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Census Bureau official criticizes $1.6 billion savingsThursday, September 2nd, 2010
An anonymous Census Bureau official submitted the following to MyTwoCensus.com:
Last week Commerce Secretary Locke touted the Census Bureau's $1.6 billion cost savings which they will return to the Treasury. But I agree with congressman Issa that the touting of 1.6 billion returned to the Treasury is simply a "smoke and mirrors budget gimmickry that the American people have come to expect from the federal government."
The bureau's incompetency was saved by luck. There were no natural disasters and the recession produced a workforce that was otherwise unparalleled. About $800 million were in unspent funds set aside for hurricanes, floods and earthquakes which there were none. It is analogous to as if I lent you $10 and you returned it when it was not needed.But the workforce productivity that beat expectations came from alleged poor management practices and labor and wage violations.The most common complaint is the overtime it denied field, office staff and LCO managers. There were many office and field staff who worked many hours and never submitted time sheets for fear of termination in the worst employment market since the Great Depression.The report also fails to mention that the first few operations (address canvassing, groups quarters validation) were overstaffed and thousands of employees were trained and got either no work or less than a week's work.The Census Bureau also entered into poor contracts such as the Harris handheld computers and PBOCS. And last but not least the supplies and paper contracts it entered into which produced enormous amounts of waste. There are entire rooms of unused office supplies (rubber bands, erasers, pencils, file folders) and preprinted manuals and administrative forms in huge quantities that are quietly being made to disappear. We're not talking boxes, we are talking hundreds to thousands of boxes per LCO. The counter argument was any operation would of generated office waste but any census employee who works in the office who packed the shipping trucks knows exactly what I am talking about.Robert Groves should have a press conference about what they are doing with the truckloads of unused supplies and whether they are returning those to the contractor for a refund. Perhaps the Inspector General should do an audit over the truckloads and pallets that are being quietly thrown out. In order to hide this waste some managers are threatening employees who document this with immediate termination.I am optimistic that in the months after the census ends the truth will come out. In retrospect had the Census entered into better IT contracts, had there there not been problems with PBOCS, had they better estimated simply the amount of rubber bands every office would need they could have saved them themselves possibly at least another billion.

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I have split off a new blog so that I can concentrate my concatenative nerdiness into one area and enhance it's effect. I have been hacking on the GSL bindings to Factor, specifically the Special Functions. What can I say, Bessel functions are like sirens that sing me to shipwreck...
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A head on confrontation with several poisonous ideas presented in a level, reasoned and unpretentious manner. Ideas have consequences and this book shows the reader how some of the worst ideas have had a lasting and profound impact on our society. The narrator does the work justice and it was a truly enjoyable presentation. One of the best I've heard in a long time. Well done.
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I will openly admit that I wanted to kick myself for not reading the reviews prior to purchasing this audiobook. All the reviews would have kept me from stepping directly into the trap of this book, which in part, must have been deliberately set. The titles and book synopsis do not disclose the blatant reduction of nearly each criticism to a Christian fundamentalist viewpoint, which should be OPENLY DISCLOSED. The book was well written, flowed well and was interesting with each chapter until the abrupt drop into a religious sermon. What was disappointing was that the author, who is obviously intelligent and a good writer, describes some valid criticisms and makes some arguments that keep you just interested enough that you think, "well, maybe the next chapter will be better." I can only hope to save another person some time, as others in the review section tried to do for me. The single biggest statement that can be said about the reviews of this book is that you can be rest assured that anyone who gave it 5 stars and "bought extra copies for _____" is an individual with strong Christian fundamental beliefs...which should divulge this book's blatant bias. I have submitted a request to Audible that this book be moved to the religious section, as keeping it in nonfiction is misleading. I'm sure that if you purchase this book KNOWING it is a theologic book, you will enjoy it immensely and you will be glad you spent the money. 4.5 stars for the writing & text, but ZERO for the fact that it is a religious book masquerading as non-fiction literature.
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- James
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The concept of this book was enticing. It sounded like an intellectual disection of some of the most toxic ideas ever introduced into human culture. I didn't get far before realizing it is a tract on the falsity of all moral systems that do not derive directly from religious belief. A toxic idea if ever there was one.
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- Kristie
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Egotistical Rant By A Very Poor Academic
I feel like I've been hoodwinked into buying this book! It is not a proper critique on the books in question at all. It is just a Fundamentalist Christian diatribe on why we should ignore anything that an atheist tells us.
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- Steven
- 29-09-08
Hard to get past the author's misguided premise
Two starts because the author is clearly up on the subject matter he is writing about.
Missing the other three because, well, I just can't get past the author's apparent assertion that one cannot be a moral person without religion. I find this somewhat amusing given some of the things done in the name of religion, but this isn't the place to go into that. Also, he's of the mind that a viewpoint cannot be valid unless it embraces some form of God as one of its major tenants.
I agree with one of the other reviewers here - brand this clearly as religious content so that one knows what they are spending their credits on.
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- Colin
- 05-10-08
Felt manipulated
Clearly the author has some interesting and compelling perspectives on philosophical world views developed over the centuries however he sees all this through one lens - Christian fundamentalism.
This was not apparent in the book description so feel somewhat duped.
He does not fairly argue that a world view without a belief in a Christian anthropomorphised deity and a literal acceptance of the bible is not only specious but 'evil'.
Without the religious self-justifying supercilious commentary it could have been an interesting listen.
And I'll scream if one more creationist tells me about the great designer in the sky being responsible for creation and their convoluted logic in explaining the biological horrors that kill millions each year.
This book should be under a 'Religious' heading.
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- Dan
- 16-10-08
Misleading in the extreme
This audiobook's title promised so much. What it did not make clear, however, is that the book is nothing more than a lengthy sermon by an angry religious zealot. It should have been called "10 Books That I Hate Because They Offend My Medieval Christian Worldview." Unless you think Hitler and Darwin belong on the same list, don't waste your time with this terrible book.
42 people found this helpful
- Steve
- 29-09-08
Hard to get past the author's misguided premise
Two starts because the author is clearly up on the subject matter he is writing about.
Missing the other three because, well, I just can't get past the author's apparent assertion that one cannot be a moral person without religion. I find this somewhat amusing given some of the things done in the name of religion, but this isn't the place to go into that. Also, he's of the mind that a viewpoint cannot be valid unless it embraces some form of God as one of its major tenants.
I agree with one of the other reviewers here - brand this clearly as religious content so that one knows what they are spending their credits on.
40 people found this helpful
- B Kevin
- 25-11-08
Christian Propaganda
Be aware, Benjamin Wiker is a fundamentalist christian from the Discovery Institute. The summary of his book: All evils are due to Atheists, if someone does evil and claims to be a christian, he is only pretending and is really an atheist, not matter how pious he acts. All the world's problems will be solved if we simply return to fundamentalist christian (and _only_ christian) fantasies. Bring back the Inquisition.
Now you don't have to buy the book.
28 people found this helpful
- Henrik
- 11-10-08
Needs a label
Great title, but a very tiresome listen. This audio needs a clearer stamp describing what it is - a conservative religious swing at the "evils" of godlessness, abortion, homosexuality and women's liberation.
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- shawn
- 03-07-18
Abrasive but succinct
I really enjoyed the listen to this book.
It covered the major though influencing books of the 1900's and 2000's.
I found it quite helpful in overhauling what the book was preaching / teaching.
I think that because I am not American, I could not work out if the author was snarky or being silly / sarcastic.
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Deeply thought provoking
This important book examines where so much pain in society comes from, it shows that ideas, especially those based on flawed science can hurt society. Even if people disagree with some points in this book the overall points are well worth considering.


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The goal of caucase is to automate certificate issuance and renewal without constraining how the certificate will be used.
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- Key pair: A private key and corresponding public key. The public key can be derived from the private key, but not the other way around. As a consequence, the private key is itself considered to be a key pair.
- Certificate: A certificate is the assurante, by a certificate authority, that a given public key and set of attributes belong to an authorised entity. Abbreviated cert or crt. A certificate is by definition signed by a CA.
- Certificate Authority: An entry, arbitrarily trusted (but worthy of trust by its actions and decision) which can issue certificates. Abbreviated CA.
- Certificate signing request: A document produced by an entity desiring to get certified, which they send to a certificate authority. The certificate signing request contains the public key and desired set of attributes that the CA should pronounce itself on. The CA has all liberty to issue a different set of attributes, or to not issue a certificate.
- Certificate revocation list: Lists the certificates which were issued by a CA but which should not be trusted anymore. This can happen for a variety of reasons: the private key was compromised, or its owning entity should not be trusted anymore (ex: entity's permission to access to protected service was revoked).
- PEM: A serialisation mechanism commonly used for various cryptographic data pieces. It relies on base64 so it is 7-bits-safe (unlike DER), and is very commonly supported. Caucase exclusively uses PEM format.
Validity period
Cryptographic keys wear out as are used and as they age.
Of course, they do not bit-rot nor become thinner with use. But each time one uses a key and each minute an attacker had access to a public key, fractions of the private key bits are inevitably leaked, weakening it overall.
So keys must be renewed periodically to preserve intended security level. So there is a limited life span to each certificate, including the ones emitted by caucase.
The unit duration for caucase-emitted certificates is the "normal" certificate life span. It default to 93 days from the moment the certificate was signed, or about 3 months.
Then the CA certificate has a default life span of 4 "normal" certificate validity periods. As CA renewal happens in caucase without x509-level cross signing (by decision, to avoid relying on intermediate CA support on certificate presenter side and instead rely on more widespread multi-CA-certificate support on verifier side), there is a hard lower bound of 3 validity periods, under which the CA certificate cannot be reliably renewed without risking certificate validation issues for emitted "normal" certificates. CA certificate renewal is composed of 2 phases:
- Passive distribution phase: current CA certificate has a remaining life span of less than 2 "normal" certificate life spans: a new CA certificate is generated and distributed on-demand (on "normal" certificate renewal and issuance, on CRL retrieval with caucase tools...), but not used to sign anything.
- Active use phase: new CA certificate is valid for more than one "normal" certificate life span. This means that all existing certificates which are still in active use had to be renewed at least once since the new CA certificate exists. This means all the certificate holders had the opportunity to learn about the new CA certificate. So the new CA certificate starts being used to sign new certificates, and the old CA certificate falls out of use as its signed "normal" certificates expire.
By default, all caucase tools will generate a new private key unrelated to the previous one on each certificate renewal.
Lastly, there is another limited validity period, although not for the same reasons: the list of revoked certificates also has a maximum life span. In caucase, the CRL is re-generated whenever it is requested and:
- there is no previous CRL
- previous CRL expired
- any revocation happened since previous CRL was created
Caucase provides several commands to work with certificates.
Reference caucase "one-shot" client.
This command is intended to be used for isolated actions:
- listing and signing pending certificate signature requests
- revoking certificates
It is also able to submit certificate signing requests, retrieve signed certificates, requesting certificate renewals and updating both CA certificates and revocation lists, but you may be interested in using caucase-updater for this instead.
Reference caucase certificate renewal daemon.
Monitors a key pair, corresponding CA certificate and CRL, and renew them before expiration.
When the key-pair lacks a signed certificate, issues a pre-existing CSR to caucase server and waits for the certificate to be issued.
Caucase server availability tester.
Performs minimal checks to verify a caucase server is available at given URL.
Utility allowing to re-issue a CSR using a locally-generated private key.
Intended to be used in conjunction with caucase-updater when user cannot generate the CSR on the system where the certificate is desired (ex: automated HTTPS server deployment), where user is not the intended audience for caucase-produced certificate:
- User generates a CSR on their own system, and signs it with any key (it will not be needed later
- User sends the CSR to the system where the certificate is desired
- User gets caucase-rerequest to run on this CSR, producing a new private key and a CSR similar to issued one, but signed with this new private key
- From then on, caucase-updater can take over
This way, no private key left their original system, and user could still freely customise certificate extensions.
Utility displaying the identifier of given key, or the identifier of keys involved in given backup file.
Allows identifying users which hold a private key candidate for restoring a caucased backup (see Restoration procedure).
Reference caucase server daemon.
This daemon provides access to both CAU and CAS services over both HTTP and HTTPS.
It handles its own certificate issuance and renewal, so there is no need to use caucase-updater for this service.
caucased implements CORS protection: when receiving a cross-origin request, it will respond with 401 Unauthorized, with the WWW-Authenticate header set to a custom scheme ("cors") with an "url" parameter containing an URI template with one variable field: "return" (more on it later).
Upon receiving this response, the application is expected to render the URL template and redirect the user to resulting URL. There, the user will be informed of the cross-origin access attempt, and offered the choice to grant or deny access to given origin.
Once their decision is made, their browser will receive a cookie remembering this decision, and they will be redirected to the URL received in the "return" field received upon above-described redirection.
Then, the application should retry the original request, which will be accompanied by that cookie.
Loosing the CA private key prevents issuing any new certificate trusted by services which trusted the CA. Also, it prevents issuing any new CRL. Recovering from such total loss requires starting a new CA and rolling it out to all services which used the previous one. This is very time-costly.
So backups are required.
On the other hand, if someone gets their hand on the CA private key, they can issue certificates for themselves, allowing them to authenticate with services trusting the CA managed by caucase - including caucased itself if they issue a user certificate: they can then revoke existing certificates and cause a lot of damage.
So backups cannot happen in clear text, they must be encrypted.
But the danger of encrypted backups is that by definition they become worthless if they cannot be decrypted. So as many (trusted) entities as possible should be granted the ability to decrypt the backups.
The solution proposed by caucased is to encrypt produced backups in a way which allows any of the caucase users to decrypt the archive.
As these users are already entrusted with issuing certificates, this puts only a little more power in their hands than they already have. The little extra power they get is that by having unrestricted access to the CA private key they can issue certificates bypassing all caucase restrictions. The proposed parade is to only make the backups available to a limited subset of caucase users when there is an actual disaster, and otherwise keep it out of their reach. This mechanism is not handled by caucase.
As there are few trusted users, caucase can keep their still-valid certificates in its database for the duration of their validity with minimal size cost.
Backup procedure
Backups happen periodically as long as caucased is running. See --backup-period and --backup-directory.
As discussed above, produced files should be kept out of reach of caucase users until a disaster happens.
Restoration procedure
See caucased-manage --restore-backup.
To restore, one of the trusted users must voluntarily compromise their own private key, providing it to the administrator in charge of the restoration procedure. Restoration procedure will hence immediately revoke their certificate. They must also provide a CSR generated with a different private key, so that caucase can provide them with a new certificate, so they keep their access only via different credentials.
- admin identifies the list of keys which can decipher a backup, and broadcasts that list to key holders
- key holders manifest themselves
- admin picks a key holder, requests them to provide their existing private key and to generate a new key and accompanying CSR
- key holder provide requested items
- admin initiates restoration with --restore-backup and provides key holder with replacement certificate
- admin starts caucased, service is back online.
Backup file format
- 64bits: 'caucase0' magic string
- 32bits LE: header length
- header: json-encoded header (see below)
- encrypted byte stream (aka payload)
Header schema (inspired from s/mime, but s/mime tools available do not support at least iterative production or iterative generation):
{ "description": "Caucase backup header", "required": ["algorithm", "key_list"], "properties": { "cipher": { "description": "Symetric ciher used for payload", "required": ["name"], "properties": { "name": "enum": ["aes256_cbc_pkcs7_hmac_10M_sha256"], "type": "string" }, "parameter": { "description": "Name-dependend clear cipher parameter (ex: IV)", "type": "string" } } "type": "object" }, "key_list": { "description": "Content key, encrypted with public keys", "minItems": 1, "items": { "required": ["id", "cipher", "key"], "properties": { "id": { "description": "Hex-encoded sha1 hash of the public key", "type": "string" }, "cipher": { "description": "Asymetric cipher used for symetric key", "required": ["name"], "properties": { "name": { "enum": ["rsa_oaep_sha1_mgf1_sha1"], "type": "string" } }, "type": "object" } "key": { "description": "Hex-encoded encrypted concatenation of signing and symetric encryption keys", "type": "string" } }, "type": "object" }, "type": "array" } }, "type": "object" }


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US-Mexico relations are never simple or care-free. But rising drug violence concentrated in Mexico's border communities and Arizona's new anti-illegal-immigration law provide a particularly difficult backdrop for Mexican President Felipe Calderón's state visit to Washington Wednesday.
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will be all smiles when they greet President Calderón and Mexican first lady Margarita Zavala for a full day's visit, which includes a press conference, State Department lunch, and a White House state dinner.
The Obamas are having guest chef Rick Bayless from their favorite Mexican restaurant in Chicago, Topolobambo, prepare the evening meal.
But the festivities won't be able to cover over tensions in the relationship, including US concerns about corruption in the Mexican security forces and Obama's failure to resolve a controversy over a NAFTA provision to allow Mexican trucks on US highways.
Compared to the last state visit by a Mexican president – when "Jorge" Bush received Vicente Fox in 2001 – the atmosphere today is considerably darker, many experts say.
"In 2001 there was real optimism, you had this sense of democracy blooming in Mexico and a sense in Washington that the post-cold-war adjustments were allowing the US to focus on the hemisphere, and both developments were encouraging people to think big thoughts about the relationship," says Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in Washington.
'Difficult and vexing issues'
"But today there's an absence of big ideas, and instead we're focused on managing some very difficult and vexing issues," he adds. "There's a more somber, pragmatic tone to relations."
One of the "big ideas" that Mr. Fox brought north with him in September 2001 was that of a North American community that would eventually include the free movement of people. Those days seem especially distant after years of border fence construction and now Arizona's law tasking local police with questioning and detaining suspected illegal immigrants.
Neither president will be happy with the way the Arizona law has thrust immigration back on to the binational agenda, Mr. Farnsworth says. But he adds that the new "pragmatism" he senses also means that both sides may be ready to come up with some new practical solutions to respective worries about the border. The US wants to see a drop in the number of people crossing north, and Mexico wants to stop the flow of illegal weapons south – weapons that too often are arming Mexico's violent drug cartels.
The Obama administration is seeking to focus attention on the promise of new economic development and cooperation to help address the immigration issue. The White House also trumpets how it has sought to redirect the $1.3 billion Merida Initiative, first signed with Mexico by the Bush administration, away from providing military hardware to "building strong and resilient communities" in Mexico's border states.
A senior administration official said Tuesday in previewing Calderón's visit that Obama is focused on a "four-pronged strategy" for addressing the rising drug-related violence focused in Mexico's border states that includes disrupting the operations of the drug-trafficking organizations; strengthening institutions including local law enforcement and the judiciary; creating a "more efficient" border than encourages economic development; and community development.
But some prominent experts in US-Mexico relations say that no amount of cooperation and mutual respect is going to make a difference until Mexico changes fundamentally, both politically and socially.
"I don't imagine my views will be the most popular at the State Department lunch," says George Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., who is on the guest list for Wednesday's lunch with Calderón. "But the future of Mexico lies in Mexico, and it's not the United States that is going to save or doom its neighbor."
Glimmers of hope
Some glimmers of hope have shone through in recent years, Mr. Grayson says.
For example, he points to the professionalism and growing capacity of Mexico's Navy (as opposed to the Army, he adds) to take on the drug cartels. But he insists that until Mexico's elites shoulder more of the responsibility for their country's growth and progress – by paying rather than evading taxes, and by demanding sound education and healthcare systems that will promote economic growth – Mexico's fundamental problems will not be addressed.
"The elites are used to the US coming to the rescue and acting as Mexico's safety net so they don't have to face their responsibilities," Grayson says, pointing to a border that has worked as a migratory "safety valve" for decades and the 1994 rescue from the peso collapse. "It's time now for a dose of tough love in the relationship."
But does he expect Obama, who has not shied away in other foreign venues from a theme of responsibility, to mention the perspective with Calderón? "Ni una palabra," he says with a chuckle. "Not a word."
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Excerpts from a lecture by Yogi Bhajan, February 5, 1991, Los Angeles, California
In life the third chakra is yes and no. High and low is balanced at the third chakra. It is a point of pure energy. If you do not know to balance the third chakra, you may have all the degrees, all the knowledge, all the money, all the beauty, but you shall be unhappy. Because it is not what you feel, it is not what you know, it is not what you can do—it is how you can balance it. When you cannot balance, you cannot live.
Now you think, "I can balance." Not true. This is how the human brain works: as you hear, you should balance it. As you say, you should balance it. You can't do it later. The capacity of the body has to balance it.
The inner ear has three bones. There are two bones and one hammer on both sides. What I say, you don't hear. The center of understanding in our body's nervous system is controlled by the navel point. So your eyes, ears, tongue, and throat are controlled by the navel point. Whatever you hear, whatever you see, and whatever you say is controlled by this navel point. If the navel point pulse is felt a little above the navel point, it means diarrhea. If it is a little below, constipation. If it is on the left side, gas. If it is on the right, burp. And all it has to be off is one millimeter. If the navel point is one millimeter off, your entire digestive system, your feelings--you are not you.
Then you go to the doctor and take the medicine. What does medicine do? It suppresses the symptoms, calms down the nervous system. But the problem doesn't go away. Sometimes your arm hurts, sometimes your shoulder hurts. Eighty percent of headaches are because of the navel point. Ninety percent of the time you get tired because of the navel point.
Your entire nervous system is controlled by it. "What did you say?" "You heard me." "Yeah, but I don't understand." Navel imbalance. You hear but you don't hear. What was that? You see, but you don't see. The tragedy is that if you do not know how to balance in your third chakra automatically, you can't do it later. Game is over. That is the tragedy of it.
Awaken the Kundalini. To awaken the Kundalini means all hundred facets of pressure are automatically balanced by you. Then serious things are balanced. You enjoy life. You cut through it. You are intuitive. You know it. It is not like a watch and you have to wind the third chakra up and when the spring is full you can enjoy it. This doesn't work that way. It has to be invoked, initiated, and it has to be automatic. What is the benefit? The benefit is that you can't be beaten once it is on.
God doesn't get angry with anybody. God doesn't take revenge from anybody. God doesn't deny anybody. One who denies another person has nothing to do with God. Denial is not God. But where is the courage in us to accept this whole thing? Here, at the third center. We can be totally unique, perfect. Our presence can work. We can be beautiful without any setup and charge if we have our third center working for us.
Is there anything you do to enjoy life? Because none of you have a balanced observation. You cannot observe and think and then balance. You eat honey. You get the taste spontaneously. You eat red chilies. You get the taste spontaneously. So is life. You get the taste of life spontaneously. Does it turn in the brain? No. Does it turn in the hips? No. Is it done by the skin and the senses? No. Balance is observed at the third center. The brain only magnifies it.
Actually without the activity of this point, everybody lives in a dungeon. Life means nothing. Then we have a substitute--sensations, drama, trauma, problems, magnitude, mind—we play games. You know why we are a slave to our mind? Because this navel point doesn't balance life. So then we start thinking, why? Why is as high as the sky. There is no answer to that why. It is a fun. It is a blind run. Everybody's life is a blind run.
That infinity, that God, that purity, that power, that pure power is in your navel point. You can't buy it, you can't sell it, and I cannot give it to you. But I give you technological knowledge from which you can initiate it. So it will start working for you. What will that mean? I am not saying there will be no problems. I am not saying there will be no rush. I am not saying there will be no scandals. I am not saying anything but you will be untouched. You can sit like a lotus in the muddy waters and enjoy life. That is the power of the third chakra. It gives you instant, infinite experience of your life. No time can measure it.
© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan 1991


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Great photo! There's such a clear feeling that they're ready to get back to whatever they were doing before they were corralled and told to just sit still for a moment.
You know what? I can definitely see the family resemblance between you and your dad! He was a very good looking boy.
It's interesting to see him in knickers at 13 years. My father commented about how long it took him to get out of short pants but never mentioned how old he was. Perhaps he was 13, too....
Nancy and Susan - Thank you for your comments!
Susan - You are right. They do look like they are ready to take off at any minute! This is the only early family photo I have of them, and the more I think about it I wonder if it was a special occasion of some kind with everyone dressed up and then having their photo taken.
Nancy thank you! Most people think I look exactly like my mom, but I do think there are some similarities between me and my dad. Most people don't notice, but you must have a good eye for details! As for the knickers, my dad's family had very little money, so I suspect they were hand-me-downs from another sibling. They all look dressed up for some reason, so my dad may have had to wear whatever fit. Interesting observation though. Your comment made me think about the photo a little differently.


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One of the main reasons Baltimore MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blakeprovided for her effort to move the city's primary elections from their current off-year schedule to the presidential election cycle was the idea that it would help boost turnout. The idea, which has been floating around Baltimore and the General Assembly for years, gained significant traction this year in the wake of record-low turnout in the 2011 mayoral primary. Only about 22 percent of eligible voters cast ballots then.
In light of what happened on Tuesday, Ms. Rawlings-Blake might want to rethink her position. Provisional and absentee ballots from the presidential race have yet to be counted, so these figures will change slightly, but the preliminary results show that of the 323,000 city residents eligible to cast ballots for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees this week, fewer than 45,000 did so. That's 14 percent.
That is not to say that the city should leave its election alone. Holding separate balloting is a significant waste of money — it costs Baltimore about $3.7 million — and this week's election is a significant outlier. The Democratic presidential primary was uncontested, and the Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives were only barely so. The only race of real significance on the ballot was the Republican presidential primary, and there are so few registered Republicans in Baltimore that they are a mere blip in the turnout statistics. (Curiously, Republican turnout in the city was even lower than the overall figure at a little less than 13 percent.)
However, Tuesday's results underscore the point that presidential primaries do not inherently spark significant interest among Baltimore voters. Over the last three decades, turnout in gubernatorial primaries has, on average, been better than for presidential primaries in Baltimore. Tuesday's dismal showing will only widen the disparity.
Unfortunately, Ms. Rawlings-Blake's support for the presidential cycle has very nearly made the shift a fait accompli. Based largely on her advocacy, both the House of Delegates and state Senate have passed a bill that would set Baltimore's next primary in 2016. All that remains is for Gov.Martin O'Malley to sign the bill, and he said this week that he would be inclined to do so if that is Ms. Rawlings-Blake's wish. If maximizing participation in city elections is actually Ms. Rawlings-Blake's major concern, she should reverse her position and ask Mr. O'Malley to veto the bill. He has until Monday to do so.
The question of turnout should be crucial in this discussion because none of the other reasons proffered for switching to the presidential cycle is a worthy basis for public policy. A spokesman for the mayor this week said it is proper for the city to have its elections at a different time than the state's counties, which hold their elections at the same time as the governor's race, because "cities are different." Perhaps at a time when Maryland revolved entirely around Baltimore, that was true. But those days are long gone. Holding an election at a different time than the counties select their executives and councils does not appear to create an atmosphere of focused attention on city issues. Instead, it has led to apathy.
It also increases the likelihood that the city will be run at times by people the voters did not elect. Because elections for city and state office are held at different times, Baltimore politicians are able to run for state offices or state politicians for city offices, without giving up their seats. That means that when they are successful — as in the cases of Govs. O'Malley and William Donald Schaefer — someone is appointed to fill their terms. Baltimore politicians like that fact and have fought to keep things that way. It's good for them, but it's bad for voters.
There is no rush to address the city's election calendar this year. Baltimore voters are not set to go to the polls again until 2015, which gives lawmakers plenty of time to adopt state Sen. Nathaniel McFadden's sensible proposal to hold one city election on the presidential cycle in 2016 (giving the current incumbents, including Ms. Rawlings-Blake, an extra year in office) and thereafter on the gubernatorial cycle, starting in 2018. Alternatively, the city could hold one more off-year election in 2015 and then switch to the gubernatorial cycle in 2018. That has the disadvantage of costing the city financially but the advantage of making sure no officials hold office for a longer or shorter term than voters bargained for.
It's not too late to stop what would likely be a lasting mistake. Governor O'Malley should veto this legislation and come back next year with a plan that actually achieves the goal of fostering greater turnout for Baltimore elections.


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In the classroom, McLaurin is a two-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree and has been named to the OU Dean's Honor Roll (3.50-3.99 GPA) four times and the OU President's Honor Roll (4.00) once.
She served as an intern with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes this past summer and was a coach for children in Sunday school weekly throughout the summer. During the 2012-13 academic year, McLaurin volunteered at a local elementary school and is continuing that into the 2013 season. She served as a volleyball coach at a foster kids day camp in California, with Sooner Jr, an OU Athletics Department initiative that sends student-athletes into schools and other youth organizations to talk about being healthy, exercise and staying disciplined in school. She worked with special needs kids through the annual Big Event volunteer effort on the OU campus, as a food packer for the homeless at local organization, Feed the Children and at a summer camp in 2013, helping children improve volleyball skills as they grew their relationship with God.
On the court, McLaurin was named a Third Team All-America by AVCA following the 2012 season and an Honorable Mention after 2011. She enters her final season in Norman with 913 kills, ranking fourth most among active players in the Big 12. McLaurin was a 2012 All-Big 12 First Team member and garnered the conference's Defensive Player of the Year award in 2011 and Freshman of the Year award in 2010.
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Tampa Joins Urgent Call for National Action on Climate Change
City Council Asks Federal Government to Protect Florida From Extreme Weather, Rising Seas
TAMPA, Fla.— Tampa has joined more than 20 other U.S. cities in urging national leaders to use the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to head off catastrophic climate change. The city council, in passing a resolution Thursday, is the latest city to join the Center for Biological Diversity's national Clean Air Cities campaign.
"Climate change is a grave threat to the economy and environment of Tampa Bay, so the city council is urging the federal government to take immediate action through the Clean Air Act," said Mary Mulhern, the Tampa city councilmember who led the effort to pass the resolution. "We're proud to join almost two dozen other cities in urging the Environmental Protection Agency to move swiftly. Reducing greenhouse gas pollution will help protect South Florida's tourism and agricultural industries from sea-level rise and extreme weather."
"By passing this resolution, Tampa recognizes the gravity of the global climate crisis and supports one key solution: the Clean Air Act," said Rose Braz, the Center's climate campaign director. "Cities around the country, from Seattle to Pittsburgh, have spoken out with an urgent message to our national leaders. To avert a climate catastrophe, we need to act now."
South Florida is particularly vulnerable to climate change, which could harm citrus crops, flood coastal areas and damage beaches and other environmental treasures that sustain the tourism industry. Florida has 1,200 miles of coastline, and more than 75 percent of the state's population lives in coastal counties.
Tampa Bay's sea level has been rising steadily for more than 50 years, according to tidal gauge information. Rising sea levels and retreating shorelines will leave the Tampa Bay area more vulnerable to hurricanes, and salt water intrusion from sea-level rise could endanger aquifers used for water supplies, according to a 2008 report from the Governor's Action Team on Energy and Climate Change.
The Center's Clean Air Cities campaign is working with volunteers around the country to encourage cities to pass resolutions supporting the Clean Air Act and using the Act to reduce carbon in our atmosphere to no more than 350 parts per million, the level scientists say is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Similar resolutions have been approved in Pinecrest, Fla.; Cincinnati and Oberlin, Ohio; Seattle, Wash.; Kansas City, Mo.; Albany, N.Y.; Tucson, Ariz.; Boone, N.C.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Santa Fe, N.M.; Cambridge, Mass.; Madison and Milwaukee, Wis., and Arcata, Richmond, Berkeley, Oxnard, Santa Cruz and Santa Monica, Calif. Several other cities around the country will be considering resolutions over the next few months.
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Every week -- often with your help -- FOOD52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: Cucumbers evade heavy brines and thick cream dressings, and find a brighter future.
When it gets hot, the cucumbers come out to play. (And not a moment too soon -- last week, the sky was so hot over New York that it literally exploded.)
So often we forget to celebrate the sweet traits of cucumbers, their clean taste and unflagging pep, and we turn them into little more than a crunchy vehicle for vinegary brines or creamy dressings. Those can be delicious, but cucumbers have a flavor too, one that can be glossed up without paving over.In Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford -- authors of six cookbooks born from their travels through Asia -- published a genius recipe that does just that.
I learned about this understated salad from food writer Lauren Shockey, who knows a few things about traipsing through Asia collecting recipes herself. "It differs from other cucumber salads primarily in the light oily dressing that coats the vegetables. It's still light, but has that sort of glistening slickness to it as well, whereas most cucumber salads are stoic and all vinegar, or are leadened with mayo," Shockey explains. "This falls somewhere right in the middle." Want to see? Here's how it comes together, in not much more time than it takes to slice a cucumber.
You peel your cucumber in zebra stripes and seed it if you like, then crush it lightly to breach its defenses and allow the dressing to filter in. Duguid and Alford say to bash it with the side of a knife, and how you interpret "bash" will depend on your priorities: fun vs. cleanup. I have a tiny, cluttered kitchen, and although I like attacking things, I find enough wayward clumps of food on the walls. A slow, nonchalant lean against the side of a knife works too.
From there, the dressing happens in two stages: first, a sprinkling of rice vinegar and sugar.
Then a wok-fired chili oil that clangs with three kinds of pepper: Sichuan, dried red chiles, and fresh serrano. You pour it on while it's still sizzling and the cucumbers drink it in.
Cilantro tumbles in too and the cucumbers are officially surrounded by bright splashy flavors, none so much to steal the show.
You can eat it right away -- with some grilled fish or lamb with cumin, perhaps -- or it can sit around in the fridge for a few days as a mellow pickle to snack on. It'll stay crunchy. It's also good for tempering spicier food -- the rush of cold cucumber helps you keep going when your Gong Bao Chicken is making you pant and sweat.
Either way, don't forget -- cucumbers just want to have fun. And look how much fun they're having!
Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid's Spicy Cucumber Salad
Adapted very slightly from Hot Sour Salty Sweet (Artisan Books, 2000)
Serves 4 as a salad or as one of many dishes in a rice meal
1 large or 2 medium European cucumbers 2 tablespoons rice vinegar (if using seasoned rice vinegar, omit the sugar)1 tablespoon sugar2 tablespoons peanut or vegetable oil5 Thai dried chiles, or 3 for milder heat1/2 jalapeno, minced 7 Sichuan peppercorns1/2 teaspoon salt1/4 cup packed torn cilantro leaves
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We just listed our new stock of Nashua Snowbird, a soft aran weight wool and alpaca blend, at our website. We thought you may like to have some free patterns for this great yarn. Hope you like the patterns that we picked:
Cropped Hoodie Cardigan is knit with Nashua Snowbird and it is an easy pattern that comes in S/M/L/XL sizes. This pattern is knit with two strands of yarn held together. The jacket shown combines two colors (hot pink & red), but you can knit it with the same color held double. For each size the pattern calls for 16/18/20/22 skeins of Snowbird. To download the free pattern for this jacket go to CARDI. Please be patient, this is a larger file and may take extra time to download.
Bobble Trim Pullover comes in S/M/L/XL and uses 12/13/15/16 skeins for each size. This is an easy project that is quick to knit. To download the free pattern for this pullover go to PAGE 1 and PAGE 2.
Kimono Jacket with Ties comes in S/M/L/XL/XXL sizes and uses 15/16/17/19/21 skeins of Snowbird. We like the detail of this cute jacket, both in the front and the back. To download the free pattern for this jacket please go to PAGE 1 and PAGE 2.
Chevron Scarf and Hat is for those of us who are looking for smaller projects. Chevron Hat uses 2 skeins of Snowbird and the scarf calls for 6 skeins. To download the free pattern for this scarf and hat set please go to Chevron Hat & Scarf.
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gay dolly fansA place for all the other posts that couldn''t find a home. This is the topic without a topic. Discuss...
gay dolly fans
hey all just wanted to know if theres any gay dolly fans out there .who just love dolly like i do . my girlfriend just dosent like dolly
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*waves* I know exactly how you feel, I drive my girlfriend nuts with all of my Dolly music/posters/ pictures/ movies/ ect., and especially all of the trips to Tennesse.
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it great to have someone who feels the same
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Diane, Dolly has a TON of gay fans. Come to think of it, are they ANY STRAIGHT fans left out there these days? lol I'd say at least half of the Dolly fans I know out there are gay, and that's being modest.
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Im straight lol, come to think of it, i don't actually know any gay Dolly fans. That's kinda bizarre huh?
'We walk it each step of the way with the dust of the rugged road clinging to our bare feet. Although we seldom realise it at the time, that dust is more precious to us than gold dust' Dolly Parton
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I'm bi so that sorta counts. Haha oooh OK now picture this:
Dolly in an erotic santa costume
isn't that bizarrely hot? Lmfao
~ Vickye ~
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that's damned hot ! It floats my boat.
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I'm straight
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just because a person is gay makes them no different. they are no worse or better people due to the fact that they are gay. it is kind of bizzare that a lot of Dolly's fans are gay, oh well! i still like them and her just the same!!!
" I'm a little too good to be real bad, and I'm a little too bad to be real good!"
----Dolly Parton
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I don't think it's TOO bizarre that gays would love Dolly. For one, she's always been VERY accepting of people, no matter what their skin color is, no matter who they love, where they come from, which god they do or don't worship, etc. Secondly, she's always been so real and honest when it comes to everything, despite her outward appearance. Like she says in the title track from Backwoods Barbie, "I may look artificial, but where it counts, I'm real." Third, she's a woman who doesn't take crap from anyone and doesn't kiss ass or care what anyone thinks, and we love that. And finally, the most stereotypical reason of all, her hair, makeup, and wardrobe. I know not all gays are obsessed with divas' hair and makeup and wardrobe, but it'd be foolish to deny a lot of us are. I know her fashion sense and image are part of why I love her, besides her talent and all the other stuff I mentioned.
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Automobiles are not a mode of human transportation. They are a mode of information transportation.
The people that move inside of cars are unimportant. People live everywhere. A few more here or a few more there makes no big difference. What cars do change is that they allow people to bring what they know with them. In the 19th century, our best way of getting ideas out were letters and maybe a train ticket if we had money. People didn't learn very much about strangers from distant areas of the country, let alone of the world. The car changed that.
Cars bring together strangers and their different ideas, sometimes in surprising and hilarious ways. Right after Ben told us how he lived in an RV down by the river, Hadaken told us his story of RV living, and the strangers he met, including one man he who he knew for years before ever learning that he was a professional Nascar driver.
Living in an RV can be great. I did it for a few years while working in Charlotte, NC for a bank. I had my monster bitch parked right across the street from Lowes Motor Speedway (Charlotte Motor Speedway). My RV looked respectable, even though it was a utilitarian 'expedition style' RV meant for boondocking for months while transporting a vehicle in the back garage. I was usually granted access to the 'nice' RV parks. You know, the kind where only motorcoaches with names like Prevost, MCI, and Mobile Mansions are allowed. I also would occasionally slum it when I was on the road. Pull into a KOA, or just find a truck stop and pull in for the night.
You meet lots of people, some are the dregs of society, some are down on their luck, some are just people who love freedom. I hung out with NASCAR drivers, promoters, random race 'fans' and their incredible mountains of trash, and made awesome food. I hid from tornadoes, hail storms, and snow. There were days when my AC systems couldn't keep the thing under 80, and there were days when I woke up and had no water because it was 0F outside. I knew Greg Biffle for two years before I even learned he was a NASCAR driver. We ate BBQ together a few times. I thought he was on the pit crew. We got a good laugh out of that. One Thanksgiving, I pulled into a rest area after driving 600 miles. I setup my cooking gear, and deep fried a turkey, made some mash potatoes, and cooked some bread. I was carving it up and going to refrigerate the leftovers, but ended up sharing it with about 5 truckers who were on the road. Every one of them told me how they had been divorced, or how they were separated. Their jobs had destroyed the families they were trying to support. We watched football and retired to our respective vehicles. A year later I met one of the guys again, I had thrown/torn my alternator belts and was down on the side of the road. He loaned me a spare belt and we made it to the truck stop up the road where I bought a belt for him and finished fixing my rig.
I also heard horror stories about the little RVs. The Ford and Chevrolet gassers that would get 4 or 6 or MAYBE 9mpg. They would be floored when they heard mine got 9.4mpg, being ~40 feet long and powered by a 500hp Cummins. How those gassers couldn't make it up I40 outside of Ashville (mountain climb), or that they were in that park because they couldn't afford to pay someone to replace the alternator. I rebuilt their alt for them for 18 bucks, they were too old to do the labor and a shop wanted 300 bucks+tow. I heard stories about people who lost their homes, and now were a 4 person family with a dog living in a 16 footer. it was an interesting, and enriching phase in my life.
If you get the chance some day, go on a big trip in an RV. Do it for 2 or 3 months. Even if you hitch up a teardrop, and go explore. (Don't ACTUALLY do a teardrop, trust me, you want a toilet and a shower, preferably with hot water.)
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The design of this birdhouse is inspired by the infamous Death Star from Star Wars. It looks just like the evil empire's battle station, only it's a much smaller version of it. It doesn't have the power to nuke planets from a distance, but it will provide a relatively comfortable home for birds who are seeking shelter.
The Death Star birdhouse is made from high-quality ceramic and it comes with one wire hanger so you can put it up wherever you want to, right out of the box. The diameter of the birdhouse measures 13.5 centimeters, which makes it just about right for the birds that might be visiting and frolicking around your garden.
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Student fee hike means $900K more for UNM athletics
University of New Mexico athletics will get a $900,000 bump next school year from increased student fees.
According to the university, students next year will pay about $165 each for athletics, which is a $33 increase. Overall athletics gets $4 million next year.
Vice President of Athletics Paul Krebs told reporters that's a lot less than most university athletic programs get. UNM's president Robert Frank said it's all part of plan to improve the university overall.
"We're at the bottom of the nation. If we don't do something we will remain at the bottom of the nation," Frank said.
Some students said they couldn't rationalize the increase.
"Athletics are good, but education is more important, I think," Thomas Duran said.
Krebs also said the New Mexico Lobos are at the bottom of the barrel in relation to the teams it's competing against, and it would be difficult to maintain a championship caliber program without an increase.


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Meringue Ice Cream Torte
"This recipe looks a little long, but it really isn't complicated," relates Alice Christmas of Statesboro, Georgia. "The sweet result is certainly worth the effort."
Total TimePrep: 50 min. Bake: 2 hours + freezing
Makes14-16 servings
- 3 egg whites
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 package (12 ounces) frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 quart coffee ice cream, softened
- 1-1/3 cups sliced almonds, toasted
- 1 quart chocolate chip ice cream, softened
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- Fresh raspberries
- Place egg whites in a small bowl. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper; draw three 8-1/2-in. circles on paper.
- Beat egg whites and cream of tartar on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high until stiff glossy peaks form and sugar is dissolved. Drop meringue in mounds onto circles; spread to cover.
- Bake at 250° for 1-1/4 hours or until set. Turn oven off; leave meringues in oven for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and cool on baking sheets. When completely cooled, remove meringues from paper.
- Drain raspberries, reserving juice. Set berries aside. Add enough water to juice to measure 1/2 cup. In a small saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch. Stir in maple syrup and juice mixture until smooth. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat; gently stir in reserved berries. Cool.
- To assemble, place one meringue in a 10-in. springform pan. Spread with coffee ice cream; sprinkle with a third of the almonds. Top with a second meringue. Spread with chocolate chip ice cream; sprinkle with a third of the almonds. Top with remaining meringue. Cover and freeze overnight.
- In a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add sugar and almond extract; beat until stiff peaks form. Remove torte from freezer; carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen. Remove side of pan. Frost with whipped cream.
- Garnish with fresh raspberries and remaining almonds. Cover and freeze for at least 2 hours. Remove from the freezer for 20 minutes before serving. Serve with raspberry sauce.
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Amendment 66: All Colorado kids deserve the same chance to succeed
By Carol Hedges
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Amendment 66 is about improving schools in Colorado, and all of us benefit when kids get a good education and go on to succeed in life. They earn and spend more money. Their increased productivity and buying power creates jobs and more opportunity for economic success.
Right now, Colorado adults are not doing our best for Colorado kids. Our investment in their education is the lowest of any of our surrounding states. We rank 41st nationally in expenditures per student, according to recently corrected data on per pupil spending from the National Education Association.
Despite this lack of investment, our teachers are doing their best to make sure no kids are being left behind. The achievement gap for Latinos, low income, and English language learning students has been shrinking. Student performance in math and reading has been improving. In fact, Colorado students taking the SAT have a higher mean score than kids in 38 other states.
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Aug. 31, 2007
The Lipscomb men's and women's cross country teams begin the 2007 season at the Belmont Opener this Friday evening.
Both races are at Vaughn's Gap in Percy Warner Park with the women's 4-K starting at 5:30, and the men's 5-K to follow at 6.
"We are excited to get the season underway and see where we are," said head coach Bill Taylor. "Practices have been solid and the team has really bonded well.
"t will be nice to get out there and race against someone. It's also an advantage to open the season with a short race on our home course. We will be hosting the A-Sun Conference Championships at Vaughn's Gap on October 27th, so catching an early race there is an advantage."
In 2006 the Lipscomb Women opened the season with a 7th place finish out of twelve teams at the Belmont Opener, while the men finished 6th out of eleven teams.


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Smooth Div Scroll is a jQuery plugin that scrolls content horizontally left or right.
Smooth Touch Scroll has just been released!
I have just released Smooth Touch Scroll, a slim touch version of Smooth Div Scroll. If Smooth Div Scroll is the Swiss Army Knife of smooth scrolling, Smooth Touch Scroll is the lightweight cousin, slimmed down and geared towards touch scrolling. Smooth Touch Scroll will still work on desktop computers that don't have touch (using drag scrolling) but it's primarily for touch devices.
Check out Smooth Touch Scroll att smoothtouchsroll.com
Consider using Smooth Touch Scroll if you don't need the full functionality of Smooth Div Scroll and if your content is primarily for touch devices.
Main features
- Works on touch devices like iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones.
- Smooth scrolling - no distinct steps.
- Endless loops, if you want.
- Many different scrolling methods: touch, hot spots, mouse wheel och auto scrolling. Or combinations of these!
- Make any type of content scrollable, not just images.
- Easing options for a smoother scrolling experience.
Apart from many of the other scrolling plugins that have been written for jQuery, Smooth Div Scroll does not limit the scrolling to distinct steps. As the name of the plugin hints, scrolling is smooth. There are no other buttons or links on outside the scroller since the scrolling is done using your fingers (touch), hotspots, the mouse wheel or via auto scrolling. Unobtrusive and smooth is the key here.
Table of contents
- How does it work?
- Quick demo
- Basic demo (use as template)
- Download/GitHub
- More examples!
- Options
- Altering options after initialization
- Public methods
- Callbacks
- The CSS
- Dependencies
- Help, support and newsletter
- Version history and license
- About me
- Nice sites that use Smooth Div Scroll
- If you like this plugin
How does it work?
The basic principle behind Smooth Div Scroll is simple: let one div (scrollableArea) scroll inside another div (scrollWrapper). Two hotspots are used to trigger the actual scrolling (scrollingHotSpotLeft and scrollingHotSpotRight). You can also let the user scroll using touch, the mouse wheel or just let the scroller auto scroll. The scrollWrapper determines how much of the scrollableArea that should be visible - everything outside the scrollWrapper is hidden from view.
Quick demo
Here's a quick demo of Smooth Div Scroll in action. I've set the options so the user can scroll using the hotspots or the mouse wheel . I've also told the scroller to start auto scrolling as soon as the page loads and stop auto scrolling as soon as the user interacts with the scoller. Touch scrolling is not enabled for this particular demo - check out the touch demo if you want to try touch scrolling.
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman! In this tutorial I will be showing you "how to draw Superman", step by step which is one of America's favorite super heroes. Created in 1932 by a writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, Superman was sold to D.C Comics. In 1938 Superman made his first appearance in Action Comics #1 as well as various radio, television, and movie spots. Superman is one of my favorite heroes and I thought to myself I should make a tutorial on how to draw him. I did first sketch him out on a sheet of sketching paper and used a regular sketch pencil. I gave superman a modern look as we all see him now in cartoons, appose to the earlier images of this boy wonder. He may look hard to draw but really, it's pretty simple. Drawing superman has a lot of line work that you will see in this tutorial, but if you have a steady hand and some patience you should be able to pull it off just fine. Remember make him look good because as you know Clark Kent and Superman have a crush on the same girl, Louis Lane and we all know who she wants more. You can give him a back ground if you like that is totally up to you, I added some color. Well have fun drawing this chiseled stud from krypton, and remember the more muscle the better. I promise that learning "how to draw Superman" is going to be a lot funner than you think.
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