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Ill share what was taught to me by a Secret societyQuoting: APOLLYON ILLUMINATUS
The time is now Folks, Hes here, and this conjunction, falls over DENVER, its why it will be the capital of the NWO,
My Mentors taught me about Denver
THE SHOCKING TRUTH OF APOLLYON THE MAN: !!!!!! And Nibiru the Destroyer King !!!!!! The Inner Mystery Now Revealed by an Initiate.
(Please read this with patience, and I will lead you into one of the Greatest Secrets)
There is a tale of a Second Sun, Niburu or Planet X that comes into our Solar Sytem and takes position behind our sun every 3,600 years. It is said that Niburu is already here or will be here in 2012 and is renowned to bring destruction, So what happened 3,600 years ago? Take the Shang Dynasty, they had very good astrologers, were noted comet enthusiasts and they recorded nothing.. Nor did any civilization record any cataclysmic event.
Lets look at the Akkadian Language. , It means "crossing" or "point of transition", especially of rivers. In Babylonian astronony its the Highest point of the Ecliptic, the Throne of God or Summer Solstice of Cancer, Now lets look at this again. In Revelation 12 it says that the woman will give birth to the man child and he will be taken up to Gods throne..
5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
In the Enuma Elis it reads. "When Marduk fixed the locations (manzazu) of Nibiru, Enlil and Ea in the sky
So we have the seat of the summus deus, was considered the throne of Marduk, who pastured the sheep. This would fit in the man child of Revelation who is taken up to the throne.. In the constellations. It was Nibiru which was said to rise high during the Autumn Equinox, around Libra.. It is Jewish Tradition to expect the Crowned King at the New Year when the Shofar is Blown, Near Rosh Hashanah which is LIbra.
Nibiru is described in this cuneiform tablet:
Nibiru, which is said to have occupied the passageways of heaven and earth, because everyone above and below asks Nibiru if they cannot find the passage. Nibiru is Marduk's star which the gods in heaven caused to be visible. Nibiru stands as a post at the turning point. The others say of Nibiru the post: "The one who crosses the middle of the sea (Tiamat) without calm, may his name be Nibiru, for he takes up the center of it". The path of the stars of the sky should be kept unchanged.In the MUL.APIN Nibiru is identified as Jupiter:
"When the stars of Enlil have been finished, one big star – although its light is dim – divides the sky in half and stands there: that is, the star of Marduk (MUL dAMAR.UD), Nibiru (né-bé-ru), Jupiter (MULSAG.ME.GAR); it keeps changing its position and crosses the sky."
therefore from these texts, we see not a Stealth Star, but a Kings Star which is Jupiter, In Esoteric Theology, Jupiter is the Kings Planet. Its the planet of Exhaltation. . Its power crowns the King which takes his throne in Summer Solstice. Jupiter is exhalted in Cancer. and is declared the King of the Kingdom in the Fall...
Now how could he be called the Destroyer...
"And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon" (Revelation 9:11).
Apollyon is the English transliteration of the Greek word Apolluon, meaning "Destroyer".
Strong's #622, apollumi, which is used 92 times and means, "1) to destroy; a) to put out of the way entirely, abolish, put an end to ruin; b) render useless; c) to kill; d) to declare that one must be put to death; e) metaph. to devote or give over to eternal misery in hell; f) to perish, to be lost, ruined, destroyed; 2) to destroy; a) to lose.
In the Authorized Version (KJV), it is translated perish 33 times, destroy 26, lose 22, be lost 5, and lost 4 times.
Is the King we await the Destroyer?? Does the destruction of earth commence at the crowing of this Sun Son? Are we actually awaiting a special conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter instead of the stealth planet x in hiding?
Or are we awaiting a man that was already born with the special conjunction of the Sun, Jupiter. and curiously Mercury.
Cause oddly the Tablets refer to Mercury as Nibiru as well:
"If Mercury (MULUDU.IDIM.GU4) divides the sky and stands there, [its name] is Nibiru.
Again, this is the Conjunction of Jupiter, Mercury, and the Sun which will herald in THE MAN.
Conclusion, Nibiru is also A Man. Apollyon. who will have these signs as his birth.
For he is the Sun, Son... and upon his wings, one is exhalted or is destroyed....
To be continued.
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Ok, well if it is real or not..I got an old little digital camera 5.o megapixel at a sale for $1.00 U.S. and thought I would take a few Pics for my self just to see what I can see...Well what I saw was what others tell me is a Debunked PLANET-X ok? I just did this durring the noon Hr. fron centrial California today Aug 13 2012, But you dont need My Pic's Just try it yourself...Use a digital camera and take 20 or 30 in that way you can see for yourself it is not a hoax..I saw the immage just above the sun...so move your shots around... them down load them to a biger screen and prove it to yourself...it will look just like other Pictures that have been posted all over the Net...then debunk yourself if you can...Oh I tried it with more then one camera after I saw what I saw...
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Ridley Scott goes back to the genre he created
Prometheus (2012)
Ridley Scott
Noomi Rapace
Michael Fassbender
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In the not so distant future, a team of scientists discover an impossible link between ancient civilisations that sends them on an interstellar journey in pursuit of the origins of mankind. What they find may be the beginning of our extinction... .
In 1979,
Ridley Scott
took the seed sown by
Star Wars
two years before and used a blockbuster budget and cutting edge technology to essentially create a genre with the original
. Remember, this was just a year after
John Carpenter
ignited the slasher film with
and before the dawn of the 80s and the age of spectacle. With a visionary attention to detail and a monster which has rightfully stood the test of time, Alien deserves to stand proud as one of the most significant films of the 20th century.
It's a tough act to follow, something which
James Cameron
chose to simply ignore with 1986s
– a film which draws little but its antagonist and star from the original, instead opting to deliver one of the best action films of the 80s.
Fincher's Alien 3
tried to tease out something more contemplative from the material but was ultimately stricken by its own production issues and
is a perfectly average creature feature, but it's not an
Which brings us, rather less than neatly, to
– a film that has had its identity, staff and connection to the original films toyed with so many times it was feared that it might fall into the same abyss as
Alien 3
. That hasn't happened, partly due to
stepping back into the director's chair and also with a little help from
20th Century Fox
, who have thrown at least $150 million at the film with the hope of taking the summer by storm. And the name alone should draw in the crowds but the film itself may fail to satisfy.
A star map...
The biggest surprise
has to offer is that much of it doesn't resemble an Alien film at all. It's something of a vindication for Scott, who has been suggesting for months that his intent was to create a standalone narrative. The main difference is the scope of the film – both in terms of the different worlds it travels to and the impressive scale of the production but also in terms of the questions it attempts to raise and the themes it deals with.
The plot concerns a team of scientists who think they have found the secret to the origins of humanity on an alien world and head out to find that planet with the help of benefactor Peter Weyland. The first act of the film goes from the distant past to the year 2089 on the Isle of Skye in Scotland and onwards to 2093 when the crew touches down on a moon light years from Earth. There, they find some answers and yet more mysteries that won't be discussed here.
Writers Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof use these situations to tease out questions of faith, chiefly through the character of Shaw, played by Noomi Rapace. She is certain that their journey will lead them to an alien race responsible for crafting humanity but also holds firm to her belief in god, something which becomes increasingly difficult as the narrative begins to assault her with questions and doubts.
It's a more complex film then without question but for some reason Prometheus often feels less impressive than it might be. While the opening half delivers all the technically impressive visuals we expect and there's little doubt that the journey and what they find should verge on the wondrous, the feeling is rarely transmitted to the audience. Some key moments are revealed in an indifferent fashion and, crucially, the score from Marc Streitenfeld can't muster any of the appropriate emotions. James Horner is sorely missed.
Charlize Theron and Idris Elba
When Scott does indulge himself for some genre moments, they're typically well played. The first alien encounter is suitably strong, bone-cracking stuff and a later surgery scene provides perhaps the films dramatic high point. But, unlike the opaque mechanics of the original movie, it's never quite clear what the extra-terrestrial creatures are after or what they're abilities are, making the sense of danger still immediate but more vaguely sketched that I'd like. Also, while moments of violence do occur, they're oddly underplayed – not too many steps removed from a possible PG-13 rating. This, alongside the curious lack of bad language, makes me think the R-rating was something of an afterthought.
And then there's the ending. Prometheus is content to idle in a pleasant enough sci-fi and portentous conversations mode for much of its running time, with breaks for brief moments of shock and awe. But as the end game approaches, things take a turn for the spectacular which provides plenty of trailer moments but threatens to lose any audience members who were previously on board. It's never quite unwatchable, thanks to Scott's robust aesthetic and the hope that some questions will finally be answered, but it's a messy finale and one which cheapens the film which comes before it. It's also worth noting that Prometheus doesn't mesh with Alien canon as you might expect, leaving things open for a further sequel.
Scott has assembled a suitably impressive cast for Prometheus and some fare better than others. To some degree, the rather muted drama of the film is reflected in its lead. Noomi Rapace looks good on screen and her character is nicely drawn but her performance is dull and I couldn't get over the strange intonations of her accent, which would be fine if the film didn't go out of its way to define her as a Brit. She certainly commits to the physical requirements of the role and becomes more active as the film progresses but can't quite carry the film.
It's a shame because much of the supporting cast is strong, like Charlize Theron's sharp-edged but canny executive (who is forced into something of a generic villain role) and nice turns from Idris Elba (who is once more divorced from his accent) and Guy Pearce, as an aged Peter Weyland. Michael Fassbender's David is more problematic – the actor plays the part with his usual commitment and the character is impressively layered but his vacillating allegiances and internal struggles are never really given enough screentime.
As so called 'visionary' Ridley Scott's first film shot in 3D, it was reasonable to expect great things from Prometheus' extra-dimensional visuals. Sadly, for the most part I found the image to be flat and dull, with the dark scenes dimmed further by the necessary glasses. Scott doesn't do anything interesting with the camera, even missing the opportunity to play with the films' copious hologram scenes in any significant way. You might hear people say that there's an extraordinary sense of depth to the picture but that, to me, is something you don't need silly glasses to discern.
Prometheus raised mixed emotions in me. On the one hand, it's not the disaster it might have been, given drawn out production, the legacy of the last two films and director Scott's recent track record. But it's also quite an underwhelming production, one which doesn't go out of its way to reward franchise fans, nor quite deliver enough appeal as a stand-alone title. The result can't help but be something of a disappointment but there's merit to the unique slant of the opening half while some may be dazzled by the pyrotechnics of the finale.
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Pfizer today hit back at criticism of its $106 billion (£62.5 billion) takeover bid for rival AstraZeneca, as David Cameron demanded more commitments from the US pharmaceuticals giant over British jobs and investment.
The proposed deal — which would be the largest-ever foreign takeover of a UK company — has come under attack from MPs over fears it will lead to job losses and damage Britain's science industry.
But Pfizer, whose two approaches have been rejected by Astra, said the deal would speed up the development of new drugs and "bolster innovative science". In an infographic posted on its website, it also quoted former GlaxoSmithKline boss Sir Richard Sykes, who has described the deal as a "fantastic opportunity" and said the bosses at Pfizer were "first-class people doing first-class research".
However, Cameron — who last week received a letter from Pfizer chief executive Ian Read in which he promised to press ahead with Astra's planned £330 million new headquarters and global research centre in Cambridge — today said he wanted further commitments.
Speaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Cameron called criticism of his handling of the proposed merger as "extraordinary", saying: "Our entire approach is based upon trying to secure the best possible deal in terms of jobs, investment and science."
However, he declined to commit to applying a public interest test to the proposed takeover.
Business Secretary Vince Cable yesterday warned that the Government could intervene in the deal, and told MPs that the Coalition would not let Pfizer — which will gain huge tax savings by moving its domicile to the UK if the deal goes ahead — use this country as a tax haven.
Bosses from both companies have been summoned in front of MPs to discuss the deal. AstraZeneca has so far rejected Pfizer's advances even though some of the company's largest investors have called for them to open talks.
Analysts forecast that Pfizer will return with another sweetened bid. "We expect the recent flurry of noise coming from Government to provide relatively little of substance and expect a further bid to materialise in the coming weeks," said Savvas Neophytou at Panmure Gordon.
Astra chief executive Pascal Soriot yesterday laid out his defence plan, promising that an independent Astra will nearly double its annual sales to more than $45 billion by 2023.
Neophytou said that Astra's new projections imply a valuation eventually being reached of as much as £105 a share, adding: "We have set out relatively conservative assumptions which should make a bid of £55 per share easily achievable for Pfizer".
Shares in AstraZeneca, which have risen more than a fifth since news of Pfizer's interest emerged, today retreated 1.3% to 4617p, below the £48 at which the most recent offer — made up of cash and Pfizer shares — is presently valued.
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I have a set laying around. The are in good shape, but are primered at the time. Got a bunch of black overspray on them when I painted my new bumper, didn't know my doors were still in the garage. Anyway, not sure of a price. Don't want to ask to much for primered doors. They have grey interior panels, and black uppers. I will sell with or without the uppers and door panels. Just let me know what all you want and send an offer.
I also have some stupid little stuff.....
Rear license plate holder
black tinted side windows
soft top brackets...the ones that mount right behind the seat on the roll bar
front sway bar
rear bumper
rear seat brackets
rear seat...grey in color....might be gone (got to call about that)
really faded roll bar padding
I know there is more...just cant think of it!
Hey, wasn't Hardy1531 looking for a grey rear seat? Also some carpeting, if you still have it.
hey the roll bar padding which bars does it cover, also are the windows for the stock to or what brand are they.
The windows are the stock frames, but the passenger side has a brand new besttop skin on it. The driver side is still stock, works good except for one of the zippers. But it still zips up and down fine with just the one. The roll bar padding covers the all the bars except the 2 that go over the driver and passengers heads. The padding is really faded and actually a little purple in places. Fabric paint might help it out though. Not sure.
Yea I talked to him about the seat. He lives pretty far away and I dont want to ship that big seat.
Damn, having those half doors would be nice. But your a tad too far away for shipping on them to be worth it. I just want something to run when i'm wheelin.
all i need is the padding for the center hoop roll bar i belive it is 3 pieces, would you sell me just that, and no worries mine is fadded too i just need some thing to cover the wires to my soundbar. also the side window are we talking about the rear or the front windows. thanks
Do you have any carpet for the rear?
Bluviking thank you for looking out for me. it means a lot
I have the front uppers (black), the passenger one is a brand new skin from bestop, and the driver one has one zipper busted, but the other one works fine. I also have tinted rear side windows (black). Now on my softtop both my zippers were on the top, I have seen some with a zipper on the top and one on the window. So unless you have both zippers on the top, these wont work for ya. PM sent on the roll bar padding!
PM sent
how much for the doors shipped to 62966?
How much for the doors, and how far are you from Toledo (just a point of referrence for me)?
How much for the half doors shipped to 33156 Miami, Florida
And how much for the tinted windows??
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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's departure was "inevitable," a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, while earlier in the day troops shot dead eight pro-democracy protesters and wounded in 25 at a funeral in the capital Damascus, activists said.
The incident was one of the bloodiest in the capital in the seven-month uprising against Assad, who shows no signs of leaving despite a mounting death toll, Western sanctions, and escalating sectarian tensions between his minority Alawite sect and Syria's majority Muslim Sunni population.
Syrian authorities, who blame "terrorists" and Islamist militants for the bloodshed, agreed to an Arab League plan on November 2, pledging to pull the military out of restive cities, set political prisoners free and start talks with the opposition, which wants to remove Assad and introduce democratic freedoms.
"Almost all the Arab leaders, foreign ministers who I talk to say the same thing: Assad's rule is coming to an end. It is inevitable," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman, Feltman, who is in charge of near eastern affairs, told a Senate panel.
"Some of these Arabs have even begun to offer Assad safe haven to encourage him to leave quickly," he said, not naming countries offering Assad a place to go. He said he hoped Assad and his inner circle would "head for the exits voluntarily."
Since he inherited power from his late father in 2000, Assad has sought to strengthen his strategic position by reinforcing an alliance started by his father with Shi'ite Iran while backing Arab militant groups and sticking to his father's policy of avoiding direct confrontation with Israel.
Domestically he has lifted some restrictions on trade and private enterprise after decades of nationalisation under his Baath Party.
But economic liberalisation failed to make a major dent in poverty and unemployment and the Alawite ruling elite expanded their dominance of the state, security apparatus and key sectors of the economy, to the disquiet of the Sunni majority. Continued...


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Absolutely beautiful. I really appreciated the shot where they are eating with their hands, in the firelight of the cooking fire.
The red lights on the police cruiser was, of course, sad. The powder ridge where the snowborder rode away was spectacular.
I could go on and on. Very nice film-making.
Nicely done for sure...just what I'd expect to see from another adventerous Subaru owner... Great video!
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Thanks, should be more to come in the future. In 90 days I have put a little over 15,000 miles on the Subie. Looking for an alternative arm rest that won't hurt as much as the stock drivers door (arm rest).
one of the best adventurous subie and skiing video ive seen.
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The following list provides an overview of 10 psychologists from this ranking survey. These individuals are not only some of the best-known thinkers in psychology, they also played an important role in psychology's history and made important contributions to our understanding of human behavior. This list is not an attempt to identify who was the most influential or which school of thought was best. Instead, this list offers a glimpse of some of the theoretical outlooks that have influenced not only psychology, but also the larger culture in which we live.

In the 2002 study ranking the 99 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, B.F. Skinner topped the list. Skinner's staunch behaviorism made him a dominating force in psychology and therapy techniques based on his theories are still used extensively today, including behavior modification and token economies.

When people think of psychology, many tend to think of Freud. His work supported the belief that not all mental illnesses have physiological causes and he also offered evidence that cultural differences have an impact on psychology and behavior. His work and writings contributed to our understanding of personality, clinical psychology, human development, and abnormal psychology.

Bandura's work is considered part of the cognitive revolution in psychology that began in the late 1960s. His social learning theory stressed the importance of observational learning, imitation, and modeling. "Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do," Bandura explained in his 1977 book Social Learning Theory.

Jean Piaget's work had a profound influence on psychology, especially our understanding children's intellectual development. His research contributed to the growth of developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, genetic epistemology, and education reform. Albert Einstein once described Piaget's observations on children's intellectual growth and thought processes as a discovery "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it."

Carl Rogers placed emphasis on human potential, which had an enormous influence on both psychology and education. He became one of the major humanist thinkers and an eponymous influence in therapy with his "Rogerian therapy." As described by his daughter Natalie Rogers, he was "a model for compassion and democratic ideals in his own life, and in his work as an educator, writer, and therapist."

Psychologist and philosopher William James is often referred to as the father of American psychology. His 1200-page text, The Principles of Psychology, became a classic on the subject and his teachings and writings helped establish psychology as a science. In addition, James contributed to functionalism, pragmatism, and influenced many students of psychology during his 35-year teaching career.

Erik Erikson's stage theory of psychosocial development helped create interest and research on human development through the lifespan. An ego psychologist who studied with Anna Freud, Erikson expanded psychoanalytic theory by exploring development throughout the life, including events of childhood, adulthood, and old age.

Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist whose research on conditioned reflexes influenced the rise of behaviorism in psychology. Pavlov's experimental methods helped move psychology away from introspection and subjective assessments to objective measurement of behavior.

Vygotsky was a contemporary of some better-known psychologists including Piaget, Freud, Skinner, and Pavlov, yet his work never achieved the same eminence during his lifetime. This is largely because many of his writing remained inaccessible to the Western world until quite recently. It was during the 1970s that many of his writings were translated from Russian, but his work has become enormously influential in recent decades, particularly in the fields of educational psychology and child development.

While his premature death at age 38 put a halt to his work, he went on to become one of the most frequently cited psychologists of the 20th-century.

Following the examples of Eugene Garfield's 1977 ranking list and Haggbloom's 2002 ranking, the final position on this list has been left blank in order to allow "the reader's best case for a psychologist who should have made the list" (Haggbloom, 2002).


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Area athletes jump rope their way to nationals
AMMON, Idaho - From the playground to the bright lights of the competition stage, 126 jump ropers from across eastern Idaho competed at Regionals in Idaho Falls Saturday -- all for a qualifying spot at the national competition.
The teams from Idaho Falls, Rexburg, Rigby, and St. Anthony showed that there's more to jumping rope than meets the eye.
The athletes say the sport uses a variety of talents from creativity in choreographing freestyle routines to stamina and athleticism for those who are speed jumpers.
Today's regional competition will determine which 6 teams will qualify for the national competition in Long Beach, California in June.
"They can jump up and have the rope go under their feet five times," said Eric Cornell, tournament director. "So it's not just on the playground anymore."
One of the local teams -- Proform Airborne -- represented Team USA at the world competition last year.


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The NWPA SCCA region, Misery Bay, is having its first auto-cross event on April 19th at Penn State Behrend (in Erie, PA). We are also holding a new event the day before (April 18th) that we are calling a Novice Day, in which we will help teach/instruct new comers and novice drivers on the fundamentals of auto-x racing so they are better informed and more comfortable when the 1st event takes place the following day.
For non-scca members and non-pennstate behrend students the cost will be $35 for one days evjt or $45 for both the novice training day and the race day.
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HILO — Former County Clerk Jamae Kawauchi has been hired as a deputy prosecuting attorney in the county Prosecutor's Office in Kona.
Kawauchi served two years as clerk while former Hamakua Councilman Dominic Yagong was chairman. She resigned when Yagong left office Dec. 3.
Her tenure as clerk was marred by controversy, after she fired four Elections Division staff when evidence surfaced of staff drinking alcohol and running a private business out of the elections warehouse. Problems with late poll openings during the primary election resulted in the state Office of Elections taking over operations during the General Election.
According to her resume, Kawauchi is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Macalester College and the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law. A former Harvard University fellow, she was assistant director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities and a legal and public policy associate of the Harvard Law School/Harvard Graduate School of Education Civil Rights Project.
Prior to becoming clerk, Kawauchi had her own law practice. She has also been an associate with Carlsmith Ball LLP and Tsukazaki Yeh & Moore LLLP. She was a law clerk to Judge Greg K. Nakamura and recently served on the County Charter Commission.
She was hired as one of 31 deputy prosecutors by the new County Prosecutor Mitch Roth, who won election in a squeaker against Corporation Counsel Lincoln Ashida, who was often at odds with Kawauchi while she was clerk.
Deputy prosecutors earn between $78,300 and $99,240, according to the most recent position and salary report provided the County Council.
Staff at the Prosecutor's Office confirmed Kawauchi's position. Neither Kawauchi nor Roth returned telephone calls Tuesday.


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Investigators Call Chevron Fire a "Near Disaster"
A Chevron's refinery in Richmond, California burst into flames earlier this month. Reportedly, workers discovered that an old pipe, potentially in operation since the 1970s, was leaking. After about two hours, they removed the insulation unit while the pipe was still processing crude, causing the explosion. Five workers were treated for minor injuries, but the Chemical Safety Board has called the accident a "near disaster" for refinery personnel. A "shelter in place" warning was issued for the community because of potential toxins in the air. And more than 11,000 residents went to the emergency room complaining of health problems.
Investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing. But, inspectors need access to the site of the explosion, which is still considered too dangerous. Robert Rogers, the Richmond reporter for the Bay Area News Group, has been following the story. He spoke with KALW's Holly Kernan about the fallout of the fire.


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This is a good salad when dining moves out of the kitchen onto the patio.
Just a few ingredient notes: In Chicago, sugar snap peas are among the first things to come to market (along with spinach, radishes, and green onions). Later in the season, when green beans arrive, I use them instead. I normally don't like to call for specific brand names, but Loriva's roasted peanut oil is amazing. It tastes like the best peanut butter you've ever had. If you can't find it, ordinary vegetable oil will do. Ricotta salata is ricotta cheese that is pressed and drained. The result is a crumbly cheese, similar in texture to feta. In fact, if you can't find it, use feta.
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1/3 c. crumbled ricotta salata
1) Bring a big pot of water to a rolling boil. Snap off the ends of the snap peas (anymore, most varieties don't need to be stringed). Blanch the peas--cook them in boiling water for 2 or 3 minutes, just long enough so they no longer taste raw--then immediately run cold water over them to stop them from cooking further.
2) While the peas are cooking, whisk the oil, vinegar, mustard and salt together. And tear up the basil.
3) Toss the peas with the vinaigrette and basil. Crumble the cheese over the top and serve.
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The UK's Carphone Warehouse have just reduced the retail price of the Nokia Comes With Music 5310 handset by £45 to just over £82. For a consumer that means unlimited music that they get to own permanently for about 22 pence a day. That is undeniably good value. However the fact that CPW are having to discount the offering to such a degree just a few months since launch suggests that consumers just aren't getting sold on the idea.
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In video, things came to a head when Comcast mistakenly cancelled by cable television service, instead of merely canceling my "high speed" (sic) Internet service. This echoed the scene six months earlier when, after weeks of trying to get someone to install Internet service, a Comcast guy showed up on my doorstep declared, "I'm here to disconnect your Internet service."
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A desperate office worker. Two rough and tumble private eyes. A heroic flower sorter. These are just a few of the memorable characters introduced by Liam McMahon in his first collection of short fiction. From a story of a boy picked up late from school to a full-on reimagining of the story of Beowulf, this diverse collection will have anyone enjoying themselves.
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My obsession with Africa began in 2006 when I spent 3 months volunteering on a game reserve in South Africa. The excitement of a game drive in the African bush will never get old for me, I just keep going back for more.
That taster spurred me on to explore more of Africa and I set off on a 6 month trip around Southern and Eastern Africa last year. I loved my time in Kenya and Tanzania, the safari there is like nothing on earth. Setting up our tents amongst a herd of zebra and having an elephant interrupt our lunch was a definite highlight.
Nothing really compares to the open plains of the Serengeti, which is every bit as awe inspiring as those nature documentaries suggest. I was even lucky enough to see a lioness hunting a herd of Zebra during a game drive in the Ngorongoro crater, such an amazing experience. And don't even get me started on Zanzibar, a trip of just a few days turned into just over a month! I just couldn't quite drag myself away from those sandy beaches, Kilimanjaro beers and the most spectacular sunsets I've ever seen.
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This week the Montana Board of Land Commissioners, known as the Land Board, pulled what may be a first for the state. Comprised of the top five statewide elected officials, the Board primarily oversees management of the state's school trust lands. Now, however, the Board has decided it has the power to appropriate tens of millions of dollars. Only one problem: The power to appropriate state funds is constitutionally granted to the Legislature—and the Legislature was left out of the picture.
This strange tale begins some years back when the state launched a lawsuit against the owners of hydroelectric dams on Montana's major rivers. For a century, Montana Power Company (MPC) churned out the electrons and profits from the cheapest source of energy around—water running downhill. After stuffing a deregulation bill through the Legislature in 1997, however, MPC sold its dams and coal-fired power plants to an out-of-state mega-corporation, Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL). Without skipping a beat, PPL decided that the days of regulated power—which gave Montanans the sixth cheapest power in the nation—were over. They would charge what the market could bear. Too bad for Montanans.
In politics, as in physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, albeit often long delayed. Since the out-of-state corporation decided to rip off Montanans (we now pay the highest electric rates in the region), former Attorney General Mike McGrath decided to fight back. He filed a lawsuit alleging that PPL and others who own large dams on Montana's navigable rivers owed the state rent for the use of the riverbeds where their dams are located.
The idea isn't outlandish. Farmers and ranchers pay rent to lease state lands for crops and grazing. Cabin owners pay rent for the state lands on which their cabins are located. Basically, if you use state lands, even if just for bird watching or hiking, you pay for that use and the proceeds go to fund education and state institutions. The dam owners, however, were a conspicuous exception to that rule.
To make a long, complex story a lot shorter, McGrath won in District Court and PPL appealed that decision to the Montana Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the state. The price of the back rent, plus interest, came to a healthy $41 million, which PPL is now legally obligated to pay the state. The corporation hasn't made the payment yet, however, because it may decide to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nonetheless, Gov. Brian Schweitzer decided that the money PPL owed could be spent—or at least obligated to be spent when and if it came in—to purchase tens of thousands of acres of land formerly owned by Plum Creek Timber Co. and now owned by the Nature Conservancy, which very much wants to recoup its investment from the $500 million Montana Legacy Project.
But here's where it gets very weird. The Land Board has very limited authority to spend state funds. Primarily, they get to decide what to sell and buy through the land banking program, which operates as a revolving pool of funds that come from selling isolated state parcels and using the proceeds to purchase other lands that are more easily and profitably managed. The program has statutory sidebars set by the Legislature, but comes nowhere near giving the Board the authority to spend $41 million dollars on a land purchase.
Now, in a rushed maneuver that reeks of political intrigue, Schweitzer and his fellow commissioners voted unanimously to approve a resolution authorizing the use of PPL rent money to buy Plum Creek's former holdings. The highly controversial move has left plenty of legislators and others scratching their heads.
The Legislature's chief legal counsel, Greg Petesch, questioned the Land Board's authority to appropriate the money in a communication to the state attorney who advises the Land Board. Petesch exhaustively outlined the legal background of court decisions that basically say the power to appropriate almost all state funds is held by the Legislature alone. Cutting to the chase, Petesch bluntly writes: "I do not understand how this is 'nonstate money'. If you could please explain to me how this is not 'state money' I would greatly appreciate it."
In a memo, this one to Rep. Llew Jones and Sen. Carol Williams, Legislative Fiscal Analyst Barb Smith echoes Petesh's concerns, writing: "Initial review indicates that the resolution misclassifies these funds as non-state funds and inappropriately avoids the need for a legislative appropriation of the approximately $41 million awarded by the Court. Non-state funds, as defined in statute, are those funds from a non-state source that are restricted by law or agreement, such as a contract, trust agreement or donation."
Unfortunately, Smith's May 13th e-mail came up with the same result as Petesch's: "As of this writing no response has been received," Smith wrote. Nor had any response been received when the Land Board voted this week.
It is no secret that Schweitzer has had an often-stormy relationship with the Legislature. It is also no secret that our form of government has three distinct branches for a purpose—to provide checks and balances. It is likewise no secret that the 2011 legislative session will be tight on money and might decide the $41 million would be better spent on education than buying the former Plum Creek lands.
Whether the Land Board's rushed effort to pass the resolution with virtually no time for public review or comment will be challenged in court remains unknown. But one thing seems certain: It is a serious digression from the way Montana's government has operated throughout the state's history. That no response from the executive branch has been offered to the Legislature's questions is definitely not a good sign. And that other Land Board members, like Attorney General Steve Bullock, for instance, didn't delay the process until its constitutionality was fully clarified is simply inexcusable.
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US Open: Serena Foot Fault Controversy
CBS coverage of Serena Williams' foot fault vs. Kim Clijsters, US Open semis
It took her two days, but Serena Williams has finally issued an apology for shaking her racket at a lineswoman, and threatening violence with a tennis ball, for a foot fault call in a crucial moment in Williams' semi-final match against Kim Clijsters at the US Open last Saturday. Serena may have done so because she finally realized that her reaction was an "inappropriate outburst," as she said in her statement. It also may be because she faces additional penalties for her unsportsmanlike conduct, including a possible suspension from a Grand Slam event. She's already been fined $10,000....a drop in the bucket for Williams, who earned $560,000 for her singles and doubles accomplishments at the US Open.
Serena's not the first tennis player to use foul language on the court, and to berate officials. Jimmy Connors famously called a chair umpire "an abortion." We all remember John McEnroe's tirades. And just yesterday, during the men's final at the Open, Roger Federer used an expletive while arguing with the chair ump during a changeover. The usually calm, cool and collected Fed was unhinged when his opponent, Juan Martin del Potro, took his time challenging a line call. Federer told ump Jake Garner, "Don't tell me to be quiet, OK? When I want to talk, I talk. I don't give a **** what he said."
There's a reason why Federer is unlikely to get fined, as Williams did. The exchange was with an ump, not a linesperson, who doesn't have the authority to engage in a back-and-forth with players. Federer had not been given a previous warning for unsportsmanlike behavior. And while Fed's remarks were bossy and crass, they don't rise to the level of Williams'. She threatened bodily harm to the lineswoman. Chair umps can fend for themselves when it comes to dealing with players, but the ump at the Williams/Clijsters match had to take action against Williams in defense of a member of her crew.
Serena Williams is one of toughest players of the mental tennis game out there. She usually doesn't sweat the momentum swings of a game, always believing that she will prevail. Her loss of control was surprising, and her vitriol was out of line.
More surprising, though, is many pundits' opinion that the foot fault call itself was (ahem) out of line. Tennis great John McEnroe said, "You can't call that there." Another commentator, on a European feed of the US Open coverage, said, "Is that necessary?" Tom Perrotta, senior editor at Tennis Magazine, said in a blog post that foot fault calls are "bogus," and are unwarranted at the pro level. He said unlike club players, pro-level players gain little advantage when stepping into the court and onto the service line. He hoped the brouhaha would lead the United States Tennis Association to re-visit the foot fault. I'd provide a link to the blog, but it appears www.tennis.com removed the post.
Good thing, too, because Perrotta's wrong. So is McEnroe. There's a rule in tennis that a player's feet cannot touch the baseline while they're going through their service motion. That rule stands, regardless of whether it's second serve, 15-30, 5-6 in the second set of the US Open women's semi-finals. The great Serena Williams shouldn't get a pass on a foot fault. It is not a "bogus call."
We'll never be able to "fact check" the lineswoman on her call. There's no videotape that clearly shows the position of Serena Williams' feet, from the vantage point of the lineswoman. However, she was in the best position to see whether Williams touched the baseline. And even if Williams' sneaker edged past the white edge just a tiny bit, it still counts as a foot fault. Tennis is a game of inches. If a ball clips a line by just a fraction of an inch, it's still considered in, as fans and players know from watching those Hawkeye or Shot Spot electronic reviews on the main courts.
The foot fault may have robbed Williams of a point, but it should not have stopped her from playing out the game. It's too bad that the match ended that way, robbing Clijsters of a celebration, and Williams of a chance to get back in the game. It's also very disheartening that so many people have reacted with racist invective at Serena Williams. Many of the comments posted on YouTube are ugly.
Serena says she would like to give the lineswoman "a big ol' hug." After seeing the nation's reaction to her outburst, she probably needs one, too. However, she was still wrong to berate the lineswoman like she did. And commentators are wrong to suggest her reaction was excusable, because no one should be getting a foot fault call at the US Open.


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To the southeast of the Zona Sur the land rises to a ridge, which stands like a balcony right in front of Illimani and offers wonderful views. From Cota Cota in the Zona Sur, a road goes to the peripheral neighbourhoods of Chasquipampa and Ovejuyo. At the transit control (tranca or garita) in Ovejuyo the road splits: the right branch goes towards Illimani and Viloco, the left branch to Huni, Palca, Ventilla, Mururata, Illimani and beyond. Along the latter road, by the pass between Ovejuyo and Huni is the Illimani Lookout. You can walk in 30 minutes from Ovejuyo or about 45 minutes from Chasquipampa; look for the small Laguna las Animas to the right of the road (a favourite picnic area among paceños), from the hill just above the pond you will have breathtaking views of Illimani and Mururata. If you take a bus to Huni or Palca, get off at the pond. It takes 25 minutes to walk down from the lookout to Huni, a small village.
Between Ovejuyo and Huni (to the left of the road) stretches the Valle de las Animas, impressive eroded cliffs which look like enormous organ pipes. A good trail goes through a valley amid the cliffs. To walk between Ovejuyo and Huni through the canyon takes four to five hours; the views of Illimani from the ridge above Huni are wonderful. Pampa Koani is a valley that lies below the lookout and also has excellent views of the cordillera, here is Hotel Allkamari. Its access is along a road that branches to the right between the pass and Huni, opposite Iglesia de las Animas, a modern church at the base of the Animas cliffs.
Palca is a pleasant village 14 km from Ovejuyo. It is often full at weekends with visiting paceños but quiet the rest of the week; it has limited accommodation and many shops. Between Huni and Palca is the Palca Canyon, an amazing eroded mud-valley surrounded by steep mud walls and pinnacles. The route follows the bed of the Quebrada Chua Kheri, a tributary of the Río Abajo, and should not be attempted in the wet season. In Huni look out for a broad road leading down to the right and follow it down, past the school and onwards. The path turns into pre-Hispanic stone paving and leads down to the canyon floor. Walk through the canyon for two hours until it opens out. Follow the path up and left to Palca which will take you another 30 minutes. Sunday is a good day for this walk since there are hourly minibuses going through to La Paz, other days there are a few buses. Map IGM Palca 6044 III covers the trail but is not really necessary....
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The first meeting of a collaboration on ITS communication standards. The first meeting of a collaboration on international communication standards for intelligent transport systems (ITS) will take place on Wednesday, 14 December, at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting is open and remote participation is offered. Industry experts who gathered for the World Standards Cooperation's Fully Networked Car event at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year agreed that the next twenty years will see a huge shift towards ITS. Today's communications capabilities give vehicles the potential to foresee and avoid collisions, navigate the quickest route to their destination, make use of up-to-the-minute traffic reports, identify the nearest available parking slot, minimise their carbon emissions and provide multimedia communications.Considerable resources have been invested in R&D, but the lack of global standards is widely regarded as a major impediment to large-scale deployment of ITS services and applications. This collaboration creates a global forum for the creation of a set of international communication standards needed for ITS to become a definitive feature of the modern automotive industry. For more information on the meeting, its registration procedures and remote participation, please consult the meeting's homepage at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/extcoop/cits/Pages/default.aspx.
Geneva, 30 November 2011 – The arresting digital displays of Times Square, Piccadilly Circus and Shibuya are just a foretaste of a brave new world of cityscapes illuminated by interactive, dynamic and highly targeted signage, according to a new ITU-T Technology Watch Report, Digital signage: the right information in all the right places.
Advances in display technologies, declining manufacturing costs and a retail boom in emerging economies are all contributing to the rapid spread of large-scale high-definition display networks. But the proprietary nature of current digital signage solutions is restricting the integration of applications across different networks and vendors. Interoperable global standards will be crucial to the future development of this emerging market, unlocking enormous value not just for display system developers, retailers and newscasters, but for governments and the community at large.
Tomorrow's dynamic signage can play a crucial civic role in areas like traffic management, public transport systems, safe crowd management at large events, control of people flows in public areas and private venues, and emergency response systems. But to do that effectively, standardized platforms will be crucial.
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Today's advanced technologies can transform social, industrial and business processes to effect the changes needed to achieve sustainability. But while the potential of ICTs to make a real difference is widely recognized by the technology community and government ICT ministries, it is still far from being understood and embraced by environmental lobby groups and policymakers.
ITU Workshop on Standards and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Issues, New Delhi, India, 19-20 December 2011
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ITU, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)/ Secretariat of the Basel Convention and the United Nations University (UNU), in collaboration with the Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) Initiative and the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE), have launched a joint survey on e-waste. This survey aims to collect detailed data on e-waste management, policies and standards; constructing a comprehensive overview of the current e-waste landscape and identifying future challenges in this realm. Such a mapping of the e-waste issue will establish a base upon which the exchange of e-waste information and best practices can occur, and will form a valuable tool in communicating the gravity of the problem and promoting collaborative work in the future development of policy and management of e-waste.The widespread use of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) has raised public awareness of its positive effects such as the reduction of the digital divide, but also of the negative environmental and health effects associated with the inefficient waste management of end-of-life electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE or e-waste). There have been alarming reports of e-waste mismanagement in many countries, particularly in less developed nations and countries with economies in transition. E-waste is a significant contributor to the ICT industry's impact on the environment, and urgent global action to address this issue is essential if the industry is to fulfill its commitment to a sustainable future. For further information, please see the survey's webpage: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/e-waste/index.html
ITU is organizing a Workshop on Standards and Intellectual Property Rights in New Delhi, India, 19-20 December 2011. Taking place at the HMR Institute of Technology and Management, the event will be hosted by the Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI), and will be followed by the seventh GISFI meeting at the same venue, 21-22 December 2011.
One of the key aims of standardization is to enable the efficient 'globalization' of ICT products and solutions. IPR issues must be taken into consideration when developing standards, a process demanding a balance of varying stakeholder interests; such as those of patent holders, standards implementers and standards' end-users. Additionally, SDOs frequently encounter copyright issues relating to the incorporation of software in standards.
Such patent and copyright issues are the subject of global debate, and the workshop is being convened to provide a forum for discussions relating to the inclusion of patented technology and software in standards. International experts from both the public and private sector will provide an overview of these issues and share their insights on the present nature of the issue and how it is likely to progress in the future.
Participation in the workshop is open to ITU Member States, Sector Members, Associates, Academia and to any individual from a country part of ITU's membership. Fellowships are available upon request, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Further to the agreement between the Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau and the Chairman of the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) detailed in the ITU-T Newslog of November 14, the agreed statement has been included in a proposed compromise from the Japanese administration. The relevant documents are publicly available at: http://www.itu.int/oth/T0A0B00000C.
ITU's Kaleidoscope academic conference The fully networked human? − Innovations for future networks and services (Cape Town, South Africa, 12-14 December 2011) will be made available as a live audio and video webcast in order that remote participants can see and hear presentations from wherever they are in the world.Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, Kaleidoscope 2011 will bring together academia, research organizations and experts working on the standardization of telecommunications and ICTs. (See here for programme, bios and presentation slides).Accepted papers will be made available through the IEEE Xplore repository of academic papers. A prize fund totaling $10,000 will be awarded to the three best papers. Young Author Recognition certificates will also be issued.In addition to an exhibition by local universities, keynote speakers and invited papers, ITU Kaleidoscope 2011 will host Jules Verne's Corner, a special space for science fiction writers and dreamers, a Tutorial on : Future Internet Impacts on the Evolution of NGN Infrastructures and Services and a Special Session on ITU & Academia.
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SINGAPORE – It is unwise to underestimate the near-metaphysical significance of the recent Indian elections. The Indian electorate decisively pushed world history in the right direction with the re-election of the Manmohan Singh-Sonia Gandhi partnership. They now have the mandate and power to press for greater economic reform and liberalization. The incipient tiger in the Indian economy will be released. The simultaneous rise of China and India will strengthen the forces of modernization and moderation globally. At a time of global crisis, the world should celebrate this new burst of energy.
Virtually no one predicted this spectacular outcome. Most observers underestimated the Indian electorate, which understood the many benefits of the Singh-Gandhi partnership. First, their Congress government revived the moderate secular traditions of Jawaharlal Nehru and brought India back firmly to the political center, wresting control from communal and ideological extremists.
Second, the electorate grasped the importance of re-electing a modest but wise and determined leader who understood the direction India needed to take. Singh will open up India's economy even more than he has so far. As he once said, "Although India has a large domestic market, our experience with earlier relatively insular policies, as also the global experience in this regard, clearly bring out the growth potential of trade and economic cooperation with the global economy."
Finally, Singh will continue to re-engage India's Asian neighbors and push for greater regional cooperation. As far back as 1995 he said, "It is this vision, of a resurgent India taking her rightful place as an economic powerhouse in Asia, which has inspired our economic policies." Just as China has signed a free-trade agreement with ASEAN, India will seek to do so. A process of competitive economic liberalization will sweep across Asia, further guaranteeing the region's continued resurgence.


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USC Mis-Tweets...Again
EL PASO, Texas - Just a few weeks ago, University of Southern California linebacker Tony Burnett posted some negative tweets about El Paso. USC coach Lane Kiffin apologized for those tweets and hoped everyone could move on. Wednesday night, on the day USC arrived in El Paso, another USC Trojan tweeted something that has player and coach apologizing again.
Wednesday night on Twitter, USC Freshman defensive lineman Leonard Williams tweeted, "Here in El Paso, crappy city, but glad I can enjoy this moment with the USC family."
This came shortly after USC was an hour late to the Sun Bowl welcome dinner. "I don't know what happen but we came and left," Georgia Tech linebacker Quayshawn Neal said. "Our coach told us to leave and as a team we did, I don't know what else went down or whatever."
USC coach Lane Kiffin apologized to the media at the conclusion of the team's practice.
Meanwhile, Georgia Tech players have embraced the city, community, and their time in the Sun City.
"I went to the mall yesterday and a lot of El Paso people said they were rooting for us," Georgia Tech backup quarterback Vad Lee said. "They told me they want us to beat USC."
"You have to be careful when you get in to peoples' rights," Kiffin said. "You can disagree with what people say, but I don't think you punish people for what you put on their social media."
But don't think being no-showed sits well with them.
"I'm not really suppose to talk about it much," Lee said. "We're excited about the game though and looking forward to the challenge."
USC was considered to be the local favorite at the game Monday, but after this latest sting it seems support may be flying Georgia Tech's way.


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It is good to hear that it gets easier over time. How long does it take you and how many twists do your normally do?
After oil rinsing multiple times this week in braids I took the braids down and found tangles, lots of them. It took some time to work out all of the tangles. I then conditioner washed my hair and put it in chunky twists and set it the next day. The next day I also had a time consuming detangling session. I am going to try conditioner washing the hair while in twists in order to avoid matting and tangling this time. On another note my hair is really soft and sheeny. I love how it feels and I don't have to worry about reapplying product in between wetting sessions except to use coconut oil the night before. I will continue to use sulfate free shampoo once a week as my scalp needs that to feel clean. I may see about switching to a conditioning cleanser once a week so that I may move shampooing to once every two weeks. If I get the hang of this I may be able to kiss itchy scalp goodbye.


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FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- German car maker Daimler AG's (DAI.XE) bus unit EvoBus GmbH Friday said it will cut jobs at sites in Mannheim and Neu-Ulm to increase its competitiveness and secure the company's future.
-Daimler will cut around 630 positions by December 31, 2018.
-There won't be any forced redundancies before the end of 2018, Daimler said.
-The unit guarantees to take on 90% of all trainees permanently.
-EvoBus GmbH employs 8,300 staff in Germany, of which 3,500 work at its Mannheim site and 3,800 in Neu-Ulm.
-Frankfurt Bureau, Dow Jones Newswires; 49-69-29725-500
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Trainer Mike Keogh has a simple wish list for Saturday's running of the $135,875 Woodstock Stakes at Woodbine, when Queen's Plate Winterbook favorite Wando gets his second test of the season.After finishing a battling second to 21-1 shot Majestic Wisdom in the Achievement Stakes on March 30 at the Toronto oval, Keogh is anticipating an even stronger effort from the son of Langfuhr in the six-furlong Woodstock."I was pleased with the way he ran in the Achievement, but I knew he needed to get a race under him," said the veteran conditioner, referring to the chestnut colt's neck loss. "He's definitely coming into this race in good order and I expect him to run well."The key to victory this time around, says, Keogh, is to have the lifetime winner of three assume the role of pursuer and not as leader."I think he made the lead too soon in his last race, so this time I'd like to see him stay off the pace and come with a strong run," said Keogh, of the Vandal and Grey Breeders' Cup Stakes winner. "It appears this race has more speed to run at."Of his six Woodstock rivals, four have shown a preference for a front-running style, a situation that could increase Wando's ability to generate a strong, late kick in the one-turn tilt.While Keogh is quick to dole out praise for the Ontario-bred, he's not quite convinced the Gus Schickedanz star is destined for a run in the Queen's Plate June 22 at Woodbine."I don't think he can get that distance (1 ¼-mile), but I could be wrong," offered Keogh. "We'll have to see how things pan out."$135,875 Woodstock Stakes, 3-year-olds, 6 furlongs
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Title: What's the Chance?
Students engage in opportunities to label events that are likely, unlikely, certain and impossible.
This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
Standard(s): [MA2015] (2) 6: Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s. [2-NBT2]
Title: Reptile Adventure
During this lesson, students work with small groups and partners on reptile research. They will have the opportunity to use books and the Internet for research. They will also go on a reptile adventure searching for new information about reptiles.
Standard(s): [TC2] (0-2) 10: Design original works using digital tools.
Title: Do We Have It and Where Can I Find It?
Students will use the electronic card catalog to locate books in the Media Center. Students will determine if the Media Center has a particular item, if it is currently available, and where the item is located in the Media Center.
Standard(s): [TC2] (0-2) 7: Use digital tools to access and retrieve information.
Title: Habitats
What is a habitat? In this lesson, students will identify that a habitat has four elements, food, water, shelter, and space. Students will identify their own habitat and create a brochure describing the habitat in terms of food, water, shelter, and space. They will work in cooperative groups to create a multimedia presentation describing the food, water, shelter, and space needs of one animal.
Standard(s): [TC2] (0-2) 10: Design original works using digital tools.
Title: Text-to-Self and Text-to-World Connections in Reading
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 28: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. [W.2.8]
Title: 'Adopt'' a Geographic News Story
In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students are introduced to some stories from National Geographic News and then invited to discuss the reasons why it is a good idea to follow the news. The class adopts a geographic news story, designs posters to illustrate it, and researches related topics.
Standard(s): [SS2010] LWT2 (2) 10: Identify ways people throughout the country are affected by their human and physical environments.
Title: Adventures in Nonfiction: A Guided Inquiry Journey
Students are guided through an informal exploration of nonfiction texts and child-oriented Websites, learning browsing and skimming techniques for the purpose of gathering interesting information.
Standard(s): [TC2] (0-2) 7: Use digital tools to access and retrieve information.
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Students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy, and each child is the author, illustrator, and editor.
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In this author study, students listen to and discuss four books by Leo Lionni. They identify similarities and differences in the stories and then compare two stories of their choice.
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In this unit of three EDSITEment lessons, students recognize how people of different cultures and time periods have used cloth-based art forms to pass down their traditions and history. Quilting continues to be largely a home-based form of art, primarily engaged in by women. This unit heightens students awareness of how quilts have reflected and continue to reflect the lives of the people who create them, and of how quilts record the cultural history of a particular place and time.
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Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 25: With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing. [W.2.5]
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Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (1) 15: Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. [RI.1.6]
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Students work with their peers to develop classroom rules.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 10: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. [RI.2.1]
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After listening to and discussing the story Score One for the Sloths, primary students research the sloth. Students use a variety of resources, including an information wheel graphic organizer.
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Students respond to self-selected books in journals, and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 19: By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the Grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. [RI.2.10]
Title: Living the Dream: 100 Acts of Kindness
This lesson provides the action piece for any study of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this project, students participate in Dr. King's dream by doing 100 acts of kindness.
Title: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Me: Identifying with a Hero
This lesson provides ideas for celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by encouraging students to explore the connections between Dr. King and themselves through journaling and inquiry-based research.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (1) 12: Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. [RI.1.3]
Title: Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts
Students take a walk on the wild side when they develop an understanding of nonfiction texts with hands-on experiences and intense analysis.
Title: Reading and Writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
Standard(s): [TC2] (0-2) 8: Use digital environments to exchange ideas with individuals or groups.
Title: On this day in 1918, the United States passed the U.S. Standard Time Act.
A video conference with a class from a different country or time zone is planned. Students brainstorm questions to ask and figure out how many time zones they would have to travel through to have the conference.
Title: Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.
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We're only allowed to own 10rd mags, I've filled 2 mags half way (5rds) with JHP ammo for HD. How long can/should I keep them before the springs in the mags start to go bad?
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We're only allowed to own 10rd mags, I've filled 2 mags half way (5rds) with JHP ammo for HD. How long can/should I keep them before the springs in the mags start to go bad?
This has been covered before, somewhere here.
Springs "go bad" only from being flexed, not from staying in one condition or the other.
So you can leave a magazine fully (or partly) loaded from now until the end of the world, with no bad effects to the spring.
However, every time you unload a magazine, and every time you reload a magazine, you are flexing its spring.
Repeated flexing fatigues the spring's metal, and someday it will fail.
Rotate your magazines, giving all of them equal use.
(But it's OK to leave a couple of them fully loaded, forever.)
Like Steve said,I rotate mine.
Rotating them is the way to go. But honestly - you will always have a debate on this issue.
At one time, Wolf Gun Springs stated in a FAQ on their website that leaving mags loaded for long periods of time could weaken the springs. That may still be up on their website. But, they claimed that it WASN'T just the compressing and uncompressing of the springs that could weaken the springs.
This gets talked about on gun forums all the time, and there really is no way to "prove" it - not on the part of any poster on a forum, really.
However, I have had some mags that I DID keep loaded - and the springs did weaken enough to stop locking the slide back on an empty mag. I eventually changed all the springs to +10% magazine springs on all my carry mags. This issue has never come up again. These were not mags I used at the range a lot, as I tended to just take them out and leave them at home, since they were loaded with JHP.
I had this issue with 4 or 5 mags.
Now, I just do what most people did in the 1990s... They underloaded the magazine by 1, so as not to compress the mag so much. This has worked for me ever since I started this again. However, I will admittedly not generally do this with a magazine that holds 10 rounds or less. You already have less rounds in such a mag.
Do you shoot 1,000 rounds a month or 20 or to 30?
If 1000, buy spare springs. If 20 to 30 or less you will probably not have a problem.
With either use pattern clean and inspect the mag's from time to time. Replace any springs that appear to be defective. They don't cost much. One of the problems with mag's is lint/crud buildup inside especialy if you carry a backup in your pocket.
Actually, I typically only shoot 200 rounds a month. But, as stated above, I've had issues in the past.
But, the +10% wolf springs do seem to be better than many factory mag springs...
At the HKL Pro forum, it is widely known by many that HK mag springs suck. Many people there just automatically change out the mag springs with Wolf Springs when they buy the gun new.
I have owned a USPc45 and a USPc9mm, and a P2000 (uses the same mags as the 9mm USPc), among other HKs. On each and EVERY one of those mags... They would stop locking the slide back on the THIRD range trip. I typically shoot 200 rounds thru a gun per trip, so that's not a lot of rounds. In this case, I think it WAS the compression that killed these - but to do so as quickly as these did was just ridiculous. I ended up having to get +10% springs for each and every mag. That can get expensive after a while.
I still laugh every time this question comes up. Mainly because it reinforces my belief that most "gun owners" are just that... owners, not "shooters".
I never ask how long I can keep them loaded, I ask how soon until I can unload them...the loud way.
Besides that, I wish people would realize that magazines are a consumable part. Kinda like underwear. They aren't meant to last forever. When they wear out, BUY NEW ONES!
Seems to be some grumpy people in this thread. :smt076
I studied this concept along time ago, and remember having the same question. Some people say that a magazine spring only wears out from flexing and others say they wear out from being compressed. Probably, they wear out from being flexed and they can also wear from being compressed. This is why it is good to rotate magazine once a month to once over other month. It addition, its a good idea to have several magazines. Hopefully, you go and practice often and that will let you know when a spring needs replaced. If the gun shoots flawlessy on your last practice session, chances are it will do fine when you need it. If the gun has trouble, try another magazine. If it does well with a different magazine, then you know you have one to fix. A quality magazine will last a good long time. I have replaced the springs on some of my Beretta magazines just because they were 8-10 years old, but they actually still worked. I just thought why not, and took them apart, cleaned them up and gave them new springs. Now they are like new and I know they are trustworthy. In addition, I usually load up 12 in a 15 round magazine if storing for home defense and load completely for carry. To only load 5 in a 10 round magazine seems extreme. Hope this helps. :mrgreen:
OK, folks, here's how it works:
1. Coil springs "take a set" when they're first used. The first few compressions do make the spring somewhat shorter. For instance, a 1911 recoil spring will normally shorten at least 1/4", and sometimes more.
2. Once the "set" has been established, a modern, well-made spring should shorten no further...until it fails.
3. Leaving a modern, properly made spring compressed for any length of time will not cause it to fail, any more than leaving it uncompressed would cause it to fail.
4. Repeatedly flexing a coil spring, by compressing and relaxing it over and over again, will cause the metal from which the spring was made to fail due to "metal fatigue." At that point, the spring will no longer function reliably, and may actually break.
"Metal fatigue" is, I believe, a disruption in the crystalline structure of the metal. If you repeatedly flex a fairly rigid lattice—which is the crystalline interior structure of a metal—it will eventually break lattice bonds here and there. That is "metal fatigue."
By the way, leaf springs also fall victim to metal fatigue.
We'll be away until July 7th, visiting our brand-new granddaughter.
See you then.
I would like to modify Steve's statement #2,using the 1911 as an example.As he said,most springs take a set and are a touch shorter.In a fullsize 1911,the easiest way to tell when it's time to replace it is when it's about 1/2" shorter than a new one.Some of that is set,the remainder happens from cycle fatigueing the coils over time.If you shoot often you'll notice a higher slide speed and a sharper recoil impulse,or malfunctions start popping up on feeding.
A little kink in this whole thing is what the spring is made with.Wolff has been known for quality springs,but they've added chrome sillicone because it became the new gimmic.Unfortunately it isn't as good as the others,and Wolff states they won't last as long.
I think one of the things that got the compressed deal going is overcompressing,or being on the line of compressed length for extended times.Early 8rd in 7rd tube conversions for 1911s didn't always work well,the springs were at the point of full bind,which over stresses them.Coil stacking is fine because that's the way progressive springs are designed,but when they all stack you are at bind and overstress it.The farther you stay from bind,the better your spring will survive,and conversely the closer you get to it,the more you're working it.The added round kits are a great example of deviating from stock and creating a tradeoff,similar to an often reference to an engine's valvetrain.Stock valve springs last a long time.Add a little more lift on the cam and the spring's extra compression will wear it quicker and can make it float at a higher cycling rate.Throw a big cam in and you have to go to a heavier spring to compensate,but that causes a tradeoff too.
There's alot of good spring info out there that says the same as this post,but there are quirks that fall back on the material and process used to make a spring and it's application.
@ Steve M1911A1
"We'll be away until July 7th, visiting our brand-new granddaughter"
Congratulations -- they are fun :smt1099