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The San Francisco 49ers entered the season with one big hole on defense after free agent Dashon Goldson departed to get a $41.25 million deal with Tampa Bay. Armed with 13 picks in last year's draft, GM Trent Baalke elected to move up to No. 18 and take All-American safety Eric Reid of LSU in a draft-day trade with the Cowboys. It worked out well for the 49ers, as Reid started all 19 games and earned a trip to the Pro Bowl as an alternate for his role on the league's third-ranked scoring defense.
Reid was paired with eight-year veteran Donte Whitner, a pending free agent, who had a Pro-Bowl year in his own right. Going forward, San Francisco faces a tough situation given the current salary structure and Whitner's potential value on the open market. The 49ers have until March 8 to negotiate with their own free agents before they can begin talking to other suiters.
"(Whitner's) been my mentor coming in the NFL," Reid said. "He gives that player's point of view. I couldn't have asked for a better guy to set the tone for my career."
The 49ers could elect to franchise Whitner, which would likely cost in the $6-8 million range for next season. A long-term deal seems less likely given the front office's unwillingness to offer a similar contract to Goldson, who was franchised for $6.2 million in his final year with the team in 2012. Whitner will be 29 next season while the free agent pool is deep at the position. They could elect to for a cheaper short-term fix by looking at a free agent or drafting another safety early.
One idea worth considering is moving Reid to strong safety and finding a free safety to replace Whitner. Reid was the only safety on the roster that took reps exclusively at free safety and coordinator Vic Fangio has liked his safeties to be able to play both in the past. Having learned the responsibilities of free safety would ease the transition for Reid and allow him to spend the offseason learning to play the other side with relative ease.
Reid suffered two concussions this season, one in Week 2 against the Seahawks and another Week 10 versus the Panthers. But he did not miss a start.
Whitner - winner of the Garry Niver Award for the second time since 2011 for his handling of the media - was an integral part of Reid's development from first-round pick to starter this season. Reid played well beyond his years and Whitner had a lot to do with it.
"That'd be huge for me," Reid said when asked about Whitner returning next season. "If you go back through the archives and look at all the interviews I've done this year, I've always given him and the coaching staff the credit for molding me as a rookie. I honestly can say I don't think I could have played as well as I did this year without him and Coach Donatell and Coach Jackson."
Reid went the entire season without committing a penalty. Goldson, however, was flagged for six personal fouls, incurred a reported $190,000 in fines and lost a game check worth $264,705 after getting suspended. Unlike Goldson, Reid's form tackling stood out from the very beginning of the season, even though he made a habit of taking bad angles early on.
Whitner spent much of the season arguing with officials about the league's evolving stance on hits to defenseless receivers. He improved his tackling fundamentals dramatically from last year, but didn't shy away from the big hit. He was flagged for five unnecessary roughness penalties, but wasn't fined for any of his hits after league review.
"I talked to Coach Harbaugh, talked to Vic Fangio, Ed Donatell," Whitner said. "I talked to everybody, and everybody expresses they want me back. But you know, this is a business. Sometimes players don't fit into what you want to do salary-cap-wise. So I'm not saying that's the case here. Hopefully we can get something done and work something out. But we'll see."
Whitner became a minor sideshow midway through the season when he announced he filed paperwork is his native Ohio to change his name to Hitner and began selling "Legal Hitner" shirts in protest of the unnecessary roughness calls that went against him.
That aside, Whitner improved his cover skills dramatically from the previous year when he allowed 12 touchdowns in coverage (including the postseason), according to Pro Football Focus. This year he allowed just two in 2013 which bodes well for his chances at earning top dollar in the free agent market. Whitner's always been good in run support, although he has a habit of going for the hit instead of wrapping up the ball carrier.
"You have to go based on what the player brings to the team, brings to the defense, brings to the offense," Whitner said. "You have to go based on, is this guy a team leader or is he just one of the guys? You go based on the player's worth. So we'll see what happens."
Whitner allowed quarterbacks to complete 26 of 50 passes for 337 yards and two touchdowns when targeting him in coverage, good for a 61.8 quarterback rating. Quarterbacks had a 130.6 rating when targeting him in 2012. He had three interceptions on the year, including a game-sealer late in the Divisional Round win in Carolina.
Reid's numbers were equally impressive, especially for a rookie. He finished second on the team with four interceptions, including a pair in his first two games as a pro against the Packers and Seahawks. He allowed just two touchdowns in coverage on the season and was third on the defense with 73 tackles.
The 49ers brought Craig Dahl in during the offseason to add depth and compete with Reid for the starting job. He played 89 snaps on defense with 43 coming in Seattle Week 2 after Reid left with a concussion. He was a regular contributor on special teams alongside the other reserve safeties C.J. Spillman and Bubba Ventrone.
Going forward the 49ers have to feel good about what they saw out of Reid in his first season. But Whitner's pending free agency puts the team in a corner. It's doing everything it can to stay as far underneath the salary cap as possible with Colin Kaepernick, Michael Crabtree, Aldon Smith and Mike Iupati due for free agency following next season. Bringing back both Anquan Boldin and Whitner doesn't seem financially plausible under those restrictions.
Safeties Under Contract for 2014
Eric Reid
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C.J. Spillman
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D.J. Campbell
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Ok so lets see here what do we have for options?
Rubies 2 piece
Rubies/don post rubber crap
Don Post 95/dlx
a crap load of ebay recasts.
OK so here I am being a rather larg Jango person myself what are the different sizes of the helmets? Who offers the biggest helmet and does anyone have possible dimensions? I am currently using a Rubies 2 piece and this weekend I tried on what was supposed to be MSH1. I can say whatever I tried on this weekend was definately smaller than my 2 piece. So small that I could not get it on my head at all. Please help me out as best as you can!

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Using log data to help keep you safe
March 13th, 2008 | Published in Google Public Policy
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We recently began two new series of posts. The first, which explains how we harness data for our users, started with this post. The second, focusing on how we secure information and how users can protect themselves online, began here. This post is the second installment in both series.- Ed.
We sometimes get questions on what Google does with server log data, which registers how users are interacting with our services. We take great care in protecting this data, and while we've talked previously about some of the ways it can be useful, something we haven't covered yet are the ways it can help us make Google products safer for our users.
While the Internet on the whole is a safe place, and most of us will never fall victim to an attack, there are more than a few threats out there, and we do everything we can to help you stay a step ahead of them. Any information we can gather on how attacks are launched and propagated helps us do so.
That's where server log data comes in. We analyze logs for anomalies or other clues that might suggest malware or phishing attacks in our search results, attacks on our products and services, and other threats to our users. And because we have a reasonably significant data sample, with logs stretching back several months, we're able to perform aggregate, long-term analyses that can uncover new security threats, provide greater understanding of how previous threats impacted our users, and help us ensure that our threat detection and prevention measures are properly tuned.
We can't share too much detail (we need to be careful not to provide too many clues on what we look for), but we can use historical examples to give you a better idea of how this kind of data can be useful. One good example is the Santy search worm (PDF), which first appeared in late 2004. Santy used combinations of search terms on Google to identify and then infect vulnerable web servers. Once a web server was infected, it became part of a botnet and started searching Google for more vulnerable servers. Spreading in this way, Santy quickly infected thousands and thousands of web servers across the Internet.
As soon as Google recognized the attack, we began developing a series of tools to automatically generate "regular expressions" that could identify potential Santy queries and then block them from accessing Google.com or flag them for further attention. But because regular expressions like these can sometimes snag legitimate user queries too, we designed the tools so they'd test new expressions in our server log databases first, in order to determine how each one would affect actual user queries. If it turned out that a regular expression affected too many legitimate user queries, the tools would automatically adjust the expression, analyze its performance against the log data again, and then repeat the process as many times as necessary.
In this instance, having access to a good sample of log data meant we were able to refine one of our automated security processes, and the result was a more effective resolution of the problem. In other instances, the data has proven useful in minimizing certain security threats, or in preventing others completely. In the end, what this means is that whenever you use Google search, or Google Apps, or any of our other services, your interactions with those products helps us learn more about security threats that could impact your online experience. And the better the data we have, the more effectively we can protect all our users.


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Swedish cuisine could be described as centered around cultured dairy products, crisp and soft breads, berries and stone fruits, meats like beef and pork, seafood, shellfish, fish, pickled fish (and pickled vegetables), with vegetable staples including potato and the kale and cabbage families. Potatoes are often served as a side dish, most often boiled with a sauce. Swedish cuisine has a huge variety of breads of different shapes and sizes, made of rye, wheat, oat, white, dark, sour-dough, whole grain; soft flatbreads and crispbreads. There are many sweetened bread types and some use spices. Many meat dishes, steaks, game and meatballs are served with lingonberry jam. Fruit soups with high viscosity, like rose hip soup and blueberry soup (blåbärssoppa) served cold and warm, are typical for Swedish cuisine. Butter and margarine are the primary fat source, although olive oil is becoming more popular, as are other Italian imports, especially pasta, pizza and wine. Sweden's pastry tradition features a variety of yeast buns, cookies, biscuits and cakes, many of them being less sugary than those in the U.S. Coffeebreaks with a pastry (fika) is enormously popular in Sweden.
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Back to Nosy Be
27th December 2011
We were told to get to the ferry in Ankify by 9:30am. This required a 5:30am wake-up to ensure this. I lie, it required a 5:30am wake up to ensure this provided I wasn't driving. We successfully got back to Ankify in two easy hours with me on the back of Mike's bike.
Now for the ferry. Previously we paid roughly R1000 (AR240 000) to get 5 people, 3 bikes and a quad bike from Nosy Be to Ankify. This is probably not advised...at least taking a quad bike on a speed boat. The "Speedboat" we paid the excess for took over an hour because it ran out of speed and simply turned into a mora mora (slowly slowly) boat.
The ferry we got today took an hour and a half and cost half the first trip i.e. only a 30 minute negotiation, a 30 minute period thinking we'd lost R400, another 30 minutes being herded during new negotiations, 20 minutes watching our inconvenient luggage being carried and lifted onto the ferry, another 20 minutes waiting for other cargo (chickens, people, more people, chickens, bags, chickens in bags, food and more people - some with chickens in and out of bags) to be carted on…and then we left not having lost R400 after all. The nap took 15 until I thought I'd doze off into the water. Offload took 5 minutes. Voila!
We're back.
Showered, swum in 40 degree water, bee-stung, fish-of-some-sorts stung, chosen food from 2 French menus, eaten Poisson which-is-not-chicken-after-all, organized a messy mass payment and opened the first box of Woolies wine (average).
I believe they sell Namaqua wine here. I'd rather be dead, precisely because Namaqua kills you anyway, just slowly. And painfully, I might add.
That's not important. Or interesting.
I'm finding my experience here difficult to describe. It's a somewhat uncomfortable situation to be in, but I'll try anyway.
We arrived at Ankify port an hour before the recommended time. I believe this was unnecessary since:
A: There are plenty boats, ferries and 'things' that are willing to take the most savvy, literate and fast passengers to the other side- chickens, pigs, quad bikes and all.
B: We only passed the real ferry at 11:30am half way across the ferry route (it was meant to be at Ankify port at 9:30am).
C: You won't get on a ferry immediately and if you do, you'll wait on it for ages until it is full (of chickens, pigs and Vazas' quad bikes).
While we were waiting for our bikes to be carried onto the ferry, another packed one arrived with a thousand people and many things. Like getting on, there were serious logistics getting off. Nothing happens fast. "Mora-Mora". Anyway. There was serious commotion. Slight panic from the Vaza group. Step aside. Sweat (more). Panic. What's going on? Shouting. Jostling. Screaming. Hustling. Grabbing. Frantic. What on earth is that bag?
Perfume. Who would have thought?
It got sprayed. It got laughed at. It got celebrated. It got shared amongst a hundred people. In fact, I smelt surprisingly pleasant on the sun-baked ferry trip home.
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CG's 20 Gallon Community
Since this tank is going through changes a lot I thought I would make a journal on it. I am getting dry fertilizers, hopefully tomorrow, from member nilocg, so hopefully correctly dosing the tank will help out more.
- Purple Cabomba
- Chain Swords (E. Bolivianus)
- Rubin Sword
- Indian Red Sword
- Banana plants
- Java Moss wall
- Riccia (dwarf and regular) attached in various forms
- Rotala indica and rotundifolia
- Limnophilia Aromatica
- Alternanthera reinekii "cardinalis"
- Brazilian pennywort (floating)
- 20 gallon high tank
- Aquaclear 20 and 50
- Pool Filter sand (regretting it now for plants)
- Milwaukee MA957 Regulator on a 5 lb. CO2 tank
- AquaticLife dual 48W T5HO
The tank went through a complete rescape today since it was really disorganized looking. Plus plants were being choked out by others. I think it looks better now, but I am open to any opinions on it.
So, I am now about a week and a half into EI dosing which started out pretty conservative, and the growth was good for the first week. I felt it could have been stronger, so my dosing has increased a little along with the CO2.
I bought more rotala indica doubling the amount I had originally to fill things in a little better. I bought a previously unknown plant locally that I now know as sunset hygro thanks to some members here. I can see why this stuff is illegal, the growth rate is amazing, but all of the trimmings will be going to the compost pile. All of my riccia has filled in nicely, but not completely. I added one of my emersed grown crypt wendtii "green" to the tank and it took the change really well.
I have some trimming to do this weekend, but I think everything is coming along well. Many of the plants are pearling halfway through the photoperiod (8 hours) with the exception of the riccia that starts pearling in about two hours.
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For the past several years most media technologies have seen amazing innovation. Faster, better, and cheaper. But not control surfaces. It is like using a rotary-dial telephone in 2015. Control surfaces are stuck using old, awful protocols. Control surface makers can not innovate. Software developers can not innovate. Users
vcontrol solves all these problems.
vcontrol is an open source software system that makes it easy to control any software or hardware plug-in/app/synth/widget with a remote control surface. For example, an audio EQ plug-in used in a digital audio workstation will have frequency, bandwidth, and boost/cut controls. When the plug-in configures as a vcontrol module, then any vcontrol-compatible control surface can adjust the EQ. One surface might be a touch screen with a graph. Another surface might have knobs arranged like a console channel strip. Another might use hand gestures. vcontrol unleashes innovation for controllers.
It is very easy for software developers to connect their plug-in/app/synth/widget to vcontrol. Just add a couple files to the project, write a few lines of code, and compile. vcontrol works on Mac and PC systems.
The vcontrol system has many benefits not provided by other systems. vcontrol is flexible so any number of control surfaces can control any number of modules. vcontrol uses TCP/IP networking for fast performance and flexible, low-cost setups. vcontrol uses zero-configuration networking making it easy to set up. And vcontrol is implemented with open-source software.


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teh other day JOUBTT n' I were cruising on teh 8 freeway then all of a sudden a white camaro ss (don't know what year) pulled along side n' kept pace. i knew he wanted to run. he dropped back, got on my rear n' turned on his hazards. then went along side again.
i dropped her in 4th then 3rd. we both were doing a lil' over 70mph. i waited for him to go 1st then i went. he couldn't pull on me, then i shifted to 4th n' teh same thing. then we shut down cuz of cars, he then had to exit.
too bad he had to exit i wanted to play some more. i know he would have pulled on me hard on higher speeds. good times....


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If Grace Johnson knew one thing at all, it was that all men were dirt bags. All men...except Noah. "I was lost in his eyes. Lost in his tears. My goal was to pull him out of the darkness...if even if it dragged me in as well."
If Noah Bennet knew one thing at all, it was he needed Grace Johnson. Needed her...desperately. "My pain was pulling me under...she was my only saving grace."
Grace is willing to put everything on the line to help bring back the man she is hopelessly in love with. Even if it costs her the future she's been longing for. "If finding you means losing a part of me...I'll do it."
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Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D approaches issues of anger management in a very humane yet fresh perspective. You see, anger is a normal emotion but it is the valence (intensity) as well as the coupling choice of what one does with this that is the problem. Telling someone to "not" do it or modifying behavior with a trite psychological plan that only breeds a compliant response is not the way to change anger. Brainwave optimization is a new cutting edge technology that allows one to rewire circuitry responsible for reactivity driving the anger. Contact Grey Matters International, Inc now at firstname.lastname@example.com or 877-606-6161.
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Is your anger causing problems in your life? Let me help! Anger may have become problematic because of an ongoing pattern of suppressing feelings or of keeping things to yourself. It may be coming out in unhealthy ways because of difficulties being assertive or standing up for oneself assertively. Alternately, a lack of skills in managing feelings maybe the source of the problem. Whatever the reasons that you anger has become problematic, I can help. I am easy to talk to, down to earth, non-judgmental, and practical.
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On a scale of 0-10 when you are at a 4, 5 or 6 you are angry, when you are at an 8, 9 or 10 you are in a rage. Rage occurs when one upsetting event piles onto another and another, and you never have time to fully heal from any of them. Rage comes up quicker, builds stronger and lasts longer; you say and do things that you would never imagine at any other time. You see red and don't care about your reputation, the future, the consequences or what effect it is having on your family or career. We focus on helping you to fully resolve your rage at it's root so that you can start having just normal anger - that gets your point across but doesn't do damage - like everybody else.
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Becoming upset or angry is a fact of being human. These upsets are usually tied to three specific elements which are addressed while in session. One example being an unfulfilled expectation - that is, you thought something would turn out one way, yet it turned out another. This naturally makes one upset. How you deal with it is another matter altogether. This service will help you first become clear on the three elements of an upset, teach you ways to get out in front of automatic responses and make sure you have a new set of tools to better be able to manage such situations when they arise.
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Anger is a part of a person, not the whole person. When working with an angry person, I help them to notice that anger is just one aspect of themselves. We often use Internal Family Systems therapy to help people to have more compassion for themselves, and for their anger. This compassion can unlock a healing experience for a person. I also use a cognitive approach, helping people to notice that their interpretation of events may or may not be correct, and they may be reacting to something in an excessive way. We develop skills for containing reactions until the person is calmer. We also work on skills for avoiding the escalation of many potential situations.
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January 28, 2008
Hey Guys, (Long One)
Let me just start off by saying that we have finally broken our nine-game losing streak and are only one game back of being in second place in our division. That is the beauty of this league.
After the showcase in Idaho, I guess everyone just takes off and goes overseas if they do not get a call up from the NBA. I guess I did it the other way around, I went to Europe first then to the D-League.
Dakota is on top of our league at 16-9 and we are 11-15. However, Dakota just lost two of their best players to Europe.
We just had a two-game home stand with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants. We ended up winning both games by a total of seven points. We squandered twenty point leads in both games, but came out on top.
In this league, it feels like every time we get up twenty points that the whole game changes. I am not going to say how, but let's just say it is out of the players hands. Let's not make it sound like this only happens when we are winning by twenty, because the same thing happens to the other team when we are down by twenty. Hopefully everyone understands this, but I just kind of feel like I had to get that out there.
Things are going a lot better now. I am playing the point guard and actually playing pretty well. JamesOn went back up the Bulls and got in a little bit of trouble while he was down here. With him going back up, I now get my chance to play the position I came here to play. I am pretty happy about that, but not at another person's expense.
For the end of the blog I am going to answer some questions that some readers gave Rob:
1. Does/Did Jeff stay in contact with Dean Oliver? Both are from Mason City and followed each other in high school and at Iowa. Curious if there was ever any bond?
Jeff's Answer: I do stay in contact with Dean. I have not talked to him in awhile, but he lives in Las Vegas now and I got to eat dinner with him and his dad last summer.
I have always looked up to Dean and continue to do so. To do the types of things he did not only as a player, but as a person is just mind blowing. My dad was his high school coach so I was at every practice and was always trying to learn from Dean.
2. With Jeff committing to Iowa as a freshman and with Matt Gatens doing the same...can Jeff offer any view point as to what they both possibly went thru during their four years of school; i.e. were they still contacted by other colleges, animosity by others b/c they committed at an early age, etc.?
Jeff's Answer: I think the big thing about committing to Iowa at such an early age is that everyone is going to expect him to be the savior of Iowa Basketball. That is just way too much pressure to put on an 18-, 19-year-old kid. All he can do is come in and do what he does.
I have played with Matt many times and he has a great basketball IQ along with a lot of tools that you do not see many young kids in this era have. He also has to deal with playing a good game and everyone loving him and congratulating him to when he has a bad game and some of those same people are going to turn their backs on him and say he is not that good or we wasted a scholarship.
I was still being contacted by other colleges after my recruitment and my dad was actually contacted by Lute Olsen and he told my dad that if things do not work out at Iowa, they could find a spot for me at Arizona. Obviously, I would never have changed my mind and I am happy that I went to Iowa. I have had people doubt me from day one. Everyone thought I was too slow, could not get a shot off, blah-blah-blah. It just made me more motivated to go out and prove people wrong.
I think a lot of people probably look at me and see a normal guy out on the court, someone that looks just like them. So then those people think, well why can't I do what he does? I think that has to do with a lot of people being mad about where I have gotten myself too in the basketball world. For every one of those guys though there are a hundred Hawk fans that are going to love you no matter what you do. That's how it should be.
Don't get me wrong, criticism should happen, but in the end nobody is trying to do poorly if they have a bad game.
3. With Jared Reiner and Paul Shirley having blogs.....will this lead to his next career when basketball is over?
Jeff's Answer: I just got done reading Shirley's book and it was amazing. I felt like I have been right along next to him. I read Jared's blogs as well and I just do not think I can pull off what they do. They are both pretty funny. I will stick to being a coach when I am done, but I enjoy this.
Hello Everyone,
Not much new in the D-League world. We are however on a four-game losing streak. Not really sure what the problem is. Our roster keeps on changing, which might have a little bit to do with it. JamesOn Curry has come back to us from the Bulls so I have moved back to the two guard a little bit more.
It feels like we just keep playing the same teams over and over again. We played the Dakota Wizards on Friday Night. We then play them again Sunday at our place and then again on Monday in Boise, Idaho, of all places. This might be the absolute weirdest (if that's a word) schedule I have ever played in my life.
Right now I am watching the Iowa/Michigan St. game and Iowa is ahead by four with sixteen minutes to go. Hopefully they can pull this one out and get a win under their belt. Sorry if it just seems like I am writing anything I can to take up space, but sometimes life in the D-League can get a little boring.
As for me personally, I am not having the most impressive season ever. I am averaging right around nine points, four assists, and four rebounds. I am not shooting the ball all that great from the three point line, but it is a heck of a heave from way back there. Now I can see why so many rookies struggle shooting the ball in the NBA.
I hope everyone had a great holliday season and I hope by the time everyone reads this the Hawks have pulled out a W.
Editor's Note: Jeff submitted this blog on Sunday, but we didn't receive it until today.
Hey, Everyone,
This week's blog is probably going to be a little short. I have to get ready to go on a beautiful road trip to Sioux Falls, SD and play the Sioux Falls Skyforce.
It has been pretty wild since the last time I wrote. We are now 9-8 and are falling fast. I have decided that we need to get everyone on our team thinking that if we win then more guys will get looked at by the NBA. I know that is the point Coach Nurse is trying to get us to believe and I as well believe this.
For the rest of the blog, I am going to talk about a few other Hawkeyes and let you guys know the whereabouts of some of them.
First, I will start off with Greg Brunner. He is back in Belgium again this year with the team we played in the finals last year in Oostende. He is having a pretty good year, but the coach for some reason is shorting him on playing time. Their team however is in first place and I think Bru pretty much likes it for the most part.
Erek Hansen is over in Spain this year. Last time I talked to him he was hurt and had not played in a long time. Right now he is in the second division, which is pretty good for a second year player.
Jared Reiner is in the first division in Spain right now and is also finding a shortage of playing time.
Doug Thomas is, of course, playing with me on the Iowa Energy. Doug has been playing really well and is starting to come into his own.
Dean Oliver is over in Holland this year. His team is in first place and he is being a great leader for their ball club. Not sure how many more years Dean is going to play. He just had a baby this past summer, and I know it has been hard being away from them for him.
Sorry my blog this week could not have been longer. It is pretty hectic going all over the place and playing a lot of games. I will have some time next week to elaborate more on what is going on with my season.
Hello again,
It has been a pretty crazy week for our team. On Friday, we played the Sioux Falls Skyforce. We played really well and were playing together probably the best we played all year in the first half. The second half was a different story. We were up twenty-five and the next thing we knew we were going to overtime. It was one of those games where in the second half it just felt like we could do nothing right. We ended up winning the game and were just lucky to get out of there with a 'W'.
If that was not interesting enough for you, we had to be at the airport by 5:30 a.m. the next morning to catch a plane to Tulsa, who we were supposed to play at 7 p.m. that night. Our plane was delayed four hours and by the time we actually got to Tulsa we had about two hours to rest. Anyways, we came out with no energy and got beat by around twenty. This is something we are going to have to correct if we want to win this league.
I am just going to answer some questions that some of the reader's sent to Rob:
The first question people wanted to know was the Alford/Pierre situations. I am really not going to get into a lot about both of them. Coach Alford and I get along and still talk occasionally. He has always been good to his players and of course people who were in the program are going to have biased opinions towards him. A lot of times when people left they blamed Coach Alford, but the fact of the matter is he gave everyone a fair shot. In the end some of the guys that left just did not fit into his style of play and wanted a change. The situation ended well for both the University and Coach.
I think where things turned around for Coach was probably the Pierre thing. Pierre put Coach in a tough spot and Pierre knows that. It was just shocking news when we heard about the situation the first time because Pierre is a quiet kid.
I talked to Pierre this Summer out in Las Vegas and he is trying to get things turned around. Hopefully he can do that and stay out of trouble. Unfortunately, the decision Coach made was not a popular one with the Hawkeye fan base and I think it kind of haunted Coach for the rest of his time at Iowa. I think Coach Lickliter will do a great job at Iowa and I hope fans can be patient for a couple of years and let him do his thing.
Another question asked about was what chairities and things I am involved in. I did Toys for Tots last week in Des Moines and it was a great experience. When I am done doing things like that it makes me want to help out even more. As of now, the team is setting all of those things up and hopefully in the years to come I can get more involved with things like that. Other than doing those things I have signed jerseys, given tickets, and helped out auctions and things like that in order to help raise money for people in need.
Another question asked was what am I going to do when I am done with basketball. This is a tough question and I have about a million ideas going on in my head everyday. I know I want to be around the game somehow, but I am just not sure at what level. I want to try and get into college coaching for sure, probably sooner than later.
My body is not holding up to well. I think once I get an offer for a good situation to start as an assistant at the college level I will probably more than likely take it. If none of those work out I would love to get something going like Jake Sullivan is running. He is doing a great job of getting a lot of young kids involved with the game of basketball. We will just wait and see. Whatever I do it will involve basketball, that I am sure of.
Happy Holidays,
Hello again,
For this week's blog, I am going to try and give you guys a little bit of an idea of the situation I am in.
Right now we have JameSon Curry down from the Chicago Bulls. He was there second-round pick this past year. The reason I am telling everyone this is because he plays my position and right now I am getting most of my time at the two.
Obviously, I want to play as much as I can and have happily moved over to the two spot since the start of the season. Once JameSon goes back up, I will move back to my natural spot which is the one.
The reason I am talking about this is because this happens a lot in the D-league. You have to be patient sometimes with everything that is going on around you.
The main reason anybody plays in the D-league is because they think they have a shot at getting a call-up to the NBA. Some people obviously have better chances than others, but I know that if I am playing the two this will never happen unless I never miss a shot (too late, ha-ha).
The tough part about my short-lived professional career is the decision I made coming out of college. I hired an agent that did not exactly have a lot of ties with NBA people. I will probably never know how much that actually hurt me.
Do not get me wrong, I know I am not a for sure NBA player. The only thing I ever asked is that I got a fair shot. When you are in a position like mine coming out of college, it is more who you know, not how good you are, somewhat.
I guess that is kind of how the real world is, too. That is just the way it is.
My new agent had me in a summer league this past summer by April, which was definitely a step up from my last one which did not even get me in one or many workouts.
Hopefully the D-league provides me that shot I have been looking for. Right now it is nice having JameSon on the team, but when he leaves is when I will hopefully get a shot. I know I have about a 1% chance of getting called up, but I have to do this for myself so I can say I tried my best.
Our team is doing a lot better since the last time I wrote. We played the worst team in the league last Thursday, Bakersfield, which was a good time to play them. We had been struggling and lost three in a row.
We then traveled eight hours on a bus to Fort Wayne and got a W this past Sunday. Hopefully we can just keep improving and getting wins.
If anyone would like me to talk specifically about anything just let Rob know and he can get back to me on that. Thanks for reading and good luck to the Hawks on Friday.
Hello, everyone. Let me just start off by saying it is great to be back in Iowa and hopefully people can follow along with this blog to keep up with the Energy and me.
I was supposed to write it yesterday, but we did not get in from Fort Wayne until 5:00 a.m. I guess that is just life in the D-League.
If you do not know, I am playing for the Iowa Energy of the National Basketball Developmental League here in Des Moines. Right now, we are off to a 3-3 start and are somehow tied for first place after losing three games in a row.
The D-League is a part of the NBA. You could say it is like Minor League Baseball. We are affiliated with the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat. The reason guys play in the D-League is to take a shot at getting called up to the NBA. Obviously, that is my dream and I hope it comes true. If not, I get to play hoops in my home state and get paid to do it.
Throughout the season any NBA Team can call up any player from the D-League. The guys on my team are not just restricted to the Bulls and the Heat. I hope this gives a little more information on what the D-League is.
A lot of you are probably wondering how I ended up here or never really knew where I was in the first place. I have been out of college for two years now after playing for the University of Iowa for four years. Last year I was in Belgium and absolutely loved it. Our team made it to the finals, but lost in the fifth and final game to a team called Oostende, which brings us to this year.
I started off the year in Paris on a two-week tryout for a team called Paris-Levallois. I made the team and started every single pre-season game and the first regular season game of the year.
I am just going to tell everyone the story of why I am here now because I am sure a lot of people are probably wondering what I am doing back in Des Moines. When you play overseas an apartment and a car are negotiated in your contracts.
The Paris team did not give me a place to live for two months and I was the only one on the team in this situation. I actually stayed with Kelvin Torbert and his wife for two weeks and then had to keep switching hotels for the next month and a half.
The kicker in this whole story is the team kept telling me they would have my apartment in a couple days. A couple days went by and there was still no apartment. This kept going on and on. The team kept making excuses about how they were a new team and so I stuck it out for two months thinking it would get better.
Finally, I called my agent and asked him to get me out of there because I did not want to be a part of an organization that was unorganized. Now, do not get me wrong, overseas basketball is not the most organized thing in the world anyways, but I thought this went to a bit of an extreme.
My agent gave their management people a call and the feeling was mutual. The coach liked me a lot, but the management wanted to go in a different direction and get an older point guard. This meant I would get even more money because the team had broken my contract.
As soon as I got the news I told my agent to give Nick Nurse a call because I knew about the Iowa Energy. The next thing I knew I was signing a contract to play in the D-League.
I like it a lot and I am just so happy to be back in Iowa where my friends and family are a short drive from watching me play or just visiting. It is going to be an exciting season, so if you want to keep up just follow my blog.


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Posted: Sep 10, 2013
Loading a 20-foot container with nine crates of computer equipment on a steamy September day might be a job many would avoid. But for Olivet's information technology (IT) department and volunteers, this was a labor of love.
For the past two months, IT staff members have collected and packed computer equipment as a donation to Africa Nazarene University (ANU), Nairobi, Kenya.
On Monday, September 9, 2013, the following usable equipment was shipped to ANU: 114 computers, 99 monitors, 29 monitor stands, 51 keyboards, 18 network switches, eight servers, six boxes of CAT-6 cables, 70 seven-foot CAT6 patch cables, a Norco server box, two wall mount network racks, 78 power cables, a roll of 50-meter multi-mode fiber, three Panasonic projector remotes, three projectors, 50 computer mice, a network core, two scanners w/cables and manuals, 30 VGA cables, two iPads, a Webcam, a server PSU, fiber G-biks and server mounting hardware.
ANU currently has 4,300 students and 17 buildings. Before this shipment, its campus had only 274 computers and three computer labs, compared to 1,700 and 30 computer labs at Olivet. There are four full-time IT staff working there, compared to Olivet's full-time IT staff of 37.
"We were also pleased to assist ANU with consulting, troubleshooting and best practices for their environment," says Dennis Seymour, Olivet's chief information officer. "On the server side, we consulted on implementation of VMware environments, storage troubleshooting techniques, VMware view and server architecture design, and various server configuration best practices.
"On the network side, we consulted on network segmentation, best practices of network operations, physical and logical network designs, DHCP services configuration, and provided an example of network use policy."
IT gives special thanks to University President John C. Bowling; Dr. Doug Perry, vice president for finance; Dr. Larry Vail, professor in the computer science department; and Matt Whitis, physical plant director, for their support and leadership in this effort. Leading the project from the IT department were staff members Robert Blystone, Noel Slaby, Thane Moore, Jacob Garrett, Richard Tran, Jeffrey Rice, Lisa Wilson, Justin Marshall and John Krasnichan.
"Without the direct support of our Olivet staff, faculty and students, this mission would not have been accomplished," Dennis added.
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Hi everyone - I'm new here and am a very new spinner but a long time crocheter and knitter.
I took a six week spinning class using a Schacht Matchless wheel and loved the class. Then I purchased a Lendrum folding wheel and love spinning on it. BUT it came with no instructions and when I tried to ply yarn I had to really peddle hard no matter how I set the tension, etc.
I have the plying flywheel - do I need to use that to ply more easily or is there something wrong with my wheel?
I would appreciate ANY help you can offer!
Hi. Maybe I can help? I have a Lendrum. I really like my wheel. Yeah, the no instructions did make it a challenge to put together.
I use the largest whorl on the standard flyer a whole lot. If I made thinner yarn that needed more twist I would just move the drive band down to a smaller whorl so it would turn faster with less treddling. You could try using a smaller whorl so your foot/feet dont' have to go so fast.
I don't have a plying flywheel and really don't know what that is. I'm relatively new to spinning too, but I really enjoy it and have been trying out lots of stuff and different fibers.
I've tried several different plying methods. I think the easiest is to spin onto 2 or 3 bobbins (for 2 or 3 ply yarn) then put those on a lazy kate and ply from that.I don't really like having short bits of single ply left over so I often use navajo plying to make a 3 ply yarn. It's like a crochet chain with really big loops that are twisted. Or andean plying to make a 2 ply. You take both ends of the single that you spun and ply them together. A wooden tool or ballwinder work well for this.
Plying really shouldn't be that different from spinning, you're just turning the wheel the opposite direction.
Test your wheel without yarn on it. Treddle one way then the other. Does the flyer turn at the same speed both directions? I'm not sure what would cause it to turn at different speeds... Does the drive band slip at all?It should be smooth and quiet.You could try spinning a small bit of yarn in the direction opposite what you normally spin ( the direction you ply) and see if you have to treadle fast when spinning that sample.
I hope that helps. If you still can't figure out the problem I suggest having your wheel looked at professionaly.
Please let me know if I'm on the right track at all. If you have more questions I'll do my best to answer them.
Thank you! I'll test it out as you suggest.
If it seems a bit hard treadling when you ply, you might try adjusting the tension (the string over top of the bobbin) a bit.
I use my Lendrum mainly for spinning angora and for plying. I do have the big ol' plying bobbin. I take two FULL bobbins from another wheel and ply them together on the Lendrum. Boy, howdy! Do I get BIG skeins!
Thanks for the tips. I tried spinning in the other direction and also played with the tension and plying went much better this time. I didn't use the plying head because I was just trying it out with a small amount of yarn but I will definitely use it when making big skeins.
I also used the lazy kate which made it a lot easier, too.
Thanks so much for the help! :notworthy:
Yay! I'm so glad I could help!
If you're using the plying flyer you'll want to switch to the plying drive band, it's a little bigger than the standard driveband and if the band's too tight it can make treadling harder.
I leave both bands 'on' (but only one at a time actually around the wheel and the flyer of course) I take the one I'm not using, and to keep it out of the way bring it behind the wheel and coil it around the knob on the back (the one you take out to fold the wheel) if that makes any sense.
I found this easier than popping the c clip on the footman on and off all the time. I have considered replacing the c clip with a pin or something easier to remove.
Thank you! Yes, that makes sense to me and is a great tip.
I'm so glad I found this website. :cheering:


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Name: Jenny Swafford
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Seventeen: How did you find your internship?
Jenny Swafford: Red Frog Events has come to the University of Missouri Career Fair since I was a freshman, and I've always thought it sounded like an amazing company! The people I met at the career fair were all really fun, down to earth, and it seemed like a wonderful company to intern at. I talked to the recruiters at the career fair and they walked me through the application process. I submitted an application online, had a phone interview, and then went to Chicago for an in-person interview.
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ok, right off the top of my head we see in the chorus
"oh we oh we oh we oh"
reference to Wizard of Oz (Aiwaz)
at the opening of the vid we see Will.i.am selecting a monarch butterfly 3rd one down - enter Brittney
this video is basically showing him as an official handler.
What significance do you place on Aiwaz? Sorry if I'm not as learned/steeped. Also, mind explaining the connection between Crowley's apparition and the Wizard of Oz?
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Aiwaz was the demon that Alistair Crowley channeled and wrote tons of stuff about. Crowley was a grand master mason wizard steeped deep in black magick. So was the dude that wrote the Wizard of Oz series of books (also a grand master mason and into black magick). That is where the get the Oz character from those books.
Wizard of Oz is used for MKUltra programming and triggers.
In the movie, you hear the witches minions chanting Owe We Owe, We Owe Her...
you hear that in Will.i.am's song above.
it's all inter-related
more on Aiwaz (or Aiwass)
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Aiwass was the name of a voice that Aleister Crowley heard on April 8, 9, and 10th in 1904. Crowley claimed that this voice dictated
The Book of the Law
to him.
The first appearance of Aiwass was during the Three Days of the writing of Liber Legis. His first and only identification as such is in Chapter I: "Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat" (AL I:7).[citation needed] Hoor-paar-kraat (Egyptian: Har-par-khered) is more commonly referred to by the Greek transliteration Harpocrates, meaning "Horus the Child", whom Crowley considered to be the central deity within the Thelemic cosmology (see: Aeon of Horus). However, Harpocrates also represents the Higher Self, the Holy Guardian Angel.
Crowley described the encounter in detail in The Equinox of the Gods, saying:
The Voice of Aiwass came apparently from over my left shoulder, from the furthest corner of the room. It seemed to echo itself in my physical heart in a very strange manner, hard to describe. I have noticed a similar phenomenon when I have been waiting for a message fraught with great hope or dread. The voice was passionately poured, as if Aiwass were alert about the time- limit. [...] The voice was of deep timbre, musical and expressive, its tones solemn, voluptuous, tender, fierce or aught else as suited the moods of the message. Not bass --perhaps a rich tenor or baritone. The English was free of either native or foreign accent, perfectly pure of local or caste mannerisma, thus startling and even uncanny at first hearing. I had a strong impression that the speaker was actually in the corner where he seemed to be, in a body of "fine matter," transparent as a veil of gauze, or a cloud of incense-smoke. He seemed to be a tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw. The dress was not Arab; it suggested Assyria or Persia, but very vaguely. I took little note of it, for to me at that time Aiwass and an "angel" such as I had often seen in visions, a being purely astral.
In the later-written Liber 418, the voice of the 8th Aethyr says "my name is called Aiwass," and "in The Book of the Law did I write the secrets of truth that are like unto a star and a snake and a sword." Crowley says this later manifestation took the form of a pyramid of light.
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Wizard of Aiwass/Aiwaz/Oz Part II
n this section, I want to go into Aleister Crowley's connection with "superhuman,"preter-human intelligence, or life forms. I noticed a fair amount of resemblance between all these entities with the green and smokey alien-looking entity in The Wizard of Oz and the first picture below. These pictures are what sparked the idea of this article. This illustration below on the left was created by Crowley. In January throughout March of 1918, Crowley began invoking this entity repeatedly through a series of magickal rituals called the Amalantrah workings in Central Park West, New York City.
Using sexual/tantric & ceremonial magick with the intent to invoke certain "intelligences" to physical manifestation. Usually these type of workings involved a scryer, his partner or receptive seer or vessel of communications for the workings was his acting Scarlet Woman, Roddie Minor. Under the influence of hashish and opium she described to Crowley a series of archetypal visions involving (among others) a king, a small boy and a wizard who introduced himself as "Amalantrah"--who delivered exhortations to "find the egg ."
The idea of these workings was to create an inter-dimensional gateway or portal, or to rent a fabric of time and space. These workings manifested in a series of visions. This alone creates a few synchronicities tied inside of this working itself. When Einstein and Tesla idea are used in the Montauk or Rainbow Project, they use an inter-dimensional space pod or egg to conduct the experiments. The first model for Columbus' egg was introduced in 1893 at the World's Fair in Chicago along with electric lights by Tesla. This egg is modeled after the explorer Christopher Columbus' Egg or the Egyptian Egg of Isis. The small boy and the wizard of her visions parallel Dorothy in search of the Wizard of the Wizard of Oz. In magical terms it is possible to identify Lam with the Dwarf Self, the Silent Self, Harpocrates, Hadit, and perhaps most significantly, the Babe In The Egg. Here I quote from Michael Staley's forward to The Lam Statement in Starfire vol. 1 no. 3:
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So I have this idea to use a C223 engine from a Diesel P'up truck or old Trooper as a backup generator for a house in a remote location... Simply get a gen head and put it where the transmission would go... Then stick the throttle at 1800 or 3600 RPM dependent on the type of generator being used.
Simple setup. Parts are available. Reliable. I don't see too many downsides to a setup like this.
I'd wanna be able to start it in the event of a dead battery. In a vehicle, I'd just push start. In this setup I don't have the luxury.


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When the new Tornillo-Guadalupe Port of Entry opens, it will accept state toll-road tags as a payment option, making it the first bridge of its kind in Texas.
El Paso county commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to move forward with the roughly $1.7 million design and implementation plans.
The county wants the toll system ready for whenever the Mexican side of the bridge is complete. So the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority will hire an outside firm to make it happen. But the authority's vision for integrating state toll tags extends far beyond a single international bridge.
"The increased number of transactions, the reduced cost across your entire system," said CRRMA Executive Director Raymond Telles.
He said he plans to recommend that the city reprogram the electronic toll systems at each of its three international crossings to integrate with the state toll-tag system.
"The same goes for the City of El Paso," Telles said. "If you're able to roll in their three bridges and the transactions that are included in there, then you're merging all of that into a single back office, and all of your costs go down, because you're doing more with the same system."
The city's International Bridges Department said it would be open to the idea but doesn't know how much that process would cost.
"Folks who use toll ways in other parts of Texas -- who are coming through El Paso and see us as a gateway for commerce or for anything else -- they don't have to worry about a clumsy system that makes them have one tag for one system, another tag for another system," said County Judge Veronica Escobar. "It's all integrated."
The authority is also considering the idea of a parking structure across the street from city hall that would accept that same all-in-one state toll-road tag. There's even talk of possibly integrating the parking garage behind the county courthouse, Telles said.
"It's really just a technology issue," Telles said. "So it's a matter of putting in the infrastructure so that the user in the end is the one benefiting. They've got a single account with a single transponder and a single card that gets you in and out of all these facilities. And couple that with a card that you can swipe at the parking meter, then you're really talking about a system that makes a lot of sense."
Thursday's decision applies only to the Tornillo bridge toll system's design and implementation. The county will begin making operations and staffing plans in the next few weeks.
The U.S. completed its $133 million portion of the bridge in December. Mexican officials have said they expect their side to be done sometime this summer.


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Instapundit notes that eating boogers is good for you. Long time readers of this blog (yes, both of you) learned this interesting but disgusting factoid a mere six years ago.
Instapundit notes that eating boogers is good for you. Long time readers of this blog (yes, both of you) learned this interesting but disgusting factoid a mere six years ago.
Cussing may be illegal here in the Tarheel State (unless you happen to be in Pitt or Swain County or the cussing appears on your license plate) but our Golden counterpart has gone to the opposite extreme. Starting tomorrow, all Californians are encouraged to "cuss free" for a week. Or maybe not really to cuss per se, so much as to celebrate freedom of cussing. Or something like that.
Apparently, some chicks care more about how much dinner cost you than how much it benefited them. Who knew? Other than guys who have dated chicks, that is.
Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times celebrated PSH Day with a story titled "Guns are now permitted — but not necessarily welcomed — in national parks." In its usual vein of editorializing while pretending to report the news, the story tells us that "the controversial law" (which was so damned controversial it sailed through a solidly Democrat Congress by a veto-proof majority, and was signed into law by the only President in history with a public record in support of banning handguns) took effect yesterday and now:
Visitors now can pack heat in any national park from Gates of the Arctic to Everglades, provided they comply with the firearms laws of the park's home state[.]
Meaning, of course, if you are one of the three people who can legally carry a firearm in California, now you can carry at Yosemite, too. Yippee!
But opponents say guns don't belong in the nation's highly protected parks, where it remains illegal to fire a weapon or kill an animal and where employees, including most rangers, are unarmed.
The presence of guns, they say, could increase the chance of deadly accidents and up the ante in confrontations between park visitors or between visitors and wildlife.
Not a single opponent is cited by name, leading one to wonder whether the unnamed opponents consist of Ms. Cart herself, and maybe a few co-workers at the L.A. Times. Or maybe herself and Paul Helmke d/b/a The Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence. He … um, I mean, they … can be relied on to say those things, and it only takes two to justify the use of the plural, so there we are.
The law, passed by Congress in May, reverses 94 years of National Park Service policy that generally allowed visitors to transport unloaded, disassembled weapons in the trunks of their cars.
Really! I knew it felt like 94 years since the Reagan Administration but had no idea it really had been that long. Where does the time go?
Weapons won't be allowed in buildings where federal employees work, such as the Statue of Liberty and park visitors centers.
Bummer for Howard Stern and the two other guys who can carry a firearm in NYC. To everyone else, fuhgeddaboudit. If you can't carry in Manhattan, you couldn't carry at the Statue of Liberty even if the new rule did apply there.
Returning to manufactured-controversy-mode, Cart writes:
Critics, however, say there are as many potential complications as there are state and local gun laws.
Oh goody, now are we going to hear from an actual … um … critic?
David Barna, a National Park Service spokesman, said park websites are providing some guidance to visitors, but it is the responsibility of each gun owner to understand the laws of the state they are visiting.
Ouch, that was some scathing criticism there. Gun owners responsible for understanding the laws of the state they visit! Take that, gun lobby.
That could confuse visitors at the more than 30 national parks that span more than one state. The Appalachian Trail crosses 14 states. And though Yellowstone is mostly in Wyoming, parts of the world's first national park also straddle the borders of Montana and Idaho, each of which has different weapons laws.
Wow, I'm so, like, confused. You mean to say that Montana, Idaho and Wyoming are three individual, like, states? They're all right to carry states, and they all recognize each other's permits and the most common out of state ones (e.g., Utah and Florida), the only question is which of them recognize permits from your state. So yes, you should check up on that before you travel, but the good news is that Wyoming, which is probably the first state you think about planning the trip, is also the one least likely to recognize your permit. If they do recognize it, chances are Idaho and Montana do, too (but look it up!).
Implementing the law will be particularly hard in California, which has more national park units than any other state and some of the nation's most restrictive firearms laws.
Yeah, enforcing state law as written is so, like, hard! Jeebus.
Officials are scrambling to fully comprehend how the law will play out at national park units in California, from Redwood and Presidio, to Death Valley and Joshua Tree.
Scramble no more: just read your own state's damned laws. That's how the new federal law will play out in your state. Duh.
"Many of the details of the law are unknown at this time," said Deputy California Atty. Gen. Alison Merrilees. "It won't be crystal clear the day the law goes into effect."
Or until someone in California bothered to actually read the law, whichever came first. Apparently the former.
I'd really like to believe this is some kind of lame parody, but apparently not.
It's that time of year again. Can't promise to bowl well (hence the moniker), but will promise that any donations made will go to a good cause.
Bill O'Reilly thinks it's a "pretty extreme position" that the Bill of Rights remains in force when it snows in wintertime:
The next night he non-explained his position by noting that President Lincoln (and many others, but who's counting) suspended habeas corpus. Never mind that habeas has nothing to do with the Bill of Rights, or that the part of the Constitution that does protect habeas, which is Article I, Section 9, clause 2 of the original Constitution, expressly provides that habeas may be suspended "when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it" while no comparable limiting language appears anywhere in the Bill of Rights. The mainstream view of the Constitution is whatever Bill O'Reilly tells you it is. Actually reading the damned thing is an extremist position.
As TGirsch has previously noted, my caustic brand of conservatism seems to have a liberalizing effect on whatever state I happen to occupy at any given time. Republicans did OK in California in 1988, when I was a Democrat, but once I left the fold in 1990 it was all downhill from there. In 1992, when I ran for office in Cali, we ended up electing Thelma and Louise to the Senate. The Republicans did great in 1994, of course, but not so well in Illinois, where I resided at the time. By 1996 I was back in Cali, which finally morphed from what was once Reagan Country into the bluest state in the nation.
The upside is that the Xrlq effect, however unfortunate, is not permanent. Back in Cali and Illinois, Democrat Senate seats are now vulnerable. And Virginia, much to the chagrin of the Brady Center to prevent Lawful Handgun Ownership, is now on the brink of legalizing
driving sober on roads where other people might be drunk carrying a concealed weapon sober in locations where other people might consume alcohol. Funny-money quote:
The debate was concluded by Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple (D). "As a final comment, let me just say this. I've really never been afraid for my life at the Red Lobster," she said.
Of course not. Who's afraid of a lobster? A green one, maybe, but a red one? Never. It's not as though the place were called "Luby's" or anything.
USA Today reports that DUI checkpoints in Cali are better at catching people who aren't supposed to be driving under any circumstances than they are at catching people who just aren't supposed to be driving right now because their BAC makes them almost as dangerous as sober drivers with cell phones. Apparently this is a bad thing, because people who aren't supposed to be driving at all also aren't supposed to be here, and we wouldn't want any system in place that might catch them.
Meanwhile, Steve Lopez of the L.A. Times craps his pants over a ballot initiative that would allow insurance companies to … gasp … reward responsible drivers for keeping their auto insurance in force.
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Class warfare: Mercedes's AMG-fettled E43 will arrive in Australia with the same twin-turbo 3.0-litre V6 engine as the C43 but with an additional 25kW, bumping power up to 295kW/520Nm.
11 March 2016
By TUNG NGUYEN
MERCEDES-AMG will use this month's New York motor show to reveal a potent
bi-turbo V6 version of the forthcoming new-generation Mercedes-Benz E-Class,
the E43 4Matic, in what is expected to be a two-pronged AMG assault on the
luxury large car class.
While a full blown V8 E63 is likely to be on the way – possibly propelled by a
version of AMG's 375kW/700Nm 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 from the C63 and GT –
power hungry Mercedes buyers will have to make do with a 295kW/520Nm twin-turbo
3.0-litre V6 when the E43 hits showrooms in 2017.
Powered by the same V6 revealed in the Mercedes-AMG C43 Coupe during this
year's Geneva motor show, the Affalterbach-based brand has upped power in the
E43 by
an additional 25kW thanks to larger turbos and a software tweak.
Mercedes-AMG has also coated the cylinder liners with a unique material derived
from development of its Formula 1 V6 hybrid turbo engines to reduce friction
and improve efficiency further.
Peak power comes on at 6100rpm while peak torque hits from 2500rpm, all
delivered to all four wheels via a nine-speed 9G-Tronic automatic transmission
and a 4Matic drivetrain with a rear-bias torque split of 31:69.
This combination can propel the 1765 kilogram executive sedan from zero to 100
kilometres an hour in just 4.6 seconds and on to an electrically limited top
speed of 250km/h, all while returning fuel consumption figures of 8.3 litres
per 100km.
While Australian pricing has not yet been confirmed for the E43 – or any of its
incoming E-Class siblings – AMG's latest is expected to sit between the
full-fat E63, priced at $250,540 before on-road costs in its current guise, and
the more sedate E400, currently priced at $129,040.
This could position the E43 against Audi's 331kW/550Nm turbocharged V8 S7
($179,510) and BMW's barnstorming 412kW/680NM M5 Pure ($185,000).
While the new V6 AMG Merc is significantly down on power compared with its
German rivals, its 0-100km/h time is a match to the Audi S7 and only 0.3
seconds slower than the Beemer.
To separate the E43 from its tamer siblings, Mercedes has redesigned the front
bumper to include three large air intakes and cross fins to direct airflow
straight into the coolers.
At the rear, chrome-plated quad tail-pipes flank a subtle silver chrome rear
diffuser and the addition of a small, body-coloured bootlip spoiler give the
E43 a more commanding road-presence.
Mercedes has also given the E43 19-inch five-spoke AMG wheels finished with
high-gloss black accents.
Inside, the E43 gains a black roof liner alongside leather and microfibre
sports seats with red highlight stitching, a motif which continues along the
door trims, dashboard and flat-bottomed steering wheel, plus seatbelts coloured
to match.
Behind the steering wheel sits a 4.5-inch multifunction colour display, able to
display the vehicle instrumentation and different readouts including boost
pressure and oil temperature.
Mercedes-AMG also offers five driving modes – Eco, Comfort, Sport, Sport Plus
and Individual – with each adjusting engine response, cylinder deactivation,
throttle reaction, aggressiveness of gear shifts, suspension and steering.
To save petrol in Eco mode, the engine can be decoupled from the powertrain
when coasting between 60km/h and 160km/h.
In Individual mode, the 9G-Tronic transmission can be set to Eco, Comfort,
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Comfort or Sport and the suspension tuned for Comfort, Sport or Sport Plus.
The suspension setup for the E43 features a four-link front axle fitted with
unique steering knuckles and load-bearing joints and a multi-link rear end. AMG
has given the front axle race-style negative camber for more lateral grip in
fast corners.
Stopping power comes courtesy of perforated front discs measuring 360mm with
four-piston callipers, while the rear makes do with 360mm and single-piston
Mercedes-AMG CEO Tobias Moers said the new AMG E-Class would please its
customers with cutting edge technology and engaging driving dynamics.
"The new E43 4matic offers impressive driving dynamics coupled with
cutting-edge efficiency," he said. "Twin-turbocharging, features adopted from
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— The 3rd annual China International Vending Systems & Commercial Self-Service Products Exhibition is slated for the Shanghai Mart here from July 20 through 22, and industry leaders from around the world will attend.
National Automatic Merchandising Association president and chief executive officer Richard M. Geerdes has been invited to deliver an official address at the opening of the event, which is expected to draw some 20,000 visitors interested in learning more about developments and trends. Geerdes also will lead a keynote seminar on the development of the vending industry in the United States.
Representatives of the European Vending Association, the Worldwide Vending Association and the Japan Vending Machine Manufacturers Association also will take part in the China show.
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West said he saw a massage table and video camera in the studio, attached to a tripod.
And he brought a digital camera and a tripod to document his endeavors.
While he was thus reflecting he saw the kettle hoisted on the tripod, shining and glinting in the sun.
Pass a sling over the lashing and the tripod is ready for raising.
The cavity was approached with reverence; a tripod was placed over it; and a priestess or Pythia was appointed to preside.
He left the pot on a tripod on a bed of coals, ready for use.
He gets a pot from the hut and hangs it on a tripod over the fire, which is now burning brightly.
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Opa's Vineyard
This is the original vineyard purchased in 1956 by Renate's father, also known to his grandchildren as Opa. This is the smallest vineyard owned by the Dyck Family. Located on Niagara Stone Road just on the outskirts of Virgil it is a wonderful vineyard for our aromatic white grape varieties. Because of this, the vineyard is planted with Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay Musqué.
Cattail Creek Vineyard
This vineyard was purchased by Ken and Renate Dyck in 1971 and is now the home of Cattail Creek Estate Winery. Named after the creek that runs through the vineyard this is also home to the original Riesling plantings in 1976 which have become some of the oldest Riesling vines in Ontario. This vineyard is planted with Riesling (Clones 21, 239 and 49) and Gamay Noir.
Rickety Bridge Vineyard
Rickety Bridge Vineyard is named after the incredibly precarious looking bridge that every one must cross in order to enter the vineyard. Visitors and vineyard employees alike look doubtingly at the bridge and decide they would rather risk being terrorized by the large farm dog across the road than attempt to navigate the bridge – even though that bridge holds all of our heaviest farm equipment! This is our prized vineyard for growing cold sensitive grape varieties due to its proximity to both the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. These bodies of water moderate the temperatures on this vineyard allowing for an even ripening and preventing cold damage during the winter and frost damage in the spring. This vineyard also has the loamiest soils of all of our vineyards allowing for good water drainage. This vineyard is planted with Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.
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This was the last vineyard purchased by the Dyck Family. At the time it was purchased there was an old house and barn on the property. Shortly after its residents moved out, the local arsonist decided it was time to take care of the eye sore and lit the barn on fire. Being no more than kindling to start with it burned to the ground as the family watched one night. Just a few weeks later, the arsonist returned and did the same to the house. Hence the appropriate name of Burning Barn Vineyard. This vineyard is located immediately adjacent to the Cattail Creek Vineyard and is the furthest from Lake Ontario. Because of this, the vineyard sees incredible amounts of heat during the summer but also the coldest temperatures in winter. Therefore our cold hardiest vines are planted on this vineyard, along with our icewine grapes Baco Noir, Vidal, Marchel Foch, Riesling (Clone 21) and Cabernet Franc.


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Like...I had a feeling it wouldn't be a fun lane, but I didn't take into account that me only having one spell doesn't really work against him. Also my team didn't ban malphite for w.e reason GG there lol.
Like...I had a feeling it wouldn't be a fun lane, but I didn't take into account that me only having one spell doesn't really work against him. Also my team didn't ban malphite for w.e reason GG there lol.
kennen you need to kill him early otherwise he'll just get too tanky, and it's not particularly hard to do that. after a certain point it becomes basically impossible to kill him in normal situations, but he should never really be able to kill you at any point without a gank.
cho also does fairly well against malph
Some people might be better than the elo they're currently at, but they just lack the skill to carry their team.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try some more PvP later and hopefully get matched against more Malphs, I think I was just having a bad time because I was constantly getting pushed from ganks and had no room to do much of anything. Also, I thought Malph was pure AD until I played him last night and found out he is AP, so that should help me a lot.
Solo queue is way too inconsistent. Dropped from 2k elo to 1800s with no chance of getting out for a while because of feeders every single game. Ad carries don't even know how to play.
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how exactly do you carry feeders
Why.Heimer turns around an becomes instantly aroused at the sight of Corki stroking his bare yordle **** smirking, waiting for the inventor to make his move. "Well everything appears to be in order." coos Heimer after staring intensely at the pilots **** "What could possible be the problem?".
in that elo just roaming, regardless of ur own lane, is the best way. it doesnt even matter if u win ur lane or not. if u lose ur lane, either by getting behind on farm or losing towers, or even sometimes just dying a lot, it doesnt mean anything if u can get all ur other lanes to win. this is easiest in mid, but can be done top as well. if ur lane opponent is the only person doing well on their team, chances are if they're in that elo they wont know how to take advantage of that and win the game for their team (otherwise they wouldn't be in that elo right?)
thats assuming u even lose the lane. if u win, constant roaming puts a lot of pressure on the other team at the very least, but ideally puts ur lanes far ahead of them. after laning phase, just force things to happen. siege towers together or split push to divide their attention, go for drag and baron if they're trying to turtle, try and catch people out as 5 if they're not, etc etc. u dont even have to be a good player to do this, u just need to be aware of the options and make the calls
basically anyone can make it to gold through decision making and mechanics alone, skill only comes into play once you hit the point where people are aware of these things themselves. of course it makes it that much easier to hit that point if ur good
yes there will always be those games that are just unwinnable, but these are few and far between and almost every game there is something u can do. also i dont recommend trying to carry as ad and none of this really applies to them, since its not really possible to force things like a solo lane/jungler and ur laning is much more dependent on ur support than urself, and roaming can put u very far behind.
ive had more success as a support in lower elo just because ur able to make more calls and make a bigger impact on the overall game, because a lot of the time games are not decided by teamfights or situations where ad becomes more relevant, and is based more on smaller scenarios and catching people out (clearing wards can do a lot just because people tend to use it as a huge crutch and cant use their knowledge of the game to guesstimate what the other team could be doing w/o them)
So I was gonna pick Ryze and he got banned... so screw it, AP Teemo it is.
Yup. Auto attacks should not be hitting that hard. So.. delicious. Morde was the only one to kill me the entire game I believe.... didn't realize his ult would hit so damn hard and he kept coming out of nowhere.
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My prefer style of playing because I don't like AD teemo or on-hit teemo.
I feel like I should buy Shyvana. I hate junglers with mana bars because I am very greedy and don't want to give the blue buff to mid very often :3
But then again it is hard to imagine being effective as a jungler with no CC at all
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"I personally have never agreed with any injections and anything that could be unnatural. I like to feel naturally fit going into games. But I think because we were going for the league title, and we needed to win the last two games, I would have done anything to play in that game. It wasn't healthy, it wasn't, maybe, the right thing to do long term, but I did it and at the end of the day I'm glad I did it. I played in a game for 65 minutes and we ended up winning the league."
-- David Beckham, who admitted he needed three injections
in his left ankle to play for Real Madrid in its 3-1 victory over Real Mallorca that clinched the Spanish league title. Beckham damaged ankle ligaments playing for Real Madrid four days after
spraining the same left ankle in England's match against Estonia on June 6, and then aggravated the injury further in the Real Mallorca game. He has missed four straight games for the Los Angeles
Galaxy after making a brief appearance in his debut game against Chelsea. (AFP)