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See More: Photo page of inauguration ceremony and ballCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sworn in to his first full four-year term Monday afternoon, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin reiterated his pledge to "put West Virginia first" during a 17-minute inaugural address that emphasized public education reform."If our children are to succeed, they must have a world-class education, and must grow up in a community free from the temptations and problems associated with substance abuse," he told a crowd at the south steps of the Capitol."Per capita, our education funding ranks among the best in the nation. But on our most important metric -- student achievement -- we're falling behind," Tomblin said. "It doesn't need to be this way -- and it must stop."Outlining what is expected to be the cornerstone of his 2013 legislative agenda, Tomblin said reforms must include ensuring that by the third grade, children have mastered the key building blocks for learning; to provide vocational training to meet the needs of today's workplace, to ensure that teachers have the classroom resources they need, and to guarantee that students receive the instructional time they need to excel."That means making sure our school systems have the ability to be innovative, and that means making sure parents become more responsible for their children and their learning," Tomblin said. "It won't happen overnight -- but we must give our students a better chance."Tomblin devoted nearly one-fourth of his address to education reform. By contrast, the only other initiative addressed in the speech -- continuing to improve the state's job climate -- was covered in a single paragraph. However, that issue drew the loudest applause of the speech, when Tomblin stated, "Unfortunately for me, that means in many instances fighting the federal government to get off our backs and leave us alone."During his tenure as governor, Tomblin has frequently been critical of federal regulations that he believes are overly burdensome for the coal industry.Afterward, West Virginia Education Association President Dale Lee said he is awaiting to hear specifics of the governor's education reforms, which likely will be in the State of the State address in about a month. Lee said it is not clear whether Tomblin will propose real reform of the educational system or will "dance around the edges.""Teachers want reform, but they want reform that is fair," Lee said.Although re-elected governor in November, Monday's inaugural address was the third such speech Tomblin has given in the past 26 months.He gave an investiture address in November 2010, after becoming the acting governor by virtue of his position as Senate president. A year later, he gave an inaugural address, after winning a special election that October to fill the unexpired term of former Gov. Joe Manchin.Tomblin opened the address Monday by thanking Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who announced Friday he will not seek a sixth term in the Senate, for a lifetime of service to the state."Sen. Rockefeller championed many efforts for our families, miners, military members and veterans, as well as laying the groundwork for some of our state's most valuable growing business relationships," said Tomblin, who stopped to shake hands with Rockefeller, seated at the podium.Tomblin also reviewed legislative accomplishments of the past quarter-century, including efforts to privatize Workers' Compensation, reform medical malpractice laws, stabilize funding for public employees' pension systems and retiree health insurance, and to invest billions of dollars in new schools and infrastructure."The road we have traveled has not always been easy, but we have done it the right way -- and that is by working together with business, labor, Republicans and Democrats, to solve our problems," Tomblin said.In addition to Tomblin, Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin administered oaths of office to three new office-holders, Agriculture Commissioner Walt Helmick, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Justice Allen Loughry, as well as to incumbents Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, Auditor Glen Gainer, Treasurer John Perdue, and Justice Robin Davis.The Governor's Office provided souvenir fleece blankets to many of the several hundred spectators, a nicety but not a necessity on an overcast but (compared to past inaugurals) relatively warm 40-degree day.Reach Phil Kabler at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1220.


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Delhi gangrape: main accused sent to 5-day police custody, refuses identification parade
The main accused in gangrape of 23-year-old woman, Ram Singh, has been sent to police custody by a local court. The main accused reportedly refused to face identification parade. Girl gangraped in moving bus | How can we make our cities safe? | Biggest offenderdelhi Updated: Dec 18, 2012 19:37 IST
The bus driver, who along with six others, allegedly gang raped a 23-year-old girl on Sunday night, was on Tuesday remanded to five days in police custody by a Delhi court.
Ram Singh, who was the first person to be arrested on Monday night, was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal who allowed the plea of Delhi Police for his custodial interrogation for facilitating the arrest of three other accused who are absconding.
The accused refused to undergo Test Identification Parade (TIP), the criminal procedure in which the alleged offender is brought before witnesses and victims for identification.
Out of the seven accused, four have already been arrested.
The Delhi Police told the magistrate that the other three arrested culprits, Ram Singh's brother Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, an assistant gym instructor and Pawan Gupta, a fruit seller, will be produced in court on Wednesday.
While seeking the remand of the driver, the police said his custodial interrogation was needed to recover the clothes of accused, mobile phones and ATM cards of the victim and her male friend.
Further, "we need his remand as three more accused are to be arrested who hail from Rajasthan, UP and Bihar and we have to take Ram Singh to these places," police said.
Allowing the plea, the court said, "Since the accused is required for apprehending other co-accused and also for the identification of clothes and recovery of the ATM card and mobile phones of the complainant.
"Accused Ram Singh is remanded to five days of police custody. Accused be produced on December 23."
Two days after a paramedical student was gang-raped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus, Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed to have solved the case with the arrest of four people and said it will seek a fast-track trial for speedy punishment.
The condition of the victim continued to be critical but "better than yesterday's", doctors said.
Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar told a press conference that the driver of the chartered bus, which was not legally permitted to run on normal routes, his brother and two more people have been arrested, while a massive manhunt has been launched to nab the remaining two accused.
Ram Singh, the driver of the bus, his brother Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, an assistant gym instructor and Pawan Gupta, a fruit seller, were on a "joy ride" on Sunday night when they crossed Munirka bus stop where the paramedic student and her male friend were waiting for a bus to Dwarka.
"Ram Singh shouted that the bus was going to Dwarka and asked the couple to get into it. Once the bus started moving, they started misbehaving with the girl. Her male friend who, protested and tried to save the girl, was severely beaten up. The girl also tried hard to protect him," Kumar said.
But she was raped by Singh and other occupants of the vehicle which was being driven by Mukesh at the time of the incident. The duo were then brutally assaulted and dumped near Mahipalpur flyover, he said.
While Singh, Sharma and Gupta were arrested from the capital, Mukhesh was nabbed from Rajasthan and has been brought to the capital, the Commissioner said, while terming the incident as "most reprehensible".
The bus was located in Sector 3 of R K Puram last evening and was impounded immediately. "The driver cleaned the bus but forensic examination revealed this was the bus in which the incident took place. The duo were dumped from the front gate of the bus," the Police Commissioner said.
Asked why the bus was not stopped by PCR vans, he said it was not practically possible to check every moving vehicle though it can be done theoretically.
To a question, Kumar said while the boy was hit by an iron rod, the girl was punched badly in her stomach.
Asked whether Delhi was becoming the 'rape capital', he said it was not so and refused to discuss rape incidents as a whole.
"Let us discuss this incident. If we discuss it as a whole then I will say something which will be politically incorrect. You will twist and project it differently," he said.
To a question, he said the mobile phones of the victims were not used during the incident.
Sources said police managed to get the CCTV footage of the bus from which they managed to zero in on the bus. The investigators also sent text messages to mobile phones of the victims which were snatched by the attackers to track them down.
Kumar said Delhi Police will seek a fast-track trial for this case on a day-to-day basis so that the accused are punished as soon as possible.
To a question, he said the maximum punishment for this crime was life sentence, but as far as the demands for death sentence for such crimes are concerned the Delhi Police will send a proposal in this regard to Government.
The incident triggered outrage with students of Jawaharlal Nehru University staging a demonstration outside Vasant Kunj Police Station.
The 23-year-old para-medical student was raped and brutally assaulted by four men who also attacked her male friend and threw both of them out of the vehicle.
Last night, Ram Singh, the driver of the bus in which the girl was raped, and his brother Yogesh were arrested. Singh and Yogesh are the first to be arrested, police said and added that Yogesh was driving the bus when Singh allegedly raped the girl along with others.
The woman who was gang-raped and thrown off a moving bus in the capital is still critical and continues to be on ventilator support but can talk now, authorities at the Safdarjung Hospital said on Tuesday.
"The patient is still critical, she is on ventilator support. But since today (Tuesday) morning she has started to speak to the doctor," S.N. Makwana, press information officer at the hospital said.
A senior doctor at the hospital, who is attending to the victim, added that no further surgeries were being planned as of now.
"The patient is in critical condition and she is now trying to speak. As of now we are not planning for any surgery. We can say it is a grievous injury and her intestines are severely damaged," another doctor said on condition of anonymity.
The incident rocked both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday where Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha witnessed uproar by the Opposition. Leader across all political parties condemned the heinous crime.
Speaking in Lok Sabha, leader of opposition and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj sought death penalty for perpetrators of rape. Speaker Meira Kumar too condemned the brutal incident.
In the Rajya Sabha, Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati demanded tough action against the rapists.
The BJP demanded suspension of zero hour, and Rajya Sabha was adjourned for fifteen minutes following uproar over the incident.
Ram Singh, driver of the bus was arrested on Monday night, 3-4 people have been detained and are being questioned by the police.
Another accused has reportedly been arrested.
The girl has severe genital, abdominal and head injuries.
"We performed several life-saving procedures on her within an hour of her being brought to the hospital around 3am. Her injuries were severe and she has lost a lot of blood," said a senior doctor at the hospital.
The victim had reportedly lost nearly a litre of blood and had severe internal injuries.
"Her intestines are damaged; the blood supply to her intestines has been severed. It looks like she was assaulted by a blunt object as her face also bore injury marks," said the doctor.
The life-saving surgery lasted for more than four hours in the morning. Doctors tried to repair her intestines and other damaged organs and tissues.
"Her injuries are fatal. Though we are pumping her with the strongest of antibiotics possible, sooner or later gangrene is bound to set in. She is in a very bad shape," the doctor added.
The medical staff present at the hospital, when she was brought in, described her condition as "horrifying".
"She was in a pool of blood but conscious. There was blood all over her face. I cannot even imagine the agonising pain she must be in," said a nursing assistant in the hospital who wished to remain anonymous.
Sources in the hospital told Hindustan Times that it seemed at least four people were involved in the crime, as different semen samples were found on her.
The victim, a physiotherapist from Uttam Nagar and her friend, a 28-year-old software engineer, had gone to the Select Citywalk mall in Saket to catch a movie.
By the time the show was over, it was past 8pm and the couple took an autorickshaw to the DDA Munirka bus stop on Outer Ring Road.
After waiting for more than half an hour, the two decided to board a luxury bus en route Dwarka and Palam Village. No sooner than they boarded the bus that one of the seven occupants made a lewd comment.
When her freind objected to their remark, he was beaten up by iron rod.
The victim, in the meantime, was forced into the driver's cabin, where the men took turns to rape her. The bus, meanwhile, circled the Mahipalpur flyover thrice before dumping them.
Later, the girl and the boy were thrown out at a toll plaza on NH8 near the Mahipalpur flyover.
A highway patrol team discovered the unconscious couple bereft of clothing at 10.15pm. They were eventually taken to Safdarjung Hospital by police.
The male friend was discharged after treatment for his injuries on Monday.

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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:45 pm
Post subject: 2009 State Park's Geocaching Safari
The State parks have been very happy with the the History Challenge. At this point they are looking into continuing it until May 15th but are undecided as of now. They do not want to have down time between the history challenge and the new program.
The new program is called the Geocaching Wildlife Safari.
Program Highlights
A Critter Cache (geocache) will be located in each of our 72 state parks and recreation areas to create
the excitement of a total park system program.
Sixteen to twenty-four State Parks will be GPS Demo Parks (GPS and geocaching demonstration
The GPS Demo Parks will be the parks that provide checkouts of GPS units to visitors, more
information about the Geocaching Wildlife Safari, more help and assistance for first time geocachers,
and some programs on the basics of geocaching.
All other state parks will maintain a Critter Cache in their park with a poster and brochures about the
Geocaching Wildlife Safari. GPS checkouts would be optional.
Participants will collect 2.5" X 3.5" Critter Cards, one for each park, with educational messages.
An incentives program will be devised to present awards such as geocoins, free night of camping or
wildlife related awards for visitors finding caches and collecting a certain number of Critter Cards (16,
32, 64, and 72 to conform to what visitors are used to with the Passport and Hiking Clubs.)
A partnership with the Minnesota Geocaching Association will continue for advice and support.
The program would operate for a minimum of 3 years.
GPS Demo
The MnGCA is in communications with the State Parks to see where we can be of help. They want us to be partners in this new program.
I will have more info in a few weeks.
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:06 pm
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andrewmcc wrote:
The MnGCA is in communications with the State Parks to see where we can be of help. They want us to be partners in this new program.
I will have more info in a few weeks.
Exciting stuff - thanks for sharing the beginnings of it!
I have a question and a comment/suggestion.
Many know of my displeasure at the Garden Island *requirement*; will Garden Island be optional in this program to 'complete' it (as it is in the Passport Club), or will it be a requirement for one to 'complete' the program (as it is in the existing History Challenge)?
My suggestion - if the MnGCA is going to be involved in this project I would really like to see it displayed a more prominently in both the advertising and the caches themselves. I don't expect a level like Best Buy got, but the organization should be able to attract members using this program. IMHO we've earned it already.
Thanks for your work!
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:14 pm
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I think that this would be a good time to ask for constructive suggestions that we may bring to the table.
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:24 pm
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Is there an idea yet on how the caches will be placed? Will it be similar to the existing program, where a cacher adopts a park and helps them place the cache, or do the parks feel confident enough now to do it on their own?
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I have nothing I can say right now. I should have something in a few weeks.
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Thanks Andrew for being our liaison to the MnDNR. I can't wait to hear about this new game. With the 3 year time line, I might be able to finish this one.
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Great work andrewmcc! Thanks for your willingness to be the MnGCA contact for the State Parks. Look forward to hearing and learning more on the new challenge.
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:45 pm
Post subject: Re: 2009 State Park's Geocaching Safari
andrewmcc wrote:
Participants will collect 2.5" X 3.5" Critter Cards, one for each park, with educational messages.
Pear Head wrote:
Many know of my displeasure at the Garden Island *requirement*
If they place a critter cache at Garden Island, the critter card should definitely be that of the black fly.
Thanks for the update Andrewmcc!
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:24 am
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It does sound very exciting. However, I wonder many people that have completed the original challenge would be willing to go around and do it again. But then maybe we're not the intended audience.
Not to be contrary to Pearhead's position. I think the Garden Island Adventure made the whole deal extra exciting the first time around. I highly doubt I'd go there a second time though.
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:40 am
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It does sound very exciting. However, I wonder many people that have completed the original challenge would be willing to go around and do it again. But then maybe we're not the intended audience.
You would be amazed I think at how many people do the Passport Club or Hiking Club over and over and over.
The way I look at it, I'm already camping in the parks - this just gives me something more to do while I'm there.
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:34 pm
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Perhaps they could require finding all the State *Parks* to complete it? Garden Island and a few others are really SRAs.
In the end, I think it was fun to go to Garden Island - once! I only paid $25 for the boat, split the gas money up too. But the worry about choppy waters and cranky border patrols dampened the whole thing. Our trip went relatively smoothly compared to others.
I like the split like the other clubs. Then people can get as far as they want/can and still get rewards for each level. I have now visited all parks once, but there are many I have been to dozens of times and will go to again.
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This sounds like another fun time working with the parks and geocaching.
We enjoyed working with Split Rock Creek and Camden State Park. We have let Camden know that we are ready to help them once again with the new parks geocaching program. We meet alot of fun loving and freindly caches at all the caching demos we did at camden. We may not have completed alot of the state parks but we sure had fun doing the ones we did get to. So we are looking to hear more about the new Critter caches coming up.
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I look forward to the new program. Im not sure Id head to all the parks again, but there are some I look forward to heading back to. Given the three year plus time frame, I wont be rushed this time through, and might actually see the park. Three years, hmmmmm, ok, Id do it again.
I paid more than tesser to get to Garden Island, money I would not have spent if I had until May 15th, which is one reason Im not in favor of changing the rules at the end of the game. Personally, Id keep Garden Island on the list.
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I think this is a great idea. What would be the determining factor in the timeframe (currently minimum of 3 years) for this. I would think it would benefit the parks to keep it going. I wanted to camp at (and spend more money at) most of the parks I went to but often times I had to fly in and out so fast I couldn't even complete my patch collection if the office was closed. To be able to dedicate myself to all the parks again, which I would love to do, I would have to do it at a much slower pace. All of the money I spent on gas I would have much rather spent at state parks but I think all of our budgets were a little strained. I need more time if I am gonna make another go of it. This is coming from a guy who plans to finish the history challange Dec. 27. Wish me luck.
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Just a short note on some of the updates on the Safari Cache program. This is still a work in progress but we have nailed down some details.
1. May 2nd is the kick off the program will run for 3 years
2. The caches will each have a Critter Card in it to keep. The Critter will be an animal native to the park it is found in.
3. There will be 5 extra award levels 10, 20, 40, 60, and all parks. There will be another card for free and you would be eligible to purchase non trackable geocoins at just over cost (under $2.00) . We tried to keep the cost down so they could be purchased for the whole family.
4. At this point the MnGCA logo is going to be on all the Critter Cards.
5. We are adding at least 4 demo parks.
6. Garden Island is still up in the air, but cachers that have already been there maybe be exempt from going out there and can pick up an alternate cache at Zipple Bay.
We have not been able to get a sponsor for the program this year so we are trying to do the program on a shoestring.
I am looking to get our website linked to the Safari cache web site.
We meet every 2 weeks and nail down more details and I will keep you informed.
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Actually his guru Neem Karoli Baba asked him for the doses to prove to him that it was irrelevant. He took a massive amount, it was true. And it had no apparent effect on him. This was before Richard Alpert received the name Ramdas, still close on the heels of the Harvard Psychedelic Project. Thenceforth, he stopped his exploration of psychedelics and began his long journey in seva sadhana.


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Have you bought an AWD XF yet? I'm looking for one also. Some dealers are marking some, but not all, new ones down about $8,000. Also, some of the dealer demos are being sold as CPO cars, with Jag Select warranty, and marked down even more than $8,000.
samstar11 Posts: 2Still looking - I think deals are to be had on 2013s now.
I, too, have been shopping '13 XF. $5000 customer cash on AWD. I've negotiated at a couple of dealerships for in stock cars at invoice (at least the invoice I am aware of) less the $5k. One dealer did mention dipping into holdback, but that was on a model with more equipment than I wanted/can afford.
So deals to be had on '13, but diminishing inventory.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Bought my '13 XF AWD about 2 weeks ago. Luv it, other than the engine sound at idle and the exhaust note are sort of odd, nothing like the aggressive burble of the V8. I bought an "exec driven" car with 2,500 miles that the dealer had in-service for about 3 months. It came with the Jag Select Edition extended warranty, to 6 years or $100k, and was about $10k off MSRP. This seems to be pretty typical of the deals being made by the more aggressive dealers, who tend to advertise on cars.com or autotrader.com. I've seen a few other exec driven XFs marked down even more, $11 - 13k, and a lot of new ones marked down $6 - 10k. I assume this is the dealer holdback but I was not able to verify. There was one exec driven AWD XF on ebay a few weeks ago that the dealer in Ft. Worth sold with Select Edition for $18k off MSRP! It was stratus grey so I didn't buy it -- don't care for that color -- but man somebody got an incredible deal on it! That's by far the best deal I've seen on one. Good luck.
Last I knew, Jaguar [ like Audi & BMW ]
had no holdback...
http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/dealer-holdback/2016 BMW 340i
Dealer #2, after pricing the XF down to his "dead cost," then mentioned a possiblity of finding another ~2%, I took that as holdback, but maybe dealer incentives I'm not aware of.
Yes, currently I drive a V8 which just makes the best sound I hear every day. The SC 6 and Turbo 4 just can't match that.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Please post further thoughts on your XF when you have a moment! Ride, handling, NVH,engine, mpg...
I'm still trying to figure out what to do, the '13s around here are fading away. I'll look for a CPO '13 such as you have.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
bigredboy2 Posts: 1What are the lease numbers for a 2013 XFR and XF SC for 12K miles, 36 months? Any incentives/cash back offers?
kyfdx Posts: 60,596I'm sorry, but we don't have the Jaguar numbers for December
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Thoughts on my '13 XF AWD, that I've had for 6 weeks -- the handling is very precise, the ride is beyond belief -- I hardly notice when I go over RR tracks -- and the acceleration is impressive -- any more power and I'd just get myself arrested! Fuel mileage is consistent with the 16/26 EPA rating. The NAV is a little "clunky" -- as I've heard others describe -- but I had to pay for it to get the back-up camera, which is great (I never had one before). I have seen that the back-up camera is standard on the '14 XFs, and the NAV is a $1900 option. I can't imagine parking this car w/o the front warning system and the back-up camera ... because from the driver's seat, one can't really see much of the front or any of the rear of the car! The 8-speed trans shifts so smoothly and so often, that it gives one sort of an odd sensation, in that it shifts before you anticipate it should -- and then you hardly notice it did shift, other than see the tach fall back. I have no complaints other than the exhaust note of the SC V6 at idle, but I'll live with that to get the AWD, which is already paying off given the recent snow.
Thanks for the update! I'm still trying to buy a '13, but they are few and far between with the options I want. Regretfully, I think I'm ready to trade my XK for the better year round capabilities of the XF, but if I can't swing a deal in the next few days, I may go to Plan B, an Audi A5. Or, Plan C, a winter beater!
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Wow, latest offer for a '13 XF is a little over $12,300 off MSRP. Will visit the dealer tomorrow to get the XK appraised, I'm hoping the appraisal will be consistent (certainly not lower) with the other two Jag dealers have offered as this XF is a bit more optioned than I need. But, at this price, well, let's see what happens tomorrow.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Good luck!
- Ray
Jag lover .....2016 BMW 340i
Aye, Ray. 825 Watt Meridian Premium Pkg, Cold Weather (new favorite option: heated steering wheel!), Convenience pkg and split/ski sack rear seat. Every time I believe that I am ready to part with my Jag XK, I see it, sit in it and drive it. And my mind immediately changes. I don't necessarily have to move on from the XK, but it is probably the "mature" thing to do. Hopefully, the XF won't leave me too longing for XK. Sigh.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Hi, Ray: A much more verbose posting in the CCBA thread, but I done did it. Traded in the '09 XK for a '13 XF. Over $14,300 off MSRP, less on XK trade than I had wanted, but not the time of year or geography to trade in an XK. And, they "threw in" nice winter floor mats!
I make the exchange tomorrow. Bittersweet, parting with the XK is somewhat painful (as well as having car payments, but 1.84% apr). But, life is seldom linear...
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Laurasdada, So how do you like the XF AWD? Sounds like you got a heck of a deal -- did you get the premium package? Mine is doing quite well in this snow -- it's not my wife LR3 but beats the heck out of my old XJR for getting around on snow and ice.
Hi, Steve: While I miss the XK, I'm enjoying the XF. Premium, Cold, Convenience and folding rear seat/ski sack. And, at the last minute, I asked for and got winter mats! But, they probably got me on the trade...
Good to hear it's good in the snow, one of the reasons I traded the XK. Although, now that I have a car suitable for snow, I predict it will no longer snow!
Looks like my first tank of gas I got just shy of 19mpg, but that included a lot of local driving and idling. Stop/Start doesn't seem to work below 40 degrees. It's my first stop/start car, not sure how it compares to the lambasted version in the 3 series, but it doesn't seem too obtrusive. Noticeable at startup, but not an earthquake. Haven't yet really tested the torque, only ~350 miles on the clock so far. But, everything is working as advertised, the tranny shifts are smooth, steering good feel and the car does not feel as big and heavy as it is. Wife's 5'er feels like a big car with bland steering when I drive it, the XF is better.
Still loving yours?
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
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Hello. Just bought a 2013 XF Portfolio demo. I live in Houston, but bought it in San Antonio. They were the only one that had just what I wanted in Texas or Oklahoma. Paid $51,700, MSRP was $63,300. Think I could have done better, but wanted the car too bad. It drives absolutely like a dream. I'm very excited. I can highly recommend Barrett Jaguar in San Antonio.
So... the dealer is offering me an extended warranty. Currently sits at 4 years or 50K miles. Offer is for an additional 3 years up to 100K miles. They want $2,980. Anyone know if that's a reasonable deal?
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So... the dealer is offering me an extended warranty. Currently sits at 4 years or 50K miles. Offer is for an additional 3 years up to 100K miles. They want $2,980. Anyone know if that's a reasonable deal?
First, congrats on the XF and welcome to the club! What interior/exterior color? Jealous that you have Portfolio, that gives you the much more adjustable seats, that is what I currently miss most from my XK.
Extended warranty? For me, I'd self-insure. Put the $2980 away for the possible rainy day after the 4/50 warranty expires. That way, if you need an expensive, would have been covered by the extended warranty, repair, you've got $3k to use. If you don't have any such potential warranty related repairs, you've still got your $3k!!! But, if it will help you sleep at night, and plan to keep the XF well beyond four years, at least negotiate the price. And be very sure that it will cover all the goodies that might go wrong post 4/50.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
First electrical gremlin? Just once, using the steering wheel control, I wasn't able to scroll through radio FM presets in order. It would bounce around. Weird, seems OK today...
Also, either my headlights are aimed too low or the XF headlights are sub-par!
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Dealer adjusted the headlights. Noted they were in spec, but there is a range to adjust. Much better, no headlight flashes from oncoming cars, so I think I'm good now.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Passed 2000 miles this week. Certainly not a Prius, but given the weight and power of this large, AWD car, mpg isn't too bad. Depending upon my local ~20 mile/day commute route, getting 17-18+ mpg. Last couple of tankfuls, per OBC, 19.9 mpg avg 30mph and 21.3mpg avg 31mph. Need more road trips, only one so far and that was 27.3mpg avg 53mph. Of course, premium fuel. I believe the wife's 535xi does about 10-15% better.
Still nice ride/handling compromise. I don't think the ride is quite as smooth as my XK, but that could be the weight. XF absosrbs the bumps nicely, I think I can hear the suspension doing it's job, but it is not telegraphed into the cabin. There definately is wind noice around the exterior mirrors. And, pronounced wind noise with the roof hole or windows open. Although, given this long, cold winter, not a large sample set of that.
Steering, not as much feel as I remembered from test drives. Especially at lower speeds. But, no slop. Turn the wheel, wheels turn. No problems in the snow, as hoped. The car handles well, but like my XK it is more a GT than sports sedan.
Enjoying the interior and toys. Touchscreen is fine, simple to use/learn. A bit of lag sometimes, but I think an improvement over the Gen 1 in the XK. Comfortable, nicely bolstered seats. Bluetooth doesn't connect 100% of the time. Automatic high beams, meh. Part of the packge, but I certainly wouldn't buy them a la carte. Cool reading lights, simply brush a finger on the lights and they turn on. Seat and steering wheel heat is fabulous, almost too hot! And, nice to be able to haul my skis around inside the car.
And, a lovely exterior. I think it sitll looks modern and distinctive in details. Stands out in the mid luxury crowd.
Pace with grace.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Great to hear - hope you continue to enjoy her!
- Ray
Not in the market for a Jag, unless I win that 400,000,000 dollars tonight2016 BMW 340i
Not fooling me, Ray. I see your M2 lust on the other threads! With my cut of the 400mm, I'm thinking of an F-Type coupe now. Looking forward to the Jag XE in a couple of years, I probably overshot the mark size-wise with the XF (I'd prefer smaller), but the XF is as small as Jag goes with true room for 4+.
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Buttons: The XF has 'em and I like 'em! While the touch screen controls much, there are redundant buttons below the screen and on the console below that. They feel good, not hard plastic, rather feel "rubberized." I'll have to take a closer look, but this just occurred to me this morning, commuting to work. A soft touch is all that is required with delicate feedback to let you know it has engaged. I find this a small feature, but elegant.
Rotating vents continue to rotate and shift dial continues to rise and retract, in case anyone was wondering!
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Greetings. Figured I'd update my now getting long in the tooth '13 Jag XF status: Turned 7000 miles this past weekend, so I'm averaging just a bit less than 1k/month. But that's picking up. Per OBC for the last 5k miles I've averaged 27.9 mph and 23.8 mpg. Not bad (my daily commute is ~20 miles, either back road/stop lights and signs or stop and go highway).
No issues to report other than a sunshade rattle, but only when the sunroof shade is fully pulled back and I'm on rocky road. Still enjoying the overall goodness of this car. I know it's a bit of a porker weight-wise, but it is just so well damped and tuned I don't feel it (unlike a bit in the 535). Meridian sound rocks, and when required, rolls. Leather still looks new, a few wrinkles on the outboard seat cushion of my (driver's) seat. No Prince of Darkness issues to report.
Still working for me style-wise both in and out. Two shortcomings, especially at this price point, though:
- Should have more than just the basic 6 way adjustable seats
- Should have front fog lights (it has a rear)
Also, visibility takes a bit of a backseat to the slick style. Hence, using the blind spot warning, backup camera/radar and my owl-like swivelling neck!
Nothing has slowed or phased this car, weatherwise. Like my XK, it will cruise effortlessly at speed. And, a little more speed. And again, more than that! First service isn't due until the end of the year and I'll probably take it with son and skis for a week to the mountains of Vermont, Maine or New Hampster this winter. Should't be an issue, the awd and Conti all seasons made short order ot this past winter.
So, for those that may be considering the new, curry-flavored Jag, here's one big thumbs up! Of course, it's only been 7.5 months, plenty of warranty left!
'13 Jaguar XF, '11 BMW 535xi, '02 Lexus RX300
Annual Father/Son ski trip to Maine, in the XF. Fold down the back seat, pile in skis/boots/poles/luggage/flotsam/jetsam/detritus... Not as convenient as an SUV/Wagon hatch, but really no problem. So, 456 miles, avg. 54mph, 25.1 mpg. Probably 75/25 highway/local. And on the way north, through a blizzard, the XF handled the white stuff with aplomb. Really would have liked to have front fogs, though, Jag? Por que no?
Unfortunately, the car is just filthy. And with more snow/nasty weather coming (and not garage, so don't want to encase it in ice!), not sure when it will next be shiny and clean...
14 months, almost 14k miles, not an issue to report. Pace with grace.
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Knowledge is power; it's an adage we've all heard. I'll add one caveat: only if you use it. Having insight is certainly a better position than blissfully ignorant, but if that information sits in databases and isn't turned into something actionable, then knowledge is potential, and unused potential is a wasted opportunity.
This month, we're focusing on action. Not only in the cover story that profiles the actions of this year's Visionary Award winning hotel companies, but also in a particularly insightful feature story, "Social Media Intelligence," that discusses how to turn one of the most current and compelling sources of knowledge — your social networks — into actionable CRM data.
Last month I sat on a panel discussion at a tech vendor's users' conference. The panel addressed current trends in retail and foodservice markets. When the topic of social media came up, I asked the audience for a show of hands: 'who has heard of Klout scores?' One hand in a room of 50 went up.
Klout is a start-up company out of San Fran that's tracking how much influence an individual user has via all of its social networks, combined. Seek out interactions with well-connected consumers and you can increase your reach. Did you hear about the guy who was passed over for a job because the other candidate had a higher Klout score? No joke.
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Pianist Faces Jail Over Incessant Practicing
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Back in their home country, Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman showed up at the big Sydney, Australia premiere of their brand new flick "Les Miserables" today (December 21).
The "Gladiator" hunk and the "X Men" star had a blast as they clowned around outside the State Theatre, gearing up for a sprint in their classic black tuxedos.
Hugh and Russell also showed some love to their director Tom Hooper before heading into the venue to have a look at their own on-screen handiwork.
"Les Miserables" has already received rave reviews the world over, and will hit theaters here in the States on Christmas Day.
Enjoy the pictures of Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe at the "Les Miserables" premiere at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia (December 21).
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Nov 19, 2010
In spite of widespread public support, yesterday the House of Representatives failed to pass a bill extending federal unemployment insurance benefits for three more months. Considering that the Department of Labor and the Congressional Budget Office have shown that unemployment insurance has helped rebuild the staggering economy, it's a sad reminder of how partisanship gets in the way of sound policy.
Congress is likely to try again to extend these benefits - but in the meantime, two million Americans will probably lose this critical lifeline, as the current program runs out on November 30. Tens of thousands more were hurt when Congress failed to extend the TANF Emergency Fund earlier this year.
Congress must act to extend unemployment insurance benefits and the TANF Emergency Fund. These funds were responsible for keeping millions from falling into poverty last year, including 1 million children. Extending tax cuts to the wealthiest two percent of Americans while letting our nation's most vulnerable drown is irresponsible and plain bad policy. It hurts not only millions of families, but also business.
For every dollar spent to fund unemployment insurance, $2 is created in the economy. The National Employment Law Project reports that the still struggling retail sector, which counts on the holiday season for over 20 percent of sales, will take a major blow as many will have to forgo children's holiday gifts for food.
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5. I can't get any exploits to work. What am I doing wrong?
Start with something that you know is exploitable. I recommend downloading the Metasploitable virtual machine. Hacking this will give you confidence that yes, exploits work and yes, you're probably using Metasploit correctly.
Not all exploits work in all situations. Remember that you're sending code to a system that is meant to trigger a flaw. If a firewall is on, then maybe the data isn't getting to the service. Maybe you're running a version of the software that no longer has the flaw.
Metasploit is not a magic key into other systems. Knowing what to use in different situations is a skill and it comes with experience.
7. What are the warning messages in the console I launched Armitage from?
These are harmless. They're debug output for me to read. I was too lazy to remove them. They always have the form Warning: some message here at file.sl:##. The scary "Warning" text is from the warn function in the language I used to write Armitage. Ignore it.


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HOWELL, Mich. (AP) -- Authorities say burglars have broken into more than 40 churches in mostly rural areas of Michigan and Ohio since August.
The Detroit Free Press reports (http://on.freep.com/VOlpJ9 ) Friday that break-ins have been reported in Michigan's Lenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw, Hillsdale, Livingston and Genesee counties, as well as Fulton County, Ohio, near the states' border.
Police believe the burglaries are connected and may have been committed by the same thieves.
Most of the churches targeted didn't have security systems, and thieves got in by prying open windows and doors. They've ransacked offices, rifled through drawers and forced open safes. Officials say they've gotten away with cash, change or sometimes nothing.
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A well-known politician, who died only recently, was born in the village, and the old rector was called on to baptize him.
You must promise to marry us all, and then baptize the babies.'
An' Annancy made a bargain with his t'ree friend an' is going to baptize Brother Crab with boiling water.
John baptized you with water, but I will baptize you with the Holy Ghost!
Den sometime a white preacherman come and he am de Baptist and baptize we'uns.
What right, said they, had a man to baptize who had been ordained in this irregular manner?
He had been called out to baptize a sick baby and pray by its dying mother.
It was the practice, then, in Origen's day, to baptize infants.
I often hear this alleged, Mr. K., and we are called Romish and Popish because we baptize infants.
Desist, or I will baptize you in the well as Philip did the Ethiopian, without a sponsor.
c.1300, from Old French batisier (11c.), from Latin baptizare, from Greek baptizein "to immerse, to dip in water," also used figuratively, e.g. "to be over one's head" (in debt, etc.), "to be soaked (in wine);" in Greek Christian usage, "baptize;" from baptein "to dip, steep, dye, color," from PIE root *gwabh- "to dip, sink." Christian baptism originally consisted in full immersion. Related: Baptized; baptizing.


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This is my first post even though I have been a long time user of backtrack. Let me thank you in advance for your help.
I know this has been explained before but I think I am having a unique problem. I am sharing my interwebz through one wireless interface to another. First of course seting up airmon-ng, then ip forwarding, then dhcp server, and so on. My problem is My test pc can see my AP. Once I try to connect, my dhcp server will send an offer request over and over but my pc will never acquire the address please help. Here is my dhcpd.conf file
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
log-facility local7;
subnet 192.168.7.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option broadcast-address 192.168.7.255;
option routers 192.168.7.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.7.1;
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January 8, 2004
Message to Families of September 11 Members from Tom Roger, FOS11 President concerning the LMDC's memorial design choice of "Reflecting Absence":
As announced in the press release listed below from the LMDC, the choice of the "Reflecting Absence" memorial design was made yesterday. Unfortunately, the proposed changes that were made to the original design will not be shown until they unveil the new model next week. Until we see the final plan, what we know about "Reflecting Absence" is from the original submittal and some of the recent disclosures that have been made about changes from the initial plan. The design for ``Reflecting Absence'' was originally submitted by Michael Arad, an architect with the city's Housing Authority. Its primary features are two sunken reflecting pools in the middle of a large open plaza dotted with pines. The design also included a lower level where visitors look through a curtain of water toward the pools and a random listing of the victims' names. Arad stated in his description of the concept that he aimed to ``create a place where we may all grieve and find meaning.'' Vartan Gregorian, a member of the jury that selected the design and President of the Carnegie Corp. of New York, said in a statement yesterday the plaza's design had evolved to include "teeming groves of trees,'' and said the Berkeley, California-based landscape architect Peter Walker had joined the project. In its powerful, yet simple articulation of the footprints of the twin towers, `Reflecting Absence' has made the gaping voids left by the towers' destruction the primary symbol of loss,'' Gregorian said in the statement yesterday.
Board member Nikki Stern and I served as members of the Families Advisory Council for the LMDC Memorial Process and also participated on the Mission Statement and Program Description Committees for the design competition. We were not members of the jury that selected the final design, but we feel that the jury was well-qualified and dedicated to the task. Having participated actively in the process prior to the jury evaluation process, we feel that jury's efforts were commendable and that the selection of this design and the proposed changes appear to be a good start. However, it is important we all recognize, including members of the LMDC, which is overseeing the development of an appropriate memorial,that this "improvement process" of the selected design, is not over. There are at least two major issues that we know continue to exist with the proposed "Reflecting Absence" design that we will want to have addressed prior to accepting it as being totally responsive to the families' interests. These issues include: 1) the fact that the slurry wall is NOT exposed at grade level and 2) the cultural buildings have been relocated to the Southwest corner of the site, which in turn eliminates a "buffer" between a quiet memorial space and the busy retail and commercial areas on Greenwich and also potentially results in the memorial being in shadow most of the time – clearly not the intention of the original site plan proposed by Studio Libeskind..
You may have already read some of the quotes from other 9/11 family groups or family members that are unhappy with the selection process and final design choice and are calling for starting the process all over again. We do not feel that this is either appropriate or necessary. And in response to these criticisms, I would say that they are premature since the final design has not been disclosed and that people need to have some trust in the competence of the people who served on the jury since they included many distinguished and highly qualified people. (see articles listed below). The fact that it is "minimalist" is certainly not a negative – a simple statement can often be quite elegant and powerful, as the Vietnam and many other memorials have shown, and can have a profound impact upon people who may bring a different set of emotional experiences to a place. And the addition of a museum, which we trust will be appropriately reinstated into the concept, will allow the story of 9/11 and its devastation to be more fully described.
On behalf of all the members of the Board of Directors of FOS11, I am writing this letter to you because I feel it is very important that FOS11 be supportive of the selection process and the final design choice, especially since there are a number of issues that remain to be worked out with this design regarding the two specific ones mentioned about as well as how it fits into the overall site plan with access to bedrock, buffering from other buildings and site activities, groupings of names, etc. In this context, calls to "start again" are premature. Instead, please focus your attention on those specific issues we've mentioned.
We will continue to monitor the process and keep watch when the details of the revised plan are unveiled next week. And may we suggest you read these well-regarded pieces for further insight into the process.
Thank you.Tom RogerFamilies of September 11
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Winning Memorial (NY Times Editorial, January 8, 2004)Published: January 8, 2004Late on Tuesday afternoon, the 13-member jury appointed to select a 9/11 memorial design announced that it had chosen the plan called Reflecting Absence, by Michael Arad and Peter Walker. To many New Yorkers, including us, that choice came as something of a surprise, even though Reflecting Absence had been among three plans - out of eight finalists - that the jury was re-examining most seriously. Our initial reaction to Reflecting Absence was discomfort with its starkness. But initial reactions do not matter at this point. The design has evolved significantly, with guidance from the jury, since it was first presented. The details of the reworked plan are not scheduled to be released until next week, and even those will be subject to change as time passes.We suspect - even though this design was not our first choice - that we will see in the final results the intelligence and conscientiousness this jury has shown all along. And it is possible to draw a few tentative conclusions even at this point. The first is that in choosing Reflecting Absence, the jury has put the task of memorializing 9/11 front and center. The core of that design is two striking voids, which, in their simplicity, movingly recall the work of the sculptor Michael Heizer. Though the memorial will name the dead, the real evocative power of this plan will come not from the individual names but from the emotional focus those two voids will provide.It's encouraging to note that Mr. Walker, a landscape architect, has joined Mr. Arad, who is an architect with the New York City Housing Authority, on this project.Mr. Arad's original plan envisioned towering white pines dotted around the site. We hope that Mr. Walker has revised that aspect of the plan considerably, increasing the presence of nature and softening the starkness of what felt, in the original presentation, like an open plaza. We look forward to seeing the new details of Reflecting Absence next week, and we congratulate Mr. Arad, Mr. Walker and the members of the jury. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For Immediate Release www.RenewNYC.com January 6, 2004Contact: Matthew Higgins/Joanna Rose (212) 587-9339 WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE MEMORIAL COMPETITION JURY ANNOUNCES WINNING DESIGN: Reflecting Absence The 13-member World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition jury today announced the winning memorial design, Reflecting Absence by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, who has joined the team. The design was selected from among 5,201 submissions and eight finalists. The revised design will be unveiled in a public presentation next week. Information about the design, biographical information about the designer, and other information about the competition and jury is available at www.WTCSiteMemorialCompetition.org. Note: The renderings, animations and descriptions do not reflect significant changes made to the design, which will be unveiled next week. On behalf of the jury, jury chair Vartan Gregorian issued the following statement announcing the winning design: "In April 2003, the LMDC launched an international competition to design a memorial at the World Trade Center site honoring the memory of all those killed in two terrorist attacks on the United States. The competition itself - open to anyone, anywhere in the world - affirmed the democratic spirit this nation embodies. More than 5,201 submissions were received from 63 nations - and the jury considered every one of them. In November, eight finalist designs were selected for further consideration, all of which offered powerful ways to remember what we lost. After months of deliberation and debate, we have selected a winning design from among the eight finalists: Reflecting Absence by Michael Arad and landscape design architect Peter Walker, who has joined the team. In its powerful, yet simple articulation of the footprints of the Twin Towers, "Reflecting Absence" has made the gaping voids left by the Towers' destruction the primary symbol of loss. While these voids still remain empty and inconsolable, the surrounding plaza's design has evolved to include teeming groves of trees, traditional affirmations of life and rebirth. The result is a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its regeneration. Not only does this memorial creatively address its mandate to preserve the footprints, recognize individual victims and provide access to bedrock, but it also wonderfully reconnects this site to the fabric of its urban community. The winning design has evolved significantly since the eight finalists were placed on exhibit at the Winter Garden, and will evolve still over time. Over the next several days, the design will be updated to reflect several changes, and new presentation materials will be created. The new design will be unveiled in a public presentation to take place next week. On behalf of all the jurors, we congratulate Michael Arad and Peter Walker on this winning design. We also thank the leadership of the LMDC for supporting the work of the jury and for absolutely respecting its authority and autonomy. The jury would also like to thank the finalists, and all 5,201 competitors for taking part in this competition. Your contribution will forever serve as a monument to our shared loss." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reflecting Absence designer Michael Arad released the following statement: "I am very honored and overwhelmed by the news that the jury has selected my design. I hope that I will be able to honor the memory of all those who perished, and create a place where we may all grieve and find meaning. I will do my best to rise to the enormity of the task at hand. It is with great humility that I regard the challenges that lie ahead - and it is with great hope that I will find the strength and ability to meet them." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reflecting Absence landscape design architect Peter Walker released the following statement: "First of all, I want to congratulate Michael for his powerful and unique concept and for including us on the team. I very much appreciate the jury's thoroughness and care, and I thank them for the opportunity to work on what will be the most important landscape of our career. Finally, I want to thank the families; working on this memorial will give us the chance to express the sympathy and admiration we feel for all those who suffered from the events of September 11th and the 1993 bombing." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How Winning 9/11 Memorial Acquired Its 2nd DesignerBy DAVID W. DUNLAP and GLENN COLLINS Published: January 8, 2004 (NY Times) hen a proposal called Reflecting Absence was submitted last year to the World Trade Center memorial site competition, there was one name on it: that of Michael Arad, a young architect for the New York City Housing Authority.When Reflecting Absence was announced on Tuesday as the winner of the six-month competition, there was another name: Peter Walker of Berkeley, Calif., who has 45 years of experience in the teaching and practice of landscape architecture.Though Mr. Arad attracted the jurors' attention with the concept of great pool-filled voids where the twin towers stood, it was Mr. Walker's greening of the surrounding plaza that sealed their choice. The two now share the design credit and the contract, even though Mr. Walker joined only last month.Having survived a winnowing from 5,201 entries to 8 finalists to 3 significantly redesigned favorites, Reflecting Absence wound up as the choice of most, though not all, of the jurors in a 12-hour meeting on Monday at Gracie Mansion.The success of Reflecting Absence — and the ultimate failure of Garden of Lights and Passages of Light: Memorial Cloud designs — was attributed to many factors by six people closely connected to the process, who spoke to reporters on the condition that their names and their affiliations not be divulged.For its part, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation declined yesterday to offer any comment on the memorial deliberations. Jurors are forbidden by their contract with the corporation to speak with journalists until the process is completed when the final design is made public next week.Public attention has focused on the possibly persuasive role played by one juror, Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. She sketched out a proposal for the memorial in The New York Times Magazine of Sept. 8, 2002, that bears a superficial resemblance to Reflecting Absence.But those who were interviewed said that though Ms. Lin's recent advocacy of Reflecting Absence was forceful and entirely consistent with her minimalist design sensibility, no one person could have commandeered the jury.Instead, they said, Ms. Lin, though committed to the Arad design, was self-effacing and gave in on many points she had favored. At least four other jurors made the case for the Arad design aside from Ms. Lin, they said.All 13 jurors had strong ideas and opinions, and they were were given ample opportunity to express them and did so, they said. But they also described deliberations that were largely collegial, even though sharp differences persisted through Monday, as Passages of Light remained a contender until the end. (Garden of Lights, they generally agreed, had suffered so much from changes that it was no longer as highly regarded, especially after its creators' presentation to the jury on Monday.)What mattered most to jurors about Reflecting Absence — the degree depended somewhat on who was speaking — was the way in which its design spoke more clearly than other entries to what happened on Sept. 11, 2001: the pancaking collapse of the twin towers into their own foundations.By expressing the towers as voids 30 feet deep and almost an acre in extent exactly where the 110-story buildings stood, jurors believed, the design would convey the magnitude of the event not only to a generation that will never forget that day but to future generations that will have to learn.The sheer size of the voids would also allow visitors to experience something of the physical dimension of the trade center towers. Jurors were not unaware, even as they met in secret, of the publicly expressed hunger for a memorial design specific both to the site and the event.They were also concerned that Mr. Arad's original concept called for a plaza around the voids that was too barren and lifeless. They made it clear that a landscape architect of high caliber would have to be involved in the project, though they did not specify Mr. Walker.The development corporation was said to have furnished a list of choices to Mr. Arad that included Mr. Walker. Vartan Gregorian, the chairman of the memorial jury, summarized the result of their collaboration in a brief public statement issued on Tuesday."While these voids still remain empty and inconsolable, the surrounding plaza's design has evolved to include teeming groves of trees, traditional affirmations of life and rebirth," he said. "The result is a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its regeneration."The jurors' concern about landscaping began long before the recent refinements. They conceived their task as finding a design for a memorial site — not just a memorial — meaning that it had to fit into the surrounding streets and sidewalks and into the larger context of Lower Manhattan.That was reflected in the eight finalists announced in November. All turned their back, in one way or another, on the idea that the entire memorial area could be depressed 30 feet below street level, which was embodied in Daniel Libeskind's overall trade center design concept.Instead, from the very beginning, the jury publicly invited architects to challenge the site design plan. They said they deliberately issued a direct invitation to break its boundaries. The proposals that survived the first winnowing called for ample space at sidewalk level across the 4.5-acre memorial site, bounded by West and Liberty Streets and the re-created Fulton and Greenwich Streets.Some jurors also felt that in its boldness, Reflecting Absence stood a better chance of serving as a counterpoint to the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, across Fulton Street, whose scale was made quite apparent when the jurors saw a model on Monday night. Jurors set a threshold of 10 votes for acceptance. Reflecting Absence came close in the first polling on Monday morning, but Passages of Light had supporters who appreciated it as a spectacular work of architecture. To its advocates, the canopy formed by undulating translucent tubes suggested a cathedral; to its detractors, it suggested a cave.Garden of Lights, in which the site was to be covered by prairies and apple orchards, suffered from concerns over its underground "altar" rooms and the limited access that would be provided across the grounds.The final vote between Reflecting Absence and Passages of Light was not unanimously in favor of the concept by Mr. Arad and Mr. Walker, though those interviewed would not specify what it was.Besides Dr. Gregorian and Ms. Lin, the jurors are Paula Grant Berry, Susan K. Freedman, Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris, Michael McKeon, Julie Menin, Enrique Norten, Martin Puryear, Nancy Rosen, Lowery Stokes Sims, Michael Van Valkenburgh and James E. Young.


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Maybe this works ?
I couldn't test it because I don't own a mac.
Yes folks, that´s right...
More then offen you want to access that juicy Mikrotik-hotspot for example, you already sniffed
a valid mac-address, but there is no tool out there to change it in OSX. well, there still isn´t, but playing around with Backtrack and VMware Fusion I found a workaround.
Tested on Alfa036H
1. connect your card to Backtrack
2. type:3. Connect to your AP with wicd (maybe not necessary)Code:macchanger wlan0 (or whatever it is) --mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
4. Now disconnect you wificard in VMWARE
5. Start the "Realtek USB Wlan Client" (the blue crap)
6. The MAC should be the one you chose in Backtrack.
7. Enjoy
I found that I sometimes had to reboot to make that work.
OSX has to create a new interface with that MAC.
If anyone has a more elegant way of doing this, please POST !!
Maybe this works ?
I couldn't test it because I don't own a mac.
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This is bunny.
Copy and paste bunny into your signature to help him gain world domination.
Yes this has been working for me on Snow Leopard (same as LHYX1's link):
And for those asking (reasonably) wtf this has to do with backtrack; I find the Broadcom drivers so poor that on a Mac it is better to run BT in a VM, and then use this to macchange the built-in wireless.Code:# make an alias for this awful string sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport # dissociate sudo airport -z # macchange sudo ifconfig enX ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX # may have to turn airport off and back on
Just tried the above method. What I got is that ifconfig reports the spoofed mac, while networksetup -listallhardwareports and the systempreferences report the old one. Guess I have to sniff my own traffic to see what´s right...anyway, this method is not working with external devices, is it ?
I've looked at the packets in wireshark and airodump; it does seem to be working.
Have only tried with the internal card. If you want to macchange the usb card, wouldn't it be easier just to use BT for this (what am I missing?)?


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I logged into my old photobucket account the other day and saw this... I just said Wow... Times sure do change in 6 years...
I logged into my old photobucket account the other day and saw this... I just said Wow... Times sure do change in 6 years...
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Do you have your shirt on? - Adam Dunn to Marty on the Bananna Phone.
They've both put on way too many lbs since then. I expect some weight to appear in a player's late 20s/early 30s but these guys put on 25-30 lbs before they were 25.
Kearns has really been a disappointment. I recall when they were coming up and we were enjoying Dunn, Adam said "just wait 'till Kearns gets here. He's better than me." I think he was. I don't know if it was that collision with Ray King or just a case of a guy peaking at age 24 but Kearns was supposed to be a perennial All Star.
I really don't understand what anyone is talking about regarding Dunn being overweight. I don't see it.
I keep reading it and hearing it on call-in shows from his detractors, but I don't see it.
They both had BRM haircuts. That is what went wrong, they let their hair grow.
He's slimmer now.
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Austin Kearns is reason enough not to annoit Jay Bruce the savior of the franchise just yet.
Let Bruce develop into it....don't appoint him it.
"Strickland Propane... Taste the meat, not the heat." - Hank Hill
OT- i do like those helmets as opposed to the cool-flo ones they wear now. But again, I'm a geek.
Witty signature.
I submit further evidence...Remember Brandon Larson?
"Sometimes, it's not the sexiest moves that put you over the top," Krivsky said. "It's a series of transactions that help you get there."
We do have two openings in the outfield after this season...
Let's bring 'em back!
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Dunn on the other hand looked like a HOF in his early career but after the 2002 AS break he never seemed to get back to that early level. Dunn's first half of 02 was unreal; .300 BA, .452 OBP, .544 Slugging. It seemed like the league made some adjustments that Dunn has failed to make.
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
I remember there being an article back in 2002 talking about Jim Bowden wanting Dunn to start pulling the ball more in order to hit for more power. I thought it was foolish at the time because Dunn was still hitting for power and was hitting up in the .310-.320 range with an OBP in the .460 area and an OPS over 1.000, yet Bowden wanted him to pull the ball more. That doesn't surprise me though considering how awful of a GM Bowden is/was. Dunn was never that same hitter after that. All those different hitting coaches didn't help matters either.
IIRC there was an article when both were still in the minors predicting future status of the top minor league players. Dunn was predicted as a future HOF and Kearns as a potental All Star and an everyday player in the bigs. It is interesting to look now 8 years later and see where each player stands.
Kearns is a fringe everyday outfielder. If he weren't playing for Jimbo he would have bounced around the league for the past year +.
Dunn on the other hand, if healthy, will put up HOF HR numbers. It will be interesting to see if Dunn hits 500, 550, 600 how people will fell about him.
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"The king has just sent for the Prince Necho and his nurse," answered the man.
To Necho he handed over or continued the important districts of Memphis and Sais.
Necho caused Jehoahaz to be secured, and sent him as a prisoner to Egypt.
Among these princes, by means of the Assyrians, Necho and his son Psammetichus rose into power.
Necho had had time to recover from the defeat of Karchemish.
Of the subsequent achievements of Necho in Syria, we have precise information only about the capture of Gaza.
And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
Nebuchadrezzar defeated Necho at the battle of Carchemish, and hotly pursued him toward Egypt.
Apries, the grandson of Necho, took the city of Sidon by storm and defeated the Phœnicians in a sea-fight.