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I'm working on a project that involves (very fast) manipulation of the GPIO pins using Java.
I had originally planned on using the rpi-gpio-java library recommended on the elinux.org wiki.
But when I returned to the Google code site to look up some documentation, I saw that the library is no longer accessible at http://code.google.com/p/rpi-gpio-java/. Does anyone know what happened to that project?
I have since moved onto using the enum from the Google code project "fr-drd-raspberrypi-gpio". (http://code.google.com/p/fr-drd-raspberrypi-gpio/)
This project claims to be able to achieve around 30kHz max frequency, which would be excellent for my project.
Another library I have heard some talk about is the Pi4J project. I intend to look into that project more this weekend.
Something that I've noticed is that all these libraries choose to approach the different PCB revisions. The first library appears to have no support for it, and it labeled (if I remember correctly) Pin 5 as NOT a GPIO pin, so it wouldn't let me output from it. I'm hoping these other two libraries have better support in this area. For this type of information, I mainly referred to the diagrams from http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/06/simple-guide-to-the-rpi-gpio-header-and-pins/, is this advisable?
With that setup, I can finally get to my questions.
I'm currently testing some basic flipping of a couple output pins and I"m running into some strange behavior. My main function performs the following (again, using the fr-drd-raspberrypi-gpio library at the moment):
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GPIO stepPin = GPIO.GPIO_0;
GPIO directionPin = GPIO.GPIO_1;
for(int i=0; i<100; i++){
for(int i=0; i<100; i++){
When I first execute this code on a freshly-booted RPi, it completes the execution successfully with no exceptions. I only appear to receive one toggle output, however. I have yet to confirm whether this is due to a poor physical wire connection.
Either way, after the first execution, subsequent executions fail, throwing
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java.io.IOException: Device or resource busy
It's my understanding that if the first execution completed successfully, the connections to the files that control the GPIO pins should be closed.
Am I missing some fundamental understanding of how GPIO pins work on the RPi?
Is there a simple way to close those files via terminal instead of restarting my RPi?


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I've noticed the number of threads with VSH in the title, so I thought I would ask this question, as I've been wondering about this for a while.
I've read the postings over on the VSH Breeders website/forum, and I can't tell if (outside the formal USDA program) anyone is actually testing for VSH.
We know that HYG and VSH will not persist in the population unless they are constantly selected for generation after generation.
...so how are breeders (that are not just propagating USDA stock) qualifying their bees as VSH? How are they able to provide VSH behavior without testing? How many generations have these stocks gone since they have been properly evaluated for VSH?
There is certainly less of a consensus about what constitutes a valid VSH test than there is for HYG...but if someone is going to claim that their bees are HYG or VSH, it seems there should be something observable that is being evaluated?
Any thoughts?

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It's often said nice guys finish last but the Warriors are adamant they can not only win the NRL title but also do it without breaking any rules.
The club who famously breached the salary cap under the previous administration made a vow eight years ago to operate cleanly and it is being brought into sharp relief after the Australian Crime Commission's report into drug use and organised crime in Australian sport.
The Warriors still haven't won an NRL title since their creation in 1995 and came closest in 2002 and 2011 when they were beaten grand finalists. The most recent appearance was against a Manly side now under considerable scrutiny after being named as one of the six clubs under investigation by the ACC but the Warriors have said they don't want to be handed the title if anything untoward is found around Manly's campaign.
Their almost puritanical stance was borne out of the 2006 salary cap drama, when the club were found to have breached the cap by nearly A$1 million and docked four points at the start of the season.
"I go right back to when we breached the cap,'' Warriors chief executive Wayne Scurrah said. "We said at the time we want to win this thing and we want to win it by playing by the rules. That was eight years ago. I still maintain that. That's how our fans want to see the club win it. It's going to be a hard graft but it will be so much sweeter when we do it.
"I thought our salary cap issues started to be the cure for us. We got back on track. Everyone had to refocus what we were here for and it was giving and not taking.''
It didn't stop Scurrah quizzing key people at the club soon after the ACC report was released to see if he had anything to worry about. They were all adamant he didn't and they will also review all of their policies around sports science.
New Warriors coach Matthew Elliott has come under scrutiny because he coached both Canberra (2002-06) and Penrith (2007-2011), two clubs among the six being investigated, but said he had nothing to worry about.
"Certainly the Raiders one's a bit of a stretch,'' Elliott told Radio Sport. "I left there at the end 2006. In both those regimes I feel completely at ease, I was across everything.''
All six clubs mentioned in the commission report met with the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority yesterday when they were given more detail.
Manly boss David Perry said their risk was "low to medium'' and that all players both past and present had been cleared of any doping misdemeanours. Knights chief executive Matt Gidley said they had "no issues of concern going forward'' and that all Knights coaching staff had nothing to worry about. The Sharks, Panthers and Cowboys have all said they were at the "lower end'' and Canberra chief executive David Furner said they were informed of "isolated'' incidents but were also at the lower end.
It's expected to take months before investigations are complete and some will centre on reports of an NRL match in Sydney being investigated for match-fixing. NSW police have reportedly been alerted to the game.
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Hello everyone. I own a Nokia E5, Skype worked fine till 2 days ago when suddenly I couldnt log in, the mobile restarts everytime I try to log in. What's the problem?
Thank you. I really need Skype for business and family contact. Hope you guys could help me out with this.
I also have this phone, and since a couple of days i have exactly the same problems since a few days.
See this post at the Nokia Forum (remove space before word discussions in URL):
http:// discussions.nokiausa.com/t5/Phone-Applications/Nokia-E6-Skype-doesn-t-work/td-p/1113151
This post applied to E6, but it might also apply to E5 problems.
i just bought my e5 and installed skype (downoaded it from ovi store) - no updates have been made but as i said, the phone is brand new and in SW update it says it is up-to-date and no updates are available when i manually check. but yet - i cannot log in to skype via my phone - i am prompted to input my id, then my pass (they are both correct, tried on my PC - all is good) - it is "signing in" for a minute or so and then - just returns the field to type in my ID again... pls assist how to resolve this issue, i would hate to not being able to use sky[e on my phone when it is claimed to be a compatible choice, thanks!
P.S. since a question about Symbian was asked - it says mine is Symbian OS S60 3.2
At me the same problem! I can not establish Skype on Nokia e 75! Installation speaks is impossible! It Sis the appendix! Java establishes, but me doesn't arrange that it is impossible to call (only messages)! Help please!
At me the same problem! I can not install Skype on Nokia e 75! Setting speaks is impossible! It Sis application! Java installs, but me doesn't arrange that it is impossible to ring (only messages)! Help please!
Hello, my skype E5 does not want to accept me. installed for the first time not problem.Ot rather not want to be connectors. My name and password are OK.
What to do ..
Thank you
I have the exact same problem. I hope that Skype can fix it or give some advice.
Brand new Nokia E-5. This is a smartphone. I have no issues using or connecting to any other apps.. and I use eBuddy and other Yahoo Messenger as well.
It's just Skype that's a scumbag on the E-5. I download and install Skype from the Ovi store. It installs properly. I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
I enter my correct username and password.. and it tries to connect for 1 or 2 minutes but then comes back and is unable to connect. I have access to both WiFi and 3G. I CANNOT connect.
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best thread ever
best thread ever
haha man its awesome to not be a jets fan
I gotta love the morons rooting for their division rival -- the one that's owned the division for a decade, the one they play 2x a year, the one responsible for Spygate, the one who stole Belichick away from them after 24 hours as Jets coach.
Really, you're worried about other fans in NY, for a team you play in a meaningful game once every 4 years... More worried about newspapers and talk radio attention than seeing the division arch-rival defeated. Idiots.
They seem to think we are starving for attention... WTF? Really? Like we gave a **** about the Jets? All we got pissed about is the constant talking without delivering and the classless teenage girl moves like covering up our Super Bowl logos.
8-Time NFL Champions - 1927 1934 1938 1956 1986 1990 2007 2011
"You win close games because you're prepared to do it. It doesn't just come down to luck." -- Bill Parcells
The best one:
"The luck of Jet fans. the ONE team from each conference we don't want in the SB are both in it.
I honestly didn't hate the giants before rex came here. now I'm forced to not like them. damnit rex."
It's funny because I didn't hate the Jets until Rex got there too...
Evidently we trash talk... after all the **** their coach and players spewed about being the new "Big Brother" team... guess what? Still no championships.
Jets fans do get abused pretty bad around here. Since NYG fanbase is significantly larger, they're outnumbered, getting their share of ribbing, even if it's coming from a minority of Giants fans.
[quote user="egyptian420"]The best one:
"The luck of Jet fans. the ONE team from each conference we don't want in the SB are both in it.
I honestly didn't hate the giants before rex came here. now I'm forced to not like them. damnit rex."

It's funny because I didn't hate the Jets until Rex got there too...
we have a winner !!!
though when the Jets werefounded and went with the NEW YORK TITANS moniker it was "because Titans are bigger than Giants..."
inferiority was bred into them from the very beginning
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Once again, we have to send our big brother to go fight the neighborhood bully because we couldn't do it ourselves
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The first part of this article is pretty similar. My favorite part is when the author (a Giants fan) takes to Twitter to ask the Jets fans who they are rooting for and a Giants fan responds "Gross, don't talk to Jets fans."
(At the bottom of the article, after some stuff about hockey, she write a little bit about Eli but it's not nearly as funny as the Jets section).


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To the original poster, you should be mad at the NFL and the artificial salary ceiling they created.
Under the new cba don't all teams have to spend close to 100% of the salary cap? Thought I read that somewhere
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By Doug Eadie
I witnessed something in Billings, Mont., a few weeks ago that got to the heart of creative collaboration in the complex K-12 governing enterprise. The strategic governing team of the Billings Public Schools -- the school board, superintendent, and senior administrators -- spent a whole day in a retreat. They brainstormed practical ways to strengthen the board's governing role, structure, and processes, and to ensure a rock-solid board-superintendent partnership over the long run.
I was especially impressed -- and even inspired -- by one of the six board-led breakout groups, which spent an hour discussing the superintendent's possible "CEO-specific" leadership targets for the coming year. The idea was to come up with some measures in addition to overall district educational and financial performance that might beef up the board's evaluation of superintendent performance while also helping to keep the board-superintendent partnership healthy.
By "CEO-specific" targets, they meant the very particular, individual impacts that the superintendent intended to devote significant time of his own to produce, above and beyond his normal chief executive functions. The breakout group focused on four leadership areas:
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Putting an attractive picture as the thumbnail for a video that either isn't attractive or has nothing to do with the subject.
I was on youtube and there was a thumbnail of boobs, but it was really a fakenail for some german kid yelling at world of warcraft.
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Accelerated BSN
Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
The Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing is the oldest baccalaureate program in the State of Illinois, admitting its first BSN class in 1935. The program has since expanded to include a range of educational options including BA, MA, PhD degrees.
The undergraduate program educates and graduates competent and caring nursing professionals. The academic program teaches the skills required for nursing and helps students develop the abilities to think critically, to analyze complex situations, to make sound clinical decisions and to deliver safe nursing care. Beginning Fall 2012, the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program will be located at Loyola's Maywood Campus.
Accelerated Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (ABSN)
The Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) program accepts students who hold non-nursing bachelor's degrees. A minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in all college work completed and 37 hours of prerequisite coursework are required for application to this program. The sequence of courses in nursing is offered in a 16 months, full-time day program.
The nursing portion of the program is identical to the traditional BSN, only compressed. Students in the BSN program have the same quality faculty and experiences as other students in the School of Nursing. However, the core requirements and prerequisites are slightly different.
Clinical Simulation Learning Laboratory
The Clinical Simulation Learning Laboratory (CSLL) gives students the opportunity to learn basic clinical skills in a comfortable, non-threatening environment prior to entering patient care settings. Faculty and experienced laboratory instructors use state-of-the-art video and computer teaching tools to assist in developing nursing knowledge.
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With the solid foundation of theory and clinical skills learned in the classroom and the CSLL, students complete eight clinical rotations in a variety of settings that include:
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Selected long-term care facilities and senior centers.
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Psychiatric settings and other medical facilities.
ABSN students begin clinical rotations during the second semester of the program, either in the morning or the evening. Morning clinical rotations occur from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and evening clinical rotations occur from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Please note that clinical scheduling information is typical but is subject to change.
Professional Role Development (PRD)
Clinical Role Transition is the final clinical rotation and is considered to be the capstone course of the program. CRT provides an intensive clinical experience with students assuming the role of a beginning nurse under the guidance of a professional mentor. Professional Role Development is the final course of the program.
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Clinical placements are assigned by the School of Nursing at random. Each student will receive a clinical placement/s based on their current theory course. Clinical groups are fluid and often change from semester to semester. Students should not expect to remain in the same clinical group.
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The sequence of courses in nursing is offered in a full-time day program. Course scheduling depends on many factors and is subject to change. Theory courses are scheduled during the week and are offered at the Medical Center Campus located in Maywood, Illinois.
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Uh no but the hive looked good...If there was going to be dead bees there would have been a lot and they just were not there.
Escape boards=SHB
I am about done posting as I always get told I am wrong.
In mike's defense, he is not the only one that uses a blower.. if blowers would have been available back in our day, we would have certainly given it a shot... but pop was cheap and got a good giggle out of seeing us bust our ***** day in and day out..."separates the mice from the men" was his reasoning, and he was right... I work my guys harder than most, but I take great care of them in return... efficiency in a large operation is important for more reasons other than monetary return... mike is a good beekeeper and I'm happy to see someone his age being so devoted... I especially loved his pics of his fight with efb... goes to show that he cares more about the overall health of his bees than his bottom dollar and number of hives... we all have different takes on things, that's what makes the forums so powerful, so long as we take things subjectively...
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One thing I ought to mention- this blower has like 750 cfms...there is plenty of air on the ground for the bees to float on. I can jog/walk swiftly down a sidewalk and have it totally blown off. Its really powerful.
Thanks RR for the post.
Oh, I do not blame you for doing it your way! I would just like to suggest that it may have to do with the number of hives you are dealing with. When you have a few hundred hives to gather supers from it can be a real pain. I also wonder if you are using a standard fume board. We have 10 fume boards and when we go into a yard we place the boards on and by then the first one is ready to gather. Then we place the first board on the eleventh hive and get the second and so forth. Really very quick. And few bees in the honey house. So I suppose I am wondering just how you were applying the Butyric acid. We have done both and there is no competition. So you are correct... do it your way, but keep an open mind.
Mike, we gotta pick on someone!
At one time I did the blower thing as well. I can't imagine doing it this way if you're going to work up to a few hundred hives. If you do, I'd feel better if you would blow them out over grass instead of concrete, even if not a one was hurt. Just looks really bad.
Regards, Barry
I am beginning to think everyone is jealous. I would like to have a race with someone. Lets see who can remove bees fastest from 20 supers (10 hives) in a row. The someone would need to provide the hives with supers as we have no honey here.
Barry...I know you have to pick on me! I have a long list of the folks that pick on me...THAT HAVE NEVER WATCHED ME WORK BEES OR SEEN MY OPERATION! Come out, look, and then criticize me.
Careful, I'm known to look members up when I take road trips. Southwest is about due for one.
Regards, Barry
Bring it on! All you need is a veil, long sleeve shirt, and jeans...no gloves
I do have things that have worked. I do listen. I went from 2 hives to 20 last year. I made 90 bucks a gallon on honey. Not getting much honey is not my fault this year. EFB is not my fault..it HAPPENS! Pesticides are not my fault, they happen every year and i am trying my best to do something! I will admit i have had a negative attitude lately and am sorry for that. I have had a lot of business related stress (non-beekeeping) and a lot of decisions I have had to make.
MANY ARE NOT FILLED WITH A COMMERCIAL BEEKS FRAMES! As a matter of fact, about half are wired wax, 40% are new plastic that i have been working in, and maybe 10% are old frames THAT CAME IN NUCS! Yes i did use some old brood combs this year as it was all i had.
I may not have listened to some of the advice in this thread...but i do listed in other threads. Beesource has shaped the way I do beekeeping. I am sick of people making assumptions about my operation based on my internet posts! If you want to gripe about what i do, come over for half a day, look at all my bees, and then come on here and trash everything i do.
I have seen/heard too much about what happens in un-occupied supers.
So when are you coming?
bee go vs. a blower did you want to race mike? three weeks ago with three guys we were pulling 1000 supers a day from 9-5. had to stop at a 1000 thats all the semi trucks could hold every day. Give a fume board a try again mike your back and ears with thanks you of course you parents and girlfriend might not lol.
regards Nick
I use a blower and I am just a little guy (in # of hives that is) and I have used escapes and they work if there isnt any brood in the supers but then you gota lift every thing 2 times and it takes 2 days and I have never had supers as clean of bees as with useing a blower.
I have had this coversation with other keepers and they worry about the fumes from the engine (I am useing a leaf blower) I have it set up so the exhaust is blown to the side of the supers (like a fart in a wind storm any way) so what it amounts is DO IT YOUR WAY, and the rest of the guys can set in the truck
Ed, KA9CTT profanity is IGNORANCE made audible
you can`t fix stupid not even with duct tape
But you are right.... Do it your way! Lettem sit in the truck
90- gallon- small jars....this year it will be closer to 110 a gallon.
I have used the brush. I have used the pad. I am not making ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT DIFFERENT METHODS!
This blower does not blow any fumes...it blows them away from you back...and it does not smoke as it is brand new. It does come with a price though.
use what works for you. If you get to the point where are leaf blower just aint cuttin it, then you can switch to fume boards. geesh, talk beeks and opinions.
Chris Cree
Cree's Bees
I have blown bees off about 2.5 tons of honey annually for over 30 years. It works well, does not involve stinky chemicals but is obnoxiously noisy. You also have to carry a gas can in the truck. My bees are spread over various locations, so only at one do we blow for more than 15 minutes. I can see that on a large scale fume boards would be advantageous. I don't see that blowing kills very many bees, and their work for the year is finished at harvest time anyways.


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Eusébio in his pomp - pictures of the Portugal legend
He was one of greatest footballers of his generation, if not ever: Eusébio da Silva Ferreira scored 733 goals in 745 professional games, most notably for Benfica and Portugal. He died on 5 January aged 71 after a year of heart and respiratory problems. Here we look back at some little-seen images of the man on and off the field from his pomp, during which time he won the European Cup with Benfica in 1962 and was named European Footballer of the Year in 1965


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Gadget Geek's Guide to Cycling
Cycling season is upon us. Here are a few of the gadgets that we're looking forward to using.
If your city has already experienced the flashes of hot weather, you've probably noticed the influx of street cyclists. It's nice to see the city girls biking around in their shorts again, if you're not against city cyclers and spandex that is. Biking is a great way to shed a few pounds and save your cash for something else besides gas money. And like every other mode of transportation, cycling quite the selection of gadgets to go along with it.
No, these aren't vanity lights for cyclists; they're a new concept designed for bike headlights. While a headlight is normally screwed onto the handlebars, Revolights created a product that would bring the light closer to the ground for a clearer vision on the road ahead. After developing a prototype and business plan, the makers went to the popular site kickstarter.com for funding. By snapping on the narrow rings of LEDs on the front and back wheel of your bike, and attaching a battery to your hubs, Revolights illuminate the road with 360 degrees of illumination and make you more visible to motorists The product is expected to be ready for purchase in late June and will go for $220. Find out more about the product Revolights.com.
4 hour battery life (can be charged by USB) 7 oz. Waterproof Anti-theft design
Hiod One
There's a little product that was developed in Halmstad, Sweden last year that we're hoping will make its way over to the US soon. It may look like a mini GPS system, but it's so much more than that. Established as the first sports communicator that provides an instant link to your phone and music while also keeping track of your speed, time and distance, the Hiod one is without a doubt one of the most intriguing products that has been developed specifically for cyclists. The microphone, which clips into your helmet, has great noise reduction, so you don't look like a mad man screaming on your bike. It's run through Bluetooth, so all you need is your smartphone for it to work its magic. Find out more about this product at hiod.com.
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We love when style and innovative ideas come together to create something outrageously awesome. Designed to fit and look like a skate shoe, these ultra-comfortable mid tops bare a high tech variable-flex nylon inner shank and are SPD pedal compatible. They are the first cycling shoes we've seen that don't make you look like an idiot once you're off your bike. The SPD piece can also be taken out and replaced. So if you bike or walk more than you take your car during the warm months, you need to get a pair of DZR Cycling Shoes. Buy a pair for yourself here!
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text: I just took a break from ripping out the triangles I sewed in the wrong place...I takes me 1-2 days to get a block done unless I'm very lucky...I just wish for blocks that don't have to be mirror imaged..that's what messes me up most times...then I go and pick fabric that I end up fussy cutting...it seems I just can't cut thru a piece of fabric cutting across the design/pattern...I have to leave it intact. It's difficult for me to cut thru the horse's belly,legs,head...I feel like a butcher...yuck..oh well, back to the machine to sew the triangles in the right place. H.


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Comedy show on tap Saturday in Pequot Lakes
Jerry Frasier will bring his fast, fun comedy/magic to the stage of the Pequot Lakes High School auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12.
Inspired by the energy of Broadway in the early 1980s, Frasier honed his performance skills and interactive style on the East Coast. He turned into a full-time comedian/magician in 1989.
His style of theatrical stage movement, comedy improvisation and acting skills developed at Hofstra University in New York equipped Frasier to become an actor, director and teacher. He developed a passion for the artistic creativity and the positive impact the arts has on people.
"There is nothing quite like a live, real-time, shared experience to bring people together, to encourage and empower the creativity and ingenuity in others," he said.
This is the third show in the 2012-13 Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts season. Tickets for the show may be reserved by calling the Pequot Lakes Community Education office at 218-568-9200.
Ticket prices are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors (age 60 and over) and $8 for youth (age 18 and under).
Tickets will be sold at the door starting one hour before the show as well.


text: Hi, my 90 suburban's back up lights won't come on. Everything else works. I traced the green wire to where it conects to the firewall in the engine compartment (then it goes through the wall and somewhere onto the fuse box... I think). I nicked off some insulation on that wire and if I put 12v on that wire they light up. I don't know two things: what fuse controls the back up lights? (non of them are burnt...) I just want to keep checking for continuity where is the neutral switch on the steering column? I would love some help before I just hard wire a light on the back to a switch on my dash!:grrrrrr: I will post the solution in the end.


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This practical challenge invites you to investigate the different
squares you can make on a square geoboard or pegboard.
This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
If you had 36 cubes, what different cuboids could you make?
I have fifteen cards numbered $1 - 15$.
I put down seven of them on the table in a row.
The numbers on the first two cards add to $15$.
The numbers on the second and third cards add to $20$.
The numbers on the third and fourth cards add to $23$.
The numbers on the fourth and fifth cards add to $16$.
The numbers on the fifth and sixth cards add to $18$.
The numbers on the sixth and seventh cards add to $21$.
What are my cards?
Can you find any other solutions?
How do you know you've found all the different solutions?


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An account of how axioms underpin geometry and how by changing one axiom we get an entirely different geometry.
This article outlines the underlying axioms of spherical geometry giving a simple proof that the sum of the angles of a triangle on the surface of a unit sphere is equal to pi plus the area of the triangle.
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I put this up last night. Ive watched a good amount of Liuget and I think he is a tad overrated.
Absolutely agree. I tried to watch his game against baylor2 days agoand came away very disappointed. One thing I notice with him is that he starts hot but by the second half he seems winded and is just a complete non factor by the 4th quarter. you also read reports about him having conditioning issues throughout his career until last season which is unsettling. Also as apass rusher I think he's a little average.
I see him being mocked as high as #14 and I just dont get it. I just dont see a top of the first round pick . I dont even see a Top 20 pick. There are other guys with similar tape in the 2nd and 3rd round[/quote]
We disagree here. The tape you show there is a bad offense to highlight a DT talent. Illinios spent most that game in a 3 man front.
Try the Ohio state game film where he had a lot more 1v1 matchups and had fantastic gap control.
The teams that see what they like in his film see a player great at controlling the person trying to block him, which is the most valuable thing a DT can do in a 43.
[/quote]Ive watched 5 of his games including that one. I just made this tape yesterday so I was adding a comment with it.I see a starter in the NFL, but a Top 20 pick? I dont like him that high at all[/quote]
Well I completely disagree, no biggie tho we just dont see eye to eye on this guy. He isnt a guy who is going to knife through and get sacks as much, but he is a steady pusher up the middle who with balance and thrives in 1v1 situations. I would welcome him on this football team I think he is 1 of the more consistent runstopping DTs in the draft. And, as I said, thats a pretty bad video to highligh him on. A spread offense that barely runs the ball and had the defense in 3 DL situations means he is double teamed all game. People should see his ohio state highlights to get a better idea of what he can do in a typical 43 defense vs good competition.


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What Documentation can a College Financial Aid Administrator Request?
Mark Kantrowitz
December 10, 2012
I'm an independent student who filed a 1040A last year so I was not required to answer questions about assets on the FAFSA application. I had very little income last year and have a zero EFC. I reported taxes on capital gains and now my school is asking for information about my investment assets (which are about $40,000). Can they use this to lower my federal grant amount? I guess they can use whatever rules they want about their own grants, but I want to be sure that this will not impact my eligibility for Pell Grants. — Ethan G.
Federal law and regulations grant college financial aid administrators the authority to request information and documentation from financial aid applicants. Assuming that the information reported on the financial aid application is accurate and that there is no unreported income, this is unlikely to affect eligibility for federal student aid. It may affect eligibility for the college's own grant funds, depending on the college's policies.
The college is asking for more information as part of a process called verification. Verification is designed to detect and resolve errors and discrepancies on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Previously up to 30 percent of all FAFSAs were selected by the US Department of Education for verification. College financial aid staff can select additional FAFSAs for verification at their discretion. Some colleges even select all FAFSAs for verification. The US Department of Education is transitioning to a targeted verification system where specific data elements on the FAFSA are selected for verification based on a risk model. There will no longer be a minimum or maximum number of FAFSAs selected for verification. College financial aid administrators can continue to choose to verify additional FAFSAs, even every FAFSA.
There are several possible reasons why your FAFSA may have been selected for verification. FAFSAs are often selected for verification when there is an apparent discrepancy involving income and assets. For example, a potential discrepancy arises when capital gains, interest and dividends are reported on the federal income tax return but no assets are reported on the FAFSA. FAFSAs can also be selected for verification when the applicant appears to have insufficient income to pay for basic living expenses. These FAFSAs are selected for verification because of the likelihood of unreported assets and income.
The mismatch between capital gains on the federal income tax return and the lack of assets on the FAFSA may have been caused by the simplified needs test.
The simplified needs test causes assets to be disregarded on the FAFSA. To qualify for the simplified needs test, the income reported by the student and the student's spouse (if the student is independent) or the student's parents (if the student is dependent) must be less than $50,000. Income is based on adjusted gross income for tax filers and earned income for those not required to file a federal income tax return. In addition, they must each have filed or been eligible to file an IRS Form 1040A or 1040EZ (or were not required to file an income tax return), or one of them must have been a dislocated worker, or someone in the household size must have received certain federal means-tested benefits during the past two years (e.g., SSI, Food Stamps, Free and Reduced Price School Lunch, TANF, WIC).
This apparent discrepancy can be explained by the simplified needs test, since the applicant is not required to report assets. Often the models that trigger verification look for simplistic mismatches, such as an amount of assets reported that seems inconsistent with the capital gains and interest/dividend income reported on the income tax return. This also potentially explains the lack of income, since an applicant with assets can survive off of the assets and student aid funds.
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Dam leak springs questions about Mirror Pond's future
Public still split on hydro dam's fate as utility ponders repairs
BEND, Ore. - If you've spent any time near Drake Park in Bend the last couple of days, you may have noticed Mirror Pond looks a quite a bit different.
The water in the pond is considerably lower because of a leak in the Pacific Power dam that retains the water.
Utility officials said Saturday that water will likely drop more in the coming weeks, as the power company plans to get permits to drop the water levels more, so it can investigate the damage to the dam, now over a century old.
Pacific Power spokesman Bob Gravely told NewsChannel 21 that the company doesn't yet know if the damage is worth repairing.
He said any repairs will hinge on upcoming talks with the Mirror Pond Steering Committee on what the community wants done with the dam that forms Mirror Pond, as well as what also suits the company's best interests.
The future of Mirror Pond has been a hot topic of discussion for months -- as the community looks to either spend millions to dredge the pond, do a partial dredge or take out the dam and allow the river to flow more freely.
Pacific Power officials say the leak developed in one of the wood panels holding the dam.
They say the leak affects water levels and electricity generation at the facility, but it is not a risk to the public.
Gravely said if the company decides to make repairs, it would be a few weeks down the road -- likely after a decision is reached on what to do with the pond.
People walking and biking on the trails near the pond said Saturday they definitely noticed a difference in the water level.
Some said they wouldn't mind if the pond stayed that way -- looking more natural and like a wetland area.
Others however, said restoring Mirror Pond back to its iconic beauty is important for the city and those who live nearby.
"I definitely think it needs to be maintained with more water," said neighbor A. Lynne Jesus. "It's just more beautiful. It's a big piece of Bend, and so I'd like to make sure the water levels high enough."
The leak at the dam by the Newport Avenue Bridge is similar to others that have occurred in the past in the wooden portions of the dam, which dates back to 1910 (the powerhouse was built in 1913). And while the leak affects electricity generation at the facility and water levels, it poses no safety threat to the community.
"First and foremost, the facility is safe," said Mark Tallman, PacifiCorp's vice president of renewable resources. "We want the community to be aware that they may see lower pond levels because of the leak, and so that we can take a more thorough look to determine the scope of necessary repairs."
The leak developed in one of 13 wooden sections of the dam, called a bay, that's used to regulate how much water is let through the dam into the river channel on the other side.
Upon securing any necessary permitting to allow Mirror Pond water levels to drop further, the company will assess the situation to determine needed repairs and the estimated cost of those repairs.
"Our Bend plant has provided clean and affordable power for a long time, but it is 100 years old and we need to make sure that continuing to make repairs at this point is what's in the best interest of customers." Tallman said.
The company will continue to keep community partners and customers informed, and will provide updates as the results of the assessment become available.


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U.S. House Backs Obama's Drone Strikes, NSA Spying
Jason Mick
July 25, 2013 3:17 PM
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A razor thin majority said the government should continue to carefully monitor 99 percent of Americans
Just over half of the U.S. House of Representatives approve of the federal government spending billions to police not only terrorists and criminals, but also
snoop on
the lives of the
98+ percent of Americans
. The razor thin majority argues that to be free of terror, Americans must be willing to give up their freedoms and rights -- including the right to privacy.
I. Libertarian Effort to Restore Privacy is Shot Down in Congress
A proposed amendment to the U.S. Defense Appropriations Bill (
), an annual measure to fund the defense and intelligence agencies, would have "turned off Big Brother" by scaling back spying by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), who tracks the movements of smartphone-using Americans on a daily basis.
Backed by an unlikely alliance of civil libertarians from both sides of the aisle, such as
Rep. Ron Paul
(R-Tex.), both sides came together to try to pass the amendment. The amendment (
H.Amend 100, H.R. 2397
) was authored by
Rep. Justin Amash
(R-Mich.) and
Rep. John Conyers
In the end it came up just 12 votes short of passing, with 422 votes cast.
The amendment came up just 12 votes short of passing. [Image Source: NYT]
II. Republicans to Obama : We Have Your Back
Rep. Michelle Bachmann
(R.-Minn.) was among the critics of the amendment. In total, Republicans voted 94 yay and 134 nay on the bill, while Democrats had 111 yays and 83 nays.
The lack of Republican support for the amendment and the strong Democratic support was equally surprising, given that
the decision
to expand
the Bush administration's programs
of the domestic surveillance
has been a key internal objective
of President Barack Hussein Obama (D) and democrats in the Senate.
[Image Source: ACLU]
In short, Republicans in the House appear to be mostly
in support of President Obama
and Senate Democrats on the issue, and in opposition of their libertarian colleagues.
Rep. John Boehner
(R-Ohio) was a powerful proponent of federal spying spending within his party's ranks. He characterizes people who oppose the spying, such as NSA leaker Edward Snowden
as "traitors"
Republicans in the House have largely supported Obama's spying efforts. [Image Source: AP]
Meanwhile, Democrats in the House are boldly defying their party colleagues both in the Democratic Senate majority and in the White House (a handful of civil libertarian Democrats in the Senate, such as
Sen. Ron Wyden
(D-Ore.) and
Mark Udall
do oppose ubiquitous spending on spying on Americans
House Republicans have also been crucial supporters of the President's program of
warrantless killings of Americans who in deems "terrorists"
. They have fought efforts to ban the
ubiquitous use
armed drones on U.S. soil
, arguing that the drones might one day be necessary to starting hunting down and killing off terrorists on U.S. soil.
Rep. Peter King
I'm not concerned [with the casualty rate]. My belief is that when you are in a war — and we are in a war — the idea is to kill as many of the enemy as you can [even if the enemy is your own people].
There's evil people in the world. Drones aren't evil, people are evil. We are a force of good and we are using those drones to carry out the policy of righteousness and goodness.
The New York Republican recently called for efforts to stomp out freedom of the press,
urging federal prosecutors to charge journalists
who leaked details of and criticized the NSA spying program with Espionage charges. Despite the fact that the drone strikes
killed few members of al-Qaeda's leadership
, he says that it's worth
preserving the option to kill Americans
without having to worry about due process.
Republicans have fought to preserve the Obama administration's privilege to kill Americans it deems "terrorist" with warrantless drone missile strikes. [Image Source: Drone Wars UK]
Rep. King and
Rep. Mac Thornberry
(R-Tex.) were among the key Republicans in
shooting down an amendment
to the National Defense Authorization Act (
) by
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
(D-Ohio) which would have forced U.S. drone operators to know the identity of a target before killing someone.
III. President Chastises House Democrats for Trying to Limit His Spying on Americans
President Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, praised House Republicans' decision to support the ongoing spying on Americans. In a previous statement Mr. Carney (on the President's behalf)
had warned
We oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our Intelligence Community's counterterrorism tools. This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process. We urge the House to reject the Amash Amendment, and instead move forward with an approach that appropriately takes into account the need for a reasoned review of what tools can best secure the nation.
President Obama has had no tolerance for his party colleagues' efforts to stop him from spying. [Image Source: AP]
A separate Amendment --
Rep. Mike Pompeo
's (R-Kans.)
amendment #99
did pass
. It states:
None of funds made available by this Act may be used by the National Security Agency to—(1) conduct an acquisition pursuant to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 for the purpose of targeting a United States person; or (2) acquire, monitor, or store the contents (as such term is defined in section 2510 of title 18, United States Code) of any electronic communication of a United States person from a provider of electronic communication services to the public pursuant to section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
However, many have pointed out that the bill in question
forbids content (e.g. voice conversation) collection on non-suspects. Hence, the amendment is essentially a false flag that does nothing. It
does not
limit the collection (and spending on collection) of metadata, including location tracking records, as Rep. Amash's amendment would have.
Rep. Amash (R) vowed not to let the defeat stop his efforts to restore law abiding Americans' right to privacy. He and Rep. Conyers
have introduced a new bill
called the LIBERT-E Act (
), which would offer similar scalebacks to his H.R. 2397 amendment. That Bill is currently in the committee stage.
House Republican Justin Amash isn't afraid to defy his colleagues and yet again try to fight for American's right to privacy. [Image Source: Getty Images]
Ultimately, the House Republicans and President Obama's unity on the importance of erasing the rights to privacy is a sign that the
terrorists have achieved their goal of impacting the lives of Americans
, forcing them to lose privacy they once had and to pay for it to boot.
NYT: H.R. 2397 Amendment 101 Vote
Rep. John Amash (R)
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Serves 8
• 200g cream, lightly whipped
• 200g thick natural yoghurt
• 200g meringues, broken into pieces
• ½ cup passionfruit pulp - approx 7-8
• 2 passionfruit for drizzling
1. Line a 22cm loaf tin with baking paper or tin foil.
2. In a large bowl place the cream, yoghurt and meringues. Gently stir until combined, but don't overwork.
3. Fold through the passionfruit pulp. Spoon into the loaf tin, cover and freeze for 8 hours or overnight.
4. To serve, tip out on to a plate and cut into thick slices.
5. Drizzle with extra passionfruit.


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The U.S ambassador killed in Libya never lost his laid-back, Bay Area ethos, even last year, when he was Washington's man in the thicket of one of the Arab Spring's most violent uprisings.
J. Christopher Stevens, 52, attended Piedmont High School and the University of California, Berkeley.
Stevens, a veteran foreign service officer and Arabic speaker, was tapped last year as an envoy to the rebels in Benghazi, who ultimately toppled the regime of Moammar Gadhafi. With only a small team, Stevens navigated an urban war zone and survived a bombing outside his hotel to provide the Obama administration with vital information about the rebel cause, said Gene Cretz, Stevens' predecessor as ambassador in Libya.
"Even during crisis, he was cool and calm," Cretz said. "I used to kid him about being a California guy. I wanted to shake him sometimes because he was so calm."
The cool customer that Cretz recalled was remembered similarly by friends, who knew Stevens as a well-rounded student who sang in musicals, played tennis, skied and edited his high school newspaper.
"He was one of the smartest men I knew, and one of the least judgmental," said Austin Tichenor, who went to high school with Stevens and was his college roommate at UC Berkeley. "He could always see the other guy's point of view. It's what made him such a perfect diplomat."
Stevens' family gathered at their home in the Oakland Hills on Wednesday, but most of his relatives weren't ready to talk about his death.
His stepfather, Robert Commanday, a former theater and music critic, said he never saw Stevens lose his temper. "He was calm and cool and happy, and people loved him because he was interested in them."
Stevens studied languages, history and classics at Berkeley, and later fell in love with the Middle East as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
He joined the Foreign Service in 1991 after attending UC Hastings College of the Law and working several years as an attorney. Nearly all of his posts were in the Middle East and North Africa, including a previous stint in Libya.
Stevens was working and teaching in Washington, D.C., when the Arab Spring revolutions spread to Libya last year, Cretz said.
"When the president had mentioned we needed an envoy to Benghazi, I thought of Chris," Cretz said. "Within 15 minutes, I had called and asked him, and within 20 minutes, Chris had said yes."
Two weeks later, Stevens was on a ferry to Benghazi, where he remained from April 2011 through the end of the revolution.
The two spoke almost daily, with Stevens providing his assessments of the uprising, counseling rebel leaders against using torture and supplying the rebels with nonlethal aid.
"He was the key link for us on the ground," Cretz said. "He showed courage going into that situation. There was nobody in the country. He was literally the eyes and ears of the American government at a critical time in this intervention."
"It's especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save," President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
Stevens was promoted to ambassador in May. Before the start of his tenure, he made a promotional video telling Libyans that the U.S. was dedicated to helping the country.
"He was someone who was deeply involved in Libyan life and loved Libya from what I can tell," said Emily Gottreich, a UC Berkeley professor who was talking with Stevens about setting up a mission to connect Libyan and American scholars. "It's a tragedy because he was someone who understood the need for local knowledge ... he wanted Libya to have good institutions of higher education."
Commanday said Stevens grew to love Libya and made an effort to go out into the street and talk to people.
"He was murdered by the people he loved," Commanday said. "The people he was trying to help."
Stevens and three other Americans were killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the American consulate in Benghazi to try to evacuate staff as the building came under attack by a mob firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
The protest was sparked by outrage over a film ridiculing Muhammad produced by an Israeli filmmaker living in California and being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States. Excerpts from the film dubbed into Arabic were posted on YouTube.
Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979.
Stevens, who never married and had no children, comes from a family of high achievers. His mother Mary Commanday was a professional cellist. His father, Jan Stevens, is a longtime attorney for the state; his sister, Anne, is a professor and doctor; and his younger brother, Tom, is a U.S. attorney specializing in white-collar crime.
Stevens always wanted to work for the State Department and always was interested in public service, according to his college friend and fraternity brother Steve McDonald.
"You never knew someone with more integrity," McDonald said.
Even when Stevens was stationed in lawless Benghazi, his correspondences were always good-natured and upbeat, McDonald said. "You wouldn't hear about the difficulty, only the enthusiasm and the results," he said.
Stevens returned to his family home in Oakland every year and hoped to eventually move back to the Bay Area, McDonald said. But he was committed to finishing the job in Libya -- a point he made earnestly during his last visit home earlier this year, when his mother joked about not having any interests in the country.
"He said, 'Well, mother, I'm heading over there to help the Libyan people as they build their new government and represent the United States' interests,' " McDonald recalled.
It might have sounded like diplomatic speak, but it was sincere, McDonald said.
"Hillary Clinton said today we need more Chris Stevenses," he said. "She's absolutely right."


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[quote user="flamethrower"][quote user="jhamburg"][quote user="flamethrower"][quote user="jhamburg"][quote user="flamethrower"][quote user="jhamburg"]That's right, make some room cause we're coming for #5![/quote]
Giants were coming for #5 back in 1986. They have 8 NFL championships. The only 4 Super Bowls that were not that were numbers 1-4. Since then. The Super Bowl has been the NFL Championship game. Now unless I have been counting wrong all my life. 8 is a bigger number than 5. I would expect a Cowboys fan to say this drivel. Not a Giants fan.
Only the Bears, and Packers have more than the Giants. Bears 9. Packers 13.
The problem is if we say that then that means the Eagles have won something.[/quote]
Your logic is flawed. Because I would expect a Cowturd fan to say this. Not a Giants fan. Show that you actually respect the true history of the NFL. Because most Cowturd fans don't. They think that the NFL didn't have a championship prior to 1966. And, when they get proven wrong. They then state. "Only Super Bowls count".
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I took it as a Joke. I was just replying the truth. Also I just changed the title to show the Truth. Cowboys stadium is not located in the City of Dallas, nor can you see the city of Dallas from it. I feel, and have always felt that the City that you play in is what you should be named. Giants stadium new one I assume has the exact same view of New York City that the old one had.
But, I never refer to them as New York. I call them New Jersey. Same for the Jets.
Those teams are named after New York City, not state, so it would make more sense to call them the East Rutherford Giants if you were gonna do that, but I think it would get pretty annoying since prob half the teams in the NFL play outside of the city proper.


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[quote user="HarbaughFX"]It's unreal how giants fans wanted to fire coughlin and fewell over a month ago and now everybody is gushing over them. You are either for your team or you're not.
let's face it....giants are in the superbowl because they got help from the refs on the bradshaw fumble in san fran. Everyother play during the game was played out except that one.
I understand that sometimes you get calls and sometimes you don't, it's just the nature of the game. they mostly even out in the end. But after the giants played the packers both times this year the fans whined and complained about calls that went against them. They even complained about the calls after they WON. But when you got a call your way in san fran you tell niners fans to quit whining. can't have it both ways. if you are getting a call you need to at least admit it.
The more ****y the giants are the more the balance tilts in pats favorite. Brady is going to run a clinic on your secondary with his tightends. Just like alex smith and VD torched it. Eli is not an elite QB. he looked like a pee wee qb against the niners D.[/quote]
Not even close to the same thing.
The call on Bradshaw was not a fumble BY RULE. Forward progress is a criterion officials use, by rule, to make that call, and they did so.
The only people who question that are Niner Coaches and Niner fans. All the media folk who have reviewed the play and commented on it accept that it was the right call.
The fumble by Jennings in the Packer game, on the other hand was a foul up from beginning to end. First, one ref calls it a fumble. Then another ref calls it down by contact and reverses the call. Then Giants challenge the down by contact decision, and millions of us see the play in slow-mo and from every angle available. EVERY TV media person who commented on the play after seeing the replay commented that the ultimate decision to uphold the down by contact decision was wrong.
In the case of the Bradshaw non-fumble, the original call--upheld upon review--was based upon an OFFICIAL RULE.
In the case of the Jennings "non-fumble", the final decision was strictly a JUDGEMENT CALL that did not even have agreement among officials on the field, and that was--upon review--incorrectly upheld by the head judge.
See the difference? No? Bummer.
Further, you could make an argument that the Ravens should be in the Super Bowl, not the Patriots, if not for the missed last second "chip shot" FG by an elite kicker. But you don't, do you?
Last, but not least, do not lump all Giants fans in one pile of stupidity.
Yes, it's true that there were several loud idiots on this board, and more than a few of the intellectually challenged sports "journalists, that were calling for Coughlin's head 6 weeks ago.
Guess what? Those same morons call for Coughlin's head EVERY year. And after EVERY loss every year.
Not all of us are so short-sighted that we cannot see farther than our beer gut.
Wait until next year, or if not next year the one after, when your beloved Niners don't make it to the playoffs (forget the Super Bowl)--primarily because your FO decides to retain Smith as your QB with a huge Kolb-like ridiculous contract and he falls on his face.
See how many of your fellow fans are holding to your "you are either for your team or you're not".
Especially when it turns out you could have had Peyton Manning, but you didn't go after him due to your signing of Smith.
And I especially enjoyed your dismissal of Eli's performance vs the Niners.
Even analysts--and HOF QBs such as Terry Bradshaw--who have been up and down in their assessments of Eli over the past 8 years, have ALL commented this past week on how impressed they were with Eli in that game, and that if they hadn't already admitted Eli was among the best current Qbs before last Sunday, they all do now.
Eli the "pee wee QB" dropped back 64 times--SIXTY FOUR times--and although he was sacked 6 times, yes, he had ZERO turnovers. ZERO turnovers against the "BEST TEAM" IN TAKE AWAYS.
As for Brady's "clinic" on our secondary. No one here will deny Brady can do damage, if anyone can.
But your Alex-Vernon "torching" of our DBs resulted in 2 plays that were TDs. Congratulations. You also had ZERO 3rd down conversions--and ZERO receptions by any WR--until the very end of the game when it was too little too late. And who won, again?
News flash--we have already played Pats this year, and were also "torched" by their 2 All Pro TEs, just like we were "torched" by Vernon.
And, just like in our game vs SF last Sunday, we won that NE game, as well.


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With Panorama jail sentences, Italy's libel law under fire
"Incredible," "staggering," "enormous," "out of time"--the expressions of outrage have been flying in Italy since a Milan magistrate sentenced to prison three journalists for the weekly magazine Panorama. On May 24, Andrea Marcenaro and Riccardo Arena were each condemned to a one-year jail term for a 2010 article discussing Palermo magistrate Francesco Messineo's alleged family connections to the mafia. The editor-in-chief of the center-right news magazine, Giorgio Mule, was sentenced to eight months in jail for "having failed to check the article." The three journalists must also pay 20,000 euros (US$26,000) in compensation to the defendant.


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UTSA receives Communities in Schools Award
By Ashley Harris
Public Affairs Specialist
(June 17, 2008)--The UTSA College of Education and Human Development's School Partnerships program and the counseling and educational psychology department recently received two "Agency Partner of the Year" awards from Communities in Schools of San Antonio (CIS-SA). The awards, CIS-SA's highest honor, were given to the School Partnerships program and the counseling department in recognition of services provided to the city's most at-risk children.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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During the Spring 2008 semester, UTSA's School Partnerships program provided 72 undergraduate volunteers and the counseling department provided more than 30 graduate student volunteers to assist elementary, middle and high school students in the Edgewood Independent School District. Working with CIS-SA case managers, the undergraduate volunteers tutored and mentored the Edgewood students while graduate students provided counseling services.
"UTSA's involvement with Communities In Schools has been a true partnership," said Marcheta Evans, associate professor and chair of the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Adult and Higher Education. "It allows UTSA to reach out into the community and provide much needed services for children, and at the same time it allows our students to gain invaluable experience in their training as counselors -- experience that they will one day take out into the community to help others."
Counseling sessions provided to Edgewood students are on topics including honesty and integrity, getting along with each other, bullying, appropriate methods of interacting and mediating, and the importance of education. In addition to the services provided to students, UTSA faculty members attend CIS-SA professional development meetings and counsel case managers on how to deal with cutting, substance abuse and other adolescent behaviors.
"Our plans are to expand this outreach program next year to involve 150 undergraduate students in these programs and service additional school districts where CIS-SA programs are in place," said Ron Thomas, director of school partnerships for COEHD.
Communities in Schools is the nation's leading community-based dropout prevention network. CIS helps students stay in school and make the right choices by connecting schools with community resources such as mentors, tutors, mental health counseling, after-school care, and drug and alcohol education.
"UTSA has been involved in CIS for more than a decade," said Evans. "It's a wonderful organization whose activities support the counseling department's mission of providing students with culturally diverse opportunities as they gain counseling competency. We look forward to working with them for years to come."


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When Fall Fashion 2013 Meets the Beauty Essentials…
It is official…summer has said its fine farewell! And as we welcome the new fall season with stylishly open arms, we must consider the many fashion and beauty essentials that one needs to look absolutely fabulous! It's not about pinks and "peachy keen" bright colors anymore. We should now embrace all colors that are rich, luxurious and darkly decadent. With that in mind, here's our dose of "fall fashion meets beauty". Here, we've combined one of our newest high-low dresses with a round-up of must-have and richly-hued beauty essentials. Start your homecoming party in style from head to toe and all the beautified in-betweens!
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tnis guy is still on college and is no garauntee...
the Giants have Ballard mending, Pascoe, Hopkins, and Bennet. To trade up is waste....[/quote]Hopkins is just as much of not being a guarantee as Fleener is at this point.


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SUMMARY ---He's innocent and its America fault/ no surprise there...may these lowlifes always live in a "dark barren home in Dagestan " - if the CNN reporter was attempting to gain empathy for these people - THEY FAIL
( with anyone with a brain and real heart)
By CNN
- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's parents play parts of a phone call with him on ITN's Channel 4
- The parents insist their sons, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are innocent
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a police shootout and was run over by his brother
(CNN) -- Inside their dark, barren home in Dagestan, Zubeidat and Anzor Tsarnaev finally hear the voice they've been longing to hear for weeks.
It's the voice of their only surviving son, Dzhokhar. To the outside world, he's suspected of helping to launch a gruesome attack at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and maimed dozens more.
But to the Tsarnaevs, Dzhokhar is an innocent teen who has been victimized by the American justice system.
In an exclusive interview with CNN affiliate ITN, Zubeidat Tsarnaev plays a recorded phone call with her 19-year-old son. It's their first conversation since Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was shot and arrested in April.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev asks her son whether he's in pain.
Video shows suspects at gym days before attack
"No, of course not. I'm already eating and have been for a long time," Dzhokhar responds in the call from a prison hospital recorded last week. "They are giving me rice and chicken now. Everything's fine."
Dzhokhar's apparent calm surprises his mother.
"I felt like he would scream, you know, like, 'What's going on?'" Zubeidat Tsarnaev tells ITN's Channel 4. "Instead, he was just calming me down."
The parents insist their sons, Dzhokhar and 26-year-old Tamerlan, weren't responsible for the Boston bombings on April 15.
"It is terrible what happened, you know, but I know that my kids did not do it," Zubeidat Tsarnaev says.
After a wild police chase, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout with police. He was also run over by his fleeing brother.
The family says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was supposed to visit Dagestan the same week as the bombing.
"We were waiting for you on the 18th at home," Anzor Tsarnaev tells his son in the phone call. "Not in our worst nightmares did we imagine this."
Former Chechen rebel: 'I have nothing to do with' bombings
The father says he doesn't think his son understands what has happened to him.
"I understand. I'm just someone in shock because justice has vanished," Anzor Tsarnaev says. "There is no justice. It's impossible to understand what happened."
Anzor Tsarnaev tells his son they will meet again in heaven.
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Laugh Tracks: Comedians Aparna Nancherla & Myq Kaplan

Two Conan alums grill each other about comedy, sex & dating. Read the whole conversation on Playboy!

Sure, comedians Myq Kaplan and Aparna Nancherla may call themselves friends outside of their fields of funny—even inside, I suppose—but that doesn't mean they know every last detail about each other. Certainly some information has yet to make its way into their conversations…right? Well, we hope that's the case because we asked the two of them to get together for another installment of this Playboy.com series!
In this segment, Nancherla (Totally Biased with W. Kumau Bell, Conan) interviews Kaplan (Conan, Late Show with David Letterman, Hang Out with Me podcast) about heroes, sex and advice for lost children and adults.
Aparna Nancherla: Myq Kaplan, as a comedian, you like funny things…I think. Therefore, when is the last time you laughed really hard in the real world?
Myq Kaplan: Sincerely, I don't remember, because I don't catalog my laughs. I get why you think I might. If anyone did, I would certainly be at the top of the list of great guesses. But sorry, I'm an uncategorizable mystery! That's my category: "uncategorizable mysteries." And it's not that I don't remember the past, but I'm more concerned with the present and the future, which I see as the lunch and dinner of time.
Breakfast might be the most important meal, but it's also the most boring. It has the most limited menu and the fewest options. But lunch and dinner? Limitless possibilities! Sometimes when restaurants have all-day breakfast, people see it as evidence that breakfast is so great some people want it at all times of the day. But that's not it. It's that lunch and dinner are generous enough to share their timeslots with any food, including boring old breakfast.
Breakfast makes lunch and dinner even more exciting than they already were. So the question shouldn't be "When is the last time I laughed really hard in the real world?" but "When will the next time be?"
I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't remember. And also, the past and future don't really exist, so the "real world" has to be only right now. Maybe the answer is now because that's all there is. Now. Live in the moment…and the moment is lunch!
Nancherla: Well said. Do you have any advice for someone who's lost in a new city?
Kaplan: Before I give this advice, I have some questions for them:
Are they happy or unhappy to be lost? Are they a forgotten child, à la Home Alone 2? Do they speak the language of this city? Do they not have a smartphone with GPS? Is this a city that does not have the Internet or electricity? Is this person lost geographically or spiritually? Have they just moved to this new city to find a new identity, only to realize that wherever you go, there you are, unless you left yourself back home in your old city?
All that said, I would first say to enjoy yourself. In a world where it is harder and harder to be lost physically, you now have a rare gift in this experience. Wander! Wonder! Unless you're a child, of course. Then find an adult—a noncriminal adult—and ask for help. I guess the same advice holds for non-children, though.
Now, spiritually lost? Find a noncriminal adult and ask for help. In any situation, that will probably work. But if you're looking for advice on how to commit crimes? Get lost.
Nancherla: Do you believe in ghosts?
Kaplan: The short answer is "no." The long answer is [spooky, ghostlike voice] "nooooooooooooooooo."
Truthfully, I don't know everything. There are electrochemical reactions that go on in the brain while a person is alive, and who's to say that once that person is dead and that brain's molecules are scattered throughout the universe, those exact patterns which made up that person's consciousness couldn't be duplicated in the form of a hazy, flickering being? Not me! It seems statistically improbable, but I'm no scientist. So on ghosts, I'm an atheist.
Nancherla: Have you ever been catfished? Have you ever catfished someone?
Kaplan: I don't think I've ever catfished or been catfished. The only time that I came close to a catfishing situation was a year or two out of college when I did some online dating, and when we met in person I believe the girl thought that I would be taller. I never told her my height, but maybe I email like a tall person. I do sit at an elevated keyboard, which I reach by sitting on another short friend's shoulders while we both collectively wear a giant trench coat…so I don't blame her. I wish her the best.
Nancherla: Speaking of dating, favorite finishing move in sex…go!
Kaplan: To never finish!
Nancherla: What is the best pickup line you've ever used? Also, what is the best pickup line you've ever unused?
Kaplan: Whenever I'm single, or in an open relationship, or in a monogamish one, or dating nonexclusively, or any other time in my life when I'm authorized (by self and/or others) to use pickup lines, I feel as though everything I say is a pickup line. Not necessarily explicitly, but everything I put out in the world is essentially a representation of my desires.
I go onstage and say the things I want to, I talk to people offstage and say the things I want to, and the people who enjoy what I'm saying often tell me so. Then, through a process of what I call "being a human in society," different combinations of people decide to continue to interact at various levels of connection and communication.
I guess I don't use pickup lines. But if I had to choose, I like this old classic: "I forgot my phone number, can I have yours?" This is perfect up until the age at which senility could actually make someone forget their own phone number.
Nancherla: Would you consider yourself a texter or a caller?
Kaplan: I certainly create more texts than I make phone calls, but I definitely am a caller. So both! I know some people who say, "I don't use the phone for its original purpose. What are you…a cave person?" If cave drawings were the most efficient way of having a quick back-and-forth, I'd probably use them as well.
That said, I do enjoy talking. I do it for a living, I do it as a hobby and I do it in my sleep. But I have some good friends who live in far-off places, and I like being in touch with them. And until I am a ghost that can haunt them in person, or we're both ghosts that can hang out in heaven, I like the phone as a means to perpetuate that friendship while on different parts of the Earth. Not that I'm saying if you don't use the phone, you hate your friends. I'm just saying that I love my friends.
Nancherla: Last question. Do you agree with the expression "Don't meet your heroes"? Please explain or don't.
Kaplan: I would never tell anyone not to meet their heroes. I can't guarantee that finding out what your hero is like will go exactly the way you want it to, or imagine it will, but I do believe that knowing is better than not knowing. More information is almost always better; more experience almost always makes our lives richer. Therefore, if you find out your hero is a dick, sure, that could be disappointing. But that doesn't mean the experience you had of loving them previously is invalidated. Or if it is, then it probably deserves to be invalidated. Then fine, don't meet your heroes. Or maybe have better heroes…ones who aren't dicks. That should be the first step, I think.
Some people might be horrible to meet and you'll wish you hadn't. But hopefully the ones you love won't be. You'll never know until you try. Would you rather go your whole life thinking something that's possibly not true when you could know the thing that is true?
Live your own life the way you want to. Be your own hero! And only meet yourself if that's what you want. Unless you're a dick. Then maybe don't.


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Oakland Art Murmur | First Fridays Art Walk
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Oakland Art Murmur | First Fridays Art Walk
Oakland Art Murmur is a group of nearly 30 galleries in Oakland that have coordinated openings on the first Friday of every month.
Every first Friday of the month, member galleries are open to the public from 6-9 pm. Additionally Telegraph above Grand and below 27th is closed to car traffic, and craft, art, and food vendors are set up along this corridor as part of Oakland First Fridays .
Wander from gallery to gallery, see occasional outdoor movies, and find some new artists to love at venues like Classic Cars West, Manna Gallery, Mercury 20, Vessel Gallery and others.
Oakland Art Murmur Downtown Art Spaces
- Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, 480 23rd St.
- Classic Cars West, 411 26th St.
- Creative Growth Art Center, 355 24th St.
- Farley's East, 33 Grand Ave.
- FM, 483 25th St.
- The Great Wall of Oakland, Grand & Valley
- Krowswork, 480 23rd St.
- Manna Gallery, 473 25th St.
- Mercury 20, 475 25th St.
- Oakopolis / The Moon, 447 25th St.
- PHOTO, 473 25th St.
- Roscoe Ceramic, 473 25th St.
- Shadravan's Art Gallery, 2435 Telegraph
- SLATE Contemporary, 473 25th St.
- Studio Quercus, 385 26th St.
- Vessel Gallery, 471 25th St.
- The Wall Gallery, 473 25th St.
- Warehouse, 416 416 26th St.
- Betti Ono Gallery, 1427 Broadway
- Field Day And Friends, 329 19th St.
- Joyce Gordon Gallery, 406 14th St.
- Pro Arts, 150 Frank H. Ogawa Pl.
- Uptown Art Park, 19th & Telegraph
Other member galleries are located in North and West Oakland, Jack London and Jingletown neighborhoods.
View the map for more specific locations.
Free Oakland "B" Late Night Shuttle Bus (7 pm to 1 am)
BART: Get off at the 19th Street Oakland stop, which is only a few blocks away.
AC Transit: The 12 (Grand St.), 51A (Broadway), and 1 (Telegraph) buses also come right to the Uptown District.
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As of April 7, my granddaughter finished her last chemo. On March 14 (my birthday, a wonderful present) they pulled the "port" from her chest.
She is officially "out of treatment," and doing beautifully. She'll need some speech therapy and prematurely lost a bunch of teeth, but the 2-1/2 year torture is behind her now. She turned 5 in March, and we threw a huge party for her once the final chemo was done.
Thanks to all of you who sent your kind thoughts over the years. Now, fingers crossed that remission is permanent.


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Allia and Grant's ceremony featured some unique musical selections. "I walked down the aisle to 'Weathervanes' by Jets Overhead and our recessional song was 'Young Blood' by Naked and Famous," says Allia.
Photo by Joel Bedford Photography
Event Coordination by Marry Me Productions
Floral Design by Full Bloom
Venue: Fairmont Chateau Laurier
Officiant: Joan Bruce-Nibogie
Rentals by Wedecor