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Join Stuart Hine, Manager of the Natural History Museum's Identification and Advisory Service, as he introduces the cockchafer beetle and its key characteristics.
The cockchafer or May bug, Melolontha melolontha, is not a true bug but a relatively large beetle.
Adult cockchafers normally appear flying on warm evenings from May to July. They are attracted to artificial light and often come indoors through open windows or even down chimneys. Cockchafers may cause consternation to those who encounter them but are harmless to humans.
Cockchafer grubs, however, are considered a pest. They feed underground on the roots of a wide range of plants and can damage pastures and crops.
Adult cockchafer showing its short, fan-like feelers © M Mitschack
Melolontha melolontha is the largest UK species of the group of beetles known as chafers.
The adult insect:
Cockchafer grubs can be larger than the adults, growing up to 40mm long. They are C-shaped, have 6 legs, and are white with reddish-brown heads.
Cockchafer adults usually only live for about 5-6 weeks. Find out about the lifecycle, behaviour and predators of this species, from egg to adult.
In the UK, cockchafers are more commonly found in the south. Learn more about their distribution and the types of habitat they enjoy.
Learn about the taxonomy of the cockchafer beetle and about its lookalike, the summer chafer.
Cockchafer or May bug, Melolontha melolontha, showing its black head, hairy body and reddish-brown wing cases.© Darkone, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Unported license
Side of a cockchafer beetle showing the characteristic white triangles
Cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha, in deciduous woodland.© Aconcagua, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Adult cockchafer beetle resting on a leaf during the day.© Beentree, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Adult cockchafer beetle showing the short, fan-like feelers on its black head.© M Mitschack
Adult cockchafer beetle resting on leaf litter during the day.© Sanja, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Although the cockchafer abdomen segment (pygidium) is pointed, it is not for stinging. Females use it to lay eggs in the ground.
Jessop, L (1986) Dung beetles and chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). RES Handbk. Ident. Br. Insects, Vol. 5, Part 11.


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KINGSVILLE - Texas A&M-Kingsville and Cameron split a doubleheader Friday with the Javelinas winning the opener 7-6 in extra innings and the Aggies winning the nightcap 7-4.
In the opener, A&M-Kingsville (14-20, 3-11) had a 6-3 lead before Cameron (14-21, 5-9) scored three runs in the seventh to send it to extra innings. The Javelinas' Ali Bodnar cracked a walk-off homer in the eighth inning to win it.
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I'm glad they are rolling this feature out, cause there are times when a text is easier in certain emergency situations than a phone call.
You can now text to 911 in an emergency
Starting today, you'll be able to send a text message to 911 in an emergency situation. The service will be supported by AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile. Text 911 is only available in a small set of select cities to start, however it will be rolled out everywhere by the end of 2014.
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You can now text to 911 in an emergency
As a first responder I can see Pro's and Con's in this system.......
In Addition I have read that this service is only Verizon right now.. Fully Active...
Currently in Greenville County, SC and in Verizon. A bit surprised that we have it. I can see iOS, android, and Windows Phone adding a shortcut feature to this. I know my cousin has a Galaxy S5 and pressing the sleep/wake button three time sends a text and picture to his emergency contact.
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I think you should be more cautious in your reporting on topics like 911 emergencies. The title "You can now text to 911 in an emergency" isn't entirely accurate at all. There are only select cities in which this is available but the title, which many skim, doesn't reflect that.


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CULVER CITY, CALIF. (Feb. 28, 2012) -- Patrick Quinn, a German teacher at Ritenour High School from Chesterfield, Mo., took first place in the "Jeopardy!" Teachers Tournament, earning $100,000 and a guaranteed spot in the upcoming Tournament of Champions. Quinn outscored 14 of the nation's brightest K-12 educators in the elite tournament, which was introduced last year.
"It was a complete surprise to win," Quinn said. "Before the tournament, I told people that I would have been thrilled to win just one game. Had I known how strong the competition was, I might not have hoped for even that much."
The 34-year-old Quinn, who was joined by his wife and several family members at the taping, said his favorite moment of the competition was correctly answering the "Final Jeopardy!" clue in the last game. Though, he almost didn't write it down in time. "I knew it, but I couldn't come up with the correct response until the very last few seconds of the music," he said. "Luckily, I got it out in time. It would have been very frustrating to finish and know the answer!"
To prepare for the competition, Quinn read a variety of books, played online trivia games and listened to recorded college lectures while driving, grading papers and working out. He hopes that his success on "Jeopardy!" will encourage his students to read and continue learning. "I hope that when kids see me studying for something and then see it pay off, literally in this case, they'll see the connection between time, effort and reward," he said.
Quinn received his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in German from the University of Missouri. Ever since he was in high school, Quinn has wanted to become a teacher. "I think that it appealed to me as both something I would be good at and a way to give others what so many of my great high school teachers gave me," he said.
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Doing a bit of digging, I figured out why -- one of our competitors has started promoting a solution in this space. Lovely. I dutifully found the source documents, and realized that there was a good deal more to this discussion than white papers and marketing videos I was able to find.
So, without too much competitive rancor, please join me in a quick discussion of secure multi-tenancy, because it shows all signs of being an increasingly popular topic over time.
The Basics
At first blush, the concepts of "secure" and "multi-tenancy" appear to be polar opposites.
Security is inherently about isolation: keeping your information, applications and resources isolated from others. It's also about clear separation of administration roles as well.
Multi-tenancy, on the other hand, is all about sharing: especially when it comes to sharing physical resources (compute, network, storage), but, ultimately, operational roles as well -- fewer people doing more.
Why Is This Important?
Service providers and cloud operators depend on high degrees of multi-tenancy to make their value propositions work from an economic perspective. You can't be cheaper than traditional IT unless you're aggressively sharing resources and operational roles. That's what any cloud is about.
Most customers, on the other hand, are concerned about security and isolation. They look at these shared resource models, and justifiably have hard questions. Indeed, addressing this fundamental issue -- at something more than a "security-washing" level -- is essential for enterprise-oriented external clouds to be something more than a novelty.
I don't believe the problem is insolvable: for example, secure multi-tenancy has been the norm in data networks for many years. Multiple networking tenants can share the same physical network infrastructure, and there's little concern around security.
But we're not in the same situation when it comes to shared IT infrastructure. I've picked out only three issues among many, simply because they illustrate the real challenge here.
Issue #1 -- Preventing Service Provider Access To Your Information
If you're renting shared resources from a service provider, you want a very clear understanding as to what things the server provider can do, and what things they are prevented from doing.
In a storage centric discussion, this can boil down to a simple question: can the service provider get access to your data without your permission? I'm not talking policy and procedure, I'm talking simple physical access. And we're not just talking protecting primary storage here -- we're talking snaps, backups, archives -- the whole enchilada.
If you've ever been in a hosting facility, you may have seen "locked cages" that prevent physical access to equipment. In a multi-tenancy environment, we need a virtual equivalent to that concept.
The most complete answer, in many people's minds, is strong encryption complemented by tenant-owned key management. In a virtualized environment, this means that encryption can be done granularly on a per-VM basis, with key management owned by the tenant and not the service provider.
If you think that I'm being too stringent here, keep in mind that in many proposed solutions, data from multiple tenants is freely intermixed on available storage devices. Sure, logical access is mediated, but it's all living on the same rotating physical rust.
Now, if I'm imagining virtually anything, let's imagine a disk appears to be going bad, and needs to be replaced. Your sensitive data may be somewhere on that disk, in plain view. Can you even tell which drives might hold some of your data?
In EMC land, that's one of the reasons we created a Secure Erase function that doesn't allow disk drive removal without erasure, as well as using RSA technology to provide role-specific temporary administrative credentials to arays. Not to mention PowerPath-based encryption for guest images, Avamar-encryption and RSA's key manager.
Because drives do fail, equipment gets upgraded, and technicians occasionally do have to work on the equipment.
Issue #2 -- Separation Of Church and State
The most secure environment in the world is useless unless there's an administrative model that provides separation of roles and responsibilities. You don't want everyone running around with the "root" or "admin" password, do you? Or granting the "cloud administrators" omnipotent privileges?
Even in classical IT environments, this definition and enforcement of role separation and delegation is a really big deal. Taking that a step further, if we introduce multi-tenancy into the equation, the tenant should have full control of the administrative model for the resources they control.
No back doors, and no access -- unless granted by the tenant. Imagine you had a lockbox down at the local bank. You'd assume that you would be the only one with access, wouldn't you? Same for security in mulit-tenant environments.
Put differently, I believe that this core delegation of roles and responsibilities lies at the heart of making secure multi-tenancy something more than a vague marketing concept.
No matter what you do, it ain't secure unless you can manage it in a secure way.
Issue #3 -- You're Not Secure If You Can't Prove It
Early on, I realized that all the security stuff in the world was relatively useless unless you could prove it to an outside auditor. Secure multi-tenancy is no exception.
If you're an enterprise IT user, and you're using an external service provider, you'll probably have to pass the same sort of audit as you would for any infrastructure you owned.
That means, among other things, you'll have to provide audit and change control logs (including potentially those from your service provider!) showing that controls are in place and are effective. And, of course, it wouldn't do to have the audit logs on the same multi-tenancy infrastructure, would it?
Any viable 'secure multi-tenancy solution" in my book would have to have infrastructure audit logs available to all tenants at a minimum. This level of transparency and accountability isn't the norm in most SP models, but will likely be before too long.
Issues #4, #5, #6 ...
There's more, but I think I've begun to make my point. I haven't even begun to delve into issues like denial of service, or certifying IT infrastructure compliance, or a whole bird's nest of related topics. And that's just poking at the "secure" part of multi-tenancy. Even within simple multi-tenancy (forget security for a moment), there's a lot still yet to be said.
Here's the message: if this topic is important to you, there's far more to this secure multi-tenancy thing than integrating a bit of networking technology and emulating a logical array. There's data, for one thing. And administrative models. And being able to credibly pass an audit.
Now, back to our competitor's proposed solution -- a somewhat-secure-but-not-really-all-that-secure approach. Does it solve a useful customer problem for people concerned with security? Perhaps, but I'm incredibly skeptical.
However, this does make me think that EMC should probably get busy and focus a bit more on this topic. Fortunately, we've got a lot of very interesting pieces that could result in a very compelling solution.
Just off the top of my head: guest OS level encryption w/key management, for example. Ability to encrypt snaps, real backups and archive copies. Separation of tenant data on isolated media if needed. External configuration and event auditing with per-tenant reporting. Automated IT compliance management with tenant reporting. Tools that support an administrative model with clear separation of roles and responsibilities. A mechanism for secured temporary administrative credentials. Secure media erasure.
And a few more potential bits as well :-)
Just to be clear, though, there are lots of enterprise use cases for service provider multi-tenancy that don't require high degrees of security. The proposed approach might work there. And, on the other hand, there are environments where the security requirements are so daunting it's hard to imagine them running in a generic multi-tenant environment -- ever!
By the way, this stuff ain't exactly nuclear physics, either. Just take a look at how most large-scale data centers in sensitive industries do their business (e.g. financial services) and you'll see all that I described here, and more.
That being said, we collectively as an industry have to do a bit of legwork to bring this to service providers in a way that doesn't require dedicated, separated physical infrastructure.
We're not there yet, however.


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POWER SHIFT: Transcending the planet as a species, leaving all sense behind.By
[Update: If you agree with the people at Power Shift or are one of them, I encourage you to watch this video also, before you comment.]
I'm not pointing and laughing at these people. Really, I'm not. The temptation is there, sure, but I'm not.
I'm also not sharing this out of uncharity. If I were pointing and laughing at them then sharing it here would be uncharitable. So I'm not being uncharitable.
I'm sharing it because Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, former Obama green jobs czar and current Hugo Chavez admirer Van Jones, and Al Gore are all tied to this gathering pretty significantly. Power Shift is, in their own words, the crowd they are counting on to lead the future.
Just watch.
Seriously. Some highlights from the video:
• Van Jones says the "children of every species" are counting on this crowd.
• One attendee asks, "Do we ever think about us as a species, and transcending the planet?…To be able to leave the planet and to see the planet reproduce another species like ourselves that has the ability to reach a higher awareness and a higher level of life?"
• They call for complete revolution: social, economic, political, and cultural.
• One of the major issues in the climate change issue is "our addiction to economic growth" (you know: the flourishing of human ingenuity and talent, rightly ordered to the mutual benefit of all involved in the free exchange of private property).
• Home gardens and urban gardening initiatives followed by canning tomatoes will solve the food problem and prevent having to ship food across the country.
• While specifically eschewing the "socialist" moniker, one attendee calls for "highly localized economies based on solidarity."
• And Nancy Pelosi (Catholyc D-California) greeted them, thanked them, and looks forward to seeing them again on Capitol Hill.
• There was also the group of girls who dropped their pants to display their matching underoos (not unsafe for work, just silly).
• Oh, and the guy who, while milling about a group that eschews money, hates capitalism, and wants to push for a more "green" economy (the sort that all sane people know will absolutely murder job creation), carries a briefcase asking "Where are the jobs?"
All in all, a stellar compendium of jaw-dropping moments from people who want a society, polity, economy, and man-made religion based on planet worship and some gauzy concept of human solidarity based in nothing but nature. Hobbes said something about that sort of life, and it wasn't pleasant.
To think it all happened at one rally in Washington, D.C., just a few days ago.
Even if they mean well, having such a poor grasp of human nature and the true nature of what Really Matters in human relations doesn't happen accidentally—-it has to be learned, or one has to have a significant amount of self-delusion. If nothing else, a cursory study of the history of the 20th century ought to disabuse anyone of such notions.
Alas: those who study history are doomed to be surrounded by those who don't, who will then attempt to repeat it.
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I am a little confused Mr. Crowe and need a little clarity.
What are you trying to prove with this video? You show 10 people out of 10,000 and claim that they speak for all of us. How does that work? Where are your facts? Where are your credible sources for these claims you make? Did you get any of these people to sign releases for the video?
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Doesn't seem very catholic to mock these people who have good intentions, even if you disagree with their opinions and tactics, but what do I know…but I do believe God has given us everything we need, including wind and sun, just a matter of what to use in the interim and how to least harm our planet until we get to where we can make those our main sources of energy, which unfortunately is not right around the corner….but if you are ok with the status quo, please tell me where I can send you a glass of water from a fracking town so you can have a drink on me:)
As one of the women in this picture, I feel that you are completely missing the point of what this entire conference stood for. Those gas masks are a symbol for hydraulic fracturing, a huge issue, and one of many, that people, your people, fellow Americans, are facing right now. So thank you for not "pointing and laughing at me," thank you for not "being uncharitable." But Tom Crow you should be thanking us for being so brave and as the youth of this country sacrificing our time and our studies to travel all the way to Washington DC to make our voices heard, and as you just affirmed that it was all worth it. So while the temptation is there to comment on your condescending tone and utter disregard for very pressing issues that us as humans are responsible for and responsible for changing, I won't. I'm telling you this out of charity, have faith in masses of 10,000 youth. Don't you think if they all came to gather from all corners of this nation for three days, they might have something better than the nonsense you represented to say? Not everyone can speak with eloquence, but everyone has a voice.
This is mine, telling you to stop fighting against those who are fighting for you.
If people keep treating the earth as they are and if human processes that are degrading our air quality, land and water keep occurring, you will really, really wish you would have listened.
Take some time to reflect upon why you are so bitter towards those who wish to make your earth a better place,
Lauren Nicole Singer
That's not socialism. that's Distributism. Chesterton and Belloc would approve of this one.
There were probably some good ideas floating in that silly sea.
yes their argument is flawed and ridiculous. However, you throw some babies out with bath water. The addiction to economic growth comment isn't as bad as you make it out to be. Your own comments give it away: you reduce human action to property. If all we are is property, then you are not catholic. You are a Lockean materialist. Also, local economies under a theory of subsidiarity, i.e., a localized politico-economic model is de facto and de jure more in tune with being a christian. The more say a local government (read: the more people have a say in their own political framework) has and the less a federal one does, the more likely that virtuous action can be promoted in an efficient manner, rather than ignored or run over with a front-end loader. When will you realize that big gov't and big business are in cahoots? Who do you think WROTE the Obamacare bill, for Pete's sake? Insurance companies, that's who. Ask AEI. Ask Brookings. You're view of what counts as socialism is highly skewed because you're traveling in the wrong caravan. Get out of the republican bus and into the Catholic one; even if the Dems are worse, it doesn't make the GOP good. You're references are all over the place and rant-y. Do it again. Start over. You can do better.
You may not like the messengers (I don't, really) but there is some truth in their message: our planet's capacity to support human beings in the numbers that are projected to exist in the not so distant future is questionable. Likewise, as the affluence made possible by capitalism spreads around the world–India, China, Brazil–the demands on our food and energy systems will increase dramatically.
So there is reason for concern. I have faith in the ability of human beings to solve these problems, but we first have to acknowledge that the problems exist. Tomorrow isn't going to be the same as yesterday.
Michael, I think you have too much trust in human beings and not enough in God.
And as for this group of people and their ideology, I find it ironic how they can dehumanize man by lowering him to the status of an animal, while at the same time elevate him to the level of God in his intelligence. Can you say total lack of dignity and humility?


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imac or g5 tower?
why is an imac more expensive than a g5 tower?? im in the middle of buying one of the two.:Smirk:
There were also many G5 Tower models…but we can at least "guestimate" the age of the "G5 Tower"…since they were only produced between 2003-2006.
So we need more info.:)
- Nick
Let's just say an imac 20 inch about 3 years old with superdrive ang g5, compared to a G5 tower that is dual 1.8 ghz power pc G5 processor osx 10.5.6. i just want to know why are the G5's more cheaper? is it because they dont come with a monitor? thx for your input. :Blushing::Blushing:
Apple dropped all support for PowerPC about a half a decade ago and with OS X Lion completely dropped running PowerPC applications..
Starting with OS X Snow Leopard, you need an Intel-based Mac to get that update. Since then, we've had Lion and Mountain Lion. So The PowerPCs at Leopard are sufficiently back there in time and new applications are focusing purely on the newer versions of OS X and Intel-based Macs..
So essentially, what you are seeing a lack of support from current and near future applications dramatically reducing the longevity of the PowerPC based Macs and thus the cheaper price.
If you already had the PowerPC-based Mac, you can find ways of extending it's life by finding old versions of applications and so on, but if you are looking to purchase a Mac, then your best bet is to stick with the Intel-based one and find the NEWEST one you can find based on your budget..
A 2009 iMac is worth double what a six+ year old G5 is worth. Pure and simple Intel v PowerPC and the latter is not the winner.
But basically…Powermac G5's are older than a 3 year-old iMac (Powermac G5's are 6-11 years old)…vs. the 3 year old "hypothetical" iMac you mentioned. So the first reason why this 3 year-old iMac is more expensive than a Powermac G5…is simply that it is newer…and newer computers are more valuable (in most cases).
Secondly…Powermac G5's have the older style PPC processor. All Macintosh computers sold since 2006 have an Intel processor. Thus…any Mac OS version sold since 2009 is NOT compatible with a PPC cpu (the one found in a Powermac G5)…and probably 99% of all software sold for a Macintosh computer sold in 2012…is NOT compatible with a Powermac G5…due to the PPC cpu.
Lastly. A better comparison would be…comparing a 2004-2005 Powermac G5 to a 2004-2005 iMac (similar vintages)…and see how the values compare. Comparing a 6-11 year-old Powermac G5 with a PPC cpu…to a 3 year-old iMac with an Intel cpu…is not a fair comparison.
It's kind of like saying…"Why can the average 30 year-old man run a 26.2 mile marathon faster than the average 75 year-old man?" Answer: It's not a fair comparison since both men are not the same age.
- Nick
thx for your input, i think im going with the tower, i think you get more bang for the buck, and you dont have to worry about heating problems and broken screens like i heard of 2008 imacs, it WAS a serious machine when they first came out, cheers :Mischievous:
You probably won't think "bang for buck" when you discover you can't install a whole ton of any current software on it.
If is indeed a G5 tower that you are going to be getting, you're already setting yourself up to need to upgrade shortly since, as others have indicated, the number of applications/technologies that support the older computers is dwindling quickly.
But it's your money and we've provided the best advice we can, in the end its your call..
- Nick
p.s. Of course you didn't tell us how much each computer costs & what your budget is/was…which could play into this decision.
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Charlie Sheen Shows Off His New Girlfriend on Set
X17Online.com reports that Sheen couldn't keep his hands off the young blonde, but when asked what his girlfriend's name was, he replied, "None of your f**king business."
During an interview with 'The Dan Patrick Show' last week, Sheen revealed he has a new woman in his life, but he declined to reveal her identity. He said he is "100 percent" in love.
Sheen definitely has a lot of affection for the woman and was not shy about kissing the blonde between takes.
While it was unclear if Sheen was filming a new episode of 'Two and a Half Men,' it has been reported that it was a relatively small crew for the shoot, and Sheen left to go back home after only fours hours of work.
Last week, 'Men' creator Chuck Lorre wrote on the traditional "vanity card" in the closing credits of the show, "If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed."
Sheen was hospitalized last month after an apparent drug-fueled night of partying with porn stars. He had been released and is reportedly getting rehab treatment at home.
Sheen's ex, Denise Richards, sat down with the ladies of 'The View' last week and opened up about Sheen with her daughters and revealed his antics are anything but new.
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Some men don`t waste any time, so chuck found
a new skank. She not that pretty, we`ll see
how long this will last. Next month he will
have a new girl friend i would`nt want to hold
hands with this loser.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Nancy
Hey guys back off.....Charlie is "100%" in love and it has to be true cos he has gone thru a few weeks of "rehab" at his home so this has to be the truth cos he is clean and sober and will now go forth and heal the world with his new found wisdom.....till next month when he has a "slip up" and kills a hooker in his hotel room......poor Charlie can't seem to get a break
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy fattrucker
receiving rehab treatments at home, lol,
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Murray
Who cares anymore about Charlie? Get him off the show! The guy I feel sorry for is Martin Sheen... his father! Must be tough being the father of this guy!!!
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Synclaire
Well of course she's with him for the money and he probably doesn't care. I have tried so hard to be suppotive of him and yes I know he doesn't need my support but I think the knot at the end of the rope is losening.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy mrdash111Highest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I think at this point Charlie needs a exorcism , in fact he could turn it into a pay per view show and make more money. Heck he can do it every 6 months. Shame to watch a funny guy burn this slow. His only hope is he grows out of it, mature-up Charlie. If the drugs don't get you, some hooker love disease sure will.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy dmcg2008Highest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Charlie looks like he's 60. I wouldn't find him attractive even if he paid me. He's a washed up drug addict. Yeah, he's 100% in love with his new teenybopper hooker. I wonder if he has any love left for all his children. I doubt it. Certainly none for himself.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy g
Put your money on Charlie Sheen among the top 5 candidates for the next to go in the Hollywood Dead Pool!!!!!!!!!!
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy budcommish
You gotta be pretty dumb to hang around with Charlie, the pig...
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Snooz
I'm certainly no beauty, but I do have eyes and can see that this woman is NOT one bit pretty and she needs to do something to tame that hair! Wheeeew. I though he was supposed to be in rehab? Here we go again. Get him out of the news, he's worthless!
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Snooz
Why would anyone, ANYONE, right mind or not, want to be with a porn star? Other than the obvious...sex. It sickens me to think of all the diseases porn stars and prostitutes likely carry. Maybe Charlie wants to star in porn and leave 3 1/2 behind. Go for it Charlie, then WE wouldn't have to see you again.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy trish
I hear that Chrlie's now "friend" is a porn (actress, and that's a strech), trash attracts trash.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy JerryLow Ranked Vote downVote upReport this
It's your life Charlie. Have fun! Ignore all these losers that envy you. Your girl is hot and so is your show. Your show and movies have enriched my life with laughter. I could care less what you do personally. We are never going to hang out, so your personaly life does not affect me in the least. People here calling your girl and ugly skank, how silly. I could only imagine what the men and women who insult you look like. Fat couch potatoes and women with caked makeup and bad wigs, that have no life , but to insult someone elses. Ok, haters, lets see your career, your bank account and your women. What a laugh that must be!
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Homer
"Charlie" is a moron and a miscreant. Those who continue to enable this creep... by patronizing his 'show,' the network that produces it, and the sponsors who fund it ... are a scary cynical bunch. Don't buy into it! Turn it off. Don't buy the products. Send a message. This is something we certainly do not need.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Joe C
Hey jnzjin, crawl back under your rock, NOBODY cares about you or your way older squeeze toy. Bite it !!
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Frank
It's hard to distinguish between his stage character and real life. Slow down Charlie...or your lifestyle is gonna kill you one day.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Tena
I guess when you have money....you can have anyone or anything.
I hope she is ready for the fall of Charlie Sheen; I certainly don't see him changing his ways anytime soon.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Alex
She looks pretty to me.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy amused
It will probably only be a couple of weeks before he's back in the news, in rehab, or the morgue. Oh well...He entertains me. When he's gone someone else will take his place and entertain me.
- Tuesday 22 FebruaryBy Mike
She's cute, but boy, does he look old standing next to her.
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So they'll integrate Vimeo, but not YouTube, which the vast majority people use more and is considered the 'default' video service? Apple must REALLY want to keep Google's at arm's length when it comes to system integration, regardless of what people would actually want. Apple Maps again, anyone?
Flickr and Vimeo integration rumored for iOS 7
If the latest rumors turn out to be correct we could be looking at social photo and video integration in iOS 7 by way of Flickr and Vimeo support, most likely added to the existing social sharing options of Twitter and Facebook. The story comes by way of 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman:
"Both Flickr and Vimeo will now also be integrated deeply into the new operating system, so users will be able to sign into the respective networks via iOS 7′s built-in Settings application. Like with iOS's Facebook and Twitter ties, Apple customers will be able to log-in one time into each social network and have full sharing access."
Presumably that would also mean that, as with Twitter and Facebook, other third-party apps would be able to hook into Flickr and Vimeo by way of an instant log in. It's important to remember also, as Gurman points out, that any feature currently in testing could still be removed prior to the release of iOS 7. Interesting stuff, for sure. Do either of these two social options get you excited?
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Flickr and Vimeo integration rumored for iOS 7
What would excite me is the ability to pick which network(s) to share with, rather than have Apple pick an immutable list of favorites.
Yep, this. Rather than cherry picking a couple apps here and there to grant system level access (regardless of popularity), maybe let apps talk to each other, so WE can pick what to share with which app. They don't need to grant system level access to every app, just let them talk to each other. And no, the current sharing solution isn't sufficient (the app has to be programmed to allow sharing with certain other ones), I want an app to be able to see what other apps are on the phone, and let me choose any of them that I want to share with, not what's predetermined in the app itself.
Android legitimately does this better. Surely iOS can do a least a lite form of it without hurting stability, right?
Is that a legitimate troll? Or just a random spew?
Neither, but I'm curious to hear why you think iOS does a better job of inter-app sharing and communication. Should be good for a chuckle.
We're all curious why you think that we care about what you want in iOS.
And why you think that subject is some kind of troll attack vector here.
Should be good for a chuckle.
Wow we're in a bad mood tonight.
....because the author of the story asked for our opinions about iOS 7 and obscure video services (that few people use) with greater sharing services than others, when a better solution (that many people have asked for in iOS 7, including several iMore writers) is to just allow apps greater freedom to share information with each other? Seems pretty on topic to me. Calling it troll drivel without addressing the content is a pretty dang childish and dare i say "trollish" remark. (Not to mention, what the heck made you so hostile this evening?)
Now that i answered your question, it is your turn to answer mine.
Flickr: Too big to die now that Yahoo! has bought it. I just might try it.
Vimeo: What YouTube could have been if it had any class.
Flickr has been part of yahoo for years..
Haven't used it for all of those years. Or Instagram either.
But since Facebook bought Instagram, I'll give it a pass.
Viveo and Flickr not on my lists of wants. On a related matter though twitter and facebook are welcome i honestly am fine accessing them through apps and never use the "integration."
Oh sweet mother of christ, no.
Both services I enjoy. I'm in.
Hope they have a lot more than this for IOS7 since I don't really use either of those that much that the app alone would not suffice.
Ha....nope, that's the only thing we're getting in ios7!!! A lil bit flatter & Vimeo/Flckr integration, nothing else.


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Now, we have had several discussions about ESS and I feel I was too aggressive in retrospect. However, today, I was reminded why I was so aggressive in pointing out what ESS does regarding misleading people with dyno graphs.
There was a discussion on e46fanatics regarding a blown motor by VF and ESS got dragged in. Roman@ESS then made this post:
Now, what is funny about this S54 setup? It is the exact same graph ESS used for an E92 M3 setup:
I am shocked, freaking shocked, they would actually not remember they posted the same graph for two different setups on two different cars and not realize that they would get caught. Now, you might be asking yourself, does ESS really mislead people this way with graphs?
Well, I honestly wanted to mend fences with them. I wrote an e-mail to ESS earlier this week thinking that maybe I went went overboard and somehow I was actually in the wrong. This is what I said:
Now I know, this was a mistake. ESS won't change, and ESS will not come here to address the issue. They will continue to hide where they are protected by the moderation.
We will never get an answer to why their M3 makes over 600 whp through the stock exhaust on pump gas and 8 psi:
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Independent dynos are not anywhere near this.
I want to make it clear, there is no witch hunt against ESS. They make a good product, great product even. I considered their product. I recommend their product and vendors here carry their product and should do so with confidence in it. We are proud to have them. However, their marketing is misleading. NO INDEPENDENT DYNO has even remotely come close to their stock exhaust pump gas dynos. They use the same dyno for various setups to try and make their cars look stronger than they are. My friends, that is straight up lying to people and misleading them.
Once again, ESS makes great products and they are free to address any of these questions, however, Roman refuses to engage in a discussion with me where there is no moderator control in his favor. I think people should really question the integrity of their marketing if they refuse to answer these legitimate questions with such overwhelming evidence of deception. If Roman and ESS won't address this, that should tell someone all they need to know about the dyno claims.
ESS dyno discrepancy, what is up with it and will ESS respond?
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|Posted by Prakash on June 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM
I am totally torn, really!
Jouni Kylmälä, the most popular and highly respected teacher among all the student groups in the DSS, is disrespectfully laid-off from Diak. Interestingly, he has had a permanent working contract and is the only DSS member to be sacked.
At this time, I am trying to understand this matter in line to Diak's 'preached' values …to dare, to care and to share..!! Unfortunately, I can hardly make headway in my quest for this move.
Indeed- it is clear that more than economic crisis- Diak leadership is suffering from 'sanity' and proper 'vision'. How much I wish that their 'better judgment' would translate into their 'better self '.
I think I am a soft love type of guy -professionally and personally. So is respected Jouni Kylmälä, as far as I know him. Perhaps for the very same reasons, I am bringing my thoughts into my blog, empathizing with him against this human insensitivity.
Respected Jouni Kylmälä
A person with strong sense of compassion, generosity and deep philosophical understanding of life and environment, I would certainly guess that Jouni has taken this decision surprisingly untroubled with a disarming smile on his face. However, I feel the pain, as it is disgusting from the side of those who disregard human dignity and human sensitivity.
A respected teacher-turned-colleague, my experience tells me that students trusted him so much. Then. And, they do now. And, we continue. Reasons are simple: He's politically incorrect if he needs to be. Jouni is upfront and authentic – perhaps, some may argue, to a fault.
One of the founding members of the DSS programe, he is not always blessed with a strong organization. But he was not a manager in Diak. And, moreover, he is just a human. He's not always on the balls. Nobody is.
Personally I appreciate Jouni's understanding of life, world and his willingness to share and discuss his perspectives with everyone in the same level. He was perhaps the ONLY remaining academic thinker in the truest sense of the word in the DSS, always asking questions about the world and relating them to different sociological perspectives and his famous triangles. Possibly, it was this understanding that makes him such a humble and a great person to work with.
Reflecting back, his winning smile and friendly sense of humor never failed to put anyone at ease. My life in Diak both as a student and a teacher would have been much poorer place without his presence.
One thing for sure– even those who testify against him – know that Jouni has a kind heart and a humble egalitarian personality who can do no harm to anyone.
For me, this decisions of kicking out many grey-haired legends ( like Juha Säkkinen, Kari Latvus and Jouni) feels like an abuse of power and an act of aggression, a severe one. I call it severe because it pains not only recipients but also people like me who have nothing to receive from them. I sometimes wonder, could it be a 'generation- cum-gender' war waged against some veterans? Perhaps time will tell!
In fact I just know Jouni well among those who have been sacked. To be honest, news of Jouni's lay-off pained me more, actually many times more than when my own contract did not continue in January. I had a time-limited contract and it came to an end. Not a big deal. It was obvious. But it was respectful. Thanks to the then superiors Jouko Porkka and Liisa Hynynen.
By these thoughts, I don't want to transmit feelings that I am against Diak as an institution. Personally, I am eternally grateful to Diak, the institution that has developed a programme like DSS which contributed so much to shape me both as a person and as a professional. It is one of the institutions that provided me with qualities (skills) and qualifications (papers) that I can earn my bread practically anywhere in the world. The institution that has provided me with friends (in real terms!!) practically in all the corners of the globe!! The very institutions who acquainted me to many wonderful personalities like Jouni!! I am ever grateful, I repeat!!
Moreover, Diak is the very institution that tought me to respect the differences, respect human dignity, human rights, respect elderlies, differently-abled and treat humans as individuals. Now I wonder, with these series of 'sadistic acts', does Diak continue to practice what it preaches?
Observing all these bitter incidences having no human face, I fear the well wishers may have no choice than to resent what they used to appreciate. Perhaps, appreciation will soon be a matter of past.
As I end my thought, I want to reflect to the very title of this post. As soon as I heard Jouni being sacked from Diak, I called number of former student-colleagues. Every single graduates responded with the same expression and in the same tone of a deep shock i.e. 'Jouni Kylmälä?? It can't be!!'
In soladirity to many others against the disgusting decision, I also echo the same thoughts in a deep shock, yet once again, 'Jouni Kylmälä?? It can't be!!'
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Apr 12, 2013, 1:10 PM EDT
Following is my standard disclaimer for women's professional soccer leagues. Unfortunately, I've had cause to write it not once but twice. And unfortunately, I've been correct. Not once, but twice.
Women's soccer faces a daunting double whammy.
First, launching professional leagues in this country is ridiculously tough stuff.
For instance, no one could argue American football's popularity in our land. And yet, leagues launched with intent to usurp just a smidge of real estate from the mighty NFL have come and gone. Point is, startup cost and efforts to build brand and establish yourself in a crowded market make for a darn tough slog, no two ways about it.
Now attach that to professional soccer's historic struggles (men or womens) to gain traction, and conditions quickly become prickly and problematic. Not impossible, as Major League Soccer continues to prove on the men's side, but surely with odds stacked against.
On the other hand, there is always hope.
Veteran Soccer America writer Paul Kennedy, who has seen 'em come and go and been around to chronicle it, sees reason for hope as the National Women's Soccer League moves forward in activation phase.
Kennedy cites Alex Morgan (the new day Mia Hamm), Merritt Paulson's enthusiastic and well-backed investor leadership, financial backing from U.S. Soccer, reduced expectations and other reasons for liking the NWSL's chances.
One other reason is obvious (and it more or less gets reflected in most of the reasons Kennedy lists): every failed women's pro venture has offered lessons. At least today, there are more "known unknowns," fewer "unknown unknowns."
NWSL's first season begins Saturday.
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- watermelon1 - Apr 12, 2013 at 2:23 PM
It's just a really bad time. The economy sucks. I don't see how this latest league "works."
Hate to say it because I love the game. But there isn't much room for expansion of market. You have the girls under 18… And the parents who take them to the games. That's pretty much it.
And the league can not afford to go up against Olympics or World Cup because the star-power would be severely lacking and really hurt the fan interest with the best players missing games in order to play for their countries.
- Steve Davis - Apr 12, 2013 at 3:40 PM
You sound just like me on the launch of the last two women's leagues. Maybe my cynicism is wearing off in old age, but I somehow have some faith in this one. At very least, I don't have the same grim certainty that this one will fail. We'll see …
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ENID, Okla. – Enid police are investigating the theft of a 100-year-old cast iron church bell, worth more than $1,000.
The bell was allegedly stolen from New Hope United Methodist Church between Nov. 23 and Nov. 30.
To church leaders, the theft is not about the money.
The bell is irreplaceable.
The church has gone to great lengths to get into the holiday spirit, until the beloved cast iron bell was allegedly stolen during Thanksgiving week.
Dale Gillham has been a member of New Hope United Methodist since kindergarten.
He's watched the church move locations and expand.
He says the bell came from their old location on the other side of town.
When they moved, the bell went with them.
"It was sitting right here," says Gillham. "It was on a wooden flat. They just had it sitting down on there and the bell was on top of it."
Weighing in at 1,000 pounds, the church never thought the bell would be stolen.
But during the season of giving, it went missing.
Church members had a lot of plans in the works for the bell, including putting it on display with a plaque.
"Tell what the bell was about and about the history of the church, and that would have been a perfect place for it back there in the corner," says Gillham. "We were also discussing about maybe incorporating it in our sign out there at some future date."
Gillham says giving the news to some of the oldest members of New Hope United broke their hearts.
"It was difficult to tell them that the bell is gone and hard to explain to them," says Gillham. "I'm sure they had a problem with getting a hold of the reality that they're not going to have their bell anymore."
In the spirit of the holidays, New Hope United Methodist won't let thieves get them down.
"We're going to carry on," says Gillham. "We've got a lot of things happening in this church that keeps the spirit going, so we're going to do fine."
Some of the older members had a theory of Scrooge and the Grinch being responsible for the theft.
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Last night's late-evening caucus for Jewish voters who couldn't participate in the morning caucus due to Shabbat conflicts cranked up the typical anti-Jewish paranoia of the Ron Paul community to a new level. Not only were the conspiracy theorists out in full force on the Ron Paul fan-sites (but I repeat myself), they also showed up en masse at the special caucus, which was hosted at a school run by Gingrich-backer Sheldon Adelson:
Next came about 25 passionate speakers for Paul. In short order, the scene in the auditorium began to feel like a revival meeting for anti-government paranoiacs.
The first one accused the government of "genocide." Another complained that Paul was the victim of media bias, as evidenced by the fact that in the GOP debates, "When they go on Ron Paul the lighting's dimmer." Another accused the government of "using our own men as guinea pigs."
As Gingrich, across town, was vowing bitterly to continue his campaign, a Paul supporter was testifying: "Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney run the two-legged race together at Bohemian Grove! There's not a bit of difference between those two puppets! I got one word to describe my support for Ron Paul, and that is: End the Fed!"
And what about all those predictions that Adelson was going to "steal" the caucus for Gingrich (and the alternative theories that the late-evening caucus was a "distraction" so that the establishment could pocket Nevada for Romney)? Shockingly enough, they never came to pass. The Adelson school caucus went overwhelmingly to Ron Paul, by 58 percent. Meanwhile, Romney won the state by a landslide, and his win was projected before the nighttime caucus even began.
As Jonathan wrote last week, the late-evening caucus to allow Orthodox Jews to vote was the right thing to do. But critics were also right to question the ethics and constitutionality of requiring participants to fill out forms saying they missed the earlier voting for religious reasons.
However, Ron Paul's robocall to his supporters asking them to crash the caucus – and the vile anti-Jewish paranoia about it on the pro-Paul websites – shows exactly why the Republican Party should keep Paul and his fans at arms-length. Should Paul supporters have the right to attend the late-evening caucus, just like the Orthodox Jewish voters it was designed to accommodate? Sure. But they should have done so because they honestly had a voting conflict, not to disrupt the event, and definitely not based on psychotic Jewish conspiracy theories.


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The book's title is Latin and may be translated freely as "Sieve Theory: The Musical." While the musical jokes and puns may not have you tapping your toes to the music of the primes, the book is a chatty and relatively painless way to get up to date on sieve theory. Our understanding of sieves has improved greatly over the past 20 or 30 years, in large part due to the efforts of this book's two authors, and proofs that used to take many pages in an almost incomprehensible notation can now be done cleanly in one page. This book does a good job of keeping the notation under control.
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Cursive, that old mainstay of grammar school, is being de-emphasized in Florida's public schools. Keyboarding skills, not cursive, are part of the Common Core academic standards adopted last year by more than 40 states, including Florida. The Sunshine State kept cursive in third, fourth and fifth grades this year, but that mandate could change as Florida moves toward its Common Core, a national curriculum that provides set educational standards in math and English.
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