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This is the fourth of five weekly installments profiling individuals who will receive Alumni Awards & Recognition on Nov. 11 during North Central College's Sesquicentennial Homecoming Celebration.
Oct. 25, 2011—North Central College is honoring Ryan Dowd of Aurora with its 2011 Alumni Recognition Award.
Dowd and four others will be honored during the College's Sesquicentennial Convocation at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at North Central College's Wentz Concert Hall at the Fine Arts Center, 171 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville. This year's event commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first day classes were held at the school on Nov. 11, 1861.
Dowd is executive director of Hesed House in Aurora. Hesed House serves more than 1,000 individuals each year who are homeless, offering a full array of services. He began volunteering at Hesed House when he was 13 years old and joined the staff during his senior year at North Central.
Under Dowd's leadership, Hesed House has focused on providing services that help people end the cycle of homelessness, becoming one of only five organizations in Kane Country to offer a "one stop shop" comprehensive service center integrated into a shelter. Hesed House is assisted by nearly 6,000 volunteers, including many North Central College students.
Dowd also works with churches—primarily in Africa—that are confronting governments that commit brutal human rights abuses such as torture and extrajudicial killings. While in Zimbabwe in January, he helped church leaders hide political fugitives who were being hunted by security forces armed with machine guns.
He earned a bachelor's degree in religious studies from North Central College in 2000. He holds a law degree and a master's degree in public administration from Northern Illinois University.
The Alumni Recognition Award is given to a recent graduate of the College who has excelled in his or her field in a leadership capacity.
Others being honored on Nov. 11 are Outstanding Alumni Award recipients Esther Benjamin of Mitchellville, Md., and Col. Stephen Taylor of Lexington Park, Md.; J. Charles Eldridge of Wake Forest, N.C.; and Wall of Witness honoree James Will of Arlington Heights.
North Central College's yearlong Sesquicentennial Celebration commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first day of classes on Nov. 11, 1861, and the College's role in helping to shape the fabric of the Naperville community. Throughout its history, North Central College alumni have distinguished themselves as leaders in the arts, sciences, business, education and many other areas of study. Numerous Sesquicentennial events and projects are planned throughout 2011 and into 2012. Visit northcentralcollege.edu/150 to learn more.
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(NewsUSA) - Pain relievers commonly taken by athletes for sports-related injuries and by arthritis sufferers can lead to ulcers, other gastrointestinal problems, and kidney and liver damage. These drugs, called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), are available over-the-counter and by prescription.
In recent years, several professional athletes have reportedly been apprehensive about the potentially harmful long-term effects of anti-inflammatory medications and some have even refused to take them.
But others, such as former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Gary Plummer, are choosing topical pain relievers to cope with their pain. Topical analgesics are creams, lotions or sprays that are applied to your skin to help relieve muscle and joint pain, including minor arthritis pain. Their active ingredients can be capsaicin, salicylates or counter-irritants.
Capsaicin blocks the "pain message" from reaching the brain. Salicylates inhibit the hormonelike substances that contribute to pain and inflammation by seeping through the skin. Counter-irritants "fool" the pain by creating a feeling of cold or heat over sore muscles, thus masking the pain.
Plummer, who has had 17 surgeries throughout his NFL career and one hip replacement since his retirement, uses a menthol-based pain relieving ointment when aches and pains hinder his everyday activities.
"I have arthritis in my wrists, in one of my ankles and six of my fingers," Plummer said.
With the help of a topical pain reliever, he said he is now able to do more everyday activities without worrying about pain.
"It's liberating to be able to do things that you basically had taken for granted," Plummer said.
Now he is able to walk longer distances and even coach.
"I'm out there working with kids for almost six hours, five days a week," he said.
Plummer said he often recommends this method to other people, including his wife whose hands often ache after hours of gardening.

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Forty-nine years ago, the Refugio High School class of 1964 participated in an unthinkable act of prejudice. The party was held at the country club. It was to be the party of all parties celebrating the high school graduation of a group of Refugio's finest young students. There were many spoken and unspoken messages from our parents and from the community; and hopes were high that we would go off into the world and make good names for ourselves and consequently a good name for the town of Refugio.
Those young people who arrived at the party were delirious with happiness and pride. They were graduated. They were grown. They were looking forward to going off to college or getting a job or going into the military. They were ecstatic. But soon upon arrival at the party the excitement and pride diminished into shame and sadness.
Friends and classmates of color were not present. I remember standing beside one of my friend's mothers at the punch bowl and asking about the absences of several classmates. I was told they were having parties elsewhere. My first thoughts were that "they", my friends and classmates, preferred different parties. But as I began looking around, I began to realize that the ones who were missing were not Caucasian. I voiced my suspicions to my date. He was also upset.
We should have left. We should have rounded up all our classmates and left the party to go in search of our missing classmates. But we didn't. Whether we were simply stunned or perhaps too polite to walk away from parents who were hosting I don't know. Instead, my date and I and most of our fellow classmates of like color/race stayed at the party intoxicating ourselves with thoughts of our new adulthood and our anticipated brilliant futures.
There was no returning to school to discuss or process it or to apologize. There were visiting relatives at my house as there probably were at other kids' houses. There were gifts still to be opened and a three-day trip to San Antonio given to me and several close girl friends by our parents. And then there was all that packing and getting ready to leave home and trips to the beach and communicating with the new college roommate and finishing up odd-jobs or going to summer jobs or simply lazing around in the summer sun before saying our final goodbye's. It was a fast summer and the last summer of our childhood. The unthinkable deed went unresolved.
It has remained our shame for all these 49 years. Those same kids that were not allowed at the "white party" became teachers and preachers and soldiers and pilots and sailors and nurses and doctors and part of the respectable working class.
The class of '64 has been fortunate in that we have survived many things and many have been able to return home to reminisce about the good 'ol days. But this has hung over our heads for all these years and many who were injured have not returned to reminisce with us. And just as those kids were hurt, so were their parents. After all, they lived and worked and contributed to hometown Refugio. But like their graduating children, they felt the sting of prejudice. And yet they were silent.
Hopefully, nothing like this is still happening in Refugio. Hopefully, all colors, races and creeds are respected. Hopefully the losses of friendships, of trust can serve as lessons to this generation. Hopefully, we can grow past our prejudices and learn to live in harmony with each other as we were taught so many years ago when we learned the words to a Christian song: "Red and yellow, black and white, we are precious in His sight; Jesus loves the little children of the world."
On behalf of the Refugio High School Class of 1964 and on behalf of our offending parents, I apologize to the classmates and friends who were wounded and to their parents who always treated us so well and so fairly. I humbly ask for your forgiveness.
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Ok so I have been back at work for almost two weeks, my daughter is 12 weeks and has been at day care for 3 weeks. The daycare has said that I am not providing enough expressed milk and that she is hungry.
Usually I nurse her at home after she wakes up and within an hour of that I drop her off at daycare for 9 hours. When she first started daycare she had been drinking 10-12oz (4 feedings) of expressed milk and when she got home wanted to nurse almost immediately. She will nurse generally twice if not three times before going to sleep for the night. I started giving them 2.5oz more per day and they still say she is hungry. I have realized that I have depleted the extra milk stored for late night feeding for any daddy feedings. I guess I am not pumping enough to meet her needs according to daycare and have extra but I do not want to give her formula if I do not have to.
The past 4-5 days my daily pumping/feeding routine has been brutal:
nurse when baby wakes 7am
pump (15mins) before work 8:30 am yields 1-1.5oz
pump 3x (15mins each) while I am at work- normal yield is 2-3.5oz bottles & 1-3oz bottle
Nurse when first at home 6:15, again at 7:30-8pm sometimes again at 9:30
pump before bed 10:45pm
nurse when baby wakes 1am
nurse when baby wakes 3:30 am
nurse when baby wakes 5:30 am
With all the nursing in the middle of the night I cannot consider pumping in the middle of the night. Some nighttime feedings last 45min-an hour! I feel like I am barely getting any sleep.
What can I do? I feel like I am making the most milk I could possibly but it is not enough.


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"TID financing is to provide an incentive to private enterprise so that they will do something that will otherwise not be done. If not for TID financing the project would not move forward. Without the lower cost loans that TIF can offer, these projects would cost too much and the developer would not make money."
Jeff Hanewall, Trustee, Shorewood Village Board.
Some people have expressed their views about the currently developing project on Oakland involving the movement of Walgreen's. And what Hanewall describes pretty well fits their view of "corporate welfare."
Although the "blighted"aspects of these projects have lost their earlier significance and improvement of tax base has become more important than removing blight, I believe that this approach has become well-rooted in the process of redevelopment, especially with communities like Shorewood.
It is my strong feeling that the land should remain in the Village's ownership and that we should maintain a more significant "financial stake" in the building itself. If we don't do this, it would certainly appear that we are "engaged in corporate welfare."
I think the responsibility of good maintenance of the building should be strongly enforced and that ownership of the building itself should revert to the Village after 30 years. Then, we would have a good "financial stake' in the project.
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It was Saturday morning and I was deftly shooting through the streets, handling the four-door family car like a Formula 1 racer at Le Mans, hurrying to the next big yard sale. I had the situation under control.
The Lady of the House saw it differently.
"Playing 'chicken' with my car again?" She asked, giving me "The Look" with a sideways glance. "Remember we have rules."
Ah, the rules of Saturday yard sale-ing.
Yard sales may seem like utter chaos to some people, but to us professionals we know there are serious rules and regulations.
First, don't get anxious and in a hurry when yard sale-ing. Get into the Zen of it all. If you are meant to have something, you will have it; if not you won't. Applying this to everyday living may prevent unhappiness for the rest of your life.
Notice I used the word "may."
Another rule is if you're not sure if you want something, go ahead and pick it up. That gives you time to ponder if you really want it.
It's highly likely if you don't do this, it will be gone. Don't want it? Put it back.
The big rule is: Yard sale-ing is not a life and death situation. There's no need to forget your manners, or bump other people out of the way or block driveways or park in the middle of the street.
Yard sale-ing is for fun, not survival. It's about finding that doo-dad you didn't know you needed. It's about finding that CD of greatest hits from that country singer you forgot about. It's like an outing to a private boutique. It's about having fun.
It is THE big Saturday morning social activity.
It's also about driving the family car properly, not just for safety, but also to avoid "The Look."


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November 6, 2013 —
WASHINGTON, DC — Nick Troiano, a Pike County, PA native and 2007 student body president of Delaware Valley High School, concluded a cross-country "Generational Equity Tour" on Capitol Hill last week with a high profile event calling for passage of the bipartisan INFORM Act.
Troiano, 24, spent the last five weeks traveling across the country with a non-partisan campaign he co-founded, The Can Kicks Back, to educate and engage young Americans on the issues of the federal budget and the growing national debt.
The culminating event on Capitol Hill featured Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) sponsors of a bipartisan budget reform bill that Troiano helped get introduced in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives on a bipartisan basis. Over 1,000 economists recently endorsed the legislation, which would force the government to disclose its true indebtedness and the intergenerational impact of policy decisions.
Troiano engaged audiences at over 20 colleges and universities along the 6,000-mile Generational Equity Tour and organized discussions with some of the nation's top fiscal leaders, including former U.S. Senator and fiscal commission co-chair Alan Simpson (R-WY) and former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker. Troiano said the tour could not have come at a more critical time.
"While on tour, it was disappointing to watch some of our nation's leaders, including my own U.S. representative, shut down the federal government to advance their narrow ideology rather than work together to meaningfully address the drivers of long-term deficits and grow our economy," said Troiano.


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Why a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science?
An undergraduate degree in computer science provides students with the opportunity to develop the technical and communication skills needed to succeed in the computing profession. While both the B.A. and B.S. degree require course work in both areas, the bachelor of science degree emphasizes the technical component of the degree.
Program of Study
The Bachelor of Science degree in computer science consists of core courses, elective courses, communications support courses and an additional B.S. degree requirement.
Core Courses:
The core courses provide a strong foundation for understanding all facets of the field of computer science. The core consists of the following seven courses:
- CSC 160 Computer Science I
- CSC 161 Computer Science II
- CSC 210 Data Structures and Algorithms
- CSC 220 Computer Systems Concepts
- CSC 230 Discrete Structures I
- CSC 306 Software Development in C++
- CSC 495 Capstone Seminar
B.S. students choose six additional electives, at least three of which must be chosen from the following courses:
- CSC 340 Algorithms
- CSC 415 Web Applications
- CSC 420 Operating Systems
- CSC 469 Computer Networks
Communications Support Requirement:
To fulfill the communication support requirement, students select two of the following courses (may include the one used to fulfill the communications requirement within general education):
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- IMS 200 Conflict Resolution
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- SPC 100 Speech Communication
- SPC 200 Interpersonal Communication
- SPC 214 Group Processes
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Brandon Roy, who sat out this past season and had announced his retirement, has reached a verbal agreement to play for the Minnesota Timberwolves, multiple media outlets reported Thursday.
Roy agreed to a two-year, $10 million deal, according to HoopsWorld.com, although he can't officially sign with Minnesota until July 11.
Roy, 27, averaged 22.6 points in 2008-2009 and 21.5 points the next season. However, he played in just 47 games in 2010-2011, averaging 12.2 points.
He did not play at all last season and announced his retirement in December because of chronic knee problems. But he said last month he would try to play again.


text: The all-new Altra 65 is marketed as a lightweight, multiday trekking pack, but it's much more than that. This breathable, waterproof, ripstop nylon pack is a reliable friend who will stick by you in the worst conditions. Avoid constant adjustments with the super-stiff, wide hipbelt that molds to your frame, keeping your focus on the trail. Top and side panel loading, seven pockets, and a hydration-compatible design make it easy to access anything you need while on the move. At four pounds, 13.5 ounces, and with 3,967 cubic inches of space, the Altra will hold all you need for several days on the trail or easily cinch smaller for lighter weekend trips. $375; arcteryx.com


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announces the following recall in voluntary cooperation with the firm below. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of product: Bumble Bee Toys with blue antennae sold with certain Graco high chairs and Graco mobile entertainers, and also sold separately as an accessory and replacement part.Units: About 398,000Manufacturer: Graco Children's Products, Inc. of Exton, Pa. Hazard: The blue antennae on the Bumble Bee toy can break, posing a choking hazard to young children.Incidents/Injuries: Graco has received 26 reports of the antennae breaking off of the Bumble Bee toys, including five reports of children who started to choke on the broken antennae. One child's throat was scratched when the child's mother removed the broken antenna from the child's mouth. `Description: All Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae distributed by Graco are included in this recall. Specifically, Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae were distributed with Graco High Chair model numbers 3656CUB, 3658FKB, 3659KER, 3659NGS, 3660WNN and 35605 manufactured between July 22, 2002 and March 9, 2003, and Graco Tot Wheels Mobile Entertainer models 4522OTM, 4522TOTM, 4521ALP, 35628 and 4512FUN manufactured between November 8, 2001 and March 9, 2003. Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae were also distributed separately as an accessory and a replacement part with model number 548094S. Bumble Bee toys with yellow or black antennae are not affected.Sold at: Discount, department and juvenile product stores from November 2001 through March 2003 on high chairs and mobile entertainers for between $39 and $89, and individually, as accessories, for $5.Manufactured in: Toy made in ChinaRemedy: Consumers should discard immediately any Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae in their possession and contact Graco to receive a free replacement toy. Consumer Contact: Graco at (800) 258-3213 anytime to receive a free replacement toy.
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Not trying to hate on West and I understand he is a legend, but look at some footage from his day. The game was far different back than, people were less athletic, not as quick and the game is far more advanced now. West was a great player for his time but his game would not translate well into the game today. For example he would dribble with his right hand and move toward the left side of the court. (watch footage of Knicks/Lakers game 7 of the 1970 finals)
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Home List of Titles Comparison between different sets of suspension parameters and introduction of new modified skyhook control strategy incorporating varying road condition
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/216062
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- Comparison between different sets of suspension parameters and introduction of new modified skyhook control strategy incorporating varying road condition
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- Kashem, Saad Bin Abul; Ektesabi, Mehran; Nagarajah, Romesh
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- This study examines the uncertainties in modelling a quarter car suspension system caused by the effect of different sets of suspension parameters of a corresponding mathematical model. To overcome this problem, 11 sets of identified parameters of a suspension system have been compared, taken from the most recent published work. From this investigation, a set of parameters were chosen which showed a better performance than others in respect of peak amplitude and settling time. These chosen parameters were then used to investigate the performance of a new modified continuous skyhook control strategy with adaptive gain that dictates the vehicle's semi-active suspension system. The proposed system first captures the road profile input over a certain period. Then it calculates the best possible value of the skyhook gain (SG) for the subsequent process. Meanwhile the system is controlled according to the new modified skyhook control law using an initial or previous value of the SG. In this study, the proposed suspension system is compared with passive and other recently reported skyhook controlled semi-active suspension systems. Its performances have been evaluated in terms of ride comfort and road handling performance. The model has been validated in accordance with the international standards of admissible acceleration levels ISO2631 and human vibration perception.
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- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
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- Vehicle System Dynamics, Vol. 50, no. 7 (2012), pp. 1173-1190
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- 2012
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- 01 Mathematical Sciences; 09 Engineering
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- Adaptive; Damper; Semi-active; Skyhook; Suspension; Quarter car; Vehicle
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- Taylor & Francis
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Northfield nixes trash switch
NORTHFIELD Residents voted 97-68 Tuesday to stick with their current trash handler and not return to Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District.
The town uses Mad River Resource Management Alliance for disposal of its trash, but with the recent closing of the Moretown Landfill, which the alliance used, Select Board members decided to ask residents to look at a possible switch.
Northfield left the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management Districtin 2010 for financial reasons after the district had announced it would be raising its per-capita fee for member towns to $3. Northfield had to pay just $2 per capita with the Mad River group.
Select Board member Brad Denny said Tuesday night the board considered the latest switch because the alliance said in the spring that it would have to raise its per-capita cost to $4 if the landfill in Moretown closed. Now, he said, the alliance is quoting an increase of only 75 cents per capita. Denny attributed the smaller cost increase to the towns contemplation of switching back to the central Vermont district.
According to Denny, the central Vermont district now charges only $1 per capita but has a per-bag fee.
Speaking personally, Denny said he was disappointed in the vote because the per-capita costs affect all taxpayers and he believes residents should have to pay only for the waste they themselves create. The per-bag fee, he said, would put more of the financial burden on the individual, something he was hoping would make people recycle and compost more.
As a Select Board member, Denny said hell carry out the wishes of the residents and did not expect the board to fight the decision.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER Gov. Full StoryBARRE Mayor Thomas Lauzon has fleshed out a plan to revive a package of local option taxes that... Full StoryBARRE It wont be built where city officials had hoped and it wont be as big as they would... Full Story
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Behind The Beats: J. Cardim "Your Favorite Rapper's Favorite Producer"
To the casual listener of Hip-Hop there are two components…the artist and the DJ. As time has progressed, production has continued to evolve and names such as Swizz Beatz Timbaland and Dr. Dre have revolutionized what goes on behind the boards in terms of beats.
Hailing from Massachusetts, a new face and name to some, but a producer that has been around for some time, is J. Cardim. Working with big names such as Red Cafe, L.O.X. and most recently Joe Budden, the Beatsmith is etching his name in history as one of the elite producers of this era.
HipHopWired: Everybody usually knows about the artists but not a lot of people know about the producer or the dj, so you could just give us an introduction to exactly who J. Cardim is. You've been in the game for awhile, but a lot of people might not know who you are exactly.
Cardim: I started out working with Jean Grae about 5 years ago, that was my first placement on her album, I did her Intro and Outro. With Jean Grae I worked with Kweli and a whole bunch of other artists. For the first 2-3 years I was really underground with Jean Grae, Talib Kweli, Saigon, AZ and it was probably '07 or '08 when I tried to adjust more to the mainstream. I've been in the studio with Juelz lately, Red Café- I got some joints with him, L.O.X. and Cassidy. Even as far as southern artists, we got the "Holla at a Playa" remix with Lil Wayne and Jae Millz. I had this record on my album last year called "Born and Raised" with Paul Wall and Shawty Lo and this cat from Miami called Ghostwridah. I'm trying to do my thing in the south as well.
French Montana feat. Cassidy – "Straight Cash"
Red Cafe – "What It B Like"
HipHopWired: Can you just tell a little more about your beginnings? How did you start producing, what made you want to become a producer?
Cardim: I'm sure like a lot of producers probably feel this way, like Kanye West and a lot of producers who actually rap, I used to be a rapper. So, if you're from Boston, you probably know that. I even dropped a couple records out there that I produced. My main thing as a rapper, when I was a rapper, was I didn't want to use industry beats. Everybody else, especially when I was in high school and mixtapes were huge and rapping over other people's beats was the main thing that everybody was doing, so my thing was to do something different and make my own beats and original music, my Isht was all original. People around my neighborhood in Cambridge, Mass started listening to my Isht and was like "Yo your beats are hot, where do you get your beats?" I told them I made them, they're like "That's good, let me get some". I didn't even think of charging them, I just gave it to them and they would give me something like a $50 bag of weed or a couple hundred dollars for a beat CD with like 20 beats on it, you know it would just be whatever but this is what they gave me, I didn't even ask for nothing. I started realizing that the money was in the beats and not in the rapping, because I had been rapping before that for about 5 years and I didn't make a cent off one verse and all the sudden people are throwing me money for my beats and that's when I became a producer full time.
HipHopWired: You were talking about working with Red Café and many others and there was a time a few months ago where you and Joe Budden were going heavy, are you guys trying to work on a project together or did you just keep linking up over and over again?
Cardim: Joe Budden, basically my manager met him before I did in the summer of 2009, they were in the studio together and he played him a couple of my beats and he ended up using them for the Escape Route mixtape, it was 2 joints- "Clothes on a Mannequin" and "No Comment". My manager, who's a very persistent guy, he kept in touch with Joe Budden after that and was like "Yo I got more joints, I got more joints" , my manager went to a session with him and they knocked out like 4 or 5 of my joints and I wasn't even there. So I started coming through and we started building a vibe, building a sound together and that's basically what happened, we kind of clicked off and started knocking off tracks like it was nothing. At first I was just going to do a couple joints for his album, but now we're talking probably going to a majority if not the whole album The Great Escape.
Joe Budden – "Something To Ride 2"
Joe Budden – "Downfall"
HipHopWired: Any other rappers that you've been working closely with?
Cardim: Red Café was one that I always worked closely with as well. When he dropped The Co-Op I did 3 joints on there with him and DJ Envy. He's another artist that we work closely with, anything I need he always hooks me up with, like he's always on my projects and he's got a crazy solo record on my album coming out next month. Styles P and Sheek too, shout out to them, they hold me down all the time.
HipHopWired: Since you transitioned to it, can you speak on your next album that you're going to be working on?
Cardim: My next project, the one I dropped last year Your Favorite Rapper's Favorite Producer, basically I'm doing another one. It's J. Cardim Presents: Dice Music The IN Crowd. We got a couple of the artists from Dice Music and we want to focus on them this time. My last joint was just really focusing on me as a producer and putting all the big names that I worked with from '08 to '09. So this album is really just to present my artists. We got a lot of big names on it as well. We got Juelz, Gunplay, Brisco, Paul Wall, Red Café again, the whole L.O.X.- Jada, Styles, Sheek, Bun B, French Montana, we still getting more records done. Pretty much that's what we're doing, trying to break my artists and show what we got, you know build a wave and then start throwing tracks from my artists after that.
Joe Budden, Emilio Rojas, Chief C – "Unstoppable"
Termanology, Sha Stimuli, G-Eyez – "G Like Me"
Ludacris – "OG's Theme"
HipHopWIred: Going back to the production side, as a northern producer, how do you stay afloat in a time where southern beats are basically what everybody is looking for?
Cardim: You got to move with the times first off, I think as a producer or rapper or artist you got to move with the times. Some rappers up north embrace the south and got unity with them. Some people just stay with the true New York sound, there's nothing wrong with that. I think as a producer, this isn't just a hobby or a job, you're trying to stay relevant. You just got to go where it's at, I'm basically where the money's at. If the money's at the South, then I'm going to be making some southern beats if that's what they want, but it's always got the J. Cardim touch to it, but it depends on who I'm working with. If I'm working with Joe Budden I'm not going to bring down some hard 808 and southern beats because I know that's not his lane, but if I'm in Miami and I'm in a studio session with who knows Down South, it's all 808s and whatever. I throw in a couple organic and non-sensian boom bap beats in there just to show them, because sometimes you never know, but it just depends where you're at. I got all types of sounds.
HipHopWired: Is there any way people can get in touch with you?
Cardim: Yeah, just get at me through Twitter, @jcardim.


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My DD is 4.5 months old. She is an avid breastfeeder and does enjoy comfort nursing regularly. I returned to work a month ago and initially she was doing great with the bottle (EBM), though in the last couple of weeks she's begun refusing it at daycare. I work part-time (2.5 consecutive days per week) and then she is at home with me for 5 days.
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barrow v hunslet
Posted 03 February 2013 - 05:37 PM
Posted 03 February 2013 - 06:14 PM
Wake up call this hopefully
Lee Morton
Raiders have risen from the ashes
Posted 03 February 2013 - 06:42 PM
I remember when .............................
"It is impossible not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Workington Town, the fall guys this season for the Super League's determination to retain it's European dimension, in the shape of Paris. While the French have had every assistance to survive, the importance of having a flagship in a heartland area like West Cumbria has been conveniently forgotten." - Dave Hadfield - Independent 25th August 1996.
Posted 03 February 2013 - 07:19 PM
Posted 03 February 2013 - 07:45 PM
Hunslet were quicker and completed better. They have had 4 preseason games against our 2 and that showed.
Our defence was poor at times but It was the whole team that had a bad day at the office.
Hunslet had a couple of stand out players especially Jimmy Kleinhurst on dual reg from the Rhinos, we have chosen not to go down that route and I guess we will have to wait and see how that pans out.
All in all a disappointing start to the season but there is a long way to go and we will be better as the season progresses
Bears and Barrow
Posted 03 February 2013 - 07:47 PM
We had plenty of energy but operated rudderless, stereotyped moves and our threequarters always had a 2 man reception when receiving the ball.
Defence wise woefully exposed when defending !0 metres from our line. Hunslet were well organised and quicker moving the ball.
Last year they struggled and intime it maybe evident if they have raised their bar .
We need some kind of experienced ball player to orchestrate us if they still exist.
Early doors but ?
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Posted 04 February 2013 - 10:00 AM
The fox running with the hounds
When you are in deep trouble, say nothing, and try to look as though you know what you're doing.
Posted 04 February 2013 - 11:48 AM
Posted 04 February 2013 - 01:16 PM
Our lack of pre season games certainly showed as we played like a team who didn't know each other.
Not sure what our completion rate was but it must of been very low! We played very narrow again with a lot of 'one man up' rugby.
I personally would like to see Finch back in the halves and Harrison back in the centre breaking a tackle and slipping the ball to Clay who showed yesterday he has the pace to go the length of the field and score. (Like Nico used to).
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Posted 04 February 2013 - 03:29 PM
and unfortunatly for Barra mate fev are on fire!
I'll reserve judgement until after next weeks game against Donny, it's very difficult to comment on a game from updates on Radio Cumbria but judging by the commentary team we were woeful today. This is a very poor start to our campaign, things have to improve next week, because the week after is Fev away.
Posted 04 February 2013 - 04:07 PM
over a hundred from Barrow? Slight exaggeration there i think.
Just as an afterthought how on earth do Hunslet survive on crowds of 491, over a hundred of those were Barrow fans as well!
Posted 04 February 2013 - 04:15 PM
Posted 04 February 2013 - 05:19 PM
It is the first game and im sure Darren and Phill will sort the players out but Hunslet is one of the teams that Raiders must surely beat this year to keep in this League. Workington and Whithaven have started well so the Doncaster game is mighty important next week.
Featherstone may be a big ask for any of the teams in this League but hey keep smilling
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"we all make mistakes that's why they put rubbers on pencils"
Posted 04 February 2013 - 05:28 PM
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"we all make mistakes that's why they put rubbers on pencils"


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Ryan Zimmerman Shirt Winner
It's time to announce the winner. In what Amy called the worst idea for picking a winner ever (due to the set up and clean up process), the winner is…
Here's your past winners:
I've given away a Matt Wieters shirt to Joey Orr,
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a Dustin Pedroia shirt to Stephen D,
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It was a ground rule double
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Jolly Madison: Dukes Rally Past No. 11 Loyola in OT
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BALTIMORE, Md.-- James Madison (5-1) rallied from a 4-0 halftime deficit to win 9-8 in overtime at 11th-ranked Loyola(2-5) in women's lacrosse Saturday afternoon at the Ridley Athletic Complex.
Sophomore Ali Curwin (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford Sutherland).netted the game-winner with nine seconds left in overtime after junior Amy Roguski (Sykesville, Md./Liberty) scored the tying goal with 15 seconds remaining in regulation. Then sophomore goalkeeper Schylar Healy (Eldersburg, Md./Liberty) made a stop on a Drexel shot with one second to go to preserve the win.
Curwin, Roguski and redshirt senior Casey Ancarrow (Jarrettsville, Md./John Carroll) led JMU with two goals apiece.
The Dukes never led in regulation, but after allowing Loyola to get off to a 4-0 halftime lead, JMU scored three times in the first 3:22 of the second half to cut the margin to 4-3. Ancarrow, Curwin and redshirt sophomore Kaci Starkloff (Bel Air, Md./Bel Air) each scored during the run.
Loyola tallied two of the game's next three goals to go up 6-4 with 20:13 to play. However, back-to-back goals by freshman Taylor Gress (Westminster, Md./Manchester Valley) and Ancarrow tied the game at 6 with 12:09 on the clock.
Taryn Vanthof converted a free-position attempt with 6:31 to play to put Loyola ahead 7-6. The Greyhounds controlled the ensuing draw but turned the ball over with 2:50 to play.
After a JMU timeout, the Dukes worked the ball up the field. With Ancarrow double-teamed near the crease, Roguski came around the goal and delivered a shot into the net from close range on the left side with 15 seconds remaining.
In the first three-minute half of overtime, JMU senior Amanda Mathews (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) controlled the opening draw, and Roguski gave the Dukes their first lead of the game, 8-7, when she scored an unassisted goal 1:10 into the period. Ancarrow controlled the following draw, but her shot with 11 seconds to go was stopped by Loyola goalkeeper Molly Wolf.
One minute into the second three-minute overtime half, Venthof scored to tie the game a 8-8.
Then Curwin got the draw control, and with the clock winding down, she scored what proved to be the game-winner at the nine-second mark.
Loyola controlled the next draw and had one last chance to score, but Healy stopped the shot byAnnie Thomas with one second to go.
Healy and Wolfe each finished with eight saves.
Statistical leaders for JMU included Curwin with a game-high four ground balls and Healy with three GBs. Ancarrow had a game-high four draw controls, and Starkloff controlled three draws. Four JMU players each caused one turnover.
JMU held a 22-19 advantage on shots and an 11-10 advantage in draw controls.
It was the second straight win for JMU and concluded a a stretch of three straight road games. JMU is back in action on Wednesday, March 20, for a 7 p.m. home contest against ninth-ranked Virginia.
NOTES: JMU's Casey Ancarrow's two goals gives her a career total of 140. She moved from tied for seventh on JMU's career goals list to sixth place, formerly held by Diane Buch ('88) with 139.
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Shikamaru is underrated
Fukin OONOKI
Originally Posted by Omnipotent
he featless not underrated you overrated him
Sakura is extremely underrated, and for a legit reason.
<-----------that guy
Originally Posted by unorthodox
he featless not underrated you overrated him
I'm not overrating him.
Where did I ever do that?
He's underrated if you really believe he's the weakest Hokage.
Shikamaru, oonoki, Hashirama, Tobirama, Shino, danzo, gaara, DSM Kabuto (no edo) tenten and ramen guy :D
minato=over rated
sasuke=under rated
but we all know that
Minato is freaking overrated
2nd hokage is pretty much the weakest out of all the hokages
Deidara, Sasori, Orochimaru, Kakashi(can't believe i'm listing him) , Hiruzen,
All I can think of right now
Not really, Tsunade is. And Danzo was a weaker hokage.
Originally Posted by Kurama04
2nd hokage is pretty much the weakest out of all the hokages
Prove it. Because we do know he was the second-best in the Senju Clan, the best clan, and was second only to Hashirama (who's more powerful than the current Five Kage combined),
didn't he nearly die to ginkaku kinkaku
if he nerly died to ginkaku and kinkaku thats enough proof
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minato=over rated
sasuke=under rated
but we all know that
This ^ sasori, kimimaro and hiruzen are all underrated (tobirama too but we havent seen anything)
well I'm counting danzo as a hokage since he died way to quickly and danzo would be weaker than tobirama i give u that
Apparently Hiruzen was the strongest shinobi was titled God of shinobi
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She enjoyed knitting, going for rides and country music.
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My previous article explained how to gather session-level network information with Netflow. This article shows how to convert all that nifty data into pretty multicolored pictures on a web server. If you found this article by a web search, you really do need to read the previous article. I will discuss the details of
flowscan as appropriate for the setup discussed in that article; if you are not using
softflowd and
flow-tools to collect your flows, and if you don't have Cflow.pm properly installed, this may or may not work for you.
FlowScan is a Perl script that parses Netflow records and stores them in RRD database files. Many network monitoring tools use RRD to show recent activity in great detail but increasingly aggregate older records. This allows retention of long-term trends without using excessive disk space. Other programs generate reports with these RRD files. FlowScan includes hooks to allow third-party modules to take advantage of FlowScan's processes to generate custom reports. I will focus on a particular FlowScan module,
Start by installing the basic
flowscan program from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/flowscan. This installs several other Perl modules as dependencies, then installs the main FlowScan tools in /usr/local/var/db/flows/bin. FlowScan will not work out of the box, however, so don't start it yet!
First, you need to install an updated FlowScan module. The official FlowScan distribution hasn't had an official update for some time, and doesn't handle flow-capture records. The author has posted an updated flowscan.pm module, but hasn't integrated it into the distribution. Fetch the updated FlowScan.pm version 1.6. Copy it into /usr/local/var/db/flows/bin, overwriting version 1.5 of that module.
This same directory contains a sample FlowScan config file, flowscan.cf.sample. Copy this to flowscan.cf and edit the copy. First, tell FlowScan where to find the flow files. The sample assumes that you are logging to the FlowScan directory, whereas you probably have a directory elsewhere. FlowScan will try to process every file in that directory unless you give it a regular expression that renders correctly, including flow-capture's temporary file and the saved directory, unless you also give it a regex that describes the completed files. The following example assumes that you're logging to /var/log/netflows, and will capture any completed flow-capture files.
FlowFileGlob /var/log/netflows/ft-v*[0-9]
ReportClasses lists all of the report modules that you're using. FlowScan comes with two modules,
CampusIO and
SubNetIO. While they were great when they came out, I find
CUFlow more useful than either on a day-to-day basis. List all the report classes you want to use.
ReportClasses CUFlow
WaitSeconds is the number of seconds between FlowScan's attempts to process the directory. Many add-on tools assume this five-minute rollover and will break if you choose another time. While you can customize those tools and tweak
flow-capture to match them, for right now just take the defaults.
WaitSeconds 300
Finally, verbose logging can be very useful during setup. You might choose to remove this once the whole system is up and running correctly.
Verbose 1
FlowScan is configured, but you still need to configure the report module, so that FlowScan records information appropriately for that report.
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CUFlow, extract the tarball, and copy CUFlow.pm and CUFlow.cf to /usr/local/var/db/flows/bin. You can leave the Perl module unchanged, but you must edit cuflow.cf to fit your environment.
Subnet statement indicates which networks belong to you.
CUFlow will use this variable to decide if traffic is inbound or outbound.
Subnet 192.168.2/23
Network statements include things that you want to process separately. You can have any number of
Network statements. Each
Network statement will show up as an option in a drop-down CGI script. As you see from the example here,
Network statements can overlap.
Network 192.168.2.3,192.168.2.5,192.168.3.80 webservers
Network 192.168.2.9,192.168.3.1 mailservers
Network 192.168.2.0/25 infrastructure
Network 192.168.2.128/25 dmz
Network 192.168.3.0/25 administration
Network 192.168.3.128/25 development
CUFlow where to store its records with the
OutputDir directive. Do not store your records in a web-accessible location or in your flow-capture log directory.
OutputDir /var/log/cuflow
CUFlow also computes the most active sites and presents a "scoreboard" of the IP addresses that have passed the most traffic in the previous five minutes. Control this with the
Scoreboard option.
Scoreboard takes three arguments: the number of IPs in your "most active" list, a directory to store old "most active" lists, and the filename of the current list. The following line tells
CUFlow to make a Top 10 list, storing the records under /usr/local/www/data/scoreboard, and that /usr/local/www/data/scoreboard/topten.html should always contain the current list.
Scoreboard 10 /usr/local/www/data/scoreboard \
While the biggest talkers in a given five-minute period is useful for troubleshooting purposes, it's also nice to be able to grant an award for Most Busy Host Overall. The
AggregateScore option allows you to do that.
AggregateScore also takes three arguments: the number of hosts in your list, a log file to store the accumulated data, and a location to post the overall Top Talker list.
AggregateScore 10 /var/log/cuflow/agg.dat /usr/local/www/data/overall.html
If you have a complicated network, you might have multiple Netflow sensors.
CUFlow can separate data from separate sensors so that you can get a handle on where different sorts of traffic are going. Each router listed becomes a separate drop-down item in the
CUFlow CGI.
Router 192.168.2.1 fred
Router 192.168.3.1 barney
Services statements to define TCP/IP ports that you wish to track separately. The
Services statement allows you to make definitive statements such as "80 percent of our internet traffic is outbound web browsing." As Netflow tracks each service, increasing the number of services increases the amount of processing power Netflow requires. Don't just copy /etc/services here! I always eliminate unnecessary protocols; for example, nobody on my hosting network can use Gnutella, so I don't bother trying to track it. Here are some example
Service statements:
Service 20-21/tcp ftp
Service 22/tcp ssh
Service 23/tcp telnet
Protocol statement is very similar to
Services, except for Layer 3 instead of Layer 4. I recommend tracking
Protocol 1 (ICMP),
Protocol 6 (UDP), and
Protocol 17 (TCP), at a bare minimum. If you have lots of VPN users, you might wish to track IPSec and GRE as well.
Protocol 1 icmp
Protocol 6 tcp
Protocol 17 udp
As Netflow originated with Cisco, it's not surprising that many Netflow sensors include BGP information.
CUFlow can report on traffic to and from various AS numbers using the ASNumber option, but
softflowd doesn't provide that information and most of the readers out there have only a single internet feed. Comment out the
ASNumber option when using
By default, FlowScan deletes flow files that it has processed. I suggest you retain those files for a few months, or as long as disk space allows. Create a saved subdirectory under your Netflow log directory and FlowScan will automatically move processed logs to this subdirectory.
Even if you don't want to retain records as ongoing practice, I recommend keeping them until you know FlowScan is working correctly. If your FlowScan configuration is broken, it will destroy the data you've already gathered without recording it properly. This is vastly annoying when troubleshooting.
In theory, you have everything configured now. Cross your fingers and start FlowScan.
# /usr/local/var/db/flows/bin/flowscan
FlowScan will start spewing out all sorts of messages.
2004/09/02 11:35:17 working on file /var/log/netflows/ft-v01.2004-08-31.142629-0400...
2004/09/02 11:35:18 flowscan-1.020 CUFlow: Cflow::find took 1 wallclock secs ( 0.60 usr + 0.02 sys = 0.62 CPU) for 43011 flow file bytes, flow hit ratio: 2759/2760
2004/09/02 11:35:18 flowscan-1.020 CUFlow: report took 0 wallclock secs ( 0.15 usr 0.19 sys + 0.02 cusr 0.09 csys = 0.44 CPU)
FlowScan is parsing all the old flow files. This can take quite a while, depending on how many flows you've accumulated between implementing your collector and starting FlowScan. One interesting thing to look for here is the "flow hit ratio," or how many flows FlowScan found described in the configuration file. This particular flow file had a hit ratio of 2759 out of 2760; one flow out of 2760 didn't fit FlowScan's expectations. That's pretty good. If you have a hit ratio of 0, you probably messed up your FlowScan install or your
Subnet statement.
If FlowScan complains about an "Invalid index in cflowd flow file," you probably didn't install the newest Flowscan.pm module. This is perhaps the most common error people make with FlowScan. If you have this problem, go get the appropriate version of the module as described earlier.
When FlowScan finishes parsing all your old flow files, it will print out "sleep 300...", wait for five minutes, and check your log directory for new flow files. You can
C out of FlowScan.
You probably want FlowScan to start automatically at boot rather than taking over your terminal, so go under /usr/local/etc/rc.d and copy the sample startup script to flowscan.sh. This file works unedited, but I usually change the logfile to /var/log/flowscan.log simply because I like all my logs in one place.
"This is nice, but where are my graphs? You promised me pretty pictures!"
Fortunately, getting graphs out of the RRD files is trivial.
CUFlow includes a CGI script, CUGrapher.pl. Copy this to your web server's cgi-bin directory. You only need to set two variables:
$rrddir and
$rrddir variable contains the directory where
CUFlow stores the RRD files.
my $rrddir = "/var/log/cuflow";
To print your company's name at the top of the page, be sure to set the
$organization variable.
my $organization = "LogicaCMG US IDT development area";
Now browse to the URL for this script and select, say, a network. You'll see an array of drop-down menus. Choose some item--say, a network, or a protocol--and hit "Generate graph."
Congratulations! You have better bandwidth graphs than MRTG alone provides.
One drawback with
CUFlow is that it doesn't break down traffic by network and service. For example, if you choose "Dev network" and "http," you'll get entries for the amount of traffic to and from the dev network added to the amount of HTTP traffic the whole network sees. This isn't exactly useful. To generate more fine-grained reports than this, you'll have to write some custom Netflow reports. I'll explain that in a future article.
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The report made minor adjustments to the world wheat outlook, all of which were within analysts' expectations. Estimated world supply increased 4 million metric tons (MMT) in November to 1.013 billion metric tons, a 3 percent increase from 2010/2011. All three factors that contribute to world supply — carry-in stocks, production and imports — increased in November.
The world production forecast increased 2.1 MMT to 683 MMT, which would be the second largest crop on record if realized. Kazakhstan's production estimate accounted for 2 MMT of the total increase, now forecast to produce 21 MMT.
The European Union's production estimate also increased, up 1.2 MMT from last month and 1 percent greater than last year. Argentina's production forecast declined 500,000 MT to 13.0 MMT, 16 percent lower than last year.
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While reflexology is an extremely safe healing practice, it is important to be aware of a few contraindications or times when reflexology might not be a wise choice. These contraindications include:
- Reflexology on the foot is discouraged in patients with foot fractures, unhealed wounds, or active gout in the foot. Patients with osteoarthritis that impacts the foot or ankle, or those with vascular disease of the legs or feet, should consult with their primary provider prior to beginning reflexology on the feet. An acceptable alternative would be to use reflexology on the hands and ears.
- Clients who report current thrombosis or embolism (which is an obstruction of the pulmonary artery or a branch of it by a free-floating blood clot or embolus) should not receive reflexology therapy. Since reflexology improves circulation, it could potentially cause a clot to move towards the heart or brain.
- For women in early pregnancy (the first 6 weeks), the reflexology session is altered by treating the uterine and ovarian reflex points more gently or by avoiding them altogether. In general, caution should be exercised during pregnancy because of reports that stimulation may cause contractions.
- Babies and young children will receive benefit from many techniques, but rarely have the patience for a whole session. Thus, sessions are abbreviated in length.
- If you are using other touch therapies, such as massage, allow at least 48 hours between touch therapy sessions to avoid an overload on your system.
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A ballotine is boned and flattened poultry, stuffed with ground meat and other ingredients. The dish doesn't get any tastier than the version concocted by Bon Soirée owner/chef Derek Freeman.
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The changing face of global commerce is rerouting flight plans. "Many companies are using large-cabin, long-range business jets to provide nonstop access to overseas markets, especially Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa," said Ed Bolen, the National Business Aviation Association's CEO.
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The recent movie Flight stars Denzel Washington as a flawed-hero airline pilot. The film has drawn some criticism among aviation types for depicting an airliner flying upside down.
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It's no secret that the fractional aircraft industry has limped along during the Great Recession and following anemic recovery period, but one provider—Clearwater, Florida-based Avantair—has seemed to defy gravity.
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Traffic moves through the old city in November, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
KABUL, Afghanistan — I wondered, approaching Kabul over the snow-shrouded Hindu Kush mountains, what the story of the moment would be in the teeming city below.
It had been six years since I'd last visited Afghanistan's capital, a short visit then that included an interview with President Hamid Karzai as part of the last of six long reporting assignments since 9/11— that one stretching from Paktika and Gardez in the southeast to Herat in the west.
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A spectacular view over the snow-covered Hindu Kush peaks on the way into Kabul.
More than 11 years had passed since my first Afghan assignment, over the Kyber Pass from Pakistan and then into Jalalabad days after the Taliban had fled; the arc of America's longest war.
"Not much different," offered my seatmate, a senior NATO official from one of the 40 countries remaining in the coalition that has alternately steered or suffered through Afghanistan's bloody march toward stand-alone status as a reconstituted nation.
"You'll see some new construction under way in the city, but on the surface it'll be little changed from what you saw before."
Driving to our quarters, I found myself playing an old game: peering at the cars huffing and puffing along the city's crowded streets, I counted the number of women drivers. And got the same answer I'd counted on most days, 11 years ago.
* * * * *
That so few women drive — cars, bicycles, any conveyance where they are unaccompanied by men — is a relatively small fact of life here but it's emblematic.
Afghanistan is still waiting for the changes that will signal that a threshold has been reached, and a fundamental change in the status of women, and in their prospects after the 2014 withdrawal of most coalition combat troops, is one of the changes that matter.
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Kimberly Motley, an American lawyer, has been living and working in Afghanistan for the past five years as an advocate for abused women.
It's women who will suffer most after the withdrawal, said Kimberly Motley, an American lawyer living and working in Afghanistan for the past five years as an advocate for abused women.
"I've been surprised that it's been mostly men now clamoring desperately for a way to leave, when it's women who will be affected so profoundly," she said.
With NATO forces gone they'll have far less protection, she told us, while even under the limited protection that now exists there have been attacks against women so savage as to have commanded headlines worldwide.
It's been a consensus in the international community that this poorest and most corrupt of countries may yet be welcomed fully as a sovereign nation, but only when its women are treated with dignity and as equals under law and custom. While serving as secretary of state in 2001, Colin Powell stressed that women's rights were "non-negotiable."
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As for negotiations for peace and reconciliation with the Taliban, they are, for all practical purposes, non-existent. A handful of self-described representatives of Taliban leadership have set up office space in Doha, Qatar, and overtures have been made with the goal of starting substantive talks.
"But here's the problem," a highly placed Western diplomat told me, asking that he not be identified. "Karzai only wants face-to-face discussions with the Taliban, at the negotiating table — and not with interlocutors who may or may not represent Mullah Mohammed Omar and the true Taliban leadership. He's not interested in discussing theoretical possibilities, if nothing of consequence is going to happen."
The Taliban, meanwhile, seem uninterested in discussing any possibilities short of a return to complete power in Afghanistan.
Said Maulvi Shahabuddin Dilawar, one of the Taliban's "negotiators" in Doha, there will be a "snowball effect" after the 2014 withdrawal, the Taliban waiting patiently to make their move.
"Anything short of a total victory," he said, "is unacceptable." There's a saying here, attributed to the Taliban: "They have the weapons; we have the time."
Still, the Western diplomat said, "We've opened a door in Doha, and hopefully there will be an answer and real negotiations might begin."
I reminded him of the timeworn political cliché, "Hope is not a strategy."
He smiled. "Well, it's more than mere hope," he said.
The diplomat talked about advances on the periphery of the central questions about peace talks and post-2014 security: an imminent new mining law that will encourage foreign investors to ante in for a stake in the trillion dollars in copper, iron, gold and oil reserves within reach beneath this country's battered landscape; advances despite notable setbacks in the training and readiness of Afghanistan's army and national police forces; real improvements in the prospects for some women — in medicine, law and even the armed services.
"It's not just hope," the diplomat repeated.
* * * * *
An old friend named Shirzad came by to visit on Saturday. He had worked for NBC News in the past and asked that we not use his family name for security reasons.
We talked about the days and months just after 9/11, when we first met, when in his home city of Jalalabad the Taliban had suddenly fled under the punishment of American bombing raids, and the eventual insertion of American special forces chasing Bin Laden and his surrogates through the mountains and caves of Tora Bora.
There were so many signs of optimism then: little girls lining up giddily to go to school, some women braving the markets having shed their burqas, talk among the men about a new future when none had seemed possible for so many years.
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More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.
But that future had not arrived, Shirzad said. The Taliban were a "shadow government" in so many villages and neighborhoods, in control by implication and threat, just waiting.
"My family, and many of those I work with, we have been threatened with death." So he's leaving, he says, having spent months negotiating a labyrinth of paperwork to gain approval to take his family of nine to the U.S. and take his chances there if he can.
His brother, with his family of eight, is trying for the same option. "It is the only way for me," he told me. "The local police, they will not protect us when NATO soldiers are gone — many are Taliban or support them."
He offered a sad smile: "No more for me, in Afghanistan."
What there is, he said, is corruption and danger in every direction. Away from Kabul there were still drug lords ruling over fiefdoms fueled by flourishing poppy fields. Even in Kabul, he said, travel can be treacherous, trust unwise.
And attorney Motley has more clients than she can handle.
And 30 local police died in a two-day period last week in three suicide attacks for which the Taliban claimed credit.
And President Karzai complains about not getting enough American weapons and support, while at the same time ordering that American and NATO forces withdraw from a Kabul suburb because of unconfirmed rumors of harassment and attacks against civilians.
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This morning I gave a talk at SecondConf about location-based software.
You can download my slides with notes here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6541807/fun-with-location.pdf
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Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection
The privately held Becker Collection, now digitally archived at Boston College, contains approximately 650 previously unexhibited drawings by mid-19th-century American artist-reporters Joseph Becker and colleagues.
On assignment for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, the era's leading illustrated periodical, a group of so-called Special Artists accompanied Union troops during the Civil War to produce firsthand drawings for publication, giving a glimpse into the life of an artist embedded within the armed forces.
Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher and the traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena, California. The exhibition is generously sponsored by the Roanoke Arts Commission.
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Beginning April 1, group tickets are subject to demand-based pricing. Ticket prices for all Brewers home games are subject to increase according to demand. In most cases, for demand-based pricing games, the earlier the tickets are purchased, the lower the price will be.
To continue to provide the best value to our group customers, the prices listed below reflect the discounts detailed on our Group Ticket Savings Page ».