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Watchful Waiting
Watchful waiting, also called expectant therapy, is sometimes recommended for men who have an early stage prostate cancer and no symptoms, or are elderly or sick with other medical problems.
The theory behind watchful waiting is that some prostate cancers grow very slowly and may never develop into a symptomatic or life-threatening stage of cancer. For such a slow-growing cancer, the risks and side effects of the other possible treatments for prostate cancer (such as chemotherapy, surgery , and radiation therapy) may not seem worthwhile as compared with the low-risk of the growth of prostate cancer.
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You don't need bt repo to do that. Download pyrit and install it on ubuntu 64.
Hello to whoever is reading this ok now let me get to the point. First of all I've been an active member of the backtrack community for over a year now but there is one thing that I can't figure out and I have been debating on asking this. Now back in the day I was just able to add the backtrack Repo's to Ubuntu but know it's just not working and I can't figure out why then I thought you prolly changed them or something so I did some research and found the new ones and I put them in and nothing. Now the reason why I want the repo's in ubuntu to try pyrit to its fullest since backtrack is only 32bit and Ubuntu is 64bit.
Stand up and be counted as a linux user.
You don't need bt repo to do that. Download pyrit and install it on ubuntu 64.
I'm pretty sure BackTrack is still based off Ubuntu 8.10, and you're most likely running a 9.X or 10.X version. This will also keep the repo from working. One more thing, this isn't supported by the BackTrack team and may break your current Ubuntu install.
It would be 1000 times easier to grab pyrits source and build it on a Ubuntu 64 bit box


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It could be a misunderstanding and my bad on my part if it is. I've seen The MSF eXploit builder used to incorporate published exploits on milw0rm into the framework - the course is looking like a good amount of information so maybe they will cover it. If it's not in there yet though, adding it in would be a great suggestion (:
To be successful here you should read all of the following.
If you are new to Back|Track
Back|Track Wiki
Failure to do so will probably get your threads deleted or worse.
I would love to watch these videos, im a bit confused on the price of each online course... please spoon feed me here how much is each online course?
if i was to pay for access to these online videos can i watch them at anytime and in any order? ill be able to go back if i missed something? what if it takes me a few months to even finish the course do to the time i spend on my new job, is there a set date to turn in documents and projects?
after watching the demo video I KNOW that who ever is apart of these course will benefit greatly, Muts is a great speaker and defanitly knows this live disk from top to bottem...
(i think thats muts)
wowh thats a grt news. Hope to see it soon
BigMac im not sure as to how they will incorporate the videos in this coarse but as for the Wifu coarse after you purchase the coarse you can download the .swf videos and keep them as long as you want and watch them at any time. I would check with one of the Moderators such as Pureh@te perhaps and see if he has some more input as to how that will all work. And as far as the Offensive Security Coarse's they are the best around in my opinion...
"It's Mind over Matter, if you don't have a mind it doesn't matter"
What kind of experience is recommended before taking a course like this? I have a decent understanding of linux and a few of the tools in BT4. Should I get to know BT better before diving into something like this, or will it cover some of the basic usage of the tools as well?
"The PDF guide along with offline labs for the course will be free of charge."
What does this mean?
Capitalisation is important. It's the difference between "Helping your brother Jack off a horse" and "Helping your brother jack off a horse".
The Forum Rules, Forum FAQ and the BackTrack Wiki... learn them, love them, live them.
To be successful here you should read all of the following.
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Back|Track Wiki
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- 09/21/2004
University of Nebraska President J.B. Milliken will speak to the Grand Island Rotary Club on Tuesday, September 28 at the Riverside Golf Club. The meeting begins at 12:00 noon. In his remarks he will discuss the interdependent relationship between the University of Nebraska and the State of Nebraska and how the university can best serve the students and citizens of the state. President Milliken's biography follows:
James B. ("J.B.") Milliken became the sixth president of the University of Nebraska on August 1, 2004. Prior to returning to the University of Nebraska, he served as the senior vice president for University Affairs for the 16-campus University of North Carolina (UNC).
Milliken joined UNC in August 1998 as the vice president for Public Affairs and University Advancement. He was named senior vice president in March 2003. The Division of University Affairs is responsible for state and federal government relations, communications, advancement, strategy development and policy analysis, and universitywide economic development activities. As senior vice president, Milliken worked closely with the Board of Governors, the president, and other senior staff members to develop UNC's strategy, policies, and programs, and leads UNC's efforts to build partnerships across the sectors of education, business, and government.
Prior to joining UNC, Milliken served as Vice President for External Affairs and Corporation Secretary for the University of Nebraska system. He also held a courtesy appointment as professor of Education Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he taught graduate seminars in higher education administration.
Before joining the University of Nebraska in 1988, Milliken practiced law in New York City at the firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He has also worked in Washington as Legislative Assistant to Congresswoman Virginia Smith. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Nebraska, where he earned a degree in English in 1979. He attended New York University School of Law as a Root-Tilden Scholar, graduating in 1983.
Milliken and his wife, Nana Smith, live with their three children in Lincoln, Nebraska.


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Gov. Scott to Fla School Districts: "Teachers Deserve Their Pay Raises"
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is calling on school districts across the state to approve pay raises for teachers.
Scott this year pledged $480 million so that teachers could get a $2,500 across the board pay raise. Legislators set aside the money, but they gave school districts leeway in how the raises could be handed out.
So far only 16 out of 67 school districts had completed negotiations with local unions over the pay raises.
According to the Governor's office, none of the local school districts have finalized negotiations to get their teachers raises.
We've reached out to officials with the Palm Beach County School District for comment and have not yet heard back.
Scott sent out a letter to school superintendents Tuesday where he said teachers ``deserve'' a pay raise. He added teachers should know their new salary level as soon as possible.
He said he asked Education Commissioner Pam Stewart to help districts to find a quick resolution to pay raise negotiations.
Here's a statement from the Governor's office:
Tallahassee, Fla. – Today, Governor Rick Scott sent a letter to all Florida superintendents thanking the 16 superintendents and school boards who have worked together to negotiate with unions and ratify collective bargaining agreements for teachers that resulted in pay raises. He also spoke with Department of Education Commissioner Pam Stewart today to ask her to work with the 51 county school districts who have not reached final agreements to encourage a quick resolution to the final teacher pay raise amount in these districts.
Governor Scott said, "For those districts that have not yet finalized collective bargaining agreements on teacher pay raises, I have asked the Commissioner of Education to provide any support and guidance superintendents need to come to a final agreement quickly. Florida teachers deserve a salary increase, and they should have the benefit of knowing their new salary level as soon as possible so they can best plan for their futures."
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Dopamine levels also increase from the use of extremely addictive drugs.
In October 2010, the minimum wage will increase to £5.80 for adults 21 and over.
When in power, Republicans are also more than willing to increase government intervention in many aspects of our lives.
Cuban added that he once complained to referees—knowing that he'd be fined—to increase his Twitter followers.
Since January 2010, the region has added about 15,000 new jobs—an increase of 5.2 percent.
The worthy man was overjoyed to be able to increase his daughter's happiness.
If he should deserve an increase by and by, it would be all very well.
Consequently the increase in exports and in imports grew steadily.
To increase the heat, blasts of hot air are blown into the bottom of the furnace.
That pleases me, and I study to be useful to him in every way I can, so as to increase his regard.
early 14c., "become greater in size or number; to cause to grow, enlarge," from Anglo-French encress-, Old French encreiss-, present participle stem of encreistre, from Latin increscere "to increase, to grow upon, grow over, swell, grow into," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + crescere "to grow" (see crescent). Latin spelling restored 15c. Related: Increased; increasing.
late 14c., "action of increasing; results of an increasing," from increase (v.).


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Incorporated: Feb. 17, 1747
Parent county: created from Bristol, MA
Birth Records: unknown, kept by town and city clerks
Marriage: unknown, town clerks
Death: unknown, town clerks
Probate: unknown, town clerks
Court: unknown, District Court Clerk
Burial: unknown, town clerks
Notes: There is no County Clerk in Bristol County. Each of the four towns in Bristol County keeps its own records. Towns organized before 1800: Barrington, 1717; Bristol, 1681; and Warren, 1746-1747. Block Island was transferred from Newport County to Washington County on May 6, 1963.
222 Quaker Lane, Warwick, RI 02886
(401) 822-6750
Incorporated: June 11, 1750
Parent county: Providence
Birth Records: kept by town clerks
Marriage: town clerks
Death: town clerks
Land: town clerks
Probate: town clerks
Burial: town clerks
Notes: There is no county government in Kent County. Each of the five towns in Kent County keeps its own records. Towns organized before 1800: Coventry, 1741; East Greenwich, 1677; Warwick, 1642-1643; and West Greenwich, 1741.


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The perfect "finger food" is a breeze to make for your next event. A flavorful sauté of chicken, Parmesan and vegetables, perfectly spiced and baked in a wonton cup.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Spray muffin pan cavities with vegetable pan spray. Press wonton wrappers into cavities.
In small skillet, cook red pepper and green onion in oil until soft, about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, combine chicken, mayonnaise, cheese and seasonings. Stir in cooked vegetables. Spoon 3 tablespoons filling into wonton "cup." Bake 7-8 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Serves 18.


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Phone: (239) 590-7704
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com: MH 146
Dr. Busson serves as Chair of the Division of Public Affairs. He earned his Ph.D. in urban studies and administration from Kent State University.
Prior to joining FGCU he was at Eastern Kentucky University for 26 years where at various times he served as Department Chair, Graduate Programs Director, Director of the Institute of Government and the Founding Director of the Center for Economic Development. He also served as a visiting scholar at the Council of State Governments for 2 years. He also taught at the University of Texas at Tyler and Thiel College in PA.
Dr. Busson is the author of numerous articles mostly dealing with community and economic development and state and local government. He has served on the National Council of the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA), as Chair of the ASPA Ethics Committee, as Chair of the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management, the Board of Editors of the Public Administration Review, and on the Board of the Policy Studies Association. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Public Administration Quarterly and the Executive Committee of the Section on Non-Profit Management for the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
His teaching and research interests are in the areas of community development, strategic planning, non-profit administration and state and local government.
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How about reading this from the Wiki: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...p/VMware_Tools
I am trying to follow the instructions to install backtrack 5 on VMware but the I cannot get the jumbled up commands on the backtrack homepage to work. Perhaps the commands are jumbled up and I was typing in the wrong one but I get to the GUI in the VMware image but get confused when I go to installing the VMware tools.
How about reading this from the Wiki: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...p/VMware_Tools
Back|track giving machine guns to monkeys since 2007 !
Do not read the Wiki, most your questions will not be answered there !
Do not take a look at the: Forum Rules !
I had to build a new Rig and install BT to a flash drive to get over the errors
so just be warned
BTW i never needed to use VMware tools (all tho i did install them at some point)
BT works good without it installed
I usually copy the vm version of the BackTrack to the Virtual Machine ( such as : VMware Fusion ) . Then run / power on the BackTrack.
For the best performance I recommend you to install the VMware Tools.


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As usual you can download the skin from our website, http://www.teamrazorfish.co.uk/mediastream.html
The changes since the last release are as follows:
- Added: Ability to showTV fanart on projector screen in background image (has to be enabled in skin settings) - see image below
- Added: Option to show a more animated version of Media Preview view (based on mod by anoobie) - see image below
- Added: Fast Letter Searching (when scrolling quickly through a list it will pop up and show you what first letter you are currently at - useful when navigating large lists)
- Added: Option to show music visualisation details in horizontal form (along the lines of the video OSD)
- Added: Trailer icon to Media Preview view which will show when a movie has a trailer that can be watched
- Added: Version of file browser that works better when navigating for non-image files
- Added: Proper icons for the music visulisation buttons
- Added: Music Now Playing UI to Weather screen
- Added: Shadows behind thumbs in Panel Stream view
- Added: Chinese (Traditional) and Portuguese translations
- Added: Seek slider (hopefully) to Video OSD (based on suggestion by Waffa - needs testing)
- Added: Option to hide custom backgrounds in movie views
- Added: Option to hide fanart in TV views
- Added: Record button to Music OSD
- Fixed: Music Now Playing UI for 4x3
- Fixed: position of button in OK dialog for 4x3
- Fixed: Width of wide icon in Wide view to match width of plot text
- Fixed: Sizing of Last Refreshed label on Weather screen
- Updated: Entering Movies/TV Shows on home now returns to recent position in library (where possible)
- Updated: On/Off menu item on Home now activates Shutdown menu when clicked
- Updated: Fonts and positioning for the labels in the top part of media screens (Movies, Music etc) so that they fit better when using larger fonts
- Updated: Widened the Music Visualisation Settinsg dialog
- Updated: Moved the sub-menus on the home screen up slightly (to make sure they don't run into the RSS area)
- Updated: OSD icon images (make sure they all have a similar design and no icons with letters in them)
- Updated: Mouse pointer images (should now be a bit more in keeping with the rest of the skin)
- Updated: Spanish, Swedish, Polish, French translations
- We really need your feedback so please post if you have any comments, suggestions or feedback and we'll aim to deal with them as soon as we can.
PLEASE NOTE: The skin is being developed based on the latest version of XBMC (T3CH release for Xbox and update to date builds for other platforms) so please make sure you have the latest version before posting about any problems.
TV Fanart on Projector Screen:
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The 50th Anniversary Of John Glenn Orbiting Earth Is Monday – Where Should We Go Next? [Poll]
This Monday, February 20th will mark the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's historic ride into space, although Glenn was actually the third American in space. It was in 1961 that Alan Shepard and Mitchell, Indiana's own Gus Grissom flew short suborbital missions to become the first Americans in space.


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$6.7 million grant to boost health-disparities research
A $6.7 million grant to the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health will support an established research program in health disparities.
The five-year award is from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health. It will fund a Center of Excellence in the Social Promotion of Health Equity Research, Education and Community Engagement (CCE-SPHERE) and will support the Arnold School's partnership for education and research with Claflin University.
The award is the second major NIH grant to Dr. Saundra Glover, the Arnold School's associate dean for health disparities and social justice, to fund research and education in health disparities. In 2005, she was awarded $7.5 million from NIH to establish the Institute for Partnerships to Elimination Health Disparities (IPEHD) and enhanced the Arnold School's research program on health disparities.
"This grant will enable us to build on the five years of accomplishments that we had with our previous Center of Excellence," said Glover, who is on the faculty in the Arnold School's department of health services policy and management.


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LONG BEACH - Next weekend, an estimated 75,000 revelers are expected to come out and show their pride at the 29th annual Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride celebration and Parade.
It's the city's second-largest event of the year following the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, which draws about 175,000 people.
But this weekend, a few events are taking place to get people in the pride spirit.
Here's a rundown of what's happening.
The Long Beach Gay and Lesbian Center's Mentoring Youth Through Empowerment Program hosts a teen picnic from noon-5 p.m. today at Bixby Park, 130 Cherry Ave., for youths 13-15 years old. The free picnic will feature a barbecue, games, sports (football, soccer and badminton), and arts and crafts. All youth and families are welcome to attend.
"It's our kick-off event for youth," said Kyle Bullock, youth program manager at The Center. "I want to give youth a chance to celebrate Long Beach Pride the week before it happens."
For information, contact Bullock at 562-434-4455, Ext. 227.
Female artists from the gay community showcase their work at the "Ménage No. 7: An Evening of art+music+ women+wine" exhibit at the Liberty Art Gallery and Performance Space, 435 N. Alamitos Ave. The 11 exhibited artists are expected at today's opening reception, 5-9 p.m. Their work includes photos, paintings, drawings, storyboards and animation.
The show runs through June 2, and the gallery is open by appointment only.
Today's party, which has a $10 admission, also features Corday and the Cougars and DJ Michelle Mannisto. For more information, contact gallery owner Paige Bauer, 562-901-0997.
The International Imperial Court of Long Beach, one of the oldest gay fundraising groups in Long Beach, presents the Mr., Miss and Ms. Gay Pride Long Beach contest. The 37th annual event, taking place from 5-8 p.m. today at Hamburger Mary's, 700 E. Broadway, will feature about half a dozen contestants vying for the three titles.
The contestants are crowned based on how much money he or she raised at fundraisers leading up to the event.
Admission is $10, and the Long Beach Gay and Lesbian Center's youth program and the Long Beach AIDS Foundation are the beneficiaries of the contest. For more information, 562-436-7900.
Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride presents the annual "Laugh Til You Tinkle" comedy night Sunday at the Executive Suite, 3428 E. Pacific Coast Highway, in Long Beach.
Four gay comics (Paul Jacek, Julie Goldman, Matthew Moore and Gloria Bigelow) and "out" hostess Sandra Valla will take the stage at 6 p.m. for an evening of humor.
Tickets, $20, are available at the door and restricted to those 21 and older. For more information, contact Executive Suite at 562-597-3884.
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yes a special brick.more rounded the better.makes a cleaner break.
brick is pretty well rounded, in every sense of the phrase
A brick or Mr Brick couldn't break the window anyway. Someone tried that already and broke their brick as it's some type of special japanese super glass. The wee fuckers then tried to smash the lock in with the remains of the brick resulting in much damage.
I don't have much luck with cars.
Brick would've hit it with an overhand right and it would've been done.
I'll keep that in mind for the next time. I bet he'll cost less than the locksmith.


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CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Harvard students now have round-the-clock access to "must have" essentials ranging from toothbrushes, shampoo and phone chargers to disposable cups and ping-pong balls thanks to a new vending machine on campus.
The custom-built Momba machine, featuring a wood-framed glass front, is the brainchild of Steven Duque, a 2009 philosophy and sociology graduate from Harvard. He named it Momba for the role it plays in filling mom's shoes by making sure students have access to what they need, when they need it when they're away from home, according to an article in Forbes magazine.
School administrators said the Momba machines will improve student safety on campus, since they won't have to make late-night trips to a convenience store.
The first vender is located in Harvard's Quincy House dorm, and a second will be placed in Harvard Yard in the center of campus. Duque and his cofounders plan to expand Momba to other locations in New England.


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Cards End Eight Day Break With Road Game Against Temple
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- After eight days off, the Louisville Cardinals are ready to get back on the court.
The Cards head to Philadelphia for a Thursday night game with Temple. Head coach Rick Pitino says the Owls are an offensive threat that the Cards aren't overlooking. Pitino says his team's biggest area of need is on defense where he says the Cards need help on shot blocking.
The Cards and Owls tip off at 7 p.m. Thursday night. Pre-game coverage starts at 5:30 p.m. on 84WHAS.


text: Some time ago, a store called Spiritzzz got in touch with me. It was rather interesting because they believe your shopping experience should be combined with a pampering session. The store offers not only ready-made apparel, jewellery and accessories but also a hair and make-up studio. While you shop from a wide range of dresses, tops, tunics, jumpsuits and the like, you could get a haircut, blow-dry, hair spa, foot spa or face rejuvenation treatment. Now that's something I'm willing to try. Aren't you? Especially since the store is giving away vouchers to 3 of you lucky readers this month. One is for a hand spa, the other for a foot spa and yet another for a facial treatment. It's simple. Write to me (in the comments below) explaining what it is about shopping that makes you want to pamper yourself. The best answers win. 🙂


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Cranmer's Curate writes to me with the following story:
Our church hall here in Sheffield has been used as a polling station for
the European elections. Cranmer's Curate was somewhat bemused to
find that a picture on the Sunday Club notice board displaying three
crosses had been covered up.
Cranmer's Curate rang the electoral services department of Sheffield
City Council for an official explanation and spoke to a charming
gentleman. He said there had been no general policy issued by electoral
services on covering up religious symbols in polling booths but because
there was a Christian Party in the election he could understand why the
presiding officer might have felt it necessary to cover up our crosses.
The presiding officer might have been worried that he could be accused
of bias if he had left the crosses exposed so near the polling booths.
Cranmer's Curate's parting shot to the gentleman at electoral services
was: 'No Christianity, no democracy.' He said it with a smile on his
face and friendliness in his voice but meant it seriously.
CC thinks it "highly unlikely" that anyone would have been swayed to vote for the Christian Party (leader, the ineffable George Hargreaves) by seeing the prominently displayed cross in the polling station. But you can never be too careful. I can well imagine a voter, confronted by the long and unfamiliar list of fringe parties, struggling to work out where to cast their vote. Perhaps they wanted to vote for UKIP but were unable to unfold their ballot paper. Suddenly casting up their eyes, there before them they see the symbol of one of those small parties. A sign! And indeed the Christian Party/Christian Peoples' Alliance used as their slogan the catchy "Put your cross by the Cross".
It is, CC tells me, a sad reflection on the state of our democracy "that a presiding officer considered it necessary to capitulate to the complaints culture by covering up the symbol of mankind's redemption by God's Incarnate Son Jesus Christ". But if you make of that sacred image a logo for a political campaign, what do you expect?
Friday, 5 June 2009
Where not to put your cross on polling day
Cranmer's Curate writes to me with the following story:
29 comments:
- WeepingCross said...
Exactly. The whole notion of a 'Christian' political party is ludicrous. Christian what? Socialist? Libertarian? Campaigning for the restoration of the Jacobite monarchy? Tempting, that last one. At least 'Christian Democrat' tells you something, albeit not very much helpful.
Round here the Christian Party did have a candidate wonderfully surnamed 'Cherub', though that was balanced by Mr 'Bacchus' (nice to see my second favourite religion, Graeco-Roman paganism, being represented).
- 5 June 2009 at 13:44
- McDuff said...
What does "No Christianity, no democracy" even mean? Are we to somehow believe that, despite the Christian bible containing absolutely no description of democratic government and has lots of nice words to say about monarchy, that only Christians were possible of, um, copying the Greeks?
Seriously, how can you take someone as pompously wrong as that seriously.
- 5 June 2009 at 15:23
- WeepingCross said...
In fact the Christian Party's website manifesto seems to be a mildly leftish, greenish, liberalish piece of work. Good for them. Bona. I think I'd probably be quite comfy in their company. But I doubt Ann Widdecombe would, and I don't think they'd understand some of my own lapses in respect of the Divine Right of Kings. Suggests it's a non-starter, really.
- 5 June 2009 at 18:49
- The Heresiarch said...
Really? Last time I checked they were pretty hardline Eurosceptics with a notable attachment to "traditional values". Including, if memory serves, the advantages of corporal punishment in schools. Their last campaign for the Scottish Parliament was marred by accusations of homophobia. And Hargreaves occasionally hits the headlines for saying that the Welsh Dragon is a satanic symbol and suchlike things. Perhaps there's been a major change. Or perhaps there are two Christian parties.
- 5 June 2009 at 18:53
- Edwin Moore said...
The Christian Party are not harmless at all, WC. They took 12% of the vote at the last parliamentary election in the Western Isles and their nasty campaign against a decent Labour MP gifted the seat to the SNP.
Their influence is highly localised but also quite strong - and most Christians I know, whether Church of Scotland, piskie or Catholic, dislike them intensely.
- 5 June 2009 at 21:32
- WeepingCross said...
They're not putting any of that in their manifesto headlines - which is as far as I read. I stand corrected. Oh well. Rather makes the point of the pointlessness of 'Christian' politics, really.
- 5 June 2009 at 23:46
- david cameron's forehead said...
"Rather makes the point of the pointlessness of 'Christian' politics, really."
Yes, just look at the endless hilarity of the BNP's assertion that they represent "Christian values". Of all the risible statements I've heard, that one has to be up there.
- 6 June 2009 at 06:42
- The Great Simpleton said...
How did they hide the fact that the polling took place in a church hall? Wouldn't that confuse people into thinking that they had to vote for a Christian/Religious party?
- 6 June 2009 at 06:53
- Julian Mann said...
Absolutely right, Great Simpleton. That's the bureaucratic illogic of not accepting what goes with the territory in a church hall. I'm told that in other church premises used as polling stations in the parish crosses were not covered up. In some buildings where for example the cross is placed high up, it would be a real palaver to cover it up and a presiding officer might even breach 'elf 'n safe'de in the attempt. So, there would be a real clash of PC principles there!
Thank you H. for sorting me out with posting.
- 6 June 2009 at 07:55
- valdemar squelch said...
Check out the Christian Democractic Union in Germany. Very old party, doesn't use cross as a symbol, despite Germany having some really excellent ones! Or perhaps because of it...
Ny polling station was a theatre bar. Nobody covered up pictures of an amateur production of The Producers. BNP landslide or disaster? (Yes, the BNP bit is a joke.)
- 6 June 2009 at 08:07
- McDuff said...
Julian Mann
Is there some hidden code in the whole hilarious "spelling words phonetically" gag that I'm unaware of, or is it just meant to identify you as the kind of person who reads Littlejohn's column in the Mail and goes "right on!"
Since when has health and safety legislation been about the Political Correctness boogeyman anyway? Other than the fact that they both stop decent working class people (of a generically white and male stripe) doing exactly what they want to to, bugger the consequences?
Could it be that, rather than being yet another encroachment of the "PC" fascist state onto our tiny honest workman lives, that this was in fact a single person making a judgement call, which is why it wasn't repeated. Could it also be that the judgement call, which may have been off base, actually didn't hurt a solitary soul? Could it also be that the only people making any kind of fuss about it are the kind of harrumphy middle class bollocks-mongerers who think any impediment to waggling their religion around means we're all going to the dogs because, let's not forget, they believe that Christianity is a necessary precondition for Democracy. Not only would this surprise the ancient Greeks, it would also surprise Ataturk, who established a democratic Islamic state before the Christian nations all started that great big tiff over whether democracy was that good an idea after all.
So, not an official policy, but an individual judgement call whose only actual harm has been to cause professional umbrage-takers to do what they do best. Good lord, man the barricades!
- 6 June 2009 at 12:40
- Julian Mann said...
Universal suffrage democracies developed in Christian civilisations.
Had the cross been on the roof for example or above the door, the presiding officer would have needed a ladder to put a shroud over it and quite sensibly (I take your point) he would have needed additional manpower from the city council.
What with the demands on local authorities, I suspect election day would have been over by the time persons authorised to ascend ladders would have been available.
- 6 June 2009 at 16:18
- The Heresiarch said...
"Universal suffrage democracies developed in Christian civilisations."
Like Athens?
- 6 June 2009 at 16:23
- Julian Mann said...
Please correct me if I'm wrong H but I don't think Caroline Flint would have had the vote in Athens.
Please don't think I'm suggesting the pagan Athenians would have made the right call there!
- 6 June 2009 at 16:43
- The Heresiarch said...
Well, if you're going to insist on female suffrage, I would point out that by the time they got around to giving women the vote Western civilisation had ceased to be Christian in any meaningful sense. If the term "Christian civilisation" has much meaning, it would refer to the world as it was in the Middle Ages, where Christianity was the primary building-block of the whole socio-political worldview. And medieval society wasn't notably democratic - though there were some proto-democratic institutions, largely in Italian city-states. (Our own Parliament doesn't really count at that stage.)
The modern idea of representative government is is largely an Enlightenment synthesis, and religious leaders were among its strongest opponents. Papal Rome was the last place in Europe to hold out against any notion of popular representation.
Those thinkers who argued for democratic institutions were inspired by ancient city-states, mainly Athens and the Roman Republic, and tended to be highly suspicious or religious influence on politics.
It is, I suppose, possible to contrast Jesus's injunction that one should "render unto Caesar those things that are Caesar's" with Mohammed's unifying of political and theocratic power, and argue that the former made the secular state possible in the West. But the secular state is not the same thing as democracy. That is a Greek idea, as is the word itself.
- 6 June 2009 at 17:03
- McDuff said...
The Heresiarch has covered the "no they didn't" angle. What we did manage to invent in Christian nations - before we got the hang of the democracy thing, but also after - was the concentration camp, imperial domination and ethnic slaughter. By the reasoning that they emerged here, one could make a pretty compelling argument that there'd be no such thing as genocide without Christianity either.
It's also worth noting that "universal suffrage" in Christian nations was wrestled from the Christian leaders of said nations only after long and tortuous political processes. One might wonder how, if Christianity was responsible for universal suffrage, how come women only got the vote in England nineteen hundred years after Christ. That's remarkably slow going, don't you think?
It's funny how people think Christianity can take the credit for all the good things that it happened to be around for, but never seem happy when it goes the other way. I think I'd be happy to suggest that Christianity was responsible for our particular strain of western democracy as long as you're happy to admit it was responsible for the Trail of Tears, the torture of the Kenyan Kikuya, the eradication of the Aboriginal population of Tasmania, the transatlantic slave trade and the vast swathe of history where Christians argued that blacks and women weren't full human beings.
Or perhaps you'd like to withdraw your point before you look altogether too silly?
- 6 June 2009 at 17:36
- McDuff said...
Had the cross been on the roof for example or above the door, the presiding officer would have needed a ladder to put a shroud over it and quite sensibly (I take your point) he would have needed additional manpower from the city council..
And indeed were such a thing attempted, or was such a thing official policy rather than the inclination of one particular presiding officer, you might indeed be inclining towards a point.
How many hours did you take to erect a straw man that large, incidentally? I hope there was no taxpayer cost incurred in its erection.
- 6 June 2009 at 17:40
- Julian Mann said...
Interesting H. Enlightenment-influenced humanism certainly has to be seen as a big factor in the development of Western democracy, including as you say female suffrage.
In northern European countries and the democracries elsewhere in the world that sprang from them, surely, for example, the wide availability of the Bible in the vernacular and theological ideas such as justification by faith which loosened the power of the clergy were important factors in the development of participatory, accountable government?
- 6 June 2009 at 18:01
- McDuff said...
"theological ideas such as justification by faith which loosened the power of the clergy were important factors in the development of participatory, accountable government?".
That would be the Christian clergy, one assumes. Does that mean that Christianity was both instrumental in creating democracy and in being the oppressive force that precipitated its arrival? Seems rather a schizophrenic way to go about it, to me.
- 6 June 2009 at 18:37
- Julian Mann said...
Quite how Christian the clergy were at the time of Reformation is open to debate. The perception that many of them weren't very was one of the factors that fuelled Protestantism. It is difficult to argue historically against the proposition that the wide availability of the Bible in English led to a significant increase in the active involvement of Christian laity in the life of both Church and State in the 16th and 17th centuries. Indeed, the Marxist historian Christopher Hill certainly wouldn't argue against that proposition. Just the opposite in fact.
- 6 June 2009 at 18:57
- valdemar said...
Julian, you have a point. Democracy is about individuals voting according to conscience. Individual conscience is given great prominence in Protestant theology, and therefore it looks a lot less elegant that that wonderful edifice of glittering twaddle Catholics are so proud of. It's not surprising that fascism emerged in Catholic Europe.
But once you allow individual conscience in matters of faith (and Luther's conscience allowed him to edit the Bible - the Epistle of James was 'one of straw' etc) then the next logical step is to let people decide whether they believe in God at all.
Which perhaps explains why Protestants were as ferocious as Catholics in using terror to try and impose a religio-social orthodoxy that ultimately had to fall apart.
None of which has much to do with the Christian party, who are abaurd. And perhaps in legal trouble if they refuse (say) to allow openly gay people to join.
- 6 June 2009 at 21:22
- McDuff said...
I'm sorry, I forgot that we were using the word Christian to mean "whichever particular sub-branches of Christianity best supports the point today".
Not only are Catholics Christians too, they also have a much longer pedigree than you Protestant upstarts. They did write the Bible, after all.
- 6 June 2009 at 21:35
- valdemar said...
Well, McDuff, if I'm wrong I'm in good company. Orwell, for instance, argued that the novel was an essentially Protestant creative form.
Erm, Catholics wrote the Bible? I thought it was actually an assorted bunch of Jewish blokes, with 'Christians' taking on the role of editors and sub-editors. But I'm no theologian...
- 6 June 2009 at 23:52
- McDuff said...
"If I'm wrong I'm in good company" is a marvellous bit of rhetoric. However, it doesn't actually prevent one being wrong. Further, quite what "the novel is a Protestant form" has to do with "there would be no Democracy without Christianity" escapes me for the moment.
- 7 June 2009 at 00:53
- McDuff said...
And: the distinction between "writing" and "editing" is rather academic in this case. The Catholic Church decided what was going to be canonical scripture and ran the religion for over a thousand years before the Protestants came along.
Assuming that there's something to either tradition's claim that they actually know God, it seems more reasonable to believe that God's on the side of the Catholics than that He was conspicuously absent for 1200 years until an Anti-Semite came along and pinned a note to a door. I mean, either claim is ludicrous, but one's even more ludicrous than the other.
- 7 June 2009 at 01:11
- Julian Mann said...
Protestantism was a reaction against Roman Catholism, which arose after the Canon of Scripture was decided at the Council of Nicaea in 321 AD. Mainline Protestant Churches, such as the Church of England, claim to be part of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
It is simply an unavoidable fact of history (and one which Valdemar who has no brief for Christianity has the grace to acknowledge) that the wide availability of the Bible in the vernacular in Protestant countries was a crucial factor in the growth of the power of parliaments.
- 7 June 2009 at 08:12
- McDuff said...
And that, frankly, is as much a factor of the printing press as anything else.
The trouble, Mr Mann, as I've mentioned above, is that in the hands of the "Christianity=Democracy" theorising types the actual assertion becomes quite slippery. We've already seen the transformation as "Christianity" gets reduced to "Protestantism", with presumably "Catholicism" being part of the problem in the first place. We thus have, as pointed out, two religions affirming the divinity of the risen Christ taking the role of both hero and villain. Indeed, one might be inclined to point out that if the formulation you posit is correct, if God had backed the right horse 1200 years earlier we might have had secular parliaments in Europe in 6-700CE.
One might also point out that, since the chain of events rarely occurs in the order "new theological interpretation discovered, public sentiment erupts in support, world changed" as much as it does "significant shift in public thinking, theologians create post-hoc justification for why they thought this way all along" (while not denying, of course, that in very religious societies it is never simply a one-way street), Protestantism itself would never have emerged without the inevitable corruption of the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire.
There is a conflation in your arguments between the historical fact that things happened in a certain order, and the ideological insistence that any given link in the chain is a necessary component. The argument is not that Protestantism led to Democracy, but that without Protestantism - indeed, in CC's original formulation, without Christianity in all its forms - there would never have been Democracy in Europe. One is a matter of historical interpretation, the other a matter of slanting history to support an ideology.
I don't really have time for the notion that we westerners are in some sense able to play games of petty one-upmanship with other cultures simply because we came up with democracy first. We are not now and have not historically been particularly pleasant people. While we were "enlightening" ourselves about democracy, human rights and freedom we have also slaughtered other people both in our own nations and abroad on Imperial adventures on scales comparable to the "savages" in other, less enlightened nations. You don't need to be that good a scholar to see that if there is a link between the protestant reformation and the emergence of democracy, there is just a strong a link between Lutheran anti-Semitism, the blood libel and the Holocaust.
I have even less time for petty insinuations that because Protestantism showed up in the same countries that democracy showed up, this intimates quietly that the Protestant God really is the One True God after all. Although I'm sure nobody here was trying to do that, were they?
- 7 June 2009 at 16:57
- Julian Mann said...
Thank you Mr McDuff - before I sign off. I must also thank the Heresiarch for his hospitality.
There is also an ideological slant that refuses to give Christianity the credit for very much and wants to blame the Faith for the fact that some people use it as a pretext for doing the evil that they want to do. There is an ideological slant that refuses even to acknowledge the huge benefits of living in a Christian-influenced democracy where freedom has been allowed to flourish under the rule of law.
Evangelical Christians have been at forefront of combating many of the evils you have cited in your posts - William Wilberforce against the slave trade; Shaftesbury against economic injustice and exploitation; Corrie Ten Boom against anti-semitism (at great personal cost to herself).
It surely cannot be denied that at least those Christians obeyed Christ's command 'to do unto others as you would have them do unto you'.
- 7 June 2009 at 18:06
- McDuff said...
Christianity (are we still talking about mere Protestantism here or back to including Catholicism?), and indeed all strains and forms of spirituality from Sikhism to Buddhism, has been cited at length by both those who would do harm and those who would prevent harm. Indeed, sometimes those harming are the same people as those preventing harm. If the Bible can be cited with rapturous certainty by those who bomb and those who oppose bombing, by those who enslave and by those who oppose slavery, by democrats and monarchists alike, might it not be at least somewhat reasonable to say that the writings contained within cannot be claimed as responsible for one set of actions unless we also consider that they are responsible for the opposing set? Or, perhaps, might it be considered evidence for the proposition that the Bible is responsible for nothing but provides a wonderful post-hoc patina of righteousness for whatever people were planning on doing anyway, righteous or otherwise?
The argument is funny, in a way, because of the dancing around by the ones who try to neither use their preferred construction - that democracy was caused by and is a direct result of Christianity, and also because of the unpoken but present "therefores." "No Christianity, no democracy. Therefore..." Christianity is a better religion; Christianity is associated with things we value; you need Christianity to keep this society on a moral and ethical even keel; if you get rid of society we will soon be undemocratic too! Tosh when stated, of course, but then, that's why they're implied and not asserted.
Christianity being such an interwoven part of our history it is, of course, a selective reading that associates it only with the good things, just as claiming that Christianity is the root of all evil in Europe also requires a similar selectivity. It's been involved in everything, often on both sides, and often being just as influenced as it influences. Catholicism was corrupted by money and power. Protestantism was just one result of a cultural drift away from monarchical conceptions of society. But it is this very universal presence which is so damning, because it shows it to be so utterly malleable to other social forces, so obviously able to be tossed about wherever the current wind is blowing, that it completely undermines it's claims to be a guiding force or a causative factor. Where it has been on the side of good it has more-or-less been because good people were doing the good things they would have done anyway.
You can't really jump from actual history to a belief that Christianity was a guiding moral beacon which led us towards freedom and justice and democracy. It's been covered in mud for too long, and lagged change rather more than it has led it. It has been neither necessary for good things nor sufficient to prevent bad things happening.
You can see the Christianists like lightweight mobsters. "You'd better not cover up no crosses. Remember who gave you this democracy in the first place. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it, wouldn't it?" Unfortunately, their clumsily-veiled musings about consequences if we keep abandoning and ignoring them come across more and more like desperate pleas to the rest of us to keep thinking they're relevant. Being around when important things happened in history is neither proof that they were the motivating cause, nor any kind of indication that they are required for its continuation.
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Rock Hill, S.C. - Brevard College senior quarterback Aaron Reese became the second BC offensive player to earn South Atlantic Conference Offensive Player of the Week laurels, after guiding the Tornados to the 41-24 victory over Tusculum on Saturday night.
Reese broke a Brevard College single game record with five rushing touchdowns as he led the Tornados to their first victory in the South Atlantic Conference this season as the Tornados defeated the Pioneers for the second time in three years, with both victories coming in the friendly confines of Brevard Memorial Stadium.
Reese carried the ball 19 times for a game high 153 rushing yards and five scores, carrying the ball in from 1, 1, 31, 15 and two yards as he scored the first four Brevard College touchdowns as the Tornados built a 27-10 lead, and then he clinched the game with his final score, giving Brevard the commanding 41-24 lead. Reese averaged 8.1 yards per carry and was not tackled behind the line of scrimmage in guiding the Tornados to the victory.
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By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
EVERETT — The City Council on Wednesday imposed emergency restrictions for developing 12 acres of vacant land on the north end of Silver Lake.
It's land where an earlier project to build a high-density mix of shops and condos folded.
The plan for developing the site was crafted a decade ago with close attention to what neighbors and the city wanted to see there. It included rebuilding nearby Green Lantern Park on the lake shore.
The ordinance now in place is intended to buy time for the city to conduct more planning and to gather public input. The City Council voted 5-0 to pass it.
"This is a unique circumstance where the council thought it was imperative to consider the community's expectations that were put in place through work with the prior developer," Council President Jeff Moore said.
The earlier Silver Lake proposal would have included 185 multi-family homes, a new Safeway store plus another 100,000 square feet of commercial space. The complex known as Silver Lake Center called for two eight-story buildings of 111 feet tall. That's comparable to downtown Everett's Wall Street Building.
In exchange for the high building densities, Seattle developer Alan Clark agreed to rebuild the city's Green Lantern Park just to the other side of the highway. Specific parking requirement and pedestrian features figured into the package as well.
With permits in hand by 2004, Clark went on to demolish buildings at the site. In late 2005, he said he intended to break ground the following spring.
That didn't happen. Instead, some of the land went into foreclosure and a new owner bought it in 2010. Permits expired in November.
The sensitivity over building up the site stemmed in large part from past development conflicts in the area.
Clark in the mid-1990s started purchasing land for the proposed Silver Lake development. It would have stretched south from 110th Street SE to the Bothell-Everett Highway. A new Safeway store would have replaced an existing one on the north end of the site.
People from the area earlier had mounted strong opposition to a store that Costco Wholesale Corp. of Issaquah eventually built north of the site along the Bothell-Everett Highway.
Back when he was still pursuing the project, Clark met with the city and members of the Silver Lake Action Committee, a group that fought the Costco store.
"He truly showed the spirit of collaboration and wanting to work with the neighbors in the area," city spokeswoman Kate Reardon said. "He definitely put his best foot forward in trying to find a good balance."
The emergency ordinance the council passed Wednesday calls for scheduling a public hearing within 60 days to gather public comments about the site. Over the next year, the city plans to continue land-use planning and public outreach.
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Some of the loudest cheers during Utah State's 65-55 win over Weber State on Saturday came as Ben Clifford calmly sank free throws.
The sophomore forward hadn't gotten many minutes to that point, but was a cool 7-for-8 from the free-throw line coming off the bench. His presence was steadying as Kyisean Reed met his first serious foul trouble of the season.
And that's exactly what coach Stew Morrill expects to see in future games from everyone coming off the bench. Clifford, who he described as one of the hardest workers on the team, is helping set the tone.
"You never go out there thinking, 'Oh, Ben's not going to be ready to play hard today,'" Morrill said. "We really need some bench production, and it was good to see him do that."
In their last three games, the Aggies have been outscored in bench points 57 to 33. Only 20.3 percent of Utah State's scoring this year has come from backups.
Part of that is explained by the number of new players coming off the bench, such as freshman Marcel Davis or wing Marvin Jean. It's only natural newcomers would take some time to develop.
But with all of the team's nonconference road games coming up in the next few weeks starting Wednesday at Santa Clara (Calif.) the time to adjust to the Division I game is growing shorter.
Clifford has notched a standout game, and so has Spencer Butterfield in the season-opener against Idaho State. The hope is that more players will take on the role as the spark off the bench, and become more consistent in that effort.
"One of the strengths we always thought we had was depth, and sometimes guys get into foul trouble and we need that second string," Clifford said. "Sometimes your first few games in the Spectrum can be a little overwhelming. Hopefully we don't have anything like that on the road."
Newcomer Shaw among WAC leaders
Utah State's new addition at center has been working out quite well.
Junior Jarred Shaw, who sat out last year after transferring from Oklahoma State, has lived up to his preseason billing as conference newcomer of the year, albeit four games in. His 14.5 points per game is good for No. 10 in the WAC, and his 10.8 rebounds per game are No. 2 in that category.
Shaw has been a huge reason the Aggies have a conference-leading 13.7 rebounding margin, a figure also boosted by Reed and Preston Medlin. Morrill identified the statistic as one of the big reasons Utah State has gone 3-1 early in the year, and said it would be critical to maintain.
"On thing we're doing a pretty good job of is rebounding the basketball," Morrill said. "That has to be something we can count on game-in and game-out as our offense and defense try to get a little bit better."
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Maybe you will, maybe not… In terms of how it taxes the network, clips will typically be 5 to 25MB per second (big B there By the Way) according to how many frames per second and other design considerations. Obviously even if there is a 5MB pipe, the clips are likely too big to edit given a live master asset so you'd need to cache locally, which means for each clip (and however many clips in a project) you're talking about that much data caching to the local host before you can start editing.
To put this into a pseudo-real-world scenario (taking collisions, encryption and network latency out of the equation):
You are at home and sitting at your desk in your boxers, having just fixed a cup of coffee. You have 5 minutes of talking heads, classroom instruction or a reel that you're going to cut down into a 2 minute Quick Time movie. You open the Final Cut Server desktop app and find the clip you want (assuming you're not combing through clips looking for the one you want, which would take longer of course – so use good keywords) and click on add to cache. 5 minutes is 300 seconds, which is anywhere from a gig and a half to 7.5GB. Your home Internet connection gives you 2 Mb/s. You need to download (on the smaller side) 12 gigabits per second (1.5GB * 8 bits/Byte) which is around 12,000 metabits. At 2 of those per second it will take you 6,000 seconds, or 100 minutes before you can get to work. Obviously a 100 Meg connection from Comcast or a FIOS line helps with this if you guys have a fat enough pipe at the location with the actual Final Cut Server – but competing with other types of traffic might hurt… You can sync volumes (or their dedicated folders on volumes) to their homes and do WAN acceleration (which mostly just helps to cache commonly used files as compressed video isn't gonna' compress much more) as well.
Note: These are rough numbers, more specifics would require a bit more math, which I'm not in the mood to do right now.
Now, you can tweak it to do progressive downloading and edit in place and stuff like that. But even low res video you're talking about tryin' to drink a milkshake through a cocktail straw (thanks to KK for that analogy) in a lot of cases, which is going to be frustrating much of the time. You can also do a good number of automations with Final Cut Server to have the server upload items at night rather than during peak traffic times. But you are often talking about a lot of work to be done planning and testing before you try to go live. That's testing and planning done with a network admin and an editor sitting together, two of the most A.D.D. profession around…
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NYFW Day 8: Proenza Schouler, Jil Sander Navy, Marchesa And More!
Is it over yet? After a week-plus of runway shows, street fashion, model makeup and more, New York Fashion Week is finally drawing to a close. To finish off the week, we've got collections from Proenza Schouler, Jil Sander Navy, Elizabeth and James, Marchesa, Anna Sui — plus Katie Holmes' latest collection for Holmes and Yang. Check 'em all out after the jump!


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EUGENE, OR -- The Blairally Vintage Arcade is proving that pinball and adult beverages are a popular combination in the working class neighborhood of Whiteaker. From youthful working stiffs to middle-aged professors who teach at the nearby University of Oregon, dozens of happy competitors flock to the location's occasional Saturday night pinball tournaments, according to the Register-Guard, a hometown newspaper.
Aurcade.com, a players' site, describes the venue as a "warehouse with retro arcade cabinets and old retro pinball machines," and notes that the location features a projector and screen for playing vintage console games. The website listed 18 pins for the location during a recent visit; the oldest is Space Mission (Williams, 1975).
Entrants pay a $10 fee for a particular division, such as 1970s-era pins, and can win up to $450 if the pot grows that big. While flipper games are the big attraction, it's beer sales that generate the most revenue and pay the bills, said the Register-Guard.
Owner Chad Boutin told the paper that he opened what he calls his "bar-arcade-bowling alley" two years ago. Inside there are 60 machines, ranging from vintage pinballs to classic videogames. Boutin said he has more old games stored in a nearby warehouse.
Most games in the arcade are set on 25¢ play and a few on 50¢ play, according to online player reviews.
Boutin said he was previously a commercial photographer. He found that do-it-yourselfers armed with digital cameras were causing his photo business to dry up. After a friend installed some pinball machines in the lobby of his photo studio, Boutin's transformation from photographer to pinbar owner-operator began.
Vending Times has previously noted the "pinbar" trend powering similar successes in Washington state and Colorado. All the popular pinbar locations to date appear to be located in close proximity to colleges. | SEE STORY


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Was $49.95 NOW $19.95
This is the flexible arm that holds a smartphone at the perfect height for hands-free video-chatting, reading, or movie-watching in bed. Its 3/16"-thin, 9" L plastic base slips imperceptibly under a mattress, while its cushioned mount narrows or widens easily to firmly support any type of phone up to 3 1/2" W without clips, adhesives, or other damaging fasteners. The mount rotates 360� to position a screen in landscape or portrait position, and the 27" metal gooseneck flexes to achieve just the right angle, sparing users from the arm fatigue suffered while manually holding a phone up. Black. 27" H x 2" W x 2" D. (1 1/2 lbs.)
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By Carol
from Laguna Woods, CA
I use the iphone support when I play games on my iphone in bed. I used to get a sore shoulder and hand from holding the phone, and this product solved that problem. Also, I can place my phone at an angle to see incoming calls and always know where my iphone is. I love this product.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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foam pads fell off
By jim
from arlington, va
it's a solid product, well built, but didn't work for me. the side pieces that grip the phone is too short, doesn't work if you have a thick protective case on the phone. the foam on the side pieces are not glued on very well. they popped off after a few uses and i lost them. now it's basically useless because with out the foam pieces the sides don't grip the phone.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
LOVE This!!
By Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!
from Los Angeles, CA
This item has totally changed my life! I'll explain: I have a 3-year old who feels I MUST be present beside her while she watches her favorite cartoons over and over and over and over... again. It was quite literally driving me nuts. I have a little table stand for my phone, but I would have to lie on my side with my back to my kid in order to watch my shows on my phone with it resting on my nightstand. This was a non-option because my child insists on hugging my upper arm while she watches her shows. It's not like my phone could rest atop my belly, due to my having to breathe and the motion causing the phone to topple.This bed-phone-holding-arm is the answer to that entire debacle! I can lie next to my child and watch whatever I want on Netflix with my headphones, while she watches the same episode of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood for the 501st time. I feel truly liberated! If you're a parent who allows your kid to watch nice, safe, (boring) educational shows over and over, this arm thingy can make sure you (and only you, if you angle it right) can still watch your adult shows. Yippee!
Great Little Device
By Dave
from Memphis, TN
Everything won't fit on bedside table. This holds my iphone for its alarm and answering phone when on-call. It is easy to plug charging cord into bottom of iphone while in holder. Holder is easy to use and holds phone securely.
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By FirstFemaleHSSecurity
from NC
The section that holds the phone works well. The design has merit but the base section is not long enough to stay secure under the bed mattress. It moves a lot with every move I make. It seems the base and the post structure or not at the best angle using a right angle, because as soon as you get on the bed, the right angle on the side gets lost with the mattress compression and that pushes the holder around, yet again! I like this but I don't love it. I use it but should I find better, I'll toss this. I got it because I have severe back issues and get stuck in bed and I thought this would be perfect. It's just ok.
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Kevin and Danielle Jonas had their first kid, sponsored by Dreft.
Kellan Lutz advertises for two different companies while riding for a third.
Kendra Wilkinson always dresses to impress.
Lea Michele working out with a friend.
Lorde and her boyfriend.
Margot Robbie from back in the day when she was 17.
Megan Fox and her baby bump.
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WATCH: Kangaroo hops through terminal, shuts down part of Melbourne Airport
A kangaroo shut down part of Melbourne Airport on Wednesday when it hopped through a terminal and into a pharmacy, airport officials said.
Customers inside the drug store alerted Australian police, who were forced to lock down part of the Qantas terminal so wildlife workers could tranquilize the wayward kangaroo.
"After a lot of careful coaxing and corralling," Melbourne's 3AW radio reported, "the 'roo was cornered and wrangled into a bag by rescuers."
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, it was injured on a road near the airport.
It is unclear how the animal got into the terminal, but according to Masson, it's not unusual to see kangaroos in the airport's parking lot.
Karen Masson, the chief executive of Wildlife Victoria, told Reuters that the male eastern gray kangaroo — named Cyrus after one of his rescuers — was taken to a veterinary for treatment.
"He has done some damage to his teeth and is severely stressed," Wildlife Victoria said in a Facebook post. "He is resting now and volunteers are monitoring him closely."
"We get calls," Masson said. "There are a lot of 'roos out there."


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This Zenith has undergone a thorough inspection of water resistance, accuracy, functionality and condition to determine the level of reconditioning required to meet our strict standards. It has also been referenced against technical documents and manufacturer records where available to ensure authenticity and a clean history.
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|14 years (2003)
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Why Every Woman Needs a Girlfriend
Having a girlfriend is just as important as, well, having a boyfriend!
-Johanna Lyman, Divine Caroline
The other day I told my husband that I was really excited to see my best friend again. We live far apart and only get to see each other once a year. He responded with a hurt look, saying, "I thought I was your best friend!" To which I replied, "No, you're my husband. I still need my girlfriend."
This is one of the key dynamics that can really mess up a long-term relationship. Expecting your partner to fulfill all of your emotional needs sets you both up for disappointment. Every woman needs a girlfriend and every man needs a bromance.
Read Why Do Mother-in-Laws Make Daughter-in-Laws So Neurotic?
I'm not saying that your partner can't be one of your best friends—just that they shouldn't be your only best friend. You both need and deserve to have time out with other people on a regular basis. You need a different perspective; someone to bounce ideas off, and someone who will listen to you complain when (even if it's rare) your partner's being a jerk.
Having a close, emotionally intimate relationship with another person helps you become a better partner in your romantic relationship. You practice listening, being supportive and nonjudgmental, and you have the opportunity to express your own ideas, visions, and dreams. All these skills are necessary for a successful romantic relationship, and they are sometimes easier to develop with someone you're not sleeping with.


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As you might expect, the Southern California Linux Expo — that's SCALE 10X for those of you keeping score at home — starts a month early this year, and preparations are already in full swing.
So the folks that have to organize the Call for Papers, make the decisions, schedule the rooms, etc. — and that includes yours truly — remind you that the deadline for the SCALE 10X Call for Papers is rapidly approaching.
The SCALE team just sent out an announcement reminding those who plan to give a presentation or workshop at SCALE 10X that there are just a little over three weeks left to submit. The SCALE 10X Call for Papers closes on Nov. 17.
To submit a presentation for SCALE 10X, you have to first register as a speaker. Registrations from previous years are no longer valid. Speakers may submit multiple presentations.
For more information, visit this link.
Required tag line: SCALE 10X will be held from Jan. 20-22 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport in Los Angeles. For more information on the expo, visit the SCALE 10X page.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)


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* [[:Category:Reviewed]]: Submissions that have been processed
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Revision as of 16:14, 16 August 2012
Bugs and suggestions
Requested updates to existing submissions get categorized as "Bug report":
When completed, the category gets changed to "Bug report-done"
If you edit a bug report using "edit with form", you can mark the it as having been reviewed. (The category changes automatically.)
Updating existing entries
To update an existing entry, click an individual bug link, then click the "edit the page" link.
Some important things to do when updating a submission:
- In the Documentation note and Version comment fields, make sure all URLs are formatted as external links. Simply pasting the URL is bad because it does not create a clickable link and because long URLs create formatting errors due to poor line wrap support.
- Make sure IRC channels are formatted as URIs in the formatted like such: irc://irc.gnu.org/channelname — notice that the hash tag of the channelname is optional.
- The Submitted by and Submitted date should only be edited the first time a project is submitted.
- If you are making a very minor change, do not bother updating the Last reviewed fields. However, if you are updating the software to indicate a new version has been released or have improved it in other substantial and interesting ways, make sure you updated the Last reviewed by and Last reviewed date. This will add it to an RSS feed of recent updates.
- The licensing section deserves its own wiki page, but for now:
- When updating license info for a package, please ask another FSD administrator to review your work. (You can do that either via a checkbox on the review's "Edit with form" tab, or by clicking "Problem with this listing?" at the bottom of a project's page). Also, if you do update the license info or have confirmed that it is correct in a newer version, be sure to update the License reviewed by and License reviewed date fields for that package.
- When updating an existing package in the Directory, if you suspect the package has changed and become proprietary software, then this should be flagged for urgent review immediately. Also, contact another administrator letting them know about the situation.
- If you are having trouble updating or checking the license for a package, don't let this halt updating other aspects of the package's information. Simply update the information you can and then either update the existing Bug in the Review: namespace or create a new Bug that states the package license info needs to be checked and updated.
Viewing submissions (requests)
New entry requests are created with "Form:Submit":
Submissions are categorized as Review:
When review is complete the category is changed to Reviewed.
If you edit the "Finished review=No" field to say "Yes," then this will happen automatically.
Accepting/rejecting submissions
Please note: When publishing a new entry to the Free Software Directory, please make sure that it meets our requirements, and that another administrator who is experienced in publishing new submissions to the directory reviews your work.
- If you conclude that we can't admit a submission into the Directory, then change the status to reviewed and add your comments explaining why (nicely) above the template. See Review:0_A.D.-REV-ID-1 for an example.
About editing with forms
- Form:Submit: Anyone with a user account can submit a package for review
- Form:Entry: Admins can use this to create new project pages
At the top of pages in the Review: namespace is a link that will allow you to create or edit entries without typing URLs or entering a name into Form:Entry. Currently, to make changes to an entry's content you must type in your own sentences, and copy and paste basic info. To avoid copyright infringement, please use your own wording for program descriptions.
When you want to edit a page, you have the option of using "Edit" or "Edit with Form". The first allows you to see the source code of the page and offers more flexibility, whereas the second one presents you with a convenient form layout, allowing you to edit current values.
Organization of FSD
Here are some pages that an admin will find useful:
Categories mentioned above
- Category:Review: Submissions for (usually) new packages
- Category:Reviewed: Submissions that have been processed
- Category:Bug report: User submitted bugs and suggestions
- Category:Bug_report-done: Processed bug reports
Not mentioned above
- Category:Alert: Packages that have been marked as containing non-free software or using non-free documentation
- Category:Alert-done: Packages marked as non-free that have been processed
- Category:GNU_review: Submissions marked as GNU
- Category:GNU_review-done: GNU submissions that have been processed
- Category:Review_license: Packages whose license details require double-checking by an experienced administrator
- Category:Documentation: All documentation pages
- Category:Test: Test pages
Site development
These links are useful for people working on fixing and brining new features to the directory:
- FSD:Hack: Tutorial links
- FSD:Bugs: Triaged bugs
- FSD:Features: Potential site improvements
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Too $hort to release EDM album
Listen to Too $hort on iHeartRadio
Rapper Too $hort is gearing up to release a new album based on electronic dance music beats.
According to Allhiphop.com, the eleven track album is titled Weird Science and will feature one original song and ten remixes with Too $hort providing rap lyrics over EDM beats.
The album will be released on March 25th via MalLabel Music. The label's founder says they decided to collaborate with Too $hort after years of incorporating hip-hop music into their events. He also believes that Too $hort will "work well with our audience."
Too $hort and MalLabel have already released the title track to the album through MalLabel's Soundcloud account. The track features San Francisco rapper Oh Blimey." (WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE)


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From geodes to mirror glazes, it's been a year to remember for cake decorators! Before 2016 wraps up, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the year — and it's been quite a year! Read on to relive a few of our favorite trends.
The best NEW cake decorating classes were...
Fantastic Filler Flowers
The finishing touch to your blooming cakes? Those little flowers that fill the gaps! Learn to make realistic-looking filler flower arrangements with Jacqueline Butler.
Better Buttercream: Stunning Techniques
Who doesn't want better buttercream cakes? Erica O'Brien teaches us cool techniques for textures, transfers, impressions and more in her latest online class.
Naturally Elegant Cake Designs
The biggest trend to hit cakes this year was, without a doubt, designs inspired by nature. Learn how to achieve lifelike natural designs for organically elegant cakes.
3 tips & trends we just can't forget
Make a Chocolate-Covered Cake That's (Literally) Dripping With Fun
Who can forget this ooey, gooey trend? Learn the secrets to making your own finger-lickin'-good drip cake with our tutorial.
Have You Seen This Geode Cake? Now You Can Make Your Own!
Rachael Teufel's jaw-dropping geode cake was such a big deal, it made national news! Plus, she has a tutorial for making your own rockin' cake.
How to Make the Easiest (and Cutest!) Baby Shower Cake Ever
Simple, sweet and oh-so cute — that's how we describe Erin Gardner's onesie cake that's gone big on Pinterest!
We think every cake decorator's cabinets need these new tools
The Easiest Rose Ever Sugar Flower Cutter
Make lifelike, delicate fondant or gumpaste roses — in half the time! — with this amazing cutter. It can make leaves and ruffles, too!
Ateco Russian Flower Piping Tip Set
Buttercream flowers were big this year, and these floral Russian piping tips made them that much easier to create.
Magic Decor Lace Molds
Dreaming of lacy cakes? Magic Decor's silicone molds give you intricate designs in minutes! Check out all the designs and essential ingredients you need.
The Man of the Year? Our Man About Cake!
Join fun-loving cake decorator Joshua John Russell every Tuesday on YouTube for new, joke-filled tutorials. Check out his latest episode below!
What's to come for cake in 2017?
We can't wait to find out — and share it all with you! Be sure to subscribe to the Craftsy Cake Decorating Blog to be the first to know about all the new trends and tutorials.


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