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Post XP SP3 Update problem
Despite all the problems circulating the web about Windows XP Service Pack 3, I thought I would go ahead anyway on a new installation. The installation part went fine and the system restarted properly with no lock ups, stops or looping restarts. So far so good, unfortunately I celebrated my good fortune too soon – Windows Update stopped functioning. Whilst updates were being downloaded, Windows XP would fail to actually perform the update.
I did a bit of googling and whilst I didn't find any accounts exactly matching my problem, I decided to follow the advice on this Microsoft KB article.
First of all, stop the automatic update service from the command prompt.
1. Open up Start Menu > Run
2. Type "cmd" and press Enter.
3. In the command box, type "net stop wuauserv", should should get the following confirmation:
Now we need to reregister the DLL involved in the Windows Update process.
4. Type in "regsvr32 %windir%\system32\wups2.dll". The following control box should pop up after a moment:
Now we need to start the update service and hopefully all should be well again.
5. Type "net start wuauserv" which should yield this confirmation:
Thats it, updates started working for me immediately afterwards. If this didn't do the trick for you, follow the alternative methods on Microsoft's KB article linked above.
Embedding Twitter into your WordPress Blog
Update 07/02/10: Please note that there is now an official wordpress widget for twitter. As such, hosted wordpress accounts are no longer constrained by not being able to use third party addins described in my previous update.
Update 22/03/09: Please note this method describes integrating your twitter account / feed with your hosted wordpress blog. If you are hosting your wordpress CMS yourself, there are a number of plugins and / or widgets you can use (nice round up here) instead as you can change the templates and are also not bound by the 'no scripting' limitation of hosted wordpress blogs. I initially wrote it back in June 08 but the method still works well to this day. If you have any questions please feel free to ask me via email (on my about page) or on Twitter @KonradS.
Many of you will be familiar with Twitter, a short message microblogging platform used by the 'technorati'. I wanted to utilise this platform in order to display my updates as a widget on my wordpress blog. Initially I encountered difficulties given that WordPress sanitises all scripting. As such, default twitter 'badges' are useless. I was about ready to give up, when I found out that Twitter has RSS feeds for every account.
Initially I hit a brick wall with this as well, the main RSS feed (http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/insertuseridhere.rss) was for your friend's updates, not yours and required you to be logged in with Twitter. This clearly is not that useful. However, there is a second feed, a user_timeline feed which does not require you to be logged in and only shows your updates.
The URL for this is : http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14526317.rss (substitute 14526317 for your twitter user id.) It is a little tricky to find this URL and to be truthful – I did this a few weeks ago and have completely forgotten where I found it, but it is there somewhere.
To find your own twitter ID, the quickest way is to goto the RSS button on your Home page. This is found on the bottom left part of the feed section. This RSS feed is not the right one, but it contains your numerical ID number. By substituting your twitter ID into the user timeline in the above paragraph, you will save yourself some ferreting.
Anyway, combine your RSS feed with the WordPress RSS widget and hey presto – a customisable, configurable Twitter feed widget. :)
Changing the Vista (and Windows 7) RSS Gadget
Its unusual to see such a user-unfriendly way of managing (or changing) the default settings in a program. Windows Vista ships with Vista Sidebar, a gadget/widget engine which brings limited but extensible functionality to Windows Vista.
The main criticism I had initially was with the RSS widget – there seemed to be no way of changing the default feeds that shipped with Vista from the default and fairly bland MSN rss feeds. Despite tinkering with the widget and sidebar program, I eventually conceded defeat and did a bit of digging.
It turns out, rather counter-intuitively that the way to change the RSS feeds is via Internet Explorer. Fire up Internet Explorer and hit "Control+J", this is the keyboard shortcut to bring up the feed window.
Once here, you can add / delete / modify the RSS feeds that Vista shows to your heart's content. In doing so, you expose the greatest weakness of Vista's default RSS widget, it does not scale very well. Whilst in "at-a-glance" RSS perusal for a few feeds works rather well, its over simplification is its greatest downfall.
There is no easy way to change between RSS feeds / groups (it has to be done via a menu each time) nor is there a way to dismiss headlines which have been read. This greatly limits the usefulness of this widget for any serious RSS subscriber.
I had a brief look, but I could not find a 3rd party, general purpose RSS feed widget on the Microsoft Live Widget site. Whilst this gadget is certainly of use, its limitations greatly diminish its usefulness.
UPDATE: Just a brief note to say this works in exactly the same way for Windows 7.
When the file extension… is not the file extension.
I was bemused to read on bbc news earlier that a trivially simply ploy stung half a million file sharers. The concept is nothing new having been started a fair few years ago by virus / malware writers and adopted by Copyright enforcement agencies in recent years. Do the anatomy of a decentralised file sharing system, anyone can seed a file. Once this seeded file is made available to the peer-to-peer network it either becomes advertised to a localised central file distributor (referred to as a Super Node or Server) or is found during a spider search query run by another user logged into the peer to peer network. If these files are topical or sought after, they can be transferred onto a different node (client) rapidly. There they are stored in the second user's 'shared' directory where more people can download it.
Once a seeded file has been downloaded and spread over a few tens of nodes the rate at which it can be downloaded by others increases almost exponentially with a cascade like effect. Other people of the peer to peer network are lured into downloading this file based on the number of people who have it therefore assuming it must be genuine and would be comparatively quick to obtain. Couple this with a topical or sought-after song / album or file aimed at the masses (who statistically would contain a fair percentage of PC-illiterate users and those with a penchance for agreeing to all the pop ups they come across) means these files explode across networks.
This malicious file in question appears to have masqueraded as a MP3 by Girls Aloud. Given the fact that on running the file pops up a message saying the computer requires a codec to play the song and tries to direct you to a website in order to download it, most computer users would stop and reexamine what they had just downloaded. People that brazenly proceeded and downloaded the malicious 'codec' package had spyware installed on their system which would 'bombard' users with pop ups. Also, the download file would spawn copies of itself within the User's shared folder under different names to try to make itself attractive to a greater audience.
But what happened? How were people tricked into downloading an MP3 file but ended up running a malicuous program? The answer to this lies in the file type. Broadly speaking, there are two ways in which a file can be opened:
1) via script or binary execution (e.g. .exe, .com, .vbs, .java, .scr … and some others)
2) via program read from an external application (e.g. .txt, .doc, .wav, .mpg, .avi …. and MANY more.)
MP3 files (Moving Picture Experts Group version 1 audio layer 3) are the latter, upon execution, Windows searches through its list of known file extensions stored in the registry to see what it should do. It instantly finds the entry for MP3 and sees this type of file is handled by a media player like Windows Media Player, WinAMP, iTunes etc etc. Windows then executes the media player which, on loading, opens the MP3 file specified in the command line argument, decodes a block, fills its buffer and starts to play. Unless a clever trick like a buffer overflow is used, which have historically been responsible for security breaches in various Windows programs as well as console homebrew development, this renders all 'program read' type files harmless*. As such we have to look elsewhere for the source of this problem.
That brings us nicely to the point I wanted to raise in this post, file extensions and more specifically, security vulnerabilities in their implementation. Recent versions of Windows from XP (and possibly earlier, I can not remember) have automatically hidden the file extension by default leaving the user to distinguish between file types by iconographic representations. Whilst at times this is both cleaner looking and more functional, it does present an interesting security problem, what if there are two file extensions? Window will quite happily truncate the file .xxx from a file name leaving the first extension, despite the fact Windows ignores anything before the final .xxx . As a result, if you name a file SomethingInteresting.mp3.exe, in its default state, Windows will happily display the file as SomethingInteresting.mp3 but will execute the file as an EXE when double clicked. Obviously, if you quieried the file by right clicking on it and selecting properties you would be immediately told what type of file it is, but most people will take the file at face value.
Luckily there is a very simple way to gaurd against such black magic, in Windows XP and Vista** in the file browser, goto the Tools menu and select Folder Options.
In this dialog, uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types' and click Apply followed by clicking Apply to all folders.
And that's it! A simple check box and some common sense now separates you from being lured into downloading fake or malicious files.
* Some files like some movies can have containers which direct the media player or operating system to web pages. It is not just media files which are vulnerable but this is a completely different topic.
** In Vista you may have to enable the classic menu
Test your password!
I found a fantastic site today which quickly and transparently tests the strength of your password(s). I would not recommend you actually type your current passwords in (just in case there is some sneaky javascript code) but it is interesting to experiment with different password combinations.
Since I was on the topic of passwords, I ended up writing a brief post about how to choose a good password and general password security.
A good password should be four things:
1) Use at least two cases* (e.g. lower case, upper case, 'number' case and 'character' case.)
2) Be a suitable length – anything less than 7 characters should be avoided.
3) Not include repetition within the password and should not be used for more than one application.
4) Be something personal or easy to guess (a birthday, pet or family member name or related to the application – for example 'email' as a password for your email account would be ludicrous.)
Let look at some examples:
The old favourite: "password". As you can see from the rating below, it is a terrible password. Not only is it predictable (and one of the most commonly used passwords) but it uses only one case and has some repetition (sequential double 's'.)
A slightly better version of the old classic: "pa55word". This time, all I had done is replaced the 's' with the 733t-ified version. By adding numbers, the complexity of the password has increased dramatically although it is still hindered by repetition.
Lets go even further: "Pa55Word". Now we are using three cases and the result is predictably much stronger than using two cases alone.
And finally, lets go nuts: "Pa5!Word". Using all the cases available on the Roman alphabet and removing all sequential characters. It is still not a brilliant password, but it is head and shoulders above the others.
Whilst choice and selection of password is important, it is not always essential to pick random strings as your password. Whilst passwords like gY$5c0p[ are very strong (it scored 92%) it is difficult for most people to remember them due to their entropic nature. It is therefore important to marry practicality with security and my advice to anyone picking a password would be to think of a word (or phrase) and substitute some of the letters for numbers / capitals / characters as in the example above**.
Password hints:
1) If you are choosing a very important password, pick a passage from a book. For example, the first 3 (or as many as you want) words from the first line of a particular page** and add a good degree of randomness to it as described above. If you need to jog your memory in the future, simply refer to that page and it should normally come back to you.
2) If you must write or record your password, obfuscate (via a stenographic method) it! Split it in half (or more pieces) and hide the password/passphrase in several bits of innocuous data. For example: If you made your password Nice225 Woods987 then you could store the following contacts somewhere:
William Nice +44207 750 1225
Christian Woods +43133 987 3245
The same method can be applied for card PIN numbers which can be stored as part of a dummy contact on a mobile phone.
3) Never stick to the same password for more than one service – if someone compromises one password, all your services will be vulnerable.
4) Scale your password to the particular security environment. A password that is used for an unencrypted email account need not be as strong as one for a SSH / VPN / Remote Terminal or VNC account.
5) For accounts you are particularly cautions with, rotate your password frequently. This need not be very week or even every month. If you change your password every 2 or 3 months, it will provide a much better protection against online stalkers who may be lurking and checking your accounts / emails periodically.
6) Passwords can be passphrases! It is much easier to remember a line of a story / poem etc than a bunch of rubbish. Unfortunately, even if that line of text is long enough, it will not offset the problems** caused by character repetition, although it would be important to obfuscate it in some way.
* The reason cases are so important is simply a matter of maths. If an attacker knows the password is only one (or two) cases, it significantly reduces the amount of computational time to brute force (or guess) the password. Take for example, a password with only one case (lets assume its lower case). There are only, 26 characters in the Western (Roman) alphabet meaning the complexity of the password is:
…if the password is 4 characters long, there are : 456976 combinations.
If the password is 8 characters long, there are : 208827064576 combinations.
Now lets assume two cases (lower and upper case) are used. Now the attacker has to try a total of 52 character combinations for every character suspected to be in the password.
…if the password is 4 characters long, there are : 7311616 combinations.
If the password is 8 characters long, there are : 53459728531456 combinations.
You can quickly see the significance in the numbers. If to round it off, we try all the (printable) characters available (94), an 8 character long password would have 6095689385410816 combinations!!
** Generally speaking, when trying to create a password, we are trying to create as entropic an outcome as possible as this will be the most computationally time consuming to break. The entropic value measured per key is calculated on the basis that each key press is independent and the entropy per key essentially increases with increased character range.
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Due to the manner in which language is constructed, the occurrence of letter like vowels is dramatically increased leading to a much decreased entropy per key. This means, in order to create a reasonable secure 64bit key, you would need approximately 58 characters as opposed to only 10 if all characters are used.e
The Wow is here! (With some tweaking)
I just came across a great site called MyVistaBoot.com . As the name suggests, it is dedicated to sprucing up that fairly boring Vista boot screen. Each new boot screen is packaged with an installer so it is trivial to get them on your system without resorting to the use of third party applications as was necessary with Windows XP. Take a look, there are some very elegant ones on there to suit every taste.
UPDATE: My mistake, the file downloaded replaces the winload.exe.mui file directly. It is not as simple as just replacing the Windows file but the instructions are clear and concise.
Ubuntu 8.04: Hardy Heron on the Amilo 1650
After using Hardy Heron for about twelve hours now (at least eight of those tweaking and fiddling) I must say I am impressed although, it sometimes feels a bit more clunky than previous releases. This release builds greatly on the previous release 7.10 and feels more feature complete and compatible as well. This is largely due to native inclusion of the b43 driver over the depreciated bcm43xx driver for the wireless as well as an improved restricted driver manager.
Here is an overview of how things work with my Fujitsu Siemens A1650 Amilo laptop:
CPU: Works perfectly (including frequency scaling and power management)
WiFi (Broadcom 4318 ) : Works *! (After the install of Acer_acpi tools and a bit of tweaking)
Graphics (Ati x200m) : Works perfectly! (With Ati Non-Free driver)
Flash (in Firefox) : Works perfectly (I had lots of problems with this in 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.)
Memory Card Reader : Not tested.
PCMCIA : Works perfectly (tested with IDE > CF converter and tried a CF memory card)
Hot Keys : Can be made to work, but I have not got around to this yet.
* Although it picks up and connects to wireless networks, I need to do a bit of testing before I am 100% sure all the problems have been sorted. Bloody Broadcom….
I had do install a few extra packages to get it all working however and I am going to detail this now.
To get the wireless working we need to install the firmware (not shipped with Ubuntu) via the new firmware cutter b43-fwcutter. In a terminal window, type:
sudo su
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bc43-fwcutter
Once that is done, follow these instructions to obtain and load the correct firmware module.
Now we need to install the Acer_acpi packages. Do not follow the instructions on the project website relating to acer_acpi as you will end up trying to install the depreciated version of b43 (bcm43xx.)
We need to add the following line to the package manager to enable the repository containing the acer_acpi code:
deb http://www.mumblyworld.info/ubuntu gutsy main
Once that is done, open a console window.
Sudo Su
wget http://www.mumblyworld.info/ubuntu/depot.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install aceracpi-source
m-a prepare
m-a a-i aceracpi-source
This first downloads the repository public signing key and then gets the acer_acpi source package. In the process you will likely be asked to install other dependancies, agree to this as these will be required during the compiling process. Once the above commands have completed, you will need to activate the module:
modprobe acer_acpi
The wireless light on the A1650 will now light up showing the wireless module has been activated. For future reference, it can be activated and deactivated with the following commands:
Sudo su
echo 1 > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless (to activate)
echo 0 > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless (to deactivate)
Restart and your wireless should be operational :) For reference, I followed parts of the guide found here. I would not recommend you do the same, as you will end up trying to install the depreciate version of the b43 driver, bcm43xx.
Another thing which I installed was the Compiz manager as well as emerald. Compiz has a lot of options, but window decoration is still one I prefer to use Emerald for. These are installed in much the same way as they were in 7.10 with a few key exceptions.
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-gnome compiz-plugins libcompizconfig-backend-gconf libcompizconfig0
Then install emerald:
sudo apt-get install emerald
Once these packages (and their dependancies) have installed, you will find two new options under System > Preferences gnome menu. One will give you complete control over the effects Compiz uses and the other will let you load/tweak and create Emerald themes. However, as per default metacity is the window decorator. In the Compiz "Advanced Desktop Effects Settings" find the window decoration option and replace the command field with "Emerald –replace"
Save and restart if required.
GIMP Basics – Screenshots
One of the main programs I use is Photoshop, I use it mostly for simple image editing / cropping and resizing for my blog. I am trying to move over from Windows to Linux for blogging and as such, I decided to finally get to grips with the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (The GIMP) which is the GNU photoshop equivalent for GNU Linux. Whilst the Wine project have made great leaps forward in recent years to the point where Photoshop can be run inside Wine, it is still not an ideal solution.
In this post, I just want to very briefly explain how to do something simple : take a screenshot, crop it, shrink it and compress it using the GIF interlaced format.
1 ) Download and install GIMP. On Windows this is done via a download from the GIMP site, on GNU Linux it is done via the distribution specific package manager.
2 ) Once it is installed, lets assume we have a screen we want to capture. Fire up the program and goto "File>Acquire>Screen Shot". This will bring up the WinSnap dialog which will allow you to take a screenshot of the entire screen (after a defined pause) or a specific window. The specific window feature didn't work particularly well so I recommend taking a snapshot of the entire screen. (If you have pressed the Print Screen button, you can instead use the "Past as new image" option.
3) Now we have the entire desktop, we need to use the select tool to highlight the area we want to capture.
4) Next we goto the menu, select "Image > Crop to Selection"
5 ) Finally, I tend to scale the image to 80%, this is achieved by going to the menu "Image > Scale Image" and selecting 80% width and 80% height. If you constrain the proportions of the image (the chain icon) then selecting a 80% width will automatically select 80% height.
6 ) Now simply goto "File > Save As.." and append ".gif" to the end of the filename. This will launch the GIF exporter.
7 ) You will be told that the GIF exporter can only handle Greyscale or indexed images. Select "Convert to Indexed" and click "Export".
8 ) Check "Interlaced" and uncheck the "GIF Comment" field and click "Save".
And thats it! :) When I get some time to play with GIMP's more advanced features I will write more on the subject.
Bypassing Acer Security
Today I came across an ACER PC (M1610) at work that needed restored back to the manufacturer's settings. Acer ship their desktop systems with part of the hard drive hidden in a recovery partition that can range in size from 6 Gb to 20 Gb depending on the specific PC model. The problem was the customer who owned the PC had set a password on the recovery interface and had promptly forgotten it. I had a chat with Acer who were naturally very happy to take the PC and charge the customer to reformat and re-image the entire drive. Unfortunately I spoke with a rather arrogant technician at Acer who claimed there was no way to get around this password, those that know me will know this is like mixing firecrackers with a kid with matches. I decided to fix the issue myself.
What you will need:
1 – A bootable CD with some live or preinstalled environment (e.g. WinPE/BartPE CD or any Linux live CD with NTFS 3G although I would recommend the former given the flakiness of Linux NTFS drivers.)
2 – About ten minutes.
Recovery tools are glorified branded imaging/cloning tools (like Ghost or Acronis True Image.) They have three main components, the program binaries (i.e. the GUI/UI and low level formatting/writing tools), the configuration files and the backed up / imaged data itself inside an image file. This image file can be one large multi gigabyte file or lots of smaller chunks and it contains not only all the files and folders, but NTFS file table system/ bootloader and MBR information. This means the entire image can be written onto a hard disk (or hard disk partition) and after reboot, the user could be presented with a fully functional system. Its for this simplicity that companies like Acer do their recovery in this manner.
I booted using a WinPE XP cd (but you can use anything mentioned above) and took a look at the partitions on the hard drive finding the following:
C: NTFS 69.5Gb (Formatted total)
D: NTFS (although reported as unformatted) 69.8Gb (Formatted total)
Hidden (Not mounted by default) NTFS 9.8Gb (Formatted total)
4Gb Unallocated space. (Wasted)
I mounted the hidden partition and eventually after some trial and error, found the file containing the password and password hint details. This was the file called "aimdrs.dat" (found on the root of the recovery partition) and could be opened in notepad (although I used and would recommend a good hex editor) and showed a very simple file layout as shown below:
[MyData]..PD=12345..HT=abcd efgh..
Where "12345" is the password, encapsulated between the equals and two full stops. "abcd efgh" was the hint. This was literally the entire file.
Changing either of these simple strings is very easy and after a reboot into the recovery software (via [Alt] and [F10] during BIOS POST) you will once again be able to access the recovery software. I would recommend you do not change anything else in this hidden partition unless you know exactly what you are doing.
I hope this helps someone stuck in a similar position and is likely applicable to many more systems than just Acer PCs.


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Charlie Chaplin's bowler hat sold at LA auction
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The bowler hat and cane that accented Charlie Chaplin's costume in "Little Tramp" has sold for $62,500 at an auction in Los Angeles.
Bonhams said the silent film star's trademark accessories were sold Sunday at an auction of Hollywood mementos.
Other notable items included a handwritten letter from John Lennon with a nude drawing of him and Yoko Ono. It went for $25,000.
A set of original photographs of Marilyn Monroe sold for $21,250 and a painting by Frank Sinatra went for $10,625.
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A Jonesboro man was arrested after pointing a gun at and threatening another man.
Brian Lane was announced as the new head coach for the Byrnes Rebels football team on Monday.
Lane is a former Byrnes quarterback and was also an assistant coach for the Rebels from 2000-2004 and 2005-2006, under former coach Bobby Bentley.
Lane most recently held the head coach position for the Woodruff Wolverines.
"He'll no doubt bring the same success to the Byrnes field, where he once played himself as quarterback," Spartanburg District Five Schools said in a release.
Former head coach Bobby Bentley left the team in February to take the quarterbacks coaching job at Auburn University.
Bentley was head coach at Byrnes for 12 seasons, leading the Rebels to four consecutive AAAA Division II state championships from 2002 to 2005. He left Byrnes to take over as head coach for Presbyterian College in 2007 before returning to Spartanburg County as the athletic director in 2009.
He left the AD position in 2013 when he returned to the Byrnes sidelines.
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As an old-timer, I miss the buzz that the State Finals used to generate. I had the privilege of attending two girls Final Fours as a student, prior to class basketball. The experience was incredible.
There's a lot of blame to go around for what's happened with the State basketball tournament, and I don't really want to get into it here. However, one gripe that I will air: the coverage of it in the mainstream media is horrible, if it exists at all. Maybe it's better with the Indy Star. Here in Fort Wayne, there's just not much. There is some for a local team, but even then it's kind of sparse.
So I turn to you, internet, the great democratizer of information, to fee my jones.
I know nothing about any of the teams in the Finals, with the exception of Norwell, a participant in the 3A finals. Norwell is a great example of a grass-roots basketball program, that has taken several kids with good talent, and has worked them together as a team since they were kids. The parts are not bad, but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. It's the kind of team Coach Knight would love.
I know nothing of Guerin Catholic, their opponent. I don't even know where Guerin Catholic is.
As for the other participants, I know that Yogi is at Park Tudor. Are there other D1 prospects at any of the other schools? How did Carmel get this far without Hammons? Were Pike's 7 losses an aberration, or is their run in the tournament an aberration?
Let me know what I should be watching for, and who I should be cheering for. Thanks for your help.


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I have tried creating the Browser instance in an application where switching between two views.
view1 is for creating ListBox & view2 is for loading HTML page.
In View2, softkeys are Options & Back. I have given control to switch to view1 (ActivateLocalView(EView1)) in EAknSoftKeyBack.
here the problem is : its going to Panic mode if I press Back option.
(Panic is coming while deleting the Browser Instance)
Note: The same thing I have tried by creating ListBox1 in View1 & ListBox2 in View2, Back Option works fine !!
Can anyone help me out....
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Originally built in 1924 and completely renovated, the Liberty Hotel, an Ascend Collection© hotel, offers historic accommodations in downtown Cleburne. This historic hotel has a spacious and elegant lobby that features a custom-made chandelier showcasing the original black and white terrazzo flooring, and a warm and inviting lobby seating area. Attractions close to this Cleburne, TX hotel include:
Splash Station water park is nearby and several golf courses, entertainment venues, museums and landmarks can be found in the surrounding area. A number of shops are within walking distance. After a long day of work or play, come back to the adjacent restaurant and cocktail lounge, the Caddo Street Grill, where you can relax with a delicious meal or refreshing drink. Room service is also available.
This Cleburne, TX historic hotel offers amenities like:
Guests can also enjoy additional features like the seasonal outdoor pool, free coffee and free local calls.
Corporate travelers will appreciate modern conveniences like copy and fax service. Whether you want to host a small business meeting or larger party, this Texas hotel has a meeting room, perfect for hosting a variety of functions.
In addition to standard amenities, all of our elegantly appointed guest rooms have coffee makers, spacious work desks, voice mail, flat-screen televisions, irons, ironing boards, robes, safes and cable television. Select rooms also have refrigerators, down pillows and sofa sleepers. Connecting rooms can be requested.
For added convenience, laundry facilities are located on the premises and valet cleaning service is offered. On-site parking is provided. With historic features, countless amenities and outstanding service, the Liberty Hotel provides you with unique accommodations in Texas. Make a reservation with us today and let us exceed your expectations.


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Verizon website allowing device upgrades while keeping unlimited data.
Verizon's website is currently allowing customers to select their unlimited plan when going through a device upgrade. I myself have taken it all the way to the checkout area where you enter your credit card details and submit the order, and have a friend who has completely gone through with an order.
This glitch? is still live, so get in on it while you can. I'm not sure if Verizon will honor the orders once they catch wind of this (if it isn't deliberate), so do it at your own risk.
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These Courage Introspection poems are examples of Introspection poems about Courage. These are the best examples of Courage Introspection poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
Being you
Accept yourself
That's all that I can say
Let your inner voice tell you
The way to live your day
Do not be hard upon yourself
That never did no good
Just be happy, never worry
It's foolish that one should.
Love yourself
Cause you're a 'one off' too
No one else can play your part
Nobody can be you
It's a lovely world we live in
Let it seep into your soul
Then when you feel at one with life
Twill get you feeling whole.
Most people call me crazy
But I love being me
I do not care what others think
I only like to be
To be this way, it is my right
A gift sent down by fate
I'm so I'm happy being me
Each day to me is great.
14 August 2013 @ 1410hrs.
I am the hypocritical Christian.
I say I follow Christ,
But I'm still consumed by my demons.
I go to church on Sunday,
But I refuse to invite someone back.
I want to serve on mission,
But I'm too afraid to act.
They think I read The Bible,
But I just fall asleep in it.
They think I'm positivity and smiles,
But underneath I'm death and addictions.
They think I'm clean and pure,
But I'm broken and mistaken.
I say I'm not worthy of His love,
But Jesus will never let me be forsaken.
I pray long prayers,
But inside they're empty repetition.
It might look as if my faith is strong,
But my core is too easily shaken.
I say the things I'm supposed to say,
But don't follow His actions or obey.
I speak the truth the church wants to hear,
But deep inside on matters I don't know what to believe.
I walk in shame as if I'm not good enough
To be loved by God and saved through Christ,
But there is nothing I could ever do to earn His peace;
It's a free gift.
I accept;
Now forgiven, changed, and released.
Thank You God,
Thank You Jesus,
Thank You Holy Spirit!
In Jesus' Holy Name,
We pray,
A truth in rage of insult furrows my mind
For it is only an offense given to me by myself
In the mouths of others far innocent than I
I feel the tears trickle down my cheeks
For I have surfaced into an ugly mistake
I am always inadequate in this brain
I try to shine like the advice of grace given
But confidence rarely rears its head my way
There's a sort of shade blocking its way
A shade that darkens everyday
That very shade led me to believe my feelings are wrong
That I will never belong so long as they are not controlled
I must be careful—for the lines of love and lust run cold
I hate myself truly this night
And no one but myself will give me the right
The very right to degrade my every being
Because you are not seeing what I am seeing
There is no point
My lines run cold
Can I be so bold as to say
I still love with a pang of indistinguishable doubt
All feelings enter in
As my truth blurs and checks out
Your words pierce me so deep
I cannot describe the pain I feel
God it hurts so bad
It can't be real
Much like the love I have come to embrace
The very love that links to your face
Tears don't give it justice
It can't be real
Much like the love I will never face
I never knew following dreams could be this lonely,
But up on the hill, looking back, thank God I'm not the old me.
If the tears will fall, let them be;
I believe this is God's plan, follow your dreams.
I am Reality's angel
resting on the broad shoulders of discovery
the truth feeds darkness and engulfs its target
ideas and concepts in turn become meaningless to you
there is a creator of all things
He is just and patient
many still have fallen into the masses of shadow
wrapped in their own filthy idols of philosophy
I have seen grown men fall like rose petals
and weaklings rise into unjust leaders
forever the follower of furtive evil
dominating only to remain inferior
the most important answers lie in the unseen regions
where no sense can fully give assurance
the mind that so many unreasonably twist and turn
grows weary because of the distance it must take
and truth be told the distance is not what frustrates
it is knowing we are seeking something far
that could very possibly not exist,
that our minds can twist into theoretical, idealistic nonsense
it is knowing all we really think we know
is meaningless
and yes—even a lie
all that has been written thus far rests under my wings
under the warmth in which you refuse to feel
can you believe in me—
though I am completely unseen?
how much more difficult would it be to see
List of things to do before
I fall in love again
I allow my mind to take me
Into the
A wild opened fields
where the grass is turning brown in spots
There's one
Wild flower
Dozens of
Scattered pebbles,
Under my feet
Taunted memories,
Bare trees with bend trunks
A cool breeze washes my face
No more umbrella tree
To relief me from
Ray of the sun
I squint from the sun in my eyes
Think of the ghost in my past
Or to deal with the
Ray of the sun
Lists of things to do before
I fall I love again
Buried the pain
Low the drawbridge
Keep the enemy out
I want to be happier
Than I've ever been
Fall in love again
I buried
Painful memories
Under the bare umbrella trees
Sense of humour, elevating our spirits
Musing over the simple things in life, rejoicing at what we find
Imagination stimulated, childlike, seeing the wonders in life
Light heartedness, laughing at one's self!
Everything as it is meant to be, smiling, enjoying, the gift of life
You are one of the reasons
Why they inflate their quote
If you had seized the seasons
Good men could have had your vote
You are one of the reasons
Why our sweet land has gone sour in waste
Here is one of your multiple treasons
You aid corruption just to suit your taste
You are one of the reasons we wedge weighty wrath
Bombs daily detonate like fickle fireworks far north
You decided to do nothing but shut your mouth
So they took our weary sail south
You are one of the reasons the land is inflicted with rape
Overflowing in abundance yet you mong like a greedy ape
Alas our land is grey and old but not due
And it hurts me to know that I am also you.
One self
I'm often repeated and hardly defeated
Could be good, bad or ugly
it all depends on what you make of me
I run a full course when fully encrypted
I am Habit
I can make you soar sky high
As well as fuel your eyes to cry
Can lead you to great profit
or lay you down underneath
Its still me Habit
A friend to both the achiever and mediocre
The very small stream that makes a river
What's your flavour? I make and mar
Can keep you redundant or take you far
Call me Habit
Be firm with me and you'll achieve a great feat
Be easy with me and you'll be wasted six feet


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RICHLAND, Wash. - Dozens of volunteers from Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) spent Saturday morning sprucing up the Inland Empire Playground at Howard Amon Park in Richland.
The group known as "WRP Speed" worked on the playground for about five hours, sanding and painting the equipment to make it look new.
Organizers say they were given a list of projects from the city, and ultimately decided to makeover the playground as a way to give back to the children.
"We do work out on the Hanford site which is a benefit to the community everyday we go out to work, but it's not necessarily seen immediately...so I think it's important to show that we help in other ways too and one of our ways that we help is by doing volunteer work," said Heidi Jones, the project's organizer.
This is the first volunteer project for "WRP Speed." Organizers say they plan to host at least two projects every year.


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Jason Tarver was named the Oakland Raiders new defensive coordinator on Monday, filling the last of the three main coordinator openings under new head coach Dennis Allen. Tarver was most recently the co-defensive coordinator at Stanford, but has spent 10 years in various coaching capacities with the San Francisco 49ers.
Under Tarver's direction, Stanford's defense was one of the best in the Pac-12. The Cardinal ranked first or second in six key areas, including rushing (1st, 84.4 yards per game), third-down conversion defense (1st, 31.1 percent) and scoring defense (2nd, 21.9 points per game).
Prior to joining Stanford, Tarver had most recently been the 49ers linebackers coach (2005-10). In 2009, the 49ers linebackers were one of the best units in the league, compiling 15 takeaways, 17.5 sacks and nine forced-fumbles while anchoring the sixth best defense in the league. He also played a key role in the development of such standout defensive players as Ahmad Brooks, Parys Haralson and Manny Lawson.
For more on the hire, be sure to check out Raiders blog Silver and Black Pride.


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In keeping with the "best player available" theme and using the CBS NFL Draft Rankings, here is my updated mock Panthers draft.................................
Rnd 2 #48 Arrelious Benn WR Illinois NFL body and will go over the middle. Can probably step in day one as #2 WR opposite Smith
Rnd 3 #78 Brandon Lafell WR LSU A pleasant surprise he's still here at this spot. Similar to Benn, but better hands and not quite as fast. Gives Moore two upgraded targets to go with Smith and maybe Jarrett along with a bruising running game. Helps a young QB be successful, like Matt Ryan's rookie year with Falcons.
Rnd 4 #112 Kam Chancellor OLB Va. Tech I see another Thomas Davis type opportunity here. He's athletic enought to play SS in college, but at 6-3 and 231 lbs. he hits a ton, and can beef up and be another pursuit LB with speed to go with Beason and Davis
Rnd 6 #175 Corey Peters DT Kentucky 1st team all-SEC. Athletic, smart and hustles and with coaching can be an NFL DT. Underrated.
RND 6 #202 Myron Rolle SS FSU Athletic Rhodes Scholar who is versatile and mature
Rnd 6 #204 Bill Stull QB Pitt Played in pro system under center for former NFL coach (Wannstadt) so is ahead of many other QB options. Decent arm and smart. Will be a bit of a project but worth a pick here
Rnd 7 #223 Daryl Sharpton LB Miami Another U LB with good smarts and hits a ton. A little undersized, but a football player who can also play on special teams.
Rnd 7 #249 Danny Batten DE South Dakota State Small school player who has done well against big schools and always hustles and has good leadership skills.
So, to summarize it came down to only 3 offensive players (2 WR and 1 QB), and 5 defensive players (DT, DE, ILB, OLB, S). Kinda makes sense as off is pretty set at OL and RB and TE, and Def has holes to fill at DL and LB.
As always, I reserve the right to change my mind as more info comes to light. Welcome your comments.


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There is a global movement to legislate and to enforce DRM and other stupidity as a part of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). I doubt many would object to cooperation amongst nations to stop illegal copying of trademarks and such but ACTA is being pushed by the same folks who love DRM. These guys want to block access to the Internet for anyone accused of violating whatever and to punish anyone for possession of anything that can break DRM. I am not kidding. This is serious. If you love freedom on the web, you should oppose ACTA. You can by signing a petition. We do not accept padlocks on books or magazines. Why accept locks on digital media?
Even if all you do is backup your CDs/DVDs, the tools you use could be against the law in the regime being contemplated by ACTA. Oppose it. Access to copyright material should not expire when the CD does. The term of copyright is X years, not the life of a disc. Outsiders should not have the right to limit your use of information you acquired legally for your personal use. That other OS endorses DRM, hook, line and sinker. You do not have to accept that. You have a choice to use GNU/Linux which gives you the right to use software on your PC as you wish. Do not let them take that right away from you for any reason.
I have worked in places that had an official policy banning software like ping or nmap. How was I to do my job? This goes way beyond that. CD-ripping, file-sharing (legally), and back-ups, all reasonable uses of IT and the Internet, could be eviscerated by ACTA. Don't let it happen without a fight. Already there are moves in particular countries to ban tools like bittorrent. Stop the nonsense. One does not ban hammers because they can be used by murderers. One should not ban useful tools of IT because they can be used to do illegal things. Ban the illegal acts, not the tools.


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Students are one of the highest risk groups for internet addiction. Like any addictive behavior, it is much easier to avoid addiction by practicing good preventative strategies before you find you are overusing the internet than trying to cut down afterwards. However, if your internet use is already getting unmanageable, these tips will help you get you back on track.
1. Know the Symptoms of Internet Addiction
Too much internet time is just one aspect of computer addiction. Knowledge is power, and knowing all the symptoms of internet addiction will enable you to evaluate your own online behavior and be aware of any symptoms that might be creeping up on you.
2. Monitor Your Own Internet Usage and Behavior
Internet addiction can start with peer pressure. When you see your friends doing the same things you are doing, you think your behavior is normal, so if your college friends are hyperconnected, it can feel like you should be constantly online. And being away at college without the limits set by parents, an important element in preventing addiction in kids, is a time when addictive behaviors can become excessive.
So keep track of your internet behavior with my internet tracking form. Use the guidelines that come with it to evaluate your own internet behavior, not what you see or believe other students are doing.
3. Use a Variety of Information Sources for Study
With more and more e-books, electronic journals and online study aids, you can end up spending many hours of every day in front of a screen, studying. But until quite recently, students studied entirely using books and journals, only occasionally supplemented with audio or video resources.
I have completed degrees using both approaches. In my experience, using traditional books and journals is a slower process--there is no cutting and pasting--but it is also one in which learning takes place on a deeper level. So whenever possible, sit down with a book and enjoy the deeper contemplation that can happen as you relax and absorb information from a page rather than a screen.
4. Use Social Networking to Supplement, Not Replace Real Relationships
Having 100 friends may be good for the ego, but it can destroy your social life if those friendships do not exist. Facebook can be a great way to connect with other people, but make sure that you use it as a convenient way of organizing real human contact. Get together to socialize and study, and limit your social networking friends to people you actually do want to spend time with.
5. Learn Stress Management and Coping Skills
Leaving home and going away to college may be the most stressful lifestyle change you have ever experienced. Increasingly, students are studying while living at home with parents and even working full time. Student life is not the carefree escape from the real world it once was. And escaping the harsh reality of life is one of the main attractions of internet addiction.
Stress is a major factor in all addictions, including internet addiction. And although going online and escaping can feel like the easiest way of avoiding stress, it can actually make things worse. Learn relaxation skills, take regular exercise, learn assertiveness skills and build self esteem, so you are able to take on and cope with whatever the adult world throws at you.
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Greenfield, D. "The Addictive Properties of Internet Usage. In Young, K. and Nabuco de Abreu, C. (Editors) Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. p. 135-154. 2011.
Kwon, Jung-Hye. "Toward the Prevention of Adolescent Internet Addiction." In Young, K. and Nabuco de Abreu, C. (Editors) Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. p. 223-244. 2011.


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Not an easy time to for my country and for me, hard to watch the unfolding events and do something else — yet I am looking forward to a better future (what is man without hope?), and thus continue to learn and grow, as a human being and as a professional too.
Also, I would have many more cool links to share if I held off any longer, don't want to War-and-Peace you, my dearest reader.


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By John Murphy
Ryan Williams is the new boys water polo coach at Redlands East Valley, Williams said by phone.
Williams, 36, replaces Darryl Womack, who resigned in April.
Williams has been an assistant boys coach for five years at San Bernardino Cajon under John Chamberlain. Prior to that he was the head boys coach at San Bernardino High.
"I'm excited," Williams said. "I'm glad to be a head boys coach again. Now I want to win a title, just like Darryl."
Womack coached REV for three seasons and led the team to Citrus Belt League titles in 2010 and 2011. The Wildcats currently own a 24-game winning streak, but coincidentally will have to face Williams' old school, Cajon, in the reconfigured CBL this fall.
Williams also led the Cajon girls to a San Andreas League title in 2011-2012.
Williams, formerly a classified employee in San Bernardino City Unified, said he is pursuing a teaching credential in special education and will seek a job in Redlands Unified.
His daughters Alexis, 12, and Ashley, 7, both attend school in Redlands and compete for the Redlands Swim Team.
–John Murphy
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- If you are a WSU student, please visit the WSU Math Department web page to find out about your required math assessment: http://www.math.wsu.edu/placement.
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Yes, it's 32 hours until tipoff and I'm so sure you're waiting with baited breath for my position by position breakdown of tomorrow's game.
You know, Kentucky vs. Louisville?
Here's the deal. I'm doing my best to try not to think about it.
By any measure, this would seem to be the Cardinals year to break their losing streak in this affair.
Louisville is better. Louisville is more experienced. Louisville is playing at home. Louisville is due.
I've used the term "window of opportunity," given that next year, Coach Cal is liable to get on another roll, since he's bringing in the greatest recruiting class since Zeus sent Hermes out to discover Greece's best ballers.
So, I'm wicked scared, frankly, keeping my fingers crossed and anxiously waiting for dinner time to arrive tomorrow evening, when hopefully my gang will be supping somewhere while replaying a W, knowing we can go home and savor it again.
Let it be said, let it be done.
Buuuuuuuut, you know, they must play the game and, in this rivalry, anything can happen. Denny Crum's worst team (12-20) won in Rupp in '97. The Cats beat U of L in '86, before the Cards went on to win their second national title.
Which is to say, I'm trying not to think about it.
Maybe my stomach will be calm enough tomorrow to consider the matchups. We'll see if the Pepto Bismol works? Stay tuned . . . but don't bet on it.
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Here's why Cincy is on the outside looking in, conference-wise.
Thursday night, the Big East school found itself in the same trick bag, Louisville was set to face next Wednesday. The basketball team had a big home game, which conflicted with the football team's appearance in a bowl.
The Bearcats tipped off at home against feisty New Mexico, while the pigskinners were still battling Duke in the Belk Bowl.
I assume Cincy tried to either move up kickoff or move back tipoff to avoid a direct conflict. Couldn't do it.
Louisville was scheduled to tip in the Big East opener against Providence at 7:00 pm on the 2d, to be televised on the league's TV network, which is connected to ESPN Nation. Sugar Bowl kickoff is set for 8:30ish that night, to be telecast on the World Wide Leader's flagship network.
The Cards were able to move the hoops start time up an hour to avoid direct conflict.
I wouldn't want to be a pedestrian crossing Jefferson, Market or Main Streets after the basketball game is over, as fans sprint to their cars from the Yum! then redline it home for kickoff.
Still no word whether U of L might show the football game on the screens at the Yum!. It could be a fun evening, but that scenario is a long long long shot.
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Speaking of Cincinnati, Mick Cronin has slowly and steadily built that basketball program back into a potential powerhouse. The Bearcats are going to be a test for any foe, even though they lost their first of the season last night to Steve Alford's one-loss New Mexico squad.
The Bearcats aren't much underneath, but their outside guys can dribble and shoot in Cronin's dribble drive offense. Sean Kilpatrick (5/22 last night from the field) and JaQuon Parker (5/14) both have more than a little Russ Smith in them.
The school's football team belked Duke in the last couple of minutes for a deceptive 2 TD win.
Which reminds me, haven't heard much lately from Munchie LeGaux, since he declared, "I'm better," when comparing his play to Teddy Bridgewater's.
How's that workin' out for you, Munchie? Don't think he played a snap last night.
One final Cincy note. Did you happen to see the interview with Tommy Tuberville during last night's football game?
Dressed like a riverboat gambler and with a smarmy southern charm to match Calvin Candie in "Django Unchained," the future Bearcat coach was the paradigm of prevarication when trying to rationalize why he left Texas Tech.
Something was obviously goin' on in Lubbock, and he wasn't about to say what it was.
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Avery Johnson was NBA Coach of the Month in November.
Avery Johnson is out of a job in December.
He was fired yesterday by the Long Island/ New Jersey/ Brooklyn Nets.
Phil Jackson, come on down.
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I love UCLA's uniforms.
Their football game, not so much. Actually, they're not so boffo on the hardwood either.
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Finally, Mark Hollis was just too outré.
The Michigan State AD, who brought us tilts in military hangars in Germany and on aircraft carriers, finally went too far.
His latest cockamamie idea is dead in the water. Thankfully. He wanted to bring 8 schools to the JerryDome in Dallas to play four games simultaneously.
That russdiculous idea is now in the shredder. No TV networks, not even the World Wide Leader, bit on the idea.
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We saw this guy climbing Standard Route that day. :) He took a big fall, but we saw him after our descent and he's still okay. BTW, hope you told Ruth we said hi!
was wondering if you guys saw him as well. And yes I did, she was pretty envious that i got to see you guys and hang out a bit.
holy junk.... thats the cutest fluffy thing ever!!!
We wanted to take it home... but figured the bunny would eat it. ;)
Sure it's cute now, but wait until it gets older and tries to rip your face off.
yea, thats why I'm adding a booey knife to my cathedral rack
Good call. You can never be too careful.
hahaha... jeff you have the bunny from montey python :) ..... BIG POINTY TEEEETH!!!
It's all head! Where's the rest of its body?


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Steve Poitras, longtime valley TV presience, retires
May 9, 2011 at 11:37 pm in Grand Forks Herald
A longtime face of news in the region abruptly retired Friday. Steve Poitras, reporter at KVLY/KXJB's "Valley News Live," returned from vacation and announced his decision to retire on Friday, Griff Potter, news director for the Fargo stations, said Monday. Continue Reading


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Kickflips are easily the most popular skateboarding trick to learn, after the ollie. But they're tough! There are piles of common problems, and one reader named Will just wrote me with one. He said, "when I try to kickflip i always ollie instead, my feet just cant do the flick unless I try to land with only one foot."
This is a pretty common problem, and it could be from a few different things. My first guess is something called Chickenfoot, where you are scared (whether you know it or not!), and so one of your feet refuses to land on the board. Read this FAQ on Chickenfoot for more help if you think that might be your problem.
But this could be other things too, like a foot placement problem, or even just that the kickflip isn't high enough! Here's some more resources that might help:
- Kickflip Troubleshooting - some common kickflip problems, with some help for each one.
- How Do I Kickflip Higher? - this is another FAQ, just about adding inches to your kickflips.
- Video on How to Kickflip - videos are a great way to learn, and this one will walk you through the steps.
- May 4, 2010 at 7:52 pm(1) troy says:
al you need to do is pop and when you hear the pop slide your front foot up to the corner of the nose and jumps so the board will spin under you and when you feel the bolts tweak your feet so you land with steeze. so harden you nuts up and land first pop
- May 5, 2010 at 10:33 am(2) Will says:
Thank you very much Steve, you really made my day!
- May 5, 2010 at 1:21 pm(3) luke says:
i have that same problem! i can do a PERFECT kickflip but the front foot wont land on it. I try and try to land it but the flip will mess up if i try to bring my front foot on it.
What ussually happens is i flip perfectly but my flipping foot always hits the ground before the board is done flipping! i cant stand it if i knew how to land the front foot i would have kickflips crossed of on my trick book.
- May 11, 2010 at 9:23 pm(4) Euan says:
Hey dude, you have problems landing with one foot?
The way i learnt how to kickflip was to land it with one foot really well, switch over and land it with the other really well and then eventually both and voila!
- May 12, 2010 at 11:35 am(5) Will says:
I can land with each foot alone really well, but when I try to put them down together its impossible!
- June 4, 2010 at 12:07 pm(6) Nevada says:
I have no problems with putting both of my feet on the board its just i'v bin practicing for so long on doing kickflips and i can get the flick but instead of the board staying under me it turns into a varial kickflip i meen wtf?! its making me very mad any advice?
- July 1, 2010 at 10:56 pm(7) gabriel clement says:
why cant i get my back foot on the skateboard while doing the kickflip.I can get the full rotation and land with the front foot but cant land it with the back foot please help.
- September 29, 2010 at 1:00 am(8) sam says:
hey could someone PLEASE help me! ive been trying to kickflip for about 4 weeks straight practising at least an hour a day, and i can manage to flip the board but my back foot doesnt go anywhere and i land it with my front foot out. when i try to jump more with my back foot i totally fail the flick with my front foot and the best i can get it to flip is about halfway and then still usually dont even land on top of it, can somebody give me help please its driving me nuts!
- October 22, 2010 at 6:47 pm(9) dill says:
Anyone who can make the board spin on its vertical axis 360 degrees can do a kick flip. People land with 1 foot because they are scared the board will slip out from under them, or they might land premo and fall. If you really can't get both feet on try holding onto a hand rail or tree or anything else. Then do the kick flip, you will land on it with both feet no doubt. Then try in the grass or on carpet. Then go outside and don't puss out!
- May 18, 2011 at 9:21 pm(10) quinn says:
i just tried the rail thing but i felt like i was lifting myself up and timing it to land on it .after about an hour i was starting to get sloppy and the board didnt even spin so i stopped
- March 31, 2012 at 4:14 pm(11) tony says:
i cant get the flick right. is possibly my foot placement wrong?
- March 31, 2012 at 4:14 pm(12) tony says:
i cant get the flick right. is possibly my foot placement wrong?
- May 2, 2012 at 10:56 am(13) dylan says:
Yea you need to put your front foot between the front boltsz anyway i land my front foot under my board!? and its reaally frustrating. if i switch i just dont land it…..
- May 23, 2012 at 2:45 pm(14) Dan says:
I have the same problem, i pop the board, flip it, and land it only with right foor, NEVER does my left foot land on the board, but my feet get twisted or something and its just crazy.
some say, your shoulders have to be lined up with the bolts, some say shift your weigh back, but NOTHING works, this is just a massive problem that cannot be fixed unless you just magically start landing the kickflip.
- July 2, 2012 at 3:15 pm(15) jake says:
try raising your front knees while you flick it helps to flick the board just at the curve of the nose and to keep your feet up while the board spins
- September 11, 2012 at 3:44 pm(16) Nick says:
I saw somebody said that they ended up throwing varial kicks instead of a kickflip sometimes? I used to do the same thing with my heels all the time, so i started throwing my back foot straight back after the pop to ensure that it wouldn't cause any shove, it worked for me.
- March 20, 2013 at 9:41 pm(17) manny says:
this helped a lot i got it down
- May 28, 2013 at 7:54 pm(18) Kunj says:
this video adresses nearly any problem you may have, good luck
- May 28, 2013 at 8:06 pm(19) Kunj says:
i had this exact problem and the way i fixed it was doing a half kickflip ( thats just flipping the board upside down instead of an entire roll). just practice that and you will find it easier to land with both feet on the board (even if it is difficult, you must practice until you can land it). when you half kickflip land both feet ANYWHERE on the board, just make sure you land on it. once you get that down. just try and flip the board harder and your front or back leg will no longer be trained to move away and will instead aim for the board so you can land it. expect slight injury (mostly around your ankles but nothing too bad) and just keep practicing. I guarantee you will get it if you are dedicated.
- September 15, 2013 at 3:26 pm(20) Vanz says:
I can get the board to spin the only thing, is landing on the board it stays in place but i cant get my feet to land on the board Please Help
- April 28, 2014 at 10:37 pm(21) Noah says:
i need help! i can barely get the flip while both feet fly out! i try to bring my front foot back in but my back foot never does! HELP PLEASE


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- The flag designed post independence consists of colors red, gold, green and a black star. The red signifies the bloodshed during the freedom struggle, the gold represents the country's mineral wealth, while green symbolizes its rich agriculture and the black star is the symbol of African emancipation.
- Akans dominate by a 45.3% while Mole-Dagbons are 15.2% and Ewes, 11.7%, in terms of ethnic groups. 68.8% of the Ghanaians are Christians while 15.9% are Muslims.
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- Apart from Gold, Ghana is rich in timber, bauxite, manganese, rubber and industrial diamonds. Incidentally, Ghana is the world's second-largest producer of Cocoa. Thanks to these, Ghana has approximately twice the per capita output of the poorest West African countries.
- Ghana is renowned for the slave forts- Elmina and Cape Coast Castle. The gloomy dungeons are typically reminiscent of the thriving slave trade during the European colonial rule.
- The Currency used in Ghana is known as Cedi.
- The country's domestic economy still revolves around agriculture, accounting for around 35% of GDP and employing 56% of the entire labor force.
- In Ghana, one cannot miss Lake Volta, the world's largest artificial water body. This was created in 1996 by constructing a 370m wide and 124m tall dam at Akosombo in southern Ghana.
- Ghana signed a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact in 2006 with the primary motive of transforming Ghana's agricultural sector.
- Accra, the bustling capital of Ghana is known for raving nightclubs and the mesmerizing Makola markets. A fairly modern city, Accra is also relatively safe for outsiders.
- Kakum National Park is a rain forest with an attractive canopy walkway. In this park, you can easily spot breathtaking wildlife that hide in dense foliage.
- Ghana is full of outstanding beaches with excellent surfing facilities. Some of the best include Busua, Langma (near Kokrobite) and Butre.
- Lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminium smelting, cement, small commercial ship building and food processing are the most prominent industries prevalent in Ghana.
- Ghana possesses a substantial degree of media freedom with the private press operating without considerable restrictions and was described as "one of the most unfettered" press associations on the continent by the Commonwealth Press Union.
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