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Vibey, to describe a feeling, a place or atmosphere. Similar word, vibe
Quote from Jennifer Hawkins April 6 2008, Sydney Morning Herald,(former Miss Universe) Attending ladies' Day at Sydney's Canterbury Park racecourse yesterday, Hawkins said "It's good to have the races back in Sydney and horses back on the track. You can actually feel the difference in the atmosphere here. It's completely different, it's vibey, it's great."
by Mandyx September 20, 2008
Vibey, to give off good vibes
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Original Yugoslavian AK47 30rd magazine with Bolt Hold Open (BHO) feature 7.62X39.
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Sale price only good thru Monday 19 December 2011
Used in good condition.
These magazines have a follower that holds the bolt open after the last round is fired.
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Korean made 75rd drum for the AK47, 7.62X39.
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75 Round wind up style drum magazine.
This is a copy of the the Chinese AK drum and will fit all high capacity AK47's.
This has a hinged rear cover plate that you flip down to load up 75 rounds into it.
When ready to use, close the plate and wind it up.
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Debian 7.0 Wheezy released
Posted by chantra on 5th May 2013
Debian 7.0, code name Wheezy, is finally released.
This new release of comes with some interesting new features such as multiarch support and tools to deploy private cloud based on OpenStack and Xen Cloud Platform (XCP).
For the first time, Debian supports booting using UEFI.
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sewbizgirl said......"I agree, that first quilt I linked to would be great done in postage stamp squares. Be sure you show us when you get it done." Barbara says "lol"
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
sewbizgirl said......"I agree, that first quilt I linked to would be great done in postage stamp squares. Be sure you show us when you get it done." Barbara says "lol"
"Queen B" of the "2017/18 2.5" Birthday Swap
Happy Birthday Sewbizgirl....hopefully my package comes today!
I love pinterest...maybe you can tell by how many pins I have posted (i think around 3,000) so I am gonna be really busy! I have a board called completed pins. When I finish a pin I post it there and sometimes I put the results. (recipe if it was good or not).
"Queen B" of the "2017/18 2.5" Birthday Swap
thanks for sharing your link lstew2212 and sewbizgirl. I am a follower!!! (that sounds kinda creepy)
"Queen B" of the "2017/18 2.5" Birthday Swap
Barbara, I love the bag that you made. Was the frame hard to attach? So cute!
I have a love hate relationship with Pinterest too. So many ideas so little time. Especially when you get lost on Pinterest. Check out my pages http://www.pinterest.com/dottie_dodge/
Happy Birthday Bonnie.
I too am addicted to Pinterest. It's a toss-up if I spend more time on Quilting Board or Pinterest. No wonder my hand quilting takes so long. I can't seem to turn off the computer. The good ideas are just endless and many of them seem to turn into UFO's.
My pinterest page is www.pinterest.com/benndm/
Sorry I don't know how to make it where you just click on it.
Thank you all for the birthday wishes and also for posting your Pinterest pages. Will love checking them out. I agree, Pinterest can really suck up some time! But it's a great resource.
Boom 17 Album of Blocks I Made for Others http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...bums19654.html
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Janice McC
2017 UFO Challenge http://www.quiltingboard.com/quiltin...h-t284858.html
Well I guess I'll tell you my bio and get it out of the way!
I am married to a wonderful man and we have three grown children. The oldest, a daughter, is married but no grandkids for us yet. We are waiting and hopeful. Second child, a son, will be getting engaged soon to a sweet girl and probably will be married a year from now. Third child, also a son, is a busy pilot, off pursuing his career.
I work only part-time at a fitness center, teaching Silver Sneaker classes. I teach general exercise, yoga, and water aerobics. LOVE it! I am home the rest of the time, to be available to hubby who is disabled. That's where the quilting comes in!
I made a few quilts for the kids when they were little, but didn't start quilting in earnest until a few years ago when a friend was diagnosed with breast cancer. I wanted to make her a prayer quilt to take to her chemo sessions, with scriptures on it to encourage her and feed her faith. It was such a rewarding experience that I have kept making quilts. I gave 10 or so last year as wedding gifts, and at least that many more childrens' quilts to charities. I also have an Etsy shop, hoping to sell a quilt or two now and again.
Currently I am working on a scrappy "Chunky Churn Dash" pattern by Bonnie Hunter, as well as the "Arkansas Crossroads" I am doing from these candy squares. I'm also cutting up shirts like crazy, preparing to make another shirt quilt or two. And I always have knitting and/or crochet projects going too!
I also design and write knitting patterns and just wrote my first crochet pattern which I sell in my Etsy shop. I'm knitting hubby a red cabled cap at the moment and just finished a pair of slippers for myself.
Barb asked us to mention what we are most proud of. Quiltwise, it would probably be the Bento Box quilt I made for an engaged couple last year, a special friend of the family: http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...51-416283.html . Lifewise, I am most proud of my kids. They have all grown up into such fine young adults and I love and admire each one of them so much.
Thanks for listening to me rattle on...
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Boom 17 Album of Blocks I Made for Others http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...bums19654.html
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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In vitro stabilizing effect of a transforaminal compared with two posterior lumbar interbody fusion cages
Kettler, Annette, Schmoelz, Werner, Kast, Erich, Gottwald, Maria, Claes, Lutz, & Wilke, Hans-Joachim (2005) In vitro stabilizing effect of a transforaminal compared with two posterior lumbar interbody fusion cages. Spine, 30(22), E665-E670.
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A Man of Many Hats: The Jay Bilas Interview
Actor, lawyer coach and player, ESPN analyst Jay Bilas is a jack of all trades.
I'm holding the phone to my ear and dead dial tone is echoing off the walls. My hand is hovering above the keypad, a finger extended, I'm waiting to dial. I'm frozen, staring straight forward with a mental list of statistics and numbers cycling fast through my head and getting jumbled like a pressured crossover through traffic with two minutes to play. I've lost all my words. Are these questions in order? Was it the Cardinals or the 'Cuse in '86? Was it three or four Final Fours? And how many championships?
Aztec? Azeck? Razteck?
One of the things we fear most is sounding stupid in front of the people we respect. It's an inherent and normal fear that typically causes us to behave in decidedly abnormal ways. Manifestations of said fear include stammering, stuttering, blabbering, blurting, full on rambling and of course profuse sweating and I experienced all of the above in my recent conversation with one Jay Bilas, former four-year starter with the Duke Blue Devils basketball team and current College Gameday analyst for ESPN. Our conversation was brief but crossed quickly between the many sagas of Jay's life, with basketball always weaving in and out. Somehow no matter where we took the talk it always came back to basketball, which seems exactly how Jay wants it and where he feels most comfortable. He'd tell me later it's where he wants to be.
Someone picks up on the other end. Introductions are made and suddenly I'm stammering like a school girl in the presence of a teen idol, like Bieber. "Oh Jay, I've seen all your shows! I watch you on TV every Saturday morning!" Off to a good start here, this is some real staunch unbiased journalism.
When I finally stop gushing I've lost my place and ask the only question I can think of off the top of my head: "So Jay, you start every morning off tweeting a Young Jeezy lyric and the world wants to know, why are you so hood?" Yep. Real solid stuff here.
But Jay doesn't shake. The man has been on the big stage in the limelight. A trip to the National Title game as a player in '86. Three Final Four appearances and two National Title wins as a coach. The man makes his living calling the fast paced plays of the hard court so a question about Jeezy is answered with ease.
As he tells me the story of coming up through high school listening to the Sugar Hill Gang and later Run DMC, I find my place and begin to settle down. It turns out the fascination with Jeezy is a combination of experience and evolution, building on his past musical tastes like the aforementioned forefathers of rap and the new found influences he attributes to the players he's around and from his 15 year old son. We wrap up the question both bemoaning the lack of a Jay Bilas shout out on Jeezy's new joint and quickly jump into the world of college hoops.
As a player, Jay was drafted in the now infamous class of '82. In their final year they won a then record setting 37 games and are still the highest scoring single class in NCAA history. One of their few losses that season came in the final game against Louisville for the National Championship, something that hasn't escaped him in all the years since.
"It's hard…We lost to an outstanding team. The fact that we had a record breaking season that year and then lost in the final game is disappointing. I think everyone on that team was disappointed and still is…you know we're able to function [laughs] but it's something you never really get over. Were we the better team, maybe? But so what? We lost….We lost by a basket. It was frustrating"
It's clear the loss stuck though Jay would eventually avenge it as an assistant coach helping Duke and himself to three Final Fours and a title in '91 (and another in '92) but he says it wasn't the same.
"It's different. Championships mean more to players. I remember coming down the elevator, going home after that ('86) championship game and a fan said 'geez that was a tough one, you'll never know how hard it was to lose that game' and I'm looking at him thinking, 'I think I've got a pretty good idea how hard it was. I think it hurt me a lot more than it hurt you.' As a coach you've got a bigger window to win. As a fan…you're a fan forever, you get to be a fan every year. As many years as you live is how many chances you have to win as a fan. As a player your window is smaller, three or four years."
Coming out of college, championship or not, Jay's heart was still on the hard-court. "I wanted to play," he says. He was selected by Dallas back when, in his words the NBA draft "had a hundred rounds," but opted instead to play in Europe.
"Dallas had 12 roster spots and 13 guaranteed contracts at the time and I knew no matter how well I played I was probably gonna get cut. Truth is, I would have been a fringe player in the NBA anyway, a bench player, so I took the deal in Europe and the money."
His foray overseas was successful but brief, averaging 20 points and 10 rebounds over three years before returning to the college court and the classroom at Duke where he not only earned his coaching stripes but his J.D. from the school's renowned law program.
From there, opportunities knocked. From the silver screen to the court room to the sands overseas, the doors all opened and Jay managed to walk through every one. An interview about basketball had quickly turned into a matter of tracking a jack of all trades. No easy feat; how does one arrange the many hats of Jay Bilas?
Jay Bilas the Actor: Considering myself a connoisseur of early 90s action films, I would have been remiss had I not asked Jay about his time on the Silver Screen starring as "Azeck the Good Alien" in I Come In Peace. From a commercial audition seeking a 6'8," white guy (a friend hooked him up with the highly persuasive argument of "that's you!") to being offered the role in the Dolph Lundgren picture, Jay's acting career, though short lived, moved fast. "I had done a few auditions and on the last one they asked me to sit down, started asking me questions about myself, and all of a sudden a guy comes into the room and says 'congratulations, we just got off the phone with your agent, we've got a deal, welcome to the movie' and I'm like 'what're you people talking about?' But it was a lot of fun. One of the coolest parts was getting the mold made for my head because they had to blow it up. I used to have a lot of hair in the late 80s and they had to shave it off which was my first look into my future: baldness."
Jay Bilas the Lawyer: Currently Of Counsel to the Charlotte office of Moore & Van Allen, Jay's law career took a strange turn when he found himself ostensibly litigating against Barney the Dinosaur, defending a costume company from the trademark holders who suggested a likeness to Barney could damage the lovable dinosaurs reputation should someone behave in a "decidedly un-Barney like manner." With two young kids at home, Jay's life was for a while all-consumed by Barney. "It was maddening. Coming out of law school you have all these high-brow ideas about future cases and here I am in court arguing over Barney the purple Dinosaur with federal anti-trust and murder cases happening two doors over."
Jay Bilas and Operation Hardwood: Offered the opportunity to go overseas and coach United States Service Teams in a basketball tournament, Jay jumped, saying it was easily one of the most rewarding experiences of his life. "It was a life-changing experience for me. We stayed on base with these guys and you can't imagine how hard they work during the day and then to come and play basketball at night? They played their tails off too…They really appreciate it…We were embarrassed by them saying thank you, you know? That's why we were there, to say thank you to them. [Their appreciation of us] pales in comparison to ours of them."
So what's next for Jay? Actor, lawyer, Indian chief? He says none of the above.
"I was recently called as a witness in a deposition and got to see from the sidelines all the things that lawyers do…the day to day grind of litigating cases…and I didn't miss it. Right now, I enjoy basketball too much…I've got a great job, there's no heavy lifting, it's all indoors…I don't look at myself as a broadcaster, I'm a basketball guy who happens to be a broadcast basketball…I don't close off any opportunity but I just love basketball…I like doing this.
To check out Jay's college tournament picks, head on over to PBBracket.com. If you think you can do better than the Bilustrator, fill out your own.


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Anxious times at Auckland City as they chase a top two finish in the ASB Premiership.
Beaten for the first time since the 2010-11 season when toppled 3-2 at home by Waitakere United on Saturday, City now turn their attention to Wednesday's catch-up game at Kiwitea St - a must-win game for both teams.
Pushed down to third place following Hawkes Bay United's 3-1 away win over Otago United yesterday, Auckland City need maximum points from their first game against Matt Calcott's Capital team to get back to second and keep alive a very faint chance of claiming the minor premiership.
The focus, however, was on the 38th Super City clash in which Auckland City twice took the lead but in the end came up short in another of these always-tight battles decided by the odd goal.
From the outset this was another clash which could have boiled over as referee Matt Conger booked a player from each team in the opening seven minutes before the visitors gave away a second silly close-range free kick which Alex Feneridis clinically fired into the corner of Danny Robinson's goal.
That early breakthrough should have settled the home team and, given the amount of possession they enjoyed, laid the foundation for an all-out assault. Instead the City players failed to punish a hesitant Waitakere who kept themselves in touch without ever threatening to score.
In the shadow of halftime Luis del Monte, left alone by the corner flag, hoisted the ball goalwards and then stood back to admire his handiwork as the ball eluded teammate Allan Pearce and the despairing effort of City goalkeeper Tamati Williams to sneak under the bar and into the net.
Two minutes after the break a shocking mistake by Tim Myers and an easy finish from Manel Exposito had the home side back in front. After another couple of bookings, Waitakere hit back with the goal of the match when the ball was played wide to Ryan de Vries who picked out Roy Krishna beyond the far post where, from the acutest possible angle, he scored for 2-2. Myers later made up for his earlier bungle when, from a goalmouth scramble, he fired home the match winner.


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|Professor Michael McCall Draws National Attention for Customer Loyalty Research
|The work of School of Business professor Michael McCall is changing how you can use those reward cards in your wallet.
The work of School of Business professor Michael McCall is changing how you can use those reward cards in your wallet.
Reward cards exist to increase customer loyalty, says McCall, a consumer psychologist, and the next big change in rewards programs may follow the lead of JetBlue, "where you focus more on rewarding your best (as in most profitable) customers, who may or may not be your heaviest user."
McCall is drawing national attention for his research on reward programs, which shows that while programs have grown throughout the hospitality industry in the last 30 years, they have accomplished little in building behavioral loyalty. He is the lead author of a recent hospitality paper, "Building Customer Loyalty: Ten Guiding Principles for Designing an Effective Customer Reward Program," published by The Center for Hospitality Research at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
He explains how to shift the reward card emphasis to the most profitable customer:
"A frequent flier using discount sites may fly more miles, but be far less profitable than an individual who flies one time but pays for first class. Similarly, consider a visitor to a Las Vegas casino who may not gamble at all. But by the time they are done dining, shopping, golfing and visiting the spa, their value may be significant.
"In other words, dollars spent are tied to the rewards an individual might receive."
In the paper, McCall points out, "while program implementation seems to have expanded exponentially, the actual components and structure of any given program appears to be driven more by what the competition is offering rather than demonstrated effectiveness." He and co-authors Clay Voorhees and Roger Calantone present 10 guiding principles for customer reward program design and management.
Recent media inquiries have come from the Los Angeles Times and AOL.com. McCall, a professor of marketing and law at Ithaca College and visiting scholar at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, will give a talk at the Cornell World Summit on Hospitality in October and lead a workshop at the invitation-only SAS Premier Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas in November.
The shift toward emphasizing the best customers may limit rewards to others.
"There is a culture that everyone expects a reward," McCall says. "Notably it is strongest in the U.S. Logically, there may be reasons not to reward certain people. The goal is loyalty and increased patronage and profitability. A coffee card that provides a free cup after nine purchased cups is not necessarily getting more business, but may instead be giving away 10 percent of their product."
In McCall's wallet, you'll find reward cards from Best Buy, Dick's Sporting Goods, Marriott, and Hilton. He has signed non-disclosure agreements with the companies with which he consults but says, "They include internationally known firms in and outside of the hospitality industry."
The hospitality paper identifies three key factors for loyalty program effectiveness:
- The structure of the loyalty program
- The structure of the rewards
- Customers' fit with the loyalty program.
"Patronage is not necessarily loyalty," McCall says. "Loyal customers tend to be significantly less price-sensitive while at the same time more likely to market the firm to their friends and others. I may use a particular airline or firm, but truly not like it at all; usage is a function of choice (the only airline that serves my needs), and or because I have built up a large number of points that the switching cost barriers are prohibitive."
He enjoys bringing his research into the classroom to let students know what is happening in industries inside and outside of hospitality.
Zachary Klinger '11 has taken McCall's course on consumer behavior but has not yet been involved in any of his research.
"McCall has a very energetic vibe," says Klinger. "He usually teaches early morning classes, so he's already fighting an uphill battle with classroom energy. Once you're in the swing of the semester, you realize when you go into class you will definitely perk up.
"He likes to crack jokes, tell interesting stories that pertain to the course material, and keep students on their toes. It's definitely a gust of information on really cool topics. It's effective because it engages students and makes them want to hear what's next."
In further research, McCall says, he'll have students work with him more directly.
And he points out another IC connection. His co-author Clay Voorhees received his B.S. in business administration and marketing from IC in 2001, earned his Ph.D. at Florida State and is an assistant professor at the Eli Broad School of Business at Michigan State University.


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Speak from your heart and tell them they're incredibly sweet with this collectible tin filled with 16 Oreo® cookies that have been hand-dipped in rich Belgian white, dark or milk chocolate and decorated to perfection. Some are decorated with heart-themed confections, others are sprinkled with pink, white and red heart decorettes—all are scrumptious. Send your own personal message from your heart to theirs.
Oreo® is a registered trademark of the Nabisco® Corporation. Not affiliated with Nabisco®, its parent company, or any of its subsidiaries.


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Birth of "Free to Be… You and Me"
Birth of "Free to Be… You and Me"
More From Marlo
Gloria's Gifts
Getting in on the Ground Floor
Supporting Your Partner
Flexibility at Work & Home
Breaking from Dad's Shadow
Amending the Constitution
Mothers of the Movement
A Woman of My Time
The Big Words
Left-Turn Marriage
Take Our Daughters to Work
Justice Ginsburg's "Free to Be" Review
Free to Be TV Special Battle
Birth of "Free to Be… You and Me"
Becoming Politicized
Feminine Mystique Sells TV Shows
Dealing with Rejection
Mom's Stifled Dreams
Dad's Light-Hearted World
Marlo's Biography
Charity of Choice: St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
Most Proud Of: Especially after growing up in Hollywood, "that I'm sane."
Pursing Your Dreams: "Never take no for an answer. Cause if the first person says, 'no' it's just cause they're asleep."
Directing a Classroom: "Teaching is a lot like storytelling, it's a lot like acting… you had to get the children's attention in the first five minutes like you did with a play."
Marlo Thomas is an award-winning actress, author and activist whose body of work continues to have an impact on American entertainment and culture. She burst onto the scene as the star of television's That Girl, which she also conceived and produced. Featuring Thomas as Ann Marie - an unmarried, aspiring actress living away on her own in New York - the show broke new ground for independent women everywhere and launched Thomas into the heart of the burgeoning feminist movement. "I was born to be a feminist," recalls Thomas, who went on to create Free to Be... You and Me, her gender-busting children's concept that became a platinum album, bestselling book, Emmy Award-winning television special and a stage show. The Free to Be… royalties helped Thomas join with Gloria Steinem and other Ms. editors to found the Ms. Foundation in 1973 as a resource for grassroots women's organizations nationwide.
Thomas is the author of numerous bestselling books including Free to Be You and Me, Free to Be a Family, The Right Words at the Right Time (Volumes 1 and 2), Thanks and Giving: All Year Long, and Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny. She has been honored with four Emmy Awards, a Peabody, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and has been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Her activism has been equally recognized with the Helen Caldicott Award for Nuclear Disarmament, the ACLU's Thomas Paine Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Satellite Award, and the William Kunstler Racial Justice Award. It is a commitment to helping others that runs in her veins – she is the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the pioneering children's hospital founded by her father, Danny Thomas.


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Tin Lizzie 18 has a special going right now - machine and frame for $6000.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Tin Lizzie 18 has a special going right now - machine and frame for $6000.
They are great. Ask to speak with chuck or Brenda, the owners. I know them well. Have been doing business with them for more years then I want to count.
You might look into Penniwinkle, I have tried sweet sixteen, tinlizzie at show in 2004. I like the Pennywinkle they sell floor (made by them) I was able to buy one, I also have the handle frame that is used in from. My machine is a Brothers 1500s. I bought in 2003 or I would have their machine too.!! Tinker
I would love to have a quilting machine but it doesn't matter how many times I measure the room it isn't big enough!
I have a 15" Bailey. Granted, the Sweet sixteen is a fantastic machine (I test drove one and fell in love), however, I would never have been able to afford one of those. I love the Bailey because it gives me an opportunity to have my own "longer" arm machine. It is a very simple machine, with no bells or whistles which I do sometimes miss. There is less that can go wrong with it though. Many of the gals who do have Bailey's have made several modifications to their machines to accommodate their needs. If you are interested in a Bailey or have one already, I do suggest joining the group at yahoo. There you will find much help for any issues you may have or questions regarding owning a Bailey.
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You should check out the following link, they were VERY helpful while I was researching my quilting frames and machines!
"Some people have bunches of WIPs (works in progress) and UFOs (unfinished objects)....I prefer to think of them as PhDs (Projects Half Done)!!" ~Elena Boen
"Just keep in mind that your function here is to have fun and not to be someone else's interior decorator! So ... go forth and have fun!" ~Krystyna
I cannot count my day complete 'til needle, thread and fabric meet.
I purchased a used HQ 16 from a private party and had a small issue with it. I posted a question on facebook about it and within an hour I had the company asking me to contact them. I did so and spent half an hour with a man going over my machine and what to do with the problem. He asked me to send him some pictures and I did. He then called me back and stated that he would be sending me some parts with the return label to send the old parts back. Well, what he sent me was all of the electronic parts and the machine works great. The best thing was the service. I purchased my machine from a private party and this company I can't say enough good things about it. I didn't pay a cent and I am able to call them anytime and ask any question. I've never heard of Bailey's, but as far as machine and most important SERVICE I would go with the HQ.
I have the Bailey Pro 15, and it is a wonderful machine.
We took it off the frame I had it on and put it into a table my husband built. As a matter of fact I will be using it this weekend, quilting one of the grandson's secret surprise quilt.
Everyone is born right handed, only the gifted overcome it.
I have already committed my felonies, so people don't have to worry. (Russell Means)
I swear to you, I am guilty of only being Indian. That's why I am here. (Leonard Peltier)
not familiar with the Baileys, but i did get to play with the Sweet 16 (and the Babylock Tiarra) at the Cinncinnati Quilting Expo recently. I loved the Sweet 16..the Babylock Tiarra is the same machine (and i was told they are made by same company??)
It takes up very little room.....which is a bonus if you dont have alot of space.
I would own one if I could!


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Glass-Bottom Boat Eco Cruise & Bonaire Marine Park
BON-620 | Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands | See Special Notes
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Tour at a Glance
Tour Overview
As a result of diligent stewardship of its marine resources - which have been legally protected since 1979 - Bonaire has been consistently ranked as the finest scuba diving and snorkeling destination in the Caribbean. You can experience the magical beauty of Bonaire's protected undersea paradise without even getting wet! Simply embark on this leisurely, one-and-a-half-hour glass-bottom boat cruise that takes you to one of the best preserved and protected reefs in the world!
Begin at the pier where you'll be greeted by friendly staff that will assist you as you step aboard a 32-foot, glass-bottom boat. Take a seat anywhere along the 9.8' x 2.62' glass viewing panel that runs through the center of the boat - all seats are comfortable and offer great viewing! There's even a hard-top canopy that offers cooling shade from the sun. You'll receive a short introduction to your fascinating eco-tour as well as a safety briefing (which includes a life vest, of course). Then sit back and take in the refreshing ocean breeze as you set out across the glistening Caribbean en route to the Bonaire National Marine Park.
As you journey, your naturalist guide will regale you with information about the Marine Park (considered one of the world's most successful marine protected areas) and the amazing array of marine creatures that you encounter along the way. Your destination: the crystalline waters off Klein Bonaire - an unspoiled, uninhabited island less than a mile from Bonaire. Prepare yourself for unparalleled beauty and wonder as your glass-bottom boat drifts along several dive sites with names like 'Nearest Point,' 'Ebo's Reef' and 'Buddy's Reef.' These sites (which are all part of the marine preserve) offer up some of the most spectacular views of the delicate fringing coral reefs that include stands of elkhorn and staghorn coral, often with fire coral, patch reefs, and dense stands of soft corals. Mysterious and lovely, these life-giving reefs are inhabited by a dazzling spectrum of reef fish.
Have your cameras at the ready as you marvel at the magnificent abundance of colorful tropical fish (including tangs, parrotfish, damsel fish, butterfly fish and angel fish) that move gracefully among the currents in a silent underwater ballet. Indulge in a refreshing water or soda as you check your reef fish ID card (available for purchase on the boat) to see how many fish you can identify! Look for elusive moray eels that hide out in crevices. Keep a keen eye out for special sightings of sea turtles, sea horses,and rays.
As you cruise back along the beautiful coastline of Bonaire en route to your pier, contemplate the undersea wonders you encountered. You will surely come away with a sense of awe and appreciation of the delicate eco-system that is life on the coral reef.
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Where to get started?
I know C pretty much in and out, i know a tad of C++ (going to be learning a lot more soon), and i some python. I am also moderately familiar with linux (having worked with Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and CentOS).
I also know HTMl, CSS, and Javascript. And am planning on learning PHP and MySQL very soon.
I got into ethical hacking because i just started my first ever home server ( a small webserver to host a personal website) and i wanted to get into security and learn the ins and outs.
I am very eager to start learning because it will give me a lot more knowledge about networks and security systems. Eventually i want to move the server back home (right now its with me at college but its a hassle to keep here), and be able to pentest with it over the internet (to simulate a real hacker who wouldn't normally have physical access to the server).
How do i start learning? I am very eager. I bought some books and checked some others out from the library after reading some other posts but i dont know which one to read first. I have the following:
- Counter Hack Reloaded, Second Edition
- Ghost in the Wires
- Hacking - The Art of Exploitation 2nd Edition (this one came with a neat CD but i have looked at it yet)
- Hacking Exposed Network Security Secrets and Solutions, 6th Edition
- Kevin Mitnick - Art of Deception (i think this is more social engineering but i picked it up anyway since it was recommened)
- Metasploit - The Penetration Testers Guide
- Social Engineering - Christopher Hadnagy (this one i KNOW is social engineering, haha)
- BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing (I hear that Backtrack 5 is the most widely used operating system for hacking)
- Gray hat hacking: The. ethical hackers handbook, 3rd Edition
- Practical Hacking Techniques & Countermeasures
- The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing
But those are sooo many books and i am a pretty damn slow reader
What book should i start on? Is there a better book to start out with than the ones i listed? Also after i finish my first book what one should i move on to?


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Town Square
Our roads need to be repaired!
Original post made by Diana Diamond, Palo Alto Online blogger, on Oct 20, 2006
Just driving through town daily, I know our roads are bad and in need of much repair, but I had not realized how far behind we were in paying for repairs. The $28.7 million figure is a huge amount of money, especially since the city talks about budgeting a mere $2 million a year for road repairs. At that rate of spending, we will never catch up.
For the past 10 years, residents have been complaining about the condition of our roads. In fact, a city survey reported that more than half the residents think their roads are in "poor" (18 percent) to "fair" (34 percent) condition. Given that residents rated other items in the city much higher, Erickson decided to conduct a study to see why the public perceived the roads were so bad.
Her conclusion: The roads have been neglected for years. Either the money slated for repairs was spent on other things, and/or the Public Works Department's request for more money was not addressed.
It's now seven months since Erickson's report, and there's no plan in sight yet as to what the city can do to come up with the money. City Manager Frank Benest and Director of Administrative Services Carl Yeats presented a report to the City Council's Finance Committee Tuesday night, saying not only does the city need money for street repairs, but it also now needs about $3 to $5 million in new long-term spending for retiree health costs, as well as a lot for building repairs. And the city is also facing a potential loss in utilities tax revenues.
City Manager Frank Benest suggested the city find new ways to get more money in, such as asking residents to partly finance sidewalk repairs, or charging a development impact fee for roads, boosting hotel taxes, or charging more for city classes, but none of these will bring in a lot of money.
The Finance Committee instead told Benest to go back and start looking for some real cuts in this city, including possible cuts in city services. A big hooray for the committee!
We don't have much choice left.
I don't know what the solution is, but I know some of us have been waiting for repairs for years. In the meantime our roads are getting progressively worse, particularly in old Palo Alto. We already are paying for these bad roads through the daily wear and tear on our cars. How much does an alignment cost?
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a resident of Professorville
on Oct 20, 2006 at 10:05 pm
"Bryant the Bicycle Boulevard" is quite a challenge
for us people on narrow two wheels! That stretch
between Embarcadero and Oregon really needs attention.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Oct 21, 2006 at 11:33 am
It's about time to look at replacing the Public Works Director. Just observe a Public Works operation. Most of the people are standing around, and it takes several days to do a project that should be done in hours. A good portion of the workers time each day is spent going back and forth to the Service center on East Bayshore. The street repairs are not coordinated with the utilities repairs so we have several instances where a street is resurfaced and then shortly thereafter torn up for utility repairs. We wasted the street repair money for several years by not doing the work that should be routinely done. If we don't change the management, the roads will continue to get worse. Additional money given to the present management will be continued to be used inefficiently.
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 21, 2006 at 3:04 pm
The council a few weeks ago voted the city employees an increase in benefits & salary; that was money that could have been used to fund more infrastructure needs - road repairs, new police station, library overhaul. I'm disapointed that the most recently elected council members like Klein, who campaigned on the issue of city management didn't make a stand on this.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Oct 21, 2006 at 11:54 pm
There is one huge advantage to keeping Palo Alto's streets in a state of disrepair, they slow the traffic down. This is not lost on staff. It is a form of "Traffic Calming".
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 22, 2006 at 12:01 am
Maybe the solution is when next time our city council asks us about priorities, we also tell them what we DON'T ALLOW them to deal with until
- our roads are in good shape
- our sidewalks are in good shape
- SF creek flooding risks are addressed
- electricity distribution is brought underground
Until then,
- We don't want the council to deal with Sudan
- We don't want the council to deal with Iraq
- We don't want the council to deal with Global Warming
- We don't want the council to deal with Three Strikes
- We don't want the council to deal with Federal Issues
- We don't want the council to deal with International Issues
And that we commit to recall any council member that brings up those issue until OUR priorities are addressed.
a resident of Ventura
on Oct 22, 2006 at 2:34 pm
The streets are not in poor repair - they're mostly sufficient, and do the job - same with sidewalks. This is an issue that is "made" into an issue by bringing it up. Most people don't notice. Fixing potholes should be the way forward, and making sure that bike lanes are especaially free of debris and cracks.
About sidewalks, why do we keep putting on concrete segments that consistently get pushed up with tree roots? Isn't there another way to do this that would cause less cost, and subsequent repair?
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 23, 2006 at 11:00 am
I agree with J.L., the roads aren't that bad. In a city this size, there are always some things that need repair and not everything can always be perfect. Everything costs money, and if money is spent on roads, it can't be spent on other items. Sure, we could cut city workers salary and benefits, but then some would surely quit and work elsewhere and then we would have no workers to do these jobs! People should look at what city workers bring home and really think about trying to live in this area on that amount of money. It's easy to say we need to do this or that, but it's a lot more difficult to look at the entire city budget and try to allocate money for the greater good without cutting items important to all.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 23, 2006 at 11:07 am
Alternatively, we could get ourselves some good sources of sales tax e.g. stores we want to shop in, auto dealerships, etc. and get the money that Palo Altans already spend in sales tax funding Palo Alto's coffers so that we are able to repair our own streets and not those of our neighboring cities.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 24, 2006 at 2:02 pm
I think many of the streets in P.A. are quite rough and they take a toll on our cars. It should be a priority to fix the roads before considering other projects like spending huge sums to take a portion of the city golf course to make new playing fields. As J.L. writes, The city street trees sometimes do have terrible roots that require repeated work on sidewalks and residents who happen to have the "wrong" varieties in front of their homes are stuck with this situation. Those poor varieties of magnolias should be removed and replaced with appropriate street trees (I have seen this done in selected cases).
a resident of Ventura
on Oct 27, 2006 at 10:53 am
Not related at all, but it needs to be said. We should hang pictures - in infamy - of the persons who decided many years ago that liquid amber and magnolia trees should be planted in our urban environment, where people are traversing sidewalks on foot.
This has to be one of the most absurd decisions ever made by anyone(s) responsible for urban landscape planning.
Magnloias spew their large seed pods all over sidewalks, creating very real walkign hazards - especially in the evening. Liquid ambers fo the same thing, with the added negative bonus ofo being able to puncture a bicycle tire that has even been reinforced with a special sleeve (called a "Tuffy") to prevent punctures.
The cost to citizens in terms of real physical inconvenience, physical harm, and real cost has never been (and never will be) tallied.
Rant over - - Now we can return to our regularly scheduled debate...:)
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 31, 2006 at 1:51 pm
How much has the city waste on the repeatedly ripping and paving the
same streets, see below again?
does the city have any capability of planning?
There are always digging & paving along the same roads in the area south of Univ. and
between Alma and Middlefield. Addison Elementary school is in this area.
Addison Avenue, Channing, Homer, and Waverly are constantly ripped off and paved.
How much do we waste out city money! If the planning department is so incapable
of making planning ahead, the city should review the situation. And this has to first
to bring to the city's attention. We have far more places need funding citywide.
I deliver my son to Addison Elementary school every morning for over a year and half.
There is non-stop such actitivity going on and on and on the
SAME section on of the SAME streets, like Addison Avenue, Channing, Homer.
Each time they are paved nicely, a month later it was dug out again. Not soon after
I can enjoy driving on the nice, smooth surface, I need to de-tour seeing those big construction paving equipment.
Dear Editor, could you go to the city to find out how efficient and effective the city money have spent? How do they plan these activities?
How much have we spent these costly construction as a waste due to no consideration of a plan at all? And how much inconvenience and noise these unnecessary work have brought in the neighborhood?
This time since we are upgrading utililities, we dig them out again. But those streets
have been dug and paved more than 3, 4 times this year and some was just done in early months. You probably could also find out there
are lots of patches on every street. In the half of year, I have to detour many times
from Ramona st. to get to Addision Elementary School.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Nov 6, 2006 at 11:19 am
Palo Alto Roads provide:
. Enough shaking for the driver to prevent sleeping at the wheel
. Test evironment for the shocker absorbers of Lexus cars
. Proof that shock absorbers of volkswagon cars is the worst.
. A good excuse to fire Frank Benest
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Kiera ButlerFeb. 29, 2012 1:00 PM
Gas well drilling in Sutter/Colusa County, California CalWest/FlickrThere isn't supposed to be much fracking in California. In the past, the state's Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) has said that it "does not believe that fracking is widely used" in the state. More recently, the division allowed that the practice is "used for a brief period to stimulate production of oil and gas wells," but added (PDF) that "the division doesn't believe the practice is nearly as widespread as it is in the Eastern U.S. for shale gas production."
Californians, then, should be able to breathe a sigh of relief, since the controversial practice of fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, has been linked to a host of environmental problems, including air pollution, groundwater contamination, and possibly even earthquakes.
But according to a report (PDF) just released by the Environmental Working Group, fracking is much more common in California than the regulators would like you to believe. A team of EWG investigators has unearthed dozens of industry documents and academic papers indicating that the practice has been going on in at least six California counties for 60 years or more. And evidence suggests that it's still going strong: "We asked Halliburton, 'What percentage of wells are you fracking in Kern County, for example?,'" says Bill Allayud, EWG's California Director of Governmental Affairs. "And they said 50 to 60 percent of oil wells." A 2008 paper by the Halliburton subsidiary Pinnacle Technologies detailed the widespread current use of fracking in California.
The DOGGR didn't respond to the multiple emails I sent asking for comment, and EWG says that in a meeting earlier this month, division officials claimed again that it did not have any information about fracking in California. But the really strange thing is that the practice is clearly on the agency's mind: In 2010, the DOGGR requested funding to broaden its regulatory program to include new oil extraction technologies like fracking. It received more than $3.2 million for that very purpose in its 2010-11 budget, but according to the EWG report, so far it has not used the funds to regulate fracking. "They told us that regulating fracking is not on their plate," Allayud says. "Until they see manifest harm, they won't act."
Kevin DrumFeb. 29, 2012 12:44 PM
Back in 2008, after the passage of Proposition 8 banned gay marriage in California, there was a lot of talk about putting a pro-marriage initiative on the ballot in 2010. That didn't happen, and my read of public opinion at the time suggested we'd be better off waiting a little bit to ensure victory. Time was on our side, after all.
This may all be moot if Prop 8 gets overturned by the Supreme Court, but in any case, it looks like the success of same-sex marriage laws in other states has had a galvanizing effect on California public opinion. According to the Field Poll, about 51 percent of Californians approved of gay marriage in 2008, and that number hadn't budged much by 2010. But their latest poll shows a huge shift: 59 percent of Californians now approve.
What's even better is that this shift crosses virtually every demographic groups. Democrats are already strongly in favor, but approval rose 13 points among Republicans and 15 points among independents. Approval rose among the young, the middle-aged, and even the elderly. It rose among whites, Latinos, and blacks. It rose among Protestants, Catholics, and atheists.
There are no efforts in place to repeal Prop 8 via a ballot measure this year, and we might not need one. But if we do, it looks like it would pass easily this time around. Other states have taken the lead, and guess what? The four horsemen didn't ride. Apparently people are finally getting the message that there's really nothing to be afraid of here.
Kevin DrumFeb. 29, 2012 12:16 PM
I see that President Obama is kowtowing to America's enemies yet again:
North Korea agreed to suspend nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and to allow international inspectors to verify and monitor activities at its main reactor, the State Department and the North's official news agency announced on Wednesday, as part of a deal that included an American pledge to ship food aid to the isolated, impoverished nation.
Although the Obama administration called the steps "important, if limited," they signaled a potential breakthrough in the impasse over North Korea's nuclear weapons program following the death late last year of the country's leader, Kim Jong-il....North Korea's agreement to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to return to the country appeared to be a significant concession. After years of negotiations, North Korea expelled inspectors and went on to test nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009.
North Korea agreed to suspend nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and to allow international inspectors to verify and monitor activities at its main reactor, the State Department and the North's official news agency announced on Wednesday, as part of a deal that included an American pledge to ship food aid to the isolated, impoverished nation.
Although the Obama administration called the steps "important, if limited," they signaled a potential breakthrough in the impasse over North Korea's nuclear weapons program following the death late last year of the country's leader, Kim Jong-il....North Korea's agreement to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to return to the country appeared to be a significant concession. After years of negotiations, North Korea expelled inspectors and went on to test nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009.
No word yet on exactly how Obama worded his apology to the North Koreans, but I'm sure Mitt Romney will be on Fox News soon to tell us.
Kevin DrumFeb. 29, 2012 11:48 AM
I see, via Andrew Sullivan, that Will Wilkinson and Reihan Salam are arguing about whether it would be a good idea to increase tax incentives for having children. Will opposes it because he doesn't think the government has any business intruding here in the first place, and Reihan favors it because he favors pro-natal policy in general. "On the whole," says Reihan, "I'd rather we subsidize child-rearing than the purchase of large homes in capacity-constrained regions or high-tax jurisdictions at the expense of low-tax jurisdictions."
Put that way, I guess maybe I'd agree. But before this argument goes much further, it might be worth asking whether changes to the tax code have any real impact on childbearing in the first place. Our philosophical predispositions don't matter much if the empirical evidence tells us not to care.
And it seems like that's what it tells us. An influential paper a couple of decades ago suggested that tax policy really did have an effect on fertility rates, but two decades and some big changes in tax policy have gone by since then. A couple of years ago a trio of researchers at NBER recrunched the numbers and found that the original paper relied on a couple of critical assumptions that most likely aren't true. And even if they are true, "there is some evidence that child tax benefits affect the timing of births, but find no evidence of any lasting fertility effects."
Chart below. Do you see any effect from the skyrocketing level of child tax subsidies over the past couple of decades on the general fertility rate? I sure don't. If you want to reward people for having children just because you think it's the right thing to do, that's fine. But if you're actually trying to affect the number of kids we have, the evidence suggests it simply doesn't make any difference.
Feb. 29, 2012 11:36 AM
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Adam SerwerFeb. 29, 2012 10:43 AM
Obama meets with his national security team.
The White House issued a presidential policy directive Tuesday evening that allows the president to largely disregard a provision in the most recent National Defense Authorization Act, which mandates military custody for non-American terrorism suspects captured on American soil.
Writing on the White House blog, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor emphasized that the directive would do little to alter the current approach to handling terrorism suspects. "[T]hese procedures seek to preserve the framework for the detention, interrogation, and trial of suspected terrorists that this Administration developed, and has executed with great success for more than three years," Vietor wrote.
Essentially, the directive issues waivers that include broad categories of suspects, meaning that instead of taking each case individually, the military custody requirement is avoided in just about every possible circumstance. If the terrorism suspect is a legal resident, if he is arrested by local authorities, if the government has any reason to believe the suspect or their home country might not cooperate with an investigation if the suspect is placed in military custody, then the "mandatory" military custody provision is ignored. Moreover, if the suspect doesn't fit into any of the waived categories, the president or the attorney general can determine whether or not the suspect is actually required to be in military custody. So, as I reported in December before the bill was passed, the "mandatory" military custody rule is mostly symbolic.
There are still a few caveats, however, chief among them that the president's directive leaves open the possiblity that non-citizen terrorism suspects apprehended on American soil could still face indefinite detention without trial, and that the bill itself establishes the expectation that the military has a role in domestic counterterrorism. While Congress itself watered down the detention provisions to allow the president this kind of leeway, should another underwear-bomber-type situation occur, it would be a simple matter for legislators to claim that Obama was flouting the law should he decide aganst placing the suspect in military custody.
The military custody provision is the final legacy of Umar Abdulmutallab. He received multiple sentences of life in prison by a federal judge earlier this month, while the lawmakers who crafted military detention provisions on the assumption that the civilian system was incapable of handling terrorists remained conspicously quiet.
The mandatory military custody requirement does not apply to American citizens. A separate provision the defense bill contains a compromise that allows the courts to decide in the future if American terrorism suspects captured in the US can be subject to indefinite military detention without trial. However, the Senate Judiciary Committee is taking up a bill Wednesday that would resolve the issue by making it absolutely clear that Americans captured in the US cannot be denied the right to a fair trial by their own government. How many votes in the Senate has the Constitution?
Josh HarkinsonFeb. 29, 2012 7:00 AM
Portland Action LabToday, occupiers in 80 American cities will hold the movement's largest coordinated demonstration since fall: a huge protest against the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Never heard of it? That's the point.
"It's an extremely secretive organization," says David Osborn, an organizer with Occupy Portland's Portland Action Lab, which is spearheading the national protest (known on Twitter as #F29 and #ShutDownTheCorporations). "Our goal is to expose the destructive role that it plays in our society."
Founded in 1973 as a "nonpartisan membership organization for conservative state lawmakers," ALEC brings together elected officials and corporations like Walmart, Bank of America, and McDonald's to draft model legislation that often promotes a right-wing agenda. It claims to be behind 10 percent of bills introduced in state legislatures.
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Kevin DrumFeb. 29, 2012 1:32 AM
Going into today's primaries, I figured Romney had to win Michigan by five points to demonstrate that his campaign still had its old mojo. In the event, he won by three. So....I guess things are still up in the air. Romney is in sort of a quantum superposition between winning and losing, still waiting for the Republican base to look at him just a little bit harder and collapse him into one or the other.
Or something. In any case, I'll bet no one else uses that particular imagery to describe tonight's results. And Romney is still the luckiest man in the world. (Well, the second luckiest after Barack Obama, anyway.) It's as though he's a modern-day Dr. Faustus. No matter how stilted and awkward and jawdroppingly detached from normal human experiences he remains, somehow every one of his opponents ends up self-destructing under his steely gaze. Bachmann had Gardasil, Perry had "Oops," Cain had Ginger White, Gingrich had Gingrich, and now Santorum is reeling from Snobgate. Ron Paul has come through unscathed, but that's only because he's apparently cut a side deal with Romney and his infernal patron.
So Romney is still the presumptive nominee, the winner by default because everyone else is unthinkable. And after limping through the spring and finally staggering into the convention like a punch-drunk Rocky Balboa, guess what? Not only will he have to face Apollo Creed in the main event, but it looks like the Greek Streak, Olympia Snowe herself, might be pecking away at his kneecaps the entire time. Unfortunately for Romney, being the second luckiest guy in the world in a presidential race is sort of like being the second best team in the Super Bowl. He better check the fine print on his contract.
Andy KrollFeb. 29, 2012 1:25 AM
Mitt Romney
When he needed it most, Mitt Romney's home state of Michigan came through for him.
Romney, the front-runner in the GOP's nomination battle, clinched a key victory on Tuesday in Michigan's presidential primary. With 88 percent of votes tallied, he led former US Sen. Rick Santorum 41 percent to 38 percent. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) placed third, with 12 percent of the vote, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich rounded out the pack in fourth, with 7 percent.
Andy KrollFeb. 28, 2012 10:37 PM
Mitt Romney.
Minutes after polls closed in Arizona, Mitt Romney was declared the winner of the state's Republican presidential primary by multiple media outlets. The win adds 29 delegates to Romney's tally, bringing him to 159 overall. That's a lead of 118 delegates over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 119 over Romney's closest competitor, Rick Santorum. Exit polls in Arizona put Romney far ahead of Santorum, 43 percent to 28 percent.
Romney's win in Arizona comes as no surprise. He entered the primary with a 15 percentage point lead over Santorum, a gap that Santorum never came close to narrowing in recent days. Fighting on Romney's behalf was the super-PAC Restore Our Future, which spent $206,337 on ads attacking Gingrich and $452,712 bashing Santorum. The pro-Santorum super-PAC Red, White, and Blue Fund did not spend any money in the state.
Romney's Arizona win could help to quiet the growing chorus of critics questioning his conservative bona fides and broader appeal to the Republican base. But the more crucial test on Tuesday is Romney's performance in Michigan, his home state, where he faces a much tougher challenge from Rick Santorum.
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A girls that's really big like one of the whales at Sea World and even though she's really big she insists on wearing skimpy items of clothing.
Person 1: Did you see that big girl yesterday with the mini skirt.
Person 2: Yeah what a sea world bitch!
Person 2: Yeah what a sea world bitch!
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If you're picking an O lineman in round 1, he better be a LT or a freak at RT or the interior.
It was just a dumb pick.
We passed on X Rhodes or Trufant for a potentially "solid" RT in round 1....Bad drafting.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
Fact is Pugh has been more than a potentially solid pick on an anemic oline, the same oline you criticize all the time. We would be royally ****ed with out him.
And I love your logic that since Atlanta's defense stinks, Trufant must suck. How's our offense? How's our O line in general this season?
Good one De.
The problem with Pugh is that he has a low ceiling. He has good fundamentals which means he is more apt to be able to play at a functional level early on. But he is what he is. As I said, he's a second round talent which means he should be able to be a solid RT. If you are drafting a right tackle in round one, he better be a friggin beast. I mean a friggin mauler.
And you also crack me up with this. You have been whining about our defense for years and you seem OK with passing on highly rated talent at corner and OLB to get a "decent" right tackle........You have no more letters for me to take,...but if you did........
My beef wth JR was his failure to deal with the O line in free agency. This was an immediate need. And I've been complaining about it since free agency started in March. I think the miserable performance of our O line and its impact on our team validates my position on this.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
The diehl cultists are back. No matter how poorly he plays, he magically makes everyone else better.
Atlantas coaches are saying "hes still adjusting to the NFL, the speed of the game". Not exactly high praises.
The reason Id pass on a corner is because the offense has carried them since Perrys got here.
Your whole post is based on assumption, and you were wrong. The kid looks great.
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While the O line has improved their play in the past 4 weeks, they are still struggling. No one looks great.
And corner is probably the most difficult position to learn as a rookie. Darrell Green and Everson Walls were getting burned their rookie season. That's not the case with Trufant.
Also Ogeltree is playing great in St. Louis. We took a RT with a low ceiling and passed on superior talent in other important and needed positions.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
good fundamentals - fact
2nd round talent - assumption
you make it sound like what we're seeing RIGHT NOW is the best we're ever going to see out of him. Which is kind of crazy, because if a player comes in as a rookie, and plays well, chances are, he's going to get better even still, AND havea higher ceiling....
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Transgender student trouble over sharing girls' bathroom
Florence High School
FLORENCE, Colo. - A transgender student and high school girls are at odds over sharing the same bathroom. Florence High School students say they're uncomfortable sharing their bathrooms with a transgender classmate.
According to Colorado Civil Rights Commission, "transgender" means having a gender identity that differs from societal expectations. That is where the issue lies. Parents and students say they expect men to use the men's room and women to use the ladies room. It's that simple they say, but for the transgender population, that choice isn't so simple.
More than 950 students go to Florence High School. Like any high school, there's no shortage of gossip.
"The whole school is talking about it," said Florence High School senior Kayli Conway.
It being a male student who claims he's transgender and wants to use the girls' restroom.
"They're kind of making it a bigger deal than it should be," said Conway.
Conway says the gossip began at the start of the school year.
"I know that they're trying to tell her that she can't use the females restroom and I think that's kind of wrong because she's trying to be a girl," she said.
Conway says teachers have asked her female classmates to use the faculty bathrooms, but she says there are different ways that they can fix the issue. Parents have a few ideas.
"If the teachers are willing to let the girls or the guys use the faculty bathroom, why aren't they willing to let this person use the faculty bathroom?" asked parent Juan Chavez.
"We just need to come up with a simple solution. There's plenty of restrooms I believe in the building to do that," said parent Vanette Benesch.
Students and parents agree the issue boils down to privacy that they say every student deserves.
"Be equals instead of trying to keep someone away," said Chavez.
"We can accommodate all of our children in this school," said Benesch.
Accommodate now before it grows into an even bigger issue. Conway says it's already a, "big time bully problem."
This story is gaining national attention now, growing into a fight between those seeking transgender rights and those who believe it's a simple privacy issue.
According to the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, there's nothing prohibiting segregation of facilities on the basis of gender. For more information click here.


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Nikon Coolpix A PreviewBy Paul Carroll - Tuesday March 05 2013 Sensor Preview
Launched at the Focus on Imaging UK photographic show on 4th March 2013 the strap line "The palm sized maestro" introduces the new flagship Nikon compact - the Coolpix A. The first Coolpix camera to feature a large APS-C sensor the Coolpix A boasts a 16.2-megapixel resolution together with a fixed NIKKOR 18.5mm f/2.8 lens - equivalent to 28mm in 35mm terms. According to Nikon the Coolpix A has been developed in response to the demands of street photographers looking for a light, portable camera with great image quality. With a $1099.95 list price it could be quite a niche market however so let's see what the Coolpix A promises.
No optical low-pass filter
The Coolpix A utilizes the same 16.2-megapixel Nikon DX (23.6 x 15.6mm) CMOS sensor found in the D7000, so we expect the sensor measurements to be very close to Nikon's DSLR. The Coolpix A sensor unit does not incorporate an optical low pass filter, however, which could have an impact on the Sensor Scores. Historically used to smooth out the unwelcome colored pattern effect of Moiré, which is caused by very tiny details such as fibers that are too fine for the sensor to record, an optical low-pass filter applies a gentle Gaussian blur filter to remove the effect. Without the filter Moiré can occur but it also makes it possible for the sensor to record superbly detailed images with greater levels of definition that aren't usual possible, particularly for a compact camera.
Fixed 28mm lens
Combine that DX sensor with a fixed prime 18.5mm NIKKOR lens (28mm equivalent), that Nikon claims "offers exceptional definition throughout the entire aperture range and all optical aberrations are minimised", and you have the potential for high quality images from a small compact camera. For image processing the Coolpix A uses Nikon's EXPEED 2 processing engine, previously used on their DSLRs such as the D7000, and Nikon's Active D-Lighting controls to adjust Dynamic Range during processing with a choice of six processing options for different lighting effects.
Features & Accessories
Alongside the DX sensor and 18.5mm fixed lens the Coolpix A offers 1080p HD video in 30/25/24fps, 4 fps burst shooting together with WI-FI compatibility allowing the transfer of images wirelessly to smart devices via an optional WI-FI dongle. For media the Coolpix A takes SDHC, SDXC or UHS-I compliant SD cards, is compatible with the optional GPS-1 GPS device to "Geotag" images with latitude and longitude coordinates and for those who prefer a traditional viewfinder the optional DF-CP1 attachment connects via the camera's hotshoe. The pop-up flash boasts a Guide Number of just 6, the rear LCD screen is the same 3.0in 921k dot model used on their flagship DSLR the D4 and ISO sensitivity extends between 100 – 6400 with an expanded maximum sensitivity of ISO 25600 available.
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X100S ***Member Request***
This is a comical comparison of technologies.
Any word on this Emilie?
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At this point there's good support for X-Trans in Lightroom and Capture One. Zeiss considers the XF platform important enough to make lenses for. How much longer are you going to avoid allocating the resources? The X-E1 is a hit, you need to support it. The X-E1 is 14th on the Amazon best sellers, ahead of cameras like the Sony NEX-7 and the Olympus OM-D.
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Re: C'mon
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
Are you talking about DxO Optics Pro support for the x Trans cameras?
Best regards,
The DxOMark team
Added by josa | April 01 , 2013
Apples to apples...
Yes, compare it to X100s and DP merrill series...
Added by slides10 | March 30 , 2013
Nikon A vs Fuji x100 and not S
Yes at this point the A is second in this class, yet you have not reviewed the any X-Trans censor camera's to date. I am hoping this will change in the near future. What is holding DXO up in this matter?
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Re: Nikon A vs Fuji x100 and not S
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
As you probably know, the Fuji X-Pro 1 does not use a Bayer matrix but a "X-Trans" matrix. We will try to test this sensor, but although we try to respond to your requests to provide tests for specific camera models, there are no plans for doing it in the short term.
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Nice studio in downtown Petrcane by the sea
Size30 m²
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- Parking available
- Smoking allowed
- Towels
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AC, TV and FREE wireless internet, towels and bed linen provided. Few minutes walking from several beaches, located in the center of a beautiful coastal village Petrčane, close to restaurants and shops. You can also bike or take walks through the olive fields or by the sea.
Rent-a-bike, spa, tennis courts, small in-door pool, gym, mini golf 5 minutes walking away.
Historical city of Zadar is 12 km away, Nin is 5 km away. Buses (bus stop is in front of the house) and taxi available. Petrčane has very convenient location for excursions to four national parks - Kornati, Krka, Paklenica and Plitvice Lakes, rafting, kayaking, photo safari on the mountain Velebit...
Minimum stay in the summer season is 7 days, rest of the year is flexible.
All fees and tourist tax included in the price.
Pets allowed on request.
House rulesNo loud noises after 10 pm. Please help us protect the environment ( no littering, shut down the AC if windows are opened....)
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Reviews of this property
Located near the seaside and centre of this little village, the overall impression is ok. Very friendly host. A few flowers were put on the table and a few wild grapes. We had the studio in the back of the house, located on the ground floor. The studio could do with a few little reparations, like the hanging system of the shower head, the lack of hot water in the kitchenette and the way the water comes out of the faucet. Remeber to close the door because of the mosquitoes. Thanks for the 'anti-mosquitoe-electrical-thingie' but this doesn't help :). Just shut the door and remember to keep the insect screen in place.
Stay in August 2013 Advantages: Proximity to the sea nearby shops and restaurants. Cons: Noisy Studio, have seen once the owner who is also manager of a travel agency.
Séjour en Aout 2013
Avantages : Proximité de la mer; proximité commerces et restaurant.
Inconvénients: Studio bruyant, n'avons vu qu'une fois la propriétaire qui est aussi gestionnaire d'une agence de tourisme.
Freundliche Leute, Nice People, Schönes Zimmer, Beautiful Room, Top Lage, Near Beach. Till next time, we will come back.
Petricane was nice. Very quiet and only 7 km from Zadar. Bus to Zadar and Nin goes straight outside the apartment. We stayed on ground level which was noisy at times as people walked passed and you couldn't have the windows open during the night when it got warm, which is every night because we were on ground floor. Air Con was working fine, hosts were lovely and very willing to help. If you are planning day trips to Plitvice Lakes and Krka National Parks, book it through Snjezana. It will be much cheaper as we paid 550 kuna for Plitvice and 470 kuna for Krka. Only difference is you get lunch which can be bought much cheaper. Snjezana charges around 350 kuna per person. Taxi to the Airport was 250 kuna and the hosts took me and that was a great deal as some taxis wants 45 euro for the same journey.
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We had a great time in Petrecane! On the first day we were welcomed very friendly. The apartment was clean, only the mosquitoes were a bit annoying. The housekeeper has even once cooked for us and otherwise every wish from our eyes. Everything very recommendable in everything! We would not hesitate to come back time.
Wir hatten eine super Zeit in Petrecane! Am ersten Tag wurden wir sehr freundlich empfangen. Das Appartement war sauber, nur die Mücken waren etwas nervig. Die Haushälterin hat sogar einmal für uns gekocht und auch sonst jeden Wunsch von den Augen abgelesen. Alles in allem sehr weiterzuempfehlen!wir würden jeder zeit wiederkommen.
We liked the place Petrcane. Small village with some good restaurants bars o o food stores. As for the actual accommodation was very good position. Only one minute to a very nice rocky beach. There was a nice patio at the accommodation. The apartment itself was very small and simple. We would have appreciated if the farm house had had been a little fresher. Our host, Snijezana was very hospitable and friendly
Vi tyckte mycket om orten Petrcane. Liten by med några bra restauranger o barer o livsmedelsaffärer. Vad gäller själva boendet var läget mycket bra. Endast någon minut till en mycket trevlig klippstrand. Det var en trevlig uteplats vid boendet. Själva lägenheten var mycket liten och enkel. Vi hade uppskattat om gården som huset låg på hade varit lite fräschare. Vår värd, Snijezana var dock mycket gästfri och vänlig
For us it was the relaxing holiday we had imagined. We were greeted nice and friendly even at the arrival. Our hostess asked for our needs and concerns. Then they took the whole week for us as we spent unforgettable days. (Only went because season was over) Our apartment was perfect for our needs and was very clean. we can only say "we came as strangers and left as friends." We are looking forward to next year and come back. we can only recommend it. Goodbye to all love and good
Monika and many greetings from Carsten Dalmacija Ingolstadt
Es war für uns der erholsame Urlaub den wir uns vorgestellt hatten. Wir wurden schon bei der Ankunft nett und freundlich begrüßt. Unsere Gastgeberin fragte nach unseren Wünschen und Anliegen. Dann nahm sie sich die ganze Woche Zeit für uns so das wir unvergessliche Tage erlebten.(ging nur weil Saison vorbei war) Unser Apartment war für unsere Ansprüche vollkommen und war sehr sauber. wir können nur sagen "wir kamen als Fremde und gingen als Freunde". Wir freuen uns schon auf nächstes Jahr und kommen wieder. wir können es nur empfehlen. bis zum Wiedersehen alles liebe und gute
viele Grüße Monika und Carsten vom Dalmacija Ingolstadt
Greatly enjoyed our stay - (!) Very quiet area, minimum 50 meters (private) beach, the studio has everything you need (kitchen, large fridge, ..), nice terrace at the studio with garden view , attention to children (swing, small benches, ping pong table), very warm welcome by very friendly hostesses!
Nice village with a few restaurants and a mini supermarket.
Highly recommended for those who love peace and authenticity.
Enorm genoten van ons verblijf - erg rustige omgeving, op 50tal meter van (privé)strand(!), de studio heeft alles wat je nodig hebt (keuken, grote frigo,..), leuk terrasje aan de studio met zicht op de tuin, aandacht voor kinderen (schommel, kleine bankjes, ping pong tafel), erg warm onthaal door zeer vriendelijke gastvrouwen!
Leuk dorp met enkele restaurants en een mini-supermarkt.
Een echte aanrader voor wie houdt van rust & authenticiteit.
Very nice accommodation. Small but nice and clean. The beautiful beach just 2 minutes walk. Everything you need close by (ATM, bakery, grocery store, cafe, bar, restaurants). But the special thing about this holiday was our host Snijezana and her daughter, who made our stay memorable by their hospitality!
Sehr nette Unterkunft. Klein aber fein und sauber. Zum wunderschönen Strand nur 2 Minuten zu Fuß. Alles was man braucht in unmittelbarer Nähe (Bankomat, Bäckerei, Lebensmittelgeschäft, Kaffeehaus, Bar, Restaurants).
Das Besondere an diesem Urlaub waren aber unsere Gastgeber Snijezana und ihre Tochter, die unseren Aufenthalt durch ihre Gastfreundschaft unvergesslich gemacht haben!
Had a beautiful time at Petrcane! Snijezana and her family were very nice and perfect hosts. We would come again! :)
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With all the cruz threads going on, I told myself i would refrain from making a cruz thread this off season. But i cant help it.
I noticed at the end of cruz's salsa, he started putting up the same sign jay z does. anyone know what this sign means or why he does it?


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Fear not. It is common for people that are new to Bersas to shoot low.
And funny as it may sound it is you. and it is the gun. But at the same time it is neither.
Confused yet.
Ok. There is nothing wrong with the gun. And you are shooting just the same as you do with any other gun. Good your half way there.
Bersas are great guns and like ALL manufacturers they do things a little different than the next guy.
Three things are big for me in shooting a pistol properly. Proper grip, which you obviously have down since you shoot other guns fine. Proper sight alignment, which may be your problem and proper trigger pull which is the normal problem most people have with Bersas.
Trigger pull is an issue many people have, many people put their index finger in/on the trigger at the first knuckle, it should be the center of the pad (where your finger print is) of the index finger. This video explains grip and trigger very well.
The sight is the third item on my list. All guns can be different. Some use POA Point of Aim and some use a Six O Clock sight.
The above link is to a picture of the two sight pictures. You will need to try both of these to see which one your Bersa is set to. Note that the Bersa 380 thunder uses a different sight picture than the Thunder UC Pro and the HC Pro.
Back to the trigger. Once you have the trigger down, the next thing you need to know about the Bersa trigger is that the trigger is hinged a little forward on the frame than most pistols which until you are aware of this and correct your pull for it will cause your pull to bring the barrel down off target. The second is that Bersas trigger is a bit longer and has more of a forward sweep than most other guns. These things combined throw most people off. You will need to adjust your trigger pull to the gun.
Now that you know the what and why. It will be up to you to work out the correction at the range. The good thing is. Once you get it figured out you will be able to shoot your Bersa and other Bersa guns without issue. I can go from my Bersa Thunder HC Pro 9mm to any of my other guns and not have to consciously adjust. Once you learn what to do you just automatically do it when you have the Bersa in hand.
I stumbled on the problem after several trips to the range with my 380. I had more than one gun with me that day and laid them all out and looked at the triggers, which is when I discovered the forward hinged issue. It is not a huge difference but it is enough that it throws many people off.
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text: This bee colony chose to set up housekeeping on the bottom side of a tree limb in Athens, GA....last year. It overwintered and has already pitched at least one swarm this spring. Although our winters are mild compared to Maine's, they get cold nonetheless. We had several nights in the teens, countless in the twenties, blowing winds, rain and sleet. And this colony not only survived but thrived.


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My range is indoors and in a metroplitan area of Southern California. Most of the ranges around here post signs that say " No holstered weapons allowed." At my range the sign reads "No holstered weapons unless you are LE or CCW". So they don't even want a holstered weapon on the premises. On the range, for open practice (other than a closed class for example) no drawing from the holster is allowed, CCW or not. When the LE come in (mainly Border Patrol and Sheriff) they close off one of the two rooms for those guys so they can draw if they want.
At the big outdoor range in one of the canyons north of LA, same deal. Holstered firearms allowed for LE only and no one (including LE) is allowed to draw/shoot from the holster.
I'm guessing it's pretty standard everywhere, but then again I live in California and we're pretty squeezed when it comes to firearms.
I believe it's a safety thing, mishaps being more likely to occur coming in and out of a holster.