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Robert Peters is a landscape and still life painter with a career spanning more than thirty years. He regularly contributes to museum exhibitions such as the Prix de West, Masters of the American West, and Quest for the West. Robert s paintings have earned serious recognition by collectors. Museum advisor and noted collector John Geraghty commented in a recent art publication, "It has been a pleasure to observe Robert s continual development and acceptance as one of America s great landscape painters." Born in upstate New York and raised in Phoenix, Robert credits his early memories of the Arizona desert with sparking a passion for the outdoors. His extensive travels throughout the American Southwest instilled a love for nature. Enthusiasm and respect for the natural world continues to be the driving force behind his landscape paintings. "The western landscape is an endless source of inspiration to me," Robert says. "I draw strictly from my own observations, which imparts an authentic and natural quality to my paintings. If something is in one of my paintings, I ve been there and I ve experienced it." He also finds the technical challenges of his art to be motivating and rewarding. "One of the most energizing things about painting is improving the quality of what you do. I believe there is no limit to how far you can take your ability. Over the years I ve also realized it s important for me to share my personal vision of the west with others. It s a thrill when my paintings resonate with the viewer on a personal level."


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tight division races and the potential for historic individual exploits could offer a rousing finish to a Major League Baseball (MLB) season being played under the cloud of a doping scandal.
The second half of the season begins on Friday after a four-day All-Star break, though actually only about 40 percent of the grueling 162-game campaign remains.
Among the season surprises, the Pittsburgh Pirates (56-37) have a chance to end their 20-year run of losing baseball with a bang, as they trail the St. Louis Cardinals by just one game in the competitive National League Central.
The Cleveland Indians (51-44), meanwhile, have become a factor in the American League Central just 1-1/2 games behind the defending league champion Detroit Tigers.
Detroit's Miguel Cabrera is threatening to produce an unprecedented back-to-back Triple Crown season, one that could be blocked by record-chasing home run hitter Chris Davis of the Baltimore Orioles.
There is much to look forward to in the campaign, though the clock is rapidly ticking down on the resolution of a probe into the alleged procurement of performance-enhancing drugs that could involve some 20 major league players.
While the prospects of players being expelled during this season appears to be slim, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and Players Association chief Michael Weiner gave clear indications that the Biogenesis doping investigation was coming to a head.
Hearings, appeals and arbitration were expected to delay possible action on big names like Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, Nelson Cruz and Bartolo Colon, who have all been implicated in the probe, unless settlements are agreed to by players found to have violated the game's anti-doping rules.
On-field action will resume with full force Friday with all 30 teams scheduled to play, competition heating up and power hitters Cabrera and Davis getting back in the swing of things.
Last year Cabrera became the first player in 45 years to win the Triple Crown by sweeping the home run, runs batted in and batting average crowns. The Tigers third baseman is on an even faster pace with 30 homers, 95 RBIs and a .365 batting average.
But he trails Davis, 27, by seven home runs as the Orioles first baseman tries to stay on track for an assault on the American League record of 61 home runs by Roger Maris in 1961.
Supremacy of all six divisions could come down to the last games of September with the AL East and NL West looking like the hardest races to handicap.
The Boston Red Sox (58-39), who lost 93 games last year, lead the AL East by 2-1/2 games over the Tampa Bay Rays, with the Baltimore Orioles a further two games back and the injury-hit New York Yankees just six off the pace.
The Yankees have been getting great pitching but have been anemic at the plate, while they await the 2013 debuts of shortstop Derek Jeter (broken ankle) and slugging third baseman Rodriguez (hip surgery), who are both expected back soon.
Nearly as tight is the NL West with four teams within 6-1/2 games, although the first-place Arizona Diamondbacks (50-45) would trail all four AL East top contenders.
Revived by the sensational splash made by Cuban rookie Yasiel Puig, the big-spending Los Angeles Dodgers have climbed within 2-1/2 games of Arizona, with Colorado following two games ahead of World Series champions San Francisco Giants.
They are 23-15 in games played by Puig since he arrived in early June, including six-game and five-game winning streaks.
Last weekend's no-hitter by Tim Lincecum could be a sign that the Giants are waking up, though the pitching-rich team needs a revival by Matt Cain and Barry Zito.
The top of the AL West looks to be a battleground for the Oakland A's and Texas Rangers, who trail by two games but could soon be getting Colby Lewis back into the rotation.
Most comfortably in a division lead are the Atlanta Braves, who rule the NL East by six games over the talented Washington Nationals with the dangerous Philadelphia Phillies another half-game back.
Two teams that poured money into their dreams of a pennant chase have thus far been sorely disappointed as the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Angels have not gotten the return on investment they counted on.
Toronto added about $200 million in salaries through a mega-trade with the rebuilding Miami Marlins and the additions of Melky Cabrera and 2012 NL Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey but they have the only losing record in the AL East at 45-49.
The Angels made a big splash in adding Josh Hamilton to a $125 million contract one year after signing Albert Pujols to a $254 million long-term deal but they languish 11 games behind the A's in the AL West.
Editing by Frank Pingue

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They vary in size, shape and color, but today's newest breed of killers, whether they mass murder at random or select victims individually, have at least one trait in common: They're young people obsessed with their joysticks who've seriously lost a grip.
Sometimes, in the throes of a major mental meltdown, they'll go online and start spewing streams of vitriol and threats before they strike, broadcasting in busy chatrooms, or on Facebook and Twitter, vague warnings about the bad things to come which are usually only understood in retrospect. That's what Tucson Shooter Jared Loughner did in 2011 before he showed up heavily armed at a political event hosted by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and, with his now-infamous smirk, opened fire on the crowd there, killing six and wounding 14, including Giffords herself.
Sometimes they'll just withdraw to a quiet corner to sketch out their dark fantasies in advance, and, as a hint, or maybe to shock, privately share these demented doodles with somebody they know. These ones are upping the stakes when they do that, gambling at getting caught whilst all the while fastidiously stockpiling an arsenal of assault weapons, thousands of rounds of ammo, and an array of homemade bombs. Like James Holmes did in 2012 before he made his appearance in front of a packed Colorado theater in full military regalia and a gasmask, and launched the largest civilian-on-civilian massacre in U.S. history, leaving a dozen moviegoers dead in only a matter of minutes and 58 more maimed for life.
And sometimes, as with the recently apprehended adolescent killer, Austin Sigg, they delude themselves into believing they're keeping a low profile as they undertake a series of slayings, lurking in the bushes and shadows where they think nobody will notice them, yet still creeping out most everyone in the community with their sinister demeanor and transparent motives. Although Sigg was a dedicated student of mortuary science and forensics, in the end it wasn't his sloppy crime-scene manipulations, but rather his soulless eyes and homicidal leering that ultimately betrayed him as a murderer. And few who personally knew this porn-addled video gamer were surprised at all to learn it was he who had abducted, raped, murdered, and dismembered 10-year-old schoolgirl Jessica Ridgeway—including his own mother.
As a matter of fact, none of these three youths really fooled anyone. As they descended into madness, their aberrations and deadly fixations had become more and more apparent to their families, friends, teachers, and colleagues. They dropped out of school, or failed critical courses, or were banned from attendance for bizarre behavior and outbursts, and even reported to the authorities.
Weeks, months, years, nobody knows exactly how long it took for this to happen, but somehow these avid gamers had become raving lunatics. At best, a potential danger to themselves. At worst, an outright threat to society.
But were Loughner, Holmes and Sigg simply born like this, ticking time bombs of terror genetically destined to explode someday, or were their virtually-violent hobbies to blame for cultivating and unleashing their criminality?
Only their physicians can rule on that with any certainty; only extensive medical testing will show conclusively if the youths were drawn to violent gaming because of preexisting psychosis, or if it was violent gaming alone that drew them to the brink. But it's interesting to see that there's still a heated debate over whether habitually indulging in these kind of video games promotes aggressive tendencies or not.
The controversy is fairly unwarranted, however, since at least a decade's worth of scientific research has proven it surely does.
Some of the starkest findings to date on the negative effects of repetitively playing violent video games come from a recent and comprehensive study conducted over a four-year period by scientists at Brock University. In it, researchers tracked the gaming habits and disciplinary histories of approximately 1,500 Canadian high school students as they matured, 49 percent of them males and 51 percent females. The results, published this year in the Journal Of Developmental Psychology, show a clear linkage between prolonged violent video gaming and increases in hostile behavior, in both the boys and the girls.
Needless to say, for being such a popular pastime, that has some very troubling implications: "This is an important and concerning finding, particularly in light of the hours that youth spend playing these games," the study's lead researcher said. "It is clear there is a long term association between violent video games and aggression."
That definitive report aids in bolstering equally disconcerting conclusions made in previous research studies from around the world. Below are just a few findings that gaming advocates aren't too pleased with:
1. In 2008, a joint study by Stockholm University, Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet found that, even from only short gaming sessions, there were long lasting physiological effects produced in males who played violent video games;
2. In 2010, in a study carried out by Ohio State University and Central Michigan University, researchers discovered that, at least for male subjects, ruminating about having played a violent video game increased the game's potency for causing aggression long after it was turned off;
3. In 2011, scientists at the University of Missouri measured the brain responses of 70 young adult participants to learn precisely how the act of violent gaming provoked aggressive behavior. They discovered diminished brain responses to scenes of violence shown right after games were finished, and that the lower the brain response was in a particular subject, the higher their level of aggression was.
Understandably, the loudest critics of such damning evidence come from the gaming world itself, and, naturally, from the mega-billion-dollar industries that wantonly develop and distribute virtual mayhem for mass consumption to both adults and minors.
Often this alliance will point to allegedly declining crime rates to support its contention that programs like Killzone, Hitman, Grand Theft Auto, Halo, Call Of Duty, and Mortal Kombat are not harmful products to make or play. Yet, when scrutinizing that data more closely, you'll find their assertions are patently false because, while murder, forcible rape, robbery, and assault did reach a 10-year low in 2003, ever since that date these offenses have been steadily on the rise again—particularly among the young.
All across the nation police departments are reporting a spike in crimes perpetrated by juveniles, the very same demographic that, according to recent surveys, is involved in video games approximately 40 hours per week. That's an alarmingly high usage rate for children, by the way, when considering that the only other activity which supersedes their virtually nonstop gaming is sleep.
"Kids are jumping into violence," Boston's police superintendant noted as early as 2005, a year that saw an astounding 103 percent surge in weapons arrests for minors in his city, together with a 54 percent increase in robberies. "We're very concerned."
Those stats aren't an anomaly peculiar to Boston, either. For instance, in that same year the Minneapolis Police Department estimated that juveniles accounted for 63 percent of all suspects in assault and property offenses -- up 45 percent as compared with 2002's crime statistics.
And this wasn't to be a brief blip that would eventually correct itself. In 2008, the murder rate alone for youthful offenders rose a full 17 percent. Not just in isolated pockets of the countryside or inner city neighborhoods, but for the entire United States.
"We're trying to figure this out," a member of the U.S. Conference of Mayors had promised, but a glance at the data for ensuing years shows that, while the issue remains a hot topic, it has hardly been fixed. Violent crimes are still trending, and far too many of the perps are kids.
In 2009, the arrest of Missouri teenager Alyssa Bustamente for the premeditated attack and slaying of her 9-year-old neighbor, because she "wanted to know how it felt to kill someone," highlighted yet another troubling new development for law enforcement: That of the sudden rise of assaults and murders being committed by girls.
Female killers, especially young female killers, have always managed to garner a lot of media attention, but in reality they're quite an exotic species, a class of offender that's always been practically nonexistent in the criminal justice system. That would be changing fast by the beginning of the 21st century, though, as the virulent 15-year-old Bustamente and others of her ilk would soon prove.
Although Alyssa Bustamente is said to have killed just once, she actually dug two holes in the woods adjacent to her home at least a week in advance of the gruesome slaughter of Elizabeth Olten. Holes which investigators believe were intended for her own siblings, two younger brothers whom she'd often physically abused, sometimes videotaping these episodes and posting them live on YouTube. Police said Bustamente's ultimate choice to victimize the child next door was merely a "crime of opportunity" that presented itself to a teen hungering for a thrill kill, and which was probably all that spared the boys.
On the day of the murder, Bustamente had coached a younger sister to lure the Olten girl to their property. Once alone with her, Bustamente beat, strangled and stabbed the child to death, burying her mangled corpse in one of the shallow graves she'd earlier prepared, and covering the spot over with leaves to hide the freshly turned earth. Later in the day, Bustamente would go on to describe the sensation of killing as "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable." Callous words she penned into a diary just before heading off for church.
Coldblooded crimes of this nature are what have prompted prosecutors to start charging dangerous minors as adults and pursuing lengthy jail terms for them. Even though these kids can no longer be put to death or imprisoned for life without parole in the United States, the sentences they do get when treated as adult offenders are still much harsher than those they'd receive if tried in the juvenile courts.
So too, trials aren't held in secrecy and criminal records aren't sealed when children are brought to justice in adult proceedings. That means, so long as no gag order is in effect, the media can freely release names and photographs of minors as well as the gory details of their offenses, which, despite sensationalizing these acts to some degree, does help to publicize the fast growing problem of juvenile lawlessness.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately 7,100 under-aged defendants were transferred to adult courts in 1998, although within that timeframe not all 50 states had laws enabling such an option. Today, however, every state in the nation has enacted legislation for facilitating juvenile transfers, and, as a result, the number of children charged as adults is estimated to have at least doubled from the past decade.
Prosecuting murderous minors as full grown felons is not done with relish, of course, and the practice is highly criticized in many respected quarters, both here and abroad. But, as is seen by the recent vicious acts of criminal justice student Austin Sigg, who obviously knew wrong from right and yet was morbidly striving to achieve fame as the youngest serial murderer on the books, it's has become an unpleasant necessity.
"The decision to prosecute a child as an adult is a difficult one," admitted New York's former district attorney, Jeanine Piro. "It is not about being 'hard' or being compassionate. It's about recognizing the evil that accompanies a killer's choice to take a life…"
Yet the threat of stiffer penalties and unflattering coverage in the media doesn't seem to have deterred youthful offenders one iota, nor has it curbed their insatiable appetite for blood. If anything, the crimes of the young appear to be escalating in gravity and depravity of late, almost as if they're trying to outdo each other in some kind of insane way. Almost as if hurting or killing is fun.
"Sensational visual images showing hurting as powerful and domination of others as permissible are dangerous," retired police officer Gloria DeGaetano told ABC News in a 2010 interview. An expert on the subject of juvenile crime and the media, DeGaetano coauthored the book Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill with West Point military psychologist Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Grossman too has a great deal of experience in this field; he trains mental health professionals in homicide prevention.
DeGaetano and Grossman's treatise on how violent media desensitizes young people was first published in 1999, the year that rabid teen gamers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shocked our nation and the world with their bloody schoolyard rampage. The Columbine Massacre these boys carefully planned and heartlessly orchestrated was an unprecedented event at the time, but there's been so many more school shootings like it since then. Some executed by child marksmen who haven't even reached their teenage years yet.
DeGaetano believes this is what had to be expected if strenuous efforts weren't immediately taken long ago to rein in the glamorization of ruthless killers and the marketing to youngsters of killing as a form of home recreation. "I predicted that we would see more 12-year-olds committing unspeakable crimes like mass murder," she had warned.
And she was right.
But video games are big bucks these days and, in one way or another, almost everyone on the planet enjoys them, proponents of gaming also counter. That claim may be only a mild exaggeration on their part, but, whether the real figure is in the millions or in the billions, it's important to point out that not all of the interactive programs people find so entertaining are based on the theme of mass murder. That's relevant to the discussion because, according to all the experts, the less violence a video game contains, the less negative emotional impact it has on its participants. In fact, players of wholly nonviolent video games reportedly exhibit no acts of aggression whatsoever, no matter how many hours a day they devote to them.
Further, studies have shown that engaging in highly competitive violent simulations actually causes physiological changes in players of every age bracket, symptoms which are sustained as long as 24 hours after the game has ended, and which are far more pronounced in males than in females. Indeed, researchers discovered that the longer a player dwells in his mind on the game-play he's just completed, the longer these adverse effects will last, including elevated blood pressure and an accelerated heartbeat.
It's not hard to see how, over time, that could have dire consequences on a person's physical and mental well being, especially because the majority of test subjects stated they weren't even conscious of any kind of reaction occurring in them during and after the act of gaming. Moreover, almost all reported having no sleep-related difficulties, either.
This strongly suggests there is nothing to clue players in that the thing they are doing for hours upon hours, every day of the week, year after year, is overstressing their brains and bodies. Nothing to tip them off that they need to take a break from such a demanding activity, or else they'll snap.
Simply put then, violent gaming, when done on a regular basis, is much akin to systematically abusing drugs or alcohol: it's bad for one's health and erodes sound judgment. But, as the studies have demonstrated, what makes it such an insidious problem is that, unlike substance abuse, most frequent gamers aren't the slightest bit aware of what they're doing to themselves.
And big business isn't going to endeavor to enlighten them on this, sorry to say. That would be bad for sales. Instead, gaming giants just keep on designing more realistic slayer software, and hooking more unsuspecting "clients" in the process.
As is done with immensely popular products that pose substantial risk to consumers and to others secondhand, manufacturers have resorted to disinformation and misinformation to thwart full disclosure of the dangers of dangerous virtual play, particularly as it relates to children still in the formative years. Coupled with glitzy product packaging and placement, those campaigns have been highly successful ones, and greatly intensified by the very victims of this unregulated industry who, like addicts in denial, protest that their relentless gaming is completely normal and harmless, and that virtual killing is itself totally benign.
Adding to this potpourri of preposterous propaganda is the industry's routine and disingenuous cry that any regulations attempting to restrict the marketing of exceptionally violent content would constitute "free speech" violations. A farfetched claim that would make most American citizens who know better laugh out loud, if it weren't for the unfunny fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has baldly granted corporate entities "personhood" status and, hence, awarded these largely-multinational corporations the same constitutional protections as were originally intended only for real people.
Public safety versus corporate profiteering—it certainly is a tangled Web we have created. Nevertheless, any which way the numbers are now tallied and analyzed, they'll always show us the same bleak picture. And these statistics are getting grimmer and grimmer by the year, the crimes of the young more and more diabolical.
Is playing at slaying to the point of excess truly the cause of all this bloodshed?
The answer is, as they say, an absolute no-brainer. From the once unthinkable massacre at Columbine high school way back in 1999, to the brutal kidnapping and murder of schoolgirl Jessica Ridgeway in 2012, the verdict is finally out on the value of violent video gaming: Virtual violence begets only…violence.
- Eponymous Rox, author of DUNGEONS DRAGONS MURDER


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Defenders of Wildlife welcomes Interior Department's new vision for national wildlife refuges
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar sets a course for conservation in new vision for the National Wildlife Refuge SystemWASHINGTON (10/20/2011) -
Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife's president and former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, welcomed the Obama administration's effort to frame a new conservation vision for the more than 150 million acres that make up America's National Wildlife Refuge System.
The new vision document released by the Interior Department today gives refuge officials a roadmap for managing these special conservation lands to address emerging threats and challenges such as climate change that weren't considered in 1999 when the last refuge system vision statement was put in place.
The following is a statement from Defenders' President, Jamie Rappaport Clark:
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's updated vision for the National Wildlife Refuge System will help ensure that it continues to anchor the conservation of our nation's wildlife heritage in the face of the rapid transformations in the environment and in our society. Climate change was not a central concern in wildlife management when the last refuge vision statement was developed in the late 1990's, but it certainly is a major concern today. This new vision reflects that shift and charts a course for enhanced wildlife conservation in the 21st century.
"While the vision lights a way forward, the success of the document will be measured each day in the field, wildlife refuge by wildlife refuge. It's up to all of us -- conservation groups, ranchers, farmers, hunters, anglers, communities, and federal and state land management agencies -- to ensure that this vision becomes a reality. This means working together to add new lands to the refuge system that promote the conservation of a wide diversity of wildlife; to ensure that refuges have the financial resources needed to protect wildlife and provide a high-quality experience for all Americans; and to adapt and modify the way we manage refuges to protect wildlife and habitat from the impacts of climate change."
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a new vision to guide the refuge system through the next decade. As we at Defenders prioritizes biodiversity conservation both within and beyond refuge boundaries and working to ensure an implementation strategy to achieve it.
Learn more about Defenders' work for improving the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Contact(s):James Navarro, 202-772-0247


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The Dodge Spirit is a four-door midsize sedan sold from 1989 to 1995. As was typical for the era, the Spirit features a boxy body and an optional front bench seat.
Dodge introduced the front-wheel drive Spirit as a replacement for the similar Dodge 600 sedan. Chrysler, Dodge's parent company at the time, released a nearly-identical Plymouth Acclaim sedan alongside the Spirit.
Early Spirit models come in three trims: base, LE, and ES. The LE trim adds conveniences such as cruise control, a tilt-adjustable steering wheel, and a rear-window defogger. The ES tacks on additional standard features, including alloy wheels and a higher-output turbocharged engine. Seating for five people comes standard on all models, while an optional front bench seat increases seating capacity to six.
Base and LE models come equipped with a 2.5-liter, 100-horsepower, four-cylinder engine paired with a five-speed manual transmission with overdrive. The manual gearbox was later replaced with a standard three-speed automatic transmission. The ES trim's turbocharged version of the same four-cylinder engine pushes output to 150 horsepower.
In an attempt to attract customers interested in a car with more thrust, Dodge began offering a 3.0-liter V-6 option in 1990. A sporty R/T trim produced for 1991 and 1992 offers an even more energetic 224-horsepower twin-turbo engine and a sport-tuned suspension.
Dodge replaced the Spirit with the Dodge Stratus sedan after 1995.
The Dodge Spirit is best known as a basic but useful economy car.
An optional six-passenger capacity made the Spirit a popular family vehicle, while EPA ratings of 21/26 mpg city/highway with the four-cylinder engine and 19/24 mpg city/highway with the V-6 made the car an affordable choice for commuters.
The Spirit offers a fair amount of cabin space for a midsize car, with a flat-bottomed trunk providing 14.4 cubic feet of cargo room. Front passengers receive 38.4 inches of headroom and 41.9 inches of legroom, while back-seat passengers receive 37.9 inches of headroom and 38.3 inches of legroom.
The last Dodge Spirit was produced in 1995.
The 1995 Dodge Spirit comes in a single trim fitted with a 2.5-liter, 100-horsepower inline-four engine that produces 135 lb-ft of torque. A 3.0-liter V-6 engine capable of 142 horsepower and 171 lb-ft of torque is optional. Both engines pair with a three-speed automatic transmission. While Dodge previously offered a four-speed automatic transmission and a Flex Fuel version of the Spirit, the company eliminated both options for 1995.
Standard equipment on the 1995 Dodge Spirit includes 14-inch wheels, a front driver's side airbag, cloth upholstery, front bucket seats, a tilt-adjustable steering wheel, air-conditioning, power-adjustable exterior mirrors, power brakes, power steering, cruise control, intermittent windshield wipers, a rear-window defroster, and an audio system with an AM/FM radio and a cassette player.
Individual options include alloy wheels, a power driver's seat, a split-bench front seat, power windows, power locks, power heated mirrors, a remote trunk release, a roof rack, a sunroof, and special factory paint.
The Dodge Spirit measures 181.2 inches in length, 53.5 inches in height, and 68.1 inches in width. The sedan has a wheelbase of 103.5 inches and a turning circle of 39 feet. Cargo capacity totals 14.4 cubic feet with all seats in place. The Spirit comes with a 16-gallon gas tank.
The Dodge Spirit debuted in 1989 with three trim levels: a base, LE, and ES. The base and LE contain a 2.5-liter, 100-horsepower, four-cylinder engine, which remains standard throughout the Spirit's production run. Dodge fits the ES with a turbocharged 150-horsepower version of the same four-cylinder engine. A five-speed manual transmission comes standard on early models.
Upgrading to the LE trim adds conveniences such as fog lights, a rear-window defroster, and a tilt steering wheel. The ES adds the same amenities as the LE trim, plus 15-inch alloy wheels and a trip computer. The 1989 Dodge Spirit lacks a standard driver's-side airbag.
Beginning in 1990, the Spirit could be equipped with an optional 3.0-liter, 142-hp V-6 engine. A driver's airbag came standard, while four-wheel disc brakes came with the ES trim. To calm complaints about noise, this Spirit model provided more sound insulation than earlier models.
Dodge added a sporty new limited-edition trim, the Spirit R/T, in 1991. R/T models featured a 2.2-liter, 224-horsepower twin-turbocharged engine, a sport-tuned suspension, and monochromatic exterior paint. Dodge also began offering four-wheel anti-lock brakes as an option on all models in 1991.
Dodge made improvements to the Spirit R/T's acceleration and suspension in 1992. A four-speed automatic transmission came as an option on V-6 models.
In 1993, Dodge released 4000 Flex Fuel versions of the Spirit. The car had a remodeled front end, a color-keyed grille, new taillights, tinted privacy glass, and a stainless steel exhaust system. Dodge eliminated the LE and R/T trim levels and added a base Highline trim in 1993.
The following year, Dodge eliminated the Highline and ES trim levels, leaving just the base Spirit model and a variety of individual options. Late models feature motorized seat belts for front passengers.
1995 Dodge Spirit
Midsize, Sedan
A reliable little sedan with a sturdy engine, the 1995 Dodge Spirit is the final model manufactured by Dodge.


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Color: Yellow/Orange and Black
Size: Medium- Reaching up to 1.5 inches or larger.
Locality: Found in the rainforest of Venezuela
Difficulty: Beginners.
Temperature: Range between 70-76 degrees Fahrenheit
Humidity: 50%-70%
Behavior: Bold- Hardy- Terrestrial / arboreal- Loud Call- Does fine in groups
Terrarium Setup:- 1 square ft per frog- Terrestrial
Breeding: Difficult to breed. Uses coco huts and petri dishes. Best kept in a pair (1 male to 1 female). Male have wider finger discs and a more defined Back Structure. Females tend to be Larger and usually have cleavage in the chest region. Reaches sexual maturity in 10-16 months on average. Produces egg clutches every 5 to 10 days. Clutch size is 3-10 eggs on average. Metamorphosis takes on average 100 days.
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Selena Gomez Shares Photo of Her Growing Dog!
Puppy love!
Selena Gomez tweeted a photo of herself and one of the loves of her life on Wednesday. She posted the message: "Look at how big my baby has gotten : )" And guess what? She wasn't talking about her boyfriend Justin Bieber, either. Instead, she shared a shot of her recently rescued Husky mix Baylor, sitting on her lap and enjoying a leisurely snuggle.
Baylor, who had surgery a few weeks back after supposedly eating some rocks and causing his mommy to worry, is getting to be a big boy. He looks quite happy curled up in mommy's lap. We love Sel's summery outfit of dark rinse jeans, flip-flops and a white and gray tank. While most of the country deals with late fall chill, Sel looks like she is enjoying an extended summer with her pup.
We're glad that Baylor is all better after surgery. Can you imagine how big he is going to get? His paws are already huge. And look at those beautiful blue eyes, too! While Selena adopted Baylor solo -- she's not sharing puppy parenting duty -- one look at that face makes us wonder if The Biebs will quickly sign up to be Baylor's daddy!


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With such a large platform, Windows Azure has a lot of moving parts. We've done our best to keep the interface as simple as possible, while giving you the most control and visibility we can. However, as with most Microsoft products, there are multiple ways to do something – and I've always found that to be a good strength. Depending on the situation, I might want a graphical interface, a command-line interface, or just an API so I can incorporate the management into my own tools, or have third-party companies write other tools.
While by no means exhaustive, I thought I might put together a quick list of a few tools you can use to manage and monitor Windows Azure components, from our IaaS, SaaS and PaaS offerings. Some of the products focus on one area more than another, but all are available today. I'll try and maintain this list to keep it current, but make sure you check the date of this post's update – if it's more than six months old, it's most likely out of date. Things move fast in the cloud.
The Windows Azure Management Portal
The primary tool for managing Windows Azure is our portal – most everything you need is there, from creating new services to querying a database. There are two versions as of this writing – a Silverlight client version, and a newer HTML5 version. The latter is being updated constantly to be in parity with the Silverlight client.
There's a balance in this portal between simplicity and power – we're following the "less is more" approach, with increasing levels of detail as you work through the portal rather than overwhelming you with a single, long "more is more" page.
You can find the Portal here: http://windowsazure.com (then click "Log In" and then "Portal")
Windows Azure Management API
You can also use programming tools to either write your own interface, or simply provide management functions directly within your solution. You have two options – you can use the more universal REST API's, which area bit more complex but work with any system that can write to them, or the more approachable .NET API calls in code.
You can find the reference for the API's here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460799.aspx
All Class Libraries, for each part of Windows Azure: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee393295.aspx
PowerShell Command-lets
PowerShell is one of the most powerful scripting languages I've used with Windows – and it's baked into all of our products. When you need to work with multiple servers, scripting is really the only way to go, and the Windows Azure PowerShell Command-Lets allow you to work across most any part of the platform – and can even be used within the services themselves. You can do everything with them from creating a new IaaS, PaaS or SaaS service, to controlling them and even working with security and more.
You can find more about the Command-Lets here: http://wappowershell.codeplex.com/documentation (older link, still works, will point you to the new ones as well)
We have command-line utilities for other operating systems as well: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/downloads/
Video walkthrough of using the Command-Lets: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/SAC-859T
System Center
System Center is actually a suite of graphical tools you can use to manage, deploy, control, monitor and tune software from Microsoft and even other platforms. This will be the primary tool we'll recommend for managing a hybrid or contiguous management process – and as time goes on you'll see more and more features put into System Center for the entire Windows Azure suite of products.
You can find the Management Pack and README for it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11324
SQL Server Management Studio / Data Tools / Visual Studio
SQL Server has two built-in management and development, and since Version 2008 R2, you can use them to manage Windows Azure Databases. Visual Studio also lets you connect to and manage portions of Windows Azure as well as Windows Azure Databases.
You can read more about Visual Studio here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee405484
You can read more about managing Windows Azure Subscriptions with Visual Studio here: http://fabriccontroller.net/blog/posts/manage-your-subscriptions-with-the-windows-azure-tools-for-visual-studio/
You can read more about the SQL tools here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee621784.aspx
Vendor-Provided Tools
Microsoft does not suggest or endorse a specific third-party product. We do, however, use them, and see lots of other customers use them. You can browse to these sites to learn more, and chat with their folks directly on how they support Windows Azure.
Cerebrata: Tools for managing from the command-line, graphical diagnostics, graphical storage management - http://www.cerebrata.com/
Quest Cloud Tools: Monitoring, Storage Management, and costing tools - http://communities.quest.com/community/cloud-tools
Paraleap: Monitoring tool - http://www.paraleap.com/AzureWatch
Cloudgraphs: Monitoring too - http://www.cloudgraphs.com/
Opstera: Monitoring for Windows Azure and a Scale-out pattern manager - http://www.opstera.com/products/Azureops/
Compuware: SaaS performance monitoring, load testing - http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/gomez-apm-products.html
SOASTA: Penetration and Security Testing - http://www.soasta.com/cloudtest/enterprise/
LoadStorm: Load-testing tool - http://loadstorm.com/windows-azure
New Relic: Application Monitoring - http://newrelic.com/azure
AppDynamics: Application Monitoring - http://www.appdynamics.com/azure.php
Manage Engine's Application Monitor: http://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/windows-azure-monitoring.html
I ran across this blog entry that deals with storage clients - your mileage may vary, but he has some screen-shots and his impressions: http://cloud.dzone.com/articles/windows-azure-blob-storage
Open-Source Tools
This is probably the most specific set of tools, and the list I'll have to maintain most often. Smaller projects have a way of coming and going, so I'll try and make sure this list is current.
Windows Azure MMC: (I actually use this one a lot) http://wapmmc.codeplex.com/
Windows Azure Diagnostics Monitor: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/wazdmon
Azure Application Monitor: http://azuremonitor.codeplex.com/
Azure Web Log: http://www.xentrik.net/software/azure_web_log.html
Cloud Ninja:Multi-Tennant billing and performance monitor - http://cnmb.codeplex.com/
Cloud Samurai: Multi-Tennant Management- http://cloudsamurai.codeplex.com/
Azure Storage Explorer: Storage management - azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com
If you have additions to this list, please post them as a comment and I'll research and then add them. Thanks!


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we were told, that after an elaborate decision making process; under the supervision of barack obama; excellent specimens of america's professional military and intelligence, secretly entered pakistan armed with latest military hardware and best intelligence; attacked a security compound/luxury mansion of osama bin laden; heroically fought and killed 2 of his guards; killed ak-47 wielding osama, who used his wife as a human shield; avoided another 'black hawks down' by destroying their own shot at helicopter, and got back to safety with body and computer hard drives etc..
how 'heroic', 'professional' and even 'civilized'!
george washington would be proud!
hmmm... wonder what old george would say to reality that is emerging through the hypocrisy and lies.
it seems that obambi ordered a group of testosterone injected american thugs, known as navy seals, armed with the overwhelming firepower and armor, to follow a few sneaky cia spies. these then, invaded pakistan (definitely committing a war crime in the process); entered an unguarded dirty house with lots of cows and goats; killed 2 unarmed men and a woman (or 3 unarmed men); shot another woman who was not a human shield in leg; traumatized some very young children; executed osama after he surrendered; panicked when yet another shoddy specimen of american industry, a helicopter broke down without anyone even kicking it; crowded into other helicopter in fear and ran away without taking surviving osama family as planned.
you may follow the emerged lies in these links - 1 , 2, 3. more keep coming.
these sort of lies to bolster, non existent professionalism and heroism, and hide, very real cowardice and brutality, of western military forces are nothing new. among many more, we had the jessica lynch incident during invasion of iraq, and we had numerous cases of westerners killing every non westerner on sight whenever they heard a bomb go off or shot fired in iraq, bombing on alleged targets in civilian neighborhoods from 35,000 ft in the air in afghanistan, serbia and now libya, etc..
in contrast, we, sri lankans, were told by the same west that we were not only unheroic but criminal to fight and defeat (even with our minimal resources) against a well armed (through funds collected in west ) tamil tiger murderers and suicide bombers led by big pussy velupillai prabhakaran. west wanted us to appease the tigers and submit to daily killing and maiming of our children. (you see, we are subhumans; we unlike west after 9/11 don't need to resist monthly equivalents in colombo and elsewhere.) even now we are told, by westerns tools (like united nations, amnesty international , human rights watch , etc, who are yet to seriously criticize or investigate western military actions) that alleged deaths, among very real human shields used by tamil tigers, from accidents, and even of tiger leaders, amount to war crimes on our part. our concerns are never addressed and we are denied just and equal treatment.
robert o. blake, assistant secretary of state of usa for south and central asian affairs, was shamelessly spouting this rubbish yesterday in colombo.
hypocrisy much?
we should resist these unjust attempts at rewriting history to west's benefit and our detriment, by sticking to and exposing facts, relentlessly.
what i find most contemptible and despicable is the attitude of certain sri lankans who unquestioningly believe these lies from west. some of this foolish credulity may be due to the fact that they and their families depend on western funded ngos. but i think some of them were bred into such servility through several generations of willing slavery.
in the sri lankan blogosphere, this kind of thing is observable among others in indi samarajiva (indi.ca and padashow.wordpress) and sanjana hattotuwa (groundviews, moju, etc..) and their suckerboys. both want sri lanka to submit to western tools' 'judgment' and fail to even address or recognize the blatant injustice and inequality involved.
they happily welcome west's attempts at resource grabs (as in libya). if they blame west, it is always in past tense. so bush gets lot of abuse, but obama is good even though he is doing exactly what bush did with lot more hypocrisy. indi is on record, saying that west is 'more civilized' and has our best interest in mind, and seriously regretting that sri lanka does not have a 'barackian' administration, etc.. in fact i can fill several posts with on record ass licking of these two alone (i might some day).
iow, their willing servility and credulity, induced by cupidity, lead them to live in a fantasy world, where west is heroic and morally superior.
let us continue to expose and laugh at them, though they will continue to censor (while hypocritically preaching freedom of expression) any attempts to point out, their and their western masters', errors and lies, in their blogs.
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PWG has a ton of incredible matches from years past that they're sleeping on that a lot of new folks haven't seen. I'm sure there are some PWG fans who've never seen a Super Dragon match who got into the company after he retired. Why not release some DVDs to highlight the greatest PWG has produced?
Think about it: Best of PWG: The Kevin Steen/Super Dragon Saga. Begins all the way from the 3-way where SD defends his title against Steen to the many matches they had, finally the Guerrilla Warfare match. In the middle you put in the awesome stuff with Disco Machine, Excalibur and 2 Skinny Black Guys (3-on-3, Excalibur/Dragon Guerrilla Warfare, the tag where Disco turns on SD, etc.).
Another one: Best of PWG: The Chris Hero/Human Tornado Sada. Much like SD, Tornado is retired. A lot of fans haven't seen much of his stuff I bet. This could start all the way from Tornado treating Candice badly, ends with their own Guerrilla Warfare. In the middle all the stuff with Kingston and Claudio, Necro and LuFisto, even matches related like the 5-minute Tornado vs. Candice match.
One more idea: Best of PWG: The Joey Ryan/Super Dragon Saga. IMO the best Joey ever wrestled was when he wrestled SD. This starts all the way in PWG's debut with their random matches, ends with the incredible brawl they had in 2008 (maybe it was 2009). A ton of stuff here: Ironman match, Guerrilla Warfare, the many tag matches with The Dynasty vs. SD/Davey or SD/B-Boy, etc.
This kinda stuff must be extremely easy to produce. They would sell like hotcakes. What do you think, and any more possible DVD ideas?


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Docent Appreciation Luncheon
On Tuesday, May 21, Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosted the annual Birmingham Botanical Gardens Education/Docent Appreciation luncheon to celebrate and acknowledge the great work and dedication of our Discovery Field Trip and Garden Docents. As part of the luncheon festivities, Mr. Jay Eubanks, Education Director of the Alabama Wildlife Center, and Kelly Breland were special guests and speakers discussing the topic of Alabama Native Snakes. Jay gave a PowerPoint Presentation on the various species of venomous and nonvenomous snakes found throughout Alabama; he brought live specimens as part of his interpretive program.
Over 33 docent volunteers, Birmingham Botanical Gardens staff and Alabama Cooperative Extension System staff attended the program and luncheon. Lunch was catered by Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe.


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We are an internet marketing company that trains our clients how to get more traffic to their websites and blogs. How to turn that traffic into leads and convert those leads into income.
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We are open to creativity, but readability is a must. Must also do a good job of branding our website, so include the ".com" or at least a ".com" variation if you plan on making a non-dot-com.
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CMMS Can be Critical for Safety and Compliance
Maintenance software starts out as a generic tool, but can become a critical instrument for safety and compliance throughout the plant.
It's always "safety first" for Ron Nelson. "The four pillars of manufacturing are safety, quality, service and cost," says the plant manager of HP Hood's Philadelphia plant, which processes 30 million gallons of milk and cream a year for its various dairy products and brands. "You can't do one without the other. If you're hurting people just to get an extra case out the door, that's not safe, and that's not how we operate."
At the Philly plant, all 160 employees are encouraged to submit a safety hazard recognition report anytime they see a problem. Under Nelson's leadership, the facility addressed more than 500 safety-related work orders last year and has gone two years without a lost time accident. The plant was recently awarded the company's President's Safety Award for its excellence in safety.
Where do all those suggestions go? Into the computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) system — it's where action is.
The suggestions were, in effect, submitted as work orders in the plant's maintenance system, MicroMain (www.micromain.com), which provided the framework for prioritizing and acting upon them.
This is the dairy plant's first maintenance software system, chosen and installed after Nelson's arrival in early 2007. Nelson was no neophyte to maintenance, having set maintenance standards at Fort Bragg as a captain in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and later a production and plant manger for Nestle Waters and E&J Gallo.
A CMMS system can monitor everything maintenance related, from overall equipment effectiveness analytics right down to spare parts inventory in the storeroom.
"We never want to say the plant is where it should be, because if you're not moving forward there is only one other way to go — backwards," says Nelson. "We're still climbing up that hill, but incremental improvements make the dairy a world-class facility. Significant improvements in uptime allow the plant to take on more business without adding additional equipment. Measured OEE [overall equipment effectiveness] improvement is about 10 percent, and the ability to effectively manage work orders and preventive maintenance has been key to increasing productivity."
Maintenance professionals know they can play a key role in their plants' safety, productivity and profitability, and the same goes for the software tools they use. CMMS and enterprise asset management (EAM) systems do what file cabinets and folders used to do: manage and document equipment/asset inventories, purchasing, work orders and preventive/predictive maintenance structures. They also can manage contract relationships, trucking and transport fleets and additional features that link to systems throughout the enterprise.
The EAM moniker generally tends to be used by vendors with larger systems and features that cover a broader functional footprint; we'll use the two terms interchangeably for this plant-focused discussion.
Starting with generic software
There are no "food-focused" maintenance software vendors. Few, in fact, focus on manufacturing alone. Besides, the food industry's a funny thing: Plant processes vary in their emphasis from fluid flows to batch processes to discrete packaging and material handling lines. Likewise, maintenance routines vary greatly.
The largest multinational consumer brand owners tend to choose a maintenance system based on the recommendations of their IT departments and/or enterprise resource planning (ERP) system sellers. SAP or Oracle ERP users tend to stick with their ERP vendor's system or go with a large-scale independent system, such as IBM's Maximo.
"Those big systems also come with huge price tags" says Harry Kohal, director of sales and marketing for Eagle Technology (www.eaglecmms.com), Mequon, Wis. While Eagle's ProTeus CMMS is no competitor in a large, global enterprise — it's scaled for the smaller and mid-sized plants — Kohal notes that his customers include Pepsi bottlers, plants owned by Tyson Foods and Mars' Wrigley subsidiary, the last operating a highly automated plant with a slim maintenance staff of three or four.
"If there's any industry that's specifically prone to price issues I think it's the food processing industry," where companies work hard to shave pennies from unit prices, he continues. When companies try shave a few pennies from unit prices by cutting the maintenance budget, he says it's important for maintenance personnel to use their systems' analytic functions to project whether that cut might backfire, causing higher downtime or a loss in product quality.
Maintenance budgets tend to be about the same year after year. One year, however, the budget may place a little more emphasis on replacing old components, the next on reducing downtime, says James Jones, product manager for Alpharetta, Ga.-based Infor's EAM Solutions (www.infor.com). Therefore companies shouldn't expect a "pure ROI based on maintenance spending for materials or labor — the budget doesn't dissipate just because you installed a maintenance system. You spend differently; you spend smarter."
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Maybe if Kick-Ass kept in the Kick-Ass and Red Mist "groupie sex" scene, the film would have done a tad better at the box office? Find out what got left out, and how these teenage superheroes treat their greatest fans.
In an interview with MTV, Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn talked up the 18 minutes of additional scenes that would be included in the "director's cut" of his film:
Three Hit Girl and Big Daddy scenes, and the funniest groupie sex scenes, with Red Mist and Kick-Ass. Basically behaving like Mötley Crüe with two girls.


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A young organizer at the conservative Defending the American Dream Summit interrupted a panel discussion last Friday to read aloud, from her BlackBerry, the electrifying news that Chicago had been dumped from the 2016 Olympics.
A tracker caught the crowd's reaction in the Arlington, Va., hotel ballroom on video: The place erupted in hooting and wild applause, a scene perversely reminiscent of the exultation that followed the U.S. Olympic hockey team's "Miracle on Ice" victory against the Soviets in 1980.
Chicago lost "on the very first vote! They did not have any chance," the woman said to an ovation recorded by Think Progress, an offshoot of the liberal Center for American Progress.
The reaction wasn't an isolated incident but part of a larger defeat lap jogged by a fair number of conservatives. A blogger with the right-wing Weekly Standard reported, "Chicago loses! Chicago loses! ... Cheers erupt at Weekly Standard world headquarters," before hastily pulling down the post.
RedState.com's Erick Erickson ditched loftier prose and punched out a "Hahahahaha," while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) combined the loss with Friday's dreadful unemployment report to conclude, "President Obama fails to get the Olympics while unemployment goes to 9.8 percent. ... America needs focused leadership" on his Twitter account.
During the Bush era, Republicans — from Karl Rove to South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson — questioned, in ways veiled and overt, the patriotism of Democrats who challenged the administration's Iraq policy, prewar intelligence and surveillance programs.
But the joyous reaction to President Barack Obama's Olympic humiliation has flipped the equation for some Democrats. A few are even turning the old "Why do you hate America?" on their tormentors, accusing the GOP of situational patriotism, a devotion to Americanism abandoned the moment the party lost power.
"Some of these people are starting to put politics first and country second," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, taking particular issue with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
"The American people are starting to wonder if they are rooting against America," he added.
Former George W. Bush press secretary Dana Perino, who supported Chicago's bid, chalked up the anti-Olympics reaction to extremism in both parties. "I ... don't know anyone who's high-fiving," Perino wrote in an e-mail.
"Though I'd bet there are some doing that, I'm just as sure there are some who are finding a way to blame President Bush somehow."
But other GOP insiders are worried the reaction may reinforce Democrats' attacks, however unfair, that the party's anti-Obama fervor is pushing them away from their self-professed patriotism.
Moments after the Chicago news broke, former Bush deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel tweeted, "Note to GOP officials/consultants — resist temptation to pile on about Chicago losing just becuz Obama made the pitch."
Kevin Madden, who served as Mitt Romney's spokesman in 2008, sent around Stanzel's sentiments to friends and cautioned against a backlash.
"Republicans disagree with Obama on many policies, ranging from taxes and spending to national security," Madden told POLITICO.
"He has a lot of really wrong ideas. But does that mean his effort to bring the Olympic Games to Chicago and a chance to put America on the world's stage should also automatically be subjected to scorn? I don't believe it should. That's just criticism for criticism's sake. Reactionary criticism could even dilute any valid and legitimate criticism of his bad policies."
Many Democrats saw the reaction to Chicago's Olympics loss as part of a larger pattern of putting party before country, including the trumpeting of bad economic data by House and Senate Republicans, the flirtation with secession among rightwing Texans like Gov. Rick Perry, the birther movement and Limbaugh's "I want him to fail" comment about Obama in January.
Two influential progressive spokesmen, Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall and Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, hit that theme hard last week, with Marshall musing, "I wonder if right-wingers would be less stoked if Chicago were part of America."
Moulitsas was blunter. "So when did wing nuts start cheering against America? Their unbridled joy at losing out to Brazil is a bit unseemly, isn't it?" he asked, adding: "America, f--- yeah!" has become "F--- America, yeah!"
F-bombs aside, such comments pale with an eight-year drumbeat from conservatives who questioned Democrats' willingness to stand up for their country. In late 2002, Wilson shouted down Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat, who challenged Bush administration prewar Iraq intelligence, bellowing, "This hatred of America by some people is just outrageous, and you need to get over it."
Bush and Rove were less overt, but their message was unmistakable.
Summing up his view of Democrats in 2005, Rove remarked that liberals are "concerned about what our enemies think of us, whether every government approves of our actions."
The meme has carried into the Obama administration, with Steve Doocy, the co-host of "Fox and Friends," touting a video showing Obama without hand over heart during the playing of the national anthem.
"First he kicked his American flag pin to the curb," Doocy said. "Now Barack Obama has a new round of patriotism problems."
Before last week, Democrats had been less focused on Republicans' patriotism than on pointing out the party's relentless negativity and the GOP's apparent enthusiasm for any scrap of economic data that shows the economy is still struggling.
Within the first 45 minutes after the Labor Department announced a worse-than-expected 263,000 jobs lost in September, POLITICO received no fewer than eight GOP press releases blasting away at Obama for failing to stem the tide of unemployment.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) literally hit the send button at 8:30 a.m. — the moment of the announcement.
Former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who helped Democrats win 14 seats in the last two cycles, said the GOP risks the perception of rooting against recovery. "They are playing to their base again, which I think is a big mistake," he said.
But Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), pointed out that Democrats used the same reports to attack Bush when he was in office.
He said there are "no examples of House Republicans 'rooting against America' in any way, shape or form. Criticizing the White House for spending nearly a trillion dollars of taxpayers' money to produce a jobless recovery is the responsibility of public officials who believe there is a better way."


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This is interesting though I would like to see more detail. The use of organics asks more questions than it answers. That it can out perform thin film by an order of magnitude implies converting over a much broader spectrum. So far so good. Can it be sustained?
This is a new entrant and the claims are at least promising. Even if the production is nort particularly impressive, it will still have a market merely to make use of a passive resource. Recall windows must be specially made to begin with, and it will be no trick at all folding this into the supply chain.
Of course, if they can establish sustainable high yield at a low effective cost base, every office building will soon convert and so will everyone else. Recall how we all use double pane windows these days.
World's First-of-Its-Kind See-Thru Glass SolarWindow Capable Of Generating Electricity
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Burtonsville MD (SPX) Jul 27, 2010
Researchers Apply Coating to Commercial Glass, Demonstrating Transparency of New Energy's SolarWindow Capable of Generating Electricity, Currently Under Development. Source: New Energy Technologies, Inc.
New Energy Technologies is pleased to announce that researchers developing its proprietary SolarWindow technology have achieved major scientific and technical breakthroughs, allowing the Company to unveil a working prototype of the world's first-ever glass window capable of generating electricity in the upcoming weeks.
Until now, solar panels have remained opaque, with the prospect of creating a see-thru glass window capable of generating electricity limited by the use of metals and various expensive processes which block visibility and prevent light from passing through glass surfaces.
New Energy's ability to generate electricity on see-thru glass is made possible by making use of the world's smallest working organic solar cells, developed by Dr. Xiaomei Jiang at the
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DIY on a public holiday is something akin to a Great British tradition. Unfortunately, my DIY skills can best be summed up as being able to move heavy stuff about and do a bit of light destruction.
Fortunately, Deb is great at that sort of thing. As a result, I seem to have spent rather a lot of time lately playing Igor to her
mad scientist visionary genius.
On an unusually sunny Bank Holiday Monday recently, The Lady of the House sent me packing out into the back garden with instructions to "tidy it up a bit".
There followed an afternoon of intensive Chemical Warefare on the weeds ( the one thing I do seem to have a talent for growing) followed by judicious application of mower and strimmer.
Needless to say, the end result resembled less the restoration of verdant sward that she was secretly hoping for and more an example of slash-and-burn agriculture.
Fortunately, the next Bank Holiday isn't until the end of May.
This gives me some time to continue in my attempts to persuade my better half to move into the 21st century garden-wise.
My argument is that, most people will only ever see our back garden on Google Maps. Provided it looks OK from the satellite view then that's really what matters.
So, all we need to do is concrete the lawn over then paint the light and dark green stripes in.
This way, rather than constantly cutting the grass, we just need to repaint it once a year or so.
I've even offered to paint in some flowerbeds.
Ironically, this argument appears to have fallen on stony ground.
On top of this, the Oracle database has also required me to do a bit of DIY lately. This takes the form of trying to search the text in a column defined as LONG.
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Cisco Live London – IPv6 is Hotter Than Ever
I am back from a week at Cisco Live London where I presented to a packed room on Enterprise IPv6 Deployment. I added much more emphasis on Internet Edge design this time around and it was VERY well received. The comments were very positive, as were the questions in the room, regarding the Internet Edge as the primary starting point for the majority of the attendees. You can check out details on my IPv6 Internet Edge content at my previous blog post.
In addition to IPv6 in the Internet Edge, IPv6 security was a hot topic as usual. Excellent Cisco speakers such as Eric Vyncke provided attendees at Cisco Live very detailed guidance on securing their networks when using IPv6. One thing that we have come to realize, not just for security, but also for all areas of IPv6 deployment, is that we cannot assume too much regarding the knowledge level of people attending our sessions.
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Those of us working on IPv6 will take an action item to come back to this forum with a list of resources you folks can leverage so that you have the basics needed before plowing headfirst into the warm, soothing waters of IPv6 deployment. 😉
Comment on this post or hit me on Twitter (@eyepv6) and let me know where you fall as it relates to IPv6 knowledge. What is missing? What do we have too much of?
Finally, we had excellent IPv6 support (yet again) at the conference facility. I had great IPv6 access to the Internet on every device I was toting around.
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aKademy 2007 Will be Held in Glasgow
The annual KDE World Summit, aKademy, has found a home for 2007 in the vibrant city of Glasgow. The week-long event for contributors to the leading Free Desktop project will be held from 30th June to 7th July 2007 in Scotland's largest city. Our hosts will be the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. There are three sub-events: a contributors conference, the KDE e.V. annual general assembly and a week long hacking session that offers the opportunity to discuss all sorts of things face-to-face. We also look forward to the chance to mingle with local KDE enthusiasts.
A local team led by Kenny Duffus will organise the conference, where KDE enthusiasts from around the world will converge to share experiences, code and socialise in "Scotland's friendly city". "As a long time user of KDE, on both student and staff desktops, we are proud to support KDE by hosting this conference" said Richard Connor, Head of the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde.
The preliminary schedule for aKademy 2007 is as follows:
Friday 29th JuneArrival
Great! I suppose registration will be open until the end of October? :-P
No, really, Glasgow is cool from my point of view. June 28th is the last day of my summer semester, but let's just assume there's no exam on that date. Oh right, and hopefully Glasgow is less expensive than Dublin ;)
By Jakob Petsovits at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
our laptop
England place... hum... they recently restricted policy about laptops in plane, and lots of them are stolen during travels. :(
But it seems to be a very nice place.
By Johann Ollivier... at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
I forgot to say good work and luck to Kenny Duffus. And to thanks again Marcus for his fantastic job.
By Johann Ollivier... at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Calling Glasgow an "England place"???
There is no problems with Laptops, you just have to take it from the case so it can be x-rayed.
By jose marin at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Simply go by ship&train :) Oh, than taking english trains is dangerous, less because of all the terrorists, but because of short term ROI oriented investors and foolish politicans... :/
By Lessy at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
You can take electrical items including laptops on planes just fine.
As someone else has alluded to, don't make the mistake of referring to Scotland as England while you are there. You may not escape with your life ;)
It's like referring to Belgium as France. They are not the same country.
They are however part of Great Britain, which Wales is also a member of.
By Chris Howells at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
s/England/Great Britain
Sorry, i know this is not the same culture, separate parlement, the conflict history against england (and separate Rudby or football team...). But i fear the airport policy will be the same (laptop in the compartment of the plane). But maybe i'm wrong
By Johann Ollivier... at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
I have been flying from Edinburgh for the last 2 weeks ( Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Budapest), and can assure you there is no problems with Laptops, the restrictions were lifted like a month ago...
By jose marin at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
This is what i wanted to read :D Thanks
What about the food now ? And the beer? ;)
By Johann Ollivier... at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Unless you're a real ale drinker the beer offerings aren't very impressive, the UK has a culture of cheap, imported lagers.
That said, there's a lot of special pubs you can get bizarre things on tap.
By Alistair John S... at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
I was very impressed with beer in Scotland when I was there. I live in Sweden, though, which has a culture of *very* cheap lagers. ;)
Guinness is especially good in Scotland.. perhaps because it's close to the brewery in Ireland.
By Apollo Creed at Thu, 2006/10/19 - 5:00am
Scotland is a country?!
From abroad, one sees United Kingdom as a single country led by Tony Blair. Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland are just regions of it.
Well, on Wikipedia, I can read that Scotland, England, etc. are really countries... They are clearly not seen this way from abroad! For instance, the European Community includes 25 countries, not 28!
By Hobbes at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Scotland is a country?!
Technically they're nations, unified as a single country. I'm Scottish and I consider myself British foremost, but a lot of Scots have a strong sense of cultural identity and would prefer to be Scottish.
Hope this helps clarify things.
By Alistair John S... at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Scotland is a country?!
Identity is strange.
By John Tapsell at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
I live in Glasgow and I (and others) get very angry when people refer to Scotland as England. No wonder over half of Scottish people want independence!
By Bruce Cowan at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Heh, the scottish are crazy.
By Fun fun at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Not at all
Its about the same as calling you Canadian if you are from the US (or vice versa).
By The Grum at Fri, 2006/10/20 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Strange. I live in NRW but if people thought this is in the Netherlands I would perhaps correct them but "very angry"??? Huh? You should watch your
By Michael at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Alright, I get a wee bit pissed off then.
Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales are all part of the United Kingdom. Saying that Glasgow is in England is wrong, but it is in the United Kingdom.
It's kind of like saying a place in Virginia is in West Virginia.
NRW isn't in the Netherlands anyway, and the Netherlands and Germany are not regions of the same country.
By Bruce Cowan at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Well, you would make me angry if you think that I live in Holland.
By AC at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
But why get angry? This nation thingie is so... oldfashioned at most. It's for leaders to hold their pack together, for making concepts of enemies...
By Slubs at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Indeed, and i don't live the culture of Holland.
By AC at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
aaah, frisian, I will save you the jokes from groningen then :p (I am from there)
By Mark Hannessen at Thu, 2006/10/19 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Well in some languages we have made this easy by translating Holland and Netherlands to the exactly the same word: Holland ;)
By carewolf at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Well, that jus makes things more complicated :o)
For example, Amsterdam is the kapital of The Netherlands, but not of Holland.
By AC at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Interestingly, most people I've talked to from Holland consider Holland another name for the Netherlands. You are in the first person I've talked to who doesn't consider them the same. (Also the first from the Netherlands but not also from Holland)
Note that my sample size is far too small to draw any conclusions. Also, this topic doesn't come up too often when I meet someone from your country.
By bluGill at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Originally, The Netherlands is a combination of 7 states, including Holland. (that's wy it's called The NetherlandS, in stead of Netherland).
Today, The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces, including North and South Holland.
Most Dutch people are pragmatic, so the say that they are from Holland, in stead of The Netherlands.
By AC at Thu, 2006/10/19 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
I am from the netherlands as well, when I am in another country I usually refer to the netherlands, but if they don't know about holland is a pretty good second candidate, amsterdam being the third best ;)
By Mark Hannessen at Thu, 2006/10/19 - 5:00am
Re: our laptop
Wel, as long as they don't think that Amsterdam is a city in Germany, it's fine with me :)
By AC at Fri, 2006/10/20 - 5:00am
To help readers
NRW = North Rhine-Westphalia
This is the first time I see this abbreviation. Even if I visited a family there for two weeks. If anyone is coming with the abbreviation of his region...
Of course it is in Germany.
By Hobbes at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: To help readers
Oh! Sorry. Was writing this in a bit of a hurry. Didnt think it could be unknown to the internet audience here who is living outside (Central) Europe. Over here this is not any regional abbreviation but very well known because
So, sorry for making you to look this up but now you know ;)
Have a nice day!
By Michael at Fri, 2006/10/20 - 5:00am
The area around Glasgow has a fantastic public transport system and a lot of rail links. The easiest way to get to Glasgow would be to fly to Prestwick Airport then get the train to Glasgow Central.
By das_cheesecat at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
2007 DebConf in Edinburgh
Debian's 2007 meeting will be in Edinburgh, From 9th to 24th june.
What about both events get together and work towards a common schedule,
Ok, ok, i'm already way beyond Earth's orbit :) ,
By Fabricio "aybab... at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: 2007 DebConf in Edinburgh
Sorry but i could not get the url thingie to work.
By Fabricio "aybab... at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Thanks from US students
Thank you for considering the students in the US. I've never been able to go because it always falls during the fall semester. Assuming I can get the cash, I'll finally be able to make it to one. Thanks again!
P.S. I'm probably missing something obvious, but where can I get information on how much everything will cost?
By carl at Tue, 2006/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Thanks from US students
If you are actively contributing to KDE you can get assistance. Look at the link at the head of the article for more info on the conference and costs. I found http://airfareplanet.com to have the best deals.
Before you go getting too grateful for accommodating students realize that travel costs are substantially higher during the summer than in fall. Then get used to having a second class economy. I found out Dublin was something like the third most expensive city in the world. It cost $10 for a warm meal in a fast food place that was larger than what I consider a children's meal. Seriously, I walked out of Supermacs after eating a 3.40 Euro burger to Burger King next door to address my hunger. The 3.40 Euro burger was about the size of a 99 cent Wendys burger. I'm told that Scotland is not far behind in cost and of course they still use pound sterling there. In Heathrow I bought a bagel with cream cheese and bacon and a diet coke for $11. Granted that's an airport but in Chicago O'Hare I got the same with smoked salmon instead for $8.
Also remember that in the US we have diverse cultural cuisine and in Scotland they have haggis. In Dublin I got a Hawaiian pizza that replaced the Canadian bacon with corn. It really is fun going to aKademy and I love every one of them. There was a lot to like about Dublin, but I advise talking with someone who attends these to get prepared. Don't expect to eat cheap. Don't expect a hostel experience to be like a hotel experience. Do expect to spend time with fun people, soak in KDE technology and see fun places.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2006/10/20 - 5:00am
Re: Thanks from US students
> Also remember that in the US we have diverse cultural
Heh. A man who goes on super-size-seeking door-to-door burger-crawls speaking of 'cultural cuisine'....
If you go, be sure to ask someone to explain the concept of irony.
By anon at Sat, 2006/10/21 - 5:00am
EuroPython compatible!
It's even compatible with EuroPython 2007: Monday 9th July to Wednesday 11th July in Vilnius, Lithuania.
By The Badger at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
videos akademy 2006
I was just wondering whether the videos of Akademy 2006 are already online??
By Me at Wed, 2006/10/18 - 5:00am
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