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For the second straight year, The American Legion will serve as presenting sponsor of this evening's Warrior Appreciation Night (WAN) [2] at Dal Toro in the Palazzo in Las Vegas. Medal of Honor recipients Mike Thornton and Tom Norris are among the distinguished quests at the event, joining military authors, active-duty servicemembers, veterans, members of the law-enforcement community and celebrity guests.
The invitation-only event will feature more than 1,000 guests and provide them with an opportunity to reflect upon and honor their fallen brethren, veterans and law-enforcement officers.
"Being the presented sponsor gives The American Legion some really good publicity," said Legionnaire Mark Ochsenbein, a member of the WAN board of directors. "It's a great opportunity to get The American Legion out there, and it's a great way for us to help honor our military and veterans. There's a great upside to our involvement."
In addition to a dinner and social event, the night will include live and silent auctions, where firearms, shooting sports equipment, targets, training, and sports and entertainment memorabilia will be among the items available for bidding.
Remington Defense is the event's industry sponsor. Other sponsors are the Stars and Stripes Foundation, Law Enforcement United, America's Mighty Warriors, Lone Survivor Foundation, Honor The Fallen, Stand By the Wounded, Operation K9 and NSWKids.
In conjunction with WAN, The American Legion is one of seven veterans and law-enforcement support charities that will receive funds from an online raffle coming to an end at noon PST today. One hundred percent of the proceeds from raffle tickets purchased in the name of one of the seven specific charities will go to that charity.
The United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) is hosting the raffle on its website [3]. Those interested in participating in the raffle can purchase raffle tickets for $10 apiece, and select the charity that they want their raffle donations to benefit. Each raffle package includes a custom rifle, shotgun and pistol, as well as other outdoor sports items. Participants don't need to be present at the WAN event to win.
USPSA will present The American Legion with 100 percent of donations collected from the online raffle at the WAN event; the donations will go toward Legion programs.
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Ring of seven charged with drug crimes
Six people charged with running a cocaine and marijuana conspiracy in North Texas have been arrested, all with Abilene ties.
A seventh suspect, Semei Cuevas Rodriguez Sr., 50, of Mexico, known by the alias "the Old Man," is a fugitive, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of Texas.
The suspects were arrested without incident in an early morning takedown by agents from a number of government law enforcement agencies, according to the release.
If convicted, each suspect faces a sentence of up to 40 years in prison, or more, and a fine of several million dollars, according to the news release.
Agencies involved in the arrests include the FBI, the Texas Department of Public Safety, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Marshals Service, the West Central Texas Interlocal Crime Task Force, the Abilene Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Nolan County Sheriff's Office.
The suspects are scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost in Abilene at 2 p.m. today for their initial appearances.
During the course of executing several federal search and arrest warrants, law enforcement officials seized several firearms.
The indictment charges the following defendants with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams (just over 1 pound) or more of cocaine and 50 kilograms (110 pounds) or more of marijuana:
Semei Cuevas Rodriguez Sr., aka "The Old Man," 50, of Mexico
David Mendoza Dominguez, 51, of Abilene
Juan Alberto Devora, 39, of Abilene
Armando Carrillo, aka "Pelon," 30, of Abilene
Jason Carrillo, 34, of Abilene
Pedro Chavez, aka "El Foco," 40, of Abilene
Dewey Howard Hasty, 28, of Abilene.
According to the Abilene Police Department, a gram of cocaine has an estimated street value of $100, while marijuana is worth $750 per pound.
Devora also is charged with three substantive counts of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Armando Carrillo also is charged with one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
Chavez also is charged with one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
In an email, Abilene Police Department spokesman John Clark said that three Abilene officers assisted the Texas Department of Public Safety during the takedown, but the department was "not involved in the investigation" itself.
"We assist other agencies fairly often in a variety of cases such as this," Clark said, though he deferred queries about the actual mechanics of the morning operation to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
DPS spokesman Sparky Dean, in turn, referred the Reporter-News to the information contained in the official news release.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Haag, of the U.S. attorney's office in Lubbock is in charge of the prosecution.
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The actress is the star of the newest commercial for America's Cotton Importers and Producers, the ones where actresses like Zooey Deschanel and singers like Colbie Caillat have ran around country houses with impossibly large closets stuffed to the brim with pretty cotton dresses and sweaters, singing about how "the touch, the feel" of cotton is just the best thing ever.
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Paying Tribute to the Greatest Tiger Team of My Generation
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While he didn't log an inning in the post season, Juan Berenguer started 27 games for Sparky and won 11 of them. He looked great at times, but also took his share of beatings. But in the end, he had one of the better strikeout rates on the team, and was one of Sparky's hardest throwers.
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Innings Pitched 168 1/3
Wins 11
Losses 10
Pitching Runs Above Replacement 43
Stuff 13
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Scorecard – 1975 Reds 6, 1984 Tigers 6
You can read Blade's analysis of Fred Norman at Reds Cutting Edge.
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WHAC Semifinals - Madonna (Review)
To say it was a tale of two halves would be an understatement. Madonna came out on fire against Cornerstone yesterday, storming out to a 41-25 lead. Madonna took a 9 point lead into halftime, 46-37.
The 2nd half saw Wes Hudson playing terrific defense on Travis Schuba, who had been hitting from long range and often in the 1st half. Cornerstone's offense got on track and was too much for Madonna to overcome. The Golden Eagles took down the Crusaders 90-76 setting up a WHAC tourney championship with the top two teams in the conference, Cornerstone and Davenport.
Senior Wes Hudson (Wayland, MI) scored 26 points and sophomore Ben Lanning (Grandville, MI) added 24 points. Senior Anthony Allen (Hudsonville, MI) had 11 assists for the Golden Eagles.
WHAC Semifinals - Madonna (Preview)
Where: Mol Arena at Cornerstone University
When: Saturday, March 1, 2014
Time: 3PM
Who: No. 5 Cornerstone vs Madonna
Records: Cornerstone 27-4 (20-2 WHAC), Madonna 20-11 (15-7 WHAC)
For the Golden Eagles to advance to the WHAC tournament finals they will need to hold Madonna's outstanding backcourt in check.
Senior Bobby Naubert (18.1 PPG, 6.2 assists/game) and senior Travis Schuba (14.1 PPG) were named WHAC 1st team all-conference. Naubert averaged 27 PPG in two games against Cornerstone this season.
Cornerstone defeated Madonna 91-75 at home and took down the Crusaders in a much closer game In Livonia 84-77 during WHAC play.
1st Round WHAC Tournament - Concordia (Review)
Once again the Golden Eagles used a balanced scoring attack and solid defense to defeat the Cardinals 83-57.
At the half, Concordia had only scored 15 points while shooting 14.3% leading to a 37-15 Golden Eagle lead. The 2nd half was played almost even, but the damage had been done.
Ben Lanning led CU in scoring with 15 points and also pulled down 10 rebounds for the double-double. Travis Wells scored 13 points shooting 3-4 from the 3-point line. Next up for Cornerstone is a WHAC semi-final matchup on Saturday at 3PM with #4 Madonna.
1st Round WHAC Tournament - Concordia (Preview)
Looking back: Cornerstone defeated Concordia twice this season, the first win coming at Concordia 90-66 and the second at Cornerstone 76-44. Concordia finished the regular season 13-17 (10-12 WHAC) and earned the 8th seed in the WHAC tournament.
Who to watch: John Shaefer is a 1st team All-Conference player for Concordia averaging 14.3 points/game. Schaefer scored 18 points for the Cardinals against Cornerstone at Concordia, but was held scorless at Cornerstone. John Shaefer and Josh Fugate both like to shoot the three for the Cardinals.
Cornerstone used a balanced offensive attack in each of the wins against Concordia this season. Come out tomorrow night and support the Golden Eagles as they host the Cardinals in Mol Arena at 7:30PM.


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The Ugandan government said Monday it would start monitoring Internet activity to protect the public from emerging national security issues.
James Saaka, director of Uganda's National Information Technology Authority, said the government would monitor conversations online to protect the public against cybercrimes.
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EDMOND — An Edmond woman is planning what could be the birthday party of a lifetime.
Felicite Moorman will turn 39 Friday — a day that might be her last, according to various predictions based on the ancient Mayan calendar.
EDMOND — An Edmond woman is planning what could be the birthday party of a lifetime.
Felicite Moorman will turn 39 Friday — a day that might be her last, according to various predictions based on the ancient Mayan calendar.
Moorman said she's not worried, though.
In fact, she's planning to have a great time at a big bash her friends are throwing for her called "The End of the World (And Felicite's Best Birthday Party Ever!)"
"Obviously, none of us put any weight in the prophecy, but it's an excellent excuse for a party," she said, and laughed.
For the past several years, doomsday predictions have focused on Dec. 21, 2012 — the day the ancient Mayans' Long Count calendar ends. Because the Mayans were known for their timekeeping, some people have said they were foretelling the end of the world.
Some think the Mayans might have been privy to knowledge about impending astronomical disasters that would coincide with 2012, ranging from storms on the surface of the sun that could knock out power grids to a galactic alignment that could trigger a reversal in Earth's magnetic field.
Websites, social media, cable TV shows and science fiction movies such as "2012" have helped fuel the hoopla about the end-times prophecy. Astronomers and biblical prophecy experts, even NASA, have tried to debunk the predictions.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the space agency has been flooded with calls and emails from people asking about the purported end of the world.
Dwayne Brown, an agency spokesman, told the Times NASA typically receives about 90 calls or emails per week.
In recent weeks, he said, 200 to 300 people per day have been asking about the end of the world.
Two Oklahoma observers said the Mayan prophecy has no merit.
The Rev. Mark Hitchcock, a biblical prophecy expert and author of the books "2012: The Bible and the End of the Word" and "The End: A Complete Overview of Biblical Prophecy and the End of Days" said the Mayans knew a lot about time and astronomy but they didn't know the future.
"Only God knows the future," said Hitchcock, senior pastor of Faith Bible Church in Edmond.
Hitchcock said people ask him questions because he did extensive research on the Mayan calendar for his book "2012." On Friday, he said, the day the Mayan cyclic calendar ends, the sun and the Earth will be directly aligned with the center of the equator of the galaxy for the first time in 26,000 years.
"So, the center of our galaxy and the sun and the Earth will be lined up, which means on that day, supposedly, the energy that comes from the center of our galaxy will be interrupted to the Earth because the sun will be in the way." He said people have predicted that natural disasters will result.
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Long-time pro-life campaigner Edward Atkinson, 81, was handed a three-month suspended jail sentence for his activism against abortion in September, and it was not the first time he has been prosecuted and even jailed for his work defending the unborn. In fact, Atkinson has been in prison more than a dozen times for his efforts over the years, and while he remains undeterred, the persecution is part of a broader assault by U.K. authorities on freedom of speech and religious liberty that is coming under increasing international scrutiny.
Atkinson's most recent supposed "crime" involved violating a so-called "anti-social behavior order" (ASBO) by sending a letter with pictures of aborted children to a government official in charge of the Queen Elizabeth hospital. "I was trying to tell her about the abortion holocaust, all the murdered babies, but she couldn't face the truth apparently, so she went to the police and got me arrested," the soft-spoken pensioner told The New American in a recent interview.
In 2006, Atkinson was prosecuted under the "malicious communications act," handed a massive fine, sentenced to prison, and slapped with the ASBO, he explained. According to U.K. news reports, the hospital staffer who opened the letter was "distressed" by the images inside. "I suspected that they were murdering babies in there but I wasn't sure, now I know they've been murdering several babies per day in there," he said, pointing out that the troubled consciences of hospital staffers were a good sign that they recognize evil when they see it.
"Something like 500 babies a day are murdered every single day in this country," Atkinson exclaimed.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wound Management Technologies, Inc., (OTCQB: WNDM | WNDM.PK) a leader in advanced wound care solutions, today announced that the Company has signed a multi-year agreement with Omni Medical Products of McAllen, Texas to distribute CellerateRX® gel products in select states in the southwestern U.S. To maintain the distributorship, the agreement calls for 1st year sales of at least $650,000 and additional sales each subsequent year.
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Published Saturday, October 13, 2012
By JOHN A. WINTERS
A tractor-trailer driver was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after his semi-truck struck the offices of a propane company south of Newnan close to midnight on Wednesday.
Coweta County Sheriff's Office deputies were first called to a building alarm going off at Gas Inc., 1776 South U.S. Highway 29, authorities said. At that time deputies noticed the damage to the side of the building.
The truck driver, Robert Hume, later called Coweta 911 and said he had struck the building earlier. At the time of his call, Hume had driven to the northbound on ramp at Exit 41 for Interstate 85, according to Major Mike Kinsey with the Coweta County Sheriff's Office.
"He (Hume) admitted he had struck the building and left, saying he was nervous," the major said.
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on win7 I installed new app. (with the Old app I never had any problems).
The new app do not launch. When I run it from start menu, no window open. According to task manager it runs (takes 97MB memory). Even when I try to switch windows I do not see it.
I had it pinned, it was also not launching and it was not only double click problem.
Strangely few time it has opened. I do not know what was different. Most of the time it do not.
In outlook it also does not open.
When I activate ad in then it runs. but, next time I run outlook, add in is again deactivated.
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Hi Tomas,
Please make sure you are opening it from the system tray (beside the clock) as that is how you re-open it or close it once it's been opened from the main launch icon.
well, yes, it works this way.
must say, its not really intuitive way or working with application.
but thanks
Hello Tomas,
If you right-click on the TD icon in the system tray, you can go to "Configurations" and change this behavior so that the app will quit completely when you use the X button.
The benefit of having it run in the tray is that you can use global keyboard shortcuts to show/hide the app and to quickly add a task (both also configurable).
Best regards,
I keep seeing this same issue reported by many different users. I understand that your recommendation is to right-click on the system tray icon, go to Configuration and changing the close behavior to "close." I have done this. There are two issues with this approach:
1. The taskbar icon should never, under any circumstances, do nothing. The program should open any time this button is clicked, regardless of the system tray status. I understand that this is the intended behavior, but in my opinion, this is bad UI design. It makes it much worse that this is the default setting. I have no interest in using the keyboard shortcuts, and I would guess that I am similar to a large percentage of your users (or prospective users). Please look at the taskbar/system tray behavior of Evernote for reference. There is a reason why they have 100 million users.
2. If I set the close behavior to "close," the taskbar icon behaves the way that I want it to, but then the issue is that the program doesn't open in fullscreen mode by default. I want the program to open in fullscreen mode every time, because then all the functionality is visible. There is no option that I could find to set this in the Todoist options. This is another UI annoyance with no obvious solution.
I have spent the better part of the day testing To Do programs such as Any.do and Wunderlist. Both of these programs had worse issues that caused me to uninstall them. Todoist seems to be a better program, but these UI issues are a bad start. I understand that no program is ever perfect, but please listen to your users when they tell you what they want.
- Dave
Hi Dave,
We'll consider changing this in the future.
Hi Clyde,
Thank you for your quick response. Do you mean you'll only consider changing this because there's still debate over the proper functionality? Or you'll only consider changing this because it's not a top priority?
I fully understand that there is a development queue, and you have to take care of the highest priority items first. But, it would be good to know that we are on the same page and that a fix is in fact in the queue, even as a low priority. I can't think of a counterargument that states that clicking the icon on the taskbar should do nothing, or that there shouldn't be a way to open the program in full screen mode by default. Can you?
- Dave
Hi Dave,
It's consider changing it on what the default behavior is. Every design decision has a tradeoff. With the current default behavior, it allows users to add task really quickly anywhere even if they've "closed" the app. Being able to easily add tasks in a to do list app is important and this default behavior just does that. Since we have options for both, a user can change it to why he/she would like it to work.
One thing we can improve on is educating the user how relaunch the app once it's first closed/installed by a user. There are no current plan to change this but we'll revisit it when we're doing improvements in our Windows app. I'll definitely bring this up with the team so there can be a discussion about it though.
As for opening an app in full screen mode, you can just right click on the icon and select "Maximized" in the Run option. Check this link for more info: http://www.pcworld.com/article/172884/Force_Programs_to_Run_FullScreen.html
Thanks so much for the maximize tip. I have it set up exactly the way I like now.
To clarify, my original request was not to change the "close to system tray" behavior. That part is fine. In fact, Evernote works the same way. I'm only saying that if the taskbar icon is clicked, the program should always open, regardless of whether the program is running in the system tray or not.
User education is an uphill battle when users naturally expect specific behavior. There is no downside I can see to making the application close to the system tray by default, but also opening whenever the user clicks on the taskbar icon. Having different taskbar behavior based on whether the application is running in the system tray is confusing.
In any event, your support has been exceptional. I look forward to using Todoist every day, and thank you once again.
- Dave
The reason why Todoist is not launching is because you just launched your computer. Did you just start your computer at that time?


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Relax---You do have to be kidding. It is tax time you know. I have to do our Inc junk and also my Mom's. Have been doing my Mom's for the last 4 yrs anyway. I just get all the stuff together and send it north to her tax man.
Ours is more complicated. hate this time of year when all I want to do is SEW. Seems as if there is always too much to do. Especially things I don't want to do. LOL
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Please, go into Melissia's blog and read what either her DH or brother wrote on there. It is a very awesome tribute to her.
On the top of the page is a beautiful pic of her and DH on their wedding day. She fought BC for over 14 years. She tried everything from conventional medical stuff to holistic healing. It is well worth reading her blog. She did a superb job on it.
Melissia, you will be so missed. You gave it all you could and then some.
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Just wanted to tell you what I have been up to lately. I had a "Celebration of my Mother's Life" party here locally for all the friends and family that did not go up to her Service.
I had it at her favorite place the Panda Chinese Rest. My son and grand-son made it down from up north. About a 2 hr drive for them. My daughter also came down from the same area. We had about 30-some people's. One of my friends DH wrote two cute poems. Boy, he is a real character. The poems were both cute and sad.
He writes short stories and poems. I admire him so much. I only met them about 3 yrs ago when I was going thru chemo. Another mutual friend had introduced us. Jeanne has been my local "Rock" and told me about the nice Dr. both of us had until he didn't get his contract renewed. Now I get to tell her about this other Dr I found. I am sure she is going to try to get in to see him, also.
Only thing is the clinic stated he was NOT seeing any new patients. But I cried, stormed and begged them to get me an appt. I explained I was NOT a new patient but fed up with the ones coming down to our town. Determination won the battle once again. LOL.
Back to the party. One of the aides came that played pool with my Mom whenever she had a few minutes each evening. She also told some really cute and funny things I had never heard before.
Of course, I was the one to get up and thank them all for coming. Then I started in with the stories. I was getting so nervous seeing all those EYES looking at me----Then I remembered from one of my speech classes in college---what the instructor had told us. IF you get nervous Just Picture everyone sitting there NAKED!!! Boy, it sure worked for me. LOL LOL.
Can you even imagine????---as most of the guys were Old. I almost got to laughing hystercially at the image of ALL those wrinkles. LOL.
Anyway it was well worth the effort on my part to put this party on for my Mom. Now it is time to relax and head to my sewing room. And to start on this disaster of a house. I am determined to swab out these over-stuffed closets and cupboards. I will leave my sewing room for last. Well, no, I did give my daughter 2 big boxes of baby quilt panels and fabric. Her church group makes small quilts to give to the Crisis Kids when taken away from their parents. So it all will go to a good cause.
Hugs all. Thank you for thinking of me. I am doing fine.
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No Dr. Dreamy this time but a Nice Older Dr. that is very caring and will listen to ME. What a concept. I am so lucky I found him. He is in the same group as Dr. Iceberg but does not come down here to my local area. But I am fine with that. I will go 40 minutes drive to see him. NO problem.
Hope all is going well with you.
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I am glad to know John has some help. Poor guy, really needs his family around him at this time.
Really appreciate the up-date. Thanks for thinking of us.
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I am sending prayers this infection goes away quickly. I think Judy has a good idea about IV antibotics. They do work faster.
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Yip, got a Good One this time around. He is no Dr. Dreamy but older. That is O.K. by me as he is really caring and Listens!!!
Yeppers, Dr. Dreamy came thru for me once again as this is the Dr--- he recommended.
Anyway, CT scans were all negative. Wheww. NED. (No Evidence of Disease!!!)
He explained they would do scans on me every 6 months for 4 yrs as this angiosarcoma is a sneaky type of ca. WOW---That is all I wanted--- to be monitored on a timely basis. He also explained what I needed to watch for such as any red area that stayed around for days and didn't go away. To keep really good track of just how I felt. If I had any questions What-So-Ever that came up to give him a call.
Geez, What a concept!!! A Dr that explains things and listens to what I had to say. All in all a very good appt.
So ladies, what I want to get across to each of you---IF you don't like a Dr that DOES not communicate with you LIKE you want---RUN do not walk to another Dr that will listen to your concerns. You are NOT stuck with a Dr that is NOT a good fit for you!!!!!.
We have to be our own best advocate!!! Just remember that one. We know our bodies and how we feel. You need a Dr that will listen.
I told him I didn't want a Dr. to hold my hand and pat me on my back and tell me all is O.K. when it might not be----- but wanted one that would explain things to me and ONE that would listen to ME.
So altho, he is not a Dr. Dreamy he is going to be a "Good Fit" for me.
Each of us need to learn from one another as we go thru this journey. I just don't want any of you to be sheep and follow the "Leader". Ask questions---Ask questions.
The Dr I saw in Nov did not answer one question I had. Then when he told me my rare cancer in my breast was so tiny---removed my breast, therefore I was cured!!! Well, I knew better than that. With angiosarcoma you are NOT cured but hopefully you put it into remission.
I am not telling you ladies, to question everything your Dr says but IF you don't understand what he is saying then ASK for an explaination. I know it is the most horrible feeling in the world to suddenly be told you have cancer. Remember to take a deep breath---Take the time to educate yourself the best you can. WE do have options.
It is NOT neccessarily a death sentence. I know the first thing you think of is "Get it OUT!!!" But we do have time to ask for ALL our options and get our questions answered.
This concludes my lecture for the day. LOL LOL.
Good luck to each of you.
I am one happy camper this A.M.
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Well, today I go see my new Onc Dr. and get the results of my CT scans of chest, Abd, and pelvis. Plus my lab tests. This is the Dr that Dr. Dreamy recommended. Last Nov it seemed to be so far off. LOL.
Now the day is here!!!
So much has happened in my life the last month and a half, I almost forgot about these appts. I am so busy yet in dealing with all my Mother's things this appt seems like an intrusion on my life at the moment. But got to get it done. I am not worried. Just have to go 50 miles up north to see this new Dr. Right now, I just don't have the time to waste. LOL.
Hope everyone is recovering from that big storm.
Yes, Roberta, I have also started my seeds. Brocolli seeds need months to get going. Plus Cauliflower--Peppers and you name it. Our weather has been so nice I want to get outside but I know more cold weather is coming.
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I have been so busy going thru boxes and stuff I decided to stay out of the kitchen for awhile. LOL.
DH goes down for coffee every late afternoon at a restruant so I just told him if he doesn't like my cooking then EAT when he is down there. LOL That didn't go over too well.
Actually I have been cleaning out my sewing room----Well, should I say re-orgainizing it. My daughter wants any and all fabric I want to get rid of as their church ladies have started a quilting group. They are making small quilts for crisis kids. Boy, I just found 2 big boxes of crib panels to be finished. AHA---I will never get them done in my life-time so she is getting all the panels. I did keep a couple of really cute ones I will make up for baby gifts.
For some reason my baby quilts do not sell down at the shop. So Weird as they are really cute. So decided for them and Me to part company. LOL.
Hope you didn't get much snow. We are having Spring weather as in the low 50's and sunny. Want to get my garden going. LOL LOL
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A TASMANIAN beef producer is carving out a lucrative niche of the multi-billion dollar US market, thanks to the state's clean and green reputation.
The US beef market - the world's largest - was worth about $50 billion in 2013, and last year Australian exports to the country cracked the $1 billion mark.
Greenham Tasmania, which owns the premium Cape Grim and Pure Black beef brands, recently marketed its product to US restaurants and now about 15 tonnes of its prime, grass-fed Tasmanian beef finds its way to American dinner plates every month. Innovative restaurant chain Duke's Chowder House, in Washington state, prefers a mix of Tasmanian beef for its meat servings.
Tasmanian beef is free of hormones, genetically modified organisms and antibiotics, in stark contrast to the US, where about 95 per cent of cattle are grain fed and implanted with hormones.
Greenham, which operates a processing plant at Smithton in the state's north-west, found US consumers were looking for a more natural product.
"The US is a big market and it could open up into anything, we just don't know how huge," managing director Peter Greenham said.
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The Greenham team developed a program to maximise beef quality, prioritising animal tracibility, no antibiotics or hormones, and grass-feeding.
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Wellness Meats, the largest grass-fed internet shipper of beef in the US, has been won over by Tasmanian cattle and their pristine growing conditions.
Wellness Meats founder John Wood, one of Greenham's largest US customers, was amazed by the quality of pastures, beef cattle and animal husbandry after a visit to Tasmania.
"It is utopia. If I were to be reincarnated I would like to come back as a cow on the North-West Coast,'' Mr Wood said. "This parcel of business is sure to grow.''
Japan is Greenham's largest export market but a recent free trade agreement with Korea is expected to boost that market significantly.
Since taking over the former Blue Ribbon abattoir at Smithton 2001, Greenham Tasmania has gone from strength to strength. With the development of its Cape Grim brand, after the company took on the Meat Standards Australia grading system in 2007, Tasmanian grass-fed beef is found on menus in top restaurants across the country.
Mr Greenham said consumers were now more interested in where their food came from and how it was produced.
Many southern Tasmanian August-born beef calves, at about nine months old, are sold in April to northern buyers for finishing before their date with destiny.
The grass-fed cattle are fattened and finished on the lush rolling hills of the North-West, where almost every paddock has a seaview, then bought by Greenham's for processing at its Smithton plant.
Rabobank's Hobart branch office manager, Gareth Horne, last week took 13 beef breeders from the East Coast, upper Derwent Valley and Central Highlands to see properties where their on-sold calves were fattened and finished.
They joined 30 Northern producers for a forum addressed by Mr Greenham and Matthew Costello, a Rabobank analyst on animal proteins in its global research and advisory team.
John, Angela and Iain Bruce's 583ha of lush pastures on their north-west property near Stanley features prominently in the Cape Grim beef story.
"We see ourselves as grass farmers, do the grass right and everything follows," Mr Bruce said.
They have effective rotational grazing area of 523ha.
Son Iain, an agronomist, will help with the farming business through the year to run the herd of about 350 Angus and South Devon breeders. They will grow the herd sales to 400 after buying additional land last year.
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Has anyone read stories of survival without a tent or a sleeping bag in extreme cold? I would love to read them!Thanks in advance :)
Dougal Haston and Doug Scott summited Everest, and were forced into an unplanned bivouac at over 28,000ft. They survived down to pure will-power, i think. Worth Googling for the full story.
There are survivalists that do it regularly for fun but I've never read any big published stories on things of that nature.
Dougal Haston's and Doug Scott's story is told in "Everest the Hard Way". After descending from the summit, they spent the night in a snow/ice cave that they dug with ice axes. One of them had only a pile suit and windshell for clothing. A great story.I think that there were similar bivouacs at lower altitudes by members of the Sayre team as described in "Four Against Everest".
Edited by jdw01776 on 11/26/2008 07:59:44 MST.
On one end, there's the perennial favorite Touching the Void (book and now DVD) - extreme cold, altitude, broken and frostbitten everything.On the the other, I don't know if you can get it over there, there's Survivor Man with Les Stroud (of other-thread fame)- he uses survivalist methods for warmth, shelter, food and water in all kinds of climates.
AKA "epics" if you are searching the net, "Epics on Everest: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peak"I seem to recall a good account in one of the books of the "Boardman-Tasker Omnibus".Perhaps in "Starlight and Storm" by Rebuffat.Check out explorersweb.netSit on the rope and do crunches, or just go with the shivering. Eat, hydrate if you can.In 1983? Outward Bound had us just spoon, but there was 10 of us, lots of time in the middle.
Edited by Paul_Tree on 11/26/2008 13:50:22 MST.
"Ray Mears' Extreme Survival" programme had some stories along these lines. In particular, I recall that series two contained an episode on mountain survival featuring the tale of an American father and son who were stranded for over a week after getting lost whilst skiing. You might be able to rent these DVDs as well as buying them (there are three series, with the first two being bundled together into one volume, and all are excellent viewing).
> Dougal Haston and Doug Scott summited Everest,VERY hard men. VERY!Cheers
Thanks for all the suggestions!I googled Dougal Haston and Doug Scott's story. Fortunately, I was able to read the story in Everest by Walt Unsworth. I am grateful to the author for much part of the book available for preview at books.google.comThere are pictures too.http://books.google.co.in/books?id=STs1loP7sfsC&pg=PA454&dq=highest+bivouac#PPA270-IA1,M1http://books.google.co.in/books?id=STs1loP7sfsC&pg=PA454&dq=highest+bivouac#PPA418,M1It all so profoundly inspiring..
It's been a while, but I remember enjoying The Crystal Horizon quite a bit. The White Spider by Harrer.We Die Alone has a guy buried in snow for a while. WW II in Norway, very exciting.
Edited by Paul_Tree on 11/28/2008 11:59:35 MST.
This is well covered in many survival books and there is a whole bushcraft cult. Ray Mears is a guru in the field (no pun intended). Many follow the Nessmuk stories of George W. Sears and lean to the wool/canvas/leather/carbon steel gear. Provided there are materials available, build a shelter and get a fire going. You can do a lot with just brush and forest-floor debris. Wet gives more trouble than cold. IMHO, there are some weak spots in ultra-light gear lists in the areas of first aid and survival gear. Certainly ultra-light principles can be applied in building a personal survival kit-- keeping things to the minimum, multiple-use, seeking out the lightest, high-performance materials and so on. Adding a few ounces of tools and supplies can allow you to make a fire, build a shelter, gather food and water, and signal for help.
Full length Ray Mears programs (Extreme Survival/Bushcraft/World of Survival etc) are available on Veoh.com.
Just take the BPL Wilderness Trekking III course...It's as close to survival as you'll want to get. ;)[Yes, I'm just kidding. No disrespect is intended to those who've endured real survival situations in the cold.]
My dad did an overnighter in the mountains of SE Alaska once with no tent or sleeping bag. He was on a goat hunting trip with a buddy, and they shot one during the evening while they were away from their basecamp. They skinned the goat and realized they were too far to make it back before nightfall. So, they put on all of their clothing & raingear, crawled under the shelter of a low tree, laid down next to each other with their packs on either side, globbed on a whole bunch of insect repellant, and slept using the goat hide as a blanket.The next day they finished cleaning the goat, went back to camp, and had a safe trip back. He tells me it was an eye-opening experience to spend a night out there without the normal gear.
...back in '74, I hitchhiked to Vermont in December but arrived near Putney too late at night to make it to my friend's house. The traffic had ceased, and I was tired and getting cold walking in the winter night.I had my jacket, wool cap, Sorels and gloves and perhaps too little common sense. There was a good layer of snow on the ground. I found an area off of Rt. 5, sheltered from the wind, to spend the night. I made a depression in the snow a couple feet deep, lined it with pine boughs, gathered a whole bunch more for a blanket and crawled in. I can not say how cold it got that night, clearly well below freezing, but I did fine. The Sorels keep my feet warm, and the pine boughs did the rest.I do not recall thinking that I could be in deep trouble, it just seemed the reasonable thing to do. Ah, the audacity of youth.
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. More of a treatise on the psychology of survival - but the case studies are intense and the writing is very compelling and vivid. It's a good read for anyone interested in survival.I'll second the recommendation of anything by Ray Mears too.
Mors KochanskiAuthor of "Bushcraft"I was lucky enough to take one of his courses.The real deal.
Not for the squirmish this one:Bear Grylls demonstrates how to use a camel as a shelter against a sandstorm. Warning: This is Bear Grylls, so that means gutting the camel and getting inside the camel for shelter.Bear Grylls Meets A Camel
Edited by Lyrrad on 01/29/2009 21:23:35 MST.
I remember reading a book by Tom Brown Jr describing some survival shelter techniques and I believe his organization offers some workshops on survival training.
Last night, NH Public TV had the movie version of "Touching the Void" by Joe Simpson. Simpson broke his leg while descending a serious climb in the Peruvian Andes. He spent 4 days alone escaping from a crevice and crawling across a glacier to get down. He didn't have a tent and I don't think he had a sleeping bag. It's a powerful book.
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When CEOs Become Politicians
A huge airplane with TRUMP splattered on the side landed in Des Moines Monday. The Donald was not on board. No doubt too busy yelling "You're Fired!" at some of his peeps. His right-hand-man was onboard, having arrived in Iowa to work the state for Trump and suck the oxygen out of a church-sponsored event for a bunch of actual Republican presidential wannabes.
I for one hope Trump runs. I also hope Charlie Sheen runs. It would make the 2012 caucuses really interesting, and for once in their lives, the paparazzi from all over the world would have a reason to chase cars in Iowa.
But what happens when CEOs run for office? Well, they normally lose (see Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina). Some win and make decent leaders (see Michael Bloomberg and Mitt Romney.) Jon Corzine, the former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, was a one-termer in New Jersey and left office with his tail between his legs and a 58 percent disapproval rating.
CEOs, like military generals, have an exaggerated and distorted idea of how much power a president wields. General Eisenhower discovered that when he tried to give orders in Washington D.C. and found that no one jumped. Politics is, after all, about negotiating.
So now we come to the case of Florida.
"[Republican Rick Scott of Florida] doesn't understand there is a state constitution and that we have three branches of government," said State Senator Mike Fasano, a Republican from New Port Richey who upset Scott with rough handling of his staff during a testy committee hearing. "They are talking about the attitude that he is still the CEO of his former health care corporation, and that is not going to work in this state, in Tallahassee, in my district. The people believe in three branches of government."
The governor sold two state-owned jets without proper authorization, unilaterally tried to kill off a database system to track fraud in the distribution of addictive prescription drugs and then killed off federal money to build a high-speed rail system from Orlando to Tampa. He was sued by a Democrat and a Republican.
State Senator Arthenia L. Joyner, a lawyer and Democrat who took Scott to court said, "It's necessary at this time, I think — because our governor's new — to let him know this is not a monarchy. He's not a king. This is a democracy."
This must have come as a shock to the CEO of a huge healthcare company and a no-nonsense businessman who I guess, like The Donald, can do anything he wants.
So for these reasons, I'd like to see Mr. Trump run for President. It would raise the money ante - he would presumably pump a fortune into the race, bring lots of attention and business to Iowa, and who knows, maybe the United States can be run like a business. The Republicans say it can. I hear that every day. So step aside politicians and let a bidness guy give er a try at the wheel.
Steffen Schmidt, University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Iowa State University, author of 11 books, 40 years analyzing the Iowa Caucuses, Des Moines Register blogger, and Chief Political and International Correspondent for insideriowa.com


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The massive sexual abuse case in Rotherham, England, has revealed again how awkward and self-defeating the Western response often is to matters that touch on religious identity. Although the independent inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay is tersely graphic about the 1,400-plus girls, some as young as 11 years old, who were sexually assaulted over several years by organized gangs of mostly Pakistani men, it isn't detailed about the male predators. The report strongly suggests that all of the rapists and sex traffickers were men who, if you asked them to self-identify, would probably describe themselves as Muslim. A Muslim identity in Europe has become similar to identity politics among Christians in Northern Ireland: It has next to nothing to do with worship and religious ritual and everything to do with the social and cultural milieu in which one is raised. The report shies away from talking much about "ethnicity" and "race"—the preferred words for alluding to the Muslim origins of the boys and men who were methodically raping, and often impregnating, overwhelmingly non-Muslim British girls. British and American press reports that refer to the male predators as "Asian" are also trying to avoid the issue of religion as the common denominator among these men, since surely no one meant to suggest that immigrants of Chinese, Lao, Japanese, Burmese, or Cambodian ancestry were involved in this organized crime. The inquiry and subsequent British press reporting reveal that local officials covered up this entire affair in part because they were concerned about being accused of racism.
Critics of using religion as a common denominator of these rapists and child molesters might argue that there is nothing in the Islamic faith that condones this behavior, and these rapists, if they were even practicing Muslims, were obviously failing to uphold the mores of nearly all Muslims in the United Kingdom, who are surely repulsed by what has happened in Rotherham. Some might say that Great Britain is chock full of non-Muslim rapists, pimps, and sex offenders, which is undoubtedly true. Grotesque sexual predation now seems to be common in the West—more common than in Islamic lands, where sex with minors who are not wives is a deadly risk since family structure, even among the poor, remains fairly solid and male honor is tightly bound to female virtue. Sexual predation of the type seen in Rotherham surely must have as much Western inspiration as Islamic.
This may all be true, but it is beside the point. It ought to be obvious—and it ought to be a major subject of conversation and heated debate—that there is a moral distemper within the Muslim communities of the West, as there is in the Muslim lands of the Greater Middle East. The most severe disorder—the jihadism of groups like the Islamic State and al Qaeda and the creed of Wahhabism, based in Saudi Arabia but exported everywhere—afflicts a small percentage of Muslims, but those numbers are sufficiently frightening, especially in an age of technology and global travel. A less severe moral derangement, however, the kind that turns jihad-promoting, raging anti-Semitic legal scholars like Yusuf al-Qaradawi into popular icons, is much more common. These new moral codes, fed by the dark sides of both Western and Islamic civilizations, are a cancer that non-Muslim Westerners, Western Muslims, and Muslims in the Middle East are poorly combating. It's not at all ridiculous to suggest that the mores loose in Rotherham, a midsize working-class town of 260,000, where taxi and limousine services run predominantly by South Asian Muslims targeted, gang-raped, prostituted, kidnapped, and trafficked overwhelmingly non-Muslim English girls, are part of the same ethical matrix that encourages young men to abandon Europe for the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Jerry Jackson, out with the wild things. A zebra butterfly may take as little as 21 days to go from an egg to an adult butterfly. As a result, zebra butterflies can produce several generations per year. These butterflies are members of a largely tropical group and are intolerant of cold weather. Their numbers are greatest in South Florida, but as the season progresses, some individuals make their way northward. Adults feed on nectar and pollen of many plants, but they need passion flower as a site to lay their eggs. Caterpillars of zebra butterflies feed only on passion flower leaves. Florida has several native passion flowers, all of which attract the zebra butterfly, but some of which are in trouble as a result of habitat losses and small distributions. The white-flowered passion vine is a Florida endangered species found only in the Florida Keys where it grows in rockland hammock, 90% of which has been destroyed by development. The pale passion flower, a high-climbing white-flowered vine, is found in about twelve localities in South Florida. It is also native to rockland hammocks and a Florida endangered species that is suffering from habitat destruction and competition with exotic plants.
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Ginny Lewis, a Democrat and 72-year-old retired district attorney from Princeton, Ky., says she'll vote for Romney because "I'm tired of the Republicans blaming all the debt on Democrats, so let them take over and see what they do."
Not that she's optimistic about how that will turn out, though. "I think things will get worse before they get better," she said.
Lindsey Hornbaker, a 25-year-old graduate student and nanny, hasn't been swayed by Romney's charm offensive.
Hornbaker, interviewed Wednesday in Davenport, Iowa, where she was attending an Obama rally, said Romney can tweak his tone but not what she sees as a record focused far more on top income earners and out of touch with most working families.
"I heard him go out of his way to sound so moderate during the debate," she said. "And I thought: 'Who is this? Where did this come from?' He may sound like he's focused on the middle class. But where's the record?"
Obama, meanwhile, has been working to shore up his support among men, who tend to be more Republican than women. In the 2008 election, men broke 49 percent for Obama to 48 percent for John McCain, even though Obama got 53 percent of the vote overall. The president's job approval ratings among men have tended to fall below his ratings among women throughout his first term.
A month ago, Romney's advantage among men was 13 percentage points. Now, it's down to 5 points, with most of the shift toward Obama coming among unmarried men.
Obama's election chances hinge on turning out voters like Jon Gerton, a disabled construction worker from Jonesboro, Ark. Gerton's a staunch Obama supporter — but he didn't vote in 2008.
"It takes longer than four years to get things to the point where things are going better," Gerton said. "Four years, it's not very long."
There has been a gender gap in every presidential election since 1980. In 2008, women were 7 percentage points more likely than men to vote for Obama.
Overall, people are significantly more optimistic about the economy and unemployment in the coming year than they have been at any point in AP-GfK polling going back to March 2011, when the poll first started asking those questions. And likely voters are even more optimistic than other adults.
Nearly six in 10 likely voters think the economy will improve in the next year, up from 46 percent last month. And 42 percent think the number of unemployed Americans will drop in the next year, up from 32 percent in September.
Count Chrysta Walker, of Cedar Lake, Ind., among the voters who are sticking with Obama because they think he's got the right solutions for the fragile economy.
"He's got the middle class at heart," says the 58-year-old Walker. On the economy, she says, Obama "did as well as could be expected because he didn't get a lot of cooperation."
David Bierwirth, who owns an autograph sales business in Las Vegas, turned out at a Romney rally in Henderson this week to show his support for the GOP nominee. To Bierwirth, his vote for Romney is all about the economy.


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Most of the time, when I see a jacked-up 4x4 with big mud-slingin' tires in a context as distinctly urban as this, it strikes me as a silly vehicle. Not so with an International Harvester!
This Scout might not be a '72, but the grille is a '72. No doubt some parts have been swapped here or there, so there's no telling at a glance.
If it is a '72, the available engines were a (non-AMC) 304 V8 and a 196-cube four-cylinder. Base price with four-wheel-drive was a mere $3,340, midway between the $3,588 list for a Bronco wagon and the Blazer's $3,145 price tag. I'm pretty sure the vacuum gauge dangling from dash was a non-factory option.


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Im about to be fired and dont know what to do.
Im about to be fired. I work for a large company where the politics are unimaginable which has become an issue for me. Basically ive been hung out to dry by my boss. He decided that rather than support my decisions it was easier to make it look like I was incompetent even when I turned out to be right. Then it was simply my fault for not brining him all the facts.
- Asked by musicguy, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 29-35, Minneapolis, Science / Engineering
For starters, if you work for a large company, they probably have an employee handbook. Review it to determine if it applies to your level of employment. If it does, then review the section dealing with termination. Begin to interview for another job ASAP. If you are feeling aggressive, then prepare a short statement on the matters that you believe to be likely to lead to your termination. Obviously, don't include that you expect to be terminated in your statement. Just lay out what happened. Keep it short. Then present it to HR to put in your file. When your performance review rolls around, if you get canned, refer back to your letter with HR, and hope they didn't follow the appropriate process for termination. Then see an employment attorney.
- Response by quikslvr, A Career Man, Male, 36-45, Washington, DC, Farming
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I think it's better that you quit then if you get fired. You can always say you quit for whatever reason when interviewing but if you've been fired, that is pretty bad.
- Response by annakins2011, An Alternative Girl, Female, 29-35, Vancouver, Administrative
Unless you broke rules, stold stuff, etc you can get Unemployment after you get fired. If the boss just don't like you, he may think that is a valid reason, but the Unemployment office doesn't always see it that way. So if you want UE don't quit, let them fire you, and get a written reason as to why you were fired for the UE office. If you are not concerned with money, then by all means, give your two weeks and quit. They will most likely put a box in your cube the next day....What company do you work for as I don't want to apply there.
- Response by kmf1, A Life of the Party, Female, 46-55, Minneapolis, Who Cares?
I hope you are spending some hours each day making copies of all your contact lists and phoning contacts to see if you can go to work there.
- Response by greenwind, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 56-65, Construction
The better option depends on whether or not you can afford to be unemployed for an undetermined amount of time right now. If your wife works and you won't have trouble making ends meet, I'd quit tomorrow. Quitting is the lesser of two evils when it comes to the job market and if you've got a solid resume and work history, future employer's won't likely dig too deep into your reasons for leaving the last employer. However, if your finance's aren't in order and you need the paycheck it might be more important to keep working as long as you can. Only you can determine that though.
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Quit....you'll feel better
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IprediaOS Live Desktop1
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IprediaOS Live Desktop is a the first of two operating systems designed with Internet anonymity in mind. This edition is built around the GNOME desktop environment and includes a wide range of GNOME-specific applications. The OS is derived from the popular Fedora Linux distribution.
Available only as a 32-bit Live CD ISO image
While the distribution is available only as a 32-bit Live CD ISO image, it will run well on both 32-bit (i686) and 64-bit (x86_64) hardware platforms. It's a multilingual operating system distributed with separate Live ISOs for the English, German, French, Russian and Swedish languages.
Boot screen à la Fedora Linux
As mentioned, the distro is based on Fedora Linux. Therefore, it borrows its boot screen, which allows you to start the live system with default boot options. It is also possible to run a memory test, boot from local drive, and start the live session in safe graphics mode by accessing the Troubleshooting section.
The graphical desktop environment is modern, powered by GNOME
GNOME is used as the default and only graphical desktop environment for this operating system, providing users with a pure GNOME Shell desktop experience. No extra extensions or tweaks have been applied to it.
It uses I2P to protect your anonymity online
Wireshark network scanner, XChat IRC client, Sound Juicer Audio-CD ripper and encoder, Totem movie player, Orca screen reader and magnifier, Gedit text editor, Evolution email and calendar client, Mozilla Firefox web browser, Deja Dup backup tool. It uses I2P to protect your anonymity online.
Bottom line
Summing up, IprediaOS Live Desktop is a pretty standard "Fedora with GNOME" distribution of Linux, except for the fact that it includes less applications, but implements support for the I2P anonymous peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed communication layer, which is used to keep your anonymity online when surfing the Internet.


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If body-oriented activities are an indicator of a healthy society, then Auroville is positively glowing
Physical activities are nothing new to Auroville. In the early days it was primarily the environment that required intense bodily effort. The activities – forestation, building capsules, or bending steel at the Matrimandir – required strength, litheness, agility and, most definitely, hours of physical labour. Turning sinewy and nut brown under the blazing sun was part of the package. Recalls Frederick , "Life was extremely pioneering, exposed, and physical. At that time, there were no motor bikes and we either cycled or walked. Visits to Pondicherry were day-trips, cycling down in the morning and back at night." It was a lifestyle that did not seem to require any extra physical activity in the name of organized sports or games. However, as young people wanted to 'do things together' and the older ones also wanted some fun, people began to play. "These games filled a need for social interaction and for a sense of community," says Fred. "Many interpersonal problems were solved at sports. They fought in the morning and played in the afternoon, and it all balanced out."
But it was the presence of children that in 1972, sparked off organized sports. "Like everything else in Auroville, sports developed out of necessities and needs. A letter was written to The Mother asking if Auroville could have some of the Ashram's sports teachers or have the children participate in the Ashram programmes in Pondicherry . But Mother said 'no'. She wanted Auroville to develop its own facilities." With a few adult volunteers, a novice sports programme was started in the Aspiration area for the ' Last School ' children. The sports programme was, of course, designed along the lines of the Ashram. Frederick points to a photograph from those times, "Look! This could have come straight from the Ashram Bulletin. The kids in their uniforms and us, the so-called teachers all lined up just like in the Ashram playground." He narrates how Shrudderlal, a teacher from the Ashram who came to Auroville, divided the Auroville children of Last School into three groups – those with no lice, those with only eggs or nits, and those with adult lice.
Hari, one of the ex-students of Last School from that period, recollects the original Aspiration sports ground with nostalgia. "It was the first sports arena in Auroville. At that time it was huge; with a sprawling football field, basketball and volleyball courts, two running tracks, a long jump and high jump pit, and a shot-put area. But the situation changed during the conflict between the Sri Aurobindo Society and Auroville. Many of our teachers moved out and the school shut down and with it, the sports programme. In those years, with youngsters having little to do except 'hang out' at the beach, work at Matrimandir, or doggedly look 'for anyone to teach us anything,' it was sports that kept us together. It became the one activity that helped us stick though that trying time and it showed me the unifying power of sports. I realized that it gave us the strength to deal with any problem by putting up a united front, and to organize and successfully carry out any task."
With Auroville's growth, the sports activities gradually shifted to the Certitude community. Tennis courts were built and other games began to be played – table-tennis, badminton, volleyball and basketball. A small gym for body-building activities also got established. "It all developed quite fast, and Certitude soon became the official sports ground," recalls Fredrerick. "The children would arrive at 4 pm and sports would start. The entire programme was initially administered by Aurovilians with no formal training in physical education."
It was largely due to the help of the Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research (SAIIER) that was set-up in 1986 that sports was able to further develop. "Sports received due recognition," says Frederick who was appointed Director of Sports. "Besides the organized activities with their four categories of athletics, gymnastics, games and aquatics, other projects developed such as cycle tours, summer camps, and trekking, done during the holidays." Kerala, Point Calimere, Nilgiris, and even the Himalayas became popular destinations. Athletics and games further developed after tennis coach Yves arrived from Canada in the early nineties, and he became the driving force behind the Dehashakti Sports Grounds near Dana in the Cultural Zone. Meanwhile, André had created a sports ground in New Creation, originally envisaged for the children of New Creation school, but later used by anyone interested. The gymnasium built by Savitri expanded the New Creation facilities with body-building equipment and a hall for dance and martial arts, and its swimming pool awaits funds for completion. Other Aurovilians also created dedicated spaces such as the hatha yoga hall in Pitanga, the Tai Chi hall in Sharnga, the open-air kung-fu theatre in Vikas, the climbing wall in La Ferme, the riding schools in Kottakarai and Brihaspati and a host of courts all over the community. A skating rink and skate-board park are coming up in Dana.
Today there is a wide range of body-related activities happening in many corners of the community. Aurovilians have a choice of many activities – body awareness; hatha yoga in its many derivatives; Pilates; Tai Chi; Qi Gong; dance in its many forms such as Western ballet, Bharatanatyam, Odissi, jazz Alvin Ailey style, free form dance with the five elements and salsa; martial arts like Aikido, Kung fu, and Kalaripayattu; pony and horse riding; aerobics; cycling; roller-blading; gyro riding; skate-boarding; wall-climbing; jogging; trekking; water sports (including swimming classes for babies); surf-boarding; and wind-surfing. There are no excuses for any Aurovilian to not be on the sportive trail of body consciousness.
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