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Off-Road Readers' Rides - February 2013Posted in Features on February 1, 2013
Prerunnin' Tundra
Vehicle: 2009 Toyota Tundra
Owner: : Les Hamilton
Location: : Mesa, Arizona
Chassis: : Stock
Engine: : 5.7L iForce V-8, MagnaFlow exhaust
Drivetrain: : AB60E six-speed automatic
Suspension: Total Chaos Fabrication long-travel front suspension, FOX Racing 2.5-inch coilovers, Deaver long-travel leaf springs, FOX Racing 2.5-inch shocks
Steering: : Stock
Brakes: : Stock
Tires/Wheels: : 35-inch Toyo Open Country Mud Terrains on 18-inch XD Series Addict black wheels
Interior: : Katzkin leather, Pioneer DVD/Navigation system, Polk Audio speakers, Dynamat sound deadening
Other parts: : N-Fab RSP front bumper, RPM Fabrication custom rear bumper, Ekstrom Design & Fabrication custom roof rack with fullsize spare tire, eight 8-inch HID lights, Fiberwerx fiberglass fenders, McNeil Racing fiberglass bedsides, 3M matte-white vinyl wrap, Hi-Lift jack
Favorite off-road area: : Where the pavement ends
Patriot SRT
Vehicle: 2007 Jeep Patriot 4x4 Sport
Owner: : Will Keister
Location: : Waukesha, Wisconsin
Chassis: : Stock
Engine: : 2.4L four-cylinder, Fitch fuel catalyst, AEM Brute Force intake, E3 spark plugs, MagnaFlow cat-back exhaust
Drivetrain: : Five-speed manual
Suspension: Stock
Steering: : Stock
Brakes: : EBC rotors and Yellow Stuff pads
Tires/Wheels: : 235/65R17 Cooper AT3s on 17-inch factory matte-black wheels
Interior: : Garmin GPS, Scan Gauge II, iPod
Favorite off-road area: : Southern Wisconsin/Northern Illinois
Homebuilt YJ
Vehicle: 1994 Jeep Wrangler YJ
Owner: : Adam VanSlyke
Location: : Washington Court House, Ohio
Chassis: : Stock
Engine: : 4.0L HO inline-six, 2002 intake swap, TIG-welded custom header
Drivetrain: : AX15 five-speed manual, NP231 T-case with slip-yoke eliminator, Tom Wood's Custom driveshafts, Dana 30 front differential with Detroit Truetrac, 760 U-joints and straight shaft conversion, Ford 8.8-inch rear differential with Aussie locker, 31-spline axles, 4.88 gears
Suspension: Spring-Over-Axle conversion with rear springs packs and main add-a-leafs, Skyjacker shocks all around
Steering: : JB Conversions high steer kit, custom DOM draglink and tie rod with 1-ton tie rod ends
Brakes: : Stock Dana 30 up front, Ford 8.8 disc Brakes: in rear, '95 YJ master cylinder and brake booster swap
Tires/Wheels: : 35x12.5R15 BF Goodrich Mud Terrain KM2s on 15x8-inch Cragar 342 series D-window steel wheels
Interior: : Smittybilt center console, CB radio, custom six-point rollcage
Other parts: : 10,000-pound Viper winch, AC compressor converted into onboard air, Hi-Lift jack, custom bumpers with rear swing-down tire carrier, front trail stinger
Favorite off-road area: : Badlands in Attica, Indiana
K5 Krawler
Vehicle: 1987 Chevy K5 Blazer
Owner: : Dave Montgomery
Location: : Beaverton, Oregon
Chassis: : Stock
Engine: : 5.7L TBI V-8
Drivetrain: : SM465 four-speed manual, NP205 T-case, Dana 44 open front differential, 12-Bolt rear with limited slip
Suspension: 4-inch Rancho lift with new leaf springs, ORD Shackle Flip in the rear, long-travel Rancho shocks
Steering: : All new Steering: components, dual Steering: stabilizers
Brakes: : Rear disc brake conversion
Tires/Wheels: : 35-inch Kumho Road Venture Mud Terrians on 15-inch steel wheels
Interior: : New carpet kit front and rear, Cover King Neoprene seat covers
Other parts: : New soft-top, Superwinch 9.5, rock sliders, Hi-Lift jack
Favorite off-road area: : Brown's Camp in the Tillamook National Forest near Tillamook, Oregon
Mid-Travel Bow Tie
Vehicle: 2004 Chevy Silverado
Owner: : Austin Ocanas, USAF
Chassis: : Stock
Engine: : 5.3L V-8
Drivetrain: : 4L60E automatic, AAM 10-bolt rear differential, 3.73 gears
Suspension: Rough Country 3-inch spindle lift, Rough Country shocks
Steering: : Stock
Brakes: : Stock
Tires/Wheels: : 35x12.5R17 Toyo Open Country Mud Terrains on 17x9-inch Fuel Boost black wheels
Interior: : Stock
Other parts: : Fiberglass fenders
Future mods: Long-travel suspension, lots of LED lightbars
Favorite off-road area: : Anywhere off pavement where he can test the limits
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Lauren Alaina Has Best-Selling Female Country Debut Since 2006
By selling over 69,000 copies of her new album 'Wildflower,' Lauren Alaina's debut becomes the best-selling by a female country artist since 2006. She is also the youngest female artist with a Top 5 debut on the Billboard 200 since LeAnn Rimes in 1996.
Kellie Pickler's 2006 debut album topped Alaina with sales of over 79,000. Prior to that, Carrie Underwood's 2005 debut 'Some Hearts' sold over 315,000 albums in it's first week of sales.
"I am just so thankful that I have been given the opportunity to share my music with the world," Alaina said in a press release. "To see my name on the charts alongside country greats that I have admired and looked up to my whole life is absolutely mind-blowing!"
'Wildflower' also becomes the best-selling digital album by a debut country female, selling almost 20,000 copies in the first week. The album features 'Like My Mother Does' and her current single 'Georgia Peaches.'
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Here's a statement that is worth pondering: Among a group of people, the most successful person is usually the person whose beliefs correspond most closely with reality.
How closely do you think your beliefs correspond with reality? My guess is that about 100 percent of you answered 100 percent to that question. Of course that would mean that some of you are wrong, since there is no way 100 percent of the people in the world believe 100 percent of what you believe.
I'm dating myself a bit here, but many of you probably remember the 1970s sitcom "All in the Family." The main character was a guy named Archie Bunker. I don't think I've ever witnessed someone so certain and firm in his or her beliefs – and so wrong at the same time. Archie was growing old in a period of radical social and political change. The beliefs that had served him so well in the past were rapidly becoming out of alignment with the realities of the world. Because his beliefs were so out of alignment with reality, Archie spent the majority of his time frustrated, angry, sad or anxious.
In one sense, I admired the fact that Archie was so confident in his beliefs and rarely felt the need to question them. I would watch him and think of how nice it must be as a human being to be so certain of things. However, I was not willing to accept the by-product of this certainty – frustration, anger, sadness and anxiety.
And that's the point of this article. If you find yourself experiencing patterns of frustration, anger, sadness or anxiety, maybe it is time to examine some of your strongly held beliefs. Specifically, try to zero in on the exact source of any less-than-desirable (but appropriate at times) emotions and explore any beliefs closely related to the source.
By the way, beliefs have much to do with what is stored in your memory. And they have proven that your memory is often highly unreliable. For example, when researchers purposely added a lie (such as getting lost in the mall as a child) to their subjects' true memories and questioned them about their past, participants said they remembered the false event and offered many details related to it. Elizabeth Loftus, the researcher in this experiment stated, "People's memories are not only the sum of what they have done, but also the sum of what they have thought and what they have been told." That's another statement worth pondering.
According to the findings in the book "Psychocybernetics" by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, the brain does not know the difference in a real or imagined event.
So, back to the beginning – if the most successful person in a group of people is the person whose beliefs correspond most closely with reality, perhaps it is a good idea to periodically examine your beliefs. Especially any beliefs that might be creating frustration, anger, sadness or anxiety – and especially if you are 100 percent certain of everything.
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I need a logo + headers for each section a womens beauty website
I need a logo + headers for each section of womens related website. The website is focused on content for women and it is composed by the following sections:
Womens Beauty Website
The name of the brand is Fique Linda – It means Get beautiful, be beautiful.
So we want a logo that is feminine, fashion (we might want to use it on the cover of our magazine)
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We are creating a new California based startup company in the IT and computer industry. We are building and selling custom branded hardware and software solutions along with managed services (all you can eat IT). Our domain is CNS-TEC.com and is still in the developmental stages. The logo will be used on all corporate signage, websites, letterhead and branding of hardware. The hardware will be branded with just CNS TEC, while all other affiliated material (signage, website, letterhead, etc.) will use the full business name, CNS Technologies.
Our current target is small to medium businesses in the central California area. We plan to go national within the next year or so. Clients will include mostly professional companies with gross revenues of mostly over $100,000. Our logo will be highly visible on a main street in town and viewable by thousands passing by daily. This is a new market for us. We do have hundreds of existing clients, but not in this market segment.
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- Longmont Hackathon winner to finish calendar app this summer
- Jester's trying to liven up Friday nights in Longmont
- Carbon Valley Coffee Roasters' owners hope downtown Frederick will become destination
- Take Two: Scott Fraser's work reaches new heights
- Longmont's Crossroads School to move this summer
- Boulder County 'Coffee for Carpoolers' program reduced Diagonal traffic
- Take Two: Longmont says new detectors helped winter road clearance
- Take Two: Longmont teen teaches music, attends Front Range Community College
- Take Two: Frederick High School's main office hole repaired
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- Longmont's Burch Lake now has 1,800 muskellunge; more to come this year
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- Longmont Surgical Mission's free surgeries help uninsured
- Items from Lafayette outhouse show class differences among home's residents
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- Longmont musician finds new rhythm after Novus Folium folds
- Longmont lawyer Brandon Shaffer plans to stay in city
- Frederick Recreation Area mural the reel thing: Longmont artist hooking visitors
- Mead High School graduates take on college at CU, CSU
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- Longmont's long-shot presidential candidate withdrew his bid weeks before Election Day
- Longmont man still recovering from pit bull attack in May
- Longmont Symphony Super Conductor William Benedict reflects on stepping up to podium
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LONGMONT -- Colin Albers got sick on April 22, and now he is facing criminal charges and medical bills stemming from that really rough morning.
He has been trying to make sense of what happened that day, seeking medical advice, collecting police reports and even talking to a passer-by who tried to help him before police officers arrived.
Police, who grappled with the mechanic while trying to keep him out of traffic, initially suspected he was on drugs and in a state of "excited delirium" that gave him superhuman strength.
But doctors ruled out drugs, Albers said.
"There was nothing in my system," he said. "I was not on drugs and alcohol."
The married father of three now says that doctors suspect he had a seizure -- something he had never suffered before -- that landed him in a state of confusion as he tried to get home to Longmont after heading to work in Niwot and concluding he was too sick to stay. He said he made it to work, vomited and thought it was best to go home.
He tried to get there, but instead he pulled over near Pace Street along Third Avenue and got out of his car, alarming a passer-by with is behavior. The man stopped and tried to get Albers' attention, but to no avail, so instead he directed traffic around Albers until a police officer happened on the scene and tried to help.
According to police reports, Albers was uncooperative and fought off the officer with unusual strength. The passer-by and police worked together to detain Albers, who was ultimately shot with a Taser and taken to the hospital.
Albers said he recalls much of the drive, but not the struggle that left him covered in scrapes and bruises. He said he is unhappy about the force police used to detain him and said he suffered a hand injury that has disrupted his ability to work as a mechanic.
"I am still injured and I am finding it hard to provide to my family and kids and stuff because my hands are injured," he said.
Albers said he also wonders if being shot with a Taser during the incident could have made it worse. He is scheduled to see a neurologist later this month to try to learn more about what happened.
He was also ticketed for the incident while he was at Longmont United Hospital. He is expected in Boulder County Court in June to face misdemeanor obstruction of a peace officer and resisting arrest.
Albers said he doesn't feel he was resisting consciously, but instead his body was reflexively reacting to the pain officers applied by twisting his hand trying to contain him.
Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said officers recognized that there was something wrong with Albers that morning and worked to keep him out of harm's way and then promptly got him medical attention once he was contained.
He said the police arrest charges may stand, but Albers could take proof of the medical condition to the district attorney to attempt to get charges dismissed.
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It's 1996 and I'm just starting on what I expect will be a simple research project: find my grandfather, Victor Wersel's ancestors. Sadly, both he and my grandmother were deceased by then; he died when I was an infant, my grandmother Frances died in 1990, at the age of 97. Unfortunately, my grandmother and my aunts and mom are what I referred to as 'private'; they rarely discussed the past. So it was that I had a few snippets of information to work with when I began.
An important note: earlier here I recommended TRUST NO ONE. I found out that even goes for sweet little old grannies that you think know everything! At the same time, occasionally the 'odd' or 'nonsensical' things they say can be clues to help you unravel the mystery.
Having debunked the family myth about our relation to the famous William Penn (we're from a collateral branch of the Penn family) I was quickly learning to be skeptical of things that my mom was remembering. I wasn't questioning her memory, just the veracity of the information that she was passing on, more or less treating it like a poorly played game of 'Telephone'. She remembered her dad's birthday, but didn't know the year. She knew Victor's family was from Cincinnati, Ohio and that he had two brothers (Horace and Roger) and a sister (Virginia). She recalled being in Cincinnati and visiting with her uncles and aunts and was able to recount some rather interesting tales about them, which I'll save for another day. She recalled that her grandfather's name was Henry, and that he had worked at some point in time for the Cincinnati Enquirer, though she'd heard that he'd only gotten an eighth grade education. She fondly remembered stacks and stacks of books; Henry had had a beautiful library in the very large house where they lived in Cincinnati, which his children maintained after his death in 1936. And she knew that the name, Wersel, had not been changed when the family emigrated from the Netherlands to come to the United States.
As we were discussing the few facts she had, she off-handedly said, "…and someone went to Brazil." Keep in mind, my grandfather was born in 1892, so any generation before him would've been born 1870 or before. I asked her what she meant, and she simply restated that she remembered someone saying that someone in the family had gone to Brazil to make fine furniture for the King. I thought, "Oh for cripes sake…seriously?" I was beginning to wonder if the production of moonshine was keeping the family coffers full. And naturally, I was smart enough not to let this mystery sidetrack me from my original research plan: trace the roots of my grandfather as far back as I could.
However, the mystery had been set. Was it possible my ancestors had traveled all the way to Brazil, and when would they have done that? WHY would they have done that? Some mysteries take a very long time to trace; although I have uncovered other clues, I still don't have the documentation that can prove this happened. So, as of today, it's still a mystery!!


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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Blizzard Trademarks "Mists of Pandara"
I'm Calling Troll.
I acknowledge that I could very well be wrong, but "Mists of Pandara" doesn't smell right as a WoW expansion. First of all lets remember the history of the Pandaran. The race started as a personal art project of Blizzard's lead artist, that was eventually turned into an April Fools joke. The Pandaran were so popular that Blizzard has included them in minor ways into various games and the lore, but none of it was all that major. Since Blizzard knows people are looking at the trademarks to get a clue of what the next expansion will be, it wouldn't surprise me if they threw this one out there to yank our chain a little bit.
Second, let me list the expansions and lets see if we see a pattern.
The Burning Crusade - Established in Lore and a clear enemy in demons.
Wrath of the Lich King - Established in Lore and a clear enemy in undead.
Cataclysm - The name doesn't invoke any established Lore, but a Cataclysm is clearly something bad.
Now lets look at this new trademark.
Mists of Pandera - Pandas?
Lets face it, there isn't a lot of lore about the Pandaren, and most of what we do have comes from the RPG books which Blizzard has confirmed is not canon. Not only that who would we be fighting, and how are the Pandaren related to that. Also, the Pandaren Islands are supposed to be small far away islands, and I have to wonder if they would really be big enough to support an expansion.
I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be a small Facebook or pop cap game that Blizzard created for the fun of it, but I would be absolutely shocked if this is an expansion.
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i agree, this really sonds more like some gimmicky facebook or mobile game than any serious addition to wow.
- August 3, 2011 at 12:36 PM
They played a major role in Warcraft 3, and were around way before the joke there is a reason there was a panda pet in classic collectors. Stop spreading this false info. It is a real expac, tm's cost money, dates match up and a domain was bought about a week before with the same name.
- August 3, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Graylo said...
First, the Pandaran didn't have a major role in Warcraft 3. They were in one OPTIONAL quest and a small part of the orc BONUS campain. Optional and Bonus were Blizzards words in describing that content, not mine, and that hardly sounds like a major roll to me.
Second, the Joke was first. Blizzard didn't start doing April Fools jokes during WoW. Samwise Didier told us how the Pandaran were created by him in the first BlizzCast, and he clearly says Joke came before they were included.
BlizzCast link: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/blizzcast/archive/episode1.html
You can find a full history of the Pandaran from WoW Insider here: http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/03/know-your-lore-the-pandaren/
- August 3, 2011 at 2:12 PM
Then there is the Chinese market to consider. Depictions of injury/death to Pandas are strictly prohibited by the Chinese government and Blizzard would not spend time and effort re-doing the art work to appease the Chinese censors. That and its bordering on retarded, if this in anyway true I will cancel my account and wait for Guild Wars 2.
- August 3, 2011 at 7:06 PM
Trademark registrations cost only a couple hundred dollars, and I have never heard of China specifically forbidding violence to pandas (although I wouldn't put it past them)
Try harder guys, I think Graylo has a point.
- August 4, 2011 at 4:50 AM
- Hugh Hancock said...
Last time I checked, worldwide trademark registrations were closer to the $3,000 mark. That's still not a fortune for Blizz, but it's not the kind of cash any publically traded company throws around for a joke.
- August 4, 2011 at 5:25 AM
- Graylo said...
I think blizzard confirmed that one issue with Pandaran were legal issues with China, but from what I understand the rumor that it's due to a law banning violence against panda's is false. Apperently there are already games in china that show violence against pandas. That said, I still don't think this is an expansion.
@Hugh Hancock
Yes, a publiclly traded company will throw that kind of money around for a joke. Check out this link:
Yes, that is an ad but it's also a joke. Jokes are used for marketing purposes all the time, and thinkk about all of the buzz that this trademark filing has generated. I wouldn't be surprised if this cost blizzard quite a bit more then 3,000 dollars, but I still think it's been worth every penny, and it's still a troll.
- August 4, 2011 at 8:11 AM
- Tilgare said...
The pattern you are looking for is not necessarily 100% obvious, but I think it still fits. People have been guessing at a South Seas expansion for a while, and this is exactly what it would be. Pandaria would be important, but there are other islands hidden away and established lore figures for us to fight.
I don't think this is a prank or joke at all, but it is completely possible it'll be a mobile game or something of that nature. I'd pay for an awesome Android game for sure. =)
- August 10, 2011 at 9:02 AM
Think of it this way. If Cataclysm isn't really a part of lore, then the next expansion doesn't have to be either. Plus, every expansion has been full of worst and worst events ending with a "Cataclysmic" one. It sounds about time that something a little better happens. And besides, Blizzard has been known to throw surprises at players, like every change in Cataclysm. Having said all that, it probably is a Troll, but in all honesty, I hope it isn't.
- August 10, 2011 at 8:46 PM
ok back up. This could be part of the next wow expansion. Or it could be like rage in the firelands and a MINOR expansion. So why jump to conclusions?
- August 11, 2011 at 9:41 PM
- TyphoonAndrew said...
Cataclysm is part of the lore. Ragnaros has been saying "too soon..." for a long time in MC, and DeathWing has been working to destroy all life for a very long time, since the old gods started to corrupt him. Now the name Cataclysm might not have been telegraphed at all, but the lore is present.
Maybe this is a mobile game, released as an adjunct to the wow-app. Or just a side merch opportunity.
- August 19, 2011 at 1:57 AM
- Graylo said...
I was just talking about the names. TBC and WotLK are clear references to established lore. Cataclysm is not. That isn't to say it's not based on lore. As you say Deathwing has been around for a while as has Rag, Chog'all, Nef, Synestra, and Al'Akir.
In that section I was comparing the names of existing expansions to Mists of Pandara, to try and show why MoP is strange and in my opinion a likely troll or diversion.
- August 19, 2011 at 1:52 PM
Blizz Con is right around the corner and nothing else has been Trademarked. I would say given the time frame and with each passing day this Mists of Pandara is looking more and more like the title to the next expansion. Unless Blizz is infact doing something so secret that this was intended to throw us all off track.
- September 5, 2011 at 2:04 AM
Surprise...This was completely wrong, and it is officially the new Xpac for WoW. I'm stupified but it's true.
- October 21, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- Misty said...
For me the whole Pandarian idea sounds stupid. I never liked them and I don't think they fit well into WoW's world. It just keeps reminding me those asian free mmorpgs, where you can play some cute character. After demons, undeads, lich king and many things like that how can we possibly have anything cute and girly like pandas in this game?
- Misty
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The mainstream media has justified ignoring this story based on a "conspiracy theory" chain email (politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/465) making the rounds from some African missionaries. Politifact.com examined the email—which claims Obama gave $1MM to Odinga's campaign—and declared it "a pants on fire".
However, the underlying (more important issues) are verifiably true. In August and September 2006, Senator Barack Obama traveled to South Africa, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya as a congressional delegation of one (Codel Obama) ("Codel Obama" The Hill 9/7/2006) While in Kenya, Obama consistently appeared at the side of fellow Luo Raila Odinga ("your agent for change'), who was running for President. ("Senator Rebukes Kenya's Corruption" Chicago Sun Times 8/29/2006) Because of his African heritage, Obama was treated as a virtual "Head of State" in Kenya While campaigning with Odinga, Obama was openly critical of governmental corruption under President Mibaki –usually a fair, if undiplomatic, criticism from an objective observer.
However, Kibaki's government has been better than most—-and Odinga has his own corruption issues. ("Loud and Populist, But No Political Outsider" The Guardian 12/29/2007)
Obama's partisan support for Odinga was considered so transparent, that the Kenyan Government spokesman, Alfred Matua, complained of political posturing to aid Odinga's election chances: "It is very clear that the senator has been used as a puppet to perpetuate opposition politics,"("Walking The World Stage" Newsweek 9/11/06) And, "...we earlier thought he was mature in his assessment of Kenyan and African politics," Mutua told AFP."We forgive him because it is his first time in the Senate and he is yet to mature into understanding issues of foreign policy," he said."("Obama's Kenya Honeymoon Ends Abruptly After Graft Rebuke" 8/29/06)
Subsequently, Ambassador Ogingo Ogego made a public complaint to the US.("Kenyan Envoy Kicks Off Diplomatic Row" My Africa 9/27/2006)
Raila Odinga subsequently lost the controversial (probably rigged) presidential election. In what appeared to many—including Human Rights Watch—as a coordinated strategy from the top, ("Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees" Reuters 1/26/2008 and "Kenya: Violence Planned Before Poll, Says Report" The Nation 3/18/2008) his Luo supporters (a core of whom call themselves The Taliban"("Ethnic Gangs Rile Kenyan Slums" Newsweek 1/10/08)) engaged in what US Envoy Jendayi Frazer called "clear ethnic cleansing" ("US Envoy Calls Violence in Kenya 'Ethnic Cleansing'" USA Today 1/30/2008) of the Kikuyu opposition.
Odinga's supporters went on a rampage—burning Kikuyu homes and businesses, ("Ethnic Cleansing in Luoland" The Economist 2/7/2008) raping Kikuyu women, and murdering everyone in their path—including at least 50 Christian Kikuyu woman & children who had sought refuge in a church. They burned them alive. ("Mob Burns Kenyans Seeking Refuge In Church" CNN 1/10/2008)
"We have evidence that ODM [Odinga's party] politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violence," Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director for the New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said on Thursday." (Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees" Ibid)
Their relationship is unclear. The BBC initially reported that Obama and Odinga were first cousins.("Odinga Says Obama is His Cousin" 1/8/2008)
The Obama campaign has since denied a familial relationship. Raila Odinga's father, Oginga Odinga, was leader of the "Kenya People's Union" and perceived as a "committed socialist" ("Oginga Odinga: Kenya's Most Persecuted Politician" Kenya: Key Issues 8/21.2002). Odinga Sr. was also the political ally of fellow Luo; Barack Obama Sr. (The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, 2004) p. 182)
What we do know about Odinga is not good. A former Minister of Energy, Odinga is reported to have been set up in the oil business by the al Bakri Group and Muammar Quaddafi ("How Rich is Raila-The ODM Kenya Presidential Aspirant?" African Press 4/26/2007) Abdel Qader Bakri (or- Abdulkader al Bakri) was listed on the infamous "Golden Chain"—an internal Al-Queda list of wealthy Saudi financial sponsors seized by Bosnian police in a Islamic "charity" raid in 2001. ("Terrorist Financing Staff Monograph 9/11 Commission and "The Golden Chain") According to his website, Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany, (Herder Institute, Leipzig & Otto von Guericke Tech. Institute, Magdeburg) (http://www.raila07.com) Odinga's eldest son is named "Fidel" (http://www.raila07.com)
Perhaps most troubling is Odinga's links to Islamic extremists in Kenya. According to Voice of America and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, on 8/29/07, Odinga signed a secret agreement (exposed 11/27) with Sheikh Abdullah Abdi of the National Muslim
Leaders Forum (NAMLEF) in which he agreed to institute Islamic law in exchange for Abdi's support (eakenya.org)—thereby potentially disenfranchising and curtailing the liberties of millions of Christian Kenyan women. Further, he promised that Muslims suspected of terrorism would be safe from extradition—thereby establishing a 'safe haven' for terrorists in Kenya.
After the public outcry, Odinga denied signing a secret agreement. Angry at Odinga's apparent repudiation, a member of NAMLEF subsequently released the agreement to the press. Odinga then claimed the document was a forgery, but acknowledged a secret agreement had been signed in exchange for Muslim support.
Finally, under constant pressure, Odinga released what he claimed was the actual document ("Real" MOU) a considerably watered down version of the original; but still anathema to many Christian groups. "In response to the revelations, The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya released a statement in which church leaders said Raila, in both MOUs, 'comes across as a presumptive Muslim president bent on forcing Islamic law, religion and culture down the throats of the Kenyan people in total disregard of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of worship and equal protection of the law'" ("Concerns Raised Over Alleged Vow To Enforce Islamic Law in Kenya" Christian Post 12/18/2007)
To many westerners, the idea of imposing Sharia in a predominantly Christian country may have seemed fanciful. However, Kenya has had Sharia courts for family law (not criminal law)—called Khadi courts—since 1963.
For the US and "the war on terror"—the most worrisome section—contained in both agreements—concerns extradition (or renditions) of suspected terrorists to the US and
elsewhere. The Kibaki government had been a leading supporter of the US's efforts to dismantle Al-Queda cells in Kenya (National Commission of Terrorist Attacks on the United States- 9/11 Report) and elsewhere. Raila Odinga made opposition to the government's crackdown of suspected Al Queda supporters a cornerstone of his campaign "In Kimanthi's view, 'only some of the leaders'...were Al Queda sympathizers. The renditions- along with frequent police sweeps on the Swahili coast-had become an emotional issue in the presidential race. Islamic outrage had placed the incumbent, Kibaki, on the defensive and provided Raila Odinga with a tool to rally the support of Kenya's Muslims." ("The African Front" New York Times Magazine 12/23/2007) And, "Our government will not be held at ransom to extradite Muslims to foreign lands", Odinga told supporters in the coastal city of Mombassa. 'This government is behaving as if it is still a colony.'" ("Outcome of Kenyan Election Could Impact Anti-Terror Cooperation" CNSNews.com 10/17/2007)
So, how much of a national security concern is this? Well, actually: huge "...proximity to the volatile states…including Somalia and Sudan have made Kenya especially vulnerable, in the views of counterterrorism experts, to the call for jihad. Since the early 1990s, the mosques of Mombasa and other towns have resonated with militant Islamic rhetoric. Radical imams have preached violence against Westerners, attacked the Kenyan government as the lackey of the United States and Israel and called for the implementation of Shariah. Members of the Qaeda cells that blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania…were recruited in mosques near the Indian Ocean beaches [in Kenya]" ("The African Front" , ibid)
At no point has Senator Obama tried to distance himself from Odinga. Odinga visited Obama on a fundraising tour of the US in 2007 and it is believed that political strategist Dick Morris assisted in Odinga's presidential campaign- gratis- at Obama's request (Morris only acknowledged the suggestion came through "mutual friends"). ("Bridges Burned in US, Political Kingmaker Hits Africa" ABC News 11/20/2007) Odinga has claimed that he and Obama speak regularly and whether this is true or not—the similarities between their campaigns are startling. ("Kenya Tests New Style of Politicking" The Washington Post, 12/22/2007)
In fairness to Senator Obama, after Kenya erupted into violence ( and at the request of Condoleezza Rice), Obama did record a message ". ...calling for calm…" and had "..near daily conversations with the US Ambassador…and Raila Odinga" ("The Demons That Still Haunt Africa" TIME magazine 1/10/2008). Perhaps not surprisingly, President Kibaki apparently declined to take his call. Kibaki's not the only one no longer filled with enthusiasm for Senator Obama's brand of diplomacy. As Nicholas Kristof reported (with some surprise) in February: "You might think that all Kenyans would be vigorously supporting Mr. Obama. But Kenya has been fractured along ethnic lines in the last two months, so now Mr. Obama draws frenzied support from the Luos ethnic group of his ancestors, while many members of the rival Kikuyu group fervently support Hillary Rodham Clinton. ("Obama's Kenya Roots" New York Times 2/24/2008)
Curiously, it has been the Kenyan press (almost alone) who have realized the potential implications: "... this is what may be the most memorable effect of the ODM's [Odinga's party] post-election campaign for State House. The longer their protests last, and the less disciplined they are - or the more atrocities like Eldoret [church massacre] are conducted in the party's name- the more likely Kenya is to be stuck on the front pages of the world's media and the more embarrassment it will bring to the Senator." ("The Kiss of Death, How Kenya Could Spoil It For Obama" KenyaImagine 1/13/2008)
Clearly, Obama campaigned for someone who is corrupt, ruthless and has financial ties to terrorists. More importantly, Obama campaigned for a candidate who had the stated objective of dismantling US & Kenyan government efforts to root out Al Queda and other terrorist organizations. Organizations that had already caused the deaths of hundreds of Americans and Africans in embassy bombings. Senator Obama's actions—intentional or not—were in direct conflict with the efforts and interests of US national security. I think this raises serious questions about the judgment, maturity and readiness of Senator Obama.
Respectfully submitted,
Paula Abeles
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Hey Ederchil, I'm having some trouble coding a couple things on my user page and I wanted to know if you could help me out and let me know how I can fix them? So, I'm trying to get the picture of Eärendil centered under Legolas' quote, and also, how could I get the quote to the left of the image? Lastly, how can I get Aragorn's quote on Gondor to stay below the picture without using so many "br" codes for spacing (if there is a way)? Thank you!! --Breragor • (Talk • Contribs • Edits) 19:31, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Also, I'm trying to make a heading for my "Userboxes" area. I'd like it to go beneath that with the titles "Code" and "Userbox." How can I make that and post userboxes beneath each column with their code also displayed? Thanks again!! --Breragor • (Talk • Contribs • Edits) 20:04, 14 February 2011 (UTC)


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| Astronomy
Belt Loop and Pin
Astronomy Academics Belt Loop
Belt Loop Requirements
Complete these three requirements:
- Set up and demonstrate how to focus a simple telescope or binoculars.
- Draw a diagram of our solar system--identify the planets and other objects.
- Explain the following terms: planet, star, solar system, galaxy, the Milky Way, black hole, red giant, white dwarf, comet, meteor, moon, asteroid, and universe.
Academics Pin Requirements
Earn the Astronomy belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- Draw a diagram of a telescope and explain how it works.
- Locate and identify five constellations. You may use a telescope.
- Using a telescope, find at least one planet and identify it.
- Find the North Star. Explain its importance.
- Interview an astronomer. Learn about careers that relate to Astronomy. What school subjects will help you get a job in astronomy?
- Visit an observatory or a planetarium. Give a report on what you learned to your den.
- Make a poster illustrating the different kinds of stars. Include a diagram showing the life cycle of a star.
- Learn about some of the early space missions. Tell your den or family about one of them.
- Find a current event about a recent happening related to space. Tell your den or family about this event.
- Make a chart to show the phases of the moon over a two-month period. Define a blue moon.
- Write a report on two famous astronomers.
- Locate three major observatories on a map. Explain why these locations are good for astronomy.
| The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide, 2003 Edition (BSA Supply SKU #34299)
- Earning the Cub Scout Astronomy Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout is requirement 8 of the Webelos Scholar Activity Badge.
- Details on earning a Cub Scout Sports or Academic pin or belt loop multiple times
Related achievements, electives, or other awards
- 14 could be met by completing Astronomy Pin requirement #8 or #9
- Requirement 10f could be met by attending an observatory or planetarium program
- 6 Read a book (on astronauts or space missions, Astronomy Pin Requirements #8 and #11))
- 12 Be an artist (Astronomy Belt Loop Requirement #1, Astronomy Pin requirements #1, 7 & 10)
- 1 Space
- 9 Art
- Webelos Scout
- Webelos Scientist Activity Badge requirement 4 (earn the Astronomy Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout)


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Diving into a new camera system
Dan Beecham, along with Charles Maxwell talk about their choice of the Sony F55 camera for underwater use. They highlight the advantages of shooting both 4K and in a RAW format as well as how faithful the camera's colorimetry is underwater. The article first appeared in the latest issue of Sony CineAlta magazine and was supplied to Wetpixel by Gates Underwater Product's John Ellerbrock.


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This Friday, May 18 OCAC Metals Department will be hosting their Annual Tea Party featuring teapots handcrafted by the 3rd year students from the Metals Department. In the 3rd Year Teapot Class, students design and create – through raising and forming, large scale soldering and fitting processes – a functional, sterling silver teapot in this intensive course. They make decisions about construction methods and design, choose materials for handles, and study historical and contemporary examples of teapots and other hollowware. The course, essential to the vocabulary of a metalsmith, has traditions dating back to ancient history that are still practiced today. Techniques associated with creating a hand-made teapot give students the opportunity to leave OCAC and make a living through creation of utilitarian objects. They also come away understanding design and function and how to balance these two components.
image: Lizzy Gladstone, 2011
To celebrate this annual event and possibly entice readers interested in the subject to explore more about teapots and teapot making, the library has selected Garth Clark's amazing book on the subject, The Eccentric Teapot: four hundred years of invention. As the stated in the book cover, this book "introduces us to some of the most sublime, outrageous, and exotic teapots ever to grace a Mad Hatter's tea party"! There are portrait teapots of Oscar Wilde, Brooke Shields, and Queen Elizabeth. Teapots that resemble lions, tigers, and bears–Oh My! And teapots that are "so far removed from the concerns of function that they resemble nothing so much as drawings of teapots"! The result is a fun and exhilarating romp through a colorful gallery of idiosyncratic designs that begin to boggle the imagination and stretch one's notion of the relationship between form and function! Also the concept of beauty – or what is beautiful – since many (at least IMHO) of the results are profoundly ugly but always always always provocative and thought-provoking!
Check it out!


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Timbuk 3 was formed in 1986 by the husband and wife team of Pat MacDonald (acoustic, electric, bass and MIDI guitars, harmonica, vocals) and Barbara K. MacDonald (electric guitar, mandolin, violin, rhythm programming, vocals). Initially they performed live as a duo backed up by a large "ghettoblaster".
They were joined in 1991, by Wally Ingram and Courtney Audain. Timbuk 3 recorded several albums from 1986 to 1995; their first album, Greetings From Timbuk 3, generated their only chart hit song, "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades". The song was featured in the 1987 film, My Best Friend is a Vampire.
Also from Greetings From Timbuk 3, "Shame On You" was played during the opening scene of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, released in 1986.
The group broke up in 1995, with the ex-members going on to record other music independently. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Goldman Sachs analysts raised their year-end target for the S&P 500 index, making them some of the most bullish researchers on the Street. The analysts asserted in a note Friday that the bull market in equities has more room to plow ahead, albeit at a moderating pace.
The forecast lift comes largely from a revision lower in the year-end forecast for the 10-year Treasury note , now expected to finish the year at 3%, instead of 3.25%. The analysts, led by David Kostin, write: \"Viewed in relation to bond yields, the US equity market still appears attractively valued.\"
Nonetheless, the price-to-earnings ratio in the S&P is now at 16.1 times forward 12-month consensus, higher than at any time except the tech bubble in the late 90s. While that measure points to overvaluation, expected bond yields tell a different story. Putting the two together, here\'s what they arrive at:
\"Incorporating our lower 10-year US Treasury yield forecast with other valuation approaches, we lift our year-end 2014 S&P 500 price target to 2,050 (from 1,900) and 12-month target to 2075 reflecting prospective price returns of 4% and 6%, respectively. Our year-end 2015 and 2016 targets remain unchanged at 2,100 and 2,200, respectively.\"
The index closed at 1,968 on Friday after slipping from its record highs last week.
That makes Goldman some of the most optimistic on the sell-side research circuit. Coincidentally, Bloomberg News had a story on Monday saying analysts were taking more moderate views of how much steam is left in the bull market (even though retail investors are piling into stocks like crazy). The story cited HSBC, which has a price target of 2,000. UBS also has a year-end price target of 1,950.
MarketWatch\'s Victor Reklaitis took the pulse of the sell-side last month, and found that the average year-end target was at 1,952, below where the market is currently trading. Here\'s where the surveyed analysts saw the index at year-end, before revisions over the last month:
But there\'s no shortage of true bulls, and that starts with MarketWatch readers. In response to a comment by Ed Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist of Yardeni Research, who suggested that the bull market is entering its final phase, readers responded in a poll, saying we aren\'t yet at that stage.
– Ben Eisen
More must-reads from The Tell:
Bull market has longer to run: MarketWatch readers


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The fishing season is in full swing in Brunswick County as bluefish, redfish, flounder and trout are all showing up in greater numbers and hitting well. The best fishing is now at the edges of the day in the morning and again before sunset, but there are some fish moving around just about all the time now.
With the warmer weather, bluefish have arrived and begun to hit along the Brunswick County shores. Blues are a feisty, aggressive species that will hit virtually any bait or lure, but true bluefish fanatics know what artificial plugs and spoons to go to when they want to feel the bite of a nice eating-size snapper or big chopper bluefish on the line.
Water temperatures continue to climb, bringing more species to the spring fishing table. That said, the action that continues to be the strongest is the inshore redfish bite, which has been amazing all year long. Meanwhile, more keeper flounder are being landed and black drum and sea mullet are also available.
Finally, I am reporting that not only has the weather been cooperating but also so have the fish.
It has been a long, cold winter, but I believe we are out. This past week we had stable weather with easterly winds, which pushed the Gulf Stream over top of the 30-fathom break, bringing to life such fishing hot spots as the Steeples, Black Jack and Winyah Scarp areas.
Spring fishing is here with warming temperatures and unstable weather. Drum are still the most consistent catch, although flounder and speckled trout are hitting now and a few bluefish have shown up.
The weather and wind have been a bit dicey at times, but water temperatures are rising and spring fishing is picking up. Redfish remain the most consistent bite but flounder action is picking up as well.
Spring means flounder fishing along the Brunswick County coast. The warmer water brings flounder into inshore waters, and anglers pursue them in many different ways.
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Mentoring is a life-changing experience. Research shows that those who benefit from a mentoring process achieve higher academic results, earn more and are able to develop a rewarding career. At the same time mentors tend to feel better about themselves, show improved brain function and have a wider social network.
However, nowadays the process of reverse mentoring is more and more common, as professionals with years' experience need to learn from the younger generations. So who's the mentor?
No matter your background, you are invited to join us for a novel mentoring experience based on the most recent organisational psychology theories, where teams can adapt to develop, learn to grow and engage to enable.
This event is aimed at all Machine Intelligence enthusiasts who are willing to provide or receive relevant professional mentoring. If you are an altruistic CTO, a technology implementation manager, a designer or someone working in this field, then feel free to join us.
How it works
This is a structured group activity where professionals are encouraged to support each other for reaching a meaningful goal. The mentoring process is distributed across the team and 1-to-1 interactions won't become a priority. In this context, anyone can become a mentee or a mentor and roles are assigned beginning from individual needs and the overall group's mission. Over time, participants will be able to create meaningful connections which will allow them to develop new skills and take their career one step forward.
1. Introductions
2. Evaluating individual needs and priorities
3. Identify the support networks
4. Assigning group roles
5. Creating an action plan
By signing up to this activity, you agree to:
• Engage in a SMART professional development process.
• Provide relevant support to other members (information, referrals or business opportunities).
• Attend at least three group meetings for the following three months.
• Join a private slack channel for supporting the development of your team.
Please note, this is a closed group and at least five RSVPs are required in order for the meeting to take place. If this requirement is not met, the event will be rescheduled at a convinient date, so if you are really keen to participate, please be patient, you will be notified as soon as your team has been created.


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Some early benchmarks of the new iPad show that though there's been a bump in RAM up to 1 GB (from 512 MB in the iPad 2), the processor maintains the same 1 GHz clock speed. These figures were pulled up from the Geek Bench app on a new iPad acquired a bit early by some folks in Vietnam. The tests also give us some idea of the power of the new Apple A5X quad-core graphics processor by assessing floating point performance and graphic streams. The memory managed about 300 MB/second read speeds, and 1 GB/second write.
While it's a little sad for gadget geeks that the new iPad won't be upgrading the CPU, it does have a lot more graphical horsepower for gamers, and the added RAM will help performance across the board. Specs aside, there's no doubt that Apple will be providing a smooth and enjoyable user experience on the new iPad; after all, it's not the size of your processor that matters, it's what you do with it.
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6th Annual New England Socialism Conference: Struggles Against the System of the 1%
South Africa Rises: Socialism and Internationalism
Challenging the Two Parties of Big Business with Kshama Sawant
Challenging the Two Parties of Big Business with Seamus Whelan
6:30PM April 19, 2013
Community Church of Boston
Lothrop Auditorium
565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Presentation and Q&A with author Richard Seymour
On Friday April 19th, join Richard Seymour, one of Britain's leading young radical intellectuals and principal contributor to the popular blog, Lenin's Tomb, for a discussion of his recent book, Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens.
In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, Hitchens emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of America's invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line as well as received wisdom. But how much of this was imposture? In this highly critical study, Richard Seymour casts a cold eye over the career of the "Hitch" to uncover an intellectual trajectory determined by expediency and a fetish for power, which is also a cautionary tale for our times.
This event is free and open to the public. See the Facebook Event Page.
RICHARD SEYMOUR: One of Britain's leading young radical intellectuals, Richard is the principal contributor to Lenin's Tomb
(http://www.leninology.com/), one of the UK's most popular blogs. A regular columnist for the Guardian, Seymour is also the author four books, most recently "American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism" (Haymarket 2012) and "Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens" (Verso 2013). He is a founding member of the International Socialist Network.
"Clever, incisive…'Unhitched' offers a more thorough and in-depth discrediting of Hitchens than anything previously published. And in doing so, Seymour has made an important contribution to understanding the political role of the intellectual celebrity in our time." – In These Times
"Richard Seymour's 'Unhitched,' a slim and scathing denunciation of turncoat scoundrel Christopher Hitchens, is a thoroughly satisfying and politically important book by one of the few remaining great radical left journalists." – Rabble
"Seymour reveals Hitchens as having had a lifelong admiration both for the United States and for empires as civilizing forces." –Washington Post Book World
"Richard Seymour employs a unique technique to shred Hitchens's political philosophy to pieces: Seymour puts the late writer on trial." –The Christian Science Monitor
By way of preview, please see, "Case Closed: Hitchens in the Dock" by Jack McCarthy in CounterPunch. Jack writes that, 'the future the gold standard for the deconstrucrion of Hitchens will be Richard Seymours' "Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens.
Sponsored by:
Verso Books
Haymarket Books
Encuentro 5
Mass Global Action
Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series
Open Media Boston
Veterans For Peace, Chapter 9, Smedley Butler Brigade
Democratic Socialists of America
International Socialist Organization
On Thursday, February 21st, labor activist Peter Van Delft spoke on the dire situation of the labor movement and how it can recover. Peter Van Delft is a long-time labor activist and a third-generation socialist, Peter Van Delft has spent more than forty years in the labor movement. Following World War II he attended the University of California at Berkeley where he earned an M.A. in Anthropology and where he was involved in activities leading to increased admissions and support for low income and students of color. Until his retirement Peter was a Vice President of New York based, 30,000 member, District 65. Earlier, he had been a member of the National Maritime Union and of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. He was actively involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a member of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) and organized union sponsored Freedom Rides in which more than 150 members participated. This event was held at Encentro Cinco in downtown Boston and co-sponsored by the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series.


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|This page lists binary (installation) copies of the Calligra Suite 2 prepared for users. You can also download its full source code.
Calligra 3.0.1 is the current stable version. Please install the newest possible version, older versions will not be fully supported. Really old versions such as 2.4 are not supported at all.
Please pick your distribution.
Arch Linux provides Calligra packages in the [extra] repository.
Chakra provides Calligra packages in the desktop repository.
The Chakra LiveDVD comes with the latest Calligra pre-installed.
Debian provides Calligra packages in its unstable repository and testing repository.
Fedora packages for Calligra are available in the unstable repository of the KDE Packaging Project.
Gentoo has Calligra packaged in Portage: packages.gentoo.org
Calligra 2.8 is available in 14.04 version and newer. This can be used in any Ubuntu flavour.
It's also available in the Kubuntu Backports PPA for 12.04 LTS and 13.10.
The easiest way to install Calligra on openSUSE is by going to http://software.opensuse.org/package/calligra. Please note, this page may present outdated unmaintained Calligra. In such cases, first click on the Show other versions link and select a newer version.
openSUSE Build Service. Calligra packages are available from the KDE:Extra repository for openSUSE 12.x and 13.x. Unstable packages based on GIT snapshots are also available from the KDE:Unstable:Extra repository. Use with care
Furthermore, packages including Calligra Gemini, which require software not commonly available in openSUSE, are available from calligragemini repository for openSUSE 13.1, 13.2 and Factory.
Visit http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories to find which repository fits your needs.
ROSA Marathon provides Calligra in the contrib repository.
Please go to the Download Page.
If you're still looking for packages, try a packages search service such as pkgs.org.
FreeBSD features stable packages in the ports tree via editors/calligra, and development ones in area51 via CALLIGRA/editors/calligra.
Calligra 3.1.0 Alpha is the current unstable (development) version.
Arch Linux provides unstable Calligra packages in the [kde-unstable] repository.
Fedora packages are available in the rawhide development repo ([1]), and unofficial builds are available for prior releases from kde-unstable repo at [2] .
Visit http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories to find which repository fits your needs.
Ubuntu users can get a nightly build of Calligra with the Project Neon, you need to add ppa:neon/ppa to your sources.list and install project-neon-calligra package.
|"Be warned though, stuff here is REALLY unstable, we do not guarantee it will work all the time and won't eat you data, use at your own risk. Now that we have warned you, enjoy!" Project Neon wiki page
This script installs project neon and calligra:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neon/ppa \ && sudo apt-get update\ && sudo apt-get install project-neon-base \ project-neon-calligra \ project-neon-calligra-dbg
In order to run the installed packages you have to logout and choose "Project Neon" from the login screen. Neon always has the latest version, not necessarily the beta releases.
ROSA users can get the packages for development versions of Calligra from personal repository on ABF. To add it on your system run the following commands:
for i586 users
urpmi.addmedia ach_personal http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/ach_personal/repository/rosa2012lts/i586/main/release
for x86_64 users
urpmi.addmedia ach_personal http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/ach_personal/repository/rosa2012lts/x86_64/main/release
Calligra ports are available in Area51.
When a program is compiled with special switches to generate debugging symbols (the -g compiler switch) extra information is stored in the program file. This information can be used to generate a stack trace that contains much more information, such as the exact line number of the source file where things went wrong. Without this information it is very hard to figure out what went wrong by looking at the stack trace.
|Some distributions offer debug symbols in separate packages as listed below. Use them if you want to support the developers with better bug reports.
More info on back traces is available on KDE Techbase.
Please install package
calligra-dbg to receive debug symbols for whole Calligra code.
As explained in the Installing debuginfo RPMs using yum section, use
debuginfo-install calligra command.


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WHITTIER – Prosecutors Wednesday filed a murder charge against a Santa Fe Springs construction worker accused of the shotgun slaying of a former co-worker whose body was discovered buried in recently poured concrete at a business, officials said.
Juan Manuel Ramirez, 45, was charged with one count of murder, along with the sentence-enhancing allegation that he personally used a firearm – described as a shotgun – in the crime, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Jane Robison said.
Ramirez was initially booked under the name of Juan Alberto Galviz, age 35, however officials later determined Ramirez to be his true name and corrected his age, she added.
A scheduled arraignment Wednesday afternoon in Whittier Superior Court was postponed until Jan. 23, court officials said.
The name of the alleged victim was not released Wednesday pending confirmation that his family had been notified, Los Angeles County Department of Coroner Assistant Chief of Operations Ed Winter said. Police described him as a Santa Fe Springs man in his late-30s.
"We have evidence that shows they've known each other for years," Whittier police Lt. Bryan Ellis said. "They've worked together on and off."
Both men were involved in the construction industry, Ellis added. Ramirez was working and living at the facility where the body was discovered.
The men were not working together at the time of the killing, he said.
The fatal shooting was believed to have taken place Dec. 23, Robison said.
It was believed to have stemmed from some type of feud between Ramirez and the victim, Ellis said. The lieutenant declined to discuss the motive further, citing the ongoing investigation.
His body was discovered Monday, buried within concrete on the property of Coleman Luxaire in the 9600 block of John Street, according to Whittier police.
The body had been placed into a hole dug into the concrete floor inside the building, then covered over with several inches of concrete, Ellis said.
The body was discovered by detectives acting on a tip, he added.
The case is being prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Jennifer McDonald.
According to Los Angeles County booking records, Ramirez was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
If convicted as charged, Ramirez could face life in prison, officials said.


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I often daydream about piloting a super-speedy, highly experimental spy plane, but I lost all hope of ever doing that when I saw these flight helmets. Real, modded, new, or old, they're freaky enough to turn daydreams into night terrors.
While flying or flight helmets like these are great way to not only look like a cyborg, but to get some upgrades such as helmet-mounted display systems, I'd still prefer it if they had more appealing paint jobs. [Oobject]
This week, Gizmodo is exploring the enhanced human future in a segment we call This Cyborg Life. It's about what happens when we treat our body less as a sacred object and more as what it is: Nature's ultimate machine.


text: Paris Hilton is the slut that kicked off the celebrity sex tape craze. There were others before hers and even a few that were hugely popular but after Paris essentially became a worldwide celebrity because she acted slutty on camera lots of girls followed in her footsteps. She's an elegant, beautiful, sensual blonde with a flawless body so it comes as no surprise that we wanted to see her get fucked on film. Her celebrity sex tape is excellent, as are many of her naughty pictures.


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Bytelove necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 191 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
Bytelove AB
Bytelove is a swedish online shop that is selling merchandise products especially to those who consider themselves as a Geek and/or Gamer. Our product range includes stuff that relates to games that are famous nowadays but also games that were famous during the last 30 years. We´re also known for our sence of humor towards the gaming and online community.
For this competition we want a new design that fits to our product line and is at the same time a creative and humorous addition to it focused on a 8-Bit-Design.
If you want to get a better impression of what we do click: http://www.bytelove.com
What this competition should be about:
– take a famous artwork or drawing etc and design it into an typicall 8-bit-design
– you can also combine different artworks and put it into one picture
– to us it´s important that the artwork you choose is commonly known and can be recognized as this special artwork
– please send with your new design the original piece of art, that makes it easier for us to see the transformation
– limit the colours to 5 no gradient colours
–actually we accept prints on both sides of the shirt, but we´d prefer a front print
– We will require the design in the following image formats: .ai, .jpg, and layered .psd files
Target audience: Anyone who is part of the online and game community. To limit an specific age here is kind of difficult a 14 year old child can love pac-man as much as a 50 year old person.
so: Geeks and Gamers of all ages.


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Astros blanked again, match worst start since '84
Astros again draw a blank in 7-0 loss to Pirates
Batters searching for a way to explain back-to-back shutouts
The Astros were probably asking each other the same question that has the majority of their fans in an uproar in only the second week of the regular season: Can their offense really be this bad?
Pittsburgh Pirates lefthander Zach Duke sent the Astros to their fifth consecutive loss, throwing a four-hitter in a 7-0 victory before a home-opener sellout crowd of 38,411.
At 1-6, the Astros are off to their worst start since 1984 and are having an alarmingly difficult time scoring runs. They have scored 16 times in seven games and were shut out for the second game in a row.
"Same song," Astros manager Cecil Cooper said. "We just can't seem to get any hits, can't seem to generate anything. I don't really have an answer right now."
One day after Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse threw a three-hit shutout, the Astros advanced only one runner past second base against Duke (2-0), who walked two and struck out five while throwing 112 pitches.
Astros sluggers Lance Berkman and Carlos Lee went a combined 0-for-8, with Berkman striking out three times.
"We've struggled before," Berkman said. "We have had stretches where we haven't hit well, and during the course of the season that's going to be the case. We haven't hit well, and that's all there is to it.
"Part of that is we've faced some pretty good pitching. You can't say, 'Well, the guy's terrible and we're terrible.' Zach threw a great game and Kyle threw a great game, and it's tough when you're not clicking on all cylinders offensively and you're facing a tough pitcher."
If that wasn't enough to sour the Astros' scheduled off day today, they are dealing with injuries to starting pitcher Brian Moehler and second baseman Kaz Matsui, who has a stiff back.
Moehler (0-2), hammered for seven runs in 12⁄3 innings in his first start last week, left Monday's game after 21⁄3 innings with a sprained right knee. He allowed seven hits and five runs.
"I just didn't feel that great. Bottom line," said Moehler, who will undergo an MRI exam today. "We're not playing too well right now."
Duke nearly duplicated the feat of Lohse, who gave up a first-inning single Sunday before retiring 24 consecutive batters. Duke allowed a double to Miguel Tejada in the first and retired 18 of the next 20 batters.
The Pirates took a 1-0 lead in the first when Freddy Sanchez hit the first of his three doubles and scored. The Pirates sent 10 batters to the plate in the third and added five runs, including a two-run homer by Adam LaRoche and a two-run single by Nyjer Morgan off Tim Byrdak.
While the pitching hasn't been good, it's the lack of offense that concerns Cooper.
"If I had answer for it, I'd flip the switch and be off and running," he said. "We're doing it as a group. It's not one individual, it's everybody. We just seem to not be swinging the bats well. Even the approaches are not what they should be."