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More Arrests in America's War on Islam
A November 24 "hatemail" underscores the issue, titled "Muslims in America - violent clashing of cultures, basic incompatibility of Western thought and Muslim theocracy," then quoting Denver radio talk show host Peter Boyles (know.com) saying:
"Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims."
Not Jews, not Christians, not Hindus, not Buddhists, or persons from any of the lesser known religions, just Muslims with no understanding that Islam teaches love, not hate; peace, not violence; charity, not selfishness; and tolerance, not terrorism; or that Islam, Christianity and Judaism have common roots.
Yet according to Pat Robertson, Monday, November 9 on his 700 Club:
"Islam is a violent - I was going to say religion - but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of governments of the world and world domination."
After the Fort Hood tragedy, the American Family Association (the "family values" anti-gay, pro-life, Islamophobic group) called for a ban on Muslims in the military, saying:
"This is not Islamophobia, it is Islamo-realism. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security."
Given America's war on Islam, the nation's 6.5 million Muslims wonder if their turn is next.
It never ends, and on November 23, New York Times writer Andrea Elliott headlined, "Charges Detail Road to Terror for 20 in US," then continued saying:
"Federal officials on Monday unsealed terrorism-related charges against men they say were key actors in a recruitment effort that led roughly 20 young Americans to join a violent insurgent group (Al-Shabaab) in Somalia with ties to Al Qaeda." More on Al-Shabaab below.
Eight new suspects were charged in "one of the most extensive domestic terrorism investigations since" 9/11. Some have been arrested. Others remain at large, including "several believed to be still fighting" against the US-backed government and African Union paramilitary peacekeepers in Somalia. More on that as well.
On November 23, a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release headlined, "Terror Charges Unsealed in Minneapolis Against Eight Men, Justice Department Announces," then continued saying:
Terrorism offenses were against eight defendants, charged with "providing financial support to those who traveled to Somalia to fight on behalf of al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization; attending terrorist training camps operated by al-Shabaab; and fighting on behalf of al-Shabaab."
Through indictments or criminal complaints, 14 so far have been charged "in connection with....the recruitment of persons from US communities to train with or fight on behalf of extremist groups in Somalia. Four....previously pleaded guilty and await sentencing."
According to court documents, from September 2007 - October 2009, about 20 young Somali Americans left Minneapolis for Somalia to train with Al-Shabaab, and many fought with it against Ethiopian forces, "African Union troops, and the internationally-supported Transitional Federal Government (TFG)."
After "raising money" in America and working with "alleged co-conspirators in Somalia, six men went there in December 2007." On arrival, they "allegedly stayed at safe-houses....and attended an al-Shabaab training camp (where they were instructed in) small arms, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and military-style tactics. Allegedly, (they were also) indoctrinated with anti-Ethiopian, anti-American, anti-Israeli and anti-Western beliefs."
On October 29, 2008, one man, Shirwa Ahmed (known as Shirwa), "took part in one of five simultaneous suicide attacks on targets in northern Somalia. (He) drove an explosive-laden Toyota truck into an office of the Puntland Intelligence Service in Bossasso, Puntland. Other targets included a second (Puntland office), the Presidential Palace, the United Nations Development Program office and the Ethiopian Trade Mission in Hargeisa." About 20 people were killed.
On November 23, three charging documents included:
(1) a five-count indictment charging Mahamud Said Omar with terrorism, saying he's a Somali citizen who became a permanent US resident in 1994; that he "conspired with others to provide financial assistance as well as personnel to terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations;" and that he "allegedly visited an al-Shabaab safe-house and provided hundreds of dollars to fund the purchase of AK-47 rifles for men from Minneapolis." Omar is in custody in the Netherlands from where his extradition is sought.
(2) a "second superseding indictment charging Ahmed Ali Omar, Khalid Abshir, Zakaria Maruf, Mohammed Hassan and Mustafa Salat with terrorism-related offenses;" in summer 2009, "these men were charged with conspiracy to kill, kidnap, main and injure people outside the United States; possessing and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence; and solicitation to commit a crime of violence;" none are in custody; all are believed to be living outside America.
(3) on October 9, 2009, "a criminal complaint was filed, charging Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax and Abdiweli Yassin Isse with conspiracy to kill, kidnap, main or injure persons outside the United States;" in three interrogations, Faarax denied all charges; Faarax and Isse aren't in custody and are believed to be living outside America.
The DOJ said four men pleaded guilty, including:
-- on February 18, 2009, Kamal Said Hassan to "one count of providing material support to terrorists and one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization;" on August 12, 2009 to "one count of making false statements to the FBI;" Hassan is in custody awaiting sentencing;
-- on April 24, 2009, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse "entered a guilty plea to one count of providing material support to terrorists;"
-- on July 28, 2009, Salah Osman Ahmed "entered a guilty plea to one count of providing material support to terrorists;" both men are in custody awaiting sentencing;
-- on November 2, 2009, Adarus Abdulle Ali "pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of perjury for making false statements to a federal grand jury in December 2008;" he was released pending a sentencing hearing;
-- on October 13, 2009, Abdow Munye Abdow was indicted on two counts of "making false statements to the FBI;" he's been released pending trial; and
-- on November 19, 2009, Omer Abdi Mohamed "was arrested on charges that he conspired to provide material support to terrorists; that he provided material support to terrorists; and that he conspired to kill, kidnap, maim and injure persons outside the United States."
The Philadelphia Five
On the same day, November 23, the Philadelphia Inquirer headlined, "5 accused of trying to buy Stinger missiles," then continuing saying:
"The FBI terrorism task force in Philadelphia has arrested five (Muslim) men of Lebanese origin, following an extensive international undercover sting in which one of the men allegedly tried to purchase 100 Stinger missiles designed to shoot down aircraft," meant for the "Resistance," implying Palestinians to be used against Israelis.
According to an affidavit by FBI Supervisory Agent Samuel Smemo Jr. of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, an undercover agent supposedly met Dani Nemr Tarraf, one of the accused, in Slovakia in May where he allegedly asked for missiles able to "take down an F-16" and 250 M4 Carbine machine guns.
A same day DOJ press release "announced arrests in a case involving a conspiracy to procure weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles."
Charged was Dani Nemr Tarraf "with conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles (FIM-92 Stingers) and conspiring to possess machine guns (approximately 10,000 Colt M4 Carbines). In addition, Tarraf and other defendants - including Douri Nemr Tarraf, Hassan Mohamad Komeiha, and Hussein Ali Asfour - were charged with conspiring to transport stolen goods. Dani Nemr Tarraf and Ali Fadel Yahfoufi were (also) charged with conspiring to commit passport fraud."
Numerous previous articles by this writer exposed fraudulent DOJ charges against Muslim men and one woman. Paid informants entrapped them. Each time there was no plot, no crime, or an intention to commit one. Charges were baseless against innocent victims who were targeted, persecuted, arrested, imprisoned, kept in isolation, denied bail, restricted on their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence and bogus charges, convicted by intimidated juries, then given long prison terms for their faith, ethnicity, activism, charity, prominence, and mostly for being Muslims in America at the wrong time.
Examples include:
-- the "Fort Dix Five," for planning to wage war against the US Army at the New Jersey base;
-- Yassin Aref and Mohammed Mosharref Hossain for seeking a missile to use against the Pakistani ambassador in New York;
-- the Newburgh, NY 4 for wanting stinger missiles to down New York-based Air National Guard jets and blow up New York synagogues;
-- the North Carolina 7 for plotting war against the Marines at Quantico, VA;
-- Najibullah Zazi for planning to bomb one or more major New York sites on or around September 11, 2009;
-- Miami's Liberty City Seven for plotting to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and a Miami FBI building;
-- Tariq Mehanna charged with "conspiracy to provide support to terrorists" after he refused to be an FBI paid informant against other Muslim men in his community;
-- Aafia Siddiqui, called "Al Qaeda woman" for planning a mass casualty attack with radiological, chemical, and/or biological weapons against one of more of the following targets - the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building, Wall Street, and the animal disease center on Plum Island; and
-- numerous other innocent victims falsely accused in America's war on Islam.
Later, look for evidence to exonerate the Minneapolis and Philadelphia suspects, manipulated by undercover or paid informants to look guilty when, in fact, they're innocent.
On the Horn of Africa, Somalia is strategically adjacent to the Red Sea, Suez Canal, and vital commercial waterways, and with neighboring Sudan is valued for its potential oil and gas reserves that America, China, India and other nations covet. In December 2006, Washington-backed Ethiopian forces unseated the governing Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), installing a Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in its place. Thousands were killed. Over a million became refugees.
The Ethopians withdrew in January 2009 following an agreement between the TFG and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) - a UIC coalition with other opposition forces - yet fighting continues with America backing TRG/African Union forces to keep Islamists from regaining power. UIC members aren't terrorists or connected to Al Qaeda. They're freedom fighters, struggling to liberate their country and end years of conflict, divisions and instability.
As James Petras explained:
"The UIC was a relatively honest administration, which ended warlord corruption and extortion. Personal safety and property were protected, ending arbitrary seizures and kidnappings by warlords and their armed thugs.
The UIC is a broad multi-tendency movement that includes moderates and radical Islamists, civilian politicians and armed fighters, liberals and populists, electoralists and authoritarians. Most important, the Courts succeeded in unifying the country and creating some semblance of nationhood, overcoming clan fragmentation."
Mogadishu traders initially set it up to bring order to the city's insecurity and end clan divisions after years of instability, civil war, and no stable government in most parts of the country.
Al-Shabaab and other opposition forces continue the struggle. Stratfor, a leading online geopolitical intelligence publisher describes it as follows:
"After Ethiopian forces beat back the Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) in 2007, (its) armed wings dissolved into the ungoverned savannah in the south, (and) the Mogadishu underground and safe zones in central Somalia. They eventually re-formed under the leadership of Aden Farah Ayro....and Sheikh Hassan Turki....assumed the name al Shabaab and sought to continue the fight against the new Somalian government and its Ethiopian backers with an insurgency-style approach. Portions of al Shabaab have also been known to call themselves the Mujahideen Youth Movement (MYM)."
"The group's core leadership comprises senior militants (some linked to Al Qaeda), while its rank-and-file membership is (made up) largely (of) untrained Somalian youths. Al Shabaab is estimated to have 6,000 to 7,000 members."
Operationally, it's fairly new, but as "the SICC's militant wing, it gained notoriety before the SICC took over Mogadishu in June 2006...."
The US National Counterrorism Center says that:
"Since the end of 2006, (Al-Shabaab) led a violent insurgency, using guerrilla warfare and terrorist tactics against the continued Ethiopian presence in Somalia, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, and (NGOs)."
As a result, on February 29, 2008, the US State Department designated it a Foreign Terrorist Organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (as amended) and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224 (as amended).
On Al Jazeera, One Al-Shabaab leader, Sheikh Muktar Robow, welcomed the news, saying:
"Al-Shabaab feels honored to be included on the list. We are good Muslims and the Americans are infidels. We are on the right path." In their eyes, they're freedom fighters against foreign invaders and the western-backed government, loathed for its complicity, corruption, and warlord-committed massacres and other crimes.
The New York Times says Al-Shabaab:
"is nominally led by Sheikh Mohamed Mukhtar Abdirahman (Abu Zubeyr), though experts say a core group of senior leaders guide its actions. The group is divided into three geographical units: Bay and Bokool regions, led by Mukhtar Roobow (Abu Mansur), the group's spokesman; south-central Somalia and Mogadishu; and Puntland and Somaliland."
"A fourth unit, which controls the Juba Valley, is led by Hassan Abdillahi Hersi (Turki), who is not considered to be a (group) member, but is closely aligned with it. These regional units 'appear to operate independently of one another, and there is often evidence of friction between them,' according to a December 2008 UN Monitoring Group report."
"Experts strongly caution that there is little the United States can do to weaken Shabab." They say US-launched air strikes and support for a loathed government "only increased (its) popular support...."
Former UIC shura council leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys now heads his own group, Hisbul Islam, allied with Al-Shabaab and others against TRG/African Union Forces. On November 5, the independent news web site, Garowe Online (garowonline.com), reported him saying that:
"his group (and Al-Shabaab are) fighting to liberate the Somali people and impose Islamic Sharia law....We told (Mogadishu) businessmen to join the war....(urged them) to contribute in rebuilding the destroyed roads in Mogadishu," help restore stability in the country, and support its liberation.
Like the US-funded, armed and trained Afghan mujaheddin (Islamist guerrillas Ronald Reagan called "freedom fighters") and the country's current Taliban resistance, Al-Shabaab, Hisbul Islam, and other Islamist fighters want Somalia freed from the US-backed TFG government and African Union paramilitaries.
Insurgency defeated Soviet forces in Afghanistan, and let the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) consolidate power in 2006 before Ethiopian invaders ousted them. According to Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, non-Somali Islamic fighters have joined them. Washington calls them terrorists, the usual designation for anyone against imperial aggression and dominance.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to the Lendman News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy listening.
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Islam promotes violence, degrades women and creates misery for all its followers. Keep up with my 10 part series on "Muslims in America in 21st Century" in order to learn something other than emotions. Muslims do not become part of cultures or host countries: they take over via sheer numbers. Their brutality is manifested in every chapter of the Koran. Their worse brutality is, "...convert or kill all non-believers." That alone should make the US and all civilized Western society cringe and stop allowing them to infiltrate Western democracies. FW
Gee, Muslim-Americans are the neew African-Americans? I got news for you, there's no such thing as a fair sharif, you're an infidel and bam. Ever since Ft. Hood, for an American to remain an Islam history ignoramus and refuse to revisit the 7th cent. to learn the mindset of Muslim jihadists is getting too dangerous. Despite all the Western education heaped on Muslim immigrants, the Quran is not written in disappearing ink, and its commands to spread the territory ruled by horrible theocratic Sharia by force and kill and/or enslave all who resist have no time limit. Don't let Muslim disinfo. artists or their dupes snow you too. Take some time out and study the facts online free with the Historyscoper, the fastest way to zoom through the hairy 7th cent. followed by the next 14 leading up to today, with over 800 links provided to double check facts. Click http://go.to/islamhistory


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I'll be cruising up from Pananma to USA and will be going past the Gulf of Tehuanapec. I've heard that the offshore winds can blow hard as they funnel across from the Carribean. So you want to go close to the beach so there is not much fetch or go offshore 10 miles (?) so the wind will be less. The problem with close to the beach is that you get sand blasted. Is that the case. What's the best? I saw somewhere someone else asked this but I did see the discussion. Any advice is welcomed. Thanks.
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Yes the winds in the Gulf of Tehuanapec will try to blow sand at your boat but it is not too bad. I went offshore about 3 miles to get away from it but not too far off shore if it picks up. That way I can get closer to the beach if necessary. Just throw a towel over the halyard winches if they are mounted sideways and the sand can get in. Good luck.
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Its hard to say which is best when cruising in Mexico across the Gulf of Tehuanapec, close in or way offshore.
A long time ago, we were cruising (in our then Rawson 30) and had just come through the Panama Canal, working our way northward from Puntarenas, Costa Rica and into Mexico. We chose the close to shore route to go across the Gulf of Tehuanapec and covered our jib and halyard winches to protect them from possible wind blown sand. But I must say, we had no idea what was in store for us!
We actually worked hard at getting things protected from the possible sand blasting that the Tehuanapec can dish out. That must have jinxed us because there was absolutely no wind. Not even a whisper as we entered the Gulf. But there were ominous thunder clouds everywhere. In fact it was flat calm and raining buckets, with lightning strikes hitting the water off in the distance. Finally at night the lightning strikes started getting closer. Each strike was sort of progressively connecting the dots making an eerie serpentine path towards us no matter how we steered.
Months before in Jacksonville, FL some salty fellow had warned us of lightning strikes. We had heard previously that a lightning strike could burn an ugly ring around your boat in the gel coat at the waterline. We did not want that so in Florida we bought a pair of jumper cables with what little money we had and made our version of home-made grounding rods or I should say cables. We cut each jumper cable in half and stripped back the ends. That provided us with 4 grounding cables, one each for the forestay, backstay and 2 shrouds. Therefore, one end still had the clamp to which we added a short piece of twine to secure them once clipped to the stays and shrouds. We did not want the clips to slip off like they normally do when you hook them to battery lugs.
As the lightning got closer, we though ah-ha, were going to be ready. We disconnected the electronics, and got out the doctored up jumper cables. I attached the first one to the backstay and proudly tossed the bare end over the stern into the water. The backstay had insulators on it (top and bottom) to serve as an antenna for the SSB. You would think that I would have attached the partial jumper cable above the lower insulator, but I must have actually attached it below that insulator.
I knew enough to not touch the backstay since the lightning strikes were now only 50 yards away and closing fast. So I carefully reached around the stay with both hands to tie the twine. Just as my hands were coming together on the other side of the backstay, with the twine in my fingers, and my arms forming a circle around the backstay, the lightning hit our mast. There was a brilliant flash everywhere and the electricity started jumping the insulator in front of my eyes with the yellow flash going right through the circle formed by my arms. This was in 1975 and I remember thinking (later) it was like being on the flight deck of the Starship Enterprise having been hit by a proton torpedo! I ended up on my back, upside down in the forward part of the cockpit floor. No apparent damage to me except I was in utter shock and bewilderment at what had actually happened.
True story! Happened quite awhile ago but Im glad Im still here to tell it.
By the way, one month later we were 12 days out of Cabo San Lucas and on our way to Hawaii, running wing and wing with the trades. I was down below reading and I heard a ping type sound, followed by another after a minute or so. Sort of like the tapping of a wine glass for a toast. Well, I thought that was a bit strange hearing that sound after all it was still morning and we did not even have any wine onboard let along wine glasses. I remember thinking, do I really need to go check on this. No!
But after another convincing ping, I took a stroll topsides. After a brief tour of the deck, I ended up standing on the stern rail thinking how beautiful the sails were set. I heard another ping and I looked down and between my feet the wire backstay was parting like a rope in a Disney carton! The wires were individually popping apart, forming fingers of an unconnected outward spiral. We dropped the sails so fast we forgot to untie the halyard line bundles. We did however manage to jury rig the boom topping lift to prevent losing the mast. Twelve days later we sailed into Hilo.
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Post subject: Gulf of Tehuantepec - lightning strike to mast
I just saw your story about sailing through the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico and you were lucky. I've heard lots of other lightning strikes on boats besides in Tehuantepec and there have been some pretty hair raising results. Better not push your luck! Get your grounding plates installed correctly.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:54 am
Post subject: Cruising Gulf of Tehuantepec
You had an unusual day in the Gulf of Tehuantepec with the calm water and rain, too bad about the lightning storm. Normally it can blow and blow. Here's a link on weather guys tracking cyclonic rotations in and around the Gulf of Gulf of Tehuantepec. They discuss squall lines offshore of Costa Rica and strong upper-level anticyclone situated over the Gulf of Mexico. Strange stuff.
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:11 am
Post subject: Cruising Gulf of Tehuantepec
You need a good grounding system for possible lightning strikes whether you are cruising the Gulf of Tehuantepec or elsewhere. Especially for sailboats because of that Aluminum mast. I'd suggest looking at the various manufacturers of "hull grounding plates." They will give you a big surface to get a good ground to water connection. You can also get better performance out of your SSB and VHF radios with a proper installation of the particular hull grounding plate that is sized for your boat and its radios.
Save yourself a headache and charter!
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:54 pm
Post subject: Gulf of Tehuanapec Lightning Strikes to Boats
Some people say that multiple immersed grounding terminals distributed around the hull is best for protecting against lightning strikes on your boat. You can also get spark-promoting electrodes for these extra terminals and rather than mounting them as immersed grounding plates, you can mount them above the waterline. This needs to be done in conjunction with proper conductors and terminals, so get some expert help.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:54 am
Post subject: Gulf of Tehuantepec Lightning Strikes
Hey Carl 55, that's good info using the immersed grounding terminals distributed around the hull of the boat. I've seen that done, little spendy but you will at least have piece of mind.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:48 pm
Post subject: Lightning strike protection
It's simple, just get the local electronics shop to design up the grounding package and at the next haulout, tell the yard to install it. If you need the lightning strike protection, it's best to just have the people in the business do it so it gets done right away.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:13 pm
Post subject: Gulf of Tehuantepec Lightning
Good posting. Can't be too prepared for lightning. Better make sure your insurance will cover it as well. This is pretty obvious but never hurts to review which waters your coverage includes and not just trust your memory.
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The Lost Cavalry is a six-piece group founded by Mark West, described here as formerly being 'the guitarist for indie favourites Fanfarlo', which is perhaps the only time anyone has described that band as favourites. Having been around since 2009, they have released their debut album, Three Cheers For The Undertaker , which claimed to be an album of alt. folk. What exactly it is supposed to be the alternative to remains unclear, as there is a real sense of deja vu here.
Many of the tunes on the album seem to follow the same generic blueprint - at first the song starts off slowly with perhaps one or two instruments. Next, the vocals of Mark West are added to the mix, a sincere baritone which whilst technically okay, is somewhat lacking in nuance and variety over the course of the album, and in some places is distractingly similar to those of Beirut's Zach Condon. Over the course of the song, a wall of sound is constructed, with an 'everything including the kitchen sink' approach taken to instrumentation, before reaching its crescendo and reaching its half-hearted 'festival moment' - i.e the rousing part of the song which is tailor made to be chanted along to at outdoor gigs by inebriated revelers. With slight variations, almost every single song seems to follow this script, which begins to get tiring and trite over the course of the album's 53-minute running time.
One of the major problems that Three Cheers For The Undertaker seems to have is in its editing, in that none appears to have taken place. Many of the songs are at least five minutes long, and one can only believe that some prudent cutting could have made the album more enjoyable. The dreary 'Telescope' drones on for two minutes longer than it has any right to, whilst the charming glockenspiel-led 'Stars are Ripe' - one of the better songs that The Lost Cavalry have on offer - could easily have been made better by making it three-quarters of its current length.
It's not all bad news though, for as uninteresting as the album is, there are still a few decent tracks hidden beneath the averageness. 'Snow City Radio' has a nice melody running through it, whilst their understated album closer 'Mono', with its sampled beats and backwards loops, show that they are at least willing to take the occasional risk, even if it is one that Sigur Ros have been subtly doing for many years.
All in all, Three Cheers For The Undertaker is not a bad album. However, one could not in good faith call it a good album. If you are looking for a record which offers something new and exciting in a genre which has long since passed saturation point, then Three Cheers For The Undertaker will not live up to your expectations. If however, you've been told by your physician to stay away from The Leisure Society for fear of over stimulation, then The Lost Cavalry is exactly what the doctor ordered.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - What food you can't eat ??? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in What food you can't eat ??? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Food View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message iswritingJoined: 11 Apr 2006Posts: 491Location: Japan Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: What food you can't eat ??? Hi I'm a Japanese girl I like to eat. But, I can't eat beans.... I can't eat it since a child. What food you can't eat ??? Or Can you eat all food??? Write here!!!!! Back to top kritnatJoined: 30 Jan 2007Posts: 14 Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: What food u can't eat Hi !! i am masaya I can't eat frog. I feel pitiable it. But i like seafood. seafood is delicious and more benefit. Back to top k.tyrosJoined: 13 Feb 2007Posts: 13Location: SAN JOSE COSTA RICA Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: hi!!!!I am from Costa Rica... and I love food, I eat every kind of food but I hate mushrooms.... but I think that beans are good and with very good taste!! Back to top +Immune+Joined: 06 Jan 2006Posts: 83Location: Warsaw/Poland Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:36 am Post subject: Personally, I totally dislike seafood as it reminds me of an unpleasant event. I went out with my friends once and we decided to eat out in a fancy restaurant. Each of us ordered a plate with various types of seafood. We ate it up and left the restaurant. While I was driving home two of my friends sitting at the back of the car started vomiting at the same time. They threw up their dinner all over the back seats of the car. Now, guess who had to clean this mess up? That's why I can't eat seafood any longer. _________________"Understand that hapiness is not based on possesions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect" Well, um.. "Never open the refrigerator when you're bored" Back to top jvegap223Joined: 06 Feb 2007Posts: 17Location: Costa Rica Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: What food you can't eat ??? iswriting wrote: Hi I'm a Japanese girl I like to eat. But, I can't eat beans.... I can't eat it since a child. What food you can't eat ??? Or Can you eat all food??? Write here!!!!! Hiiiii, I love the cheese, uuuuummmmuuummmmmm I put cheese in diferent foods, like chiken, fish, spagueties, rice......_________________Jessy_CR Back to top serdarhicipJoined: 28 May 2007Posts: 28Location: istanbul Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:30 am Post subject: What food you can't eat ??? I can't eat ham, pork and bacon or drink alcohol according to my religion. But I enjoy drinking red wine and malt whisky because I like trying them. Also I can't eat beans because I find them tasteless. Also I can't stand peach juice because the appearance of the juice puts me off. Finally I can't eat certain foods because they are too expensive. For example I would like to eat Beluga caviare, mangos, Processo Australian champaign, beef Tatar, veal, king crabbe, chocolate sufle. But alas I am a man of simple means! Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Food All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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This moves makes perfect sense considering Microsoft's ongoing research with its commercial table-top computing platform Surface, and now more recently tablet of the same name. "The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we're excited to accelerate this market evolution," said Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft. "PPI's large touch displays, when combined with hardware from our OEMs, will become powerful Windows 8-based PCs and open new possibilities for productivity and collaboration."
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ARENAC COUNTY — The Michigan Department of Education released MEAP scores for fall 2009, and overall, most school districts in Arenac County experienced an increase in proficiency levels for a majority of the grade levels and subject areas.
MEAP scores are divided into four categories that reflect a student's level of proficiency in the subject areas tested. Level 1 is advanced, Level 2 is proficient, Level 3 is partially proficient and Level 4 is not proficient. Students who score in either Level 1 or Level 2 are considered proficient or above.
Most grades at the AuGres-Sims schools had an increase in the percentage of students who met or exceeded Level 1 or Level 2 on the MEAP.
"Our students scored above average on 13 of the 16 tests," said Anne Doriean, superintendent for AuGres-Sims schools.
The most significant change was in the eighth grade, which had its proficiency go up significantly across the board between 2008 and 2009. Math went from 73.9 percent in 2008 to 85.3 percent in 2009. Reading went from 78.3 percent to 85.3 percent, and science went from 78.3 percent to 94.1 percent.
The eighth-grade science test also had the largest increase for AuGres-Sims, with a change of 15.8 percent.
"This isn't about teaching to the test; it's about teaching to the curriculum," Doriean said. "I'm really proud of the job we've done. Our teachers are doing a good job, and our parents and students are engaged as well."
The largest decrease was in seventh-grade math, which went from 93.8 percent proficiency in 2008 to 84 percent in 2009, which is a 9.8 percent drop.
Doriean said that large leaps in scores — both positive and negative — are often viewed as anomalies.
"What you're looking for are incremental increases over time," she said. "Across the board, we're showing nice, consistent scores."
The Arenac Eastern School District also had increased proficiency in many of the subject areas and grade levels. The proficiency levels in all of the subject areas for fifth grade — math, reading and science — increased significantly. Math and reading both jumped 29.2 percent, bringing them from 55 percent in 2008 to 84.2 percent in 2009. Science proficiency went from 80 percent to 89.5 percent.
"I think it's the young, aggressive teachers we have," AE Superintendent Bill Grusecki said. "They laid a lot of groundwork."
However, ninth-grade social studies dropped from 74.2 percent to 57.1 percent, which was the largest drop in proficiency for the school district.
"We are going to put strategies in place to improve on our weak areas," Grusecki said.
For the Standish-Sterling Community School District, most of the grades in the elementary, middle and high school had an increase in the number of students who met or exceeded the proficiency requirement of the MEAP. The highest level of proficiency was fourth-grade math, which was 99.2 percent.
The schools only experienced one large drop in proficiency, which was in eighth-grade math. The proficiency went from a 72.6 percent in 2008 to a 59 percent in 2009.
The largest increase in proficiency was a 12.7 percent jump for seventh-grade reading, which went from 71.7 percent in 2008 to 84.4 percent in 2009.
Both elementary schools had proficiency levels above 90 percent in all subjects. Sterling Elementary School's fourth grade scored 100 percent proficient in math, and it was the only school across all districts and grade levels to do so. The fourth-graders also reached 100 percent proficiency in math as third-graders in 2008. Standish Elementary School's highest proficiency was also fourth-grade math, which was 98.4 percent.
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Arline Kiven joined the Community College of Rhode Island as a history instructor in February 1966. She was promoted to the rank of professor in 1980 and was active in college activities, humanities and the Faculty Association. She served as head of the Faculty Concourse in the early 1970s and then as a president of the Faculty Association. She retired from CCRI in 1984.
Kiven wanted to become a school teacher, but was dissuaded by her father who said teaching jobs were scarce in the Depression and that nursing was a better choice. After high school, she became a registered nurse.
At age 33, Kiven developed cancer and her leg was amputated. Feeling depressed and that her life was over, her husband, Nathan, encouraged her to return to college and become a teacher. She enrolled at Rhode Island College in 1956 and completed a bachelor's degree in Education in three years.
At the same time, friends urged Kiven to become active in the Providence League of Women Voters. She served as president for two years and as director of the Rhode Island League of Women Voters. She entered politics through her work with the league and assisted Governor Dennis Roberts with his campaign in 1960. Following that, the Democrats asked her to be their nominee in her district in Providence.
Kiven served two terms in the House of Representatives. Vigorous and energetic, she became a leader on the issue of fair housing. She was a reformer and kept this issue alive until a bill was passed in 1965.
Upon retirement from CCRI, Kiven devoted herself to community service activities. She was a founding member of the Mount Hope Day Care Center and served on the boards of many organizations.
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Location, prestige, academic reputation, and tuition are major factors for students in the college-selection process, but post-graduation salary is something rarely taken into consideration.
Although salaries depend heavily on a graduate's field of work, companies are willing to pay a premium for students hailing from the nation's top universities. But which undergraduate institutions offer the most valuable degrees?
Recently, Payscale.com released a report on the highest salary potential among 1,058 of the nation's colleges, and from this data colleges and universities can be ranked by the mid-career median salaries of its graduates. For schools with the same mid-career median salaries, starting median salary determines their relative rank. In the case of a tie in this number, the school with the higher starting salary is ranked higher. The ranking considered only people with undergraduate degrees, which ruled out post-graduate degree holders, such as lawyers and medical and pharmacy professionals.
Of the following top 10 highest earning schools, their graduates earn an average of $122,500 at mid-career, which is up nearly 5 percent over last year. As a few points of comparison, the bottom 10 schools' graduates earn an average of $44,490 at mid-career, and the top party school by salary potential is University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a mid-career salary of $95,900.
So, which schools have highest-paid graduates? Click ahead to find out.
By Paul Toscano and Colleen Kane
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Note: School ranking, enrollment and acceptance rate information is taken from the U.S. News 2013 College Rankings and Reviews.


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Last month I wrote about the shock of finding out that 55,000 people die each year of rabies, a major health issue outside of the United States. I couldn't believe that so many people die each year form something that can be easily prevented with a simple vaccine.
Veterinarians without Borders/Vétérinaires sans Frontières (VWB/VSF) has been working since 2005 to get that number down to zero. This year, as part of their Make Rabies History campaign, they've created a documentary web series called Vets Without Borders to create more awareness around the cause.
Vets Without Borders follows VWB/VSF vets to a small mountain village in Guatemala where residents are dying of rabies from being infected by stray dogs. The vets spay/neuter and vaccinate the dogs, in addition to handling emergencies involving pigs and other wild animals. Animal hospitals don't exist in this remote area, so the vets must rely on limited supplies and a little creativity.
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A blog by one of the volunteer reviewers for Geocaching.com. It's about geocaching and the review process -- what it takes to get your new caches listed on the world's most popular geocaching web site. ©Copyright 2012 by K.Braband. All rights reserved
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Wrist camera - GoProCamera
Edit: Jan. 4: It looks like GoProCamera has replaced my video with someone else's, but you can still view mine here.
6 comments:
- Joshua said...
That is cool! I've been looking for a camera like this, I'm going to have to check it out!
- 10:55 AM, December 16, 2007
- Norm said...
Nice little camera. Incredible underwater shots on the GoPro website. But I didn't know you guys had barracuda in Iowa...
- 5:01 PM, December 16, 2007
- bumanfam said...
Impressive shots - underwater for under $140? Pretty cool!
- 1:30 PM, December 17, 2007
- Iowa Tom said...
Congratulations for your video appearance on GoProCamera. Nice!
- 10:01 PM, December 25, 2007
- HFC said...
Hi, as a backpacker, I do not want to carry the wrist band. Can you separate the goprocamera digital hero 3 from the wrist band and only use it with the plastic case?
If so, what is the weight in ounces of the goprocamera digital hero 3 without the plastic case and what is the weight of the plastic case? Please provide weight of the camera with a SD card loaded and with batteries (how many of what type batteries are needed).
Roleigh Martin
Edina MN
- 11:27 PM, May 09, 2008
- IowaAdmin said...
Roleigh, yes you can remove the camera from the wrist strap. However, it's easier to leave the plastic housing connected to the wrist strap and simply open the housing to remove the camera. I can't tell you the weights of the various parts. You may want to contact the manufacturer or a dealer for that information.
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Today, Seb and Dan go PS4 crazy and discuss everything about the next generation of PlayStation, dusty condoms, Medal of Honor and if Dan has managed to pop his cherry yet.
The week the PS4 talk stops is the week I stop listening, so keep it up guys!
Sharing feature? Like the infamous "game share" that every jobless basement dweller love so much?
Sebastian is the type of gamer you would beat the piss out of just for making gamers look so bad.


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Building A Benchmarking Test Farm With Phoromatic: There's the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoronix Global, and PTS Desktop Live as our family of free software products to provide extensive benchmarking and automated testing capabilities atop Linux, OpenSolaris, BSD, and Mac OS X operating systems. The Phoronix Test Suite has more than 120 test profiles and 50 test suites with new suites and tests continuing to come in through its extensible architecture, but for organizations with multiple test systems or entire testing farm(s) devoted to performance monitoring and regression tracking, they have had to strap the Phoronix Test Suite atop their own management systems or hack away at simple scripts to deploy our testing software across an array of systems. Today though we are announcing the public beta launch of Phoromatic. Phoromatic is a remote test management system that allows controlling any number of PTS-powered systems through a single web-based interface, which also allows all of the test results to be viewed from a central source. This article provides a first-look and guide for some of the possibilities of Phoromatic from those looking to build a benchmarking test farm or for individuals simply wanting to benchmark computers across the world. We also share in this article what may be coming next to our Linux-focused benchmarking empire.
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Seeing your Moving Moments images on Instagram has been a blast, and the contest isn't over yet so keep them coming! While you have been planning your move, ForRent.com has reached out to a veteran moving expert, Jamie, from C.R.A.F.T. to share insider tips and tricks to make your next move a successful one!
Jamie has moved 6 times in her adult life, and they were big moves at that. She moved from Texas to New York City, back to Texas, followed by a move to Florida and then back to Texas – just to name a few. Shew, we are tired just by reading this! Having moved across the country so many times, she knows what it takes to stay organized during a move and how to make the process as painless as possible.
You can't start organizing and getting ready early enough. "I start collecting boxes the day I realize I will be moving! Once I have secured the boxes, I'm a pretty speedy packer," exclaims Jamie. Once you begin packing, she recommends beginning with your closet. Start with all the different items on your closet shelves that you rarely use, or out of season clothes. The first items packed should be things you won't need immediately.
You probably have more stuff than you think. It may not look like a lot at first glance, but once you start packing it away, the boxes seem to fill up quicker and quicker. Jamie urges you to get more boxes than you think are necessary. She has some great tips on ways you can secure free boxes, which is a huge money and time saver!
Once you are at your new place, she recommends unpacking your kitchen items first. It's a great way to empty a lot of boxes quickly because you know exactly where your pots and pans are going, as opposed to other items around the house. Plus your instinct to survive comes into play, and you will need to eat!
Save some time and boxes by leaving clothes in your dresser. Also, if you are moving across the country, hiring a moving service is a huge help; however, if the move isn't far, recruit some friends and bribe them with food! It will save you some serious coin.
Once you are moved into your new space, you need to familiarize yourself with your new area. Jamie recommends going out into town and just getting lost. Discover what the area offers or use a service like MeetUp.com for some great ideas.
When it comes to decorating your new space, get creative and make it fun. DIY projects can help personalize your new apartment while saving money (since you've probably just spent it all on your move), and give you a break from all the unpacking.
Hopefully Jamie's extensive moving history and expertise has helped steer you in the right direction for your next or upcoming move. We would like to thank her for sharing her awesomely helpful moving tips! What is the most important thing that you have learned from a move?


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Katy Perry Is Already Working On A Comeback Plan After 'WITNESS'
After coming off of some tremendously successful years, it was startling to see Katy Perry fail to live up to her own standards when the pop star released WITNESS last June. However, her Capitol Records head honcho Steve Barnett revealed that the "Swish Swish" singer has plans to climb the charts and get back into good graces with the public.
Speaking to Variety, the industry heavyweight admitted that Perry's inability to connect her latest record with the public was something of "an interesting story. "I love her and have forged a great relationship with her. I talk about how engagement is so important and I don't believe you can have big cycles between projects [as Katy did]," Barnett told the magazine. "I think that's changed. And so you sit down and have tough conversations with her and management. As successful as you've been, you learn."
Barnett went on to admit that he's learned more from Capitol Records' mistakes than he has of their success stories and it's a mentality that he believes Perry holds as well. "I believe our artists are in the same category as that," the chairman and CEO continued. "But she has a plan, and we have a plan, and I feel good about it."
With three WITNESS singles, including the Skip Marley-assisted "Chained to the Rhythm," "Bon Appétit" featuring Migos and "Swish Swish" featuring Nicki Minaj, the LP managed to move 840,000 copies, as per Variety's stats via BuzzAngle. While it's an entirely respectable figure in 2018, it's a far cry away from moves of its predecessors: the 3x platinum-certified Teenage Dream and the 2x platinum-certified Prism. Here's to hoping that Perry can regroup and find a sound that connects with the public. She's currently in the middle of her world tour in support of WITNESS. In early February, the entertainer wraps up the North American leg of the trek, before heading to Latin America, Asia, Europe and closing the world tour in New Zealand in August.
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Reports suggest former Republican senator in mix for top national security posts
WASHINGTON – Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, is reportedly being considered for a top national security position in the Obama administration, a move that could affect Senator John Kerry's chances for a similar post.
Hagel may be in contention for either secretary of state or secretary of defense, according to an online report by Foreign Policy magazine's Josh Rogin, who cited multiple anonymous sources who were familiar with the vetting process.
The report throws another name into the mix of people who could take a high-profile role as President Obama restocks his Cabinet at the start of his second four-year term. Hagel, who is a moderate on foreign policy and currently co-chairs Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board, would provide Obama with a Republican in the cabinet.
One source familiar with the process told the Globe that Hagel was being considered for secretary of defense or to head the Central Intelligence Agency, and likely not for secretary of state, the position Kerry is most carefully eyeing.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice is widely believed to be the front-runner within the White House to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But Rice has also been under fire for comments she made in the days after the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the US mission in Libya. Her personal investments – in companies that do business with Iran, and in Canadian oil companies that would benefit from the Keystone pipeline – have also come under close scrutiny in recent days.
Kerry has widespread support among his colleagues in the Senate, and would make for a much smoother confirmation process if he were nominated.
But another consideration for the White House – and a potential motivation for Senate Republicans to oppose Rice and favor Kerry — is the political dominos that would fall if Kerry is appointed. It would create an open seat in Massachusetts, which Senator Scott Brown, the Republican who just lost his seat to Elizabeth Warren, could run for in a special election.
A source close to President Obama said that he wanted to find a way for Kerry to be in his cabinet, but it is unclear in what capacity he would serve.
Kerry's name has also been floated for secretary of defense, but those who know Kerry and have followed his career closely say they can't see him taking such a position. The only post they could see Kerry leaving for is secretary of state, and otherwise he would probably continue in his current role.


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Amazon Web Services, seen by many as the market-leading infrastructure cloud computing provider, has a pretty full shelf of virtual machine (VM) image sizes for customers to spin up in its Cloud -- 17 separate instance VM sizes are listed on the company's website, in fact.
But a growing trend among some smaller Cloud providers allows customers to create their own virtual machine sizes, specified by however much RAM, CPU and memory they want. In an increasingly busy market, vendors, particularly smaller ones, are looking to differentiate themselves from the mega-players -- like the Amazons, Googles and HPs of the world -- and this is one way to do it.
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"You're pretty much talking about the biggest advantage we bring to the table," says Michael Higgins, chief enterprise solutions officer for European-based IaaS cloud provider CloudSigma, which also offers its services in the U.S. "If you are a high CPU user you won't have to purchase bundled RAM which you don't need!" the CloudSigma site explains. "If you need a lot of storage but less CPU and RAM likewise no problem. There are no 'standard' server size on the CloudSigma cloud."
CloudSigma isn't alone. ProfitBricks is another DIY-type cloud that allows customers to set their own VM instance sizes -- up to 48 cores per server, 196GB of RAM and 16 virtual drives with up to 16TB each of storage. ProfitBricks makes a big deal out if its use of InfiniBand, which it says allows for improved performance. It also offers per-minute billing and allows "live scaling," or the ability to change VM image sizes without having to reboot as well. "Why force customers to stumble through some long list of choices with meaningless names they then have to associate with some amount of capacity, none of which may meet their needs without waste?" says Pete Johnson, ProfitBricks' evangelist, who recently joined the company after a 19-year career at HP.
Gartner analyst Lydia Leong, who tracks the IaaS market, says customizable VM sizes is somewhat of a trend in the market now -- many VMware vCloud Powered public cloud providers, for example, have the feature. "Allowing arbitrary VM sizes allows customers to size VMs that fit the needs of their workloads as exactly as possible," she wrote in an emailed response to a question.
There could be some downsides to using this model, though, she warns. "Customers typically feel that this is the most cost-efficient approach, although whether or not it turns out to be any cheaper, in the end, is a function of the VM variants offered by a given provider, actual VM performance, and the cost of those VMs," Leong notes.
Price comparisons between the providers are not apples-to-apples. CloudSigma, for example, offers a recommended "small" instance size with 1.1GHz of CPU and 1.7GB of memory for $59 a month, according to its quote calculator. Amazon's default "small" instance type with 1.7GB of memory is $0.06 per hour for a Linux VM.
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Customers also need to figure out exactly what customized VM size they want or need. Higgins, from CloudSigma, says for many test and development customers, this isn't a problem -- they're technical enough to know what they need and spin it up themselves in CloudSigma's website. Higgins runs a division within the company that works with customers to customize their VMs.
There is also a growing ecosystem of third-party vendors that will help customers optimize their cloud usage. Many of these vendors focus on specific public cloud service providers -- Newvem and Cloudyn, for example, help customers optimize their Amazon resources. But Cloudability is a similar tool that works across more than a dozen providers.
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I can't tell you how many times TechRepublic members have told me some variation of "I quit my job because of a terrible boss." Our members speak of bosses with absolutely no technical know-how trying to lead teams that have to make technology work for the company. Or technically astute bosses who have no discernible management skills. And there are those bosses who are just plain hard to deal with because of some personality disorder.
If you google "incompetent boss," you'll get a zillion pages of advice on how to deal with them. Most of the advice is admirable (e.g., non-confrontational confrontation, complaining further up the corporate ladder, etc.), but the advice always ends with, "If all else fails, find another job." That's because, even if you're lucky enough to work for a company that will have an intervention on your behalf, there's nothing you can do to change another person's behavior. The only behavior you can change is your own.
Now, having said that, I'd like to see how many of you have left a job or changed positions because of a terrible boss. Take the poll below and maybe we can get an idea, in a totally unscientific manner, just how many bad bosses there are out there.
If you want to vent about the bad boss, or if you found a way to confront a bad boss and lived to tell about it, I'd love to hear about your experience in the discussion forum below.
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Make sure your tension is not to tight and that there is now fluff or cotton stuck in between your tension plates. I sometimes use a string of the stitch to pull in between the tension plates. I always set the needles tension first and then i balance the tension of the upper and lower looper.
Make sure the cotton are not looped around a guide. Black cotton and some cottons can build up their own tension. Try different cotton. I've had many a headache with this problem.
Check that the needles are not blunt or bent. I always use schmetz needles. If your needle plate has any damage where the cotton can get hooked. Use a small file or sand paper to remove it. The stitch tongue must be very smooth and the stitch must slide of smoothly. Check that your lower looper point does not have a sharp hook on it. You can use a very fine water sand paper to remove it.
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Good pitching often trumps good hitting, and Piedra Vistas pitching did just that to the Durango High School baseball team Friday.
The Panthers held Durango to just three hits and used a three-run fifth inning to pull away for an 8-3 victory Friday night at the Piedra Vista Tournament in Farmington.
Durango entered the game with a .435 team batting average and 79 runs scored. But the Demons just couldnt quite muster the same big scoring performance against Piedra Vista (8-2).
We saw a good pitcher on the mound, DHS head coach Rob Coddington said. The guys played aggressive all the way through the end of the game, kept hustling. Just tip your cap to P.V. theyre doing a lot of things right down there right now.
Ben Wiley (0-1) took the loss for the Demons, who dropped to 5-2 on the season.
Coddington said he was pleased with the defensive adjustments made by the Demons late in the game and their work ethic.
The second half of the game, we played very good defense. We made some really good plays, he said.
DHS will face a familiar foe in its next game of the tournament. DHS is set to meet Fruita Monument at 2 p.m. today in a battle of Southwestern League foes.
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Miley Cyrus: Music Video Shoot with Lil Kim!
Miley Cyrus throws up her signature peace sign as she leaves a private residence on Saturday night (February 2) in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles.
The 20-year-old actress/singer was there shooting a "Twisted" music video with rappers Lil Kim and Tiffany Foxx.
"Starts with @therealjuicyj ends with @LilKim ❤ what a week :)" she tweeted.
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Asian studies programs typically offer students the opportunity to learn about the culture, politics, history, language and literature of the area. Programs may be focused on a single country or a group of countries. Campus-based Asian studies degrees are frequently interdisciplinary in nature. You will want to consider carefully your career goals when picking a program and if they include research, consider the interests of the faculty on campus. An Asian studies degree could provide valuable background for a role in government, journalism, NGOs, or education in the region.
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Game day: Sacred Heart men at Wagner
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Sacred Heart men at Wagner
WHEN: Tonight, 7
WHERE: Spiro Center, Staten Island, N.Y.
RECORDS: Sacred Heart 8-11, 6-2 NEC; Wagner 11-8, 5-3 NEC
SKINNY: The Pioneers have won three straight and sit in a three-way tie for first place atop the Northeast Conference. Sacred Heart, Bryant and Robert Morris are all 6-2. ... Sacred Heart is coming off an 82-68 win over Monmouth on Saturday. ... SHU senior Shane Gibson was named the Choice Hotels NEC Player of the Week after averaging 29.5 points in the Pioneers' two wins. He scored a season-high 33 points in the win over Monmouth with 24 coming in the second half. ... The Seahawks return home after wins at Mount St. Mary's 52-50 and Saint Francis (Pa.) 81-56. They are led by Jonathon Williams (14.5 ppg, 7.3 rpg). ... The Seahawks are 5-1 at home this season.