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Danese was founded in 1957 by Bruno Danese and Jacqueline Vodoz showing one-of-a-kind artistic production. A landmark meeting with Bruno Munari and Enzo Mari marked a step forward from the production of unique objects to serial production. Thus was born a new collection of home objects no longer addressed to a specific elite market. Danese became a real experimental laboratory for the concept and production of serial objects through the 1960s and 1970s.
Since 1999 Danese has found again its own leading role in the diversified universe of Italian design, addressing the challenges of contemporary perspectives as the relationships between human beings and objects change and evolve at a rapid rate. The immediate results are designs which allow a flexibility of usage and function. The widening of the Danese collection has allowed the company to become committed to ethical environmental practices. The practice of design and production at Danese has changed inside and out, aiming for continuous improvement to the intelligence as well as the poetic expression of new designs.
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1956, Naoto Fukasawa graduated from Tama Art University in 1980. He went to the United States in 1989 and joined the San Francisco deign firm ID Two, the predecessor to IDEO, where he worked on a number of products related to Silicon Valley computing and electronics technology. In 1996, he returned to Japan to start and head up IDEO's Tokyo office. While acting as a design consultant to major Japanese companies, he also held design workshops - the without thought workshops - with young designers. During the first workshop, he came up with the design for the wall-mounted CD player, selected by MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York for its permanent collection in 2004. As of 2005, he began concurrently acting as a professor at Musashino Art University, a visiting professor at Tama Art University and a special lecturer of interdisciplinary information studies at Tokyo University Graduate School.
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Several years ago, consultants were charged with designing a dynamic, exciting aquatics facility for the city of Woodward, Okla. The end result is the Crystal Beach Aquatic Center. Opened on July 4, 2009, the centerpiece of the project is an water-play structure that features slides, sprays, cannon and a large 50-gallon dumping bucket.
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In a recent interview with NPR, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said that he used to think his company's famous slogan -- "don't be evil" -- was stupid.
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Sagal asked Schmidt how Google came up with the slogan, "don't be evil."
"Well, it was invented by Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin]," said Schmidt. "And the idea was that we don't quite know what evil is, but if we have a rule that says don't be evil, then employees can say, I think that's evil. Now, when I showed up, I thought this was the stupidest rule ever, because there's no book about evil except maybe, you know, the Bible or something.
"So what happens is, I'm sitting in this meeting, and we're having this debate about an advertising product. And one of the engineers pounds his fists on the table and says, that's evil. And then the whole conversation stops, everyone goes into conniptions, and eventually we stopped the project. So it did work."
Sagal then humorously accused Schmidt of being the "businessman" type out of the group (among Page and Brin) who felt that an American business couldn't be evil.
"You're coming in, like, you're a businessman who's been successful in all kinds of Silicon Valley business," said Sagal. "And you come in, and you're like this thing about not being evil, that'll never work in American business. What, are you crazy, kids?"
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We celebrated the 2013 Human Rights Awards on Thursday May 9th in San Francisco. This year's Honorees are People's Choice Awardee Julian Assange and Wikileaks, Grassroots Awardee Crystal Lameman, and Human Rights Awardee Noam Chomsky. If you missed this special night here is Julian Assange's acceptance speech, along with Kiki Kapany's introduction.
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"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
So how can all this benefit me or you, unless they can afford to buy what we have to offer?
The rebel opposistion is not all extremists. The groups that orginally started this whole mess are red blooded freedom lovers like me and you. The fact that we dragged our feet to get involved in the first place opened the door for extremists. Apperantly the rebels were not content sitting around being slaughtered, so they took the help where they could find it. At the end of this conflict there will be a winner. I don't think it is going to be Assad. We can create our allies now and help shape Syria or we can let Al-Queida do it. This is a no brainer for me.
"Its hard to win an argument with a smart person, but its damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person." - Bill Murray
I'm not a big supporter of dictators, but I have not seen the change of government in the middle east do much to make the lives of the people any better as a whole. The Kurdish in Iraq would be one of the exceptions to the rule. The people in Iran wanted to be free from a dictator, many people put their differences aside to rid the country of the Shah, but before the dust settled they had a far worse government. Not all change is good. It is too hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. We have a poor track record when it comes to the middle east. We need to stay out of it.
Did you just copy and paste that from the Obama/Graham/McCain talking points during the Arab Spring? How did that work out for us?
The rebels are doing just as much slaughtering as Assad, The rebels ARE extremists, Assad IS an extremist, and I do not want to support extremists. I can tell it is a no brainer because if you used your brain, you would not think that borrowing money from china to support overthrowing a sovereign nation's government is a good idea. If the majority of America thinks like you then we deserve to go bankrupt from a never ending fictional war on terror. But I hope common sense will prevail and we will stop trying to be the world's police officer.
In response to the USA getting involved in Syria, Iran just announced they are sending 5,000 combat troops to Syria to aide Assad. Is there any good reason for the USA to get involved where there are no "good guys" ? I understand that with the war in A'stan winding down that military contractors are pressuring the administration to get involved in Syria but, what are the benefits to the American people and the American tax payer who has to pay for this?
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
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Unconditional surrender will never occur in the ME, as I doubt anyone would ever want to do what was done in WWII. In addition to military lives, untold millions of innocent civilians lost their lives as well.
I truly believe that we can offer humanitarian aid, and help out Jordan with their Syrian refugees in the same way, but we should let these people sort out their tribal conflicts themselves. Until the Shia and the Sunnis, who share a common religion and cultural values, can figure out how to live peacefully with each other, how can we possibly expect they can have a peaceful relationship with those who do not share the same a societal structure that is so far different than their own?
Truthfully, I think the radical Islamists resurrected the whole jihad/Caliphate thing because they recognize that their power will be decimated as the common people finally tire of the violence and barbarism that these people have wielded, i.e. the Taliban. So, they have "created" an external enemy to take the focus off their own tyranny. It is the kind of evolution that took place in the Western World as a result of the corruption of the Church so evident in The Inquisition. Interfering in this natural evolution of the population's perceptions will not make things better for them. It is not something one can "impose" on a culture. It is something the society must find within themselves.
Both Judaism and Christianity moved away from the militaristic aspects of the Old Testament, and moved toward the peaceful aspects of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Left to their own conscience, is it possible that Muslim societies can return focus to the peaceful aspects of the Koran and away from the militaristic as well. They will not be able to do that as long as they have an external "enemy" they perceive as trying to obliterate their culture.
While Obama's forebearance in Syria may have been for different reasons than my own would be, it is probably the one thing (so far) that I can agree with that he has done. Of course, he did blow it when he drew a "red line" that he really didn't want to have to enforce (maybe he even naively believed he wouldn't have to enforce). He should have kept his mouth shut on that. If he really is such a smart guy, he hould have been able to come up with another response to that question that would have been more equivocal.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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Also be sure to inform us,for the times when our intervention was "SUCCESSFUL" of how warm and fuzzy the puppet govts we successfully put in place have remained to the USA over time
Sadly I believe you can get a fairly accurate portrayal of the formulation of our foreign policy over the past few decades by reading what I quoted from Franco above and just fill in the blank where A'stan and Syria are with the "hotspot of the month" for whatever time period you refer to


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If there is one vegetable that is virtually foolproof, it is this. One plant can produce countless courgettes and they grow at an alarming rate - which means they are a bargain at the supermarket right now as well.
Thankfully these green, glossy vegetables are wonderfully versatile: from the young ones with flowers that can be stuffed, through to those which have been missed among the greenery in the garden and turned into large marrows. These will need a little more cooking and are best added to the soup pot or stuffed with spicy mince and baked in the oven. Yum.
I use courgettes in everything from Mediterranean dishes and ratatouille to vegetable kebabs, salads, and fritters. For a simple lunch dish, chop up courgettes with other summer vegetables, garlic and tomatoes, slow roast with olive oil, and then serve with parmesan or goat's cheese, fresh basil and salad leaves.
Courgettes have a high water content, so when using them in fritters, frittatas or dressings, grate them and squeeze the excess water out in a clean tea towel. You will be surprised how much water is extracted, and your final dish will have more flavour. Always add a little salt just before cooking as this also helps to draw the liquid out. Personally, I don't like to mess with courgettes too much, as the original flavour is unique and subtle.
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Make the fritters, shown here, and serve them cold with a topping of salmon and chives. These make for a tasty canape with drinks, or can be made slightly bigger to serve as an entree.
The courgette soup can be served chilled for summer, but is equally delicious served hot. If you have a glut of courgettes, make big pots of soup and freeze for winter. Simply add a little chilli for a warming kick. In our house, however, it very rarely makes it to the freezer.
Finally, I love today's courgette tart - it always looks impressive. With a light pastry, slightly roasted courgettes, a touch of parmesan and olives, it's also delicious.
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As the executive vice president of business affairs and administration for Sony Pictures Animation, Ronni Coulter '77 oversees all legal and business affairs matters for the studio's slate of animated and hybrid live-action/animation feature films and productions.
1) Can you describe your journey toward entertainment law after graduating law school?
In 1983, I found myself facing the common dilemma of many young law school graduates: I had no real experience in the area I wanted to pursue, and the firms I was hoping to join would not consider me without experience. A friend of mine told me about a job at Twentieth Century Fox Films in the merchandising department. I was offered the job at the grand salary of about $20,000 per year, but I can honestly say that day was the most exciting day in my legal career. I worked in the merchandising world for about a year, and then I moved into film distribution and production. From there, I went into business affairs, where I have worked for almost 30 years.
2) What are some of the common challenges these days to completing the acquisition of an established worldwide property?
Studios like to develop films based on established brands, with huge name-recognition, and hopefully a built-in audience. The trade-off is that the studio has less leverage at the negotiating table, is forced to give up more rights, and has less control and less upside than it would have with a newly created franchise owned by the studio. The biggest issue to work out on many classic properties relates to merchandising.
3) What are the biggest differences between working on the business affairs side of live-action fare versus animation?
In animation, we try to have big-name stars voice our characters. Many of these stars are accustomed to receiving multi-million dollar deals for their services on live-action films. However, on an animated film, the actor will generally receive $10,000 per recording session with a five session guarantee. On the plus side, there is far less work to do in animation. In live action, major talent will usually participate in either gross receipts or net profits. In animation, however, there are no profit participants. From the studio's point of view, it is much simpler to pay bonuses based on the box office. Also, because there are no back-end participants, there are no audits and far fewer lawsuits.
Bill Colitre '00 serves as corporate counsel to Music Reports. He consults with clients regarding music licensing strategies. He negotiates with music licensors and rights-collecting societies in pursuit of those strategies.
1) How did you get involved in the music business?
After graduating from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in communication in the mid '90s, I knew I wanted to work in the music business, but wasn't sure how. I got a job at a great independent record store and an internship in the alternative marketing department at Capitol Records. Plus, I read every book on the business in the Santa Monica public library. The books taught me that there were three ways to be successful in the business: be a great talent in music, in sales or in law. Since my music chops are purely amateur and I'm not great at sales, I decided to go to law school.
3) Are there specific people or experiences during your time at Loyola that had a significant preparatory impact on the work you do today?
Professor Jay Dougherty and I got to Loyola around the same time, and he has directly influenced and supported my career ever since. While I was president of Loyola's Entertainment and Sports Law Society, Professor Dougherty served as our faculty advisor, provided encouragement and made introductions to speakers who helped us develop an excellent series of panel events. His clear lectures and willingness to pursue students' hypotheticals in real depth were instrumental in helping me earn the American Jurisprudence award in Copyright. Professor Dougherty's first entertainment-law symposium at Loyola was focused on digital music distribution, and more than any single event during law school set me firmly on my career path.
3) How are changes in technology affecting you and the rest of the music business?
People point to Napster as the watershed technology that drained music profits. I point to the fact that about three years before Napster emerged, every new computer began to ship standard with a CD drive. That was the technology that began irrevocably undermining the scarcity on which the economics of the recorded music business were perched. The hyper-efficient distribution of music may have radically deflated the economics of recorded music, but it has also led to a host of positive effects for consumers. We watch daily as the rights-collecting societies are forced to provide higher levels of service, transparency and good governance to artists and composers than at any time in the last century. At Music Reports, we combine database technology with music business affairs experience to help push toward a more independent existence for musicians.
In her role as director of business and legal affairs for FishBowl Worldwide Media, Susan Ehring '09 helps lead a next-generation studio that develops properties for film, television, digital platforms and brands by partnering with marketers, digital companies and ad agencies in addition to the Hollywood creative community.
1) How did you get involved in the world of TV production?
I started in television shortly after college as an executive assistant to the head of a new cable channel at Fox called Fuel TV. I was only the eighth employee! At a start-up, you get an amazing opportunity to be part of every piece of the company, and I was in the control booth at 4 a.m. when the channel was launched and eventually transitioned from assistant to coordinating the channel's international content distribution over five continents. It was great exposure to the business of television, and it is where I became inspired to go to law school. I wanted to be part of the negotiations and deal making. I decided law school would provide me with the best tools.
2) What are some of the unique challenges and opportunities that YouTube presents to you and your company?
YouTube has three hours of video uploaded a minute with millions of subscribers and advertisers. We operate a content ID program through YouTube that recognizes clips from our previously produced content and claims videos that have been misappropriated or posted mistakenly by parties that have previously released their rights to us. We are then able to collect the advertising revenue generated from the various clips. That revenue generation didn't exist before YouTube. The challenge of YouTube for production companies today is how to make new content that connects with fans and how to build a subscriber base that will generate enough revenue to be profitable. Successful channels bring in more than $1 million a year, but it's not easily achieved. While some view it as a challenge to traditional television, it is not as of yet.
3) How did your Loyola education inform your career?
I was an evening student at Loyola and continued to work while attending school. I felt lucky to have the experience of taking what I learned in the classroom back to my workplace and vice versa. Professor Dougherty's Entertainment Law course was a great introduction to the many issues involved in entertainment law, and it was also very thorough on the major cases. I have never had anyone mention an entertainment law case with which I was unfamiliar. Lee Straus's class was an excellent overview of the television business. I was also part of the inaugural class of the London Summer International Intellectual Property Institute. It was a fantastic experience and provided good insight into the multi-faceted issues of international intellectual property.
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Silicon Valley is disgusting. What is wrong with the tech industry? Why is everything about money?
When the industry was first getting started it was about changing the world. Now if you mention you are a Software Engineer people automatically thing IPO, Stock Options, $$, Porshes, and screwing other people over. Gates, Ellison, McNeally.... etc. etc.
What is a guy to do? I am not going to call myself a Software Engineer any more. Software Renegade? Artist? Software Artist... hm.
One thing is for sure. I don't want to categorize myself with unethical snakes that work for the Evil Empire.


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By Tiernan Ray
CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets's Ed Maguire today reiterates an Underperform rating on shares of Oracle (ORCL) after visiting yesterday's "CloudWorld" conference held by the company in New York City, one of several events Oracle is hosting in cities around the world to introduce buyers to its software for cloud computing.
Writes Maguire, "It's our view that Oracle is taking the appropriate steps to address customer needs, but the company still faces the classic Innovator's Dilemma, as alternative technologies with transparent (and free) pricing become increasingly viable for new projects."
From years of going to Oracle events, Maguire notes the company this time did without its customary slide deck boasting of Oracle's R&D spending, and its customary "'speeds & feeds' rhetoric around the Exa-systems" hardware, and talked more about how the software can be used.
The sense he got is customers are enthusiastic, but price is the big mystery with Oracle's applications:
In general, Oracle's customers are pleased with the technology, less pleased with the cost, but comfortable with the trade-offs of security, reliability and accountability versus less proven alternatives [...] Oracle has embraced RightNow, Taleo and Eloqua into the application portfolio, and partners shared the view that Human Capital Management as a whole is seeing the strongest momentum within apps. It's less clear how Oracle will navigate the economic model shift in the cloud. Pricing remains opaque, particularly for pending database, messaging and storage services, but we don't expect pricing to be particularly disruptive.
Oracle still faces instances of "rip and replace" of its database software, he fears:
On the other hand, what we see and hear among startups and a younger
generation of users is an inherent resistance toward non-open source
infrastructure software, and a heavy emphasis on pay-as-you-go cloud
pricing. Oracle's initial pricing models for hosted Exa-data and Exa-logic capabilities are essentially just term licenses rather than metered pricing. This is more managed hosting than cloud services, to put a finer distinction on it. What will continue to challenge Oracle is how the advent of cloud platforms creates the conditions where database is increasingly commoditized for certain types of workloads (not traditional transactional applications, but more highly scalable web-based applications). We're seeing more companies like a Pinterest or Foursquare run 100% on AWS, using a NoSQL database like Couchbase or MongoDB. We've not seen widespread signs of Hadoop replacing traditional data warehouses as use cases are more complementary, but we recently heard of a couple of rip-and-replace cases. The challenge for Oracle is to capture more of the new use cases, which threaten to capture more open-source share and use of commodity hardware in scale-out virtualized infrastructure.


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Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Pack recruit night for Pack 717.
They asked me to give a presentation on what Scouting is all about. Well, those of you that know me, I am hardly a man short on words…
BUT, last night I was almost speechless. The Pack put together a video of their activities this summer, in the video they explained Scouting more important was the message in the faces of the Scouts in the video. Their looks said "THIS IS FUN!"
Now Pack 717 does a great job of recruiting. They recruit before School lets out for the summer and then again when school starts. Their net gain so far for the year is 15 new boys and they have 8 more coming in next week from a private school.
As I made my presentation I asked for the parents to stand based on their sons age. I was pleased to see Tiger Cub parents.
Tiger Cubs are the life blood of the Pack and eventually the Troop. In 5 quick years those boys will be on the trail to 1st Class.
It was nice to see a pack with almost 3 Tiger cub dens. And at the same time 3 Webelos Dens. That tells me right away the Pack is healthy. It tells me that the boys are staying for the adventure. I remember the day we recruited the now Webleos 2 den, and now they are getting ready to come over to my Troop.
To watch them as Tigers and see their growth is an amazing thing as a leader. To welcome them to the Troop will be a blessing.
Tiger cubs are the life blood. I encourage every Scoutmaster to get out there and help a Pack recruit Tigers. It will pay you in the end as you receive them into your Troop.
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(Ratification vote taken at public meeting of June 2, 1998)
Chairman Bepko - yes
Vice-Chairman Krahulik - yes
Commissioner Abbs - yes
Commissioner Hicks - yes
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The Commission voted that two newspaper advertisements purchased by a non-profit association was not lobbying under the Lobby Registration Act, given the following circumstances:
Commissioners also agreed that if a lobbyist writes a letter to the Governor regarding a bill and sends a copy of the letter to members of the General Assembly while the bill still is before the General Assembly, then the lobbyist would be communicating with a legislator for the purpose of influencing legislative action under the Lobbying Act. Background
In a letter dated April 3, 1996, the Commission was asked for an advisory opinion on the following question:
Whether two advertisements, purchased by an association that is not a registered lobbyist, constitute lobbying under the Indiana Lobby Registration Act and requires the association to register as a lobbyist. One ad was addressed to the Governor, asking him to veto a bill, and one ad asked the general public to write the Governor and urge him to veto the bill.
A member of the association's board of directors appeared before the Commission and explained the national staff of the association had advised the local chapter to run Advertisement #2 early, to avoid a similar situation that had been encountered in Texas where the Governor signed a bill before anyone realized that the second house had passed it. The association member stated it was a coincidence that the advertisement appeared prior to the Senate taking action.
An advertisement addressed to the general public after the bill in question had been passed in Conference Committee by both the House and the Senate does not "communicate with any legislative official with the purpose of influencing any l egislative action" [see IC 2-7-1-9] and so does not constitute lobbying. Although the Governor's act of approving or vetoing a bill is legislative action under IC 2-7-1-7, neither the general public nor the Governor is a legislative official under IC 2-7- 1-8.
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If advertisement #2 was directed only at the Governor, then it is not lobbying for the same reasons Advertisement #1 is not lobbying. However, because advertisement #2 was published on a day when the Senate took action on the bill, and so the bill could not have been in the hands of the Governor, the question presented is whether the advertisement was actually directed to members of the General Assembly (defined as legislative officials under IC 2-7-1-8) for the purpose of influencing leg islative action under IC 2-7-1-7, even though the advertisement was addressed to the Governor. Commission members expressed the following concerns prior to voting:


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I have a feeling that in years to come Ron Johnson's tenure as CEO of J.C. Penney (JCP) will be taught in business schools as an example of how not to run a company. With Johnson's departure from the retailer on Monday, we're likely going to be deluged by stories of just how terrible it all was.
Surely one of the best postmortems will be Stephanie Clifford's piece in today's New York Times, which contains such gems as the following:
He blew into Plano a star, a man who helped build the juggernaut Apple Stores. But his Silicon Valley ways — evident from a showy party in early 2012 that he threw to celebrate himself and his plans, replete with a light show, fake snow and flowing liquor — jangled from the start…
Mr. Johnson wanted to transform Penney into shopping wonderland with designer boutiques and stable prices instead of coupons. But many of his ideas were not tested and soon backfired, and in recent months the board, including William A. Ackman, the activist hedge fund titan who had recruited him, grew impatient.
No sooner had Mr. Johnson been named as chief executive in 2011 than he began poking fun at Penney's way of doing business. At a regular Monday sales meeting, "he was pretty sarcastic about our marketing and how ridiculous it was," and he asked the chief marketing officer to count up in front of the group how many mailings were sent each week, said one former employee.
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The whole thing is worth a read, if nothing else than for morbid curiosity. Of course, that doesn't help Penney shareholders, who must be wondering what lies ahead. Mercifully the stock has had a reprieve today from its recent battering; it's down just 0.3%.


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I've been using mine now for over a week and love it. It took my bird boy all of 2 days to get the timing down with loading the gas and firing. Very consistent and loud. He likes it better then a starter pistol because he doesn't have to remember to reload the gun.
i agree with troy b . they sound great and a good concept but are very unreliable and cosistent. some type of new strapping needs updated and trigger needs looked at to be more consistent.
I was told by a couple of people who own these, that there is an elbow in the inside tube that if you remove it you will get a louder "bang" has anyone else removed this elbow??
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We have not done that, but nor do I personally see a need for a louder bang than what they produce.
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Just thought everyone might want to know.
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Oakwood's Dora Duky Desire MH- (Dora) 3/3/03- 3/16/11
Desire's Midnight Rose SH- (Rose) 1/29/08
Desire's Big Launch MH (Rocket) 9/29/09
Desire's Pine Ridge Lonesome Gus MH (Gus) 9/29/09
Desire's Littlest Hellian JH (Izzie)
Pro's: Cheaper to use
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Sound inconsistant
Problems when new gunners are using it
For personal use, once you get used to the timing issues and carry problems, it will work great. But, if you are using it for a club trial, with inexperienced gunners, it will pose lots of problems. No birds, inconsistant sound etc.
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They ain't exactly trail cam photos boys, but they'll have to do. Took these out my back window this past Sunday morning. Actually heard the strutter spit as I was on this forum and looked out the door of my office.
First pic is the object of his affection under my bird feeder. I took the long shot for perspective so you could see my deck and clothes poles. He got within about 20 feet of the house, hence the close ups. He'll be fair game after May 2 nd, he'll also probably be in the next county by then.


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How about only allowing dogs to enter in 8 or 10 master hunt test per year. If the dog passes 6 they are allowed to participate in the MN. I see several dogs that ran 10-15 test before they get that 6th pass. Just my 2 cents.
How about only allowing dogs to enter in 8 or 10 master hunt test per year. If the dog passes 6 they are allowed to participate in the MN. I see several dogs that ran 10-15 test before they get that 6th pass. Just my 2 cents.
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Kennedy's Midnight Storm Trooper "Truman"
How about requiring that entrants have spent a minimum of 10 days hunting the prior season?
East fix to reduced the number. Make it a Owner/Handler Master National. The solution is to make it so hard only a pro can qualify? The damn hunt test game has become geared for pros.This is insane and stupid. Let them go run the Open. And get back to what the Master is suppose to be about.
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What its prominence suggest, and what all science confirms is that the dog is a creature of the nose- A. Horowitz.
The reason that the MN and Grand are dominated by Pros, isn't that the Ams can't achieve the talent and ability.
They just don't have the time.
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What its prominence suggest, and what all science confirms is that the dog is a creature of the nose- A. Horowitz.
The only thing that will kill it, is a ceiling. Where there is no such thing as more than a MH.
Not growing, is dying.
In the HT game, the required talent, grounds, experience and training are still easily achievable for the Am.
It just takes the dedication and effort. And that's not going to change, for a very long time.
If people want more than a MH title why would they not go the path of the white coats? That is why the division originally happened and the Hunt test was developed. I don't have a dog in this fight due to the fact I don't aspire to run the MN, I get the MH on my dogs and that is the end of it for me. Would the option of running two MN a year be a possible better option to reduce numbers?
I don't think offering or making it a requirement to pass both a regional and a national event will reduce the numbers you will just put more money in pro's pockets (note I have no issue with this bythe way).
I know folks feel that unless your dog has an average score of XYZ they have not business at the MN, I disagree, now if you want to change the "standard" for the pass at the MN then make that change, make it harder to pass, right now the standard is the same as a weekend hunt, bump that up a notch or two then the "average" dog may not make the trip there. Just my thoughts.
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I run my dogs in both hunt tests and field trials. I've run two Master National events myself and paid a pro to handle in another one. I passed last years Master National, running my own dog.
The number of qualifiers is quickly becoming a serious problem for the logistics, grounds and workers. A viable solution needs to be found soon, but it should not penalize young dogs, old dogs, pros or amateurs. Whatever solution is put in place should focus on granting the opportunty to the most talented and consistent dogs in the hunt test game[.
In the past, the MNRC required 5 passes in 7 attempts or 8 in total for the year. This was a good attempt, but the result was judge shopping. Many participants scratched dogs from weekend tests when a test split and new judges were brought in, because they either didn't know or like the judges and couldn't risk a failed test. As a result, some clubs with tougher perceived judges saw entry numbers decline and those with easier perceived judges filled quickly and split. For that reason, they eventually did away with the the 5 of 7 and went to a straight 6 passes.
The proposal on the table, to require 6 passes after earning the MH title would likely reduce entry numbers and raise the experience level of dogs that qualify for the National. However, it could potentially exclude some talented dogs that marched right through their title in 6 or 7 passes too. Not the best answer, in my mind.
Some have suggested limiting pro involvement or the number of dogs a pro can run. I don't have an issue with pro's running and limiting the number of pro run dogs is not a sensible solution, in my mind. The time and expense required to run the event (let alone any pre-national training) is too significant for most working amateurs that also have to use vacation time and money for their families, so they turn to a pro to run their dogs. In many cases it is an economical decision. Why should an owner be penalized by not being allowed to enter because their pro already has 8 or 10 other dogs qualified and entered??? Makes no sense to me, at all.
Regional qualifying events have also been proposed, but that would limit amateur involvement when folks only have so much vacation time or money to go around.
I feel the real problem is the wide range of abilities in titled Master dogs and no attempt to distinguish one MH from another when it comes to qualifying for the MN. Some dogs handle weekend Master tests like clockwork while others barely meet the standard and take numerous tests to title and/or attain the requisite 6 passes in the MN year (Aug 1 - July 31). Every year there are large drop rates in the 1st and 2nd series at the Master National. Some are good dogs that had a bad bird, bad series or a bad day, but I would bet the majority are dogs that met the minimum standard at weekend Master tests throughout the year.
Owners enter because the dog finally qualified to run the MN and they are hopeful for a plate. Some of those dogs are run by pros. The more dogs a pro has, the more they can spread their expenses among the various clients, so they aren't going to discourage owners from entering. Unfortunately, they become casualties in the first or second series and then people point fingers at the judges or the MNRC Board for trying to get the numbers down, when in reality, the dog simply wasn't truly ready for a National caliber event.
Someone proposed the idea of adding placements to Master tests, similar to Obedience and Agility where there is a minimum qualifying score and placements are also awarded. That seems like a very good solution. It wouldn't affect the standard used to pass dogs at the Master level, but if qualification for the MN required that a dog place in the top 4 at a weekend hunt test during the year plus X number of passes, that might really help to reduce numbers and raise the bar for those that choose to try and qualify for the MN.
Another possibility would be to acquire X number of passes in a given year and have a lifetime Master pass rate of 70% or better.
Another option might be for qualifiers to also run and finish a licensed Qualifying or O/H Qualifying stake during the year with a JAM or better, in addition to X number of Master passes.
Just trying to think of other possible options that might reduce entry numbers and ensure that talented dogs are not excluded from the event. Afterall, it is supposed to be an event for the "cream of the crop".
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Junior Jeremy Blair chronicles the construction of a library in Ghana, which was built with the help of Princeton's chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Read more.
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This trip began in 2008 when a Princeton professor
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In this cute flashback, we saw that even back in 2010 there were sparks flying between Hollywood power couple, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
In this cute flashback, we saw that even back in 2010 there were sparks flying between Hollywood power couple, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Through a montage of hilarious clips, we saw that contrary to what we typically see on the show these two aren't always all about drama. In Kourtney's words, it was "so cute."
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I'm honestly not even sure what she was doing. I think she was trying to put her dress in her suitcase. In the process of doing so, she knocked over a lamp, sufficiently freaked out two staff members, and looked like a crazy person. It was hilarious.
At one point she asked him if he could feel the STDs leaving his penis…
There was a whole collection of scenes that depicted Rob as a complete goofball. He was yelling nonsensical things at his sisters, strangely dancing around the house, and winking at the camera…a lot. I wish we got to see more of him like this on the show!
Yes, that is a blow up doll you are seeing right now. No, I don't know how you can unsee it.
It was funny and a bit disturbing to see the family bonding over fascination with the notoriously creepy online chat site, where men frequently flash their let's say private parts.
I saved this one for last because as soon as it came on screen I burst out laughing. It was weird, a little uncomfortable, and just plain funny.


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text: My daughter got her first turkey on the last day of the season. Hunted in dense fog with very little gobbling heard, we set up on an old logging road and let out a few soft yelps when we got a response , i answered him and he gobbled closer , i told my girl to get ready and 5 jakes and 2 Toms materialized out of the fog directly in front of us. I clucked sharply and when he raised his head my daughter could not get a clear shot....after what seemed an eternity they started angleing away from us and my daughter whispered NOW I clucked they stopped and BOOM. 16.86 lbs 9 1/2" beard 7/8 " spurs


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At 7 this morning a flock of turkeys that been roosting on the same sheltered hillside took off flying NE and were still flying as they disappeared from my sight. I was on a knoll in an open 200 acre field and could see about 2 miles. About 20 minutes later another flock flying in formation about 80 yards up flew over my head going in the same direction- NE.
All of the fields around here are hard ice covered requiring ice cleats to walk across, even Vic with his sharp claws was slipping and sliding. There is no way turkeys can scratch up the waste grain although a lot of hanging seeds, fruits and nuts remain throughout the woods. After checking around I could find no turkeys in the area; so they must have left to find better fields to feed in? Why waste the energy searching when there is plenty to eat in the woods? The temperature here is 5 with a subzero windchill, -15 to -20. Given this I would have expected the turkeys to remain on roost in sheltered areas or maybe fly down and feed in the sheltered valleys.
Turkeys are wide ranging in this area, usually smaller groups will fly off to parts unknown. I have never seen large flocks of turkeys flying off in formations much like waterfowl do.
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I thought this section of del Boca's article was really interesting, because I think a lot of countries with histories that are often somewhat shameful fall into this same trap. Italy made a symbolic gesture to "absolve" the sins of colonialism, but still fails to own up to the grave moral wrongs committed.
Honestly, though, I think all countries do this. For instance, almost every other year in elementary school, middle school, and high school, we were required to take American history. However, we always started at the very beginning with the Native Americans and the explorers and the pioneers, and we would never make it past the Civil War. While the way we treated Native Americans was truly awful, it's hardly talked about. And then all of the more recent horrible stuff is omitted because we don't get to it. But I have a theory that they do that on purpose, so that we're never really exposed to things like Japanese internment camps, because the U.S. doesn't want to own up to that still. It's still rarely ever discussed, similarly to what del Boca was saying about colonialism in Italy.
Overall, while I agree with del Boca's point, I honestly think it may be a little too idealistic when you consider the context of how countries strive to preserve national pride and image.


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In Tetum communities in Timor, ancestral altars are made from stone or wood and placed in clearings or on stone platforms. The posts are topped with flat discs or additional stone slabs, on which food offerings and sacrifices are made. During ceremonial rites, the simple limbless figures are dressed in jewellery, headdresses and local textiles that display designs similar to the bands of geometric and spiral patterns carved into the posts.
Facing in opposite directions and with simple stylised features and close-set eyes, the two concave human faces of this stone post may represent male and female deities or an ancestral couple. Such symbolic duality is appropriate to altars where supplication for human and agricultural fertility is a strong element of worship.


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 229, September 28, 2001
ARSC Fall 2001 Training
ARSC FALL 2001 COURSE SCHEDULE: =============================== Oct 10, 2001, 3:30-5pm: User's Introduction to ARSC Supercomputers Oct 17, 2001, 2-4pm: Introduction to Unix Oct 24, 2001, 2-4pm: Productivity Tools Dec 12, 2001, 2-4pm: Visualization Case Studies
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"dmcp" and Group Sharing of Migrated Datasets
dmcp is a new command, installed on ARSC's Crays to simplify sharing of DMF migrated files between group members.
You won't put fellow group members over quota when you use dmcp .
dmcp offers an alternative solution to an old, vexing problem which exists because, while only the owner of a file can use dmput to migrate it off-disk, ANYONE with read access to a file can bring it on-disk where it counts against the owner's quota.
From "news dmcp," here's the description:
dmcp copies a file. If the file is DMF migrated, dmcp will copy it without retrieving the original file to disk. The purpose of dmcp is to allow group members to share migrated files without impacting each other's disk quotas. Usage: dmcp [-f] from_file to_file Where: from_file A file in a local filesystem to which you have read access. This is the source file. to_file The destination file. Options: -f : forces overwriting to_file even if a file with that name already exists. [Default: Does not overwrite.] Notes: 1) The syntax of dmcp is not equivalent to that of cp. It is modeled after dmcopy. 2) dmcp works on local filesystems only. Thus, when logged onto yukon, /allsys files are not accessible to dmcp. (/allsys is a chilkoot disk, NFS mounted on yukon.) Remote files are accessible to cp, but if they are DMF migrated, cp will retrieve them to disk and they will impact the /allsys quota of the owner of the file. 3) It is undesirable to have multiple copies of a file in existence: there is the risk of them becoming inconsistent, and the extra storage can be costly. Thus, you should consider removing files obtained with dmcp as soon as you're done with them.
Here's a scenario in which dmcp can be helpful: one group member has 50, 4 GB data files in his account, and they're all migrated to tape where they don't impact his 10 GB disk quota. Other group members, working independently on the same data set, retrieve and read one file per run, using Fortran OPEN and READ statements. Unable to dmput the files, the group members will put the owner of the files over quota on their third run, at which point all progress will stop.
In the past, groups at ARSC have emailed the owner of the files, telling them when to run dmput, or have tried the rather complicated solution, which runs dmput out of a cron job, described at:
> /arsc/support/news/hpcnews/hpcnews222/index.xml#qt
With dmcp , the owner of the files does nothing. Group members must preemptively dmcp a needed file (to TMPDIR, probably), point their Fortran OPEN statement to the copy, and after the run, rm the copy. This can all go in a qsub script.
Review ARSC's storage management policies to learn about your file system options, quotas, and DMF:
OMP_DYNAMIC Always Enabled Under UNICOS
The article on mixed-mode MPI/OpenMP codes in the last newsletter gave SGI Onyx and IBM SP examples, but never mentioned the Cray SV1. For those who were wondering, it was because the SV1 never spawned the expected number of OpenMP threads, and we didn't understand why.
Jim Long of ARSC gets the credit for ferreting out the answer:
Under UNICOS, OMP_DYNAMIC is _always_ enabled. From the CF90 Commands and Reference Manual, S-3901-35 :
2.3.16 OMP_DYNAMIC (UNICOS Systems Only)
The OpenMP Fortran API defines the OMP_DYNAMIC environment variable as one that can enable or disable the dynamic adjustment of threads available for execution of parallel regions. On UNICOS systems, however, the dynamic adjustment of threads is always enabled and cannot be disabled.
If a program calls the OMP_SET_DYNAMIC(3) library routine with an argument of .FALSE., intending to turn off dynamic adjustment of the number of threads, the library routine is ignored. The OMP_GET_DYNAMIC(3) routine always returns .TRUE..
Dynamic adjustment of threads in OpenMP is a runtime feature that allows the number of active threads to match the number of available processors. Although the OpenMP standard allows turning this feature off, it is not adjustable on UNICOS systems like chilkoot. It is implemented to avoid over-subscription of processors, leading to performance degradation. Overall system load is monitored and resources allocated accordingly.
OpenMP requires, however, that the requested number of threads be adjusted only during serial portions of the code. The number of threads allocated for a parallel region remains unchanged throughout that parallel region.
CUG Fall SGI Workshop Postponed
The CUG SGI Fall SUMMIT conference scheduled for Oct 22-24 in Denver has been postponed. See: http://www.cug.org/ for details.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ I use C, C++, and Fortran 90/95. I need to generate file names [[ which must be unique, to be used for temporary, or scratch files. [[ Any suggestions? As the reader response shows, you can roll your own or use a library function. Fortran programmers can use TEMPNAM or TMPFILE on some systems. The Fortran standard also includes: OPEN (UNIT=iunit, STATUS="SCRATCH") for opening a scratch file in the directory named by the environment variable, "TMPDIR". This file will have a unique name, and will be automatically removed at the end of the run. For C/C++ programmers, we have: # # From Richard Griswold # For C and C++ on Unix systems, you can use the tmpnam() function to get a unique file name. If your system has it, you can use mkstemp() instead since it will also open the file for you, ensuring that no one else gets the temp same name and opens the file before you do. Other variations of these two functions are are tempnam() and mktemp(). # # From Brad Chamberlain # In the ZPL compiler, we generate unique names using the process ID and user ID for the compiler, as follows: /* IN: path = base pathname tail = tail end of filename OUT: name = complete filename */ { pid_t pid; uid_t uid; pid = getpid(); uid = geteuid(); sprintf(name, "%s/zc-%d-%d-%s", (path ? path : "."), pid, uid, tail); } If multiple filenames are required, an additional static integer variable counter could be appended onto the string to uniquify each name created by the program. While this does not guarantee a unique filename, the only way a name can be duplicated is for the same user to happen to get the same process ID twice during compilation. This is unlikely, especially since these files are temporary and cleaned up after a compilation. Files that are expected to persist for arbitrary amounts of time would require a more coordinated effort (probably using files on the file system itself) to ensure that names didn't conflict. Q: I have a wallop*** of text files. It's easy to list those which contain some word, for instance, "dungarees:" grep -i -l "dungarees" *.txt However, I need the files which do NOT contain the word. This command: grep -i -l -v "dungarees" *.txt went berserk! It claimed that _every_ file does not contain dungarees, which is false! Does grep have some bug? What should I do? *** ps: what IS the collective for files? ("Wallop" just sounded good...)
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text: I'm coming to Chicago in three weeks time, staying in Wicker Park. This will be my 3rd visit, and on both previous occasions I've been to "Quake", as well as the usual Toys R Us, Walmart and Target. This year I'm also planning to check out another store I've found on the net called "Yesterday". Has anybody got any other recommendations for toy/collectors stores? I don't only collect Star Wars (though predominantly I do), but all sorts of other action figures and collectibles, both new and vintage. I won't have a car, but transport all over the city shouldn't be a problem.


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A highly regarded eating-disorder treatment center is about to make the Kansas City area its first site outside of its home state of Colorado, a development local clinicians said would help fill a critical gap in services here.
The Eating Disorder Center of Denver expects to open its partial hospitalization program on Dec. 29, according to local program director Tanja Haaland. The company is renovating 5,400 square feet of space in the lower level of an office building near Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Merriam, Kan.
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Rep. Jim Ward is a Wichita Democrat whose party loyalty has rarely been questioned, but even he says his party is likely to pick up only a few House seats in next week's election.
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U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran are leading a congressional effort to delay enforcement of Medicare regulations requiring physician supervision of outpatient treatments like chemotherapy and intravenous infusions. The rules are intended to improve patient safety. But Jenkins, Moran and several advocacy groups, including the Kansas Hospital Association, say they would burden …Continue Reading
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Approximately $18 million that would restore basic dental benefits for hundreds of thousands of low-income Missouri adults is in limbo due to a sweeping budget action by Gov. Jay Nixon. Acting under what he termed his constitutional duty to balance the state budget, Nixon late last month restricted or vetoed approximately $1.1 billion in spending …Continue Reading
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For several years, the Kansas City, Mo., Health Commission has delved into the city's violent crime problem by trying to stop the spread as if it's a communicable disease. The commission's main vehicle for this approach has been the Aim4Peace program, which (among other things) sends trained "interrupters" into the streets to help curb the …Continue Reading
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UW-La Crosse Planetarium a rocking good time
LA CROSSE, Wis. - After more than 30 years of teaching astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Bob Allen decided to call it quits in 2006.
He moved back to his home state of Florida for a few years before being drawn back to the cheese state.
He was talked into returning to the job of planetarium director that he held while teaching at the university. As the director at the planetarium, Bob is charged with getting people jazzed about the solar system.
"The point is to instill an interest to get people to go out and look at the real sky. And be able to orient themselves and understand what they're seeing," Allen says.
Whether its elementary school kids or college students, the planetarium is an important tool for Bob. He's been using it for the nearly 40 years he's been at the school, first as an astronomy professor. "When I took the position here, it was teaching with the planetarium on the side like a step-child. But it was always there as a true love as well."
And now in retirement. "It's enjoyable a lot of the time. It's not like work unless you have deadlines and new programs. Actually coming and doing a program is very rewarding."18495054
It's programs on the night sky that are most educational for kids and adults alike. "By being there and seeing those public programs they learn the sky and learn the astronomy stuff."
But it's a Friday night program that dates back to the 1970's that lets Bob tap into his love for music.
"I would come down here with friends and put an album or cassette tape in and play some music for friends. I would turn some lightning effects on. They said, 'Why don't you try this and let people come and do it.'"
And thus, Album Encounters was born.
"All of us have our experience with music throughout our life, whether we went to concerts or not. So there's that commonality that people can relate to the music."
With help from tech-savvy student assistants like Riley Karlstrand, Bob sets up a laser light show to a music album. Anything from rock classics...
"I really like the Pink Floyd albums just because Bob gets the most into those," says Karlstrand, a junior at UWL.
To new music like Mumford & Sons or Adele. "With the current releases you're hearing music that you wouldn't hear on the radio necessarily. Maybe one song, but not the whole album," says Allen.
No matter the artist, there are people who come nearly every week.
"Those people are my favorite because they come in and tell us how it was their favorite show week in and week out," Karlstrand laughs.
Whether it's those regulars, or newbies who show up, the hope is that the rock stars people hear in the planetarium can help people gain an added appreciation for the stars up in the sky.
Album Encounters are presented at 8pm on Fridays when classes are in session. You can go to the planetarium's website for more information.


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The Northern Echo website carries a story about car drivers parking on and blocking pavements, and the danger this causes, Saving 50p could cost someone's life.
This, and cars going through amber lights, is one of my current pet hates. We're back to pushing a single pushchair, but when we had a double buggy our way was frequently blocked by cars with two wheels on the path. I see it as one more example of drivers putting cars before people.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Saving 50p could cost someone's life
3 comments:
- Beatrix said...
As I said before: How about writing down the number plates of these unsocially (and illegally??) parking car drivers and publishing them here?
- 9:22 am, January 24, 2007
- miketually said...
I'd thought of that before, but I'm not sure it would do any good. Apparently, you can photograph the car and send it to the police; some parents' groups have been doing this around schools.
I did write down the registration number of the police car that drove through an amber light behind me on my way to work last week. It was on my hand though, and I've washed it off...
I might start carrying a digital camera around with me.
- 9:44 am, January 24, 2007
- Beatrix said...
Well yes, pics are good!
- 2:14 pm, January 24, 2007
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Well I have officially lost count on the #100daysofscouting blog count. I have been trying to get a good blog post daily, but we all know how that goes. Life gets in the way and there is always a lot of Scouting to do.
So today I have been putting the final touches on my gear for Wood Badge W1-492-11. My first shot at being on a Wood Badge Staff. I must be honest and say that I am excited about the up coming course and hope that I can influence some Scout leaders as much as my Troop guide influenced me.
The printing is done, the supplies gathered, and the knowledge is locked away in the recess' of my brain.
I worked on the blog today.. you may have noticed a new theme. I am typically not a fan of the black backgrounds, but for some reason, this theme appealed to me… I still may toy with the background though.. not sure I am stuck on black. let me know what you think.
Started a page to host the Podcast.. NO I AM NOT LEAVING PTCMedia.. I just wanted to have a place to put the shows that make it easy for those that read the blog to find… Let me know what you think.
So its either day 73 or 74 and the #100daysofscouting is still going strong with many great bloggers.
I was asked today if it was too late to get on the SMMPodcast Blog Roll.. NO!! Keep them coming! I want to feature a Blog every week on the podcast.. but I want you to help! Just call the SMMVoice mail at 503-308-8297 and leave a message.. You will get your blog featured if you call! We have a great Scouting online community here.. lets share it around.
Well, that's about enough for now.. I will post more as we get closer to heading out to Wood Badge!
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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