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Jaeger-LeCoultre. A fine and rare platinum and sapphire-set automatic triple calendar wristwatch
Signed Jaeger-LeCoultre, Automatique, ref. 140.6.87, no. 01, manufactured in 1995
Cal. 891/447 nickel-finished lever movement, 36 jewels, silvered brushed dial, applied dagger and Arabic numerals, luminous hands, outer date ring with central date hand, two windows for day and month, subsidiary seconds, circular case, calibré-cut sapphire-set bezel, back secured by four screws, platinum Jaeger-LeCoultre deployant clasp, case, dial and movement signed
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- 4 canned peach halves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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Is anyone around Springfield? Wish we had some kind of aquatic club here. K.C., St. Louis, Tulsa, Rogers -- we're surrounded but all are hours away and too far to drive for monthly meetings.
Interested in cichlids and plants.
I'm in springfield. Working 2+ jobs so I probably wouldn't have time for meeting at a club.
I do drop into the aquariumshoppe from time to time. They aren't really big on freshwater but they have decent fish and I like to support local. They might know of some kind of club.
I am in Aurora, and a club would be cool!
I'm a former Springfield guy and look in there once in a while but I would not expect a club. There have been various clubs start over the years but rarely last long as there are not many really motivated club goers. There are not many places where I have lived which will support any type of hobby club for meetings monthly. Normally I find a few folks in an area that are obsessed with the current interest but that fades as they get into the work of being a club. If a club is formed around a group like a college or large business so that there is a base of support and facilities, clubs can get by but if somebody has to provide all the work, it soon fades. There was a Springfield area fish club back somewhere in the '70's but I lost track of it long ago.
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James Hird's legal team will call for Andrew Demetriou to be removed from future AFL Commission deliberations on any charges against the Essendon coach, believing the league boss has a conflict of interest in the case.
If, as expected, charges against the Bombers and the club's coach are made this week, Hird's legal team has already decided it will formally object to Demetriou sitting in judgment of the scandal that has tainted the season.
Key to the Hird camp's claim would be a conflicting version of events around a telephone conversation on February 4, between Demetriou and former Essendon chairman David Evans, before the AFL club announced it was essentially opening itself up to an investigation by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
It emerged last month that Hird claimed during an interview with ASADA that he believed Demetriou tipped off Evans about the contents of the Australian Crime Commission report. Demetriou and Evans have both denied those claims, with Demetriou saying he could not have leaked the information because he wasn't privy to it.
As AFL chief executive, Demetriou is a member of the league's nine-member commission chaired by Mike Fitzpatrick. But Hird's legal representatives - separate to the legal team representing Essendon - believe it would be inappropriate for Demetriou to take part in rulings concerning the coach.
Bill Kelty removed himself from commission deliberations on the Essendon supplements probe months ago over his relationships with key figures in the case - specifically Evans, who resigned before the case came to a head, and Hird. Kelty is the chairman of the advisory board of Evans' stockbroking company.
With the AFL now desperate to deal with Essendon before the finals series, the formal call for Demetriou to be excluded from any commission deliberations on the complex issue would be triggered by the laying of charges - an action in the hands of AFL legal counsel Andrew Dillon.
If charges of bringing the game into disrepute are laid - as expected - Essendon, Hird and any other relevant individuals will be given time to mount their defences before a scheduled meeting of the AFL Commission in a fortnight.
Essendon and Hird continue to state their "right" to participate in this year's finals series and lawyers involved are adamant the case will wind up in the Supreme Court.
The fact that Hird's legal team already has a firm plan to object to Demetriou's future role in commission rulings - provided charges are laid - comes after veteran AFL agent Peter Jess described the
league boss as "seemingly compromised'' in the saga and said the penalties for Essendon ''should not be decided in-house''.
"Andrew is on the public record saying he has received briefings throughout this case. But the body that rules on this case must be independent,'' Jess said.
That stance is backed by US Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart, who has called for the NRL and AFL to hand over their power to sanction players to ASADA, believing there's a conflict of interest if a sporting body is responsible for deciding the punishment of its own players. ''You can't police your own sport, even in the first instance,'' said Tygart, one of the key men responsible for exposing cyclist Lance Armstrong as a cheat.
''Sport organisers and administrators are going to take every inference or piece of evidence in favour to itself, to not embarrass themselves. It calls into question the legitimacy of the decision coming out of sport.''
Tygart described the investigations as the ''tipping moment for Australian sport''. ''Hopefully people realise that Australia is not immune from these same pressures of drug use and organised crime,'' he said.
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Ontario, Canada — Stan Cockerton, President of the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) is pleased to announce the launch of a new website for the worldwide governing body of lacrosse. The site is now live at www.filacrosse.com.
The new website is designed to create a platform that serves the needs of FIL member nations, while also sharing the exciting news of the growth of lacrosse around the world. The site will be a powerful tool in promoting international lacrosse development and FIL championship events. The website was designed by Tim Morgan of Phoenix Marketing and Design.
"This site is going to be an incredible tool that improves communication with all of our stakeholders; member nations, international lacrosse fans, media outlets and key international sports associations," said FIL President, Stan Cockerton.
Interest in the sport of lacrosse has spiked in recent years with the Internet and social media playing a large role in this growth. People from all corners of the globe are learning about lacrosse online. This launch of this site includes the debut of FIL social media outlets that will assist the FIL in communicating all the exciting news that is taking place on the international lacrosse scene.
"Our members and emerging lacrosse communities all use social media to communicate amongst themselves and to promote the growth of the sport in their country," said Cockerton. "We have a growing audience of fans and players and almost all of them are using social media. We are excited to capitalize on new ways of reaching them. "
Finally, and potentially most importantly, the new website includes critical information and pages that will serve to educate member nations and players around the world on issues such as Anti-Doping.
"There is a significant section of the website dedicated to raising awareness in regards to Anti-Doping " stated Cockerton. "We want to send a strong message to the world that we are serious about being an Olympic caliber sport."
About the Federation of International Lacrosse: The Federation of International Lacrosse™, shortened to FIL™, was established in August 2008 in a merger of both the men's and women's international lacrosse associations. FIL™ is responsible for the Men's World Lacrosse Championship, World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, Women's Lacrosse World Cup, and both the Men's and Women's Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships. These events are held every four years. For more information on the FIL visit www.filacrosse.com


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Hmmmmmm I would
- quit my job
- pay off everything
- buy a nice house in my hometown
- set aside retirement fund
- set aside kids education fund
- pay off moms mortgage
- pay off sisters mortgage
- because I'm not working, go back to school for what I really wanted to do...nursing, and pay cash for tuition
- set enough money aside that I can live very comfortably off interest alone....to be free not to work a career because I am needing the money desperately, but because its something I'm truly passionate about
- go on vacation every 2 years to somewhere new and exciting...first stop Italy
- hire a cleaning lady to come in once a month and do all the little nasty jobs I loathe, like cleaning the oven, washing the windows, dusting....ahh that would be a luxury I would gladly indulge in
- I would start up a program at the hospital in my hometown that provides necessary items to qualifying mothers who have a financial need. Things like baby snowsuits, car seats, clothing, formula, baby cereal, etc. This program would also offer free breastfeeding clinics, prenatal lessons, as well as ages and stages courses, like a course on potty training or disciplining children, or dealing with a teething baby.
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Would you still clip coupons? Most definitally!
Would you still stockpile? Yep!!
What would be the first thing you did with the money? Pay off my debt. Then buy a house (a cheap house...Maybe $100,000), and a used car. Go to pastry school. Buy my Dad a house.
Then save the rest for when it rains!!12-02-2009, 01:12 AM #48
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My hubby & I don't play the lotto much - but we do play "what if?" First pay off the mortgage and any rental properties that we may have at that time. Our kids are grown therefore a trust fund would be set up for the ages of say 25 or 30. We believe they need to know how to do on their own first.
10% to the church, the rest would be "squeezed" until it screamed!! LOL Life style change? Yep - work only when you want to - not have to.Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements12-02-2009, 01:36 AM #49
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Depending on how much i won i guess. I would definetly pay off any debts i have. I would still work, just up my 401k contributions. Give my siblings some. DEFINEtly travel ! :-) I"d like to think i would live pretty much the same way. At this point in my life i probably would. Most people that go broke after winning the lottery were probably broke and not good with money in the first place.12-02-2009, 01:37 AM #50
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Ah heck, this girl sure wouldn't be sittin' in this chair!! I would be @ a fat farm getting a massage.... ..from a young good lookin'' man... whew-eeee12-02-2009, 12:07 PM #52
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Pay off my Ex ( Give him $$ so I can leave this place with my kids)
Pay off my parents house
Move to my Parents neighbourhood
Make up for lost time living on this island and missing out on my family.
Oh and go back to school and become a lawyer so I can get even with my ex!
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We have thought about this for a while. The "What if"
1. Give 10% to the church
2. Get rid of all debt.
3. But land and build house where we want/how we want.
4. Live off of the land and animals.
5. Set kids up with 1 Million each. If they want to use it for college then great, but if not, then they would have to be 30 before they can touch it. It would have to be used to buy a home! PERIOD!!!!!
6. Start an animal rescue.
7. Travel to Ireland when ever we wanted.
8. NO MONEY TO FAMILY!!! They are a bunch of free loaders now.
9. Set up a charity for several different things.
10. Set up a shelter for kids. A safe haven sort of place.
You know, since we are talking millions here, the first three things on my list would barely make a dent in the money. So there would be plenty of money to do all the things that I wanted. But one thing I know for certain is that even if I won a million, I would still be able to do the first three! LOL12-02-2009, 06:02 PM #54
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1. Set enough money aside that hubby and I will feel comfortable retiring when we wat (even though we will keep up our pension and 401(k) contributions from each paycheck).
2. Pay off ALL of our debts.
3. Set up money in a trust for the kiddos.
4. Upgrade and make some minor repairs to the current home to buy our dream home.
5. Have fun and blow some money on wants.
6. Donate to those charities we have deemed worthy--such as Make-A-Wish, VFW. I'd also like to donate monies to the NICU that Wesley was in at birth. An anonymous donation would be made to the police/fire department in our city.
7. Set up the rest in stocks, mutual funds, money markets, various savings etc.12-03-2009, 11:33 AM #55
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Hhm...let's see...
1. I'd pay off our house or buy a farm in Idaho or somewhere. If we stayed here, I'd change our deck to a screened porch and build a high privacy fence in the back.
2. I'd pay off my parents' house.
3. Put away money for our three kids.
4. Give my favorite Aunt and cousin a nice sum.
5. Donate to some type of genetic hearing loss research for kids as my middle son has a genetic hearing loss.
6. Donate to research for adenocarcinoma of the stomach as my Grandma was diagnosed with it and we lost her in less than three months. This was one of the worst things of my life as I love her sooooo much! If you get adenocarcinoma of the stomach you ARE going to die from it...no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
7. Buy a flat or small house in London...doesn't have to be a luxury place...just a nice place to go to whenever I want as London is my favorite place.
8. Donate to my alma mater...UNC-Chapel Hill. Go Tarheels!!!!
9. Donate to our church which is small and has a mostly elderly group of people in it on fixed incomes who can't afford to donate much.
10. Donate to the animal shelters around here. Animals are much better than most people in my opinion. JMHO
11. I'd pay off any debts we have and pay my parents' expenses too.
12. Invest! Invest! Invest!
13. Go book shopping! Oh Gosh, one can never have too many books! I'd buy all the books I've ever wanted.
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UPDATE 2-Husky Energy posts smaller-than-expected loss due to costs cuts
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CALGARY, Alberta Feb 26 (Reuters) - Husky Energy Inc , Canada's No. 3 integrated oil company, posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss on Friday as cost cuts help cushion the impact of slumping crude oil prices.
The company posted a loss of C$69 million ($51 million), or 9 Canadian cents per share, for the fourth quarter, compared with a loss of C$603 million, or 65 Canadian cents per share, a year earlier.
The year-ago quarter included a non-cash charge of C$622 million related to the impairment of certain mature assets.
Operating losses were 5 Canadian cents per share, lower than analysts' estimates of 10 Canadian cents.
"We are now well into what has become one of the largest oil price routs in history," Husky Chief Executive Officer Asim Ghosh said on a fourth-quarter earnings call with analysts, adding that the company's strategy was standing it in good stead.
Husky shares were last up 4.8 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange at C$14.09, boosted by a rally in benchmark crude oil prices.
Husky, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said it is steadily ramping up production at its joint venture Sunrise oil sands project in northern Alberta. The steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project is producing around 25,0000 barrels per day, although the company said it will not push the pace of new production given low oil prices. Continued...


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Criticism of Israel's human rights contraventions - and particularly any mention of boycotts - elicits an immediate and powerful barrage from the pro-Israel lobby. Editors of national newspapers and journals can expect to be inundated by letters from Israel supporters, often copying their arguments word-for-word from the numerous websites that push the Israeli embassy line.
At the same time, critics can be deluged with hate mail couched in lurid language. The SHIT List ("Self-Hating Israel-Threatening") website exemplifies the extreme verbal abuse and intimidation heaped on Jews who speak out.
Israel is invariably portrayed as the victim, despite its record of killings, assassinations and destruction in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, and its relentless land grabs over decades in the occupied territories, exhaustively documented by human rights organisations.
The lobby can operate at the highest levels of city government as was seen in February 2006 when the group Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine - formed to highlight the complicity of Israel's construction industry in the occupation - was launched in the office premises of the Richard Rogers Partnership.
The presence of a mole at the meeting resulted in sensational articles in the British press claiming (inaccurately) that a boycott of Israel was being planned, practically leading to an international incident involving the Chief Rabbi and Lord Weidenfeld.
Despite only a brief reference at the meeting to the possibility of targeted action against the firms building the illegal separation wall and West Bank settlements, Lord Rogers was summoned to New York to face a tribunal of city senators and heads of Jewish organisations, since he had recently been appointed to design the Jacob Javits Conference Centre worth $1.7 billion. Javits was a well-known Zionist, though the centre was being built by public funds. New York is jokingly referred to as an outpost of Israel.
Under threat that he would be removed as architect, and unjustifiably invoking anti-boycott US laws (specifically enacted to protect Israel from trade boycotts), Rogers, even though had said he was not in favour of boycotts, was forced to bend under pressure from the distinctly McCarthyite proceedings. The pro-Israel lobby would of course hotly deny that signing a "loyalty to Israel" clause is a prerequisite for obtaining major architectural commissions in New York.
To be outspoken does not bode well, even within local Jewish communities. I was expelled from Rivers of Babylon - a group that I performed with - because of my views as a peace activist. Even though politics were not discussed within the group, which was formed to revive Iraqi Jewish music and song, the director, a childhood friend, asked me to leave due to a threatened boycott of the group's concerts from the fervently Zionist Indian Jewish community.
An editor from a pro-Israel freebie newspaper phoned to tell me he was not publishing my letter responding to two correspondents who had advocated wiping out Gaza and expelling the Palestinians, because I did not "love Israel" and was beyond the pale.
It is important that alternative Jewish voices are heard in the media and in the community, to counteract the efforts of BICOM, (the British Israel Communications and Research Centre) which has close links with the Israeli embassy, AIPAC in the United States, and all organisations engaged in "pro-Israel advocacy", including the three major political "Friends of Israel" groups (Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat), also reflected in the inaction of the Blair government over Israel's war crimes.
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I really like the Sig .45 1911's especially the carry models - Revolution C3 and Revolution RCS with 4.2 barrels, and i'm thinking of buying one. anyone have any experience with these? i'd like to know how they handle, recoil etc.
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I really like the Sig .45 1911's especially the carry models - Revolution C3 and Revolution RCS with 4.2 barrels, and i'm thinking of buying one. anyone have any experience with these? i'd like to know how they handle, recoil etc.
I have owned the C3 for over a year and it has run 100% right out of the box, never a jam,FTF or FTE I absolutley love this gun.
I have a GSR TTT 5", a Platinum Elite 4.2", and a 1911Carry Nitron 4.2"..... all have been flawless, and a pleasure to shoot. They're obviously heavier than the lightweight/alloy framed 1911's, but that simply goes to reduce perceived recoil. The 1911 Carry Nitron is only about a month old, and about 500 rounds.... the other two have thousands of rounds through 'em.
That's great! I just picked up the Sig C3 1911 last Friday, and am looking forward to firing it.
I've had two C3's. Both have been 100% and they are about my favorite belt carry pistols.
I have a 1911 RCS Sport 13 and, unfortunately, can't recommend it. I must have bought either the first gun they produced on Tuesday after a long weekend, or last on on Friday before the long weekend festivities started. Have already sent it back to Sig for FTF and Failure to Return to Battery issues, they replaced some parts, fired 20 rounds and called it fixed. Have been to the range 3 times since I got it back, and am having the same issues with Return to Battery again. I'm going to try one more time with 3 different manufacturer's ball ammo (Winchester, Blazer Brass, and Federal) and see if it's just the ammo and not the gun. Have tried both Wilson Combat and Sig mags and am having issues with both, so don't think it's a mag issue. Had the RO check out my grip and firing routine, no issues there with limp wristing it. Hope it's just an ammo issue. I've been firing both Fiocchi, Remington UMC, and PMR .45 230 gr ball and my other 1911 runs just fine with all three. Quite honestly, it's not what I expected from a Sig Sauer product at all.
I have a Dan Wesson, and I have an Ed Brown on order. But, I think I will be buying a Sig 1911 in another week.. Just so I don't have to worry so much about scratching up the higher end 1911s.
Haven't made up my mind for sure on which one I want...
I have the 1911 TacOps (traditional), as well as two of the newest Super Targets (nitron and stainless). Great looking and feeling and can't wait to shoot my Super Targets :cool: Pics of the two until I can take some . . . .
Nitron . . .
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Thanks pic.
Finally got a few proof picks together of my very recently acquired 1911 Super Targets. Ordered and got them within a few days of each other this month and even the build dates are within only a couple of days of each other in October. Anyway, blurry but the best I can do with my point and shoot . . .
all of my current 1911's, so far . . .
my Sigs so far and more on the way . . .
all my German X's (ha) with the "Competition" sportin Nill's . . .
and my X-Five Match Short's new Sig installed front fiber optic sight . . .
while I'm at it, their German cousins . . .
other stainless . . .
and some blacks . . .
And an X-Five SuperMatch still , if it gets here.
Beautiful collection , love EM all
Just purchased a new Sig 1911 STX earlier today, my first 1911 of any brand, can't wait to try her out.
Very nice spread! Brought me back to a late 70's Hustler mag I had. Oh sorry! Sig 1911's are in a class by them selves! They are sweet guns. I had a scorpion carry a short time ago and had to part with it because the G 10 grips just bite the hell out of the hand and I didn't want to change the look of the gun with other grips which I looked at. I replaced her with a 226 MK.26 9mm and enjoy this piece over the scorpion carry. The scorpion was a tack driver and no feed or eject issues ever!!
I've had a SIG Ultra in 9mm for a few weeks now, I really like it, It's a hair larger than my EMP, mostly in the grip and feels great in the hand.
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I am now spoiled by the semi custom 1911s. I know sig makes great ones BUT compared to EB,DW,WC,NHC,LB--here is no comparison(IMHO)
I appreciate the workmanship they Sigs seem to have. Always loved the nightmare FS. IF I had Shoots collection maybe I would feel different. For now I will just smile as I shoot what I already own(one of each EB, DW Wc NHC LB)
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Love my C3. Only had one FTF but it was the fault of the factory magazine.
I've since added the Sig Fastback Traditional Carry Nightmare to my collection and I love it just as much. No issues with that one at all so far. Just fired it for the first time this weekend.
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Any ideas?
Hate to say it, but sounds like $150 well spent, to me.
I found an large hornet's nest while doing demolition for a remodel. My home pest control company came out and sprayed it. It was worth the cost to eliminate the worry and stress.
If you don't want to study bee lore and buy a bee suit and you don't want to kill them, hire the bee guy. Might be able to find someone to come get them for free due to the bee hive deaths that have been happening.
$150 is cheap unless it is a very accessible swarm
If it is easily accessible
Simply walk up to it and gently put a garbage bag around it if it is on a tree limb or something that you can easily cut off
If you are sure they are just honey bees and not Africanized a suit is not really necessary unless you need to man handle them or are allergic
I hardly even notice honey bee stings
Be very sure that you also get the honey comb before the honey starts to melt
Most county extension offices know the local Bee keepers clubs. Some times they will come get the bees for their own use. If they are honey bees they won't bother you if you leave them alone. Bee keeper 35 years.
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This is a discussion on Good: Secret Service Officer Thwarts Armed Robbers (P.G. County, MD) within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; As reported by The Washington Post: CRIME Secret Service Officer Thwarts Armed Robbers By Clarence Williams and Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, June ...
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Secret Service Officer Thwarts Armed Robbers
By Clarence Williams and Martin Weil
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 29, 2008; Page C04
Armed robbers tried to take a motorcycle last night from an off-duty officer in the uniformed division of the Secret Service, but the officer fired a shot to thwart the attempt, a Secret Service spokesman said.
The officer was unhurt in the confrontation, which occurred in the Largo area of Prince George's County, but the vehicle in which the robbers fled was later found bloody and abandoned, the spokesman said.
The incident occurred about 8:30 p.m. at a restaurant area on Capital Centre Boulevard. Four men in a sport-utility vehicle drove up to the officer, and two got out, one of them with a gun. He ordered the officer to lie down while the other took the motorcycle. The officer fired his pistol at the gun-wielding robber. Abandoning the motorcycle, the robbers fled in the SUV, which was found later in the District.
The story can be found at; washingtonpost.com
- Janq
"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
"A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman." - Florida Div. of Licensing
Kudos...but I left wondering how it would of played out with legal if it was a CCWer that took the shot.
Clearly a result of the Heller decision. Had SCOTUS not overturned the District's ban on handguns, the thugs in question could not have been armed.........
Bloody vehicle found. I wonder if the perps abandoned their friend or took him to the hospital. I hope he gets to meet his maker.
NRA Member
When I shoot the first round is immediately followed by a second one,less chance of BG returning fire and helps with the blood flow
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
If one round stops the threat then you would not be justified in firing a second round.
Also, with more than one adversary you should be putting one round in each adversary and then coming back to repeat as needed. I'll bet the Agent fired one round and then assessed the other threats. In that time the bullet recipient ceased being a threat, so he was not justified in shooting the "threat" again.
Read my post again, I edited it.
Not even a week after Heller and "blood is running in the streets of DC". It's OK if BG blood runs in the streets isn't it?
I'm sure the BGs never gave it a thought that their about 'to be vic' was a packing LEO. Just imagine; what if we all packed?
An armed populace are called citizens.
An unarmed populace are called subjects.
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
Certified Glock Armorer
NRA Life Member
For folk who are not of or from the local area, MD does _not_ support citizen carry aside from a very few especially fortunate/wealthy/connected persons as per official allowance upon review and permission of the State Police.
The victim in this case is a Federal law enforcement officer who happened to be authorized per his position to carry across all jurisdictions and into MD.
Had this person been an every day Joe or Jane such as me or anyone else, he would have been arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm, carry of a concealed weapon, assault with a deadly weapon, and if there was a formal residences around within 500' then that would be discharge of a firearm near a residence. Aside from possession all of the above are felonies in MD.
An infamous MD case toward this scenario played out 5 yrs. ago when a resident who was not a LEO used a firearm to successfully defend his car from robbers. He wound up being hit with numerous charges including murder (one robber died) and he was sent to prison.
So once again it's only the privileged few who are allowed to carry in MD, and thus endorsed toward defending themselves and/or their property by means of arms. Had this story been a civilian citizen the bent and reporting would be different as would the law enforcement result. Assuming the victim would have stuck around to tell his tale or report the incident at all.
- Janq
"Membership has it's privileges." - American Express.
"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
"A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman." - Florida Div. of Licensing
I wonder if he will get into trouble over this at work. Sometimes, law enforcement officers have to be particularly careful if they use their gun off duty.
I hope all goes fine for him.
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The bridge is regularly congested, slowing traffic travelling on the A55 dual carriageway.
A detailed technical study will take place before the plans are finalised, said First Minister Rhodri Morgan.
The assembly government said it would be unlikely that work would begin before 2010.
Mr Morgan said that an initial feasability study had proved the need for a system where two lanes were open in the direction of the busiest traffic at any given time.
Ynys Mon AM Ieuan Wyn Jones has welcomed the announcement but said it would only serve as a short term measure and long term solutions were needed to traffic problems.


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Digital Flaneurs Create Wonderland In Berlin
The post-user Internet is explored by creating web 2.0 bots to reenact Lewis Carroll's classic at the intersection of real life and the social web.
It's a fact which we oftentimes don't appreciate, but the Internet caters as much to the algorithms operating within it as it does for the flesh and blood 'end users.' This process has happened slowly, but whether it's webpage headlines catering for SEO algorithms rather than human eyes or the irritation of Twitter spambots, there are plenty of signs which indicate that the social web is increasingly populated by algorithmic actors as much as it is human users. So perhaps it's timely to reconsider the definition of a 'social web' user?
Philter Phactory are a company at the cutting edge of exploring the post-user Internet landscape. Their Weavrs platform combines "intelligent search with tamagotchis," allowing anyone to create a fictional identity, instill this identity into a bot and then loose their creation into the web 2.0 ecology. Once established, the artificial actors will tweet, blog and check in on Foursquare, probing their way through the social web by establishing links through what people share with one another, a process enabled by what David Bausola of Philter Phactory describes as 'narrative filtering.'
The Weavr platform is open for anyone to create bots to populate the social web. An intriguing use of the platform is suggested by a recent project in Berlin which has created a Weavr identity matching all the characters from Alice in Wonderland. Everyday these characters relive the narratives of Alice and the characters of Lewis Carroll but now the story locations are mapped to special places in Berlin. It's possible to follow these virtual character via their Twitter feed, their personal blogs or foursquare check in-trails, but if you happen to reside in Berlin you can use the augmented reality Layar application to see the characters out and about in the city, such as when they congregate for the Tea Party.
The Maschmischine project goes live in Summer 2011. To create your own Weavr's you can visit the hub here


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Kowasaki drill
Not complaining just buyer beware
Two years ago I bought a Kawasaki drill from Costco 18volt two batteries
I have always had trouble with both batteries dying right after charging then using for about five min. or screwing in about ten screws. really worthless tool Costco said they would help me If I had the bill from two years ago???
I use my old 12 volt Craftsman again.
Have you looked on eBay for replacement batteries?
Or, if you're giving up on the drill, you could probably sell it there w/o the batteries.
Deck hand
Kawasaki Battery drill
I sent a thread about the Kawasaki drill 19.2 ,I own.
Man It's " bad " I mean it's only two years old.
Both batteries won't keep a charge , after charging I can't drive more then three 1 1/2 "screws , the drill dies to a halt. I found that Kawasaki has a recall on it's chargers.
I think mine is one of them. Until you hear from me stay away from these
Deck hand
Battery Charger recall
Well I just got off the phone with Alltrade Tools LLC.
They handle the Kawasaki Drills.
Apparently There is a recall for real!! My Charger is on their list. They are sending me a new Charger free of charge. I had to promise to remove the Electrical cord from the charger and dispose of the charger properly. "They are a fire hazard"
Deck Hand
Kawasaki Battery drill's up date 11/30/07
:thumbsup: Hello Fellow Tool Men / Women
Re guarding the Thread about the bad Kawasaki drill.
I entered on this forum about a month ago. {read history }
The company has replaced my battery Charger. RE called<
I have charged my drill to instructions printed in the new booklet.
Left the drill on my back porch over night, which the temp.was about 28 degrees F.
This Morning, I tested the power and burned my hand trying to hold the chuck from turning.
Now this drill is working fine for around the house use.
I will update this when I put it thru full use!
Deck Hand
Nine people were injured from the bad Kawi chargers bursting into flames and blowing up (...I'm not kidding)
Re Kawasaki drills
Deck hand :(
Deck hand
Just Bring it Back to Costco
The problem with the batteries dying is not related to the old charger, it was an issue with the charger causing the battery to melt or explode (probably a problem with detecting proper end-of-charge which is a tricky thing to do with NiMH batteries).
I'd get the replacement charger, then bring it back to Costco and tell them that the replacement charger is unacceptable because it a) doesn't charge, and b) is worse than the original charger.
If you really like the Kawasaki, wait a bit until the factory can come up with a more realistic and acceptable fix to the problem. I'm guessing that the 400mA unit is just the end result of their scramble to ship a stop-gap measure so that they don't have to recall the batteries themselves or even the tool.
If you're ambivalent about keeping the tool or unloading it or if you don't perceive any value in waiting, then that is a different matter altogether.
Good luck with whatever you choose.
Kawasaki makes great engines, for lawn care and snow throwers. Given that, is this Kawasaki drill really a harbor freight special from china with the Kawasaki logo? I've never seen or heard of Kawasaki power tools until I saw them next to Dewalt in Costco.
Bottom line. When considering power tools, stick with Milwaukee, Bosch, Dewalt, Porter Cable, Hitachi, or Makita and generally speaking, you can't go wrong.
It's AllTrade Tools out of China
They licensed the right to call their line of power tools "Kawasaki" by paying Kawasaki licensing fee
The same way a Christmas ornament company would pay MLB and the Red Sox money to put the Red Sox logo on the ornament, or a costume company would pay Disney to put Shrek on a Halloween mask
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Men's Soccer League Play Starts Friday
Release: 10/03/2013
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - America East men's soccer teams combined for a .554 win percentage during the non-conference portion of the schedule and will now battle each other as conference play begins this weekend. Three of the four games will air on AmericaEast.TV.
Friday, October 4
Albany (1-6-2) at Stony Brook (4-4-0) - 7 p.m.
Live Stats | Watch live on AmericaEast.TV
- Stony Brook has won two of its last three games, including a 1-0 win over reigning CAA champion Northeastern its last time out.
- The Seawolves' Will Casey earned America East Player of the Week honors on Monday and leads the Seawolves with four goals.
- The Great Danes fell to Dartmouth, 2-1, their last time out.
- Four of Albany's six losses have been by one goal.
Saturday, October 5
Binghamton (2-6-2) at Vermont (6-1-3) - 1 p.m.
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- Vermont has lost just once in 10 games this season and is ranked eighth in the NSCAA Northeast region.
- The Catamounts have allowed just five goals all year and rank second in the conference with a 0.54 team GAA.
- Binghamton fell to St. Bonaventure its last time out and is looking to snap a five game winless streak (0-4-1).
New Hampshire (5-3-0) at UMass Lowell (2-8-0) - 1 p.m.
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- UNH enters conference play having won five of its last seven games outscorring foes 9-4 in the span.
- The Wildcats rank third in the conference with a 0.60 team GAA.
- This is UMass Lowell's first-ever America East contest.
- The River Hawk's Homero Morais ranks third among league leaders with 12 points.
#7 UMBC (9-1-0) at Hartford (7-1-2) - 7 p.m.
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- These two teams have combined for a 16-2-2 record entering Saturday's tilt.
- UMBC, the 7th-ranked team in the nation, had its 18-game unbeaten streak snapped Wednesday.
- Hartford is ranked seventh in the NSCAA Northeast region and has lost just once in 10 games this year.
- This contest pits one of the nation's top scoring teams against one of the best defensive. UMBC is scoring 2.8 goals per game while Hartford allows only 0.44.


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Let's be real here, you probably aren't reading this because you can't peel your eyes off of the gorgeousness below. Essie Bahama Mama is one of the newer additions to my polish collection, and I cannot get over how beautiful it is. I picked this up after seeing several other bloggers/YouTubers talk about it, and I'm so glad I did! Bahama Mama is a deep berry-red-plum cream that is the epitome of a fall nail polish.
natural light, 2 coats
The formulation of this was really great, two coats was plenty, and the consistency was smooth. Prepare to see this one on my nails forever. This may be the fall edition of Revlon Pale Cashmere for me!
Are you in love with any nail colors right now?
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I've been CG for about 3 months and before I went CG I would straighten my hair endlessly!
And here is a photo of it on one of my too lazy to straighten days
As you can see I would still straighten the front pieces
And now this is my CG hair
I love it! ^.^


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SparkFun Electronics Comments urn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f8249 2017-06-25T06:21:57-06:00 SparkFun Electronics Jonnerd on KIT-11943 - Cubelets - Bluetooth Cubelet Jonnerd urn:uuid:2cfd4339-0020-7229-a7f7-f8c73d6a3c45 2013-08-07T23:26:43-06:00
The Bluetooth Cubelet can actually do that. Although this product page talks only about Cubelets Control, Modrobotics has an API and programming environment called Cubelets Code that allows you to reprogram all of the other Cubelets using C. http://code.modrobotics.com and the API documentation is here: http://code.modrobotics.com/documentation/
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I think something along the lines of a 'controller' cubelet would be cool. Program it in like C or something with Microchip or Atmels libraries and send the program over the bluetooth to the controller. That would make this product line VERY cool. But then again, that would require a completely different way of the cubelets transferring data to each other. (More of an addressed method instead of 'static' like connections) Idk. Lots of ways the company that make cubelets could expand from here.


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Timothy writes:
Hello TWiMsters! I recently discovered the trifecta that is the TWi series, and now I can't get enough of your discussions of all things micro. For graduate students like myself, keeping up with the scientific literature can all too easily become just a means for cramming information into our brains that we feel we "should" know. Not only do your shows keep my mind stimulated and expose me to scientific papers that I might not otherwise read, but the informal and enthusiastic nature of the programs are just the slap in the face I need to crawl out from under the stack of papers, and remind me that I actually love to learn about science and to think about the various implications that a particular finding or result might have. After listening to your conversational discussion format and your fantastic insights that tie together the biology of the organism (or virus – are viruses organisms?) with the environment, host, experimental techniques etc., I am finding new clarity in the way that I think about scientific problems and evaluate scientific papers. I can't commend you enough for what you do. Formal presentations of scientific findings are a dime a dozen - listening to world-class scientists "chat" amongst themselves about current topics in microbiology is an invaluable resource that few people really ever get a chance to do, until now. THANK YOU!
On a scientific note, I was recently listening to TWIM #43 and your discussion on the stable formation of caveolae in in E. coli. It was mentioned that it had previously been thought that stable caveolae formation in eukaryotic cells requires cholesterol, to which Michael replied that "there is [no cholesterol] in our friends the bacteria". Although this was and is true in the context of E. coli and the paper's findings, I think it is worth pointing out that there are several described examples of free cholesterol and cholesterol-containing glycolipids in bacterial outer membranes – namely in Helicobacter, Mycoplasma, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Brachyspira, and Borrelia species. In Borrelia burgdorferi, cholesterol containing compounds have been shown to form organized lipid rafts both in culture and in animal-derived organisms, with physical properties similar to that in eukaryotic membranes. A recent paper published in PLOS Pathogens in January of 2013 utilized fluorescent and radiolabeled cholesterol to demonstrate that B. burgdorferi extracts cholesterol from the plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells, and that prokaryotic cholesterol-glycolipids can be transferred to epithelial cell membranes through both a contact dependent mechanism (using direct attachment) and a contact independent method (through released outer membrane vesicles). I highly recommend looking in to this story (maybe as a TWIM topic?), as it provides a shift in the thinking about lipid rafts, expanding their biological relevance to prokaryotes, and could have implications for the evolution of the eukaryotic cell membrane structure. Additionally, transfer of antigenic lipids from bacteria to host cells could play a role in pathogenesis - having multiple consequences for the host immune response and potentially contributing to heightened inflammation, and perhaps even direct targeting of the cells themselves by immune effectors. I've provided the citations and Pubmed links to a few papers on the B. burgdorferi story below, but also recommend digging into the story for H. pylori.
I've rambled enough for now, I should run – I've got to get to iTunes to write a good review or two…
LaRocca TJ, Crowley JT, Cusack BJ, Pathak P, Benach J, et al. (2010) Cholesterol lipids of Borrelia burgdorferi form lipid rafts and are required for the bactericidal activity of a complement-independent antibody. Cell Host Microbe 8: 331–342.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20951967/
Crowley JT, Toledo AM, LaRocca TJ, Coleman JL, London E, et al. (2013) Lipid Exchange between Borrelia burgdorferi and Host Cells. PLoS Pathog 9(1): e1003109. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326230
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Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology
Washington State University
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
- Winston Churchill
Alicia writes:
During TWiM#46 it was discussed that spores are able to sense peptidoglycan that has been shed by other bacteria. I would like to know, are the spores able to differentiate between the peptidoglycan that is shed by growing bacterial neighbours and the peptidoglycan lost during lysis.
Thank you,
Alicia Zigay
University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Jon Dworkin answers:
Excellent question! If this any indication, your listeners are really paying attention!
Spores are able to differentiate between peptidoglycan fragments generated from growth and those generated by lysis since these processes in fact produce different PG fragments. Those resulting from lysis are thought to be produced largely by lytic transglycosylases which generate PG fragments containing an anhydro (non-reducing) end, whereas fragments produced in growth do not contain this group. In collaboration with Shariar Mobashey, an excellent PG chemist at Notre Dame, we demonstrated that synthetic muropeptides containing an anhydro group do not stimulate growth but synthetic muropeptides that lack this group are able to stimulate spore germination. Thus, spores can differentiate between cells in the milieu that are lysing versus those that are growing.
Bill writes:
Finally, I can send an intelligent comment (re: TWiM #51) ...
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Frank writes:
Dear esteemed doctors,
I am sincere in this appellation as one of your many listeners who depend upon your unbiased fact finding and enlightening delivery to both educate and debunk with the latest information.
You have often remarked on the contradiction of the numerous pathogenic bacteria in common public areas while you as individuals do not feel endangered. In commenting on a letter read on TWIM 72 you mentioned the "cloud" of toilet-originating microbes created with every flush, yet a lack of evidence of resulting disease. It comes up also in regular mentions of door knobs, railings, phones and other public conveniences. Often this is attributed to the protection provided by a healthy immune system.
My question is whether the mechanism of microbial balance achieved in the human microbiome should be applied to understanding the forces at work in these external environments. Might our Linus-like microbial cloud function like the often mischaracterized schmutzdecke which purifies much of our drinking water?
Analyzing the potential health affects of environmental microbes apart from the greater human and environmental microbiomes seems a bit like analyzing the path of stars orbiting the earth. Am I wrong to assume that the microbial community of the toilet, room air, hands, nose and mouth have a significant impact on the danger from most of the individual microbes within those communities?
It's 252 degrees absolute, (or minus cold aught six on the Retrograde scale) this morning in sunny Connecticut.
A sincere thanks to you all for your dedication to TWIX. The world is listening to you more intently every day, and better for it.
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RACE has a study skills class to help those who want to take the GED test. Classes are FREE for most individuals who do not have a high school diploma, who are at least 18 years old, as of 9/1/2016, and whose class has graduated prior to June 2016. All resident and non-resident students are welcome. For those who are 20 years old and older, you will be assessed for placement, and charged a $50 assessment fee (check or cash) per trimester. For additional information call the RACE office at 248-726-5950 for details about registration.
GED Late Registration !
Please visit the home page for more information
Bring to registration at the RACE Building:
Proof of birth (e.g., driver's license or birth certificate)
Fees for Students 20 Years Old* and Older after September 1, 2016
- $50 non-refundable assessment fee per trimester (cash or check)
- 20 & 21 year old students may have assessment fee waived
RACE is a certified computer based GED Testing Center for the new GED that was launched in January 2014. You may register for the test and view the GED testing schedule at www.ged.com. The cost of the test is $150 or $37.50 for each individual test. Online GED tests will be given at the address below:
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Nancey Jackson Johnson New Single Is Trending
Los Angeles, CA -- Nancey Jackson Johnson's passion for God and ministering to people infuses her CD, The Heart of Nancey Jackson Johnson, with an undeniable presence of praise and worship. Timing is everything and Nancey's new single, "A Little Longer" is making great strides at radio.
Last week's report showed the 'heart-tugging' ballad trending upward on the Billboard Gospel Top 200 Charts, with stations in top markets adding to rotation. Slated for a summer 2014 release Nancey is poised and ready to launch after a hiatus from recording. "This is a heart thing; it's a glimpse of my heart for God," says Nancey.


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Anyone required by this chapter to perform any record keeping or monitoring activities shall maintain records of all information required by this chapter, including documentation associated with best management practices. The records shall include for all samples:
the date, exact place, method, and time of sampling and the names of the person or persons taking the samples;
the dates analyses were performed;
who performed the analyses;
the analytical techniques or methods used; and
the results of the analyses.
Anyone subject to monitoring or reporting requirements under this chapter, including documentation associated with best management practices, shall retain for a minimum of three years:
records of monitoring activities and results, whether or not the monitoring activities are required by this subpart; and
reports created, submitted, or required to be submitted under this chapter.
The period of retention shall be extended during the course of any unresolved enforcement action regarding an industrial user or a POTW or when requested by the agency.
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The Lion Cottage is an 1880s retreat featuring period style furnishing, one bedroom, open plan living area with polished floors and additional double sofa bed.
In the heart of North Adelaide, the cottage is walking distance to the Adelaide central business district and is located among some of the finest restaurants, cafes and pubs.
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Population level assessment of the family risk factors related to the onset or persistence of children's mental health problems
Dwyer, Sarah B., Nicholson, Jan M., & Battistutta, Diana (2003) Population level assessment of the family risk factors related to the onset or persistence of children's mental health problems. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44(5), pp. 699-711.
Background: Despite their great potential to inform intervention planning, screening instruments that assess children's exposure to multiple, non-behavioural risk factors are rare. The Family Risk Factor Checklist – Parent (FRFC-P), was designed to facilitate community risk factor profiling and subsequent intervention planning. The aims of the current study were to establish the psychometric properties of the FRFC-P and to examine the relative importance of family risk factors in relation to the onset versus persistence of children's mental health problems. Method: Data were collected from 1022 parents of 4–8-year-old children as part of the Promoting Adjustment in Schools Project (PROMAS). The FRFC-Passessed children's exposure to risk across five domains: adverse life events and instability (ALI); family structure and SES (SES); parenting practices (PAR); parental verbal conflict and mood problems (VCM); and parental antisocial and psychotic behaviour (APB). Results: The FRFC-P had satisfactory testretest reliability and construct validity, but modest internal consistency. Risk assessed by the PAR domain was the most important determinant of mental health problem onset, while the PAR, VCM, and APB domains were the strongest predictors of mental health problem persistence. Conclusions: These findings highlight the importance of considering risk factors for onset separately from risk factors for persistence of mental health problems and indicate that the studied population may benefit the most from preventive interventions that address parenting practices and treatment interventions that address parenting practices, and parental mood problems, conflict, antisocial behaviour, and psychiatric disorders.
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Meet Notes (PDF)The 10th-ranked Tennessee men???s track and field team travels to Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend for the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships.
???Our purpose at this meet is to qualify athletes for the NCAA championships,??? head coach Bill Webb said. ???We aren???t focused on competing for a team score; we are focused on qualifying student athletes. With 18 individuals entered in the meet, we have a lot of opportunities to qualify. We would like to get as many as possible in the top five and get clean acceptance into nationals. We???ve done well at this meet in the past. I think it is the strongest region in the country in most events. In addition to the schools we see in the SEC, we pick up very good Big 10 schools and Missouri from the Big 12. It is a very good track meet.???
The top-five individual finishers, as well as the top-three finishing relay teams, from each region automatically advance to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. After the automatic qualifiers are removed, athletes that finished between sixth and 12th in individual events and between fourth and eighth in relay events are eligible for at-large selection to the national championship meet based off the national season-best performance list.
Tennessee???s 28 regionally-qualified marks rank second in the Mideast Region and 11th in the country. The 28 qualified marks ranks second in school history, tying the number earned in 2005 and 2003 and ranking behind the school-record 31 recorded last year.
The Vols have 10 qualifying marks in the sprints/hurdles group, which ranks as the second-most among participating schools at the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships. Matthieu Pritchett, Evander Wells and Rubin Williams each are qualified in the 100 and 200. Williams enters the meet with the second-fastest time in the 200 and fourth-fastest clocking in the 100, while Wells ranks third in the 200 and sixth in the 100. Pritchett, Wells, Kyle Stevenson and Williams also make up Tennessee???s 4x100 relay team that enters with the second-fastest time in the nation, trailing only fellow Mideast Region participant LSU, after the Vols ran
38.82, the third-fastest time in school history, at the SEC Outdoor Championships.
Freshman Charlton Rolle has the fourth-fastest 110 hurdles time in the region, and sophomore De???Lon Isom enters sixth on the regional performance list. Team captain Jangy Addy also met the regional-qualifying standard in the 110 hurdles. Sophomore John Hewitt makes his first individual appearance at the regional meet in the 400 hurdles.
Tennessee???s four athletes qualified in the pole vault rank second behind Wisconsin???s six athletes qualified in the 1,500 for the most competitors qualified in a single event in the Mideast Region. Joseph Berry leads Tennessee???s vaulters with his personal-best 17-2 3/4 clearance that ranks fourth in the region. Berry was named SEC Freshman Field Athlete of the Year after becoming the first freshman to win the SEC pole vault title since 1997. Sophomore Brad Holtz makes his second appearance at the regional meet and enters the weekend ranked ninth in the Mideast Region with his personal-best effort of 16-10 3/4. Freshman Michael Ayers met the regional standard with a personal-best clearance of 16-6 3/4 while placing fifth at the SEC Outdoor Championships. Three-time All-America Michael Hogue vaulted over the bar at 16-6 3/4 at the Yellow Jacket Invitational to earn his fourth career regional invite.
Tennessee???s 4x400 relay team of Samdi Fraser, Stevenson Williams and Wells ranks fifth in the region with its season-best time of 3:06.51 from the conference championship meet. 2007 All-America Yarrick Kincaid enters the regional ranked ninth in the 800, and fellow senior Andrew Dawson is ranked sixth in the 1,500 with his converted time of 3:42.31 from his 4:00.51 run in the mile. Kincaid has finished third at the last two regional competitions, while Dawson makes his regional debut in the 1,500 after finishing eighth in the 800 last year.
All-America Matthew Maloney enters the regional with the third-best javelin throw in the region this season. Junior Nick Panezich is the first UT athlete to regionally qualify in three different individual events, a feat he accomplished for the second straight year. He is entered in the shot put, discus and hammer throw and ranks ninth in the region in the discus. Fellow junior Richard Wooten is entered in the hammer throw, and Addy joins Panezich in the shot put.
Junior Akeem Hardnett is ninth on the regional performance list after his personal-best effort of 51-5 3/4 in the triple jump placed him second at the conference championship meet and moved him to ninth on Tennessee???s all-time performance list in the event. Sophomore Brenard Wilson makes his regional debut this weekend in the long jump after reaching the regional standard at the SEC Outdoor Championships with his personal-best leap of 24-1 3/4.
The NCAA???Mideast Regional Championships kicks off Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern Time with the shot put. The 4x100 relay is the first event on the track Friday, with a scheduled start time of 4:15 p.m. Saturday???s events begin at noon with the hammer throw and continue through the 4x400 relay at 9:20 p.m. Live results can be found throughout the weekend at UTsports.com.


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A new study shows patients with schizophrenia receiving antipsychotic medication may lose a small, but measurable, amount of brain tissue over time. Patients who take the largest doses over the longest duration of time are apt to see the greatest declines, new research suggests.
Illness duration and severity were also associated with brain volume loss, but the association between antipsychotic drug use and brain volume remained significant after accounting for these factors. The volume losses occurred in gray matter and white matter.
"The clinical significance of these findings is extremely difficult to fully assess," study investigator Beng-Choon Ho, MD, MRCPsych, told Medscape Medical News. "To achieve this will require randomized controlled studies involving schizophrenia patients and healthy controls, but such studies do not meet current ethical standards in research."
Dr. Ho, from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, said it's "important for clinicians to work with schizophrenia patients so as to find the minimum effective antipsychotic dosage for each individual patient." However, the findings do not support monitoring of patients by using follow-up brain imaging, he added.
The findings are reported in the February issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry….
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Medscape Medical News
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Your Honey House Part 2
By Kim Flottum, Editor of Bee Culture Magazine and author of The BackYard Beekeeper, The Honey Handbook, and Better Beekeeping. All are available from Kelley's.
Editor's Note: Last month, Kim covered considerations for planning and setting up your honey house. This month, he looks at handling, warm rooms, and extracting.
While most of our readers will never get to this stage, it is fun to dream! And if you're beyond the dreaming stage, consult with Kelley's for all the equipment you'll need.
There's an old rule about manufacturing that applies to honey management:
Plan your space so that the product (in this case honey in supers) begins at point A, travels through all the appropriate steps (warming, uncapping, extracting, settling or filtering, storing, bottling or packaging), and ends up on the truck heading to the customer. Way too often, because we don't plan ahead, we end up having to move everything—supers, pails, bottles—far too many times. There's an old saw that says on average we beekeepers lift a pound of honey at least seven times from hive to customer.
Let's see:
- Lift the super off the hive onto the truck (tough to mechanize this step).
- Lift the super off the truck and into the honey house, preferably directly into the warming area. A two-wheeler or forklift can do this, but you may just skip it and move on to step 3.
- Move the honey out of the warming area (or directly from the truck) into the uncapping area. Immediate processing makes avoiding the heating room possible.
- Remove frames and uncap, either by hand (ugh) or one at a time into a machine. If by hand, figure you lifted it twice because you have to do each side; if by machine, figure twice because you have to take it out of the uncapper and onto some sort of holder/waiting area to get to the extractor, or directly into the extractor, so that makes five or maybe six times, and then drain extractor into a pail, then pump through a filter or directly to a holding tank.
- Carry pail to truck, or move it with two-wheeler or forklift.
- Move it off truck and into warehouse, store, farm market stand. Then move it back. That makes seven.
So it might be seven or as many as eleven if you are really unorganized. The goal of your honey house plan is to make sure it's no more than seven, fewer if possible. If it's more you'll wear it out before you even sell it.
So you've figured out your loading ramp or truck bay situation and now have to look at the next step. That's either directly to the uncapping area or a quick stop in the warming room.
Warm Room
If you want a warm room, figure drip trays for every stack so the bottom super is sealed and isn't sitting on the floor and drips are caught in the, yes, drip tray. Air circulation makes this work because warm air should enter at the bottom and naturally move up, to be either expelled—especially if you are also drying the air—or re-warmed and recirculated. You'll need fans and vents and dehumidifiers for all of this, so get an HVAC expert in to advise on cubic feet of air to move per minute, venting outside (some places require an inspection and permit for this, so don't forget to check), and of course some way to warm that air before it gets to your honey. A small, simple space heater may solve all your problems, but it won't for long, so think furnace or other heat source.
But small hive beetles have changed how we look at warm rooms. You just can't leave honey supers without bees sitting around any more; any beetles hiding inside will have a field day and ruin your crop. You have a short window of time to get supers in, warmed if needed, and out to the uncapping area and moved along. If you harvest on the warm side of summer you should be fine, but many don't take honey off until it begins to cool. Warm rooms may have to change from slow and easy heat to flash hot—say 90 degrees in a hurry—with good insulation so the honey warms fast.
If you don't have a warm room, and even if you don't have beetles, consider the humidity of the area the honey is in. A closed garage can be a tad humid and honey will take up that moisture, which could be enough to set it over the fermenting edge. That means trouble later.
Here's where you can really waste a lot of time, or speed things along. If you remove caps by hand with a knife, I recommend having two or three knives on hand so you can always have a hot one ready—placing them on a hot plate works well. Make sure the knife is warm enough but not so hot that it boils the honey on the leading edge of the blade. Keep it below 100 degrees, all the time.
When you are uncapping, keep everything at a comfortable height to avoid unnecessary bending, twisting, and reaching. This means your supers should be at the same level as the surface you are uncapping on, and your catch tank should be below that surface. To unglue the frames, place a board beneath the super in your uncapping area so when the super is in place, the board pushes all the frames up.
If you plan your uncapping space for efficiency and ergonomic comfort, you'll work faster and your back and shoulders will appreciate it.
Now you've harvested, moved and uncapped. Next time we'll focus on extracting and more.


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According to a police report, the man said the items, valued at a total of $1,400, were taken from the 1700 block of West 24th Street sometime between 10 p.m. Monday and 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
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Wish Granted...
This is a "wish granted" game thread.
For those unfamiliar with the game, it works like this:
Step 1. You ask for a wish, example - "I wish I could have sex every day without fail for a year"
Step 2. The poster below you says "wish granted, but the only person you can have sex with is that fat guy from the Lost series." Then, he makes a wish and the poster below him grants the wish and makes a new wish, and so on and so forth.
The last person that grants someone's wish on the 50th page of this thread gets 750,000 credits.
I wish I could live forever.
Granted, but you will continue to age normally.
I wish Frank and Lorenzo would discover that I am the long lost Fertita brother.
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Wish granted, but you are a half brother, the half brother their mother chose over them and destroyed their childhood and they resent you for it, and put every single penny they have into making your life a living hell.
I wish I could Surf Teahupoo just once without dying.
Granted, but you get hit by a car on your way back home.
I wish I was a young Hugh Hefner.
I wish I had unlimited money.
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Granted but you can't spend a penny of it.
I wish I could learn every martial art as easily as Neo in the Matrix.
Granted, but for every art learned, you lose one of your limbs.
I wish I could fly.
I wish I could scrap as well as Anderson Silva.
Granted but a child could knock you out.
I wish I was the one who invented Facebook
I wish I could see through walls...and chicks clothing. :thumb02:
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But why, first of all, is this subject a significant one? And why does it appear especially pertinent at precisely the present moment? To begin with, growing numbers of "religious nones," that is, people who have limited or no religious affiliation yet still claim to believe in some kind of divinity, signal an unprecedented shift in the American religious landscape, and many scholars who have sought to understand this phenomenon have indicated that something like "spirituality" might capture an important aspect of their outlook, if not their "identity." We, for our part, certainly agree that this is a socially significant shift. Yet we also note that much of the interpretation and ensuing discussion about the "religious nones" draws upon and continues to assert uninvestigated understandings of religion and spirituality, where we would argue that the shifts underway should elicit some reconsideration of the terms that are deployed to analyze and interpret this allegedly "new" phenomenon.
The politics of spirituality
I hope you like circlesposted by Kerry Mitchell
Perceptions of the environment, however intensively managed that environment may in fact be, turn into experiences of nature, self, and god. The political dimension of such experience is largely unspoken. But in its particular embodied characteristics, such experience is structurally dependent on a certain exercise of state power. In this way the politics of spirituality may have little to do with thoughts about elections or particular government officials. But it has much to do with creating a space for significant governmental presence in both personal and collective life.
Who are the "spiritual but not religious"?posted by Laura R. Olson
Who are the Americans who identify as "spiritual but not religious"? What unifying characteristics, qualities, and beliefs might they share? And to what extent might their distinctive approach to religion, or to systems of meaning, have relevance to political discourse, electoral campaigns, and public policy? As many other contributors to this blog have noted, these questions elude easy answers, because defining spirituality is, as Courtney Bender aptly puts it in her brilliant book The New Metaphysicals, "like shoveling fog." Nevertheless, perhaps we can obtain just a slight bit of traction by investigating some of the characteristics shared by SBNR Americans.
Religion, spirituality, and the sexual scandalposted by Katherine Pratt Ewing
Religion and the sex scandal are still closely linked, though the targets of public outrage have morphed: it is often religious authorities and bearers of traditional morality whose sexual desires and actions are publicized and condemned. With so many religious institutions and their authorities rocked by sex scandals in a litany of abuse and victimhood, it behooves us to ask what, precisely, is being exposed and denounced, and, conversely, what is being protected and perhaps even obscured. What aspects of "religion" are under fire in these scandals? What role does "spirituality" play in this discursive reconfiguration of sexuality and religion?
Civil earth religion versus religious nationalismposted by Bron Taylor
My contribution to these discussions seeks to expand the analytical horizon of the foregoing discussion of civil religion both chronologically and geographically, with special attention to the growing importance of what I call "dark green religion," and the possibility that it might precipitate the emergence of a global, civil earth religion. Dark green religion, as I have constructed the term, involves the perception that nature is sacred and has intrinsic value, the belief that everything is interconnected and mutually dependent, and a deep feeling of belonging to nature. Often rooted in an evolutionary understanding that all life shares a common ancestor, dark green religion generally leads to a form of kinship ethics that entails ethical responsibilities to all living things.
The rise of the secularsposted by Herbert J. Gans
Kosmin and Keysar and others are already analyzing who has given up worship, belief, and other modes of religiosity. I am more interested in what is happening as a result to the societal and social functions of religion. Thus, I would hypothesize that an increasing number of people are finding religion irrelevant in and to their everyday lives, and to the social, cultural, and other roles they play in society. They are not only "religious nones," but they are no longer thinking about religious matters. Consequently, I think of them as seculars.
Was early America a Christian America?posted by Claude S. Fischer
The furious debate in some quarters over whether America was born a "Christian nation" is ironic. The historical record shows that America was not born Christian, but grew to be very Christian centuries later. Some Religious Right activists believe that were it to be accepted as a fact that pre-1800 Americans were deeply Christian, a new light would be cast on current debates about where (if anywhere) to draw a line between Church and State today. In the sense of the Supreme Court's search for "originalist" interpretations of the Constitution, Christian dogma would be an originalist justification for, say, reintroducing prayer into schools. But the story of Early American religion is, in fact, a quite different one.
Beyond believing but not belongingposted by Darren Sherkat
Religious identification is on the wane in the United States, as in most other nations in the developed world. Yet, many scholars and pundits are somewhat dismissive of trends in disaffiliation as evidence of growing secularism because, they claim, Americans increasingly believe but don't belong. However, Americans' beliefs are changing as well. And, many who do not believe are nonetheless forced to belong because of social influences on religious commitments. Indeed, as I will show, there are far more people who belong to religious groups but do not believe than there are people who believe but don't belong. And, furthermore, a growing proportion of Americans neither believe in the authority of religious creeds nor belong to organizations devoted to religion.
Religion's reputationposted by Paul Lichterman
In 2008, roughly 15 percent of Americans told telephone surveyors with the American Religious Identification Survey that they had no religious preference, were atheist, agnostic, secular, or humanist….Whether or not we want to feed these findings back into a very long-running debate about sociology's secularization thesis, many of us will feel compelled to ask what this trend means for American public life. We are trained to ask the question because we are so used to thinking in Tocquevillian terms about religion's relation to democracy. For that reason alone, it is worth taking a little time to clarify what the oft-quoted French traveler, diarist and social thinker Alexis de Tocqueville actually did say about American religion and its public consequences, so we can better decide what, if anything, in the Tocquevillian heritage helps us grapple with these findings.
An untapped constituencyposted by Laura R. Olson
In his 2008 documentary (some might prefer to call it a mockumentary) Religulous, comedian and satirist Bill Maher wonders aloud why religiously unaffiliated Americans are not politically mobilized. Indeed, he issues something of a call to arms to this sector of the American population: "Anti-religionists must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves." Although neither Religulous nor Maher's views on religion in general necessarily reflect mainstream American attitudes, the question the film raises about why the religiously unaffiliated are not politically mobilized is well worth exploring.
Shifting drivers of changeposted by Christopher McKnight Nichols
Today, contemporary voluntary religion entails a "common-sense" epistemology that in some ways is strangely unaware of its own limits. Today's widespread deference to a liberal voluntarism is so radically "open," for example, that it can lead to intransigence, and to an inability to imagine that "others" see things differently from the way you do. A parallel development over at least the past three decades is the power of explicitly and unabashedly faith-centered political factions to bring their views to bear in the public square, to exclaim against imminent moral decay in American life, and to rail against rising unbelief.
Who has 'religion'?posted by Christopher McKnight Nichols
More and more Americans say they have no formal religious affiliation. National surveys, scholarly findings, and media coverage make that clear. Those identifying with "no religion"—often termed "nones," "no religionists," or the "unchurched"—jumped from 8.2 percent of the public in 1990 to just over 15 percent in 2008.
This trend causes some observers to cry out in alarm and others to rejoice. But the transition is far more complicated than a mere movement from faith to non-belief implies.


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Citing its ubiquitous industry sources, Digitimes claims that while devices with ultra high-resolution screens are currently mostly popular in developed economies, more and more users from emerging markets like China are starting to consider those products. As a matter of fact, while the pixel density standard in China has been under 200 ppi in 2011, it has now grown to 230-260 ppi, which is a substantial increase.
With the proliferation of new display technologies like the IGZO display, which allows for even higher resolutions, it is believed that mobile device resolutions will continue to go up with extreme rates in the following years.
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I am in the process of building a home studio. i want to know know what i would need. less of naming brands or products, more of the names of the tools :p. ive been reading other posts about this and they dont have the name of the product, just brands, model numbers, opinions, ect... i have a budget of 5000, so please keep that in mind.
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BATON ROUGE - Soon you will be able to get some delicious Creole cookin' and listen to the blues at one place: Roux Louisiana at Phil Brady's.
Roux won't start opening for lunch until April 14th. If you want to get an early taste, you can join them for their launch party on Thursday, April 10th. It lasts from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at Phil Brady's.
Chef David Johnson was in the kitchen for 2une In Wednesday for his first appearance as our April Chef of the Month. For his first dish, he whipped up some delicious Bourbon Shrimp and Cornbread.
Bourbon Shrimp and Cornbread
#2 Large Shrimp
1 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Creole Seasoning
1 Tablespoon Sweet Cream Butter
¼ Cup of Bourbon of Choice
½ Cup of Heavy Cream
¼ Cup of Green Onions
*Place Shrimp in a Mixing Bowl, add olive oil, lemon juice, and creole seasoning.
*Mix until Shrimp are completely Covered.
*Heat Black Iron Skillet to high heat, add butter.
*Once butter has started to coat skillet, add shrimp and stir until shrimp begin to shrink. (2-3mins)
*Add Bourbon and allow deglazing.
*Add heavy cream; allow thickening for 1-2 minutes.
*Pour Directly over Cornbread.
Check out the video to see how it's done!