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Yesterday I installed a small swarm (musk melon sized) to my brand new TBH. I would have rathered a swarm triple the size but put in what I had rather than waiting and possibly not catching another swarm this season.
We have a long winter here so they have a lot of work to do.
If I happen to catch another or larger swarm in the near future, is there a langstroth-styled 'newspaper method' of combination? Plus there is a good chance there will be one in the next week from one of my other hives, how about combining before they even have comb?
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What happened to those 4 sacks you promised O$i?
I don't care for Lesean McCoy, but his characterization of Osi as a "ballerina" isn't far off the mark.
"When I was 15, I could not believe how dumb my father was.....when I was 25, I could not believe how much he had learned in 10 years"
1st to use the phrase "In Reese we trust"
Every night I pray osi will pull a hamstring and TC will put Ojomo in out of desperation. It's basically the way we find out we have talented young players. For my money osi is the most over rated player on the team. He is no longer an asset.
im having a hard time remembering something, didnt osi pull something like this last year? when he opened his mouth about poor play, while he was the one playing poorly?
i know something similar happened just cant remember hate when that happens


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Luxury boutique resort now offering poolside yoga every Wednesday and Saturday
Now that the clouds have parted in the greater Phoenix area, the temperatures are rising and the luxury boutique resort The Hermosa Inn is kicking off a new program for both guests and Valley residents alike, poolside yoga classes.
Taking place every Wednesday at 4 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m., each class is a 75-minute session that is suitable for both beginners and seasoned practitioners. Teachers Nicole Hamic and Maren Wiegand will lead students in a practice of breath control, flowing movement and held postures to challenge one's body and mind in a safe and gentle way.
A perfect complement to any existing exercise routine or a great way to kick-start a healthier lifestyle, The Hermosa Inn's poolside yoga classes will focus on stretching and strengthening muscles, while increasing energy and calming the mind – all in an open-air luxury environment amidst six serene acres of Sonoran Desert.
Each class is $15 and towels, mats and water will be provided. For more information on The Hermosa Inn, call 602.955.8614 (toll free at 800.241.1210) or visit online at www.HermosaInn.com, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and the Hermosa Inn blog.
Recently named one of the 2012 "Top 500 Hotels in the World" by Travel + Leisure Magazine and Condé Nast Traveler's 2012 Reader's Choice Award for Top 25 Resorts in the Southwest, The Hermosa Inn is a jewel of a hideaway in the heart of the Valley; minutes from Scottsdale, yet surrounded by an exclusive neighborhood in Paradise Valley. Originally hand-crafted in the 1930's by cowboy artist Lon Megargee as his private residence, the Inn's adobe architecture has kept its "old Arizona" character and charm. All 34 casitas are surrounded by spectacular landscaping and beautiful desert vistas. The $2 million remodel of the accommodations retains the legendary personality and intimate atmosphere of the original hacienda, while enhancing the accommodations with upgraded amenities for a more luxurious experience. The culinary centerpiece of the Inn is LON's at the Hermosa, the celebrated Four Diamond restaurant renowned for "artful American" cuisine, which is complemented by the Last Drop Bar, aptly named after one of the many paintings by Megargee that can be seen throughout the historic inn. For more information visit www.HermosaInn.com or call 602.955.8614.


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Myself and Gilbride are on the way out the door. Perry Fewell might as well join us. We have won two superbowl titles. Let's relieve the past because we have no future together. I look foward to seeing you guys move on with your career as I shall retire this season. Good luck and let's not worry about the rest of the year


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Where to start??
I have done my CCNA stuff, I have done all my RHCT and some RHCE stuff and now im working on my CCNP. However i still have problems understanding how protocols work.
Ok now that that is out of the way here is what i have gained from friends and professors/classes for net security.
Hacking exposed 5th edition
CEH study guide 2009 edition.
pen test open source tool kit vol2 2007 (lost the dang CD)
A few labs from backtrack(received by a professor)
I need to build a good lab as well. I have 3 cisco enterprise routers and 5 switches. What is a good lab set up?? oh and i have a really powerful desktop for vm's..I have heard about that course by backtrack but never looked into it cuz i have no money for that. BUT i want to build the same lab environment that they use so if anyone has taken the courses it would be nice to know what machines or devices you attacked.
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|2011-02-11, 17:16
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 39
I've noticed that PVP in battlegrounds is not quite so devastating as it was in late Wrath. I have no resiliance gear yet, but I was able to get in a bunch of kills without getting three shot by anything like I was in Wrath with no resiliance...even with 700 or so resiliance it wasn't easy to live, much less kill something in Wintergrasp in 3.2 or 3.3.
Might also be that I was in AB and lots of people doing the Love Fool achievement are also doing AB. As it turns out Alliance lost but only by about 150 resources. We let them have too much early on because we took Blacksmith first. We actually made up a lot of it, just it was a little too late (managing to be in the process of taking a fourth point at the end).
|2011-02-11, 18:52
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~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 22
|2011-02-12, 02:42
|Link #7063
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
lmao wow I am so behind on WoW stopped right before last expansion since it was getting a little to expensive on a college students budget but I still want to get back in when I have more time and money till then im on free mmo's like Dragon Saga and Eternal Destiny which fill the void for now but of course doesn't match up in certain ways.
I'll be back thou soon!
|2011-02-12, 02:47
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Yuri µ'serator
1. Quest geared idiots[I had mage on my team today with 83k with mark of the wild up ] who generally seem to rage quit if they realize the team can't carry them to victory, I had 8 people like who left during a single AB today , yet we still managed to almost win somehow [was 1320-1600 at the end].
2. High resiliance/HP people, whom seemingly ignoring objectives in BGs, god I hate these the most, how do they get decent gear yet fail to understand how the BG works, and I am talking about the smaller ones, not AV, or IoC.
3. People who actually know how to work with the objectives on a BG .
Also so far I'd say my win rate in BGs in close to 50%, ussually takes me just 1~3 to get the daily random win for large honor/few conquest points. And nerf for druid is bad, but workable except vs god dam mages , frost mages it's just lawl root/bind spam and blink away if I actually break it via PVP trinket, or them standing at perfect distant for feral Charge/Skullbash and I die/they escape unless I have help I can't even force than to use their Ice Block now :|.
One other note, I got the Tol Barad healer trinket, and I am kind of wondering if the buff is supposed to be that good, I mean I gain almost 50% more on my heals, and 25k max mana[which works very very nicely for timing divine plea around], I know it's rather short buff compared to most trinkets, but still, dunno maybe I am just not use to having an epic level trinket atm xD.
|2011-02-13, 12:07
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Don't Call Me Bro
Healer TB trinket is actually quite good. Out of all the class roles, TB probably benefits healers the most while strength DPS wouldn't want theirs because mastery sucks for them.
You're not surviving against Frost Mages because you don't have enough resilience and because you're not grouped with good players. I've always found Holy Paladins the hardest to kill/slow down. Time your Divine Shield, Hammer of Justice, Lay on Hands, etc. = should be fine. Plus if you gradually Exorcise them over time, you can kill a Mage yourself. They are the most played healer class in the top rated battleground teams. Get more resilience and make friends with a good Shadow Priest or Unholy Death Knight. Mages will always get annihilated by those two classes.
As for AB in general...don't expect common sense from randoms! They will almost always go to one node at the start and lose the match in the first 20 seconds. And ALWAYS get Blacksmith...if you don't get Blacksmith in RBGs, 99% of the time you are doomed.
Guild killed Heroic Atramades tonight, 5/13 HM now. Finally got my tier shoulders, been waiting so long to get them.
PS. Did something change with Al'Akir? I swear Wind Burst and the Cyclones are co-inciding WAY TOO MUCH...how the hell can you expect people to avoid Wind Burst when they have the Cyclone Wall with the gap at the outermost spot?!?!
|2011-02-13, 15:47
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 39
I have had a little battle with a Frost Mage in AB. It wasn't entirely one sided since most of his tricks that actually got me were the normal Mage stuff rather than the specific Frost spec stuff (mirror image firepower and interrupts mostly). Fear and stun still worked nicely enough to kill him every once in a while. This is without any resilience.
In TB however, I get wrecked...but that was mostly because I'd tend to run into groups of 10 Horde and get focus fired.
The TB dps trinket only really help get towards hit cap...well that Spell Power boost (some of the time) is helpful campared to the one out of Vortex Pinnacle that gives you extra spell power when something is below 35%...but also has Intellect on it, which helps as well...if you are hit capped, which I am not.
1742 for hit cap? I think I'm at 1160 now. Guess the Valor point stuff has hit on it or otherwise everyone would be reforging and gemming for hit to reach cap. I already an enchanting towards hit as it is.
|2011-02-13, 18:11
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~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 22
Patch 4.0.6 really did a number to Unholy dps... I noticed that my dps dropped about a good 3k during my last heroic. Makes me wonder if I should go back to Frost, but the main reason I went Unholy was to control the major threat issue that I was having as Frost.
|2011-02-13, 20:11
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Yuri µ'serator
|2011-02-14, 02:28
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Supreme Ruler of Crowatia
Join Date: Jun 2009
Age: 26
I'd tried to take down the Whale Shark today with the help of RangeDisplay addon. An hour wasted. Died the first pull because I tried to swim backwards instead of sideways. The next several pulls I swam more than 20 yards away and Moby reset. Highest damage I did was just over 3 million, I even managed to turn around when I hit some fatigue water, but failed later on. Damn, I suck.
Hunter by the way, ilevel 333. Need to get the helm from the first boss of Grim Batol. Did my first random Heroic ever (of Cataclysm) today and it was GB so I hoped to get the Heroic version of the helm. Two wipes and everyone left. Hooray for Feign Death at least.
Was Survival pre-patch, then went Marksmanship for a couple of days, then went back to Survival today. I just love the Survival AOE, rotation, and mobility. MM was getting on my nerves.
|2011-02-14, 17:28
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~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 22
Having quite some trouble with the first boss in Heroic Vortex Pinnacle now... Ever since they patched it up to when he calls in the cyclones, they actually knock you back so you get electrocuted and can't do anything to the boss, it makes it even more stressful for the healer (our pally healer went oom). So even the slightest change can set us off.. Especially the fact that I can't dps while he has the cyclones pulled in.
|2011-02-14, 17:50
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Yuri µ'serator
Though really the key though I found is to move in between the cyclones as they close in on the group[if you have your camera zoomed out can avoid them fairly well], so you avoid getting knockbacked and take less damage from it.
Also got a random BoE world drop epic last night while doing my dailes , hopefully I can sell to buy some stuff for my druid, or use it to trade for it.
And at Lord Crow, Grim Batol is a rough HC to start especially for PUG/Dungeon Finder Group, I'd really recommend if you can trying to run HCs with your guild purely until you learn most of the fights, and have some better gear, then PUGing will be easier for the daily random .
|2011-02-14, 18:04
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~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 22
|2011-02-14, 18:14
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Yuri µ'serator
|2011-02-14, 18:20
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~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 22
Glyph of Word of Glory
Glyph of Holy Shock
Glyph of Seal of Insight
Glyph of Light of Dawn
Glyph of Lay of Hands
Glyph of the Long Word
Glyph of Truth
Glyph of Insight
Glyph of Blessing of Might
Is there any issues using these glyphs? Don't wish to sound mean by changing his way of healing, but would like to know if any of these glyphs are affecting his healing in anyway. Also we tried grouping up once, but it was still painful to endure (I'm not sure there were that much AoE healing going around since Paladins only have Light of Dawn as an AoE heal right? There was another AoE healing, but that is very mana efficient right?)
|2011-02-14, 18:39
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Yuri µ'serator
|2011-02-14, 18:43
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~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 22
|2011-02-14, 19:23
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Yuri µ'serator
|2011-02-15, 02:09
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 30
Flung ourselves at heroic Atramedes yesterday, and the thing went down surprisingly easily. Double so since it was a mish-mashed group with several alts - yet the blindy went down in 10 pulls. Easiest heroic raid boss so far i would say ... certainly the fastest kill we have gotten, especially considering our suboptimal group. The fight isn't really that much different from normal - except that add which jumps on someone's back and needs to be killed/interrupted, sonars in air phase landing almost instantly (not a big problem if you just keep moving), and sound level going up faster if you stand in bad stuff.
It's a fight where everything can go suddenly south due to a mistake, but those mistakes aren't that hard to avoid - indeed, the mechanics are the same as on normal (save for the add), they just raise sound faster. Enrage timer is not an issue after the nerf - all in all, a fairly easy kill. Heroic conclave should be next on the list. Dealing with the shield will be ... fun. You more or less need a frost mage, and then need for him to crit with deep freeze, or it's a wipe. Such an awesome combat design
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I Posted this Thread here because above all this will effect Commercial Beekeepers more than it will anyone else.
How has or will this mandetory registration effect you? What changes to your beekeeping operation will you have to make? If your State doesn't have Honey House Registration and Inspection Requirements what do youy expect to be the ramification of registering w/ the FDA? Obviously if one does not register one is subject to "criminal or civil penalties under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by FSMA."
How many of y'all will be registered or updated before the end of 2012?


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I've got a Terminator Endoskeleton arm that I'm looking to get chrome plated. Is it possible to do this if it is made from resin?
Anyone had something similar done before?
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I've got a Terminator Endoskeleton arm that I'm looking to get chrome plated. Is it possible to do this if it is made from resin?
Anyone had something similar done before?
Thanks in advance
Hmm no, I cant say I have. The only thing I have ever had chromed was metal. And it couldnt have any plastic or rubber on it, which made me believe the chrom was very hot.
Have you looked at rub and buff? If your survace is extremely shiny, i have heard of peopel getting almost mirror finish on them.
Im interested to see what you end up doing though.
If you are electroplating metal, you probably don't want plastic or rubber in the acid too!
So for plastic, one of the things they do is called Vacuum Metalizing. They put the plastic (or Resin) in a chamber, pump all the air out, then you vaporize some aluminum in the chamber (yeah, aluminum gas, don't breath it!) and it deposits (with the help of a small static charge on the plastic/resin) evenly. You end up with a nice shiny coat of aluminum (not chromium), but it looks about the same.
Some guys do this with C-3PO armor afaik. Might check with some of them?
(Also I think you can use gold instead of aluminum.)
(I am not a material process engineer. I'm sure there are other ways to do it, but thought this might give you a start. )
My friend recently painted the same item, he bought a can of silver from 'Wilkinsons'... It's incredible. I believe that TK409 had some of the gold version shipped to the States for his C3-P0. Not sure of the make of the paint but the lid is a reflective silver (like a mirror).
Let me know if you need any more info.
If you google search what you need, email the company with what you want, and they cant do it, if not, they will actually give you a list of every company thats out there that will meet your needs to do what you want as electro plating plastic and resin is done more then anything else there is.
I find the krylon spray paints for chrome and gold aren't the same as the real deal, the cap color is very deceiving, but you can get away with it if you distress it.
best of luck.


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Dr. Barbara Given of the Michigan State University nursing faculty will present the address "Optimizing Health Care Outcomes: Interdisciplinary Team Research" in the Maas Center auditorium as the annual Gentile Lectureship presented in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend at Hope College.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Given is associate dean for research, director of the doctoral program and the University Distinguished Professor in the College of Nursing at Michigan State University. The address will discuss the trajectory of her program of research, which spans 30 years.
Her research has focused on behavioral interventions to assist patients and their family care-givers in managing their therapeutic plans to cope with chronic illness so that the patients have good outcomes. The research benefited from an interdisciplinary research team that brought expertise to designing strong interventions for patient and family care. The lecture will conclude with reflections on the future of health care given major changes in the health care system.
The Gentile Interdisciplinary Lectureship at Hope was established in 2005 by faculty colleagues, former students and friends of Dr. James Gentile. Gentile joined the Hope faculty in 1976 and served as dean for the natural sciences from 1988 to 2005, when he became president of Research Corporation, a private foundation in Tucson, Ariz., that supports basic research in the physical sciences.
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at Street.


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Denver Broncos: 31
Pittsburg Steelers: 19
Opening Sunday Night Football - 9 September, 2012 - at Mile High, Denver
I listened to this exciting game on the radio in my cabin on vacation last night.
Who's your favorite team? (Teams)
Who's over-rated or under-rated?
Will your team even make the play-offs?
What stadium has the most rockin' game experience?
Feel free to mix it up here on anything having to do with the NFL!
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Tight seed supplies likely for dairy feeding needs as a result.
by Dennis Halladay, Hoard's Dairyman Western Editor
Corn, soybeans and hay aren't the only dairy feed staples expected to have more limited supplies this fall. A slightly smaller U.S. cotton crop is also forecast, which means the amount of cottonseed available for dairy rations will be affected.
According to Cotton Incorporated, U.S. cotton farmers planted 14 percent fewer acres in 2012, which is bad enough for dairy producers who like to feed cottonseed. Unknown is what the negative yield effects will be from the current drought in Texas and other major cotton growing states. Of perhaps more concern is an even lower acreage outlook for 2013.
"While a more normal' summer could produce more harvestable acres of cotton and more cottonseed, we anticipate the amount of whole cottonseed available for dairies this year will remain flat compared to 2011," says Tom Wedegaertner, Cotton Inc., director of agricultural research. "I'm fully anticipating a decline in cotton acres next year, given the futures market prices for wheat, soybeans, and corn. Land is being booked up right now to go to those competing crops."
International production of cotton is increasing and is keeping cotton fiber prices down, but it does not affect U.S. cottonseed prices.
Wedegaertner's advice to dairy producers is to keep an eye on the current crop, especially data from the August and September USDA reports, remember that the 2013 crop already looks like it will be even smaller, and watch for cottonseed buying opportunities.
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What's up at The Warehouse
Week of April 18-25
April 18, 19, 22-26: Open to students in 5th-12th grade from 3-6 p.m. Enjoy our gym, computer lab, Play Station 3, Xbox, Wii, board games, air hockey, foosball, carpet ball, food and more, all at no cost.
April 20: Showing on the big screen from 6-10 p.m. "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" followed by "Here Comes The Boom" families welcome at no cost and free refreshments served. All students fourth grade and under must be supervised by someone in fifth grade or older.
April 21: Central MN Teen Challenge Benefit Concert "Breaking The Chains of Addiction" featuring local musicians from 6:30-8 p.m. Free will offering to support the local Central MN Teen Challenge Program.
April 22: Adult open gym basketball from 7-9 p.m., no cost or pre-registration required.
April 25: Cass County Public Health Senior Foot Care Clinic from Noon to 2 p.m.
The Warehouse is closed to students when the Pine River-Backus School has a scheduled or unscheduled closing or an unscheduled early out. For scheduling events/meetings contact Sharon at 218-587-5404 during office hours (generally noon to 6 p.m. on Monday-Friday). Check the Website at www.thewarehousepr.org for updates on events, closings and cancellations.


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Florida Port Directors Warn of Ripple Effect If Dockworkers Strike Goes Ahead
(Orlando, Fla. — WMFE) Florida port directors held a conference call with Governor Rick Scott Thursday to warn about the impact of a looming dockworkers strike. The dockworkers union is prepared to strike unless there's agreement on a new contract before Saturday night, when an extension on the old contract expires.
A strike by International Longshoremen's Association dockworkers would disrupt the movement of container cargo from about 60 ships a week at Florida ports.
Port Miami director Bill Johnson says a dockworkers' strike would also affect thousands of other jobs. "It isn't just six thousand people working on my port today, it's tens of thousands of people working in South Florida and throughout the state," he said. "It isn't just Miami impacted as a port, it's Orlando, it's Cleveland, Ohio. I mean this is an impact nationwide."
Port Canaveral's director Stan Payne said disruption to the transportation supply chain would reach far inland. "Our entire transportation structure in which billions of dollars has been invested, (will) simply cease to function," he said, "at huge cost to our economy and the jobs."
Florida's 15 deepwater ports account for about 550,000 jobs and generate $66 billion dollars in economic activity.
Governor Scott has asked President Barack Obama to use a federal law-- the Taft-Hartley Act-- to stop the strike if a deal isn't reached by the Saturday deadline.
The dockworker's union, the International Longshoremen's Association, is continuing bargaining talks with the US Maritime Alliance, which represents the ports and shippers.


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Jury is seated in Jackson wrongful death case
FILE – In this Jan. 26, 2012 file photo, Katherine Jackson speaks during a hand and footprint ceremony honoring her son, musician Michael Jackson, while Prince Michael Jackson, left, listens, in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Direct questioning of potential jurors will begin on Monday April 15, 2013 in Katherine Jackson's civil trial against concert giant AEG Live. Dozens of potential jurors will be asked about their responses to a lengthy written questionnaire assessing their knowledge of Michael Jackson's life, death and whether they can sit on a case in which plaintiff's attorneys may ask for billions of dollars in damages. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury of six [auth] men and six women was accepted by both sides on Monday for the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Michael Jackson against AEG concert promoters.
Lawyers immediately began questioning prospects to sit as alternate jurors.
The jury was seated a week after a pool of more than 100 candidates was assembled. Many prospects were eliminated because they said serving on a three-month trial would be a hardship.
Others were excused for cause when they said they had a bias against Jackson or disapproved of big-figure lawsuits. Others were rejected because they had business ties to AEG or the Jackson family.
Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, filed the case on behalf of herself and her son's three children. Their attorneys have pegged the potential damages at $40 billion, but jurors will have to determine any amount the family might receive.
The lawsuit claims AEG, the company that promoted the ill-fated "This is It" concert, hired Dr. Conrad Murray as Jackson's physician without checking his credentials. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the superstar from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.
Coincidentally, his lawyer filed an appeal on Monday of his criminal conviction.
The jury was selected ahead of time estimates. Lawyers were aided by a long questionnaire filled out by jury prospects that sought their views on Jackson and his famous family along with his life and death, and their feelings about multimillion dollar jury verdicts.
The civil case will focus on the pop singer's possible role in his own demise. Witnesses will also testify about his troubled finances and whether AEG wielded too much influence over a cash-strapped Murray by offering him $150,000 a month for his job as Jackson's doctor during the concert tour.
Neither AEG nor Jackson had signed Murray's contract before the singer died.
Some evidence excluded from Murray's trial, including Jackson's financial and medical records, could be used in the civil case, possibly offering new insight into the singer's life before his death on June 25, 2009, at the age of 50.
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Or the rhinovirus. Always around and takes advantage of the right conditions to have its effects.
Or the rhinovirus. Always around and takes advantage of the right conditions to have its effects.
Mark Berninghausen
If you know about AFB, if you have seen outbreaks of AFB, If you have read the New Zealand Studies, if you know about the bee kill prior to 1945 when sulfa drugs were 1st used, if you research what researchers who attend apimondia,ABF conventions and others teach and write, AFB and epidemic are often found in the same sentence as it should be. We had an "outbreak" in NY in the early part of the millenium. Many hundreds of beekeepes had had what is likely over a thousand hives burned and a great deal of terramcyin purchased before it was brought under control. Thankfully the days of hidden "hospital yards" and masked foulbrood are pretty much a thing of the past here.
Epidemic is the correct word, as the potential of epidemic in the abscense of prevention is certainly there. The New Zealand study I think is still the definitive work for control w/o anti-biotics.


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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger says Johan Djourou and Sebastien Squillaci could leave Arsenal this month.
The Arsenal manager's primary focus is this weekend's FA Cup tie at Swansea City but, as expected, he had plenty of questions to field about the transfer window at his pre-match press conference.
Wenger said there was "no news" on a rumoured move for Andrey Arshavin but he revealed that others may move on.
"Squillaci, if he finds a club, he will certainly go," said Wenger. "Djourou might go somewhere as well, that will be decided in the next 48 to 72 hours."
Ultimately though, Wenger is more concerned about the players who could make a difference at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday.
"In our job it is important that you focus on what is really important, the players who can help the club to win the games," he said.
"Those players who are somewhere on the transfer market will not help you to win the games. For us it is important to focus on our next game and our next game can only be won by the players who are here."
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Bridesmaids star Kristen Wiig has landed a role in the sequel to Will Ferrell's popular cult comedy Anchorman.
Ferrell is re-teaming with original cast members Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd and Steve Carell for the follow-up and a new addition looks set to spice up the sequel.
In a Twitter post, Applegate writes: "So excited Kristen Wiig has joined our cast for anchorman2. Going 2 b best movie ever made. Besides the best movies ever made.''
Anchorman: The Legend Continues is set for release later this year.


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Long Term Storage Commands and Utilities
Long Term Storage Introduction
Bigdipper is a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server providing long term, backed up data storage for ARSC resources. Bigdipper hosts the /archive filesystem for the ARSC HPC resources. The server utilizes SAM-QFS for managing user files stored in the corresponding archive file system. SAM-QFS consists of "online" disk storage, "offline" tape storage, and a set of daemons managing file status.
When a file is saved to the archive filesystem, the file is initially "online". Shortly thereafter, one copy of the file is automatically written to an archive tape. The file will remain "online" if sufficient disk space is available, otherwise the file will be taken "offline" and will be removed from disk storage, leaving only the tape copy. If the file is "online", it is immediately accessible to the user. If the file is "offline", the user must request a copy of the file to be brought "online" by the SAM-QFS system. Please read more on the stage and batch_stage commands to request files to be brought back "online". The staging process is highly encouraged, especially when potentially working with thousands of "offline" files.
SAM-QFS File Management Utilities
Users of pacman and fish have an account on bigdipper, where they can more efficiently manage their files. The SAM-QFS commands listed below can be used to manage data from bigdipper.
The following commands must be executed on bigdipper where your files are stored. For more information, please read the man page for the particular command (e.g. man sls).
The "archive" command issues a request for a file, or group of files matching wildcards (when * or ? are specified), to be copied to tape. Please note that the return of this command does not mean the copy to tape has finished. Check for file transfer completion with the sfind or sls commands. Also, disk space is not released unless the release command is executed.
SAM-QFS will archive files automatically. This normally occurs within approximately four hours of creation or modification.
archive filename
After a file has been archived, one copy exists on tape and one copy exists on disk. The "release" command will remove the copy of the "online" file if the "offline" (tape) copy has already been written. A directory listing will remain for the now "offline" file. To access the contents of a file after issuing the "release" command, the file must be copied from tape back to disk using the "batch_stage" command.
SAM-QFS may release files automatically over time depending on the level of activity on the file system.
release filename
The "sfind" command finds files with the requested attributes. Searchable attributes include:
- -offline (file copied to tape and disk space released)
- -online (copy exists on disk)
- -archdone (all archive/stage steps completed)
- -copies 2 (both copies exist on tape)
In most cases, "sfind" uses the same keywords as sls -DK.
sfind -offline
Examples :
Search for offline files with $ARCHIVE
bigdipper % sfind $ARCHIVE -offline
Search for files that have two copies on tape:
bigdipper % sfind $ARCHIVE -copies 2
The "stage" command initiates a request to copy an "offline" (tape copy only) file to be placed "online" (on disk). Only online files may be read, copied, etc. Giving advanced notice that the file will be needed is a way to ensure the file is "online" and ready to use when requested. Otherwise, an attempt to read the file will automatically stage the file, although it may take some time for the tape to mount and a new "online" copy of the file to be placed on disk.
Please note that the return of this command does not mean the copy to disk has finished. Check for "online" file completion with the sfind or sls commands.
When staging large numbers of files, the batch_stage command may perform more optimally. Therefore, consider using "batch_stage" over the "stage" command in this situation.
stage filename
Examples :
The following sfind command will find all of your f90 files and stage them to disk, then will echo the filenames to the terminal:
bigdipper % sfind . -name "*.f90" -offline -exec stage {} \; -exec echo {} \;
The "batch_stage" command brings a set of files "online". Files are staged in the order they are written to tape. This minimizes tape seeks and typically reduces the amount of time it takes to bring multiple files back "online".
batch_stage filenames
Examples :
To stage several files by name, simply list all the files that need to be staged following the "batch_stage" command:
bigdipper % batch_stage fileone filetwo filethree
Wildcards may also be used. The following command will stage all the files in the $ARCHIVE/data directory:
bigdipper % batch_stage $ARCHIVE/data/*
A list of files to be staged can also be supplied through stdin, making "batch_stage" ideal to use in conjunction with the "find" command:
bigdipper % find $ARCHIVE/somedirectory/ -name \*.nc | batch_stage -i
The "sls" command is an extended version of the "ls" command which lists files including their SAM-QFS attributes. The -D option will show most of the SAM-QFS attributes.
sls filename
Show detailed description of SAM information for all files in $ARCHIVE
bigdipper % sls -D $ARCHIVE
Show two lines of output with SAM information:
bigdipper % sls -2 $ARCHIVE/myfile
The "sdu" command is a SAM version of "du". The command reports the sum of offline and online disk usage.
sdu directory
Show summary (-s) of usage for each subdirectory in $ARCHIVE in kilobytes (-k):
bigdipper % sdu -sk $ARCHIVE/*
Show summary (-s) of usage for $ARCHIVE directory in human readable form (-h):
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Black Alliance Receives Funds for Parent Outreach
Training the Front Line
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindSchool Emergency Preparedness
Tips for Parents
New Resource! Online Tool Offers Teacher Training
Black Alliance Receives Funds for Parent Outreach
The U.S. Department of Education last month awarded the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) a $2.5 million five-year grant to continue its outreach to parents about their options under the No Child Left Behind Act.
The grant will be used to further the activities of the organization's Project Clarion, an outreach and communications campaign designed to educate parents about the law, public school choice, charter schools and free academic services such as tutoring; to motivate them to exercise their rights; and to connect parents to educational options in their communities. BAEO hopes to reach some 30,000 eligible parents in cities such as Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Richmond, Va., Atlanta, Tampa, Fla., and Dayton, Ohio.
The grant is from the Department's Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE), which supports nationally significant programs and projects to improve the quality of education and to help all students meet challenging standards. Activities funded by FIE provide professional, curriculum and assessment development as well as demonstration programs aimed at improving elementary and secondary education.
BAEO, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a national nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to actively support parental choice so that families can be empowered to increase educational options for their children. Established in 2000, the alliance has chapters in 30 cities nationwide. For more information, visit www.baeo.org, or call 202-429-2236.
Training the Front Line
Atlanta Elementary School Proves Professional Development Improves Student Learning
"We try to make everyone a success story." That statement, by Principal Marcene Thornton, eloquently captures the efforts of faculty and staff at Capitol View Elementary School, the only Atlanta public school to be named a 2004 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School.
For three consecutive years, Capitol View students have made adequate yearly progress. But that fact, like Principal Thornton's statement, doesn't reveal the school's only achievements. For the 2002-03 school year, 98 percent of Capitol View's fourth-graders met or exceeded the standard level in reading and math on the state exam. These figures put the school in the top 5 percent of all Georgia public schools in scholastic achievement based on test data from the 2002-03 school year.
But there is a more telling statistic at this predominantly African-American, economically disadvantaged school that provides insight into Capitol View's success: The average daily student attendance rate for the past five years has been more than 95 percent.
"Our students don't want to miss a day," explained April Gomez, a fifth-year kindergarten teacher. "They know they'll miss out if they do." This excitement about learning is the result of teachers who work together to keep students engaged and learning activities that blend a curriculum focusing on core knowledge skills with Georgia's state standards.
For students at Capitol View Elementary, this means exposure to fine arts, classical music and the French language, along with an emphasis on reading and concept-based learning. For teachers, the challenge is to develop a yearlong lesson plan that includes each of the state requirements and then to mesh it with weekly plans that outline day-to-day instruction in the core knowledge areas.
"It's definitely an on-the-job process," said Elisa Harrison, a new second-grade teacher. "But I know I'm not in this by myself. I can always talk to the other teachers. They give me tips to achieve what I need to do."
With the belief that success comes from exposure to other good teachers, Thornton has built time into the school day for teachers to interact by having teachers arrive at 7:30, a half-hour before the first bell rings.
First-year teachers also are assigned a mentoran experienced teacher who usually teaches at the same grade level. Mentors are there to help with everything from specific tasks, such as fixing a roll book, to issues that arise in the classroom.
As a mentor to a new teacher last year, Gomez said she was happy to be there for whatever was needed. "As mentors, we want to keep new teachers from feeling left out."
Once a week, all teachers at the same grade level meet for a two-hour collaborative planning session to discuss strategies for teaching curriculum components. They also meet with the French teacher, for example, to identify ways to integrate classroom lessons across the curriculum. "Students may learn a song in French that reinforces a history lesson or how to say in French the human organs they studied in science," said Thornton. "All of our subjects are integrated and focused on the concept being taught."
Teachers also meet every third Tuesday after school for a staff development program. The agenda is teacher-driven, focusing on strategies and pedagogy about which teachers are interested in learning more.
"Different people research different techniques or attend different workshops," said Gomez, noting that all strategies considered are recognized, researched models that are coordinated with student data. "We look at new things and how they could help us engage our students."
Perhaps the greatest challenge for new teachers at Capitol View is the requirement that each class, once students master a concept, present that concept in the form of a game, model or activity. For example, the second-grade students made chocolate chip cookies using their fraction and measuring skills.
"We try to find activities that let students show off their skills and incorporate their own personalities," said Gomez. "These opportunities help us set them up to succeed."
"When teachers are comfortable in their roles and able to engage students," said Thornton, commenting on the creativity required for these presentations, "their interest and enthusiasm flow to the studentsand everyone is successful."
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindSchool Emergency Preparedness
The harrowing event at Columbine High School in 1999 made most Americans focus on the safety of our schools, while the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, left the entire nation feeling vulnerable. Natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and tornadoes can also strike a community with little or no warning. However, thanks to the efforts of millions of teachers, principals and staff across America, the majority of schools remain a safe haven for our nation's youths.
To ensure the safety of America's children, schools need to be ready to handle crises, both large and small. Last month, the U.S. Department of Education awarded 109 school districts $28.6 million in grants to strengthen their emergency preparation and response plans and train school personnel and students in emergency response procedures.
The Emergency Response and Crisis Management program is managed by the Department's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, which supports efforts to create safe schools, respond to crises, prevent drug and alcohol abuse, help ensure the health and well being of students, and teach students good citizenship and character.
As part of the No Child Left Behind Act, local school districts must provide assurances that they have plans that outline how they are working to keep their schools safe and drug free.
For tips on keeping teachers and students safe, the Department offers the guide Practical Information on Crisis Planning, which also describes how several districts across the country have approached crisis planning. To download a copy, visit www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/emergencyplan/crisisplanning.pdf/.
For more information about the Emergency Response and Crisis Management program, visit www.ed.gov/programs/dvpemergencyresponse/index.html/.
Tips for Parents
Parents and community members can support their neighborhood schools by helping to prevent or by responding to any potential crisis that would endanger children's lives. The following is a sample checklist that schools and communities can employ for effective crisis management:
Mitigation and Prevention
- Connect with community emergency responders to identify local hazards.
- Determine who is responsible for overseeing violence prevention strategies in your school.
- Establish procedures to account for students during a crisis.
- Gather existing information about the school facility, such as maps and the location of utility shutoffs.
- Ascertain whether an evacuation, reverse evacuation, lockdown, or shelter-in-place needs to be implemented.
- Monitor how emergency first aid is being administered to the injured.
- Monitor how staff are assessing students for the emotional impact of the crisis.
- Capture "lessons learned" and incorporate them into revisions and trainings.
Source: Excerpted from Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, 2003.
New Resource!
Online Tool Offers Teacher Training
In its continuing effort to support classroom teachers, the U.S. Department of Education recently unveiled a new online tool that offers elementary and secondary school teachers on-demand professional development training for improving student achievement.
The Teacher-to-Teacher e-Learning resource, offered free of charge, links educators to a collection of videos from the Department's summer workshops for teachers. Available online or via satellite TV, the workshops are taught by exemplary teachers and education experts who demonstrate practical examples of successfully translating scientifically based research into classroom practice and using data to inform instruction.
The sessions cover a variety of subject areas, from reading instruction to science and mathematics, and may be taken for credit for a possible two hours of in-service work. Most of the video workshops include an overview, note-taking guide, course assessment, follow-up activities, principal's implementation checklist and additional resources.
The e-Learning program is part of the Department's Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative to help educators share best practices for putting research to work in the classroom. The initiative includes regional workshops, a national summit, roundtable discussions with teachers about the support they need to meet the academic needs of their students, a teacher toolkit, and electronic updates of useful information for teachers.
To access the Web site for the Teacher-to-Teacher e-Learning tool, visit www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tools/initiative/index.html/.
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Preface by Prof A H Sayce. Frontispiece - Map. top edge of front board scuffed. Extremities rubbed. gilt titling to spine. Dust wrap faded spine, knocked corners. Half title clipped. Large folding map at end of book. Numerous black and white illustrations. 434 pp. Clean bright and tight.; 001720; 8vo. N° de ref. de la librería 001720
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i'll be watching for the FAL project. thanks.
I got started today on 3 new builds. the first is an L1A1 FAL, I got the kit for $150.00 at knob creek, some of the parts are kind of beat but the bbl and other importand stuff is in good shape. I got it all apart and blasted and parked all the good parts. My ffl dealer has some DSA inch receivers coming, So I have all the upper parts ready to install and headspace.
The second build is another 1919, I got a B grade kit from OOW for $275.00 at knob creek. the internals loow excellent but the exterior shows wear. I got all the non receiver stuff blasted and parked. I am getting a sideplate and rivet set from Halo mfg, the plate is serial numbered and engraved with rock Island arsenal info. My internals will be here monday too so I am ready to go with this one.
Last but not least is an FN 30. this build is going to be a restoration job. the parts are well used and will need a lot of tlc before assembly. I am using a sideplate and internals from Halo mfg. I saw the plates at knob creek and they look really great. There is not much information on these guns so it will be a learning process. I got most of the small parts blasted and parked. and need to clean and repair the bbl shroud and the rest of the receiver parts.
I will post the build progress on my site as they move along.
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- Each nominee must be an engineer engaged in engineering work within the HVACR and/or building automation disciplines. The "engineering work" may consist of engineering design, analysis, and/or other engineering functions performed directly by the nominee, or such work that has been accomplished under the direct responsible charge of the nominee.
- One or more of the following may nominate an engineer candidate for this award: mechanical engineers, facility owners/managers, and/or manufacturers/suppliers.
- Engineers can nominate themselves.
- Each nominee shall be a resident of the United States.
Each nominee shall have accomplished significant engineering achievements during the most recent three calendar years to be eligible for the award. Significant achievements are broken down into three areas:
- Technical Contributions to their company and customers
- Professional Contributions to the HVAC industry
- Community Contributions in the areas where they work.
Nominee Evaluation and Selection Data:
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Anguilla: The Most Romantic Escape
The most seductive place in the Caribbean is just 16 miles long and circled by 33 mostly deserted beaches. Big cruise ships don't visit, so it's quiet and serene. With no casinos or tourist traps, there's little to distract you from your sweetheart. While away your days on stretches of the softest sand you've ever wiggled your toes in on Shoal Bay, one of the Caribbean's most picturesque beaches. When you're not flirting with each other at the pool or clinking Champagne flutes by candlelight, you'll love snorkling around the coral reefs or trying the island's Greg Norman golf course.
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I am in Jackson, Wyoming, high and cold, with lots of snow still on the ground but spring looming. Yesterday was especially warm/mild and the bees were out like a summer day -- lots walking around on the landing board, many taking flight. (I should add that, perhaps because I super-insulated the hive, on other sunny days this winter, there has always been bee activity out of the hive, though nothing like yesterday.)
There was a lot of fecal spotting on top of the hive and on the front side, as well as some on the landing board. My thoughts turned to nosema. I have never medicated for that problem (the hive was new last spring), and I'd rather not take that step if I can avoid it but would certainly do so if it were critical to the health/survival of the hive.
Since we are so early in the season I am inclined to wait a while for a better idea as to the health/strength of the bees. While they have managed to get some cleansing flights through the winter, I seriously doubt they had any opportunity like yesterday, what might be considered 'opening day' for a more temperate weather pattern. We are surely not done with winter, however. We'll get hit again, but the trend is clear.
Any thoughts or comments are most welcome. I've had one or two hives for about 6 years but still feel very much a beginner. I've never medicated for any problem but have had hives not make it through the winter, and had one episode of colony collapse, I think.
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Lynsey Gwilliam: (Inter) stellar achievements at the intersection of art and engineering
Lynsey Gwilliam (2010 B.F.A. in fibers) designs blankets that journey to outer space. Photo courtesy Lynsey Gwilliam.
It's no secret that SCAD alumni have made their mark on the planet, and if you're fibers alumna Lynsey Gwilliam, you've gone one step further — to the final frontier. As a member of Genesis Engineering Solutions, a subcontractor to NASA, Lynsey joins thermal space blanket technicians who design and build the metallic blankets seen on the Hubble Space Telescope's exteriors. I'll share more about Lynsey's work in a bit. But first, I'd like to take you back a few years earlier and some 342 miles lower.
After all, before Lynsey's gifts launched her into the starry realms of the Horsehead Nebula, her talents intersected with a horse of a different color — the SCAD varsity equestrian team. Lynsey excelled in and out of the corral, earning the Director's Choice Award for university athletics and the Academic Achievement Award for SCAD Fibers.
After graduating Summa Cum Laude, Lynsey won a three-month residency at the Pocosin Arts Folk School in Columbia, North Carolina and an economic incentive grant from the Town of Columbia, which enabled Lynsey and jewelers Maia Leppo and Maura Cartwright to launch the Columbia Art Space, a gallery and retail venture featuring work handcrafted in their respective metal and fibers studios. Following her adventures in Columbia, Lynsey enrolled in graduate studies in the business of art and design, where she met fellow fibers artist Aleks Bogunovic, who in turn introduced her to Genesis Engineering Solutions.
At Genesis Engineering Solutions, Lynsey works in a blanket fabrication lab charged with protecting the telescope's hardware from the extremes of heat and cold by creating what she playfully calls clothes for space crafts. She thrives on the unique challenges posed by each of the tasks saying, "…there is never just one way to build a blanket." To begin, Lynsey examines a given piece of hardware — any one of which can differ dramatically in size, complexity, and shape from the next — sometimes viewing the piece in situ. She also gathers requirements from contamination, electrical, mechanical, and thermal engineers.
From the conditions described and requirements prescribed, Lynsey and her small team must determine how many layers to build into the blanket, and what features to incorporate into the design. They must also factor in the manner in which air will pass through the blankets and the relationship between between the blanket and the various spacecraft components. After iterating and gaining approval on her design, Lynsey creates a flat template to fit the hardware using traditional pattern-making techniques, which take into consideration the reaction of the materials to corners, creases, and curves. Often the client selects the materials on the basis of their thermal, electrical, and optical properties. The binding of these materials — whether taped, sewn, glued, or tied together — is likewise determined by the composition of the material. In the final step, Lynsey installs the blanket on the spacecraft in a cleanroom, which is a contaminate-controlled space.
Grounded in the rich history and artisan tradition of fibers, Lynsey continues to thrive on the modern applications of her craft, while celebrating the tactile experience. Now that you've had a taste of her star-studded work, take a peek at several of her past projects from notebooks with wooden covers and elegantly stitched binding to floral quilts and luxurious scarves woven from skeins of bamboo, linen, and twill. Follow her latest design venture PinPin Studios, which helps clients reimagine their spaces using her SCAD fibers expertise and solution-driven approach.
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- A One-Night Stay for Two in a Suite, Sundays through Thursdays ($189)
- Or, a Two-Night Stay for Two in a Suite, Fridays and Saturdays ($379)
- Bottle of Wine Upon Arrival
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Solly's Satirical Sing-a-long: "Not Pope Forever"
12 February 2013 , 11:07 AM by Elliott Dunn
Who says you can't decide to hang up the Papal mitre*, just because no-one's done it for 600 years?
In a week that'd need something significant to knock sport out of the headlines, Pope Benedict XVI has done just that.
The Bishop of Rome has broken with half a millenium's worth of tradition, announcing he'll step down at the end of month, due to a fading in "both strength of mind and body".
Is it fair enough for the leader of the Catholic world to embrace the lazy chair and slippers, at the age of 85... or should he have seen it through to the end?
Was it myopic for a 78 year old man to be made Pontifex Maximus in the first place?
And will the Catholic Church's conclave choose an equally conservative successor, or a more progressive Papa?
All these issues will be resolved, as Party Gravy and the Satirical Sing-a-long Lyricists convert the Split Enz tune, "I Hope I Never" into "Not Pope Forever".
If you'd like to contribute a line or a verse, we'd love to hear from you!
Tune in on Friday morning at 7:10am to hear Solly's Satirical Sing-a-long.
(*that's the fancy white hat)
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text: I have a 2000 2500 with 6.0. there other nite I went to start it and the motor just spun over . After several tries it started and ran fine the rest of the nite. After it sat all nite same thing. it did hit the bottom of gas tank a couple time and it started.. I don't know if that had anything to do with it startng. I drove it to work and after 12 hr it started fine and runs great. Any ideas why it not starting all the time? thanks for any ideas


text: I have been using Dadant for several years now because I can pickup from a local facility (Paris, TX). I have been very satisfied with their wooden ware. I use the commercial grade and usually buy at the first price break point for boxes and frames. I have boxes that have been on the shelf unassembled for two years that have not warped. Same is true for frame parts. Out of several thousand frames I have one warped top bar and one that had some short grain. Everything else has been fully functional and the fit was fine.


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Without an ability to disrupt the QB with today's rules, it doesn't matter who you have back there. NFL QB's will tear you apart since you can't reroute WR's, hit them after the catch it and there is about 1 square foot on the player where you can hit them at all.
We saw what happened to SF's defense when they neutralized their pass rush. They got torn up by Joe Flacco.
You either get to the QB or you get scored on. Its that simple.
And on offense, you better protect the QB because you have to score and score a lot or you lose.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
I find this all hilarious
this is my favorite part:
"It's as if the Jets traded for him for the publicity – to be the talk of the town after their stadium partner – the Giants – won the 2012 Super Bowl. Why else would they get him? Why else would they waste a fourth-round pick?"
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....
"Now the Jets are rid of Tebow, replacing one quarterback quandary with another – a four-way fight between Sanchez, Geno Smith, David Garrard and Greg McElroy. It's a battle with no clear winner, just more confusion, more chaos, more upheaval"
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....
They will get it sorted out. It will probably be either Garrard as the starter and Geno in training, or Geno as the starter with Garrard being the teacher.
I think Sanchez's days are numbered in NY. He'll take his $8MM and go be a back up somewhere.
The new regime can't be blamed for past errors. The fact that they drafted Geno, with the clear intention of moving past Sanchez, shows they actually have a clue.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
anyway....i dont care either way. the jets are boring, played out publicity wh0res. I love watching them fall apart. it's hilarious lol
Oderint Dum Metuant
It's too bad, I'm too good....


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|Thuillier, Louis
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|France: Picardie, Somme, Vignacourt
|Date made
|c November 1916
|Group portrait of officers of the 5th Battalion. Identified (back row, left to right): 497 Lieutenant (Lt) Harold Maurice Griffiths MC from Colac, Victoria; Lt John William Dwyer from Brunswick, Victoria. Front row: Captain (Capt) Thomas Karran Maltby from Yarraville, Victoria; Capt Eric George de Trembley Permezel MC from Melbourne, Victoria; and 703 Lt George Leslie Makin from Melbourne, Victoria. (See also P10550.217 and P10550.243)
From the Thuillier collection of glass plate negatives. Taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France during the period 1916 to 1918.


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Search under way for Jessica Ridgeway's killer
Police say dangerous predator at large
WESTMINSTER, Colo. - A search is under way for a dangerous predator after police identify a mutilated body found in Arvada as missing 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway.
"We realize there is a predator at large in our community," said Westminster Police Chief Lee Birk. "Our focus has changed from the search for Jessica to a mission of justice for Jessica."
There are no suspects at this point. FBI analysts said they believe the killer is a man.
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Jessica was last seen alive on Friday Oct. 5 when she left for school in the morning.
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Original post made by Cal Alumn, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Nov 28, 2011
Here's the link to the SF Gate Article
Web Link
Here's the YouTube version >> Web Link
I worked for Joe Kapp. All I can say is that he is one of the biggest idiots, exploitative, self-centered, obnoxious people on earth. This fight is a perfect example of his character. He talks a big game, but he acts just like the short clip illustrates.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 28, 2011 at 9:26 am
I am also an alumni of Cal, but I have to ask: What is your point in posting this information regarding Kapp? Why did you think it appropriate to share your dislike of your former boss in this forum?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 28, 2011 at 10:46 am
"Why did you think it appropriate to share your dislike of your former boss in this forum?"
One: He wasn't my boss. I worked with him in a professional capacity.
Two: He's a public figure that indirectly represents Cal. I'm not a proponent of his character or his representation. For example: He thinks that his coaching was responsible for "The Play" (don't believe me go look at his website). That shows a deep sense of narcissism that (again) is not sign of a good role model.
Three: He's a local figure. It's of interest to local people. Pleasanton is in the sphere of influence of Cal. It's a noteworthy discussion, just as politics is done on this site all the time (and might I add in less exemplary fashion)
Four: Professional football reflects life. That means its reflects the values of life. Fighting on stage is a sign of poor judgment, poor values and not very sound character. If a person stands up and takes the credit, then they must also be able to take the jab (pun intended). Values are a key social issue. So this forum is an excellent venue for discussion.
Five: How can you even think about degrading my observation at all. Have you seen some of the topics on this site, the responses, the morose mentality, the bickering. Now, you may have told everyone that acts like a mental low-life the same thing "Why are you posting here?". Good. But, if you're focusing on my comments for some arcane reason ... well you're the one that shouldn't be posting.
Incidentally, I am very proud of being from Cal. It's a great school Joe just doesn't represent the values that Cal stands for. (incidentally, go ask anyone in the Cal Sports Department, and you'll find they agree).
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Nov 28, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Old men, even great old men relinquish all their dignity and the respect they've earned when they act like foolish kids.
How embarrassing.
a resident of Rosewood
on Nov 28, 2011 at 10:33 pm
The guy sure didn't do much during his time with my Vikes. Football is the most important thing on earth, don't you agree?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 28, 2011 at 11:45 pm
a resident of Livermore
on Nov 29, 2011 at 11:03 am
instead of religion, maybe punching somebody in the nose is his hobby?
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British director Joe Wright has had considerable success with adaptations of Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) and Ian McEwan (Atonement), so he's well-prepared to take on Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's timeless Anna Karenina.
Wright has taken strong cues from the theatrical nature of Tolstoy's characters, setting most of his film on a stage in a large 19th-century theatre. The set moves to reveal new scenes and set-ups, with the action also taking place in the wings and lofty heights among the theatre ropes and pulleys.
It's fabulously choreographed, handsomely designed and so very clever.
But the challenge with such a highly stylised production, with characters swooping through scenes in a dramatic and, at times, farcical manner, is to make the story real enough for viewers to care about the fate of the characters.
The story begins with Anna (Knightley, in her third movie with Wright) visiting her heartbroken sister-in-law Dolly (Kelly Macdonald) to convince her to stay with her husband, Anna's charming but philandering brother Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen).
On her train journey home, Anna is introduced to Vronsky (Taylor-Johnson), a charming young cavalry officer, and an initial flirtation leads to an affair.
Knightley is a vibrant but initially reserved as Anna, the result of her suffocating life with her serious and respectable husband Karenin (Law). Vronsky unleashes a passion and joy in Anna that quickly turns to despair as she realises her husband can, and will, prevent her from being a mother to her child, or allow her to leave him to marry the man she loves. Although she manages these transitions well, it is hard to see past Keira Knightley, the actress dressed in amazing period costume, to Anna, a woman trapped by the social and moral codes of the day.
Minor storylines provide some relief, taking us outside the theatre and into the countryside, which is as much a breath of fresh air for us as for the characters. And just as the settings can quickly change from the enclosed theatre to open rural spaces, Tom Stoppard's script can flick from the overly dramatic to the flippant and farcical, especially with Oblonsky.
It makes for a wonderfully adventurous adaptation that is at times quite thrilling, but one which too often misses the mark. It proves difficult to see beyond the production tricks and acting to the heart of the story.
Stars: 3.5/5
Cast: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Director: Joe Wright
Running time: 130 mins
Rating: M (sex scenes)
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart In Look-Alike Outfits — Pics
Rob and Kristen are finally back together after she was caught cheating with director Rupert Sanders in July. We think they are so cute — they even dress alike! Click though our gallery of adorable couple pics!
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are so down-to-earth it's easy for them to dress alike. It seems like their usual wardrobe consists of jeans, tees and a baseball cap! Check out these side-by-side pics of R-Patz and K-Stew looking like twins!
Whether it's matching outfits in New York City or Kristen wearing Rob's tee shirt in Toronto, these young lovebirds are definitely on the same (clothes) page.
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the last "lion" of the Massachusetts clan, finally rests – in peace, I hope.
Like most liberals, I appreciate the senator's work on behalf of the poor, and the disenfranchised. I applaud his decades of devotion to quality, affordable health-care for all Americans, in a country ranked 37th by the World Health Organization for its disregard of public health.
I celebrate his campaigns against poverty, bigotry and governmental neglect. I sympathize with his grieving relatives who will miss the personal concern and powerful influence that saw them through so many intimate crises — illnesses, a rape trial, assassinations, addictions, deaths, and public disappointments.
But as the papal correspondence read at the Arlington gravesite states: Ted Kennedy was an imperfect man; and with him ends an imperfect dynasty.
Here lies the real opportunity in Kennedy's death — a chance to break with a tradition of political royalty that left the nation, in recent years, in the grips of Clinton and Bush fatigue.
The late Kennedy patriarch, Joseph, never left any political move to chance. Ted's brother, martyred President John F. Kennedy, joked that his father had urged him to be conservative about how many votes he bought since the elder Kennedy refused, "to pay for a landslide."
Weaned on such political practicality, it seems unlikely Ted Kennedy would stop trying to protect his family's legacy — even from his deathbed.
But there are no Kennedy "lions-in-waiting." No "just like Jack" or "much like Bobby" or "so like Teddy" springs to mind. The political gene seems weakened, the gift for oratory elusive, the extraordinary charisma withering.
Lions with names other than "Kennedy" are at the ready. Ted Kennedy's passing offers America the chance to commit to the rejection of political royalty and tired dynasties.
It won't be easy with televisions, radios and web sites still rife with images of Arlington's eternal flame and Teddy's voice still promising, "the dream will never die."
But Joseph Kennedy's original dream was fulfilled. Today, new dreams, with new names attached, in a new time, beckon.
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This is a new part of an old story: 1930s Berlin, the threat of imprisonment and the powerful desire to make something beautiful despite the horror. Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it's been one brawl of a night, I tell you. The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero's fate was settled. In "Half Blood Blues", Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don't tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong...
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2012: Looping from Nazi-occupied Berlin and Paris to modern-day Baltimore and back, Esi Edugyan's Giller prize-winning Half-Blood Blues is a haunting song of a novel. In Paris 1940, the three remaining Hot-Time Swingers run take after exhausted take, trying to get one right before the S.S. boots stomp their last chance. Our irascible narrator, Sid, learned to play bass lin Baltimore, with his longtime friend and rival Chip on drums, and in Berlin they'd joined up with Hiero, a half-black German "kid" who blows brilliant trumpet with a "massive sound, wild and unexpected, like a thicket of flowers in a bone-dry field." As Hiero scratches the wax on disc after disc of imagined mistakes, Sid saves the final take--the record that will become legendary. When Hiero's arrested and sent to a Nazi camp, Sid's the only witness, and things look suspicious. Fifty years later, Chip and Sid return to Berlin for the opening of a film about Hiero. But Sid stands accused of engineering his disappearance, and a strange letter suggests there's more to the story than anyone knew. With delightfully witty jazz-cat banter, tactile imagery, and descriptions of music sensual enough to stand your hair on end, Edugyan evokes a time, a place, and a band whose refusal to repress their difference could mean death, or become a catalyst for acts of creative genius that will make them immortal. -- Mari MalcolmAbout the Author:
Esi Edugyan has degrees from the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best New American Voices 2003. Her debut novel, written when she was 25, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published internationally. She currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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