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The 1,100-square-foot leased department here offers both antiques and what owner Bruce Imber calls "reinterpretations of traditional American furniture — practical, colorful, streamlined." The mix is about 60 percent antiques and 40 percent custom pieces and reproductions. Among the textiles are colorful rugs, fanciful decorative pillows and some bedding. Furniture and accessories make up the balance of the mix.
In New Hope, Monkey Hill occupies an 800-square-foot carriage house with overflow spilling into the main house using about 800 square feet.
Imber, who spent 35 years as a collector, had been in the music business. About 18 months ago he set up Monkey Hill "to sell emotion" as well as merchandise. Partner Jobert Abueva joined him from the beauty care business.
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first it depends Where you live - on the west coast you never give heartworm shots. If a part of the country that has infestations. If your dog is not in misquito area, you can either Use the Sentianl pill which is once a month tablet. which is also for fleas. Since I'm on the W.Coast The only time a the heart worm meds are given are IF A dog has heartworm Normally the dog fcame from another part of the country. But these meds are Pills Not shots. If there is a vaccine out, The best source would be a Veterinarian that you trust. Also you may want to check in your area with a Homeopathic Vet. Sometimes there are Non Chemical of Drug ways to prevent Fleas & Misquitos. Mom has some great links which may help you
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I agree with the other post - shots are normally associated after a diagnosis has been made that a dog has heartworms, pills are normally associated with prevention. We're we are, it's just safer to give a once a month pill as a prevention technique. In places like South Texas, it feels inevitable that a dog will get heartworms, if without prevention, with as many misquitoes as there are there.
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We thought Cheick Tiote played a solid game for Newcastle United on Wednesday night, and certainly he will be pushing for a start at Goodison Park on Monday night, where we are hoping that Newcastle can pick up at least a point.
Cheick Tiote – pressing for first team start
Having thrown 3 points away against Hull City, we now have to try to make up those lost points, and on Monday night it will be a good chance, although a tough game against an in-form Everton, the only unbeaten side in the Premier League right now.
Certainly Alan Pardew has said Cheick has been looking good in training, and he had this to say about the Ivorian today:
"On transition when we were attacking and we turned over the ball, we were more solid, and Tiote had a lot to do with that." "He was back to near his best. He was a lot more comfortable in possession than last year. He looks more like himself and I am hoping for a big season from Cheick."
"I didn't think last year went well for Cheick in terms of the player he is, and that coincided with the team." "When he's at his best, I think we are at our best and defensively on Saturday (against Hull) he could have made a difference."
"He gave us a little lift at Villa when he came on, so the signs are good. He has been unlucky to be out of the team because of injury, and he has a chance now to reaffirm the quality he has."
Of course Vurnon Anita has taken his chance and has played very solidly for Newcastle since Cheick has been out, and there's no doubt that Vurnon is a very good technical player, who very rarely gives the ball away.
Vurnon Anita – playing well for Newcastle
Alan Pardew talked about the man who has been keeping Cheick out of the first team starting line-up for the last few games:
"He's an economical user of the ball. He does a lot of work, a bit like Tiote, which doesn't always go detected." "But he has his nose in front of Cheick at the minute, and Cheick will be desperate to address that."
"That's what you want, that's the competition. Vurnon is under pressure to play well because he has Cheick Tiote, one of the best in the last few years in the Premier League, breathing down his neck."
"But it's his economical use of the ball which has been beneficial to us in recent games."
Vurnon Anita and Cheick Tiote will give Alan Pardew some selection problems, but that's exactly what we want to see, and it's very good for the Newcastle side.
And one thing we like about Cheick is that he's a great professional, and he welcomes the challenge for his place, and also seems to improve his form when his place under pressure, so that's always good to see.
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The government today moved to block a proposed 1% pay rise for MPs, amid concerns that any increase would be met with public derision and accusations of hypocrisy.
The independent salary review body recommended the 1% rise based on the median pay increase received by a range of public sector workers. But the leader of the house, Sir George Young, immediately signalled that the government would table a motion to rescind the pay rise "in light of the decision to impose a two-year pay freeze on all public sector workers earning more than £21,000".
MPs' salaries have risen from £59,095 in April 2005 to £65,738 last year. The proposed 1% rise would add £657 to their pay, resulting in a salary of £66,395 – more than double the average wage – £25,543.
If the motion is voted down – highly unlikely in the current climate – the rise would automatically come in on 1 April this year. The government's decision to block the rise will cause resentment from the backbenchers on both sides of the house, who argue that they have been unfairly left out of pocket by the crackdown on the expenses system and that they could earn far greater salaries in the private sector.
Young said in a written ministerial statement: "The government supports the independent determination of members' remuneration. However, in light of the decision to impose a two-year pay freeze on all public sector workers earning more than £21,000 per annum, a motion will be brought forward to invite the house to rescind the 2008 resolution, so that the one per cent pay increase will not take effect."
The statement also indicates that if passed, a planned review of MPs' salaries will be shelved until the forthcoming reforms come into effect which will make the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority responsible for reviewing and setting pay.
Although unlikely to trigger a rebellion, some MPs will be privately disgruntled that they will receive no extra pay.
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Re: log-like symbols?
A simple(-minded?) explanation: try instead just creating a Text cell
This is a test
with _no_ in-line math there. Copy it as LaTeX and look at the result in
a text editor. You'll see that the text is inside a LaTeX \text{} function.
I presume the purpose is to protect the user from inadvertently pasting
what should really be text into a LaTeX math expression or display-math
environment and having it interpreted as a long product of symbols.
And I suppose the underlying reason for having that protection was the
expectation that users would ordinarily just be copying into LaTeX math.
On 1/21/12 5:16 AM, Alan wrote:
> In answer to Murray's question, some LaTeX symbols are called "log-like":
> http://omega.albany.edu:8008/Symbols.html
> This affects how they are typeset.
> Bill's answer gave me a good clue:
> if I am entering math in StandardForm,
> then such log-like symbols are recognized by Mathematica,
> although it does not display them differently.
> E.g., if I enter ln(x) in a math cell and then
> change to StandardForm I get Log[x] displayed.
> But now I am puzzled by the meaning of cell styles.
> Suppose I enter the following in a cell given a "Text" style:
> Test: ctrl-( ln(x) ctrl-)
> and then copy it as LaTeX. What I expect to get is
> Test: $\ln(x)$
> What I get instead is:
> \text{Test: }
> \ln (x)
> Why is Mathematica treating a "Text" cell as a math environment?
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The estimation roller coaster can provide an unwelcome burst of adrenaline to an otherwise smoothly running project. Adapting estimates over time lets you plan and deliver value at a sustainable pace.
Estimating is hard. How do we do it right? Why do we have to do it, anyway? New agile teams can turn to excellent books, such as Mike Cohn's Agile Estimating and Planning, to learn how to size user stories and estimate development and testing tasks. Estimates are often abused and treated as hard facts. Newbie teams underestimate, overcommit, and never achieve a sustainable pace. Do we even need estimates? Many teams do well with a lean or kanban approach, where work in process is limited and story estimates are unnecessary.
My current team has ridden the estimating roller coaster for the past seven years. At times, we've become complacent, rolling along at a steady pace. Then suddenly, there's an unexpected plunge into the unknown. I'd like to share our story of how we've adapted our sizing and estimating over time so that our business managers can track and plan and we can deliver value in a timely manner at a sustainable pace.
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Like many teams, we started with basic sizing and estimating practices. It seemed like we spent hours and hours in estimating meetings. We used Planning Poker, a consensus-based estimating technique, to size user stories, learning to compare user stories and assign relative story point estimates. Each person has a set of Planning Poker cards with these point values: 0, ½, 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, and 100. Our average two-point story takes two or three days to complete, including all testing activities.
Here's how we use our poker cards to size stories: After the product owner explains the story, we spend a few minutes discussing it and asking questions. Then, we count to three and each team member holds up a card. If we all hold up the same value, we're done. If not, the people with outlying values explain why they chose them, and we estimate again until we agree on the size. We usually finish about fourteen story points in a sprint. Sometimes, we estimate a "theme," which is a group of related user stories that provide a new feature. A theme estimate might be something like "20 to 40 points."
Sizing stories is tough early on, when your team doesn't have much history to guide it. A story that we gave three points during our first year but that actually became a forty-point theme remains legendary (and cautionary!). Too often, we sized stories at a point value that was most of a sprint, learning the hard way to slice these into smaller increments. Still, our estimating process was good enough. When business development needed a new, complex feature in order to sign up a new partner, we could deliver it in a predictable timeframe.
Complacency and Nasty Shocks
After a few years, we had boxes full of estimated story cards that were clearly never going to be prioritized. We studied the work of lean development experts, such as Mary and Tom Poppendieck, and started estimating only stories that would be done in the next two or three iterations. Through experimenting, we found we could best tackle complex new projects by starting with a few one-hour brainstorming and design meetings. We often map the theme on a whiteboard, showing workflow and interaction with the database and other parts of the system. We identify core system behavior and "nice to haves." Then, we break the big theme into smaller stories and estimate them. If a story seems too large to be completed in two or three days, we break it up into smaller stories or "threads," usually starting with the end-to-end happy path. We prioritized stories based on risk, dependencies, and importance. Fewer stories "blow up" and take way more time than we anticipated, so we're able to maintain a steady pace.
But software development is never certain. It seems that just as we are lulled into a sense of complacency, thinking we rock at estimating, our roller coaster track drops out from under us. Last summer, a five-point story that we thought we could finish in a week stretched into three two-week iterations. We hadn't anticipated that its requirements necessitated a change in a basic model of our application, requiring not only code changes in other areas but also major database changes. The five-point size should have been a warning; when we get over three points on the Fibonacci-number scale, we enter risky territory.


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Last-minute dollars flow into desalination measures
There are 40 comments on the Marin Independent Journal story from Oct 29, 2010, titled Last-minute dollars flow into desalination measures. In it, Marin Independent Journal reports that:Last-minute donations pumped into the campaign to support Measure S have almost doubled its coffers, while rival Measure T also received an influx of cash as Marin voters weigh the future of desalination.
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#2 Oct 29, 2010
vendors and consultants seeking to feed on the teat of government money
the corruption of SEIU campaign money buying favors now spreading beyond the BOS and city counvils to water districts
#3 Oct 29, 2010
Since Monday, the Measure S campaign has received $21,500 in contributions, including $5,000 from Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, which has worked with the Marin Municipal Water District on desalination.
Thank you IJ for shining a light on this...of course these dollars will flow in from these folks, because they'll reap the rewards later if Measure S passes and the current MMWD Board is re-elected.
Vote NO on S (scam) and YES on T (truth)
#4 Oct 29, 2010
The money for the S campaign is dirty. Just like Adam's SEIU money.
Yes on T, No on S. Recall Adams.
#5 Oct 29, 2010
Now its clear who is supporting desal and measure S is pro desal.
Will we let these greedy people control our county?
This agency which is supposed be owned by the citizens is clearly in the pocket of the vested interests. They are banking on us being asleep.
They have complete contempt for us who are supposed to be their boss.
Its all now clear. Its about money and power and patronage, not good water policy.
"Stop Desal & SMART!"
Since: Mar 09
San Rafael
#6 Oct 29, 2010
While I give the IJ some credit for reporting the truth about the money behind the obscene MMWD push for desalination (which is, after all, their job) we must not forget that the IJ editorial board is on the wrong side in this fight.
It is my view that Measure T - Truth - deserves a Yes vote. This is the measure that many thousands of Marinites signed the petition for, to get it on the ballot.
Measure S is a scam - look who supports it! The MMWD stuck it on the ballot with NO signatures from the public. They also put it ahead of T on the ballot... I'd call that of highly questionable morality. Measure S allows the MMWD to spend millions more on further costly "studies" of a boondoggle desalination plant. Drink water from the bay from an MMWD intake a mile from the sewage outfall? NO WAY!
NO on S. YES on T - the people's choice.
#7 Oct 30, 2010
The MMWD general manager has close ties with the one big company which is trying to get desal plants built all over California.
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#8 Oct 30, 2010
The donations to the Measure S campaign come from entities who will eventually obtain contract or already have agreements with the current MMWD board or study and implement the district's desalination plans. Individual board members may have conflicts of interest if they receive contributions from these same fellows.
#9 Oct 30, 2010
i agree, susan adams should be recalled.
She represents everything that is ugly about socialism and marxism.
#10 Oct 30, 2010
Rothman and Egger survive on the age old tactic of inducing fear into the population through gross exaggerations and lies. Do we really want water board meetings that end at 2 or 3 in the morning? That's what Egger did to Fairfax and that's why he was tossed of the council. Rothmans chicken little the sky is falling rhetoric is dis-tasteful and untrue.
The current board, past boards and, even if the lunatic fringe is elected and we have a new board, will eventually need to face the reality of providing water to the people of Marin. Even the lunatics will need to confront the weighty issues of supply for people and water for the fish. God help us if that decision is left in the hands of near sighted elected officials.
When you get right down to the meat of it, the incumbents have impeccable environmental credentials. Egger delivered bread for a living. Research breads link to cancer and, using Rothman/Egger/Lacques/Rose tactics, one could conclude that Egger made his living delivering cancer causing white bread to our community for over thirty years. I kind of like this correlation. Frank, you're killing me..........
#12 Oct 30, 2010
Measure S, placed on the ballot at the last second by a fearful MMWD Board hoping to retain the power to spend YOUR money after doing nothing for voter approval for 20 years...
#13 Oct 30, 2010
Let's not labelize this, you could also say that she represents everything that is ugly about fascism and Capitalism.
Whatever, a petty bureaucrat that promotes a hidden agenda is a danger to Democracy.
#14 Oct 30, 2010
Measure S received $21,500 from BIG Developer GREED:
$5,000 from Kennedy/Jenks desalt Consultants,
$5,000 from N.CA Carpenters,
$2,500 from Dutra Group - San Rafael Rock Quarry,
$1,500 from CH2MHill - wrote desalt EIR,
$1,500 from law firm - Remy,Thomas -defending EIR in court,
$1,000 from Marin Builders Assoc.
DeSalt means more Traffic and Crime.
United States
#16 Oct 30, 2010
Not a single one of these organizations is a developer - even the Marin Builders Associaiton is mostly made up of companies who do renovations. Kennedy/Jenks and CH2MHill are environmental firms, as is Remy, Thomas (who mostly sue developers). So, trotting out the usual tripe about desalination being all about development just doesn't work. The fact is, Measure T is a direct threat to future reliability for MMWD's water supplies - which were hammered in 1977 to the point that they had to beg for water from Southern California.
Desalination means more traffic and crime? That's like saying that paving streets causes school crowding or auto dealerships to fail. Like saying a fish needs a bicycle.
#17 Oct 30, 2010
These desalting factory salesmen have a lot of our money invested in their pro-development urban sprawl scheme and they are worried.
Yes on Measure T so that our options truly remain open.
Full disclosure: I am a San Anselmo resident that is sick and tired of the corruption in local government
#18 Oct 30, 2010
"Marin has experienced many multi year droughts that were relatively mild and in retrospect would not have necessitated rationing. The existing water supply and environmentally friendly options available to improved supply reliability can easily prepare us for mild multi year droughts. During the 1976-77 drought, MMWD received 22 inches and 25 inches in each respective year. A tree ring study, cited in MMWD planning documents, indicates that the two year 1976-77 drought of record is the most severe event in over 400 years. To cause serious problems, a future drought would need to consist of three consecutive years more severe than any three-year period in the 400-year tree ring record. It would also need to occur without occasional intense runoff events that are beneficial for collecting water into the local reservoirs and would provide benefits to customers practicing rain collection.
Unlike the other catastrophic events under consideration, a multi year drought would develop slowly allowing ample time for water users to adjust water use behavior. Per capita rationing allotments are unlikely to be less than 30 to 50 gallons per capita per day. Residents equipped with modern, water efficient fixtures can reduce their consumption to this level without extreme difficulty. With the recently enacted revised California graywater standards, it will be easier for residents to reuse some of their rationing allotment as graywater on their landscape.
While an unprecedented severe three-year drought event would provide much inconvenience and loss of high-water-use landscaping, it would not pose an immediate major risk to public health and safety." James Fryer
The IPCC's forecast models show that because of Climate Change, Marin County will experience an average of 5% to 10% more (not less) annual rainfall.
This on top of the fact that they have raised our rates because water usage has gone down and you really have to ask yourself what the expletive they are doing.
As has been shown they have already completed their desal plan, they have spent millions on that plan. They don't need to keep tossing money at it. It's done. There are a multitude of options if we confronted such unlikely weather.
Vote T so that we can keep our water options open.
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#19 Oct 30, 2010
I agree with the WWF on the issue of desalination. It is not an answer to a problem, it is a problem. http://www.ocregister.com/news/water-203769-d...
"Impacts of desalination include brine build-up, increased greenhouse gas emissions, destruction of prized coastal areas and reduced emphasis on conservation of rivers and wetlands. Many of the areas of most intensive desalination activity also have a history of damaging natural water resources, particularly groundwater."
Also, keep in mind that desalting our bay would involve a lot more than brine, it would consist of a lot of very toxic pollutants.
The truth about pharmaceuticals in our drinking water (nevermind our Bay for a moment) is that they are not a static item, they are very dynamic as the industry is constantly making new drugs. Water Municipalities do not even know what to look for, let alone know how to deal with it. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/20/hea...
About our bay. There are so many hormone-disrupting chemicals in our bay that it is actually altering the sex of fish and other creatures. http://www.ewg.org/water/downthedrain/
This is the proposed plants next door neighbor: http://richmondconfidential.org/2009/12/14/tw...
Filters fail and what makes matters worse is that our Water municipalities do not even have the means to track let alone process the majority of injurious elements in our water. They do not know when the filters fail. Scientists have only recently found methods of tracing some (by no means all) elements http://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/pharmaceuti...
More on the health of the source they propose: http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_1625221... 2010 Pulse of the Estuary Report (PDF) http://www.ktvu.com/download/2010/1006/252952...
Do they even know about gray water? An example is flushing your toilet with the water you washed your dishes in. Another is watering your lawn with your bathwater. Also, have they heard about catchment? In Marin, when it rains it pours. If we harvest that before it turns into runoff into our bay I don't see any need ever in our future to do as they propose. If any of you do, please share the population tipping point that you foresee, note the time imbalance between then and now and realize that by that time, the technology they are talking about buying today will be very antiquated by then.
Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR) has an energy cost that is a fraction of desalination (reduced Co2 emissions as well). Also, IPR doesn't have the brine & chemical outfall that desalination has (limiting deadzones). Reticulated Potable Recycling (RPR) is another option.
Neither are needed, just expounding upon the fact that desalt is bad.
People are using less water as is. So much so that they actually raised our rates. Think about that. Seriously think about it.
Vote for Measure T. T is for transparency, shining the light on their scheme, and keeping our options truly open. The MMWD already spent millions of our money on their factory research which is wholly unnecessary and extremely injurious. It was a waste.
Allowing them to keep their eye off the ball of water management and conservation by allowing them to continue wasting resources and money on their factory plan (which they have in fact completed) is all kinds of wrong. Again, with measure T they can still plan on their factory, they simply can not continue spending money on that particular plan (which they finished, hence do not even need to plan).
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Nice pretense at playing dumb. Most people see through that.
Dutra sells aggregate to make concrete and asphalt. No development, no aggregate used except repaving jobs.
Marin Builders "does mostly renovations" Yeah, tear down cottages and build McMansions with 5 bathrooms,
"Environmental firms", aka consultants that produce huge expensive reports every time a new development is proposed,
"sue developers"=no development, no one to sue...
Desalination means more a much larger population and development is possible, thus more traffic, also when population grows you get more crime.
No on Scam, Yes on Truth...
#21 Oct 30, 2010
Required, thank you for that masterful list of reasons to vote for T.
You forgot one wonderful resource:
Enough material here for the most ambitious DIYourselfer or contractor to create an easily buildable grey water system.
#22 Oct 30, 2010
Use less water, recycle grey water. Period.
No on S.
#23 Oct 30, 2010
When-not if-the next drought hits,where will the water come from?
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I'm getting a quote (hopefully) on my AR today. I just found this Aimpoint that I know I'm going to save up for to put on mine. http://www.aimpoint.com/o.o.i.s?id=4...product_id=360
It's a bit overkill, but you can't beat that it has the mount built in and the thing will run 80,000 hours/8 years on one AA battery!
I've owned an Aimpoint, shot with several different EOTechs, and handled/sighted through several ACOGs. Here are my impressions of each.
AIMPOINT: I prefer the mounting options of a tube-type sight; forward/back, up/down, all easy and lots of choices for mounts. I like flip-up caps; they're always there (no getting lost), and because they're there, you'll use them (not a pain like other options). Standard dot size is a good compromise, can be used at most reasonable ranges (as for target shooting, I've shot steel plates/dingers at 300+ yards with mine; as long as you have a good zero and can see the target, you can hit it). Durability and battery life is outstanding. Field of view is more limited than some other types of sights, although this is not as bad and as critical as some folks would have you believe, IMO.
EOTech: Smaller dot is better for smaller targets, assuming you can SEE the target; vision is the limiting factor here. Smaller dot does NOT make it possible to shoot her or with more accuracy if you cannot see the target under field conditions. Mounting options are more limited than with the tube-type sights, and some owners/operators have reported problems with the mounting screw loosening regularly during use. Has battery type options; handy if you want to match sight to what you already stock/carry. I don't like the stretch neoprene cover at all, and that's pretty much the only option for lens protection. Quick power-on options are nice, but if you have moved from a very light to very dark area since last power-on, you're gonna have to futz with it for a few moments to get it adjusted. The rotating on/off/brightness knob on the tube-type sights seem to be quicker in these circumstances, but perhaps I just haven't used the EOTech enough to be well-trained in how to best use it. Great battery life, but a few durability problems (electronics?) have been reported in field use (dot just "goes out", sometimes for good).
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Thanks "DJ"...
I'm 90% sure about the Aimpoint. The CompM3 to be exact... with the ARMS #22M68 Mount w/ Cantilever.
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DJ is pretty well on the money. I like the Aimpoint for close-fast shooting, but beyond 200m, it gets a little dicy with the 4MOA dot. It completely covers a silhouette target at 300m. You can still make hits, it just requires more care, and they may not be as precise as you might like. The thing is like lightning under 100m, regardless of what various goofballs say about irons being faster than optics.
The ACOG is excellent for longer-range shooting, but handicaps you up close, just like any other magnifying optic. If I had a 20" HBAR and I wanted to shoot a lot at 150-400m, I'd be all over the ACOG. But on a 16" M4gery, I think the Aimpoint is all you need. The 5.56 out of a short barrel is pretty puny medicine over 200m, anyway. If you want to shoot that far, you now have a great excuse for buying a .308 AR, M1A, or FAL!
It never ends JS. There is no releif for gun-I-tis. Go ahead and order your .308 at the same time. Good luck.
The EOTech and Aimpoint represent about the best options for CQB out to 200M. I personally prefer the EOTech, but you cannot go wrong with the Aimpoint.
My favorite ACOG is the TA33R-8 and the TA31-DOC. They are good a mid-range shooting, but kind of suck for CQB.
Over the years, I have come to really like 1-4 variable powered optics (S&B, Nightforce, etc). They give you CQB & mid-range capability all in one package.
I just ordered a new DPMS Panther and am looking for optics also. That Aimpoint Comp M3 looks great. What will that set me back ? $$
This is the set up I got a while back when I got my AR. http://www.gandrtactical.com/cgi-bin...y=APM322M68SPR


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NO. 11 AUBURN 45, FAU 10: Jeremy Johnson threw two long touchdown passes to Sammie Coates after replacing injured starter Nick Marshall and Auburn overwhelmed Florida Atlantic.
Johnson, a freshman, threw a 36-yard scoring pass to Coates on his first snap after replacing Marshall, who was taken to the locker room with a shoulder injury early in the second quarter. Marshall returned to the Auburn sideline, but not the game.
Auburn (7-1) had 628 total yards.
NO. 13 LSU 48, FURMAN 16: Odell Beckham Jr. caught six passes for 204 yards and two scores, Terrance Magee added two second-half touchdowns, and No. 13 LSU turned a tenuous halftime lead into a romp.
Jeremy Hill rushed for 143 yards and two touchdowns for LSU (7-2), which led 20-16 at halftime before outscoring the Paladins (3-5) 28-0 in the second half.
LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger passed for 328 yards and three scores, but threw two interceptions, the first of which was returned 76 yards by Reggie Thomas to give Furman a 7-0 lead.
NO. 14 TEXAS A&M 56, VANDERBILT 24: Johnny Manziel threw for 305 yards and four touchdowns in less than three quarters, and Texas A&M bounced back from a loss last week.
Manziel showed no signs that the right shoulder he injured last week was bothering him. He threw three TDs in the first quarter to help A&M (6-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) build a 28-point lead. He tacked on another score before sitting down with 6 minutes left in the third quarter and the Aggies leading 42-17.
DUKE 13, NO. 16 VIRGINIA TECH 10: Anthony Boone ran for a touchdown, Ross Martin kicked two long field goals and Duke ended a long history of losing to ranked teams.
The Blue Devils (6-2, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) beat a ranked team for the first time since they stopped No. 13 Virginia in 1994, and beat one on the road for the first time since Stanford in 1971. And they did it without a third-down conversion all game, and a 2-to-1 time of possession deficit.
Virginia Tech (6-2, 3-1) had its six-game winning streak end as Logan Thomas threw four interceptions.
NO. 18 LOUISVILLE 34, USF 3: Teddy Bridgewater threw for 344 yards and three touchdowns and Louisville rebounded from its first loss of the season.
Charles Gaines returned a fourth-quarter interception 70 yards for a TD as the Cardinals' defense reverted to the form that helped Louisville (7-1, 3-1 American Athletic Conference) climb into the top 10 before blowing a 21-point, second-half lead at home during a 38-35 loss to Central Florida last week.
USF failed to score an offensive touchdown for the third straight game. The Bulls used three quarterbacks and were outgained 485 yards to 133.
NO. 19 OKLAHOMA STATE 58, IOWA STATE 27: Desmond Roland ran for a career-high 219 yards and four touchdowns and Oklahoma State won its third straight.
Quarterback Clint Chelf had 163 total yards in his second start of the season for the Cowboys (6-1, 3-1 Big 12), who ran for a season-high 342 yards.
Oklahoma State scored 14 points in a 2-? minute stretch late in the third quarter to extend its lead to 45-20.
NO. 21 UCF 62, CONNECTICUT 17: Blake Bortles threw for four touchdowns and ran for another as UCF routed winless Connecticut.
Bortles completed his first eight passes of the game and ended his day early in the third quarter, connecting on 20 of 24 for 286 yards.
The junior ran for a TD as the Knights (6-1, 3-0 American Athletic Conference) scored on their first nine possessions of the game.
They remain the favorite to claim the league's BCS berth.
The Huskies (0-7, 0-3) have lost eight straight games dating to last season.
NO. 23 NORTHERN ILLINOIS 59, EASTERN MICHIGAN 20: Jordan Lynch threw four touchdown passes and caught another as Northern Illinois reached its best start as a major college football program.
The Huskies (8-0, 4-0 Mid-American Conference) never trailed on the way to a season-high in points and second-highest total offense (606 yards).
The Eagles (1-7, 0-4) lost their seventh straight.
Lynch, the nation's No. 7 rusher entering Saturday, also ran for a touchdown while rushing 18 times for 99 yards.
MINNSOTA 34, NO. 25 NEBRASKA 23: Philip Nelson rushed for two touchdowns and passed for another, guiding Minnesota to its first win against the Cornhuskers since 1960.
Nelson made all of his seven completions count, totaling 152 yards, and carried the ball eight times for 55 yards.
Taylor Martinez returned from a turf-toe injury that kept him of the last three games for the Huskers (5-2, 2-1), but he had only 16 yards rushing on eight attempts and 139 yards on 16-for-30 passing, plus one touchdown and one interception.


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Feb 15, 2012 - Love this stuff...gives my hair super moisture and leaves my hair clean w/o it being squeaky clean.
Feb 15, 2012 - Love this stuff...gives my hair super moisture and leaves my hair clean w/o it being squeaky clean.
Feb 15, 2012 - Love this conditioner, gave my hair some major slip (better then KCKT) and really gave it the moisture it needed. I've only used it as a rinse out conditioner thus far, and I love the way it works. I'm thinking about using it as a co-wash, but what I'll probably do is put some in a separate bottle and dilute it since its not a cheapy conditioner like VO5 or Suave.
Jan 21, 2012 - I liked this product a lot. I purchased it as an alternative to my homemade flaxseed gel, since the flaxseed gel has to be refrigerated all the time, it wasn't practical to take the flaxseed gel with me while I was going out of town for a few days. So I purchased this gel because I still wanted something natural and at least somewhat chemical free. I have to say that it definitely defined my curls, and I got a compliment from my boyfriend when I used this product. I give it 4 starts instead of 5 because it left my hair kind of dry. But then again all I did was apply it to soaking wet hair the first time w/o a conditioner or of any sort or moisturizer, but that's because the product said it was supposed to moisturize. I tried it again after I applied my shea butter concoction and it didn't leave my hair as dry. I like this product only as an alternative to my homemade flaxseed gel, when I don't have time to make it, or when its impractical for me to take it with me out to town, since it has to be refrigerated. But I agree with everyone, a little goes a long way with this stuff....I didn't apply a lot...perhaps a nickle size and it was more then enough.


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Are newspapers covering Akbar case under a military gag order and not reporting it?
Research ››› ››› JEREMY CLUCHEY
In an April 27 letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Military Reporters & Editors (MRE) president Sig Christenson expressed concerns "about restrictions imposed" on reporters covering the military trial of Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who was convicted of murder on April 21 for a fatal attack on fellow soldiers in Kuwait. The restrictions on the press reportedly include a ban on speaking without permission to any civilians or soldiers at the Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Army base where the trial was held. The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press have all covered the trial, but none has reported allegations that the Department of Defense (DOD) imposed restrictions on coverage, nor did they report -- as would be the case if DOD did, in fact, enforce such a policy -- that their own reporters agreed to and complied with those restrictions.
While it is not known whether those papers actually acceded to the restrictions as a condition of getting access to the trial, none of the four media organizations -- all of which evidently attended the proceedings -- in fact included any quotes from civilians or soldiers on the base who were not involved in the trial.
According to an April 27 Editor & Publisher article, MRE claims that reporters "were forced to sign an agreement pledging not to interview soldiers at the base or legal advisors in the court room. In addition, MRE claims reporters have been escorted everywhere they go on the base to ensure compliance, even being monitored in the restrooms." Reporter Jeff Schogol, covering the trial for the Easton, Pennsylvania, Express-Times, also enumerated some of the "ground rules that spell out the limits of media access" in an April 17 article:
I can't talk to any soldiers or civilians on the base without permission.
I can be searched at any time.
I can't ask the legal adviser provided to the media to speculate on how evidence or testimony might affect the trial's outcome.
I have to be escorted everywhere I go on Fort Bragg. When I go to the men's room, my military escort waits patiently outside.
Breaking the rules means I will no longer cover the court martial.
Four articles on Akbar's trial have appeared in the Los Angeles Times (here, here, here, and here), one has appeared in The New York Times, and one has appeared in The Washington Post. The Associated Press has also written several articles on the trial (here, here, and here). None of the articles quoted "any soldiers or civilians" other than those involved in the trial, and none mentioned the alleged restrictions.
Schogol reported on MRE's letter to Rumsfeld in an April 28 Express-Times article titled "Journalists press Rumsfeld to end restrictions on court-martial coverage."
The New York Times recently admitted publicly that a reporter had agreed to restrictions imposed by a source (in a different story), an agreement the Times acknowledged violated its policy. On April 7, the Columbia Journalism Review's CJR Daily reported that the Times had agreed not to interview "pro-Israel" students who complained of harassment by "pro-Palestinian" professors at Columbia University in exchange for an unreleased university report on the allegations. As CJR noted:
If you're looking for an example of irresponsible journalism, this is about as cut and dried as it gets. The Times itself admitted as much in an editor's note on April 6, saying that "Under the Times' policy on unidentified sources, writers are not permitted to forgo follow-up reporting in exchange for information." ... [T]he Times spells its policy out on its corporate Web site, which reads in part:
We do not promise sources that we will refrain from additional reporting or efforts to verify the information being reported.
We do not promise sources that we will refrain from seeking comment from others on the subject of the story. (We may, however, agree to a limited delay in further inquiries -- until the close of stock trading, for example.)
The fact that some at the Times decided to subvert their own reporting by agreeing to ignore one side of a debate is disturbing, if not wholly insulting, to the paper's readership.
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I adore this costume, You make such a wonderful Aerith. The photoshoot was great fun, hopefully we can get some snaps of both of us together next time ^_^
You look amazing :)
awww you look lovely >8D
Beautiful Aerith! ^_^
Aww wow you look so pretty!! ^_^
this is an awsum Aerith it puts mine form october to shame !!
Awww thank you everyone for all the lovely comments ^_^ *hugs everyone*
@ Sasashie~ thats not true!!! I remember seeing you in October, i loved your Aerith costume!!!
You make such acute Aerith! The outfit is spot on! <3
Hooowwwww did you get yor bangs so high and perfect?!
Love the way you've managed to get your hair to look at the front - truly inspirational bangs!
Stunning Aerith. Love the costume and you've done a great job on the hair.
Thanks for the comment on Raphael btw. X
Thank you ^_^!!!!!
And your so very welcome, he's one of my fave characters in that game and your doing him great justice!!! I always cracked up in the cut-scenes when he danced though lol.
OMG is that your real hair?!! its beautful!
You make a lovely Aerith and you've got some beautiful photos there ^_^


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TOWIE star Gemma Collins is a secret nudist?!
Gemma Collins
Although she keeps her clothes on when the cameras are about, The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins has revealed that off camera she's actually a bit of a nudist!
The 30-year-old reality star especially enjoys walking around her house naked, which probably pleases her current squeeze and TOWIE co-star James 'Arg' Argent.
Gemma revealed to The Sun: "I'm always getting dressed up for different events so when I'm in my own territory, I like to let it all hang out and shake what your mama gave you."
The plus-sized fashion designer has had a very public struggle with her weight, but it seems like she has finally made peace with being a fuller-figured woman.
She candidly explained: "I just looked in the mirror and thought: 'Sod it.' It's better to be happy in life than unhappy."
"I feel really happy at the moment. I'm exercising loads, not to be stick thin but just to feel better."
Gemma has become known for her larger-than-life personality and womanly curves, but she reveals that comments on her size have gotten her down in the past.
"I was basically a normal girl next door but due to heartache I was a comfort eater. With TOWIE and a few nasty comments, I had a wake-up call and became more aware of myself."
Since joining The Only Way Is Essex Gemma's world has changed dramatically, but the reality star isn't about to get carried away by her new found fame.
She explained: "You have to put things into perspective. We're reality Essex people.
"We aren't Posh and Becks or Madonna. We have to be realistic. My feet are firmly on the ground."


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FOR FOUR YEARS NOW, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accommodated the Internet industry's request that it, not the government, regulate the collection and use of consumer information. In late May, the FTC decided that enough was enough.
Basing its decision on federal report findings that only 20 percent of a random sample of websites adhered to the four tenets of what the FTC considers fair privacy practice -- notice, choice, access and security -- the agency recommended legislation that would make privacy practices mandatory and enforceable.
The Internet industry, predictably, is up in arms. Lobbying groups like the Online Privacy Alliance and the Information Technology Association of America insist that such regulations are unwarranted and will do little more than open the floodgates on government regulation, which, in turn, will slow a booming economy. But if federal regulation is so abhorrent to the Internet industry, why won't e-commerce companies do what it takes to keep the government off their backs?
If e-commerce companies were to implement full-scale privacy practices, not only would they forestall federal involvement, they would actually encourage more online commerce. A recent Arthur Andersen survey found that 94 percent of 365 Internet users expressed some level of concern for their privacy, and a 1999 survey by Forrester Research found that 90 percent of consumers want to control how their personal information is collected and used. In response to a Sound Off column posted last year that asked "Do your customers really care about privacy?" nearly all readers argued vociferously that their customers do.
At a time when even well-financed retail e-commerce sites are dropping like flies, companies can't afford to play fast and loose with customer desires or with the legislative leanings of the FTC.
So why are e-commerce companies so unwilling to offer their customers privacy protections? Are the financial benefits of unfettered collection of personal data so great? Apparently not. A May article in The New York Times argued that while websites are certainly collecting data about their customers, they aren't making particularly good use of that data. "Many companies are trying to peer back through the glowing screens at Internet users," reporter Saul Hansell wrote, "but so far no one has been able to make a big business out of being Big Brother." If the unbridled collection of personal data isn't doing much for the bottom line but is discouraging consumer activity and inviting government involvement, why won't websites get serious about customer privacy?
IF CUSTOMER SERVICE IS THE DIFFERENTIATOR in the new millennium and consumers are telling us in no uncertain terms what they want, it is suicide not to listen. Get your sites up to snuff on privacy, notice and protection for your own survival!
Bob Caplan
Director of IT
DBS Direct
IT IS INTERESTING TO ME how libertarian the views of most technical people are, yet how much everyone agrees that the government should step in. It is truly an indictment of the maliciously bad practices of unscrupulous marketers who are quickly ruining the Web for everyone.
Libertarian or not, one of the few legitimate purposes of government is to set the rules of the game and ensure that they are enforced. I cannot have freedom without responsibillity, and there is little responsibility being taken for actions that would be offensive and over-the-line in any other form.
Regulation is not only needed, it is overdue, and I hope retroactive. I also hope that in enacting legislation, our government does not overreact, but rather exercises restraint.
Paul Paetz
Director, e-Business Strategy
AS A CONSUMER, I want those privacy protections. as a company, we want unlimited access to our customers as long as it is ethical. Ethicality cannot be legislated, but many people and companies do not know what ethical behavior means. Therefore, government intervention seems inevitable.
Sue Conger
Director of Electronic Commerce
Sewell Automotive Companies
THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT EXTEND well beyond e-commerce and credit card information. Working for a consumer and professional health-care information website, we not only see the value in maintaining an individual's privacy, we ensure its implementation. Privacy shouldn't be a leap of faith for every website visitor; it should be considered standard practice.
We see the government instituting regulations to guard the privacy of individuals' health-care information. This regulation is better known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and by association this act ties indirectly to health-information sites to guard and protect confidential information. E-commerce credit card information should be no different, as it is ultimately the responsibility of the website to maintain and ensure visitor privacy. Give the control back to the people who are entrusting you with their information, and we can continue to bring value and credibility to this new economic medium.
Cary Brown
Director of Technology
Austin, Texas
ALL THE COMPANIES THAT WANT to drive the "average consumer" to their sites and have them actually buy something need to better address the privacy issue.
There are too many average consumers who don't yet have enough of a sense of privacy to complete transactions online. The e-commerce industry must adopt standards and enforce them as an industry, before Al Gore takes credit for inventing Internet privacy.
Let's not give the government the ammunition it needs to step in. When consumers are confident their privacy is safe, they will come.
Cary Weltken
Director, Business Development
SVI America Corp.
San Francisco
This story, "Customer Privacy on the Web -- SOUND OFF" was originally published by CIO.


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Powered by a dual-core 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU (as opposed to the quad-core 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU on the Lumia 1520), the Nokia Lumia 1320 offers some pre-loaded apps such as HERE Maps and HERE LiveSight. The latter lets you use the camera on your phone to help find your parked car. Nokia MixRadio, Instagram and other popular apps run on the model even though it has 1GB of RAM, just half of the 2GB of RAM you'll find on the Nokia Lumia 1520.
Both phablets do share a 3400mAh battery which means that you can expect 21 hours of 3G talk time and 100 hours of music playback on a single charge from the Nokia Lumia 1320, which also offers 4G LTE and HSPA+ connectivity..
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I was wondering at the differences between circular needle cordings. I have knit extensively (and, often, annoyingly) with the basic plastic corded needles that are not that flexible or knitter friendly. I am looking now, however, at purchasing some from online and am wondering what the difference in cording is. One advertises as "hollow" and others are advertised as metal cording. I have never knit with metal corded needles before, and am interested to know if anyone has, and what they think of it? I am also curious as to the difference between hollow and not hollow corded needles?
I know that personal preference is an absolute factor in choosing the best needles, but I am not at all familiar with these two terms and am just looking for a bit of clarification.
Thanks for any info offered!
Thats called a cable. Smart move to get a flexible set from the beginning rather than spend money on a cheap set that frustrates you. I don't know the difference in cables other than flexibility.
I use Knitpicks Options nickel plated or Harmony birch. I don't know what the cable is made from, but it's very flexible. They have a Try-it set that is a good way to test them out. You can also just buy a needle and cable singly if the type doesn't have a set to try. It's cheaper in the long run. I have a few Hiya Hiya and Addi and use them, too.
Hiya Hiya and Addi needles are also good and I'm sure there are others.
I too use KP Options (Sunstruck for me) and am very happy with the cables. Other than color I think the WEBs cables are the same. IMHO Boye and Denise cables are not for me, they're both too thick, not flexible enough, and Boye cables coil. I figure if it looks like it belongs in a Weed Eater, it should be used in a Weed Eater. I have a CiaoGoo with a stainless steel cable coated with something and it's OK but not as flexible as the KP cables. The cable on my one Addi Turbo circ kinks. I've wondered about hollow cables too. My guess (and it's only a guess) is that they are thicker and less flexible than my KP cables. I'll be interested in finding out what they are like but I'm not sure I'll buy more needles to compare, I'll probably stick with what I know.
The 'hollow' cords are plastic tubing and they may or may not be soft and flexible, but will be thick which can be a problem moving your stitches on them. The metal may be flexible don't know. It may be worth it to just get a couple of each type to see how you like them. Or one of the sample sets from Knitpicks or WEBS (www.yarn.com) Knit pro needles.
I actually ended up with the sampler sets from WEBs and KP and that came in really handy. I got the same size needles in nickel plate and in wood (birch?) and it let me really compare them.
It took me a while to decide if I like sharp or blunt tip needles, but I think I'm more of a blunt tip knitter. Once you know what tip style you like best, you can search within a range of brands for ones that have the cords you like.That said, I like KA brand needles the best of any I've ever tried. They are a Japanese brand that are less expensive than Clover but so much nicer. They are bamboo and the tip on these is less blunt than Clover (I think), but not by much. They also have a really thin and very flexible cord that spins where its connected to the needle. This is a really great feature and I miss it when I knit with something else. They come in several interchangeable sets that have more options than any of the others I researched in my price range. The sets are also expandable. I really can't recommend them enough. Price-wise, they are more than Knitpicks but cheaper than Clover or Addi.I just got my set this weekend and it's like I'm in love. I can't stop looking at them! :inlove:
I wanted to mention one other brand that has a great cable and is inexpensive. I think it falls more in the sharp tip category, but maybe its a hybrid because the tip is concave, which helps you catch slipping stitches. Pearls brand is a soft plastic needle with a super soft cord. They used to be called Bryspun and you'll still see them for sale under both names. They are really inexpensive and you can't get them in kits, but if you like a sharper tip and soft cable, they are worth a look. There is one big problem with them though, they will form little cracks at the base of the needle where the cord connects. This will endlessly snag yarn unless you file it down. I was able to use a nail file on mine, but I understand not everyone will be cool with that. This only happened to me when they where called Bryspun, but it was very consistent.
I prefer sharp needles by far. Hence one of my loves with KP.
My personal preferences are Hiya Hiya stainless and Knitters Pride Dreamz, both of which use plastic cables of some description (though I couldn't tell you what the construction is). Hiya Hiya's interchangeable sets come with plastic shrouded braided steel cables, which I haven't used but wouldn't imagine would be terribly friendly. They wouldn't have any "memory" to speak of, but I should imagine they'd be stiffer than I'd like. The Dreamz interchangeables use the same cables as the single-length models. My girlfriend has both sets of those and LOVES them. From what I can see, the Knitters Pride sets are pretty much the same as the Knitpicks, except maybe in the type of wood used for the tips.
No doubt there have been or will be lovers of Addi chiming in here, and they make a good one too, I've just never personally been impressed enough to pay the premium for them over the others.


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UPDATE 3-Analysts expect Merrill to post Q2 loss, more writeoffs
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By Tenzin Pema
BANGALORE, June 26 (Reuters) - Wall Street analysts forecast a second-quarter loss for Merrill Lynch & Co MER.N and said it will likely incur total write-downs in the range of $3.5 billion to $4.2 billion, causing shares of the world's largest brokerage to fall as much as 5 percent.
Analysts at Goldman Sachs and Sanford C. Bernstein said they expect Merrill to post its fourth straight quarterly loss from its exposure to collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and hedges.
"Yet again, the biggest swing factor for Merrill's upcoming second-quarter results will be the severity of the write-downs related to Merrill's CDO and mortgage-related exposures," Bernstein analyst Brad Hintz wrote in a note to clients.
In addition, the level of valuation reserves Merrill takes against its CDO and mortgage-backed securities hedges will also play a large role in the ultimate size of earnings losses the firm reports, Hintz said. He estimates Merrill will take $3.5 billion in write-downs.
In a separate report dated June 25, Goldman Sachs analyst William Tanona forecast write-downs of $4.2 billion at Merrill, and $8.9 billion at Citigroup Inc (C.N: Cotización).
"We expect write-downs for Citigroup and Merrill to outpace what we saw from Morgan Stanley (MS.N: Cotización) and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc LEH.N recently, due to Citigroup's and Merrill's large exposures to ABS (asset-backed security) CDOs and associated hedges with the monolines (insurers)," Tanona said.
He cut his price target to $38 from $42, and rates the stock "neutral." Continuación...


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- 11.11.09
A Question of Color
Yesterday was day 1 of a 6 day trip working with Daniel Cardwell on A Question of Color.
Yesterday was day 1 of a 6 day trip working with Daniel Cardwell on A Question of Color. I found myself reading the manuscript in the taxi on the way to the airport, creating a new vision of the opening at the airport and then continuing in that direction on the plane. More story, less commentary! Thank you Annie Hart! When I arrived, Dan took me to some of the places we're writing about in the book. We traveled to Stuckey Road, where the big fight occurred, over to the farm where Dan had lived alone for years as a teenager, and past the house he had been plowing where a little five year old white boy who used to wave to him every day had told him that he couldn't talk to him anymore. As we drove, Dan told me stories of the area and a few more gems for the book that I recorded.
Later in the evening we got to the place we're renting with more than enough food to feed a small army. We loaded up the house, got settled in and then the work began. Didn't get to sleep til 3am (okay I napped from 10 to 11:30)!
We discussed Education in America and the conversation of Color and its importance with our youth. How we all spend so much time trying to figure out who we are, its difficult to be able to learn in school. That was his experience and I'm certain there are a few kids who kids and adults who can relate. Dan shared another story of how he became addicted to education after being considered a dumb kid for so many years. He told me of how he created his own positive peer pressure when he returned to College. How he felt cool when he got good grades. If we can make education cool – like cigarettes used to be and like cell phones now are – then we all stand a chance. I like that.


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Cadillac Escalade, EXT and ESV Forum - 1999 - 2006 Discussion, so this just hapened at the Car Wash... in Cadillac Escalade Forums; Originally Posted by MoistCabbage They do make at least one hose attachment intended for undercarriage washing. It sprays kets of ...
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I (so far) haven't had snow freeze to the roof but there's always a first time for it to happen
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Winter is the reason I have my Dodge Dakota!! I wouldn't dare take my Escalade out in a snow storm! So I guess I dont really have to worry about that, but there is no way I would even consider pulling the EXT threw any automatic wash bay! Way to high pressured imo, and they cost alot more then doing it yourself in the truck bay, and don't get it nearly as clean!
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The UK is facing a housing shortage which can't be solved unless more land is available for development.
Housing minister Grant Shapps is right to try and bring Whitehall on board with his plans for house building as the government does hold a lot of land. In his recent announcement, he mentioned six departments who are looking at their land holdings, but omitted the Ministry of Defence – by far the largest land-owning department. The MoD owns approximately 1% of all UK land. If the minister is serious about hitting his target of 100,000 new homes built by 2014/15 then he should be bringing the MoD on board.
In October 2011 the MoD released a report about its land assets. It stated that the department had 'agreed a target' for selling enough land capacity for 26,000 – 31,000 houses by 2014-15. This represents just under a third of the government's total target yet they weren't included in the six departments the minister mentioned.This is peculiar since the MoD report noted how Shapps' own department and the Homes and Communities Agency would be "key enablers" in assisting the MoD to achieve their desired planning outcomes.
Maybe it was a simple error of omission to not name the MoD with the other six government departments: the Ministry of Justice, the Treasury, the Home Office, the Department for Energy and Climate Change, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. However governments tend to err on the side of rehashing old 'good news' as opposed to burying it, so this would certainly rank as a first.
There have been stories about the internal problems at the MoD. Add together a new secretary of state in Philip Hammond, the trauma of the resignation of the old one, an ongoing war in Afghanistan and the current pummelling the department is getting over redundancies and you can see why releasing land for housing might fall off their agenda. But Shapps shouldn't let this one rest. Keeping the MoD on board will be critical if the government are to come good on their house building promise.
Liam Scott-Smith is the head of external affairs at the New Local Government Network
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The ath9k driver has just been released and I'd love to use it with a MIMO .11n pc-card I have.
Can anyone provide details of installing it on BT3? From what I can tell you can't just download it because the necessary compilers are not available on BT3. Keep in mind I only have BT3 and WinXP available, so I'm hoping you don't need a fully blown Linux OS to do it.


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Brenda Romero
Minecraft changed the industry, says Brenda Romero
Minecraft had more consequences for the games industry than even hardcore gamers may have realised.
Brenda Romero headlines
Brenda Romero awarded Fulbright Fellowship to work with Ireland's game industry
Brenda Romero has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work with Ireland's game industry and its educational institutions.
GDC 2014 adds sessions from Brenda Romero, Ubisoft's Patrick Redding
GDC 2014 organizers have announced UC Santa Cruz's Brenda Romero will provide a session in which she will discuss "re-inspiring designers for greatness," along with a talk from Ubisoft's Patrick Redding.
Brenda, John Romero to oversee new UC Santa Cruz master's degree
Industry veterans Brenda and John Romero will oversee UC Santa cruz's new 12 month master's degree program in games and playable media.
Brenda Romero named UCSC's game designer in residence
Brenda Romero – née Brathwaite – has joined UC Santa Cruz's Center for Games and Playable Media as game designer in residence. GamePolitics reports the much respected industry veteran and Loot Drop co-founder will act as "an adviser and resource for game design students, faculty, and researchers on campus", in an 80%, one-year appointment.
Ghost Recon: Commander shelved, dev team laid off
Tactical social effort Ghost Recon: Commander has been axed, with developer Loot Drop laying off its the entire team as a result.
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