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Several teams have attended the conference room of the headquarters at Jaarbeurs in Utrecht on the eve of stage 1 of the 2015 Tour de France to confront with the media. Fabian Cancellara, Tony Martin and Tom Dumoulin are the hot favorites for the inaugural time trial but questions arose on whether Rohan Dennis, Alex Dowsett or Adriano Malori could beat them. Vincenzo Nibali expressed his satisfaction over the news that all main GC contenders will start at about the same time, so the weather...Read more More news
Grand Start: Utrecht
Located in the heart of the Netherlands and capital of the province of the same name, Utrecht, with its 322,000 inhabitants, is the fourth biggest city in the country.
Founded in the Antiquity during the Roman era, in the Middle Ages it was an important religious and commercial centre. Later, in 1713, it hosted the signing of the Utrecht treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession. Today, Utrecht is renowned for its university, which is the country's biggest and one of the most prestigious in Europe. The Dom, the 112-metre high tower of Saint Martin Cathedral, is the symbol of the city through which pass canals bordered by terraces, cafés and restaurants.
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The start of the opening stage in the Utrecht will of course be "zero hour" for the peloton. However, the previous week will set the scene for a wide variety of rituals which will help both riders and fans soak up the atmosphere of the race: inauguration of the press centre, meeting of the caravanners, public team presentation, etc.More Infos
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At the end of the general briefing, which will take place at 17.15 at the Railway Museum, the riders will take a boat on the Oudegracht, the canal that runs through the centre of Utrecht. They will then ride to the podium erected in Lepelenburg Park to be presented in turn to the public.More Infos
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Death & Rebirth
That was not the best NYE I've ever had.
It was not the worst either though.
After the pub my evening was spent covered in cats. I miss my kitties soooo much :o( I'm blatantly phoning the local rescue place and asking what they have. 2 ferrets & 2 cats would be sooo good right now. And then the 4 rats… and the giant millipedes and maybe a gecko or 2…. and then maybe a dog….

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By Robert E. Quinn
Yesterday I had lunch with a graduate student. I had not met him before. Our discussion started out like most academic discussions. But as he sensed that I was truly interested in his ideas and in him, he began to open up, like a flower in the sun. Our conversation became more and more animated and generative. As I listened to him, it became clear that he had the mind and the heart of transformational leader.
He is an African American who wants to make a difference in the health of poor people in the inner city. He said many things that inspired me, but there was one that I found particularly interesting. He spoke of volunteering to teach people in prisons. He said that if he were going to accomplish his goal of helping the poor, he needed to understand people in prison.
His attitude was remarkable. He told one inmate: "I do not drive all the way out here to get paid, I do not get paid. I do not drive all the way out here because I think it is going to get me into to heaven. I drive out here because I want to learn."
This statement caught my attention. I have been working on a manuscript about highly effective teachers, the very few who have miraculous impact in the classroom. These are also transformational leaders. I have written a hundred pages about them, but if I had to boil the message down to one phrase, it would be this: They have a higher purpose, and that purpose is to learn how to amplify the learning of others. To help other people transform is to help them learn who they are. To do that, we have to be learning who we are. We have to be in the state of change, it is then that we find the capacity to love who we are. When we love ourselves, we can truly love others, and that is when they find the courage to change.
As time ran out on us, he walked me all the way back to my office. We did not want the conversation to end. As we finally parted, I felt reminded of how important it is to have a higher life purpose and to pursue it while in the constant state of learning about how to pursue it. I am grateful to have had lunch with a transformational graduate student.


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There is a general consensus among those who believe in anthropogenic climate change that substantial technological innovation is necessary to slow or stop the warming of our planet. Of the statutory and regulatory vehicles that promote technological innovation, intellectual property regimes, particularly patent laws and rules, are perhaps the most important. This two-credit seminar course is offered to students interested in issues at the intersection of intellectual property law and clean technologies / climate change. More particularly, this course will examine the role IP laws and IP rights play in green innovation, including development, protection and implementation of clean technologies.
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Telnet and r-commands Blocked July 7, 1999, last updated September 8, 1999
Passwords that transit local networks or the Internet as unencrypted text present a major security exposure. Telnet, rlogin, ftp and many e-mail applications still use clear-text passwords. SLAC blocks applications using clear-text passwords as soon as alternatives are available.
SLAC blocked telnet and r-commands (rlogin, rsh, rexec, and rcp) access to SLAC on September 1, 1999. Incoming telnet and r-commands were blocked in the external router. Telnet and r-command daemons were removed from centrally maintained systems. Secure Shell (SSH) is the supported alternative software (see the Unix SSH web page and more tips on replacing the r-commands is available on a BaBar page). If this severely impacts your work, contact Bob Cowles, SLAC Computer Security Officer.
Use of ftp with clear-text passwords will be stopped as soon as an adequate, secure alternative is available (perhaps early 2000). Data still may be sent or received using anonymous ftp (using a restricted set of servers); in fact, SLAC Computer Services (SCS) is setting up anonymous ftp servers for physics experiments where data can be freely distributed without password authentication.
Upgrades to the SLAC POP and IMAP email services to support secure access will take place this fall. Assuming a successful test, we hope to terminate the use of clear-text email passwords around the end of the year. Although a preferred email client has not been selected, leading contenders support SSL encryption, e.g. Netscape Messenger or Microsoft Outlook. Pine and Eudora email clients are problematic and we are still trying to find a solution allowing their continued operation. Users will be encouraged to use IMAP rather than POP IMAPs central storage of email is easier to manage and is more convenient for many users who want email access from multiple machines (e.g. home and work) and multiple platforms.
Finding SSH client software
General SSH questions (and answers)
Use of SSH with X-windows and X-Win32
SSH Version information
Access to SLAC when at conferences or traveling
Finding SSH client software
If you need a Unix or Linux client, look for the references on the SLAC web page referenced above. SLAC users on-site can find a distribution tailored for the SLAC environment in the AFS file system at /afs/slac/package/ssh (due to U. S. export restrictions on encryption technology, SLAC cannot make SSH available for download from our web site.).
The web page also directs you to a page where you can purchase a license for F-Secure, a commercial SSH product for Macintosh, Windows 9X and NT platforms. Thirty-day evaluation copies can be downloaded from the web at http://www.datafellows.com/gallery (select the appropriate SSH product from the "Cryptography Products" section). Freeware versions of SSH extensions can be used in conjunction with Tera Term Pro downloaded from http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html (you must download and install both Tera Term and the Tera Term SSH extension) or from standard NT systems connected to the SLAC network from the X:\Applications\Supported\TeraTerm directory, run Install_TeraTermProSSH.bat (this must be run by someone with Administrator privileges). As of this writing, the Tera Term freeware version has satisfied the most needs of users on the Windows platforms. From Bob Jacobson, BaBar Collaborator: "There's also a free SSH for the Macintosh, called NiftyTelnet 1.1 SSH, see http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/ It doesn't do X11 forwarding, but can do secure copy (unlike Data Fellows version, which I also have)."
There are also several Java-based implementations that may run across some number of platforms perform a web search with the keywords "java" and "ssh".
Note that some of these programs claim to be illegal to use in the United States without paying a license fee for the RSA encryption algorithms. The U. S. government has the right to use RSA algorithms without paying a royalty; also: "In the U.S., a license is needed to make, use or sell RSA. However, RSA Data Security usually allows free non-commercial use of RSA, with written permission, for academic or university research purposes." [emphasis added] Since SLAC is a U. S. government funded facility, we are assuming the right to run software containing the RSA algorithms (the patent expires in August, 2000).
General SSH questions (and answers)
Q. Often when I connect from Tera Term to vesta, flora or morgan, I get a message about a possible attack. Should I be worried? How do I get the message to stop coming out?
A. The machines you mention are actually families of machines so you don't always get assigned to the same one -- this can make the host validation code within ssh very confused and think someone else is spoofing the machine you're connecting to. This problem doesn't appear if your "known hosts" file is created at installation using the standard script in the Pub drive (for standard configurations it is X:\Applications\Supported\TeraTerm). If you did not use that script, you can create the known hosts file by running the 'update.bat' command from the TeraTerm installation directory. If you installed Tera Term in a non-standard location, you may have to edit the script so it creates the known hosts file in the proper directory.
Q. We imported a few procedures (batch-like) which use some of the r-commands (rsh, rcp) in combination with a .rhosts file to avoid entering a password. Does the procedure outlined on the BaBar web page using .rhosts still work?
A. Yes, both .rhosts and .shosts files continue to work, but only with ssh; be sure to read the information about the "known_hosts" file to increase the security of this type of authentication.
Q. Encrypting and decrypting the data is very CPU intensive; what will be the impact on response time?
A. Interactive sessions like telnet and rlogin normally transmit relatively small amounts of data and reasonably powered machines should see no impact from the additional work. With underpowered machines running a Java-version of the code, there may be a noticeable impact. Because ssh has to negotiate encryption methods and keys, the session initiation may be noticeably slower -- it is particularly noticeable compared with rsh.
Use of SSH with X-windows and X-Win32
Q. I use the Xwin32 program to connect from Windows NT to Unix and it only gives options of rsh and rexec for making the initial connection. How do I use Xwin32 if the r-commands are blocked?
A. Len Moss has written a FAQ on using Xwin32 with ssh.
Q. I use Xwin32 application from my NT machine to gain access to xterm windows on Unix machines like flora or vesta. In the past, I could configure the xterm command from Xwin32 and then each session would automatically startup when I logged in. Now that rexec and rsh are going away, how can I configure the xdmcp window using Xwin32? When I select xdmcp there is no place to input the window parameters that I want (i.e. -sb -geometry 80x24 -name <userid>, etc., etc). The only thing that's the same is auto-startup but that's not very useful if I have to reconfigure the window manually each time.
A. (Courtesy of Len Moss) When using XDMCP you are starting a session, which may include a variety of different X applications, rather than just a single xterm window. You control the set of applications, and their parameters for each one, from the UNIX side, not from X-Win32. When your XDMCP session starts, it looks for a script named ".xsession" in your UNIX home directory; if not found, it uses a system-defined default script instead; this default script is /usr/lib/X11/xdm/default.xsession on the vestas or /usr/openwin/lib/xdm/default.xsession on the floras. You can copy the default script and modify it to launch whatever set of X applications you want. All but the last one should have an ampersand appended to put them into the background; the last one must _not_ have an ampersand, because that would permit the script to complete and when the script completes your session ends (i.e., all your X applications are closed). The default.xsession script at SLAC (set up years ago by Len Sweeney) makes the clock the last, and thus controlling, application for the session.
If all you want to do is set some window parameters, however, I suggest you do that in your .Xdefaults (or .Xresources) file rather than on the command line in a script, since then they will be used automatically whenever, and however, you start that particular X application (unless you override on the command line). For example, instead of issuing the command, xterm -sb -geometry 80x24 & you could put:
XTerm*VT100*geometry: 80x24
XTerm*VT100*scrollBar: True
in your .Xdefaults file, and then just say "xterm &". See the xterm man page for the X resource equivalents for other command line options.
Q. What about XDM sessions? They transmit clear text passwords so will they also be blocked?
A. XDM sessions are already blocked at the SLAC firewall. The XDM servers will still be available for use within the SLAC network.
Q. Can I use ssh to replace mxconns for tunneling X-sessions into SLAC?
A. Certainly, in fact it is very easy to get ssh to provide a secure, encrypted "tunnel" for X-sessions. See the ssh web page at SLAC for instructions. If a system on the other end of the connection is compromised, the secure link wont help ssh helps but is not a guarantee.
Q. May I telnet or rlogin to my system at my home site from SLAC?
A. Yes, but this is not recommended since it puts your home system in jeopardy along with any other system with the same password or which is accessible through ".rhosts" files. If you use the Unix ssh command and your home system is not running ssh, the command will issue warnings and eventually timeout and fail with connection refused messages. You should do the right thing and install the ssh daemon on your home system.
Q. If I try to use telnet to a SLAC system, what error will I see?
A. From inside the SLAC firewall connecting to a centrally maintained machine, you will receive a message to the effect "Connection refused". From outside the SLAC firewall and trying to access any SLAC machine, the message may vary by client but it will be to the effect "Host not responding" after some significant delay.
Q. The local system admins at my site don't want to install ssh everywhere. It is OK if I just telnet to the system where they have ssh and then use ssh from there?
A. That would work, but it would defeat what we are trying to accomplish with eliminating clear-text passwords. You will still be sending unencrypted data (and passwords) between your local machine and the one running ssh. Problems with passwords being "sniffed" occur on the local networks at the endpoints and that is precisely where you are exposing your password with the telnet session.
SSH Version information
Q. Which version of SSH should I use, version 1 or 2?
A. We will be using SSH servers implementing version 1 of the protocol, so be sure to get a version 1 protocol client. Please note that the current release of Tera Term is 2.x, but the extension still implements Version 1 of the ssh protocol.
Q. I love using the latest stuff and have installed ssh version 2 client on my system will I be able use that software to access SLAC?
A. No, we hope to have ssh version 2 servers available on the centrally maintained Unix systems later in 1999.
Access to SLAC when at conferences or traveling
Q. I only use telnet to our Unix machines when I am away from SLAC. What should I do when I am at a conference and all the computers in the temporary computer room for the conference use telnet? The same question applies to when I go to work at another laboratory for extended periods and they also do not have ssh.
A. We make available the free ssh client on all Unix machines, and are seeing widespread use of a free ssh client called Tera Term, which can currently be found on SLAC NT fileserver in the X:\Applications\Supported\TeraTerm directory. For your travel, contact the SCS Help Desk for a copy of Tera Term on a floppy disk that you could then use from any Windows computer. Most other labs are also adopting ssh as a standard, so I think you should expect to find it on the computers at other labs. Many conferences, such as Lepton-Photon 99 hosted by SLAC, are now equiping all their public work machines with ssh clients. If you find a conference that is not doing so, tell them about the security risk that they are creating for all their attendees. Some of our most serious security problems came immediately after conferences where hackers had infiltrated the workroom machines and captured passwords.
Q. I am a novice on Unix, but I really need telnet or an equivalent to read my mail (PINE) when I am away from SLAC. Can you give me some extra help on this?
A. As as replacement for telnet, SLAC is recommending use of the ssh program. This is a replacement for both the r-commands and telnet that encrypts the data. For unix at SLAC, typing ssh will get your an encrypted session. It is just like telnet, but the data (and your password) never goes across the wires unencrypted. While ssh is being installed at many sites, it is a third party application, and it is not part of the operating system. So, it is possible that it is not installed where you might travel. You did not say what systems you use when you are away from SLAC; because of that, I am going to suggest a couple of different options.
If you take a portable computer with you, it should have a copy of the ssh program installed on it before you leave SLAC. Your system admin should be able to install it for you. Ssh is available at SLAC on the public applications folder for desktop systems. For PC's and Mac's, there are two versions of ssh available, a commercial version (which costs about $50), and a freeware version. If you commonly use a sites "public lab", you should ask if they have ssh installed somewhere. But just in case they do not, we recommend that you carry a floppy with you that contains a copy of ssh. Of course that floppy must be made before you leave SLAC. If you know you will be visiting a site, and you know they have a "public lab" or "computer cluster", you should try to ssh to that location from SLAC before you leave. If the ssh connection is sucessful, it means they have ssh installed (and you should have not problem sshing out). Lastly, we can point you to the source for ssh, (see references above) from which a unix sysadm can download his or her own copy.
One problem that you should be aware of (and is why we can't make this a lot easier) is that SLAC cannot provide a downloadable version of ssh from wherever you might be. Because ssh uses strong encryption, it is categorized as munitions by the United States federal government (and is export controlled).
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Contribute to the future of the Appleton Museum of Art by targeting your donation. Although general cash donations are always appreciated, there are other unique and creative ways to give.
Currently in development, the Appleton Museum of Art is planning a Sculpture Garden to complement the existing grounds.
By making a gift of $100 or $250 to the Sculpture Garden project, you can secure a personally inscribed brick or paver to be placed in the future walkway.
By making a gift of $2,000, you can secure a bench with a personally inscribed bronze plaque
The lobby renovation has been completed, including the elegant new marble staircases. Join the group of faithful Appleton patrons who have already so generously shown their support by making a charitable donation and leaving your mark on the museum. With a $1,000 gift to the Appleton Museum of Art, you will have the naming rights to one of the indivisual marble steps, commemorating the installation of the beautiful staircases. A brass plate installed on the step will designate your gift and can be customized with your name or to honor or memorialize someone special to you.
For more information on giving, please contact Victoria Billig at 352-291-4455 or by email.


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Welcome to Vienna Adventist Academy (VAA)! As you view our website, I hope you will discover how VAA can be key to your child's personal fulfillment, academic success, and spiritual development.
Our Motto
"Formed in the spirit of dynamic growth, Social Justice and intellectual pursuits."
Our Mission
The Mission of Vienna Adventist Academy is to provide a Christ-centered quality education, promote balanced character development and prepare students for citizenship in today's world and God's Kingdom.
What we do
Dear Prospective VAA Family,
If you would like to enroll your child at VAA, registration forms are available on this page. You may download, print, complete and mail forms to:Vienna Adventist Academy340 Courthouse Road SW,Vienna, VA 22180
Please call the office for an appointment to visit and tour our campus. We look forward to hearing from you and meeting with you. Thank you for considering VAA.
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YIELD: Serves 8
ACTIVE TIME: 1 1/2 hr
TOTAL TIME: 3 1/2 hr
Cook bacon in a 6- to 8-quart heavy pot over moderate heat, turning, until crisp. Transfer with tongs to paper towels to drain and pour off all but 2 tablespoons fat from pot. Crumble bacon. Pat pork dry and season with salt and pepper. Add oil to pot and heat over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking. Brown pork in about 6 batches without crowding and transfer with a slotted spoon to a plate. Add onion and jalapeños and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until softened. Add garlic, oregano, chili powder, cumin, and cayenne, then cook, stirring, 1 minute. Return pork to pot with any juices accumulated on plate and add broth, coffee, water, and tomatoes with purée.
Simmer chili, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until pork is very tender, about 2 hours. Stir in beans and bring to a simmer, stirring.
Serve chili with bacon and accompaniments.
Cooks' notes:
· Chili may be made 2 days ahead, cooled completely, then chilled, covered. Reheat before serving.
· Onion, cilantro sprigs, and lime wedges can be prepared up to 6 hours ahead and chilled in separate sealed plastic bags.


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The family and many friends of former Levy County Tax Collector C.D. Tummond are having a 93rd birthday party for him on Saturday, April 2, at the Brinkman Farm on County Road 330 — 10351 N.W. 70th St.— Chiefland. Friends will begin gathering at 11 a.m. with lunch at 1 p.m. All are welcome and guests are asked, if you can, bring a chair and if you wish, a favorite dish. Balloons will mark the drive on which to turn.
No RSVP required. Questions? Contact Bob Mount 490-5040 or Dick Tummond 490-6509.
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Do you have questions about your options for Medicare, Medicare/Medicaid, Disability, Supplemental Insurance, Part D Prescription Drug Plans, or Medicare Billings?
The AARP Safe Driving Course is at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 15, in the Community Room at Capital City Bank, in Chiefland.
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If you are seeing mama bears or pink elephants it may not be something you are drinking.
Tom Ten Broeck, general manager of the Chiefland Citizen, Tri County Bulletin and Cedar Key Beacon accepts the Outstanding Community Partner Award from SHINE's 3A/E coordinator Mary Lee Tanca. The newspapers were saluted for helping SHINE promote its sessions and activities in the tri-county area.
The Medicare pharmacy "doughnut hole" is undergoing some repairs — such as a $250 rebate check offered during 2010. This is part of the new Affordable Care Act which is finally reducing prescription drug costs in each of the coming years until the doughnut hole is closed in about 2020.
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This Revolutionary New Battery Charges To 70% In Just Two Minutes
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WPN824N Can't keep Wireless connection working
I have a cable internet at home using a Motorola modem and I have just bought the WPN824N wireless router. Unfortunately I couldn't have the router working for more than one day until now.
At first I have configured it using the Smart Wizard Setup. I found it very easy and in a few minutes the router was working fine. I have settled a WPA security in my wireless internet. I could connect with an Ipod and with a laptop during this first day without having any problems.
The problems began on the second day (october 5th 2010) when I tried to connect my laptop. The wireless network disappeared. I tried to restart the connection following the steps of the Smart Wizard Setup (SWS), but I couldn't. I received constantly a message that the router could not be detected.
I tried to reset the router but the message appeared several times before that. I gave up trying to fix the problem on that day and tried again yesterday (october 6th 2010).
After many tries I could connect the router after reseting it several times, but the connection was lost 2 minutes after. I gave up trying to fix it on october 6th 2010 and tried again today.
Since then I am experiencing many kinds of problems with the router. The test light sometimes doesn't lit and sometimes it doesn�t turn off. The power light doesn't turn green being turned amber almost all the time. Despite having all the cables connected the router is often not detected when I am trying to setup it through the SWS.
After having these problems I could make the router working for almost 10 minutes before it lost the signal again. Now I don't have any answer from the router, same problem that I had yesterday.
Am I missing something? The cables are fine as they sometimes work. When the router stopped working all the lights were correctly on. Power light was green, connection was blinking, number 1 was green and the wifi was blue.
What steps could I follow in order to solve this matter?
Thank you all in advance.
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I think I tried everything. The smart wizard always makes a mistake when configuring my network. It assumes that my IP is fixed while in fact it is dinamic. I have to configure my network manually, otherwise it is not going to work for more than 10 minutes. I managed to configure it 3 weeks ago manually and it stoped working again. I tried to reconfigure it manually and the router worked for 1 hour and died again. When a tried to restart the router it freezed and could not do the tests that are usually done in the starting process. The power light turned on amber and the router could do nothing more than that, I noticed that when it happens I must disconnect the router from the power and wait a few hours before trying to reconfigure ot again. If I try to do it before this "waiting period" the only thing that I will get from the router is an amber power light turned on. Now I will wait some time to try to reconfigure it manually and pray.
2 months after buying this nightmare it still doesn't work as it should. How I miss my WRTG54G Linksys.
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I have had the same issue for the past 4 days....finally had AT&T give me a new modem password and IT WORKED!!!!
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CEDAR RAPIDS – The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders have had a tough go of things lately.
The 'Riders entered last night's game against the Team USA Under-18 squad on a five-game losing streak, and had lost six of seven overall.
But a strong night in net for goaltender Danny Tirone and a hat trick from Andrew Poturalski solved that in a 5-2 win last night at The Stable.
"I thought we worked pretty hard and did a better job of playing as a team," said RoughRiders Coach Mark Carlson. "(Andrew) had a nice night for us. He's a veteran player, and that's what you need out of veteran guys to win in this league.
"We need more of that stuff. ... We need guys to pick their game up like Pots did tonight."
Read more: http://thegazette.com/2014/03/14/poturalski-helps-stop-roughriders-skid-with-hat-trick/
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Strategic partnerships between nonprofits and companies offer positive benefits to both the nonprofit looking to achieve long-term sustainability and companies looking for the positive "halo-effect" corporate-nonprofit partnerships can give to their brand.


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Oh my gosh, why didn't I think of this before? When I went to the supermarket I picked up one of my favorite Stonyfield yogurt; the 0% fat in peach. Then I thought to myself why not switch up the recipe and use the peach yogurt instead of plain yogurt and make peach protein pancakes? I decided to also get a can of peaches to use as some sort of topping. (Just as a FYI, if you don't have gluten-free Bisquick or other pancake mix, just use 1 Tbsp your choice flour and 1/4 tsp of baking powder).
There are not many flavors I would do this for. I remember a few years ago I did a blueberry yogurt flavored pancakes and it was really tasty! Now however, since I like to add toppings galore, I search online and found this "heavenly baked peaches" recipe.
I just divided the ingredients in half since my can was only 8 oz. and not 15 oz. They came out extremely good and I am going to be adding this dish to my protein pancake rotation. I have "baked" apple topping and now a real baked peach topping! I drizzled the pancakes with some maple syrup and added some crushed almonds. What could top this breakfast as a mid-morning snack? I had half of a white chocolate macadamia nut Cliff bar.
It looked so good and was actually really yummy! A new addition to my bar line for sure.
For lunch I had some carrots and cheese english muffin "pizzas" in a non-pizza form. Instead of having english muffins I made some rolls made out of Bob Red's Mill's gluten-free pizza crust and added bacon to the now carrots and cheese egg sandwich.This pizza crust mix has saved me in terms of my pizza and bread cravings. Another thing I did today was pre-portion this giant Hershey's dark chocolate bar. I prefer to have a higher percentage of dark chocolate but for my budget this week, this is what I got.
I used some plastic wrap and made four servings out of this bar. The bar was only $1.48, making each serving only about $0.37!
It only took about a couple of minutes and now I have perfect little portioned chocolate bars. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and enjoying sweets in moderation isn't so hard when you just take that extra minute to prepare something in advanced. Dinner tonight was some chicken "parmesan." Sorry bought the no picture, but I'm sure you know what I had after right? Some chocolate of course!
Time to wake up early tomorrow and hope everyone is doing well!


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The death of John the Baptist
Roman portrait bust, said to be
of Flavius Josephus (from Les Dossiers d' Archéologie, 2001; ©!!!)
|The Jewish
historian Flavius
Josephus (37-c.100) describes in his Jewish
antiquities the destruction of the army of the Jewish leader Herod Antipas.
Many people thought that this was a divine punishment, because Antipas
had ordered the execution of a just man, John
the Baptist.
The incident is hard to date; the story assumes that Antipas' brother Philip had already died (which he did in 34), but this seems too late, because John was already arrested before Jesus of Nazareth was executed (which probably happened in 30).
Unlike the Testimonium
Flavianum, the authenticity of Josephus' words on John has never
been doubted. The strongest argument for their authenticity is that they
are not connected to Christian interpretations. If a Christian author would
have inserted a story on John, he would have retold the stories found in
the gospels of Mark and Luke (which are quoted here).
Flavius Josephus, Jewish antiquities 18.109ffAbout this time Aretas, the king of the Arabian city Petra, and Herod Antipas had a quarrel. Herod the tetrarch had married the daughter of Aretas [called Phasaelis], and had lived with her a great while. But when he was once at Rome, he lodged with Herod, who was his brother indeed, but not by the same mother (this Herod was the son of the high priest Sireoh's daughter). Here, he fell in love with Herodias, this other Herod's wife, who was the daughter of Aristobulus their brother, and the sister of Agrippa the Great. Antipas ventured to talk to her about a marriage between them; when she admitted, an agreement was made for her to change her habitation, and come to him as soon as he should return from Rome: one article of this marriage also was that he should divorce Aretas' daughter.
So Antipas made this agreement and returned home again. But his wife had discovered the agreement he had made before he had been able to tell her about it. She asked him to send her to Macherus, which is a place in the borders of the dominions of Aretas and Herod, without informing him of her intentions. So, Herod sent her thither, unaware that his wife had perceived something.
Earlier, she had sent to Macherus, and all things necessary for her journey were made already prepared for her by a general of Aretas' army. Consequently, she soon arrived in Arabia, under the conduct of several generals, who carried her from one to another successively. She met her father, and told him of Herod's intentions. So Aretas made this the first occasion of the enmity between him and Herod, who had also some quarrel with him about their limits near Gamala.
So both sides raised armies, prepared for war, and sent their generals to fight. When they joined battle, Herod's army was completely destroyed by the treachery of some fugitives, who, though they were from the tetrarchy of Philip, had joined Aretas' army. So Herod wrote about these affairs to the emperor Tiberius, who became very angry at the attempt made by Aretas, and wrote to Lucius Vitellius, the governor of Syria, to make war upon him, and either to take him alive and bring him to him in bonds, or to kill him and send him his head. This was the charge that Tiberius gave to the governor of Syria.
Now some of the Jews thought that the destruction of Herod's army came from God as a just punishment of what Herod had done against John, who was called the Baptist. For Herod had killed this good man, who had commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, righteousness towards one another and piety towards God. For only thus, in John's opinion, would the baptism he administered be acceptable to God, namely, if they used it to obtain not pardon for some sins but rather the cleansing of their bodies, inasmuch as it was taken for granted that their souls had already been purified by justice.
Now many people came in crowds to him, for they were greatly moved by his words. Herod, who feared that the great influence John had over the masses might put them into his power and enable him to raise a rebellion (for they seemed ready to do anything he should advise), thought it best to put him to death. In this way, he might prevent any mischief John might cause, and not bring himself into difficulties by sparing a man who might make him repent of it when it would be too late.
Accordingly John was sent as a prisoner, out of Herod's suspicious temper, to Macherus, the castle I already mentioned, and was put to death. Now the Jews thought that the destruction of his army was sent as a punishment upon Herod, and a mark of God's displeasure with him.


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Honda starting to flex it's muscles again?
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I agree 100% Kace, if anyone can do it, Honda can....
I (as well as thousands of others no doubt) would also like to see a mid-weight (6-800cc), more off-road biased adventure bike from Honda for around $8-10k.
I've been extremely fortunate to have had the chance to ride a friend's 1997 Honda RD07 Africa Twin for a short time... Even though that particular bike is 15 years old now, the overall way it worked was awesome! The engine, while not rip-roaring extreme, had plenty of power and torque and was fun to use, the chassis felt planted and the handling was neutral and forgiving, belaying the size of the bike. Overall, it was just flat out perfect IMHO.
It's both an awesome and horrible to ride a bike like that, as it's forbidden fruit and owning one here is near impossible.
I really liked the idea of the last Honda Transalp 700 as well. Although it was a little more street-biased, it still looks like a fun bike:
Even though Honda has a ways to go yet, I'm happy to see the direction they're going in.
Just like you said, I'd love to see the CB1300 come over here. I would have loved to see the Honda CB750 concept they teased us with a few years back to come to life as well....
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There arent many companies with the engineering, manufacturing and raw capitol to be able to reinvent itself when it begins to wander far of the mark. Maybe we'll see something special, maybe the CB1300 will come finally. Maybe they'll give us a CB600, or a proper adventure bike.
They -are- going after the dakar this year, I think the arrival of the RC213V suggests the seriousness with which they're going after the bike market again.
Yaknow what I really want? a midweight(6-800cc) adventure bike for around 10k. Maybe positioned to compete with the KTM 690, more likely aimed at the F800, Tiger 800 ect. I have always been fascinated with Honda, the old man was an incredible guy and he gave us some incredible stuff. I'd own one now, if they made anything I was interested in.
Why are BMW's so much better thought out than Hondas, market wise? I mean we've seen some motorrad bikes that didnt take off, but Honda just does absurd things. The 599 and 919 seemed to sell well, but were just so expensive. The PC800 was way smarter than the DN-01, but it needed to have hung around longer to gain momentum. They give us the DN-01 but not the CB1300? Where is the new blackbird, or a proper naked bike that doesn't get shipped from Italy?
Come on Honda, if anyone can do this you can.
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Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 13: Camille Guaty Cast as Caitlin, a Woman From [Spoiler's] Past
Warning! Spoilers for Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 13 under the photo!
More shady ladies are showing up in Mystic Falls. First, one of Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) exes will appear in Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 8, "We Always Have Bourbon Street." Next, TV Guide reports that Bonnie's (Kat Graham) magic mentor, Professor Shane (David Alpay), will have a blast from his own past.
Camille Guaty will play Caitlin; she knows a thing or two about what Shane is up to. While we don't know what her intel is, we'll assume it's bad.
We knew we couldn't trust a professor who enjoys frat parties!
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It's difficult to believe that an entire nation can be contained within one book. Many Roads to Paradise is an encapsulation of the essence of Sri Lanka that includes
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It was the evening of Holi. I was taking my golden labrador Cesar for a walk and we both collapsed in the garden on the cool grass
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This wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last: During the interval of a Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) concert, as we made our way to the centre
Are you a charming person who easily gains people's trust, often using it for your own benefit? Do you have a well mapped out plan for most things you do?
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delhi is one of India's most chronicled and probably most maligned cities. While the former epithet has been established over centuries through an endless stream of travellers —particularly the
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Bloody Zombies! Now they are attacking the human race via Hot Air Balloons! WTF! Is this for real. Apparently it's not … since it's a game! Duh. Now! No reason to freak out here my friends. Wipe the foam off your face. Or people might thing you already caught the Zombie Virus! And you can save the world (hotel) from the lighter than air Zombie attack. Just shoot them. Shoot them all! Yes, it's going to be easy but it's fun! Big Random Good Stuff promise!
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Q. I read once that it's best to leave garden soil undisturbed in the fall and winter, especially if the garden is on a slope, to prevent soil erosion. My garden is on a slope. Should I leave my vegetable and flower plants alone? Will they decompose in place by spring?
A. Plant debris should not be left in the garden. It may harbor overwintering pests and diseases, and many garden plants are semi-woody and will not decompose by spring. You could reduce erosion problems by cutting your garden plants at the soil line and leaving the root systems to hold the soil in place. The roots will eventually decompose, adding organic matter and improving soil structure.


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Marshal's Baton
Dr. Fred Binding, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology for 32 years retired in July 2003. He had served as the university marshal for ten years. Sadly, Dr. Binding died in August 2003. In memory of his contribution to convocation ceremonies, artist Rex Lingwood was commissioned to create a marshal's baton.
In the baton, the artist incorporates a range of visual references that relate to the graduation ceremony, both directly and symbolically. In keeping with the nature of the ceremony, some of the forms are traditionally associated with ceremonial staffs, and the baton's design echoes the elaborate theatricality of the event and the flair brought to the occasion by Dr. Fred Binding. The ends may be read as abstracted figure forms wrapped in the academic gown and hood, with details symbolizing the life stage of the graduates. The Greek alphabet is inset into the internal side surface in the shaft of the baton. This is a reference to the interests of Dr. Fred Binding. It also acknowledges that language is at the core of university education and that the Greek language has particular importance in western culture.
The commission of the baton was made possible with the generous support of the Department of Psychology and Wilfrid Laurier's Univerisity Retirees' Association.


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Park Info
9999 Redwood Road
Castro Valley, CA 94546
Mailing Address
Anthony Chabot Regional Park
c/o EBRPD
2950 Peralta Oaks Court
Oakland, California 94605
Phone Number
Toll Free: 888-EBPARKS (888-327-2757), option 3, extension 4502
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Transit & Trails
Gate Hours
Group Camps
8am - 10pm all year
Park Curfew
10pm - 5am
Park Events
Click HERE for upcoming events.
Parking Fee
No fee
Dog Fee
$2 per day. No fee for guide/service dogs
Grazing Information
Grazing in the Parks
Camping Reservations
1-888-EBPARKS (1-888-327-2757), press option 2
Book a campsite online
For more information, visit the Camping page.
Picnic Reservations
No reservable picnic areas. Picnic areas may be reserved in the adjacent Lake Chabot Regional Park.
Emergency Number
EBRPD Headquarters
1-888-EBPARKS or
Park Update
No updates at this time.
Grazing Update
Beginning April 20, 2015 goat grazing returns in the fuel breaks along Skyline Blvd. Grazing runs from Parkridge Drive/ MacDonald Trail to Goldenrod Trail all the way to the Oakland Chabot Golf Course above Bass Cove.
Anthony Chabot Regional Park
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About The Park
Camping and a wealth of other outdoor activities are available only 20 minutes from downtown Oakland at the 3,314-acre Anthony Chabot Regional Park.
A beautiful, year-round public campground, a marksmanship range, and 70 miles of hiking and riding trails make Chabot one of the District's most varied parklands.
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Park Activities
Hiking, Riding and Bicycle Trails
Visitors can explore miles of beautiful hiking, riding, and bicycling trails through grasslands, chaparral, and shady eucalyptus groves, or along the shores of Lake Chabot. The East Bay Skyline National Trail, which traverses 31 miles of East Bay hills from Richmond to Castro Valley, runs the length of the park. Anthony Chabot is connected to Cull Canyon Regional Recreation Area by a six-mile section of the Chabot-to-Garin Regional Trail.
The Chabot Family Campground, overlooking Lake Chabot, is a year-round getaway only minutes from the city (camping fee). The camp has 63 walk-in and tent campsites, and 12 trailer/RV campsites with full hookups (sewer, water, and 30 amp electrical). Walk-in sites (13-22) are closed from November 1st through March 31st. Walk-in sites are NOT backpack sites. Reservations are taken for Walk-In sites starting 12 weeks to the day, and up to 2 days prior. Bathrooms include hot showers. For entertainment, campers may take advantage of naturalist-led campfire programs (Saturday evenings Memorial Day – Labor Day), an amphitheater, and hiking/fishing access to Lake Chabot. There are reservable group campsites within the park as well. For reservations, call 1-888-EBPARKS (1-888-327-2757), option 2, up to 12 weeks in advance, or click HERE to book a campsite online. Note that group campsites cannot be reserved online.
Group Camping
Group camping will have priority over backpacking use of the site by virtue of being able to make reservations earlier. Two Rocks site may be reserved for backpacking no more than 30 days in advance and must be made at least 5 days in advance. Backpacking use is for groups of 10 or less and will be charged backpack fees. Two Rocks is open April through October. Two Rocks is located in the middle of Anthony Chabot Regional Park near other group campsites and is connected by a side trail to the Skyline National Trail.
> Chabot campground map and rules.
The marksmanship range, operated by the Chabot Gun Club, is open to the public. The range accommodates persons with disabilities. It has pistol, rifle, and shotgun ranges, and offers a hunter safety course. This is the only District facility where firearms are allowed. The range is open Friday through Monday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. The range is located in the park off Marciel Road; take the Marciel Gate entrance off Redwood Road.
Equestrian Center
Chabot Equestrian Center (510-569-4428) offers horse boarding. It does not offer guided trail rides at this time.
For information about horseback riding in the Park District, see the Equestrian/Horseback page.
Wildflower Photo Guide
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Park Accessibility
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Click here for public transit information.
To Reach the Park
There are several access points to Anthony Chabot Regional Park on Redwood Road in Oakland. From I-580 westbound in Castro Valley, take the Castro Valley exit and turn left at Castro Valley Boulevard. At Redwood Road, turn right. (From I-580 eastbound, take the Redwood Road exit and turn left at Redwood.) After about two miles on Redwood you will first come to Proctor Staging Area, then Redwood Canyon Public Golf Course (formerly Willow Park), both on the left. Another few miles will bring you to Marciel Gate at Marciel Road. This is a hiking and equestrian staging area, and Marciel Road leads to a group camping area, the marksmanship range, and the Chabot Family Campground, which is also the home of evening campfire programs held in the summer; non-campers are welcome. Farther along Redwood Road you will find Bort Meadow Staging Area and group camp. After another few miles you will reach Redwood Regional Park's Redwood Gate on the right, just past Pinehurst Road. Anthony Chabot's MacDonald and Big Bear Staging Areas are farther along Redwood Road on the left. Finally, the Skyline Ranch Equestrian Facility (510-336-0850) will be on the left just before Redwood's intersection with Skyline Boulevard in Oakland.
To reach Clyde Woolridge staging area, take Hwy 24 west to Oakland. Take Hwy 13 South to Hayward. Merge onto Hwy 580 east. Take the Keller Ave exit towards Mountain Blvd. Turn left on Keller Ave, then right on Skyline Blvd. The staging area is on the left near the intersection of Skyline Blvd and Grass Valley Road.
Trail access to Anthony Chabot is also possible via hiking trails originating on the northeast side of Lake Chabot Marina area. In Castro Valley on I-580 westbound, take the Strobridge Avenue exit. Turn right on Strobridge, right on Castro Valley Boulevard, and left on Lake Chabot Road. The Lake Chabot Marina is about two miles ahead on the right. In Castro Valley on I-580 eastbound, exit at Redwood Road and go left, go left at Castro Valley Boulevard, right at Lake Chabot Road, and follow the directions above. From I-580 in San Leandro, exit at Fairmont Drive and go east (uphill). The Lake entrance will be to the left at the bottom of the hill. (parking fee).
To reach the Chabot Equestrian Center (510-569-4428), take the Keller Avenue exit off I-580 in Oakland and proceed uphill. Turn left at Skyline Boulevard. The equestrian facility will be just ahead on the right.
Click here for public transit information.
Transit & Trails: Anthony Chabot Regional Park (transit, biking, and walking directions)
Trail Map
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Directions for navigating the enlarged map:
When the 'Actual Size' map is viewable, you can 'Click-Hold and Drag' the mouse button (left on a PC) to reposition the map, as desired.
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The mysterious world of the deep sea is revealed to the public in an exhibition at the Hong Kong Science Museum from tomorrow (July 11) until November 12.
"The Deep", featuring videos and more than 30 specimens and 60 photos, many of which were taken for the first time, depicts the various unfamiliar and fragile ecosystems existing in the realm.
Jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau, the exhibition is organised by the Hong Kong Science Museum and funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in collaboration with the Paris Natural History Museum. This is also an event of Le French May.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the exhibition today (July 10), the Director of Leisure and Cultural Services, Mr Thomas Chow, said exploitation of ocean resources was rapidly destroying the environment. The population of many marine species had declined by 90% in the past decades and some were on the verge of extinction.
Mr Chow said, "To recognise, understand and learn how to conserve the oceans has become one of the pressing tasks in the world today. An effective way to promote public awareness of the issues concerned is to let them realise that the oceans are also home to a great diversity of life that we should respect.
"Combining the latest scientific research with amazing imagery, the exhibition allows visitors to peer into an abyss teeming with life that, while only a few thousand metres away, seems to be from an entirely different universe. We hope that, after touring the exhibition, the public will gain an appreciation not only of the stark beauty of the deep ocean, but also of the importance of preserving it for our future generations," Mr Chow said.
Oceans cover over 70% of the Earth's surface in which the deep sea occupies 85% of that space. In 1848, British naturalist Edward Forbes claimed that beyond 600 metres, the deep sea was lifeless. Explorers and scientists have spent the last 160 years proving him wrong. They found out that hidden away in the depths, an amazing menagerie of alien creatures lives their lives in silence, far from the light of the surface. In a world where gravity counts for little, life has colonised every vertical dimension. Many have strange shapes to survive in the high-pressure, pitch-dark and relentlessly cold environment by possessing bizarre anatomies.
At the ocean surface, where the sunlight penetrates, photosynthesis is possible. Plankton thrives here, so food is plentiful, making this zone the most crowded layer in the ocean.
Light levels rapidly decrease in the ocean, but scientists revealed the existence of a staggering profusion of organisms in the midwater, in particular gelatinous creatures, sometimes gigantic in size, which form the most abundant animal mass on Earth. At 150 metres below the surface, 99% of light has already been absorbed by seawater. Living creatures use two strategies to avoid being seen in this highly dangerous zone. Transparency is the best choice to blend in with the environment and the second solution is creating one's own light to counterbalance the opacity of tissue, or a silvery reflective coating.
Between 150 and 600 metres below the surface, most creatures are transparent. However, descending below 600 meters, there will be new groups of animals, whose colours range from bright red to dark brown. Such pigments absorb the blue-green bioluminescence that most animals create at these depths, cloaking any bioluminescent sparks their prey might emit once in their stomachs.
Below 1,000 metre, scarcely a photon of solar origin penetrates. In this "aphotic" zone total darkness reigns supreme. The creatures which live in low densities in this dark kingdom have had to develop remarkable adaptations to survive in such a hostile environment. Their first challenge is to locate food, their second is to ensure that any available food is caught. But that is not all. There is also a need to find a mate – not an easy task in the vast darkness of the deep ocean. All of these challenges must be accomplished whilst avoiding the attention a myriad of predators lying in wait.
"The Deep" invites you to discover this true "final frontier" of the planet. With the use of special lighting effect, the exhibition creates a sense of immersion in the strange, fragile world of the Earth's deep oceans, leading visitors into a world that is out of their imagination.
The Science Museum is located at 2 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East. It opens from 1pm to 9pm from Mondays to Wednesdays and on Fridays, and from 10am to 9pm on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. It is closed on Thursdays (except public holidays). Admission is $25 with half-price concession for full-time students, people with disabilities and senior citizens aged 60 or above. Admission is free on Wednesdays.
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Every once in a while, when anti-immigrant sentiment is running high, Congress will revive the "English-only" debate, which was last a topic of national conversation during the 2006-2007 push for immigration reform. But the most recent attempt to make English the official language of the United States came out of the blue, the day before Congress's August recess. Led by Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on an English-only bill that would require all federal government communications—including voting materials—to be printed in English. The proposal would nullify a Clinton-era law requiring that federal agencies provide interpreters for non-English speakers for certain activities. In protest, Representative John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, voiced his opposition in Spanish: "Hoy en día, los inmigrantes de Asia o América Latina son los objetivos de la demonización y la discriminación. Un día, nuestro país mirará hacia atrás a este período con vergüenza y arrepentimiento." ("Today, Asian or Latin-American immigrants are the objects of demonization and discrimination. One day, our country will look back on this period with regret and embarrassment.")
Given the gridlock in Congress and the timing of the debate, this bill has little chance of passing—if legislators can't get it together to help the economy, the specter of Spanish on posters at the DMV isn't likely to spur them to action. But it betrays a fear that manifests itself repeatedly, albeit in different ways.
The first thing to understand about the "English-only" idea is that it's only incidentally about language. King, the bill's sponsor, hinted as much in explaining its rationale to The Huffington Post: "The argument that diversity is our strength has really never been backed up by logic … It's unity is where our strength is. Our Founding Fathers understood that. Modern-day multiculturalists are defying that."
The right-winger from Iowa is talking about more than having your driver's license printed in English. He's making a larger argument about the logic of national unity, which in his telling is undermined by "diversity" and "multiculturalism." Differences, he claims, divide and weaken the country. In this case, the threat is the Spanish language and the Latin American immigrants who speak it. But in others, the thing that divides us is religion: Oklahoma passed a ban on Sharia law in 2009, and Tennessee is poised to follow suit. Of course, which differences count is a matter of identity politics—no one ever says that Southern accents undermine national unity.
The curious thing about laws that try to enforce what it means to be American—what "unites" us—is that they tend to be most popular in the places least under "threat." King's district—Iowa's most conservative—is 95 percent white. Among Kansas' 2.5 million residents, only 6,000 practice Islam. Passing an English-only law in a place where hardly anyone speaks anything else, or a Sharia ban in a state with few Muslims, has little practical effect for the majority of people (though it has a profound effect on the small minorities these laws target). The real purpose is to assuage anxiety among the dominant group about losing its power.
This fear is not entirely irrational, but the "takeover" isn't quite what King and other nativists imagine. It will not be the case that Americans like King will be crowded out and marginalized by an indistinguishable mass of Spanish speakers. There is a lot of talk about the need for immigrants to assimilate, but in reality, assimilation is a two-way street. In places with a high percentage of immigrants like New York City, immigrants do have to assimilate, but the city also changes with them. That's why the huge St. Patrick's Day parade is viewed as a a quintessential New York tradition—one that honors part of the city's ethnic history—rather than an attempt to subvert New Yorkers' sense of identity. The story is similar in my hometown on the U.S.-Mexico border, which is 97 percent Hispanic. People have not stopped thinking of themselves as American simply because a large number of people happen to speak Spanish as well as English.
At heart, things like English-only laws and Sharia bans reflect a basic dispute over what holds the country together. On one hand, you have people like King who think we must share a core identity; we need to be a "Christian nation," an "English-speaking nation," or a white nation for the whole thing to keep from falling apart. Thankfully, King and his supporters are in the minority. For most of us, the common ideals of mutual respect and equality are enough.
Sat, 2012-08-04 22:55
A Country without a core identity is a hollow shell, and easily crushed
It is one thing for immigrants to bring the positives of their former lives with them - their foods, life affirmations, integrated (non easily translatable) bits of language, energy, and positive habits.
It's another thing when they want the failed political systems, that they left, to be OUR norm. Or when it is insisted that WE accommodate THEIR non-integration (see bi-lingualism). Or when criminal elements are imported.
Our Society has been described as a melting pot, all a part of the greater; and also as a salad, with distinct pieces/ sections. Actually, it's more akin to chunky dressing, with partial melding, and partial integration, but without excesses. We handily and gladly accept Jewish words, Mexican music, Greek foods, and the Protestant work ethic. But most of the unacceptable crap is little more than tribalism, and need not be accommodated, like islamic sharia, Sicilian vendettas, and African corruption.
Does Spanish scare me? Emphaticly, No! What does grate on my nerves is being told I can no longer enter sectors of the city or Country because it is deemed to belong to other, non-Americans.
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Vasundhara Raje Scindia
|Vasundhara Raje
|22nd & 24th Chief Minister of Rajasthan
|Assumed office
13 December 2013
|Preceded by
|Ashok Gehlot
|In office
9 December 2003 – 10 December 2008
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Vasundhara Raje Scindia (born 8 March 1953), commonly referred to as Vasundhara Raje is an Indian politician who has been Chief Minister of Rajasthan since 2013; previously she served in the same post from 2003 to 2008. She is the first female Chief Minister of Rajasthan..
Early life[edit]
Vasundhara Raje was born on 8 March 1953 in Mumbai. She is daughter of Vijayaraje Scindia and Jivajirao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior, members of the prominent Scindia royal Maratha family.[1] She completed her school education from Presentation Convent, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, and later graduated with Economics and Political Science degrees (Hons.) from Sophia College, affiliated to Mumbai University, Mumbai.
Personal life[edit]
Vasundhara Raje married Hemant Singh, of the ex-royal Dholpur family, on 17 November 1972, but the couple separated a year later.[2] Her son Dushyant Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha from her former constituency, Jhalawar.[3]
Her siblings are Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Industries Minister of Madhya Pradesh, the late Madhavrao Scindia, the late Padmavati Raje 'Akkasaheb' Burman (1942–64), who wed Kirit Deb Burman, last ruling Maharaja of Tripura, and Usha Raje Rana (b. 1943) who married into the Rana family of Nepal.
Posts held[edit]
Membership of Legislative Assembly[edit]
- 1985-90 Member, 8th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Dholpur
- 2003-08 Member, 12th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Jhalrapatan
- 2008-13, 13th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Jhalrapatan
- 2013 onwards Member 14th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Jhalrapatan
Membership of Parliament[edit]
- 1989-91 : Member, 9th Lok Sabha
- 1991-96 : Member, 10th Lok Sabha
- 1996-98 : Member, 11th Lok Sabha
- 1998-99 : Member, 12th Lok Sabha
- 1999-03 : Member, 13th Lok Sabha
Positions held[edit]
- 1985-87 : Vice-President, Yuva Morcha BJP, Rajast
- 1987 : Vice-President, BJP, Rajasthan
- 1990-91 : Member, Library Committee, Member, Consultative Committee, Ministries of Commerce and Tourism
- 1991-96 : Member, Consultative Committees, Ministries of Power, Science and Technology, Environment and Tourism1996-97 Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests, Member, Consultative Committees, Ministries of Power, Science and Technology and Tourism
- 1997-1998 : Joint Secretary, BJP Parliamentary Party
- 1998-99 : Union Minister of State, External Affairs
- 13 October 1999 - 31 Aug.. 2001: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Small Scale Industries and Agro & Rural Industries; Department of Personnel and Training; Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space
- 1 September 2001 – 1 November 2001: Union Minister of State, Small Scale Industries; Personnel, Training, Pensions, Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space (Independent Charge) 2 November 2001-
- 29 January 2003 – 8 December 2003: Union Minister of State, Small Scale Industries; Personnel, Training, Pensions, Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances; Planning; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space (Independent Charge) 14 November 2002 -
- 14 December 2003 - Present: President, BJP, Rajasthan
- 8 December 2003 – 8 December 2008: Chief Minister, Rajasthan
- 2 January 2009 – 8 December 2013: Leader of Opposition, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 8 December 2013 - Present: Chief Minister, Rajasthan
See also[edit]
- ^ "Profile on Rajasthan Assembly website". Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Secretariat, Jaipur (Rajasthan) INDIA. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
- ^ "Vasundhara Raje: A comeback politician who is also a fashion symbol". Economic Times. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
- ^ "Fifteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile". Lok Sabha Secretariat. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
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Using IMGBurn to Burn Perfect ISOs
In this blog I am going to show you how to use IMGBurn a free tool that allows you to grab an ISO image and burn it and make it bootable. You can download IMGBurn Here: http://www.imgburn.com/
I use this program all the time for both burning ISO images and creating ISO images from other media. Let's go ahead and download the program and check it out.
Burning ISO to Disc:
If you want to write an ISO image to disc all you need to do is click Write Image file to disc, once you have done that you will get a screen like the one below:
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Here is a Serious Question which involves Kids exposed to Adult/Mature Content on the internet, and is this legal?
As we all know most Adult 18+ Websites, or most that i see have an 18+ Warning on them which explains the adult content and says if you are under the age of 18+ to leave, and redirects to google.com or something, and even registering with one of these sites you require to provide a Credit Card, Real Life Information at least your name, and such.
Linden Lab on the other hand does not, since Linden Lab merged the Teen Grid with the adult grid I noticed while playing Second Life a month or two ago they made a serious change which can effect everyone who plays this game.
You are no longer Required to provide any type of Real Life ID to age verify, this means that as Second Life has Adult 18+ Rated Areas your kids could be being exposed to adult, and mature conduct just by using this service, without any warning, now I agree that parents should watch their kids, and Teens should know better, but this isn't always the case.
So Linden Lab has changed the following.
1. You do not have to provide any RL information when you sign up for an account, not even your name.
2. You do not have to Put your Real Age, and you can still age verify without any ID.
3. You do not have to Register with any Real Email, they send no verification email, this means anyone can register an alternate account under your email address, this means someone could register under an email, and grief pretending to be the actual user, and Linden Lab could ban all accounts registered to that email account, usually temporary if you appeal it and contact them, but even they made the contacting process harder when you get banned to appeal it, or terminated, This can be abused by Griefers.
4. You can still register as many accounts as you want by using Proxies/VPN services, and an illegal cheat client to spoof your IP/Mac, and not get caught, so basically you can go crash 5 simulators in SL get banned, and they can't trace it back to your main account, although it is best to always swap your Router, or change your gateway/modem just incase, and route through two VPN/proxies to be extra safe when griefing.
What is Linden Lab doing, I honestly have no idea, I mean I have been a user of SL for 3 years now, a little more than that, been griefed by many residents, been harassed by the Owner of Gemin Industries, Skills Hak who was a creator of Emerald, accused of being a CopyBotter by him some of his friends, Harassed by Zfire Xue, and many other residents in some RP sims which were all breaking the SL Terms OF Service by stealing from our content developers in this game.
Linden Lab has just made it easier for Griefers & Trolls to grief in this game.
I Mean I myself have a lot of 16 year old friends in this game, but I also do adult RP sometimes, and now I can't know exactly who is actually an adult, and I don't want to be caught by Chris Hansen doing something illegal, nor will I be held responsible for such as it is Linden Lab's fault for this.
I also Called Linden Lab and confirmed they require NO Real Life ID to Age Verify, it was a change, not a bug, or exploit so they told me.
I am quite sure this has been abused many times already, and the only way for a fix is if Linden Lab revokes all Age Verification from Second Life prior to this change they made with age verification, and requires RL ID to age verify.
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This is pretty gross if you've ever "played" SL and SEEN some of the stuff in the adult areas. I mean....I'm talking seriously gross, like.....with humans and horses and shit. And I'm not even going to say the WORST thing I've seen. And you can run across this stuff just by...LITERALLY....exploring the travel links on the map. Just a mis-click and a kid could be seeing something that THIS adult wishes she could erase from her memory. MY fault entirely. However, some people just won't be responsible for their kids. I think Linden Labs needs to......welll......They need to do SOMETHING.
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You're the first long time resident that I've heard refer to SL as a game. I guess it's changed a lot since I was last online two years ago ... except for the griefers.
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Originally posted by Unlight
It's not a game. It's a glorified porn chat. Just my opinion. Either way....it's no place for kids.
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you probably should not of brought this info to bare/viewpoint etc.. it was all over 4chan, expect sh** to get a ton worse now lol..
oh and make sure you got good legal help hehe..
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Originally posted by just1opinion
It is what you make of it. It just happens that many want it to indulge in fantasies that might not be possible in RL. Chalk it up to the bullshit sexually repressed societies and/or crappy relationships that many find themselves stuck in. Besides, when I was there last, there were far, far more PG places to visit than R-rated. I'm always amazed that people find it so difficult to find them.
And yeah, it was never a place for kids -- with or without the adult content.
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What was the old way of ID people for age? Did it work or could anyone just punch in a date? This reminds me of the McD thing where parents complained about McD putting toys into happymeals that made their kids fat and out of control. Really, got a problem with what your kids see's on the internet...DONT LET THEM US IT. What happen to trust between kids and parents? The old days Ma and Pa left alcohol in the fridge, car keys were tossed on the table and when we said we were going to Lil' joies house..back at 10, we were back.
The problem is parents, catch kids onsite where they are not suppose to be...take away the PC until they can learn.
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hatred enriches.life is a prison, death a release.
frankly if you ask me... programs like SL, habo hotel or that junk imvu.. should not allow anyone under the age of 16 to use them (16 is legal consenting age here soo im using that as a base suggested age)
cause frankly all those great 3d chat programs that everyone treats like its all the rage... is nothing more then a glorified over priced 3d smut program...
i cant even count how many people you run in to on programs like imvu that use it solely as a cybersex chat-athon... doesnt matter if you are 10yrs old or 70yrs old they will cyber you.. and best part is.. you can set any age you want.. there is no age requirement to sign up or proof of age unless you buy imvu's 20usd Adult pass program (like you really need it to "fool" around..... >>")
so ya im not shocked by this... SL is just following the trend of 3d chat programs that are turning to sex as a money making system... we all know clean chatting is limited to the check out line at a super market...
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In the past, to age verify, you had to enter a drivers license, your social security number, passport information, or credit card information. The choice was yours based on what you had. It was fairly full-proof minus identity theft which goes beyond this game.
Most just used their credit information cause they were buying Linden money anyway so it was working as intended. A few slipped through with mommy's credit card but thats a parental fail, not a fault of the game.
These changes are disturbing to say the least...
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Originally posted by Achillez
Surely you jest, if by "full-proff" you mean fool-proof, I have to disagree with you. How hard is it for a teenage undrage to get mommies or dadies info? Parents supply kids with Credit Card info. all the time for other games not to mention if the kid wants do get on she will simple...procure whatever info. is needed. If a company wants to have a game for mature crowd then it is up to the parents to assure the kid does not use the $1000,00 PC for such use.
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Originally posted by seabeast
Pretty sure I covered your response in my answer. Kids getting a hold of their parents information is the parents problem, not the games or companies.
Frankly, the only real answer to anything regarding a game of this kind is parental supervision, period. Parents not paying attention to what their kids are doing will be the only reason their kids see any of the "bad" things any of the games of this sort have in them.
Besides, once a kid hits around 13 anyway, there is nothing in any game they won't have already at least heard about in a public school or at a friends house... lol
Still don't agree with LL's decision to make things even easier to gain access and grief the piss out of people. Its already bad enough... they just seem to be making more work for themselves with these, imo.
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Second Life is pretty much the virtual version of the internet. When everyone is in control of the world with no limits, you're going to end up with a lot of sex. Just like when america first started, whore houses were everywhere. ITs not new, we're just more aware of it now.
I agree that "regular" SL is no place for kids, but LL took steps to keep them from adult content, which probably cut really deep into their profits as well as many many many adult and even risque vendor profits. Because a lot of people (adults) will probably never bother giving out their info to access adult content. But the children (who are usually snot nosed perverts anyway) are too important, right?


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By Gary Bogue
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 5:25 am in Alaska, Governor Palin, Hunting, Wolves.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft.
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