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Thom Evans and his brother Max created quite a stir when they posed totally naked together in extremely homoerotic poses for Tony Duran's 2010 Dieux du Stade calendar and DVD. Normally the rugby players who appear in the Dieux du Stade series do not reveal their private jewels, but these boys decided to allow us to experience them in all their uncut glory and the poses they concocted were extremely homoerotic, to say the least. Of late, Thom has been pursuing a very lucrative career as an underwear model. Here are some of his latest advertisements.
Here's the Dieux Du Stade 2010 video and some extra photo grabs. Catch when Thom gives his dick a fluff!
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VIDEO: Farage Says Euro Won't Exist in Ten Years
What the EU's founders in the 1950s intended as "ever closer union" now risks going in the opposite direction: Britain is threatening to secede; the euro, battered by the four-year debt crisis, remains at risk of splintering; anti-euro forces are advancing in France, the EU's heartland; separatists are pushing to burst the U.K., Belgium and Spain.Sponsored Ads
Economic lethargy combined with a deepening political quagmire and mounting debt load as leaders struggle to tame the legacy of the financial crisis risk condemning Europe to lag further behind emerging powers like China. Europe's global heft is eroding: the euro zone's share of global gross domestic product has fallen to 13.1 percent from 18.3 percent when the currency was forged in 1999, according to International Monetary Fund data.
Europe Breakup Forces Mount as Stalwarts Regret Losing Relevance – Businessweek
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The fiscal deal in Washington: Worse than Europe, really | The Economist
IMAGINE you are in a taxi and the driver suddenly turns violently and speeds towards a wall, tyres screeching, only to stop at the very last moment, inches from the bricks—and cheerfully informs you that he wants to do the same to you in three months time. Would you be grateful that he has not killed you? Or would you wonder why you chose his cab in the first place?
That is the journey Congress has taken the American people on over the past few weeks (see article). The last-minute deal to raise America's debt ceiling, avoid a default and reopen the government at least until mid-January, which was signed by the president on October 16th, is welcome only compared with the immediate alternative.
The fiscal deal in Washington: Worse than Europe, really | The Economist
Giant hornets are killing dozens in China and eating bees across Europe. – Quartz
A plague of hornets, each the size of a human thumb, have descended on Shaanxi province this summer—at least 28 have been stung to death (link in Chinese), while another 419 have been injured, according to a local news report from China Radio Network (CRN), via the New York Times' Chris Buckley. The death toll from hornet attacks in Ankang city is more than twice the annual average between 2002 and 2005, say the Ankang police, as the Guardian reports. A local doctor said hospitalizations due to hornet attacks have risen steadily over the years (link in Chinese).
Why the uptick? The population of Asian giant hornets (vespa mandarinia), as they're known, has surged largely because of climate change, says the Shaanxi Provincial Forestry Department (link in Chinese). The average winter temperature in Ankang rose 1.10 ? in the span of a few years alone, allowing more hornets to survive the winter. And it's not just China; rising temperatures are behind the spread of another deadly Chinese hornets species, vespa velutina, in South Korea and Europe.
Thank you global warming: Giant hornets are killing dozens in China and eating bees across Europe. – Quartz
Coming From the NYT: What Hitler Had to Say to Americans About Europe | Washington Free Beacon
A Plea for Caution From Germany
What Hitler Has to Say to Americans About Europe
By Adolf Hitler
Originally submitted September 13, 1938; published September 13, 2013
BERLIN — RECENT events surrounding the potential annexation of traditionally German territories by their rightful rulers have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time when the news is filled with vicious rumors about German belligerence and horrid lies about the German treatment of her Jewish citizens.
The potential alliance between the United States, France, and Britain to stop the absorption of the Sudetenland into Germany, despite strong approval by the ethnic Germans who live there, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict throughout Europe. You Americans have so much space to stretch out in and breathe; we simply want the same in Germany. Your idea of exceptionalism—that you and you alone have the right to a roomy nation—is dangerous to stability.
Germany has no desire to risk yet another global conflict so soon after having been defeated just a few short decades prior. With the world community's ascent, and through the auspices of the League of Nations, we shall peacefully add this territory to our own. And then we shall be done: We have no designs on Poland, no plan to expand further.
When my emissaries meet with the world's leaders at Munich in several weeks, I hope that we can have a rational discussion. From the outset, Germany has advocated peaceful dialogue enabling the Sudetenland to develop a compromise plan for its own future. We are not trying to strip the Czechs of any territory. We are simply trying to uphold international law, bring Germans back to their rightful home, and preserve law and order in today's complex and turbulent world. This is the only way to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. Any effort to aid the Czech's in their unfortunate and illegal effort to maintain possession of the Sudetenland will be seen as an act of aggression.
It goes on like that for a while; I don't want to spoil the whole thing for you.
Coming From the NYT: What Hitler Had to Say to Americans About Europe | Washington Free Beacon
No Way Back – Why Europe Is Doomed To Face A 'Lost Decade': Dan Steinbock | Economy Watch
Although recent market data have pointed to possible signs of recovery, the European debt crisis is still nowhere close to going away. What's more, during the past half a decade, prosperity levels have stagnated or fallen so dramatically across Southern Europe – that even if the region would ultimately recover, it will be a far different Europe from what we've known from the past.
No Way Back – Why Europe Is Doomed To Face A 'Lost Decade': Dan Steinbock | Economy Watch
Is Europe still in crisis? – Telegraph
Rewind to two years ago, and it seemed to be all over for the beleaguered euro. Spreads were off the scale, the banking system looked close to collapse, and words such as "eurogeddon" were part of the everyday lexicon. The single currency's obituaries were being widely prepared, while here in the UK they had already been written.
Originally in a state of denial, even the politicians had by November 2011 apparently accepted the inevitable. Confronted by the announcement of a Greek plebiscite on the terms of the latest bail-out, an exasperated Nicolas Sarkozy, then President of France, broke the final taboo and publicly acknowledged that some countries would be unable to make the cut.
This admission set in train a mass panic in financial markets as the full implications of a break-up began to sink in. If Greece had to leave, then other, bigger distressed economies such as Spain or even Italy might be forced out, too, triggering complete meltdown in Europe's banking system. The economic abyss seemed to beckon.
On several levels, then, the belief that the eurozone crisis has gone away, or even that Europe is on the mend, is just more wishful thinking.
Filipinos across the world to protest against China | GulfNews.com
Manila: Filipinos based in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States will march in front of the Chinese Embassy on July 24 to protest against China's role in the ongoing territorial dispute.
The Philippines' government has denied, however, that it has a role in it.
Several private groups comprising former government officials, scheduled holding simultaneous protests in front of Chinese embassies across the world to garner attention and sympathy against China's flexing of marine muscle in the South China Sea which the Philippines claims as its own.
Filipinos across the world to protest against China | GulfNews.com
Jewish life in Europe 'dying a slow death'? | The Times of Israel
It's time to get out, urges Prof. Robert Wistrich, a leading authority on anti-Semitism. And he's one of the scholars who dismisses a claim that 150 million EU citizens have demonic views of Israel
According to one Jerusalem-based researcher, the situation is dire, and he claims to have the numbers to prove it: More than 150 million European adults have anti-Semitic views, he asserts, in that they believe that Israel is waging a war of extermination against the Palestinians. "Numerical data from various studies provide evidence that well over 150 million citizens of the European Union embrace a demonic view of Israel," Manfred Gerstenfeld, a former chairman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, writes in his new book, "Demonizing Israel and the Jews."
However high and curiously justified it is, some experts believe the figure might be accurate. …
Jewish life in Europe 'dying a slow death'? | The Times of Israel
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Why the Ruble Is Sinking | Opinion | The Moscow Times
Here are a few reasons why leaders have decided to weaken the ruble.
During a flight some time ago, I met a small businessman from Perm who had owned a hosiery factory. He ended up closing it down, renting it out as a warehouse and moving to Europe. He said that too many visits by government inspectors ready to fine him for any little infraction — real or imagined — had made running the business unprofitable.
I also recently visited a factory with a production facility that was built using the world's most advanced technology. As soon as construction was completed, Rostekhnadzor slapped it with 90 citations for noncompliance, including violations of regulations that were first adopted in the 1950s, along with their corresponding fines. Even state-controlled Gazpromneft has stated that the ridiculous and outdated Rostekhnadzor requirements make investments in Russian industry 30 percent more expensive than corresponding projects elsewhere. One Russian billionaire in the metallurgy business has explained that a plant costing $100 million to build in Europe would cost him $180 million in Russia.
Fears of Chinese banking crisis spark concerns throughout the financial sector | News.com.au
According to a recent report from Nomura Securities, China "is displaying the same three symptoms that Japan, the US, and parts of Europe all showed before suffering financial crises, that is, a rapid build-up of leverage, elevated property prices, and a decline in potential growth."
The catch with these sorts of scenarios is that one day there has, always, to be a reckoning. The minute someone says "this time the paradigm is different", is when you start looking for the exit. Fast.
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Kreuzer Named FSL Player of The Year
By Dunedin Blue Jays | August 28, 2007 6:13 AM ET
Two of the keys to the Blue Jays second half run were honored today by the Florida State League. First baseman Josh Kreuzer was named FSL Player of The Year and selected as the league's best first baseman. Jacob Butler was selected as the league's best left fielder.
Currently, the Blue Jays sit two games in front of the Clearwater Threshers and two and a half games ahead of the Tampa Yankees for the second half West Division title. The Blue Jays and Threshers play Wednesday and Thursday in Clearwater.
Kreuzer is having the best year of his career in 2007. In five seasons, Kreuzer has a .260 batting average, never hitting better than .267. Only twice did he have double digits in home runs. But this year has been a different story as his .307 batting average is currently fourth in the FSL. The power numbers are up too, with the 24 year old hitting 20 homers, 34 doubles (both numbers fourth in the league) which have combined to put him first in extra base hits (54). Despite slugging at a league best .541 clip, Kreuzer has been disciplined at the plate. His league leading .428 on base percentage follows his rise in walks from 25 in the first half of the season to 37, and strikeouts falling from 47 to 35.
Kreuzer is the third Dunedin Blue Jay to be named FSL Player of The Year. The others are Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Vernon Wells and New York Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado.
Butler's league leading 23 home runs and 81 RBI (third in the league) made him a perfect choice in left field on the post-season All-Star Team. Butler was doing well in the first half, but has been hot since the All Star break. He has hit 14 of his homers in the second half and 48 of his RBI. In 100 games as Dunedin's left fielder, Butler has only five errors. This isn't the first honor for Butler in his career. In 2005, he was named the Pulaski Blue Jays' MVP, Butler's first season in the minors.
Nielsen Named Player of The Week
Right fielder Eric Nielsen was named the FSL Player of The Week Monday. In his last nine games, Nielsen is batting .500 with nine RBI. He is second in the league in batting (.325) and first in hits (141) and doubles (41).
You can see Jacob Butler, Josh Kreuzer, and Eric Nielsen back in action at Knology Park when the D-Jays end their regular season with a three game set against Ft. Myers. The first game is Friday, August 31, at 7pm. For more information on tickets or if you have any questions about the Blue Jays, please call us at 727-733-9302.
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The Most Fun You'll Have Getting Your Ass Kicked 1
Devil May Cry 3 is over the top. Everything about the game is done in excess, which could be good or bad, but in this case it's mostly good. After an excellent and stylish debut in 2001, Devil May Cry took a wrong turn with its 2003 sequel and disappointed many fans. With the third installment, Capcom is attempting to get back to its roots. While the game is titled "3," it's actually a prequel to the original game. The story revolves around the relationship between Dante and his twin b...5 out of 5 found this review helpful.
A perfect example of hard not necessarily meaning crappy. 0
Some gamers today will tell you that games are easier than their older counterparts, that the translation into the third dimension sacrificed difficulty for new gameplay possibilities. I have written this review to tell you that is incorrect, and one of the best examples is this game, which will challenge you throughout. The gameplay experienced here is pure action, nothing less. You take the roll of Dante, a half demon devil hunter who kicks ass first and takes names later. You'll spend a lot ...2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
How to Cry in both pain and joy. 0
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening is like nothing I've ever seen nor experienced before. This game sets the standard for what an action-adventure game should be like, even arguably standing out as the best of it's kind.The Devil May Cry series has been dragged through the mud these past years. The first being revolutionary for it's time, yet the second being the biggest ''**** up'' in video game history. The sequel isn't all that bad in reality, but it goes so far below the level of the first,...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
More than a simple hack and slash 0
Devil May Cry 3 is an action adventure game, with the focus clearly being on the action. From the start you'll realise that this is no ordinary 'hack and slash' game, but an inspiring experience that will certainly leave you desperate for more. The developers of Devil May Cry successfully began the series in 2001. The original Devil May Cry was one of the first essential games for the Playstation 2, combining free-flowing gameplay and excellent graphics. Despite the initial euphoria, the ...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Devil May Cry 3 Review 0
Devil may cry 3 is the third game on the series. i never played the other two but this game was ood, sorry it was awesome. the game goes around the main character DANTE and his brother(forgot his name). the monsters are tht of a japaneses culture monster, no suprise in that. The story has many twist and turns that makes you hang on to your seat and go on with the game. the hottest thing about this game is the action seriously OMG, i never seen a asian game with that much action. Dante is a devil...0 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Ultraviolence 0
Even as a hardened veteran of the excellent Devil May Cry and the not-so brilliant Devil May Cry 2, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening is shockingly difficult from the get-go. It's not often that the first level of a video game does its very best to smash you into the dirt, and Devil May Cry 3 is no exception. From the start we are straight into it, no beating around the bush. Scythe wielding baddies slash at you from nearly every possible angle with very little breathing space. The ultra-coo...0 out of 1 found this review helpful.
So I Guess I'm A Masochist? 0
It makes me sad to see that hack'n slash games have become a dying breed. Some claim it's because gameplay has evolved into something so much more sophisticated over the years. Then I observe people playing Farmville or Angry Birds and realize how ridiculous that statement is. A game's addictive qualities can and often are manifested in more than just surface level game mechanics.For me, it all boils down to remuneration. I need to see up front what a title is offering me in relation to the time...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Gamers Will Cry 0
Gamers Will Cry Cut, shot, and destroyed Devils by Gamer Jay And here we are again, on the stepping stones of Demon world and Human world, once sealed by the legendary Sparda, human sympathizer and Legendary Dark Knight, not be confused with Batman, the not as powerful and not as demon like, Dark Knight. I have come through on my promise, which I bet the 3 of you out there reading this didn't think I would, and brought you a review of an actual game instead of the past couple reviews I ...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Hardest game ever 0
I first brought this game thinking that I will be playing a great adventure story. However I was shocked to discover that the game was hard,,, It took me 5 goes to defeat the three headed dog. The story starts with Dante and his bro fighting in the rain. Swing giant swords at each other. Then Dante looses leaving his brother to turn to the darkside or something. Then a load of creatures come after Dante. Leaving you to fight you're way through the visous army. However, it's not as good as it see...0 out of 1 found this review helpful.
The sons of Sparda return in this action masterpiece 0
Since its release in 2001, the Devil May Cry series has been heralded as one of the premier action titles for the PS2. However, the series was in jeopardy of losing its status when the lackluster Devil May Cry 2 was released in 2003. Thankfully, Capcom redeemed themselves with 2005's Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. The third entry returned to the series' roots of stylish action and cheesy one liners. However, while fans loved the game, there were some gripes about the difficulty, which was b...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Devil May Cry... Frustrating 0
Gameplay - 2/5 Dante can equip 2 devil arms and 2 guns at any given time and you can switch between them instantly, in mid-combo if you want to. The devil arms are all unique and interesting, with the exception of the throwaway guitar one, and lead to a huge variety of possible combos. The guns, on the other hand, are all fairly generic and do negligible damage to enemies, even when upgraded. As you may have heard the game is extremely difficult, but not because of aggressive enemies or creative...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
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BWW Recap: MASTERS OF SEX Skips Ahead and Leaves Nothing Behind
One of my favorite television devices of all time is a time jump. I love, love, love a good time jump and when they're utilized well -- as it was in this week's Master of Sex -- it really works to advance the story without sacrificing important plotlines.
We've advanced five months and learn Bill has officially branched out on his own and opened his own clinic. He's operating on his own steam and it proves difficult for him financially and personally. Last we left Bill and Virginia, Bill had knocked on her door and her boyfriend answers! It is clear they are no longer sleeping together because of that incident, and my Bill-and-Virginia-loving heart is absolutely crushed. I think I've said it before, but it's two steps forward and two steps back for these two.
Bill is not taking it well. He's at the bar of the hotel where they used to "participate in their study" and talking to the bartender about his relationship with his "wife," Mrs. Holden, the alias they used at the hotel. He talks about her really seeing him for who he is and how she has "betrayed" him and her "betrayal" is unforgivable. Harsh, Bill. Harsh. He sees her as betraying him, betraying their relationship, but he seems to be very black and white on the subject, as if he was actually living in the life they created together in that hotel. For him, it was as if they really were Mr. and Mrs. Francis Holden.
Bill seems to do everything to get Virginia out of his mind, even going so far as to hire a prostitute for sex. But nothing's happening below the waist. He just can't perform. Bill manages to hurl insult after insult at Virginia, calling her an unfit mother because of her revolving door of boyfriends, and I'm side-eyeing Bill so hard. Bill might be under pressure because of his new business, because his mother's come back into his life, because he's still fighting with Libby about everything, but it's no excuse to take it out on Virginia. He is not living the life he wants to live, and it is wholly unfair to blame Virginia for satisfying her own needs.
She says as much when they're in the office together. I think Virginia let him off the hook way too easy by giving him that hotel room key. He had been aggressive in his anger, extremely insulting, and she forgives him. She lays everything out on the table and they have their first honest conversion. Virginia still manages to make the conversation about the work they're doing together and how they will always come first. But she said something that had me pumping my fist in the air. She said it is unfair that he goes home to Libby, and she goes home to no one. I mean...yes! It is unfair, and it shocks me that Bill is so egomaniacal that he can't see that. Bill talks about Virginia's ability to see him and he completely misses seeing her. A moment of realization finally hit in the office during that conversation, and it couldn't have come soon enough. It makes it a little bit easier to forgive him, and his lack of understanding and compassion - a complaint often made about doctors in general - but Bill still needs to take a few strides when it comes to forgiveness. In other words, Virginia may have forgiven him as proven by the subsequent hotel room scene, but I haven't yet!


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I purchased a package for 4 sessions from American Laser, was told that the downtime was less than fraxel. This is inaccurate and dishonest information. The day after I called them my entire face was swollen but they don't have any doctor in their staff. They just simply minimized all my symptoms and concerns.
I had to find my own doctor and was put on corticosteroids because I was getting a triple chin from the severe inflamation. I'm in my 4th day and my face is less swollen thanks to the steroids but looks seriously burnt, dark raised squares all over. If these don't heal and fall off this is going to be a major lawsuit and I'm fortunate that my husband is a lawyer.
These people clearly used the wrong setting on me. My best advice to you is "don't do it" Fraxel is a lot safer and administered by physicians.


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i am hoping some of the experts can help me out. i calculate a bunch
(144 to be precise) of 5 x 5 matrices to be used in an
eigenvalue/eigenvector calculation in a full 60 x 60 matrix. i cannot
seem to build the 60 x 60 in a way usable by Eigenvalues and
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Mirabai Devi: 2014 Tour Awakening into Divine Consciousness
Jacksonville Tour Team - Mirabi Devi
Saturday, May 31, 2014 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Mirabai Devi Returns to Jacksonville!
2014 American Tour
Awakening into Divine Consciousness
Mirabi Devi's teachings provide an opportunity for you to achieve unity of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual awareness and a deep connection with the divine nature that exists in you.
The benefits of attending this 4 hour workshop and light transmission:
- experience more self-awareness
- deepen your self-love
- align more with your Divine Purpose
- create better relationships with others
- increase your state of happiness and bliss
- develop a more abundant life by raising your level of self-worth and value to others and the world
*Seating is limited and PREPAID tickets are required. Early Bird Ticket pricing ends May 18, 2014. Act now before they sell out. Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE, but are TRANSFERABLE.
**Please share this with family members or friends whom you feel will benefit. Facebook shares are encouraged and appreciated as well.
Many thanks to those who helped make the Mirabai Devi JAX Tour 2014 tour possible.
Marilyn Wilson - Just a Beat Away, Jerry Croan - Psycholigist & Counselor, Steve Alvarado - Percussionist, Diane Marie - Authentic Clarity Coaching, Caren Burmeister - Second Nature Skin, Jeff Holland - Jeff Holland Photography, Captain Leslie Jones and Ralph Hubbard - Now and Zen Boat Tours, Jessie Sperrazza - Freelance writer, Ponte Vedra Cultural Center, Kristi Schatz - Director Peaceful Living Center, Unity Church Jacksonville Beach, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Cinda Sherman, Editor - Arbus Magazine
When & Where
Ponte Vedra Beach Cultural Center
50 Executive Way
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The Next Fire: WUI Codes Could Help Lessen the Impact
November 1, 2008
COLUMN : Industry Watch | Codes & Standards
While natural disaster newshounds watch alternating seasonal threats of East Coast hurricanes and West Coast wildfires like a tennis match, building codes have been shoring up the defenses in hopes of mitigating disasters such as 2005's Katrina and 2007's Witch Creek. We have devoted much discussion in these pages to the evolving codes and standards for hurricane wind, water and impact resistance, but have not revisited Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire codes and standards for some time.
The next time Western wildfires kindle and threaten adjacent homes, they will hopefully meet a daunting challenge–at least from new buildings constructed under the latest California codes. Adopted in late 2005 by the California Building Commission, the Wildland Urban Interface Building Standard, Chapter 7A of the state building code, entitled Materials and Construction Methods for Exterior Wildfire Exposure, took effect in most jurisdictions January 1, 2008, for construction in designated wildfire hazard areas. The latter are geographical areas classified as very high, high, or moderate in state "responsibility areas" or as local agency "very high fire hazard severity zones."
Patterned closely after the 2006 International Urban-Wildland Interface Code, the California state code addresses what state officials have identified as the two most common ways that buildings are lost during wildland fires: from direct exposure to heat and flames and from burning embers that can blow up to a mile ahead of the fire.
In the first regard, these codes require that homeowners clear flammable vegetation within 30 feet of buildings and modify vegetation within 100 feet around buildings to create a defensible space for firefighters to safely protect their homes.
The second component is to construct buildings that resist burning embers. Buildings catch fire when embers fall on wood roofs, blow into the building through vents, pile up in cracks or lodge under boards. Ignition-resistant construction creates an "envelope" around the structure to decrease the number of burning embers that can enter the building. By building the structure in a way that diminishes ember intrusion, the main cause of home loss during WUI fires can be reduced and even eliminated.
Windows in particular are considered to be one of the most vulnerable components of a structure when it is exposed to fire. This vulnerability is due to several factors. The thermal shock of direct exposure to flames or the impact of airborne debris could shatter the glass, permitting burning branches or flames to enter the building, virtually assuring its destruction. Conventional wisdom holds that the window frame is also susceptible to burn-through under direct flame exposure. It has been theorized that radiant or convective heating, such as from adjacent burning shrubbery, might not break the glass but could ignite or deform the window frame, allowing the glass to fall out and again exposing the building interior to flames.
However, testing conducted in 2002 at the University of California Forest Products Laboratory concluded that all window products failed when subjected to high heat levels and that performance is dictated by glass type, rather than by window type or the specific framing material.
This testing was a key factor in mitigating early knee-jerk code reactions that threatened a wholesale ban of vinyl windows. As a case in point, the 2001 edition of the UWIC I-code contained the phrase "unapproved plastic or vinyl assemblies shall not be used," which has since been removed. It is now recognized that vinyl products perform well under WUI hazard zone conditions when horizontal members are reinforced with an aluminum crosspiece.
The 2006 UWIC I-code requires windows used in high-risk areas to be "tempered glass, multilayered glazed panels, glass block or have a fire protection rating of not less than 20 minutes." Exterior doors must be of "approved noncombustible construction, solid core wood not less than 1¾-inch thick," or have a "fire protection rating of not less than 20 minutes."
The 2007 California WUIBS uses essentially the same language in Section 704A.3-Exterior Walls, but describes acceptable windows as "insulating-glass units with a minimum of one tempered pane, or glass block units, or have a fire resistance rating of not less than 20 minutes, when tested according to ASTM E 2010, or conform to the performance requirements of SFM 12-7A-2." The latter, which sets forth testing methodology and acceptance criteria for windows exposed to direct flames, is one of several State Fire Marshal standards located in the California Referenced Standards Code, Part 12, Chapter 35 of the CBC. Note that the four stated requirements are not cumulative, but offer four compliance options.
Doors are required to "conform to the performance requirements of standard SFM 12-7A-1 or shall be of approved noncombustible construction, or solid core wood having stiles and rails not less than 13/8-inch thick with interior field panel thickness no less than 1¼-inch thick, or shall have a fire resistance rating of not less than 20 minutes when tested according to ASTM E 2074."
The code requires conformance testing to be performed by a testing agency approved by the State Fire Marshal or identified by an ICC or ICBO Evaluation Service (ES) report.
In an effort to provide homeowners, contractors, designers and local fire and building officials with a list of compliant WUI products, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's (CAL-FIRE) State Fire Marshal's office is publishing a "WUI Products Handbook" under its Building Materials Listing (BML) Program. All products listed in this handbook have been reviewed and verified for compliance with the new WUI codes by the state fire marshal office staff. Manufacturers may submit applications for listings, and numerous roofing and siding products are already listed. The publishers note that the listings are voluntary and that materials not listed by the SFM may still qualify for use provided they meet all the requirements under Chapter 7A of the WUIBS.
As of the August 20, 2008, edition of the handbook, there are no window or door products listed. Manufacturers with products that qualify may want to have a look at this opportunity.
Meanwhile, numerous organizations are seeking to raise awareness throughout California and the West. For example, the International Code Council Foundation, the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) and The Home Depot Foundation are jointly sponsoring an educational campaign based on an instructive video, "A Tale of Two Houses—Wildfire." Downloadable from www.flash.org, the video compares features of one home that survived the October 2007 Witch Creek Fire near San Diego with one that was destroyed. That fire torched 200,000 acres and 1,000 homes, but the flames bypassed the example survivor. Many states, as well as the Federal Emergency Management Administration, have also released publications addressing what homeowners should consider in protecting their WUI residence from potential fires.
It is gratifying to note that both the public awareness initiatives and the code provisions are working to dispel the myth that only "lucky" homes survive wildfires' showing that those built with specific preventative methods and materials can survive. It is also gratifying that the specific requirements have migrated from panic-induced and questionable panaceas to those based on science and well-conceived engineering. Just as with hurricane codes in the Southeast, AAMA and allied associations have had a role in this, and we will continue to contribute constructively wherever possible.


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Revenue and Taxation Code
Property Taxation
Part 5. Collection of Taxes
CHAPTER 4. Collection on the Unsecured Roll
Article 1. General Provisions.
Section 2922
2922. Unsecured taxes delinquent. [Repealed by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1184, in effect January 1, 1988, operative July 1, 1988.]
2922. Unsecured taxes delinquent. (a) Taxes on the unsecured roll as of July 31, if unpaid, are delinquent at 5 p.m., or the close of business, whichever is later, on August 31 and thereafter subject to a delinquent penalty of 10 percent.
(b) Taxes added to the unsecured roll after July 31, if unpaid are delinquent and subject to a penalty of 10 percent at 5 p.m., or the close of business, whichever is later, on the last day of the month succeeding the month of enrollment.
(c) Taxes transferred to the unsecured roll pursuant to any provision of law and already subject to penalties also transferred, shall be subject only to the additional penalties and costs prescribed in subdivisions (d) and (e), which shall attach beginning July 1 and on the first day of each month thereafter.
(d) Unsecured taxes remaining unpaid at 5 p.m., or the close of business, whichever is later, on the last day of the second month after the 10-percent penalty attaches shall be subject to an additional penalty of 1½ percent attaching on the first day of each succeeding month on the amount of the original tax. The additional penalties shall continue to attach until the time of payment or until the time a court judgment is entered for the amount of unpaid taxes and penalties, whichever occurs first.
(e) In addition to the penalties imposed by this section, the tax collector may collect actual costs of collection incurred by the county up to the time the delinquency is paid.
(f) When the last day of a month falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, any penalty to which the tax becomes subject on that date shall not attach if the tax collector receives payment in full by 5 p.m., or the close of business, whichever is later, on the next business day. If the board of supervisors, by adoption of an ordinance or resolution, closes the county's offices for business prior to the time of delinquency on the "next business day" or for that whole day, that day shall be considered a legal holiday for purposes of this section.
History.—Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1184, in effect January 1, 1988, operative July 1, 1988. Stats. 1990, Ch. 992, in effect January 1, 1991, added "and costs" after "additional penalties", substituted "subdivisions" for "subdivision" after "in", and added "and (e)" after "d" in subdivision (c); substituted "10-percent" for "10 percent" after "the" in the first sentence of subdivision (d); added new subdivision (e), and relettered former subdivision (e) as (f). Stats. 1991, Ch. 532, in effect January 1, 1992, deleted "August 31" after "are delinquent" and added ", or the close of business, whichever is later, on August 31" in subdivision (a); added ", or the close of business, whichever is later," after "5 p.m." in subdivisions (b), (d), and (f); and substituted "on" for "of" after "whichever is later," in subdivision (f). Stats. 1994, Ch. 705, in effect January 1, 1995, deleted "(This Section . . . 1988.)"; and added second sentence in subdivision (f).


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Our chart talk features a Power Point presentation that details the nature of our nation's fiscal challenge using specific numbers and data based on the latest budgetary projections. The chart talk provides a clear overview of the issue, allowing subsequent questions and answers to focus more on details and potential solutions. Access our standard chart talk.


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Since the 1980s, Clayton has rocked the guitar world with their amazing selection of guitar picks. Clayton manufactures their picks from start to finish in their factory in (appropriately named) Talent, OR. They offer a treasure trove of pick materials, shapes, and gauges. Your pick is a major component of your sound. The shape, material, and thickness defines your note attack and tone. The surface feel is also a highly personal choice (you don't want your pick flying out of your fingers at an inopportune moment). Sweetwater offers a huge selection of Clayton picks. Stock up today!
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Patapon Creator Meet The Fans
Patapon 2 Donchaka♪ is out in Japan today and SCEJ had a little launch event at Shibuya to celebrate the occasion. The game's creator/creative director Hiroyuki Kotani and sound designer Kenmei Adachi were there to promote the game. Check out more pictures at the links below.
Source: Famitsu (more photos at Gpara & Dengeki Online).
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We are In the process of updating our website and currently in need a new logo for the top of the website and stationary.
First step is to design a good looking logo that is compatible with our brochure which is available for download here.
I need a strong logo that complements the website, yet is easy to read.
The new websight will have mainly blue collar type audience so it can be tailored to suit that demographic.
This template is the basic design of new website where I intend to use this logo.
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a Ford style starter solenoid has either 4 or 5 connections (some have 2 small posts, some have 1)
of the two large studs, one goes to the battery positive, and the other goes to the starter
of the two small terminals (if your vehicle uses two) one is the "S" terminal, which is the start signal from the key switch, and the other is labeled "I" for ignition, this one will send out 12v+ during cranking to run the ignition system if your key does not...this is the one that may or may not be used, and is left off of some solenoids
the last connection is the ground ,which is done through the mounting bolts of the solenoid to the fender...you can try running a temp jumper wire from the battery neg terminal to the mounting plate of the solenoide to see if this is the problem
use a voltmeter and test battery voltage with everything off, should be slightly above 12v...now watch the battery voltage as you energize the solenoid (jumper from the batt + to the small terminal "S", or have someone else turn the key while you watch the voltmeter)...if the solenoid is only clicking and the starter is not engaging, then the voltage should remain very close to what it was with everything off. If the voltage drops significantly, you probably need a battery, but may also be a cable or connection problem.
When the starter is turning, the voltage will drop to about 10 volts
If the battery voltage reamins about the same when the solenoid is energized, then connect the voltmeter positive lead to the side of teh solenoid with the starter cable attached, and hit the key again...you should see 0 volts until the solenoid is energized, at which point you should see battery voltage...if you see none, or very low, then the solenoid or the pos battery cable between the solenoid and the battery is the problem...if you do see good battery voltage on the output side of the solenoid, then connect the voltmeter to the starter pos post, and repeat the test...low or no voltage here would mean the cable between the starter and the solenoid is the problem
if everything up to this point checks out OK, then connect the positive lead of the voltmeter to the starter case, and leave the negative lead of the voltmeter attached to the battery negative, and the meter set to read DC voltage, as it was for all the previous tests...yes, I know that means that both leads are conected to ground...energize the solenoid again, and if everything is working correctly, you will see 0 volts at this point, and the starter should be turning...If you see battery voltage, or really anything above about 1 volt, then your starter is not grounded properly...you can verify that by using a set of jumper cables and connect the neg cable between the starter case and teh battery negative, and leave the positive jumper cable unhooked
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Although their success in the U.S. is only just starting to grow, in many other parts of the world, the members of the German rock band Tokio Hotel are already bona fide superstars, with millions of albums sold worldwide. And with four number one singles and an MTV Video Music Award (VMA) for Best New Artist under their belt, it won't be long before they take over America's airwaves. Of course, thanks to peta2, you'll be able to say that you knew about them first. Check out Tokio Hotel's PSA to learn more and then take our pledge to
boycott circuses that use animals!
Speaking of the VMAs, Tokio Hotel first caught the attention of peta2 staffers and supporters after the band's red-carpet arrival at the awards show back in 2008. The group of heartthrobs demanded attention by rolling up to Paramount Studios in Hollywood while standing on top of a head-turning monster truck. It was a much-welcome alternative to T-Pain's tasteless entrance, which neither the members of Tokio Hotel nor peta2 were pleased about. Of T-Pain's arrival, the band's lead vocalist, Bill Kaulitz, said, "It was sheer cruelty—it was that." Tokio Hotel guitarist (and Bill's brother) Tom Kaulitz added, "I hate zoos and circuses. People shouldn't take their children to either one."
We couldn't agree more. Animals in circuses are denied everything that is natural and important to them. Taken from their mothers only a few weeks after birth, baby elephants are tied down, locked in chains, physically and mentally abused, and struck with sharp metal bullhooks, all so that they can be forced to perform unnatural and often painful tricks. Animals are not here for our entertainment and do not belong in cages or circus tents. The tragic loss of many animal and human lives in circuses has proven this point.
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Oct. 11, 2011
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- Anthony Anderson gets a hug from Meghan Stuteville before Aiden's game at John Tarleton Park." />
- Anthony Anderson talks to Aiden before his South Knoxville Cherokees team takes the field." />
- Anthony Anderson puts his hands on Aiden's helmet just before Aiden's game." />
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- Anthony Anderson chases Aiden Stuteville before one of Aiden's practices." />
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VIDEO: Anderson and Aiden Stuteville
Like any 8-year-old boy, Aiden Stuteville has a hero. And like most 8-year-old boys around here, his hero plays football for the University of Tennessee.
When the Stutevilles take a trip to Walmart, Aiden goes straight at the rack of magazines, flipping through the ones with football players on the cover and looking for his favorite player. He'll dig through racks of jerseys, searching for one that might have his hero's number -- No. 36 -- embossed in white.
"He keeps looking for his jersey," says Todd Stuteville, Aiden's dad. "We see a lot of 11's and 28's. I try to tell him they're not going to have Anthony's. We'll probably have to get one specially made. He looks, though."
He won't stop looking any time soon.
That's how it is with heroes, and it's hard to imagine a better one than Anthony Anderson. On the field, Anderson, who grew up in Knoxville, isn't a star, but he doesn't lack admirers. Aiden Stuteville leads the charge.
Unlike a lot of kids, though, Aiden knows his hero. He's had dinner with him. Lunch, too. They've shot hoops, and they've thrown the football. He's cheered his hero on from the stands in Neyland Stadium, and his hero's cheered him on, too, from behind a chain-link fence at John Tarleton Park.
Aiden's hero played Duck, Duck Goose with his little sister. How cool is that?
Before the family moved to Tennessee last year, his dad used to tell people he was a Gators fan. That was mostly to give his wife grief -- and to mess with a buddy who cheered for Miami. Now, though, Todd's a Tennessee fan. He can't help it. Neither can Noelle.
How they arrived in Knoxville, though, is a little complicated.
Once upon a time, Todd Stuteville was a police officer. Noelle was a special ed teacher. Their life was pretty normal.
Until one day it wasn't.
"When Aiden was 5, we took him to his physician (for an annual checkup)," Noelle Stuteville said. "He has the cafe au lait spots on his back. Just due to his complexion and the freckles and the hair coloring, we just thought they were birthmark type of things. They're not very dark. Abby, our oldest, has spots where she has so many freckles where they just look like birthmarks."
In Aiden's case, they weren't just freckles or birthmarks. The spots were a series of cancerous growths, and they weren't even the worst of it. The family's doctor referred them to a pediatric neurologist in Orlando, who diagnosed Aiden with neurofibromatosis, a condition that causes tumors to grow on the nervous system.
An MRI revealed two tumors, each roughly the size of a fingernail, on Aiden's 5-year-old brain. Subsequent MRIs revealed six more tumors about the same size.
When Noelle got the results, she immediately called her husband. He didn't answer, which usually meant he was on a call. With the kids still in her mini-van, she drove straight to Todd's sector to find him. Eventually, he picked up the phone.
"I had just finished my shift, and I just sat in the parking lot," Todd said. "You're supposed to be this big old, macho guy... I sat there just crying in the parking lot for an hour or two."
It didn't get any better when he got home.
The same day, the Stutevilles found out the home they were renting in the Orlando suburb of St. Cloud had gone into foreclosure. The family had 30 days to find a new place, just as Noelle went back to work and the kids went back to school.
"Seriously? On a day like that?" Noelle says. "But then again, you start to think of it, OK, so we had to pack up and move. Really? It wasn't the best time to be served with those papers. But you had the whole thing about perspective. Big deal."
That perspective is what landed the Stutevilles in Tennessee, and it's part of the reason Aiden's hero wears orange and white instead of garnet and gold.
He's chasing Aiden Stuteville and one of his South Knoxville Cherokees teammates across the patchy grass outfield on one of the baseball fields at Maynard Glenn Park in Island Home. The two throw the football. Anthony kicks it, and Aiden fields it. He chases Aiden. Aiden chases him.
At times, it's hard to tell which one of them is playing Grasscutters and which one's playing in the SEC. They're both kids. Anthony's just a little bigger.
"Aiden, man, he's a blessing," says Anthony. "He's my little brother, my blessing from above that loves me, and I love him to death. I try to do my best because I know he has his eyes on me."
It hasn't been a whole lot different the other times Anthony and Aiden have hung out together. Aiden rode shotgun in Anthony's shiny black sedan, when he joined the Stutevilles for dinner one Friday night in early July at Applebee's. Later that night, he came over to the family's apartment and played basketball with Aiden and his sisters.
That morning, Anthony ran and lifted weights with his teammates at a 5 a.m. workout and went to a three-hour class. Noelle was the one who had to tell Anthony it was time to go home.
"We were the ones saying, `OK, 15 more minutes... It's getting late...'" Noelle said. "It was a Friday, and I'm sure a 22-year-old young man has much better things to do on a Friday evening than come hang out with an 8-year-old. But that was really impressive."
"Just a very humble heart," Todd says.
By the time he left, Anthony had given Aiden a pair of sunglasses, the orange-and-white lanyard he carried his keys on, a signed photo and a pair of Tennessee shorts. Not to be outdone, Aiden signed one of his football photos for Anthony, who keeps it inside his locker at the Neyland-Thompson Sports Center.
That's the most tangible thing Aiden gave Anthony. It's far from the only thing.
"The joy of Aiden makes my day. There's not much that won't make my day, but seeing a kid who smiles so much and just loves being around you -- doesn't matter if we're wrestling or playing basketball or throwing, tossing, kicking the ball, he takes every day like it's his last day," Anthony says. "He just has a ball. It just proves to me that you can't take life for granted. Anything that God leads you to, don't ask questions. Just see what it brings to you."
Many people with neurofibromatosis, also known as NF, have endless surgeries. Some lose limbs or suffer varying degrees of paralysis. In some cases, it's fatal. Others never feel the effects at all.
Todd left the research on NF to his wife. He couldn't think too much about it, because the possible outcomes were enough to drive him crazy. Before Aiden was diagnosed, he wasn't in love with being a police officer.
And now more than ever, he didn't want to arrest people. He wanted to help them, particularly the homeless. So, after a little research and a lot more deliberation and discussion, he moved the family to Tennessee, where he enrolled in the urban missions program at Johnson University.
"That was one the reasons for getting out of law enforcement," Todd says. "I realized I wasn't really happy with that. It puts life in a whole new perspective. You see things in a new light. I was like, `I feel like this is what God's calling me to be.' "
Todd's on pace to graduate in three more semesters, but his change hasn't been without a price. Money is tight, for one, and free time is hard to find. While Todd's in school full-time and working part-time, Noelle's finishing her master's degree online. For the next year and a half, the Stutevilles -- all five of them -- are getting by on little more than Noelle's teaching salary. And counseling the homeless isn't exactly the most lucrative profession, either.
Some things, though, are worth more than money, like the look on Aiden's face on that July evening in the park as he and Anthony shot baskets.
"You're sitting there watching all these people driving nice cars and all that, and I was a little bummed," Todd says. "But when (Anthony) came over and played, just seeing Aiden's face and seeing Anthony play with Meghan, just to see that, I would trade a million dollars, two million dollars to see that again.
"Spending that time with us was worth more."
He's in his fifth and final year with the Vols' football program, having switched to wide receiver at the end of fall camp after spending most of his career as a defensive back. He's become a major special teams contributor, and he's one of Tennessee's senior leaders. In just a few months, Anderson's playing days will be finished. But he's making sure that he's spending that time making the most of his status as a Tennessee football player.
For Anderson, that's spending time with Aiden.
"Some days I don't want to do a thing. But my dad says, sometimes it's not about you," Anderson says. "You've got to step outside your comfort zone, step out of things that you wouldn't ordinarily do."
That's how he wound up meeting Aiden in the first place. His mother, Jean, teaches with Noelle Stuteville at Ritta Elementary School. That's when Noelle mentioned how football-crazy Aiden, who started playing ball when he was 4 years old, really was, and that he'd love the chance to meet someone who played for UT.
Anthony swung by the school last spring and had lunch with Aiden, who asked for -- and received -- permission from his mom to have Anthony sign his t-shirt. Aiden, who also has a mild form of pervasive development disorder, was quiet at first.
"He didn't say two words and then he finally opened up to me when we were sitting there eating," Anthony recalls. "Then he was attached to me, like the little brother I never had."
The attachment went both ways. Soon, Anthony was hanging out with the family, and he's been to two of Aiden's games at John Tarleton Park, the same place he played as a kid. Watching Aiden, who plays center and defensive tackle, and his teammates, Anderson fell right back into a kid's mindset for football.
It's one he'd like to share.
"They take full advantage. They're out there busting their tail, tackling each other -- even if it's their teammate -- giving their all for the 30 minutes of a game," Anderson said. "I wish I could take some of my teammates out there to see the way they play, because sometimes some of them don't understand how much of an opportunity they have to be at the University of Tennessee, a big school and a nice program like this one.
"You can learn a lot from a child that's 8 years old. That doesn't quit. That doesn't mope because he was sick. He kept living life like nothing was wrong with him. Some of the guys need to see that."
What Anderson sees is a new little brother.
See them together, and it takes about 5 seconds to realize how Aiden feels about Anthony.
"Little kids just think we're super heroes, like we're iron men, something that can't be broken," Anderson says.
He speaks from experience. When he was 4, Anthony met his older half-brother, Jeremy Stewart, then a 16-year-old living in Memphis. Stewart, now a coach at Kirby High School, went on to play football at Memphis. He even sacked Peyton Manning during the Tigers' upset of UT in 1996.
"I was so nervous to meet him," Anthony said. "I was like, I don't have a brother; I just have my twin sister. I knew I had somebody to look up to. He just does the small things you think an older brother should do. I try to go see him when I have off weeks. We're still so close.
"I was attached, like instantly. It's like something that you'd always wanted, and it came true."
Aiden's attachment to Anthony is a lot like Anthony's was to his older brother. Though the gap in age is a little wider, brothers isn't much of a stretch. If any.
"(Noelle) says, `This is your second family.' I've claimed that. I've brought that inside my heart," Anthony says. "They've changed my life in a matter of 2 1/2, 3 months. I feel like I need to give back. I don't know how to give back yet... But if it's my time, I feel like that's an important part. If that's all I can give back right now, that's all I can give back."
He's given lots of time, and there's not a lot to spare, as most Division I athletes can attest, especially those who play football in the SEC.
He's shared more than time, too. Just last month, he joined in one of the family's most joyful moments.
Anthony got a text message from Noelle Stuteville that, according to Aiden's latest MRI, the eight small tumors on Aiden's brain had disappeared.
Reggie White, a former Vol and one of the best defensive linemen to ever play in the NFL, was one. Deon Grant was another. Grant was the first one Anderson ever met in person. After a game during Tennessee's run to the BCS national championship in 1998, Grant gave Anderson a game-worn wristband.
Anderson took it home and displayed it with an already sizable trophy collection. He'd still have it today, more than likely, if the family's black lab, Jason, hadn't gotten hold of it.
"I thought it was like something that was going to cost millions of dollars. They went on and won the championship that year. I thought that he was the best person in the world. He was my idol. It was a UT football player," Anderson says. Then he breaks into a grin. "If Deon Grant ever heard that, he'd probably crack up."
Or maybe he wouldn't. Here's betting that once upon a time, Grant knew what it was like to have a hero, too.


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These fonts are artistically camouflaged to be undecipherable to software scanning systems.
In the light of Snowden revealing that the US government was gathering private information from sites like Facebook and Google, netizens, activists and the even people living under a rock are now concerned about online privacy. To combat this, Sang Mun has devised a font typeface that prevents your data from being deciphered by the NSA.
Sang Mun worked as a contractor with the US NSA when he was in military service in Korea. Mun was shocked at how easily it was for the government to access people's data so he started looking for ways people could hide their data from artificial intelligence. So he started to develop a typeface that would be undecipherable by a text scanning software. He created ZXX, a typeface that thwarts prying software eyes with its four illegible styles: Camo, Noise, False and Xed.
The fonts look like they're created with design aesthetics in mind- the Camo, for example, is stylistically camouflaged in a military fashion. The False typeface lends a 'false' identity to its characters- for example, A is used to denote C, B to denote Y and 0 to denote 9. In this manner, the fonts are meant to confuse software scanners.
However, Mun admits that his typeface is not enough to conceal your data from the government since the NSA obviously uses software that pries into several areas to gather information. So, the typeface isn't really about hiding information as much as it is for making the common Microsoft Word user aware of the government's Big Brother eyes.
The fonts are avaliable for free download here.
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Patrick Schwarzenegger is clearly irritated that his recent brush with the law has been shared to public. Shortly after TMZ reported that he has received a speeding ticket recently, the oldest son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver took to his Twitter to express his discontent towards the police.
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2. Note: Allow at least a two hour soak time between engine OFF and start up when evaluating the tick noise.
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Quote:Shiko dachi is called "old men's kiba dachi", because as you age, it's harder and harder to stretch the hips.
Quote:Goju-ryu does not know kiba-dachi. Not for young and not for old. Matayoshi kobudo does not include kiba-dachionly shiko-dachi. Is kiba-dachi only used in shorin based styles ??
Quote:Quote:Goju-ryu does not know kiba-dachi. Not for young and not for old. Matayoshi kobudo does not include kiba-dachionly shiko-dachi. Is kiba-dachi only used in shorin based styles ?? Thats just false, not to mention rediculous.kiba-dachi is a natural stance when shoulder and hip throwing. so yes, Goju and most Okinawna systems definitely have it. also appears in some nahate kata depending on interpretation: Saifa, Sepai and Kururunfa - to name a few. Besides, some styles have no 'stances' at all - so the point is moot. stances are overated - it's the transition thats important....why aren't the transitions named instead of the stances? because stances make better pictures when posing for a camera, judges or an audience.
Quote:Hmm,Seikichi Toguchi does not mention kiba-dachi in his books. JKF Goju-Kai official book either. Morio Higaonna mentions it in his first book as a shiko-dachi with the heels of both feet turned outwards (hardly a natural stance) but does not mention this stance in any of the kata he describes. (he described all kata in his traditional karatedo volume). Eiichi Miyazato does not use the term kiba-dachi but uses the term shiko-dachi.(he also describes all kata in his book). Motobu Choki mentions his horse riding stance as hachimonji-dachi (wich is more reffered to as naihanchi dachi by others).
Quote:But I was referring in view of Goju-ryu not using the kiba dachi as defined before where shiko-dachi would be defined as a hachichi-dachi but twice as wide, with lowered hips. Hachichi-dachi (8-stance) being the natural stance, shoulder wide, big toe pointing outward (diagonally).Defined like that, I am not aware of kiba-dachi used in Goju-ryu kata.
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Topic Title: Water Grid
Topic Summary: Water Grid is cheaper than HS2
Created On: 16 August 2013 11:41 AM
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16 August 2013 11:41 AM
If you think the cost of maintining essential water supplies is expensive then take a look at the proposed costs for HS2, water and food security are far higher priorities
16 August 2013 01:57 PM
Does anyone have any figures for how much water a gravity-fed canal all the way from Scotland to the South-East would be able to supply?
I suspect that the flow rate would be too low to be useful, but I have no idea how to do the calculations to back that suspicion up.
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24 August 2013 11:42 PM
In terms of energy costs, a piped pumped water grid, would be energy intensive, while current plan for regional transfers would be much less, but a gravity-fed canal would not require any energy, except for minor things like movements of lock gates.
I should add that we hope to use the canal corridor for district heating to take waste heat from power stations like Drax and Ratcliffe-on-Soar, to cities like Leeds, Sheffield and Nottingham.
We are provisionally working on an average flow rate of 0.6 m.p.h, delivering about 0.9 to 1 billion m3 p.a.
Low-tech work like digging canals is very "Keynsian" compared with hi-tech projects, in that money goes to more to local people and recirculates, so the jobs and economic multiplier effects should be significant.
27 August 2013 08:06 AM
I believe, albeit on a smaller scale, the Llangollen canal provides water from the Horseshoe Falls to a reservoir at Hurlston. The problems of how often the lock gates open was overcome in by the use of bypass channels at locks.
19th century engineers seem to have been there before us.
Clive Maude
02 November 2013 05:23 PM
I was very disappointed by this article - especially the lack of detail about the gradient etc. If we assume a flow and gradient similar to the navigable parts of the Thames, we need a gradient of 1 foot per mile, so after 300 miles it has dropped 300 feet, hardly following the 300ft contour as described. The engineering would also be immense unless it really followed the contours, i.e was very twisty, increasing the length by perhaps a factor of 2 (it has now dropped 600ft and is well below sea level by the time it reached London).
Also I did a bit of research and found that canal transport, as well as being much slower than road actually uses more fuel.
04 December 2013 06:36 AM
Whilst most people's idea of living off the grid is as described above, purists would argue that to truly be 'off the grid' you need to remove yourself from the water grid as well. This means sourcing your own fresh drinking water and disposing of your waste water without recourse to the established system of sewers.
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06 December 2013 11:41 PM
Yes, the canal line would be guided by contour lines, but would flow down across. The canal would not need anything like a foot per mile fall though. Pownall's options were a foot per 100 miles, or a foot per 12 mles. We haven't determined this exactly. However, we have carried out a study on cost optimal routes using GIS, to check that it is practical. The canal length is likely to be around 40% greater than the direct distance, and we will use short stretched of tunnels and aqueduct, so don't have to follow the contours slavishly. We have ample altitude difference. In fact, we expect to be able to be able to some micro-hydro power, for example, buy putting archimedes screws in the by-wash channels fed from side wiers before the locks. (We anticipate about 6 locks).
Inland waterways have the lowest CO2e / klm tonne emissions form of inland transport. A bit lower than rail, which is about a twentieth of road. Check the annexes on freight transport at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/69554/pb13773-ghg-conversion-factors-2012.pdf
According to the topography, many could live off-grid without sacrificing their standard of lifestyle, but most could not, especially in cities.
14 December 2013 01:18 PM
if you will excuse an argumentative old git there are few fundamental problems which seem to have been overlooked in the above posts.
In the nineteen seventies Cornwall suffered a drought and the engineering solution was the pipe in water from an up-country source. The most staggering thing about the whole operation was that, when the water reached the county, they simply dumped it into an existing drying-out Reservoir. Fortunately the rains came before they learned about water-tables?
Secondly I have to supply my own potable water and get rid of the foul waste. While I agree it is not exactly easy to do in the middle of a town it is far from being a problem and results in water wherein the laboratory fails to find any ingredient except water!
to answer the problem about water supplies/gradients/quantities of water you need look no further than the nearest rivers. These move huge quantities of water at very low pressures and are the equivalent (in the electronics world) of a constant-current source. George Gershwin enshrined this in his " 'Ole man Ribber" who with, great serenity, "... just kept flowing along."
nineteenth century engineers got there before us because they used their mathematics to solve constructional problems and did not indulge in airy-fairy non-problems of fantastical fascination.
Ken Green
08 January 2014 10:42 AM
I don't have the wherewithal to do the calculations but a foot per 100 miles seems very small gradient as does a foot per 12 miles. It is all a trade off between cross section and gradient but given civil engineering (and other ) costs I think we can safely assume that a canal from the North of England to London would cost a similar amount to HS2, and twice as much if the width of the strip of land is twice as wide.
08 January 2014 10:43 AM
I don't have the wherewithal to do the calculations but a foot per 100 miles seems very small gradient as does a foot per 12 miles. It is all a trade off between cross section and gradient but given civil engineering (and other ) costs I think we can safely assume that a canal from the North of England to London would cost a similar amount to HS2, and twice as much if the width of the strip of land is twice as wide.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will make an announcement on its search for new fighter jets at 3:15 eastern time (2015 GMT) on Wednesday, the public works ministry said in a statement.
Officials said last week that the government would restart the process of searching for a new fighter for Canada's air force after soaring costs spurred a rethink of plans to buy Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35.
They said it was still possible that Ottawa would eventually decide to buy the F-35, dismissing reports Canada had decided to walk away from the jet.
The Conservative government has been dogged by the F-35 file since it declared in July 2010 it intended to buy 65 of the Joint Strike Fighters for C$9 billion ($9.1 billion) without holding an open competition.
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According to the National Post, the report by accounting firm KPMG puts the total at almost C$46 billion. The previous highest defense department estimate was C$25 billion, but that covered a 20-year period.
Critics from opposition parties said the single-source decision was wrong and complained right from the start that Ottawa was not being clear enough about how much it would cost to buy and maintain the planes.
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I have purchased an OBD11 bluetooth reader from ebay. Car is an E46 2002 318 OBD 11 compliant. Plugged obd11 in and got all readings, temp, coolant temp, rpm, maf, etc etc. No probs there. However, I am unable to read error codes, software just returns 'no error codes found in ecu.' Now I know for sure my car has error codes, as only the next morning car was in garage and returned 4 error codes.
So if you assume that there are error codes stored in the ecu, engine light not on by the way, why cannot the obd11 reader read these codes ?
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