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New Carolina general manager Dave Gettleman said the Panthers wouldn't mind walking away from the NFL draft with big offensive and defensive linemen.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — While other NFL teams are in search of quarterbacks and running backs, new Carolina general manager Dave Gettleman said the Panthers wouldn't mind walking away from the NFL draft with big offensive and defensive linemen.
Gettleman has worked in the NFL for more than a quarter century and to him "hog mollies" — a term of affection he uses for offensive and defensive linemen — are areas of need.
"You've heard me, it's on record: Big men allow you to compete," Gettleman said.
The Panthers must find a replacement for veteran left tackle Jordan Gross, whose contract voids after the season, and a defensive tackle to replace Ron Edwards. They could also use a defensive end.
There's no denying the influence working the past 15 seasons in the personnel department of the New York Giants has had on Gettleman, a firm believer that the best way to build a team is from the inside out.
The Giants relied on aggressive defensive ends to help take Tom Brady out of his rhythm and beat the New England Patriots in two Super Bowls.
"We have an interest in those big guys," said Getteman, who joined the Panthers in January. "Those big guys are line-of-scrimmage changers. They're big for the team."
Gettleman believes that offensive and defensive line are the two deepest positions in the draft.
"Let's just say I'm not angry about that," Gettleman grinned.
However, Gettleman's resources are limited.
He has only has five draft picks at his disposal, including the 14th selection overall. The Panthers last year traded away their third- and seventh-round picks.
While Gettleman will have final say over all draft day decisions, he said he'll rely heavily on his scouting staff and his coaches for input.
And with good reason.
Gettleman admits he's a novice when it comes to evaluating college personnel and his knowledge of running a draft.
With the Giants, all of his work came on the pro personnel side, which included analyzing NFL free agents. Occasionally he'd get asked advice on a college player, but those instances were few and far between.
"As a pro guy basically I was in the war room on draft handling the trade phone," Gettleman said of his time with the Giants. "That was basically it."
But in the end he doesn't think evaluating NFL talent is much different than assessing college talent.
"I'd like to think in my 28 years in the league I have a pretty good idea of who can play," Gettleman said.
Still, he'll lean upon the men he's come to know in the past three months for added input.
"The best thing I can do is listen," Gettleman said. "What the draft is all about, it's not about who's right it's about getting the guy right. He's not my guy he's our guy. And that's the biggest thing I do."
The Panthers did well under former GM Marty Hurney when it came to choosing first-round draft picks.
That group includes Luke Kuechly and Cam Newton, the AP Defensive and Offensive Rookies of the Year the past two seasons, respectively. They also hit home runs with Gross, Jon Beason, Jonathan Stewart and DeAngelo Williams.
The problem has often been bad trades and poor selections in the middle rounds for the Panthers.
Hurney once traded a future first-round pick to get Florida State defensive end Everette Brown in the second round. Brown fizzled out after two seasons and was released.
He also traded the first pick in the second round to take Appalachian State quarterback Armanti Edwards, who has been a flop as a receiver for Carolina the past three seasons.
Gettleman hopes the Panthers can improve on that.
He said ideally he'd like to come out of this year's draft with immediate starters with the first two picks and contributors in rounds four, five and six.
Along with hog mollies, the Panthers could also use a long-term replacement for receiver Steve Smith, who turns 34 next month, as well as help in the secondary.
As for the 14th overall pick, Gettleman doesn't see the Panthers trading up because of their shortage of draft picks and the fact that he won't "talk myself out of taking a good player."
If the Panthers go defensive tackle with their first pick then Utah's Star Lotulelei, or Missouri's Sheldon Richardson are options.
The top three tackles — Texas' Luke Joeckel, Central Michigan's Eric Fisher and Oklahoma's Lane Johnson — are also expected to be taken well before the Panthers are on the clock. However, Alabama's D.J. Fluker could still be around.
It's also possible Gettleman could try to make a popular fan pick and go after a receiver. If he goes that route, West Virginia's Tavon Austin, Tennessee's Cordarrelle Patterson and Clemson's DeAndre Hopkins are also possible options.
"There are a lot of guys that can play," Gettleman said.


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What to Eat for Strong Bones Get tips for improving your bone health from EatingWell's nutrition experts.
Spaghetti Squash Lasagna with Broccolini This healthy dinner recipe is an excellent source of calcium.
Recipes to Get More Vitamin D Very few foods are naturally rich in vitamin D, which promotes the absorption of calcium and phosphorus and then helps deposit them in bones and teeth to make them strong and healthy. Vitamin D is most often found in fortified foods, like milk, soymilk and fortified cereals. Naturally occurring vitamin D is found in fatty fish, such as mackerel, salmon, and sardines, and in egg yolks. These healthy recipes are a delicious way to get more of this nutrient into your daily diet.
Broccoli-Cheese Chowder 94 This satisfying remake of broccoli chowder benefits from the creamy texture of cooked potatoes and smooth, tangy reduced-fat sour cream instead of getting its richness from as much as a cup each of cream and cheese. Not only is the flavor vibrant, but a single serving gives you over half of the daily recommendation for vitamin C.
Creamy Garlic Pasta with Shrimp & Vegetables 78 Toss a garlicky, Middle Eastern-inspired yogurt sauce with pasta, shrimp, asparagus, peas and red bell pepper for a fresh, satisfying summer meal. Serve with: Slices of cucumber and tomato tossed with lemon juice and olive oil.
Gnocchi with Zucchini Ribbons & Parsley Brown Butter 72 For this recipe, convenient store-bought potato gnocchi are tossed with delicate ribbons of zucchini, shallots and cherry tomatoes that have all been sautéed in nutty browned butter.
Baked Mac & Cheese 68 Mac & cheese can be a true comfort on a gloomy day, and our healthy update takes advantage of extra-sharp Cheddar balanced with creamy low-fat cottage cheese and tucks a layer of spinach into the middle, which may help picky eaters down their vegetables. Whole-wheat pasta adds robust flavor and extra fiber.
Buffalo Chicken Casserole 66 We took the classic flavors of Buffalo wings--hot sauce, blue cheese, carrots and celery--and created a finger-licking-good casserole. Serve this dish during football season to a hungry crowd and it's sure to be a hit. We don't typically recommend ingredients by brand name, but in this case we make an exception for Frank's RedHot Sauce. It has the perfect balance of spice and tang for this casserole. Texas Pete and Crystal hot sauces are suitable alternatives if you can't find Frank's.
Cheese-&-Spinach-Stuffed Portobellos 63 Here we take the elements of a vegetarian lasagna filling--ricotta, spinach and Parmesan cheese--and nestle them into roasted portobello mushroom caps. The recipe works best with very large portobello caps; if you can only find smaller ones, buy one or two extra and divide the filling among all the caps. Serve with a tossed salad and a whole-wheat dinner roll or spaghetti tossed with marinara sauce.
Black Bean Quesadillas 61 In a hurry? These satisfying quesadillas take just 15 minutes to make. We like them with black beans, but pinto beans work well too. If you like a little heat, be sure to use pepper Jack cheese in the filling. Serve with: A little sour cream and a mixed green salad.
Broccoli, Cannellini Bean & Cheddar Soup 60 White beans pureed into this broccoli soup make it extra creamy so you don't need heaps of cheese to do the job. Serve with a crunchy whole-grain roll and a glass of winter ale.
Parmesan Spinach Cakes 60 If you like spinach-cheese pie, try these simple but elegant-looking little spinach cakes.
No-Bake Macaroni & Cheese 60 Not only is this ultra-creamy version of mac-and-cheese nearly as fast as the boxed variety, but your family will be able to pronounce every ingredient. If they aren't broccoli fans, substitute a frozen vegetable of your choice.
Tortellini Primavera 52 This creamy tortellini and vegetable pasta is a real crowd pleaser. To make it even quicker, use frozen chopped vegetables instead of fresh. Serve with: A green salad and whole-grain baguette.
Inside-Out Lasagna 51 Here we take basic lasagna ingredients--ricotta cheese, pasta and tomatoes--and skip the layering and long baking time to make a super-quick and satisfying meal for the whole family. To cut down on prep time, look for presliced mushrooms. For meat lovers, brown some crumbled turkey sausage along with the onions and garlic. Serve with: Steamed broccoli and whole-grain baguette.
Summer Vegetable Crepes 52 Crêpes aren't just for dessert--they make a quick and savory weeknight dinner. Here they're filled with ricotta cheese, green beans, zucchini and corn and topped with a chive-cream sauce. Don't skip the step of placing a piece of parchment or wax paper under each crêpe as you fill it--without it, the crêpes are tricky to roll. Serve with: A tossed salad.
Portobello "Philly Cheese Steak" Sandwich 50 Cheese steaks are a Philadelphia tradition: thin slices from a rich and very fatty slab of beef, fried up and topped with a heavy cheese sauce. We've cut down on the fat considerably--but not on the taste. All it needs is a cold beer or a glass of pinot noir on the side.
Vegetarian Taco Salad 45 Nobody will miss the meat in this colorful, zesty vegetarian taco salad. The rice and bean mixture can be made ahead and the salad quickly assembled at mealtime. Recipe by Nancy Baggett for EatingWell.
Broccoli, Beef & Potato Hotdish 42 This easy casserole, full of ground beef, roasted broccoli and topped with hash browns, was inspired by the classic Minnesota Tater Tot hotdish. Roasting the broccoli before adding it to the casserole gives the whole dish a much more complex and exciting flavor, but it's by no means necessary. If you want to keep it simple, skip roasting the broccoli (Step 2) and use 6 cups frozen broccoli, thawed, in its place (omit 1 tablespoon oil, as well).
Honey-Soy Broiled Salmon 40 A sweet, tangy and salty mixture of soy sauce, rice vinegar and honey does double-duty as marinade and sauce. Toasted sesame seeds provide a nutty and attractive accent. Make it a meal: Serve with brown rice and sautéed red peppers and zucchini slices.
Slow-Cooker Vegetarian Lasagna 41 Sure, the slow cooker's great for stews and soups, but it also happens to make a mean lasagna! In this ingenious slow-cooker recipe, all you have to do is chop your veggies, then layer the ingredients (raw) into the crockpot. Serve with: Garlic bread and a green salad.
Skillet Tuna Noodle Casserole 39 Known as Tuna-Pea Wiggle to some, this family-friendly tuna noodle casserole tends to be made with canned soup and whole milk, which means high fat and sodium. We remedy this by making our own creamy mushroom sauce with nonfat milk thickened with a bit of flour. Look for whole-wheat egg noodles--they have more fiber than regular egg noodles (but this dish will work well and taste great with either).
Quick Shrimp Enchilada Bake 39 Shrimp enchiladas offer a taste of coastal Mexican cuisine but some versions contain so much cheese, butter and sour cream that they can pack a whopping 50 grams of fat per serving. Our version has vibrant flavor and only half the calories and 6 grams of fat per serving, plus we use precooked peeled shrimp so you can get the dish on your table fast enough for a weeknight supper. The addition of refried beans helps makes these enchiladas an excellent source of fiber as well.


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Olibanum is a fragrant resin obtained from the Boswellia Carterii tree. Also known as frankincense, Olibanum has been used in incense and perfumes since ancient times.
Made from pure olibanum absolute from Africa rich spices from Madagascar sensuous musks, and precious woods, this striking and complex incense perfume is recommended for meditation and raising spiritual vibrations as well as smelling beautiful.
Notes:Olibanum by Ava Luxe is an Oriental fragrance for women and men. Olibanum was launched during the 2000's. The nose behind this fragrance is Serena Ava Franco. The fragrance features olibanum, bergamot, cardamom, nutmeg, cypress, cedar, musk, labdanum, sandalwood and agarwood (oud).
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I get the cypress, and cedar, and frankincense. These are notes I love more in isolation though, and less in combination with each other. There's a very slight spicy note at the beginning from the nutmeg and cardamom which is quite intriguing. Overall a nice smoky fragrance centered around a resinous frankincense and balsamic conifers.
I actually prefer the woodier Royal Parvati (not listed in Fragrantica at the moment) for meditation and to raise spiritual vibrations.
As I wait for Serena to bring No. 23 back to the stock shelves, I've been flitting from fragrance to fragrance from Selena's Woody and Oriental ranges. All I can say is, "wow."
Some people do one thing very well (think "Guerlainade" from their house) and others do many things just ok (Demeter)... But to find someone who can do many things very well....that's just art. And that's why we tend to look at Serena Ava Franco as an artist who knows her medium as if it were her skin. And that's why I'm thrilled to wait for No. 23 and buy up a bunch of other Ava Luxe fragrances.
Olibanum is home. I find myself setting this aside for special events and dates. But that's not enough...a spritz on my heart chakra for yoga practice or meditation/prayer. I have weekly clinic appointments lately and 1) this DOES NOT trigger my migraines (Olibanum is actually quite soothing) and 2) a lot of the female staff have begun placing orders. Lol.
The Olibanum comes out first and then the cardamom whispers in and out along with the sandalwood and cypress. Laudanum is a pillar in the fragrance for the olibanum to wrap itself around until that core of laudanum melts away and all that remains in the dry down are touches of cardamom set against the background of sandalwood, cypress, and olibanum leaning into the musky scent of human skin.
Sweet and very long lasting. Nearing 24 hours of long lasting.
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text: The Ibanez PF15 Perfomance series has professional features and a great sound in an acoustic dreadnought design. Easy playability and a robust sound combined with clear attack and a full low-end presence, the PF15 is a very popular instrument among musicians. Combining a spruce top with mahogany back and sides, the PF15 is built with the same materials you're likely to see in guitars costing hundreds more. Ibanez PF15 Performance Acoustic Guitar Features


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If you do a search on Digikey, you'll get something like this to help narrow down the many pages of results:
That is not an insignificant number of things to choose from. It seems natural to me that choosing an opamp with different specs should result in some tangible differences. Otherwise why do they bother to make so many types? It's not like Texas Instruments and Linear Technology are part of a snake oil opamp industry leeching off the wallets of audiophiles.
Different types of opamps interact differently with different circuits. The audible differences are subtle compared to differences between headphones. But they tend to be exaggerated when described because the differences were what the listener was focusing on.
Like with everything else in audio, placebo is also a factor. But I would hesitate to say it is the only factor in this case.


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Best Apple Cider Recipe
How to make homemade apple cider
Looking for a fun way to celebrate the fall season? Try whipping up a delicious batch of homemade apple cider to share with friends.
Homemade apple cider is the perfect way to warm up your belly on a chilly fall morning. If you have a juicer or blender, this recipe is a cinch to make in your own kitchen.
Homemade Apple Cider Recipe
Makes 2 quarts
- 20 medium apples
- 4 Cinnamon sticks
- 1 teaspoon whole allspice
- 1 teaspoon whole cloves
- Juicer or blender
- Large cooking pot
- Nutmilk bag
- Cheesecloth or tea strainer
- Crock pot
- The key to making sweet homemade apple cider is picking the right apples. It's fine to use a mix of different types, just make sure that all the apples you use are sweet varieties like Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious, Fuji, Gala, Sonya, Cameo or Jonagold.
- Wash and dry all your apples thoroughly.
- If you are using your juicer to make the apple cider, you may not need to do any more prep at all. Some juicers have a large feed shoot, so simply begin feeding the clean apples into the shoot and capturing the juice. (if you have a juicer with a smaller feed shoot, chop the apples to the correct size before feeding the fruit into your juicer.)
- If you are using your blender to make the apple juice, chop and core the apples first. Then place a large cooking pot with about 4 inches of water on the stove to boil. Add your chopped apples and cover with a tight fitting lid. Cook until the apples are soft to the touch.
- Pour the cooked apples into the blender in batches and blend on high. Strain the mixture through a nutmilk bag to remove the pulp.
- Pour your freshly made apple cider into your crock pot. Tie up your whole allspice and cloves in a piece of cheesecloth or tea strainer. Add the allspice, cloves and cinnamon sticks to the crock pot to simmer. The spices will flavor the cider without leaving a grainy residue. Cook on high for a couple of hours until your cider is deliciously mulled. Pull out your favorite mugs and serve hot.
- For a fun fall garnish, use fresh cinnamon sticks as straws!
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Robert Delaunay
Robert-Victor-Félix Delaunay was born on April 12, 1885, in Paris. In 1902, after secondary education, he apprenticed in a studio for theater sets in Belleville. In 1903 he started painting and by 1904 was exhibiting. That year and in 1906 his work was shown at the Salon d'Automne and from 1904 until World War I at the Salon des Indépendants. Between 1905 and 1907 Delaunay became friendly with Henri Rousseau and Jean Metzinger and studied the color theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul. During these years, he painted in a Neo-Impressionist manner; Paul Cézanne's work also influenced Delaunay around this time. From 1907 to 1908 he served in the military in Laon, and upon returning to Paris he had contact with the Cubists. The period of 1909–10 saw the emergence of Delaunay's personal style; he painted his first Eiffel Tower in 1909. In 1910 Delaunay married the painter Sonia Terk, who became his collaborator on many projects.
Delaunay's participation in exhibitions in Germany and his association with advanced artists working there began in 1911, the year Vasily Kandinsky invited him to participate in the first Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) exhibition at Heinrich Thannhauser's Moderne Galerie in Munich. At this time he became friendly with Guillaume Apollinaire, Albert Gleizes, and Henri Le Fauconnier. In 1912 Delaunay's first solo show took place at the Galerie Barbazanges, Paris; and he began his Windows pictures. In 1913 Delaunay painted his Circular Form, or Disc, pictures.
From 1914 to 1920 Delaunay lived in Spain and Portugal and became friends with Sergei Diaghilev, Leonide Massine, Diego Rivera, and Igor Stravinsky. He designed decor for the Ballets Russes in 1918. By 1920 he had returned to Paris, where in 1922 an exhibition of his work was held at Galerie Paul Guillaume. He began his second Eiffel Tower series in that same year. In 1924 he undertook his Runner paintings and in 1925 executed frescoes for the Palais de l'Ambassade de France at the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs in Paris. In 1937 he was commissioned to decorate the Palais des Chemins de Fer and Palais de l'Air at the Paris World's Fair. His last works were decorations for the sculpture hall of the Salon des Tuileries in 1938. Delaunay died on October 25, 1941, in Montpellier, France.


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Iron Rich Diet
Iron Rich Diet is evidently a diet that includes the use of foods rich in the mineral Iron. Iron plays a key role in several important body processes – as heme the metal component of haemoglobin responsible for the transportation of oxygen to all cells, tissues and organs; as part of myoglobin for carrying oxygen into muscular tissues and as part of cytochromes that are energy releasing complexes in cells. Iron is required in connective tissue formation, production of neurotransmitters in the brain as well as to maintain the immune system functions. Because Iron is involved in multiple roles, the body must obtain a constant supply of this nutrient through the diet.
Iron deficiency symptoms a person might exhibit include - paleness, fatigue, and mental decline. Extreme health effects such as stunting of mental and physical growth may be observed in children.
Laws Governing Iron Rich Diet
- In order to compensate for iron losses through urination, sweating, defecation, sloughing of cells from the skin, menstrual bleeding in women about 18 g of iron must be consumed every day. Certain situations such as heavy bleeding and pregnancy call for increased iron intake.
- The best sources of iron are red meat, liver, and yolk of eggs, nuts, beans and fortified cereals.
- In response to iron deficiency Anaemia, discovered among children, infant formulas as well as other children's foods may be fortified with this mineral. Iron supplements may be prescribed by paediatricians if needed.
- During pregnancy iron supplements are invariably prescribed by the Doctor. Benefits of iron supplementation are not limited to increasing iron intake alone; these also help enhance absorption of dietary iron. Since iron intake is so critical during this phase, red meats form the best source of iron, free from iron inhibitors found commonly in other sources like nuts beans, grains and seeds.
- Incidence of Anemia is rare among regular meat eaters. Even small amounts of meat included in the diet would enhance overall iron absorption.
- The only deterrent with respect to iron containing grains, nuts and beans is that phytic acid present, works as an active inhibitor, decreasing iron absorption. Grains without phytic acid like quinoa, teff, or amaranth may be used instead. Soaking grains and beans for 8-12 hours prior to cooking them may reduce their phytic acid content.
- Fermentation of soya beans to produce miso and tempeh can reduce the phytic acid content significantly.
- Reduction of phytic acid content by soaking nuts and seeds before consumption may be a good idea.
- Green leafy vegetables are another good source of iron. However oxalic acid inhibitors reduce the bioavailability, a problem that may be overcome by boiling or steaming the greens.
- Along with intake of iron from various sources, vitamin C intake is important to ensure absorption of iron.
Iron rich Diet Menu
- Breakfast: 2 Boiled eggs + 1 small cup of iron-fortified cereal + handful of nuts + 1 orange
- Lunch: Baked beans with whole wheat toast + Spinach and corn lasagna + 1 glass of lemon juice.
- Dinner: Stir fry tofu + Fresh Tomato, Bell Pepper, Parsley and herbs salad.
- Snack: Soy milk/Tomato juice + Mixed beans on toast.
Thus, an Iron-rich diet is suggested for all age groups and especially for those whose iron requirements are greater, in order to prevent iron deficiency anaemia.


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what kind of epi is that?!?! and that ibby is beautiful i thought it was going to look so different...i love it man you are lucky!!!!!!!!
It's an Epiphone Midnight LP Custom from 2005. It came stock with EMG81's but I replaced the bridge pu with a EMG60X and I also did the 18V mod to make it more responsive.


text: Ted Bunch Tries To Stamp Out Sexism, One Abuser At A TimeMegan Carpentier8/14/08 2:30pmFiled to: Domestic ViolenceSexism as a cause of domestic violenceSexism in societyTed bunchA call to menDomestic Violence Accountability Programabusedomestic disturbancesDomestic disturbances109EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkTed Bunch is one of the co-founders of A Call To Men and runs the Domestic Violence Accountability Program of Safe Horizon. His program, based in New York, only accepts men referred by the court system as a condition of probation because he got sick of seeing men attend to prove to their girlfriends that they've changed and to get out of doing time. But he doesn't run a counseling service or provide group therapy to guys who have beaten their partners — his program is about understanding sexism as a man.Bunch's group sessions involve a male and a female leader who don't take crap from their attendees and call them out when they say sexist things. They discuss everything from why a man would refer to grown women as "girls", to why catcalling is not a compliment to the women abusers additionally tend to harass, and any other sexist acts women are stuck dealing with on a daily basis. The men are asked to think about sexism as another way of exerting dominance over others, in the same way many of them have experienced being harassed by the police based on the color of their skin. Bunch doesn't fool himself that he's changing many minds — his advise to victims of abuse is to expect the same abuser back no matter how much he promises that he's changed — but he figures that maybe getting them to think about sexism and to be held strictly accountable for attending the classes (at the risk of being jailed) is a start. Bunch probably wouldn't self-identify as a feminist, but he says such wonderfully feminist things like: AdvertisementCalling [violence against women] a woman's issue serves men because then men don't have to get involved in it. We need to start re-framing it, holding men accountable, changing the language so we have to start looking at our statistics in a different way like what you'll see if you Google "domestic violence" is "domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women." That talks about the victim, but it doesn't say anything about the perpetrator. He also thinks we should all start saying "the leading cause of injury to women is men's violence." It's Bunch's combination of cynical resignation about the men he serves and his hopeful idealism about the society he'd like to change that makes him — and the work he's trying to accomplish — so fascinating. Class Teaches Respect for Women to Batterers [WNYC.org] Related: A Call To Men Safe Horizon's Domestic Violence Accountability ProgramReply109 repliesLeave a reply


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Thousands of brands showcased their newest and best-selling products at the 2012 Global Pet Expo, the pet industry's largest annual trade show. Vetstreet's editors walked the aisles, checking out the products and talking to vendors, and we singled out dozens of items from the thousands that were there.
If you've been following our coverage, you will have read about wacky new products, items to splurge on, interesting new health and wellness items, top training products and even Dr. Marty Becker's Best New Products from the show. But that still wasn't enough for us. Here are 15 products we loved so much we had to make sure we shared them with you. Enjoy!
15 Products We Loved at Global Pet Expo
Flirty Bird Flyer, Petstages
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Frosty Bowlz
Refined Kind
Kitty Ball Cat Bed, Refined Kind
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Customized iPhone Cover, Chief Furry Officer
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Crackleheads, JW
Kitty a go-go
Kitty A GoGo
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Dog Miracle Puzzle, Nina Ottosson
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Roll Play, Absolutely New
Luxury Pet Retreat Curvations Carrier, Petmate
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Orbee-Tuff Mazee, Planet Dog
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Puppy Pad Holder, Absolutely New
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Kong Kitty Dipper Toy
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Pet Food Bowl, Simply Fido
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The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues.
The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last week.
Click here to view the government contract.
According to the contract, the software would,
"protect the identity of government agencies" by employing a number of false signals to convince users that the poster is in fact a real person.
A single user could manage unique background information and status updates for up to 10 fake people from a single computer.
The software enables the government to shield its identity through a number of different methods including the ability to assign unique IP addresses to each persona and the ability to make it appear as though the user is posting from other locations around the world.
Included in HBGary's leaked emails was a government proposal for the government contract. The document describes how they would 'friend' real people on Facebook as a way to convey government messages.
The document reads:
"Those names can be cross-referenced across Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social media services to collect information on each individual. Once enough information is collected this information can be used to gain access to these individuals social circles.
Even the most restrictive and security conscious of persons can be exploited. Through the targeting and information reconnaissance phase, a person's hometown and high school will be revealed. An adversary can create a classmates.com account at the same high school and year and find out people you went to high school with that do not have Facebook accounts, then create the account and send a friend request.
Under the mutual friend decision, which is where most people can be exploited, an adversary can look at a targets friend list if it is exposed and find a targets most socially promiscuous friends, the ones that have over 300-500 friends, friend them to develop mutual friends before sending a friend request to the target.
To that end friend's accounts can be compromised and used to post malicious material to a targets wall. When choosing to participate in social media an individual is only as protected as his/her weakest friend."
Other documents in the leaked emails include quotes from HBGary CEO Aaron Barr saying,
"There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas... Using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/herself to key individuals as part of the exercise, as one example."
Additional emails between HBGary employees, usually originating from Barr, discuss the vulnerability social networking causes.
One employee wrote,
"and now social networks are closing the gap between attacker and victim, to the point I just found (via linked-in) 112 females, wives of service men, all stationed at Hurlbert Field FL - in case you don't know this is where the CIA flies all their "private" airlines out of. What a damn joke - the U.S. is no longer the super power in cyber, and probably won't be in other areas soon."
Barr also predicted a steady rise in clandestine or secret government operations to stem the flow of sensitive information.
"I would say there is going to be a resurgence of black ops in the coming year as decision makers settle with our inadequacies... Critical infrastructure, finance, defense industrial base, and government have rivers of unauthorized communications flowing from them and there are no real efforts to stop it."
The creation of internet propaganda software is only one of HBGary's controversial activities.
According to Wikileaks competitor and occasional collaborator Cryptome.org, several other progressive organizations were intended to be targeted including,
anti-war activist
anti-torture organizations
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Warning: This is going to be a primarily baseball-related post, so if that's not your bag, see you tomorrow.
OK. Super Hot Irish Girlfriend and I went out to the park today for the 12:45 pm day game. Beautiful day, by the way. Sunny, around 70 degrees. Nice.
Now, before the game, I facetiously emailed SHIG my projection for Fail's numbers in today's game. I was just joking around and having a laugh at his expense, so I sent:
Not very good, right? HA HA FUNNY JOKE. Unfortunately, the reality was just so, so much worse:
It was worse than you can imagine. He looks like crap. Unfortunately, it's our $126 million worth of crap.
Seriously, at this point it's just cruel to keep sending him out there to get shelled over and over again. What's the point? HE CAN'T PITCH EFFECTIVELY AT THE MAJOR LEAGUE LEVEL. Fuck, I'm not even a baseball executive and I can see that.
I know you can't just cut him at this point - which is what would happen in a heartbeat if he was signed for, say, $3 million for a 1-year deal, and I guess you can't send him to the minors, but for the love of all things holy, please please please stop letting him make every fifth start like nothing's wrong. It's not fair to us, or him. At this point, I doubt if he could get through 6 innings on Xbox.
Remember how he supposedly got sent to the bullpen to get his mind straight? And then didn't make a single relief appearance? What the fuck was up with that? Hows about we give that another shot or something?
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
4 comments:
- organdonor said...
If he was a racehorse he'd have eaten a bullet by now...
I'm not pretending i have a clue how bad that score is but jusging by the couple of posts on him he is a waste of space... - June 19, 2008 at 7:03 AM
- TK said...
organdonor, it would be like me trying to figure out if someone was a good rugby player by examining his stats. I don't even know what rugby stats look like.
You'll have to take my word on this guy. He's been called "the biggest bust in sporting history" and that may be right. - June 19, 2008 at 8:34 AM
- Rocco said...
i guess your "food poisoning" is all cleared up then?
- June 19, 2008 at 8:35 AM
- organdonor said...
As i was saying." To the Glue factory!!!" :)
- June 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM
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To give an indication of his father's work during the time that Dick was growing up, let us mention that DNL published Factor table for the first ten millions when Dick was four years old, and List of prime numbers from 1 to 10006721 when he was nine. Dick was fascinated to listen to his father describe mathematical ideas to him even at this age. After completing his school education, Dick entered Berkeley to study physics. He was now highly involved with his father's ideas so on the one hand he studied physics courses, while on the other hand he helped his father both with the number theory computations he was undertaking and with the mechanical ideas that he was developing to help him make these calculations.
One project that DNL worked on during the time that Dick was an undergraduate was his work on Factor Stencils which was published in 1929. This gave a method of factorising a number using cards with holes punched in them and it was later described by Dick Lehmer as follows:-
Since every quadratic residue R of a number N is also a quadratic residue of every possible factor of N, it follows that the problem of factoring a number N is hereby reduced to the discovery of an adequate number of quadratic residues R of N and the superposition of the corresponding stencils to reveal those few primes having these residues R.While he was a physics undergraduate, Dick helped his father to produce the stencils. They worked with residues R < 240 and covered 5000 primes which includes all primes up to 48611. This enabled integers up to 486112 = 2363029321 to be factored. While DHL and his father were working on the stencils another undergraduate at Berkeley, Emma Trotskaia who was a mathematics student studying DNL's courses, assisted them. Emma would soon become Dick's wife and Dick and Emma Lehmer would become one of the most famous husband and wife mathematics teams.
In 1927 Lehmer graduated from Berkeley with a B.A. degree in Physics and he went to the University of Chicago to undertake research for his doctorate in mathematics with L E Dickson as his supervisor. In the following year Emma Trotskaia graduated with a B.A. degree with honours in Mathematics and, just prior to her taking her final examinations, Dick and Emma Lehmer were married. Once Emma's exams were over, they set out on a tour which began in the redwood forest, went on to Japan, and finally a visit which let Dick meet his new wife's family before they returned to Berkeley. Dick was not happy working under Dickson in Chicago so he had accepted an offer of an instructorship at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The recently married couple drove across the United States to Brown University where both enrolled for a Master's degree.
Lehmer was awarded his Master's Degree in 1929 and his doctorate, also from Brown University, in 1930. His dissertation, which was supervised by Tamarkin, was An Extended Theory of Lucas's Functions. Lehmer's life over the next few years involved moving from place to place hoping for a permanent university post in the particularly difficult times of the Great Depression. After receiving his doctorate, Lehmer was awarded a National Research Fellowship and with this he spent 1930-31 at the California Institute of Technology and then 1931-32 at Stanford. After a spell at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he held a second Fellowship, Lehmer moved to a more permanent post at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Lehmer and his wife remained at Lehigh until 1940 except for the year 1938-39 which they spent in England visiting both the University of Cambridge and the University of Manchester. In England they met, among others, Hardy, Littlewood, Davenport, Mahler, Mordell, and Erdős. Back in the United States not long after the outbreak of World War II, Lehmer spent another year at Lehigh before accepting a post in Berkeley in 1940. It was the job he always wanted and it was a great joy to Lehmer and his family to return home.
The Lehmers spent 1945-46 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground where Lehmer's task was to help set up and operate the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) computer. Although the computer worked most of the time computing trajectories for ballistics problems, on some weekends the Lehmers used it to solve certain number theory problems using it as an electronic sieve [1]:-
When they could arrange child care, they often stayed at the lab all night long while the ENIAC processed one of their problems. They would return home at the break of dawn. They were pleased to find that the sieve worked in successfully solving problems.In February 1950 Senator Joseph R McCarthy of Wisconsin claimed that 205 State Department employees were communists who were disloyal to the United States. McCarthy enjoyed a highly successful few years by making these charges of disloyalty that, though mostly undocumented, badly hurt government employees, teachers, and university professors. Although McCarthy was the most prominent person taking this line, it was a road that the United States was already on and the State of California had for some time been discussing loyalty oaths. In 1950 the Board of Regents of the State of California decided to implement a policy that all employees sign a loyalty oath, and the University of California at Berkeley was chosen as one of the first test cases for it. Nineteen faculty members of the University of California refused; Lehmer was one such faculty member.
The assumption was that anyone who would not sign the oath must be a communist sympathiser and must be sacked, so Lehmer, as one of those who refused, lost his position. Many considered that the oath violated their rights of academic freedom which university researchers valued most highly. Of course the witch-hunts against imaginary communists in the early 1950 was a disgraceful affair which cost many their jobs and led to long-term suffering. For Lehmer, however, the problem was not so acute for he was able to take up the post of Director of the National Bureau of Standards' Institute for Numerical Analysis for the time that he was unable to hold his faculty position in Berkeley. Others were not as fortunate as he was and suffered real hardships. After the courts proclaimed the oath to be unconstitutional, Lehmer was reinstated at Berkeley.
Lehmer's Selected Papers published in 1981 gives a good indication of the range of topics on which he worked. The chapter headings are: Lucas's functions; Tests for primality; Continued fractions; Bernoulli numbers and polynomials; Diophantine equations; Numerical functions; Matrices; Power residues; Analytic number theory; Partitions; Modular forms; Cyclotomy; Combinatorics; Sieves; Equation solving; Computing techniques; and Miscellaneous. His most famous monograph was Guide to Tables in the Theory of Numbers. R D Carmichael, reviewing the book, wrote:-
A descriptive account is given of existing tables in the theory of numbers; this is set forth in such a way as to indicate clearly what each table contains. A bibliography, arranged alphabetically by authors, gives exact references to the material cited and supplies information concerning the holdings, in libraries of the United States and Canada, of the books and pamphlets to which reference is made. Errata in the tables are listed, the sources being given in the cases of errata previously printed; Lehmer's contributions in the way of new indications of errata are notable.Lehmer was awarded an honorary degree from Brown University in 1980. The citation reads in part:-
Prolific in research, you have made far-reaching contributions to number theory. You were among the first to recognize the importance of high-speed computers as an aid to mathematical research. With great energy and enthusiasm, you demonstrated how, in both theory and practice, computers can be an invaluable tool in testing conjectures.Lehmer lectured at the International Conference on Computers and Mathematics held at Stanford University in 1986. His talk, Factorization then and now, covered one of the topics to which he had made major contributions. He was a pioneer in the application of mechanical methods, including digital computers, to the solution of problems in number theory and he talked about some of the methods used to factorise numbers including: factor tables, trial division, Legendre's method, factor stencils, the continued fraction method, Fermat's method, methods based on quadratic forms, and Shanks' method.
Let us mention a number of other topics for which Lehmer will be remembered. One must be the Lucas-Lehmer primality test which uses the Fermat congruence, and in particular his application to testing whether a Mersenne number was prime. He also made major contributions to studying the density of primes with a given primitive root and to the study of the partition function, in particular verifying certain conjectures by Ramanujan. He was the first person to attack the Riemann Hypothesis by using a computer to check if the roots lie on the critical line. Luck, however, often plays a large role in determining how famous a mathematician will become, and Lehmer's attack on the Riemann Hypothesis only provided evidence that the hypothesis was true whereas had the world been different it might have yielded a counterexample.
Brillhart, who received a Ph.D. in 1967 for a thesis supervised by Lehmer, comments in [1] on Lehmer as a lecturer:-
As a lecturer [Lehmer] was much appreciated not only for his classical scholarship in mathematics and number theory, but also for his dry sense of humour and wit.Brillhart also comments:-
As a thinker [Lehmer] was sagaciously independent, not being devoted to dogmas, systems, or rituals.
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Barbara, Girl of the Streets, Part 2
True Story, Males / Female, Prostitution
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Sun 18th of September 2011
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I wrote the first part of this several years ago. I have kind of abandoned XNXX, but I was just laying about the house this afternoon surfing the net, and I came across the original story. It deserved an ending, so here's the rest. This is a true story, with as much detail as my poor memory can bring to light:
Barbara, Girl of the Streets Part 2
I really enjoyed that first meeting with Barbara very much, but those girls came and went quickly - they always do - and I didn't expect to ever see her again. Hookers find a boyfriend, get arrested, find more honest work, move on to another city for whatever reason, and sometimes get invited by the authorities to rapidly relocate. Finding the same girl even weeks later is a slim proposition. I forgot about her and went on with life.
There were other girls around, and I spread my business around. A lot were less than satisfying. I don't know how to explain it, but I need some sort of connection to enjoy sex, even with a prostitute. Some just lay there, pretending you don't exist. The ones I really hate, though, are the ones who make it an acting job, falsely moaning, telling you you've got the biggest dick ever, and they just can't stand the pleasure. All good stuff, but I've never seen a hooker with the talent to carry it off without sounding phony as hell.
Anyway, in the course of events, I found myself looking one night, and happened across Barbara again. I was cruising the stroll and saw her walking. As I passed, we recognized each other immediately, This time, knowing I was harmless, she took me to her apartment. Nothing to write home about, it was a tiny one-bedroom in an old building. Most of the hallway lights were broken, and apartment numbers were painted on the doors with a spray can. It was a rough place.
We went inside, got naked, and lay in her bed. Seeing her things around me, smelling her in the sheets, was exciting. Once again she kissed and caressed me, while I played with her lovely tits and fingered her tight cunt. She sucked my cock until I was hard. I was afraid I was going to cum before I got into her, and asked her to stop. She asked how I wanted to do it, and I told her to start out on top - I wanted to enjoy her with my hands. She slid a condom on me, then straddled me and sank down onto my cock. I played with her tits, cupping them, pinching her nipples, then cupped her ass as she rode me. She was enjoying the fuck, and her moans were soft and definitely not faked. After a while we rolled over, and she tucked her legs up against her chest. I slammed my cock deep into her again and again until I came. Again, I can't explain it, but we connected somehow, and the sex was great. Afterwards we lay there for about 15 minutes talking. She told me she came from a very small town in a remote area, and had come to town looking for work. Lacking education and skills, she'd wound up on her back. She was accepting of the situation, and was making the best of it. I told her I didn't come looking very often, but hoped I'd see her again. We dressed, and I gave her a ride back to the stroll. Before she got out, she gave me a smile and kissed me.
I saw her once every month or two over the next few years. We'd go to her apartment and fuck in her bed. After a while I'd call in the afternoon if I wanted to go out that night, and then just drive to her apartment. In those days I was a lot quicker on the trigger than I am today, so we'd start with naked foreplay, my hands on her ass, her tits, and her luscious cunt. She always got wet enough that no artificial lube was necessary. She'd kiss my face and neck while she played with my rod and caressed my balls. Then we'd progress to her sucking me. Finally we'd get down to the act, and I'd usually I'd slowly fuck her doggy style or get her on top for a while before getting down to hard, fast, orgasm-inducing missionary position. I asked once if I could fuck her in the ass, but she would have none of it.
A couple of episodes from those years stand out:
She found a boyfriend, just some black street character, and they were still living in that shitty little apartment. I was out looking one night, and found her on the street by chance. She was glad to see me, and wanted to take me to her apartment, but she explained that I'd have to be patient, there was a problem there. By this time I trusted her enough to go along, and we headed to her place. When we got there, the boyfriend was in bed, his abdomen heavily bandaged. She whispered to him, and he got up, dressed only in underwear, pain evident on his face, and went into the living room/kitchenette, closing the door behind him. She explained he'd gotten into a fight on the street and had been stabbed. He was recovering, and they needed money. She wasn't asking for anything, just regular payment for her work. For some reason this was incredibly exciting, fucking this woman while her convalescent boyfriend sat in the next room. Once I got her naked I almost attacked her, fucking her so hard I was afraid I was going to hurt her. It was over quickly, her wonderfully tight pussy sucking the cum from my body. Once I was finished I didn't want to keep the poor guy out of his sick bed any longer than necessary, so I dressed, added a healthy tip to her standard fee, and went on my way.
The boyfriend seemed to come and go over the next couple of years. I saw her every now and then, maybe four or five times a year. There was a long time when she wasn't around, and I learned later she had had a baby with the boyfriend, and thus was out of action for an extended time.
Sometimes when we were together neither of us had a condom, and we'd do it bareback (this is pre-AIDS, too.) We trusted each other this much, and I enjoyed the feel of her cunt around my bare rod.
We would talk before and after the act, and got along well. I really began to have some affection for her, and one night, perhaps foolishly, I gave her my phone number (I drank a lot in those days, and common sense was not my forte.) I told her if she ever really needed help she could call me. I cursed myself for a fool the next day, but there was never a problem. Barbara only called me a few times, and was very discreet on the phone. She'd only call when finances were tight, asking if I might like to come see her. She never took offense if I wasn't available, or didn't really feel like meeting.
The last time I saw Barbara was one night when I had been out partying and felt like a little fun late in the evening. I went down to the stroll, cruising as usual, and there she was. She was happy to see me, and gave me a hug and a kiss when she got in the car. By this time the boyfriend was out again, and she had a nicer apartment - she was sharing a 2-bedroom in a much nicer building with another working girl. We drove to the apartment and went inside. There was a teenage girl babysitting for her little boy, and she told her to take a break for a while. (I was pervert enough to think about asking her to join us, but she was awfully young.) The girl went to her own apartment, and Barbara checked on the baby. He was asleep in the bedroom, so we got down to cases on the living room couch. We got naked, and I had her lie back while I explored her pussy with my fingers. I fingered her, caressed her clit, stroked across her perineum and virgin asshole. She got very wet and seemed to enjoy herself. This was one time neither of us had a condom, and we went bareback. She rode me for a while I sucked on her nipples. She moved well, wriggling her cunt around on my nail-hard cock. Finally I got behind her doggy-style and fucked her deep, alternating long strokes with short hard ones. I moved my hips side-to-side, probing all parts of her wonderful cunt. I held her hips while driving into her, and finally came with our pubic hair pressed together and my cock spasming in orgasm deep inside her. We talked for a little while. She seemed to be doing well. After a while we got dressed, and she called the babysitter to come back. I drove Barbara back to the stroll. She gave me a hug and a kiss, and stepped out to go back to work.
A few months later I moved to another state. I never went back to that east coast town, and never saw Barbara again. It's been 30 years now, and I still remember her fondly. I hope she found some measure of happiness, I hope she's somewhere today alive and content enjoying her grandchildren. She deserves it, if only for services well-rendered.
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2013-09-11 04:47:34
Yep, WLs can be the best, if you find the right one. Mine was called Jessica, and she really used to get into it - no faking from her. Like the author here, I need a connection on some level to really enjoy the sex. I saw her many times over a couple of years and was really sad when she gave up the life and moved away. Great story!
anonymous reader
2013-08-01 18:03:34
yeah..great story..very familiar to experience I have had...my girls name was Kelly..and Newcastle NSW..20 yrs ago
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2012-01-08 02:11:13
Wow.....i hope you 2 find each other.
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2011-10-27 11:34:20
I had no idea how to approach this before-now I'm locked and lodead.
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Plato says that a siren sits on each planet, who carols a most sweet song, agreeing to the motion of her own particular planet, but harmonising with all the others. Hence Milton speaks of the "celestial syrens' harmony, that sit upon the nine enfolded spheres." (Arcades. (See Nine Spheres.)
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So, now we've got our camera equipment ready for shooting film with a dSLR (see my previous post), what settings do we use? First of all we have to set a frame rate. How many images do we need, per second. What choices you can make is in part depending on the part of the world you live in. In Europe the PAL-standard is used, which means the normal frame rate is 25 fps. In the US the NTSC standard is used, which means 30 fps. Now if you want to use slow motion it's better to use the double frame rate, if the camera allows that. In that case you can shoot in 50 fps and play the video at 25 fps, which means everything is showed at half the normal speed, without making up new frames. Next is video size. For me this is a no brainer. I always shoot in the largest format available, which is in most dSLR's 1080p (or full HD). The only reason to shoot in 720p is that 50fps is not available at 1080p in most dSLR's. But if you don't plan to use slow motion, I would always use the largest size. Downsizing is always possible, but it's a lot harder to make a video larger…
So, now we've got the first settings and we're almost ready to go. We've only got shutter speed, aperture and ISO left… Strangely enough, you don't want to be each frame crisp sharp. A little motion blur makes for a smoother movie. It's recommended to use a shutter speed of twice the frame rate. So if you're using 25 fps (which I normally do), you use a shutter speed of 1/50s. This is not depending on the light available. This means that you have to expose using either aperture or ISO. I normally use aperture to choose the depth of field that I want and only use ISO to get the right exposure. This often means you need to go to a really low ISO-value. This is also the reason neutral density filters are used that often in film making.
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She fell asleep--not very long ago,--
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Insurgents fired rockets and assault rifles in the direction of the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other official buildings Tuesday as gunfire and explosions rocked the heart of the Afghan capital. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
NPR's Quil Lawrence reported from Kabul that he saw attackers running into one of the government buildings.
"They set off what sounded like three possibly suicide blasts before rushing to the building, and they're now raining down rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons fire across both the U.S. embassy compound and the large compound which holds the … NATO headquarters here in the center of the diplomatic district in Kabul."
Police said gunmen were firing from a tall office building that is under construction at Kabul's Abdul Haq square, which is about 300 yards from the U.S. Embassy. American officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The surge of violence was a stark reminder of the instability that continues to plague Afghanistan nearly a decade after the U.S. invasion that ousted the Taliban in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States.
The American Embassy is on the edge of the Wazir Akbar Khan area, and gunfire and explosions rocked the area, which is home to a number of other foreign missions.
At least one rocket landed on a building housing privately owned Tolo TV and another near a minivan carrying school children. At least four Afghans were wounded, according to Associated Press reporters on the scene.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said a number of suicide bombers were attacking Afghan and foreign soldiers at the square. He claimed in a text message that suicide bombers using assault rifles were attacking the offices of the Afghan intelligence service.
NPR's Quil Lawrence reported from Kabul, Afghanistan, for this story, which contains material from The Associated Press.


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The Virgin is seated on a wooden bench in front of a large wicker firescreen, the shape of which suggests a halo, and appears to have been nursing the infant Christ. She is shown as the Queen of Heaven in her palace. Her richly ornamented dress, precious book, the cushions and the inlaid floor are all evocative of extraordinary splendour. By contrast, her child is shown naked, as if to emphasise his humanity.
The painting underwent a major restoration in the 19th century. A broad strip on the right and a narrow strip at the top were added. The cupboard on the right, on which a chalice is placed, is unlikely to be an accurate reflection of the original composition.
The view through the window is a feature of early Netherlandish painting. All its realistic details are not easily visible to the naked eye. They include a row of shops, horsemen, and men with a ladder fighting a fire.
Key facts
Artist dates
1378/9 - 1444
Full title
The Virgin and Child before a Firescreen
Date made
about 1440
Medium and support
Oil with egg tempera on oak with walnut additions
63.4 x 48.5 cm
Acquisition credit
Salting Bequest, 1910
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I understand how final sale can be annoying, but you have to understand that a company as large as J.Crew has to get rid of their spring/summer stuff in order to make room for fall/winter.
And as far as a Factory goes, that's actually not the case. It's a completely separate line. No items from the mainline make their way to the Factory line.
You are wrong, many items from the mainline make it to the factory line. I have seen shirts I purchased from the mainline pop up the next season on their factory site. Also right now one of their oxford shirts(it's a navy and red shirt) was from their F/W line last season and is not on the factory site.


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To paraphrase fellow Prefix writer Scott Orwig: "She & Him [is] the too-twee-for-this-world collaboration between M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel." And as if the already adorable "In the Sun" wasn't sunny enough, it gets even cuter with this video that features She & Him in various high school scenarios. Well, actually, it's more like Zooey dancing choreographed numbers as Ward plays the cool Robert Downey Jr. look-alike.
It will be interesting to hear if their sophomore effort will also be filled with AM radio pop or a more diverse sound. We'll find out when She & Him's Volume 2 drops March 23 on Merge.
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Reporter reflects as Iraq named deadliest for journalists
It has been 14 months since my colleague at The Washington Post Salih Saif Aldin was shot and killed. Time flew by fast and the path for journalists in
It has been 14 months since my colleague at The Washington Post Salih Saif Aldin was shot and killed. Time flew by fast and the path for journalists in
Blog | Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia
The now infamous incident of
Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing his shoes at President George Bush
became primetime news throughout the world. In the
During a press conference in
Shwan Dawdi, editor-in-chief of the Kirkuk-based newspaper Hawal, sent a letter thanking CPJ for its help in overturning his conviction and one-month prison term. "I would like to express ... my thanks and gratitude for your noble and courageous position to defend the freedom of the press and journalists," Dawdi wrote.
Nearly three years after gunman affiliated with al-Qaeda left him for dead on a Baghdad street, Iraqi state television cameraman Jehad Ali arrived in the United States for medical treatment to help rebuild his bullet-shattered right leg.
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We announced the 2008 International
Press Freedom Award recipients on Tuesday, and the news has been well-received worldwide. Bilal Hussein of
Reuters has an in-depth story today on the increasingly dangerous reporting environment in Iraqi Kurdistan. Part of the problem, the article reports a local editor as saying, is that "the government thinks that journalists are the opposition."
Killings, threats, and attacks against journalists are on
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it's not much different than other parts of Iraq," Reuters quoted CPJ's
CPJ recently concluded a mission to
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There are many different ways to identify potential employment opportunities. The list below contains links to some sources for identifying opportunities. Additional resources for a job search, including more information on types of legal jobs, how to search for jobs, and traditional letter writing, can be found on the Professional Development page.
Investigating Summer Opportunities
There are a variety of professional opportunities available to students during the two summers of law school. Law firms, public interest organizations, government agencies, judges, and professors in need of research assistants all hire law students
On-Campus Interviews: Much hiring of Duke students is facilitated through Duke Law's extensive on-campus interview program (OCI). Here is an overview of the basics of Duke's OCI.
Symplicity: Symplicity is the web-based recruiting system and job bank used not only for the OCI process but also for job postings and resume solicitations for non-OCI employers. This provides an overview of Symplicity and a link to the system.
Additional Employers: At Duke Law School, we are fortunate to have a robust on-campus interview program. However, the even the hundreds of employers that participate in Duke OCI represent only a small fraction of the thousands of legal employers available to you. Below are lists of employers in some of the geographic markets that are popular destinations for Duke Law students. These are employers that do not participate in Duke OCI, but are reputed among students to provide great summer and post-graduate employment opportunities.
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text: There is a long history of the connection between music and politics, particularly political expression in music. This expression can use anti-establishment or protest themes, including anti-war songs, although pro-establishment ideas are also used, for example in national anthems, patriotic songs, and political campaigns. Many of these types of songs could be described as topical songs. Unlike many other types of music, political music is not usually ambiguous, and is used to portray a specific political message. Read more on Last.fm.


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Empires In The Northwest
Excerpts from Land of Giants
August 1956 | Volume 7, Issue 5
Aboard Chirikov's vessel was Louis Delisle, one of two map-making brothers in the Russian Academy of Sciences. The maps prepared by this pair showed (as did other maps of the period) a continent known as Gamaland. Whether Gamaland was a separate land mass or an extension of America was hotly debated. One of Bering's assignments was to find out.
Southeast the two vessels sailed, to latitude 46°, or approximately level with the mouth of the Columbia River. About the time that even Delisle was being forced to admit that Gamaland did not exist, a storm separated the St. Peter and the St. Paul . For a few days, while short supplies and shorter water dwindled still lower, the two captains beat back and forth looking for each other. Then, taking responsibility into his own hands, Alexei Chirikov dismissed Gamaland as impossible and sailed northeast.
On July 15, near present Sitka, he sighted land. Two days later a watering party was sent ashore. The men vanished. Another party rowing out to investigate likewise disappeared. Probably these first white men to set foot on the soil of northwestern America were slain by Indians, although Russian fable later told of red-headed, light-complexioned descendants of the lost sailors being found along the coast.
Possessing no more small boats in which to hunt for the men, Chirikov sailed on. Storms and fogs enmeshed the St. Paul ; supplies gave out. When at last Kamchatka was sighted, Chirikov had to fire a distress signal to summon enough able-bodied rescuers from land to bring the ship in. Louis Delisle, whose dream of Gamaland was partly responsible for the debacle, expired as he was being carried ashore.
Meanwhile Bering, too, was trapped in the uncharted seas. After their separation he, like Chirikov, had borne northeast. On July 16, a day later than Chirikov's landfall, he detected through a rift in the clouds an unbelievable snow peak towering above a wonderland of islands, inlets, forests, and gleaming icebergs. To this monstrous mountain he gave the name it still bears, St. Elias. But he could not share the elation of the scientists aboard his vessel—scientists he had labored so strenuously to bring so far. Vitus Bering was sixty years old now, thick-bodied, flabbyfleshed. The Siberian crossing had exhausted him. He was suffering, moreover, from the lassitude and the terrible sense of depression that accompany the initial stages of scurvy. Glumly he hove to and watched his naturalist, Georg Wilhelm Steller, leave for shore with a watering party.
Suddenly, while half the water casks remained unfilled and Steller was grubbing joyously through an abandoned Aleut fireplace, Bering gave orders that the ship weigh anchor. Dumfounded, Steller asked whether ten agonizing years of preparation were going to dwindle off into less than ten hours of exploration. Bering ignored him. Unspeakably disgusted, the naturalist gathered up such artifacts as he had had time to collect and returned aboard.
Fog closed in as the ship crept westward behind the uncharted swell of the Aleutian chain. The sea seemed haunted. Strange bird and animal voices wailed through the gray wrack. Then rain turned to sleet; rotten rigging began to snap. The dread specter of scurvy stalked unchecked; nearly every day someone perished in his fouled hammock, until a dozen men had died.
Finally, early in November, bitter weather cleared the skies and the cry of land went up. "It would be impossible," Steller wrote later, "to describe the joy created by the sight of land; the dying crawled upon the deck to see with their own eyes what they would not believe; even the feeble commander was carried out of his cabin. To the astonishment of all a small keg of brandy was taken from some hiding place and dealt out in celebration of the supposed approach to the coast of Kamchatka."
But it was not Kamchatka. As the desperate knowledge began to dawn, a gale struck. Long combers rolling before the Arctic wind parted one of the ship's anchor cables, then another. A foaming breaker picked up the vessel and hurled it, with a dismal crunching of the hull, into a quiet cove. Here, willy-nilly, the crew would spend the winter.
While preparations were being made for a landing, Steller led out a scouting party. Blue foxes swarmed everywhere. Off shore in the kelp beds grazed huge sea cows 25 feet long and up to three tons in weight. But not a tree was to be seen. Adding to the desolation was inescapable proof that they had been marooned on an absolutely unknown stretch of sand and rock, since called Bering Island.
Returning to the cove, Steller started the men digging pits in the sand. These were lined and covered with driftwood and sailcloth, chinked with moss, mud, and fox skins. As fast as the shelters were completed, the sick were carried to them. Nine of the men were so far gone that they did not survive the transfer.
The blue foxes were a maddening nuisance. They had to be driven from the corpses. They bit the invalids, scattered provisions, carried off hats and boots. They were so unawed that during the first day of work on the huts Steller and another man killed sixty with their axes. Carcasses and skins were useful, however, for food and clothing, though later on better furs were obtained from sea otters and seals, better provender from the sea cows and from a dead whale cast up on the beach.


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UPDATE: After going to press, I learned that The Sunday Times acting editor Martin Ivens issued a statement regretting the offense caused. I updated the situation more fully: Sunday Times in Damage Control.
1. Backing down somewhat, Sunday Times cartoonist Gerald Scarfe told the Jewish Chronicle he "regrets the timing" of his cartoon:
Mr Scarfe, in a message to the JC denying permission to reproduce the cartoon, said that he had not been aware it was Holocaust Memorial Day.
But a spokesman for the paper dug in his heels about the imagery, telling Algemeiner:
"This is a typically robust cartoon by Gerald Scarfe," said a spokesperson for The Sunday Times, adding, "The Sunday Times firmly believes that it is not anti-Semitic. It is aimed squarely at Mr Netanyahu and his policies, not at Israel, let alone at Jewish people."
The spokesperson said that appearance of the offending cartoon on Holocaust Memorial Day which is commemorated Sunday was coincidental, "It appears today because Mr Netanyahu won the Israeli election last week," said the statement.
By the way, HonestReporting's response to the cartoon was quoted by the JTA, Jewish Chronicle and Algemeiner. Download the graphic below, or share the Flickr link to let the Times know it crossed the line. And see the story behind this graphic.
2. What's preoccupying Jerusalem today? Hezbollah is setting up camps in Syria near chemical weapons sites. Israel's national security chief is in Moscow pressing the Kremlin to take measures on the ground to prevent chemical weapons from falling into the wrong hands. Concerned about chemical weapons, the IDF deployed Iron Dome batteries to northern areas of the country.
3. Here's a whitewash waiting to happen: A joint Iran-Argentina "truth commission" will investigate the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community headquarters. One of the suspects, Ahmad Vahidi, is now Iran's defense minister. From AP:
This process, which needs legislative approval in both nations, provides a legal framework with due process rights for the accused that could be a model for conflict resolution, Fernandez said, and it puts the dispute firmly in the hands of legal experts overseen by independent arbitrators.
Jewish groups, however, made clear their discomfort at Argentina's efforts to improve relations with Iran despite the unresolved bombing case.
Israel gave the truth commission a thumbs-down.
Israel and the Palestinians
• It's official: Israel will boycott the UN Human Rights Council's "Universal Periodic Review," a regular assessment of human rights in all UN member states.
Israel's review is scheduled for Jan. 29, to be overseen by Venezuela(!?), Siera Leone, and the Maldives. The Times of Israel writes:
But on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor ended all speculation: "We are under an ongoing policy of suspension of all our contacts with the Human Rights Council in Geneva and all its branches," he told The Times of Israel, "after their sequence of systematically anti-Israel moves, which have come to contradict the mission statement of the organizations and sheer common sense."
• Hamas has agreed to release journalists arrested in recent days. The players in Gaza are treating this as a political issue in the context of national unity, not as a matter of free speech and free media. According to Maan News:
As part of the 2011 deal, Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-led government in the West Bank agreed to stop media harassment and politically-motivated arrests.
The committee of public freedoms held a meeting in Gaza City Monday morning for the first time in around a year . . .
The committee had decided to suspend its work because none of its recommendations were implemented, especially those related to political detainees and public freedoms, he said.
On a related note, a Palestinian media organization is calling for Fatah and Hamas to end bans on their rivals' newspapers. Maan News also writes:
Center director Moussa Rimawi noted that the split between the Gaza and West Bank governments since 2007 has increased abuse of journalists, self-censorship, and a general decline in media freedoms.
Further in that vein, Palestinian institutions in the PA's Bethlehem district are now banned from having any direct contact with Israel. Details at the Jerusalem Post.
• A USA Today staff-ed engages in some historical revisionism.
Then Arafat was sidelined after he backed Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf War. Palestinian moderates filled the gap, giving Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and U.S. diplomats the opening they needed to achieve a peace agreement. It got to the brink of success, only to be derailed by Rabin's assassination and a cowardly retreat by Arafat.
Yasser Arafat — who remained in firm control of the PLO –was Israel's address for peacemaking, not the Palestinian moderates who are today an endangered species. What derailed Oslo wasn't Arafat's "cowardly retreat," but his intention all along to launch an intifada.