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Now, when you want to connect a Bluetooth mouse, press ctrl-F8 (you may have to press fn-ctrl-F8 depending on how you've configured the function keys in System Preferences->Keyboard). This will set the focus to the right side of the system menu bar and highlight the leftmost system-owned icon (as opposed to icons that belong to third-party apps). Now simply use the arrow keys to navigate to the Bluetooth icon, press the down key, navigate to the Bluetooth mouse you want to connect (I'm assuming it's already been paired), select Connect in its sub-menu and press Enter. After a couple of seconds your Bluetooth mouse should be connected.
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- Posted by cynthianovak 7/8 TX (My Page) on Fri, Oct 16, 09 at 0:28
I would use a flat shovel and lift up patches of sod with soil at the correct depth. I'd toss in the corcus then lay the sod on top. I would do this in patches to resemble bulbs who had naturally multiplied. If you want to be more delicate use a dibble or a sharp trowel: pierce the soil to the depth, pull the trowel toward you to make a hole, drop one in then pull out the trowel. You could stop down on the sod when you are done to "set" the bulb in. BTW one year I planted 100s of crocus in my lawn. As they came up I suddenly noticed that everyone...or so it seemed...took a short cut across my planting! Even the mailman made it a regular path. Then, I had to set up a little "fence" I used wire coat hangers cut so they would work like large staples and tied bright yellow nylon twine from hanger head to hanger head to make a yellow corral. That summer I just turned that whole side of the yard into a lasagne bed. ....happy memories...c |
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I planted about 2200 Crocus and 500 Iris retics in the lawn, using a bulb auger and cordless drills. The planting went really fast, but even with 2 drills and 4 batteries, had to pause a few times to wait for batteries to recharge. I chose an auger with the longest shank I could find, to save my back! After backfilling the areas and watering well to settle the soil, the bulbs were covered with a wire mesh (chicken wire) to prevent curious rodents (squirrels & chipmunks) from digging them up. The mesh was secured with heavy wire "hairpins" and left in place. If you have warm season grass, like Bermuda, and you regularly "dethatch" it, you will need to remove the wire mesh after the soil becomes well settled. The predators lose interest then. If you use a mulching mower, as I do, it probably isn't necessary to add fertilizer for the bulbs, but in some shady areas where the grass is sparse, I sometimes add 6-12-12 in the spring after the flowers fade. Be sure not to mow the area until the bulb's foliage turns yellow. Sometimes unsightly, but very necessary for healthy bulb growth. Good luck and have a great workout! |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6/MA (My Page) on Fri, Oct 16, 09 at 13:37
Thanks very much...I can't imagine planting 2200. I would love to see a photo of that. :) I have very small amounts that I am going to try for the first time in the lawn to see how it goes. |
Another regular poster on these forums uses a mattock. That is a tool with one pointed end. It has a heavy head so she just swings the tool like chopping wood, makes a series of holes, and drops the bulbs in. I bought a mattock but have not tried it yet. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6/MA (My Page) on Mon, Oct 19, 09 at 8:16
Interesting idea. You'll have to let us know how it works out. I have some chicken wire that I used last year when I planted bulbs, after losing every crocus that I planted the year before to squirrels. Thanks, for the ideas. :-) |
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U.S. Human Intelligence and Liaison Links in Pakistan
[Teaser:] Ordinary competition in the intelligence-counterintelligence
shell game in Pakistan may have been taken to another level.
By Fred Burton
Since May 2, when U.S. special operations forces crossed the
Afghan-Pakistani border and <link nid="193287">killed Osama bin
Laden</link>, international media have covered the story from virtually
every angle. The United States and Pakistan have also squared off over
the U.S. violation of Pakistan's sovereign territory and Pakistan's
possible complicity in hiding the al Qaeda leader. Amid all this
surface-level discussion, however, almost 10 years of intelligence
development, recruiting and covert operations in the hunt for bin Laden
have been largely ignored.
While the cross-border nighttime raid deep into Pakistan was a daring
and daunting operation, the work to find the target -- one person in a
country of 170 million full of insurgent groups and a population hostile
to American activities on its soil -- was a far greater challenge. For
the other side, the challenge of hiding the world's most wanted man from
the world's most funded intelligence apparatus created a clandestine
shell game that could have involved current or former Pakistani
intelligence officers as well as competing intelligence services. The
details of this struggle will likely remain classified for decades.
Examining the hunt for bin Laden is also difficult, mainly because of
the sensitivity of the mission and the possibility that some of the
public information now available could be disinformation intended to
disguise intelligence sources and methods. Successful operations can
often compromise human sources and new intelligence technologies that
have taken years to develop. Because of this, it is not uncommon for
intelligence services to try and create a wilderness of mirrors to
protect sources and methods. But from open-source reporting and human
intelligence from STRATFOR's own sources, we can assemble enough
information to draw some conclusions about this complex intelligence
effort and raise some key questions.
The Challenge
Following the 9/11 attacks, finding and killing bin Laden became the
primary mission of the U.S. intelligence community, particularly the
CIA. This mission was clearly laid out in a presidential "finding," or
directive, signed on Sept. 17, 2001, by then-U.S. President George W.
Bush. <link nid="61036">By 2005 it became clear that bin Laden was deep
inside Pakistan</link>. Although the Pakistani government was ostensibly
a U.S. ally, it was known that there were elements sympathetic to al
Qaeda and bin Laden in the Pakistani government. In order to find bin
Laden, U.S. intelligence would have to work with -- and against --
Pakistani intelligence services.
Finding bin Laden in a hostile intelligence environment while he was
being protected by friends and sympathizers represented a monumental
intelligence challenge for the United States. With bin Laden and his
confederates being extremely conscious of U.S technical intelligence
abilities, it quickly became a human-intelligence challenge. While
STRATFOR believes bin Laden had become <link nid="193267">tactically
irrelevant</link> since 9/11, he remained symbolically important and a
focal point for the U.S. intelligence effort. And while it appears that
the United States has improved its intelligence capabilities and passed
an important test, much remains undone. Today, the public information
surrounding the case illuminates the capabilities that will be used
<link nid="193445">to find other high-value U.S. targets</link> as the
U.S. effort continues.
The official story on the intelligence that led bin Laden's Abbottabad
compound has been widely reported, leaked from current and former U.S.
officials. It focuses on a man with the cover name Abu Ahmed Al-Kuwaiti,
a Pakistani Pashtun born in Kuwait who became bin Laden's most trusted
courier. He and his brother were the other two men living in bin Laden's
Abbottabad compound (they reportedly purchased the property and had the
compound built). With fluency in Pashto and Arabic, Al-Kuwaiti would be
invaluable to al Qaeda, and his status as bin Laden's most trusted
courier made him a key linchpin in disrupting the organization. While
this man supposedly led the United States to bin Laden, it took a decade
of revamping U.S. intelligence capabilities and a great deal of hard
work (and maybe even a lucky break) to actually find him.
The first step for U.S. intelligence services after Bush's finding was
focusing its efforts on bin Laden and the al Qaeda leadership.
Intelligence collection against al Qaeda was already under way before
9/11, but after the attacks it became the No. 1 priority. Due to a lack
of human intelligence in the region and allies for an invasion of
Afghanistan, the CIA revived connections with militant groups in
Afghanistan and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI)
in order to oust the Taliban government and provide intelligence for
disrupting al Qaeda. The connections were built in the 1980s as the CIA
famously worked through the ISI to fund militant groups in Afghanistan
fighting the Soviet military. Some of these links were lost and others
were maintained after [the Soviets withdrew in?] 1989, particularly
after the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings [in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania?]. At that time, while the U.S. intelligence community
was looking for bin Laden, he was not a high priority, and U.S. human
intelligence capabilities in the region were limited.
U.S. intelligence budgets were severely cut in the 1990s in light of the
"peace dividend" [following the fall of the Soviet Union?], as some
congressman argued there was no one left to fight. Intelligence
collection was a dirty, ambiguous and dangerous game that U.S.
politicians were not prepared to stomach. Robert Deutch, the director of
the CIA from 1995 to 1996, gutted the CIA's sources on what was known as
the "Torricelli Principle," which called for removing any unsavory
characters from the payroll. The United States has always had trouble
with human intelligence -- clean-cut white males sitting at computers
are less of a security risk than daring undercover operatives running
around in the field -- and by the end of the 1990s it was relying on
technological platforms for intelligence more than ever.
The United States was in this state on Sept. 12, 2001, when it began to
ramp up its intelligence operations, and al Qaeda was aware of this. Bin
Laden knew that if he could stay away from electronic communications,
and generally out of sight, he would be much harder to track. After
invading Afghanistan and working with the ISI in Pakistan, the United
States had a large number of detainees that it hoped would have
information to breach bin Laden's operational security. From some mix of
detainees caught in operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan (particularly
with the help of the ISI), including <link nid="39017">Khalid Sheikh
Mohammad (KSM)</link> and Abu Faraj al-Libi [LINK?], came information
leading to an important bin Laden courier known by various names,
including Abu Ahmed Al-Kuwaiti (his actual identity is still
unconfirmed, and his real name may be Sheikh Abu Ahmed).
<link nid="XXXXXX">The efficacy of enhanced interrogation and torture
techniques is constantly debated</link>[LINK:
-- they may have helped clarify or obfuscate the courier's identity
(some reports say KSM tried to lead investigators away from him). What
is clear is that U.S. intelligence lacked both a sophisticated and
nuanced understanding of al Qaeda and, most important, human sources
with access to that information. With the United States not knowing what
al Qaeda was capable of, the fear of a follow-on to the 9/11 attack
loomed large.
Anonymous U.S. intelligence officials told Reuters the breakthrough came
with a man named Hassan Ghul, captured in Iraq in 2004 by Kurdish
forces. Little is known about Ghul's identity except that he is believed
to have worked with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi [LINK?] and to have given
interrogators information about a man called "Al-Kuwaiti," who was a
courier between Zarqawi and Abu Zubaydah [LINK?]. Ghul was given over to
the Pakistani security services and is believed to have been released in
2007 and to now be fighting somewhere in the region.
While U.S. intelligence services got confirmation of Abu
Ahmed's[Al-Kuwaiti's?] role from Abu Faraj Al-Libi, they could not find
the courier. It is unknown if they gave any of this information to the
Pakistanis or asked for their help. According to leaks from U.S.
officials to AP, in 2010 the National Security Agency (NSA), the main
U.S. communications interception agency, intercepted a call made by Abu
Ahmed[Al Kuwaiti?] and began tracking him in Pakistan. Another U.S.
official told CNN that the operational security exercised by Abu
Ahmed[Al Kuwaiti?] and his brother made them difficult to trail, but "an
elaborate surveillance effort" was organized to track them to the
Abbottabad compound.
From then on, the NSA monitored all of the cell phones used by the
couriers and their family members, though they were often turned off and
had batteries removed when the phones users went to the Abbottabad
compound or to other important meetings. And we can presume that the
compound was monitored from the air, which was the case according to one
media report [FC][?]. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
built a replica of the compound for CIA Director Leon Panetta and other
officials. The NGA is the premier U.S. satellite observation agency,
which could have watched the goings-on at the compound, and even spotted
bin Laden, though it would have been difficult to confirm his identity.
Some of these leaks could be disingenuous in order to lead the public
and adversary intelligence agencies away from highly classified sources
and methods. But they do reflect long believed assessments of the U.S.
intelligence community regarding its advanced capability in
technology-based intelligence-gathering as well as the challenges it
faces in human-intelligence collection.
The Utility of Liaison Relationships
Historically, U.S. intelligence officers have been white males, though
the CIA has more recently begun hiring more minorities, including those
from various ethnic and linguistic groups important to its mission (or
at least those who can pass background checks, a substantial
barrier). Even when intelligence officers look the part in the countries
in which they operate and have a native understanding of the cultures
and languages, they need sources within the organizations they are
trying to penetrate. It is these sources, recruited by intelligence
officers and without official or secret status, who are the agents
providing the information needed back at headquarters. The less an
intelligence officer appears like a local the more difficult it is to
meet with and develop these agents, which has led the United States to
frequently depend on liaison services -- local intelligence entities --
to collect information.
Many intelligence services around the world were established with
American support or funding for just this purpose. The most dependent
liaison services essentially function as sources, acquiring information
at the local CIA station's request. They are often long-serving officers
in the local country's military, police or intelligence services, with a
nuanced understanding of local issues and the ability to maintain a
network of sources. With independent intelligence services, such as
Israel's Mossad, there has been roughly an equal exchange of
intelligence, where Israeli sources may recruit a human source valuable
to the United States and the CIA may have satellite imagery or
communications intercepts valuable to the Israelis.
Of course, this is not a simple game. It involves sophisticated players
trying to collect intelligence while deceiving one another about their
intentions and plans (and many times trying to muddy the water a little
to hide the identity of their sources from the liaison service.) Even
the closest intelligence relationships, such as that between the CIA and
the U.K. Secret Intelligence Service, have been disrupted by moles like
<link nid="117027">Kim Philby</link>, a long-time Soviet plant who
handled the liaison work between the two agencies.
Since most intelligence officers serve on rotations of only one to three
years -- out of concern they will "go native" or to allow them to return
to the comfort of home -- it becomes even more challenging to develop
long-term human-intelligence sources. While intelligence officers will
pass their sources off to their replacements, the liaison service
becomes even more valuable in being able to sustain source
relationships, which can take years to build. Liaison relationships,
then, become a way to efficiently use and extend U.S. intelligence
resources, which, unlike such services in most countries, have global
requirements. The United States may be the world's superpower, but it is
impossible for it to maintain sources everywhere.
Liaison and Unilateral Operations in the Hunt for Bin Laden
In recent years, [U.S. intelligence?] has worked with Pakistan's ISI
most notably in raids throughout Pakistan against senior al Qaeda
operatives like KSM and al-Libi. We can also presume that much of the
information used by the United States for strikes by unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) comes through sources in Pakistani intelligence. Another
example is the CIA's work with the Jordanian General Intelligence
Directorate, also to find bin Laden, and effort that went awry in the
Khost suicide attack [LINK?]. Such is the risk with liaison
relationships -- how much can one intelligence officer trust another's
sources and motives? Nevertheless, these liaison networks were the best
the United States had available, and huge amounts of resources were put
into developing intelligence through them in looking for major
jihadists, including bin Laden.
The United States is particularly concerned about Pakistan's
intelligence services and the possibility that some of their officers
could be compromised by, or at least sympathetic to, jihadists. Given
the relationships with jihadists maintained by former ISI officers such
as Khalid Khawaja and Sultan Amir Tarar (known as Colonel Imam), who
were both held hostage and killed by Pakistani militants, and most
famously former [ISI?] director Hamid Gul, there is cause for
concern. While these former officers have little influence within the
ISI today, the question is whether there are others within the ISI who
have similar sympathies. Indeed, it was liaison work with[by?] the CIA
and Saudi Arabia that helped develop strong connections with Arab and
Afghan militants, some of whom would go on to become members of al Qaeda
and the Taliban. The ISI was responsible for distributing U.S.- and
Saudi-supplied weapons to various Afghan militant groups to fight the
Russians in the 1980s, and it controlled contact with these groups. If
some of those contacts remain, jihadists could be using members of the
ISI rather than the other way around.
Due to concerns like these, according to official statements and leaked
information, U.S. intelligence officers never told their Pakistani
liaison counterparts about the forthcoming bin Laden raid. It appears
the CIA developed a unilateral capability to operate within Pakistan,
demonstrated by the Raymond Davis shooting[LINK?] in January as well as
the bin Laden raid. Davis was a contractor providing security for U.S.
intelligence officers in Pakistan when he killed two reportedly armed
men in Lahore. Requests by Pakistani officials to remove more than 300
similar individuals from the country show that there is a large number
of U.S. intelligence operatives in Pakistan. Yet another aspect of this
unilateral U.S. effort was the tracking of bin Laden, further
confirmation of his identity and the safe house the CIA maintained in
Abbottabad for months to monitor the compound.
The CIA and the ISI
Even with the liaison relationships in Pakistan, which involved meetings
between the CIA station chief in Islamabad and senior members of the
ISI, foreign intelligence services ran unilateral operations on the
ground. Liaison services cannot be used to recruit sources within the
host government; this must be done unilaterally. This is where direct
competition between intelligence services comes into play. This
competition may involve different organizations such as the FBI[do you
mean that the CIA may have been competing with the FBI?] or separate
departments within the host-country liaison
services. Counterintelligence officers may want to disrupt intelligence
operations that involve collecting information on the host-country
military, or they may simply want to monitor their efforts to recruit
jihadists. They can also feed disinformation to the foreign intelligence
operatives. This competition is known to all players and is not out of
the ordinary.
But the U.S. intelligence community is wondering if this ordinary
competition was taken to another level -- if the ISI, or elements of it,
were actually protecting bin Laden. The question of who was helping bin
Laden and other al Qaeda operatives and contacts <link nid="193671">in
Abbottabad</link> would explain who[this basically says that the
question of who was helping bin Laden explains who they were. unclear.
please clarify] the CIA was competing against. Were they simply
jihadists or a more resourceful and capable state intelligence
agency? If the ISI as an institution knew about bin Laden's location, it
would mean it outwitted the CIA for nearly a decade in hiding his
whereabouts. It would also mean that no ISI officers who knew his
location were turned by U.S. intelligence, that no communications were
intercepted and that no leaks reached the media.
On the other hand, if someone within the ISI was protecting bin Laden
and keeping it from the rest of the organization [(as the official story
has it?]), it would mean the ISI was beaten internally and the CIA
eventually caught up by developing its own sources and was able to find
bin Laden on its own. As we point out above, the official story on the
bin Laden intelligence effort may be disinformation to protect sources
and methods. Still, this seems to be a more plausible scenario. American
and Pakistani sources have told STRATFOR that there are likely jihadist
sympathizers within the ISI who helped bin Laden or his supporters.
Given that Pakistan is fighting its own war with bin Laden-inspired
groups like the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, the country's leadership in
Islamabad has no interest in protecting them. Furthermore, finding an
individual anywhere, especially in a foreign country with multiple
insurgencies under way, is an <link nid="73411">extremely difficult
intelligence challenge</link>.
Assuming the official story is mostly true, the bin Laden raid
demonstrates that U.S. intelligence has come full circle since the end
of the Cold War. It was able to successfully collect and analyze
intelligence of all types and develop and deploy on-the-ground
capabilities it had been lacking to find an individual who was hiding
and probably protected. It was able to quickly work with special
operations forces under CIA command to carry out an [elaborate?]
operation to capture or kill him, a capability honed by the U.S. Joint
Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the development of its own <link
nid="159955">capture-and-kill capabilities in Iraq and
Afghanistan</link>. The CIA is responsible for missions in Pakistan,
where, like the JSOC, it has demonstrated an efficient and devastating
capability to task UAV strikes and conduct cross-border raids. The bin
Laden raid was the final proof of concept.
It is unclear exactly how the U.S. intelligence community has been able
to develop these capabilities, beyond the huge post-9/11 influx of money
and personnel (simply throwing resources at a problem is never a
complete solution). The United States faced Sept. 11, 2001, without
strategic warning of the attacks inspired by bin Laden, and then it
faced a tactical threat it was unprepared to fight. Whatever the
new-and-improved human-intelligence capabilities may be, they are no
doubt some function of the experience gained by operatives in a
concerted, global campaign against jihadists. Human intelligence is
probably still the biggest U.S. weakness, but given the evidence of
unilateral operations in Pakistan, it is not the weakness it used to
The Intelligence Battle Between the U.S. and Pakistan
The competition and cooperation among various intelligence agencies did
not end with the death of Osama bin Laden. Publicity surrounding the
operation has led to calls in Pakistan to eject any and all American
interests in the country. In the past few years, Pakistan has made it
difficult for many Americans to get visas, especially those with
official status that may be cover for intelligence operations. Raymond
Davis was one of these people. Involved in protecting intelligence
officers who were conducting human-intelligence missions, he would have
been tasked not only with protecting them from physical threats from
jihadists but also with helping ensure they were not under the
surveillance of a hostile intelligence agency.
Pakistan has only ratcheted up these barriers since the bin Laden
raid. The Interior Ministry announced May 19 [that it had?] placed a ban
on travel by foreign diplomats to cities outside where they are
stationed[does this mean any travel outside the cities where they are
stationed? In other words, are they allowed to go into rural areas?]
without permission from Pakistani authorities. The News, a Pakistani
daily, reported May 20 that Interior Minister Rehman Malik chaired a
meeting with provincial authorities on regulating travel by foreigners,
approving their entry into the country and monitoring unregistered
mobile phones. While some of these efforts are intended to deal with
jihadists disguised within large groups of Afghan nationals, they also
place barriers on foreign intelligence officers in the country. While
non-official cover is becoming more common for CIA officers overseas,
many are still traveling on various diplomatic documents and thus would
require these approvals.
And this dynamic will only continue. Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman
Bashir told The Wall Street Journal May 6 that another operation like
the bin Laden raid would have "terrible consequences," while U.S.
President Barack Obama told BBC May 22 that he would authorize similar
strikes in the future if they are called for. Pakistan, as would any
sovereign country, is trying to protect its territory, while the United
States will continue to search for high-value targets who are hiding
there. The bin Laden operation only brought this clandestine competition
to the public eye.
Bin Laden is dead, but many other individuals on the U.S. high-value
target list remain at large. With the Abbottabad mission a proof
concept, the question is where the United States will go next --
sovereign countries like Yemen and Somalia as well as Pakistan -- while
continuing its military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mike Marchio
Brian Genchur
Director, Multimedia | STRATFOR
(512) 279-9463
Mike Marchio
STRATFOR Multimedia Producer
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Oct 24th 2008 9:55AM First time I've watched a BRK movie ... really amazed to hear that he gets Ray Romano to do the voice over for his movies.
Totally Wicked!
Everybody Loves Raymond!
Northrend-flying quest removed in favor of cash payout {WoW}
Oct 10th 2008 2:16AM I don't know why though can't just leave *both* in
Do the quest (free) or pay 1000g
Heck - pay the thousand now then get a 1000g from the quest!
BigRedKitty: Channeling Larry King {WoW}
Sep 18th 2008 8:15AM Popping in to correct an earlier statement ... I've done some more systematic testing and have indeed found that all three specs are very close to each other in terms of DPS output.
BigRedKitty: Channeling Larry King {WoW}
Sep 17th 2008 12:03PM Nice talk so far - but none of it backed up with actual testing :)
I spent a fair chunk of last night in the beta running DPS testing on the new combat dummies & can say with some degree of confidence that MM is currently poor.
BM & Surv are doing OK roughly equal in DPS ... but MM was about 25% behind the other two in terms of damage ... but HOO BOY! was it far ahead on Mana Consumption ... I was OOM so fast I had to check a second time just to make sure I wasn't on Zero Mana when I started.
Magisters' Terrace Walkthrough {WoW}
Feb 13th 2008 11:51AM I did it today myself - but found that it was a bit too long. If you wipe in there it's like wiping in Shadowlabs of Shattered Halls.
Much better to have quck shortcuts that open up after you pass certain bosses IMO would make it a lot better.
Guildwatch: Inspiring action in all the wrong places {WoW}
Dec 5th 2007 4:32AM There is only *ONE* Unguilded lvl 70 Bufalo in the Armory
If that is him on US-Vashj I
!! woo hoo !!
you go girl!
I know selling leveling guides isn't new, but who in their right mind would BUY one? {WoW}
Oct 15th 2007 3:22AM @2 - Agree completely - both are fantastic guides ... Kopp's is far superior to James' level guide for the level of detail & convenience of clicking on any quest stright to thottbot.
Not free but they put their work in.
@3 - sounds good! Look into "Lightheaded" the wow addon that has downloaded all quest data from wowhead. You might be able to share the quest data.
Forum post of the day: One time my Astral Recall crit {WoW}
Jul 16th 2007 4:09AM @Elizabeth Wachowski -
"the thread involved into a pure being of win and awesome, "
Definitions of involved on the Web:
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Definitions of evolved on the Web:
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Wrong word
Zul'Aman sneak preview at E3 {WoW}
Jul 12th 2007 2:23AM I think it would be *ideal* to place it after Kara in terms of difficulty...
Guildwatch: The other side {WoW}
Jul 11th 2007 7:30AM he he he ... it's true ... intentions mitigate exactly 0 points of damage!
My guild learned that same lesson a couple of months back... we also went away, geared & cleared!
GJ! Acta non Verbi
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Churches, Castles and great places to visit in and around Tuscany
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Discovering a breathtaking area around Pisa, between history, culture and gastronomy. We will walk through ancients paths of monks and soldiers and we will learn the modern touch of the ancient culinary tradition of italian pasta In the morning we will go towards the so called Valle Graziosa, a plain overlooked by the Monti Pisani, … Read more »
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In the hills outside Lucca many villas, such as Villa Mansi, Villa Torrigiani and Villa Reale, are now open to the public. They have magnificent gardens, rococo facades and famous guest lists from an era when visitors like Paganini, John Singer Sargent and Metternich were richly received. The following website has a great map to … Read more »
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On the Easel
"Top of the Ridge"
20x30 Oil on Canvas
Email me if you are interested in this piece.
It's scary how easily I lost the desire to paint when life threw a big curve my way. I've been struggling to get back into painting. Usually painting is my solace but not recently. I couldn't seem to manage to put a paintbrush in hand or even play with color. However, sometime last week I took control and started painting again. I feel something new emerging. Thanks for support and patience while I wrestle the painting demons.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Changing Flies
Changing Flies oil 7" x 16"
This painting was an idea about using an unusual long format. I used the sparkle of the water and length of the figure to emphasize the long overlook onto this figure. This is my husband fishing on while we were in Yellowstone last fall.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Mrs. lucky - hen and chicks
Mrs. Lucky oil 9"x 9"
Last week I sold a rooster titled Mr. Lucky and this is a companion piece for that painting. She has her hands full with the three chicks, but is pretty fast herself ! SOLD
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Live Oak
For a long time, I've been (occasionally) working on plein air paintings, but had not done any that I was pleased with. I had a vague sense of what I wanted to accomplish, but not a real concrete sense of the direction to go to get there. Recently (it was about 2 weeks ago, but I've been so busy I hadn't had time to post it) I painted this live oak and for the first time felt I was doing what I wanted and starting to move in the right direction.
10x12 oil on Raymar canvas panel
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Drift oil 9" x 9"
My favorite this week is this painting from the Big Horn River in Montana. I did a demo for it as well which you can see on my blog. The warm color and figures take me right back to being on the river and watching these folks drift by.
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Macromedia's Comeback
His predecessors at the San Francisco software company would oblige business magazine photographers by shooting down a black plastic slide between the second and third floors. Burgess, on the job since November 1996, has been obliging shareholders instead.
Two years ago, Macromedia (MACR) specialized in making software tools for developers of CD-ROMs and videogames. It was a lucrative business in the mid-1990s, but Macromedia suffered big losses last year when the CD-ROM market collapsed. Under Burgess, Macromedia tweaked its graphic-arts and animation software to fit the needs of professional Web-site designers -- with impressive results.
Fueled by Web-oriented products like Flash, Dreamweaver and Generator, Macromedia's sales and stock price have surged since the beginning of the year, while most of its rivals have been in the doldrums. More important, Macromedia is quietly making its Shockwave technology into the de facto standard for animating the Web. Microsoft, Netscape and America Online have agreed to include the Shockwave player, which once had to be downloaded in a lengthy process, in their products.
"The company has come a long way from its CD-ROM, multimedia-development days," says Greg Vogel, an analyst with investment bank Nationsbanc Montgomery. "They've really repositioned the company to take advantage of the Internet."
Now, the trick for Macromedia is to figure out how to keep its momentum going. Its core market of professional designers remains relatively small, and it faces increasing competition from the likes of Microsoft and Adobe Systems.
Directing Multimedia
Technically, Macromedia is six years old, created by the merger of Authorware and MacroMind-Paracomp. But its roots go back to a small Chicago outfit that sold multimedia software for the Apple Macintosh shortly after the Mac came out in 1984.
The original company's flagship product evolved into Director, a computer program that graphic designers use to create animation clips, produce sound effects, edit images, and whip together sophisticated multimedia presentations.
It was just the tool that 500,000 CD-ROM developers needed in the mid-1990s for their craft. At the height of the CD-ROM craze, Macromedia's revenue tripled to US$116.7 million in 1996, from $37.5 million two years before. Wall Street loved the company. Macromedia's stock rose almost eightfold from $8 in early 1994 to $62.50 at its height in late 1995.
Its reversal of fortune was swift and dramatic. Starting in 1993, the company made several acquisitions to expand its expertise in multimedia technology, but became saddled with money-losing products instead. In addition, by 1996 store shelves sagged with poorly produced CD-ROMs, causing prices to collapse and forcing many of Macromedia's customers out of business. Worst of all, Macromedia didn't foresee the collapse of Apple Computer, the preferred toolmaker of digital artists. In the fiscal year ending 31 March 1997, revenue declined 8 percent to $107.3 million.
Enter Burgess
In the summer of 1996, Macromedia's board of directors, led by chairman Bud Colligan, tapped Burgess, then vice president of software at Silicon Graphics, to turn Macromedia around. Shortly after Burgess came on, he dropped three profitless products, cut 55 jobs, hired new senior managers and focused research and development on the most promising part of Macromedia's business: the Web.
Shareholders applauded Burgess' moves. Macromedia's stock has risen 75 percent to $15.38 on Friday from $8.75 at the beginning of the year. In fact, one analyst said Macromedia's rising stock price has more to do with the intense Canadian at the helm than earnings estimates.
Burgess did inherit some key technology. In December 1995, for example, Macromedia introduced Shockwave, a software plug-in that lets Web sites transmit animation clips to browsers. Thousands of Web designers adopted the technology to liven up their sites with animation and 3-D graphics.
Building on Shockwave, Macromedia focused even more tightly on the Web as the engine of growth. Last year, the company introduced Dreamweaver and Fireworks, graphic design tools used to compose Web pages. It also tailored Director and its illustration program, Freehand, to better fit the needs of Web designers.
But the biggest release was Flash, an authoring tool that creates sophisticated animation with minimal amounts of memory -- perfect for people surfing with slow modems.
"The Internet is like a nail, and what people had been using was a rock," says Burgess. "Now, somebody invented the hammer."
Sites like Sportsline and Disney's Daily Blast adopted Flash to create game sites, movie previews and interactive ads. Members of the Web development team at Wired Digital, the parent company of Wired News, have independently endorsed some of Macromedia's products.
In addition, Macromedia negotiated with Netscape, AOL and Microsoft to include its players as part of their browsers and the Windows operating system. The strategy is to make Macromedia authoring tools the standard in Web content, much like Microsoft Word rules the word processing world.
"PGML is a spec. XML is a spec. They are pieces of paper talking about software," Burgess says. "Meanwhile, everybody's using Flash."
So far, Burgess' Internet push is working. In the most recent quarter ended 30 June, Macromedia had net income of $2.96 million, or 7 cents a share, compared with a loss of $1.24 million, or 3 cents, in the same quarter last year. Revenue rose 18 percent to $32.3 million from $27.3 million a year ago.
Beating the Market
But analysts say Macromedia still faces the same fundamental problem. There aren't that many professional designers out there.
Marketing consultants Frost & Sullivan measured the 1997 market for Web graphics tools at $200 million, up 219 percent from the previous year. However, the overwhelming majority (91.8 percent) of this business went to Microsoft's FrontPage.
Macromedia's sales are "growing fast enough in the near term, but I think the market will probably become saturated faster than anyone thinks," says Hany Nada, an analyst at brokerage Piper Jaffray.
Meanwhile, dozens of companies -- like NetObjects and NetStudio -- are flooding the market with Web-design tools of every level of sophistication. On top of that, Microsoft is pushing ChromEffects, a software developers' kit that allows PCs to display graphics and animation within a browser. The technology would make it easier for developers to create graphics, animation and videos viewable without plug-ins, Microsoft executives have said. That would lessen the importance of Shockwave and Flash.
"Standards are won by whoever has the most seats," said Craig Cline, a senior analyst at consulting firm Seybold Seminars. "Microsoft has such influence that it could decide to move ahead with its own specification, and a lot of developers would follow."
The task for Burgess is to keep those developers loyal.
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Boys & Girls Club of San Benito Receives Donation from H.E.B.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 8:43am
The Boys and Girls Club of San Benito received a big check to improve their daycare center.
H.E.B. donated a check for $50,000 dollars to the club to renovate the organizations cafe. Kids Cafe provides free and prepared food and nutritional education to hungry children. Renovation will start immediately and will include new food preparation and refrigeration equipment along with an expansion of the existing kitchen.
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Hosting Controller could allow a remote attacker to launch a brute force password guessing attack. If a remote attacker submits a username that is non-existent, the attacker could cause the program to return a message indicating that it is an invalid username. An attacker can use this information to determine valid usernames and then use brute force techniques to derive the passwords.
Bypass Security
No remedy available as of September 1, 2014.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sat Jan 26 2002 - 12:20:18 CST: [ARL02-A01] Vulnerability in Hosting Controller.
- Hosting Controller Web site: Hosting Controller.
- BID-3971: Hosting Controller Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-0212: The login for Hosting Controller 1.1 through 1.4.1 returns different error messages when a valid or invalid user is provided, which allows remote attackers to determine the existence of valid usernames and makes it easier to conduct a brute force attack.
- OSVDB ID: 14326: Hosting Controller Login Error Message Account Enumeration
Platforms Affected:
- Hosting Controller Hosting Controller 1.4.1
Jan 26, 2002
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Imagine a car that runs on tap water and never breaks down or needs replacement parts — would you drive it? We forgot to mention that it's shaped like a giant clown penis.
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Hi! Have lots of fun, and here are rides I think would be good for your child, not scary or dangerous:
In Magic Kindgom:
its a small world, Adventures of Pooh, Peter Pan, Tomorrowland Transit Authority, Cinderella's Golden Carousel, and the Railroad
Epcot: Spaceship Earth (unless your chlld really doesn't like darkness at all, it is not scary, unless your child hates darkeness) Figment, and of course, a visit to all the countries
MGM: visit the playset for Honey I shrunk the Audience maybe a show like Playhouse Disney Live on stage (kids can get up, dance, sing...) or LIttle Mermaid
Animal Kingdom: Dino Sue and maybe a walk thru the tree of life (Maybe not the show, it can be dark and the bugs might scare little ones)
Of course, visit with some of the less scary charecters if you see them, like Mickey or Pooh bear!
I might be missing some rides, and of course you just decide what you think, and I would also ask CM's at the rides about it if you have any questions about it, they are usually pretty helpful.


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If I had taken that picture, it would have said this: Here is Denver in 2006.
And I would have sent it straight to the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau, which last month issued a "Request for Qualifications" for a national public-relations agency "to help generate articles and electronic media coverage of Denver as a cultural travel destination in major national and international consumer, travel and leisure publications and electronic media. The ideal placements will use Denver's new cultural renaissance as a hook to also discuss other traditional aspects of Denver as a travel destination, including coverage of hotels, restaurants, shopping and other attractions."
Oh, and in addition to showing off Denver to the rest of the world, the RFQ notes that the one-year contract will include a special emphasis on marketing to Albuquerque, Phoenix and Omaha. But just one look at my Platte Valley picture, and residents of those downtown-deprived cities would be loading up the moving vans and slapping on the "I'm not a native, but I moved here as fast as I could" bumperstickers.
Still, I was a day late and $175,000 short. That's the size of the annual contract the visitors bureau will award the winning agency (the three finalists are being notified this week), a contract made possible (if not demanded) by the passage of initiative 1A last November, which boosted the lodging tax collected by the City and County of Denver by 1 percent, with all of that money earmarked for a tourism campaign. The bureau already collects about $9 million of its $12 million budget from the lodging tax, under a contract with the city to act as "the official tourism and convention marketing arm for the City of Denver." The increase approved by voters -- after it was pushed by just about every business under our 300 days of sun -- should bring in another $4 million.
"We haven't seen one penny yet," says Rich Grant, director of communications and a man the RFQ strictly prohibited me from talking to, had I actually been applying for the deal. "At the end of March, we get the tax collection for January." But the bureau couldn't wait to advertise the job, because the national publications that should be beating down Denver's door have a six-month lead time, and they need to be contacted now if they're going to fall all over the opening of the Libeskind addition to the Denver Art Museum this fall.
That is, if those national publications weren't already here to cover another Denver landmark, the "Sex and So Much More Show" that filled the Colorado Convention Center this past weekend, inspiring a cranky protest from Republican lawmakers who considered it a "blatant affront to the people of Colorado" while drawing record numbers of those same Coloradans to see what the bond measure they'd approved back in 1999 had bought in the way of an expanded facility, not to mention a few pot-bellied former porn stars.
Imagine what a picture of Lawrence Argent's big blue bear (technically named "I See What You Mean") peering -- leering -- into the convention center on Saturday would have done for Denver's national image!
"We've always flown under the radar screen, partly because of our isolation," Grant says. "People know what an East Coast city is going to be like, and they know what a Rust Belt city will be like. They don't know what a mountain city will be like. We're at the place where America really does change. We've given up telling people it's 70 degrees today and you can play golf, and it's snowing up in the mountains and you can ski."
He may have given up on that message, but a few blocks away, Colorado lawmakers are giving it another shot. On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of legislators -- and someone dressed as Queen Elizabeth I, sweltering in the February sun -- gathered to tout an assortment of economic-development bills that would, among other things, increase the state's tourism funding from $5 million to $20 million, and all with cash already collected from casinos. That funding strategy, coupled with Bill Owens's popular promise in his State of the State address that he'll kill the proposal to replace the wooden "Welcome to Colorful Colorado" signs with bland, business-card-like "Welcome to Colorado" signs if tourism's budget is boosted to just a paltry $10 million -- should guarantee that House Bill 1201 makes it through. Other measures would promote the film industry, wineries, biotech -- all strategic investments designed to continue the economic recovery started by the passage of Referendum C last fall. "The economy is job one," vowed House Speaker Andrew Romanoff. "This year, the big one is not getting away," said Representative Tom Plant, waving a fishing pole at memories of last year's failed tourism bill.


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Christian also has seen interest from apple growers, particularly growers of the newer honeycrisp variety. And in the spring of 2007, he spoke to a group of blueberry growers in Florida who were considering falconry.
So you want to hire a falconer...
If you grow any number of delicate crops that often become lunch or dinner for birds seeking sweet treats, you might want to give a falconer a call. But how? And what do you need to know about using falcons?
First you need to find someone who has birds and is trained in using them for bird abatement. Ottoway says there are 342 active falconer permits in Florida, but that doesn't mean they all are actively flying birds or have valid permits any longer. However, there are 64 active members in the Florida Hawking Fraternity, which also is affiliated with the North American Falconers Association. A person can be a general falconer or a master falconer. To become a master falconer, one has to obtain a sponsor, be an apprentice for two years, and then spend five years as a general falconer. Christian has been a master falconer for 10 years, and his sponsor has been working with falcons since the 1960s.
Growers can contract with an individual falconer or with a company who places falconers on the job. Growers also could contact the Florida Hawking Fraternity to be put in touch with falconers who can work in agriculture.
Christian says most falconers who would work in the industry have their own birds. In December when he was working in New York for a company who handles commercial accounts, he was using nine falcons, some of which he owned. To protect fruit crops, he says it usually requires flying the birds many times for a short period of time. One falcon can cover anywhere from 20 to 100 acres but it depends on how many times the birds need to fly before a falconer can determine how many falcons he will need for the job.
"I had one bird capable of flying 20 times a day so I didn't need very much backup for him. Most birds only fly two to three times a day though. If you need 20 flights a day to keep the birds away, you will need more. Most people who do this have five to 10 birds to do a contract," Christian says.


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WLHQ: Snapshots in the Surf
This is the third blog in our series of "in-house" blog posts from Wanderlust Headquarters (WLHQ), with the aim of sharing with you a bit about who we are, what we value and the challenges that we grapple with. You'll learn a little bit about what we do here, and why we work throughout the year to bring your four days of epic adventure and transformation in beautiful places.
Today we turn the stage over to Jess, our Grassroots Marketing Director, who took this opportunity to interview a friend of hers who makes his living as a surf photographer. With Wanderlust O'ahu right around the corner, the timing is perfect for Jess to introduce us to Damea Dorsey...
Damea Dorsey began working as a surf photographer in 2001. At the time he was working for Rip Curl USA, shoot directing their ad campaigns, search trips, catalogs, and video shoots, and ended up picking up a camera and decided to shoot from the water. The rest is history.
Dorsey has been shooting in Hawaii for over ten winters. The North Shore is his obvious choice for favorite spots to shoot on O'ahu. "It has some of the most intense and heavy surf, compacted into such a small area. That combined with the talent makes for some amazing moments. When there's a big swell, just being out in the water at Pipeline, Backdoor, and Off the Wall is challenging, even for the most seasoned surfers and photographers." While Dorsey reminds us that the North Shore waves in those particular places are not for beginners, surfers of all levels will be welcome in the waves at #WLOahu, with guidance from professionals from the Hans Hedemann Surf School and yoga/surf teachers like Rochelle Ballard and Eoin Finn.
Follow Damea Dorsey:
Website: dameadorseyphotography.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dameadorseyphotography
Instagram: diebythesea
Twitter: @DameaDorsey


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Ibra slotted home four goals in a masterful performance that will leave England supporters around the world saying 'too good'. I have no words. His final goal was special. Like, stupidly incredibly fantastic need oxygen oh my goodness special.
Golzao Update: When told Steven Gerrard rated his England career a six or seven out of ten, Zlatan responded with this gem.
Q: What mark would you give yourself out of 10 for your Sweden career? Ibrahimovic: '10′
— Sam Wallace (@SamWallaceIndy) November 14, 2012
The best.


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Updated: March 18, 2014 6:17AM
SouthWest Suburban Conference champion Maggie Schultz tried to gut it out at the Hinsdale Central Sectional on Wednesday but couldn't compete in all four events.
The Lincoln-Way co-op sophomore, who was saddled with the flu on Monday and Tuesday, scored an 8.175 on the vault, a 6.72 on the even bars and a 3.95 on the beam and did not compete in the floor exercise.
"She did all her body could handle," Lincoln-Way coach Kim Lago said.
It was that kind of night for the team, which finished with a 134.125 after enjoying high 130 scores during the season.
"There were a lot of falls and it was not a good night," Lago said. "The bars were upside down during warmups and that sort of set the tone for the meet for us.''
If Schultz, sophomore Mallory Winter, junior Shelby Wiktor and freshman Kara Auchsetter return and junior Kaila Pohrte returns to form after a knee injury, Lincoln-Way figures to make much more noise in the sectional next year.
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tagged with: "wimbledon"
For tennis fans like myself there is something special about this time of year. A lot of people think of professional tennis as only being the four grand slams (Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and the US Open), but there's actually tennis played all year long; there's virtually no off season. For those of us who watch tennis year-round this can be both exhilarating (it never ends!) and exhausting (it never ends!). But now, a few weeks removed from Roland Garros and on this first day of Wimbledon, I like to think there's a special buzz in the tennis air.
As you may know, tennis used to be played mostly on grass, but in the last 30 to 40 years it's moved away from grass to mostly being played on hard courts and clay courts. This means the only time fans can watch tennis being played on the green stuff is the fortnight in June at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
To honor this hallowed tennis tradition, STC just published Wimbledon: 101 Reasons to Love the Greatest Tournament in Tennis. The book covers everything about Wimbledon, and whether you're carefully monitoring the tennis world each week so you can dominate your fantasy tennis league (didn't know those existed, did you?) or a tennis newbie, we can all learn some useful facts about Wimbledon.


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Reviewed By Adriana D (Los Angeles, CA) —12/10/2014 8:47 PM
I bought these to put on my boyfriend's suburban. He'll be seeing them on Christmas...they look incredible and well made. I bought the red outlined rims...they don't have the 'B' in the middle like the other like I hoped, but that was just a personal preference.


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Just Released: New Sudan Peace Watch
Enough's latest edition of the Sudan Peace Watch is out—offering, as usual, a round-up of the major political and security developments in Sudan from the past two weeks. Here are the highlights from this issue:
•Referendum registration begins, albeit unevenly: As this critical step toward the southern referendum gets underway, registration centers are overwhelmed in some areas of South, while initial turnout is low for southerners living in North.
•Presidents Bashir and Kiir set to talk on Abyei: High-level talks on Sudan in Addis Ababa were postponed, but negotiations continue in Khartoum, where Sudan's presidency is scheduled to meet to negotiate a resolution to the Abyei issue during the week of November 22.
•Darfur fighting escalates: Rhetorical concern about Darfur from the international community has not stopped the escalation of violence in the region, including the bombing by Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, of reported rebel movements in a contested area near the North-South border.
We'll release a new Sudan Peace Watch once every two weeks or so and publish them on the Sudan page of our website. We'll also post a synopsis on Enough Said on the day a new edition comes out.
To advocate for high-level U.S. attention to Sudan at this crucial moment, visit sudanactionnow.org.