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Discovered ignalum (mentioned in an article), which is basically an extended RH or Fedora. Suggested on their sourceforge feature tracker to work more upstream, as they seem to modify one of my config tool, without ever mailing with me (system-config-network). Checked their CVS for useful modifications. Found none.
Updated my sourceforge account information (saturn_de).

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Supreme irony ... the more socialistic the economy would become, the more obsolete unions would become, i.e. the government simply decides what the wages and benefits shall be.
If Obama's goal is to see GM survive, and is willing to fire the CEO to do that, one wonders how far he's willing to go on "trimming" union perks? Eventually, there's no "free lunch".


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The wedding was good craic, fairly different to Ireland, the thing took place in a town hall with the lord mayor reading a poem and witnesse's signing the paperwork...the cameraman knocked over a potted tree behind the altar at the crucial moment in the ceremony by accident, broke the awkwardness nicely, people were pissing themselves...headed down the village then to go for grub and scoops, started at about 2pm and finished at about 3am, long day and night, couldn't communicate with most people, not because i couldn't speak slovak but because i was pissed, didn't put my hand in my pocket once, the tables were lined with spirits and wine, the food was savage, the choons were dodgy...one thing that was very different to Irish weddings was at the end of the night people helped the staff out with the clean-up, but the main reason was to get all the bottles that were remaining on the table
Went clubbing the next night in Poprad...80s tracks all the way, and take note...for any horndogs reading this, i can't remember seeing one man on the dancefloor, the place was packed with honey.
The next day we got a train into the Tatry mountains on the Polish border, the fresh air did the trick for the hangover...the place looked like something out of LOTR.
Went to Bratislava the next day and met a few old friends...met their daugther who studies Irish dancing in Slovakia...it seems to be all the rage...headed out that night into Bratislava to an Irish bar (the dubliner)...the town looks like a mini Prague, complete with a few english tools walking around on a stag...having said that i wouldn't mind heading back to Bratislava.
In Summary, Slovakia is well worth a visit...savage prices, good weather and nice nice scenary...if you know what i mean.


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OLYMPIA, Wash. An atheist group has unveiled an anti-religion placard in the state Capitol, joining a Christian Nativity scene and "holiday tree" on display during December.
The atheists' sign was installed Monday by Washington members of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national group based in Madison, Wis.
With a nod to the winter solstice the year's shortest day, occurring in late December the placard reads, in part, "There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
The foundation's co-president, Dan Barker, said it was important for atheists to offer their viewpoint alongside the overtly religious Nativity scene and Christmas-style holiday tree.
"Our members want equal time," Barker said. "Not to muscle, not to coerce, but just to have a place at the table."
The three displays, all privately sponsored, were granted permits from state groundskeepers to be placed in the Capitol's grand marble hallways.
The 25-foot noble spruce, officially called the "Capitol Holiday Kids Tree," is sponsored by the Association of Washington Business and tied to a charity drive for needy families. It's been a Capitol fixture for nearly 20 years.


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Age: 46
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Case Date: 06/17/2002
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Victim's skeletal remains - West side of CR 1000 east between CR 200 south and CR 300 south, Bartholomew county
Circumstances: During the late evening hours of June 17, 2002, Nancy Lyons' red 1993 Nissan bearing Indiana registration plate 39A8348 was discovered abandoned along CR 700 west at CR north in Rush county. The Rush county authorities discovered that the vehicle was running, unoccupied, trunk open and the vehicle had a flat left rear tire. Personal items belonging to Nancy Lyons were found in the vehicle. On October 2, 2002, human skeletal remains were discovered in a soybean field along CR 1000 east between CR 200 south and 300 south in Bartholomew county. These remains were later identified as belonging to victim Nancy Lyons.
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From the WSJ......a humorous, tongue in cheek, take on the Nobel.
This year's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama can only hasten the decline in prestige of an award that has already gone to people like Yasser Arafat, UN General Secretary Kofi Annan (who presided over the Iraqi oil-for-food scam) and the fabulist Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchu. For this year's Nobel, the deadline was February 1, barely ten days after Mr. Obama had assumed the presidency. Though the Nobel committee of five Norwegian politicians presumably considered the evidence over the summer, it's fair to say their award represents little more than wishful thinking that Mr. Obama's diplomatic efforts will ultimately bear fruit.
Other U.S. Presidents have won Nobels, but for actual accomplishments. Teddy Roosevelt helped broker a peace treaty between Russia and Japan. Woodrow Wilson worked to build a lasting peace after the end of World War I, however unsuccessful that effort later proved. Even Jimmy Carter won the Peace Prize in 2002 after more than two decades of humanitarian efforts as a former president.
The Nobel Committee is said often to make its final decision at its last meeting just before the announcement. If so, President Obama has gotten a consolation prize for the failure of the U.S. to secure the 2016 Olympics. But that won't take away the sense that his award has more to do with political correctness than the realities of peace. Reading the Nobel Committee's explanation of its decision, President Obama appears to have won this year's prize because he's not his predecessor, George W. Bush.


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Assignment: Education - La Crosse Design Institute
New Charter School in the La Crosse School District
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- "I probably hire ten blue collar workers for every one white collar worker," said Mark Glendenning, Inland Label and Marketing CEO.
Glendenning says he has jobs, but he needs to hire people who are trained to do the work.
"I was disappointed with what seems to be a push for everybody to go to college," said Glendenning, and really a lack of vocational or engineering-based or technical-based education."
In an effort to reach students who may not want to attend a four-year institution, Glendenning started having a conversation with the School District of La Crosse about the need for a new type of education. Longfellow Middle School Principal Penny Reedy reached out.
"Penny... was already going down the path of this project based learning," said Glendenning.
And it's now taking place at the La Crosse Design Institute which is housed within Longfellow Middle School.
"The La Crosse Design Institute really concentrates on skill sets for students," said Reedy. "Not only is it a design school in terms of maybe a student will be designing a new skateboard, maybe a student will design a new fan or new parts for a computer. It doesn't necessarily have to be science and mathematics."1639710
In fact, the students can design anything that interests them. Each student just has to make sure their design project meets the standards required for 7th and 8th graders by the School District of La Crosse.
"These are skills that future employers are looking for," said Nick Pretasky, teacher advisor, La Crosse Design Institute. "And we need to develop these skills... problem solving, accountability and understanding their own learing."
For Eighth grader Colten Jaekel, managing his own time and school work is easy because he is able to chose projects that motivate him.
"The nice part about choosing your own project is instead of just covering history, you get to cover history and science and how those two come together," said Jaekel. "And that's something you have to do in the real world."
"On top of that all, we're working right now with area businesses so that they're (the students) out in the business area once a week working on these design projects," said Reedy.
"The research tells us that students who have an authentic audience tend to achieve higher," said Pretasky. "We don't want students just to do projects for their teacher or just to do projects for that A or B. But we want them to do projects that are bettering their community, bettering their role in their community, and to give them an understanding of what might be next for them."
So by providing an office-style atmosphere as a classroom and giving students the opportunity to manage their own interdisciplinary projects, the students are learning how the working world works.
"For me to see kids understand that those subjects have importance beyond memorization... that they have application to life is incredibly important," said Glendenning.
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'Immersion' You're barking up the wrong tree with this.Reverberation isn't an instrument and it's not going to be an integral part of writing interesting material. The 'input' to any reverberation process is still the primary point of interest Incidentally, The best quality reverb we hear every day - natural reverberation. Its a 'descriptor' of acoustic spaces. Clap your hands in different rooms and places, go to a cathederal and get a longer decay, try the same in tunnels and the like. It's still not a musical parameter as such.Saying that, Jim Cole's overtone singing in a water tower is an instance where an artist used a particular (physical) acoustic to interact with in a performance:http://www.spectralvoices.com/secondpg.htm Pete
I would have to agree with Sunbreak,I have used plenty of hi-end in the box verbs for pop and rock and the best of the best in my opinion is the CSR Hall, The VSS3 for the TC powercore and the new EMT 250 for UAD-2 of course the last two run on a dsp card so while they are plug-ins they really are hardware verbs in disguise. Anyway the closest I have come to finding a verb which really does the deep ambient long tale thing in the box is the TC VSS3, maybe the CSR Hall which sounds like a software version of the Alesis Wedge, and while they work in a pinch, sorry but nothing replaces a high-end outboard box.Its getting better, but we are not there yet.Paul


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Anybody that says he's only had one bad game (Oklahoma) has only watched him in one game. The reality is the Sugar Bowl was his worst game, but he wasn't a dominant player all season. He looked terrible his last 2 games against Auburn and Oklahoma.
You're not ready for the NFL when you look like that. Kouandjio has the talent, but he was helped tremendously by playing next to Chance Warmack. A lot of his struggles this year are due to playing next to his younger brother Arie, who has been a liability in pass protection. But he's still not a dominant player.
I know what Chris Samuels and Andre Smith looked like at left tackle for Bama. They were dominant players. Even an out of shape and unmotivated Andre Smith is an above average starter in the NFL. Koundjio needed to stay.


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By Kathleen Parker
WASHINGTON – Unlike many who recently have joined the debate about gun rights, I have a long history with guns, which I proffer only in the interest of pre-empting the "elitist, liberal, swine, prostitute, blahblahblah" charge.
I grew up in a home with guns, lots of them, and was taught early how to shoot, care for firearms and treat them respectfully. My father's rules were simple: Never point a gun at someone unless you intend to shoot them; if you intend to shoot, aim to kill.
Dear ol' dad was a law-and-order guy – a lawyer, judge and World War II veteran who did everything by the book – except when it came to guns. Most memorable among his many lectures was a confidence: "There is only one law in the land that I would break," he told me. "I will never register my guns."
By today's standards my father would be considered a gun nut, but his sentiments were understandable in the context of his time.
But the history of gun control laws is not without contradictions and ironies. In fact, the federal government of our Founders made gun ownership mandatory for white males, while denying others – slaves and later freedmen – the privilege.
Today, the most vociferous defenders of gun rights tend to be white, rural males who oppose any regulation. But theirs was once the ardently held position of radical African-Americans. Notably, in the 1960s, Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Huey Newton toted guns wherever they went to make a point: Blacks needed guns to protect themselves in a country that wasn't quite ready to enforce civil rights.
In one remarkable incident in May 1967, as recounted in The Atlantic by UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, 24 men and six women, all armed, ascended the California capitol steps, read a proclamation about gun rights and proceeded inside – with their guns, which was legal at the time.
Needless to say, conservatives, including then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, were suddenly very, very interested in gun control. That afternoon, Reagan told reporters there was "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons."
The degree of one's allegiance to principle apparently depends mainly on who is holding the gun.
The Second Amendment debate about what the Founders intended was clarified in 2008 when the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller determined that the right of the people to keep and bear arms included individuals, not just a "well-regulated militia." However, as Winkler pointed out, Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion left wiggle room for exceptions, including prohibitions related to felons and the mentally ill.
This still leaves open the loophole of private sales that do not require background checks, which President Obama wants to close.
One also imagines that the old Reagan would say there's no reason a citizen needs an assault weapon or a magazine that can destroy dozens of people in minutes. He would certainly be correct and, in a sane world, possibly even electable.
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By Ben Levisohn
Yesterday, Alliance Bernstein pointed out that many mining companies have yet to figure out what it means to create value. Today's news suggests that they may be learning.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Guinea's finance minister is predicting a 30% drop in mining investment this year.
"A slowdown in mining investment…may have an impact on [Guinea's] whole mining activities but also all contract activities and as result it may have an impact on the fiscal revenue of the government, Kerfalla Yansane told an audience at Guinea's mining code briefing in London.
He said mining companies were supposed to invest $1.5 billion in Guinea this year but "30% may be lost due to this downturn of mining activities and also the world economy."
In its second report from the International Iron Ore Symposium in Munich, Alliance Bernstein's analysts note that the biggest fears continue to be supply, not demand driven. They write:
There has not been a presentation over the last two days that has not stressed the negative price impact or the sheer volume of the expansion from the majors. This, rather than the demand side, is the single greatest threat to the iron ore price. Supply volumes outside of the majors' production bases represent a side-issue and are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Rather, the strategy of Rio, BHP and Vale determines the price.
Vale (VALE) has fallen 2.5% to $13.66 today at 3:52 p.m., Rio Tinto (RIO) has gained 0.02% to $41.98, and BHP Billiton (BHP) has fallen 0.6% to $62.05. Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) has fallen 1.2% to $17.28.


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Grays Harbor and Peninsula College Bridge Program
The Grays Harbor College and Peninsula College Reservation Based Associate of Arts Degree Program is comprised of a unique set of courses particularly relevant to Native American communities. The curriculum is a hybrid of face-to-face courses and online courses offered through WashingtonOnline, which provides distance learning through the Internet. The courses are designed with a high degree of cultural relevance, and are taught by the best online instructors in Washington state. Most students enroll for 13 credits per quarter, which are broken out as follows:
- Two 5-credit online courses, offered through WashingtonOnline. Students attend a weekly study session, convened by a community-based study leader, at their reservation site for tutoring and mentoring.
- One 2-credit Humanities course, taught four Saturday mornings per quarter at the Longhouse on the Evergreen campus. Some students from Evergreen's Reservation Based/Community Determined program elect to take these courses.
- One 1-credit Humanities course, taught four Saturday afternoons per quarter at the Longhouse on the Evergreen campus. Grays Harbor, Peninsula and Evergreen students attend this series of workshops together.
- Online developmental education courses, available in writing and mathematics, are also offered to help students prepare for college level work.
- Here is the three-year sequence of courses for this Associate of Arts direct transfer degree that transfers to any college or university:
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Year 2
Year 3
Online classes:
Anthro 206- Cultural Anthropology (5 credits)
English 101- English Composition or English 095 or Eng 060** (5 cr.)
First Year Orientation (1 credit)
Saturday classes: Public Speech (2 cr.)
Humanities 107-Battlegrounds (1 cr.)
Online classes:
English 102- English Composition2 (5 credits)
Anthro 210-Indians of North America (5 credits)
Saturday classes: Humanities 104-Assorted Humanities Classes)
Humanities 110- Battlegrounds (1 cr.)
Online classes:
Earth Science 102-Intro Earth Science (5 credits)
Math 107- (5 credits)
Saturday classes:
Online classes:
Health and Wellness (5 credits)
Library 120- Research for the 21 st Century (5 credits)
Saturday classes:
Public Speech (2 cr.)
Humanities 108- Battlegrounds (1 cr.)
Online classes:
Anthro 220- Native Peoples of the NW (5 cr.)
Political Science 230- American Government (5 cr.)
Saturday classes: Humanities 105 Writing and Lit (2 credits)
Humanities 111- Battlegrounds (1 cr.)
Online classes:
Anthro 104-Archaeology (5 cr.)
Astronomy 101 (5 credits)
Saturday classes upper division credit:
Online classes:
Biology 100- Intro Biology (5 cr.)
Art 100 Art Appreciation (5 cr.)
Saturday classes: Creative Writing (2 cr.)
Humanities 109 Battlegrounds (1 cr.)
Online classes:
Psych 100- Introduction to Psychology (5 cr.)
Music 101- Music Appreciation (5)
Saturday classes upper division credit:
Summer (optional)
Dev. Ed. English 060, 095
Dev. Ed. Math 060, 070, 095, 098
Other courses
Dev. Ed. English 060, 095
Dev. Ed. Math 060, 070, 095, 098
Other courses
Dev. Ed. English 060, 095
Dev. Ed. Math 060, 070, 095, 098
Other courses
* Actual courses and sequences may vary depending upon the college credits that students transfer in and the need to take pre-college English and mathematics courses. Most courses are available every quarter but we attempt to have our students take as many of the same courses as a cohort as possible.
**Developmental Education Mathematics and Developmental Education English are offered at various levels (English 060 and 095; Math 060, 070, 095, 098) appropriate to student placement test scores.


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One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards
no real reason for posting this, but I enjoy real-life hacker stories and case studies. More importantly I found this an interesting way to fill half an hour on a very quite work day before Christmas. Hopefully you'll all enjoy it too.
Settling into his chair and resting his fingers on his keyboard like a concert pianist, Butler began his attack. Most illegal online loot was fenced through four so-called carder sites—marketplaces for online criminals to buy and sell credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and other purloined data. One by one, Butler took them down. (This story, like the rest of this article, has been reconstructed using court documents and conversations with friends and associates; Butler declined to be interviewed.)
First, he breached their defenses, tricking their SQL database servers into running his own commands or simply slipping in with a hacked password. Once inside, he sucked out their content, including the logins, passwords, and email addresses of everyone who bought and sold through the sites. And then he decimated them, wiping out the databases with the ease of an arsonist flicking a match. He worked for two straight days; when he tired, he crashed out on the apartment's foldaway bed for an hour or two, then got up and went back at it. Butler sent an email under the handle Iceman to all the thieves whose accounts he had usurped. Whether they liked it or not, he wrote, they were now members of his own site, CardersMarket.com. In one bold stroke, Butler had erected one of the largest criminal marketplaces the Internet had ever seen, 6,000 users strong.
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Season 24 Episode #2408
Christmas Bird Count; Forest Park BioBlitz; Llama Backpacking
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The Christmas Bird Count provides the nation's best record of the rise and fall of bird populations.
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Christmas Bird Count; Forest Park BioBlitz; Llama Backpacking (2408)
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Autumn Rivers Photo Essay; Condors and Lead Bullets; Outdoor School (2407)
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Aerial Fish Stocking; Hiking from Portland to the Pacific Coast; Stormwater (2406)
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Cloud Cap Inn; Drift Diving; Jim Rogers (2405)
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Mt. Hood's Volcanic Past; Warren Falls; Yellow Tuft Alyssum (2404)
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I've been going around the OS ferris-wheel for about a year now. Last year I got rid of my PowerBook G4 and bought a lighter thinkpad X41. Apple is a great company (heck, I worked there) but the lack of a light notebook left me scrambling. There are millions of people who walk to work or take public transportation and we need laptops too.
After unwrapping my matte-black-beast I needed to figure out what to use with it. Naturally, since it came with Windows XP that was the default choice. Being a long time mac user it took a while to get used to XP but eventually I did. Unfortunately there are a lot of UI issues that plague XP and, unlike Linux, there is no recourse for fixing them without delving into the registry. That, and the fact that I'm a huge nerd, led me to load linux on the lappie.
I've been using Linux since 2001 so it's not like it's new to me. At the same time I've never done a laptop install and so many things are different. All over the web there are reports of various drivers not working or features that are incomplete. Still, I gave it a whirl.
I went though several distros to see which one I liked best for the laptop. I use Debian on my servers but like any objective user will tell you, it's all about the right tool for the job. I started with Arch, headed over to Ubuntu, went to Debian, tried OpenSuse, went back to Debian, again to Ubuntu, and finally I am back to Arch.
There are great things about each of the distros above. Debian gave me lots of flexibility and a great selection of packages while Ubuntu was very solid. (It was, and remains, the only distro that just worked 'out of the box'.. suspend to ram, wireless, sound, and all.)
But Arch has me hooked. The clean style let me accomplish a lot more in a way that was easier than the other distros. Most importantly, when I have a problem the forum residents are relentless in helping me sort them out. It is fantastic.
I still have occassional issues with sleep not working though it seems to be getting better with each kernel release. I am happily typing away on an e17 desktop comforted that my fully configued fluxbox environment remains just a short uncommented line away.
I'm living as close to the edge of the latest community software while still feeling secure and that, amigos, is a great feeling.
If you've seen the proliferation of chains in the US you'll immediately recognize that the identity of many towns and cities is in jeopardy. Who goes to Cleveland because they have a great Starbucks? Do you visit Chicago for the Pizza Hut? Of course not. The sad fact is that Anywhere, USA is a reality now. Small, indepedent companies are extinct in many places and on their way out in others. (A notable exception is SF which somehow manages to thrive.) Just try to find an independent grocery store and you'll see what I mean. But is there more at stake beside the landscape? Yes.
Sure, you can be a regular at Starbucks and develop a friendship with the barrista in the same way you might with the person who ran that nice diner. And, you say, the coffee at Starbucks is way better. True as that may be, ask yourself what happens when the only place to buy coffee is Starbucks, and another chain or two. Fierce competition you say? Possibly. Or maybe just a carving of the market and higher prices.
Then what happens when those 3 chains decide that coffee beans are too expensive and that they're going to substitute them with a genetically modified knock-off? You'll scream, you'll holler, but you'll have to accept because, you know what? Starbucks and that other chain may by then sell 95% of the coffee in America and what they dictate to the grower (or to Congress) could become the norm.
And let's not forget the producer of the food or product in question. Chains are fabulous distributors. They push products out to consumers in ways that the producer cannot hope to achieve. In this way, they are the focal point between the mass of producers and consumers (who unfortunatley will be screwed unless they too somehow band together). What you'll be left with is a few companies that produce and distribute products all cramming it down your throat at high margins.
The producers will fight it though. They'll consolidate to the point that if Walmart wants vacuums they won't be able to play lots of companies against each other. Yup, it'll be Hoover at Walmart and VacuumCo at Target. And you know how Hoover will cut their costs? You guessed it, they'll outsource the jobs to low cost countries. And if they don't? They'll get played like Vlasic and end up bankrupt.
But will consumers band together? To a degree, through the most that will do is slightly offset the massive spending by chains and big business. (Plus, don't forget that big companies also have organized like this.)
What consumers can do is vote. Your vote it the equivalent of chains and other big companies spending millions of dollars to influence a politician. Vote at the ballot box for politicans that represent your interests (not a conglomerates). Secondly, vote with your pocketbook. Every time you purchase something it says 'I like this and I'm willing to give some money so that it sticks around.' Don't believe it? Do you think there would be so many McDonalds if they weren't making lots of money? Sorry friend, money and advertising make the world go around now.
So, next time you have a choice try to pick the little guy. Not to be different - not to be anti-establishment; do it because they're worth keeping around even if they're not the cheapest. One day you may miss that diner in the midst of all those Taco Bells.
Now granted, I feel that the majority of people can use a regular sized automobile for their daily tasks. Why is it we need a 10,000 lb car to carry around 200 lbs of person and 20 lbs of groceries? It's a bit absurd isn't it?
That's why I am proposing that cars come with mandatory keys that weigh 1% of the vehicle's gross weight. Now, if you want to drive a hummer, you have to carry around a 10 pound weight with you everywhere you go. Heading to the movies in your BMW X5? Make sure you don't forget that 60 pound key under your seat else it'll be a long walk home.
Now I'm sure the airlines will balk a bit. "Sir, you'll need to check in your car keys."
Granted, that even the average car driving citizen will have to lug around 10 to 20 pounds with them everywhere, but hey, it might mean we all get into better shape. Either that or think about once and for all ditching that car and heading for the metro.
First off, SUVs are hideously big. SUVs produced back in the early 90's now look miniature compared to the monstrosities we see on the roads today. One should ask whether it is really necessary to use 7000# of vehicle to carry 250# of people and groceries? Seems a bit ridiculous if you ask me. Also, let's not forget that when you drive behind a car that big the visibility you get is almost non-existent. It's as if the driver of the SUV is thumbing their nose at you, proclaiming that they are more deserving of safety than you.
But are SUVs safer? Not even close. In fact the death rate of SUV driver is 6% higher than that of car drivers. We must also touch on SUV rollover too. The higher center of gravity and greater mass of the vehicle makes it much more likely that your SUV will flip. Frankly, if you're in an SUV I think it serves you right, but unfortunately my tax dollars pay to have you shipped to the emergency room.
And what about my safety? Yes, that is a concern too. You see, if I get hit by somebody in an SUV I am four times more likely to be killed. The fact that the responsible one is killed by the selfish one is a long-standing tradition in wars fought by governments and corporations. It's a shame it's been brought down to the individual, human levels.
Despite not having touched on fuel economy or pollution standards, I feel there are still strong reasons not to buy an SUV. To those people who drive an SUV, I hope you get over your feelings of insecurity, gain some confidence, learn to think about other people, and buy a regular car next time.
It is such a great disappointment to me to hear this. What the United States needs is an economical method to get people from place to place. This includes work, school, and business trips. While lowering gas prices is one way of doing this, it is not the only solution. In fact, it is the worst solution.
Historically, the US has enjoyed gas prices less than half the price of the Europeans and Asians. While we can only speculate that this is correlated to our economic progress we can be sure that the giant SUV's and the poor average fuel economy of our vehicles are directly related. The sad fact is that gasoline in the United States has never been taxed to the level required to compensate for the environmental damage is causes.
It is for this reason that I am happy to see fuel prices on the rise. The time is long overdue for Americans to understand what a tragedy it is to need a car to go grocery shopping, attend school, or to visit friends.
The railway is one obvious solution for knitting together our society again. To restore the courtesy that once existed between commuters before they insulated themselves with their massive Escalades and Explorers. The train provides an environmentally safe, accessible, and potentially inexpensive method for transporting people.
Furthermore, trains contribute to a construction philosophy less centered on automobiles creating great potential to improve or sustain the surroundings when development is required.
That is why Mr. Kerry and President Bush would be wise to look into finally giving Amtrak enough money to expand into a rail network the US could be proud of. This, combined with a healthy curbing of suburban sprawl and a restoration of the independent business, are badly needed in a country becoming more plastic, neon, and outsourced every day.
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Ah, life is good.
On Friday, me and some friends went to see John Digweed play at one of the local student club nights, and we partied early into the morning. Cat was well up for it as usual. It took him a while to get into his stride, which was strange given that he's been on Radio 1 and is pretty famous. By the end we were all having a great time - the laser show was fantastic, but it's a strange thing that both times I've seen professional big-name DJs play (Goldie was the first) they've been ... well ... not great. At least Digweed didn't clear the floor like Goldie did :)
Labyrinth is a very strange film. Watching it made me glad that I spent most of the 80s blissfully unaware of Hollywood culture. Its strangeness doubles when you watch it at 2:30 in the morning (yawn)
autopackage 0.5 is finally done. Once again I'm amazed at how much we've packed in. Even though I say so myself, we've put together one of the slickest installers I've ever seen - we've paid attention to the user experience right from the start and the results are impressive. It's certainly not perfect, and it's still some way from my long term goal of drag/drop "invisible" installs, but we're getting closer every day. In terms of UI it definitely beats the snot out of InstallShield (not hard) but also gives a more pleasant experience than even rather slick programs like Synaptic or redhat-install-packages.
One of the reasons that installing stuff on Linux can be such a pain in the ass is that programs have so many dependencies. Often, these dependencies aren't strictly required but because using dlopen/dlsym is so awkward it's simpler just to whack in an autoconf check and leave it at that. Good for Gentoo users, not so great for everybody else.
One solution is a program that I have been meaning to develop for a while and today actually did. relaytool lets you replace a link like -lgtkspell with a generated source file, libgtkspell.stub.c which uses assembly and GNU C magic to transparently relay the calls to either the real function or an error handler in case you accidentally call a missing function. This lets you also link against a library but not have hard dependencies on its latest features: for instance you can write a program that depends on GTK 2.0 but can still use features from 2.2 and 2.4 easily.
relaytool has some other interesting applications as well. For instance you can solve the problem with ELF symbol scoping with it, though it's certainly not the solution.
Finally, CrossOver 3 is coming out in only a couple of days. I came in part way through this effort, but still feel proud at what we've been able to do (while all along supporting the free software community).


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There are reams to write about this topic... to try to cull it down to reasonable size, are you fishing from shore -or- from boat? That makes a huge difference.
Generally speaking, you want to target morning and evening hours for open water fishing from a boat. When bait is getting pushed around by tide rips, get into the fray and start casting.
I prefer at least an intermediate line if not a sinking head line, like a Rio Deep Sea 250-350 grain sinking head line with intermediate running line.
Areas like the straits concentrate current and really put the candlefish, herring, krill, squid and anchovies at a disadvantage and the big fall salmon really go to town.
If the tide is not pushing hard, focus on dawn and look for tide slicks - long lines of flotsam in a waveless stretch of water. Or if the tide is slack high go fish along the kelp beds lining the shoreline. Leland's coho poppers are an amazing way to flyfish for salmon, you have to see it to believe it!
I love to find the big hooknoses in their oceanic currents and rendezvous with them on a hunting sortie along their migration routes. There is nothing like a 15-18 pound fall coho on a flyrod!
From shore look for open areas with good beach access where the fish can push bait against the shore during a morning or evening high tide. Another shore strategy I've done well with is to stake out a point reaching deep water on an incoming tide.
For flies, I prefer herring patterns, candlefish flies like the epoxy bodied surf candy style, short bodied deep minnows, etc.
If you find them on a binge the action is hot and heavy and the fight is spectacular.
Good luck, let us know how you do!
Try looking around here - http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure...er/index.phtml
It's the saltwater fishing section of Fish BC, which is also part of BC Adventure. You should find a lot of great information on techniques and fly patterns there. Are you going to be Open Ocean flyfishing for Coho (silver) Salmon?
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I was wondering if anyone could help me..ive never tryed flyfishing in the ocean but id like to..if anyone could give some information on maybe some patterns i should try or any special techniques that would be awesome..
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It turns out, even that simple statement will require something of a revolution, as Jason Bloomberg explains in a Forbes column.
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Original post made by John, Downtown, on May 25, 2009
"Let America be America Again: Obama wants to re-create America in his image. We cannot allow him to succeed." By David Solway
(This excerpt from the above article is but a few of the reasons why Americans should be concerned:)
- the disclosure of Obama's problematic affiliations with unrepentant former terrorist Bill Ayers, American-and-Jew bashing pastor Jeremiah Wright, and corrupt real estate developer Tony Rezko, as well as his imbibing of community organizer and social agitator Saul Alinsky's revolutionary manual, Rules for Radicals;
the sealed university records. Why has Obama refused to make them public? What has he got to hide?
- the massive bailout scheme, inflationary deficit spending, and gargantuan expansion of the national debt, rising to a whopping proportion of GDP — actually, to half and possibly more of the entire U.S. budget — as well as the cap-and-trade program, which augurs monetary disaster in the coming years, notwithstanding any short-term stimulus jolt. In the long term, this fiscal package amounts to borrowing from America's unborn children;
- the cramdown policy of "trading off" the assets of troubled firms such as Chrysler, in effect making his campaign-funding United Auto Workers union a majority shareholder and leaving first-lien bondholders largely unsecured;
the reluctance to develop American oil and natural gas reserves and the related binding of American entrepreneurship to green energy initiatives, which are both grossly inefficient and prohibitively costly;
- the stated intention to "spread the wealth around" which elevates the principle of equality over the principle of freedom, a maneuver that historically has led to a level of drab and phlegmatic sameness among the masses governed by a small, privileged managerial elite. Aristotle had it pegged long ago when he wrote in Book V, Chapter 8 of The Politics, "In democracies the rich ought to be treated with consideration; there should be no levy on capital with redistribution of property, nor any redistribution of income, such as goes unnoticed in some cities." When it comes, however, to preserving their own substantial wealth, Aristotle's advice has certainly been accepted by the plutocratic cohort of America's leading "socialists," including the president, which tends to go unnoticed in some cities — though this is not exactly what the great philosopher had in mind;
- the apology to the world at large for American unilateralism rather than the assertion of legitimate pride in the historic ventures of a great nation — the savior of Europe, the largest contributor to the United Nations, the protector of commercial sea lanes, the international benefactor of last resort, and, up to now, the world's mainstay against totalitarianism;
- the apology to the Islamic world for America's past sins — the same America that rescued Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's aggression, intervened militarily on behalf of Bosnia-Herzegovina, did more than any other country to help establish Kosovo as an Islamic state, sends $2 billion annually in foreign aid to Egypt and hundreds of millions to Jordan, and contributes massively to Palestinian coffers and militia training;
- the offer to treat with Taliban "moderates" in Afghanistan when there is no such thing as a Taliban "moderate";
- the proposed reduction in American military spending, impacting the navy and the air force in particular, at precisely the time that China is vying to become the world's major naval power and Russia is buzzing our coasts and landing state-of-the-art bombers in Venezuela;
- the lack of interest in missile shield development and EMP defense in an increasingly perilous and incendiary world;
- the soft, deer-nosed approach to a rapidly nuclearizing Iran, which will change the geopolitical game dramatically, putting not only Israel but Europe and America at risk;
- the cozying up to some of the world's most unreconstructed tyrants, epitomized by his deep bow to Saudi King Abdullah and smiley handshake with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez;
- the entirely unprecedented, on-again, off-again, seemingly on-again threat to arraign Bush administration advisors in what we might call the Waterboardingate affair, a move that can only weaken America's resolve to prevent further terrorist attacks on its soil;
the resurrecting of the failed Middle East policies of his predecessors, which will lead to increased havoc in the region and to a dangerous gamble with Israeli security;
- the proposal to resettle Guantanamo detainees, many of them hard-core terrorists and self-declared recidivists, into American towns and cities — this is Desperate Housewives with a vengeance;
- the catapulting of a veritable horde of swindlers, charlatans, and incompetents into responsible government positions, several of whom have thought it prudent to resign their candidatures before the prospect of rejection or embarrassment. But a government of the ethically challenged and intellectually dubious is starting to take definitive shape. (The reader will have no trouble supplying names.);
- the evident scrapping of the promised bipartisan approach toward the conduct of Congressional business, leading to a growing polarization in the affairs of state;
- the striking absence of presidential dignity, laughing at tasteless jokes (Wanda Sykes) and participating in offensive comedy routines (Jay Leno), an indecorous and supercilious attitude that goes hand in hand with the new tone of presidential arrogance in the response to criticism, which smacks of adolescent chip-on-the-shoulderism. "I won";
- among innumerable instances of poor judgment, the photo-op overflight of New York City, creating mass panic;
- the proposed offer of amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, the deleterious effect of which on American labor, budgetary resources, and voting patterns may be irreversible;
- the apparent partiality toward international juridical institutions taking precedence over aspects of the American Constitution;
- the collectivist turn in American public, economic, and political life advanced by the president and his party, what de Tocqueville in Democracy in America called "administrative despotism," a power that "compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people." Based on a European socialist model which gives every indication of faltering, it presages higher rates of unemployment, rising taxes, citizen estrangement, and the diminution of technological and industrial innovation.
So Obamaphiles, including you Pleasanton Weekly, how are you feeling now?
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on May 25, 2009 at 8:16 am
Well I imagine that they feel pretty good about it right now as for many of them this "is change you can believe in". Honestly, many of the people who voted for Obama have been so woefully brainwashed by the school system it is pathetic. Based on what they said in class I bet over 90% of the PUSD teachers voted for Obama. The article did omit a couple of things. First, instead of ending the wars in Iraq and Afganistan as promised we have more troops engaged and/or committed than before he was elected and in spite of this violence is escalating. In addition, in a time of economic downturn more servicemen and women are opting out of service and returning to civil life and also recruitment targets are not being met or even close to it because in part I suspect people do not want to fight and potentially die for a president and congress who loathe the military and now I guess the CIA for that matter. Has anyone noticed that Iran is more aggressive than ever and oh by the way North Korea just exploded a nuclear warhead today in addition to firing off 3 long range missiles? Obama said today he will let the UN Security Council figure out what to do and take the lead. That sure makes me feel better knowing that we are now going to depend on the UN for our security. We need to sit back and take a look at what is happening in our own state economically as this is the direction he is taking the rest of the United States. One of the reasons you do not hear the left making noise (other than to do some childish namecalling) is that these are facts and it is hard to admit you made a huge mistake or maybe it is hard for them.
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on May 25, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Remember the story of Alice in Wonderland? Nancy Pelosi is the Queen of Hearts, Harry Reid is the White Rabbit and Obama is the Mad Hatter, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are Tweedle Dee and Tweedle DUMB! No one knows what is going on, they just keep having press conference after press conference.....the hole is getting deeper and deeper, lets hope we don't all disappear, what a nightmare for our country to have this group of fools in command!
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on May 30, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Yes. You are right, Bush really was smart and doing a stellar job. You think he wants to come back? Or better yet the white trash imbicille from Alaska? Maybe instead of constantly complaining you get off you big priviledged behind and get involved with making this country great Again!
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And it's not even over yet....
- A ham-handed and politicized Dept. of Education curriculum causes a backlash and forces the Admin. on the defense
- Van Jones, noted Truther, communist and sh!t disturber is forced out of the White House. It all started with a lone voice (Glenn Beck) and ended with an outcry.
- The appointed Communications Director at the National Endowment for the Arts was either reassigned or sacked (still shaking out) for trying to publically fund an Obama propaganda arm within the NEA. Again, Glenn Beck is at the forefront.
- Acorn is hoisted by its own petard and is shown to be the hucksters that most folks already suspected they were. And as if having their credibility shredded wasn't enough, they're booted off the Census 2010 team.
- Last, but not least, Joe Wilson was vindicated when the White House had to, late Friday, support specific language within the health bill that precluded illegal immigrants. Per MSDNC...err...MSNBC:Somehow I'm thinking this isn't the kind of boost Obama is looking for as he looks to push his health care plan in the coming week(s). As Seinfeld would say, "Gee. That's too bad."The question, as we all know, arises from the Wilson "You lie" outburst, and the core claim that notwithstanding specific bill language barring illegal immigrants from participating in the "exchange," as a practical matter, there is no way of verifying the citizenship of applicants -- which is the current state of play. Republicans say that then means illegal immigrants would end up being enrolled in plans -- bill language or no bill language.
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Yes, your experience will be personalized, but Disney will also be able to use the band to track your behaviors from what you buy to what you ride to what characters you greet most warmly. Note: the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine also issues RFID wristbands to its guests, but mainly for waterpark admission, to make payments and to use as room keys. Disney's Magic Bands can do all this, plus allow you to preselect three FastPasses, VIP seating for parades, fireworks and character meet-and-greets. If you encode it with the appropriate personal details, the actors playing Disney characters will even wish your child happy birthday.
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Yamaha RY30
The RY30 is an elegant Drum Machine with advanced synth-like features that give it a really great sound. Its sounds come from a sample-based ROM synthesis engine belonging to Yamaha's SY/TG series of digital synthesizers. It's sounds are 16-bit, 48kHz PCM with digital multimode filters. It can store up to 100 user patterns and 20 songs, plus it comes with 100 preset patterns in various styles for instant drum accompaniment.
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There are digital 12 and 24 db/oct hipass and lowpass filters which sound ok, and are great for contouring sounds. There are no effects except internal samples can be played in reverse. It also has four outputs that you can assign any drum sound to (kick, snare, hihat, etc). A nice little Modulation Wheel can adjust the pitch, decay time, pan, filter cutoff and the balance of the oscillators. As far as drum machines go, the RY30 is one of the nicest and biggest rivals of the venerable Roland R8.The RY30 is used by Asian Dub Foundation among others.
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That these attacks are becoming so fierce and frequent illustrates just how threatened some in the Australian wine industry feel by the huge inroads our sauvignons have made into their market. However, the broad generalisations being expressed about the quality and homogeneity of our sauvignons are not only unjust, but easily disproved by a taste of examples from the likes of Dog Point, Greywacke, Mahi and Astrolabe, to name a few, highlighting the excitement and diversity in out flagship variety.
Though it's true some of the sauvignons of the surplus that flooded Australia off the back of the bumper but somewhat variable 2008 vintage may not have been the most thrilling, even our lowliest examples often manage to carry the distinctive Marlborough signature that's attracted drinkers in Australia and beyond. However, as the oversupply and the cheap sauvignon this has created dries up in the coming year, just how loyal Australian consumers are to our wines will become evident.
Drinkers can be fickle, as the Aussies discovered to their cost. However, they're not stupid and the disdain now being voiced so openly about the current tastes of their country's wine drinkers is arguably more detrimental to the industry than any threat posed by our sauvignons.
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It's incredible. My last blog post was at the end of January and here we are almost 5 months later and I have not been able to get far in this book.
I'm not a gamer and I don't know (so I don't care) about the characters.
I've only started chapter 2.
Part of the issue is that I am writing and constantly re-reading my own novel. So there's that.
However, this novel is about Darth Malgus (I believe it's spelled). I could be interested. He
This is the death of the Miraluka people (like Shanoeb Culu from TOTJ / Sith War) brought on by Darth Nihlus and it's a great black-and-white short which is made all the more frightening by the absense of color.
That Darth Nihlus would "show" the complete genocide of her people, her world, to his Miraluka Sith apprentice is just totally evil.
You have to love this.
I'm confused. Who is the Emperor in this one?
This is a Sith Empire that has remained secret following the fall of Naga Sadow and never administered by Exar Kun.
I think this is what was left behind of the Sith species and the slaves they took from the Great Hyperspace War (so there are some human Sith Lords, as well as alien) and now one of the apprentices (a girl) has betrayed the Emperor and they have adopted the ways of the Rakatta, a prior Force-sensitive Dark
It's funny, because I'm usually a great fan of Drew Karpyshyn's writing (the Darth Bane books). But it is hard to get into Darth Scourge in this story and Revan and Bastilla Shan begin the story as a domestic couple, not very exciting - though I understand that's what they both want.
I think the story will get better but 56 pages into it is not "doing it" for me.
Revan began separating himself from the Jedi Council who was over-occupied with guarding against
These stories start right after the Harbinger is thrown off into hyperspace in the prequel story to Crosscurrent, which eventually sets the stage for an adventure in the Skywalker era.
The Harbringer's sister ship, the Omen crashes on a new, unexplored world with a Sith crew, originally sworn to fight for Naga Sadow during the Great Hyperspace War.
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Poet Carson to collaborate with dancers, vocalists
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 4:30 p.m. · Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau St.
Posted March 27, 2008; 01:02 p.m.
Poet Anne Carson will collaborate with three dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and two vocalists in a performance involving text, sound and dance at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau St.
Carson will present a lecture in the form of 15 sonnets, titled "Possessive Used As Drink (Me)," in conjunction with the dancers and vocalists.
Carson, a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" winner, is the author of several books of poetry, including "The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos," winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; "Economy of the Unlost"; and "Autobiography of Red."
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Ziegler real tough on righties. Almost never gives up fly balls.
If Stubbs could bunt, this would be a decent spot.
Instead he takes strike three, which was inside.
Brad Ziegler in to pitch.
Stubbs does his normal and strikes out looking. 3-2 Reds mid 6th.
I was hoping Stubbs would get rung after that third strike.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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The one thing little league teaches you when you have 2 strikes and a ball is close. Swing.
Hill flies out to left.
Where did the blonde Penn Station girl go!!
That's horrible. Should be 2 outs.
This place use to be fun
Ump totally missed that one pitch since Hanigan was setup outside and had to reach to the middle of the plate for it.
Here we go, Reds trying to give the lead again
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
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