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The Arai Vector 2 Motorcycle Helmet continues Arai's hugely popular less is more Vector model. The Arai Vector 2 is specifically crafted for the rider who doesn't need all the bells or whistles of other Arai models, but who can't imagine not getting the Arai familiy's unmatched three generations of handmade magic with care and craftsmanship, rider protection, performance, comfort and fit.
- Solid Colors
- "Frost" indicates a Matte finish
- "Diamond" refers to a metallic finish with metal flake
- Intermediate oval fit
- Complex Laminate Construction (CLC) shell that combines excellent shell integritywith light weight
- Arai's exclusive multi-density, single piece hybrid EPS liner
- Brow Vent Faceshield Ventilation System provides cooling air in upper face area without holes in critical forehead area of the shell or in the impact-absorbing liner material
- Exclusive removable 5 mm Peel - away Cheek and Temple Pad layer-provides additional level of customization and fitment
- Extreme peripheral view - wider field of side to side visibility as the top-of-the-line Corsair V racing helmet
- New tuned rear vent/wing - Air inlets provide improved interior ventilation and heat removal
- Hyper-Ridge band - newly sculpted lower reinforcement band provides stability and lower center of gravity for a lightweight feeling.
- Larger side exhaust ports to increase airflow and minimize noise
- Dual pivot chin vent to direct air to the rider or the shield for de-misting
- Reinforced shell ridges with integrated side exhaust vents
- Larger bottom opening for easier on and off
- Removable/replaceable cheek pads
- Meets or exceeds Snell M2010 and D.O.T. standards
- The Arai Vector II helmet is available in the following solid colors: White, Black, Diamond White, Diamond Black, Diamond Blue, Diamond Grey, Aluminum Silver, Black Frost and Florescent Yellow.
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Reviewer: Mr. Mike (Chester Springs, PA) 7.25.2012
Arai Vector 2
I had a hard time finding a helmet that fit my head. After doing some research I have a long oval profile. The Vector 2 is made to fit long oval heads. So the helmet fits correctly. The Vector 2 has very simple to operate vents. When open do a great job. The upper vents on the face shield prevent fogging. I took the cheek pads and removed the 5mm of padding that Arai precuts on the helmet to make a bit more room around my jaw and cheeks. I also don't have a problem with wind comming thru the helmet. That is because the Helmet fits me correctly. WEBBIKEWORLD has a excellent sizing chart. On what type of helemts fit your head. I thought that the size of your head is the only thing that matters. The shape is is also very important. What I did is take two pieces of cardboard ind hold them up against my head ear to ear and them took a measurement. I did the same thing front to back. Take the two numbers and divide the small one by the larger one. This is an aspect ratio. The closer the aspect ration is to 1.00 the rounder your head is. And I drew up an ellipse on paper and cut that out, it fit my head great. I now have my exact head size and shape. That is the secret to fitting a helmet. I would like to thank Kyle at Helmetcity for working with me during this process.
Reviewer: Stephen (San Diego, CA) 11.21.2011
Money well spent!
I live in Southern California so the weather can get hot. I needed a full-face helmet that would keep me cool during the hot weather so I did some research and stumbled upon the Arai Vector 2. I love the race red color because I usually don't see too many solid helmets in bright colors. It fits me so well and it isn't noisy on the highway which is a major plus for me. I can't stand riding my bike with a helmet that is loud and uncomfortable. The Vector 2 is my new favorite helmet and it was a great deal. Nothing beats a quiet helmet that keeps you cool...and looks awesome!


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You will spend a day and a night on the Yellow Mountains today. It takes about 1 hour from central Huangshan City to the foot of the Yellow Mountains. A round-trip cable car is included. Your appreciation of the graceful Yellow Mountains begins with your cable car journey. Don't miss the magnificent scenery along your 10-minute journey.
A light pack and comfortable shoes can make your exploring the mountains more eased and more comfortable. Your private guide will escort you to walk to discover the breathtaking natural scenery and guide you the highlights on the mountains where you can photograph the peculiar-shaped rocks and pine trees and the pictures consisting of rows of rolling mountains, seas of clouds, and verdant trees.
The sunset often presents an amazing opportunity for great photos.
Before going downhill this morning, take the chance to raise early and photograph the sunrise on the mountains, which is highly recommended by our past customers who have visited the Yellow Mountains.
After finishing your discovery of the Yellow Mountains, you will continue your Huangshan tour to one of China's most beautiful ancient village — Hongcun Village, a charming ancient village which was the setting for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (the winner of Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Award 2001). With a history of over 800 years, the village will show you the original Hui style architecture (a type of traditional Chinese architecture). This elegant ancient village is always the destination for art students and artists' capturing its beauty on paper.
Your guide would have called to confirm your return trip. He'll assist with check-out and handle your luggage, transfer and accompany you to your station or the correct check-in desk at the airport.

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Hello Mogwee!
We (the Ning "we") are seriously excited to finally unveil the first public iteration of the result of long hours of work over the past few months: a new mobile social communication service called Mogwee.
Mogwee is messaging, playfulness and usefulness, all bundled together, all in your mobile device, in real-time, 1-on-1 or in groups. You can share photos or videos, and soon we will add the ability to view nearby restaurants and movies so you can quickly figure out where to go next with your friends.
Mogwee is currently available for iPhone and iPad. Android is coming soon, as are mobile web and RIM versions (although I personally don't have confirmation about the latter). Go get the app and join in, let us know if you run into any issues, and keep in touch (both at Facebook and Twitter).
- Ning Launches Slick New Mobile Social Tool Called Mogwee, TechCrunch
- Ning's Andreessen and Rosenthal Talk About New Social Chat Service Mogwee, WSJ, All Things Digital, BoomTown
- App Watch: Ning Tries to Turn Smartphones Into Social Networks, WSJ Digits Blog
- Ning Launches A Whole New Business: A Mobile Chat App Called "Mogwee", San Francisco Chronicle
- Ning returns with free mobile app, USA Today
- Ning launches Mogwee, a mobile social app of its very own, VentureBeat
Additionally, check out Jason's post on the Ning blog, Meet Mogwee.
In recent moths, we ("we" as in Ning) have started to open up some of our code to the community at large. There is quite a bit of useful stuff in there (23 public repositories and counting), compliments of powerhouses like brianm, davidsklar or tomdz (to name a few). We have also started sharing code from the Operations side of the house, in hopes that it is useful to other Operations shops out in the ether.
Our first entry in this regard, at pierre's suggestion, is a Nagios plugin for Tableau servers, check_tableau_systeminfo, which is currently a little rough around the edges but quite usable. There is a new version right around the corner with some polish applied to said edges, and we are preparing a host of other tools for release that we currently use every day in our production environment.
Our production environment is currently comprised of 2000+ nodes, which makes it a relatively large environment that provides a fair amount of interesting operational problems to solve. And problems solvers is something we are actively looking for, i.e., we are hiring! Ning is the largest platform in the world for creating custom social networks, currently hosting 70,000 paid subscribers (up from 15,000 before we transitioned from the prior "freemium" model), and serving over 80 million unique visitors monthly. This makes us one of the top 100 sites in the US, and, according to CNBC.com, one cool company to work for (indeed!).
Check out the openings, check out the code, and come play in our playground.
Spammy Invites: Getting Scary
At a loss for words:
Spammy Invites
Is anyone else getting spammy invites at Ning as of late? Around mid-June, I started getting a relatively constant stream of invites from ramdon folks all over the map. There is little, if any, rhyme or reason to the invites, other than they mostly (and sometimes rather obviously) pr0n spam. The abuse folks asked me to leave the notifications intact, but after a while, the volume gets a little idiotic, so I started bulk-ignoring them.
Damn the Social Graph
Diego has a great (albeit somewhat brief) blog post about the social graph in the context of both the audience to which said concept is important and Ning. I can't but agree with him. For people (not users), the key to any engagement is interest at an intrinsic level (or obligation, but that's another matter altogether). Of course there are people intrinsically interested in social graphs: mathematicians, geeks, marketers (money!) and, of course, the press (buzzword!). They all amount to a tiny tiny percentage of the connected population (never mind the total population), and I'm willing to bet that's still true for people using Ning or any other social network.
Unlike Diego, I was late to the virtual social network game (and I make the distinction of virtual because I was –and am– doing fine in the real world). In fact, it wasn't until I came to Ning almost three years ago that I joined the hordes and got involved, primarily within Ning itself. Months passed, in fact, before I finally bit the bullet and opened a Facebook account, one which lied mostly dormant for a few more months before I started using it relatively often (which is still true today): I really only log into Facebook whenever I get an invite or some other viral event that drives me there (duh!). Interestingly enough, it is something I do almost daily on the handful of Ning networks I am a member of, primarily because I am personally (i.e., intrinsically) drawn to the network's theme. There is always an exception, and that would be LinkedIn, but even there, and with a reasonable amount of connections, it's still mostly an interrupt-based visiting process. And yet I know people who practically live in one (or both) of those networks, and if I think about what drives them there long enough, they have an intrinsic interest (which may be personal or professional) to be there as often as they do.
That's not to say the social graph is a useless concept. Diego makes that point masterfully:
I live and die with abstractions. You will have to take my little diagrams and sourcetrees and formulas and tools from my cold, dead hands. But these are the things I build software with, not for.
I've seen Diego's whiteboard and there's plenty of all of the above in it.
The social graph will be useful to people when it's called something else entirely and when it is given a purpose closer to their lives. I can think what seems like a good example of a successful company that has made such leap with a handful of products: Apple. They have mastered the process of taking such concepts (in their field of computer electronics) and polishing them into something usable people connect with (and crave). The iPod is one such product. iPhoto comes to mind as well. Not such much "dotMac" (but rumor has it they're about to tackle that).
And this is likely the reason Ning is building such a strong (and diversified) community:
They don't ask what people enjoy doing on the service. They don't ask for stories of users, of finding long-lost friends, or of newfound friendships. They don't ask what makes people on Ning join ten different social networks, as they often do, even if this flies in the face of conventional wisdom about how people are sick of joining social networks.
It's not about social networking for the sake of social networking, but about what makes people tick and the interactions they bring from the real world into the networks they belong to, another channel (and a powerful one at that) to share their intrinsic interests.


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Zangdopelri Lhakhang at Kurjey consecrated
September 11: The new Zangdopelri Lhakhang at Kurjey in Bumthang was consecrated yesterday. The consecration ceremony was presided over by His Holiness the Je Khenpo.
Her Majesty the Queen mother Ashi Kesang Choden Wangchuck and Her Royal Highness Ashi Kesang Wangmo Wangchuck graced the consecration ceremony.
The Zangdopelri Lhakhang was built over a period of seven years with financial support from Her Majesty the Queen mother Ashi Kesang Choden Wangchuck.
It was built in memory of Her Majesty the Queen mother's Grandfather Gongzim Ugyen Dorji, grand aunt Ane Thukten Wangmo and parents Gongzim Sonam Tobgye Dorji and Choying Wangmo Dorji.
It is also for the well being of the nation and all sentient beings.
The consecration ceremony was also attended by the venerable Dorji Lopon and Tshengye Lopon of the Zhung Dratshang and Dzongkhag officials from Trongsa and Bumthang.
The first consecration ceremony of the Lhakhang was carried out in June this year. It was conducted by the Yangse of His Eminence the Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche, His Eminence Rabjam Rinpoche, and His Eminence Namkhai Ningpo Rinpoche.


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We all hope for the best and prepare for the worst. When it comes to self defense most preppers/survivalists would rely on their stockpile of weapons and ammunition. What if for one moment your weapon was not at your side and the unexpected happens? Would you have the ability to defend yourself? Would you know what to say or do when confronted by would-be assailants or would you cower down hoping for the best but not prepared the the worst that could now happen?
This is a good time to also remember that your child or children may be with you. Who is going to protect them when accosted by a stranger or strangers? These are all possibilities we do not care to think about but exist and are very real. It does not have to be a societal collapse or disaster that brings on this type of scenario. This can happen today in the parking lot of your local grocery store or even in your own front yard.
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Pro_3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
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This week on the We Grow Ours show, Nick and Don we have Troy on the phone! Troy teaches martial arts in the Phoenix area. We cover self-defense and talk about the reasons everyone should train in some type of self-defense. Not only is this a good thing to help get in shape and keep your body moving (something Nick and Don lack) but it is something that helps you mentally prepare for a bad situation.
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Back to school means alot of things. It means we need to prepare for another year of craziness, great memories, and raising our kids the best we can. It means our children go off into the world again without us on a daily basis (That is good and bad.) And lastly it means we only have 18 weeks until Christmas (10 weeks as of today!) and it's not like moms need anymore stress.
Tonight on Mommy Monday we bring together pretty much eveything that moms need right now. TV Host and product expert Diana Perkovic (most recently of HSN) brings us ecommerce tips for the best early gift-buying we could ever dream of! Plus her insider beauty tips and picks from what's trending. My guest Shervin Ilbeig helps us with preparing our kids for school bullies and our college students for campus safety. Shervin is a sel-defense expert and owner of Dragons Martial Arts karate studio serving Los Angeles families for a decade.
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Zurriane Bennett Positive Self Defense for Women
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Zurriane Bennett comes to the show to help us put an end to the cycle of abuse to our women and girls.
This is a show for both women and men. The number of violent attacks on people is going up at an alarming rate. Today we are going to speak with a expert on the area of personal protection. We have to stop being reactive and become proactive. Rape, assault, abduction are real on the street, schools, college, universities, jobs an even in homes. The goal of positive self-defense is to give you a better understanding of yourself, your abilities and your ability to protect yourself from harm. This book is about taking action and taking control of yourself and life today.
Know that you can protect yourself and the people that you care about. Women, it does not matter. You must know and truly believe that you can. PSD can help you with this goal. The Positive Self Defense for Women book will be available on Amazon. This will be our third published book and a amazing book for any women looking to get great information on how to be more aware and to protect herself.
Mr. Bennett is a self defense expert and the author book and the creator of the Positive Self Defense series. He is also available for speaking events.
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Every 2 minutes someone is Raped in the united states. That translates in to 237,868 people are Raped each year note that number is based on the number of reported incidents. This is totally unacceptable and this has to stop now. This is something that effects each and everyone of us on the planet. Please share this show and movement with everyone that you know. Take action and become an active member of the movement to help keep more women safe.
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The goal of positive self-defense is to give you a better understanding of yourself, your abilities and your ability to protect yourself from harm.
If you watch the television news, open the newspaper or just listen to the people around you, you hear about all the bad things that are happening in your office, neighborhoods and all over the world. There are also a lot of positive things in this world too.
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On Monday, May12th, 2014 at 8PM MDT, please join Dave the Mystic for a discussion of psychic self-defense, descriptions of what is out there, how to remove it, etc. The purpose of this show is not to stir up fears but to have a rational discussion of what might be encountered and how to detect it and deal with it. Thanks for joining in the discussion. We will take calls.
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LAKE CITY, Minn. - The Martin Luther College golf team took fifth place at the UMAC Preseason event held at The Jewel GC Friday.
MLC finished with 350 total strokes on the day, 28 behind first place Crown's 322 total. Seven teams were at the event.
Craig Wilke finished with the low score for MLC with a round of 85, and was followed by matching 87s by Joel Sonntag and Josh Hansen. Jacob Biebert scored the fourth and final score of 91.
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Superman Sam & The Power of Social Media
A child has died.
A sweet, brave, smiling, bald 8-year-old boy named Samuel Sommer died from acute myeloid lukemia on December 14th. This is such bad news, I can barely type it out without getting furious. There is no calm way to understand this. An absolutely terrible thing.
And yet children die all the time. According to the World Health Organization, whose website I just clicked over to, millions of children die every year. But the millions of other poor dead children don't move me the way Sam's death does.
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Gov. Hickenlooper and others ride Harleys to reception
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Gov. Tommy Thompson and five other current governors have completed their Harley-Davidson motorcycle ride through the streets of Milwaukee.
About 100 combat veterans, including Medal of Honor winner Gary Wetzel, joined with the governors as part of an event Friday night during the National Governors Association meeting.
Joining Walker and Thompson were Govs. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, Phil Bryant of Mississippi, Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota and Gary Herbert of Utah.
Walker wore a Harley jacket and blue jeans. The other governors were similarly dressed. Hickenlooper had on a leather jacket and khaki pants.
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Xtina hearts Target
Check out this interview last week with Christina Aguilera from Access Hollywood. It shows her filming her new commercial for Target to promote her latest album (which I blogged about weeks ago) and near the end she talks about how much she loves shopping at Target, especially the baby and toy aisles for her son Max.
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The tactics at the beginning of the Civil War were left over from the smooth
bore musket. The advent of the rifled musket tripled the effective range
of the infantry. The artillery had to back up to move further away.
There was much experimentation starting just before the Civil War with breech
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cavalry, but it wasn't until near the end of the Civil War that a serviceable
metallic cartridge was made for a breech loading musket.
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Brazil is among the first countries to pass a digital bill of rights. Legislators in the nation's senate unanimously passed the Marco Civil, which protects companies including Google and Facebook from liability for content on their sites as well as ensures net neutrality and freedom of expression for users, this week. The move comes as the United States ends its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned of Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit responsible for the assignment of Internet domain names or addresses, within the next 18 months. It also coincides with the two-day Net Mundial conference in Sao Paulo, which started 23 April 2014, and includes discussions on cybersecurity, privacy, and Internet freedoms. Although representatives of many governments are attending, the Brazilian organizers insist each will have an equal footing with other participants, which include Internet companies, academics, technical experts, and other groups. No binding policy decisions will be made during the event, but it will launch discussions regarding Internet governance. It is reportedly the first international meeting on the Internet since the US National Security Agency was accused of illegally surveilling world leaders including Germany's Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. (Reuters – 1)(Reuters – 2)(Businessweek)
Brazilian law enforcement will get high-tech assistance during the 2014 World Cup soccer games from 30 robots. The national government purchased the machines for $7.2 million. They will be stationed in the 12 host cities during the soccer matches and will primarily be used to help examine any suspicious objects. The small and sturdy robot, which weighs roughly 40 pounds, is designed to fit in a backpack such that a human can deploy it immediately. It is able to reach speeds of up to 9 miles/hour and can navigate uneven and steep terrain, but it is also submersible at depths of up to 2 meters. The PackBot robot is made by Bedford, Massachusetts-based iRobot. It was first deployed in 2002 in Afghanistan and has since been used by the military in Iraq and several other countries. The PackBot was also the first remote controlled robot to enter the Fukushima nuclear facility after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (SlashDot)(International Business Times UK)(Robohub)
The Brazilian government is supporting the growth of its information technology and telecommunications sectors by providing tax incentives designed to foster global competitiveness. Officials also recently announced $250 million in funding through 2015 designed to support these sectors via youth training, software certification programs, and the encouragement of government agencies to purchase software from domestic firms. The country is currently the world's fifth largest market for information technology and communications, according to experts. Brazilian officials aim to propel their nation into third place by 2022. (PhysOrg)(Forbes)(Financial Times)


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Dunkin is a rescue from Monroe County Animal Shelter. For some reason this boy wasn't getting adopted. A woman that saw his potential decided to foster him and I ran into them at Petco one Saturday. I was definitely not looking for another dog, but there was something about this boy. He had such a face and showed such intelligence. I had that gut feeling with him that I have had with my other dogs. I was right on target too. He has already done two commercials and two movies in the first year I have had him. He is super good with meet and greets and a great family dog. I guess he didn't get adopted because he was meant to be with us! He gets his name because his tail curls into a circle like a Dunkin Donut!!
Nevada is a border collie mix that was once a stray on the streets of New York City. He was first rescued by a NJ shelter that Dawn did temperament evaluations at. When she met Nevada it was love at first site. She didn't really want a dog and for two weeks kept telling the staff that if no one else wanted him she would take him. She came in early one day to find an adopted sign on his kennel and her heart sunk. Dawn went to the manager and asked when he was going home. The manager replied "when you sign the papers and take him". They knew it was meant to be and Nevada has been Dawn's shadow ever since! He is one the the smartest dogs and he believes he has Dawn better trained then she has him! It was Nevada's attitude and tricks that got Dawn the job offer at the Comedy Barn.
Dawn was not looking for another dog when she found Scooter. She was "just looking" on Petfinder.com when she came across his face. Dawn experienced a gut feeling at the very sight of him. The Lake Cumberland Animal Welfare League brought him down from KY to meet Dawn. It was an instant bond! She knew this dog was a winner from the start. Scooter was the happiest dog she had ever met. His tail never stops wagging and he is so excited to meet everyone! He was a perfect fit in the group and in her heart. Scooter's enthusiasm is contagious and makes him one of the favorite dogs at the Comedy Barn.
When Dawn walked into the Sevier County Animal Shelter one afternoon, she was greeted by a crazy dog barking and jumping all over the lobby. He was out for some fun time and the shelter staff was laughing at his ability to jump on the counter top and tables. Dawn knew she needed a jumper for her dog act and "Wild Thing" was definitely up to the task. When he came up and rested his paws on her leg and leaned in for loving it was a done deal. Dallas is the star jumper of the group and his ability landed him and four others a spot on Pet Star in 2004.
It was September 11, 2001 and Dawn sat at home with the dogs watching the devastation on TV. She knew that she needed to get out to get her mind off the horrible events. The animal shelter was calling her name. When she got there she found the sweetest beagle mix just going in circles in her pen. She took out the little girl who then proceeded to shower Dawn with kisses. What Dawn found was the love she needed that day. "Spot" needed a more patriotic name and the name "Liberty" was it. Liberty almost didn't make the cut. Dawn was talking to her sister about finding Liberty a new home since she didn't seem to get any of the tricks she was trying to teach her. Well, Liberty must have heard that conversation, because later that day it all seemed to click and she became one of Dawn's star performers.
Dawn's sister has always loved chinese crested hairless dogs. In Dawn's mind, they were cute, but not her style. That was until she met Jay. A breeder had contacted Dawn when she found out she was training dogs to perform at a theater. She had a dog coming into rescue that was a beautiful example of the breed. Unfortunately Jay was too much work for the woman that bought him and due to a heart problem in one of his babies, she couldn't make money off of him by breeding. So, she got rid of him. Dawn went to meet him and he walked up to her on his hind legs. He looked like a natural performer. Jay Jay was the start of a hairless group that now runs the house! Jay Jay is short for "Naked as a Jaybird"!
Dawn received a call from her sister one day that she had a puppy that mom had rescued from someone. At the time Dawn didn't need anymore dogs and said NO. Her sister continued to explain how agile this dog was and how perfect he would be. The answer was still NO. Then mom called. Dawn explained to mom that they had plenty of dogs and she didn't want a puppy. Mom then said she was bringing the dog anyway. Dawn said NO. Mom then asked Dawn if she remembered all the animals she brought home when she was a kid, despite the NO. Mom said this dog is "payback". That is how Kona came to be part of the pack. As they say "momma knows best", because Kona has become one of the best workers in the show.
One fall Dawn received a call from a local guy that wanted to give his chinese crested hairless to her if "she would put him in the show". This couple had bought him for their granddaughter and then could not housebreak him. He ended up living outside with a goat! Dawn did not want another dog, but when she met Taz it was an instant bond. He was the biggest hairless she had ever seen and so motivated to work! Taz loved the other dogs and made himself at home by sleeping under the covers and snuggling every chance he got. Although Dawn told the couple she couldn't promise anything about the show, he was part of the team in just over a month. His signature trick is the circle, which earned him the name of the Tazmanian Devil Dog!
This handsome guy was yet another dog that wasn't suppose to stay. The rescue that Dawn adopted Scooter from called and asked if she wanted another hairless. Dawn offered to foster him and find him a home. He had allergy problems and major separation anxiety. Doug had warned Dawn that no more dogs were staying! Just a few weeks after Dawn got Odie she traveled up to Vermont to teach at Camp Gone to the Dogs. When she got home she was excited to tell Doug that she found someone that really wanted Odie. Doug looked up at her with puppy dog eyes and exclaimed "we can't get rid of him, he loves me!". And so Odie became part of the family!
This little guy was found on the side of the road. And, you guessed it, was not supposed to stay! Dawn found him sitting in the middle of the street with no identification. He jumped right into her car and was ready to go. Dawn called the local shelters, vets and drove around the neighborhood for almost two months trying to locate his home. He was a sweet dog, but she soon realized could scale any size fence and loved to take off. After two months of trying to find his owners, she tried to find him a home. Of course during this time he got along so great with the family, loved to snuggle, and had a great attitude for learning tricks. Iki (the Hawaiian word for little) was destined to be a part of the family.
This little guy was rescued from death row by Small Breed Rescue of E. Tennessee. He was at a rescue event that Dawn performed at in October of 2008. The rescue group really didn't have the room for him, but felt he had something special. After treating him for heartworm he was ready for adoption when Dawn met him. It was an instant hit and he fit into the pack as though he had been there forever. Expect to see him in the show in early 2009.
Jake is a special dog. He belonged to an angel... Dawn helped her dear friend Kelly pick this dog from a rescue. Kelly had been diagnosed with cancer and was looking for a friend. Jake was a great companion. Unfortunatly, Kelly lost her battle with cancer in the fall of 2008. Her one wish was that Jake be in a safe and happy home. Jake had spent alot of time with the canines while Kelly went through treatments and was very comfortable with them. So, he is now a part of the family and a wonderful reminder of Kelly's spirit.
After Miss Ellie's run for Ugliest Dog, someone contacted me about another potential "not so cute" dog. Elvis was taken into a shelter from a hoarding situation. The shelter did not have the space and Elvis was on the list for euthanasia. The folks from 4Petsake Rescue took him and his brother in and put them up for adoption. Dawn drove to SC to meet him and fell in love with this "not so ugly, ugly dog". He has the coolest toupee! His amazing hair got him the name Elvis. He has an incredible jump and loves to stand on his head! He is definitely going to be a new star!
Hoppy came to us as a foster dog from Small Breed Rescue of East Tennessee. He was a puppy mill rescue that needed his back leg amputated. The group had several people interested in him, but everyone seemed to think that missing a leg would slow him down and make him a calm lap dog. NOT! Hoppy is full of energy and life. His spirit is contagious and that is what prompted Dawn to adopt him. He runs circles around the other dogs, loves doing tricks and is currently in training to be a therapy dog so he can visit amputee children and lift their spirits.
Guido was found on the street by some tourists on a cold January night. The shelter was closed and they didn't want to leave him out. Dawn took him in to try and find his owner. Doug fell in love immediately. Two weeks later his owner came forward and decided she couldn't handle him and wanted us to have him. He is a couch potato and has become Doug's baby.
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The Japanese newspaper Nikkei has reported that Square Enix plans to support Dragon Quest X for an entire decade with DLC. They plan to release a new batch of DLC every ten weeks over the course of ten years, and they seem to really like the number ten. The source also reports that the company is expecting "mid to long term earnings" from this business plan.
Dragon Quest X is an upcoming MMO for the Nintendo Wii. It is going to have a subscription fee, and could very well take its place, holding the record for a game with the longest downloadable content schedule in the history of console games. They are placing a lot of faith into the idea of this Wii MMO.
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The Election and America's Future
In 1983, during the formative years of spin, 241 Marines were blown up by one terrorist blast in Beirut. Two days later, on October 25, Reagan landed 1,200 marines in Grenada, which is 3,000 miles away from Beirut. By the time that the invasion force grew to 7,000 Marines, the campaign was over. The US lost 19 dead, while 49 soldiers in the Grenadian army perished on the other side, as well as 29 Cuban construction workers. Communism in the Caribbean was now kaput (except for the little matter of Castro and Cuba). After this instant victory over a ragtag foe, Reagan was stimulated enough to accept his supporters' claim that America had now put an end to our shame in Vietnam. Reagan understood what Americans wanted, and that was spin. It was more important to be told you were healthy than to be healthy.
Bush-and-Rove enlarged this insight by an order of magnitude. They acted on the premise that America was prodigiously insecure. As an empire, we are nouveaux riches. We look to overcome the uneasiness implicit in this condition by amassing mega-money. The sorriest thing to be said about the US, as we sidle up to fascism (which can become our fate if we plunge into a major depression, or suffer a set of dirty-bomb catastrophes), is that we expect disasters. We await them. We have become a guilty nation. Somewhere in the moil of the national conscience is the knowledge that we are caught in the little contradiction of loving Jesus on Sunday, while lusting the rest of the week for mega-money. How can we not be in need of someone to tell us that we are good and pure and he will seek to make us secure? For Bush-and-Rove, 9/11 was the jackpot.
The presidency is a role, and George, left on his own, might have become a successful movie actor. Kerry's task by now is to scourge Bush's ham machismo. But how? Kerry's only real opportunity will come as he steps into a most constricting venue—the debates. Kerry has to dominate Bush without a backward look at his own dovish councils—"Don't be seen as cruel, John, or you will lose the women!" To the contrary—Kerry must win the men. He has to take Bush apart in public. By the end of the debates, he has to succeed in laying waste to Bush's shit-eating grin and present himself as the legitimate alternative—a hero whose reputation was slandered by a slacker. That will not be routine. Bush is the better actor. He has been impersonating men more manly than himself for many years. Kerry has to convince some new part of the audience that his opponent is a closet weakling who seizes on inflexibility as a way to show America that he is strong. Bush's appeal is, after all, to the stupid. They, too, are inflexible—they also know that maintaining one's stupidity can become a kind of strength, provided you never change your mind.
There is a subtext which Kerry can use. Bush, after all, is not accustomed to working alone in hostile environments. He has been cosseted for years. It is cruel but true that he has the vulnerability of an ex-alcoholic.
People in Alcoholics Anonymous speak of themselves as dry drunks. As they see it, they may no longer drink, yet a sense of imbalance at having to do without liquor does not go away. Rather the impulse is sequestered behind the faith that God is supporting one's efforts to remain sober.
Giving up booze may have been the most heroic act of George W.'s life, but America could now be paying the price. George W.'s piety has become a pomade to cover all the tamped-down dry-drunk craziness that still stirs in his livid inner air.
These gloomy words were written before the first debate on September 30. They were followed by an even gloomier final flourish: "Through this era of belly-grinding ironies, the most unpalatable may be that we have to hitch our hopes to a series of televised face-offs whose previous history has seldom offered more than a few sound bites for the contestants and apnea for the viewer. God bless America! We may not deserve it, but we could use the Lord's help. Bush's first confidence, after all, is that the devil will never desert him in his hour of need. His only error is that he thinks it is the Son who is speaking to him."
The debate, however, offered surprising ground for optimism. Kerry was at his best, concise, forceful, almost joyous in the virtuosity of his ability. He was able to speak his piece despite the Procrustean bonds of the debate. And Bush was at his worst. He looked spoiled. He was out of his element. He was tired from campaigning. There are times when a man has campaigned so much that he is running on hollow. Even Bush's face had become a liability. He looked cranky and puckered up. For years, he had been able to speak free of debate, always able to utter his homey patriotic gospel without interruption. Now in the ninety minutes of formalized back and forth, with the camera sometimes catching his petulant reactions while Kerry spoke, he looked unhappy enough to take a drink.
Most of this was seen on a big state-of-the-art television set, and the verdict seemed clear. Kerry had won by a large margin. Bush's only credit was that he had gone the distance without making any irremediable errors. Kerry's poll numbers seemed bound to increase.
Only one caveat remained. The first twenty minutes of the debate had been seen on the kind of modest-sized set that most of America would be using. On that set, one saw a somewhat different debate. Karl Rove had scored again. However it had been managed, the placement of the cameras favored Bush. His head took up more square inches on the screen than Kerry's. In television, that is half the battle. Kerry looked long and lean as he spoke out of what seemed to be a medium shot, whereas Bush had many a close-up.
This advantage partly disappeared on the large set. There, each man's expression was clear, and their relative strengths and weaknesses were obvious. On a small set, however, some of the cinematographic advantage went the other way.
We will have to wait for the polls. Will they be as skewed as the camera angles? We seem to be living these days in a kaleidoscope of ironies. Is the worst yet to come? If it is a close election, the electronic voting machines are ready to augment every foul memory of Florida in 2000. Perhaps it is no longer Jesus or Allah who oversees our fate but the turn of the Greek gods to take another run around the track. When it comes to destiny, they were the first, after all, to conceive of the Ironies.
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In the wake of the many scandals that have disgraced our government in the last four years, who is accountable? Will the secretary of defense be dismissed because of what happened at Abu Ghraib? Will the attorney general be dismissed for what is happening at Guantánamo Bay? Will the secretary of the interior be dismissed for handing national treasures to corporate looters? Will the secretary of state bear responsibility for refusal to participate in efforts of the rest of the world to keep the planet inhabitable? Will the President of the United States disavow what his handpicked agents have done on his watch?
We all know the answers. But in the eyes of the world the ultimate accountability lies not with the President or his men. In the end it lies with the sovereign people of the United States. The government is our government, resting on our choices and supported in all its activities by our taxes. We may claim with some reason that the last election was stolen, but we have had to accept the result. In the last analysis people get the government they deserve, and ours, more directly than most, is the product of our choice. We have been credited, rightly, for what it has done in the past, for standing up, however belatedly, to the Nazis, for assisting the recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan, for containing the threat of imperial communism. We cannot now escape credit for what our government has so shamefully done. We began as a people with "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," and we won admiration for it. We have now lost the good opinion of mankind and with it the self-respect of decent Americans.
It may take many years to recover what we have lost. We cannot restore the lives lost in Iraq, the lives of our soldiers, none of whom deserved to die for us, and the many more lives of the people we have professed to liberate in a war fought under false pretenses. But we can dismiss the people responsible for the other horrors committed in our name. Our self-respect, and the respect of the rest of the world for us as a people, hang on the next election. The damage now being done can be stopped. Some of it can be reversed. But the longer it goes on the less reversible it becomes. Seldom has our future as a people been in greater jeopardy. If we continue the heedless destruction of everything the United States has stood for in the past, we will rightly be held accountable, not only by the rest of the world but by our own grandchildren and their grandchildren for generations to come.
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The big issue in 2004 is Iraq—will voters reject President Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq, or will they accept and endorse it by giving him a second term? This question is not complicated, and the answer either way will be clear and crushing. Bush's defeat will signal to the world, and to the Republican Party, that the President's decision for war has been rejected by the country as unjustified and unwise. Bush's victory will signal something roughly the opposite—that the country has accepted and endorsed his decision, thereby transforming Bush's war into America's war.
Many other questions will of course be answered at the same time, but the question of Iraq is the one that will have the greatest consequences, because it will have the most to do with how long the war lasts. Mainstream thinking about this war has come a long way since Congress and just about everybody else accepted President Bush's claim that Saddam Hussein had and was seeking weapons of mass destruction and that this posed a "growing danger" for the United States. But mainstream thinking may not be ready to accept a conclusion that this war, like the intervention in Somalia at one end of the spectrum of pain, or like Vietnam at the other, will be seen in retrospect as a failure. How big a failure, after how much pain, waits on events.


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This is really interesting research: "Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans." Basically, you can tamper with a logic gate to be either stuck-on or stuck-off by changing the doping of one transistor. This sort of sabotage is undetectable by functional testing or optical inspection. And it can be done at mask generation -- very late in the design process -- since it does not require adding circuits, changing the circuit layout, or anything else. All this makes it really hard to detect.
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Good post Bill having mucked around with dedicated transistors a lot when I was younger one only has to look at the almost limitless configurations that "doping" or internal connections can take to see how fairly easily this can be done.
What it gets me thinking is how easy would it be to make chips, dies etc that could be altered by an external source at a later date - after it has been installed in a machine/s. For example just like us altering the firmware on a device or changing the BIOS configuration. It also conjures up in my mind how not just one device in a machine could be corrupt but maybe a whole host of others.
That is a scary thought eh?
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BLM Approves Wild Horse Pasture Near Ennis
The Bureau of Land Management has decided to establish a long-term holding (LTH) pasture for excess wild horses on the Spanish Q Ranch near Ennis, Montana. Long-term holding pastures are designed to provide unadoptable wild horses with humane, life-long care in a natural setting, off the public rangelands.
Initial stocking will be limited to a maximum of 805 wild horses. Horses will receive supplemental feed (locally grown hay) for about four months each year. Wild horses could begin to arrive at the ranch in February 2010.
The overall goal for the proposed Ennis LTH Pasture is to manage for healthy wild horses and to maintain the private lands in a healthy ecological condition. To meet this goal, the final horse stocking rate will be determined based on the results of on-the-ground monitoring. If monitoring indicates additional forage is available, stocking could be increased up to a maximum of 1,000 horses. If monitoring indicates insufficient forage is available, an appropriate number of wild horses would be relocated from the Spanish Q Ranch to a short-term holding facility or a LTH pasture in another state that has surplus capacity.
BLM's environmental assessment analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with grazing wild horses. The range of alternatives included the Proposed Action (up to 1,500 geldings), Alternative A (up to a maximum of 1,000 geldings with initial stocking limited to 805 horses), and No Action (Continue Livestock Grazing).
Wild horses that are in excess of the adoption or sale demand (because of age or other factors) have also been placed on private land sanctuaries in Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and South Dakota in the past.
The decision record and finding of no significant impact are available online at: http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/fo/dillon_field_office.html.
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A Million Little Pieces
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While this is a good story that I could see being turned into a miniseries, it is very choppy to read. There are no quotation marks (therefore conversations and speakers are difficult to identify from thoughts and actions) and the majority of the book is very repetitive-- especially for a 400+ page book.
However, there are some great morals and philosophies in this book. A controversial memoir, Frey displays his growth as a person/ character over the course of a few weeks, and that change is remarkable. Additionally, the people he may or may not have actually met along the way, especially Leonard and Lilly, are very lovable people.
Just be aware that this is the story of addiction, so it ends bittersweet.
I was really caught up in the picture painted of the characters in this book until I remembered the controversy about the author and Ophra. I read the reviews and even though I had not yet finished the book, it took on another feel for me.
This is one of the worst books I've ever attempted to read - I say "attempted" because, although I hate starting something and not completing it, I simply wasn't able to finish this.
His writing style is horrible and especially at the beginning of the book, is very difficult to stomach.
I already knew of the controversy about this author long before I read the book but I still wanted to give it a read, but I was disappointed. In no way shape or form should James Frey be considered anything remotely resembling a writer.
I liked the language during the first couple parts, but then it got annoying at times. However, the overall novel was an amazing read with a great plot. Sort of slow in the middle, but the ending is great. The controversy associated with the book is illogical to me. I dont really care if it was fact or fiction as long as it was a good read
This was A great novel. If you would like to hear A good story of A drug addict then I suggest A million little pieces. I really loved the style of writing for this book, James Frey really had me feel like I was in his mind. And I felt like I understood the characters throughout the story as well. And the dramatic ending was heartfelt so much to bring tears to my eyes.
Great for everyone, especially those who have substance abuse problems.
So much controversy about this book....how much is fiction, how much did he just make up? Who really cares at the end of the day? This is a great read, giving the reader a fantastic look at a totally different kind of life; that of serious addiction. Love the informal style of writing which adds to the underbelly kind of tone James Frey has going there.
fiction or non-fiction? I still liked the way he told the story.
March 2006
I don't care about the controversary that surrounded this book - it was a good one - real or not real.
I love this book. I could read it over and over. i cant get enough of it. i would LOVE to see it made into a movie.
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Youve heard: You can lose weight by going gluten-free.
New thinking: Dont restrict gluten; simply eat more fresh foods.
Gluten (a protein found in wheat) has nothing to do with weight gain, and simply switching from regular bread, pasta, rice, crackers and cookies to gluten-free products may actually cause you to add pounds. "The gluten-free varieties are often higher in sugar, fat and calories than regular versions," says Rachel Begun, MS, RD, and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. If you're wondering why that friend who gave up gluten looks slimmer, it's probably because she cut back on high-calorie packaged foods like muffins, cakes and crackersthat's a smart move for anyone. If you do likewise, and replace these products with unprocessed, naturally gluten-free foods like fruits, vegetables, meats, lowfat dairy, nuts and beans, you will lose weight, too. "But that's because you're eating an overall healthier diet, not because you eliminated gluten," says Begun.
The only people who need to avoid gluten are those who experience symptoms when they eat it. See your doctor if you have bloating or abdominal pain (especially after eating) and suspect you have Celiac diseasea chronic, often debilitating condition in which gluten damages the lining of the small intestine so it doesn't absorb crucial nutrients from food. No matter what, if you decide to go gluten-free, visit your doctor first.


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More than 30 Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst employees and spouses attended the 6th Airlift Squadron's second annual spouse orientation flight May 19 at the base. The orientation flight included a mission brief, squadron tour, lunch, C-17A Globemaster III tour and orientation flight over the Jersey Shore.
The 6th AS team shared their appreciation for the spousal support by ensuring the spouses got the best possible experience during the day. Col. John Roscoe, 305th Air Mobility Wing Operations Group commander, welcomed the spouses whose significant others represented the 305th Maintenance Group, the 305th Operations Group, the AMC Test and Evaluation Squadron and the 87th Air Base Wing.
Lt. Col. Doug Hall, 6th AS commander, greeted the spouses next by thanking them for their support. "This event is a small way of thanking you spouses for the priceless support you provide," Hall said to the spouses prior to the mission brief.
Capt. Dan Schone, 6th AS director of staff, provided the flight brief, giving the spouses insight into what a typical pre-flight brief looks like in the 6th AS. The brief included various essential mission details such as a map of the scheduled flight plan and weather forecast, to name a few. Tours of the facility in Bldg. 2202 followed the mission brief. Members of the 6th AS divided the spouses into two groups and showed them where equipment is checked out, where the squadron offices are located and where briefings are held. The tour guides invited the spouses to ask questions during the tour to become more familiar with the squadron.
The spouses asked various questions about the squadron ranging from where the name "Bully Beef" came from to why military aircraft must obey the same Federal Aviation Administration requirements as commercial airliners. Spouses took photos of the aircraft prior to the flight. For many spouses this flight was an inside glimpse into what their significant others do on a daily basis. "It's my dream," said Claudia Myers, spouse of Master Sgt. Mark Myers, 305th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron production superintendant. "My husband is working for this airplane, so later I can tell the kids 'daddy works with this.' You don't get the chance to do that often."
Many of the spouses joked when they saw the envelopes containing motion sickness bags on their seats as they boarded the C-17, but as the flight took off, the first-time C-17 flyers began to realize the need for the bags. The aircrew acted professionally with the motion-sick spouses offering cockpit seating to those who felt very sick. Many of the spouses hope to participate in the event in the future, even with sickness prevailing. Mollie Boonstra, wife of Senior Master Sgt. Steve Boonstra, 305th AMXS lead production superintendant, enjoyed the flight and said she will do it again if there is less turbulence.
Boonstra, native of Lake Hopatcong, N.J., put her balance to the test as soon as it was safe to walk around the aircraft. Though she stumbled a little with the bouts of turbulence, she enjoyed the flight and the insider's look into what her husband's work days are like. "My favorite part of the day was seeing what our husbands do all day and to see the whole package come together," she said.
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|Song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the album Siamese Dream
|27 July 1993
|Alternative rock, shoegaze
|Billy Corgan, James Iha
|Butch Vig, Billy Corgan
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|Song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the album Siamese Dream
|27 July 1993
|Alternative rock, shoegaze
|Billy Corgan, James Iha
|Butch Vig, Billy Corgan
|Siamese Dream track listing
"Mayonaise" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins, first officially released on the 1993 breakthrough album Siamese Dream. It was written by Billy Corgan and James Iha and was recorded from December 1992 to March 1993 at Triclops Sound Studios. According to Corgan, the whistling sound (feedback) heard in "Mayonaise" came from a cheap guitar he bought, which, whenever he stopped playing it, created the whistling sound. This sound was then incorporated into the song. Corgan apparently got the title for the song after he looked "in [his] refrigerator".[1]
Despite having garnered considerable radio play and remaining a fan favorite, "Mayonaise" was never an officially released single. In 2012 it won a Rolling Stone readers poll for "The Best Smashing Pumpkins Songs" by "a significant margin".[2]
Iha stated that he "...came up with those chords and did a demo of it, it was an instrumental demo of the song. I played it for Billy and he liked it, he came up with the vocal melody and the lyrics. We worked on the arrangement together."[3]
In the 2008 documentary If All Goes Wrong, when talking about "Mayonaise" Corgan downplayed Iha's contributions to the song, attributing only "minor aspects of the chord structures, essentially, but it's really only two parts" and says Iha "gets a lot of credit, probably undue" for writing a "fucking fantastic" song "because his name is on the credit but I wrote the song."[4]
The song begins with a soft guitar intro lasting for about a minute. The guitars in the verses and chorus/solo segments of the song are extremely distorted and are characterized as having a heavy, spacey, and dreamy sound.
Several versions of the song are available. Before being officially released on Siamese Dream, an acoustic mix (labeled as an outtake) of the Siamese Dream recording was featured on the Mashed Potatoes box set given to friends in 1993-1994. It was also a part of the official promos Still Becoming Apart and The Smashing Pumpkins 1991-1998, with a slightly phased acoustic guitar part and a tambourine. Most recently, a live acoustic version was released on Earphoria and the Vieuphoria video. The Vieuphoria version, originally broadcast in 1993 on the British television show Naked City, features the band playing the song intertwined with footage of the band.
On the most recent Smashing Pumpkins tribute album, compiled by MySpace and Spin, The Academy Is... covered the song.
The band Emanuel also covered the song on the 2005 Smashing Pumpkins tribute album The Killer in You: A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins.