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Informed and reasoned contributions to the debate about all the options available to Government are very welcome. Unfortunately, yesterday's contribution from Mr McWilliams fails on both scores.
He then totally fails to address David's point which is that NAMA and a blanket guarantee of bank liabilities can't co-exist without creating a huge moral hazard - If NAMA makes their previous sins go away and the guarantee gives them the financial credability of Ireland when borrowing money what incentive is there for them to act rationally? Bear in mind that nobody us suggesting that the protection for retail investors be dropped - just that once NAMA is up and running the bank should be on a viable footing and aren't supposed to need government backing.
I think that given the circumstances Mr. McWilliams has been pretty mild. Sooner or later Lenihan's going to have to answer questions like:
- Why hasn't the managment of the banks been cleared out?
- Why did the government voluntarily take non-voting preference equity which leaves them with *no authority* at the boardroom table?
- How will NAMA value assets?
- Why did he hack at the income of the middle class instead of confronting the unsustainable costs of the public sector?
- Why isn't the government forcing the ESB and Bord Gais to reduce prices? Doing so would have a bigger practical effect than restoring the Xmas bonus.


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Burned-out star offers Whole Earth Telescope team insights into sun's future
June 6, 2011 - Judi Provencal, the University of Delaware astronomer, has been busy staffing the command center for a star watch of epic proportions, the latest observing run of the Whole Earth Telescope (WET). This global collaboration of observatories collects asteroseismic data—information on stellar waves that pass through hot stars in the cosmos like earthquakes pass through Earth—to determine what's going on inside these exploding balls of hydrogen and helium gas.
Every day for the past six weeks, Provencal has encouraged faithful observers at 15 major telescopes in 11 countries, from Brazil to China, to focus their lenses on a handful of white dwarfs. These stars have used up all the fuel at their core and while they are still very hot, they are actually slowly cooling, a process that will take billions to trillions of years. Eventually, that's what will happen to the sun, Provencal says.
The team's primary target, GD358, is a white dwarf 120 light years away from Earth. Provencal has been studying it since she completed graduate school in 1994; her thesis adviser actually discovered the star.
"This star has changed a lot even since we started watching it several weeks ago," notes Provencal, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy who directs the Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center (DARC). "It's pulsating, or sloshing around, at new frequencies. Think of a pulsating star as a bell. If you have a bell and ring it, it makes a certain tone, but now suddenly it has a different tone. Well, what accounts for that? This is a challenge for the theorists."
An astronomical relay team
Each participating observatory photographs the target star every 20 seconds throughout the night. As sunrise nears, the task is handed off to the next observatory where night has fallen, and so on. All of the images—hundreds of gigabytes of data—are transmitted daily to a computer in Provencal's UD office.
The data is then transferred over the Internet to Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory in Greenville, Del., where it is reduced using software written by UD doctoral student James Dalessio. The observatory and the Crystal Trust are supporting the research.
"From all these images, we'll pull out how many photons of light are coming from the star in a plot called a light curve," Provencal says. The light curves are posted on the DARC website every day so the observers can see the data as the run proceeds.
"The star gets brighter and dimmer every 10 minutes because it is pulsating," she explains. "The peaks in the light curve represent when the star is pulsating outward. From these data, we can determine the frequency of the pulsations, and theoretical physicists like my colleague Mike Montgomery at the University of Texas at Austin can tell us what is happening inside the star."
After all of the number crunching and analysis, the research team will report their findings in a scientific paper. Generally, it is ready for publication about a year after an observing run, Provencal says.
One question Provencal hopes to answer is whether or not GD358 has a magnetic cycle, meaning that a magnetic field will tug on one side of the star and cause a shift in its rotation every so many years.
"We don't understand why the sun has a magnetic field, although only a weak one," she notes. "We're trying to confirm that this star is similar to what the sun will become in about 4 billion years."
One of WET's secondary targets, a star called KIC10139564, more than 300 light years away (the equivalent of more than a quadrillion miles), also is being watched by NASA's Kepler satellite. Yet no one has compared the satellite's timings to see how good its clock is, Provencal says. The WET team's data will help with the evaluation.
When WET started in 1980, having as many as eight telescopes on a run was an achievement, but under Provencal, more than double that number now participate. Her enthusiasm is infectious.
"We're all interested in the science and get along really well," she notes. "It's also just plain fun."
The team's good humor and dedication continually impress Provencal.
She points out that a student from Poland with an injured foot is manning a telescope in Croatia, and that the robotic telescope at Mt. Lemmon in Arizona is being remotely operated by scientists in South Korea. And there's still snow at Russia's Peak Terskol Observatory at an elevation of 10,000 feet in the Caucasus Mountains. Aleksandr Sergeev, the observer there, has two cats to keep him company.
"He says the cats 'sweep away the clouds,'" Provencal says, grinning.
When Provencal needs to clear her mind in the midst of such a long observing run, she goes horseback riding. Are her horses named "Star" or perhaps "Comet"?
"No," Provencal says, "but I do have a cat named 'Sparkles.'"

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So the big shocking news (or non-shocker, depending on your view) is that Palm is making itself available for sale. It's a little too early in the game to jump to wild conclusions but Bloomberg sources say that HTC and Lenovo are both in the mix to make a bid to buy Palm. And though Lenovo has some Android ties, no company has backed Android like HTC. HTC buying Palm would be epically huge in this smartphone world of ours. Epic. -ally. Huge
Think about it. HTC produces stellar hardware for both Android and Windows Mobile. Some could say that HTC is half the reason why Android is so successful and why Windows Mobile is still alive. If HTC suddenly bought Palm, would HTC start building webOS devices as well? Or would they stop manufacturing devices for Android and Windows Mobile and go strictly webOS? Or would nothing happen, and HTC simply let Palm stay Palm and just continue to build for Android and Windows Mobile? There are questions abound and the ramifications would be huge because half of the players in the smartphone space are involved (other half being: Apple, RIM, and Nokia).
And we're not familiar with patent law, but could HTC buy Palm and use Palm's library of patents against Apple in Apple's lawsuit? Ammo for a potential don't sue me because I can sue the pants off you type move? But if Palm's patents are that valuable, wouldn't everyone be interested? There's so many more questions to ask that we can't wait to see this thing develop. The smartphone world as we know it is going to change.
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It's more than a group. It's a blog!
You can see some of the early thinking here...
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When the blog launches, this is where it will live: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjasfr/
This will be our fourth language TechNet Wiki blog!
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Review of Signs of Subversive Innocents
"Cora Siré's outstanding debut has material for several books. Her subjects include travel, exile, geology, works of art, and Latin American history. The travel poems are not quick tourist snapshots: she has an impressive knowledge of Vietnam, and her poems about Argentina's sad history have tragic depth. The personal themes – diasporic dislocation, the struggles of love – are as piercing as the quena, the Andean flute that she writes about in a poem of brilliant metaphoric phrases, the equivalents of musical notes.
Her poem "Zeitgeist," which is illustrated on the cover, describes an artist cycling through a dreary December cityscape carrying a large canvas that bears a work of art created in a "generous space." In spite of the masculine pronoun given to "this guy," he seems a reflection of the poet herself. The generous space of this book is filled with formal ingenuity, ranging from rhymed stanzas to glosas based on the writing of the Uruguayan poet, Delmira Agustini. Her tour de force is a double ethere, a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci best read, she says, from the bottom up and from right to left. Da Vinci used mirror writing as a code, which makes the tribute appropriate. Occasionally her rhymes are excessive – sounds placed too close together or too strained to work – but these are excesses of exuberance. Her range includes the plaintive Andean flute, but she commands an orchestra."
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Tea Time10.08.2013
Tea time is quite commonplace at the Lovey manor. On lazy weekends of course... Especially if it's raining. I'm hoping for some Fall weather this next week.. And by "next week," I mean TOMORROW! It's supposed to rain! And plus I simply need cooler weather because I've recently purchased some Harney & Sons Pumpkin Spice tea that smells DELICIOUS!
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I -love- tea. It feels a little bit clichéd to say it since I'm English, but there is nothing better than a hot cup of tea to soothe your worries away. It always makes me feel better ^_^ReplyDelete
i love tea but then i think that is an english thing :)ReplyDelete
I've recently started drinking more tea in the last few years. I'm not really a coffee drinker, so it's nice when it's cold or when I'm sick. I drank some today because it was raining yay! Where did you get the pumpkin tea?ReplyDelete
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A columbarium is a place for final rest of cremated remains. Our columbarium has 128 niches or spaces for urns containing cremated remains. Cremation is in accord with Episcopal Church teaching. Our columbarium was blessed by the Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel, Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia in 2016.
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"I'm a student of Games Art currently working on my dissertation. . .my question is this;
Assuming you have Woods A and Woods B as 2 separate paths the players can take but that regardless of their choice they will encounter the Ogre at the end of either; would player agency still have been removed if the journey through Woods A and the information or experiences therein painted the Ogre as an enemy, while the journey through Woods B sympathized with the Ogre, thereby changing the players perception of the Ogre based on the route they chose?"
Oh, how we complicate things that are simple. Player agency isn't removed in either of the situations. The players take no action that the Dungeon Master subverts. There's no action taken that impacts agency. The players make a choice with no information and one of two encounters is presented.
If they had taken some action before, investigating the woods, looking for tracks, etc. and had an intent that was subverted ("We want to avoid the ogre") that would be a different situation. Picking between two doors with no information about either and having one of two encounters has nothing to do with agency.
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Linear or Sandbox
"The reason I ask this is because player agency seems to play a significant roll (sic) in whether a game could be deemed as linear or open world and a point of debate seems to be having multiple routes to the same objective. From the bigger picture, 2 paths between point A and point B could simply be seen as a single path with a large obstacle in the middle and the 2 paths simply being the way the player chooses to go around it. However, on a closer look, if each path grants a different perspective on point B, or simply provides a different experience, then the player's choice retains its significance and could also determine how the player chooses to deal with the Ogre therefore preserving the players agency despite the inevitable encounter with the Ogre."
There is a real question here. Dane is talking about video games (the thrust of his research), but his question is applicable to both agency and design.
Player agency, whether the player can take action that matches his intent, is only tangentially related to the linearity or sandboxness of an environment. That is a spectrum determined literally by whether the avatar has choices of where to go. If you have two routes to the same objective, that's not strictly linear but I wouldn't be looking around for sand.
If 2 paths are given, and each has a different perspective or experience, and this is communicated to the player, then as long as the expectations are maintained; agency is maintained.
Let's drill down on this example a little bit:
Two paths diverge in a wood, at the end of both (where they meet again) there is a boss fight with an ogre.
If the left path is creepy and spooky and the player takes the left path and it's filled with skeletons, agency is maintained. If the left path is creepy and spooky and then the player walks down it to discover rainbows and unicorns agency is not maintained. The same as if the path were bright and sunny, and you keep getting attacked by ghosts and undead. Players were unable to take an action that matched their intent.
The fact that both paths end in a boss fight with an ogre is meaningless, especially in a video game. Chokepoints with boss fights are basic expectations in video games.
Significant Choice
The significance of the choice the player makes is not related to the agency of the player. What determines if a player has agency is if they A) have an intent and B) are allowed to take action that matches that intent. That is the determinator of agency.
What's important here is that they, on some level, understand the consequences of their choices beforehand. That allows them to have an intent. They have (or gather) information that allows them to make a choice where they have some idea of the outcome.
It's very important that we don't fall down the hole of endless strawmen in response to this answer. Yes, you can subvert player expectations. Yes, you can give misleading information. No, that doesn't impact agency as long as you don't take action to prevent the players from investigating further or taking precautions.
If they don't have information, then the choice is random. There are very few circumstances where this is appropriate. In Super Mario Brothers 3, when you were given an option of 3 chests to pick, the contents of the chest you pick were decided when you entered the room. This is widely regarded as a complete dick move by the programmers. It is literally illusionism where the cost is precious moments of a player's life.
Ultimately it isn't the ogre that's always in the woods that impacts agency. If the player doesn't want to fight the Ogre, they can always stop playing, get up, and walk away. It's when you remove meaning from or in response to the choices the player has already made that it turns into a bad experience for them.
Thanks for the question Dane. If anyone has anything they want to ask, feel free to write me at campbell at oook dotgoeshere cz
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Every Rentman trial starts with a sample database of contacts. You can quickly add your own contacts by importing a contacts file. In this article, we walk you through the steps of getting your contact list into Rentman.
You can also add a single (or small number) of contacts in the Contacts module, instead of importing a file.
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Here's what you need before importing your contacts list:
- An Excel or .csv file with your contacts' information. If you don't have one yet, you can use our template to easily create one.
- A logical folder structure in the Contacts module, so you can stay organized and find your contacts faster. You can follow the link to create your folders ahead of time, or let Rentman automatically create the folder paths of your choosing. You choose the right folder path in the Folder column of your file (read the next section).
Prepare your contacts file
A lot of Rentman users already keep a list of their contacts. The list that you import in Rentman needs to be an .xlsx (Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets) or .csv file.
- It's a good idea to have clear headers (titles) in the first row of your file.
- Some of the columns in your file are necessary for Rentman, whilst others are optional.
- The folder path of a contact should be specified in the Folder column, like this:
You can download our template at the bottom of this article. You can use this for reference, or use it to create a contacts file.
If you use contact persons, we recommend including contact person columns in your contacts file. Read the section below for more information.
Contact person columns
If you use contact persons, you can create columns in your contacts file that contain information about a unique contact person. These columns are useful, because each contact person that belongs to the same contact can have their own phone number, email address and other information.
In your file, your contact person columns could look like this:
Note that multiple contact persons are always connected to the same contact.
Import your contacts file
- Go to the Contacts module.
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Contains headers.
This means that the first row of your file will not be imported.
- For each column, indicate whether it is a contact person column or a normal Contact column.
If you don't use contact persons, then always choose Contact column.
- Match the titles of your columns to the titles in Rentman. This is necessary, because your own columns might have a (slightly) different name.
In this example, the first column in your file is called Contact. It contains the names of your contacts. However, in Rentman the name of this column is Company name.
- Click Next step when you've done this for all columns.
- Choose what to do with duplicate rows. A duplicate row occurs when a value in a column already exists in the Rentman database. There are three options:
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- Select the root folder of your own folder structure.
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Warning: If your contacts file doesn't contain a Folder column, all contacts will be placed in the same root folder. This means that your contacts will not be organized, and it may be difficult to find contacts. We recommend creating your own folder structure, and specify the correct folder path for your contacts in the Folder column.
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September 7, 2017
Leavenworth Bill Jones took to the podium, his voice cracking.
The longtime Leavenworth County resident told the Leavenworth County Commission on Thursday that he has placed a "For Sale" sign on his property.
He lives on land near an acreage south of Tonganoxie where Tyson Foods, Inc., plans to build a chicken production plant.
Jones and others opposing the plant took their fight Thursday to the commissioners, less than 48 hours after the Arkansas-based company and Gov. Sam Brownback announced a planned $320 million project during an event Tuesday in downtown Tonganoxie.
An overflow crowd attended Thursday morning's county commission meeting.
Residents voiced displeasure, as they did at Tuesday night's Tonganoxie City Council meeting, about official news breaking earlier that day of Tyson's plans for a plant that would employ an estimated 1,600.
Many residents spoke Thursday of their concerns about the proposed project, whether it was the sudden news, governing bodies' previous knowledge, air and water quality or previous lawsuits filed against the company.
Audience members peppered commissioners with questions about a non-disclosure agreement, voicing frustration that local governing bodies knew about Tyson's intentions and didn't inform the public.
But as Tonganoxie City Council members said Tuesday night and County Commissioner Doug Smith, who represents Tonganoxie's district, reiterated Thursday, elected officials at both levels approved non-disclosure agreements, an industry standard in economic development. Smith said county commissioners made the agreement in June, but as was the case with the agreement, learned of the company recently.
Accused during the meeting of selling out to the meat production company, Smith responded.
"We did not sell our souls to Tyson," Smith said.
On several occasions, Smith told residents the best way to let their opinions be known was to sign protest petitions from the Leavenworth County Clerk's office and return them to the county commissioners, Kansas Department of Agriculture, the Kansas Commerce Secretary, Kansas Department of Health and Environment and even the Environmental Protection Agency.
Smith also said he did not support sewage lagoons as part of the project.
Gov. Brownback and Tyson executive Doug Ramsey touted a state-of-the-art facility with an estimated annual $150 million economic impact for the state during the announcement Tuesday at Brunswick Ballroom. They also stressed that the company would be holding a series of town hall meetings to hear residents' concerns.
Smith mentioned the same opportunities Thursday would be announced as they are scheduled.
County commissioners approved a resolution to issue $500 million in industrial bonds for an 80 percent tax abatement for the project. Tonganoxie also has pledged $1.3 million for sewer infrastructure that would be recouped through sewer fees from Tyson and other anticipated future companies in the area. Both proposals have not been given final approval.
Tailgate Ranch neighbors much of the proposed Tyson property. Kirk Sours, who work at the ranch and spoke on the owners' behalf, told the commissioners he and the ranch owners were advocates for agriculture.
"We are not part of this," Sours said. "My personal opinion is Tyson is not agriculture."
Jarret Pruitt, who also opposes the plant, voiced concerns about previous lawsuits against Tyson, specifically 2003 in Sedalia, Mo.
According to U.S. Department of Justice website, justice.gov, Tyson pled guilty to 20 felony counts of violating the federal Clean Water Act at it Sedalia, Mo. Tyson agreed to pay $7.5 million total to the federal government and state of Missouri.
Commissioner Clyde Graeber directed county staff to research any other violations against Tyson.
"The chickenization of northeast Kansas will not be tolerated," Pruitt said.
Originally published at: http://www.tonganoxiemirror.com/news/2017/sep/07/tyson-plant-opponents-pack-leavenworth-county-comm/


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This one is very abstract and the description helped me see the houseboats. It stands very well though as simply a great design of shapes and colors. I really like it.ReplyDelete
It's wonderful you are so inspired by your surroundings. I love the background information you share with each painting.ReplyDelete
Great color and the explanation makes sense, but a terrific abstract work even without it!ReplyDelete
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it! I reply back in an email if you are signed in and I can see your address. Otherwise I will post the reply here under your comment. I tend to cut and paste my emails too so that others can experience the back and forth which I think is integral to blogging.


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Think you've got the way to beat the house? That sure-fire scheme might not be so sure after all. The experts warn against accepting popular myths that have grown up around casino gambling.
1: You can make a lot of money by finding "loose" slot machines that pay out more.
A: FALSE. While it's true that different slot machines pay out differently, they're all programmed so that you'll come out behind in the long run. Some machines (called "cherry dribblers" in the industry) give lots of small payouts to keep you feeding in the coins, while others rarely pay out except for extremely large (and rare) jackpots. Odds of hitting those big jackpots are often tens of millions to one.
2: You can beat the casino if you have the right betting system.
When Saganing Eagles Landing Casino opened in Standish on Dec. 31, it sounded more than clanging of slot machines. It has acted as a wake-up call for economic development in Arenac and northern Bay counties. Businesses are adding specials for gamblers or deals for the 305 employees the casino has hired. But lurking in the background are the concerns for what the future holds, both in the changing rural landscape and the social problems that may follow.
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• Saginaw Chippewa Indians mum on long-term plans for Standish casino; locals can only speculate
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• Interview with Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal Chief Fred Cantu Jr.
• Bay Metro running buses to new Saganing Eagles Landing Casino in Standish
3: If you know what games to play and how to play them, you can stack the odds in your favor.
A: FALSE. Some games have better odds than others, that's true. It's also true that knowing the rules can increase your chances and make the game more fun. But the odds in any game are stacked against you.
4: If a certain number or combination hasn't come up recently, there's a good chance that it will come up soon.
A: FALSE. Every roll of the dice, deal of the cards, and spin of the wheel is completely independent. So whether a certain combination has come up once or 1,000 times, it has no bearing on future play.
5: One bad blackjack player can ruin the whole table's chances.
A: FALSE. One of the many myths about blackjack is that a bad player can disrupt the cards and cause everyone at the table to lose. The truth is, the cards are in random order. Which means that bad player at the end of the table is just as likely to help you as to hurt you.
6: Slot machines are constantly monitored by casino managers, who then determine when the machines pay out.
A: FALSE. Every slot machine is programmed to keep a certain percentage of the money deposited in it. It's true that casino managers can change that percentage within a certain range. But the time and amount of any one payout is completely random.


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We had grand plans to do western mediterranean cruise this summer and tour spain and the french riviera. But our little one has already started to insert its own 2 cents into our plans. Unfortunately cruise ships have a pregnancy week cutoff that I would pass so we had to go back to the drawing board. Instead, we decided to try and unwind and go for some serious R&R with a weeklong caribbean vacation in Anguilla. To ease into the island life, we decided to do a quick 2-days warm-up in Miami. We decided to stay a little further north up the strip for a change at the Fontainebleau and found it to be a quick and perfect way to gear up for Anguilla.
resort is massive. My photog skills would not do it justice so here's a photo from their site. 2. Even a basic deluxe room is a good size and I especially love the imacs that come with it (and free wifi). 3. Our first stop after landing at 8am - hitting up Yardbird for some chicken buscuits. 4. All that comfort food was a little much so I hit the treadmill for a 20 min walk and a Nike training club workout. 5. I negated the workout with poolside (virgin) pina coladas until ...6) the storm clouds started rolling in. 7) Got a little nap in before heading to Barceloneta. 8 & 9) A selfie 10) ending the night with a little pool at the Delano.


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On Jan 30, 2012, at 21:24 , Chris Rogers wrote: > Yes, it would be good to have an introspection API to enumerate the available audio devices for both audio input and output. A built-in microphone would be one such device. Also commonly available is the line-in analog audio input on a laptop or desktop computer. And, of course, any externally connected multi-channel USB or Firewire audio devices. Some of these can present eight (or more) simultaneous audio input and output channels simultaneously. I see where you're coming from, but enumeration is a potential fingerprinting problem. If any arbitrary page can start listing all the audio inputs and outputs that you have, especially if it includes their capabilities (as I guess that would be useful for your needs) then it starts becoming very easy to fingerprint a given user. The current model that gUM uses is that 1) the JS requests access to a media stream (with options), 2) the user is presented with a choice of sources from which to select, 3) the selected source is returned as a stream. So essentially the enumeration happens in the user <-> UA space, and isn't accessible to script. If that's sufficient for your needs, then we're probably gold, if not then we need to figure out something that works for you. The Gamepad API has a different model to prevent enumeration: gamepad information becomes available whenever there's activity on the gamepad. But I suspect that won't translate well to audio. Either way, we can find solutions, we just need to have a better picture of your needs and balance those against the need for privacy. I also suspect that the current model can only return a single source at a time and that that is likely to be an issue for audio (it might be okay for the user to have to work with a dialog to select sources, but it's probably not okay for the user to have to do that eight times in a row to select eight sources...). I think that the API could be modified to accept a "multiple" flag (just like file inputs) and correspondingly return an array of streams. > It's important to not consider audio input in isolation, but also audio output capabilities when enumerating the devices. I'm not sure that I really understand this comment. Right now, gUM is pretty much input-only. I certainly see how selecting outputs can be useful, but I'm not sure that it fits very well into this model (but I could very well be missing something). Please note that in pointing out issues above I'm not in any way rejecting your use cases. I'm merely pointing out that there are problems to be overcome, and that understanding what you need exactly would be very helpful in doing so. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjonReceived on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:13:12 UTC
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British artist/shredder Schoph Schophield has been making quite a name for himself in recent years. It began when he established grassroots lifestyle/hat company Dalikfodda (www.dalikfodda.com), continued through the series of rock tours he organized around the French and Austrian Alps, and is now reaching a peak thanks to his achievements as an artist of no small talent.
His recent show Looking Sideways (www.wearelookingsideways.com) show at the European X Games in Tignes was a sellout, and now he brings his work to the States with a show opening tomorrow at Laguna Beach's Artists Republic For Tomorrow space, previously home to exhibitions by Jamie Lynn and other assorted shred art luminaries. Schoph is going head to head with another Dragon/Vans affiliated artist, Taylor Reeve, and the show runs from July 7th to July 26th.
If you're in town, head along to get a glimpse of Schoph's unique tea-Lemmy-and-Yorkshire inspired artistic vision. He'll be the guy wearing black and drinking Guinness in the corner.


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MAGNIFICENT 2016 SEASON FOR THE TEAM JANIK MOTORSPORT !Published on: 25 October 2016 Circuit
Thank you and congratulations to all the Janik Motorsport Team !
Committed on sprint and endurance races as well as on hill climb races, the Team Janik Motorsport has multiplied successes throughout the 2016 season with their Norma M20 FC.
Vaklav Janik, the boss of the team won the FIA International Hill Climb Cup 2016 ahead of his two teammates Petr Trnka and Jiri Svoboda. A magnificent hat-trick for the Czech team and their stunnning red and white Norma.
On circuit, Janik and Petr also won the FIA CEZ Endurance.
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THE question, appearing on a history exam administered nationwide to Grade 12 students on Wednesday morning, was simple: Who were the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime?
But for those who have been pressing for a fuller, franker presentation of the Democratic Kampuchea period in Cambodian classrooms, its inclusion marked a significant step forward.
Prior to this year, high school history tests drew from a government-approved textbook that gave short shrift to the regime and its history, omitting some of the most basic facts about it.
"The government never included the names of the leaders in their textbook," said Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia.
Terith Chy, team leader of DC-Cam's Victim Participation Project, said the old material likely reflected the fear that identifying high-ranking regime officials – many of whom were unknown to the general public – would compromise national reconciliation efforts.
"At least the reason they gave was national reconciliation," he said. "They didn't want people to hold a grudge."
In 2007, however, DC-Cam launched A History of Democratic Kampuchea, a textbook that Youk Chhang described on Wednesday as "the core material to supplement the government's textbook". This year, its contents are reflected on national exams for the first time.
Five of the 14 questions on this year's history test deal with the Khmer Rouge period. In addition to identifying regime leaders, students are asked to explain "why it is said that S-21 is a tragedy for the Cambodian people; who was behind S-21, also known as Tuol Sleng; how the administrative zones of Democratic Kampuchea were organised; and when the regime was in power".
An Education Ministry official who wrote this year's test, and who asked not to be named for "security" reasons, said he had tried to keep the questions simple because it is difficult even for teachers – let alone students – to come to terms with the regime.
"This subject of the Khmer Rouge regime is very difficult to teach and also to learn, because not only is it difficult for the students to understand, but also for the teachers themselves to understand," he said.
"Some teachers don't believe that the regime did not have markets, did not use money, killed the same nationality as themselves, that people had no food to eat, and that parents were not allowed to stay with their children."
This is at least partially true for Ratha Sopharith, an 18-year-old student at Intratevy High School in Phnom Penh, who said Wednesday that he did not believe the Khmer Rouge were responsible for all of the atrocities attributed to them.
He was quick to add, though, that he was not a Khmer Rouge supporter, either.
"Even though I don't believe it, I don't follow the leaders during that time because they led the country to poverty and killed people of the same nationality," he said.
He went on to express enthusiasm for the Khmer Rouge history unit, at one point referring to it as his favourite. Chhay Ly, a 19-year-old student at Sok An May 1 High School in Takeo province, said he, too, enjoyed the material, and that he did not find Wednesday's exam questions difficult.
"They were very easy questions for me because I am interested in Khmer history, and I always read the Khmer history books," he said. "I am happy and proud of myself that I have a chance to learn about the Khmer Rouge – most people all over the world are interested in this history."
Youk Chhang said DC-Cam staffers running workshops on the teaching of the material have come away with the impression that both students and teachers are interested in it.
"The teachers feel like they know this, they can teach this, and it belongs to them," he said. "And for Cambodian students, they love stories ... part of our tradition is oral history."
But this does not mean the process is easy, particularly for teachers who are direct or indirect victims of the regime.
"They are still very upset because the pain they suffer is just so deep, and now we are telling them to teach this so that genocide can be prevented, so that we can work towards reconciliation," he said. "And some teachers hold a grudge against the children of the Khmer Rouge."
He added, though, that it is necessary for the teachers to work through this.
"The whole purpose of this teaching is to contribute to genocide prevention, to contribute to national healing and peace building," he said. "We need to make all efforts so that the children can also contribute to this."


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This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com
Mr. Apt Prepper and I were talking out our emergency food supply which contains a lot of beans and rice. For variety, we thought we should try making homemade tortillas.
The instructions came from the corn masa flour package.
How to make corn tortillas:
1 cup corn masa flour
2/3 cup water
1/8 tsp salt
Other equipment used:
- Large bowl
- Zip-lock freezer bag
- Tortilla press (you can make them without one, this just makes it easier)
- Flat cast iron skillet – coat with oil or butter
1. In a large bowl, add water to the corn masa flour. Mix for two minutes until you can shape a ball. Add water by the tablespoon if the mixture feels too dry. I ended up adding about three tablespoons as I kept kneading the dough.
2. Once you can make a smooth ball out of the dough, you can start shaping your tortillas. Separate the dough into eight small balls.
3. Lay a piece of plastic such as a cut up Zip-lock freezer bag against both sides of the tortilla press. The plastic will keep the dough from sticking to the press.
4. Place the dough ball on one side of the plastic and flatten the press. Heat the cast iron skillet on medium heat.
5. Carefully pry the dough off and place on the hot skillet. Cook for 1-2 minutes on each side. You will notice the dough start to brown and puff slightly. If you undercook it, the tortilla will taste like raw dough. I should know, I tried one too soon.
6. Keep cooking until all the tortillas are done. Serve warm.
These tortillas came out way too small to make tacos but were tasty by themselves. They are more flavorful and more filling than store bought tortillas. This makes about eight corn tortillas.
Next time I will double or triple the recipe to make bigger tortillas.
I decided to see if I could make tortilla chips out of these, since they were too small for tacos. I cut up the tortillas into four and fried them in hot oil. I fried them for about three to four minutes until slightly brown, then added salt to taste. Drain on paper towels to remove excess oil.
The chips made from homemade tortilla chips were very tasty and filling.
It was a bit time-consuming to make corn tortillas yourself, but I like knowing I can make them in case I run out and don't want to run to the store. This skill will also help to add variety to survival foods.


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Sunday, August 21, 2016
Where is Texas BBQ's popularity?
There shouldn't be any doubt about the tremendous increase in popularity of Texas BBQ throughout the past few years. But I'm curious whether that popularity is still rising. Is it? Is Texas BBQ's popularity going up, going down, or staying about the same?
Posted by Drew Thornley at 2:16 PM
3 comments:
- Nick Loesch said...
I think we will dump the bad and near bead over the next couple of years and the good will survive for as long as they want to blow that smoke
- August 21, 2016 at 7:47 PM
- Joe Wagner said...
Agree with Nick. Got a lot of new entrants into the market, only so many that the market will bear. Just like all the craft beer players here. Good ones will make it through.
Once a trend gets going, that is usually the way it plays out.
- August 22, 2016 at 6:05 AM
- Drew Thornley said...
Reply to me via Twitter: "I think it's leveled".
- August 22, 2016 at 9:12 AM
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AWS CodeDeploy provides the ability to run scripts on instances during the deployment lifecycle. Scripts are associated with the AppSpec 'hooks' Section of the appspec.yml file described at AWS CodeDeploy AppSpec File Reference. When CodeDeploy runs a PowerShell cmdlet, the cmdlet can return an exit code of 0 (success) even if the cmdlet encountered errors. If a cmdlet error occurs while performing an operation required by the associated deployment lifecycle event hook, the deployment will not be successful even though CodeDeploy interprets a script exit code of 0 as "success".
Default behavior for PowerShell cmdlets is to return an exit code of 0 unless an unrecoverable or terminating error occurs, such as when attempting to divide by 0. If a PowerShell cmdlet encounters an error that it can recover from, such as when attempting to read a non-existent directory, then it will throw an error and run to completion with an exit code of 0. An exit code of 0 will not cause CodeDeploy to fail a deployment.
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In my last post on a Dave Graffam Models' (DGM) build ( dave-graffam-models-5-low-ruins ) I said that I was using 2mm board as a building material. Since then, however, I've become disenchanted with that as it looked too thin next to 28mm models. I've now started using 5mm foamboard for the walls instead (which looks much better IMO!), although I still use 2mm board for roofs.
As you may be aware, DGM use the 'layers' functionality in Adobe Acrobat to provide the builder with many different options for the model's surface finish and placement of doors and windows. For this version of the Coach House, I decided on the 'brick' finish and not to use the 'Coach Door'.
Low Ruins Set, while the interior walls are the Coach House's walls with no 'wall' layer selected. This gives an off-white finish to the wall with green and grey streaks that - to me anyway - looks like a neglected plaster finish. It's far superior to leaving it as bright white foamboard anyway! You can also see that I've 'framed' the openings in the walls with black marker
dave-graffam-models-1-pub), but, through use, I'd found that unsatisfactory (constantly having to remove it to get to the ground floor and having it discarded on the table when not used, being 2 reasons). So now, I've decided to make a platform from 2mm board that I rabbeted into the foamboard wall where there are windows and covered it with bits of the low ruins floor piece. I hope that this solution will be more satisfactory.


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Despite a new, business-friendlier commission majority elected last fall in Martin County, the dictatorial regime of the last commission woke up a pair of unincorporated Martin communities.
Leaders in rural Indiantown in western Martin County and to a lesser extent in Hobe Sound, 18 miles farther east, are tired of living at the whim of commissioners who think they know better than the citizens what's good for them.
They want independence.
Rep. MaryLynn Magar, R-Hobe Sound, is carrying their banner in the Florida House and has filed HB 259 (Indiantown) and HB 261 (Hobe Sound).
If the Legislature approves, residents of the two communities -- approximately 6,000 and 15,000 respectively -- will decide at the polls in November if they want to be incorporated as the Village of Indiantown and the Town of Hobe Sound.
Even with the full support of their legislative delegation, this could be easier said than done for Magar and community leaders. They will be arguing their case in an extremely conservative Florida House, a House reluctant to endorse new government of any kind. But both communities emphasize smaller government closer to the people and particularly in far-flung Indiantown's case, the dire need for sovereignty. Their interest, they say, is more to replace rather than create new government.
"I believe very strongly that the best government is local government," said Ed Ciampi, one of the supportive new Martin County commissioners. "Instead of having one representative and four strangers from out of town making decisions for them (Hobe Sound and Indiantown) will each elect five of their own residents who live within their respective areas, to make the decisions that directly affect their own residents."
In fact, much-aggrieved Indiantown, more than 100 years old, has it worse than "four strangers." It hasn't had a representative on the Board of County Commissioners for more than 30 years.
When I first showed up in Stuart in 1977, Indiantown rancher John Holt was on the commission and his brother Jim was Martin's long-time, respected sheriff. Timer Powers' activism on Indiantown's behalf was already legendary and still going strong. And though economic progress was slow-moving back then, you could never say Indiantown was invisible or without a voice. But commissioners have come and gone since. Some, like Charlene Hoag in the 1990s -- a commissioner from Palm City who represented Indiantown -- increased government services and infrastructure in the western town. But generally, its fate has been tied, hit-or-miss every four years, to whichever commission -- pro-growth or no-growth -- came to power.
The six years before last fall's election were the straw that broke the camel's back.
Top to bottom, Martin County was run by a non-elected cabal of environmental litigators, a pair of county commissioners (one a lawyer) and groupies who show up at public meetings to stroke the commission majority on camera. Mostly, however, the power and directional decisions for the county came from the attorneys. One in particular, unelected Virginia Sherlock -- after conferring with unelected former commissioner Maggy Hurchalla -- literally directed the commission's goals before every meeting. Sherlock would issue a memo telling commissioners how to vote. Nobody complained. Nobody said a word. Most of the time, they just did what Sherlock told them.
"We don't want to be told what to do any longer by a shadow government that works against the economic and quality of life issues that are close to the Indiantown residents," resident Kevin Powers told Sunshine State News.
Nothing personifies the dysfunction of the last commission majority and its "shadow government" more than Lake Point LLC's lawsuit against the county. And worse, an arbitrator ruled against the county in a separate Lake Point lawsuit alleging egregious -- possibly criminal -- public records violations by three commissioners. Bottom line: County taxpayers will pay the rock mine operation's attorney-fee bill, $371,800. There will be no appeal. And if the county loses the original case, it could cost millions more in attorney fees.
Indiantown is home to less than 4 percent of Martin's population yet provides 16 percent of its ad valorem taxes. It is the ideal place for heavy industry. Pure and simple, it's a tucked-away economic engine that bothers virtually no one.
A 2005 study, conducted by The Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions (CUES) at Florida Atlantic University identified two big weaknesses in Indiantown's ability to attract growth: quality and diversity of housing choices, and poor governmental relationships. In 12 years, the situation has only worsened.
More specifically, the report found "strong concerns about the negative relations" between other aspects of Martin County government -- the County Commission specifically. "It is perceived that businesses are not welcome due to the onerous permitting process and delays from the public sector cause private investors to seek locations outside of the county. This is a 'fatal flaw' in economic development …," the report notes.
It's gotten so much worse since the CUES study was completed.
Indiantown has consistently hammered away at attracting economic drivers and business expansion, only to have those efforts denied, delayed or regulated out of existence by Martin's shadow government -- a boat manufacturing plant conversion and Indiantown Airport and Bay State Milling expansions are all examples.
Without a doubt, the last straw was EcoGen. Nothing did more than the EcoGen experience to put Indiantown on Independence Road.
Last July -- despite strong community support -- the County Commission chased out the biomass electric generating plant proposed for the Indiantown industrial area -- an operation that would have made the company the second largest taxpayer in the county. It just didn't want to stick around any longer to play Martin's games.
Much-needed jobs aside, EcoGen would have provided annually $450,000 in tax revenue, $20.5 million in output sales (money put back into the community) and $6.7 million in payroll.
Alas, EcoGen's request fell victim to Martin's unelected shadow government, led by Hurchalla and Sherlock. And despite the commissioners' original enthusiasm, county staff recommended denial and all commissioners but one followed like lemmings. Read the sad story here.
About once every 10 years beginning in the 1970s, the Indiantown industrial area has welcomed a new industry to the area: Florida Power & Light Co. (Martin's largest taxpayer), Caulkins juice plant (now Louis Dreyfus Citrus), Indiantown Cogeneration, Bay State Milling and Tampa Farm Service (owned by Cal-Maine, Publix's largest source of eggs). EcoGen would have been the next. And the Indiantown community would have blessed the day.
Two of those operations have or will shutter their operation over the next 12 months, potentially causing a decline in Martin County's tax base, and a significant reduction in economic opportunities in Indiantown. To date, Martin County has made no effort to attract replacement industries to these sites, but rather, has discouraged new jobs and investment from coming to Martin County.
Hobe Sound's story of commission interference is less dramatic than Indiantown's. In fact, Town of Hobe Sound organizer Mike Ennis has insisted, "This (incorporation) has nothing to do with anything the county (commission) did or did not do. This is about zoning; we're all about small shops and keeping our small-town character."
But some say there was a tipping point for the incorporation drive: Flash Beach Grille
Until the County Commission rigidly tried to fine Flash Beach Grille out of business three years ago, there was little appetite for incorporation in this community separated from wealthy Jupiter Island by the Intracoastal Waterway. Read Flash Beach Grille's story here.
"I don't think I've ever seen a county commission quite so inclined to interfere with a business, even when they knew they were in the wrong to begin with," Mark Miller, managing attorney of the Pacific Legal Foundation's Florida office, said at the time. PLF is the private property rights firm whose lawsuit forced the county to back into a manageable settlement.
Attorney Anne Scott represented Hobe Sound through it all. Scott was the only one of the three commissioners implicated in the Lake Point public records lawsuit who was up for re-election last fall. She lost resoundingly to political newcomer Harold Jenkins, 61 percent to 39 percent.
Meanwhile, Indiantown's Independence Executive Committee claims the county wouldn't suffer if the community incorporates. It would actually realize a 0.75 percent decrease in its ad valorem tax budget. In fact, Martin still would provide the town sheriff and firefighting services.
"In 2016, Martin County spent over $4 million in lawsuits, many of which were frivolous land use challenges," the committee said in a statement it prepared for the Legislature. "Rather than continuing the historic trend of litigation resulting from infringement over private property rights, the county could use this 'peace dividend' to cover any impacts generated by the incorporation of Indiantown."
If ever there was a poster child for a need for incorporation, it's Indiantown. And while I hope the Legislature will pass both HB 259 and HB 261, it seems to me it would be an aching travesty -- a compound fracture, frankly -- to deny disrespected, underappreciated Indiantown a chance to call its own shots.
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On 2 February 1943, the armies of Hitler's Germany suffered their greatest defeat in World War II at the hands of the heroic people of the Soviet Union led by the Bolshevik Party and Comrade Stalin, at the city of Stalingrad. The military and civilian casualties of this epic struggle that lasted more than 5 months amounted to nearly 2 million people – a mind-boggling figure. The Nazi forces had thrown lakhs of their most tested military forces into their campaign to conquer the socialist Soviet Union. But they were halted at Stalingrad, an industrial city of 500,000 people on the banks of the Volga river, which was the gateway to the rich oil resources of the Caspian region. The rallying cry for the defenders of Stalingrad was Not One Step Back! Over 5 months, the struggle for the city was fought from street to street, building to building, house to house, even as German aircraft pounded the city, reducing most of it to rubble. The people of Stalingrad suffered unimagineable hardship, but they never surrendered. Eventually, the German forces, decimated and encircled, were forced to surrender to the Soviet army.
By all accounts, the defeat suffered by the Nazi fascist forces at Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. Militarily as well as psychologically, the Hitlerite forces were on the defensive from that point on. Stalingrad was a beacon of hope for all those countries and peoples fighting fascism. It showed what a courageous people, united and led by a staunch Communist Party and determined to defend their socialist motherland, could achieve. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, Mazdoor Ekta Lehar salutes the indomitable spirit of the Soviet people and the Bolshevik Party led by Stalin. The memory of their victory achieved with such sacrifice will never die.
Today when we commemorate the defeat of Hitlerite fascism, the peoples of the world must recognise that today it is US imperialism that has followed in the inglorious footsteps of German fascism. It is US imperialism that is striving for total world domination, at the cost of the terrible suffering of the peoples of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and of anybody who stands in their way. The number of people killed in the wars launched by US imperialism, the number of flourishing cities and countries reduced to ruin, far exceeds the record of atrocities of Hitler and his armies. This does not even include the suffering and tension caused by the newer weapons used by the US imperialists, such as crippling economic sanctions, nuclear blackmail, instigating civil war by using proxy fighters, and trying to engineer "regime change" in countries all over the globe. While Hitler used the bogey of a threat from "Jews" and "communists" to whip up German chauvinism, today imperialism is raising a hue and cry about "Islamic terrorism" to justify its atrocities and blatant assault on the sovereignty of nations.
Just as in the case of Hitler's adventures, these are not the actions of a single 'madman' but are dictated by the calculated interests of the biggest capitalist monopolies. In the conditions of the deepening crisis of capitalism across the world today, the competition among the big capitalist monopolies for complete domination and control over resources and markets is becoming ever more intense. This is the biggest threat to world peace and the sovereignty of countries today.
Unity among the world's countries and peoples to oppose and fight back the drive for world domination by US imperialism and its allies is the need of the hour. The policy of the Indian ruling class in recent years to draw closer to US imperialism, under the excuse that this would serve India's "national interests", is a major obstacle to such unity. The working class and people of India must actively fight this diabolical policy that has been pursued over the last few years by both the Congress-led UPA government and the BJP-led NDA government, and which is a betrayal of the anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and peace-loving traditions of our people. This must be our contribution to the worldwide struggle against imperialism and for the freedom, equality and independence of nations in today's conditions.
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Tag Archives: White Mountain National Forest
10 Awesome Fall Backpacking Trips
By Michael Lanza
The imminent end of summer always feels a little melancholy. After all, it marks the close of the prime season for getting into the mountains. But it also signals the beginning of a time of year when many mountain ranges become less crowded just as they're hitting a sweet zone in terms of temperatures, the lack of bugs, and fall foliage color. Autumn also stands out as an ideal season for many canyon hikes, with moderate temperatures and even some stunning color.
From Yosemite to the North Cascades (lead photo, above), Grand Canyon to Grand Teton, the Great Smokies to the Olympics, and more, here are 10 of my favorite backpacking trips that are best served up in fall.
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The Hardest Dayhike in the East: The 32-Mile Pemi Loop
By Michael Lanza
Our long day of hiking began at 6 a.m., shortly after first light, under a gray overcast that would rain intermittent light showers on us over the next several hours and, at times, envelop us in pea-soup fog. When our day ended 15 hours and 59 minutes later (we could officially call it "sub-16 hours"), two friends and I had proven to ourselves (and no one else would care) that, in our 50s, we could still tick off the 32-mile, 10,000-vertical-foot, nine-summit Pemi Loop in New Hampshire's White Mountains in one long, grueling day.
Pointless feats of endurance aside, though, we also enjoyed one of the prettiest hikes east of the Rockies—and by that afternoon, the clouds lifted to grant us breathtaking views as we traversed one of the most remote and spectacular ridges in the Northeast, Bondcliff (lead photo, above). Continue reading →
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Hello Michael,
I am a college student at Franklin Pierce University, and I have a couple questions I'd like to ask you. I have been enjoying your articles and website and your book, Before They're Gone, and really appreciate the work and writing that you create! I am also an enthusiastic adventurer and love doing much smaller excursions, but I am looking to tackle longer, more rigorous hikes. I was wondering if you had any suggestions for backpacking trips and dayhikes in New England. Continue reading →
Being Stupid With Friends: A 32-Mile Dayhike in the White Mountains
By Michael Lanza
As we near the top of Mount Flume in New Hampshire's White Mountains, the first of nine summits we hope to reach today, a light shower begins falling. It seems a less-than-ideal portent near the front end of one of the longest and hardest days of hiking any of us has ever undertaken—especially for three people somewhere between two and three decades past their hiking prime. But this only strikes us as one more in a long list of reasons to laugh at the absurdity of our self-imposed mission: to see whether we still have the stuff to knock off a dayhike that few mountain walkers would even contemplate. In that context, the arrival of the rain we knew was forecasted comes all in a day's foolishness.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson once opined, "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." Continue reading →
The Best Kind of Insanity: Long Dayhikes in the White Mountains
By Michael Lanza
We started up the Daniel Webster Trail by the light of headlamps at a time of day that guaranteed we'd have the mountain to ourselves for hours: 3:30 a.m. My head had that squeezed, hungover feeling from not enough sleep; the four hours we grabbed on the floor of my friend Mark's van the night before fell at least three hours short of rejuvenating. But we didn't have the luxury of sleeping in. We were embarking on a one-day, 20-mile "Death March" across New Hampshire's Presidential Range. And making our objective all the more lunatic, we had a bus to catch that afternoon—with nine summits between us and that bus stop. Continue reading →


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Dear all, While the words may not say *exactly* that, I concur with Roger's interpretation of the intent of our provision as meaning "four two year terms" (or at least the better part of the span of 4 March to March_plus_2_years terms ... I don't think that it was ever intended that a matter a few weeks would make a difference) Having said that, I want to make it clear that I am not suggesting that Tony should be forced from office, that I respect his service, and that I strongly suspect that if he wishes to continue he would likely get his WG's endorsement to do so ... Matt: ... I think we should clarify this in a future P&P revision. Regards, Carl > -----Original Message----- > From: email@example.com > [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of > Roger B. Marks > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:20 PM > To: Tony Jeffree > Cc: email@example.com > Subject: Re: [802SEC] Interpretation of current P&P > > Tony, > > I think that the intent of "eight years" is "four two-year terms". > > On the other hand, if we take the "eight years" literally, then I > think we ought to look at the calendar. According to my records, the > March 2000 session ended on 9 March and the March 2008 session opens > on 17 March. > > Roger > > > On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Tony Jeffree wrote: > > > I have a question for clarification of the current P&P with regard > > to the wording in 7.2.2. It states: > > > > "An individual who has served as Chair or Vice Chair of a given WG > > for a total of more than > > eight years in that office may not run for election to that office > > again, unless the question of > > allowing that individual to run for election again is > approved by a > > 75% vote of the WG one > > plenary in advance of that election." > > > > I am now in my 8th year as 802.1 Chair, having first been > appointed > > Chair at the end of the March 2000 Plenary session. So when the > > elections are run in March 2008, I will have been Chair for not > > quite 8 years, as the appointment occurs at the end of the session > > (see 7.1.2). I therefore interpret the above as meaning that I > > don't need a 75% approval vote of my WG in November to allow me to > > run for re-election in March. Is my interpretation correct? > > > > Regards, > > Tony > > > > ---------- > > This email is sent from the 802 Executive Committee email > > reflector. This list is maintained by Listserv. > > ---------- > This email is sent from the 802 Executive Committee email > reflector. This list is maintained by Listserv. > ---------- This email is sent from the 802 Executive Committee email reflector. This list is maintained by Listserv.


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The Eiffel Tower was only supposed to be temporary. Designed by Gustave Eiffel (the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty's frame) for the 1889 World's Fair, it was originally supposed to be dismantled after twenty years. It wasn't, and today it is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions and perhaps the world's most iconic building. Including the antenna, the tower stands at 324m. It became the tallest building in the world upon completion, surpassing the Washington Monument, and held the title for 41 years. It remains France's tallest building
No trip to Paris would be complete without taking a ride to the top, where one can look out over the entirety of the city. There are three different floors in the building. The first two house restaurants. On the first floor is Altitude 95 (95m above sea level) and on the second is Jules Verne, which has a Michelin star. The third floor is 276m high. The tower is illuminated at night, which requires 7.8 million kilowatt hours per year. It's located on the Champ de Mars in the 7th Arrondissement
More than 200,000,000 people have visited the Eiffel tower, making it the most visited monument in the world. Its popularity has spawned many imitators. Replicas of the Eiffel Tower can be seen all over, including in Las Vegas and Disney World.
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The Sports Xchange
By Don Brennan, The Sports Xchange
Senators blow lead before edging Sabres
OTTAWA -- Still weary from arriving home at 5 a.m. Wednesday after a grueling, three-games-in-four-days road trip, the Ottawa Senators had no interest in working a longer shift than they had to against the Buffalo Sabres.
Winger Milan Michalek made sure they avoided their third straight overtime when he scored with 21 seconds left in the third period, giving the Senators a 3-2 victory over the Sabres on Thursday night at Canadian Tire Centre.
The goal was the second of the evening for Michalek, who recorded his first multigoal effort of the season.
"We wanted to get the win in regulation, and we're happy about that," said Michalek, who was set up on both tallies by center Jason Spezza. "It's nice to get it because this was an important game.
"It's tough to play against these teams that are out of the playoffs and have nothing to lose. We're happy to get the two points and go from here."
Recovering after blowing a 2-0, third-period lead, the Senators (26-21-11) kept pace in the Eastern Conference wild-card race. Ottawa emerged with at least a point for the fifth time in the past six games.
It was also the fourth loss in a row for the 15-34-8 Sabres, who pressed hard for the equalizer but couldn't get the puck over the line in a last-second scramble.
"There was nothing to save it for. We've got three weeks off coming up (with the Olympic break)," said Sabres center Tyler Ennis, who started the comeback with 9:35 remaining in the final frame. "So there were no excuses not to battle as hard as we could in the third period, and we did a really good job.
"It's super disappointing to lose that one, that's for sure."
Defenseman Erik Karlsson scored the Senators' other goal, and winger Drew Stafford replied for the Sabres.
Senators goalie Craig Anderson stopped 30 shots to earn his 19th win of the season. Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth made 33 saves.
After a scoreless first period in which Ottawa outshot the Sabres 11-7, Karlsson beat Enroth with a wrist shot from the right boards at 3:12 for his 15th of the season.
Michalek increased the lead to 2-0 when he scored at the 10-second mark of the third off a nice feed from Spezza to set a franchise record for fastest goal to start a period. The previous record of 12 seconds was held by Spezza.
"I would have shot it if I had known that," Spezza joked. "At least I'm still involved in (the record), I guess."
The goal was symbolic of the Sabres' luck this season, as the puck bounced off a linesman to Spezza.
"It hit the ref and went straight out to their guy," Sabres defenseman Henrik Tallinder said. "There's nothing you can do about it. The system is we should be going (up ice) there, and we didn't go the right way. Maybe we should have. But still, it hit the ref.
"Bounces are going to happen, and it wasn't happening in our favor."
The Sabres appeared to cut their deficit in half with 14 minutes left in the third when Ennis intercepted an Ottawa clearing attempt and sent a backhander past Anderson. However, replays showed the puck hit both posts without crossing the line.
Five minutes later, Ennis made no mistake when he took a pass from Stafford, who was sprawled behind the Ottawa net, and fired it into the open side.
Stafford tied the game with 4:14 left in regulation after Anderson allowed a juicy rebound off a point shot from defenseman Christian Ehrhoff.
"A two-goal lead is a tricky lead," said Spezza, who has five points in Ottawa's past two games. "You give up the one goal to make it 2-1, then anything can happen. It's a bounce here, a bounce there.
"They sat back all night and tried to frustrate us. I think we did a good job of not getting frustrated, then we let it slip away. But we got it back and we leave with two points."
The Sabres did put forth a better effort than they did in Wednesday's 5-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, but that fact provided them little comfort.
"It's better than the last game, for sure," Tallinder said. "Still, it's all about winning, and you've got to find a way to win. We're not doing it right now."
Leading the league in minor penalty minutes, the Senators killed off seven opposition power plays for the second game in a row.
Ottawa's power play, the worst in the NHL on home ice, went 0-for-3.
NOTES: Senators D Chris Phillips sat out his sixth game with a lower-body injury and is also unlikely to play when the team concludes its pre-break schedule with an afternoon meeting on Saturday in Boston. Heading into 2013-14, Phillips had missed just three games in the previous seven seasons. ... Senators C Stephane Da Costa continues to impress as a spark for the fourth line. On Thursday, he was in the lineup for the eighth time in nine games since his recall from AHL Binghamton. He had three goals in his previous four outings as well as an important shootout goal in St. Louis. And in the second period against the Sabres, he had an assist on a goal by D Erik Karlsson. Coach Paul MacLean says Da Costa has improved defensively and in the faceoff circles since being demoted after the team's first five games of the season. ... Sabres G Ryan Miller served as backup after facing 34 shots in a 5-1 loss to Pittsburgh on Monday. Starting between the pipes was G Jhonas Enroth, who has just one win in 20 games. ... Sabres D Tyler Myers was scratched from the lineup for a second consecutive game. Joining him in the press box were RW/LW Marcus Foligno and RW/LW Linus Omark. ... The three previous games played between the two clubs this season also were decided by one goal. The lone victory by Buffalo went to a shootout.


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Last week I posted about the imaginary critics and how, thanks to them, I found myself shelling out my hard earned cash for a subscription to Eharmony.com. And it was all true, but it was only part of the story. God, as he likes to do, had his hand in the mix too. Thankfully, while I was spiting the world and spending my money to prove the imaginary critics wrong, God wasn't critiquing my lack of faith or my failure to ask his opinion before I signed-up for online dating again. Instead, he was concocting a new dose of grace.
About a month into my Eharmony subscription I met a man who has turned out to be one of the best things to ever happen to me. A man who, when reading my article on the imaginary critics, pointed out how I failed to mention the end of the story, the part about meeting the love of my life.
This is one of the challenges of being a writer. You pick out one aspect of life and hold it under the microscope to get a really good look at it, to try to crack it open and see why exactly you let things like imaginary critics influence you. You can't always tell the whole story, it would distract from the point you're trying to make. I told this to my man, Jay-Michael from Colorado, but I'm not sure I convinced him.
Over this past week, though, it did seemed like I ought to tell you the other half of the story, if only for practical reasons. Since meeting Jay-Michael, the days have unravelled into a wonderful mess of months in which I find that having a love life is rather unproductive. My perfectly manicured schedule, with just enough time to see a day's worth of patients at the office, finish my eschatology homework, and go for a run, has gotten all hob-jobbled by late night conversations, daydreaming, and spending more time than I like to admit looking at pictures of our last weekend together Continue Reading…


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Aura.Http package provide you the tool to build and send request and response.
The easiest way is
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Aura\Http\Manager. If you want to create
manually you can look into the
Building your Response
Probably you may not have bothered too much on building the http response either the framework does it for you, or until you need to send the correct response.
To create a proper http response via
Aura.Http we need to create a
response object.
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Setting Content
The header values are for the browser to understand what is coming from server, and how it should render etc.
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setContent method.
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You can always get the content via calling
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Aura.Http only helps you to build, create, modify response and request.
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We talked about response so far. What does Request actually mean?
Client –> Request something –> Server Responds
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We can get all the repos of a user in github via curl.
The same can be achieved via Aura.Http. The Aura.Http provides a
means to do the same with PHP. It uses
curl if it is available or
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Documentation : http://auraphp.github.com/Aura.Http/version/1.0.0/
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