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A man convicted of a 1999 homicide in Oakdale was found unsuitable for parole in a hearing by the State Board of Parole in Vacaville late last month.
Oakdale Police along with Stanislaus County Sheriff's deputies had West Avenue near West F Street closed off for most of Tuesday morning, March 15, regarding a suspicious incident of persons being held against their will. During the incident, one male subject was taken into custody for a narcotic violation and a female was taken into custody for a misdemeanor arrest warrant. A third subject, a male, was also taken into custody but police are not releasing his name or charges due to possibly compromising another investigation.
In a Pro Bull Riding tragedy in Arizona this weekend, Julio Moreno's two-time World Champion Bull contender, and half-brother of Oakdale's infamous Bushwacker, 'Roy' sustained two broken front legs after scoring a career best 46.5 score and bucking off 2015 World Finals event winner Cooper Davis after only a 2.43 second ride on Sunday, March 6.
Oakdale's softball team won their home opener 7-3 over visiting Gregori on Tuesday, March 1. The girls used a five-run third inning to pull away from the Jaguars.
In a pair of home non-league games, the Mustang varsity baseball team showed early season grit in a pair of victories. The team defeated Lincoln 5-1 on Wednesday, March 2 and followed that up with a dramatic 5-4 come from behind victory over Tokay.
Grab those "Red High Heels" and head on down to see Kellie Pickler at the Fair sponsored by Ten-Four Communications.
Oak Valley Art Society Artist of the Month honors were recently awarded to Richard Jones, for his three dimensional/oil painting titled "Free Beer Tomorrow."
Members of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) will travel to the country of Morocco under a partnership with the United States (U.S.) Department of State to support international law enforcement and anti-crime efforts.
The owner of a local town staple is extremely grateful for the actions of two honest persons that found and returned a personal folder that contained a large amount of cash for his business bank deposit.
Rob Geisler has not only found his niche, but he has seemingly found a way to bring his passion to plenty of people.
The American Red Cross is recognizing the country's everyday heroes during Red Cross Month.
For 60 years, Carl Porter has enjoyed sitting and gazing into the wooded area surrounding the property of his Stearns Road home. What he described as a serene park setting with the occasional grazing deer, has now been disrupted with banks of 13-foot high solar panels installed just a few feet away from the property line he shares with the Oakdale Golf and Country Club.
After failing votes in elections of 2006 and 2008, the Stanislaus Council of Governments is again aiming for a local tax for transportation issues in Stanislaus County. The difference this time than in previous years, according to Kendall Flint, Regional Government Services Director of Communications & Strategic Planning, is that there is now a majority of support for the tax among county voters and two-thirds of the money would be for local projects controlled by the cities.
Oakdale High School's Academic Decathlon Team has one more date with the theme of "India." On Thursday, March 17 they will once again make the trek to Sacramento to represent Stanislaus County in the State Competition.
After 26 years of law enforcement service to the citizens of Oakdale, Police Chief Lester Jenkins announced his retirement after a presentation on his department's goals and objectives at the Monday, March 7 Oakdale City Council meeting.
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The South Bay Challengers Dyno Day & Show is coming up on Saturday, April 23 at PDT Motorsports in Oakdale, 430 S. Fifth Ave.
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Wanda Hendrickson was awarded Artist of the Month for Oak Valley Art Society with her oil painting of horses on a black plate.
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Skip to comments.Ron Paul = Hillary on the War; Rudy Giuliani = Hillary on abortion, etc
Posted on 09/23/2007 10:53:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Ron Paul = Hillary on the War; Rudy Giuliani = Hillary on abortion, gay rights, gun control, illegal aliens, etc. Neither are conservative. Neither are Republican. I would no more vote for the "Republican antiwar candidate" Ron Paul or the "Republican pro-choice candidate" Rudy Giuliani than I would the treasonous butcher Hillary Klintoon.
Thank you. It's good to know the way he is running his campaign may backfire. I'll be sure to check Chris' campaign out.
Good. I hope they put the old antiwar horse out to pasture. Long past time to term limit him. Our Founding Fathers never intended these guys to become long term professional rulers.
And as promised, I won't support Paul or post his threads on your Forum.
(On knees like Ric Flair) - "Please don't zot me man, PLEASE! I've been a good FReeper the past week!"
Are you sure you're rolling your eyes Petronski? They're embedded in your ass, you know.
If memory serves me correctly, Ric Flair was generally on his knees begging right before he pulled a dirty trick.. Or was that Hulk Hogan? I haven't watched wrestling since I was about 10 so I may be mixed up.
That's all you got? It's not even clever.
Actually, it was Flair, but unlike Flair I'm not going to pull any tricks though. I think Jim made his point quite clearly and it's a point that I completely understand.
Tough crowd tonight, tough crowd.
They got all their laughter out making fun of me and my big mistake earlier.
McCain is our Biden, Huckabee our Bill Richardson,
Brownback our Dodd
"Free Republic supports the war against the Islamic jihadists 100%."
Jim, I do as well. It's pretty much the major point that I don't agree with Dr. Paul on. I still would like to see Letters of Marque. But that's just the pirate in me and I think blackwater could use the cash.
Anyway, thanks for this wonderful forum as always, God Bless!
Thanks for your common sense posts. I found myself arguing this point with someone here--their argument was that laws made and enforced by the states was all good "federalism." It seemed like a nightmare to me.
If the Fifty Million Dollar bounty on Osama' head isn't doing the trick, what would the Letters of Marque bring us?
" If the Fifty Million Dollar bounty on Osama' head isn't doing the trick, what would the Letters of Marque bring us?"
I'd up it to 100 billion. The dollar ain't what it used to be.
"Good. I hope they put the old antiwar horse out to pasture."
I plan to do my best to see that happen. I helped sent John Bryant out to pasture in the 1990s (replaced with Pete Sessions and then Jeb Hensarling.) Peden seems cut from the same bolt of cloth as Sessions and Hensarling.
If anyone who lives in League City wants to sign Peden's nomination petition, freepmail me. If you live elsewhere in the TX14 CD, go to Peden's website to see how you can help.
That sounds familiar...
Anyone who votes for Rudy is voting to set conservatism back 30 years.
"Anyone who votes for Rudy is voting to set conservatism back 30 years."
B U M P Rudy would decimate the conservative movement!
Rudy to the trash can !!
Good tagline too!
You must of hit a nerve, a half dozen leftwingnut/kook forums have reproduced this thread complete with links back to FR....(chuckle)
If that is true, then I hope all of them get my message.
Yes, they are that stupid. Especially after several bags of free pot!
And RuPaul is all about free pot!
Given that he sees fit to all but ignore all issues not related to Iraq and the WOT (including the "civil liberties" of terrorists) in his campaign, I'm loathe to associate myself in any way with Ron Paul. He fails to understand (or, at best, fails to understand the magnitude of the threat) that the federal government is not the only agent capable of denying Americans their lives and liberty.
What a waste.
Its true, when FR was down for an hour yesterday I 'looked around'.
I'm not sure which was more amusing, the sites ranting about FR in general, or the site where the hostess likes to claim she doesn't like, or engage in, 'forum wars'.
Her site in particular features weekly, sometimes daily 'bash FR' threads.
You're exactly where I am on Paul. I'd like to see a lot of his stands on small Constitutional government given serious consideration and adopted by the Republican Party as a whole, but his views on our war on "terror" (translation: radical Islam's war on the West) are a total deal-breaker for me. I can't support a guy who is not only weak on the Islamic threat, but is accepting kudos and support from radical leftist anti-American organizations like the Pinkos, and also from kooks like Troofers.
Great post, JimRob.
Mind if I steal this for my new tagline? It really does sum Paul up perfectly, and how I feel about him and his anti-war stand.
> Mind if I steal this for my new tagline? It really does sum Paul up perfectly, and how I feel about him and his anti-war stand.
Reminds me of a line a business buddy used, whenever we faced a situation that was almost entirely favorable, but had one outstanding defect. He'd stand up and say, "Hey this is a great party, but who put the turd in the punchbowl?!?"
Same basic idea...
I'm not a Ron Paul hater, but when something is funny it's funny.
"The Paulbearer Moonbattery Factor for this Thread HAS BEEN ELEVATED to
That is just laugh out loud funny.
Yet he's the only GOP candidate whose foreign policy ideas are different than the Democratic candidates' foreign policy ideas (their hypocrisy notwithstanding), and identical to the foreign policy ideas of John Quincy Adams, Robert Taft, Richard Weaver, Russell Kirk, and James Madison. How, pray tell, does this make him a "leftist" in the area of foreign policy???
Jim, if there is a "war against Islamofascism" going on, can you tell me where it's raging? Can you tell me what the H*** our government is doing in the Balkans and Iraq, if they are supposedly waging war on Islamofascism? Can you explain their actions regarding immigration, and the unprecedented public praise of Islam, if there is a war on Islamofascism going on?
The only wars I see being waged with our blood and treasure, and at the expense of coutnless innocent civilians, is for pimps and drug traffickers, on behalf of radical Muslim groups (including Al Queda itself, in the case of the Balkans), and against our liberties (I guess if they hate us for our freedoms we'll just be less free so they won't hate us so much?), and FOR MULTICULTURAL FASCISM.
When they get done, where will there be a place safe on earth from the Multicultural Fascism of the NeoCons? Where can someone that is a true conservative raise his children, where he can teach them the truth about culture and history, and about what America was supposed to be, before Lincoln, Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Clinton, and Bush chipped away at it until there was nothing left but an ugly, godless empire?
Thanks for letting me post - and thanks for reading...
What is the limits of dissent you are willing to tolerate? Some clarification would be helpful. Thank you.
> Interesting. I suppose you would then support full rights for the suspects in Guantanamo, then? Or are they God-given only to American citizens? ... Oops, not even American citizens who are suspected terrorists.... Oops, not even American citizens who want to buy political ads within 30 days of an election, according to Fred Thompson. Guess the government can rescind them, which means the government allows you to have rights.
I'm just stating a basic premise of the U.S. Constitution (with basis also in the Declaration of Independence). The rights granted by God are to all people. The U.S. Constitution guarantees those rights (by way of the Bill of Rights, etc.) to law-abiding American citizens.
Obviously, law-breakers (terrorists, suspects in serious crimes) may forfeit some or all of their ability to exercise those rights, in that the government may not guarantee those rights to those individuals.
The key point is just that anything the government grants, it can also take away. So the Founders were quite clear that the role of government was not to grant the rights, but to guarantee those rights.
Different people may phrase this distinction differently, but the idea that rights are granted by God is fundamental to the American concept of freedom. "Endowed by their Creator with..." and so forth.
It will be a shame if you squander your historic opportunity to support an actual patriot.
Yeah, the Republican leadership tried replacing him with a liberal Democrat before, kind of like they finally got rid of Bob Barr of Georgia - but there are some fine folks in that district in TX, and so far all neocon/liberal collusion to get rid of him has failed.
Thanks in part to homeschooling breaking the lock on our thinking through the government indoctrination camps, there are more young people rising up with an understanding of the ideas of our Founders, and a knowledge of the truth of history and current events, and when Ron Paul finally dies, or is finally destroyed by his enemies, more will replace him.
By the way, how can you say that the foreign policy of Ron Paul = the foreign policy of Hillary Clinton, when Clinton doesn't have a foreign policy other than give all power to the UN, stay in Iraq indefinitely but whine about it, and bomb Iran? What little policy is evident there is the exact opposite of Ron Paul's foreign policy, but awful close to the policy of the rest of the GOP candidates.
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About the framework independence... you may be thinking of it backwards.
The applications are supposed to depend on the framework, but the framework must not depend on the applications. If the file exists in the framework and ecommerce (which really should be specialpurpose, BTW, and not in applications... and we might want to consider moving that before our next release branch) points to it that's fine. If it exists in ecommerce and there is some reference to it in the framework, that's bad.
I agree with David ( Akamai, CacheFly) from the link Adrian provided above. But should we see css has static content ? I don't think so. So I think last Bruno's proposition is valid and should be done... one day or another... to ensure Framework independence
What do you think about?
Is it a feasible solution in order to have independance of framework from applications?
Could we think to have all application-related images and css in a images subfolder?
Something like this:
for framework images and css
for ecommerce application images and css
for catalog application images and css
and so on...
this will let the framework installation and packaging script to copy only the files in the \framework\images\webapp\images
and all other application installation add their related subfolder.
to carry that logic forward
someone may not use Shark component, but it goes with the framework.
framework is not dependent on ecommerce.css, I see it, but the file is located in the framework folder tree.
So, when the framework will be released by itself we will have the ecommerce.css installed even if someone is not interested and has not installed the ecommerce application.
Or, may be, I am missim something?
what about the way we are thinking the Visual Themes? (
They, at the moment, to be pluggable are defined like a hot-deploy component with its own webapp that serves the .css, gifs and all related stuff.
I understood we where ok on this.
Frame work is not dependent on ecommerce.css.
but the Ecommerce component is dependent on the Frame work.
that is the purpose of the framework.
This has been proposed in the past and rejected. The CSS files and other static content are kept in a single folder so that it can be hosted remotely.


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Congratulations to this year's PIC Achievers for their outstanding accomplishments and for embodying the mission of the PIC.
On July 27, Mayor Martin J. Walsh joined the Boston Opportunity Youth Collaborative to launch the Connection Center, which will serve as a one-stop resource to help Boston high school graduates, 20-24 years old, who are unemployed and out of school with no postsecondary degree.
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The PIC is one of five nonprofits receiving funding from the State Street Foundation as part of the Boston Workforce Investment Network, or Boston WINs. This new initiative brings the organizations together under a shared goal of creating career pathways for young people and supporting them through their education. The State Street Foundation will provide an investment of $20 million over four years, along with 2:1 matching employee gift support and a commitment to hiring 1,000 Boston youth.
The Boston Opportunity Youth Collaborative (OYC), a cross-sector group convened by the Boston Opportunity Agenda and the Boston PIC, is one of seven grantee communities to receive a total of $6 million from the Social Innovation Fund to build career pathways for opportunity youth. Opportunity Works – an initiative of Jobs for the Future and the Aspen Institute – will help the inaugural communities of Boston, New Orleans, Hartford, Philadelphia, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Seattle to dramatically improve education and employment outcomes for opportunity youth.
The Youth Transitions Task Force is celebrating its tenth anniversary! Please join the YTTF and the Rennie Center on Monday, April 27 from 8:00 to 10:30 AM at the Omni Parker House in Boston to release the Rennie Center's new case study on the YTTF's work to address the dropout crisis in Massachusetts. Over the last ten years, this cross-sector coalition has used a data-driven approach to raise the visibility of the dropout crisis, make policy recommendations, and pilot new practices.
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I find that when it comes to plain features the IoC containers out there for .NET are more or less interchangeable. Because our project has been and most likely will be alive for a very long time, we tend to pick one based on "future-proofness". We feel that the one that has most momentum behind it (userbase, support, active developers, documentation) and most likeley will be around in a lot of years to come, should get the job.
Based on this criteria, wich one would you chose?
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Almond milk is one of my favorite drinks. Rich and creamy, it's easy to make and super nourishing. While almond milk is a good alternative beverage for those on a dairy-free kick or raw food plan, I think it's just plain delicious, whatever your dietary predilection! My children drink it by the glassful, while I drink it in my tea and blend it up in smoothies.
I used my favorite nine-year-old hand model to take the pictures above and while he's been a bit of a wild stallion of late, I have to say he was a model passenger for the almond milk photo shoot. Got milk? Yes, we do! He gulped this cupful down as soon as we were finished photographing.
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Making this almond milk is quick and dirty, you will definitely get your hands wet as you squeeze it through the paint bag. After you're done, you can enjoy this rich homemade almond milk in chai with a splash of agave nectar; perfect for fall.
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As you probably noticed, we just passed the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, one of the great movies in geek history. Well, I also have another anniversary coming up, and and even though it's not quite as momentous an occasion, on May 24th it will be the 27th anniversary of the night I attended the gala premiere of Return of The Jedi (thanks to an incredibly cool and enterprising father). Now I've been going to the movies for a very long time, but this is the moment that stands out above all others, and that's why I decided to dedicate today's Summer Scenes We Love to one of the best nights of my young life...and the last time I was ever excited to see a George Lucas movie.
From a very young age I loved going to the movies, but the idea that I was getting to see a movie (let alone a new Star Wars movie) before anyone else just about blew my mind. That night I dressed up like I was going to the prom (or at least the 8-year old's equivalent), and felt like a rock star as I headed towards my seat clutching a formal invite and program that had been handed out at the door. To me, it was just about the most exciting thing that had ever happened, and I don't think I even took a single breath during the opening scene.
After the jump; blasphemous musical changes and Leia's short-lived moment of heroism...
I'm sure I don't need to remind you about the awesomeness of the final installment of the original trilogy, but even among devotees of the series, Jedi did received it's fair share of criticism. Some fans thought the final chapter was a little too kid-friendly after the tragic note that Empire had ended on, and I can understand the complaint. But Jedi was (in theory) the end of the trilogy and you had to know that the final picture was destined to end on an upswing. Besides, I was a kid at the time, and after the psychological freak-out I suffered after Empire, it was a relief to see Han Solo out of the carbonite and Leia pitching in with an rescue effort.
Unfortunately, you can't talk about Jedi and not mention the Ewoks, and oddly enough, I was always sort of ambivalent to them, and I know I wasn't the only kid immune to their furry charms. In the end, they were just kind of there, and in the harsh light of 'Jar Jar history' they don't seem so bad, do they? But the one thing I do know is that Lucas' decision to change my beloved Ewok 'Yub Nub' song in the remaster remains as maybe one of the worst crimes in his long list of bad decisions (but that's well-covered ground). But it's alright, because for me, it's all 'water under the barge', and no matter what Lucas did, or has done since, I'm always going to be grateful for that perfect night back in 1983.
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Interpreters are professionals who interpret between people who do not share a common language. ASL/English interpreters are professionals who are proficient in both ASL and English as well as in the process of interpretation. They work in a variety of settings including business, education, social service, government agencies, the justice system, medical/mental health environments, and video relay services/video remote interpreting.
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**Not feeling particularly crafty today? By popular demand, I am now selling these pillowcases in my Etsy shop!**
I came up with this idea a few months back, and had already purchased two inexpensive white pillow cases at Target. Being snowed in today, and knowing that this was a more in-depth project than some of the others I've done for Thing-a-Day so far, I thought it was a good chance to work on it.
I've used this technique many times before, on t-shirts, sweatshirts, onesies, etc. It works best on smooth fabric (I once tried it on fleece, and the paint bled quite a bit).
The first step is to pick your image and tape it to a surface you can cut on. The more simple the image, the better. In this case, I'm using retro eyeglasses images.
Next, cut a piece of freezer paper a bit bigger on all sides than your image. Tape it shiny side down over your image.
Using an x-acto knife, cut around your image, beginning with the interior cuts. Be sure to keep any interior pieces that you cut out. Remember that the image itself (the black parts) are what you will be throwing away. Anything that is white in your original image will be used to recreate that image later.
After your cuts are complete, place the negative image on your fabric. Using a hot iron with no steam, carefully iron over the stencil, focusing on the edges. Once the outer image is secure, place and iron in the interior pieces.
Now, usually I would use fabric paint for a project like this, but unfortunately, it wasn't until this point in the process that I thought to check and see if I had and black left. And I didn't. Luckily, I did have some cheap black craft paint, and it seems to have worked fine. Using a sponge or stippling brush, fill in your stencil. Depending on the color of your fabric and the color of your paint, it may take several coats. In this case, it only took one.
Once the paint is completely dry, carefully peel off the stencil. You can use the x-acto knife to get under the interior pieces.
I love how these look in my new bedroom!
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"His" and "Hers"…love it!!
Oh my goodness, these are so cute! great job and thanks for sharing.
Too cute! I'm jelass because the girl glasses look like my glasses! I need that pillow case!
These pillows look fantastic! I saw them on the Project ReStyle Flickr group and decided to stop by and see how you did it. I love them
[…] **The first image was inspired by her work. And, the glasses image was inspired by fellow thing-a-dayer's his and hers pillow cases. […]
[…] 6: Using the freezer paper technique that I talked about in this post, I made a little dog paw […]
[…] | Tags: baby quilt, craft, diy, dog bed, freezer paper stencil, hoodie, scrabble Since the Freezer Paper Stencil Pillow Cases I posted last month were such a hit, I thought I'd share a few other projects I've done […]
I LOVE THESE! My hubby and I both wear glasses (similar to these) and I may need to make a set of these for our bed. I also love your new headboard!
I LOVE these! Can you share the images with us. Is anyone making these and selling them?
Hi! I just saw your adorable DIY on Design Sponge today and I'm IN LOVE with these pillow cases! Is there any way that I could order them for a gift to my husband? If you'd be willing to make them for us, just email me how much it would be! Thanks so much!
Wow, those are SO CUTE!
PS: Found you via DesignSponge.
These are terrific! I saw them in Design*Sponge & had to stop by & see the tutorial. Thanks for posting this!
[…] The pillow cases above, also by Metal & Mud <-Link to tutorial. I would love to make his and her's pillow cases that way. Photo from […]
Neatest idea I've seen in a long time!
So creative! I love your DIY's I haven't seen anything like them out there! Thanks for sharing your great ideas.
All the best,
I love these!! Awesome idea!
I was wondering about the graphics.. would you post them so I could use them or sell them to me on your etsy page? I'd love to print these out and frame them.
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[…] First up are these freezer paper pillows. I LOVE pillows, as you probably already know from my Fun With Etsy posts. This is such a great tip/craft! This craft is from Metal and Mud. […]
[…] used some scrap blue fabric and sewed a 22″ square. Then I used the freezer paper technique and made a Grizzlies logo stencil (seriously, how cool is our logo?!?). Here are some progress pics […]
I love these and wish I had time to try making them before a friend's wedding shower! I saw that another poster asked if you'd be willing to make another pair for a fee; if you'd be willing to do so, please email me with your price, and I'd love to buy them! Many thanks. These are awesome!
Hi! These are beyond adorable. This may be a dumb question, but how do they wash? Does the paint fade/peel off in the washing machine?
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These were so easy and so cute. Such a great idea I made a couple for my kitties too- http://mylifeinstillsandsyntax.blogspot.com/2011/08/diy-cat-bed.html
These are so cute.
Had to try this on my blog, but credited you, of course! Thanks so much!
I love these! I was wondering about the paint and how it was holding up. I'm on a 40 day fast from buying craft supplies (because I was going crazy!) and want to use the things I have before stupidly buying more. I only have white fabric paint and wanted to do something in black. How well does the average black craft acrylic paint hold up?
I am so interested in your eyeglasses template if you happen to have one. You are so good at everything you do. Love all your ideals. Thank you for yoiur time. Have a blessed day.
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wonderful idea! (: I'm trying to make it right now! but the freezer paper (stencil) doesn't stick on the pillowcase with the iron =/ what to do?? SOS!!
Cuteee! Just a question, how did you secure the interior pieces of the eyeglasses? Thanks :]
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Shame I can't code for C&C 3, otherwise it'd be fun to see this in the game.
isnt ra3 the same as tw ?
Can't code for that either!
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I am looking into buying a 6 gallon tank for the kitchen counter. I would like to have some colorful fish and active fish. I need help with stocking and ideas for set up.
I currently have a 20 gallon tank that has been going strong, I am slowly working on a larger tank, but I am still a beginner.
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You could get a betta, have a couple of guppies (OR endler livebearers) but make I would only get males. You could get an african dwarf frog, or have an all shrimp tank.
Personally, I think the guppies would be the best option. you could have 3 or 4 in there. They are fairly active and come in a lot of different colors.
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For a 6 gal tank, there really isn't too much you could do. A trio of all male guppies or endlers is a good idea if you want more movement. Betta are really nice in that they interact with you a lot and come in just as many colors as guppies. African Dwarf Frogs are rather sedentary; I had one in a 5 gal kitchen tank, too, and he didn't do much. I've seen some really nice shrimp tanks, too. And with those you could make the joke that you are growing dinner!
All of the common shoaling fish like tetra and rasbora are out as they need a larger tank. There are some rare ones that would work but rare also means delicate and expensive.
I recently put a 5.5 Gallon Betta tank on my kitchen counter. I was skeptical at first, but he has great colors and is always flaring up and strutting his stuff. There are many different color variations and types of Bettas, and they are one of a few types of fish that will be genuinely content in a 6 gallon tank.
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Sword Fight on a Hong Kong Rooftop
How Neal Stephenson and I stopped bashing each other with sticks and learned real swordsmanship.
In 2004 I joined a fight club. It was more of a sword-geek guild, really. We met every Sunday morning in a nondescript warehouse in Seattle's industrial district, made our own weapons, and fought with them. It was gloriously homegrown and savage. Olympic fencing this was not.
Our rapiers were hockey sticks with modified handles and a retracting spring mechanism built into the hollow fiberglass shaft to allow us to stab without injuring one another. Much. Our long swords were true-to-form in weight and balance with a wooden core and a metal crosspiece at the hilt. The blade was clad with high-density foam wrapped in ballistic cloth. The handles were covered with the grip tape used on tennis rackets. Shields, when we used them, were wooden and also covered in foam—because a protective shield can become an offensive weapon. For armor, we wore thickly padded martial arts gear and helmets with face cages. Our gloves of choice were either hockey gloves or well-padded "extraction" gloves used by prison guards.
We looked much more Mad Max than Aragorn, and we couldn't have cared less. In fact, we took a fair amount of pride in suiting up for battle, often acting as squire for one another, strapping up Velcro and slapping the fighter around before he stepped onto the mat.
The rules were simple—try not to damage each other too much. Pain was fine, even respected, just no semi-permanent or permanent damage, especially to the head or hands. We all had day jobs that involved thinking at keyboards, after all.
You can imagine the scene: two 30-something men covered in black plastic and foam, sporting helmets with face cages, circling each other, wielding foam swords while some smart ass on the sidelines hummed the fight theme from Star Trek. (This quickly became a sword-punishable offense.)
We beat the hell out of one another every Sunday, went to work bruised and bleeding on Monday, and came back the following Sunday to do it all over again. This went on for almost two wonderful years until, one fateful day, Neal—one of our founding members—had some bad new for us.
We were doing it wrong.
We were swinging the swords like bats, he explained, striking our opponents with a contact point about two-thirds of the way down the blade from the hilt. We weren't sword fighting; we were beating one another with sticks.
The problem with Neal is that his last name is Stephenson. This means that he is a science fiction writer with unlimited time to study the pedantic details of historical sword fighting and tell us why we're doing it wrong.
Neal's revelation meant we were going to have to change what we were doing—but I unabashedly loved what we were doing. OK, maybe it wasn't sword fighting, strictly speaking. Who cared? It was fun! I knew damn well what becoming real sword fighters was going to mean. It was going to mean training in technique, drills, and structure. It was going to mean the end of "Sunday Swords" as we knew it.
I fought this epic shift for months. But even my reluctant mind was changed after Neal brought in two of the nation's foremost sword makers, Tinker Pearce and Angus Trim, to show us the error of our ways. (Pearce and Trim make swords. Naturally.)
The first time we visited Tinker and Angus, Tinker unsheathed a beautiful, long sword. "This," he said, "is sharp. Really sharp. If you handle it wrong, it will cut you. Badly."
So much for my beloved foam swords and plastic armor.
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Skip to comments.INITIAL JOBLESS CLAIMS JUMP TO 383K
Posted on 05/31/2012 5:35:26 AM PDT by sunmars
Analysts expect to see 370K weekly claims. That would exactly be in line with last week's 370K.
The number is one of the best high-frequency predictors of the economy and the market, so this is big. If this stays tame, it will do a lot to assure that things aren't deteriorating too badly.
UPDATE: The number is 383K, a miss from an upwardly revised.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
1Q GDP revised down to 1.9%, revised down from 2.2%.
US Q1 corporate profits decline largest since Q4 2008 (-26.5 PCT) according to Reuters.
Killer Statistic.
... and THAT is "unexpected!"
This makes no sense. No matter how much the Democrats punish businesses for failing to do their share, employers refuse to step up and create the jobs that Obama voters demand. Perhaps a liberal think tank should look into why that happens.
Full credit to bluecat6:
March 15: Reported - 351,000, Revised - 353,000
March 22: Reported - 348,000, Revised - 364,000 Reported - down, Actual - up
March 29: Reported - 359,000, Revised - 363,000 Reported - down, Actual - up
April 05: Reported - 357,000, Revised - 367,000 Reported - down, Actual - up
April 12: Reported - 380,000, Revised - 388,000 Reported - up, Actual - up
April 19: Reported - 386,000, Revised - 389,000 Reported - down, Actual - up
April 26: Reported - 388,000, Revised - 392,000 Reported - down, Actual - up
May 03: Reported - 365,000, Revised - 368,000 Reported - down, Actual - down
May 10: Reported - 367,000, Revised - 370,000 Reported - down, Actual - up
May 17: Reported - 370,000, Revised - 372,000 Reported - no change, Actual - up
May 24: Reported - 370,000, Revised - 373,000 Reported - down, Actual - up
May 31: Reported - 383,000, Revised - TBD
"The spike in claims was unexpected."
-—, a sign that progress in reducing joblessness may be stalling-—
It's hard to read the sign if it's stapled to your forehead.
Job cuts jumped by 53% in May vs. April — most since Sept. and 67% more than in May 2011
Unexpectedly unexpected!
They used to miss it by a 1,000 or 2,000 and revise upward.
Now, they are missing by 10,000 or more and revising upward.
How can this be? Obama created more jobs in 3.5 years than Bush did in 8 years. Surely, those experts are misreading the numbers. [/s]
If the GOP cannot capitalize on those figures for the election, they deserve to lose.
I'm sorry, did they "jump" or were they "expected to jump", at the time the story was posted?
I bet the liberal mainstream media (CBS, CNN , NY times ,etc) doesn't report this ( maybe on page 30 of the paper).
You beat me to my Thursday morning ritual!
I am just glad people are seeing the correct big picture and love the fact you posted this already.
I am not glad about the situation for any of us!
This is bad news for all Americans - regardless of race, regardless of background. The lowering tide is lowering all boats and the worst is obviously yet to come.
Strange though, how no one is actually going back to work/SAR
They didn't "jump" at all, according to USA Today. They are reporting "Weekly Unemployment Claims Rise Modestly."
So laughable.
Oh, let me guess (without reading the article)... they jacked last week's numbers up to 410K and are crowing about a "drastic drop" of 27K first-time claims, spicing the numbers with the requisite trumpeting of the "rapidly accelerating economic recovery."
And they're now claiming any number below 500K equates to "job growth," right?
And that's just so...
(Get ready for it...)
Thanks for posting that list- very helpful.
Which actually means it is probably closer to or over 400K and they will uietly revise it upward sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Unemeployment is actually closer to 15% IMHO if they used the true number of people unemployed insted of simply cutting and not counting people who give up looking...and how do they know that anyway? I meran exactly...who's talking to friends and neighbors, whoe reading newspapers or watching online...it's all a shell game and this admin has been the worst for shamelessly fudging the numbers to make themselves look as good as popssible.
You know the editors at the New York Times have to be the busiest workers in America, they have to constantly be on the look out and correct (remove from) the stories when the reporter uses the standard New York Times phrase 'women and children hurt' for stories such as this one about the economy under Obama!
I am waiting for the news reports to say that jobless claims below 400,000 mean that hiring boom is around the corner.
"You know the editors at the New York Times have to be the busiest workers in America,"
Snopes keps real busy, too.
They put out 327 articles TODAY to protect Hussein.
We all know this is BULLISH for the economy, as unemployment is economic stimulus. All those employment checks being spent will surely be a HUGE BOOST.
Democrats' notion of fostering a healthy business climate consists of the old saw "Whippings will continue until morale improves".
A couple interesting paragraphs from the Marketwatch.com version of the story:
"The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week rose to the highest level in more than a month, the government reported Thursday, in another sign the U.S. labor market is not improving as fast as it was earlier in the year."
Riiiight. It WAS improving oh so fast.
"The spike in claims was unexpected. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had projected that new applications for jobless benefits would total 370,000."
Hell, who didn't know bad economic news under Obama would be unexpected?
And the unemployment rate will be reported as dropping to 7.9% when the monthly numbers are released.
Amazing how Obama Math works.
All hail Obama.
I've got to stop this game.......
Yep, remember four weeks back 200k (70k in Calif. alone) lost their unemployment checks overnight. The reason? because those that lost there jobs early in the recession had exhausted there benefit thus dropping off the rolls reducing the unemployment rate. The special 20 week Fed. extension went bye bye on the bogus reduction in the unemployment rate.
Obongo will perform an F4 spin tomorrow when the Gubermint tells us unemployment is 7.9 -8.0. Let him, Corp. profits were reported down in the 1st quarter, weekly unemployment up. 200k no longer collecting unemployment, that 60 million dollars a week not being spent to support our Service Industry economy. To go along with Europe it's spinning perpetually out of control again IMO. Obumbo should be finished come Nov.
Expect the unexpected.
Otherwise, If Obama loses in a landslide that would be unexpected.
If Romney is our next President and is a true reformer that would be unexpected.
If Romney appoints conservative SCJ to the bench..that would be unexpected.
If America doesn't crash and burn before this decade ends...well, you get the idea.
March 29 "Actual" should be down.
And really, "actual" should probably be "revised", IMO, since there's not much reason to believe the second lie any more than the first.
Excellent. It's good to have this few months look how how "Reported" conflicts with reality. The agenda is self-evident.
Hope you didn't bet today's lunch money on that.
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With an eye to the Democratic National Convention, the Arapahoe County sheriff wants to outlaw the use of sticks and bars and gas masks during public demonstrations.
Sheriff Grayson Robinson says he wants to be prepared should protests spill over into his county. Several delegations to the convention will stay at Denver Tech Center hotels, some of which lie inside his jurisdiction.
Separately, Denver officials confirmed Monday that a public demonstration area of at least 50,000 square feet would be available in parking lot A of the Pepsi Center, site of the convention hall.
The demonstration area would be surrounded by untopped wire mesh fencing that would allow sight and sound access to delegates as they proceed to the arena.
The city also updated details on the parade route set for the convention. The parade route runs from Civic Center down West Colfax Avenue to the southbound lanes of Speer Boulevard up to Larimer Street. The city said Monday the route would extend down Larimer to Seventh Street to enter Lot A at Seventh Street and Auraria Parkway.
An attorney representing protesters says that's not good enough. Mark Silverstein, who directs the Colorado American Civil Liberties Union, said Monday he would challenge in federal court the endpoint of the parade route because he believes it is not close enough to the delegates.
"In St. Paul, a protest march will be passing within 100 feet of the delegates to the Republican convention," he said Monday in an e-mail.
It's the prospect of protests that prompted Arapahoe County commissioners to hear public comments on Grayson's ordinance today.
The measure would outlaw demonstrators or those involved in public assemblies or picket lines from bringing with them any "bar, shaft, rod, cable, wire or other hard metal, hard plastic or any length of lumber," unless the dimensions "do not exceed a thickness of one- fourth inch and a width of two inches."
It would also outlaw bringing in a "projectile launcher or other device which is commonly used for the purpose of launching, hurling, or throwing any object, liquid, material or other substance."
The measure would prevent use of a gas mask or "or similar device designed to filter all air breathed and that would protect the respiratory tract and face against irritating, noxious or poisonous gases."
Grayson said the ordinance was in no way meant to limit free speech, but to protect officers and residents. But protesters questioned that.
"It sounds to me like these are quite Draconian laws," said Duke Austin, an organizer for Students for Peace and Justice and member of the Alliance for Real Democracy, a coalition of antiwar groups pledging nonviolent protests.
"Wearing a gas mask does absolutely no harm to anyone, and in fact it can protect the wearer," Austin said. "Why would someone be barred from wearing a protective device?"
And many protest groups envision bringing large banners and street puppets that could not be used without poles or supports, Austin said, so their expression would be curtailed.
Arapahoe County Attorney Kathryn Schroeder says she based the ordinance on one adopted in Los Angeles that withstood a lawsuit in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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