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Seeing as it is still the winter months I cannot give a total view as of yet. They arrived on time and in excellent condition. Install was a snap & I still utilize tubes.
I purchased the 2.2 and they fit perfect, leaving just the right amount of space for shedding mud and debris. As mentioned on other reviews they do seem to be equivalent to other brands 2.3-2.4.
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Ran this 2.2 on the rear of my Pivot Firebird. The casing is pretty big for a 2.2. Tire grips like crazy on loose rock, sand over hard pack, and dust. It's super durable and looks pretty awesome.
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The Office of Special Counsel is "deeply concerned" about the implications of a federal court ruling that stripped low-level Defense Department employees of their ability to appeal suspensions and demotions outside the agency.
OSC, which filed an amicus brief earlier this month with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, is worried the ruling could have a chilling effect on whistleblowers.
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One employee stocked shelves at a DoD commissary and the other worked as an accounting technician for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Both suffered adverse personnel actions after credit checks turned up negative information in their respective credit histories and they were deemed no longer eligible to hold their positions, Miles said.
"Typically, when those types of adverse actions happen to employees, they can appeal the case to the Merit Systems Protection Board," Miles said. And that's exactly what the two employees did.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Trailing by two at halftime, host Pfeiffer University put home nine second half goals to upset #12 Florida Southern College in non-conference women's lacrosse action on Saturday afternoon. The win improves the Lady Falcons to 7-5 on the year while the Mocs fall to 7-3.
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But soon they'll each hang up their badges and officially retire to a life of contentment and kibble.
Vador and Canto are two of the five K-9s in the Gastonia Police Department's field services division. They're 10 and 8 and a half years old, respectively, and have patrolled the city's streets – and often woods, backyards and other bad guy hiding places – for most of their lives.
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"Typically, 10 years or so is a real good run for the K-9s," said Gastonia Police Chief Stacy Conley. "These two dogs, they did a real good service for us."
Both will likely be released into the care of K-9 handlers as pets.
Gastonia has slots for six K-9 positions, but one of the dogs died last year. With the retirement of Vador and Canto, the department will soon purchase three new dogs, Conley said.
The well-trained animals cost more than $7,000 a piece. Gastonia will pay for that in part with $230,000 it received as a reimbursement from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, for providing officers during the Democratic National Convention, Conley said.
Conley said the dogs provide an invaluable service to police, and Vador and Canto have proven that.
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Officer Ronnie Bozardt became Canto's handler after inheriting the shepherd from another officer 18 months ago.
"He weighs 100 pounds, and for a dog like him, that's big," he said, as Canto barked in the background, perhaps in objection. "We like to keep them around 70 or 80 pounds. It's easier for them to jump fences and stuff."
Like his peers, Canto was dual-trained to track both suspects and narcotics. He's sniffed lockers during school drug sweeps and has been called to homes when officers are serving warrants and believe drugs may be on the premises.
Canto was involved in tracking a suspect in an armed robbery just last week.
"I think I've probably had 12 to 14 catches (of suspects) with him on tracks," Bozardt said.
He said Canto has found about $10,000 in cash during narcotic searches of late. On one occasion, a state trooper had stopped a vehicle on I-85 and called for a K-9 to search it. Canto alerted authorities to the fact that one of the women in the car had $5,000 in cash in her pants.
"The thought was they'd made a drug delivery and were on their way back to Georgia with the money," Bozardt said.
Canto has been a good playmate with Bozardt's children at home. But when he gets in the police car or has the 30-foot tracking lead attached to his collar, "he knows it's time to go to work."
Bozardt already owns a retired K-9, so a fellow officer will be "adopting" Canto.
"He's done good," he said. "So it's time to let him rest out his days."
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Sgt. Thomas Doby was Vador's second handler, and has been paired with the K-9 about six years.
The two bonded after training and becoming accustomed to one another.
"He's a real sociable dog and has a good personality," Doby said. "He was a solid dog as far as drug work goes. His tracking was great."
Vador tracked between 150 and 175 suspects in the last six years, Doby estimated. One of the most memorable cases came one night in 2008. A Mississippi law enforcement officer, who was traveling through the area and staying here overnight, was murdered in a motel parking lot.
Vador led police to a neighboring motel and a room where two teenagers had been, then to another residence elsewhere where they had fled. Both of them were eventually caught, charged and convicted of the killing.
In another incident before that, a teenager stabbed two nurses at Gaston Memorial Hospital before stealing an ID badge and fleeing the scene, Doby said. Starting from the hospital parking lot, Vador brushed aside the challenges of picking up a scent from asphalt and started the hunt.
"We tracked (the suspect) for the better part of a mile and found him," Doby said. "That led to (Vador) getting a couple of commendations."
Vador was already having health problems, so he was taken out of service when Doby was promoted and moved out of the K-9 division three months ago. Doby expects to be awarded possession when the German shepherd retires and is declared surplus property soon.
"He's my buddy," he said. "To this day, I still look back in my car and it's odd with him not being there.
"The good thing now is that he'll just get to relax and play."
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Namdrol wrote:Will wrote:
So you find little or no usefulness in the 3 stage prajñā of Literary, leading to Contemplative leading to Real Mark prajñā?
Well, your first category is misleading, śruthih means "hearing" and "listening". It does not mean studying books. To whom should we listen? A person qualified to give teachings. The prajñā that results is called "śrutamayī prajñā". Without this vital step, no amount of reading books will awakening the prajñā of the path.
Then we have the prajñā that comes from reflection, cintā-mayī prajñā. In my estimation, reading may constitute a part of this prajñā.
Then finally, you have bhāvanā-mayī prajñā, the prajñā born of practice.
But the exercise by some to become expert in the tenet systems of this or that ancient Abidharma schools, for example, or to become expert in pramāṇa, and so on, completely misses the mark of Dharma practice and realization.
I don't say these things idly. I say these things because I observe many people over the years, westerners as well as so called Geshes, Lamas, Khenpos and so on, who, while being quite expert in myriad ancient opinions about this and that fine point of Buddhist philosophy, nevertheless never succeed in integrating the meaning of the Dharma into their personal life. And so for these people, Dharma remains a religion and a culture, rather than a personal experience.
Well said. Namdrol is becoming a great man.


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Andaman Deluxe Room
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The Oldest Books in Our Library
Posted by: heather on Jan 10, 2014
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While doing research in our newspaper archive other day, I had a patron ask me what the oldest book in our library was.
I did a little sleuthing and this is what I came up with:
Two books, Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World: History of Oregon, Illustrated and History of Washington Volume 1, both with print dates in 1893.
The Pen Pictures book has a lovely, embossed leather cover.
Unfortunately, we don't know much about these two books, other than they are very old. Both have complete page counts, and are an interesting look into the history of the Pacific Northwest.
If you are interested in taking a gander at these old tomes, please inquire about the Genealogy Reference section at the front desk. :-)


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"The sh**'s chess, it ain't checkers!" Alonzo Harris, Training Day -2001 and Bryan Colangelo -2012 Free Agency.
The Raptors are offering Nash 12mil per season, which the Knicks can't match. As soon as they heard about the Knicks potential deal, they offered Fields a heavily back-ended 3 year deal, which he's apparently agreed to..
Hehe Raptors, stick it to the Knicks!
"I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?"
http://espn.go.com/boston/nba/story/...ct-sources-sayFree agent guard Jason Terry is closing in on a three-year contract with the Boston Celtics, sources close to the situation confirmed Tuesday.
Terry's offer from the Celtics is believed to be for the full mid-level exception of $5 million annually.
Nash would be great for the Knicks, and specifically for Lin. Nash would be a good Linfluence.
Reggie Evans on the move to Brooklyn?
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
Brooklyn is finalizing a sign-and-trade deal with the Los Angeles Clippers for Reggie Evans, league sources tell Y! Sports.
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Brooklyn has agreed to a 3-year, $5M sign-and-trade for Reggie Evans, sources tell Y! The Clippers will get a distant future 2nd round pick.
Whoa.. Howard, Evans and Wallace together on the boards..
Seems like they're already working out their Miami-type roster signings
Howard could of course walk out on LA for someone other than the Nets, but who?..
http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers...,7220021.storyThe Lakers currently won't accept a trade for him without getting more years tacked on to the one he has left (for $19.5 million).
A rental just isn't going to happen.
What is with Howard and Brooklyn? Most of the big FAs that make big fuss about going to bigger markets would be thrilled with the Lakers
There must be bad blood between Dwight and Kobe for him to hate the Lakers this much and claim to want to go to a big market... Or maybe he's in love with Williams?
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Millermatic 140
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Miller releases new merchandise regionally, they will not release much info until the product has been released in ALL markets. From what little I know it may be another 2 weeks, slightly more for this to occur.
Where did you get yours and most importantly, HOW MUCH???
We are looking to get one for a Christmas gift, maybe.
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MM140 AND MM180 prices
I can't help with spec sheets, but here's the pricing:
MM140 w/auto set feature: MSRP: $789.00 (machine only) or MSRP: $862 with cart
MM180 has a MSRP of $958.00 or $1020 with the cart
...negotiate well and only pay list if you're getting a bunch of free stuff with the deal!
I bought it 1 week ago @ Monroe Welding Supply in Monroe,La. I got it for 715.00, machine only! Seeing how I am a "Rookie" It seemed to be a good choice. Thus far the only faults have been the user. I wish I could be more useful but I have no background to compare it to. Thanks for your help! I can send anyone an e-mail that wants the info. sheet that came w/ it.
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IOC has them listed on there site at $715 free shipping the MM180 is only $742 free shipping
for the $27 diference i would go for the MM180 unless you dont have 220V power.
the MM140 &180 were just released in my area on the 17th of this month so it may be a wile befor lots of feedback is available but what i have herd is goo. they give the option to remove the WST if you do not like it or use it if you do, that seemed to be the only complaint with the MM135/175's i have had the MM135 for about 5 years and its been a great welder no complaints at all. back when i got it there was a $300 diference between the MM135& the 175 i supose the new electronics for the WST on off option has raised the $$ a bit but would expect it to be just a relyable as the old modle, meaning you should have no problems with it and be a happy camper for many years to come.
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If you look closely you'll see that the $715 MM 140 is the unit with Auto-Set. I imagine the standard MM 140 will be less expensive.
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Thomas Dean Pollard
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Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental BiologyStructural BiologyCell Biology: Cytoskeletal Dynamics | Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry: Cell Cycle and Transcriptional Regulation; Structural Biology
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Cytokinesis; cellular motility; role of actin filaments and myosin motors more...
- B.A., Pomona College, 1964
- M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1968
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- Vavylonis, D., Wu, J.-Q., Hao, S., O'Shaughnessy, B. and Pollard, T.D. (2008) Assembly mechanism of the contractile ring for cytokinesis by fission yeast. Science 319:97-100.
- Kovar, D.R., Harris, E.S., Mahaffy, R.E., Higgs, H.N., and Pollard, T.D. (2006). Control of the assembly of ATP- and ADP-actin by formins and profilin. Cell 724:423-435.
- Wu, J-Q., Kuhn, J. R., Kovar, D. R. and Pollard, T. D. Spatial and temporal pathway for assembly and constriction of the contractile ring in fission yeast cytokinesis. Devel. Cell 5, 723-734 (2003)


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Working in ArcGIS 9.3
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You know the sun is affecting your day when it's particularly hot outside, but did you know that it could mess with your car's GPS system, or even cause blackouts?
In this installment of our Cool Jobs in Government series, we learn all about an entire group of people working at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center who watch the sun every waking minute to try and mitigate the more dangerous effects of the sun.
Bill Murtagh is program coordinator at the center and explains that the study of space weather has become more popular during the past decade because of technological advances like GPS.
He explains what, exactly, they do.
"We monitor the Sun, 24 hours a day, every day of the year, watching for the development of sunspots. Generally, in the vicinity of those sunspots, we'll see solar flares, solar eruptions and the emissions from those eruptions will impact our technology here on Earth. . . . The impact can be on the satellite system itself, or it can interfere with the radio signal from the satellites to ground receivers."
He adds that it can also interfere with technology such as the power grid. When space storms occur, geomagnetic currents are created and sometimes infiltrate the grid, damaging transformers, or even creating blackouts.
Murtagh and his team use tons of technology themselves to keep an eye on the Sun, including several satellites equipped with special sensors.
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"There's several different types of space weather. . . . For the flares themselves -- actual flare eruptions on the Sun -- will typically not occur unless we see big complex magnetic sunspot structures on the face of the Sun. So, for instance, when we're not seeing any sunspots, we can put out a very high plausibility that nothing's going to happen today, and we're accurate most of the time. Then, sometimes we see very large, complex sunspot groups, and we say there's a high probability that something's about to happen, and it often does. So, we're fairly good in some senses, but there's certainly still a lot of challenges we face in our ability to make accurate forecasts."
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Explanation coming....JXGraph allows you to plot functions on a graph. JXGraph in Java takes a Plot (usually an anonymous function) to plot a function. Because anonymous classes are not possible in Groovy, a new class, GroovyPlot, has been created that can take a closure and generate a Plot.
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Any information on uploading the default packages to github (probably in a new organisation)? If "Installed Packages" override "Default Packages" (on ST3) then I think this will be a great addition regardless of whether Jon decides to use the modified versions or not (-> Package Control).
I know of a few (2 or 3) bugs in the Python syntax definition I can hopefully fix easily.


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Damascus blast: Assad brother in law among dead
Assef Shawkat, the brother in law of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad , was killed this morning in a suicide bombing that targeted the building of the National Security in Damascus, said Al Manar Channel of Hezbollah. According to a source close to the security services, Assef Shawkat died at a hospital in Damascus to where he was transferred.
According to Al Manar, the Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim al Shaar was injured in the attack. Syrian TV had earlier announced the death of Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajha. According to a source close to the security services, the bomber was a bodyguard close to the Assad regime. The bomber detonated his explosive belt at the time of the meeting of key leaders in the security building.
The attack was claimed on Facebook by the Islamist rebel group Liwa al-Islam. The free Syrian army also claimed the attack. "It's the volcano we were talking, we're just getting started," said a spokesman for the FSA.
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The killing of Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Dawoud Rajiha in Damascus should give Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the idea that Russia's policy on Syria is becoming a disaster that Russia will come to regret dearly. Lavrov's stated bravado "The Syrian rebels cannot defeat the Syrian Army" sounds quite loony now, as the Syrian rebels can bomb the Syrian Defense Ministry in Damascus!
There is no doubt the U.S. and its Arab allies are determined to break the Russian, Syrian and Iranian axis of power, and install a pro-U.S. Sunni puppet regime in Syria. Russia had a chance to ease Assad out with a soft internal coup, and have replaced him with other acceptable pro-Russian Syrian leaders. But it opted to bet everything on the leadership of the nerdy, inept, and hereditary Bashar Assad. It is just mind-boggling!
I hope Vladimir Putin wakes up now and realizes that the Russian Foreign Ministry needs a complete makeover - not just "Yes" men lamenting about "U.S. blackmail!" Russia has boxed itself into Assad's Pandora's Box, and its policy in Syria will share Assad's fate! That is a colossal mistake for Russia!
The U.S., however, shouldn't pop-up the champagne yet! The Syrian rebels are various groups with their own agendas. I see another civil war in Syria similar to the Algerian civil war of 1992-1996 following Assad's demise! Nikos Retsos, retired professor