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Shares of enterprise social networking software vendor Jive Software (JIVE) are down $1.82, or almost 11%, at $15.25, after the company this afternoon reported Q2 revenue in line with analysts' expectations, beat on the bottom line, and forecast this quarter and the full year's results below expectations.
Revenue in the three months ended in June rose 30%, year over year, to $35.2 million, yielding a net loss of 14 cents, excluding some costs.
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CEO Tony Zingale remarked that "the evolution of the market toward the mainstream buyer, combined with our go-to-market execution challenges, led to longer than expected sales cycles at the end of the quarter."
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Jive management will host a conference call with analysts at 5 pm, Eastern time, this evening, and you can catch a webcast of it on the company's investor relations Web site.
Jive's software for enterprise collaboration competes with products from a number of vendors to greater or lesser degrees, including the wares of International Business Machines (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), Salesforce.com (CRM), and Tibco (TIBX).

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Charlie Sheen has insisted we was spurred on by anger, not drugs, during his public meltdown in 2011.
At the time, the 47-year-old actor called his Two and a Half Men co-star Jon Cryer a "troll", slammed the series' creator Chuck Lorre and coined a series of phrases including "Adonis DNA" and "warlock" and claimed he had tiger blood running through his veins.
He was fired from Two and a Half Men and responded by going on a poorly-received comedy tour around the US.
The star yesterday told talk show host David Letterman drugs were not to blame for his erratic behaviour.
"Not during the meltdown," he explained. "During the previous 30 years, sure."
Sheen also admitted he never felt as though he was in danger, claiming he was being spurred on by his rage.
"I'm sure it looked like I was going to spontaneously combust at any moment. It was an adrenal ride," he added. "I think it was mostly fuelled by anger."
Since leaving Two and a Half Men, Sheen has landed a new starring role in US TV show Anger Management.
He claimed he could make a return to Two and a Half Men despite the onscreen death of his character Charlie Harper - because the show is already dead.
"I am dead. But so is the show," he told Letterman.
Sheen said he was enjoying being back on TV>
"It's nice to be back in the CBS family, even as a foster child. They're nice until they fire you."
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Video: Tammy Bruce exposes far-left outlets' hit list on everyone to their right
posted at 8:11 pm on April 17, 2007 by Ian
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If you're a center-left, centrist, center-right or conservative and you've uttered an opinion in public, chances are far far left loss leaders Media Matters and Air America have a dossier on you. Radio talk show host and friend of Hot Air Tammy Bruce appeared on last night's "O'Reilly Factor" to talk about far-left outlets (*cough* Media Matters *cough*) who have a hit list on conservatives and moderate/not-so-far to the left Democrats. Tammy explained the elaborate ruse these far-left individuals use to get national news outlets to get their message out. How does Tammy know? She used to do it herself when she was president of the Los Angeles NOW chapter.
Relevance: Media Matters had a staffer whose job was to record Don Imus and listen for gaffes. He found one, alerted the media, and the rest is history. For icing on the cake, the Soros-funded group tried to convince everyone that Imus is a conservative. Imus is to Media Matters' political right, but then again so is the entire country.
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Thanks for posting this Ian. I watched this last night. Simply amazing—like Big Brother stuff, or worse.
O'Reilly said something about he and Hannity doing a special report on this very thing. Didn't catch it all but I am anxious to find out more.
IrishEi on April 17, 2007 at 8:19 PM
Tammy is such a cold shot to the nut roots lefties.
Mojave Mark on April 17, 2007 at 8:21 PM
OReilly just moved to the front of the line!
The Ritz on April 17, 2007 at 8:23 PM
Discover The Networks posts dossiers on liberal groups and individuals. Is there a substantive difference between the DTN dossiers and the MM and AA dossiers?
Good clip. I can't even say I'm shocked.
VikingGoneWild on April 17, 2007 at 8:31 PM
Is there a substantive difference between the DTN dossiers and the MM and AA dossiers?
I can think of one difference: The media doesn't pay any attention to Discover the Networks, but pays a lot of attention to the Soros shock troops at Media Matters. Olbermann for one wouldn't have a word to say with those enablers.
Yeah, I'm glad this got posted.
Bad Candy on April 17, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Great piece by OR. Hope it does some good!!
greenpiece on April 17, 2007 at 8:39 PM
Media Matters Tries To Deny Soros Factor
I bring it up because I can't figure out for the life of me, their endless need to try and deny that Soros is involved with them!
Too bad it will never make MSM. I saw it last night and figured it will get some play on the blogs, then go away.
Then let's make our own Dossier.
Egfrow on April 17, 2007 at 8:41 PM
These communists are doing a damn good job at stopping capitalism (aka True Freedom) inside the USA. Damn fine job! We feel guilt and hatred towards businesses and business men. Innovators and the strong realists are deemed as ememies whil degenerates are promoted as heroes. America is learning to hate the people who give us life and allow us to survive as a species off the backs of their efforts. We pluck the tallest daisys in the field because it makes the rest of the small daisy look small.
Egfrow on April 17, 2007 at 8:45 PM
We need the main man to get on this and get on it hard and often. Someone turn on the Rush "Batman" Limbaugh signal.
Last night Tammy exposed the propaganda machine and how it works. The media in this country is completely corrupt and that should be a major concern to all Americans no matter your politics.
TheBigOldDog on April 17, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Has no one read The Fountainhead? This is a verbatim description of Elsworth Toohey's tactics.
spmat on April 17, 2007 at 8:55 PM
I guess there is no doubt now where some members of the former KGB ended up after the Soviet Union collapsed… Media Matters, yep.
Zorro on April 17, 2007 at 8:57 PM
Too bad it will never make MSM. I saw it last night and figured it will get some play on the blogs, then go away.
Wade on April 17, 2007 at 8:40 PM
I'm optimistic about this. Tammy's got a book out on it and O'Reilly and Hannity are pursuing it. Sure the MSM will try to avoid it, but if it takes off, they will have no choice. It only took a few bloggers for Rather's Memogate to go viral!
IrishEi on April 17, 2007 at 8:57 PM
Tammy deserves more attention. She's powerful. One of our stars.
Hse mentioned that the wires are very important. Almost every paper in small town USA subscribes to a wire, usually AP for national and international news. The stupid little ditty off one writer's laptop at AP becomes the conventional wisdom across the country. It's horrendous. All the local papers here, no matter which they are, run AP articles every single day front page – prime space – on how bad Iraq is, how our military is either stressed, stupid or dying. Every day. It's relentless and all AP. A pure monopoly.
naliaka on April 17, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Good clip, Ian. We need more of these rare ex-liberals on board to expose the belly.
Coronagold on April 17, 2007 at 9:30 PM
The vast Left-wing conspiracy!
stonemeister on April 17, 2007 at 9:32 PM
I know for a fact that Bruce's assertion is true. It happened to me.
I wrote a "letter to the editor" that was published, and in the online "comments" section, a digest of earlier letters in the same and in other papers was presented as part of a personal attack upon my character and integrity. And, I'm nobody important, just a guy who can write literate letters to the editor. Yet they had a complete dossier on me.
This how the keep track of their enemies. For when the "time" is right, I suppose.
And, I found out, that if you use certain words in a rebuttal letter, like "gasbag" (for example) that rebuttal letter will be propagated to over 200 sites, having NOTHING to do with politics, from ballooning affectionados to propane gas suppliers. Call some one a "gasbag" (for example) in a personal attack in a letter to the editor of a paper with an online edition, even a little local county paper, and that personal attack will appear as a result for over 200 websites, "automagically." Well, not magically, but automatically by spiders keying on specific words on news sites.
There are other "keywords" that be used to propate slander.
This is a tactic that is being taught at leftwing "seminars" as part of the war that Bruce is describing.
It is NOT paranoia, either.
If you read the writings of Clark Kissenger (former or current Gen. Secretary, Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, I'm not sure of his current statu) and Brian Becker (International Socialist Party, Workers of the Work, and ANSWER), they intend to destroy us. Not just "politically," but physicaloly. Kissenger postulates executions of "reactionaries" (that includes, Michelle and the HA staff and most of the commentators posting here) when they come to power.
So, I have no doubt that moveon or media matters or even the DNC has each and every one of us in a database somewhere.
And if THAT doesn't energize you to work even harder to make sure that the Demcrats get tossed out of power, then you're a fool.
georgej on April 17, 2007 at 9:40 PM
"Civil War", huh?…….. Must be a quagmire, misinformation, propaganda……. time to get out…
PinkyBigglesworth on April 17, 2007 at 10:04 PM
from wikipedia:
She is described on her website as "an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush progressive feminist" and a "lifelong Democrat"[2].
How's that for awesome?
Vincenzo on April 17, 2007 at 10:04 PM
georgej, Very interesting observations.
You're absolutely right, it is NOT paranoia. This is a coordinated and well-financed effort that cannot get too much scrutiny.
If anyone wants info on Brian Becker and Clark Kissinger, Frontpagemag.com has it all. I use their own search engine frequently to get information which is at the top of their home page.
Buy Danish on April 17, 2007 at 10:13 PM
georgej on April 17, 2007 at 9:40 PM
Holy crap.
IrishEi on April 17, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Tammy Bruce just gave talk radio and the blogs an important mission. The lefties who prize freedom should listen the most. Their freedoms will eventually also be taken away.
Has no one read The Fountainhead? This is a verbatim description of Elsworth Toohey's tactics.
spmat on April 17, 2007 at 8:55 PM
Smiles. Of course. And we know our Tooheys from far and close.
Soros is one of the most dangerous people to this country, never to be underestimated or ignored.
Entelechy on April 17, 2007 at 10:17 PM
So now the big "O" is going to expose this network that has been around since at least the 70's. Why now Bill? Worried about your job? Better late than never. You should have been exposing them beck in the 80's and 90's when you was a reporter. OOPS! I forgot you worked for the liberal media the allowed these groups to have that power.
Before Rush any talk radio host that expressed conservative ideas was replace the next day with a true liberal. Thanks to Rush they could express their conservative views and not lose their jobs because the rating overpowered the desires of groups like Media Watch.
Helloyawl on April 17, 2007 at 10:49 PM
I wonder where Michelle is on that list? She has THREE strikes against her, a conservative, a woman, and a minority! GASP!
Tammy oughta just call herself a Pubbie, she's conservative on every issue 'cept abortion.
Check out her book "The New American Revolution". I got it on the bookshelf right between "Unhindged" by Michelle and "Bamboozled" by Angela McGowan (GASP! Another one with three strikes against her!)
Tony737 on April 17, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Tammy explained the elaborate ruse these far-left individuals use to get national news outlets to get their message out. How does Tammy know? She used to do it herself when she was president of the Los Angeles NOW chapter.
People talk about the need for the left to work together and have a unified message in the face of a unified conservative noise machine. So a google group was created called "Townhouse", and it included many bloggers and other representatives of the netroots as well as a large number of partisan journalists and grassroots groups. It allowed us to discuss policy, issues, tactics and coordinate as much as you can ever get a bunch of liberals to coordinate.
Dan Froomkin? 501 c Media Matters? 501 c CREW?
Topsecretk9 on April 17, 2007 at 11:51 PM
Wow. I hope this lady has body guards. I can see something like this erupting into a personal physical attack.
This is the first I've seen any inside liberal telling the truth about the existence and mechanics of the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.
Bravo. I always hoped there were liberals out there with at least some integrity.
As I posted on Newsbusters:
Would that Bawbra Wawa had her guest host on her show. It'd make for some interesting exchanges between her, Tokyo Rosie, and Joyless Behar.
kevcad on April 18, 2007 at 12:30 AM
it's all Bush's fault /moonbat
Black Adam on April 18, 2007 at 1:02 AM
I love Tammy.
Is it too much to say that they are getting at perhaps the core political problem in the country – media corruption? The Pravda-esque, daily flood of leftwing talking points disguised as "news" by leftwing activists disguised as "journalists" poisons all levels of the culture and makes even a fair presentation of any matter a Sisyphusian undertaking. A glaring weakness on the Right has been the way this "dishonest swamp" (Bill's accurate if generous term) has been given kid glove treatment and legitimacy, instead of exposed – which is what I hope Tammy is planning to do. It is no accident that Rush, year after year, spends more time trying to reveal the dishonesty and malicious hidden agenda of the MSM than on any other topic. Media corruption is central to any political problem we face, and exposés (not just debates and rants) are long overdue.
Halley on April 18, 2007 at 1:56 AM
Great Post! We need to know more about how the Left is using the Mainstream Media, and other public venues, to promote their propaganda. More Please!
Big Surprise! The Left is using the MSM to distribute their propaganda. (Hummm, where have I heard that before?)
What I was not aware of is how coordinated it was thru not only the MSM but also entertainment, and from this post, evidently other venues as well.
I would really like to know more about the subject of this post.
omegaram on April 18, 2007 at 2:00 AM
I said this was a concerted strategy of the left when they attacked Ann Coulter.
I was pilloried. On this very website!
Yet a mere few days later, after Imus's corpse is mounted on the MMFA mantel do you guys start thinking, Gosh, I wonfer if this is a strategy of the left to silence conservative pundits.
Welcome to the land of the enlightened. Better late than never. :)
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 18, 2007 at 2:16 AM
Although, I do point out Imus is no conservative, just not left enough.
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 18, 2007 at 2:33 AM
David Horowitz has been saying this for decades. He also was a far left extremist in the 60's and he writes of the Communists and Socialists agenda in organizing protests and receiving money. Of course, David is not permitted to speak on any college campus without guards and heavy security. He and Tammy, the ones that were deeply involved in left wing politics, are the standard bearers and exposures of the left. They are the experts in the lefts political agenda, one that is set to destroy. Billy Dale still stands as a testimony to what a political weapon can do when aimed at an individual.
Carvale was a master at the tactic from a publicity point, and media matters and moveon is a master from the "behind the scenes" point, and the MSM are the pawns. Just like the students in the 60's were pawns, and the women in the 70's and 80's were the pawns, and the blacks in the past 30 years are the pawns, the democrats and liberals will destroy anyone in their way, and they find plenty of pawns to move around.
right2bright on April 18, 2007 at 9:42 AM
Welcome to the land of the enlightened. Better late than never. :)
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 18, 2007 at 2:16 AM
Look, I for one had no problem with what Ann said, but I also realize that people here, especially people like Bryan, Allah, Ian and Michelle, can certainly think for themselves.
In fact, they were there. They heard her words and made their own opinions without having to hear anything from the Left.
No one will deny that the Left would like to be able to shut down people like Ann Coulter, but that doesn't mean that people on the Right can't make up their own opinions of her that happen to differ from your own.
Despite that I happen to agree with you that the whole Coulter thing was overblown, if this were my site, I would not allow you to continue posting here, as I wouldn't allow one of my posters to be so condescending to me.
Esthier on April 18, 2007 at 10:21 AM
To return to a frequent theme back when HotAir was new and irreverent, I think she's kind of hot…for a conservative Dem chick who likes girls.
Hey, but I like girls, too, so we have that in common.
Jaibones on April 18, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Despite that I happen to agree with you that the whole Coulter thing was overblown, if this were my site, I would not allow you to continue posting here, as I wouldn't allow one of my posters to be so condescending to me.
I guess the mods are made of sterner stuff.
If I get banned, I'll delete my book mark and move on. Life is short.
But, if that happened, it would not alter the fact that I am right.
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 18, 2007 at 10:46 AM
OK. don't take this as a troll question: what's the difference between these left-wing goons and, say, Newsbusters?
mymanpotsandpans on April 18, 2007 at 12:29 PM
I actually think this is a "biggie". I saw this the other night on O'Reilly (I can't believe myself…I think he's an airhead,but I watch the show. Maybe it's like Playboy…I watch it for the guests. But I digress…)and thought it was exceptionally important because it is about the manipulation of the media.
What Ms. Bruce exposed was the mechanism by which public opinion is created. The idea is to create "conventional wisdom" by having similar points of view coming from "different" (but secretly in lock-step) sources at the same time. Thus, people come to believe that there is one common view on things such as…you name it…abortion, gun control, immigration. For a single person to disagree (or, more accurately, voice disagreement) becomes very difficult because he/she is left feeling alone, isolated and perhaps out of step with the rest of the "herd".
It is a brilliant strategy, but it is one that undermines democracy. Further, in order to work, it relies on the free media foresaking its role…of informing the public…in favour of creating opinion.
We have all heard, and spoken about, how the media is collectively biased. This reveals not only the existence of the bias, but the methodology by which the bias is utilized in order to manipulate public opinion.
It is scary, subversive of deomcracy, and is something that needs to be paid a lot more attention to.
O'Reilly said that he and Hannity were "researching" this issue…I wish someone with a few more brains, such as Malkin, Steyn, Preston, Morrissey…were doing the research, but regardless this will be an important programme if they do it right.
I have been worried about this for many years. The media is the most powerful institution in any free society for two reasons: first, it is unaccountable and secondly, the media acts as a filter for all information. Only the information that it wants may get out. Even the State is subject to that control. If, as Ms. Bruce sets out, this institution operates in lock step, it is a Leviathan that threatens democracy.
I think that the MSM is getting almost hysterical about the power of choice. I don't ever choose to watch MSNBC, I only choose to watch CNN to see Glenn Beck and I choose to get my info from Fox though I choose not to watch H&C. I choose to join Hot Air which is one of only two blogs I choose to participate in. I think that if one is Liberal one will choose Air America and Daily KOS. If one is Conservative one will choose Fox (because it's balanced), Hot Air et. al. and Limbaugh et. al. So the MSM sees two things:
1) More success on the conservative side and so they rightly assume there are more people making a conservative choice and they see their power eroding.
2) They realize that the masses can't be as easily manipulated by the strategy Bruce describes because of our freedom of choice.
Thank God we have more choices. The MSM are on the attack. We must be vigilant and support the sites we want to get our info from.
CCRWM on April 18, 2007 at 1:09 PM
Oh no, condescending view points….call the brown shirts!
omnipotent on April 18, 2007 at 1:34 PM
I guess the mods are made of sterner stuff.
If I get banned, I'll delete my book mark and move on. Life is short.
But, if that happened, it would not alter the fact that I am right.
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 18, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Yes, they certainly are. Personally I just don't understand why you'd be such a dick to them.
Esthier on April 18, 2007 at 2:07 PM
Blaise has it right – scary scary stuff
Coastian on April 18, 2007 at 2:27 PM
You freaking Hypocrites. This is the corner stone of conservatism, cry, whine like little babies and blame the liberal mainstream media or MSM. The damn MSM is a hypnotic chant that conservatives repeat over and over at nauseam. How pathetic. If you believe it with out really looking at the facts you are stupid. Don't you think conservatives do the same thing?
Is this any surprise? THAN O'Reilly, Loofah boy, admits HE and Hannity are working on their own list. ha ha ha ha ha.
Look BOTH sides use propaganda, but Imus was pure public bi-partisan outrage, sponsors folding and the networks doing what they do, making money. IT WAS THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE! In the end its a nation of people not idiot drones that believe any lie either side said. How may times has Bill O'Reilly called to boycott a product. He called for a GQ magazine boycott because they called Keith Olbermann man of the year. Now that is petty.
Bottom line, people where pissed, no sponsors no Imus show. DONE DEAL. To make a conspiracy out of it is crazy. We all agree (at least lip service wise) that it was the wrong thing to say to the wrong group.
YES there are groups with agendas, for example the RNC and GOP. Is it not unusually that "talking-points", slogans and all manner of sound bites make it into every (R) representatives speech, Fox news and echoed by Rush and Hannity. The same exact phrase, "cut-N-run", slow bleed or what ever subterfuge or deception they want to present to take the heat off their Boys.
I agree about the crazy PC thought police garbage, but don't be a doofus hypocrite. Any party that is 100% in Lock-Step like the GOP, all voting in blocks with NO descent is suspicious. It disingenuous and intellectually dishonest to blame the liberals. If you can't wrap your little brain around we are a nation of people of all kinds and this is a issue with the nation, people, society. Making politics out of it is wrong and shows you to be prejudice and narrow minded bigots.
Politics is the last and only place that you can let your ignorant bigot freak flag fly, as long as its framed in CODE, Liberals or Democrats. If you are that prejudiced, partisan politically, it is a clue that you are also likely to be a RACIST or SEXIST or both.
LOOK AT MOTIVE. SHE IS SELLING A BOOK ON A CONSERVATIVE SHOW? Now you want to buy it. Apparently she is getting revenge and is bitter. Listen to her. Its about HER. If Osama Bin Laden wrote a book and said Democrats and Liberals sucked you would buy the hard back version. Its all about hating the other side and feeding your ignorance with more stereotypes and bigotry.
gmcjetpilot on April 18, 2007 at 2:38 PM
Yes, they certainly are. Personally I just don't understand why you'd be such a dick to them.
Esthier on April 18, 2007 at 2:07 PM
I could go into detail as to why I think that I am doing my part to keep the debate open. I could also point out that standing true to ones principles in the face of opposition is a sign of good character.
But, the main reason that you should be happy that I post my opinions on this matter is that it gives you a chance to kiss the staff's collective arses. You clearly relish this opportunity, run with it!
Make no mistake, I respect the HA staff and I think this is the best poitcial site in the web bar none, but I WILL NOT SQUELCH MY VIEWS JUST TO FIT IN.
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 18, 2007 at 3:54 PM
Today pilots are indignant again.
Entelechy on April 18, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Re: gmcjetpilot
I'm afraid you are wrong. Take the Virginia Tech tragedy. Is the media reporting that guns are illegal on VT so it shows that anti-gun laws fail? No. They are reporting that Virginia has loose gun laws so this was able to happen. It's called a liberal slant and it's all over the MSM. Compare the treatment that the Duke lacrosse players received and the treatment of OJ Simpson or Tookie Williams. Compare the treatment given to Obama vs. Mit. Do you know who I mean when I say "Mit"? That should prove my point.
On Imus:
The outrage over the comments, that no one noticed until this "hit" was placed on him, that caused his sponsors to pull out, not the comments themselves.
On The List:
O'Reilly and Hannity are working on a story about this left wing conspiracy. They are not working on their own list of reporters to call. They are in the media themselves. Why would they need a list? They are the list!!!
ArcherB on April 18, 2007 at 4:01 PM
gmcjetpilot on April 18, 2007 at 2:38 PM
If you want to TRY to insult us…you have to make it shorter…who do you think is going to read your long winded vulgar rant?
CCRWM on April 18, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Righty-o, CCRWM. gmcjetpilot, adults don't lecture other adults.
mymanpotsandpans on April 18, 2007 at 4:15 PM
The Cotillion **hearts** TAMMY!!!!
seejanemom on April 18, 2007 at 4:38 PM
seejanemom on April 18, 2007 at 4:42 PM
But, the main reason that you should be happy that I post my opinions on this matter is that it gives you a chance to kiss the staff's collective arses. You clearly relish this opportunity, run with it!
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 18, 2007 at 3:54 PM
I already said that I agree with your position that the Coulter thing was not that big. That's not exactly butt-kissing 101.
I just think you're needlessly being rude in your opinion. Integrity doesn't necesitate an attitude.
Esthier on April 18, 2007 at 5:26 PM
I think over the past few years it has really changed from a simple bias into an actual strategy to manipulate politics and culture. Probably as a response to failing ratings and circulation – in contrast to blogs and radio.
Look at the hysterical editorial the MSM bombards us with about VTECH literally saying the second amendment needs to be tossed out. Meanwhile everyone who is actually informed already knows it was a gunfree zone, the deranged perpetrator was handled with liberal kid gloves, and authorities wasted time investigating a victims boyfriend soley because he had registered legal guns.
Resolute on April 18, 2007 at 8:15 PM
I still think she's kinda hawt.
Jaibones on April 18, 2007 at 9:09 PM


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From Elias: David Wilson is the first player in NFL history with at least 200 kickoff return yards and 100 rush yards in a single game.
David Wilson finishes with 327 all-purpose yards, the most in a single game in Giants history.
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Fancy being an Australian sports lover this weekend? Didn't think so. In small, steady increments the innocence of sport has been eaten away down the decades.
Where once it was brown envelopes or used needles found in waste bins at the Australian Institute of Sport, now it's an ugly black tide.
A tsunami wave of doping and match-fixing allegations struck this week and in the sporting world you wonder if things will ever be the same across the wide brown land again.
There's even a new language about this week.
If you thought peptide was a new fizzy drink, you weren't alone. (Just so you know, it increases the level of human growth hormone).
Those across the Tasman arguing that entire sports have been unfairly besmirched by the Australian Crime Commission's failure to name names, probably want to sit tight.
If they think the worst has just happened, they're in for a nasty surprise.
To these eyes, the underarm delivery of 1981 was the most dramatic, wrong moment in Australian sport. Now, if you're being generous that could, just, be put down to a captain desperately weary in mind as much as body, making a ghastly error of judgment.
By comparison with this, that was simply a case of sharp practice.
(And by the way, how about the wretched timing of spot-fixing Pakistanis Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt to be putting their case for relief to the Court of Arbitration for Sport this week?)
This has been Australian sports' blackest week. It's all about the sinking realisation that what has been held dear for generations - sports men and women competing competitively but fairly - may of late have been a giant crock.
You think of the young, impressionable fans.
How will they react when their heroes are revealed to be unworthy of the tag?
Think back to baseball's "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and the young boys' plaintive "say it ain't so Joe" of admittedly dubious legend to the disgraced fixers of the Chicago White Sox of 1919.
Will they, the future of sport, wonder if what they're watching is on the level?
Is that goalkeeper, fullback, full forward or second rower clean? Will they care?
This is a time of awakening for New Zealand too. There are lessons to be taken.
If you still believe New Zealand to be a whiter than white, untainted sporting outpost at the bottom of the globe, then you still put out thank you notes to the tooth fairy.
This is certainly not to say New Zealand sport is riddled with wrongdoers, just as it would be naive in the extreme to think it is entirely untouched.
However, fairly or not, the perception of sport and its players in Australia - and perhaps by loose extension New Zealand, with its links to several transtasman sports - has changed, possibly for good.


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Danger of frost still looms for farmers
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Tenn. - A threat of frost has us all moving all of our tender young plants to a warmer spot, but what if you have acres of tender young plants.
Farmers across the region were prepared last night and will be watching the temperature again tonight.
The thermometer has become the farmers most used tool this week.
The bright blue skies of early May can be deceiving, mornings can get quite chilly and an orchard on Coffey Ridge in Unicoi County is at a critical time in its development.
Blooms have just about finished coming out, but the threat of another cold night puts them at risk.
Down in the valleys, strawberries are being picked but they too are in danger of frost.
The thermometer in the berry patch got a lot of views last night from farmer Larry Thompson. "He got up at 11:45 and started going to the fields and checking the thermometer. Here at the house it got down and frosted earlier," his wife Loretta said.
Just a couple of degrees can make a big difference for the vunerable crop, but luckily Mother Nature provided some help. "The temperature just floated around 33 from 12 o'clock until five this morning. Right when it was getting ready to drop the fog moved in so we didn't have to irrigate. It didn't frost on the berries," she says.
By irrigate, she's not talking about for moisture, but for protection against the frost. "There's pipes running every so many feet and sprinklers. We have to start a tractor and a pump. We run overhead sprinklers and it has to run, you have to get it started before it gets 32 degrees and run it till it gets above 32 the next morning," she explained.
But the strawberries aren't the only plants at risk on the Thompson Farm; other plants have started to emerge. "It will get the beans if it frosts on them because they're real young. The corn, sweet corn should be OK because it's been up awhile, and the other vegetable plants," she says.
But just like any farming endeavor, you just take it day by day and keep an eye on that thermometer.
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Pikeman's armour. English, London, about 1630 (II.115)
Pikeman's armour. English, London, about 1630 (II.115)
Pikeman's Armour. English, about 1625 (II.112)
Pikeman's Armour. English, about 1625 (II.113)
Pikeman's Armour. English, about 1625-30 (II.114)
Object number: II.82
The armour is typical of the pikeman's armours made in London just before the outbreak of the English Civil War. It comprises a broad-brimmed pot, a gorget, breastplate with solid plate tassets and backplate.
The pot is struck with the mark of the London armourer John Dawson. The gorget is also made in London, and has the mark probably used by George Locker. The breastplate is decorated with diamonds of brass rivets, but is unmarked.
The tassets are fitted with hinged hasps which allow them to be are detached, and have scalloped edges and decorative brass rivets, matching those on the breastplate. Though the tassets are much wider than the flange of the breastplate they are a good fit, and have been together for centuries if not in their working life. The backplate has the mark of the armourer Richard Wright
The armour was displayed on a wooden cross between two of the mounted figures in the 19th century Line of Kings.
Tower arsenal, Hewitt 1859, 16, II.82; Dillon 1910, 172, II.97


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Report: Protection 1 Will Start Selling Solar Panels Next Month
The security provider's Bright Energy unit will join Vivint Solar and SolarCity in the largely untapped solar energy market.
By SSI Staff · August 8, 2014
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — Protection 1 will begin selling solar panels to customers in September through its new Bright Energy unit, Bloomberg reports.
Protection 1 will offer systems for as little as no money upfront to lease customers in a bid to tap increasing demand from households seeking to cut power bills, according to Bloomberg. The company's solar unit, first reported in SSI, joins existing providers like SolarCity, the largest home solar company, and Vivint, whose Vivint Solar unit is the second-largest home solar installer.
Profits from the fast-growing solar market could "easily equal" those from its security business, Protection 1 CEO Tim Whall, an inductee to the SSI Industry Hall of Fame, told Bloomberg.
"We certainly like the financial model and it's a nice extension from our home automation" business, Whall said. "The timing is good for the solar business."
Even with the sector's rapid growth, few homes in the U.S. have solar power systems. "We love the fact that there is very little penetration," Whall said.
A third-party financing model that funds about two-thirds of U.S. residential systems helped the U.S. solar industry grow 60% last year, Bloomberg reports. Protection 1 will also sell systems to commercial customers. Whall expects the company to install at a rate of about 5 megawatts or 1,000 systems a month in the first quarter.


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Moscow Pullman Daily News editorial says it allPost by Brandi Smith
Below is an excerpt from a Moscow Pullman Daily News editorial published on Saturday, Jan. 21. We want to share it with you because we take great pride in serving our customers as quickly as possible. Whether it's in the midst of a storm or just a normal day, you can always count on the people who work at Avista to respond quickly and efficiently no matter what the weather does.
With snow, ice, power outages, remember to say 'thanks'
Written by Lee Rozen/M-P Daily News
Odd that a snow and ice storm, downed trees and power failures can get us feeling thankful.
Living here on the Palouse gives us a lot to be thankful for.
But we think the quick response and fast recovery from the chaos of Thursday night and Friday morning deserves extra thanks.
In some places with privately owned power companies, the response might still be getting organized. But Thursday night, we were glad for every dollar we pay Avista in our monthly power bill. As the deluge of ice and snow brought down trees and branches on power lines and caused transformers to explode, Avista moved quickly and efficiently to repair the damage or route around it. And then do it again. And again. (continued/login required.)A login to the Moscow Pullman Daily News website is required to view the whole story here.


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Well I sculpted this while I was sick the past few days. They will be made out of silicone.
Please let me know what think.
Well I sculpted this while I was sick the past few days. They will be made out of silicone.
Please let me know what think.
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I think it looks great!
I like it, but then I thought your ROTJ Weequay was amazing. Did the full costume ever get made, I would love something like that, any tips or pointers on parts etc would be cool, masks maybe? LOL.
That looks like it would be really tight. Are you going to use DragonSkin silicone?
I used DragonSkin for my Day of the Dead "Bub" appliance and it is awesome stuff!
Yeah, I think you are thinking of Darth Serberus who made a ROTJ Weequay. I am looking for one of those myself.
Sweet!! can I ask how you molded it?
You have to use ULTRACAL instead of the standard hydrocal used for making regular latex masks.
I heard ULTRACAL works good but if you can use fiber-glass it's better, do you think this true?
Oh, do you mind telling me what paint you used?
Never tried it but then again, I'm pretty old-school. LOL!
It was tinted with the dye made for DragonSkin and the rest was just latex mask greasepaint sealed with believe it or not, hairspray.
Hairspray? Thats funny I've never heard of that before.
It sets the greasepaint.
You could use the clear Krylon spray paint on a regular mask but since it was already applied to my face, the hairspray seemed a better choice.
i sent you a pm superprops =)
man i can't even stop looking at the pics , thats how good your at this =)
Thanks man! Hey, (if you know how) could you maybe photoshop some color onto it?
i can give it a shot but not the best at photoshop , you just want to see what it looks like in color? take a look at this http://theraptorsquad.deviantart.com...cric-149889545
Ooh, thats nice. But I all ready know what color the real one looks like, I was just wondering what mine would look like.
P.s. can you post a link to the thread of your mando?
it's still working in progress
Ya I did some searching and found it , it looks great!! Are you going to any cons this year?
just the one in Toronto , but not in armor , i know i still have a few yers left untill i finish my armor off , but ill be going as a weequay soon are your ready to sell them =)
do you think you will make weequary gloves?
I wish too, but I can't find any mannequin hands that are in a "high five" position. All the ones I find are like their holding on to somthing.
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i could mod my hand and send it to you?


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UTSA Real Estate Expo 2009
Business students learn about real estate industry
By Wendy Frost
Director of Communications, College of Business
(April 11, 2009)--The UTSA College of Business hosted the third annual Real Estate Expo March 5. More than 200 students and representatives from 14 companies and organizations were on hand to discuss career and internship opportunities in their respective fields.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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"The expo allowed students to interact with real estate industry representatives and receive feedback on the serious conditions we are all experiencing right now," said Sharon Straus, director of business development at Koontz McCombs. "The students asked intelligent questions and took time to listen to the advice of industry participants."
Participating companies were Embrey Partners, First American Commercial Property Group, Galaxy Builders Ltd., Joeris General Contractors Ltd., Koontz McCombs, Lyda Swinerton Builders, Metropolitan Contracting Co., Presidio Title and Yantis Company.
Organizational participants were Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM), Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), Institute for Real Estate Management (IREM) and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA).
"The expo allowed me to identify a variety of opportunities in the real estate industry as well as network with professionals in the real estate community," said Will Andress, a UTSA real estate finance and development major.
The expo is sponsored by the UTSA College of Business Center for Student Professional Development, the Real Estate Finance and Development program and the UTSA Career Center.
The college's dynamic Real Estate Finance and Development program has grown to more than 150 students in the last year. The college offers a B.B.A. degree in real estate finance and development, an M.B.A. concentration in real estate finance, an M.S. in finance with a concentration in real estate finance as well as a new M.S. in construction science and management.


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A Message from the President: UTSA Police Department's 'Secure It, Keep It' Campaign
September 18, 2008
To the UTSA community:
UTSA is committed to ensuring that our students, faculty, staff and guests have a safe and pleasant experience when visiting any of the UTSA campuses. To that end, the UTSA Police Department announces an anti-theft awareness campaign called "Secure It, Keep It." The purpose of the campaign is to create awareness about the importance of securing your belongings to avoid potential theft.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Studies reveal that the majority of thefts on university campuses are crimes of opportunity, which occur because belongings were left unattended in unsecured areas. By simply securing your belongings and ensuring that they are not left unattended, you can limit being victimized.
With this in mind, the "Secure It, Keep It" campaign will focus in the coming weeks on building awareness throughout our campuses utilizing print and electronic media to remind everyone to secure their belongings. We hope that you will do your part to "Secure It, Keep It."
Ricardo Romo
The University of Texas at San Antonio


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Serving It Safe Review course offered in Brainerd
A Serving It Safe Review course will be offered from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the Business & Industry Center at Central Lakes College in Brainerd. Use Entrance No. 6.
This course will meet the requirements for four hours of continuing education for certified food managers. It will address food sanitation and safety, emerging trends in food preparation and handling sanitation and prevention of food-borne illness.
Instructor is Colette Pohlkamp.
Fee is $70. Advanced registration is required.
Mail completed registration form and payment to Central Lakes College, ATTN: B&I Center, 501 W. College Drive, Brainerd, MN 56401. If paying by check, make payable to Central Lakes College.
Phone registrations are accepted with a personal debit/credit card at 218-855-8118 or 800-933-0346, ext. 8118. Fax registration and credit card information to 218-855-8141.
Online registration is at http://clcmn.augusoft.net and click on "courses."
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For more information, contact Central Lakes College, Brainerd Campus, at 218-855-8118 or 800-933-0346, ext. 8118.


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Strategies Targeted for Academic Rewards (S.T.A.R.) Program
The S.T.A.R. program provides academic support to conditionally admitted students who show the potential to succeed in college but need additional support.
The program helps at-risk students develop strategies to be successful at Aurora University and beyond, including:
• Maximizing self-awareness
• Establishing goals
• Developing supportive relationships
• Identifying preferred learning styles
• Managing time
• Increasing comprehension through reading, studying and note taking.
First-year students are paired with a successful upperclassmen student mentors who help them manage their first year of college experience.
During the summer, S.T.A.R. students get a head start in adjusting to college life at AU by attending a specialized orientation in August. Throughout the year, participants continue developing studying strategies by attending required courses in the fall and spring semesters.
FALL SEMESTER: IDS1100: First Year Experience – Creating Success for College and Beyond
SPRING SEMESTER: IDS1100: First Year Experience – Career Exploration for Personal Growth and Development
Students will also set individual appointments with the S.T.A.R. coordinator, a full-time academic advisor, throughout their first year to set academic and career goals.
First Year Experience Courses
Students in the STAR Program will enroll in IDS1100: First Year Experience – Creating Success for College and Beyond during fall semester and IDS1100: First Year Experience-Career Exploration for Personal Growth and Development during spring semester. As participants in these courses, students will develop study strategies and make changes in the way they look at themselves and their lives as college students.
This course in fall is designed to help students achieve success in college and in life by developing their study strategies. Topics will include personal responsibility, time management, emotional intelligence and financial literacy.
The course in spring is designed to help students develop career goals and lay out a path for achieving these goals. Students will examine their own personal interests, aptitudes, values, decision making skills, academic plans, and career awareness. This personal, educational, and occupational information will then be organized into an individual course of action to help you in planning for your second year at Aurora University.
Meet the Coordinator
Kris Johnson
Director of Student Leadership
Academic Advisor
STAR Program Coordinator
(630) 844-5624
Crouse Center for Student Success
RM310 Eckhart Hall
As the coordinator of the STAR Program, I work with conditionally admitted students to provide them with the skills needed to be successful college students and establish short- and long-term goals to plan for their academic success. These skills (e.g., time management, study strategies, stress management, note-taking, test-taking) are delivered through the STAR Orientation, IDS course, and individual advising appointments.
Please contact me if you have any questions about the program.


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Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) combine information and communications technologies with vehicles and infrastructure to improve traffic routing and travel times, and trim fuel consumption. For years, supporters called for the technologies to be made part of the normal government funding process rather than being treated as something fit only for small pilot projects.
While that goal has been achieved, there's a downside.
The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Transportation Technology Innovation has been used to steer taxpayer money to a company — Traffic.com Inc. — chosen not by competitive bids but by political deals. The program maintains the company's control over data by deploying federal grants improperly to sell its offerings to cities and states. Legislators from both sides of the aisle have charged the U.S. DOT with evading provisions intended to open the program to competition.
ITS is an attractive tool to help government agencies combat congestion, but most commercial traveler information providers and public-sector partners can't access the most valuable data. The program needs to be replaced with an initiative designed from the start to serve the public interest.
Traffic.com Inc. is a NAVTEQ company that provides personalized real-time traffic information. Its involvement in congestion-mitigation initiatives goes back to language inserted into the 1998 federal surface transportation program — the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century — that authorized an "intelligent transportation infrastructure program" for the "measurement of various transportation system activities" to aid in planning and analysis. The law specified that the program would:
- Be initiated in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania is home to Republican Bud Shuster, who was chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at the time.
- Provide data from an expanded "infrastructure of the measurement of various transportation system metrics" in more than 40 metropolitan areas at a cost of $2 million each.
- Support private technology commercialization initiatives to generate revenues to be shared with transportation departments.
- "Aggregate data into reports for multipoint data distribution techniques."
- "Utilize an advanced information system designed and monitored by an entity with experience with the DOT in the design and monitoring of high-reliability, mission-critical voice and data systems."
Out of this early language grew a government-funded and -supported monopoly for traffic information data.
In a June 2001 Federal Register notice, the DOT announced that two other cities would be included and invited additional government entities to apply for grants to create a regional and national information-sharing system. State and local transportation agencies had to be willing to work with "a private partner preselected" by the DOT: Traffic.com.
In early 2001, control of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed from Shuster to Republican Don Young of Alaska. During Young's tenure, Traffic.com executives contributed to his reelection campaign and political action committee, particularly at the beginning of his tenure when the company was lobbying Congress to get funds appropriated for this program and surrounding the passage of TEA-21's successor, SAFETEA-LU, in 2005. The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, reported that the company spent more than $900,000 over the years.
Although TEA-21 authorized the program, funds needed to be appropriated to make it happen. Traffic.com supporters managed to get $50 million appropriated in the FY2001 Transportation Appropriations Bill by inserting language that the program would be instituted in 25 additional metropolitan areas, with a $2 million federal grant to each.
The DOT's position on the propriety and legality of this move has varied: At times it has been uneasy about it and once challenged it; other times it seemed to be a reluctant defender. In 2001, FHWA's deputy executive director resisted pressure from Shuster to direct $50 million in additional funds to the company without competition, saying that to do so "would significantly change the scope of the (prior) contract and require re-competition."


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Records: North Carolina 12-1 (0-0 ACC), Clemson 4-7 (0-0 ACC)
Rankings: North Carolina is ranked No. 16 in the AP poll and No. 23 in the coaches' poll. Clemson is unranked.
TV: TigerCast. A live stream of today's game can be found at ClemsonTigers.com.
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network, a division of Learfield Communications. Walter Storholt (play-by-play) has the call. A link to the live stream can be found at GoHeels.com.
On The Web: GoHeels.com • Twitter: @UNCWBB • @UNCWBBCoach
• North Carolina is 51-27 all-time against Clemson, including a 15-14 mark in Clemson.
• Clemson won the lone regular season matchup in 2012, a 52-47 final in Chapel Hill. Carolina rebounded to defeat the Lady Tigers in the first round of the ACC Tournament, 90-51.
• Prior to last season's setback, the Tar Heels had won 16 straight against Clemson, UNC's longest winning streak in the series. The Lady Tigers have not beaten the Tar Heels at home since a 69-65 win in 2000.
• Carolina and Clemson played at least twice during the regular season every year from 1982 to 2004. This will mark the ninth season in a row the teams have met just once in regular season play.
• The Tar Heels are 27-8 in ACC openers all-time, with a 20-6 mark under Sylvia Hatchell.
• Carolina has won 16 of its last 18 ACC openers, with the two losses coming at Maryland on Jan. 9, 2005, and at Georgia Tech on Jan. 6, 2011.
• UNC opened league play last season with a 65-63 upset win over No. 12 Miami in Chapel Hill.
• Carolina last opened the ACC schedule against Clemson in 2008-09, when the Tar Heels started their league campaign with an 83-74 road victory.
LAST TIME OUT: No. 16 UNC 85, East Tennessee State 44
CHAPEL HILL --- Tierra Ruffin-Pratt had 18 points and a career-high nine assists and North Carolina forced 36 turnovers as the No. 16 Tar Heels ran past East Tennessee State, 85-44, Friday afternoon at Carmichael Arena. UNC blew open the game with a 28-2 run that crossed halftime to improve to 12-1 ahead of Sunday's Atlantic Coast Conference opener at Clemson. Xylina McDaniel added 11 points despite being limited to 16 minutes due to foul trouble and Megan Buckland had nine points on 3-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc.


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– February 28 2011
– Year XI
Issue 136 • Every thirty months the amount of information
can be transmitted over a wireless internet connection doubles.
Wireless could be the way to provide affordable broadband to millions
of people currently living with poor connectivity. However the policy
and regulation related to spectrum is often inefficient, secretive and
ill-informed. A global shift in spectrum regulation is currently
under-way and regulatory reforms are being developed and proposed in
many different countries. As part of APC's work on open
for development, we have commissioned studies in five
to identify loopholes in current policies and recognise good
practices. Previously we covered Kenya and
now read our
features on India and South Africa. And watch out for Brazil in the
coming weeks.
YORK (Take back the tech! for APC) – Boyfriends and girlfriends rarely
make commitments and plans to delete private photographs of each other
when they snap them. What happens when the relationship breaks
down and one of them decides to post them online? What about the people
who receive and forward the images and videos? In each act of viewing
and forwarding, they are continuing and replicating the violence.
APC is launching a new campaign to stop the spread of violence by
committing not to forward abusive messages. We invite you to take a
(LC for APCNews) - As one of the world's fastest growing economies and
with over 65% of its billion-plus population under 35, India has huge
potential. But according to a new report by Shyam Ponappa, commissioned
by APC the current model for managing spectrum in India could be a huge
barrier to the country's economic and social development. Instead, he
suggests that "it would be much more conducive to a sound economy...to
have two to three main operators as we do with the provision of
(LC for APCNews) – "Open spectrum is important because access is
important" says Steve Song, telecommunications fellow at the
Shuttleworth Foundation in an interview with APCNews. But in South
Africa, the problem is not lack of access - it's that access is not
affordable. Freeing up wireless spectrum, such as television white
spaces --the space between channels-- or making more information
available on spectrum that is currently not in use could help to make
affordable access a reality. Song is the author of a new country survey
report commissioned by APC in which he explores how spectrum is
currently managed in South Africa, and the barriers that are blocking
(Evan Light for APCNews) - Most communications policies around the
globe have been developed on models based on the economic, political
and social realities of North America and Europe – which assume large
private companies build expansive national wired
So laws and regulations have evolved with the understanding that these
wired networks are the main communication infrastructure and that
wireless networks connect through them. But wired networks do
exist in many developing countries and do not necessarily need to be
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Born in New Bedford in 1990, I grew up with something of a flair for performing. Whether it was high school performances, college venues, or community theater, I was always looking for a way to satisfy the "acting bug." In 2007, I was introduced to WBSM through an internship from Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech, which provided me with a much more useful outlet for my creativity. Since 2008, I have worked in the WBSM newsroom, gathering news, covering stories, and relaying the happenings of the day to you. In 2011, I was given the reigns to the Saturday morning slot, where I enjoyed bringing local happenings and discussion to you for nearly two years. In early 2013, I introduced the Southcoast to "Mid-Day Live," a mid-afternoon program that led way to the "Taylor Cormier Show" that debuted in 2014. A variety of national and local topics are filtered through my views, logic, and humor each and every weekday from 12 to 3 p.m. Be sure to tune in and participate in the dialogue.


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Welcome to Ashaya Yoga®
Ashaya (AH-shy-ah), a Sanskrit word that means, "abode of the heart", blends precise, biomechanical alignment techniques with empowering and spiritually uplifting heart virtues that support a total awakening and harmony of body, mind, and spirit. This transformational yoga is more than just a "yoga workout". In addition to building strength, balance, flexibility, and healing chronic pain, you leave each class calm, focused, and inspired to live the best version of yourself. When you are happy, everyone becomes happier around you. Change yourself. Change the world.


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If you've been reading 4-Wheel & Off-Road for even a little while, you've probably become familiar with our Ultimate Adventure and the vehicles that we build for the trip each summer. This year,tech editor Fred Williams worked feverishly to finish our four-door JK Wrangler just in time for the trip, but it would only carry our illustrious leader Rick Pw and Fred on our adventure. And though the Wrangler is the highlight of our coverage, it takes quite a crew to make this trip happen. Cameramen (or women), our publisher, and the rest of the staff have to be jumping around on the rocks behind the U.A. group to make sure the filming runs as smoothly as possible. With the help of Jeep, we had decided on building two Commanders, which probably has a few of you scratching your heads right now. Why the heck build Commanders? Well, though they are IFS, they are excellent off-road vehicles right out of the box and share the same platform, drivetrain, and suspension that comes under the 2005 4x4 of the Year winner Grand Cherokee. Plus they are the biggest 4x4s with the most cargo capacity in Jeep's lineup. As long as we could wrangle up some parts to build them with, we knew that we'd have no problem making some very capable support vehicles.
We didn't want both Commanders turning out exactly the same, and we really only needed one (Biggie) to be extreme enough for recovery and extraction purposes. The other Commander (Shortie) would only need to get itself around intermediate trails and carry crew members and equipment. Therefore we had two very different, but similar, builds in mind.
With the help of Jeeps R Us in Laguna Beach, California, we'd start with the suspensions, get on the tires, and work from there. This month, we'll be covering the suspension options you have with a Commander (or Grand Cherokee) and see how our tires fit. Next month we'll be adding all the little doodads we can find like rock rails, GPS, racks, and the like.
"Biggie," as we've affectionately named one Commander (Commander No. 1 and Commander No. 2 just sound so boring), was getting a Superlift height augmentation. With the 4-inch Commander/Grand Cherokee suspension lift, we hoped to fit on a set of brand-new 33-inch BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain KM2s under our ride without too much trimming. We had to be careful with tire size because of the high-pressure climate control lines that run down the upper part of the passenger-side front fenderwell. If our tires hit that, it'd make air conditioning a thing of the past for Biggie, something we wanted to avoid considering the 110+ degree heat in our destination state of Texas.
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Shortie was our No. 2 Commander, and was getting a more mild treatment than Biggie. It wouldn't be as off-road capable as Biggie, but would still be able to get us onto most trails and be more freeway friendly. It's a rarity, but we actually had some forethought in these two builds and decided that Biggie was going to get beat on, while Shortie would remain a little more stock and be a good, reliable daily driver since we didn't really have any of those. Biggie was certainly more than capable of being daily driven, but with only a 4.7L V-8 under the hood and not the 5.7L Hemi, Biggie struggled to keep up freeway speeds with 33-inch tires.
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Gentex helmet padding for the kevlar military helmets works pretty well.
Gentex helmet padding for the kevlar military helmets works pretty well.
Very fun thread and can't wait to see it all together. On your next holiday to the states you need to bring it and troop, would be cool.
It's all personal preference really. But I'd assume most people would want to put the lights into their range finder. This would mean that you will put a battery pack in your helmet. Other people put a wireless servo that they control from their gauntlet to rotate the range finder up and down. Another pack for the helmet I believe...
Then you may want helmet fans if the lid gets hot and you find yourself on long troops. Again, personal preference but I hear these are life savers especially if you live in a warmer climate.
Hadn't thought about lights though. Not particularly bothered about having them, I'm a bad Boba!
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Boots arrived today
Not perfect but the best I am gonna do for little girly feet without making something myself!
Will get toe spikes attached asap
Well, today was the big day. MCM con London. And I don't have my top and trousers yet. Or jetpack harness. What are the odds I get them tomorrow!?
Oh well.
Uk femtrooper squad should be at Birmingham Memorabilia next month. See if I can make that!
What are you doing for a harness?
That's too bad about the con. Fingers crossed you get them tomorrow though
I ordered and paid for a harness august 10th not received yet
Well I guess if I get top and trousers back in the next couple of days it gives me time for weathering etc
Just a shame I got them a while back already and they didn't fit!
Are you doing a metal or soft harness - sorry, that's what I mean. Only curious because of the difference in size of the jetpack.
Haven't looked in on this in a while , you've come a long way . What you got looks great , and I can't get over how fast too! I hope you make Birmingham!
Well rest of soft parts should be back soon so I can get on with weathering instead. And JP harness I am told should be shipped next week so maybe I'll be ready for Birmingham *crosses fingers*
My flightsuit seems to have disappeared somewhere in the post. Well this sucks.
I missed Birmingham too :-(
Still no sign of flightsuit this end. Maker is looking for a postage receipt but has moved house recently so I am doubtful anything will come of it now :-( I don't even know what to do in this situation.
Anyhoo, I did receive my jetpack harness so am going to need some help fitting the hooks etc and attaching it all!
Sounds like its time for a new flight suit....
Just don't change themes in the middle of things....Now I got one I gotta turn grey.
I agree :-( have PMd Crazy4bobafett but I don't know if she is active at the moment as I haven't heard back
Guess this stuff happens. At least it wasn't my armour or helmet :-)
If anyone knows her off TDH and could let her know I would appreciate it!
We're those CAboots in your pic? I got some and now wish I had waited, MoW will do another run sometime early next year....
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Considering how hyped up you were for this build, I'm really disappointed and sad for you that things have taken such a rotten turn.
I hope that things pick up again soon.
Bump! So it's 3:40am here and I can't sleep :-( so thought I should check in :-)
I was invited to a fancy dress party a couple of weeks ago, it sucks I couldn't bust out Boba :-(
New flightsuit currently being negotiated so I should be back into it again soon :-D
Remembered I also need a new neckseal and a blaster so will have a browse...
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+1! Thanks for the help Pirate.
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+1! Thanks for the help Pirate.
If you're doing a full auto MG-42 as a rental, then I'm definitely stopping by on my next time through
will a friend of mine whom is a gun smith and works on MG's has a few receivers he made off those 80 % and they work fine.
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Are you sure they weren't BRP 80% receivers? the phil ord is made from a steel block.


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Pipeline 2012: Pharma's Front-Runners
Pipeline 2012: Pharma's Front-Runners
Profiling a dozen agents on deck plus 203 products in the wings, MM&M's Pipeline 2012 sees a year of change. Marc Iskowitz reports
Welcome to MM&M's Pipeline 2012, a guide to late-stage R&D and a tip sheet on what's generating the most buzz in drug development. Scrutinizing the new crop of front-runners, readers may ask themselves: Is the blockbuster still alive?
As pharma troops further into biotech territory, an area often characterized by smaller patient pools and more limited sales, maybe there should be a lesser threshold of commercial success.
Not so fast, says Ben Weintraub, PhD, director of research at Wolters Kluwer inThought. Exhibit A, he says, is Vertex's drug for treating hepatitis C virus, Incivek. Since jumping from the pages of our Pipeline 2011 report to a May approval by the FDA, Incivek is well on its way to making history—reaching a billion dollars in sales by year's end would make it the fastest new product launch on record.
"The idea that the age of the blockbuster is over is definitely not true," Weintraub asserts. While Incivek is no Lipitor, it "still shows that a new drug can get taken up and used, change the standard of care, and make a lot of money."
Huge, chronic markets like diabetes or cardiovascular disease are no longer the only tickets to success. "Now, what you need to become a blockbuster," he says, "is a specialty drug, one that's expensive—to offset the smaller treatment population—but one that fills a significant unmet need."
Among potential blockbusters set to launch in the next few years, several are speciality drugs. In hepatitis C, we may see another one.
Drug developers are getting closer to an all-oral HCV regimen that eliminates the need for injected interferon. The first of these is expected to reach market in 2015. Until then, Boehringer Ingelheim's BI-201335 could make inroads on Incivek and Merck's Victrelis. On similar lines, some are looking for Biogen Idec's BG-12 to unseat Novartis' Gilenya as the preferred oral multiple sclerosis drug.
Among oral small molecules, Pfizer's tofacitinib and AstraZeneca/Rigel's fostamatinib have their sights set on challenging injected biologics in rheumatoid arthritis. There are also expectations that the novel oral anticoagulant Eliquis (Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer) could be the third such agent approved and make a serious bid for cardiologists' Rx pads, although inexpensive warfarin could curb sales.
In addition to the infectious disease, neurology, rheumatology and cardiovascular sectors, this report dives into oncology, where the big story is the recent slate of personalized medicine approvals: BMS's Yervoy, Pfizer's Xalkori and Roche/Plexxikon's Zelboraf. In these pages you'll read about other biologics being developed for targeted lines of tumor treatment. Metabolic and orphan therapies, plus respiratory and women's health, are highlighted in the report, too.
Consistent with our methodology the last several years, top picks are based on consultation with Wolters Kluwer inThought, Adis R&D Insight, GfK HealthCare and other experts. Each profile has a snapshot of safety and efficacy data vs. the standard of care and, where available, the estimated month of approval, plus a quick way to gauge the likelihood of an FDA OK called the inThought Approvability Index (anything above 50% stands a good chance). Rounding out the report are analyst comments, revenue forecasts and lists of other key products.
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In today's threatscape, antivirus software provides little piece of mind. In fact, antimalware scanners on the whole are horrifically inaccurate, especially with exploits less than 24 hours old. After all, malicious hackers and malware can change their tactics at will. Swap a few bytes around, and a previously recognized malware program becomes unrecognizable.
To combat this, many antimalware programs monitor program behaviors, often called heuristics, to catch previously unrecognized malware. Other programs use virtualized environments, system monitoring, network traffic detection, and all of the above at once in order to be more accurate. And still they fail us on a regular basis.
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Here are 11 sure signs you've been hacked and what to do in the event of compromise. Note that in all cases, the No. 1 recommendation is to completely restore your system to a known good state before proceeding. In the early days, this meant formatting the computer and restoring all programs and data. Today, depending on your operating system, it might simply mean clicking on a Restore button. Either way, a compromised computer can never be fully trusted again. The recovery steps listed in each category below are the recommendations to follow if you don't want to do a full restore -- but again, a full restore is always a better option, risk-wise.
Sure sign of system compromise No. 1: Fake antivirus messages
In slight decline these days, fake antivirus warning messages are among the surest signs that your system has been compromised. What most people don't realize is that by the time they see the fake antivirus warning, the damage has been done. Clicking No or Cancel to stop the fake virus scan is too little, too late. The malicious software has already made use of unpatched software, often the Java Runtime Environment or an Adobe product, to completely exploit your system.
Why does the malicious program bother with the "antivirus warning"? This is because the fake scan, which always finds tons of "viruses," is a lure to buy their product. Clicking on the provided link sends you to a professional-looking website, complete with glowing letters of recommendation. There, they ask you for your credit card number and billing information. You'd be surprised how many people get tricked into providing personal financial information. The bad guys gain complete control of your system and get your credit card or banking information. For bad guys, it's the Holy Grail of hacking.
What to do: As soon as you notice the fake antivirus warning message, power down your computer. (Note: This requires knowing what your legitimate antivirus program's warning looks like.) If you need to save anything and can do it, do so. But the sooner you power off your computer, the better. Boot up the computer system in Safe Mode, No Networking, and try to uninstall the newly installed software (oftentimes it can be uninstalled like a regular program). Either way, follow up by trying to restore your system to a state previous to the exploitation. If successful, test the computer in regular mode and make sure that the fake antivirus warnings are gone. Then follow up with a complete antivirus scan. Oftentimes, the scanner will find other sneak remnants left behind.
Sure sign of system compromise No. 2: Unwanted browser toolbars
This is probably the second most common sign of exploitation: Your browser has multiple new toolbars with names that seem to indicate the toolbar is supposed to help you. Unless you recognize the toolbar as coming from a very well-known vendor, it's time to dump the bogus toolbar.
What to do: Most browsers allow you to review installed and active toolbars. Remove any you didn't absolutely want to install. When in doubt, remove it. If the bogus toolbar isn't listed there or you can't easily remove it, see if your browser has an option to reset the browser back to its default settings. If this doesn't work, follow the instructions listed above for fake antivirus messages. You can usually avoid malicious toolbars by making sure that all your software is fully patched and by being on the lookout for free software that installs these tool bars. Hint: Read the licensing agreement. Toolbar installs are often pointed out in the licensing agreements that most people don't read.
Sure sign of system compromise No. 3: Redirected Internet searches
Many hackers make their living by redirecting your browser somewhere other than you want to go. The hacker gets paid by getting your clicks to appear on someone else's website, often those who don't know that the clicks to their site are from malicious redirection.
You can often spot this type of malware by typing a few related, very common words (for example, "puppy" or "goldfish") into Internet search engines and checking to see whether the same websites appear in the results -- almost always with no actual relevance to your terms. Unfortunately, many of today's redirected Internet searches are well hidden from the user through use of additional proxies, so the bogus results are never returned to alert the user. In general, if you have bogus toolbar programs, you're also being redirected. Technical users who really want to confirm can sniff their own browser or network traffic. The traffic sent and returned will always be distinctly different on a compromised computer vs. an uncompromised computer.
What to do: Follow the same instructions as above. Usually removing the bogus toolbars and programs is enough to get rid of malicious redirection.
Sure sign of system compromise No. 4: Frequent random popups
This popular sign that you've been hacked is also one of the more annoying ones. When you're getting random browser pop-ups from websites that don't normally generate them, your system has been compromised. I'm constantly amazed about which websites, legitimate and otherwise, can bypass your browser's anti-pop-up mechanisms. It's like battling email spam, but worse.
What to do: Not to sound like a broken record, but typically random pop-ups are generated by one of the three previous malicious mechanisms noted above. You'll need to get rid of bogus toolbars and other programs if you even hope to get rid of the pop-ups.
Sure sign of system compromise No. 5: Your friends receive fake emails from your email account
This is the one scenario where you might be OK. It's fairly common for our email friends to receive malicious emails from us. A decade ago, when email attachment viruses were all the rage, it was very common for malware programs to survey your email address book and send malicious emails to everyone in it.
These days it's more common for malicious emails to be sent to some of your friends, but not everyone in your email address book. If it's just a few friends and not everyone in your email list, then more than likely your computer hasn't been compromised (at least with an email address-hunting malware program). These days malware programs and hackers often pull email addresses and contact lists from social media sites, but doing so means obtaining a very incomplete list of your contacts' email addresses. Although not always the case, the bogus emails they send to your friends often don't have your email address as the sender. It may have your name, but not your correct email address. If this is the case, then usually your computer is safe.
What to do: If one or more friends reports receiving bogus emails claiming to be from you, do your due diligence and run a complete antivirus scan on your computer, followed by looking for unwanted installed programs and toolbars. Often it's nothing to worry about, but it can't hurt to do a little health check when this happens.
Sure sign of system compromise No. 6: Your online passwords suddenly change
If one or more of your online passwords suddenly change, you've more than likely been hacked -- or at least that online service has been hacked. In this particular scenario, usually what has happened is that the victim responded to an authentic-looking phish email that purportedly claimed to be from the service that ends up with the changed password. The bad guy collects the logon information, logs on, changes the password (and other information to complicate recovery), and uses the service to steal money from the victim or the victim's acquaintances (while pretending to be the victim).
What to do: If the scam is widespread and many acquaintances you know are being reached out to, immediately notify all your contacts about your compromised account. Do this to minimize the damage being done to others by your mistake. Second, contact the online service to report the compromised account. Most online services are used to this sort of maliciousness and can quickly get the account back under your control with a new password in a few minutes. Some services even have the whole process automated. A few services even have a "My friend's been hacked!" button that lets your friends start the process. This is helpful, because your friends often know your account has been compromised before you do.
If the compromised logon information is used on other websites, immediately change those passwords. And be more careful next time. Websites rarely send emails asking you to provide your logon information. When in doubt, go to the website directly (don't use the links sent to you in email) and see if the same information is being requested when you log on using the legitimate method. You can also call the service via their phone line or email them to report the received phish email or to confirm its validity. Lastly, consider using online services that provide two-factor authentication. It makes your account much harder to steal.
Sure sign of system compromise No. 7: Unexpected software installs
Unwanted and unexpected software installs are a big sign that your computer system has likely been hacked.
In the early days of malware, most programs were computer viruses, which work by modifying other legitimate programs. They did this to better hide themselves. For whatever reason, most malware programs these days are Trojans and worms, and they typically install themselves like legitimate programs. This may be because their creators are trying to walk a very thin line when the courts catch up to them. They can attempt to say something like, "But we are a legitimate software company." Oftentimes the unwanted software is legally installed by other programs, so read your license agreements. Frequently, I'll read license agreements that plainly state that they will be installing one or more other programs. Sometimes you can opt out of these other installed programs; other times you can't.
What to do: There are many free programs that show you all your installed programs and let you selectively disable them. My favorite for Windows is Autoruns. It doesn't show you every program installed but will tell you the ones that automatically start themselves when your PC is restarted. Most malware programs can be found here. The hard part is determining what is and what isn't legitimate. When in doubt, disable the unrecognized program, reboot the PC, and reenable the program only if some needed functionality is no longer working.
Sure sign of system compromise No. 8: Your mouse moves between programs and makes correct selections
If your mouse pointer moves itself while making selections that work, you've definitely been hacked. Mouse pointers often move randomly, usually due to hardware problems. But if the movements involve making the correct choices to run particular programs, malicious humans are somewhere involved.
Not as common as some of the other attacks, many hackers will break into a computer, wait for it to be idle for a long time (like after midnight), then try to steal your money. Hackers will break into bank accounts and transfer money, trade your stocks, and do all sorts of rogue actions, all designed to lighten your cash load.
What to do: If your computer "comes alive" one night, take a minute before turning it off to determine what the intruders are interested in. Don't let them rob you, but it will be useful to see what things they are looking at and trying to compromise. If you have a cellphone handy, take a few pictures to document their tasks. When it makes sense, power off the computer. Unhook it from the network (or disable the wireless router) and call in the professionals. This is the one time that you're going to need expert help.
Using another known good computer, immediately change all your other logon names and passwords. Check your bank account transaction histories, stock accounts, and so on. Consider paying for a credit-monitoring service. If you've been a victim of this attack, you have to take it seriously. Complete restore of the computer is the only option you should choose for recovery. But if you've lost any money, make sure to let the forensics team make a copy first. If you've suffered a loss, call law enforcement and file a case. You'll need this information to best recover your real money losses, if any.


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So what is the best pollen trap on the market for use in big operations? Is it a bottom or a top hive trap?
So what is the best pollen trap on the market for use in big operations? Is it a bottom or a top hive trap?
Sundance Bottom
There was a study here a couple of years ago which involved analyzing pesticides in the pollen collected from traps.
The inadvertently found out that the older galvanized type traps sampled pollen with levels of lead
the next round of testing was done with new stainless steel pollen traps.
Ian Steppler >> Canadian Beekeeper's Blog
CC Pollen in Arizona has a good bottom trap, I have a few hundred we use every spring
Larry Pender,Jubilee HoneyBee Company,Camarillo, CA
Sundance bottom trap.
Raising Vermont Bees one mistake at a time.
USDA Zone 5A
Now for the next question. Who's got the best price on the bottom Sundance traps.
Lloyd Spear
Whats Lloyd call sign on here???
It looks like an email address, but its also a Beesource user name. 2
USDA Zone 7A Elevation 1400 ft
Thanks for the help guys. I'll send him a PM.
Dadant has some 8-frame top traps listed. They also carry Sundance II (10-frame). They both may be Sundance - not sure.
Tony P.
There must be a harder way to do that... let me find it for you.