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The most grotesque perversions of human sexuality, once relegated to the darkened side streets of our cities, now can be accessed with only a few keyboard clicks. However, those individuals who believe they can travel undercover to online dens of sexual depravity to view and download pornography are not as anonymous as they might believe.
While it has long been known that some such sites have the ability to hack into a visitor's computer, there are now reports that at least one Internet purveyor of porn has the means to disable a computer with a flood of pop-up ads if the potential customer doesn't provide payment for a subscription that automatically follows a "free trial" of the site's disgusting offerings.
According to foxnews.com , those who sign up do get their three days of "free access," but immediately thereafter they are the victims of a daily barrage of pop-up windows that cannot be closed—whether or not the computer is connected to the Internet—unless they pay up.
As much as I dislike strong-armed business tactics, I don't have any sympathy for someone who views pornography—on the Internet or otherwise—and whose computer is held hostage in this manner for a payment. Pornography is an ugly corruption of that which God created for good. It perverts and distorts all of the God-given purposes for sexual intimacy.
Yet these severely misguided individuals who are caught up in seeking after these addictive and dangerous temptations of the flesh become victims of their own deviancy, as this entry at McAfee Avert Labs blog suggests:
"What it appears they are doing is, in my humble opinion, a form of extortion based on the (usually correct) assumption that a person's computer will be key to many other activities in their daily life. Also, possibly with inadvertent/passive blackmail as a bonus: someone not wanting other family members or a spouse to realize they've been surfing for pornography, or perhaps even more dire, someone to see it on a computer at their workplace, and becoming desperate to silence the persistent billing pop-ups."
This business decision by this Web site owner demonstrates—in a unique way—the physical, emotional, and spiritual snare of pornography. As any fisherman would know, without a barb on the fishhook, most fish would escape the line before being hauled into the boat.
The satanic siren call of pornography does not let people—once caught—off the hook so easily (Romans 7:21-25); for once they have purposely viewed pornography, they are changed individuals, with disturbing, often violent, images burned onto their psychological "hard drives."
They are changed in their view of women, their view of procreation, and their view of the world. Pornography reinforces the lie that "it's all about me." And pornography on the Internet—a digital river of toxic slime—is far more violent, deviant, and perverse than what is available elsewhere.
Of all the moral and ethical issues facing families in the twenty-first century, pornography is perhaps among the most pernicious. The homes of Christian families are not immune from the dangers posed by the polluted floodwaters spewed forth from this electrified stream of pagan sexuality.
Keeping you and your children protected from this heathen onslaught takes some work, particularly with the rapid technical advancements in media and communication.
Pornography and other sexually explicit material are now readily available on any wireless mobile device with Internet capabilities.
Entertainment devices have become venues for such content, particularly digital video content. In addition to the personal computer, wireless handheld devices such as new generation video cell phones, iPods, iPhones, PDAs, and the newest in video game consoles, including PlayStation 3 , are now conduits for all the pornography available on the Internet.
Tamper-proof Internet filters or monitoring systems are readily available for computers, but few families take advantage of the protection they afford. In fact, Rick Schatz, with the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families , estimates that far less than ten percent of the computers in Christian households are outfitted with such a filter.
The latest generation of cellular telephones offer users expanded capabilities, including the ability to download explicit content from the Internet onto the phone. While the five largest wireless companies, T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Alltel, and Verizon are committed to developing filtering technology for their telephones, none have blocking mechanisms available yet.
Parents give many reasons for not protecting their family from the dangers of the Internet: concerns about degraded service, too many safe sites being blocked, filters that are too porous, or a feeling of helplessness in face of the technology. Yet there is every reason to do everything possible to ensure than neither you nor your children are snagged by the polluted hook of pornography.
Dr. Richard Land is president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention's official entity assigned to address social, moral, and ethical concerns, with particular attention to their impact on American families and their faith.


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Ah, shopping. One of my favorite words. If shopping were a person, we'd be frenemies -- as I only talk to her when I either need something or I need a good therapy session. Plus, she gets mad at me because I only treat her to lunch at the food court.
I digress.
Anyways, this week in our Working Closet series is shopping. So far we've cleaned out our clothes, assessed our needs and organized our mess so we are very well prepared to go shopping. Remember when I told you to make a list in the assess section? Well get that list ready, girls and boys, we're going shopping.
1. Get your list on. Just like I mentioned before, create a closet shopping list much like you would a grocery list. Obviously, it will not be necessary to fulfill this list each week (no matter how you look at it, you won't starve without clothes) but it is necessary to know what you need for when you do go shopping. I keep my list on my phone, so that I can remember what I need versus what I want.
2. Be intentional. I know I sound a lot like Jess here, but it's true. If you are using shopping for anything other than fulfilling a need of something to wear, then you are abusing the privilege. I know this because I abuse shopping all of the time. I love it -- it's my vice. Everyone has a vice, for some it's smoking, gambling, drinking too much. For me, it's shopping. But that doesn't mean that I can't find a balance between enjoying shopping and using it to my advantage. And although I have not quite conquered this yet, I know the truth. And the truth is when you are intentional with shopping, you spend what you budgeted and you get only what you need. Be intentional. Don't make me say it again. (be intentional)
3. Shop more, not less. Wait -- what did I just say? You heard me. Shop more, not less. No, the world economy and all of the retailers in it are not paying me to say that. What I mean is this: Shopping intentionally takes time and energy. I am constantly "shopping" but I'm not spending a dime. Since I like stores like J.Crew, Loft or Gap, I have to keep an eye out for deals or sales. I rarely buy something full price at those stores. Since I live an hour away from the closest mall, creeping by every day and asking "having a sale yet?" isn't an option. Instead I keep an eye on sales by signing up for their emails and getting on their mailing list. Just this week I got 4 coupons in the mail alone and even more emails telling me about their sales. Now, if I needed something and I have money for it on my budget, this would be the time to shop. But my list has been checked off and I have no more money to spend this month. So I will by-pass these savings, as you aren't really saving money by buying it if you don't need it.
*I should also note that this really applies to shopping retail. If you prefer shopping thrift or second-hand, the best thing to do is to know when they stock their items (as this will guarantee that week's best selection) and what days they have their deals. Most thrift stores have the same deals each week (Saturday is $5 bag day at my local Salvation Army), so be sure to ask when they have their discount days.
4. Choose quality over quantity, every time. Some people ask how I can afford the items that I do and at full-price I can't sometimes. But this is something I've learned over my years as a shopper, I believe Shakespeare said it best: "tis better to by 1 really nice item you will wear a lot, than 5 really crappy items you will wear once." It took me a lot of wasted money to figure this out. I would spend $100 on 5 or 6 things that I never wore and then lust over 1 skirt at J.Crew that I would probably wear all of the time, saying I could never afford that $100 skirt. Well that was true, because I was literally throwing my money away on cheap items that I only bought because they were cheap. When you spend money on a nice piece, it is an investment. Therefore you want to treat that piece well and wear it as many times as possible. For me anyways, I have to watch what I buy and make sure that it's the quality I'm buying and not because it's on sale. I try to stick with higher quality items that I know will stand the test of time. Even if that means I can only buy 1 or 2 items that month. Here is a good rule of thumb that I use when something is on sale: "Would I buy this item at full-price?" If the answer is yes, then I have no heartburn in buying it on sale. If I waiver on it, then I put it back.
There is no magic scale of quality. My quality could be J.Crew or Gap while someone else's could be Coach or Tory Burch and someone else's could be Target and Old Navy. Or perhaps you like to only shop vintage or thrift stores. Listen here: It does not matter. Just make sure that what you buy, you understand is an investment that you are making into your closet. Therefore buy something worth wearing many times and don't waste your time or money on things that you'll never wear. (Shakespeare didn't write that one, I did.)
5. Set a budget. (This perhaps should have been the first rule. Oh well. Mix 'em up in whatever order you'd like.) Everyone's budget looks different, just make sure you have one. Maybe you can spend $100 a month on clothing or $100 every three months. Whatever your budget is make sure you know it and most importantly that you follow it.
It helps me to let my husband know each month what I can spend. Because he will call me on it every time if I try to go over. The responsible part of my brain calls this accountability, the irresponsible part of my brain calls this annoying. Either way it's good to stick to my budget. And please know that building your wardrobe does not happen with one shopping trip nor does it have a specific time tied to it. Building your wardrobe is a constant cycle of ebb and flow, so don't worry about finding a complete wardrobe in one day. That would be exhausting.
6. Whatever you buy, make sure it fits. And I don't mean on your body. Well I do -- it should fit your body, do not buy clothes too big or small that would be ridiculous. But I mean it should fit into your wardrobe immediately. If you have to buy 2-3 other pieces just to be able to wear something, then what the heck are you doing buying it? If it doesn't naturally fit in your closet, then you probably won't wear it. I've proven this fact over and over again. Who knew that all my years as a shopaholic I was just doing research for my blog to help you guys?
You are welcome.
Part One: Purge
Part Two: Assess
Part Three: Organize

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I rarely drink soda but if I do, I love ginger ale.
There's something about it that just makes me feel better and more settled if I'm feeling a little off.
On airplanes, it's a must-have. And when I was pregnant, I lived on it, along with saltines.
When I saw Lindsay's May Kitchen Challenge to make your own, I jumped on board.
I love a good DIY challenge and make everything from homemade peanut butter to vanilla extract to mustard to hot fudge, and figured why not ginger ale.
It's very simple to make and almost a work-free recipe, the best kind.
Make a simple syrup with water, sugar, and freshly grated ginger. Pour the strained simple syrup into bottles filled with tap water, lemon juice, a pinch of active dry yeast, shake, and let it sit on your counter for two or more days.
The yeast ferment the mixture and in the process, carbon dioxide (carbonation) is created, otherwise known as fizz.
It's no where as fizzy as storebought ginger ale, but I didn't expect it to be like cracking open a fizz-tastic can of Diet Coke. I knew from brewing homemade kombucha that it's not the norm to have a fizz-fest.
You can ferment longer than two days, and in the process, more fizz will be created. You'll also be closer to creating ginger beer, rather than ginger ale. As days pass in the fermentation process, the yeast eat any available sugar, create sugar alcohols as a byproduct, the beverage becomes less sweet, and contains more alcohol.
The mention of it containing alcohol comes with a huge caveat because there's more alcohol in a few tablespoons of vanilla extract than in a glass of ginger ale or kombucha. And a swig of cough medicine has far more alcohol than any of them.
I largely adapted an Alton Brown recipe and although it's really good, it doesn't taste like commercial ginger ale, such as Canada Dry or Schweppes. It reminds me of sake with rice wine undertones. I feel like I'm in a sushi restaurant when sipping it. If you like sake, you'll love this stuff.
I was expecting more of a ginger pop, because I used slightly more ground ginger than Alton called for, but it was still quite mild. If you're a ginger fiend and love really intense ginger, you could likely double the grated ginger amount.
It would be strong, and far more intense than commercial ginger ale, yet addictively pleasant. Spicy food and food that has natural heat makes me want more once I have a taste.
I can envision infusing the ginger ale with other flavors, from rose water to lemon zest to vanilla stevia. There's almost nothing off limits, depending on the flavor profile you're going for.
How cool will it be when you have guests over and you can ask them if they'd like some homemade ginger ale. Or tell them their cocktail was mixed with homemade ginger ale. They'll confuse you for Martha Stewart.
Bottoms up.
Making homemade ginger ale is nearly work-free, relying on yeast to ferment the mixture, thereby creating carbonation and fizz. Between the freshly grated ginger and slight yeasty taste, the ginger ale reminds me of sake. The ginger ale is great on it's own, or feel free to infuse other flavors into it. Serve it at room temp, chilled, over ice, or as the mixer for your favorite cocktail.
Adapted from Alton Brown
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Homemade Kombucha (also here and here) – I drink some kombucha almost daily. It makes me feel alive, better, and healthier overall. It's loaded with more probiotics ounce for ounce that just about anything else and I love the taste
Vegan Coconut Milk Kefir– (Countertop No-Cook Recipe) – Kefir make with coconut milk is my favorite kind. It has the flavor profile of coconut milk yogurt, with just a slight tang, in liquid form
Homemade Horchata (Vegan, GF, Soy-Free) – Make on in blender and ferment on countertop overnight
Homemade Baileys Irish Cream – Make in blender in literally 30 seconds and it's a dead-ringer for the real thing
Homemade Honey Roasted Butterscotch White Chocolate Peanut Butter – My favorite peanut butter ever, and it takes 5 minutes to make
10-Minute Homemade Hot Fudge (GF) – Better than any storebought I've ever had and so easy
Homemade Vanilla Extract – Costs pennies on the dollar to make, and it's essentially work-free
Do you like ginger ale? Ever brewed or fermented something?
Favorite thing to make at home and DIY?


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We are a new church in the Spotyslvania/Massaponax area. We exist because the grace of God made evident in our lives enables us to make the grace of God evident to the world. We hope to do that through community, worship, and service.
Evident Grace came about by the generous and faithful vision of New Life in Christ Church in Fredericksburg and Hope of Christ Church in Stafford. Our pastor, Gordon Duncan, was an elder at Redeemer Church which planted six churches in its history including the one that Gordon planted before Evident Grace.
This incredible heritage and legacy is part of our DNA. While we grow, we want to dream about supporting other churches, and we want to put plans into place to eventually plant one ourselves. This gives us a vision of connectivity not only to our denomination but to other Christ-preaching networks that plant and want to plant churches as well.


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How to rollerblade with teacher GENJI & Fujii. Starting off with just getting from one side of the room to the other, all the way up to doing stunts. Also Downtown surprise Yamazaki by bringing out his BMW car for the rookie rollerbladers to jump over.
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The cast play a volleyball-style keepy-uppy game using their hands, but the ball has thumbtacks all over it which gradually increases. I believe clips from this are in the Highlight Omnibus episodes.
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Calling him an "exemplary representative for the Hudson Valley," Gov.
Calling him an "exemplary representative for the Hudson Valley," Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a statement in support of longtime incumbent Sen. Stephen Saland, who officially conceded his re-election bid today.
Saland became the first Republican ever endorsed by Cuomo, a Democrat, earlier this year. Saland worked behind the scenes with Cuomo last year to craft religious exemptions to a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, ultimately providing one of four GOP votes necessary for the measure to become law.
A Poughkeepsie Republican, Saland conceded his race to Democrat Terry Gipson, a trustee from Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, earlier today
"It is unfortunate that an elected official who stood so strong for equality, as Steve did, was not able to survive in today's political environment," Cuomo said in his statement.
Cuomo has long had complimentary things to say about Saland, issuing a glowing, two-page endorsement letter
in October.
Ultimately, Saland lost by about 2,000 votes to Gipson, while Conservative Party candidate Neil Di Carlo grabbed about 15,000 votes.
With Saland's defeat, three of the four Republican senators who supported same-sex marriage won't return to Albany in January. Saratoga Sen. Roy McDonald was defeated in a primary, while Sen. James Alesi, R-Perinton, Monroe County, declined to seek re-election.
Cuomo's full statement appears after the jump.
"Senator Stephen Saland has been an exemplary representative for the Hudson Valley whose leadership has made New York a better place. "Steve has been a true partner who always put what was right before politics, and worked with me during the past two years to rebuild this state and restore the people's faith in government. Throughout his career, he championed issues that directly affected New Yorkers, from strengthening protections against domestic violence, to putting in place an all-crimes DNA databank. As a result of his courage, tens of thousands of couples here in New York State have the freedom to marry whom they choose. Steve is a public servant of remarkable character, integrity, and courage and serves as a model for our collective aspirations of how our elected officials should perform. It is unfortunate that an elected official who stood so strong for equality, as Steve did, was not able to survive in today's political environment. "I thank Steve for his work on behalf of the people of the state of New York and his friendship, and give my warmest wishes to him, his wife Linda, and their family as they enter this next phase."


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When I had been practicing in North Carolina's juvenile courts for about a year, I represented a client charged in the same case as a 13-year-old special-education student named J.D.B. I remember sitting in a large courtroom and watching J.D.B.'s public defender skillfully cross-examine a police investigator.
Weeks earlier, J.D.B. had been pulled out of his social studies class and brought to a school conference room where this same investigator had questioned him for nearly 45 minutes about a string of neighborhood burglaries. Although the assistant principal, an administrative intern and a uniformed officer on detail to the school were also present, no one had contacted J.D.B.'s grandmother, who was his legal guardian, nor was J.D.B. given his Miranda warnings, told he could leave the room or allowed to make a phone call. The boy initially denied any wrongdoing, but after the assistant principal pressured him to "do the right thing" and the police investigator threatened to put him in juvenile detention, he quickly confessed.
At the court hearing, J.D.B.'s lawyer persuasively argued that her young client's confession should be suppressed (not used against him at trial) because he had been subjected to "custodial" interrogation without being told that he had the right to remain silent and to have an attorney. When she finished her argument, however, the juvenile court judge announced that the boy had no right to Miranda warnings, since a "reasonable person" would have felt he could leave the conference room at any time. Six years later, in 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the case of J.D.B. v. North Carolina, it reversed the trial court's ruling, holding that J.D.B.'s youth and status as a child should have been considered when determining whether he felt free to walk out under such circumstances.
This critically important decision came to mind this summer when I learned of recent cases in which teenage suspects confessed to crimes after being threatened by police officers during interrogation. Several of these cases occurred in Tennessee, such as when 17-year-old Codey Wayne Miller, diagnosed with borderline mental retardation, confessed to choking his mother to death. He did this after an officer threatened him with the death penalty — a legal impossibility given the Supreme Court's 2005 holding that capital punishment for juveniles is cruel and unusual punishment and, thus, unconstitutional. The judge who ordered Miller's confession to be suppressed called the interrogation techniques used against the teen "mind boggling" and "absolutely incredible."
Similarly, 19-year-old Knoxville resident Carlos Campbell confessed to playing a role in a series of drive-by shootings after police investigators warned he would be gang raped in prison on a daily basis if he did not admit his involvement. A judge recently denied Campbell's motion to suppress the confession, and it's unclear whether there will be an appeal.
A third Tennessee case involves a 14-year-old with no arrest record, Jonathan Ray, who confessed to setting a house fire that killed his mother. He did this after police told him his Miranda rights were meaningless because his stepfather — who lacked legal custody — had already given them permission to question him. The juvenile court judge suppressed the confession, but the case has not yet been resolved.
Although the J.D.B. case and those from Tennessee raise somewhat different legal issues, they all speak to the need for reform to ensure the rights of young suspects are protected during police questioning. Social science research has shown that children are particularly vulnerable to the coercive techniques described above and are more likely to provide unreliable information when questioned suggestively.
As a result, we must change the culture in which police regularly subject adolescents to such "mind boggling" tactics. Legislatures across the nation can start by joining the 17 states and the District of Columbia that have successfully mandated either audio or video recording of all interrogations, whether of youth or adults. We must automatically provide all minors with counsel upon any police questioning, a reform no state has adopted. Given that most police officers have received fewer than 10 hours of juvenile interview and interrogation training over their entire careers, law enforcement should be trained with the best practices established by the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
As the assistant principal urged J.D.B., it's time to do the right thing.
Thanks to Josh Tepfer, Project Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth and Assistant Clinical Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, for providing the documents and research relied upon in this column.
Tamar R. Birckhead works as associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law.


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Democratic Assemblyman Charles Calderon said he was encouraged that the California legislature has decided to fund the first portion of the state's high-speed rail project.
Calderon, D-Whittier, said he believes the $8 billion portion agreed to on Friday by the state Senate is a step in the right direction and would help bring jobs to both urban and rural areas.
"I was very pleased, very encouraged," Calderon said during a NewsConference segment that aired on Sunday, July 8, 2012. "It is the boldest move that we have made in California since the economic recession started."
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The projected $68 billion high-speed rail plan could link Los Angeles and San Francisco in what officials say is 2 hours and 40 minutes.
The bill agreed to authorizes the state to begin selling $4.5 billion in voter-approved bonds that includes $2.6 billion to build an initial 130-mile stretch of the high-speed rail line in the state's Central Valley.
That allows the state to draw another $3.2 billion in federal funding.
The first segment of the line will run from Madera to Bakersfield.
Senate Republicans blasted the decision, citing the state's ongoing budget problems. They said project would push California over a fiscal cliff. No GOP senators voted for the bill Friday.


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My Slash ultimate 4x4 ready for the Dunes all metal drive MIP X-Duty CVD'S Front & Rear, Hardened Gears, Fastlane metal diff cases with Front & Rear Spool lockers, Castle Mamba Max ESC & 4500kv 5mil shaft & 13T Pinion, 3s 40c 5300, RPM lower control arms & Rear Bumper, integy metal motor Mount,Slipper & Carbon fiber Main Drive Shaft.
In this picture i still have the Stock Motor & ESC in the Car but not any more.!
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Here is my slash 4x4 PE with mmm 2650 geared 17/50
MIP x-DUTY rear
Tekno cvd front
Gens ace 5000 mah 3s
It has a bunch more mods to it but too lazy to list aha if you have any questions on mods just ask
Before MT conversion
Here is my first paint job. It looked nice for about five minutes. I bought the wrong kind of paint! DOH!
Here is my current setup with SC8e wheels and tires.
The extra weight of the wheelset, in my opinion, makes the truck more stable and it flips over less.
The stock big bores can't handle the extra weight though. I upgraded to LOSI Ten T shocks. However my Castle SCT combo crapped out. The motor output bearing failed and the ESC quick working. I have yet to test the new shocks though.
I sent my stuff to Castle on October 3rd and I have yet to get it back. They have yet to answer any of my email status inquiries too!
Sorry for the crumby pictures. I still have a first gen 3G iPhone.
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I am VERY happy with the way this new Flo-Tek turned out. I planned on going wingless, but doing the whole "Decepticon" theme forced me to use them. I'm diggin it big time.
Windows were done with VHT Niteshades, and the paint was backed with Dupli-color truck bed liner. Makes it pretty rigid, hope it works out well.
Last edited by Northed; 11-06-2011 at 11:40 PM.
Slash 4x4 - Rpm, hardened input shaft and LiPo's
Here is my First Paint job for my new Slash 4x4. Candy blue Marble effect, silver and a metallic black. Turned out fairly well I think. And the back is duplicolors bedliner. Cut the overspray film out where I wanted bedliner, and sprayed on the outside.
new 2nd set of mashers with rpm revolvers and 10 led kit with rpm front bumper canisters!
New RPM parts
Front A-Arms
Rear Bumper
Front Bumper & Lights
mine and my son's trucks
first mod
2nd and 3rd paint job desperado wheels and trencher tires
my son's rock star body and my first attempt at using maskiing flames didnt know the front end was supposed to be silver too lol lights on his
my slash mmp5700kv
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my new body
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Here is my brand new 4x4 . Wish it would stay in this condition.
just finished up my new body for my 4x4,and added new split six wheels with gridirons and an outerwears.
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I was pretty pumped when I hopped up my first 4x4 slash. I think within 2 weeks I had most upgrades available minus electronics (which are next).
Upgrades include:
Proline flo-tek body (custom airbrushed)
Rpm body mounts, rpm shock towers, rpm lower a arms, rpm front and rear bumpers, rpm shock mud guards
King Headz motor mount
STRC carbon fibre motor plate
STRC battery hold down
STRC steering bellcrank
Tekno front and rear cvd's
Traxxas sway bars
Traxxas velineon speed control fan
Proline powerstroke shocks (f&r)
Traxxas front caster and toe links (f&r)
Outerwears chassis filter/guard
fun in the woods
slash 4x4
rustler vxl
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I just bought a Slash rolling chassis and wanted to get it in action A.S.A.P. to try it out. Some electronics and a new F150 raptor body quickie paint job....
Signing off from
Left of Area 51.
4x4 Slash 5.5 Big Block
Some pics with the Bow-ties
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Even after burning 3 esc's in less then a year i still love my slash
OK so sometimes you really like a part for your Slash but you cant find it in the color that you would like Dye it. I used Rit dye (1) heat up some water (2) get a container that you don't care about (3) add dye to the hot water and add the parts that you would like to dye (4) remove parts rinse with cold water and you are done. Before After The parts in the pics are RPM Shock Guards
4x4 Slash 5.5 Big Block
Decided to try some hpi rear shocks in the front of slash 4x4. I painted some rustler red rear springs to use for it, the progressive were to springy. With the wheels on and sitting, the arms are flat even. Should give me more droop like my rear suspension. Will keep posted on how it handles.
Length comparison with old ones
Guess witch one is my slash 4x4!
and... were you correct?
Just got it in the mail!
Pics of my new SLASH 4X4 and 1st rc carash
Here is my Slash 4x4 with Castle 3800kv, basically stock other than that.
Its not perfect but im pretty proud as it was my first time really painting a body that required masking. Will definitely buy liquid mask next time!
I wanna do some racing with it now, just finished up most of the Slayden setup.
Did some tradin'.... and got this 4x4 with lipo's. Gonna make it a monster truck.
broke a steel CV drive shaft so I'm rock'n 2wd for the time being, so might as well make the best of it
let project Sand Rail begin! just need some paddle tires! (maybe this weekend )
sent from my BAMFed Thunderbolt
fix, run, break, repeat
I just stayed up WAY too late putting this together...
sent from my BAMFed Thunderbolt
fix, run, break, repeat
New to Traxxas, This is my first attempt at a new body.
new to RC'ing
first body attemp
Sorry if these are a bit big, my buddy took the photos and posted them for me on another forum


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In science, the celestial bodies in our solar system can be said to have their own independent classification, without deliberately
emphasizing what celestial bodies belong to whom part, so for so many years,
scientists have tried every means to study extraterrestrial objects, hoping to be able to visit other planets, not only in order
to find a way for the survival of extraterrestrial objects, but also for human beings.?Preparing for the discovery of Second Earth, it would be better to be able to migrate to other planets.
According to Russia's scientific report of June 8, another strange thing happened. I don't know whether it was a joke or the real one.
At least in today's scientific circles, it may be a "joke". I'm still a bit panicky when I see it. I don't know whether he is serious or not.?
According to the scientific report, U.S. President Donald Trump has made a statement in the scientific community that the moon is part of Mars.?He mentioned it on his own Twitter on Friday (June 7).


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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Although a new poll shows Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff suddenly facing a tougher road to re-election, she also saw a sharp recovery in her approval ratings and resilient voter support through what will likely be the campaign's most emotional and volatile period.
The first poll since the death in a plane crash last week of Brazilian Socialist Party presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was released early Monday, showing Rousseff in a statistical dead heat in the event of a runoff against Campos' likely replacement, environmentalist Marina Silva.
Brazilian financial markets gained following the poll, which seemed to rule out any chance that Rousseff could avoid a runoff and win the election outright on Oct. 5.
Most investors do not like Rousseff's left-leaning policies and markets have generally risen in recent months with each sign that she might not win a second term.
Yet there were several strong signs in Rousseff's favor within the nationwide survey by pollster Datafolha, and Brazil's currency and main stocks index gave up some of their early gains as investors looked closely at the poll numbers.
The percentage of voters who say Rousseff's government is "good" or "great" rose to 38 percent, up six percentage points from the previous Datafolha poll in July. Those who said it was "bad" or "terrible" dropped six points to 23 percent, while those rating it as "OK" was unchanged at 38 percent.
"As incredible as it may sound, the poll shows that Rousseff's approval ratings got a considerable boost. And that's actually a more important variable than voter intention at this stage," said João Augusto de Castro Neves, Latin America director at the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.
"After several months of negative news for Rousseff," he added, "there's finally some good news for her."
Rousseff's approval ratings recovered during a period that saw inflation slow sharply.
Her term has been plagued by slow economic growth and prices rising at around 6 percent a year. Her opponents have consistently hammered her for being weak on inflation, but July saw a decline in air fares as well as food prices as the soccer World Cup, which Brazil hosted, drew to an end.
Datafolha began taking its most recent poll last Thursday, the day after Campos died in a plane crash.
Brazilian media have since then been full of praise for Campos, a business-friendly former governor who had been in third place in polls with about 8 percent support but was widely seen as one of Brazil's brightest young politicians and likely to mount a strong campaign for president in 2018.
Silva had been Campos' running mate but was much better known nationally, thanks to her high profile as an environmental activist and her strong third place finish as a presidential candidate in the last election in 2010, when she took about 20 percent of the vote.
Some analysts had expected a stronger showing for Silva in the Datafolha poll following the emotion of Campos' death.
It showed Silva would win 21 percent of votes in first round of voting, just one percentage point ahead of the other main opposition candidate, centrist Senator Aecio Neves, but behind Rousseff, who had 36 percent.
Strikingly, support for Rousseff and Neves in a first round was exactly the same as in polls a month ago.
That means that Silva's growth of 13 percentage points compared to Campos came from voters who had previously said they were undecided or would spoil their ballots in protest, as opposed to her taking votes from the other two main contenders.
In a second round, which analysts say now looks almost certain, the Datafolha poll showed Silva with a 47 percent to 43 percent advantage over Rousseff, meaning they are technically tied since the survey had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.
Some analysts question whether Silva will be able to grow much in polls considering her coalition's relatively weak nationwide presence, comparatively small campaign funds and allotted time for free public TV advertising, as well as her past reputation for unpredictable decisions.
Some members of Campos' Brazilian Socialist Party also doubt Silva's commitment to the party platform, which could provoke some tensions on the campaign trail. Silva, who ran as the Green Party candidate in 2010, has sought to play down those concerns.
Silva tried to found a new party last year called the "Sustainability Network" but failed to register enough signatures in time for the 2014 election. Less than 48 hours later, she surprised the Brazilian political world by backing Campos, whose party platform differed greatly from hers.
Neves and his Brazilian Social Democracy Party have a much stronger nationwide base than the coalition backing a Silva candidacy. But the survey released Monday showed his support slipping in the event of a runoff, breaking a string of at least four polls where he had closed the gap on Rousseff.
The president leads Neves by a 47 percent to 39 percent margin in a runoff between them, Datafolha said. The pollsters interviewed 2,843 people in 176 cities on Thursday and Friday.
Additional reporting by Walter Brandimarte; Editing by Todd Benson and Kieran Murray


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Panasonic, Japan Working on 3-D Standards
Panasonic said it is working closely with the Japanese government to establish an international set of rules to govern healthy approaches to displaying 3-D images, a move aimed at assuaging concerns about potential negative side effects of the technology.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Panasonic President Fumio Ohtsubo said it has already started the process of establishing broad 3-D health and safety guidelines for electronics manufacturers, content makers and broadcasters.
While there is no medical evidence to link 3-D with health-related side effects, questions about the technology have arisen in the wake of a warning from videogame console maker Nintendo Ltd. that cautioned 3-D games on its upcoming 3DS handheld could potentially damage the eyesight of children six years old and younger.


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Whilst researching races held in Scotland I saw in the programme entry list for the Charterhall meeting (11 Oct, 1952) the name Johnny Claes entered by Ecurie Belge in the 1500cc Gordini, the car used by Bob O'Brien at Spa. With the race number 28 Claes was entered in both the Newcastle Trophy for F2 cars and the Formule Libre race for the Daily Record Trophy.
Little information can be gleaned from the British journals of the day about the F2 race but I turned to an old notebook compiled back in the 1970s and, to my surprise, I had recorded that amongst the starters for the F.Libre race was - R.O'Brien (Gordini)!
Checks in Motor Sport, Autosport, The Motor, no mention, but in The Autocar there was a list of all the starters in the F.Libre race and sure enough - R.O'Brien (Gordini)! Whether O'Brien or Johnny Claes drove the car in the F2 race is not known.
Now Graham any photographs of #28 would be useful.
Has Graham Gauld been directed towards this post? I guess he may well have taken some shots at the meeting, there's a photo of the front of the grid on page 33 of his Scottish book.


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Caterpillar pointe shoes as worn in The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland © ROH/Chris Shipman, 2013
It's one of the best-loved scenes in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: the meeting of Alice and the hookah smoking Caterpillar. After his solo, backed by Arabian princesses, the caterpillar departs the stage with parasol in hand, followed by a trail of legs in perfect unison. 16 legs with 16 feet, all wearing the most beautiful, royal blue, crystal-encrusted pointe shoes. It's a moment audiences love but behind it lies a huge amount of effort.
Each blue shoe belongs to one of eight dancers: either members of The Royal Ballet Company or Royal Ballet School students. Each individual pair is prepared by one of the two members of staff working in the Ballet Shoe Room. Máire first has to fit the shoes, before dying them an exact shade of royal blue. Blue ribbons are then attached before each shoe is hand-encrusted with crystals. It takes about a day to prepare each pair of shoes, and these are just eight of the thousands (approximately 6,000) pairs of pointes Máire has to make sure are available to the Company throughout the Season
Every Season we spend over £250,000 on ballet footwear, so every donation made to our annual Pointe Shoes Appeal makes a real difference. A pair of pointe shoes costs £39.
Thank you to everyone who supports us. We are very grateful for the part you play in our success.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland runs until 28 October 2017. Tickets are still available.


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SEMA is by all accounts sensory overload of the mechanical kind. This year's trends leaned towards LS motor swaps, extreme attention to build detail and show cars slammed to the floor. As previously mentioned during our live show coverage though, Lowriding culture is not displayed nearly as much as the many examples of Euro flavor, muscle car madness and JDM displays set up – that is what our Vegas Super Show is all about. Air suspension outnumbered hydraulic and the countless promo models posing for a paycheck outweighed photo-worthy Lowriders.
We brought you the top paint schemes, custom interiors and builds of SEMA 2013 but now it is time for eye candy of a different kind. After scouring the million square feet of show floor space we compiled the hot, the not and the debatable females working the scene. Much of the top talent was stationed in the wheel and tire hall, which spoke to the importance of always rolling out with quality rubber. If the rims big, will she ride good?
From booth girls to promo models, they are all here. Not every photo can be a winner but we're sure there will be something that sparks your interest in the gallery below. Enjoy the girls of SEMA 2013.


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text: Share: July 4, 2010 | by Cornelia Harris, Kim Notin Education When we think about the water cycle, most of us remember the diagram we were taught in third grade. Arrows move water from one part of a stylized world to another, from alpine peaks into the big, blue ocean. But the water cycle doesn't tell us where our drinking water comes from or how we might be affecting our watershed.Throughout the past school year, we've been working with students in Skip Hoover's fifth-grade class at Krieger Elementary School in Poughkeepsie. Their classroom has served as our "education laboratory" as we've conducted investigations and mapped out lessons based on Poughkeepsie's water cycle. Our goal: to get students to understand the local water cycle and the origins of their drinking water.To help students feel connected to a place and invested in its future, we believe they need to understand ecological processes at the local-level. Chris Cassidy's sidebar essay is an attempt to describe the water cycle for urban Poughkeepsie. He was among the many students in Mr. Hoover's class, who suggested that the water cycle functioned more like a web than a loop.For many people living near the Hudson River and other rivers, drinking water originates from the same place where wastewater is discharged. In Poughkeepsie, for example, after sewage is treated at the Wastewater Treatment Facility near IBM, wastewater from nearly 6,000 properties is discharged directly into the Hudson River. After being treated to make it safe to drink, tap water comes from the Poughkeepsie Water Treatment Facility, located near the northern section of Marist College.As Tejpal Brar's drawing illustrates, the Hudson River is tidal and therefore water flows north and south twice a day. This means a Poughkeepsie resident could be drinking water recently discharged from someone else's home, located in a neighboring riverfront town. While this system has a high "yuck" factor, Poughkeepsie's drinking water is carefully monitored and safe to drink.Poughkeepsie's drinking water cycle is quite different from the textbook diagram, in which wastewater is deposited far away (or at least downstream) of a water source that is pristine and kept that way by a protected watershed that naturally purifies the water. New York City, for example, draws most of its drinking water from reservoirs in protected areas of the Catskill Mountains.The water cycle project is a pilot project and a work-in-progress for teachers and students alike. Lessons learned in Skip Hoover's classroom will inform curriculum that will be shared with regional science teachers. By emphasizing place-based learning, we are working to engage students in science inquiry while building on their understanding of their local environment. Share: Feature Water cycle runs on a local level › July 4, 2010


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Signing new older players from other clubs for the purpose of improving our teams. In my opinion this weakens the purpose of La Masia because the older teams are no longer made up of players solely brought up in La Masia from a young age. The individual signed might indeed be a good player but the product loses it's intended purpose because there is now a 'cog' that is in there not part of the original machine.
People at this point may bring up Dani Alves as an example of
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Dear Diary:
-Day 391 of the Mathieu Adventure Experience: Today was not a good day, we suffered all over the green fields and succumbed to many skirmishes from those aggressive denizens of the Celtics of Vigo. They came time and time again in murderous waves and our lanky pasty legs could not cope with their rampant zeal. Let us hope day 392 brings better fortune in our adventures.
PS: My cigarettes are running out. Dark days ahead.


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Dancing With The Stars Karina Smirnoff Attends Open Road Films' 'End of Watch' Premiere
Looking dashing as always, Karina Smirnoff graced the Red Carpet at the premiere of Open Road Films' 'End of Watch' at the Regal Cinemas L.A. in Los Angeles, California this week. What do you think of this dress? I love it. I think this color suits her perfectly too. You can see lots more takes at Zimbio Pictures. Other stars to attend the premiere were Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera (I'd love to see her do Dancing With The Stars), Joe Manganiello, Jennie Garth, and Audrina Patridge.
Celebuzz caught up with Karina at the Premiere and asked her on her lovelife….
ADDING: Also, you can view Karina and Apolo in rehearsals at People.com. He hopes to break his bad habits from his dancing in the past and more. Karina says she has the best partner ever. Thanks to Sheery for the heads up.


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I recently came across a book containing a passage that supplies authorative support for the thesis that failure to select for health is resulting in widespread ill health in bees, and that treatments are very much a feature of that problem. You have to join up the dots yourself, but what the book, published by the top bee breeders association in the UK is saying is: widespread treatment will inevitably result in widespread health failure. I've copied the relevant part, and offer it here for use in any way people see fit.
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Friedrich Ruttner, Breeding Techniques and Selection for Breeding of the Honeybee, translated by Ashleigh and Eric Milner [1]
Chapter II: Selection for Performance
1. What is breeding?
Queen breeding is, in the first place, simply the increase in the number of queens. By regular rejuvenation and keeping a reserve supply of queens the output of an apiary can be very substantially increased. The enhanced productive energy of the young queens is utilized and deficiencies in the working stock, which result in queenlessness, drone laying, or any other kind of failure in a queen, are made good. Queen breeding ranks as the most important activity in the management of an apiary; by it the apiarist, in the words of Professor Shillers of Vienna, advances from being a beekeeper to being a bee breeder.
Yet breeding is not merely a question of reproduction. Above all, breeding implies improvement in the bee's performance capability. No colony is exactly like another; brood rearing, inclination to swarm, foraging vigour, stinginess, susceptibility to disease, differ from colony to colony. Breeding means the augmentation of the best [the positive variants] and the ELIMINATION OF THE BAD [the negative variants]. [2] The aim is the attainment of an apiary which is uniform and has an above average performance.
Breeding is by no means a human invention. Nature, which in millions of years has bought forth this immense diversity of wonderfully adapted creatures, is the greatest breeder. It is from her that the present day breeder learnt how it must be done, excessive production and then ruthless selection, permitting only the most suitable to survive and eliminating the inferior. If this harsh rule of nature is either set aside or relaxed the constraints will within a short time be broken through, and a species will disintegrate into a large number of different forms which through divergent colouring and living requirements, through unusual body forms, will depart from the natural pattern. In laboratory animals which are kept only for study and not within a definite breeding objective, these phenomena can be regularly observed. At the same time, reduced fitness for life under natural conditions very quickly results, because in nature this is only preserved by incessant and rigourous selection. If this selection is lacking because the trouble of finding food and warm shelter and taking care of the young has been removed and protection from enemies has been provided, the ability to hold its own in nature gradually but inevitably declines. What has the wolf, the ancestor of our dogs, turned into during the course of millennia under the hand of man? A Dachshund or Poodle would soon be a pitiful wreck if it had to try to exist on its own.
Nature is also the breeder's greatest instructress as to how to avoid inbreeding:- no mating within the same colony; mating flights to far distant assembly places; multiple mating.
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2. The Breeding of Honeybees
Our bees have certainly not yet reached the condition of the domestic animals just mentioned since even today they still have to maintain the struggle for existence largely on their own. Nonetheless, we have gone a very long way towards making their lives easier, so that the laziest colony or the latest swarm is not in danger of starving the following winter. Today the majority of beekeepers restrict themselves to protecting their bees, but allow them to increase just as they like. What is the result? Stocks with excessive swarming tendency grow ever more numerous, while the good foragers with weak tendency to increase, which rejuvenate themselves by supercedure, are driven back Wit the Heather bee, and in the Carinthian method of breeding for swarms which produce bees quite useless for a modern beekeeping business, we see the result of these practices quite clearly.
[1] Published by the British Isles Bee Breeders Association [BIBBA] by Arrangement with Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich;1988, pages 45-46
[2] This sentence is italicized in the book.


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Harry Browne Constitutional Peace
A proposed constitutional amendment to keep the United States government from dragging us into wars:
Sections 3 and 5 don't preclude a missile defense or any other kind of defense of this nation. It requires only that the President wait before attacking a foreign nation until a declaration of war has been issued. Even if some incapacity prevents Congress from making a declaration quickly, America could still defend itself. It just couldn't attack anyone else.
War is too dangerous an enterprise to leave in the hands of people who routinely lie in their own self-interest.
I welcome any suggestions for making this amendment more precise. (My thanks to Arthur Medina for some excellent suggestions, which have been incorporated.)
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Gallant Boy Vows to Comfort Scared Girl on First Day of School
The first day of school can be tough for anyone, so this little boy is doing his best to help an overwhelmed classmate.
The little girl is clearly frightened on their first day, so the boy does his best to keep her calm.
In times when we hear about bullying in schools, it's refreshing to see such a warm gesture from a student.


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Democrats are celebrating what appears to be their historic achievement of a super-majority in both houses of the state legislature.
Unfortunately for them, they achieved this in the very same election in which they fought successfully for Prop 30.
That ballot initiative is likely to provide a serious shackle for the new Democratic majority – and a maddening one, since Prop 30 is a shackle of the Democrats' own making.
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With a two-thirds super-majority, Democrats can raise taxes without needing Republican support.
But Prop 30, which raised sales and income taxes, introduces serious complications. The Democrats might well want to make permanent changes, including hikes to the tax system.
But that could create political problems, since Prop 30, just approved with their support, only raises taxes temporarily. And, as a legal matter, since Prop 30's temporary taxes were put in place by initiative, it's possible that some tax increase options would require another ballot measure to change them.
The measure will also tie Democrats' hands with regard to school funding.
California badly lags virtually all other states in school funding. Democrats, who have championed schools and demanded funding increases, might be willing to invest enough to at least bring the state back to the national average.
But Prop 30's victory may make that more difficult politically.
Voters were just told that the initiative would restore money for schools. Even if those claims prove true, the amount of money for schools is small – and wouldn't get California close to the national average. Democrats will want to do more, but voters are likely to question why Prop 30 wasn't enough.
Budgeting in general will be less flexible under Prop 30.
That's because the measure didn't just raise taxes. It also amended the constitution to lock in certain revenue streams for local governments.
This constitutional change should make it harder to balance the budget in the long term—reducing the discretion of the ascendant Democrats.
It also locks the Democratic super-majority into Gov. Brown's very limited "realignment" plan for transferring some authority, and some dollars, for certain programs from the state government to the local level.
Changing that realignment plan, and its funding, can't be done by the legislative supermajority because, after Prop 30, such changes require an amendment to the constitution.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes the Democrats to recognize the cage that Prop 30 keeps them in – and to regret their support for Prop 30 in the first place.


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W00t! W00t! is the Merriam-Webster's top new word of 2007. Like it or not what we have been shouting by way of typing while playing video games, chatting or posting on our friends' walls is now part of standard American English.
Computing culture has become more and more mainstream and accepted. How did this happen? Here's one personal tale.
In 1991, we had been working on distributed searching and got some email from a researcher in Switzerland. He had a hypertext project that a few folks in high-energy physics were using. He thought more people would want to use it. He especially wanted to know if we could work on a gateway between our Wide Area Information Servers and his servers. We worked with him a bit and he used our servers for some demos there in Europe.
Then the big news came. He was coming to the US to do a presentation at Hypertext 91 in San Antonio. Almost immediately, he wrote disappointed. His paper had been turned down for being too simple. He would be allowed to do a poster and a small demo. But he was coming any way and would drop by North Carolina for a visit.
I called a local, not NCSU, computer science department and spoke to the folks there who were working on hypertext. They had seen the paper and rejected it.
Tim's ideas were too simple. Anyone could implement such a server in an afternoon. And any graduate student could write a browser in a week! It was obvious from his description that he didn't much understand hypertext markup languages. There were other objections.
But to me simplicity was the point, its elegance. That others could and did work on the code was a big plus. There was a community of developers that you could talk to. Even as a user you could make suggestions — and better they would often implement those ideas if you couldn't do it yourself.
Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web was running on my desktop – okay more a workstation than a desktop – a new NeXT computer from Steve Jobs.
And I was learning something about computing that I hadn't been taught directly at NCSU — as told in three recent book titles:
The Wealth of Networks, how social production and sharing made great products and created opportunities and even new markets (thanks Yochai Benkler for writing a book describing the process in 2005 – his book is free or you can buy it from Yale Press, you can make translations on a wiki that Benkler supports).
I watched and participated in the process of Democratizing Innovation (thanks to Eric Von Hippel for naming and describing that process in his book which you can download or buy from MIT Press)
Through a series of events, I became perhaps overly involved in copyright and legal issues. I was also learning the power of Free Culture (thanks to Larry Lessig for writing that book which is free for download or you can buy it from Penguin Books)
I started comparing the Laws of Computing:
Moore's law – processor speed doubles
Metcalf's law – potential network connections grows by squaring the number of connections
But David Reed's law — utility of a network grows exponentially, particularly in social networks, by the number of connections used.
I hope you've noticed that most of my story, the books mentioned and Reed's law have been dependent on the social not just the technical. Indeed one of the surprises of computer science is not that it has social impact – technology usually has some sort of social impact – but the impact that our social selves have on technology.
"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us" (Marshall McLuhan)
Our need to network, to have friends, to involve others in our work, our need to listen to and to be affected by our users – all of this is embedded in our work and in our creations.
No successful company sees Research and Development as a place that develops ideas separate from the rest of the company or from their customers – and then tosses those ideas, patents, and projects over the wall to others to use or to abandon.
Computer science is not done just by teams with roles, but by a constant flow of social interactions that never seems to end. Well, for successful projects at least.
Most software projects of size involve if not open source, then an SDK or API or other interface that allows social production and innovation that was not imagined by the original developers.
Every project has a user group, a mailing list, etc to encourage involvement.
Every project has impact as the social uses of that project grow.
And afterwards the experience helps us grow and changes us.
If not "w00t!" wouldn't be word of the year. Dilbert and to some degree Foxtrot wouldn't be funny to those outside the tech industry.
We who were kept in the basement and fed pizza and power drinks are creators of our common culture through our social contributions. Our software is global. Within the code is contained law and a social contract and to some degree our joint futures.
We are not just the people that our parents warned us about (Jimmy Buffet) as more and more we become "the ONES we have been waiting for" (June Jordan "Poem for South African Women")


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Two weeks after TLC cancelled her reality show Kate Plus 8, Kate Gosselin is finally admitting what has been widely reported, which is that she is indeed petrified about her future and being able to take care of her family.
Despite having a nursing degree, the mother of eight graces the latest cover of PEOPLE magazine with the heading "Will Her Kids Be Ok?" Under that heading is a quote from Kate saying she is "really scared" about her future. Poor Kate, the horror of having to get a real J.O.B. to care for her kids!
In the interview with the mag, Kate reveals she wasn't "ready" when TLC pulled the plug on her show. She also reveals she cries in bed when no one's looking. Yes she went there.
"When [Collin] learned of the show's cancellation he said 'I feel like crying but I can't,'" Kate says. "I said, 'Because you don't want anyone to see your tears?' and he said yes. So I said 'Cry when you're in bed and nobody's looking. That's what I do."
Kate goes on to admit the transition from a reality TV mom to a regular mom, you know, like other millions of mothers out there, isn't going to be an easy one.
"I'm freaking out. Big time," she tells PEOPLE, adding that her plus 8 "weren't ready," to leave the show, which has been airing since 2005. She continues, "Nobody was. I've never quit a job in my life without having something else lined up. I don't know what's next."
But fret not as Kate, 36, vows to work hard in other to maintain the lifestyle she's provided for her kids. "I told them I will work my fingers to the bone to make sure that they can stay here and go to their school," she says. "There are no guarantees in life for anyone, but they know that I'm giving it my best shot."
"I don't want to take anything away that [the kids] have been given," Kate says. "[I've saved] for a little while. People think we made gazillions of dollars, and we didn't. After the show was canceled, I said, 'I'll go back to my old nursing job.' If nothing comes up, I'll do it. But the scary reality is, 12-hour nursing shifts every day wouldn't let me continue to provide well for me eight kids."
It was reported days ago that Kate, who tweeted a petition to save her TLC show to her fans, has been offered a temporary co-hosting job at CBS' talk show The Talk.
The Kate Plus 8 finale episode will air Sept. 12 on TLC.


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This video from @CJZero is a beautiful microcosm of the current state of Los Angeles basketball. Sure, the Lakers have farted along all year while the Clippers are a high-scoring playoff contender, but Blake Griffin's dunk and the following reactions really represent the two teams' NBA seasons well.
Before the dunk, notice that the Clippers have 102 points and a 46-point lead in the third quarter. After Xavier Henry screws up a layup, Blake Griffin rebounds and passes it to Chris Paul, and you can guess what happens next against an incredibly lethargic, overmatched Lakers defense that doesn't want to be there. Paul gives Griffin a simple pass to slam home, which he does. Clippers fans celebrate, Lakers fans wonder why they're there, and BOOM. Mitch Kupchak with the face of a truly despondent man.
The game isn't final yet, but I can tell you that the Lakers do not win.


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Friday, November 30, 2012
#1 In Oz, Prime Minister Gillard's credibility was well and truly blown out of the water following publication of details of her exit (termination?) interview from the activist law firm, Slater and Gordon, where her role in helping her boyfriend establish an illegal slush fund to enrich him and his union mates was revealed in sad detail.
#2 In NZL the Labour Party 'ABC' team stared down and rolled the Cunliffe faction and exposed the divide that separates the moderates (Team Shearer) from the Progressives (Team Cunliffe). The vitriol directed at each camp from the other shows a Labour house at war with itself.
#3 In NZL the Labour Party finance spokesman managed to destroy his own credibilty in one foul swoop by claiming that 24x7x52x10=613,200.
#4 In Oz NSW Labor Party Power Broker and ex Minister (and Gillard supporter) Eddie Obied is fighting to avoid prison as the investigation by the ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) rolls on and more questionable doings that enriched the Obied family empire by many millions of dollars at the expense of the NSW taxpayer are revealed.
#5 In NZL the economic sabotage by left leaning academic Mike Joy in his comments to the NY Herald Tribune dishing the country (that pays his wages) as the 17th worst poluter in the world was too much even for Russell Norman of the Greens who reminded us all that '100% pure' was a marketing slogan, nothing more, nothing less, and an aspirational goal.
#6 In NZL the Maori Council continues to embarrass itself in the High Court by claiming that Maori own the rain.
Clearly 'good' people on both sides of the Tasman have much to be thankful for.
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"Fell swoop" rather than "foul swoop"?
- November 30, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Long may it last. They deserve all of the crap that can possibly be dished out to them.
- November 30, 2012 at 2:59 PM
- The Veteran said...
Anon 2.51 ... I said what I meant and meant what I said.
- November 30, 2012 at 5:36 PM
So it was a smelly swoop?
- December 1, 2012 at 11:57 AM
I understand now that the Maori Council appear to have obtained Legal Aid for their fight with the Government after saying that they had the money to fight this.
"Fell Swoop" is correct.
- December 1, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Anon 11.57am.
Must be.
"Lack of understanding of the words in the phrase is undoubtedly the reason that this is often misspelled, for example, 'at one fail swoop', or even, with more justification as it might be thought to relate to birds, 'one fowl swoop'. It isn't difficult to also find examples of 'one foul swoop'."
- December 1, 2012 at 1:41 PM
Not to sound cliche but...seriously; why are these the people supposedly running these countries. Maybe it sounds naive but elected officials are supposed to act in the best interests of their constituents and all we seem to have are people acting in their own best interests. Does this not strike anyone as problematic?
- December 1, 2012 at 8:41 PM
- Adolf Fiinkensein said...
I suspect The Veteran is a gentleman of above average intelligence, possessed of a fine education.
If others, less fortunate, can't spot a subtle play on words then perhaps they should return for a brush up to their repective Kura Kaupapa.
- December 2, 2012 at 9:24 AM


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CARSON, Calif. – Rivals often bring out the best in each other, no matter where teams are in the table.
But no matter how strong or poor a rival's season is going, the last thing you want to do is not show them their proper respect.
So said Los Angeles Galaxy forward Mike Magee, who is bent on showing San Jose their proper respect entering Saturday's edition of the California Clásico.
By not showing San Jose respect in the last meeting—a 2-2 tie on July 22 in which Landon Donovan scored a last-minute equalizer—the Galaxy dropped points at home and nearly lost the match altogether.
"When they came here… they had a chip on their shoulder and they played with confidence," Magee said. "We took it for granted and didn't give them the respect they deserved. If we can go in there, give them the respect they deserve, I think we can get a result."
While earlier in the season the Galaxy were expected to contend for the Western Conference playoffs, anything close to a winning record would seemingly have been plenty for the Quakes. Instead, San Jose and the Galaxy each look strong in their respective playoff chase.
Entering their match in San Jose on Saturday, the Galaxy lead the Western Conference while San Jose sits in sixth place, but would nab a playoff spot anyway in that position. Additionally, the Quakes have at least one game in hand over every team ahead of them in the table.
"We fought hard and they wanted to prove something on our own turf," Galaxy forward Edson Buddle said. "It's not going to be easy to go up there. We always want to come out on top when we play San Jose."
The Quakes beat Kansas City 1-0 at Buck Shaw Stadium one week ago, bouncing back from consecutive losses to Colorado and Seattle. During the week, former Galaxy 'keeper Joe Cannon broke his ankle and will be lost for six to eight weeks. But when San Jose played at Home Depot Center recently, Jon Busch was the starter and should line up against the Galaxy once more.
Regardless of who lines up where – Bobby Convey has also moved from midfield to left back – the Galaxy are expecting a challenge.
"It will be a tough game," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said. "It's a difficult stadium to play in although I've never been there. We know it's a small field in terms of its width and probably the length. They're a team that needs to win its games at home, so they are going to be aggressive."
The Galaxy will also look to extend their road success as well. Last week's 1-0 win at New York was the club's seventh road victory, more than twice as many as any other team in the league. All but one of those wins were by shutout.
Whether it's via shutout our a high-scoring match, LA players are just looking for success now—in the form of three points.
"A win on the road is always good," Buddle said. "We're just trying to get better before the playoffs start, and it starts with games on the road. Right now, we just want to win games, which is most important."


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For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept of a virtual quilting bee, it works like this: there is usually a hostess or leader who runs the bee. The leader forms the bee by inviting other quilters to join. The leader or the group decides how the bee is to work, whether it has a theme, deadlines, and who goes first. Typically a bee has about 12 members and runs for a year. Each member is designated a month and during that month sends out fabric to the other members and maybe some instructions or inspiration. The members in turn make a block for him/her during that month and send the completed block(s) back. The member then has blocks to turn into a quilt. Most bees start blogs or flickr groups to keep track of the bee, to share their blocks and finished quilts and to communicate with each other. If you'd like to read more about virtual quilting bees, be sure to check out the Block Party book by Alissa Haight Carlton and Kristen Lejnieks.
Today's featured quilt is an improvised sampler from Nettie of A Quilt is Nice and the Cottage Quilting Bee.
Tell us about your quilt:
My Cottage quilt was a collaboration with all my friends in the Cottage Quilting Bee. I joined this bee back when I was brand new to quilting bees. It was one of my first. I wasn't sure what I wanted when it was my month to select fabric and pattern. At the time I was really into wonky-ness, so I pulled fabric together (oranges, browns and aquas) and came up with nothing…so I asked my bee-mates to do whatever they wanted. I expected to get a lot of random pieced blocks or wonky log cabins, but I got so much more. Each block is so different, and it was then that I realized how different we as quilters are. As I put the blocks together, I loved that some blocks were complex and some were really simple. They all complimented each other and came together in a really fantastic sampler quilt that was so much more unique than I thought it would be.
Tell us about your experience with quilting bees:
I jumped in head first with the bees. It was about 3 years ago (or so) when they really caught on and I joined 3 at one time! I loved it, but have since slowed down with bees. I found I needed to be spending that time on other things. I also found I wasn't putting as much thought and effort into those blocks as I felt the owner deserved, so I am currently on a virtual quilting bee hiatus. Being away from these bees has opened my eyes to what they provided. They are where the conversation is! I feel like I got to know so many of my online "friends" through these bees. I got to see their personalities (as much as you can on the computer) come through as I saw their styles and choices. Also the comments and threads were so fun to read. If you want to be challenged join a bee. Someone is bound to ask you to do something you swore you'd never try…hexagons, circles, etc…
Tell us about you as a quilter:
I don't really know how to describe myself as a quilter. I really feel like everything is "my style". I tend to think I am a modern quilter, but lately I am really drawn to the patterns of traditional quilts, especially when paired with modern fabrics. Speaking of fabric, I love it! I think it's what keeps me quilting, so I can invest in more fabric. I like simple and I like complex (although I am not a very precise piecer). Sometimes I think I have decided on what my style is, but then see something totally different that I love and have to try. Some days I want to be challenged with my quilting and piecing, and other days I just want to do a simple patchwork made entirely of squares. I am inspired by so many things, but mostly from the beautiful quilts I see online lately! I want to try just about everything out there!
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UK's Government Computers Used To Access Porn More Than 300,000 Times In The Last 14 Months
from the let-he-who-is-without-sin...-oh,-I-guess-I-don't-see-anyone-like-that-here.. dept
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is so busy attempting to stomp out internet porn that he's completely overlooked his own backyard. And this metaphoric backyard now more closely resembles an unmarried uncle's closet, thanks Cameron's inattention, at least according to figures obtained by the Huffington Post.
Following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from the Huffington Post UK, the House of Commons authorities acknowledged that users of the Parliamentary Network servers, including both MPs and their staff, have repeatedly attempted to access websites classed on Parliament's network as pornographic between May 2012 and July 2013.All told, there were more than 300,000 access attempts in the last 14 months. There are some very strange fluctuations in month-to-month activity (only 15 access attempts in February?), but the overall picture is one that shows MPs (and their staff) aren't too much different from the general public in terms of using the internet for its original purpose: porn.
According to the official figures, the number of attempts to access pornographic websites via the Parliamentary network peaked for 2012 at 114,844 last November and at 55,552 in April for 2013.
And now that the news is public, an official (but anonymous) spokewoman is coming up with the same sort of almost-plausible excuses that John Q. Public would deploy when caught "accessing" porn by his significant other.
A House of Commons spokeswoman said the statistics do not prove a user "intended" to access a pornographic website as "a user may access a site that contains optional or automatic links to others, or other "pop-up" arrangements, which are recorded as requests.""Pop-up arrangement," eh? Sounds pretty dirty to me. Granted, I run with Adblock most of the time (exceptions for sites I like/trust/visit frequently), but in my limited experience, most "optional or automatic links" to other porn sites are served by… other porn sites. Sure, there are several sketchier sites that dabble in SEO trickery and "referral links" to porn and porn-ish sites, but by and large, it's pretty easy to surf the web without being served porn pop-ups and referral links, especially if you're using a government computer where you know your internet history is subject to scrutiny.
But if you don't buy that excuse, here's another.
"We are not going to restrict Parliamentarians' ability to carry out research," the spokeswoman added.Ah. Research. We all have our own euphemisms for suckerpunching the clownfish but "research" doesn't rank too high on the list. This one doesn't fly at home either. "Babe, I was just researching the effects of surreptitious porn viewing on the average relationship... [longish pause while s.o.'s angry glare reaches full intensity] ... I'll just put you down under the 'Negative' column."
Also left unsatisfied by this unnamed spokeswoman is how strict the government's porn filters are, at least in comparison to those being foisted upon the public. No details were forthcoming due to "ICT security."
Maybe Cameron should do a quick, informal (and very anonymous) survey of his fellow politicians to see if they still agree with installing porn filters at the ISP level. It looks like no one on the "inside" is in a hurry to give up their "access" to porn. It also indicates that "accessing" porn is something even normal, trustworthy* people like elected officials do. And surely their "research" and "access" activities didn't harm "the children," did they?
*["Normal and trustworthy" in the sense that other elected officials would consider their peers to be normal and trustworthy -- because they consider themselves to be normal and trustworthy.]
This whole thing is more than simple irony or an embarrassing waste of taxpayer funds. It's another indication that porn is ubiquitous and clearly acceptable to a much larger demographic than Cameron is willing to admit.
This sort of thing happens in the US as well and as taxpayers we have every right to complain about public servants eyeballing porn on our dime. But here we don't have the government pushing mandatory porn filters on ISPs and, outside of a few representatives who periodically attempt to push their version of a "family-friendly" everything on us, there's no cohesive drive to stomp out adult entertainment.
There are lessons to be learned here (many people, even normal, non-perverts "access" porn without harming themselves, others or "the children," filtering and firewalls don't work nearly as well as those pushing them believe they do), but I'm fairly sure Cameron will spin this news as an argument for his agenda.
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(CNN) — Princeton pulled ahead of Harvard to claim first place in the "best national universities" category in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of nearly 1,800 schools.
Williams College again claimed sole possession of the top spot in the Best National Liberal Arts Colleges category.
This year's methodology put more emphasis on student outcomes and less on where students ranked in their high school classes.
Also this year, the difference between predicted and actual graduation rates was applied for the first time to Regional Universities and Regional Colleges.
The magazine increased the weight given to graduation and retention rates in the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges categories, meaning that outcome-related measures were the most heavily weighted factors.
When cost was weighed, Williams — at an average of $19,251 per year after grants based on need were factored in — fell to No. 3, behind Barnard (rated second at $12,282 per year after grants) and Amherst (rated first at $16,286 after grants).
Best-value regional universities were identified as Gallaudet, Carey, Creighton and Trinity.
Cited as best-value regional colleges were Cooper Union, John Brown University, College of the Ozarks and California Maritime Academy.
"U.S. News strives to provide students and their families with the most comprehensive data available," Bob Morse, director of data research, said in a statement. "Measuring outcomes is critical to understanding how well a school retains and educates its students."


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Zhineng Qigong (USJ Centres) Annual Dinner: Nite of the 60's @ Grand Imperial Restaurant, USJ 19 City Mall on Saturday, 26 January 2013.
Do click here to view or download 175 photos (Album #2 of 2) courtesy of yours truly (KC Leong). When in Picasa photo album, click Slideshow, hit F11 key for actual large displays.
Good fortune from the Fortune God (in Part 1) … lots of "gold" and lottery tickets for a very Fattt 2013 Chinese New Year
Contestants for Karaoke singing competition … Team A: Michael Leong and Caryn Keong; Team B: Samantha Tee and Yip WC; Team C: Brenda Lee and TungCH
Yeah, Team A is the choice for this table … background: the cameraman's tool standby for the group photos later.
The champion for the Karaoke contest is Samantha and Yip from USJ 4 Centre.
Group participation -- busy identifying the names of songs being played by the Master of Ceremony
Engaging the audience -- the accomplished Master of Ceremony, Mr. Jeff Yong entertaining the crowd with his dynamic and humorous delivery of announcement and showmanship
The winner for the songs identification game
Best costume competition for men … before standing at the podium, a contestant has to dance to the tune of the song in 60's pre-selected by the Master of Ceremony. Yours truly (KC) in the middle.
Cheers of approval from the audience
Champion of the Ladies' Best Costume competition … Lee Choo receiving the prize from Liow Kim Heng laoshi, President of Persatuan Senaman Zhineng Qigong Malaysia.
TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH! … A toast to the diners by the Organizing Team
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