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Pierre Jackson on All-Senior pre-season team
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Key 2011-12 stats: 30.8 mpg, 13.8 ppg, 40.8 3-pt FG%, 82.2 FT%, 5.9 apg, 1.8 spg
Buzz: Jackson was arguably Baylor's most important player this past season, his first with the Bears after transferring in from the College of Southern Idaho. He handled point guard duties with aplomb and became the Bears' leading scorer in the process. He is extremely quick with the ball, and also puts his speed to good use on defense. Baylor was a frontcourt-oriented team this past season; next season, Jackson's presence means they will be a backcourt-centric squad.
I love our PJ!
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Thanks for posting - I think we'll see PJAX's name listed on a lot of pre-season awards this year - hopefully on a lot more at the end of the season as well.
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Having Pierre in game was like I have read it was like Joe Dimaggio in baseball...you never feel the game is hopeless because these guys will do something to somehow make you win.
If Pierre was in a war, he would win a Congressional Medal. I love this guy....like I used to Vinnie Johnson.
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The Sea Kings had runners on second and third base in the final inning with one out, but couldn't rally in their season opener and Foothill Pool game of the Newport Elks Tournament Thursday.
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We've simply been blown away by the responses you've left on our previous blog posts; from "taking the plunge", naming your business and building your business network, you've had truly some inspirational advice for other small businesses – thank you! We'll be announcing the 'winning' comments on Tuesday 1st June – keep checking the MOO Blog for updates. Without further ado, today's topic: Finding effective admin apps…
For most people the thought of being locked in a prison of gridlines is an absolute nightmare. The brutal truth of the matter is that as a small business or freelancer you are not only the creative driving force of your business, you are also the office manager, chief coffee maker and bookkeeper.
Spreadsheets are a great way of manipulating numbers, creating charts and graphs. They can however eat in to time you could be spending on a project for a new client, or creating new marketing materials to drive your business forward.
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Nobody can deny that completing you taxes is an important (and essential) part of doing business. Tax forms are hardly fun however! Keeping track of invoices and payments keeps your business on track; ensuring clients are paying their bills helps you to pay your bills. Again, chasing people for overdue bills can be pretty time consuming and tedious (especially if you can't remember who you are chasing and for what)!
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I'm quite happy to pay a decent accountant to do all of the money stuff for me; it lets me get on with the fun bits and they know all the little tax twists and turns! It's worth well shopping around and asking for recommendations though. Not all are as good as their competition. Sometimes it's worth paying a little extra…
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After trying to muck through Quickbooks' Online Offerings, I discovered LessAccounting – a simple web-based accounting app that let me do all of the dollar tracking for my small consulting/design business. LessAccounting varies in its packages, with a version of it that actually includes an accountant for $300 a month – a small sum compared to hiring a full-time person. You can also track expenses, run invoices and proposals, and log mileage.
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Although this is very industry specific, I highly recommend Tave (www.tave.com) for photography studio management. It not only streamlines the invoice process, but it can track all of your financial info which can be easily exported to the program of your choice (quickbooks, etc). I imagine there are other similar industry-specific programs for other small business owners out there. I would explore those options which may be more tailored to your specific business.
I use outright.com and love it. My accountant for end of the year stuff loves it too. It plays nicely with FreshBooks too. And it's FREE.
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Ok all, I have a siltwinn tarp with the poles. Using the GG poles, it pitches fine. I jumped the gun and bought an MLD Grace Solo Cuben Tarp and with adjustable trekking poles (Lt4's for the purpose) I cant get the @#$ pitched right or taught. Can anyone help me? Is there standard heights? How do I get the sides straight and taught? Please! I'll pay money. Someone dumb it down for a knuckle dragging idiot like me and take me step by step through setup if they were doing it. Ok, first I would lay it out... etc etc.... I am normally pretty intuitive but this has me frustrated enough to go back to non ul shelter principles or sticking to my Contrail and no tarp. I'm flabbergasted. I shouldnt type while frustrated but jeez. Between the tarp, the lt4s, the meteor bivy etc I invested a lot into the tarp side of things....... Can u help? Santa? Anyone? Bueller?
Ed (Edward), Here is a snip from a previous post I did describing the process I use.1 - lay tarp out flat and stake down rear guyline corners approximately where you think they should be when pitched tight (practice helps get them close on first attempt)2 - Stake out front guyline corners, again judging best where they should go.3 - Stake out the front guyline and pole. It should be able to stand on its own.4 - Stake out rear lines and pole.5 - Stake out the sides6 - Make adjustments to get a tight pitch. If you are good at approximately putting out the stakes in steps 1-5 this takes little effort.I got a number of tarps including the MLD grace solo (a favorite). This process works for all of them. I use duct take wrapped around the rear pole (guessing at 30" high) in the rear to minimize adusting the poles. The front pole is close to hike I hike with, maybe add increase it a few inches. I use ti goat poles if that matters (dont think so). I set my tarp up fairly close to the ground. Here are a few pics with me in them to get a reference.Hope this helps,Jamie
That does indeed help. I noticed in your photos you wrap around the handle rather than go tip through the grommet with the trekking pole inverted. Does this help somewhat? I though you were supposed to put the tip of the pole through the grommet. But no one seems to do that, am I mistaken? I will do that . I was not staking the corners first. Just standing up the foot end, then the corners, then opposite side etc. Always resulting in a caddiwhompus arrangement. Since the flock 'o children need food I cant try it again tonight....Alas... till the morn. Thanks again.
Ok, per the MLD recommendations on lenghts, I attached the 4 foot lengths to the sides. How do you know how far from the tarp edge to leave . is it three inches, three feet? How much distance do you leave between the tarp tensioner and the stake?
Edward, you start with 4-foot lengths, but then you adjust those down as the situation demands. For example, if it is a hot night, you might want to "raise the flaps" to get more air circulating under. So, you will move the stakes out. If it is a rainy night, you might want to lower the flaps to keep rain out, so you may move the stakes in. If there are too many large rocks to stake into, you might need the length to move them back out to softer soil.--B.G.--
Keep practicing, you will get it.
In reference to pole direction...either way works. One caution about mine...my front pole has the optional camera screw in the top of the handle so I actually set the grommet on top of the screw. I'm not sure this will work for any other poles. When I use my REI UL peak poles I turn the front pole upside down putting the tip into the grommet and handle on the ground. The rare pole has duct tape at the desire height so it stays handle up, tip down. For the rear poles I just wrap the cord around once and slide it down to the duct tape, stretch it tight and stake it down.Guylines....first realize mine are minimalist and probably shorter than most people would recommend, but they work for me.front peak = 5 ftrear peak = 4 ftfront corners = 2 ftside corners = 1.5 ftrear corners = 1.25 fttotal = 18.5 ftAfter tieing a figure 8 knot in one end for stakes and a single knot in the other end so it can't slip thru the tensioner each cord is several inches shorter.This allows for basically one set up...close to the ground, but again it works for me and it lightweight.Jamie
Edited by jshortt on 09/27/2010 19:52:52 MDT.
I didn't even think about the fact that if you lay it out properly and pre-stake it taught, the guyout lengths wont effect the pitch tightness if uniformly extended. Thanks all and I will keep At it. Thanks as always while I fiddle. It took a long time and several trips before I got the subtleties of my contrail down and I hope thisll be no different. I have a four day ul trip coming up with some traditionalist friends and the last thing I want to do is get laughed at for my tarp follies while they recline intheir megatents. ( though I will get the last laughs on the hiking end!) Ed
Edited by Fuzz on 09/27/2010 20:57:41 MDT.
Good luck Edward! I hope it all goes well and you cruise through the trip while they are hauling their heavy packs! I'd love to go the tarp route one day. The fact that the soil is so compact and dry here might make rain impossible to deal with though, I've had tarps at camp grounds before and rain always runs under the tarp because it can't soak into the hard soil fast enough. Let us know how it goes!
Here are some examples with a cat cut. It's not a perfect setup, but maybe it'll help a bit. I staked out the back to the ground and propped up the opening with the hiking pole. This would be for storms. If anyone has any suggestions on improvement please let me know.Actually, now that I look at the photos (these were practice), I did it a bit different in the field. I actually staked the rear "grommits" into the ground directly when I had a headwind coming off of the river. In the practice setup above I actually used the rear guylines. I also put my hiking pole at the minimum length, as opposed to the medium length in the photos above. Unfortunately, I don't have any good field pics. The tarp above is the Oware 2 man 30d sylnylon cat cut and the net is the Granite Gear "The Haven".
Edited by redwood22 on 11/16/2010 22:42:10 MST.
This thread really did help. I Have the catenary A frame pitch down now and it did indeed work. I decided the small cuben solo tarp was a bit anemic for my newbie tastes and am sticking with my siltwinn monster. It pitches easy like a dream. But I can now say, I can tarp.Thanks.Ed
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Archive for May, 2006
An Inexcusable Slur
I don't want anyone here to say that I'm on "The Lunatic Fringe."
On Blob's Blog I am right in the CENTER of the lunatics.
Joe sez:
"Might as well fess up, Bob. Those Stormfront guys knows it's what you don't say that makes you a neoconservative. Not what you say. What you don't say. That's how they caught you. Them Stormfront boys is got a lot on the cap. If'n they say it, it's gospel. Can't fool a Stormfront guy. Can't fool Kevin. Couldn't a fooled Bill P. Some things just show up and you can't miss it. It ain't just oil. It's a whole lot of other things. That's what they told me. I take it as gospel. I trust these boys. "
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You got me!
Since you state this in the academic language I was raised with, I can't squirm out of it.
Anonowitz and I have come clean.
We are kikes.
As Brian put it in Monty Python's Life of Brian after Brian was informed his father was a Roman, "I am a kike, a Hebe, a hook-nose, and I'm PROUD of it!"
Just don't tell anybody.
The Yellow Peril
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 05/31/2006
Somebody asked me about the China Threat once again
This makes excellent sense, since when I talked about Britain and Russia having military teeth, I left out China.
But I have discussed it at length.
Here we go again:
I discussed China before at length, but I am not sure anybody understood what I was talking about because Stormfronters do not think racially.
You may want to look it up and you may understand it. All I ever get out of it is more revelations about the Middle East.
My basic point was that the Chinese have all of the constructive ability for organization and teamwork that ants do.
They also have the fatal weakness that ants have when you kill the Queen.
But let's forget that and noticed something even easier:
China is enormously vulnerable militarily.
To START with, and there is MORE, China consists largely of two rivers, the Whang Ho and the Yang Tse. A serious nuclear attack on the mouths of these two rivers would put China into a desperate position, and it isn't easy to find a subsitute feeding ground for half a billion people who depend directly on the paddies there.
China faces a United States that is NOT vulnerable inthat way. YOu can bomb the hell out of hte Middle West corn belt and we will still eat very well.
This is the kind of thing other people don't think about, but that keeps Chinese planners awake at night.
An American president who KNOWS about this will keep China from being too much of a threat.
An Important Quibble
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Comment Responses on 05/31/2006
I went back to grad school for a semester in 1992, just to check things out.
I took the full load and went in as a PhD candidate.
One thing I noticed was that students would say, "Professor X is teaching a seminar course in …"
The last time I was in grad school over a quarter of a century before, nobody TAUGHT a seminar.
You LEAD a seminar. I didn't even mention this because no one would in grad school with me would understand the difference.
A COURSE is a COURSE. You are taking students through a course of study.
A SEMINAR is NOT a COURSE.
The difference between TEACHING a seminar and LEADING a seminar is exactly the same as the difference between a Soviet Assembly and a real representative government.
In representative government the leadership uses every dirty trick in the book to get a majority for its policies, which does not smack of Fairy Tale Fairness.
In a Communist "Parliament" there are no dirty tricks. All votes are unanimous.
I may be the last professor who thinks of himself as LEADING a seminar.
The minute I start TEACHING a seminar somebody like Mark or Peter jumps down my throat.
Can you imagine trying to explain that difference to a modern, hoop-jumping person who has made it to grad school?
Paragraph Structure
Someone wrote me:
"I really like your posts. Could you please use paragraph structure though? Thanks."
Since the entry qualification for Bob's Blog is that you have outgrown your college education, whether you had one or not, I am stuck with a lot EDUCATED people here.
So a lot of you may have noticed that my paragraph structure is pure anarchy.
So let me assure you there is a reason for this. I am open to disagreement.
Here was my reply to, "Could you please use paragraph structure though? Thanks."
Richard Viguerie made a fortune on direct mail before everybody else ( See my 1982 book) copied him.
He did statistical tests, and found that long paragraph structure does not WORK.
Not from the critical point of view, but from the plebian point of view of getting people to READ it.
Correct paragraph structure is technically correct according to those who make the rules.
But back on Planet Earth people find it BORING.
Hemingway was also criticized for his unscientific paragraphs, but he never gave them up and his stuff sold pretty well.
You Have the Formula for Ole Bob!
I said that seminars were once a place where a professor could stop spoon-feeding unwilling students in lectures and kick back and talk with those who know the subject and can feed him thoughts he hadn't come up with.
Nowadays that doesn't happen. Nowadays the student regurgitates what he's told and he knows the professor will grade him on how much he agrees with said prof.
But when I kicked back and got nasty and crappy with THIS crowd, I caught it HARD.
Even Sweet Shari gave me grief about my, literally, gutter humor.
Mark reamed me good.
I NEED that.
I also got a good laugh out of Mark's saying he was not going to lie down and worship me.
Mark, old buddy, I think you made THAT point pretty clear. You did it with what I like to refer to as a Whitaker level of subtlety.
Which is why nobody needs to say "I may be wrong" or "I'm not an expert" here.
I cleared your comment. If you were making a fool of yourself or whatever you're worried about I wouldn't clear it.
More important, BOB makes an ass of himself aplenty here.
BOB needs the same kind of treatment. I am ridiculously crabby and sometimes coarse. CALL me on it.
Thanks, Mark. Thanks, Shari.
I apologize.
But I will sin again.
I'm Probably not a Neo
I got it again on Stormfront. My saying I might invade Saudi Arabia or some other OEC country is they keep OPEC going AGAINST THE US just shows I'm an oil-grabbing neo.
So I tried again:
I mentioned the Saudis,but I did not specify which OPEC country I would take.
OPEC would just get the cartel of of AMERICA'S back.
I would love to see all those countriest we protected all those decades from the Communists paing through the nose for OPEC oil while we got straight cost plus ten.
AND ISRAEL paying all that OPEC wants to charge for oil.
Yea, right. The neocons would really love me!!!
Once we pull all subsidies out of Israel, all that Jewish money that goes to pushing their agenda would have to shift to preserving that crappy little country on their own.
No doubt about it, I'm a neocon.
Everybody is so obsessed with Israel and Saudi Arabia that nobody is doing the kind of thinking an AMERICAN president should do:
About US.
Nobody has seen the reality for OUR purposes about this "superpower" stuff.
America is not the only SUPERpower left on earth, it is the only POWER left on earth.
I would enforce law against all reexport of cheap OPEC oil. And when Bob says ENFORCE I think you have a good idea what I mean by that word:
No bail
And the DC jail.
No country but the US in all the world is able to enforce its own interests.
After half a century of military welfare, Europe has a completely toothless, aged, tiny military.
The only countries with teeth, Britain and Russia, HAVE plenty of oil.
The United States might seriously become the defenders of OPEC countries from others doing what we are doing.
We would allow breaks for other countries ONLY if they elected governments that protect white interests.
"Isolationist?" Me?
Not exactly.
Meanwhile those countries that stick to Political Correctness pay a hundred dollars a barrel and the third world pours on in.
I am still having difficulty understanding why neos would like any of this.
There will a Pax Americana without a shot fired.
We have fought two really horrible ewars since we won our independence.
The first was over the blacks.
The second was for the Jews and to make the world safe for Stalin.
I think Messiah simply can't get used to the idea of somebody who would flex our muscle for US.
There won't be a war. There's nobody to fight one with. Islam will love us And, more imporant, FEAR us.
So they'll go bomb Europe until Europe gets some cajones.
Are you SURE I'm a neo?
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 05/30/2006
I got crappy and Mark called me on it:
Regarding my bad-tempered remark below, Mark hit me TWICE:
I take offense at your statment. So you write an entry which is more proclamation than discussion and then you expect everyone (during a holiday weekend even)to throw themselves to the floor, genuflect like trained puppets, and squawk what a wun-der-full statment you have just made. Okay, fine. From now on when you've written one of your declarations of adoration entries I'm gonna' write:
"Amen-hallelujah-aman! That Bubba Witt'ker fella is might-eee fine! Amen – hallelujah-amen!"
Comment by Mark — 5/30/2006 @ 3:29 pm | Edit This
Oh, and another thing. While you were penning that ever so enlightening and oh-so invigorating paragraph about sewers and what not, I was busy visiting the grave (w/my daughter) of a real pro-white hero — one Sam Hildebrand (Missouri Major of the army of the Confederacy, bushwhacker, peacelover until his family was murdered and his home burnt down by northerners, and all around 19th. century real-life bravehart).
But of course, forgive my divine father for I have sinned. Amen-hallelujah-amen! That Bubba Witt'ker fella is might-ee fine! Amen-hallelujah-amen to ad nausium…
Comment by Mark — 5/30/2006
Mark, I wish you would stop being so worshipful and shy and just tell me what you think.


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Web developers are bound to already be familiar with some of the resources that Microsoft made available especially for them even before the browser hit RTW (release to web).
One particular destination came up again and again, with each new Platform Preview of IE9, namely the Internet Explorer 9 Guide for Developers, which continues to be available even at this point in time.
"If you're interested in IE10, the IE10 Platform Preview 1 Developer's Guide offers an exhaustive list of what is available in IE10 Platform Preview 1. It contains CSS3 Flexible Box, CSS3 Gradients, ECMAScript5 strict mode, and more," a member of the IE team stated.
Of course, as devs know, MSDN is THE place to visit for all those in search of development resources on Microsoft technologies, and IE9 is by no means an exception in this regard.
The Internet Explorer Developer Center on MSDN is a one-stop destination for a range of dev content, including the Windows Internet Explorer Standards Support documentation.
At the same time, the Redmond company is working tirelessly in order to produce additional content that web developers can take advantage. In this regard, Microsoft wanted to highlight what it referred to as a new content philosophy.
"We are trying a different content philosophy. Using scenario-based samples and tutorials built around real-world Web development, we highlight how developers can use modern standards and the new features in Internet Explorer 9," the company said.
"Each section presents one or more developer scenarios, followed by a number of sub-tasks designed to achieve a specific goal, such as creating an elegant Web design that uses rounded corners or a page that plays audio without an external add-on.
"This is a deliberate attempt to add value beyond our feature-based documentation. We hope you will find the newer content engaging in the way it follows the thought process through the tasks that accomplish development in the real world."
Dabbling with web development myself from time to time, comprehensive tutorials and working samples that demonstrate solutions to specific problems are invaluable to developers, and I'm sure that there are quite a few those that will benefit from the new content provided by Microsoft.
"For the first time in the history of Internet Explorer developer content, the samples and tutorials were made simultaneously available in 8 languages, concurrently with these IE9 RC and RTW releases : German, Spanish, French, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Chinese (Simplified), and Japanese, allowing us to more effectively support a broader global developer audience," the software giant added.
"And, like the conceptual content, we've published localized versions of the Developer Guide: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Italian, Russian, and Japanese."
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This family-friendly Cranberry Township hotel is located in the suburbs, 4.2 mi (6.7 km) from Cranberry Township Community Waterpark, and within 12 mi (20 km) of Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum and Beaver Area Heritage Museum. Ross Park Mall and 84 Lumber Arena are also within 16 mi (25 km).
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- Golfing nearby
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NSSL research shows deadly U.S. winter tornadoes are not rare
Deadly tornadoes tore through the Mid-South Tuesday, February 5, 2008 killing 58 people. NSSL scientist Harold Brooks studies the climatology of tornadoes, and noted, "While this is not a normal event, it's not an incredibly rare event."
Brooks developed and applied techniques to estimate the occurrence of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Accurate estimates of the true threats from severe weather are of use to a wide range of users, including weather forecasters, the emergency management community, the insurance industry and the general public.
Winter tornado outbreaks occur in the southeast U.S. "roughly once a year," but the death toll from this most recent outbreak, the highest in more than two decades, sets it apart from others. The risk for severe weather on February 5 was forecast by NOAA almost a week in advance, but the devastating loss of life may be partially explained by lack of public awareness that tornadoes can and do occur in the winter in the southern U.S.
Last week's storms serve as a reminder how crucial it is to recognize the nature of the threat posed by tornadoes in the U.S., and the importance of preparedness for emergency management and response for natural disasters.
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According to Adam Caplan of TheSidelineView.com, the Oakland Raiders have signed free agent cornerback Joselio Hanson, who was just released by the Eagles.
The #Raiders signed veteran CB Joselio Hanson to a one-year deal, source confirmed. He actually visited the Raiders on Sunday.
— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) September 3, 2012
Hanson is a solid player that will be a nice addition for the Raiders.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European stock markets slipped in choppy action Monday, as investors remained cautious amid ongoing budget negotiations in the U.S. with few days left to agree on a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.33% lost 0.1% to finish at 279.18, after closing out last week in positive territory for a fourth straight week.
News of Abe victory sends yen lower
A day after Japan's general election, Shinzo Abe's plan to launch a stimulus that he says is needed to get the economy on track sends the yen lower.
Peter Dixon, strategist at Commerzbank in London, noted that traders already started to head out for the holidays, leaving volume thin for the rest of the week.
"Nobody wants to take any risks ahead of the holidays and people have been shutting their books earlier and earlier over the years," he said.
"A lot of people seem bullish going into next year, but they are not positioned for it so we'll see an upward move at some point. But we need certain conditions to be fulfilled before we see markets starting to rally," Dixon said, pointing to the fiscal cliff in the U.S. — looming tax hikes and across-the-board cuts in government spending — as one of the key obstacles.
A notable Monday mover, shares of Hennes & Mauritz AB HMB, +0.75% rose 3.4% after the clothing retailer's sales numbers for November beat expectations of a sharper decline. See: Hennes & Mauritz sales up, comparable sales flat
However, shares of Aggreko PLC AGK, +1.51% slumped 22% in London. The temporary-power-solutions firm warned of reduced performance in 2013. See: Aggreko sees 2012 meeting view, sales up 13%
And shares of Royal KPN NV KPN, -0.84% sank 15%. Late Friday, the Dutch telecom provider said that it will not pay out a final dividend for 2012 and that the 2013 dividend will be adjusted to 3 euro cents a share.
The firm also said it is selling its Spanish unit to Orange Spain for an undisclosed amount. See: KPN to sell Spanish unit to Orange Spain
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For the broader stock market, investors tracked developments in U.S. budget negotiations, which appeared to show some movement toward a prospecitve compromise.
House Speaker John Boehner reportedly told President Barack Obama that he might accept tax increases on millionaires in exchange for spending restraints on programs such as Medicare and Social Security. See: 'Fiscal cliff' talks take back seat to shooting
The proposal was, however, far from what Obama had in mind. The White House wants the tax increases to come into effect at incomes of 200,000 a year for individuals and $250,000 for families. Boehner and Obama also met to continue negotiations on Monday, according to media reports.
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Missing 13-Year-Old Sunland Girl Is Found In Good Condition
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Police on Wednesday evening reported that a Sunland girl missing since Monday has been found and that she is in good condition.
The family of 13-year-old Micah Saverese said she was last seen around 7:20 p.m. Monday.
Saverese had been last seen leaving her residence on McVine Avenue carrying a plastic bag, thought to be trash.
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Oneida River
The Oneida River is a large river that forms part of the boundary between Oswego and Onondaga counties. Flowing roughly westward it is the outlet of Oneida Lake and part of the NYS Barge Canal. The Oneida River stretches approximently 18 miles from Oneida Lake to Three Rivers where it joins with the Seneca River, to form the Oswego River. There are three "cuts" or channels for the canal system: Big Bend, Morgan Cut, and Anthony Cut. Each of the channel cuts form an island. Lock 23 is located in Anthony Cut and a water level control dam is located at Caughdenoy.
Public Access Sites
Bonstead Road. On Bonstead Road approximately 2 miles northwest of Village of Three Rivers. Hard surface ramp. 20 cars and trailers.
General Fishing Information
Main gamefish found in the river are walleye, tiger musky, northern pike, largemouth and smallmouth bass. Panfish found in the river are black crappie, yellow perch, bluegill, white perch and brown bullhead. Other popular fish found in the river are channel catfish, carp and sheephead (freshwater drum).
Fisheries Management
The Oneida River is not stocked. However, because of it's connection with Oneida Lake, Seneca River and Cross Lake, walleye ad tiger musky stocked in those waters can also be found in the Oneida River.
Fishing Regulations
Due to the large number of locks and dams found in the area and the water bodies associated with it, some water bodies have been combined. Water body definitions can be found under Water Body in the freshwater Fishing Guide. A printable PDF overview map can also be viewed by clicking on the map to the right. Personally harvested baitfish may not be transported between these water bodies.
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PAL's Knockout Basketball
PORT ST. LUCIE - On the third Thursday of every month, Coach Dave Hentz of the Port St. Lucie Police Athletic League packs up the basketballs and heads over to Minsky Gym for another PAL basketball event. The Minsky tradition continued on Dec. 20 with a Knock Out competition on the court.
Winners of the event were Keith Hawkins, Kaleb Martin, Jammere Carlisle, and Ilvies De LaRosa.
The next PAL basketball event will be a Hot Shot contest at 3 p.m. on Jan. 17 at the Minsky Gym.
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Archive for the 'bears' tag
Lambs and tabbies and bears, oh my! Three strange animal-related car stories
GM press photo.
I like animals just as much as the next person. I grew up with cats, dogs and tropical fish in the house most of the time. When I became a teenager, however, I developed allergies, and one was to pet dander. While I haven't been able to own or come in regular contact with furry friends for quite a few years, for some reason they have found me. Strangely, more times than not, the reason has something to do with one of my cars.
Back in the mid-1990s, when I worked at CSK Publishing, some of the editorial staff got into the habit of using the office parking lot for short-term storage of cars that we worked on to do tech stories. Little surprise, I was one of those staffers. One winter evening, following the melt-off of a large snow storm that left my Hurst/Olds plowed-in and frozen in the permafrost for about two weeks, I dug it out and with a twist of the ignition key woke up the Colonnade crusader to get me home.
Though far from perfect, the Olds was dependable and what needed to work did, including the headlights… until that night. On my 39-mile drive from Saddle Brook, New Jersey, home to Sussex County, the driver's-side headlight intermittently went out and then came back on. It got really frustrating after a while.
When I finally got home, it was freezing cold and pitch black. Of course I didn't have a flashlight, but I was annoyed and was going to find out what the problem was with the headlight before I went into the warm house.
I threw the hood open in disgust and began to reach around the battery to grab the harness connector on the headlight – I ended up with a handful of fur. Though for a moment it was like a real-life episode of Fear Factor, my mind was quickly put at ease when I heard meowing and realized it was not a rat! Yes, kittens, two little tiny ones. They rode along the whole trip home, nestled between the battery and the back of the headlight – laying across and loosening the wires.
Because there was no home for them to go back to, as transient stray cats were a staple of the office parking lot, we kept them. The kids loved them, but my chest regularly tightened up and my eyes swelled from the allergies. Finally, after about two weeks, an elderly neighbor adopted them. Though we all missed them, I could breathe again.
Another interesting encounter occurred right in my driveway. Anyone who has ever worked on a car outside knows that it will invariably either rain or get dark before you are finished. On this day, it ended up being the latter. As you may have imagined, things weren't going well. I was wrenching on my '77 Trans Am on a Sunday night, and it had to get me to work the next morning. Between skinning knuckles and inadvertently dropping tools into the New Jersey quicksand that swallowed any socket smaller than 9/16-inch, I kept hearing a rustling noise over the passenger's side fender as I toiled away under the hood on the driver's side.
It went on for about 10 minutes, which is a long time when you are working in the cold dark night with a single droplight to light your way. Finally I'd had enough, this raccoon, possum, cat, rabbit, chipmunk or whatever that's probably peeing on my tire, is about to get his. I quickly jumped to the other side of the car to scare it away and found myself nearly eyeball to eyeball with a full-grown black bear! Oops. I slowly turned, picked up my toolbox and calmly (on the outside) moved toward the house. She was busy eating what could have been a small bus for all I know, but it was more likely leftover dinner from a neighbor's trash can, so she couldn't care less about the angry little Italian guy who was throwing wrenches just a few minutes before.
Did I mention that Northwest New Jersey was seemingly the black bear capital of the world in the 1990s? Of course I didn't, it would have ruined the story. Yes, they used to actually pick up the garbage cans while on their hind legs and throw them on the ground to get them open. They were about as common as squirrels in my yard.
The last story is probably the weirdest and, thankfully, it has nothing to do with me or any of my cars except for the fact that I witnessed it while driving one down the highway. Picture it, the New Jersey Turnpike, a summer Saturday morning circa the mid-1990s. My family and I were travelling southbound and had just passed the Meadowlands complex.
Rolling along at 70 MPH, on the center shoulder we saw a gray 1980s G-body Cutlass with two guys running around it chasing a mid-sized animal. They were about a foot away from being in my lane, so I started slowing down thinking that their dog probably had jumped out the window, and they were trying to retrieve it. I was incorrect. As we approached, now at about 35 MPH it became clear that it was no dog. These two individuals were trying to stuff a very alive and kicking LAMB into the trunk!
About a mile or two down the Pike, there was a New Jersey State Trooper parked on the center shoulder, so I pulled over in front of him and went up to his window. "You're probably not going to believe this, but about two miles back up the highway there are two guys trying to stuff a lamb into the trunk of a gray Cutlass." "Come again?" He said. "I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't just seen it myself." "What year Cutlass?" "1981 to 1986 – no composite headlights, gray with a landau top." "Okay, I'll check it out."
I never did find out what happened.
Now that you've read my strange-but-true tales of cars and animals, let's hear about yours!
To protect the innocent, the photo of the car depicted here is not of the actual one involved in the stories. (Actually, I'm too embarrassed to show you what my Hurst/Olds currently looks like.)
Roseburg, Oregon, 1960s
Even though I lived in Roseburg for about a year more than a decade ago, I don't recall a thing from the section of downtown (along SE Jackson Street) depicted in this postcard street scene we found on Ryan Khatam's Flickr stream. The company I paid my rent to might have been in that building just under the N of Oregon, but I'm not sure. Anyway, cars! What do you see here?
Also from Ryan's Flickr stream, bear.
Yellowstone, 1962
What this blog needs is more bears. Seriously, why are so many cars named after big cats (Cougar, Cheetah, Tiger) and other wildlife (Cobra, Mangusta, Impala, Falcon), but none come to mind that have bear-related names. Ursus? Grizzly? Bruin? C'mon, these are all awesome names. Anyway. Best way to get bears in the blog, then, is with some more Yellowstone National Park photos in our carspotting series, like the one above from 1962 and the ones below from the 1950s and 1960s, all from Yellowstone's photo collection page. What do you see here?


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Parrikar's statement derogatory, but not a big issue: Shahid Siddiqui
Former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shahid Siddiqui today said that Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's statement that Indians abroad are called 'Hindu' irrespective of which religion they follow is derogatory in nature, but is not a big issue.
"Manohar Parikkar is misinformed. Actually, Indian Muslims are called Hindi, not Hindu in the Gulf, but anyway, it's not a big issue. We are not ashamed to be called as Hindu, Bharatiya or Hindustani," said Siddiqui.
Lucknow Muslim Cleric Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi criticized Parrikar's statement, saying making such statements before Independence Day sends out a wrong message to the people.
"India is a secular country and making such statements in an atmosphere where people are preparing for the celebrations of Independence Day is not good," said Firangi.
"Political parties should think above politics and everyone who lives in this country is an Indian and it doesn't matter to which religion he or she belongs," he added.
Congress leader Manish Tewari said that Parrikar's statement is an orchestrated attempt to assault India's idea of secularism.
Yesterday, Parrikar had said that that Indians abroad are called 'Hindu' irrespective of which religion they follow in the Goa legislative assembly.
He also said that in the Gulf countries even the Muslims from India are called Hindu.
(Posted on 14-08-2014)
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Tornadoes twist because Earth rotates. Our overall weather patterns would be much different if Earth didn't spin once about every 24 hours.
Large-scale wind currents — the winds we feel every day — are first generated by pressure differences in the atmosphere. Like all fluids, air flows naturally over level terrain from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure. That's why air quickly rushes out of a car tire when it is punctured: the pressure inside the tire is significantly higher than outside.
Our atmosphere is not spatially uniform. Large areas of slightly higher than average pressure and areas of slightly lower than average pressure are distributed here and there across the oceans and continents, and air flows develop between them. These air flows tend to smooth out the large-scale pressure variations that cause them.
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One of the dominate effects that helps high- and low-pressure systems persist is the so-called Coriolis effect, named after the French scientist who first described it in 1835.
All objects, large and small, including tiny air molecules, move in a straight line at constant speed if left to themselves. Left to themselves, air molecules would rush straight from a high-pressure region to a low-pressure region to quickly equalize the pressure. But that's not what happens here on Earth.
On Earth, in the Northern hemisphere, moving bodies apparently get deflected to the right — always to the right, here in the Northern hemisphere.
In the Northern hemisphere, as air flows into a low-pressure center to "fill it up," the persistent deflection to the right builds up a wind field that spirals counter clockwise around the low. And low-pressure centers, then, don't get "filled up" as quickly as they would without this persistent rightward deflection.
The rightward deflection of moving objects in the Northern hemisphere (leftward in the Southern hemisphere), Coriolis noted, is an apparent oddity that crops up because the Earth spins. Isolated moving objects really do move in straight lines, but fixed to the ground of a spinning Earth, our reference frames spin out from underneath, causing us to perceive deflections from straight-line paths.
One experiment I have always wanted to try is to watch drunks stumble out of a bar late at night. If there is anything the Coriolis effect, more Northern-hemisphere drunks would stumble to the right than to the left.
One thing you may have heard about the Coriolis effect that isn't true is that it causes sink and bathtub drains — and toilets — to spin counter clockwise in theNorthern hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern hemisphere. Testing this notion would be a great science-fair project.
It turns out that residual random motions of stumbling drunks and water in sinks, bathtubs and toilets can cause them to spin and fall either way.
The Coriolis effect is not noticeable on the small scales of our everyday lives; however, on flows of air in the atmosphere it can build up to tremendous proportions.
In the Northern hemisphere, all hurricanes and nearly all tornadoes spin counter clockwise because of the Coriolis effect.
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it has nothing to do with vince, only with kenshi
What am i missing ? gnu/vince didnt post in there?
i'm lost
What am i missing ? gnu/vince didnt post in there?
read the posts about the linux kernel not working on kenshi's pc
i'm lost
it has nothing to do with vince, only with kenshi
What am i missing ? gnu/vince didnt post in there?
i'm lost
Muahahahaha is a subdivision near Honolulu. What does this have to do with GNU/Vince? ??? ???
Well maybe I should invite GnuVince over for a good kernel compilation. He can teach me the simplicity of overcoming promiscous interrupt errors. That is... if I feel like downgrading to Linux. [smiles]He can, on the other hand, compile a good Linux kernel.
<~~~~~~~~rotf, lmao
But by the way, if there are so many people here who can compile Linux kernels, why was no one able to help me with my problem? Did I miss something in the terms of service about not being able to help the Kenshi? Man, you Linux users are too elite for me. I'm glad I use FreeBSD.
True enough I guess, but it hard to tell what you borked w/o
knowing exactly what you did. It would be like me asking you
what line I borked in a program w/o giving you anything but
the error. Posting your configure file might have led someone
to give you some decent information.
You seem to tell everyone how overly intelligent you are
compared to us, maybe we are assuming that you either know
more than us or are simply so self-absorbed with your ego that
you couldn't imagine making a stupid mistake somewhere.
Since RH 5.0, I've made a ton of stupid mistakes, I still do.
I make the effort to figure out what I did wrong or ask giving
the necessary information for someone to give me a decent
Many of my problems with kernel compiling where compiling
in modules I needed that broke the way the system worked by
loading certain modules and then checking to make sure they
were loaded. I have no idea what you borked, but it was
probably nothing major, digging through the rc scripts might
have led you to finding the problem yourself.
Your smart, so are many other people, get over it & get on w/life.
Whoa whoa whoa! When have I showed an ego? Except when insulted, I don't think I've ever acted egotistical. Well there are times that I joke of course, but I try to make it blatantly obvious. When have I acted like I'm smarter than the average person here?
Also, who said it was me who messed up? I won't say that I'm perfect and have never messed up, but we know the Linux programmers aren't either. I've compiled many well-functional Linux kernels before, then starting with 2.4.6, they were all unstable increasingly with version. Naturally I'm not perfect. Perfection doesn't exist. But I repeatedly compiled different versions of kernels and the fact that only the later ones locked up leads me to believe that it was not my fault but rather either one of the drivers was goofed up or some initialization program was acting unpleasantly. Yes, we're all smart here (most of us... [coughs]) but I'm offended that when something messed up, I'm blamed for it. I switched to FreeBSD because when things mess up, it usually is my fault and once I figure out how, I can fix it. With Linux, I had a few occasions where I felt that wasn't the case (though not many). I'm happy with FreeBSD. I still support Linux and its users. If helping folks in these forums isn't enough, I wrote a backup tutorial for LinuxOrbit about 2 weeks ago intended solely for Linux. (Gonzojohn hasn't posted it yet though.) So if this is all about me using FreeBSD, I think it's foolish and I'll leave if this is a Linux-only forum. That's all I have to say about it for now, perhaps forever.
Maybe it just seems that way to me, sometimes sarcasm can
be taken as downtalk or insults. Personally, I have no problem
with any OS, the BSD's are great. I've run FreeBSD and OpenBSD
frequently for routers & webservers~work great!
I didn't mean to offend you w/the kernel comments I made,
rather I intended to reflect a little sarcasm back that I felt has
been predominate in your posts for the last week. You seem
to be very intelligent IMHO, but rather green with your
people skills. These skills will probably develop in time.
You remind me very much of Craig McPherson, and personally
I've had disagreements with the way he presented much of his
help on forums. After he got his job at the Univ or Ark, it
appears that his attitude has changed very much.
As you & I have both now stated, the kernel problems were
most likely module problems. I've experienced many of these
even though the kernel itself was perfectly fine. Another likely
problem is patching incompatibitlies. These were not as documented,
but things in the 2.4.5+ kernels such as OpenWall and Reiserfs
just don't work together to this day. I understand the frustration
you went through, but being offended with none of us coming
up with a fix is ignorant. Some kernel errors require more
information than what is possible on web based help.
My point, before things flame too much, in this is simply that
this is a forum directed to unknowledgable and new *NIX users.
Sarcasm can be fun, but very often taken incrediably wrong
by users that are not familiar to your dry sense of humour.
You don't seem to take sarcasm yourself any better after
reflecting on the last 24 hrs. Maybe you should re-examine
your posts from a new users point of view. When you started
would you have found the posts open & helpful?
I'm not asking you to leave, stop helping, or necessarily change
anything. But I beg that you keep the idea of what this forum is
aimed at doing. Dry sarcasm and a frustrated user do not
generally make useful help in the newbie's eye's (or advanced users). They just develop the impression that a knowledgable
linux user is a complete a$$hole.
This is simply my IMHO, yours and everyone elses may differ,
I don't deny I lack people skills. I'm not good at communicating with the average person. I do try to only use sarcasm in the off-topic forums though (or with people who have been here long enough to know me). When I'm helping people, I try to leave the jokes out of it. The last thing I'm trying to look like is a pompass ass. And I'd dare to say that Craig and I are somewhat alike, but we have different attitudes towards people. I try to be nice and say things that wouldn't offend me if I was in their shoes, and if they are offended, oh well. Sometimes he seems to try to offend people.
And about the kernel, I've had bad luck with modules so I just stopped compiling with them. My kernel was always one monolithic monster without any modules. I guess the incompatibilities are a possibility, though I really think it has something to do with hardware. And finally, I wasn't offended when I didn't get assistance on it. I consider myself an intermediate when it comes to unix, perhaps edging towards advanced user. Many of my problems are going to be too difficult for people here to answer. I was simply using the example of it in my defense. I was not trying to discredit the ones who tried in the least. After all, I couldn't fix the problem myself (other than installing FreeBSD). So how about we say it could have been either user error or bad kernels, leaving the question in the air?
Is it just me or did this thread take a strange twist?


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