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Can you please point me to a (Miami)poster who has hoped Ireland will fail this offseason? Expecting us to fail is not the same as cheering it on. I hope Miranda Kerr knocks on my door offering to pay me a million dollars to fill her with wine and see where the evening takes us, but my expectations on that happening are low. Many expected us to have a losing season (i believe your own prediction was a 7-9 year), surely your not suggesting that those expecting us to have a losing season were hoping we would have a losing season?
This offseason is only exciting and eventful if we make good moves. We only make good moves depending on how good our general manager is. We could have $100 million and 27 draft picks, but none of that would matter if the guy who is making decisions is god awful. Some of us, while supporting the notion that this offseason is the most important in team history, just dont see how our 5 high draft picks are that much different then in 2008 and 2009 when we had 4 high draft picks....and we busted on those.
2 intelligent, educated people can look at the same situation and come to two different conclusions. Its natural, and if the only thing we were allowed to do on this forum is heap lavish praise on anything Miami did at all, it would be hideously boring.


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I'm collecting information and samples of proprietary RAW formats from digital still photography devices. Their usage is increasing with the new multi-megapixel cameras.
Simply put, image files in RAW format contain raw data (Bayer array) directly from a CMOS sensor; pure, unprocessed and lossless, opposed to typical JPEGs, where lossy compression is used to reduce file size (and quality).
Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted RAW standard format, so each manufacturer format (even on model basis) differs.
Fortunately, three of the formats are now reverse-engineered.
Support for RAW formats in free software is desirable:
From RAW data, images can be individually customied, different versions of the same image can be created and compared. In addition, any noise in images taken at higher ISO (typically 800 and 1600) can be significantly reduced by saving in RAW format vs. JPEG.
As the CMOS data is stored in a lossless format, no data is thrown away, allthough obfuscated with proprietary compression algorithms. In the case of Canon's RAW formats, they use (until recently secret) proprietary compression algorithm, that reduces the file size greatly. Some RAW formats, like the ones by Nikon in their D1-series cameras, Kodak in their DCS cameras, and Canon in EOS-1D, are disguised as a TIFF, but the data is still proprietary.


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It's official now. The copyediting phase for Writing GNOME Applications is finished. All that's left now is to review the proofs in a couple of weeks, and the index in a couple more.
This weekend I'd like to get started developing on MELon, the Modular Extensible Loader for WorldForge. I have some thoughts down on its design, and it should be pretty straightforward to implement -- especially with the existing UClient module implementation to use as a starting point.
Going to the Lowen & Navarro concert tomorrow at the Fine Line. We caught the last L&N concert there, and it was fantastic!


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A conflict of interest?
Spencer Roanne, a Virginia judge who would have been appointed Chief Justice of the SCOTUS by Thmoas Jefferson, noted that if the federal judiciary were to arbitate a dispute bewteen itself and the states, it would be presiding over its own case, a clear absurdity:
"It has, however, been supposed by some that...the right of the State governments to protect against, or to resist encroachments on their authority is taken away, and transferred to the Federal judiciary, whose power extends to all cases arising under the Constitution, that the Supreme Court is the umpire to decide bewteen the States on the one side, and the United States on the other, in all questions touching the constitutionality of law, or acts of the Executive.
There are many cases which can never be brought before that tribunal, and I do humbly conceieve that the States never could have committed an act of such egregious folly as to agree that their umpire should be altogether appointed and paid for by he other party.
The Supreme Court may be a perfectly impartial umpire to decide between two States but cannot be considered in that point of view when the contest lies between the United States and one of its members.
The Supreme Cout is but a department of the general government. A department is not adequate to do that to whicj the whole government is inadequate...They cannot do it unless we tread underfoot the principle which forbids a party to decide his own cause.
Joseph Desha, Governor of Kentucky, identified the very same probelm in 1825:
"When the general government encroaches upon the rights of the State, is it a safe principle to admit that a portion of the encroaching power shall have theright to determine finally on whether an encroachment has been made or not?
In fact, most of theencroachments made by the general government flow through theSupreme Court itself, the very tribunal which claims to be the final arbiterof all such disputes.
What chance for justicehave the States when the usurpers of their rights are made their judges? just as much as individuals when judges by their oppressors. "
Dehsa concluded that it is "believed to be the right, as it may hereafter become the dutyof the State governemnts, to protect themselves from encroachements, and their citizens from oppression, by refusing obedience to "unconstitutional mandates".
From Nullification - How To Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, by Thomas E. Woods jr.


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Did you get your bicycle "Safety Check"?
What Would a Bicycle Licence Program in Toronto Mean?
Photo caption from Flickr: "This bicycle tag is issued to delivery bicycles who deliver the Toronto Star newspaper. This plate which I have had for a long time was issued in the 1960's or 70's."
However, there's one question that needs to be asked, and one that hasn't been just yet.
What exactly is a bicycle licence or cyclist's license?
There are differences between the two and we need to clarify these first.
A bicycle licence isn't a new idea. These have been around for years. The Flickr account of woody1778a has a collection of bicycle licence plates from Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec and elsewhere.
A bicycle licence is simply bicycle registration. Cities like Madison, WI, Davis, CA, St. Lake City, UT and Regina, SK all have bicycle licence programs. These are free in some cases and can cost up to $10. Having a bicycle licence in these cities means you have registered your bicycle for identification in the instance it is recovered after theft. It can also be used to identify the owner of the bicycle if they suffer a serious injury. And it also provides city planners with a count of cyclists (or bicycles really) to use when planning infrastructure. Some of the money collected can go towards funding cycling infrastructure, however at such low costs there is often very little money generated for bike lanes or anything else.
In Toronto, the Toronto Police Service already provides free bicycle registration that is not mandatory, but is highly recommended to aid in the recovery of stolen bicycles. There is no registration number provided, although retaining your bicycle's serial number is the same as having a unique registration number as this is used for identification.
On the other hand we have a cyclist's license that would grant the holder permission to use a bicycle.
While my search has certainly not been exhaustive, I have yet to find an example of a cyclist's license in use anywhere in the world. If you know of any, please let me know in the Biking Toronto Forum.
Motorists, boaters and pilots all require a license to operate their vehicles. Licenses are issued after testing and must be renewed after a certain amount of time with the exception of boaters who simply must pass their licensing test once.
Why then, should a cyclist's licensing program be started? And do we even need one at all?
Currently, cyclist's are regulated under the Highway Traffic Act (HTA). On a bicycle you're required to follow all of the rules of the road. Stopping at stop signs and red lights, signaling turns and having appropriate lighting at night are all covered under the HTA and cyclists can be issued fines for these offenses.
However, these charges do not affect the current points system on their driver's licenses, should they have one. The argument here is that by licensing cyclists, you can track their offenses and possibly even revoke their license as we do with motorists.
So then, in Ontario and Toronto cyclists are already regulated. The problem is in enforcement, not regulation. And, enforcement is currently being stepped up, especially in Toronto as thousands of violations are issued each year to cyclists.


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NObama is amoral so the article is wrong.
NObama is amoral so the article is wrong.
A couple of things, first in answer to Joe S.: No, I have never been waterboarded as you know, and this is pertinent....how? Have the Dear Leader's officials setting the policy on what is and is not acceptable all been waterboarded? No? Have any of them ever served in the military, other than a desk jockey?
Second: I find Jerry D Herring's argument much more eloquent if elucidated less clearly than Cotts'. I don't really care how some egghead in an ivory (or should that be pinko) tower defines torture. I think the men and women on the frontlines making sure we can argue about this stuff on the internet probably have a much better idea of what should and shouldn't be acceptable.
Third, I absolutely agree with the premise of the original article which I posted. And that is that Dear Leader thinks it's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. I just hope nothing really bad happens on his watch....
It's so amusing to see all these lefty puffed chests when it comes to what they consider torture. God help me, but I so hope they will find themselves in a situation that will cause them to realize how idiotic their views are. They are all living like the atheist outside the foxhole.
In the words of Pat Buchannen:
"Certainly, Cheney and Bush, who make no apologies for what they authorized to keep America safe for seven and a half years, should be held to account. But so, too, should Barack Obama, if U.S. citizens die in a terror attack the CIA might have prevented, had its interrogators not been tied to an Army Field Manual written for dealing with soldiers, not al-Qaida killers who favor "soft targets" such as subways, airliners and office buildings."
My only complaint is we all knew what BHO believed and what he would do, just as we know what the towel-heads will do...they keep telling us. My bitch isn't with them...they warned us. My concern is with all you lefties that enabled BHO, and continue to enable the jihadists. Now you will all be held to account for what peril you have placed this Nation in. Quite frankly there are many of us that are fed up with pulling your azzes out of the fire. As Dennis Miller states..."I'm in favor of helping the helpless, but I have no such empathy for the clueless."
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
1. Waterboarding, sleep deprivation, use of insects, etc is NOT defined as torture, here in this document.
2. There are admittedly differing points of view on what constitutes torture, particularly in regards to one's political goals/agendas.
3. Nowhere in this document does it prohibit the use of pain or suffering, whether physical or mental to obtain information.
It does prohibit the use of severe ...
It also does not allow for whether a particular technique may "work" or not. According to this, reasonable forced coercion could be acceptable.
So based on the given information, we are forced to debate/decide what constitutes "severe" pain or suffering. According to the above, the definition of which is allowed to be viewed in context. In essence, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is, to quote a familiar Democrat.
If one accepts that mock executions, hanging by limbs, sexual assault, electrical shocks and beatings are "torture" and thus, "severe", then could not something far less forcible than those techniques be considered less than severe within that context, and therefore reasonable?
"It's not that government is inherently stupid, although that's a debatable question."
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About what constitutes "severe" pain and suffering.
If it was "torture" to put an insect in the cell with the detainee who had a unreasonable fear of insects ... what if a detainee is claustrophobic? Is it "torture" to put him in a standard size cell while being detained if it triggers his phobia?
We could get to the point of the ridiculous on what we need to do to be nice enough to these non-uniformed, combatants.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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It ain't torture. True torture breaks your body in order to break your mind it results in catastrophic physical damage to the body. Look at McCain he got tortured. I have a few bad dreams but they aren't about waterboarding. Because it isn't torture. only three people were ever waterboarded according to the reports. It seems that it saved some lives. Did I mention I've had it done to me? it isn't torture.
How do you feel about the use of drugs for interrogation?
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[quote=Leddyman;437609]Hey there sir, I have been waterboarded. I was in the 3rd reconnaissance Bn., 3rd Mar Div, USMC, in Okinawa from 85 to 89. I went to sere school in Kalifornia in 87. I've been waterboarded, stood naked in a chin deep hole filled with cold water, sprayed with firehoses to enforce sleep deprivation (72 hours BTW) slapped, starved, cussed, and had psychological interrogation techniques used on me. quote]
Were you a POW? Or was it training? A POW isn't going home. A soldier in training knows he's going home. Were you waterboarded, lets say 80 times in a year? My guess yiou are slanted right wing from the spelling of California.
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[qoute=Leddyman;437609]How do you feel about the use of drugs for interrogation?
"it depends" .
What drugs? Me or Her?
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
here i go agian. "Severe" i want someone to post the definition of "Severe" because when i think severe i think cutting off toes, fingers, poking with a hot poker you just pulled out of a fire something around that nature. so give me your definition of severe torture. and ill give you mine.
Hey Maverick!!!! Wheres goose...
AND FOR ALL THOSE longhorn fans
Would you consider waterboarding a member of your family several times per day as part of an overall indefinite incarceration to be torture? I would. Or to put it another way, maybe we should simply require that all interrogators undergo the exact same questioning techniques that they apply to others each and every time they choose to use them, for the same amount of time and the same number of repetitions. If it's not torture then they would presumably not mind.
The fact is that the authorized techniques are being used in the the belief that pain, fear, and despair will elicit the desired information. That seems like a good definition of torture. Many justify this behavior as being OK because it is being inflicted on immoral people. That is moral relativism.
The acceptability of the actions we take is defined by our morals, not the morals of those we have incarcerated. We are defined by our actions, not theirs. I choose not to be defined by the techniques authorized in the published memos and am happy that the administration has rejected those techniques as immoral.
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Bronchiolitis is a childhood disease that affects the lungs. It occurs when a virus enters the breathing system. The virus causes the tiny airways in the lungs to become swollen. As a result, a thick fluid called mucus collects in the airways. This makes it hard for air to flow freely in the lungs. The infection will usually go away after 7-10 days. Some may show very mild symptoms. In others, the disease can be severe. Younger children are more likely to have severe symptoms because they have smaller airways.
Bronchiolitis is caused by a virus. There are several different types of virus that may cause it. The viruses are easily spread from person to person like a common
. It spreads most often through coughs or sneezes which release droplets of moisture into the air. Breathing in the air can cause the infection in a noninfected person.
Bronchiolitis is a childhood disease that affects the lungs. It occurs when a virus enters the breathing system. The virus causes the tiny airways in the lungs to become swollen. As a result, a thick fluid called mucus collects in the airways. This makes it hard for air to flow freely in the lungs.
The infection will usually go away after 7-10 days. Some may show very mild symptoms. In others, the disease can be severe. Younger children are more likely to have severe symptoms because they have smaller airways.
Bronchioles Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.
To diagnose bronchiolitis, your doctor may do one or more of the following:
- Listen to the child's lungs to check for abnormal breathing sounds, such as wheezing
- Sample mucus from nose or throat to test for the virus that may be causing the infection
Your doctor may also order:
- Chest x-ray
—to check for swelling in the airways and signs of
(severe case)
- Blood test—to determine the level of oxygen in the blood
- Blood test—for complete blood count to look for infections in the blood
There is no vaccine to prevent bronchiolitis. There are some medications that may lessen the risk of bronchiolitis by
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
. RSV is a virus which causes more than half of all cases of bronchiolitis. This preventative medication is usually given to high-risk babies. It is given monthly during high risk RSV season.
Proper handwashing
habits can help to prevent the spread of illness. Make sure to wash your hands before touching your child. Also wash your hands after being in contact with an infected person.
Bronchiolitis can spread easily from one person to another. Children should be kept home until they are well. Teach your children to cover their mouth and nose with a tissue or upper sleeve when they cough or sneeze.
Risk Factors
Bronchiolitis can affect anyone. Some factors that may increase your risk of infection include:
- Age—most likely in children under the age of two, especially between 3-6 months old
- Season—winter months have highest risk
Factors that increase risk in adults include:
- Immunocompromised
- Exposure to toxic fumes
Children most at risk are those who:
- Were never breastfed
Were born
- Are exposed to tobacco smoke
- Are often in groups of children (as in day care) or live in crowded conditions
Symptoms of bronchiolitis occur in two stages:
During the first 2-3 days the child will probably have a:
- Runny or stuffy nose
- Slight fever
During the next 2-3 days, the symptoms increase to include:
- Cough (dry)
- Fever
- Sneezing
- Rash
- Red eyes
- Fast rate of breathing
- Difficulty breathing
- Wheezing (a whistling noise that is louder when breathing out)
- Bluish color in the skin, especially around the lips or nails
- Poor feeding
- Restlessness
More serious symptoms may require care from your doctor. Call the doctor if your child:
- Is vomiting and can't keep liquids down
- Is breathing very fast (more than 40 breaths in one minute)
- Has bluish skin, especially around the lips or on the fingertips
- Has to sit up to breathe
- Was born prematurely or has a history of heart disease
- Appears dehydrated
There is no medication to cure viral infections. The infection will usually clear on its own after a week to 10 days.
Treatment steps will focus on making your child more comfortable. These steps include:
- Have the child drink clear liquids.
- Use a vaporizer in the bedroom.
- If your child is coughing and very congested, consider sitting in a steamy bathroom. Run hot water from the shower. Sit in the bathroom with your child until the coughing eases.
- Do not smoke around your child. Keep your child away from smoke.
(eg, Children's or Infant's Tylenol) if a fever is present.
is not recommended for children or teens with a current or
recent viral infection. This is because of the risk of
. Ask your doctor which other medicines are safe for your child.
- Your doctor may also recommend or give your child an inhaled medication. This may include a bronchodilator or hypertonic saline. These medications can help open airways and ease breathing.
In severe cases, medical treatment may be needed. The doctor will check for
and pneumonia. The doctor will also make sure the child is getting enough oxygen. Your child may need to be admitted to the hospital.


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Binghamton University Sponsors "Making Stuff" Events
BINGHAMTON, NY -- Binghamton University will take part in the nationwide outreach program, "Making Stuff," through a series of events being held on and off-campus.
WGBH, Boston's public television station and producer of NOVA, has teamed-up with the Materials Research Society (MRS) to produce a four-part PBS series that premiered January 19. The program includes a national educational outreach campaign to encourage appreciation and a better understanding of our material world in young and old alike. "Making Stuff" will air on WSKG-HD at 9 p.m. on Wednesday evenings through February 9.
To coincide with this outreach program Binghamton University is sponsoring a series of events including a Science Café at the Lost Dog in Binghamton where Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering Stan Whittingham, will discuss energy and energy storage. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will start at 6p.m. Tuesday, January 25.
Activity and Demonstration Tables will be set up at the Oakdale Mall from 1-5p.m Saturday, January 29 and from noon-5 p.m.Saturday February 5 at the Roberson Museum Science Center. Volunteers from the Binghamton University Undergraduate Chemical Society, MRS Student Chapter, and Broome Community College Science Club will be on hand to guide participants through hands-on activities based on the four themes of the Making Stuff series: Stronger, Smaller, Cleaner, and Smarter. Each activity will highlight the properties of modern materials in an easy-to-understand way.
Finally, Making Stuff will be showcased at 2p.m. Saturday, February 12 during the Science Olympiad Regionals competition hosted by Binghamton University. Through a number of demonstrations and activities, some of the more exotic applications of materials science will be investigated. For example, a high temperature superconductor will be used to show the loss of electrical resistance and magnetic levitation observed in such systems.
For more information, visit: www2.binghamton.edu/chemistry/news/making-stuff.html or http://www.pbs .org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff.html or contact Alexsa Silva via e-mail at email@example.com or Dan Brennan at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Note: If you're part of a national or trade association, how UNBELIEVABLY awesome could their large event be if I was the speaker and you got the credit for recommending me?
I was recently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for two speaking engagements. On my way to one of those events, I stopped by Miller Field, where the Milwaukee Brewers play baseball.
Miller Field is an amazing engineering feat. That stadium has a roof that opens and closes like an old-fashioned Chinese hand-held fan. It opens and closes.
The reason I want to talk to you about baseball is that Miller Field took me back to 1956, when I was 9 years old, in Israel, and my family was about to immigrate to America.
My uncles in New York sent my brother and me a couple of yellow T-shirts. On the T-shirts there was an illustration of a man with a bat and a ball and some large lettering in English.
We did not know anything about the game of baseball at the time and could not read any English. However, it didn't matter. Those T-shirts were from America. And, when my brother and I wore those T-shirts to school, kids wanted to touch them because they were from America.
Those T-shirts made us feel important. They were something special that our uncles had done for us and they made us feel important.
So, my suggestion for all of us is to look for ways to do something nice for someone else that will make them feel important. Everybody wants to feel important – including you and me.
It is said that people will do more for a feeling of importance than they will for money.
We all crave to feel important. What can each of us do about that today?
You are special. You are unique. You are destined for greatness. Have a powerful day!
I'll see you Wednesday morning on the Lifetime Television program The Balancing Act, 7 to 8 a.m. Eastern and Pacific.
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Green beans, canned tuna, ripe olives, hard-cooked eggs, tomato slices and an herbal vinaigrette top crispy greens for a flavorful salad with its origins in Nice, a French Riviera city.
Always read labels to make sure each recipe ingredient is gluten free. Products and ingredient sources can change.
You can use a 9-ounce package of frozen whole or Italian-style green beans for the fresh green beans--just cook as directed on the package.
So many great vinaigrettes are available at your grocery store. Don't hesitate to save yourself a little time by using the bottled version.
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By Miriam Brace -Oracle on Feb 27, 2013
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Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa will be in Oxford on Thursday night, signing his new book at Square Books.
"One Last Strike," is his take on his final season in St. Louis, 2011, and the Cardinals team he guided to a World Series championship.
La Russa retired after that season as the third winningest manager in baseball history.
The appearance is a ticketed event starting at 7 p.m. As of Tuesday night, tickets were available. Visit www.squarebooks.com for more details.


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Defending Greatness while Defending Against the Great
Looking at it in evolutionary terms, you could draw an arrow from the lower left to the upper right ↗, plotting man's movement from a primitive infrarational collective with no individuation, to a culture capable of nurturing and sustaining the saint, the sage, and the creative genius of whatever type.
This is the identical arrow that would apply to one's own personal development, as we all start out fused with the environment, learn to become relatively rational individuals (at least in the modern West), and then continue developing into the post-egoic planes of spirit. Of course, there is much overlap, and the process is not actually linear. And there are obviously fixations, arrests, and regressions. But give me a break. This is a map, not the territory. Plus, it's not that easy to plot hyperspace in two dimensions.
Now, how does this apply to Lincoln? I don't know. Let's find out, shall we?
While revering the ideal that all men are created equal, Lincoln would have been the first to acknowledge that not only do Great Men exist -- men whose gifts far exceed the average -- but that these men are often responsible for the forward movement of history, i.e., progress. America's founders would be prima facie examples of this. The problem is how to reconcile human greatness with the leveling tendencies of democracy, which can result in a tyranny of the mediocre, whereby the lion is treated the same as the lamb, and forced to eat grass.
I believe that this was one of Schuon's main objections to democracy. Not only did he feel that it undermined human excellence, but that it did so inevitably. I certainly appreciate his concerns, as do all conservatives. Indeed, one merely has to draw a descending line from Lincoln to Obama to understand his point. At the same time, however, you could say that this collective "longing for heroic greatness" is what ushered in Hitler. If we want to cut a Heidegger (and so many other fascism-loving liberals) some slack -- which I don't -- I believe that this might have been a big part of his motivation in embracing nazism.
There's nothing wrong with embracing the heroic per se, so long as it is in service to the proper ideals. The problem, of course, is distinguishing the narcissistic tyrant from the self-transcending statesman. There is an infinite difference between a Churchill and a Hitler or even a Reagan and an Obama. Man has an innate need to revere what is superior, so we have to be exceedingly careful that the object is actually worthy of our reverence.
Just yesterday, Governor Schwarzenegger signed a bill creating a special day of commemoration for Harvey Milk. Why? Why force the population to revere someone so eminently unworthy of reverence?
It is the very converse of Lincoln's concern. Democracy can not only create mediocrity, but then enforce it with the authority of the state. The Milk Day is just a trivial example, but more pervasively destructive examples can easily be found. For example, in California, it is actually against the law for a public school textbook to depict any human group (in reality, any victim-group as defined by the left) in an unfavorable light. Thus, children must be systematically lied to, and then forced to place human greatness on the same plane as human depravity.
But it's actually even worse than that, for the real point is to undermine Western civilization and to place it on a lower plane than the rest of the world, e.g., Columbus below the native Americans.
Watson discusses Lincoln's concern with how we might "take account of the passions of the few -- those especially talented and ambitious individuals who exist in most regimes and belong to 'the family of the lion and the tribe of the eagle.'"
If someone is great and knows it, why shouldn't his will become law? Why should he have to put up with a bunch of dittoheaded creationist bitter-clingers? Why can't the people responsible for our problems just get out of the way? Can't we just shut down Fox News, the only TV network holding state power to account?
"As the threat from the mob came from below, so this threat comes from above. These 'lions' and 'eagles' feed on the lesser animals in a reflection of natural hierarchy. The implication is that the rule of such individuals is by natural right, unlike the rule of the mob" (Watson). The great man "thirsts and burns for distinction" and "will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves of enslaving freemen."
This is why the left always longs for a secular savior such as Obama. The leftist leader requires the led, but a special kind of led; the last thing he wants is a nation of spiritually awakened upper right quadrant individuals, because they cannot be led by the likes of Obama. Therefore, all of his policies will be geared toward creating more dependence, more passivity, more autohypnosis -- in short, people of the lower left. They are the ones who can be led by the nose and relied upon to support the powerful autocrat who promises to take care of them.
To "reduce the threat from above," the "greatest and most ambitious minds" must be inculcated in the values of the Founders and "in the renewal of the republic rather than its subversion." It is absolutely no coincidence that Obama -- and all similar elites whose values are at cross-purposes with the Founders -- holds America in such low esteem. The two attitudes go together. In order for the left to achieve its ambitions, it must first carry out a sustained assault on the past, on history, and on our traditions, since who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past. To create Harvey Milk Day is ultimately the attempt to control the past, present, and future of marriage, the very foundation of civilization.
Great men want to be revered. And they should be. This is why it was a mistake to eliminate the federal holidays of Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, and replace them with "Presidents' Day." Yes, it might again seem like a trivial thing, but what could be more radical than forcing children to put a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton on the same plane as a Washington or Lincoln? It's not just confusing, but diabolical, for it inverts the values required both for the nation's birth and its survival, i.e., rebirth -- a rebirth that must recur with each generation of potential citizens or serfs, individuals or drones, makers or takers.
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We headed then for the Charleston Tea Plantation which is about twenty-five miles south of where we were. Enroute we stopped at a small cafe for lunch. The All American Cafe it was named and had high reviews. Lynnie opted for the onion rings and I for the Old Fashioned Breakfast. Not a simple meal, for sure. Sausage, biscuits and gravy, two eggs, over easy and to top it off two plate-sized pancakes. Holy Cow!, I said when I saw it. Without undue effort and no encouragement, I polished off the whole meal, save a couple of bites of the pancakes to appease my conscience
We arrived at the Plantation just in time for a video tour. This was something new for us. As you entered the factory, you encountered a 36 inch big screen tv on the wall. The spiel on this "station" lasted about five minutes. As you moved through the factory observation way, you found two more tvs which completed the "tour". We learned more about tea than I could have imagined. I'll go into it when I see each of you when we return. Essentially Black, Oolong and Green Tea all come from the same plant. The length of time each is roasted determines the type. Green, of course, is not roasted at all. Tea is grown here, the only farm in North America. It requires sufficient moisture, temperatures in the hundred degree range and high humidity. All of these are found here. Normally tea is grown on sidehills or mountains. This is all flat, a former potato farm. 'Nuff said. I took a few photos, one of a One Off tea harvester, invented here and two videos. The first shows the area near the factory and the second is a few seconds of the road back from the plantation. Most interesting to us was the way the trees reach across the highway and overlap each other. Much like driving in a tunnel. We're back in the Spanish Moss country again and it's very mystifying.
We took the Trolley Tour to get an idea of the layout of the place. John, our driver, ended his presentation with a statement that he says fits the way of life in Charleston: We start the day slowly, he said, then we taper off... Sounds good to me. Works for us most every day. Why not try it tomorrow?
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I'm a big fan of whizzing around Europe by rail. Six cities in eight days I did once and it was a lot more efficient than flying. For a start you don't have to arrive at the station two hours before departure, there is no removal of liquids or mascara from your handbags and the journey itself is almost as fun as the destination.
Here are my picks for five great cities to see by rail.
Start in London for a quick shop on Oxford Street, a West End show and a pint in Covent Garden before heading down to St Pancras Station to take the Eurostar to Brussels. You'll hurtle through the English countryside then through the Channel Tunnel where other trains pass in a rattling blur. Just two and a half hours later you'll be hopping off and heading for your hotel in Belgium.
The home of more comic strips than you could fill a skip with. Wander the city and keep your eyes peeled for the 40 giant murals painted on buildings of Tin Tin, Asterix, Nero, Smurfs and more.
Indulge yourself with Belgian chocolates and sample the local beer, each one served in it's own shaped glass. Walk the cobblestoned streets, take a photo of the cheeky mannequin pis statue and find a mobile waffle van to top off your day.
Take the Thalys train one and quarter hours to Paris, past farmhouses and industrial towns into the heart of city. With WiFi onboard, show off by uploading your pics straight to Facebook at 300kph. Or go all out and travel first class to have a champagne breakfast, free WiFi and plenty of space to get out of your seat and wander around if you want to.
This is quite possibly the prettiest city in Europe! The capital of Alsace is to the east of Paris on the French/German border. It is surrounded by the River Ill and a photo op lies around every corner. Take the TGV to Strasbourg via Marseille in just over two hours to the seat of the European Parliament and its picturesque beauty.
Head south to Lucerne, Switzerland in under three hours for yet another photogenic city. Chapel Bridge is draped in hot red begonia and decorated with ancient paintings, and be sure to visit Lion Monument, a dying lion carved to commemorate the loss of Swiss Guard soldiers during a battle in Paris in 1792, and which author Mark Twain described as the "saddest, most moving piece of rock in the world".
All these tickets can be booked through Rail Europe from New Zealand
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HNN325 - Comprehensive Nursing Management and Interventions
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Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), CBD, Waterfront (Geelong)
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), CBD, Warrnambool, Waterfront (Geelong)
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D Copley
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L Brooks: Waterfront (Geelong), G Rea: IKE
All of HBS109, HNN114, HNN122, HNN217, HNN222, HNN227, HNN215, HNN318, HNN319 and three (3) elective units, at least one of the electives must be taken at level 2 or 3.
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1 x 2 hour class or equivalent cloud presentation/s, 1 x 2 hour seminar, 1 x 2 hour simulation session per week, 5 weeks clinical practicum.
Note:You will need to access substantial learning resources and experiences in CloudDeakin (Deakin's online learning environment). Compliance with the Standards in computing, connectivity and student capability are a condition on your enrolment.
This unit is one of four (4) in the Clinical Studies in Nursing 3 cluster. The aims of this unit are to provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, and attributes and apply them to complex dynamic patient situations. Major foci will be on clinical decision-making in the management of complex patient situations including those with co-morbidities and the nurse's ability to promote function and apply risk management strategies that promote patient safety and quality health outcomes. In addition, unit content will further develop students' skills in risk identification, management of patient symptoms, and the impact of complex illness on a person's functional status and independence. It is expected that during the five (5) week clinical placement students will apply and integrate knowledge and skills learned in this unit and all previous units to comprehend the role of a Division 1 registered nurse in contemporary nursing practice in a variety of health care settings.
Online tests - 3 x 30 minutes 40%, examination (2 hours open book) 60%, skills hurdle requirement (equivalent 1500 words), clinical assessment pass/fail (equivalent 2500 words)
Failure of the clinical component will lead to a fail in this unit and may lead to exclusion.
Department of Human Services policy and Working with Children Act
In accordance with Department of Human Services policy*, all students are required to undertake a National Police Record Check prior to clinical placements in each calendar year of their course. In accordance with the Working with Children Act 2005**, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at commencement of the course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of clinical placement will not be able to undertake clinical placement. Students may also be required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student's immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation.
* Department of Human Services 2007, Service agreement information kit for funded organisations 2006–2009, State Government of Victoria, Melbourne, retrieved 1 July 2007.
** Department of Justice 2007, Working with Children Act 2005, Victoria, Australia retrieved 16 June 2008.
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* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
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See the CDC travel website or call the CDC hotline for the most up-to-date-information (http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/content/news-announcements/delays-H1N1-screening.aspx).
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If the person traveled more than 7 days ago and they are not ill, you do not need to avoid them. If the person traveled to Mexico, other countries, or other parts of the United States where there are confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu, or has been exposed to someone with the H1N1 flu less than 7 days ago and/or they are showing flu-like symptoms, it is best to avoid physical contact with them. Tell them to stay home to avoid potential spreading and contact their health care provider to discuss possible testing and treatment. Be sure their doctor is made aware of their recent travel. Only a health care provider can diagnose the H1N1 flu virus by assessing the illness and obtaining the appropriate tests and many symptoms of respiratory diseases can be similar.
No. Persons returning from Mexico or other countries with confirmed H1N1 flu and who feel well do not have to stay home and can return to work immediately.
At this time, CDC does not recommend against travel to any country. CDC will continue to monitor the H1N1 situation around the world and will provide recommendations to U.S. travelers based on the changing situation.
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Evolution vs. Revolution: On Spending Timelessness With Yoursoph (and Avoiding Alec Baldwin)
In his attack on meaning, the irreligious secularist cannot help but to extend the attack to time. Ritual has to do with the sacralization of time; or, more specifically, with not regarding it as mere duration, but as a portal for energies from the eternal to enter the herebelow. Since we live at the intersection of the vertical and horizontal, a literal interpretation of "sabbath consciousness" involves the idea of taking one day a week to leave the field of time and to emphasize verticality, or eternity.
But since the commandment is a universal archetype embodied in a particular religion, we needn't be overly concerned with this or that particular interpretation and application of the idea. More important is that you understand the principle and apply it to your life in some form or fashion, so that you occasionally unplug from the horizontal bewilderness and reconnect with your vertical source and destiny.
Now, what does the nihilist say about all this? What can he say? Since his first three commandments already condemn him to a godless and meaningless existence, what does it matter what you do -- or when you it -- with the time that has been given to you to perfect yourself? The only alternative to meaning is either chaos or enforced order. As such, these two extremes represent the two poles of the Democratic party. One pole is the enraged and infantile base, the primitive dailykos and moveonon.org types: the chaoticians, nihilists, barbarians, and infrahumans, while the other pole is the elites whom they empower in order to control themselves and everyone else -- the Clintons, Edwards, Gores, and Obamas.
(I say "infrahuman" because leftists do not recognize humans as fundamentally distinct from animals, and therefore do not make the effort to actualize this uniquely quasi-divine station. They are anything but humanists, because theirs' is the explicit philosophy of the animalization of the human, and all the consequences that flow from that. You may not think it is fair or illustrative, but Alec Baldwin's abuse of his daughter is a case in point. The leftist foregoes the task of mastering himself in favor of ceding his power to the collective, which he hopes will control him -- in particular, his greed, his envy, and his paranoia and malevolence toward his fellow man. Obviously, Alec Baldwin is "out of control," as are the majority of narcissistic Hollywoodenheads. It is rare that you would ever say of one, "ah, now here is a man who has mastered himself!" No. It is almost always the opposite. The less mastery, the further left; the list is endless.)
For the classical liberal, the very task of this life is to transcend and perfect oneself by first mastering oneself. To say that there is not a trace of this attitude in leftism is an understatement, for it is rooted in the opposite premise: that there is no such thing as self-mastery (only "repression"), so you must be controlled by the state, by a powerful collective. A nation of virtuous people living in the light of their own awakened conscience would not even require laws. Obviously, fallen humans being what they are, such an ideal state is not feasible, because it takes only a few irresponsible jerks to upset the whole balance. It's like the freeways -- you can have thousands of responsible drivers spontaneously interacting in a harmonious manner, but just one accident by some idiot will snarl the traffic and inconvenience everyone else.
Thus, leftism inevitably redounds to a situation in which inferior men rule the superior men, in part because the superior man has no interest in dominating others. This is the real reason why there are so very few conservatives in politics, because politics draws from people who wish to control others, and a conservative has no desire to exercise this kind of power as a replacement for self-mastery. And this is why virtually every professional group has been taken over by leftist activists, whether it is the educational establishment, the state department, the American Bar Association, the MSMistry of Truth, academia, or my idiotic group, the American Psychological Association -- it doesn't matter, for the principle is the same: the authorization of a kind of external power to control others as a substitute for the liberal doctrine of self-mastery.
For example, I and everyone else have to pay a ridiculous amount of money into the inefficient social security system because of the weakness, fecklessness, and irresponsibility of those who refuse to plan for their future. As always, leftist ideas have "good intentions," but the result is the institution of a system of incentives that rewards irresponsibility, denial of the future, and a focus on the present. How can this not contribute to people in general being less responsible with their money, purchasing things they don't need, and going into debt with credit cards?
A big part of the problem is that, once you have despiritualized a people, they will have a gigantic hole in the center of their being, which they will then attempt to fill either with material objects or with "thrills." It also creates the cult of celebrity, for celebrity is sort of insane replacement for being known by God. Or to put it in the reverse, no one who is known by God -- and therefore, ipso facto, knows God -- cares if they are known by a bunch of anonymous strangers. You cannot actually become a somebody through sufficient adulation by a mob of nobodies. But that doesn't stop people from trying.
Consider last Monday's mass murderer. He was a nothing, a nobody, a non-entity who was a non-entity by virtue of the fact that, for whatever reason, he was devoid of self mastery. He is obviously an extreme case. However, one thing I learned during my internship at Camarillo State Mental Hospital is that government employees are more dysfunctional than the patients. But the other thing I learned is that the most disturbed patients can provide a lot of insight into the less disturbed among us. This is because they have the same pathology, so to speak, only in an extremely vivid and exaggerated form.
Yesterday I linked to a provocative but entirely fair piece at American Thinker entitled Who Taught Cho to Hate? I believe it is fair, because some insane individuals will imbibe the ubiquitous message that the United States is a fundamentally corrupt place ruled by wealthy elites, and find justification to open fire on them. Others, such as Alec Baldwin, who are less psychotic but equally morally insane, will spout nonsense about President Bush being a murderer while engaging in the soul murder of their own child. It would be fascinating to know what Baldwin has taught his daughter about "evil conservatives" and "good liberals" such as himself. She's going to grow up either very confused or very clear about what motivates the angry and immature liberal.
Lewis asks, "was Cho taught to hate?":
"Whatever he learned in his classes -- did it enable him to rage at his host country, to hate the students he envied so murderously? Was he subtly encouraged to aggrandize himself by destroying others? Was his pathology enabled by the PC university? Or to ask the question differently -- was Cho ever taught to respect others, to admire the good things about his host country, and to discipline himself to build a positive life?"
The answer "is readily available on the websites of Cho's English Department at Virginia Tech. This is a wonder world of PC weirdness. English studies at VT are a post-modern Disney World in which nihilism, moral and sexual boundary breaking, and fantasies of Marxist revolutionary violence are celebrated." Instead of acting as surrogate parents to help usher these young adults to emotional, moral, and intellectual maturity, these professors literally do the opposite: the VT English Department is not "a place that gives lost and angry adolescents the essential boundaries for civilized behavior. In fact, in this perversely disorienting PoMo world, the very words 'civilized behaviors' are ridiculed -- at least until somebody starts to shoot students, and then it's too late. A young culture-shocked adolescent can expect no firm guidance here."
It is simply an unconscionable scandal that one can spend a fortune on an education at an elite university and never once be presented with any of the key ideas of classical liberalism or of genuine humanism. Instead, you will be taught to rationalize your own failures and to hate America for them. What you do with that hatred is up to you. Some may become activists who make it their goal to master and control others, while some may become academics in order to vampirically "put the bite" on the next generation of young adults and convert them to this sinister ideology. But in any event, you will leave college no more a "finished" human being than you were when you entered -- and probably come away with the idea that there is nothing to "finish" except for the revolution to displace the human being.
Plus, you will have been exposed to many ideas that shouldn't even be thought, much less taught. At Belmont Club there is an article discussing this, entitled Deliver Us From Evil, in which Mr. Club writes that
"As a child I was taught one could 'sin through thought, word and deed'. Somewhere in the intervening years society seems to have forgotten about the 'sins' of thought and word largely because it refused to believe in taboos. There were, the school chaplains used to say, dark doors beyond which it was dangerous for the mind to go. There were thoughts you could not think -- unless you were strong enough to wrestle with what you would find beyond the portal.
"Pedophilia, bestiality, extreme cruelty, monstrous behavior -- these are no longer ideas which we dare not entertain or cast out of our minds should they fleet through our consciousness out of the fear of 'sin'. No. Pedophilia has itself become a cause for enlightened people... Instead we have cast out the idea of sin itself and made the conception of sin as sin our only societal taboo."
There is a civil war in this country between human and anti-human ideologies. You might say that one aims for the transcendent goal of humanness, while the other abolishes the category altogether and therefore makes its achievement impossible.
Did we get sidetracked, or can this be tied together with the fourth commandment of nihilism, which is forget the sabbath, because time has no vertical dimension anyway. And if time does not have a vertical dimension, then there is no developmental time, and therefore no telos for human beings -- nothing to achieve, no measurement of human maturity. We are all Alec Baldwin, who has often expressed interest in running for office. Then others can share in the feeling of what it is like to have such a beast for a father: a man who cannot even master a child. No, not his child -- which is what he imagines -- but his own childishness. The out-of-control child evokes the heavy-handed governmental parent who will coerce and control him as a substitute for self-mastery.
And here is some of what I wrote about the fourth commandment last year. It also applies:
In order to understand this commandment, we must go back to the very beginning of Genesis, where God eternally "creates the heavens and the earth." In the esoteric view, this refers to the continuous separation of the vertical (heaven, eternity, the Absolute) and horizontal (earth, time, the relative world). So long as we are in the horizontal -- the horizontal alone -- we are indeed "strangers in this world." In the absence of the vertical, life is a sort of absurd hell, or at best, a meaningless pleasure palace in which we should mindlessly pursue our lusts and desires until crying time. "A raging animal inside of a dying carcass," as I believe I once heard Alan Watts put it.
But "remembering the sabbath" has to do with vertical recollection, and cultivating the leisure necessary to achieve it. It is literally re-membering, for it involves rejoining our ground of being before things get too out of hand. It is possible to get so lost in the horizontal -- one's life can become so complex and convoluted -- that it is difficult to find one's way back to that OMnipresent hole in creation known as the sabbath.
For the sabbath ultimately represents a shorthand way of discussing those little springs that dot the landscape of being, through which vertical energies bubble forth from the ground. Every night, before going to sleep, I make it a point to remember how and where I drank from one of these springs during the day. No matter how difficult my day, I can almost always remember some point at which I was "given my daily bread," so to speak -- some point at which the vertical energies shone through and nourished me. Come to think of it, it often happens while making one of these little morning raids on the wild godhead. It's a big reason I write them. I wake up looking for one of those little springs bubbling up around my computer. As always, the challenge is to make sure I bring a big enough crock.
In any event, it is specifically because the sabbath is "built in" to the cosmos that vertical energies can enter and leave the "kingdom of man." In other words, we aren't trapped here below deck in the dark hull of the horizontal, merely sailing toward our doom. It is the reason why prayer, meditation, contemplation, lectio divina, and Petey's tin cup all work. These are all activities that make the vertical presence present, because they allow us to step outside the relentless stream of time and stand on the shore for a bit, "watching the river flow." Through these inactivities, we may turn toward what is "behind" or "above" the external world and its nihilocracy of urgent nonsense.
Now critically, the purpose of the sabbath isn't just to gear us up for the horizontal, a brief reprieve from the toil and drudgery of existence. Rather, the reverse is true. Although there is a rhythm and a dialectic between the sabbath and the mundane, in my view, the entire purpose of creation is the sabbath, not understood literally, but esoterically as our ever-present link to the whole. Keeping the sabbath holy is etymologically linked to the idea of "wholeness" and healing. I don't intend to bash the left again... no, that's not true.... I do.... but one thing you will notice about "progressives" is that they are relentless. The idea of the sabbath is foreign to them, because it has been replaced by the idea of trying to force perfection in the horizontal, something which can never happen. For one thing, it is already happening. But only now. And now. And now.
In other words, you must occasionally step back from creation -- as did God -- and realize that it is already good. It is only for us to realize it. But this realization is more of a challenge than you might appreciate. Like the injunction against envy -- which is actually a reward and not an "order" -- the ability to truly experience "sabbath consciousness" is also a reward. It is something that most people have some difficulty achieving. Therefore, they displace their own inability to experience the simple joy of being, and project it into the future, when the revolution creates Sugar Candy Mountain on earth, when the minimum wage is increased, when everyone has free healthcare, and when all men have been castrated.
In short, progressives habitually turn an existential defect into a virtue, since politics is their religion, 24/7/365. To "remember" the sabbath would mean forgetting about the revolution, and that would be a political sin. They cannot separate church and state because the state is their church.
When we are caught up in the stream of time, the unity of reality is broken up into hopes, dreams, regrets, wishes, plans, resentments, etc. You cannot get away from these things so long as you are in time, because they are a function of time. The only way out is up and in, where we are called upon to live as if we are already in paradise. In truth, the sabbath is not a recollection but a "memoir of the future." Here, the world does not need to be worked on or improved, merely enjoyed as it is. In a strange way, we would live in paradise if people were only capable of realizing that we already do.
After all, this present moment of your life is the end result of thousands and thousands of little plans, goals, choices, and decisions you have made over the course of your life. Are you able to step back for a moment and realize that this is it, that this moment is the result of your plans coming to fruition? Or are you in reality simply addicted to "planning" as a way to escape the moment? We live in a time undreamt of by kings and princes, but how many of us are able to simply enjoy it?
In the final unalysis, the sabbath must be internalized, so that one has access to it at all times, like a portable monastery, a zone of silence, a realm of inner peace between you and the world. For as much as you may think that you are in the world, the opposite is generally true. The world is in you -- it sinks its teeth into you and will not let go, which is why we have to consciously practice letting it go and "dying" to the world.
For the sabbath is also a rehearsal for the Big Sabbath, when it is dark and no man can work anyway. As Petey quipped in One Cosmos, "The paradox at the heart of the sabbath is that you must live your life as if you already abide in the eternal, because you do, but aspire to get there as if your life depended on it, because it does. The former is more difficult than the latter, because your worries, anxieties, plans, and conventional aspirations trick you into thinking there is another way out. And if you believe that, you are doing the adversary's heavy lifting for him, and giving him his black sabbath rest." Which is why Democrats are the adversarial party.
Just. Wow. At dailykos, the beatification of the monster named Cho. In the morally insane world of the left, perpetrators are victims (HT: LGF).


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River cleanup season is fast approaching and its time for a new pair of waders. Should I go with a cheap pair that I know will leak after two days or is it better to spend a few extra bucks for a more durable pair. My problem is mostly with the seams leaking from stepping over things and climbing up banks.
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Tim -
First of all, let's see how many of us can pitch in with you. We've talked about it for a while now, I am anxious to get involved.
Second, both extremes will work... and unlike most things in life there is a happy medium too!
Low end:
Bldg #19... for around ten bucks you can find a pair of leaky neoprenes that can be patched with aquaseal and if they explode you won't care.
High end:
I am confident that if you buy a pair of double-seam sealed neoprenes on the high end (simms, etc), Guide weight goretex, or the very expensive but tough top-o-the-line stuff the seams will hold. They also come with unconditional guarantees.
Middle of the line:
In the case of waders there are good middle of the line options nowadays. Redington has $160 breathables with unconditional warranties for four years. Hodgman sells them for a great price, Cabelas too - but not with the reputation for service that Redington offers. Another non-breathable option is the OS Systems wader for $149.00. It's tough as nails.
Why don't we write letters to wader companies - who could turn down a stream restoration project for PR?
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Will the people that haven't been put on a team be notified via pm if they are put on a team?
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Will the people that haven't been put on a team be notified via pm if they are put on a team?
Yes, I will let you know. I will also post in the contest section as to what is happening in terms of filling the no-show vacancies and adding new team members if we have enough new signers.
I plan on giving the no-shows until Wednesday of next week (March 23rd) to check in with their teams. It they haven't done so by then, I will remove them from their respective teams and conduct another semi-random drawing to add the supplemental signers to one of the teams as needed.
I would assume at this point that we have enough supplementals to fill the no-show spots, but that is still up-in-the-air until next week. If we fill the no-show openings and still have folks that have not been placed on a team, then we will re-open the supplemental sign-up to get enough people to add one more team member, if we can manage that. The only way anybody will not get a team assignment is if we just can't get enough bodies to end up with the same number of members on each team.
With this contest format, each team has to have the same number of members, unless somebody comes up with a workable idea to resolve that issue. I am open to suggestions.....
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Then we stopped in Greely, CO. There was supposed to be a nifty open-air museum and village and a tour of the Meeker house. Both were closed on Sundays. Darn the luck. We did get into a museum. The main attraction was "Rattle Snake Annie". She took her small son for a horseback ride out to a river where some duck hunters had left some ducks. She found herself surrounded by rattlesnakes. She was a crack shot with a 22 rifle. When the smoke cleared the score was, Annie 140 snakes 0
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We found out today that Medicare has denied Teddy's PET Scan for this month as CC is not on their list of Cancers! He has already had 3 this year so not sure what changed or why....The Radman is submitting a letter tomorrow and we can only hope he gets the denial reversed. Looks like the Scan could be January now. Its getting to be wonderful to grow old in our country.
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I happen to be friends of a couple of middle class ladies who volunteered their time to help children whose parents were in the throes of divorce. The organization submitted their names to Bush for the amount of time and dedication that they had given for the kids and the counceling that was provided to the parents to help ensure that the parents were taught not to poison the kids to the other parent.
Bush invited these 2 ladies (along with many, many more individuals ) to the White House over his 4 years,where each was honored with a dinner and personal time with him and Barbara. They were a part of the Thousand Points of Light of which Bush spoke.
He was smart enough to know that all problems can not be solved by government and that individuals and nonprofit organizations in communities who give donations of time and money can do far more good than the Federal government.
I wonder how long it will take for the anguished, yet to achieve, masses who voted for Obama to realize the same thing.
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Wow, it's been 4 days since I've written one of these. I've been a little frustrated by my knee. There's something up with the tendon or cartilage. Either way, it hurts when I walk and run and I don't want it to get any more serious. As of now, kicking and kneeing pads is fine, as is footwork.
In hindsight, I should have a) waited for my muscles to recover before attempting the full 15 km run, and b) warmed up thoroughly with Thai oil before running. Learn from my mistakes.
Otherwise, these days have been great. The kids are cool, the food is great, and so is the training. I'm also getting plenty of sleep, which is a prerequisite for my feeling good. I don't know about you people, but I'm kind of delicate about sleeping at the right times and for the proper lengths.
We watched a gym member from Sweden fight yesterday at Fairtex's Theprasit Stadium. He's new to Muay Thai, having trained only three months. He lost his first two bouts, but this one he dominated from the beginning until the second round stoppage by body kicks. He plain outgunned his opponent who turtled to punches and took repeated right kicks to the ribs for it. In an important side note, I think I'm getting the hang of the Thai cheers. Eee-ehhh. Uuu-oooii. Something like that. Best not to think about it. Put your body into it.
Oh yes, I woke up today and one of the dogs had chewed a hole in my Vibrams. This totally blows. The big problem is that the plastic strap loop is broken, so I'll have to superglue it. The fabric can be sewn back together, so I guess it's manageable. If anyone knows anything about the VFFs' warranties, please let me know. I've only worn the things twice. In the future, I will be leaving gear to dry on top of the tables, not on the ground. Again, learn from my mistakes.
[Note: This dog is an asshole. Putting stuff on tables does not help. He's attacked gloves, making one of my Eminent Air bag gloves disappear, and has chewed through some of the supports for the ring ropes (the ring isn't elevated). The dog is an asshole.)
I bought citronella oil to ward off mosquitoes since people suspect DEET, the leading bug spray here, to have toxic effects. It doesn't seem that bad, but if I'm going to be putting that shit on my skin....
Last time I was in Thailand, I got dengue fever. Which is less bad than malaria ... unless you get it twice. Dengue comes in four strains, as far as we know, and catching two different strains gets you Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, which involves hemorrhaging lots of blood. It's like. Fatal. Sometimes. Okay. That's mistake #3 for this post. Buy mosquito netting, or DEET, or something. DEET is better than dengue fever. Also, get good travel insurance, people.


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"There's a popular belief that projects like this are going to be very advanced, but there are things that mitigate against that," said Ravine. "These designs were proposed in 2004, and you don't get to propose one specification then go off and develop something else. Two MP with 8 GB of flash didn't sound too bad in 2004. But it doesn't compare well to what you get in an iPhone today."
The amount of data produced is a large reason for using 2 MP cameras. There just isn't enough bandwidth for anything more powerful because the cameras must share with other instruments. Curiosity sends data back to Earth via the UHF transmitter, which transmits to two spacecraft orbiting Mars. The data is then sent back to Earth, and this system only allows for 250 megabits per day to be shared amongst various instruments.
The 2 MP camera sensors also were the tools of choice for the use of four different cameras, including the MAHLI, MARDI and two Mastcams. Having four different sensors for each camera would be expensive and more difficult to maintain rather than having one type of sensor all across the board.
The team's familiarity with the sensors was crucial, too. The team knew the behavior of Truesense imaging chips and Kodak's KAI-2020 chip, so it makes sense that they'd work with what they know.
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Read some scary things yesterday about the (already scary) RIP bill. I think I understand what a key-signing key is for now. Maybe I should make one. The trouble with doing that is that my fingerprint will change, and so I'll have a bunch of business cards with the wrong information on. Plus, I'll lose the signatures on my existing encryption key. Grr.
It's table soccer time, but Jules has gone back to Holland. Now what?