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OAKLAND -- People in Chinatown took a stand against violence on members of the Asian community Wednesday night during a fundraiser for the widow of a Beijing native who was robbed of $17 and killed in downtown Oakland last month.
Jinghong Kang, 45, a network engineer for ITT in Virginia, was in Oakland on the night of July 18 because he was set to interview for a job with Google in Mountain View the next day.
Police said George Huggins, 24, and his girlfriend, Althea Housley, 33, of Oakland, approached Kang and his friend Hai Huang as they were walking to Kang's car in the 1900 block of Webster Street at 11:30 p.m. July 18 and demanded cash at gunpoint.
After Kang gave the two the $17 in his pocket, Huggins "for no apparent reason" shot Kang three times, killing him, court records show. The suspects were arrested, with the help of a video captured by a local merchant's security system, and charged with murder.
Longtime community activist Carl Chan organized the fundraiser as part of an ongoing effort to ensure that the city's Asian and black communities remain committed to valuing and respecting one another, he said. The suspects are both black.
"Our hope is not only about raising money, but about raising awareness to work together to stop violence on the streets. I think it's important for all of us, in Chinatown, downtown or in the hills area, to all work together no matter where the crime is," said Chan, the chairman for the Chinatown Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council and a board member of the Asian Advisory Committee on Crime.
Kang and wife Wendy Wang had been married for 19 years and have three sons, 10, 12 and 17 as well as two financially dependent senior parents, now in Wang's financial care.
Kang was generous in giving money to his church and had canceled his life insurance to help others, a friend said. The family did not have enough money for his funeral.
Chan wasn't sure how much money was raised Wednesday but said he would have a count later in the week. The Oakland firefighters also presented Wang with a check.
Stan Kiang, vice president of the Organization of Chinese-Americans East Bay, told Wang, "Although, we live 3,000 miles apart you are part of our community here and we want to express our deepest condolences."
The killing came just a few months after Tiansheng Yu, a 59-year-old San Francisco resident and who was Asian, was beaten to death when he confronted two men who had beaten his adult son near the Fox Theater in downtown Oakland.
Both men have been charged in his death. Yu's widow also attended the event Wednesday.
The fundraiser brought out several dozen people, police and firefighters involved in handling the crimes and supporters from all over the Bay Area, Chan said.
"This is obviously an incident that shocked not only the Asian community but the entire community in Oakland and we can tell by the turnout tonight that a lot of people care," Kiang said.
Oakland police credited the community for helping to identifying the suspects in both incidents.
"So much energy is placed on blaming other communities and pointing fingers," Kiang said, "but instead we need to put energy into putting the finger on these parasitic thugs that control the community right now."
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A Valentine art project for toddlers includes three methods of painting! Pick one, or do all three with your toddler!
Since George keeps wanting to paint hearts, I've been trying to come up with different ways to make some Valentine art for toddlers that's not the same ol' finger painting over and over again.
I think I've been doing good so far. Most have been classic ways to paint, such as the sponge and cookie cutter heart paintings. Even though they're classic, this was our first time painting that way. I'm so excited to have found new art projects that a toddler can do and they still look awesome in the end.
And here's yet another heart art project for toddlers. (Yes, George is still asking to paint hearts still!)
This one is a combination of a few art projects that toddlers can do.
- Tape resist art. Its been on my mind since I collected a few ideas…
- Roller painting. We've done this before, but in a baggy. This time the mess came out.
- Comb painting. I just saw an awesome art project by Learn with Play at Home so I thought we'd give this a whirl too.
I taped a heart out onto a piece of paper. George wanted to get in on the taping too, so he put tape dots around the heart.
With a wooden dowel (a rolling pin would work well too!), George rolled paint over the paper. He's definitely seen this motion done several times at the bakery. He knew just how to roll!
And then with a comb, we scratched over the paint to make marks and lines, giving it texture and some character.
There's absolutely no right or wrong way to do any of these techniques. All that's important is to cover the paper with paint, any way you can!
Think about it, what other objects do you have in your cupboard that you could drag through the paint? Toddlers love to use an object that they know is supposed to be used for something else. Such as the comb. Something that's supposed to be run through their hair, and I'm letting him put it in paint? He thinks he's getting away with something and loves doing it!
Its a fun way for toddlers to explore different mediums, plus there's pretty artwork that comes from it to hang up for Valentine's Day! (You could also make cards too!)
And with the tape off, the texture shows off so nicely!
There's lots of Valentine Art for toddlers found in my Valentine's For Kids collaborative Pinterest board!
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Coming soon to a Giants' ballpark near you are 1) San Francisco's first World Series trophy for display, and 2) Showtime television cameras for a reality series.
Pause here for dramatic effect. (Sigh.)
The Giants are creating a mass-exposure phenomenon.
Yes, they should proudly show off their long-sought prize, taking it on a victory tour throughout the West Coast, as well as to their native soil in New York.
Such exhibitionism is encouraged, as opposed to the kind that may emerge in Showtime's just-announced series on the 2011 Giants.
A trophy is real, has staying power and creates goodwill. A TV show, not so much. Make the trophy visible, not the clubhouse.
Who knows what will transpire with Showtime being "embedded" with the team all season. But last year's team won it all without that reality-TV element.
Aubrey Huff's red thong and Brian Wilson's black beard can't carry every show this summer. Manager Bruce Bochy won't cuss to your cable bill's delight (see: Rex Ryan, HBO's "Hard Knocks.") And yet "...
"It became clear the Giants had the right selection of players and personalities, and later when they won the World Series, it was a compelling choice," Showtime entertainment president David Nevins said in a Reuters report.
The soon-to-be-titled series is already in production. A preview episode is slated in late March, with regular episodes picking up in the summer.
While it might be must-see TV, it won't replace the genuine admiration of what the 2010 Giants produced: baseball's ring-of-flags hardware. Let's focus on that, instead of a reality-TV machine, if you will.
Two months into captivity, the Commissioner's Trophy already ranks among San Francisco's most photographed landmarks. A suggestion: Keep that trophy on public display as much as possible. Don't bottle it in a glass case on the "can-I-see-your-ticket" club level at AT&T Park.
All fans should have access to it daily, like a cable car ride, only cheaper. Championship trophies are a rare commodity, and rarely do the Bay Area's other franchises strut out theirs for photo-ops.
If the past decade at Third and King has taught us anything, the Giants will celebrate this right. They know how to honor their past, arguably like no other franchise.
Their current plan puts the trophy on display -- somewhere inside AT&T Park -- throughout the Giants' first home weekend, April 8-10 against the St. Louis Cardinals.
After that, the trophy is staying at the ballpark, but likely on the secured club level, similar to how the Philadelphia Phillies stash their 1980 and 2008 crowns. If so, the Giants still plan to free the trophy for cameos in the promenade and view sections during this season.
Ideally, the Giants should make the trophy as visible as any of the five statues surrounding their waterfront gem. At NFL stadiums such as those in Kansas City and Pittsburgh, Lombardi Trophies are on display on the concourse level, and fans flock to them with glee.
From a jam-packed parade to "The Tonight Show" set, the Giants' trophy has drawn appropriate fame. Now it is visiting "Giants country," as Giants managing partner Bill Neukom described the trophy's tour through over 30 locales. Over 4,000 fans welcomed it to the state Capitol.
No, the tour isn't stopping in Oakland, but it will hit the East Bay strongholds of Walnut Creek (Jan. 31) and Pleasanton (Feb. 2). Yes, San Jose is part of this tour's territory (Feb. 1).
The Giants' long wait for a trophy is one reason for its popularity. But here's another: Bay Area fans rarely get to see championship hardware.
The 49ers keep their five Lombardi Trophies in a glass case inside their Santa Clara facility's lobby. The Raiders do not display their three Lombardi Trophies, except on special occasions (see: Randy Moss' signing, team banquets, media-guide covers).
As for the A's, they've won four World Series titles in their Oakland era, and they're housed in the reception area of their executive offices inside Oracle Arena. The trophies are brought out for events such as the Fan Appreciation Tailgate on March 29.
As for the Warriors' 1975 NBA trophy, this is worthy of a TV series. As legend has it, then-owner Franklin Mieuli drove that Walter A. Brown Trophy around in his convertible while gallivanting about town, only to have the trophy stolen. The Warriors' next owner, Jim Fitzgerald, apparently made a replica of the modern-day Larry O'Brien Trophy and presented it to the Mieuli family.
The Giants should keep showing off their prize with the joy Mieuli did his. But that won't be the task of the Giants coaches and players. They'll be busy defending that trophy among distracting television cameras.
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Cordoning Off the Past
By Daphne Merkin
Published: April 6, 2003
By W. G. Sebald.
Translated by Anthea Bell.
Illustrated. 202 pp. New York:
Random House. $23.95.
It's tempting to try to make sense of the randomness of fate by reading an eerie quality of foreboding into the tragic end of a writer who has presented an elegiac view of life in his books. As was the case with Albert Camus (whose life was cut short at the age of 46) so with the German writer W. G. Sebald, who died in a car crash in December 2001 at the age of 57. A keen, almost triumphant presentiment of extinction pervades the four novels that were published during Sebald's lifetime and in remarkably short order established his reputation as an austere literary voice of the utmost moral seriousness.
Sebald's work reads like a lamentation or a dirge, as though existence itself were no more than a way station on the journey from dust-to-dustness (''We lie prostrate on the boards, dying, our whole lives long'') and he had long ago said his goodbyes. His books are all depictions, in one way or another, of the ashen premonition of loss; and they might be said to take place in a state of permanent déjà vu, in which a geographic site that is reconstructed from ''mountains of rubble'' or an emotion that is dredged up from the ocean floor of psychic debris seems no more than a revisiting of something that was glimpsed once before, in a far-off time or place.
Considering that Sebald was a late starter -- he began to publish fiction only in his mid-40's -- the rapid ascension of his melancholic literary star (although he has never received the reverential attention in his native Germany that has been paid him in England or America) is all the more astonishing. The details of his life are sparse, and those that are available are opaque, adding to his mystique. He was born in 1944 in a tiny village in the Bavarian Alps; his father served in the Wehrmacht but maintained a silence on the subject of his wartime experiences after returning from a P.O.W. camp. Sebald immigrated to England in his early 20's and settled in Suffolk, where he taught at the University of East Anglia for 30 years, eventually becoming the founding director of the university's British Center for Literary Translation.
It is an attribute of all truly inspired writing to seem original, whatever its provenance or influences. Sebald's work feels almost unprecedented in tone, although his Weltanschauung derives from Schopenhauer and his literary affinities can be traced to a select group of writers, including Adalbert Stifter, Heinrich von Kleist, Robert Musil and, most discernibly, Thomas Bernhard. His meandering and curiously formal prose (one German critic has described it as prose that is always dressed in a tuxedo) bypasses the ordinary exigencies of narrative, drawn instead to the graveyard silence that looms over the hectic impulse of storytelling.
Sebald's landscapes, whether those he traverses in his solitary walks and travels or the ones that appear in his eschatological dreamscapes, are dotted with treeless heaths and the remains of walls. (There is a good deal of the naturalist in Sebald, which provides for the scattered passages of lyricism about clouds or the phosphorescent glow of herrings that leaven his harsh outlook.) The cities he stops in are peopled with the ghostly presences of exiles (often Jews who have managed to escape the Nazi net) and transplanted, reclusive eccentrics who flit in and out of the deserted railway stations, run-down buildings and emptied-out towns that are left behind after the drumbeat of progress or the whims of conquerors have moved on. ''From the earliest times,'' he observes in one of the casually desolate asides that are strewn like black confetti through his writing, ''human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.''
Sebald's books -- usually referred to as novels or ''prose fictions,'' in spite of his transparently autobiographical narrators and the fact that Sebald himself never clearly defined his work as belonging to any one genre -- fall into that gaping crevasse between fact and fiction known as hybrid, which is another way of saying that they are committed to but not hindered by the obligation to tell the truth. They are interspersed with blurry, uncaptioned black-and-white photos (as well as reproductions of newspaper items, handwritten notes, receipts, timetables and tickets), which may or may not refer to the text. Sebald calmly disposes with such rudiments of reader-friendliness as paragraphs and quotation marks, so that the sentences within his long monologues sometimes run amok, and his narrative voice often switches without warning from the first person to the paraphrased thoughts of a third-person character. In lieu of the momentum of a plot, he relies on layers of bricolage that derive their force -- or lack of it -- from a cumulative rush of coincidences or correspondences, the frisson of an unsuspected synchronicity of detail that crosses centuries and continents. (''Austerlitz,'' the last and most accessible of the books to appear before his death, is something of an exception in this regard, with a more conventional creation of character and pacing of incident.) It is an approach that might seem artless, but is as deliberate as the story line in a fast-paced mystery. In ''Vertigo,'' the third book to appear here, he gives a glimpse of his creative strategy: ''August the 2nd was a peaceful day. I sat at a table near the open terrace door, my papers and notes spread out around me, drawing connections between events that lay far apart but which seemed to me to be of the same order.''


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National Institute of General Medical Sciences 2008-2012 Strategic Plan
Notice With Request For Comments.
NIGMS is initiating a strategic planning process that will culminate in the NIGMS Strategic Plan for 2008-2012. To assist with this process, NIGMS requests input from scientists, scientific organizations, and other interested parties. The goal of this strategic planning process is to identify Institute priorities and guide decision-making over the next five years. Information about NIGMS can be found at http://www.nigms.nih.gov/.
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The mission of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is to support basic research whose results lay the foundation for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. NIGMS-funded researchers seek to answer important questions in fields such as cell biology, biophysics, genetics, developmental biology, pharmacology, physiology, biochemistry, chemistry, bioinformatics, and computational biology, and in selected cross-cutting clinical areas that affect multiple organ systems. NIGMS also provides leadership in promoting the diversity of the scientific workforce and in training the next generation of scientists to assure the vitality and continued productivity of basic research.
NIGMS has embarked on a strategic planning process to identify Institute priorities to guide decision-making over the next five years. To assure the broadest possible input, NIGMS is inviting the scientists, scientific organizations, and other interested parties to respond electronically to a series of questions, listed below.
- What factors should NIGMS consider in deciding how to set its priorities with respect to new and existing areas of support?
- What factors should NIGMS consider in deciding how to set its priorities with respect to research training?
- What new or emerging areas, approaches, or technologies in basic biomedical research should NIGMS pursue?
- As part of its efforts to maintain a balanced research portfolio, how can NIGMS best encourage and support research that is highly innovative and/or risky?
- Are there areas of current NIGMS research activity that should receive less emphasis?
- How can NIGMS enhance its communication with the scientific community and the public?
- How can NIGMS more effectively promote and encourage greater diversity in the biomedical research workforce?
You may also submit other comments relevant to NIGMS that are not specifically addressed in these questions.
Responses will be limited to approximately 500 words per question. All information provided will be processed and analyzed with strict anonymity.
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Dated: February 16, 2007.
Jeremy M. Berg,
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Awards and Recognitions
Sugar, Heart and Life honored
Baylor College of Medicine's Sugar, Heart and Life: A Guide to Living with Diabetes educational program recently received two Web Health Awards.
The version of the program for health professionals received a Gold Award while the program for the lay public received a Merit Award. Sugar, Heart and Life is an interactive and fun program with information on how individuals with Type 2 Diabetes can manage their condition. It includes practical tips and games on diet, exercise, medication and more.
The Web Health Awards are organized by the Health Information Resource Center and recognize high-quality digital health resources for consumers and health professionals.
Sockrider honored by behavioral science society
Dr. Mariana Sockrider, associate professor in pediatrics pulmonology, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Behavioral Science Assembly of the American Thoracic Society at the recent ATS International Conference in Denver.
She has been active in the assembly and ATS for 25 years, including serving as chair of the Behavioral Assembly and on the ATS board of directors in the past.
Hime recognized for work with residents
Elaine Hime, project coordinator in the department of pediatrics, received a Health Care Heroes Award from the Houston Business Journal at a luncheon last week. She was honored in the health care education category for her work with Project DOCC, or Delivery of Chronic Care.
Project DOCC provides education for resident physicians at BCM and the University of Texas medical school on life with a chronically ill or disabled child.
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Discount tickets
Don't forget that Baylor College of Medicine offers discount tickets to such local attractions as Schlitterbahn, Moody Gardens and Splashtown, as well to Sea World and Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio. Find offers online.
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Ability: Emergency Power to Auxiliary
From Star Trek Online Wiki
Overview[edit | edit source]
Emergency Power to Auxiliary boosts your ship's Auxiliary power level and Stealth Sight for 30 seconds.
Basic Information[edit | edit source]
- Profession: Engineering
- Locale: Space
- Game Description: Emergency Power to Auxiliary directs emergency battery power to the auxiliary systems for a short duration.
Detailed Information[edit | edit source]
- Target: Self
- System: Batteries
- Ability Type: Buff
- Activation: 0.5 seconds
- Starts 15 second system cooldown on:
- Duplicate ability cooldown:
- 30 seconds
- Modified by:
- Skills
- Starship Electro-Plasma System
- Improves the amount of bonus power added to the Auxiliary subsystem.
- Starship Electro-Plasma System
- Duty Officer
- Damage Control Engineer (Emergency Power variant)
- Chance to reduce the recharge time for Emergency Power to subsystem abilities
- Warp Core Engineer (Subsystem Power variant)
- Chance of temporarily improving your ship power on use of any Emergency Power ability
- Warp Core Engineer (Debuff cleanse variant)
- Chance of removing all debuffs on use of any Emergency Power ability
- Warp Core Engineer (Singularity Lockout variant)
- Chance to reduce Singularity Lockout with Emergency Power abilities
- Maintenance Engineer (Emergency Power to Auxiliary variant)
- Increases hull repair and shield repair skills for 30 seconds when Emergency Power to Auxiliary is activated
- Damage Control Engineer (Emergency Power variant)
- Traits
- EPS Manifold Efficiency
- +10 All Subsystem Power for 10 seconds
- EPS Manifold Efficiency
- Skills
- Trained by:
- Rank I & II: Bridge Officer Trainer
- Rank III: Engineer Captain training (requires Starship Auxiliary Performance rank 6)
Ability Ranks[edit | edit source]
|User Rank
|Ability Effects
|Rank I: Ensign
|45 sec
|Rank II: Lieutenant
|45 sec
|Rank III: Lt. Commander
|45 sec
Notes[edit | edit source]
- The numbers given above are based on 0 points in Starship Electro-Plasma Systems.
- The power buff provided by Emergency Power to Auxiliary depends heavily on two factors.
- Ability Rank
- Starship Electro-Plasma Systems
- Other effects of Emergency Power to Auxiliary are based exclusively off of the ability rank. No skills or abilities affect these buffs, but they do stack with other related buffs, items and skills.
- Formula for Power Buff
- Buff = ((Ability Rank + 2) / 3) * ((Skill / 200) + 1) * 15)


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A driver's education school in southeast Indiana is under investigation.
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and the Aurora Police Department are seeking information as part of an investigation of K/C Driving School in Aurora, Ind. and its owner, Kimberly J. Cleeter, for failing to provide services after collecting customers' payments.
Zoeller said in a news release Friday that according to complaints, several students paid for driving instruction that either was not provided, or rendered without receiving the required certification to present to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles confirmed that Cleeter's license to operate a Driver Training School expired on June 30.
In a Facebook post, the school says it's been working to get its license restored, but "the state dept moves at their own speed and I'm being told daily that they are in the process of tracking (the paperwork) down."
"The messages put on FB and other ways have been stating I stole your money and I'm a crook, etc. I'm resolving this matter that fastest I can as this is costing me a lot of money not being able to hold classes and drives," the post reads.
Zoeller said anyone wishing to take private driving instruction should verify the Driver Training School's license is valid with the BMV before signing any contract.
Consumers who made payments to K/C Driving School, but did not receive services can still file complaints with the Attorney General's Office by visiting here or by calling 1-800-382-5516 to request a complaint form be mailed or faxed to them.


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Web Designer
The Real Poop
Did you know that American adults spend at least a couple of hours every day surfing the Internet? Maybe they're looking for a deal on waterbeds or a recipe for crepes or a snarky review of Oklahoma. Doesn't matter. What's important is that, so long as folks are willing to spend so much of their time online, you'll have a job.
This is because you're a web designer. You build the websites and applications that people use to entertain themselves, buy useless junk, and acquire information. There are many laymen out there capable of piecing a personal blog together, but you use your technical and artistic skills to make the big stuff that lots of people are going to see and use on a regular basis.
Web designers have been around since Al Gore invented the Internet, which really wasn't that long ago, come to think of it. More importantly, web designers are going to be hot commodities for the foreseeable future, especially as businesses shift to carrying out many transactions online.
What does it take to become a web designer? Well, first off, while a college degree in a field like computer science or graphic design will certainly make you more employable in some markets, spending four years at a university isn't necessarily a requirement for this career. What's more important is experience: Can you create a good-looking website or application that any monkey with a computer or mobile device can use?
You'll need to have a creative, detail-oriented bent if you want to be a web designer. Your skills with a computer should be dazzling, and should include expertise in computer languages like HTML and Java, as well as software programs like Flash and Adobe Photoshop. You'll need to be a good communicator, because you're going to have to sit down with your employer and figure out what exactly they want their website or app to look, act, and feel like. You'll also need to be able to take criticism (constructive or otherwise) from others: just because you love the look of a website you built, doesn't mean the person paying you does.
Many web designers are employed by companies both large and small, governments, and non-profit organizations. There are also a lot of web designers out there who are purely freelance. If you're a self-employed web designer, you'll need to be a savvy businessperson as well as a creative and tech guru, because managing your time and money effectively and attracting and keeping clients will be on you, and you alone.
You're likely interested in this career not only because you'll get paid to combine your creative sensibilities with your love of technology, but because you won't have to spend 20 hours a day with your nose to the grindstone. Web design is, generally speaking, a low-stress career: you sit at your computer, you make a website, you get on with your life.
More importantly, web designers—especially those who work freelance—can have remarkably flexible schedules. Are you the kind of person who wants to work from 6am to 2am? Awesome! Are you the kind of person who can code from an alpine café in Switzerland for a few hours a day without getting distracted? Fabulous! In other words, web design can allow you the freedom to see the world and have a fun-filled life while still getting work done. All you need is a computer and an Internet connection.
But don't let all the benefits of a career in this industry fool you: Web design can be hard. Here's why:
- You have to design an end product that is both aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly
- Your employer or client has to like the end product enough to sign off on it
- Your employer or client's target audience has to like the end product enough to use it
At the end of the day, there are a lot of people you'll have to please, and you may feel like your creative side gets screwed in the process. This is where having a hobby comes in handy: If your boss isn't on board with your most recent application of color theory, you can always go and make a collage or sculpt a statue or paint a canvas with fecal matter.
If web design doesn't sound like your cup of tea at this point, but you're still interested in a technical career, there are a variety of options you could pursue. If coding is your thing, you could always become a software developer. If you're more interested in the underpinnings of a website or application than actual web design, you could opt to work as a web architect. If you like the whole low-stress thing but aren't in the least creative, you could become a webmaster who updates and maintains websites.


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Status bar color picker
⢠Get any color on your screen that you want quickly and easily
⢠Save your color swatches to use later on
⢠Open your swatches in their own window to see them easily
When swatch was made, we kept designers in mind. It has always been annoying trying to manage your color swatches in a easy way. Swatch lets you group your colors together in 'Swatches' to later be used throughout your project. Working in CSS? Easily copy the hex value to paste right into your stylesheet.
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It seems to me that quite a number of requests and notes come to corpora from
those who have just heard about the list, hoping to find out what they do not
know, whether simple or complex, or making an announcement potentially useful to
list members. Let it continue.
There are requests about topics that would interest a significant number of list
members. There are others with very limited appeal, but nevertheless important
to a few. Consequently, why not let each list member decide case by case
whether to post a reply to the list or the sender only, and let the sender
decide to post a summary if there appears to be sufficient interest?
This list is mercifully spared the mindless sparing of others, a real waste of
band width.
Peter Burton
- Isaac Newton apparently wrote of his work: "I seem to have been only like a
boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother
pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me."


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I am working on a linux based device that will have two USB ports
physically placed in two different places. One of them is to allow for
dumping of recorded data to an external USB storage device. The other
is to facilitate service by connecting a keyboard (the device will
have a touch screen for normal user interaction).
The question is: is there a way to restrict the devices I connect to
each port (USB storage in one, keyboard only in the other?)
Thank you very much in advance for your inputs.


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The condemned killer of two brothers in a San Jose jewelry store nearly three decades ago appears to have a strong chance of a reprieve from the California Supreme Court.
During more than an hour of legal sparring Wednesday in San Francisco, the justices expressed concern about whether a Santa Clara County prosecution team, led by now-Superior Court Judge Joyce Allegro, failed to turn over crucial evidence that might have spared Miguel Angel Bacigalupo a death sentence at his 1987 trial.
The Supreme Court is reviewing the 2009 findings of a judge who concluded that Allegro and particularly her lead investigator, Sandy Williams, withheld evidence that would have supported the defense's argument that a Colombian drug lord had ordered Bacigalupo to carry out the murders.
Retired Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Richard Arnason concluded the DA's office concealed that evidence from Bacigalupo's defense lawyers, and the Supreme Court must now decide whether to accept his conclusions and reverse the death sentence.
Although two of the court's seven justices did not ask questions, others were clearly troubled by the possibility the trial was tainted. A Santa Clara County jury sent Bacigalupo, now 50, to death row for shooting to death Jose Luis Guerrero and Orestes Guerrero inside their jewelry store on The Alameda.
At trial, Allegro told the jury the crime was a straightforward robbery, mocking claims that Bacigalupo was told his family would be killed by a drug organization if he didn't murder the brothers. But numerous witnesses, including a confidential informant, told the prosecution team of the drug connection before the trial, yet the information was not revealed to the defense, according to court records.
"Isn't that exactly the kind of thing a defense like this one would want to know?" Justice Goodwin Liu asked Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Laurence.
Added Justice Carol Corrigan, responding to Laurence's argument that Arnason's report was legally flawed, "It sounds to us like you're trying to reweigh the evidence. Ordinarily those arguments don't fare well."
Laurence flatly denied that Allegro or Williams withheld evidence. And he told the justices that the informant's account has waffled over time, and was deemed "speculative" after Bacigalupo's arrest.
Arnason, however, found in his lengthy report to the Supreme Court that the informant, Gail Kesselman, was "credible," at the same time doubting the truthfulness of both Williams and Allegro. Kesselman died of cancer after testifying to Arnason that the murders were connected to a drug kingpin with ties to the Medellín cartel.
Allegro has declined to comment, but the District Attorney's Office has said it would defend "these hard-fought and fairly obtained convictions."
Robert Bryan, Bacigalupo's lawyer, said the evidence would have made a major difference.
"I don't think the defense went into this (trial) with one hand tied behind its back, but two," he told the justices.
The court has 90 days to rule.
Howard Mintz covers legal affairs. Contact him at 408-286-0236 or follow him at Twitter.com/hmintz.


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Not a good start
Roger did not catch a good start at the Masters Cup today, losing 6-4, 4-6, 3-6 to France's Gilles Simon in his first round-robin match.
Our champ was sublime in the opening set but lost his way in the next two as Simon took control. Simon, who got his ticket for the season finale when world number one Rafael Nadal withdrew injured, targeted our top seed's backhand with his powerful groundstrokes and sealed his reward with an ace after just over two hours. It was Roger's 14th defeat - and second to Simon - this season. A year ago, Roger faced the same scenario, facing a defeat against Fernando Gonzalez, but then came back to clinch his second consecutive title and fourth overall.
In the second match of the day Andy Murray plays Andy Roddick.
I wish you would have smiled when signing into the camera... OK, I'm not complaining...
You shanghaied the worm!
I'm so, so, so happy .........
Just got to another link, and could see the final game, great!
Now,Roger, take a good rest, and good luck against Murray!
Rogerohlics, for me it's now lunchtime, and I'll eat with more apetit!!!:)
Best of Luck in the next match against Andy Murrary.
You can win this TMC.
Come on Roger!!!!!!
Roger, you've done it.
Let's do the repeat of last year masters cup
Step's serving yes 0-15, 0-30, what a return 0-40!!!! 3 match point!!!!


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There's nothing cooler than sending a 200lb anvil into the sky.
Maybe she wasn't entirely brain dead when she gave the answer heard 'round the net. Maybe she was just remembering how hot she looked in the bikini.
What happens when a guy's friends put hundreds of balloons in the dude's office. He throws a McEnroe.
Pete Doherty is seen here forcing his cat to take a hit off a crack pipe. We personally hope this lands that sick little gerbil fart a few years in jail.
Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed.
It's not a crime if he's just raping a shoe. Shoes don't have feelings, unless they're Buster Browns.
That's all, can't a man love the gold accents and tailored fits of a clothing line without everyone calling him names?
Why is he sitting like that? Why is she with this girly guy? She spent the rest of the evening kissing, in public! It's the Pete Wentz syndrome!
The mustache that everybody says looks horrible on you...well Lauren Conrad spotted you in the crowd, and she obviously loves it.
Ever-freaky Courtney Love looks like a bloated, exploding French maid. Even Paris looks normal next to her.
Suck My News Weekly is a slanderous look at the week's news, hosted by the cranky and awesome Philip Norris.
This holiday season Santa Claus totally wants to drop bombs on all the little boys and girls. Help him make this happen.
Go Slinky go! Poetry in motion! It's the music that gets you, perfectly suited to its subject, not grandiose at all. This viewer, however, is partial to the quieter moments when one can make out the faint, steady, tap of each valiant Slinky flip... But seriously, it's kinda impressive. Watch out for the surprise ending... not.


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Philosophical Movies
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Posted Jan 1, 2006 - 9:39 PM:
Subject: Philosophical Movies
I apologize if this is in the wrong forum but anyway
What are your top 4 philosophical movies (or however many you wish to list)?
mine are:
1) The Matrix Trilogy
2) Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
3) Waking Life
4) Being John Malkovich (however, that may fall better into another category)
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Posted Jan 1, 2006 - 10:03 PM:
I think that you could argue that any movie has a philosophical meaning. You could also argue that music, and paintings, and cartoons, and sitcoms all have philisophical meaning. If you gave me some time, I could come up with a reason on how apples are philisophical in some way.
But the truth is, if you overanalyze something, it tends to lose all meaning. It's like if you say a word over and over, like "ketchup" for example, you get caught up in the word itself, and after a while, you forget what ketchup really is. Mushed tomatoes and sugar.
I do realize that there are lots of philosophical tidbits in many movies, especially the Matrix, but I find it more fun to sit there with a few friends and go "Woah! The bullets just stopped!"
I do have a question, though:
What sort of philisophical meaning does "the Lord of the Rings" have? I just thought it was a fantasy movie.
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Posted Jan 1, 2006 - 10:21 PM:
Well as you said, you can probably find philosophy in almost everything.
For me, the philosophical points in Lord Of The Rings was mostly derived from the "Good Versus Evil" stance of the movie.
The entire fate of everybody in Middle Earth rested in the hands of a very small creature that nobody expects does anything special and is almost always overlooked.
(I have not read the book so I do not know if Wizards are classified as their own race, but if they weren't)
The fact that Sauruman(sp) conformed to the evil of Sauron just as the prologue stated "the hearts of men are easily corrupted by greed"
The way that evil was trying to take over all of Middle Earth and subject everybody to their ways was to me a sort of parallel of a dictating government forcing its citizens to believe in what they believe, do what they do, etc. Whereas the good of Middle Earth were fighting to maintain their ways of life which just as the creatures themselves were, very different and unique.
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Posted Jan 1, 2006 - 11:37 PM:
Actually, Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings as a direct parody of World War II. I've haven't analyzed the movie, but the book has some deep thematic elements embodied in it.
Evan wrote:
I think that you could argue that any movie has a philosophical meaning.
You could, but not very successfully once you know what to look for. At least, you couldn't make the case for philosophical depths.
For me, most North American movies fall short in philosophical content. I've found that there's a much superior thematic range in Japanese Animation. Four favorites would be:
1. Neon Genesis: Evangelion
2. Full Metal Alchemist
3. Steamboy
4. Tokyo Godfathers or Akira
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Posted Jan 2, 2006 - 12:13 AM:
I disagree with Lord of the Rings. I'd substitute Fight Club instead.
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Posted Jan 2, 2006 - 12:37 AM:
(1) Princess Mononoke, (2) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, (3) Final Fantasy: Spirit Within, (4) Sin City.
Others: Matrix and Lord of the Rings were good, but not so much philosophical value over their whole trilogies.
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Posted Jan 2, 2006 - 5:19 AM:
jaoman wrote:
Actually, Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings as a direct parody of World War II.
Where did you get that idea from? Many people thnought that that was he was doing, but he has always, in every commentary, expressly denied that.
Here I'm going for films which are expressly philosophical: in which the philosophical message is at the forefront and the plot in the background, rather than the other way round, which is the standard.
1. I Heart Huckabees (discussing a middle road between existentialism and nihilism)
2. Adaptation (providing a postmodern discussion of the validity of artforms)
3. Waking Life (continental philosophy discussed in an American style)
And I'm loath to pick a fourth :-)
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Posted Jan 2, 2006 - 6:02 AM:
i. dogville (what is justice?)
ii. PI (the ontology of mathematics (e.g. is infinity real?))
iii. bladerunner (what is human being? what is real?)
iv. munich (the moral hazard of revenge)
note: just a random sample ...
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Posted Jan 2, 2006 - 6:45 AM:
Marl Rowlands has written a book called The Philosopher at the End of the Universe in which he uses what he calls sci-phi films to introduce philosophical ideas. My favourite is the subtle defence of memory theory that Arnie gives in Total Recall.
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Posted Jan 2, 2006 - 10:07 AM:
Lodestone wrote:
Where did you get that idea from? Many people thnought that that was he was doing, but he has always, in every commentary, expressly denied that.
They sure don't mention that in the documentaries.
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Wichita Police are warning people through social media to shut their garage doors. Garage burglaries started going up when the sun started going down sooner.
Most people, like John Haugh, keep valuables in their garage and thieves know that. "There are a lot of things in there that I wouldn't want to lose," said Haugh.
"With the time change, we're seeing a lot more people coming home when it's dark around 5:30, 6:00, and leaving their garage doors open. People, under the cover of darkness, are entering the garages and taking things from inside the garage," said Wichita Police Officer Lori Kimrey.
She says some people might get home at dusk, not thinking about the sun going down earlier, and leave their doors up. Kimrey says that can be an invitation for crooks. "People walk down the street like they're just residents in the neighborhood and they're entering the garage without anybody noticing," she said.
"It happens all the time, all over town," said Haugh. He says he only keeps his garage open when he is outside. The rest of the time, he does his best to protect his property. "It's just part of my routine of getting ready to go to bed is to go check all the locks on all the doors," said Haugh.
But Officer Kimrey says even when you think you shut your door, you might want to double check. "Sometimes a leaf will blow inside or something will trigger the motion sensor and raise the garage door back up," said Kimrey.
Haugh says a light went out on his street recently, so he is keeping extra lights on around the house. "If I was a burglar, I wouldn't want to come to the place where it's lit up and you can see everything," said Haugh.
Police agree, and say to also make sure you do not leave your garage door opener on the visor of a car parked out front. Kimrey says that is another way thieves are getting in. "We have seen a couple of cases where people are breaking into the vehicles that are left parked outside that have the garage door opener left on the visor. People are obtaining those after breaking into the cars and entering the garage via the garage door opener," said Kimrey.
Police say not to let your guard down when you are home. They say thieves will strike with or without people there.
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Thieves targeting open garage doors
Wichita Police are warning people through social media to shut their garage doors. Garage burglaries started going up when the sun started going down sooner.


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Way back in 1969 Theodor Rosebury published his seminal book Life on Man, which showed that the human body was teeming with microscopic life of all kinds. In particular Rosebury estimated that some 50 million individual bacteria live on the average square centimetre of human skin.
By contrast the total number of human cells in the same area is only about four to five million, or roughly one-tenth that number. More importantly, the overwhelming majority of these organisms are required and beneficial — if not vital — for our healthy existence. Rosebury's conclusion therefore was simple: "All life is a single community,' he wrote.


text: Auckland - Coach Peter de Villiers has shrugged off South Africa's sloppy start and revelled in the defending champions' 12 tries in swamping Namibia at the Rugby World Cup.Video: Which All Black is a Justin Bieber fan?The outcome was never in doubt as the Springboks posted a record 87-0 victory over the largely amateur Namibians with wing Bryan Habana snaring his first Test try in 15 months to become South Africa's all-time leading tryscorer.While the floodgates were flung opened in the final 20 minutes as Namibia's herculean defensive effort told and seven converted tries inflated the final margin, the Springboks were guilty of missed opportunities in the opening half.While the game stats make painful reading for the Namibians, the one that stood out was South Africa's 16 handling errors to Namibia's 10, but that didn't concern De Villiers.Asked if those mistakes could have been punished by a stronger team than 19th-ranked Namibia, De Villiers said:"You are talking about the perfect world, but we're not in a perfect world, we're in New Zealand."We actually know that we are playing against the best in the whole world. "We played a brilliant game once we regrouped. We are very proud of the guys, very, very proud. If we had played another team we would have done things differently maybe.""You can't assume that another team will punish you, maybe we wouldn't have made those mistakes."Skipper John Smit, who edged past team-mate Victor Matfield to his Springbok record 109th Test, admitted there were a few "question marks" in the first 30 minutes."But the boys tightened up and got back into it, so it's important to know that we will get different types of opposition, but each game is equally important."It's an easy task to get guys up for a World Cup game, but the difficult part to make sure that we analyse ourselves and be hard on ourselves with our individual stats and where we are heading as a team."There'll be bigger tests coming in the future but it was a step," he said.De Villiers refused to single out Habana for his Springbok try record preferring to keep it within the team context."These things don't matter to the team," he said. "Before the World Cup, we said that there will be milestones for players and we will be happy."But if their goals don't fit into the team goals, we don't want them in this group. So if we get one or two guys reaching milestones along the way, we will rejoice with them afterwards."Habana took his record in his stride as he looked ahead to the physically demanding game with Samoa at North Harbour next Friday."I think other people were more worried about it than I was," the former IRB World Player of the Year said. "I've said it my whole career, it's always been about the Springbok team."It's never been about the number of tries I've been able to score, it's about contributing, and I'm disappointed that I haven't been able to contribute for the last couple of Tests."Hopefully, now everyone can stop worrying about it and I can concentrate on playing rugby."It's been great, a great honour and privilege to break records and pass someone like Joost. Hopefully, I can keep using my God-given talent to contribute to Springbok rugby."It was Habana's 39th try in 72 matches and he had gone 11 Tests without scoring before finally claiming Joost van der Westhuizen's previous record of 38 tries in 89 Tests.Habana's last try was against Italy at Witbank in June last year.* Click HERE for the latest RWC odds on BET.CO.ZA


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I thought John Deere tractors pretty much sold themselves on brand-reputation alone, but obviously their marketing game is on point. This video does a great job making the tractor-assembly process entertaining and suddenly I'm pricing out a new lawn mowing machine.
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If you're going to try to rob someone, don't crash your getaway car into a tractor. And if you do, don't crash into the forklift end. And if you do crash into the forklift end, get out before the owner lifts your car.
We have no explanation as to how or why this unmanned tractor ended up doing laps and destroying cars in a Walmart parking, but that certainly doesn't make watching it happen any less amusing.
While I was paying homage to my Midwestern roots a couple weeks back, I did more than just drink Leinies and go to a classic Door County Peninsula drive-in. Vintage farm tractor show!
Let's review what's going on here: This is a Model T. It's powered by a Boeing T50/Model 502 gas turbine, the same thing the government once put in helicopters and anti-submarine drones. Now you can buy it on eBay. Gah!
When you picture a tractor you're picturing the classic John Deere 4020 in iconic green-and-yellow. To celebrate the famous piece of farm equipment John Deere commissioned Chip Foose to customize a 1970 model. According to Wojdyla, he Foosed it up.
Not everybody learns to drive with a car, some of us eschew concrete jungles and drivers ed for the fruited plains and a John Deere 3010. For those, here's an HDR gallery of Moline, Illinois' finest.
Way before a trucker cap-wearing Ashton Kutcher ruined the brand name we thought old green-and-yellow John Deere tractors were just plain cool. You know what else is cool? A bunch of black-and-white photos of 'em. Here's a few.
John Deere is likely rolling in his grave at the sight of this Toyota FJ40 done up in green-and-yellow John Deere livery. We'll admit, those tractor wheels and tires do look pretty cool. [mudfacemarge]
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Two-Thirds of World's Solar Panel Installations Were in Europe Last Year
Even with Spain cutting all green technology funding and other countries, such as Germany, Italy and the U.K. reducing subsidies, Europe's use of solar power has continued to increase. Two thirds of the global increase in the use of solar energy came from E.U. nations in 2011.
The figures come from a report (PDF) by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Wired outlines some of the findings.
Last year 46.1GW of new energy capacity was installed in Europe, with 56 percent of that using photovoltaic technology. That means the EU currently meets two percent of all of its electricity demand using solar power — and while that might not sound like a lot, it's enough to power all of Austria…
That two percent isn't spread equally, of course. Certain countries are investing more in solar power than others—Germany in particular, which is the world's largest market for the technology. In May, across two particularly sunny days, the country managed to meet half its required electricity demand with solar power, and in July the government there announced that a quarter of the country's demand was being met by renewables. By comparison, the U.K. continues to lag behind with only nine percent of energy coming from renewable sources, and a government report from 2011 featured a relatively modest target of 35 percent by 2020.
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Roger wins first match
Roger made a good start in Toronto to beat Juan Ignacio Chela 7-6 (7), 6-3 to reach the third round of the Rogers Cup.
"I'm glad to go through," Roger said. "I was a bit rusty in the opening match and he really made me play. But I'm very happy with how it went tonight."
Roger opened the match in brilliant fashion, approaching the net more than he has done recently, and went to take a 5-2 lead. But he battled with his serve after that and was unable to make use of two set-points at 5-4, taking the match into a tie-breaker. That proved to be a tough one, but our champ made it through and took home the first set - taking him seven set points and 48 minutes all in all. Roger showed solid tennis in the second set, booking his spot in the round of the last eight after 81 minutes of play.
Next up is either Nicolas Almagro (ATP 16) or Michael Llodra (ATP 35) on Thursday.
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I hate that movie. I hate it. The premise of the entire smorgasbord of drivel is that Top Gun exists to get US fighter pilots from a 3-1 (Vietnam) back to a 10-1 (Korea)* kill ratio and it ends in triumph with what 3-1, 4-1 D'oh!. But Jeebus wept! Sailor Malan would have pistol whipped the sex-thimble for that mortifying scene where he's clutching his late RIO's tags and his new RIO is screaming at him to fucking do something. If I'd been in a "MiG 28″ he'd have been feeding the fishes before it achieved it's emotional climax. I mean there has to be a lot of stick action in a dog-fight – just not as a faux-emotional wanking festival. There is also a time and a place for an existential crisis and it's on a sofa in Cheshire when the ciggies have run out at 3am and there is nothing on TV except Bid-Up selling dreadful jewellery. Or the God Channel. I sometime watch that and TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) which is utter Horlicks with some curious ideas about evolution. And God (or L Ron) is going to buy you a satellite.
(I have to sort of side with Bonio of U2 here. Gods of all pantheons help me for saying that! But Bonio did once say "The God I believe in isn't short of cash". Seeing as Bonio clearly believes himself some sort of second-coming** and Bonio is clearly not short of cash the statement is true for a certain value of true. The Holy sacraments are kept under The Edge's hat. Well something is kept under it other than The Edge's bald paternoster – possibly a Ginster's or a small Toblerone)
Not in a dog-fight. That is almost exactly the last time to do it. "Speak to me Goose!". Oh, fuck off you diminutive bell-ender!
So Katie Holmes has decided to divorce the Cruise-control-freak! You surprise me not. That it took six frigging years does. He's a repugnant, sofa-bouncing, sleazy, manic Scientologist, blank-firing, dwarf who is also very clearly gay (sue me Tom!) and she's, well, OK really. Though Dear Gods Katie! It wasn't that you were just in it for the money and as seven years approached you were going to be transferred to John Travolta which is a fate worse than death? Imagine being humped by that hairy-backed trotter? I'd rather wrestle with Jabba the Hutt. Well, not perhaps the full Hutt. Maybe more Jabba the Wendy House.
Apparently Katie Holmes is a devout catholic and she don't like scientology presumably because it is not so much "Pilgrim's Progress" as "Gullible's Travels".
Now, I don't have a religion but I have a certain level of respect for, say, Catholicism but… Scientology? For fuck's sake what was Ms Holmes thinking of? Or Ms Kidman come to that who is also a Catholic and that also lead to divorce. I mean the religious (and "religious") difference is that one I just don't believe in and the other is utterly risible. Anyway, I'd put Nicole Kidman third on my "Down Under" shagging tour. Obviously behind the Minogue sisters à deux (obviously) and Galadriel (I'd certainly use her Ring of Power to dark ends). And if you haven't dreamed of buggering Cate Blanchett then there is something seriously wrong with you.
By which I mean (sorry to unleash my id and all – and that's just the shallow end) but – I think I lost my thread. Where was I? Oh, yeah, that lesser tit Cruise who is the opposite of sex. An aeronautical aside here. Leroy Grumman with his penchant for "cat" names had wanted a "Tomcat" since the '30s but the Navy deemed it "obscene".*** Got it in the '70s though. Ladies burnt their bras and we had a sexual revolution for a reason! It was underpowered (until the D model that Grumman had been hollering at the Navy for years over) mind and too big and never a real dog-fighter. I've never seen an F-14 in the skies and alas I guess I never will****. But Hell's teeth those Hughes Phoenix missiles were something else (cost half a million dollars back when that was real money) – nail a spuggy at 100nm. Like to see a F-18 do the same. Maybe with the AESA set and MBDA Meteors. Never with AMRAAMS.
But that is another issue.
*both debatable either way but this is neither the time nor the place…
**My favourite Bonio (like Bob Geldof with more hair 'product' utilised) quote is not from him. U2 were playing a gig in Dublin and Bonio was clicking his fingers and syaing "Every time I do this a child in Africa dies". Some wag at the back hollered, "Well stop fuckin' doing it then!". Class.
***The aircraft the Tomcat largely replaced as the USN's primary fleet defence interceptor was of course the F-4 Phantom II. Now Leroy Grumman was into cats but Jim McDonnell was into the occult. His original name choice was "Satan". Seriously. The USN might have had Satans on the catapults of the sixth fleet. His second choice was "Mithras". I would have loved to been a fly on the wall at that meeting.
****Unlike Tom Cruise the F-14 had charisma. When the USN decided to scrap it almost all were trashed even though loads of folks wanted them as gate guardians and the like. The USA was worried parts would go missing in an Iranian direction. Grumman sold The Shah about 80 in the '70s. They are (to the extent they are still operating) still Iran's premier interceptor.


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Eurociett General Assembly
The General Assembly has been set up as highest decision-making body, in which each Eurociett Member is represented and has the right to vote. The General Assembly may delegate its power to the Board and/or Secretariat. The General Assembly defines the strategy and priorities of the confederation, reviews the progress achieved with regard to the main public affairs priorities, sets up the confederations budget and membership contribution table, elects the Eurociett Board, decides on membership applications and other membership issues, amends the constitution if required and reviews the activities of the Board.
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The Board is composed of 13 members, which are elected by the General Assembly. The Board is in charge of the day-to-day operations and activities and the management of the confederation. This includes especially the implementation of the confederations action plan, the implementation of the budget and the financial management, the follow-up of applications and membership issues and the invitation to ordinary and extraordinary General Assemblies.
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