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Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I join my friend Senator Lieberman again on the floor on the issue that has, in my view, transcendent consequences not just for the people being massacred in Libya, but also for a definition of what the United States of America is all about.
Yesterday's attack in Syria killed some key leaders of the Assad regime, including one of its most notorious and brutal henchmen. It is a sign of victory and progress for the Syrian opposition and, hopefully, it could be a sign that Assad is losing his hold on power. But it is hardly time to celebrate or claim credit.
I see in the various organs of the administration, such as the New York Times that, well, the administration's hands-off policy has been successful. Successful? Seventeen thousand Syrians have been massacred while this administration has done nothing, and the President has refused to even speak up. The President of the United States talks about Bain Capital all the time. Why doesn't he talk about the capital of Syria where thousands of innocent people have been tortured, raped, and murdered?
So Assad will fall, as the Senator from Connecticut and I have said time and time again. But how many more will die before the United States of America, first, speaks up for them and, second, helps with other countries to provide them with arms and an ability to defend themselves and a sanctuary--a no-fly/no-drive sanctuary--and work with other countries in the region, accelerating the departure of Bashar Assad.
I will make another point before I ask my friend from Connecticut to speak. It seems now that U.S. national security rests not with the decisions that should be made in the Halls of Congress and at the White House, but that the decisions concerning what actions the United States of America may take is now dictated by Russia and China in the United Nations. How many times have we heard the administration say: We would like to do more and have more happen, but Russia vetoes it in the U.N. Security Council?
Does that mean when these people are being massacred and are crying out for our help and moral support, because Russia vetoes a resolution--as they did today again, supported by China--in the Security Council, therefore we can do nothing?
Former President Clinton went to Kosovo without a United Nations Security Council resolution because he knew the Russians would veto any resolution concerning Kosovo. He went and we saved Muslims' lives. The administration continues to assume what they call a ``Yemen solution'' is possible in Syria. They believe that with Russia's backing, we can compel Assad and his top lieutenants to leave power and the apparatus of the Syrian State will continue to function under new management.
I wish this could be so. Let me also point this out: I ask my friend from Connecticut, isn't it true that the predictions that the longer this conflict lasts, the more likely it is that extremists will come in and take this revolution, which began peacefully?
Isn't it true that our concern about weapons of mass destruction and the stockpile become more valid every day this goes on? Isn't it a valid assumption that Bashar Assad, in his desperation, may use these weapons against his own people, and the whole stockpile of those weapons becomes more and more tenuous by the day?
Isn't it true that the likelihood of further chaos, further inability to put that country and its people back together after this conflict is over and, as we agree, Bashar Assad relieved--but isn't it true that every day that goes by and he remains in power the situation becomes worse in all respects as far as American national security interests are concerned, whether it be weapons of mass destruction, whether it be Islamic extremists taking over that country and, by the way, including the continued Iranian presence in Syria propping up Hezbollah in Lebanon and all of the ramifications of their continued presence there?
I ask my friend, finally, doesn't this argue and cry out that rather than saying, well, what happened yesterday, that was good, and it shows Assad is on his way out--but doesn't this indicate it is now more in our interest to accelerate his departure, not with American boots on the ground but through moral, physical, and logistic support, working with our allies?
Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I want to mention to my friend from Connecticut, as we continue this colloquy, there is another aspect of this that I would appreciate his comments on.
We all agree that Bashar Assad will go. We know that. Now, the question is how many will die, how many are wounded, how many are killed, and what happens to the weapons of mass destruction? I think we have established that the longer it goes on, the more those threats increase, and the more dangerous the situation becomes, the harder it will be to resolve once Bashar Assad does leave.
I also ask my friend from Connecticut, how will the Syrian people feel about the United States of America if we continue to sit by and provide them not even moral assistance, much less the physical and logistical assistance the Senator and I discussed being necessary. Senator Lieberman and I have been to Libya on numerous occasions. I was there at an exhilarating moment--at the time of their elections.
I can tell you firsthand from seeing a couple hundred thousand people celebrating that they are grateful to the United States of America for what we did. I wonder what the attitude of the people who will emerge as the new leaders of Syria--whoever they are--what their attitude will be toward the United States, I ask my colleague. Taking into consideration that the challenges that whoever takes over power in Libya will face are myriad, and there are incredible obstacles to a path to a free and democratic nation, that would cry out for American assistance, how willing and eager will they be for the United States to be engaged in any way in assisting them as they try to achieve the goal they have already sacrificed 17,000 lives for?
Mr. McCAIN. First of all, I wish to point out that I understand--as I know my friend from Connecticut does--the focus of the American people is on our economy, on jobs, and the severe recession we are in. But I say to my friend from Connecticut, I just wish every American could have been with us or had seen on film a recording of our visit to the refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border, with 25,000 refugees--I understand now that is up to 35,000 or 40,000 refugees--from Syria. These are people who have been driven out of their homes, living not in squalid conditions but certainly very crowded and unpleasant conditions. They are certainly not the same conditions which they enjoyed in Syria. I wish the American people could have seen when we met those young children who have been displaced from their homes or when we met a group of men who told us about watching their children being murdered in front of their eyes and of the young women who had been gang raped and hear the defectors from the Syrian military who told us their instructions are--in order to try to subdue the people--to torture, murder, and rape. We know from human rights organizations there are torture centers set up around Syria by the Assad military, where people are taken and, obviously, tortured.
The American people are the most generous people in the world. The American people, where we can, try to stop these kinds of atrocities and offenses that are against everything we stand for and believe in. I wish more Americans would know how terrible and dire this situation is for the average citizen and not just for those who are demonstrating but anybody who happens to be in one of these areas where the tanks roll in and the artillery starts firing and the helicopter gunships start slaughtering people in the streets.
I hope I am not saying this in a partisan fashion, but I wish the President of the United States would speak up for these people. That is the job of the President of the United States--to lead. I wish we in Congress would do more in order to help these people because that is a long American tradition. Yes, it may require some financial sacrifice and maybe materiel sacrifice on the part of the American people, but I think the cause is one of transcendent importance.
I wish to thank my friend from Connecticut for his compassion, his concern, and his commitment to these people who live far away.
Mr. McCAIN. I would say my friend from Connecticut is exactly right. Both he and I visited Lebanon recently, and the fact is that Hezbollah basically controls the government with a Prime Minister who is not Hezbollah but who was put into power by Hezbollah, and their country is basically gridlocked as well. If Syria goes, Bashar Assad goes. That connection between Iran and Hezbollah will be severed and the people of Lebanon will have a great opportunity to have what once was a very thriving democracy restored.
Finally, I would like to mention to my friend one of the things that surprises me from time to time as I have traveled to places such as Burma, whose people were recently freed. I met three men there who were in prison, one of whom had been there for 18 years and another for 22 years. When I have traveled to Libya, as I was for the elections the other day, when I have been in Egypt and I have met some of the young people who were part of the revolution, and in Tunisia, where we met the young people there and the new government there, much to my surprise, to some degree, they pay attention to what we say. They pay attention.
These three men who were imprisoned for over 20 years said: Thank you for what you said. We listened to you in prison. The people in Libya on election night, waving little Libyan flags, were saying thank you. Thank you, America. Thank you. Thank you, Senator McCain, for saying that. The people in Syria are listening and will find out what we are saying today on the floor of the Senate.
Does it matter much? I don't know. But the people in Syria know there are some of us who are committed and will not rest until this massacre stops, until these terrible atrocities cease, and that we will continue to do everything we can to provide them with the kind of moral assistance, which is a vital ingredient in continuing their resistance, and the materiel assistance which provides them the wherewithal to gain their freedom.
Mr. McCAIN. I think the Senator is exactly right and has described it well.
There is an element also that adds more urgency, of which I know the Senator from Connecticut is very well aware; that is, that published media reports have talked about the fact that weapons of mass destruction--which, apparently, Bashar Assad has significant stocks of--have been moved around. For what purpose those weapons have been moved around is not known. But it is not an unbelievable scenario that, in final desperation, Bashar Assad would behave as his father did and use these chemical weapons and slaughter unknown numbers of people.
Again, that information lends urgency to bringing him down, to having it happen as quickly as possible, and that, of course, means the kind of engagement the Senator from Connecticut just described.
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net-snmp port needs override. First compiler complains sys/user.h being needed and then agent/mibgroup does not compile. So much for succesful kde 3.2.1 build :)
I have to confess, I have been torturing ps.catpa.com to do port builds! The machine is merely 600Mhz but it has been extremely tortured to build full categories. :-)
Anyway, try this out: http://people.freebsd.org/~hmp/dragonfly/net-snmp-5.1-files.tgz
That should get it compiling. As the name of the gzip'ed tarball suggests, it has a files/ directory. Remove the files/ directory in the net-mgmt/net-snmp port and replace it with the one in the tarball.
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"Buying Carbon Offsets May Ease Eco-Guilt But Not Global Warming" [1]
"TISZAKESZI, Hungary -- A forest was supposed to be here, inhaling carbon dioxide. But the fields are as empty as the promises of the carbon offsets that promoters said would help negate global warming with thousands of new trees near this Hungarian village.
An investigation by The Christian Science Monitor and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting has found that individuals and businesses who are feeding a $700 million global market in offsets are often buying vague promises instead of the reductions in greenhouse gases they expect.
They are buying into projects that are never completed, or paying for ones that would have been done anyhow, the investigation found. Their purchases are feeding middlemen and promoters seeking profits from green schemes that range from selling protection for existing trees to the promise of planting new ones that never thrive. In some cases, the offsets have consequences that their purchasers never foresaw, such as erecting windmills that force poor people off their farms."
Doug Struck reports for the Christian Science Monitor with others in a series that ran the week of April 20, 2010. [2]
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"Is Dave Matthews' carbon offsets provider really carbon neutral?" [3]
"Carbon offsets: Green project offends Indian farmers who lose land to windmills"
"Carbon offsets: Australia leads the pursuit of 'greenwashing'" [5]
"Carbon offsets: How a Vatican forest failed to reduce global warming"
"Carbon offsets: Using the green cloak of 'certification' to sell" [7]


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More: San Bernardino shooting sends celebrities into a rage on Twitter
Sheen has launched a petition calling on the Welsh government to help the country's homeless teens and put an end to their "unsuitable" accommodation in bed and breakfasts.
I'm petitioning Welsh Government to help homeless teenagers in Wales. Please join me. https://t.co/hKUL3itLze— michael sheen (@michaelsheen) December 21, 2015
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The petition was launched on Change.org and calls for the government to put an end to homelessness. Sheen writes, "Scared, frightened, abandoned and hungry is how many describe the experience. In the worst cases young people have reported sexual assault, after being put into rooms with no locks in a house full of strangers.
"That's why I've started this petition calling on the Welsh Government to put an end to homeless teenagers being put into bed and breakfast accommodation, no exceptions."
The alternative Sheen proposes places the teenagers in safe places that can be provided by the "fantastic network of charities across Wales," where the staff are fully trained to deal with these situations.
Citing research from the But End Youth Homelessness Cymru charity, Sheen explained that they have discovered "local authorities place around a hundred 16 and 17 year olds into unsuitable bed and breakfast accommodation every year and this number is rising."
He concludes the petition, which has already received almost 40,000 signatures, that this Christmas he is not asking for anything unreasonable, only a place where the vulnerable youth of Wales are able to have their basic rights taken care of, such as a "place of safety, a shower, a hot meal and someone to talk to."
According to the Irish Independent, after 10,000 signatures, a petitioner is entitled to a response from the national government — so Sheen's petition is well over that line.
The actor later took to Twitter to thank all those who have helped and signed the petition thus far.
Fantastic to see so many people and organisations coming together to push for change. Almost at 30,000 signatures!https://t.co/hKUL3iLmXO— michael sheen (@michaelsheen) December 22, 2015
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As I gently squeezed a series of avocados near the entrance to Green Goddess Foods in Lake Placid, a woman I see there occasionally and who always gives me a big friendly hello-smile frowned big time soon as she saw me and turned away with what I interpreted as dismissive contempt. I wondered whether she objected to the squeezing of avocados or perhaps to something I had done to her unawares, such as not recognizing her in a different venue and not returning her friendly smile, a peccadillo I had committed many times before.
A month later, as I stood on line at Green Goddess Foods with a fistful of kale and a pound of French lentils the women materialized at my side, smiling ear to ear. She put her hand on my hand holding the kale and said, in an almost cartoonishly happy voice,
"Last month I was kicking myself for paying any attention at all to you you seemed like such a jerk and the day before yesterday I realized you were a genius."
"Rumors of my genius have been greatly exaggerated," I said, adding, "and in any case, I think you must be confusing me with someone else—I'm a type, I look like a lot of people."
"No way," she said, moving her hand to a spot farther up my arm, "You're John Thaxton. I get the Audubon newsletter and went on one of your bird trips up Whiteface to look for Bicknell's thrush and you showed me one singing in your telescope as close as that sign out front. Beautiful. I can't thank you enough for that."
We geniuses can't help but hit one out of the park every time we step up to the plate.
"And when I read your winter finch forecast in the newsletter I rushed out and bought three thistle feeders and twenty pounds of thistle because I really wanted to see a hoary redpoll and you said they would irrupt all over the Adirondacks this winter.
"But only one redpoll showed up at a feeder around Christmas and I didn't see another one until day before yesterday when I saw something moving in the corner of my eye and at all of the feeders, hundreds of them. Glorius.
"And then I saw a hoary, twenty feet away, off to the side. Gorgeous. Thank you, sorry for the negative thoughts and the puss last time I saw you here. Brilliant winter finch forecast. How do you do it? Please always include one in the winter newsletter."
I smiled a big moronic smile and admonished her not to credit me with the prescient prediction of a major redpoll irruption, explaining that I didn't put the finch forecast together myself but, rather, redacted the work of several people who annually put together an uncannily accurate winter finch forecast.
I explained that these forecasters had contacts in northern and southern Ontario, Quebec and elsewhere who assessed the relative abundance of the winter finches' preferred foods, such as black and white spruce cones, white birch catkins and mountain ash berries. This year, for example, it seems extremely unlikely that many pine grosbeaks will show up in the Adirondacks because of the excellent mountain ash berry crop in the boreal forest. Pine grosbeaks, which I've literally had to brake hard to avoid as they littered Route 73 eating road salt during an irruption year, will probably not appear at all this year.
On the other hand, I went on, redpolls prefer birch seeds and the white birches in the Adirondacks hang heavy with catkins as we speak, so the forecasters predicted a bumper crop of common and hoary redpolls, the rule of thumb for me being that among every fifty commons you'll find a hoary, in my experience frequently slightly off to the side waiting for an opportunity to nail a few seeds at a momentarily empty feeder perch.
I said that I had a similar experience to hers and saw three redpolls at my thistle feeder around Christmas and then zero for a couple of months or so. From Christmas through late February the thistle remained full and, then, looking at an orange sunrise, I saw dozens of birds effervescing out of the trees and jockeying for position at the feeder perches. Within a few days I had more than a hundred birds, on and on the ground below both my thistle and sunflower seed feeders, from which the black-capped chickadees had been unceremoniously evicted, forcing them, for the first time in years, to resort to natural food sources. Since the irruption I had several hoaries among the commons, and I've needed to fill my six feeders daily.
"Well," I said, "I better stop talking about birds and try to accomplish something today," turning as I spoke to the empty checkout area.
We both smiled at the clerk's abandoning the cash register rather than listen to me holding forth about cones and catkins, so I went upstairs to look forher.
I found her standing in the small kitchen area stirring a large cauldron of something.
When she saw me she said, "Oh, I'll be right down. I wanted to let you finch what you were saying."
Ouch, did I groan at that one.
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Good point - What if they didn't have to scale down to DNA, like Ancient Alien pokeballs. With a list of appropriate habitats for each animal it wouldn't been a matter of sailing around throwing pokeballs.
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We were star seeded here from other star systems.
You probably came from the Vega Star System.
Life on Earth is one big genetic experiment.
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It is possible because with it was a miracle and Gods will.
Don't doubt his will.
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Originally posted by thedoctorswife
Just showed my daughter it, she loved it.
Something thats always puzzled me was how Noah managed to get two of everything, i,e how did he get to the pole for the polar bears, etc.
I know someones gonna say its because the bibles not true, but does anyone have the bible believers explanation?
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So you agree that you don't know. Cheers for clarifying that next time try to word things properly. Instead of proven, use I think. instead of fact, use my faith tells me so etc... You get the pictureedit on 13-12-2012 by Uberdavo because: bah
It begs the question then, why would such an educated man make up a fictitious account if it didn't happen. Moses was brought up in the Egyptian version of the history of the world, so if he knew there was never a Flood, why make it up?
Acts 7:22. . .Consequently Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. In fact, he was powerful in his words and deeds
Originally posted by NoJoker13
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You say there were more ships like it's a fact. Care to share sources?
Originally posted by TauCetixeta
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All of it can be verified. You just need access to the database.
It will be posted online soon.
It should look something like Pleiadian Encyclopedia.com.
My understanding was that the Noah parable was derived from the Ziusudra Epic, which is sumarian in origin en.wikipedia.org... The "Sumarian Flood Myth" which pre-dates Noah
So you agree there was a Noah. That is a start.


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Land Cruising - Prospecting:
Introduction To Land Cruising
Land Cruising And Prospecting
The Compass
Examining And Locating
Early Surveys
Corner Marks
Points For Homesteaders
Prospecting For Gold, Etc.
Sampling Ore
How To Locate A Claim
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Sampling Ore
( Originally Published Early 1900's )
As I have mentioned before, it is a good policy to take samples of any mineral that strikes you as being valuable, especially if it is heavy or even if it is light, and is a strange piece of rock. It is a good idea if there are any veins open in that country or district to take a look at the ore, they are taking out. This will give you a pointer of what the mineral is in that country or district and what to look for when prospecting, also the heft and color of the ore.
Now if your sample is hard, take the stub end of your pick and on a fiat, hard stone, pulverize it as fine as possible, taking care to save the pieces that fly off. Your sample to be tested should be, say from one to five pounds, depending on whether you are using your horn spoon or your gold pan. Add water until you have a thin pulp or sludge. Put in an ounce of quick-silver, more or less according to the size of your sample. Also drop in a little prussic acid. Stir thoroughly an hour or two if you can stand it that long for your quicksilver must be thoroughly mixed in order to pick up your gold.
Now add more water and wash off the dirt.
This washing process is hard to describe. You must get the water to whirling around in your pan, letting a little slop out occasionally until nothing but a little coarse stuff remains in the bottom of the pan or spoon. This is called amalgam. Pick out the coarse stuff and save it and if black sand is present, take it out With your magnet. It will stick to the magnet the same as your gold dust to the quicksilver. Now take the amalgam, place it in your chamois skin and twist it hard so your quicksilver will go through into a dish of water so you can save it. Put what is left on a shovel and heat it red hot. This burns out what quicksilver is left and leaves your gold or other mineral. This is called sponge gold.
During this heating process be careful and not inhale the fumes or smoke as they are poisonous. Stand on the up wind side. If you want to make it finer make a retort of clay, put in your amalgam or sponge gold and heat your ' clay retort red hot. After it cools, open it and you may have a gold button big enough to buy a grub stake if you have struck it lucky, then again you may not. Most of the old timers stop at the sponge stage and let the assay office finish it and I would suggest when taking it to be assayed, leave a sample at two or three assay offices for obvious reasons, and it is also good policy to send a sample to the nearest U. S. assay office.
It is good policy to test a vein for different minerals. To test for copper, pulverize a piece of your rock the same as for gold. Mix as much more salt with it and rub in some candle grease or fat. Then put your sample on a hot fire. If you have much copper in your ore the flame will show first blue, then greenish. It is best to make this test at night and to bake your ore a little before crushing it.
To test for silver, rub a piece of copper smartly through your ore sample after it is crushed. A piece of copper wire or an empty copper rifle shell will do. If silver is present it will turn your copper white. Another way is to heat a chunk of ore good and hot, then plunge it in cold water. If there is any silver metal in the sample it will come to the surface in the shape of a greyish scum.
To test for coal, take a chunk of the ore to be tested and seal it up in the bowl of a clay pipe with a daub of clay. Then heat red hot in the-fire, letting the stem act as a vent and if you have coal it will appear in the shape of coke, when the pipe bowl is opened.
The Mexicans use a retort for retorting gold made out of a raw potato. They cut a hole in the potato,- insert the amalgam, heat a shovel red hot, place it over the hole.. Then set the shovel on the fire and heat it red hot. The quick-silver or mercury will go into the potato and can be saved. This is not such a bad retort as a couple of Mexicans cleaned up a good chunk of money from the tailings of the Comstock mine before the owners got on to it that they were throwing away so much silver.
It takes 1863 degrees Far. to melt silver and about 2009 degrees to melt copper and 428 degrees only to melt tin, gold about 1983 degrees. So you will observe that with the exception of tin you must have a good hot fire and as iron melts at about 2912 degrees you need not spoil your shovel making these tests. You can test specimens from a gravel bar the same as for a vein. Some of our best placer mines were blundered over for years by hunters and trappers before they were discovered by prospectors, hence it is for the trapper and hunter this is intended.
It often happens that one wishes to get an average of his vein or outcrop. To do this, take a sample from four different spots on your vein or outcrop. Pulverize them as before stated and spread them on a floor or clean spot to an even thickness and mark it off into four squares. Now select one of these squares and repeat the operation with it. Go through this operation until you think you have a fair sample. Leave a sample at three assay offices and take the aver-age value of the three tests. If you are selling it it is better to underrate your claim a little than to overrate it for the prospective buyer will get suspicious the minute you begin to make excuses and you may have trouble in disposing of it. Set an honest valuation on your property as you see it and stick to it.


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The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities has chosen 12 outstanding undergraduates as new scholars for the university's Gaines Fellowship Program for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years. Gaines Fellowships are given in recognition of outstanding academic performance, demonstrated ability to conduct independent research, an interest in public issues and a desire to enhance understanding of the human condition through the humanities.
Gaines Fellowships are awarded for the tenure of a student's junior and senior years, or for the last two years of a five-year program; students in all disciplines and with any intended profession are given equal consideration.
UK's 12 new Gaines Fellows are:
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In addition to the course requirements, Gaines Fellows enjoy a rich program of field trips, lectures, and other activities designed to widen and deepen their educational experience.
For the students, being chosen as a Gaines Fellow is a tremendous honor and recognizes their dedication to academics. "I feel honored to be selected with some of my most intelligent peers and excited for the academic challenges ahead," said Stefanie Muller.
Founded in 1984 by a generous gift from John and Joan Gaines, the Gaines Center for the Humanities functions as a laboratory for imaginative and innovative education on UK's campus. Part of the Division of Undergraduate Education at UK, the center is devoted to cultivating an appreciation of the humanities in its students and faculty. The center embraces varied paths of knowledge and particularly strives to integrate creative work with traditional academic learning.


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In the '90s and '00s, rock fans spent their cash each summer on a variety of traveling summer festivals. Spearheaded by Perry Farrell's brainchild Lollapalooza (which busted down traditional genre barriers by combining alternative rock, punk, goth, industrial and hip-hop acts), there were a plethora of themed tours: Lilith Fair featured female-fronted bands and singer/songwriters; the H.O.R.D.E. featured the biggest jam bands, the Warped Tour spotlighted punk rock and Ozzfest had heavy metal's legends alongside up-and-comers. It's clear that Rockstar Energy Drink must have some fans of Ozzfest and Lollapalooza on its staff, as it has created decent updates of both. Their Mayhem Festival is now the premiere metal tour of the summer (this year, Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch and Mastodon were among the headliners), and the now-in-progress Uproar Festival, which came to New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center on Saturday (Aug. 17) treads on Lollapalooza's former turf.
Related: Mayhem Fest 2013 Brings Metal, Veteran's Causes To The Masses
While Rockstar probably wouldn't like the comparison, several Mayhem bands played Ozzfest back in the day. And while in past years, some Uproar bands seem like they could fit in with Mayhem (Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour and Hellyeah would probably do fine on that bill), this year they've put some distance between the two summer festivals by naming Lollapalooza veterans Alice In Chains and Jane's Addiction as Uproar headliners. Coheed & Cambria, also on the main stage, may well have been a Lolla headliner if that tour lasted a few more years.
Uproar follows Mayhem's format: lesser-known bands play on two small stages in the early hours of the day, and by late afternoon, the action moves to the venue's main stage for four headliners. The crowds got progressively larger as they day went on, and the biggest three draws all veered towards dirty, trashy blues-rock, which was generally unfashionable in the '90s – although that's changed with post-Lolla bands like the White Stripes and the Black Keys.
The Canadian garage rock trio Danko Jones have been bubbling under for years and may be ripe for a breakthrough. Jones said that they deserved to be booed — because it was their first time performing in New Jersey. If that's true, no one held it against them; the crowd was enthusiastic for their set and flocked to the band's merch booth after their performance.
If they're short of a "supergroup," Dead Daises at least have an impressive pedigree: singer Jon Stevens briefly fronted INXS post-Michael Hutchence's passing; keyboardist Dizzy Reed has been a member of Guns N Roses since the Use Your Illusion era along with guitarist Richard Fortus; guitarist Marco Mendoza has done time in Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, and has played for Ted Nugent as well. The crowd took to their sound quickly — it was like a less-jammy, more hard rock Black Crowes. Stevens, a charismatic frontman, did most of the set from a chair, as he had a "boot" on his foot due to a recent injury.
Walking Papers come closer to the classic "supergroup" definition, though the most high-profile member is easily bassist Duff McKagan. Singer/guitarist Jeff Angell isn't nearly as well-known as his bandmates, but once he starts singing, he more than held his own. For sure, lots of fans were drawn to the stage: it's not every day you get to see a member of the classic Guns N Roses lineup that close up. But regardless of what drew people to the stage, the music kept them there, and then led them to the band's merchandise booth to buy CDs and t-shirts.
After Walking Papers, the small stages shut down and the headliners began on the main stage. When Circa Survive started their set, it was a perfect demonstration of why assigned seating doesn't always work at multi-artist festivals. CS began to sea of empty seats, however there was a loud and enthusiastic crowd on the general admission lawn, hundreds of yards away. Coheed & Cambria's heavy prog-rock style drew more people; odds are, had Lollapalooza toured for a few more summers, odds are C&C would have been on that tour; their unique brand of heavy rock would have fit in perfectly.
More: Coheed & Cambria's Claudio Sanchez Laughs About Comparisons To Rush
By the time Jane's Addiction took the stage, the seats started to fill up. Between the larger crowd and the fact that the sun went down by the time Jane's started, it seemed like a different concert.
Perry Farrell is the ringmaster of nearly any show he puts on. So, it was odd to see Jane's as just one of the attractions of someone else's party. But once Jane's start playing, you're in their house. For their one-hour set, they focused on their 1988 classic Nothing's Shocking and their 1990 follow-up Ritual de lo Habitual. Perhaps ironically, they opened with "Underground," from their latest album, where he sings, "I'll never give up the underground/ I came back to pay respect" but later admits that "Someone had to float the cash/To pay up for the wake." It's no longer the '90s, and Jane's seemed fine with playing someone else's tour as long as said cash was floated, even if an energy drink is an unlikely sponsor for this formerly underground L.A. band. Outdated punk-rock ethics aside, the band has lost none of their power over the decades; Farrell is still one of the most charismatic and unique frontmen in rock history; Dave Navarro's guitar playing, while avoiding histrionics, still manages to blow minds and Stephen Perkins' tribal drumming sets the band apart from the rest of the alternative rock pack.
By the time Alice In Chains' set began, the seated section appeared to be sold out, with thousands of fans on the lawn behind the seated area. Performing for just over an hour, the band played songs from their latest album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, and their last one, Black Gives Way To Blue, both of which feature singer William DuVall, who has the seriously tough job of replacing the late Layne Staley. While Staley will always be the singer who people associate with the band, the fans reacted to the William-era songs as fervently as the older material, which is no mean feat.
Of course, most of the set drew from the '90s, with "Them Bones," "Again," "Man In The Box" and "Grind" as well as mellower numbers "Got Me Wrong" and "Nutshell" keeping the fans on their feet and singing along the entire time. Drummer Sean Kinney's bass drum had "LSMS" on it — the initials of the band's fallen members Layne Staley and original bassist Mike Starr — but all eyes were on frontman DuVall and guitarist/leader Jerry Cantrell through their performance. The band's stage set featured several video screens and elaborate lighting; odds are, after Uproar is over, they'll be bringing their gear back on the road on their own headlining tour, where they'll play longer sets. But playing Uproar was probably a good move: the younger fans who showed up for the bands from the smaller stages got a taste of Alice and Jane's, and as both groups pass the quarter century mark, bringing new blood to their fanbases.


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Binary Button-Down Has Me Doing the Math For Shipping + Tax
Yesterday I introduced you to the geeky clothing line Rhombus, and because I was so caught up in the presentation of nerd courtship, I didn't get to highlight any of the individual pieces. Something I couldn't resist showing you was something truly geeky, but in such an undercover way that it's not like wearing a message T and bashing people over the head with it: The James dress shirt in binary (it's in Flash, so just navigate to the women's section in the online store).
Other binary apparel can be sort of geek in the unglamorous way, what with t-shirts that make you wear your hobbies on your sleeve, literally. I love a good button-down, and for one in subtle binary code, it's already got me sold. The only thing I'd be worried about is fellow male geeks staring — they've got the perfect excuse: "I'm trying to read your shirt." Sure you are, buddy.


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(This guest post on Roma Pride is from Wendell Ricketts, a fiction and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in Blithe House Quarterly, The Advocate, Out, and many other publications. He edited Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men about More-or-Less Gay Life and currently works as a translator and writer in Balogna, Italy. He blogs at Una Vita Vagabonda. ~a.b.)
On the corner where Il Cassero, Bologna's LGBT center, is located, there's a kind of merry chaos on the morning of RomaPride: immense tour buses in pastel shades of blue, gray, and violet--the kind that usually haul swarms of German tourists to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa--are lined up along both sides of via Minzoni. The Cassero, like LGBT centers across Italy, has chartered buses for the trip south. But what's more interesting is what's lining the sidewalks: droves of dykes, flocks of fags, tribes of trannies, kerfuffles of queens, shoals of sissies. I have the sensation that every queer in Italy must be here, and we aren't even in Rome yet.


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• Colonel Hollenbeck earned a Bachelor of Science in education from Pittsburg State in 1956, and was a 4 year football letterman.
• He served in the United States Army from 1956-1981.
• Overseas Assignments Include: Germany from 1959-1962 and again from 1971-1976; Vietnam from 1965-1966 and 1970-1971.
• He returned to Pittsburg State in 1976 as chairman of the Military Science Department. In 1981, was named assistant to the president, until being named director of the PSU Business and Technology Institute in 1996.
• Awards and Decorations Include: Legion of Merit (2), Army Commendation Medal (2), Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, and the Purple Heart.


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|Actually it could be cataracts, my dog was born with them. One eye has
no sight and the other is very poor sight. I would check with the vet if I
were you. Don't mean to be a downer, but if it is, you should know
now so you can adjust. I got info from my vet about a vet within
driving distance who specializes in canine eye problems.
|yes it could be cataracts. my Lady Dy. had them from the day she was born. Don't let it get to you, i had my Lady for 13 years. and she was fine. Only thing, she hated it when i moved the funiture around! confused her.
the owner was going to put her down, but i took her instead. best thing i ever did! ,well, that and rescueing Winston!!
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Cataracts are a defect of the lens, which is a structure that exists WITHIN the eye itself. Typically they just look like a grey fuzziness of the pupil.
A white spot on the OUTSIDE of the eye (the cornea) can be something else entirely. It could be an ulcer (where the eye has been damaged), a scar (from a previous ulcer that has healed), or, most commonly, a condition called "Corneal Dystrophy".
Corneal dystrophies are characterised by a small deposit of calcium, crystal or fat within the tissue of the cornea. They usually develop in young adult dogs (ie 6-12 months), and present as a white, grey or silver dot right in the middle of the eye (or both eyes). They usually don't have any adverse effects, and don't really affect the dog's ability to see.
I recommend heading to your vet, if you haven't already, to get them to check out the eyes. If the dot IS an ulcer, it will need medication to help it heal. Alternatively, if the spot is a corneal dystrophy but it is big and obscuring vision, your vet might refer you to a specialist for surgery.
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Incontinence can be symptomatic of a major health issue in your pet. If not treated properly, the consequences can be severe
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Nearly all dog owners at one time or another have had the unfortunate experience of finding a puddle or wet spot somewhere in the home. Dogs who have long since been housetrained can sometimes struggle with the unexpected and uncontrollable loss of urine, otherwise known as incontinence.
Many pet owners simply don't know what causes incontinence in dogs, or if your dog is even truly suffering from incontinence. Now, a site completely devoted to urinary issues in dogs has just launched.
"Our new website serves as a resource center for both frustrated and concerned pet owners alike," said Incontinent Dog spokeswoman Marlene Fribley. "We want all owners to recognize the signs and symptoms of incontinence and what can be done to treat it"
Fribley also reminds owners that if in fact your dog is batting incontinence, it is a sign of an underlying medical problem.
"Incontinence can be symptomatic of a major health issue in your pet," said Fribley. "If not treated properly, the consequences can be severe."
Incontinent Dog also provides reviews and information on all the products that are available for treating dogs with urinary issues. Whether it's indoor potties, belly bands or diapers designed for dogs, the brand new site has it all covered.
"There are literally hundreds of products available for incontinence in dogs that many people may not be aware of," said Fribley. "We explain what products may best suit your needs, where they are available and how much you can expect to pay."
If your pet has had one or more accidents in the home, Incontinent Dog also has a section dedicated to the best ways to clean up the mess and get rid of the accompanying unpleasant odor.
For more information, signs and symptoms of dog incontinence or products available to treat the problem, please visit Incontinentdog.net.


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In the centre of Killarney, Neptune's Hostel is just 5 minutes' walk from the town's bus and train stations. This hostel offers free Wi-Fi, luggage storage and is a short walk from Killarney National Park. This family-run hostel offers private rooms and beds in dormitories, with shared bathroom facilities. There are full kitchen facilities and a communal lounge with TV. Other facilities offered include a laundry service, luggage and bike storage. Neptune's Hostel serves breakfast each morning, with cereal, toast and jam, juice, tea and coffee. Packed lunches can also be provided, and there are also vending machines with drinks and snacks. Killarney lies between Tralee and Kenmare, and is around 35 minutes' drive from both towns. The hostel can arrange discounted tours of the Ring of Kerry, Dingle Peninsula and the Gap of Dunloe, as well as horse riding, guided walks, kayak trips, abseiling and discounted bike hire.
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Discussion in 'Off Topic Chat' started by bace, Sep 16, 2005.
Everyone love Coldplay. Just admit it.
What's your favourite tune?
Right now, Fix You. But I love The Scientist.
Don't have one.
I gotta say Green Eyes, Scientist, and yeah, Fix you is sounding great.
Actually, I'm so sick of Coldplay, I change the channel everytime it comes on the radio. :no smile: They've really over-played them here and now Chris's voice just makes my skin crawl.
I never liked Green Eyes. Took me agesto like that then one day I did. I always used to skip it.
Stop listening to commercial radio!!!
They ruin everything good.
Anything by coldplay is automatically one of my least favorite songs. Actually, I don't listen to Pop or watch MM (MTV) enough to really care...I do know that when I do hear them...I want to barf.
I'll stick with my archive of old Tragically Hip.
Quote from 40 year old virgin: "you know how I know you're gay....cause you listen to Coldplay"
amen, girlie! :hail: Someone, pull the plug on that plonk!
Hey. I like that sentence.
I like Coldplay, and I'm not too ashamed of it Favorite song is Clocks (I know :roll: ) and then Trouble
I like Green Eyes, it's awesome.
Separate names with a comma.


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The GNOME Project
The toolkit
GNOME desktop applications have been built on top of the object-oriented GTK+ toolkit originally designed as a GUI toolkit for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
GTK+ has been implemented on top of a simple window and drawing API called Gdk (GTK Drawing Kit). The initial version of Gdk was a fairly thin wrapper around the Xlib libraries, but a port to Win32 and a port to the Y windowing system are presently in alpha stages.
GTK+ implements an object system entirely in C. This object system is quite rich in functionality, including classical single inheritance, dynamic creation of new methods and classes, and a "signal" mechanism for dynamically attaching handlers to the various events that occur in the user interface. One of GTK's great strengths is the availability of a wide range of language bindings, including C++, Objective-C, Perl, Python, Scheme and Tom. These language bindings provide access both to GTK+ objects and to new objects programmed in the language of choice.
An additional feature of GNOME is Rasterman's Imlib library. This library is implemented alongside Gdk and provides a fast yet flexible interface for loading and saving images and rendering them on the screen. Applications using Imlib have quick and direct access to PNG, GIF, TIFF, JPEG and XPM files as well as other formats available through external conversion filters.
The Support Libraries
C-based GNOME applications use the GLIB utility library. glib provides the C programmer with a set of useful data structures: linked lists, doubly linked lists, hash tables (one-to-one maps), trees, string manipulation, memory-chunk reuse, debugging macros, assertion and logging facilities. glib also includes a portable interface for a dynamic module facility.
The GNOME libraries
The GNOME libraries add the missing pieces to the toolkit to create full applications, dictate some policy, and help in the process of providing consistent user interfaces as well as localizing the GNOME applications so they can be used in various countries.
The current GNOME libraries are GTK+-Xmhtml, gnome-print, libgnome, libgnomeui, libgnorba, libgtop, gnome-dom and gnome-xml. Other libraries are used for specific applications: libPropList (soon to be replaced by a new configuration engine) and audiofile.
The main non-graphical library is called libgnome. This provides functions to keep track of recently used documents, configuration information, metadata handling (see below), game score functions and command-line argument handling. This library does not depend on the use of a windowing system.
As we use CORBA to achieve parts of our desktop integration, we have a special library called the libgnorba library to deal with various CORBA issues. It provides GUI/CORBA integration (to let our GUI applications act as servers), authentication within the GNOME framework and service activation.
The gnomeui library, on the other hand, has the code that requires a window system to run. It contains the following components:
The GNOME session management support
Widgets, both as straightforward extensions of GTK+ and designed to be dependent on libgnome features
A set of standard dialog boxes otherwise not available on GTK+, well-integrated with other GNOME libraries
Standard property configuration dialog boxes
Standard top-level window handling
A multi-document interface (gnome-mdi)
Windowing hints
CORBA integration where required
GTK+-XmHTML is a port of the Koen D'Hondt's XmHTML widget for Motif and is used for our HTML display needs. Our changes are being folded back into the main distribution.
The lib gtop library allows system applications to be easily ported to various operating systems; it provides system, process and file system information.
gnome-xml provides XML file loading, parsing and saving for GNOME applications and is being used in the GNOME spreadsheet (Gnumeric) and in the GNOME word processor program. gnome-dom provides an implementation of the World Wide Web Consortium's Document Object Model for GNOME applications. By the time you read this article, gnome-dom will have been deployed widely in the GNOME office applications. Both gnome-xml and gnome-dom were developed by Daniel Veillard from the World Wide Web Consortium.
gnome-print implements GNOME's printing architecture. It consists of a pluggable rendering engine as well as a set of widgets and standard dialog boxes for selecting and configuring printers. In addition, gnome-print is responsible for managing outline fonts and contains scripts that automatically find fonts already installed on the system.
The GNOME print imaging model is modeled after PostScript. Basic operations include vector and bezier path construction, stroking, filling, clipping, text (using Type1 fonts, with TrueType to follow shortly) and images.
Currently, gnome-print generates only PostScript output. However, the design of the imaging model is closely synchronized with the anti-aliased rendering engine for the Canvas and it is expected that these two modules will be interoperating soon. In particular, it will be possible to "print" into a canvas (useful for providing a high-quality screen preview) and to print the contents of a canvas. This feature should simplify the design of applications which use the Canvas, as very little extra code will be needed to support printing.
The same rendering engine will be used to render printed pages directly without going through a PostScript step. This path is especially exciting for providing high-quality, high-performance printing to color ink-jet printers, even of complex pages containing transparency, gradients and other elements considered "tricky" in the traditional PostScript imaging model.
One explicit goal of GNOME was to support development in a wide range of languages, because no single language is ideal for every application. To this end, bindings for both GTK+ and the GNOME libraries exist for many popular programming languages, currently C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, Python, Scheme and Tom.
The early involvement of Scheme, Tom and Perl hackers in both the GTK+ and GNOME projects has helped in making the GTK+ and GNOME APIs easy to wrap up for various languages. Multi-language support is "baked in" to the design of GTK+ and GNOME, rather than being added on as an afterthought.


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If you are doing a dual boot with Fedora Core and Windows 2000 or XP anaconda should add it to the grub automatically. If you need to restore the grub after re-installing windows follow this tutorial.
If you are installing Fedora Core in primary hard drive and have Windows 2000 or XP on slave drive you will need to add the lines to /etc/fstab.
Open terminal become root and type:and add this lines for your windows entry:Code:
gedit /etc/grub.conf
Dont forget to click on SAVE.Code:
[B]title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1[/B]
Now if you have Windows 95, 98 or ME and want to mount a FAT32 partition this is how is done just add this line to your fstab:
Please note I am using /dev/hda2 as an example.Code:
/dev/hda2 /mnt/windows vfat users,rw,owner,umask=000 0 0
Many new comers are asking this question very frequently so here is the answer.


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Which does everyone think should go on my new bikepacking rig? I know they are both discontinued tires, but they are in my tire bin already! Riding will be a mix of everything, pavement, dirt roads, doubletrack, singletrack. I like high volume and low rolling resistance. I think the Ra Ra is a bit bigger volume wise, but the thin sidewalls scare me a bit for this application. The WWLT should work well and has beefier sidewalls, but is slightly lower volume and almost 200g heavier per tire.
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Thread: The "I don't get it" thread
I really can't stand Fahrenheit and so that's what I'd say is the most confusing for me. It smells to my nose like petrol mixed with dirty woods and the effect is not pleasing to say the least. I smelt Tobacco Vanille once and seriously disliked it but it was a long time ago so I'd be willing to try it again but for now as I recall it it's a scent that I really don't understand the hype for. Also A Men.
most also smell generic and similar vibe. not all...but most
That's a bold statement.........Originally Posted by Sol invictus;3044044....... [B
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In the past three years I can count on my hand the number of designer fragrances that I've found appealing, the number of niche scents that I've enjoyed is much higher.
MacDonald's tastes better than a well prepared steak from a restaurant that isn't a chain (and whose mascot isn't a clown). Meat is meat, right?
I'm not bashing designers. I own plenty. I just think your statement is silly to the point where I'd be embarrassed if I'd said it. Then again, I wouldn't have said it since I don't believe it. I also don't believe that niche smells better. There's excellence to be found in both niche and designers. Suggesting otherwise is ridiculous.
Current Favorites (in no particular order)
Rose 31
Aqua Universalis
Prada L'Homme
Petit Matin
Aqua Celestia
1725 Casanova
Royal Oud
Tom Ford Extreme
Hanae Mori H.M. EDT
Talented perfumers make amazing scents, designer or niche
Ambre Sultan, so much oregano I feel like I am making a pizza.
Oh, I also add French Lover by Malle. Smells like any "sport"/fresh cologne.
One million!
Mona di Orio Oud was a pure fecal barnyard experience when I first put it on. I said "huh?" Why would anyone wanna smell this poopy? It did mellow out after a bit, but still.
Your nostrils, which will dilate immesurably in unspeakable contentment, in motionless ecstasy, will ask nothing better for space, for they will be full of fragrance, as if perfumes and incense; for they will be glutted with complete happiness, like angels who dwell in the peace and magnificence of pleasent heaven.
(From Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont)
The irony being that the average person probably wouldn't "get" the behaviour of BN'ers, spending hours on a forum about scents, amassing collections of hundreds of fragrances, spending thousands of pounds doing so and the large sums that people will spend on individual scents that they covet etc.
I agree with DHI being feminine, as well as many of the YSL "Homme" flankers. Powdery, sweet florals that smell better on a woman in her 30s than on men. Especially la Nuit.
For me, it's Cool Water. No clue where so many people are getting their "vintage" examples as it's as mass market as you can get but the Pine-Sol top note is put to shame by GIT and Chez Bond.
And one final category - the fresh summery Creeds I don't understand. I love their deeper scents - Aventus, OV, Bois de Portugal, Royal Oud... but Himalaya, Silver Mountain Water, and MI I don't get. They certainly smell nice but they're rather weak, and don't compare to the rest of their line.
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I am wearing kouros for the first time today..so I will have to say kouros.
this stuff is potent
14 sprays of DRAKKAR NOIR should do it
Issey Miyaki. I just don't. Have tried many times. Just don't. lol
Is the juice worth the squeeze?


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There's really only one question that needs to be asked when talking about Los Angeles pop-punkers Dum Dum Girls. And, to me, that's: How can you not like Dee Dee (aka Kristin Gundred) and her merry band of lady tricksters? I mean, really? A uniformly stylish, sassy, all-girl group that rocks it like they talk it, is influenced by the best that came before them and is fronted by an intelligent, confident, beautiful bandleader who has a knack for churning out jagged little pop nuggets of goodness? What the hell is not to like?
Not to mention that Dee Dee just happens to be married to Brandon Welchez of Crocodiles, one of San Diego's very best musical exports at the moment. The Dum Dums also just dropped their second full-length, Only in Dreams, on Tuesday, and the album is a more complete and well-put-together effort than anything the band has done yet. Dum Dum Girls kick off their tour to support the new record with a two-night stand at the Casbah on Friday and Saturday, and as an added bonus for all of us who wouldn't miss it, Crocodiles and a bunch of other like-minded musical hipsters will be in tow. I recently spoke with Dee Dee, who was with the band rehearsing in Los Angeles, about it all.
Dee Dee: Yes. It's partially because my band lives in L.A., so our gear lives in L.A. It's partially because I live in New York, so it's convenient for it to end in New York. And then it has a lot to do with being on tour with Crocodiles, who are still essentially based out of San Diego at this point. For them, it's a hometown show. We've never been a San Diego band in that sense, because we didn't cut our teeth playing hometown shows there. But, obviously, I spent a lot of years in San Diego, and it feels nice to start there. I love the Casbah. I love [owner] Tim [Mays]. And we're excited to start there for a lot of reasons, but we've been away for so long that it'll be extra nice to see old friends.
DD: Brandon and I have always wanted to move to New York. It's just such an intense move to make -- physically moving your stuff across the country, as well as financially; it's just so much harder to find a place. It's always been so daunting to think about. You look at Craigslist and it's "Listings With a Realtor" and "Listings Without a Realtor." It's kind of like, "Holy s---, this is complicated!" But San Francisco didn't feel right. We both felt like we needed a fresh start, and we fell into a perfect place in New York. It was stress-free. We jumped on it, packed everything up and drove over.
SM: How are you liking it?
DD: I love it, but I am definitely a true West Coast girl. Maybe not for the obvious cliché reasons, but I am. It's where I feel at home. San Francisco was my Mecca as a teenager, I went to school in Santa Cruz, and I just love California and those middle areas where you have the water and the mountains. That's my paradise. But at the same time, I've always heavily romanticized New York. And every time I go there, I convince myself that I can feel it in the air. And whether or not that's psychosomatic, I do feel an energy there that I love. We wanted to move to the city, and we were lucky enough to find an apartment on the Upper East Side that's very Woody Allen. It's very anonymous. It's like a retreat. And it's ideal to have that to go home to. You can tap into the crazy quite easily anywhere, but to have that to go home to is something that I value a lot.
SM: The new album just came out. What motivated the process this time?
Dee Dee: always just strive to write really good pop songs. But I was listening to the Cure a lot, and that may not come out sonically so much as the songwriting from their earlier singles. It's just absolute perfection. I was looking to make a record that had both pure, distilled pop songs but also expanded on our sound. And the fact that the girls were involved -- and we did it as a live band -- was very important as well. I always want each record to sound different and sound like a progression. Personally, that's something very important.
SM: Enjoying the full-on group thing better than doing it all alone?
DD: We've been so busy and toured so much that we really became each other's everything, and that finds its way into the music. For me to see how a song progressed from my demo-ed home recordings to a song we play together live every night, and to know it happened organically, to me, that was proof right there that it was of value to open up to more collaboration. While I still may be writing the songs, there is a lot of magic that can happen when you leave room for other people to show you what they can do.
SM: Please excuse the term, but this seems like your "slickest" record.
DD: Oh, definitely. It's our slickest record. But if you're going on a scale from 1 to 10, starting with the first things we put out, then it doesn't have to be all that slick to make it that way. For me, it was a really great experience to have a professional level of equipment, fidelity and values. It actually allowed me to play more around with sound, the use of noise and effects.
DD: I love the Pretenders. They're not a band I listen to on a regular basis, but Chrissie Hynde just has one of those standout voices, so any comparison there I take as a compliment. But, ultimately, my hope is to have my own version of that.
DD: I'm always writing songs. But I'm not someone like Sune [Rose Wagner of the Raveonettes, who once again, along with Richard Gottehrer, produced the new album]. He's such a prolific songwriter, but he has a certain "sound" worked out before he starts an album. I love that, and, to me, that's really, really interesting. But I don't work like that. It becomes self-evident after writing the songs, or I have ideas of where I want to make changes. But there should be an EP of what were going to be B-sides from this record coming out. We'll see.
DD: I'm so happy. We get to spend the remainder of the year, and January, together. It's just so far and few between to have so much time off, or so much time on together, that we're really excited about it. Also, something that both bands value is the curation of an entire evening of music. These are our friends and bands we respect. It's going to be a night that really reflects us, and that's something we enjoy as fans, as well. I like going to a show that's seamless, related and contextualized. Not only is it going to be good for us on this side of it, I think these shows will be good all the way around. It's going to be a really good night of music.
Blogger Scott McDonald covers music in San Diego for a few different publications and is the editor of Eight24.com


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Equilibrium analysis is essential to evaluate sorption capacity and to determine whether sediment acts as a source or sink of phosphorus (P). This study was carried out to determine whether or not the sediment in drainage ditches acts as a source or sink of P, evaluate phosphorus sorption kinetics, and determine the potential P sorption by using the Langmuir isotherm sorption model. Surface sediment (0–10 cm) and the overlying water were collected from three drainage ditches for the experiments. Results showed that the drainage ditch that was the most contaminated with P had the highest sediment zero-equilibrium phosphorus concentration (EPC0). Because sediment EPC0 of the three ditches was higher than water P concentration, they acted as a sink of P across the sediment interface. The kinetic sorption of sediments consisted of two stages that were quick and slow, regardless of the sampling sites. The amounts of P sorbed to sediments at equilibrium (Qe) ranged from 50.8 to 77.5 mg kg−1. Phosphorus sorption capacity (Qmax) of sediments ranged from 447.0–493.8 mg kg−1 with the constant related to binding energy (K) (0.140–0.171 L mg−1). The results from this study indicate the importance of ditch sediment in controlling P dynamics in discharge from agricultural farms.
- agricultural drainage ditches
- phosphorus
- sediment
- sorption
- sorption capacity
- First received 2 April 2015.
- Accepted in revised form 24 June 2016.
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(4th august 2012) Hello,
Seems quite a problem because nobody can give me any clou.
More info needed to fix, or what?
Tried to export content of joomshop articles using Simple Export UTF8 but can't find any .cvs file.
It should be in ..components/com_jshopping/files/importexport/simpleexportutf8 as discribed in other threads, but nothing there.
No errors after export command;
I'm using Joomla 2.5.6 and joomshop 3.7.2;
All atributes nessecery are 755 and no diskquota;
Also tried with other export available, same result: no .cvs file anywhere in dirs.
Any suggestion to get this solved?
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So lifetime alimony seems pretty stupid. I don't see how a judge can look at a guy who is making $90,000 a year and expect him to pay... $90,000 a year in alimony to someone. It doesn't make a shred of sense.
That aside, it's not really important who is receiving alimony, it's a dumb law, nobody should receive alimony, man or woman.
Walmart, Target, most grocery and general goods stores actually. Even the butcher shop where I work employs a couple 65-75 year olds just for wrapping and packaging meat.
I'm not saying bashing all females is right, or that this situation is never reversed. What I, and other people in this thread are saying is it is generally the woman who takes the cake in the majority of these alimony situations, which is proven, if by nothing else than the fact that women on average throughout the entire workforce take home less money than men (not paycheck by paycheck for the same job mind you, just gross income overall over all jobs, men work higher paying jobs on average). This means that more often than not, a man is going to be the target to be paying alimony, not receiving it. This isn't even getting into blatant child custody issues, but that's really for a different thread.
PS: I found it funny that in that article it mainly used personal experience as content, as well as the statement that the amount of women in law classes have doubled, which by his numbers mean a jump from ~6 per 135 to ~12 per 135, or still less than 10%.
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Case here too is the exact same. It's cherrypicking incidents from personal experience to make your case stronger. It's flawed, insanely so, when you're discussing a topic as big as this. But fine, go ahead and continue jerking to the text of "My nephews friends father got totally shafted by the system after a divorce" if you want.
I'm aware that I am abrasive. But saying you don't care about statistics or scientific studies, doesn't really refute my arguments, not here or really anywhere else. The only way to truly judge a large scale system is through scientific studies, not anecdotal evidence. I mean, I have mine too:
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I never made any claims as to how many woman are paying because I don't know. But the point is woman are paying, and more often now, so the pretense that it's always men is as equally silly as the purported pretension that all women are materially harmed by marriage.
@ semaphore - your raging feminism is showing. I don't deny that over the last few years men have start to play this crutch card on their successful spouses. All I am saying is we got a long way to go to catch up to how many women built there lives around this welfar.. opps i mean alimony. And you bringing up this handful of men in comparison to the years and years this was only done by women, is all a feminist's arguements always end up being, worthless, angry drivil that points to anomolies in statistics.
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Regardless of how necessary or not alimony is, whether or not the system favors men or women, whether or not power is being abused, and whatever else is being discussed in this thread, this specific case is simply ridiculous. I don't know how they expected someone to pay more than they make a year to their divorced spouse, on top of child support, legal fees, and their own cost of living. Certainly the judge must have seen this coming.
Get fucked. The situation is getting better, and for some particular men it will feel like it is getting worse, but never, not ever, should we use the argument "We suffered, why can't you?" in this argument, or in any argument actually. Being a vindictive cunt isn't a good mindset.
It's one thing to say things should be completely balanced between the genders. I absolutely agree with that.The current trend means shit to me until stuff evens out.
However it's another to try to "even" things out across time, with men getting compensated in the future for perceived past excesses by women in the "last 70 years". I'll suggest to you that it is neither a practical nor a reasonable path to go down, and especially not a smart move to argue from a male perspective.
Alimony should be based on a % of what you make, its very unfair to make people pay for someone who does nothing, but this is america.
If you want to demand everybody else prove everything they say with studies and statistics, you had better be prepared to do the same. So far you have not been able to.
The nerve is called the "nerve of awareness". You cant dissect it. Its a current that runs up the center of your spine. I dont know if any of you have sat down, crossed your legs, smoked DMT, and watch what happens... but what happens to me is this big thing goes RRRRRRRRRAAAAAWWW! up my spine and flashes in my brain... well apparently thats whats going to happen if I do this stuff...
Last edited by Dch48; 2012-12-08 at 09:30 PM.
From what I understood the "check" is and should be for the kid welfare. And call me crazy but I do think that should be regulated as it should be calculated based on that parent earning and a minimum of how much does a kid need to be taken care of. Just like there is a minum wage there should be a minim alimoney so that any child can live decent and on top of that it's depending on the parent sallary. Case closed. If by any chance the alimony is more then what the parent earns then the system is flawd.


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I'm 26 and I have never been on a permanent contract. In turn, I have never had the security of a guaranteed monthly paycheck. However, for me and my life, the benefits of NOT being on someone's payroll far outweigh my mild once-monthly panic as to where my next dollar will come from. I can honestly say, that one of the most liberating things about my freelance lifestyle is that when the clock strikes 6pm, I can leave the office. Completely guilt free.
Now, I want to stress that I am no stranger to hard work. When I AM in an office or assigned a task, I will do it to my absolute best ability. For the last 10 years I have hopped from job to job and I am consequently well versed in the nuances of office life. Most of it, I understand - and sometimes I'll even get involved in it - office politics are unavoidable for any stint over four weeks and I pride myself on knowing most, if not all, office gossip from the six or so places I frequent - but the one thing I will never get, no matter how many excuses people give me, is why people put themselves through the torture of working ever-increasing, un-contracted hours, every day, with no lunch break and no financial respite.
There are many, many people who moan about work. When you spend five days out of every seven in an office and not out in the world, surrounded by people whom you haven't chosen to surround yourself with and staring at a screen all day long, it's no surprise you'd want to vent. But as the years go on, I've realised that most people are still moaning today about the same problems they had two, three, four even five years ago. And frankly, it's starting to aggravate me.
I have identified five different universal and recurring topics in the average 'work bitching session' which include: the boss, money (and more specifically not earning enough of it), annoying colleagues, stress (insomnia, acne, constant illness and heart palpitations included) and the real crème de la crème of bitching... Working hours and their impact on your actual life.
I've met people who will do a 12-hour day, five days on the trot, without even batting an eyelid. They'll suffer through for the good of the team, for the success of the project and often because they believe there isn't any other option. After all, the work has to be done by someone, doesn't it? But why does it have to be YOU, my friend, when you've already worked all the hours you'll be paid for this week in one goddamn day?!
Right, I'm going to do some maths for you. In Office A there are 20 staff, each of whom are contracted a 40 hour week, 9-5, Monday to Friday. Now let's theorise that each person actually ends up leaving work at say (what's reasonable to assume?) 6.30pm. That's 1.5 hours extra, 5 times a week. That equates to 7.5 hours in a working week, which when multiplied by the total number of staff, equates to a staggering 150 extra hours a week total. That is the equivalent of three jobs. Three whole extra bodies. Three lots of 40-hour weeks, that are being mopped up in a collective effort by super-keen, yet unbearably dissatisfied, disillusioned and stressed out office workers.
Yep, that's right, giving up extra hours of your life doesn't benefit you. Not unless you're working on paid overtime (yeah, RIGHT, overtime basically doesn't exist anymore because no-one seems to claim it.) In fact, all you are doing is giving your workplace valuable hours of your time that you WILL NEVER GET BACK. When people are up to their eyeballs every day in high-stress careers, they stop working to maximum capacity and become increasingly disillusioned. It astonishes me how many people don't complain and just suffer in silence, preferring to regale their friends and colleagues with the same depressing stories, year on year, than ever taking it up with the boss.
Let me put it this way. You CANNOT be fired for turning up on time and doing your allocated working hours. Similarly, you can't be fired for taking a full hour's lunch break. On the contrary, it is your legal right, so why on earth would you continuously allow yourself to be worn down to the point where you hate yourself and your workplace so much that you can no longer function to your full potential? Not to mention becoming unable to have a glass of wine with a friend without telling them that: "I have to get a new job, I can't do this anymore..."
Ok, Timmy, whatever you say, I stopped believing that story 18 months ago.
Problem is, if you play the martyr and sit with a smile on your face, prepared to mop up all the extra work, forcing you (and inevitably your team - we all know innately that the workplace is competitive) to stay later and later, the big boys and girls in suits at the top of the company hierarchy, will be sitting there feeling extremely pleased with themselves that everything around them is working just fine. And why would they investigate otherwise?
Remember: "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed..." and especially when there's money involved.
Perhaps if the powers that be actually saw the office fall apart, and witnessed their staff finally standing up for themselves, they might consider the fact that they need to bring in more bodies to help stimulate a better working environment. After all, there are over 500,000 unemployed 16-24 year olds in this country at the moment that would give their right arm for a job, placement or internship.
If you are working ridiculous hours to get things done, unfortunately, you only have yourself to blame. Go home when you are supposed to every night this week and see what happens. You might get a talking to by your boss, but I can guarantee that you won't lose your job. In fact, you might actually enjoy having the extra hour and a half a night to say, go to the gym... visit your grandma... or simply not think about anything related to the workplace.
Because not even the most amazing job that pays the most incredible salary is worth your health, your friends or your actual life.


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Virgins used to be a prized possession–were they not??? These days, it is so hard to find one, and yes as I have mentioned before I am a member of the V-Card Holders( a cool, obscure way for saying I never hit a home run, or am a virgin–yes–we do exist, even if we are an extinct breed.)
I think originally I was a virgin by fear–I was afraid that Murphy's Law combined with G-d's Wrath would be a terrible combo, and as many condoms and Birth Control Pills I used, I would get pregnant, and I would be a single mother, wailing on Ricki Lake, and pulling the hair of Laquisha, the chick that my ex(but we never married) was cheating on me with, when I was pregnant with our twins(freak accident along the lines of a badly written soap opera and Murphy's Law), and had a baby with her, and paid alimony for that child, while I collected Medicaid and was living in a Trailer Park…
WOAH…LOL….Real Life…!!! (Yeesh…that was a frightening ending, all I needed was the Murphy's Law…)Afterwards, I think I kept my Virginity because I felt that if I waited that long, why lose it, and why lose it with someone that could break my heart–and the break wold be that much worse, if the loss of that piece of tissue was associated with that guy.
None of my friends are virgins, and most guys don't respect it–they tell me if I want a serious relationship–I should know, they want sex–and if it's not at the beginning, it WILL happen, may as well do it already.
At the risk of sounding like the song, are we like animals, that just mate?
"I Would Appreciate Some Input!"
Without further ado, I bring you the song i know by heart because it's so bad, its so gooood!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gigi, singing the words on top of her virginal lungs, and waiting for her input–come on–i shared…'tis only fair…


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You done alright,nice pictures.
got a brand new used AC B-10... #052591 need info
Started by justwalt , Oct 16, 2010 06:48 PM
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Posted October 18, 2010 - 04:31 AM
Posted October 18, 2010 - 06:03 AM
In your pictures I see the hydraulic lift unit. That option will bring $250.00 to $300.00 by itself! I'd say you made an excellent deal!
Posted October 18, 2010 - 06:56 AM
Looks very complete. The hydraulics are on ebay once in a while for 300+. BTW, I don't think that pump will run a loader,from what I understand, the loader had it's own pump that ran off the front shaft. Great find Walt & I like the picture of your test-pilot (cat).
Posted October 18, 2010 - 09:40 AM
Welcome to GTT... and thanks for the lead to michaelstractors, I looked through it this morning.
It's a very good site for information.
It's a very good site for information.
Posted October 18, 2010 - 07:20 PM
After I thought of the loader, I saw some pictures of then, and did notice the front tank, which means a remote pump too...oops. I'm leaving the pump and cylinder off for now to check it all out first and repair/replace what's needed. That's where most of the mess came from, (see below).
Lightened her up a bit today. There were a few missing bolts, but no broken parts.
With the tractor semi stripped like you see, I stood it right up, balancing it on the tires
and the top (link), for a long needed bath.
Lightened her up a bit today. There were a few missing bolts, but no broken parts.
With the tractor semi stripped like you see, I stood it right up, balancing it on the tires
and the top (link), for a long needed bath.
Posted October 18, 2010 - 08:05 PM
You're sure not wasting any time getting that thing torn down Walt! Looks great! You'll have her back together in no time!
Posted October 18, 2010 - 09:29 PM
You'll have her back together in no time!
Well, I've been away from my employment for 2 months.. until my employer
gathers up some more money for me to finish the remodel on his house in Long Island.
Before then, I was only home on the weekends. Been working out of state for almost
three years now. So I'e been home catching up on my own stuff.
I can't spend much $$ all at once, and I'm aiming at getting this tractor to look and work like new.
Not restored exactly correct, but cleaned, blasted, body work, paint, new tires and no leaks.
I'll need this one to work by spring though.
Mary and I had no clue as to the value placed on these oldies, except that they look cool and work hard.
And then, a day may come when it may be sold, so it should look and work like it did as new.
I need a light kit, hyd hoses, regulator, decals, misc seals and gaskets, wheel weights and tires. I'd like to
put a pair of 23 x 8.5 x 12 industrials on the rear for my own use here.
The mower deck has worn through under the tensioner spring, an easy fix, otherwise it looks good. Needs paint.
And the snow blower, I may or may not use, but I'll get it looking good too.
Tomorrow I start checking seals, drain and fill the trans to check for leaks and finish degreasing.
But I'm not giving up on it, till I have to.


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NetInfo more like YP than the registry
just ask all the hardcore Unix users who have tried
to change their OS X settings using configuration files in
/etc, only to find all their changes ignored. Apple's Unix-
likeoperating system uses NetInfo, for a configuration
datastore, something more akin to the Windows registry
we all know and hate.
You must really hate YP, which has been a
part of every *nix since Sun invented it in the 80s.
NetInfo is an exact analog to YP, but without the bad
In the same way that YP uses a set of /etc files as its
source for information, so does NetInfo. It's just that
unlike YP you can also edit a NI data store in place.
As for the disabled root account, so what? Just use
'sudo'. The fact that you can't by default log in as root is
meaningless, and actually improves security quite a bit.
The number one security problem with Windows is that
damn near everyone logs in as an Administrator. This is
more or less necessary if you're going to do anything
non-trivial with the machine? Why? Because unlike OS
X, Windows has no convenient facilities to temporarily
'up-shift' to root. But this was a Linux screed, so I
There has been too much bad journalism in the
technical press of late - people writing bad reviews
about systems they don't fully understand. The present
article is but a symptom of the disease.
A tool for securing DNS communications between a client and a DNS resolver.
A polyhedral extraction tool (PET).


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Global stock markets endured a fresh burst of volatility yesterday as new evidence emerged over the depth of America's sub-prime mortgage crisis, prompting nervousness over interest rates and economic stability.
The FTSE 100 index fell 117 points to 6,102, pushed downwards by a dive in banking shares. Markets across Europe experienced similar drops and in New York the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 279 points to 13,042.
Newly published minutes from the Federal Reserve's August meeting revealed that the US central bank felt obliged to keep a close eye on the situation and hinted at a possible change to interest rates if conditions worsen. "A further deterioration in financial conditions could not be ruled out and, to the extent that such a development could have an adverse effect on growth prospects, might require a policy response," the Fed said. "Policymakers would need to watch the situation carefully."
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Concern over defaults on sub-prime mortgages by less affluent homeowners have caused a sharp contraction of credit, hurting banks and lending firms. The impact is becoming clear worldwide.
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