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Astrology simply cannot be about lists. A list of qualities is an attempt to extrapolate something that is innate and this is fundamentally why there is no better adjective to describe the quality of Saturn than Saturnine. We can use approximations that flesh out this fundamental and core energy such as thoughtful, austere, serious and so forth, but the true understanding of any placement lies in a realm somewhat above the language that is used to describe it; it is (as someone once said about the objective of poetry) attempting to describe the indescribable.
It is for precisely this reason that I wish to underline the key insight that best illustrates the quality of a sign placement, we have to look to people to truly apprehend the meaning of astrology; words fail us, and not necessarily because we have a poor facility for language. Language fails us, in fact, because the thing we are trying to describe is somehow too profound to be grasped intellectually. We need to simply feel it.
Thus, today, I am going to post the first part of an understanding about Saturn. There will be no list of qualities, simply an example of Saturn in each of the signs using the three most urgent expressions of any planetary energy or focus: rising, peregrine or conjunct the Sun. Of course there is a subtle difference between the three which bears examination.
- A rising planet modifies the appearance and initial manner of relating; it is the quality of first impression that is made by the native.
- A peregrine planet is an overwhelming force in the native's life, often it will run away with the entire chart. The impetus can be quite compulsive and overwhelming and often creates an overpowering sense of purpose in the life expression.
- A solar conjunction creates a self-ideal, the native strives to express this quality, not in an unconscious manner like the rising planet, actually in a rather self-conscious manner. It is how they wish to be perceived.
Thus John Voight appears as Saturn in Aries, Kylie is on a mission to embody it and Sir David Frost consciously aims to express it. Saturn is in fall in Aries, but somehow it works rather well (and this would be, in my opinion because Mars is exalted in Capricorn which rules Saturn, thus there is a route to exaltation even in a sign of detriment.) The opposition to Sun in Libra bears some examination too (I wrote about this before) since the mutual reception by exaltation contains some measure of promise (Hugh Jackman, Emily Procter).
Saturn in Taurus is not so easy to find good examples for: Nancy Kerrigan, the Olympic figure skater was famously clubbed in the knee by rival Tonya Harding and almost lost her place in the 1994 Winter Olympic trials as a result. Saturn of course rules the knees in the physical body. No coincidence. The opposition to Sun in Scorpio is shared by Tom Conti and Roy Rogers.
Once again, consider the qualities of each of these individuals in terms of appearance and first impression (in the case of Mick Jagger), in the life purpose with Jim Morrison (and Jimmy Page who also evinced Saturn peregrinated in Gemini) and in a more conscious attempt at self-realisation with Malcolm McDowell. Jimi Hendrix had the Solar opposition.
Thus with Saturn in Cancer: David Beckham has the appearance and manner of it, George Bush has made a mission out of it (protection of the homeland) and Danny Glover – who plays the serious and responsible (Saturn) family man (Cancer) role opposite offbeat and unpredictable Mel Gibson in the Lethal Weapon movie franchise so well, consciously aims for it.
Thus, James Woods, who is somehow so very serious and yet showy all at once has an almost perfectly Saturn in Leo appearance and manner. Barry Gibb has peregrinated Saturn in Leo and also peregrinated Sun in Virgo, and his picture is an almost perfect exposition of Virgo and Leo taken to the extreme. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the other hand is determined to express that combination of Sun and Saturn (doubly so by rulership and conjunction), so little wonder that he wants to assume a position of regal authority.
Finally we have Virgo: which evinces a similarly neat ambience, a rather thorough and detail focused persona or manner.
Whilst looking to all of these examples gives considerable insight into the sign quality of each, they all share a common saturnine thread, for the most part every one of these individuals, with Saturn stressed, prominent or powerful in some sense, evinces a measure of seriousness or gravitas in their demeanour and for this reason they will all struggle to appear especially youthful. The one real exception to this is found in the case of peregrinated Saturn in Aries which in old age (Saturn) gives a propensity to youth (Aries). This quality (peregrinated too) is shared by Twiggy, the British model, who in her 60s has become something of an icon for older women due entirely to her remarkably youthful appearance and demeanour.
I will continue this article with the remaining 6 signs in a future instalment.


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Today on Good Food Evan visits Mitsuwa Market with cookbook author Andrea Nguyen. She guides us through what can often be an intimidating experience for those unfamiliar with the products in Japanese supermarkets. Even a seasoned pro like Andrea admits to using her Asian Market Shopper App when she can't decipher the characters on the packages. Find photos and Andrea's shopping list of pantry staples below.
Soy Sauce: Andrea says to look for the country of origin on the label. Typically soy sauce made in Japan is a superior product and is geared to a Japanese palate. For example, when you see the typical Kikomon bottles, look for "Made in Japan" instead of "Made in USA." She also says to look for bottles with a photo or drawing of the producer on it. If you see one of those, you know it's a special product.
Dried Mushrooms: This is an instance where you pay for what you get. Look for thick meaty whole caps, not those thin sliced shitakes.


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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A group of South Florida educators spent their Sunday morning learning how to protect themselves and their students against classroom threats. Technon Tactical Academy in Hollywood offered a free defense course for school staff members, in the wake of recent school shootings.
Sunday's class began with a personal safety video. Each participant also participated in one-on-one exercises with a safety instructor and learned the basics of a gun.
Teachers who attended the course told Local 10's Carlos Suarez December's school shooting in Connecticut has inspired them to prepare for the worst.
"It's scary nowadays what we have to go through," said kindergarten teacher Maria Sanabria. "With the unexpected and the unknown, we want to be as best prepared as we can be."
"Twenty years ago when I first started I would have never thought that we would have to be taking a self defense class to protect ourselves, our children," agreed fellow kindergarten teacher Kim Winfred.
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One Direction. The Wanted. Big Time Rush. The Backstreet Boys (seriously). Boy bands, which last had their heyday in the late 1990s, made a glorious return to the pop-music scene this year, bringing with them legions of crazed teenage fans. One Direction, a British quintet, blazed the path for the genre's triumphant return. In November, hoards of fans took over 30 Rock in New York City five days before the band's appearance on the Today show to promote their new album, Take Me Home, which quickly jumped to the top of the Billboard charts. Another U.K.-based band, the Wanted, had two chart-topping singles and several sold-out shows in the U.S. Nickelodeon even created a TV show about a boy band called Big Time Rush. The show was renewed for a fourth season, while the band by the same name is working on its third studio album. With all this fresh hype, even the Backstreet Boys couldn't resist getting back into the game, and will release their eighth studio album in early 2013.
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative disease of the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. It progressively affects all the muscles in the body but there is no known cause and no treatment. Only about 5-10% of cases are inherited while the rest are sporadic.
The neurons ALS affects are primarily the upper motor neurons. These are the ones that originate in the brain and travel down the spinal cord. These neurons then synapse with the lower motor neurons in the ventral horn, and it is the lower motor neurons that go directly to the muscles.
In ALS there are both upper motor neuron and lower motor neuron symptoms. As the neurons die, a constellation of symptoms including numbness, weakness and paralysis emerge. Eventually the paralysis progresses leading to inability to speak, swallow and breath. There is no cure for ALS and treatments only help with the symptoms, they do not slow the progression of the disease.
So you may have seen a lot of ice bucket challenges over the last few weeks but please support this cause as it is a horrible disease that up until now had almost no recognition or support. So please donate to The ALS Association (alas.org).
And in case you get tired or jaded seeing your social media full of these videos, watch this one of my father doing it. He's not an emotional guy, but he has lost more than his fair share of friends to this disease.
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PHRF of the Chesapeake
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PHRF of the Chesapeake, Inc.
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Prince Frederick, MD 20678
Website: www.phrfchesbay.com/
Since 1976, PHRF of the Chesapeake has been actively involved in bringing affordable racing handicaps based on the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet system to the average sailboat racer. Today PHRF is a nationwide standard for cruising class sailboat racing, and the PHRF of the Chesapeake fleet continues today as the largest handicap racing fleet on the Chesapeake Bay.
From the President:
"I am proud to announce that the attendees at this year's Annual Board of Delegates Meeting voted unanimously for PHRF of the Chesapeake, Inc. to become a Founding Member of the National Sailing Hall of Fame. We are delighted to become a part of this most worthy endeavor."
Michael W. Dale – PHRF of the Chesapeake
Before 1976, cruising yachts on the Chesapeake Bay raced under various handicap measurement rules. Each rule used a formula to predict the potential speed of the yacht compared with the speed of the others. The calculated result was the yacht's rating in equivalent feet. This was used to determine the time allowance handicap. Most measurers charged fees, and the classes charged fees for running the rating calculations. Some of the rules also required the yacht to be lifted out of the water and weighted. This improved measurement accuracy but added to the cost.
When yachts are similar in design, a simple rule with few measurements can be equitable. As boats vary more widely in their design, a fair rule becomes more complex and difficult to develop, requiring more measurements and becoming more expensive for the owners. Good yacht designers study measurement rules to find ways to design yachts that are fast but appear slow to the rules. To correct the handicaps of such "rule-beaters" requires adjustment of the rule. Most any adjustment affects not only the rule-beater, but all other yachts in the class as well, sometimes unfairly or contrary to the intent of the rule makers…
What was needed was an inexpensive handicapping system that could correct the handicaps of individual rule-beaters without affecting other yachts in the class. The boating industry expanded rapidly during the 70's. Low maintenance fiberglass boats were built by the thousands, hundreds out of the same molds. The number of new sailors racing increased just as rapidly. Many of them came from one-design day sailor fleets. They did not understand the measurement rules and they didn't want to spend a lot of money on ratings. They simply wanted to get out on the water and race. Many of the "old salts" as well were tired of the expense and complication of the measurement rules.
In Southern California a group of yachtsmen developed a new approach to handicapping, and organized the Pacific Handicap Racing Fleet. The British were already using the Portsmouth Yardstick system of handicapping different classes of day sailors to facilitate their racing together. Portsmouth numbers were assigned on the basis of observed performance. Similarly, the Pacific Handicap Racing Fleet assigned handicaps to classes of cruising boats based on observations of actual performance, instead of operating on measurement or design information. They made supplemental use of the same measurements when performance data was not available, but not in a rating formula. The system was inexpensive, easy to administer, and produced ratings quickly. The method of rating yachts became popular and spread to other parts of the country, where "Pacific" in Pacific Handicap Racing Fleet was changed to "Performance" to become Performance Handicap Racing Fleet, which we now know to be PHRF.
In 1975, a Chesapeake sailor, Auzzie Jackson, visited Southern California and became interested in this new and popular handicapping system after picking up a policy book and reading it. He was so enthusiastic that he brought the system home to the Fishing Bay Yacht Club to be used in club racing. The first Chesapeake PHRF system under the patronage of Auzzie and Fred Williams soon spread throughout the Southern Bay and to clubs in the Northern Bay as well. Thereafter it became recognized by CBYRA for High Point competition.
During the late 70's and early 80's the growth of PHRF of the Chesapeake was spectacular and its administration became a big problem. The original file card system, suitable for the small fleet became inadequate as the class grew from 340 rated sailboats in 1979 to 673 in 1980 to over 1,000 in 1981. In 1981 the management of the class moved from Richmond to Baltimore and computer-based records were established. By 1986, the number of rated sailboats had climbed to more than 1,400, and the vast array of information was loaded onto an IBM DOS based PC system. In 1994, PHRF of the Chesapeake management moved from Baltimore to Easton, MD, and again in 1997 to it's present location in Prince Frederick, MD. In 1997, the IBM DOS system was converted to a MS Access' data base on a Pentium ' processor driven PC system, to make processing applications and valid certificates less time consuming. For 1998, PHRF of the Chesapeake opened it's new web site, which provides information about our organization to all persons with access to the internet. In 1999, 6 sec./mi. was added to the ratings of all boats handicapped by PHRF of the Chesapeake to align the ratings more equally with other regions of PHRF around the country. Also in 1999, fixed propeller credits are allowed, and as well as a new 6P equipment category that allows minimally equipped boats to be eligible for a rating certificate. In 2000 the PHRF Chesapeake data was converted to a relational database system. For 2001, revised guidelines are in effect to more fairly address rating credits for sailboats using roller furling sails and the list of sailboats with valid rating certificates was made available through our web site www.phrfchesbay.com'. For 2002, PHRF of the Chesapeake provides ratings for boats choosing to use both symmetric and asymmetric spinnakers. This policy brings this region more in agreement with policies of other PHRF regions. In 2003, a special event certificate was offered to boats requiring a one-time certificate to participate in races finishing outside the Chesapeake Bay. Beginning in 2004, valid certificates are effective until 31 March of the following year to allow racers to maintain a valid rating throughout the frostbite season. In 2007, PHRF of the Chesapeake Bay initiated a foundation to provide funds to Chesapeake Bay sailors. Beginning in 2008, we updated the safety requirements to better align with the ISAF requirements and the USCG regulations.
At this time, the PHRF database holds records on over 3500 sailboats. The PHRF Executive Secretary, appointed by the President of the association, maintains the PHRF database and performs administrative and clerical tasks necessary for the day to day operation of the association. The Executive Secretary also provides annual renewal forms to members, application forms for prospective members, produces Valid Certificates, updates the web site, and maintains a complete mailing list of members. PHRF administration has truly taken on the proportions of a business and is treated as such.
What began as the Pacific Handicap Racing Fleet in Southern California has become a nation-wide handicapping system, following the overall guidance of the US PHRF committee, under US Sailing. Members of PHRF of the Chesapeake have taken turns serving on the US PHRF committee, providing a continuous presence there for many years. The PHRF handicapping racing fleet, administrated by PHRF of the Chesapeake, continues today as the largest handicap racing fleet on the Chesapeake Bay.


text: The hacker group that exposed holes in McAfee's website knows it's breaking U.S. law, but vows to continue exposing vulnerabilities, especially on security vendor websites."We do understand performing security testings without authorization is illegal under U.S. law," stated YGN Ethical Hacker Group, when contacted by Network World via e-mail. The outfit's own website describes YGN as a "small group of young but mature people" based in the country of Myanmar (Burma) who started working together about three years ago. Based on its website advertising, the group, which seeks to emphasize its goals are "ethical," appears to offer vulnerability-testing services while also working on security testing tools.BACKGROUND: McAfee website full of holes, researcher saysIn response to a question about why it's so secretive, YGN says, "Secrecy is very important to us that our Burmese government might not call us up to misuse our skills to attack their most hated countries including U.S., Norway...etc."YGN sought to explain its rationale for performing what it acknowledges is unlawful testing of McAfee's website for vulnerabilities: "As for the McAfee website case, we've been seeing security holes have been popping up every year since 2008, which proves they don't have secure coding standard and proper security audit of themselves, while they do have world-renowned experts. We actually didn't perform intensively security scans on its web sites. We knew its flaws just by looking at their publicly available HTML\/JavaScript source codes. This implies that deep testing might find more issues."McAfee, which offers its "McAfee Secure" branded scan service for daily website evaluation and has Foundstone vulnerability-testing tools, earlier this week responded to Network World, which reported YGN's findings in a public security-discussion forum. A McAfee spokesperson said, "McAfee is aware of these vulnerabilities and we are working to fix them. It is important to note that these vulnerabilities do not expose any of McAfee's customer, partner or corporate information. Additionally, we have not seen any malicious exploitation of the vulnerabilities." McAfee has so far not made further comment.QUIZ: Do you know IT security?YGN indicates it may continue its campaign of performing vulnerability test scans on websites, particularly those of security vendors, because it feels this is the right thing to do: "As responsible netizens, we believe that YGN Ethical Hacker Group is liable to disclose security issues in high-profile web sites where thousands of users exist to rely on their security-related services\/products. It is unethical by human conduct to sell security products\/services while vendors don't care [about] fixing their issues."YGN, which doesn't want to disclose the names of its members, said they want to "represent our country" and "'to do security research to contribute to the security of users in [the] digital world."YGN also participates in security research groups, including EvilFingers, which security analyst Shyaam Sundhar Rajamadam Srinivasan indicated he started with his wife in 2006. When asked about YGN, and whether doing vulnerability tests on websites without the owner's permission is wrong or illegal, Srinivasan is direct."YGN is just a group that I got to know recently," according to Srinivasan, who says he is CEO of DigitOnto and works as a contractor for SANS Institute. "My wife and myself, we don't do unethical stuff. I believe that scanning one's website without prior authorization is definitely inappropriate and violates our partnership rules and regulations." He writes that he intends to inform YGN about the same. "EvilFingers never cooperates for any kind of unethical activities."Mandeep Khera, chief marketing officer at Web application security vendor Cenzic, notes that performing vulnerability tests on a website without the owner's permission is illegal in the U.S. "You're forcing yourself onto someone's property," he points out. "It's like a break-in."When informed of this criticism, YGN responded by saying it will expose vulnerabilities in Cenzic's website: "We will disclose an OWASP Top 10 Security issue in [the] Cenzic web site." The Open Web Application Security Project is an organization composed mainly of vendors that researches web application vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting, and puts out reports about the main ones in annual reports.YGN says its motivation to expose holes in security vendor websites is because "nowadays security vendors don't even care about the security of their websites (while some of them offer Web App Security Products\/Services), which allows attackers to exploit these flaws to attack their users. Apparently, the U.S. law will not sue security vendors for their lack of security."To sum up, YGN states, "from the look of the law, what we did seems illegal from U.S. Law perspective. 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Might as well get THIS one out of the way: the Sex/ Internet/ Microfame story of the week comes to us courtesy of Kat Stoeffel at the New York Observer, who introduces us to 21 year-old college student and occasional writer-about-sex on the internet "Marie Calloway" (a pseudonym). Sometimes Marie writes about sex, on Tumblr, or on Thought Catalog. Does this make her "the model for literary seductresses" in the "internet age?" No. It just makes her a girl, with a Tumblr.
Marie Calloway was an 18 year-old writer who wrote about sex on Tumblr. She also wrote a long, pseudonymous true story about coming to New York and sleeping with an older writer here referred to as "Adrian Brody." He had a girlfriend. Marie Calloway gained a degree of micro-notoriety for this. Eventually she became uncomfortable with the attention and deleted her Tumblr. (Though a couple of her stories are still up on Thought Catalog.) Blah blah blah. It's a case of internet oversharing-turned-emotionally-hurtful not seen since... I dunno, yesterday probably, when some overeager teenager somewhere sent sexy photos to some more famous man upon whom she had developed a crush. It will happen again, somewhere else, tomorrow.
There is a certain mechanism by which people are turned into microfameballs, finding their lives forever altered. Marie Calloway has now been set on that path. We can argue over whether or not these people were "asking for it"—in many cases, yes, they were practically begging to be exploited, though often they find that they hate this sort of fame once they receive it. Let us call this what it is: entertainment. A soap opera, for people smart enough to read the New York Observer (or Gawker). Likewise, let us be clear about what a teenage girl's sexual gossip and self-exploratory essays about sex that, at one time, would have been personal diary entries are definitively not: a symbol of something Important For Our Age. Here, you see—the point at which we writers decide to make something deep out of these timeless human foibles—is where we lose the plot.
Although [Emily] Gould told The Observer she was ethically and aesthetically "horrified" by elements of "Adrien Brody," she thinks that horror is worth investigating. "Why do women who aren't afraid to humiliate themselves appall us so much, and why do we rush to find superficial reasons to dismiss them ('she's crazy' 'she's a narcissist' 'she's young' 'she's a famewhore')?" Ms. Gould wrote The Observer in an e-mail.
"I think in part because they pose a threat to the social order, which relies on women's embarrassment to keep them either silent or writing in socially accepted modes."
Ms. Calloway agreed. She said that she writes to give meaning and permanence to female subjectivity.
I disagree. I would suggest that Marie Calloway's first-person stories of losing her virginity and having sex for cash in London and coming to New York to sleep with some writer are just that—first-person stories, the same sorts of stories which are published by the dozen on a weekly basis on Thought Catalog and Slate and Salon and the New York Times Modern Love section, and by the thousand on thousands of blogs. Stories about sex are no more or less significant or deep or worthwhile than other stories. I suspect (though I am no psychiatrist, or expert person of any sort) that people flock to sex stories for roughly the same reason that people watch pornography: because people like sex. There is nothing inherently noble, or brave, or feminist about relentlessly focusing on one's own sex life to the exclusion of other topics. We all like sex. Most of us like reading about sex. But it does no favors to young female writers to convince them that they are courageous voices in the wilderness for dedicating their talents to writing stories that are received as lurid, not literary.
More broadly, this is the peril of writing about oneself or oversharing online, particularly for younger writers without a large catalogue of work to establish them as something more complex than a single personal story. It invites people to judge you, and judge you they will. And if you're very, very unlucky, they might even turn you into a symbol of our age. That's a fate I wouldn't wish on anyone.
Let's all shut up more in 2012.


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Clearwater Earth Day Concert 2012
A second year for this Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Concert. The theme was to celebrate Woody Guthrie's legacy in this what would have been his 100th year. Held at Tarrytown, NY's Music Hall and produced by Steve Lurie, this was an amazing night of music by some of the best performers in folk, rock, blues, jazz and world music. Covering a five decade span, old friends and new, the performers had a great time right from sound check, when they all realized that magic could happen this night. Playing solos, duets, trio's and groups they shared talent, fun and a mix of their own and Woody's songs. Starting with a reading of Woody's words from his grand daughter Anna Canoni, to the surprise vistit by Pete Seeger all the way to the finale led by Pete this was one of those all too rare concerts that exceeded all expectations. We've tried to include shots that capture some of the spirit of this gathering.Read More


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The Auditor calculates tax rates for all taxing entities in the County (schools, cities, townships, etc.) by applying taxes levied by those entities to the valuation of each property as determined by the Assessor, and then prepares a tax list showing each taxpayer's share of the total. These figures are then certified to the County Treasurer's Office. Many of the records prepared in the Auditor's office are maintained permanently and are available for public use.
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text: Dear QGIS Users, Developers and FOSSGIS devotees We are extremely pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.0 and the shiny new QGIS 1.0 User's Guide. We have also revamped our web site at http://qgis.org. See the note below from our project chair: ----------------- This release is the culmination of literally hundreds of hours of work by a team of developers, translators, documentation writers, and graphics designers. QGIS began life in February of 2002, with the first release in June of the same year. The initial goal was to create a viewer for PostGIS data that ran on Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true cross-platform application that runs on all major versions of unix, Linux, as well as Mac and Windows. It supports editing and map composition as well as integration with GRASS to provide powerful GIS capability. QGIS has been translated into many languages by a dedicated internationalization team. At 1.0 we provide a stable API from which you can develop custom solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh, there are a number of exciting developments underway in both the core application and plugins. Although it took nearly 7 years to get to version 1.0, I think you'll find that this version is the best yet. Thanks for using QGIS---you, the users, have played a large part in its success. -- Gary Sherman, Chair, QGIS Project Steering Committee ----------------- For more detailed release information, visit: http://blog.qgis.org/node/123 For Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows downloads, visit: http://download.qgis.org * * Source code and User's Guide are also available from this site. Best regards, -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting & Support Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/attachments/20090124/8cc9fc3b/attachment.bin


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The Museum of Modern Art currently has on display a wonderful, compact installation titled simply "Johns and Rauschenberg." Featuring art culled from the museum's permanent collection, "Johns and Rauschenberg" focuses on works painted by each artist during the mid to late 1950s, using Robert Rauschenberg's recently acquired Canyon as a centerpiece. The introductory placard describes the two artists as being "in dialogue with one another," explaining how their works from this period led the way "beyond Abstract Expressionism" and toward Pop Art. At the heart of the installation is the relationship between the two men, an intensely collaborative yet highly competitive connection which pushed each artist toward his own artistic triumph.
It's a nice narrative, as far as it goes. But it doesn't go nearly far enough. Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were lovers during this six-year period of collaboration, and their relationship had a profound impact on their art. For years, the art world ignored this vital component of the Johns/ Rauschenberg story, while the artists themselves kept mum on the matter. But 2010's exhibition Hide/Seek at the National Portrait Gallery broke the silence, openly exploring the artists' sexuality as it intersected with their work—the first ever gay-themed exhibition at a major American museum. That was over two years ago. Now, in 2013, MoMA is sending Johns and Rauschenberg back into the closet.
This is puzzling. Were MoMA a publicly funded museum, it might be concerned about offending its state patrons—that concern may sound very 1999, but the censorship issue reared its head again during Hide/Seek's run, when Congressional Republicans threatened to cut the National Portrait Gallery's funding over a gay-themed, allegedly "blasphemous" work of art. (The museum quickly removed the offending piece.) MoMA, however, is privately funded, and accepts no government cash. So why the dodge on Johns and Rauschenberg?
Most likely because art museums, even seemingly progressive ones like MoMA, remain more closeted than you might think. Textbooks and survey courses have only recently begun examining this dimension of art history, even though it is a fundamental aspect of movements like Pop Art. And while queer theory has allowed art historians and critics to incorporate artists' sexuality into interpretation of their works, orientation is rarely noted in museums. (The MoMA's profile of gay icon Andy Warhol fails to mention that he was gay.)
Sometimes that's fine—most of Warhol's work, for instance, does not merit mention of his sexuality (though leaving it out of his bio altogether is a bit much). But in the case of Johns and Rauschenberg, ignoring orientation amounts to curatorial malpractice. As the curator ofHide/ Seek Jonathan Katz explains, Rauschenberg's guilt and turmoil over their relationship is explored in some of his greatest works, including Canto XIV. Johns' work In Memory of My Feelings – Frank O'Hara is an obvious eulogy for the relationship. The title is a reference to a poem by O'Hara, who was himself gay, which begins:
My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent
and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.
He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals.
The painting contains one of Johns' famous Americans flags reversed and coated in thick, dark paint, occluding the iconic image with gloomy tones. Johns painted his first American flag soon after meeting Rauschenberg, and completed In Memory during their break-up. Accordingly, the piece is often interpreted as an illustration of a relationship tarnished, smothered, and increasingly obscured by the passage of time.
While those two works are not on display in "Johns and Rauschenberg," several of the installation's paintings could be rewardingly subjected to similar analysis. MoMA gives us no such gifts, though, skating over the true nature of the two men's relationship and, at one point, actively denying it, really, by referring to Johns as Rauschenberg's "friend." Issues of offensiveness aside—gay people have fought for decades to have their partners recognized as more than mere "friends"—such bowdlerization is intellectually dissatisfying. Even a brief reference to the artists' sexuality could clue savvy viewers into keener investigation of these droll, elliptical works—or, even better, complete the installation's narrative. MoMA tells us that Johns' and Rauschenberg's collaboration led them away from abstract expressionism, but it fails to explain how they discovered Pop Art. That genre, birthed by these two artistic giants, was built upon rejection of societal norms including hyper-masculinity and heternormativity. Its gay dimension was present from its genesis, yet a casual visitor to "Johns and Rauschenberg" might think Pop Art merely sprung out of two buddies' wacky experiments.
In an attempt to justify this re-closing of the artistic closet, MoMA's press office first informed me that Johns and Rauschenberg "wish to be described" as just friends. (Rauschenberg died in 2008; Johns is 82.) When I asked whether the artists specifically requested such a label, the museum's representative walked back the claim, instead stating that they "have been referred to that way [as friends, that is] historically," but the rep would not say whether the artists themselves insisted on the "friends" phrasing. Neither would the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which officially had "no reply" to the question, or the Matthew Marks Gallery, Johns' dealer, which failed to respond to repeated inquiries.
The artists' preference, whatever it may be, is hardly the only factor to consider here. Museums have a responsibility to acknowledge and consider the sexuality of artists in their collections when it is relevant to the work they are displaying. That's the real tragedy of "Johns and Rauschenberg": not that it puts gay artists in the closet, but that it keeps viewers in the dark.
Mark Joseph Stern is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he double majored in History and Art History. During his time at Georgetown, Mark was a frequent contributor to Slate Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Denver Post. Next year, Mark will be attending law school at the Georgetown University Law Center.


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The supply chain in Asia is getting increasingly chatty about a larger iPad. Is Apple getting ready to take the plunge?
Rumors about a larger iPad are gaining steam. The latest claim is that Taipei-based Quanta is working with Apple to develop a large iPad.
Quanta Computer, known primarily as a manufacturer of laptops, and Apple are eyeing what a Chinese-language udn.com calls a 12-inch class device.
Earlier reports in May had cited a 12.9-inch tablet.
News from the Asia-based supply chain of manufacturers is notoriously inconsistent, as companies frequently change plans before a product actually enters high-volume commercial production.
That said, it does appear that Apple is toying with the idea of a larger iPad-like device as demand for MacBooks shrinks and iPad sales soar.
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If you think the best Michael Rennie role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Michael Rennie performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.
Examples of films on this list include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Third Man on the Mountain."This list answers the questions, "What are the best Michael Rennie movies?" and "What are the greatest Michael Rennie roles of all time?"
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The Comfort, bulling its way through stormy seas, will receive another 350 medical personnel and support staff when it reaches the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, Navy Capt. (Dr.) Jim Ware, commander of the medical treatment facility. This, he explained, will allow the staff to double the number of operating rooms.
The staff wants 11 operating rooms ready upon arrival in Port-au-Prince, expected to be Jan. 21. "We will set up all 11, but only have the people to man eight until the other personnel come in," said Navy Cmdr. (Dr.) Tim Donahue, director of surgical services.
The commander said medical personnel have been busy scrubbing the rooms and readying supplies. Medics exercised casualty-receiving procedures this afternoon, and will continue to do so.
The Comfort set sail less than four days after receiving orders. Getting medical supplies for the mission and ensuring that the systems on the ship worked continued right up to yesterday's departure from Baltimore.
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The medical effort is aided by the fact that the Comfort was in Haiti on a humanitarian services exercise in April. "We know the area, we know many of the people in the Ministry of Health, and that helps," Donahue said. In addition, many medical specialists aided in the tsunami relief operation and for the relief effort for Hurricane Katrina.
Another help is that some aboard the Comfort are from Haiti. Petty Officer 3rd Class Yves Henry is a corpsman at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia who was called up to help man the ship. "I'm proud to be in the Navy, and proud to be able to go and help," he said.
Henry is worried about family and friends in Port-au-Prince. "I heard that my grandmother is all right," Henry said. "I'm anxious to get there and help."
Henry may be a translator for the medical department. Announcements went out aboard the ship for anyone who speaks Creole or Haitian French. Plans are to hire about 100 translators to assist in the medical effort.
The medical staff is preparing for crush injuries and burn cases, Donahue said. "But we have specialists and equipment here to handle just about anything," he said.


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Gordon Hull, founder of downtown design collective Surface to Air, proves that "not all hipsters are vegan" (per the headline of a men.style.com video) by riding around in a limo visiting Burger Joint, Rare View, and Corner Bistro. The feel-good video curiously doesn't mention that about four years ago Hull founded an underground burger club that had its own salute, a screening process that measured a potential recruit's "burgability" based on questions such as "How many burger joints can you name in ten seconds?," and a demerit system that resulted in the expulsion of certain members of the club when they failed to show for monthly "meatings." Sounds cute, right? Except that we've heard from disgruntled members that Hull became "drunk with power" and ended up alienating more than one burger lover by enforcing these rules quite stringently and using the club as a vehicle for self-promotion. But, hey, it seems to have worked!
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BERLIN – The countries worst hit by the European financial crisis are also perceived as being among the most corrupt in the European Union, and those perceptions appear to be getting increasingly negative, an international watchdog said in a new report released Wednesday.
Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index shows Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece with the lowest scores in western Europe.
The index measures the perception of corruption in the public sector and not the financial sector, but Transparency's Europe director Anne Koch told The Associated Press said the results clearly indicate that people in the countries worst hit by the crisis perceive corruption to be widespread.
"It seems to me to be quite blatantly obvious that the lack of transparency in public finances in these four countries has been reflected in the figures," she said.
On a scale newly introduced for this year's report, where 0 is "highly corrupt" and 100 is "very clean," two-thirds of the 176 countries ranked scored below 50, which Transparency said indicates a widespread need for more openness in public institutions and more accountability for officials.
"Governments need to integrate anti-corruption actions into all public decision-making," said Transparency International head Huguette Labelle. "Priorities include better rules on lobbying and political financing, making public spending and contracting more transparent and making public bodies more accountable to people."
The survey, which was first conducted in 1995, draws on a variety of sources that capture perceptions of corruption, including World Bank and World Economic Forum assessments, the African Development Bank's governance ratings, and Transparency International's own Bribe Payers Survey.
Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia were ranked the worst overall on this year's list, all tied with a rating of just eight. Denmark, Finland and New Zealand were thought of as least corrupt with scores of 90.
Canada scored 84, Germany 79 and Japan and Britain tied at 74. The United States was rated 73, giving it 19th place, and France scored 71.
At the bottom of western European nations, Greece scored a 36, Italy 42, Portugal 63 and Spain 65. All four countries are mired in recession, and both Portugal and Greece have received EU bailouts.
The Greek numbers, which put it in 94th place on the ranking, stand out in particular, Koch said. If the new 2012 methodology is applied to the 2011 results, Greece fell by 14 places.
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When a target shooter, hunter, or sniper pulls the trigger, a lot of elements and factors are drawn together in a amazing way. Physics. Geometry. Weather. But the most important element is the human element — the skill of the person behind the gun.
To understand what's really happening, let's break it down into those three elements first. Physics, geometry, and weather. I'll have to be brief. To cover the subject in detail would involve a novel length article, and my knowledge of the subject is limited. There's an entire scientific industry devoted to the study of ballistics.
Let's start with physics and the "fire triangle." We all know a miniature explosion takes place to "fire" a bullet. To get fire, we need three things. Heat, oxygen, and fuel. If any one of those components is missing, there's no fire. You can have a tremendous amount of heat and fuel, but without oxygen, you won't have fire. That's why explosives are used to extinguish oil well fires. The explosion creates a very brief vacuum in the air, removing the oxygen. With no oxygen, the oil fire dies. Most vegetation and structure fires are extinguished by removing the heat. Take away the heat, no fire. The fuel and oxygen are still present, but the heat is gone. A carbon dioxide extinguisher removes two elements of the fire triangle, both heat and oxygen.
What does this have to do with shooting? You might be wondering how a bullet works. At first glance, it looks as though a critical component is missing. Oxygen. If a bullet is like a sealed jar, where does the oxygen come from? How does the miniature explosion occur if there's little or no oxygen inside the bullet. The answer is simple. The oxygen is contained within the gunpowder itself, in chemical form. After being struck by the firing pin, the little round primer at the base of a bullet completes the triangle by supplying the interior of the cartridge with heat.
The resulting explosion drives the bullet through the barrel of the gun. The pressure is tremendous. It takes a lot of force to overcome the friction of pushing a bullet through a steel barrel. I once had to remove a stuck bullet after a misfire. It took a steel rod and a lot of labored hammering to dislodge it.
The geometry of precision shooting is perhaps the most interesting. At medium to short distances, gravity is the biggest factor affecting a bullet's trajectory. Picture a concept in your mind. You're holding a rifle and pulling the trigger. If it were possible to drop the rifle at the precise instant the bullet left the end of the barrel, the bullet and the rifle would hit the ground at the same time. Why? Because once the bullet is free of the barrel, gravity begins to pull it toward the ground. It doesn't matter if the bullet is traveling downrange at 2,500 feet per second, the bullet is still "free falling" as surely as if it were dropped from your fingertips.
So to hit a target at a long distance, you have to shoot at a "theoretical" point above the target. Let's use an easier example. A football game. The quarterback throws the ball to a receiver 30 yards away. If he aimed directly at the receiver, the ball would hit the ground before arriving. Without thinking about it, he aims 20 feet above the receiver's head, but because gravity pulls on the ball once it leaves his hand, it ends up in the receiver's grasp. The same principal applies to shooting, the bullet's arc through the air is just much longer and flatter. Also, when a quarterback throws the ball, he's not looking at the theoretical spot above the receiver's head, he's focused on the receiver.
A rifle sight works the same way. When using an adjustable iron sight or optical scope, you're always focused on the target — the direct line of sight. If you raise the rear site by half an inch, you also have to raise the front sight by half an inch to maintain the "line of sight" But since the front sight is fixed to the barrel and isn't adjustable, you tilt the end of the rifle up to maintain your line of sight to the target. The barrel is now pointing at a "theoretical" point above the target. Like the football, the bullet will now travel in an arc to the target.
We've looked at physics and geometry, what about weather? Wind is the primary weather concern and it works similarly to gravity. Wind can have a significant affect on a bullet's trajectory at long distances, especially at 1,000 yards and beyond. Wind works a lot like gravity. Once the bullet leaves the barrel, wind begins to push the bullet left or right, and some cases, when you're shooting across a canyon, it can push a bullet up or down too.
If you have a crosswind blowing from right to left, you'll need to move the adjustable rear sight to the right to compensate for wind. But once again, in order to maintain the "direct line of sight" to the target, you'll also have to move the fixed front sight by half an inch to the right. Even though you still see the target directly ahead, the barrel of the rifle is now pointing at a theoretical point to the right of the target. Once the bullet leaves the barrel, the wind will act on the bullet and push it back toward the left. Make sense? So, at extreme long distances, you're aiming at a point above and to the right of your target. Once the bullet's free of the barrel, gravity and wind will then move the bullet along is desired trajectory. Think of the quarterback example again, if he has to throw the football with a strong crosswind present, he'll compensate for the wind, by aiming slightly into the wind.
The same principals apply to pistol shooting as well. Because the ballistic speeds are generally subsonic, gravity and wind play a more significant role on the trajectory.
This is where the last element comes in. The human element. There's no substitute for practice. The old expression, "how do you get to Carnegie Hall?" applies. Without exception, you'll have to fire countless thousands of rounds in many differing weather conditions to be come a master marksman. Shooting a target at 100 yards in optimal conditions is child's play compared to shooting the same target at 1,000 yards. The difficulty isn't proportional to distance. It's not 10 times harder, it's 100 times harder. Predicting the wind correction is by far the most challenging aspect of long distance shooting, and it only comes from experience.
As an example, at 1,000 yards, you might have wind blowing right-to-left close to you, but at the target, it might be blowing left-to-right. Which wind is more important? The answer is, the wind at the target. Why? Because the bullet is moving slower at the target. Air friction has slowed the bullet down. If a bullet leaves the barrel at 2,500 feet per second, it may only be traveling at 1,800 feet per second at the end. A slower bullet is affected more by wind than a faster bullet.
It's one thing to be lying perfectly still in ideal, comfortable shooting conditions. Add a few environmental conditions into the mix and it becomes a much more challenging situation. Rain. Snow. Humidity. Forests. Deserts. Jungles. Mountains. Each environment has it's own set of problems and variables to overcome, and no two missions are ever the same. Each will be unique and the shooter will have to adapt to each.
Now, let's add another layer of stress and difficulty to the fray. Throw in unfamiliar "enemy territory." Not only is a sniper dealing with everything we just talked about, but he's probably surrounded by enemy soldiers hell bent on hunting him down and killing him, or worse. Needless to say, a sniper's best tool is his ability to be invisible, both before, and after the shot. Stealth is a sniper's best friend. Marine Corps snipers are arguably the best sharpshooters in the world.
In my debut novel, First to Kill, which launches in September, my main character, Nathan McBride, is former Marine Corps sniper with 57 kills under his belt. The climax of my story involves a intense, long range sniper duel between Nathan and a highly skilled opponent, a former Army Ranger.
More information about First to Kill by Andrew Peterson, can be found at AndrewPeterson.com


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Bob Beckel fired again from the 5 for making racial comments to a black staffer.
Fox News Channel is parting ways — again — with Bob Beckel, the co-host of its primetime program, "The Five."
"Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee," the network said in a statement.
The dismissal opens — or perhaps closes — another chapter in an off-and-on relationship Beckel has had with the 21st Century Fox-owned cable-news outlet over the years. Beckel, a longtime political consultant as well as a former campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, joined Fox News in 2000, and had a years-long tenure on "The Five" when it aired in the late afternoon. Indeed, he was one of the program's original co-hosts.
He departed in 2015 while recuperating from back surgery in a split that was seen as less an amicable. "We tried to work with Bob for months, but we couldn't hold 'The Five' hostage to one man's personal issues," said Bill Shine, who was then the network's executive vice president of programming, in a statement at the time. "He took tremendous advantage of our generosity, empathy and goodwill and we simply came to the end of the road with him."
But Beckel returned to Fox News in 2017 after doing a stint at CNN, and was greeted with open arms. "Bob was missed by many fans of 'The Five' and we're happy to welcome him back to the show," said Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of Fox News Channel and its corporate parent, 21st Century Fox, in a prepared statement, in January.
Fox News' human resources department was made aware of a complaint about what one person familiar with the situation characterized as a "racially insensitive remark" on Tuesday evening. Executives conducted an internal investigation, this person said, and decided to part ways with Beckel Friday morning.
Douglas Wigdor, an attorney who represents several current and former employees who have alleged racial discrimination at Fox News in a lawsuit, said he is representing the employee who complained about Beckel. In a statement, Wigdor alleged Beckel "stormed out of his office" when an African-American information-technology employee came to service his computer, "telling our client that he was leaving his office because he was black."
Wigdor alleged Fox News executives tried to get the employee to withdraw the complaint. "As with our other 22 clients, we intend on holding 21st Century Fox accountable for these actions and will be filing multiple other complaints in other matters next week," Wigdor said.
Fox News disputed that account in a statement. ""As Mr. Wigdor knows, Fox News made the decision to terminate Mr. Beckel after a prompt and thorough investigation. His client raised the complaint to Kevin Lord, EVP Human Resources, on Tuesday evening via email and within 7 minutes Mr. Lord responded and began the investigation.
Today, Fox News delivered that message to Mr. Beckel and facilitated an apology from Mr. Beckel to the employee minutes after he was terminated. No one tried to persuade Mr. Wigdor's client to withdraw his complaint."
Fox News' internal culture has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks. Wigdor's clients have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Fox News in State Supreme Court in the Bronx, adding to a wave of litigation set against the network that levels claims of sexual harassment and cultural insensitivity. Fox continues to grapple with perceptions in the wake of the ousters of both Roger Ailes, its former chief executive, last year, as well as Bill O'Reilly, its top host. Both men had been accused of sexual harassment. Ailes denied the allegations and O'Reilly has said his fame made him a target had made settlements to accusers out of a desire to protect his children.
The network has set in place a new human-resources chief and hired female executives to fill an open chief financial officer slot as well as its head of ad sales. Staffers have been urged to come forward if they believe they witness discriminatory behavior. In a memo to employees sent in April, Fox News' human resources chief told employees, "We want to give you every opportunity to be heard" about workplace concerns.
Beckel leaves after Fox News made "The Five" part of its primetime lineup just a few weeks ago, part of an effort to realign the most-watched part of its schedule after O'Reilly's departure last month. Despite its name, the show employs more than five co-hosts, all of whom rotate in across various nights. Juan Williams, another Fox News political analyst with Democratic leanings, is expected to appear more regularly on the show, which also includes
Jesse Watters, Dana Perino, Greg Gutfeld, and Kimberly Guilfoyle as co-hosts.


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Finding a Qualified Home Inspector
As you should already know, a home inspection is a key part of the real estate process. Of course, your home inspection is only as good as your home inspector.
If you are considering buying a property, you absolutely must get a home inspection. What most people don't realize, however, is it can also be valuable to retain one before you sell a property to identify any problems before your accept an offer. Fixing such problems before hand makes a lot more sense than panicking in the middle of escrow.
Regardless of your particular position in the real estate process, the home inspection is only as good as the inspector. Frankly, some inspectors are less than credible when it comes to qualifications and their background. To bypass these individuals, the following organizations should be used as a resource.
The American Society of Home Inspectors, Inc. is located in Des Plaines, Illinois. Known as ASHI, it was founded in 1976 to create a resource and quality control atmosphere for home inspections. You can get referrals to ASHI inspectors in your area by contacting the Society at 800-743-ASHI. In doing so, you will avoid hacks calling themselves inspectors.
The National Association of Certified Home Inspectors is another credible organization. Located in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the Association maintains both a code of ethics and strict standards of practice for its members. With over 9,000 members in North America, you can find an inspector in your area by calling 1-877 FIND-INS.
Another organization that stands out in the home inspection industry is the National Association of Home Inspectors, Inc. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the organization also requires members to abide by strict practice standards and a code of ethics, which should be comforting to you. You can contact it to find a home inspector in your area by calling 800-448-3942.
The old cliché is garbage in, garbage out. By using a credible home inspector, you can put this cliché out of your mind.


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Terrace RCMP have taken one person into custody in relation to the fatal hit and run on the outskirts of the northern B.C. town Nov. 18.
Police are questioning seven people believed involved in the incident, but no charges have yet been laid in the ongoing investigation.
Terrace resident Cameron Kerr, 30, had been walking home along Hwy 16 early Sunday morning when he was struck and killed by an oncoming pickup.
Through public tips late Tuesday afternoon, a Ford F350 with damage consistent with the collision, and believed to be the suspect vehicle, has been located on Haida Gwaii. Police are confident that they have identified the suspect driver responsible for the fatality, who is from the Lower Mainland area.
Overall, seven individuals have been questioned by police to determine their exact roles in the event. Two pickup trucks, two boats and three boat trailers have been seized as part of this investigation.
The family held a news conference yesterday with RCMP, pleading for witnesses and the driver responsible to come forward.
"The uncertainty of the circumstances around his death is eating our souls," his brother Garrett Kerr said. "My world and that of my family was shattered. I lost my best friend since I was two years old and I had to tell my parents that they would never see their son again."
News of Cameron's death spread rapidly throughout the Northwest, where he was well known in the outdoor recreation community.
"He was one of the most compassionate, courageous kind and genuine person that anyone has known," Garrett said. "He was the happiest in the outdoors, on the snow, in the mountains and especially on the river."
Cameron had attended the wake of a close friend in nearby New Remo on the night of his death. It's believed he had chosen to walk home rather than drive after drinking.
Police are still investigating this collision and anyone with information who has not already spoken with police are asked to call Sgt. Shawn McLaughlin with West Pacific Region Traffic Services at 250-638-7438 or, if you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
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This is the canonical question for "Should I build coomputing hardware myself?" questions.
I have put together countless PCs, but never a large server. The geek in me says build it, but the realist in me says let the manufacturer handle it when there is a problem. Ignoring the time penalty involved with the initial assembly time of a built one, which is a better solution? Have you ever run into a problem with a home build server that would have been solved easier/quicker/cheaper by going with a manufacturer? Are there any features that manufacturers give that aren't easily attainable with a home built server?


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Recent online calls for mass protests have sent the Chinese government on the defensive, and while experts say the online activity probably won't lead to outright revolution, it could force China's leadership to be more responsive to social problems ailing the country.
Starting last month, an anonymous activist group began calling on the Chinese people to stage a "Jasmine Revolution", a reference to the anti-government protests that have erupted in the Middle East.
China had already blocked the site from which the calls to protest came. But the government has taken the extra step of preventing any mention of related terms. Searches for the word "Jasmine" have been blocked on microblog services, while users of social networking sites have been barred from posting any information related to the protest calls.
The Chinese government remains averse to protests or movements of any kind that might threaten the leadership. The Falun Gong spiritual movement, for example, was banned in China when it grew too big, and the government has maintained a watch on Tiananmen Square in Beijing ever since the protests there in 1989, when the Chinese government called in the military to squash a student-led democracy movement.
China's attempts to prevent unrest also extend to the mass communication abilities of the Internet, with any talk of government overthrow online immediately silenced. Chinese authorities even shut down the Internet in the western region of Xinjiang when ethnic rioting erupted there in 2009.
Although the recent protest calls have yet to spark demonstrations in China, the online activity has been powerful enough to force the Chinese government to take action, said David Bandurski, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project. "It's clearly shown the capacity of the Internet," Bandurski said. "It has the capacity to really pressure the leadership."
Since the protest calls were made, China has deployed large police forces across cities in China, harassed foreign journalists and arrested human rights activists.
The moves show that the Chinese government is clearly "cautious" about the Internet, Bandurski said.
The activists originally posted their protest calls on the Chinese political blog boxun.com. After it went offline, they set up a blog at blogspot.com where they wrote: "We learned that Chinese government employs hundreds of thousands of people to make overflow attacks on Boxun, VOA, Twitter and other websites, in order to block information about this movement."
Bandurski described the government's actions as "a kind of full-on assault," adding that: "The Chinese leadership is responding to this in a kind of draconian way with very clever systems of technical controls to stop the threat of people gathering."
The activists behind the protest calls are urging the Chinese people to bring forth democracy in the country and have called for new rallies this Sunday, March 6.
Activists contacted for this story declined to answer questions. "At this point, none of us can reveal the personal identities nor the locations or number of people working on this," one of the organizers said.
The recent online protest calls, however, are not as serious as previous attempts at reform, said Nicholas Bequelin, a senior researcher at New York-based Human Rights Watch. The online activity "seems to me to have been an opportunistic move by people mostly based outside of China," he said.
"What makes the Chinese authorities nervous is not the call itself, but the realization with the Middle East revolts that the Internet can actually play a major role in triggering protests," he said.
China has the world's largest Internet population with 457 million Internet users. The country is notorious for taking down or blocking politically sensitive content on the web. U.S. sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all inaccessible, although users can pay for online services that allow them to get past Chinese Internet censors.
The Chinese government also exercises strict control over news. In the case of the anti-government protests in Egypt, it restricted information related to the event, with coverage limited to photos and short articles.
While the Chinese government does not tolerate open calls for revolution, "Chinese cyberspace is full of views critical of officials and government policies," said Wenran Jiang, a professor at the University of Alberta. "The government, while controlling the Internet, also gets feedback from the masses and responds to those complaints in order to defuse crises."
This happened on Sunday when China's Premier Wen Jiabao answered questions from Internet users during a two-hour webcast. Wen said that the government would tackle the challenges of inflation, rising housing prices and corruption.
Wen has spoken in similar webcasts before. But the timing of the appearance suggests that the government wanted to address the current tensions, experts said.
"These are as close as you get to town hall meetings in the U.S.," said Jiang. "In that sense, the growth of the Internet in China is a positive story, and it has played a role in putting the government on alert and forced it to be more responsive."
The recent protest calls for a Jasmine revolution, however, just add to the mounting pressures facing the Chinese government, experts say.
"I would not be surprised that those calls and similar Internet-based messages could lead to tangible policy changes, even meaningful reforms in China," said Fei-Ling Wang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
But some are questioning how long China can maintain strict control over the Internet without allowing for free speech. Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China and other countries with prevalent Internet censorship would face long-term costs like social unrest. Mention of the speech was immediately blocked on microblogs searches in China.
China is making a "gamble" by believing it can continue with its Internet censorship policies, said Phelim Kine, an Asia researcher also with Human Rights Watch.
"So far it's working for the Chinese government," he said. "It's a cat-and-mouse game of people trying to push the envelope through the Internet and into the public sphere."


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The Ark Returned to Israel
1 Now the ark of the LORD had been in the country of the Philistines seven months. 2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how we shall send it to its place. 3 They said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty; but you shall surely return to Him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and it will be known to you why His hand is not removed from you. 4 Then they said, What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him? And they said, Five golden tumors and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords. 5 So you shall make likenesses of your tumors and likenesses of your mice that ravage the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will ease His hand from you, your gods, and your land. 6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had severely dealt with them, did they not allow the people to go, and they departed? 7 Now therefore, take and prepare a new cart and two milch cows on which there has never been a yoke; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves home, away from them. 8 Take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart; and put the articles of gold which you return to Him as a guilt offering in a box by its side. Then send it away that it may go. 9 Watch, if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.
10 Then the men did so, and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. 11 They put the ark of the LORD on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the likenesses of their tumors. 12 And the cows took the straight way in the direction of Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. And the lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
13 Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and they raised their eyes and saw the ark and were glad to see it. 14 The cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite and stood there where there was a large stone; and they split the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD. 15 The Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box that was with it, in which were the articles of gold, and put them on the large stone; and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices that day to the LORD. 16 When the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned to Ekron that day.
17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a guilt offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron; 18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large stone on which they set the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
19 He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter. 20 The men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us? 21 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of the LORD; come down and take it up to you.
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Warm and ultra stylish to the max are the GizzA - Vivien Boots. With the ankle height of the boots you can be sure to weather any of the coming winter snow or winds. Get ready to wow the crowds with the appeal of English boarding school wear.
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