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First off, this is my first time running an NCR character. So the following is totally new to me.
I don't get how the Alliance between the two works really. In my mind, if there's an alliance between two different parties, then they co-exist for the duration of the alliance, am I correct? Which means, or should mean if you wear either faction armor at the Dam, you should be fine am I correct? Nope, apparently, I am wrong.
If you wear NCR armor, your ok, but the moment you place BoS armor on, your toast! And don't expect the BoS Paladin Todd to help you, nope. He will attack you also. I mean wtf?!?!
NCR - BoS Alliance is a sham
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Posted 06 July 2011 - 07:26 AM
Posted 06 July 2011 - 12:56 PM
The NCR and the BoS can go to hell, Caesar is the only true leader! Ave, true to Caesar!
Posted 06 July 2011 - 03:46 PM
I agree. But I just had to give that side a run and personally, I just couldn't enjoy the game. I have since given up on this run through. It just didn't feel right. It was like trying to convince yourself that a pile of excrement was a bowl of soup. I couldn't get past the stench. It was still a pile of excrement.
Posted 06 July 2011 - 07:22 PM
The NCR and the BoS can go to hell, Caesar is the only true leader! Ave, true to Caesar!
Caesar? Hehe. What a joke.
Posted 06 July 2011 - 10:27 PM
The NCR strategy is to just get the BoS off their back for the duration of the battle against Caesar, but it's pretty obvious that when they are safe they'll turn around on that. It's kind of similar to the Treaty of New Vegas. It was a treaty of convenience for both parties, but both parties (NCR and House) are scheming and biding their time, each planning to ultimately take over the Mojave.
Posted 09 July 2011 - 02:20 PM
Well if you look at the lore of the BoS it makes sense. You are not part of the brotherhood. You do not deserve to wear their colors. As such themselves and their allies will kill you for dishonouring them.
Posted 13 July 2011 - 10:59 AM
Im certain they give you true membership if you do their questline right.
Posted 13 July 2011 - 10:20 PM
IMO a NCR-BOS alliance makes no sense at all.
Posted 14 July 2011 - 12:35 AM
To me same as Enclave-BoS
Posted 14 July 2011 - 12:18 PM
It makes sense in the way that they're using each other, The NCR wants the BoS off their back, and the BoS want to show they're still a powerful force in the region. As its been said, it wont last, and its likely they'll turn on each other.


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My ipod has worked fine in my new fiesta for over a months but the other day I was playing it and a song stopped halfway through it, I looked at the Fiesta screen which said 'line in active.' Now when I start my car the ipod does not start playing automatically as it used to, instead it stays at the 'line in active' screen & I have to press the AUX button again to get it to recognise my ipod. Then instead of just playing my songs as normal, it just seems to keep flicking through songs not playing any of them. I then tried my mates ipod & it worked fine. I cant understand as my ipod had been working for over a month and I haven't updated my ipod or anything. See this video if it will help you better understand my problem.
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|The cardiovascular risks of diving.
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|Cardiovascular disease may be responsible for a quarter of diving fatalities, but there are few studies on the cardiovascular complications of this activity. In contrast, there is a rich literature on land-based, exercise-related cardiac events. These studies document that exercise can increase the risk of acute cardiac events, but that absolute risk is small for healthy individuals. There are no proven strategies to reduce exercise-related cardiac events and consequently no proven strategies that could be confidently applied to diving. Nevertheless, requiring a pre-diving medical evaluation and clearance for those with known cardiac disease, training dive personnel to elicit possible cardiac prodromal symptoms, and frequent emergency training for diving supervisors are prudent approaches to this problem.
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Yeah, 30 mpg would be impressive for an SUV. However this isn't an SUV and it doesn't get 30 mpg. An SUV is supposed to be an off-road passenger truck - already an oxymoron. I can't imagine taking this thing off road and how much manure could it possibly haul? And just because you can get the computer to read 30 mpg down hill with a tail wind doesn't make that a real claim.
Considering its weight and power, the EPA rating of 20/24 isn't bad, But several 911 models get equal or better combined mileage, have higher performance and probably could haul just as much manure. And they are probably more likely to be driven off road if you count unintended excursions.
I'd rather be lumped in with the Porsche crowd. But then, I actually like cars.
The Cayenne Hybrid is all about performance. The MPG improvement is secondary. The electric machine simply adds to the fun. This is not aimed at the Prius crowd. They need to stay in the right lane as Porsches pass on the left.
After breaking in, it might get up to 35 mpg. Wow! Honda's CR-Z, less powerful but lighter and considerably smaller (2-seater) than the Cayenne hybrid, is fun and economical. And they give me a choice. After about 15,000 miles, I've been getting consistently 43 to 45 mpg in mixed commute in the somewhat hilly Front Range north of Denver. That's 20% better than the EPA rating. I get about 35 to 38 in the city. If I wish to be "bad" and put it in sport mode and go for it, mileage over short spans can drop to 25, but amazingly it still averages close to 40. It is really quite peppy. Still, a CR-Z is most definitely not a Cayenne! Nonetheless, it can be fun. I think it looks better, too.
you want electric, you gotta go fully electric. People are farting around with these "hybrids" either you want electric or gasoline. Tesla Model S fits the bill for families.
Trying to amuse yourself by coasting down hills on 78 to see the number 30 on an LCD panel tells you a lot about passes for entertainment in the burbs.
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Blog: Only 1 Arizona bachelorette left on The Bachelor
Bachelor Ben Flajnik narrowed down his choice of women during Monday night's show leaving only one Arizona girl, Courtney, with the chance to win his heart.
Kacie B.'s date with Ben was a perfect first one-on-one date for the show and for Ben. It seemed like two genuine, normal people in Ben's hometown of Sonoma, CA.
They did what real people might do on a first date. Well, most of it anyway.
First the two took a stroll down one of Sonoma's quaint streets, they stopped into a hotel where Ben showed Kacie how he can play the piano. But can he really? They didn't show him playing much!
The two goofed off at a candy shop where she bought a baton and showed him how to twirl it, which was one of her childhood talents.
After that, Ben had a surprise. Ok, so some of the date had to be over the top and Bachelor-like.
Ben took her to a beautiful theater that they had to themselves.
There, a movie started playing showing Kacie's childhood photos and videos, followed by Ben's childhood photos and videos.
It was a very sweet, emotional moment as they watched Ben with his dad, who passed away five years ago. It was touching to see how emotional Kacie B. got seeing Ben watch his Dad on the screen.
It was a tear jerker to watch. Did any of you cry, too?
They seemed to connect right away and conversation flowed with ease the whole date.
They had a nice dinner where they shared several kisses. The chemistry was palpable and I thought Ben was ready to end the season and pick Kacie B. as the one.
Of course, that is not how The Bachelor works. We fans must accept that we have to be "tortured" every season by watching him fall for other bachelorettes that have the wrong intentions and are only there to win a competition or to get famous.
It's torture, but we keep coming back for more because we love the drama and yelling at The Bachelor as we watch him make some stupid decisions.
Case in point, giving Blakely the rose on the group date. What was Ben thinking? He was enraptured by Blakely's confidence, and maybe her revealing outfit.
When Ben brought up her wearing that outfit, she even talked about her body saying, "Here's to being blessed." Oh, and did I mention that she was wearing this revealing outfit in front of a group of 5th and 7th grade kids during the group date where Ben and all of the girls performed in a fairy tale play written by the kids?
Blakely later said she was the best weasel ever and couldn't stop bragging the whole day and night about herself, including things about her being a Scorpio which means she's a great lover.
Ben was taken by her, especially when she got him alone and kissed him in the pool. He liked her aggressive nature so much he gave her the rose that night, much to the other girls' dismay.
Poor Jennifer got a kiss from Ben on the group date and right after that she had to see Ben kissing Blakely.
Blakely is over-confident and acts like this is a competition she's planning to win, but she's got some serious competition for the most competitive bachelorette: Courtney.
Courtney is the model who grew up in Arizona. She and Ben had a one-on-one date.
You can already tell Ben is smitten by her beautiful looks and what seems to be a complete 180 from how she acts when Ben isn't around.
Ben picked up Courtney with his cute little dog, Scotch. They drove and were just hanging out with the Redwood trees having sweet, getting to know you time.
Ben talked about how he went to University of Arizona. Did anyone catch his dog's U of A collar?!
Courtney shared how she never gets asked out on dates. Maybe she said this while wanting Ben to say it's probably because guys are too intimidated by her gorgeous looks.
She talked about how she's dated an actor. Rumor has it that she dated Jesse Metcalfe from the early seasons of Desperate Housewives.
Courtney also talked about dating a photographer, too, but that she found underwear in the bed and has trust issues.
She said all of this while twirling and playing with her hair every second. This girl is trying so hard to make Ben fall for her and he is falling for her alright, falling for the act of what she's pretending to be.
She is so good that the viewer almost wants to believe everything she's saying, too, that maybe she is really nice and sweet.
Then, after she gets the rose all she talked about was how all the other girls should watch out.
Courtney is mean to the other bachelorettes and, although she took a back seat during the rose ceremony with all of the drama, she is sure to jump back into it with them next week.
There was a lot of crying for only the second episode. Blakely eventually got upset after hearing all of the girls talk about her behind her back.
What did she expect? Blakely already had a rose, but kept stealing Ben from all of the other girls during the cocktail party who didn't have a rose yet.
Of course they're going talk
about you when you're so inconsiderate to them.
Jenna, the NYC blogger, was still a blubbering mess and couldn't seem to keep it together to have one normal conversation with Ben.
He found her crying in a bed right after he had just comforted a crying Blakely hiding in a room on the floor behind luggage. He's gotta wonder about these girls.
At least he did get rid of Jenna. She made everything awkward. At one point she said to Ben that she's "like a guy and not like a girl".
She couldn't get her words out and it came out all wrong. Needless to say, Ben got it right when he didn't give her a rose Monday night.
I don't think he got it right by getting rid of Shawn, our other Arizona girl. I wish I had more input on why he got rid of her but I don't recall hearing her speak one line on the episode.
Shawn seemed like one of the smart and intelligent girls, but nothing made her stand out.
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|Effect of hand position on EMG activity of the posterior shoulder musculature during a horizontal abduction exercise.
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|ABSTRACT: The reverse fly machine is a popular exercise for strengthening the horizontal shoulder abductors including the posterior deltoid. . There seems to be little consensus as to which hand position most effectively targets the posterior deltoid despite this option on most machines. This study investigated the impact of varying one's hand position, and consequently altering shoulder joint rotation, on muscle activity in various glenohumeral muscles during exercise on the reverse fly machine. Nineteen resistance trained men (mean age = 23.2 ± 4.3 years; height =176.9 ± 7.1 centimeters; body mass = 81.3 ± 10.5 kilograms; body mass index = 25.9 ± 2.6) were recruited from a university population to participate in the study. In a repeated measures design, subjects grasped the hand bars on the machine with either a pronated (PRO) or neutral (NEU) grip and performed dynamic horizontal abduction repetitions to muscular failure using a load equating to approximately 75% body weight. The order of performance of the hand positions was counterbalanced between participants so that approximately half of the subjects performed PRO first and the other half performed NEU first. Surface electromyography was used to record both mean and peak muscle activity of the posterior deltoid, middle deltoid, and infraspinatus. Results showed that mean EMG activity for the posterior deltoid was significantly greater in NEU compared to PRO (p = 0.046; 95% CI = 0.1 to 7.4% MVIC). Similarly, mean EMG activity of the infraspinatus also was significantly greater in NEU compared to PRO (p = 0.002; 95% CI = 3.7 to 13.6% MVIC). The results of this study show that performing exercise on the reverse fly machine with a neutral hand position significantly increases activity of the posterior deltoid and infraspinatus muscles compared to a pronated hand position.
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Well, after all the clumping "issues" Ive reported about the deck, I will give it credit for cutting long stuff like this. Its a great deck and machine for this kind of stuff. I have quite a few lawns like this at the moment due to all the rain.
This was 4 weeks growth cut at 3.5" and triple cut ie, from right to left, make a pass throwing clipping onto previously cut grass, come back over that pass, then let dry out mowing other areas then come back and re do normally. I think it came up pretty well all things considered and loved having an hourly rate on this one.
The truth though will raise its ugly head when I go back next week to clean it up properly cutting at 2.5 to 3" but for now, Im glad I have the machine!
Any update Mick on the deck? Is Hustler working with you on a fix? Could I get a measurement from trim side bumper to discharge side? I'm wonder what the measurment is on the 60" with no chute added into it. The website says 66"! Thanks.
I measured the deck at very close to 61" without the deflector. Certainly not 66".
i hate hustler at this point. i'll never buy one.
I've had 10 plus years of what I feel is great reliability and I work my mowers beyond hard. I'm constantly impressed by the beating they take. I am a maintenance nut which I'm sure helps and I've sold and upgraded SZs prior to 1500 hrs. so so far have not had to deal with pump/wheel motor issues. I've run the orig standard deck and XR7. Calling direct to the company has proven to be helpful in the few times I needed it. I also have a good dealer contact out of state which has some of the highest volume sales in the nation which has been an invaluable source of info. The QOC hasn't been perfect by any means. Other brands I've used have had short comings as well, even some with a worse QOC but maybe in other conditions. I haven't spent any time with the VX4 deck but based on my prior history I wouldn't give up on them yet. They've been in the business longer than any other ZTR manu. No question the VX4 has it's issues but given some of what I feel are the more knowledgeable professionals in the business are on this particular thread I'd say it's proof that the mower is one of the best out there and is being watched closely. IMO if the deck was perfected (no such thing yet on any brand), they put an air ride seat and a few other minor convenience tweaks on it it would be hard to beat. It's easy for me to think there should be no reason not to have a perfect deck after shelling out 15k or more and spending more hrs. on it then I do with the woman I married. If it could be done easily it would have already been done. The first company to take it to the next level and testing solely in NW damp grasses till they get it right will be the on the top of the pile till the patent wears off. That is if the rest of the machine is built right (ie. speed, COG, gph, hp, ride quality, fuel capacity, QOC, $s, support)
Mic, my hats off to you and your battle. In my book you know your stuff as well or better than most and have been doing what Hustler should be doing themselves. Even though Hustler may not be looking at these posts as helpful to their company, this is the very thing that will make or brake their sales and product. It's the companies like ours that IMO the manu should be connected at the hip with and doing anything it takes to make the unit right and no further cost and as little down time as possible. It's a win win then. Happy LCO and great RnD.
Just placed a parts order with the dealer I mentioned in my above post and talked to my sales contact afterward. This is some of the info he gave me for those interested.
The new HD Super Z model is the SZ with the addition of an air ride seat and larger 26" tires which is to help traction, speed (16mph), and ride (I'm sure they aren't any cheaper either). I also saw on their web site they now offer a 38 hp (old rating?) Kohler CV980 (CA only). He reports little to no QOC issues in PA grass esp. with chute in the down position. Goes to show it has tons to due with the grass type and moisture. Definitely will have to try and look a one next time around and see if it will work with my grass type. If not, oh well, looks like it's got about everything I'd want otherwise except for the cost. If QOC won't work for me here I'll keep looking and wait till the next generation of deck comes out and look again.
They are very excited about the 104 SZ with it's flexing deck and already have 25 slated for sale this year. They ran a demo against the JD 4x4 and it held the hills better then the JD giving them the sale. Go figure.
At my Husqvarna shop yesterday saw my first 4x4 26" walk behind push type mower?!? Never no what's going to sell.
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hustler makes me think of my first chevy car i bought when i turned 16. it blew up on me in 6 months. i don't care if chevy has gotten better or gets to where they make the most reliable vehicle in the world one day. they've already lost my business for good. i'll never even consider buying another one as long as i live.
this is my personal experience.
bought a used chevy with 100k miles. blew up in 6 months with 115k miles on it.
bought a toyota used with 100k miles. drove it for 10 years trouble free up to 300k miles. was still running perfectly when i sold it.
now you tell me. what brand would you buy for the rest of your life?
pretty simple if you ask me.
same thing applies to mowers.
Power to you if it works for you and makes you happy. I've been a service writer and manager for 18 different brands of vehicles over 17 years plus been doing mechanics as a hobby most of my adult life. I've handled many thousand vehicles for repair and service and have owned over 60 plus. I can tell you first had no machine is perfect and out of the brands that are doing a good job you'll still have a bad one/lemon every so often. I'm by no means saying Hustler is write for everyone. Shoot the last machine I bought I went with Gravely. To each their own.
i like deere and scag. the rest i don't care too much about. gravely is ok though. i've heard some good about them. i'm sure with mowers most are the same since they all use the same engines and hydros and such. the brand seems to only come into play on the quality of cut. that's where deere and scag are the best in any situation that comes up. that is what is important. hustler has the best pumps on the super z but clearly we can see they have cut quality issues so it's a wash.
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Alton Brown's Pie CrustBy quinn on November 30, 2007Quinn has a love/more love relationship with Alton and his methods. So, it came as no surprise to me when he turned to Alton when he decided to make a pie crust. Unfortunately, I don't possess the patience for things such as pie crusts, so I am glad to turn that responsibility over to him. Jennifer and I have a […]Read more
Alton Brown's PizzaBy quinn on August 11, 2006In honor and anticipation of this weekend's cooking seminar in Nashville, I made Alton Brown's pizza dough as seen in the classic episode Flat is Beautiful and in his most recent book, I'm Just Here for More Food. In fact, I'm sitting in the passenger seat as Jennifer drives us on the first leg of our trip to Nashville. We're […]Read more
Garlic KnotsBy quinn on June 11, 2006Our favorite place to be is New York City. So much culture — so much food! My NYC guilty pleasure is an order of garlic knots from any pizzeria, sometimes instead of pizza. As a guest baker (and full-time husband), I made Emeril's garlic knot recipe. The pizza dough portion of the recipe was a typical yeast bread. Any pizza […]Read more


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Release Date: 2008 |
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offyeah this is a great album, and good review. shouldn't be under post hardcore though.
Album Rating: 4.0what do you think it should be under, I'm quite confused under what this band should be under.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offhonestly i would just put them under simply 'rock' or 'metal'
put them under metal.
Not a bad review, but
a female Dustin Kensrue
loved A Day Of Nights, so I'm guessing this would be right up my alley
Album Rating: 3.5awesome album, good review but you didn't answer your question at the end in my opinion
It's pretty different.
Album Rating: 4.0I meant her screams sounded like a female version of Dustin Kensrue is all.
Album Rating: 4.0oh, and this is album is different then A Day of Nights in that the songs have a faster tempo as opposed to the doom style of Battle of Mice
Battle of Mice is a very doom centric band yes...
this sounds really cool, i gotta check it out. good review
Album Rating: 4.0just out of curiosity, any tips on the review? How to improve it, etc.?
Just downloaded this from seeing your review; what a cool cd. If I may offer some advice, I would like to see more about the songs and how they fit together to make the album. Don't just focus on 'the singer sounds like this' and 'the bassist sounds like that.
Album Rating: 4.0Yea, I wanted to include more of the songs, but I felt like if I did that I'd ramble myself into a tbt, which I try to avoid doing.
Album is super overrated.
Album Rating: 4.0why do you think that? I listened to this album not hearing anything about it and found it to be quite great.
I'm glad I saw this review, the band is pretty neat and the Isis (early works, I'd say) crossed with Jesus Lizard comparison is pretty apt.
As for review tips, I'd say, for next time, try to avoid all that "I think...", "it blew me away", "I believe" kind of stuff. And since this band falls into an interesting genre category, with an aggressive female singer to boot, think about their place in contemporary music.
Just wrapped my ears round this teriffically named band after reading this review + i gotta say it's wonderfully warped stuff! Good review, and agreed about the singer- Her voice is devastating!
Snackary, I think a lot of people think that this music is "devastating[ly heavy]" as chewytapeworm broke it down for us. There is more br00tal music, more inventive music, and also tighter written music. On top of that I'm not a big fan of the vocals like others seems to be. On a subjective level, this just leaves a bad flavor in my mouth, and on a more objective this is nothing revolutionary. My "cutting edge" panties are not in a bunch over this.
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22 U.S. Code § 3281 - Annual Presidential report to Congress on governmental efforts to prevent proliferation
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(a) Review of Government activities; description of progress; assessment of impact of progress; determinations regarding non-nuclear-weapon states; counterproductiveness of policies
The President shall review all activities of Government departments and agencies relating to preventing proliferation and shall make a report to Congress in January of 1979 and annually in January of each year thereafter on the Government's efforts to prevent proliferation. This report shall include but not be limited to—
(1) a description of the progress made toward—
(B) negotiating the international arrangements or other mutual undertakings contemplated in section 2153b of title 42;
(C) encouraging non-nuclear-weapon states that are not party to the Treaty to adhere to the Treaty or, pending such adherence, to enter into comparable agreements with respect to safeguards and to foreswear the development of any nuclear explosive devices, and discouraging nuclear exports to non-nuclear-weapon states which have not taken such steps;
(D) strengthening the safeguards of the IAEA as contemplated in section 3241 of this title; and
(2) an assessment of the impact of the progress described in paragraph (1) on the non-proliferation policy of the United States; an explanation of the precise reasons why progress has not been made on any particular point and recommendations with respect to appropriate measures to encourage progress; and a statement of what legislative modifications, if any, are necessary in his judgment to achieve the non-proliferation policy of the United States;
(3) a determination as to which non-nuclear-weapon states with which the United States has an agreement for cooperation in effect or under negotiation, if any, have—
(C) refused to give specific assurances that they will not manufacture or otherwise acquire any nuclear explosive device; or
(4) an assessment of whether any of the policies set forth in this chapter have, on balance, been counterproductive from the standpoint of preventing proliferation;
(5) a description of the progress made toward establishing procedures to facilitate the timely processing of requests for subsequent arrangements and export licenses in order to enhance the reliability of the United States in meeting its commitments to supply nuclear reactors and fuel to nations which adhere to effective non-proliferation policies; [1]
(6) a description of the implementation of nuclear and nuclear-related dual-use export controls in the preceding calendar year, including a summary by type of commodity and destination of—
(A) all transactions for which—
(iii) approvals were issued under the Export Administration Act of 1979 [50 App. U.S.C. 2401 et seq.], or section 2139 (b)(3) of title 42, for the retransfer of any item, technical data, component, or substance; or
(B) each instance in which—
(i) a sanction has been imposed under section 6301 (a) of this title or section 6303 of this title or section 2799aa–1 (b)(1) of this title;
(ii) sales or leases have been denied under section 2753 (f) of this title or transactions prohibited by reason of acts relating to proliferation of nuclear explosive devices as described in section 2780 (d) of this title;
(iii) a sanction has not been imposed by reason of section 6301 (c)(2) of this title or the imposition of a sanction has been delayed under section 2799aa–1 (b)(4) of this title; or
(iv) a waiver of a sanction has been made under—
(II) section 2375 (d) of this title, or paragraph (5) or (6)(B) of section 2799aa–1 (b) of this title,
(III) section 2780 (g) of this title with respect to the last sentence of section 2780 (d) of this title, or
(C) the progress of those independent states of the former Soviet Union that are non-nuclear-weapon states and of the Baltic states towards achieving the objective of applying full scope safeguards to all their peaceful nuclear activities.
(b) Analysis of civil agreements for cooperation
[1] So in original. Probably should be "; and".
[2] So in original. Probably should be preceded by "section".
Source(Pub. L. 95–242, title VI, § 601,Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 150; Pub. L. 103–236, title VIII, § 811,Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 507.)
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This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(4), was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 95–242, Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 120, known as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3201 of this title and Tables.
The Export Administration Act of 1979, referred to in subsec. (a)(6)(A)(iii), is Pub. L. 96–72, Sept. 29, 1979, 93 Stat. 503, as amended, which is classified principally to section 2401 et seq. of Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2401 of Title 50, Appendix, and Tables.
1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–236struck out "and" after the semicolon in par. (4), substituted a semicolon for the period in par. (5), and added par. (6) and concluding provisions.
Effective Date of 1994 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 103–236effective 60 days after Apr. 30, 1994, see section 831 ofPub. L. 103–236, set out as an Effective Date note under section 6301 of this title.
Effective Date
Subchapter effective Mar. 10, 1978, except as otherwise provided and regardless of any requirements for the promulgation of implementing regulations, see section 603(c) ofPub. L. 95–242, set out as a note under section 3201 of this title.
Termination of Reporting Requirements
For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in subsec. (a) of this section relating to the requirement that the President annually report to Congress on the Government's efforts to prevent proliferation, see section 3003 ofPub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 15 of House Document No. 103–7.
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If you work or live in Detroit, today, April 30, is the deadline to file your taxes.
The city of Detroit does not use the same tax deadline as the state and federal government, which was April 15 this year.
The U.S. Post Office in Detroit on Fort Street will be open late for all last-second filers. Letters just need to be postmarked before midnight.


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Interesting observation about the world of television—or rather, our view of the world behind television. Especially now that the Internet provides a 24/7 resource for us, we've become increasingly interested in the behind-the-scenes aspect of production. Who directed? Who was that guest star in season 6, episode 3? And when the producers of our favourite television show make a bad decision, or the writers introduce a clichéd plot twist, what do we do? We turn around and say, "Ugggh, I could do better than that!"
Well, some of us probably could. Most of us probably couldn't. And the truth is, not many of us actually want to. That's the thing with TV, you see. The entire concept of fiction is centred around watching things happen to people without being able to do anything about it. This extends beyond fiction itself, however: most of the television industry happens without the public having direct control over it. We can't control who they'll hire as that new regular or who will write the season finale, and we wouldn't want to be in control. It's good to have things to complain about, after all.
Boy, this sounded a lot more interesting in my head. I think I'll stop now before someone throws a pie at me—speaking of which, the pumpkin pie we've still got left over from Thanksgiving is really, really good—and go to school.
Oh, The Hour premiered for season 3 last night. For those of you aren't aware, it isn't a hip new drama on ABC—and don't let George Stroumboulopoulos' attitude fool you. I'm glad that it's back on now, because I can finally catch up with what's going on in the world. Nuclear weapons, insane dictators—oh, and Kim Jong-il too.
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When I want to know whats going on in the world, I don't put on any of the news stations, I turn to The Hour, because really thats all the news I need - plus, its George Stroumboulopoulos. You don't get much better than that.
When I want the news in the world I read satirical news. Because it's the only way you can get the real truth (kinda ironic…)
btw. hey Tachyon, I think this is the first time me posting here…


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As soon as I heard that a bomb had gone off, I tried calling my cousins. They work near the scene, and it seemed possible that they would have been injured or, God forbid, killed.
The 1989 car bombing leveled Colombia's state security headquarters and killed 80 people. Fortunately none of my family were in the vicinity at the time.
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Verizon to sell extra 700MHz spectrum to smaller operators
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Unused Verizon spectrum to go to rural, small operators
Verizon has signed a sale agreement with Panhandle Telecommunication Systems that will see the nation's largest wireless carrier selling off part of its unused wireless spectrum. The agreement, along with an earlier agreement with Nortex Communications, is part of an ongoing process in which Verizon will sell portions of the 700MHz spectrum following its clearance to buy spectrum from the cable companies. The Panhandle deal covers the Texas RSA 2-Hansford 700MHz lower B-block license, which spans 12 counties in the northwest part of Texas.


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Taylor Gang's Chevy Woods drops his highly anticipated mixtape Gangland. This gem has features from Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, Trae The Truth, Soulja Boy, Lola Monroe and others. Production by Lex Luger, Sledgren, Cardo, Sonny Digital, Harry Fraud, and more. Check out the tracklist, stream and download below.
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The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.
Last week we talked about wild speculation. But since then, Anne and I each talked about our characters and the way they view the Warchief of the Horde, Garrosh Hellscream, and that got me thinking about the perspective we as players have versus the perspective the characters in the game have. It's easy for me as a player to be uncomfortable with things that my character would not be, and vice versa, because as a player I have access to sources of information no one in the world of Azeroth does.
Garrosh Hellscream has intelligence reports. Varian Wrynn has spies. But neither of them can go to a bookstore and pick up Tides of War and get to read scenes from inside their opposite number's war councils. Neither of them can go play a character inside the opposite faction. Players of the game have the ability to achieve a much broader perspective than anyone within that setting, and draw parallels to a real world history none of these characters can be aware of. Garrosh Hellscream doesn't know he's fictional. And frankly I wouldn't recommend telling him, dude has a temper.
The lore of the game, the story, is always predicated upon the fact that the people within that story act according to their own motivations, and none of them are omniscient. We know that Garona didn't want to kill Llane Wrynn but that Shadow Council conditioning and torture, combined with what she saw within Karazhan, left her convinced she had no choice. We know that, but Varian Wrynn doesn't know that. He only knows that an orc that his father trusted cut out his father's heart. He knows that because he saw it, and it's easy for us to know that not all orcs are like that. Try and imagine it from his perspective, and you understand why he believes what he believes. The same goes for Jaina, or Arthas, or any of the big names of the Warcraft setting - they're limited to their own perspective. They can't know what we know.
It's easy for us as players to lose sight of this. Sometimes, the game itself seems to cause this - it was hard for me as a player in Cataclysm to divorce the events of the worgen starting area and what I saw leveling my new paladin through Silverpine, Ashenvale and STonetalon from what the leaders of each faction were doing, and what my characters would know about. I know I found it extremely difficult to understand why Malfurion Stormrage and Cenarius would work with a member of the Horde as I played my tauren through Hyjal, even with Hamuul Runetotem standing right there like the best grandpa a shu'halo could ask for. The Horde were firebombing Malfurion's people. The whole reason Leyara joined the Druids of the Flame is her anguish over the death of her daughter at Horde hands. It wasn't until I stepped back and thought about what I'd seen in Darkshore and Ashenvale when leveling my worgen that I realized Malfurion went straight to Hyjal after Darkshore.
Granted, he probably would have chosen to work with anyone who would help him save Hyjal, but the fact of the matter is, after discovering that Azshara was trying to distract him away from Nordrassil, he flew off to Hyjal and left Darkshore's fate in the hands of a young worgen who had no idea what was going on up the mountainside. As powerful and wise as Malfurion is, he is neither omniscient nor all powerful - when Tyrande fell into the rivers and was presumed dead during their sojourn to the Eastern Kingdoms, Malfurion didn't know she was alive. Just because I saw what the Horde was doing in Ashenvale doesn't mean he did. With the forces of the Firelord burning all in their path he had plenty to distract him.
I see what you can't
Another example is the way the forsaken are perceived. To the average human, especially survivors of the plague who fled before Arthas could kill them, there's no way to tell the forsaken from the Scourge. We as players have the benefit of being able to roll a forsaken and see how their world looks from their eyes. We can experience their devotion to Sylvanas, their undead existence, hear from the quest givers how the val'kyr raise them. To a native of Gilneas, none of that means anything. All they know is that an army of walking corpses breached their wall, sailed into their lands, unleashed plague and death on them and murdered their prince. The forsaken, acting exactly as the Scourge did before them, have spread out of the former Lordaeron and expanded across Alterac, Gilneas and Arathi. It's easy for a Horde player to argue from a position of having seen the quests and explored the differences between the forsaken and the Scourge, but try telling that to someone who had her family turned to slime by them. Sky Admiral Rogers' entire family died at Southshore. Why would she care about treating the Horde any better, when they unleashed walking corpses to liquify her loved ones?
The many faces of a life
Running through the Dominance Offensive quests, I realized that as a player, I have many perspectives on Garrosh that my character wouldn't have. I've been playing a Horde warrior since vanilla, but my orc wouldn't have been active during the Might of Kalimdor, and so he didn't see what my tauren did - he didn't see Saurfang leading a combined Horde/Alliance military force. My orc didn't see the Wrathgate, my tauren did. My orc never had to deal with a petulant orc standing by the fire in Garadar, ignoring all efforts to aid his people, but my tauren had his efforts thrown back into his face multiple times by Garrosh Hellscream. My orc has only seen Garrosh as a successful leader in Northrend, and as Warchief since the Cataclysm, but my tauren bled for those victories in Northrend, and was one of those standing atop the Frozen Throne when Arthas was beaten. My tauren saw Horde forces fight side by side with the Alliance, and saw those days end, but they're not even stories to my orc.
To many Horde players, Varian Wrynn is a bigot who hates them for no reason, because they don't know (and don't care) what his reasons are - they remember standing in the Crusader's Coliseum and being called pigs and beasts and animals by Varian. As far as they were concerned, they'd done nothing to him and here he was hurling slurs and insults at them. Even if they were aware that Varian's father had been killed by Garona and his city burned by the Horde in the Second War, they don't see those events as connected to them. But to Varian, there's an unbroken line of descent between the Horde of the Second War and the modern Horde. Why wouldn't there be? The same Orgrim Doomhammer who Thrall named Orgrimmar after is the one who burned Stormwind and tried to kill Varian and everyone Varian knew or had ever met when Varian was a child. It would be like asking Batman to deal with someone who lived in Chillaria, or inviting Superman to planet Lexor. (There actually was a planet Lexor. No, serious, and they all loved Luthor there too.) It's easy for us, having read Lord of the Clans, to understand why young Thrall should revere Orgrim Doomhammer, but it's a bit much to ask the guy who saw his entire life get destroyed because of the man to trust people who do.
These differences in perspective come up everywhere in the game. Lor'themar Theron blames all humans for the actions of Garithos, and frankly it's hard to imagine why he wouldn't, even though Garithos was a minor functionary whose only claim to authority at the time Kael'thas joined forces with him was the fact that he was the only one left in Lordaeron. In essence, everyone better than him was killed trying to save their people. Meanwhile, Garithos' anti-elf bigotry was born in part out of the High Elves disdain for, racism towards, and willingness to abandon humanity to the Horde before the orcs made common cause with Zul'jin and attacked them - in essence, Lor'themar is blaming all humans for the racism of one human who learned his racism from Lor'themar's people in the first place. To Zul'jin, the Horde betrayed him and his people by allowing the Blood Elves, the ancient enemies of the Amani trolls, to join them. And considering that Zul'jin was allies with Orgrim Doomhammer, Thrall can in fact be seen as having betrayed an old ally to join with a new one.
As we go further into the future war, we'll see more of this. The Sunreavers, now a part of the Horde, seek vengeance on Jaina and the Kirin Tor for their ouster from Dalaran. Jaina ousted them because she saw them as traitors for working with the Horde in the first place. Each side believes in its actions. And however we view their actions, we have the benefit of being able to see them from angles they can't.
While you don't need to have played the previous Warcraft games to enjoy World of Warcraft, a little history goes a long way toward making the game a lot more fun. Dig into even more of the lore and history behind the World of Warcraft in WoW Insider's Guide to Warcraft Lore.


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Bedford 42, AA Huron 14
ANN ARBOR — Quarterback Brad Boss rushed for three touchdowns and Weston Swick had a big running night as the Mules dominated winless Ann Arbor Huron.
Swick rushed for 135 yards on only 7 carries and had a 44-yard touchdown run. Boss had scoring runs of 19, 1 and 7 yards. Alec Hullibarger added a 43-yard TD run.
Hullibarger carried for 99 yards and Jon Shepherd for 97. Shepherd was also involved in the biggest play of the night.
After a scoreless first quarter, the 3-1 Mules took a 21-0 lead into halftime. A late score in the second quarter helped to put the game away. Boss threw an eight-yard pass to Collin Carter who pitched to Shepherd on a hook-and-ladder play. Shepherd ran the remaining 59 yards for the touchdown.


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Richard Thompson, creator of "Cul de Sac," and winner of the 2011 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, has graciously offered to sign copies of this beautiful book when you place your order through One More Page. Because cartoonists, like banjo players, are lovable but unpredictable, we can't guarantee a delivery time. We thank you in advance for your support, and your patience. You can click here or call us at 703-300-9746 to be among the select and stand up for America by purchasing a signed copy of The Art of Richard Thompson!
I missed Jules Feiffer at the Brooklyn Book Festival, and I'm going to miss you at this one. My life is no longer worth living.
I've told Richard to expect over 200 people waiting for autographs, but he doesn't believe me.
will he ever listen to us mike? those artists!
I'll be there :-) recently discovered the Cul de Sac thanks to the author list on the National Book Festival and quickly came to love it
only own one collection so far but hope to get more at the tent Barnes & Noble will be running
Do NOT be surprised by the large number of people who will want to sign your book! I've worked the National Book Festival for 10 years going on 11, and I got a feeling about this. :)
I'm gonna show up and scream like a teenage girl.


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Dwelling on the thought of our own death can seem unhealthy, morbid, or even terrifying. Yet, considering our own mortality is a natural extension of the recognition of our humanity… the acknowledgement that our physical bodies will eventually pass away.
From my experiences with people in their final days and hours of life, it seems widespread that people do not want to go through the experience of dying alone. Family and friends as well want to be nearby at the end so that they can be present when death comes. Nevertheless, regardless of the fact that we can be surrounded by those who love and care for us in our last moments, nothing can change the fact that we have to die on our own. The passage from life to death is a solitary experience.
There are different places in life where we can feel alone. It may be through sickness, times of trial, loneliness or separation. All of these are places where no one can accompany us in our pain, regardless of how physically present they may be. How we cope in these situations will depend upon our preparation. As followers of Christ we are given a promise by Jesus: "I will never leave you nor forsake you". The more we come to know Jesus in life, the greater our comfort will be in preparation for death. We can face (and even anticipate and look forward to) our death because of our relationship with Jesus and the knowledge of His presence and promises in the life to come.
Take some time to enter into silent prayer. What is it like for you with no one around? What are the thoughts that come to the forefront of your mind when you consider your own death? What does this reveal to you? Read Psalm 23.
"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed." Mark 1:35
In his book 'In the Name of Jesus' Henri Nouwen comments on the above passage: "In the center of breathless activities we hear a restful breathing. Surrounded by hours of moving we find a moment of quiet stillness. In the heart of much involvement there are words of withdrawal. In the midst of action there is contemplation. And after much togetherness there is solitude. The more I read this nearly silent sentence locked in between the loud words of action, the more I have the sense that the secret of Jesus ministry is hidden in that lonely place where he went to pray, early in the morning, long before dawn".
Spending time in prayer with God seems like it should be easy, but this sentence in scripture reminds us that prayer is full of action. Jesus got up, left, went and prayed. Prayer takes initiative. Developing a 'prayer life' is not going to happen on its own…it is an engaged activity between two people; yourself and the Father. And out of this time, a relationship flourishes and ministry grows.
Read Mark 1 and explore the contrast between Jesus moments of busyness and the times that he takes to be away.
Before Jesus began his ministry he was led by the Spirit into the desert and after forty days of fasting, the devil began to tempt him. Matthew records the three different temptations Jesus encountered which were intended to entice Him away from his calling. In his book "In the Name of Jesus", Henri Nouwen discusses these three temptations as ones we all face in our Christian journey.
Nouwen writes that the first temptation of Christ was that of relevance. The devil prompted Jesus to "Turn these stones into bread" (Matt 4:3) In other words, use your power to do something practical; to meet a need. How often do we do that in ministry? Try in our own strength to fix a problem or meet a need in order for something to be 'successful'? Perhaps it is difficult to wait on God and so instead we go ahead and "do" ministry in our own strength. Jesus, in return, told the devil, "Human beings live not on bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God". We need to cling to God's Word, resisting the urge to be significant in the eyes of others.
The second temptation, according to Nouwen, is the desire to be spectacular: to win the approval and applause of the crowd. "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from the highest pinnacle…He will command his angels concerning you and they will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone." (Matt 4:6) Nouwen states; "Jesus refused to be a stunt man. He did not come to prove himself…When you look at today's Church, it is easy to see the prevalence of individualism among ministers and priests…stardom and individual heroism, which are such obvious aspects of our competitive society, are not at all alien to the Church". Is gaining the recognition and approval of others a temptation that you are secretly harbouring?
The third temptation is the temptation of power. "Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. All this I will give you if you will bow down and worship me" (Matt 4:8-9) Nouwen writes "one of the greatest ironies of the history of Christianity is that its leaders constantly gave in to the temptation of power…The temptation to consider power an apt instrument for the proclamation of the Gospel is the greatest of all." The rationalization of how power is used can be very persuasive.
Do you see yourself in any of these scenarios? Ask Jesus to help you identify areas that you may be giving in to the temptations of the devil without even being aware of it. Pray for mercy.
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Do you ever get tired of constant demands from others?
At home there are jobs to do (something in the house always needs fixing!), at work there are meetings to attend, people to please and others that need our attention. Spouses, kids and extended family require commitments, and there never seems to be enough time to get everything done in the day, or ever get time to do things that we would actually like to do.
Popular psychology affirms that it is important to take time for ourselves. We will likely be a better parent, spouse or worker if we get some time to recharge. It is commonplace to hear of people suffering 'burn out'. In this place, we become emotionally drained and feel that there is nothing more to give. On our way to becoming 'burned out', we become frustrated and resentful of the demands that people make of us.
Without a time of renewal we have a tendency to become 'weary in doing well'. Built up frustration and anxiety can lead to us treat others with less grace than we intend.
When we spend time in fellowship with God, he renews us and enables us to minister to others with the same tenderness and compassion He showed. As we continually turn our face towards God, we have a different attitude towards people. We start to listen to them again, to be less judgmental and to be fully present with them.
When Jesus saw the needs of people He always showed kindness and sympathy toward them. Matthew 9:36 tells us: "When (Jesus) saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd".
Today…Think about some of the people you will encounter during your day. What resources of grace do you need to be 'Christ' to them? As you pray, ask the Lord to enable you in very specific ways to be sensitive to them.
"We worship at the shrine of the Golden Arches…"
What is your first instinct when you have a challenge or difficulty? Do you get busy and try to fix it? Do you get anxious and upset and suffer sleepless nights because of it? Do you talk endlessly about it with friends and family?
Learning to wait for God's timing is not a concept that has been encouraged in our "quick-fix" North American mentality. John Ortburg writes: "We will buy anything that promises to help us hurry. The best selling shampoo in North America rose to the top because is combines shampoo and conditioner in one step, eliminating the need for all the time consuming rinsing people used to have to do…" He continues, "…we worship at the shrine of the Golden Arches, not because they sell 'good food' or even 'cheap food', but because it is 'fast food'. Even after fast food was introduced people still had to park their cars, go inside, order, and take their food to a table, all of which took time. So we invented the Drive-Thru Lane to enable families to eat in their vans as nature intended"
Often, when things don't work out the way we hope or expect, we want to take the McDonald's approach and ask God for immediate relief. Coming before God and waiting upon him is really an act of trust that God in his sovereign way will act in his time. David the Psalmist states;
"My soul waits in silence for God only; from Him is my salvation. He is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken. ..My soul waits in silence for God only, for my hope is from Him. He is my only rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be shaken…Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge." Ps. 62:1-2; 5-6; 8 (NIV)
Contemplate a challenge that you are facing. Read Psalm 62. Journal the ways that you are trusting God to take care of this for you.


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Deep Sea Internet Could Really Be A Thing
What does ocean access to the Internet mean for us? For starters, we'd be better protected from tsunamis since it would serve as an environmental monitor and will provide speedier notification that one is on the way. Oil extraction warnings and government surveillance would also be available — in other words, drug smugglers will start to be treading in some pretty murky water.
No word yet on when we can expect deep sea internet to take effect, but Ph.D students are already testing the system in Lake Erie, so progress is already making waves. (Fast Co Exist)


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Welcome to Sail-World.com's second America's Cup Newsletter for the 34th America's Cup.
AC72 - New Zealand fully lifted on her L-Foils and sailing on the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand.
Two significant milestones in the 34th America's Cup occurred in the past week.
Firstly Emirates Team NZ managed to do a foil-borne run up the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, late last Wednesday afternoon. It was a remarkable sight - which had many in the online sailing community skeptical - however we have the images, in this edition of Sail-World's America's Cup newsletter.
The second significant event was the launch of Oracle Team USA's first AC72, in San Francisco.
That was a two stage affair, with the launch being originally scheduled to be a major media event, which was postponed. The team did a test rig of the AC72, after which the platform was christened and splashed into San Francisco Bay.
L foil and rudder foil - AC72 - First Sail - August 31, 2012 San Francisco
She was also given a high speed tow test, which is normal for the AC72's - to test the hulls for leaks under pressure.
A day later, USA-17 as she is known had her first sail on San Francisco Bay.
The images and video that have been released reveal a very different boat from Emirates Team NZ's design. We have some close up images in this edition.
USA-17's first sail was limited to just two hours, after issues with her starboard foil. (The tip appeared to be broken from photos that were available.)
Artemis Racing unload their AC72 in San Francisco
The sailing world has been in a quandary over the images of Emirates Team NZ's foiling exploits, given the short length of time she has been sailing.
(Her second sail was also a short-lived affair, after some broken wingsail ribs were discovered.)
Certainly if this foiling phenomenon becomes the norm, and is achievable on the downwind legs of the America's Cup course in San Francisco, then we are in for some exciting developments and spectacular sailing to say the least.
Oracle Team USA show their wingsail onto the AC72, in San Francisco
For the other teams the challenge is going to be matching the New Zealand effort. There is no reason, at this stage to believe that will not be the case, however as these milestones are passed the bar becomes higher for the other competitors.
The America's Cup has always been a time management exercise - where the challenge is to have your boat ready and faster than the other teams, by the start of the regatta. That seems a little trite, but time is something which cannot be clawed back or bought in the context of the America's Cup.
Luna Rossa base in Auckland's Westhaven Marina - facilities on Pier 30-32 are now more likely to be on this style, if left to the teams
We seem to be entering the phase where teams are becoming aware that time is short. That is underlined by the next milestone - in three days time, we will have passed another - 12 months to the start of the America's Cup Match, on September 7, 2013.
We will be publishing further America's Cup newsletters, when there is sufficient content and/or on milestone occasions - we expect this to be once a month, until the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup.
Good sailing!
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AC72 Wing step test / ORACLE TEAM USA / San Francisco (USA) / 29-08-2012
The centre pod on USA-17 touches the water under full crew and wingsail - USA-17, AC72 - First Sail - August 31, 2012 San Francisco
Emirates Team New Zealand sailing the AC72 on the Hauraki Gulf on the second day of sailing. A bang brings an end to sailing as a part in the wing gives way.Richard Meacham goes aloft to check the damage and take some photos for the designers. 3/8/2012
Emirates Team NZ AC72 sailing at speed in Auckland, on her fourth sailing day


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Wolff happy with Hamilton
14 February 2013
New Mercedes motorsport chief Toto Wolff admits that he is excited by the driver line-up assembled by the marque's F1 squad for 2013.
The former Williams CEO switched camps last month, admitting that the Mercedes job was one he could not afford to turn down, and swapped the combination of Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas for Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. With the Three Pointed Star hoping to be more of a factor than it was at the end of last season, and Wolff targeting a top four constructors' finish, the Swiss is confident that, in terms of drivers at least, it is already onto a winner.
"Both of them are very experienced drivers," he told the official F1 website, "Lewis was a world champion with McLaren, [while] Nico is a front-running driver. He has been a frontrunner and in first place whenever the car was there."
Despite admitting that he has not had time to get to know either driver that well, Wolff appears particularly impressed with Hamilton, who moves over from a McLaren team that delivered him to four wins in 2012.
"I've had nice discussions with Lewis over the last couple of days and I must say it's no wonder he is where he is," Wolff revealed, "I think, for him, [coming to Mercedes] is also a new experience - being out of a structure he has been used to for so many years – [but] he is intelligent, switched on and has a huge amount of social intelligence. He is incredibly talented from what I have witnessed as an observer.
"In fact, I have watched both [drivers] from their early days because of my activities with driver management and F3 engines, and now I am really looking forward to establishing nice relationships with two personalities of the sport."
Wolff may not be quite so taken with Hamilton, however, if claims from one eminent F1 journalist prove to be true. Although the Briton appeared 'on it' in testing at Jerez last week, veteran scribe Tony Dodgins remains convinced that he did not make the move to Brackley in the belief that Mercedes could deliver him to a second world title.
"If you compare the two [teams], you must come to the conclusion that there were no sporting reasons for him to leave McLaren," he was quoted by the Swiss magazine
Speed Week
, "I think it's because Lewis is strongly driven by his management, [and] this management is extremely money-oriented."
Hamilton, having ditched his father as manager, is currently directed by music impresario Simon Fuller, who is renowned for taking personalities beyond their own particular sphere and transforming them into global entities – something Hamilton appeared to have embraced in a number of ways in the past 18 months. In the past couple of weeks, Hamilton has made another change in his management, with American Tom Shine taking over from the highly respected Didier Coton, who Hamilton was praised for taking on in 2012. Coton also represents new Williams signing Valtteri Bottas.
"Fuller is obviously a highly successful manager, but I would not call him a racer," Dodgins added, "I'm not even sure if he is interested in the sport, [but he] strongly advised Hamilton to go to Mercedes, for the simple reason that he could make more money than if he was at McLaren."
Hamilton has continued to downplay his expectations for the year ahead, telling several publications that he still does not expect to win races.
"The McLaren was better, but that's not a surprise," he told
Gazzetta della Sport
after comparing cars, "I could see last year that the Mercedes was often a second off the best, sometimes two seconds, but I was prepared for that. I could tell [at the Jerez test] that the Mercedes had less downforce than the McLaren. But it's not catastrophic. I've got ideas on how we can improve two or three things."
Despite the pessimistic prognosis, however, Hamilton insists that he needed a change of scenery.
"Definitely things weren't as good as they had been at McLaren," he said of his new home, "I was driving a competitive car, I could win races, battle with Sebastian Vettel, but I perhaps stayed there too long.
"I need new challenges. I can't stay for 25 years in the same office, doing the same things. And McLaren had become a bit like an office for me - the routine, the same gym, the same factory in which I knew what was in every single corner..."


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Let me start by saying Dwight and I have friends, we have buddies and we have acquaintances in this here industry. But there are some people who, over the last year, have become much more like family to us. Mr. Skottie Young is one of them.
And he's not just family, we're also big fans of the guy's work too. He's an incredible artist with an edgy and raw style, and he wraps it up nicely in this great design sense. Allow me to steal a quote about him that I read on-line once. The blogger said "Skottie's work, like that of Katie Cook's, impresses me because of the obvious fun that he has while drawing. It's in everything he does". I tend to agree. I don't get the feeling he labors over his artwork like so much "render porn", but instead, tries to have a good time with it. Go look at his run on New X-Men or any of his covers—you'll see it.
And quite honestly, I thought dude's covers were crazy good before I even knew who he was. Being a fan of other podcasts, when he joined my beloved Around Comics as a regular, I was like "Who the..?" Then I checked out his site and was like "Oh." Then when I saw he was responsible for the Cable & Deadpool covers I'd been secretly digging, I was like "Oh, damn!"
We met Skottie exactly a year ago at the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC. We gave him a business card on a humbug, told him how much we liked AC and asked him to check out our podcast. He was polite and gracious enough, and that was that. After the Con, I emailed him and asked him again to listen in when he had time—he finally did. Since then, he's sent us a dozen or so very nice notes about our show, telling us how much he likes it and offering his help in any way. There's usually cursing involved too, but we got used to that...
Oh yeah, and he told everybody he knew to check us out! We got more emails and comments than a little bit from people who said Skottie Young told them about SiDEBAR. And that crossed the line for Dwight and I. We couldn't go back to just friends or acquaintances or even fellow podcasters with the guy at that point. For us, it's been family and brothers ever since—and that's the way we'll keep it.
**This is only Part I with Skottie 2 Hottie, and for it, we played a snippet of Public Enemy's Brothers Gonna Work It Out.
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Roger Ebert:
"The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. 'Wouldn't you say,' she asked, 'that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?'
No, I said, I wouldn't say that.
'But what about Basketball Diaries?' she asked. 'Doesn't that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun?'
The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office (it grossed only $2.5 million), and it's unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.
The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. 'Events like this,' I said, 'if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory.'
In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of 'explaining' them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1.
The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy."
Roger Ebert, 1942-2013
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I agree with Ebert's point. Like all people he comes at the issue from his life experience, and misses the bigger point. In my opinion, violent movies and media are like the chicken and the egg. What can be done to change the culture that celebrates violence and instant celebrity?


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Hey, you know who doesn't have enough animated shows on Fox? Seth McFarlane. I feel like that guy should have at least fifteen or sixteen cartoons at once or Fox are failing as a network. Wait, did I forget to use my sarcasm font there? Oh man. Anyway, seems the network has just ordered ANOTHER animated pilot from Seth McFarlane. Rejoice, though. He is only producing this one. Keep in mind we have nothing against the guy, but we can also admit his three shows are the EXACT same. No, really. They are.
TV Line broke the story, but it really seems as if Fox can't get enough McFarlane, even though the show, entitled Borderland, will only be produced by him. The actual show was created by Mark Hentemann, who has worked closely with Seth on his other Fox classic, Family Guy. The show is about two neighboring families who live in a fictitious town in Mexico and are dealing with entirely different sides of the same coin. One, a border agent and his family, and the other, a Mexican family just trying to make it in the modern world. How much you want to bet it has a talking, anthropomorphic animal on it? I'll put five on it.
Though Bordertown is still only in its infancy stage, we will have more about this new animated show coming to Fox soon. Our thoughts: Seth McFarlane could attach his name to old B-role footage of people sneezing and Fox would run it in prime time and say it is the best thing ever made.
No, seriously, they love that dude.
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The Legislature has passed an amendment to the Baker Act (HB 1355/SB1000) that could create an inverse effect to what the sponsors seek.
The bill would add the names of voluntary applicants for mental health treatment to the list of people restricted from buying guns or applying for a concealed weapons permit. This is an onerous burden on those seeking help. With so many holes in the gun permit process, why scapegoat people seeking help? Less than 4 percent of violent crime is committed by people with a diagnosed mental illness.
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Hi , I'm Francesco Tucceri a computer scientist and a web lover. I live in a small town in Abruzzo (Italy). I have a 5 year old french mastiff and together we enjoy long mountain walks, I like to run and play outdoor sports.
I graduated in computer science at the University of L'Aquila in July 2012, after that I worked for a Web Agency in Pescara and currently I'm working as Liferay Developer at the DAN Europe Foundation.
I have a strong interest for the web, from design and development to social and viral marketing campaigns, but my main focus is on mobile and web app development. Particularly I'm always looking for tools , technologies , patterns and practices that make life easier. I am fascinated by how the right workflow makes the difference in bringing speed and quality to the development process, but I also think that what really matters is in the developer's mind.
Thanks to my thesis degree "The Real-Time Web according to HTML5: The WebSocket " I studied and applied what I consider the future of the web and mobile apps, that is the Real-Time Web and the related technologies , particularly the WebSocket.
In this blog I want to collect and share all my reflections , notes and tools for web and mobile development. I'm not very good in english, but I'm writing this blog in this language to keep myself up with it , so please don't be too negative ;) and feel free to correct me if there are grammar mistakes.
Thank you for visiting!