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Pinpointing the rapidly fading ember of a recently burned-out star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a better estimate on just how big a star can be before it ultimately explodes as a supernova.
Based on Hubble's detection of a rare, young white dwarf star, astronomers conclude that its progenitor was a whopping 7.6 times the mass of our Sun. Previously, astronomers had estimated that stars anywhere from 6 to 10 solar masses would not just quietly fade away as white dwarfs, but abruptly self-destruct in torrential explosions.
This new lower limit will help astronomers refine theories of how galaxies developed in the early universe, determine the rate at which supernovae enrich interstellar space with heavy elements for building new generations of stars and planets, and estimate the number of neutron stars in space (neutron stars are the crushed stellar cores resulting from supernovae).
Rebecca Elson and Steinn Sigurdsson of Cambridge University, and co-investigators, discovered the ultra-hot white dwarf during a search in archival Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 pictures of the young star cluster NGC 1818, located 164,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
The trick was to identify a newly formed white dwarf that was still exceptionally hot and bright immediately after the burnout and collapse of its progenitor star. Such a dwarf would be so "young" relative to older fainter dwarfs in the cluster it would allow a direct link back to the most massive stars now present in the cluster. That's because the most massive stars are the shortest-lived and so are first to burn out as white dwarfs.
Because the star cluster NGC 1818 is ten times larger than those found closer to us within our own galaxy, chances were far better for catching the young dwarf before it swiftly dimmed on its way to the "graveyard" of faint dwarfs. Also, the cluster is only about 40 million years old, and so still contains massive stars.
Hubble is ideally suited for hunting for white dwarfs so far away because its exquisite resolution can pinpoint them among the cluster's crowded stellar population, and can easily detect the blue light from the sizzling 50,000 degree Fahrenheit surface temperature of the young dwarf.
Once the candidate star was identified, a spectrum of the star was obtained at the Anglo-Australian Observatory. "Our spectrum indicates that it is neither a foreground nor background object, and detailed modeling is underway to understand its exact evolutionary state," says Elson.
The results will be reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters section.
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
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Investigators remove evidence as they search through the icy rubble Friday of a fire that destroyed a senior residence in L'Isle-Verte, Quebec.
Exhausted crews in Quebec on Saturday resumed their search through the remains of a senior home destroyed by a fire that killed 10 residents and left 22 missing and presumed dead.
"The conditions are very, very difficult," police spokesman Lt. Guy Lapointe said in a televised briefing Friday. "Our people are exhausted."
Police said Saturday they brought in de-icing equipment used by boats to help speed up the operation. Frigid temperatures continued to hamper the search, with Lapointe saying the ice in certain places was as thick as two feet.
Officials said they would end the day's search at 7 p.m. Saturday due to the difficult conditions, and resume Sunday morning.
Crews took a break on Friday night, their first since the Thursday morning fire ripped through the Residence du Havre home in the small community of L'Isle-Verte, about 140 miles northeast of Quebec City. Working on 45-minute shifts because conditions were too cold to go longer, they had been using steam machines to melt thick ice covering the corpses of some of those killed.
Police now say 10 people are known to have died in the fire, with 22 believed to have perished in the inferno.
"I think we can assume the worst, but you have to understand that we're not going to confirm any deaths until we've actually recovered the remains," Lapointe said.
Originally police reported 30 missing, but noted it was unclear how many of the residents were in the building when the fire broke out.
The search is on this morning for dozens of people still unaccounted for after a deadly fire blazed through a senior center in Quebec and killed at least five people. A fire chief called it a "night from hell." NBC's Katy Tur reports.
Few people in the town of fewer than 1,500 residents were untouched by the tragedy, CBC News reported.
Alphonse Gagnon, who lives across the street from the home, told the Canadian broadcaster that he and his wife, Yvette Michaud, knew many of the residents.
Gagnon said they saw a glow coming through some of the windows on Thursday morning.
"It was hard to look at. Everything was on fire ... I can't even talk about it," he told the CBC.
Officials said they did not know what caused the fire, and Lapointe asked residents and witnesses to hand over any videos or photographs taken after the fire broke out shortly after Wednesday midnight.
The disaster raised demands that Quebec make it mandatory for senior homes to be equipped with sprinkler systems. Only a part of the Residence du Havre had sprinklers, Reuters reported.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The national spotlight is on La Crosse this weekend as nearly 100 of the world's best anglers take to the water for the Mississippi River Rumble.
Last year was the first time La Crosse hosted the tournament. This year, organizers are hoping for a bigger turnout and an even bigger boost to the local economy.
The tournament's senior manager, Chris Bowes, said beneath the water's surface lies some of the best opportunities for fishing.
"It's a diverse fishery," said Bowes. "You're going to see anglers fishing, of course, in a lot of the backwater, [there is] heavy vegetation. "We know some of the anglers are more out on the fishing some of the man-made rock structures and things of that nature."
The anglers will be bringing in more than just fish.
"I think all of us combined are really excited about the event and the people that it draws and the fun it brings," said Dave Clements, of the La Crosse Visitors and Conventions Bureau.
In 2012, the event reeled in more 15,000 spectators and $950,000 for the local economy.
"If with the numbers and everything that happens, [I hope] that we break that $1 million mark," said Clements. "All of that money gets filtered out to many of the different businesses in the community, and it really does help support lots of different businesses and make their bottom line profitable and help keep them in business."
He also said the national publicity the area will receive is invaluable.
"We get two shows on ESPN and two shows on the Outdoor Channel," said Clements. "We get four one-hour TV shows that are highlighting the area, and the beauty of the area talking about La Crosse, and that is marketing that you can't put a price on. The value of that is so huge."
Clements said the publicity the tournament brings in helps put La Crosse on the national map as the place to be.
"It builds our brand and it builds the name La Crosse, and it just continues to send out this great message that La Crosse is a great place to live, work and play," said Clements.
Anglers and spectators will be able to take advantage of some of the new features down at the boat landing.
The city's Parks and Recreation Department used the more than $50,000 collected in boat landing fees last year to add new docks and bumpers.
They said the improvements help La Crosse make a good impression to a national audience.
"That's what attracts events like this, and that's what also really showcases the area for outside visitors to come and say, 'Hey, look at La Crosse, look at these landings,'" said Jay Odegaard, director of the La Crosse Parks and Recreation Department.
"These are something we're very proud of, and we want people to come and enjoy them," said Odegaard.
The West Copeland boat launch will be closed to the public Thursday through Sunday for the tournament.
La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat also proclaimed today as Bassmaster Elite Series Day.


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The Trimble County Lady Raiders took their "A Game" to Carrollton Saturday and obliterated the competition to win the Carroll County River Classic volleyball tournament. It was an exhausting day for Trimble's girls in the eight-team, double-elimination marathon.
Trimble picked up four wins during a busy day, defeated Grant County—25-17, 25-20; Ludlow—14-25, 26-24, 25-12; Meade County—25-14, 25-20; and Carroll County—25-14, 25-21 in the championship.
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Trimble County's cross country runners returned to action Friday in the prestigious Trinity/Valkerie Invitational, held at Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville. The event drew teams from schools in four states.
In a final tune-up prior to the Touchstone Energy All A Classic State Volleyball Tournament the Trimble County Lady Raiders overcame a determined team of Walton-Verona Lady Bearcats to win 25-21 and 25-23 Thursday at home.
The largest lead of either team was Trimble's 8-2 advantage in the first game. In that contest the score was tied six times. The score was knotted nine times in the second game. Trimble led 24-20 but allowed the Lady Bearcats to score three times to pull within one point, at 24-23, before Trimble closed the door.
The Trimble County Runnin' Raiders have literally been on the run during the past several days competing in three meets around the area. While failing to field enough runners for team scores in the girls' events, Trimble's athletes nevertheless have posted strong individual times. Trimble's boys were also short-handed at the North Central Kentucky Conference meet at Carroll County last Wednesday but rebounded for a strong performance at North Oldham Saturday.
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Trimble County's volleyball team will travel to Jeffersontown, Ky., Saturday to compete in the 2012 Touchstone Energy All A Classic Volleyball Tournament. The appearance will be Trimble County's second consecutive in the elite Sweet Sixteen of class A champions from the 16 regional sites around the state. This year's tournament will be held at the Mid America Volleyball Center in Jeffersontown.
The Trimble County Lady Raiders continue to reign supreme over North Central Kentucky Conference opponents in high school volleyball. Trimble claimed victories last week over Gallatin County (2-0) at home and Owen County (2-1) at Owenton.
It wasn't always pretty, but it was a win.
The Trimble County Lady Raiders managed to pull out a win on the road against the Carroll County Lady Panthers 3-1 Thursday night, despite not playing their 'A' game.
Trimble head coach Ruth Staples said to come out with a win when your team plays bad is "encouraging."
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Antonovich and Rebecca Huang, daughter of city Housing Director Bill Huang, to be honored for helping the needy
By Rebecca Kuzins 11/07/2012
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich has acquired $200,000 in grant funding to boost social welfare programs operated by Friends In Deed, an organization formed by the Ecumenical Council of Pasadena Area Congregations (ECPAC).
The grant, plus some additional sources of revenue, will also enable the Pasadena Bad Weather shelter to open this winter. Although officials cut shelter funding earlier this year, Pasadena Housing Director William Huang said the city has obtained $25,000 from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the service.
Huang's daughter, college freshman Rebecca Huang, has garnered another $27,000 in donations from individuals and businesses as a result of a fundraising effort she mounted last November, recruiting students from Westridge, Maranatha and San Marino high schools to assist in her campaign.
Antonovich was expected to present the organization with a check from the county for $100,000 today to help refurbish the building at 444 E. Washington Blvd. from which Friends In Deed manages a food pantry, daytime women's shelter and a program to assist people in need of money for rent and utilities.
The Rev. Pat O'Reilly, executive director of Friends In Deed, said this will be the first major renovation of the facility since it was built in the late 1970s. The renovation, explained Phillip Chen, Antonovich's health deputy, will create "a new face for an already great service."
Antonovich earlier this year provided Friends In Deed with another county-funded grant for $100,000 to enable the Bad Weather Shelter to remain in operation. Located at Pasadena Covenant Church on North Lake Avenue, the shelter provides housing and meals for homeless individuals and families each night in January and February, and on particularly cold or rainy nights from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve and March 1 through 15.
For many years, the city of Pasadena has earmarked $60,000 a year for the Bad Weather Shelter, which, according to O'Reilly, costs about $123,000 a year to operate. But as part of its budgetary cutbacks, the city dropped this allocation beginning in the current 2012-13 fiscal year, forcing the shelter to seek other sources of revenue. Today's scheduled event was aimed at raising additional funding for the shelter.
Antonovich was to be honored during the event, and O'Reilly said Rebecca Huang was also set to be recognized for her contributions.
"Rebecca's spirit and creativity, her hopefulness, really helped us get through a tough period of time," O'Reilly said. "She is an inspiration to us."
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Jacob Hubert was named principal of North Boone High School in Poplar Grove, IL. He's served as assistant principal at the school for the past five years and will begin as principal at the start of the 2012-2013 school year. He holds bachelor's degrees in sports medicine and athletic training from North Central and in mathematics from Illinois State University. He earned a master's degree in educational administration from Eastern Illinois University. He served in the Illinois Army National Guard as executive officer for Battery A, 2-122 FA and participated in the Hurricane Katrina relief mission.
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A north Spokane police standoff ended peacefully Sunday night.
It started around 3:15 afternoon when the SWAT team responded to a house on the 2700 block of north Perry.
Negotiators asked the man inside with his mother to let her go. Minutes later she walked out without incident.
Police then left the scene around 6:00 p.m. Officers told KXLY they left the scene because there was no longer a threat because the woman was let go.


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Personally, this year has been a topsy-turvy one. Since assuming editor duties back in March, I've written less, as my energy goes into directing a website that has grown, and grown again, and now has a staff some five times what it did when I began here just two years ago. I've done work I'm proud of, but it all amounts to barely 18 articles, not a lot in a year with so much interesting art and important news (you can review them all, Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-davis" target="_blank">here). In 2013, my resolution is to get to writing more, and with a capable features editor, Lori Fredrickson, I think I have more than just my own resolve behind me.
In the meantime, it hasn't all been pushing papers in circles. In particular, what has made this year worthwhile has been the chance to work with a tremendously talented staff of writers, who have, week after week, labored hard to turn out essays, reviews, and reports that have been a joy to edit. I've put together a list with a few of my personal favorites:
* Architecture critic Kelly Chan kicked off an excellent series of think pieces — including a report from the Bronx's new Via Verde Housing project and some illuminating thoughts on the practice of the late Lebbeus Woods — with a wide-ranging essay on the craze for pop-up architecture and what it meant for changing notions of urbanism.
* Former assistant editor Kyle Chayka — now decamped to rejoin the staff over at Hyperallergic — honed his voice with a sharp series of stories about art and technology. Among my favorites was his look at how artists were using hacked Xbox Kinect controllers to push the boundaries of photography.
* Back in June, Terri Ciccone — our social media director and also a contributor — put together a thoroughly reported piece, with dealers and artists weighing in on whether Bushwick had already passed the point of diminishing returns as an art neighborhood, given the sheer velocity of gentrification.
* Rachel Corbett offered the best analysis I know of the issues involved in the recently passed "New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law," which seeks to provide increased legal protections for artists in their interactions with dealers. Given recent scandals, that's important information indeed — and Rachel's story also happens to have one of the most memorable kickers I can remember, to boot.
* Kate Deimling, who doubles as our French translator — to her you owe one of the year's most amusing stories, on Paris's attempt to discourage noise pollution by deploying highly trained squadrons of mimes — also tackled a variety of news from the international arena. The one that stands out is her lengthy report investigating, and calling into question, the hype around the hunt for a supposedly "lost" fresco by Leonardo da Vinci.
* Market reporter Shane Ferro — who left the site at the beginning of fall for a sojourn on the West Coast — offered a Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Beneath-the-high-end-hype-art-prices-are-treading-water">sharp analysis of the auction market, showing how headline-grabbing records at the top end masked stagnation lower down. You can expect more such analysis in the new year — Shane returns to our team in January.
* Julia Halperin really did too much significant work this year to try to break out item by item, from her assessment of the forces driving smaller galleries out of Chelsea to multiple reports on the toll of the new "event-based" art economy of fairs (she even uncovered typical booth prices for 13 of the most important fairs). As evidence of sheer reportorial gumption, however, Julia's series of stories on the issues faced by New York galleries in the wake of Hurricane Sandy are probably the place to start (here, here, and here).
* In response to the Anne-Marie Slaughter's hotly debated story in the Atlantic on the struggles of contemporary women trying to balance family and career, Alanna Martinez solicited stories from prominent women working in the arts. The feature touched off so much interest that we published a follow-up highlighting the full essay-length texts we received from a variety of important artists, curators, and museum directors.
* Allison Meier launched our new "Emerging" column spotlighting worthy artists who are on the rise, adding an important element to the ARTINFO mix. Already she's profiled Firelei Baez, Serra Bothwell Fels, Juliette Losq, and Martin Roth.
* Reid Singer caught early on the story of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, a small Italian institution whose director captured international headlines by burning items from his own collection in a protest against austerity measures hitting the cultural sector. I also found his recent feature on archaelogists in Jerusalem who fear that their work is being hijacked by settler politics particularly worthy of note.
* What can I say about Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben-19076">Ben Sutton? Essentially, he is editing a publication all of his own, having taken charge of our In The Air newswire (you can see his own picks for some of the year's best entries, here). I wouldn't want people to think that he was just the guy who provided a meticulous history of the mustache in art last month, though. His review of the recently reopened Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia shows his critical chops.
* For market watchers, Judd Tully's many, many, many impeccable auction and fair reports continued this year to provide essential analysis. I wouldn't know where to begin in picking one ("The Scream" sale?) — but I will say that it was a pleasure to actually get to see him in action in a pair of video reports from Frieze and Art Basel Miami Beach.
* For sheer amusement, I come back to "Cool Girls Got Off at Contemporary," Chloe Wyma's riff on the behind-the-scenes office culture at Sotheby's (extrapolated from an n+1 report by Alice Gregory), as well as her survey of Yelp reviews of Chelsea galleries. For intellectual verve, however, one of the standouts from the year overall is Chloe's dissection of Richard Phillips's paintings at Gagosian. A joy to read.
* In the wake of Sandy, Sara Roffino ventured to Greenpoint to document the damage to the studios that called the neighborhood home, offering a poignant look at the toll the storm had taken on artists, some of whom lost their life's work to the waters.
* Design writer Janelle Zara taught me a thing or two, that's for sure. As for favorites, I recall her lengthy examination of how 3-D printing technology promised to transform design, from back in March, and her opus on the trend towards increasing incomprehensibility in men's watches, from April. But I am equally equally enthusiastic about her year-end essay on how irony is eating design alive, from just yesterday.
* Finally, any assessment of 2012 wouldn't be complete without mention of the many projects for which the entire team has pitched in on, in various ways. The most notable was our ranked list of "The 100 Most Iconic Artworks of the Last 5 Years," which the full staff helped assemble before it was voted on by a team including ARTINFO UK's Coline Milliard, ARTINFO China's Madeleine O'Dea, and Modern Painters editor Daniel Kunitz, alongside outside judges Jen Graves, Martha Schwendener, Walter Robinson, and Christian Viveros-Faune.
Among the more amusing of our team projects was our round-up of amusingly vitriolic art world reactions to reality show "Gallery Girls," harvested from a screening of the program's debut episode that we held with various colleagues. There were also fun projects like the stories where we offered our picks for artworks we actually liked from craft website Etsy and fantasy art site DeviantArt, or our graded list of art by musicians from David Byrne (A-) to Ringo Starr (D).
Last but not least, who could forget our blockbuster Thanksgiving feature "24 Artists' Childhood Hand Turkeys as Imagined by the Staff of ARTINFO?" I'll let you guess who did which.


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A new grant is helping the La Crosse Police Department cut down on underage drinking.
The $5,000 grant will help officers do compliance checks at the 170 local bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.
An underage civilian will be sent into the store to try and buy alcohol. A letter has been sent to all the licensed establishments warning them of the checks.
A department spokesperson says they don't want to trick businesses, rather they want to help educate them about the dangers of serving to people under 21.
"It's basically an education process, we are here for the business owners and the licensed establishments to work with them, we're not out there to trick anybody or anything like that," says La Crosse Police Lieutenant Pat Hogan, "we want to make sure they are running a good business and we'll do whatever we need to help them do that."
The grant will expand the compliance checks, which are a part of routine patrols.


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State Police to increase use of data sharing
MONTPELIER The Vermont State Police and other agencies within the Department of Public Safety are expanding information sharing and data analysis to help first responders do a better job in the field, the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety said Tuesday.
The changes that are in the works will include everything from expanding information sharing between different branches of government, using data to measure the success of how that information is shared and preparing the next head of the state police for the role he wont assume for over a year, Commissioner Keith Flynn said.
It will be done with a combination of technology, including a soon-to-be released state police app for the public, and new ways of thinking, Flynn said.
Its a big deal for Vermonters because were looking at some changes in how business has usually been done, said Flynn, who mentioned the changes during a state police promotion ceremony last week at the State House in Montpelier.
Were recognizing that we have to do what we can within the scope of our means, he said. In order to do that it means you have to look at new innovative approaches where were going to get the best return for our dollar.
Increased information sharing could mean, for example, being able to tell a trooper on the way to a call if the subject has a history with the Department of Corrections or known mental health challenges.
It is being done with a number of different computer programs and systems and other resources, including an improved communications system.
Deputy Public Safety Commissioner Francis Aumand said that over the last 10 years the state has spent about $15 million on technology upgrades, including $12 million on a new communication system with most of the money coming from the federal government.
Another area within Public Safety, but not necessarily the state police, could be having the blueprints of major buildings stored so they could be used by first responders in the event of a fire or other emergency.
One of the most visible changes was the promotion of State Police Lt. Col. Matthew Birmingham, who is being prepared to become director of the state police when Col. Tom LEsperance retires. That is expected to be next year, Flynn said.
Birmingham, a 16-year state police veteran, would become one of the organizations youngest leaders. He understands the need for new ways of thinking, Flynn said.
He will be one of the youngest colonels in the state police, Flynn said. He will bring an enthusiasm that will be equal to what Tom brings and with that enthusiasm, whenever you change people, there is an opportunity for change.
State Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, said some of the changes had been discussed in the Judiciary Committee he chairs, noting there had been some concern about the possible intrusive use of technology by law enforcement, such as license plate readers, but he hadnt heard that discussed.
If its used to get bad guys, its hard to have a problem with it, Sears said.
And one of the complaints in the ongoing troubles with the Department for Children and Families has been a lack of information sharing.
Theres been a lot of conversation with the Department of Public Safety and with others about data, Sears said. We need to get up with the times.
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Police said a woman died after she was struck by a delivery truck Thursday morning in downtown Madison.
Madison police said a University of Wisconsin System delivery truck was backing up at North Lake Street and Mendota Court when it struck a 60-year-old woman walking behind the vehicle around 10:30 a.m.
The woman, a UW-Madison employee, was taken to a hospital but police confirmed she has died.
"We have a traffic specialist who is investigating this, but the woman was struck by the truck and knocked to the ground, and then injuries that occurred after she was on the ground are what killed her," Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain said.
The driver told police he was pulling out slowly, and police said it wasn't the impact that led to the woman's death.
Madison police said they can't find anyone who saw the incident happen Thursday morning, but the backup warning on the truck was working.
The driver of the delivery truck is in his 20s, and police do not suspect drugs or alcohol were factors in the incident.
Officials said it is too early to tell whether or not the driver will be cited or charged.


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Explore the gateway to the charismatic 'Land of Smiles'… Bangkok is the city where towering skyscrapers stand alongside ancient Buddhist temples. Shop at sprawling megamalls or haggle for bargains at bustling street markets. Watch elegant classical dance or experience the renowned nocturnal scene. Just a short flight away, Phuket beckons with its postcard-perfect beaches of powdery sands and turquoise waters. After dark, head to pulsating, neon-lit Patong for a slice of exuberant nightlife.
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Embrace the city of contrasts that is Bangkok. Explore the buzzing centre by tuk-tuk, taking in shimmering skyscrapers and glossy shopping malls. Or wander around serene temples and palaces before browsing the colourful goods at a floating market. Then fly to Koh Samui and explore this island idyll of pristine beaches and lush greenery. Hop in a 'songthaew' taxi with locals and head to bustling Chaweng Beach. Or unwind on the secluded shores of Hanumen Bay.
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Discover the cultural and spiritual heart of Bangkok. Gaze upon the ornate golden spires of the Grand Palace and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. Take in the majesty of the gleaming Reclining Buddha of Wat Pho. Then fly north to Chiang Mai and marvel at the towering tiers of the Temple of Wat Chedi Luang. Admire the incredible works at the 3D Art in Paradise museum and Wattana Art Gallery. Continuing to Koh Samui via Bangkok, enjoy some downtime lazing on postcard-perfect beaches.
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From its skyscraper-studded centre to its magnificent historic temples – discover the many sides of Bangkok. Shop at deluxe malls and bustling night markets. Tuck into sizzling street stall fare, or dine at a lavish rooftop restaurant. Fly on to Koh Samui and unwind on pristine white sand beaches, making time to visit the awe-inspiring Big Buddha. Continue to Singapore for some retail therapy in this shopping paradise. Wander around the incredible Gardens By the Bay. Or spend a thrilling family day out at Universal Studios.


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Six years ago, the Green Bay Packers had yet to finish with an over-.500 record on his watch. They hadn't won a playoff game, much less Super Bowl XLV. And the ugly Brett Favre affair of the summer of 2008 was still months away.
Two years into his tenure as the Packers general manager, Ted Thompson was acutely aware of how some folks felt about him.
"I would like for the Packer fans to think the Packers are in good hands, quite frankly. Not necessarily everybody patting you on the back, but to kind of there be a little trust with the Packer fans (in) me," Thompson said in an interview in the fall of 2007.
"But at the same time, this is a big boy place, and if I get criticized, I'm OK with it. Personally, I can take it from an ego standpoint, but I would prefer it if it was more of a positive message, just because of the people out there who are getting up and reading that at the breakfast table or watching it on the nightly news at night. It might make them have a bad day thinking, 'Oh my gosh,' that sort of thing. I'm not immune to that. But I'm fairly thick-skinned about other things."
Here we are, six years later, and the Packers have gone 78-50 in regular-season play in Thompson's eight seasons as general manager. They won Super Bowl XLV after the 2010 season and are 6-4 in postseason play. His teams have won 10 or more games each of the last four years.
And even if it's simply a vocal minority with Internet access and Twitter accounts, his tried-and-true, draft-and-develop approach to building a team is again being questioned by portions of the team's passionate fan base.
As he sat on a cushioned wicker chair on a patio outside the tony Arizona Biltmore resort Sunday afternoon, chatting with a small group of reporters, Thompson sounded no different than he had six years prior. He understands why folks may feel the way they do, but he's not changing his approach – for anyone.
"I don't think fans are unruly or harmful or mad at me. I think they want the Packers to do good," Thompson said after arriving at the annual NFL Meetings a few hours earlier. "It means so much to the state of Wisconsin and Packers fans everywhere for the organization to do well, and I think they want us to do right by the organization and right by the players. And we try to do that.
"I don't think you can get too worked up about being criticized."
Even when, in the opening days of NFL free agency, a portion of the league's only fan base/ownership group is apoplectic.
It began with outside linebacker Erik Walden signing with the Indianapolis Colts, although his departure drew little notice, other than perhaps surprise at the size of his contract. Then free-agent defensive end Chris Canty signed with the Baltimore Ravens (after the Packers didn't like what they saw in a physical exam during his visit).
Then, free-agent running back Steven Jackson picked the Atlanta Falcons over the Packers (three years, $12 million), followed by Packers free-agent wide receiver Greg Jennings spurning his old team's offer to sign with the rival Minnesota Vikings (five years, $47.5 million). By the time fan favorite Tom Crabtree, who hadn't been tendered as a restricted free agent, came to terms with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Friday night, the grumbling on social media and sports-talk radio was hard to ignore.
All the while, of course, fans saw three division rivals (the Vikings, Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions) and two NFC conference rivals (the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers) improving their teams while Thompson was seemingly doing nothing.
In reality, it was simply Thompson being Thompson. Even coach Mike McCarthy, who used to pay keen attention to the free-agent market and have a wish list of players in his mind, knew better than to worry about who wasn't coming. Instead, McCarthy has been focused on revamping his offseason program and practice schedule and diving into various studies and reports that he used to not have time to read.
"I have a depth chart board (in my office) just like Ted does. Mine's nicer than his. Mine has pictures and bigger numbers," McCarthy joked, sitting in the same patio chair Thompson had a half-hour earlier. "It's the same process every year. I kind of tilt to free agents, but really, I don't spend as much time talking with Ted about it as I have in the past.
"I'm sure there are things you don't get consumed (with) that you probably said five years ago, 'I spent a lot of time on that.' That's kind of where I'm at. I know what I'm going to use when the players are back. Are you going to consume yourself (with) 70 players when maybe three of them are going to be in your building? Or are you going to consume your time in player acquisition more toward the draft, which you know you have a better chance of? Opinions are heard and given, but I think I've done a much better job of keeping our coaching staff focused on our guys. That's the group we know we're going to train and we know we're going to help get better."
Calling free-agent signings "major, macro decisions you make," Thompson insisted that he's not afraid of diving into free agency if need be – as he did in 2006, when he hit a home run with defensive tackle Ryan Picket (four years, $14 million) and a grand slam on cornerback Charles Woodson (seven years, $39 million) but whiffed on safety Marquand Manuel (five years, $10 million).
Thompson's cautious free-agent approach could pay dividends this year, with a relatively flat salary cap and a glut of veteran players being released by their teams, flooding the market with even more free agents. Signing running back Cedric Benson for the league minimum last August turned out to be a solid move, even though Benson's season ended with a Week 5 foot injury.
But Thompson also said he's not gun-shy about making a mistake in free agency, even though veteran center Jeff Saturday didn't really work out last year and every year brings more cautionary tales courtesy of other teams.
"It seems like that always happens. Guys get on the wrong side of a contract and they get released," Thompson said. "That's part of the balance of being aggressive in free agency. Because you get these contracts at the time, they look really good for the team and the player, and then three years later, it looks good for the player but it doesn't look quite as good for the team.
"But at the same time, a person in my position, you can't be so afraid of that or so concerned about not having a bad deal sometime that you become comatose and don't do anything. But there are very smart people around the NFL and you'll see a lot of these guys this week. We all make mistakes, and most of us have been in that position where it doesn't work out.
"If opportunities arise, then we certainly would be willing to look into it. Just because free agency that usually stays hot and heavy for a week or 10 days, there'll be a lot of roster moves, including for our team, over the course of the spring and summer."
Listen to Jason Wilde every weekday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on "Green & Gold Today" on 540 ESPN, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasonjwilde.


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December 29, 2011 —
Scanning through the archives of columns I've penned in the last year, I failed to find inspiration in a single word I've written. Rather than be depressed, I decided to turn to others for pithy comments and have (blind, unfounded) faith that I may say something worth remembering as 2012 unfolds.
There are those in the community who might be surprised to find me at a loss for words, but (believe it or not) it does happen, on rare occasion—and I set out to surf the web seeking divine intervention. Since I could not uncover anything I've said worthy of (IMHO) repeating, I began my journey by sifting through what others find quotable.
Ironically, the first words to resonate with me were uttered by someone I've never heard of, named Michel de Montaigne. I neither speak nor read French, but I stumbled across an English translation attributed to him (www.speaking-tips.com [2]) which reads, "I quote others only the better to express myself." A college professor once called me "lazy" for quoting others and suggested that I explore "original thought" in future endeavors. Nice. Unwilling to admit that I could be experiencing "writer's block" (to say nothing of lack of oxygen to the brain) I delved further, feverishly searching for more on the subject (which by now has slipped my mind) at hand. Oh right, the new year.
Once again, a fellow with whom I am unfamiliar popped up. Bill Vaughn, who was (according to www.thinkexist.com [3]) an "American industry author, mentor and subject-matter expert" once said, "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." Since "subject-matter expert" seemed ambiguous enough a title for even me to cling to, I embraced Vaughn's' musings and read on.
Scrolling down the page, I came across James Agate, who (unbeknownst to me) was a "British diarist and considered one of Britain's most influential theater critics." The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (www.artsalliancesite.org [4]) gallery curator Rocky Pinciotti once dubbed me the "Baird Jones of the Catskills", so I feel justified in aligning myself with this Agate guy. (Who was Baird Jones, you ask? Google him...I'm busy.)
Feeling like I was on a roll, I checked out what this other brilliant critic had to say about marking the calendar. Flipping through his diary, I noted these words: "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time." Rather than sharing Agate's opinion of those around him, it is myself I sometimes consider the fool and silently pray that others tolerate me while I prattle on, taking up their precious time. Hmm.
Still at a loss for (original) words, I decided to peruse the writings of those slightly more influential than myself and hovered over this quote by T.S. Eliot, who waxed rhapsodic (www.poets.org [5]) by saying "For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice." Unwittingly, Eliott has faith in me, so who am I to argue?
Pausing to grab some holiday leftovers (I don't cook, but thankfully my neighbors do), I came across a suitable quote to enhance my lunch, but failed to discover (search as I might) who said it. Appropriate (albeit lighthearted) I quote the uncredited author, who said "People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas." Oddly reminiscent of words Mae West once famously spoke, I nodded my head silently and ate another menorah-shaped cookie that I had not baked.
My mind rarely (if ever) approaches deep thought; therefore I decided to check out what a humorist might have said worth quoting, since I have been called the "H" word once or twice during my roller-coaster career. I stumbled across the words of Joey Adams, who (coincidentally?) wrote the book "Borscht Belt" in 1973. After being inducted into the Friars Club Hall of Fame (www.wikipedia.org [6]) in 1977, Adams left the crowd with this: "May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." Surely, someone will drop an expensive bottle of champagne (I don't shop) at my door before we ring in the new year, and when they do... I'll drink to that!


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City council members Ann Kobayashi and Stanley Chang announced Thursday that the city is starting road work in Kaimuki, including along Waialae Avenue.
The work is expected to be completed in December 2013 at an estimated cost of $9.3 million.
"In the past two years, the council increased the budget to fix our roads from $45 million to $100 million," said Kobayashi. "These funds are going far to rehabilitate our most heavily traveled streets, such as Waialae Avenue."
Road work began last month and it also includes driveway and bus pad reconstruction; adjustment of utility manholes, boxes, covers and street survey monuments; catch basin reconstruction; and installation of a grade adjustment curb.
"These repairs are long overdue and we wanted to let the residents of Kaimuki and those coming form other neighborhoods of the roadwork that will be occurring in the coming year, which is going to affect a number of commuters," said Chang.
As of this writing, road work will take place at night from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m., Sunday through Friday. All other work activities will occur during the normal work hours from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The following is a list of the streets included in this project:
- Waialae Avenue from Kapahulu Ave. to 17th Ave.
- 5th Ave. from Harding Ave. to Waialae Ave.
- 6th Ave. from Pahoa Ave. to Harding Ave.
- 7th Ave. from Pahoa Ave. to Waialae Ave.
- 8th Ave. from H-1 to Waialae Ave.
- 9th Ave. from H-1 to Waialae Ave.
- 10th Ave. H-1 underpass
- 11th Ave. from Harding Ave. to Waialae Ave.
- 12th Ave. from H-1 to Waialae Ave.
- 13th Ave. from Keanu St. to Claudine St.
- 14th Ave. from Waialae Ave. to Keanu St.
- 15th Ave. from Waialae Ave. to Noeau St.
- 16th Ave. from Waialae Ave. to Koko Dr.
- 17th Ave. from H-1 to Noeau St.
- Anuhea Pl. from Anuhea St. to end
- Anuhea St. adjacent to the Claudine St. intersection
- Claudine St. from Noeau St. to Ekaha Ave.
- Ekaha Ave. from Waialae Ave. to Claudine St.
- Elizabeth St. from Waialae Ave. to Keanu St.
- Hoku Ave. from Ekaha Ave. to end
- Keanu St. from Wilhelmina Rise to end
- Kikeke Ave. from the dead end to the concrete pavement
- Koko Dr. from 16th Ave. to Paula Dr.
- Koko Dr. from Ekaha Ave. to walkway
- Moi Way from Keanu St. to Claudine St.
- Noeau St. from Claudine St. to Ekaha St.


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Also in FreeBSD Basics:
In last week's article, we went through the various fields found in the Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers of an IP packet. While these fields may seem mind-numbingly technical at first, there is a good reason to be aware of the possible values for each field.
The values found in an IP packet's headers provide all of the information necessary to successfully send data from one computer running TCP/IP to another computer running TCP/IP; it doesn't matter if the two computers are cabled onto the same LAN or if they are physically separated by large geographic distances, the data will still arrive intact. Unfortunately, this robustness is a double-edged sword. If someone is so inclined, they can exploit the values found in an IP packet's headers in order to break into a computer running TCP/IP so they can steal or tamper with its data.
Your FreeBSD system provides many mechanisms to help protect your data from such exploits; these include
ipfw, natd, ipfilter, and
tcp wrappers. In order to successfully configure these mechanisms and ensure that they are blocking unwanted IP packets but are still allowing the delivery of wanted IP packets, you need to be aware of the differences in the values in the IP headers of a wanted and unwanted IP packet.
In today's article, I'd like to demonstrate the use of the
tcpdump utility. This utility captures packets so you can examine the data and the headers within each packet. For this reason, you only run this utility on your own network; I repeat, don't run this utility on someone else's network unless they have given you explicit permission to do so.
When you run
tcpdump, it will put your NIC into what is known as "promiscuous" mode. Normally, when a NIC sees a packet being transmitted on the media, it only monitors the signal long enough to determine if that packet is destined for its MAC address. If it is addressed to its MAC address, it will load the entire packet into RAM until the TCP/IP protocol has a chance to process the packet. If it is not addressed to its MAC address, it will simply ignore the rest of the packet and wait to monitor the next packet that is transmitted. When a NIC is placed into promiscuous mode, it will load and process all packets, regardless of whom the packets are destined for. This doesn't mean that the original recipient won't receive its packet; instead, it means that the packet will be received by both the intended recipient and the NIC that is running in promiscuous mode.
When you put a NIC into promiscuous mode on a FreeBSD system, the Berkeley Packet filter or
bpf device is loaded. If you are running a recent version of FreeBSD, the bpf device should already be in your kernel. If it is not, this FAQ tells you what line you need to add to your kernel, and this link will give instructions on how to rebuild your kernel.
There is one last thing we need to be aware of before we run the
tcpdump utility. Before an IP packet can be transmitted over a media, it must first be placed into a "frame"; this process is known as encapsulation. Encapsulation occurs at what is known as Layer 2, and it is the job of the interface that will transmit the packet to first encapsulate that packet into a frame. Just as there are many types of interfaces capable of transmitting packets, there are many types of frames. For example, a NIC may be cabled to an Ethernet network or to a Token Ring network; accordingly, there are Token Ring frames, which are different from Ethernet frames. Instead of a NIC, you may use a dial-up modem to connect to a network; in this case, your modem uses PPP, which in turn uses a protocol known as HDLC to create the PPP frames.
In my home network, I have a computer named "genisis" with an IP address of 10.0.0.1; it is connected using an Ethernet topology to a computer named "biko" whose IP address is 10.0.0.2. I'll use the
tcpdump utility to capture the packets that are used to establish and disconnect a telnet session between these two computers.
Only the superuser can run the
tcpdump utility; regular users will receive this warning message instead:
tcpdump: /dev/bpf0: Permission denied
On the computer "genisis," I'll become the superuser and start the
tcpdump utility like so:
tcpdump -s 1518 -i ed0 -w dump
tcpdump: listening on ed0
A note on the switches I used: I specified the maximum number of bytes to capture per frame with
-s 1518, which is the maximum size of an Ethernet frame. I specified which interface to monitor with
-i ed0, and I told tcpdump to send its output to a file named dump instead of to my screen with
-w dump.
If I now press ALT-F1, I'll also see the following console message:
Mar 4 10:25:24 genisis /kernel: ed0: promiscuous mode enabled
Now, at the computer named "biko," I'll telnet into the computer "genisis"; once I've successfully logged in, I'll immediately exit from the telnet connection:
telnet 10.0.0.1
Trying 10.0.0.1...
Connected to genisis.
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeBSD/i386 (istar.ca) (ttyp0)
login: genisis
Warning: your password expires on Thu Mar 8 17:31:47 2001
Last login: Sun Mar 4 10:23:04 from 127.0.0.1
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE (SOUND) #0 Tue Dec 12 20:01P29 EST 2000
Welcome to FreeBSD 4.2!!!
You have mail.
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Connection closed by foreign host.
I then return to the keyboard on "genisis" and end the
tcpdump like so:
88 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
And if I double-check the console:
Mar 4 10:25:44 genisis /kernel: ed0: promiscuous mode disabled
Since there aren't any other computers on this network, all of those 88 packets captured during that 20-second interval dealt with establishing and ending that telnet session.
There are several ways to analyze the output of my newly created "dump" file. I'll demonstrate several ways to view this file so you can see that different utilities vary in the amount of detail they show you regarding the contents of each captured frame.
Let's start by seeing what type of file
tcpdump created:
file dump
dump: tcpdump capture file (little-endian) - version 2.4 (Ethernet, capture length 1518)
The dump file is not a text file, so we won't be using an editor or a
pager to view its contents. We can use the
tcpdump utility with the
r switch to analyze the contents of this file; however, this output is
not exactly novice friendly. I'll show some snipped output to
demonstrate; at the very least, you may recognize some fields from last
week's article:
tcpdump -r dump
<snipped to just show packets 10-12>
10:25:36.854420 10.0.0.2.blackjack > 10.0.0.1.telnet: S 3205630181:3205630181(0) win 16384 <mss 1460> (DF) [tos 0x10]
10:25:36.854653 10.0.0.1.telnet > 10.0.0.2.blackjack: S 1746119590:1746119590(0) ack 3205630182 win 17520 <mss 1460> (DF)
10:25:36.854996 10.0.0.2.blackjack > 10.0.0.1.telnet: . ack 1 win 17520 (DF) [tos 0x10]
The FreeBSD ports collection contains a utility known as
tcpshow that can be used to display dump files created by tcpdump. Let's build this
utility as the superuser and try it out:
cd /usr/ports/net/tcpshow
make install clean
Once your build is finished, you can exit the superuser account, as you don't need to be the superuser to use the tcpshow utility. Assuming you are in the same directory as the dump file to be analyzed, type:
tcpshow < dump |more
I won't analyze every packet with you, but I would like to look at some of the highlights of packets 10 to 12. You may remember from Understanding BSD Daemons (page 2) that TCP uses a three-way handshake before any data is actually transmitted. Let's take a look at packet number 10:
Packet 10
LINK: 00:00:B4:3C:56:40 -> 00:50:BA:DE:36:33 type=IP
IP: biko -> genisis hlen=20 TOS=10 dgramlen=44 id=0013
MF/DF=0/1 frag=0 TTL=64 proto=TCP cksum=26A7
TCP: port blackjack -> telnet seq=3205630181 ack=0000000000
hlen=24 (data=0) UAPRSF=000010 wnd=16384 cksum=7814 urg=0
DATA: <No data>
Not counting the TIME heading, there are four parts to this packet. The LINK heading represents the Layer 2 frame. Normally, this is the portion of the packet that is monitored by the NIC; you'll note that it contains the MAC address of the sending computer and the MAC address of the destination computer. There are several different types of Ethernet frames; I can tell this is an Ethernet_II frame since it contains a "type" field.
The IP heading represents the Layer 3 IP header; all of the fields we
mentioned last week are here except for the version field and the optional
options field. You'll note that
tcpshow resolved the IP addresses for
genisis and biko for you; from the arrow, we can tell that this packet was sent
by biko and is destined for genisis. Notice that the header length (hlen) has
been interpreted as 20 bytes and the length of the entire IP packet
(dgramlen) is 44 bytes. The "MF/DF" field represents the flags for
may fragment and don't fragment; in this packet, the don't fragment flag
has been turned on as it has been set to 1. Finally, the protocol (proto)
indicates TCP; not surprisingly, the next column is labelled TCP, as it
represents the Layer 4 TCP header.
In the TCP header, the source and destination port numbers have been resolved for you; not surprisingly, biko is trying to access the telnet port on the host genisis. This packet has a sequence number; since it is the first TCP packet, the acknowledgement has been set to 0 as there aren't any packets to acknowledge having been received yet. The TCP header length is 24 bytes; if you add these 24 bytes to the IP header length of 20 bytes, you'll receive the IP packet length of 44 bytes, so it looks like this packet arrived intact.
Now we get to the most interesting part of this IP packet. Note that the only TCP flag (UAPRSF) to be set to 1 is the S or the synchronize flag. This packet represents step one of the three-way handshake required to establish the TCP connection. Not surprisingly, there is no actual data being sent with this packet, and the DATA column contains no data. Remember, no data can be sent between applications that use TCP as their transport until the three-way handshake has been successful. Lastly, note that the Layer 4 header has indicated the window size biko is willing to use and has calculated the checksum on the contents of the IP packet.
Let's take a look at packet 11 to see how the computer genisis responded to this packet:
Packet 11
LINK: 00:50:BA:DE:36:33 -> 00:00:B4:3C:56:40 type=IP
IP: genisis -> biko hlen=20 TOS=00 dgramlen=44 id=9554
MF/DF=0/1 frag=0 TTL=64 proto=TCP cksum=9175
TCP: port telnet -> blackjack seq=1746119590 ack=3205630182
hlen=24 (data=0) UAPRSF=010010 wnd=17520 cksum=5FD9 urg=0
DATA: <No data>
The TCP header contains the more interesting bits of genisis' response packet. Note that genisis responded with its own unique sequence number. Now compare the ack number in packet 11 with the original sequence number from packet 10; it is one more than the original sequence number of 3205630181. This indicates that the computer genisis successfully processed the IP packet containing that sequence number and is now ready to receive the packet that is next in sequence. When we look at biko's response to this IP packet, we'll expect to see an ack number that is one higher than this packet's sequence number of 1746119590.
Also notice that an additional flag has been set on this packet, since it is the second packet involved in the three-way handshake. You can always recognize this type of packet because both the A (acknowledgement) and S (synchronize) flags will be set. Again, this packet should not contain any actual data.
Now, let's see if packet number 12 contains the last step of the three-way handshake:
Packet 12
LINK: 00:00:B4:3C:56:40 -> 00:50:BA:DE:36:33 type=IP
IP: biko -> genisis hlen=20 TOS=10 dgramlen=40 id=0014
MF/DF=0/1 frag=0 TTL=64 proto=TCP cksum=26AA
TCP: port blackjack -> telnet seq=3205630182 ack=1746119591
hlen=20 (data=0) UAPRSF=010000 wnd=17520 cksum=7796 urg=0
DATA: <No data>
It looks like we received the acknowledgement number that we were expecting; also note that biko responded to genisis' acknowledgement by sending the next packet in its sequence. This is the last packet involved in the three-way handshake; we can recognize it as such because the only flag that has been set is the A (acknowledgement) flag and there is no data contained within this IP packet.
Before we leave these three packets involved in the three-way handshake, I'd like to show you how the Ethereal utility views these same three packets. We've already covered how to build and use Ethereal in Using Ethereal. If I open up Ethereal on my FreeBSD system, I can go to the File Menu and open up the dump file to view its contents. Once I've opened up this file, I can save it to a text file by again going to the File Menu and choosing Print. When the print screen is displayed, I choose to print to a file; the resulting file can then be viewed using an editor or a pager. On my system, I used this method to create a file called etherdump:
more etherdump
<snip to just show packets 10-12>
Frame 10 (60 on wire, 60 captured)
Arrival Time: Mar 4, 2001 10:25:36.8544
Time delta from previous packet: 6.232947 seconds
Frame Number: 10
Packet Length: 60 bytes
Capture Length: 60 bytes
Ethernet II
Destination: 00:50:ba:de:36:33 (genisis)
Source: 00:00:b4:3c:56:40 (biko)
Type: IP (0x0800)
Trailer: 1011
Internet Protocol
Version: 4
Header length: 20 bytes
Differentiated Services Field: 0x10 (DSCP 0x04: Unknown DSCP; ECN: 0x00)
0001 00.. = Differentiated Services Codepoint: Unknown (0x04)
.... ..0. = ECN-Capable Transport (ECT): 0
Total Length: 44
Identification: 0x0013
Flags: 0x04
.1.. = Don't fragment: Set
..0. = More fragments: Not set
Fragment offset: 0
Time to live: 64
Protocol: TCP (0x06)
Header checksum: 0x26a7 (correct)
Source: biko (10.0.0.2)
Destination: genisis (10.0.0.1)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: blackjack (1025), Dst Port: telnet (23), Seq: 3205630181, Ack: 0
Source port: blackjack (1025)
Destination port: telnet (23)
Sequence number: 3205630181
Header length: 24 bytes
Flags: 0x0002 (SYN)
0... .... = Congestion Window Reduced (CWR): Not set
.0.. .... = ECN-Echo: Not set
..0. .... = Urgent: Not set
...0 .... = Acknowledgment: Not set
.... 0... = Push: Not set
.... .0.. = Reset: Not set
.... ..1. = Syn: Set
.... ...0 = Fin: Not set
Window size: 16384
Checksum: 0x7814
Options: (4 bytes)
Maximum segment size: 1460 bytes
Frame 11 (58 on wire, 58 captured)
Arrival Time: Mar 4, 2001 10:25:36.8546
Time delta from previous packet: 0.000233 seconds
Frame Number: 11
Packet Length: 58 bytes
Capture Length: 58 bytes
Ethernet II
Destination: 00:00:b4:3c:56:40 (biko)
Source: 00:50:ba:de:36:33 (genisis)
Type: IP (0x0800)
Internet Protocol
Version: 4
Header length: 20 bytes
Differentiated Services Field: 0x00 (DSCP 0x00: Default; ECN: 0x00)
0000 00.. = Differentiated Services Codepoint: Default (0x00)
.... ..0. = ECN-Capable Transport (ECT): 0
Total Length: 44
Identification: 0x9554
Flags: 0x04
.1.. = Don't fragment: Set
..0. = More fragments: Not set
Fragment offset: 0
Time to live: 64
Protocol: TCP (0x06)
Header checksum: 0x9175 (correct)
Source: genisis (10.0.0.1)
Destination: biko (10.0.0.2)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: telnet (23), Dst Port: blackjack (1025), Seq: 1746119590, Ack: 3205630182
Source port: telnet (23)
Destination port: blackjack (1025)
Sequence number: 1746119590
Acknowledgement number: 3205630182
Header length: 24 bytes
Flags: 0x0012 (SYN, ACK)
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Skip to comments.Riot Breaks Out At Housing Assistance Event In Metro Detroit
Posted on 01/12/2013 4:03:25 PM PST by Iron Munro
An event designed to help assist Michigan families with housing expenses turned into a chaotic scene after there was a mad rush to collect Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers.
The incident happened Saturday morning at the Wayne County Family Health Services Center on Eureka Road, between Beech Daly and Inkster roads in Taylor where thousands of people were waiting to get housing vouchers, many who had been waiting outside in the cold since the night before.
Reports say the amount of people who showed up looking for assistance heavily outweighed the number of vouchers to be distributed. As the night was fading away and the sun started to shine, the crowd continued to grow as more and more people arrived. According to reports, only 1,000 vouchers were available for distribution. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people were in attendance.
When it came time for the vouchers to be distributed, police said there was a mad rush for the door, with people jockeying for position to be the first inside the building. Officers tried to control the crowd, but couldnt. Fearing the situation was more than they could handle, event organizers shut the entire thing down and turned off the lights inside the building. Witnesses say thats when things really got ugly.
Star Lee, of Romulus, described the scene as complete chaos.
People just dont have order to themselves, you know what I mean? People were fighting and throwing chairs, and thats just not necessary. We were asked to just come and line up and, you know, make things simple. They shut it down before it even got started and its just sad because some people really needed this help, this assistance, she said.
Candice Wacasey, of Taylor, said she was frightened. Garbage litters the ground at a human services building in Taylor where thousands of people rioted when a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher distribution event was cancelled. (WWJ Photo/Beth Fisher)
Garbage litters the ground at a human services building in Taylor where thousands of people rioted when a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher distribution event was cancelled. (WWJ Photo/Beth Fisher)
When the lights went out, it went horrible. People started trampling over people, there was a disabled lady that was in a wheelchair and they was trying to knock her over to get in front of her. I mean, just crazy, she said.
Lenny Syer, of Melvindale, said some people lost all inhibitions, even muscling small children out-of-the-way.
There was people who was physically putting their hands on peoples childs (sic) and moving them. It was unbelievable, he said.
Additional help was called in from Michigan State Police, who helped Taylor police control the melee and disperse the crowd. Four people were arrested, but police say no one was injured.
Police say the event will be rescheduled, although specific details still need to be worked out.
Due to the high demand of the Section 8 vouchers, we will meet with HUD Representatives to discuss the series of events, re-evaluate the distribution method and implement a process that ensures a greater level of efficiency and safety, Mary Radamacher, Director of the Taylor Housing Commission, said in a statement.
Some of those in attendance Saturday said they hope organizers will be extra cautious and bring in additional security to insure things go differently next time.
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program is the federal governments major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly and the disabled to afford decent, safe and sanitary housing in the private market. A housing subsidy is paid to the landlord directly by the government on behalf of the participating family, which then pays the difference between the actual rent charged by the landlord and the amount subsidized by the program.
The maximum housing assistance is generally the lesser of the payment standard minus 30 percent of the familys monthly adjusted income, or the gross rent for the unit minus 30 percent of monthly adjusted income, according to HUD.
They had fights breaking out at the one in New Orleans as well. I suspect the same is going on all over the country.
I didn't think the Amish needed housing assistance.
BO wants every citizen in the US to be in these lines, except for himself, of course.
Face palm/ Who saw this coming!
Freegards LEX
You really do have to wonder if its not intentional. There are better ways of doing it but this way gets headlines.
From Obaaaama's stash.
The only photos with the CBS article are one of autos on a road and an empty parking lot with some trash here and there - where are the photos of people?
When a riot happens it is caused by people. I suppose in this instance that they were not the PC color.
It seems to me that useful tools for controlling unruly mobs were at one time available to the police. Pity that no longer attains.
And I'll add that it's a real pity the government drones involved weren't torn to pieces by this mob. One could almost consider that a public service.
Doesn't anybody at H.U.D. realize this sort of thing happens every time? A simple way to do it would let everyone sign up, then choose the 1,000 "winners" by the luck of the draw. That way it wouldn't matter who was first in line or last in line.
It's almost as if the decision makers at H.U.D. want this kind of result. hmmmmm.
Watch the rats scurry over each other to get the crumbs the government doles out to them...
These are people fighting to fighting to get first place in line for new freebies.
Just think of what is going to happen when the money runs out and we try to pry the ones already in government supplied houses out of them when the HUD can't pay the bills anymore.
This arrogant dimocrat queen tried to tell me that section 8 housing recipients are good people who take care of the property and NO ONE has anything to worry about from those folks. They just need some help.
Yeah right...help destroying another decent neighborhood.
Holder's People.
More than one person means a riot.
Damned Amish again.
they'll be running out of their government housing into the streets and then out of urban areas into suburban and then rural.
Be prepared, be ready. Know your neighbors, work together.
Times like these are when I wish my family lived on a huge compound with lots of land and fences around us. Unfortunately, we don't...
I'm just glad I live in a tiny town that has few services and only two rental properties.
One more reason to tell Obama's Rural council to shove it.
No. The animals won't go rural, believe me.
I had heard that Detroit was full of abandoned housing and many homes sold for less than $10,000. Geez, you'd think the city could put these folks up in these.
the urban black community just cannot control themselves. consider they behave this way with their own folk. no wonder they have no regard when they treat non-blacks like garbage.
People just dont have order to themselves, you know what I mean? People were fighting and throwing chairs, and thats just not necessary. We were asked to just come and line up and, you know, make things simple. They shut it down before it even got started and its just sad because some people really needed this help, this assistance, she said. ------
Dude...even the Romulans cain't herd these 'cats!!! It is chaos!!!
After shredding the laws of the land and making a mockery out of legislative process we have people crying out for order? Really?
You want fries with that?
The problem is the bureaucrats at HUD don't look at a situation like this and ask, "What the hell is the matter with these people?"
Rather, they say to themselves, "The Soviet Union had even longer long lines and they never had these kind of problems. How did they keep things so orderly? What were they doing that we're not?"
You are so correct.
heard = herd
"where are the photos of people?"
Defective film, I guess....The photos turned out all black.
Wasn't it also i Chicago? the one on Drudge? Or was it this one, in Detriotistan?
The same way locusts are good for a crop field.
All the commission had to do was print up another 3 or 4 thousand vouchers, like our government does when it runs short on cash, and pass them out to all in attendance.
All the welfare recipients with their Obama phones would have been happy and the 2016 democrat voting bloc would have been guaranteed. Instead, these people were callously turned away, thinking that this government had let them down.
Is there no justice for the poor in this country anymore?
Nice summary of the #1 cultural problem in the nation.
The root cause of the problem will never be addressed because it is not politically correct to admit it even exists.
The modern urban afro-american culture has devolved to such an extent that there seems to be no hope and change...just a people circling the bowl.
Okay...Just for informations sake...they don't hand these thing out willy-nilly in Washington state. You have to wait on a waiting list this is...at this point...three YEARS long. Or, if you have gone through special programs they will, after you graduate, grant you a Section 8 voucher without the waiting.
Not ALL people who have Section 8 are property-destroying slobs who ruin neighborhoods. I live in a neighborhood that I know has at least three Section 8 houses. Not a ONE of them are dirty, filled with trash, or have unkempt lawns. And one of the families has a working (full time) father and a stay-at-home mom, married to each other for 15 years and not to anyone else, with four kids, one of whom is disabled. And...they are WHITE.
Stereotypes suck, they aren't always accurate, and we conservatives should be better then that.
This is normal for Detroit, isn;t it?
As I understand it, what they do here in Jackson county is to put them on a waiting list when they sign up for assistance. When the money becomes available they just work from the top of the list. That way they don't have a stampede.
This is what happens when they don't have enough free stuff to go around.The obvious answer is to raise taxes so that this tragedy never happens again.
That was exactly my first thought - whose brilliant idea was it to turn this into a feeding frenzy in the first place? Oh wait, Detroit, say no more.
FWIW....While riding on the city bus some years ago two older black women were having a conversation and one to the other kept mentioning 'our socialist'.
So I turn down my headphone music and listen to their conversation for a bit. She was talking about the 'social worker' assigned to her.
I think it is is intentional too
hope not! They'll be met with country folks who are determined to protect their homes and small communities.
"You ain't from around here," along with "Stop right there and turn right around!" will be the common things said, most likely by well-armed citizens who won't take any s#$& from anyone. That is, if there is any talking going on! :)
They was putting their hands on the childs.....
If you listen to the leeches being interviews on television about this you would think it was the Governments fault. I guess, in a manner of speaking, it is.
"You really do have to wonder if its not intentional. There are better ways of doing it but this way gets headlines"
They could take a hint from concert promoters who started issuing armbands over thirty years ago for fans waiting in line. You are correct, this is intentional
Around here people think of the neighbors when they rent a place out. The people who own the house next door to me rent it to his brother and the two apartments in town are rented to locals.
To be fair, about 70% of african-americans in the US are in the middle class (or better) and receive little in the way of public support. There are about 5 Million members of the urban african - american underclass, concentrated in the nation's largest 10 urban areas that account for this behavior, crime in incredibly dispropotionate numbers, and overall government expenditure that is mind boggling.
"many homes sold for less than $10,000"
Stripped of all copper, appliances, and probably used for pit bull fights or meth labs.
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the last six month, you should have already heard about Drupal 7's new-and-shiny database layer, DBTNG. That was only the beginning, though! Much has happened since then to the database, and there's much yet to do. That's where you come in...
There have been literally dozens of additional patches committed against the DB later since it first when in, ranging from bug fixes to performance improvements to new features. Perhaps the most significant, though, is that Drupal 7 now fully supports SQLite databases. It only took four years, but Drupal 7 is now fully capable of installing and running from SQLite, and for low-bandwidth sites the speed is about on par with MySQL. Impressive!
We also brought back database query logging, but in a much more flexible way than in Drupal 6. Rather than a hard-coded variable switch in db_query(), the database layer itself now supports query logging, and maintaining multiple logs at once. That means the devel module can simply ask the database layer to start logging for it, then ask for the log when it's done. It also supports much richer meta data about where queries ran than the older system, so we can leverage it in other places than just the devel module.
The connection management has improved as well. Rather than just being able to define connections in settings.php, you can now add new connections at any time. You can also mark targets to be ignored temporarily, which is important for replication support.
On the support front, we now require MySQL 5.0 or later or Postgres 8.3 or later. Earlier versions are mostly out of support by now or will be during the Drupal 7 life cycle, so the effort required to continue supporting them in Drupal 7 (and therefore not using features from later versions) is not worth the effort. We've gone a step beyond that, however. MySQL is now forced into Strict Mode, which disables most of its silent "I think I know what you mean so I won't throw an error" nonsense.
There have also been a number of API improvements as well. Select queries in particular have gotten a fair bit of love, and now support a convenient shorthand for adding multiple fields at once as well as support for subselect queries. That should come in very handy when converting the rest of core over to DBTNG, as well as with specific oddball cases such as node_access.
And of course, we have extensive documentation for most of the API in the handbooks. It even has its own path alias! w00t!
There's plenty yet to be done, however; far more than the few people focusing on the database layer can do themselves, especially when we still need to get everything past the gatekeepers of Dries and webchick. If you're looking for a place to get involved in Drupal, this is a great place to start! We desperately need people to pick up some issues and carry them home, or to review patches that are still pending and need review before they can go to the committers. If Drupal 7 shipped today, the database layer would still be incomplete. This cannot be allowed to stand! Let's make this our new year's resolution: The database layer fully complete and all of core converted by the end of January. Think we can do it? Here's how you can help:
These issues are the most important, as they are blocking further work. Much of the groundwork has already been laid, but it needs to be carried home.
These need someone who can make them happen. Have some time to spare?
OK, these aren't necessarily earth-shattering tasks but they need to happen anyway. Some need someone to review them, others need to be written. In either case, don't just hit-and-run. Stick around and help guide the issue home.
And of course, we still have to convert the rest of core over to use the new DBTNG syntax. Grab a module and post a patch!
Damien Tournoud is also leading a "PostgreSQL surge" to fix up Postgres. Right now Postgres doesn't work properly in Drupal 7, and there's grumbling about removing it if we can't get it to work. The alternative is to have Drupal 7 held back for Postgres support. If you don't want those to happen, check out the PostgreSQL spotlight and lend a hand.
Speaking of, I want to take a moment to thank Damien for his work on the database layer in recent weeks. He was one of the key people responsible for finally getting SQLite in, plus a number of other key patches. Thank you, Damien!
If nothing here tickles your fancy, have a look at the complete database queue. Alternatively, there's a database-specific spotlight page for tracking issues that we're trying to focus on. If you have spare time, lend us a half hour or hour every few days for a patch review or two. You'd be amazed how much one hour here and there can add up, especially now that the testing bot does so much of the grunt work for us.
Review the documentation, check the issue queue, and if all else fails ping me in IRC. I'm happy to help anyone who's trying to help out with the database layer, but I can't do it alone. We need a full database strike team. Who's with me!
You wrotethis about SQLite:
...and for low-bandwidth sites the speed is about on par with MySQL. Impressive!...
So the SQLite implementation isn't ready for high traffic sites yet?
... a database server. If your site is mostly read only then it can handle such traffic you would not believe. However, writes can be a problem. So it's more adequate to say "SQLite is on par with MySQL until you begin concurrently writing the DB".
You wrotethis about SQLite:
...and for low-bandwidth sites the speed is about on par with MySQL. Impressive!...
So the SQLite implementation isn't ready for high traffic sites yet?


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The Giant Chess Puzzle Book
1001 Brand New Chess Puzzles to Challenge and Entertain Players from Novices to GrandmastersProduct Code: B0144GB
Publisher: Gambit
Author: Zenon Franco
Year of Publication: 2010
Pages: 288
Notation Type: Figurine (FAN)
Book DescriptionTactical skills are paramount in chess. More than anything else, a player's ability to find tactical solutions determines how successful he is over-the-board. No endgame scheme, opening idea or strategic plan, however brilliant a concept it may be, is of any value unless it is accurately calculated and implemented.
The best way to develop tactical skills is to practice them by tackling new and challenging positions. This book provides a wealth of chess puzzles to test just about every facet of your tactical ability. It is very unlikely that even those who have read many other chess puzzle books will recognize more than a handful of these positions. Franco has searched recent events and used powerful computers to seek out previously unpublished puzzles, and has also drawn extensively upon Latin American sources that he has been scouring for brilliant examples over the last three decades.
Following the pattern of Gambit's hugely successful Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book (by John Emms), the book begins with 100 relatively easy positions suitable for novices, and ends with 100 extremely tough puzzles, which provide a mind-bending challenge even for grandmasters. There are 1001 puzzles in all, including themed sections and graded tests, all with detailed computer-verified solutions and verbal explanations of the main instructive points.
Zenon Franco is a grandmaster from Paraguay who now lives in Spain. He is an experienced chess trainer, his most notable former pupil being Paco Vallejo, now one of the world's top grandmasters
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This B list celebrity/sometime television personality/former reality star has a new boyfriend
. He is her former drug dealer. This should turn out well. He also sold drugs to other family members.
kelly osbourneReplyCancel
F&$@!!!! You guys are good.ReplyCancel
double jinxReplyCancel
Kelly needs to get it togetherReplyCancel
Other family being Barron
And prob NickyReplyCancel
Kelly isn't sometime TV. That E show is on constantly.ReplyCancel
Kelly O is a train wreck. I wish someone would explain to her that there doesn't have to be a man on her arm every blasted minute. Stop collecting losers, be choosier.
Quality, not quantity.
Desperation is terribly unattractive.
Kelly O is a great guess, wish I'd thought of it, but she does have a regular gig on Fashion Police.
But supporting the Kelly guess is that I thought she put on some weight post break up and then, BAM!, it seemed to mostly come off really fast.ReplyCancel
The Family That Plays Together Stays Together!ReplyCancel
Paris Hilton. (For back up guesses)ReplyCancel
us weekly says kelly o is dating p diddys step son
answers that
Oops. @Tricia already guessed this.
So I'll 2nd it.ReplyCancel
@sincerely..yes but I thing sugar read got it….ReplyCancel
I agree @riven
Going back to my Paris guess…looks like she may be with joe Francis jack hole of all trades(BI #8)
Kelly's ass aint too bad. Would prolly do her from behind, and throw in some donkey punches since she is such a horrible twunce.ReplyCancel
Kelly O
Rumors of relapse
Plus terrrrrrible taste in men
McCracken: Emo crackhead who likes 16 year old groupies
Luke Whorelock: British model who looks like an albino elf (no offense to albinos or elves of course) who was Casper Smart OG in terms of fidelity
Mosshart: Yikes…
New Guy & Ex Dealer: Best of luck, you will both need it
Count – I was going to post that pic. Not bad at all. I even wondered if really her.ReplyCancel
DM has article on Kelly O.hooking up with Quincy Combs(Puff's stepson) & Ricki Hall(brit model)- I jumped to comment form so someone probabl already posted this newsReplyCancel
yup..@sugarbread maker, sorry for repeating your info. as I said… I jumped b4 looking.ReplyCancel


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There's science behind that magic
For a handful of tricks, Friedhoffer chose willing assistants from the crowd of youngsters. To a young assistant named Alden, he explained, "Your center of gravity is basically around your belly button," and then he went on to have Alden demonstrate two balancing tricks that appeared to defy gravity.
Finally, with the help of a young assistant named Jeffrey, who was leery at first but after some persuasion, successfully yanked a tablecloth from a table without spilling a pitcher of water sitting on top. The Professor explained that a body at rest will stay at rest unless it's affected by an outside force, one of Newton's laws of motion.
Several times, Friedhoffer encouraged the kids to try their own hands at magic. "You don't have to buy anything to do magic," he said, explaining that most libraries have books about doing magic tricks and how to make some of your own. To do magic, he told the crowd, "All you have to do is to know how it works, and to practice." For those who could read between the lines, he was also making reference to science.
[Fascinated by science and magic since childhood, Bob Friedhoffer earned his living as an accountant for many years before returning to school, where he earned his MA degree in Science and Society/The History and Philosophy of Science and his PhD in Science Education at the City University of New York. Friedhoffer has also presented more advanced science/magic demonstrations for students of science.]


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What He's Thinking After Your First Date
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Whether you're looking for a fling or a long-lasting love, online dating may be just the tool to help you find Mr. Right (or Mr. Right Now). To give you some insight into the male mind when it comes to connecting online, we chatted with seasoned daters—some who even met their future wives online—to understand what a guy is thinking on and after that first in-person date.
Most Dates Are Ordinary2 of 11
Kevin, 39, says he had a number of "pretty average" dates before he met his future wife. "There were only a couple of dates where I was eager to get out fast," he says, recalling one horror story in particular. "After being over an hour late, she got up from the table, twice, to throw up in the bathroom." Of his online-made dates overall he says, "Great experiences, all of them, but I am so relieved to be done!"
Crazy Things Can Happen3 of 11
If the experiences from Jeff, 32, are any indication, then online dating can produce some wild stories. After sharing a bit too much sake over dinner with a woman he'd met on a dating site, the night continued at a bar, and then culminated in an alley, where he and the woman slept together. "I guess the age-old lesson is that alcohol only leads to good things for guys and bad things for girls," he says. Another lesson: Some guys are only looking for one date.
Reality Bites4 of 11
Jason, 26, recalls a date with a woman who'd invited him to come out with a couple of her friends. When he arrived, she and her pals were already drunk. "She apparently altered her pictures, because her face and body were probably twice as wide as advertised," he says. "We rehashed a bunch of the same points we'd already discussed online, and I eventually went the gentlemanly route and walked her home, then kept my distance."
Stay Positive5 of 11
David, 37, says that his experience has guided the way he handles those mismatches. "Whenever I'm out with someone and I realize we're not compatible romantically, I try to make the best of the situation," he says. "For the rest of the date, I look for what makes her interesting. Maybe it's her hobbies, maybe it's an interesting story about growing up, or maybe she just has a perspective different than mine and I can see things from a different point of view. Even if I don't find my soul mate, I try to have a positive experience."
Analysis Is Inevitable6 of 11
Even after numerous online-arranged dates, Mark, 32, still gets anxious when he meets a woman for the first time. He worries he'll flub key details—"Was she the one who had the anecdote about the speeding ticket? Or was that the girl for tomorrow night?"—and sometimes dwells on how many other guys she's currently seeing. He also speculates on how he's being judged. "There's usually a point where I think, 'I can see myself with her. ... Is she thinking the same?'" says Mark. "Or, is she disappointed in my real-life persona?"
Double Standards Remain7 of 11
While Jim, 28, may have enjoyed the outcome of one of his recent dates, he ruled out the woman he'd met in terms of her long-term potential. "I exchanged a few messages with a nice-looking girl and finally met her at her place to watch a movie with her and a couple of her housemates—her idea," he says. "We got close during the movie, had a few drinks, and I ended up spending the night. I was thrilled, but at the same time, I won't date a woman who gets down on the first date. Maybe that's wrong, but it's true."
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Paul, 31, says that the pre-meeting process is a little slow for his taste. "There's generally enough back-and-forth ahead of time to know that you aren't meeting a psycho for drinks," he says. "We're on the site to go on dates, so let's get to it and see if there's any chemistry." Plus, he says, if there is too much chitchat before meeting, then you might run out of "fresh material for the date itself."
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Lee, 31, met his future wife online, but he almost blew it. "I was 15 minutes late, sweaty and out of breath. I thought she was going to want to escape mid-meal," he says. "I made it through dinner relieved that we were having a blast. I ended up back to her apartment, and we stayed up the whole night talking about everything from sports to ex-lovers." A year and a half later they were married.
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Chris, 36, says he met a woman who said she was his age. Only she wasn't. "When I walked in, the only woman I saw was 50-plus years old," he says. "She said that she was sorry that she lied, but finds that she has more in common with younger guys." Chris never saw her again and, while he doesn't harbor ill feelings, he found it unfair for the woman to shave more than five years off her age, even if she was young at heart.
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Dan, 31, said he had several disastrous dates with women who either lied about their appearances or were socially awkward. "I definitely thought about having a family emergency or more elaborate escape plans," he says, but he worried that such a stunt might cause hurt feelings so he never followed through. He did, however, eventually meet his future wife online.


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The specific focus of this field day is to give landowners an opportunity to see examples of best management practices local producers have implemented within the Lower San Antonio River watershed to protect water quality.
Field day speakers will cover different management practices such as range, pasture, pest, and nutrient management. Water quality, managing quail habitat, feral hog management and trapping techniques will also be discussed. Make sure to come prepared to travel to the field as we will move from the VFW to our local landowner's property to take part in these discussions and see the benefits of what a fully implemented WQMP has to offer.
In addition to the useful information provided and the opportunity to see conservation on the ground, meeting participants will earn three continuing education units that will support their pesticide applicator's license CEU needs.
To ensure that lunch is adequately planned, please RSVP by May 2 to Harvey Kahlden with the Karnes County SWCD at (830)583-3224 ex. 3 or J. D. Folbre with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension at (830)780-3906.
Funding and support for these cooperative conservation plans is provided through a Clean Water Act Nonpoint Source grant from the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The projects are managed by Atascosa County SWCD #307, DeWitt County SWCD #339, Karnes County SWCD #343 and the TSSWCB.