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Astro Flare - Rampage
29 reviews
By installing you agree to the Terms of Use and other terms
PublisherDigital Marsh
Download size43 MB
Last updated11/6/2012
Works with
- Windows Phone 8.1
- Windows Phone 8
- Windows Phone 7.5
App requires
- phone identity
- owner identity
- photo, music, and video libraries
- data services
- phone dialer
- movement and directional sensor
- web browser component
- HD720P (720x1280)
- WVGA (480x800)
- WXGA (768x1280)
Supported languages (1)
English (United States)
Astro Flare is an exhilarating and action packed rampage space shooter. The goal is to survive for as long as you can while you build up amazing scores! Collect powerups such as extra bullets, laser defence charges, homing missiles and charge up your ship's active ability by performing killstreaks while you lay waste to your enemies! Unlock different ships each with their own unique passive and active ability and fit them out with upgrades to take into battle. Control your ship either by using motion/tilt or you can pick from a selection of different virtual thumbstick configurations. With 6 game modes to choose from: Rampage: Fight waves of enemies with ever increasing difficulty. Rampage – Timed: 5 minute timer. Alter Ego: Battle an AI controlled clone of your ship who will fight you as well as collect/steal powerups and kill enemies for score. Alter Ego – Timed: 5 minute timer. Time Bandit: Start with a 60sec countdown. Collect time powerups that will briefly slow time around you as well as increase your countdown timer. Extermination: Pit yourself against a horde of alien space bugs that break down and split into additional enemies when killed. Online leaderboards and local top scores. If you like the game please don't forget to rate it :) Any bug reports or gameplay feedback are welcomed and can be emailed to: firstname.lastname@example.com
8/6/2014This game is fun to play when you wanna kill some time
6/5/2014Pretty good for a wp8 game. A keeper
6/1/2014Out of control am too op 😈
5/26/2014Awesome finally a great game for my phone
1/31/2014I love this mini version space shooter.😊
1/12/2014Found this when I searched geomtry wars...the best decision I've ever made to download this
1/10/2014Best space combat game out there
12/8/2013Awesome game! Definitely the best game I have found so far!

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Hey everyone,
Im new to surf fishing and im starting to really get into it and plan on doing alot of fishing on the delaware shore (Bethany, Dewey, Rohoboth area). I was just wondering if anyone had any words of wisdom or pertinent advice that they wish someone gave them early in the game?
- Matt M.


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"Wflatiya-Whatiya" Paper collage, inlay to linoleum tile.2012, produced by Tom Hebert, visual art lecturer, has been on display as part of the "Digital Ground" exhibition at the John Slade Ely House in New Haven; the exhibit runs through Jan. 20.
"Digital Ground" is an exhibition that explores the potential of combining digitally produced material in conjunction with traditional art practices such as drawing, painting and photography. Use of recycled or repurposed materials as well as firsthand production is included in the artists' creative processes. Works as varied as Paulette Rosen's scanned and drawn upon images of birds to Catalina Barroso Luque's projected photo collage installation to Paul Theriault's looping digital video works offer a survey of the ways artists are incorporating new technology into their art practices.
Another Hebert work is titled, "Trashing Skies." "My intent was not to make a social statement, but to produce objects of art that are concerned with construction and all the elements involved. The work involved photographing common household objects, evolved into printmaking and collage, and ended up with linoleum tile construction. The result is a series of images that appear to be floating in a night sky. While it was not my intention to make a statement about pollution: it is a fact that we are indeed "trashing" the skies, oceans and environment in general. If the work raises this awareness, it is a positive, serendipitous outcome."


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Entries from February 26, 2003- May 26, 2003 can be found here
February 18, 2003 (Tuesday) 2:50 P.M. CT.
Anyone see these crappy T-Mobile commercials with the whiny ass Catherine Zeta Jones (she says this UK magazine ruined her wedding because they invaded her and her weirdo old man husband's privacy, yet they had contracts with another newspaper to sell the photos?) Anyhow...she's on these T-Mobile commercials and some guy is singing that Def Leppard song, and he thinks instead of "pour some sugar on me," it's "pour some shook up ramen" or something like that...so, Catherine says a quick call to the library might help. Okay, first off- how on earth does this make me want to buy a T-Mobile phone? Secondly, if you can't tell they're saying "pour some sugar on me," you're too stupid to have a cellular phone in the first place! Heck, you're too stupid to drive the car you use the cell phone in if you can't hear that!
Next...I saw some report on 20/20 about how people are so obsessed with diamonds, and most people think they're rare, yet debeers, the south african based diamond company has large quantities of dimaonds in bank vaults around the globe, making diamond prices surge. They talked about how people have been fooled into thinking diamonds are rare due in large part to debeers marketing campaign that goes all the way back to the mid 1970's. They went to the mall with two rings...one was worth a dollar and the other was worth $10, 000. No one could guess which one was which...and the women said that even tho they were identical, they wouldn't want the fake one. Again, goes to show you how women think. No offense to you ladies, but come on- the whole diamond thing is stupid to begin with, and when you have all these women saying they would never have the fake diamond that they can't even distinguish from the real one, it adds another layer of stupidity.
Someone sent me E- Mail saying I was an idiot and that I needed to work on my grammar. Funny thing is, anyone knows the last thing that is lacking here is grammar skills. Another person sent me a picture they took of my site with a penis drawn on the side, and it was peeing on my head. No message with the photo...creepy, creepy people with way too much time and boredom!
February 18, 2003 (Tuesday) 12:50 P.M. CT.
I forgot to mention. I updated the layout of the Home Movies Page. I like it. I want to add a bunch of content now, so I can have the best Home Movies Page on the web! I'm so nifty, I know.
February 18, 2003 (Tuesday) 12:35 P.M. CT.
I see that they are searching Scott Petersen's house today. They served him with a search warrant, and the reports say the police have new leads. Hopefully that's true, so we can put Scott in prison and get it over with. I think it's funny how the lady Scott had an affair with says she never knew he was married. You're telling me she dated a guy and never realized he was married? She didn't find it odd that she couldn't call her boyfriend, that he couldn't see her certain days of the week, certain times of day, all of the stuff that had to be taking place with a married man hiding his affair? She's full of it, I can say that with all certainty. She's just as bad as he is if you ask me.
By the way...I saw the very last part of that gay Joe Millionaire show. Fox claimed we would all be shocked by a second twist to the finale...yet, all they did was give him a million dollars. Wow! What a shock...I could have NEVER guessed that was coming! Golly!! They touted such a crappy program way too much. I was watching the real world/ road rules challenge show last night- it's nearly as lame, but seeing these adults act like children is funny. I mean, come on people, it's a game! You really got to see how terrible women can be...the guys kick off the last place guy in points...the girls kicked off the girl who was 4th from last...they left the last place girl, and the girl before her who has a sprained ankle, and a bad attitude if you ask me, yet they booted of Rachel because they don't like her. That Ellen girl is a whiny ass bitch. Funny how she started crying after everyone started yelling at her and the others...she was saying that she feel as tho she got played, then tried to turn it around on the Emily girl, and say it was her fault. Hey, Ellen, you're an ass. I've seen grade school kids act more mature.
Nice- they just reported that Scott was taken to the police station, and he's been there for 3 hours. Good. Hey buddy, you can't usually get away with murder! Ha. Oh, by the way- I like Judge Napolitano (I think that's how you spell it?) He's on Fox News as a legal contributor, and he used to be on that cool court show, Power of Attorney. That was a great show, but it showed you how crappy some of the big name lawyers are (Jeffrey Feiger is a terrible lawyer!)
February 17, 2003 (Monday) 12:54 P.M. CT.
I forgot to mention Haloscan comments haven't worked for the past few days. I'm going to try to install these other comments that I can host myself. I also had to mention that Dr. Pepper Red Fusion isn't too bad. The Super K- Mart is closing here, and they didn't have anything but Red Fusion and that nasty Mt. Dew Code Red stuff, which I cannot stand.
February 17, 2003 (Monday) 12:04 P.M. CT.
I'm supposed to watch ABC Family tonight from 6:30-10:00 to finish the second part of a survey for a panel I'm on. I have joined a million survey sites where you do surveys online, on paper, and a couple of times they even called me. Most of the sites, you just get points you can redeem for stuff or prize entries...but, some of the sites pay you for each survey, or pay you for certain surveys. I should be getting $30 any day for a soft drink survey I did. One time, they sent me a new product (some air freshener can) that we tested before they released the product for sale. Then, a few other times I got amazon.com gift certificates. Anyhow, like I said, I have to watch ABC Family tonight...I just looked, and the following shows are on: Bachelorette, My Life is a Sitcom, Last Resort, Bachelorette (again?!), and two episodes of Who's Line is it Anyway. Guess what show I will NOT be watching? The Bachelorette, yes indeed, I will be skipping that garbage. The next two shows I have never seen, but it's only an hour total, and Who's Line Is It is a great show, tho I don't regularly watch it- I do watch the british version on Comedy Central a lot.
I saw an article in Parade yesterday about the world's ten worst living dictators. I will probably post about it later. 21 people died in a "stampede" at some Chicago nightclub? Umm, okay? Can someone say retarded? How on earth does that happen? I have no idea. It's all snowy here. Fun. I haven't been out in it, so I don't mind. Just as long as the electricity doesn't suddenly go out for no reason. I need to add Michelle Malkin to the beautiful women page. And...I have two more movie reviews to add later today.
Finally- everyone should download the song "Mayor Of Simpleton" by XTC. It's 80's music...I like it a lot. That and "Wot's It To Ya" by Robbie Nevil.
February 14, 2003 (Friday) 9:14 A.M. CT.
Yet MORE evidence on Iraq and its lies.
Now...please, please, please- look at all of this new evidence and the past evidence and TRY to tell me "let the inspections work." You can't? Didn't think so. Guess what? If you don't think military action is the right way to go- you're part of a 13% minority in the U.S. Thank God there aren't many of you out there! We'd all be dead if we had to wait till you guys got on board!
February 13, 2003 (Thursday) 6:05 A.M. CT.
Brian on Fox and Friends was shooting an M4, which they said was somewhat like an M16. A modified version or something? Who knows. Anyhow, the army guy was telling Brian about how they would set his zero on the rifle, and it would hit the mark everytime. I just thought it was cool, because I know a little about zero (which has to do with the rifle and the sight) from the set of computer games, Swat and from the book Cold Zero by, oh what's his name...Christopher something. I'll look it up in a bit. I read that book, and I was all thinking- it'd be cool to be a sniper for the FBI. Don't ask me why I think that. I'm a wuss, I don't like to get all dirty and stuff- and in that book, the guy talks about how you have to lie in one position for days sometimes...covered with mud and brush, soaking wet- sounds like hell to me! Still, sounds cool anyhow.
Oh, Sean Penn is suing some producer for $10 million, because he says the Bing guy won't hire him, because he went to Iraq (Penn is a clueless fool who was completely used by the Iraqi government.) More Hollywood idiots are speaking out too, saying Iraq is not a threat to anyone...and Tariq Aziz (who claims to be a Christian! LOL!) said President Bush is just like Hitler. So, so funny.
Alright. Well, I have to drive someone somewhere now.
February 12, 2003 (Wednesday) 9:25 A.M. CT.
MTV: Ja Rule (nice name) talks about how his girl wants him to be less "street." Trashy skanks sit on a bed and one girl yells out "fellatio," then something about so and so letters, "69 points!" Ashanti walks out in leather with her tits hanging out. This is what is sold to our children in 2003. Don't forget, these people belong to a group who calls themselves "Murder Inc." Want to see more of the trash that is peddled to kids?
Click here for more scumbag lyrics from Ja Rule
This guy and people like him make me sick, and hopefully, people will wise up and stop making these scumbags rich off their trash.
February 12, 2003 (Wednesday) 9:25 A.M. CT.
First off today. Well, this morning, I should say, since I will probably post again. Like all my commas? I do. Danny Glover calls President Bush a racist, because he was governor of Texas, and Texas put to death more people than in any other state. Glover is clearly an idiot, because he seems to think Bush was not only the governor, but also the the police, the judge, the attorneys, the jury, plus all of these people again in the many appeals you get on death row. Maybe Glover really thinks the governor takes on all those roles? I personally think we should make murderers and rapists work all their lives. Hard labor with very little food and no leisure time. But- that doesn't make Bush a bad man...it surely doesn't make him a racist. Tip to those in Hollywood- keep your ignorant mouths shut. I will no longer see any movie starring Danny Glover (good luck finding a movie starring Danny Glover in the first place!), and I won't see a movie with George Clooney, since the stuff with him and the charities and Bill O'Reilly (Bill was right, George was wrong, yet he continues to criticize.) These guys and gals should stick to what they do- acting and stuff.
Saturday on Comedy Central, there's a marathon of all 8 episodes of That's My Bush, in case anyone actually liked that awful show. I watched some of the episodes when it was on, and wow- what crap. I wonder when the Bill O'Reilly Biography comes on again. I should look.
Is a bowl of rice chex with bananas and 4 pieces of toast a lot of food?
February 11, 2003 (Tuesday) 8:45 A.M. CT.
I just saw a CBS report by Harry Smith on the Early Show about Iraq. The people are starving (because of Saddam), people are dying (because of Saddam), there is not enough money to buy food...and there's very little food to buy, most people have to live off government rations of food (because of Saddam), and instead of using money for the people, two new huge mosques are being built (by Saddam- named after Saddam.) When will the anti-war people get a clue and see how many people will be better off when Saddam is taken out and is buried six feet under the ground? How can the anti-war people talk about how a war would kill people, yet Saddam has killed tens of thousands of his own people, maybe more. His policy of taking the money that is supposed to go to the people and spending it on himself is digusting. He has more riches than you could imagine, yet his people die. We could go in and change that, yet many countries are trying to block such efforts along with anti-war activists who are truly ignorant of the situation as a whole. They clearly cannot reason when it comes to the trouble in Iraq. They clearly cannot see that an Iraq without a murdering madman at the top would be a better place for all. They want to keep saying it's about oil (we could have massive oil deals with Iraq- we don't), they want to say it's about revenge (revenge for what?), they want to say it's not a good idea (so, letting so many die under Hussein is a good idea?) These people make no sense, and they can't seem to find any real reason not to take this guy out. Sure, there are a number of maniacs like Hussein that need to be stopped...but come on- one at a time. We will get to them. Stop your nonstop rhetoric and give in to a good idea. Or, we could do it your way and let even more innocent people die.
Raise your hand if you're tired of me talking about Iraq. Wait...I was kidding, I don't care what you think! Ha! Comedy!
February 11, 2003 (Tuesday) 7:50 A.M. CT.
See the Oscar nominations? You do realize this means the world is going to end soon, right? I mean...Chicago? The Lord of the Rings?! These were two of the best movies of the year? If that's the case, I think it's time to close Hollywood! Some other crap movies (Adaptation? The Hours?) getting lots of nominations. Why don't the NORMAL movies that people actually see get nominated? I don't get it. By the way, they're talking about the new Survivor- again, it's time to close Hollywood!
There was a funny thing with Kilmeade this morning on Fox and Friends. That guy is hilarious. We got to see his trip to Kuwait. He kissed the ground when he touched down in Kuwait. Nice.
February 10, 2003 (Monday) 8:00 P.M. CT.
I just saw Yanni on The O'Reilly Factor. I guess it's a slow newsday. He's cool tho, but there was really no clear reason why he was on the show. I need to see if the library has his book, Yanni In Words.
February 10, 2003 (Monday) 1:07 P.M. CT.
Has ANYONE done anything different since they raised the terror level to high or whatever it is? Does anyone even know all the levels? This alert system is pretty pointless if you ask me. A few colors on a bar, and when the level goes up, what are supposed to do? Be more vigilant, they say. Okay? And that means what? These tips they listed are silly too. Start an emergency pack with 3 days of food, flashlights, tape and plastic to cover windows and vents so chemical or biological weapons contents can't get into the house? Okay?!?! It's as tho the U.S. government never took any of this serious until September 11. Guess what? Millions of idiots worldwide hated us before that date, and they will hate us well into the future. Yet, everyone acts as tho everything is different. Like terrorism wasn't a risk before! Then, we have the government saying, go about your lives as normal, BUT- be ready, help us fight terror. Almost. There's very little the average person can do, and I think it's fair to say that most people don't even notice the so called terror level/alerts. Help the government fight terror- but, they have all this intelligence, we don't have a thing but scary alerts about "imminent" attacks.
Hear the news on the psycho Clara Harris trial? She clearly runs over her husband many times on the videotape, yet the victim's parents support her? Are they insane?! She ruthlessly murdered her husband by running him over in her Mercedes! I was watching MSNBC earlier and some lawyers were talking about they think she could get probation!! What has happened to our judicial system? It's almost as big of a joke as the UN is to international affairs!
Finally...I have lost all respect for the Dell guy (Steve- real name Ben.) He was arrested for possession of marijuana. I'm so not a fan anymore. Then again, the new Dell commercials with the stupid "interns" are some of the worst commercials ever made. They are not funny, they are not cute, they are terrible. Bring back Steve, but make sure he's pot free.
February 10, 2003 (Monday) 1:07 P.M. CT.
I was watching A Dating Story, and the people on it went to this restaurant called Pod in Philadelphia. They were seated in this silver pod thing that was mostly enclosed, with a doorway to get in and out, and an opening so you could see the other parts of the restaurant. Sort of like a big enclosed booth that wrapped around the table. They had weird drinks in cool glasses...bright blue and green and red colors...the drinks, not the glasses. Anyhow, I found these two pages that talk a bit more about the place.
Pod Page 1
Pod Page 2
The food looked nasty by the way...some sushi stuff and other asian foods. Pan Asian or something.
And, I'be mentioned this site before, but I will again. Urban Chillers. Great site with a bunch of short horror movies sent in by filmmakers and viewers of the site. They have a few really good movies.
February 10, 2003 (Monday) 11:45 A.M. CT.
Check out the nominees for the Raspberry Awards- the awards for the worst in film! So nice to see Crossroads with the talentless whore, Brit, has the most nominations, followed closely by the terrible series of films, Star Wars. Then again, I don't think anyone can convince Lucas that he truly has no talent and his movies downright suck. Plus- the hack, Jennifer Lopez is nominated for worst actress in two of her awful movies! How sweet...
February 10, 2003 (Monday) 7:52 A.M. CT.
I have added two new entries.
Also. Scary news- Iran (part of the "axis of evil") says they have found enough Uranium to enrich and use in a nuclear weapon.
Read the scary details of Micheal Jackson's abuse of children here.
And finally- everyone should check out online education (as well as free courses on a variety of subjects) at fathom.com
February 10, 2003 (Monday) 7:52 A.M. CT.
I think I mentioned this before...but, I will do it again. Only black people miss Aaliyah. Well, there are no white people in that 'I Miss You' video, so...
By the way- what is National Geographic thinking? They have been getting further and further away from geography (they rarely feature geographic stories anymore), and now they have a 'swimsuit' issue.
February 8, 2003 (Saturday) 11:35 A.M. CT.
Like I said before...what is wrong with people in Hollywood? These kids are gonna be SO well adjusted.
Pacino Fights for More Access to His Twins
The Godfather star Al Pacino is entering a bitter court battle with ex- girlfriend, actress Beverly D'Angelo, in New York over their two-year-old twins. Pacino is seeking an increase in visitation or custody with the children, Olivia Rose and Anton James, according to the limited Family Court information publicly available in the legal action, which was filed last week. The case was scheduled to come before a judge yesterday, but the matter was adjourned to February 24, according to showbiz website Page Six. D'Angelo conceived the twins through in vitro fertilization when she was 46 and Pacino was 60.
February 8, 2003 (Saturday) 8:10 A.M. CT.
The Tale of a Crazy Woman
Here is a post that insane girl posted on January 29, 2003- as you can see, the entire entry is addressed to me and our discussion on the topic of Iraq. Yes...she posts entire entries to me, and is constantly addressing me in her comments hosted at freelog, yet I'm "stalking" her. Hilarious!
By the way, you can find this post and all of her other posts at: http://users.mikrotec.com/nowindow/morganjane/
MJ's Post:
no war
Comments - Post a Comment Wed 1-29-03 1:59 pm
Josh is upset I am not responding to his every word... just this once... he thinks this war is all about facts.. 'they did this thus war' whatever... even if we had the right to go to war does that mean we should...
not gonna drop the bomb on iraq. get real." and they are not
going to on us, they don't have that capibility
"you're using the same tactics the idiot peace groups are using. distorting the facts. it's useless and stupid. you'll keep up the nonsense forever, because you hate bush- no other reason." Yeah, all of us peace supporters are just doing it because we hate bush, there is no other reason to not go to war.
"no one said they had nuclear weapons. they MIGHT be developing them still. they WERE, and we know that for a fact. hussein doesn't have to have nuclear weapons to be a threat to us or any number of our allies." Now you sound like bush and co., fact is there needs to be a clear and present danger to declare war and we are just trying to find a reason because bush has another agenda other than protecting america.
"you need to beef up on the subject of world politics. you keep acting like this is no problem at all. you're one of those people that will complain that we're not with the UN, yet the UN keeps backtracking and taking back its promises, tho you'll never speak of that issue. what we're not complying with? lol. i forgot we were under UN mandate to disarm. thank god we have weapons of mass destruction. if we didn't, do you realize the danger we would all be in?" I think Saddam comes out and waves his saber when america needs a good distraction, thank goodness we have weapons of mass destruction and shame on iraq for trying to protect themself.
"we don't gas our own people with chemical weapons...we don't use biological weapons on innocent people. iraq does- your attempt to compare the two shows your lack of knowledge on the issue as a whole." Sorry I forgot we are the good guy they are the bad guys ...lets kill them all because we have the right to.. they are doing something wrong and that gives us good guys the right to go to war, no matter how many innocents are lost.
"i'd really like to know HOW a possible war against iraq is for greed and vengeance. that's ridiculous." Greed - oil / vengeance - 9/11 or dessert storm
"as for that NOT being enough evidence for going to war. the UN ITSELF has said IT IS. 1441 allows for military action if there are any omissions or false statements by iraq." lets go to war because of false statements and ommisions... come on sounds like your alittle trigger happy?
"blix has said that they have indeed lied about a number of illegal weapons, and that they are not in full compliance with the resolution. you would refuse to accept a war plan no matter what hussein did. your nonstop attacks on bush are silly, and you have no real reason not to back action."
I don't see war as the answer to this, what happened to bin laden...wasn't he the terrorist we we after.. how long will we go to war with terrorism, will it be as unsuccessful as the war on drugs... violence begets violence
February 8, 2003 (Saturday) 8:00 A.M. CT.
Oh wow, people. We have total comedy here. Yes, this woman is indeed a few eggs shy of a dozen. I replied to her defamatory post, so you can read that as well. Tho, everything I said in the comment is common sense to the people here with, well- common sense. My favorite part is where she claims she cannot reply to any comments I make, as advised by her legal council. That's true comedy right there. Too bad it's legal "counsel." And to think, all I did was tell her how insane I think her left wing views are. Whew...funny stuff. Check it out when you get a chance.
Oh, by the way- check out the December Dumbass Page!
I watched Washington Journal on CSPAN yesterday with Rich Lowry (editor of National Review.) They took only callers opposed to Lowry's view (he is pro-war.) He knows his stuff. Well, I think so. I liked it. Thought I'd share.
February 6, 2003 (Thursday) 2:35 P.M. CT.
Hear about Russel Simmons and his proposed boycott of Pepsi for getting rid of Ludacris for their ad campaign? Pepsi fired Ludacris due to a number of complaints, and due to reports done by Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel. Simmons is upset that they are now using the Osbournes in their commercials, because he says they are just as bad with the explicit language and all. I don't agree. The Osbournes are trashy, no doubt, but Ludacris is on a totally different level if you ask me. Simmons, the ass that he is, is demanding that Pepsi pay $5 million to the Ludacris Foundation (whatever that is) and to publicly apologize. I say to Simmons- shut up, you fool. You're the one that peddles this garbage! You should be ashamed of yourself. Want to see the lyrics in question? CLICK HERE.
February 6, 2003 (Thursday) 11:25 A.M. CT.
Okay. Weird. The phone just rang, and I let the machine get it. Call me lazy. I knew it was a business or telemarketer or something. Anyhow...the machine picks up, and I hear some lady talking in spanish (I think?) and it sounded as tho she was having a conversation with someone...then, a man's voice gets on, and I hear more spanish. Like I said...weird. How do you suppose they were gonna say hi to me!? Forget that...the talking alone was odd. Lot of really fast spanish is unusual for me.
By the way. Anyone watch the official Iraq spokesman today? He replied to what Colin Powell told the security council yesterday. He claimed it was all lies (of course- Iraq always gets caught lying, then turns it around, and claims everyone is lying.) He took a "quote" from Blix and said that Blix said something that wasn't true. He then stated the "quote." then he said- well, it was something LIKE that, I do not know exactly what he said. Funny, huh? Iraq writes up an official response to what Powell said, yet they can't even get the exact quote from Blix, in which they claim he lied on them? How can ANYONE with a brain believe ANYTHING these monsters say?
Anyone see Syria's UN ambassador speak yesterday? You know he's full of crap, because he started talking about how Israel has the same weapons Iraq is accused of having (he neglects to mention Israel doesn't attack innocent people!) and that Israel is occupying the Palestinan's country. There is no country of Palestine. It's Israel. Once again- it's like Mexico demanding Texas and other areas they used to control back. It's like the spanish demanding control of south Florida...it's like Russia (the USSR) deciding they didn't want to sell Alaska, and they want it back. It's Israel. They control land they won in a war. The murdering Palestinans do not deserve a thing. I personally support any use of force that Israel must take to defend themselves from this group of maniacs. Do not let anyone deceive you- the Palestians, as a whole, are, indeed, maniacs with no right to any of that land. When the Syrian guy started talking about that, you knew he was talking nonsense altogether. Then again- it's Syria! You can hardly trust anything they say.
February 6, 2003 (Thursday) 10:25 A.M. CT.
I have said it before, I will say it again- NASA is, in general, a waste of money and a waste of time. We need to stop manned space flight, until we actually have a true goal. Reaching the moon was a good one, but now- we have nothing besides the pointless space station. No matter how small NASA's budget is, we could use the money for better projects.
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February 6, 2003 (Thursday) 8:45 A.M. CT.
Funniest thing I keep hearing in regards to the Iraq situation: We (Iraq) cannot allow U2 flights for inspectors, because we cannot assure the safety of the planes while jets are patrolling the no-fly zone. Okay...I guess the Iraqis think the UN jets patrolling the no-fly zone while shoot down the UN U2? That's odd. Now...to all of you staunch anti-war people, tell me HOW Iraq is cooperating. Please, give me some insight here. What? You can't? Didn't think so.
I just heard Blix say, again, that he thinks that the Iraqis are hiding material and still not cooperating...and that he doesn't think they will start doing so. Once again- how do inspections work when the Iraqis won't comply, hide materials, lie, withhold information, etc...when the head inspectors have lost all confidence. Once more- to the anti-war people. HOW do you supposed we make a regime change in Iraq (which is the only reasonable option at this point) without military action? Do you think Hussein will suddenly turn over a new leaf and leave power voluntarily? Do you think all his henchmen will suddenly do the same thing? No. Tell me what other option there is...and diplomacy has NOT worked. There is no option left besides a military one.
On a lighter note, I highly recommend the movie, The Tao of Steve. Plus, haloscan is still screwing up...comments are disappearing every now and then. If anyone knows any easy to use comments I can host myself (without needing PHP), e mail me...please!
February 5, 2003 (Wednesday) 2:15 P.M. CT.
Transcript of Powell's speech to UN today
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I the only one who is sick and tired of the commercials for the
NBC series American Dreams? They have the guy with the low
voice...sounding all serious...talking about how the next episode
is a must see...it will change your life, it will change the life
of the characters, it will change the world! Okay, it's not that
bad, but it's close. Don't miss the next all new American Dreams
where the girl's boyfriend breaks up with her and life changes
for everyone in the show...don't miss the most important episode
of the year. Hey- it's a tv show...get real. Is this show more
drama or comedy? Can they make up their mind. It's like the ads
for Boston Public- one week, we get comedy, the next we get
pretentious drama. Next Boston Public, the teacher will deal with
funny stuff- yet, the next week, it's- this week, the teacher
will deal with a school shooting, an affair with a teacher, a
death of a teacher, and a protest by the students. Get over it!
These shows think way too highly of themselves.
By the way...notes on Powell's speech later...not to mention the nonsense replies by Iraq. It was all lies, they claim. Shocking, huh? Who knew Iraq would claim it was all lies? Psh.
Haloscan isn't working today...I am going to try to install cgi comments on my site, so they won't be down ever.
February 2, 2003 (Sunday) 9:40 A.M. CT.
I was watching the special features on the Final Fantasy DVD I got from the library, and it kept skipping. I had the same problem with two other DVD's. I take the utmost care of all my DVD's- making sure not to touch the surface or drop them, or lay them down anywhere...but, it seems people who check stuff out that isn't theirs treat the discs horribly. I wonder how this will affect the library's ability to keep discs around that can actually be watched years after they purchase them. It's too bad people can't be more careful with them.
My back hurts. Who cares...raise your hand.
February 1, 2003 (Satuday) 9:35 A.M. CT.
Space shuttle Columbia explodes over Texas enroute for landing.
February 1, 2003 (Satuday) 8:00 A.M. CT.
Anyone watch that show Made on MTV? I'm surprised that a halfway decent show could ever air on that network full of drunk college kid programming, but that show is pretty good. Well, I won't be watching some girl try to become a model today, but the kid who wanted to make the varsity basketball team was cool. Nice to see how he and his private coach become pretty good friends at the end of it all. The kid had a really bad attitude towards authority and a terrible worth ethic to go along with that, but that eventually changed with the help of his coach and some internal struggle (atleast it seemed like some of that went on, but I can't see inside of him, so maybe I could always be wrong.) He made the team- sorry for ruining it for everybody! Like they would even air the show if he wasn't gonna make it...so I guess I didn't ruin anything. Pretty cool. I want a private coach dammit. Not for basketball tho.
Coming soon- the review for the movie, The Vanishing (the original), and I am going to add a review for Peeping Tom, which I forgot to add before.
By the way- I cannot believe they cancelled Queen's Supreme. It only aired 3 episodes. I have them all on tape, thankfully. Now, I need to work on getting the other Oliver Platt series on tape, Deadline. Oliver Platt is probably my favorite actor by the way. He was in a really good movie called The Infiltrator about a jewish journalist who infiltrates a group of nazis in Germany. Check it out if you get the chance.
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Historically, the NCA Reform Movement is a brainchild of the National Convention Planning Committee(NCPC) established in June 1996 by representatives of stakeholders in the Kenya Constitutional reform process in Kenya. The NCPC organized a national convention in April 1997 to formulate a people's driven road-map towards making a new democratic Kenyan Constitution.
The Convention brought together more than 600 delegates drawn from key sectors across the country including opposition parties, professional groups, the business community, farmers' groups, trade unions, National NGOs, CBOs, academics and Kenyans' in exile. It was from this Convention that the NCA reform Movement was formed and the attendant NCEC to implement the resolutions of the Convention. Since then the NCA/NCEC has developed a rich history and track record in advocacy building coalitions, conducting civic activism and putting the issues of constitutional reform and governance on the public agenda.
Akiba Uhaki, under its Leadership and Institutional Strengthening Program,funded a project by the NCEC to undertake a strategic planning process in order to consolidate its identity, profile and reposition its the Vision and mission.
The need for strategic planning process was in realisation of the fact that despite having been a backbone of the civil society and the democratic reform push in Kenya, the political landscape has changed particularly following the rejection of the proposed constitutional draft in the 2005 referendum and the post-election violence in 2008 and that financial and human resource constraints require a re-look at the movement and develop new, innovative ideas and strategies that can energize its operations in realising its mission and objectives and strategically place it in a better position to influence current national human rights and social justice issues.


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Because of the twitter that doesn't work in the morefoot area i had to put the designlayout in columns, but now it is hard to have the right space between the blocks on my homepage. The homepage is varies in different browser. On my Ipad on safari some stick the the block above, while in the Ipad chrome browser the look like I want them to look. Before with my boxes on the homepage the negative margins looks much better than now with the columns.
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Citizens in the West have little say on how most of their land is managed. Some western states are beginning to fight for custody.
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New Forest Service policy calls for more sustainability even for communities and recreation. Trying to make everything sustainable simply makes no sense.
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Federal Land management has largely led to poor stewardship. Permanenty funding the Land and Water Conservation Act to provide $900 miilion annually for more land purchases is a bad decison. The feds should focus on managing the 25 pecent of the US that they already own.
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Upon returning to her in the front room, ring in my breast pocket, I told her there was something I wanted to share with her. I sat her on the couch and told her there was a Bible verse I found that I wanted to share - Proverbs 18:22 - which says that a good wife is a gift from God. As I turned from her to grab the Bible to read from it, I took the ring out of my pocket and hid it in the palm of my hand.
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Teacher Amanda Fisher may have had 101 reasons to keep her hair but she had one very good reason to chop it off.
Fisher and two high school students, Tamieka Lawson and Kelsey Everett cut a total of 44 inches of hair on Feb. 21. The hair is going to Locks of Love to make wigs for children with cancer.
Fisher started a campaign a few weeks ago to get her students involved in raising money for cancer. She used social media and created YouTube videos of humourous reasons for her to keep her hair.
The ladies had their cuts in front of the student body in the middle of the Liverpool Regional High School lobby.
The haircuts were met with cheers and "aws" from spectators. Chris Hanley, a local stylist, did the hair cutting. The hair must be cut as a ponytail or braid to be donated, leaving each woman with a tiny ponytail left on the back of her head. Hanley however brought all three back to April's Studio for free haircuts to style their new dos.
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So our government (UK) are bringing in a new law which means you have to Opt-In to be able to access porn on the web. Is this the biggest single choice men have ever faced? Opt-In and forever be on a database of pervs or opt-out and lose all perving privileges.
On a more serious note, is this not a bit scary? If they censor the internet a little, it just makes it easier to censor the internet a lot more.


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Edward Rhodes's research investigates core questions of American foreign and national security policy and of international behavior. A principal focus of his work has been on the intellectual foundations of America's engagement with the world outside its borders, particularly on the effect of alternative understandings of liberalism, democracy, and republicanism in shaping American attitudes toward intervention and global involvement.
Prior to joining George Mason University, Ed was a member of the faculty of Rutgers University, serving as founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Global Security and Democracy and as Dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. From 2007 to 2009, he was a visiting professor at Princeton University, and has held research appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell Universities. As a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ed served in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Strategy and Concepts branch of the U.S. Navy Staff. From 2000 to 2001, he posted overseas as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Latvia. From 2003 to 2009, Ed served on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, the Congressionally-mandated body overseeing the preparation and release of the official record of American foreign policy.
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Virtualization News Archives
Virt Manager 1.0.1 Brings Minor Updates
The first point release to virt-manager 1.0 has been released this weekend.
23 March 2014 - virt-manager
GNOME Boxes Improves Virtualization, More Future Plans
One of the interesting but seldom talked about GNOME applications is GNOME Boxes for virtualization, but it did have an interesting 3.12 development cycle and there's more plans ahead for GNOME 3.14.
20 March 2014 - GNOME Boxes - 7 Comments
QEMU 2.0 Sees Its First Development Release
Anthony Liguori on the behalf of QEMU developers around the world has announced the first release candidate of the QEMU 2.0 major update.
14 March 2014 - QEMU 2.0-rc0 - 2 Comments
Xen 4.4 Release Brings Major Features
Xen 4.4 has made it out into the world today after being under development for the better part of the year and seeing more than one thousand changes.
10 March 2014 - Xen 4.4 - 4 Comments
QEMU 2.0 Is Piling On Many Features For Early April Debut
Version 2.0 of the widely-used QEMU emulator that's commonly used with open-source Linux virtualization setups will soon be released. In just over one month is the planned release of the very exciting QEMU 2.0.
26 February 2014 - QEMU - 1 Comment
LXC 1.0 Announced For Better Linux Containers
LXC 1.0 was announced a few days back as the latest work on Linux containers support.
24 February 2014 - LXC
Intel Makes XenGT For Mediated GPU Passthrough
Intel has announced an interesting project in the space of GPU virtualization and being able to share a graphics processor with a virtualization hypervisor while still achieving a level of shareability.
22 February 2014 - XenGT
Xen 4.4 Is On Approach With Many Features, 4.4-RC4 Is Out
Xen 4.4 is a major release of the open-source virtualization stack commonly used on Linux systems but has increasing support for BSD and other platforms. Xen 4.4 is bringing with it many new features and today 4.4-RC4 was released.
17 February 2014 - Xen 4.4
VMWare SVGA Mesa Driver Updates Come Forward
A set of 19 patches published a short time ago provide support for "guest back surfaces" within the VMware SVGA Gallium3D driver that is used by the company's virtual machine clients.
14 February 2014 - VMware
Linux Foundation Gets New KVM Virtualization Partners
The Linux Foundation is announcing new member companies today that will be coming together in support of the foundation's Open Virtualization Alliance for pushing KVM.
11 February 2014 - Linux Foundation
Xen Orchestra 3 Is Instrumenting Major Features
The crew behind Xen Orchestra have announced the release of XO 3 "Clarinet" as the latest work on their web GUI to the XenServer and XAPI.
7 February 2014 - Xen Orchestra 3 - 1 Comment
PowerPC KVM Improvements Coming To Linux 3.14
The latest pull request for the Linux 3.14 kernel merge window are a second serving of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes.
29 January 2014 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Xen PVH Is Landing For The Linux 3.14 Kernel
Kernel-side support for Xen PVH is landing with the Linux 3.14 kernel. The para-virtualized hardware extension support takes advantage of modern Intel and AMD CPUs.
22 January 2014 - Xen PVH - 1 Comment
ReactOS Wants To Bring Open-Source Windows To The Cloud
ReactOS, the open-source operating system that aims for Windows API compatibility with the Windows NT kernel and aims for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and programs, is now hoping to develop a commercial cloud distribution. While ReactOS hasn't gained much adoption and is still trailing in their Windows support, they are now looking to make Throium Core, an open-source Windows compatible operating system for the cloud.
22 January 2014 - ReactOS Thorium Core Cloud - 22 Comments
VMware Publishes Set Of 33 Major GPU DRM Patches
Earlier this week I shared VMware might have a big GPU driver update for the Linux 3.14 kernel and now in time they have successfully delivered. This new "vmwgfx" virtual GPU driver adapts to their new virtual GPU (SVGA2) hardware revision.
17 January 2014 - VMware Graphics
Linux 3.14 May Bring Big VMware GPU Driver Update
Thomas Hellstrom of VMware sent in their first pull request today of "vmwgfx" driver changes for the Linux 3.14 kernel, but it looks like the best is yet to come.
13 January 2014 - Device Update - 1 Comment
Xen 4.4 Will Be Riding High With New Features
Xen 4.4 is scheduled to be released one month from now and when the release happens of the popular industry-backed open-source virtualization hypervisor there will be a good deal of new features.
22 December 2013 - Xen 4.4
Xen PVH Support Brought Back Up For The Linux Kernel
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk at Oracle has re-posted the Xen PVH patches for the Linux kernel as he seeks to get support for para-virtualized hardware extensions into the Linux kernel.
13 December 2013 - Xen Para-Virtualized Hardware Extensions - 1 Comment
QEMU 1.7 Officially Released
As expected, the stable release of QEMU 1.7.0 has met the world.
28 November 2013 - QEMU 1.7.0
QEMU 2.0 Is Now Under Development
Yesterday I wrote about features coming to QEMU 1.7 for improving Linux virtualization and cloud computing. That release will happen any moment now (it was tagged this afternoon in Git), but now QEMU 2.0 is entering the developers' sight.
27 November 2013 - QEMU 2.0
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Letter from a Retreat
September 29, 2014 | by Amie Barrodale
How not to meditate.
Martin had a long pair of navy-blue socks that he wore when it was cold. He wore them in the morning before sunrise, and usually took them off before noon.
We were doing a silent, shamatha meditation retreat in the foothills of the Himalayas. The retreat was led by a stern Zen monk from Japan. We referred to him by his honorific, Venerable. Venerable was tall. It was hard to determine his age. He might have been fifty years old, at most. He wore aviator-style glasses. He had square front teeth. His eyes tilted a bit down at the outer corners, down toward his ears, giving him a sad, warm, sexual look. He was handsome and he was stern. He told us that if we learned to sit shamatha, we would no longer have nightmares, and all our anxieties would reveal themselves as mental disturbances and nothing more. He asked us to consider, when we were feeling anxiety, if that was really bliss. Really look at it, he said, really ask yourself. Actually, I don't think he understood our practice, but I think he'd gotten some instruction, and I was a little offended and a little uneasy that he'd come and sit here and insult us—suggest vaguely that his style of Buddhism was superior. But maybe I was imagining it.
On the first night of the retreat, Venerable told us that ego is like a vampire. Martin, whom I was secretly dating, raised his hand and asked how, if he was to think of his ego as a sneaky vampire, he was expected to relax. The phrase "sneaky vampire" got stuck in my head. The question seemed like a comeback. It made Venerable seem, all at once, ridiculous. I was afraid, while Venerable answered, that I would start laughing, so I didn't hear his answer. The next person asked a question. I was still thinking "sneaky vampire." Then I broke. I started laughing. Each time I got my laughing under control, it would explode again, worse, when I thought, "sneaky vampire" while looking at Venerable's handsome face, noticing his elegant comportment. Venerable was answering an Australian paraglider's question about light. "Ah, light," he said, "that is a big subject. For that, come and talk to me in private." Read More »
Painkillers, God, and America
June 18, 2014 | by Jonathan Wilson
According to the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Americans consume 80 percent of the world's painkillers—more than 110 tons of addictive opiates every year. As a writer in The Guardian put it, the U.S. must be a very painful place to live.
How much of that pain has been caused by soccer? Not much, at least not to begin with: an unlikely and magnificent 1-0 victory over England in World Cup 1950 (held then as now in Brazil) featured a bunch of part-timers putting the boot to the "Kings of Football." It didn't require so much as a baby aspirin. Since then, working on the "no pain no gain" principle so beloved of hackneyed American high-school football coaches, the U.S. has enjoyed a steady climb up the world rankings and some encouraging advances in international tournaments, including a World Cup quarter-final in 2002. Still, in the last sixty-four years, there have been more losses and draws—a draw in the U.S. means, as we all know, a loss—than wins. But not many Americans were following the team during all that. I imagine only a fraction of a ton of painkillers were consumed.
Now, though, after this week's stirring 2-1 victory over Ghana, the 80-percenters are getting on-board big-time, and The New York Times is reporting that a majority of Americans are convinced, unlike their coach, that the USA can triumph in Brazil. The team is clearly riding for a fall, isn't it? They play Portugal on Sunday. One would think it's pass-the-Tylenol time. Read More »
A World Beyond the Glass: An Interview with Mary Szybist
April 8, 2014 | by Alex Dueben
Mary Szybist may not have been the best-known writer on the poetry shortlist for the 2013 National Book Award, but her book Incarnadine was ambitious and thoughtful enough to overcome this. Her second collection, after Granted (2003), Incarnadine comprises poems focused on the Annunciation. Szybist, who was raised Catholic, uses this intimate moment as an opportunity to explore the relationships between poetry and prayer and to explicate an encounter between the human and "the other"—something outside of human experience, be it nature or, in this case, God.
The National Book Award judges called Incarnadine "a religious book for nonbelievers." It opens with an epigraph from Simone Weil's Gravity and Grace, which sums up Szybist's approach to the project: "The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation." Receiving the award, she said, "There's plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do." I spoke with Szybist recently about religion, poetry, prayer, and the meaning of her name.
Incarnadine deals with the Annunciation—the visitation of Mary by the angel Gabriel, who tells her that she will have God's son—and the implications and meaning of such an event. It's an encounter between the human and something beyond human understanding. Your book is an attempt to describe the indescribable through poetry—which is something that prayer can do, also.
Prayer is one way to do this—and yes, I have thought about the connections between poetry and prayer for a long time, and sometimes I am even tempted to believe that they are similar engagements. When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level—it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered. Still, some kinds of articulations can get us closer to such connections—connections between very different consciousnesses—and I think the linguistic ranges in poetry can enable that. Read More »
"I Would Like to Write a Beautiful Prayer"
November 12, 2013 | by Katherine Faw Morris
Flannery O'Connor was a believer. It was at the end of every story: the appearance of holy ghosts, fiery furnaces, judgment day. It was in the twist of her knife. The way she would jam it in a character's gut, turn it, then rip it up. To make sure she got all the vital organs. The end of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"—"'Shut up, Bobby Lee,' The Misfit said. 'It's no real pleasure in life'"—is the most Catholic thing ever.
While she was writing what would become Wise Blood, she was also writing A Prayer Journal. Literally, journal entries written during her time at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, addressed to the Lord and asking for his help getting published. "Please let Christian principles permeate my writing and please let there be enough of my writing (published) for Christian principles to permeate," she wrote. Also she kind of thought of God as a crazy lover. From November 23, 1947: "Dear Lord, please make me want You. It would be the greatest bliss. Not just to want You when I think about You but to want You all the time, to have the want driving in me, to have it like a cancer in me. It would kill me like a cancer and that would be the Fulfillment." I am also from the South. I am also a writer. God was never anyone special. No one in my family took religion seriously. Read More »


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The recent development of hybrid powertrain components and system integration technologies can reduce fuel consumption by up to 50 percent compared to conventional internal combustion engines. A book from SAE International provides a broad and comprehensive look at the technologies and advancements of one of the possible solutions for such challenges – hybrid powertrains for commercial vehicles.
"Advanced Hybrid Powertrains for Commercial Vehicles" begins with the fundamentals of hybrid powertrain systems, government regulations, and driving cycles, then provides design guidelines and key components of hybrid powertrains for commercial vehicles. The term 'commercial vehicle' applies to everything from light delivery vehicles to class 8 long-haul trucks, buses, and coaches. Such vehicles are used for a wide range of duties, including transporting goods or people and infrastructure service.
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Keeping a wrestling program successful can be a tough task in itself. Establishing it as a national powerhouse is another story, in John Gardner's case, he accomplished both this season.
The 13th-year head coach led High Point (No. 19) to a 23-2 record while guiding it to a State Group 3 championship, a North 1, Group 3 title, a District 3 crown and a NJAC American Division first-place finish. He also helped eight of his 14 grapplers reach the state individual tournament in Atlantic City, where they walked away with four gold medals, a bronze and a sixth-place showing to become not only the best team in New Jersey, but also a top 25 program in the U.S.
The 2011 Herald Coach of the Year accomplished all this by challenging his crew at all times.
"He makes sure we work hard each and every day," High Point senior Joe Gaccione said. "We do a lot of different things than other teams and I think it has a lot to do with him just keeping the tradition going from when he was in high school." Gardner learned this coaching style during his days as a state-champion wrestler under legendary Wildcats coach Jeff Hull and current assistant Mickey Thomas from 1987-90. In addition, he spent a lot of time with the High Point wrestling pioneers off the mat, shadowing every detail about the sport from wrestling techniques to researching quality teams all for one great purpose.
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European Pact on Immigration and Asylum
This pact forms the basis for immigration and asylum policies common to the European Union (EU) and its countries. In a spirit of mutual responsibility and solidarity between EU countries and of partnership with other countries of the world, it gives a new impetus to the continued development of a common immigration and asylum policy that will take account of both the collective interest of the EU and the specific needs of its countries.
European Pact on Immigration and Asylum of 24 September 2008 [Not published in the Official Journal].
International migration can contribute to the economic growth of the European Union (EU) as a whole, as well as provide resources for migrants and their home countries, and thus contribute to their development. It can be an opportunity, because it is a factor of human and economic exchange and enables people to achieve what they aspire to. However, there is a need to manage migration in a manner that takes account of Europe's reception capacity in terms of its labour market, housing and health, education and social services, while protecting migrants against possible exploitation by criminal networks.
For over twenty years, EU countries have been working on harmonising their immigration and asylum policies. Significant progress has already been made on several issues, in particular under the Tampere and Hague Programmes. Nevertheless, further efforts are needed to create a truly common immigration and asylum policy that takes into consideration the collective interest of the EU, as well as the individual needs of EU countries. Consequently, the European Council translated the following commitments into the Stockholm Programme.
Organising legal immigration
Legal immigration should be organised in a manner that takes account of the priorities, needs and reception capacities of EU countries and encourages the integration of migrants. Broadly, this requires the EU to:
- implement policies for labour migration that take account of the needs of the labour market of each country;
- increase the attractiveness of the EU for highly skilled workers and take new measures to further facilitate the reception and mobility of students and researchers;
- ensure that these policies do not aggravate brain drain by encouraging circular migration;
- regulate family migration more effectively;
- further strengthen the exchange of mutual information on migration;
- improve information on the possibilities and conditions of legal migration;
- establish ambitious policies to promote the harmonious integration of migrants;
- promote the exchange of best practices in reception and integration and on EU measures to support national integration policies.
Controlling irregular immigration
To ensure that migrants without a legal authorisation to reside in an EU country return to their country of origin or transit, the EU should:
- use regularisation on a case-by-case basis only;
- conclude EU level or bilateral readmission agreements with relevant non-EU countries and evaluate the effectiveness of EU readmission agreements;
- ensure that the risks of irregular migration are prevented within the policy frameworks on entry, residence, freedom of movement, etc.;
- develop cooperation between EU countries on the removal of migrants without legal authorisation to reside in an EU country;
- step up cooperation with countries of origin and transit as part of the Global Approach to Migration in order to control irregular immigration and to provide better information to communities under threat;
- invite EU countries to devise incentive systems for assisted voluntary return;
- take rigorous action through dissuasive and proportionate penalties against those exploiting immigrants without legal authorisation to reside in an EU country;
- put into full effect the applicability within the Union of an expulsion decision taken by any EU country.
Improving border controls
To ensure the effective control of the Union's external border, the EU as a whole should:
- mobilise all available resources to more effectively control all external borders;
- generalise the issuing of biometric visas from 1 January 2012 and strengthen EU countries' consular cooperation in view of establishing joint consular services for visas;
- provide the necessary resources to Frontex to fulfil its tasks;
- in a spirit of solidarity, give full consideration to those EU countries receiving disproportionate influxes of immigrants;
- use modern technological means to enable the effective integrated management of the EU's external border;
- strengthen cooperation with countries of origin and transit in the context of external border control and combating irregular immigration, including through increased support for the training and equipping of their migration authorities;
- further develop the Schengen evaluation process.
Creating a Europe of asylum
Even though EU countries have progressed on the application of the common minimum standards for asylum, certain disparities continue to exist. Consequently, further work is needed in order to fully achieve a common European asylum system. Broadly, this requires the EU to:
- set-up a European Asylum Support Office;
- present proposals for a single asylum procedure and a uniform status for refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection;
- establish procedures for crisis situations to assist any EU country facing a massive influx of asylum seekers and to promote reallocation of beneficiaries of international protection to assist EU countries facing disproportionate pressures on their asylum systems due to their geographical or demographic situation;
- strengthen collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to better protect asylum seekers outside the EU;
- train external border control personnel on the rights and obligations relating to international protection.
Collaborating with countries of origin and transit
A comprehensive partnership must be created with non-EU countries of origin and transit in order to encourage synergy between migration and development. To this end, the EU should:
- conclude EU level or bilateral agreements with countries of origin and transit that include items relating to legal and irregular migration, readmission and the development of these countries;
- encourage EU countries to provide nationals of east and south European partner countries with opportunities for legal migration, particularly in the form of temporary/circular migration so as to avoid brain drain;
- pursue policies with countries of origin and transit in order to deter or prevent irregular immigration, in particular through capacity building;
- integrate migration and development policies more effectively;
- promote co-development actions, such as the adoption of specific financial instruments for transferring remittances securely and more cheaply;
- firmly implement actions agreed with partner regions, including Africa, east and south-east Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia;
- speed up the deployment of the key tools of the Global Approach to Migration;
- ensure that all these related actions are implemented consistently with the EU's development cooperation and other relevant policies.
Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council of 6 May 2010 – First Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum (2009) [COM(2010) 214 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
Commission staff working paper of 6 May 2010 – First Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum (2009) accompanying the Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – First Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum (2009) [SEC(2010) 535 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament of 10 June 2009 – Tracking method for monitoring the implementation of the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum [COM(2009) 266 final – Not published in the Official Journal].


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I can remove the image, but I don't know how to link it to my userpage. What's the code to do that?Bug Catcher Wade 22:45, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
[[User:Bug Catcher Wade|'''Bug Catcher Wade''']]should give: Bug Catcher Wade. I've changed the font tags you have to span tags, as I'm not sure if font ones work in signatures, but the span ones definitely do. If you wish to link to your talk page instead, change the first bit from User: to User talk: Werdnae (talk) 23:04, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Bug Catcher Wade 23:07, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
On another note,
I havent been able t create my userpage. it tells me i have to edit existing pages first. Ive made three edits and still cant creat a userpage. what do i have to do?Bug Catcher Wade 23:10, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
- You have to edit more than just three pages. Keep going. —darklordtrom 23:38, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
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See List of Pokémon with gender differences#Generation V Pokémon. No other Pokémon introduced in Generation V have gender differences. --SnorlaxMonster 00:57, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
- Kenhorou doesBug Catcher Wade 07:57, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
- It said: "Pururiru and its evolution, along with Kenhorou, are the only Generation V Pokémon that have gender differences." --SnorlaxMonster 08:03, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


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NASA satellite photo of Gulf oil spill, taken May 17, 2010. Photo by Flickr user NASA Goddard Photo & Video used under a Creative Commons License
In an effort to broaden the conversation about the horrific Gulf Coast oil spill, seven Fellows of the Post Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa, CA, offer their perspectives on largely under-reported aspects and outcomes of the disaster.
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Do we want to dream big, or not?
NASA astronaut Ron Garan took this photo from the International Space Station. He explains, "It's China and Korea under Orion's Belt. The big city lights are Seoul, Beijing, Tainjin, and Gina. The greenish yellow layer is the edge of our atmosphere.
It kills me that we have lost the spirit to reach for the stars, not just at NASA, but across the spectrum of our society.
I don't believe we can shrink our way out of unemployment and the perennial edge of recession. Thinking smaller will simply ruin a big chunk of the lives of millions or billions of people.
We have more knowledge, better tools, and more potential than ever before. Now is the time to think big.
When a person loses his or her dreams, their life spins downward. Whether you dream of raising children, learning Chinese, being an actor, or moving to Tahiti… your dreams give you the energy to take on mundane daily tasks. You know there is more to life than waking up at 5 a.m. in the dark to go to work, and that's why you can get out of bed. Dreams sustain us.
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Question 6-8: Do assessment reports include information on the precision of scores and on the accuracy with which the scores can be used to classify students by performance levels? Do they include information about and examples of the appropriate and inappropriate use of the scores and about the kinds of inferences that can and cannot be supported by the results?
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Question 6-12: Do the state, school districts, and schools include science educators in every step of the assessment process (from the design of the assessments to data collection to the use and interpretation of the results), thereby providing ongoing opportunities for individuals at each of these levels to build their understanding of current assessment practices and expand their skills in using and interpreting assessment results?
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A MYSTERIOUS pattern seen in the cosmic microwave background - the faint afterglow of the big bang - has left some physicists wondering whether this central plank in the evidence for the big bang is somehow flawed. But now there may be a simpler explanation for the pattern: "It is being caused by the gravity of a tremendous concentration of galaxies in our cosmic backyard," says Chris Vale of Fermilab in Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley.
Dubbed the "axis of evil" by cosmologist João Magueijo of Imperial College London, the pattern appears in the map of the microwave backtround (CMB) built up by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). As part of their analysis, astronomers break up the subtle temperature variations in the CMB into components called the dipole, the quadrupole and the octupole
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G210m Blank Laptop Display
I just recently got a Sony Vaio laptop which has a G210M graphics card.
After installing various versions of the driver, both production (185.18.36) and the latest beta I could find (190.42), and setting up X to use the 'nvidia' driver, the laptop display goes blank and actually turns off when X starts.
After a few hours of googling and trying things, I believe that it's incorrectly detecting that no monitors are attached and it's trying to display through the vga port.
Including Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP" causes the screen to come on at least, but it's just grey and back lines. I would guess that it's a resolution problem at that point but I'm not sure where to go from there.
I've tried generating some mode lines but I can't even get one for the native resolution (1366x768) and 1280x720 didn't work either.
Any ideas?
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Please see the forum sticky posts about how to generate an nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file.
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The report is now attached. I generated this with the 190.42 driver with the most basic options possible.
xorg.conf is as follows:
Section "Device"
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Hmm, that's very strange. The driver indeed doesn't seem to think that there are any monitors connected. I'll need to see if I can find one of these laptops to reproduce the problem.
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Ok thanks. My laptop is a Sony Vaio VPCCW17FX but I believe most of the VPCC series is similar.
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Thank you for reporting this problem. I tracked down the laptop in question, reproduced the problem, and filed a bug.
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I have the same problem with Acer Aspire 5739G.
Installing 190.42 on Ubuntu 9.10 causes black screen, caps lock flushing and rebooting in a few minutes.
Aaron, please, see at my nvidia-bug-report. Hope you can help me.
Thank you in advance.
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I have the same problem. Does anyone have any creative solution?
I have been using the vesa driver but its blurry and does not set the resolution correctly.
My laptop is also a Sony Vaio VPCCW17FX
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For the time being I would recommend using the 'nv' driver instead of the vesa driver. I have the same laptop and this will at least provide you with proper resolution. The nv drivers lacks any 3d acceleration so compositing will not function but you will at least you will have a functional machine until the official driver gets sorted out.
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Can you post your xorg.conf file?
I'm having no luck with any of the drivers. I tried using nv but not luck.
When I use nv, the laptop behaves the same way i.e. screen goes black.
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I also have the Sony - same thing - blank screen. The vesa driver works (using mandriva 2009.1) but of course I have no hardware acceleration. Eagerly awating any patches!
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What did you have to do to get the vesa driver to work. I'm using Fedora 11 64bit. I logged into runlevel 3 and did an Xorg -configure followed by copying the xorg.conf to the /etc/X11/ dir. Then I updated the Driver string to say "vesa". Also I tried using the system-config-display.
Both of them work fine in that they display a GUI but not at the correct resolution. On Mandriva or any other distro -- what did y'all have to do to get the vesa driver to display at the correct resolution?
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Get an iPad, Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet over the holidays? You're not alone: Tablet and e-reader ownership increased by nearly double over the holidays, and more than 1 out of every 4 Americans now has one of the devices, according to a new study.
"The number of Americans owning at least one of these digital reading devices jumped from 18 percent in December to 29 percent in January," said the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project in a new report on tablet and e-reader ownership.
"The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10 percent to 19 percent between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers," which had the exact same increase.
The increase is more than just a run-of-the-mill stat: "In the time we have been doing surveys about the adoption and use of digital technology, we have never seen growth quite like this," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
"The striking uptake of both devices in a month this holiday season has to be a marketplace story — the introduction of Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet at roughly half the price of iPads and existing market players had to be a driver of the tablet adoption; and the drop in prices of e-book readers to levels well below $100 had to have hiked e-book reader adoption," Rainie told msnbc.com.
"But there is also an interesting 'supply side' part of the story that is also likely driving this spurt of adoption. Publishers are putting a lot of effort into e-books; apps developers and media companies are cranking out more and more tools to use on tablets; libraries are making e-books easier to borrow. So, the ecosystem of these devices is becoming more valuable to consumers. It's a particularly striking version of a classic tech-adoption story. Prices are falling on devices and the value to consumers of using them is increasing."
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Pew found that the "surge" in tablet ownership was "especially notable among those with higher levels of education and those living in households earning more than $75,000. More than a third of those living in households earning more than $75,000 (36 percent) now own a tablet computer. And almost a third of those with college educations or higher (31 percent) own the devices. Additionally, those under age 50 saw a particularly significant leap in tablet ownership."
E-reader ownership grew more among women (21 percent) then men (16 percent), Pew said. And those with "more education and higher incomes" also lead the pack, but "the gap between them and others isn't as dramatic. For instance, 19 percent of those in households earning $30,000-$50,000 have e-book readers. They are 12 percentage points behind those in households earning $75,000 or more in e-book reader ownership. The gap between those income levels on tablet ownership is 20 percentage points."
The findings, Rainie said, "have major implications for every media company, especially book publishers, everyone in a knowledge business, and key community institutions like libraries. They show how radically the tectonic plates of information creation and dissemination are shifting under our feet."
Pew is studying tablet and e-reader ownership to "understand how people consume media (text, video, and audio) on the devices, how people use them to access the Internet, and how mobile connectivity has affected users." It's part of Pew's "larger research agenda, supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to look at how these devices are affecting people's relationship with their local libraries, the services those libraries offer, and the general role of libraries in communities."
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