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I believe that legislators and statewide office holders are given a lifetime pension when they leave office. Even if they only serve one-term.
Sometimes, even when you are wrong, your arguments are sound and coherent. This time, your were just grasping at straws.
There are many privated sector companies that are COMPLETELY dependent on government contracts. Especially locally. I'm sure if you thought a full 15 seconds at least 20 would come to mind.
If this president were pushing legislation and/or executive orders to seize your company that would be SOCIALISM.
Protecting the working class isn't SOCIALISM. It's good government. The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble, and the Bill of Rights were written with the interest of the people, and the individual in mind. Not the corporation.
Minimum wage, Social Security, Workforce Safety Regulations, were all labelled as Socialist at their inception, but they have benefitted the common working man.
Those that oppose this president today, probably would have favored Hoover over FDR as well.
Saying the private sector is "fine" is definitely a case of foot-in-mouth. But $150,000 payment to go away, whether true or not, is NOT a crime, and hardly election fraud.
You're just plain stupid.
Thanks, John. Your response is appreciated.
I apologize, I don't mean to question anyone elses NBA IQ. Just IMHO, I don't see that as being a Davis strong suit immediately. But everyone has their own perspective.
I love the addition of Anthony Davis to this team, but anyone that thinks that Davis will be a reliable source of points in the blocks, needs to reconsider their NBA IQ. Maybe in two or three seasons, but in the meantime, the Duncans, Ibekas, Gasols (both) and Griffins of the West will push him out of the paint.
It's hard for me to justify letting Landry go, as well. Without Landry, who picks up the role of being the Hornets' low-post scorer, and rebounder?
I like what Kaman did for the Hornets last season, but he's not worth the $14mil+ that he will be expecting. Aaron Gray, an unrestricted free agent, can come in and be a presence at the #5 with a cheaper salary and more youth.
I don't think that Ariza is the missing piece to our championship puzzle, but I question without Ariza who becomes the Hornet's go-to perimeter defender?
It's hard to be a defense-oriented champion without a reliable wing-defender. It doesn't have to be Ariza, but it DEFINITLY has to be someone.
The New Orleans Gars (Alligator Gar). Carnivorous, hard fighting trophy fish, more intimidating to look at than even a barracuda!
Without Ariza, who steps in as the team's perimeter defender? Without Landry, who plays the role of low-post scorer, and rebounder?
I like Kaman's game, but not at $14mil+. I would rather a cheaper, and younger Aaron Gray. ANYBODY can step in and offer what Bellinelli has for the past few seasons. He's the Hornet's version of Scott Shanle.
If Mickey Loomis was commanding this offseason, he would re-sign Gordon, and Landry, pick-up Dragic and Gray as free agents, and draft a scorer with the #10 pick, or package it for extra picks if a scorer wasn't available.
Young Mr. Combs should be recognized for his accomplishment, but class and good grace would suggest that he graciously passes on the scholarship.
He would still be a member of the team as a "walk-on", but this would allow UCLA to offer the scholarship to another recruit that they may otherwise lose to a school that can give them a scholarship
"The die has been cast. It is up to Mr. Landrieu to select the replacement. He can now show the people that he was not moved or influenced by the distainful (sic) behavior of the two in your face show-offs or he can do the gracious thing and appoint the person Ms. Head has chosen.
So is he controlled by something other than his own conscience or is he a man of goodwill to the board of councilmen and women who did their duty and performed the job the taxpayers pay them to do - That is report to work.
Hissy-fits have to go."
Siegrune, you have revealed yourself to be the typical, hypocritical right-wing confederate.
I dare you to get back on your soapbox and challenge Vitter's integrity. Demand that Mr. Vitter get out of the way and allow the Judiciary Committee to do their duty and perform the job the taxpayers pay them to do - conduct a hearing on the nominees.
Inform Mr. Vitter that hissy-fits have to go
Alyssa, I agree. Bail should not be based upon the accused's ability to pay, but upon the gravity of the act committed, and the the accused's probability of flight risk.
Zimmerman should not have been offered bail in the first place. He is accused of killing an unarmed person. Also, his first lawyers admitted to having lost contact with him, and he had a second passport that he did not turn into authorities.
If the Razoo bouncers can get away with murder, I wouldn't be surprised if Zimmerman walks too. IF he's convicted he'll probably be given a short sentence with Time Served.
Last offseason it was unknown when/if there would be an NBA season, if CP3 would stay, and who would be the new owner. They still sold over 10,000 seats.
This offseason, we have two top-10 Draft picks in the Draft, including #1 overall, the right to keep Eric Gordon, and Super Bowl winning owner as the new owner. Of course, ticket sales will equal or exceed 10,000.
The only question mark is how will the roster shape up. Who will we with the #10 pick? Who will we draft if we keep it? Who will we package if we trade it? Which of our own free agents will we bring back? What other free agents will we target? Will we amnesty a current player?
Those are questions that generate discussion. "Will the Hornets sell more tickets?" is a closed ended yes/no query, with "yes" being the obvious answer.
Is there any reason that Anthony Davis, and Carl Landry cannot start for the Hornets as a tandem?
Personally, I like the idea of Davis as a #3. He would get pushed around by the PFs in the West, but be a perfect matchup for Durant. Landry has proven the ability to play offensively and defensively at the #4 spot.
Bring in, or develop a more reliable SG than Bellinelli, and let him go. Kaman has been productive, but not worth more than $14mil. With other players that can fill the basket, Aaron Gray may be a more worthwhile Free Agency pursuit.
President Bush was often credited for not allowing ANOTHER terrorist attack on American soil. But President "Empty Suit" gets no credit for terminating the architecht of the WORST attack on American soil???
You and your lot are pathetic and loathsome. You would pray for the failure of this president's actions and policy along with the demise of this nation, rather than support his successes, and this country's triumph's.
I don't know if you are a bigot or not, but you are definetly despicable.
Sure, keep him. Because otherwise the question is "If not him, then who?".
To be a championship NBA coach you have to be a teacher, strategist, and have control of your locker room. Monte seems to have control of his locker room and the respect of his team. There aren't too many NBA coaches that can claim that. The Hornets played close games against teams with superior talent, his strategy was sound.
I find him to be lacking in the development of young talent, fortunately not as badly as Byron Scott. I think he mishandled the Marcus Thornton situation. Not the trade, Thornton was the only tradable player that we had, and Landry proved to be a valuable addition when West was injured. Before the trade Thornton deserved more minutes than Bellinelli. Thornton was a better and more versatile scorer, and was no more of a defensive liability than Bellinelli. In fact, Thornton was more likely to get a steal or a block than Bellinelli. It took injury to Okefor for Monte to give Kaman the minutes he deserved.
Hopefully Monte is maturing and in the future he will let on-court production be the basis for playing time, rather than personal likes and dislikes.
The nurse probably reacted like that because your mom was sedated and you were 15!
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From the discovery of new dinosaurs and fresh insights into what they looked like, to new evidence about the evolution and extinction of other prehistoric creatures, keep up to date with recent research findings.
One of the earliest examples of dinosaurs living in herds has been found in a remote region of Venezuela.
Contrary to previous suggestions, most dinosaurs were likely not declining before the impact wiped them out entirely.
Spectacular fossil brain discovery leads to rethink of the evolution of arthropods.
Tooth of ferocious marine reptile is largest of its kind found in the UK.
Exceptional preservation reveals a 520-million-year-old cardiovascular system.
Unknown animal species from half a billion years ago have been uncovered in the Canadian Rockies.
Discovery of the oldest intact nervous system in the world provides evidence for the evolution of spiders and scorpions.
BBC's Blue Peter film unveiling of giant dinosaur skeleton.
New dinosaur research suggests that sauropods' necks were less flexible than previously thought.
A remarkable 55-million-year-old fossil is revealed. Museum fossil mammal expert Jerry Hooker comments on the finding.
Computed tomography (CT) scans revealed details of the ancient flying reptile's braincase that will help scientists discover more about its behaviour.
245-million-year-old fossils at the Museum belong to Nyasasaurus, possibly the earliest dinosaur.
The oldest teeth have been identified in an ancient fish, revealing clues to the origin of our own.
The ancient animal Fuxianhuia protensa had a brain just as complex as today's lobsters and crabs.
Crocodiles are often thought of as living fossils, unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. But 150 million years ago the feeding habits of some crocodylians were more similar to today's killer whales.
Techniques used for designing F1 cars have helped Museum scientists uncover dinosaur feeding habits.
Museum scientists reveal for the first time how 4-legged dinosaurs like Triceratops and Stegosaurus stood.
Museum scientists have identified a dwarf mammoth in the Mediterranean. It is the smallest known to have ever lived.
Following the discovery of Yutyrannus huali, dinosaur expert Paul Barrett gives his view on whether other large dinosaurs may also have had feathers.
Scientists at the Museum find the first direct evidence that the prehistoric sea creature Anomalocaris had compound eyes with 16,000 lenses.
A new dinosaur, Spinops, has been identified from skull bone fossils overlooked in the Museum collections for nearly a century.
New research suggests giant sauropod dinosaurs migrated seasonally across the vast plains of western North America. It is the first evidence of dinosaur migration.
How does Archaeopteryx fit in with bird origins? The Museum's Paul Barrett and Angela Milner give their views.
The first spinosaur dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Australia is uncovered by Museum scientists.
The ancestors of today's lice, and their bird and mammal hosts, were diversifying before dinosaurs went extinct.
Woolly mammoths died out because climate change caused a massive decline in their grassland habitat, scientists report.
Evidence for the first ever tyrannosaur dinosaur in the southern continents has been uncovered.
Scientists reveal the first evidence of colour-causing structures in dinosaurs and ancient birds.
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NBA: Bulls' Deng, Bobcats' Augustin to miss games; Nets' James out for the year
The Chicago Bulls, owners of the best record in the NBA's Eastern Conference, will be without their second-best scorer for the foreseeable future, as the team has reported on their Twitter page (@chicagobulls) that Luol Deng has a torn ligament in his left wrist.
Head coach Tom Thibodeau confirmed the report to ESPN Chicago, and said that Deng is "week to week."
The Bulls plan to rest Deng in the hopes that operating on the wrist does not become necessary.
"I really feel like we have a very good chance of doing something special," Deng told ESPN. "And I feel like without the surgery I'll be fine. I just know what I can do without it and what I can't do. And I really think I'm going to be very effective out there. There's going to be days when it's sore."
Deng suffered the injury in the fourth quarter of a 95-89 win over the Charlotte Bobcats last Saturday (Sunday, PHL time). Without him, the team managed to dispatch the New Jersey Nets yesterday, 110-95.
The 2004 first round pick is currently averaging 15.9 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.2 steals.
Meanwhile, the Charlotte Bobcats will miss starting point guard D.J. Augustin to a toe injury, a team press release announced.
The fourth-year player was diagnosed with an "inflammatory condition of the sesmoid bones that lie in the flexor tendons on his right big toe" and is expected to miss four games.
Augustin, who re-aggravated the injury in the first quarter of a January 22 (Jan. 23, PHL time) loss to the New Jersey Nets, averages 13.7 points and leads his team in assists with 6.7 a game.
Finally, the New Jersey Nets announced on their Twitter page (@Nets_PR) that second-year player Damion Jones will miss the season to recover from right foot surgery.
Jones started the team's first seven games and normed 4.9 points and 4.7 rebounds, but was sidelined due to soreness in his foot.
As it turned out, surgery became needed to replace a screw in his fifth metatarsal, eliminating him from the team's line-up for the rest of the 2011-12 NBA season. — Adrian Dy/RSJ, GMA News
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As Friends struggled with the issues surrounding the proper place of music in their lives, so did the educational institutions they supported. Begun with the intention of giving Quaker youth a "guarded education" in an environment consistent with the values of Friends, the earliest years of these schools were the most rigid. Music gradually found a legitimate place within the education curriculum of Friends schools, yet there were decades of dissonance among culture, youth, Quaker values and organizations. In his history of Haverford College, Rufus Jones (1863-1948) commented upon the cultural starkness of the early years of the college:
We look back with mild pity on the generations of Haverford students who were deprived of the joy of music and art. The strong anti-aesthetic bias in the minds of the Quaker founders and the early Managers was, I think, an unmitigated misfortune. They loved to see a beautiful campus and they had an eye for beauty in landscape, architecture and external nature, but they severely excluded art and music from any place in the sphere of culture.... It was associated with the dance hall and the stage, and was likely, it was assumed, to draw those who indulged in its charms away from the oaths of robust rectitude into a frivolous life.
This page documents the difficulties and development faced by some local Quaker schools and colleges as they tried to discern the appropriate place for music in the lives of the students they were charged to raise.
Music was allowed on the Haverford campus only gradually and the first Haverford songbook was published in 1903, seventy years after the college's founding. Yet its numerous alma maters, football songs, and excerpts from campus entertainments composed by Haverford students indicate that this type of musical activity had been going on surreptitiously for years. Additional songbooks came out in 1912, 1916, 1934, and 1954.
Although not strictly incorporated as an all-Quaker school, Bryn Mawr College was nevertheless founded by Quakers and was run by an all-Quaker board of trustees for its first twenty years. In this 1886 letter from trustee James Whitall to Bryn Mawr President M. Carey Thomas, the subject is the arrival to campus of a practice piano, which Whitall dramatically calls the "four-footed beast." He suggests that the piano be dispensed with along with "the patronage of the girls to whom it is a necessity." Note too the mention of the many small instruments known to be among the boys at Haverford College. (M. Carey Thomas Papers, courtesy of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections).
In the earliest days of Quaker schools, music was not permitted as was consistent with the principles of the Society of Friends. Despite the prohibition, though, small musical instruments such as the "Jew's Harp" found their ways onto campuses at Haverford and Westtown.
If a Haverford offender was detected the harp was confiscated. Alumnus John Collins reported in 1883 that it was believed enough melodic contraband met this fate in Haverford's early years to fill a barrel.
Similarly, Elton Thomas, who entered Westtown in 1839, knew how to help his little sister, Margaretta, with her music requirements in 1854. She had been at Westtown for three years already when she received her "basket of peaches" so perhaps this ruse had been used before for other illegal imports. (Elton Thomas to Margaaretta Thomas, Westtown School 9th month 7th 1854, courtesy of Westtown School Archives, Westtown, PA).
A note about the Jew's Harp: Also called the Trump, Tromba, and Gewgaw in parts of Europe, "Jew's Harp" is the common name for the instrument in the English language. While the instrument has been referred to as a "Jaw Harp" or "Juice Harp" in recent years, there does not seem to be any historical basis to these names, and indeed there is no evidence that the term "Jew's Harp" was ever used derogatively. The instrument is played by placing the free end of the harp between the teeth and strumming the tongue of the harp with the thumb. The pitch is changed by manipulating the size and shape of the oral cavity.
The words to one Haverford College song were written by Francis Gummere, class of 1872, professor of English, and son of the college's President Samuel Gummere. The words are to be sung to the patriotic tune Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean. It is sung here by current Haverford students Larry Bomback and Matt Lewis.


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How Long Can You Leave Your Water/nute Mix Before Feeding?
Posted 17 May 2010 - 07:15 AM
How long do you guys usually wait to feed after mixing your nutes up?
(I'm growing in soil with bio bizz nutes btw)
Posted 17 May 2010 - 07:18 AM
Posted 17 May 2010 - 07:24 AM
Edited by peanut, 17 May 2010 - 07:27 AM.
Posted 17 May 2010 - 07:24 AM
Not sure if they go a bit iffy if you just let it sit without an air stone.
I also keep all organic nutes refrigerated.
Posted 17 May 2010 - 12:36 PM
i'll be sure to mix it up then feed from now on
Posted 17 May 2010 - 12:57 PM
you'd definitely know you were doing something wrong if you'd done a fish mix feed and left it a couple of days
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Posted 20 May 2010 - 10:29 AM
Organic nutrients or organic supplements are basically constantly undergoing change as there are bacteria and enzymes in the water converting organic matter through a series of bacterial actions into nitrates. High temps and lot of caess tooxygen sppeds these changes, cold tempeartures can put decomposition and bacteria conversion to usable nutrient almost at a halt. Some growers find they actually like the increased nutrient uptake caused by mixing their nutrients up several weeks in advance and keep a huge amount of air pumping into the nutrients lution as this mans neraly all the nutrients are readily usable by the palnts as soon as you start giving them aged nutrients. you have y to keep the solution well aerated during this waiting period and keep the solution warm if not almost hot to speed the conversions done by the bacteria and enzymes.
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TARZANA, Calif. (March 1, 2012) - The New Mexico State women's golf team heads to California to participate in the Bruin-Wave Invitational, hosted by UCLA and Pepperdine University, March 5-6.
The tournament will be played at El Caballero Country Club, a par 72, 6,131 yard course located in Tarzana, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles. It will consist of three rounds with the first two rounds being played on Monday (March 5) and the final round being played on Tuesday (March 6).
NM State will be part of a 15-team field that includes co-host UCLA, the defending national champions and current top-ranked team in the nation. The field will also include top 25 teams Oklahoma State and co-host Pepperdine, along with Aggie in-state rival New Mexico. Rounding out the field are Brigham Young, Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, Oregon State, San Diego State, Sonoma State, Stanford, UNLV, Washington State and Wisconsin.
There are six Aggie golfers making the trip to California. The five-member Aggie team will consist of freshman Laura Barron, sophomores Demi Mak, Mieke Canan and Amelie Buhl and senior Ashley Elias. Sophomore Lindsay Reeve will also be at the tournament but will be competing as an individual golfer, meaning her score will only count towards the individual totals but will not be added to the Aggie total team score.
This is the third year of the Bruin-Wave Invitational. The first two were held at the Robinson Ranch Golf Course in Santa Clarita, Calif. NM State also participated in both previous Bruin-Wave Invitationals and has three current golfers who have played in the tournament.
During the inaugural Bruin-Wave Invitational in 2010, Elias finished with a three-round total of 249 placing her in a tie for 87th. The Aggies finished 17th out of 18 teams.
The Aggies improved on their 2010 performance during last year's Bruin-Wave Invitational. Current Aggie golfers Mak and Canan were part of an Aggie team that finished 10th out of 15 teams in the 2011 tournament. Individually, Mak finished tied for 39th with a three-round total score of 231, while Canan finished tied for 67th with a three-round total score of 241.
The five golfers that make up the Aggie team headed to California also represented NM State in the team's most recent tournament, The UNLV Spring Invitational held in Boulder City, Nev. (Feb. 20-21). The Aggies finished 10th as a team in Nevada aided by Mak's tie for 16th place finish. Elias, Barron, Canan and Buhl finished 48th, 49th, tied for 50th and tied for 52nd respectively.
For a recap of each day's team and individual statistics log on to NMStateSports.com or follow the action live with live scoring at golfstat.com.


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I have been asking around a few message board trying to find a tune and someone on another board replied with the following :-
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the track is called either Chuck Apple Mad or Pornography - promoed in 1992
It was made by Martin Price (808 State) - but never came out - it was promo only - so it is pretty rare"
So this being an 808 State MB i thought i would ask if anyone knows what he is talking about...
I asked about a tune that i heard in the early 90's which used a sample of "Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter"
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2' x 1-1/2" PVC pipe (diameter is up to you but a larger diameter is easier to fill)
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Again using a drill-mounted hole saw or a reciprocating saw, cut a hole large enough for the PVC pipe. This hole is located near the side of the bucket.
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Verdi's grand finale, "Falstaff" has long been admired for its outstanding orchestration and brilliant libretto, which is based on Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "Henry IV." Falstaff loves the ladies, but they don't love him back. After a night of drinking and bragging about the women he has romanced over the years, the lecherous and corpulent knight attempts to woo two ladies at the same time. However, his seduction plans backfire when the clever women try to outwit the old rascal.
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The War-Metaphor
Utah's Rock Canyon holds the climbing equivalent of a marathon. It's called Squawstruck, a 1900 foot sport climb from the base of the mountain to the summit of Squawpeak, one of the tallest mountains in the area. America contains only one longer sport climb.
When I first started climbing, I would look at the Squawstruck line as if it were an ogre, massive, bumpy, and ugly, leering at me and reminding me that I was not much of a climber. I resolved to conquer the route someday, and I began training with a friend to tackle the monster.
We couldn't do it. Not the first time anyway. Our first attempt was a failed 15 hour excursion that ended with us rappelling down and a making a long walk home.
After the first failure our training recommenced with a vengeance, and we worked as if we had some kind of vendetta towards the king of Rock Canyon. We finally sent Squawstruck in a plodding 17 hours. The climb was a lot like the fight at the end of Rocky. We had been beaten and bloody, but we had not been knocked out. The first half of the climb had gone well, after all we had done it before, but the second half was a relentless series of roofs and extremely difficult face climbs. A short section of two easy routes gives a little bit of relief before the finish over an enormous roof that leads to the summit.
I hung and rested in front of the final roof, completely drained, cold winds wailing around me in the dark of night. I wanted to go back. I wanted to do anything except climb that roof with my bruised and swollen fingers. In a surge of frustration and anger I grabbed onto those depressingly small holds and pulled over the roof. We stayed at the summit for a few minutes, glanced at the city lights below us and started the 4 mile hike down.
I didn't feel good about the climb. In particular, I was disturbed by the surge of anger that had propelled me to the summit. Shortly after the climb I first heard about the war-metaphor. The idea is that humans conceive of life as a battle, a fight. It's always me vs. something: me vs. the test, me vs. the job, me vs. the climb. Our language is filled with things like, "That test kicked my butt," or "I crushed the interview."
Violence and war are some of the primary themes whereby we interpret the world. I realized this perspective was the cause of much of the stress and dissatisfaction in my life. The constant mentality of being in a fight with something—be it a rock wall, a test, or a project—was wearing me down and making me unhappy. I think this may have been part of what Jesus meant when he said "All they that take the sword will perish with the sword." I was unsettled by this realization and how much of my life it characterized. In spite of this, I couldn't really think of an alternative to the war-metaphor until I returned to Squawstruck.
I had been feeling like there was still something to learn from the route, so I went back this weekend to try and figure out what that was. I climbed for the sake of climbing this time. I didn't have anything to prove to myself or anyone else. I just climbed.
While climbing, I saw something I had never seen before. I stopped to look at the scenery of the climb for the first time. The last time we were on the route we were in such a rush to avoid getting caught in the dark that we didn't even slow down to look at the view our massive elevation offered. We had taken a cursory of the valley from the top and hurried home. As I stopped to look at scenery in the middle of the climb, I saw an aspect of the canyon I had never seen before and realized the value of looking at things from the middle and not just the end.
I turned and saw that the canyon had several slot canyons that looked like waves of stone, each shaped like a surfer's dream wave that had been struck with Medusa's gaze. It looked like an ocean of stone rolling towards the city at the mouth of the canyon. A peak I had never noticed before jutted up above these waves like a new earth, and the changing leaves made the mountainside forests look like rivulets of gold dripping off this nascent earth, newly emerged from a sea of stone. It was gorgeous. In all of my time in the canyon I can't believe I had never seen this area that looked like a whole new world of potential climbing and exploration. Then again, I had never stopped to look. I had been too busy fighting my battle with Squawstruck.
I discovered the journey-metaphor on this weekend on Squawstruck. Life doesn't have to be a battle; it can be a journey full of sights to see and things to experience instead of a set of foes to vanquish or obstacles to overcome. This perspective can turn something arduous into something beautiful. I was still exhausted after the climb, but I felt a sense of joy and wonder at the beauties of the forest as we made the 4 mile descent.
Our lives don't have to be a war. If we perceive our experiences in terms of a battle then we will be harmed by the violent and aggressive thought process. The war-metaphor may be strong enough to get us over a single roof, but it will exhaust the mind and the spirit in the long run. Life can be interpreted in terms of a journey or a trip, and this perspective has the power to reveal worlds of potential we've never seen before.


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one last question, do I need to leave the sd card in my Wii or it work without the sd card?
I have followed all of the previous steps successfully but am having problems with Step 5(b). I have searched the forums as well as google for a couple hours now to resolve the problem with no luck.
When launching WAD Manager 1.5 if I try to load IOS249 it freezes and the remote disconnects. If I load IOS36 it loads but I am unable to install IOS60patched.wad it errors out.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Have a Happy New Year.
my good friend I get this message in neogamma:
DVD R ead Error (1053)
Thanks for this excellent tutorials. I have followed through your instructions step by step to try on my Wii_ver4.2u for 2 hours. Finally I could play games successfully through Wi HDD by USB_Loader_GX . I'm not a lucky one, so ones that has some problems need to patience and keep trying this tutorial step by step few more times. Very thank you to ShadowSonics2 and Good luck
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yes I have done everything as you describe in you tutorial, I also have use a DVD-R and at low speed X3 and its giving me the same error message:
DVD Read Error (1053)
what could be the problem??
helpme please!!
how can I load games into a HDD can you explain that to me
thankyou guys
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Lighthouse for the Blind plans to double its space, hire 20 more people
CORPUS CHRISTI - South Texas Lighthouse for the Blind plans to double its space with a new $2.9 million building with about 70,000 square feet. It will offer more warehouse and manufacturing space for the nonprofit to hire about 20 additional people. It has 111 employees at its Agnes Street location who handle five product lines representing dozens of janitorial and office supplies, and military gear.
"We're using our own funds," said CEO Nicky Ooi. "There's a more than 70 percent unemployed rate for the blind. And we do have a waiting list."
More than half the new space will be for manufacturing products and will include a training section, said spokeswoman Alana Manrow. The rest will store finished products for shipping.
The Lighthouse for the Blind expansion is among about $5.8 million for nine new commercial projects submitted last week to the city's Development Services Department. They include Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority getting an about $20,000 expansion of its shop and offices at 5658 Bear Lane and a more than $500,000 new building for Grace Community Church in Flour Bluff. Other plans submitted were for a new kidney care facility building near Six Points; site work for Hurricane Alley's new surfing attraction, finishing work for Access Dental at 4506 Kostoryz Road and tenant space renovation for two new restaurants.
Excitement grew midweek through social media sites after city officials tweeted plans for national chain Chipotle Mexican Grill to open at Shops at La Palmera. The other new eatery is Ginger Café at 7009 S. Staples St. Its owner Jose E. Chronis has been in the restaurant business 35 years in Austin and Smithville, he said. Chronis is moving to Corpus Christi to be closer to his sister, who will help him operate the 1,900-square-foot restaurant, initially for breakfast and lunch only.
Ginger is the theme, with ginger sweet breads, cookies and candles, he said. But they will make fresh soups and other daily specials — with a bend on healthier options.
"People really love my sister's soups," Chronis said. "Plus our tortillas are made with soy bean oil and yeast, a bit more on the healthy side than using lard."
Chronis hopes to be open in about a month.
Plans were also submitted for a new phone store in Calallen — Mobile Destination at 13637 Northwest Blvd., Suite 102. It was the only new project, of six that received construction permits last week.
In addition to the phone store, Martini Salon at 7602 Staples St. and Divalicious offices at 3131 McArdle Road received the go-ahead to finish retail spaces. Workers also can start construction on buildings for Texas Watercraft in Flour Bluff, Lighthouse Baptist Church in the 3200 block of Holly Road and the city's street and solid waste departments' storage building on Hygeia Street.
Here are last week's actions at the Corpus Christi Development Services Department, with a brief description, location and estimated project cost
Mobile Destination, 13637 Northwest Blvd., $38,000
Chipotle Mexican Grill, 4938 S. Staples St. Suite E-1, $300,000
Fresenius Medical Care, 1647 S. Alameda St., $800,000
Access Dental, 4506 Kostoryz Road, $180,000
Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority office addition, 5658 Bear Lane, $20,685
South Texas Lighthouse for the Blind new building, 4421 Agnes St., $2.9 million
Grace Community Church, 1514 Flour Bluff Drive, $543,000
Hurricane Alley Flow Rider site work, 702 E. Port Ave., $125,000
Ginger Café, 7009 S. Staples St., $35,051
Lighthouse Baptist Church, 3226 Holly Road, $393,600
City of Corpus Christi storage building, 2525 Hygeia St., $304,069
Texas Watercraft, 10621 S. Padre Island Drive, $787,149
Divalicious offices, 3131 McArdle Road, $2,773
Mobile Destination, 13637 Northwest Blvd., $38,000
Martini Salon offices, 7602 S. Staples St., $37,000
Source: Corpus Christi Development Services Department
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Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Pittman signs with Chargers
Former Texas wide receiver Billy Pittman has signed with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent. Pittman finished his career with 80 receptions for 1,283 yards and nine touchdowns. [Read More]
Ogden officially named assistant coach
The Longhorns officially announced Tuesday that former player Chris Ogden has been named assistant basketball coach. The 27-year-old Ogden will replace Ken McDonald, who resigned April 6 to become head coach at Western Kentucky. Ogden has served as an administrative assistant on the UT coaching staff for the past four seasons. "This is a great […] [Read More]
Man United 1, Barcelona 0: It's an all-English final!
Fulltime: What a year for Manchester United. A 14th-minute goal by veteran Paul Scholes holds up, and the Red Devils are headed to only their third Champions League final in history and first in nearly a decade after Tuesday's 1-0 victory over FC Barcelona at Old Trafford. United, which is tied for the lead of […] [Read More]
Pahulu to visit Minnesota and New Orleans
Brendan Pahulu hasn't signed a free-agent contract yet, but he'll visit Minnesota this weekend and New Orleans next weekend in search of a deal. Pahulu had intended to go to Miami's camp, but since the Dolphins signed a raft of free agent linebackers, Pahulu decided it would be in his best interests to go to […] [Read More]
Anders named Big 12 Player of Week
First baseman Luke Anders continued his tear over the weekend and it earned him Big 12 Player of the Week honors Monday. Anders hit .467 to lead the Aggies to a 4-0 weekend, which included a sweep of the Missouri Tigers. He hit two home runs and drove in five runners. Anders is now third […] [Read More]
Catching up with … Ben Braun, Part Deux
With abated breath, [Ed. Note: There is an amazing amount of debate online regarding the phrase bated (some believe the word doesn't exist) or baited (which, apparently, is nonsensical) breath, so much so that we'll just skip it altogether.] We long for the day Ben Braun settles in on South Main. Waiting 72 hours for […] [Read More]
Texas draft grade: C … as in average
My temperature, which maxed out at 103.8 just about the time the Texans traded down in the first round on Saturday, is hovering at 102.1, so I'll make this brief. A "C for average" is about all the Texans can get for their work over the past two days, but that's OK for now. The […] [Read More]
Weekend in review: It took me a while to put together, so you better read it all
A wise man donning a Dynamo jersey once told me in the locker room that you have to make your own luck. Can you name the player? Just a thought for those who swear the Dynamo were simply unlucky in their 1-0 loss to the Columbus Crew on Saturday night. Today is back to the […] [Read More]
Killebrew weighing offers
Former Texas linebacker Robert Killebrew is weighing offers from four teams to sign as an undrafted free agent, his father, Gary, told the Houston Chronicle on Sunday night. The four teams under consideration are Green Bay, Seattle, Chicago and Indianapolis. He probably will not make a decision until Monday, Gary Killebrew said. Killebrew, who played […] [Read More]
Four UT players sign as undrafted free agents
Four Longhorns have signed as undrafted free agents, according to various media reports. Defensive tackle Derek Lokey signed with Kansas City; cornerback Brandon Foster signed with Indianapolis; and safety Marcus Griffin and wide receiver Nate Jones with Minnesota. [Read More]
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The Bingham-Waggoner Estate – Independence Missouri
The Bingham-Waggoner Estate is found at 313 West Pacific in Independence, Missouri. This estate is named for some of its most famous residents. George C. Bingham was a famous Civil War artist. Mr. Bingham and his family moved to the estate shortly before the Civil War broke out, and Bingham maintained a studio in one of the log and clapboard buildings near his home. It was at this studio that he painted Order Number 11, which was based on a famous military order that was put into effect in Missouri. He was also a politician, and ran for Congress from the Sixth Missouri District but was defeated. He later moved to Kansas City where he served as Police Commissioner and Adjutant General.
The Waggoners were a family that also owned the estate and were a family of millers that came from Pennsylvania. In 1867, the family purchased the old city mill and moved to Independence. The family quickly gained a reputation for the best cake and baking flours. The 'Queen of the Pantry" brand flour from the Waggoner's mill became well known throughout the Midwest as one of the premier flour choices. Their home that was located across the street from the mill underwent renovations in the 1890s. The estate stayed in the Waggoner family until 1976, when Harry K. Waggoner died, and the city of Independence purchased the house and grounds to use as a museum and park.
The group that runs the Bingham-Waggoner Estate has three goals for the public. Their first goal is to educate the public by giving tours of the site, providing art programs, research materials and supplying the local schools with educational materials. They also have a social goal, which is to host events like the annual pig roast, the Truman Birthday Celebration, the Lewis and Clark Trail Breakfast, and the Arts and Crafts Show. Their third goal is for the community. They wish to provide the community with a facility for private, government and civic groups to use for special recognition programs.
The Bingham-Waggoner Estate is open from April to October. Their Christmas season is November 24 through December 30, and they are closed on December 23, 24, and 25. The hours of operation are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday through Saturday, and the Sunday hours are from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The admission prices are $5 for adults, senior citizens are $4.50, and children and students are $2. There is a group rate of $4.50.
The estate also has a gift shop in the carriage house that has gifts, mementos and other items to purchase. The carriage house is also home to an old-fashioned soda fountain, a period covered wagon and reproductions of George C. Bingham's work. The carriage house can also be used for meetings or luncheons.


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The artist will be in the gallery for the reception, held Saturday, April 30, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Appalachian Center for Craft is conveniently located approximately six miles from Interstate 40 at Exit 273 (Smithville /McMinnville). Go south on Hwy. 56; turn left immediately after crossing Hurricane Bridge. This drive leads to the Craft Center.
For more information call 615-597-6801 or 931-372-3051 or visit www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/.


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Sun, October 21, 2007 • 3:00 PM • Alamo Drafthouse at Lake Creek (13729 Research Blvd, Lake Creek Shopping Center, 183 and Lake Creek Parkway)
Directed by Jan Jakub Kolski.The Austin Polish Society Film Festival will be held October 19 -21 and 27-28. The opening VIP reception and Polish Poster Exhibit is scheduled for October 19 at 7:00 pm. (UT Fine Arts Building (ART), 2nd floor, San Jacinto at 23rd).
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Head Football Coach Matt Campbell Signs Contract Extension Through 2017
TOLEDO, OH – The University of Toledo and head football coach Matt Campbell have agreed to a contract extension that will run through the 2017 football season, UT vice-president and athletic director Mike O'Brien announced today.
Campbell, in his second full season with the Rockets, has a 15-7 record as head coach. He led the Rockets to a 42-41 victory over Air Force in the 2011 Military Bowl in his first game as head coach. In 2012, his Rockets finished 9-4 and were ranked in the Top 25 at one point in the season. So far this season the Rockets are 5-3, 3-1 in the Mid-American Conference
"Matt Campbell is not only one of the finest young football coaches in the country, he is also a great mentor to the young men in our football program," said O'Brien. "He is determined to make the UT football program the finest in the Mid-American Conference. But more than that, he is dedicated to making sure our student-athletes get a good education and to helping them develop as well-rounded individuals. We are pleased to make this commitment to Coach Campbell and look forward to many more years with him as our head football coach."
"I'm grateful for the support of President Lloyd Jacobs, Mike O'Brien, and the entire UT administrative staff," said Campbell. "I'm honored to be the head football coach at this great University. Most of all I would like to thank our players, assistant coaches and football support staff. Their effort and enthusiasm help make our program a point of pride for the University of Toledo and the Toledo community."
Campbell served three seasons as UT's offensive coordinator under former head coach Tim Beckman from 2009-11. He was named head coach for the Rockets on Dec. 12, 2011, becoming the 26th head football coach in school history and the youngest head coach in the NCAA Division I FBS at the time by more than three years.
Campbell, a native of Massillon, OH, played his college football at Mount Union, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 2002. Campbell earned NCAA Division III All-America honors at defensive end in 2001 and 2002, leading the Purple Raiders to national championships in 2000, 2001 and 2002. He returned to coach at Mount Union under legendary head coach Larry Kehres in 2005 and 2006, helping guide the Purple Raiders to two more national titles. Campbell then coached at Bowling Green for two seasons as the offensive line and run-game coordinator before joining the UT staff in 2009.
Campbell and his wife Erica have two girls, Katelyn (5) and Isabella (4), and a son, Rudy, who was born in July of 2013.
Toledo Head Coach Matt Campbell
Personal Information
Date of Birth: Nov. 29, 1979
Hometown: Massillon, OH
High School: Massillon Perry
Family: Wife: Erica; Children: Katelyn (5) and Isabella (4), Rudy (born July of 2013)
Education: Bachelor's degree in history, Mount Union, 2002
Record as a Head Coach
Year School Position Record MAC Highlights
2013 Toledo Head Coach 5-3 3-1
2012 Toledo Head Coach 9-4 6-2 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
2011 Toledo Head Coach 1-0 0-0 Military Bowl Champion
Career Record 15-7 9-3
Record as an Assistant Coach
Year School Position Record / Highlights
2011 Toledo Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line 8-4 / Military Bowl Champions
2010 Toledo Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line 8-5 / Little Caesars Pizza Bowl
2009 Toledo Run-Game Coordinator/Offensive Line 5-7
2008 Bowling Green Offensive Line/Run-Game Coordinator 6-6
2007 Bowling Green Offensive Line 8-5 / GMAC Bowl
2006 Mount Union Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line 15-0 / D-III National Champions
2005 Mount Union Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line 14-1 / D-III National Champions
2004 Bowling Green Graduate Assistant 9-3 / GMAC Bowl
2003 Bowling Green Graduate Assistant 11-3 / Motor City Bowl Champs
Bowl Games Participated in as a Coach
2012 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
2011 Military Bowl
2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl
2007 GMAC Bowl
2004 GMAC Bowl
2003 Motor City Bowl
NCAA Division III National Champions Participated in as a Coach
2006 Mount Union
2005 Mount Union
NFL Players Coached by Matt Campbell
Pierre Garcon (Mount Union 2004-07): Indianapolis, Washington.
Josh Harris (Bowling Green, 2000-03): Cleveland.
Kevin Kowalski (Toledo, 2007-10): Dallas.
Kory Lichtensteiger (Bowling Green, 2003-07): Washington.
Phillipkeith Manley (Toledo, 2008-11): Atlanta
Scott Mruczkowski (Bowling Green, 2001-04): San Diego.
Danny Noble (Toledo, 2008-11): Tampa Bay
Eric Page (Toledo 2009-2011): Tampa Bay
Cecil Shorts (Mount Union, 2006-10): Jacksonville.
Stephen Williams (Toledo, 2006-09): Arizona.
College Football Playing Career
Defensive lineman, Mount Union College 1999-2002
NCAA Division III All-American, 2001 and 2002
NCAA Division III National Champions, 2000, 2001 and 2002


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There are some meaningless things people just go along with. Let me point out something that should be rather obvious, but for some reason isn't.
Ending world hunger is a bad idea.
It seems even atheists have a hard time grasping this. Bimbos in beauty pageants are trained to parrot it back whenever they're asked what they wish for. Ask any child, or naive adult, and you'll get the same wish of ending world hunger, world peace or some other inane nonsense like that.
Ever stop to think about why humans aren't supposed to interfere with nature? Why do you think it is that cameramen filming little turtles crawling into the ocean never stop help them? Why do they just stand there and watch as some of the poor little fucks get picked off my birds? Because that's how nature preserves its balance. If all of them made it to the ocean, the risk of overpopulation would be too high.
Knowing this then, why do we interfere with other humans? Why is it ethical to not interfere with nature when it's animals, but it's suddenly the complete opposite when it's humans? Why do people have such a hard time accepting that humans are no different than other animals, and that most of the world's problems are indisputably caused by human overpopulation?
7 billion people is too much as it is, and the only reason that some of these billions of people are starving to death, dying in wars, famine etc is that there's too much of them to begin with. And the solution is to stop them from dying so humanity can spread even more? How disgusting.
Every time you watch a documentary on obesity, you can be sure to hear something along the lines of "with the food thrown away in America on a daily basis you could end world hunger." Yes, and then those people would multiply, and then we're fucked again. It's a matter of thinking long term. Aiding in more people surviving is only going to cause more suffering in the long run. Earth is finite. Resources are finite. And thanks to religion we're wasting precious time and money on arguing about matters that are apparently more important, such as who should be allowed to marry whom, and so are yet nowhere near to colonizing space. It's simply irresponsible to suggest every human should be saved.
Famine, disease and even war are nature's way of keeping our numbers at bay, and we arrogantly struggle against that. We're so fucking precious aren't we? No. Humans are no different than any other resource. The more on there is on the market, the less it's worth.
People are trying to get pandas to fuck in the zoo so their species doesn't die out. No one does the same for ants, cockroaches or grasshoppers. They're "pests." In fact we try to kill those. Well guess what, humans aren't the equivalent to pandas. We're the fucking locusts of this world, and it's already haunting us. We have to accept that nature, earth, cannot support this many people breeding at an accelerating rate. Ultimately at this point, with 7 billion people, any single person is too much, and pumping out more of our larva is just detrimental to the well-being of the rest.
Same goes for people who have children. Don't think I forgot about you. It doesn't matter how much you recycle, how much of a vegan you are, or how well you raise your little supposed prodigies. In the end, you're just part of the problem. So next time you feel selfish enough to want kids, be a little moral and do the world a favor by just adopting a kid.
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By the time we get to migrate "off planet" religions will have died away. Then all you need is the right man in charge to make sure it stays that way.
It amuses me when people think our future is going to be like the one in Star Trek where a bunch of nice guys in a spaceship explore the galaxy in peace. How much more likely is it that we're going to become the fucking Borg, Predators, Xenomorphs or Necromongers of the galaxy? A lot. Ours is a warlike species and I doubt religion is going to die out soon, unless we go with my genius plan and screen the religious babies out, then tie them by their feet to a bunch of balloons and let them float at carnivals so people can buy tickets to shoot them and pop the balloons. If you can shoot down 3 relitard babies you win a teddy bear.
Some days I look at the religious nutjobs around and about me and I get the distinct impression that I have already evolved into something different. It's becoming a case of "Captain it's the engines here, Scotty can't take much more". If I could remember where I parked my spaceship I would have left ages ago !!
kOrsan: You cannot feed everybody. That is the point. The only reason there are starving children to begin with is overpopulation.
That is a blanket statement that disregards factors such as climate change. In the case of Africa, where the vast majority of starvation takes place, drought has been a key issue. If land does not receive adequate rainfall or experiences severe wind erosion it cannot support 2 people let alone 2 million.
"unless we go with my genius plan and screen the religious babies out, then tie them by their feet to a bunch of balloons and let them float at carnivals so people can buy tickets to shoot them and pop the balloons. If you can shoot down 3 relitard babies you win a teddy bear."
You possess a perverted sense of humor.
Most of the solutions that don't involve war or pandemic will only work if there's a worldwide dictatorship. So...back to war and pandemic.
Why a dictatorship? Because anything effective without a big kill off would involve limits on family size and/or enforced (or highly incentivized) sterilizations on a massive and global scale.
it cannot support 2 people let alone 2 million.
Yeah, but the 2 people could move to a fertile place that's not already infested with another 200 million people and live happily ever after, and any aid they would receive would be far more effective since the rations would be divided by 2, instead by 2 million. Btw, humans are stubborn already, we spread and populate areas despite environmental factors. We're such a brilliant species that we build villages and cities at the foot of volcanoes. And it'll only get worse the more of us there are on the planet. More people = less space for everybody = more problems. Most parts of this planet are inhabitable, and we're filling the habitable parts to the brink with each unit leaving the factory/uterus, and so what happens is that the more people we create the more of them are going to end up having to live in the inhabitable zones. Even if they're lucky to be born in a "modern society," which each new generation the quality and standards of their lives are going to deteriorate.
You possess a perverted sense of humor.
Or so it seems to you because your sense of humor is prude.
Stephen Hawking isn't that highly regarded among physicists. He's kind of an attention whore.
Now, the idea of moving off-world is nonsense. The only really viable and even vaguely realistic option would be Mars. But that sort of life would be very degraded compared to the life we lead on Earth now. You wouldn't be able to go out and really enjoy wind in the face. You'd be living largely underground to get shelter from the radiation which is far more intense than on Earth because Mars has no protective magnetosphere the way earth does. The people would probably gradually go bonkers.
We'd be stuck with Mars because beyond it the planets receive very little sunlight by comparison with Earth or Mars and are balls of gas without a solid surface, and of course they have no liquid water (though some of the moons do).
Further in toward the sun, Venus and Mercury are hot and hostile. The Russians sent probes to the surface of Venus, one of which lasted less than an hour and the next one just a few hours. It's that unfriendly a place for a robotic device. Imagine how a human would fare.
One Russian scientist claims to have seen a "scorpion-like" critter on the surface of Venus, and given the extremophiles we've discovered living around deep-sea vents and far underground, we can't really totally discount the possibility. Still, we've also been fooled by the appearance of images on the surface of Mars that turned out to be nothing more than an object that looked like something familiar, but only from a certain angle. Appearances can deceive.
At any rate, WE are NOT extremophiles. We're very adaptable to conditions on Earth, but even here there can be conditions that are life threatening (Death Valley, Antarctica). Conditions elsewhere are far more extreme than any on the surface of Earth.
Mercury? Nobody's tried to land on the surface, probably because it's much more hostile than even Venus's surface.
Why don't you practice what you preach and commit suicide.


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Celebrating the "Wonderfully Subversive Power of Libraries and Librarians" as Robert Ji-Song Ku's Dubious Gastronomy Wins APALA Literature Award for Adult Nonfiction
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Two Sierra Club hikes are planned in coming weeks
For all hikes, bring your swimsuit, lunch, water;your dog is welcome. Call Hike Leader Mark Williams for meeting place and additional information at 864-882-6511.
They include Sept. 7 - Opossum Creek Falls - 1.5 miles to the Chattooge River, then another half mile to the falls. Difficult hike, but fun!
Sept. 21 - Chau-Ram Park - casual stroll along the river's edge for 1-2 miles. Option to bring your inner tube and float in the river.


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Winnecke proposes task force to take on gangs | POLL
EVANSVILLE - Republican Lloyd Winnecke said Tuesday if he is elected Evansville mayor next month he wants to form a task force to take on the problem of gangs in the city.
Winnecke's proposal was in response to what police have described as gang-related shootings on the city's South Side in September.
But the Evansville Police Department said on Tuesday that it is the crimes associated with gangs — such as robbery and drug sales — that led to the violence on South Side streets.
"The 'gangster' thing is kind of a popular term to them now," said Sgt. Alan Yeager, who heads the department's intelligence and vice units. "Unfortunately, what a lot of these kids are doing are robberies and drugs."
Winnecke's three-point plan calls for a task force to work closely with the police department's juvenile, narcotics and vice units. But Yeager said the Evansville-Vanderburgh Joint Drug Task Force and the department already work closely to make narcotics cases.
Winnecke's plan also included the exploration of more public-private partnerships, including neighborhood walks with nonprofits, churches and neighborhood groups.
Winnecke added that his administration would bolster neighborhood watch programs in areas affected by crime.
Yeager said the Evansville Police Department responded to last month's rash of shootings that had been identified as retaliatory by saturating the neighborhoods where they occurred. Through intelligence, officers also were positioned in areas where detectives believed another retaliatory shooting would occur.
Winnecke also called for gang leaders to sign a "cease fire" through a mediation headed by the police department. Yeager said because most of these loosely organized groups stay together for a couple months until either being disbanded or arrested, the idea would not work.
Winnecke's plan also called for a school prevention program where officers assigned to schools within the city would implement a new program focusing on drug and gang prevention.
Yeager said the department's liaison officers already do this.
Winnecke's plan also called for a "new mobile surveillance vehicle." He described the vehicle as an armored wagon with high-tech infrared gear.
" You park it and it will give you 360-degree radius of view," he said. "Other communities have seen this be successful. I don't know why we wouldn't try it."
Democratic candidate Rick Davis called the surveillance vehicle idea "preposterous."
"I have spent this entire campaign walking through all kinds of neighborhoods knocking door-to-door, and I never felt unsafe," Davis said. "My opponent obviously is out of touch if he thinks we need a tank."
Winnecke said he recently took part in a ride-along with South Sector police officers and witnessed three different gangs.
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Anita Zucker doesn't want to be seen as a dollar sign - much less a couple of billion of them - walking down the road. That's not what she is about, she insists, and not the legacy she wants to leave.
Yes, she is wealthy, as headlines like this one pronounce:
Charleston's Anita Zucker moves up to No. 209 on Forbes 400 billionaires list
Those bother her.
The daughter of Holocaust survivors, ones who escaped and survived thanks to help from individuals and nonprofits, she grew up with parents who emphasized giving of one's time, talent and treasure.
Zucker still sees herself as the teen who worked at summer camps and as a volunteer with Teachers of Tomorrow in middle school. She went on to become a public school teacher for 10 years.
"The opportunity to give back in terms of treasure didn't come until later in life," she says.
Zucker is CEO and chairwoman of The InterTech Group Inc., a North Charleston-based global manufacturing conglomerate. Her family-run business also owns the Carolina Stingrays hockey team, Carolina Ice Palace and several local restaurants.
Yet, she and her late husband, Jerry Zucker, embraced the concept of tikkun olam, Hebrew for "repair of the world."
While their financial worth flourished over the years, she insists their hearts did not change. It upsets her to feel people view wealth as her defining quality.
"They only see dollar signs. They don't look at what is behind that," she says. "I don't want to be in the news because of money."
She and Jerry both worked to improve education and, she hopes, the future lives of many children. A middle school is named after him, and she recalls her teaching days when he would come to her classes to discuss chemistry with students.
"That's what it was about for us," she says.
Zucker has become Charleston's premier philanthropist in a city that ranks high nationally for giving.
Since her teaching days, Zucker has sat on the boards of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, Trident United Way, the MUSC Foundation and Porter-Gaud School, among others.
Today, she serves on the board of Coastal Community Foundation and has pledged $1 million to Lowcountry Giving Day, a 24-hour online giving event the foundation is promoting Tuesday.
Her donation will be used as a matching funds style of incentive for others to give to local education-based nonprofits. "Education really is the key to unlocking doors," Zucker says. "To me, transforming our kids' lives is so important in so many ways. When we have healthy children able to get an education, it creates a healthy community."
Zucker is especially active these days in groups that help nonprofits coalesce around common goals and generate data to create evidence-based programs.
For instance, she is chairwoman of the developing Tri-County Cradle-to-Career Collaborative, which aligns various nonprofits, local school districts, business leaders and others to overcome hurdles to education and jobs.
The key is for children to develop skills they can take into the workforce for life.
"I'm really proud of efforts like that," Zucker says.
She also is vice chairwoman of Charleston Promise Neighborhood, which serves four Neck Area schools by uniting such diverse nonprofits as MUSC, the Charleston County School District, Trident United Way's LINKS to Success program and others.
"They impact health, and they work with the neighborhood, work with families, work with children and really take a hard look at the lives of children," Zucker says. "It's already driving change."
For example, health clinics it set up in the schools prove to reduce ER visits and, therefore, reduce cost and medical instability created when families lack access to primary care.
"I invest in people," Zucker says. "I want to help people's lives get better."
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In 1995, the emergence of the World Wide Web and high speed Internet connections changed the way we live forever. In 2007, only 12 years later, the Apple iPhone was released and the world changed in a dramatic way yet again. The rapid adoption of smartphones since that time has also helped drive the explosion in social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Jimbos is the nearest natural foods grocery to us in 4S Ranch. What I love about Jimbos is that I know I'm going to be able to find organic, high quality produce and other food items. In other health food stores, I often have to search for the organic items. Here it's the opposite. The staff is extremely friendly and helpful and since I frequent this store, know me by name and ask how I'm doing. The only downside to Jimbos is that it is so expensive. I still buy certain items at Trader Joes that I know are priced much lower. If they were more competitive with their prices, I would have no reason to shop anywhere else!
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Ginger Beef And Broccoli Stif Fry
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- 4 tablespoons plain flour
- 300g (11 oz) beef stock
- 2 tablespoons caster sugar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 450g (16 oz) frying steak, cut into strips
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh ginger root
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 350g (12 oz) chopped fresh broccoli
1. In a small bowl, combine flour, stock, sugar and soy sauce. Stir until sugar and flour are dissolved.
2. In a large frying pan or wok over high heat, cook and stir steak 2 to 4 minutes, or until browned. Stir in stock mixture, ginger, garlic and broccoli. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat. Simmer 5 to 10 minutes, or until sauce thickens.
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Holding on to anger is like feeding yourself poison and hoping that someone else will get sick. If someone has made you angry and has not apologized or has not appealed to you for forgiveness, chances are they do not know that they have hurt you or they know and do not care that they have hurt you. In both instances you are left powerless.
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Cross-site request forgery
Cross-site request forgery, also known as a one-click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (sometimes pronounced sea-surf[1]) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of a website whereby unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts.[2] Unlike cross-site scripting (XSS), which exploits the trust a user has for a particular site, CSRF exploits the trust that a site has in a user's browser.
CSRF vulnerabilities have been known and in some cases exploited since 2001.[3] Because it is carried out from the user's IP address, some website logs might not have evidence of CSRF.[2] Exploits are under-reported, at least publicly, and as of 2007[4] there are few well-documented examples. The online banking webapplication of ING Direct was vulnerable for a CSRF attack that allowed illicit money transfers. [5] Popular video website YouTube was also vulnerable to CSRF in 2008 and this allowed any attacker to perform nearly all actions of any user. [5] Customers of a bank in Mexico were attacked in early 2008 with an image tag in email. The link in the image tag changed the DNS entry for the bank in their ADSL router to point to a malicious website impersonating the bank.[6]
Example and characteristics[edit]
The attack works by including a link or script in a page that accesses a site to which the user is known (or is supposed) to have been authenticated.[1] For example, one user, Alice, might be browsing a chat forum where another user, Mallory, has posted a message. Suppose that Mallory has crafted an HTML image element that references an action on Alice's bank's website (rather than an image file), e.g.,
Mallory: Hello Alice! Look here:
<img src="http://bank.example.com/withdraw?account=Alice&amount=1000000&for=Mallory">
If Alice's bank keeps her authentication information in a cookie, and if the cookie hasn't expired, then the attempt by Alice's browser to load the image will submit the withdrawal form with her cookie, thus authorizing a transaction without Alice's approval.
A cross-site request forgery is a confused deputy attack against a Web browser. The deputy in the bank example is Alice's Web browser which is confused into misusing Alice's authority at Mallory's direction.
The following characteristics are common to CSRF:
- Involve sites that rely on a user's identity
- Exploit the site's trust in that identity
- Trick the user's browser into sending HTTP requests to a target site
- Involve HTTP requests that have side effects
At risk are web applications that perform actions based on input from trusted and authenticated users without requiring the user to authorize the specific action. A user who is authenticated by a cookie saved in the user's web browser could unknowingly send an HTTP request to a site that trusts the user and thereby causes an unwanted action.
CSRF attacks using image tags are often made from Internet forums, where users are allowed to post images but not JavaScript.
Forging login requests[edit]
An attacker may forge a request to log the victim into a target website using the attacker's credentials; this is known as login CSRF. Login CSRF makes various novel attacks possible; for instance, an attacker can later log into the site with his legitimate credentials and view private information like activity history that has been saved in the account. This attack has been demonstrated against Google[7] and Yahoo.[8]
Other approaches to CSRF[edit]
Additionally, while typically described as a static type of attack, CSRF can also be dynamically constructed as part of a payload for a cross-site scripting attack, as demonstrated by the Samy worm, or constructed on the fly from session information leaked via offsite content and sent to a target as a malicious URL. CSRF tokens could also be sent to a client by an attacker due to session fixation or other vulnerabilities, or guessed via a brute-force attack,[9] rendered on a malicious page that generates thousands of failed requests. The attack class of "Dynamic CSRF", or using a per-client payload for session-specific forgery, was described[10] in 2009 by Nathan Hamiel and Shawn Moyer at the BlackHat Briefings,[11] though the taxonomy has yet to gain wider adoption.
A new vector for composing dynamic CSRF attacks was presented by Oren Ofer at a local OWASP chapter meeting on January 2012 - "AJAX Hammer - Dynamic CSRF".[12][13]
According to the United States Department of Homeland Security, the most dangerous CSRF vulnerability ranks as the 909th most dangerous software bug ever found.[14] Other severity metrics have been issued for CSRF vulnerabilities that result in remote code execution with root privileges[15] as well as a vulnerability that can compromise a root certificate, which will completely undermine a public key infrastructure.[16]
Several things have to happen for cross-site request forgery to succeed:
- The attacker must target either a site that doesn't check the referrer header or a victim with a browser or plugin that allows referer spoofing.[citation needed]
- The attacker must find a form submission at the target site, or a URL that has side effects, that does something (e.g., transfers money, or changes the victim's e-mail address or password).
- The attacker must determine the right values for all the forms or URL inputs; if any of them are required to be secret authentication values or IDs that the attacker can't guess, the attack will most likely fail (unless the attacker is extremely lucky in their guess).
- The attacker must lure the victim to a Web page with malicious code while the victim is logged into the target site.
Note that the attack is blind; i.e., the attacker can't see what the target website sends back to the victim in response to the forged requests, unless they exploit a cross-site scripting or other bug at the target website. Similarly, the attacker can only target any links or submit any forms that come up after the initial forged request if those subsequent links or forms are similarly predictable. (Multiple targets can be simulated by including multiple images on a page, or by using JavaScript to introduce a delay between clicks.)
Given these constraints, an attacker might have difficulty finding logged-in victims or attackable form submissions.[citation needed] On the other hand, attack attempts are easy to mount and invisible to victims, and application designers are less familiar with and prepared for CSRF attacks than they are for, say, password cracking dictionary attacks.
Most CSRF prevention techniques work by embedding additional authentication data into requests that allows the web application to detect requests from unauthorized locations.
Synchronizer token pattern[edit]
Synchronizer token pattern is a technique where a token, secret and unique value for each request, is embedded by the web application in all HTML forms and verified on the server side. The token may be generated by any method that ensures unpredictability and uniqueness (e.g. using a hash chain of random seed). The attacker is thus unable to place a correct token in his requests to authenticate them.[1][17][18]
Example of STP set by Django in a HTML form:
<input type="hidden" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken" value="KbyUmhTLMpYj7CD2di7JKP1P3qmLlkPt">
STP is the most compatible as it only relies on HTML, but introduces some complexity on the server side, due to the burden associated with checking validity of the token on each single request. As the token is unique and unpredictable, it also enforces proper sequence of events (e.g. screen 1, then 2, then 3) which raises usability problem (e.g. user opens multiple tabs). It can be relaxed by using per session CSRF token instead of per request CSRF token. At the same time, it is difficult to implement web applications that make heavy use of AJAX.
Cookie-to-Header Token[edit]
Web applications that use JavaScript for the majority of their operations may use an anti-CSRF technique that relies on same-origin policy:
- On login, the web application sets a cookie containing a random token that remains the same for the whole user session
Set-Cookie: Csrf-token=i8XNjC4b8KVok4uw5RftR38Wgp2BFwql; expires=Thu, 23-Jul-2015 10:25:33 GMT; Max-Age=31449600; Path=/
- JavaScript operating on the client side reads its value and copies it into a custom HTTP header sent with each transactional request
X-Csrf-Token: i8XNjC4b8KVok4uw5RftR38Wgp2BFwql
- The server validates presence and integrity of the token
Security of this technique is based on the assumption that only JavaScript running within the same origin will be able to read the cookie's value. JavaScript running from a rogue file or email will not be able to read it and copy into the custom header. Even though the csrf-token cookie will be automatically sent with the rogue request, the server will be still expecting a valid X-Csrf-Token header.
The CSRF token itself should be unique and unpredictable. It may be generated randomly, or it may be derived from the session token using HMAC:
csrf_token = HMAC(session_token, application_secret)
The CSRF token cookie must not have httpOnly flag, as it is intended to be read by the JavaScript by design.
This technique is implemented by many modern frameworks, such as Django[19] and AngularJS.[20] Because the token remains constant over the whole user session, it works well with AJAX applications, but does not enforce sequence of events in the web application.
- Permissive Access-Control-Allow-Origin Cross-origin resource sharing header (with asterisk argument)
- clientaccesspolicy.xml file granting unintended access to Silverlight controls[21]
- crossdomain.xml file granting unintended access to Flash movies[22]
Client side safeguards[edit]
Browser extensions such as RequestPolicy (for Mozilla Firefox) can prevent CSRF by providing a default-deny policy for cross-site requests. However, this can significantly interfere with the normal operation of many websites. The CsFire extension (also for Firefox) can mitigate the impact of CSRF with less impact on normal browsing, by removing authentication information from cross-site requests. The NoScript extension for Firefox mitigates CSRF threats by distinguishing trusted from untrusted sites, and removing payloads from POST requests sent by untrusted sites to trusted ones. The Self Destructing Cookies extension for Firefox does not directly protect from CSRF, but can reduce the attack window, by deleting cookies as soon as they are no longer associated with an open tab.
Other techniques[edit]
Various other techniques have been used or proposed for CSRF prevention historically:
- Verifying that the request's headers contain
X-Requested-With(used by Ruby on Rails before v2.0 and Django before v1.2.5), or checking the HTTP
Refererheader and/or HTTP
Originheader.[23] However, this is insecure - a combination of browser plugins and redirects can allow an attacker to provide custom HTTP headers on a request to any website, hence allowing a forged request.[24][25]
- Checking the HTTP
Refererheader to see if the request is coming from an authorized page is commonly used for embedded network devices because it does not increase memory requirements. However, a request that omits the
Refererheader must be treated as unauthorized because an attacker can suppress the
Refererheader by issuing requests from FTP or HTTPS URLs. This strict
Referervalidation may cause issues with browsers or proxies that omit the
Refererheader for privacy reasons. Also, old versions of Flash (before 9.0.18) allow malicious Flash to generate GET or POST requests with arbitrary HTTP request headers using CRLF Injection.[26] Similar CRLF injection vulnerabilities in a client can be used to spoof the referrer of an HTTP request.
- POST request method was for a while perceived as immune to trivial CSRF attacks using parameters in URL (using GET method). However, both POST and any other HTTP method can be now easily executed using XMLHttpRequest. Filtering out unexpected GET requests still prevents some particular attacks, such as cross-site attacks using malicious image URLs or link addresses and cross-site information leakage through
<script>elements (JavaScript hijacking); it also prevents (non-security-related) problems with aggressive web crawlers and link prefetching.[1]
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities (even in other applications running on the same domain) allow attackers to bypass most CSRF preventions.[27] However, methods such as additional authentication and CAPTCHA are still effective.[28]
See also[edit]
- Web application security
- Confused deputy problem
- Replay attack
- Session fixation
- Heap spraying
- Cross-document messaging
- CRIME (security exploit)
- BREACH (security exploit)
- ^ a b c d Shiflett, Chris (December 13, 2004). "Security Corner: Cross-Site Request Forgeries". php|architect (via shiflett.org). Retrieved 2008-07-03.
- ^ a b Ristic, Ivan (2005). Apache Security. O'Reilly Media. p. 280. ISBN 0-596-00724-8.
- ^ Burns, Jesse (2005). "Cross Site Request Forgery: An Introduction To A Common Web Weakness" (PDF). Information Security Partners, LLC. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
- ^ Christey, Steve and Martin, Robert A. (May 22, 2007). "Vulnerability Type Distributions in CVE (version 1.1)". MITRE Corporation. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
- ^ a b William Zeller and Edward W. Felten (October 2008). "Cross-Site Request Forgeries: Exploitation and Prevention" (PDF). Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ "List of incidents for which Attack Method is Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)". Web Application Security Consortium. February 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- ^ Adam Barth, Collin Jackson, and John C. Mitchell, Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery, Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM 2008
- ^ Joseph Foulds, Passive monitoring login request forgery, Yahoo
- ^ Inferno Security Blog Brute-forcing CSRF tokens
- ^ Weaponizing Web 2.0
- ^ Dynamic CSRF
- ^ Owasp.org: Israel 2012/01: AJAX Hammer - Harnessing AJAX for CSRF Attacks
- ^ Downloads - hasc-research - hasc-research - Google Project Hosting. Code.google.com (2013-06-17). Retrieved on 2014-04-12.
- ^ US-CERT vulnerability list by severity metric
- ^ cPanel Remote Root
- ^ OpenCA CSRF
- ^ "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Prevention Cheat Sheet". OWASP. Retrieved 2014-07-24.
- ^ Cross-Site Request Forgery: Demystified
- ^ "Cross Site Request Forgery protection". Django. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- ^ "Cross Site Request Forgery (XSRF) Protection". AngularJS. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- ^ Client access policy file to allow cross-domain access by Silverlight controls
- ^ Cross-domain policy file usage recommendations for Flash Player
- ^ Origin Header Proposal. People.mozilla.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-29.
- ^ "Django 1.2.5 release notes". Django.
- ^ "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)". OWASP, The Open Web Application Security Project. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "Secunia Advisory SA22467". Secunia. 19 October 2006. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "Article about CSRF and same-origin XSS"
- ^ "OWASP cheat sheet discussing XSS"
External links[edit]
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- Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability on Nasa.gov Domains
- How To Prevent CSRF and XSRF Attacks
- A Most-Neglected Fact About Cross Site Request Forgery
- Using XSS to bypass CSRF protection
- eLearning: Cross-Site Request Forgery Explained
- The Cross-Site Request Forgery FAQ
- Free Cross-Site Request Forgery Solution from OWASP
- Cross-Site Request Forgery: Demystified
- Cross-Site Request Forgery from The Web Application Security Consortium Threat Classification Project
- How to prevent CSRF in Java based web applications
- Spring MVC support for CSRF prevention
- CSRF and state mutation on read requests
- CSRF/XSRF Online generator
- Hurdles to getting CSRF protection correct (in Java web-apps)


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