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The new SCRA USC Innovation Center is ready for business.
The University of South Carolina, the South Carolina Research Authority and the City of Columbia opened the fully renovated facility Thursday (Aug. 19). It is a building designed to house knowledge-based companies emerging from research at USC and the general marketplace that are entering commercialization and advanced manufacturing stages.
The facility is situated and designed to stimulate and sustain clean, next-generation manufacturing, along with related development and support services.
University President Harris Pastides said the SCRA/USC Innovation Center will combine the best research out of our laboratories with the best creative business minds from the Midlands and beyond.
"We needed a space that doesn't look conventional. It's not just your father's office building," USC President Harris Pastides said at the grand opening of the 74,000-square-foot facility at Catawba and Assembly streets.
"We're celebrating now one new structure with all of this great texture that's here and detail, and we have a product that is ready to go to work."
Renovations on the building began in October 2009. It features 65,000 square feet of open space, enough for 10 to 15 high-tech, light-manufacturing start-ups. SCRA invested $5.6 million in the building.
The Innovation Center is the second of three world-class facilities that SCRA is providing in conjunction with its university and civic partners in South Carolina to grow the Knowledge Economy. The first is in Charleston. With these centers, SCRA is fulfilling legislative mandates identified in the Innovation Centers Act focused on the commercialization of new knowledge-based discoveries.
Bill Mahoney, CEO of SCRA, said the property is in a key location for an innovation center because it provides easy access, visibility and economic opportunity for the citizens of Columbia.


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Advice for long haul flight with two active babies!
I am taking my two year old and 14 month old on a long haul flight this Christmas. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to keep them occupied and how to avoid meltdowns? I am usually very organised and will have snacks/dummies/toys but we've done flights before and it has been DIFFICULT! I would love any advice people might have
7th December 2013 07:35 AM #2
Hello twolittleboys,
Ahhh I've been there and I understand your stress! We took our boys (then aged 2.5 years and 9 months) on two 12 hour flights this summer.
Will your flight be a night-time or a daytime flight? If it is a night flight then you can encourage them to settle down and sleep as much is possible. I delayed my boys' naps for our night-flight and they slept really well on the plane.
The daytime flight on the way back was more challenging. However, it was still better than I had been fearing I found sticker books to be great for my 2 year old - we had one with over 200 stickers that he had to match up to the right pictures. I also prepared a little goodie bag of small (inexpensive) toys that they hadn't seen before. I only took one toy out at a time and this helps to amuse them for many hours.
I wore my youngest in a sling (a Mei Tai) for a large amount of the flight and this helped him to : settle, breastfeed easily and sleep. I also packed some thin cotton black sheets to put over their eyes whilst they were sleeping so the changes in light did not wake them.
Our netbook was a great help to us - I won't deny it! It has a battery life of 7 hours and we loaded it full of programmes they hadn't watched before.
Yes we took lots of little snacks too. Again I would say packing a bigger variety (rather than a larger quantity of just one snack) helped with their interest levels.
An aquadoodle (you can get a travel one and there are other brands too) was also great for the plane as it doesn't run out!
When we only had my eldest son he went on a long haul flight ages 14 months and laid on me for about three quarters of it and I would just breastfeed him whenever he stirred. I used a breastfeeding apron (which I don't normally use - find them too fiddly and am happy with my feeding from any clothes now) to provide him with some dark and a personal space.
Myself and my husband both wore our boys in the slings (we now have a Tula for our older boy which you can use up to about age 4) and this really helped with reducing airport stress (although we did have to pop them out to go through security).
We also found a bottle of bubbles helpful and a Rubik Cube.
Please do post back and let me know if any of these suggestions are helpful and I can always think of some more.
Hope it goes well!
Best wishes,
Last edited by ljmarsden; 7th December 2013 at 07:51 AM.
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Wow! This is fantastic advice, thank you so much for taking the time to write it down for me. I really do appreciate it. Some things I had never thought of, like bubbles, are a great idea - quiet and interesting and the babies love them. I also didn't know you could get carriers that hold up to 4 year olds...I wish I'd known that for my last flight when I was carrying a two month old and chasing a runaway toddler. I am still scarred by the experience
I'm going to print out your recommendations. Thanks again so much!
10th December 2013 05:37 AM #4
I'm so pleased this was helpful
I'll let you know if I think of many more tips and do let me know how your flight goes.
I'll be thinking of you,

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It's not so much that OS X Mountain Lion is such a different beast to its predecessors, it's that the circumstances have changed so much. At once, the prime focus of our digital lives has migrated to mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) while an old adversary – Microsoft – is firing the final rivets into Windows 8, an OS that aims to exploit exactly that pivotal shift in our computational affections.
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Apple OS X Mountain Lion – what's new?
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Can corporate restructuring enhance creativity and make large companies more innovative? Not often. The history of business is littered with examples that show organizational restructuring is not a reliable tool for unlocking creativity.
Sony Corp., for instance, has undergone organizational shifts over a decade and has not captured ground lost in the consumer products game to Apple Inc. and others. Or Hewlett-Packard Co., where multiple organizational restructurings still left it struggling to find a more profitable pathway for its enterprise and consumer businesses.
Once you think about a company as a meshed network of small groups -- let's call them tribes -- you immediately see why restructurings don't improve outcomes. Big organizational changes are often financially costly. They are also traumatic, breaking up trusted relationships and creating insecurity even among the very creative people you are trying to encourage.
But senior managers and executives can break through these organizational barriers by soliciting and incentivizing employee ideas.
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The challenge is the complexity of relationships within companies. Restructuring strategies tend to focus on the formal world of departmental structure, such as operations, manufacturing or procurement. Yet the formal structure, reflected in organizational charts, doesn't neatly align with how people actually relate to each other, which is based on personal relationships within small groups of individuals, in which ideas, issues and business solutions are shared.
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Definitely a case of user not knowing what he/she is doing.
OP take a look at the man page and some tutorials on using ssh in ubuntu. This is covered extensively.
UNIX man pages : ssh (1)
Beginning SSH on Ubuntu | Principia Labs
To me, and I'm probably wrong this early in the morning but I'm going to suggest it anyway, it looks more like OP has put a "startx" command in his logon file which is, naturally, being executed by root when he logs in via SSH.
The most note worthy part here is where the error message is manifesting - after the "last" component of the ssh server.
Still not underestimating the power...
There is no such thing as bad information - There is truth in the data, so you sift it all, even the crap stuff.
This is what I saw in the first post.I am wondering (since the OP mentions he is trying to setup an ssh server on his BT machine) if the OP knows that there is already an ssh server setup and is only waiting on a destination and the keys for it. OP there is a tutorial in the how-to that is about networking that will also help out.Code:root@bt:~# ssh localhost
But generally you are wanting something like> localuser@localmachine:# ssh remoteuser@remotemachine


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Remember where you read it: If 2016 pits Clinton against Cruz, the Democrats will carry Georgia.
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I think the German iPhone 5 mockup will look like the iPad type. Use the thin curved back aluminum and make it faster and more features. My 2 cents. I love how I can touch my entire phone with one hand cause right now I'm typing this while eating a cheeseburger
Maybe in the "iPhone 5s" would but I don't think the 5 will.
If they do, I say they go to 4 inches, but definitely not a monster screen.
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He plays a young music fan who is befriended by one of the crooked cops who give the movie its title.
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Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College Athletic Department and Women's Basketball Coach Shannon Reid are pleased to announce the commitment of Brittany Boyce to attend Brevard College and play for the Tornados in the 2009-2010 season.
Boyce, a 5-7 junior guard from Forest City, N.C., comes to the Tornados by way of Gardner-Webb University. As a freshman, Boyce played in all 31 games, starting 16. In the first collegiate game of her career, she tied a Gardner-Webb record with seven steals, while scoring 15 points against Wofford. She averaged 5.4 points per game, 2.5 rebounds per game and 1.1 assists per game during her time as a Runnin' Bulldog.
Prior to attending Gardner-Webb, Boyce, the daughter of Alisa Higgins, was a standout four-year starter at East Rutherford High School under Coach Larry Ross. A four-time all-conference selection and four-time team MVP, Boyce averaged 21.5 points and six assists in her senior campaign.
Boyce also played on the Asheville Lady Royals and Charlotte Fire AAU teams.
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Hello guys, I'm new to the community, and I'm eager to learn somethings about BT and the pentest scene.
I've got a Laptop with a Intel 5100 wireless card, and after a lot of failed tries, I've decided that I really need a USB wireless adapter, with the bonus of being able to use BT in VMWare.
Now, the question:
I've read a lot about the Alphas, and saw that there are some card's from dealextreme that are supposed clones, and are compatible with BT5.
I've yet to decide about which model to choose from:
1 - The 802.11g 54Mbps High Power 1000mW USB 2.0 WiFi Wireless Network Dongle, with the Dragon printed in the card (Bonus cool factor :P)
This card has good reviews in the BT foruns and the dealextreme page, but are kinda old. Am I missing something here? Is this card no longer used?
2 - the2000mW High Power 802.11b/g/n 150Mbps USB 2.0 Wireless Network Dongle with Dual Antenna
This card has a great review in the foruns, by citruspears, dated from end 2010: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ad.php?t=33740
Again, last reviews are kinda old.
So, is there a real difference in the cards? Is one better than the other? Is there a new kinda clone card in the market that I haven't seen yet?
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Woman Offers $8,000 to Sleep with George Clooney Look-Alike
Garry Tate is a 56 year old man from Britain who is a spitting image of hollywood hottie, George Clooney. Women are going so crazy over this guy that he even claims that a London businessman offered him $8,000 to sleep with his wife for her 40th birthday! Supposedly, the man asked the look-alike because he couldn't get in contact with the real George Clooney! Even though Tate was single at the time, he turned down the offer because it didn't seem like the right thing to do.


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Shock! David Osterberg doesn't like the 4.5% flat Iowa Income tax proposal! State Tax Notes tracked down former Senate Candidate and Cornell College Econ Prof* David Osterberg for his views on the proposal to create a flat 4.5% income tax in Iowa alongside the current income tax. Not surprisingly, he doesn't like it ($link):
The founder and executive director of the Iowa Policy Project said a Republican-sponsored House bill to create a flat personal income tax option would shift more of the tax burden to low-income residents.
But David Osterberg said he is not too concerned because he doesn't think the proposal has a shot at passing the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority…The proposal is "part of this ideology that says we somehow have to take care of the top 1 percent and things will be good," Osterberg said. "I don't think low-income people believe that — we sure don't."
State Tax Notes also tracked down Tax Foundation Economist Elizabeth Malm:
"Iowa's current income tax system has nine brackets, with rates ranging from 0.36 percent of income to 8.98 percent of income," Malm said in an e-mail to Tax Analysts. "In 2012, this made Iowa the fifth highest top income tax rate in the country, among those states that levy PITs."
Without additional information, Malm declined to say whether the plan is regressive. She did say, however, that the proposal would fail to simplify the tax code because it keeps the current system intact.
"I'm guessing the rationale behind allowing taxpayers to choose between the two systems is to ease concerns that the flat 4.5 rate would hit low-income individuals harder," Malm said.
Wrong guess. The rationale is almost surely to avoid provoking the powerful lobby group Iowans for Tax Relief, which holds sacred the current Iowa individual deduction for federal taxes paid. Proposing the flat tax as an alternative, rather than a replacement, finesses that problem — but at the cost of adding more complexity. In this form, the flat tax is what I call an "Alternative Maximum Tax."
*Disclosure: I once borrowed his shotgun at Cornell. It had dust bunnies in the tubes.
David Brunori, Who Pays? Who Cares? You Should (Tax.com):
No matter your views on government, there is no justification for asking the poor to pay more than the rich. I do not favor dramatically increasing the tax burdens on the wealthy, particularly income tax burdens. But there are a lot of policies that can be enacted that could even the playing field. Broader base consumption taxes, less reliance on excise taxes, and larger income exemptions for low wage taxpayers would go a long way.
None of these are incompatible with lower top tax rates.
Tracy Gordon, The Downside of States as Laboratories for Tax Reform (TaxVox)
Needed, but impossible. Tax Notes has a sad-but-true headline that brilliantly summarizes the state of our national tax policy: Urban Institute Panelists Agree Tax Reform Necessary but Unlikely. ($link)
Linda Beale, More on PTINs for previously unregulated tax return preparers:
We have seen considerable evidence of tax return preparers who do not understand the tax laws or who intentionally misapply them (in the home office deduction, etc.). It is imperative that those who assist others in preparing tax returns demonstrate minimal competency in the tax law as demonstrated by the qualifying exam.
The "qualifying exam" is open book — really more of a literacy test. The IRS can make preparers show they can read. They can't make them competent. When you consider the Big 4 tax shelter scandals, and the hopeless complexity of the tax law, it's funny to say that the problem is really "people who do not understand the tax laws."
Peter Reilly, Future Baseball Commissioner Tackles Tax Laws As Complex As Infield Fly Rule
Tough tax return choice for 2012: Pay more now to save later? My new post at IowaBiz.com, the Des Moines Business Record Blog for Entrepreneurs, discussing whether maximizing 2012 deductions is really a good idea.
Jason Dinesen, Taxpayer Identity Theft — Part 12 . More Kafkaesque obstacles to resolving an identity theft for his client.
William Perez, IRS Provides Further Disaster Relief for Hurricane Sandy
Kay Bell, Tax Carnival #112: Super Bowl of Taxes
Jim Maule, Tax Ignorance As Persistent as Death and Taxes
Missouri Tax Guy: Missouri does not mail Form 1099-G. You have to get it online. One more little blow to tax compliance for small taxpayers.
Trish McIntire, Low Cost Tax Preparation Options
TaxGrrrl, U.S. Postal Service To Eliminate Saturday Delivery: Will It Save Tax Dollars? Next they'll shut down the Pony Express.
Patrick Temple-West, Waiting on the phone for the IRS, and more (Tax Break)
Ellen Kant, William McBride, Super Bowl Tax Bill (Tax Policy Blog)
Russ Fox, Will the Third Time be the Charm for Appeals? A case where the "independent" IRS appeals function failed twice.
Howard Gleckman, Can the Income Tax Fund the Government We Want? (TaxVox). I can't speak for "we," but it could easily cover all of the government I want.
The Critical Question: Et Tu, Sarkozy? (David Goulder, Tax.com)
If they can spell their address, tax cheating should be easy for them: Massapequa Restaurant Owners Sentenced for Tax Fraud (Massapequa Patch).
Isn't that conspiracy? Tax fraud: We have a plan, authorities say (Myfoxtampabay.com)
Screwed either way. Taxpayer Sues IRS, Claims Agent Coerced Him Into Having Sex to Avoid Adverse Audit (TaxProf).
But not hotirsagent.com? I guess there really are stupid easy ways to earn internet money. A Kansan found one, but then got in trouble by not paying his taxes. KFDI.com reports:
Dallen Harris, 39, pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion. He reported a taxable income of a little more than $164,000 in 2010, when it was actually more than $1 million.
Harris' income came from Internet domain names, according to court ecords from a related civil forfeiture case in federal court. The government is seeking to forfeit Harris' houses, cars and bank accounts in that case. The domain names included celebritysextape.tv, adultkingdom.net, Porntesters.com, hardcorefilms.tv, celebritynakedpic.com and sextape.com.
No, I won't link to any of those. It doesn't sound like they need any help generating traffic anyway.


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Public health researcher resolves to take 5 million steps in one year
With confidence in the value of exercise and a demanding academic regimen, Dr. Steve Blair is hardly the kind of person who needs a challenge to keep moving.
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Yet when his friend Dr. Martin Seligman announced his intention to take five million steps during 2009, something about that effort resonated with the Arnold School's 70-year-old exercise science expert.
Blair was already a member of an Internet-based "steps-per-day" group that Seligman, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist, had organized to encourage members to walk.
"I believe such Internet groups are one new technique that will save lives." said Seligman, whose five-million-step goal was the result of a New Year's resolution.
Seligman said the walkers, all sporting pedometers, numbered about a dozen from several walks of life, varying in age from 17 to 79.
"We'd email each other each day about the number of steps we'd taken," said Blair, who followed Seligman's daily progress reports until he decided, "By gosh, I think I'm going to do that, but I'm not going to wait until 2010, so I'll start on my (70th) birthday."
His birthday was this past July 4.
"The six-month mark was January 3, and I was a little more than a quarter-of-a-million steps ahead of pace," said Blair, a professor in the University of South Carolina's Department of Exercise Science and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Arnold School.
"We've still got a way to go, but unless I get sick or have an accident it's doable," he said.
Blair takes about 2,200 steps per mile, so he will log about 2,272 miles by the end of his quest. That's just a few more miles than the distance from Columbia to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Seligman writes about his five-million-step quest in his upcoming book, The Search for Well-Being.
"On December 30, 2009, I just crossed the five-million mark, and got 'Wows,' " and " 'What a role model' from my Internet friends."
"So effective is this group for exercise that I am now trying this out for dieting," Seligman writes. "Having failed at dieting once every year for 40 years and knowing the literature, which tells me that I am in the 80 to 95 percent who regains all the weight we lose, I am at it again."
Blair understands Seligman's goal to lose pounds, but the fact that the psychologist was "heavy" when he walked those five million steps underscores Blair's view that heft needn't necessarily weigh a person down.
In other words, fitness level is more important than weight, said Blair, a past president of the American College of Sports Medicine.
"My recommendation is to focus on good health habits, no matter what number you see on the scale," Blair said. "Give fruits, vegetables, and whole grains a major place in your daily diet. Be moderate about fat and alcohol. Don't smoke. Work on managing stress.
"Perhaps most important, get out of your chair and start walking for at least 30 minutes every day," said Blair, who said that with a little imagination and dedication even office workers can fit some exercise into their daily regimen.
For example, Blair takes breaks from his office at the Public Health Research Center to walk two blocks -- mainly uphill -- to visit colleagues at the Arnold School's Health Sciences Building.
So what's next? "I think I will continue to take steps at this rate for as long as I can. I also would like to get back on track with resistance training and flexibility training," he said.
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Tracy Morgan improving; no longer in critical condition
Tracy Morgan is doing better!
The comedian has been in critical condition ever since he was injured in a tragic car crash in New Jersey last week but doctors say he's on the road to recovery and his condition has been upgraded to "fair."
On Monday, his rep confirmed that he has been "upgraded to fair condition, which is a great improvement."
"His personality is certainly starting to come back as well," they added.
He still has a long way to go considering he suffered a broken leg, broken nose, broken femur and several broken ribs and remains in critical condition.
Let's hope he continues to heal and can overcome the trauma of losing his friend and mentor, Jimmy Mack.
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I may have posted this in the wrong section as I'm sure newbies do not know how to answer this.
Due to the lack of answers here from the security experts I'm assuming they think I (we) want to hack someone or something I shouldn't. I have my brothers permission and he has mine. As far as ISP TOS are concerned, Were not concerned. We will cross that bridge when we get there. Our ISP connections are our own and if we loose our accounts due to TOS violations then so be it. I see no better way of learning how to pentest a system in a real world enviroment than learning in a real world environment. Of course I'm completely open to suggestion as I may be going about this completely wrong. I do not want to loose my ISP service or be visited by one of the 3-letter people.
On to the question.
My brother and I are playing "Capture the flag" (Hacking each others computer) game(s). We have been doing this through LAN only but we would like to do this over the Internet due to limited time for work and family, also to learn more about pentesting.
So, my question is How would I scan/access his computer using nmap,nessus or whatever I choose since he is behind a router and I am as well.
I only want to access/scan/attack HIS system and not his family's.
Sorry for my cheezy graph below but it should help explain a little better.
|_____My System IP:192.168.100.2 (BackTrack 4 pre-final)
|___Router (WAN IP: 18.104.22.168 /// LAN IP: 192.168.100.1)
|_((((The InterNets))))
|___Router (WAN IP: 220.127.116.11 /// LAN IP: 192.168.100.1)
|_____(TARGET) His System IP:192.168.100.2 (Windows XP SP1)
|_______His Wifes System IP: 192.168.100.3
|_________His Daughters System IP: 192.168.100.4
So to recap, the question is: How to access/scan a computer system that is behind a router?
He has 3 active online systems (all 3 are WinXP) behind a router.
I have nmap'ed his IP which only shows 1 active host running (best guess) Linux so I know I'm only scanning his router.


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Hey everyone!
I competed last minutes in the US open in LA today.
I got a bronze.
The level of grappling over here is insane!
Seriously it was fucked up. Little children doing shit ive never seen ever.
i will post videos when i get back.
Unfortunatly i have only got the match i lost on film :( but it still a good demostration of how i got man handled by the crazy skilled americans.


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MAPLE VALLEY — King County sheriff's detectives have released a Maple Valley property owner after questioning him about shooting two suspected burglars.
A man died at the scene and a woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle in critical condition. She was shot once with a handgun.
King County sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West said the resident called 911 about 4 a.m. Friday to report he heard people and banging noises. He called back to say he shot two people who were trying to break into a cargo container.
Detectives are recommending the woman be charged with burglary.
West said the 66-year-old homeowner was not hurt. She said he has previously reported thefts and burglaries on his property where he has several sheds on about 10 acres.


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Jessica Simpson looks white hot in new Twitter pic
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(Yahoo!) - Oh baby! Only four and a half months after giving birth to her second child, Jessica Simpson is looking better than ever. The songstress turned fashion mogul tweeted out an Instagram pic on Friday, Nov. 15 that showed off her famous curves and newly whittled waist.
;) @JSCollection RT @nicole_chavez: Guess which mama I get to play dress up with today? #bts @ http://t.co/6I6kJ9Vf0T— Jessica Simpson (@JessicaSimpson) November 16, 2013
In the snapshot — which was taken to promote her JSimpson collection — the 33-year-old bombshell lounges seductively by the pool in what appears to be a white one-piece swimsuit with a plunging neckline. Though the image is artistically blurry, it's easy to see her hourglass shape and curtain of blond locks. In other words, her post-baby body is pretty much the bomb.
This reveal comes on the heels of her first full-body shot from her Weight Watchers commercial shoot. Clad in skinny jeans and a white button-down shirt, Jess looks happy and healthy as she stomps through some kind of… er… field. But the new poolside shot highlights her toned arms and flat abs even more.
And it seems that she's loving her new body as much as we are. Just a few weeks back, she was spotted on a date looking fierce in an impossibly tight black dress that hugged every inch of her. Arm-in-arm with Eric Johnson, she seemed pretty much ready to take over the world.
Perhaps, after receiving so much criticism for her body over the last few years (both while pregnant and not), Jess has finally gotten to a place where she is content with her shape and knows what she needs to do in order to look and feel her best. While we'll have to wait and see how her final physique turns out at the end of all of this, one thing is certain: Whatever she's doing these days, it's working.


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George StricklandBaseball PlayerS.J. Peters H.S./N.O. Pelicans/MLBInducted: 1980[Reprinted from the Times-Picayune, Feb. 23, 2010]George "Bo" Strickland, a big league shortstop for 10 seasons and a coach, manager and scout for 11 more, died on Feb. 21, 2010 at the age of 84.Strickland, a New Orleans native who was a standout baseball player at S.J. Peters High School in the early 1940s and played two seasons with the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association, was one of the city's more celebrated players.He also was one of the more provocative speakers among a group of retired local athletes who met once a week for lunch and some good-old-days conversation.Strickland often was the life of the party."Everybody wanted to sit near George at those things," said local baseball historian Peter Barrouquere, a former Times-Picayune reporter. "He told the most amazing stories. When (Hall of Fame pitcher) Bob Lemon passed away, he kept us going for 3 1/2 hours with Bob Lemon stories. He had us in stitches."Mel Parnell, a former All-Star pitcher with the Boston Red Sox and a high school teammate of Strickland, agreed."It was great getting together like that because we had a mixture of athletes," Parnell said. "We have baseball, football, basketball, a boxing referee and a race horse trainer. And we all talked about our profession. We would bring up stories about our playing days, which were interesting."Strickland had much to talk about.After graduating from high school, Strickland served in the Navy in 1944 and '45. He then spent five years in the minor leagues, including two seasons with the Pelicans, before making his major league debut in 1950.Strickland played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1950-52) and Cleveland Indians (1952-57, 1959-60).The highlight of his career came during his days with the Indians. As the starting shortstop, he helped the Indians win a record 111 games in the American League and advance to the World Series in 1954. The following year, he led all shortstops in fielding and had a .284 batting average.Regarded as a defensive specialist, he led AL shortstops in double plays in 1953 and in fielding in 1955. He also shared the major league record for shortstops involved in double plays in a game (five) in 1952.He finished his career with a fielding average of .965 and was in on 558 double plays. In 1955, he led all big league shortstops with a .976 fielding percentage. He finished his career with a .224 batting average, 36 homers and 284 RBIs."Strickland was one of the better shortstops in the American League during the time he played," Parnell said. "He was a very smooth fielder and handled the ball very well. He was just a very good, outstanding baseball player."Knowing George as a kid in high school, I had a lot of respect for him. He was a great individual, a good person. He was really a class act and a guy I always enjoyed being with. I wished we could have been teammates in the big leagues. But as it happened, we weren't. We were opponents, but we always had a lot of respect for each other."After his playing days, he twice served as Cleveland's interim manager in 1964 and 1966, compiling a 33-39 record.Strickland was elected to the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2006, the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Diamond Club of New Orleans Hall of Fame in 1968.But as talented of a player and coach as he was, friends said Strickland was an even better person."He was a great human being, a very religious man," said Strickland's longtime friend and former Tulane baseball coach Milt Retif, who was with Strickland the day before he died. "He was just a great man."
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Adrien Belew leaves Nine Inch Nails
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Nine Inch Nails are once again down a man. Multi-instrumentalist and King Crimson frontman Adrian Belew posted a message on Facebook Thursday explaining that his addition to Trent Reznor's band "just was not working."
Belew said "no one is at fault" for his depature, adding that he and Reznor agreed to go their separate ways. Belew says he's sorry to disappoint any fans looking forward to seeing him at the band's upcoming concerts, but he knows Nine Inch Nails will still put on an "amazing show." He also says he still greatly respects Reznor and the music he makes.
Belew's exit comes less than a month after bassist Eric Avery decided not to tour with the band. However, the opening left by Avery was quickly filled by longtime Nine Inch Nails associate Robin Finck.
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Attorneys General Delaney and Sorrell Will Meet on the Norwich/Hanover Bridge on May 14th for
the Eleventh Perambulation of the NH/VT Boundary
As directed by their respective legislatures of some 69 years ago, New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney and Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell will meet at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, May 14 to "perambulate" the Vermont- New Hampshire border. The event will occur on the bridge that spans the Connecticut River between Norwich, VT and Hanover, NH.
Under both New Hampshire and Vermont law, the Attorneys General are required to meet and "perambulate" the border between their respective states once every seven years to assure that all markers and monuments of the boundary between the states are properly renewed and maintained. The perambulation laws, passed by both states in 1935, ended some 18 years of litigation between the two states over where the boundary line between the states should be located.
In 1917 a border dispute arose when New Hampshire officials attempted to tax a paper mill that was located partially in the riverbed of the Connecticut River adjacent to Bellows Falls, VT. At the time Vermont had claimed that its border extended to the centerline of the river. Some eighteen years later, the dispute was finally resolved when a Special Master appointed by the United States Supreme Court ruled that the boundary was the low-water mark on the Vermont side of the river. Both states immediately passed laws to insure that the boundary monuments would be positioned and maintained in perpetuity. This year marks the 11th time that the states have perambulated the border.
Representatives of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation and the Vermont Agency of Transportation will accompany the Attorneys General. Paul Hodge, the Chief of Survey for the Vermont Agency of Transportation will represent the Agency on behalf of the Green Mountain State. Ted Bennetter, Survey Supervisor, will represent the Granite State's Department of Transportation.
Members of the press are invited to attend. The event will occur at the survey marker in the sidewalk on the northwest corner (near the Vermont shore) of the Norwich/Hanover bridge.


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Fox Confuses The Security Of The President With The Right To Vote
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Fox made a dishonest comparison between checking ID for security purposes at the Democratic Convention to push for laws that disenfranchise people by requiring them to show photo ID before casting a vote.
Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson said that Democrats are guilty of a "double standard" because they support the repeal of states voter ID laws while at the same time, they require members of the press attending the Democratic National Convention to show identification three times.
But there is no hypocrisy at work here. The requirement that the press covering the convention show ID is based on the need to provide for the security of the president, while the stance on voter ID is based on opposition to laws that interfere with the ability of eligible Americans to exercise their constitutional right to vote. These laws have been found to discriminate against the poor and members of racial minorities. Indeed, even staunch voter ID law proponent J. Christian Adams has called similar comparisons "silly and constitutionally incorrect."
The right to vote free of discrimination on the basis of race is protected by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, but voter ID laws have been proven to discriminate against racial minorities.
A federal court recently found that Texas' voter ID law violated the Voting Rights Act because it discriminated against African Americans and Latinos. As detailed by law professor Joey Fishkin, the court found that obtaining the ID costs money, requires people to take time off work to obtain the ID and requires people who may not have access to a car to travel long distances to obtain said ID. As a result, the court found that "many Hispanics and African Americans who voted in the last election will, because of the burdens imposed by [the new voter ID law], likely be unable to vote in the next election."
The court also found that Texas had produced "virtually no evidence of in-person voter fraud in Texas," the only type of election fraud against which voter fraud protects. This is in line with a long line of studies finding virtually no evidence of this kind of fraud.
So this is what Democrats oppose when they oppose voter ID laws: discriminatory laws that deprive people of their constitutional rights. By contrast, these are the ID requirements for members of the press as mentioned by the Fox & Friends co-hosts, requirements which are geared toward protecting President Obama and other elected officials during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte:
- "At the security entrance." When passing through a security checkpoint, members of the press must show their identification in order to assure that only those members of the press who have been granted press credentials are allowed inside convention events.
- "When receiving press credentials." Members of the press will be required to show identification to assure that press credentials actually make it into the hands of the members of the press to whom they are assigned.
- "To cover events on Thursday night." Members of the press are asked to show identification on Thursday night when the President of the United States is in attendance. This is standard procedure with the president in attendance, as is passing through security checkpoints that often include metal detectors.
This is all part of a pattern at Fox. The network has repeatedly voiced its support for voter ID laws. Likewise, Fox has pushed the fallacy that photo ID should be required to vote because it is required to drive, buy liquor, rent a video at Blockbuster, purchase Sudafed, or attend a Michelle Obama book signing.
As much as Fox would like to pretend otherwise, it is not hypocritical to require ID to protect the safety of the president while at the same time opposing laws that discriminate and disenfranchise eligible American voters.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) an action may be brought by any person against any Indian or the heirs of any Indian, and/or the unknown heirs, devisees, or assigns of any Indian, who was or were granted, or was or were to have granted to him or them, land by virtue of a treaty between the United States and the Delaware Indians, dated October 3, 1818 (7 Stat. 188), which contained a condition that such lands should never be conveyed or transferred without the approbation of the President of the United States, for the purpose of determining and quieting the question of title to such land, in cases where there is no deed or record showing a conveyance by the Indian, or his heirs, to whom the land was granted, and where the records of the county in which the land is located show that the present record owners, or their grantees, immediate and remote, have claimed title to said land and have paid the taxes on said land for more than seventy-five years.
(b) Such actions may be brought in the State courts having jurisdiction, in the county in which such real estate is located, to hear actions to quiet title, shall be brought in the same manner and under the same rules as other suits may be brought to quiet title where there is a defect in the record title to real estate, and service may be had on the Indian, or his heirs, to whom the real estate was granted, and/or his unknown heirs and assigns, in the same manner as service may be acquired upon persons generally, and their unknown heirs and assigns, in suits to quiet title in such State court, the same as though such treaty had not contained any condition or requirement with respect to securing the approbation of the President of the United States prior to the making of any conveyance or transfer of such lands, the same as though such Indians had never been wards of the United States, and regardless of whether or not the heirs of such Indians are now wards of the United States.
(c) Any Indian who is now a ward of the Government of the United States who may or might have any right, interest, or title in or to any of the lands granted to an Indian or Indians under such treaty shall assert such right, title, or interest not later than September 1, 1948, if such right, title, or interest would be barred or extinguished except for the fact that such Indian is a ward of the Government of the United States; and any such right, title, or interest which otherwise would be barred, shall not be asserted after September 1, 1948.
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GSA and Veterans Affairs Merge Energy Supply and Management FunctionsNew Addition Allows GSA to Expand Services, Save Millions of Dollars Each Year
March 2, 1999
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WASHINGTON, DC -- This week the Department of Veterans Affairs transferred control of the National Utilities Management Program (NUMP) to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). This transfer allows GSA to continue to serve as the federal government's leader in energy management and positions the agency to further decrease federal agencies' energy costs.
"The staff and program that have been transferred from the Department of Veterans Affairs have a proven track record and will provide a strong core on which to build a complete range of cost-effective utility procurement services," said GSA Administrator Dave Barram.
After the Department of Veterans Affairs determined that NUMP was not part of the agency's core mission, GSA's Energy Center of Expertise reviewed the program and determined it would provide a unique opportunity to concentrate all GSA utility procurement requirements in a single well-run organization. Former NUMP staff will report to the Energy Center of Expertise. Staff and functions will be combined with the Public Utilities Section, now renamed The National Center for Utilities Management, which will procure all energy and water utilities.
GSA's Energy Center of Expertise works continually to reduce utility costs by promoting optimal energy use while protecting the environment and ensuring a quality workspace for its Federal clients.
Bringing NUMP to GSA will allow the agency to better compete in the deregulated industry environment. GSA's services will be broadened to provide natural gas and management services to NUMP's customers, including the Bureau of the Mint, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. GSA will continue to provide high quality, low cost electricity and energy management to its federal customers, as well as continue to provide competitive electricity to agencies in states where the electric industry is deregulated.
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Pisgah Forest, N.C. - The Brevard College men's golf team wrapped up their first tournament of the 2008 fall season on Monday afternoon, as the Tornados placed two teams in the top-five of the final team standings at the Glen Cannon Fall Invitational. Brevard "A" team took first-place in the event, carding a combined two round team score of 597.
The "A" Team edged out second-place finisher Cape Fear CC (600) by three strokes. The Brevard College "B" team turned in a fifth-place showing, carding a two round combined team score of 623.
The Tornados were led by freshmen Joshua Davis and Bret McGaughey as both finished in the top-five overall and earned a spot on the all tournament team. Davis, who carded a round of 72, even par on Sunday, finished with a round of 74, +2 on Monday to force a playoff with Cape Fear CC's Landon Pearson. Davis won in the second playoff hole to medal and pick up the first-place finish overall. McGaughey, who was in a three-way tie for first with a low round of 71, -1, heading into play on Monday morning, turned in a solid round of 76, +4, to finish in a tie for third-place overall in his first intercolleigate tournament.
Juniors Grant Carnie and Thomas Bush, who both finished just outside of the top-10, turned in a two day combined score of 151 and 153, respectively, to help push team "A" to the top for the overall team victory. Senior Craig Galloway rounded out the scoring for the Tornados "A" team with a combined two round score of 161.
Brevard team "B" did not disappoint as the Tornados played strong down the stretch to finish fifth-place overall.
Senior Myles Johnston turned in two rounds of 75, to finish tied for ninth-place overall with his combined team score of 150. Fellow senior Chris White carded a two day score of 154, while newcomers Joshua Nelson and Thomas Rennie turned in scores of 158 and 161, respectively, for the tournament. Sophomore Jesse Merritt also was a part of team "B", shooting a two round score of 183 over the event.
Right behind the Tornados was Cape Fear CC, who turned in a 600 over the two day event. Mars Hill finished third with a score of 605, while Tri-Count CC finished in fourth-place with a score of 616.
Individually behind BC's Davis and Cape Fear CC's Pearson was a three-way tie between the Tornados McGaughey, Montreat's Nathan Blankenship and Cape Fear's Matt Lawson, who all shot 147 for the tournament.
The Tornados will next be in action on Monday, September 22, when they will compete in the Webber Fall Invitational in Babson Park, Florida.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1344892:MV8xNjA3NjQxXzI2NTYzMTQ4XzdDMjcxQzQw] Nobody in Particular: Have you red the second book: THE DOMAIN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE RESCUE MISSION? [/quote]
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The purpose of this thread is discussion around the Alien Interview that took place back in the times of Roswell crashes. I just learned of this book a few days ago as somebody posted it in one of my threads.
Now at the time of the Roswell crash, there were two craft that came down some distance apart. each as a survivor. Most of you may have read something of EBE who survived until about 1951,. EBE was a PLANT person and a member of a group who had come here to help man deal with the increasing issues of carbon dioxide. Yes there are PLANT people as planets vary greatly in the intelligence walking being that evolves out of them. ATmospheres, densities, pressures, temperature vary. You might want to google Roswell crash and EBE. It was thought EBE was a gray by many readers but not so.
This crash had one survivor also that lived fine for several weeks, and then there was an attempt to disengage the soul or murder, whatever. This person was a gray, and it's not correct totally to say a gray, because it's just a body type, and a synthetic one at that, that is use a great deal by immortal spirit beings to travel the cosmos. it actually comes in most of the colors of the rainbow and while.
Here is an example of the more white tall "gray" used by very ADVANCED "angelic origin" beings. :Aton, sort of: In fact those of you that read my stuff from and about MIchael of Nebadon/ATON, this is the body type he is using for this mission. He is a spirit being and must walk this plane and he is often all over the place in craft and it suits his needs. At one time I did a work on this, in which we called this type of form, the "casper the friendly ghost form", as many people did watch those cartoons long ago and you will remember that nasty ghosts in the story had a more nasty form. there was great truth there. Aton's form for his return is about 9 1/2 feet or 3 meters tall. I have met him and this form is more muscular and he can actually intake small amounts of food, and uses a formula for nutrition, intaking liquid light with other substances to nourish the form. Many of your guardian angels use these types of forms. You will much better understand it when you read what it is. In fact the all do, and some of you have gray visits are being visited by both friends and guardian angels.
At any rate, if you choose to read this book I am posting, you will get a much better idea of what the body does. Some think these ones don't have souls. Yes they do, but there is also a form created as a slave form by such as the Orions, that is not ensouled in the meaning of the world. And I can discuss that more later.
I need to shower and tend an appointment, but I decided to go ahead with this project as there is interest.
Here's the pdf file. Its free, but I also purchased a copy, feeling I owe the author if I am going to teach, to not use a possibly pirated copy. It's only $5.
link to www.theparacast.com
] if you use google and "alien interview' you will discover lots of free pdf's. and also the original website.
I am also going to get a link to a thread here, where there has already been some discussion because I posted the link in it. The reason I posted in it, is I sensed a bit of fear in the poster who had some gray experiences. I think I will move my posts from that thread to this one later today.
Thread: Last Year I was a Foot Away From a Gray Alien, Twice
I think READING this book will enlighten anyone of interest and perhaps reduce the fear. The alien is a lovely being and the person who spent weeks with her gathering information, was an army nurse at the time. I can probably answer most to all questions which might come up. Now the file seems big, it is a book but the first 1/2 is the story and the 2nd 1/2 is annotations and foot notes. I may or may not be back to the thread tonight, more likely tomorrow.
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