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Interesting times...not only did the network get re-numbered, but I became a manager. I hope this doesn't mean I will become technically incompetent (or worse, pointy-haired :). Once I get everything sorted out (internal promotions == 2 jobs for a time) should be good. I'm almost done sorting out all the things I had to do, and I'm coming up to speed on the new stuff.
On the distributed information store issue, only a small amount accomplished. It seems to me, that if an individual server is aware of all servers in it's "area" and knows of one server in each other possible are, I can solve part of the problem. Each server would behave as a "DNS Root server" within the area it knows, and as a "caching only DNS" that does recursive queries for the remaining areas. Sort of :). There are a large number of issues I have to come to terms with, adding new servers to an area, tracking new nodes on the information store, reducing the network load for searches, and a host of related things. Fortunately, this starts as a closed, one-server only system. The distributed bit happens when it becomes an open-source project. There's also some thought needed for types and levels of extraneous functionality.
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Bridget I've been kinda gnashing my teeth over this thread wondering if I should pipe up or not.
I read that horse jumper article.
I hope this doesn't come as to much of another dunking of ice water.
Like everyone else I got the feel good, rah rah rah, don't push, let it come as the horse is ready, go slow etc. I'm not saying that that's bad, but I want to say that's not the way for most of us to build a trial dog. It takes steady, step by step, dedicated work to turn out a trial dog and then there's no guarantee that the dog will be good enough to title. It's really not hard work, mostly just steady 5 or 6 days a week work, week in and week out. My feeling is if you go to slow through basic yard work you bore the dog and if you rush to fast through it the dog doesn't get it. With young dogs, I feel there's a rough window of time when it's best to go through the program advancing the dog through the basics and then transition. To slow and they're bored and don't get it, to fast and they've rushed through and haven't gotten it, not regular enough in your training and you are often starting all over again not advancing like you should. If you go through basics and transition with a go slow attitude, you'll put things off, miss days, not give your dog enough repetitions to get what you're working on. You'll be competing against some of the best bred dogs in the world with the best training that money can buy. You can't make lots of mistakes! The good thing is is that you can compete with those guys.
I think the best way to get a trial dog is to train with trial dogs. Train your pup to the level of the FC's in the group. Figure out the steps necessary to get your pup to that level.
The Lardy program gives the best framework I've seen so I suggest everybody bring their dogs through that up to the advanced stage. You'll have to read your dog adjust the program to your dog's progress but I don't think there is a better program out there, and you NEED the best. When training you've got to have the conviction that you can get your dog to the highest level. If you don't think you can make it, you won't.


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well i just bought the vader fx lightsaber from them and i am well pleased, very well detailed. Id also like to know if ANYONE has had any major or minor probs with it cuse i want to keep this in pristine order to avoid ANY damage occuring to it. as its the 1st EVER replica piece sci-fi memoribilla i have purchased and intend on keeping it in as good an order as i can. was amazed with the way it lights up and powers of its truly magnificant and would hate to have anything happen to the blade piece. sofar ive NO problems with it it works perfect.
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Not a FanKyle Idleman
Pastor Kyle Idleman doesn't just want to be a fan of Jesus, he wants to wholeheartedly commit to him and be a follower of Jesus. But how can you make the leap from fan to follower? In Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus, Idleman uses biblical examp... Read More
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Being a follower doesn't mean that you go to church every week, that you slap a Jesus fish on the back of your car and that you give to charity. That's what a fan does. What a follower of Jesus does, Idleman observes, is die to themselves each and every moment of the day because 'you can't say yes to following Jesus unless you say no to living for yourself.' In this three part book, Idleman uses humor, personal stories and biblical truth as he challenges you to look at what it means to call yourself a Christian and follow the radical call Jesus presents. So, will you be a fan, or a follower?
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- Life Changing by ellen on 6/23/2014
This little book has changed my life - the message altered my path and my understanding of the Christ message - I now have a new understanding of my life, and how to apply Jesus' teachings to every day living. Reading the pages has moved me to living a spiritual experience through HIS teachings - a truly heartfelt experience is for all of us to embrace and rejoice in our Lord.
- Excellent by Martha on 7/14/2013
This is a book that needs to be read by anyone calling themselves "Christian." This isn't a book to be read at one sitting. It needs to be pondered, digested, and implemented into one's life. I love the author's writing style. There's nothing judgmental, just plain facts we as followers of Jesus in these end times need to be aware of lest Jesus says, "Sorry, I never knew you."
- For Everyone by Chelsie on 5/4/2012
I read this book when it first can out, seen the video. Great book ! I think everyone needs to read this. It sure opens your eyes to where you stand with God.
- awesome,just awesome by jim on 2/28/2012
almost done reading this book for the third time.Not because I didn't get it the first two times but,because it is SO RIGH-ON!I will addto this review;I'm "NOT A FAN." THANK YOU and GOD BLESS you Kyle Idleman.


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Slashdot Launches Re-Design 2254
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the third major re-design in our 13.5 year history, and I don't think it looks half bad. The new theme represents a serious gutting of the underlying HTML and CSS, as well as all-new graphics. There will be many design wiggles, bug squashes, and compatibility glitches that survived testing, so bear with us for a bit. Please direct your bug reports and feedback (good and bad!) to Garrett Woodworth who is currently in charge of such things. Thanks to him, Wes, Vlad, Dean, Phil and Tim, who have each worked hard to get this out the door. Juggling the needs of users, editors, and various business functions is a hard job, and you guys did good.


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Happy Friday and Soon-to-be-Weekend everyone! We hope you had a great week! And in case you didn't, we're about to brighten it up with a giveaway winner AND another giveaway! In last week's post you had to guess which collection we were featuring for a chance to win. If you guessed By the Sea by Helen Weinman for Marcus Brothers Fabrics then you were right and might just be the lucky winner of this great fat quarter bundle...
Sarah's 3 Clues:
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My brother is looking for a smaller sized stud dog for his Bitch. He would like the dog to be at or smaller than 60 lb. Field Titles prefered but would definitely consider MH and/or GRHRCH. Any pedigree or color fine, we will check to see how the two dogs will match in their strengths/weaknesses and pedigree.
NOTE: Since this is the first breeding of the female, we would prefer to do a natural breeding. So, try to keep the studs in the surounding states although, since it is so hard to find a good Stud that is small, we would consider driving a ways.


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In case you still needed confirmation of what's been the most popular income asset class over the past year or so, look no further than adjustable-rate bank loan funds, which just produced their 65th straight week of net inflows, per Lipper data, taking in $1.2 billion in the most recent week. Investors remain drawn to bank loans because their rates float, unlike fixed-rate bonds, and hence can adjust upward along with prevailing market rates. (More detail on bank loans in this post from last week.) In a year when most fixed-income indexes have posted losses, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan 100 index is up 3.55% year to date.
Looking at some loan funds Friday, the PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio (BKLN) is up 3 cents at $24.74, the Highland/iBoxx Senior Loan ETF (SNLN) is unchanged at $19.97 and the Blackstone/GSO Senior Floating Rate Term Fund (BSL) is up 14 cents to $19.92.


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Zarxrax wrote:Years ago, I would run Adobe Premiere 6 on a 650mhz machine with 512mb or ram. It was quite quick and responsive.
Today I have a 2.7ghz quad-core machine with 4gb of ram, and it struggles with premiere pro and after effects.
whoaa.. O_o
my friend has a similar set up to yours. 3.0Ghz quad, and 4gb. His didn't seem to 'struggle' at all. O_O each program booted up quickly, and could swap between the two.
Zarxrax wrote:However, it's rather poorly implemented. After Effect's multithreading basically consists of starting up new instances of After Effects in the background and letting them render some frames. In practical terms, this means if you want it to use 2 cores to render, then you need to have twice as much ram as you would for 1 core to render. Start using 4 cores and the ram requirements are astronomical. Many people recommend having 8gb of ram if you want to run after effects with 4 cores.
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ive music and silent films have a long history, but one rarely heard together in recent times. All that changes when Hope College's Knickerbocker Theatre welcomes Blue Dahlia on Friday, Oct. 17, for 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. performances to Buster Keaton's film, "Seven Chances."
Blue Dahlia, described by the "Detroit Free Press" as "more adventurous than anyone else dares to be," has found success in a number of musical areas. The group's works include creating original soundtracks for silent films, including some by the legendary "stone-faced" comedian Buster Keaton.
The Knickerbocker Theatre performance, appropriate for the whole family, is Keaton's 1926 film about a down-on-his-luck stockbroker who is told he can inherit $7 million if he can get married that night.
Blue Dahlia has been performing since 1995, and has completed three recordings and several compilations, including the soundtrack to "Seven Chances." While playing the usual club circuit, Blue Dahlia has also been called on to perform at the Sound of Silents Film Festival, and has collaborated with Wellspring/Cori Terry and Dancers for live performances.
The group is known for defying usual musical categories, instead blending multi-ethnic percussion, lush melodies, and vocal harmony to produce a unique sound. More information may be obtained on the group's Web site, www.bluedahlia.com.
Tickets for the performance are $6 and will be sold at the door.
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The solid gravel guards are very handy for use as rod tube straps - I put three or four metal rod tubes together and pull the gaitors over them and they are just perfect for carry on. In fact one of the tubes is a Loomis IMX with handle and I carry it with that while the other Sage tubes flank the middle tube.
For river wading a pair of socks over the waders (on the outside) between the feet and the boots are usually enough. This trick extends your wader life by years too. Of course a pair of gaitors over that is the ultimate.
In sand, surf, salt just the socks don't cut it - the ankle must be sealed off because of the fine suspended sand. The socks may still extend wader life but once you go to the extreme of color-coordinated duct tape you don't get enough inside the boot for it to matter.
This all depends on whether you use a gussetted boot - if you are wearing a boot with vent holes or is unsealed fine sand will accumulate in the boots regardless. A good test is to fill the boot with water - if the water can get out then it's not a good boot for the surf.
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|Sparky, on a beach my experience matches that of Hawkeyes. Otherwise, I haven't had a problem with the pull on ones. Mine came with a pair of Hodgman waders long ago. If you cant find them, I think you could cut your own out of an old pair of waders.
|In my experience the pull over kind don't work worth a darn - at least in the sand. To make them work I had to duct tape the top and the bottoms - I might as well forgo the gaitors and just use the duct tape.
I have all but given up on gravel guards...it became almost a daily occurence to be watching my line swing in and then suddenly see black neoprene floating downstream.
It adds up after a while...
I have been in search of those ones you pull over your boot. They are just sewn together to form one whole gravel guard that you just pull over your boot and up and onto your ankle.
Anyone seen those around?
I might have to try the duct tape though, sounds like a great idea.
..."Starting with the fashion ignorant gray standard"...
I resemble that remark!
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|It also works well on tears in waders. Just take it off at the end of the day or the adhesive residue will be there for a long time.
|Atta boy Juro.... Duck tape!... Well as Red Green says, "If the women don't find you handsome, then they sure will find you handy". ;-)
I haven't lost a single gaitor since...
Losing gaitors in the surf or river was a common occurrence for me. I know I was not alone because I would find as many as I lost, keeping an average of 6 in my possession thru the course of a season.
I have not lost a single one, and have negligible amounts of sand in my boots since I adopted a very simple technique... a duct tape keeper!
Starting with the fashion ignorant gray standard, I have eventually upgraded to black duct tape to match my black scuba boots and black neoprene gaitors. After a remark on my lack of GQ by Lefty, I had to color coordinate. Can't even tell they're there now.
Black is easy to find. When I bought the roll, the guy at the HW store showed me the camo duct tape he says is a must for hunters. Not all that uncommon for sportsmen at all according to him. Anyway, anything over 1.5 wraps will not come off even after a full day of wading in the Nauset surf.
I usually keep the last 10 feet of the roll in the back compartment of my chest pack in case I need to swim with my waders on. I figure sealing the top of my waders could save my life someday.
Maybe that's why mountain climbers call it "Jesus on a roll".
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Dear all,
I realized that the selection of the displacement and rotation values used for the preliminary test for each module are very important (modes differ if I use different values). Could you please tell me if there are any criteria that I have to consider when I select these values? Should these values be the same for all modules? (In my case, in order to obtain accurate period values for my bridge, I have to use very small values for the initial displ. and rot. Is this something that I have to worry about?)
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Indelible-Interactive video Installation
I was working on this gallery based project with my partner Elaine Landers; a Printmaking student in SCAD. The idea was to design an interactive video installation piece. Our artwork was a cultural, motion book design and each page was in different language. The texts were written in 6 different languages: English, French, Hindi, Spanish and Coding because it was about the cultures around the world. The motion techniques were different from each other and when audiences touch the cords, they could change the animated text. This interactive installation is a combination of new electronics and old standards.
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- Represents 2,459 e-resource content collections from OCLC content partners such as EBSCO*, ProQuest, Gale, Springer and many others.
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Metadata for electronic resources such as websites, e-journals and e-books has been added to WorldCat for many years. Some of the metadata has been contributed by OCLC member libraries and some has been added through OCLC partnerships with leading publishers and content aggregators.
The central index in WorldCat Discovery includes metadata from e-content collections often provided by libraries.
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The central index for WorldCat Discovery and the WorldCat knowledge base are complementary tools that enable information seekers to find and connect to information resources provided by libraries.
The WorldCat knowledge base contains detailed information about library holdings that enables linking from citations to full text in resources to which a library subscribes.
The central index in WorldCat Discovery is a rich index of metadata that provides unified access to a broad range of content, including the following resources:
- The WorldCat database of 394 million bibliographic records, representing the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide
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The central index for WorldCat Discovery serves as a finding tool for millions of content items.
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An Excel file list of content collections in the central index is available, as well as PDFs for Complete Collections List, Open Access Collections List, Full-Text Searchable Collections List, Remote Database List, and Collections that Require Authentication to Search List.
What is the relationship between searches of the central index for WorldCat Discovery and searching remote databases not represented in the central index?
The central index is available for searching by users of all current FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery subscribers. Searches retrieve results from WorldCat and the central index. The e-content that a library makes available to its users depends on its subscriptions to e-content collections.
Remote database searching lets libraries also include searches of metadata not included in the central index for WorldCat Discovery as part of users' search experience. When a library implements remote database searching, results from remote content are integrated into a single set of search results along with results from the central index.
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Use of the WorldCat knowledge base is included in an OCLC Cataloging Subscription. To use the WorldCat knowledge base, complete a knowledge base request form, add data about electronic collections to the knowledge base and activate the functionality. Methods for adding a library's local data to the WorldCat knowledge base are described in Building your WorldCat knowledge base: Choose a method to add your collections (PDF).
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An OCLC Cataloging subscription supports the cost of maintaining your library's holdings in the WorldCat database. A WorldCat Discovery subscription covers the cost of making that data accessible to information seekers and machines that integrate information resources through interfaces and APIs.
A WorldCat Discovery subscription gives the public access to a library's collections maintained in WorldCat through WorldCat Discovery, WorldCat.org and websites of OCLC partners, such as Google Books, Goodreads, EasyBib, etc. Through partner websites, searchers will discover libraries' resources in places where they often begin their research and then connect back to libraries from those sites. A WorldCat Discovery subscription makes discovery of library materials possible through multiple Web destinations with no additional work for library staff.
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EMEA libraries that subscribe to WorldCat.org at Level 3 (which includes access to FirstSearch) may use WorldCat Discovery as part of their current subscriptions. Use of WorldCat Discovery is not included in an EMEA Level 1 or Level 2 WorldCat.org subscription. Libraries subscribing at these levels will continue to expand visibility of their collections through OCLC's partnerships with a growing number of search engines and other popular websites.
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How can library staff prepare for use of WorldCat Discovery?
There are several things library staff can do to prepare for use of WorldCat Discovery.
- Review and update your library's information in OCLC Service Configuration. Pay particular attention to your OPAC URLs and IP addresses, because these settings directly impact your use of WorldCat Discovery. For detailed instructions about configuring links to your library's resources, consult WorldCat Discovery documentation on the OCLC Support and Training website.
- Add e-content collections to the WorldCat knowledge base so users can link to full-text electronic content provided by their library. If your library subscribes to OCLC Cataloging Services, you can request use of the WorldCat knowledge base now. If your library already uses the WorldCat knowledge base to support other OCLC services, your staff should review your library's collections to make sure they are current and that ILL policies are reflected correctly.
- Prepare a list of your library's e-content subscriptions to save time setting up access to this content in WorldCat Discovery. Filter the Excel list of collections available in the central index on the OCLC website to quickly find and enable your library's e-content collections in the OCLC Service Configuration Licensed Content and Metadata module. Check the names of your collections in this module to make these databases searchable in WorldCat Discovery.
What kind of training is available for library staff?
OCLC provides self-paced, live and virtual training for library staff when the service is released. Details about training resources will be provided on the OCLC Support and Training website.
Does my library need to use specific browsers to access WorldCat Discovery?
WorldCat Discovery requires use of the latest version of the following browsers:
- Mozilla Firefox®
- Google Chrome
- Apple Safari
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 11
Newer browser versions are needed to enable use of the new and expanded features of WorldCat Discovery.
If you are not sure which browser is in use at your library, you may wish to consult http://www.thismachine.info/.
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"There was no apology tour, ask any reporter!!!"
"There was no apology tour, ask any reporter!!!"
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musta just been a golf outing
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
I guess Obama could have said he skipped Israel on his apology tour because at the he didn't have anything to apologize to Israel for. Yet.
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The Textiles and Clothing of the Germans from
Ann W. Braaten, Curator, Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume
Department of Apparel, Textiles and Interior Design
College of Human Development and Education
North Dakota State University, Fargo
Presentation at the Harvey Public Library, Harvey, ND, for the
grand opening of the North Dakota State University Libraries'
traveling exhibition, "The Kempf Family: Germans from Russia Weavers
on the Dakota Prairies."
Carol Weigum Shaw's Family Rug
Rag rugs covered many families' cold floors here on the Dakota
prairie. Women saved scraps of fabric and would trade them with
their neighbors for an attractive color array.
Strips were braided and stitched together with strong thread
to form the rug. Carol remembered it only being used on Sundays.
On other days, the rug was in a closet where she found it long
after the home had been abandoned.
Ralph Ruff's "Bowtie" Quilt
This quilt was made especially for Ralph Ruff of Vacaville,
California, by his grandmother Katharina (Rieker) Kiesz in 1934.
Katharina was born in the village of Bergdorf and was married
to Wilhlem Kiesz. Ralph's mother was six months old when her family
came to America on the ship Red Star. Katharina's family
first settled at Bowdle, SD. They later moved to Ritzville, south
of Spokane, Washington, in the early 1900s.
After the death of Ralph's mother, Christina (Kiesz) Ruff, he
was raised by Grandmother and Grandfather Kiesz. Grandmother Kiesz
wanted Ralph to have a blanket that was just for him, so she saved
scraps of material, perhaps from old clothing, feed and flour
sacks. She sewed every stitch and Ralph, at age 9, helped to thread
most of the needles. It was her special gift to him. He presented
the quilt to the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection in February
of 1996.
Philippine Baumgartner Berglund's Black Silk Shawl
Red embroidery embellishes this fine black silk shawl. All but
one of the motifs are of floral design, with the exception being
stitched in shape of a swan. Philippine (Baumgartner) Berglund
of Linton, ND, presented this shawl to the Germans from Russia
Heritage Collection in 1994. Philippine's parents were Michael
and Odelia (Wolf) Baumgartner, born in the village of Strassburg,
Kutschurgan District, South Russia. Michael and Odelia Baumgartner
lived in Strasburg, Emmons County, North Dakota. The Baumgartner
family were early pioneers to settle in south central North Dakota.
Appreciation is expressed to Vi (Kruckenberg) Schielke, Ralph
Ruff and Philippine (Baumgartner) Berglund for the donation of
textiles and clothing to the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection.
Partnership between Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection
and Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at the NDSU Libraries
and the Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection, College
of Human Development and Education, NDSU, have formed a partnership
to preserve the material culture of the Germans from Russia. Textiles
and clothing items are housed in the Reynolds Collection Room
of the College of Human Development and Education. This room is
climate controlled and designed to preserve textiles and clothing
for the benefit of not only people in the present, but also for
future generations.
Donating Germans from Russia Textiles and Clothing
Persons wishing to learn more about the Emily P. Reynolds Historic
Costume Collection, the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection,
or wishing to donate textiles and clothing of the Germans from
Russia, can contact: Ann W. Braaten, Department of Apparel, Textiles
and Interior Design, College of Human Development and Education,
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When I was a teenager, folks on both sides of our family met up to picnic together at Devil's Head out of Sedalia, Colorado on the 4th of July. Devil's Head was the first fire station in the area, and my Granddad built it. He made the first ladder leading up to the top of a large rock there in 1912, over 100 years ago. Since then, a nice fire station has been built on that same site. We all met at the picnic grounds and had a great feast. Then we'd walk up to the station. It is about one and a quarter miles up hill, but we all made it up and down the trail. After we got back down to the picnic grounds it was ice cream and cake time. My family could always pull off a joke. One time, at one of our 4th of July gatherings at Devil's Head, Mom forgot to bring a knife to cut the cake. Oh yes, one of my uncles went to his car and found a hatchet. He came back and offered to cut the cake. This really brought down a great laugh. It was such a fun gathering. I hope to go back and hike up to the fire station this summer.
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Not new to dogs, but new to prepping a hunting retriever. We have a 14-week golden retriever who we have started training at home but we would like to find a place (near Houston) to get her additional hunting-focused training. She is quite the quick learner (sitting, bumper-fetching, laying down, crawling, etc.) - we work with her daily and she's a little sweetheart!
We don't want to send her away for training - we'd like to TAKE her to training... is that common? I'm not sure if the regular run-of-the-mill general puppy classes will be worthwhile since we are doing all of that at home already... would like to keep progressing. Does anyone know of someone near Houston that provides this type of thing (training without boarding)?


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...any voters on RTF could be persuaded to change their minds, regardless of logic or reasoning, this is an article meant more for education than cajoling. Some may appreciate this authors historical views, as I did.
Why the New Left is Now the Democratic Party
By Scott S. Powell
If Harry Truman and Jack Kennedy were somehow resurrected and transported in time to the present, they would not recognize the Democratic Party, which raised them up as successful presidents in earlier times. So how did the Democratic Party become transformed into what it is today?
The two major political parties in the U.S. have always been fundamentally different. The Republican Party has been rooted in transcendent values and unchanging principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Democratic Party acknowledges that the starting point of the country was the Declaration and the Constitution, but has contended since Woodrow Wilson that progress requires constant adaptation, changing morals, and liberal interpretations of history.
The progressive philosophy that the Democratic Party has come to embrace has its roots less in transcendent values of life, liberty and the pursuit of individual happiness and more in the values of class identity and equal outcomes. Since the free market system of capitalism produces unequal outcomes of success and wealth distribution, the Democratic Party has generally been favorably disposed to ideas and input that purport to redress this disparity.
The best critique of early industrial capitalism came from the German philosopher Karl Marx, who believed that the contradictory forces of labor and capital inevitably bring about class struggle. This in turn would cause the working class proletariat to rise up and overthrow the capitalist order, seize the means of production, eliminate private property and create a new order that would equitably distribute resourcesfrom each according to his ability, and to each according to his need. The notion of conflict of interest between labor and capital, class warfare and the need for government redistribution of wealth, which has made its way into the Democratic Party, has its roots in Marx.
Of course the proletariat never rose up in any advanced industrialized state. Instead Marx's political and economic solution was first implemented in the largely agrarian nation of Russia, carried out by Marxist revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. Lenin made major contributions to Marx's theories, so much so that Marxism-Leninism became the dominant theoretical framework for advancing national liberation movements and communism, wherever in the world secular radical revolutionary movements arose.
Among Lenin's contributions was the theory of the vanguard. Since the proletariat masses would never rise up, Lenin argued that it was necessary for a relatively small number of vanguard leadersprofessional revolutionariesto advance the revolutionary cause by working themselves into positions of influence. By taking over the commanding heights of labor unions, the press, the universities, professional and religious organizations a relatively few number of revolutionaries could multiply their influence and exercise political leverage over their unwitting constituents and society at large.
It was Lenin who introduced the concept of the "popular front" and coined the phrase "useful idiots" in describing the masses who could be manipulated into mob action of marches and protests for an ostensibly narrow cause of the popular front, which the communist vanguard was using as means for a greater revolutionary political end.
While Lenin was seizing power in Russia, Antonio Gramsci was emerging as a leading Marxist theoretician in Italy and would found the Italian Communist Party in 1921. After being imprisoned by Mussolini, the Fascist Prime Minister of Italy, Gramsci authored what came to be called the Prison Notebooks, partially published in 1947 and in complete form in 1975, a legacy that made him one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the 20th century. Gramsci argued that power for the communist is best attained in developed, industrialized societies such as Europe and the United States through "the long march through the institutions." This would be a gradual process of radicalization of the cultural institutions"the superstructure"of bourgeois society, a process that would in turn transform the values and morals of society. Gramsci believed that as society's morals were softened its political and economic foundation would be more easily smashed and restructured.
Cultural Marxism was also in vogue at the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University in Germanythat is until 1933 when the Nazis came to power. Many members of the Frankfurt School, such as Herbert Marcuse, Eric Fromm, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkeimer and William Reich fled to the United States, where they ultimately found their way into professorships at various elite universities such as Berkeley, Columbia, and Princeton. In the context of American culture, "the long march through the institutions" meant, in the words of Herbert Marcuse, "working against the established institutions while working in them."
The countercultural influence of radicals like Marcuse and Gramsci has been advanced more by insinuation and infiltration than by confrontation. Their "quiet" revolution was intended to be diffused throughout the culture, over a period of time, to remake society. Gramsci argued that alliances with non-communist leftist groups would be essential to the collapse of the capitalist bourgeois order. Marcuse believed in an alliance between radical intellectuals and the socially marginalized, the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and ethnicities, the unemployed and the unemployable. By the late 1960s Marcuse became known as the father of the New Left in the United States that rose up to oppose the Vietnam War.
The New Left counterculture did not end when the troops came home from Southeast Asia. It went mainstream, with many of the 60s radicals becoming professional revolutionaries who would go on to work in the knowledge industry: the universities, foundations, and the media and special interest activist groups.
By winning "cultural hegemony" acolytes of Gramsci and the Neo-Marxists of the Frankfurt School believed that the wellsprings of human thought could be largely controlled by mass psychology. Resistance to cultural Marxism and its entire secular progressive offspring could be largely silenced and negated by ridiculing and marginalizing people of opposing views. Allies in the media provided coverage and a framework of acceptance for radical issues and leaders. Traditional values of morality, family, the work ethic and free market institutions would be made to appear reactionary, unnecessary and culturally unfashionable. Ultimately this evolved into what has become known as political correctness.
As the 1970s were coming to a close the counter-cultural alliances would include radical feminist groups, civil rights and ethnic minority advocates, extremist environmental organizations, anti-military peace groups, union leaders, radical legal activist organizations like the ACLU, human rights watch-dog organizations, community organizers of the Saul Alinsky mode, national and world church council bureaucracies and various internationalist-minded groups. Working separately and together, these groups could count on favorable media exposure, which facilitated building bridges to the Democratic Partybecoming vocal constituencies deserving attention and legislative action.
The New Left in America realized that it was neither necessary nor desirable to own the means of production as originally envisioned by Marx. Redistribution could be accomplished through progressive taxation that was enshrined by an enlightened Democratic Party. Corporate priorities could be redirected through sensational and biased media exposure, proxy contests, mass demonstrations, activist lawsuits and regulatory actions. No need to be responsible for the means of production, when you could advance Marx's anti-capitalist narrative by indicting individual corporations and capitalism from the sidelines.
By the 1980s a third of the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives supported the budgetary priorities and the foreign policy advocated by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the leading revolutionary Marxist think tank in the United States, located Washington, D.C. Robert Borosage, the director of IPS, was advancing one of his key stated goals: "to move the Democratic Party's debate internally to the left by creating an invisible presence in the party." The particular genius of Borosage and IPS was their strategy to spawn a myriad of spin-offs and coalitions, a force multiplier that took propaganda and the Leninist popular front strategy to a new level.


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Has anyone used poplar lumber to build hives, and if so, were there any adverse affects? I've heard that insects don't like poplar, and I wanted to make sure that it was okay before I built fifty hives out of it.
New Guy
Has anyone used poplar lumber to build hives, and if so, were there any adverse affects? I've heard that insects don't like poplar, and I wanted to make sure that it was okay before I built fifty hives out of it.
New Guy
Insects generally don't like cedar but bees do well in that. My guess is that it will do fine. I have no experience with it.
Have you considered building one and seeing the results first?
I can't remember who it was, but someone made TBHs with poplar and it did fine as far as a material goes. Shoot, bees have made colonies within old rusted fuel tanks.
Funny you should mention it. There is a feral colony, known to have survived for at least ten years now, in an abandoned oil field separator near here. Bees come in and out of a pipe connection just above the bottom. No other known opening.
Colony is in a friend's pasture---he and I think that the oil and sulphur residue in the sand at bottom of the separator may account for the survival.
I built my observation hive - which is a permanent, year 'round hive - out of poplar (I think it was yellow poplar). The bees never showed any signs of disliking it (at least that I could observe). The wood was left "unfinished" on the inside and clear, poly-varnished on the outside. Of course, over time, the bees coat everything with propolis/wax so the raw wood wasn't "raw" for very long.
I understand Tulip poplar gets called yellow poplar in some parts.
Tulip Poplar is said a good nectar source:
Brian Cady
Greetings newguy,
>Using Poplar wood for hives . . .
Others have expressed ideas about its acceptance by the bees, so from a carpenter's
point of view(POV), heres my thoughts.
I use poplar indoors (trim for doors, windows, some flooring)and like how well it accepts paint.
Outdoors, poplar does not "hold" paint very well. Wide boards tend to "cup" (from moisture). Poplar splits somewhat easily, nailing is best done w/ air nailer. Sometimes (reason unknown), extreame rot will occur even when primed and painted.
Best use for poplar would be in making some very high-quality frames. Poplar "machines" very well.
White pine is my FIRST choice, poplar maybe second.
MrBEE's suggestion of making just ONE to try, might be very sound abvice.
Dave W . . .
A NewBEE with 1 hive.
First package installed
April, 2003.
Yellow poplar is a variety of tulip poplar that grows cery slow giving it a harder wood. Yellow poplar does not rot bad or split bad the problem is alot of saw mills mix the lumber together and sell it all as yellow poplar. Tulip poplar in the woods will be much thinner trunked for the same height of tree. Yellow poplar keeps alot more of its limbs even in deep growth. I have a yellow poplar which is about 3 feet thru near my hives. Dad's farm have hundreds of tulip poplar but few yellow as his farm is to far off the mountain. We cut a large tulip poplar down to put my mobile home(it burned down). It was about 2 feet thru. The center wood of a tulip poplar is yellow in color and make great moldings like said above it needs to be kept indoors.
I was wondering, because we have plenty of rough-cut poplar lumber available. Thanks for the input. Anyone else have any suggestions?
New Guy
BOTH my colonies alive and well -- with no Fumagillin-B!
New Guy;
Just built 50 medium boxes out of poplar (not sure if yellow or tulip). In working the wood, it seemed denser than the pine. I think that's a good thing. However, the die has been cast. It will be interesting to see if Dave's predictions come true.
I'll let you know.
The poplar around here is a cheap wood, grows fast, it is a soft wood. Used a lot in pallets. It sometimes has a green tint to it.
I used some to make some hive covers. it will warp pretty easily, especially if it is not dried out good. Main thing is it is cheap and readily available! Also relatively light, although not as light as basswood.
The yellow green tinted wood is the heart wood. If the tree had a very narrow edge of white it is a good wood to use. tulip poplar has a wide white ring and small amount of yellow green heart wood.
Just a follow-up on the supers I built out of poplar earlier this year:
When I pulled the popular supers off the hives to extract the honey this summer, I noticed that the corners of the box do not "deform" as much as the pine boxes do when wedging and prying with the hive tool. Another indicator that the wood is denser than pine.
Also, eventhough the poplar boxes have been out in the wind and rain for the last 4-5 months, I have noticed no warpage as has been suggested. I put a couple coats of cytol on them before putting them out initially so they are not just bare wood.
John, glad your poplar boxes are working out! Does the wood have a green tint to it?
Dave, if I recall correctly, I believe it did. I since have coated it with Cytol which has wood staining properties so the green tint is not apparent anymore.
Cedar here in Canada is the wood of choice but can be expensive.
"Dont let fear or good judgement hold you back"
That is the problem. Poplar is one of the cheapest hardwoods. In the southeast it is a common tree. So poplar is 450 a 1000 feet where red cedar is 1200 per 1000. Big difference in price. Of course I an pricing #2 as this is what the chairshop purchases. #1 poplar is 600 per 1000.


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avriettea: There is a big difference between a State and its citizens. I never was a supporter of Chirac or of de Villepin and I agree with you that re-starting the nuke testing for the 50th birthday of Hiroshima was outrageous (even though they weren't made above ground). OTOH, I will not follow you in the pointless debate of a country being or not relevant to the world (if this sentence can bear any meaning).
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IDF advocates for improved diabetes prevention, treatment and care using a 'twin track' approach. This combines diabetes advocacy with a parallel focus on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs).
Working through the NCD Alliance
IDF formed the NCD Alliance in 2009 as a formal alliance with our three sister federations – the Union for International Cancer Control, World Heart Federation and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. We came together under a shared agenda, and to form a powerful voice collectively representing over 1,000 member associations and a further 1,000 supporting partners and NGOs. Together we have serious people power, an extensive network of member associations on the ground and unrivalled political legitimacy. In forming the NCD Alliance we filled a political niche for collaboration and joint advocacy on NCDs.
IDF and the NCD Alliance were the first voices calling for a UN Summit on NCDs in 2009 and were a highly influential civil society force throughout the process. The NCD Alliance has grown to a network of over 2000 organisations and has built influential partnerships within the UN system, international organisations, other NGOs and the private sector. As a testament to the influence of the NCD Alliance, the former head of UNAIDS Peter Piot called the NCD Alliance a "special political asset…which can and should be a vital partner to the UN leadership."
In May 2012, the NCD Alliance produced an Activity Report on our activies, achievements and impact around the UN Summit on NCDs. We also launched our new Strategic Plan 2012-2015, which aims to put NCDs at the heart of national health and development planning, in the mainstream of post-2015 development and to increase resources at all levels.
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One of the interesting threads (pphaneuf McCusker JDarcy) that's been bouncing around lately is the design of bytecodes for interpretation. It's a different problem than instruction set design for CPU's. There, RISC is a win because a stripped down instruction set can support higher clock speeds. But for a bytecode interpreter, you're going to have a certain amount of overhead to go through an iteration of the interpreter main loop, so you might as well make it do more.
But a lot of this argumentation leaves me unsatisfied. If you've got a bytecode interpreter in a system, it's a dead giveaway that you're optimizing for something other than raw performance, for example overall system complexity or portability. Both are worth optimizing for, of course.
The stack machine vs. memory transfer machine argument is interesting. I think it comes down to where you're willing to put your complexity. If the compiler from source language to bytecode must be simple, then stack machines are a win, in large part because they support arbitrary depths of expression nesting without any special case code. With memory transfer, you either have to deal with variable sized fields for representing the memory cell (and thus variable sized instructions), or you have to implement spilling when depth goes above (say) 256.
On the other hand, if you're trying to ship virtual machines in tiny embedded devices, then it makes a lot of sense to keep the VM as simple as possible, even at a cost of more sophistication in the compiler.
I note a number of interesting memory-transfer based virtual machines, including Parrot and MMIX. Virtual machine design is a delicate art. I'm happy to see it undergoing something of a renaissance.
School starts on Monday, and we're starting to gear up. For those of you joining late, we have a hybrid plan. He'll do half a day in public school (1st grade), and half a day at home. For the math-and-science part of the curriculum, one of the things I plan is Mindstorms. We ordered the starter set today. I'm pretty excited; it looks cool.
Ostensibly, Heather will cover language arts and I'll do the Spock stuff, but ironically he started on an illustrated story this evening with me. It's called "Cretaceous Park 1". Ok, so it's a bit derivative, but we're having fun. The words flow easily, and then he puts a great deal of effort and concentration into drawing and coloring the accompanying pictures. I'll probably scan it and put it on the net when he's done.
Max's language development continues to be amazing to behold. He's able to communicate very clearly now. When Alan had a tantrum a few days ago, Max picked up the Nerf rocket launcher and said to us, "I'm going to shoot him." We burst out laughing, of course. Other samples include "I want to press the button on Alan's toy" and "I like your shirt. It has fire on it."


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Next year might be different post-Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, and potential others so we'll see.
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I consider the teams that consistently compete in the playoffs the better teams. The teams that have won a Super Bowl and have / had, or continue to compete in the playoffs are elite. What I mean by that is a team could have been consistently competing in the playoffs before their Super Bowl win and I would consider them elite. I don't have to wait to see if Bal continues to compete in the playoffs to call them elite, since they have already competed the previous 4 years. They had been in at least the divisional round the previous 4 years and made 2 AFCC games. That combined with their Super Bowl win makes them elite.I don't like to use the word elite unless the team has won a Super Bowl, but I would consider Atl one of the better teams in the NFC.
The Giants are the only exception to my rule. Winning 2 Super Bowls in 5 seasons makes them elite.
Flacco didn't deserve the MVP and even if he did it doesn't make him elite.
Well to you the Jets were elite along with 3-4 other teams. How does one rank elite teams in the same year anyway? Elite should be elite.you understand that more than 1 team can be elite, right?
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You said the same thing for Eli Manning both times. Why not hire you on the award committee b/c they clearly have no clue what they're doing with their current staff.Flacco didn't deserve the MVP and even if he did it doesn't make him elite.
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Spotted the new vehicle assortment in the new packaging, including the Fighter Tank. TRU here had new Galatic Heroes sets too - the Sail Barge and Medal Ceremony.
Saw the Clone Turbo Tank at TRU today, $100. It comes with a speeder bike and a tank gunner clone sculpted in the Animated style.
Also spotted some SW Uncle Milton science sets - robotic Vader arm, Naboo aquatic environment (sea monkeys!), a neat-looking Dagobah frog environment, Mustafar volcano lab, among others...
I saw the remains of the AOTC wave at a couple of different stores over the weekend. They're out there, if you're willing to visit more than one store.
I have now found the AOTC wave in full 6 different times in the past 2 weeks. So far, this has been the easiest wave to find in my 30 years of collecting...
I picked up the new republic fighter tank about a week ago. I think the design is great but the deco leaves a bit to be desired. Not bad though. I've seen the magna guard fighter several times now as well. Will eventually look at picking that one up.
Haven't seen the turbo tank yet but I'm looking forward to that one.
Really enjoying the pix from ComicCon to see what's coming up...
My TRU had a lot of new stuff today. I saw the Clone Wars Deluxe figures, $18: Anakin/Can-Cell and two Clone packs, but not Dooku/Speeder and Crab Droid. These deluxe packs are friggin' huge. I thought they were scaling back packaging sizes.
Captain Rex role-play helmet, $35.
Commander Ponds TRU exclusive figure, $10. I want that one, but not for $10.
Saw some of the newer packaged vehicles and 2-packs at Target today. The figures were pretty well picked over by the time I got there.
The new Legos have arrived, too. I like the Endor battle set, but not enough to pay $100. Maybe it will go on clearance after Christmas.


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Part of the playability with the line, and what you've got to admire, is the engineering / designing that goes into these things.
They may make it already, but jets and cars that transform sideways or turn inside-out would be an awesome new step for Transformers to take.
The figures could wind up being shorter than usual, and they will have to figure out how to cost-out good articulation and weapons, features, etc.
Possibly why Highbrow is shorter is he may have been intended for the Deluxe line at one point, and couldn't fit in there for cost reasons.
If you had a Deluxe Autobot car that transformed side-ways, or inside-out, and you wanted to retain a normal standard of height and articulation, you might have to add doubled-up panels in the transformation to extend legs and arms, yet retain some thickness for aesthetic reasons.
So you package them at a higher pricepoint.
I'd be OK with Hasbro doing this - but publically discuss this so we don't have to listen to all the complainers talking about why " a Deluxe figure " is Voyager classified, etc.
Who would I have designed in such a manner? Probably new characters - just like Highbrow might be (I don't know if he is, but I suspect).
The traditional characters should maintain their traditional transformations. But that's just my preference. You have some leeway with Megatron who's now (in the movies) always changing his alt-form.


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Considering the Towards the Anti-Mac article:
Radagast made a follow up and adressed ncm about a possible pseudo-english parsing shell. There is a fatal inherent flaw to such a shell, but it also made an old idea of mine resurface. Thus:
The Flaw
The name says it all: "pseudo-english". Obviously you'd want pseudo-german as well. Even considering a pseudo-japanese one is daunting to say the least. Porting such a shell to the different semantic structures (or tendencies towards such structures) of different natural languages is not practical.
The Remedy
Lets imagine some kind of scratchboard where you could mix representations of various acts (picked from tables divided according to the nature of the various tasks). Just like using redirection or variables in a shell script, the user would connect the representations using arrows. Thus forming a directed graph -- possibly a cyclic one with conditions for termination.
The acts would require the user to fill in parameters (in popups or whatever) just like a shell command does.
When a graph is constructed it could be saved as a new act, thus adding to the table of pickable acts.
Acts (or graphs of acts) could then be used as traditional scripts that the user executes manually or assigns to cron-like or event-driven agents. The acts could however also be used interactively by simply executing some act and adding subsequent ones as necessary. Backtracking would be possible since a session with history would exist naturally in form of the directed graph formed by the acts.
Finally, only the program managing the sets of acts (and the popups for various acts) would require translation between different natural languages. The acts themselves or the machinery underneath would require no knowledge of natural(-like) language to function.
The construction of original acts would still require skill in putting together shell scripts, but it wouldn't be a prerequisite for using existing ones.
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- Movie fans are already visiting North Carolina to see where "The Hunger Games" was filmed
- The Triple Falls waterfall, part of an easy hike in the DuPont State Forest, is integral to the movie
- The film's stars enjoyed Asheville's restaurants and culture after shooting
The young stars of "The Hunger Games" may remember the blockbuster movie as the one that propelled their careers to the next level. But the biggest breakout star of the "The Hunger Games" may well turn out to be the state of North Carolina.
With $152.5 million opening weekend at the box office, the movie based on the New York Times bestseller by Suzanne Collins had the third best opening weekend of all time (and the best ever opening for a non-sequel), according to Hollywood.com. And its frenzied fans are already showing up at movie locations around the state to see where scenes were shot.
"People are obsessed with 'The Hunger Games,' " says Marnee Revri, a Raleigh-based travel agent affiliated with Frosch Entertainment, who booked travel for the movie's cast and crew and blogged about it. "I think there will be a bigger interest in people coming to visit, the same as the 'Twilight' movies. Kids are going to want to (see) where it was filmed."
Find Katniss Everdeen's hidden pond
Many scenes were filmed in the woods of DuPont State Forest, a 10,400-acre wilderness where waterfalls, lakes and fishing streams made ideal settings for the movie's outdoor scenes. Fans are likely to follow forest trails in search of character Katniss Everdeen's pond, the bottom of Triple Falls waterfall and the remnants of the fireball sequence. A hike to Hooker Falls, Triple Falls and High Falls is part of the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy's eight-hike challenge. Rated "easy," the 2.6-mile waterfall hike has an elevation gain of 160 feet. (Triple Falls also stars in Michael Mann's movie "The Last of the Mohicans.")
It's true that the abandoned Henry River Mill Village, about 70 miles from Asheville in the small town of Hildebran, was home to the film's "District 12" Mellark family bakery and the Everdeens' shanty. But it's private property -- so just look as you're driving by -- and respect any "No Trespassing" signs.
Party where the stars hung out
Parents of tweens and teens on this movie tour, take note. The movie's stars spent their after-work hours in Asheville, a town you'll enjoy independent of your child's movie obsession. With its funky architecture, independent spirit and thriving restaurant and brewing scene, artsy Asheville didn't need a movie to confirm its tourist appeal. Actors reportedly dined at the Laughing Seed Café, Lexington Avenue Brewery, Wasabi and the Southern Kitchen and Bar. They also stopped by Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, the local independent bookseller.
Cast member Woody Harrelson enjoyed the 46-foot rock-climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, which served as the capitol in the film. (The center will host the U.S. Olympic Trials for canoe slalom April 12-14.) Harrelson also enjoyed playing chess with locals at Amélie's French bakery in Charlotte.
Not a "Hunger Games" fan?
You could still be inspired to learn some post-apocalyptic survival skills. If you're in decent physical shape, learn to survive in the wilderness by taking courses at Nantahala Outdoor Center. Summer programs at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown include courses on cooking over an open fire, cooking with wild edibles, beekeeping and woodworking.
If you prefer the work of Patrick Swayze, Kevin Costner or Daniel Day Lewis, you're in luck. "Dirty Dancing," "Bull Durham" and "The Last of the Mohicans" were all shot in North Carolina. While your younger family members obsess on "The Hunger Games," you can celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Dirty Dancing" this year with the 3rd annual Dirty Dancing Festival at Lake Lure (August 17-19).
Fans of the "Ironman" series can expect the third installment of the movie, which is in pre-production in Wilmington, to draw attention to that location. And with North Carolina's tax incentives for productions filmed in the state, expect more movie and television shows to bring their projects there.
Make me a schedule
Don't want to plan your entire trip yourself? The North Carolina Division of Tourism has made it easy for movie fans to make their "Hunger Games" plans. The office has a four-day itinerary and a list of 12 places to experience the movie.


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In response to a firestorm of criticism from EFF and others ([1][2][3]), and after much internal debate, Facebook today announced a series of privacy changes to the social networking site as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised on Monday.
We will be publishing instructions on how to best take advantage of the new settings shortly. For now, though, we wanted to quickly share our first impression:
The changes are pretty good, though more is needed.
A Wall Street Journal article today draws attention to yet another unexpected way in which Facebook's privacy practices have not complied with its public statements and have disregarded users' privacy rights. Just last week, when asked about Facebook's privacy practices with advertisers, Facebook executive Elliot Schrage wrote:
We don't share your information with advertisers. Our targeting is anonymous. We don't identify or share names. Period.
As the Wall Street Journal report shows, this was not true. In fact, Facebook's architecture at the time allowed advertisers to see detailed personal information about some Facebook users.
Social network service providers today are in a unique position. They are intermediaries and hosts to our communications, conversations and connections with loved ones, family, friends and colleagues. They have access to extremely sensitive information, including data gathered over time and from many different individuals.
Here at EFF, we've been thinking a lot recently about what specific rights a responsible social network service should provide to its users. Social network services must ensure that users have ongoing privacy and control over personal information stored with the service. Users are not just a commodity, and their rights must be respected. Innovation in social network services is important, but it must remain consistent with, rather than undermine, user privacy and control. Based on what we see today, therefore, we suggest three basic privacy-protective principles that social network users should demand:
About a year ago, Facebook suffered a tremendous consumer backlash over its changes to the Terms of Service. To quell the uproar, Facebook introduced a set of Principles.
"Connections." It's an innocent-sounding word. But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes.
Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created. Basically, Facebook has transformed substantial personal information — including your hometown, education, work history, interests, and activities — into "Connections." This allows far more people than ever before to see this information, regardless of whether you want them to.
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Stir-fry flavors like ginger and orange work their magic in this baked chicken dish, accented with prepared teriyaki sauce.
Use one 14-ounce can whole kernel corn in place of the baby corn nuggets; drain the corn before you use it.
For added flavor and texture, toast the cashews. Spread them on a cookie sheet; bake at 350°F. for 8 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown, stirring occasionally.
To reduce the fat in each serving of this recipe by about 10 grams, remove the skin from the chicken. Each serving of the lower-fat version has about 90 fewer calories than each serving of the original recipe.
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The open-access journal, PLoS NTDs, celebrated its fifth anniversary. To commemorate this great achievement, the journal compiled editorials and research papers published over the last five years to create a collection, called "The Geopolitics of NTDs."
The collection focuses on the geographic distribution of NTDs by region to highlight the key differences as well as similarities between the diseases in different areas around the world.
The Sabin PDP is currently engaged in collaboration for early research and development for a bivalent therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of chronic Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis). It would be the first therapeutic vaccine for this disease. The vaccine is comprised of two Trypanosoma cruzi recombinant proteins formulated on alum. One of the antigens is a unique T. cruzi 24 kDa antigen (Tc24) and the other is a unique T. cruzi surface transialidase (TSA-1).
The Schistosomiasis Vaccine Initiative was launched in 2008 through funding from Mr. Morton Hyman and the Blavatnik Family Foundation. In collaboration with researchers at James Cook University and The George Washington University, a promising antigen, Sm-TSP-2, was selected for development.
Schistosomiasis is a parasite carried by snails and transmitted through contact with contaminated fresh water sources such as lakes, ponds, rivers and dams. Schistosomiasis infection is readily transmissible for those who come in frequent contact with contaminated water – particularly children who wade or play in water and women conducting domestic chores.
In collaboration with researchers at the James Cook University and The George Washington University, a promising new antigen, Sm-TSP-2 (Schistosoma mansoni Tetraspanin-2), was selected for development as a schistosomiasis vaccine. Then at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Sabin and its partners developed the process for manufacture of the vaccine under cGMP, and was followed by technology transfer to Sabin's manufacturing partner, Aeras.
Schistosomiasis afflicts over 250 million people around the globe and is the deadliest disease among the seven most prevalent NTDs, killing an estimated 280,000 people annually. Thanks to private donations from Mr. Morton Hyman, Dr. Gary Michelson, Texas Children's Hospital and the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Schistosomiasis Vaccine Initiative (SVI) utilizes and leverages the Sabin Vaccine Institute PDP's existing programmatic and technical infrastructure to produce and evaluate a schistosomiasis vaccine.
The suffering caused by hookworm is not well known in the developed world but in many countries it is all too prevalent. More than 700 million people are infected with hookworm. The largest number of cases occur in impoverished areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, China and Latin America. Globally, approximately 3.2 billion people are at risk for hookworm infection.


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If Bush did in fact give him a kiss, shame on him and as an Independent, I should know better than trying to defend Bush. What Oboma did was wrong and only sends a signal of our weakness. This whole G20 trip was unproductive and was more about "fashion" than issues. Obomo went over there and instead of trying to tackle the tough issues, he did nothing but bad mouth Bush.
We need a leader, not someone that wants to be liked, a news headline seeker and wanting to show off their European designer clothing.


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i noticed this thread was moved, and I wonder why. The Phins cap is a very important part of the team, as shown by the Herald, Sun, PB Post, and even the Miami Dolphins web site. I don't understand why not here, especially over a number of others.
just having a quick glance at the posts we are roughly $7m under give or take , is there any option to resign say a fasano or hartline this year rather than next year ?
would that help anything? or do we wait till next year ,i am sure i heard we were in the 1st stages of contract talks with hartline a while back
would that be for now or next year?
any info would be helpful!
As for Fasano and Hartline I think it would be fairly easy to give them both extensions. In other words taking on a few more years and money that doesn't effect this years salary so that we can still rollover the remaining money we have under the cap but, as I've mentioned before, I don't think Ireland will do it mid-season because last time he did it was with Greg Camarillo and Camarillo got injured two games later and was lost for the season and he never came back to form and you know he got cut so Ireland got burned a little. I think he still remembers that and feels a little snake bit by it. I would say after week 10 or 12 he'll start negotiating in earnest on a lot of these guys. Fasano, Hartline, Starks and Bush (if he decides to keep him) should be fairly easy. Smith and Long I think are going to be difficult.
didnt he resign fasano ,carpenter,fields last time out mid season???, not that it matters !!
yep i can see smith wanting big money and long just dosent justify $10m-$12m contract in my eyes and not sure ireland wanting to pay up
which i dont blame him in anyway


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Bob Sapp Speaks Out About FEG; "K-1 is extremely broke. So is DREAM."
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When it rains it pours, and right now it will pour for FEG. Amid reports of FEG's financial woes and possible bankruptcy and morbid fate, Bob Sapp decided to speak out about FEG after the Dynamite!! 2010 disaster where his fight with Wakakirin never happened. Tanikawa told fans and the press that Bob Sapp attempted to renegotiate before the fight and that his "fighting spirit" was low. Seeing as though Bob Sapp made himself a millionaire in Japan, he couldn't let that sit. He spoke with MMAJunkie and some of what he said was known, some was rather shocking, like FEG not even having its own office anymore. Sapp was contracted to fight for $30,000.
Instead, he claims FEG executive Sadaharu Tanikawa offered him $15,000 shortly after he arrived in the country the week prior to the event. He refused and made a counter-offer of $25,000, a sum which he claims is half of what the promotion owed him for previous services.
|Sapp claims he has a contract with FEG that verifies the rate of pay he was expected to receive for the Dec. 31 fight, as well as other fights, though he said the promotion has yet to honor the terms of that deal. During the promotion's heyday in the mid-2000s, he said he was routinely paid between $350,000 and $400,000 to fight.
Sapp went on to explain that K-1 and DREAM are "extremely broke" and that he has no expectations for them. Could this be the last we see of Bob Sapp in K-1 or DREAM? [source]


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As a Christian and a minister, my heart has had a natural gravitation to the love of turkey hunting. I have only been hunting turkeys for 3 years now and I can tell you they present more of a challenge than any other animal that I have pursued.
There are some stark similarities between hunting and faith. One of which seems to be touched upon by many in the forums is the fact that we learn from our mistakes. Making a mistake is not a failure, refusing to learn from that mistake is a failure. One friend of mine stated to me once "success is getting up one more time than you have fallen down".
We can relate that not only to the sport of turkey hunting, but to life in general.
So, my fellow turkey friends, remember to never give up on those bad birds, and to never give up in our walks in life. Enjoy the little things like friends, family, and faith that add so much to our lives.