Regal. It might also be that the modern fictional characters were dwarfed by the legacy of real-life cowboys like Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp, who passed through Las Vegas when it was a crossroads in the late 1800s.
Back at the Regal, I slept pretty well considering I was ready for a maniac to shoot the lock out of my door at any moment. The next morning, I headed to the flea market across the street and scored some delicious homemade tacos for breakfast.
My adventures shifted from chasing down the legends of outlaws to pursuing peace in the countryside a few minutes north of Las Vegas in Montezuma. My business there was to find the natural hot springs by following the signs to the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West.
The water is extremely hot at these springs. The two deep pools were a scorching 120 degrees or more. I couldn't do much aside from stick my toe in. The adjacent, shallow L-shaped pool was smaller, had flowing water and was a much more bearable temperature, about 110, I'd have to guess. After a short soak—you don't need long when the water is that hot—I followed the path down to the frosty Gallinas River for a revitalizing cold plunge.
I began heading back toward Albuquerque on I-25 and turned north on State Road 63 toward Pecos and the hummingbirds of the Terrero General Store. The shop has many feeders, and hummingbirds are plentiful in the summer months. The Terrero General Store is also a great home base for anyone camping or backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness. It's got laundry facilities and pay showers, and if you've been camping for a few days, you'll be glad to have them.
Past Terrero, State Road 63 becomes more narrow and rutted. In my experience, the road to the most northern campground, Iron Gate, can be tough even in a truck with four-wheel drive.
Sadly, Terrero is where my adventure came to an end. I said goodbye to the hummingbirds and returned to Albuquerque, charmed and chilled by my weekend in Las Vegas.
If you care to look for Anton Chigurh closer to home, you might find him at the Desert Sands Motel (5000 Central SE). This was another shooting location for No Country for Old Men. While you're there, try some tasty Vietnamese food at Pho Linh.


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January 15, 2014
Paskesz Candy Company Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Milk in Premium Belgian Chocolate Coins
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of Premium Belgian Chocolate Coins Hologram .5 oz bags because they may contain traces of milk. People who have allergies to milk run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.
The recalled "Coins" were distributed nationwide in retail stores between October 2012 and December 2013. The product is sold in mesh bags of .5 oz. There are 24 bags in a box. To date one parent has reported that her child took ill after eating one of these coins with the production code P233.
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Based upon my work with ISA Server for various implementations, I often have to create firewall policies that permit Active Directory communications to traverse different ISA Server networks.
I thought it would be useful to try and create a quick blog entry that captures some of the key information in order to provide a basic resource guide. This mainly includes the necessary protocol sets that are required for the two most common types of Active Directory communication, namely:
- Domain Member Communications (From Domain Members to Domain Controllers)
- Domain Controller Replication Communications (From Domain Controllers to Domain Controllers)
Please Note: For information on Active Directory communications when using forest trusts, please see my previous blog entry called Using ISA Server 2006 to Protect Active Directory One-Way Forest Trusts.
So, considering the first scenario:
Domain Member Communications – Required Protocols
- DNS (53/tcp and 53/udp)
- Kerberos-Adm (UDP) (749/udp)
- Kerberos-Sec (TCP) (88/tcp)
- Kerberos-Sec (UDP) (88/udp)
- LDAP (389/tcp)
- LDAP UDP (389/udp)
- LDAP GC (Global Catalog) (3268/tcp)
- Microsoft CIFS (TCP) (445/tcp)
- Microsoft CIFS (UDP) (445/udp)
- NTP (UDP) (123/udp)
- PING (ICMP Type 8)
- RPC (all interfaces) (135/tcp)
and the second scenario:
Domain Controller Replication Communications – Required Protocols
- DNS (53/tcp and 53/udp)
- Kerberos-Sec (TCP) (88/tcp)
- Kerberos-Sec (UDP) (88/udp)
- LDAP (389/tcp)
- LDAP (UDP) (389/udp)
- LDAPS (636/tcp)
- LDAP GC (Global Catalog) (3268/tcp)
- LDAPS GC (Global Catalog) (3269/tcp)
- Microsoft CIFS (TCP) (445/tcp)
- Microsoft CIFS (UDP) (445/udp)
- NetBios Datagram (138/udp)
- NetBios Name Service (137/udp)
- NetBios Session (139/tcp)
- NTP (UDP) (123/udp)
- PING (ICMP Type 8)
- RPC (all interfaces) (135/tcp)
Please Note: The protocol names defined above are based upon the default display names used in ISA Server, and they may be different for other firewalls. Respective udp/tcp ports are therefore provided in brackets for clarity.
Due to the default behaviour of the ISA Server RPC filter, you can simply use the in-built RPC (all interfaces) protocol and ISA Server will automatically handle the dynamic nature of the RPC protocol and RPC endpoint mapper requests. However, if you are using other firewalls, you many need to replace the RPC (All interfaces protocol with the following two protocols:
- RPC Endpoint Mapper (135/tcp)
- RPC Dynamic Ports (1024-65535/tcp)
Please Note: Alternatively, you may wish to define static port ranges for RPC, as discussed in the follow Microsoft knowledgebase article How to configure RPC dynamic port allocation to work with firewalls.
I have read that it is possible to remove some of the above "less desirable" protocols, Ping/ICMP for example. However, in my experience this can often lead to adverse effects in terms of performance; whereby delays can occur with authentication and Active Directory user/group/computer enumeration. I believe this is due to some form of protocol fallback where you have to wait for a denied protocol (Ping/ICMP for example) to timeout before an alternative protocol (LDAP Ping for example) is tried instead. Hence overall functionality is not impaired, but it is necessary to wait for timeouts to occur, which is not ideal unless absolutely necessary.
Finally, it is recommended to use route-based network relationships between all ISA networks that involve Active Directory communications, as this negates potential issues that can occur when using Network Address Translation (NAT).
A list of appropriate references is provided below for further bedtime reading :)
Active Directory focused:
How to configure a firewall for domains and trusts
Active Directory in Networks Segmented by Firewalls
Active Directory Replication over Firewalls
Domain and Forest Trust Tools and Settings
Service overview and network port requirements for the Windows Server system
Restricting Active Directory replication traffic and client RPC traffic to a specific port
Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tool: Rpccfg.exe (RPC Configuration Tool)
ISA Server focused:
Segmenting Networks with ISA 2004 – Filtering access to Domain Controllers
Allowing Intradomain Communications through the ISA Firewall (2004)
Using ISA Server 2006 to Protect Active Directory One-Way Forest Trusts
So, not exactly ground-breaking information, but hopefully handy for those looking for a concise list of Active Directory related protocols (with associated references) when defining ISA Server firewall policies.


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Gre For Dummies
- Publish Date: 2012-01-10
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- Author: Ron Woldoff
A complete guide to score your highest on the GREnow with a bonus CD-ROM
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The Dash Express GPS just received its first historic traffic model update using the live Dash data gathered by users. That'll help predict traffic in areas where no Dash or other trusted data sources have been in the last 15 minutes. By end of month, a software update is coming with tweaks in performance, stability and routing. As for today's historic update, Dash recommends all users download the patch by Wi-Fi. Let's hope that more updates come often as this one, and with more features using that internet connection.
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In what some thought would be an offensive battle, the Manchester Squires and Wabash Apaches defenses stepped up, especially in the first half in a 22-8 Manchester win.
The lone score of the first quarter was a Squire safety, that gave Manchester a 2-0 lead after one. With both defenses dominating in the first half, the Squires would get the only score of the second quarter on a Lucas Schilling TD with .47 left to give the Squires an 8-0 lead at the half.
Just a little over three minutes in to the third quarter, Jacob Casper gave Manchester some breathing room with a TD run and after a Ross Messer extra point the Squires led 15-0 with 8:51 to go. Schilling would get his second score of the game later in the quarter and Manchester's second of the quarter to put Manchester up 22-0 with a quarter to go.
Wabash would get their only score in the fourth quarter for the 22-8 final.
For Manchester Lucas Schilling was 8 of 20 for 52yds. Jacob Casper ran for 161yds on 20 carries. Schilling added 60yds, Phoenix Goad 5, Evan Milam 7 and Bailey Ness 4. Brodi Carter caught 4 passes for 25yds, Phoenix Goad 3 for 23, Kane Gable 1 for 11 and Daniel Griese 1 for 4.
Thad Miller led the defense with 18 tackles. Evan Milam and Nick Eubank added 10 each. Chris Eubank had 9. Nick Eubank, Milam and Miller each had sacks. Nick Eubank and Cody Hann both had an interception. Jacob Casper had a fumble recovery.
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The Turkish Experience at Workers Unite Film Festival/
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The latest news from Workers Unite Film Festival about labor film and the struggle of working people. We work with labor media movers and shakers to develop labor content that engages with the battles that every day people face.
Hear the Turkish reaction to the Workers Unite Film Festival and how we were able to build solidarity with people in Turkey.Read More
The Workers Unite Film Festival is a ten day long celebration in NYC of films from around the world about worker's lives and their struggles for dignity and labor rights. The festival is held the second week in May each year at the historic Cinema Village, just South of Union Square in Manhattan. New locations are added each season.
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In preparation for some new events, C2E administration is reviewing several aspects of our forum.
We undertook this effort over a week ago as many senior members were sending report posts on several issues and demanded clarification.
Please read the following carefully.
Please note that these are more clarifications than additions.
Terms of Service Rule #2: Criticizing an idea is encouraged, but criticizing the person who posted it is absolutely not.
Attacks on a person's character will not be tolerated and may be grounds for suspension of posting privileges. The principal function of C2E is the expression of ideas, information, opinions, suggestions, analysis – generating interest in, and discussion about, anything and everything Edmonton. Criticism of an idea is encouraged, but criticizing the member personally, either publicly or through a Private Message (PM) is absolutely not. Offenders will be subject to bans, either temporary or permanent if the behaviour persists, and there will be no exceptions.
As well, C2E will no longer tolerate any publicly-communicated suggestion of moderator, administrator, or steering committee malfeasance, ignorance, or apathy, without full documented proof. Personal attacks against a group of persons, in this case the moderators and administrators, is contrary to Terms of Service rule #2.
Up to now, the moderator team has been liberal and generally conciliatory in the handling of one-on-one concerns, and it will continue to deal with these on an independent basis. At the same time, several references have been made in public regarding general administration and moderation ineptitude and malpractice, which is unacceptable.
There are many ways of getting in touch with administrators/moderators. If you have issues with the forum's administration, please write to [email protected] or send a Private Message (PM) to Admin. These notes are read at the administration level (6 people) with differing backgrounds and interests, but with a common assumption that each letter has a kernel of truth to it. We do listen and try to react appropriately.
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With the recent rash of members signing up with multiple usernames, this rule needs to be re-enforced. Multiple usernames are not permitted without moderator/administrator approval. Since C2E is a forum that allows users to be anonymous, and there is a overriding membership belief that the posts - and not the poster - are the key to effective communication, one way for this forum to "get to know you" is through your ideas and your posts and your username.
Multiple usernames dilute this uniqueness; as well as it is fundamentally dishonest to the rest of the membership. That said, there are instances where multiple usernames have been given to members who stop using an old one but wish existing posts to stand (converting from known to anonymous, for example, or vice-versa), usernames to Candidates for Election who are members as well, and test usernames for administrators to ensure that the forum is working as designed from a member point-of-view.
The administration/moderator team has a variety of tools for detecting posters with multiple pseudonyms, and is aware of several current offenders. We have permanently banned the "Dakine" alias in the past, so as precedent is set, anyone caught with multiple usernames without having secured the proper authorization will be banned. Since this is a time for new beginnings, however, the ban will be temporary, the duration being dependent on the nature of the use of the alternate usernames. Again, if you feel the need to have more than one username, PM the Admin, and we will look into it for you.
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PensFanInDC wrote:Sarcastic wrote:shafnutz05 wrote:I'm getting more irritated that you pretend like I am completely ignorant about U.S. foreign policy. I fully understand its effects on radicalizing Muslims and angering the Arab world. My argument is that it doesn't justify two BRITISH Muslims that were BORN in Britain to slaughter an innocent man to death.
Maybe tomorrow, I will kill an African-American because Christians are being persecuted by Africans throughout much of Islamic Africa. See how much sense that makes?
Most people (especially on this board) are FULLY aware what effect our foreign policy has.
It doesn't justify it, of course. But it explains it. And there is no argument. I think the two sides here are tackling the same point just from the opposite end.
I don't think they are. MM seems to think this killing is ok because of US foreign policy
Well the murderers said so to that lady, didn't they?


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Uncertain budget climate threatens safety of U.S. troops, veterans
Cuts to U.S. military's infectious disease programs endanger lives and future medical advancements
WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 26, 2013 – Current budget restrictions and the threat of future cuts jeopardize the safety and mission readiness of U.S. troops, veterans' health, and capabilities of the U.S. military's tropical medicine research and development (R&D), said researchers today in an editorial published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
"U.S. military medical research has and continues to make tremendous contributions to the health and well-being of both this nation and the world at large with respect to neglected tropical diseases," said Colonel Peter Weina, deputy commander of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and co-author of the editorial. "Our sincere hope is that despite the fiscal challenges facing the nation, we as a people do not lose sight of the need for our continued investment in combating these diseases that respect no boundaries or nationality," said Weina.*
Malaria, dengue fever, leishmaniasis and bacterial diarrheal diseases, among others, are the U.S. military's top infectious disease threats, consistently causing more health and military impact than battlefield injuries throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Programs such as the WRAIR and the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) have conducted R&D, led expansive disease detection and surveillance, and collaborated with private scientific and pharmaceutical partners to protect our troops and billions of civilians worldwide. Life-saving interventions such as mefloquine, Malarone, and the hepatitis A and Japanese encephalitis vaccines have resulted from these programs, while vaccines for malaria, adenovirus infection, dengue fever and HIV/AIDS are currently in clinical trials.
However, budget reductions are impeding these efforts. In addition to workforce reductions and hiring freezes that limit the talent pool of scientists, detrimental consequences include: fewer public-private partnerships; interrupted product development and clinical trials and the inability to start new initiatives; and a virtual hold on U.S. military participation in scientific conferences.
"Budget cuts put our national and global security at risk by degrading the effectiveness of our armed forces to conduct operations in regions where tropical diseases are endemic," said Peter Hotez, MD PhD, co-author of the editorial and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, director of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. "We must continue to prioritize these programs to protect our troops, treat our veterans and discover new advancements that will improve the lives of the world's poorest people."
"Many global health milestones and lives saved have resulted from the U.S. military's leadership," said Coreen Beaumier, PhD, an assistant professor in the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. "As diseases like dengue fever and leishmaniasis pick up around the world due to new conflicts and breakdown in infrastructure, a robust U.S. military R&D enterprise is crucial."
*The opinions stated are the private views of the author and do not necessarily reflect official views of the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.
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Sabin develops new vaccines, advocates for increased use of existing vaccines and promotes expanded access to affordable medical treatments in collaboration with governments, academic institutions, scientists, medical professionals and other non-profit organizations. For more information please visit www.sabin.org.
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The Sabin Vaccine Institute Product Development Partnership (Sabin PDP) focuses on creating safe, effective and low-cost vaccines to prevent human suffering from infectious and neglected tropical diseases that infect more than 1 billion people worldwide. The Sabin PDP collaborates with private, academic and public institutions in low- and middle-income countries, Australia, the United States and Europe, for preclinical development, vaccine manufacturing and clinical testing. A complete overview of ongoing projects and partners is available at www.sabin.org/pdp.
About the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland and established in 1893, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the oldest, largest, and the most programmatically diverse military research institute of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Department of Defense. With four overseas research units in Thailand, German, Kenya and the Republic of Georgia, WRAIR is comprised of two Centers of Excellence, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and the Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience. For more information, visit www.wrair.army.mil or follow on Twitter at twitter.com/WRAIR.
About the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
The National School of Tropical Medicine (NSTM) at Baylor College of Medicine is committed to addressing the world's most pressing tropical disease issues. The school applies strong traditions in basic, translational and applied biotechnology research brought by the BCM faculty and staff with the newly affiliated Sabin Vaccine Institute Product Development Partnership (Sabin-PDP). The NSTM works in partnership with Texas Children's Hospital, home of the Sabin Vaccine Institute & Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. For more information please visit http://www.bcm.edu/tropicalmedicine/.
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Today American children have more protection against physical abuse than ever before. Parents are not allowed to beat their children or leave serious injuries during punishment. And teachers are no longer allowed to use paddles, swiches, or ruler to discipline children.
However.. I fall into a camp of people demanding that the current laws are NOT enough. There is a form of abuse that can do even more long-lasting damage than physical.... psychological abuse. PS... I will not judge you if you disagree with my statements... but lets NOT turn this forum into a flame war. Please be professional everyone.
Psychological abuse includes emotional abuse, verbal abuse, and physical abuse that serves to humiliate rather than leave real physical damage.
Emotional abuse includes manipulation, guilt trips, implying or telling the child that they are evil or bad [not just that what they did was bad, but that they are a bad-natured child], telling a child they should be more like "so-and-so's" kids, humiliating a child to gain control, threatening a child with severe physical or emotional abuse that you don't plan to carry out to scare them and "keep them in line." An example of this was experienced by a friend of mine. "If you don't get your room cleaned up, you will sleep in the basement with the spiders." This was a direct malicious attack because the parent KNEW that my friend was aracniphobic and the basement was unfinished and not lacking in spiders.
Verbal abuse includes calling your child swear words or words meant to demean and lower self esteem:
girls - bitch, whore, slut, witch, hag, porker [male or female], fatass [male or female], etc.
Boys - sissy, candyass, son of a bitch [insulting to the mother as well], fag/ faggot, dick, etc.
Physical EMOTIONAL abuse includes:
Slapping, Spanking, Paddling, Using a Belt on Buttocks, slaping buttocks, hitting with newspaper, throwing objects at child, etc.
I have not had a child myself but I have wittnessed the struggles my parents went through to raise children, so I know that raising children is hard... but I think that that does NOT justify behavior like the outlined above. I personally want these behaviors to be outlawed... starting with corporal punishment [physical emotional abuse].
What do you guys think?
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I know next to nothing about bipolar, but I have autism too, and mostly it's been a positive thing in my life, rather than a 'disorder'. Moreover, since I'm of the opinion that all disabled people should be exterminated, I would not consider it a disability because the extermination of all autistic people would mean a MAJOR decrease in IQ and creativity in the human species.
Dyscalculia is another thing. It's basically my reason for not wanting kids.
Hi Lilla,
I tried to send you a private message but the pop-up box said I had to add you as a friend first. Please accept my request if you don't mind. My son is autistic and I would be extremely grateful for any insight that you could give me. Thanks! Steph :)
Accepted. I'm still figuring out this system, lol. Ask me anything, but keep in mind that autistics are not all alike. :)
You havn't spent much time in institutions where perfect strangers take care of handicaped people of all sorts, all ages, because "their loving family" no longer want to take care of them. I don't think any of us here are talking about fully socially functional disabled people. We're talking about disabled people who can not fend for themselves. In British Columbia there have been cuts to some of these institutions and 1000s of non-functioning people were left to wander the streets, homeless, because they can not fend for themselves.
So that cry of "I'll protect all the little disabled children" is akin to people who buy chicks/puppies/kittens as xmas gifts, and these animals, when their cute little baby charm wears off, end up at the pound, unloved, and dead.
So let's stick to bringing up children who have a chance at an autonomous life.
They would not. And it wouldn't hurt the child either, if done the right way.
And TAA is right.


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DrTravelerLoA Senior Legends of America Sunday 13/06/2010, 21:06
Voting is closed. Bans look to be: Caelus, Morphun, Shakra, Striker, Ghumbo, Sylth, and Sledg.
Notice: Copper is in, as is Marina, Toro, Hugo, and Oshitsune.
You'll probably see more Copper this week, even though GHEIST is playing with the full deck. Expect a LOT of GHEIST as a weakened Roots means that Draheera has a lot less to worry about. Sledg out means that Rescue is weakened.
An intersting question this week will be how much play All Stars sees. Marina is one of the clan's strongest cards so expect to see All Stars in the Half and Full decks, but it will be curious to see how Striker's absence effects All Stars builds.
I suspect that Piranas/Ulu Watu combination decks could do well this week. You'll have the raw power to take on Sentinel halfs, you'll do well against All Star half and wholes, and GHEIST shouldn't be that big an issue. You should expect to see the obligatory HugoTana.
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i acted like i don't give a... i sang pop as i walked into my room. slowly i shut the door and locked myself in this little box. the walls threw back the echoes of Mak's voice. she doesn't like my new boyfriend. in fact, she didn't like my previous boyfriend too. and the boy before him. for they aren't in the same field just like me. you know what...a teacher. this is the fourth time maybe more...she told me to find her a teacher-son-in-law. i don't blame her either. she's already went through hell.
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GaryN wrote:In E-Mail discussion with the author of the Universe Sandbox program (I asked if he could simulate an Electric Universe!), he asked if electrostatic charge would affect the orbit of the solar system planets. I said I thought they should organize themselves to reach an equilibrium.
I think Thornhill has speculated on a mechanism whereby the planets will tend to exchange charge for some time and alter orbits until a "lest-interaction" regime of orbits is achieved. I don't know whether the Holoscience site specifically addresses that issue or not, or whether other papers or newsletter articles might have previously addressed it (AEON, Kronos or Thoth)?
by Donald Scott and Wal Thornhill
It also appears that Jupiter's plasma sheath extends almost all
the way to Saturn (much as Venus' does toward Earth). I'm
wondering if any more of the planets have plasma sheaths that
extend to just short of their next outward neighbor's orbit. If
that were the case, it certainly seems consistent with the idea
that the electric charge on each planet (together with the
electrical potential of the solar plasma at that orbital
distance) determines the length of the planet's sheath - and
this, in turn, causes circularization and the spacing between the
orbits of adjacent planets.
You have the argument for orbit spacing precisely, but I consider
it to be a secondary effect. There would also seem to be a
primary mechanism at work where the annual charge exchange with
the solar plasma sheet is smoothed out. Comets are an extreme
example of varying charge exchange throughout an orbit and we
know that they exhibit so-called non-gravitational accelerations.
I have suggested that those accelerations *are* due to gravity
but that it is gravity itself that is changing as a result of
strong charge exchange with the solar plasma.
Such an orbit circularising mechanism would be more powerful
since it operates continually and not just when planets are in
line with the Sun. It would explain the near circular orbit of
Jupiter since any effect from Mars would be negligible. Also the
number of oppositions of the outer gas giants since the proposed
Saturnian system breakup, ca. 10,000 years ago, would be quite
small. So you might expect their orbital eccentricities to be
much higher if they were involved and the mechanism you mentioned
was the only one to cause circularisation of orbits.
Would he only consider electrostatics, or would he consider electrodynamics as well? Granted electrodynamics would be something more like PIC (particle-in-cell) simulations, which can get tricky. But considering ONLY electrostatics (w/o the possibility of electrodynamics) might get things only half-right.
(Was the Titius-Bode Series Dictated by the Minimum Energy States of the Generic Solar Plasma?)
http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/downl ... 8.1990.pdf
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As it stands the discovery of planets around other stars would seem on the face of it a falsification of the account.
55 Cancri, as its name suggests, is the 55th brightest star in the constellation Cancer. It is similar in mass to our Sun, though older and somewhat dimmer, and it is located only 41 lightyears away – practically in our galactic back yard. Remarkably, as the outlines of the star's planetary system gradually emerged, it became clear that its basic architecture resonates strongly with that of our own solar system. 55 Cancri's system includes one giant planet, four times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting at a Jupiter-like 6 astronomical units (AU) from the star, and four smaller planets orbiting inside 0.8 AU, with an enormous gap in between. Compare that with our own solar system, where giant Jupiter orbits at an average distance of 5.2 AU from the Sun, and the four smaller inner planets are all congregated within 1.5 AU from the Sun.
Researchers find such similarities suggestive. The giant gap in the 55 Cancri system between the outermost giant planet and the one next in, notes team leader Geoffrey Marcy of U.C. Berkeley, is where one would expect to find Earth like rocky planets. In fact, Fischer notes, any planet within this gap must be relatively small, or it would destabilize the orbits of the known planets. And while the detection of such distant Earths is currently beyond the capacity of planet hunting technology, Marcy believes that this will soon change. Within five years, he predicts, continued observations may reveal the presence of rocky planets around 55
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When I was a kid I used to think that peanut butter is made by crushing peanuts and mixing it with butter. Of course that was a ridiculous idea, I'm sure many people also thought of that. But now I know it's easy to make peanut butter! No real butter needed. Just plain peanuts.
Here are the following that you will need:
- 4 cups dry roasted peanuts
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp honey
- vegetable oil (optional)
Pour the peanuts on the food processor and blend until the it forms into a pasty consistency. Add the salt and honey and blend some more. You can add more honey or salt, until you are satisfied with the flavor. The peanuts actually contain a lot of oil that's why it becomes pasty when blended well. But if you want a creamier texture, you can add a little bit of vegetable oil.
The last part is optional because I noticed that the oil rose to the surface when you set the peanut butter aside. I guess it's because it's home made and unlike the peanut butter that you buy from the grocery, the oil is not hydrogenated. (Check the ingredients at the back of the label, usually it says hydrogenated coconut oil.)
So that's the basic peanut butter. You can also make additional flavors using that kind of peanut butter. I made spiced peanut butter by adding a little bit of cinnamon, brown sugar and nutmeg. Another one is banana chocolate. I just added mashed banana and melted milk chocolate in my peanut butter. Try to experiment on different flavors. I even found curry flavored peanut butter in the internet!


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Attacks in Israel weigh heavily on national lacrosse team
Despite missing some of its players who were called up for reserve army duty, squad has reached quarterfinals in the US
DENVER (AP) — Israeli forward Noach Miller is leading his team on quite a run at the world lacrosse championships, even if his mind is thousands of miles away.
His squad, formed only four years ago, advanced to the quarterfinals with a 15-1 win over Germany on Tuesday. However, it's hard for him and his teammates to bask in the moment as loved ones back home deal with rocket attacks from Gaza.
"Maybe this provides a little bit of light in the darkness that's really in Israel right now," said Miller, who grew up in Burlington, Vermont, and now lives in Tel Aviv. "Because every time we step on that field, we represent something bigger than just the lacrosse team."
Soon after this tournament, some of the members will be joining the Israeli Defense Forces and may be in the middle of the conflict. That includes captain Matt Cherry and Miller, who took up lacrosse in middle school and played at the University of Vermont.
There are already several players who couldn't make the trip because they were either called up for the reserves or are going through basic training.
"It's a very real reality for us," said Miller, whose team plays in the quarterfinals Wednesday. "Lacrosse is our way to give back to the country now. But there are many more ways we're going to be giving back to Israel."
As tension increases back home, the Israelis are turning heads at the tournament. The squad has knocked off Sweden, Slovakia, South Korea, Ireland and Germany by a combined score of 88-18. The favorites remain the United States and Canada.
"We knew we had a talented squad," said executive director Scott Neiss, who launched the Israeli program in 2010. "But I don't think anybody expected us to perform at the level we have, kind of roll through the tournament up to this point."
Miller has a simple explanation for the success: "Every other team is playing for a medal. We're playing for the people. That's what separates us from every other team."
They constantly talk about what's going on in Israel — during practice, before team meetings, on the bus ride over to the field, even in huddles in the middle of a game.
The conversations provide comfort.
"It's near and dear to everyone's heart," said Israeli coach Bill Beroza, a three-time member of Team USA who's in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. "We think about the people and what's going on. We pray for peace."
The tears suddenly began to trickle down Beroza's face. He removed his glasses and wiped them away with his left hand.
"This is just on everyone's mind," he added softly.
Each time Miller steps on the field, he instantly thinks of his family, friends and the little kids he coaches near Tel Aviv, just hoping they're safe.
He said the threat of rocket attacks is real on a normal day.
"I'll paint a picture for you: With a lacrosse coach in the United States, a parent may come up and say, 'What's your plan if there's thunder?'" recounted Miller, one of 12 players on the 23-man roster who lives in Israel. "When we're coaching we have parents come up to us and say, 'What are you going to do if there's a rocket attack?'
"But you have to go on living your life — it's the Israeli way."
The lacrosse staff in Tel Aviv held a watch party for the opening game with Sweden. But it was interrupted by the bomb sirens and everyone headed for shelter.
"That's what we're dealing with right now," said Neiss, who has 250 members in the program, most between 8 and 18. "That's part of our struggle, our reality. We're not going to stop what we're doing. But this is something that puts things into perspective."
For the tournament, Miller wrote the Hebrew and Arabic words for "peace" on white tape and plastered it to the side of his helmet.
"I like to think every time out there that's what we're playing for," he said. "We're playing to bridge those divides."
Beroza couldn't agree more.
"Sports are a foundation for creating peace," Beroza said. "Kids playing together, they're not going to fight when they get older."
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As Ukrainians vote, legacy of Odessa fire that killed 48 has port city on edge
As voters go to the polls Sunday to choose their first president after a street revolution ousted Viktor Yanukovych in February, Ukraine is on a knife's edge. It is sure to grow closer to Europe, the aim of the uprising, but it also could come apart in a civil war that would invite a Russian intervention.
Armed pro-Russian separatists have grabbed the headlines in the past six weeks as they ambushed security forces and seized city halls and police stations in eastern Ukraine. But in the tug-of-war between Russia and the West, this port city in southern Ukraine, Odessa is, perhaps, the biggest prize.
Odessa, a cosmopolitan port city, with its tree-lined cobblestone streets and laid back atmosphere, its statues of the Russian czarina Catherine the Great, who founded it, and the writers and poets who were born or spent time here, seems an unlikely venue for a battle over Ukraine's future.
But three weeks ago, pro-Russian militants demanding closer ties to Moscow provoked a street battle that ended in the deaths of 48 civilians, many of them pro-Russians burned to death or asphyxiated in a fire at the Trade Union building that had been their headquarters. It was the worst violence between civilians since clashes began, and was abetted by police who appeared to side with the pro-Russians and did not intervene.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks emotionally of the "nightmare and horror of Odessa." At an international economic forum in St. Petersburg on Friday, he justified Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in March as meant to avoid what happened in Odessa in May.
"If we didn't do this…we would have more tragedies (in Crimea) than those we see today in Ukraine, in Odessa, where unarmed people have been burned alive." And he demanded a "very thorough investigation," and that "criminals have to be found and punished."
But his real interest may be strategic. With a population of 1 million, it's a vital Black Sea port and would be a prize catch for Russia. Odessa is part of what Putin calls novorossiya or "new Russia," a term the czars used for eastern and southern Ukraine. Odessa Oblast, the "state" where the city is located, also controls the land link to Trans-Dniester, the breakaway pro-Russian enclave in neighboring Moldova that has repeatedly called for annexation by Russia.
Odessa is also at the heart of the political struggle between the two front-runners in the race for president _ Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister whose protégés were running Odessa when the conflagration occurred on May 2, and Petro Poroshenko,the so-called "Chocolate King" whose close aides were installed after the melee.
Tymoshenko, 53, who had been imprisoned on corruption charges during Yanukovych's rule and freed after he fled Kiev, is seen by many here as a symbol of the corrupt old order. One day after the melee, she traveled here and publicly defended the police force, which was widely criticized because almost none of the top leadership was on duty, and those who were seemed to side with the pro-Russians during the street battles.
"They did everything they could," she said, an astonishing assertion that contributed to the collapse of her campaign.
Odessa is Poroshenko's home region, and the new crew now running the town and the oblast are solid, many observers here say.
A billionaire who served as Ukraine's foreign minister and as minister of trade, Poroschenko, 48, earned his fortune as the country's biggest chocolates manufacturer. At the Maidan Square protests in Kiev that led to Yanukovych's overthrow, he provided food and drink for the protesters and tried to calm their passions at crucial moments. He leads the field of 21 candidates by a wide enough margin that he may be able to win on the first round, eliminating the need for a runoff.
Whoever wins, lowering tensions in Odessa will be a big challenge.
"The only thing that can make this city calm is an honest investigation," said Zoya Kazanzhy, a former Maidan activist who's now deputy governor of the oblast.
Three are now under way _ by the government in Kiev, the national parliament and a group of investigative journalists.
"The main problem is that even if the investigation is honest, the level of disbelief in government is so high that people will not believe it," she added.
Greek Square, with its mix of neo-classic and nondescript modern buildings, is where the melee began. Today, the only signs of the carnage are floral tributes to the six people who died there, gaps in the street where cobblestones were repurposed as missiles and broken windows in the restaurant next door to the Russian Dramatic theater.
Pro-Russians had called for a massive rally there to coincide with a march through town by soccer fans heading to the match between teams from Odessa and Kharkiv. It was an incendiary invitation; the fans largely were supporters of the Maidan revolution. "Don't let the Fascists march through our city," read the online posters, using the common pro-Russia shorthand for the anti-Yanukovych movement. "Help us defend our city from Fascists."
What the organizers didn't grasp was that the Maidan activists also were seething with anger, in part because of repeated attacks by pro-Russians crowds on peaceful meetings.
The pro-Russians also overestimated their support. The 500 who showed up were vastly outnumbered by the 5,000 or so soccer fans and Maidan backers, among them a militia that calls itself the "self-defense force."
"The anger was collecting for a long time," said Andrei Yusov, a Maidan veteran who's now a senior official in the upstart "Kick" party.
Some of the pro-Russians arrived with guns, and in the course of the two hour melee, five Maidan backers were shot dead. Police separated the two groups for a while and then allowed the pro-Russians to attack the others, Yusov said.
There were weapons on the Maidan side as well, and someone _ Yusov and Kazanzhy say they don't know who _ shot a pro-Russia demonstrator.
Under a hail of stones and Molotov cocktails thrown by the pro-Maidan crowd, the pro-Russians fled to their rallying point, the Trade Union building, about a mile and a half from the city center. A column of some 2,000 Maidan backers followed.
The pro-Maidan crowd torched a tent city where the pro-Russians had been encamped for weeks, forcing the pro-Russians to flee inside, where they barricaded the stairway to the upper floors with furniture taken from the offices, set up a small medical clinic on the second floor and a sniper position on the fourth floor, to protect the rear entrance, said Sergei Dibrov, an investigative reporter with the Dumskaya.net web site, who's on the journalists' investigative team.
"They were prepared to defend it for hours or for days," he told McClatchy.
Maidan backers threw stones, but after pro-Russians started hurling Molotov cocktails from the roof, the Maidan crowd responded in kind. "They will be burned," a Maidanist told Dibrov, as both watched the scene.
Dibrov said the fire inside the building apparently started on the ground floor, where the barricade of furniture, and papers scattered all about provided tinder. A gasoline-powered generator full of fuel that had been brought upstairs from the encampment exploded, feeding the fire, as did large drums of gasoline brought to an upper floor staircase.
Flames were leaping out of the windows and some of the estimated 250 pro-Russians inside went to the windows and jumped.
"There was a lot of liquid, wood, and flammable plastic material" in the building, Dibrov said. The temperature rose to 700 degrees on the second floor.
The police and fire departments had stations close by but did not arrive at the scene for a full hour, he said.
Police that night arrested 180 pro-Russians, but two days later a pro-Russian mob besieged Odessa's police station, and police released them.
Today, the Trade Union building is a shrine to the fallen, but it's evident from the posters and memorials outside and the graffiti painted on the inside walls that militants hope to turn it into a launch pad for a much broader separatist movement.
A sampling of the graffiti: "Odessa is a Russian city;" "Remember this blood. It is Kiev's fault;" "Novorossiya: glory to the dead guys." There are many signs reading "Remember Khatin," a World War II Nazi massacre of civilians in Belorussia. There are several anti-semitic and racist references, with multiple references to U.S. President Obama as a "black monkey." Reads one: "We hate you, American rednecks and black monkey Obama."
If the early May clashes and carnage were intended to provoke a wider response, it so far hasn't worked. A rally held here last weekend drew perhaps 1,000 people, but there was no central speaker and the crowd broke into groups and passed megaphones around, allowing anyone to speak.
A middle-aged woman who did not give her name summed up their dilemma. "They arrested all of our people, so there is no one left to lead," she said.
She's right, said the Rev. Andrey Humburg, a Lutheran pastor at St. Paul's Cathedral here. When Germany's foreign minister came for a visit, Humburg was asked to find a leading figure among the pro-Russians. "There is no one," he said.
He said the militants who answered the call to rally May 2 had completely misread the size of their own constituency.
Still, Election Day will be tense. Pro-Russians "will try" to stage incidents, predicted Anatoliy Boyko, head of an election watchdog group.
"There is a very high level of fear in society," he said. "A toy grenade, people in camouflage even with toy guns may seed panic."
But in the absence of an active, trained police force that supports the law instead of a political party, he said, Maidan self-defense will also be ready to counter any challenge, opening the possibility of more clashes.


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The CTA began officially using the system last month and it is now available to Chicago area university students, Chicago Public Schools students, CTA employees and some Chicago Card Plus users. All CTA and Pace riders will be able to use Ventra on Sept. 9.
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There are so many cookie-cutter database videogame sites out there. Can you trust the editors working there? Are they fun to read? Where's the humor? Where's the passion? If you're as bored of bland "games journalism" as we are, you might appreciate what we are doing at our company.
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It's no secret that many industries would prefer to gently suppress the critical voice of the consumer, and gaming is no different. You've heard about all the politics that involve video game review scores -- your timely opinion is not welcomed. Whether we're blacklisted or mysteriously sent a late copy of a horrible game already shipping pre-orders, we will be rattling fences to get the honest, unfiltered word out.
Canned gaming editorial is dead. The internet is about social media and gamers are getting more involved in the conversation, like it or not. Destructoid is here to ensure that this continues to happen from an independent standpoint.
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When people call us "video game journalists" we squirm a little. Look, we take our jobs seriously, but we also aware that we are neither chasing ambulances or soon eligible to win a Pulitzer for writing about The Passion of Mario and Princess Peach. Journalism implies the sort of black-and-white objective reporting that leaves little room for emotion, yet when we talk about video games the term "art" comes to mind, and art implies passion. Thus, Destructoid's mission is not to curate or coldly report on the logistics of videogame news, but rather to comment and critique it as a medium.
We're not "bloggers." We are critics.
We began writing back 2006, which was an interesting climate. Countless gaming news sites popped up during the rise of social media and began out-pacing legacy news outlets's lethargic daily delivery of videogame news. Destructoid was one of the fastest and most accurate -- and now those aging publications have adopted many of our agile techniques.
We're often referred to as a "blog," but when we press people to define the difference between us and other non-blog top gaming sites they're not sure what to say. Those guys have user comments. Those guys write shorter articles than us sometimes. We offer a more current, comprehensive games database than most sites. A blog is a type of article. We are a serious news organization -- independent is not synonymous with "enthusiast."
It is no surprise to me that people who work at Destructoid often go on to do amazing things. Have you ever heard of Borderlands 2? We gave the game's writer his first break in the gaming business. I'm incredibly proud of our influence in the gaming community at large. You'll find ex-Dtoid editors in companies like EA, Sony, Namco, Nintendo, Microsoft, and others. Working here is creatively rewarding -- we're lucky to still have many founding editors on staff now going on seven years.
Editorial aside, we're heavily invested in running an incredibly vibrant consumer-first community like no other, with one of the least draconian user moderation policies online. We respect differing opinions here. Our editors expect you to question them. That's healthy here, not grounds for banning.
Advertisers have no access to our editors. As publisher I'm dead-serious about separation of church and state. Destructoid has no interest in having an in-house sales team, nor is ad-selling part of our culture or process. We simply receive a life support check in the mail, as we outsource ad sales to GorillaNation. Go talk to them. If sponsors throw giveaway products at us we're quick to turn them around as giveaways to our readers, and are clearly marked as such.
We're keen to offer an ad-free version of our site because our readers block ads, and that's fine. Hopefully you'll support us with a membership if you enjoy the site so we can stay afloat without having to compromise this manifesto.
Accountability is very important to us, so we cite all of our sources or label rumors as they are. However, you'll find that we always write from the heart -- uncut and unfiltered. We've also been called an (insert any console) fanboy site, but it couldn't be farther from the truth -- we hate everybody equally. At the end of the day, we're all about good games and don't really care about the industry's bottom line or publishing every minutia of press releases and problems. We like to keep it simple.
I know other sites try to market themselves as real journalism types by not accepting press junkets, etc. This is the cheapest attempt at feigning credibility in our industry.
99% of editors who say they "don't accept junkets" are passing their receipts to their employer. That editor doesn't "feel" that travel bill out of pocket. Regardless of who paid the bill, you'll find all of these guys drunk at the first available happy hour together. C'mon. They just are doing their jobs and being reimbursed for their expenses by their publisher or the gaming company. Either way it has nothing to do with editorial integrity. So what does?
Destructoid believes in honest, open relationships. Whether we foot the bill or you do, it doesn't mean the person attending the event will review the game -- or that you'll ultimately see a positive review. We know PR junkets hope to affect review scores by half a point, and we make it that much harder for that not to happen by not attending "review events," period.
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