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By Robert Emrich / Special to MLB.com | April 26, 2012 8:08 PM ET
The Royals' No. 2 prospect was 3-for-4 with a homer and two runs scored as Northwest Arkansas beat Springfield, 6-3, on Thursday.
Myers, who finished a triple shy of the cycle, hit a solo homer over the left-field wall in the third inning. After doubling in the fifth, he singled and scored on Mario Lisson's RBI two-bagger in the seventh.
"I feel pretty good at the plate," Myers said. "At the beginning of the year, I was pulling on some balls. Now I'm trying to stay to the center of the field and it's paying off for me."
Myers homered for the second straight game and has a hit in 17 of the 18 games he's played this season. The 2009 third-round pick is batting .342 with six homers and 14 RBIs for the Naturals. Contrast that with his numbers from 2011, when he slugged eight homers and drove in 49 runs the entire season.
"I definitely learned a lot from my 2011 season," Myers said. "I learned how to deal with failure and what to do when that happens. Last season was the best as far as learning curve. It was big."
Myers credits a stint in the prospect-laden Arizona Fall League for helping to prepare him for this season. The North Carolina native batted .360 with a 1.156 OPS in 23 games for Surprise and was named to the Rising Stars Game.
"I went to the fall league and went back to the basics as far as hitting," Myers said. "I was real proud of myself rebounding after that. I could have laid down but I felt like I had something prove going into the Fall League, and I was able to do that."
After driving in a career-high five runs on April 14, Myers developed strep throat and was out of action for two days.
"That was tough coming off that game and having to miss time," the 21-year-old outfielder said. "It's never good to miss time during the season because it throws you off. A couple of games after that, I didn't do so well and I'm just trying to get back on track."
Lisson doubled twice and drove in three runs while Rey Navarro collected three runs as the Naturals won their fourth straight game.
Oscar Taveras, the Cardinals' No. 3 prospect, was 2-for-4 with a solo homer to raise his average to .321 for Springfield.
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1. The scale on the nav map display seems to be horribly wrong. I used to be a practicing geologist and make maps for a living and I can tell you something is not right.
2. What in terms of software do I need to get upgraded? Nav is upgraded but anything else?
3. How do I determine if I have bmw apps. I am going to wait until after the first of the year and get the iPhone 5 dock for the center consol.
4. How do I register the car to my self I.e. Associate it with my email address so I can send google maps to it. Last 5 series they help me at the dealership.
5. Going for a service tomorrow with 35k on the odo. Should I have anything done. Computer is telling me 11k before service.
Thanks all.
2010 550GT, 2013 X5 w/ M-Sport.
Having picked up my vehicle in Germany, I will tell you that the maps there were spot on.
I asked, and never got an answer from corporate, either in the USA, nor Germany when I asked about it being off here. Personally, I think that the nav program is not keyed to the same datum/spheroid as the map data. This could easily be why things don't register properly. I've learned to ignore the distance warnings. I will say that while on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on some back roads, when I finally turned onto a road that was in the database, I was able to drive for about 1/2-mile before it moved to 'keep on road' logic - basically, the car's indicated trail was paralleling the actual road, then jumped over after awhile to be on the road. This can make it messy if there are roads close to each other! For what they charge for the thing, I think they failed. Knowing it worked fine in Europe, just makes it more annoying. When you have a route active, it will show you the curves in the road (not just the turns)...in Germany, they were spot on...start a curve, the arrow would precede it by just enough...same when it straightened out...it would go back to straight ahead just before the curve ended. It's pretty useless here.
I do not know if the base map logic has been updated...last time I asked, there had been no changes. If you do find they've resolved this, let me know!
The map database you can update yourself...there are several threads on how to do this. The least expensive way is to download the database, and buy a key (about $50 or so). The instructions are pretty straightforward...get the proper files on a USB drive, slap it into the port in the glovebox, enter the code when asked, then update the data to the next disk until done. You can buy the map data from an online dealer (branded BMW) on a 32G usb drive, for around $50 if you dont' want to deal with downloading the 23G or so of data and shuffling drives in and out. The first edition of the 2014 maps has been out for about a month.
If the vehicle is still under warranty, the dealer should be able to transfer the stuff to you. If not, you may need to call them yourself. Mine was new to me, not a used vehicle, so I do not know the procedure.
There are things that should be serviced based on time (things like the brake fluid, coolant, etc.) and others based on miles. Unless you want to pay for it, the service advisor will tell you what will be done for free. My dealer will do a free oil change at 12-months, regardless of mileage, if that hadn't triggered it. Don't know if that's a corporate thing, or just my dealer.
To send locations to your car, you need to setup a BMW Assist account. Call them during business hours and they can get you setup: (888) 333-6118
You will need the VIN of the car and an email account.
As for BMW Apps, try putting your VIN into one of those (free) VIN search websites:
BMW Assist can do it as well.
2014 535i GT M Sport Glacier, Mocha, ZDA, ZDB, ZDH, ZPP, 2VH, 416, 456, 4CK
Soon you will have to be a member of Google to use the maps to car, but as for now you do not. Create your trip to points A, B, C, D or just A and B, Place the Arrow over the A rick click mouse. On the POP up Click on MORE bottom right then down to send. Now another pop up look for CAR on left select BMW.
Then your car phone number and maps send.
Good luck
As to your question about maps, I never noticed. We did buy a GPS to take with us on out of town trips. Let me make this short. When rented in car GPS rent would run $15. a day and after two weeks almost $400 dollars. Now we take about nine trips per year to places all over the USA. So we now have our own GPS and we soon noticed the BMW was tracking two MILES slower than the GPS or the GPS was two MPH faster. I did enjoy the once loved ability of going to Google maps and planning a trips and making roadway selections and changes. YES, I could make road changes and when I sent the created Google map to my BMW my roads changes were there and fun to drive. Now Because of some problems after an install, I have to call BMW service for a track and 90% of the time it is never the roadway I want to drive. As for now I have nothing, no maps, no messages and no selected planed out road trips. OH well, hey the car drives well. My wife's BMW, has her messages appearing from Iphone directly into BMW messaging in her vehicle and the car reads to her the posted messages.
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A few more observations about the 550 GT and I will post some pics soon.
1. Need to be able to extend the visor when deployed to the side windows.
2. Still miss unlock button on the door.
3. Need much larger gas tank...or lighter foot.
The 550 GT motor is mesmerizing. The rush of acceleration is electric.
Lane departure, blind spot and night vision are a waste of money.
Wish I had adaptive cruise control instead.
Heads up display is quite useful.
iDrive is great and highly underrated.
2010 550GT, 2013 X5 w/ M-Sport.
Adaptive Cruise control with stop & go plus lane departure are a great combination for reducing stress on the highway. The LD gives you notice of any drift caused by distraction and the stop & go will detect the traffic slowdown or stop as fast as you, sooner if you are distracted. The highways here in SoFla are treacherous, I love the combo of the two features.
2014 535i GT M Sport Glacier, Mocha, ZDA, ZDB, ZDH, ZPP, 2VH, 416, 456, 4CK
I can can certainly understand the arguments. I do wish I had adaptive cruise control. Had it on my Ford Taurus SHO. Very nice. The newest iterations that allow you to limp on traffic are very appealing. I am picking up a 2012 X5 V8 with the M Sport Package for my wife on Friday. Her Yukon XL has 108k miles on it and she really likes my GT. The X5 has third row, ventilated seats, premium as well as the M Sport. Wish it had the soft close doors and premium seats but oh well. Good deal. 23k miles. White with tan interior. Will post pics of the two cars.
2010 550GT, 2013 X5 w/ M-Sport.
I'd like to see those photos. Feel free to add them to my thread "I parked next to a little car" where I collect photos of my GT and other BMWs.
2014 535i GT M Sport Glacier, Mocha, ZDA, ZDB, ZDH, ZPP, 2VH, 416, 456, 4CK
I am getting to the pics. I promised my wife I would have it detailed. One general observation and I would never tell my wife this is that the build quality of my GT is so much better. I love the raw and raucous feel of the v8 x5 but my GT is such a more refined and overall better ride that I am truly surprised at the delta. No regrets on the X5 mind you.
2010 550GT, 2013 X5 w/ M-Sport.
It's likely that the ride quality stems from the 'bones'...the GT is built off their most expensive chassis. As things progress, though, the chassis sharing is getting more extensive.
When CFR gets introduced for more parts, it could be a major change in dynamics.
The X5 M has a wonderfully aggressive look. It is hard to take the center of gravity down to where the GT operates. The truth of the matter is that many of us have owned SUV's at some point over the last decade. I have no doubt that the X5 M handles like an M roadster compared to a Tahoe or an Expedition. Those M wheels usually give the X5 an out of this world lunar rover look. Best of luck.
I rides great, growls and overall sounds like a muscle car. Wifey already nicked a rim. After we had a 1/2, literally, hour discussion on the topic and the dangers. No luck but thanks for the wishes.
2010 550GT, 2013 X5 w/ M-Sport.
Regarding the OP's question about the scale of the maps being way off. I think what the scale means - 0.25 mls, 800ft, etc. - is that the circle surrounding the arrow representing you on the map has a radius of that scale. So, when you choose 2.5 mls, for example, everything in the circle is within 2.5 miles of you. I use this feature often to estimate the distance to a gas station ahead. I scroll through the scales until the gas station is within the circle, the I know about how far ahead it is. Annoyingly, for no obvious reason, some POI's disappear at some scales. This technique only seems to work up to the 2.5 mile scale.
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I got a 2014 530d GT. With just about every option you can get. Now I avoided x-drive as I just have no need for it, but could see its benefits. I also avoided the 4 wheel steering, as again the cost was not worth what I would get from it, but now I'm not 100% sure and think I would pay for it. So many tight corners and I swear cars are bigger and parking spots are smaller.
Driving Assistant Plus - massive thumbs up (even if Australia does not allow the self-drive function and I only get the stop and go) P.S. See other posts for my crappy experience buying a new car.
I have lock and unlock on the door with comfort access .
Watch out if you get the M-pack as you lose the foot opener on the rear. Also I think you lose the blind spot detection.
Comfort Access was a must have for me, hate having to press the dam key or find it I cant waste those few seconds LOL. If its in my wifes hand bag forgot it, its lost forever.
comfort seats, nice but could have gone without. Will be a person thing. One point here in Australia they stung me for Comfort Access seats and Lumbar Support. I heard that in the US this is not needed. Who knows just another way to get more money out of me.
Would like to know if anyone got the massage function I just saw that as a major will go wrong and cost me thousands to repair item I would not use that much.
TV function not for what that they want to charge. And I was glad I didnt as it was only after I learnt that you could watch videos on the professional screen by default. Stupid salesperson told me you couldnt. Jezz I really hate knowing he got a commission from me. But I feel better knowing I gave him a 1/5 in the BMW survey, and followed up with a 1 page rant on why he should be fired.
DAB - Really nice but I was let down that our coverage in AUS is metro only. really annoying as I wanted it for country drives.
Lane departure - is a gentle reminder, OK you can live without it. lets face it if they were to do this properly it would stop the car if you really drifted out and there was no response from the wheel, but as we got none of that its OK but if you want to save money you could cut this out.
Blind spot detection was better on my Mazda, but it works and you feel the steering wheel more than you see the side mirror triangle warning.
Night vision - I go the pedestrian recognition and spot light option. Bit of a letdown. Not that accurate and I have not had the car long enough to see if it really will work and stop the car if I am about to hit someone. But if it does then hell it was well worth it. The fact that you need to press a button to see the screen and leave it on is a bit weird. Im not even sure if its active if I have the screen off. Goes to show how much the salesman told me. Even the manual is not clear. Perhaps someone can tell me.
Seat heating I got it, have not used it yet, and guess I could do without it. It does not get that cold. But is great if you have a sore back.
Climate Comfort windscreen must have for Australia if you park outside or drive a lot. Really does keep the car a lot cooler and Im guessing a lot safer for you just make sure your insurance covers that we well.
Surround View took me a while to get to know how to use it properly but now I love it.
Adaptive Drive I read someone in a forum who said its a must have for a GT, due to the size and weight. As I have never driven one without it, I guess I cant really comment. I was expecting something better, but perhaps I was thinking of hydraulic suspension across all 4 wheels.
Adaptive headlights Now this is some cool tech. I do a few 3-4 hour drives along a coastal road and some country driving. Now I do it all at night. This is like a dam Christmas tree going off. OK Im geeking gout here but frig I love this option. Its just so cool to see the lights adapting all the time.
Harman/Kardon Speaker System nice. Was really glad I did not settle on the standard sound system. I would have felt like I lost out there. Im sure people who get the B&O system are smiling and thinking you have no idea what sound it until you have a B&O. but sadly I did not have $12,000 extra to spend.
iPad holders - for kids. Nice but hell I hope the seat belts stop them before their heads hit the iPads. for my money they stick out too far. They are OK, but as it took 6 months for my car to arrive I had updated ipad's by then and had to put the older ones back in.
Samsung S4 phone clip in holder - Would have been good, but again I upgraded 3 days before I took delivery to the S5, so never got to use it.
In car internet - I ordered it but found out its only 3G, we have mostly 4G, so although good I found my dealer had a just as good stand-a-lone solution that I stuck in the trunk, and powered via the lighter socket.
Wow OK I did have some time to kill... I'll stop now.
In the USA, the comfort seats come with the motors - they only work on the seat cushion, and aren't like that in some other vehicles that also have them in the back. It helps on long distances not so much as a massage, but to help prevent circulation issues. It's sort of a side to side thing that runs front to back along one side, then does it on the other. The main reason I bought the option was for the adjustable thigh support - it helps when you're taller than average.
I'll throw in on some of 2014 5GT's comments because they're good stuff:
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FWIW, you can get rear seat heating without losing the center position with the console, but it is not as complete a package as if you do. Someone had said (I haven't looked) that they no longer offer that in the USA as an option. Rear seat heating, though, is available, and is wonderful when getting into a cold car for anyone involved.
Chemlite, I like the way you posted your reply...did you simply change the font color and add your text within the quote?
I wish we had surround view as we have performed wheel customization on at least three occasions already
The one option I was unwilling to compromise on was the ventilated seats since we routinely exceed 100F in the summer (last summer had 1month+ where the temperature stayed above 100 until 9pm most nights). That being said the Comfort Seats w/ Nappa leather are the best feature for making this a long road trip vehicle. As others have stated the massaging feature makes for amazing saddle time.
I would like to add the wonderful heated steering wheel in the cold weather package. Prior to this winter (unseasonably cold) I would never have thought the cost was justifiable, but it is so nice to get into your car and in less time than your heat kicks on your hands are already warm...heaven!
There's no need to panic until it is time to panic.
Easy Breezy.
I had a couple of Saabs way back in the 80's, and they automatically turned the seat heaters on and the rear window defroster based on the outside temp when the car started. They turned off once the car got warm, but you could turn them on again, if needed at any time. The heated steering wheel is nice, but I don't use it all that much even though we did have a nasty winter this year. Maybe, if the car wasn't parked in a warm garage, it would get used more often.
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Here's a quick take on the current happenings within the organization. If you have questions/comments on anything I've listed below (or anything I accidently ommitted) then please ask. My apologies for not getting this out sooner - life has been busy for all of us!
DNR WMAs
While the outlook is not good for getting caches back into WMAs, we are currently waiting for the DNR to evaluate the data that we've given them.
Dakota County
Dakota County does not have a policy in place at this time. One of our members worked with them a fair amount to present them with data they needed to make an informed policy, although Dakota County eventually never got back to us about the policy. It is our feeling that, given the fact that there is no policy in place at the time and we are not having problems with caching in the county, that we would not continue to pester them to make a policy. We are very open to assisting them in creating a policy, but our feeling is that they aren't ready to make one at this time.
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Caching was banned in Eden Prairie and a policy is now in place to allow caches there. Details of the policy can be found
. Thanks to everyone who participated and assisted in making this happen, especially to dornole who took the lead on the project!
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I received an email today from a program supervisor with Anoka County parks that is working on creating a 'virtual' geocaching program there (we've spoken a number of times via email about caching in Anoka County). Anoka County feels that it needs more information on caching, which is a stance they took last year as well. This year they are developing a 'virtual' geocaching program to be run in-house for visitors. What I've been told is that the park board/commission there is not willing to move forward on caching at this time and wants more information on the topic. Again, this is the same response we got from them last year.
feeling that this will eventually lead to the outcome we are desiring, it's just going to take a while to get there. I know that there are some who want to bypass the park board and go higher up the chain of command in Anoka County - it's
feeling that doing so will burn bridges with the park board/commission that we don't want to do. I'm open to discussion/comments from the membership about this.
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The fall event will be held this year at Wild River State Park, about 10 miles east of North Branch. The event will be held October 6th, with a membership meeting and elections. We're hoping to get the cache page finished and published this weekend.
We are planning on having a number of permanent caches (loggable on gc.com) available to hunt for the weekend (and beyond) instead of temporary caches this year.
Nominations will start very soon - I'll be posting about that in the next day or so in the "Members Only" area of the forums.
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Pear Head and friends,
Don't know if this is old news or not.
Had a recent conversation with another mngca member on this topic and he did not seem to be aware of DNR rules and regulations with regard to Wildlife Management Areas.
I believe "the rules" for these areas are actually passed by the Minnesota State Legislature and are not able to be revised or modified with out legislative approval.
When I was on the Minnesota Horse Council board of directors we actually found a State Senator and a couple State Representatives to work with to get legislative changes to allow the DNR to open previously closed areas up to horseback riding.
I believe the mngca would benefit from finding some legislative help in championing their cause as well.
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Da Bloodhound wrote:
Had a recent conversation with another mngca member on this topic and he did not seem to be aware of DNR rules and regulations with regard to Wildlife Management Areas.
I believe "the rules" for these areas are actually passed by the Minnesota State Legislature and are not able to be revised or modified with out legislative approval.
Thanks for the reply. Fortunately though this is not the case. The word "geocaching" does not (to my knowledge) appear anywhere in Minnesota Statutes.
It comes down to how the DNR interpret's their mission and the law in place with regards to personal property and such. It's the same story that we went through with the DNR with regards to State Parks, only now we're working with a different group of officials.
Thanks for the input!
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The 15-track collection contains 11 songs written or co-written by the frontman and features special guests Mark Knopfler, Emilio Estefan and Latin singer Fanny Lu. The album, which follows 2009's Buffet Hotel, was recorded this spring in several locations, including Key West, Nashville and St. Barths, and features the booze-and-beach jams "Somethin' 'Bout a Boat," "Einstein Was a Surfer" and the lead single, "Too Drunk to Karaoke," a duet with Toby Keith.
Jimmy has been performing songs from his new album, as well as all the Buffett classics, on his current 'Songs From St. Somewhere' tour.
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description: July 17, 2008—His eyes covered with metal plates, a thousand-year-old elite mummy has been found surrounded by unfamiliar artifacts—shedding light on a mysterious culture.

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Researchers have opened a well-preserved mummy in Peru, with some unusual findings under the wrappings.
National Geographic grantee and anthropologist Kit Nelson and Peruvian archaeologist Arturo Ruiz Estrada discovered the undisturbed mummy bundle buried in a tomb on the north central coast of Peru last year.
Nelson says the mummified male was an elite figure in the Chancay (CHAWN-keye) culture that occupied the area from about 1000 to 1500 AD.
They unwrapped the body last month.
Like most mummies from Peru’s central coast, the mummy was encased in multiple layers of exquisite textiles--- some tied or sewn with cotton string, and some tied in knots.
SOUNDBITE: Kit Nelson, Anthropologist  (edit as needed)
“So we’re going to start by undoing a set of knots….. this main knot.”
As the researchers peeled away each layer of textile, there were findings along the way…. What Nelson refers to as offerings--- placed between layers… a lone ball of white cotton on the left and right side of the mummy.
And several layers closer to the body, another ball of cotton on either side of the body- one white and one brown.
The team also found several bundles wrapped in gauze-like material- containing a bright red plant and pieces of metal.
And an empty woolen bag and loop of yarn in the mummy’s right hand, which was painted red.
But perhaps the most startling discovery came when they removed the wrappings over the man’s face:
SOUNDBITE: Kit Nelson, Anthropologist  (edit as needed)
“So, they would have painted his face red first, put down a thin layer of cotton, laid down the metal … then a thin layer of cotton, and then textile.”
A piece of metal over each eye and in the mouth, perhaps made of silver and copper.
The presence of metal, Nelson says, indicates the mummy is probably a person of significant status within the Chancay community.
Yet another offering was found next to the head---a 12-inch long wooden figurine dressed just like the mummy, and its carved face was painted red… also like the mummy’s.
Nelson says this is the first adult Chancay mummy excavated by anthropologists.  Others have likely been looted for their textiles.
The findings will help anthropologists learn more about the Chancay, a significant community in Peru’s pre-Columbian history of which little is known.


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Conflicts of InterestSeptember 15th, 2007
Weather: Cool and dry… The best of Minnesota in Autumn.
Road Conditions: Dry and congested… The worst of Minnesota Road Construction Season.
I've been a Bad Daddy…
That is the consensus between my girls, anyway. Summer is over, after all, and we never even went on vacation together. Not only that, but after a brief and unsuccessful early effort, I gave up on trying to teach Emily Rose to ride her bicycle without training wheels.
Too busy Rambling and writing about it, I guess. Guess hell… I know.
So we have arrived at this unhappy moment, where I must make a Choice:
1) Continue on as I have been, oblivious to the needs of my family and my home, or…
2) Suspend Rush Hour Rambling for awhile, so I can make the necessary repairs to my battered house and domestic relationships.
The house has had a rough year. Hail damaged the roof, and I haven't even called for an estimate yet. The basement has flooded repeatedly, due to the heavy rains we had in August. Mold is beginning to grow in the wreckage down there, and the smell is intruding upstairs. I have a hell of a mess to clean up, and that is directly analogous to my relationship with the girls.
They aren't very happy with me right now…
After taking delivery of my new Vespa GTS, I was overcome with creative spirit and the thrill of new adventures. Travel back through this blog to the early part of the season, and you will see what I mean. This Summer was the shortest I can remember, ever. I was lost in my own little world of Rambling and writing, oblivious to the effect it was having on those I love.
And because they love me too, they seldom complained. When they did, it was in a quiet voice, full of hopelessness, because they recognized the signs. Daddy had his blinders on, gazing towards distant horizons, the next ride, the next Ramble, the next adventure.
Even then, I didn't do all that I had planned this year. Rush Hour Road Tests never happened, for instance. Granted, dealers are a bit stingy with their demo rides these days, but I'm sure I could have bagged a few if I had tried.
I never ventured outside of the Minnesota/Wisconsin area, either. The money wasn't there, for one thing. Then there was the decision by my boss that I would have to drive a cage on all future audit trips. We can't have any distractions, you see.
So it has all caught up with me, here on the cusp of Autumn, and I have decided, at long last, to do the Right Thing.
This Winter, I will be riding the bus to work. I have spent the past week learning the routes, before the cold weather sets in. Three busses, two transfers each way. This commute takes an hour and a half in the morning, and two hours in the evening. But I'm not risking my life, and I'm not staying out all night. I get home at a predictable time, and my girls get to have their Daddy back.
I have to do this. There is no other choice. Since I can't make a living with my writing, I have to concentrate on my Real Job during the day. My nights and weekends will be spent with my family, and fixing my home. There is no room in my life for Rambling, right now.
When the Motorcycle Show comes to the Twin Cities, I will probably attend, and write that up here. I'm sure there will be other occasions where I will have something to share with you. But for the immediate future, Rush Hour Rambling is going into hibernation. It's all about Priorities.


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Detroit hit nine three-pointers in the first half and the Wright State women's basketball team could not recover as the Raiders dropped an 86-76 decision to the Titans Wednesday night at WSU's Nutter Center.
The Raiders led 8-3 early following a Kim Demmings three, only to see the Titans answer with a 14-2 run as they hit four three-pointers during that stretch, two by Shareta Brown. Detroit later extended the lead to 29-15 before WSU closed to within seven with seven straight points.
The Titans, though, pushed the margin back up to 13 on a Senee Shearer three before heading into halftime with a 41-29 advantage.
Detroit hit 16 of 33 shots in the opening 20 minutes, including nine of 22 three-pointers, while Wright State shot 39 percent and was four of 12 from behind the arc.
Two Demeisha Fambro threes started the second half and the Titans went up 50-29 following a Brown three-point play. The Raiders came within nine on three occasions the rest of the way, the first being 73-64 on a Demmings three with 4:51 remaining, but could get no closer.
Detroit shot 48 percent overall and was 11 of 29 from three-point range while WSU shot 42 percent and was nine of 24 from behind the arc. The Titans led 36-22 in points in the paint and 17-7 in second-chance points.
Demmings led the Raiders with 18 points while KC Elkins had 14, Breanna Stucke 11 and Ivory James 10 off the bench. Tayler Stanton added eight points and eight rebounds.
Brown paced Detroit (8-7, 1-2 Horizon) with a double-double of 25 points and 16 rebounds while Rosanna Reynolds had 20 points and Fambro 15. Yar Shayok also posted a double-double of 12 points and 11 rebounds.
Wright State (7-9, 1-2 Horizon) heads to Chicago this weekend for a Saturday matinee at Loyola starting at 3:00 Eastern.


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Recordings of Service Observations
Social Security Administration
Notice of System of Records
Required by the Privacy Act of 1974, As Amended
System number: 60-0362
System name: Recordings of Service Observations
Security classification: None
System location: The following
locations will each have the equipment that enables service observers to
use the vendor's telephone system to select and record agent calls: National 800 Number Network (N8NN) sites,
regional Office of Quality Performance (OQP) sites, Office of Operations
regional offices' N8NN directors and staff. Contact the system manager at the address below for the address of these
sites. Records are also located in the central
offices of OQP and the Office of Telephone Services. The address of these offices is Social Security Administration (SSA),
Categories of individuals covered by the system: All N8NN calls are subject to unannounced service observation. Recorded telephone conversations between public callers and SSA agents will be stored in the system of records. Service observers will document the evaluation and enter this data into the system of records. The system of records will accumulate data from the inputs of evaluations.
Categories of records in the system: Recorded calls between callers and SSA agents will be maintained in this system of records and will include date and time of the recorded call, the observer's name, the agent's unit or module number (not individual agent identifier) and caller's name (and address, if available).
Authority for maintenance of the system: Sections 205(a) and 702(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 405(a) and 902(a)(5)). The authority to conduct consensual service observation activities, cited in regulation 20 C.F.R. Part 422, Listening-In to or Recording Telephone Conversations, must be renewed every 5 years. It was renewed on
December 1, 2005.
Purpose(s): Electronic recordings of service observations or results will be used for performance assessments, conduct issues, and disciplinary actions. These recordings will also determine individual employee, unit, and office-wide training needs, as well as the quality of responses, trends, public reactions to policies, legislation, and other public announcements. The recordings will be used to train service observers to ensure uniform and consistent evaluation criteria and as documentation for any disciplinary and performance-based actions.
Service observers will routinely record calls and access recordings of telephone conversations in the system of records. Service observers and possibly other site management will use recorded service observed call conversations for determining training needs, ensuring uniform and consistent evaluations, and improving the overall monitoring quality and performance management process. The manager uses the evaluations to assess agent response quality as well as support any conduct issues and disciplinary actions. OQP Headquarters and regional personnel will routinely record all calls for a particular site to evaluate a site's quality. OTS and regional N8NN director staffs will also use the system of records to evaluate the management of the service observation program, and the overall quality, integrity, and courtesy of agent responses. Moreover, they will be able to view the details about the calls observed, the reasons callers called the N8NN, the programs involved, and the types of errors for assessing training needs on a regional or national basis.
Routine uses of records maintained in the systems of records, including categories of users and the purposes of such use: Routine uses disclosures are as indicated below:
1. To the Office of the President for the purpose of responding to an individual pursuant to
an inquiry received from that individual or from a third party on his/her behalf.
2. To a congressional office in response to an inquiry from that office made at the request of the subject of a record.
3. To the Department of Justice (DOJ), a court or other tribunal, or another party before such tribunal when:
a. SSA or any component thereof; or
b. any SSA employee in his/her official capacity; or
c. any SSA employee in his/her individual capacity when DOJ (or SSA when it is
authorized to do so) has agreed to represent the employee; or
d. the
likely to affect the operations of SSA or any of its components,
is a party to litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and SSA determines that the use of such records by DOJ, a court or other tribunal, or another party before such tribunal, is relevant and necessary to the litigation, provided, however, that in each case, SSA determines that such disclosure is compatible with the purpose for which the records were collected.
4. To SSA contractors and other Federal agencies, disclosure may be unrestricted as necessary, for assisting SSA in the efficient administration of its programs. We will disclose information under this routine use only in situations in which SSA may enter into a contractual or similar agreement with a third party to assist in accomplishing an agency function relating to this system of records.
5. To student volunteers, individuals working under a personal services contract, and other workers who technically do not have the status of Federal employees, when they are performing work for SSA as authorized by law, and they need access to personally identifiable information in SSA records in order to perform their assigned Agency functions.
6. To Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and private security contractors as appropriate, information necessary:
a) to enable them to protect the safety of SSA employees and the public, the security of the SSA workplace, and the operation of SSA facilities; or
b) to assist investigations or prosecutions with respect to activities that affects such
safety and security or activities that disrupt the operation of SSA facilities.
7. To the General Services Administration and the National Archives Records Administration (NARA) under 44 U.S.C. § 2904 and § 2906, as amended by the NARA Act of 1984, information which is not restricted from disclosure by Federal law for the use by those agencies in conducting records management studies.
8. To the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when requested in connection with investigations into alleged or possible discriminatory practices in the Federal sector, examination of Federal affirmative employment programs, compliance by Federal agencies with the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, or other functions vested in the Commission.
9. To the Merit Systems Protection Board or the Office of Special Counsel in connection with appeals, special studies of the civil service and other merit systems, review of rules and regulations, investigation of alleged or possible prohibited personnel practices, and other such functions promulgated in 5 U.S.C. Chapter 12, or as may be authorized by law.
10. To the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Office of the Special Counsel, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Federal Service Impasses Panel, or an arbitrator requesting information in connection with the investigations of allegations of unfair practices, matters before an arbitrator or the Federal Service Impasses Panel.
11. To the Department of Justice for:
a) investigating and prosecuting violations of the Social Security Act to which criminal
penalties attach;
b) representing the Commissioner; or
c) investigating issues of fraud or violation of civil rights by agency officers or employees.
12. To appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, entities, and persons when (1) we suspect or confirm that the security or confidentiality of information in this system of records has been compromised; (2) we determine that as a result of the suspected or confirmed compromise there is a risk of harm to economic or property interests, identity theft or fraud, or harm to the security or integrity of this system or other systems or programs of SSA that rely upon the compromised information; and (3) we determine that disclosing the information to such agencies, entities, and persons is necessary to assist in our efforts to respond to the suspected or confirmed compromise and prevent, minimize, or remedy such harm. SSA will use this routine use to respond only to those incidents involving an unintentional release of its records.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining and disposing of records in the system of records:
Storage: The records created from the Recordings of Service Observations system of records are electronic only.
Retrievability: The observers, management, OQP, and regional and Headquarters staffs authorized to conduct service observations will have access to the recordings. Recorded call data will be stored and retrieved by a combination of day, date, time of the call, the type of call, and the observer's name and the agent's unit number.
Safeguards: Information is compartmentalized so that service observers who have an official need for the information in the performance of their duties at one site have access only to data or records at their sites, and that those authorized outside the site may only access site information within their jurisdictions. Regional office 800 number director staffs will have access to all sites in their respective regions. OQP and Headquarters observers will have nationwide access. Access is through a PIN-based authorization process.
Established safeguards for automated records are in accordance with the Systems Security Handbook. For computerized records electronically transmitted between SSA's central office and field office locations (including organizations administering SSA programs under contractual agreements), safeguards include a lock/unlock password system, exclusive use of leased telephone lines, a terminal-oriented transaction matrix, and an audit trail. Access http://www.ssa.gov/foia/bluebook/app_g.htm for additional information regarding the safeguards SSA employs to protect its paper and automated records.
Retention and disposal: When the service observer listens to a call, an automated Service Observation Report form is completed. Both the observer or manager and the agent sign the form. Per the current personnel file retention procedures, we will maintain paper copies of the Service Observation Report Form in the SF-7b extension personnel files. The system of records maintains recorded call conversations for 14 days, at which time the call conversations are automatically destroyed. If the employee's recorded service observation results in an unsatisfactory evaluation by the service observer, however, the call conversation is automatically retained for 60 days from the date of the call and then destroyed. The manager will archive the recording for a full two-year period from the date all actions are closed if the evaluation results in a performance or conduct issue, the recording is used to support a disciplinary action, the employee files a grievance, or if the employee files an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint. In these situations, the employee may request to listen to the recorded call, and management will then make the recording available for listening within five business days of the request, whenever possible. Management must be present while the employee listens to a recorded call. The employee receives a copy of the sanitized Service Observation Report Form, and the manager places the original sanitized form in the SF-7b extension file. When an EEO complaint is involved, the manager will download the recording to a disk and place the disk in the employee's SF-7b extension personnel file for the four-year retention period, or as long as is required for the duration of pending/ongoing litigation.
Only members of management may delete records from the system of records. If the agent conversation involves litigation, management will archive the recording in the system of records.
The Agency established a retention and disposal schedule for the retained recordings. Current policies set for retention and destruction of personnel records cover forms placed in the SF-7b extension file.
System of records manager(s) and address(es):
Associate Commissioner for Telephone Services
Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Operations,
Office of Telephone Services
Notification procedure(s): An individual can determine if this system of records contains a record about him/her by writing to the system of records manager(s) at the above address and providing his/her name, work telephone number, or other information that may be in the system of records that will identify him/her. An individual requesting notification of records in person should provide the same information, as well as provide an identity document, preferably with a photograph, such as a driver's license or some other means of identification. If an individual does not have any identification documents sufficient to establish his/her identity, the individual must certify in writing that he/she is the person claimed to be and that he/she understands that the knowing and willful request for, or acquisition of, a record pertaining to another individual under false pretenses is a criminal offense.
If notification is requested by telephone, an individual must verify his/her identity by providing identifying information that parallels information in the record to which notification is being requested. If it is determined, that the identifying information provided by telephone is insufficient, the individual will be required to submit a request in writing or in person. If an individual is requesting information by telephone on behalf of another individual, the subject individual must be connected with SSA and the requesting individual in the same phone call. SSA will establish the subject individual's identity (his/her name, SSN, address, date of birth and place of birth along with one other piece of information such as mother's maiden name) and ask for his/her consent in providing information to the requesting individual. Authentication will be conducted before connecting with both parties.
If a request for notification is submitted by mail, an individual must include a notarized statement to SSA to verify his/her identity or must certify in the request that he/she is the person claimed to be. Moreover, that he/she understands that the knowing and willful request for, or acquisition of, a record pertaining to another individual under false pretenses is a criminal offense. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations (20 C.F.R. § 401.40(c)).
Record access procedures: Same as Notification procedures. Requesters should also reasonably specify the record contents being sought. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations (20 C.F.R. § 401.40(c)).
Contesting record procedures: Same as Notification procedures. In addition, requesters should reasonably identify the record, specify the information they are contesting, and state the corrective action sought, and the reasons for the correction, with supporting justification showing how the record is incomplete, untimely, inaccurate or irrelevant. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations (20 C.F.R. § 401.65(a)).
Record source categories: The source of electronic/paper records retained at sites is the software recording system provided by a vendor providing telecommunications services.
System of records exempted from certain provisions of the Privacy Act: None.


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Carly Rae Jepsen to play 'Cinderella' on Broadway
Carly Rae Jepsen is headed to Broadway.
The "Call Me Maybe" singer is set to play the title role in "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella" early next year. She says Broadway has been a dream of hers since she was young, telling "The New York Times" that her favorite part of the school year was the trip to New York City where they toured the theaters and met Broadway performers.
The Canadian pop star performed in high school productions of "Annie," "Grease," and "The Wiz," and she says she decided to do "Cinderella" now because the story is "so hopeful and inspiring."
Jepsen's turn in the production - which also features Fran Drescher as her cruel stepmother - is scheduled to start February 4th and will last 12 weeks.
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Topic: nearing the end...
hello everyone
I'm writing to let you know that it appears my gran is on her last few breaths. The Dr.s have told us to prepare ourselves because my gran's body is shutting down very quickly. The ascites and edema have virtually disappeared but now it appears there is an obstruction in the draining of the liver and there isn't anything the Dr.s can do about it. They say its the tumor that is pressing on the existing metal stents so there is nothing that will change that.
Since Sunday evening she has stopped eating solids. Since Tuesday afternoon she has stopped drinking fluids and as of a few hours ago she has stopped going pee. From the other posts these 3 signs are key indicators that the end is near.
I'm still having a great deal of time accepting this because (1) She is still so alert! Her body is weak but her mind is strong (2) Its too sudden - she was diagnosed end of March and its only end of April!!!
I just wanted to post my thoughts...


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Date: July 8th - 9th 2010
Location: DMP Inc. Seminar Room (2 minutes walk from JR Mitaka station) [ MAP ]
Website: http://www.dmprof.com/jp/developer_training.html
This course provides the knowledge that a novice OpenGL ES programmer needs to author interactive, 3D graphics applications using OpenGL ES. It covers fundamental topics such as overview of architecture, modeling, and lighting, and introduces advanced topics using extensions such as matrix palette skinning animation.
- Day 1 - 10:00 - 17:00 (open at 9:30)
- Day 2 - 10:00 - 17:00 (open at 9:30)
GoalAfter this course is completed, it is assumed that following items can be achieved.
- To understand architecture of OpenGL ES and overview of some implementations.
- To be able to read programs using OpenGL ES 1.1.
- To be able to write 3D graphics applications for embedded systems with OpenGL ES 1.1.
Attendees should be able to read simple programs written in the C language. No previous experience with writing graphics programs is required. The course includes some basic concepts from linear algebra (vector notation and matrix multiplication), but previous knowledge of these subjects is not required.
This course is held in Japanese.
12 people (Seating in Courses is on a first-come, first-served basis.)
Tuition Fee
49,560 Yen (taxes included, for 1 person, 2 days)
Khronos Member: 45,000 Yen
* Please note the topics of this course are subject to change without prior notice.


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Newberry, S.C. - The Tornados took to the field for the last time in the 2009 season on Saturday night at Setzler Field as they took on Newberry College. Chase Henry had a 32-yard field goal in the game, but the Tornados were unable to overcome three turnovers in falling 28-3.
Brevard (7-4, 3-4 SAC) was led by quarterback Michael Crumbaker who picked up 56 yard on the ground on 15 carries and 67 yards through the air as the Tornados picked up 216 yard in the game with 149 coming on the ground.
Eric Watts had a 36-yard reception and had three punts for 137 yards, and average of 45.7 yards per attempt with a long of 53.
On the defensive side, seniors Brandon Rawls and Stanley Jones led the team with eight tackles apiece, while Michael Gist had seven tackles to go with a tackle for loss and a pass breakup.
Newberry (6-4, 4-3 SAC) was led by Brandon Gantt who went 13-23 in the air for 173 yards and a pair of touchdowns and picked up an additional 58 yards on the ground. Gerald Legree provided balance to the offense with 84 yards on 13 carries as the scarlet and gray recorded 391 yards total offense in the game.
Brevard survived two potential Newberry scoring opportunities early in the game as Kelton Tindal dropped a pass in the end zone and Brandon Rawls came up big at the end of the first quarter, stripping the running back and falling on the ball inside the Tornado 1-yard line as the teams ended the first 15 minutes in a 0-0 tie.
Newberry got on the board on the Tornados first drive of the second quarter as Andre Moyd picked up the ball off the turf off a miscommunication between the Tornados quarterback and fullback and returned it 34 yard for a touchdown. Moyd was flagged for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for celebration after the touchdown return, but the scarlet and gray were first on the board with 11:37 left in the first half, 7-0.
Brevard came back and scored on their last drive of the second half as Michael Crumbaker completed a 36-yard pass to Eric Watts on third-and-six to give the Tornados the ball on the Newberry 13 yard line. Brevard advanced the ball up to the 11, before having to settle for a 32-yard field goal from junior place kicker Chase Henry to cut the lead to 7-3 with 1:46 remaining in the opening half.
The scarlet and gray offense came back onto the field looking to score and Gantt found David Smith for a 45-yard catch down on the Brevard 10-yard line before hooking up with Smith near the front right pylon in the end zone with 1.2 seconds left on the clock in the half and following the Britt Blackmon extra point, Newberry went into the locker room with the 14-3 lead.
The Tornados offense threatened to score in the third quarter as Brevard moved the ball to the Newberry 16 thanks largely in part to a 31-yard reception by senior wide receiver Cory Pertz, but Crumbaker's offering to the end zone in the direction of Jamal Hall was picked off by Brian Spencer to end the scoring chance.
The scarlet and gray would go on to add a pair of touchdowns in the fourth quarter to extend the lead to 28-3 as Gantt found David Brown in the left corner of the end zone for a touchdown and S.J. Worrell added a 16-yard score with 4:05 left in the game to cap the Newberry effort.
The Tornados finish up their record-breaking 2009 season with a 7-4 record, having recorded the first winning season in modern program history, as well as their first SAC wins both on the road and at home. The Tornados also graduated the first four-year senior class in school history and will look to build on this season as Brevard prepares for the 2010 season.


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I currently have a website without a blog and was thinking of bolting wordpress onto it to get a blog in action. Speaking to a few friends I have a mixed bag!!! some say it will be okay and others say I am best starting fresh with a new wordpress theme altogether.
I know Wordpress is SEO friendly but im looking into the time frame which I do not have!
Any feedback appreciated
Hi GK Safety,
Either option a) integrating a blog into your current site and b) starting with WordPress. It is arguable which one will take longer as they both have so many variables involved.
Do your customers feel that your current website is lacking? Have you spoke to any of them to ask?
If you already have established search engine rankings for a number of pages on your existing site, you don't want to loose these so this part has to handled carefully if you decide to update the site using WordPress.
If selecting a pre-made template then Wordpress can be very easy to use and will not necessarily take more time then integrating a blog into your current site. However finding a template you like can take a considerable amount of time and then you have to do a little research to understand why one template (with its' implemented features) is better (functionally) than another.
If you have any unique functionality on your existing site then it is unlikely to get that unique functionality working 'out of the box' in WordPress.
IMHO WordPress has a cludgy way of handling extending the PHP landscape, so If you like using OOP with PHP pretty much throw that logic away.
If you switch to WordPress it will make it easier overtime to refresh you site's look but keep the existing content.
To the positive WordPress has excellent documentation, so if you need to learn something you can not only find a gazillion articles on the Web but also good information from WordPress too.
First let me say that I agree with ServerStorm. Before you make your decision, consider how a blog will help your site, if it will at all.
Probably not an option for you, but I have three blogs (well sort of, one is down right now) in WP and I'm making plans to move all of them to ModX Revo. There, you can design things the way you want without worrying about plug-in this and widget-that. You can easily bring your site template in so that your blog looks like a part of your plan instead of an after thought.
Of course, they use PHP as a back-end, but it is almost totally a back end and doesn't interfere with what you want to do in the front end. The only thing is that you would need some time to examine it because there is a pretty steep learning curve, but once you are over the hump, it's the best thing around. Their documentation isn't as comprehensive as WP's but they do have a very active and helpful community as well.
It is possible to build a WordPress section for your site that looks identical (or nearly identical) in its layout to the rest of your site. All you need to do to be able to achieve that is to start with one of the template themes that is designed to be used as the basis for creating your own theme and then build a child theme on that which replicates how the rest of your site looks.
The SitePoint book "Wicked WordPress Themes" has a lot of information on how to do this.
I would build out a wordpress site that looks similar to the one you have now. Look at all the wordpress templates available, i am sure you can find one that resembles your current site. Then I would take all your current content and put it on the new wordpress site using the same domain and make sure all URLs are exactly the same.. wordpress has plugins to help you with that. Then just build out a new section/blog part of wordpress. Wordpress can act both as a blog (originally intended for that) and a CMS setup so it will act like your old site. Hope you understand what I am saying.
Wordpress is probably the easiest way to get a great looking blog up and going in no time. The learning curve is very small and the number of themes(free and paid) and plugins are extensive. Wordpress just makes it easy and saves you a lot of time to focus on other things. The only big downside is it's mysql only(the team said they aren't going to support other databases out of fear of a speed penalty, though there's a 3rd part postgresql plugin that works sort of) and the fact wordpress isn't known for security. I recommend you give wordpress a try though and consider buying one of those themes that allow you make your own theme easy, for the ultimate in professionalism(though free ones are fine too).
You truly can't go wrong with having a blog to drive traffic. However, you can make it more efficient by making sure your blog's theme BRANDS your overall site and provides enough opportunities for readers of your blog to explore the rest of your site. Use your blog as a traffic magnet and use your site's structure and text as filters that weed out and push qualified users to the end user behaviors you are looking for (sales or lead collection or upsell ad clicks)
wordpress with a blog is probably your only chance to survive if you want to be seen. keep your blog regularly updated
When it comes to creating blogs, wordpress, IMO, is definitely the best one to use as it is particularly designed for blogging.
If you'd incorporate your blog within your main site/domain, it would definitely increase your chance of getting to the top of google as it loves content/information. It's like a form of on-page seo where you'd be able to add keywords within your site. Plus, your readers can directly locate your blog if it's within your site altogether. If your purpose is to mainly provide additional information to your readers, I say you go with this.
However, if your purpose is to provide information and at the same time get backlinks to your main site, you can create an entirely different wordpress blog website, add contents, and link them to your main site.
Keeping an updated, consistent and relevant blog may help improve your business. Your blog can be a place for your clients or customers to give you feedback, suggestions or comments on your products. Also, although you can keep the same theme with your blog as your website, there is no harm in exploring other options. Good luck on your endeavors!
In my opinion if you have exiting website and already regularly and trusted by google by indexing your website content then better to use the same domain just intall your wordpress blog to a new directory of your domain and just create a tab or button where visitor can easily find your blogs
if you domain is domain.com then install it to doman.com/blog directory create the sitemap accordingly submit it do your routine of increasing your domain name including your blog on it.
IF you start a new domain name it's a pain and more job to do. Do not depend the growth of you site by using the SEO wordpress plugins.
I hope that helps.
Yes, buying a new domain will again require activities to be started right from the scrap then along with doing SEO for your website you may have to work hard to bring your domain of blog up in the ranking an it will waste much of your time, it is better to have a sub domain blog under your website domain blog.site.com or site.com/blog it may do for you, but if your website is ranking really good in SERP I suggest you not to go for the blog then because it may affect ranking of your website as well.
As the question was asked four months ago, and the member has never returned, I think we can safely close this thread.


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Carven Spring 2013
Dawn Penn's clear, smooth vocals on rocksteady tune "You Don't Love me," not only set a somber mood for Guillaume Henry's spring collection for Carven, but hinted toward a balmy destination outside of Paris. It was the designer's recent sojourn to rustic, rural Rajasthan, India, where he discovered sepia-toned photographs of British colonial settlers that informed the dusty beige, sand, and stone palette peppered with spicy reds and an uplifting Toile de Jouy print, which was featured across his new, longer calf-length skirts and fit-and-flare dresses. Together, they transported Carven's coterie of devotees—Dree Hemmingway sat front row at the Grand Palais show this morning—to a more grown-up and somewhat subdued place.
Indeed, the 3-D suits with oversize lapels and voluminous umbrella skirts followed by thick, hefty linen and silk mix dresses with sportif cutaways that sashayed down the runway had certainly shed all schoolgirl connotations and, at first sight, appeared to be a counterintuitive take on spring. But those structured silhouettes beloved by women as far afield as Europe and Japan—where Carven is currently ranked as one of the top-selling brands—were constructed from linen rope, rendering them light as air. Said Henry backstage after the show, "Carven used to be a haute couture brand, and I like to carry on with that idea of shape, but nobody's going to wear an 18-kilo dress today!"
What they will no doubt clamor for come spring is Carven's demure linen white dresses with art deco–inspired lace panels that stopped a few inches below the knee, and beige knitted tops paired with cropped vermillion wide-leg pants. Light as that fabric may be, these pieces may not make it into your suitcase for a trip to the Indian subcontinent, but certainly promise to travel well from the office to a glorious summer soirée.


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Problem solved!
I needed to change my interface to "ath0" instead of "wifi0"
Hope this helps someone!
I'm using Ettercap with Back|Track 3.0 Final (Ettercap-ng 0.7.3), with a NIC (ath0) with an Atheros interface.
Anyway, I start it up, then:
- Unified Sniifing (Network interface wifi0)
Code:Listening on wifi0... (802.11) Privileges dropped to UID 0 GID 0... 28 plugins 39 protocol dissectors 53 ports monitored 7587 mac vendor fingerprint 1698 tcp OS fingerprint 2183 known services
- Scan for hosts
There's my problem...when I "scan for hosts" nothing happens. It just chills there.
(My IPtables are uncommented in the config file)
Any ideas on what the problem/solution could be?
Problem solved!
I needed to change my interface to "ath0" instead of "wifi0"
Hope this helps someone!
Please, Can you explain how exactly you change interface from wifi to eth0
Sorry for bumping a old thread but I couldn't get it to work.
First of all, I'm doing the:
Then I'll start ettercap and choose my interface, lets say wlan0 but that wouldn't work cause it doesn't accept radio (forgot the word)airodump-ng stop wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 down
macchanger --mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan0
airodump-ng start wlan0
Hmm okey, Ill test mon0 which adds after I had change my mac and reboot the interface but it still wont work.
Okey, now I have local loopback and wifimaster0 (I think).
To test some of those I'll have to change my gate-way in the ettercap options to 255.255.255.254 or else it will generate a 16[...] hosts to scan. Then the program locks. After changing the gateway the software still locks.
So now I wondering, first of all where is the ettercap.conf, i couldn't find it inside usr/local/etc?
And second, someone with the same problem that have solved it?
Please, it would be very great full if someone could help.
Greetings from -Tripfusion-
I know you may have sorted this by now but the etter.conf is in /etc/etter.conf and you need to remove the 2 # from the lines if you use ip tables under the heading linux and second you dont need to put your wireless card into monitor mode with airmon-ng the only reason im adding this to a post a few months ago is because all over this forum i see how do i get ettercap to do this and i hope this stops more not needed threads in the future, and one thing ive learnt about this forum is its not a classroom its designed to help you help yourself ive never posted a question on here simply because i know that if i do it would have allready been asked and answered if i search hard enough and i dont want to waste the administrators time and look a complete newbie even though i am.
But how exactly do you change the card to listen to in ettercap text mode ?
My ettercap default listens to eth0 and I need to change it to wlan0 how do I do that ?


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If this whole acting thing does not work out, I see a promising career on price is Right for Emma Roberts.
Gerard Depardieu is not quite the sex symbol he used to be.
Jessica Alba hits up Target for her kids' Christmas gifts.
The series finale party of 30 Rock. Tina Fey, Jack McBrayer and Jane Krakowski.
Katrina Bowden was there.
Alec Baldwin and his wife.
Kelsey Grammer wants you to know that he has a car seat and is using it.
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Geert Wilders has been visiting America. He has given a major speech at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York and appeared on Fox News. He had no trouble passing through immigration, it would seem, though since the United States is not part of the EU he has no automatic right of entry. Nor have there been any reports of rioting or the civil unrest whose spectre our own Home Office invoked as justification for forbidding him entry to Britain. Ten thousand angry Muslims did not descend on the venue; indeed, a relatively small percentage of New York's population was even aware of his presence. Puzzling, that. It cannot simply be that Lord Ahmed was otherwise engaged.
Coincidentally, Hazel Blears, the "Communities" Secretary, has also been giving a speech, this time at the LSE, on the government's current approach to "engagement" with various types of Islamist. Being a member of a government that banned Wilders from the country as a dangerous threat to national security, it is only to be expected that Blears and Wilders have diametrically opposed views. And, indeed, they have little time for each other. Blears talks dismissively of "Geert Wilders' outfit in Holland" while Wilders, for his part, singles out " the snobbish left", populated by people who have "too much money, too much time, too little love of liberty". But such mutual antipathy does not preclude a certain similarity of phrase. Hazel warns of the dangers of those who believe in
... the supremacy of the Muslim people, in a divine duty to bring the world under the control of hegemonic Islam, in the establishment of a theocratic Caliphate, and in the undemocratic imposition of theocratic law on whole societies: these are the defining and common characteristics of the disparate strands of this ideology here and around the world.
While Wilders told his audience:
I come before you to warn of a great threat. It is called Islam. It poses as a religion, but its goals are very worldly: world domination, holy war, sharia law, the end of the separation of church and state, slavery of women, the end of democracy. It is NOT a religion, it is an political ideology. It demands your respect, but has no respect for you.
The difference between Wilders and Blears would seem to be a subtle one, a question of pure semantics. Blears argues that the political ideology going by the name (usually) of Islamism is distinct from the purely religious phenomenon known as Islam. Wilders is of the view that that political ideology is Islam in its purest form. Therein lies the danger. As Blears warns: "Even in English, where the two words are distinct, many people lack the political literacy to distinguish between a political ideology dubbed by some as Islamism and Islam itself."
And some of these people - many in fact - are Muslims.
Wilders' film Fitna set out to demonstrate how the Koran promoted violence and terrorism. And he didn't have far to look to find extremist preachers who share his view of Islam. Wilders' error is not that he mistakes politicised Islam for the real thing, as Blears would claim: rather, it is that he imagines that a fundamentalist, literalist view of the Koran is the only authentic Islam going, and that by stressing intolerance, violence or the oppression of women the Islamists are being truer to Islam than the moderates. He likes to say, "there are moderate Muslims, but there is no moderate Islam". This is clearly nonsense. Like any religion, Islam is not words set out in a book. It is a life lived in the context of culture, tradition and human striving. It is not a fossil; it can change. It has, in fact, changed a great deal over the centuries, and the Islamist interpretation is in many ways historically anomalous.
But Blears is wrong too. She is wrong, first of all, to assume that because Islamism is a political ideology, it is not first and foremost a religious view. Plainly, it is. She claims that Islamism is "rooted in a twisted reading of Islam", and her evidence for this is that
The academics, scholars and imams I meet to discuss these issues tell me that the message of Islam is one of peace; and the followers of Islam I meet oppose the single narrative promulgated by Al-Qaeda, and certainly oppose violence.
The key word here is "certainly". Because the Islamist reading of the Koran is no more "twisted" than was the Protestants' reading of the Bible in the 16th century. Islamists can look to history, too, and see the triumphs of Islamic armies in centuries past, caliphs and sultans who won empires - even Mohammed himself - at the point of a sword, and did so in the name of God. Was the Prophet's understanding of the religion he founded "twisted" - or is it merely historically inconvenient?
The danger in invoking the "true" spirit of Islam is that there is no single authentic interpretation. Anyone who tries to impose one will run up against insuperable logical difficulties. This is especially true of a non-Muslim government like that of Britain. Here, for example, is part of Inayat Bunglawala's riposte to Hazel Blears:
For the past couple of years the government has adopted the opposite course of action and has instead been seeking to find partners among British Muslims who are prepared to parrot its own views on what are the main drivers behind the phenomenon of violent extremism and in return has been handing out millions of pounds in taxpayers' money to them. That strategy has clearly failed with the government's "partners" universally derided among British Muslims as stooges.
Back to Wilders in New York. A particular bugbear of his is the way in which the "liberal-left" establishment has, in his view, sold out its principles. Of course, he is usually described in the media as an "extreme right-winger", or some such. He's certainly a strong supporter of Israel; not the most obvious position for a Neo-Nazi to adopt, you might think, but there you go. He told his audience:
they [the Left] don't care because they are blinded by their cultural relativism. Their disdain of the West is so much greater than the appreciation of our many liberties. And therefore, they are willing to sacrifice everything. The left once stood for women rights, gay rights, equality, democracy. Now, they favour immigration policies that will end all this. Many even lost their decency. Elite politicians have no problem to participate in or finance demonstrations where settlers shout "Death to the Jews". Seventy years after Auschwitz they know of no shame.
Not much there for Hazel Blears to relate to, you might think. But how about this?
The liberal-left is historically concerned for the underdog, for oppressed peoples, for taking a stand against racism and imperialism. It is part of our political DNA. The problem today is that these valid concerns can be mutated into support for causes and organisations which are fiercely anti-liberal and populated by people whose hearts are filled with misogyny, homophobia and Jew-hatred.
It leads to British democrats who are sickened by the sight of the suffering of the Palestinian people allying themselves with people who advocate the violent destruction of an entire nation-state, a member of the United Nations, who believe that Jews were behind 9/11 and fled the twin towers before the attacks, and who believe there is a global conspiracy guiding the world's economy. Strange bedfellows indeed.
Liberals' pathological fear of being branded 'racist' or 'Islamophobic' can lead to ideological contortions: condoning or even forming alliances with groups which are socially conservative, homophobic, Anti-Semitic, and violent towards women.
Blears' own answer to this conundrum, strangely enough, is more robust debate. For example she says that
But the pendulum has swung too far. The quality of debate about religion in contemporary life - and by religion, I mean all faiths - is being sapped by a creeping oversensitivity.
This timidity "flies in the face of another of our traditions - open debate, rational inquiry, and plain old common sense", thinks Hazel. "We would do well to be a little less anxious and a little more robust." For example - here she brings in another topical example - "we should be confident about condemning the intolerance of Christian extremists such as Fred Phelps". No one, it is true, can accuse her government of not being "confident" in condemning that particular noisy but isolated and widely-ridiculed "pastor". The trouble is, they seem unable to see the difference between condemning an opinion and banning it.
Geert Wilders would like to see "a European First Amendment. In Europe", he says,
we should defend freedom of speech like you Americans do. In Europe freedom of speech should be extended, instead of restricted. Of course, calling for violence or unjustly yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre have to be punished, but the right to criticize ideologies or religions are necessary conditions for a vital democracy. As George Orwell once said: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear".
Rightly or wrongly, Geert Wilders now sees himself as something of a free speech martyr. But it is the European elites' fear of debate and lack of confidence either in their own values or, more importantly, in their people's ability to make up their own minds that gives him that opportunity, and wins him support he probably doesn't deserve.