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Texas, libraries work against childhood obesity
Hundreds of public libraries and schools across Texas are eligible to receive nutrition and fitness-related books and DVDs to help fight childhood obesity.
Comptroller Susan Combs on Tuesday announced a partnership with the Texas Library Association. Combs says officials seek to raise awareness and understanding about the importance of healthy habits throughout life.
The state's 910 public libraries and more than 1,100 select public elementary schools are in line to get nutrition and fitness-related books and other educational materials. The items will be distributed starting next month.
The comptroller's office will also supply free sports equipment to public schools in areas considered high risk for obesity.
Legislators have required the comptroller's office to compile research and information on the economic effects of obesity and areas where children are at risk.


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A Revolutionary Collection
The Museum of the American Revolution has an impressive collection of several thousand objects, works of art, manuscripts, and printed works from the period of the American Revolution. The collection began more than a century ago when a history-minded minister in Valley Forge raised funds from around the nation to purchase the original tent that George Washington used as his command center during the American Revolution. It was the beginning of a rich and diverse collection that continues to grow. The collection includes objects that span the scope of the war—from British, French, and American arms used in battles to a soldier's wooden canteen branded "UStates," at a time when the phrase was merely an aspiration.

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Lost Hiker Forced to Cuddle With Cat for Warmth
Here's a short but sweet palate-cleansing story: lost hiker Margaret Page was stranded for three and a half weeks in a New Mexico forest. In order to stay alive, she cuddled with her cat Miya in her sleeping bag — both were able to brave below-freezing temperatures.
In fact, the cat ended up better off than Page. While the human food supply ran out, Miya the cat went hunting.


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The news isn't official yet, but MSNBC's Chuck Todd tweeted an hour ago that the White House hinted that because of this summer's drought, it's considering waiving the ethanol production requirements the Environmental Protection Agency imposes on corn growers.
The Renewable Fuel Standard, passed into law in 2005, calls for corn growers to produce 13.2 billion gallons of corn-based biofuel in 2012. Currently, 40 percent of America's corn goes to fuel production, 36 percent to feed supplies, and the rest to processed food manufacturers and exports.
Perhaps not surprising is the fact that livestock growers are behind the political pressure to shunt corn usually used for fuel into feed supplies in order to keep feed prices from going higher.
I have an idea. Let's do away with ethanol altogether. It sucks as a fuel, and seems only to be benefitting government subsidized corn farmers. Have you driven through the corn belt recently? As far as belts go, it resembles a pro wrestling championship belt. (I drove through South Dakota, Southern Minnesota, etc. last summer, staring at corn for 15 fucking hours.)
Anyways, if this rumor comes to fruition and the Obama administration grants the ethanol production waiver, most motorists will either rejoice the change or miss it altogether.
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Automatically Backup your Gmail account on a schedule with GMVault and Windows Task Scheduler
It's nice to have your things backed up to the cloud, but you really need to have local backups as well. I have two 1TB pocket hard drives that I rotate between my home and the bank. They are labeled Offsite Backup A and Offsite Backup B. You can encrypt them with either Bitlocker To Go or TrueCrypt, and I do.
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I've got years and years of email in my only personal email account, powered by Gmail. I've recently started backing up my WHOLE gmail account with a wonderful free tool called GMVault. Setup requires a little attention to detail but once it's done, it's done.
Once installed, you run GMVault-Shell and type "gmvault sync firstname.lastname@example.com." The first backup will take HOURS and on Windows will put thousands and thousands of files in your C:\Users\YOURNAME\gmvault-db directory. You can move this directory if you want. My email backup was over 350,000 emails so I moved it to my larger D drive by using the -d option on the command line.
After this multi-hour sync was finally done, I wanted to make sure I updated the archive every week or so with backups of new emails.
Create a Scheduled Gmail Backup with Task Scheduler
Go to your start menu and type "Task" and run the Task Scheduler. Some folks don't even know this exists!
On the right side click "Create Basic Task."
Make it weekly or monthly or whatever makes you happy.
Your action is Start a Program
Make the Program like this and check your path first.
Under Arguments, use sync -t quick like this. Be sure to use the -t quick or you'll get ALL your email again!
sync -t quick email@example.com
optionally you can point to a specific backup directory like this. If there is a space in your path, use quotes around it.
sync -t quick email@example.com -d D:\gmvault-db
I also made my task start in the same directory as GmVault, so "C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\gmvault"
My scheduled task ended up with command line arguments like this:
sync -t quick email@example.com -d D:\gmvault-db
You can test it by right clicking on it in the Task Scheduler list and clicking "Run." If you need to debug it or if it just starts and then quickly disappears, go into your gmvault.bat and add a "pause" command before the "exit" command to keep the window open long enough to see any errors.
Here's my automatic Gmail backup in action:
Hope this helps you!
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Settings Program/script: cmd.exe Add arguments: /c start /min c:\path_to\gmvault.bat sync -t quick firstname.lastname@example.com -d C:\path_to\Database ^& exitRunning this since a **long* time, saved my butt a number of times... Thanks a bunch Scott!
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Two days prior to our trip, there was an odd sense of peace that overtook the group. We still had camera equipment to prep, gifts to buy, presents to wrap, crafts to set up, and a hall to decorate. But despite all of this, there was peace. This was a tremendous precursor to what laid ahead.
Friday morning came faster than expected. Before we knew it, we were on a plane to Alabama – it's really happening!
At 11:30 a.m. we arrived at the Mobile airport, and after dropping our bags off at the hotel, we needed to make a quick stop at the United Way of Southwest Alabama. It was time to finally meet the team that diligently helped us for so many months!
After loading up the vans at United Way with presents, crafts, and decorations, we drove 45 minutes to the small coastal town of Bayou La Batre.
Once there, we met David and Grace from Boat People SOS – a community-based organization whose mission it is to help the numerous families devastated by the Gulf Oil Spill.
We unloaded the vans as quickly as we possibly could! After that, we eagerly jumped back on the road to catch a glimpse of the Bayou before sundown. David and a few of his friends from Boat People SOS walked us through the havoc wreaked upon this once thriving Alabama town. First Hurricane Katrina, and now this. What more could Bayou La Batre endure?
From inside the vans, we could see water in the distance. As we started our way across the draw bridge, everything was somber. There were abandoned ships, closed boat making facilities, and closed oyster and shrimp cleaning shops. The Bayou was a ghost town. The devastation that we heard so much about was now staring us in the face: sixty percent of families without jobs and nowhere to go…
The next 24 hours were a blur- we were setting up and decorating the hall, gift wrapping presents, prepping the craft stations, setting up Christmas movies to play on a big screen, and making sure Christmas music could be heard by all. By midnight on Friday, we were almost completely set up. Exhausted and emotionally drained (but excited at the same time!), we drove back to our hotel in Mobile to get a few hours of rest before Saturday's event.
7:00 a.m. came bright and early. Time to regroup with the team for breakfast (we'd need it!) and to go over the final details of the event! Craft tutorials, last minute purchases, snack table setup, and photo station prep…
At 2:00 p.m. the event started. Needless to say, everything couldn't have gone more perfectly. We had a blast helping the kids make soap snow balls, edible Christmas trees, Christmas angel ornaments, and greeting cards. We're pretty sure the kids enjoyed it too 😉
Dinner was delicious, Santa was merry, family photos came out great, presents were well received, and fun was had by all – the holiday party was a major success! And the best part, we got to hear some amazingly touching stories of heartache and triumph from many hard working Alabama boating families.
Thank you for following us through this uplifting experience – and stay tuned for great video clips from the entire trip!


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Iraq veteran leads "non-violent form of protest"
Steve Watson
Feb 11, 2013
Residents in West Palm Beach, Florida are flying US flags upside down outside their businesses and properties in protest of strict gun control proposals by the Obama administration.
While some neighbours are complaining, those turning old glory on its head point out that its a tradition that indicates the nation is in a time of distress.
"One neighbor saw my flag. He yelled across the neighborhood like hey, why are you disgracing the flag like that?" resident Cory Seale told reporters for wptv.
"It is a verbal, non-violent form of protest," said Seale, explaining that the protest is against the proposals to limit rounds in magazines, and other gun control measures highlighted in executive orders penned by the president.
"It's instilling a taboo, that guns are taboo. And that alone is a huge problem," said Seale, commenting on the move to further regulate firearms in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting in December.
Seale, an eight year veteran who served a tour in Iraq, addressed accusations that his actions are disrespectful toward the flag and other US soldiers who have died in battle.
"I can respect that they died for the flag right-side-up. Doing this is a symbol, a visual symbol to bring people over to me so I can try to explain to them how I feel," said Seale.
He has received such backlash that he asked the media not to reveal his street, for fear of retaliatory attacks on his property.
He did win over other neighbours, however, who are also flying flags upside down in a show of solidarity.
"We care deeply about the future of the country, and we have solidarity with our fellow neighbors," said resident David Dennis.
Seale, says that his flag will stay upside down until Obama leaves or is removed from office.
The US Flag Code Title 36, U.S.C., Chapter 10 states:
The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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Blackhawks hoping Kane has another winning goal left in him for Stanley Cup Final vs. Bruins
BOSTON - Patrick Kane already has one Stanley Cup-winning goal from 2010 along with the one that put the Chicago Blackhawks back into the finals this year.
Can he imagine a second NHL title-clincher?
"I think the stars would have to be aligned right for it to happen like that again," Kane said Sunday, a day before the Blackhawks will take the ice in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final with a chance to win their second championship in four seasons.
"I think the biggest thing is trying to help contribute any way I can, help this team get a win, especially the situation we're in," said Kane, who scored the winner in Game 6 against Philadelphia in the '10 finals, and the one that eliminated the Los Angeles Kings in this year's Western Conference finals. "I'll do whatever I can to help the team win, and it would be a great feeling."
The Blackhawks will take a 3-2 lead into Game 6 against the Boston Bruins on Monday night, and Kane is a big reason why. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 NHL draft had two goals in Chicago's 3-1 victory in Game 5, giving him seven goals in his last seven games, including two winners.
"That's the type of player he is," Blackhawks defenceman Niklas Hjalmarsson said. "When it comes down to the wire and tight games, big games, that's when he wants the puck. That's when he wants to score the goals, the big goals.
"It's huge to have those kind of players in your team when you go far in the playoffs. And now when it's really coming down to the wire here, (it) gives the whole group confidence that you have players like that. It's not a coincidence that he has a lot of big goals so far in his career."
Actually, Kane has a lot of small goals, too.
In addition to the nine times he's scored in 22 playoff games this post-season, Kane led the Blackhawks in scoring in the lockout-shortened regular season with 55 points in 48 games—including 23 goals that tied for the team lead.
Chicago coach Joel Quenneville split Kane and Jonathan Toews at the start of the finals so that Bruins counterpart Claude Julien wouldn't be able to match defenceman Zdeno Chara with both of the Blackhawks' top forwards. But they responded with no goals in the first three games, and Quenneville put them back together for Game 4.
Since then, they have combined for four goals and seven points. Kane's 19 points in the playoffs lead Chicago and are second in the NHL; he also led the Blackhawks with eight points in the six-game victory over Philadelphia in the 2010 finals.
"It's like we always say: I don't care who scores for us; I don't care who's on the ice for them," Quenneville said. "We expect somebody has got to score for us, and we're not choosy in that department."


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Photographer's Note
Today, 25 April, is Anzac Day - the day Australians and New Zealanders remember those who made the supreme sacrifice.
As Bomana War Cemetery in Papua New Guinea does not appear elsewhere in TE I thought today would be an appropriate day to upload this photo.
Bomana War Cemetery is in the outskirts of Port Moresby and here lie the remains of 3819 soldiers - 702 are unidentified. Those who died fighting in Papua and Bougainville are buried here. This cemetery is also the resting place for 438 British Royal Artillerymen who were prisioners of the Japanese from Singapore and who died in captivity in the Solomon Islands.
On Anzac Day a dawn service is held at Bomana and it attracts a huge crowd.
They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning
We will remember them.
In workshops I am including a photo of Bomana as I saw it from the air flying back from Kokoda and another showing a close-up of the white marble headstone of an unidentified soldier.
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worldcitizen (13904) 2009-04-24 17:17
Hello Marlene,
It's very interesting to see this large cemetery in PNG. The DOF in this photo really shows how many rows of headstones there are, and I like the way the graves in the foreground are shaded by the trees. I am also impressed with the aerial view in one of the workshops.
serp2000 (47063) 2009-04-24 22:58
Privet, Marlene,
I can not say, that i like a cemeteris, but this is very impressive photo. Fine colours, right lines, excellent perspective. TFS!
arvinnino (438) 2009-04-25 0:36
hello marlene,
Nice shot of cementery,
great POV, i like the line made by the headstone,
Jeppo (17645) 2009-04-25 3:04
ciao Marlene,
last year I happened to know that April 25th is also a very important day in Oz and NZ.
April 25th is Freedom Day in Italy and stands for the end of II WW in our country
so...a day for tragic memories and remembrance
rginer (881) 2009-04-25 3:11 [Comment]
Thanks for this photograph and to let us know the significance of Anzac Day. The photograph is superb with a wonderful perspective, but your notes give the real beauty of it.
Warmest regards,
delpeoples (60326) 2009-04-25 4:47
Hi Marlene, I hope you don;t think I'm stalking you on the New Guinea theme! I saw this shot this morning but had to run out the door before I got the chance to comment. The sheer magnitude of those graves saddens me deeply. And on this special day, your photo is beautifully appropriate. Best regards, Lisa.
windosil (1158) 2009-04-25 11:10
A sensitive tribute, Marlene. The aerial in WS shows how the grass here is kept green though all around is arid.
Disabled_A (0) 2009-04-26 0:55
Hello Marlene,
very impressive photo! especially the aerial view (in the WS)! Taken together, all the three photos give a clear picture of this place.
I am amazed at the geometrical patterns in this shot! Really great POV.
Very best wishes,
Greg1949 (9011) 2009-04-26 6:39
Hello Marlene,
A beautifully composed scene and a lovely remembrance. You chose an excellent POV and framed the picture well. I like the lines created by the headstones. The view of the mountains in the background is stunning with good DOF. Very nice work.
Kind regards,
danyy (0) 2009-06-14 23:42
Bonjour Marlene,
nous sommes très nombreux à avoir dans notre galerie, une photo de ces lieux qui rendent hommage à toutes ces victimes de guerres sensées changer la face du monde et et finalement, ne change pas.
Belle construction d'image avec ces montagnes en arrière plan et beaucoup de graphisme dans la disposition des tombes.
Des photos qui nous remplissent souvent de tristesse.
Bien amicalement.
dear Mariene,
sorry, as an excellent "picture", this geometric composition is superb,
some lines shows us some vanishing points in one composition, it is great.
those white is shining in surrounding splendid view of mountains and trees,
memories are never forgotten in this peaceful land.
thank you,
ifege (29393) 2009-10-13 2:35
Now this one brings back memories Marlene,
For a few months I lived in a block of flats right next door and as I was with the army then got to a couple of dawn services there. A beautiful and peaceful place. Conditions are often hard in PNG for good photos but you've won out on this one.
fabianoleite (13575) 2009-12-25 13:16
Excellent composition and colors. The tombs form a great picture and the tree is a good frame. Congratulations!
Photo Information
- Copyright: Marlene Fegan (mafegan) (8626)
- Genre: Lugares
- Medium: Cor
- Date Taken: 2005-08-14
- Categories: Cerimónias
- Exposição: f/8, 1/350 segundos
- Map: view
- Versão da Foto: Versão Original, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2009-04-24 15:40
- To delpeoples: PNG theme (1)
by mafegan, last updated 2009-04-25 06:25


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Julie Yeh, Port Manatee's former corporate spokeswoman, tried to get senior port officials to become more transparent, especially amid several arrests.
Yeh counseled that transparency was state law, something not left "up to the grace or whim of public officials."
The public relations expert also cautioned that the port's senior leaders should not abuse their power, according to emails obtained by the Herald-Tribune.
As her predecessor had done, Yeh filed a complaint against Robert J. Armstrong Sr., the port's former chief financial officer and deputy executive director, alleging that he had harassed, threatened and scared her.
Rather than heeding Yeh's PR advice or investigating her human resources complaint, Port Manatee officials fired her last week.
There is no reason for the dismissal stated in her termination paperwork, other than that she did not complete her probationary period "in a satisfactory manner."
"It wasn't because I didn't work hard enough or that I didn't fulfill my duties. It was because my PR advice was too ethical," Yeh said Monday after being contacted by the Herald-Tribune.
She declined to comment further.
Carlos Buqueras, the port's executive director, was attending a meeting in Miami on Monday and was unavailable for comment on Yeh's firing, according to his personal assistant, Teresa Daugherty.
Yeh, 41, had the task of dealing with the public and the media while Armstrong and his son were arrested, charged with dozens of counts, and ultimately fired.
She also staffed the phones after Buqueras was arrested Sept. 7 on a domestic battery charge, accused of punching and dragging his wife.
According to an arrest report, Buqueras and his wife Kimberly got into a dispute about household bills.
"Kimberly took off her wedding ring and threw it into the pool," the report states. "Carlos became enraged and pushed Kimberly to the ground and started to punch her. Carlos then dragged Kimberly into the house."
Buqueras was released from the Manatee County jail after posting $500 bail. His criminal case is pending.
Previous complaint
Yehholds advanced degrees, certifications and national accreditations in public relations.
She received a salary of more than $72,000, and worked at the port for nearly four months until she was fired on Friday.
She is not the first to complain about conditions at the operation in northern Manatee County.
Yeh's predecessor Jill VanderPol, who was in charge of corporate communications for seven years, filed a hostile working environment complaint in November 2012, accusing Armstrong of targeting her, "treating her in a discriminatory, disrespectful manner, attempting to intimidate her and assert control over matters beyond his responsibilities."
Because the Port Authority has no human resources department, the complaint was investigated by the port's attorneys.
VanderPol told them she believed Armstrong discriminated against her based upon her gender, and because he did not "value the marketing department of the port or its director."
VanderPol cited 13 specific incidents as evidence of alleged discriminatory treatment, but the port's attorneys concluded her complaints had no merit.
'Sick corporate culture'
Robert J. Armstrong was arrested in July and charged with 15 felonies, including dealing in stolen property, defrauding a pawnbroker and being an accessory to crimes allegedly committed by his son.
Buqueras fired Armstrong from his $149,000 job later that month.
Armstrong's son, Robert B. Armstrong, already had been arrested on multiple counts of burglary, theft and defrauding a pawnbroker. The former part-time maintenance worker at the port is accused of taking power tools, an air conditioner and other property from the port and pawning the items.
Authorities say the elder Armstrong bought back some of the stolen property from pawnbrokers and returned it to the port without notifying officials that his son, who reportedly has a drug problem, stole the items.
According to the emails obtained by the Herald-Tribune, many of Yeh's complaints were similar to VanderPol's.
"I did not want to believe it, but now I am convinced that he does target people. He is abusive to employees that he thinks he can get away with, such as myself," Yeh wrote in a June 20 email. "The selective use of power differential to bully and harass is the very definition and underpinning of a hostile workplace."
Yeh wrote in another message, dated June 25, that the port suffers from a "very sick corporate culture."
"Employees did not and could not think because they were cultivated and groomed to accept bullying and intimidation and humiliation from the leadership, Mr. Armstrong himself," she wrote. "They could not act because they were paralyzed by job security and fear of retaliation."
In the June 20 email, Yeh counsels Buqueras to be "reasonable" about transparency -- a standard she found was also the advice that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has given public officials.
New director
Manatee County Commissioner Carol Whitmore, who leads the Port Authority board, said she knew little of Yeh's firing.
"From what I understand, it just didn't work out in her probation," Whitmore said Monday.
Whitmore said Dave Sanford, the port's interim chief of staff, would have further information about the firing. Sanford signed Yeh's termination letter.
Sanford did not return calls from the Herald-Tribune seeking comment.
Asked if she is satisfied with Buqueras' leadership, which has seen arrests, firings and HR complaints, Whitmore said: "Can I control how a son acts as chairwoman of Port Manatee, or three employees arrested? Am I happy about that? No. I have nothing to hide."
She attributes some of the conflict to Buqueras' new leadership. Buqueras took over the port in January 2012.
"These are all personnel issues. These are people who have been there for many years," Whitmore said. "We've got a new port director, who's finding things out that have been going on for years.
"I'm sure this happens at the county level and in Sarasota County."
Port Manatee official is fired
Julie Yeh, Port Manatee's former corporate spokeswoman, tried to get senior port officials to become more transparent, especially amid several arrests.


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I realise I need a visa before looking for work, I would just like to get some idea of what the ESL situation is like in that area beforehand. Aquarius. Back to top SherriJoined: 23 Jan 2003Posts: 749Location: The Big Island, Hawaii Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:30 am Post subject: I think you will find that most places want an MA at university level. Do you have a PCGE? You might be able to convert it into state licensure and teach ESL in the school system. Here are my fav job links--I am looking too, but am interested in all parts of the US! Good luck http://chronicle.com/jobs/ http://www.languagemagazine.com/jobshop/jobs/nebraska.html http://www.languagemagazine.com/jobshop/jobs/iowa.html Back to top aquariusJoined: 26 Nov 2003Posts: 12Location: Europe Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 6:50 pm Post subject: Thank you for that information. I was surprised to find out that everywhere requires an MA. This is very different to ESOL job hunting in Britain. No I don't have a PGCE. Do you have an MA? Do you know of any MA courses you can recommend enquiring about? I would be interested in studying for an MA but on a part-time basis as it's expensive. Bye for Now, Aquarius. Back to top SherriJoined: 23 Jan 2003Posts: 749Location: The Big Island, Hawaii Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:46 pm Post subject: Yes, I know, I used to teach both EFL and ESL in London (I was married to a Brit). An RSA was preferred almost everywhere. I have never taught in the States and am just in the research stage. I am about halfway through the University of Birmingham's distance MA and hope to have it completed by the time we get there. It's a good course but it is not cheap! http://www.cels.bham.ac.uk/ I think you can get work with a BA and a cert or dip but with a private language school. There is an ad for EF in California on Dave's today which only requires a cert. The trouble is as you well know I am sure, is that Iowa and Nebraska are not hubs of internationalism. So there are not as many private schools as somewhere like California. You could try a search for private schools from a student's perspective and see if you can find any in the areas you are interested in, then just show up and apply locally. http://www.esl-guide.com/index.htm If you can stand teaching kids you might find it cheaper to get a teaching license for ESL. There are lateral entry programs that you might be able to take advantage of. http://www.recruitingteachers.org/index.html You can see I have been thinking of every angle in my own job search! Back to top aquariusJoined: 26 Nov 2003Posts: 12Location: Europe Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 8:01 am Post subject: Sherri, thank you very much for that information. You certainly are on the right track studying on the Birmingham Uni. MA course. How have you been getting on with distance learning? Wishing you all the best on your course. Aquarius. 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I2P dev meeting, September 12, 2006
Quick recap
- Present:
cervantes, jrandom, kostya213, modulus, tethra, vulpine,
Log IRC yang lengkap
16:06 < jrandom> 0) hi
16:06 < jrandom> 1) 0.6.1.25 and net status
16:06 < jrandom> 2) I2PSnark
16:06 < jrandom> 3) Syndie (what/why/when)
16:06 < jrandom> 4) Syndie crypto questions
16:06 < jrandom> 5) ???
16:06 < jrandom> 0) hi
16:06 * jrandom waves
16:06 < jrandom> weekly status notes posted up at http://dev.i2p.net/pipermail/i2p/2006-September/001307.html
16:07 < jrandom> since those notes came up hours and hours ago, y'all should have already read them and have notes ready, right? ;)
16:07 < jrandom> jumping forward to 1) 0.6.1.25 and net status
16:08 < vulpine> <Complication> Regarding 0.6.1.25 seems to have worked fine over here, only one previously unseen error
16:08 < jrandom> cool, whats the prob?
16:08 < vulpine> * Complication searches logs
16:09 < jrandom> the net size seems larger than before, though still same orer of magnitude
16:09 < vulpine> <Complication> "Unknown error reading the net.i2p.data.i2np.GarlicMessage: wtf, fromLong got a negative? -840"
16:10 < vulpine> <Complication> Started with "ERROR [NTCP read 1 ] .router.tunnel.FragmentHandler: Error receiving fragmented message (corrupt?)"
16:10 < jrandom> ah ok cool, that one has been around for a long time, safe to ignore
16:11 < vulpine> <Complication> Single occurrence
16:11 < vulpine> <frosk> i've gotten several of that last one
16:11 < vulpine> * jrandom pokes fox
16:12 < vulpine> <Complication> Oh, and one more: "router.tunnel.TunnelDispatcher: wtf, took 1121 to dispatch net.i2p.data.i2np.TunnelBuildMessage@XXXX out YYYYY in net.i2p.router.tunnel.PumpedTunnelGateway@ZZZZ"
16:12 < vulpine> <Complication> (seems non-significant too, maybe simple congestion)
16:12 < jrandom> aye, likely
16:13 < jrandom> irc is, obviously, a bit rough at the moment still
16:13 < jrandom> (but, for once, its not i2p's fault :)
16:14 < jrandom> ok, anyone have anything else for 1) Net status and 0.6.1.25?
16:15 < kostya213> just want to add that .25 fixed all my problems i've been having the past few months
16:15 < jrandom> wikked!
16:16 < vulpine> <green> please, change status calcul when only using NTCP
16:16 < jrandom> 'k, but its not recommended to disable udp (i believe i've explicitly said that i won't tell people how to disable udp too)
16:17 < jrandom> but the status should be updated to take into consideration that udp is not the only transport
16:17 < jrandom> i'll get that fixed in the next rev, thanks
16:17 < vulpine> <green> jrandom : sure you don't tell, but i'm able to read code ;)
16:18 < jrandom> right, though when i don't recommend something, and tell people not even to try, don't be suprised if a display message comes up confusing ;)
16:19 < vulpine> <green> sure, i could also juste display "OK" in console :)
16:19 < jrandom> true 'nuff
16:21 < jrandom> ok, lets jump on over to 2) I2PSnark
16:21 < jrandom> zzz doesn't seem to be over there atm
16:22 < jrandom> there are some changes zzz is working on to improve the scheduling in i2psnark
16:23 < jrandom> (its a bit.. simplistic atm iirc, though i'm not entirely certain of the mods zzz is hacking on)
16:23 < jrandom> ((but i look forward to the progress!))
16:25 < jrandom> ok, if there's nothing else on 2) I2PSnark, lets move forward to 3.*) Syndie stuff
16:26 < jrandom> lets jump in to 3.1) what is syndie first, since there's so much to cover
16:27 < jrandom> i got a few questions before the meeting regarding the encryption for posts
16:27 < jrandom> basically, posts are *symmetrically* encrypted - anyone with the symmetric key can read the post, as they're authorized
16:28 < jrandom> channel replies are asymmetrically encrypted to the public key associated with the channel/forum
16:28 < jrandom> some posts can use passphrase based encryption to generate the symmetric key for reading
16:29 < jrandom> and some posts can include the symmetric key in the post's readable headers (so that anyone can read it)
16:29 < modulus> what's the point of that last one?
16:29 < jrandom> and some forums themselves can include the symmetric key in the forum metadata, so that anyone can read the post but only if they have the channel metadata
16:29 < jrandom> modulus: so that everything is always encrypted, even publicly readable stuff
16:29 < jrandom> (so that trivial wiretapping is useless)
16:30 < modulus> right, i see.
16:31 < jrandom> ok, i think that covers the encryption questions that were asked before the meeting
16:31 < jrandom> does anyone have any questions on 3.1) what is syndie?
16:31 < jrandom> (I mean, more will be clarified as it is pushed out there, of course)
16:32 < vulpine> <void> hmm
16:33 < jrandom> que tal void?
16:33 < vulpine> <void> <void> i guess that the message (.zip) archive can also include other messages, possibly from other people, such as the messages being quoted?
16:34 < jrandom> well, yes, you can include .snd files as attachments, but there is an explicit namespace, so you can do standard References: style links to previous messages
16:34 < jrandom> (aka you don't have to do frost-style "threading")
16:35 < vulpine> <void> ok, right
16:37 < vulpine> <Complication> About Syndie, I wondered how people would go about solving the problem of granting people access to some multiple-poster forum (like accounts on an ordinary message board) but not granting this irrevocably, and avoiding undesired mess when need to revoke access (for whatever reasons) occurs
16:38 < vulpine> <Complication> One solution, of course, seemed for the author to specify a recommendation of whose replies clients should display
16:38 < jrandom> Complication: create a new pub/private keypair, give the private key to (temporarily) authorized people, and include the public key as the list of "keys allowed to post"
16:38 < vulpine> <Complication> ..and for clients, unless they desire to research history, to follow this recommendation (or more specifically its latest version)
16:38 < jrandom> (and when they are no longer authorized, remove that key from the list of "keys allowed to post")
16:39 < kostya213> jrandom: you might want to use a different extension than .snd since it's a widely used extension for audio applications, mime will confuse it
16:39 < jrandom> ah, right - all forums have an "owner" (a signing private key) who can manage the list of who is allowed to post, etc
16:39 < vulpine> <Complication> "keys allowed to post" would be metadata attached to the author's latest post, or some other message, right?
16:39 < jrandom> good point kostya213, though we may be stuck with .dat then ;)
16:40 < jrandom> Complication: ah sorry, no, its like the current/old syndie- separate signed metadata posts for the forum/channel itself
16:40 < vulpine> * Complication believes that someone has even claimed .dat for something :)
16:40 < jrandom> yes, the application called "octet-stream" ;)
16:40 < vulpine> <void> it doesn't look like .syn is used for anything noteworthy
16:41 < vulpine> <Complication> Aha, special metadata posts... right, that could do it
16:41 < jrandom> oh neat, we get to syn!
16:41 < jrandom> (good eye void, thanks kostya213)
16:41 < vulpine> <void> hmm, "
16:41 < vulpine> <void> hmm, "Word Synonym File", Company: Microsoft
16:42 < jrandom> well, i'm sure we'll work 'er out
16:42 < kostya213> yes it's used by word
16:42 < vulpine> <void> but we might as well ignore that :)
16:42 < kostya213> don't lose hope, i think it's possible to find something that won't cause problems with widely used mimetypes
16:43 < jrandom> ok, anything else on 3.1) What is syndie?
16:43 < vulpine> <void> err, then again, why would we stick with three-letter extensions? it's a relic from the DOS ages
16:43 < kostya213> one thing that must be asked, why limit to a three-letter extension? nobody uses DOS anymore
16:44 < jrandom> heh
16:44 < kostya213> jinx on void
16:44 < kostya213> .syndie seems good to me
16:44 < vulpine> <void> .synd wouldn't conflict with any
16:44 < kostya213> good as well
16:45 < vulpine> <void> damn lag :(
16:48 < jrandom> ok, lets jump on over to 3.2) Why does Syndie matter?
16:48 < vulpine> <void> jrandom: wait
16:48 < cervantes> (because you say it does)
16:48 * jrandom waits
16:48 < jrandom> !thwap cervantes ;)
16:48 < vulpine> <void> the status notes post mentions that an avatar can be attached to a post, otherwise a default will be used
16:49 < vulpine> <void> but what if a person wants to have several predefined avatars instead of a single "default" one?
16:49 < jrandom> aye, the author can include a default avatar in their own channel's metadata
16:49 < vulpine> <void> attaching the other one every time isn't going to be efficient
16:49 < jrandom> good question void - lets jump to that script code in the notes
16:50 < jrandom> listauthkeys --authorizedOnly true
16:50 < jrandom> authenticate 0
16:50 < vulpine> <void> (?)
16:50 < jrandom> listauthkeys will display all of the identities you can sign the message saying that you are, while "authenticate 0" picks an identity to sign with
16:51 < jrandom> so, that identity has its own channel, and that channel has its own metadata, which may include an avatar
16:51 < vulpine> <void> hmm, a separate identity means a separate keypair?
16:51 < jrandom> yes
16:51 < vulpine> <void> what if a person wants to have several avatars on a single identity?
16:52 < jrandom> they have a default avatar on their channel metadata, and they can override it on a per-message basis
16:52 < kostya213> dubious value
16:52 < vulpine> <void> several "default" avatars he can choose from
16:52 < vulpine> <void> or am i splitting hair here? :)
16:53 < jrandom> ah, i understand what you're saying. nah, not supported at first
16:53 < jrandom> maybe later
16:53 < vulpine> <void> true kostya213, never mind then
16:53 < vulpine> <void> :)
16:53 < jrandom> (but the avatars will be very limited in size, so shouldn't be much trouble to include)
16:53 < vulpine> * Complication thinks the adding of per-message ones could be coded to be easy enough
16:53 < vulpine> <void> so, 3.1) What is syndie?
16:53 < vulpine> <Complication> (eventually)
16:54 < vulpine> * cervantes glues the irc servers together
16:54 < vulpine> <void> Complication: jrandom just said he is going to do that already :)
16:54 < jrandom> (per message ones will be in the baseline complication, its the idea of having many 'defaults' to choose from, picking it by saying "use avatar 1" in a message rather than including the avatar itself)
16:54 < vulpine> <Complication> latency, latency...
16:54 < jrandom> ok, anything else for 3.1?
16:54 < jrandom> if not, lets jump to 3.2
16:55 < vulpine> <void> i think that's all
16:55 < jrandom> wr0d.
16:56 < jrandom> other than cervantes' snark, anyone have any questions/comments/concernts re "why"?
16:56 < jrandom> (er, "concerns")
16:58 < vulpine> <Complication> cervantes: did you clean the surface with alcohol before applying glue on the ircd? ;)
16:58 < kostya213> imo syndie doesn't need justification, its value should be self-evident to anyone who's already interested in anonymizing networks
16:58 < kostya213> and aware of the dangers of centralization of information
16:59 < vulpine> <Complication> (repost, please ignore if reached server)
16:59 < vulpine> * Complication thinks that Syndie matters because Joe Sixpack running phpBB would suffer pwnage too quickly, and Joe Sixpack running $random_blogging_tool would suffer it too
16:59 < vulpine> <Complication> (even if probability might vary)
16:59 < vulpine> <void> indeed
16:59 < jrandom> aye, plus anyone facing actual hostile adversaries (not even necessarily state level)
17:00 < jrandom> ok, cool, just wanted to run things by y'all
17:00 < jrandom> anything else on 3.2, or shall we move over to 3.3) when can we use syndie?
17:01 < vulpine> <void> well, essentially it's a forum/blogging/e-mail/communication tool based on cryptographic primitives and independent from a transport layer
17:01 < vulpine> <Complication> ...and in the far-out scenario that Joe Sixpack's adversary would mount intersection attacks, anyone running an eepsite of any kind would suffer pwnage eventually (except in an enormous network)
17:01 < kostya213> it might be a harder sell to those who don't see immediate value in privacy/anonymity
17:01 < jrandom> kostya213: aye, though we may be able to pull some tricks, like being able to safely browse offline
17:02 < vulpine> <Complication> They might appreciate security regardless
17:02 < jrandom> (e.g. an offline rss reader that also pulls in the full set of pages referenced, not just the rss summary)
17:02 < vulpine> <void> so yeah, i can't see why it needs justification :)
17:02 < vulpine> <void> kostya213: they needn't be anonymous to use syndie
17:02 < cervantes> when can we use syndie or when will syndie be useable?
17:02 < jrandom> word void :)
17:03 < cervantes> for the text interface I imagine there needs to be a fairly hefty amount of usage documentation
17:03 < jrandom> cervantes: right now, syndie is functional (you can create posts, manage channels, read posts, reply to posts, etc)
17:03 < kostya213> jrandom: how does syndie handle redundancy? how resilient is it against content disappearing?
17:03 < cervantes> (before it's useable)
17:03 < jrandom> cervantes: there's inline menus with each command doc'ed (at least minimaly)
17:04 < cervantes> cool, any plans on some use case examples?
17:04 < jrandom> kostya213: syndie works at the content layer - redundancy is handled by something else. if you post to usenet, its replicated across usenet (for instance)
17:04 < cervantes> I think the trick will be learning how they all script together
17:04 < vulpine> <void> kostya213: that's out of the scope of syndie, it's dependant on the transport mechanism
17:04 < vulpine> <void> unfortunately
17:04 < jrandom> good idea cervantes
17:05 < jrandom> the first syndie release will include an http replication system like the old/existing syndie
17:05 < jrandom> cervantes: perhaps some of the beta users can put together their favorite scripts for us to distribute :)
17:05 < modulus> mmm, is this a console app?
17:05 < jrandom> modulus: yes, the first text based app
17:06 < modulus> excellent!
17:06 < cervantes> jrandom: provided the beta users can work out how to use it ;-)
17:06 < jrandom> hehe
17:06 * jrandom considered curses/etc, as well as cli-only, but an interactive scriptable text interface is probably the simplest and most useful
17:07 < jrandom> (sans gui, that is)
17:07 < cervantes> modulus: see, jrandom listened to your relentless feedback :)
17:07 < vulpine> <Complication> If people want, they can probably build more interactive textual interfaces on top of it
17:07 < jrandom> aye, certainly
17:08 < jrandom> (the code is built to support easy integration with an irc client, like pircbot)
17:08 < modulus> cervantes: hehe
17:09 < modulus> i guess you could put a gui on top of it too for that matter, if it works roughly as i imagine
17:09 < modulus> although that'd be lots more work.
17:09 * kostya213 waits for the emacs plugin
17:09 < modulus> hahaha
17:09 < jrandom> heh
17:09 < modulus> actually an emacs mode isn't such a bad idea, maybe would attract more crazies to it.
17:10 < cervantes> press ctrl-alt-shift-break-uparrow-num7-b to choose your identity
17:10 * jrandom will leave that to elipsers to hack through ;)
17:10 < kostya213> no offense, but i'm not sure this project needs to attract more crazies
17:10 < vulpine> <Complication> would those sort of crazies code, too?
17:11 < jrandom> hopefuly complication
17:11 < jrandom> ok, hopefully 3.3) explains a it of whats coming down the line
17:11 < jrandom> as for *when*, well, we'll see, but i'm hoping "soon" ;)
17:12 < jrandom> ok, anyone have anything else for 3.3)?
17:12 < vulpine> * Complication would welcome a few hordes of those crazies then :D
17:12 < cervantes> well there's coding and then there's writing obfuscated perl interpreted tcl
17:12 < kostya213> a plugin for FUSE might be useful too
17:13 < jrandom> aye
17:13 < jrandom> ok, lets jump on over to 4) crypto for syndie
17:13 < jrandom> anyone have any comments on those issues?
17:14 < vulpine> <Complication> I wish I had, but I'm not competent to estimate the strength of those ciphers/hashes/key lengths
17:15 < vulpine> <void> how long are elgamal/rsa signatures? 4kbit for a 2kbit key?
17:15 < vulpine> * Complication leaves that talk entirely for others
17:15 < jrandom> dunno offhand
17:15 < vulpine> <void> vs dsa?
17:16 < jrandom> (though ecc looks nice'n'tiny)
17:16 < modulus> ElGamal signatures are hard and long. as gnupg's team found out.
17:16 < jrandom> aye, though some of those tricks were related to key reuse
17:16 < vulpine> <void> ah, ok
17:16 < vulpine> <void> yeah, it does
17:16 < tethra> modulus: if they're hard and long, there's a fetish site for it
17:17 < jrandom> ok, that point was really just a heads up and call for comments whenever y'all have thoughts
17:17 < cervantes> could it not be possible to implement some kind of pluggable ciphers - when a better method of creating keys is standardised we can add that to syndie and new posts will begin using them, but can still use obsolete methods for older posts
17:17 < tethra> (sorry)
17:17 < jrandom> cervantes: it includes a DSA: prefix, so an Elg: prefix would work
17:17 < modulus> are you using 1024-limited dsa or not?
17:18 < modulus> also what has? sha1 or higher order revs?
17:18 < cervantes> so really you are just concerned with getting syndie off to a good start
17:18 < jrandom> dsa is only 1024bit (there are dsa2 proposals for longer, but they aren't standardized yet)
17:18 < jrandom> and yes, dsa requires sha1
17:18 < modulus> hmm, my understanding is that they were quite strong pre-standards.
17:18 < kostya213> cervantes has a good point, having syndie content in fixed ciphers offers poor forward-secrecy, you never know when an algo will go titsup
17:18 < modulus> but i don't follow the process closely enough so you are probably right
17:19 < jrandom> kostya213: but choice is bad for crypto, so we should have fixed values when we can
17:19 < jrandom> (bad because of anonymity)
17:19 < vulpine> <void> do you know why aren't more people/protocols using ecc, anyway? are they afraid of the lack of research, or just worried about compatibility?
17:19 < modulus> patents.
17:20 < jrandom> patents and fud, yet some concerns in implementation
17:20 < vulpine> <void> ah, right modulus
17:20 < modulus> btw, is there are a good reason to go dsa vs rsa-sha512 for instance?
17:20 < tethra> patents and fud and the state (oh my)
17:20 < modulus> not trying to be annoying, just considering that gpg for instance has gone this way, among others.
17:20 < jrandom> haven't reviewed that option in years modulus
17:21 < modulus> obviously dsa is a standard, which speaks for it, but the keys are small and the hashes are weak. not that i think it's likely to end up being the weakest link ;-)
17:23 < cervantes> I wouldn't propose "choice" - but new versions of syndie would package increasingly secure (mandatory) ciphers
17:23 < vulpine> <Complication> Leaving some leeway in the structures for future change, seems reasonable regardless of which current crypto proves best, I'd think
17:23 < jrandom> aye, though that implies the fallback to weaker/older versions to interoperate
17:23 < jrandom> but, ok, we'll work through it
17:24 < jrandom> ok, lets jump on over to 5) ???
17:24 < jrandom> anyone have anything else to bring up for the meeting?
17:25 < cervantes> no being able to read the latest posts from your favourite source is a good incentive to make sure everyone stays upgraded
17:25 < jrandom> to a degree
17:26 < cervantes> no=not
17:26 < jrandom> (aye, its an incentive, but people are lazy/not interested in "upgrading software", etc)
17:27 < jrandom> s/people/some people/
17:27 < cervantes> I guess that's their issue though
17:27 < jrandom> true that
17:27 < kostya213> the i2p implementation at least can have painless upgrading
17:28 < jrandom> certainly
17:28 < cervantes> as for ??? - apologies for the irc connectivity - the ISP should be restoring one if it's major network carriers "as soon as possible"
17:29 < jrandom> w3wt
17:29 < vulpine> <Complication> To the ??? topic, I could perhaps add that the second (more extensive) part of NTP modifications is close to working, and I hope to have it committed for testing soonish
17:29 * cervantes pinches salt
17:29 < kostya213> what's the near-term plans for router development? is the roadmap accurate?
17:29 < jrandom> wikked complication
17:29 < vulpine> <Complication> It's goal is to second-guess NTP servers basing on peer clock skews
17:29 < jrandom> kostya213: stabilization until syndie is out
17:30 < jrandom> (from my perspective)
17:30 < vulpine> <Complication> (and avoid taking potentially connectivity-damaging action)
17:31 < cervantes> grand
17:32 < jrandom> ok, anything else for the meeting?
17:34 * jrandom winds up
17:34 * jrandom *baf*s the meeting closed


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Brown, Hallie Q.
|KNOW YE NOT THAT A GREAT WOMAN HATH -- FALLEN THIS DAY IN ISRAEL? -- Address of Miss Hallie Q. Brown on the occasion of the death -- Doctor Susan Maria Steward at Wilberforce, Ohio, March 7, 1918 .
I come not to deliver a studied euology on our lamented Doctor Steward, but rather to pay a heartfelt tribute to one who was a very dear friend and a very close friend. Her passing was so sudden and unexpected that it is a shock to each one of us. It is one of the many instances that remind us of the uncertain tenure of human life. And he today we meet to pay a tribute to the memory of a great woman.
She was great in the estimation of those who knew her capacity, her ability, her real worth. She was not a spectacular woman. She was modest. She did not indulge in the modern methods of advertising those qualifications that fitted her so preeminently for public service.
A woman absolutely self-reliant, honest to herself and to her friends. She acted upon her own judgment and when she had made up her mind that a thing was right and ought to be done, SHE DID IT. She had the courage of her convictions; a faithful, reliant woman, honest in all his relations of life; loyal to her family, the public and her friends.
A great woman has departed from among us, great is intellect, great in heart, great in all things that make in better conditions in the world. She scorned to rise upon the shoulders of others. Rather would she put her own shoulder to the service of some less fortunate. She
But she could strike, and strike hard, in what she believed to be a righteous cause. With her it was justice on the one side, and injustice on the other. The line was sharply drawn. There was no middle ground of expediency or compromise.
Her success in life did not arise from accident. She was a student. She applied her mind with all the intensiveness of her nature.
She was a model housekeeper, and wisely ruled her household ever holding the admiration of her husband and family.
She was a musician of note, understanding that master of instruments, the pipe organ, and served as organist of the Bridge Street A. M. E. Church in Brooklyn 28 years, and in a Baptist Church of that city, two years.
She identified herself with every good movement in the communities in which she lived. Coming to Wilberforce as a stranger, she set about to cooperate, to build constructively. She despised the idea of rule or ruin.
We find her engaged in the following activities:
College Aid Society, of which she was president;
Mite Missionary Society, of which she was treasurer;
Young Women's Christian Association, member of the Advisory Committee;
Neighborhood Club, of which she was treasurer;
Stewardess Board of the church, a member;
Temperance Union, active member;
Red Cross Society, active member;
Negro Soldiers' War Relief League, active member, giving not only of her earthly substance, but the energy of her soul.
And now I come to speak of the strong bent in the character of this notable woman--Physician-Friend. Not even the ministry of the gospel bears such close relationship to a family or an individual as does the physician.
Ah! In these twenty-one years, how she has stood by this community! And how happy we are, we who knew her worth, that stood by her!
We see her entering the darkened chamber and in sympathy go down in-to the valley of motherhood, rescue the young wife from her peril, and fan the flickering spark of babyhood into the bright and healthy flame of life. We see her, hopeful and confident, as she enters our halls and dormitories and brings to health and happiness the fever stricken boy or girl. We see her tear of sympathy and feel the pressure of that kindly hand as we stand by the bedside of father, mother, brother or sister, and see the life ebb away and hear her say: "God's will be done."
We cannot think of her as gone!
"I cannot, and I will not say--
She is dead. She has passed away.
With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand,
She has wandered into an unknown land,
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be, since she is there."
Wilberforce can never be the same without Doctor Steward. Many a fond mother will start out of her sleep at the midnight hour to hear the moan and stand helpless before her little one, and cry with the poet:
"O, for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!"
Doctor Steward often said that she had no patience with pain. She had relieved so many sufferers by her knowledge and skill that the Great Physician decreed that she should suffer no pain. So He laid His hand upon her and took her unto Himself.
We are not at this time reconciled or comforted. But if our grief be great, how much more so must be that of her beloved husband, her idolized son and daughter. How she loved to talk about them! They were her jewels.
Grieve not dear ones. Look away from the tomb to that land of fair delight. If Doctor Steward could speak she would say to us:
"When I am gone,
Above me raise no lofty stone
Perfect in human handicraft.
Say this of me and I shall be content,
That in the Master's work my life was spent.
Say not that I was either great or good,
But, Mary like, 'She hath done what she could'."


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And do you think it has a future?
I'm probably in for some bashing here, BUT:
I did some tests a while ago, to find a way to compress AC3/DTS more than the usual 384kbit found on DVD's. I tried both AAC and OGG - The results? Not good... They aren't optimized for multichannel. The way I understand it; they don't do something similar to "Joint Stereo" to optimize bit-usage. I wasn't able to lower the bitrate much more than the 384kbit without sacrifying audible quality, and then it's quite pointless. Therefore I keep the AC3 track when I "Handbrake" my DVD's into x264QuoteAnd do you think it has a future?
Blurays store the audio in much higher bitrates. You may be able to benefit more from transcoding these to a lower bitrate. You can use eac3to to do that.
Really, I think the future is not so limiting on the storage-side. I would much rather keep the encodings as they are and just buy a larger harddrive, now they are so cheap
Is there a reason to recompress audio though? 640kbps for DD in blu-ray seems more than sufficient, and probably the most compatible multichannel format there is. Pretty much the same for DTS. Blu-rays come with either an embedded DD track when the main one is TrueHD, and DTS has the DTS "core" on DTS-HD, which can be extracted very easily.
As for 7.1 audio, I'm one of the early adopters, and very very few movies (and even fewer good ones) make any use of it.
Also, a good reason not to recompress is that your decoder can then apply metadata such as DRC and DPLII(x), or DTS-ES matrix.
How long ago did you do those tests? The only reason I'm considering it now is because the update to libvorbis 1.3.1 mentions something about 5.1 optimizations. Is that all hype? And what is wrong with joint stereo? I understand it's actually a great way to reduce size without reducing sound quality. I seem to remember reading some flame wars around here about the very issue of the mp3 joint stereo inferiority being a myth.


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5 Upcoming Journalism and Media Conferences
Throughout the year, there are several conferences in the fields of journalism and media for everyone from up-and-coming journalists to seasoned professionals. Just a few weeks ago, we covered a few panels on journalism at this year's SXSW conference. Here are just a few conferences taking place through the year that will help you network, expand your skill set, and learn new topics from some of the thought leaders in the journalism industry. Feel free to let us know about other journalism and media conferences in the comments.
SABEW 2012 Spring Conference
Date: March 15-17, 2012
Location: Indianapolis, IN
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) will hold their 49th annual conference in Indianapolis, IN at the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex at Indiana University. This year's conference keynote speakers are Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana. The conference will include speakers from several media outlets like ESPN, Reuters, and The New York Times. The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will also co-present a seminar with Investigative Reporters and Editors titled "Be a Better Business Watchdog — CAR for Business Journalists". Early-bird registration ends on February 20, 2011, and registration prices will rise after that date.
Date: April 12-14, 2012
Location: New Orleans, LA
The 16th National Conference of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES) will take place down in the Big Easy at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. This year's keynote speaker is Roy Peter Clarke, vice president and senior scholar at the Poynter Institute. There are 40 information-packed sessions at this year's conference, including "Writing for SEO, Writing for Social Media" and "Editing Maps and Graphics". You can register up until the day of the event, but prices will rise on April 1, 2011. You can register for any of the days of the conference or for the entire three-day event.
2012 NABJ Convention and Career Fair
Date: June 20-24, 2012
Location: New Orleans, LA
The 36th annual National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention and Career Fair will be in New Orleans at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, and includes a film festival, an author's showcase and bookstore, and a host of other special events. The theme for this year's convention is #NABJ12 — New Platforms. New Directions. New Orleans, and session topics will fall under three tracks: Perfecting Your Craft (mastery of reporting, writing, editing, and other journalism cornerstones), Tech & Tools (highlighting new and emerging technology), and Innovation Station (emphasizing innovation and entrepreneurship in the dissemination of enws and information). Pre-registration prices are available until May 15, 2012.
UNITY 2012 Convention (UNITY '12)
Date: August 1-4, 2012
Location: Las Vegas, NV
The 5th Annual UNITY 2012 Convention is a coalition of four alliances: the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), the Native American Journalists Assocation (NAJA), and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Assocation (NLGJA). The conference will include a media showcase, a career expo, as well as several 90-minute workshops. The early-bird registration deadline is March 16, 2012, and registration prices will rise after that date.
Excellence in Journalism 2012
Date: September 20-22, 2012
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
The Society of Professional Journalists and the Radio Television Digital News Association are partnering again for this year's Excellence in Journalism Conference at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa. Registration is not open yet, but pricing and package registration details are available. Make sure to check out the Excellence in Journalism Conference Facebook page for the latest information about the conference.


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General powers of attorney allow agents to take any legal action their principals may take. For example, the agent could open or close bank accounts in the principal's name, invoke or waive the principal's contractual rights, or buy or sell stocks for the principal. In most jurisdictions, even a general power of attorney is not unlimited due to statute or court precedent. For example, a jurisdiction might prohibit attorneys in fact from using their principals' assets to pay themselves.
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1. Look at me, blogging from my phone in the airport!
2. I wouldn't be blogging while still technically on vacation except my husband made us show up 3 hours early to the airport and, frankly, we've run out of things to talk about.
So… It was fantastic! And while I did miss Kendall a wee bit, I never once felt guilty for leaving him. Perhaps it's because I knew he wouldn't have enjoyed the trip anyway.
One of the best parts of the trip was listening to and learning from some of the guys behind the scenes of the wineries. A guy at the Kendall Jackson tasting counter was telling us all about how he retired from big IT and moved to Sonoma with his wife after his kids left for college. They live in a small house not far from the coast, where they pick up fresh crab on the weekends.
We stood there, listening to his story, envious and plotting our retirement plans to do the same thing, remarking that we could never afford the same lifestyle with kids. "You have a kid? How old?" he asked.
Upon learning that we have a two year old son, his eyes lit up. "These are your magic years," he said. "And here we thought retirement to Sonoma would be pretty magical," I replied. "No, this has nothing on those magical years you spend building your family, the time with your young children. Enjoy it." And we stood there quietly for a moment. It was sort of a Freaky Friday vibe where I think we each thought briefly what it would be like to be on the other side of the counter, living each other's life.
Now I'm headed home, leaving behind this motherland I never knew I was separated from. I guess we have lots of "magic" to live through before ever being properly reunited. And by magic I mean diapers and potty training, tantrums and timeouts, play dates and first dates, teenage angst and fights for freedom.
I suppose one day I'll look back on these years and think of them as magical just like I might think of child birth as beautiful and amazing. I'll forget all the bodily fluids and screaming.
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Annual Reports
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(This is an abridged presentation of the 2012 Annual Report; the full report may be accessed in the Annual Report for 2012 (PDF))
List of MHPC Accomplishments in 2011
Updated Inventory Photos - Board member Ron Poeter created a digital photo archive of all the individual properties currently listed on our inventory. With the help of Borough engineer Bob Vogel, the photos were loaded into the GIS Mapping System.
Digital Archive CD - Board member John Solu assembled a digital archive of all the materials that were submitted for review and the minutes from the meetings. All of the meeting minutes are posted on the Rosenet website.
Preservation Seminar - In order to extend our efforts and increase our preservation knowledge, several board members attended 2 informative seminars that we represented by noted local preservationist, Janet Foster.
Preservation Week Celebration - To acknowledge the preservation efforts of several Madison residents and organizations, John Solu, Mary-Anna Holden, and William Van Ryzin prepared a Preservation Week Poster that was displayed in several downtown windows.
Madison Green Fair Participation – To publicly emphasize the important role preservation plays in environmentally conscious building, board members John Solu and William Van Ryzin attended a day long street fair where they presented informative facts about saving buildings to preserve our environment.
District Oversight - The board carefully reviewed, commented on, and approved numerous applications in Madison's historic districts (Attachments C and D). The Downtown Historic District and the Bottle Hill District had the most activity. The proposed Maple Avenue District has been withdrawn due to objections and there have been no changes to the current inventory.
Budget Report - $4,300 was appropriated in the municipal budget for the MHPC for the year 2011. Approximately $1,500 was used to pay for the recording secretary. The remainder of the 2011 budget appropriation is held in reserve.
Meeting Protocol – The board meetings currently follow standard meeting protocol but we are considering minor changes to improve our performance. The meetings typically cover three categories which are MHPC Initiatives, TCC Application review, and Sign & Façade application review. Due to our busy review schedule our own initiatives are often carried to later meetings so we are considering an annual schedule that will help keep our own initiatives on track. We have also been asked to act more quickly on sign applications due to the timely needs of business owners. To accomplish this we are considering email reviews of small applications that could possibly be acted upon between our monthly meetings if legal counsel agrees. We are also considering name badges and name plates for board members.
Resource library – We currently maintain a binder that contains our by-laws,inventory list, national design standards, and other pertinent information that we may need to refer to during a project review. We are considering expanding this to include books, magazines, photographs, articles, product literature, etc. that could help us describe our intentions more clearly to applicants.
Promotional Material – We are considering ways to promote the MHPC to the community in an effort to make people better understand our role and perhaps attract interest or new members. The materials might include business cards, posters, or a street fair booth setup.
Legal and professional help – Our board does not have a legal representative present at the meetings. The applicants often do have legal representation. When faced with legal or technical questions outside our knowledge, we are often forced to delay our action until such answers can be found. This can be frustrating for an applicant.Annual review of by-laws and design guidelines – Our busy agenda has made it difficult to find time to review and update our guidelines. We are considering an annual schedule to be more diligent in these efforts, even if it means delaying an application so that we can maintain our standards.
Coordination with and representation from related groups - Several of our members serve on related groups which allows us to incorporate their objectives. We are considering "formalizing" these relationships so that our board has consistent representation. (i.e. – the sign and façade committee, the DDC, open space, historical society, chamber of commerce, etc.). We are also considering meeting once a year at the historical society in order to maintain a close relationship with them and to take advantage of their resources when making recommendations.
MHPC Goals for 2012
Simplify and speed up our review process – We have had a lot of requests to "speed up" our process and we are eager to accommodate these requests. We have taken several steps to do this while not diminishing the quality of our review. The 3 things we think are most important are:
- We email our application requirements to the applicant so they understand what we need for the review
- We meet with the applicant to help them prepare the application
- We encourage applicants to prepare "completely digital" applications so that we can email them to the board members for immediate consideration
Complete more of our own initiatives – The best way to improve our service to the community is to take more initiatives to improve our process. To complete these initiatives we will need more time from our board members and we have to speed up our process so that there is more time for improvements. These initiatives include the administrative initiatives mentioned above, more inventory oversight and or expansion, and finding money to help our cause thru projects and grants.


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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Over 1 million seized in Tijuana
85 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 12:52 PM
90.000 from AFO in comparison with these million from CDS. I guess this makes clear who has more activity in this area.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 12:54 PM
102k at home was probably their cut :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM
any loss to the cartels is a good loss.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 1:03 PM
dang! he gave people up quick...ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Classic mexican cartels. They think if they give people up it makes them less guilty. Fkn losers.Delete
Atte.sam sarcasmo
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Not exactly, Mexican government has no death penalty or early release on parole. so each person is looking at a long jail sentence. So the more info and people they give up the less time they do.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Shit! I got a 15 agg in D Town, Tx back in 85, and I saw 3 brother from Waco snitching on each other like crazy because they didn't want to leave their young beautiful wives alone for many years, despite the ladies promise they would wait for them. So I think is easy for this guys to snitch trying to put in jail the guy that might kill them for losing that million.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 7:01 PM
I would like to see you there with those pIgs..aver cuanto awantas los tablasosDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 2:08 PM
There is way more Money is the European markets...Chapo is literally creating his own coca plantations in Peru and Bolivia.In the near future you will see more seizures in Europe.A gram of decent yayo can fetch 200 to 300 dollars.He is slowly bypassing the Colombians,more profit and no middle men.ReplyDelete
I didn't intend to make that point, because I don't think it's very significant, they are just seizures in the area, to the groups. There isn't enough information to make statements about the groups operational strength, based on a seizure of 90k vs 1 mi, because we don't know enough. There are so many variables as to why, the 90k could have money owed on the back end, or money owed period, or someones 3 kilos, or Engineers personal cut. But, that's just my thoughts.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Im sure they found 2 million and only reported 1 mill, since the cops have to take their cutReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 9:40 PM
than in that case i wouldve said they found two criminals with 200 dollars insteadDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 5:19 AM
They would of been dead and unreported.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 2:23 PM
el "PHADSE" or "FADES" has a heavy presence in Tijuana BC. Him along with a group of "sicarios" are controlling what is knows as El Murua, Los Alamos, Buena Vista and also Otay Mesa. He is working wit the Sinaloa Cartel, and lives in San Diego California, smart kid, im 100 percent sure that he is the one that went to LA for the money and had this runners deliver it, if it was 1,000,000.00 from LA then he kept the rest... SMART kid i sayReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 2:41 PM
The difference in seizures isn`t really a sign of who moves more money or drugs, it could very well mean that the PEPòs are only attacking the CDS and those 90000 were just given to say that they are hitting both of them.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 2:43 PM
BTW, Anyone interested in traslating the Zeta(newspaper) article on the possible execution of el Oaxaco, the plaza chief in La Paz BCS? They say that the Engineer is working again with the Garibay and those are the ones responsible for Oaxaco`s execution.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 3:55 PM
I smell dead rats!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 4:29 PM
damn, prices are gonna go up in the area cause of this.....smh ...not to mention its pretty dried up right now. its getting harder to find keys of coke.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 5:08 PM
I don't think the lack of cocaine seizures means that there is less supply moving through TJ. Whenyou consider the tunnel operations it is clear that they would move the cocsine across in the most secure method. TunnelsReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 5:22 PM
"90.000 from AFO in comparison with these million from CDS. I guess this makes clear who has more activity in this area."ReplyDelete
Or who is stupid enough to get caught...
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 5:35 PM
Breath of fresh air when you hear violence is at a crawl(minimum).Does that mean the war is over in Tijuana?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 6:18 PM
And he didnt give up people quick he did it against his will... In Mexico the police beat the hell out of u and tourture u.. So peoplecan be oh he is a snitch and all but u would be giving up the information if they did that to u too to anybody...And I wonder how much those dirty ass cops took for thier cut...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 6:19 PM
This makes me laugh ja ja, I feel so sorry for them....NOT ! All that work and nothing to show for it. Unfortunately, this is just one of thousands of vans just like it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 6:44 PM
wait...el panther is in trouble already then he leads authorities to another safe house? wtf?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 6:40 AM
Like 7:19pm said, the police beat the shit out of you till you start talking. I bet you could not stand 5 min into "tehuacanasos". Its not like The first 48 hours tv show that they got the killer and put them in the interrogation room and play good cop and bad cop with them. They never touch a suspect even when is obvious whos the killer.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 6:47 PM
This just means that the Sinaloa Cartel is weak or stupid and doesnt have the local government on their side,in Tijuana Arellano Felix,continues to dominate the drug trade,locally,and Into the U.S.ReplyDelete
Sinaloa Cartel only controls 100% Mexicali BajaCalifornia,but we will see how long that will last,Hector BeltranLeyva in coordination with Carillo Fuentes have sent a couple cells in to heat up the plaza and since Chapo is already on the spot light,the plan is simple move in and take the plaza,it will take years but Chapo Isidro knows what he is doing.Replies
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 8:44 PM
Havent you read carillos have already lost JuarezDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 11:03 PM
Not really, according to the wikileaks documents concerning Juarez, the Mex government was saying that Carrillo where losing Juarez so they would be encouraged to fight harder. At no time did they lost control.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 6:46 AM
No they haventDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:44 PM
To the person saying that they read that Carillo lost Ciudad Juarez has never been to Ciudad Juarez.If you guys dont believe me thats fine.Time will tell pay close attention to MEXICALI,I think I know what im talking aboutDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 7:17 PM
safe to say el panther is a dead man..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 7:56 PM
1 million is nothing to the mafiaReplyDelete
Anyomous, any elaboration of higher prices, or scare availability? That's kind what I was guessing about in the article.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 9:15 PM
There are less but with cocaine because cocaine shipments tends to be better tended than marijuana. Plus they allow for some to get caught while most still gets through. Simple!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 11:00 PM
952,000?? I bet thats the amount that was reported..i bet it was 1MIL originally..ReplyDelete
also,they say money brom drug sales in L.A as if the cartels have dope houses(dime bags) also...the local gangs control the retail sales..as dum as it sounds but cartels aint gonna dirty themselves having dope houses..there's like 5 middle men before the drugs reach the dope house for retail sale.
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 11:02 PM
WHY DOES THE TITLE SAY;over 1mil seized in tijuana if its only 952,000ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 12:39 AM
A strange contradictory article this one. The authorities are doing an outstanding job seizing much cash and even identifying sources when normally they can't identify their assholes from a hole in the ground. In fact they are doing so well drugs aren't moving and......uh.....where is the cash from if that is the case?....uh.... Hmmm, plan B, comic book, coming soon.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 3:36 AM
"One point of notice is the minimal amount of cocaine seized at the border crossings, and in the city itself. This suggests a lack of product being moved across the border"ReplyDelete
I might be wrong, maybe I`m just pesimistic, but to me it suggest someone have found better and more effective ways to smuggle it across.
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 5:12 AM
Let's see now. The State Police REPORTED a haul of $952K. Wonder how much was cut out of that total by the boys making the bust BEFORE they reported the haul. Now I suppose it has to go to the Federal Police, then the Federal Government, and finally the residual goes to the National Treasury. Wonder how much gets siphoned off during this process?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 5:50 AM
A gram of coke 2 to 300 ? Nah .Do you know how much your talkin for an ounce at them prices? 8400 . 140 for decent white,but its never decent.ReplyDelete
- jthemoverAugust 22, 2012 at 7:22 AM
Maybe his own boss turned him in to keep the authorities looking good while the other stuff made it through?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:06 AM
(el panther) was Fades right hand man, i smell set up, fades and his boys wanted panther out of the cell, because he was abusing the usage of his own drugs and because panther's sister is in love with fades, but panther does not like it. now behind bars, they can party in downtown sd, like they always do.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:07 AM
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR PHADES TO BE A HIGH RANK INDIVIDUAL AND MANAGE TO CROSS THE BORDER INTO SAN DIEGO, HIS HOME EVERY DAY???ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:15 AM
Chivis caballeros templarios against Z40ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:34 AM
From the east coast very hard to find good yayo :-(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Something doesn't sound right..? I know that not too too long ago... if a $$ courier got busted with that type of $$$ he wouldn't have opened his mouth about A. where it came from B. where it was going and C. Never in a million years that it was Sinaloa's money cuz he and his family would last a week..!! I mean are they gettin soft down south..?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 9:05 AM
some heads are gonna roll...literally...LOLReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Wonder how much the mexican government or whoever gets the stuff make in a year on busts like this one? Millions upon millions of dollar in cash, expensive cars, weapons, and so on. Guessing that is helpful in the fight against the cartels, or hoping it is.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM
If you want to keep the cops from being crooked the mexican government should pay the police department who made the drug money bust a percentage of the amount recovered. The police officers get a bonus monthly/yearly based on the amount of money they bust from the drug cartels. This stops the money coming back in to the cartels and keeps the cops off their payroll.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 10:32 AM
You guys are dumb who cares what they do we will never see that $$$ and y'all getting raped if u pay 140 200 or 300 for a g of yay0 5o is what it runs down here good shit 2ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM
i believe El pantera used to own botanas el cora in tj he must of sold good botanasReplyDelete
"sarcasm amigos"
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 12:11 PM
"5o is what it runs down here good shit 2"ReplyDelete
50 for a g ? C,mon man,aint no fuckin way you gettin decent white for 50 a g?Where the fuck are you,fuckin Columbia or Bolivia makin the shit?Have you got some paste to slang my way?Ye right.
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM
AFO lets Sinaloa (or they pay tax to) operate in TJ, that's it. It doesn't mean they get the cops and other authorities also. So this is probably why we are seeing more seizures of Sinaloa's shit in TJ.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM
"140 200 or 300 for a g of yay0 5o is what it runs down here good shit 2"ReplyDelete
Ill take a quarter key of that off you,at 50 a gram.You take 12.5 ? You see,boolshit.12 and a half for a quarter k ? No way ray.
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM
1132 same price here fla fitty a gReplyDelete
It was confirmed he did own that mariscos place in TJ, and also had worked as a money launderer/transporter for years now, transporting over 24 mil across the border. US Citizen too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM
We don't have that baby powder cut crackahead coke bro. Fuk your 50 bucks, I want some strawberry queen wash when I party. So 250 a gram is how I roll that's what the fine girls like no hood rats.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 3:09 PM
CHAPUTO is falling apart in TJ...lolReplyDelete
Arriva Los Aretes!!!...
- white boyAugust 22, 2012 at 3:58 PM
aug 21 2012 6:08 pm guess whose smarter afo lost 90000 to 1 million wow i also know for a fact his and independent worker but why hes putting in cds ass i have no idea if some one got to him and said blame it on them !!!!ReplyDelete
- white boyAugust 22, 2012 at 4:12 PM
the family of tijuana hasnt lost that amount of money in over a 15years cds has lost political support why this transfer was stopped i guess he didnt pay derecho de piso for that much amount cause el inginiero is still making billlions rumor has it he has been seen with a bunch load ofbody guard in ensenada in tijuana you never hear of el chapo or mayo hanging out here what that say im out players in guess you guys know who owns the plaza of tijuana baja californiaReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 4:21 PM
@11:32 AM you and your kind are the cause of the bloodshed in mexico. Deny and rationalize it all you want but it is true. If you buy one bag of mexican weed or one gram of coke or meth you are guilty.ReplyDelete
I don't care if you don't care, I wish the worst for you.Replies
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 7:05 PM
You are righton brother.. We as a whole(Mexicans en el gabacho) single handedly financed this genocide. Every time we ise we add to the killing on pir beloved mexico. It doesn't matter what you say to feel good about it. Stop the bullshit lies. we tell stories and try to sugar coat the truth. because of our cowardice and inability to help our people. If there is violence in our hearts let's be violent for a just cause instead of hiding our anger due to impotence. Atte sam sarcasmoDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 5:54 PM
In TJ you can buy whatever you want about 50 yards across the border from about 10 different souvenier shops. Tahts what all the white boys do when their connects dont come through, book it to Mex. You can be in and out in like 30 minutes, watch for dogs though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 6:07 PM
paying 120 for a gram coke where r u beverly hills , dam son u getting jacked and some other person taalking about strawberry some shit lol ur a trip i pray ur not serious.flavored cocaine lol what next freaking idiots man seriously if you are paying those prices stop doing dope .please i feel sorry for youReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 6:52 PM
This is true, if you buy coke then you are the cause of 9 yr old girls having their heads cut off, this is a fact it has happenedReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Please tell me you are being sarcastic. It amazes me how the lawmakers have avoided the heat. People have been doing drugs for millennia. Only recently has there been prohibition laws that have lead to the creation of crime syndicates. Of course it's a lot easier to simply point your finger at the least common denominator and avoid actually doing anythingDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 7:13 PM
50 a g in south tx good ass shit bro you guys do get rapes and to think yay from those organizations would be cheaper i think its the viejoZ that sell it here and my friend in the valley can get it for 20 bucks and its fuckin good thats from the golfo'sReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 7:50 PM
listen i said before and ill say it again i say as weak as afo is sinaloa should have steam rolled thru there why pay a tax toa weak organization i believe sinaloa wants to play right and pay but whats that tell you you always getting your product or money confiscated in guess where tijuana 1nce is coincidense 2.......3...x AFO is setting sinaloa up get your facts together and take them out. To many siezures hmmmmmm.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:28 PM
In Sacramento area coke goes for 50 a gram and its good shit! U people are tripping 200 to 300 a gram .ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 8:36 PM
dude ur full of it noone finances these acts of violence by buying those drugs. hell if u put a diamond on ur lady's finger u may have contributed to the violence in the congo but wait a minute thats a whole different subjectReplyDelete
I think they would rather work together and prosper, then turn the plaza into a bloody mess, like that worked so well in Juarez, probably figure why not enjoy this run, and retire, rather then fight it out for pride and honor, sometimes there is more money in pragmatism.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 3:09 AM
I think all the fools runnin their mouth about prices aint got a fuckin clue.50 for nice white?ReplyDelete
And you people are saying others are being ripped.
Tell me,do you get that real numb feeling in your mouth and throat,on your gums?You know,,,what means its good white?Yeah i thought so.Get it.nuff said about that.
50 for a gram of white,man it must be some shit white.14s for an oz,that is some shit yayo."So 250 a gram is how I roll that's what the fine girls like no hood rats"That is expensive brah,but ill take the coke test with yours over 50s a g awl day long.
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 3:14 AM
50 for a gram.Man john travolta been doin his thing all the fuck over it.michael jackson moonwalked on it.And the dentist uses the same shit to numb your gums.Ye man,i can feel it on my gums.100 baby.Break it down,mix it up,brick it up.ReplyDelete
Now you got the real shit,fishscale ma nicca.Not.
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 5:35 AM
August 22, 2012 9:56 PM .ReplyDelete
"It amazes me how the lawmakers have avoided the heat"
No brother,not so amazing.Look at the way politicians etc,dealt with cigarette's.It is the most stark statement of just how gullible and sheep-like people can be.People who smoke cigarettes are treated almost like criminals?
Never mind the merits or lack thereof of smoking,health-wise.Alcohol is the worst of the lot,yet we have huge advertising for it and can buy it cheaply.There is no medical proof whatever,of so-called secondary smoke danger.Yet all the sheep and politicians climb all over it.Imagine this scenario,just 15 years ago concerning cigarettes?People are so easily led.None of us are going to live forever.So enjoy it while you are here,and try to act as a human being with a code of morality.
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 6:20 AM
coke in uk is less than 15% actual coke at best, its the other stuff which goes into it which is genius, like the fish tranquilizers to make that numbness in the nose and gums, and this G is costing $60 about if converted to $$$ thats why i cant wait to get my ass to colombia or brazil the closest im willing to go to the source and have an awesome fucking party at the same time!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 6:30 AM
I see alot of people comparing their favourite dealers coke prices and swinging their massive dicks around, making noise. Comparing coke prices and quality, whats the point? Theres 50 x-factors in that calculation and it varies all the time. And the bottom line is; people who buy coke feed the cartels. There`s no way around that fact. There was something else...oh, yes, one more thing, coke is shit! You`re discussing shit like its something good, on a site reporting on the cartel war in Mexico. Do less coke and you`ll see how dumb this looks. Coke fucks you up, if it hasn`t yet, it will. If you`re really lucky it will only fuck you up and not your entiry family.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Its fifty a g when you buy it from me so duh its stepped on but if u real wanna know my cuz in ga got dem briks trty a piece we get mony we dont snoet so take yo powder head ass some were wit dem crack head prices dumb ass my hood rats dont snort shit they pop pillsReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012 at 4:16 PM
THE PRICE FOR 200 TO 300 A GRAM IN IN LONDON!!!!! NOT THE THE STATES!!!! A FRIEND OF MINE WENT TO THE OLYMPICS THERE, HE HAD A CONNECTION THERE- SHIT CUT WITH NOVACAINE OR OTHER CRAP IS AROUND 100 TO 200-,,,,,,ReplyDelete
- GENTE DE TIUANAAugust 23, 2012 at 4:47 PM
EL CAF ES PODER PESE AQUIEN LE PESE ESTE COMPA ES INDEPENDENTE PORQUE EL DICE QUE ES DEL chapo NO TENGO IDEA PERO EL CAF NO ESTA PERDIENDO NADA EN TIJUANA SIGUE GANANDO Y CRECIENDO MAS Y MAS PAEJITAS ARRIBA TODO TIJUANA BAJA CALIFORNIAReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Oh man,stop with the cartel worship.You are Mexican,its time to grow up and away from this boolshit.It is undoubtedly hurting Mexico and her decent people who want nothing more than safety.ReplyDelete
How can Mexicans justify defending a cartel now?
All of them are grimy motherfuckers chiseling off the working people and shops and stores.Time to grow up people.CAF continues to grow?Whoop de fuckin doo for you and CAF.GENTE DE TIUANA.Can you say you aint murked anyone?Can you say you aint hurt an innocent person.Can you say you aint extorted someone?
I dont give a fuck if you murked someone,but only if they in the game,dont be extortin small business an shit like that.Grow up and try and help by not glorifying cartel boolshit.
- GENTE DE TIJUANAAugust 25, 2012 at 6:24 PM
august 23 2012 5:47pm anonymous wow listen carefully extortion or innocent people ive never been part of any of that you need to really pay attention but i do handle trash talkers there not innocent see you around parejitaReplyDelete
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