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An excellent and FREE product, nothing to complain about or dislike and it's very useful for combat situations.
its just 2 pages its ok the 2nd page is one planet
The BEST thing about DriveThruRPG? I can usually find a product that does EXACTLY what I want it do.
Case in point, the Wildstar Class Corvette.
I have been wanting to reboot my old sci-fi game and I had a map of a Corvette scout ship. That map disappeared years ago. A quick search here on "corvette" uncovered this map.
It is pretty much exactly what I needed.
It is a good map for 40 crewmen and usable with any sci-fi game.
My only gripe about it is there is now side projection of decks. I would have liked to have seen that as well.
Good for random parts of a Megacity (say if doing a Judge Dredd game)
I was rather disappointed with this item. The ship plans are rather generic and, frankly, not very alien. I might use these deck plans for encounters with derelict human ships, but I would find them inadequate for any actually alien races.
A very nice layout, obviously inspired by a starship exploring the Final Frontier, but nothing wrong with that. I will definitely use this in my games!
It's not the most beautiful set of starship deckplans out there, but it is usable, and the price is right.
does what it says on the tin, 10x10 hex grid. print it out raw and scribble in your own map or crack open photoshop and overlay it on something that looks better than a duck painting with it's feet.
This simple map has become a staple in my games. Even the name of the tavern is perfect and my players made a sign for it, with a monkey holding a flaming ball of.... Well, let's go with 'fire'.
Pretty useless having small parts of a city with no relationships between them. Don't pay money for this.
The tiles are underrated. Sure, they are not great and there are only 4 different "tiles", but you can reverse them like a previous reviewer said and you can cut off parts that do not work for you. Still, an exit piece of sewer or emptying pipes / sewer grates, etc. would have been nice. For a free set, these are pretty nice.
Good for a sample. The section you get is the lower right section of the picture shown. It has a few craters, one big one small, what looks to be a road (the texture isn't that great in my opinion for a road) and some grass surrounding 2 buildings' entrances. I didn't care for the building mockups, the outside looks like it might be wood with concrete floors on the inside. Actually I will pass on this full map, I'm glad I got to see the sample though. The only thing I did like about it was the craters and the grass textures, the rest of it I could leave well enough alone. They just don't fit in any sci-fi or modern scene well enough for my liking and there is no variation whatsoever. Every building tile looks like every other one. This is set to a 1" square map tile.
It's pretty. Better art than I could do, at any rate. Wish there was some potential backstory for each planet available as a resource.
Awesome maps with great detail! I hope they put out more ship plans in the future. Even a space station from Wydraz would be cool. This is much better than most of the competition doing deckplans. Only thing keeping me from giving this product 5 stars is the mention and a ladder leading to a 20-ton shuttle, but no other reference or mapping of the shuttle. It's hard to visulaize the shuttle on the exterior shots of the ship, too. I plan to use the Dragonfly in an Original Series Star Trek campaign. Easily adaptable to Star Wars and Star Frontiers as well.
It should help me run a Phase World campaign set within the sector of space in that star map. Thank you again for allowing this to happen.


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The greater Fort Hood area will not trail too far behind the greater Austin area as In-N-Out Burger opens in Killeen.
The California-based restaurant chain opened locations in Round Rock and Austin about a month ago, said Carl Van Fleet, the company's vice president of planning and development.
Locations arrived in Texas in May 2011, when In-N-Out opened stores in Allen and Frisco, stated the company's website. There are now at least 18 locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and a third coming to Cedar Park.
"We're coming up on three years in North Texas, and we've been open in the Austin area for a little over a month," Van Fleet said. "We are very happy with both of those markets, and we continue to look forward to adding new restaurants in Central Texas."
On Dec. 17, the Killeen City Council approved a platting request that would allow In-N-Out Burger to construct a facility between the Sprint store and Wendy's on Central Texas Expressway.
An existing structure at 2501 W.S. Young Drive will be removed so the restaurant can be built.
Van Fleet didn't say when construction would start, but said once it begins, it takes between four and five months to erect an In-N-Out Burger.
"There is a lot that happens before we can even begin construction," he said, expecting work to start some time this year.
The replatted site is a good location, Van Fleet said.
It will accommodate the space with great surroundings and is close to the highway.
"Killeen is a vibrant area and … we are really enthusiastic about the opportunities there," he said.
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MSC POESIA Dec.6-16- Dec-16-23, 2011: MSC Poesia Cruise Review by capitalbarry
Overall Member Rating
MSC POESIA Dec.6-16- Dec-16-23, 2011
Destination: Southern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Clean clean clean!!!
The Good and Bad,
So,..... Stayed in the superior cabin #12049 on the 12th floor. Nice room, bigger than I expected. Deep reds and gold ,black colours to decorate the room. The bed was REALLY hard as a rock, pillows well hard as a rock and very very tiny..( did ask for bigger pillows from room steward, and she did get them for me) There was alot of storage space in cabin, bathroom was ok for its size. Balcony was bigger than normal was set on a angle, 2 chairs and a table.. great views!!
The huge problem with this room was the NOISE from up above. Found out to or amazement that our room and the the room next to us was right under the PING PONG tables. So imagine the noise of people jumping, running and squeaking of the shoes ALL day long until dinner time, forget about a afternoon nap!! This room is under deck 13 which is the main deck for pools, lunch, dinners, bars. So you More get alot of traffic. This room also was near the front of the ship, I don't suggest this room. but if you like the rolling up and down motion of a ship. This was very predominate at times as it seemed the ship didn't employ the ship stabilizer's for any length of time... Rolling Rolling Rolling!! We stayed in room 90199 on second leg of this cruise. Room was nice, soothing blues decorated this room. The room was alot smaller than 12049, but the bed and pillows made up for it and there was no noise from the PING PONG Table from room 12049. The bathroom was smaller also. Needed more storage, but again is a smaller cabin. But still very nice!This cabin is close to the back of the ship on the 9th floor. We did get some nights with a very high vibration from the engines, thought that was a little strange being so fare away for them.. Oh ya our steward in this cabin was, well not so good, she kept leaving or balcony door open and unlocked every single day for 7 days...So you can imagine when we get back how HOT it was in the room.. Mentioned it to her every day and all she said , was oh sorry so sorry!!.. No idea why it was such a deal to lock and close the door....The food was well.....
Breakfast was good seemed to have same choices everyday, but was ok, filled my tummy good everyday!
Lunch was good, had alot of choices.. BUT very crowed when it came 12 pm, WOW LINES LINES LINES!!!
In main dining room was just ok, stick to Italian , not steak, as they seem not to be able to cook your steak to order is always MED-Well done even if you order Rare, seems strange!! We dined 9-17 days in main restaurant, JUST got real bored of the food. The last night of our cruise we waited 45 minutes just get or first serving for our dinner. We only the 2 of us at our table. Most of the time the food was lukewarm to cold... The best thing we found was to go to the buffet at night and enjoy different flavours and food. You have a much better choice!! So food was only ok at best in dinning room.... You just need them to improve on the food a little....Entertainment......
Well there just did not seem to be very much of it.. Not to mention when they did play games took for ever to play as the host had to speak so many different languages...... Got real tired of hearing that after a while, First leg of the cruise had like 15-25 kids, the second leg of our cruise was over 600 kids, OMG, was so many screaming kids, and no adults around to make them behave...
The shows at night were good, very Italian, which was really nice, opera was great all over the ship!
You must go to the Wine bar on this ship.... if you do not go ,our missing a great atmosphere here. The staff are amazing the best we had on any cruise line... The wine is pricey but hey your on vacation... Great job girls!!
I have to say the staff on this ship are very friendly, you get more bees with honey than vinegar.. A smile and a hello get you a great response back!!! Never had one problem with talking or greetings from staff.
All in all was a good cruise, would I sail with them again, YES of course.. Would I recommend it to friends indeed YES. 3 times is charming lets go for 4, ...... Keep up the great work MSC, just try and try too improve the food and entertainment!! Happy Sailing! Less
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cabin # 12049, very nice, but was very noisy. PING PONG Table right over or head!!! Nice balcony, was set on an angle.. Very noisy location. You could really feel the rolling of the ship from this cabin.The beds and pillows in this room are very HARD not nice to sleep on at all... Cabin # 90199, was small. but very nice Bed and Pillows very comfortable, Vibration form the engine at times in this cabin.
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Innovation involves two stages—the generation of new ideas and the implementation of the ideas. Meanwhile, creativity is considered to be the first stage of innovation. While we know a lot about both, there's still not a lot of research to guide leaders. The routes to team innovation are still being developed. So, to help maximize creativity on your own team, understand that the road to innovation isn't always as straightforward as we may have once thought.
According to Harvard Business Review, here are some of the key things that we do know contribute to innovation, based on a comprehensive meta-analysis:
A vision. Teams are more innovative when members have a common understanding of team objectives and are committed to them. Clear and valued objectives can create meaning and motivation for team members.
Goal interdependence. Goal interdependence is the extent to which team members can meet their goals only by having the other team members achieve their goals. You create goal interdependence by setting objectives that must be achieved collectively and by addressing issues, including feedback, as a team.
Support. Teams are more innovative when managers expect and approve of innovation, support members when their attempts to innovate are not successful, and recognize and reward new ideas and their implementation.
A task orientation. This is a shared concern for excellence that stems from the compelling vision. Teams with a task orientation set high performance standards, monitor their performance and provide feedback.
A cohesive team. Cohesion represents commitment to the team and a desire to be part of the team. Researchers see cohesion as creating a psychologically safe environment that enables members to challenge each other.
Communication. Strong internal communication allows for sharing knowledge and ideas, and creates a safe environment for providing feedback. And, external communication fosters innovation by learning from others and bringing new information into the team.


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Eileen P.wrote a review of Patagonia Re-Tool Pullover Hooded Fleece Jacket - Women's on October 18, 2012
Great pullover!
Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
My 15 year old daughter specifically requested this jacket and is thrilled with it. She's 5'4" 110 lbs. and I usually would have ordered her an XS but the other reviews seemed to indicate that it really is a trim fit. I would agree with that and I'm glad I ordered her a small. It's roomy to go over sweaters but not baggy. This jacket is very popular with teens right now.


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Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis (born June 4, 1948) is an Evangelical Christian writer, and the editor of Sojourners Magazine. Wallis is also known for his criticism of the fiscal and foreign policies advocated by the religious right.
Wallis became active in the civil rights movement as a young man in the 1960s. He graduated from Michigan State University, and then attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois where he joined with other young seminarians in establishing the community that eventually became Sojourners.
His books include:
- God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (2005)
- Faith Works: How Faith Based Organizations Are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America (2000)
- The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left" (1995).
Reverend Wallis is also the convener of Call to Renewal, an interfaith effort to end poverty.
In discussing the 2004 American presidential elections, Wallis said "Jesus didn't speak at all about homosexuality. There are about 12 verses in the Bible that touch on that question ... [t]here are thousands of verses on poverty. I don't hear a lot of that conversation." (Mother Jones Magazine, March 10, 2005)
Wallis, along with fellow Evangelical Christian Tony Campolo, is a founder of the Red-letter Christian movement.


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Staff very helpful Considering the cost of the 3 rooms (we had a family group of 9), I would expect a complimentary abbreviated breakfast offering. I walked down the street for coffee.
This was a much nicer hotel than I expected for the money I paid. We were traveling with two children and had no problems. Everyone, especially the concierge was friendly and helpful. The hotel is about a 5 minute walk from Quincy Market and the Aquarium. The Italian North end is just a little further. Great overall experience. The only downside was the parking at the hotel was extremely expensive and was valet only. I'm sure there were other less expensive options nearby, but we didn't want the hassle of driving around the city with two crabby kids in the car.
The hotel was beautiful and the beds fabulous. The best part of our amazing stay was the service. Jerry at the front desk and Steve, the concierge, went above and beyond to treat me, my daughter and two grandsons to a memorable introduction to Boston including sightseeing, public transportation, wonderful restaurants. I have visited world class hotels all my life and never experienced this level of caring and guidance. Bravo!!! The price!!!!
The best part was necessarily the SPA, gym and swimming pool which can make a major diffrence in any hotel stay. The staff manning the cafe and restaurants clealry requires more experinence and effectiveness.
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As the stigma of homosexuality fades from public discourse, people are becoming more open about their sexuality and doing so at an earlier age. This is a sign of a healthy society. Yet, there is a segment of society that is deeply disturbed by this trend and it manifests itself in our schools as anti-gay bullying. The result has been a rash of suicide among gay teens across the country.
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By studying and experiencing works of fine arts and literature and by understanding their place in cultural and intellectual history, students develop an appreciation of the human significance of the arts and humanities through history and across cultures.
Cluster Two introduces students to the arts and humanities, those expressive forms that humans have valued as having intrinsic worth. Students complete their nine credits by choosing one course from each of three tiers, each representing a broad area of study in the liberal arts. These three tiers are 1) Historical, Cultural, Philosophical Perspectives; 2) Fine Arts; and 3) Literature.
Students will take one course from the list below that reflects broad historical, cultural, and philosophical perspectives. The GHIST courses introduce students to the great intellectual and religious bases of Western, Middle Eastern, Asian and African cultures. The three philosophical and religious courses explore the great inquiries into human existence and the ways different cultures across different time periods constructed their responses to questions concerning humans' existence and their relationship to Nature, ultimate reality, and the universe. The GHUM courses are interdisciplinary explorations of cultures, periods, or issues such as Human Rights, which cross cultures. GAMST 200 focuses on questions of American identities and how they are forged from a complex interplay of cultural, historical, religious, and ideological perspectives. Thus, all courses in Tier One are broadly cultural, deeply philosophical or religious, and historical. Students will understand the varying responses within different cultures to central issues about the human condition and ways of expressing and determining values and beliefs as they are shaped by class, gender, race, historical events, philosophy and religion.
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Students will take an art or art history, music history, or a theatre course that will introduce them to the fine arts. The art history surveys introduce students to the visual arts (whose history often has been interconnected with developments in music, dance, and theatre/film); these surveys are organized chronologically, but focus distinctly on artistic perception and experience. The global music surveys explore history and the arts through the study of music: its development, aesthetics, forms and styles, and its context within the cultural communities that produced it. GART 200 and GMUS 200 are introductions to art or music in general culture; GTHEA 210 studies theatre as an art form including acting, directing, design, costuming, lighting; GMUS 203 explores America's musical landscape and examines the interconnections among music, art, and literature in historical periods. In all Tier Two courses, students will examine the innate human aesthetic sense, sources of art and music appreciation, and the creation of art as both an expression of human creativity and a means of giving meaning to the world. Thus, all the courses focus on the key areas of human creativity and expressiveness through the fine arts, music or theatre – imaginative outpourings that have form, structure, meaning and aesthetic appeal that all students can come to appreciate.
The literature surveys provide students with extensive reading experiences of representative genres and authors, various critical approaches to literary texts, as well as opportunities to explore the complex ways that the literature both reflects and helps change or create the cultural and intellectual contexts of the times in which they are written.
Students are expected to learn strategies for reading and interpreting any literary text so that they come to deepen their appreciation of the aesthetics, rhetorical strategies, and meaning of a range of literary texts. Through the humanistic study of literature, students will also obtain a better understanding of themselves and their own culture as well as those of others.
Students planning to participate in one of JMU's Studies Abroad Programs in Florence, London, Salamanca may fulfill some or all of their Cluster Two requirements depending upon the program in which they participate. For additional details, consult the Cluster Two coordinator.
In Cluster Two, students read, write, and think about the arts, humanities, and culture; they visit historical and cultural sites and experience art, music, theatre, dance, and literature. They learn what it is to live lives enriched by reflection, imagination, and creativity.
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Our deputy political editor picks out the ten most significant results
Amber Valley (Labour gain from Con) - Labour seized this Derbyshire local authority from the Conservatives for the first time in 14 years, in a nail-biting count that went down to the last seat.
Portsmouth (Lib Dem to NOC) — A big blow for the Lib Dems as it shows the party is also vulnerable to advances from Ukip, which has replaced it as the protest party.
Crawley (Lab gain from Con) - The seat that Ed Miliband had to get to prove that he can win ground in the southeast outside London.
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Red Devils boss David Moyes has found the going tough since taking over from Sir Alex Ferguson in the summer, and for the first time in years United have stuttered through the first few months of the campaign.
Despite their poor start the former Everton boss is hopeful he will be able to help them retain the title.
United currently sit eight points behind Arsenal in the race for the Premier League crown, but Toure believes that Liverpool are now a greater threat to City's title ambitions than their local rivals.
He said in The Sun: "United will find it hard to defend the title since they have a new manager and are really struggling.
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The Ranson/Edwards Homestead Property has no facilities or parking. It is part of the Coal Creek Canyon park management plan.
The management of Coal Creek Canyon Park reflects Jefferson County Open Space's mission of balancing human use with resource preservation. This is accomplished through the application of management units upon the landscape, which define a spectrum of recreational opportunities, environmental education and interpretation opportunities, and natural and cultural resource conservation efforts. Coal Creek Canyon Park has three management unit designations, each emphasizing different priorities for the provision of recreational opportunities and protection of the park's resources. The Parkland Recreation Area, which is the trailhead and surrounding area, emphasizes the amenities to serve the basic needs of the park's visitors, including ADA accessibility, and serves as the primary parking area for access to the park's trail system. These amenities include restrooms and picnic areas. The area(s) chosen for the park's trailhead(s) will be dependent on future design and engineering requirements. However, the trailhead(s) will mostly be in the area of Highway 72, Plainview Road and Blue Mountain Drive. As part of the Mountain Backdrop, the design, location and construction of the trails and parking areas will need to be considered in relation to their visual impacts. These improvements should not detract from the scenic qualities that are present on the park. The Natural Area management unit comprises most of the park's area and is managed primarily for the protection of the park's natural resources, which include an area of xeric tallgrass prairie, fall bear feeding areas, and habitat for elk, bobcat, deer and mountain lions. This park is also part of the Mountain Backdrop. In addition, this area will be managed for its natural surface trail opportunities.The Sensitive Area is located along Coal Creek. The south part of the Lacy acquisition borders a Sensitive Area that is part of White Ranch Park. The area along Coal Creek is sensitive because it contains a population Preble's meadow jumping mouse, a federally threatened listed species. In addition, suitable habitat for the mouse extends into the canyon area. There is a small population of trout in the creek that would not stand up to the pressure of fishing and the creek is a major concentration for the various species of wildlife that inhabit the park. The vision for this park will incorporate the three primary values for which these properties were acquired. These values include the protection and enhancement of critical habitats and designated Conservation Sites, the protection of scenic values associated with those areas in the Mountain Backdrop and for the development of trail opportunities. With the exception of the Asel donation, all of the resolutions associated with these parks reflect acquisition for protection of critical wildlife habitat areas in general and the Coal Creek riparian corridor in particular. Statewide, riparian corridors make up only a couple percent of the total wildlife habitat areas, but they support over 95 percent of the wildlife species. Coal Creek contains one of the County's few populations of Preble's meadow jumping mouse. This area will be intensively managed to protect and enhance the habitat for this species. Another part of the vision for this park is to develop trails that would accommodate a wide spectrum of non-motorized use where appropriate. Because of extreme topographic conditions, the two western most parcels (Asel and the western part of Lacy) are not anticipated to have any trail development. The potential exists for the development of loop trails on the remaining parcels as long as they do not interfere with the natural resources in that area. The location of this park also offers the possibility of establishing linkages to other parks in the area, which include White Ranch Park, Golden Gate Canyon State Park, City of Boulder Open Space parks to the north and the Rocky Flats area to the east. In addition, this park contains some relatively moderate topography so trails that incorporate universal access design principles that comply with Americans with Disability Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADA) could be developed. There are many uncertainties associated with the future management of other publicly owned properties in the immediate area. The Denver Water Board may construct a reservoir in Leyden Gulch, the railroad tracks may be relocated, and the City of Boulder has not yet developed a management plan for their property. As such, the long-range vision for the park needs to be stated in general concepts without trying to determine specific locations for trails and parking lots. Staff's recommendation is to postpone any development until these land use issues become clearer. If at the end of 5 to 7 years there is no answer to these issues, staff recommends that limited development proceed in areas, which would be least, affected by these issues.
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In this work, we present a novel T-PAKE protocol which solves the above fault management problem by employing a batched and offline phase of distributed key generation (DKG). Our protocol is secure against any malicious behavior from up to any t < n servers under the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption in the random oracle model, and it ensures protocol completion for t < n/2. Moreover, it is efficient (16n + 7 exponentiations per client, 20n + 14 per server), performs explicit authentication in three communication rounds, and requires a significantly lesser number of broadcast rounds compared to previous secure T-PAKE constructions. We have implemented our protocol, and have verified its efficiency using micro-benchmark experiments. Our experimental results show that the protocol only introduces a computation overhead of few milliseconds at both the client and the server ends, and it is practical for use in real-life authentication scenarios.
To this end, we first formalize the requirements of ZKPPC protocols and propose a general framework for their construction in the standard model using randomised password hashing and set membership proofs. We design a suitable encoding scheme for password characters and show how to express password policies to allow the adoption of set membership proofs. Finally, we present a concrete ZKPPC-based registration protocol that is based on efficient Pedersen commitments and corresponding proofs, and analyse its performance.
To complete the ZKPPC-based registration and authentication framework we propose a concrete VPAKE protocol, where the server can use the obtained verification information from the ZKPPC-based registration phase to subsequently setup secure communication sessions with the client. Our VPAKE protocol follows the recent framework for the construction of such protocols and is secure in the standard model.
We construct the first fuzzy extractors that work for a large class of distributions that have negative minimum usable entropy. Their security is computational. They correct Hamming errors over a large alphabet. In order to avoid the worst-case loss, they necessarily restrict distributions for which they work.
Our first construction requires high individual entropy of a constant fraction of symbols, but permits symbols to be dependent. Our second construction requires a constant fraction of symbols to have a constant amount of entropy conditioned on prior symbols. The constructions can be implemented efficiently based on number-theoretic assumptions or assumptions on cryptographic hash functions.
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For thousands of years, stories have been serving the purpose of making our world and lives meaningful. Over the past several years, the therapeutic potential of both fiction and nonfiction stories has been increasingly realized in the US, especially in the field of mental health. That is how Anya Achtenberg's The Stories of Devil-Girl (Modern History Press, 2008) is valued and has been recently picked by a reading group with urban Native Americans many of whom have suffered similar abuses as depicted in Anya's book.
Olive Lefferson, Art Coordinator at the Chief Seattle Club in Washington, is here with us to talk about her reading group and what made her pick The Stories of Devil-Girl to use in her group.
Ernest: Olive, thank you for taking time for this correspondence. Please tell us briefly about Chief Seattle Club.
Olive Lefferson: Because around 70% of the Native population lives off their reservation, they need a support system, a place to connect with other Natives. Chief Seattle Club is a center for Urban Natives that was started around 45 years ago. It has evolved from a program that was open only three hours a day and moved from one store front to another in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle to an organization which employs eleven staff and has a budget of $650,000 per year, most of which comes from private donors. We offer many services to our members, including: hot breakfasts, showers, a laundry service, computers and phones, a TV room, a legal clinic and the Art Program. We have wellness groups similar to AA, talking circles and trauma groups. We have partnerships with providers such as a mental health counselor, drug and alcohol counselor, nurses from Healthcare for the Homeless and Seattle Indian Health Board and a worker from the Department of Social and Health Services. About half of our members are homeless or in shelters or other transitional housing. Virtually all of them deal with addiction, mental health issues, and trauma.
Ernest: How many people on average attend your reading group? Please tell us a little about the group and its activities.
Olive Lefferson: The writing group is a part of the Art Program and we meet every week for an hour. There is a core group of six to ten people with others who come and go. We've been meeting for about two and a half years. It started out as a poetry class with a volunteer who came and worked with us. When she changed jobs and couldn't volunteer anymore, I started leading the group by providing writing prompts. I have a BA in English with a creative writing emphasis; I write mostly short stories and memoir and have taken writing classes with Anya. We all read our writings out loud – although they are always given the option to not read aloud, rarely does anyone choose not to share their writing with the group.
The group is made up of both men and women. Their ages range from early twenties to sixties. They come from tribes all over the U.S., including Alaska, and we have many members who are First Nations from Canada (I'm a member of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana).
Ernest: How frequently does your group read storybooks?
Olive Lefferson: The Stories of Devil-Girl is the first book we'll read as a group, although I often print poems and excerpts for them to read. Even though the narrator comes from a Russian Jewish immigrant family, some of her experiences were similar to our members and I wanted them to see the commonality of life experiences that cross cultural barriers. Our members have lived through their own trauma and hardship and I think it will be illuminating and hopefully healing for them to see that someone from a very different culture/background has some of the same issues. The next book we plan to read will be Winter in the Blood by James Welch.
Ernest: Speaking from your experience, how do you think storytelling and reading help with the healing process?
Olive Lefferson: Storytelling and oral history is an integral part of Native culture. I grew up hearing my grandmother's and mother's stories. It's what we did and still do to keep our stories alive and in the telling comes healing. Also, in hearing and reading about other people's troubles, even fictional characters, our members will be able to talk about their own issues or write about them.
Ernest: So how does The Stories of Devil-Girl enter your reading interest?
Olive Lefferson: I was struck by the abuse the narrator was subjected to but even more compelling was the fact that she came through it intact, went to school, and became a teacher. I want our members to know there's always hope for a better life.
Ernest: How do you plan to use the book in your group? Will you choose some stories specifically for your readers according to the nature of their experiences?
Olive Lefferson: I was planning on reading the whole book with the group. I sent a copy with several of them at our last meeting. At our next meeting we'll talk about it: their overall impression of the book, what they thought of the writing; what they understood different passages to mean; how it relates to their lives. I'll give them a prompt, for example, the title of a chapter, and ask them to write about what that means for them.
Ernest: Do you think the book will be more helpful to women who are able to identify with the characters in these stories?
Olive Lefferson: I'm guessing the women will get the most out of it, but there are lessons for men to learn, if only to hear from the women's perspectives. One of the lessons to be learned from the book is the resilience of the human spirit, that a person, whether man or woman, can make it through such adversity and still come out of it whole, go to school, teach, write books, stay sober, make art, hold down a job, whatever it is that they aspire to. I want them to always be hopeful for a better life.
Ernest: With continued expansion of urbanization in and outside the United States, are native communities increasingly being exposed to new challenges, especially cultural ones, that other Americans have become more familiar with already?
Olive Lefferson: This is a question that will require a detailed answer because there is so much to say about the subject. The challenges that I see every day for the population we serve at Chief Seattle Club are poverty, homelessness, addiction, high rates of diseases like diabetes, poor nutrition, mental health issues, police brutality and racism. Other challenges that face natives in general are issues of sovereignty, cultural identity, how to live a more traditional life and how much of the dominant culture do we want in our lives, the struggles surrounding environmental issues like fracking, coal trains, the destruction of our earth, high dropout rates, suicide.
Ernest: So does your reading group also write and publish their writings or share with the general public through any publication?
Olive Lefferson: Yes, we have started self-publishing a zine with our writings in it.
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The other day I saw a bumper sticker that said, "Equality for All." That's just equality.
When you study philosophy in college people always ask "what kind of a job will you get with that?" But in this economy I have a ready reply which is, "Same thing as you. Nothing."
Pleasure and pain seem not like distinct entities so much as a single system of Good Cop Bad Cop.
The desire for sex ruins life.
Property is theft and if you agree but think I stole the notion then I suggest you reconsider.
Here's why I don't want kids: sex is amazing and anything that feels that good must have a terrible consequence.
A threat is an armed promise.
Metaphors are a doorway made from language leading out.
Economic depression crushes the hopes of shallow materialists.
Free will is the belief that we are not bound by casual chains.
A Post-Modernist takes the difference between fact and belief to be merely a matter of opinion.
Two people wandering through the desert look back on their tracks and say, "Well, at least we're making progress."


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Real Insurance Could Never Operate with An 85% Loss Ratio
ObamaCare demands that most health plans operate with a medical loss ratio (MLR) of 85 percent (or 80 percent for the individual market). This blog has noted that this regulation is arbitrary, meaningless, and will surely have negative unintended consequences. One of the nation's top experts on Health Savings Accounts has analyzed these MLR rules and concluded that it will be next to impossible to offer consumer-driven plans under them.
Politicians, bureaucrats, and people in general are very fixated on how much of our premiums go to administrative costs, including executive salaries and profits, of health plans. It's easy to understand a politician winning applause for promising that she'll ensure health plans spend more of their revenue on patient care.
As already discussed the rules appear to be having the opposite result. But there is an even more fundamental question: Why are politicians not attacking other (non-health) insurers who spend only 70, 60, or even 50 cents on the dollar in claims? Surely these insurers are even "greedier" than health insurers.
U.S. property underwriters, for example, suffered a loss ratio of 71 percent in the second quarter of 2011. This was considered a catastrophe in the industry — the worst loss ratio since 2001. Loss ratios for the second quarter of the two previous years were 56 to 58 percent.
Automobile insurers experience similar losses. Indeed, when State Farm experienced a loss ratio of 86 percent in the second quarter of 2011 (due to tornados demolishing cars), this was a full 20 percentage points worse than normal. However, if State Farm had been a health plan, it would have barely met the regulatory standard. Almost all other auto insurers experienced loss ratios in the 60s.
So, why no outrage? I expect that it is because property insurers offer real insurance. They don't get involved in our homes or cars until there is a catastrophic accident. We recognize that adjusting such claims is challenging and labor-intensive work. Furthermore, premiums are low (because claims cover only catastrophic losses), so this administrative load does not attract our attention. (My premiums for auto, home, and umbrella coverage combined is about $900 annually. And the last time I submitted a claim was 1985, if memory serves.)
The ability of health insurers to hit an MLR bogey of 85 percent is not a positive characteristic of our system of financing health care. On the contrary, it is a sign that health insurers are covering too much. And this will surely get worse under ObamaCare.
Take, for example the widely touted "benefit" that ObamaCare forces insurers to cover "preventive care" (e.g. annual check-ups) for everyone. Processing these claims is undoubtedly inexpensive: I go to the doctor every year for the same battery of poking and prodding that is due a middle-aged man. The cost to my health plan of processing the claim for this service must be trivial.
So, to hit the MRL bogey, health plans will have to work harder than ever to attract the healthy and shun the sick. In a competitive market of consumer-driven health plans, insurers would not be able to come close to scoring an MLR of 85 percent. Nor should we want them to.


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– Marcia Ball
Although she's been recognized for her ability to sing the blues, Texas-born, Louisiana raised songwriter Marcia Ball's music is infused with a Cajun kick and a lot of joy.
"Music is my joy," Ball said in a telephone interview from her Austin home prior to an appearance in Greenville in April of last year. "Whatever else there is going on in life, I get to sit down and make music. I try to bring that joy to our audiences."
She was inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 1990.
In 1998, she was nominated for a Grammy and a Blues Music Award for her album "Sing It!" which featured her idol "Sweet" Irma Thomas on vocals. That same year, she was named "Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year" and "Best Blues Instrumentalist - Keyboards" by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation.
From 2005-2009, she was again named "Best Blues Instrumentalist - Keyboards." She was nominated for a Grammy again in 2004 for "So Many Rivers," in 2005 for "Live! Down the Road" and again in 2009 for her latest release, "Peace, Love and BBQ."
She's played with Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle and Leon Russell. She worked with Clint Eastwood on a 2003 episode of "The Blues." She's a regular on the PBS program "Austin City Limits."
Ball counts New Orleans' legends Allen Tousaint, "Sweet" Irma Thomas and Dr. John among her musical influences.
She says that Austin musicians the late Walter Hyatt, of "Uncle Walt's Band," and Butch Hancock, who has played solo and with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in "The Flatliners," have also inspired her.
When asked to describe her songwriting process, Ball said, "It's never the same way twice."
Sometimes, "a line or a phrase or a word comes out of the blue or somebody's mouth or out of some conversation I'm eavesdropping on or something I read – and that's the seed."
She's learned the hard way to write her ideas down immediately.
"Write it down," Ball said. "You always have to write it down because you will not remember – I don't care what you think. Write it down immediately."
Then, Ball says, save what you write down, "even if it doesn't make sense at the time."
Once the seed is written down, the whole process begins.
"A line comes with a rhythm and a rhythm comes with a verse and the verse forms itself; and sometimes a whole song gets written in the front seat of a car or while sitting at a table."
When she can, Ball uses the piano when composing.
"Sometimes, I just sit down at the piano and start making music," she explains. "That music becomes humming and then mumbling and then finding a word. I try to make it a song rather than a poem. I'm pretty pleased when I manage to get anything written."
Ball piles up songs prior to releasing a CD. And she relies on the members of her band to help her decide which songs are right.
"I let my band hear them," she says with a laugh. "They're not harsh, but I can look at their faces and tell if they like a song or not."
Ball stays busy touring, playing solo and with others - and she enjoys every minute.
"I played with Leon Russell recently," she explains. "It [playing onstage with Russell] was more fun. On the third song, I told my band that I've had more fun than I thought I'd have all night."
When the performance is good, it's validation for Ball.
"Every musician is only as good as their last gig," she says. "A good gig makes you feel on top of the world. A bad gig makes you think about getting a day job."
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Prescription App
The world's first prescription-only smartphone app goes into wide release this year.
You can download BlueStar onto your smartphone, tablet or computer, but you have to have a prescription to use it.
A small number of people already have it, but this year a lot of insurance plans will be extending coverage to accept the app. It's designed to help people with type 2 diabetes by reminding them when it's time to check blood sugar levels, helping them control fluctuations and offering advice.
The FDA approved it in 2010. The cost is expected to creep above a hundred dollars a month but part of that will be covered by insurance.
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I hear SyFy is close to a fifth season pickup of drama series Eureka. The options on the actors from the cast, which includes Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Joe Morton and Erica Cerra, are being picked up. The series, about a remote town where the brightest U.S. scientists build futuristic inventions, has been a consistent ratings performer for the network. Its fourth season premiere last month drew 2.5 million viewers, on par with the 2.6 million who tuned in for the Eureka's summer debut last year.
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And, with the addition of James Callis….it's even better this season, he is a perfect fit for this show!!!
Frankly, its the best show Syfy has right now. Everything else is either redundent ghostchaser "reality" shows, wrestling or bad B-movies. Unfortunately SyFy has rapidly declined in quality since the end of Battlesatr Galactica. I used to watch the channel all the time, now it's just Eureka.
What's even more sad is that there are tons of great recent TV shows that they could could pick up and re-run (like Serenity, Doll House, Smallvile, Star Trek, Dr Who) that they could be running for far less then they are spending on all these terrible movies they make and they would probably get far better ratings. It makes mo sense at all…
"Eureka" is one of those shows that indicates how far SyFy is from even "Stargate" as to what they once did very well. It's not awful, but it's very middle-of-the-road/doesn't take chances (of course, "Warehouse 13" is far, far worse). What was the name of that show Mark Addy was on for some network forever that apparently people watched as it lasted for awhile, but no one really noticed when it got cancelled? That's "Eureka."
The show became gimmicky and far-fetched.
The "science" coming for the greatest minds in the world switched to science-fiction. Not in a good way.
It still remained funny, but it lost the moderation and better balance of the first season.
I can't imagine why they wouldn't renew Eureka. The timeline change has invigorated the writing and Season 4 is turning out to be the best since season 1. Of course, this si Syfy. If it's not Sharktopus, they're not interested.
Aw, I love this show, always makes me smile! Good news for Eureka. They did a great job shaking up the series this season.
This is back door negotiating, right?
Or would it be described with another term?
I think the Mark Addy show alluded to above was "Still Standing." I had to look that up — I have seen an episode or two, flipping channels at random, but found the show and its title to be completely forgettable.
Not so "Eureka." It's not deep, but it is fun, if you can get past the blatant product placement. The "crossover" with Warehouse 13 was pretty awful, though; it had the perverse effect of REDUCING our likelihood of watching the other series! I agree that the plot twists and addition of James Callis this season have put some more spark into Eureka.
I love the show. I'm not a big sci fi fan generally but this one is fun and a little weird, too. I love Colin Ferguson in the role of Sheriff and the writers seem to enjoy writing for it, too.
Definitly glad they're picking up the show and thrilled it's now on Friday night. After a long week at work it's the perfect relaxation to start the weekend.
I like this show a lot; and adding Callis was a major coup. I really miss Jaime Ray Newman though. I hate the Colin/Sally thing. Sally should end up with James Callis; they make a much better couple. Bring back Jaime Ray Newman!
Fingers crossed for another season! Callis is a great addition, but hopefully Carter/Ferguson will stay front and center.
No thanks on the Jaime Ray Newman front. I'd far rather see some comedy out of Carter and Allison dating. Such different backgrounds could lead to plenty of funny!
I have to say this show is a guilty pleasure but I do miss Jordan Hinson and Vanya Asher. Such a cute young couple. I can't imagine what they'll be doing with next season's story after this alternate timeline thing.
Seriously, Syfy would get more props if they would air more episodes of Eureka(instead of 10) and get rid of those tacky, fake "scary" movies with monsters and wild animals.
Im not a science fiction fan. but since being introduced to the show, I LOVE it! and look forward to seeing it! Would be interesting to see where they'll take Carter/Allison now as a couple. But FINALLY they're together!! YAY!


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Electronic Arts and Ubisoft have announced a deal which will see Ubisoft games become available on EA's digital service Origin.
The digital PC versions of Ubisoft titles such as Assassin's Creed III and Far Cry 3 will be made available to PC gamers on EA's Origin service, with North American users already having access to the games while users in Europe and Asia will have to wait until tomorrow, 22nd February.
The deal between the two companies also works the other way around, as Electronic Arts is now bringing its titles to Ubisoft's digital service Uplay. Selected EA games such as Dead Space 3 and Mass Effect 3 have already been made available worldwide on the Uplay shop.
"The heart of any valuable gaming service is delivering all the great content that players want," said Michael Blank, Vice President of Production for Origin at EA, in a press release, "and the addition of Ubisoft's top PC titles on Origin, as well as EA's titles to Uplay, is a big win for all of our players."
Chris Early, Vice President of Digital Publishing at Ubisoft, added, "Making our biggest franchises like Assassin's Creed and Far Cry available on Origin is a great way of exposing even more PC gamers to these great titles and giving them another choice in where and how they buy their games."


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(2012 Vintage) In the 1920s the Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta dreamt of creating a 'thoroughbred' wine and for him, as for all the aristocracy of the time, the ideal was Bordeaux. This is how he described it in a letter to the esteemed wine critic, Luigi Veronelli dated 11 June 1974:
suave mas ao mesto tempo potente, com seria um excelente bordeaux
this bottle was on it's way out so drink now if you have it!
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Wine Advocate(2000 Vintage) Rating: 85/100 - As reviewed in Wine Advocate # 152 on Apr-04
Wine & Spirits(2000 Vintage) Rating: 95/100 - As reviewed by Wine & Spirits Magazine
Antonio Galloni(2008 Vintage) "The 2008 Sassicaia is a rich, deep wine imbued with notable class in its black cherries, plums, grilled herbs, minerals and smoke. The 2008 is a decidedly buttoned-up, firm Sassicaia that is currently holding back much of its potential, unlike the 2006 and 2007, both of which were far more obvious wines. Readers who can afford to wait will be treated to a sublime wine once this settles down in bottle. Muscular, firm tannins frame the exquisite finish in this dark, implosive Sassicaia. The 2008 S...
Wine & Spirits(2005 Vintage) Rating: 92/100 - As reviewed by Wine & Spirits Magazine on 04/09 The cabernet franc (15 percent) here seems to wrap the cassis and black cherry richness of cabernet sauvignon with the spiciness of fresh red peppercorns. Savory and bound for several hours, this becomes silky and elegant with air, the rich fruit supported by firm, earthy tannins. Deep and impressively structured, this is suited for a decade or more in the cellar.
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Discussion in 'Draft Zone' started by SDogo, Mar 24, 2012.
I am hearing QB from Yale I think.-Witt.
Sorry Joe, I must have missed that, who was it and what was your question?
MTD: Under the Radar: Ricky Carlson, S/KR, Webber International
whats his speed in 40 buddy, i know he is super quick, elite returner too, and can cover ground as a fs, idolized deion sanders growin up
he is the guy on the post i said, dont blink or you will miss him returing punt or interception, of course i couldnt find an upclose video so cant judge him properly
hey, hey is this our 2nd rounder if we cant get fleener TE?
Josh Norman will have a private session on campus Thursday with the Dallas Cowboys as he then takes a few weeks off to visit with teams
Retweeted by NFL-Draft-Outsider
I know nothing personally but I'll see what I can find out.
List of players the Cowboys have spoken with, scheduled for a visit or scouted (based on my own reports). I'm sure there are people I missed that have been discussed in the media, please feel free to add them and I'll update as we go.
Ratings based on combination of my own evaluation and notes I have been able to obtain from scouts.
**added since last update
Melvin Ingram | OLB/DE | South Carolina
David DeCastro | OG | Stanford
Whitney Mercilus | OLB/DE | Illinois
Courtney Upshaw | OLB | Alabama
Nick Perry | OLB/DE | USC
Michael Brockers | DT/DE | LSU
Fletcher Cox | DE | Mississippi St
Mark Barron | S | Alabama**
Trent Richardson | RB | Alabama**
Dre Kirkpatrick | CB | Alabama
Andre Branch | OLB/DE | Clemson
Coby Fleener | TE | Stanford
Peter Konz | OC | Wisconsin
Brandon Thompson | DE | Clemson
Dont'a Hightower | ILB | Alabama**
Stephon Gilmore | CB | South Carolina
Billy Winn | DE | Boise State
Kevin Zeitler | OG | Wisconsin
Ronnell Lewis | OLB | Oklahoma
Jared Crick | DE | Nebraska
Trumaine Johnson | CB/FS | Montana
Mohamed Sanu | WR | Rutgers
Josh Norman | CB | Coastal Carolina**
Michael Egnew | TE | Missouri
Kyle Wilber | OLB/DE | Wake Forest
Brock Osweiler | QB | Arizona St
Brandon Brooks | OG | Miami (Ohio)
Keenan Robinson | OLB | Texas
Jonathon Massaquoi | OLB/DE | Troy
Cyrus Gray | RB/KR | Texas A&M
Casey Hayward | CB | Vanderbilt
Leonard Johnson | CB | Iowa State
Ryan Broyles | WR | Oklahoma
Cam Johnson | DE/OLB | Virginia
Nick Foles | QB | Arizona**
James-Michael Johnson | ILB | Nevada
Audie Cole | ILB | North Carolina State
Asa Jackson | CB | Cal Poly
Chris Owusu | WR | Stanford
Juron Criner | WR | Arizona**
Philip Blake | C | Baylor
Brett Roy | DE/OLB | Nevada
Quinton Saulsberry | C | Mississippi State
Terrance Ganaway | RB | Baylor
Evan Rodriguez | FB/TE | Temple
Charles Brown | CB | North Carolina
Rhett Ellison | TE | USC
Jeff Fuller | WR | Texas A&M**
Tank Carder | OLB/ILB | TCU
Ron Brooks | CB | LSU
Emmanuel Acho | ILB | Texas
DeQuan Menzie | SS/CB | Alabama**
Ishmaa'ily Kitchen | NT | Kent State
Chase Ford | TE | Miami
Harold Robertson | DT | William and Mary
Nicholas Jean-Baptise | NT | Baylor
Ronald Leary | OG | Memphis
Travaris Cadet | RB | Appalachian State
Case Keenum | QB | Houston
Johnny Thomas | S | Oklahoma
David Snow | OG/C | Texas
Carson Wiggs | PK/K| Purdue
Ronald Leary | OG | Memphis**
Sean Baker | S | Ball State
Brian Peters | S | Northwestern
Patrick Witt | QB | Yale
Chase Baker | DT | Boise St
Kyle Martens | P | Rice
David Hunter | DE | Houston
Royce Hill | CB | North Texas
Anthony Hooks | CB | New Mexico**
Chris Greenwood | CB | Albion**
Cordarro Law | DE/OLB | Southern Miss**
In what regard is Richardson added? As such a value at 14 he cant be passed up or for trade value?
Garrett had a one on one with him for a good 30 minutes. To which extent the Cowboys have interest or if it's just to make a team think twice if he's falling to 14 is beyond me. I found it interesting myself.
Even if he was primarily there for the defensive players, Garrett might as well take the time to talk to him while he was there. If nothing else, it helps hide who you are really targeting.
Yup, take full advantage of the opportunity. Like Jerry always said, one day these guys may become a FA you are targeting. You can start the process early.
My disappointment is seeing no interest in McClellin is soothed by seeing no interest in Poe.
Poe's name has come up as a possibility in here and the media but I have yet to see or hear anything. Not that it means he is out of the running by any means.
exactly, remember how jason garrett said he spent alot of time with Orton during draft time when jason was QB coach for the dolphins. You spend time with those players, because one day as a free agent or if become available in a trade. You established rapport with that player during draft time.
From BTB or cowboysnationarticle on poe i dont think poe will be there when we draft, he will be long gone.
Let someone else take that risk and try to teach him how to play.
sdogo, you already have this guy posted but thought you might like to see his times etc...
NFL Draft Bible@NFLDraftBibleReply
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D-III CB Chris Greenwood (4.34-forty; 43"vj; 11'2bj) Albion College worked out for #Cowboys and #Dolphins Size: 6'1/200 will fly to Dallas.
*California safety D.J. Campbell (?/?).
didnt see that guy listed sdogo
SDogo, what are your thoughts on Ronnell Lewis? I didn't pay him much attention throughout his career. I know from reports that he is a raw-talented player that hits hard, but also has injury issues.
Hey Sdogo Buddy, here is another list I found from bloggingtheboys:
Player Pos. School Proj. Round
Dre Kirkpatrick CB Alabama 1
Michael Brockers DT LSU 1
Ronnell Lewis OLB Oklahoma 2
Casey Hayward CB Vanderbilt 3-4
Lionel Smith CB Texas A&M UDFA
Ronald Leary OG Memphis UDFA
Chase Baker NT Boise State UDFA
Korey Toomer ILB Idaho UDFA
Local Prospects invited for Dallas Days
Player Pos. School Proj. Round
Keenan Robinson LB Texas 3-4
Jeff Fuller WR Texas A&M 4-5
Emmanuel Acho LB Texas 5
Tank Carder LB TCU 6


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Hi Christian,
> Hi... I'm probably being dim, but I'd like to be able to enable/disable
> DHCPD separately by interface (e.g. on one system WLAN0 might be a
> point-to-point link with fixed IP, on another it might be a sectoral
> with some unspecified number of DHCP clients; ditto WLAN1). How do I do
> this?
That's simple: you don't. :) See
...the feature is on the wishlist and will be implemented as time and my
mood permit. ;)


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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Barry Mather wrote:
> So for $140 I got a firewall that's a shed load more powerful than the
> wrap / sosekris boards ... and upgradeable !
WRAP/Soekris still win by far on power consumption and have no moving
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Jakarta (AFP) March 17, 2011
An Indonesian man said Thursday that he had escaped both the 2004 tsunami in Aceh and last week's wave in Japan.
Doctoral student Zahrul Fuadi, 39, who is from the Indonesian province, was at a seminar at a university campus in Sendai when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck, triggering a tsunami that devastated Japan's northeastern coast.
Seven years ago, the engineer had to flee from the wall of water that killed 168,000 people in his own country.
"I have survived two monumental disasters. I'm very grateful, not many people have experienced two big disasters and survived," Fuadi told AFP.
His house in Simpang Mesra village, Banda Aceh, was destroyed in the 2004 disaster, which followed a 9.3-magnitude quake.
Then, he said, "we were at my house when the quake happened. Me, my wife and my two children escaped from the tsunami by riding a motorcycle. We went very far from my house because we were so afraid.
"Actually I'm more scared of tsunamis than earthquakes. I was running away from the Aceh tsunami back then and thinking that was the end of the world," he said.
Fuadi is a faculty member at Syah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, and his family moved to Sendai after he received a scholarship to complete his doctorate at Tohoku University in the town.
He has been living in Japan for the past six years, but he and his family were spared by last week's tsunami because the campus is 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) from the coast.
Fuadi returned to Indonesia on Tuesday and has flown back to Aceh.
"I plan to return to Sendai as I have to finish some work. But now it's the nuclear radiation that I'm afraid of," he said.
Indonesia was the nation hardest hit in the 2004 tsunami, with more than three-quarters of the 220,000 victims around the Indian Ocean.
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Airline tickets were scarce and firms hired private jets to evacuate staff as countries from the United States to Europe and Australia warned their citizens to get out of Tokyo.
The US chartered aircraft to take Americans out of the country, China moved thousands of its citizens to Tokyo for evacuation, and France assigned two government planes to pull its people out.
At the stricken plant itself, Chinook helicopters dumped tonnes of water in a desperate effort to cool reactors crippled by Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami, which pulverised the northeast coast and left countless thousands homeless and enduring bitterly cold conditions.
The official toll of the dead and missing now exceeds 14,650, police said, with the number of confirmed dead at 5,178 in the country's biggest catastrophe since World War II.
As Japanese and international teams mounted a massive search and relief effort, reports from some battered coastal towns suggested the final toll could be far higher.
Millions have been left without water, electricity, fuel or enough food and hundreds of thousands more are homeless, the misery compounded by heavy snowfalls, freezing cold and wet conditions.
The tense nation also saw the stockmarket fall again Thursday, closing down 1.44 percent on fears about the economic impact -- concerns that have also seen global stocks drop.
The massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake shifted Japan more than two metres away from the neighbouring Korean peninsula, scientists said.
The helicopter operation at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant on the Pacific coast, some 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo, aims to keep the fuel rods inside reactors and containment pools submerged under water.
The latest threat at the plant was the fuel-rod pools, which contain used fuel rods that have been withdrawn from reactors yet remain highly radioactive.
They are immersed in cooling water for many years until they shed enough heat to become manageable for storage.
Water in one of the pools was evaporating because of the rods' heat, and temperatures were slowly rising in two other pools because coolant pumps were knocked out by the March 11 tsunami, experts say.
They warned that if the tanks run dry and leave the fuel rods exposed, the rods could melt or catch fire, creating potentially lethal levels of radiation.
At the same time, Japanese engineers were focused on restoring the power supply to the stricken power plant in an attempt to reactivate its cooling system.
"If the restoration work is completed, we will be able to activate various electric pumps and pour water into reactors and pools for spent nuclear fuel," a spokesman for Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. told AFP.
US President Barack Obama offered to give Japan any support that it needs, in a telephone call with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the Japanese leader's spokesman said.
But as crews battled to prevent an atomic disaster, more foreign governments urged their citizens to steer clear of quake-stricken northeast Japan and the capital Tokyo.
"If you're in Tokyo or any of the affected prefectures... we are saying that you should depart," said Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.
Britain, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and New Zealand also advised nationals to leave or shun the northeast region.
Indian technology firms were helping employees to leave, with software firm L&T Infotech saying it had chartered a plane to take all 185 of its staff and their families out of Japan.
US officials warned nationals living within 80 kilometres (50 miles) of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to evacuate or seek shelter.
The Japanese government has told people living up to 10 kilometres (six miles) beyond a 20-kilometre exclusion zone around the plant to stay indoors. More than 200,000 people have already been evacuated from the zone.
The evacuation plans came against a background of mounting concern over the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe.
"The site is effectively out of control," the European Union's energy chief Guenther Oettinger told a European Parliament committee, a day after he said Japan was facing "apocalypse".
France's Nuclear Safety Authority said the disaster now equated to a six on the seven-point international scale for nuclear accidents, ranking the crisis second in gravity only to the level-seven Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the events in Japan "actually appear to be more serious" than the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, a partial reactor meltdown that led to small releases of radioactivity.
"To what extent we don't really know now," Chu said in Washington.
Gregory Jaczko, chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, warned there was no water left in the spent fuel pool of the plant's number-four reactor, resulting in "extremely high" radiation levels.
The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said the situation was "very serious" as he prepared to fly out to see the damage for himself.
Japan's chief government spokesman Yukio Edano said radiation levels from the plant posed no immediate health threat outside the 20-kilometre exclusion zone despite slightly elevated levels detected in Tokyo over the past few days.
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LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - As a player who has been involved with tennis for almost half a century, Billie Jean King was lost for words when she tried to sum up the 2007 season.
After fidgeting with her glasses and staring at the ceiling of the Nursery Pavilion in Lord's cricket ground for what seemed like an eternity, she shrugged her shoulders and said: "It's so weird."
With plotlines straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, the genteel sport of tennis has been left reeling over the past three months with allegations of match-fixing, gambling, doping and even poisoning overshadowing the on-court action.
Topping King's list of most surprising revelations was Martina Hingis's announcement that she had failed a drugs test at Wimbledon.
An emotional Hingis stunned the sporting world earlier this month when she declared she had tested positive for cocaine in June. The Swiss, who promptly retired from tennis, insisted she had never taken any drugs.
"It just doesn't make sense... it's just not her," King told Reuters in an interview.
"She was going to retire anyway. I do believe Martina Hingis. If she says she hasn't taken it, I believe it.
"Maybe she went out to a party... and others had dope around and leave it on tables and if you get it on your hands and maybe you ingest it and you don't even know. There are so many possibilities now. It's just not in Hingis's character. I'd stand by her.
"Characters are revealing and I think it's great she came out first and took it head on. That's a pretty good sign too as a lot of players always wait (for an official announcement) and she thought to heck with it. That was smart."
But the 63-year-old King, who won 39 grand slam singles and doubles title during her illustrious career and is credited with changing the face of women's tennis, admitted the allegations have hurt the sport's image.
"None of this ever helps but I don't think it's fair (to focus)... on one or two incidents when you've got thousands of women and girls playing throughout the world," said King after receiving a Sony Ericsson Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sportswomen of the Year Awards.
Tapping the table with her knuckles, she added: "Knock on wood after this year... I don't know of any other players ever to think about taking drugs. They are so healthy, especially the top ones. They are so into fitness. You can't perform (by taking drugs) especially one-on-one."
Even though tennis hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, King felt people should not forget the on-court achievements of players such as world number one Justine Henin, who won 10 titles including two grand slams in 2007 despite the break down of her marriage.
"I think the Justine Henin story for women's tennis this year is just (fantastic)," said King.
"She's the greatest athlete considering her size and everything. She's the best for her size ever to have lived. She's incredible.
"I admire her as it takes a lot of courage to say that 'I'm having family troubles and I'm going to figure it out and make it right again'.
"Most people want to have the tension and argue... and love that tension to go on for the rest of their lives so they can always blame somebody.
"She seems more centred and is getting better than ever," added King about a player who lost only four matches all year. (Editing by Alison Wildey)