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ATLANTA BALTIMORE BOSTON BUFFALO CHICAGO CINCINNATI CLEVELAND DALLAS DENVER DETROIT KANSAS CITY LOS ANGELES MINNEAPOLIS NEW ORLEANS NEW YORK HASKINS & SELLS CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS BULLETIN EXECUTIVE OFFICES HASKINS & SELLS BUILDING 37 WEST 39TH ST., NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURGH PORTLAND SAINT LOUIS SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE TULSA WATERTOWN HAVANA LONDON PARIS SHANGHAI VOL. V NEW YORK, AUGUST 15, 1922 No. 8 Personal Interest THERE is a city not more than a hundred miles from New York which is unique because it is old-fashioned. Its inhabitants are noted for their deliberate-ness. They bear the indelible imprint of their forefathers, who were heavy-set, thorough-going, and methodical; plain, but honest; simple, but friendly. The spirit of their ancestors seems to have come down through the years and continued with these people, even though their city has grown tremendously and has had to absorb its full quota of the foreign element—a problem which every city, large or small, has to meet. There is apparent everywhere, as one goes about the city, a feeling that one is receiving personal service. It is manifest in the lowly bootblack, who shines one's shoes until they look like a mirror, instead of giving them the careless rub or two of the padrone's slave. It stands out in the work of the soda dispenser, who serves one's refreshment as if it were an unusual opportunity for service instead of a task imposed by the economic scheme of existence, meanwhile clamoring for the check and performing gyrations which spill half the contents of the glass over the counter or the customer or anything else which happens to get in the way. The ticket seller in the theatre refuses to sell one a seat in back of a post, because he knows one would not enjoy the play sitting in back of a post. The clerk in the store modestly shows his goods, leaving the customer to select, instead of resorting to the intensive methods of modern scientific salesmanship which may send the customer away "sold" but vowing never to return. Every act of service seems to be based on consideration of the one who is served. It gives a comfortable feeling, and stirs emotions which are rarely stirred by the slam-bang tactics of much modern enterprise. The average human being enjoys attention. He is made to feel good by observance of his wishes and the gratification of his desires. There is a lesson for the accountant who serves the public, in the spirit manifested in this city of old-fashioned folks. Every client is, in the last analysis, a human being. He may have his peculiarities, or even whims and fancies; but the secret of success is to discover the wishes of those whom one is serving, and to see that such wishes are properly met. A personal interest on the part of those who serve is essential to such discovery and fulfilment.
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Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 05, no. 08 (1922 august 15), p. 57
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UBS's position in its own shares has moved above the statutory stock exchange reporting limit of 5%. On 23 February 2001, UBS held 5.1 % (22.8 million) of its registered shares, and a potential 2.2 % in the form of derivatives. The position includes 18.4 million shares (4.2 % of registered shares) which will be cancelled following the approval of the Annual General Meeting on 26 April 2001. The remaining shares include purchases by UBS Group Treasury for employee share ownership programmes, and a limited position held by UBS Warburg for trading purposes.
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UPPER PROVIDENCE - Police are asking for the public's help in identifying burglars who are stealing from unlocked vehicles in the Royersford and Collegeville sections of Upper Providence. According to a report from police, in the early morning hours between midnight and 4 a.m. Feb. 2-8, $1,500 worth of property was stolen, including GPS units, Apple iPods, money and cell phones.
One of the thieves was captured on home surveillance video entering a vehicle, police said.
Police believe two men are responsible for the thefts. They were seen in the area in a small vehicle, possibly and SUV or crossover vehicle that has a third brake light on the top of the rear window, police said.
The vehicles targeted were unlocked and parked in the street or in residential driveways, police said.
Residents are advised to lock their vehicles and report any suspicious people they may see in the area.
Anyone with information on the thefts is asked to call Upper Providence police at 610-933-7899 and speak with Detective Patrick Haines.
NORTH COVENTRY - A Mohrsville man will be charged with DUI after a head-on collision on Route 422 west near the Route 724 interchange around 8:19 p.m. Feb. 10. According to township police, Shawn M. Hails, 36, was driving the wrong way on Route 422 west when he hit another car. Neither Hails nor the other driver were injured in the crash, police said. After speaking with Hails, responding police officers determined he was intoxicated after detecting an odor of alcohol on his breath. Hails submitted to a field sobriety test, which he allegedly failed, and was taken for a breath test, police said. His blood-alcohol content was found to be 0.234 percent, police said.
LOWER POTTSGROVE - A Pottstown man was charged with assaulting an officer after he refused to listen to police at an incident at the Days Inn in the 1600 block of Industrial Highway on Feb. 11 around 12:59 a.m. According to Lower Pottsgrove police, Shanon Hoehne, 25, was found at the Days Inn by officers responding to a disturbance call. Hoehne refused to obey commands given by the officers and pulled away from Officer Meitzler when he was being placed into custody. Hoehne allegedly struggled with Meitzler and kicked him three times, police said. Meitzler suffered minor injuries as the result of Hoehne's actions, police said. Hoehne was placed into custody and charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, recklessly endangering another person and related charges for the incident. His bail was set at $50,000 cash. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. before Judge Kropp.


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LU employee designs logo for citywide initiative
Liberty University employee Jodie Walton lent his talent in designing a billboard logo currently displayed on 29 North for the Lynchburg Community Dialogue on Race & Racism. Walton, office manager of the Center for Multicultural Enrichment — a department of Student Affairs — has a passion for graphic design and public service. Walton is also a Liberty alumnus earning his B.S. in Communications.
The citywide effort kicks off on Thursday, Jan. 17, in Lynchburg. The guest list includes Lynchburg Mayor Joan Foster, Yale University professor Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean and Dr. Steve L. Robbins; diversity consultant who has worked with Microsoft, Toyota, PepsiCo, Nordstrom, NASA, General Mills, Pfizer, Benjamin Moore Paints, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Herman Miller, Gerber Foods, the Federal Reserve Bank and National Cancer Institute.
There is still time to be part of this dialogue to further diversity and multiculturalism and to discuss issues and dynamics that affect the entire community.
To participate in one of the dialogue groups, please register here: Dialogue Participant Form.
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WESTFIELD, Mass. – A total of nine Beacons competed at the 100th running of the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Saturday afternoon at Stanley Park. Leading the Beacons in Sunday's championship meet which feated teams from both Division III and Division I universities was seniors Jake Kerin (Quincy, Mass.) and Nicole Sidiropoulos (Carver, Mass.).
Kerin led the men's team with his time of 27:47.87 to earn a 217 place finish. After him was Tad Delaney (Halifax, Mass.) with his time of 28:54.45 (236). Tyler Colbert (Groveland, Mass.) also finished in the top-250 as he cross the line with a time of 30:28.56.
Andre Malcolm (Cambridge, Mass.) posted the fourth fastest times for UMB as he closed out Sunday's meet with a time of 31:48.97 to earn 254th place. Jared Layman (Woburn, Mass.) made his first appearance in a Beacons uniform and crossed the finish line with a time of 31:10.40 (257th). Joe Miller and Chris Chapman (Brockton, Mass.) closed out Sunday's meet for the men's squad with their times of 33:25.18 and 33:25.86 respectively.
On the women's side, Sidiropoulos finished in 234th place with her of 21:27.84. Joining her on Sunday was Ari Leao (New Bedford, Mass.) who closed out the meet with a time of 24:11.38.
Cross Country will be back in action on Saturday when they compete in the Connecticut College Invitational at Harkness State Park in Waterford, Connecticut.


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I use a 6mm.
Is that legal??
[moderator]We are not going to have a discussion of techniques for killing cats (or dogs) here. These topics always turn into ugly arguments very quickly and get sent to Dead Threads.If you must kill a feral animal, first check your local laws, and do it quickly and humanely.[/moderator]
i live in the country and people drop off cats around me too. so far i have had no health issues regarding this and they do keep the rodents away which in turn keeps the snakes away this is a plus, i do not like snakes, do your dogs chase the cats away? if not you might consider a bigger more aggressive dog......the cats stay away from your house and it is no problem
Our problem extends to dogs as well.
I call the sheriff's department to get ok on shooting stray cats and dogs. Cats bring fleas and other things to my rabbitry, they kill or damage the baby rabbits, they kill the birds at the feeders. Got in my house and ate a cocktail and 2 parakeets. Friend was going to feed a stray in the garage, got to close to the food and was bitten on the ankle. Over $800.00 in doctor bills because of the bite infection. I've nothing good to say about stray cats or dogs. Very few of them at my place for any length of time.
Moral of the story is, if you want to keep good neighbors be careful how you get your point across. And build good fences.
When I spoke with Animal Control, they let me know that in my state, if you feed a feral animal, that the law sees you as the owner. You are then responsible for all required animal shots and responsible for any damage done by this animal and legally responsible if that animal bites someone.
Live animal traps are cheap and readily available at your local hardware store.
That's neat information about skunks. I remember listening to a animal trapper speak at my school who told a story about having caught a skunk in a enclosed live trap that did spray him. It was a baby spotted skunk and the trap was one of those small metal box traps with the baited switch plates. It sprayed when he opened the door just a little to see what he had. I like the rope idea. And racoons are viscious as heck. Do not mess with them. Keep your hands as far away from them as possible.


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ISNA's Medical Advisory Board included some of the nation's leading experts in pediatric endocrinology, urology, general pediatrics, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, social work, and bioethics.
Joel Frader, M.D. Chair
Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital
Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics,
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Arlene Baratz, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Radiology
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Charlotte Boney, M.D.
Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, RI
David R. Brown, M.D.
Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
Minneapolis, MN
Rebecca V. Burr
Genetic Counselor
Cook County Hospital
Chicago, IL
William Byne, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY
Anita Catlin, DNSc, FNP, FAAN
Ethics Consultant
Rohnert Park, CA
Tod Chambers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities and of Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Howard Devore, Ph.D.
San Francisco, CA
Ellen Feder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy and Religion
American University
Washington, DC
Kaye Fichman, M.D.
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Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
San Rafael, CA
Sallie M. Foley, ACSW
School of Social Work
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI
Philip A. Gruppuso, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Endocrinology
Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University
Providence, RI
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Do your 'all-inclusive' tours include international airfare?
Our all-inclusive international adventure tours include accommodations, meals, activities and all local transportation. Since Adventure Travelers arrive from all over the world to begin these tours, it's not possible to include international airfare in our prices. However, we'd be happy to help you arrange your flights. Just ask for an 'air quote' when making your booking.
Can you help arrange my travel visas?
Currently, none of our available tours require travel visas, which makes things easier. However, if any of our upcoming tours destination require visas, we will help arrange your travel visa and provide you all the necessary resources and instructions upon booking your tour. From start to finish, our team of experts are hand-on, every step of the way.
What is the most appropriate type of luggage to bring and what should I pack?
Travel light and move fast is our motto. Having said that, the way our tours have been designed, you will not have to worry about getting stuck carrying suitcases on and off buses and trains. Furthermore, we provide you with a comprehensive preparation and packing list of everything you need to know and bring for each adventure tour. Simply click on the 'Preparation and Packing List' link to download the information.
What clothing should I pack for one of your adventures?
We always recommend packing as light as possible however the specific requirements for your tour will vary widely depending on where and when you are traveling. Our 'Packing List' document includes a suggested packing list and these can be downloaded from each individual trip summary page. The checklist is tour specific and based upon the experience of our expert staff.
Do we require vaccinations for any of your adventures?
Currently, none of our tours require vaccination. However, if any of our upcoming tour destinations require vaccinations, we will provide that information and resources to you upon inquiry. Please note: It is important that you receive the most accurate and up-to-date travel health information for the region you will be visiting. The only one qualified to provide you with this advice is your family physician or a specialist from a Travel Health clinic.
How many people can join a tour?
We keep our group sizes low so that you get more personal attention from our adventure guides. Group sizes range from 8 to 16 participants. This intimate size ensures that your group will not crowd your experience.
What are the age restrictions on your tours?
To travel independently you must be at least 18 years of age. There are no upper age limits for our tours as we provide an initial assessment to rule out any pre-existing medical conditions or physical injuries that may prevent your participation. The minimum age required to participate in our adventures ranges from 12 to 14 years of age when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian (maximum of 2 children per adult).
I'm a single traveller, will I be charged a single supplement?
Most of our trips do not have a single supplement. This means that the accommodation is on a twin share basis and, if you are travelling on your own, you will be sharing a room with another G Adventures traveller of the same sex. Some tours have an optional single supplement or rarely a mandatory single supplement.
An optional service that may be available is called "My Own Room". This service allows solo travellers to request their own private room while on tour. The cost and the details vary by trip, so please contact our office for more details.
Can I change my hotel accommodation?
Some of our destinations do not include hotel rooms but rather tree houses and cave camps. So, if you prefer a specific tree house, I'm sure we can accommodate! For destinations with hotels, they are not available for change, as they are included in the set itinerary.
Can I join a tour late or leave it early?
It's extremely difficult if not impossible to join a tour after it has begun. It is possible to leave a tour early, however, you will be responsible for your own arrangements from the moment you decide to leave the tour. You would also be responsible for all costs associated with joining a tour late or leaving one early. If you feel this may be necessary please contact our Travel Specialist before booking your tour.
Is local transportation included?
We provide the easiest way to adventure travel by assuring that all your local transportation within your trip itinerary will be covered. You will be responsible for all costs related to personal transportation not included in your itinerary (i.e.; transit or taxis on your free time).
Who are my travelling companions?
For privacy reasons we cannot provide you with advance details on your traveling companions. Our tours appeal to a wide range of travellers, most of whom are health conscious and share an adventurous spirit.
What does your sustainable and healthy brand mean to my trip experience?
Our brand of 'Adventure Travel, Only Healthier.', means that the locations you will travel to will be filled with natural, untouched landscapes. Our support for local farming in each of our destinations guarantees that the food you will be consuming is fresh, local and natural. Our physically healthy tours allows us to participate in activities every day, with minimal if no sight seeing – which you are welcomed to do on your free time instead of joining our 'yoga downtime'. We strive to provide trips that make you feel stronger, enlightened, humbled, clear headed and more energized upon your return.
Can I book extra nights of hotel accommodation before or after my tour?
Yes, in most cases we can arrange additional accommodation at our starting or ending hotels. Our tours are also located in locations where you can easily plan an extended getaway. Please contact our office for more details about extended stay information.
Is tipping included and if not, how much should I budget?
Tips are not included in the tour price. Since our adventure tours are all-inclusive, we recommend tipping at about 5% of the cost of your trip.


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The possibility of Wikipedia being taken over by attackers was just foiled by quick action on the part of Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, with the help of Check Point, the security firm that discovered the critical security hole in its code.
"It is conceivable that someone who discovered this vulnerability could have executed code that may have made it possible to access user data," says Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Jay Walsh. But it was Check Point researchers who discovered this vulnerability first in the MediaWiki project Web platform, which is open-source code used to create and maintain wiki websites.
Check Point says what its researchers uncovered was a remote-code execution flaw in MediaWiki 1.8 onwards where the attacker could potentially gain complete control of the vulnerable web server. A patch "was applied to the software within 45 minutes of discovery," says Walsh. WikiMedia has also released the patch today so others can apply it to the open-source code as well.
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This is only the third time since 2006 that a remote-code execution flaw had been identified in MediaWiki open-source code. If an attacker had discovered it first, then it would have been a "zero-day" vulnerability without a patch, says Patrick Wheeler, head of threat prevention product marketing at Check Point.
Check Point says if the vulnerability hadn't been discovered and fixed, an attacker could have been able to control the Wikipedia.org web server or any other wiki' site running on MediaWiki, and potentially inject and serve malware-infecting code to users visiting those sites.
This would have been a disaster to the millions of visitors to the site each month, and a blow to the respected open-source project that has helped foster the popular online Wikipedia encyclopedia.
Charles Henderson, director of application security services in Trustwave's SpiderLabs research division, says it's not that vulnerabilities are "necessarily better or worse" in open source as compared with closed source, proprietary code. The point is that open source code has become so widely used, including by business, any serious security issues in it that crop up can't be ignored.
Some open-source projects do a good job of managing security updates, says Henderson, while others seem more lax. But the openness of how code is developed and if necessary, patched, means that attackers can monitor open source development fairly easily, he says.
Sonatype CEO Wayne Jackson says the security of open-source code is getting more attention from those in the federal government, for example, who want to know more about how it gets developed. Jackson says there have been a string of security incidents associated with identified open-source vulnerabilities, such as last summer when a vulnerability in the Apache Struts web application framework was sold as an automated attack script in Chinese circles online. The Struts vulnerability was also tied to a cyber-intrusion into a Chicago-based trading exchange around that time, Jackson adds.
It's not unusual to find commercial software of one sort or another integrating open source. Jackson says one example is Sydney, Australia-based firm Atlassian which last summer publicly identified the Struts critical vulnerability in its software. He pointed out that Cisco also issued a security advisory last October related to Apache Struts remote-code execution vulnerability in its products.
It's often simple to identify sites built on open-source code such as Struts through a Google search, Jackson says.
Open-source code represents the modernization of software development, based on the idea of a "meritocracy" of achievement by software developers contributing into code they all share, Jackson says. But the downside is that "the ecosystem has treated open source like this huge sugar store, living off the sugar high of productivity."
One basic question about open-source is whether the organizations making use of it are even aware of it. "It's a fundamental problem," says Jackson. Sometimes it seems like the "bad guys are way more efficient than the good guys" in keeping track of open-source developments and usage.
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security. Twitter: MessmerE. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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A doctor who showed up to work with a blood alcohol content of nearly five times the legal driving limit had "self-medicated" with alcohol to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to an accusation filed by the Medical Board of California Thursday.
Jason Lane, M.D., could now lose his medical license because of the incident on Oct. 22, 2013, for which he was fired.
The medical board filed an interim order of suspension on June 30, 2014 to prohibit Lane from practicing medicine in California, though the board did not say if he had worked between then and the time he was terminated. Kimberly Kirchmeyer, executive director of the medical board, requested a hearing on the new accusation, which could allow her to revoke Lane's license.
Before the drunken incident, Lane was working as a physician and surgeon for Southern California Permanente Medical Group, dividing his time between the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Grantville and Palomar Medical Center in Escondido.
The night of Oct. 21, Lane and his wife got into a fight about his drinking, and before he went to sleep, he drank two bottles of wine, the accusation says. Around 1 a.m., Lane woke up and drank another eight ounces.
The next morning, he arrived at Kaiser so drunk he had to be admitted to the emergency room, says Kirchmeyer in the accusation.
A blood test revealed he had a BAC of 0.39 percent. Three days later, the Permanente medical group fired him.
During the medical board's investigation, Lane admitted he started binge drinking in college, and later, he had alcohol at night to help him sleep, according to the accusation.
But the problem worsened after he enlisted in the military in 2011 and worked as a trauma ICU physician in Afghanistan for four months.
"Upon his return from that deployment, respondent (Lane) admitted using alcohol to 'self-medicate' issues that he later identified as posttraumatic stress disorder," Kirchmeyer says in the document.
Lane discussed with investigators how he then began drinking at night and on weekends, but never at work. By fall 2013, he admitted to having at least one bottle of wine a night and started to feel withdrawal symptoms – like anxiety and shakiness – while at the hospitals, according to the board's investigation.
The physician says the morning of the critical incident, he vaguely remembered getting up and being taken to the emergency room, but he does not recall driving to work, the accusation alleges.
After he was treated for alcohol detoxification, the board lists how Lane became proactive about seeking help.
Lane first checked himself into a week-long treatment program, where he was diagnosed with alcohol dependence and withdrawal. When that program ended, he started a 30-day treatment session at Casa Palmera.
On Christmas Day, Lane joined Casa Palmera's six-week outpatient program and began attending Alcoholics Anonymous five or six times a week on Jan. 26, 2014, the accusation states.
Lane has not responded to NBC 7's request for comment.


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Plik's Safari
- Enter the arena and signal Plik to begin the Safari.
- Survive Plik's Safari.
- Let Plik know you survived the Safari.
- Mini Nuke
- Bottle Caps (M)
- Blood Pak
- RadAway
- Stimpak (x4)
- The Dismemberer
This is a pretty interesting, fun and straight-forward side quest. To undertake it, you'll need to find a location in Point Lookout called the Coastal Grotto. Finding this location is easy enough if you haven't yet found it. Simply go to the Ark & Dove Cathedral and travel due eastward towards the bluffs overlooking the water. If you drop down on the rockface and begin exploring the locale directly east of the Cathedral, you'll find the metal door leading to the grotto. Within, this side quest can begin, but for starters, simply traverse the pathway leading straight ahead, which is well-lit by various torches.
As the path turns leftward, you'll see a Ghoul sitting next to another metal door. Before running up to him to speak with him, however, go forward and explore the open cell on your right. This is where you can find the only items in the entire side quest in the form of an ultra-valuable Mini Nuke, plenty of Bottle Caps, a Blood Pack, some RadAway and some Stimpaks. You will want to read the diary on the table. The diary gives a Perk for +5 damage to gouls. After grabbing those goods, you can then talk to the Ghoul nearby. This is Plik, and he runs a "Safari" of sorts. Just what kind of safari, you ask? Well, it's more of a coliseum-like adventure than a safari, because Plik will lock you into an area and unleash Feral Ghouls on you and other participants. If you can survive the onslaught, killing all of the enemies you encounter, then you win. The steep cost of this side quest's entry fee -- 1,000 Bottle Caps -- makes it a tough endeavor to undertake. Nonetheless, there's no way around paying out.
Once you've paid, you're ready to enter the arena (of sorts) and get the meat of this side quest done. Once you're through the door, head forward towards the cell, where some of the Ghouls are being kept. Then, swing rightward, going over the bridge towards the location of other participants. None of them will have anything to say to you (they're all probably nervous). To begin the onslaught, press the button on the pillar with the light atop it. The light will start to beam outward and a noise will erupt incessantly. Expect both to go for the duration of the side quest as you are attacked by Ghouls of varying strengths from all angles.
You have a few advantages here. The first is that you're going to have help, at least initially, with all of the enemies. Don't expect this help to be permanent, however, since all of the other participants will inevitably perish before the last Ghoul is killed. Another advantage is that you won't face any truly difficult foes here. Swamp Ghouls, Glowing Ones and Roamers are the only kinds of Ghoul you'll face, and all can be killed relatively easily compared to their stronger cousins. And finally -- and this works especially well when all of the other participants have been wasted -- is to spin around in a circle using VATS over and over again, which will help you locate the Ghouls before they get to your location. Once the last one is killed, the light will stop flashing and the siren noise will end. All that's left to do is visit with Plik, who will congratulate you on a job well done and hand over a new melee weapon for your arsenal, an axe called The Dismemberer.
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VIENNA (AP) — Iran is poised for a major technological update of its uranium enrichment program, allowing it to vastly increase production of the material that can be used for both reactor fuel and nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press Thursday.
The diplomats said that Iran last week told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it wants to install thousands of high-technology machines at its main enriching site at Natanz, in central Iran. The machines are estimated to be able to enrich up to five times faster than the present equipment.
Iran argues it has a right to enrich for a civilian nuclear power program. But suspicion persists that the real aim is nuclear weapons, because it hid much of its program until it was revealed from the outside more than a decade ago and because of what the IAEA says are indications that it worked secretly on weapons development. Defying U.N. Security Council demands that it halt enrichment, Iran has instead expanded it.
One of the diplomats said Iranian officials informed the Vienna-based nuclear watchdog that they planned to mount as many as 3,132 of the new-generation centrifuges. He said a confidential note circulated Thursday to the IAEA's 35-nation board cited Iranian officials as saying that domestically developed IR-2m centrifuges would be used.
Iran says it is enriching only to power reactors and for scientific and medical purposes. But because of its nuclear secrecy, many countries fear that Iran may break out from its present production that is below the weapons-grade threshold and start enriching to levels of over 90 percent, used to arm nuclear weapons.
Tehran now has more than 10,000 centrifuges enriching uranium at its main plant at Natanz, 225 kilometers (140 miles) southeast of Tehran, to fuel grade at below 4 percent. Its separate Fordo facility, southwest of Tehran, has close to 3,000 centrifuges producing material enriched to 20 percent, which can be turned into weapons-grade uranium much more quickly.
Iran has depended on centrifuges whose design is decades old at both locations up to now, while occasionally displaying models of more advanced machines. If it makes good on its announcement to move to a high-tech model it will be able to increase its stockpile of enriched uranium at two to three times the present rate.
Tehran already has enough enriched material for several nuclear weapons. But it insists it has no such plans. And experts say that while it could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to arm a nuclear bomb with two to four months, it would still face serious engineering challenges that would lead to much longer delays before it would succeed in making the other components needed for a functioning warhead.
Diplomats: Iran prepared to up nuclear program
VIENNA (AP) — Iran is poised for a major technological update of its uranium enrichment program, allowing it to vastly increase production of the material that can be used for both reactor fuel and nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press Thursday.


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Stormy Weather Arts Festival Events
Held November 2-4, 2012, the Stormy Weather Arts Festival is a celebration of local art and creativity in and around Cannon Beach. A large variety of events and viewings are on the schedule.
Quickdraw and Silent Auction: Held at Surfsand Resort Friday evening, this event which kicks off the weekend of activities, is a festival highlight. Artists demonstrate their techniques, working for a full hour on a single painting, which will be finished and offered for sale during the weekend. Each artist will also offer work that will be auctioned off Friday evening.Artwork created by Jeffery Hull for the Festival
Tickets for this event, which sells out every year, will be on sale beginning September 4th at the Cannon Beach Chamber office. Call 503-436-2623. The price is $55, or $99 for two, and includes heavy hors d'oeuvres and two drinks.
Saturday Night Concert – An evening with the Curtis Salgado Band, 2012 Soul Blues Artist of the Year. "Triumphant, joyful blues-soaked R&B…one of the most soulful, honest singers ever" – Blues Review. Saturday, Nov. 3rd, 7:30 p.m. at the Coaster Theater.
Tickets cost $35 at the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce. Or call: 503-436-2623.
Check out more about the scheduled events at the Cannon Beach Gallery Group website.
About the Arts in Cannon Beach
This picturesque Oregon community upholds a standing reputation as "one of the 100 best art towns in America."
Start your art tour on Spruce Street and then circle back around Hemlock Street — you'll happen upon more than a dozen art galleries, their wares running the gamut from fine art and craft to glassworks to bronze.
Cannon Beach is home to a gallery collective as well as an arts association with its own non-profit gallery dedicated to supporting both established and emerging artists. Watercolor, oil, glass and metal are among the mediums chosen by local working artists.


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The Willamette MBA mentorship program pairs MBA students with successful professionals in business, government and not-for-profit careers, offering a unique opportunity for guidance, coaching and relationship building. Mentors assist students by providing critical perspective and coaching as mentees focus on career interests, develop resumeés of experience and create networks of professional contacts.
Students in Willamette's MBA program represent a diverse, global community. Our curriculum integrates business, government and non-profit management in a highly experiential environment. Mentees may be in their first or second year of the MBA program, international or domestic, and represent all spectrums of career tracks - early career, career change or career advancement.
Mentors are successful professionals who serve as role models for our students. We seek candidates who are positive, nurturing and able to give constructive feedback and have excellent coaching skills.
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At a minimum, mentors should plan to meet with students at least once per month during the school year (September through April). Mentors are also invited to take part in optional formal group events and workshops. Past members have invited their mentees to networking events, job shadows, golf outings with colleagues, and meetings with co-workers and clients. Mentors may review mentees' resumeés, papers or projects and offer advice on organizations or opportunities to make connections.
Mentors may be from the Salem or Portland areas. Students specify in their mentorship program applications if they can meet the requirements of the program with a Portland-based mentor.
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Students apply to be a part of the mentorship program and are proactive in contacting their mentors. Setting actionable, attainable goals as soon as possible helps ensure the relationship is mutually beneficial for the student and his or her mentor. At the initial meeting, students will bring 5 of their professional development goals. Your job is to negotiate one or two goals that will be realistic to focus on for this school year and develop a year-long plan. The student must turn this plan in to Beth Ursin by October 15. It works best, if you and the mentee can set your monthly meeting schedule right up front. Then at each meeting, confirm the next meeting date. Scheduling is the most difficult part of the mentorship program.
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text: This is a very special Spring listing!! Memorial Day Special!!! Get or give the chocolates you crave.....These will give you wonderfully colored eggs that are so beautiful you will want to eat them!!!!! These eggs will ship the week of either Tuesday or at the latest Wednesday of this week. Numbers from each pen will depend what is laid today and tomorrow! I cannot predict how many will be laid by each pen! The Garry Farm Chocolate Variety Pack will give you from three separate chicken tractors (separately housed by breed!) two varieties of Marans!!!!!: Black Copper Marans Blue/Black/Splash Marans And Our Beautiful Wheaten Marans. We have a wonderful pen of a Splash Marans rooster over both Black Copper Marans and Splash Marans. This shipment will ship the week of May 30, 2011, unless there is any change in laying patterns, which is not anticipated at this point.. If all the ladies lay equally, you should expect roughly 75% blue copper marans and 25% Splash Marans If payment is received later, the eggs will be shipped as soon as possible following payment. Please remember that black x splash = 100% blue While splash x splash = 100% splash Our splash hen is nicely marked and the rooster is just spectacular as you will see in his photo. This Pen represents Bev Davis and Wade Jeane and also our own Garry farm lineage. All of the flock are feathered and produce feathered babies. Egg coloring has been wonderful. Color will be slightly lighter on some than others depending on where they are in their laying cycles. Our Black Copper Marans are beautiful and Wade Jean and Bev Davis lineage. Their egg color is deep and rich. This is the first ever Garry Farm Black Copper Marans born...Still one of my favorite pictures, despite when I ask My beloved to bring a yellow baby blanket, he couldn't find it and brought some yellow insulation...Don't worry no chick was harmed in the taking of this photo, but don't try it at home please! Our Wheaten marans are so stunning..This flock is of Bev Davis/Buddy Henry lineage and now Garry farm lineage as well. Here's one of the pretty pullets from the original flock! No pullet eggs will be included however!!!!! My pullets are in a separate penned area. Here's a picture of the laying flock: I have been really pleased with the rich coloring of eggs in this flock...The hens have been laying now for many months and the coloring remains beautiful! We breed toward the anticipated standards in our flocks Now here are some Chocolate lovely egg pictures Please remember that all hens are at different stages painting their eggs but all were born of dark eggs! Wheaten marans - made about 4 months ago: BBS Marans Black Copper Marans: Payment & Shipping Details: For this listing, we are only able to accept paypal and ship only within the continental US states and Alaska. Pickups at our farm are also allowed. If you don't want to purchase online, but purchase directly from our farm, please pm and we'll be glad to do that as well. We accept paypal and money orders for direct purchases, not part of this auction. Money orders must be received prior to shipping orders. Pickups from our farm are welcomed and scheduled. In order to mail these after the close of the auction, please paypal the us at the following address: [email protected] Be sure that your paypal mailing address is current and if you want to pick up at the post office, please let me know via a pm your phone so I can put it on the box! If you want insurance, please send $18.70 not $16.70 for shipping as the insurance from USPS costs us $2.00 more. If for any reason you want us to add a heat pack to the package, it is an additional $2.00. For this auction, you will receive a minimum of 12 eggs and more if they are available the day of shipping. We are very care about selecting, carefully packing, packing materials, priority shipping and confirmation delivery. If extra(s) are available at the time of shipping, I'll include those as well. Normally shipping is computed based on your zip code and whether you want insurance or express mailing instead of our regular priority shipping with confirmation delivery which is our normal way of shipping. To make this easier for the winner at the close of the auction, we have a set shipping amount which represents priority mail and confirmation delivery,shipping and handling costs,packing materials and taking to the post office, etc. If you want insurance, please add $2 more if you win the auction. If you want xpress mail, please contact me before payment as it will be more. (Our costs may indeed exceed the amount, but for the convenience of paying for the auction at the close of the auction and our ability to get the eggs mailed to you the next day after payment we will supplement mailing costs. Please be aware that shipping has increased for for this year for "weighted" packages which ours represent. We only ship within the continental US (48 states) and to Alaska. We ship eggs the same way we would like to receive them. We bubble wrap each egg separately, putting in a regular box (not an egg carton) which is then cushioned and set in a larger box. These are not the prepaid priority boxes but we use the large boxes that can be ordered through USPS as the standard mailing box. Our mailing costs can often be higher than the prepaid boxes but we find that they arrive in better shape, so it's well worth the extra time, packing materials and shipping costs. Occasionally with a large order, we will use an even larger outside box. After carefully preparing you package we drive your eggs to the Post Office, where our local post office sets the egg shipments to the side to protect them. They are then placed on the truck on the top of all the other boxes! Even as carefully as we ship, we cannot guarantee that there will be no breakage in transit. We do not guarantee the percentage of your hatch as the incubators temperature and humidity are very variable. We will provide assistance to you during the hatch and help in every way possible to have the best hatch possible. We are a chemical free farm and farm full-time. We feed our animals with the best feed, sprouted grains, fresh grasses, treats from the garden and loving care. For more information about our farm, please visit our website http://www.freewebs.com/thegarryfarm/ Please check out our feedback. http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pcz6aC_klXJDTE8H01hR-RA and the current feedback system at the top of this listing. More information about our full time farm and our philosophy is available at our website http://www.freewebs.com/thegarryfarm/ or facebook The Garry Farm or our blogspot at: http://thegarryfarm.blogspot.com/ Since we full time farm, the website may not have all the flocks photos. That is an ongoing work project for us. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for your interest. Happy Bidding and have a blessed day!! Nancy


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When I found this new bento box recently I had to get one for Ethan. HAD to! The boy only lives, breathes and dreams of Lego's. And now he can eat in one too! I came across it at The Container Store. We finally had one open up not far from home and I had to venture in on my first kid-free escape I could manage. When I discovered this box there I was thrilled! I've seen them periodically online, like in stock images in various weird places, but couldn't figure out where they came from. Mystery solved!
His mega Lego brick bento box holds his usual packed lunch foods: turkey rolls, cheddar cheese, kiwi fruit, crackers and a strawberry cereal bar.
The kiwi is chopped and in a jumbo sized silicone muffin cup with a Lego bento pick, the turkey rolls are also secured with Lego picks.
Lego bento picks! I made those using the same easy peasy technique shared in the tutorial: how to make cute bento picks. :)
The Lego cheddar cheese was made by cutting tiny circles with a wide straw and painstakingly placing the minuscule round nubs in place on rectangles of cheese. It was fun to surprise Ethan with the Lego'ed-to-the-max lunch, but I don't think I'll be making Lego cheese again anytime soon (or ever). It was a pain in the you-know-what.
To say Ethan was excited about this new bento box would be an understatement. He was totally stoked. :)
I know it can be hard to get a clear idea of the size of the box. I don't think it's as massive as it appears. It fits perfectly in Ethan's Pottery Barn Kids retro lunchbox with plenty of space left for an ice pack and drink container.
Lego mania! Who else has a kid or two (or three) vying for Lego's? Ethan is psyched about the new Dino sets. And there are a lot of Star Wars sets he still pines for. Not to mention Alien Conquest (that's Owen's fave), Ninjago, Pharaoh's Quest.... So many Legos, too little dollars. Ha. :)


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|March 4th, 2008
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The biggest scam of all. As someone said, "If voting was important [i.e., good for us]the government wouldn't be telling us to do it."
The biggest piece of BS ever: "If you didn't vote, you have no right to complain!"
At least in some countries there is a paper ballot but in USA, strangely, or maybe not so strange, your vote can be handily "disappeared".
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.
― Joseph Sobran
|March 17th, 2008
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Where the People Don't Rule
by Fred Reed
Common delusions notwithstanding, the United States, I submit, is not a democracy – by which is meant a system in which the will of the people prevails. Rather it is a curious mechanism artfully designed to circumvent the will of the people while appearing to be democratic. Several mechanisms accomplish this.
First, we have two identical parties which, when elected, do very much the same things. Thus the election determines not policy but only the division of spoils. Nothing really changes. The Democrats will never seriously reduce military spending, nor the Republicans, entitlements.
Second, the two parties determine on which questions we are allowed to vote. They simply refuse to engage the questions that matter most to many people. If you are against affirmative action, for whom do you vote? If you regard the schools as abominations? If you want to end the president's hobbyist wars?
Third, there is the effect of large jurisdictions. Suppose that you lived in a very small (and independent) school district and didn't like the curriculum. You could buttonhole the head of the school board, whom you would probably know, and say, "Look, Jack, I really think…." He would listen.
But suppose that you live in a suburban jurisdiction of 300,000. You as an individual mean nothing. To affect policy, you would have to form an organization, canvass for votes, solicit contributions, and place ads in newspapers. This is a fulltime job, prohibitively burdensome.
The larger the jurisdiction, the harder it is to exert influence. Much policy today is set at the state level. Now you need a statewide campaign to change the curriculum. Practically speaking, it isn't practical.
Fourth are impenetrable bureaucracies. A lot of policy is set by making regulations at some department or other, often federal. How do you call the Department of Education to protest a rule which is in fact a policy? The Department has thousands of telephones, few of them listed, all of which will brush you off. There is nothing the public can do to influence these goiterous, armored, unaccountable centers of power.
Yes, you can write your senator, and get a letter written by computer, "I thank you for your valuable insights, and assure you that I am doing all…."
Fifth is the invisible bureaucracy (which is also impenetrable). A few federal departments get at least a bit of attention from the press, chiefly State and Defense (sic). Most of the government gets no attention at all – HUD, for example. Nobody knows who the Secretary of HUD is, or what the department is doing. Similarly, the textbook publishers have some committee whose name I don't remember (See? It works) that decides what words can be used in texts, how women and Indians must be portrayed, what can be said about them, and so on. Such a group amounts to an unelected ministry of propaganda and, almost certainly, you have never heard of it.
Sixth, there is the illusion of journalism. The newspapers and networks encourage us to think of them as a vast web of hard-hitting, no-holds-barred, chips-where-they-may inquisitors of government: You can run, but you can't hide. In fact federal malefactors don't have to run or hide. The press isn't really looking.
Most of press coverage is only apparent. Television isn't journalism, but a service that translates into video stories found in the Washington Post and New York Times (really). Few newspapers have bureaus in Washington; the rest follow the lead of a small number of major outlets. These don't really cover things either.
When I was reporting on the military, there were (if memory serves) many hundreds of reporters accredited to the Pentagon, or at least writing about the armed services. It sounds impressive: All those gimlet eyes.
What invariably happened though was that some story would break – a toilet seat alleged to cost too much, or the failure of this or that. All the reporters would chase the toilet seat, fearful that their competitors might get some detail they didn't. Thus you had one story covered six hundred times. In any event the stories were often dishonest and almost always ignorant because reporters, apparently bound by some natural law, are obligate technical illiterates. This includes the reporters for the Post and the Times.
Seventh, and a bit more subtle, is the lack of centers of demographic power in competition with the official government. The Catholic Church, for example, once influentially represented a large part of the population. It has been brought to heel. We are left with government by lobby – the weapons industry, big pharma, AIPAC, the teachers unions – whose representatives pay Congress to do things against the public interest.
Eighth, we are ruled not by a government but by a class. Here the media are crucial. Unless you spend time outside of America, you may not realize to what extent the press is controlled. The press is largely free, yes, but it is also largely owned by a small number of corporations which, in turn, are run by people from the same pool from which are drawn high-level pols and their advisers. They are rich people who know each other and have the same interests. It is very nearly correct to say that these people are the government of the United States, and that the federal apparatus merely a useful theatrical manifestation.
Finally, though it may not be deliberate, the schools produce a pitiably ignorant population that can't vote wisely. Just as trial lawyers don't want intelligent jurors, as they are harder to manipulate, so political parties don't want educated voters. The existence of a puzzled mass gawping at Oprah reduces elections to popularity contests modulated by the state of the economy. One party may win, yes, or the other. But a TV-besotted electorate doesn't meddle in matters important to its rulers. It has never heard of them.
To disguise all of this, elections provide the excitement and intellectual content of a football game, without the importance. They allow a sense of Participation. In bars across the land, in high-school gyms become forums, people become heated about what they imagine to be decisions of great import: This candidate or that? It keeps them from feeling left out while denying them power.
It is fraud. In a sense, the candidates do not even exist. A presidential candidate consists of two speechwriters, a makeup man, a gestures coach, ad agency, two pollsters and an interpreter of focus groups. Depending on his numbers, the handlers may suggest a more fixed stare to crank up his decisiveness quotient for male or Republican voters, or dial in a bit of compassion for a Democratic or female audience. The newspapers will report this calculated transformation. Yet it works. You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.
When people sense this and decline to vote, we cluck like disturbed hens and speak of apathy. Nope. Just common sense.
March 11, 2008
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|March 17th, 2008
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The best article imaginable on why voting is stupid.
Fred himself decided that living in Mexico with his "pareja" Violeta are preferable to the problems of living in America. See, you let all the "undesirables" cross the border into the U.S.A., then you yourself go to live in the rapidly de-Mexicanizing Mexico. Life is good!
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.
― Joseph Sobran
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A collective voting moratorium for the overssen installment of punchcard voting would make voting worthwhile. One reason why:
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Rajasthan (rä´jəstän), state (2001 provisional pop. 56,473,122), 132,150 sq mi (342,269 sq km), NW India, bordered on the west by Pakistan. The capital is Jaipur; other large cities are Ajmer, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Kota, and Udaipur. In the west of the state is the Thar (Indian) Desert, which is sparsely inhabited by pastoral nomads; there are significant oil deposits in the west. In the east is part of the upland region of the Deccan, where, with the aid of irrigation, millet, wheat, and cotton are grown. The state's cultivated acreage has increased through irrigation projects, including the Indira Gandhi Canal, opened in 1984. The Aravalli Hills cross the state from the northeast to the southwest; they produce salt, lead, zinc, marble, coal, mica, phosphate, and gypsum. Handicrafts are Rajasthan's leading industry. Hindus comprise about 75% of the population, which also includes Muslims, Jains, and native peoples. Rajasthani and Hindi are the principal languages.
The state was formed in 1948 from several former principalities of Rajputana. Other small areas were added in 1949, 1950, and 1956. Rajasthan is one of the strongholds of the conservative Hindu Bharatiya Janata and Janata Dal political parties, which are supported by many former Rajput princes. The state has numerous famous Buddhist, Jain, and Mughal monuments. In 1974 the desert region of Rajasthan was the site of the underground explosion of India's first nuclear device. Rajasthan is governed by a chief minister and cabinet responsible to an elected unicameral legislature and by a governor appointed by India's president.


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150 Animals Discovered At Howell Home
A Howell woman faces a slew of animal cruelty charges after more than 100 were taken out of her home over the weekend.
The Asbury Park Press reports the animals were removed by the Monmouth County SPCA on Sunday from the Maxim Southard Road property of 56-year-old Mercedes Lopez who also tried to strike a police officer during her arrest.
Victor "Buddy" Amato, chief humane law enforcement officer for MSPCA, says several animals were suffering serious health ailments. "When we got there, there was one cat literally dying in front of us," Amato told the Press.. "There was also another dog who had no use of his hind legs and was just dragging himself around. Everywhere you looked there was a cat."
Amato says the state SPCA was tipped off that sick animals were being sold from the address.
While it's a bad situation, Lopez is "not a bad person" says Amato. He says she loved the animals, couldn't bring herself to get rid of any and found herself in over her head. One person "can't take care of that many animals," said Amato.
Amato estimates there were around 200 animals on the property including 50 roosters, 40 dogs, 15 to 20 rabbits, one raccoon and at least 100 cats on the property. He says the MSPCA is not planning a return visit. The animals will be evaluated and will be put up for adoption at the MSPCA's Eatontown and Freehold locations.
A handful will have to be euthanized.
Amato says thery also found the skeletal remains of some of the animals in the back of the home, as well as 30 carcasses that hadn't fully decomposed.


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NBC Pins Hopes on Rich Pervert
Exciting news for fans of the country's premiere cat-juggling competition, America's Got Talent. The Piers Morgan-shaped hole in the NBC reality show's judging roster has been filled with none other than self-proclaimed King of All Satellite Radio, Howard Stern. The deal was announced on Stern's Sirius radio show this morning, with Stern literally signing the contract on the air that would pay him an undisclosed amount (the rumor is $15 million), in addition to moving the show from L.A. to New York.
Morgan has already tweeted his approval of his successor, saying, "Congrats to @HowardStern on landing my #AmericasGotTalent judging gig — he'll be outrageous, hilarious, dangerous & brilliant. Can't wait." Fellow judge Howie Mandel declared, "I couldnt be happier" on Twitter while Sharon Osbourne has so far remained suspiciously quiet.
With literally thousands of hours under his belt judging everything from Miss Butterface Pageants to Small Penis Contests, Howard seems a natural choice. Congratulations, NBC; with the return of Fear Factor this week and now this classy feather in your cap, you are officially back on track towards recapturing the all-important, 18-49 "Baba Booey!"-yelling demo.
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100-year-old light bulb found. It still works
A unique HYLO bulb, that was patented in 1904, was still lighting the basement of the Fire Museum of York County. Dennis Kunkle, director of facilities for the York County History Center, tells us how it works. Paul Kuehnel
YORK, Pa. — A bulb that may have been burning since the early 1900s has been discovered glowing dimly in the basement of the Fire Museum of York County.
Dennis Kunkle, director of facilities for the York County History Center, sent pictures and a description of the old bulb to an antique radio forum, which told him about the origin of the dual filament bulb.
The Phelps HYLO, "HIGH-LOW" bulb, patented in 1904, was designed to save electricity.
According to a period advertisement: "One cent will buy electricity enough to run a HYLO turned down for 12 hours ... It is a lamp which will give you either a 16 candle power light or a 1 candle power light, without any waste of current by simply turning down as easily as turning down a gas jet." This is in reference to gas lighting, popular around 1900.
Observing the bulb in operation, low is indeed equal to the light of one candle.
A flexible contact on the base of the bulb allows the second filament to be turned on by screwing it in a little tighter.
Kunkle can't say for certain how long the bulb has been operating in the basement of the fire museum, but since the building was built in 1903, it is possible that the bulb has been with the building since the beginning.
Kunkle went on to say that the smoky coating inside the bulb indicates that it probably contains carbon filaments. Carbon filaments were replaced with tungsten in light bulbs after about 1920
The bulb was removed from the basement socket of the fire museum this week and added to the York County History Center collection.
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Almost 900 people are RSVPed for a July 4th march on Washington, D.C. where protesters plan to carry loaded rifles. In D.C., openly carrying guns is against the law. But the organizer of the event, libertarian radio host Adam Kokesh, says the march is an act of "civil disobedience" that attempts to prove gun advocates' point in the "SUBTLEST way possible."
The event's Facebook invitation describes the march as a nonviolent demonstration, "unless the government chooses to make it violent:"
This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. We are marching to mark the high water mark of government & to turn the tide. This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent. Should we meet physical resistance, we will peacefully turn back, having shown that free people are not welcome in Washington, & returning with the resolve that the politicians, bureaucrats, & enforcers of the federal government will not be welcome in the land of the free.
There's a remote chance that there will be violence as there has been from government before, and I think it should be clear that if anyone involved in this event is approached respectfully by agents of the state, they will submit to arrest without resisting. We are truly saying in the SUBTLEST way possible that we would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald notes that Kokesh has expressed increasingly radical views on his show and on Twitter. Just this week, he called for the abolishment of the U.S. government.
Generally, open carry demonstrations have occurred in places with weaker gun laws, as well as a litmus test for how far gun violence laws can be challenged. Most recently, a group of men brought their rifles to intimidate moms who rallied for action on gun violence. "Another group brought guns into a Virginia public library full of children, while demonstrators in Oregon brandished assault rifles in the State Capitol.


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(ISLAMABAD) -- An American citizen was one of 11 people killed in an attack in northern Pakistan on Sunday.
Authorities say Islamist militants wearing police uniforms opened fire on a base camp at Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak in the world.
According to BBC News, the attack killed at least nine foreign tourists. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming it was in response to the killing of its second-in-command, Waliur Rehman, in a drone strike in May.
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The Oneida Indian Nation's campaign against the team name of the Washington pro football club ran into a speed bump when two Washington D.C. radio stations declined to air the proposed ads this weekend.
WJFK and WPGC decided not to run an ad created by the Oneidas, though the stations had run a similar ad earlier in the season. Steve Swenson, senior vice president of CBS Radio in Washington, which operates the stations, said in an email to the Washington Post that because of the amount of an-air debate about the issue, he felt running paid commercials would not be "beneficial for this discussion or our audience."
WTEM, better known as ESPN980, which is owned by team owner Daniel Snyder, declined to run the earlier Change the Mascot advertisement.
WJFK, better known as 106.7 The Fan, is the station that aired an interview with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in which he appeared to change tone on the team name issue, advocating that the NFL listen to its critics if even one person is offended.
"It is unfortunate and un-American that the station permits the team to slander Native Americans on the public airwaves with the use of the r-word, but doesn't permit Native Americans to use the same airwaves to object to the use of a racial slur," Oneida Nation representative Ray Halbritter said in a statement.
"We will not be silent mascots. This issue is not going away, as evidenced by the growing and diverse support this effort gains by the day."
MORE: Dan Snyder says he will 'never' change mascot
POLL: Majority see why team name is offensive
BRENNAN: 'It's time I stopped using Redskins'
The ad that the stations declined to run begins with the voice of a narrator: "For all of its storied history, Washington's NFL team will always remain in the history books as the last team to permit integration. That was the legacy of former Washington team owner George Preston Marshall, and he was the same person who decided to use a racial slur as the team's name. Today, team owner Dan Snyder is still choosing to use that racial slur. But it doesn't have to be this way."
Next comes Halbritter's voice: "As a proud NFL sponsor, our Indian Tribal Nation wants the NFL to be on the right side of history in the fight against racism. We know Washington fans do not mean to offend Native Americans. By changing his team's name Mr. Snyder can create a better historical legacy for himself -- one of tolerance and mutual respect, not of racial epithets.
"Native Americans do not want their people to be hurt by such painful epithets. We just want to be treated as what we all are: Americans."


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Crime Patrol (Arcade)
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Critic Score
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
User Score
5 point score based on user ratings.
DescriptionOriginating in the arcades, this is a full-motion video rail shooter with real actors, produced by the makers of Mad Dog McCree.
Crime Patrol puts the player in the shoes of a police officer, who starts as a Rookie and has to work his way up to become a member of SWAT and eventually the Delta Force team. To do that, he has to complete missions, which involve taking down criminals in a variety of locations. Beginning with smaller-scale criminals (such as shoplifters), the hero will later have to face gangsters, drug lords, and eventually terrorists. For each set of missions, the player characters is being teamed up with another police officer. The gameplay is quite similar to any other of the large live-action laser-gun games found in the arcades - all the player has to do is take the gun (or the mouse in the computer version) and show those criminals who's the boss!
There are no Arcade user screenshots for this game.
There are 58 other screenshots from other versions of this game or official promotional screenshots.
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Alternate Titles
- "Патруль" -- Alternative Russian spelling
Part of the Following Groups
- BPjS / BPjM indexed games
- Crime Patrol series
- Genre: Light Gun Shooter
- Live action cut-scenes
- Theme: Law enforcement
User Reviews
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German indexOn February 28, 1995, Crime Patrol was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. More information about this topic can be found in the game group.
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Davis left with the game tied after freshman Mike Martin hit a towering home run to left-center in the third inning. The Crimson bullpen didn't provide relief unfortunately, as three relievers allowed six hits, two walks and a hit batsman in three innings. Both walks and the hit batter scored with Northeastern striking for a pair of homers in the late innings.
Both teams had 10 hits. Harvard was led by Martin, who had two hits as did Jeff Reynolds (two doubles) and Jake McGuiggan. McGuiggan has been on a torrid pace with the sophomore hitting safely in 14 of his last 22 at bats (.636). Jack Colton had a two-run double in the eighth inning.
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