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Diane, you were here not too long ago and gave us information on how to antidote troublesome aggravations (see "The Aggravation Zapper": http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/the-aggravation-zapper/).
I understand now that you're going to tell us how we can be more accurate with our remedy selections through "muscle-testing".
I love muscle testing, Elaine! It helps me to determine where there are weak areas in the body, and which remedies will be most helpful.
I like to muscle test clients on their first visit. There are many versions of muscle testing. I use a simple test. I have the person extend one arm at shoulder level and resist my pressure on that wrist, while using their other hand to touch an area to be tested.
I find that when an area of the body is touched that has some kind of a blockage of energy (i.e. a bruise or pain or infection etc.) they will be unable to continue to extend their arm when it is pressed at the wrist.
If they are tested again while holding a remedy that will stimulate the body to unblock that energy or heal that area, on that specific point, they will be able to hold their extended arm very rigid and strong when it is pressed at the wrist.
I usually test lung, liver, spleen, adrenals, small intestine, colon, lower pelvis, and kidney areas, as well as any area where there is pain or difficulty.
Areas of pain make the extended arm instantly weak! There is always a look of astonishment after muscle testing and finding several very weak areas that go strong immediately when an appropriate remedy is held on them.
I always test the areas of the body before giving a remedy because the instant a remedy is taken, all the weak spots test strong. This happens when a remedy is inhaled or taken by mouth. If the person is already taking a homeopathic remedy that is helping, their weak points will be strong and the muscle test will not show them. They will, however, test weak or strong with any remedy you are testing, even though testing their body for weak spots will not give accurate information.
You can also muscle test to discover how often the remedy should be taken and to find the best potency. I encourage clients to learn to muscle test so they can test before each dose of the remedy to see if they need it that day, and how often they need it.
I won't give a remedy unless it tests strong on all the weak points… that is, each area that has tested weak without the remedy, tests strong when the remedy is held on it.
There are also two points that I like to use to confirm the remedy and they are on the cheek and the knee. I don't know why, but in my experience, if a remedy tests strong on those points, it seems to test strong on all the other points.
I guess to test the knee, the patient has to be sitting down? Is he standing otherwise?
Normally I test patients standing. Most people can test the knee spot while standing by bending slightly and touching the remedy to their knee. If that is too awkward for them, they can sit.
There are several simple muscle tests that can be done by an individual without having to have another person to press down on their arm. The one I find the best is the "leaning test".
If you hold whatever it is you want to test (food, vitamins, herbs, or remedies etc.) on the chest or solar plexus, close your eyes and ask the question, "Is this good for me?" then, keeping the question in mind, stand quietly until you begin to sway. Normally, people lean forward, toward what they are holding if it is good for them, and backwards, or away from the item if it is not good for them.
Some people don't lean in the usual directions – one man went around in circles for "Yes" and sideways for "No" which was simple to figure out using the regular muscle test on the same items he tested himself on.
Oh wait! I just found a youtube video on the sway test! Go to youtube and type in "sway test" and many of these videos will come up. In this video, the expert is showing us how to select the right essential oil using the sway test but it could just as easily be a homeopathic remedy or food supplement or anything else:
Some people become very good at muscle testing themselves and it makes taking remedies much easier and more effective because they are taking them according to their body's needs, and not somebody else's ideas of what they need. But, some people just don't seem to get the knack of it and can't seem to make it work.
Diane, how do you muscle-test an uncooperative child, a bed-ridden person, an unconscious person, etc.?
Testing of very ill people who are not able to extend their arm, as well as testing babies, small children and animals or plants can be done through another person.
For example, the mother can, with one hand, touch the areas to be tested on her baby while her extended arm is pressed down at the wrist to see if the areas are weak or strong. Over ten years ago, this method worked very well on my infant granddaughter who was suffering from colic. By testing the different areas of her body we could find the exact spot on her abdomen that was painful. Testing several different remedies on that spot led us to the one that was the most helpful. As a new remedy was needed, the first one would test weak, and then it was time to look for a new one.
When a baby is screaming and unable to tell the parents where the pain is, it can be a very frightening experience. Parents using muscle testing as a tool, can test the different areas of the body and discover if the pain is from an earache, a chest problem or an abdominal ailment by touching those areas.


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Concerts in New York - July 2016
Our carefully curated selection of the Best Concerts in New York for the month of July 2016
Madison Square Garden : Closes 17th December 2016
The New York native will be belting out his old favorites with the help of his revolving piano, in an on-going series of monthly concerts at this world-famous venue. He has sold more than 100 million records over a career spanning more than 40 years, and reigns as one of most popular recording artists and respected entertainers in the world. More info
Madison Square Garden : Closes 27th July 2016
Radiohead return to the road this year in support of their ninth record A Moon Shaped Pool. Regarded as one of the most influential groups of the past 25 years, Radiohead's musical journey has been one of endless experimentation whilst still maintaining the emotional core of their songwriting. Among their many landmark records are 1997's rock-opus OK Computer and 2007's pay-what-you-want album In Rainbows. More info
Bethel Woods Center For The Arts : 29th July
Aretha Franklin's importance cannot not be overstated. She is simply one of the greatest singers the world has ever seen. With a voice which can't be mistaken, her mammoth back catalogue includes the classics Respect, Think and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman. She was the first woman inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and even made a glorious cameo in The Blues Brothers. More info
Beacon Theater : Closes 29th July 2016
As the sartorially elegant front-man of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry's rich, innovate and stylistic songs have become as iconic as the man himself, with themes that invoke hopeless romance and futurism, with an undeniably nostalgic ribbon running through them. More info
Beacon Theater : Closes 26th July 2016
One of the most successful alternative rock act of the 1990s, Alice in Chains may have been grouped together with grunge greats Nirvana and Soundgarden, but they always boasted a harder metal edge than their contemporaries. Their greatest success came in 1992 with the album Dirt, which included the iconic singles 'Would?' and 'Rooster'. More info
NYCB Theatre at Westbury : 29th July
Performing once more, the legendary Dion takes to the stage with his versatile back-catalogue, the soundtrack of his journey from 1950's and 60's teen idol to gospel influenced blues singer. First emerging from the mean streets of the Bronx in 1957, the dapper Dion DiMucci stole hearts with his bouffant hair and sharp suits. In 1960 he made the leap to solo star, spawning the super-hits 'Runaround Sue' and 'A Teenager in love'. More info
Nikon : 31st July
Led by the deadlocked Adam Duritz, Counting crows have been hitting that alternative rock sweet spot for over twenty years. Their 1993 debut August and Everything, which contained the smash hit 'Mr. Jones', shot them to fame. In 2016 they're touring alongside Rob Thomas, best known as the lead singer of fellow 1990s stalwarts Matchbox Twenty. More info
Madison Square Garden : 30th July
Puerto Rican rap rivals Daddy Yankee & Don Omar are famed for THAT FALL-OUT ten years ago after collaborating on their single Gata Gangster, and their relationship has since been repaired following their collaboration on Omar's 2015 album The Last Don 2. They will be playing up to the past tension between them on tour in the form of a rap battle, where fans can actually vote for their favorite artist via a special mobile web app! More info
Three of the great guitar bands of the 1980s are heading out on this Rock Hall Three For All Tour in 2016. Jett, former member of The Runaways and best known from tracks like 'Bad Reputation', was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Veteran rockers Heart joined the roster in 2013, while Cheap Trick were voted in this year.
This show is happening at multiple venues in Jul 2016:
Jul 28, 2016
Bethel Woods Center For The Arts
Jul 30, 2016
Hammerstein Ballroom : 27th July
Expect an evening of infectious indie anthems set to bubbly synth with big oh-oh-oh choruses. One of 2015's biggest breakouts, Walk the Moon, are the glittery feel-good rockers behind 2010's song of the summer 'Anna Sun' and last winters energetic foot-stomper 'Shut up & Dance'. Touring this summer in support of new record 'Talking is Hard', these guys bring a charmingly joyous celebration to the stage that dares you not to get up and dance along! More info
Barclays Center : 26th July
Fresh off the back of his 2015 album When It's Dark Out, G-Eazy heads back out on the road on his Endless Summer Tour. The talented rapper, songwriter and producer has his sights set firmly on the future; his slow-burning, sparse Southern grooves and trap percussion laden synthscapes are heralding the new age of Hip-Hop. More info
Playstation Theater : 26th July
Swing into Summer with Marianas Trench, the Canadian pop rock purveyors of effervescent, feel-good anthems about love, life and all things in between! Don't miss out on their infectious energy as they hit the road for the second time in 2016, completing the 'Hey You Guys Tour!!" they started in 2015 in support of their latest album Astoria. More info
Nikon : 30th July
wo of the biggest names in alt rock are teaming up to bring you one whirlwind Summer tour! Sharing the bill are heavy metal titans Disturbed and post-grunge legends Breaking Benjamin, affording their fanbase two opportunities to crowd surf and mosh to their heart's content. Joining them as support will be Creed alumni Alterbridge and Canadian outfit Saint Asonia. More info
Barclays Center : 28th July
Since international pop sensation Laura Pausini released her Greatest Hits album in 2014, we've been patiently waiting for a follow-up! The record was in honor of her 20th year in the music business, a period during which she's become one of the most recognisable voices in the European and Latin American pop charts. With rumours milling about that she is working on a brand new studio album, will this new set of US dates contain any tasters of what to expect? More info
Theater at Madison Square Garden : 30th July
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Little is so full of spine-chilling menace as being held hostage by armed rebels in the African desert. In your lowest moments you believe that your captors will as soon shoot you as look you in the eyes. That is how it would have been for Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were kidnapped by Somali pirates as they sailed off the Seychelles.
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My silly argument is, the PAC-12 has always thought they were the "Premier" conference and everybody else is inferior. It's Great to see that reality has finally set in!
- 7:08 a.m. May 2, 2013
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I agree with many of these comments about their capabilities: Utah hasn't beaten a good team in several years.
- 7:51 a.m. May 2, 2013
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Eight games or nine - Utah will always be the Pac-12 bottom feeder.
- 8:14 a.m. May 2, 2013
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@ Ernest T. Bass
"I agree with many of these comments about their capabilities: Utah hasn't beaten a good team in several years"
Neither has BYU!
"Eight games or nine - Utah will always be the Pac-12 bottom feeder"
And BYU will always lose to that Pac-12 'bottom feeder'. The Cougies have shown no signs of being capable of beating big brother on the hill"
- 9:10 a.m. May 2, 2013
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@Elmer Fudd
Big Brother on the hill...Oh, Please! That is pretty Hilarious!
This year will all change. BYU will beat Utah Guaranteed!
- 9:35 a.m. May 2, 2013
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ETB: Utah hasn't beaten a good team in several years"
EF: Neither has BYU!
BYU beat #16/#17 Utah State(11-2) last season.
- 9:44 a.m. May 2, 2013
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Chris B
"...I hope we stop playing Utah State and BYU all together."
No surprise there.
- 9:50 a.m. May 2, 2013
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Chris B:
"Let's schedule a division II team from California or Texas to improve our recruiting there."
We're not going to be winning any recruiting wars for top 3-, 4-, and 5-star athletes by beating D-II teams...even if they're teams from CA or TX. I feel if we need a "warm up" game, then warm up with teams like Colorado St, Wyoming, or UNLV -- teams we can beat, but have enough history with to make the game interesting. Plus, CSU, Wyo, and UNLV will do a FAR better job at pointing out to our coaching staff areas we could focus on and refine before we get into conference play than teams like Weber St.
I wouldn't mind dropping the Y off our schedule, but I see no reason to drop the Aggies. USU is a classy programs. When THEY lose, their coach doesn't make classless comments about how the better team didn't win. USU is a team on the rise.
- 9:58 a.m. May 2, 2013
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"Eight games or nine - Utah will always be the Pac-12 bottom feeder."
Utah's record speaks for itself; the Utes finished last or next to last in every PAC 12 men's sport they played, except basketball, where they finished 10th.
After two years in the league, the Utes are a combined 15-39 in football and men's basketball.
- 10:06 a.m. May 2, 2013
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"But utah 'fans' have been telling us that the 9 game conference schedule is part of what makes the pac12 so great."
Another strawman ducky? Which Ute fans had been saying that, and in what context? Because the only folks I know of that were lauding the 9-game slate (as better than an 8-game conference schedule) were Pac-12 officials such as Larry Scott, the Pac-12 North coaches who wanted to ensure good access to CA recruits, and ESPN/FOX for putting out superior schedules than the SEC, BigTen, and ACC.
I personally prefer the 8-game conference schedule. I feel the most ideal situation for the Pac-12 would be to play 8 conference games, plus a conference crossover game with the BigTen as the 9th game.
So let's hear it Duck. Which Ute fans said they preferred 9-game conference schedules?
- 10:08 a.m. May 2, 2013
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"The PAC is considered weaker than the SEC, Big 12, Big 10 almost every year..."
You frantically and emotionally made that up. When was the last time the BigTen's conference was considered superior to the Pac-12's. The Pac-12 is typically just behind the Big 12. Don't confuse the Pac-12 with your WACishness.
- 10:11 a.m. May 2, 2013
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"I feel if we need a "warm up" game, then warm up with teams like Colorado St, Wyoming, or UNLV -- teams we can beat..."
Better stick to Big Sky and D-II teams; Kyle has lost to every one of the aforementioned teams.
- 10:13 a.m. May 2, 2013
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I see that the usual suspects are hoping that the Utes will run away and hide
from the mighty Cougars.
We all know that the worm is about to turn, so they want to end the series now while they still have a semblance of bragging rights, at least as far as head-to-head.
- 10:18 a.m. May 2, 2013
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Sports Authority,
You're right, Utah won't schedule BYU anymore because the Utes are sick and tired of getting pounded by the cougars year in and year out. Don't the cougars own the all-time series?
- 10:43 a.m. May 2, 2013
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@EdGrady & Sports Fan "Eight games or nine - Utah will always be the
Pac-12 bottom feeder."
That quote speaks volumes about a football program that can't beat Utah. Maybe that's why the PAC12 and all other big-time conferences have not knocked on the cougar's door.
- 10:47 a.m. May 2, 2013
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The conference will never go to an 8 game schedule, which is fine by me. The
California schools will not allow it. The only way it would be preferable would
be if we go to an 8 game schedule AND revive the B1G affiliation. But, B1G is
discussing going to 9 games too, so it looks like that will not be an option.
All you trollers, who still think that independence is better, talking trash on this story about our conference affiliation is just laughable. Irrelevance must be just boring if you have to continually troll Utah stories!! Every time you post on a Utah story - you prove my point!!! Funny and entertaining!!
- 11:06 a.m. May 2, 2013
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Area - the PAC is a premier conference when considering ALL sports - thus the
well deserved moniker "Conference of Champions"!! RIGHT NOW, as in
today, as in recent times, the SEC is by far the most dominant conference in
FOOTBALL. There is no one who can argue that right now. I has nothing to do
with reality setting in. Therefore: your argument = silly.
There will be a time, as there was time in the past, when that will not be the case. Who knows when that will be or which conference(s) will take over. The way that the SEC is set up right now, with only 8 conference games and a larger conference, it appears that may not be for a while.
The one thing that is a certainty: independence = irrelevance. This is PROVEN by all the tds trollers flocking to this PAC 12 story! Love it!
- 11:18 a.m. May 2, 2013
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"the PAC is a premier conference when considering ALL sports - thus the well deserved moniker 'Conference of Champions'"
Unfortunately for U, the Utes aren't even close to being a "premier" team in this so-called "premier" conference; fortunately for the Pac 10.2, however, the Utes are filling their role as conference whipping boys very nicely.
btw, the PAC 10.2 is close to finishing the bcs era without a bcs championship; how embarrassing, for the so called, "conference of champions"!
- 11:56 a.m. May 2, 2013
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@Chrissy, "Is that bill shakspear over there? i can't see so good."
Here's what you wrote:
"I'd rather go find another one and one like we did with Michigan." When exactly did Michigan play in SLC? Just wondering.
- 11:56 a.m. May 2, 2013
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@talkin: the tds will end the BCS era without even a SNIFF at one of the BCS bowls! Now THAT is embarrassing!!! And I wonder why you are on a PAC 12 story rather than a tds story!!
- 12:03 p.m. May 2, 2013
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Review: CBS' 'How to Be a Gentleman' big on funny people, light on funny jokes
I'll be brief on "How to Be a Gentleman," which CBS debuts tonight at 8:30. On the one hand, this is a show - an odd couple comedy about a sophisticated magazine writer who has to learn how to be more dude-like with the help of his former high school bully - filled with lots of very funny people. David Hornsby (the gentleman) plays Rickety Cricket on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," and is one of that show's writers, and the creator here. Kevin Dillon (the ex-bully) was consistently one of the few parts of "Entourage" I didn't hate myself for watching. Dave Foley (Hornsby's editor, who's adrift when the magazine goes the Maxim route(*)) was one of the Kids in the Hall, as well as the center of one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, "NewsRadio." Before she was Chloe on "24," Mary Lynn Rajskub (Hornsby's sister) was a very strange and funny comedienne. Rhys Darby (Rajskub's wimpy husband) was the hilarious Murray on HBO's deadpan "Flight of the Conchords." Nancy Lenehan (Hornsby's mother) has been a welcome sitcom presence for years.
(*) As Fienberg explained at length in this week's podcast, the show's basic premise about an Esquire-style writer struggling to adjust to a Maxim-ized world is nearly 15 years out of date.
On the other hand, this is not a funny pilot, at all. (Though Foley came closest to being funny on a couple of occasions.) It's not aggressively, obnoxiously bad like the second episode of "2 Broke Girls," or like some of the comedy pilots that have yet to premiere (assuming ABC ever has the onions to schedule "Work It"), or like the show's it's replacing, "$#*! My Dad Says."(**) But on top of having a dated premise, it just feels tired. Dillon is essentially playing a Johnny Drama who never went to Hollywood. Hornsby's doing Felix Unger, but without the unrelenting self-confidence that Tony Randall brought to that role in the '70s. (Though Hornsby has promised that later episodes will show him raising Dillon up just as much as Dillon drags him down, there's a clear power imbalance in the pilot.)
(**) Coincidentally, Justin Halpern, who created the @ShitMyDadSays Twitter feed and helped create the sitcom version, is a staff writer on this show.
Sometimes, a large collection of funny people fail to be funny for an entire series. But sometimes, a pilot is too busy establishing its premise to figure out how to be use the various talented voices it has on hand. Maybe "Gentleman" figures itself out in a few weeks time, maybe not. But it has plenty of room, and tools, for improvement.
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The claims of the Gore-Hedgehope Railway were brought under
the notice of the Minister of Public Works (Hon. W. Fraser)
by the Gore and Waimumu branches of the Gore-Hedgehope
Railway League on Friday afternoon.
Unfortunately the weather was very bad, but the Minister is
not the man to be diverted from a promise given to see the
proposed route of the line for himself, and accordingly a
representative party left Gore by motor cars shortly after 2
p.m., arriving at Waimumu about an hour later. The chief
spokesman was Mr D. L. Poppelwell, Mayor of Gore, and in his
reply the Minister said he had been very much pleased with
what he had seen. He did not know any district where a light
line promised to be more successful.
He hoped the time was not far distant when they could spare
an engineer for a flying survey, a report on the route, and
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• An escape from the lock-up at the Christchurch police
station was almost effected on Sunday (says the Press) by a
girl 16 years of age, who was in custody on a charge of
stealing a bicycle. The attempt was frustrated by the
appearance of Constable Dunnett (watch-house keeper) just as
the girl's task was nearly accomplished.
The girl had been arrested on Saturday, and about noon the
next day Constable Dunnett had occasion to visit the lock-up.
the outer door, as of course he expected, was bolted. On
entering he lifted the panel through which food is passed to
the cell in which the girl had been placed, and saw that the
cell was empty. At once he examined the bolts of the cell
door and was surprised to find they had not been tampered
with. An other glance into the cell satisfied him that the
girl had escaped, and on going to the lavatory at the end of
the corridor the constable found the girl in the act of
removing the last pane of glass in the window.
The removal of this pane of glass would have provided the
girl with an exit. The girl was returned to the cell to await
trial. The circumstances surrounding the escape of the
prisoner are extraordinary. The panel in the door is only
about 10in by 6in, and yet this is the only exit through
which the girl could have made her way out of the cell. She
is a particularly slightly-built girl, but one would hardly
credit her performance. The removal of the panes of glass in
the window of the lavatory had been cleverly carried out by
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Jennifer Garner in 7 For All Mankind
Jennifer Garner looked adorable as always as she spent the weekend running errands with her two daughters. She was wearing her Vintage Allston 7 for All Mankind jeans. You can buy these jeans here at 7 For All Mankind.
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Rachel Bilson in J Brand Houlihan Cargo Pants
Rachel Bilson was spotted making her way around Hollywood, California wearing J Brand Houlihan Cargo Pants. These have been spotted on a few celebs now, what do you think of this skinny cargo trend? Love it or Hate it? You can buy these cargos here.
Agyness Deyn in a Paint Splattered Denim Shirt
Model Agyness Deyn was seen walking around New York wearing a paint splattered denim shirt. I'm usually a fan of Agyness's style, but I think this outfit is not working. I think the shirt is a bit to big on her. Did you guys know that Agyness plays Aphrodite in the movie "Clash of the Titans?" But with no lines, it's hard to spot her in the film. Fellow model Natalia Vodianova is also in the movie as Medusa.
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New York Mets 2012 Top 15 Prospects (1/3/12)
The Mets offered an interesting challenge when compiling the rankings last year. Any analyst with knowledge of the players could have looked at the system and gone one of three routes, 1) high upside, very raw players, 2) lower ceiling but higher floor players, and 3) some hybrid of the first two. In reviewing last year's list, I opted for the hybrid, sprinkling in some high-ceiling talents.
This is a bit of a departure from my normal process and in hindsight; I'm a little surprised I opted for this route. Positioning Zack Wheeler and Matt Harvey in the top two slots wasn't difficult and my preference for Wheeler's high-impact ceiling led me to rank him atop my Mets list. Even with Harvey's impressive 2012 MLB debut, I'm pleased with my decision and if I were to look back again in a few years, I am confident this would continue to look like the correct ranking.
I stuck true to my tools-loving ways with my rating of Cesar Puello, even though his stock had already begun to slip across the industry. Similar to players like Mike Montgomery and others that I have highlighted recently, I stuck to the positive reports on Puello and needed to take a harder look at the reality of the situation. As I've said, this is a lesson I've learned in this process and I am being far more critical of my process this time around.
Lower ceiling players like Reese Havens, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Eric Goeddel and Philip Evans filled in much of the back half of the list and there should have been more of an emphasis on raw, high-ceiling players like Luis Mateo, Rafael Montero, Vincente Lupo and Hansel Robles, all of whom broke out to some extent in 2012. I had positive reports on all four players last year but wasn't willing to push them like I did with Domingo Tapia. It's not a huge miss, but the departure from my typical high-ceiling ways is a little surprising.
I was overly hard on Wilmer Flores last year. While I don't think he has a ton of impact potential, he is very likely to contribute in the big leagues and he should have stayed a little higher in a relatively thin system at that time.
Overall, not a bad job putting the 2012 list together but there were some departures from my typical preferences that raised some eyebrows. The consistency displayed through this list was not the best and that is something I hope to remedy this year.


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Captain Morgan, The Rum Pirate, Lends A Knee To Hip Dislocation
If you were to dislocate your hip, you'd need the able hands of a physician to push your thighbone back into the socket where it belongs. But that effort of "reducing" a hip dislocation can be a tricky and even risky task.
That's why some doctors now look to Captain Morgan — yes, the pirate on the bottle of rum — for inspiration. If you've ever looked closely at the label, you might notice Morgan standing confidently, one foot on top of a barrel. That pose turns out to be a good way for doctors to apply force to the hip without having to crawl up on the patient's gurney.
A case series out this week in the Annals of Emergency Medicine found the technique to be a success for 12 out of 13 patients. But study authors caution that they haven't yet proved the technique is any faster, easier, or has fewer complications than other way of fixing hip dislocations.
"We actually started the technique in our hospital a couple of years ago," Gregory Hendey, a professor of clinical emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Fresno and one of the study authors, tells Shots. "One day, while watching a Captain Morgan's commercial, it just struck me that that's the position we do."
Hip dislocation happens when the head of the thighbone — the femur — slips out of its socket in the hipbone. Car accidents are the most common cause, according to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. People with hip replacements are also prone to them, as are athletes who play high contact sports like football.
"It's extremely painful," says Hendey. "You can't walk. You're incapacitated. It has to be taken care of immediately."
Other techniques for fixing hip dislocations can be precarious. Consider the Allis Maneuver, which requires the doctor to straddle the patient on a gurney, then bend the affected leg 90 degrees, while keeping the other leg down. The doctor then lifts the leg and applies force to the hip, popping the leg bone back into the hip socket. Doctors can injure their backs or fall off the gurney, the study said.
Although Hendey admits the study doesn't prove whether the Captain Morgan technique is better than other techniques, he does believe it's safer and easier for doctors to perform. "Once they start using the Captain, they never go back," he says.
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This is a little project im doing. I plan on making Gunpla or each character I draw. Rarity has her gundam already, and I am in the process Twilight's Gundam. These arts are quick little works i can use to display my Gunpla with. If you are interested, you can use these to display with your models, just credit me
My headcanon is that Rarity is a fashion designer from Vietnam(cuz I'm Viet) and she is the country's champion for the world tournament. Her Gunpla is made by her and her close friend Twilight who is from Canada. Twilight is a mostly a builder, and barely passes as a fighter. As such, her personal unit uses funnels and a full psychoframe. Other allies are: Team Honesty AJ and Fluttershy( United States) and Team Loyalty: Rainbow and Pinkie (Russia)
Character ages:
Rarity: 22
Twilight: 21
Applejack: 20
Fluttershy: 21
Rainbow Dash: 18
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She is the builder of the Regalia Gundam, Defenser-Nu Gundam and Pro[T]-0 Gundam. Twilight's personal unit is the Alicorn Gundam: a Hi-nu Gundam torso with Unicorn Gundam limbs.
Regalia Gundam: checkerboardazn.deviantart.com…
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Defenser Nu: pic not yet available
Pro[T]-0 Gundam: Pic not yet available
Alicorn Gundam: I am in need of another HG Hi-Nu Gundam and HG Unicorn Gundam, therefore no pics yet.
W have the excact same idea about the alicorn gundam.
You have an interesting style
MLP + Gundam Build Fighters = win!
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Some drafts we hit it big and others were just miserable.
1 1 Alex Smith QB Utah
2 33 David Baas G Michigan
3 65 Frank Gore RB Miami (Fla.)
3 94 Adam Snyder T Oregon
5 137 Ronald Fields DT Mississippi State
5 174 Rasheed Marshall WR West Virginia
6 205 Derrick Johnson CB Washington
7 215 Daven Holly DB Cincinnati
7 223 Marcus Maxwell WR Oregon
7 248 Patrick Estes T Virginia
7 249 Billy Bajema TE Oklahoma State
**Very Top Heavy. Smith was not worth a #1, but then again if we flipped Alex and Rogers, whould everyone say we missed on Smith? Discussion for another thread. Baas and Snyder are servicable OL and Gore was the gem. Its a wasteland after. Even though we missed on so many picks, it gets even worse below**
1 6 Vernon Davis TE Maryland
1 22 Manny Lawson OLB North Carolina State
3 84 Brandon Williams WR Wisconsin
4 100 Michael Robinson RB Penn State
5 140 Parys Haralson DE Tennessee
6 175 Delanie Walker TE Central Missouri State
6 192 Marcus Hudson DB North Carolina State
6 197 Melvin Oliver DE Louisiana State
7 254 Vickiel Vaughn DB Arkansas
**Vern has been our best passing weapon since he was drafted. Lawson was a big disappointment. Haralson and Walker are serviceable. The rest were a waste. Very average draft**
1 11 Patrick Willis ILB Mississippi
1 28 Joe Staley OT Central Michigan
3 76 Jason Hill WR Washington State
3 97 Ray McDonald DE Florida
4 104 Jay Moore LB Nebraska
4 126 Dashon Goldson SAF Washington
4 135 Joe Cohen DT Florida
5 147 Tarell Brown CB Texas
6 186 Thomas Clayton RB Kansas State
**BY FAR..our best draft since 05. 5 Probowl level players and an All Pro. We had 8 picks in the first 5 rounds and made them count**
1 29 Kentwan Balmer DE North Carolina
2 39 Chilo Rachal G USC
3 75 Reggie Smith DB Oklahoma
4 107 Cody Wallace C Texas A&M
6 174 Josh Morgan WR Virginia Tech
7 214 Larry Grant OLB Ohio State
**BY FAR our worst draft since 05. What a waste of a year when Morgan is the best player by a large margin**
1 10 Michael Crabtree WR Texas Tech
3 74 Glen Coffee RB Alabama
5 146 Scott McKillop LB Pittsburgh
5 171 Nate Davis QB Ball State
6 184 Bear Pascoe TE Fresno State
7 219 Curtis Taylor DB Louisiana State
7 244 Ricky Jean-Francois DT Louisiana State
**2nd worst draft since 05. Crabtree has underwhelmed and RJF is the 2nd best as a backup**
1 11 Anthony Davis T Rutgers
1 17 Mike Iupati G Idaho
2 49 Taylor Mays SS USC
3 91 NaVorro Bowman LB Penn State
6 173 Anthony Dixon RB Mississippi State
6 182 Nate Byham TE Pittsburgh
6 206 Kyle Williams WR Arizona State
7 224 Phillip Adams DB South Carolina State
**This is when Baalke started taking over and it showed after the s**t shows the previous two years. Davis and Iupati may be our best two OL in 2012, Bowman made the All Pro team in his first year. We will never know if it REALLY was Mad Mike who pushed for Mays, but that was a big wiff. Other than that, the rest of the roster all contributed this year other than Adams and Byham who suffered injuries**
1 7 Aldon Smith LB Missouri
2 36 Colin Kaepernick QB Nevada-Reno
3 80 Chris Culliver DB South Carolina
4 115 Kendall Hunter RB Oklahoma State
5 163 Daniel Kilgore G Appalachian State
6 182 Ronald Johnson WR USC
6 190 Colin Jones DB Texas Christian
7 211 Bruce Miller RB Central Florida
7 239 Mike Person G Montana State
7 250 Curtis Holcomb DB Florida A&M
**NOW WERE TALKIN! The grade on this draft is still incomplete until another year or so when we can see what Kaepernick, Kilgore, Person and Holcomb can provide, but man, just 12 month removed from this draft, it looks like the best in the league BY FAR! MAJOR contributions from Aldon, Culliver, Hunter and Miller. Plus Jones helped out on ST. One of these picks doesn't fit though. I remember reading that our WR coach pushed for Ronald Johnson. Funny how the two publicized cases of "Non Baalke Picks" are both not on the roster in the 1st year.**
Hopefully in year 3 of Baalke and year 2 of Jimbo, we can hit again this year! If we get a draft in 2012 like we did in 2011 or 2010........
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How can I unpack a compressed executable without knowing what compression algorithm was used to compress it?
For instance, if I receive a random executable and it was compressed with a self written compression algorithm (one that is not common by any means), is there a tool or way to unpack this?


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Released: Jan 01st, 1996
Running Time: 133
Director: Patrick Collins
Company: Elegant Angel Productions
Cast: Truui, Attila Dori, Jacqueline, Dina Pearl, Nikita (I), Francesco, Roscoe Bowltree, Victoria Queen, John Walton, Christof Clark, Mike Foster, Kristina (I)
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Feature
Sexual shenanigans with overseas fashion models, agents, and photographers meld with the alluring artificial innocence of little sexy blonde make-up artist Nikita. The bulk of the action centers on the ease and availability of the many slender (naturally-breasted) European models, who jump in the sack with anyone hinting at a sexual interest. You know the type: they're always smiling, understand little if any of our language, and are eager to do what it takes to please everyone (including plenty of anal, some d.p., girl/girl, threesomes, etc.)
Erotically slow moving, this moody production comes to an ambitious conclusion at a catered outdoor fashion show where Nikita finally sets her sexuality free. Market this in the classy adult section.


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Marx, Nietzche, and Freud are among the most influential of modern atheists. The distinctive feature of their challenge to theistic and specifically Christian belief is expressed by Paul Ricoeur when he calls them the "masters of suspicion." While skepticism directs its critique to the truth or evidential basis of belief, suspicion asks two different, intimately intertwined questions: what are the motives that lead to this belief? and what function does it play, what work does it do for the individuals and communities that adopt it.
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Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church
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Released: Dec 01st, 2003
Running Time: 90
Director: Wit Maverick
Company: VCA Pictures
Cast: Benjamin Brat, Harley Davis, Sergio (I), Nicolette (I), Amber Rain (I), Rhiannon Bray, Jonathan Simms, Charlie (I), Nick Manning, Alec Metro, Chase Kox, Josie James
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Feature
Couples faire for the consumer who likes his women with an edge.
A group of thieves descend on a lingerie factory and find that a time warp has them screwing in what appears to be a permanent case of porn déjà vu.
Don't try to make sense out of why this ever-changing group of burglars decides to have sex instead of robbing the joint and just enjoy the almost wall-to-wall feel of this weakly plotted effort that will keep your interest in a fast paced series of pokings that will certainly suffice as serviceable sex on tape.
Charlie and Jonathan Simms are first up to fuck, and she takes it in the ass like a champ. Alec Metro has a teeth grinding gash stuffer with Amber Rain before a seamy lesbian romp with Rhiannon Bray proves stilted due to some choppy edits. A sleazy threeway proves a turn-on when Harley Davis does her kinky best to elevate the heat. Nick Manning finishes up this confusing six-scene slam fest, turning in some butt plunging action first in a d.p. that stumbles at the pop shot and a quickie romp broken up when the thieves get caught in the act. Pedestrian yet plenty doable porn, with a cute twist that you'll enjoy if you like the cast.


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Each season, we host many special group days and school events when we turn the park into a gigantic learning lab. See our group events tab below so you can plan your trip today.
Fright Fest Casting Call
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If you've got talent, we want to meet you! Fright Fest performer auditions take place July 30.
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Join us for the ultimate international celebration including special offers in our games, food and retail areas!
SLURPEE Ride Event
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SLURPEE® invites you to an exclusive ride time event at Six Flags!
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We will be filling a variety of positions for the new Holiday In The Park event.
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WhereU is a local business search app with a real-time leaderboard of black owned businesses across categories, ranked by peer-to-peer referral counts. Looking for black owned businesses in our community? What about a plumber? A dentist? A hair stylist, barber or the best caterer? Did you relocate and now need new referrals for the best service providers? WHEREU is your best guide when looking for pros or services. For different services such as house cleaning, plumbing, catering, lawyers, doctors, graphic designers, restaurants, beauty salons and more, WHEREU helps you start your search among the most trusted African American and Latino professionals and businesses.
Black Owned Book Store Continues to Shine
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By sharing time and relevant information about the history and accomplishments of Black people while offering solutions to improve the community's well-being, Afri-Ware has distinguished itself as a beacon for cultural literacy, thought and activism.
Phoenix-based, Black owned computer company leads the way
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SanTrac Technologies provides an array of customer focused information technology services and products, such as computer sales, repair, networking and technical installation services while utilizing an ethical and motivated workforce to provide complete customer satisfaction.
Grant's Financial Services: Educating and Empowering Small Business Owners
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Grant's Financial Services (GFS), Inc. aims to "empower and educate small business owners to help them understand their business financial statements and taxes to create financial history and wealth one dollar at a time.'
I am a young African American female kidpreneur. I sew zippered pouches, I make my bags out of love. I always look forward to making people happy. My business is internet based. I have been able to place my bags in one local store. A portion of the proceeds go to The Karen Wellington Foundation to help women living with Breast Cancer.
For More Information about the Karen Wellington Foundation you can visit http://karenwellingtonfoundation.org. I thought of this idea because, my mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2014. So I wanted to help other people and their families that are going through the same journey my family went through. I want to teach young people that it is important to give back.


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The arches on those eyebrows could support the Tacoma Narrows bridge. Hawtness!!!
World Wrestling Entertainment really needs to be more careful about handing out endorsements.
Holy christmas that fucker is creepy!
What 14 year old wouldn't want to fuck that? At times I feel sorry for these fuckers, what with the entrapment and the public humiliation on To Catch a Predator. Then, I realize the stupidity and denial it takes to think that a teenager would want to have sex with you when you're that fucking creepy.
what's with the chola eyebrows?
Why hasn't it sunk into these losers' heads that there are no underage girls on the internet looking for hook-ups with older men? It should be obvious by now tht it is always either a law-enforcement officer or a vigilante at the other end of the conversation. If stupidity were criminal these guys would have been locked up long ago.
I still believe this is a clash of civilisation and instinct. These men display mating instincts that date back millions of years.The young and ripe are irresistible to men who have over powering instincts. That's why, despite what many of us see as an obvious trap, proves simply too compelling.
Is that Bill Bavasi?
He's 33? Same age as Jesus, and way younger than me, and I don't look anywhere near that bad -- though, to be fair, I haven't just been arrested on child molestation charges, which is bound to cause some worry lines.
"It's not a bald spot- it's a solar panel for a horrible evil heart full of despair and cruelty."
Nope, still not as poignant as the shirt he's already wearing.
YET fnarf, yet!
Gosh. Anyone know how many "using the internet to..." crimes are on the books in any jurisdiction?
That shirt's ironic no matter who wears it.
These guys don't "think young girls want to fuck them". They're not particularly interested in what young girls want to do. Young girls, remember, are not free sexual agents; that's why it's against the law to have sex with them. Young girls can sometimes be manipulated into having sex with older men whether they "want to" or not. It works, all too often, and not every naive girl on the internet is an FBI agent. Unfortunately.
That shirt is satire.
He looks like a younger American version of that crazy Austrian, Fritz Finglemiester (or whatever his name was)...
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Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. Today's page is from Barry-Windsor Smith: Storyteller #1 ("Freebooters Chapter One"), which was published by Dark Horse and is cover dated October 1996. This scan comes from The Freebooters, which was published by Fantagraphics in 2005. Enjoy!
"Freebooters" was one of three stories that BWS wrote and drew for this comic series, which lasted only 9 issues but which I would LOVE to track down, if the quality of this serial is any indication. Even unfinished, this is a fine series, and it's too bad BWS doesn't do a whole lot of comics work anymore, because he is, after all, awesome.
This page is all about spectacle, of course, as Aran (who remains unnamed throughout the entire first chapter) rides into Shahariza. Windsor-Smith wants to impress both Aran and the reader with Shahariza's magnificence, and I reckon he pulls it off quite nicely. Obviously, it's a splash page, and Windsor-Smith isn't too concerned with moving our eye across a series of panels, but he does want us to see what Shahariza is all about. He and colorist Tom Vincent give us a succession of marble temples piled on top each other, expressing the wonder of the metropolis and, ironically, its decadence as well. The entire page is aligned along a diagonal, with the palm tree over Aran shielding him and separating him from the rest of the page. So our eyes wanders down from the logo to the various columned edifices, pausing only to take in the reddish-brown, hot-dog-shaped blimp floating above it all. The incongruity of the blimp – the ragged house perched on top of it, its bulbousness compared to the smooth lines and graceful arcs of the buildings, and its diametrically opposed color – makes it a central image on the page, even if it's not actually near the center of the page. It's in a nice place, because it balances the logo, which is colored similarly and in contrast to the rest of Shahariza, implying that both the "Freebooters" and the blimp aren't quite in line with the magnificence of the city. We see that Aran has a lot of luggage on his horse, so the fact that he's "arrived" implies not that he's just stopping in from around the corner, but the words and the baggage shows that he has come from quite a distance. The well-groomed branches forming a guard rail along the "boardwalk" and the torch placed alongside the highway also show that Shahariza is civilized – the bureaucracy makes sure that the roads leading to the city are well kept. BWS links the blimp with Aran through the word balloon – he could have put it beneath Aran, after all, but its placement means our eyes connect the dots between the two, the only two things on the page that show any life. Shahariza is a cold, beautiful place, and even though we can't believe in this twilight that it's asleep for the night, the drawing sets off its slumber with the messy life of the blimp and Aran and his horse. It's a subtle way to contrast the "low-life" of the city with its more genteel elements. It might not be that blimp, but Aran soon encounters a blimp, and BWS has already set up the meeting of the blimp's occupants and Aran with this opening page (and with the gorgeous double-page splash that follows this).
It's amazing that BWS didn't go blind drawing this page and the two that follows it, but luckily for readers, he managed to produce many beautiful pages after this. This is a fantastic way to begin this comic (which is a satire of the "great barbarian hero" stories of which Conan is, I guess, the most famous), as it gets us right into the story. Can you look away? NO YOU CAN'T!!!!
Next: The randomness of this exercise means we get a first page very similar to this one. How do you like that? If you want to see other splash pages, be sure to dive right into the archives!
Will never forget the magnificence of his Avengers #100. One of the most beautiful comics I ever beheld. Is he doing any comics stuff these days?
I've got a complete set of that original series. They were oversized, almost as big as the DC and Marvel tabloid format from the 1970s. Lovely, lovely art. I'll have to dig them out and look at them again.
Stupid, stupid me had a chance to get a slipcased collection of BWS:S for, like, 30 bucks at a con several years back. A couple times. And I didn't quite have the money or some crap, so I passed. LIKE A FOOL!
Beautiful page. I've read a few stories where BWS colours his art and it always impresses me. He's particularly good on his red, purple or blue tones.
If you can find it Greg, pick it up. It's a beautiful series. Paradox man and Young gods are good(freebooters is my favorite). Really wish BWS would come back and finish it up.
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Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
|MCAS Futenma
MCAS Futenma logo
|IATA: none – ICAO: ROTM
|Airport type
|United States Marine Corps
|Okinawa, Japan
|In use
|1945 - present
|Col. Peter Lee
|1st Marine Aircraft Wing
|Elevation AMSL
|246 ft / 75 m
|26°16′15″N 127°44′53″E / 26.27083°N 127.74806°ECoordinates: 26°16′15″N 127°44′53″E / 26.27083°N 127.74806°E
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Marine Corps Air Station Futenma or MCAS Futenma (Japanese: 海兵隊普天間航空基地 Hepburn: Kaiheitai Futenma Kōkū Kichi?)A[3] (ICAO: ROTM) is a United States Marine Corps base located in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) northeast[2]B of Naha, on the island of Okinawa. It is home to approximately 3,000[4] Marines of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and other units, and has been a U.S. military airbase since the defeat of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Marine Corps pilots and aircrew are assigned to the base for training and providing air support to other land and sea-based Marines in Okinawa and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. MCAS Futenma is part of the Marine Corps Installations Pacific command.
MCAS Futenma is situated in Ginowan City (pop. 93,661).[5] The base includes a 2,740 by 45 m (8,990 by 148 ft)[2]A runway at 75 meters elevation,[6] as well as extensive barracks, administrative and logistical facilities. The air station is tasked with operating a variety of fixed wing, rotary wing and tilt rotor aircraft in support of the III Marine Expeditionary Force, the Japan U.S. defense alliance and many allies and treaty partners in the region. The base is also used as a United Nations air distribution hub facility for response to disaster or other crisis requiring air supplies due to the length of the runway and elevation.[7][8]
Futenma Airfield was constructed by the US military following the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. According to Ginowan City records, the joint population of what was then Ginowan Village (now Ginowan City) was 12,994 in 1944.[citation needed] It was initially allocated for Eighth Air Force use to station B-29 Superfortress strategic bombers in the planned Invasion of Japan. With the end of the war, the airfield became a United States Air Force Far East Air Force installation known as Futenma Air Base, and was used as a support airfield for the nearby Kadena Air Base, hosting fighter-interceptor squadrons as part of the air defense of the Ryukyu Islands. The base was transferred to the United States Navy on 30 June 1957 and was subsequently developed into a United States Marine Corps air station.[9][10]
Each year, MCAS Futenma opens its gates to the community for the Futenma Flight Line Fair, which includes popular big-name U.S. band performances, entertainment, static displays of all aircraft, military vehicles and demonstrations, and more.[11] In 2013, more than 70,000 people attended the open base event, and the most popular aircraft on display were the MV-22 Ospreys.[12] Aside from the annual fair, there are hundreds of community relations events held each year by MCAS Futenma staff, highlighting the excellent relationships Marines enjoy with the local community.[13]
Futenma's 75m elevation provides a safe and effective location to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations in the event of a tsunami, which would render the sea-level Naha international airport inoperable .[14] The 9,000 ft. runway also gives the capability of safely landing the largest commercial and military cargo planes in the world, including the Antonov An-124 Ruslan, which has landed at Futenma multiple times.[15][16] Futenma has a high record of safety with well established procedures. [14]
The airbase has become a focal point of various political controversies in recent years. Due to population growth and encroachment around the base, concerns surrounding flights over residential areas causing noise, air pollution and endangering public safety also became controversial issues in Ginowan City.[17] Safety concerns were raised after the August 2004 crash of a Marine Corps CH-53D transport helicopter on the campus of Okinawa International University after the aircraft suffered mechanical issues. Three crew members had minor injuries, but there were no injuries on the ground.[18] The Guardian has stated that the location of MCAS Futenma in Ginowan "would be like having F22s landing in Hyde Park [in London]."[19]
Local residents also became concerned over pollution and ground water and soil contamination caused by the base's activities: for example, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Kris Roberts (USMC) told The Japan Times that his base maintenance team unearthed leaking barrels of Agent Orange at the base in 1981.[20] The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) states that Agent Orange was never present on Okinawa, and an investigation commissioned by the DoD found no evidence that Agent Orange was ever on Okinawa [21] (See Agent Orange: Okinawa, Japan for more details.)
Special interest groups, including supporters and protestors, often gather outside the gates of Futenma. Local Okinawan citizens weekly clean vandalism and debris left by protest groups,[22] and supporters are often seen with banners thanking the US military.[23]
Mayor Atsushi Sakima of Ginowan City and Col. James G. Flynn, commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, signed a bilateral agreement June 26, 2013 at MCAS Futenma specifying procedures for the evacuation of Okinawa residents in the event a natural disaster and provisions for evacuation drills to maintain readiness.[24] Immediately before, during or following a natural disaster, especially a tsunami, MCAS Futenma can use the procedures to open one or more of the station's gates to allow evacuees immediate and direct passage to higher ground or shelter. Also, the air station would post signs directing evacuees along designated routes between the gates. This agreement comes after thorough collaboration between Ginowan City and MCAS Futenma and signifies the importance that the city and air station place on mutual safety and cooperation, said officials.
There have been various plans to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma base—first off the island and then within the island—however, as of November 2014[update] the future of any relocation is uncertain with the election of base-opponent Onaga as Okinawa governor.[25] Onaga won against the incumbent Nakaima who had earlier approved landfill work to move the base to Camp Schwab in Henoko. However, Onaga has promised to veto the landfill work needed for the new base to be built and insisted Futenma should be moved outside of Okinawa.[26] In August 2015, the Japanese government agreed to halt construction activities temporarily while talks with Okinawan officials continued. [27] US sources insist nothing about their approach has changed.[28]
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See also[edit]
- Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler
- List of United States Marine Corps installations
- List of airports in Japan
- USAAF in Okinawa
- United States Forces Japan
- A.^ In the Japanese language MCAS Futenma is formally known as: Kaiheitai Futenma Kōkū Kichi (海兵隊普天間航空基地?), more commonly as: Futenma Hikōjō (普天間飛行場?), and is commonly abbreviated in speech and writing as: Futenma Kichi (普天間基地?).[3][30]
- B.^ The text version gives a runway 2,740 by 45 m (8,990 by 148 ft)[2] and the aerodrome chart gives 9,000 by 150 ft (2,743 by 46 m).
- ^ MCAS Futenma, official website, retrieved 12 November 2007
- ^ a b c d AIS Japan
- ^ a b United States Marine Corps (2012). 海兵隊普天間航空基地 [Marine Corps Air Station Futenma] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- ^ United States Marine Corps (2012). 海兵隊普天間航空基地 [Marine Corps Air Station Futenma] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ City of Ginowan (2012). 平成23年版 宜野湾市統計書 [Statistics of Ginowan City, 2011 ed.] (in Japanese). Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- ^ airportnavfinder.com (2012). "ROTM: FUTENMA MCAS". USA. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ^ Global Security website.
- ^ "普天間飛行場 (Futenma Hikōjō)". 日本歴史地名大系 (Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- ^ USAF Historical Research Agency Document 00219137
- ^ USAF Historical Research Agency documents for Futenma Air Base
- ^ japanupdate.com (2013). "Futenma's Flightline Fair kicks off Saturday". Okinawa. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ Case, Elizabeth (2013). "Flightline Fair showcases military aircraft". Okinawa. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ www.okinawa.usmc.mil (2013). "Okinawa Marines website". Okinawa. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ a b Eldridge, Robert (3 February 2012). "Okinawa Base Problem Today". nippon.com. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ Flynn, Daniel (22 May 2008). "Giant Plane delivers simulator". military.com. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ Rostran, Natalie (28 June 2013). "Antenove at Futenma". www.mcasfutenma.marines.mil. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ "普天間飛行場 (Futenma Hikōjō)". Dijitaru daijisen (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- ^ Takahashi 2004.
- ^ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/07/okinawa-japan-military-tension
- ^ Mitchell, Jon, "Agent Orange at base in '80s: U.S. vet", Japan Times, 15 June 2012, p. 1
- ^ Young, Alvin L. (January 2013). "Investigations into Allegations of Herbicide Orange on Okinawa, Japan". Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (I & E). Retrieved March 14, 2013.
- ^ Case, Elizabeth (4 April 2013). "Okinawa, US strengthen friendships via cleanup efforts". www.mcipac.marines.mil. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ Osprey Fan Club (20 April 2013). "Okinawa Osprey Fan Club". www.facebook.com/osprey.fan.club. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ^ Case, Elizabeth (27 June 2013). "Ginowan, Futenma officials sign agreement specifying disaster preparedness procedures". www.mcipac.marines.mil. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- ^ "Okinawa US base move in doubt after governor elections". BBC. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ^ "U.S. base relocation opponent elected Okinawan governor". Japan Today. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ^ "US military helicopter crashes off Okinawa in Japan". BBC. 12 August 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
- ^ July 15, 2015 - JAPAN, Daily Press Briefing
- ^ Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron
- ^ "Futenma Hikōjō no kinō to yakuwari (普天間飛行場の機能と役割)" [Funtenma Airport, functions and duties] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-05-25.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Marine Corps. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
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External links[edit]
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- Futenma Marine Corps Air Station at GlobalSecurity.org
- The Futenma relocation issue Detailed list of events on the Japanese Wikipedia.
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I am working on an embedded application where the device is controlled through a command interface. I mocked the command dispatcher in VC and had it working to my satisfaction; but when I then moved the code over to the embedded environment, I found out that the compiler has a broken implementation of pointer-to-func's.
Here's how I originally implemented the code (in VC):
/* Relevant parts of header file */
typedef struct command {
const char *code;
void *set_dispatcher;
void *get_dispatcher;
const char *_description;
} command_t;
#define COMMAND_ENTRY(label,dispatcher,description) {(const char*)label, &set_##dispatcher, &get_##dispatcher, (const char*)description}
/* Dispatcher data structure in the C file */
const command_t commands[] = {
COMMAND_ENTRY("DH", Dhcp, "DHCP (0=off, 1=on)"),
COMMAND_ENTRY("IP", Ip, "IP Address (192.168.1.205)"),
COMMAND_ENTRY("SM", Subnet, "Subunet Mask (255.255.255.0)"),
COMMAND_ENTRY("DR", DefaultRoute, "Default router (192.168.1.1)"),
COMMAND_ENTRY("UN", Username, "Web username"),
COMMAND_ENTRY("PW", Password, "Web password"),
/* After matching the received command string to the command "label", the command is dispatched */
if (pc->isGetter)
return ((get_fn_t)(commands[i].get_dispatcher))(pc);
return ((set_fn_t)(commands[i].set_dispatcher))(pc);
Without the use of function pointers, it seems like my only hope is to use switch()/case statements to call functions. But I'd like to avoid having to manually maintain a large switch() statement.
What I was thinking of doing is moving all the COMMAND_ENTRY lines into a separate include file. Then wraps that include file with varying #define and #undefines. Something like:
/* Create enum's labels */
#define COMMAND_ENTRY(label,dispatcher,description) SET_##dispatcher, GET_##dispatcher
typedef enum command_labels = {
#include "entries.cinc"
DUMMY_ENUM_ENTRY} command_labels_t;
#undefine COMMAND_ENTRY
/* Create command mapping table */
#define COMMAND_ENTRY(label,dispatcher,description) {(const char*)label, SET_##dispatcher, GET_##dispatcher, (const char*)description}
const command_t commands[] = {
#include "entries.cinc"
NULL /* dummy */ };
#undefine COMMAND_ENTRY
int command_dispatcher(command_labels_t dispatcher_id) {
/* Create dispatcher switch statement */
#define COMMAND_ENTRY(label,dispatcher,description) case SET_##dispatcher: return set_##dispatcher(pc); case GET_##dispatcher: return get_##dispatcher(pc);
switch(dispatcher_id) {
#include "entries.cinc"
return NOT_FOUND;
#undefine COMMAND_ENTRY
Does anyone see a better way to handle this situation? Sadly, 'get another compiler' is not a viable option. :(
--- Edit to add: Just to clarify, the particular embedded environment is broken in that the compiler is supposed to create a "function-pointer table" which is then used by the compiler to resolve calls to functions through a pointer. Unfortunately, the compiler is broken and doesn't generate a correct function-table.
So I don't have an easy way to extract the func address to invoke it.
--- Edit #2: Ah, yes, the use of void *(set|get)_dispatcher was my attempt to see if the problem was with the typedefine of the func pointers. Originally, I had
typedef int (*set_fn_t)(cmdContext_t *pCmdCtx);
typedef int (*get_fn_t)(cmdContext_t *pCmdCtx);
typedef struct command {
const char *code;
set_fn_t set_dispatcher;
get_fn_t get_dispatcher;
const char *_description;
} command_t;


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Sales fell 0.2 percent to C$38.9 billion ($39.7 billion), according to Ottawa-based Statistics Canada, which cut its estimates of the increase in January to 0.2 percent from 0.5 percent. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News forecast a 0.1 percent gain in February, based on the median of 23 projections.
Exceeding Parity
Canada's currency rose beyond parity with the U.S. in 2007 for the first time in three decades, touching a record 90.58 cents in November 2007 after rallying from C$1.62 in 2002 on demand for commodities. Raw materials such as lumber, wheat, oil, gold, nickel and zinc account for about half of Canada's export revenue.
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The loonie gained 4.2 percent in the past six months, the most of any major currency based on Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes. Hedge funds and other large speculators increased bets the currency will gain to the most since May 2011 following the Bank of Canada meeting.
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Relative Yields
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Government notes due in one to three years yield about 1.4 percent on average, more than the 0.94 percent for similar-maturity sovereign debt globally, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. At the end of December, they yielded 0.98 percent, 0.075 percentage point less than the global index.
"Canadian dollar strength comes from strong capital inflows," David Grad, a foreign-exchange strategist at Bank of America Corp. in New York, said in a telephone interview April 24. That almost makes the currency more vulnerable in the event of capital flight, he said.
The odds of that happening are rising with expected price swings in currencies the lowest since 2007, according to Shaun Osborne, the chief currency strategist at Toronto-Dominion Bank in Toronto. The JPMorgan Global FX Volatility Index tumbled to 8.88 last week from more than 16 in September.
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Barbara Christian (December 12, 1943 in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands – June 25, 2000 in Berkeley, California) was an author and professor of African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Among several books, and over 100 published articles, Christian was most well known for the 1980 study Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition.
Notable accomplishments[edit]
- Taught at the City College of the City University of New York (1965–1972)
- Christian helped establish the African-American Studies Department at UC Berkeley
- She was the first African-American woman to be granted tenure at UC Berkeley (1978)
- Awarded the University of California, Berkeley's highest honor, the Berkeley Citation[1]
Selected bibliography[edit]
- Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976, Greenwood Press (1980)
- Teaching Guide to Accompany Black Foremothers (1980)
- Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, Teachers College Press (1985)
- From the Inside Out: Afro-American Women's Literary Tradition and the State (1987)
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On Patterns & Light, Kodomo creates sprawling, cinematic compositions over energetic, dancefloor-friendly electronic beats. Most of the tracks center around a melody line from an organic source, usually piano, marimba or female vocals, bolstered and surrounded by expertly crafted synths, sweeps, and effects. Lots of long buildups & breakdowns, gradual progressions, and general electronic epicness. RIYL Jon Hopkins
Favorite Tracks: Impromptu [2], Mind Like A Diamond [5], Blue Shifter [7]
The consistently innovative hyperdub is still pushing boundaries in electronic music 10 years after its creation, originally as a blog about dub music's influence in the UK underground electronic music scene. 10.2 shies away from the bangers and focuses on tunes that lean more in a soul and R&B direction – featuring a variety of guest vocalists, notably Fatima and Ghostface Killah, over beats that blend influences from far corners of dance music, from the dream-electro-R&B of Jessy Lanza to Terror Danjah's booming hip hop/grime/post-dubstep production with Meleka's nostalgic UKG-style vocals.
Favorite Tracks: Burial - Shell of Light [2], Jessy Lanza - You And Me [9] Morgan Zarate - Sticks & Stones ft. Eska & Ghostface Killah [10], DVA - Just Vybe, ft. Fatima [11], Terror Danjah - You Make Me Feel ft. Meleka [12]
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Dutch producer Martyn brings stripped-down, rolling four-on-the-floor dance grooves, on mostly 5-6 minute tracks that are supported by repeated melodic phrases, whose timbre changes over the duration of the track. Each tune is strong sonically & melodically, and Martyn's ear for subtle transitions, layering & detailed sound design shines through. The only drawback is that a lot of these beats may seem drawn out & repetitive to some radio listeners.
Favorite Tracks: Drones (4), Two Leads And A Computer (6), Forgiveness Step 2 (7)
Xeno & Oaklander are a Brooklyn-based duo who combine pulsating retro/electro analog synth beats in the vein of Kraftwerk with floaty, reverby female vocals to create a very effective false sense of nostalgia. Their whole aesthetic seems to be a kind of throwback to German & French pop music of the 80s (read: 99 Luftballons), with added influence from more modern minimal techno & house music.
Favorite Tracks: Sheen (3), Jasmine Nights (5), Nuage D'Ivoire
from his bandcamp: "On Ultraviolet, Sadistik closes his eyes tight and reaches out towards the peripheries of perception through introspection and psychedelic escapism, transcribing the vivid images crawling on the dark purple walls of his Seattle studio."
The strong imagery and creativity of Sadistik's lyrics, peppered with horror & sci-fi references, come together with deep, melodic & lushly layered beats for a cinematic, often epic feel.
Favorite Tracks: Cult Leader (1), Cubic Zirconia (5), Death Warrant ft. Sticky Fingaz & Tech N9ne (11)
Philadelphia-based producer King Britt, under the alias Fhloston Paradigm (a The 5th Element reference), delivers sprawling, imaginative, pulsating & futuristic compositions, taking inspiration from classic sci-fi soundtracks like Blade Runner for his sonic palette. With epic chords, floaty vocal features, and pulsing beats & bass, the best tracks on here are immersive & expansive while remaining danceable.
Somewhere in the limbo between the death of UK Garage raves in the late 90s and the emergence of bass-heavy, speaker-crushing dubstep in the mid aughts, dance music producers like Wookie were making sounds that removed much of the poppy cheesiness of what garage had become & repurposing the sexy, shuffling rhythms of the music with harder beats, more complex grooves, and darker basslines. One of the pioneers of what came to be known as 2-step, Wookie's beats are intricate, groovy and oh-so-wonky, and his melodic elements (violin stabs, squelchy synths, even vocals) tend to have a highly percussive nature, further boosting the rhythm. The datedness of some of the vocals is an admittedly minor drawback although it does add to the 'time-capsule' ness of the LP.


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