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I have the renzetti traveler clamp and saltwater pedestal. Although the jaws can't compete with some vises, the rest of the vise is excellent and if you have the cam version the jaw concerns are negated. After countless flies, I re-habed the parts for the original traveller - it cost a couple of bucks and it's as good as new! Sometimes it just pays to ask your local fly shop, they had the whole parts list on hand.
Recently more models have come on line, perhaps a vise consumer report is due...
|Juro, what model rotary vise do you use? I've been doing quite a bit of dubbing lately, and recognize the advantages that a rotary vise would afford me.
I can tell you don't have a true rotary vise. If so you could hold the feather in your fingers and turn the fly, which is what I do 99% of the time.
One thing not mentioned here among the excellent ideas is the universal hackle plier. It has a uni-joint to allow the jaws to stay aligned with the hackle's 'grain' thus removing axial torsion from the stem and reducing stress, breakage dramatically - not to mention keeping the barbules pointing outward (perpendicularly) from the hook shaft more easily.
With a uni-plier the concern becomes whether it's gripping the feather hard enough, some are a little whimpy in terms of holding power. Buy the kind you can adjust (bend) to increase clamping power if needed.
Since buying the true rotary, I have probably used the universal hackle plier once and it was only for nostalgic reasons.
Your results may vary,
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Another way of softening the jaws of the hackle pliers that has worked for me over the years is to slip a short section of heat shrink tubing over each side of the jaws. Heat the stuff up and it shrinks to a perfect fit. Shrink tubing can be obtained anywhere electrical supplies are sold. Radio Shack etc etc
If it is the hackle stem that is the cause it is often the hackle is too dry and brittle. Try either soaking the hackle stems in water for a while beofre tying or soaking them in a jar with water and a little hair conditioner. Then lay it flat on a paper towel to dry. When using hair conditioner, pick the one with the least amount of smell, as you don't want a perfumed scent to the fly.
One way of testing what it is that is breaking the hackle is to wrap the hackle by finger only. If it breaks with fingers, it is most likely dry brittle hackles. If the pliers are breaking it and not the fingers I suspect the pliers are to blame and would use the heat shrink tubing to correct the sharp edges of the pliers.
Best regards.....Paul
One of the most common causes of the hackle breaking is putting the hackle pliers on to the feather tip incorrectly. If the hackle pliers are placed at right angles (sideways across the feather), they are prone to bread the feather stem as you wrap the hackle.
The proper was to place the hackle pliers on the feather is with the hackle plier jaws pointing down the feather stem. If you do this, it should fix the problem of hackle feathers breaking as you wrap the hackle.
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Re: Wrapping Hackle?
IMHO it's tools or technique thats causing your problem. If you had brittle feathers you'd breakoff at the tie in point. That can be much more frustrating.
The tools are easy to test. Open up the hackle pliers, take a cotton ball and rub lightly over the faces that touch the feather. If tufts of cotton are pulled off that is your problem. polishing the pliers with 600 grit sand papper or a buffing wheel will cure the problem.
If not then here are a couple of things to try. Grip the feather further from the tip when you apply the pliers. Or hold the feather between your finger tips when winding the hackle and only use the hackle pliers to weight down the hackle when tying it down.
Wrapping Hackle?
I am new to fly tying and am having some trouble wrapping hackle. I grab the end of the feather with my hackle pliers and start to wrap the shank of the hook. However, the feather frequently breaks right at the point where I grab it with my hackle pliers. Am I doing something wrong? I am not pulling on the feather with an excessive amount of force and no matter how careful I am I seem to break feathers.
Could this be due to the hackle feathers being of poor quality? Could my hackle pliers be causing this by having a sharp edge or grabbing the feather too tight? How can I solve this problem?
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By Lloyd Gray
It's our custom at the Daily Journal as each year draws to a close to review the most significant news stories in Northeast Mississippi and the state as a whole over the past 12 months.
Some years it's easier than others to pinpoint a top story of the year. In 2011, there was no question that the tornadoes that devastated portions of the region were far and away the biggest news event of the year. In 2010, the ousting of incumbent congressmen in Northeast Mississippi and on the Gulf Coast captured the mood of the "angry voter" we declared as our "Newsmaker of the Year."
In previous years, we'd recognized the citizen-soldier, the recession-wracked Northeast Mississippi worker, hurricane relief volunteers and even anti-smoking activists as the most important or influential newsmakers in the region.
For 2012, the task was harder. No one dominant story emerged as we reviewed the significant events of the past 12 months, but there were – as usual – many that came to mind as more or less equal in interest and impact. They're reviewed elsewhere in today's paper.
But there were two news categories that were both ongoing and sometimes intertwined – education and politics. What happened in the 2011 state elections as Republicans captured the last bastion of Democratic control in state government, the House of Representatives, produced what appeared to be a clear pathway for the GOP agenda on education, at the top of which was charter schools.
Surprisingly to many, an expanded charter school bill didn't pass the Legislature, in the end because a few Republicans on the key House committee opposed it. Starting Jan. 8, however, a new push will be on for charters and other changes in public education.
Another element of the new education agenda did pass, a new ranking system for schools and school districts A through F instead of Star, high performing, successful, academic watch, low performing, at risk of failing and failing. Supporters said it was more direct and understandable; skeptics thought it was intended as a shot at public schools.
In that sense, it's a microcosm of the political battle surrounding public education – those who believe the system is in bad shape and needs a complete overhaul and those who reflexively defend it. Somewhere in between lies the proper approach to school reform, but the increased polarization makes it difficult to acknowledge that the other side has any valid points.
So the linkage between politics and education became, for better or worse, stronger in 2012.
As for the other politics ongoing in the past year – congressional and presidential – the region and state offered no real surprises. All incumbents were re-elected two years after the upsets, including Sen. Roger Wicker to a full six-year term and Rep. Alan Nunnelee to a second two-year stint in the House. Mitt Romney carried the state in the presidential election, as expected.
The closest thing to a surprise in the federal realm was that Mississippi's Republican presidential primary took on unexpected significance, coming at a point when Romney was having trouble sewing up the nomination with a last-gasp surge by Rick Santorum, whose social conservatism played well in Mississippi. He won the primary, and both he and Newt Gingrich paid visits to Tupelo in the final days.
Northeast Mississippi and the rest of the state move into 2013 with the same uncertainties, anxieties and eternal hopes as other Americans, but with our own unique set of challenges. May the next year-in-review see more progress than polarization, more good news than bad.
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The attached photo is from a last fall Wisconsin tom's crop, & has some pretty generic contents. The tom was taken from an early morning group of 3, shot at the edge of a good friend farmer's field. Crop is stuffed full of wheat & soybeans.
This is the first crop contents that I've bothered to photograph, & I had a motive here. By emailing the photo to the farmer friend I pretty much guaranteed that he'd always want me to hunt his turkeys once he saw the crop contents. The wheat he had just planted & the soybeans were an adjacent neighbor's.
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Lenore was born on Feb.17 1928 in Columbus, WI the daughter of William and Elvira (Bergholz) Call. She married Arthur Kegler in 1946 and later married Martin Haberman on Dec. 17, 1988. Lenore farmed the family farm for many years and was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Waterloo.
Survivors include: daughter Patricia Gerner of Waterloo; sister Pearl Ellison of St. Louis, MO; sister-in-law Phyllis Call of Columbus; special friend Verna Abendroth of Waterloo; friend Bruce Schultz of Waterloo; also survived by a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, two sisters and one brother. Memorials to St. Paul's Lutheran Church would be appreciated.
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On a cold and rainy day, the Open began with a triple with two retired. For those not familiar with Scootney Reservoir, the grounds are rolling terrain covered with sagebrush. It is very hard for dogs to mark the bird as it all looks the same and nearly impossible to run a straight line. The first bird down is the short middle retired thrown right to left. The long retired on the right is second with two gunners standing on the shoulder of a hill throwing left to right which leaves a gap between the two sets of gunners. Last down is the flyer on the left shooting left to right across a winding road. There is a rough dry ditch that usually has water in it on the way to the flyer. There has been a lot of hunting on all three marks, and the dogs disappear behind hills and sage for periods of time while hunting. Some dogs have gone up the gap between the two memory gun stations on the way to the long bird and ended up back at the short retired. Pickups and handles have been common so far.


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OCALA, FL- Fans and racers at Florida's oldest race track will have a shot at getting a cash bonus this Friday night as Ocala Speedway presents the debut of Pepsi Wheel of Fortune Night. A lucky fan will spin the wheel to determine who gets a hefty cash bonus from Pepsi, the official soft drinks of Ocala Speedway. The cash could be distributed to one racing division, plus some lucky fans, depending on where the Pepsi Wheel of Fortune indicates.
Ocala Speedway's Late Model Division is currently running in the shadow of champion racer and local favorite, Ivedent Lloyd Jr. But Lloyd is sometimes lured away by major races in other locations, so his points lead is merely 2 over Mark Whitener. Whitener drives for another local stable, wheeling the 58 Big Frog Motorsports, Dave's Towing machine, within rock throwing distance from the speedway. Just five points back stands Keith Nosbisch who has been strong in 2010, and Lake Helen's Joe Kump is only 9 points behind Ivedent Lloyd. With the race this close, a lot could change depending on who shows up on Friday night, and what transpires on the track.
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Former Miss California Carrie Prejean on Tuesday defended a recently surfaced erotic video of her as a youthful indiscretion and questioned whether it could actually be called a "sex tape" since no one else appears in it.
"It was me by myself. There was no one else with me. I was not having sex," the controversial beauty queen told TODAY's Meredith Vieira in New York.
Prejean admitted to making the video of herself and sending it to her boyfriend when she was 17 years old. The tape surfaced during a negotiating session with the Miss California pageant officials over a lawsuit Prejean filed against the organization for stripping her of her crown earlier this year. When the tape's existence was revealed, Prejean dropped her suit and settled with the officials, who reportedly paid her $100,000 to go toward her legal expenses.
'Nothing is private'
"You can call it whatever you want to call it. If you want to call it a sex tape, that's fine," Prejean told Vieira. "I sent it to my boyfriend at the time. I was a teenager. I cared about him. I trusted him," she added. "I think now they call it 'sexting.'
"Did I think it would come back now and haunt me? No. But I think that a lot of young people can learn from this. Nothing is private anymore. Nothing is private."
Prejean, dressed in a deep blue blouse, black skirt and spike heels and wearing a small silver cross around her neck, also said that pageant owner Donald Trump conducted a sort of private pageant with contestants, hand-picking the best-looking women to go into the finals, even before the judges made their decisions.
Prejean admitted that making the video of herself and sending it — an act that other teens have been prosecuted as sex offenders for doing — was a bad decision.
"It was the biggest mistake of my life," she told Vieira.
'Campaign against me'
Prejean was on TODAY to talk about her just-published book , "Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate and Political Attacks." And even before admitting that making the video was a mistake, she accused her enemies of using it to attempt to silence her.
"The main point is there has been a campaign against me to try to silence me for the past seven months for the answer that I gave at the pageant," she said.
She was referring to April 19 and the finals of the Miss USA pageant, when celebrity blogger Perez Hilton asked her opinion of same-sex marriage. Prejean cited her Christian beliefs in saying she believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Hilton responded later by calling her a "dumb b---h."
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Video: Miss California blames photographer Prejean would finish second in the pageant, and she said she was punished for exercising her right to free speech. She cited the same enemies when racy photos of her later emerged: one showing her dressed in just panties with her back to the camera, another showing her with her breasts exposed.
Donald Trump, the owner of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, saved Prejean's Miss California crown. But she soon lost that, too, when pageant officials accused her of not meeting her contractual obligations. Prejean then sued, accusing pageant officials of libel, slander and religious discrimination, alleging that she was dismissed for her religious beliefs. The pageant countersued, demanding that she pay them back for the breast enhancement surgery they paid for.
'I'm still standing'
Prejean told Vieira she remains convinced that everything that's happened to her is because of her beliefs.
"The biggest thing and the reason I wrote this book is Americans believe their beliefs are under attack, and this is proof," she told Vieira, adding that the sex tape is another example of what her enemies will do to attack her. Video: Miss California speaks out
"All I know is there is a campaign against me trying to silence me," Prejean said. "They tried to embarrass me. They tried to humiliate me. They tried to attack me. And I'm still standing."
The book, she said, is her way of telling her side of the story.
"Americans heard only bits and pieces of what really happened," Prejean said. "I think that there is a liberal bias in the media, and it's unfortunate that conservative women are attacked for their beliefs. It's unacceptable and it shouldn't happen. So many Americans are frustrated. So many Americans believe that their beliefs are under attack, and they should be silent and free speech doesn't exist."
Prejean specifically mentioned Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown," who has recently criticized her for what he calls her hypocrisy.
"There is an extreme double standard that conservative women are under attack for whatever it is," Prejean told Vieira. "If Sean Hannity went out there and said some of the things that Keith Olbermann has said about me, if he says anything about [Sonia] Sotomayor, Michelle Obama, he would be off the air. Why is there this double standard? That's the reason why I wrote this book."
'No one is perfect'
In the book, Prejean talks about her Christian beliefs and condemns the ubiquity of pornography. Young women should resist the pressures of popular culture, of sex, she said, writing, "Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy."
Video: Miss California: 'I wouldn't change' Vieira said that Prejean has been accused of hypocrisy for that statement in light of the racy photos and the video she made.
"I'm a model. I was in a beauty pageant. If people want to call me a hypocrite, that's their prerogative. But I've learned from my mistakes. No one is perfect," Prejean replied.
Vieira also asked about Trump's doing his own prejudging of the contestants.
Prejean said that Trump chose the hottest contestants and sent them to one side of the stage. Her story confirms an August report by Miss Universe choreographer Michael Schwandt, who told the Web site Guanabee that Trump hand-picked six of the 15 finalists in that pageant.
"We were so excited to meet The Donald," Prejean said. "He shook our hands. He asked us, 'How do you feel about so-and-so?' or 'Who do you think is the most beautiful woman up here?' Some of the girls were on the right side and some of the girls were on the left, and those that were on the left were devastated. There's a lot in this book that a lot of people don't know goes on behind the scenes in pageants. It's not all what it seems to be."
Slideshow: Beauty queen scandals Trump declined to comment on Prejean's allegations.
Despite all that has happened, Prejean would not condemn beauty pageants, nor would she advise other young women not to enter them.
"I have learned so much and I've grown so much. There have been so many great experiences," she told Vieira. "I wouldn't be here today had it not been for the pageant."
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Roland S-220
The S-220 is an upgraded rackmount version of the original S-10 sampling keyboard with polyphony that has been doubled to 16 voices. Like the S-10, it is still a very limited consumer-grade sampler. Its sampling specs are limited to a 12-bit, 30kHz sample-rate. With only 256k of internal memory spread over 4 banks (64k per bank) you get a maximum sample time of 4.4 seconds (1.1 seconds per bank). That's hardly enough for any serious music production. Samples can be stored and loaded on a built-in 2.8" floppy disk system called the Quick Disk drive (which isn't very quick by today's standards). The S-220 also features 4 part multitimbrality and up to 5 audio outputs.
Roland has created some nice libraries for the S-10 on disk which are compatible with the S-220. Creating your own samples is pretty easy and was designed for any novice to intermediate player. 30kHz or 15kHz sampling is available, and the S-220 has a pretty good auto-loop feature. The 12-bit resolution and 30-15kHz sample-rates mean lo-fi quality (which you might find desirable). Further edit parameters include sample trimming, looping, reverse, tuning, envelope editing, filtering, velocity effects and hi-pass or low-pass filtering. All this editing is achieved by assigning the parameters to a dial or wheel just like the Alpha Juno series. Though the S-220 is an entry-level sampler, S-330 is a more advanced system with professional appeal.
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Manual - Roland has made manuals for most of their products available as free PDF downloads.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 16 voices
- Sampler - 12-bit, 30kHz
- Multitimbral - 4-parts
- Memory - 256k, 4.4 seconds total sample time
- Filter - Hi-pass, Low-pass filters
- Arpeg/Seq - Arpeggiator
- Keyboard - None
- Control - MIDI
- Date Produced - 1987
- Websites of Interest
- Shop for Keyboards, MIDI & Gear
Guitar Center: Synths and MIDI
Sweetwater: Hot items in Keyboars section
The Musician's Friend: Keyboard gear
AMS: Brand synths and accessories
The Woodwind & Brasswind Store
music123.com: Synth Blow Out Deal Section
zZounds: Keyboards and MIDI equipment
- Resources & Credits
Christopher Baumbach, found at Synth Site.
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Winston Lord on Crafting the Shanghai Communique with Kissinger
Winston Lord, then an adviser to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, recalls how they wrote the 'Shanghai Communique' on a 1971 trip to China, months before Nixon's historic summit.
On our October 1971 trip Kissinger gave Zhou En-Lai our draft of a joint communiqué for the looming summit. Per diplomatic custom, it accentuated the positive. After checking with Mao, Zhou treated our effort with scorn and derision. It did not reflect two decades of hostility and would unnerve our respective friends and publics. Each side should state its own positions and then converge on a few points.
We were leaving Beijing in 48 hours, and so, controlling our panic, we went to work. I finished a first draft at 4 a.m. and woke up Kissinger to revise it. There were still tough negotiations on Taiwan ahead, but the unprecedented Shanghai Communiqué was essentially written overnight.


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Andrea Mitchell: People with insurance who oppose ObamaCare "may not know what's good for them"
posted at 3:35 pm on July 31, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Breitbart, consider this a video companion to Karl's post. She's totally right, incidentally: It's certainly possible that we halfwit proles with private insurance might have misjudged where our true self-interest lies. But the same could be said of virtually any group involved in any issue — e.g., anti-war types "may not know what's good for them" in opposing the effort to counter jihadism with democracy — and yet, curiously, it isn't. To think, Megan McArdle was worried about elitist liberals using health care to dictate to the masses what's in their best interest.
As for the current state of the House bill, it's almost impossible to keep up. Last night liberal Democrats were warning the Blue Dogs they're prepared to join the GOP in torpedoing a center-left compromise. Then, a few hours ago, Waxman announced a compromise on the Energy and Commerce Committee by which Blue Dogs would get to keep subsidies for middle-class families to buy their own insurance in return for liberal Dems getting lower premiums for the uninsured and a floor vote on a single-payer government takeover (which won't pass). Meanwhile, in the Senate, Reid and company are preparing for "plan B," i.e. abandoning the GOP entirely and ramming the bill home on a strict party-line vote, which is fine by me. Will Snowe, Grassley, etc., blink anyway? The only thing that's certain at this point: If, as Krauthammer said, you're young and healthy and not interested in paying for insurance right now, you're about to get soaked. But that's what you get for not knowing what's good for you.
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Does anybody know of any sites other than Agents of Gaming, Sci-fi Minatures.com or Starfleet Battles where you can buy metal/plastic minatures?
I've just got a Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper kit and I love it ( http://freespace.virgin.net/james.hobson/sci.htm ) and I wouldn't mind aquiring some more general sci-fi minatures (Dune, Battlestar, SW, ST, anything).
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Deeplinks Blog posts about Patents
Printers aren't all that expensive. Ink for the printers, on the other hand, can cost more than fine Champagne and tends to be far less delicious. Lexmark, in yet another attempt in a long line of schemes, is trying to use patent law to make sure it stays that way.
In a case called Lexmark v. Impression Products, Lexmark is trying to use patent law to prevent customers from lawfully getting cheaper ink. Lexmark argues that by slapping a "notice" on the side of a patented ink cartridge, they can limit consumers to using the cartridges only once under the threat of patent infringement.
Today, in Williamson v. Citrix, the Federal Circuit overruled its ill-advised case law that has been one of the primary drivers of overbroad software patents. The court finally recognized that patent applicants cannot bypass certain limits on patent rights solely by avoiding magic words. EFF filed an amicus brief urging the court to do just that.
Imagine the Wright brothers, after they invented their airplane, filed for a patent claiming "a machine for flying." Essentially claiming a machine for what it does rather than how it does it. This is known as "functional claiming."
One of the best weapons a patent troll has in extorting an undeserved settlement is the cost of litigation. If a defendant knows that a case will drag on for several months, or even years, and will require her to spend significant resources to prevail, she is more likely to give in to pressure from a patent troll.
Recently, the Eastern District of Texas made that weapon even sharper.
Earlier this week, we announced that an Atlanta-based patent attorney, Scott A. Horstemeyer, had sued EFF for defamation. Horstemeyer alleged that he was defamed by the April Stupid Patent of the Month blog post. We explained that there were no false facts in the post to retract or correct, and the opinions we expressed are founded on the undisputed facts and are fully protected by the Constitution.
EFF Sued for Defamation by Patent Lawyer Behind April's Stupid Patent of the Month, Scott Horstemeyer
On May 26, 2015, Atlanta-based attorney Scott A. Horstemeyer sued the Electronic Frontier Foundation alleging that he was defamed by the April Stupid Patent of the Month blog post. Horstemeyer has demanded that EFF remove the post and publish an editorial repudiating it. EFF has declined this request and stands by the opinions expressed in the post.
We are very disappointed that an attorney would attempt to silence criticism with misguided and counterproductive litigation, and will defend against this lawsuit vigorously. As our counsel at the law firm of Bryan Cave have explained to Horstemeyer, there were no false facts in the post to retract or correct, and the opinions expressed are protected by the Constitution.
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Rustic Oak Tall Hutch / Buffet
This distressed oak and slate inlaid hutch and buffet provides elegant storage space for your dining room. You can store all of your tableware, linens, etc., in the two over-sized cabinets with waterfall glass doors, two spacious pullout drawers and large cubbyhole with shelf and glass rack. The top cabinet features wooden glass stem holders on the top of the inside to hold all of your wine glasses securely.
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To achieve the unique rustic appearance of this collection, each piece of oak is distressed, by darkening and rounding its corners and flattening or indenting its edges, and then treated with a medium-dark brown stain for a high quality finish. The slate inlays feature multiple rich colors that can vary wildly, assuring your piece of furniture will be one-of-a-kind, and are sealed in the wood to prevent cracks and debris. The dimpled knobs and pulls are black hand forged iron, and high quality waterfall glass is used throughout the collection.
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I would expand that to include breeding for ANY trait without maintaining the overall breed standard.
Most of the "purists" Prolly don't like that though cause you know that 50lb curly tailed dog can WIN!
Bottom line, the Labrador has had a closed registry for many years. So it really doesn't matter if the dilute gene was "discovered" or fraudulently introduced via the Lab/weim crosses rumored to be involved in the plethora of silver Labs we have today. Dilute colors may have existed at one point but they were bred out. Who are these people promoting something differing from the standard? Any of them ever competed a purebred dog in any event or been a member of a breed or other dog club? (((eye roll))) What's next, curly tails, brindle and piebald coats, pointy ears? With as many breeds of dogs as there are, if you want a silver coat or a brindle or a black and white spotted dog, there are breeds that have those.
Julie R., Hope Springs Farm
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers since 1981
Some will get Flatties or "doodles" or something else that won't be as trainable or high achieving as a Lab.
Amy Dahl
The person or people I feel sorry for are the low information people buying the silver mutt, thinking they're getting a pure bred lab. And they're getting ripped off. And what else are these breeders lieing about hips, eyes, elbows ects????????
It's just shaddy and unethical.
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The more I'm on the internet the more I love my dogs.
Have you ever seen or trained one of these silver dogs. I have, they're a nice dog for the couch, but these silver dogs aren't labs. In my opinion these dogs lack a lot of what a good pure black, yellow or chocolate have. Which is trainablity and drive.
Cold Creek Gundogs
The more I'm on the internet the more I love my dogs.
My point is this: Currently, AKC considers silver a shade of chocolate, which it is not, and allows silvers to be registered as chocolate. So, suppose AKC were to change their status and not allow silvers to be registered as chocolate any longer....how would AKC know that all chocolates registered really are chocolate, and that silver breeders weren't continuing to register them as such? They would have to inspect every chocolate puppy registered. Really, as it stands now, you could register a yellow as black and AKC wouldn't know it wasn't (not that I can imagine anybody wanting to do such a thing, but there's no way for AKC to know what color a dog really is when its registered. It's all the honor system, and therein lies the failure.
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Mr Leonard Ariff bin Abdul Shatar, president, Malaysian Organisation of Pharmaceutical Industries (MOPI)
Mr Leonard Ariff bin Abdul Shatar forayed into the pharmaceutical industry of Malaysia in late 90s and since then he gained wide experience and credibility in the country. In 2008, Mr Shatar was appointed as the director of pharmaceutical division of Chemical Company of Malaysia (CCM) and also as chief executive officer of CCM Duopharma Biotech. In 2010, he took charge of Malaysian Organisation of Pharmaceutical Industries (MOPI) as president.
In this role, Mr Shatar helped MOPI emerge as a prominent regulator and policy maker. He has been ensuring that issues such as patents and regulatory barriers are discussed on a much wider platform and MOPI is able to provide valuable input on matters that have an impact on its members.
Mr Shatar believes that his role as director of CCM's pharmaceutical division is driven by delivering acceptable returns to stakeholders of the organization balanced against needs of being a responsible corporate citizen. However, role as president of MOPI is much more holistic. He believes that looking at the Industry in its totality and charting its future growth involves regular interaction with decision makers within the Malaysian Ministry of Health and other relevant policymaking stakeholders.
During his interview with BioSpectrum Asia, Mr Shatar throws light on the evolving phase of Malaysia biopharmaceutical industry and how the industry has pushed itself to global standards amid all the policy barriers. Following are the excerpts:
Recently, Malaysia Ministry of Health raised concerns over adulterated drugs circulating in Malaysia. Is there any role or action that MOPI is taking along with the government to handle the situation?
Issues on adulterated drugs primarily affect the innovator pharmaceutical companies. The Malaysian generic pharmaceutical industry tends to be less susceptible to this due to the lower prices that generics command relative to that of innovators.
MOPI has and will continue in its support of the regulatory agencies to combat any form of unlawful adulterated medicines. The new pharmacy bill intends to increase the penalty on counterfeit medicines as an added deterrent. Counterfeits tend to be in the more popular "over the counter" (OTC) medicines. MOPI estimates that the level of counterfeiting in Malaysia to be less than 2 percent of the total market.
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Date Posted: February 4, 2010 - 1:35 am by: Paris
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From her supporting role in the Twilight saga movies, upcoming star Anna Kendrick landed on a big role in Up In The Air alongside George Clooney, and her performance in the film earned her a nomination in this year's Oscars. And what would a girl do upon hearing this delightful news? Of course, she'll party!
And party she did. Anna toasted her nomination last night in a restaurant in West Hollywood. The actress reportedly had drinks at the bar with three of her girlfriends. She was obviously psyched up that after a few attempts at being a movie star, her efforts finally have been duly recognized.
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Did you know?
HG Wells, the world famous author of The War of The Worlds and The Invisible Man, was diagnosed with diabetes in 1930 and in 1931 he became one of RD Lawrence's patients. Lawrence, who was at that time a very famous physician, planned to build a diabetes inpatient department at King's College Hospital, where he worked, and wrote to all his private patients asking for donations. When Wells contributed only a very small sum, Lawrence was nonplussed! Wells offered to write a letter to The Times, appealing to readers for donations. His letter sparked a huge response that meant Lawrence soon had the money for the department he wanted.
Wells went on to write to The Times again, this time proposing the formation of an association for people with diabetes. The organization was established in months and Wells chosen as its president. That organization wet on to become Diabetes UK (you can read Wells' original to The Times at www.diabetes.org.uk).
(1): CIA factbook
(3): IDF Diabetes Atlas, 5th edition annual update, 2012


text: I am anxious to find out what the next Sideshow 12" figure is for this line. I can't even decide who I want most of all because there are so many incredible characters. Gandalf, any Uruk-Hai warrior, Saruman, Elven warriors. I think I have to go with something like a prologue Elven Warrior, Great cosutms and accessories. But it sounds like the armor will limit the possability of that.


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Breeder Police on RTF = caring people who are concerned for the dog and the breed's welfare.
They are wonderful people who have, through hard work and many long hours, as well as buckets full of money, that are willing and able to give sound advice to novices who would like to breed a litter for themselves.
They are much maligned by people with attitudes of "they're just dogs!" and "I don't have the ...(time, money, knowledge, patience, ability, etc,)", who ask for advice but really don't want to take any.
The Breeder Police on RTF are well meaning with their advice and time because they have experienced said advice many times over. They have encountered the pitfalls and heartaches, shed the blood, sweat, and tears so often associated with breeding. As such, they give freely of their time and knowledge to novices who are willing to listen and heed their warnings and words of wisdom.
They are frustrated when those that ask for advice turn a blind eye and a deaf ear, yet reply in a negative manner when that advice goes against the novices wishes, as they know that there are innocent lives at stake- both those of the litter, as well as the mother, possibly the stud.
They are concerned for the new potential owners as well. Breeders are the stewards of the Breed, as farmers are to the land that they love. Poor breedings cast a disparaging eye on Breeders as a whole.
The Breed Police on RTF wish that all novices would take the necessary time to fully research the Breed in which they want to produce a litter from. This includes the Breed Standard (your dog does not have to make it in the show ring, but should still look like the breed of dog that you are working with!!), the health issues that ALL breeds have as a part of their genetic make up, as well as the tests that should be performed (who offers them, when they should be done, costs, etc). What is the correct temperament of the breed? You should be familiar with your breeds Purpose. Is it a working type of animal or one that was created strictly for looks/as a pet? If a working type of animal, you should research the type of work the breed was initially designed to perform. Are there venues to "prove" or test these traits (Field Trials, Hunt Tests, etc.) ? You do not have to perform in any of these with your dog, but you should be familiar with them.
The Breed Police would like for the novice to make an appointment with their veterinarian, as well as with an experienced reproductive vet if possible. Not for the dog, but for a frank sit down discussion with you about your goals as a breeder, and how, between the two (or three) of you, that you can meet and exceed those goals, ensuring that you and your vet are on the same page regarding the health and well being of your dog and pups.
The Breed Police on RTF would love to see that you have researched your expectations for your litter. Litters should be bred for a Purpose. One should always try to bred to the highest purpose possible, so that pups that don't quite reach that goal still have some niche to fill. If you are breeding at the lowest possible point, how high do you think your pups could actually rise realistically? What will you do with the pups that don't make even that goal?
They hope that the novice takes their advice on picking the best possible stud for your bitch- which is rarely the most convenient While the stud next door is surely the cheaper and easier route for many, it often does not produce the desired type of pups.
The RTF Breed Police would also recommend that the novice breeder research demand for their pups BEFORE breeding the litter. They hope that you have homes for a number of potential homes (great ones at that!) prior to breeding.
And the # 1 reason that there ARE RTF Breeder Police is: If you are going to do, make, produce, or portray something.....do it correctly, ethically, and humanely the first time. Which, with the RTF Breeder Police's sound advice, you will!!!! Why make the same mistake that your predecessors have already made and learned from?????


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4 hospitalized, 1 charged in Jeep vs. minivan crash
Minivan occupants trapped, extricated by rescue crew
ELKHORN, Wis. - A 26-year-old Whitewater man was arrested and four others were taken to area hospitals with injuries after a crash in the town of Whitewater.
The Walworth County Sheriff's Department said Jeremy B. Colberg was arrested on several charges Saturday evening related to the crash, including suspicion of a third-offense drunken driving charge, four counts of causing great bodily harm operating while intoxicated, open intoxicants in a motor vehicle, inattentive driving and failure to yield right of way while making a left turn.
According to the report, just after 8 p.m., Walworth County deputies and City of Whitewater police officers responded to a report of a two-car crash on Highway 12. Capt. Scott McClory said Colberg was driving a 1996 Jeep Cherokee eastbound on Highway 12 approaching the intersection at Highway N, when he turned left into an oncoming westbound vehicle, a 2008 Subaru minivan carrying four people.
The sheriff's department said both vehicles had green lights to go straight but the minivan had the right of way. The minivan was driven by 73-year-old Felix Yavnoshan of Palatine, Ill. Passengers included Yelena Yavnoshan, 73, of Palatine, Ill.; Igor Yavnoshan, 50, of Wheeling, Ill.; and Olga Yavnoshan, 46, of Wheeling, Ill., according to the report.
The minivan occupants were trapped and had to be extricated by the Whitewater Fire Department, McClory said. The driver and passengers in the minivan all sustained broken bones or critical internal injuries, according to the sheriff.
Felix Yavnoshan was taken by Flight for Life to a Madison-area hospital. The other passengers were transported to hospitals in Madison and Fort Atkinson and Janesville. The sheriff's department did not have an update on the minivan occupants' conditions Sunday.
The Walworth County Crash Investigation Unit also responded and the road was shut down for about three hours, according to the sheriff.
McClory said the Department of Corrections Division of Probation and Parole placed a hold on Colberg following the crash, as officials said Colberg was on parole for a prior drug conviction.


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While I agree that the defense could struggle early due to lack of experiece, the projected D that they will field is extremely talented. I think their talent will make up for the lack of experience before it's all said and done.Originally Posted by MWM
The offense will not skip a beat, they might even be a tad more potent. Smith is really coming into his own and with the loss of Holmes, Ginn will get the ball in his hands more which is never a bad thing. Chris Wells could have a Maurice Clarett type impact next season if given the chance....he's that good, if not better than Maurice.


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Spacious St. Stephen's Square Apartment
Size80 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
- Kitchen
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- Smoking allowed
- Hot tub
- Balcony/terrace
- Pets allowed
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The apartment is located on St. Stephen Square ('Szent István tér'), 2 minutes from Deák Ferenc Square (junction and access to major public transport lines). Andrássy Avenue, where the Opera House, most theatres, restaurants, cafés and pubs can be found, is 1 minute walk away. The river Danube and the Chain Bridge ('Lánchíd') are 3 minutes walk from the apartment.
From the airport terminals: Bus number 200 to the terminus ('Kőbánya-Kispest' metro terminus), change to Metro 3 (blue line) to 'Deák Ferenc tér' (10th stop). It takes approx. 1 hour and 20 minutes. You'll need tickets for the public transport. Or you can choose our quick and easy airport transfer service (€24).
From the Eastern ('Keleti') Railway Station: Metro 2 (red line) to 'Deák Ferenc tér' (3rd stop), approx. 20 minutes.
From the Southern ('Déli') Railway Station: Metro 2 (red line) to 'Deák Ferenc tér' (4th stop), approx. 20 minutes.
From 'Kelenföld' Railway Station: Tram no. 49 to the terminus, 'Deák Ferenc tér' (11th stops, approx 40 minutes.
From the International Bus Station ('Népliget Buszpályaudvar'): Metro 3 (blue line) to 'Deák Ferenc tér' (6th stop), approx. 30 minutes.
House rulesPlease be quiet in the staircase and courtyard after 10 pm.
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Reviews of this property
The location of the apartment is perfect. It is in the city center and you can basicly walk from there to every sightseeing spot.
Since it is literally in front of the Basilika, you really here the bells ringing of the Basilika, which starts every morning at 6 am and it rings every hour...
So, having an alarm waking me up every morning at 6 am was the only disadvantage. Other than that, the apartment is huge and very central.
Great Place! Spatious and centric apartment. Very helpful staff. I was a bit concerned about the cathedral's bells and the wine bar some users talked about but I didn't get to notice the while asleep. It really wasn't that noisy at all. If I come back to Budapest (I'd love to) I'll come right back to this place again.
Everything was great. The location was perfect, the staff nice and helpful. The only negative thing I can think of is that if you have troble sleeping with some noise, the churchbells could be disturbing and also the bars on the streets. I didn't mind at all though so I will give this apartment 10/10 without a doubt.
Great stay and great apartment - very spacious with a magnificent view for the Cathedral (lying in bed you can admire the Cathedral facade:); nice, clean, well equipped! The sweet little balcony for two - perfect for a small brakefest or a coffe together:)
The only thing that bothered me a bit was a nois till late night from the wine bar downstairs - place for the locals - crowdy and noisy all week long till early morning.
A beautiful and spacious apartment, centrally located and with the most beautiful view that you can think of. (The pictures on the site really! Knocking) The bells start it morning already replaced at 6.00 but that you take for granted ...
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Nice and uncomplicated host.
The apartment is very central and spacious.
Functional furniture.
We´ll come back ...
Just perfect. The location could not be better, the hosts were very helpfull. The apartment was clean and comfortable.
It made our stay in Budapest unforgettable and we will be back.
Great apartment in a better location, service and handling by "Pal's Apartments" was great, apartment clean (except for the dishes, which is probably dirty love the previous user, and have left sticky with leftover food. Pans have unfortunately also better times experienced.) Nevertheless apartment perfect for sightseeing and all easily accessible on foot.
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Dennoch perfektes Apartment für Stadtbesichtigungen und alles zu Fuß problemlos erreichbar.
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Deputies were searching for Wallace prior to shootings
SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane County Sheriff deputies were looking for Charlie Wallace, the man police say is responsible for the series of events that put thousands of people in danger, after he skipped a court date on federal drug charges, when they caught up with him and initiated a traffic stop Tuesday afternoon.
When deputies pulled him over, he opened fire. Deputy Matt Spink, 45, was shot in the leg while Deputy Mike Northway, 42, was shot four times, once in both arms and in each of his legs.
Wallace then led deputies on a chase all the way from North Spokane to Deer Park, where he crashed a stolen car and then shot himself in the head.
On Wednesday authorities revealed that Wallace was a passenger in the SUV he was riding in when sheriff's deputies pulled it over. There was also a woman and a female child inside the Chevy Suburban, so when Wallace initiated the shootout he put all of them in danger just so he could avoid going back to prison.
Wallace was a fugitive when he was pulled over on the Newport Highway Tuesday. He had walked away from a court-ordered stay at a drug rehab facility and detectives were finally able to track him down Tuesday afternoon.
"The drug team started looking for Mr. Wallace. Yesterday they coordinated with Deputy Spink and Deputy Northway to make a traffic stop at which time they were engaged in the gunfight," Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said.Shootings wednesday nuts n bolts
Deputies returned fire, even after they were shot, forcing Wallace back into the SUV. The bullet-riddled Suburban was found abandoned a few blocks away at Graves and Division. Police used patrol dogs to search for Wallace if he had fled on foot, but Wallace had already found another way out of the area.
"This individual fled from the scene kicked in a door and took keys from an 85-year-old woman and then fled the scene in her vehicle," Sheriff Knezovich said.
Air 1 later found Wallace speeding northbound on Highway 2 in the stolen Honda Accord, sometimes driving into incoming traffic.
"It appears according to the video that when he crossed over into the southbound lane, going northbound on Highway 2 he put a lot of citizens at risk, nearly causing multiple head-on collisions ," Knezovich said.
The danger prompted the Washington State Patrol to throw spike strips under Wallace's stolen Honda. The flattened tires and a collision with a patrol car ended the chase.
"Mr. Wallace's vehicle was hit by the back end of a patrol car and went into a jersey barrier. When confronted by law enforcement, Mr. Wallace inflicted one gunshot wound to his head, self-inflicted and died at the scene," Knezovich said.
Detectives have since located all of the people that were in Wallace's SUV when the shooting started. They are probably looking at aiding and abetting or harboring charges. The child in the backseat at the time of the shooting was not hurt.


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All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
Caught IM3 on Friday, and I must say, I didn't enjoy it that much. It felt like a modern dumb summer movie, not like Iron Man. There were Shane Black scenes lifted straight out of his other movies, I spied Last Boy Scout and Lethal Weapon ideas throughout, the attack on Tony's house felt a lot like Lethal Weapon 2's assault on Riggs' beach trailer for example. The ripoff with The Mandarin felt really cheap, and the other villains just felt generic and flat and not a credible threat. The ending was just silly and messy, there was a lot about the film that was a mess but that ending felt tonally dishonest to the rest of the movie. Part of the problem is that the movie doesn't care who Tony is, he's "inventive action hero" with some artificial elements tossed onto his shoulders pretending that there's baggage from the events of The Avengers; and Rhodey is awful, still miscast and now written completely wrong. I gave it a 5/10, it's not horribly incompetent at being a stupid action fluff film, but it's awful as an Iron Man movie (which makes 2 bad IM movies in my book) or a Marvel film at all.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Sounds like you liked it even less than me, JT.
AIM, Mandarin and Iron Patriot are all very credible threats in the Marvel Universe but this film turned all 3 into charlatans.
Also didn't like the Batman Begins rip off. The Mandarin and Ras Al Ghul, two very similiar characters have both been turned into stand-in puppets for other people, when they should have been major bad ***** villains.
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In the case of Ra's Al Ghul, I get it - he was an immortal being with vaguely mystical powers in the comics. That would not have translated to Chris Nolan's grounded vision of Batman.
I prefer grounded visions. To this day I have no desire to see The Avengers. I object to Thor.
Somehow, I let Kal-El slide past. It comes from my renewed interest in Man of Steel due to Smallville (which stems from my constant interest in Kristin Kruek and love for Michael Rosenbaum's portrayal of Lex Luthor).
While we're at it: DAMMIT! Superman ought to be made with:
Tom Welling
Michael Rosenbaum
Kristin Kruek
Erica Durance
And any necessary others. NOT an origin story, btw - as the show (for 10 years!) covered that.
Martha, Jonathon, Lionel Luthor, even Green Arrow (well -he might work in well - as either actor who has portrayed him for the WB network) might all be unnecessary.
Great writing could provide a real challenge to "Clark" that does not require Zod or someone with equal powers.
Kneel before PLOT!
And this needs a budget of a theatrical release - not a made-for-TV movie (though I'd watch that with this cast).
Anyway, as I write my own novels for eventual publication, I may be delaying my viewing of Star Trek unfortunately.
Some of you can go out and see it right now - tonight even.
I have friends going (gone already) but I declined so I could work on my writing (this is a single SSG break as I'm about to go get something to eat).
I think I see it at 9:45 tomorrow morning as I have a baseball game in the evening and need to do a lot of writing.
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Sooo, getting together... The first date available for Chaddy and Bran is May 28th, I believe. Who can, who can't?
Yeah, the way they just cast all the good villains aside for lesser-than scenario really sucked. Iron Patriot isn't even anything here, he's not even a charlatan, just a paint job - the original is nefarious and uses jingoism against society... for the betterment of society, in a way. This was just "a guy".
Example: Col. Rhodes is barely in the film and barely useful in his armor, quickly stripped from him in some nonsense about overheating the torso to cause it to release, as if it's a coffin that opens instead of a suit he wears. And then Rhodey runs around at the end with a pistol. Yet the film also tries to put the weight of the events of the Avengers story on Tony's shoulders - the kid eventually tells him to just build stuff to get over it and it works, despite that being what we was doing throughout the film already and not working prior.
Ra's Al Ghul wasn't as big a ripoff as The Mandarin IMO, in Batman Begins there are really 2 characters with that name, the phony puppet asian guy(s, there's a second fake R'as at the party) and then Ducard is revealed to be the REAL Ra's Al Ghul and he's an effective badass, and we're not told outright that he's not like the comics character, it's left ambiguous enough. Meanhwile, IM3 is clearly saying there's no The Mandarin at all, he's an actor playing a role for AIM's Guy Pearce, and the 10 rings he wears are meaningless, and whether they tie into the Ten Rings organization from IM 1 is only lightly hinted at being the same (which means Guy Pearce's AIM was behind the plot of IM1, something pretty hateful if you think about it, try not to I guess).
The same cannot be said of The Mandarin, they make it clear in IM3 that the character was made up by Guy Pearce and has been an actor the whole time, it's clearly not The Mandarin of the comics in any way at all, and that there's no chance there ever could have been a comics version of the character out there as well.
But that's not why I didn't like the film, I can distance myself easily from the comics, that's just an ugly thing I don't like separately.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I never mentioned about availability so you're probably thinking of someone else, JT?
I'm not sure what numerical score I'd give to IM3 but less than I would give for Retaliation which I felt was merely adequate but not something I'd really want to see again
The toy line for IM3 is lackluster as well. You'd think they would capitalize on all the various armors like the Heartbreaker, Red Snapper and Igor but the best Hasbro can do are poorly articulated repaints?
No spoilers in my comments here, but I would love to discuss the newest Star Trek movie.
I loved it (in terms of a space war / action film).
There are concerns as a long time Trek fan of course. Namely the depth or lack there of for certain moral issues that could've been better addressed by this film.
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I am Isaiah: the apple that fell far from the tree. Apple enthusiast. Socially awkward. Questioner of gender convention. Fighter against dated stereotypes. Owner of fleeting memories. Liberal. Athlete. Ridiculously sarcastic. Stuck in niche limbo. Believer of high school anarchy. Amateur philosopher. Highly conflicted. Love Ringo Starr because you don't. Passionately curious. Nerd.
I was born and raised in Canarsie, Brooklyn by an incredible mother/father duo. From what I was told I was a well behaved child. I have my doubts, but who am I to say? I wasn't really there. My first decade of life was painfully boring, so, naturally, my need for a friend was the constant topic of conversation for my parents and me. I was young, naïve, and didn't know it was inevitable at that point. I'd dug my own grave, and in a span of two years my parents managed to spawn two beautifully evil little "friends" for me to "play" with. I'd come to realize that by "friends" they meant little sisters and by "play" they meant changing their diapers and babysitting them. Yes, they are everything you'd expect: hyper, agitating, massive thorns in my side, too lovable for words, and appreciated constants in my life.
Besides trips to Europe to visit family, I've never left Canarsie, so that is where I was initially forced to draw my inspiration from. It wasn't until my father started taking me to Manhattan and other parts of the city that I started to discover new sources of inspiration. I was always transfixed by the architecture, the lights, the people, and of course, the food. I always revered New York for the energy that pulsed through it and its uncured insomnia. It felt like a place that could keep up with the imagination of a ten-year-old child. Every day I learn something new about this city. And as I grow artistically, I've learned to appreciate this city more and more with each visit.
I love art—nothing more to say after that. Andy Warhol, one of my favorite artists said, "…I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there—I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life." I've felt this way, as if I was watching a show, albeit a boring show, but my love for art was one of the few things I identified as real. I came to realize that even in times of overwhelming sadness, happiness, or discomfort, I'll hold art above all else. I don't know how my relationship with art got to this point or how it will evolve in the future, but I do know it will remain one of my most cherished passions.


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Jazz program opens concert season, Oct. 13
Posted October 10, 2007; 11:26 a.m.
The Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble, directed by Anthony D.J. Branker, will open the University Jazz Program's 2007-08 concert season by celebrating the sound, sensibility and influence of the blues at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
The program, "Three or Four Shades of the Blues," will feature the blues in a variety of stylistic manifestations with compositions by Thad Jones, Benny Carter, Lyle Mays, Frank Foster, Charles Mingus and others.
Tickets may be purchased online through University Ticketing or through the Richardson Auditorium box office, (609) 258-5000.


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These gorgeous people are my grandparents! They were known for wearing hats - and always tilted them to the side. I love that. (My grandmother was a rodeo queen in Bisbee, AZ. What I would give for her wardrobe!)
Worth & Worth (the shop from the video). I bet one of the felt hats would be awesome.
Barbara Feinman Millinery (they make most of their hats on site)
The Hat Shop (great selection and very knowledgeable/experienced owner)
JJ Hat Center (NY's oldest chapeau shop)
Yestadt Millinery
And...some hat inspiration from around the web:
Do you guys like wearing hats? Or do you have another personal trademark? People always say my trademark is my wavy hair or my leather hand bag, which I've used for about 7 years straight now. Maybe someday it will be hats, too.
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BIOT 592 - Protein Isolation and Analysis
Study of the theory and application of techniques involved in protein isolation, characterization, and analysis. Emphasis on understanding principles of protein purification, laboratory experiences in protein separation, detection and analysis of structure function relationships. Prerequisite: BIO 215 or 655. Not open to students who have credit in BIOT 492.
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At the end days of November, just before Christmas, the most magical time of the year, Disneyland Resort Paris will adapt a new slogan. Need Magic?. This new slogan will not be only used in brochures or TV-ads (which are recorded in the resort 3 weeks ago). Disney is doing things big, by releasing a song (that is written by Vasile Sirl. The cast of Mickey's Show Time takes the singing to their account. But the chorus will be sung by all Cast Members! The single will be availeble all over the resort and a part of the sharings will go to Unicef. Some other items as T-Shirts are also in the make.
We post more news as we find out. THX to DLP Reisgids for the heads up.
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This Is What Might Happen in the Guard if Congress Allows Sequestration to Proceed
Budget sequestration has been a major discussion topic in the defense community for some time. The Defense Department resisted even planning for sequestration for many months, but it now seems more and more likely that it will happen.
Cuts will affect the Guard. That much is certain. But what exactly does the Guard stand to lose if sequestration becomes a reality?
Here are a few answers to that question.
- According to a Army National Guard Bureau offical speaking under the condition of anonymity, all 32,000 Federal Military Technicians in the Army Guard would likely take an 8 percent paycut. This is perhaps the most serious cut facing the Guard. While military personnel are not to be affected by automatic cuts, civilian employees of DoD are subject to the cuts. Military technicians fall into this gray area and can expect to take a cut, probably in the form of 22 furlough days throughout the year. The day-to-day operations of the National Guard are dependent upon the work of technicians, and the loss of so many man hours could have effects felt throughout the force.
- Operations and Maintenance budgets will decrease. According to an Office of Management and Budget report, the Army Guard will see a cut of $686 million in its O&M budget. The Air Guard will see a $577 million cut.
- Military construction dollars will disappear. The Army Guard would lose $100 million in MILCON funding, while the Air Guard would take a $17 million reduction. The Guard already has the oldest facilities in the military, and this cut will affect projects in the states.
The NGB official says that while the National Guard will feel the cuts significantly, the Guard's active-component counterparts are even more nervous about the cuts because of the number of contractors and civilian employers that may be laid off or furloughed. The huge infrastructure throughout the active force needs massive support from civilian employees and contractors to operate, and without them, the services are nervous about their ability to function. If sequestration proceeds, you may see a uniformed soldier mowing the lawn on an active-duty base near you.
It's already known that Guard operates lean because it doesn't need to maintain the same infrastructures as the active-component services. That, according to the NGB official, means that the sequestration cuts could be easier for the Guard to stomach.
That may be true, at least in the short term. But such long term cuts could affect the future readiness of the Guard throughout the country.
2/6/13 UPDATE: I edited the first bullet point to reflect that the technician cuts refer to Army Guard technicians only. I have not heard yet whether or not a similar cut will happen on the Air Guard side. -ARW
8 per cent cut or 20 per cent cut?
The 22 days would start in March and end this fiscal year. Most news outlets in the Washington are are reporting that it would be one day a week that workers will be forloughed. Would that not be 20%?
Won't affect him personally.
The anonymous official is of course an AGR so I guess from his perspective the guard could "stomach" these cuts. What does he think operations will look like at the base level during these furlough days? Maybe we should push some of those NGB resources back to the states. PS our state employees (another underappreciated part of our work force) sustains our infrastructure, they will also feel the pinch.
"It's already known that Guard operates lean because it doesn't need to maintain the same infrastructures as the active-component services. That, according to the NGB official, means that the sequestration cuts could be easier for the Guard to stomach."
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If technicians are going to be affected, will this affect the ones that recently retiered?
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If technicians are going to affected, how will it affect recent retirees?


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Robert D. Baldwin
Robert "String" D. Baldwin, age 65, of Janesville, died on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at Mercy Hospital & Trauma Center, Janesville, He was born in Pittsburgh, PA, on Aug. 17, 1947, the son of Rose E. Hatcher and Robert D. Baldwin. He married Katherine Ziegler Wyss in Duluth, MN on Dec. 8, 1983. String was passionate about creating fantasy art, performing in Community Theater, and living life through music. Bob worked for the City of Duluth as a city planner and was founding director of Neighborhood Housing Services of Freeport, IL. Bob retired as the Diversity Specialist for the Janesville School District in 2011. Bob was a tireless educator and advocate for issues related to diversity, equality, and social justice. He challenged everyone to make a difference . He joined his good friend Santo Carfora as diversity, anti-racism trainer. He served as NAACP President- Duluth Chapter and was a co-founder of Men as Peacemakers. Bob was enormously proud of his amazing children and adored his grandchildren.
He is survived by his loving wife, Kate, of Janesville; 7 children: Derek (Lori) Baldwin of MN, Bliss (Foster) Peterson of GA, Jennifer Wyss of MN, Jason Baldwin of MN, Matthew Wyss of MN, Andrea (Andrew) Knutson of MN and Sara Baldwin of Washington DC; 9 grandchildren: Jordan, Carter, Hunter, Jack, Henry, Gray, Davis, Mylo and Mae; 4 siblings: Deborah Polk of PA, Jack (Renyce) Baldwin of PA, Ronald Hatcher of NJ and Thomas Hatcher of FL; brother-in-law, Douglas (Nancy) Ziegler of Janesville; and mother-in-law, Gloria J. Ziegler of Janesville. Bob was preceded in death by his parents; and 2 siblings, Timothy and Sylvia Hatcher.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 1:30 PM on Thursday, April 4, 2013, at ROTARY GARDENS, Janesville. SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY is assisting the family.


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Guns N' Roses add more stops to club tour
Guns N' Roses have tacked a couple of additional club shows onto the band's two-week-old run of intimate dates.
The latest additions to the schedule are Feb. 27 at Philadelphia's Electric Factory and March 3 at the House of Blues in Orlando. Public onsales for the newly announced shows begin Wednesday (2/22).
The rockers, who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during an April 14 ceremony in Cleveland, opened their small-venue tour with three New York City shows beginning Feb. 10, during Fashion Week. The tour has since traveled to Chicago and Detroit, with Silver Spring, MD (2/23), and Atlantic City, NJ (2/24), to follow.
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recently I have been really busy with my study/job. Only little time for real fun (coding Ruby). From time to time I append more text to my document where I consolidate my current design, so I at some point can make a better data structure. [A New Data Structure].
The number of specs to the main structure is huge. I think I never before have had so many demands to so little piece of code.


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There's more on Mayor Bob ...
Even though he has been mayor only since November, he has another problem. He went to Paris (with his then fiancé). He said it was to attend a conference on Iran and that over $9,000 in travel costs were to be paid by a non-profit corp who had some involvement in hosting the conference and wanted him there.
It was checked by the Auditor for San Diego. The non-profit organization does not exist. Mayor Bob says he will reimburse San Diego his travel costs. He said his fiancé paid her own way. The Auditor is checking the bills to see if she did.
But then there were security expenses of over $21,000.charged to the City of San Diego for security to follow him around Paris and protect him. A side comment to this story was that the Security was not in place when he left San Diego so there was no Security at the airport or on the plane. Security began after the security team landed in Paris. The San Diego City Council is wondering why he would go to Paris for a conference on Iran. Who authorized it? I guess Mayor Bob did.


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Solar and wind developers learn to shift project risk to the grid.
Bruce W. Radford is publisher of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
Solar and wind developers learn to shift project risk to the grid.
Much has been written about the so-called chicken-egg problem. That's where wind and solar developers can't go forward without transmission expansions built and financed by others, but utilities won't commit to new grid construction out of fear that the new gen projects won't show up as promised.
In fact, this quandary supplies a major impetus behind FERC's proposed new rules for regional transmission planning, still pending at this writing. FERC would attack the problem head-on, requiring planners to honor and accommodate "policy-driven" renewable energy mandates as an engineering imperative, just as they must plan the grid to maintain reliability or reduce congestion. (See Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Docket No. RM10-23, June 17, 2010, 131 FERC ¶61,253.)
Under FERC's proposal, planners presumably would map out future grid configurations from the top down, achieving the most efficient layout without regard to individual project locations. Everyone would know where they stand, even before wind or solar projects are sited. Developers then would have less reason to announce a new renewable project on spec, simply as a means to fish for a possible grid connection. And utilities, presumably, would be spared the indignity of chasing after each new wind farm or solar array with ad hoc grid expansion plans in order to get their proposals vetted and approved ahead of others. This new regime, it is hoped, would become much less piecemeal and random.
But now, just as FERC's rulemaking effort nears fruition, a new model has emerged—one that seemingly allows both gen and grid developers to have their cake and eat it too, with the potential, perhaps, to outflank some aspects of FERC's vision for an open and inclusive regional planning process. This model is made possible by transmission rate incentives granted by Congress in the 2005 Energy Policy Act for a completely different purpose: to overcome what was then seen as years of inadequate transmission construction budgets. And regulators dare not dally today on any such rate request, else they be found guilty of overstepping deadlines for stimulus funding and DOE loan guarantees under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act . Together, these factors align to save power producers having to finance grid upgrades for their own wind and solar projects, and at the same time help utilities build rate base with new grid construction, insulated from the risk of gen project cancellations.
And FERC's Order 679 policy makes incentives available to any grid expansion that can qualify as "non-routine"—a test easily satisfied by any project that is costly or subject to the risk of cancellation of the underlying generation project. The nuclear plant projects of the 1970s and 1980s also were costly and high-risk. But utilities that chose to bet the company in that way were rewarded not by rate incentives, but with prudence reviews.
A key champion of this new model, the former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, sent two letters to FERC late last year in the dying


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Had some fun at the Linux Expo, though I missed lilo, who I'd intended on catching up with. I read his diary entry. All I gotta say is, "Dude, and you thought *I* was being harsh sometimes." Not that I'm complaining. :) I noticed that, while most of the Linuxcare people I talked to were friendly, at least one marketing person avoided looking at me. But then, some of my slashdot comments hit pretty hard, didn't they?
Lilo's comments on large Linux companies I think reflect the fact that Linuxcare was a services company. I think large companies centered around Linux can work as long as the revenue model isn't reliant strictly upon open source.
Which brings me to TiVo. Shipping a box that is an embedded Linux system with some custom utilities is cool. I talked to a lot of people who didn't know that a TiVo was an embedded Linux box. It's not like we don't have our kernel patches up.
Even more amusing is the comments from Linuxcare folk about the TiVo. Not surprisingly, Andrew Tridgell has ported rsync to his.
I love it there. The only other company I've enjoyed working for as much (at least in recent memory) is Be. At TiVo, they'd rather have you in a different group than lose you, and people can and do move between groups. At my final days at Linuxcare, I offered to move groups and was refused. Another person also made the same request almost two months earlier and was refused. Linuxcare bled people and money, neither of which it could afford.
TiVo's being out of the mainstream of Linux though (at least culturally) has posed some problems for finding people. We are always looking; if you want to work there, email me. We're not looking for remote employees though. And please don't ask if I can get you a TiVo. I got quite enough of that at the show. We don't make money off the boxes, we make it off the service.
It's funny, but when I handed out TiVo business cards (which have, unlike Linuxcare, Your Choice Of Job Title on them), even people working for "cool" Linux companies all wanted them. I got a few resumes; I was being low-key, but I really did have my boss' explicit permission to go on a geek finding mission. And I suspect that TiVo's involvement in Linux events will be more official in the future.


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been a long time in manage world and now I'm going back to C++.
Trying to do a small object management, but I'm having an error that I can't figure out.
Reduced the project to a smallest possible to show my issue:
(the identation got a bit messed up on copy/paste)
#include <iostream> #include <vector> using namespace std; // class cControl { public: virtual void Draw() { cout << "Control" << endl; }; }; // class cLabel: public cControl { public: cLabel() { } // void Draw() { cout << "Label" << endl; } }; // class cControls { public: vector<cControl*> listControls; // cLabel CreateLabel() { cLabel label; // #1 //this->AddControl(&label); return(label); } // void AddControl(cControl *control) { this->listControls.push_back(control); } // void Draw() { for(cControl *ctrl: listControls) ctrl->Draw(); } }; // int main() { cControls controls; cLabel label1=controls.CreateLabel(); // #2 controls.AddControl(&label1); // controls.Draw(); // cin.get(); // return(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
The point is to have a base control class that others will derive (label, textbox, line, panel, etc).
I've pointed the problem with #1 and #2.
If I add the control to the list in the main function (#2), it works fine and it calls Draw from label correctly.
But if I comment #2 and uncomment #1, so it adds automatically to list when creating label, it crashes when trying to call Draw from label.
From what I've checked, when the label is added to the vector inside the CreateLabel function, something changes when it gets out of that function, which makes unaccessible when calling the Draw.
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The default for ALLOW_DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONS has been changed tofalse. If you get compile errors for these functions, eitherchange to the prefered replacement function indicated in theerror message or set ALLOW_DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONS nonzero.
A number of configuration options can be set by editing SdFatConfig.h#define macros. Options include:ALLOW_DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONS - enable or disable deprecated functions.
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