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HelloFirst of all I am reading this forum for 2 weeks now and am thankfull for people like You exist. I appologise for my bad english.On 24th of august i made a big mistake. I gave an unprotected (cunnilingus) oral sex to a sex worker in expensive night club. After that followed protected (with condom) vaginal sex. My symptoms started 8 days later with sore throat, sinusitis like problem (stuffed nose) and bad caugh with excudate. I also had a rash and sweating but i cant remember wether sweating was due to fear or something else. Back then i don't remember any lymph node swelling. Some mild soreness to the throat exist until today with partial itching and i have left ear problem in a sence that i hear not so good (like stuffed). I am trying to figure out wther my lymph nodes are swollen i think i can feel them sometimes being little swollen. My doctor said it was low risk exposure and that there is no special need for testing except calming my fears. I would be calmed, but my girlfriend recieved sore throat symptoms and running nose 2 weeks after my incident as well. I love my girlfriend (although admitt it sounds hypocritic after my fiasco with sex worker) and am more scared that i transmitted something to her. She also sometimes now has some itches in her throat wich is highly unusual for her. I kindly ask You to give me an suggestion what to do. I feel that i might destroyed someone else's life because i was stupid and carelss. I called the sex worker and she told me she is clear and has a regular month std and 3 mont HIV test according to the law in that country ...but i question myself wether i should really believe to a sex worker.I should test, shouldn't i?Worried
You did not have a risk for HIV. All your symptoms you are having are unrelated to ARS or HIV. Swollen lymph nodes must be determined by a doctor. If you continue to poke and probe you will cause your lymph nodes to swell.
sharper,I agree with Rodney here, you didn't have a risk of hiv infection.However, there are other sexually transmitted infection that you might have gotten in your throat, such as gonorrhea and chlamydia. It's much more likely that you picked up a common head cold not necessarily related to your sex worker experience. If your throat continues to bother you, see your doctor and have swabs taken. You did the right thing in using a condom, as condoms have been proven to prevent hiv transmission. Going down on a woman is NOT a risk for hiv infection, but a possibility for other things as I've said.Ann
Thank You RapidRod, and Thank You Ann for making me worry less. I am more afraid that i could have passed virus to my girlfriend than to have it only myself. It is my responsibility if i acted without caution, but she is innocent. I have seen on CDC that there are documented (or reported?) cases of translation via cunnilingus and that risk transmition is even higher if there are additional STD's or menstrual blood involved. Is the risk ratio 0,5 : 10 000 per incidence related to these few documented cases?Question to Ann: I've understood that you and your partner are practicing also oral sex for longer time and he never got infected. Is it possible that he has an defective version of CCR5 (inherited) so he is more immune to virus??Based on that is there possibility that there are people more and som people less likely to get HIV transmitted orally ?Thank You for kind and fast answers
And yes I will get checked for STD's if this throat thing continues.
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Today's SMH of the day comes from a beautiful (sarcasm) trending body modification called lip plates. Lip plates take the meaning of showing your pearly whites to a whole other level!
The piercing is made right below your lips, and with clear discs you can see your teeth and everything else inside your mouth.
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Friday - August 18, 2006
Jay Moore
Aloha, surfers and surfettes! As we begin to wind down the summer of 2006, we can be stoked! We've had about one swell per week ... give or take ... and though we haven't had many BIG swells, it's been quite enough to keep us wet. Plus, the winter "Down Under" is not showing signs of shutting down. In fact, starting Sunday we have a Tazman Sea or southwest swell. Then next week - Tuesday through Thursday - is looking good enough for at least 4-footers from the direct south angle! Stay waxed and ready ... and click surfnewsnetwork.com or call 638-r.u.s.h. for juicy details.
You know, I cover lots of competitions, events and "famous" personalities of our sport, but what about the regular surfer? The ones we don't hear about, but are always out there getting their thrill on. These guys and girls don't surf for the recognition ... they surf for the "fun-ignition." When you look out there and see the "pack" or just the dirty-dozen dawn patrol, you're looking at the ones I'm taking about - just you and me.
What's so good about this is that within our everyday surfer crowd, we've got some everyday heroes.
Meet Jay Moore. One day Jay was doing what he loves more than anything, surfing. It was his usual game plan - but with an unusual twist. On this day, he would help save a person's life.
The headlines of May 23 read "A 50-year-old woman was taken to The Queen's Medical Center in critical condition yesterday afternoon after she was run over by a kayaker about 100 yards offshore at Waikiki. City Emergency Medical Services technicians arrived at 2:29 p.m. to render aid to the woman, who was pulled from the water by other swimmers and surfers after she was found, unconscious, floating face down. Bryan Cheplic, city EMS spokesman, said she suffered a "'very large' cut on the back of her head."
When I asked Jay if he could give me the story he said: "I really didn't want any recognition; it was just something that happened. I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time."
OK, Jay, no problem. I won't tell anyone (I lied).
Jay Moore: "I was surfing Tongs one afternoon. I don't ever really surf Tongs. I kinda just had an impulse to go and see what I could get. Before that I had been rather frustrated with surfing in town and I just wanted to surf a non-aggro spot for once. It wasn't too bad a day. All the long-boarders were sitting outside, and I was cheating them by sitting super deep on the inside, you know, that racy left that lines up.
"I had this weird feeling the whole time I was out there. I kept thinking that I would find someone floating in the water. After about an hour, I caught one of those good lefts and raced it all the way to the inside. On the way back out, I saw a board just floating in the water and I thought, "!@#$, that's going to be somebody." It wasn't. I was just trip-pin' myself out.
"As it turns out, about 15 minutes later, I caught another one all the way inside. When paddling back out, I saw a woman floating face down in the water. My heart jumped into my throat. I began to yell to get other people's attention, but there weren't too many people where she was at. I paddled as quickly as I could over to her and rolled her over. By the time I got to her, this guy, an Aussie, I think, heard me and also began to paddle over to us on his long board. Before he got to me and her a set came in. I grabbed onto her and went under like four waves. After emerging out from under the last wave, the Aussie paddled over to us. I ripped my leash off and let my board go. We were pretty far out, too, and kinda in the channel. Then the Aussie and I threw her on the board and began to swim her in.
"Another guy came over, too, and began to help us swim her in. I was behind pushing the tail with one hand, swimming with the other, and kicking my feet as hard as I could. The Aussie was holding on to her, telling her she was going to be all right. The third guy was grabbing onto the front and doing the same thing I was doing. I was beginning to get tired, and I looked up at her and noticed she had a large gash behind her ear. It was bleeding profusely. We yelled to a guy paddling out to call 911. After about five minutes, she sorta regained consciousness. She started to moan and spit up white foam.
"The Aussie was really great. He was telling her to not worry and that everything was going to be all right. Amazing, really. I don't know if she could hear him or understand, but his demeanor alone must have been understood by her. We finally got her in. By then a few people were gathered on the beach and helped us lift her above our heads and carry her over the reef, and to the street where the paramedics and firemen had already arrived.
"The rest was all them. I didn't really stay around long after that. I shook hands with the Aussie and the other fellow who helped get her in. It was really an emotional thing for me. I hope that somebody will be there if that ever happens to me. I think a single man canoe surfer ran her over. But that's pretty much it ... I left a few details out I think but the gist is here."
Thank you, Jay, and to our unknown Aussie and friends who helped save someone (name unknown) in time a great need. You inspire us all.
GQ, dropping In 4 U!
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Sound: There has already been one review praising this as a great album, and one calling it mediocre, so I have decided to approach this review entirely from the context of the bands previous work. As a result this review will be a little unconventional, it's going to run very long for one, and it won't be structured the usual way. Under this section I'm going to lay out my thesis and back ground, under lyrics I will discuss the absence of them, and under Overall Impression I'm going to take a song by song approach and wrap up the review. The ratings on this review are also nigh asinine, since they will be averaged with the ratings of other reviews which take a completely different approach from this one, in the end I think I will be leaving the overall score fairly intact.On Young Team the group found its ability to blow the head off of the most seasoned rockers with their kind of quiet to ear shatteringly loud dynamics with tracks like Mogwai Fear Satan and Like Herod, but they also established a penchant for combining strong melody and dissonance. On Come On Die Young they learned control, the entire album retrains itself from exploding until the Ex-Cowboy/Chocky/Christmas Steps set-piece that nearly concludes the album.With Rock Action they showed their ability to condense their ideas into concise songs on a concise album (with the exception of 2 Rights Make a Wrong) and let vocals take a more prominent role in their songs, as up until that point only one or two songs would really have them. Rock Action also took a stylistic shift, using more electronic elements and denser compositions, most likely aided by the addition of Barry Burns to the band.Happy Songs For Happy People took the stylistic shift of Rock Action and expanded it into a sweeping, sad album, with the level of arc (not story, just compositional) that Come On Die Young had. 2006's Mr. Beast was the landmark album that every band puts out if they last long enough that showcases every aspect of what they've done to that point, and while the songs were new, very few new ideas were there (with the exception of Glasgow Mega-Snake, Mogwai's first balls to the wall tear your head off rock song that doesn't let up the whole way, and stays under four minutes). Mr. Beast did feature a higher volume of songs with vocals than any other album to date, but with the exception of a few standouts doesn't have much to show for it. Finally in 2008, ten years after the release of Young Team, we come The Hawk is Howling. This album literally undoes almost EVERY way the band had changed over their career, and spins off into something totally new, yet most like their first record than any of the others. The songs are distinctly discreet, not arcing over the record but self contained pieces, unlike CODY or HSFHP. there's not a single vocal line anywhere on the albums at all, unlike the increasing prominence with Rock Action, HSFHP, and Mr. Beast.Instead of fighting over songs, the guitars share the stage with the synths. The song lengths are uncompromising but natural (4:17 being the shortest, and 8:02 being the longest), and last of all there's not a single filler song on the album, which has always been something that Mogwai does until Mr. Beast, no transitional pieces here. Not only does Mogwai eschew every way they have changed in the past, but here they've written the best set of songs to date. // 9
Lyrics: This is the first (non-soundtrack) work from the band to feature absolutely no voices (vocals or samples) anywhere in the mix of the album. It is far from the first album to do this, but I think it is one of the most masterfully handled. Making an album this grandiose with no vocals speaks something about the power of music itself, and how the notes and textures of a song have a more immediate and powerful impact than lyrics, which are usually interpreted after the song is over and retroactively applied based on your reaction to the sound of the song in the first place. Here Mogwai finally does the proverbial rip-off-yer-shirt-and-flex-yo-muscles move and demonstrates their power over your amygdala while leaving their intentions completely transparent. // 8
Overall Impression: 01. I'm Jim Morrison I'm Dead - A slow burner. Quiet piano chords start it off and sparse instrumentation slowly builds around it until the crescendo peaks and a blissful wash of melody wash over the song. Similar to Mr. Beast's album starter Auto Rock, only better.02. Batcat - METAL. This is the heaviest song that Mogwai has ever put out, and its groove remain unbroken for four minutes until a swimming section of multiple time signatures and wandering fuzzed out guitars gets your head spinning for the crushing finale. Wait a minute... its sort of like Mr. Beasts second song... ONLY BETTER. Noticing a pattern? Well forget about it because it stops here.03. Daphne And The Brain - A calm and pleasant piece, with a hint of tension. A single guitar line drives the song over sparkly synths. The combination of live and sequenced drums at the end does a great job of adding hidden complexity.04. Local Authority - A sad one, this song never overwhelms you with emotion it keeps you static, waiting for a release that never comes, it's not boring though, in fact it has the opposite effect and has you hanging on every note, wondering what could happen next. 05. The Sun Smells Too Loud - Mogwai's most transparent dabble with electronica. This trancy piece has more bounce and bump than any song they've made in the past, and the synth production is mind bogglingly layered, even though its fairly repetitive and runs at seven minutes, it doesn't get tiresome until you listened to the album over and over again.06. King's Meadow - The melodic bass and sparse supportive instruments is reminiscent of R U Still Into It? The descending melodies reinforce the sadness and the lack of percussion gives a ponderous feeling without feeling like a transitional piece, even though it sits between to completely different songs, this song develops enough to warrant its own merit.07. I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School - Weird title huh? It doesn't make sense until you've listened to the song and you imagine the goofy scots-men joking with each other after just having practiced the song and saying "oh man that's got to be the title!" This song the the centre-piece to the album. It works on a grander scale than My Father My King and incorporates more complexity than Like Herod, but keeps its track length under eight minutes. Beginning with a pleasant bass solo section, the song truly starts with wandering guitars and pianos, meandering their way around a D chord and every so ofter hinting at a greater purpose, then a pause. The instrument come back together after a bassline establishes a central theme, bring the guitars in to flesh it out, then it pulls back again, only to have all the instruments come charging back in with an even simpler version of the theme, more in unison than ever, building monumental tension before the song just explodes into a squealing, crushing, climax that raises the hairs on you neck every time you hear it. Superb, the best track they've ever written.08. Scotland's Shame - The longest track on the album; organs kicks off this drone dirge. Slowly the drenched-in-reverb guitars fade in, sounding like a thousand string sections playing in a cavern deep beneath your feet. The Drums give the song drive and as the pound away you can imagine a royal funeral procession in the dark ages marching across the plains.09. Thank You Space Expert - Almost as long and twice as sparse, this song, like Local Authority, is reminiscent of the restrained pieces of Come On Die Young, but leaves you relaxed instead of the needing a deep tissue massage feeling that songs like May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door or Kappa can leave you with. A fitting title, this song could be the soundtrack of astronauts.10. The Precipice - Another fitting title for the album closer. This song maintain a constant driving rhythm from its simple opening guitar line through all its complex melodic and disharmonic development. No Mogwai song before make you want to stomp your foot like this one. It's another slow builder, but its this that set it apart from similar songs like We're No Here, which blast your head off from the beginning. This one draws you in, enticing, hypnotic, and then scares the shit out of you. But, just when you think it's going to take it up one final notch... it ends. Like someone holding you over a cliff and just when you think they're going to drop your, you find you self on you feet again, thoroughly shaken, but very much intact.What separates this album from previous entirely instrumental modern rock albums is its quality of not sound like one, with its discreet songs and varied moods while retaining cohesion, its runs with the best albums including vocals of the last 20 years. And in the context of the bands work opens up a new horizon of opportunities. // 9
Sound: If the sonic history of post-rock were to be recorded, it seems to be the case that every other sample would have something to do with Mogwai. Whether it's a track from the band themselves, or one of the endless other outfits trying to squeeze their formula dry, the stamp Mogwai left on this genre is both admirable and somehow formidable. After a slightly worrying period of mediocrity, 2006's 'Mr. Beast' put them back on the map, along with the soundtrack to every TV show you will ever watch. 'The Hawk Is Howling', then, may have been expected as another record to bring the 'rock' that made 'Mogwai Young Team' and 'Come On Die Young' such successes.
However, it's not that at all. It's a rich, yet very fragile work which showcases it's vulnerability and imagination, before a dark side worms it's way in. This is displayed excellently in the album's first two songs. 'I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead', is a tranquil piano driven piece which leads into 'Batcat', an ugly and convulsive monster of a track. By now the parallels between this and 'Mr. Beast' should be clear, yet this album is different. Funny, perhaps, when the creators are five everymen from Glasgow, but the mood given off here is altogether more suave. With every listen, 'The Hawk Is Howling' comes off as the album that Mogwai wanted 'Happy Songs For Happy People' to be. That is, an introverted, pretty and very chilled out album. The reason it works here where it perhaps didn't back then is because when the band hits you hard with their classic distorted punch, the aftermath just seems that much more related to every other second of music on the CD. // 9
Lyrics: Mogwai, whilst generally an instrumental band, have used very occasional vocals on previous albums. 'The Hawk Is Howling', however, has absolutely no vocals what'soever. There are those who like the occasional vocal part, or spoken passage to add a little more depth to a song's meaning, however I feel that 'The Hawk Is Howling' is a much stronger record for it's strictly instrumental layout. // 9
Overall Impression: The first listen to a fresh new Mogwai CD is never the best. As always, it takes a good three or four runs through to really crack open the creamy chocolate centre of 'The Hawk Is Howling', and what a centre it is. From the gorgeous motif of 'The Sun Smells Too Loud' to the accusatory tone of 'Scotland's Shame' to the electronic ambience of 'Daphne And The Brain' to the cerebral 'Thank You Space Expert' to the frankly apocalyptic climax of 'The Precipice', this album is the best that Mogwai have ever made. Do yourself a favour and listen to it. // 10
- Duncan Geddes aka duncang (c) 2008
Sound: Album number 6 from Scottish post-rock deities Mogwai sees a departure from the lush soundscapes of previous albums such as Mr Beast, Happy Songs For Happy People and Rock Action and sees the band revisiting the sparse and ominous sounds of first two albums Young Team and Come On Die Young. It's a long album too - be prepared to sacrifice an hour of your life if you want to listen to it all the way through - and is their first entirely-instrumental effort (the beautiful ballad Devil Rides was recorded in the Hawk Is Howling sessions but was sadly relegated to B-side obscurity, but if you ask me it alone makes the Batcat EP worth having). What results is an album that can best be described as dense and uncompromising.
The album's opening two tracks give a fair indication of what lies ahead. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead is a brooding meditation over stately piano chords, as the heavily-effected guitars of Stuart Braithwaite and John Cummings gradually reach a restrained crescendo in the background. Then Batcat kicks in with a guitar riff that could level buildings, launching into a ferocious medley of fuzzed-up, thrashy riffs that possibly goes on for a bit too long, and is also without a doubt the heaviest track ever written in 6/8 time. Daphne And The Brain is classic Mogwai through and through, with sparse keyboards and clean arpeggio lines building up to a dense wall of guitars drenched in reverb and delay, still keeping an air of restraint to it. Sadly for an often-original band, there isn't much out of the ordinary on this album, apart from a brief dalliance with electronica on The Sun Smells Too Loud. // 8
Lyrics: As I mentioned, The Hawk Is Howling is Mogwai's first entirely instrumental album and I feel that this leaves the album wanting somewhat, lacking anything along the lines of Cody or R U Still In2 It offering a moment of serenity amongst the chaos and darkness, as seen on earlier Mogwai albums. // 6
Overall Impression: Sadly this album feels somewhat like 'Mogwai by numbers' and long-term Mogwai fans will easily be able to spot the throwbacks to earlier works, whether it's The Sun Smells Too Loud recalling the glorious euphoria of Mogwai Fear Satan, or I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School and The Precipice's brooding clean lines and bruising power chords reminding oneself of Christmas Steps. Even the centrepiece track Batcat treads familiar ground explored by Mr Beast's Glasgow Mega-Snake.
However, this doesn't mean it's a bad album, just that it's solid rather than spectacular. The guitars of Stuart Braithwaite, John Cummings and occasionally Barry Burns are as varied and innovative as ever, Cummings in particular now having mastered the art of atmospheric tremolo-picking. The ever-reliable rhythm section formed by Martin Bulloch's clattering drums and Dom Aitchison's ultra-melodic bass playing is present and correct too. Sadly, though, if Mogwai can turn out another Young Team or Happy Songs For Happy People, The Hawk Is Howling may replace Rock Action as the 'forgotten' Mogwai album. // 7
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There's nothing wrong with a little friendly rivalry, right? Now, I am not suggesting that there's any real type of competition between American Idol Season One winner Kelly Clarkson and Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, but since the two are the show's most successful winners and are constantly in a tug-of-war in the Idol sales figures, one would assume that human nature occasionally gets the best of them. After all, they constantly seem to be in the other's territory.


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Yes, the US government is digging quite the hole… and a fiasco, it is, with no end in sight. Each politicial candidate is just as bad as the next.
So, Chrystos, Wiley should change how his characters act because you don't like them? No one's holding a gun to your head to read this comic. If reading it bothers you that much, don't read it.
That's quite the flat-top he has there…
But he didn't say "in this country"
The first two panels are reasonably relevent, in that Dookie bird is flying, then comes in for a landing on John's back.
So, if Tucker were to resolve to "get off the computer", what exactly would you prefer he do? Lie around and do nothing? He's portrayed as the tech-savvy one and they are locked up in a kennel. His choices are pretty limited.
I'm sure he would like to take care of all those things on his list. Interestingly, the image shows him writing with his right hand, when he is actually left-handed.
@MangeyMoose – It's not even on their computer… it's on some hard drive in a server somewhere. Even if they've "deleted" it, there is still a backup. I don't trust "the cloud" as far as I could throw it.
He shouldn't feel bad, it's a pretty common trait in humans as well…
I'm especially tired of the javascript popup which has recently been added to the left side of the page here at GoComics. I visit this site for a couple laughs, not annoying advertisements.
With the media these days, it's all about signal-to-noise ratio… We just have to try to find the usable signal in all that noise.


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Team will face tough competition at tournament
Moose Jaw Generals
For the first time all season, the Moose Jaw Generals are a healthy squad. Now that players have returned from injury and other commitments, the Generals will be looking to continue their strong start this season.
"We had a healthy lineup all weekend long for the first time and we got out of the weekend healthy," stated Generals head coach Ray Wareham.
The Generals swept the Tisdale Trojans last weekend and sit tied for first place in the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League. The team will now have a busy weekend as they leave Thursday for Grand Forks, N.D. to take place in the 2012 Hockey Academy Midget AAA Showcase Tournament.
"We are heading to Grand Forks healthy and hopefully we come back that way," said Wareham. "Hopefully with everyone healthy and the lines set, we can develop that chemistry."
The Generals have been clicking on almost all cylinders — 5-on-5 action, power play and on the penalty kill. The team won't be looking to change too much at this tournament, rather just improve on some areas.
"We won't change much. If other teams are doing things, we may tweak things a bit," he said. "Our defensive play has still been suspect at times. That is going to be a focus of us, but we won't change a whole lot. We are going to continue to do what we do and hopefully just keep getting better."
The team will open up the tournament against the Winnipeg Thrashers, who are leading the Manitoba Midget AAA Hockey League.
"They are always tough and should be a good competition," said Wareham.
The will also face the San Jose Sharks, Red Deer and the Okanagan Hockey Academy throughout the competition.
For more on this story, read an upcoming edition of Times-Herald.


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Mack Spent $5 Million On Campaign
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Blood Supply Still Too Low
Staff reports
Helping At The End Of The Line Volunteers Train For A Special Task
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Cities Promised Role In School Proposal
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British Party Seeks Changes In Health Care
The New York Times
Inmates Better In Tent Than Out On The Street
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Lauderdale-by-the-sea, State Disagree On Traffic
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Minister Opens Door To Refugees In Need
By CAROLYN JUNG, Staff Writer
10 Candidates Sign In As Filing For Races Begins
By FRED LOWERY, Staff Writer Staff Writers Debra Wallace and Pamela Adkins-Ramey contributed to this report
Plantation To Discuss Acres Water
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Two Bicycles Stolen
Staff reports
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Board Trying To Put Integration Burden Where It Belongs: On Entire Community
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U.s. To Ok Drug For Aids-related Illness
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Lake Worth
Children`s Advocate Seeks $4.3 Billion In Aid For Poor
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Residents Win Fight Over Fee Hallandale Drops Plan For Trash Bin Charge
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League Of Cities Seeking Donations
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Land Law Gets Ok Emergency Action Forbids Stripping Of 124 Tracts
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Springs Completes Long-range Plan For Growth
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Superintendent Gets Rave Review
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Accident Victim Dies
Staff reports
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Shooting Called Accidental
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Car Cover Stolen
Staff reports
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Bush Warns Contractors About Fraud
Los Angeles Times
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Delray Beach
Dispute Delays School`s Zoning
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Pompano Hires Firm To Find City Manager
Make Firm Toe The Line On Cleanup
Turnpike Tolls Increasing
Staff reports
Mailbox Fight Costly
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Leaders Get New View Of Community
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Computers Soon May Keep Track Of Developers` Promises
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Work Damages Site Donated For Park
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Number Of Fairgoers Increases
Staff reports
Crusading Point Man The Fort Lauderdale Christian Basketball Team Counts On Junior Matt Francisco To Score -- And Score Big At Every Game.
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Lawrence Brown, Postal Driver
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Section Of Road To Close
Staff reports
Police Chief Suggests Walling Out Crime
By MARJORIE VALBRUN, Staff Writer
Some Dishes Are Tasty, But Others Disappointing At Hungarian Restaurant
Teacher Wins Offbeat Trip To Mount St. Helens
By PAT CURRY
Honduran Army Seeks More Aid
The Washington Post
Fau Students Complain Fix-up Done To Please Board Of Regents
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Pines Backs Plan To Take Licenses
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Crisis Line Helps With Any Problem
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4 Schools To Offer Magnet Programs
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County School Enrollment Grows, But Fewer Students Fail, Drop Out
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New Site For Slaying Trial Asked Defense Says Victim Was Too Well-known
By KURT GREENBAUM, Staff Writer
U.s. Failures In Math Study Multiplying
Los Angeles Times
Feed, Don`t Starve, Road-builders
Ex-chief Takes A `Logical Step` To Security Firm
By STEPHEN d`OLIVEIRA, Staff Writer
Sheriff`s Office
Groups Plan To Spruce Up Sistrunk Boulevard
By BOB LaMENDOLA, Staff Writer
Prisoner Tent Again Demonstrates Navarro Puts Self Above The Law
Don`t Discard House Arrest Option
Teen-age Heroine Honored For Quick Action
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Anti-abortion Protesters Ok Compromise
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Uniform Look Sought For Fashion Row
By LYDA LONGA, Staff Writer
Man Incompetent For Trial
Staff reports
The Write Stuff Miramar Students Get Thank You From Military For Cards Sent At Christmas.
By KAREN SAMPLES, Education Writer
Tourism Giveaway Planned New Ad Campaign To Offer Coupons
By JAMES H. TOLPIN, Staff Writer
Controversial Labor Company Moves Out Of West Palm Beach
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Slow Service Mars Otherwise Tasty Indian-cuisine Dinner
Pompano, Pier End Dispute
Soviets Grope With Stalin Era
By DAVID REMNICK, The Washington Post
It`s All In A Hard Day`s Work For 86-year-old Man
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Personnel Official Quits Job
Staff reports
Young Meet Old Lauderhill Program Brings Seniors, Latchkey Kids Together 98to Share Good Times And Love As Grandparents, Grandkids.
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Playing His Own Field When Shawn Mock Isn`t Playing Shortstop On Miramar High`s Baseball Field, He`s Maintaining That Same Field.
By DON ZERN, Staff Writer
Crusading Point Man The Fort Lauderdale Christian Basketball Team Counts On Junior Matt Francisco To Score -- And Score Big At Every Game.
By DARLENE H. GARDNER, Staff Writer
Teachers Learn The Facts Of Teen Suicide
By ROSE BOCCIO, Staff Writer
Man Died Of Heart Attack
Staff reports
Pompano Officials Drop Demand To Suspend Crew
By SETH BORENSTEIN, Staff Writer
Flowers, Plants Assume Exciting Forms Unusual Japanese Creations Are For Everyone Everywhere
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Fire Squad To Accept 10 Blacks
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Residents Denounce Park Plans Crowd Packs Meeting, Decries Band Shell Idea
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Pompano Seafood Fest Promoters Fish For Permission To Use Beach
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Board Fails To Back Parkland In Dispute
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Freed Man Re-arrested For Holdups
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Richmond Crinkley, Producer Of `The Elephant Man`
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Meeting On Evaluation Held
Staff reports
Students Plan To Exhibit Shell Collections At Show
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Judge May Halt Refugee Travel From Texas Site
By ROBERT COLLIER, Special to the Sun-Sentinel
Deputy Fired After Bribe Accusation
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Venezuelan Inauguration Costly Perez Will Assume Presidency In Controversial Extravaganza
By ROBERTO FABRICIO, Foreign Editor
A Phone Call Away Students Stumped By Their Homework Now Can Dial For Help.
By ARDEN MOORE, Education Writer
Man Accused Of Plot To Kill Circuit Judge
By T.L. STANLEY and LISA OCKER, Staff Writers
Landfill Cleanup To Cost Boynton $1 Million
By DEBRA L. WALLACE, Staff Writer
Shell Game Area Collectors, Craftsmen Plan To Exhibit Their Treasures From The Seas.
By LOURDES RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO, Staff Writer
Jack Roberts, Drag Racer, Station Owner
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Officer Accused In Shooting
Staff reports
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Old Showcases New Sprucing Up Buildings Puts Galleries, Life Into The Hollywood Art Scene.
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Learning About Life Pine Crest Internship Program Builds Bridge Between Students, Community.
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Progress In Progresso Neighborhood`s Residents Take Aim At Nude Club And Crime Rate.
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2 Vito`s Officers Cleared In Orlando Case
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`Little Engine` Can Do American Heritage Soccer Captain Jennifer Teti Packs A Lot Of Speed And Endurance Into Her 5-foot, 1/2-inch Frame.
By DAVE HEEREN, Staff Writer
Indian Companies Under Fire Firms Used As Fronts, Fbi Agent Testifies
The New York Times
Lauderhill Looking To Clean Clogged Canals
By ALAN CHERRY, Staff Writer
Volunteer Retiree Finds Rewards In African Village
By DOROTHY-ANNE FLOR, Staff Writer
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Student Field Trip Snowballs Into Fun
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Girl Accused Of Molestation
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Woman Admits Slaying Role
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Officials Clash Over Risks Of Lead Pipes
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Pompano Family Claims Its Share Of Lotto Jackpot
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Home Sweet Workplace Antiques Business Seems To Have All The Comforts Of The Turn Of The Century.
By JOANN VITELLI, Special to News/Sun-Sentinel
Student`s Suicide Attempt Leaves Classmates Shaken
By ARDEN MOORE, Education Writer
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By BARBARA J. DURKIN and SANDRA JACOBS, Staff Writers
World Of Shells Diver-collector Recovers An Undersea Bounty Of Beauty, History, Oddity.
By LOURDES RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO, Staff Writer
A Second Chance Preservation Board Moves To Find Buyer For Historic House.
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Military Tanker Crashes, Burns
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Students Tackle Absenteeism Problem
By KAREN SAMPLES, Education Writer
Playing In The Shadows Ron Lambert Doesn`t Care If Basketball Takes A Back Seat To Wrestling At Mcarthur High. He Plays Because He Loves The Game.
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Machine Tool Orders Riveting
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Official Lauds Business Lure State Commerce Chief Gets Overview
By TRACY KOLODY, Business Writer
Impasse Declared In Eastern Talks 30-day Countdown To Strike Nears
By TOM STIEGHORST, Business Writer
Y-100 Wins Renewal Of License After Judge Rejects Challengers
By DAVID ALTANER, Business Writer
Publix To Stamp Out S&h Program
By LESLIE RUBINKOWSKI, Business Writer
Reminder Of U.s. Debt Really Counts
By LONNIE BROWN, New York Times News Service
Writing Love`s Wrongs
By CHAUNCEY MABE, Books Editor
Warwick Croons For Covenant House
y MARTHA GROSS
Men Stand Up To Be Counted For Wid Fund-raiser Luncheon
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Sometimes Discipline A Synonym For Assault
RAY RECCHI, Lifestyle Columnist
Bruckner Another Step In Orchestra`s Growth
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Ball For Philharmonic Is Gem Dandy
By MARTHA GROSS
Dumonts` Doberman Very Fond Of Antiques
MARTHA GROSS, Society Editor
Nation`s Sharpest Minds Go Through Ethical Jungle
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Uf`s Permanent Collections To Get Classy New Home In `90
ROGER HURLBURT, Art Writer
A Star Is Born In Baryshnikov`s `Swan Lake`
By KRISTY MONTEE, Dance Writer
Starter Switch: Edwards Takes Sundvold`s Spot In Heat Lineup
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Jankovich Says Seattle Gm To Be In-house
By RANDALL MELL, Staff Writer
Paladins Win 4-2, Make Final
By GORDON WITTENMYER, Staff Writer
Rhett Likes Uf
Staff reports
Time Came To Bow Out--kareem Blew His Cue
CRAIG DAVIS, Staff Writer
Goblin Donna Draws No. 1 Post For Derby
By JUDE CAMILLONE
Strogis` 3 Goals Lead Boca
By STEVEN BILLER, Special to the Sun-Sentinel
Bettors Find It Pays To Have Open Mind
By DAVE JOSEPH, Racing Writer
Uf`s Portillo To Go To Pbcc
By JEFF BROWNE, Staff Writer
24 Hours At Daytona Won`t Be Same Without Holbert
By GORDON WITTENMYER, Staff Writer
Sophomore Helps Rally St. Thomas
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Lakes Remains Unbeaten 2nd-quarter Spurt Fells Spanish River
By CHRIS LAZZARINO, Staff Writer
Nfl Plan Could Free About 600 Free Agency Given
By BOB OATES, Los Angeles Times
Play`s The Best Thing About Lobos` Program
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Come to Iain's book launch!
Hello everyone! Iain here. You may or may not know that my debut novel, A is for Angelica, is out now in ebook and paperback form. It's published by Legend Press and so far, the reviews have been great - it's all very exciting! Anyway, I'm telling you this here and now because I'm having a launch party this Thursday 6 September at the lovely Lantern Theatre in Nether Edge, the same place we had the one-off Words Aloud in June. I'd love it if you could pop along from 7pm to share a glass of vino and listen to (briefly) natter on about the book. If you're up for it, please head to the launch's special page on Eventbrite and pop your name and email address in. It just helps me track who's coming, for numbers and that. That's it! Hope to see you there. Iain
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What circuits textbooks haven't told you about feedback amplifier and transistor port impedances
The recent EDN article of Bruce Trump (firstname.lastname@example.com) on the input impedance of an op-amp circuit took into account the single-pole roll-off of its loop gain. He showed with a simple derivation how the equivalent circuit for the input impedance of a trans-impedance amplifier (with current as the input variable) has inductance. As we know, inductance can resonate with capacitance, and this offers an important clue to some of the unexplained oscillations not uncommonly encountered in circuits.
Background of an Enigma
Trump's article is a good lead-in to an important aspect of circuit design involving high-frequency (hf) theory, the theory of what happens in circuits above bandwidth. It applies not only to feedback amplifiers but also to transistor circuits above fβ, the β bandwidth of BJTs. (FETs have a corresponding bandwidth.)
This topic is not developed in any active-circuits textbook that I have found and is one of the neglected topics of electronics. It has long been known by oscilloscope vertical-amplifier designers at Tektronix and was taught for years in a course, "Amplifier Frequency and Transient Response" by Carl Battjes and others within Tektronix. Over the last half century, it has not diffused very extensively into the electronics industry. It is tangentially covered in filter theory about negative-impedance converters but is not applied more generally to circuits.
This hf circuit theory can be used to identify spurious resonances or oscillations in feedback amplifier and discrete transistor circuits, such as photodiode-input trans-resistance op-amps or emitter followers with capacitive loads. Keep in mind that "high frequency" means above bandwidth, not "microwave". For a typical op-amp, the hf region starts at the open-loop bandwidth, typically 10 Hz. The hf region upper end is the gain-bandwidth product, or fT, of the amplifier or transistor.
What I intend to do in this article is present a basic tutorial on a theory that explains a variety of circuit behaviors that are often not understood and are consequently fixed with experimental circuit hacks (whether on the bench or simulator). Ironically, despite its relative obscurity, hf theory is not hard to understand. The only math needed is basic algebra.
Closed-Loop Port Impedances
Trans-resistance amplifier input impedance is a special case of a more general principle that can be applied to both feedback amplifier input and output ports. From basic feedback theory, amplifiers can have either voltage or current inputs or outputs, resulting in four basic kinds of amplifiers and four port impedances, for current or voltage variables at input or output.
A feedback amplifier with voltage output has a closed-loop output port impedance of
where G is the forward-path gain, H is the feedback-path gain, G·H is the loop gain and 1 + G·H is what I call the feedback factor. (It is also less descriptively called the return ratio in control literature.) It is the improvement factor attributable to feedback and reduces output impedance so that with feedback the output is closer to that of an ideal voltage source.
Many circuits textbooks use A for G and β for H, but the BJT β parameter appears in feedback circuit analysis, causing ambiguity. I am using the well-established control-theory notation instead.
A feedback amplifier with current input has an input port impedance that is of the same form as the above feedback amplifier with voltage output;
where Zi is the open-loop input port impedance. The ideal current-input amplifier has 0 Ω input, and feedback also causes the open-loop impedance to be reduced toward the ideal.
The other two cases, those of closed-loop input voltage and output current, have the form
These are the two basic feedback equations for port impedances.
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Sarah sparkled, Biden lied
Still excited by last night's Vice-Presidential debate. Sarah Palin has proven herself to be a quicker study than Obama, and just as intelligent, if not more. It would really be a horse race if Sarah were running against Obama. She would clean his clock. Especially if she had hit the campaign trail at the same time as he did. That she could emerge last night looking and being as professional and confident as she was after only five weeks on the campaign trail is astounding.
It makes my head hurt just to imagine how much she must have successfully crammed--and she still looked happy. She is one amazing woman. Makes me proud that America produces such people. Powerline says:
She was calm, commanding and articulate. She repeatedly knifed Biden with a smile and showed why she is one of the most effective communicators in American politics. I've been watching Presidential debates since 1960, and I can't recall a more one-sided matchup than the first 30 minutes of tonight's debate. It was all Sarah Palin.
...One of my favorites was her "shout out" to her sister's third grade class back in Alaska, who got extra credit for watching the debate. This was one of many reminders that, to the average television viewer, Palin is one of "us" and not one of "them."
Biden on the other hand (one of "them") was--unbelievable. My son and I horselaughed when he talked about hanging out at the local Home Depot to talk to normal people so he knows what's up in America. He goes to Home Depot to politik and find out what the common folk are doing; Sarah and Todd are the common folk who go to Home Depot to get things done right the first time by themselves.
What's worse and not so funny: Biden lied. I am no wonk who keeps close track of these things, but even I have seen proof all over the internet that Obama did say earlier in the campaign (before he wised up and got cagey) that he would sit down and talk as President face-to-face with Ahmadinijad without preconditions, but Biden claimed he didn't say that. Unbelievably stupid in the age of digital tracking. As Obama was unbelievably stupid to insist in his last debate with John McCain that Henry Kissinger supported him in such madness--which Kissinger, on the phone next day with Fox News, vehemently and unequivocably denied.
So now we know it's a combined front for the Lying Party (Democrats).
It also angered me to hear Biden touting his philosophy of "Borking" Supreme Court nominees. In Clarence Thomas's autobiography, My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir, Thomas describes how Joe Biden assured him he would be getting a fair shake during the confirmation process, and then double-crossed him and ambushed him with Anita Hill. As one Amazon.com reviewer puts it: "I think any objective reader will be hard pressed to read this account and not come away with a sense that what happened to Justice Thomas ranks among one of the most low down, dirty things our elected officials have done to any one individual." Joe Biden engineered that dirty work, and he is still proud of it.
So it was a clear match-up between Sarah Palin, a breath of fresh air blowing into Washington, and Joe Biden, Washington Business As Usual. Hope the voters see it that way and make the right decision for the country.
Meanwhile, Roger L. Simon says the mainstream media got shown up last night. Seems right to me, but will the average person at Home Depot detect that?
AFTERTHOUGHT: And what was that where Sarah's microphone was turned up so loud that her comments to Biden before the debate and to her family after the debate were picked up clearly to the TV audience while Biden's comments were all but inaudible? Was somebody trying to set her up for an open-mic gaffe? If so, it didn't work. "Can I call you Joe?" she said. She took sweet command right from the start. Sarah Palin is a formidable opponent.
ADDITIONAL AFTERTHOUGHT: Did Biden really say this? That ticket really is into "fairness" over law and order--into "fairness" as a cover for socialist class warfare and income redistribution.
It really is an important election. I hope the voters are paying attention.
UPDATE: Biden's lies -- the list grows. "My question... Is he on drugs?"
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Tekzilla #12: Zune, Best Used Games, VodPod, UPS, Your Fave Podcast Tools
80GB Zune: a Worthy iPod Competitor, Best Used Console Games, UPS = Safer Data, VodPod, Your Fave Podcast Tools: VodPod, Juice, TvTonic, MyPodder
Best bargains on used games for your new console? Jim Louderback brings Neha Tiwari his picks!
Folks are emailing us about the new Tekzilla Daily spots. We know that some of you would like them in a separate RSS feed from the main show (which isn't going away, btw.) Revision3 has a big website redesign coming, sometime after that we'll be working on customizable RSS feeds so you can get the exact feed you want.
Microsoft's 80GB Zune? It's a worthy competitor to the iPod Classic, and a big step up from the original Zune. We've just got some quibbles with the Zune Marketplace's limited selection of podcasts... but it turns out you can paste in the RSS feed for any podcast. (We'll show you next week.) We still wish it worked with Windows Media DRM protected audio purchased from the umpteen online stores that -aren't- the Zune Marketplace! (Plays For Sure... sure it does.) The Zune plays unprotected WMA and MP3s just fine.
Jessica's Code Red? This week it's VodPod, a place to collect and share your favorite online videos.
You've backed up your data... so it's safe. Now, how do you keep the hardware safe that protects that data? One -big- step is to put a UPS, that's Uninterruptible Power Supply, with surge protection and good power conditioning between that hardware (NAS, PC, Drobo, hard drive whatever) and the wall socket!
Thinking about buying a Data Robotics Drobo? You can save $50 if you enter the code "Tekzilla" when you buy one from the Drobostore! Thanks again to Data Robotics for sponsoring Tekzilla!
You want a Tekzilla ringtone, Tenzin, "the first part, that sounds like a flute, not the guitar part?" How about this: here's the whole Tekzilla theme and you can clip out any bit you like to make that ringtone!
"Is it true that Nintendo is developing iPhone games?" Ercole, the general consensus of our gaming buddies is that it's just another rumor... especially since Nintendo's DS is already the most popular portable gaming platform around.
That said, we've seen stranger Apple rumors come true... we wait for Steve Jobs's Macworld Expo 2008 keynote speech with baited breath.
Is it safe to buy open box products? Sure, Andy, if buying any missing accessories doesn't make it cost more than buying the regular version. Heck, Patrick buys refurbished stuff all the time... just make sure it works the minute you get home, and make sure there's still a good warranty on it if it's something expensive!


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FULL LIST OF Wireless Topics
New tech transforms Idaho police response to school emergencies - The new system requires school staff to wear wireless security badges connected to the district's WiFi system to communicate to police dispatchers
Wiretaps, aides led to arrest of Mexican drug lord - As Mexican troops forced their way into Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's main hideout in Culiacan, the country's most powerful drug lord sneaked out of the house through an escape tunnel beneath the bathtub
Wear the Comfortable, Reliable and Innovative Nighthawk Bluetooth While on Duty - Potential use of force scenarios demonstrate the mobility and clear communication of the Nighthawk Bluetooth wireless microphone from Ear Phone Connection. No uniform alterations, no wires and no wear and tear make it an easy addition to daily duties. Features a Torpedo ear bud for all-day comfort.
Meggitt's XWT Wireless Target Carrier in Action - A demonstration of Meggitt's XWT wireless target carrier in action.
AgileMesh in Action - Rapidly deployable wireless video surveillance.
AgileMesh - Rapidly deployable wireless video surveillance system that allows non-technical users to deploy surveillance as needed in a wide variety of situations
AgileMesh in Action On-Scene in Tulsa, OK - Rapidly deployable wireless video surveillance.
ICOP at IACP 2011 - At IACP 2011, ICOP overviews their offerings, which include a wireless microphone and cameras to enhance officer safety.
Tactical Electronics Wireless Vision Systems - See how Tactical Electronics top-notch products and high-level electronics training are demonstrated in an actual scenario.
Wireless Mesh Video Surveillance from Firetide Protects Phoenix - Phoenix police department uses a Firetide wireless video surveillance system to protect visitors to the city during the Super Bowl.
Meggitt: BlueFire Weapons - Bluefire® Wireless Weapons are used with Meggitt Training System's judgmental and small arms training systems.
Introducing the Meggitt XWT Wireless Target Mover - Target retrieval systems are a standard feature in indoor ranges, however, there is no reason to settle for standard training. Meggitt Training Systems delivers the industry's first wireless, 360° turning target retrieval system. The XWT moves along the rail via an internal, variable speed, DC motor drive system eliminating the need to replace frayed cables and to continually adjust tension of cables and pulleys found on traditional target retrievers.
3eTI Network Security - 3eTI wireless network communications.
PoliceOne top 5
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The Eternal Beach-Body Plan
Phase I - Week 4: Workout X
Exercise V: Cable Lateral Raise
Sets: 2 Reps: 12 Rest: 20 Seconds
Attach a D-handle to the low pulley of a cable station and grab it with one hand, your palm facing the machine. Take a few steps away from the machine and stand perpendicular to it, so that there is tension on the cable [1]. Raise your arm up until it's parallel to the floor [2], and then lower it back to the starting position. That's one rep. Complete 12 reps, and then repeat on the opposite arm.


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U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham addresses a news conference as Sens. John McCain, left, and John Barrasso listen at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday.
KABUL — Three U.S. senators visited the Afghan president on Thursday to try to push forward talks to sign a crucial bilateral security deal and halt the release of prisoners the United States considers a threat to security.
Afghanistan plans to release hundreds of prisoners from Bagram prison, which was handed over from U.S. control only after a deal was reached in March after intense negotiations because Washington feared dangerous inmates would be freed.
The disagreement further strains relations between the two countries, which are already at breaking point over President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a bilateral security deal to shape the post-2014 U.S. military presence in the country.
Without the pact, Washington could pull most of its troops out after this year, when most foreign troops are due to exit.
The senators told Karzai that releasing dangerous prisoners would irreparably damage ties with the United States, but stopped short of saying it would prompt a full military withdrawal after 2014.
"If these releases go ahead, it will do irreparable damage to the relationship," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., at a news conference in Kabul.
Washington considers 88 of some 650 prisoners marked for release a serious threat to security, saying they are responsible for wounding or killing 57 Afghans and 60 U.S. and coalition troops.
It wants them to be investigated and tried. Afghanistan says there is not enough evidence to keep them detained.
Karzai has called the so-called "zero option" over the pact an empty threat and suggested any deal can wait until after the presidential elections in April. The United States says it needs time to prepare a post-2014 mission and set an end of year deadline that has now passed.
The visiting officials gave no indication of how much longer the government might wait to sign the security deal but stopped short of saying releasing the prisoners would drive a final nail in the coffin of talks.
"We're going to have to just wait and see what happens ... we can't go any further in our comments except that it does damage," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"As a result of our long meeting with president Karzai we have narrowed those differences and I believe we can look forward to signing the Bilateral Security Agreement ... sooner rather than later."
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., joined McCain and Graham on the trip.
Karzai's spokesman was not immediately available to comment on whether the president would consider intervening to stop the release.
Billions of dollars in foreign aid will also hinge on a deal being reached to allow U.S. troops to stay beyond 2014.
Afghanistan relies on donors for most of its budget and would have difficulty funding its police and army without international help.
Highlighting the increasingly violent struggle against the Taliban insurgency, a motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Logar province on Thursday, south of the capital, killing nine people and wounding 18 others, according to local officials.


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Emily E. Ginter
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Emily E. Ginter, 19, of King George County went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday night, June 8, 2013.
Emily was a shining light for Christ everywhere she went. She was a student at Germanna Community College. She also was a dance instructor at The Studio in King George and worked at Lifeway Christian Bookstore in Fredericksburg.
Since the age of 13, she has spent her summers doing mission work throughout the world, including Africa, Guatemala and Mexico, where she would help build homes for the poor and, more importantly, share the news of the saving grace of Jesus Christ. She loved to dance, sing and, most importantly, worship God. She loved everyone she met with a love that could only come from God.
She is survived by her parents, John and Dawn Ginter; her older sister Alyssa Taylor (Austin) of Newport News; and her four younger siblings, Kaylee Ginter, Sydney Ginter, Grace Ginter and Ian Ginter; paternal grandparents Joseph and Anna Ginter of Punta Gorda, FL; and maternal grandparents Chet and Linda Neice of Prattsville, NY.
A service in celebration of her life was held Saturday, June 15, at New Life Ministries, 2800 McKinney Blvd., Colonial Beach.
We believe Emily would prefer gifts be given to any of her favorite ministries: New Life Ministries (mission teams) Box 494, Colonial Beach, VA 22443; The Prayer Furnace (house of prayer mission base), Box 4117, Fredericksburg, VA 22402; or The Honor Academy, Box 2000, Garden Valley, TX 75771.
Please sign the online guest book at www.nashandslawfh.com.


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The European Parliament has proposed a new bailout fund for the Continent's banks that could cost more than €150 billion, The Times has learned.
The proposal is made in unpublished documents that form part of negotiations between the European Commission, European Council and European Parliament over a new regulation that is meant to end bank bailouts. They have set a deadline of December to reach a solution.
Britain has secured an exemption from the fund and has also overcome European pressure to set aside £2 billion a year to set up its own fund.
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Why choose social science/history at North Central College?
When you complete a combined major in history and one of the social sciences—including political science, economics, geography and sociology—you'll be equipped to teach a variety of social studies classes in secondary schools. Here you'll work closely with top professors, conducting primary research and developing exceptional writing skills. And you'll hone your teaching abilities in some of the nation's best public schools, obtaining valuable classroom experience early and often as you work toward teacher licensure.
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"Girl Raised From Birth by Wolf Blitzer Taken Into Protective Custody"
"Fill Your Own Goddamn Emotional Void," by Food
"Animals Keeping Impending Earthquake to Selves"
No, I haven't taken leave of my senses. Since I'm writing about positive emotions and events this week, I thought I'd create some positive emotions in myself and in you with a few headlines from the satirical newspaper, The Onion, at www.theonion.com. Do you feel more open as a result of this dash of humor? If so, think about your desired habit change right now!
"It's the sparkle of good feelings, after all, that awakens your motivation to change." So contends researcher Barbara Fredrickson, author of Positivity. Based on her research, Fredrickson argues that positive emotions such as joy, gratitude, serenity, and amusement don't just lead you to trade good thoughts for negative ones. Rather, positivity shifts your attention, widening the range of ideas about possible actions you can see yourself taking to solve a problem. Positive emotions and events open up our minds and hearts, leading to more willingness to change.
When I thought about writing this blog, the first positive event that came to mind was a wanted pregnancy. Numerous students of mine have testified that becoming pregnant inspired them to stop smoking, give up illegal drugs, or turn from the wild-partying habit. A few others said they stopped smoking during pregnancy, only to resume after the baby was born.
But that is anecdotal evidence. Here is a key statistic:
The percentage of women who smoke during pregnancy is down almost 42% from 1990, from about 18% of women to about 10% today.
That's progress! This statistic indicates that women who feel positive emotions about pregnancy, understand the dire effects of smoking on fetal development, and are concerned about their developing babies' health, are motivated to change a highly addictive habit. Unfortunately, about 2/3 of women who stop smoking during pregnancy start again after giving birth, mostly due to fears about weight gain. Still, they've practiced some harm reduction, to their credit.
There are other positive events that can lead to change. According to the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer, a large-scale survey of over 15,000 people in 11 countries, people were motivated to make positive changes in health habits when they became a parent (25%) or when they renewed an emotional or spiritual connection (26%).
I have a feeling that expectant mothers (and fathers) are also motivated by another powerful positive emotion that inspires change--love. Next time I'll focus on "The Love Motivator." Meanwhile, if you are on vacation, enjoy the positive feelings that a good vacation can evoke. Maybe you'll find that those feelings raise your motivation for change by a notch or two.
(c) Meg Selig
I am the author of Changepower! 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success (Routledge, 2009), reviewed here. For short takes of habit change, willpower, and healthy living, please like me on Facebook and/or follow me on Twitter.
Fredrickson, B. Positivity (2009). NY: Crown.
American Lung Association, "Women and Tobacco Use." http://www.lungusa.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/facts-figures/women-an.... Accessed 7/19/2010.
CDC, "Smoking During Pregancy---United States, 1990-2002." http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5339a1.htm. Accessed 7/19/2010.
See "Edelman Health Engagement Barometer," http://www.slideshare.net/edelmaninc/edelman-health-engagement-barometer...