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He was born Aug. 4, 1933 in Charco.
Wilton was a longtime farmer and rancher. He spent much of his life farming on Chapman Ranch. For the past 20 years, he lived in Goliad raising cattle.
Wilton was preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn Bluhm, and his parents, Julius and Pauline Bluhm of Goliad.
Wiltpn is survived by his two children, Linda (Bob) Elliott of Lake Charles, Louisiana and Larry (Debbie) Bluhm of Goliad; sisters Wanda (Leslie) Faurie of Blanco and Darnelle Robbins of Corpus Christi; brother, Dudly (Mary) Bluhm of Corpus Christi; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
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Heliophysics - Sun Topics
Cool microflares could be solar hot spots
1999 — Sept. 20, 2011
One longstanding mystery of the sun is why its outer atmosphere - the corona - is 200 times hotter than its surface. Now, a trio of scientists says it's because the corona is heated by a constant series of mini-explosions, called microflares.
LightningLeaders Converge in Alabama
1999 — Sept. 20, 2011
Topics slated for the upcoming 11th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity include space-based Lightningdetection, purple sprites, Lightningas a precursor of severe weather, and more.
The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared
1999 — April 6, 2011
For two days in May, 1999, the solar wind that blows constantly from the Sun virtually disappeared -- the most drastic and longest-lasting decrease ever observed.
El Nino Watcher Blasts Off
1999 — April 6, 2011
NASA's QuickScat ocean winds satellite was sucessfully launched on June 19. It will provide scientists crucial data for monitoring and understanding global weather anomalies like El Nino and La Nina.
Future telescope could shatter solar high-resolution barrier
1999 — April 6, 2011
Scientists look ahead at a new telescope which could lead to observations of violent magnetic fields on the sun with resolution 10 times better than the best solar instrument today.
Solar cycle ups and downs continues to mystify scientists
1999 — April 6, 2011
Solar activity is picking up, but not as much as one team of scientists had predicted. "The sun is a variable object and there are going to be some ups and downs," says NASA's David Hathaway. One 'up' he doesn't expect is a large eruption predicted nowhere except in the rumor mill.
Seasons of the Sun
1999 — April 6, 2011
By comparing several techniques and combining aspects of a couple of the best, scientists better predict the Sun's weather. Solar Weatheraffects our weather, satellites in orbit, electrical power systems, and radio and television communications.
A Stay of Execution for Lunar Prospector
1999 — April 6, 2011
Lunar Prospector has survived the July 28 partial Lunar Eclipseand is on track for a planned collision with The Moonon July 31. This story includes a video clip of the eclipse as seen from Australia and new simulations of the July 31 impact.
The Phantom Moonace
1999 — April 6, 2011
This weekend sky watchers in North America will be treated to a rare naked-eye lunar occultation of a bright star. Astronomers are asking amateurs to video tape the event for a precision topographical survey of the Moon's limb
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1999 — April 6, 2011
When Yogi Berra made his famous remark about "deja vu all over again," he probably didn't have solar eruptions in mind. But this week solar physicists did a double take, and then a triple take, as the sun produced a rapid-fire series of coronal mass ejections. Even Yogi would have been impressed.


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My b/g twins are 4 weeks old and b/c there was concern with their weight gain, the last 3 weeks consisted of breastfeeding 1 and supplementing with expressed milk and giving expressed milk to the other baby and swapping at the next feed. During this time, I was also pumping after every feed and generally feeding every 3-4 hours.
Since my 1 mth visit w/ pediatrician, I want to go back to exclusive BF but at this point, the babies are feeding on demand and I want to work towards tandem feeding and on a more fixed schedule.
Can anyone please provide me with some tips and tools to help me achieve my goal? I am so lost now as I have been instructed by my pediatrition to BF both babies for 40 min., then offer a bottle supplement (expressed or formula) and b/c i feel that have oversupply from all the pumping I have been doing, I also need to pump often to relieve my discomfort. Meanwhile worrying that if i pump too much i dont have enough milk for whoever wakes up for the next feed.
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A management plan is a key instrument for ensuring that Parks Canada delivers on its commitments to the people of Canada. The process of management planning allows Aboriginal communities, stakeholders, partners, local residents and the public to have an effective voice in shaping the future of the site.
A management plan has been prepared for Fort Anne, Port-Royal, Fort Edward, Charles Fort, and Melanson Settlement National Historic Sites of Canada -- known collectively as the national historic sites of Southwest Nova Scotia. This plan was developed based upon extensive public consultation and provides strategic direction for these national historic sites for the next 10 to 15 years. The plan will be tabled in Parliament at which point the plan will be posted here and available upon request.


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This article explains how to use DBMS stored procedures. I explain the
basics and some advanced features such as returning
The article presumes you are fairly familiar with DBMSs and with JDBC. It also
assumes you're fairly comfortable reading code in a foreign language (that is,
not Java), but does not expect any previous stored procedure experience.
A stored procedure is a program that is kept and executed within a database server. You call the procedure from a Java class using a special syntax. When you call it, the name of the procedure and the parameters you specify are sent over the JDBC connection to the DBMS, which executes the procedure and returns the results (if any) back over the connection.
Using stored procedures has a lot of the same advantages as using application servers based on EJBs or CORBA. The difference is that stored procedures come free with lots of popular DBMSs, while application servers are mostly expensive. This isn't just an issue of license cost. The time it takes to administer and write code for app servers, and the increased complexity of the client applications that rely on them, can be almost wholly replaced by a reliance on your DBMS.
You can write your stored procedures in Java, Python, Perl, or C, but they are
most often written in a language specific to the DBMS you're using. Oracle uses
PL/SQL, PostgreSQL uses
pl/pgsql, and DB2 uses Procedural SQL. These languages
are all very similar. Porting between them is no more difficult than porting
Session Beans between versions of Sun's EJB spec. In
addition, stored procedure languages are designed for embedding SQL, which
makes them much better for expressing the database mechanics than languages
like Java or C.
Because stored procedures run in the DBMS itself, they can help to reduce latency in applications. Rather than executing four or five SQL statements in your Java code, you just execute one stored procedure that does the operations for you on the server side. Reducing the number of network trips alone can have a dramatic effect on performance.
Plain old JDBC supports calling stored procedures with the
CallableStatement class. That class is actually a subclass of
PreparedStatement. Imagine that we have a database of poets. The
database has a stored procedure to set a poet's age at death. Here's an example
of calling that stored procedure with details about the old soak Dylan
int age = 39;
String poetName = "dylan thomas";
CallableStatement proc =
connection.prepareCall("{ call set_death_age(?, ?) }");
proc.setString(1, poetName);
proc.setInt(2, age);
catch (SQLException e)
// ....
Related Reading
JDBC Pocket Reference
The string passed to the
prepareCall method is the procedure
call specification. It specifies the name of the procedure to call and a
? for each parameter you need to specify.
Integration with JDBC is a big advantage for stored procedures: in order to call a procedure from your application, you need no stub classes or config files, and nothing except the JDBC driver for your DBMS.
When this code is executed, the database procedure is called. We don't get a result because the procedure doesn't return one. Success or failure can be signalled with exceptions. Failure can mean a failure when calling the procedure (such as one of the arguments being specified with the wrong type), or an application failure (such as throwing an exception to indicate that "Dylan Thomas" doesn't exist in the database of poets).
Mapping Java objects to rows in SQL tables is simple enough, but it usually
involves executing several SQL statements; maybe a
SELECT to find
a row ID followed by an
INSERT of the data with the specified row
ID. In a highly normalized schema, there might be multiple tables to update, and
therefore many more statements. The Java code can quickly get bloated and the
network overhead for each statement soon adds up.
Moving all of those SQL statements into a stored procedure makes life much simpler and involves only one network call. All of the associated SQL operations can take place inside of the database. In addition, stored procedure languages such as PL/SQL allow you to speak SQL much more naturally than is possible in Java. Here's our earlier stored procedure written using Oracle's PL/SQL language:
create procedure set_death_age(poet VARCHAR2, poet_age NUMBER)
poet_id NUMBER;
SELECT id INTO poet_id FROM poets WHERE name = poet;
INSERT INTO deaths (mort_id, age) VALUES (poet_id, poet_age);
end set_death_age;
Unusual implementation, no? I bet you expected to see an
on the
poets table? This is an indication of how easy it is to
implement things when you use stored procedures.
set_death_age is
almost certainly badly implemented. We should probably just have a column on
poets table. It doesn't matter to the Java code what the
database schema implementation is, because our Java code just calls the
procedure. We can change the schema and the procedure later to improve
performance, but we won't have to change our Java code.
Here's a Java method to call the above procedure:
public static void setDeathAge(Poet dyingBard, int age)
throws SQLException
Connection con = null;
CallableStatement proc = null;
con = connectionPool.getConnection();
proc = con.prepareCall("{ call set_death_age(?, ?) }");
proc.setString(1, dyingBard.getName());
proc.setInt(2, age);
catch (SQLException e) {}
Using static methods like this is a good way to ensure maintainability. It also makes the code that calls stored procedures into simple boilerplate code. If you're using a lot of stored procedures, you'll find yourself just using cut and paste to create methods. Because of the formulaic nature of the code, it's also possible to script the production of code to call stored procedures.
Stored procedures can return values, so the
class has methods like
getResultSet to retrieve return values.
When a procedure returns a value, you must tell the JDBC driver what SQL type
the value will be, with the
registerOutParameter method. You must
also change the procedure call specification to indicate that the procedure
returns a value.
Here's a follow on from our earlier example. This time we're asking how old
Dylan Thomas was when he passed away. This time, the stored procedure is in
create function snuffed_it_when (VARCHAR) returns integer '
poet_id NUMBER;
poet_age NUMBER;
-- first get the id associated with the poet.
SELECT id INTO poet_id FROM poets WHERE name = $1;
-- get and return the age.
SELECT age INTO poet_age FROM deaths WHERE mort_id = poet_id;
return age;
' language 'pl/pgsql';
As an aside, note that the
pl/pgsql parameter names are referred to by the
$n syntax used in Unix and DOS scripts. Also note the
embedded comments; this is another advantage over Java. Writing such comments
in Java is possible, of course, but they often look messy and disjointed from
the SQL text, which has to be embedded in Java
Here's the Java code to call the procedure:
CallableStatement proc =
connection.prepareCall("{ ? = call snuffed_it_when(?) }");
proc.registerOutParameter(1, Types.INTEGER);
proc.setString(2, poetName);
int age = proc.getInt(2);
Related Reading
Java Programming with Oracle JDBC
What happens if you specify the return type incorrectly? Well, you get a
RuntimeException when the procedure is called, just as you do when
you use a wrong type method in a
ResultSet operation.
Many people's knowledge of stored procedures seems to end with what we've discussed. If that's all there was to stored procedures, they wouldn't be a viable replacement for other remote execution mechanisms. Stored procedures are much more powerful.
When you execute a SQL query, the DBMS creates a database object called a
cursor, which is used to iterate over each row returned from a query. A
ResultSet is a representation of a cursor at a point in time.
That's why, without buffering or specific database support, you can only go
forward through a
Some DBMSs allow you to return a reference to a cursor from a stored
procedure call. JDBC does not support this, but the JDBC drivers from Oracle,
PostgreSQL, and DB2 all support turning the pointer to the cursor into a
Consider listing all of the poets who never made it to retirement age. Here's a
procedure that does that and returns the open cursor, again in PostgreSQL's
pl/pgsql language:
create procedure list_early_deaths () return refcursor as '
toesup refcursor;
open toesup for
SELECT poets.name, deaths.age
FROM poets, deaths
-- all entries in deaths are for poets.
-- but the table might become generic.
WHERE poets.id = deaths.mort_id
AND deaths.age < 60;
return toesup;
' language 'plpgsql';
Here's a Java method that calls the procedure and outputs the rows to a
static void sendEarlyDeaths(PrintWriter out)
Connection con = null;
CallableStatement toesUp = null;
con = ConnectionPool.getConnection();
// PostgreSQL needs a transaction to do this...
// Setup the call.
CallableStatement toesUp
= connection.prepareCall("{ ? = call list_early_deaths () }");
toesUp.registerOutParameter(1, Types.OTHER);
ResultSet rs = (ResultSet) getResults.getObject(1);
while (rs.next())
String name = rs.getString(1);
int age = rs.getInt(2);
out.println(name + " was " + age + " years old.");
catch (SQLException e)
// We should protect these calls.
Because returning cursors from procedures is not directly supported by JDBC,
we use
Types.OTHER to declare the return type of the procedure and
then cast from the call to
The Java method that calls the procedure is a good example of mapping.
Mapping is a way of abstracting the operations on a set. Instead of returning
the set from this procedure, we can pass in the operation to perform. In this
case, the operation is to print the
ResultSet to an output stream.
This is such a common example it was worth illustrating, but here's another
Java method that calls the same procedure:
public class ProcessPoetDeaths
public abstract void sendDeath(String name, int age);
static void mapEarlyDeaths(ProcessPoetDeaths mapper)
Connection con = null;
CallableStatement toesUp = null;
con = ConnectionPool.getConnection();
CallableStatement toesUp
= connection.prepareCall("{ ? = call list_early_deaths () }");
toesUp.registerOutParameter(1, Types.OTHER);
ResultSet rs = (ResultSet) getResults.getObject(1);
while (rs.next())
String name = rs.getString(1);
int age = rs.getInt(2);
mapper.sendDeath(name, age);
catch (SQLException e)
// We should protect these calls.
This allows arbitrary operations to be performed on the
ResultSet data without having to change or duplicate the method
that gets the
ResultSet! If we want we can rewrite the
sendEarlyDeaths method:
static void sendEarlyDeaths(final PrintWriter out)
ProcessPoetDeaths myMapper = new ProcessPoetDeaths()
public void sendDeath(String name, int age)
out.println(name + " was " + age + " years old.");
This method calls
mapEarlyDeaths with an anonymous instance of
the class
ProcessPoetDeaths. This class instance has an
implementation of the
sendDeath method, which writes to the output
stream in the same way as our previous example. Of course, this technique
isn't specific to stored procedures, but combined with stored procedures that
ResultSets, it is a powerful tool.
Related Reading
Practical PostgreSQL
Stored procedures can help achieve logical separation in your code, which is nearly always a good thing. The benefits of this separation are:
Not all databases support stored procedures, but there are many good implementations, both free/open source and non-free, so portability probably isn't an issue. Oracle, PostgreSQL, and DB2 have very similar stored procedure languages that are well supported by online communities.
Stored procedure tools are widespread. There are editors, debuggers, and IDEs
such as TOAD or TORA that provide great environments for writing and
maintaining PL/SQL or
Stored procedures do add overhead to your code, but they add much less overhead than most application servers. If your code is complex enough to need a DBMS, I wholly recommend adopting the stored procedure approach.
Nic Ferrier is an independent software consultant specializing in web applications.
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When Rihanna and her dad go to Starbucks, who pays?
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He pays with her money.ReplyCancel
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Neither, her bodyguard/assistant, and then she forgets to reimburse them.
Dad is a deadbeat who reappeared when she hit the big time.
She is a big star, entitled, why should she worry about such measly things.
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"I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other," the George West resident says, smiling.
True enough. Watson says his left eye went totally blind after a fouled cataract surgery in 1979.
His right eye is affected by retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that eventually causes blindness.
But he says his right eye's blindness was augmented by a drug he was given during a gall bladder surgery.
His right-eye vision is similar to looking through a tiny pinhole.
"It's like a white fog – can see movement sometimes," he says.
But Watson says his left eye can't see at all, so just using it is like being in a black room with absolutely no light.
Watson says he talks about his blindness, and keeps a positive outlook on life.
"What do you want me to do? Cry over spilled milk?" he says.
His great attitude is evident in the things he makes out of wood. He learned to love working with wood because of his grandfather who did woodwork and had a lathe.
Watson's first project at the age of nine – and when he wasn't blind – was a wooden kitchen utensil holder. He still has it.
Recently, he just completed his eighth butcher block, which took him more than two months to complete.
"I would like to thank everyone who loaned me their branding irons. The butcher block that I built is now complete and has over forty brands on it," he says.
All of the brands he had burned on the butcher block are from ranchers in Live Oak County.
"I appreciate the generosity of those ranchers for trusting me with their irons. A special thanks goes to Richard May and Steve Walters for burning the brands onto the butcher block."
Watson used 90 feet of 2-by-4 lumber to build the block, which has 240 pieces that are 4 inches long. The block weighs about 100 pounds.
Born in Santanna (some spell it Santa Anna) in 1944, Watson and his family soon moved to Mathis, where his father was from.
"We moved to Mathis after my father got out of the military," he says.
"I grew up there, but I had a little problem with hearing, so we moved to Corpus Christi in 1958."
In Corpus Christi, Watson was helped with special teaching. He graduated from W.B. Ray High School in 1964.
He says he knew actress Farrah Fawcett from Baker Junior High School and also at Ray High School. The star was a year behind him.
He then attended Del Mar Technical Institute for a couple of years and went to work for Lew Williams Chevrolet after that.
After four years, Watson moved back to Mathis, where he worked for a few years as a mechanic and then started his own business.
He ran his mechanics shop for 25 years before retiring and moving to George West.
He went to the Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center in Austin from 1988 to 1989. There, he learned how to react to blind people, people skills and what to do as a blind person. He also received any equipment that he thought might help him.
"I don't read Braille. My fingers are too thick because I work in wood," he says.
In addition to building butcher blocks, he has built his porch, a glider, wooden paneling inside his house and many more wooden features, including a fence, to name a few of the numerous projects he's completed.
Watson also kept his first butcher block, sold his second through fifth blocks, gave away the sixth block to a close friend and donated the seventh to the Brush Country Cowboy Church to auction off.
He has a little hope for his right eye, too. He learned that in Great Britain scientists have created a bionic eye.
In an MSN.com online story May 3, the bionic eye has given sight to the blind.
"Electronic microchips implanted into the eyes of a group of British patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable genetic condition that causes blindness, have partially restored the vision of the formerly sightless so that they're able to view the world as a 'grainy black-and-white image,'" according to the news story.
"I figure in the next three to eight years, they'll get to know how to do that surgery over here," Watson says.
In the meantime, Watson plans on continuing his woodwork and collecting coffee cups – he has more than 6,000 of them, but that is another story.


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March 14, 2013 —
The economy of upstate New York has been mired in malaise for several decades. This has been the economic bane of several previous governors and their administrations. It would be for Governor Andrew Cuomo, too, were it not for an unforeseen economic gift that has dropped into his lap.
This windfall?—new construction and major expansion of dozens of yogurt processing plants across upstate New York. Several of these plants have potentially massive production capacity. This trend has brought construction jobs, real estate sales, massive purchases of building materials, and eventually will produce several thousand additional good manufacturing jobs. All that will be lacking will be copious amounts of additional milk.
The reaction of the Cuomo Administration has been wholly predictable—wild enthusiasm, general cluelessness and somewhat sophomoric ideas as to what is feasible or appropriate. Last August, the governor hosted the first ever "New York State Yogurt Summit" in Albany. Attendance was tightly controlled; all major yogurt processors were in attendance and the governor's office even courageously included three hand-picked token dairy farmers (holding the appropriate opinions, of course)—all this to give the illusion that the summit was some sort of all inclusive democratic process.
One issue that surfaced at the summit was the regulatory exemption limit of 200 cows per farm in the official definition of a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, (CAFO). Any farm with over 200 cows has to undergo a prohibitively expensive environmental vetting process allowing it to operate above that threshold. Hearing this, the governor sprang into action. Leaving the summit room for a brief period, he returned triumphant to announce that he was going to amend the CAFO exemption to cover farms up to 300 cows. This made a dynamic "executive moment" for Cuomo (too bad he overlooked the fact that any decisions regarding CAFO regulations are not his to make but are under the authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Oops....)
Ironically, the only feature of the governor's yogurt summit that was noticed by the state's large, liberal and powerful environmental coalition was Cuomo's bumbling willingness to raise the CAFO limit to 300 cows. Quickly doing the math, multiplying the number of 200-cow New York dairies that could move to 300 cows, the "greens" arrived at an additional 25,000 cows in the Empire State. Heresy! What followed was a massive group hissy-fit and a well deserved first-class public relations headache for the governor. With visions of an additional estimated one billion pounds of cow manure stinking-up and browning-up the upstate landscape and waterways, the Governor has some 'splainin' to do to these environmental folks.
Undaunted, the Governor forged ahead with two new initiatives. Under the auspices of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), he is doubling a state incentive from $1 million to $2 million per farm for instillation of anaerobic manure digesters. These facilities convert cow manure to methane gas used to generate on-farm electricity. The second proposal is to throw a modest $450,000 of state cash at the Dairy Acceleration Program (DAP) to dole out grants of up to $5,000 to farms wishing to increase cow numbers, and to provide them with aid for financial analysis, strategic planning, executing business expansion plans or adoption of Best Management Practices, engineering and/or design projects.
Today, the rising star of yogurts is strained or Greek-style, which uses three pounds of raw milk to yield one pound of finished product. So, how much additional milk will be required to supply these expanding and new yogurt facilities? The Northeast Dairy Foods Association (NDFA) estimates an additional four billion pounds per year, an increase equal to about 20% of New York's current yearly milk production. That is not the output of the paltry 25,000 cows of the environmentalists' deepest fears, but an additional 180,000 dairy cows. NDFA sees this milk increase as required within the next two years, likely an impossible goal. Somebody in Albany needs to take a bite out of the "reality" apple.
Instead of pushing 200-cow farms to 300 cows, wouldn't upstate New York's overall economy benefit far more from the revitalization of 900 or 1,000 of the many decommissioned dairy farms that stretch the length and breadth of upstate New York? These new farming operations could easily be peopled with the ambitious, skilled and able offspring of New York's sturdy dairy farm families. Smaller, family farms are noted for spending their milk checks close to home in their local communities, stimulating many other businesses necessary to the upstate economy. Likewise, they are noted for their effort and just pride in their outstanding tradition of environmental stewardship. Why not invest the $2 million per farm that the governor is willing to throw at large farms through NYSERDA and channel it instead into helping young farm families rebuild sustainable, family-size dairy farms that will benefit a far larger economic segment of upstate New York? This would be an economic stimulus that would last, not a year or two, but a lifetime.
[Nate Wilson, 65, lives in Sinclairville, NY and is retired from 40 years of dairying on a small grassland farm in Chautauqua County.]


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Newell: Bear highlights need for wildlife control
PARKERSBURG – A bear found roaming in Parkersburg underscores the problem the city has with wildlife, the mayor said Wednesday.
The 250-pound black bear was shot and killed early Wednesday morning after it was tracked by police and conservation officers to Jackson Avenue. It was spotted by residents, including being near the Jefferson Elementary Center.
"It does drive home the issue that the city has a problem with wildlife," Mayor Bob Newell said.
The much-publicized problem includes deer roaming around town, eating expensive shrubbery and other vegetation in gardens, and coyotes, particularly near the earthen levee that comprises part of the floodwall. Coyotes prey on the animals that live in the grass, Newell said.
The city has tried to reduce the deer population, organizing an effort at Johnson T. Janes Park off 25th Street. Last year was the second time deer were killed at Johnson T. Janes, a wildlife area.
Efforts to remove deer in Parkersburg can be extended to other areas, including the reservoirs on the north end at 26th Street and on the south side and at the floodwall, the mayor said.
The land around Parkersburg Catholic High School and Mt. Olivet Cemetery is another problem area with the urban deer herd, said Councilman John Kelly, who represents District 7, which includes Johnson T. Janes and environs.
"I agree with the mayor 100 percent," Kelly said.
Kelly said he would support changes in the requirements for approved participants that will make it easier to be and remain involved, such as allowing those who have demonstrated their proficiency not to be retested.
Participants go through an archery certification program.
He also recommends the initiative at Johnson Janes be held in October when it is colder rather than in September, but that the length of time when the participants can kill the deer in the park not be reduced. Starting in October would also allow for other programs and educational activities being considered at Johnson Janes, he said.
Kelly lives near Johnson T. Janes and participated in the removal of deer there last year. Participants killed 21 deer using bow and arrow, he said.
"Of the 21, I killed three of them," Kelly said.
That will not be enough to thin the population in the area of Johnson T. Janes and particularly not enough for the other problem areas of town, he said.
"It's not going to help the south side one bit," Kelly said.
Newell, a former chief who was a policeman since the 1970s, can't remember any other incidents with bear in town, although he recollects a mountain lion may have been caught here. Deer are another story, he said, recounting times when the animals have gotten inside businesses by breaking through the windows.
The deer kill at Johnson T. Janes has been successful and could be successful in other areas too, Newell said.
"And it's been safe," he said.


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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order that sends Patriot missiles to NATO ally Turkey to defend its border with Syria. The US will also deploy about 400 Americans to operate the missiles. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
Updated at 7:20 a.m. ET: INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order Friday to send two Patriot missile batteries to Turkey to protect it from rounds crossing the border from Syria.
The order includes 400 American personnel to operate the batteries.
"We are deploying two patriot batteries here to Turkey along with the troops that are necessary to man those batteries, so that we can help Turkey have the kind of missile defense it may very well need in dealing with threats that come out of Syria," Panetta told the troops at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey.
Turkey, a NATO member, has repeatedly scrambled jets along the countries' 560-mile joint frontier and responded in kind when shells from the 20-month-old Syrian conflict came down inside its borders, fanning fears that the civil war could spread to destabilize the region.
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A Patriot anti-missile battery is shown during joint U.S.-Israeli military exercises near Jerusalem in October. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Friday that the United States had agreed to send two Patriot batteries to NATO ally Turkey to protect from shells crossing over from fighting in neighboring Syria.
Photos: Destruction, resistance in war-torn Syria
The widely expected decision follows similar steps by Germany and the Netherlands, which are also sending Patriot batteries.
The three countries are the only NATO countries with the most modern type of Patriots and each had to approve separately its own commitment.
US: Concerns about chemical weapons
In his most explicit comment so far on intelligence suggesting Syria was considering the use of chemical weapons, Panetta told the troops that U.S. intelligence suggested "they had in fact moved to begin to arm weapons that would involve ... the use of chemical and biological material."
He said that was why President Barack Obama had publicly warned Syria not to use chemical weapons.
Panetta spokesman George Little declined to say where the U.S. Patriot batteries would be located and said the systems would be deployed to Turkey for an unspecified length of time.
The ancient, once-bustling city has been devastated by war and even health clinics are forced to operate in secrecy to avoid being bombed. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
He acknowledged that the move was a symbolic show of force.
"The purpose of this deployment is to signal very strongly that the United States, working closely with our NATO allies, is going to support the defense of Turkey, especially with potential threats emanating from Syria," Little told reporters.
Assad regime losing control of Syria to rebels, his ally Russia says
"We expect them to be deployed in the coming weeks," he added.
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A look back at the violence that has overtaken the country
NATO approved Turkey's request for air defense batteries on Dec. 4, in a move meant to calm Ankara's fears of an attack, possibly with chemical weapons, from Syria.
The Patriot system is designed to intercept aircraft or missiles. NATO says the measure is purely defensive, but Russia, Syria and Iran have criticized the decision, saying it increases regional instability.
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U.S. troops at the base the Turkish border with Syria asked Panetta whether he believed Assad's government would respond negatively to the new Patriot systems.
"We have to act to do what we have to do to make sure that we defend ourselves and that Turkey can defend itself against that," Panetta said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Unfortunately his act of photographing landscape and local architecture attracted the attention of the local police and eventually the FBI under the new Homeland Security regulations and so he curtailed his project. A couple of years later he discovered on Google Street View that very similar images from the same coastline had not sparked the same interest from the authorities and were now available to the billions of people surfing the web anywhere in the world. In this exclusive set of diptychs Kurt has counter posed two differing outside concerns with photography; that of fear of the invisible and ubiquitous security threat with the fear of corporate erosion of privacy.
In writing about the work Kurt explains how through the intervention of others the project turned into something quite different from the road trip he had first imagined.
"Two years ago, I set off on a photographic journey along the Texas Gulf coast. Working with the following idea, I planned to spend at least six weeks travelling the coastline.
Humans have long been drawn to the sea. The ever-changing landscapes combined with the ever-changing lights seem to evoke emotion that's unique. In this project I wanted to explore the relationship between the sea and those who choose to live by it.
The desire to be close to the sea has drawn thousands of people to live there, spawning housing development after housing development. Motels and RV (recreational vehicle) parks are built to accommodate the huge influx of tourists. Various industries have also taken advantage of the easy transport links and the easily accessed waste disposal.
But on the other hand, nature is dictating our every move. The very road that allows us to get close to the sea is shaped by nature herself. We try everything to stop her from claiming it back while constantly looking to expand. Houses have to be built to withstand the erosion and storms that come with living on the coast. Every year, many buildings are destroyed and abandoned.
The images were taken along the coastal roads on the Texas Gulf Coast. One of the fastest corroding coastlines, allegedly caused by the river diversions carried out by the oil refineries.
After 2 weeks, I cut the trip short. In the 16 days that I was shooting, I had been stopped on 12 different occasions by the Coast Guard, Homeland Security, Police, Fire Departments and a number of private security firms. Each security organisation cited national security and terrorism as the reason I could not take any pictures and that after being flagged on the security computers I had attracted the attention of the FBI. That was enough to put me off the project.
Two years later, I have decided to retrace my trip on Google Street View. I found that on the internet, surfed by billions of people, pictures taken in the same locations, of the same structures, were there for all to see."


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Life is full of rules, and damn if there aren't a lot of nasty animals breaking those rules on a shockingly consistent basis. Given the history of this site, that opening sentence is probably more than a little confusing. This article is, in fact, not about animals. It's about people. Like the people joining me on this week's Unpopular Opinion podcast.
First up is Greg Santos. He's a friend, a comic, and one-half of the comedy duo Tunguska Yacht Club. Speaking of things you shouldn't do in front of other people, he tells a great story in this week's episode about how he's shit his pants three times in the past year. You don't want to miss it!
Also joining me is Ben Blanchard. He's also a friend and also a comic, and, on top of all that, he helps me run the Unpopular Opinion live show. Oh, and he's the inspiration for this column. See, the two of us have a very fundamental disagreement on how the world works. That's true at least as it relates to the first entry listed below, which we start arguing about almost as soon as the show starts.
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Anyway, in my honest and expert opinion, there are just some things in life that you should never let the people you love see you doing. I understand that society has progressed to a point where everyone is supposed to be comfortable doing everything in front of everyone, but call me old-fashioned, I still like to believe I have some shame left in me.
That's why, in the game of life, there are a few strict rules I like to live by. For starters ...
4Never Shit in Front of Your Significant Other
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There are two types of couples in this world -- couples who poop in front of each other and couples who love each other. If you're in a relationship right now, take a moment to ask yourself which category you fall into and then start planning the next step of your life accordingly.
If you're stewing in the filth of your own disagreement right now, I have a few questions. First, why are you so goddamn gross? No one wants to see you shitting, I promise. Hell, no one even wants to hear you shitting. That might even be worse, in fact. The walls in my current apartment are sort of thin, and I say "sort of" because it's only a problem in the bathroom. I hear next to nothing from my neighbors in any other room, but in the bathroom, I hear everything. As a result of this unfortunate circumstance, I'm pretty sure I know my neighbor's wife way better than he ever will.
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"Tell those irritable bowels I say hello!"
At least I hope I do, because the alternative is that someone is actually on hand to witness the deviant acts that produce the terrifying series of splashes and explosions that I'm regularly subjected to hearing on account of the two of us apparently having the exact same "waste" schedule. Don't get me wrong, I know that means I've put her through a lot, too, and I don't doubt that this is why we've yet to say more than five words to each other the entire time we've lived a mere walk across the hallway from each other.
Or maybe she dislikes me for any number of other reasons (I hope it's because she reads this column) and is otherwise one of those lunatics who just has no qualms about turning "personal" time into a public spectacle. I've certainly known plenty of couples who operate that way. If you're among them, I have another question: Are you sure it's a mutual decision?
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Someone on this comically long couch isn't happy, that's for sure.
You hear about couples doing the deed in front of each other mostly in stories about someone sneaking in to pinch off a particularly rowdy dump while the other half of the team is in the shower. If this sounds like you, the next thing I want to know is how long the other involved party has been OK with this behavior. Did they take to it immediately, possibly even returning the favor by shitting during your shower time at some point down the road? If so, good; it sounds like you two disgusting fucks are perfect for each other. Thanks for taking each other off the rest of society's hands.
On the other hand, did they just eventually stop protesting and take the humiliation quietly? In that case, your mate isn't "comfortable"; your mate is broken. Your insistence on sharing in filth time has finally conquered their spirit.
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"You'll never smell like rancid Chipotle, will you, outdoor shower?"
The upside is that you can now pretty much do anything you want in front of them without fear of repercussion. The downside, of course, is that they no longer love or respect you. If you're game for shitting in view of anyone, though, respect is something you probably gave up trying to earn a long time ago.
Look, I get it: When you're in love, you're supposed to share everything. That said, our forefathers weren't shitting indoors when they wrote that into the Constitution. Outhouses weren't a shared experience, and for some activities, not sharing in them as a team is the loving thing to do. Shitting is definitely one of those activities.
Oh, and since we're on the subject of significant others and things you shouldn't share ...
3Never Argue With Your Significant Other in Front of Friends
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Pop quiz! You and your mate have had an outing with friends planned for weeks, and now that the big night is here, you've somehow managed to bother each other enough to the point that the situation has escalated into a full-on fight. Not a physical fight, but also not just an argument. There's too much tension to just let it out onto the streets without warning people, but there's also that previous commitment that, no matter how much you wish this wasn't the case, absolutely requires your presence. What do you do?
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Call Google?
That's a trick question, actually. See, your presence is never required. You stay your grumpy asses at home.
Sure, people might want you around, but the party will surely roll on without you, and that's definitely the preferred outcome if the only party favors you plan to bring are the deep-seated internal conflicts you have with your partner. If the two of you hope to retain your membership in a circle of friends that gather regularly to do fun things, plan on checking your bullshit differences at the door whenever you meet up. Anything less is the very height of discourtesy.
Furthermore, whatever you think you bring to the party isn't even sort of worth the aggravation that having a couple in the throes of a passionate dispute around brings to everyone involved.
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Can we get this table a double order of shut the fuck up, please?
If you're a person of somewhat sound mind and equipped with at least a starter set of manners, you should already be scoffing at the idea of anyone thinking it's all right to argue in front of friends. That's fine; you should feel that way, but understand that I'm not just talking about full-on brawls. Don't use your friends to settle disputes of any sort.
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"Bro, settle this once and for all: Are me and the wife in the country of Jamaica or the city of Jamaica right now?"
Asking the group to mediate your couples debate about the ramifications of fracking or your favorite television show or whatever might seem like a cutesy and quasi-intellectual way to make your friends feel involved in your relationship, but the problem is, no one wants to be involved in your fucking relationship. Not to that degree, anyway. Furthermore, making everyone choose one side or the other while both of you are sitting in the room is unspeakably uncomfortable, no matter what being told you're right does for your ego.
Look -- everyone argues. That's a fact of life. No one faults you for that, but no one wants to hear it, either.


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A Missoula woman will be given a chance to argue she should not have been charged with driving under the influence because someone put a date rape drug in her drink without her knowledge.
The Missoulian reports the Montana Supreme Court returned Leigh Paffhausen's case back to Municipal Court, saying she should have the chance to offer evidence that her January 2010 intoxication was involuntary.
Shortly after she was charged, Paffhausen told police she believed she'd been given GHB and intended to use involuntary intoxication as a defense.
However, the District Court upheld a Missoula Municipal Court ruling that prevented Paffhausen from using that defense or calling witnesses about the use of date rape drugs in the city.
The high court's 4-3 ruling was filed on Nov. 20.


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So you've got IPSec running between your hosts using preshared keys, and you want to move to X.509 certificates? It's a good idea. They're easier to manage than shared keys, and preshared keys may disappear in IPSec version 2.
It's a relatively easy move, but if you're not familiar with OpenSSL, it can get frustrating. This article will ease that frustration by providing a step-by-step guide to deploying a certificate-based authentication scheme. The article assumes you are configuring certificates for use between various hosts and a tunnel server, but the functionality and setup are identical for transport mode as well.
Let's just run down the terms we'll be using here. X.509 certificates are based on public/private keypairs. Each certificate contains a public key, along with other information (identifying and not), such as the owner's common name and the certificate's expiration date. The owner keeps her private key in a separate file.
The certs are signed by a Certificate Authority, or CA, and contain information as to which authority signed it. This digitally proves that the certificate is authentic and that the information contained within it is accurate--perfect for verifying the identity of a remote host. The CA's authenticity is verified by its certificate, which is generally available to the public.
For more information on X.509 certificates, click here.
Running certificate-based IPSec authentication requires two
things. First off is a recent version of racoon; grab the latest
available in
/usr/ports/security/racoon (currently
20011215a). Next is OpenSSL, version 0.9.5a or higher. The version
supplied with FreeBSD by default does not have the useful
script, so you should download and install the latest version, which
will put
CA.pl in
by default.
With OpenSSL, you can create your own certificates and even your own Certificate Authority--meaning that you can create, sign, and distribute certificates to the world. While the rest of the world may not recognize your standing as a CA ("Do I want to accept a certificate signed by Joe's Garage and Certificate Authority? No!"), at least you will recognize yourself as one. And that's all you need for hosts connecting to your tunnel server.
You may want to create your CA on the tunnel server, or you may not. It's up to you.
To start, login to whatever host you decide upon as your CA, and create a
directory where you'll manage your certificates. You'll then create
your CA subdirectory (
demoCA) by running:
/usr/local/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newca
When prompted for the CA certificate filename, press Enter. You'll then be prompted for a password to protect the CA's private key. It's very important that the password stays safe, or anyone could sign certificates as you, so make it a good one. Next, you will be prompted to enter identifying information about your location, company, common name, and email address. It's all self-explanatory, except for the common name. This is a mandatory bit of uniquely identifying data, such as your host's FQDN or your name.
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After entering the required information, the
subdirectory is created. If you're paranoid, you may want to
the private key file (
demoCA/private/cakey.pem) so that
only root can read it. But this shouldn't be necessary since you
used a really good password to protect it, right?
You can ignore most of
demoCA's remaining contents,
but you'll need to use
demoCA/cacert.pem in the near
Now that you're set up to sign certificates, you can begin creating them for all the hosts using IPSec on your network. There are a few simple steps, repeated for each of the remote boxes and the tunnel server.
The first step is to create a public key and certificate request. On the CA server, run:
openssl req -new -nodes -newkey rsa:1024 -sha1 -keyform PEM -keyout privkey.pem -outform PEM -out newreq.pem
Next, the certificate must be signed. It's easiest to do this with
CA.pl -sign command. Give the CA's password, then
respond with
y to the prompts, indicating that you want to sign the certificate.
You'll now have three files to copy to the appropriate machine:
newcert.pem, and
privkey.pem. Put them in
/usr/local/etc/racoon/cert on the client you are configuring.
Make sure the directory is only readable by root; otherwise, malicious
parties could steal your private key and masquerade as you!
The final step is to allow the host to recognize other certificates signed by your CA. Login to the machine and run:
cd /usr/local/etc/racoon/cert
ln -s cacert.pem `openssl x509 -noout -hash -in cacert.pem`.0
Make sure to replace
cacert.pem with whatever you named
the file. The symbolic link allows OpenSSL to find your CA's
certificate based on its hash, thus verifying that the
certificate is authentic and acceptable.
Repeat the above steps for all hosts that you want to have connect to your tunnel server.
Your last remaining task is to configure racoon to accept the
certificates. Edit your racoon configuration file, typically
First, make sure racoon knows where to find your certificates:
path certificate "/usr/local/etc/racoon/cert" ;
Next, you'll need to change the remote block(s) to use and accept certificates. The necessary changes are bolded below for IPSec over IPv4 on anonymous connections. The changes are the same for IPv6 and identified connections.
remote anonymous
exchange_mode main,aggressive;
doi ipsec_doi;
situation identity_only;
my_identifier asn1dn;
peers_identifier asn1dn;
verify_identifier on;
certificate_type x509 "newcert.pem" "privkey.pem";
nonce_size 16;
lifetime time 1 min; # sec,min,hour
support_mip6 on;
proposal_check strict; # obey, strict or claim
proposal {
encryption_algorithm 3des;
hash_algorithm sha1;
authentication_method rsasig ;
dh_group 2 ;
my_identifier asn1dn tells racoon that the local host
should identify itself by using its Distinguished Name (DN) as
defined by its certificate (that is, all of the fields in its
certificate strung together).
peers_identifier asn1dn
states that the remote host should identify itself with its
certificate's DN.
verify_identifier on ensures that the
identification the peer sends is the same type that is specified in
peers_identifier; in this case, it's
asn1dn. The
certificate_type line tells racoon to use an X.509
cert.pem is the name of the local host's
certificate file, while
key.pem is its private key.
These file names should be changed to whatever you named them.
The last line to change,
authentication_method rsasig,
tells racoon that it should use certificate-based identification of
its peers.
Once you've made the necessary changes on each host's
you're ready to go. The next section discusses how to proceed and
gives some troubleshooting tips.
Kill the racoon daemon on your server and client. Restart it, and tail your logfile. Ping one host from the other. You should see lines similar to:
2002-01-27 02:12:46: INFO: isakmp.c:1681:isakmp_post_acquire(): IPsec-SA request for 10.0.0.2 queued due to no phase1 found.
2002-01-27 02:12:46: INFO: isakmp.c:795:isakmp_ph1begin_i(): initiate new phase 1 negotiation: 10.0.0.77[500]<=>10.0.0.2[500]
2002-01-27 02:12:46: INFO: isakmp.c:800:isakmp_ph1begin_i(): begin Identity Protection mode.
2002-01-27 02:12:46: INFO: pfkey.c:1365:pk_recvexpire(): IPsec-SA expired: ESP/Tunnel 10.0.0.2->10.0.0.77 spi=122493290(0x74d196a)
2002-01-27 02:12:46: INFO: vendorid.c:128:check_vendorid(): received Vendor ID: KAME/racoon
2002-01-27 02:12:46: INFO: vendorid.c:128:check_vendorid(): received Vendor ID: KAME/racoon
2002-01-27 02:12:46: INFO: isakmp.c:2409:log_ph1established(): ISAKMP-SA established 10.0.0.77[500]-10.0.0.2[500] spi:0dab7579614a1047:50c0edf86b1a
2002-01-27 02:12:47: INFO: isakmp.c:939:isakmp_ph2begin_i(): initiate new phase 2 negotiation: 10.0.0.77[0]<=>10.0.0.2[0]
2002-01-27 02:12:47: INFO: pfkey.c:1107:pk_recvupdate(): IPsec-SA established: ESP/Tunnel 10.0.0.2->10.0.0.77 spi=23298201(0x1638099)
2002-01-27 02:12:47: INFO: pfkey.c:1319:pk_recvadd(): IPsec-SA established: ESP/Tunnel 10.0.0.77->10.0.0.2 spi=52337518(0x31e9b6e)
If you don't, there are a few things to check. First, make sure your path and file names are specified correctly in
racoon.conf. Next, check that you created a symbolic link, mentioned above in "Creating and installing certificates." Double-check your configuration, making sure your identifier and your
peer's are set correctly, along with any other lines you changed
(certificate related or not.) Finally, check your security policies
and make sure they still match.
In this article, you learned all the basics necessary to use X.509 certificates for authentication in IPSec on a FreeBSD box. You're now ready to enjoy the benefits, and you don't have to worry about creating, changing, and remembering all of your shared keys. Further, since the IETF may discontinue preshared keys in the next version of IPSec, it's one less headache if you upgrade (once IPSec version 2 comes out, of course).
Mike DeGraw-Bertsch is a security and Unix system administration consultant in the Boston, Mass. area. When he's not at a job, writing, hacking with Perl, or playing with his wireless network, he can usually be found playing goal in ice hockey.
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Cherie Blondell has entertainment in her blood. When she was only three years old, she was part of her father's professional magic act — he made her appear in a toy box. Her dad gave her Mike & Ikes to keep her quiet while hiding.
In 2008, Blondell took up burlesque when she joined the Ooh-La-Las troupe, but she's always been fascinated by pinup and rockabilly. Her dedication to burlesque is unmatched. Blondell knows the entire history of burlesque in and out — it was originally a comedy show that she compares to "Saturday Night Live" and the girls were a side act — and even makes many of her own costumes. ("Hot glue is my best friend," she said.)
Blondell has her own burlesque production company, Mon Cherie Entertainment, is teaching burlesque and is bringing sexy back to nerds this weekend with "Nerdlesque."
I produce a lot of Ooh-La-Las shows and other things like Nerdlesque. Another show is "The Rock 'n' Roll Burlesque Show" on Sept. 27 at the Garage Bar. It's a Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue show. My baby is "Stars and Strips!," a benefit for the military held annually in July. It's very important to me because it gives me a way of honoring our military in the most traditional way I can — with a girlie show!
The Ooh-La-Las have a bimonthly show at the Shrunken Head called the "BURazzle-dazzLESQUE." The next one is our special edition Halloween show. I do lots of burlesque — everywhere for everyone.
Nerdlesque was actually my co-producer's idea. Her name is Jean Willickers and she's a performer I've been working with for over a year. She's really nerdy and wanted to do a show that's everything nerdy with burlesque. I thought it was the most awesome idea ever.
It's a whole night of nothing but nerd-ass stuff. Our headliner for this event is Katie Angel from Indianapolis. I met her at the Windy City Burlesque Festival last July where she did a Klingon act. I was in hysterics. She's also doing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles act. Another performer is doing a Doctor Who act. I may be doing a skit previously done by Napoleon Dynamite. It's one of the surprises that'll be in store. We have an award-winning magician from Los Angeles who's a self-professed geek. The sketch comedy troupe The Skitzo Show is hashing out all the things they want to do with "Weird Science" and "Revenge of the Nerds."
I'm mildly nerdy. I really like "Star Wars," but I'm not one of those people that knows everything about all the movies.
I'm opening my burlesque school at the Harmony Artistic Center Oct. 4. It's a new venture, but I've taught some classes here and there. I taught a seminar at Sexapolooza earlier this year. It's a course where you go through the basic stuff; nothing is too hard, it's just a warm-up. Those women who want to continue and learn every aspect, or maybe they want to be performers, they can then go on to the advanced course. They'll learn chair work, advanced boa, fan dancing and how to twirl tassels.


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Um..why is this front page worthy? didn't you guys just do a special on him. and why don't people comment anymore on ICT,oh ICTMN..
Superfly Kenny "The Dunk Inventor" Dobbs
Kenny Dobbs Wins Nike's Dunk Contest in Los Angeles
ICTMN Staff
Kenny Dobbs continues his dunking domination with another monster performance, this time at Nike's L.A. Live 3-on-3 Dunk Contest. For more video of the master, click here.
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Because it has he has to be one of the most inspirational stories in the Nation and any story about anyone who brings a message of hope to our young people-deserves to be front and center. I'm sadden, that yet again, the comments section is used to "negatively snivel" ICT instead of praising their great journalism. Thank ICT for this incredible story....please keep them coming!!! Kenny please forgive "for they know not what they do", keep shining and lifting up our kids....they love you!!!
ICT thank you for another inspirational story about a young man who youth all over Indian Country are following. Kenny continues to strive and show a true meaning of hope, and if he changes one life....ALL you stories will be worth it. Keep them coming!!
If Mr. Dobbs reads this: Do you do exhibitions? We would like to see what it would take to bring you to the University of Nebraska-Omaha during Native American Heritage Month to put on a dunking exhibition for the Native youth, or anyone who wants to attend, in the Omaha/Nebraska area. I think you our youth would love to see your amazing dunking skills in person!!! If so, respond to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Nvidia Corp. on Monday quietly added a new graphics card into the popular GeForce GTX 460 lineup of performance-mainstream solutions. The new GTX 460 SE product will feature lower compute performance compared to predecessors, but some of its specifications will leave behind the GeForce GTX 460 768MB.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE features code-named GF104 graphics processing unit (GPU) with 288 stream processors, 48 texture units and 32 render back ends. The chip itself works at 650MHz, while the compute processors operate at 1300MHz. Nvidia recommends to install 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3400MHz onto the new graphics cards. Unfortunately, there is no recommended pricing set onto the model 460 SE.
Although the GeForce GTX 460 SE comes with reduced amount of stream processors, geometry/tessellation engines as well as texture units, it features fully-fledged 256-bit memory controller as well as 32 raster operation units. As a result, despite of offering lower amount of horsepower for rendering modern video games that GeForce GTX 460 768MB, it can show higher performance in older games with high-quality full-scene antialiasing enabled.
At press time no stores in the U.S. sold the novelty. In the European Union numerous online ships started to sell the GeForce GTX 460 SE for €143 - €160, which is not far below the price of GeForce GTX 460 1GB (€150 - €170) and is higher compared to the price of GeForce GTX 460 768MB (€135 - €160).
Given the rather controversial configuration of the GeForce GTX 460 SE GPU as well as its price, it is unlikely that the product will become popular among end-users. Nonetheless, system makers may embrace the new GeForce since it carries both popular "GTX 460" moniker as well as 1GB of memory.
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TxDOT is currently in the public involvement process to identify potential improvements on U.S. 377 at SH 171. On May 8, 2010, Hood County voters approved county transportation bonds for improvements to U.S. 377 in Cresson. In September 2011, the Texas Transportation Commission approved another $11 million in Proposition 12 funds for this project.
Under a proposed pass-through financing agreement, TxDOT would reimburse Hood County a portion of the construction cost over time based on the number of vehicles that drive on the new highway.
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Remembrance Day ceremonies in Waterloo, Brantford, Kitchener and Toronto
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Nov 8/12
A number of ceremonies marking Remembrance Day this Sunday Nov. 11 are available to Laurier staff, faculty, students and alumni near the Waterloo and Brantford campuses, as well as the Kitchener and Toronto offices.
City of Waterloo Royal Canadian Legion, branch 530: A parade will leave at 9:45 a.m., marching to the Waterloo Cenotaph on Regina Street (next to City Hall) for a ceremony at 10:15 a.m. A moment of silence will be observed at 11 a.m. For more details, visit the website for the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 530.
City of Kitchener Royal Canadian Legion, Fred Gies branch 50, will host a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Kitchener Cenotaph. The parade begins at 10:30 a.m. and runs from Young St., along King St., and up Frederick St. to the Cenotaph. The ceremony will begin after the parade. For more details, visit the website for the Royal Canadian Legion, Fred Gies Branch 50.
City of Brantford A Remembrance Day service will be held Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. at the Brantford Armouries/Cenotaph. For more details, visit the website for Mayor Chris Friel.
City of Toronto A ceremony will be held at Torontos Old City Hall Cenotaph, located at 60 Queen St. W. Ceremonies will also take place at Civic Centres across Toronto, as well as at Fort York. For more details about locations and times, visit: http://www.toronto.ca/lestweforget/remembrance-city.htm


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Penn Law Honors Pro Bono & Public Interest Service
University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Louis S. Rulli has been honored with the Law School's 2012 Beacon Award, which recognizes a faculty member's contribution to pro bono and public interest service. The award was part of Penn Law's annual Public Interest Recognition Event, conducted April 19 in the Fitts Auditorium.
Rulli was honored for his contributions not only as Practice Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs, but for serving as an "inspiring example and mentor to others engaged in pro bono service" through his countless bar association activities and non-profit board affiliations, as well as the vast amount of pro bono legal assistance he offers in which he routinely makes it a priority to engage students.
The Recognition Event celebrated the pro bono and public interest work of the Law School's 2012 graduating class, who collectively performed more than 30,000 hours of service. Third-year student Jaime Gullen received the C. Edwin Baker Award for performing the most pro bono hours of any student in the Class of 2012 – 638 hours over her three years at the Law School. Gullen, who co-founded two separate pro bono projects, is also the recipient of a postgraduate fellowship.
The work of numerous Penn Law students, public interest law attorneys and advocates, and over 20 student-run pro bono groups was also honored. Of the graduating JDs, 86 percent exceeded the school's 70-hour pro bono requirement, with three students performing more than 600 hours of pro bono legal service.
For a complete list of individuals and organizations honored, see the Recognition Event program 2012.pdf.


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Glynns Creek Golf Course
Long Grove, Iowa
June 7-10, 2004
Do wins girls division by a commanding 10 shots
LONG GROVE, Iowa â In just his third American Junior Golf Association tournament, Morgan Hoffmann from Wyckoff, N.J., fought through steady wind and rain to fire a final round 73 and win the boys division of the Nike Golf Junior at Quad Cities by two shots.
Hoffmannâs total of 5-under-par 211 was enough to hold off Minghao Wang of Bradenton, Fla., who shot a final round-low 70 to pull within two strokes. The duo was tied briefly on the back nine, but Wang bogeyed No. 17 and two groups later, Hoffmann put a pitching wedge from 115 yards to within two inches for a tap-in birdie. A par on No. 18 gave him the win.
In the girls division, Brianna Do from Lakewood, Calif., shot a final round 73 to finish at 3-under-par 213, giving the 14-year-old her first AJGA title.
The Nike Golf Junior at Quad Cities is a 54-hole stroke play event conducted by the American Junior Golf Association at Glynns Creek Golf Course. The tournament features 84 of the nationâs premier junior golfers, ages 12-15, from 24 states and Canada.
âThis is my first AJGA win, and itâs the greatest win Iâve ever had,â Hoffmann said. âItâs the best Iâve ever played.â
Hoffmann held a one-stroke lead over Jace Long of Dixon, Mo., but birdies at No. 2 and No. 7 left him 2-under-par at the turn. Four bogeys to start the back nine, however, brought the leaders back within striking distance.
âI had a great front nine and managed the course really well,â Hoffmann said.
Hoffmann had never broken 80 in five previous AJGA rounds, but after working on his game last summer he cut his handicap from a 12 to scratch. Now, the 14-year-old has his sights set on even loftier goals â and this win represents the first step toward achieving them.
âIâm just going to keep plugging along until college and try to go pro,â he said. âThatâs my goal. I admire the pros â their swings are just beautiful to watch.â
Brett Spencer from Plano, Texas, finished three strokes back in third at 216. Ty Spinella from Benbrook, Texas, Michael Garden from St. Albans, Mo., and Kent Bulle from Glasgow, Ky., joined Long in a tie for fourth at 217.
Do, who didnât want to come to the tournament because she would miss her eighth grade graduation, could only smile upon leaving the eighteenth green and realizing she won.
âIt was pretty rough out there â really cold, rainy and windy,â she said. âAll I was concentrating on was making pars.â
Do held an eight-shot lead entering the final round, and ended up winning by 10. Taylore Karle of Scottsdale, Ariz., shot a final round 71 to finish second. Mindy Kim of Diamond Bar, Calif., and Tia Gannon of Hilton Head, S.C., finished in a tie for third.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA has a membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. More than 160 former AJGA juniors currently play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than 300 wins. AJGA alumni include Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Davis Love III, Mike Weir, Charles Howell III, Jim Furyk, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, Grace Park, Cristie Kerr and Beth Bauer.
For more information on the Nike Golf Junior at Quad Cities, contact the AJGA Tournament Headquarters at (770) 868-4200.
The Foundation
The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
What is Leadership Links?
Leadership Links is a new program whereby the AJGA is able to further its mission to help develop young men and women by teaching charitable giving skills and service-oriented practices at an early age. This program gives juniors all the tools necessary to donate their time, talent and resources to local charities and the AJGA youth development programs. Please click here to learn more about the program and the different opportunities available.