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Godly Evike.com CQB Riot Control / Camera Man Shield of Heavens
34 Customer Reviews
by luke d. on 05/20/2012
"I am a leader of a team of 10 guys who each have a riot shield and 3 tornado grenades and we're very intimidating. When my team isn't wrecking it up on the field, we're defending our city against giant fire scorpions. Thank you again evike for this incredible item
by Carson W. on 05/05/2012
"This shield is amazing. I used it at a field in stockton called cqb city and it was unstopabLe unless i got shot from behind. It was great for,pushing forward to objectives and you can also get a lot of kills if you use it to go up behind the enemy and knofe them all or shoot them. I actually never used my m4 because i loved this. It a definated buy have fun.
by isabell t. on 03/30/2012
"i have actually bought this and used it in battle as a CQB. it really helps because im sorta short and my friends have high powered guns so that helps alot. its truly great. i advise to buy it.
by michael W. on 03/10/2012
"This is the best thing I have ever known, its so fun because I can finally look out of cover and not get shot.
by Josh B. on 02/23/2012
"This thing is awesome, and depending on your field rules, perfect for CQB corner rams as people come round. lol. A con would be that it is set up for both hands for ample use, however I prop the one handle on my forearm and its just as good seeing as it has virtually now real weight to it. It your out of stuff to buy on Evike like me, this is good impulse buy.
by Cody S. on 01/08/2012
"I thought this was a useful riot shield BUT DEN I TOOK AN ARROW TO THE KNEE
by Doreen N. on 01/02/2012
"I love this shield, using this moving tank puts the other team in fear and is great for raising flags.
Pros: Keeps you safe Cons: Hard to handle with 1 arm
Pros: Keeps you safe Cons: Hard to handle with 1 arm
by Jonathan G. on 12/11/2011
"Hey. So I did buy this a while back and have been very frequently using it in airsoft all around LA. It is great and very useful. It is worth more than what you are paying and a must get. in total this is an EXTREMELY GREAT buy for the usual airsofter, player, or cameraman. You must get it before the sell out. This will NEVER let you down. On a 1-10 scale it is above and beyond.
by Dominic G. on 12/09/2011
"This Riot Shield is very useful in the protection of taking arrows to the knees.
by maverick M. on 12/03/2011
This riot shield is amazing! its better than i thought it would be. the only problem i have with it is that you can't put your arm through but not a big deal. Buy this, its sick!
This riot shield is amazing! its better than i thought it would be. the only problem i have with it is that you can't put your arm through but not a big deal. Buy this, its sick!
by Scott T. on 10/05/2011
"In responce to Kaleb R review I am writing this for other peoples safey. Saying this can withstand a shot from a pellet gun shooting 900fps with more than likely a .177 pellet it might withstand it. You need to take into account the inerta of a 9mm round vs a pellet, please no one shoot this with a real firearm, you will destory it and might hurt or kill someone. Your friendly NRA Instuctor
by jake f. on 09/21/2011
"i find the + 55 defense when fighting dragons very useful
by Daniel B. on 06/21/2011
"I've been looking all over for a riot shield to use in airsoft, this one definitely covers all mil-sim requirements.
P.S. Love the +55 against dragons lol!
P.S. Love the +55 against dragons lol!
by cody b. on 06/01/2011
"am quite impressed by this shield its durable and the light weight is great plus can easily one hand it to use pistols or smgs also great for team building
by Gage L. on 04/24/2011
"Combine this, Leather Speedos, Sandals, and the Bayonet and You're set to Win the next big Matches.


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On a pentest with a massive internal network, we managed to
get access to 22k machines as local admin using a local account (verified with ncrack).
Obvious domain priv esc routes were shut down, so it was time to extend our control and information. I wanted hashes, cached domain creds and available tokens from
each of these. So I put together the following metasploit massploitation
script. The main difference between this and the other solutions posted, is that my box fell over with several thousand meterpreter sessions open, so I wanted a way to automate connecting & pulling the info without needed all the sessions to be open at once.
Continue reading "Admission of illegally obtained evidence in ZA courts; hacked FB messages"
Continue reading "A quick view on IBM's approach to mainframe security disclosures"
DigiNinja wrote a set of patches for hostapd that allow it to operate in KARMA mode (i.e. respond to any probe in an attempt to fool wifi devices into joining it). His last set of patches were for v1.0. I spent some time porting them to v2.0 of hostapd.
The functionality is exactly the same (although the probe response is a little more aggressive), and you can grab either the patch or the full tarball here:
- hostapd-2.0-karma.patch (38K)
- hostapd-2.0-karma.tar.gz (1.4M)
This is republished from the original on the SensePost blog.
In preparation for our wireless training course at BlackHat Vegas in a few weeks, I spent some time updating the content on rogue/spoofed access points. What we mean by this are access points under your control, that you attempt to trick a user into connecting to, rather than the "unauthorised access points" Bob in Marketing bought and plugged into your internal network for his team to use.
I'll discuss how to quickly get a rogue AP up on Kali that will allow you to start gathering some creds, specifically mail creds. Once you have that basic pattern down, setting up more complex attacks is fairly easy.
This is a fairly detailed "how-to" style blog entry that gives you a taste of what you can grab on our training course.
Continue reading "Rogue Access Points, a how-to"
For the last little while, Christopher Soghoian has attempted to highlight the dangers of the zero-day exploit market. The basics are that some vulnerability researchers are selling exploits to make money, without vetting who the end user will be, and in some cases knowingly selling them to militaries (he phrases it as governments, but the implication is that they aren't using them for defence). Soghoian, as I read it, is trying to highlight this trade, and get some sort of legislation passed to regulate it. (A darker reading would make it seem that he has a more, aggressive agenda, but let's leave that aside for a moment.)
The worrying thing here is neatly summed up by Haroon:
The scariest thing about you, is how certain you are that you are right. Regulation is a scary instrument
Continue reading "0-Day Exploit Sales and Pushing for Legislation"
Continue reading "OSX Local Network Broadcasts & Privacy"
In July last year, Toolness, released a cool Firefox add-on, named Collusion, that draws a pretty visualisation of who's tracking you as you visit different sites. It gained some popularity after Gary Kovacs, Mozilla CEO, showed it off in his TED talk yesterday.
It's a great little add-on for making something quite hard to explain to people quite visible. However, I didn't like the fact that it only showed trackers that set a cookie. For example, the requests to Facebook to fetch Like button JS, or calls to Google Analytics were being missed. There are lots of ways to track people other than cookies. So I edited the add-on to include third-parties to whom a request was made, but where a cookie wasn't set.
Continue reading "Tracking the Trackers (my mods to the Collusion AddOn)"
Continue reading "A Response to Seth Godin's "The Illusion of Privacy""
Continue reading "Internet Banking, 22seven & Security Fallacies"
Thanks to Simon Dingle, I'm going to be getting into the world of Android. One of the things that shocked me over the first few days, was the large number of applications that came bundled with the phone that could not be uninstalled, and had persistent background processes. In the "direct consequences" camp, the Motorola News and Gallery application simultaneously chewed my bandwidth and flattened by battery, in the more worrying "shady unknown consequences" camp, an app call "Arabware [1]" offered to "localize" my services, and also could not be uninstalled or stopped. I decided it was time I got root.
The official guides for how to root a Motorola Atrix 4G on the latest update (2.3.4 at the time of writing) are laughably naive. In 5 minutes I could easily find 50 sites all parroting the same process involving complex and dangerous flashing of firmware. The first bit of mis-information that needs clarification, is that despite the Motorola 2.3.3 developer preview having an unlocked bootloader, the official 2.3.4 Gingerbread update from Motorola DOES NOT HAVE AN UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER. No problem they say, just flash this firmware in this ZIP file, supposedly extracted from a Chinese leaked version of 2.3.3. What?! You want me to flash fimware passed around as a zip file from random locations? Not a chance. To make it worse, after a quick squiz at the .sbf file, I found this comment embedded in it:
"The2dCour, known troll in your phone."Awesome. Not a chance I'm touching that.
Here's a much safer, simpler way to root your device, which involves no warranty-voiding, security-spine-chilling hoop jumping.
Continue reading "How to root a Motorola Atrix 4G on 2.3.4"
In light of past and recent posts from mubix (one, two) and jcran, I thought I'd post the hack I used to connect to then run Metasploit post-exploitation modules across several thousand machines. I still need to go through them all and merge them, but I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring. Thank to mubix for his help on the job with some of it.
On a pentest with a massive internal network, we managed to
get access to 22k machines as local admin using a local account (verified with ncrack).
Obvious domain priv esc routes were shut down, so it was time to extend our control and information. I wanted hashes, cached domain creds and available tokens from
each of these. So I put together the following metasploit massploitation
script. The main difference between this and the other solutions posted, is that my box fell over with several thousand meterpreter sessions open, so I wanted a way to automate connecting & pulling the info without needed all the sessions to be open at once.
Continue reading "Metasploit Massploitation"
When managing teams of "information workers", I believe the use of time sheets is indicative of a management failure. Here's why:
- If you have to rely on a timesheet to know what your staff are doing - you're doing it wrong
- If you can't trust your staff to work hard - you have problems a timesheet won't fix
- If you believe you have too many staff to manage - get more managers
- If you think anyone completes them accurately - you drank the kool aid
- If you think the time it takes to actually complete them accurately is worth it - you hate your staff
- If you manage your business from these inaccurate stats - you're making bad decisions
- If your senior people have PAs complete their timesheets for them - you're a hypocrite
- If you spent millions on a new timesheet system, but didn't make it any easier for the staff using the system - you just suck
Continue reading "Dropping Privileges in Python (pattern)"
Continue reading "Mobile Privacy-Enhancing Proxies"
Originally published on SensePost's blog.
While doing some thinking on threat modelling I started examining what the usual drivers of security spend and controls are in an organisation. I've spent some time on multiple fronts, security management (been audited, had CIOs push for priorities), security auditing (followed workpapers and audit plans), pentesting (broke in however we could) and security consulting (tried to help people fix stuff) and even dabbled with trying to sell some security hardware. This has given me some insight (or at least an opinion) into how people have tried to justify security budgets, changes, and findings or how I tried to. This is a write up of what I believe these to be (caveat: this is my opinion). This is certainly not universalisable, i.e. it's possible to find unbiased highly experienced people, but they will still have to fight the tendencies their position puts on them. What I'd want you to take away from this is that we need to move away from using these drivers in isolation, and towards more holistic risk management techniques, of which I feel threat modelling is one (although this entry isn't about threat modelling).
Continue reading "Squinting at Security Drivers & Perspective-based Biases"

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Your editorial about transportation departments granting long-term toll road operating concessions to foreign firms like Australia's Macquarie Infrastructure Group (April 2007, "Leased to the highest bidder!") asks a good question: "If operating public infrastructure makes good business sense, why are we getting out of the business?"
We don't have to. The public sector can improve full-spectrum service—not just transit time, but safety, costs, air quality, aesthetics, noise, and the environment—by implementing "intelligent" vehicle technology that's available today. Transportation planners could go beyond scratching the surface of technology's potential to, as your editorial suggests, charging drivers for the use of any and all roads—not just toll roads.
Examples of these technologies include:
Cars that communicate with each other. Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty adviser Seth Teller says it best on page 66 of the May issue of Popular Science: "If cars are communicating, no one has to idle at a light for three minutes again." In the same issue, Jacob Peters of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California in Davis notes that "active safety technology that makes cars drive closer together would easily double (road) capacity."
Manufacturers are working toward this goal, deploying automation and communication technology such as drive-by-wire stability control systems, adaptive cruise control, and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. General Motors has been refining its V2V system, an extension of its On-Star global positioning system (GPS) since 2005. The 2008 Lexus LS 600h Lfeatures collision avoidance that varies response depending on where the driver is looking.
A comprehensive communications system would incorporate information from cars with the location and acceleration of other actors that affect the flow of traffic, such as commuter and freight trains and highway repair crews.
With drive-by-wire stability control, a computer controls the braking of each wheel independently to correct understeering and oversteering by the driver. Many newer cars have stability control. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates stability control adds $111 to a car's cost and plans to make the feature mandatory for the 2012 model year.
Adaptive cruise control, which has been available on luxury cars for several years, senses the car ahead and adjusts the car's speed appropriately.


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Fun for All Ages in Destin
Comfort Inn Destin • Destin, FL
Escape Kit
- A Two-Night Stay for Two Adults and Up to Two Children in a Standard Room
- Daily Breakfast
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The Destination
The beaches of Destin, Florida, are strewn with gorgeous white-quartz sand. In addition to powdery shoreline, Destin boasts blue-green water and a family-friendly harbor complete with fun shopping and dining. And if you're a seafood connoisseur, you've come to the right town. It's no wonder Good Morning America named Destin one of the most beautiful places in America.
The Digs
A quick jaunt across the street from Henderson Beach State Park, the Comfort Inn Destin gives guests a great jumping-off point for adventure. Inside, comfortable rooms all offer free Wi-Fi. You can stroll across to the beach to catch the morning sunrise, or start your day with a complimentary full breakfast including sausage, waffles, eggs, fruit, and cereal. After a bite, head for the hotel's indoor or outdoor pool. You'll be ready to crash in bed following a sun-drenched afternoon full of sandcastles, a two-hour dolphin cruise, and ice cream on the harbor.
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"From the time we walked in until the day we left, our experience was great. We stayed for four nights. The hotel is so clean and the breakfast was good. Thanks to the staff for making our first trip to Destin a great one."-- TripAdvisor
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text: This year's Grand Prix des Cyclistes de Montréal, now in its fourth edition, brings some of the strongest road cyclists in the world to Montreal on September 15. The officially-sanctioned UCI WorldTour race, reserved for top-level Men's Elite riders, sees 21 teams from across Europe, Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia take on a rigorous course around picturesque Mont Royal Park. Montreal's race comes just days after the Québec City Grand Prix des Cyclistes (September 13-14), pitting riders against yet another challenge: 17 laps of a 12.1 kilometre circuit, totalling 205.7 kilometres in race distance and 229 metres in lap altitude difference. 2013 Tour de France winner Chris Froome leads the pack of 19 UCI ProTeam riders, who have raced in the the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España, and count Grand Prix des Cyclistes towards their annual global ranking – no one will be coasting through. Also in competition this year are of Canada's 13 top road cyclists, including the Canadian National Team led by Zach Bell, 2012 Giro d'Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal, and David Veilleux, the first-ever Québec-born rider to finish the Tour de France. Last year's race lasted a gripping five-and-a… / Read More →


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Business-Focused HR: 11 Processes to Drive Results
The SHRMStore has moved its books to an affiliate model with Amazon. Your purchase of this book on SHRM's Amazon store supports the HR profession and SHRM's mission.
The stakes remain the same for organizations and HR leaders, whether we are in a booming or lagging economy — HR professionals must show the value of what they do and build a compelling business case to get other, potentially skeptical, leaders to buy in. Business-Focused HR will provide the tools for HR leaders and people managers across the organization to become more business-focused with the processes that they execute. Senior HR leaders can make the business case to top management, while front-line practitioners can demonstrate the value of what they do to managers on the "shop-room floor."
Having a practical resource that takes HR leaders step-by-step through what the latest research tells us, from best practices in execution to linking the process directly to business outcomes, is the goal of this book. Ultimately, the aim is for Business-Focused HR to become the guidebook for all HR leaders to enable them to become strategic business partners at all levels and across all functions in their organizations.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. HR Processes and Business Outcomes
Chapter 2. Employee Selection
Chapter 3. Competency Models
Chapter 4. Performance Management
Chapter 5. Multi-rater/360 Assessments
Chapter 6. Employee Opinion Surveys
Chapter 7. Employee Training
Chapter 8. Career Development
Chapter 9. Leadership Development
Chapter 10. Succession Planning
Chapter 11. Work/Life Balance
Chapter 12. Creating a Business-Focused HR Scorecard
Chapter 13. Bringing It All Together: Next Steps and Opportunities
Appendix A: Data Analytics
Appendix B: Reliability and Validity
"By following the authors' advice and implementing their practical approaches, CEOs can call upon HR to act as a true business partner and drive outcomes. HR leaders will be able to show the return-on-investment for the processes they implement, and demonstrate the direct alignment of their work to the business strategy."
-- Al Stubblefield, President/CEO, Baptist Health Care
"The authors push the profession of HR to a new level by showing how to demonstrate the business impact that individual HR processes can have. This is a necessary book for HR and non-HR leaders alike."
-- Lea N. Soupata, retired Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Board Member, UPS
"The practical approach taken in this book focuses HR leaders on where to put their limited time, energy, and resources to maximize both individual and organizational performance."
-- Vicki Escarra, President and CEO, Feeding America
"The information in Business-Focused HR that supports calculating the ROI for HR initiatives is important to use to convince the company to make the investment, while the clear (and statistical) linkage to business outcomes makes the business case a much easier sell."
-- Eileen Habelow, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Organizational Development, Randstad US
"This is a 'must-read' for HR professionals. It is not only chock full of valuable and accessible information, but it serves as a critical road map for assuring that HR secures opportunities to meaningfully impact the strategic direction of the organization."
-- Steven Rogelberg, Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
About the Authors:
Dr. Scott P. Mondore is a Managing Partner of Strategic Management Decisions and has significant experience in the areas of corporate strategy, talent management, measurement, customer experience, and organizational development. He has worked for years in internal management and consulting positions across a variety of industries, including transportation, health care, manufacturing, utilities, and hospitality.
Dr. Shane S. Douthitt is a Managing Partner of Strategic Management Decisions and has over 15 years of experience in the areas of measurement, talent management, executive assessment and coaching, and organizational development. He has practical experience across a variety of industries, including banking, manufacturing, utilities, pharmaceuticals, and information technology.
Dr. Marisa A. Carson is a Senior Consultant with Strategic Management Decisions. Prior to joining SMD, Marisa worked in various leadership roles across the finance, utilities, and nonprofit industries with Bank of America, Piedmont Natural Gas, and Bowling Green State University. Marisa has extensive experience in the areas of HR data analytics, leadership development and coaching, employee selection and assessment, performance management, and succession planning. Marisa is skilled in implementing evidence-based HR practices that drive organizational change and enhance leadership effectiveness.
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Of or pertaining to someone who is not only pretentious but believes themselves to be financially and physically superior. Those who succumb to elitist ideals.
I hate those bougy Abercrombie kids.
by TD Thuglife July 07, 2005
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
A reference to the socio-economical class first referenced to during 19th century france "Bourgeoisie". Which is someone who is upper class and is a victim of elitist type of thinking. Someone who is economically, socially or physically more well off than other people but who believes it to be innate or self-manisted instead of being a product of a particular economic or socio-political system.
Didn't you say you went to Aquinas Prep School? How Bougy!
by Das Kapital July 08, 2011
Boo-gee (or Boo-shee) means a person who is financial secure in life (and sometimes pretend that they are). They can be 'uppety', pretentious, and or very vain and self absorbed.
"Look at that girl with her nose stuck in the air. She looks very bougy."
"Oh, I know him."
"Yeah, you don't wanna know him. He's very bougy."
"Oh, I know him."
"Yeah, you don't wanna know him. He's very bougy."
by KaKay September 17, 2015


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2 Day Designs Barrique Bistro Table
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All 2 Day Designs pieces are environmentally conscious and have been made from recycled wood. The bistro table is repurposed from old solid white oak wine barrels. Some pieces of wood still bear the branding and handling markings of the vineyards they are from. To add to the extremely unique aesthetic of the piece, 2 Day Design furniture is sanded and stained by hand. More than just a table, the 2 Day Design Barrique Bistro Table is a conversation piece with a unique and interesting history for you to share with your guests.
Environmentally Conscious:Made from recycled pine barn timbers, this piece has a unique history and aesthetic
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- Model: 4070P, 4070R, 4070W, 4070O, 4070B, 4070C, 4070F2 Day Designs Barrique Bistro Table
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- Wine barrel stave legsWeight: 100 lb
- Two (2) storage/display shelvesDimensions: 36" H x 40" W x 40" D
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#FriskyFriday: October 25th 2013

It's chilly outside, so warm up and get frisky.

It's getting colder out, and your friends and coworkers may be dreaming of hot cocoa and roaring fires. But you know the best way to warm up is with the girls of #FriskyFriday, when Playboy Playmates, Cybergirls and random internet hotties tweet us their sexiest selfies using the hashtag #FriskyFriday. It's our job to choose the best of the best, who then have the chance to become our weekly winner.
If you're on Twitter, follow @PlayboyDotCom to see all the photos as we tweet them out. If you're not on Twitter, make sure to refresh this page all day long to catch the best #FriskyFriday tweets. Can't get enough? Check out #TuesdayTease!
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Hacking Scenarios
frist of all, i wanna say im not new in hacking world i had some pentest experience i can use back track metasploit and many other tools and im familiar with many concepts and so on.
But as im addicted to hack!!!! i wanna start studying it so seriously and i know i must build a hacking lab so i bought VMware Workstation 8 (i know i can use Virtual box for free but i love Vmware its better) and i download Backtrack 5 R2 Gnome i installed to A VM and a windows Xp VM also so do i need anything more for my lab?
i need some hacking scenario for exercises i googled it but i couldnt find some efficient scenarios dose anybody has them?
Thanks again Take care!!


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Shutdown deals Bend veteran a 1-2 punch
Due to take classes, not sure how she'll pay
BEND, Ore. - For 29-year-old Bend army veteran Mary Ludwig, the government shutdown couldn't have come at a worse time.
"It is really, really frustrating -- those are the only two things I needed the government to stick with me through, and they're like, 'Oh, just kidding, these aren't important,'" Ludwig said Wednesday.
Ludwig served as an ammunition specialist during Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a result, she says she suffers from a handful of physical and mental health problems.
But she's not letting the setbacks slow her down. She's close to finishing her bachelor's degree --and has plans to go farther.
"I was approved into the master's vocational rehab program, which only about 8 percent of veterans who apply to that get in," she said.
With the shutdown, Ludwig said her future is in jeopardy.
She recently submitted an appeal to her current disability level. But there's nobody working in the office to process it.
"I cannot get my disability upped anymore from 20 percent until this whole debacle is resolved," Ludwig said.
Ludwig told NewsChannel 21 she helps her husband to support her two kids on her current disability -- just $235 a month.
She said the vocational rehab program discourages students from working while getting their degree.
She wants to get her family out of poverty by getting a master's degree through OSU-Cascades in mental health clinical counseling.
She said it's important to her to help other struggling veterans.
And that's where she faces another problem.
"The (vocational) rehab program only has enough money to start new claims through October," Ludwig said.
She also said her processing appointment isn't until mid-October. But she doesn't think it will have enough time to go through before November.
Ludwig said if her claim doesn't get processed in time, she could miss the opportunity to get her master's degree paid for.
However, OSU-Cascades officials say Ludwig could be a rare case.
Jane Reynolds, director of enrollment services and student success, said most students, including veterans, shouldn't have problems getting their aid -- and if they do, officials say the university will work with them.
"If there's any slowdown, they (students) will get their interest charges reversed," Reynolds said. "We don't drop people from classes."
Reynolds added that tuition isn't due until the end of October anyway, and she said she doubts the shutdown will last that long.
In the meantime, Ludwig said she's hoping for the best, preparing for the worst -- and is disappointed in Congress.
"It's really sad that our country's leadership can't take care of us," she said.


text: ROLL CALL for Chevy Traverse Owners and Drivers! Hey, let's get a current roll call to see how many are on the site and active! Let's go, let's hear from you if you've got (or had) a Chevy Traverse (or same GM platform vehicle). Please Post a picture in your album or attachment on your post as well! Thank you!


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I recently bought a Kent Williams Hive Tool from WT Kelley: https://kelleybees.com/Products/Deta...3334&grouped=1
I have always wanted to get a hive tool with a hook but otherwise like a traditional hive tool. I used the KW hive tool this morning and really liked it. Especially with frames that have overwintered in the hive and are thick with propolis were easy to get out. It is very well made and has a nice heft to it.
I'll be ordering an extra one or two in the near future.


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Glenn SmithBPL Member
@gosmithpaLocale: Southern Arizona
Just wondering what everyone experienced this past season in terms of the newly published policy on eliminating turkey bag cooking. This will be my fifth trek and we have used turkey bags for rehydrating food on each trek. Curious to hear what folks experienced and how they dealt with this.Sep 3, 2013 at 5:37 pm #2021475
Well basically they say no turkey bags.
You go to the advisor meeting, and they tell you again, no turkey bags, and put the green spin on it.
Then after your ranger leaves, you use your turkey bags if you want.
Its really not a big deal either way, but when you want to eat and then get to an fun evening program, no one wants to have to do dishes. It takes long enough just to eat and get things hung up.
Some things clean up easy, like beans . Things with cheese are where the bags come in handy.Sep 10, 2013 at 10:03 am #2023688
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@buddyjLocale: Western Oklahoma
If they say no to turkey bags, it seems contrary to the principles of Scouting to switch to them when nobody is looking.Sep 10, 2013 at 2:43 pm #2023755
I agree, also trustworthy.Sep 11, 2013 at 8:51 am #2023944
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Adam RothermichBPL Member
@aroth87Locale: Missouri Ozarks
Yeah, I'd say switching them when no one is looking is probably a bad example to set. I'm not exactly sure what turkey bag cooking is. Is it just freezer bag cooking in a turkey bag? If so, do they think they would prohibit you from reusing a Mountain House bag to carry/rehydrate your own recipe? If you're going to set a bad example its probably better to just bend the rules rather than break them outright. (I say this as someone who doesn't have kids yet, so take it with a grain of salt)
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Justin BakerBPL Member
@justin_bakerLocale: Santa Rosa, CA
Rehydrate your meals in a hard plastic container. Much easier to clean that your pot.Sep 11, 2013 at 2:58 pm #2024041
Joe ClementBPL Member
@skinewmexicoLocale: Southwest
I'd just say no to Philmont if it's that big a deal. If the only way you can do a 10 day wilderness trek is by having Philmont cater it, I think you're doing your boys a huge disservice. It's not like the USA isn't full of amazing areas to go.Sep 11, 2013 at 5:21 pm #2024097
If you have been on 5 treks there is no need to tell you about the Philmont experience.
I went this summer and I can tell you the boys didn't care. Yeah, cleaning is a pain in the axx, but it is at home also, and the boys did it and only complained once about it towards the end of the trek, and then it wasn't so much about the actual cleaning chore. As far as having a hard time getting to the evening program, just plan for it and it will work out, we had no issues. Do I agree with the Philmont cooking method, maybe not for the reasons they state, we carried alot of trash but 12 people make alot of trash, a couple of turkey bags each night doesn't seem like much more. Just accept that is the way it is, it shouldn't be a deal breaker.Sep 11, 2013 at 8:38 pm #2024184
FWIW: This year, we did an LNT version of the FBC method, by re-purposing the trash generated by each meal's packaging. In order practice water conservation (& per Philmont's Wilderness Pledge commitment for Conservation and proper use of water) and consequently reduce our environmental footprint. It also reduces our environmental footprint by avoiding unnecessary fossil fuel emissions from having to waste gas boiling water for clean-up.
In general this approach aligns very nicely with the patrol method: The crew works together as a team, the duty roster's cook pair does the set-up, boils water, sterilizes the eating utensils, oversees portion control and does clean up. With help from the cook pair, each Scout (each night) learns to cook (control the amount of water for re-hydrating and time required to re-hydrate) … and with the cook pair as the unifying force, any lessons learned are quickly disseminated among the team.
All that, while aligning nicely into Philmont's Wilderness Pledge commitment for Conservation and proper use of water, it teaches conservation perspectives and offers participating in living lab to minimize their environmental food print both as an individual and as a team. Those conservation perspectives include the mitigating the waste of gas, time, and fossil fuel emissions that comes from the unnecessary boiling of water for clean-up. All and all, it produces a patrol method that is much more sustainable than Philmont's version of the patrol method.
Ok, here's the outline:
First, each meal is designed to feed two Scouts – those two Scouts became "food buddies"
For re-hydrating meals, one of the food buddies, would rehydrate their half of the meal utilizing the bag the meal came in, and the other food buddy would rehydrate their half utilizing large LLDPE bag that organized every thing (entree, snacks, dessert & "electrolyte mix" (i.e. sugar water :-).
IMPORTANT: All of this was done in bowls (re-purposed/recycled bowls, of course – given our reduced environmental impact approach ) in case a leak ever developed in the bags being utilized (none did). The bags only acted as "bowl liners" NOT as cooking vessels. The packaging bags (depending on the size) tended to not reach over the outer edges of the bowl, and thus the bowl was more of a containment/support vessel those bags. But the LLDPE bag in particular nicely lined the bowl and reached over the bowls' outer edges no problem. BTW, the giant graphic transfer on the LLDPE bag IDing the meal, was kept on the non-use side of the bag (obviously, or maybe not so obviously).
So, in summary to reduce our environmental footprint: This method re-purposed the existing packaging trash, conserved fuel, time, and precious water resources (no wasted water from dish washing), avoided smelling up the sump with grey water, and of course, bottom line – did not generate additional trash (… did I already mention that? ;-)
For those couple of Scouts that were ravenous eaters, this approach also allowed them to double up on various dinners (with minimum hassle to the rest of the crew) by utilizing the culinary treasures they found in the swap boxes.
The swap boxes also offered alternative entree selections to be prepared by those more "picky eaters" … and by utilizing this method, those alternative meals were prepared with minimum hassle & disruption.
Final Notes on environmental footprint: With this method, one would think that because LLDPE bags used to rehydrate would be presumably dirty, there would be 1/3 less LLDPE bags to "feed the snake" collection points(which one would hope, ultimately be recycled as filler into composite lumber – the biggest application user of such bags) … but that was NOT the case because when the camp's staff saw how "clean" they were (our Scouts were hungry and didn't leave much, if any, food in them), the camp staff strongly encouraged us to to "feed the snake" with them anyway.
(BTW, the giant graphic transfer on all of the LLDPE bags can be considered a form of contamination in terms of recycling, but that's a post for another thread)
It should also be noted that with each meal there would be one or two LLDPE bags that weren't scrapped clean of food generated by less than hungry enough (i.e. the meal didn't appeal to them) Scouts … those bags were utilized as the collection trash bag for all of the rest of the trash generated by the crew's meals. We considered this aspect an environmental foot print "wash" with the prevailing method because in the staff camps' trash cans we saw that all of the crews utilized the LLDPE bags as collection trash bags … and in addition, the amount of food residue left over (from what we saw), looked to be approximately the same as the amount of food residue left over from the prevailing Philmont method (i.e. that residue collected from the left overs in the frisbee strainer, that couldn't be washed down the sump (& shouldn't be left on the sump screen) … since the prevailing method does washing & rinsing (and hence does not conserve precious water resources – unfortunately), this end result on the small amount of residue left over may surprise some: we had conversations with other crews who expressed curiosity about this approach and some were surprised that the rinsing cycle (for the bags, not for the cooking pots and eating bowls) was not needed … those folks could easily see that it eliminated the washing cycle, but a few did not readily realize it could completely eliminate the rinsing cycling too.
Edit / Editorial Comment: From my perspective, in terms of trash smellables, the residue from the dinners (regardless of cooking method) were not the most significant smellable produced from meals or for that matter the bulkiest – the most significant was the "sickly combination" of smells from the sugary, spicy chip snacks & with the over-the-top fruity smells from candy bars (Honey Stingers, etc), along with the various bag snacks (Corn-nuts, etc) & and the electrolyte mixes (fruit favoring, etc) were more pronounced in trash bag smells & bulk.Sep 12, 2013 at 10:48 am #2024322
I got a couple of PMs containing questions on this method & because there was duplication in the questions, and because the replies are rather lengthy (oy!) I decided to answer them here, once, instead of answering them "off forum" twice.
So, this is outlines answers to question about this particular adaptation that our crew utilized.
Q: How did you deal with the ventilation holes in meal bags? Didn't the meal leak through the ventilation holes?
A: There are six holes for ventilation in the bags: 3 going up the right side, 3 going up the left side. Because the bags were big enough and the bowls were small enough, the bags acted as a bowl liner with those ventilation holes just outside the outer edge of the bowl. Because the bag's ventilation holes were outside the outer edge of the bowl, the liner did not leak. BTW, The bowl was big enough to sufficiently hold the meal.
Q: What bowl did you use?
A: Given our reduced environmental impact approach – we re-used Trader Joe's Soup Bowls for their Rice Noodles (The Spring Onion selection was a fav). The bowls are very lightweight polypropylene (PP, dishwasher & microwave save – a consideration to take into account if utilized as a re-hydration bowl … which was the original intent). From our Philmont practice meals we discovered many different bowls that would work in this way. But these recycled bowls were the lightest, and the cheapest (= essentially free … but the noodle meal cost $1)
Q: For the re-hydrated meals in a bag, doesn't their packaging need pleats in order to be utilized?
A: No. And you should know that Mountain House and Richmoor do not recommend using the bags to rehydrate on their own, because the packaging does not have as many layers (to reduce cost) as their commercial offerings and consequently those bags have not been tested to hold up to that kind of use. That is why the bowls are VERY IMPORTANT. Both types of bags should thought of as only acting as "bowl liners". It is the bowls themselves that are the cooking vessels that support the weight of the meal & water. It is the bowls themselves that provide containment of the meal in case the bags leak. Remember both types of bags are only acting as "bowl liners" (not as meal cooking vessels)
Q: Which stove did your crew use?
A: Jetboil Sumo (Ti). We took 2, as our crew size was 12.
Boiled water amazingly fast, and the two stoves allowed us additional flexibility to tailor the amount of water we boiled.
Q: How did you pour the water from the large pot?
A: We didn't use a large pot (except for the first demo dinner the Ranger did).
We utilized the Jetboil Sumos, and for general safety we don't lift a pot to pour boiling water directly, but instead use a plastic ladle (1.3 oz – for those ounce counters). We view the Philmont method of lifting a big pot of boiling hot water and pouring into another pot as being far "less than optimal" in terms of safety. The ladle approach is much safer and contained if there is an accident. The ladle approach also allowed the Scouts to control the amount of water to tailor the thickness of their meals (= the glass half full perspective) … or gave them additional opportunities to learn from their mistakes (of over-watering = the glass half empty perspective) BTW, Remember to keep hands away from any "pour zone".
Q: Did your crew take a large pot?
A: Yes, for the first night's dinner – all rangers are required to do a demo dinner the first night out … it is one of the requirements signed off by the lead adult advisor. So, we brought one (1) large pot – our own, just in case our Ranger wasn't willing to do the rehydrating the dinner in the pot demo using the Sumo pots. So, the one large pot we brought (for that demo) was a cheap thin wall aluminum pot – we took it with the idea of getting rid of it early (put it in for recycling at a backcountry commissary) … but one of our adult advisors decided he liked it (go figure), so he volunteered to carry it (to use as a camp stool during dinner, as a part-time elevated foot rest, as a trail camp shower/wash basin, etc.) … There was also talk of shooting it up at our Black Powder Rifle activity (lol) … that didn't happen, it is now in one of our car camp patrol boxes.
But in terms of using it for our crew cooking – other than the first night Ranger demo on the trail – we didn't use it for crew cooking – we used the Sumos instead.
Q: I assume another reason you avoided the Philmont pots was to reduce weight?
A: Yes, we have always focus on being comfortable, and when backpacking that usually means a light carry weight (among other things). Our average carry weight going out of basecamp (with crew gear divided up, 3 days worth of food, and 3 litters of water) was 27 lbs, 12 oz. (The boys were in the 25 lb range, but the other three adult advisors base weights pulled the average carry weight over) Even with the Sumo pots we carried, we still netted almost 23 ounce savings over the traditional Philmont pots … quite a bit for ounce counters.
HOWEVER our initial approach was to rehydrate in the bowls, and then through the efforts to to reduce both water waste & to avoid additional trash generation … and to increase efficiency (from not wasting gas to unneeded boils) & convenience, this method ended up evolving from that focus.
Q: How did you convince your Ranger?
A: YMMV. First, maybe a better perspective/framing is that our approach wasn't to try & convince our Ranger, we wanted to work with him … for him to be our partner. A Ranger is just trying to do his or her job. You'll need to make sure you show them the respect and never undercut their authority … especially in front of the youth. Our Ranger was an exceptional reasonable & deep thinking individual (that helped). Second, we didn't try to change his mind on anything. From our initial orientation, he discovered our Scouts were prepared, and had been to Philmont before (that bought a lot of credibility – that helped). Later that day, I discreetly asked him for some time for a brief private discussion. Away from the boys, I explained that I wanted our conversation to be private and not in front of the boys to ensure that his authority was not undercut in anyway. I also emphasized that we knew he was obligated to show the methods by the book and that we would fully respect him doing his job. I also told him that out of desire to be respectful & honest, I needed to explain how we prepared and what our methods evolved to. From that as a beginning, we had great LNT conversation(s) .. he had some astute LNT observations of adaptations not fully embraced by Philmont yet (or for that matter Philmont's Wilderness Pledge to conserve water), but that together we should do on our trek – take it to the next level (although we were not currently required to do it) … later he proposed that to our crew leader & crew, and they quickly agreed – so we did. (FWIW, in our conversation I fortunately had a prime example that back in 2011 the use of stand-off sticks to protect trees from rope wrap was certainly not the standard way of doing things(we did that and were "discouraged" by our Ranger at the time from doing so – he didn't think it was necessary) … but in 2013 that technique finally became the standard that is taught).
Again, YMMV ;-)
Edit / Editorial Comment – IMHO, Philmont has improved on reducing the amount of trash each meal generates (with the one glaring exception of the Turkey Stuffing dinner with all its cans, and unneeded, unnecessary packaging boxes for the bags of stuffing). While they still haven't gotten all the low hanging fruit, (or fully embrace their own Wilderness Pledge to conserve water) it is very encouraging to see the steps of improvement they have made.Sep 13, 2013 at 8:28 pm #2024685
And I expect that Philmonts position on your method would be (pure speculation) :
"By not washing out your bags you rehydrated in, you are carrying more food residue and smellable trash that potentially could attract bears, in addition to creating heavier garbage waste for the backcountry crews to dispose of. The additional food residue in your used bags, regardless of origin, could attract bears to the garbage at staffed camps, endangering campers, staff, and the bears."
Truth is, they arent reasonable, they dont want to be, they just want to have everyone do things their way, so they dont have to worry about it. Its understandable, but not enforceable.Jan 3, 2014 at 2:46 pm #2060052
michael mercerMember
@mmercerLocale: Northern Virginia
Got an official response from Mark Anderson (Philmont Director) and Mark Stinnett (Chairman, Outdoors Committee). Philmont bans turkey bags because they believe they add smellables when they are thrown out in camp garbage cans and that they add unnecessary additional waste to the Philmont landfill.
Philmont need only apply the pack-it-in, pack-it-out philosophy to solve the first concern. They might also consider that turkey bag garbage is totally eclipsed by the close to 25% (by weight) of smellable trash generated by each Philmont food pack.
Current LNT practice is pushing for the no-pot cleaning method vice the Philmont two-pot method. Turkey bags are an important enabler to cook the Philmont dinners without adding grey water to the sumps – any wonder why the bears are digging up the Philmont sumps?
Hopefully Philmont management will someday be willing to embrace to these lower impact LNT methods.Jan 3, 2014 at 9:37 pm #2060175
I agree with you Micheal on the pack it in, pack it out approach LNT style.
(While fully embracing the Philmont Wilderness Pledge to Conserve Water)
For clarification, this past summer our crew did not bring any Turkey Bags (following current Philmont wishes)and still was able to do a patrol method re-hydration approach that didn't require cleaning pots.
For re-hydrating meals, we re-purposed what would have been packaging trash (LNT style) to serve as bowl liners to rehydrate in. One of the food buddies, would rehydrate their half of the meal utilizing the bag the meal came in, and the other food buddy would rehydrate their half utilizing large LLDPE bag that organized every thing (entree, snacks, dessert & "electrolyte mix" (i.e. sugar water :-)
The duty roster designated cook pair oversaw everything, boiled the water, divvied up the food, and ladled the water out.
We did not bring any additional trash from home.
Philmont is improving … just very slowly.Jan 5, 2014 at 7:31 pm #2060726
Since those "bags that the meal came in ", are supposed to be put on the snakes and recycled at staffed camps, by using them for rehydrating you made just as much real trash as you would have if you brought turkey bags. Actually probably more, as they are likely heavier than turkey bags.Jan 6, 2014 at 1:55 pm #2060946
Smile … off the point, but as it turns out, I have measured the weights of both bags on my postal scale. Reynolds Turkey Bag = 15 to 16 grams (more often towards 16), and the Philmont Meal organizing bag = 13 grams (=average: various bags can bounce at times from 12 all the way up to 14, but most often they weight in at 13. The bags were from 2012 surplus meals used for practice).
FWIW: The Philmont bag does indeed feel thicker & has that giant graphic transfer for meal identification (which must add weight to it … & it unfortunately can be form of contamination in terms of recycling) but turkey bag is bigger (19' x 23-1/2")and that apparently makes up the difference.
The efforts for reducing land fill material should also (obviously) include recycling cardboard packaging, paper packaging and the cans … hopefully that will be the next steps taken.
In Philmont, meals present the most waste primarily from all the food packaging trash (breakfast, lunch & dinner), but also in the non-conservation of water during dinner clean up (especially in drought conditions), and resulting grey water waste.
Of course, there are also two other factors in addition to to consider in addressing waste generation: Reduce, and Reuse (in addition to Recycling)… and given the wilderness environment, we have the reduction of smellables angle too.
One of the big "whys" behind LNT is the reduce our environmental footprint in the wilderness, and by a role model extension – in life.
An integrated perspective for conservation should include the life cycle: the material & resource use from manufacturing & distribution of a a product as well as it's end of life disposal.
Without bag liner use, the next best way to reduce grey water generation is to rehydrate in individual bowls, then each individual Scout can "human sump" the rinse water from their bowl. This avoids soiling BOTH a re-hydrating pot and the individual bowls and having to clean BOTH. In general this approach also fits just as nicely into the patrol method: The crew works together as a team, the duty roster's cook pair does the set-up, boils water, sterilizes the eating utensils, oversees portion control and does clean up. With help from the cook pair, each Scout (each night) learns to cook (control the amount of water for re-hydrating and time required to re-hydrate) … and with the cook pair as the unifying force, any lessons learned are quickly disseminated among the team.
As background information: LNT Practices for grey water are as follows:
3.) If there are a lot of food particles in the grey water, then cathole it 200 ft from camp (this is the LEAST preferred approach) … better to filter out the solids (The Backpacking Merit Badge book shows one way to do this)
2.) If there are not a lot of food particles grey water, the do a "broadcast distribution" at least 200 ft from camp (this is a Compromise Approach)
1.) DO NOT introduce it into the wilderness (this is the MOST preferred LNT approach). Three ways to do this:
A.) "Human Sump" it
B.) Pack it out.
C.) or simply don't produce it in the first place.
This obviously emphasizes water conservation – nice little tie-in to both
Environmental Science merit badge & the Backpacking merit badge teaching.
NOTE: These methods can be combined.
For Philmont a re-hydrating bag allows for the elimination of LNT "human sumping" in clean up because it eliminates the grey water generated in a Philmont style clean up … that is, should you wish to pursue teaching the most preferred LNT approach to your Scouts
(… and if you don't wish to take that on, but still want to minimize the generation of grey water, then at the next level down most likely you'll be pursuing re-hydrating in the individual bowls)
One of our goals as leaders is to teach life skills through teaching scout skills … and facilitating those skills to be transferable. Philmont slowing changing and hopefully will become a center of best practice LNT.
(In addition to finally and fully embrace their Wilderness Pledge commitment to conserve water)Jan 7, 2014 at 1:12 pm #2061268
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626AA02 – we used the Philmont method for the entire trip, carried both pots and did dishes every night. Not once were we pressed for time re: evening program and the Scouts didn't complain about not using turkey bags …if they believe that there are no options they generally accept it and move on, it is the adults that you have to worry about ;)Jan 7, 2014 at 5:59 pm #2061368
Very same experience for our group last summer.
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Young Bend musicians get top-flight jazz lesson
Music education workshop featured drummer Mel Brown
BEND, Ore. - Have you ever wanted to play jazz with a world-class musician? Central Oregon music students were treated to that on Saturday.
Musicians, singers, band directors, music teachers, parents and students filled Summit High School's auditorium Saturday morning to learn how to play jazz like a professional.
It's part of a music education workshop, sponsored by BendBroadband and the Oxford Hotel.
The workshops feature international jazz stars, and this one featured drummer Mel Brown.
"You can sit and talk to Mel for like three or four minutes -- he's a very very warm gentleman," said Georges Bouhey, a local jazz instructor. "Actually, you shouldn't talk to Mel for four or five minutes, you should just listen. Because you just can't compare the experiences he talks about."
Brown has played with The Supremes, The Temptations and George Harrison, among many others.
A total of 55 young musicians were signed up to play.
The next workshop is scheduled March 16th at Mountain View High School, featuring saxophonist Tom Scott.
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WORKING WITH ROBOTS - Thursday, 19 July 2012
Interested in forging a challenging career in the robotics industry? Then head to the Royal Armouries Museum Leeds this Saturday (July 21).
Just as electronics and computers revolutionised the world in the 20th century, the widespread adoption of robotics is widely predicted to transform the 21st.
As part of its first-ever Robots Weekend, the Royal Armouries has lined up Professor Ian Robertson, Head of the School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds, to talk about degree and job opportunities in the world of robotics.
The Robots Weekend also features the UK's most spectacular robotic show – Robots Live on Sunday (July 22) – plus a whole host of other attractions, giving visitors the chance to play, build, explore and have a go.
Ian – who delivers his careers talk between 1pm and 2pm on Saturday – said, "Humanoid robots and androids feature heavily in science fiction films and some amazing demonstrations have already taken place – such as a robot playing the violin or walking up stairs.
"To describe the very broad range of career opportunities in robotics, one has to first emphasise that humanoid robots or androids are just a very small facet of a huge research and development activity. For example, if you wanted to make a robotic vacuum cleaner you would design a dedicated autonomous system from scratch – you would not base your design on a human standing and holding a conventional vacuum cleaner.
"A robot can best be defined as a machine that is guided by a computer, using a variety of electronic sensors to identify its environment and actuators to interact with it. "
The UK Engineering sector already employs over 1.6 million people in the UK and four of the top 10 graduate salaries in the UK are in engineering. The range of applications in robotics is huge, and includes bomb disposal, security and defence, unmanned aerial vehicles (UVAs) and drones; space exploration; manufacturing; transport and medical care.
Ian added there is a wide range of specialist degree subjects involved in a robot's design, including: Computer Science (artificial intelligence, computer vision, biologically inspired systems, swarms); Electronic Engineering (embedded systems, sensors and actuators, communications, power electronics and drives) and Mechanical Engineering (structural analysis, design and manufacture, dynamics).
The multidisciplinary Mechatronics and Robotics degree programme at Leeds is especially suitable for anyone aspiring to a professional career in the field.
For course information, visit www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/mechatronics-robotics
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About the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Leeds
- The Faculty of Engineering is one of the largest engineering groupings in the UK having over 700 staff, 3,000 students and an annual turnover of around £60m. Our vision is that the Faculty of Engineering will be ranked in the top 5 in the UK, and the top 50 in the world by 2015.
- The Faculty is currently ranked 7th in the UK for the quality of its research according to the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, with 75% of the Faculty's research rated as internationally excellent or world leading. Our research feeds directly into our teaching ensuring that our courses are at the forefront of thinking in their respective fields.
About the Royal Armouries
- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
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- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
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Alcoa Drops On JPMorgan Downgrade
Alcoa stock took a dive Wednesday after JPMorgan downgraded the barometer for market sentiment and made deep cuts to earnings estimates.
Shares of Alcoa (AA), which kicks off the second-quarter earnings season on Monday, fell 1% to $7.72. JPMorgan lowered its rating to Neutral from Overweight and lowered its price target to $9, looking ahead to December 2014. Its previous target was $12 through the end of 2013.
According to the report,
"While global demand growth for aluminum continues to be solid, supply growth is outpacing it, which should continue to put pressures on prices. … outside of aluminum prices materially increasing or investor sentiment on the sector significantly improving, we see few catalysts for Alcoa's stock in the near term."
JPMorgan slashed its estimate for second-quarter earnings to 4 cents per share from 14 cents based on lower aluminum prices. It also lowered its estimate to 29 cents per share from 57 cents for 2013 . For 2014, it cut estimates to 55 cents per share from $1.04.
JPMorgan metals strategists recently lowered their aluminum price forecasts to 89 cents per pound for 2013 from 94 cents per pound. They also forecast a drop in 2014, to 93 cents per pound from $1.06.
While Alcoa has lowered costs in its alumina and primary metals segments, and seeks to boost rolled and engineered products, these likely will be overshadowed, JPMorgan says, by "a persistently weak aluminum price environment."
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AOL Canada Hires Susan Byng as Head of Specialist Sales
Feb 13, 2014
AOL Canada announced to the industry today that they have hired Susan Byng in an important new leadership role as Head of Specialist Sales.
Under Susan's leadership, the Sales Specialist team, which will include all product specialist sales resources, will drive deep focus on products and platforms, including programmatic, premium formats, branded content, video and mobile advertising solutions and ensure that we are working together with our partners to drive innovation in the advertising space.
Susan has distinguished herself in the Canadian digital industry through increasingly senior roles at Yellow Pages, Canoe, Bell Canada, Canwest, and most recently Microsoft where she led a high performance team of AEs and Sales Specialists. We are thrilled to welcome her to the AOL Canada team.
We are also pleased to announce that Dana Toering, AOLC Head of Sales, will take on additional responsibilities for driving revenue success for AOL Canada. Dana will lead all revenue efforts for AOL Canada, including sales, business development, publisher and member services. In this role, all AOL Canada Account Executives and business development resources will continue to report to Dana and he will add publisher and member services resources to his team.
Vivian Ip, AOLC Head of Agency Development, will also take on new sales operations responsibility and, in collaboration with Andrew Consky, AOLC Director of Research, will take on responsibility for delivering thought leadership through research to our valued clients.
Great news for the success of AOL Canada. Congratulations to Dana & Vivian and welcome Susan!!
Thrilled to welcome @SusanByng to the @aolca team as our new Head of Specialist Sales!! Welcome Susan!! http://t.co/eKUqx0tGgx
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quote:TN09 hasn't set his lineup in the basketball league since week 1. Is he now going inactive in this league?
Please set your lineup this week. I need your help
quote:You basically donated $25, drafted, and said frick it. been inactive since week 1
I m guilty of being inactive during bb fantasy
quote:Ill take your word, but if you show inactivity in these last couple of weeks in football, you lose your spot next year. Its not just this one occurrence , it is coupled with the fact that you don't do anything in the bball league. I still love you though.
but McCoy in was a mistake, I thought for sure I put in jacquizz rodgers in but it wouldn't havw matter anyway
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I promise you I'll try my best to upset wilfred this week also how are you 0-4 in ball?
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i am fricked. i need either CC or Wilfred to lose out, and DCB to lose one.
DCB plays CC and then Wilfred the next two weeks.
I also have to win out, of course
quote:i'm not falling for your mind games
I don't see myself winning today FWIW
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Elks Soccer Shoot planned June 8 in Baxter
The Elks Soccer Shoot is Saturday, June 8, at the Brainerd High School soccer field at Southdale Field in Baxter.
All youth ages 6 to 13 are invited to participate in the 11th annual event. Everyone is welcome.
Registration is at the soccer field from 9:30 to 10 a.m.; competition begins at 10 a.m. Girls and boys shoot separately in four different age categories.
The competition tests individual skills at the various age levels. Contest skills and age levels are listed at mnelks.org/contest/soccershoot.
Winners of each category advance to district competition July 27 in Hutchinson. District winners advance to the Minnesota Elks Soccer Shoot on Aug. 23-25 at the Elks Youth Camp on Pelican Lake. District winners and their families are invited to spend a free weekend at the camp.
This event is open to all soccer enthusiasts from the Aitkin, Backus, Baxter, Brainerd, Breezy Point, Crosby, Crosslake, Deerwood, Emily, Garrison, Hackensack, Ironton, Isle, Little Falls, Longville, McGregor, Nisswa, Onamia, Pequot Lakes, Pierz, Pillager, Pine River, Randall and Remer areas.
The soccer shoot is co-sponsored by Brainerd Elks Lodge 615, Brainerd Community Education and Lakes Area Youth Soccer Association (LAYSA).


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Introducing AOL Autos and Autoblog Editor-in-Chief Sharon Carty
Jan 16, 2014
On the heels of CES and the Detroit Auto Show, I'm pleased to announce that Sharon Carty is taking over as Editor-in-Chief of AOL Autos and Autoblog. Sharon has written about cars for more than a decade, and now she's moving full steam ahead in her new position with AOL Autos/Autoblog, the biggest automotive publication in the U.S.* with a female Editor-in-Chief.
The coming year is set to bring more original voices and content to AOL Autos and Autoblog. To kick off the year, Sharon shared her top three predictions for the Auto industry in 2014, including:
- A bigger push toward automated driving
- A bigger push on the government to get people off their phones while they're driving
- A lot of cool cars launching in 2014
Check out more on what Sharon had to say below:
*(source: Comscore MediaMetrix, Jan-Dec 2013, compared to individual Automotive Resource sites such as Yahoo! U.S. Autos, and excluding networks of sites such as Jumpstart Automotive)
.@AOLAutos & Autoblog Editor-in-Chief @SharonCarty shares her 2014 predictions for the #auto industry: http://t.co/pLk0lwmMhm
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Madden NFL 12
Madden NFL 12 tips Giants for Super Bowl victory
EA Sports' annual Super Bowl simulation has picked the New York Giants over the New England Patriots ahead of Friday's championship match.
Madden NFL 12 headlines
EA Sports Challenge Series lays $1 million in cash and prizes on the line
EA has announced the EA Sports Challenge Series, a sports game tournament series with $1 million in cash and prizes going to the most skilled Madden NFL 12, NHL 12 and FIFA 12 gamers on PS3.
Madden 12 sells through 1.4 million copies in first week
EA has announced that Madden NFL 12 has sold through more than 1.4 million copies across all consoles in its first week at retail, which is up 10 percent over last year's opening week sales.
Madden NFL 12 predicts Packers and Steelers to dominate
EA Sports' annual season simulation has prophesied another sterling year for both the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, last seen facing off at Superbowl XLV.
Sports Showdown: Madden, FIFA, PES, NHL and NBA 2K
This autumn boasts the usual line up of stellar releases for sports fans. Here's what you need to know about the biggest hitters in the war for your dollar.
EA Sports targets ex-college football players for Madden dev team
Here's one way to break into the highly competitive games industry: be really good at sport.
Madden NFL 12 online servers down
Multiple reports suggest EA's Madden NFL 12 servers have gone mysteriously AWOL.
Madden NFL 12: Touch down in US, reviews rounded-up
EA Sports released Madden NFL 12 in the US today, and we have compiled a list of review scores for the latest iteration in the long-running series.
Friday Shorts - CoD Elite stuff up, Decide-o-tron lives, Escape From City 17
Be strong, soldiers. Not long now and you can play Deus Ex all weekend.
PSA: Madden 12 and Driver demos out today in US
Just a friendly reminder that demos for Madden NFL 12 and Driver: San Francisco are out today on XBL and PSN in the US. UK folks will get the demos on Xbox 360 and PS3 tomorrow with the usual updates.
Madden NFL 12 demo coming August 9
After the recent good news that the NFL league lockout came to an end, EA is releasing a demo for Madden 12 in the run up to the game's US launch at the end of August.
Madden NFL 12 good to go after NFL league lockout ends
EA had previously stated that it could face loses of up to $80 million had the deadlock between the NFL league and the Player's Association led to the cancellation of the season. Fortunately for the publisher, and NFL fans the world over, the game is most definitely back on.
EA bringing Battlefield 3 to iOS
EA's announced that an iOS version of Battlefield 3 will be released. The confirmation comes in a video of titles coming to iOS from EA, including Madden NFL 12, FIFA 12 and Need for Speed: The Run. Get the video below. Thanks, Touch Arcade and manamana.
Hillis cover for Madden NFL 12 revealed along with Hall of Fame Edition
EA Sports has revealed the coverart for Madden NFL 12 featuring Cleveland Browns running back Peyton Hillis, as well as the limited Madden NFL 12 Hall of Fame Edition.
Battlefield 3, ME3, SSX live demos for EA E3 presser
Live demos of Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3, SSX and Need for Speed: The Run will make up part of EA's E3 press conference in two weeks time, its been confirmed.
New Madden NFL 12 trailer features mascots, football
The shiny new official trailer for Madden NFL 12 has been released, showing off more of the stunning gameplay we've come to love – and expect – from the franchise.
Madden NFL 12 trailer previews gameplay
EA Sports has released a new trailer for Madden NFL 12. You wn't see any of that JRPG cutscene nonsense in it, either; we're talking all gameplay, all the time. Mostly.
Wednesday Shorts: Dog fighting, DDO, Madden, God Hand, Angry Birds, Romero, sales
While a lot of folks feel they've been kicked in the neck over this PSN business and have seen loads of reports on the situation, other stuff happened in the world of games as well. Below, you will find that other stuff.
Madden NFL creative Director farewells EA Sports
Madden NFL series creative director Ian Cummings has left EA Sports, along with a number of prominent developers.
EA Sports: Madden NFL 12 still slated for summer despite current NFL issues
EA Sports president Peter Moore has said Madden NFL 12 will be released as planned this summer, despite the current lockout between the NFL and Players Association.
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Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in California
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