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Alan Jackson Breaks San Antonio Stock Show + Rodeo Attendance Record
Alan Jackson remains one of the most beloved artists of the country genre. Want proof? Well, the superstar broke the all-time attendance record at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo on Thursday night (Feb. 23), drawing 17,000 fans. Jackson has played this particular event 15 times throughout his career, but this week's crowd was the largest he'd ever performed before.
The rodeo's beginnings date back all the way to 1950 and 62 years later, Jackson nabbed the attendance crown. Congrats, Alan!
"The San Antonio Rodeo has welcomed me for a lot of years and it's one of my favorite places to play," the singer said in a statement. "The rodeo and folks in Texas have always been good to me and I want to thank the fans for coming out to see us all these years."
Pam Rew, Assistant Executive Director of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, echoed Jackson's sentiments, saying, "What a great partnership, rodeo and country music. Our fans showed how much they support the great country artist Alan Jackson last night with a record attendance in the AT&T Center."
Country fans show up in record-breaking droves to see Alan Jackson since he puts on such an entertaining show. Check out a photo from the event below.


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U. S. Coast Guard Orientation for Potential Recruits
Source: U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Records Collection, 1939-1997 East Carolina Manuscript Collection #559
Staff Person: Nanette Hardison
The U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is well known for providing service to the public by doing boat inspections, teaching seamanship classes, and helping the Coast Guard patrol the waterways. But what the public may not realize is that the Auxiliary serves as a source of recruits for the U. S. Coast Guard. The Auxiliary has sponsored since 1955 orientation visits to the Coast Guard Academy for high school juniors who meet the qualifications for admission to the Coast Guard–a yearly ritual that would come to be called the Academy Introduction Mission Week (AIM). The high school students who participated in these yearly orientations would go on to apply for appointments to the Coast Guard and to eventually serve as career officers. This photo, taken in 1957, shows a group of potential recruits participating in Academy Week at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy on the ship Eagle.

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Yesterday, it was announced that Apple would no longer offer YouTube on its home screen of the iPhone when iOS 6 is released next month.
That's big news.
Apple is now replacing two-thirds of the default Google services on its home screen within a couple of months. This will significantly lessen revenues for YouTube and Google Maps as many market share reports indicate that the Safari browser accounts for two-thirds of mobile web browsing. (Some will claim that that Google never ran ads on the YouTube app so it's no biggie in terms of revenue. Yet, the icon surely led to enormous traffic which does give Google user data to better target other ads and which was enormously important for the service's market share and views which it touts to land more advertisers.)
While people debate whether Google was the one who decided to renew the license to Apple (why would they?) or whether or not this is such a bad move for Google in the long-term (it is), let's focus on the next shoe to drop: Google as the default search engine on the iPhone.
MG Siegler wrote a very interesting (and, so far, I think the only) post on this topic last night in TechCrunch.
He lays out that it's a matter of time before Apple switches out Google search in the iPhone. Don't forget they've already replaced Google search with Baidu (BIDU) search in mainland China. And I agree with him that Apple will eventually drop Google search in the rest of the world.
So -- to be clear -- why should Apple swap out Google search? Because it will financially hurt its chief mobile rival -- Google -- which, according to TechCrunch had to pay Apple $1 billion for referral traffic last year.
What then has been holding Apple up?
As Siegler says, I agree that Apple has failed to do this yet because of a concern about poor user experience. They didn't dump Google Maps until they had what they felt was a more compelling offering (that they grew themselves).
Siegler makes the case that it's now seriously time for Apple to look again at opting for Micrsoft's (MSFT) Bing search engine as the iPhone default.
This is an option that does make sense. Remember there was some talk about Apple potentially striking a deal with Bing (I think it was for iPhone 4). In the end, Apple decided to keep Google as the default, probably because it believed that Bing wasn't ready for prime time.
Is it ready now? Like Siegler, I frankly don't know as I never use it. I suspect it's probably "good enough." And I also agree with him that we're not ready yet for Siri to replace Google search (although I still believe this is the long-term plan from Apple -- and nothing's changed since I wrote this opinion piece last October on why Siri was a Google killer).
But here's an idea for Apple consider: they should use Yahoo! (YHOO) as the default search engine on the iPhone instead of Bing or Google.
Number one, Yahoo! isn't in a competitive position in mobile with Apple like Google and Microsoft are.
Number two, Yahoo!'s search -- by which I mean its Axis product which has been out for only a couple of months -- is good enough and will likely get significantly better in the next year under new Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer.
Let's discuss in more detail.
Yahoo! is already the default data source for the iPhone stocks apps and Weather. More importantly, they released a new mobile search engine a few months ago called Axis under the direction of Shashi Seth. Axis is really, really good. You can use it directly as a smart phone or tablet app or as an add-on to any PC-based browser. The results are fantastic and especially interesting with a more visual component for mobile searches.
But wait... how can Yahoo! be a search provider to Apple because didn't Yahoo! outsource search to Microsoft? Yes, in 2009, under the direction of then CEO Carol Bartz, they did outsource all the backend search and lost most of their search talent to Redmond. However, it's only been implemented in North America so far, and just recently began to be implemented for Yahoo searches in Europe (it isn't clear that this transition has started). If you search in Asia on Yahoo, you're still getting Yahoo results generated by Yahoo.
The Bartz-Ballmer deal has been a bust for Yahoo! shareholders. It should be cancelled -- or have the terms significantly changed to benefit Yahoo.
With the hiring of Marissa Mayer as Yahoo!'s new CEO, there's a strong chance that she will be interested in taking back control of search from Microsoft. Why? She knows search cold, from her years at Google. It probably would give her great satisfaction to stick it to Google in search after she was left of Larry Page's Executive Team last year -- and nothing would stick it to them like having Apple choose them as their default search provider on the iPhone.
Notice how various reports have emerged over the last few weeks about how happy Shashi Seth is with the arrival of Mayer. This is because his projects are likely all now getting the big green-light -- including Axis.
Also notice how David Filo has been playing a bigger role at Yahoo in the last few weeks -- including getting a big feature in the press release welcoming Mayer to Yahoo! He supposedly will now report directly to Mayer according to Kara Swisher's reporting. Filo played a big role on Project Panama, Yahoo!'s attempt to revive its search engine prior to the Bartz decision to outsource it all to Microsoft.
Could Yahoo! win at search? Certainly. They might do a straight up cancellation of the Bing partnership and begin building up a new search team that would do search in a new way building on what they have in Axis. But another possibility is that Ballmer simply throws in the towel on Bing (or Online Services Division as a whole). It's been a sinkhole for almost 20 years. Why not sell back (give back) Bing to Yahoo! in exchange for a revenue share going forward and a cross-licensing of the patents continuing? It would still be hurting Google. If Yahoo! can get the ball across the goal line with Apple's help, why not? Let Marissa at it.
All in all, Yahoo! should be working towards a goal of replacing Google as the default search engine on the iPhone for the 2013 release date -- with or without Microsoft's support.
Why would Apple pick Yahoo! over Bing at that time? Because:
1. Yahoo! doesn't compete with Apple in mobile;
2. Yahoo!'s Axis search is 'good enough' and;
3. Mayer and Seth have a year to prove to them that iPhone users will have a much better user experience with them over Bing or Google.
[Jackson was Long AAPL and YHOO at the time of writing.]


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Spreading peace with social media
A neat thing is happening right now in New York, and it's not simply Obama, Ahmadinejad, and Ban Ki-Moon talking development at the United Nations. The UN Digital Media Lounge is bringing the summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to ordinary people online.
"If we can make development transparent and available to people...I'm convinced that people will want to do more," USAID Administrator Raj Shah said this morning at the UN Digital Media Lounge.
I would have loved to be at the Digital Media Lounge in person, but thanks to Mashable, I don't need to be there; I can watch it online, live or delayed. There are some fascinating conversations both about the development work we need to do and about the power of social media to spread knowledge of crucial issues (check out Facebook's peace initiative).
This is a tremendous opportunity for Americans to start talking about our role in pushing forward the MDGs. Unfortunately, many speakers seem to be saying from Shah to the celebs in "Live on the Lounge," most Americans don't know much about the MDGs. In her experience, Marianne Williamson says in "Faith, Women and the MDGs," most Americans don't know what's going on in the rest of the world, but the good news is, "When we get it right, we're a great force for good."
I'm curious whether this extends to the audience at U.S. Catholic. Certainly, the liturgy gets a lot more comments than an interview on the church's justice and peace mission. Are you familiar with the MDGs? (If not, go here to learn more about them.) How important are they to you?
Clearly I was drawn to "Faith, Women, and the MDGs" and Williamson has some interesting comments about faith. A Jewish woman, she approaches faith from a universal perspective when talking development and distains the eye-rolling of secular progressives when faith comes up. She also pushes people of faith beyond platitudes. "How can you talk about love your neighbor and turn away when children are starving?" she asks (around 24 minutes).
Her views on role of women in development work (around 11 minutes) are very close to what the church would say about the "feminine genius," and she says it's influenced by her spirituality. Though she initially rejected the idea that the woman's role is at home, she says:
"The years taught me the mistake in nature of my youthful beliefs.... I believe now that it is a woman's role to take care of the home. It is the role of the woman to take care of the children. I just get it now that this world is our home and every child on this planet is our children."
She calls it "a divine sense of motherhood that goes way beyond our own sense of biological or individual imperatives."
I might add that this is the work of all Catholic feminists--male or female--but it is a compelling image.
I encourage you to take a look at these and other videos, be inspired, and if you blog, spread the news about the MDGs in general or specific issues--women, HIV/AIDS, the environment, malaria, extreme poverty, education, etc. Feel free to share your blog posts on development below.


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Chronic Ear Infection: The Diseased Middle Ear
Any disease affecting the eardrum (tympanic membrane), or the three small ear bones (ossicles) may cause a hearing loss by interfering with the transmission of sound to the inner ear. Infections may cause:
- A perforation (hole) in the eardrum
- Partial or total destruction of one or all of the three little ear bones
- Scar tissue around the ear bones or the eardrum.
When an infection develops in the middle ear, the eardrum may rupture, resulting in a perforation (hole). This perforation usually heals. Hearing loss occurs, often associated with head noise (tinnitus) and ear drainage.
If a perforation is present, you should not allow water to get into your ear canal. This may be avoided when showering or washing the hair by placing cotton in the external ear canal and covering it with a layer of Vaseline. If you desire to swim, use a tight fitting swimming cap or use earplugs.
In the event of ear drainage you should see an ear doctor (otolaryngologist). Medication, as prescribed, should be used if discharge is present or when discharge occurs. Cotton may be placed in the outer ear to catch any discharge but should not be allowed to block the ear canal for long periods.
Medical treatment will frequently stop ear drainage. Treatment consists of careful cleaning of the ear and, at times, the application of antibiotic powder or eardrops. Oral antibiotics may be helpful in certain cases.
Surgical Treatment – For many years, surgical treatment was used to control infection and prevent serious complications. In recent years, changes in surgical techniques have made it possible to reconstruct the diseased hearing mechanism in most cases. Various tissue grafts are used to replace or repair the eardrum. Hearing improvement is rarely noted at or immediately following surgery. Instead, it requires weeks to months for complete healing to occur.
Myringoplasty – Most ear infections go away and the structures of the middle ear heal completely. In some cases, however, the eardrum may not heal, causing a permanent perforation (hole) in the eardrum. Myringoplasty repairs a perforation in the eardrum when there is no middle ear infection or disease of the ear bones. This procedure seals the middle ear and improves the hearing in many cases. Surgery is usually performed behind the ear canal under general anesthesia. Healing is complete in most cases in three to four weeks, at which time any hearing improvement is usually noticeable.
Tympanoplasty – An ear infection may cause a perforation in the eardrum and may also damage the three bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the inner ear and hearing nerve. Tympanoplasty is the operation performed to repair both the sound transmitting mechanism and the perforation in the eardrum. This procedure seals the middle ear and improves hearing in many cases. Surgery is performed from behind the ear under general anesthesia. Healing of the eardrum is usually complete in three to four weeks, and the hearing improvement may be noticeable at this time (but may take longer).
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Two-and-a-half million years ago, a fireball worthy of a fire-breathing dragon slammed into the southeastern Pacific Ocean. It created a massive tsunami, and may have helped change Earth's climate. It also smashed rocks at the bottom of the ocean, creating a structure known today as Eltanin. It's named for a research ship, which in turn was named for the brightest star of Draco, the dragon, which is low in the northwest at nightfall.
Earth has been smashed by many asteroids and comets. All traces of most of those impacts have been erased by our dynamic planet. But a few remnants are still around. Most of the ones identified so far are on land, but a few are in the oceans.
Eltanin was identified as a possible impact structure more than 30 years ago. Rocks beneath the ocean floor show evidence of a powerful collision, and impact debris is scattered over a wide area.
The impact was with an asteroid that was a mile or two in diameter. Simulations show that it created giant tsunamis that slammed into South America, Antarctica, New Zealand, and Australia. The waves could have been hundreds of feet high.
Researchers in Australia have suggested that the impact could have hastened the start of the last major Ice Age. Earth was already cooling off by then. But the water vapor and other debris blasted into the atmosphere could have caused it to cool more dramatically — a cold era kick-started by a fiery collision.
More about cosmic collisions tomorrow.
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite–R series (GOES-R) is NOAA's next geostationary weather satellite. Power-on of the spacecraft's avionics and major electronic subsystems is a key milestone to delivery of the first satellite.
The system module of the A2100-based satellite is being built at Lockheed Martin Space System's Newtown, Pennsylvania. facility. The system module testing will demonstrate the functionality and integration of three major electrical subsystems, Command and Data Handling, Communication, and Electrical Power. A total of 76 electronic boxes and 12 wiring harnesses were installed in preparation for this power up.
"This is one of the most significant milestones on the program to date and our team demonstrated their dedication by getting us here on-time," said Paula Hartley, program manager for the GOES-R Series at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. "Even though we thoroughly test each subsystem at the box level, this is the first time that we've seen it working as a complex integrated system. It's the beginning of a new satellite."
With successful completion of the system module testing, the GOES-R system module will be shipped to Lockheed Martin Space Systems' Waterton facility near Denver to be integrated with the propulsion module. Once the system module and propulsion module are mated, the spacecraft will move onto the payload integration, functional testing and environmental testing phases of the program.
Data from NOAA's GOES satellites provides accurate real-time weather forecasts and early warning products to NOAA's National Weather Service and other public and private sectors. The advanced spacecraft and instrument technology on the GOES-R series will vastly improve forecasting quality and timeliness, generating significant benefits to the U.S. and Western Hemisphere in the areas of public safety, severe weather monitoring, space weather prediction, ecosystems management, commerce and transportation.
In January 2013, NASA exercised the option for Lockheed Martin to develop two additional GOES R-series satellites, designated T & U, for NOAA bringing the total number of satellites that will be built to four.
In addition to the spacecraft, Lockheed Martin is also designing and building the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) and the Geostationary Lighting Mapper (GLM) instruments that will each fly aboard the four spacecraft.
The NOAA Satellite and Information Service funds, manages, and will operate the GOES-R series satellites. NASA oversees the acquisition and development of the GOES-R spacecraft and instruments for NOAA. The program is co-located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.


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The internet offers huge potential for artists who want to make music on their own terms. As the old business model crumbles to dust, artists have much to gain from entering into dialogue with their fans, not least from encouraging them to buy their music directly from the farm gate, secure in the knowledge that the money they spend will support the artist in their work.
I want this website to be my main source of communication with the world: songs I record, articles that I write, clips I film on my phone, merchandising I produce, blogs, comments, posts, all will be available here.
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There is no greater or more powerful or more pure human rapport with the elements than that experienced by a surfer dancing with the ocean. In Dancing the Wave, Jean-Etienne Poirier brings alive the world of surfing by offering historical, anthropological, and cultural perspectives on this increasingly popular sport. By recounting tales of his own surfing adventures, he opens the door to this world beyond the summer sun and simple pleasures of the ride, inviting readers to reflect upon the true place of human beings in the universe.
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NHL Game Night 1/30: Lightning at Flyers
All hail King Holmer.
Johan Holmqvist stopped 29 of 32 shots faced in overtime and regulation before stopping 2 of 2 in the shootout to remain a perfect 15 for 15 in the shootout this season. A bit of a softie on the Richardson goal tonight, but Holmqvist made up for it on several stops tonight. This was not necessarily a game the Lightning deserved to win, but as road warriors they've been finding ways to grind out two points out of these games lately. The win is the Lightning's sixth straight road win which is a new team record.
Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier each had a goal and an assist to lead the Lightning offensively. Ruslan Fedotenko had the other Lightning goal (and played great tonight) and Ryan Craig, Dan Boyle, Andreas Karlsson, Paul Ranger and Filip Kuba added individual helpers. Lecavalier and Brad Richards (who also played great tonight) had the Lightning's shootout talleys.
For anyone wondering, Blair Jones played just 4 shifts tonight for 2:36 of ice time. He had 1 blocked shot and was 2-for-2 on faceoffs. His last three shifts he must've been in stealth mode, because his first period shift was the only time I saw him all night.
The win, coupled with a Carolina loss against Toronto tonight, moves the Lightning within 2 points of second place in the Southeast Division with a game in hand and the Hurricanes on the slate for Thursday night. The team also maintains pace with Atlanta 10 points back of the division lead with 1 game in hand on the Thrashers and 2 head-to-head matchups remaining on the schedule. The Lightning can almost certainly make a run at this, especially with the bottomfeeding Panthers on the schedule 5 more times.
First Period
Second Period
Tampa Bay 6:32, Martin St. Louis 31 (power play) (Ryan Craig, Dan Boyle)
Philadelphia 7:23, Mike Richards 2 (shorthanded) (Alexei Zhitnik, Joni Pitkanen)
Philadelphia 18:49, Jeff Carter 7 (shorthanded) (Simon Gagne, Denis Gauthier)
Tampa Bay 19:24, Ruslan Fedotenko 11 (power play) (Andreas Karlsson, Paul Ranger)
Third Period
Philadelphia 3:13, Peter Forsberg 9 (Joni Pitkanen)
Tampa Bay 12:06, Vincent Lecavalier 31 (Filip Kuba, Martin St. Louis)
Tampa Bay: Lecavalier, Richards
Philadelphia: NONE
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A winner was selected from 123 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
HowItookit.com (HITI from now on) is a brand new photography website I'm making. The site will consist of tutorials and articles about - you guessed it - photography !
Pretty much everyone interested in learning about photography, no matter what age, gender or location their from.
Now to the good stuff. Firstly, I've already had the website designed (no content up yet thou)
Here is the URL: http://www.howitookit.com/
The website will be in English.
I want the brand name to include the .com. I don't have any preferences on how to write howitookit.com, in terms of upper- and lowercase. Feel free to play around with it for a bit.
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2. It must fit on a white background as well.
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As I do a lot of networking and meet a lot of people during the day interested in photography, I plan to have to do up a business card for the website (note: it won't be a personal business card with my name on it, but just a business card for the website, if that makes sense). I will also need to use this logo for various other prints and documents, which is why it's important that the logo will look good on both my website and white backgrounds.
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The SX192 weighs in with a dry weight of 2,150 lbs. which is important to note since she is one of the lightest boats in class, and lighter than some 18' models. Leaning on its experience in PWC design and its larger twin engine jet boat designs, the 192's hull is a marriage of all that the team at Yamaha has learned over the years. Not only does Yamaha manufacture and assemble the entire hull and deck components, they also design and build their own engines. In our opinion, this is a huge advantage from a service, reliability, and warranty point of view. It sets Yamaha apart from their competitors. The power comes from the 1.8L, four-cylinder, four-stroke, 16 valve supercharged purpose-build Yamaha Marine engine. The 16 valves provide greater efficiency in how the engine breaths while the supercharger boosts horse power by forcing more air into the engine.
At the transom the deadrise is 18 degrees and because this is a jet drive power system, the draft is only 14". This shallow draft is due to the fact that there is no lower unit or an outboard prop down below the bottom of the hull. This provides for excellent skinny water access. Her beam is a 8' (2.43 m) and she carries 30 gallons (114 L) of fuel. Even though this is a high performance engine, it has been optimized to run on regular 87 octane unleaded fuel. The jet drive unit consists of a three blade stainless impeller with a 14.3-degree pitch.
Starting forward, Yamaha knows how much fun it is to anchor off a beach or in a quiet cove. With this in mind, the 192 has a molded-in, self-draining anchor locker with room for line.
When looking at a side view of the SX192 it is obvious that the interior width is pushed as far forward as possible, creating a distinct push out or flared look where the hull and deck meet. This was necessary to provide enough room for adults up at the bow. There is storage under the bow seating with the port side opening up into the console behind design for your large and longer items.
At the helm is the cruise assist which allows the throttle to be set and then increased or decreased by clicking up or down on the rocker button. There is also a three position no-wake mode, actuated via a rocker switch so idling in and out of the marinas takes just the push of a button. The "U" shape seating wraps around the aft cockpit. It features the plush, high-quality upholstery that is standard on Yamaha's entire lineup.
To port in the console is storage bin which also has a 12v outlet, the MP3 jack and stereo. This is held open by a spring support. A gutter runs around the edge, to help keep things dry inside.
The next area is one that we have been showing on Yamaha boats for years: the stern seating and swim area. Since the engine is so compact, it allows the designers to provide boaters more usable space at the stern.
The stern seating has comfortable back rests with cup holders to either side and a ski point on centerline. The cleanout port for the jet drive unit is under the seat. The swim ladder is located under the swim platform and the addition of two grab handles will make reboarding easier. The waterjet propulsion requires no exposed propeller, which has obvious advantages for a family with small or younger kids.
This nineteen-footer, from the tip of her roomy bow seating area to the output of her 1.8 liter supercharged engine, is one little fun machine. Heading off the dock, she was responsive. I never felt like I had to react to the maneuvering peculiarities of a jet drive as I've had to do in the past with earlier models. Sure, she's a nineteen-footer at an attractive price, so I didn't expect to be riding in the lap of luxury. But Yamaha's automated production efficiency and attention to detail has provided a feel of luxury I don't normally expect to find at the entry level in a boat that is all about water sports. Our test boat tipped the scale at 2660 pounds, including two of us on board. As we accelerated, the GPS struggled to keep up with us as we were on plane in 3.5 seconds and the needle hit 30 in 5.1 seconds. The hull seems to be a perfect match for Yamaha's purpose-built engine, and I understand that the hull shape is the result of a bunch of tweaking to get the shape of the entry just right. It felt good to me. Our best cruising performance was observed at 5500 rpm where we saw a speed of 25.55 mph using fuel at a rate of 8.3 gph for a range of 83 statute miles, and our top speed was 50.6 MPH at 7700 rpm, wide open throttle. An improvement I look forward to seeing from Yamaha is full fly-by-wire throttle control. Right now, the throttle lever is linked to the electronic controller by aviation-type wire linkage. Since they already have the electronics in place, it makes sense to me that they should make this change one of these days. On the other hand, one improvement they have made is very effective indeed; it's called "Thrust Directional Enhancer" and it serves to improve slow-speed handling. It sounded like a sales pitch to me, but I'm pleased to say that my skepticism was proven wrong. This is the most maneuverable jet drive boat that I have ever brought in to a dock. I'm sure a beginner could feel confident right out of the blocks. Between her ease of maintenance, standard features, and attractive price, it's not a wonder that Yamaha seems to get more popular with boating families every year. We think this new model offers all the standard features one would expect in a larger boat, but with the twist of industry-leading engine technology. This boat comes with a painted trailer as a complete package starting at $30,999.
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I knew posting the Coco pics would be somewhat controversial because many guys have mixed feeling about her. I, of course, am one that think she is hot - rough around the edges and her face isn't the cutest, but nonetheless everyone has there own idea of beauty. I just don't see how any guy wouldn't want that asss bouncing in front of them...martin wrote:personally to me (the last one) it's disgusting,
guys, do you have any sense of what natural beauty is? have you got anything naturally beautiful back in your country? you know - smooth skin without PHOTOSHOP, beautiful face without make up, nice breast not getting woman into a hurting back problems, little waist and a normal ass, that wouldn't take two seats in the cinema? i guess they can't even ride a bike without falling down
is it so bad, that you need all this artificial gunnery to make them look desirable?
no, really, that ice-t milf really stinks,
at least the previous girl had just photoshop and hard makeup treatment
Take a step back before you tread on my morals martin, especially when your judgment is based on a few pictures. I am more of a natural kind of guy myself, the last three girls (including my current girlfriend of 3 years) have all been naturally big breasted (Double Ds). Now while I sympathize with what problems they may face currently and in the future, they didn't ask for them, and I'm not complaining.
Some guys like fat chicks, so those guys should be frowned upon because they are lusting after unhealthy women, thus contributing to the idea that's OK to be obese? Big breast and big asses are what do it for me, ask my girl I can keep my hands off them, lol.
As far as the cosmetic surgery debate, I'm not going to waste my time arguing this, it is as old as the first breast implants and a area where nobody is likely to change the other's mind.


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One border and 30 miles make all the difference in how these same-sex couples are treated
June 23, 2014
This Thursday marks the first anniversary since the United States Supreme Court struck down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the law that for 16 years restricted the federal government from respecting the legal marriages of same-sex couples.
Since last June, the landscape in the campaign to win marriage nationwide has immeasurably changed, with hundreds of thousands of couples receiving the legal respect from the federal government that they deserve, an additional 6 states (HI, IL, NJ, NM OR & PA) extending the freedom to marry to same-sex couples, and 20 courts ruling in favor of marriage.
We've come a long way in just one year - but we're not there yet. In many ways, the marriage discrimination that still persists in 31 states is clearer and more egregious than ever, as same-sex couples are treated differently across the country: There are married couples who are treated as married by their state and the federal government; there are married couples who are respected as married federally but disrespected at the state level; and there are couples who want to marry but have been unable because of their state's anti-marriage laws.
These couples are only treated differently because of where they live - a simple state border can be the difference between a family receiving all of the dignity they deserve for their marriage and receiving no respect at all. To illustrate the reality of these untenable marriage laws, Freedom to Marry spoke with two couples who have led similar lives and yet, because of the state border between Illinois and Indiana - and just 30 miles in between their homes - are treated dramatically differently when it comes to accessing simple respect for their relationship:
Instant Connections
Theresa Volpe and Mercedes Santos met nearly 23 years ago in Chicago, Illinois. Theresa had recently started working as a writer and editor at the same publishing company where Mercedes worked as a designer. Mercedes approached Theresa for the first time while the company was helping Theresa celebrate her birthday, and the women immediately hit it off. They became fast friends and began to hang out outside of work.
Rick Soria and Scott Fech met 16 years ago, in August 1998 - and to hear Scott tell it, it was a miracle that they ever connected at all. "It really was a stroke of luck," Scott explained. "Mutual friends hosted a party that neither one of us should have attended - Rick was a funeral director at the time, and when he was 'on call,' he tended not to go out much, and I had just helped my brother move to Toledo - but we both decided to go and arrived at the same time." Instantly attracted to each other, the men spent the rest of the evening talking and realizing how happy they were that they decided to go to the party.
Becoming a Couple
As their friendship blossomed, Theresa and Mercedes each realized that there was something more there, although neither had ever dated a woman. "I just realized that she had every single quality I love about my friends," Theresa said. "She's way funny, she's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's super talented." One night while out at a bar, Theresa and Mercedes were approached by two men who wanted to buy them drinks. They politely declined, and the men snorted, jokingly, "Oh, are you on a date?" The women looked at each other, smiled, and realized that yes - they were on a date. Their friendship had grown into something more. "We weren't sure what it was," Theresa said. "It was a friendship - but we also felt like we were soul mates."
The day after the party, Rick and Scott just wanted to keep hanging out - the very next day, they met for coffee in the early afternoon, which turned into dinner in the evening, which quickly turned into a relationship. "We had just had many similar experiences," Scott said. "Rick had recently lost his mom, and I had lost my mom 10 or 12 years earlier - that kind of connection was significant for us. We shared similar life goals and career goals and he worked hard and had seen so much at a very young age. There were just things about him that seemed to be everything I was looking for."
Moving In and Supporting Each Other
After about four months together, Theresa and Mercedes moved in together into an apartment in Chicago - and years later, they purchased a home in the neighborhood of Rogers Park. That's the home where they still live today, and it's the home where they began working together in their basement to co-found a small business that develops PreK-12 educational materials for publishers. Now, they have offices nearby and a budding staff, and they support each other and work side-by-side every step of the way.
Rick and Scott moved in together after about three months of dating, a natural transition for the men, who describe their time together in their courtship as "inseparable," despite living an hour away from each other in Indiana. They both went to graduate school at the same time, with Rick completing a law degree and Scott finishing his PhD in Educational Administration. They supported each other through their schooling, and now, they continue to support each other in their respective careers - Rick works for Indiana's only community college, serving as the campus president of the Michigan City location, and Scott is a high school principal for the highly selective University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in Hyde Park.
Building a Family
Nearly ten years ago, Theresa and Mercedes said, they made the best decision of their lives when they decided to have children, and they're raising three beautiful kids, "the biggest joys of our lives." Through it all, Theresa and Mercedes' parents have been there to support them and help them along.
Rick and Scott are also very close to their family members, with much of their time devoted to celebrating holidays and family engagements with their siblings, parents, and nieces and nephews. Recently, the men have entered the adoption process, working with an agency so that soon, they can begin raising a child together.
Standing Up for Marriage
In the past few years, Theresa and Mercedes have spoken out for the freedom to marry again and again, perhaps most notably by joining Lambda Legal's historic lawsuit in 2012 seeking the freedom to marry for same-sex couples.
They were prompted to sign on to the case when their son Jaidon was hospitalized, close to death as a result of kidney failure, and Theresa was denied entry into the intensive care unit. The ICU, hospital workers told her, was for "parents only," and even though she and Mercedes are both legal parents to Jaidon and Ava and were joined together in civil union in Illinois, the only thing that mattered to the hospital was that Theresa and Mercedes were not married. Watch a video from Lambda Legal featuring Mercedes and Theresa discussing this harrowing episode here.
In 2013, they testified before the Illinois Senate Executive Committee about the importance of a bill that the House and Senate were considering to move marriage forward in the state. "The Lambda Legal experience really opened our eyes," Theresa explained. "We saw what it takes to actually right a wrong - it takes everyone telling their stories and putting a face to what it really means to be treated unequally and unfairly."
After being together for over 14 years, Rick and Scott hosted a commitment ceremony at the Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso, Indiana, in front of their closest family members and friends. "What started as a traditional ceremony with the officiant and 'friends of honor' walking down the aisle to Andrea Boccelli's Con Te Partiro quickly turned to us dancing to Pink's 'Raise Your Glass,' Rick laughed. "Our nephews and nieces joined the ceremony by sharing important memories of good times spent with Uncle Scott and Rick. It was great."
Despite the beautiful ceremony, Rick and Scott were still denied access to any legal protections in the state of Indiana. And although they received a civil union shortly before the ceremony in Illinois, they knew that their civil union was not a marriage license - and that for state and federal purposes, they were not seen as a married couple.
Last year, as the Indiana legislature considered HJR-3, a proposed constitutional amendment that sought to ban any and all protections for same-sex couples - including those associated with marriage, civil union, and domestic partnership - Rick and Scott became highly involved with Freedom Indiana, the campaign to defeat HJR-3. The men, both born in the Hoosier State, knew that same-sex couples like them from all over the state needed to raise their voices against the harmful and discriminatory amendment. This spring, as Freedom Indiana claimed victory in keeping HJR-3 off of the ballot this fall, Rick and Scott joined their state in celebration.
A Marriage Victory in Illinois - and the Pathway Forward in Indiana
Last fall, the Illinois General Assembly at last passed a marriage bill - thanks in large part to advocates like Mercedes & Theresa, the Lambda Legal team, and the robust coalition of marriage supporters at Illinois Unites for Marriage. Then, in February of this year, a separate Lambda Legal case brought the freedom to marry sooner than expected - the law took effect state-wide in June, but in many counties, marriage licenses were issued beginning in late February as a result of the case.
Theresa and Mercedes were one of the first couples to marry, and as they said "I do" at last, they reflected on how they made an impact. "We really put our family out there and opened up our life to show people that this really does make a difference," Theresa said. "Being involved with the case and with this fight changed our lives."
Now, Rick and Scott - and hundreds of other supporters in Indiana - know that it's time for marriage in the Hoosier state. "The momentum throughout the country makes us feel like there is no stopping this," Rick said. "For both of us, this is something we never dreamed would ever be so close to reality - but it's so exciting to think about the possibilities should marriage equality come to Indiana."
They're ready to stand with Hoosiers Unite for Marriage, a new public education campaign dedicated to winning marriage for couples across Indiana. And throughout it all, they know that they have the backing of a large majority of Americans who know that the country is ready for national resolution from the Supreme Court.
Closing the Gap on Marriage Discrimination
After watching the amazing victory in their home state unfold, Mercedes and Theresa know how important it is for same-sex couples to speak out about why marriage matters.
"For couples who can't yet marry, it's all about persistence," Theresa said. "It's all about going after the fight. It's telling your neighbor about your life - making people aware of what's important as far as your family life and the legal rights associated with marriage. Just having that conversation is half the battle."
"Marriage really does matter," Rick and Scott explained. "To be valued fully by the state of Indiana would make such a difference. While in theory, nothing would change about our relationship personally - since we're already fully committed to each other - there are legal protections that would be helpful. We have trusts that dictate our authority over one another's life decisions, but it would be nice to not have to fight for that - to simply be granted it by virtue of our relationship."
"It's sad that other states recognize our relationship," they continued, referencing their civil union from Illinois and the fact that they could drive just minutes and be in a state where all are free to marry. "But our own state, where we pay taxes and give back to the community in so many ways, we are sadly dismissed."
Ready for Resolution
Rick & Scott and Theresa & Mercedes have each shared in the joys of falling in love and building a life together for more than a decade. But because of where they live, only Theresa & Mercedes have been able to access all of the protections and responsibilities of marriage that they deserve. Just 60 miles separate the two couples - but the disparity in terms of how their relationship is treated is enormous.
It's time to end this arbitrary and damaging marriage discrimination that same-sex couples continue to face in 31 states. Across the country, a growing majority of Americans already agree, with 59% of Americans overall - and a majority in every region of the country, including the South - supportive of marriage for same-sex couples. It's time for the United States Supreme Court to provide national resolution on this issue and end the harms that thousands of families continue to face. It's time for the freedom to marry nationwide.


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San Diego, CA – December 22, 2009 – As the 2009 holiday season approached, WakeWorld.com, an online wakeboarding magazine, once again stepped forward to help out those that are less fortunate during the season of giving. Owner and editor, David Williams, kicked off the 5th Annual WakeWorld Toys For Tots Benefit Auction by putting a call out to the wakeboarding industry for donations of product. 2009 Was a record-breaking year as an overwhelming 100 products were eventually donated, ranging from 2010 wakeboards autographed by pro riders to one-of-a-kind and limited edition gear. We even had a boat involved in the auction from Tige Boats.
The plan was to enlist the help of wakesports companies by asking them to donate packages of gear to be sold to WakeWorld readers via online auctions. Despite the weak economy, the industry came through in a big way. The response was so overwhelming that we more than doubled the amount of money raised from last year. CWB Board Co. led the list of donations with 11 products donated, including several 2010 model boards and bindings, some of which were autographed by the pro riders themselves.
"It seems like every year I'm worried that this will be the year that our donations go down, but it never seems to happen," said Williams. "How we went from 46 items donated in 2008 to 100 items donated in 2009 is beyond me, especially in this economy. I think it just goes to show how generous this industry is. And you can't forget all the WakeWorld readers that bid on the auctions either. They're the ones that came through with the dollars!"
When all was said and done, the proceeds generated from the auctions added up to over $13,000. That money was then donated to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program in the form of a truckload of new toys, including five BMX bikes, valued at just over $5,000, and a check for nearly $8,000. That brings the donation total to more than $34,000 over the five years WakeWorld has been doing the Toys For Tots benefit.
"It's always a blast to take my kids shopping for the toys and delivering them to the Marine Corps," exclaimed Williams. "They each get to fill up a basket with whatever they can fit into it, so we end up with a parade of over-stuffed baskets attracting stares as we roll through the store. This year we even had a chance to deliver the toys live on NBC during their new broadcast!" Video of the entire experience can be found at http://vimeo.com/8284024.
Other package donors included Gator Boards, Performance Ski & Surf, Kicker, Liquid Acoustics, Slingshot, Roswell Wake-Air, Liquid Trends, Roxio, Company, Wet Sounds, Bullet, OJ Props, Active Wake, Nice Rack, Byerly Boards, OnlyInboards.com, Grindwater, Inland Surfer, Liquid Force, HSE Trident, Shred Ready, Oakley, Monster, Asylum, Boardflix, DPC Films, Huck Doll, Geiger Media, Jetpilot, Global Warning, CIE, Robert Mitchell and Cliff Griffin.
For information on next year's auction or details on how your company can get involved, contact David Williams at email@example.com or 619-204-2885.
Toys for Tots collects new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year and distributes those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community. The primary goal of Toys for Tots is to deliver, through a shiny new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to needy youngsters that will motivate them to grow into responsible, productive, patriotic citizens and community leaders. For additional information, visit www.ToysForTots.org.


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Due to outstanding success and profitable growth my client is looking to take on an additional 2 Java developers to join their team of 6.
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Shane.hayes necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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You can see this landing page here at http://www.sift.ie. For reference see also 1-Landing Page.png
The second is the main deal display page. We would like this to look like 2-Deal List Page.png. This is similar to the current deal list page that you can get to by logging in to sift.ie, but has the addition of a filtering column on the left. We want this page to be three column with 200px, 550px and 250px as shown.
Feel free to move the page elements around. IE, we are not necessarily looking for the page elements to be exactly as in the demo, however, don't feel you have to move them if you think they work well as they are.
Note: We do not want a map based interface.
Note re logo. We want the logo to be simpy the name (sift.ie) as illustrated on the website. You can recolour it to make it fit in with the overal scheme of things. Sift.ie is the brand name but we want to keep a low profile, which is why se called ourselves softie above. A sample of the logo font has been uploaded. The font is Akzidenz Grotesk, but Helvetica or Arial would be close.
Here are a couple of websites for deal aggregation that you might find of interest.
They use a cityscape picture of each city, so sign up to see the full city display.
For ref only. We do not want a map based interface.


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text: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Jon Tegner wrote: > Drifting off a bit further, but as I see it, the biggest advantage of FC over > debien/ubuntu is kickstart. Or??? I don't know if that question has an easy answer. Kickstart is certainly AN advantage in certain environments, but Debian will install automagically over a network, and there is FAI (although I've never used it and cannot comment on its comparative ease of use). Truthfully I'd absolutely consider yum an advantage -- so much so that the bulk of the Fedora installs in the future will be done by yum. Yum enables something that is truly marvelous for people who have to install through thin pipes (e.g. DSL links): a two stage interruptable install. It is possible to install a barebones system in the first pass in a relatively short period of time and have it come up on the second boot and run yum to complete the rest of the install. Yum is robust, more or less, against midstream interruption caused by flaky networks and the like, where anaconda in traditional RH installs has to be restarted from scratch if anything breaks in midstream, something that happens way too often. As far as management goes, they may provide different management tools but that doesn't matter too much to me as I don't use management tools much. I'm an Old Guy and I just use jove to edit the config files in /etc because I don't trust GUI tools to do so (correctly) for me. I will SOMETIMES invoke systems config tools for things like iptables and firewalls, but only where my needs are trivial and it is just matter of enabling a standard hole for e.g. ssh, http, or whatever. Both of them have WAY more packages than I can ever use, and both of them seem to have all or nearly all of the packages I do use. It takes me some 3-4 days of "shopping" post-upgrade to just look over what each new release of Fedora has in it. I then end up crapping up my system with all kinds of new toys and later regretting it, then uncrapping it (a good thing about yum is that good old "yum erase" part:-), to the point where I haven't even LOOKED at all the stuff on Fedora 7. My favorite Debian correspondant tells me that nobody even tries to look anymore on Debian, as I was running out of gas in that regard at 10 kilopackages and can't imagine wading through 20 kilopackages looking for gold. Truthfully, I end up USING more like 80 or 100 or something like that, and might find another 100 passingly interesting or useful in some narrow context. Or games. Hard to have too many games, as long as they work...;-) If I had my druthers, we (the Linux community) would work towards a unified packaging scheme, a nice binary standard, a common /etc layout (ideally one that converts a lot of /etc files from flat to xml, since flatfiles suck for the specification for slowly varying extensible hierarchical data one would like to manage with GUI tools). Lower the barriers between distros, not raise them. Get it so that one can kickstart Debian, use aptitude (with a configuration option set) with Fedora. Get it so that a binary package on one can convert and load on the other (dependencies permitting) without library conflicts. Get it so a GUI tool written to manage one could equally well manage the other, or ALL others. But that just plain makes too much sense for users, and not enough sense for corporate heads who ultimately rely on differences to sell their products, not similarities. Sigh, rgb > > /jon > > Robert G. Brown wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, andrew holway wrote: >> >>> Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed. >>> >>> $apt-cache search foo | grep bar >>> >>> everyone I work with however prefers yum. They regard Debian as being >>> a bit backward. >> >> I don't know if Debian is backward, but I will affirm that yum is pretty >> fashion-forward. I'm probably biased, of course, since I wrote the >> original HOWTO and since Seth developed it about seventy feet from where >> I'm sitting right now. I've never seriously contributed to its >> development but I've been a user for years, and it continues to improve >> even now. >> >> There are lots of ways to search out info using yum, some faster or more >> complex than others, but the most common ones, also the most useful and >> fastest, are as simple as "yum list \*whatever\*, e.g. -- >> >> rgb at ganesh|B:1011>yum list \*pvm\* >> Available Packages >> pvm.x86_64 3.4.5-7.fc6.1 fedora >> pvm-gui.x86_64 3.4.5-7.fc6.1 fedora >> >> It also supports yum search foo (likely to get more than you really >> want), yum info, yum deplist, etc. most of which I rarely use. It's >> nice to do "yum info \* > /tmp/yum.list" once right after an install or >> upgrade, though, as this pretty much gives you a catalog of all the >> available packages and their synopses, so that you can find almost >> anything efficiently and interactively with less /tmp/yum.list and its >> built in find tools, or via grep , or by just plain browsing through it. >> >> Of course with 20K or so packages, browsing through Debian is a bit more >> tedious I understand...;-) >> >> rgb >> >>> >>> On 17/10/2007, Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 16 Oct 2007, at 10:19 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jon Tegner wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> You should switch to a .deb-system, to save you some trouble: >>>>>> >>>>>> $ apt-cache search jove >>>>>> jove - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry, couldn't resist ;-) >>>>> >>>>> Hey, it's ok. I'm actually trisystemal. FC 6 on top (soon to jump to >>>>> 8, but in no hurry), VMware, then debian and XP Pro VM. And yes, >>>>> it was >>>>> a good thing debian already had jove as I still don't really know >>>>> how to >>>>> build debian packages, >>>> >>>> If you want a good introduction to debian packages and how they work, >>>> then I recommend Martin Krafft's book "The Debian System". I've been >>>> a Debian Developer for ten years, and that book still teaches me >>>> useful stuff about Debian on a regular basis. >>>> >>>> The chapter on packaging is superb; it teaches you how to make >>>> packages from the ground up, so you really understand how they work, >>>> starting with the basic fact that fundamentally a debian binary >>>> package is an ar archive which contains two tarballs. One, >>>> data.tar.gz contains the files belonging to the package. The other, >>>> control.tar.gz, contains the scripts and information about the >>>> package used by the packaging tools, and at a minimum this contains >>>> two files: DEBIAN/control, which contains the information about the >>>> package (description, dependencies and whatnot) and DEBIAN/md5sums >>>> which is, as you'd expect, a list of md5sums of all the plain files >>>> in the package. >>>> >>>> Once he's shown you how to build a Debian package manually like that, >>>> he then shows you how to do it the more normal way using the various >>>> wrapper scripts that Debian provides for the purpose to make life a >>>> bit easier (and to help enforce the Debian policy on packages) >>>> >>>> Debian doesn't really have a source package idea like Red Hat - >>>> instead, when you use "apt-get source" to download the source for a >>>> package you get three files; the upstream tarball, which is >>>> completely unmodified from upstream. You also get a gzipped patch, >>>> and a description file containing md5sums for the patch and the >>>> tarball, amongst other things. Typically, the patch creates a debian >>>> directory within the upstream source directory, and inside that >>>> debian directory is a file called "rules". This is just a normal >>>> makefile, containing all the instructions for configuring, compiling >>>> and packaging the software on a Debian system. Once you have one of >>>> these things, building the .debs is just a matter of typing: >>>> >>>> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot >>>> >>>> or something similar. There are still fancier things available for >>>> doing this by keeping the sources and debian/* files in a CVS, >>>> subversion or other revision control repository. I use these in my >>>> own package management activities to be able to go back and build >>>> previous releases when users report bugs against them. >>>> >>>>> and manage to get myself confused by apt tools >>>> >>>> I can sympathise. I've only started using aptitude since etch came >>>> out, and it's taken me some time to get used to, but now that I am, I >>>> quite like it, for the most part. Especially the etch version, the >>>> version of it in sarge had some really annoying behaviour under >>>> certain circumstances. >>>> >>>>> (I'm too used to yum). But there is no doubt: >>>>> >>>>> a) Debian is a perfectly useful, fully functional variety of linux, >>>>> and I have been painfully taught to bow down before its selection of >>>>> available packages, which is for all practical purposes inexhaustible. >>>>> In fact, you need a search engine with powerful features even to go >>>>> shopping amongst them. >>>> >>>> ... which fortunately it provides for you. 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