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Dr. Helen (aka Mrs. Insta Pundit) is, unfortunately, a fellow member of the afib club. She responds to my post about my disabled month with some advice that, unsurprisingly, doesn't have a bit of bleedingheartedness about it.
Rather than see yourself as selfish for having medical problems, my second tip is to use them to your advantage to get back at those you dislike. Case in point. A secretary at my daughter's school had been impolite to me on the phone the week before. I went to pick up my daughter from school one day and this obnoxious secretary told me that my daughter was at the playground half a mile or so outside and I would have to go fetch her. I looked at her and smiled kindly, "I'm sorry, I am disabled after recent heart surgery and not able to walk that far." She looked troubled at the word disabled (you know, all those ADA rules etc. have school personnel skiddish) and scurried down to the playground while I plopped myself in a chair and read a magazine in the air conditioned office until she came back with my child, apologizing for taking so long. You see, medical problems are not all bad.
: And it so happens, I'm slowed down again — not by afib this time but my clumsiness, with indirect afib complications.
Leaving a meeting with a colleague yesterday, I wasn't looking where I was going and tripped going down a curb, falling face-first on the street. My left knee and right wrist took the brunt of it. Nothing broken, save pride. I rubbed the knee in the cab on the way to the airport and over a bad pizza there, I felt something growing on my knee that was almost twice the size of my kneecap. Because I'm on blood thinner due to my afib, my wack to the kneed caused a hematoma to well up and bruise into something pretty unattractive. Nice Continental employees in the lounge and the plane kept filling a bag with ice for me and I was damned glad I'd spent the extra money (my money, not the company's) to buy biz class and we had larger-than-usual international seats that let me continue to ice the thing all the way home.
Just got back from the doctor and I'm ace-bandaged up and hobbling on a knee that won't bend. He said I should use a cane.
: Which leads me back to Dr. Helen's advice. Hmmmm. Well, if I did get that cane and walked with it the way Dr. House does on my wife's favorite series, maybe she'll think I'm just as brilliant and fascinating as he is….
: LATER: Bad link to Dr. Helen's post now fixed.

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Tonight I went with my wife to see the movie My Wedding And Other Secrets. It has a number of points in common with my life story, starting with "nerdy white guy meets Chinese girl(s) at Auckland University". It was fun watching scenes in Albert Park, Continental Noodle House, and the university Science Building --- exactly where I used to hang out with my Chinese friends. (At least it looked like the science building, but it was dressed up to look like a film school. I'm pretty sure the Auckland uni film school doesn't look like the science building.) It was also fun to spot HP8, the Viaduct, downtown Queen St, and various other Auckland locations.
Although I enjoyed the movie, I was not over-impressed. Like a lot of romantic stories, much of the drama seems to depend on the protagonists being foolish. The dramatic arc of the last section of the movie seems unfathomable. James stakes the whole relationship on insisting Emily "choose him over her family" ... but she already has, because she's confronted her family and they've obtained her parents' permission to marry; his demand is that she move in with him immediately instead of waiting until they're properly married. To me that just seems pointless, petty and self-serving. Partly that's because I'm against sex before marriage, but even aside from that, it doesn't make sense. Plus I don't understand how Emily's mother's opposition to their marriage is motivated or is resolved.
Even more distressing, there is a major error in the Dungeons and Dragons scene. Emily is holding a d4 and announces she'll attack with her dagger, but then the DM tells her off for using the wrong die! But Emily was right, daggers do 1d4 damage!
Lastly, why is it that in movies, nerd girls are always actually gorgeous, just disguised? Is it impossible to cast a woman who's not beautiful, even if you're planning to ugly her up for most of the movie?


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Ross W. Graham
New Horizons: March 2000
Also in this issue
by Ray Bowman with Eddy Hall
Chaplains: Missionaries to the United States
by Earl W. Vanderhoff
Doctrine 101: The Deity of Christ
by Edward N. Gross
One Sunday afternoon in June 1998, a small group gathered in the home of Frank and Jo Ann Galneder. They were waiting for the fire of Godnot the blessing of the Holy Spirit, but the fire of judgment. Fueling their fears was the question, "Who are we to hold a worship service? No minister was present. No church court had authorized this gathering. But overcoming their hesitation was the conviction that they needed to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth.
God did send firethe fire of his blessing to consume their sacrifices of praise. As he added others to the group, church affiliation was sought. This led them to the Presbytery of Northern California of the OPC. In March 1999, Reformation Fellowship (now Reformation OPC) was officially received as a mission work.
This growing group was God's answer to prayer. Among those gathering were Lee and Virginia Radtke. While in their early twenties, they had been converted through the ministry of the OPC in Manhattan Beach, California. After moving close to children and grandchildren, they prayed for years for an OP church to be established near them.
There were others praying, too, who were initially outside the group that became Reformation Fellowship. For example, Doug and Diane Arndt had been reading Tabletalk and wanted to be in a church committed to the truths they were learning. So they started praying, asking the Lord to raise up a church committed to the truths of the Reformation. And they kept praying for over five years. What a joy it was for them to see the answer to their prayers one Sunday afternoon when they "happened to drive by the meeting place in Rocklin and see the sign announcing the worship times of Reformation Fellowship!
Olivia Presley, formerly of Trinity OPC in Novato, had been praying for three years for an OP church close to where she was now living.
The group that gathered in June 1998 was the beginning of God's answer to these and many more prayers. Through the labors of Frank Galneder and Steve Terwilliger and the labors of ministers of the presbytery, the group was nurtured. As people learned of the group by word of mouth and by seeing the sign (which is put up on Sundays in front of their meeting location), Reformation Fellowship grew. By the time they welcomed their church planter, P. Michael DeLozier, in October 1999, about seventy-five people had been gathered.
Michael came to the OPC from a PCA pastorate in North Carolina. Raised in a Roman Catholic family, Michael turned to the god of motorcycling, living for speed and pleasure. But his life changed completely after a serious motorcycle accident. He testifies of God's grace: "My life was undone and my wretched heart exposed as my big street bike slid across the hard pavement and crashed into some large boulders. My best friend lay in a hospital bed unconscious and severely injured. The broken motorcycle was an appropriate picture of my broken life. My idol was ruined, but God was doing all this to bring me to himself and reveal his forgiveness and grace. God turned my heart from idols, and I received the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
After attending Covenant College, Michael attended Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
While involved in ministry in the Baltimore, Maryland, area, Michael and his wife, Barbara, came to know and love longtime OP pastor Everett C. DeVelde, Sr. Barbara and Michael had a close relationship with Pastor DeVelde and his wife during the last years of his life.
Michael explored ministry in the OPC in 1990, but that effort did not bear fruit. But then, in February 1999, he attended the Exploring Ministry in the OPC seminar held in La Mesa, California. The OP elders who were present saw good gifts for preaching and ministry in him. His ministerial information form was passed on to the home missions committee of the Presbytery of Northern California, which ultimately called him to be the church planter for Reformation Fellowship OPC. Michael, Barbara, and their children (Janette, 12; Samuel, 8; and Melissa, 6), arrived in Rocklin in October.
Pray for the DeLozier family as Michael cares for the faithful and pursues the lost. Rejoice in God's grace in raising up Reformation OPC.
In the providence of God, people with Reformed convictions began to converge on London, Kentucky, in the fall of 1995. As the first two families met for Bible study, many prayers were offered up to God, asking for the establishment of a Reformed church in their new home. God answered by bringing other Reformed families into this area of southeastern Kentucky. Through a variety of means, the families learned of the Bible study and became part of the group.
Contact was made with regional home missionary Jim Heemstra, living 120 miles away in Maryville, Tennessee. On a Saturday in August 1998, seven families gathered to pepper Jim with questions about the OPC and to discuss church planting. The following day, Jim and Sandy Heemstra worshiped with a group of thirty-three people in one of their homes.
Then in November, Christ Presbyterian Church was received as a mission work of the Presbytery of the South. The session of Sandy Springs Presbyterian Church in Maryville was given oversight of the work. In January 1999, Christ Presbyterian Church was able to move its worship services from private homes to rented space on a former college campus. Mr. Heemstra and Pastor Mark Marquis of Sandy Springs led the worship of Christ Presbyterian Church.
In his wonderful providence, the Lord brought Patrick Ramsey to be the church planter. Patrick, his wife, Rachel, and their children (Sean, 2, and Drew, 1) arrived in London in September 1999. Mr. Ramsey grew up in Canada, is a graduate of Covenant College, and received his Master of Divinity degree from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In November, he was ordained by the Presbytery of the South as an evangelist and installed as the church planter for Christ Presbyterian Church.
Patrick grew up in a Christian family, but he did not live a life focused on serving and glorifying Christ. "At Covenant College, he says, "I dramatically grew in my Christian walk. Being immersed in a Christian environment, for the first time, was of tremendous help to me. In his senior year, Mr. Ramsey helped to found and lead the Evangelism Club. Through this experience, he first sensed a call to gospel ministry. After graduation, he worked in a retail store. With his pastor's encouragement, he led Bible studies and was active in other ministry. With his session's endorsement, he headed for Greenville Seminary. While in seminary, he served for a year as a pastoral intern at Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia.
Patrick spent much of his younger days engaged in various athletic activities. He has retained his love for sports and enjoys basketball, soccer, skiing, and running. His other interests include books, music, and spending time with his family.
Rachel is an accomplished violinist. She began taking lessons at age two, and began teaching when she was twelve. While living in Savannah, she played with the Savannah Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her love for her children and music, Rachel loves to read.
The Ramseys are laboring to see Christ Presbyterian Church firmly established, with the goal of seeing other OP churches established in the area. It is the only Reformed church within a sixty-five-mile radius. A great need exists for solidly Reformed, Presbyterian churches in southeastern Kentucky. Many of the church's families live in towns near London, and they would like to see churches started in their communities. In the face of many obstacles, Pastor Ramsey and the people of Christ Presbyterian Church take great comfort in the fact that the gospel is the power of God for salvation. They are looking forward with hope to what our Lord has in store for London, Kentucky.
Pray for Mr. Ramsey as he ministers, that the Lord might use him to save many and develop the church.
Sovereign Grace Community Church (Orthodox Presbyterian) welcomed its church planter, Mark Richline, in October. Mark and his wife, Jeni, with their one-year-old daughter, Sabrina, had traveled across the country from New Jersey to California in answer to the Lord's call.
Mark's home church was Calvary Community OPC in Harmony, New Jersey. Through the ministries of pastors Lou Grotenhuis, George Scipione, Don Taws, and Michael Bobick, he grew in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. While a student at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, he served as a summer intern, assisting in the planting of Redeemer OPC in Toms River, New Jersey. After graduation, Mark was a yearlong intern at Church of the Covenant OPC in Hackettstown, under Pastor Ronald Pearce.
Jeni grew up in Calvary OPC in Wildwood. Jeni's dad, Jon Stevenson, is director of the Boardwalk Chapel, an evangelistic ministry of the Presbytery of New Jersey in the resort community of Wildwood. Jeni got to know many pastors and seminarians over the years. During the summer season, a different pastor came each week to minister at the Chapel. On top of that, the Chapel employed three to six seminarians each summer.
Along with Sovereign Grace Community Church, we rejoice over God's preparation of the Richlines for gospel ministry. How we praise God for sending them to this mission work that held its first worship service in October 1998, with thirty-two people present.
Hughson, California, is a small town of 3,600 people, located fifteen miles southeast of Modesto. Almond and walnut groves and vineyards surround this community. As you sit on the patio of the Sante Fe Floral and Coffee House, large fields stretch out in front of you. Many homes outside of town are tucked in among the groves.
Here God gave a group of families a growing desire to become part of a Reformed church. Through one of the families, which had been part of Grace OPC in Modesto years earlier, contact was made with the OPC. In the providence of God, retired OP pastor Salvador Solis and his wife, Amy, were living just eight miles away. Pastor Solis assisted with the ministry until the arrival of the Richlines.
After meeting in the auditorium of the local high school for several months, Sovereign Grace Community Church was able to purchase its own building, right on the main street in the heart of Hughson. A block down the street is Hamilton's Cafe, where the personalized coffee mugs of regulars line a wall.
After a big investment of sweat equity, the congregation has completed renovations to the building, which formerly housed a suite of medical offices. Walls have been removed, new paint applied, and new rugs laid. An attractive, easy-to-read sign has been installed out front.
Pray for the Richlines as they get settled in a new home far from New Jersey. Pray for Mark as he labors in the Word among the congregation and those who are strangers to the covenant of grace. Pray that Sovereign Grace Community Church would be rooted in Christ, established in the faith, and deeply rooted in the community of Hughson.
Ross W. Graham is general secretary of the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension. Reprinted from New Horizons, March 2000.
New Horizons: March 2000
Also in this issue
by Ray Bowman with Eddy Hall
Chaplains: Missionaries to the United States
by Earl W. Vanderhoff
Doctrine 101: The Deity of Christ
by Edward N. Gross
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While President Obama urged Congress to pass his $447 billion jobs bill combining tax cuts and new government spending, skepticism remains as to whether the package could kick-start the stalled economy and if it would indeed pay for itself as the President promised.
President Obama's "American Jobs Act" proposals include a 50 percent cut in payroll taxes, incentives for businesses to hire returning veterans and people who have been unemployed for more than six months, and new spending on America's infrastructure. The President said that the proposals would not increase the growing federal deficit, and that he has ambitions for long-term deficit reduction through spending cuts.
Although the President's intentions are good, the plan is unlikely to have the intended effect and may not even pass Congress. The plan is well intentioned, but a little off the mark.
- The number-one issue right now is empowering entrepreneurs to start small businesses. To do that, they need capital. but banks simply aren't lending. Many big banks have reserves on their books. President Obama should take a page out of Ronald Reagan's 1987 playbook and vow to increase taxes on assets that are sitting idle if the banks do not reach certain small business lending plateaus.
- Although the President insisted that his proposals would pay for themselves, he did not say how. There is a high likelihood that the measures will add to the growing government deficit, which puts a burden on the economy and small businesses in particular.
- When government revenues don't match its spending, it looks to increase revenue. My fear is that small business owners will suffer. Entrepreneurs don't have lobbyists like big corporations do and thus are less likely to sway government leaders against taxing their businesses.
- Providing incentives for hiring returning soldiers is a worthy and sincere aspiration. However, the reality is that many veterans do not have the job skills to compete in today's technology-driven economy. Any proposals should include some sort of training for veterans so that they can develop marketable skills – a 21st century G.I. Bill, so to speak. When people have skills they get hired. The same applies to long-time unemployed workers.
There are three things the President should have suggested, but did not:
1. Provide ncentives for small business lending. Tax incentives for hiring are nice, but if you don't have capital to launch the business, they do no good.
2. Encourage foreign direct investment into new businesses. China has been very good at this. New companies create jobs.
3. Focus on reducing the deficit, which is a time bomb. Who will be most likely to pay the piper? Small business owners, who don't have lobbyists and are an easy target for higher taxes and increased fees. (It won't be the poor or the big corporations that pay.) A large government deficit limits access to capital for the private sector in general and small businesses in particular, as they do not have access to public markets. The deficit is exactly the opposite of what small businesses need to help bring America out of its stagnant economy.
President Obama is correct in saying, "Ultimately, our recovery will be driven not by Washington, but by our businesses and our workers." In order to do that, small businesses need an environment in which they can grow. He also was right when he admitted that people cannot wait 14 months until the next Presidential election for the economy to turn around. While the new measures would likely spur employment (currently at 9.1 percent) and some growth, they are not enough to solve the country's economic woes.


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A toy store is now open in the 290 Winslow Way space long home to Winslow Drug.
Calico Toy Shoppe, which had been located in Winslow Green, moved into the former pharmacy building late last month, adding a splash of color to the storefront:
Owner Elisabeth Dahl said the Winslow Way store is roughly double the size of the Calico's Winslow Green space, giving the shop more room for toys and games.
Winslow Drug closed in May after 60 years in business.
You can see more photos of Calico's new store on Facebook.


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Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will step down as a director of the St. Joe Co., a Panhandle-based real estate development and timber company. One of Florida's largest private land owners, St. Joe historically has long been considered a politically well-connected corporation in Tallahassee.
Crist informed St. Joe of his decision last month. His formal notification appears this week in the company's proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Crist, now an attorney with the Morgan & Morgan law firm and a possible Democratic challenger to Florida Gov. Rick Scott in the 2014 election, said he will finish out his current term on St. Joe's board of directors but not seek re-election at the annual shareholders meeting on May 16.
Crist joined the St. Joe board in 2011 when activist investor Bruce Berkowitz, a mutual fund manager from Miami who owned about one-third of St. Joe's outstanding shares, won a battle for the governance of the company. He installed several prominent new directors, including Crist.


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What is the social cost of carbon? That is,the monetary value of the long-term damages done by greenhouse gas emissions? Frank Ackerman from the Stockholm Environment Institute U.S. Center, recently gave a fascinating talk at the Stockholm Resilience Centre where he presented the widely used FUND-model, an integrated assessment model of climate change that links climate change science with economics. According to Ackerman, the interesting aspect with this model is not only that it is commonly cited by policy-makers in the US, but also that some of its basic assumptions, lead to quite bizarre results. The policy implications can not be overestimated.
As Ackerman notes in the TripleCrisis blog:
True or false: Risks of a climate catastrophe can be ignored, even as temperatures rise? The economic impact of climate change is no greater than the increased cost of air conditioning in a warmer future? The ideal temperature for agriculture could be 17oC above historical levels?
All true, according to the increasingly popular FUND model of climate economics. It is one of three models used by the federal government's Interagency Working Group to estimate the "social cost of carbon" – that is, the monetary value of the long-term damages done by greenhouse gas emissions. According to FUND, as used by the Working Group, the social cost of carbon is a mere $6 per ton of CO2. That translates into $0.06 per gallon of gasoline. Do you believe that a tax of $0.06 per gallon at the gas pump (and equivalent taxes on other fossil fuels) would solve the climate problem and pay for all future climate damages?
I didn't believe it, either. But the FUND model is growing in acceptance as a standard for evaluation of climate economics. To explain the model's apparent dismissal of potential harm, I undertook a study of the inner workings of FUND (with the help of an expert in the relevant software language) for E3 Network. Having looked under the hood, I'd say the model needs to be towed back to the shop for a major overhaul.
A working paper that teases the critique in detail can be found here. To summarize the conclusions for non-economists: the social cost of carbon is way higher than $6 per ton of CO2….


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Actor-filmmaker Prabhudeva is happy with the initial response to "ABCD - AnyBody Can Dance" and gives full credit to director Remo D'Souza and producers UTV Motion Pictures.
"I am happy for Remo and the boys and girls who danced in the film and also acted. Remo and the team really gave life to the film, and UTVm because they made the film big. Full credit goes to Remo and UTV," the 39-year-old said here Friday at an apparel store.
Prabhudeva, who is not new to the Rs.100 crore club, says he never worries about the economics bit of filmmaking.
"As a director, I don't go into the money part. The tension is there when the edit is finished and it is going to the theatres. Of course as a director, people should like it. But about money... I don't go into that thing," he said.
Prabhudeva is currently working in "Ramaiya Vastavaiya" with Girish Kumar and Shruti Haasan in the lead.
His other films include "Rambo Rajkumar", starring Shahid Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha, and two untitled projects.
One stars Ajay Devgn and Deepika Padukone, and the other has Arshad Warsi and Sonakshi.


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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, September 25, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — The daunting task of making good money out of a car that no longer runs, and never will again, has become a lot easier in recent years. At least, it has in Wellington, NZ. And all thanks to the hard work and professionalism of car removal Wellington team at Kiwi Auto Wreckers.
And this past year they have made sure that they aren't resting on their laurels. They have worked their fingers to the bone to bring the Lower Hutt area a better cash for cars service than they have ever had. It is important that they continue to pay the most possible amounts of cash for used vehicles, whether they be car, Ute, truck, 4×4, or van. Kiwi Auto will pay more than any of their competitors will, because they actually care about their customers. If you are sick of being offered measly amounts for your car, you can expect to get much more from them.
The dedication and passion that they have constantly injected into everything they do is what has enabled them to constantly improve. Fortunately, they live in a society that ensures that you get out what you put in, and if there is one thing, they put in it is hard work. This has allowed them to reap massive rewards, such as a market share to die for and profits that dwarf that of all their competitors.
All of this junk car buying has ensured that Kiwi Auto have built up a giant range of used parts, which continue to fly out the door at an amazing rate. Which doesn't come as much surprise, as they do have the highest quality parts in town, at the most affordable prices. This is how you make sure that people buy your second-hand product: Don't sell them parts that you haven't reconditioned, refurbished, and tested properly. They do all these things, religiously. And all their customers know this when years have passed and the part they have bought from them is still going strong.
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And to top it all off, when Kiwi auto buy a car, they don't make the person selling it transport it back to their salvage yard on their own dime. This has been a practice of other cash for car services for too long. They have top of the line car removal equipment and they aren't afraid to use it. So if anyone ever sells a car to Kiwi Auto Wreckers, they can be certain that they are going to keep every last cent of the payment, and not have to spend any of it on removal. Another reason for why they have beat out all their opponents to retain the top spot in NZ's car wrecking industry!
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Reading this article bothered me immensely. I can't imagine how Eddie & Hannah felt.
A German translator bombarded Hollywood star Eddie Redmayne with love letters in a five year harrassment campaign after seeing him in a play, a court has heard.
Gaby Stieger, 49, repeatedly loitered outside the Oscar-winning actor's house in Southwark, south London, and sent him love letters.
She pleaded guilty to stalking at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
Redmayne described the distress it caused him and his family in a statement read to the court.
He said: "I always try to be open and friendly as support (from fans) is what gives me a career.
"I deeply regret having met Gaby Stieger – she harassed myself and my family intermittently over five years, leaving us distressed, unsafe and deeply unsettled."
She would appear outside his house "out of nowhere – observing me and my family without us knowing", he added.
"The safety of my family is everything to me and with her behaviour we can't feel safe," he wrote.
He also said her face would "contort with rage" when she spoke about his wife Hannah Bagshawe.
Stieger first met Redmayne, 35, after seeing him on stage at Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden in 2012.
The following year she began visiting the set while he was filming The Theory Of Everything and trying to get Redmayne to pose in a picture with her.
Stieger followed him and his wife to a carol service at Eton College in December 2013.
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Stieger sent Redmayne letters "expressing admiration and love", prosecutor Sara Ashkboos said.
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In one of her letters Stieger wrote: "I know things about you."
Redmayne also spotted her in the crowd in Leicester Square at the premiere of the latest Harry Potter film last year, which he had a lead role in.
He was so worried about the stalking that he contacted a solicitor and repeatedly told Stieger to leave him and his family alone.
In August 2017 Stieger approached Redmayne again outside his house, while he was with his baby daughter, and tried to touch his arm.
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From whiskey to nuclear secrets, North Korea plays a remarkably entrepreneurial role in international affairs for a Communist regime.
Pakistan and North Korea have been involved for decades in a secretive trade: The Pakistani military acquired missiles from North Korea, and Pyongyang, as part of the deal, gained access to Pakistan's uranium enrichment centrifuges. Now, new details have emerged that reveal how this relationship was smoothed by money. The Washington Post published revelations today, attributed to me, that top-level North Korean officials bribed Pakistani military officials with over $3 million in exchange for the nuclear technology. This disclosure offers fresh details about how nuclear weapon secrets have proliferated across the globe -- and provides a unique insight into the dangerous consequences of the hermit kingdom's "entrepreneurial" role in world affairs.
Pakistan and North Korea have been involved for decades in a secretive trade: The Pakistani military acquired missiles from North Korea, and Pyongyang, as part of the deal, gained access to Pakistan's uranium enrichment centrifuges. Now, new details have emerged that reveal how this relationship was smoothed by money. The Washington Post published revelations today, attributed to me, that top-level North Korean officials bribed Pakistani military officials with over $3 million in exchange for the nuclear technology. This disclosure offers fresh details about how nuclear weapon secrets have proliferated across the globe — and provides a unique insight into the dangerous consequences of the hermit kingdom's "entrepreneurial" role in world affairs.
The story, in short, is this: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, provided me with a letter written in 1998 by a high-ranking North Korean official, which laid out payments of cash and jewelry intended for two Pakistani generals in exchange for nuclear know-how. Khan, who I have been in correspondence with since the early 1980s, also provided a written narrative that described how he personally handed the money over to one of the generals. While Pakistani officials maintain that the letter is a forgery, both senior U.S. officials and the former International Atomic Energy Agency official in charge of investigating Khan said that the documents accord with their understanding of the corruption that fueled Pakistan's crucial assistance to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
But the larger issue of why North Korea has been so enthusiastic about acquiring, and subsequently exporting, nuclear technology remains unanswered. What motivated North Korea to reportedly build a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor for Syria — a project destroyed by Israeli jets in 2007? Why has Pyongyang sold missiles to Iran and may be helping the Islamic Republic with its nuclear program — perhaps with the P2 centrifuge enrichment technology that it revealed last year?
You don't have to be a specialist in East Asia, or on North Korea's "Juche" ideology of self-reliance, to know the answer. It is simple: cash. American diplomats might go on overseas postings determined "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure and prosperous world," as the State Department's mission statement puts it, but their North Korean counterparts go to make money. Indeed, they have to. It's partly because of their national ideology, and partly because of practical necessity. And it's not just about boosting Pyongyang's foreign exchange reserves.
I remember, when living in Pakistan as the BBC and Financial Times correspondent in 1978, a conversation I had with an American diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad just before the arrival of North Korean Vice President Pak Sung Chul on an official visit. I asked the diplomat, who happened to have an impish sense of humor, what would be a good question to ask Pakistani officials about North Korea.
"Why don't you ask whether North Korea will find another way of funding its embassy?" he suggested, explaining that Pyongyang did not give the embassy enough money to function. Instead, its diplomats would buy duty-free alcohol from diplomat-only stores, and then sell it at vast profit on the local black market.
Islamabad, as the capital of an Islamic state, was dry — but it was also thirsty. And the North Korean diplomats' bootlegging scheme was a very lucrative business. It drove the Pakistani government crazy, but there was little they could do about it: North Korea was an important provider of artillery and munitions for the Pakistani army.
I only got around to asking Pakistani officials about this some 20 years later, during a trip to Islamabad in summer 1998. Just before my arrival, a curious news item had appeared in the international press: The wife of a North Korean diplomat, Maj. Gen. Kang Tae-Yun, had been shot dead in Islamabad, apparently accidentally, by a neighbor's servant. (It was the transfer of her body home that is referenced in the letter published today in the Washington Post.) In conversation with a senior Pakistani official, while trying to probe the story, I recalled the anecdote about how the North Koreans funded their local embassy. He smiled ruefully and muttered: "They still do."
The most frequently mentioned line of conjecture for why Mrs. Kang was shot suggests Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the country's feared spy agency, organized the operation because it thought she was revealing information about contacts between Pakistan and North Korea to Western intelligence agencies. But North Korean official Jon Byong-Ho, who authored the letter, clearly thought that the real target was Mr. Kang — officially the North Korean economic counselor in Islamabad, but actually Pyongyang's coordinator of nuclear and missile cooperation, working closely with A.Q. Khan.
According to Khan, the Kangs were walking up their driveway of their home, when the telephone in the house started to ring. Kang rushed ahead to take the call just as a shot rang out. Kang was not hit, but his wife was peppered with shotgun pellets and fatally wounded.
An investigation by the Pakistani military found that the shot was "accidentally" fired by the neighbor's cook, who had been holding the shotgun of the neighbor's armed watchman. (The Kang's house was in a smart neighborhood of Islamabad; nearby villas were rented to Chinese military sales executives as well as a Japanese diplomat. Such houses usually have several servants and a cook, as well as a watchman on the gate.) But why would Kang have been the real target? Perhaps his greed got to him: The possibility should not be ruled out that Kang had been running commercial rackets in Islamabad, and had upset or had forgotten to pay off the right people.
But it might not have been whiskey that was Kang's game. Khan told me that, in 1997, Kang was involved with one attempt to buy so-called maraging steel from Russia, a vital material for making uranium enrichment centrifuges, particularly of the P-2 type recently observed by U.S. scientists visiting North Korea. A sample of the steel had been sent to Kang in Pakistan, but was shipped via British Airways and, unsurprisingly, impounded by British authorities. In early 1998, again according to Khan, Kang tried to buy additional undisclosed, high-tech items in Russia.
Like the North Korean diplomats who lined their pockets by running a liquor smuggling business out of the embassy in Islamabad, Kang's motives may not have been simply nationalistic. He was, I am told, trying to turn a profit on the transactions in order to fund his son's schooling. North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il provided his son with a Swiss education, and it sounds like Kang thought his child deserved the same. The Juche philosophy of self-reliance may be meant to protect the hermit kingdom, but as the experience of North Korean officials and those caught in the crossfire in Pakistan attests, it is also a good excuse to make a killing.
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During the 14th century the village was owned by the Church. In 1729 Błaszki was granted the status of a city. In spite of the limits imposed from 1823 1862 on settlements close to the border, the Jewish population of Błaszki grew during this period. Their main source of income was trade in grain and seed, and the export of eggs. There were close to 56 wage earners in the city in 1764, among them: 9 merchants, 4 distillers, 9 tailors, 1 maker of tzitzit, 5 butchers, 3 barbers, 1 glazier, and 5 makers of ritual objects.
Until the middle of the 19th century the Jewish settlement in Błaszki was subordinate to the authority of the Kalisz community and its rabbis; after that time, it was independent. Among the rabbis who it is known served the community at that time were Rabbi Leib Vladislavski (1856) and Rabbi Yechiel Vladislavski, who served at the end of the 19th century (died in 1902). At the beginning of the 20th century there was a dispute between the Hasidim and Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) as to who would be chosen as the next rabbi of the city. The latter offered as their candidate Rabbi Abba Neta Kofeffer, while the Hasidim wanted the rabbi from Chofkov. In the end, the rabbi from Chofkov was chosen, but he left the city after the fire of 1904. In 1907 Rabbi Yitzhak Kanel became the rabbi of Błaszki. At the start of the century there were two large synagogues in the city, as well as the shtiebels of the Ger, Aleksander and Sochatchov Hasidim. In 1916, a yeshiva was established in Błaszki.
In 1913 a government-run elementary school for Jewish children was established. Before World War I a sports organization called Turn Verein was established.
During the German occupation in 1916 the authorities closed all of the public Jewish institutions, including the synagogues, on the pretext of preventing epidemics. As a result of the impoverishment of the Jews during the war, a public kitchen was established in 1915 that provided hot meals to the poor of the city. After the cancellation of the prohibition against public activity by the German authorities
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in 1917, Zionist clubs were organized. In 1918 a branch of Mizrahi was established.
In the period between the wars, the Jews continued with their accustomed activities such as the grain trade, and the purchase of agricultural products from the neighboring villages for resale to urban centers. In the area of crafts, the manufacturing of men's clothing was of note. Fifteen percent of Jewish wage earners were tailors. The hat makers sent their merchandise to Poznań. Among the Jews of Błaszki there were: metal workers, watchmakers, carters and porters. Jewish owners of carts and carriages would convey people to the train station 3.5 kilometers away and transport cargo on inter-city roads. There were two Jewish banks in the city, the cooperative bank and the people's bank, which aided in the establishment of the Jewish economy in the city.
The most notable among the Zionist political parties were the General Zionists. There were approximately 200 young people in Hashomer Hazair, 100 in Beitar, and in Hechalutz 150. The Bund was influential within the professional associations. In the community organizations, Agudat Yisrael was the central force. During the period between the wars, Rabbi Yoel Fuchs served for a number of years as the rabbi of Błaszki. He was an active member of Mizrahi in Poland, which generated much tension between him and the community leaders.
In 1919 the Yavne School was founded. There was also a school for girls called Beit Yaacov. Courses were also organized for adults to study the Hebrew language. The Turn Verein sports association continued to develop activities in its field and had a membership of about 200 young Jews. A dramatics class run by Feibel Yedwab drew in youthful proponents of the arts. Cultural projects were implemented by the professional associations.
In the 1930s, the economic position of the Jewish merchants of Błaszki was undermined by the establishment of an anti-Semitic organization called Rozvei, which opened a chain of stores in the area to compete with Jewish-owned shops. In 1934, the local anti-Semites rioted against the Jews. The Poles attacked people on their way to the synagogue and beat them. Similar incidents happened in 1936. Merchants from Błaszki who traveled to the villages in the area for business purposes were injured and their property was stolen.
With the arrival of the Germans in September of 1939, ten hostages were taken from among the community's elders, and were executed in the Christian cemetery. Then began the theft of Jewish property, and an edict regarding forced labor was imposed. In December of 1939 the Jews of Błaszki were expelled and sent to several different cities in the General Government. There is information showing that the Jews of the place were exiled to Konstantynów in the Lublin area, to Łosice, to Sarnaki, and to Sokołów Podlaski. During the expulsion, a number of Jews escaped and made their way to Łódź and to Warsaw. A few Jews crossed the border into the Soviet area of eastern Poland.
After the war, one of Błaszki's Jews returned to the city and was murdered by Polish anti-Semites there.
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=Early Access - Release 0.8.1= Released: 2016-05-09 == Changes == -none -> just minor fixes == Bug Fixes == -Room graphic bug fixed -Language Switcher -> German fixed -Tutorial Fix -> Skip was not working sometimes -Tutorial reset fixed
Important Notice: We've been made aware that our discussion board was closed. This was not intended. We have reopened it and apologize for the mistake update_08.png Hello everyone. Here we are with the second content update for The Fifth Expedition. This time around we've done a lot of things under the hood. Most importantly, the alert system. The game now keeps track of the alert level within each map. Destroying parts of the security system or getting spotted by cameras will increase the alert…
=Early Access - Release 0.8.0 - Alert System Updated = Released: 2016-05-06 == Changes == -New Pathfinding -Added Linux build -Food drop chance lowered in crates -Abort and Leave only avaible via ingame button(No UI Button anymore) -Operator Skills UI improved -Added more Charges to operator skills to make them more useful -Windup Times for Enemys and Turrets (Most enemys/turrets need some time to fire at your characters) -New Movement Modes (Reckless=Ignore Traps|Careful=Dont move on Traps) -If…
= Early Access - Release 0.7.2 = Released: 2016-04-26 == Changes == -Machines will spawn later in game now -Added Flashlights to all units -First levels are now easier -Changed ration distribution (You can't give units more then they need) -Added additional info elements to unit selection -Sudden-death Timer now a lot higher -Description "Recharge Equipment" changed to "Recharge battery" -Description "Overload" changed to "Overcharge (Blow up)" -Description "NEW" changed to "FOUND" -Description …
= Early Access - Release 0.7.1 = Released: 2016-04-22 == Changes == -Added schematics to lootcrates == Bug Fixes == -Doublicated schematics in crafting =================================== = Early Access - Release 0.7.0.0 = Released: 2016-04-22 == Changes == -Game Start switch to Campphase -Changed Patchnotes beta to Early Access -Corpses are now lootable -You can now Charge a other characters battery with yours -Added new Items into the game(Example:Ghostarmor) -Added Tutorial text to campphase …
Hello everyone! Just for a quick update and to make the little news update a bit more interesting, here's some previews for new items we will be adding with the next update, which is fast on it's way. Ghost Armor: Become undetectable while not moving. ghostarmor.jpg Shield Generator: Gain a shield that absorbs some incoming damage. shield4.gif Lastly, we're also adding a feature that will allow you to reclaim equipment from dead characters. reclaimitems.png
Roadmap The Fifth Expedition is a game under active development. As such, not every planned feature is fully implemented yet. This roadmap serves as an outline of what we currently have planned. We will update the roadmap with every major update to the game to reflect the current state of things. To give a better overview, the roadmap is split into two categories. The big things, game changing new features we have planned to flesh out the core gameplay. And the little things, minor tweaks and fi…
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Notice This guide is not yet complete, more sections will be added later to explain the in depth mechanics of the game. The Basics Missions In the Fifth Expedition, you will face a series of scouting missions. Your goal in each mission is to find the control room and enter it with at least one person alive. Once the control room is entered by one character, you can leave the mission and proceed. The mission also ends if either all characters are dead or the mission is aborted. To abort a mission…
If you like to make lets plays or streams of our game: Please spare us sending thousand of mails to our email accounts and use : https://www.keymailer.co/g/games/24709 Instead ! We need to confirm your youtube / Steam / Twitch accounts before we give you a free key. There a way to much impostors going around for reselling keys. You can also reach us directly via youtube on our snapjawgames channel , but we will always prefer keymailer . Thank you very much ! And Game on ! The Snapjaw Games Team
=Early Access - Release 0.8.2= Released: 2016-05-10 == Changes == -Changed a some room layouts -Changed the tutorial text for the control room == Bug Fixes == -Savegames where not working correctly sometimes - Fixed -Fixed fire in a room -Fixed nondestructable passages -Hanging caused some weird behavior - fixed =Early Access - Release 0.8.1= Released: 2016-05-09 == Changes == -none -> just minor fixes == Bug Fixes == -Room graphic bug fixed -Language Switcher -> German fixed -Tutorial Fix -> Sk…
So far so good, i added you into the Beta-Tester User Group so you can actually see the links Lordofriva posted. To your question 3 : Yes we do have a Roadmap. I will hopefully today write it down into the forum. The Roadmap itself will be present in the game on startup. With each major update you will get a popup in the main menu on start that tells you what features are in, and what features we are still working on.


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Photographer asks Rivers if United States will have a gay president
Rivers says U.S. already has transgender first lady, Michelle Obama
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Who needs Fourth of July fireworks when you have Joan Rivers around?
The comedian known for her lack of self-censoring recently officiated a same-sex wedding and was asked by a photographer if she believed the United States would ever see the first gay or female president. Her response was typical Rivers.
"We already have it with Obama, so let's just calm down," she said. "You know Michelle (Obama) is a trans."
When asked to further explain Rivers said, "A transgender. We all know it."
A representative for Rivers released the following statement to CNN from the comic about her remarks to the photographer:
"I think it's a compliment. She's so attractive, tall, with a beautiful body, great face, does great makeup. Take a look and go back to La Cage Au Follies (sic). The most gorgeous women are transgender. Stop it already … and if you want to talk about 'politically correct,' I think this is a 'politically incorrect' attack on me because I'm old, Jewish, a woman and a 'hetty' – a heteosexual … and I plan to sue the reporter who, when he turned off his camera, tried to touch me inappropriately on the a** - luckily he hit my ankle. Read the book … if you think that's silly, wait to (sic) you see what I say about FDR and Eleanor!"
Rivers is no stranger to controversy. In March 2013 she refused to apologize for a joke she made about the dress "Project Runway" host Heidi Klum wore to the Academy Awards.
"The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens," Rivers said while appearing on the E! channel's "Fashion Police" show.
The Anti-Defamation League slammed Rivers, calling the remark "vulgar and hideous," but she said it was her way of getting people to talk.
"It's a joke, No. 1. No. 2 it is about the Holocaust," she told HLN's "Showbiz Tonight. "This is the way I remind people about the Holocaust. I do it through humor."
Of course, this latest dust-up coincides with Rivers' book, "Diary of a Mad Diva," which was released on July 1. Rivers' representative told CNN, "These are all funny jokes. The book is hysterical. The prologue says if anyone takes anything in the book seriously (he or she) is an idiot. And (Rivers) says if anyone has a problem with that, they can feel free to call her lawyer Clarence Darrow."
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Hello, Blogspace. It's been three months since I've posted anything here. I've thought about it often. I just haven't for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the biggest is a lack of incentive. Other excuses include winter weariness, social media burnout and pure laziness.
Maintaining a blog is typically not part of the job for journalists. But I started blogging on my personal website NancyLoo.net back in 2009, not long after jumping onto the early swell of the social media tidal wave. A blog is an ideal personal and professional outlet. I enjoy writing and sharing stories – exactly why I love being a journalist. On Friday, a counterpart at another station remarked, "Why bother? You're not getting paid for it." Such comments do make me wonder why I would create more work for myself in such a competitive business. Maybe the answer is in that last sentence.
It was a few months after establishing NancyLoo.net that I was approached by Chicago Now, the blogging community launched in 2009 by the Tribune Company which also owns WGN-TV. The title "Big Tiny World" came about because of my nickname "Big Tiny" which, of course, I've blogged about. Back then, I was blogging for extra bucks. Not a lot. But enough for lunch money and a lot of sour gummy candy. For over a year, driving web traffic became a heady addiction. I was plotting and planning pictures and posts to maximize web hits.
At that time, I was working at another TV station. But when I switched stations in 2010, joining WGN-TV was a natural transition since I was already with the Tribune Company in a small way. Eventually, my blog moved here to the WGN website and that wiped out my extra lunch and candy money. I've continued to blog whenever I've felt like it – sharing stories behind the stories – running into gangbangers, seeing dead people or finding a great story through an Instagram hashtag.
In December of 2012, WGN switched to a new web platform and every contributor lost all previous content. Bummer. We also stopped getting daily emails on web analytics. I think I was among the few in the newsroom who was interested. I still am. My primary job remains traditional reporting on television. But the web is a pivotal frontier since social media drives news consumption more than ever.
Last week, I was reminded how this "work on top of work" can enhance my reach as a journalist. If you Google "pronounce Matteson", my blog post from last year "How To Properly Pronounce Matteson, IL" is the first result. A friend at another station let me know since Matteson was in the news due to a community alert about a potential serial rapist. I would lose that "first result" status if I did away with this blog.
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While Microsoft was assembling a promotional booth to celebrate their Windows 7 launch directly opposite the Japan Linux Symposium in Tokyo, Microsoft's biggest competitor couldn't resist spontaneously recognizing the textbook exercise in irony.
According to AMD's Chris Schlaeger, participating at the 1st Annual Japan Linux Symposium (October 21-23) in Tokyo, at one point a small group led by Linux founder Linus Torvalds took a break to go to the Windows 7 booth that was coincidentally (or not) located just opposite the symposium, there to dwell on the meaningfulness of the situation.
Schlaeger, in the role of photographer at the event, was of the opinion that Microsoft intentially set up its Window 7 booth on its launch date specifically at the Linux Symposium to compromise the latter's success. However, the setup was just too much of a temptation for Torvalds. By his own admission, he often jokes about Microsoft, but stays clear of direct bashing.
Linux is everywherelook at your phone, your HD Tvs, digital cameras,dvd players, Gaming Systems (other than Xbox) printers, synthisyzers, most GPS units, Mp3 Players, Security Systems, all of them are run by a form of linux. we use linux in our everyday lives. without linux, we wouldn't have high tech games, software, or anything else because we wouldve had to program them under windows and mac, and NOBODY programs under windows or mac, because linux is king.
Good on Microsoft for showing up with a real home/business systemI had tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu before Windows 7. Windows 7 won because it runs all my Windows applications that I ran on XP for the last 9 years. I personally like the way Windows 7 works a whole lot more to. Using the Classic Start Menu program and I liked the date format as Tue 15 Feb like Linux had so I set my windows to be like that. Also Windows 7 is supported by a big corporation who gives a crap about customer service. I got the Ultimate version for $99 delivered. I think it's a great product and it deserves to be used by many home users the world over. Until Linux has mainstream support from gaming companies it will never be accepted. It's the same with the Mac, they're just not a player outside of the US. Also lets face it OpenOffice isn't anything!!!!! like Office 2010 for features and specs. Being able to open an office file format is a far cry from what that suite can do. I use Office XP and that's about where Open Office is currently at. I know because I've used it, and still do on a laptop. Mind you Office XP is 2002. That's 9 years behind. It's just another reason Linux will never be the system of industry. It's great for servers because it's basically UNIX and all servers and mainframes were UNIX way back when. So that's no big whoop. What Microsoft did was bring computing to everyones home. You should all thank them.
Windows Rocks!Windows Really Rocks, and the fact that it took 24 years to get to an "stable version", well, at least the most stable off 'em all, Just ´cause an OS is more sell than other doesn't mean that is better than other, it's all about stability, not marketting, in fact windows is so reliable that is barely used in servers, so bob, understand this, is not quantity is quality!!!
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BahLinux sucks and Torvalds failed.
The only (little) occasion for Linux was during the starting of Vista, when it was rejected by lot of people.
With the great success of 7 Microsoft gained back what was lost with Vista, and Linux stepped back to the miserable 2-3% of home users.
Linux more reliable than osx ? What the hell ?
mmmhmmmm> to Mr. "mmmhmmmm" I just couldn't help myself but to ask, are you an idiot?
I could say the same, but that would be stupid.
> The fact that you said Linux distros have problems, windows have problems and EVEN (god forbid!) Macintosh has problems points to a strong indication you are nothing more than a product of sheer marketing.
No it doesn't.
> "even mac"? Linux is more reliable than MAC is, ask any Linux guru that.
Great, as long as your definition of "Linux guru" is someone that agrees with you.
> The way you phrased that shows you know nothing and just watch "all those commercials and all"... yes I am making fun of your other comment: "all those commands and all" ... that line there automatically labels you for what you are -- a moron.
With all you blethering, you forgot to make an argument.
> What I can't believe is no one came along and reamed you out before for your ridiculous mind-numbingly stupid, yet a hint of know-it-all, comment.
Yes, funny that. Yet you still don't reconsider your beliefs. You are exactly the kind of person that the comment is aimed at.
> I've always felt that Internet access is a right but you make a great case for an argument to change it to a privilege.
Be careful what you wish for. You don't have much chance of gaining that privilege. Although you're not the only one
mmmhmmmmto Mr. "mmmhmmmm" I just couldn't help myself but to ask, are you an idiot?
The fact that you said Linux distros have problems, windows have problems and EVEN (god forbid!) Macintosh has problems points to a strong indication you are nothing more than a product of sheer marketing. "even mac"? Linux is more reliable than MAC is, ask any Linux guru that. The way you phrased that shows you know nothing and just watch "all those commercials and all"... yes I am making fun of your other comment:
"all those commands and all" ... that line there automatically labels you for what you are -- a moron.
What I can't believe is no one came along and reamed you out before for your ridiculous mind-numbingly stupid, yet a hint of know-it-all, comment. I've always felt that Internet access is a right but you make a great case for an argument to change it to a privilege.
mmmhmmmmFact is, you all need lives. Every distro has issues in Linux, every version of Windows has issues, even Mac has issues. Sitting here arguing over who has the best operating system is ridiculous and infantile. Use what suits you. Get over yourselves. Computers aren't simple machines and therefore operating systems aren't SIMPLE either. Sit down, get over ALL your smug attitudes, and think about it. DOS is where it started and it wasn't simple. All the commands and all. Think about it. You messed up one character and you had to start again. DOS never had too many issues. Windows has. So in my opinion, all your goofy efforts... ALL of you Microsoft, Apple, and Linux alike has killed PCs. So grow up people. No operating system is better than the other. Some have more benefits than others but there's pros and cons to everything...
Vista was anything but fastMay be now Win 7 is faster, I do not think that many people can say that about preious Microsoft OS, especially if the hardware was old.
FTWYo! Mikell you suck, win7 easy hahaha, try looking MacOSX then you know win7 is a rip-off, and btw, Linux FTW!!
Please don't feed the troll!Windows may be my bread and butter, but Linux is my drug of choice!!
windoze7Just look at Linus's smile, he's really enjoying it!
Practical reasons to care about Free software...Have any of you ever thought about the installation process? When having to install a Windows system I always feel this sense of dread. I'm going to have to sit there while it installs and then download all the drivers and install them and then go looking for software etc. It's a real hassle if you find it needs network drivers and usb drivers - download drivers on another machine, burn a cd and then install. Yuck.
And then a few months down the line I realise that a new version of X application is out. So I then start trawling through all those same sites that I downloaded those drivers or software from just to keep that system and the software up to date... Or I rely on the fact that alot of programs will tell me they need updating... as soon as I open them up. Oh hey, I just wanted to get going not sit around waiting for a damn update.
With Linux though, I install it, and my hardware works! Most of it anyway. No trawling through sites having to download the drivers. I've got most of the software I need installed by default and I don't have to trawl through websites looking for what I want. The distribution has done it for me.
And updates? No going through individual websites to get updates. Even better, I don't find that as soon as I open an application it's telling me there's an update and you'd better go visit their support or download page.
And then if I don't like the way a distribution does it, I have a choice. I can change my distribution if that's what does it for me.
And why the big difference? Because when things are Free, we've got the freedom to do things better...
you are a trollmikkel,
you are a troll and an idiot
MikkelNerds like you, Mikkel, may be happy with a lame duck like Win 7 .
( I guess you were as happy too with Vista )
But it will end like all the other Win distributions: the betatest is running now, with the
help of the paying user/customer . In a few years the "new" system will -maybe- performing
like the old XP .....
Nothing new ...., so keep on dreaming with your both eyes closed ))))
Ower dream is here now Linus - You did it.Reply to rant Mikkel Oct 26, 2009
it is obvious that you have never kept up with the headlines news of windows 7 reports When a half ashed company as big as MS is turns out crap operating system and a A$$ olds idiots like you supports it to th hilts, it shows just how much common scenes you have between your hears,
One needs to look back and remember why Linus Torvalds started what he did and the reasons why,
Window 1,2, 3 and windows for work groups total disasters but workable if you had the hardware divers,
Windows 95 better than it's predecessors but still lacked manufactures support for hardware drivers, now you got the BSoD instead of a systems lock up,
Packhard Bell became history because of windows 98 disastrous lack of hardware drivers, every computer that left the factory was returned to the factory because they crash within an hour of turning them on, Windows ME well what can be said about that so called Microsoft's state of the art operating system.
Out of the ashes of window ME came NTFS 2000, with it major security holes then the next branch off came XP with it's many flavors still with the same security problems of NTFS 2000,, of which it took MS 6 years and 3 service packs later to get it XP reasonably sound and working. But still with the same security problems from NTFS 2000,
Then came Vista another windows ME preposterous episode, then out of the ashes of Vista comes the Vista upgrade renamed Windows 7, still with the same security problems six years later, reported here in this web link
And you have the cheek and audacity to mention Linux problems Come on man blow your nose, wipe those tears from your eyes, then you may see the writing on the wall through the light of day, whats in store for Microsoft
Linus-Windows-7-rocks-NOT.jpgAlso see http://www.xs4all.nl/~bjdouma/Linus-Windows-7-rocks-NOT.jpg
My my my... tried Prozac lately? I would recommend shutting your eyes, stepping one big foot back from your computer, taking ten deep, relaxing, breaths, and stabbing yourself in the neck with that stick thats firmly crammed up your A?!.
Seriously though. I will concede that there are a few areas where Windows seems to be ahead of linux- for example power management and out-of-the-box hardware support, but it is a very uninformed and arrogant assertion you have made. Linux has many advantages over Windows- security and stability to name just two, err... minor ones. Also, this jumbled mess of distributions you are seeing is what some call the freedom of choice. Also.. oh screw it- who wants to convince you anyways. We're probably (certainly!) better off without you. Enjoy your BSOD point-and-click DRM'ed talking paperclip he!! you seem to love so much.
TrollLOL @ Mikkel. Nice trolling, man.
linux rocks@Mikkel
Some things windows does better, even XP. Some things linux does better. Personally, I prefer the Free of Linux. It scales better, without licensing hassle. This is particular important with virtual machines, or clusters. Even if Windows is slightly faster, the $200 or whatever the licensing fee is, will buy a huge jump in hardware, CPU, memory, disk, etc.
Windows excels in the land of proprietary. Flash, Windows Media, video drivers, etc. However, do you really want to hookup a Windows box unfirewalled to the internet? I have no such anxiety with my linux box, as I can easily secure it. And by extension, I prefer to do online banking, and other similar things via an inherently more secure and predictable operating system.
Your dream is gone Linus - Deal with itLinus, you had a nice idea, a dream even. However it wasn't supposed to be. Look at what Linux has become, an endless jungle of distros, breakaways and endless crap to deal with these days. Just look at the pop-posterboy Ubuntu. Seriously, Win7 runs FASTER AND SMOOTHER than a linux distro, who would have thought? Your smug attitude would have suited you about 10 years ago, now it's time to realize the big bad company is pounding your baby to dust because now Windows is faster, lighter, intuitive and EASY. I know elitist like you would probably want an OS to be complicated instead of easy but luckily your kind is a dying breed now.
Either fez up and turn the sinking linux ship around or stfu.
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Initially, this was released as the CDr companion to the Graveyard Of Whorer tape released on Toe Products in 2006. It next saw the light of day as part of the Reptilian Corpse And Dirt tape jointly released on Breathing Problem Productions and Drug Money Records in 2008. I've never been able to get even close to either of those tapes. Luckily for me, Urashima released this track as an extravagantly packaged business card CDr in 2013 in an edition of 20. It's short and sweet and was worth the wait.
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- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
These triple-digit temperatures make us all thirst for water.
Honey bees need water, too.
If you see them taking a sip from your birdbath or taking a dip in your pool, the "sip" means they're collecting water for their hive, and the "dip" could mean they're dying, says retired Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
"Like most other animals, the bodies of honey bees are mostly water," he points out. "Thus, they need to drink water routinely as we do. Additionally, water (or sometimes nectar) is critical for diluting the gelatinous food secreted from the head glands of nurse bees, so that the queen, developing larvae, drones, and worker bees can swallow the food. They use water to keep the brood nest area at the proper relative humidity, especially when it gets hot and dry outside the hive. Water droplets, placed within the brood nest area, are evaporated by fanning worker bees and that cools (air conditions) the brood nest area to keep the eggs and developing brood at the critical 94 degrees Fahrenheit required for proper development."
On extremely dry, hot days, all bee foraging except for water will cease, Mussen says. "Under those conditions it has been estimated that the bees may be bringing back nearly a gallon of water a day."
Unlike us, honey bees cannot simply turn on a faucet. "They will fly up to nearly five miles to find a suitable watering source," Mussen says. "Suitable to honey bees might not be suitable to us, but if it is moist, it may be visited. Suitable to the neighbors is a separate question. Honey bees can become quite a nuisance if they visit drippy irrigation lines or hose connections, birdbaths, pet water dishes, swimming pools, fountains, or wet laundry and the like. The water foragers become habituated to those sites. If you try to dissuade the bees by drying up the source for a while, it becomes evident that the bees will visit the site every so often so they'll be around quickly after the water is returned."What to do? "People have tried to use repellents in the water, but the bees are likely to use the odor as an attractant when attempting to relocate the water source," Mussen points out. "Some people have had success keeping bees and wasps out of their swimming pools with very lightweight oils or monomolecular films--their purpose is to prevent mosquitoes from being able to breathe. But, if the water is splashed very much, you'll require a new layer."
And all those bees struggling in your swimming pool? "Not all moribund honey bees in a swimming pool are there because they were trying to get a drink. Every day, approximately 1,000 old honey bees from each colony die naturally. This normally occurs during foraging, and the bees just flutter down to the ground, sidewalk, driveway, parking lot, or whatever they were passing over. Some flutter into swimming pools. They are not dead, yet, so they can and do inflict stings on people who bump into them on the surface of the water. "
Beekeepers should make sure there's a watering source on their property so the bees won't hunt for water elsewhere, Musssen says. It should be available all year around. "Once the bees are habituated to the site, most of them will use that source."
One good thing to know: Bees don't like to get their feet wet. In the Garvey birdbath, we have floating wine corks just for the bees. They can land on a cork to sip water or simply sip from the edge of the birdbath. Besides wine corks, you can also use a stone, a twig or a flat chunk of cork. The Melissa Garden, a privately owned garden in Healdsburg that was designed by internationally distinguished bee garden designer Kate Frey of Hopland, includes a flat floating cork in a fountain. On any given day, you'll see bees claiming it as their own.
Thanks again, rv
Thank you
According to Extension apiculturist (emeritus) Eric Musssen: "It is true that honey bees require some water or nectar any time that they would be consuming pollen and honey, since both have to be diluted to be swallowed and utilized by the bees. We tell beekeepers to ventilate their hives during the winter because the heat rising from the winter cluster is moist air. Without ventilation, the moisture accumulates on the upper-most surface of the hive. A good-sized colony population produces quite a bit of moisture, and it can condense and shower back down on the cluster."
"If they need it, the bees usually can go up to the top of the hive and recover the water, when it isn't frozen. They also can lick up condensate on the cooler combs at the outside of the cluster.
"I have never heard of honey bee colonies suffering from dehydration during the late winter. As the days warm up, there is snow and ice melt from which the bees can sip, then the rains begin to fall."


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Gaza Strip, Palestine 6 March 2007
I heard my name called out as I walked swiftly past the main police station in Gaza City. One of the three policemen gathered there walked over to me, a cigarette dangling from his lips. I had met Ahmed the second week I was in Gaza, when I went to play volleyball with Palestine's best team, located in the Jabalya refugee camp. Ahmed was their star player. Warming up that day I paired up with Ahmed, which lead to a slew of questions about my coming to Gaza and sparked the beginning of our friendship. On one occasion when Ahmed was stationed by the building I live in, he snuck up while he was on duty and managed a few hours of sleep, leaving at 6 am in order to appear before the senior officer to end his shift. Ahmed was a member of the presidential guard, a player on the Palestinian national volleyball team, a father and was also studying to be a school teacher so as not to have to be a soldier anymore. This evening I learned what had caused this desire to grow stronger over the course of the past six weeks.
At the height of fighting between Fatah and Hamas, a Fatah-affiliated base was surrounded by Hamas forces. Ahmed was among the 150 soldiers inside the station. The gun battle continued most of the night, until at 6:30 am when Ahmed's side ran out of ammunition. The station was stormed; the senior officer was executed. In total, 15 men were killed or severely injured that night in the course of battle. The station was burned to the ground. Ahmed did not return to work for one month. The evening I saw him was his first on duty since returning to headquarters. After questioning his absence, his superiors threatened him and then sent him back to work at a new location. And so, tonight, Ahmed was back on duty, a Kalashnikov awkwardly hanging around his shoulder, a thin beard adorning his face.
I asked him about the volleyball team. The volleyball season had ended and only the final match remained. Ahmed's team was Fatah-affiliated and its only real competitor was its archrival, fitted in green uniform, none other than the Hamas team.
I wondered what would be going through Ahmed's mind the day of the match. He had seen his colleagues and officers killed in front of his eyes by masked gunmen of the opposing faction. Very soon some of those same men may be facing him again, but on the court for a friendly game of volleyball. Hidden that night behind balaclavas, he would never know if they were the same people.
Philip Rizk is an Egyptian-German who has lived in Gaza since August 2004 where he works and writes. Philip runs a blog: tabulagaza.blogspot.com.
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Yahoo's big move to mobile: Little to report just yet
More than 200 million unique monthly users now on Yahoo, but CEO Marissa Mayer says the work to date has had only a minor impact on the company's business.
A lot of investors got understandably excited. After years of musical chairs at the top, finally there was a new boss who "got it." This proverbial platform change was something that could help return the pizzazz to Yahoo. Mobile could pave the way for Yahoo to use search and personalization in new ways and take advantage of a formidable stock of daily content. The company's stock reflected that new-found optimism, increasing in value some 30 percent since Mayer took over last fall. But expectations may have hopscotched ahead of reality. One takeaway from today's earnings conference call was that Mayer doesn't yet have much to point to in terms of results. At least not just yet.
"There's a little bit of the shift to mobile affecting us there, but mobile usage is pretty incremental and additive to the experience," Mayer said after Yahoo posted slightly better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings.
To be sure, she did not signal any deviation from the mobile strategy articulated earlier. In fact, Mayer made a point of offering props to Yahoo developers for coming up with a new Flicker iOS app, categorizing their work as "a huge win for Yahoo and our passionate users." She said the release of the new iOS app had helped contribute to a 25 percent increase in the number of photos "uploaded, viewed, and shared on a daily basis."
But that would be the only meaningful hard number about mobile offered during the course of an hour-long Q&A session. Asked about metrics for mobile, she demurred.
"In terms of metrics to track for mobile, we are not breaking it out separately right now," Mayer said. "We're offering new metrics right now, price per click, and paid clicks. Here, I really believe this is about the user migration to mobile and the fact that we have 200 million (unique monthly users) for mobile -- I would look at the overall numbers there, the revenue will follow."On that first conference call in October, Mayer underscored the importance of that platform shift, and it continued apace during the course of the last year. She said that mobile adoption had grown in 2012 to "more than 200 million unique monthly users." In the same breath, she added that "from a monetization perspective this is still a very nascent source of revenue for us." At one point during today's session, one questioner asked whether Mayer saw a risk to Yahoo assuming the prospect that rising mobile usage in search leads to the cannibalization of desktop-based Internet searches.
Again, she said, it's "incremental":
There may come a point where cannibalization happens, and we're positioning ourselves to understand mobile. In terms of having 50 percent of our engineering staff on mobile, I think this is something that'll happen. To date, we have started to shift some of our engineering teams to be more focused on mobile. We need to get to a critical mass on that. We've nicely grown the area with the fact that we hired 120 new computer science degrees in Q4, and those people are largely being allocated to new areas.
In other words, more news to follow. Just not this time around.
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