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Third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff and the Kansas City Royals have agreed to terms on a minor league contract that includes an invitation to spring training. The team announced the deal Saturday. Terms were not disclosed. Kouzmanoff hit .235 with seven homers and 33 RBIs in 73 games for Oakland and Colorado last season. He's a career .255 hitter over six seasons that included stops in Cleveland and San Diego. The veteran led all National League third baseman in 2009 with a .990 fielding percentage, and averaged nearly 19 homers per season from 2007-10, when he played regularly. He'll have a chance to compete for a utility job backing up Mike Moustakas at third base.
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Those of us who are not Americans can only look on in wonder at the similar ease with which the ancient rights and liberties of the individual are being surrendered in the United States in the wake of 9/11. The vote by the Senate on Thursday to suspend the right of habeas corpus for terrorism detainees, denying them their right to challenge their detention in court; the careful wording about torture, which forbids only the inducement of "serious" physical and mental suffering to obtain information; the admissibility of evidence obtained in the United States without a search warrant; the licensing of the president to declare a legal resident of the United States an enemy combatant -- all this represents an historic shift in the balance of power between the citizen and the executive.
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Michael Kidd-Gilchrist leaves on a stretcher after suffering a head injury against the Rockets (VIDEO)
Feb 2, 2013, 10:28 PM EDT
Anytime a player leaves on a stretcher as a precaution, the injury sustained has to be considered to be extremely serious. It's just that it didn't look that way initially in the case of Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.
MKG took a knee to the back of the head from teammate Jeff Taylor, as he went up to defend a fast break layup from Toney Douglas. He remained on the floor for several minutes, as members from both teams' training staff attended to his injury.
Eventually, Kidd-Gilchrist was secured to a stretcher and carted off, with no visible signs of movement as he exited the arena. We obviously wish him nothing but the best, and we'll provide an update just as soon as we get word of his condition.
Feb. 3, 12:15 a.m. ET: Here's a brief update from Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer:
"The good news: Kidd-Gilchrist was talking and moving his extremities before being carted to the ambulance. Not much more was known in the post-game locker room."
And more from Bonnell via his Twitter account:
"BREAKING: Bobcats rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist diagnosed with a concussion. Will spend night in Houston hospital."
"X-ray and CT scan showed no additional head and neck injuries. However, NBA now has a concussion protocol that MKG must pass before playing."
- iritian - Feb 2, 2013 at 10:43 PM
Actually he was hit by Taylor's hip.
- dko83 - Feb 2, 2013 at 10:49 PM
Hope he is ok, great player.
- jthammerstix - Feb 2, 2013 at 11:26 PM
- fventricle - Feb 2, 2013 at 11:28 PM
messed up dude
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- espfdps - Feb 3, 2013 at 12:15 AM
Jthammer. Go jump of something with that comment…hope mkg gets well soon
- misterchainbluelightning - Feb 3, 2013 at 12:46 AM
Looks like he may have got a concussion with the knee to the back of the head? Should be ok hopefully
- limonadamas - Feb 3, 2013 at 1:35 AM
What the hell was Jeff Taylor thinking? He was nowhere NEAR close enough to contest the shot. Even if he could've touched the ball, it would've been a goaltend… He didn't see MKG in front of him? What a ridiculous lack of court awareness. Get well soon, MKG.
- hardballtalkusername - Feb 3, 2013 at 3:55 AM
I will play devil's advocate here limonadams. First of all, Jeff Taylor isn't a very good player and he wasn't looking at MKG's falling when he jumped, Gilcrhist also fell at an unusual angle. This was a fluke injury and you are correct that it would have been a goal-tend but he was trying to contest the shot and goal-tends do happen about once a game for a reason. In the end I don't fault Taylor for trying as he may know that as a player averaging 6.6 ppg and 42.5 FG% with the Bobcats, his NBA career may be limited. Hope MKG is okay, that was very scary to see him not moving while being carried off. When I watched this the whole time I was thinking, please give the thumbs up.
- limonadamas - Feb 3, 2013 at 9:30 PM
I agree, of course it was a fluke accident. But MKG was like directly in front of Taylor pretty much the entire way down the floor.
These guys are professional athletes. I think you're giving Taylor too much credit. They're a lot better at basketball than you or I (see the White Mamba video), even if they're "just" bench guys. It's just a strange injury because most of the time with these fluke injuries, there's some aspect of being "blindsided." I would expect to see this degree of lack of body awareness in a rec league, not in the NBA (again, I'm implying it was done on purpose, just commenting on Taylor's lack of court awareness).
Anyway, nice to have an exchange on these boards without personal attacks. hahaha =)
- limonadamas - Feb 3, 2013 at 9:31 PM
argh… I'm *not* implying it was done on purpose.
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No way. Now every baby and his mommy cry in football so bball girls it to now? Pretty soon they will all be wearing helmets
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If people like you ran the NFL it would be a niche sport in 30 years played by guys with the talent level of Division II players. And that's a 100% fact, thank god the owners can read data and understand it.
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The United States has often stood alone in the UN Security Council when it comes to Israel-Palestine. In most cases, that isolation results in an American veto of draft resolutions supported by other Council members. In the past decade, the United States has vetoed almost a dozen resolutions it deemed too critical of Israel.
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SAN FRANCISCO — There was no defending the Rockies' 64-98 record last year. At least not with a glove. As bad as the Rockies' starting pitchers were, the defense provided company in the misery.
The Rockies led baseball with 122 errors last year, 18 above the National League average. That led new manager Walt Weiss to place emphasis during spring training on converting groundballs into outs. He wants the Rockies to lead the NL in double plays, and needs an outfield with range that can prevent teams from taking extra bases.
It's way too early to say this will be a Summer of Glove, circa 2007, but the Rockies are encouraged by their start on defense, while also admitting it's connected to better health and improved pitching.
"As a hitter, you get more comfortable in long, slow at-bats where you can step back and think about it. We had a lot of at-bats like that against us last year that took forever," said center fielder Dexter Fowler. "When you have a pitcher who works fast, the batter is like, 'What the heck?' And it definitely helps us in the field."
Defense remains one of the toughest statistics to quantify. Even teams that make few errors can be poor if their fielders don't have range. Baseball-reference.com uses a runs-saved metric based on ranking plays made above average to measure a total defensive contribution. The Rockies were dreadful as a team last year, starting at shortstop, where they ranked dead last at minus-20. By any rubric, the position hurt them with Troy Tulowitzki, a two-time Gold Glove winner, limited to 47 games because of a groin injury that required surgery.
Tulo's return has changed the picture, if not the mentality, of the defense. The Rockies' grade — all together, it's a small sample size — is plus-34, ranking second in baseball.
"You see Tulo getting to balls in the gap, in the 5-6 hole, and that makes a huge difference," Fowler said. "He steals hits. You can't help but notice that if you are the other team. It's a big deal."
Tulowitzki appears to be at peak health. During the past week he's thrown off balance and completed a double play with a pirouette and a fastball to first base.
"I feel really good out there again. I am comfortable in the game," said Tulowitzki, who suffered a spree of throwing errors early last season as he tried to compensate for his leg injury. "It's just nice to be fine and not have to worry about anything."
Second baseman Josh Rutledge has made a seamless transition on the double-play pivot, but is still finding his way on groundballs. A shortstop by trade, he struggled to convert a pair of double plays in San Francisco that helped fuel big innings for the Giants.
"I am sure it's not easy. He's making the routine plays, and he's only going to get better," Tulowitzki said.
Perhaps the most noticeable improvement has been in the outfield. Fowler, Carlos Gonzalez and Michael Cuddyer have started strong. CarGo won a Gold Glove last year but admittedly wasn't at his best.
The Rockies' outfield combined for a minus-15 rating last year, according to Baseball-reference.com. Fowler shakes his head at the metrics, believing the exact opposite.
"I think we are one of the best outfields, if not the best," Fowler said. "When I hear that stuff, I am like, 'Are you serious?' Look at where we play. Center fielders come into our park, see how big it is and say, 'Dex, I don't know how you can play here every day!' "
Gonzalez, who has thrown out three runners trying to advance to second on base hits, predicted that Fowler will eventually win a Gold Glove.
"He doesn't get enough credit for what he does and how he plays," Gonzalez said. "He's really good and he makes us all better."
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"They have less way to make sense of things," she said of children with Asperger's and ADHD. "He may be less able to even interact with the person who's holding him hostage than another child might be, and he's less able, for example, to imagine friends that might be there waiting for him, to remember the good things, positive times. Also, he may be more likely to be frightened and overwhelmed and confused by the situation."
The normally quiet red-clay road leading to the bunker was busy Friday with more than a dozen police cars and trucks, a fire truck, a helicopter, officers from multiple agencies and news media near Midland City, a town with a population of 2,300 that's about 100 miles southeast of Montgomery.
Police vehicles have come and gone steadily for hours from the command post, a small church nearby.
Dykes was known around the neighborhood as a menacing figure who neighbors said once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm.
He was in the Navy from 1964 to 1969 and served some time in Japan, according to military records.
Authorities said Dykes boarded a stopped school bus filled with children on Tuesday afternoon and demanded two boys between 6 and 8 years old. When the driver tried to block his way, the gunman shot him several times and took the 5-year-old boy.
The bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was hailed by locals as a hero who gave his life to protect the pupils on his bus.
Dykes had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to answer charges he shot at his neighbors in a dispute last month over a speed bump. Neighbor Claudia Davis said he yelled and fired shots at her and her family over damage Dykes claimed their pickup truck did to a makeshift speed bump in the dirt road. No one was hurt.
Davis' son, James Davis Jr., believed Tuesday's shooting was connected to the court date. "I believe he thought I was going to be in court and he was going to get more charges than the menacing, which he deserved, and he had a bunch of stuff to hide and that's why he did it."
Creel said his father and Dykes are friends. Creel said that after Dykes' arrest, Dykes wrote a 2- to 3-page letter that at least in part addressed the menacing case and that he shared with Greg Creel.
Michael Creel said he hasn't seen the letter but that his father has. The younger Creel said his father told him that Dykes said he had sent the letter to the local media, politicians and Alabama's governor.
Michael Creel said police on Friday took the copy of the letter from the Creels' home. Reached for comment, Greg Creel confirmed the existence of the letter but declined further comment and said he was cooperating with police.
A neighbor directly across the street, Brock Parrish, said Dykes usually wore overalls and glasses and his posture was hunched-over. He said Dykes usually drove a run-down "creeper" van with some of the windows covered in aluminum foil.
Parrish often saw him digging in his yard, as if he were preparing to lay down a driveway or building foundation. He lived in a small camping trailer and patrolled his lawn at night, walking from corner to corner with a flashlight and a long gun. Parrish described the weapon as an assault rifle, while another neighbor said it was a shotgun. Michael Creel said Dykes has five weapons he knows of, but he's not aware of him having an assault weapon. Authorities have not disclosed what firearms Dykes might have in his possession.
Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington; Phillip Rawls in Midland City; Bob Johnson in Montgomery, Ala., and AP researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.


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Pineapple-Stuffed Spareribs
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|3 Pound (1 rack)
|Chopped celery
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Chopped onion
|2 Tablespoon
|2 Tablespoon
|Canned pineapple chunks
|13 1⁄4 Ounce, drained, reserve syrup (1 can)
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Seasoned stuffing
|2 Cup (32 tbs) (packaged)
Tie spareribs in circle; place bone tips up on rack in open shallow roasting pan.
Do not add water.
Do not cover, Roast in 325° oven 2 hours.
Cook and stir celery and onion in butter until tender.
Mix with pineapple, cloves, stuffing and enough reserved pineapple syrup to moisten.
Spoon dressing into circle of ribs; bake uncovered 30 minutes longer or until meat is done.
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Look the Skins running game didn't just get good out of nowhere and Alfred Morris is no Emmit Smith. The reason its so good is b/c the utter game changing fear RGIII puts on opposing D.
He has played with a healthy #1 reciever for 1 quarter all season and now our only other real threat is out for the year as well. All those guys work with players FAR better than what RGIII has around him.
You put RGIII on any of those teams and their records would be equal or better with him.
I understand Skins fans are trying to be cautiously optomistic. I really do. But this is different.
There is no player in this league that causes more headaches and opposing DCs have to game plan for more than him. Not one. Not Brees, Manning squared, Brady or Rodgers. Did I mention not one of our receivers would start for ANY of those teams? Outside of maybe the Saints our D is far worse than those teams as well.
Couldn't the same be said about OV? First handful of seasons he took the NHL by storm. Last couple he has been a shadow of his former self.
Could be many factors as to why, but one clear reason is defensemen have figured out how to play him. It took a while, but they did. Griffin can follow that same path. Have to wait and see.
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Rinse salt cod under cold water. Place in medium bowl. Cover salt cod with cold water and refrigerate 12 hours, changing water occasionally.
Drain salt cod. Place in medium saucepan. Cover salt cod with fresh cold water and add bay leaf. Bring just to boil. Cover, remove from heat and let stand 10 minutes. Drain salt cod. Remove any skin and bones. Transfer cod to processor and flake finely.
Cook potatoes in boiling water until tender. Drain. Force through ricer into large bowl, or transfer to large bowl and mash with fork. Mix in cod.
Pour oil into heavy medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Add garlic and cook until beginning to brown, about 8 minutes. Discard garlic. Using large fork, gradually work oil into cod potato mixture. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before serving.)
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Azerbaijan: 20 Years of Independence
February 13, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Kennan Institute
Mr. Hadjy-Zadeh will trace the evolution of Azerbaijan's domestic politics since the fall of the Soviet Union, beginning with an overview of the movement for independence and the development of Azerbaijan's new national identity, and continuing through the presidencies of Elchibey, Heydar Aliyev, and Ilham Aliyev. Mr. Hadjy-Zadeh will speak from his perspective as a political and economic analyst, as well as a former opposition party leader, to document the development of Azerbaijan into its current "pseudo-democratic" state, including the impact of the oil boom. Furthermore, he will mobilize his experience as Azerbaijan's former Ambassador to Russia in order to provide an insider's perspective on Azerbaijan's foreign politics with Russia, the West, and its local neighbors, such as Turkey and Iran. Finally, Mr. Hadjy-Zadeh will highlight the current tensions arising in his country between movements for human rights and religious freedom and the rise of religious extremism.
Foreign Relations of the United States Series: SALT I, 1969–1972
February 02, 2012 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
The Nuclear Proliferation International History Project in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State's Office of the Historian presents a panel discussion on the latest volume in the FRUS Series.
The Role of the USIA in Implementing America's Policy towards the Soviet Union: A Case Study of the Cuban Missile Crisis
January 31, 2012 // 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Cold War International History Project
Wilson Center ECNU Scholar Zhao Jike will present a work-in-progress presentation entitled The Role of the USIA in Implementing America's Policy towards the Soviet Union: A Case Study of the Cuban Missile Crisis which examines the role of the USIA in implementing U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
January 24, 2012 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm
Cold War International History Project
Marigold presents the in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret Polish-Italian peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war, or at least to open direct talks between Washington and Hanoi, in 1966.
Monument Wars across the Post-Soviet Space as a Conflict of Memories and Cultures
January 23, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Kennan Institute
The destruction of the monuments of the Soviet past and a buildup of new monuments was supposed to be an indication of the new values that came to the post-Soviet societies after the collapse of the Soviet system. However, not everywhere and not always did it happen to be true. While in Poland the new monuments were accepted by the society in appreciative manner, in Ukraine, Estonia, and Georgia we watched the so-called phenomenon of "The War of the Monuments" when the removal of the old monuments and creation of the new ones was followed by protests and sometimes even riots. Around Russia many old monuments to Lenin remained at place while new monuments to the Russian tsars were erected. All of this basically resulted with a chaos of the views and attitudes and led to the devaluation of the monument as a symbol in the post-Soviet space.
Romania's "Fraternal Support" to North Korea during the Korean War, 1950-1953
December 12, 2011 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
North Korea International Documentation Project
Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Radu Tudorancea will shed light on what was in fact a coordinated division of labor among communist regimes, marking the high point in Socialist bloc cooperation.
Could the War in Vietnam Have Ended Earlier?
November 28, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
History and Public Policy Program
The Vietnam War cost the lives of more than 58,000 Americans (and millions of Vietnamese) and convulsed U.S. politics and culture in the 1960s. Could it have ended years earlier, and with a far smaller toll?
British Plans and Attempts at Subversion in Romania, 1939-44
November 22, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Global Europe Program
Dennis Deletant, Visiting Ion Ratiu Professor of Romanian Studies at Georgetown University and formerly professor of Romanian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College in London charts the operations in Romania between 1939 and 23 August 1944, the date of King Michael's coup against Antonescu.
Book Discussion: Marooned in Moscow: The Story of an American Woman Imprisoned in Soviet Russia
November 21, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Kennan Institute
Historian William Benton Whisenhunt will discuss the story and events behind the recently reissued memoir Marooned in Moscow, first published just months after Marguerite Harrison's release from a Bolshevik prison in 1921. The book provides a fascinating account of Harrison's entry into war-torn Russia in early 1920, first-person impressions of many in the top Soviet leadership, and her increasingly dangerous work as a journalist and spy, to say nothing of her work on behalf of prisoners, her two arrests, and her eventual ten-month-long imprisonment, including in the infamous Lubyanka prison. Whisenhunt will explain who Harrison was, how she got into this kind of work, and give examples of her extraordinary work at this critical time in Russian history.
Peasants Under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962—On Creating Communist Authority in Everyday Life
November 16, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Global Europe Program
Gail Kligman, professor of sociology at UCLA and director of UCLA's Center for European and Eurasian Studies will discuss her latest book entitled Peasants Under Siege which explores the collectivization campaign in Romania (1949-1962) and its far-reaching effects.


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A dinner celebration is a part of the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center's 75th Celebration and Reunion, which features special events throughout the weekend of Oct. 5-6, 2013.
The evening celebration includes a Santa Maria style barbeque, toast and roast, auction and live entertainment by the rhythm and blues band The Blue Buzzards. The event is Saturday, October 5 at 6 p.m. at the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center. Tickets are $95 per person. For more information, contact Kelly Pina at 909-869-4988.


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NEWS FLASH - The outright world speed sailing record was smashed this afternoon (November 24) by Paul Larsen in the Vestas Sailrocket 2 with the astonishing time of 65.45 knots. It's the third time in eight days that Larsen has piloted the Vestas Sailrocket to a new outright world record, raising the bar from 55.65 knots to 65.45 knots. It has been a spectacular week for sailing in general, with more than a dozen world speed sailing records broken at two different venues in Namibia. The outright speed sailing records for both 500 meters (initially 59.23 then 59.38 and now 65.45 kts) and one nautical mile (55.32 kts) were set in Walvis Bay by Australian Paul Larsen and the British-designed, inclined-rig hydrofoil Vestas SailRocket 2. Simultaneously, 600 km away, the annual Luderitz Speed Challenge has seen nine world outright speed records for sailboards established in just a week, including surpassing 50 knots (92.6 km/h) and 60 mph (52.14 kts) on a sailboard. The breaking of world records is almost certain to continue over the coming weeks, with Larsen now seemingly capable of pushing the outright record within reach of the 70 knot barrier and the now legendary Luderitz Speed Challenge continuing until December 16, with kiteboarders joining the event on December 3. Read More
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The Economist reveals its 2012 Innovation Awards winners
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Spitzer space telescope observations reveal expansion rate of the Universe
By Brian Dodson
The size and age of our Universe is not only a critically important issue in cosmology, but is also among the most controversial and delicate of the cosmological questions. Infrared observations made using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have now given us the most precise estimate yet of the rate at which our Universe is expanding. The key was not the discovery of a new method for measuring distance. Rather, astronomers discovered how to measure brightness more accurately. The new value for the Hubble constant, good to within three percent, is 74.3 kilometers per second per megaparsec (km/s/Mpc). Read More
Along with the various new features to individual applications that mark any full revision to Adobe's Creative Suite, this year's CS6 release saw the introduction of a new subscription model called Adobe Creative Cloud. We recently had a chance to chat with Adobe Creative guru Michael Stoddart who walked us through some of the new changes implemented in CS6. Read More
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Pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong dies aged 82
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In terms of other potential candidates, Lakers officials have long held ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy in high regard. They also, according to sources, plan to again interview former Lakers and Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy, who was considered for the job in the wake of Mike Brown's dismissal, when the Lakers ultimately opted for D'Antoni over Phil Jackson and Dunleavy.
It's believed that Byron Scott and Kurt Rambis, both former Lakers from the team's 1980s glory days, will be considered as well. Scott has been working as a studio analyst on Lakers broadcasts since his 2013 dismissal by the Cleveland Cavaliers; Rambis has already had one stint as Lakers coach and is still under contract to the team for next season after serving as an assistant to D'Antoni last season.


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You must be the first self-proclaimed n00b to call Debian user friendly. :-) I have always loved apt/dpkg and the installer of Debian for their user friendliness and clarity. I never understood why people say Debian is difficult.
When I was new to Linux I used to "tweak" the system to get familiar with it. I would compile my own kernel just for the fun of it -- and to save some precious 300 KiB in kernel size. I would run "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" once a day even for my home server to stay up-to-date. I would tweak NFS-configuration and run benchmarks to get the best performance out of it. I would run benchmarks for file systems. The list goes on. Nowadays I use stock kernel (I often need to manually fix nvidia-driver package though) even for my workstation, update&upgrade my server only when DSA suggests to do so, and do hardly any "tweaking" except for reading and re-reading system service configuration manuals for some additional security. I haven't lost my passion -- I just channel it differently.
Lol, rpm based distros used to make me absolutely crazy, when someone turned me on to debian/apt-get/dpkg it was love at first sight.
Maybe "casual user" would fit me better than n00b, but I've heard people say the same about debian being difficult. To each their own I guess.
I lol'd at your 300Kib- been there, and it was a great learning experience. I just don't see the need anymore. Remember Yoper? straight out of the box that was so fast it blew me away.
Now I need to get over my addiction to burning and trying new distros, pick one and learn it love it.


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A group of lawmakers proposed legislation Thursday that would deny US entry and freeze the assets of foreign nationals involved in hacking or cybercrimes targeting the United States.
A self-proclaimed leader of the LulzSec international hacking group has been arrested in Australia, police said, charging him with attacking and defacing a government website.
The Czech Republic has been hit by an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks this week, with investigators stumped over their origin amid concerns they could lead to worse mayhem.
Hackers have claimed the scalp of the South African Ministry of State Security's Twitter account, underlining concerns that Africa may be the soft underbelly of global cyber security.
Amid rising concern over alleged cyber crime originating from China, the White House will unveil a new plan Wednesday to help US firms thwart the theft of billions of dollars in trade secrets.
For state-backed cyberspies such as a Chinese military unit implicated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce high-value secrets ranging from details on oil ...
A series of brazen cyberattacks on America's most high-profile media outlets has revived concerns over Chinese hackers, who analysts say are likely linked to the secretive Beijing government.
The Wall Street Journal reported that in his coming book, Google chairman Eric Schmidt brands China an Internet menace that sanctions cyber crime for economic and political gain.
As head of the FBI's cyber crimes division, Shawn Henry often had to deal with exasperated company executives after his agents informed them that their networks had been hacked and their secrets pilfered.
Gabon's government said Tuesday it was suspending the website www.me.ga, which Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom had planned to use to launch a new version of his defunct Megaupload file-sharing site.
Chinese authorities have busted what is reportedly the country's biggest online gambling ring, which allegedly handled bets of more than 70 billion yuan ($11 billion), according to state media.
Japan's most senior policeman began an embarrassing climbdown Thursday after his officers arrested four people over cyber threats issued when their computers were apparently hacked.
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In 2007, I gave birth to my son. It was a completely natural, med-free birth but I had severe bleeding after my son was born and recovery from childbirth was really difficult for me. I also was hit with overwhelming Post-Partum Depression. During my pregnancy I had had horrible panic attacks for months and the PPD was just an extension of that. The PPD was relentless and lasted for nearly 18 months. The first six months I barely remember because it was so bad. I went untreated because I, nor my husband, were educated about PPD. Our whole family suffered. In late 2008, I discovered Easy Now tea. I was nosing around a Health Food Store in my mother's city and came upon this tea. I had always been a tea fan so I picked up a box for less than $5 USD. I've been a faithful consumer of Easy Now since that day and I always have a stash of it in my house. It has seen me through another pregnancy and the post-partum time and half-way through my Master's Degree meanwhile working full-time outside the home and being a wife and mother to two small children. When I'm stressed out, overwhelmed or anxious and cannot sleep, I brew a strong cup of easy now and it helps tremendously. The flavor is very mild and comforting and a bit of stevia included in it gives it a slight sweetness. I've also used this tea with my children to combat severe jetlag as we live a 16-hour flight away from my parents in the States and it has been such a useful tea to have for that!
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Good stuff Steve. I was there in 2007 and I'm dying to get back.
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Thanks Pete, don't leave it to long before you come back....
. No I'm not a Raven, you?
Sunday morning and I'm having a late start as it looks to be a tarmac day so it should be straight forward, I left around 10am and the ride took me on some nice twisty tarmac with great views.
No rush on so I can enjoy the scenery.
This is a great plate, made me laugh, I using a drift camera but still getting the hang of it.
It's a pretty boring ride, be a lot more fun a big bike, stopped of for lunch at a roadside vendor and amused the kids for a bit.
Time to get back on the road, soon the twisty flat tarmac turned into a bone shaking broken, dusty nightmare, this is by far the worst road I have ever encountered I will upload more pictures from my drift when I can get them uploaded. You know it's funny how some days turn out I thought this would be a easy route, if I had known what I know now I would have gone a different way. I met some guys from London who where on push bikes, I thought I was mad.
I ended up in Luang prabang about 7pm and found a the first Hotel I could find with working wifi I was exhausted. My sting at this point was making my arm swell up and was spreading down toward my hand so I went to the chemist and got some different cream, eat some noodles and flaked out.
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On Thursday, Jan. 29, 1863, a 27-year-old newspaper reporter named Samuel L. Clemens traveled by early morning stagecoach from the hilly mining town of Virginia City, Nev., to Carson City, the territorial capital on the flats. That evening he felt inclined to go to a party, and found one at the elegant home of a prominent politician.
The result was a breezy, conversational "letter" from Clemens back to his paper, the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, printed on Feb. 3 and full of jibes at the guests, groans at the terrible songs sung, and tales of petty larceny and drunkenness. He finished by saying it took him a two-day session of sleep to recover, and signed the letter, "Dreamily, Mark Twain."
It was one of many such stories by Clemens that tickled the Enterprise's readers in that era. It was the fashion for newspaper funnymen to use aliases, and Clemens had called himself "Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass," "W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab," "Grumbler," and "Sergeant Fathom."
But this new pen name stuck. One 151 years ago this winter, Mark Twain was born.
Now Kevin Mac Donnell, an Austin, Texas, Mark Twain scholar, bookseller, and collector has stumbled upon what he believes is the inspiration for that famous pen name — discovered by chance during a long, tedious Google Books search for other things. And the world of those who love and study Mark Twain is sitting up and taking notice.
Mac Donnell is something of a legend in this world. Not an academic, he has a substantial antiquarian book business, and a private collection of more than 8,000 Twain-related artifacts and documents. He is generous to a fault in sharing his knowledge of them, not being the kind of collector who keeps his holdings hidden away. His numerous articles and his comments on the online Mark Twain Forum can be relied on for accuracy and thoroughness.
One day about seven years ago he was being characteristically thorough, searching Google Books, the online database that digitizes entire libraries. He was looking for instances of the name "Mark Twain," year by year, from Feb. 3, 1863, on.
Then, on a whim, he moved his search back before that date. And he found something.
The pen name "Mark Twain" is usually explained as a piece of Mississippi River lore — and as a licensed steamboat pilot in the 1850s, Clemens was steeped in that lore. When the depth of the river below a boat was to be determined, one of the crew dropped a weighted line over the side. The line was marked in fathoms — depths of 6 feet. The first mark on the line was Mark 1, the third was Mark 3. But the second mark was by tradition called out using an old-fashioned term for the number 2 – "Mark twain!"
Two fathoms was just barely a safe depth for the shallow-draft riverboats, and scholars like to say that the pen name was a sign of Twain's ability, in his humorous and serious writing, to stray just to the edge of safety.
But Mac Donnell found something no Mark Twain scholar has ever seems to have found before. In the Jan. 26, 1861, issue of a humor magazine called Vanity Fair (no relation to today's publication) he came upon an unsigned story called "The North Star." In the text was a character called "Mark Twain," apparently used as a proper name for the first time.
In the satirical tale, a group of Southern sailors complain that all their compasses point north — this was, after all, the eve of the Civil War. They all have names reflecting their maritime life: There is Lee Scupper, Pine Knott, Bob Stay — and Mark Twain.
Mac Donnell felt a thrill. And this is where he drew upon his almost inexhaustible expertise. He knew newspapers in the 1860s relied for copy on "exchanges" whereby they swapped copies and were free to use as much as they liked from each other's publications. Clemens' paper in Nevada would almost certainly have had a file of Vanity Fairs. Or another paper that had picked up Vanity Fair's stories.
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But why would Clemens have waited two years to use the suggestion of this funny piece for a pen name? Because, Mac Donnell says, 1863 was a crucial year for his career — he was looking to get beyond local fame and develop a brand. In 1861 he had just been getting started.
"After all the ink spilled over the years on Clemens' pen name," Mac Donnell writes, "discovering the actual print source that inspired him to anoint himself Mark Twain must be, one would think, one of the Holy Grails of Mark Twain studies. Nonetheless, and against the odds, that printed source has been found, and the evidence strongly suggests that Clemens saw it in Carson City, prompting him to become Mark Twain, and further evidence provides ample reasons why he would have wanted to keep that source a secret."
Despite the authoritative tone, Mac Donnell is modest about his find. "What I did a cat could have done," he says, referring to the Google Books search. "A monkey could do it, but not with the intelligence and cleverness of a cat." (Like Clemens, he is a cat fancier, and he and his wife own a spoiled black animal named Felix.)
But even a spoiled cat might balk at going up against another explanation for the nickname — Samuel L. Clemens' own.
In 1874, living in Hartford, the author tried to settle the matter for good and all. He said he had taken the pen name of an old Mississippi steamboat captain named Isaiah Sellers, who published river reports in the New Orleans Picayune. Clemens wrote that when Sellers died in 1863, "I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one."
The trouble is that scholars have long known that this story doesn't work. Captain Sellers, for one thing, was alive for a year after Clemens adopted the sobriquet.


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