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By Christopher DunneJune 1, 2011
Daniel J. Whitmarsh, 54th Signal Battalion Assistant Operations Officer, was recognized as 160th Signal Brigade Department of the Army (DA) Civilian of the Quarter during a May 27 ceremony at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
Whitmarsh, who has played an integral role in several major projects since arriving in Kuwait, was surprised by the honor. "I have a little over 12 years in uniform, active duty and Reserve, but I'm new to being a DA civilian," he said. "I was just trying to work hard and do a good job, so when I was told I was nominated it was unexpected."
While he didn't expect to win the award, Whitmarsh said it was nice to be recognized. "For me, it's important to remember that the reason I'm here is to support the Soldiers who serve the Army with great courage and honor during dangerous times," he said. "I hope that by doing the best job I can, I will make their jobs a little easier in some small way. I'm proud to serve with them."

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Looks like the competition is heating up for the 2012 Miss USA Pageant! So, just who did Miss West Virginia, Miss Pennsylvania, Miss Illinois, Miss Wyoming, Miss Missouri, Miss Minnesota, and Miss Massachusetts turn to for the evening gown segment of the competition? They turned to Mac Duggal, of course!
Aside from becoming one of the world's most popular pageant and prom dress designers, Mac seems to have also made quite the name for himself on the red carpet, dressing Hollywood's "A-List" celebs like Vanna White, Jennifer Beal, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Connie Stevens, and Sybil Shepherd, just to name a few! Mac Duggal creations have also been seen on the big screen in movies such as Titanic, Oceans 11, and most recently a dress worn by Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie, Country Song.
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Sarah Hyland, from ABC's hit comedy Modern Family partied it up for her 21st birthday bash on December 10, 2011 in Las Vegas (where else can you celebrate turning legal?!). Sarah was celebrating in style in a gorgeous blush feathered cocktail dress. The newly 21 year old chose a sophisticated night out with friends, a sure way to keeping all feathers intact in this couture mini. Sarah looked fresh faced with shimmering eyes and a rose blush, finishing her look with matching blush peep toe sling backs. Gaaa head, Sarah! Happy 21st girl!
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Hawaii Warriors (0-0 SU, 0-0 ATS) vs. No. 3 USC Trojans (0-0 SU, 0-0 ATS)
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Date/Time: Saturday, September 1st, 7:30 p.m. EST
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Point Spread: Haw +38/USC -38
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With the cloud of probation finally cleared and their post-season bowl ban lifted the No. 3 University of Southern California Trojans will kickoff what many are expecting to be a national-title contending season Saturday night when they host the Hawaii Warriors at L.A.s Memorial Coliseum in the season opener.
The Trojans instantly became title worthy back in January when quarterback Matt Barkley announced his intent to return for his senior season at USC following a junior campaign where he threw for over 3,500 yards and 39 touchdowns. Considered by many as the leading candidate for the Heisman Trophy, Barkleys return to last years 10-2 team gives the Trojans one of the countrys most explosive offenses along with running backs Curtis McNeal and Penn State-transfer Silas Redd, four-fifths of the starting offensive line and a deep receiver crew led by Robert Woods and Marqise Lee.
If the Trojans offense isnt enough to cause opponents a few sleepless nights, seven returning starters on defense including speedy LBs Dion Bailey and Hayes Pullard and All-American safety T.J. McDonald should cause their own problems when Barkley and Co. are sitting on the bench.
Hawaii is starting a new era of their own in 2012, with longtime and noted assistant coach Norm Chow getting his first head coaching gig with the Warriors. Chow, who was born in Honolulu and spent last season as the offensive coordinator at Utah, will inherit a Warriors team that finished 4-8 in 2011 and returns seven starters on offense.
Chows noted for his ability to develop quarterbacks, and his success at Hawaii will be dependent on that skill since Bryan Moniz has graduated. Junior David Graves will get the starting quarterback job to start, but Im almost certain the rest of the Warriors offense will struggle to adapt to Chows pro-style offense after playing in the spread offense for the last decade.
With Hawaii in full transition mode and USC loaded to the hilt, it is no surprise that oddsmakers have opened this game with USC as huge 38-point favorites at home in the Coliseum. While the game is still nearly three weeks away, I have to think the five touchdown-plus number bettors would have to lay is resulting in little to no action at the betting window. Either way, the point spread has yet to move in either direction.
With only a large ocean in between these two schools, the Trojans and Warriors have met many times in the last decade, including in 2010 when the Trojans traveled to Honolulu and won 49-36. Barkley threw for 257 yards and five touchdowns in the win, but the Warriors covered the 20-point spread the Trojans were stacked to in the game.
USC has actually owned Hawaii in their short history, going 4-0 SU and 3-1 ATS while averaging 59 points on offense and an average winning margin of 25 points.
Hawaii hasnt exactly inspired confidence for bettors at the window either, going 1-7 ATS in their last eight non-conference games. While Hawaii tends to play over the total when out of the MWC (over is 4-1 in L5 non-conf.), the opposite is true for USC (under is 5-1 in L6 non-conf.), so choose wisely.
Badger's Pick to Cover the Point Spread: If forced at gunpoint to pick a side in this game, then Id take the Trojans to roll big. However, as a practice I dont wager on games where the line is over five scores or higher. If youre not scared away by the huge number, then by all means take USC minus the 38-points.
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I was watching a show and they were saying that the temperature of Pluto (I know it is not a planet) is about $-300 {}^\circ F$. I know that depends where in the orbit Pluto is, but how do we determine the temperature?
There's a few ways the temperature can be measured remotely.
The easiest way is to measure the amount, and for bonus, spectrum, of the radiated heat. All objects greater than Absolute Zero radiate a certain amount of energy. The wavelength spectrum can be determined by Planck's Law, and the amount of energy by the Stefan-Boltzmann law, both of which are listed below.
$I'(\lambda,T) =\frac{2 hc^2}{\lambda^5}\frac{1}{ e^{\frac{hc}{\lambda kT}}-1}$
$j^{\star} = \sigma T^{4}$
So, to determine the temperature, all one needs to do is measure the energy over the waveband of interest, and one can get the temperature.
In the case of Pluto, an easier method can be done. We know the total amount of energy going toward Pluto, based off of its distance from the Sun. We can use this to measure the average temperature of an object receiving that amount of energy.
The last method involves knowing the physical properties of the object. For instance, Pluto has a atmosphere of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide, and Methane. The atmosphere will freeze as Pluto moves further out in its orbit. The temperature can be inferred by what materials haven't frozen out of the atmosphere yet, which can be determined with spectroscopy.
Typically, the first one is done, and the second when a more accurate method cannot be used (IE, no direct spectrum of the planet observed).
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These are honestly my favorite thing on the menu. I would really hate to count the times, were my family has had these for dinner. Keep in mind when you fry French fries, you need your oil nice and hot, do not cook many fries at once.
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- 1 (2 lb) bagof frozen French fries
- 1 cup shredded colby-monterey jack cheese (An excellent suggestion is to use the cheese that is labeled as "Taco Cheese", cheese for Tacos.)
- 6 pieces bacon, cooked
- Divide the fries into half, and use the other half later.
- Heat oil to 350degrees.
- If you do not have a thermostat, make sure the oil is hot enough, so that when you set a French fry in there it will cook immediately.
- If the French fry sinks to the bottom, and barely bubbles, it is not hot enough.
- Fry the potatoes in small batches, they are done when they are golden brown, and float to the top of the skillet.
- Be sure to drain the potatoes on paper towels.
- You can keep them warm in the oven while the other fries are done.
- When all French fries are done cooking, and drained place them onto a platter.
- Salt the French fries if you like, and sprinkle on cheese and cooked bacon.
- Pop these back into a warm oven until the cheese begins to melt.
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Be careful how you sing "My Way" After being ridiculed for an off-key version of My Way, the irate singer kills one heckler and wounds another. Philippine karaoke bars have begun to remove the song from their playlists as this was the climax of several violent incidents when this song was played.
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New York Times–bestselling author Jeff Lemire ("Essex County" and "The Underwater Welder") will publish his latest project, titled "Roughneck," with Simon & Schuster and Simon & Schuster Canada. Described as a literary graphic novel, the story, which Lemire will write, draw and paint, follows a former hockey player forced to face his demons and reconnect with his Cree heritage when his troubled sister returns home to the remote northern town where he lives.
Derek, the story's lead, is an ex-hockey tough guy whose quick rise to the NHL was cut short when a brutal on-ice incident left him banned from professional hockey for life. Four years later, Derek has returned to Black River, his hometown in northern Ontario, not far from the Moose Cree First Nation, where his mother grew up. Derek's slide into alcoholism and depression is interrupted when his long-lost sister, Annie, returns home trailing a violent ex-boyfriend. Together, the two escape to the woods, where they struggle to reconnect with the traditions of their Cree ancestors in order to escape their past and gain redemption.
Lemire, who has enjoyed success with "Sweet Tooth" and his current sci-fi love story "Trillium" for Vertigo Comics and "Green Arrow " and "Animal Man" for DC Comics, has won two Schuster Awards and has been nominated for seven Eisner Awards, seven Harvey Awards and eight other Shuster Awards. In 2010, "Essex County" was named as one of the five Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade by CBC.
CBR News connected with Lemire following the announcement, and the writer and artist spoke candidly about his decision to release this project through a traditional publishing house versus a comic book publisher and how the First Nations people of Canada have played (and will play) a crucial role in the origin and future of "Roughneck."
CBR News: Why set this project up at Simon & Schuster and not Vertigo or Top Shelf?
Jeff Lemire: I have been doing so much work the last three or four years with DC Comics and Vertigo, and I love working with those guys, but I really wanted to get back to doing something close to what I was doing with "Essex County" -- something that seemed to break the barrier between comic books readers, and it kind of got out to the mainstream, literary world. I've really wanted to get back and do a project that broadens my readership in that way again and follows up on the momentum that I had from "Essex County." When I conceived "Roughneck," I knew it was the closest thing to a return to "Essex County" I've had since that book just in terms of theme and tone and everything. It could almost be set in the same world.
With all that said, I wanted to find a publisher, a book publisher, that would treat it as a novel and not just as a comic, someone who could get it outside of the direct market. As much as I love and rely on the direct market comic fans, I really wanted to try and do something that could break out beyond that.
You obviously enjoyed tremendous success with "Essex County," and your comic book output the past five or six years speaks for itself, but was it still intimidating going to book publishers and pitching "Roughneck?"
No, there was actually a bidding war between Simon & Schuster and a number of other publishers for the project, so it was actually the opposite. It felt like being the star center on NHL free agent day. [Laughs] They all pitched to me, and my agent and I talked through the possibilities and Simon & Schuster felt like a really strong choice for me. In addition to the New York division, which I'll be working with, they also have a Canadian division that is a really great team, and I knew that the book, having such strong ties to Canada, needed a strong team here to promote it. That combination really sold me.
Like "Essex County," an ex-hockey player is central to this story. Canadian stereotypes aside, what is it about hockey that makes it an arena worth exploring through comics?
I didn't think I would do another hockey book, but this is really a different hockey story. Two or three summers ago, I think three NHL enforcers died or committed suicide at the same time -- Derek Boogaard from the Rangers, Rick Rypien from the Canucks and Wade Belak from the Maple Leafs -- and that really struck me. These NHL enforcers, these tough guys whose job it is, every night, to go out there and fight in front of crowd. I just started thinking, what happens to these guys when they're done. When the game leaves them, what do they do with that violence? What do they do with that way of life? It's the only thing they've known. I wanted to tell a story about a guy like that, where the game has left him behind -- a guy who's left with that to cope with. That's really where this feeds from and where "Roughneck" started.
Here in Canada, hockey is a religion. For many families, it drives their Saturday nights and their weekends and the hours before and after school. Do you agree that hockey is something bigger than a game in Canada?
I think so. Spirituality is a big part of this book, and hockey as a religion is hard to deny in this country. I grew up in southwestern Ontario, as far away from Moosonee and Moose Factory, where the book is set, as possible, yet the one thing I have in common with everyone that I met up there is the shared experience of hockey. There is something there, as much as it is a cliché. It really does bind our country. That's one thing that I'm exploring, but it really is about life after hockey. Hockey doesn't play a huge part of the book other than as a backstory for this character. It really is more about Derek and discovering his Cree heritage because he was raised in a white town and he escaped into hockey when he was young and he really knew very little about that side of his life.
Have you or will you visit northern Ontario, places like Moosonee and Moose Factory, to research "Rougneck?"
Yes, and I have a number of [future] trips to Moose Factory planned, too. I'm actually leaving in a week or two. I've been in contact with a number of prominent people in the Moose Cree First Nation that have been working almost like consultants on the book because I want to be very respective of their culture and get things right. They've been great in understanding what I'm trying to do.
I'm also trying to spend a lot of time in the schools, teaching kids about comics, so that's been really exciting. And that also ties into the "Justice League Canada" project because that's also set up there. We'll also be creating a new Cree superhero as part of the team, and the kids up there are very excited about that.
You've told stories with these broken men before, and you make them compelling, honest and real. How do you transform them into heroes -- and I don't mean a hero like a superhero, but a character that one can understand and cheer for.
I think this book will be a bit different. I'm totally trying to avoid any sort of genre tropes -- I really want to make something that reflects life a bit more. I don't want to follow the familiar trajectory that you see in films or comics. My stories often have these broken characters and they're tales of redemption, but I think this one is going to be a bit more layered than that.
It's early, but what can you share with us about Derek and his world?
I'm not supposed to talk too much about the story yet, other than what's in the press release. A big component of the book is obviously the fact that he is a First Nations man, and that's something that's become a real focus of mine over the last year, year-and-a-half. I've been learning more and more about Canada's First Nations people, and this character grew out of that. That's something I'm going to continue to explore with the book.
I want to touch on that state of Canada's First Nations, how overlooked they are and how these communities in northern Ontario survive is something that I'm really interested in exploring and want to shed a light on with the book. Hopefully, I will be bringing those issues to an audience that wouldn't normally be aware of them, in the States, as well as in Canada.
You've explored Aboriginal culture in "Sweet Tooth" and touched upon it in "Animal Man." You mentioned their current state is something you've been exploring for years, but what kindled that interest initially?
I grew up in southern Ontario in the most southern part of Canada, literally, down in Essex County, and there's not a large Aboriginal community in that part of Canada. Also, growing up, it wasn't anything that I was exposed to other than in history books and what you saw on TV.
As I started spending more and more time in northern Ontario as an adult, something struck me -- I'm not exactly sure what it is; I just felt, as a Canadian, telling Canadian stories, our First Nations are a huge part of our national identity and I didn't know a lot about them. I needed to know more about them, and the more exposure I got from being around them, the more I became fascinated with their culture and saw how beautiful it is but also the hardships that they're going though. Over the past few years, it's just been growing more and more as an interest of mine -- to learn more about them. In a way, this book will be about my journey of learning about them.
Your stories often have a fantasy or fantastic element to them. The media release for "Roughneck" doesn't tease that as a part of this story -- can you confirm if it is or isn't?
No, it's not at all. As much as I love "Sweet Tooth" and "Trillium" and all of the stuff that I've done the last couple of years, I really needed to get back and do something that wasn't a genre book and didn't have any fantastic or sci-fi elements. Again, it's very much my return to what I was doing with "Essex County" -- even that had more fantasy elements, I guess, than this will have. It's very much a grounded book. I have spent so much time working in the superhero genre the last few years, I really needed to get back to something like this.
Have you started writing and drawing it?
"Roughneck" was a project that I started working on, I guess, almost a year ago. I worked on it pretty intensely for a couple of months after "Sweet Tooth" was finished. It was the thing I used to escape from all of my DC work and Vertigo work. I just kind of got obsessed with it for a couple of months and did a lot of work on it but then I had to put it aside and work on "Trillium," so there is a draft of an outline sitting there and I've also spent the last year just doing research and reading and doing everything that I can to get ready for it.
I'll really start drawing it in the new year, once I've finished "Trillium." When the "Justice League Canada" project came up, I was already so invested in these ideas from "Roughneck," they were just mirrored into "Justice League."
I actually drew 30 or 40 pages of artwork last year before I put it aside. Whether those end up being a first draft or part of the final book, I'm not sure, but I have a pretty good idea about how "Roughneck" is going to look. This will also be a full-color book, so people that have been enjoying the painted pages of "Trillium" will hopefully enjoy it because I'm going to watercolor the whole thing.
Once I started doing that on "Triliium," I felt like there was no going back. As much as I love José Villarrubia as a colorist, there is just something about doing it all yourself.
"Roughneck" is expected to release in 2015.


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- 4 medium onions
- 1 celery stalk, cut into 2-inch chunks
- 4 to 6 sprigs parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 fresh poblano chiles, seeded and chopped, or two 4 1/2-ounce cans
- 3 fresh jalapenos, seeded and chopped
- 4 large cloves garlic, minced
- 2 15-ounce cans hominy, drained
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground or dried oregano
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Place the chicken, 1 onion (peeled and quartered), and the celery, parsley, and pepper in a large Dutch oven or stockpot. Add 12 cups of water and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 1 hour.
- Remove the chicken from the broth, let cool, and remove the meat from the bones, shredding it into bite-size pieces; set aside.
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- Before serving, stir in the cilantro and lime juice. Serve warm and top with tortilla chips, chopped avocado, and sliced radishes, if desired.


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Warren Washington Jr., 39, a native of Thibodaux and resident of New Orleans, died Saturday, May 22, 2010 at Touro Infirmary.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to funeral time Wednesday at St. Paul Baptist Church, 162 La. 400 in Napoleonville. Service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church, conducted by the Rev. David Gilton, with burial in St. Peter Baptist Church Cemetery, La. 308, Thibodaux.
He is survived by his wife, LaShonda Davis Washington; one sister, Wanda Marie Washington; one nephew; one niece; and a host of other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Warren Sr. and Zenobia Donsereaux Washington.
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Characterization of MHC class I and II genes in a subantarctic seabird, the blue petrel, Halobaena caerulea (Procellariiformes)
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- , Mimi LanneforsAffiliated withMolecular Ecology and Evolution Lab, Lund university
- , Francesco BonadonnaAffiliated withBehavioral Ecology Group, CEFE-CNRS
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The great polymorphism observed in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes is thought to be maintained by pathogen-mediated selection possibly combined with MHC-disassortative mating, guided by MHC-determined olfactory cues. Here, we partly characterize the MHC class I and II B of the blue petrel, Halobaena caerulea (Procellariiformes), a bird with significant olfactory abilities that lives under presumably low pathogen burdens in Subantarctica. Blue petrels are long-lived, monogamous birds which suggest the necessity of an accurate mate choice process. The species is ancestral to songbirds (Passeriformes; many MHC loci), although not to gamefowls (Galliformes; few MHC loci). Considering the phylogenetic relationships and the low subantarctic pathogen burden, we expected few rather than many MHC loci in the blue petrel. However, when we analysed partial MHC class I and class II B cDNA and gDNA sequences we found evidence for as many as at least eight MHC class I loci and at least two class II B loci. These class I and II B sequences showed classical MHC characteristics, e.g. high nucleotide diversity, especially in putative peptide-binding regions where signatures of positive selection was detected. Trans-species polymorphism was found between MHC class II B sequences of the blue petrel and those of thin-billed prion, Pachyptila belcheri, two species that diverged ∼25 MYA. The observed MHC allele richness in the blue petrel may well serve as a basis for mate choice, especially since olfactory discrimination of MHC types may be possible in this species.
KeywordsMajor histocompatibility complex Class I Class II B Diversity Selection Aves
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- Title
- Characterization of MHC class I and II genes in a subantarctic seabird, the blue petrel, Halobaena caerulea (Procellariiformes)
- Journal
Volume 63, Issue 10 , pp 653-666
- Cover Date
- 2011-10
- 10.1007/s00251-011-0534-8
- Print ISSN
- 0093-7711
- Online ISSN
- 1432-1211
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Keywords
- Major histocompatibility complex
- Class I
- Class II B
- Diversity
- Selection
- Aves
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- Maria Strandh (1) (2)
- Mimi Lannefors (2)
- Francesco Bonadonna (1)
- Helena Westerdahl (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Behavioral Ecology Group, CEFE-CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
- 2. Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab, Lund university, Ecology building, 223 62, Lund, Sweden


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Unbaked, large cheese pie: $10, 3-6pm at Hose Co. #1. Benefits Bethany Presbyterian Church. 570/253-0782.
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The rag you use to wipe your load up with after beating off.
Don't leave your jack rags on the bathroom floor.
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A piece of cloth used to catch the ejaculate that shoots out of one's penis when he masturbates, or "jacks off".
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a rag or piece of clothe used to catch ejaculation when masturbating.
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Any form of cloth used to clean up with after jacking off.
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I am new to the sport and did not want to spend more than I had to until I knew what I wanted. I think it is a good board for a beginner. It arrived in good condition and appears to be well made. The fins and handle were easy to install. I was a little freaked out when I leaned it against the wall for a while and it had a dent in it where it was touching something, but I guess this happens with soft boards. The directions said it would straighten out in a few minutes, and it did. It is just important to be sure it is not leaning against anything sharp. It is really unbelievable how lightweight the board is. I am a small woman and opted for this over some of the bigger, longer boards in favor of the lightweight version I can handle on my own. It is shorter than many, but since I have nothing to compare it to, that didn't bother me. I guess it would be slower and not as easy to paddle as a longer board, but I am not trying to race or go long distances, just play around on our local waterways, see some wildlife, and get some exercise. So far, I am just having a lot of fun with it. I have only used it on calm river water, so I don't know how stable it will be in chop or surf.
This is a fun board. I am 5'10 and weigh 140 and had no buoyancy problems. Board is very stable. Wanted something that was a fun overall board that my friends could use. But I love it so I will be using it to. The deck padding is a little rough. It gets tough to let your toes slide into position but I am sure I will get use to that. Other than that, great stability, fast on a lake. Great in the ocean and on nice rolling waves. Can't wait to try it on a little bigger swell. I would definitely buy another, this board is made very well. Love it and I normally ride a Kings.


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donncha or anyone that knows is this plugin compatible with a wordpress 3.1 / buddypress using HYPERDB plugin for multiple DBs?
w3 total cache is not according to plugin author
donncha or anyone that knows is this plugin compatible with a wordpress 3.1 / buddypress using HYPERDB plugin for multiple DBs?
w3 total cache is not according to plugin author
Yes, Supercache should work fine with that combination as it doesn't interfere with hyperdb.
thanks @donncha i'm almost ready to try it out .... on w3 total cache i was using opcode caching apc for database ...on your plugin you don't deal with caching any database stuff yes? does that mean i should use memcache plugin with wp super cache and hyperdb?
thanks so much for the amazing plugin i just used your cdn feature for the first time (used your caching long time now) and cdn is beautiful working with multiple cnames etc
Yeah, use the memcached plugin or db cache reloaded too but supercache only caches the page output, not anything in the db.
thanks i've never set up master slave mysql databases before so this is a huge help to me and hopefully others .... i'm a little confused as to what memcached does ...it seems like it also caches pages like yours does but stores them in memory instead of disk.... is that right? or is memcache plugin configured just for mysql database caching? (another thing i'm confused about mysql has caching of its own so do i need to even look for database caching plugins for wordpress)
i have not looked at db cache reloaded but if that will help speep up queries in the master and slave for LOGGED IN users then that's what i need to do
my configuration right now is
1 web server running all php, apache, wordpress ...and using its mysql server ...then another server which is a bare bones mysql only server that is the slave .... i am running wordpress, buddypress, wp-super cache (page caching and cdn) .... hyperdb for load balancing .....now the piece i seem to be missing is database caching which i'm thinking the memcached plugin OR db cache reloaded iw what i need.... if you were me what would you use?
PS i just went to the db cache reloaded plugin and lots of people saying its broken for 3.1 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-db-cache-reloaded-plugin-broken-with-wp-31?replies=32
@donncha .... does memcache plugin for wordpress speed up queries for logged in users? i'm thinking your plugin takes care of non logged in users with static html pages .... Ryan borens memcached plugin ..how does that work with wp super cache?
The memcached plugin caches the output from queries, rather like mysql caches them but at a higher level. It's worth using. That's completely different to Supercache which caches the whole page, higher level again!
thanks so much for the reply ... i tried the memcached plugin and it worked for awhile then the site stopped working and started downloading any requested php file instead of executing them.... when i deleted the object-cache.php file my site came back .... i looked at the error logs and i actually opened one of the php files and saw it was inserting a php error before the doctype declaration: is this because of memcached do you think ? i have been scared to use again as i don't know what caused this and never have seen anything like it .... any ideas would be great i know its not directly related to your plugin but i'm sure others will be wanting to use andy's memcached plugin with yours. ... now i'm thinking about trying the plugin for apc object cache nervous again but maybe worth a try ... i was getting great performance from apc using w3 total cache but can't use that because of hyperdb incompatibility
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Look at the error message, it's something about timezones. I don't recognise the error but you might be able to fix it by setting your timezone in the WP settings page.
I am facing a issue with W3TC and HyperDB. Is there any way to make it work for database cache?
Please help. Thanks
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Released: Aug 01st, 1998
Running Time: 120
Director: Robert Black
Company: Extreme Associates
Cast: Amanda (I), Metrixx, Eric Monty, Nancy Vee, Mila (I), Taylor Moore, Jonathan, Tom Byron, Tiffany Mynx, Robert Black, Van Damage, Nikki (I), Candy Hill, Kelli Dean, Tony Eveready
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Gonzo
The action-packed box cover sizzles just as much as the tape inside. Display at least one copy prominently and it should move briskly.
Being in The Cellar seems to suit industry enfant terrible Rob Black. It was the site of two of his previous best efforts (Cellar Dweller 1 & 2) and it's the title of what's arguably his most consistently feverish tape in some time.
All five of the vid's sex scenes are highly strokable, economically to the point and laced with Balck's trademark warped humor.
To wit: Scene two, which features Candy Hill and Amanda as a pair of nuns who suddenly find themselves transformed into a pair of hos getting reamed in a motel room by some mean daddy. Hill, sporting knee-high patent leather boots and a mountain of wild blond locks, has never looked more wood-producing as she takes the stud's stiffie up her keister and his thick white goo all over her tongue.
Scene three has Tiffany Mynx as an escaped convict who, in order to stay on the lam, invites lawman Vince Vouyer down her throat, in her pussy, up her bum and all over her face. As an extra added politically-incorrect bonus, Black even has the hot-wired Mynxster deep throat Vouyer's nickel-plated handgun.
That's followed by a sequence that's sure to offend some of your clientele, but nenetheless should be remembered come nom time for most outrageous sex scene. It features the envelope-pushing Mila, in a KKK hood, spewing the N-word at Tony Eveready and Byron Long, then demonstrating that she's really no racist by taking both their tools up her pussy simultaneously and in a brief d.p.
The sequence ends on a more stomach-turning note as our girl woofs down an insidious concoction of spent goo squeezed from her asshole, raw eggs and malt liquor. In addition to getting off on the scene, your customers are also likely to puke.
As far as the between-sex-scenes-schtick that The Cellar is loaded with, some of the bits are actually pretty amusing, though most are, uh, extremely sophomoric. Those with the highest yuk quotient are the ones that take some good-natured shots at certain industry targets (and no, Patrick Collins isn't one of them.)


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a
skeptic all his life -- giving up religion because he was troubled
by starving children, calling executives who took over Apple "corrupt" and delaying cancer surgery in favor of cleansings and herbal medicine.
"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, to be published Monday, says Jobs gave up Christianity at age 13 when he saw starving children on the cover of Life magazine. He asked whether his Sunday school pastor knew what would happen to them.
Jobs never went back to church, though he did study Zen Buddhism
later in life.
Jobs' dabbling in LSD and other aspects of 1960s counterculture has been well documented. In the book, Jobs says LSD taught him that what was important was not making money but "putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness."
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Topographic decorrelation due to the local surface slope has been an obstacle to interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) applications. A modified spatial decorrelation function is derived as a function of the baseline and topography. This function explains the origin of the total topographic decorrelation phenomenon on the slopes directly facing radar illumination and layover, which may mislead InSAR coherence image interpretation. The authors define critical terrain slope (or critical incidence angle) as the angle for which two SAR signals completely decorrelate regardless of surface stability. It is found that the width of the critical terrain slope increases with the increase of the component of the baseline perpendicular to the radar look direction. A new analytical method, the ratio coherence imagery, is then introduced to highlight total topographic decorrelation against the temporal decorrelation features. The applications of this methodology are demonstrated in selected locations in the Sahara Desert, Algeria, and Almerı´a, Spain, using ERS-1 and ERS-2 SAR data
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AbstractIn the proposed Phase I SBIR program, Faraday, KBSI and Prof. John Scully will demonstrate the applicability of data mining combined with fundamental parameter analysis to model the performance and predict the lifetime of chromate-free coatings systems for aircraft applications, exposed to a variety of environmental stresses. This technology will assist coating developers with finding a coating system that functionally replaces traditional coatings that contain toxic chromates. In Phase I, the team will identify a commercially available non-chromium based coating system, monitor the performance of that coating system under environmental stresses (including pH, aggressive chemical species, and elevated temperature) and develop algorithms to model the data. In Phase II, we will extend the scope of the data mining model to a variety of commercially available chromate-free coating systems, with extensive laboratory and field testing, and including service data. This predictive model will help to accelerate the development of new chromate-free coatings systems by separating out the effects of each layer in the coating system, and providing guidance as to the best possible combinations of conversion coating, primer and topcoat to provide the functionality required for U.S. Air Force applications.
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So I was hoping to have updated the blog a bit more during the week, but the internet access in the Cabana areas was iffy, and sitting back in the room here I usually just fell asleep. This was my first Tech Ed US (I went to Barcelona last year) and I can say that it was very tiring but also very enjoyable. I just got back from the big party at Sea World and some drinks with friends, and thought that I'd throw down my thoughts before enjoying a well-deserved nights rest. You can see some stuff from the trip on my personal blog here.
Overall, I thought the conference was great. Every attendee I've talked to seems to agree and has told me that they've found it to be very well run and very valuable. Always makes you good to hear that MS is doing well, so thanks to any and all of you who came out to see us.
Booth duty was probably the most tiring part, standing up for 3 hours at a clip. Data Access seems to be a a bit of a nitch area - either you love it a lot and have a deep, technical issue or you don't care about it at all. So, our visitors tended to be fewer, but always great quality when they stopped by. It was a great chance to hear how folks are using our stuff and answer some questions.
The Cabanas were a great idea too - a bit more inimate area in which to sit and chat and answer questions. It was a great place to hang out though the internet access was kinda iffy for me. It was great that customers could come find us whenever they needed a SQL question answered.
My talk went pretty well I think. Probably had 80-100 folks in the room, not bad for the last session on Thursday right before the big party. Thanks to Kent Tegels for the praise and great write up here. I did purposefully skip details on the next SqlXml release, mostly because we're still defining it. As a result of pushing back our mapping plans to post-Whidbey, SqlXml has gained a renewed interest as the client platform for XML and Yukon. So, we're looking at what we can do to improve it. Details to follow as I get them.
Here are some other folks who've been blogging on Tech Ed if you're interested (in no particular order):
And with that, I'm off to collapse into bed. As promised, I'll get my sample code posted up ASAP, hopefully in the morning.
Thanks again to all who attended. Please feel free to leave any comments/questions for me here.


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magnolia blooms twice a year - lovely
Turning the Berberis into balls looks nice but is a prickly job
newly planted Viburnum davidii will look great after it goes into its spot
this garden was getting pretty squashy before the big dig out but decided to leave the struggling conifer in place until the Viburnum grows
conifer needs to be shaped. currently pointing the finger at the neighbours across the road. i wonder why?
Magnolia has just been pruned. Nicer even shape and will give the plants below a bit more space/light


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I'm going to try and explain the situation I'm in so the problem is a little more understandable first I think. I'm basically tryng to redirect an old website to a new one using:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/old-website/.* /new-website/
This works to redirect the whole of the old website to the new website. I've since found out from the client that a folder from their old website still need to be accessible so I added an exception:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/old-website/(?!foo).* /new-website/
That also works fine, but I've now been told there are multiple folders they still need to access. The reason these folders need accessing is that they've been printed in documents that have circulated for the last few years so moving them to a new place would mean anyone looking at one of these printed documents would get a broken link.
I can add multiple exceptions using this syntax:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/old-website/(?!foo)(?!bar/).* /new-website/
However, what I want to know is there a better/neater way of doing this. The other thing to bear in mind is that the /old-website is an alias of /~user-account.
I haven't had to do redirects like this before so my question is this: Is adding exceptions to a RedirectMatch rule like this safe and reliable and should I look out for problems?


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Leeds boss Neil Warnock hopes there could be two new faces teaming up with the rest of his squad at their training camp in Cornwall this week.
Warnock has taken 20 players to his tried and tested south west training retreat, including trialists Andy Gray and Martin Crainie.
And that number could increase as the week progresses.
He told the club's official website: "We're a bit thin, but there could be two within the next 24 hours or so. We are doing medicals on Monday afternoon so there's more news on the horizon.
"We've got one down with us, while one of the lads is having a medical at Thorp Arch and if that goes well then we'll complete that one."
Warnock confirmed that talks are ongoing with Jamaican international Rodolph Austin, over a switch to Elland Road from SK Brann.


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Written by Gary Hall Jr. 3x Olympian
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Type 1 Diabetes
Within ten minutes of "checking in" for a two week stay at a friends place on Hyde Park for the Olympics a Coldplay song filtered through the window. I'm not a huge Coldplay fan but it's pretty cool that they were playing Hyde Park as people arrive in to London for the Games. It was a perfect day to enjoy the park too.
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Focaccia (Using Bread Machine for the Dough)
Total Time
Prep 0 mins
Cook 15 mins
This bread is SO appealing and very versatile too! We often have it in the summertime quartered and sliced horizontally and filled with barbecued chicken thighs, lettuce, sliced red onions, tomatoes and avocado and some Paul Newman's Own Ranch Dressing! Simply divine!! The preparation time I have given does not include the time it takes for the Bread Machine to make the dough or the time it takes for the dough to rise.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 teaspoons dried yeast
- 3 cups bread flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon rosemary (dried)
- 1 teaspoon oregano (dried)
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 1⁄2 cups water
- Place all of the above ingredients, accurately measured and in the order I have listed them, in the Bread Machine.
- Select the 'dough' cycle.
- When the cycle is complete, take the dough out of the Bread Machine, and proceed with the following steps: On a lightly floured surface, gently knead the dough for about 10 minutes.
- (you may need to add extra flour during this time) Place the 'Focaccia' dough in a well grease bowl, cover and leave to rise in a warm (and draught free) place for about 1/2 an hour.
- Then, knead the dough lightly (in the bowl) for about 1 minute.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a rectangular shape (about 20 cm x 30 cm)
- Place on a well greased baking tray (or sponge roll tin) and leave to rise again, in a warm place, this time for about 1 hour (or until it has doubled in it's original size) Now pour and smooth over with your fingers, 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
- 'Poke' the dough with 2 fingers at intervals over the surface, and sprinkle liberally with rock salt or equal measurements of olive oil and Basil pesto mixed together with grated Parmesan or Romano cheese, top with chopped up sun-dried tomatoes and sliced black olives!
- Bake at 225°C for about 15 minutes or until golden brown!
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This is a weird recipe. The dough is a runny mess. I had to add over a cup more flour. What's the point - why not correct the recipe with the correct amount of flour? Why knead it more after it comes out of the bread maker?
I use a kiawe-wood-fired bread oven. Tasted good - like pizza dough with olive oil. Next time I'll just put olive oil and seasoning on my pizza dough.
I have made this recipe 3 times now and its been great every time. I make it into a large rectangle as i cut it in to squares and then cut those horizontally to make sandwiches. It is fantastic made with imported salami, sharp provolone and a drizzle of basalmic. If you want to go all out, heat it up open face style in the oven......great recipe! 5 STARS!
I wish I would have read all the reviews beforehand and increased the flour because it came out of the bread machine as a sloppy gloppy mess. I had to add an additional 2 cups of flour before I could begin kneading :( I'm fairly experienced with making bread in general, never had a dough like that before.


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Released: Jul 01st, 2006
Running Time: 128
Director: B. Skow
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Tommy Gunn, Lacie Heart, James Deen, Joey (VII), Jenna Presley, Sativa Rose, Jerry (I)
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Feature
This latest feature from director B. Skow is a fake gonzo detailing a day in the life of new Vivid Girl Lacie Heart. Heart's a sweet, natural beauty, but the fake gonzo doesn't work – it drags on and on and on – and some of the lighting and camerawork just aren't up to Vivid's normal quality standards.
The sex is good, however, with Heart giving Tommy Gunn really good head after his wife Sativa Rose leaves mid-coitus to go to work. She does James Deen as part of an audition for Vivid director Paul Thomas and then does photographer Kurt Lockwood after a still shoot. There's a closing good group scene with Heart ruling it well with Jenna Presley and Joey assisting her with the cocks.
Pre-nom Heart for Best New Starlet.
Retailing: Vivid town.