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Rules about the bathrooms in Sochi, Russia have once again given Olympic fans some fascinating toilet humor. The latest is from Sebastien Toutant who is an Olympic athlete currently in Sochi ready to compete. Sharing a sign he found on the bathroom wall, many fans are going to be asking why someone might fish in a toilet. According to Mashable on Monday, it's another strange find in the bathrooms of Russia.
The sign is actually six small panels showing how to use the toilet. While some of the panels are self-explanatory, what has everyone amazed is the fishing pole concept. With a person holding a fishing rod, the panel distinctively prohibits use of catching anything in the toilet.
Another prohibited use? Puking. The idea of leaning over the side of the toilet is strictly prohibited. That's right a person isn't allowed to heave their guts out in Russia by clinging to the side of the throne. The funny image actually has a red mark across the image to let users know it is unacceptable. Where to puking people go in Russia? The sign doesn't offer any alternatives, but it is safe to assume people just use a trash can.
Olympic fans are finding the toilet humor in Sochi quite captivating. It's not so much about the toilets as it is where the items are placed and how signs are needed to use the toilets correctly.
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What's your secret weapon when it comes to your career? If you're feeling unsure, there's certainly one fail-proof way to impact your career for the long-term — develop and maintain a vast network of contacts. While you may have originally been prompted to build your network during your job search, a large pool of professional contacts has more to offer than just connections to job openings. The benefits to establishin...
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February 2013 OFCCP's New Use of Publicity and Press Releases: New Sheriff, New Rules and New End Objectives First, you should know that media policy is governed by the Secretary of Labor's Press Officer, and not by the individual agencies within the U.S. Department of Labor. So, the rules could change again with the President's appointment of, and the Senate's confirmation of, a new...
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Let's call a matrix $M \in R^{n \times n}$ strictly positive definite if for any $c \in R^n$, $c \neq 0$, we have $c^T M c > 0$. Consider arbitrary matrix $Q \in R^{n \times n}$ that is not strictly positive definite. Is it true that we can find $c \in R^n$, $c \neq 0$, such that $c^T Q c = 0$?
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Let $S:=\{x\in\Bbb R^n : \sum_{j=1}^nx_j^2=1\}$. The map $x\in S\mapsto x^tQx$ is continuous (as polynomial in $x_j$, $1\leq j\leq n$, so its minimum $m$ on $S$ is reached, as it's a compact set. So is the maximum $M$.
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Declining summer blossoms need not end the years' gardening pleasure. Extend your gardening season with cold hardy containers to decorate your porch, patio or indoor rooms.
Outdoor Containers Using Sedum
Late blooming variegated sedum combined with other succulents and herbs provides interesting height and texture and may be combined with colorful pansies or mums tucked into corners.
Stonecrop sedum and other member of the Crassulaceae family are drought tolerant and cold hardy to 5 degrees. Low maintenance Spurium 'Fuldaglut' and Spathulifolium 'Purpureum' are excellent cold hardy choices that happily overwinter outside. 'Hens and chicks' are perhaps the most well-known of these spreading succulents.
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Traditional fall blossoms such as the pansy, viola and chrysanthemum add showy color to autumn pots. Sweet potato vines may be incorporated into containers with fall and winter blooms and may be easily removed when damaged by frost.
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The elegant Heleborus orientalis and numerous relatives provide evergreen foliage and beautiful long-lasting blossoms in the dark days of winter. Spring flowering bulbs that need the winter's chill, such as crocus or daffodils, may be included in the container for late winter serendipity.
Ornamental kale and flowering cabbage are attractive, cold hardy specimens and can compliment your outdoor container display.
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Thanksgiving and Christmas cactus also provide exceptionally beautiful winter blooms indoors. These must be placed in darkness for 12 hours per day for six to eight weeks prior to bloom time if buds are not present.. Then bring them into a well-lighted area, fertilize and water for a few more days to begin the blooming display.
Paper White daffodils are popular for indoor winter flowers and may be purchased in easy to grow kits at your local home improvement center. Other spring flowering bulbs may be forced to put on flowering displays in winter.
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Proper stockpiling of contaminated soil: Note the proper stormwater fencing at this Dallas Water Utilities project; stockpiled soils are located on and covered with plastic.
The below map is an example of a Dallas Water Utilities GIS search showing locations of regulated facilities with the potential for contaminant releases that could impact the utility's rights of way. Blue circles: city-permitted monitoring wells. Green diamonds: Voluntary Cleanup Program sites. Red diamonds: Leaking Petroleum Storage Tank Program sites. Orange shields: registered dry cleaners. Map: City of Dallas requires developers
A probable unacceptable condition: The surrounding natural color of soil in this soil column is contrasted by the dark, stained affected soil.
Unacceptable condition: Nonaqueous phase liquid (NAPL, or free-phase product) is present on the surface water at the bottom of a utility excavation. Free-flowing fuel, obviously discolored groundwater with a rainbow "sheen," and strong odors exist at this project.
Unlike the Sustainable Development and Construction strategy, which addresses single-site developments, the water utility needed a broad-scale approach for the city's entire water distribution system (i.e., the water mains). It needed a comprehensive plan that could easily be used by all staff engineers and subcontractors to protect the public water supply, as well as workers performing upgrades and installations.
The utility contracted Terracon Consultants Inc. to develop a thorough and prescriptive soil and groundwater management plan (SGMP). Terracon's goal was to create a 15- to 20-page plan that would include the necessary technical information, background, and specifications to ensure the safety of the water supply pipelines, while also remaining simple and user-friendly for civil engineers unfamiliar with technical environmental issues.
The utility also chose to use its internal Geographic Information System (GIS) to assist with screening criteria as part of the new procedures. To help project engineers identify potentially contaminated areas during planning stages on all pipeline projects, the following layers are used (see the map on page 30):
The soil and groundwater management plan had to account for contaminants that could come into contact with various types of water piping and associated gaskets. DWU engineers evaluated degradation thresholds (the concentration of a particular contaminant that impairs the proper operation of a particular material, such as a polyvinyl chloride or polyethylene pipe) to determine a conservative approach to protecting the city's pipelines. They used the resulting information to devise a plan that:
To ensure that the management plan is used by all employees — and isn't just another dust-collecting manual sitting on a shelf — Terracon conducted presentations for both engineers and field staff. The engineering staff presentation included a thorough review of procedures and how the plan should be used in the planning and design of pipelines. The field staff presentation was tailored with information specific to inspections and procedures that staff would be observing in the field during construction.
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A wide variety and mixture of contaminants exist in shallow soils and groundwater along rights of way and major thoroughfares where water utilities are typically located. These contaminants can interact with both water pipes and piping gaskets, degrading or weakening the pipeline materials. Contaminant damage to water piping may cause premature failure of the water piping or gaskets (especially for pressurized piping), resulting in potential unsafe drinking water supply, service interruptions, costly repairs, and untold damage to a department's public image.
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If you are visiting the downtown Newport area, you must spend an evening at the Black Duck Inn. Located on Pelham Street in the midst of Newport's Historic Hill District, this art deco style bed and breakfast needs to be on your itinerary.
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I recently had the opportunity to interview the beautiful actress Maria Patricia who has starred in a long list of horror, drama and suspense films, as well as many others. Check out our interview below and make sure to be on the lookout for this phenomenal talent!
PL: Where are you from?
MP: I was born and raised in Austria. I literally grew up on a mountain in the Tyrolean Alps. After graduating from high school, I studied Theatre Research, Film and Media Studies in Vienna where I received a Master's Degree. I lived in Strasbourg, France, for two years where I worked at the French-German Public TV Station Arte. I also studied and worked in Madrid, Barcelona, Germany, Greece and Nice, France.
PL: When and how did you get into acting?
MP: I was the kind of kid who loved nothing else more than dressing up and playing different roles all the time. I was 13 when I first wanted to become an actress but I didn't begin working professionally until I moved to Madrid in 2004. From then on I was hooked…
PL: Can you tell me a little bit about the film and television projects you've done?
MP: In my last project I was the lead actress in the horror suspense film Host House. My character Marla books a room online at an airbnb-type website and the host turns out to be a crazy guy who tries to kill her. It was a very challenging and fun part to play. Because I was cast in the role a couple of weeks before the shoot, I had the luxury of spending a lot of time to work on creating my character. I wanted to bring as much authenticity to her struggle to survive as I could so I dug deep to find out what it was in her life that she really wanted to live for. The director Lok Hwa was amazing to work with, he told me after the shoot that he loved my work and it was what he had envisioned while writing the script.
Earlier this summer I was the lead in a project called Fruit Punch, the teaser to a feature film that I will be shooting this winter. It's an ironic story about a couple who run out of money, but more importantly their obsession with fruit punch, literally. The husband's logical response is to break into a neighbor's house and steal their fruit punch. My character Sophie loves her husband more than anything so she tags along with him on this crazy mission. I had a lot of fun shooting the project and am looking forward to shooting the feature later this year.
Last summer I was one of the leads in a project called Autokorrektur created by visual media artist Marlene Maier. She has a very artsy and intellectual approach to her work and most of her projects have been shown in museums like the Mumok, Vienna's Museum of Modern Art. The project was very successful and had several screenings at different exhibitions in Vienna, and was also screened at the Kassel Dokfest, a unique film, documentary and media festival held annually in Kassel, Germany.
I also play a photographer in search of the perfect image in the film Image, which was mainly shot at the old Los Angeles Zoo, a location that has a very melancholic vibe to it because of the old empty cages in the middle of nature. Some of my other projects include the films Love on the Edge, The Vision, and Avinyó 36, which was shot in Barcelona, Spain, as well as the Austrian prime time TV series SOKO Kitzbühel.
PL: They are all very different, what made you choose to participate in these projects?
MP: I am constantly on the look out for different projects - I simply love my work. Reinventing myself is a necessity for me to feel alive, I love learning new things and having the opportunity to find the challenges within new characters.
PL: You get approached all the time to work on projects with people, what makes you pick one role over another?
MP: Knowing the filmmaker's previous work can be an important criterion for me, but it is definitely more about having a good script and a good story.
PL: Can you list some of the theatre projects you've participated in up until now, and the roles you've played?
MP: I was the Witch in Macbeth, Frankie in Frankie and Johnny, Sara in Stop Kiss, Izzy in Rabbit Hole, Princess Alexandra del Lago in Sweet Bird of Youth, Stella in Streetcar named Desire, and I also appeared in Silencio y Luz-Homenaje a Federico García Lorca by Gregorio Cedillo Mencina.
PL: What has been your favorite role so far and why?
MP: Artistically I would have to say Marla in Host House because I had to work on a lot of different things to be able to capture the depth of the horrible things she goes through when she gets thrown down a hole into the basement where a few other dead bodies are lying already. Story-wise, my favorite role was Helga in Avinyó 36. The film was set in the beginning of the 1950's in Barcelona. I loved the transformation I did every day through make-up and costume, plus we shot in all these cool locations in the old town.
PL: As for genre, what is your favorite? (Comedy, Drama, Horror, etc.)
MP: I am definitely more drawn to Drama, although I just finished a Suspense/Horror film and I loved it. Avinyó 36 was also a film noir, which I really enjoyed...
PL: What separates you from other actors?
MP: That's a hard one because I respect everybody who chooses this path and I'm happy to see others being successful at it.
PL: What would you say your strongest qualities as an actor are?
MP: I definitely work hard on creating the people I play and am not afraid to go deep in to my work.
PL: What projects do you have coming up?
MP: The sequel to Fruit Punch, which will be a feature film called Blood Punch; and, I also plan to work on a feature in the beginning of next year with Lok Hwa, the director of Host House.
PL: What are your plans for the future?
MP: to work on as many exciting projects as possible
PL: What do you hope to achieve in your career as an actor?
MP: To be able to create and bring to life as many different characters as possible– to constantly evolve in my craft and be challenged by my projects, and of course, to continually work with passionate and creative people who I can learn from.
PL: What kind of training have you done?
MP: I first did an Intensive Program and then the Conservatory Program at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in West Hollywood, which offers a very well rounded program that includes Method Acting as it was developed by Strasberg, which concentrates on Relaxation, Sense Memory, Emotional Memory Exercises, Character Development, Improvisation, Scene Study, Animal Exercise etc., as well as Fitzmaurice Voice Work, and the Alexander Technique.
PL: Why is acting your passion and chosen profession?
MP: I have never loved anything as much; you just keep discovering more and more and are never done. Through my training I've also learned to truly live in the moment while acting and therefore experience the most amazing things through my characters. Having the ability to live different lives is incredible– it can be transcendent!


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ABA Makes Changes To Data Collection Of Law School Graduates' Jobs
We noted earlier this fall, and again in our morning roundup, the American Bar Association planned changes to its method of collecting graduate employment information from law schools.
The council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has approved a new annual questionnaire to gather more detailed information about where recent grads find employment, according to the National Law Journal.
For now, let's take a slightly longer look at the issue.
(Click here, also, for a recent WSJ story on the U.S. Senate's nascent efforts to gather information about legal education in the U.S., efforts that could serve as a backdrop to congressional hearings on the issue.)
The new elements to the questionnaire include employment and salary information for each individual graduate, rather than in the aggregate, which will give the ABA the ability to audit the data. Law schools will also have to report whether graduates are in jobs funded by the schools, and whether graduates are in positions that require bar passage, or for which a J.D. is an advantage, and whether jobs are long-term or short-term, NLJ reports.
As Law Blog noted, new rules also require that law schools report data directly to the ABA, and not through the National Association of Law Placement. Graduate employment will also be made available faster – about one year after graduation, rather than the current practice of two years.
The new questionnaire doesn't include changes that were sought concerning school-specific salary data, which was something the non-profit group Law School Transparency wanted the ABA to require, so prospective students could see how much graduates from each school earn. School-specific salary data may be available under a different proposal being considered by the ABA's Standards Review Committee, NLJ notes.
Prospective students also will not be able to see the average salary for graduates who take government jobs. Salary information will be broken down by job type and state, but not listed for individual law schools.
The changes follow recent lawsuits against Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan and New York Law School, which argue that the schools distorted their post-graduate employment information and the reported amount of graduates' average salaries. As WSJ noted this summer, Jim Thelen, Cooley's general counsel said plaintiffs should take the matter up with the ABA, which helps set criteria for collecting data.


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Smugglers Notch State Park
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Park Phone: 802-253-4014
Season: May 20 - Oct 16
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Welcome to Smugglers' Notch State Park. The famous Smugglers' Notch is a narrow pass through the Green Mountains. Lined with 1,000-foot cliffs, the winding road is closed in winter. In the earlier days, only a footpath and trail for horses existed here.
In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson passed an embargo act forbidding American trade with Great Britain and Canada. This was a severe
hardship for northern Vermonters, since Montreal was closer than other markets in the US. Many local people continued illegal trade with Canada, herding cattle and carrying other goods through the Notch. Later, fugitive slaves used the Notch as an escape route to Canada. During the Prohibition years, liquor was smuggled from Canada over the improved road built in 1922.
Smugglers' Notch State Park was relocated in 2003. The new campground features sites that are further spread out, a new restroom facility that incorporates alternative energy and a location that gives easy access to Bingham Falls. All of the historic structures originally built by the Civilian Conservation Corps were carefully relocated and restored, preserving the work of these pioneering conservationists.
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COLUMN: UNAUTHORIZED CONJURELLAHousemates With Naomi Schechter, Ph.d, Activist-PsychologistWith "Psychologists for Social Responsibility"By T. Casey Brennan
This is a sequel to CONJURELLACopyright T. Casey BrennanWithin, there lurked the memory.But this was 1970. This was T. Casey Brennan at age 22, on a bus bound for Ann Arbor, fledgling comic book writer for the Warren Publishing Company titles, CREEPY, EERIE, and VAMPIRELLA, hell-bent on making his presence known to Ann Arbor's now infamous campus left.This was 1970: it would be a Tetragrammatonic 26 years before I would write the legend of CONJURELLA, posted on the Internet initially by Anathema Research of Austin, Texas in 1996, then picked up repeatedly and posted and reposted, with and without authorization, by a wide variety of Netizens, intent on linking it to their own respective interests and causes. Twenty-six years before CONJURELLA would link our family to the JFK assassination as our alleged cousin, Howard Leslie Brennan, with his testimony before the Warren Commission, never could.This was 1970: I hated the Vietnam war, hated the draft, loved the peace movement, loved the peace demonstrators and the love-ins, loved the beads and the beards and the flower children. But I feared the psychedelic drugs, and I feared the Communists; maybe, just maybe, I even feared the "Communist conspiracy" I had been told so much about, since boyhood. This was 1970: it had been a scant three years since I had resigned, after a little over a year, from the Port Huron, Michigan chapter of the John Birch Society (I had a membership card; was it Chapter 308? - I don't remember anymore), headed by local right-wing dentist, E. James Shay. I had joined in late 1965, at the invitation of Thaddeus B. Vance, who, like my late father, sat on the St. Clair County Board of Education. My parents were William James Brennan and paperback book author Alice Brennan, both Michigan school board officials and tax opponents. My late mother had begun this process when, in the early 1950s, she took the position of Secretary (and CEO) of the Swamp School District, Kenockee Township School District #4, one of the last K-8, kindergarten through eighth grade, school districts in the state. Soon, my late father had a similar position of authority on the St. Clair County Board of Education, and the two of them set off hand in hand to keep property taxes down, and the one-room little red schoolhouses open for as long as the voters would put up with it. Inevitably, they attracted the attention of the 1950s ultra-right in that regard, and soon we were all deluged with pamphlets from prolific McCarthyites coast to coast.I had begun school in kindergarten at Swamp School in September of 1953, at age 5. But, I suppose, partly because I could already read and write, and partly because my mother was her boss, my teacher, Miss Nolan, advanced me at once to the first grade, still at the age of 5. Hence, I entered high school at the tender age of 13. The Swamp School was a one-room building on a gravel road, technically in Emmett, Michigan. Traditionally, our high-school students, after graduating from the eighth grade, attended school in neighbouring Yale, Michigan. But by the time 1961 had rolled around, and I had graduated grade school, the Yale high school district was demanding that we annex before they would take our high school students. For that, the Swamp School would be closed, taxes would go sky high, and our children would henceforth attend grade school in Yale. My parents would have none of it, and clearly, they were in a political position to make deals. So, deals they made. It was arranged that a local farm couple, Jim and Mary O'Neill, would drive the handful of high-school students that the Swamp School produced each year, north on M-19, through Yale, to Peck High School in Sanilac County, later to become infamous as the home of convicted Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh.Before long, the 13 year old high school version of T. Casey Brennan was developing his own independent personality and interests, sort of, and those interests included comic book collecting, and disseminating right-wing propaganda for the host of ultraconservative groups which had expressed support for my parents positions as property tax foes.So my pile of special things included pamphlets from the John Birch Society (as headed by Robert Welch), the Cinema Educational Guild (by Myron Fagan, who claimed credit for providing the Dies Committee with the names of Hollywood Communists, though popular history would later, inaccurately, assign this role to Senator Joe McCarthy, who only investigated alleged Communists in government, not Hollywood), the Conservative Society of America (from Kent and Phoebe Courtney), the Christian Crusade (from Billy James Hargis, smeared in the 1980s as a homosexual lover to some of his followers, though inexplicably, I am told he has no recollection that these charges were ever made against him), the 20th Century Reformation Hour (from Carl McIntyre, who, much to my chagrin, became an establishment-sanctioned spokesman for the pro-Vietnam hawks during the Nixon Administration), and the Christian Anticommunism Crusade (from Dr. Fred G. Schwartz, whose New Orleans office shared a building with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee)... with early prototypes of comic book fanzines such as ALTER-EGO, THE COMIC READER, THE KOMIX, and THE ROCKET'S BLAST-COMICOLLECTOR.Still, I had resisted actual membership in these right-wing groups until my graduation from Peck High School in 1965. Then, in the fall of that year, at the invitation of St. Clair County Board of Education member Thaddeus B. Vance, I attended an introductory meeting of the Birchers at something called The Round Building, on Pine Grove Avenue, in Port Huron, Michigan. A man named Robert Lowry, who held the office of Coordinator with the John Birch Society, briefed us on our responsibilities as Birchers-to-be. I joined, and stayed until 1967. And it was with this background, I proceeded, at the invitation of Larry B., of 30 Hayden Hall, East Quad Residential College, to meet with him, his cronies, and the now semi-famous Naomi Schechter, Ph.d, now, in the year 2000, with the activist group, PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. In thirty years, I would set down the plans for an unauthorized article on Naomi. But not yet. This was 1970.I had met Larry B. in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, shortly after my twenty-second birthday, at a campground, with my parents. Actually, my dad had met him first. My dad had attended school at the University of Michigan in the 1920s, but never graduated. Though he had no sympathy for the campus left, he had, I suppose, a sense of nostalgia about Ann Arbor, as most ex-Ann Arborites do.Larry B. had introduced himself to my dad as an Ann Arborite, and that, to my dad, had been sufficient to offset the stigma of the campus activism which Larry advocated. Larry told stories of Baba Ram Das, the White Panther Party, the Students for a Democratic Society, and one of his teachers, Naomi Schechter, closely associated, he said, with the campus left, and then working on her Ph.d thesis. And he invited me to come to Ann Arbor, to stay in East Quad.So this was 1970: this was T. Casey Brennan, now on a bus bound for Ann Arbor, intent on imposing his invited, but unwanted, presence on Ann Arbor's campus left.The day before I left, I had watched the movie WOODSTOCK, at Port Huron's Family Theatre on Military Street. I was prepared. These campus left guys were great, I decided.I had taken the bus from Port Huron to Detroit, and changed buses in Detroit for Ann Arbor. I have a beard now, anathema in my ancestral home of Avoca, Michigan, and I am glad to be in Detroit, where I won't be hassled for having it. From the bus, I flash the peace sign to a black cab driver. He returns it. I'm part of the movement, man.Larry B. has advised me to disembark at the Michigan Union, a scheduled stop of the Greyhound on which I ride. Had I seen the Greyhound Station on Huron Street first, with it's standard clientele of drunks and beggars, I may have received a different impression of Ann Arbor. I was later to work at the Huron Street Greyhound station, from November 1973 till March 1974, when I moved here, as had been my intent, even then. The Greyhound Station had been managed, in those days, by Red Simpson. He had two sons, John and George. George, they said, had disappeared for about a year, and returned, with a sex change operation, as "Gail" Simpson. The bus drivers had been mortified, always referring to Gail as "He... she... it" in the course of a conversation. But this is 1970: I am not to see the Greyhound station yet, nor will I actually move to Ann Arbor for another three years. Just before the Michigan Union bus stop, I see Larry B. walking on the street. I wave to him, but he does not see me. So I proceed, on his direction, through Ann Arbor's tumultuous diag of 1970, bound for East Quad. The "Tent City" protest, in which protesters pitched pup tents on the diag, is in full swing. Soon, police will sweep it away, on the advice that a hepatitis carrier has spread disease throughout the community.I arrive at 30 Hayden Hall, East Quadrangle Residential College, but Larry is not there. Soon he arrives, beaming. He is, he says, delighted that I have accepted his invitation.His letters have told me much about the now semi-famous Naomi Schechter. A Jewish girl whose parents, he said, were both registered Communists; an activist, a psychology teacher, highly intelligent, but with severe acne. Some years later, she will undergo facial surgery to correct the problem.He had made it clear in his letters that she wanted to meet me. I had envisioned a romance. Boys will be boys. I had envisioned myself, T. Casey Brennan, fledgling comic book writer for CREEPY and EERIE, with my own Joan Baez, whose parents were both registered Communists, leading the campus leftists to victory over the supporters of the Vietnam war, and my very recent, former friends, the John Birch Society. But that was not to be. Some time between August of 1970, when Larry B. had invited me to East Quad at the Upper Peninsula campground, and October 1970, when I actually made the journey, Larry had relayed the bad news: Naomi had taken on a live-in lover at her home on Ellsworth Road in Ypsilanti, where I was to stay, briefly, intermittently, with my stays at 30 Hayden Hall, East Quad. Larry described him as "a silk-screener named Joe". Joe had an Italian surname; I don't remember it. He was, as I recall, one of the early directors of Ozone House, a still existing Ann Arbor group which supplies teen-age runaways with food, clothing, and anti-drug pamphlets. Joe alleged that his uncle had been murdered by the Mafia. Larry alleged that Joe was one of the biggest drug dealers in Washtenaw County, but, he said, just marijuana and hashish.Despite all that, Larry B., and his room-mate, Dave, determined that my stay at East Quad should include my first experience with that staple diet of campus demonstrators, marijuana.So, that night at East Quad, I smoked marijuana for the first time.I'd smoke some that night, and the following morning, then wander around the campus area of South University, determined that I have now incurred permanent brain damage from it. In addition to my comic scripts for CREEPY and EERIE, I have also written some short stories for a magazine called LISTEN, edited by Francis A. Soper and Twyla Schlotthauer. My checks say Narcotics Education, Inc., but it is really a vehicle of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Washington, D.C. They are anti-drug, anti-cigarettes, anti-meat-eating, anti-everything. Later, in the mid-1970s, when I am living at Xanadu Co-op on 1811 Washtenaw, marijuana salesmen will call them and tell them that I have been "caught" smoking marijuana (which they have sold me), as part of an on-going attempt by the campus left to sabotage my career. Undaunted, I write a pro-vegetarian story called "I Love Meat", a satire more derived from my VAMPIRELLA stories than anything else (see Warren Publishing's VAMPIRELLA magazines #s 5, 17-21, and 109, and Harris Comics VAMPIRELLA OF DRAKULON #1-3, reprinted in 1996, and the trade paperback, VAMPIRELLA: TRANSCENDING TIME & SPACE, co-authored with Steve Englehart). It's about a literal meat-vampire, a meat-addict: Soper rejects it, but it ends up published in 1977 issues of VEGETARIAN TIMES and a short-lived HIGH TIMES imitator called FLASH (no relation to the DC comic of the same name), in the latter case, accompanied by an illustration from legendary underground comic artist, Robert Williams. A quote from the story, beginning "Poor animals..." has now been picked up by vegetarian activists on the Internet world-wide... astute Net-searchers will find it posted widely on the Net and Usenet, listing me with the greatest philosophers of history. What's more, Soper later forgave me for being "caught" by the Xanadu marijuana peddlers, and published my publicity stunt essays about being an award winning comic book writer wanting to take smoking out of comic books in his early 1980s companion to LISTEN, a newsletter called SMOKE SIGNALS: the result being that the articles were entered into CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE, Sept. 28, 1982, Vol. 128, No. 131, page S12435, and commented upon in the U.N. World Health Organization magazine from Geneva, WORLD HEALTH, October 1983, page 30, and January-February 1986, page 9, issues; and THAT culminating in a Proclamation, dated December 22, 1989, carrying the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas, and the signatures of then-Governor Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State, designating January 1990 as T. CASEY BRENNAN MONTH in the State of Arkansas. All because of my association with Francis A. Soper, whom I then believed.So I sit with a girl I just met, by a campus building in Ann Arbor, the second day of my trip, and tell her she must never smoke marijuana. It causes permanent brain damage, I tell her. Amusedly, she agrees, and promises. I go on to say, I may contact LISTEN magazine, and see if they can arrange some kind of speaking tour. Or, maybe, I'm thinking, the John Birchers, but I don't tell her that.That part is secret, must be, cannot be told in my quest to woo the campus left of Ann Arbor.Soon, we meet Naomi and Joe. I am to stay there for a few days, as per our agreement. The house is on Ellsworth Road, Ypsilanti.Joe produces two forms of hashish, Pakistani and Nepalese, he says. Naomi says they are afraid to smoke the Nepalese hashish: "It's too intense," she says. Later, Joe takes me to his silk screen shop, which he owns. I think it's called The Silk Screen Shop. He tells me that the form of printing called silk-screening produces, not just t-shirts with cartoons on them, but also the illustrations that graced 1970-style pin-ball machines.Naomi is then working on her Ph.d. thesis. She gives me a battery of tests, for practice, she says, including the standard Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test, as well as something she has invented, using the Rider deck of Tarot cards, as designed by Arthur Edward Waite, much preferred by hippies of that era. Interestingly, in a classic anachronism, the early 1970s television program KUNG FU, starring David Carradine as a pseudo-Chinese Shaolin priest, used the Rider deck in an episode set in the 1860s, wielded by his guest-star father, one-time Dracula portrayer, John Carradine, in spite of the fact that the Rider deck was not produced until the 1920s.I ask Naomi about the police, "the pligs, myan", as we called them then."They don't come out here unless we call them," she says.I take Naomi's tests, then smoke the Nepalese hash that she has recommended against. I have a dream about a world covered with green foliage, with men with green helmets walking about in it, then go outside, thinking I am going to throw up. Joe comes out, offering sympathy, but in a moment, I am okay.I take a ride with Naomi in her jalopy. As we pull out of driveways, I watch, repeatedly, for oncoming traffic. Naomi spots me doing this, and curses me."I thought men were supposed to help girls drive!" I say."Well," Naomi says, "You've been improperly trained."I meet Naomi's friends.One is a man named Tom. He says he owns a health food something-or-other on Liberty Street. He has fluffy curly hair, but no moustache or beard. Joe has a moustache.One day, we wake up and Tom is annoyed by buzzing flies sticking to the fly paper in Naomi's living room. He applies his lit cigarette lighter."Better that they die that way, than slowly," Tom says.Another is a traveller from England, a man with his long hair in a bun, like the old ladies I had known in my boyhood in Avoca, Michigan.He tries to be friendly, but I see him as one of those members of the Communist conspiracy the John Birchers have told me about. He tells me of his efforts to organize the cockneys in England, but, he says, he is thwarted. He says they admire the upper-class English accent.Naomi takes me aside later and says: "We don't know what he does. He may kill people."Another is a pretty girl who brings a box of slides, which she presents to me and Joe. She says, "There is a picture of me in there..."She giggles."Well," she says, "I don't know..." Then she giggles some more.She leaves. Joe and I light joints, and set to work, examining the box of a thousand slides, one by one, looking for the implied nude picture of the girl who has just left. One by one, we examine each boring vacation slide, shake our heads, and move on. It just isn't there. We have been tricked.I meet Larry B's friends.Larry takes me to the Halfway Inn, in East Quad. He points out a student with a picture of a clenched fist on the back of his denim jacket.Larry B. says, "Casey, you see that guy? He was arrested at a demonstration for throwing a rock at a cop. And he didn't do it!"Larry also points out an East Quad drug dealer called Strike."Strike's a prick," says Larry B., "Strike works directly under Joe."Later, Strike, a student with longish hair, a beard, and a furtive look, tells me in a hallway: "Everybody here is out to get me."And, through Strike, I have had my first glimpse of the apolitical vendettas of Ann Arbor's campus left, so intent on victimizing their own.Later, Naomi tells me she may not complete her Ph.d thesis. I embark on a campaign of persuasion, conceiving various approaches for talking her into it.It will be, she says, if she finishes it, a treatise on the Tarot cards and psychology. Following repeated phone calls along this line, I finally conceive of this:"Maybe girls shouldn't have Ph.d's," I say."That does it," she says, "I'm going to do it."And she did. And now she is a semi-famous activistwith Psychologists for Social Responsibility, following in the footsteps of her registered Communist parents; her friend Larry B. (and his hero, Baba Ram Das); her friend Tom, who sold health food and burned flies with his lighter; her friend with his hair in bun who may have killed people; and her boyfriend Joe, who ran a silk-screen shop and Ozone House, and whose uncle was killed by the Mafia.This was the memory that lurked within:Before Naomi, Joe, and Larry B. giving me marijuana and hashish in 1970, there had been J.H. Earnshaw giving me LSD in the late 1950s. We had met him through David Ferrie, who died during the Garrison investigation. Menacingly, Earnshaw had claimed association with the CIA's illegal MK-ULTRA experimentation program, begun in 1953, and investigated by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before a Senate Committee, in 1977. My dad's interests had included not merely school taxes and right-wing politics, but also hypnosis, which was Earnshaw's specialty. Earnshaw, an Osteopathic physician in Port Hope, Michigan, reportedly died in 1984, though he continued to be listed in the American Osteopathic Association Yearbook long after that. On November 22, 1963, Earnshaw and David Ferrie kidnapped me from the Yale, Michigan airport, with the assistance of my late father, and forced me to initiate the firing from the Texas School Book Depository Building in Dallas. That was what I wrote about in "Conjurella". Lee was innocent. I was not.And this was the last memory of Naomi, not the LAST memory, but the memory that lingered, the way the memory of my single shot in Dallas, before I collapsed, before David Ferrie assumed command of the weapon and resumed firing, could not.Naomi shows me a crystal by her window that creates flickering lights and colours. It hangs by the couch on which I sleep; I do not sleep with her, the presence of Joe has seen to that. But in the morning on that day, whatever day it was, Naomi comes to awaken me.She stands over me in the flickering light of the crystal, as the effect of the Nepalese hash lingers on in my unaccustomed brain.I watch as she tosses her head, leans from side to side, and strikes poses in the window light of morning.In my fear of Nepalese hashish and Communist conspirators, in my apprehension of the vendetta against Strike, and the man with his hair in a bun, and Joe whose uncle was killed by the Mafia, and her Communist parents, I have almost forgotten how pretty she is. But now, her long curly hair glistens in the morning light, in the light of the crystal, and she fans it out like a veil, as she weaves and tosses."NAOMI!" I say, with awe. And I need say no more. She knows."That will last a long time," she says.And it did.The End T. 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FIU Fends Off B-CU Rally; Cats Fall 74-72
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Release: 01/07/2013
MIAMI – Bethune-Cookman cut a 12-point deficit down to one and had the final shot, but Florida International held off the Wildcats 74-72 Monday afternoon.
The Wildcats closed to two points on a Ricky Johnson lay-up with 17 seconds remaining and had the final shot after an Alex Smith steal, but a Wildcat three-pointer bounced off the rim.
Tymell Murphy scored 20 points, Malik Smith had 15 points and Jerome Frink double-doubled with 11 points and 11 rebounds as the Panthers (7-7) built a 58-46 lead on a Murphy lay-up with 10:28 remaining.
Bethune-Cookman (5-11) closed to within one point on three occasions – 67-66 with 4:08 left on a Dukes three-pointer, 69-68 on two Javoris Bryant free throws with 2:13 remaining and 71-70 on an Adrien Coleman lay-up with 1:46 to play – but the Panthers answered each time.
In the first half, Bethune-Cookman took an early 26-16 lead on a Coleman lay-up with 6:37 left, but the Panthers rallied to take a 35-32 halftime lead.
Coleman led Bethune-Cookman with 20 points, followed by Dukes with 15 and Bryant with 14.
The Wildcats' Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference home opener is Saturday at 4 p.m against North Carolina A&T.
"All you ask for is an opportunity to win the game. We had a good look with a play we usually run at the end of the game, we just couldn't knock it down.
"This is how the games in conference games are going to be close. We have to execute down the stretch, get the round or get the stop."
[On Kevin Dukes and Javoris Bryant]
"It was good to get them back on track scoring. Energy-wise, they played well."
NOTES: This was Coleman's second straight 20-point game and third in the past four games; He also had a team-high seven rebounds in the ninth game this season he's led the team on the boards ... Dukes matched a season-high with four three-pointers ... Bryant reached double figures for the first time since the 12/3 Stetson game and was a season-best 6-6 from the line ... Smith had four blocks ... Malik Jackson had his first career start and scored five of B-CU's first seven points ... This was the first time this season B-CU has scored 70 or more and lost.


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Apparently this e-mail went around Wall Street a while ago, but I've only discovered it now. Here is a longer version.
We are traders, it's our job to make money. Whether it is a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn't matter. We would trade baseball cards if it was profitable. I didn't hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 12,000 and everyone's 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I have never heard of anyone going to Gamblers anonymous because they won too much in Vegas. Well now that the market crapped out, the government and the average Joes are looking for a scapegoat to blame. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well here we are.
Go ahead and take us down, cause you are only going to hurt yourselves. What is going to happen when we can't find jobs on the street anymore? Guess what, we are going to take yours. We get up at 5am and go out after work till 10pm. We are used to not getting up to piss when we have a position. We don't take and hour lunch break. We don't demand a union. We don't retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates we are going to devour them.
For years teachers and unionize labor has had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We are going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are sooooo underpaid for building the youth of America. Say good bye to your overtime and double time and a half. I'll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for 5k extra a summer, thank you very much. So now that we are going to be making 85k a year without upside, Joe main street is going to have his revenge right? Wrong.
Guess what, we are going to stop buying the new 65k car, we aren't going to leave the 35% tip at our business dinners anymore, no more free rides on our backs. We are going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars in with a garden hose on our drive ways. Our money was your money, cause we spent it. Difference is you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and Democratic National Committee might get there way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but its really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat asses land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom. We aren't dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than them, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama is making Joe Main street our food supply will they?
Class war goes both ways? Doh!


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Hi there.
I've bin researching the hobby CNC area for quite a while now, and I came to the conclusion that it would be to expensive to get one home from the US.
And I don't really dare to be a Chinese machine, since a lot of people on cnczone seems to have problems with unreliable dealers.
So I've made a decision to buy one from Europe since the payment for transportation will be less, and I will not have to pay any toll or extra tax.
The thing is that most of the European dealers are to expensive for a poor aircraft tech student as myself ( I'm looking for a machine in the 1000/1500$ class ).
I managed to find 3 dealers that seems to have what I'm looking for,
Cau Cau, CEOCNC and GoCNC.
The Cau Cau Kompas H300 looks good but is a bit more expensive and CEOCNC's model are made out of MDF, so that leaves german GoCNC with their A3 model.
The GoCNC A3's specs looks really good, and I'm really drawn to this machine, but my concern is that I can't find any information about elsewhere.
Only at their site http://www.gocnc.de.
So my question to you guys would be.
- Do you think it's worth the money? and have any of you heard something about before?
Thanks and sorry for my poor spelling
Re: GoCNC?
Have you thought about building one yourself , i did about 2 & half years ago & machine is still going well, but would like to build a quicker & better one now.
from building the machine yourself you tend too understand the whole cnc thing a littel better. Im the type of person whos good with my hands but not so much my brain, but someone once told me i should build myself a cnc machine it will make building a cockpit a lot less expensive. So i took the challenge thinking theres no way i could build one of those!! suprized myself after bout 6 months reseching cnc machines & diy builds. This was just my expirence & i have learnt so much in 2 years rgding cnc machines in what i need to do for my next cnc build. just a thought for you. good luck keep us posted weather you build or buy..
Cheers..I Started with Nothing & ive still got loads left..
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Re: GoCNC?
hi. i purchased gocnc.de hobby a4 machine.. it arrived in 15 days.
about 1/2 of the screws were not included.
reference switches were not included (they are offered in web page)
no cables for reference switches, no mention of reference switches in manual
some screws have a too large head so stepper motors dont rest flat
bronze friction pieces are not aligned so they need to be machined by end user or the machine would not move any axis
it has metal to metal friction design (no linear bearings or such)
stepper motors inox rod must be glued by user to bronze bushing for it to hold the threaded screw that moves axis..... (very hard to bond inbox with bronze and it won't hold any force). and the bronze bushing holds the threaded screw with just thread lock.... the minimum force stepper applies the whole axis will disassemble itself....
one of the inox axis guides has no thread on its end so it can't be assembled.
manual is german only
in short words this machine is a badly designed, badly manufactured, incomplete toy
i would stay away from it if possible
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Re: GoCNC?
I have built 3 cnc machines for myself. One learns much when he does it himself. My last one is the keeper. It is made of MDF and HDPE. My pictures may still be in the gallery. The total cost of the last machine was about $900 USD. This includes the steppers, power supply, controller board for the steppers, the dedicated computer, CUT2D software program for generating the GCode and Mach 3 as my post processor. It has a useable surface of 11.5 inches wide by 24 inches long. All of the parts for my last machine were made using the second machine to cut the parts out. I pretty much use the CUT2D program to do all of my panel drawing. Any questions or build information, just PM or ask here, I am always glad to assist in any way that I can.
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Re: GoCNC?
Hello All,
my two cents. I have built a MDF CNC Router by myself after the intructions from the famous build your cnc webpage. Costs approx. 700 Euro and a lot of time. Such a CNC made from MDF is ok for cutting MDF Material, Plastic for Panels and also ok for engraving them. BUT: If you want to work with Aluminium or such material a self built MDF Router is not sufficient. At the moment i stopped all my CNC works on my DIY Router because i ordered a new CNC Machine at mixware.de. Of course this is expensive, but i think it is better to spend more money and have something for the future which can handle all my needs in terms of power and accuracy.
You may search on youtube for "Masterploxis" to see my current solution.
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Hello everyone!
This led me to agree a router: CNC Portalfräse GoCNC Hobby A4 Basic v3 Bausatz
I am interested in this very machine and gather info how it works, how it works softuera.Mislya to deal with engraving on gold and silver material, but start thinking a little to work with stainless steel.
I would be grateful to anyone who has any opinion and share it!
Thank you in advance!
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Hello Jo&Jo,
I´m also thinking about buying a cnc mill for severall months. I´ve read a lot in german cnc and rc-modell communities about cnc mills. What they said about tht gocnc mill is that it is only strong enough for wood an mdf. On the producers page they wrote it is capable for short works with metalls like aluminium and copper. (gold might be ok too) For engraving metalls like steel you need an much more expensive mill. If you´re looking for a cheap cnc mill able to engrave "ne-metalls" you should think about buying a proxxon mf 70 and convert it into a cnc mill. Several conversion kits can be found for example on ebay. A little problem with this mill is the quite small working area. If you´re able to understand the german language you should screen some german communities like cncecke.de or woodcnc.de some of the users ther bought a cnc mill from gocnc or converted a proxxon mf 70 .
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|Watching & Waiting
|Written by Jeff Hybiak
|Monday, 24 October 2011 05:47
This weekend marked the 13th "emergency" summit in Europe in the last 22 months. So far we learned that European leaders are serious about solving the crisis this time with a "bazooka" and for now plan to announce what that bazooka will be by Wednesday. Two questions will be asked when it is finally announced -- 1) Will it actually work? 2) Did they wait too long?
So while we watch and wait for the latest solution, the banking system in Europe continues to struggle. ZeroHedge provided an updated chart of the liquidity stress going on in their banking system. Note the quick drop when Germany and France announced this weekend's summit at the beginning of October & how quickly banks have had to resume borrowing from the ECB to meet their funding needs.
Meanwhile the market appears to have broken out of the trading range that started following the U.S. Debt Ceiling "solution" and subsequent downgrade of America. (By the way, does anybody realize that the "Super Committee" has less than a month to come up with the actual spending cuts?)
The problem of course is that so many people use these "levels" as either their entry or exit points you often get a "false" breakout (or breakdown). With the volume continuing to decline, our systems remain skeptical that the market is giving an "all-clear" signal. Just like we saw following the U.S. debt ceiling solution, we could easily see the market sell-off regardless of what is announced on Wednesday. Once the plan is announced, everyone will begin asking, 1) Will it actually work? 2) Did they wait too long?
We enter the week with EGA 23% invested in equities & EPA with no equity exposure. If institutional participation picks up this week on a rally we could easily leg back into the market. As it is with so much uncertainty out there, sitting on the sidelines is a pretty comfortable place to be.
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BJJ Black Belt Network to hold their 1st training session of 2008
We have scheduled the next Brazilian jiu-jitsu Black Belt Network training session of 2008 on January 20th 10:00am. The host school will be black belt Chris Lisciandro's BJJ Academy in Studio City . ( http://www.brazilianjiujitsuclub.com [2] )
Brazilian Jiujitsu Club
14454 Ventura Blvd
Sherman Oaks, Ca 91423
The training/meeting session is open to all Brazilian jiu-jitsu Black Belts. The focus of this session will be to have the unique opportunity to train with and share techniques and knowledge with other black belts, in an open environment free of egos and regardless of affiliations.
The second half of the training/meeting will be a discussion on the new Mission Statement of the BJJ Black Belt Network and setting goals for the year 2008. We will aim to officially elect and appoint the 6 Board of Directors, which are task with meeting on a regular basis to direct the actions of the network. Among other things, the network will discuss the timeline for organizing and putting together the 1st BJJ Black Belt Network sponsored tournament held in Southern California .
So you can see, we have planned a busy and most productive training/meeting session, hope to see all you black belts there.
If you have interest in attending and need further information, email or visit http://www.bjjblackbeltnetwork.org [3]
Thank you.
Anthony Del Valle
BJJ Black Belt Network
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Skip to comments.100 Survivors Rescued in Gaza From Ruins Blocked by Israelis
Posted on 01/09/2009 10:15:37 AM PST by fignewton
Relief Agencies Fear More Are Trapped, Days After Neighborhood Was Shelled
Emergency workers said they rescued 100 more trapped survivors Thursday and found between 40 and 50 corpses in a devastated residential block south of Gaza City that the Israeli military had kept off-limits to the International Committee of the Red Cross for four days...
...Four children, weak but alive, were found lying under blankets, nestled next to their dead mothers, Abuzaid said.
...The Red Cross has accused the Israeli military of repeatedly refusing to grant permission for ambulances to go to Zaytoun, even though soldiers were stationed outside the damaged houses and were aware people were wounded inside...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I told her I don't know how true it is, but she insisted that since it was printed in the Washington Post, it must be true.
Wow. There's no media bias in THAT headline at ALL!
No offense, but is your mother suffering from senile dementia?
The WaPo is one of the "top" five lib-tard rags in the country.
Given Islamist history, they should only be allowed to use pickups and flat bed medium trucks as ambulances. Those vehicles are more easily searched for both "brave" jihadists and jihadist armament.
You should have responded that the Washington Post has become the propaganda arm for anti-semitism in America so anything written about Jews or Israelis must be considered false until demonstrated elsewhere to be true.
Hamas uses ambulances and UN vehicles to move their weapons, men and ammmo.
course the left and ,muslims are just too dumb to realise the truth
Reyham Abdel Kareem sounds like an unbiased journalist.
SO 100 Hamas terrorists were rescued. Oh, wait, 96 plus their 4 child hostages.
Call and read this to your Mom, please
It explains the IDF reason for refusing Red Cross workers entrance to neighorhoods
It explains why some homes, even containing live victims, are under guard and cannot be safely entered- because those kids are boooby trapped bomb bait and quite probably, EOD (explosive experts) are way overtasked to try and defuse them
This line has "orchestrated Hamas PR stunt" written all over it.
See captured map.
No stunt.
Entire neighborhhods are rigged with HAMAS explosives and have HAMAS snipers and IED's positioned to attack rescue workers.
"This situation will not improve until Hamas stops lobbing rockets into Israel," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said."
What is it about stop lobbing that they don't understand?
You mean their 4 child human shields along with their mothers, right?
Relief Agencies Fear More Are Trapped, Days After Neighborhood Was Shelled Emergency workers said they rescued 100 more trapped survivors... " [in civilian buildings used as military bases by Hamas "...Thursday and found between 40 and 50 corpses in a devastated residential block south of Gaza City..."
"Relief Agencies Fear More Are Trapped, Days After Neighborhood Was Shelled Emergency workers said they rescued 100 more trapped survivors... " [in civilian buildings used as military bases by Hamas] "...Thursday and found between 40 and 50 corpses in a devastated residential block south of Gaza City..."
awww be nice to my mom.
She's subscribed to the Washington Post for more than 50 years. She won't read the Washington Times because it's owned by the Moonies. But, at least I got her to watch Foxnews :)
Thank you for the info. I knew there had to be more to the story than what the Post was reporting.
Red Cross blasts Israel
The NYT | 1/08/09 | Alan crowell
Posted on 01/08/2009 11:02:01 AM PST by ChurtleDawg
If the homes are booby-trapped... shouldn't the IDF the allow the Red Cross access (with television crews filming)?
That way, when the rubble goes *BOOM!* and the Red Cross personnel die, the world has live coverage as to why.
Similarly a US fire chief will not let his men enter an unstable burning building, even if there are live victims inside. A US military commander will not order or permit his troops to enter an ambush even if it is baited with innocent victims.
Besides, Hamas would simply claim the Israels did the booby traps and the press would accept this. It is literally a no-win for Israel, given the uncritical "journalism" of the liberal media that is feeding propaganda to the world about what is happening.
I have been thinking about how and why there would be multiple cases of dead women in houses, with small children under blankets beside them. My conclusion is that Hamas is killing women and staging their death scenes, and letting their small children stay with their bodies to starve- to try and draw the Israelis into booby-trapped houses and ambushes- and to heighten world animus against Israel. There is no other logical explanation of even more than one case of a woman being in a house dead and covered, and all of their small children being alive and uninjured.
I was just teasing. ;^)
Good job getting her to expand her horizons a bit - although lately FoxNews doesn't appear to be what it once was.
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Signal to Noise Ratio Calculator
Signal to Noise Ratio Calculator is an online tool specially programmed to calculate how much a signal as meaningful information has been corrupted by noise as unwanted signal
Signal-to-noise ratio is also called as SNR or S/N, is defined as the ratio of signal power to the noise power corrupting the signal. The Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) is the defining factor when it comes to quality of measurement. A high SNR guarantees clear acquisitions with low distortions and artifacts caused by noise. The better your SNR, the better the signal stands out, the better the quality of your signals, and the better you ability to get the results you desire. SNR measurement is commonly used in the field of science and engineering fields. A ratio higher than 1:1 indicates more signal than noise. While SNR is commonly quoted for electrical signals, it can be applied to any form of signal
How to Calculate Signal to Noise Ratio
Signal-to-noise ratio is defined as the power ratio between a signal and noise. It can be derived from the formula
SNR = Psignal/Pnoise = μ/σ
μ is the signal mean or expected value
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Date: November 29 2012
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested three managers of a factory where a blaze killed more than 110 people, following claims they stopped workers from leaving the plant by saying an alarm was just a fire drill.
A Dhaka police official says the managers were arrested after charges that they told panicked workers of Tazreen Fashion they had nothing to worry about when the fire started on Saturday night.
The factory supplied clothes to international brands including Wal-Mart, European chain C&A, and the Hong Kong-based Li & Fung company. About 700 garment workers have been killed in fires since 2006 in Bangladesh.
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Looking for a soft, crunchy Mexican dinner using Old El Paso flour tortillas and taco shells? Then check out these spicy fish and broccoli sandwiches flavored with vinaigrette dressing ready in 20 minutes.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes with 4 servings
- 8 Old El Paso flour tortillas for soft tacos & fajitas (6 inch; from 8.2-oz package)
- 8 Old El Paso taco shells (from 4.6-oz package)
- 1 bag (12 oz) broccoli slaw mix (about 4 cups)
- 1/3 cup light lime vinaigrette dressing or vinaigrette dressing
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 package (1 oz) Old El Paso® taco seasoning mix
- 4 tilapia or other mild-flavored, medium-firm fish fillets (about 1 lb)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 cup prepared guacamole
- 1 cup crumbled cotija or feta cheese, if desired
- Heat tortillas and taco shells as directed on package. In medium bowl, toss broccoli slaw mix, dressing and cilantro; set aside.
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Expect Transformers 3 in 2011
Paramount and Dreamworks have officially announced Transformers 3 will be released in theaters on July 1, 2011.
From Variety:
They said the studio wanted to claim the date before a competitor did, considering that the 2011 summer release calendar is filling up.
No deals have been inked with director Michael Bay or franchise stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. Nor has a writer been hired for the third installment.
It would appear the studio has no doubt in the success of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen due to be released 24 June 2009.


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You should first check that the institution you are considering is properly accredited. The accrediting body for interior design schools is the nonprofit Council for Interior Design Accreditation. The Council develops guidelines and goals for the future of interior design education and then offers schools the opportunity to meet those standards and receive accreditation. Lack of council accreditation does not necessarily mean that your school does not meet high standards-the school may simply not have applied. As long as a school has been accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting body, you will be receiving a level of education that will allow you to sit for the national certification exam administered by the National Council of Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ). However, some state's interior design regulations and laws specify accreditation. Click here to find the full list of schools accredited by the Council.
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You have many options: two-year programs or four-year programs, big universities or small colleges or art and design schools, even home study. You may be wondering whether a four-year degree is necessary or if a two-year degree will suffice. Before you can make these big decisions, you really should start at square one. Find out which schools are in your area or in the areas where you would be willing to live. Then do some investigating. Find out what sort of design they specialize in, who they are accredited by and what that means for your future, how much you can expect to pay in fees and other expenses, etc.
Talk with a Faculty Member
Set up an appointment with a faculty member at the schools you are most interested in. This is a good way to decide whether or not a program is right for you. Ask the faculty member about the types of classes that are offered, the teaching philosophy of the program, what percentage of graduates actually pursue interior design careers, and what types of jobs they have landed.
Online Learning
When considering enrolling in an online learning program, you must conduct your research. While a certificate program would probably provide you with a good introduction to interior design, it would not provide you with the credentials you will need to sit for the NCIDQ exam or to be licensed in most states or hired by most interior design or architecture firms. New online source to help you choose, check it out!
There are five online programs that ASID recognizes that meet the educational requirements for student membership. The design schools are Rhodec International (firstname.lastname@example.com), the Art Institute of Pittsburgh's Online Division (www.aionline.edu), the Academy of Art online program (www.academyart.edu), The Design Ecademy (www.thedesignecademy.com) and Westwood College Online (http://www.westwood.edu/online-learning). If studying through Rhodec, you will need to be enrolled in either the Diploma or Bachelor's programs, and if studying through Limperts you must be enrolled in the HND (Higher National Diploma) program.
It should be noted, however, that ASID is not an accrediting body and makes no comparative evaluations or endorsements of interior design programs beyond the minimum standards for student chapter membership set out by ASID's board of directors. With full completion of the programs listed above, graduates are eligible for advancement to Allied Membership in ASID.


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We really messed up last week when we offered The People's Pharmacy Roll-On Deodorant "start-summer smelling-sweet sale." Readers of our newsletter were given a 15% discount off our aluminum-free deodorant using the code MOM15.
Ooops! Due to a technical glitch the discount code did not translate into an actual discount when people went to the shopping cart and checked out. Everyone who ordered from us last week has now received the promised discount. That said, we are so sorry for this mix-up that we are re-offering the discount through the end of June and increasing it to 20%.
Anyone who would like The People's Pharmacy Aluminum-Free Roll-On Deodorant will get a 20% discount by using the code GOOF20. This time we promise that the discount code will work and you will save 20% off the purchase price, which will be automatically calculated before you pay.
We apologize for this error and hope this new offer makes up for any inconvenience or frustration we may have caused. Here is a link to the shopping cart. Don't forget to put GOOF20 into the discount code box when you check out to take advantage of this offer.
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As the heat and humidity prove that summer is really here, it's time to think of those around you. You do not want to offend family, friends or co-workers.
Most people turn to commercial antiperspirants to solve this problem, but as we have pointed out many times, they all contain aluminum salts. That is an FDA requirement or you can't call your product an antiperspirant. The aluminum plugs sweat glands in order prevent perspiration. Some people report that aluminum is irritating and it leads to a rash. Others fear absorption of aluminum from their underarms. One reader was convinced that her antiperspirant affected her brain:
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