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Quick Facts
Her sacred bird was the ostrich
She was often considered as a concept as well as a physical being. Not only was she the goddess of truth and justice, she WAS truth and justice.
Ma'at had a temple in Karnak though it is now in ruins.
Ma'at was reality, the solid grounding of reality that made the Sun rise, the stars shine, the river flood and mankind think.
Her roles were later absorbed by the Goddess Isis.
Very exacting in her standards. There were no second chances.


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similar to slowing your roll, calm your wow is used when the person is irradic or more excited than necessary.
A- Holy shit, man! I can't believe she actually talked to me. I think I'm in love man. I gotta tell her. This is like the best night of my life.
B- Damn, kid. Calm your wow.
B- Damn, kid. Calm your wow.
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When you notice that your family has an uncooked salami in the fridge, and you have a hankerin' for a big piece of meat. You insert said sausage into the vaginal orifice and pleasure yourself. About a week later, when you notice you have an infection, you tell your parents that the sausage they ate for dinner a few nights earlier was in fact the same sausage which you used for your masturbation needs.
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May 29, 2014
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Tennessee softball legend Ellen Renfroe signed with the Chicago Bandits of National Pro Fastpitch on Thursday.
Renfroe will join Tennessee icon Monica Abbott on Chicago's pitching staff, giving the Bandits the two most-accomplished pitchers in Lady Vol softball history. Former UT pitcher Andi Williamson is also on Chicago's roster.
"I am excited and grateful for the opportunity to join the Chicago Bandits, and to continue to play the sport I love at a new level," Renfroe said in a press release from the Bandits. "I can't wait to start the season with my team and to get to know them and the fans of the Bandits."
The Bandits open their 2014 season tonight at 7:05 p.m. ET at the Akron Racers.
"We are thrilled to have Ellen join the Bandits," Chicago Bandits general manager Aaron M. Moore said. "At draft time, we didn't think this would be a possibility and now that it has happened, we are definitely excited. Ellen will fit in great with the Bandits and our fans should really enjoy having her around."
Renfroe completed her Tennessee career as one of the greatest pitchers in UT history. Nicknamed "The Spin Doctor" but ESPN's Beth Mowins, Renfroe always put on a pitching display with her elite command of the ball. She finished her career with 1.65 ERA, a 102-25 record, 12 saves, 84 complete games, 41 shutouts, two no-hitters and 1,005 strikeouts over 175 appearances, 129 starts and 872.0 innings in the circle. Renfroe was a two-time NFCA All-American (2011, 2012), a four-time NFCA All-Southeast Region pick, a three-time Top 25 Finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year (2012, 2013, 2014) and a three-time All-SEC selection (2011, 2012, 2014).
Renfroe was a model student-athlete during her career at UT, thriving both on the field and in the classroom. She was named the 2014 Capital One Academic All-American® of the Year for softball and the 2014 SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Renfroe was also a three-time Capital One Academic All-American® (2012, 2013, 2014).
Renfroe enjoyed a stellar senior campaign in 2014, going 30-8 with a 2.02 ERA and 245 strikeouts. She set career highs with 30 complete games, 239.1 innings pitched and 30 wins as a senior. She was named USA Softball Player of the Week on April 1, making her just the fourth Lady Vol to earn that honor twice in a career after Abbott (four times), Tonya Callahan (twice) and Raven Chavanne (twice). Renfroe was also named SEC Pitcher of the Week three times this year (Feb. 17, Feb. 24, March 31). She earned SEC Pitcher of the Week honors eight times in her incredible Tennessee career, which stands second-most in UT history only to Abbott's 16 times receiving the award.
Renfroe finished her career ranked second in several Tennessee career pitching categories - an impressive feat considering Abbott set several NCAA records from 2004-07 that are likely unbreakable. Renfroe ranks second in UT history in career ERA (1.65), games started (129), wins (102), shutouts (41), innings pitched (872.0) and strikeouts (1,005). She also ranks third in appearances (175), winning percentage (.803) and complete games (84).
Her signature moment was in Game 1 of the 2013 Women's College World Series Championship Series when she went toe-to-toe with Keilani Ricketts for 11 innings, striking out 13 Oklahoma batters in an instant-classic game.


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Dim Sum Go Go
Cantonese food cooked lightly and enticingly. Dim sum ($2.50-2.90 at lunch; $3.45-3.95 at dinner) that's "delicate—a favorite is one stuffed with mushrooms."—Elaine Louie, co-author, The Shun Lee Cookbook. 5 E. Broadway; tel. + 1 212 732 0797.
Middle Eastern quick fare in a hole-in-the-wall West Village storefront. Open 365 days a year, 11 a.m.-5 a.m. Falafel sandwich unparalleled—anywhere. 119 MacDougal St.; tel. +1 212 674 8685.
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A Korean restaurant famous for its naeng myun, "a perfectly balanced one-dish meal: fine noodles in a cold beef broth, topped with paper-thin slices of beef brisket, lightly pickled white radish, cucumber, and half a hard-boiled egg."—Elaine Louie.17 W. 32nd St.; tel. +1 212 967 1900.
Archetypal smoky-crusted New York pizza baked in a coal-fired oven in Little Italy. 32 Spring St.; tel. +1 212 941 7994. www.firstpizza.com
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Enjoy "wonderfully flavorful riffs on Indian street food and breads—best accompanied by a tart tamarind margarita."—Jennifer Josephy, cookbook editor. 11 Madison Ave.; tel. +1 212 889 0667. www.tablanyc.com
"True American cooking: well-executed turkey burgers and fried-fish sandwiches, juicy Neiman Ranch hot dogs, excellent market vegetable platters, blue-ribbon-caliber seasonal fruit pies and layer cakes."—Gabriella Gershenson, Eat Out editor, Time Out New York magazine. Two downtown locations: 210 W 10th St.; tel. +1 212 741 7971 and 173 Ave. A; tel. +1 212 677 2033.
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Sleek, discreet Japanese yakitori and home-style cooking—skewered meats and vegetables, grilled organic chicken, raw quail egg and scallions over seasoned rice—in Midtown. "Order sake; a waitress pours it from a magnum into a clay carafe at your table."—Gabriella Gershenson. 251 W. 55th St.; tel. +1 212 245 4555.
Pan-Latin comfort food in the East Village."Tuna ceviche fragrant with coconut milk and cilantro; drink to order when live music starts: icy kiwi roska (pureed kiwi with vodka)."—Gabriella Gershenson. 145 Ave. C: tel. +1 212 505 6559.
A SoHo oasis that's "remained its authentic self for more than two decades. Consistent and flawless. Yellowtail sashimi so fresh it has that tiny undertone of sweetness."—Elaine Louie. 113 Thompson St.; tel. +1 212 925 8923.
Italian small plates get a "refined touch from a Japanese-run kitchen in the East Village. Try squid-ink risotto, lamb bolognese, pork belly with onion sprouts."—Gabriella Gershenson. 228 E. 10th St.; tel. +1 212 387 9545.
Nosh on mezze—small servings of largely flavorful Greek dishes—or "come for the well-priced pre-theater repast—5:30-6:45 p.m. (starting 5 p.m. on Saturday), $36. Carnegie Hall and New York City Center are short walks away."—Jennifer Josephy. 871 Seventh Ave.; tel. +1 212 582 7500. www.molyvos.com
Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant
Bivalve hotbed since 1913—literally below sea level, under newly renovated Grand Central Terminal. Vast selection of briny options, from all sorts of oysters (oh, the stew) to arctic char. Tempting sandwich menu. 89 E. 42nd St.; tel. +1 212 490 6650. www.oysterbarny.com
Le Bernardin
New York's Holy Grail for food critics—and diners. "No one in New York cooks fish better than Eric Ripert."—Jennifer Josephy. Fine service. Ace of a sommelier. 155 W. 51st St.; tel. +1 212 554 1515. www.le-bernardin.com
Jean Georges
Inventive food full of unexpected flavor combinations. For a special lunch, "no bigger bargain or more pleasurable dining experience in town."—Jennifer Josephy. One Central Park W.; tel. +1 212 299 3900. www.jean-georges.com
The bar is a lovely, intimate room, "the perfect sybaritic background for a great meal with classic French service that manages to be both formal and warmly welcoming."—Jennifer Josephy. 60 E. 65th St.; tel. +1 212 288 0033. www.danielnyc.com
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An 81-year-old New York politician has labelled Lady Gaga "a slut" for smoking pot during a recent concert in Amsterdam.
Staten Island Borough President James P Molinaro made the slur on Monday at the kickoff of an anti-substance abuse initiative, reports the Staten Island Advance.
"We have to understand that there's a tremendous influence with our youth, which I didn't have as a youth," said Molinaro, according to the website.
"And there's the influence right there. Stop glorifying the drug use. There's Gaga. Here's this ... this ... I would call her a slut. This slut is influencing many, many children."
He added: "My niece has two daughters, 12 and 14, [and] they love this woman.
Why? Why?"
Molinaro made the remarks while he stood alongside photos of Gaga taking a puff on a joint that a fan passed to her during her Born This Way Ball tour date in Amsterdam last week.
The snaps of Gaga were displayed on a poster that said: "Stop glorifying drug use in the media."
Molinaro, who lost a son to a drug overdose in 2006, added during the event on Monday: "We have a job to do also with these actresses, actors, ballplayers. They use drugs as if it's nothing. We shouldn't praise them. We shouldn't honour them. We should really hit them. We should hit the sponsors that she has... where her millions of dollars come [from].
"To me, she's [Gaga] not an actress, she's a slut ... in the pure meaning of the word."
No, she's not an actress. She's a singer.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is a friend of Gaga's parents, took exception to Molinaro's remarks, and praised Gaga in a statement.
"Lady Gaga's work is a symbol of individuality and artistic expression. In addition to her artistic pursuits, she is a social justice activist and a real leader for marriage equality in this country," Stringer told the New York Observer's Politicker blog. "And no matter which continent Gaga happens to be in today, she remains an Upper West Sider at heart."
Gaga later responded to Stringer defending her.
The singer wrote on Twitter: "To @scottmstringer of Manhattan, thanku for your support of my activism as a new yorker. You show political integrity + a modern vernacular."
Meanwhile, Molinaro remains defiant over his choice of words - arguing that the word doesn't have a sexual meaning.
"A slut is someone that's immoral or uses improper conduct. That's the interpretation in the Random dictionary. So she's using improper conduct. So she's a slut," he told the Staten Island Advance on Wednesday.
"What's the big deal about it? Are you excited because she's female? There's males that are sluts too ... Anyone that would expose people that look up to them and who their idol is, to the use of narcotics, to me is a slut, male or female. It doesn't matter."
He told the New York Times: "I have grandnieces that idolise her - 12 and 13 years old - and it's ridiculous. You see these young girls walking around on Halloween with her outfit on."
Watch a brief news report on Molinaro's remarks here.
Gaga has yet to comment directly on Molinaro's words.
Earlier this week, Mother Monster confronted detractors who criticised her recent weight gain (she says she put on 25 pounds).
On Wednesday, Gaga posted unedited images of herself wearing nothing but a yellow bra and underwear, while admitting body struggles from her teen years on her social network Little Monsters.
"Bulimia and anorexia since I was 15," she wrote on a dedicated page titled, "A Body Revolution 2013."
"But today I join the body revolution to inspire bravery," she added.
She also posted another shot of herself. "To inspire Bravery. and BREED some m$therf**king COMPASSION," she wrote.
"My mother and I created the BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION for one reason: to inspire bravery," Gaga said on the site. "This profile is an extension of that dream. Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous."
In another post, the singer wrote, "Now that the body revolution has begun, be brave and post a photo of you that celebrates your triumph over insecurities."
Soon after Gaga wrote the posts, fans began flooding the website with photos of themselves.
"I have been startled and overwhelmed with pride and emotion the past few days. Gratitude mostly," Gaga wrote in a letter to her fans later in the week.
"You are proud to be born this way, and brave in your vulnerability with this community. Watching you all create a safe space online for people to be compassionate is the greatest gift you could ever give me."
She continued: "My weight/loss/gain since i was child has tormented me. No amount of help has ever healed my pain about it. But you have.
"My boyfriend [Taylor Kinney] prefers me curvier. When I eat and am healthy and not so worried about my looks, I'm happy. Happier than I've ever been. I am not going to go on a psycho-spree because of scrutiny. This is who I am. And I am proud at any size. And i love you, and want you to be proud in any form you may take as well."
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anyone try their queens? Any thoughts?
anyone try their queens? Any thoughts?
I had a Wooten "golden queen" in a hive started June 15th. She was a pretty golden color and her daughters were a striking peachy color. You could pick them out in mid flight. My kids would rescue honeybees from the pool, keeping track of how many were "ours."
They built up well. Shortly after I adding a third deep in August, they superceded her. I found a single supercedure cell with the "hatch" open in the top deep. The new queen started laying before all of the old capped brood hatched. If my bee math is correct, that shows I didn't accidently crush the old queen.
I haven't seen the new queen yet but her girls look like regular Italians. They continued to do well going into winter. The top deep is chock full of honey. The middle is backfilled brood. The bottom is half empty, half pollen. I'll keep this new queen going into next year and plan to split this hive. Not sure if I will let the split(s) raise their own queen or buy some from a breeder. Another Wooten would be worth it just for the novel color.
I'm not sure if by "golden" they mean cordovan or not. I am also not sure if my girl's color was typical for a Wooten. She didn't look like the pictures on the Wooten web site.
Milton Township, Michigan (near South Bend, Indiana)
how was the hygenic behavior?
Since it was the colony's first year, mites were not a problem. I've yet to see a mite, but I did occasionally see a pupa in their garbage dump.
Milton Township, Michigan (near South Bend, Indiana)
Now that I think of it, she did lay all over the place. Where she laid eggs was patterned tight, but she roamed all over whatever deep the brood nest was in. This is my first year beekeeping, and I was expecting the brood to be in a somewhat permanent place in the hive.
Milton Township, Michigan (near South Bend, Indiana)
knadai writes:
Now that I think of it, she did lay all over the place. Where she laid eggs was patterned tight, but she roamed all over whatever deep the brood nest was in. This is my first year beekeeping, and I was expecting the brood to be in a somewhat permanent place in the hive.
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it really sound like to me that (you describe the queen as being superseceded) that a patch of green brood got isolated from the main brood cluster and the hive produced a supesecedure cell (kind of like a cloak board without the board). if the hive truely superseceded a weak queen you would have likely had queen cells throughout (not necessarily in large quantity which is more a seasonal thing) the active brood nest. just a quess for certain, but your description points me in that direction.
I had some Wooten queens about 6 years ago. A local guy used them for years in nucs at the time and I purchased a couple extra queens for splits. They seemed to do just fine, no superceedure problems. They were productive, but really didn't seem remarkable in any way and could be a bit testy. But a lot can change in a few years with breeding. Don't know that they were hygienic in any why because I didn't have the equipment to test (liquid nitrogen, etc.).
With only one hive and me being a novice beek, I am not implying that Wootens have a supercedure "problem." That's just what happened to me.
As for green brood being isolated from the rest, that makes sense. In adding the third deep, I rearranged some frames to break up the "dome" of honey above the brood nest. I may have moved some brood up top in the process. Would such a distance (one deep) be enough?
Milton Township, Michigan (near South Bend, Indiana)
I have always wanted to try one of those really Golden color Queens just for fun...but if I recall, the Wooten's Queens were only available for those who would purchase a large quantity. Don't know if that is still the case? I have never had a Cordovan Queen either for that fact, but again would love to have one just for the fun of trying different Queens. To this date...the best Queens I ever got were NWC Queens from Tim at Honey Run.
"My child, eat honey, for it is good." (Proverbs 24:13)
Milton Township, Michigan (near South Bend, Indiana)
They like to brood to the wood. they have way bees,on a good flow they can make a lot of honey and they can also eat alot if no flow
"In the last eight years, our breeder queens bees were dissected and tested for mites with the priority to use only non-infested stock, which created a tracheal mite resistant line. To enhance our Italian stock, with the influence and guideline of Dr. Tom Rinderer, a program was developed, setting aside known Varroa mite infested untreated apiaries, we have chosen survivor queens as breeders. As a result, we now have Varroa mite tolerant bee that are healthy and strong."
"My child, eat honey, for it is good." (Proverbs 24:13)
Now that I think about it, that sounds just like what I experienced. Some of those Wooten queens I got had drones in February, and had a good solid 20 frames of bees the 1st of April. Split them into 2 hives each and you could hardly tell the hives were splits. It was a mild winter and fortunately I feed them very early, but typically this isn't a good trait for our area.


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*grumble* Didn't think you'd take out my Lv. 40 Beedrill that quickly...
Hm... it looks like he's got about 40% energy now and roughly 75% health, so he's gotten some energy back but not a whole lot. He's also still out of Fire energy.
Fizzy Bubbles Profile.Originally Posted by scytherdude30
no no no you need an empoleon as your powerhouse da listen to me man I AM THE BOMB
Fizzy Bubbles PC.
My Soundcloud.
How is Heracross?
Proposed Omega Ruby Team
So my Croagunk has just evolved into Toxicroak.
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Banner done by me. I do not do requests. The Shinies are not up for trade. Vote Missingno. for new SSB4 fighter!
Fizzy Bubbles info
Hey everyone, I'm new here and so I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself.
So, yeah...hi.
I'm currently busy on character description and bio. Updating, etc.
Sorry, but there's not much else left to say.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to enjoy my time here.
Anyone have any good tips by the way?
Also, since I'm new I need to look for openings in threads. Any coming up in the foreseeable future?
I am always willing to update people in Cortoza, but if you could hold off your reply till tomorrow, that would be great.
As for tips, hmm, lemme see... Don't get too excited about getting updates (some would take it as impatience of getting them and could get you in trouble... learned the hard way), always put your links of your stuff and make sure the links are the right ones all the time, write in good grammar and stuff (red squiggly lines are your best friend), don't be mean to anyone (well you likely already know that one :P), put the link of your FB profile in your sig so you don't need to get the link everytime you post in a zone but don't forget to remove your sig when posting anywhere else important (like shops), make sure you have some good sleep before posting anything (see three previous tips), put a link to your "trading wish list" so everyone knows what you want... I think that's it :P ^^ Hope you have fun here, because I do!
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Unfortunately I don't think there are any openings currently in the CG on UPN, as most of the Updators won't be posting until mid-December due to exams. You could always make an intro post though and we'll see if we can sort it out when the time comes.
Fizzy Bubbles Profile.Originally Posted by scytherdude30
no no no you need an empoleon as your powerhouse da listen to me man I AM THE BOMB
Fizzy Bubbles PC.
My Soundcloud.
I just wrote it up today. :v
Proposed Omega Ruby Team
The Hoenn of Hoenness- Chapter 6 up now!
404 Error 2: File Not Found- Chapter 13 up now!
Author profile
Banner done by me. I do not do requests. The Shinies are not up for trade. Vote Missingno. for new SSB4 fighter!
Fizzy Bubbles info
-There are three different places where FB is located. Serebii Forums, Ultimate Pokemon Network, and Bulbagarden Forums. These are shortened to SPPf, UPN, and BMG respectively.
-Don't scream your Pokemon wants to the world in a zone. It's mentioned everywhere, but it deserves another mention. You most likely will not be able to find the pokemon.
- Because UPN is FB's base of operations, it has a few extra shops. The Adoption Center, where you can leave pokemon that you don't want, or you can adopt the pokemon others have left for a fee of three candies. The Breeding Center, where you can breed two compatible pokemon of opposite gender who are level one hundred to get a little baby pokemon. And the Arcade, a place of
broken dreamsflash games where people get free stuff for it- if you can beat others scores which is unlikely because some people rape at these games. There are a few others too. Because of this, I reccomend you sign up on UPN.
-There is an item in FB called the Memory Berry. Which is ironic, because nobody remembers its use. It can be used to teach your pokemon 2 Egg Moves or Relearned Moves. You might not see one for a while, but it helps to know this.
Thanks everyone for the tips and warm greetings.
I'm not going to scream my pokémon wants out. In fact, I'd prefer to be surprised in what comes along and what opportunities I'll get to catch pokémon.
Definitely interested in the Memory Berry now.
Again, thank you everyone.


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Crews clear out floodwaters, leaving residents thankful
BLUFF CITY, Tenn. - We have an update on a story we first told you about Saturday.
12 families were stranded on this road in Barnette Hollow, from the heavy rain and snow, making it difficult for residents.
"What we did was we'd crawl through those woods up there and would meet relatives right out here on the road, to take us out to the store. My son and I went out Thursday and went over to Food City to get groceries and had to meet my father-in-law here as we camped through the woods," says resident Michael O'Leray.
But luckily, the road is all clear and it's all thanks to local volunteers and lawmakers stepping up.
"I'd like to thank Timothy Hill for his quick action and Hickory Tree Fire Department and my neighbors here in Chinquapin for getting involved in this situation, because we've been trapped since Tuesday evening and they did something in a matter of hours that didn't happen for four and a half days," O'Leray continues.
News 5 spoke with County Commissioner Dwight King, who says the volunteer fire department was there until 7:00 Sunday morning, working non-stop until the road was cleared of the floodwaters.
Residents there say the flooding has never been this bad before.
"Never like this, for this long."
But volunteer Bobby Richards says he thinks he knows what caused the flooding.
"With the water and the homes that's been built extra in and then where they've logged a little bit and stuff maybe some of the trash has rolled off into the hole-the cave- where it takes the water and i think its got it kind of stopped up now," says Richards.
But for now, residents can get back to their normal lifestyles and hope this doesn't happen again.
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#1 Wed 22 Aug 12 12:21pm
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Growing asparagus
I planted six asparagus crowns about 2 months ago and since then the plants have taken off.
My question is, do I leave the asparagus to grow as long as it likes until it falls off the plant or do I cut it back after x number of weeks?
Thanks in advance.
#2 Fri 24 Aug 12 1:28am
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Re: Growing asparagus
So...anyone here grown asparagus before?
#3 Fri 24 Aug 12 1:56am
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Re: Growing asparagus
Sorry Mailman,
I saw your first post and thought someone more knowledgeable than me would come along!
They say leave them til they go yellow and then cut them back. That would be so the goodness in them goes back to make the crown stronger.
I grew asparagus for a few years (then we moved to a place with no garden) but I did get to the stage when big fat stalks start coming up! It is wonderful!
#4 Fri 24 Aug 12 10:56am
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Re: Growing asparagus
Hello mailman , nice to see you back. Sorry I have not had much chance to get on the forum much this last month .
With growing asparagas , DO NOT PICK IT AT ALL THIS YEAR.
Dont pick it as you need the plants to stengthen.
The asparagas spears will pop up almost overnight and iff left they will turn to that fine feathery fern that florist seem to like so much.
This thread might help .
#5 Mon 05 Nov 12 10:34pm
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Re: Growing asparagus
If you want to eat nice asparagus (sorry I'm dutch) you must eat them in april or may. The must be picked out of the ground, the must grow under need the ground and you must cover them with black plastic or a blackout, so there nice white. If you have the money and the time you really must go to Limburg or Brabant in Holland, there are big asparagus festivals and you can get the most delicious recipes!!!
#6 Mon 05 Nov 12 10:54pm
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Re: Growing asparagus
Asparagus were grown by a family member who had a LOT of patience. I hope this thread wiil be of help (just another read as i see that my fellow forumers have already posted a couple)
http://www.gardeners.com/Growing-Aspara … lt,pg.html
#7 Tue 06 Nov 12 6:24am
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Re: Growing asparagus
My father used to have an amazing asparagus bed , once established it did not need too much care , the asparagus used to just grow suddenly overnight .
The soil where he lived in Herefordshire was sandy and the asparagus seemed to grow well in both the climate and the soil.
AnnevdS , I never realised that the white Asparagus was grown in the dark and covered in black plastic to grow , I just thought it grew white because of the variety it was .
Here in the Uk the asparagus grown is a green variety and not covered as it grows .
I have seen the white asparagus but only in some of the shops , it's not very common here in the UK.
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Yes, you need a sandy soil for asparagus.. they grow well at home in France, but I wouldnt have a hope in hell over here, with the weather and the soil....
When not in season, they will grow, and your garden might look like a jungle as it tends to spread a good bit.. dont be tempted to cut too much of it though...
Then they will grow very quickly around April/May when it's the season, keep an eye on them. Get one of those special asparagus picking things off the local gardening shop to pick them. You just follow the tip of the asparagus, use the tool to guide you vertically, and then cut at an angle.... we used to pick them during the week, keep them wrapped in plastic bags in the veg. drawer in the fridge throughout the week, and have a real feast at week-ends!
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Hi Mailman,
Great question! I am currently working on Jamie's brand new YouTube Channel which is launching in January 2013. Could you send me a email via this forum so I can get in touch with you directly regarding how we might be able to use some of your great questions on the channel?
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Nonetheless, activists and their legislative allies seem determined to make a real push when the General Assembly convenes in January. Speaker of the House Gordon Fox, who is openly gay, has pledged to hold a vote on same-sex marriage and is expected to get it through his chamber. And advocates hope that the spotlight on the Senate will force an unexpected victory there.
It is not an impossibility. Marc Solomon, campaign director for the national Freedom to Marry advocacy group, notes how quickly the terrain is shifting on gay marriage. "What might be conventional wisdom in October 2012," he says, "might not be in February 2013."
Indeed, a recent WPRI-TV poll that had Rhode Islanders favoring same-sex nuptials 56-36 would surely give senators pause.
But public opinion has been on the side of gay marriage for some time now. And opponents worried about what their parish priests might say if they suddenly shifted position would probably be more comfortable with a cop out: putting the matter before voters.
If supporters eventually warm to the idea — perhaps after a failed gay marriage push in the General Assembly next year — there could be an odd consensus on a Smith Hill long divided on this issue.
And supporters, by then, might have a compelling model to emulate.
On May 6, 2009, Maine Governor John Baldacci became the nation's first governor to sign a same-sex marriage bill into law.
It was a big victory for advocates. But the celebration was short-lived.
Opponents collected signatures to put the question on the ballot through a process known as the "people's veto." And in November 2009, just six months after Baldacci signed gay nuptials into law, the voters repealed it on a 53-47 percent vote.
The Republican capture of the state legislature and governor's office in 2010 shut down the possibility of another legislative campaign. But it seemed futile to go that route again, anyway. The question, it was clear, would eventually be decided by the voters.
Gay rights activists, then, made an unprecedented decision to proactively put same-sex nuptials on the ballot.
Matt McTighe, campaign manager for Mainers United for Marriage, the leading pro-gay marriage group in the state, has worked on same-sex nuptials campaigns across the region and has lobbied Congress on the issue.
And he says the biggest difference between the new Maine effort and the 32 losses that preceded it is time — time to raise money, do the research, formulate a message, and talk directly to voters.
Over the last year-and-a-half, McTighe says, Mainers United for Marriage has had one-on-one conversations with 206,000 voters the campaign's modeling deemed undecided or conflicted.
Advocates were determined to take as long as required to lay the groundwork for an effective ballot campaign. But ultimately, they decided they could win in November 2012, aided in no small part by the younger electorate that turns out for a presidential election.
"The proof will be in the pudding, ultimately," McTighe says. "We'll see if this approach is a good one or not on election night." But if same-sex marriage proponents win, he adds, "I think it does change the calculation for every state going forward."
The Maine-Rhode Island parallels are striking. Both are blue-collar, Northeastern states with large Catholic populations.
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Datastax annuonced the new version of its commercial Apache Cassandra distribution today. The biggest new feature in DataStax Enterprise 2.0 is the integration of Solr on top of the Cassandra stack. Since Cloudant announced Cloudant Search for BigCouch and Basho rolled out Riak Search, enterprise search is becoming a must have for distributed NoSQL databases.
Datastax is a client of analyst Curt Monash, who notes that he "[likes] the core DataStax story — and indeed had some influence on it — but roll my eyes somewhat at the work-in-progress as to how it is phrased and told." Here's Monash's no-nonsense rundown of the Datastax stack:
- Cassandra — the NoSQL DBMS, which DataStax sometimes calls "DataStax Server".
- Hadoop MapReduce, which DataStax sometimes calls "Hadoop".
- Sqoop — the general way to connect relational DBMS to Hadoop, which DataStax sometimes calls "RDBMS integration".
- Solr — the search-centric Apache project, or big parts of it, which DataStax generally calls either "Solr" or "Solr compatibility".
- log4j – an Apache project that has something or other to do with logging, or parts of it, which DataStax sometimes calls "log file integration".
- DataStax OpsCenter — some management tools and so on around Cassandra and the rest of the product line.
The integrations that are new this time around are Solr, Sqoop and log4j. Alex Popescu notes that Lucandra could be an alternative for Solr integration on Cassandra and that flume-cassandra-plugin can be used to integrate Cassandra with Flume instead of log4j.
There are also a few new features in OpsCenter, Datastax's proprietary set of management tools. Popescu notes what's new:
- Multi-cluster monitoring
- Visual backup
- Search monitoring
Popescu muses on Datastax's future:
DataStax has already showed this direction with what was called initially Brisk (or Brangelina for friends): Hadoop on top of the Cassandra cluster that became DataStax Enterprise 1.0. Solr on top of Cassandra is 2.0, but what will be the 3.0?
The newest version of Datastax Enterprise is compelling, but the competition from Cloudant, Basho and Amazon Web Services' DynamoDB puts pressure on Datastax to innovate quickly and set Cassandra apart from the pack. Monash runs through the many production uses of Cassandra, but Netflix remains the biggest success story. Cassandra has an advantage in running in geographically dispersed data centers, but it needs to start scoring more victories and telling a more convincing story. One about what Cassandra enables that couldn't be done with other technologies. I look forward to whatever the team rolls out with in 3.0.


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Military Arrest in Doubt as U.S. Fights Rookie JudgeBob Van Voris
Katherine Forrest, a federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama who less than a year later blocked a controversial military-detention law, will have that ruling tested as an appeals court considers the government's claim that her decision would irreparably damage national security.
Forrest, 48, a military-history buff, went from living on food stamps as a teenager to advising Time Warner Inc. and United Airlines Inc. as a corporate litigator. She then took a seven-figure pay cut on the path to her dream job as a judge, and was appointed to U.S. District Court in Manhattan in 2011.
Within months, Forrest blocked Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta from enforcing part of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, rejecting arguments that she should defer to congressional and executive authority in national-security matters. The plaintiffs in the case said the law permits the military to arrest U.S. citizens for exercising their freedom of speech and of the press.
Forrest's move earned praise from both ends of the political spectrum, from Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street activists. The Obama administration, meanwhile, warned that the first-year jurist was threatening the ability of the U.S. military to fight terrorism on the battlefield.
The ruling was the subject of oral arguments today before a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York.
'No Higher'
"Here, the stakes get no higher: indefinite military detention -- potential detention during a war on terrorism that is not expected to end in the foreseeable future, if ever," Forrest wrote in a 112-page opinion. "Presented, as this court is, with unavoidable constitutional questions, it declines to step aside."
The government said the law merely reaffirms the president's existing military-detention authority. Justice Department lawyers, who said Forrest's decision "threatens irreparable harm to national security and the public interest," won an order suspending it during the appeal.
The plaintiffs, including former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges, said the law permits the indefinite detention of American citizens and permanent residents taken into custody in the U.S. on suspicion of providing substantial support to al-Qaeda, the Taliban and unspecified "associated forces."
Suspect activities could include political advocacy and news reporting protected by the free speech guarantees in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, the opponents said.
No Reasonable Fear
Robert Loeb, the lawyer representing the government, argued today that the plaintiffs in the case lack the legal standing to challenge the law, because they have no reasonable fear it will be applied to them. Loeb said the government can't hold U.S. citizens under the law.
Bruce Afran, one of two lawyers who urged the judges to affirm Forrest's ruling, argued that the detention law expanded on existing law to give the government new, ill-defined detention authority. Afran said the law could be used against his clients.
Forrest's Sept. 12 decision immediately put the judge in the spotlight.
'Forrest Day'
"Forrest should go down in history as having pulled this republic away from the abyss of hell," wrote Naomi Wolf, author of "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries." One follower of former Congressman Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, proposed a national "Judge Katherine B. Forrest Day."
Groups including Gun Owners of America, the Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the Center for Media and Democracy have urged the appeals court to affirm Forrest's decision. U.S. Senators John McCain, Kelly Ayotte and Lindsey Graham, all Republicans, filed a brief supporting the government's position.
National security cases present "some of the most difficult issues" a federal judge has to face, particularly a new one, said former U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell, who oversaw the insider-trading trial of Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.
'Difficult Decision'
"You have to imagine that was a very, very difficult decision for her," said Holwell, who stepped down last February to start his law firm, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP.
The administration's policies in fighting terrorism, from the detention of enemy combatants to drone strikes, will be examined tomorrow, when the Senate intelligence committee holds a confirmation hearing on the president's nomination of John Brennan, his chief counter-terrorism adviser, to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
Forrest, in an interview in her chambers in the federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan, declined to discuss the detention case or any of the others she's presiding over. She did discuss the path that brought her to the bench.
Katherine Bolan Forrest was born in New York in 1964 and grew up in Connecticut, one of six children. Her father, Richard Forrest, wrote mystery novels including "Death Under the Lilacs" and "The Laughing Man." Her mother, a nurse, cared for patients with Alzheimer's disease. The family received food stamps for four years beginning when Forrest was 12. They were homeless for six months.
'From Nothing'
"I came from nothing," Forrest said. "I came from a father who made no money. He was a playwright and then a writer, and even though he published a lot of books, I was a complete scholarship student all the way through."
Forrest attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a private school on 458 acres in Wallingford, Connecticut, on a scholarship, graduating in 1982.
She earned degrees from Wesleyan University in 1986 and New York University School of Law in 1990. She pursued a joint program at NYU that would have led to a law degree and a doctorate in history, with an eye toward an academic career. Her focus shifted when she took a summer job at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP after her second year of law school.
"I realized that commercial litigation was far more interesting than I thought it would be," Forrest said.
Cravath, founded in 1819, is one of the most profitable law firms in the U.S., with a client list that includes JPMorgan Chase & Co., Credit Suisse Group AG and Johnson & Johnson.
At Cravath, Forrest worked for Evan Chesler, now the firm's chairman. Chesler said Forrest -- confident, hard-working and organized -- stood out from her peers.
'Devoured' Work
"In a place where everyone works hard, she was at the high end," Chesler said in a phone interview. "She just devoured the work and was totally committed."
While working long days and weekends as a new associate, Forrest, at 26, took custody of her 13-year-old sister, Bellamy, when their parents weren't able to care for her.
"She was the one who kind of said, 'I'm going to take care of her,'" Bellamy Forrest said in a phone interview. Forrest enrolled Bellamy in a boarding school in Connecticut, paying her tuition in cash. On weekends and holidays they lived together in Forrest's Manhattan apartment.
Bellamy recalled one of her first weekends living with her sister when the two talked about the future.
"She said, 'I want to be living on the Upper West Side with two children, and I want to be a judge,'" predicting the life she now has, Bellamy recalled.
When Forrest told colleagues her plans to be a judge, not everyone at Cravath believed she would be willing to walk away from the firm.
Give Up Money
"People just thought, I think, you can't give up that kind of money, millions of dollars a year," the judge said.
Cravath partners made an average of $3.1 million in 2011, according to the American Lawyer, a trade magazine. Federal district judges are paid $174,000, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. That's about the level of a first-year Cravath associate. Forrest said she put money aside with an eye toward when she would leave private practice.
As a Cravath partner, Forrest worked for clients including Time Warner and Deloitte & Touche LLP. She counseled United Airlines in its 2010 merger with Continental Airlines Inc. and helped defeat a lawsuit filed to block the deal.
Forrest left Cravath in 2010 to take the post of deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. In that job, she oversaw civil and criminal antitrust enforcement actions.
2011 Nomination
Obama nominated Forrest, a registered Democrat, to the bench in May 2011 on the recommendation of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer of New York, filling a position vacated when Jed Rakoff, 69, became a senior judge. She was confirmed by the Senate in October 2011.
Forrest credits her husband, New Zealand native Sean Baldwin, with making it possible for her to succeed in private practice and pursue her judicial ambitions.
Baldwin, a former Cravath lawyer, withdrew from practicing law to write and to raise their two children, Jane, 13, and Dylan, 11. With his wife on the bench, Baldwin, 45, has re-entered the law as an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
Forrest will also continue to collect $382,860 a year for 10 years from the firm in deferred compensation, according to a questionnaire she completed for the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee.
She took almost all of Holwell's criminal cases and about 80 of his civil cases, including a lawsuit over royalties and creative control of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." From another judge, she picked up the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Fabrice Tourre for allegedly misleading investors in a collateralized debt obligation.
Islamic Cleric
In October, she accepted a not-guilty plea from Abu Hamza al-Masri, an Islamic cleric who was extradited from the U.K. and charged with aiding the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
Still, it's the military detention case that has drawn the most attention, with the government claiming Forrest's ruling on the National Defense Authorization Act threatens to inject confusion into military operations.
Section 1021 of the act affirms the authority of the military to detain combatants under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force passed in 2001 after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Those subject to detention under section 1021 include people who were "part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners."
'Associated Forces'
Hedges and the other plaintiffs argue that the terms "substantially supported" and "associated forces" are sufficiently vague that they could be arrested and held without trial for activities including reporting on terrorist groups and antiwar activism. After hearing testimony from Hedges and four other opponents of the law, Forrest agreed.
Because the 2001 authorization hasn't been used to hold anyone on the basis of independent journalism or advocacy, the U.S. argues, the plaintiffs can't show they have a reasonable fear they could be held under the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012.
"The U.S. military does not detain people for producing independent journalism, for protesting, or for holding panel discussions," the government said in its appeal brief.
The U.S. claimed Forrest went too far in issuing a worldwide order blocking the president from detaining combatants in military operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
'Bold Ruling'
"It's a bold ruling and a potentially sweeping ruling," said Jonathan Hafetz, a national security and constitutional law expert who teaches law at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. "It's going to confront significant issues on appeal."
Hafetz, who has represented accused terrorists held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, is the author of "Habeas Corpus After 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System." Hafetz said Forrest's opinion failed to adequately address earlier rulings on the 2001 law.
"We've seen a little bit of pushback" against government attempts to expand its national security powers at the expense of individual rights, said Karen Greenberg, a professor at Fordham University's law school and director of the Center on National Security. "We've seen a number of judges say uh-uh, this can't be right."
Greenberg credited Forrest with trying to force some clarity on an ambiguous law that, she said, is causing people to fear they could be held without access to the courts. She said defenders of the National Defense Authorization Act may try to use Forrest's judicial inexperience in their favor.
Kitty, Lion
"It gives her opponents a little more power, to say she's new, she's untried, she's inexperienced," said Greenberg. "But with new judges may come a new way of looking at things."
Forrest, who enjoys reading about monetary policy and physics as well as military history, said she is "Kitty" to family and friends and to the other judges. As a lawyer she went by "Katherine," thinking her nickname wasn't sufficiently "shark-like."
"She's a Kitty in the sense that a very strong, ferocious lion is a kitty," Paul Cappuccio, Time Warner's general counsel, said over the phone with a laugh.
The case is Hedges v. Obama, 12-03644, Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Manhattan). The lower-court case is Hedges v. Obama, 12-cv-00331, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).


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Secure your Apache2 with mod-security
Posted by chantra on 13th August 2006
This article will show how-to install, configure and set up apache's mod-security module on a debian based system. This was done on Ubuntu Dapper and should fit any Debian based system.
Mod_security is an Apache 1.x/2.x module whose purpose is to tighten the Web application security by shielding the applications from attack. The idea is to filter request and web content before passing it to apache core.
Once installed, mod-security needs to be defined some rules matching patterns, filter request and HTTP stream and in the end do different actions like allowing, denying, log...
Effectively, it is an intrusion detection and/or prevention system for apache web server.
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Discussion in 'HOW TO' started by valy, Sep 8, 2010.
hello guys
I promised more pictures with my roll tube bender
here I put them together
here I have a new cutter with fast holderin the next days I will post some pictures with bend pipes and some pipes cut with my notcher and I will show my jig.
here Ihave some materials for my jighere Istart to build my jig
here I have original fitings
Great thread! I like the laser alignment for the tubing bender. Where did you get the aluminum extrusions? Keep the pics coming!
I hope it is no boring for you guys to see so many pictures without writing anything [sorry my bad english ]
hello Designit then all materials I buy from a scrap yard in my town nörrkoping sweden .
it was an industrial machine.and I took some parts that I need to build my tools.
but you can find them on internet in your country or you can go to companies who build aluminum doors, windows, frames and industrial machines.
or like my go to scrap yard you will find there every thing that you need to build your tools very very cheap
you only need little imagination on the place, to see what you need for your needs :arrow:
kindly Valy
I will put more picture with my tools in construction soon I hope you guys like this tread :?:
the tools youve made are just as nice as the bikes youve made with them!
thanks for posting these :mrgreen:
amazing ingenuity, vision, and execution of ideas and designs. cant wait to see more from your shop.
thank you sensor for your toughts but my bikes I build them before I had this tools .
I build them in my apartment with a grender a drill and a welder.
my bikes are made last winter .
and the tools what I show you now I build them in the last 2,3 weeks .
soon I will put pictures with my new projects using my new tools, and show you how they work.
kindly Valy
hello X-RAY and thank you for your nice words.
I will try to show you guys all my tools and to put pictures to give ideeas for beginners to build own tools cheap and easy
hello guys I will show you my first pipes bend with my roll bender here you can see my tool room dont give me space to bend enaughhere when you bend a pipe you must to take in consideration minimum 300 mm lose pipe on the each side the distance of the midle roll and the side onehere is the first check on the jighere you can see the part what I need to cut and haw luck the pipe inside the circle .the pipe is 53 mm x1,5mm very strong pipe stinless still. I work 130 minutes to bend this pipe
here it is my new band saw .I can cut rings to 1,5 mm thick very precis saw
I'm learning so much from your pics. Thanks.
Don't you ever stop posting those.
Last night I dont sleep good. and today I bought a drilling and milling machine now I can build some parts more easy,
like TORK ARMS FOR ELECTRIC HUB MOTORS,DROPS OFF etc.come more tools naw i have posibility to buildem more fast
hello guys it is time to put my tools to work. I will show you haw I build my first tork arm for my bike.
I start with a peice of aluminium
it is so easy to do it when you have proper tools
tools make the jobb to be easy and fun to see what you can build with them
here it is the first check on the bike
second check on the bike
here Isandet and polish the chanel
here I have my new tools to sand and polish my building parts
hire I must to build some parts to fit my new sand paper brush and the polish roll.
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Coodabeens Grand Final jambouree!
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Although we know you wouldn't expect any less, we can confirm exclusively, right here, right now, that the boys will be at it again on Saturday from outside the MCG.
Kicking off from 10am and handing over to the wonderful people of ABC Grandstand at midday, the Coodabeens will brave the elements and whatever the MCG has to throw at them all morning ("make sure your barcodes are facing up as you enter through Gate 2...")
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Republicans and Democrats Agree: Cut Aid for Poor People, Not Israel
Posted by Medea Benjamin in Featured, World News & Events on 3rd March, 2011 | 1 Comment
With the U.S. economy in the tank and governments at all levels facing massive budget shortfalls, politicians left and right are seeking ways to curb spending. But Republicans and Democrats agree there's one area of the budget that's not to be touched: the annual $3 billion subsidy U.S. taxpayers provide to the Israeli military.
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Rebecca Benner named campaign director at Binghamton University
Rebecca A. Benner has been named campaign director at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
In her new role, Benner will be responsible for providing management and direction for Binghamton University's second comprehensive gifts campaign. She will coordinate all campaign activities, including meetings, events, communications, and campaign operations.
Benner's career began in 1987 with Illinois State University's Division of Student Affairs. In 1993, she joined the Division of University Advancement's information systems area. Moving up the ranks, Benner served as assistant director of advancement services and in 1999 was named director of advancement services. In the fall of 2001, she was named assistant campaign director, moving Illinois State through its first comprehensive campaign, which raised more than $96 million.
Benner's background includes experience working with campaign planning, database operations, foundation accounting, prospect management and research, donor relations and annual fund. In addition, her management responsibilities have included the supervision of professional staff, budget creation and analysis, strategic planning and policy development.
Benner graduated summa cum laude from Illinois State University in 1983 with a degree in geography and, in 2001, received her master's degree in sociology.


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So sorry to hear of your loss. My prayers to your family. I knew his dad through the clinic I bet he was as sweet as his father. Take care Aileen and know I am thinking of you and saying a prayer especially for you.
Posted by: wanda sarvis - Aberdeen, SD Feb 21, 2013
To the entire Wilkins Family, we are so sorry to learn of Craig's passing. May all the many memories you have bring you comfort now and in the days ahead.
With deepest sympathy,
The VonEschen Family
Posted by: Susie Strande - Sioux Falls, SD Feb 04, 2013
With deepest sympathy, Aileen, in the loss of your son, Craig. My you find comfort in all the memories you have of him. They will always be in your heart. God bless all Craig's family.
Posted by: Roger and Betty (Thompson) Wolff - Watertown, SD - know his mother Feb 04, 2013
I am shocked and saddened over the loss of a great friend, and I don't call very many people friends. All our sincere prayers are with Craig and his family, and I'm speaking for all of Craig's friends in Arizona. I want to celebrate Craig's life with one of my fondest memories. Many years ago I owned a bar in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Craig would come in each day during Happy Hour to take advantage of the free food. Craig
Posted by: Richard L. Jones - Tucson, AZ - friend Feb 02, 2013
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Posted by: Bob & Enid Roth - 1218 Silverbrook Lane, Spear, SD - Aunt & Uncle Feb 02, 2013
Craig dealt with adversity and pain while he was injured and had resultant back problems. He devoted his presence in Cresbard to caring for and providing companionship to his mother and was a role model fir Ritas' family. He was a generous person, sharing his house in Cresbard with us many times. We admired his book collection and the upright piano there. and hearng him tell how he accqired and got it moved down flights of stairs and toted to SD from the east coast.
We shall remember him while thanking God for his generosity and friendship.
Posted by: Bob & Enid Roth - Spearfish,SD 57783, SD - Aunt and Uncle Feb 02, 2013
My deepest sympathy to you and your family in this time. Remember that he is in a better place and is being looked over with the greatest love possible.
Posted by: LaVonne Nash Lopez - Fort Worth, TX - friend Feb 01, 2013
Craig was a high school age friend and competitor. His love of people was evident in all he did.
Posted by: Don Krause - Aberdeen, SD - high school friend Jan 31, 2013
Aileen and families
So sorry to hear about Craig. We had so many fun memories of him and your family for family get-togethers at your farm:)
Know that you are all in our hearts and prayers.
Take care!
Joanne and family
Posted by: Joanne (Roth) Vigoren - Spearfish, SD - cousin Jan 29, 2013
Aileen & Family,
Words don't fully express my sorrow at the news of Craig's death. He was a very special person ... an amazing son, brother, uncle and cousin. I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the cousins on the farms (both Grandma & Grandpa Wilkins and yours). Craig will always live on in our hearts, as well as the memories. Know that you are in our thoughts and prayers, now and in the days ahead as you deal with this tragic loss.
Sending much love your way,
Janice Roth & Jo Powell
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Video: Obama now pretending he doesn't know how much the national debt is
posted at 5:21 pm on September 19, 2012 by Allahpundit
Am I giving him too much credit in thinking that he does know — rounding within, say, a trillion dollars — and is simply playing dumb to deflect an "unhelpful" question, or have we reached the point where we're hemorrhaging money so quickly that even the president can't keep count? C'mon. The Five Trillion Dollar Man knows.
Here's a better question: Why did Letterman broach this subject? Partisan that he is, there were a million things he could have asked O to make life easier for him ("Tell us the story about killing Osama Bin Laden again, papa") and yet he asked him about one of his biggest political liabilities. I'm thinking the White House must have requested the question because this was their big chance to speak directly to casual voters in rebutting one of the GOP's strongest attacks, and that Dave somehow wandered off-script by trying to pin Obama down on the number. Or it could be that, in his own odd way, he was trying to help O out by purposely floating a much lower figure on the debt ($10 trillion) for the benefit of semi-comatose low-information voters. The problem with that, though, is that "$10 trillion" is likely as startling a figure to an LIV as "$16 trillion" given that they have no mental benchmarks on federal spending over the past decade to reference. Can't figure out why Dave would bring it up.
No serious talk of entitlement reform here. Of course.
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This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
A thoughtful shepherd used bales of straw to protect the area
around his lambs. Explore how you can arrange the bales.
If I use 12 green tiles to represent my lawn, how many different
ways could I arrange them? How many border tiles would I need each
Here is an equilateral triangle which has sides of length 1
We could take out the middle third of each side and
replace it with a spike. If the spike is made of two lines which
are the same length as the missing section, it will look like
We could do the same again. Taking out the middle
third of each line and replacing it with a spike in the same way
gives this:
Remembering that the length of each side of our
original equilateral triangle is 1 unit, what is the perimeter of
the first shape we drew above? And the second? Can you see a
pattern? Perhaps you can explain why this pattern comes about.
Can you predict, without drawing, what the
perimeter of the next shape will be if we continue drawing them in
the same way?
Could you predict the perimeter of any shape in the
The shapes above are called
fractals. A fractal is made up of lots of copies of itself, each
one smaller than the last. See also the problems
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and remember... this is a passing league right now. if even one of your corners can't cover, you're a mess defensively. we play Peyton/Demaryius, Rodgers, Cutler, Stafford/Calvin, Rivers, RG III, Romo/Dez etc next season alone.
Plus he makes a ton. Plus he's been in the league for a while now. I'd rather have a young prospect taken with the 19th pick.
Also Revis doesn't really fit our scheme. He's a press corner guy who would have problems in a conference with RGIII, Kapernick, Wilson and the other mobile QB's.
We are a zone defense now.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
We are wanting to win the SB next year in our own house, who do we send out their to do that for us? Webby?
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
in case you haven't noticed our "scheme" stunk up the joint last year. and let's be honest, for most of 2011 too, until the pass rush came on late. it's the same scheme you all want Perry fired over. at least according to the posts I've been reading since about the Cincinnati game
Our scheme (at least as it pertains to our zone coverage) is highly appropriate for the new and ever changing NFL.
And I never once called for PF to be fired. The guy's defense won a SB 12 months ago for God's sake.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
There are very few players I mean very few who I'd consider giving up a 1st round pick for. Revis would be one of those few.
I would offer a 2nd and a 5th for Revis and maybe some incentives if he makes pro bowl or whatever. I'm sure he's talented enough to adjust to Fewell's scheme and dominate as well. This would make huge media news and make Giants a little bit more respectable if this were to happen.
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One of my favorite moments in Franz Kafka's The Trial is shortly after the protagonist Josef K is placed under arrest for an unnamed offense. The men notifying him of his arrest don't cuff him or take him to jail. They just tell him proceedings are underway and that he'll learn everything in due course.
The only thing K can think to do is present the men his identity papers, but all he can find to show them is his bicycle license: "If this is a farce, he was going to play along."
That's what Google's identity policy for Google+ has felt like over the last weeks: a farce. It has been genuinely Kafkaesque, in the proper darkly comedic sense of the term. (Kafka's true heir in our times is probably Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David.)
Almost four weeks ago, at the end of July, we first looked at Google+'s identity policy, after Google's Bradley Horowitz announced coming changes in enforcement, allowing users whose profiles were flagged for name violations a chance to correct them before suspension. Horowitz also promised further iterations and greater transparency in the future.
Thursday night, Google's Saurabh Sharma announced the first significant change in the enforcement policy: a four-day grace period between notice of a violation and suspension, during which users can change their profiles to align them with the policy.
So what Google promised weeks ago now has a defined time window. Other than that, very little has changed. There is no clear way for users to flag profiles for name violations other than "Impersonation" or "Fake Profile," neither of which seems to fit the target case of pseudonyms or nonstandard names.
Without a clear path to redefine its names policy, Google is effectively asking for extra time so it can muddle through.
Meanwhile, in what's increasingly been dubbed the "Nym Wars," opponents to Google's insistence on "real names" on Plus rallied and organized:
- The EFF's Jillian York wrote "A Case for Pseudonyms," with particular attention to political activists, some of whom have been booted from Facebook for name-policy violations.
- "My Name Is Me" became a primary portal, featuring a range of individual stories and general arguments defending the right to pseudonymity and alternative names on social media.
- Microsoft Social Media Researcher Danah Boyd added "'Real Names' Policies Are an Abuse of Power." Boyd noted that users of alternative names online are overwhelmingly likely to be members of disempowered groups, and that teens and people of color still frequently use nicknames or handles on Facebook without anyone noticing.
Facebook's origins in a closed network of Ivy League college students encouraged a culture of real names. That foundation helped it normalize that convention when it further opened up. Google+ opened initially to a vocal post-collegiate tech-savvy community, many of whom didn't like Facebook and who had well-established conventions for using handles on online forums, Twitter and gaming sites. Naturally, this provoked a vocal backlash when Google tightened things up to make things more like Facebook.
- Following Boyd's look at multicultural naming norms, AllThingsD's Liz Gannes zeroed in on how Facebook uses "soft power" to encourage use of real names: "Users who choose to go by their commonly used names are probably more likely to have a full Facebook experience, simply because more people they know will find them and interact with them."
- The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal thinks Facebook and Google's approach to naming isn't just radical for online communities, but for any community. "[I]n real life, we expect very few statements to be public, persistent, and attached to your real identity. Basically, only people talking on television or to the media can expect such treatment. And even then, the vast majority of their statements don't become part of the searchable Internet." (For a skeptical take on this claim, see Alan Jacobs' response).
Finally, South Korea is abandoning its nationwide real-name plus resident-registration-number system for internet users following the theft of 35 million users' personal data. Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin called it "the country's worst online security breach in history."
The potential for these security breaches are one reason Google affirmed its commitment to supporting anonymous, pseudonymous and fully identified profiles in February. It hasn't extended a similarly multitiered approach to Google+, even though its Circles architecture for limiting sharing would seem to allow it, or even imply it.
So what exactly is Google worried about?
"They're scared of Facebook," Skud told me.
Kirrily "Skud" Robert is an ex-Google employee and one of the main organizers of the community opposed to the name policy. I interviewed her shortly after my first story on Google's name policy and have kept in touch since.
Skud ended her stint on Google's open data team on July 15, tweeted that she thought Google's name policy was harmful and discriminatory, and found that her Google+ account (under the name "Skud") had been suspended the following week.
She's since worked on "My Name Is Me," updated her own appeal process with Google, and outlined a strategy for activists to influence Google's policy by reaching mainstream users.
Skud goes both by her online handle and what she calls her "wallet name." She says Google's policy permits names different from what's on your government ID if it's what people generally call you in "real life" (the so-called "Lady Gaga" exception). If your profile is suspended for a names violation, Google typically asks for either a government ID or a link to a profile on another social network with a similarly strict naming policy. Like Facebook.
"Google was not surprised by this; Google knew this was coming." Skud says that something on the order of 1,000 employees at Google warned that the naming policy was flawed prior to Google+'s launch but were ignored.
"They're so scared of this idea that 'Google sucks at social,'" she says, after what happened with Buzz and Wave, that "they're just copying Facebook's names policy and hoping it'll work for them too."
The biggest problem with Google's identity policy has always been that's it's essentially unenforceable. You can't police millions of users with algorithms looking for nonstandard characters in names or reviewing user-flagged profiles with enough sensitivity to handle edge cases without devoting an absurd number of employee hours to review every violation. By all accounts, Google hasn't assigned such resources.
Because there's no way to specifically flag a name violation to distinguish it from spam or impersonation or general abuse. Add that to the fact that business and media accounts started landing on Google+ before separate business profiles were established, and you get mass purges that can be indiscriminate.
"No one actually gets a notification saying what users are being suspended for," Skud said. "People are being suspended for spam or abuse or other reasons that trigger a total shutdown of Google services.… Name violations are used for griefing. I'm pretty sure it was a griefer who shut me down after I complained about the pseudonym policy, because I was using a pseudonym."
Facebook's Blake Ross, for example, was briefly booted from Google+ for an undisclosed community violation for a profile under his own name. It was most likely because of a griefing attack, or someone trying to pester Facebook employees on Google+ for a joke.
But Ross still tweeted, "Are they just banning all FB'ers? I smell fear." No social media network needs these kind of conspiracy theories.
"Google could have done this so much better," Skud laments. "They know how to handle spam in SEO or e-mail. This would have been a great opportunity to use their quite frankly brilliant algorithmic tools and all the data that they have to come up with a way to manage online reputation and identity that would be the equal of PageRank."
Google+ is already something of a nerd magnet, so many people on Google+ have ideas (including full schema) on how Google should handle names. I've endorsed an approach I call "polynymy," letting each user choose a range of names, nicknames, alternative names or handles that they can use within different circles.
For instance, if Google+ is going to do social gaming, I would much rather game under a self-chosen handle than "Tim Carmody, Wired.com." (Can you imagine the shame when strangers start beating me at online Scrabble?)
But that doesn't solve the problem that Google, which has never requested or demanded full names from us before to use any of its services, is asking for names now. Even if you could control exactly who sees which of your identities in which contexts, Google would still have access to them all. That's a privacy risk, a security risk and a huge grab for personal data to be held by one company.
When Google+ first rolled out, I was surprised by how little of Google's algorithmic firepower it employed. From friend recommendations to sparks to manual circle and sharing management, Google put most of the burden on manual user decisions.
Then, I thought Google was trying to avoid alarming people if it automated too much of the process. It might make users think that Google already had all your personal information and that it was making these decisions for you. Instead of an uncanny personalization algorithm, it was putting users directly in charge.
I've also written about the commercial upside of a unified identity for buying things online or selling information or access to advertisers. And I've heard that some high-level Googlers just like the internet better when everyone uses their real names; it's a gut feeling they have that things go better, everyone is nicer, and so forth. Now, though, I wonder if it's something even simpler than that.
I think Google, by asking for real names for its profiles, wants to be the only portal you use (and the primary source of data you trust) to find information about people when you search for them by name. (I can't tell whether this is simple or profound.)
Google has the data, and it knows the history. At one point in the history of the web, people made homepages about themselves. Then they began writing blogs. Now, the best source of contacts, biographical data and work information for most people are social networks. Type anyone's name into Google and wait for auto-complete: The first alternate suggestions that come up are typically "Firstname Lastname Facebook" or "Firstname Lastname Twitter."
Name searches are very popular. If Bing and Facebook or anyone else used social network data to consistently provide more relevant search results for names (or businesses, etc.), Google's lead in search doesn't look so rock solid any more. It would only be a matter of time.
Google needs your real name. And the best way it it has to justify that demand is by insisting that everyone use it and show it to everyone else, too. At least, until they can figure out what to do next.
I hope they do. For me, at least, pluralism, inclusion and listening to user feedback are a competitive advantage when it comes to social media. This farce has to end eventually.
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I heard that so many skaters are visiting Toronto for this season.
Yu-Na and Adam are training with Orser. Patrick is also training in Canada.
Johnny, Jeremy Ten and many more are coming to the Cricket club to work on choreography with David Wilson. Also heard that Stephane is coming to Toronto.
Of course many skaters are coming to work with Lori Nicol...
Maybe I will have to build a tent in front of the exit gate at Pearson Airport so that I can see many of them lol